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Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode

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of finishes and factions does a Monday night

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raw and this week myself and my co -host Adam

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We've got a banger to break down for you. We're

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in the Madison Square Garden and We've seen some

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previews of what's gonna happen tonight already

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in different programming and already I'm excited

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and we haven't even got to the entry yet. No,

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definitely not. I mean, as Rich has already said,

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we are in the absolute, well, it's the end goal

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for any wrestler, any wrestler in the American

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circuits to wrestle a night in the garden. And

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all of these superstars have got some, some phenomenal

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matches. So why not? dive in I mean with a match

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itself as Raw did this week we opened with a

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match although I will be honest while taking

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notes for this one it took me about five minutes

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of Jeyuso's entry to realise this wasn't another

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promo yeah no and it was it was straight into

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it as well so Jeyuso had a match against Austin,

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no, Grayson Waller tonight, sorry, who was accompanied

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to the ring by Austin Theory. So both members

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of A -Town Down Under were there. Against Jay,

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I didn't think much of this match. I'm not going

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to lie to you. For a guy who's supposed to be

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pushing for the main event of WrestleMania and

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building that storyline up for his match against

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Gunther, I don't know how he's going to take

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on Gunther when he struggled getting one over

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on Grace and Waller. Yeah, it was a lot more

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competitive than I thought it was going to be

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considering that the two the two guys in the

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ring were supposed to be on two different levels.

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Yeah, I'll see. We've got main event Jey Uso

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who's meant to be main event level. Didn't look

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it today. He looked incredibly tired. And then

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you've got Grace and Waller who... Lucky if he

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gets on a card most of the time if he does he's

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normally sort of much one Open him some secondary

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promo. He's never Never anywhere important. So

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um Well, not on raw. Anyway, we have seen in

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many event a few times down on NXT, but that's

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a different story for a different episode Yeah,

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very much. So I'm the episode after this. Yeah,

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Danny Major spots I got from this apart from

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a little bit of interference from Austin theory

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behind the referees back was There was a few

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half -decent super kicks between from Joe so

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to Grayson Waller, but Grayson Waller either

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no sold them all over sold them I thought and

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then It finished with a series of super kicks

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and Spears to both Waller and theory For for

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Jade to pick up a three count But like I said,

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I didn't get a huge amount from this match. I

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didn't think much of it Baron in mind like I

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said be a 40 weight 40 nights away from WrestleMania

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in it Didn't really feel it not for an opening

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match in the garden. Anyway, I expected a little

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bit more from that much So the opening match

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either it sets the tone it well one way or another

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it sets the tone for the rest of the the rest

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of the night you're either looking at the opening

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match being the standard set and That is what

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you've got a beat or You've got the opening match

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and there's nowhere to go. There's nowhere to

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go but up from there And yeah, I'm going to be

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honest, I've sort of fell on the side of it being.

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The fact that it was nowhere to go from up. I

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got a few different bits and pieces is that.

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Yeah, so we got some interference from theory

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during and after the match. I'll remember there

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was a few smooth a few really sort of well executed

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moves at one point Juso drops Grace and Waller

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in a absolutely beautiful Samoan drop at one

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point and Waller I've seen Waller do this move

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before not having an awful lot of chance to see

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any of his back catalog of matches um where he

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dives in through the ropes and just goes straight

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into a flat liner but that during this match

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was probably the smoothest i've ever seen him

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do it so credit given where credit's due on that

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one 100 100 managed to get that sort of managed

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to get that down flat and um yeah i mean j so

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Jay Uso does pop out of this with the win after

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an absolutely thunderous spear, pretty much splitting

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Grayson Waller in two. Not quite Bronwyn Brecher's

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level of spear, but it was still a pretty good

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spear. Oh, 100%. And then after the match, Theory

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jumps in, basically trying to get some revenge

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on... J you so but I don't think anybody's ever

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told this couple of cross -eyed half wits that

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they've Revenge is generally a dish best served

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old rather than rather than just going straight

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in for it because they both end up eating a couple

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of spears and I believe Austin theory a frog

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splash as well, which is never pleasant but As

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always, where we see Jey Uso, we again got to

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see the ring general himself, Gunther, as he

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came in and snuck up behind Jey and locked in

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a sleeper hold, which officials did manage to

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break, but only after Jey had gone night nights.

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Or as close to night nights as you could possibly

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be in a WWE ring without actually being night

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nights. And this was the second week in a row

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that Gunther's managed to do exactly that is

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put Jeyuso just solidly to sleep Yeah, and we

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we don't have many nights or many weeks left

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until mania So if they're gonna start giving

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Jey a bit of a push where he needs to sort of

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like start fighting back they need to start doing

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that now or We're not gonna see a great match

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from Jay at WrestleMania because I Think they

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won't change their plans But I think we'll get

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a poor match because the poor guy looks absolutely

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fucked But it's the road to WrestleMania. You

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should have booked holiday and stuff in time

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to be able to do This knowing what the push was

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gonna be Yeah, this is it this would have been

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so We've heard in interviews with different storyline

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writers for WWE over the years is that the rule

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is, whatever point of the year that you're looking

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at, you're always looking forward to WrestleMania.

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How does this tie into WrestleMania? Cuz WrestleMania

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is the end goal. It's like the season finale

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essentially for - for WWE with the Raw after

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Mania being the start of the new season. Which

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is I think probably a good way of how we're gonna

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work this podcast as well. So we're gonna finish

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up to WrestleMania with this being season one.

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And then the Raw after WrestleMania will jump

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into season two up until the next WrestleMania.

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Yeah, so WrestleMania night two will be. the

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essentially the season for it'll be the season

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finale for WWE and it'll be the season finale

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for finishers and factions. But we're gonna have

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to wait long for season two to come out because

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we'll be reviewing the Monday night after Monday

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night raw after WrestleMania. And I've got a

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feeling I'm gonna that's already gonna be a two

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three part. This is a there's going to be a lot

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of stuff going on in that raw after WrestleMania

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well most likely but we will be there to cover

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all of it regardless yeah and i could say a lot

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of stuff for that there's a lot of stuff coming

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in this podcast episode as well so we're going

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to jump through um the next section after the

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first match we had a vt uh Style thing basically

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bigging up the Seth Rollins CM Punk cage match

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Which is the main event for this evening and

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all I really got from it was it was a recap with

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punk saying that Well, if Rollins if he had to

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live in his shadow, he'd hate himself, too Which

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obviously these guys have had massive war of

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words and beatdowns and all sorts the last Picking

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on each other since punk came back so this cage

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match this evening is supposed to be the column

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combination of that and This is turned into the

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new elimination chamber clip during their VT's

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this one was used an awful lot the Recap or the

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build up to this cage match later on We then

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got a 2k 25 little promo that launches on Friday

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So that launches the same day that Smackdown

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goes live, which is the 14th of March. If you've

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pre -ordered it, you do end up with some early

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access. So the game is available. If you were

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to pre -order it now, for instance, you will

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be able to play it now. But general release puts

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it available, puts the official game release

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on Friday. on Friday depending on the prices

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of them but we digress from that into a... I

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will tell you where we might be able to get it

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a little bit cheaper because I've looked at it

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and yeah those are a few places I can see but

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regardless we then go from there into a backstage

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promo for where... Do you know, honestly, I didn't

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really see the point in this promo. I didn't

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see the point in it, but for the last few weeks

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when American Alpha have been having their matches

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against Gunther, Jay's been going in to check

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on them to make sure that they've been all right.

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This time, American Alpha have come to check

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in on Jay and basically just say, look, we've

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got you. It's cool. It's all good. You'll be

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okay. Alpha Academy. Alpha Academy, yeah. Yeah,

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I don't know why I was gonna say you're confused

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you're combining American made and an Alpha Academy

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Yeah, it's Alpha Academy. That is the one that

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is the team of Otis Akira Tassawa And the young

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lady's name I can't quite remember Maxine Dupree

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is the one so we then went from That little segment

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which like we said both seemed kind of pointless

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but and then into Well Probably one of the more

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pointless promos this evening Logan Paul came

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out into the ring with a microphone in his hand

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Dressed up like a chav from the 1990s He had

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that Stone Island tracksuit on and he was making

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himself look like a bit of a dick. I Mean anything

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any different? I mean Logan Paul this week reminded

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me of MC Devo. Do you want to buy a Bosch trick

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in there? But yeah, so he came out to the ring

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and we were informed at the time of his entry

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there is an attendance of a sold -out crowd of

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20 ,142 people in Madison Square Gardens watching

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this Monday Night Raw So From what I got from

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this Logan Paul came out to basically beat AJ

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Styles to the punch because AJ was said last

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week That he was gonna call Logan Paul out this

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week So Logan Paul came out and did it anyway

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But then goes on to say that he doesn't associate

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with guys like AJ Styles. He's a He's top of

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his game Is exactly where he needs to be Yeah

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He's nowhere near that level No, he's not and

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he says he feels Cody was dumb not to accept

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rocks offer because he'd have taken it instantaneously

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even offers I was going to say I can't see Rock

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paying a high price for that soul somehow. I'll

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give you 20 quid for your YouTube channel Logan,

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but apart from that, I don't want your soul.

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I'm not even sure I'd take that in fairness.

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I'd take the followers, I wouldn't take the content.

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No. He does point out in this that it took Cena

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20 years to realise that the nice guy's finished

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last. That's why he's finally decided that he's

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not... He's gonna be a nice guy. He's gonna be

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a bad guy. The other thing it's worth mentioning

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is that Logan Paul got booed harder than hard,

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didn't this? I mean, Madison Square Garden were

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going for some kind of record, I think, is that

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they were, at least to begin with, they were

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determined not to let him have. Any kind of word

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in edgeways they were they were trying to beat

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the record set at the Netflix debut when they

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bought out the the winner of the pensioner rumble

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Mr. Hulk Hogan himself to talk about his rather

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shite beer Yeah, which I think is actually it

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is actually still a sponsor for it is I did some

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research to see if we could get it in the UK

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and we can't But I was reading the reviews of

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this specific beer on Amazon on the American

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Amazon and Yeah, it don't have great reviews.

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Let's put it that way Is it not a libation will

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be partaking in them? No, a lot of people were

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saying that bud light tastes better and that

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is a big Yeah, obviously the American lager is

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not More than a lot of Americans, but Bud Light

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is absolute trash I've tried it in a few places

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that serve it down it over over here and it's

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like No, sorry. I'd rather drink. I'd rather

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drink my old pit my own piss cold And yeah talking

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about horrible to talk about things I'd rather

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do than Deal with Logan Paul in the the American

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beer sponsor is I'd rather watch Andrew Schultz

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is new Netflix special Which is being advertised

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by Logan Paul because Andrew Schultz is in the

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in the arena and actually Logan goes to talk

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to him gets him a microphone goes over to ask

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him a couple of questions and Andrew Schultz

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shits on him Basically, I don't think Logan Paul

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got the responses he was expecting No, he goes

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over to Andrew Schultz and goes on who you're

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here to see he's like what I'm here to see Punk

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and Rollins in the cage match and Paul's like

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hey ever who did you really come here to see

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and he's like look dude No one's here to see

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you. We're not in Cleveland. This is a real city

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and they want real wrestlers like AJ Styles I

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was going to say didn't he come out with one

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point that I'm here to see AJ Styles, bitch.

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Yeah, I'm here to see a real wrestler like AJ

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Styles. Logan Paul drags him over the barricade,

00:17:48.740 --> 00:17:51.980
throws him into the ring and sets him up for

00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:55.180
what looked like a pedigree style thing. But

00:17:55.180 --> 00:17:59.880
he didn't get to use it because AJ Styles comes

00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:03.400
running, soccer mum haircut, waving from side

00:18:03.400 --> 00:18:10.170
to side like the trees in a storm. Yeah, it was

00:18:10.170 --> 00:18:14.210
a it was quite funny to be fair. Oh I always

00:18:14.210 --> 00:18:16.710
enjoy watching Logan Paul get his head kicked

00:18:16.710 --> 00:18:20.809
in in fairness If only there was a 10 minute

00:18:20.809 --> 00:18:24.890
YouTube video of that happening You know a WWE

00:18:24.890 --> 00:18:27.690
edit of just Logan Paul getting absolutely dropped.

00:18:27.690 --> 00:18:30.630
I would watch that repeatedly every morning for

00:18:30.630 --> 00:18:33.730
motivation. I Mean, I'm sure it wouldn't take

00:18:33.730 --> 00:18:38.269
long to put something like that together It would

00:18:38.269 --> 00:18:40.730
have to replace my top 10 nutshots video though

00:18:40.730 --> 00:18:42.390
Nothing makes you feel better about yourself

00:18:42.390 --> 00:18:45.150
than watching 10 guys get absolutely destroyed

00:18:45.150 --> 00:18:50.349
with nutshots Don't know what reading an Australian

00:18:50.349 --> 00:18:54.109
brickies accident report is it isn't far off.

00:18:54.210 --> 00:18:59.470
Yeah But yes, so AJ runs out to save Andrew Andrew

00:18:59.470 --> 00:19:03.549
Schultz and ends up hitting a rather sweet Phenomenal

00:19:03.549 --> 00:19:07.809
forearm onto AJ style on to Logan Paul Logan

00:19:07.809 --> 00:19:10.809
really didn't know how to sell this he went down

00:19:10.809 --> 00:19:13.710
holding his face and then came up holding his

00:19:13.710 --> 00:19:18.930
jaw Like where did it hit you do you just pick

00:19:18.930 --> 00:19:25.089
a struggle It just sort of demonstrated that

00:19:25.089 --> 00:19:28.650
Logan Paul has not it does not have the experience

00:19:28.650 --> 00:19:31.730
behind him to be at the level he's at No for

00:19:31.730 --> 00:19:35.769
me, and then I mean one for one thing he walks

00:19:35.769 --> 00:19:40.730
away Despite cutting a promo saying he never

00:19:40.730 --> 00:19:44.029
backs down from an opportunity AJ gives him one

00:19:44.029 --> 00:19:46.569
for a fight there and then a little chicken shit

00:19:46.569 --> 00:19:51.130
runs faster than fucking a marathon I Mean that's

00:19:51.130 --> 00:19:53.750
just classic chicken shit heel maneuvers. That

00:19:53.750 --> 00:19:57.230
is that that was actually quite well done from

00:19:57.230 --> 00:20:02.190
a sort of performance standpoint, but the thing

00:20:02.190 --> 00:20:05.750
that I think is really I don't think When they

00:20:05.750 --> 00:20:08.769
wrote this out and when Logan Paul agreed to

00:20:08.769 --> 00:20:11.890
do this I don't think they've really considered

00:20:11.890 --> 00:20:17.250
the fact that where he was When he did what he

00:20:17.250 --> 00:20:20.849
did so he's walked out. He's walked away from

00:20:20.849 --> 00:20:27.990
a fight in Madison Square Garden Right No wrestler

00:20:27.990 --> 00:20:31.890
worth their soul at any stage in their career

00:20:31.890 --> 00:20:37.369
Will ever have done that We've had people run

00:20:37.369 --> 00:20:44.369
out but he walked quite leisurely Just looking

00:20:44.369 --> 00:20:47.849
salty as fuck And I think that is gonna have

00:20:47.849 --> 00:20:50.410
gone a long way to hurt any credibility that

00:20:50.410 --> 00:20:53.309
he had actually managed to achieve at this stage

00:20:53.309 --> 00:20:55.630
AJ helps that out as well by kind of pointing

00:20:55.630 --> 00:20:57.549
out that he's not done with Logan He needs to

00:20:57.549 --> 00:20:59.609
get his ass in the ring as Logan's busy walking

00:20:59.609 --> 00:21:03.569
away with that smirk on his face. It's like AJ's

00:21:03.569 --> 00:21:05.890
looking for something bro and you You could have

00:21:05.890 --> 00:21:09.109
had a, like you said, no wrestler turns down

00:21:09.109 --> 00:21:10.789
an opportunity to have a fight at the garden.

00:21:11.309 --> 00:21:17.069
And to be fair, as much as we dislike Logan Paul,

00:21:17.710 --> 00:21:22.069
him and AJ could have had a very, very good go

00:21:22.069 --> 00:21:25.029
-to in the garden and it would have been spoken

00:21:25.029 --> 00:21:29.970
about for a while. But it's not, they missed

00:21:29.970 --> 00:21:34.869
an opportunity there. Especially when you have

00:21:35.099 --> 00:21:38.460
So we go from from this little segment into a

00:21:38.460 --> 00:21:41.880
recap of the Rhea Ripley EO Sky match from last

00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:46.619
week's Monday Night Raw which shows Bianca getting

00:21:46.619 --> 00:21:50.079
involved when Rhea gets in her face and pushes

00:21:50.079 --> 00:21:54.960
her Bianca then ends up kind of helping EO out

00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:59.980
by distracting Rhea for EO to counter the Riptide

00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:05.569
off the top rope to win the women's title Which

00:22:05.569 --> 00:22:08.589
I'm not going to lie. I was a little bit salty

00:22:08.589 --> 00:22:13.069
about when it first happened, but Got to give

00:22:13.069 --> 00:22:15.089
credit where credit's due Rears had a good rain

00:22:15.089 --> 00:22:17.710
with that title it's nice to see Eos gonna take

00:22:17.710 --> 00:22:20.609
it in a different direction and They're gonna

00:22:20.609 --> 00:22:23.069
use that to help build Eos character as well

00:22:23.069 --> 00:22:25.230
We'll get into that a little bit more a little

00:22:25.230 --> 00:22:28.990
bit later on first things first We have a cluster

00:22:28.990 --> 00:22:31.650
map what it's a cluster fuck match to talk about

00:22:32.109 --> 00:22:34.670
when i say it's a clusterfuck match it was actually

00:22:34.670 --> 00:22:36.990
a tornado tag match but for us to try and take

00:22:36.990 --> 00:22:40.369
notes was an absolute clusterfuck um we've got

00:22:40.369 --> 00:22:44.130
a few things to do before that however I think

00:22:44.130 --> 00:22:46.410
there's a maybe a little bit of a hole in your

00:22:46.410 --> 00:22:50.250
in your notes here my friend Because we've got

00:22:50.250 --> 00:22:53.829
a couple of VT's that went that were Discussed

00:22:53.829 --> 00:22:56.029
before this matter before the next match that

00:22:56.029 --> 00:22:59.230
you're talking about So we had a VT promo which

00:22:59.230 --> 00:23:04.089
shows that Dana White TKO or go getting into

00:23:04.089 --> 00:23:10.569
boxing apparently Thought it might have been

00:23:10.569 --> 00:23:12.910
quite interesting. I've never been much of a

00:23:12.910 --> 00:23:16.549
boxing fan personally, but Yeah, it shows that

00:23:16.549 --> 00:23:18.529
they're branching out into other combat sports,

00:23:18.529 --> 00:23:30.569
I suppose Well, yeah, but I'm going more for

00:23:30.569 --> 00:23:33.170
the beer than I am the beer and the socialization

00:23:33.170 --> 00:23:39.400
than I am for the actual boxing these days, it

00:23:39.400 --> 00:23:43.940
takes me too long to recover. Fair enough. I

00:23:43.940 --> 00:23:45.980
never really got that tanked up to begin with.

00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:50.539
So, yeah. I've never really suffered with hangover.

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:57.579
So, fuck you. The other VT that we had was of

00:23:57.579 --> 00:24:02.480
famous, so we've got, as promotional material

00:24:02.480 --> 00:24:06.460
goes, this on this particular episode they used

00:24:06.460 --> 00:24:10.000
a lot of famous cage matches from madison square

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:12.200
gardens yeah it was like a history of madison

00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:15.099
square gardens in promo segments i really enjoyed

00:24:15.099 --> 00:24:17.599
it to be fair it was something new they'd done

00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:21.400
i kind of thought yeah i like that it was a slightly

00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:23.960
different way to promote the main event rather

00:24:23.960 --> 00:24:27.200
than just showing us endless vts of the dynamic

00:24:27.200 --> 00:24:30.849
between seth rollins and punk and Showing us

00:24:30.849 --> 00:24:34.250
a VT about how you win a cage match and and things

00:24:34.250 --> 00:24:38.430
like that. It just yeah, it made more sense to

00:24:38.430 --> 00:24:43.650
So yeah, it's a case that this on this particular

00:24:43.650 --> 00:24:48.549
one they show clips from the cage match from

00:24:48.549 --> 00:24:53.509
Madison Square Garden from 1975 which saw Bruno

00:24:53.509 --> 00:25:00.240
San Martino defeat Ivan Koloff and Bruno San

00:25:00.240 --> 00:25:03.579
Martino should ring bells for pretty much every

00:25:03.579 --> 00:25:08.799
WWE fan, whether you're sort of casual, die -hard,

00:25:09.299 --> 00:25:15.500
new, old, anybody, as Bruno San Martino is still

00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:18.539
the current record holder for the longest title

00:25:18.539 --> 00:25:28.990
reign, lasting 2 ,803 days. As he was WWF world

00:25:28.990 --> 00:25:31.970
heavyweight champion at the time and that puts

00:25:31.970 --> 00:25:35.890
him at over seven years consecutively with the

00:25:35.890 --> 00:25:44.230
same friggin belt It was from the 17th of May

00:25:44.230 --> 00:25:51.710
1963 to January 18th 1971 which I'm sorry, if

00:25:51.710 --> 00:25:54.029
you tried to do that at some point today, you'd

00:25:54.029 --> 00:25:57.809
be called unoriginal for having somebody hold

00:25:57.809 --> 00:26:00.410
the title that long. I mean, look how pissed

00:26:00.410 --> 00:26:03.650
off we got with Roman Reigns with how long he

00:26:03.650 --> 00:26:18.549
fucking held it. I think it was he was definitely

00:26:18.549 --> 00:26:22.089
defending it at least once a PLE but sort of

00:26:22.089 --> 00:26:25.109
PLEs back in those days they were run very very

00:26:25.109 --> 00:26:27.809
differently because this was back when we're

00:26:27.809 --> 00:26:30.569
talking sort of early days of Vince McMahon being

00:26:30.569 --> 00:26:33.150
in charge and then sort of the late days of his

00:26:33.150 --> 00:26:38.230
dad being in charge so that's the sort of era

00:26:38.230 --> 00:26:41.869
we're looking at this was an era before that

00:26:41.869 --> 00:26:45.470
so if I'm right which I think I am. It was the

00:26:45.470 --> 00:26:50.289
era before we saw stars like Hulk Hogan. Andre

00:26:50.289 --> 00:26:54.269
the Giant. Bruno San Martino was coming to the

00:26:54.269 --> 00:27:00.769
end of his career as they came in. So yeah, and

00:27:00.769 --> 00:27:03.190
Bruno San Martino, I mean, I've happened to have

00:27:03.190 --> 00:27:08.069
a look. The famous finishing move he was famous

00:27:08.069 --> 00:27:10.799
for, bearing in mind... that a lot of modern

00:27:10.799 --> 00:27:15.980
-day wrestlers have got quite flashy finishing

00:27:15.980 --> 00:27:22.059
moves. His was a bear hug. Bruno San Martino

00:27:22.059 --> 00:27:27.099
was a big guy. Oh yeah, no, this guy was a, well

00:27:27.099 --> 00:27:29.240
yeah, for all intent and purpose, he was a bear.

00:27:30.019 --> 00:27:35.660
He was an Italian -American bear. But yeah, the

00:27:35.660 --> 00:27:38.950
only other thing... The only other thing that

00:27:38.950 --> 00:27:42.289
we that we get treated to is we see that Ober

00:27:42.289 --> 00:27:45.650
Femi from NXT is in attendance in the audience

00:27:45.650 --> 00:27:57.170
as well It's I think it's actually just a slightly

00:27:57.170 --> 00:28:01.559
different section of Madison Square Garden I

00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:03.779
don't know how Madison Square Garden is laid

00:28:03.779 --> 00:28:07.099
out, but I know that NXT is taking place at the

00:28:07.099 --> 00:28:10.859
theatre in Madison Square Garden, so I'm assuming

00:28:10.859 --> 00:28:13.779
that's like a smaller performance area possibly,

00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:18.039
but yeah, I'm not 100 % certain. That is when

00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:21.400
we go into the Clusterfuck match, which is...

00:28:21.500 --> 00:28:24.579
They call it a tornado tag match. The reason

00:28:24.579 --> 00:28:27.140
it's called that is because both competitors

00:28:27.140 --> 00:28:29.200
from both teams are entered into the ring at

00:28:29.200 --> 00:28:34.500
the same time. It's basically a two on two. For

00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:54.089
all intent and purpose. Mysterio and Dragon Lee,

00:28:55.150 --> 00:28:58.950
where New Day defeated the other two members

00:28:58.950 --> 00:29:04.410
of NWO last week. Their names I can't remember

00:29:04.410 --> 00:29:07.329
off the top of my head though. We did see a really

00:29:07.329 --> 00:29:25.650
beautiful double Bulldog by LWO. No it's one

00:29:25.650 --> 00:29:28.190
of those sort of forgotten about moves is that

00:29:28.190 --> 00:29:31.230
we see we possibly see it but because it's not

00:29:31.230 --> 00:29:33.589
it's something that's done as part of a sequence

00:29:33.589 --> 00:29:35.950
we don't remember it we remember the sequence

00:29:35.950 --> 00:29:38.390
just not necessarily the individual movements

00:29:38.390 --> 00:29:41.849
and in fairness having your face driven down

00:29:41.849 --> 00:29:44.990
into the mat with the full body weight of somebody

00:29:44.990 --> 00:29:49.509
being that driving force it's gonna friggin hurt

00:30:26.230 --> 00:30:41.650
Yeah. The only thing I will correct you on on

00:30:41.650 --> 00:30:43.569
that one, just to make it that little bit more

00:30:43.569 --> 00:30:46.410
impressive, is that it wasn't Dragon Lee that

00:30:46.410 --> 00:30:52.329
pulled off this Hurricane Rana as he previously

00:30:52.329 --> 00:30:59.190
had managed to pull off a double foot stomp on

00:30:59.190 --> 00:31:02.670
Kofi Kingston in the corner. It was actually

00:31:02.670 --> 00:31:07.430
Ray Mysterio who managed to jump over all three

00:31:07.430 --> 00:31:13.430
ropes land in hurricanrana position on xavier

00:31:13.430 --> 00:31:17.470
woods to then send him off the apron ricocheted

00:31:17.470 --> 00:31:20.509
off a table into the barrier back into the table

00:31:20.509 --> 00:31:35.109
again oh yeah 100 % he missed he sort of missed

00:31:35.109 --> 00:32:01.980
his mark a little bit he didn't quite get it

00:32:01.980 --> 00:32:05.180
and Ray manages to drop him for a two count.

00:32:05.339 --> 00:32:07.039
I can't remember if it was a missile drop kick

00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.759
to the chest or a toe drag, but he managed to

00:32:10.759 --> 00:32:15.200
get him down onto the count for a two count.

00:32:17.299 --> 00:32:23.299
Yeah, so I will be honest, as much as we were

00:32:23.299 --> 00:32:28.690
told that sort of... LWO have never actually

00:32:28.690 --> 00:32:31.309
managed to get a win over the New Day. I thought

00:32:31.309 --> 00:32:33.410
today was actually going to break that record.

00:32:34.130 --> 00:32:37.109
I thought LWO were finally going to win over

00:32:37.109 --> 00:32:52.029
the New Day. So I was very much with Michael

00:32:52.029 --> 00:32:56.009
Cole on this one. All of the evidence seems to

00:32:56.009 --> 00:33:28.559
point... Yes. I went with it because of... I

00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:31.339
went with it obviously because the luchador mask

00:33:31.339 --> 00:33:36.900
that this unknown assailant was wearing had emblazoned

00:33:36.900 --> 00:33:42.019
on it American made. That seemed pretty conclusive

00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:45.839
proof that somebody who'd just been on a sabbatical

00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.019
to learn the ways of lucha so that he was no

00:33:49.019 --> 00:34:02.500
longer going to be... Yeah, it just everything

00:34:02.500 --> 00:34:05.819
seemed to point to him and at this point in the

00:34:05.819 --> 00:34:08.739
in the episode if you're anything like us You'll

00:34:08.739 --> 00:34:11.739
be thinking exactly the same thing, but we will

00:34:11.739 --> 00:34:15.340
actually end up coming back to that Later on

00:34:15.340 --> 00:34:20.059
but this mask this mask luchador ends up handing

00:34:20.059 --> 00:34:24.960
the new day a win over LWO In a match that LWO

00:34:24.960 --> 00:34:34.969
really should have been winning And it generally

00:34:34.969 --> 00:34:38.690
did feel that there was a win coming for LWO,

00:34:38.849 --> 00:34:41.769
but not this week, not this time, unfortunately.

00:34:43.130 --> 00:34:46.590
No, this is it. But we went from that match into

00:34:46.590 --> 00:34:51.210
a VT recap of sort of Bronbreaker Finn Balor

00:34:51.210 --> 00:34:56.929
promo from last week, where basically the Judgment

00:34:56.929 --> 00:35:03.010
Day try and get one over on Bronbreaker and Bronbreaker

00:35:03.010 --> 00:35:39.159
does what? Brom Breaker does best. And he basically

00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:41.539
says, look, dude, I'm just here to be ragdoll

00:35:41.539 --> 00:35:43.760
now. I can't do half of the stuff I used to be

00:35:43.760 --> 00:35:46.219
able to do. I can just sell stuff really, really

00:35:46.219 --> 00:35:52.139
well. Which is what we sort of come to expect

00:35:52.139 --> 00:35:55.699
from a veteran, really. Yeah, like he said, I

00:35:55.699 --> 00:35:57.500
like the fact that he's honest with the fact

00:35:57.500 --> 00:35:59.179
that he goes, no, dude, I can't do it no more.

00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.719
I am literally just here to sell stuff and be

00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:07.340
comedy. It's the same way, at least with our

00:36:07.340 --> 00:36:10.860
truth, we get comedy and he can still pull off

00:36:10.860 --> 00:36:13.360
a reasonable match. I'm kind of glad Carlito

00:36:13.360 --> 00:36:15.239
has gone, you know what, I'll do the spot, like

00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:17.199
a spot occasionally, but I'm not doing a match.

00:36:18.440 --> 00:36:20.460
Yeah, we're not going to see him step in the

00:36:20.460 --> 00:36:23.360
squared circle for a match anytime. Well, ever

00:36:23.360 --> 00:36:25.159
again, probably. You might see him with the odd

00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:28.079
rumble appearance here and there, but are you

00:36:28.079 --> 00:36:30.739
talking maybe five minutes at most? Because I

00:36:30.739 --> 00:36:32.880
think he'd be gassed after it. And like you said,

00:36:33.079 --> 00:36:34.760
most of the time we call, like I said, sorry.

00:36:34.860 --> 00:36:36.619
most of the time they call you you just looking

00:36:36.619 --> 00:36:40.059
to see who's going to spit the apple up yeah

00:36:40.059 --> 00:36:42.159
that's it that is the most relevant point of

00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:43.599
him at the moment is who you're going to spit

00:36:43.599 --> 00:36:48.480
spit the apple up but that vt goes into a backstage

00:36:48.480 --> 00:36:51.860
segment with judgment day talking well i said

00:36:51.860 --> 00:36:56.079
judgment day it's it's finn bala talking to someone

00:36:56.079 --> 00:37:00.219
off camera which we were then shown his dirty

00:37:00.219 --> 00:37:05.210
dominic mysterio about uh how bron breakers Doctor

00:37:05.210 --> 00:37:10.269
he was talking to Carlito He was talking to Carlito

00:37:10.269 --> 00:37:14.750
in that so we start off I had them talking to

00:37:14.750 --> 00:37:17.090
Dom because Carlito was there but he just didn't

00:37:17.090 --> 00:37:19.130
seem to be too engrossed in what was going on.

00:37:19.230 --> 00:37:25.019
He was more like Carlito was off with the fairies.

00:37:25.019 --> 00:37:27.739
He was still trying to figure out that he was

00:37:27.739 --> 00:37:29.300
still trying to wrap his head around the fact

00:37:29.300 --> 00:37:31.699
that John Cena's turned heel which I don't know

00:37:31.699 --> 00:37:34.039
if you were aware of but it was a very subtle

00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:40.380
detail but John Cena's turned heel. Well, I'm

00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:42.500
gonna have to go back and listen to previous

00:37:42.500 --> 00:37:45.099
episodes to find out what happened there because

00:37:45.099 --> 00:37:50.380
I don't want to digress too far from this promo.

00:37:52.699 --> 00:37:54.679
Which is fair enough because I wouldn't want

00:37:54.679 --> 00:37:56.559
to do that either but I thought it was a useful

00:37:56.559 --> 00:38:03.199
detail to drop in there. We see Finn Balor basically

00:38:03.199 --> 00:38:06.539
ranting about last week to Carlito who basically

00:38:06.539 --> 00:38:12.420
wasn't even listening and that's when Dom, Liv

00:38:12.420 --> 00:38:18.159
and Raquel enter scene sort of thing and they

00:38:18.159 --> 00:38:20.800
seem pretty pleased with themselves, not going

00:38:20.800 --> 00:38:23.570
to lie. I mean to be fair Liv and Raquel have

00:38:23.570 --> 00:38:27.050
got a pretty good reason to be pleased with themselves.

00:38:27.090 --> 00:38:29.909
They've both got gold around their waist being

00:38:29.909 --> 00:38:37.030
the women's raw tag champs. You know Dom's involved

00:38:37.030 --> 00:38:39.389
with Liv Morgan and that's going to be enough

00:38:39.389 --> 00:38:43.130
to put anyone's smile on anyone's face and we

00:38:43.130 --> 00:38:49.610
basically find out from Liv Morgan that Bailey

00:38:49.610 --> 00:38:54.110
is facing Raquel tonight and if Raquel wins she

00:38:54.110 --> 00:38:59.489
goes on to face Lyra Valkyria for the women's

00:38:59.489 --> 00:39:03.269
Intercontinental title Yeah, so it's a number

00:39:03.269 --> 00:39:05.889
one contenders match. It is a number one contenders

00:39:05.889 --> 00:39:09.929
match. We get into that a little bit later was

00:39:09.929 --> 00:39:14.449
we then find out that Dom Liv and Raquel have

00:39:14.449 --> 00:39:19.969
been to see Adam Pearce Dom mentions that he's

00:39:19.969 --> 00:39:22.809
been to see Adam Pierce to set up a match with

00:39:22.809 --> 00:39:26.309
Bron break over at which Finn kind of goes For

00:39:26.309 --> 00:39:29.610
yourself and he goes actually no. No, I set up

00:39:29.610 --> 00:39:35.670
a match for you my good sir next week in Brussels

00:39:35.670 --> 00:39:39.690
Belgium All you've got to do is go and talk to

00:39:39.690 --> 00:39:42.530
Adam Pierce and say I'm down to sell records

00:39:42.530 --> 00:39:46.170
and that match is Good to go go. So Finn with

00:39:46.170 --> 00:39:50.400
a A massive smile on his face after hugging Dom

00:39:50.400 --> 00:39:52.579
Mysterio, which for the last few weeks we've

00:39:52.579 --> 00:39:58.760
seen quite a bit of a sort of, like there's been

00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:01.199
an atmosphere between the two of them. So he

00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:03.059
gives Dom a hug and then he runs off to find

00:40:03.059 --> 00:40:06.619
Adam Pearce to finalize this match, which leads

00:40:06.619 --> 00:40:14.679
us into a VT about the new WWE programming evolve.

00:40:15.179 --> 00:40:20.079
Which is basically I Don't know Adam. How would

00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:24.159
you describe evolve? So evolve is what NXT used

00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:28.599
to be it's their developmental now it's it's

00:40:28.599 --> 00:40:33.739
a chance for early superstars to get the a Chance

00:40:33.739 --> 00:40:38.900
on a TV show and this is a proper WWE TV show

00:40:38.900 --> 00:40:42.260
it just doesn't involve any of the stars from

00:40:43.139 --> 00:40:48.940
NXT, Raw or SmackDown. But one thing I do want

00:40:48.940 --> 00:40:51.260
to touch on in that last Judgment Day promo.

00:40:52.639 --> 00:40:55.059
Did you not very much distinctly get the impression

00:40:55.059 --> 00:40:59.679
that Dom's up to something? I very much feel

00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:20.179
like Dom has set Finn up. Well, this is my point.

00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:35.519
I think it is. Well, there's a rumour that I've

00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:39.650
heard. Obviously Dom's been pushing for the last

00:41:39.650 --> 00:41:43.349
few weeks about getting a new member in the Judgement

00:41:43.349 --> 00:41:47.949
Day. Finn Balor has very much been against this.

00:41:49.090 --> 00:41:52.409
A lot of people are saying or I've heard rumours

00:41:52.409 --> 00:41:54.769
that a lot of people are theorising that the

00:41:54.769 --> 00:41:57.130
new member they could end up bringing into Judgement

00:41:57.130 --> 00:42:02.110
Day that ultimately pushes Finn Balor out is

00:42:02.110 --> 00:42:18.269
going to be none other than Alistair Black. potential

00:42:18.269 --> 00:42:19.789
but I can't remember who it was off the top of

00:42:19.789 --> 00:42:26.650
my head. Well I'm sure it will come back to you.

00:42:26.650 --> 00:42:29.969
It probably will. I have seen today though on

00:42:29.969 --> 00:42:34.710
social media that Miro and CJ have decided to

00:42:34.710 --> 00:42:36.710
renew their wedding vows and take themselves

00:42:36.710 --> 00:42:40.949
back together. So it's been a very happy Rusev

00:42:40.949 --> 00:42:48.300
day today. It's been a very long time since you've

00:42:48.300 --> 00:42:51.099
been known under that name. Oh yeah, I know,

00:42:51.380 --> 00:42:54.000
but I had to throw that one in there. Especially

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:55.800
as we all know what he's doing right now. It's

00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:00.280
his wedding bow renewal night. Yeah, he's probably

00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:03.059
been called a dickhead, to be honest. Probably

00:43:03.059 --> 00:43:08.420
clapping some cheeks. Or that. Who knows? We

00:43:08.420 --> 00:43:13.980
then went into a, from the Evolve VT, into like

00:43:13.980 --> 00:43:20.789
a who's who of... the crowd. There was a lot

00:43:20.789 --> 00:43:23.969
more than this, they mentioned, but I got three.

00:43:24.909 --> 00:43:30.030
I got a guy called Peter Rosenberg, who I believe

00:43:30.030 --> 00:43:34.070
was an actor. No, Peter Rosenberg, sorry, is

00:43:34.070 --> 00:43:39.750
the commentator from Evolve. Then there was a

00:43:39.750 --> 00:43:43.429
guy, there was a Grammy -winning rap artist called

00:43:43.429 --> 00:43:50.559
Fabulous. something along those lines. Now neither

00:43:50.559 --> 00:43:54.260
me or Adam listen to rap and I have no idea what

00:43:54.260 --> 00:43:56.920
the Grammys are apart from if they've won awards

00:43:56.920 --> 00:43:59.400
there they must be kind of like the Brits and

00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:03.119
stuff like that. But I've never heard of this

00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:05.840
guy so I can't tell you if his music's any good

00:44:05.840 --> 00:44:08.579
or not but I'm not gonna lie to you if he's a

00:44:08.579 --> 00:44:10.000
rapper it's probably not something I'm gonna

00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:15.139
check out. No, which would be nominated for the

00:44:15.139 --> 00:44:17.800
Grammys twice. We've got to think that he's in

00:44:17.800 --> 00:44:25.199
certain circles. He is very much And of course

00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:29.139
with us being in New York the link to one of

00:44:29.139 --> 00:44:33.619
the greatest sets of Christmas films ever made

00:44:33.619 --> 00:44:39.260
We have Macaulay Culkin in the arena for from

00:44:39.260 --> 00:44:43.090
the Home Alone films and many many many other

00:44:43.090 --> 00:44:46.889
different films and tv series um he's always

00:44:46.889 --> 00:44:48.949
going to be known as kevin mccallister but it's

00:44:48.949 --> 00:44:52.670
not just him who's there it's a case that we

00:44:52.670 --> 00:44:55.949
also have his his brothers there with him looking

00:44:55.949 --> 00:44:59.070
like dude i just really didn't want to be on

00:44:59.070 --> 00:45:03.809
camera because it's it's his brother rory mcculkin

00:45:03.809 --> 00:45:07.730
oh okay and what does what's rory known for or

00:45:07.730 --> 00:45:11.630
not known for So he's an actor as well. He's

00:45:11.630 --> 00:45:14.869
been I've seen I can't think of anything I've

00:45:14.869 --> 00:45:17.269
seen him in but I have seen his sort of IMDB

00:45:17.269 --> 00:45:21.929
and he's been in a fair amount It's just spooky

00:45:21.929 --> 00:45:26.010
how much he looks like Macaulay yeah, I mean

00:45:26.010 --> 00:45:30.070
they are siblings so it's gonna be Reasonable

00:45:30.070 --> 00:45:40.010
Yeah, this is it Now I'm not sure What you have

00:45:40.010 --> 00:45:45.809
from here I've got the Cody Rhodes comes out

00:45:45.809 --> 00:45:49.230
to the ring and Right. I've got the Cody Rhodes

00:45:49.230 --> 00:45:51.929
segment as well. I've got Cody Rhodes comes down

00:45:51.929 --> 00:45:56.389
to the ring and then WWE does what WWE does best

00:45:56.389 --> 00:45:59.750
and it decided to throw some statistics at us

00:45:59.750 --> 00:46:02.110
now You'll have to bear with me a minute. I did

00:46:02.110 --> 00:46:04.650
some research this week myself rather than waiting

00:46:04.650 --> 00:46:08.389
for Adam to do it so Got to admit. I think I

00:46:08.389 --> 00:46:12.489
must have I must have passed out. I do not remember

00:46:12.489 --> 00:46:16.909
Seeing anything like this like this segment when

00:46:16.909 --> 00:46:21.590
I watched it It was a tiny tiny little box that

00:46:21.590 --> 00:46:24.750
came up on the screen Well, it's just after Cody

00:46:24.750 --> 00:46:26.949
made his entrance. I had to pause it. It was

00:46:26.949 --> 00:46:32.590
there for about 15 seconds right, so we we had

00:46:32.590 --> 00:46:37.090
Cody come into the ring we then had a programming

00:46:37.090 --> 00:46:47.190
VT for the programs around WrestleMania so the

00:46:47.190 --> 00:46:52.610
Smackdown the NXT and the Monday Night Raw think

00:46:52.610 --> 00:46:55.469
it's the NXT the Smackdown and then the Monday

00:46:55.469 --> 00:46:58.329
Night Raw like around WrestleMania they've they

00:46:58.329 --> 00:47:03.449
were saying they're all in I believe all in Tampa

00:47:03.449 --> 00:47:09.639
Bay This was all in May, wasn't it? It's all

00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:13.719
sort of within one weekend in May. Yeah, so then

00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:16.559
it went into, like I said, it flashed up a little

00:47:16.559 --> 00:47:19.579
box on the side of the screen about the history

00:47:19.579 --> 00:47:23.559
of wrestling in Madison Square Gardens. So we're

00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:25.820
going to take a little trip down wrestling's

00:47:25.820 --> 00:47:27.980
memory lane here and have a little conversation.

00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:33.460
Madison Square Gardens has had three WrestleMania's.

00:47:33.469 --> 00:47:36.250
three Summer Slams, three Survivor Series, and

00:47:36.250 --> 00:47:39.110
two Royal Rumbles. Now, the three WrestleMania's

00:47:39.110 --> 00:47:44.449
were number one, which was main evented by Hulk

00:47:44.449 --> 00:47:50.389
Hogan, Rowdy Roddy Piper, and Paul Orndoff. WrestleMania

00:47:50.389 --> 00:47:54.989
10's main event was Bret Hart beating Yoko Zuna

00:47:54.989 --> 00:47:59.869
for the WWF World Championship. And WrestleMania

00:47:59.869 --> 00:48:04.800
20 had Triple H. Chris Benoit and Shawn Michaels.

00:48:06.159 --> 00:48:09.260
This one was won by Chris Benoit and it was the

00:48:09.260 --> 00:48:13.699
first time that a submission move had won a match

00:48:13.699 --> 00:48:17.980
at WrestleMania. But Rich, we don't hear a name

00:48:17.980 --> 00:48:23.340
like Chris Benoit on WWE TV. We don't. That's

00:48:23.340 --> 00:48:26.480
why it wasn't advertised which ones they were.

00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:30.400
So we had to go and do our own research. Like

00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:32.800
I said, it's also hosted three Summer Slams.

00:48:33.019 --> 00:48:37.719
That was Summer Slam 1988, which was main evented

00:48:37.719 --> 00:48:40.820
by the Ultimate Warrior versus the Honky Tonk

00:48:40.820 --> 00:48:50.289
Man. SummerSlam 1991 where Hulk Hogan and the

00:48:50.289 --> 00:48:53.110
Ultimate Warrior beat the Triangle of Terror.

00:48:54.090 --> 00:48:55.829
For those of you who don't remember who the Triangle

00:48:55.829 --> 00:48:58.550
of Terror were, it was Sergeant Slaughter, General

00:48:58.550 --> 00:49:02.769
Adnan and Colonel Mustafa. And then SummerSlam

00:49:02.769 --> 00:49:10.050
1998 was main evented by Stone Cold Steve Austin

00:49:10.050 --> 00:49:14.449
and the Deadman himself. where Stone Cold beat

00:49:14.449 --> 00:49:19.090
Undertaker to take the WWF Championship off him.

00:49:19.550 --> 00:49:22.710
Like I said, we also had three Survivor Series.

00:49:23.030 --> 00:49:27.989
We had Survivor Series 96, where Shawn Michaels

00:49:27.989 --> 00:49:31.929
lost the WWF Championship to Psycho Sid in the

00:49:31.929 --> 00:49:37.289
main event. We see Shawn Michaels six years later

00:49:37.289 --> 00:49:43.769
at Survivor Series as well. in Survivor Series

00:49:43.769 --> 00:49:48.329
2002, where Shawn Michaels won the World Heavyweight

00:49:48.329 --> 00:49:51.750
Championship in the Elimination Chamber. Now

00:49:51.750 --> 00:49:54.809
this was the first time the World Heavyweight

00:49:54.809 --> 00:49:58.010
Championship had been defended in the Elimination

00:49:58.010 --> 00:50:03.329
Chamber and HBK walked out of that one. And then

00:50:03.329 --> 00:50:08.230
Survivor Series 2011 was the final one, where

00:50:08.230 --> 00:50:11.019
this was Not a hundred percent sure on this.

00:50:11.139 --> 00:50:13.219
My research was a little bit iffy on this one,

00:50:13.219 --> 00:50:16.920
but I believe this was where The Rock and John

00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.619
Cena, who was his WrestleMania opponent, teamed

00:50:20.619 --> 00:50:25.059
up to face The Miz and R -Truth for a victory.

00:50:26.579 --> 00:50:28.619
I also mentioned there's two Royal Rumbles in

00:50:28.619 --> 00:50:32.639
there. There was Royal Rumble year 2000 and Royal

00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:37.760
Rumble 2008. The 2000 Royal Rumble was run...

00:50:38.480 --> 00:50:45.559
won sorry by Dwayne the Rock Johnson and the

00:50:45.559 --> 00:50:50.440
Royal Rumble 2008 was won by the man who cannot

00:50:50.440 --> 00:50:54.980
be seen who likes to have a slight heel turn

00:50:54.980 --> 00:50:59.619
occasionally Mr John Cena. So this was the one

00:50:59.619 --> 00:51:02.300
that they like to proact to us every now when

00:51:02.300 --> 00:51:05.500
Royal Rumble season comes up is that it was a

00:51:05.500 --> 00:51:08.630
very short ramp John Cena came out at number

00:51:08.630 --> 00:51:12.929
30 as a complete surprise entrant as he was torn

00:51:12.929 --> 00:51:18.389
his pectoral muscle was ripped clean off the

00:51:18.389 --> 00:51:21.469
bone apparently he was meant to have been out

00:51:21.469 --> 00:51:24.130
for about 12 months and he rehabbed it to come

00:51:24.130 --> 00:51:27.210
back in nine to make it back for the Royal Rumble

00:51:27.210 --> 00:51:30.530
and there's always that iconic look of Triple

00:51:30.530 --> 00:51:37.150
H turning around going what the Yeah, pretty

00:51:37.150 --> 00:51:43.130
much Yeah, so as I said I didn't see this segment

00:51:43.130 --> 00:51:46.050
at all so I did zero research in regards of it

00:51:46.050 --> 00:51:49.809
I have no notes around it and But that is a good

00:51:49.809 --> 00:51:52.869
thing because my next section of notes is not

00:51:52.869 --> 00:51:56.550
as thick It's your next section of notes will

00:51:56.550 --> 00:52:01.329
probably be so Adam What was Cody in the ring

00:52:01.329 --> 00:52:06.380
to talk about? so after Cody Rhodes is insane

00:52:06.380 --> 00:52:09.059
pop and the fact that I've actually seen a little

00:52:09.059 --> 00:52:11.320
bit of social media backlash since this episode

00:52:11.320 --> 00:52:14.380
went out is that Cody Rhodes is the heavyweight

00:52:14.380 --> 00:52:16.500
championship for SmackDown. What the fuck is

00:52:16.500 --> 00:52:20.820
he doing on Raw? And the honest answer is is

00:52:20.820 --> 00:52:24.280
that as long as he's not on Raw consistently,

00:52:25.699 --> 00:52:30.460
it's a nice treat to have a champion from another

00:52:30.460 --> 00:52:34.079
promotion, but Cody Rhodes is out there talking

00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:37.960
about one thing and one thing only That's the

00:52:37.960 --> 00:52:41.500
man we can't see the man on a farewell tour that

00:52:41.500 --> 00:52:46.559
isn't actually on the freaking tour Well because

00:52:46.559 --> 00:52:51.579
again for the for now So this is the second Monday

00:52:51.579 --> 00:52:56.260
night, so two weeks Since we saw him elimination

00:52:56.260 --> 00:53:00.469
chamber take his turn to the dark side. We are

00:53:00.469 --> 00:53:06.849
told a little bit in the promo that next week

00:53:06.849 --> 00:53:11.630
when Monday Night Raw is in Brussels, Belgium

00:53:11.630 --> 00:53:17.670
that both Cody Rhodes and John Cena will be there

00:53:17.670 --> 00:53:23.289
so next week we could have a fight on our hands

00:53:23.289 --> 00:53:27.070
between Cody and Cena. It won't be an in -ring

00:53:27.070 --> 00:53:36.079
thing. Next week we're more likely to find out

00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:41.719
the like the reasons behind why He decided to

00:53:41.719 --> 00:53:48.519
sell his soul to the rock that to rock the Dwayne

00:53:48.519 --> 00:53:56.780
Johnson Yeah, pretty much but yeah, I mean this

00:53:56.780 --> 00:53:59.739
entire promo was basically around the fact that

00:54:01.380 --> 00:54:04.119
Sena wasn't there, apparently it was quite an

00:54:04.119 --> 00:54:06.760
easy decision for him to make to not be there.

00:54:07.440 --> 00:54:10.239
So Sena is still deepening his, he's managing

00:54:10.239 --> 00:54:14.659
to effortlessly deepen his heel turn without

00:54:14.659 --> 00:54:18.039
even having to be there, say anything or do anything

00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:21.079
because everybody else is doing the work for

00:54:21.079 --> 00:54:38.070
him. Yeah, pretty much and Yeah, I mean He throws

00:54:38.070 --> 00:54:41.449
a few insults seen as way calls him a well I've

00:54:41.449 --> 00:54:43.329
put down here that he called him a conceited

00:54:43.329 --> 00:54:46.050
moron He might have just called him a moron.

00:54:46.090 --> 00:54:49.969
It conceited might be my viewpoint on it potentially

00:54:49.969 --> 00:54:56.469
And he calls Cena's ambition of 17 world championships

00:54:56.469 --> 00:55:01.599
a delusion and yet again look straight down the

00:55:01.599 --> 00:55:03.599
barrel of that camera at the end of this promo

00:55:03.599 --> 00:55:08.699
to basically tell Sina you ain't nothing special

00:55:08.699 --> 00:55:13.300
anymore I'm the captain now sit down shut up

00:55:13.300 --> 00:55:22.960
and get in line yeah I mean Sina did what he

00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:25.880
went out there to do realistically is that he

00:55:26.219 --> 00:55:28.900
he punched his ticket to his last ever mania

00:55:28.900 --> 00:55:34.480
and it's actually quite exciting to know that

00:55:34.480 --> 00:55:38.559
next week we'll actually be able to see him and

00:55:38.559 --> 00:55:40.800
hear him and i will actually be very interested

00:55:40.800 --> 00:55:43.920
to find out what it is that he has to say around

00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:58.429
it He always said, and when they teased that

00:55:58.429 --> 00:56:04.150
heel turn on us 12 years ago, you know, like

00:56:04.150 --> 00:56:07.590
he had this entire thing set up from then, it's

00:56:07.590 --> 00:56:11.889
just been sat in storage. Yeah, he had his new.

00:56:12.130 --> 00:56:14.349
Has he been digging all that out and making it

00:56:14.349 --> 00:56:17.429
all get it all extended so it fits? It's them

00:56:17.429 --> 00:56:18.989
jeans that are going to fit the same way as they

00:56:18.989 --> 00:56:21.329
used to. And if he comes back out in those horrible

00:56:21.329 --> 00:56:50.590
shorts. No, I completely agree Oh Right, okay

00:56:50.590 --> 00:57:04.769
Yeah, so right yeah um so we went from there

00:57:04.769 --> 00:57:07.949
into another famous into another vt for a famous

00:57:07.949 --> 00:57:11.369
cage match at the garden um this one came to

00:57:11.369 --> 00:57:15.349
us from 1983 saw the magnificent morocco versus

00:57:15.349 --> 00:57:19.869
jimmy superfly snooker um i didn't really have

00:57:19.869 --> 00:57:21.969
any research to do with that one nothing really

00:57:21.969 --> 00:57:25.550
inspired me to go out and research it so uh yeah

00:57:33.840 --> 00:57:35.780
No, that was the guy we mentioned earlier on.

00:57:36.099 --> 00:57:39.900
No, no, I'm pretty sure Jimmy got in trouble

00:57:39.900 --> 00:57:46.000
for something. Well, I know Jimmy's daughter

00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:52.179
was Tamina snooker who used to be a WWE superstar.

00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:54.719
I mean, I don't really remember what happened

00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:57.199
to her. I'm assuming she got caught at some point,

00:57:57.199 --> 00:58:04.090
but I don't really remember when. Not that it's

00:58:04.090 --> 00:58:09.550
important but yeah, um, oh he was involved in

00:58:09.550 --> 00:58:16.389
the death of another person He'd had a match

00:58:16.389 --> 00:58:23.630
against Jose Estrada television taping And then

00:58:23.630 --> 00:58:30.250
there'd been an injury to his girlfriend Which

00:58:30.860 --> 00:58:35.019
Ended up with her dying due to undetermined cranial

00:58:35.019 --> 00:58:39.739
cerebral injuries Basically a traumatic brain

00:58:39.739 --> 00:58:43.119
injury consistent with a moving head striking

00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:49.880
a stationary object So yeah, he was a he was

00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:52.940
a Gotten arrested and charged with third -degree

00:58:52.940 --> 00:59:02.579
murder and involuntary manslaughter in 2015 died

00:59:02.579 --> 00:59:06.300
in the August of 2015 as well from stomach cancer

00:59:06.300 --> 00:59:12.420
so yeah Jim the snooper fly was not as yeah not

00:59:12.420 --> 00:59:17.199
as well behaved as we thought he was no but the

00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:20.739
same could be said for a lot of to be fair it

00:59:20.739 --> 00:59:22.619
doesn't matter if you're a professional wrestler

00:59:22.619 --> 00:59:24.760
if you're an American football player if you're

00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:26.860
a UFC fighter there are so many of them that

00:59:26.860 --> 00:59:29.199
are currently incarcerated for doing stupid shit

00:59:32.279 --> 00:59:36.079
Yeah, there is a UFC fighter currently in prison

00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:41.300
because he shot someone who met well Someone

00:59:41.300 --> 00:59:45.820
molested his child. He chased after the guy and

00:59:45.820 --> 00:59:49.320
shot the wrong person in the car He shot the

00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:51.440
driver which hadn't got out the car But if you'd

00:59:51.440 --> 00:59:52.980
have shot the other guy they would have let him

00:59:52.980 --> 00:59:54.699
walk back to his house and get away with it But

00:59:54.699 --> 00:59:57.480
now he's currently chained up waiting for a murder

00:59:57.480 --> 00:59:59.480
attempted murder charge to go through a court

00:59:59.480 --> 01:00:04.659
system I actually believe it might have been

01:00:04.659 --> 01:00:13.159
the one that was on WWE TV at one point. I mean

01:00:13.159 --> 01:00:18.619
this is perfectly possible. Cain Velasquez. I'm

01:00:18.619 --> 01:00:21.559
sure Cain Velasquez was in WWE at one point.

01:00:22.460 --> 01:00:24.659
It does ring a bell but I forget where from.

01:00:25.119 --> 01:00:29.969
Anyway, we digress. Because the next time the

01:00:29.969 --> 01:00:32.650
next thing that we are commenting on from here

01:00:32.650 --> 01:00:38.489
Is Match three on the card, which was a women's

01:00:38.489 --> 01:00:40.769
singles match. It's the number one contenders

01:00:40.769 --> 01:00:44.170
match Yeah, this was the Bailey versus Raquel

01:00:44.170 --> 01:00:52.269
Rodriguez much Which Wasn't either here nor there

01:00:52.269 --> 01:00:57.610
for me to be fair Yeah, go to admit it's it wasn't

01:00:57.400 --> 01:01:00.440
the strongest match I feel it could have been.

01:01:00.699 --> 01:01:04.460
I literally have put in here that Raquel dominated

01:01:04.460 --> 01:01:09.300
Bailey pretty much the entire match, to the point

01:01:09.300 --> 01:01:11.179
where Bailey wasn't really allowed to get any

01:01:11.179 --> 01:01:15.760
momentum, any rhythm. It wasn't a very long match.

01:01:16.559 --> 01:01:19.059
It was actually... It felt like it was long.

01:01:19.340 --> 01:01:21.619
It felt like it was long, but it wasn't actually

01:01:21.619 --> 01:01:31.340
that long. Apart from the obvious... Was it obvious?

01:01:31.539 --> 01:01:33.400
Was Dom at ringside? I think he was wasn't he?

01:01:33.460 --> 01:01:38.760
Dom was at ringside although He's there in person

01:01:38.760 --> 01:01:41.239
although for the rest of the time during this

01:01:41.239 --> 01:01:43.699
episode that they reference back to this that

01:01:43.699 --> 01:01:46.500
they reference back to this They don't mention

01:01:46.500 --> 01:01:51.340
Dom at all No, they don't he was there as a he

01:01:51.340 --> 01:01:53.579
was at ringside, but he didn't really pay any

01:01:53.579 --> 01:01:56.179
part in this match at all I've put down here

01:01:56.179 --> 01:02:07.030
that It was a very boring match. There wasn't

01:02:07.030 --> 01:02:11.289
really much back and forth between the two sides.

01:02:14.510 --> 01:02:19.909
Theoretically, that's what it felt like. Yeah,

01:02:20.030 --> 01:02:24.969
fair enough. Do you know what? It's weird to

01:02:24.969 --> 01:02:27.659
see Bailey on them. wrong side of a squash match

01:02:27.659 --> 01:02:32.920
as well. I'm not quite sure if they're trying

01:02:32.920 --> 01:02:36.320
to improve Raquel Rodriguez's standing by giving

01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:40.679
her some big wins and a bit of confidence or...

01:02:40.679 --> 01:02:43.960
I don't know. Bailey's a really weird choice.

01:02:44.019 --> 01:02:45.699
When I looked at it on paper I thought Bailey

01:02:45.699 --> 01:02:47.820
was crapping all over Raquel and going off to

01:02:47.820 --> 01:02:51.679
face Lyra. It's been a while since Bailey's held

01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:55.940
gold so I thought that was the plan. was to stick

01:02:55.940 --> 01:02:59.940
a belt around at least. Yeah that would have

01:02:59.940 --> 01:03:04.019
probably made more sense if I'm honest. I mean

01:03:04.019 --> 01:03:06.960
fair play Raquel Rodriguez won this match earning

01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:11.340
herself the number one contender slot for Lyra

01:03:11.340 --> 01:03:15.940
Valkyrie's Intercontinental Championship. Based

01:03:15.940 --> 01:03:19.400
on this match alone Lyra's gonna shit over her.

01:03:21.120 --> 01:03:24.840
Yeah, that should be how it works, but they have

01:03:24.840 --> 01:03:51.960
been hinting I find Raquel Rodriguez really boring.

01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.079
She has no solid storyline. I mean, it's a solid

01:03:57.079 --> 01:03:59.900
-ish. She's not a main character even in her

01:03:59.900 --> 01:04:05.940
own story. She's been outshone by Liv Morgan

01:04:05.940 --> 01:04:08.739
in pretty much every tag match. She's getting

01:04:08.739 --> 01:04:10.760
a weird singles push that I really don't feel

01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:14.880
she deserves because she looks awkward and clumsy.

01:04:16.620 --> 01:04:20.079
Yeah, there's just she's all power and there's

01:04:20.079 --> 01:04:33.000
nothing else to her Yeah, pretty much Yeah, just

01:04:33.000 --> 01:04:36.039
not very inspiring I mean Raquel walks out of

01:04:36.039 --> 01:04:40.820
this with the win and after a Tahana bomb and

01:04:40.820 --> 01:04:44.900
The only reason I can see I mean Can't even say

01:04:44.900 --> 01:04:48.619
the only reason she won is due to the interference

01:04:48.619 --> 01:04:54.960
from Dom and Dom and Liv because The way they

01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:58.719
booked the match Dom and Liv didn't really need

01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:06.340
to do anything for her to win it Yeah, this this

01:05:06.340 --> 01:05:08.599
felt like it felt like a bit of a cop -out for

01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:17.820
Bailey I'm not gonna lie a five -star match but

01:05:17.820 --> 01:05:21.500
yeah I will tell you the best thing for me about

01:05:21.500 --> 01:05:25.980
this match was the VT that followed it where

01:05:25.980 --> 01:05:29.340
Cathy Kelly and her two personalities got made

01:05:29.340 --> 01:05:33.400
to look like a right twat by Chad Gable which

01:05:33.400 --> 01:05:40.019
I thought was quite funny well me and Rich were

01:05:40.019 --> 01:05:43.599
watching this probably Well, I think I was about

01:05:43.599 --> 01:05:47.159
maybe an hour behind rich in watching this realistically

01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:51.440
and Yeah, I remember messaging rich at one point

01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:55.360
watching this and saying the Chad Gable interview

01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:59.900
I didn't get a damn thing for it. I was way too

01:05:59.900 --> 01:06:25.320
distracted I mean, they were right there. There's

01:06:25.320 --> 01:06:29.239
only so much I can do. But yes, anyway, I did

01:06:29.239 --> 01:06:31.679
eventually manage to get a few notes as to what

01:06:31.679 --> 01:06:34.619
this was all about. This is basically Cathy Kelly.

01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:37.099
This was less of an interview. It was more like

01:06:37.099 --> 01:06:39.539
a police interview than anything else, because

01:06:39.539 --> 01:06:42.920
Cathy Kelly, like the rest of us, was pretty

01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:48.539
sure. I mean, I've seen police. I've seen enough

01:06:48.539 --> 01:06:51.280
police like. police drama shows to know what

01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:54.019
an interview should look like. I know you've

01:06:54.019 --> 01:07:02.860
got more first -hand experience but I mean that's

01:07:02.860 --> 01:07:46.619
that's generally what I do. Yeah, I saw it. Yeah,

01:07:46.619 --> 01:07:49.119
and while we're sort of having this conversation

01:07:49.119 --> 01:07:52.360
we see in the background of this where this promo

01:07:52.360 --> 01:07:56.039
is taking place We see the same New York security

01:07:56.039 --> 01:07:58.500
apparently escorting somebody dressed exactly

01:07:58.500 --> 01:08:02.099
like Chad Gable built in a very similar fashion

01:08:02.099 --> 01:08:06.820
in the luchador mask being escorted out of the

01:08:06.820 --> 01:08:12.619
arena I Know you have a theory and I know you've

01:08:12.619 --> 01:08:16.119
been looking forward to sharing this theory after

01:08:16.119 --> 01:09:04.079
seeing this. mean it's not a bad it's not certainly

01:09:04.079 --> 01:09:16.220
not a bad show I mean we've got to wait and see

01:09:16.220 --> 01:09:43.380
how it plays out I suppose I mean, if you're

01:09:43.380 --> 01:09:46.319
there for WrestleMania, you've probably already

01:09:46.319 --> 01:09:49.859
spent money that you don't have. You've probably

01:09:49.859 --> 01:09:52.960
sold organs, your ass, and children to be able

01:09:52.960 --> 01:09:59.439
to get there, so. Yeah, and the proceeds of Madeleine

01:09:59.439 --> 01:10:08.520
McCann's fund as well. Well. But yeah, I mean...

01:10:08.590 --> 01:10:11.689
I've got down here as well that they did a small

01:10:11.689 --> 01:10:15.909
promo for having the rock as a playable character

01:10:15.909 --> 01:10:18.869
in 2K25. They gave away the... Did you check

01:10:18.869 --> 01:10:22.310
out what the bonus code was for it? I did. It's

01:10:22.310 --> 01:10:53.310
Elite Rock. Yeah, but we went from there into

01:10:53.310 --> 01:10:58.250
another Madison Square Garden famous cage match,

01:10:59.470 --> 01:11:07.550
where this one was from 1988. And this one was

01:11:07.550 --> 01:11:14.050
Randy Savage versus Ted DiBiase Sr. This is the,

01:11:14.050 --> 01:11:16.569
I'm sure he was known as the Million Dollar Man.

01:11:26.780 --> 01:11:29.680
Probably a majority of it and that's why he had

01:11:29.680 --> 01:11:31.819
to be helped to the ring. He had to be helped

01:11:31.819 --> 01:11:35.220
to the ring and from the ring by Miss Elizabeth.

01:11:39.699 --> 01:11:45.600
She wasn't an escort to escort him to and from

01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:48.140
the ring. She was more like a carer at this point.

01:12:24.170 --> 01:12:26.729
All of the famous cage matches that they've come

01:12:26.729 --> 01:12:29.750
up with so far were before both your and my time,

01:12:30.130 --> 01:12:33.069
mate. So we wouldn't have seen any of it unless

01:12:33.069 --> 01:12:35.729
we'd been back and watched it. Now, some of it

01:12:35.729 --> 01:12:38.329
I was aware of through other podcasts that I

01:12:38.329 --> 01:12:41.869
listened to, such as one of my favorites, Grilling

01:12:41.869 --> 01:12:48.130
JR. He goes back and reviews a lot of old episodes

01:12:48.130 --> 01:12:52.659
of Raw, SmackDown. even goes back into the territory

01:12:52.659 --> 01:12:56.699
days because that's as far back as JR's career

01:12:56.699 --> 01:12:59.300
goes. So yeah, I'm aware of some of these matches

01:12:59.300 --> 01:13:02.500
and I've heard them broken down on other podcasts

01:13:02.500 --> 01:13:09.539
and things like that. So yeah, it's a bit of

01:13:09.539 --> 01:13:12.300
an odd one really, but yeah, I've enjoyed the

01:13:12.300 --> 01:13:15.140
fact that they've used this as a way to promote

01:13:15.140 --> 01:13:19.460
the cage match that comes later on because yeah.

01:13:19.560 --> 01:13:24.859
It's different. I don't remember them using historic

01:13:24.859 --> 01:13:51.179
footage in quite this way before. completely

01:13:51.179 --> 01:13:54.579
different. It's like a PLE without it being a

01:13:54.579 --> 01:13:59.640
PLE, I suppose. Yeah, this is it. It's always

01:13:59.640 --> 01:14:04.359
a good one. This next little segment was probably

01:14:04.359 --> 01:14:08.300
one of my favourite non -match segments of the

01:14:08.300 --> 01:14:12.779
night. I don't even know why. Well, I kind of

01:14:12.779 --> 01:14:21.130
do. I know why. Why? So we'll get into it and

01:14:21.130 --> 01:14:27.369
I'm pretty sure you may well find that you You

01:14:27.369 --> 01:14:31.350
may well find that you figure it out as we go

01:14:31.350 --> 01:14:39.409
So, yeah This match is a or this it's not even

01:14:39.409 --> 01:14:49.569
a match it's a Yes, it is. And it's all about

01:14:49.569 --> 01:14:54.470
EO Sky having won the Women's World Championship

01:14:54.470 --> 01:15:01.649
last week from Rhea Ripley, which, yeah, I can't

01:15:01.649 --> 01:15:05.350
even say it was not a clean win, because it 100

01:15:05.350 --> 01:15:11.329
% was. It just, yeah, it wasn't how we would

01:15:11.329 --> 01:15:15.989
have expected Rhea to... lose the title so to

01:15:15.989 --> 01:15:19.609
speak maybe but yeah we covered all that last

01:15:19.609 --> 01:15:29.770
week no and getting her out to do a promo in

01:15:29.770 --> 01:15:34.829
I've said this before I appreciate obviously

01:15:34.829 --> 01:15:38.250
the superstars come from all over the world and

01:15:38.250 --> 01:15:40.390
obviously not all over the not everybody all

01:15:40.390 --> 01:15:43.500
over the world speaks fluent English which is

01:15:43.500 --> 01:15:48.760
fine however if you're going to come onto a show

01:15:48.760 --> 01:15:54.100
that is performed in English I would prefer it

01:15:54.100 --> 01:15:56.939
personally if you had a basic command of the

01:15:56.939 --> 01:16:00.779
language which isn't always the case when it

01:16:00.779 --> 01:16:05.800
comes to certain performers Eoskai is not one

01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:08.840
of these performers she does generally have a

01:16:08.840 --> 01:16:11.720
pretty good command of the English language but

01:16:12.250 --> 01:16:15.289
There are times where it is a little bit ropey

01:16:15.289 --> 01:16:18.109
and I think it holds her back a little bit in

01:16:18.109 --> 01:16:23.550
the American in the Western market Having said

01:16:23.550 --> 01:16:28.050
that One week into a reign as women's champion

01:16:28.050 --> 01:16:33.890
on to face Bianca Belair at WrestleMania in What

01:16:33.890 --> 01:16:36.989
is looking to be have a first title defense of

01:16:36.989 --> 01:16:40.369
this reign? which I think we've got to admit

01:16:40.369 --> 01:16:42.689
it's quite a big title defense to have as your

01:16:42.689 --> 01:16:47.430
first title defense as a new champion. But hey,

01:16:47.649 --> 01:16:52.229
yeah, I mean, she says that it was a dream of

01:16:52.229 --> 01:16:56.569
hers to be at the Garden as a champion to go

01:16:56.569 --> 01:17:00.470
to WrestleMania as the champion. So she's she's

01:17:00.470 --> 01:17:02.750
ticked quite a few things off her life's bingo

01:17:02.750 --> 01:17:09.770
card with with just one win. It was a bit of

01:17:09.770 --> 01:17:12.189
a trophy win, but it was a win all the same.

01:17:12.970 --> 01:17:16.050
Yeah, a win's a win. Of course, the first title

01:17:16.050 --> 01:17:18.510
defence being at WrestleMania, that's a big thing.

01:17:19.170 --> 01:17:21.149
That could be where they try and write the title

01:17:21.149 --> 01:17:26.289
offer if they need to. Yeah, which I'm sort of

01:17:26.289 --> 01:17:30.289
hoping they don't. Not for any other reason other

01:17:30.289 --> 01:17:32.840
than... What I've said in the last few weeks

01:17:32.840 --> 01:17:35.380
is that regular title changes have a tendency

01:17:35.380 --> 01:17:37.819
to devalue the title itself and it's the last

01:17:37.819 --> 01:17:40.279
thing you want to do when you're talking about

01:17:40.279 --> 01:17:44.979
the big belt. Do it with the little belt and

01:17:44.979 --> 01:17:48.520
you can recover from that. But if you're doing

01:17:48.520 --> 01:17:52.779
title changes in short spaces of time with the

01:17:52.779 --> 01:17:56.199
big belt, it's not going to go down the way you

01:17:56.199 --> 01:18:12.600
think it will. Yeah. But Cole doesn't stop there.

01:18:13.180 --> 01:18:18.840
Because he also brings Bianca Belair out. And

01:18:18.840 --> 01:18:22.819
in fairness, the exchange between Bianca and

01:18:22.819 --> 01:18:27.779
Eoskai is very friendly. Right. It should be.

01:18:28.859 --> 01:18:32.520
Yeah. I mean, it's very friendly. It's very respectful.

01:18:35.859 --> 01:18:39.760
And Bianca says how happy she is for both herself

01:18:39.760 --> 01:18:44.600
and Io, that they both go to, they get to go

01:18:44.600 --> 01:18:50.460
to WrestleMania to face one another for the title.

01:18:50.979 --> 01:18:54.520
And as she addresses obviously being at ringside

01:18:54.520 --> 01:18:58.960
last week, we have another set of music. hit

01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:07.920
and this is where we see yeah this is it now

01:19:07.920 --> 01:19:11.899
we said at the end of Raw last week that both

01:19:11.899 --> 01:19:14.520
I think I said that both me and Rich had seen

01:19:14.520 --> 01:19:19.920
a post -Raw interview with Rhea where she was

01:19:19.920 --> 01:19:22.600
obviously very upset that she lost her title

01:19:22.600 --> 01:19:26.899
but didn't blame Bianca didn't blame Io blamed

01:19:26.899 --> 01:19:32.010
herself Now this isn't the first time that we've

01:19:32.010 --> 01:19:34.989
seen Ria do something like this in the past,

01:19:34.989 --> 01:19:44.550
but she She came out with a completely different

01:19:44.550 --> 01:19:48.850
frame of mind she's no longer blaming herself

01:19:48.850 --> 01:19:59.039
Before this happened oh 100 % Before this sort

01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:04.279
of Cole questioned Bianca Belair about if she

01:20:04.279 --> 01:20:07.619
wasn't out at ringside last week, do you think

01:20:07.619 --> 01:20:10.180
you might have been facing Rhea Ripley instead?

01:20:11.300 --> 01:20:14.060
And that was sort of the trigger point for it

01:20:14.060 --> 01:20:16.979
as Bianca Belair was like, don't really think

01:20:16.979 --> 01:20:20.020
my presence outside in the ring had any influence

01:20:20.020 --> 01:20:25.020
on anything realistically. But yeah, Mammy took

01:20:25.020 --> 01:20:29.500
issue with that. and actually comes out to tell

01:20:29.500 --> 01:20:34.319
no this is it and she sort of comes out to basically

01:20:34.319 --> 01:20:37.699
tell Bianca pretty sure you probably should have

01:20:37.699 --> 01:20:39.720
been sorting your own shit before getting involved

01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:45.760
in mine obviously referring to the Naomi Jade

01:20:45.760 --> 01:20:50.439
Cargill debark sort of issue that's been circling

01:20:50.439 --> 01:21:03.250
around recently Yeah, I did it for Bianca Doesn't

01:21:03.250 --> 01:21:13.430
quite have the same ring Yeah, so we went from

01:21:13.430 --> 01:21:22.869
there to We went from there and to Bianca Both

01:21:22.869 --> 01:21:26.750
Bianca and Rhea started getting kind of getting

01:21:26.750 --> 01:21:29.270
into it and getting quite verbal towards each

01:21:29.270 --> 01:21:33.770
other. Io was trying to get a word in and Ria

01:21:33.770 --> 01:21:35.810
stuck her hand square in her face and pushed

01:21:35.810 --> 01:21:39.390
her away. And then when Io comes back and tries

01:21:39.390 --> 01:21:42.090
to get another word in edge where Bianca does

01:21:42.090 --> 01:21:46.750
it to her, I mean she was pissed when she got

01:21:46.750 --> 01:21:49.489
back up. She started screaming a lot of things

01:21:49.489 --> 01:21:54.039
in Japanese. I think anybody would be. It's a

01:21:54.039 --> 01:21:56.720
case that you're gonna be pissed off. I mean

01:21:56.720 --> 01:22:01.039
being left out of any situation Is bad enough,

01:22:01.039 --> 01:22:03.859
but when you're for want of a better way of putting

01:22:03.859 --> 01:22:07.760
it the most important person in the room And

01:22:07.760 --> 01:22:10.939
you're being ignored that's never really gonna

01:22:10.939 --> 01:22:19.859
go down very well And yeah, essentially well

01:22:19.859 --> 01:22:27.470
Bianca is in Ria's face about saying that I think

01:22:27.470 --> 01:22:31.949
Ria's misdirecting or anger that it's probably

01:22:31.949 --> 01:22:34.609
more to do with the fact that Ria can't get the

01:22:34.609 --> 01:22:42.229
job done against Io and Ria implies that all

01:22:42.229 --> 01:22:46.500
Bianca does is hide behind people which Do you

01:22:46.500 --> 01:22:49.439
know, I couldn't disagree with her on that. It's

01:22:49.439 --> 01:22:51.479
a case that I could very much see what she was

01:22:51.479 --> 01:22:55.500
getting at with that one. But yeah, eventually

01:22:55.500 --> 01:23:01.560
EO gets, EO manages to get her word in edge ways

01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:05.119
and manages to land quite impressive slaps on

01:23:05.119 --> 01:23:09.500
both Ria and Bianca that send them both flying.

01:23:10.000 --> 01:23:12.920
So for such a - She ran off on a hissy fit and

01:23:12.920 --> 01:23:16.640
ran off. What is it with people leaving? The

01:23:16.640 --> 01:23:18.779
ring and Madison Square Garden is like a bitch

01:23:18.779 --> 01:23:24.199
these days. I mean, I can perfectly understand

01:23:24.199 --> 01:23:26.640
not wanting to be around either of them when

01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:29.140
they've just straight up, it's not even that

01:23:29.140 --> 01:23:33.279
they've ignored you. They've 100 % just disrespected

01:23:33.279 --> 01:23:36.739
you. Yeah, but one slap was not enough to warrant,

01:23:37.020 --> 01:23:40.079
there could have been an ass kicking going on

01:23:40.079 --> 01:23:44.520
there. Oh, and I completely agree with that.

01:23:45.760 --> 01:23:48.460
But at the same time, you've got to understand,

01:23:49.079 --> 01:23:51.239
both of the women in the ring were former world

01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:53.520
champions. One of them was a world champion up

01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:57.760
until a week ago. If you're then going to stay

01:23:57.760 --> 01:24:02.300
in the ring for a fight between the two of them,

01:24:02.699 --> 01:24:04.920
you're in a two -on -one situation that you're

01:24:04.920 --> 01:24:08.699
not going to win. So I think in this case, EO

01:24:08.699 --> 01:24:11.199
made the smart choice and removed herself from

01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:18.550
the situation. Yeah, this difference between

01:24:18.550 --> 01:24:20.869
her and Logan Paul Logan Paul walked away from

01:24:20.869 --> 01:24:24.010
a one -on -one fight, which he at least had some

01:24:24.010 --> 01:24:30.329
potential chance of winning but No, it's not

01:24:30.329 --> 01:24:36.170
a huge chance, but yeah EOS guy had Relatively

01:24:36.170 --> 01:24:39.750
no chance of winning that two -on -one bout if

01:24:39.750 --> 01:24:43.069
she was gonna turn that into a fight and Honestly,

01:24:43.069 --> 01:24:45.050
I don't think she was there for a fight. She

01:24:45.050 --> 01:24:48.149
was there to try and Celebrate her win. She was

01:24:48.149 --> 01:24:52.649
there to have a moment in the Sun and It just

01:24:52.649 --> 01:24:58.130
didn't go the way she wanted it to Basically

01:24:58.130 --> 01:25:04.010
And that sort of ended that we then went to the

01:25:04.010 --> 01:25:13.720
main event of the evening now We had a BT about

01:25:13.720 --> 01:25:16.340
the stuff that we were gonna see when we go to

01:25:16.340 --> 01:25:20.260
Brussels next week for Monday Night Raw in Belgium.

01:25:22.100 --> 01:25:26.220
So there is a couple of matches already on the

01:25:26.220 --> 01:25:31.159
card for, there's four matches on that card that

01:25:31.159 --> 01:25:35.300
have been announced so far. One of them is a

01:25:35.300 --> 01:25:40.739
no holes barred match between Penta and Ludwig

01:25:40.739 --> 01:25:47.789
Kaiser. We see Jey Uso take on Austin Theory.

01:25:49.449 --> 01:25:52.449
Actually, while we mention Ludwig Kaiser, during

01:25:52.449 --> 01:25:55.550
one of the promos earlier in the night, he's

01:25:55.550 --> 01:25:58.710
seen talking to Dom Mysterio. I don't know if

01:25:58.710 --> 01:26:00.590
it's a detail that I've just picked up on that

01:26:00.590 --> 01:26:03.909
they just picked two random superstars to stand

01:26:03.909 --> 01:26:06.449
in a hallway having a conversation. They might

01:26:06.449 --> 01:26:08.390
have just been having a normal conversation anyway.

01:26:08.529 --> 01:26:11.310
Might just be completely irrelevant. It could

01:26:11.310 --> 01:26:16.010
have been, but... It's it's worth making a mention

01:26:16.010 --> 01:26:20.130
of it is anyway, so yeah, we've got Penta and

01:26:20.130 --> 01:26:23.569
Ludwig Kaiser have got a match Jay Uso is against

01:26:23.569 --> 01:26:29.609
Austin Theory We see Dakota Kai take on Ivy Nile

01:26:29.609 --> 01:26:32.729
After Ivy Niles been sticking her nose up in

01:26:32.729 --> 01:26:37.750
Dakota Kai's business recently then We have the

01:26:37.750 --> 01:26:40.829
intercontinental title on the rock on the line

01:26:41.340 --> 01:26:45.020
Because it is confirmed that Bron Breaker will

01:26:45.020 --> 01:26:49.560
be facing Finn Balor in Belgium for that title.

01:26:50.760 --> 01:26:56.100
And then we go into Seth Rollins making his entry

01:26:56.100 --> 01:27:00.239
into the steel cage for our main event of the

01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:09.020
evening. Yeah, so I'm actually lying, I was...

01:27:09.229 --> 01:27:12.310
I wasn't quite sure what to make of this match.

01:27:14.449 --> 01:27:16.689
There were some aspects to it I enjoyed watching.

01:27:16.890 --> 01:27:18.689
There were some aspects to it I didn't enjoy.

01:27:18.850 --> 01:27:20.510
There were some aspects to it that were like

01:27:20.510 --> 01:27:26.130
really why did you put that bit in there? So

01:27:26.130 --> 01:27:30.050
we very much had both superstars in the ring.

01:27:30.529 --> 01:27:32.510
Once both superstars were in the ring and this

01:27:32.510 --> 01:27:36.699
was a proper cage match. This is not a cage that

01:27:36.699 --> 01:27:39.000
they had to throw together during the during

01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:42.119
the during an ad break or something along anything

01:27:42.119 --> 01:27:45.239
along those lines Bring a new superstar out with

01:27:45.239 --> 01:27:47.579
a microphone for five minutes to give them some

01:27:47.579 --> 01:27:53.640
extra time to finish building Yeah, I sort of

01:27:53.640 --> 01:27:57.199
understand why NXT had to do that now all night

01:27:57.199 --> 01:27:59.760
that cage has been suspended above the ring on

01:27:59.760 --> 01:28:03.239
raw When they're performing in the performance

01:28:03.239 --> 01:28:10.520
center, they don't have the height on the performance

01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:14.300
arena to be able to suspend the cage up the way

01:28:14.300 --> 01:28:16.880
they did, which is why they had to build it.

01:28:17.260 --> 01:28:20.840
And this one on Raw was a proper cage match with

01:28:20.840 --> 01:28:24.739
a proper cage. So it was escape the cage, pin

01:28:24.739 --> 01:28:28.539
fall or submission. That's the way to win. Yes,

01:28:28.640 --> 01:28:30.640
not that either of these pair were either ever

01:28:30.640 --> 01:28:33.300
interested in winning And that was pretty much

01:28:33.300 --> 01:28:36.220
let known from the start these two did not necessarily

01:28:36.220 --> 01:28:40.220
see this as a match To these two this was an

01:28:40.220 --> 01:28:42.579
opportunity that no one could get to them and

01:28:42.579 --> 01:28:45.739
they could be absolute living fuck out of each

01:28:45.739 --> 01:28:49.159
other And do whatever they wanted to each other

01:28:49.159 --> 01:28:51.359
because obviously with it being a steel cage

01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:58.539
match It's no DQ. Yeah anything goes inside that

01:28:58.539 --> 01:29:01.739
steel cage anything is you can't get underneath

01:29:01.739 --> 01:29:05.479
to the side of the ring to be able to get any

01:29:05.479 --> 01:29:09.659
weapons out to use within that steel cage but

01:29:09.659 --> 01:29:12.340
you do have a steel cage which itself is a weapon

01:29:12.340 --> 01:29:15.600
yeah of course it is so that's the main difference

01:29:15.600 --> 01:29:18.140
between a steel cage and a hell in a cell match

01:29:18.140 --> 01:29:21.819
hell in a cell the cell is put is put down around

01:29:21.819 --> 01:29:26.439
the ring area whereas the cage encompasses the

01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:29.340
ring itself. It keeps all of the action in ring.

01:29:30.920 --> 01:29:33.600
And Michael Cole actually came up with an interesting

01:29:33.600 --> 01:29:36.659
statistic during this, which he said the last

01:29:36.659 --> 01:29:41.699
televised cage match was in 2015. and Seth Rollins

01:29:41.699 --> 01:29:44.640
was involved. Now I did some further research

01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:47.800
and found out that this was actually an Extreme

01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:52.159
Rules pay -per -view back in 2015 where Seth

01:29:52.159 --> 01:29:54.720
Rollins was the current heavyweight champion

01:29:54.720 --> 01:29:57.560
at the time defending his title against Randy

01:29:57.560 --> 01:30:01.359
Orton which he managed to do successfully. Is

01:30:01.359 --> 01:30:04.199
that one with the Curb Stomp RKO or was that

01:30:04.199 --> 01:30:10.279
WrestleMania? That was a WrestleMania. I also

01:30:10.279 --> 01:30:13.960
did some further research because apparently

01:30:13.960 --> 01:30:17.699
the cage match idea really sort of geeked me

01:30:17.699 --> 01:30:24.079
out a little bit. So yeah pretty much. So CM

01:30:24.079 --> 01:30:30.520
Punk has had, not including this one, three televised

01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:35.420
WWE steel cage matches and has only lost one.

01:30:36.179 --> 01:30:42.439
so that was back in 2008 to Chris Jericho and

01:30:42.439 --> 01:30:45.899
Punk has never actually had a steel cage match

01:30:45.899 --> 01:30:52.100
on pay -per -view for WWE either so these are

01:30:52.100 --> 01:30:54.800
it's a pretty rare match type for something that's

01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:59.899
quite a simple concept really and I even went

01:30:59.899 --> 01:31:05.170
as far so this gives based on his win rate It

01:31:05.170 --> 01:31:12.430
gives CM Punk a 66 .666 recurring percent win

01:31:12.430 --> 01:31:16.390
rate in steel cage matches in his WWE career.

01:31:18.390 --> 01:31:22.090
Seth Rollins on the other hand has had seven

01:31:22.090 --> 01:31:26.029
WWE career televised cage matches and has won

01:31:26.029 --> 01:31:31.149
five of them. Now he's had two at pay per view.

01:31:31.470 --> 01:31:35.310
Only won one at pay -per -view and won five on

01:31:35.310 --> 01:31:42.350
regular televised TV shows Yeah, so he's I mean

01:31:42.350 --> 01:31:44.090
this isn't even a pay -per -view we've got to

01:31:44.090 --> 01:31:46.489
remember this is an episode of Monday Night Raw

01:31:46.489 --> 01:31:58.770
It's a case that So sort of the we're looking

01:31:58.770 --> 01:32:04.880
at a non title televised steel cage match, which

01:32:04.880 --> 01:32:08.920
by that metric, Rollins is undefeated. He's never

01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:14.279
been defeated in a televised non -title cage

01:32:14.279 --> 01:32:17.560
match. Ah, but there is another statistic that

01:32:17.560 --> 01:32:23.000
the commentary team threw at us. CM Punk is undefeated

01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:27.079
in Madison Square Gardens. He is 4 -0 in MSG.

01:32:27.479 --> 01:32:31.579
So, you've got two different streaks there that

01:32:31.579 --> 01:32:35.039
one of them is ending at the end of this match

01:32:35.039 --> 01:32:41.000
yeah but not necessarily ending the way you think

01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:44.380
it will no but before we get to the ending i've

01:32:44.380 --> 01:32:48.159
got some i've got some hot spots got some little

01:32:48.159 --> 01:32:50.939
bits that i uh i picked out that i thought were

01:32:50.939 --> 01:32:56.140
quite big moments apart from the multiple amount

01:32:56.140 --> 01:33:00.130
of go to sleeps that Seth Rollins ate over the

01:33:00.130 --> 01:33:05.829
course of this this match he ate four gtss over

01:33:05.829 --> 01:33:10.750
the course of this match which is absolutely

01:33:10.750 --> 01:33:14.130
insane because i think i'd eat the first one

01:33:14.130 --> 01:33:17.970
and i'd be asleep for a month but he ate four

01:33:17.970 --> 01:33:22.729
of these um so they ran off into the start of

01:33:22.729 --> 01:33:25.470
this match pretty fucking hard and and the reason

01:33:25.470 --> 01:33:27.350
is they've got so much hatred between the two

01:33:27.350 --> 01:33:30.949
of them but Punk has had the upper hand. He won

01:33:30.949 --> 01:33:36.289
in their match on the debut of Netflix. He eliminated

01:33:36.289 --> 01:33:40.210
Seth Rollins from the Royal Rumble and from the

01:33:40.210 --> 01:33:43.210
elimination chamber. So far CM Punk has had Seth

01:33:43.210 --> 01:33:48.789
Rollins number. And we used to have absolute

01:33:48.789 --> 01:33:51.550
slugfest to start off with. They just trading

01:33:51.550 --> 01:33:54.710
absolute bombs in the middle of the ring. To

01:33:54.710 --> 01:33:56.350
the point where even commentary would be like,

01:33:56.529 --> 01:33:58.409
well maybe Dana White might want to use some

01:33:58.409 --> 01:34:01.829
of these guys for the TKO's new boxing program.

01:34:04.189 --> 01:34:09.510
Yeah, it's... This is why I don't think I enjoyed

01:34:09.510 --> 01:34:12.210
this match as much as I thought I was going to.

01:34:12.229 --> 01:34:17.630
It wasn't... It weren't a match as such. It was

01:34:17.630 --> 01:34:21.449
very much a fight between the two of them. You

01:34:21.449 --> 01:34:25.189
have a match, there's rules of engagement. They

01:34:25.189 --> 01:34:28.350
basically just went there's a cage right you're

01:34:28.350 --> 01:34:32.270
locked in you can't hurt anyone else go at it

01:34:32.270 --> 01:34:34.489
do what you gotta do don't worry about escaping

01:34:34.489 --> 01:34:38.590
or running out the door or pinning or submitting

01:34:38.590 --> 01:34:41.729
just go in there and beat the fuck out of each

01:34:41.729 --> 01:34:46.149
other get this off your chest deal with it yeah

01:34:46.149 --> 01:34:49.949
very much so and they went out of their way to

01:34:49.949 --> 01:34:52.550
try and do pretty much as much damage as they

01:34:52.550 --> 01:34:55.439
could possibly do I mean Seth Rollins at one

01:34:55.439 --> 01:34:59.500
point superplexes, well right so at one point

01:34:59.500 --> 01:35:02.659
Seth Rollins and CM Punk are on top of the steel

01:35:02.659 --> 01:35:06.260
cage and they're trading bombs up there to the

01:35:06.260 --> 01:35:09.500
point where Punk hits Rollins and Rollins falls

01:35:09.500 --> 01:35:12.920
into the ring but catches onto the top of the

01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:16.600
cage as he falls so he's just hanging and then

01:35:16.600 --> 01:35:20.560
he manages to get himself onto the corner turnbuckle

01:35:20.560 --> 01:35:24.050
to be able to superplex CM Punk off the top of

01:35:24.050 --> 01:35:28.149
the cage on to them once that superplex hit you

01:35:28.149 --> 01:35:31.489
knew punk was fucked like he was just lying there

01:35:31.489 --> 01:35:36.689
holding his back it's just kind of like i was

01:35:36.689 --> 01:35:39.229
like you've got to think that that is a that

01:35:39.229 --> 01:35:43.489
was 30 feet that he fell from on that superplex

01:35:43.489 --> 01:35:46.470
onto what is theoretically a bit two by four

01:35:46.470 --> 01:35:50.510
that you've probably found in a park and kicked

01:35:50.510 --> 01:35:55.649
and it's kind of broken in half Yeah, this is

01:35:55.649 --> 01:36:02.829
my point is that it's It's a very long way to

01:36:02.829 --> 01:36:07.609
fall You're not gonna I wouldn't jump down face

01:36:07.609 --> 01:36:12.010
first, let alone doing it backwards Onto my back

01:36:12.010 --> 01:36:19.569
not my feet. Yeah These guys got some balls Oh

01:36:19.569 --> 01:36:24.270
100 % talking about balls To get into a ring

01:36:24.270 --> 01:36:28.789
and use your opponent's finisher on them is a

01:36:28.789 --> 01:36:33.710
big sign of disrespect Right and all we saw for

01:36:33.710 --> 01:36:36.989
a lot towards the end of this match was Punk

01:36:36.989 --> 01:36:42.109
and Rollins trading curb stomps and GTSs and

01:36:42.109 --> 01:36:45.029
Rollins even hit a super stomp at one point from

01:36:45.029 --> 01:36:48.409
the second rope. I don't know Punk must know

01:36:48.409 --> 01:36:52.729
how to how to recover from these stumps better

01:36:52.729 --> 01:36:55.590
than anything else because he ate loads of them

01:36:55.590 --> 01:36:58.750
and he just kept going and going. Not as much

01:36:58.750 --> 01:37:02.909
as nobody would have done 10 years ago but he

01:37:02.909 --> 01:37:09.329
still went. Oh 100 % and went really rather well

01:37:09.329 --> 01:37:13.449
in fact. He's definitely done some work on his

01:37:13.449 --> 01:37:17.130
cardio because he lasted longer than most matches

01:37:17.130 --> 01:37:23.140
that punks in. He lasted longer than that. Yeah,

01:37:23.439 --> 01:37:28.899
very, very much so. It was the ending to this

01:37:28.899 --> 01:37:31.140
match that I really sort of didn't see coming.

01:37:33.140 --> 01:37:36.579
So up to this point, both superstars have hit

01:37:36.579 --> 01:37:41.939
sort of... They've taken as much as they've given

01:37:41.939 --> 01:37:45.180
out. They are very evenly contested between the

01:37:45.180 --> 01:38:13.449
two of them. Yeah, it's a case that we They were

01:38:13.449 --> 01:38:16.069
both of them were pretty much gassed at this

01:38:16.069 --> 01:38:21.329
point Seth Rollins had already taken three maybe

01:38:21.329 --> 01:38:25.970
four GTS's I counted three. I'm not sure if I'm

01:38:25.970 --> 01:38:40.619
right Basically, they'd both taken a lot of punishment

01:38:40.619 --> 01:38:45.380
at this point. They were completely gassed. Neither

01:38:45.380 --> 01:38:48.600
of them had really got anything left in the tank.

01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:51.779
I don't think I would at this point, to be fair.

01:38:52.619 --> 01:39:02.000
No, definitely not. I think Rollins was trying

01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:04.399
to set up for another stomp, trying to see if

01:39:04.399 --> 01:39:08.710
he could finish off see if we could finish off

01:39:08.710 --> 01:39:15.850
CM Punk that way if I remember correctly he's

01:39:15.850 --> 01:39:20.109
over by the cage door in the corner waiting for

01:39:20.109 --> 01:39:25.390
CM Punk to sort of get into position basically

01:39:25.390 --> 01:39:29.869
and then we notice a volume change in the amount

01:39:29.869 --> 01:39:38.560
of crowd noise oh they popped 100 % now I wasn't

01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:42.380
entirely on I wasn't entirely unsurprised by

01:39:42.380 --> 01:39:46.560
what happened next as We basically see Seth Rollins

01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:51.260
is pretty much snatched out of the ring which

01:39:51.260 --> 01:39:58.119
Basically hands him a win So for all technicalities

01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:03.220
did he no he didn't he wanted to completely decimate

01:40:03.220 --> 01:40:09.479
CM Punk and yeah so like Seth Rollins was snatched

01:40:09.479 --> 01:40:14.520
from the ring delivered a victory but then had

01:40:14.520 --> 01:40:19.880
to hit he had to eat both a superman punch and

01:40:19.880 --> 01:40:26.500
a spear delivered by the one true tribal chief

01:40:26.500 --> 01:40:36.750
Roman Reigns and uh yeah Roman Reigns was, it's

01:40:36.750 --> 01:40:40.489
fair to say, he was probably pretty angry. He

01:40:40.489 --> 01:40:42.430
was pretty pissed obviously. Rollins hit him

01:40:42.430 --> 01:40:47.310
with that double stomp at Royal Rumble and then

01:40:47.310 --> 01:40:51.069
we didn't see Reigns at elimination chamber.

01:40:52.710 --> 01:40:58.170
But again, we saw him tonight. He's still not

01:40:58.170 --> 01:41:00.970
happy about what Rollins did to him at Royal

01:41:00.970 --> 01:41:02.869
Rumble and he's looking for revenge I think.

01:41:03.609 --> 01:41:07.069
But yeah one bit that happened at the end which

01:41:07.069 --> 01:41:10.689
This bit was the bit that got me. I don't understand

01:41:10.689 --> 01:41:16.270
I Do and I don't write so CM Punk has not left

01:41:16.270 --> 01:41:19.989
the ring at this point He's still kind of trying

01:41:19.989 --> 01:41:23.829
to work out what's going on gather himself Well

01:41:23.829 --> 01:41:26.609
Romans busy throwing Seth around outside and

01:41:26.609 --> 01:41:31.109
giving him a good sort of ass kick in Well at

01:41:31.109 --> 01:41:34.539
this point we've got sort of Zagreb security.

01:41:35.859 --> 01:41:38.500
We'll say Roman Reigns has set Seth Rollins up

01:41:38.500 --> 01:41:41.220
on the steel steps basically looking to do exactly

01:41:41.220 --> 01:41:44.600
what Seth Rollins had done to Roman Reigns back

01:41:44.600 --> 01:41:48.579
to him at Royal Rumble which was basically stomp

01:41:48.579 --> 01:41:52.539
his face into the into the ring steps and it's

01:41:52.539 --> 01:41:54.939
only because Adam Pearce came out with a handful

01:41:54.939 --> 01:42:02.750
of uh full of basically execs and referees To

01:42:02.750 --> 01:42:06.170
basically save Seth Rollins from having to eat

01:42:06.170 --> 01:42:11.069
all of his meals through a straw And it's only

01:42:11.069 --> 01:42:13.609
at that point that sort of the camera pans round

01:42:13.609 --> 01:42:18.529
at this at this stage so that we can see CM Punk

01:42:18.529 --> 01:42:28.750
Being almost nursed in the ring By the wise man

01:42:30.530 --> 01:42:33.930
And this pisses Roman off something chronic.

01:42:34.850 --> 01:42:37.350
Roman looked like he was in the process of leaving

01:42:37.350 --> 01:42:42.750
up until he saw this. This sent the tribal chief

01:42:42.750 --> 01:42:47.869
a little bit crazy. Yeah, Roman Reigns showed

01:42:47.869 --> 01:42:53.750
a very sort of jealous side to him. He did. So

01:42:53.750 --> 01:42:58.069
Roman pushed Adam Pearson's security to the left

01:42:58.069 --> 01:43:02.439
of the ring. the right into the into the ring

01:43:02.439 --> 01:43:05.460
through the steel cage grabbed punk and threw

01:43:05.460 --> 01:43:08.479
him into one side of the ring into the one side

01:43:08.479 --> 01:43:10.659
of the cage grabbed him again and launched him

01:43:10.659 --> 01:43:13.680
into the opposite side and then his punk was

01:43:13.680 --> 01:43:18.800
reading from that he got drilled by a meaty sphere

01:43:18.800 --> 01:43:22.979
and uh yeah punk didn't move after that and not

01:43:22.979 --> 01:43:31.579
long after that the episode faded No, this is

01:43:31.579 --> 01:43:36.220
it and it's yeah, I mean that sort of very much

01:43:36.220 --> 01:43:43.159
takes us to The end of the end of Monday Night

01:43:43.159 --> 01:43:45.800
Raw for this week. It's taken me to the end of

01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:53.600
my notes I am gonna say that I think out of all

01:43:53.600 --> 01:43:58.460
the bits and pieces tonight that we've had the

01:43:58.460 --> 01:44:06.199
best match for me Was probably It's probably

01:44:06.199 --> 01:44:15.439
the Ornado tag no the The tornado tag was too

01:44:15.439 --> 01:44:17.279
much for clusterfuck to make notes on but it

01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:20.060
was a damn good match But I think in general

01:44:20.060 --> 01:44:23.880
as much as I said other I did not say this earlier

01:44:23.880 --> 01:44:26.460
off podcast But I think rereading through the

01:44:26.460 --> 01:44:28.859
notes and going back through it. I think that

01:44:28.859 --> 01:44:30.960
the better match It's probably just been the

01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:34.699
J so much which was probably not the greatest

01:44:34.699 --> 01:44:39.180
of matches anyway So I would agree. I would 100

01:44:39.180 --> 01:44:44.159
% go with the tornado tag I agree with you on

01:44:44.159 --> 01:44:46.539
the sense that from a podcasters perspective

01:44:46.539 --> 01:44:49.180
when you're trying to make notes on it Complete

01:44:49.180 --> 01:44:52.699
clusterfuck. You're looking at it as a fan just

01:44:52.699 --> 01:44:58.140
watching Very enjoyable match to watch. Oh, yeah

01:45:00.099 --> 01:45:02.880
Yeah, no, I could probably agree with you there

01:45:02.880 --> 01:45:09.939
and Yeah, I mean Like we had the Raquel Rodriguez

01:45:09.939 --> 01:45:13.260
Bailey match which we agreed was sort of a squash

01:45:13.260 --> 01:45:16.539
match even if it wasn't And not even a squash

01:45:16.539 --> 01:45:18.779
match the way we would have expected it to be

01:45:18.779 --> 01:45:30.199
Bailey got squashed Yeah, we and like Yeah, pretty

01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:35.619
much only had like four five matches in this

01:45:35.619 --> 01:45:42.359
entire card One of them was obviously the j -uso

01:45:42.359 --> 01:45:45.899
match at the beginning which For me just felt

01:45:45.899 --> 01:45:53.140
a bit lackluster. We had We had the main event

01:45:53.140 --> 01:45:57.949
which again I just feel like I don't think it

01:45:57.949 --> 01:46:00.649
was a bad match. I just don't think they should

01:46:00.649 --> 01:46:06.270
have hyped it as much as they did Not for the

01:46:06.270 --> 01:46:08.750
product that they put out. I'm not saying in

01:46:08.750 --> 01:46:12.829
any way shape or form that this was like Seth

01:46:12.829 --> 01:46:16.130
Rollins and CM Punk's worst worst night of work

01:46:16.130 --> 01:46:19.270
because it certainly wasn't They put on a really

01:46:19.270 --> 01:46:23.029
good match. Just think that it was overbuilt

01:46:26.809 --> 01:46:30.270
They built it up too much and the match just

01:46:30.270 --> 01:46:32.770
the match didn't have the legs to live up to

01:46:32.770 --> 01:46:38.310
the hype And neither punk nor Rollins were as

01:46:38.310 --> 01:46:41.270
young as they used to be the match that we thought

01:46:41.270 --> 01:46:50.310
we were getting Yeah, this is it Well, I think

01:46:50.310 --> 01:46:54.369
that is all for me mate little for you yeah pretty

01:46:54.369 --> 01:46:58.170
much What I've got to add to the end of that

01:46:58.170 --> 01:47:01.710
is we'll see you next time for Finishes and Factions

01:47:01.710 --> 01:47:07.010
Does NXT. Yeah. Well, this will be Finishes and

01:47:07.010 --> 01:47:11.810
Factions Does Roadblock. That's what we've got

01:47:11.810 --> 01:47:14.489
to look forward to. That is very true. So yeah,

01:47:14.710 --> 01:47:17.350
NXT Roadblock this week. We will get round to

01:47:17.350 --> 01:47:21.390
that and get it up to you ASAP. But for now...

01:47:21.390 --> 01:47:23.229
Yeah, pretty much. Enjoy the rest of your day.

01:47:23.270 --> 01:47:23.869
Peace out.