WEBVTT 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:41.020 And good. Hello to everybody. Welcome to Finishes 00:00:41.020 --> 00:00:47.920 and Factions to NXT Road. We are at the theater 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:53.539 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. And 00:00:53.539 --> 00:00:58.439 as ever, my name's Adam and Rich. Rich, welcome 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:01.210 in. Hey mate, how you doing? Before we get too 00:01:01.210 --> 00:01:05.670 far, you keep breaking out a little bit. Eh, 00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:09.530 I shouldn't do. Obviously that's going to cause 00:01:09.530 --> 00:01:13.510 a problem. Any better or not? Yeah, we'll see 00:01:13.510 --> 00:01:17.769 how it goes. We'll see how it goes. Fair enough. 00:01:18.609 --> 00:01:22.230 We are live from Madison Square Garden's historic 00:01:22.230 --> 00:01:27.260 theatre on the final... A final stop in the path 00:01:27.260 --> 00:01:29.579 to stand, well, it's not the final stop, I suppose, 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:31.700 but yeah, to stand and deliver at WrestleMania 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:35.439 weekend. So - Yeah, I still haven't gotten used 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:40.239 to the timetable that we have with NXT yet. I 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:44.359 think it might be the last of PLE style event 00:01:44.359 --> 00:01:49.120 they do before stand and deliver, maybe, possibly. 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:54.209 Not 100 % sure. I think it is. We'll proceed 00:01:54.209 --> 00:01:56.390 like it is and correct ourselves later on. That's 00:01:56.390 --> 00:02:02.230 how this shit no so yeah and as ever one of my 00:02:02.230 --> 00:02:05.170 favorite one of our favorite ways to start any 00:02:05.170 --> 00:02:09.030 whether it be a PLE whether it be a regular weekly 00:02:09.030 --> 00:02:13.009 show is getting straight into some action and 00:02:13.009 --> 00:02:17.629 match one oh 100 % couldn't have started off 00:02:17.629 --> 00:02:20.250 any better in my opinion because much one was 00:02:20.250 --> 00:02:25.270 a Men's tag team match seeing fraxium versus 00:02:25.270 --> 00:02:32.069 the Hardy Boys Which I had to I had to watch 00:02:32.069 --> 00:02:34.669 twice I'm not gonna lie purely for the fact that 00:02:34.669 --> 00:02:36.349 the first time around I watched it because the 00:02:36.349 --> 00:02:39.750 Hardy Boys It's the Hardy Boys right the fan 00:02:39.750 --> 00:02:42.530 and me had to watch this match before the podcaster 00:02:42.530 --> 00:02:45.830 and me could make notes on it So fair enough. 00:02:46.250 --> 00:02:49.680 Yeah Had to enjoy I didn't get a tremendous amount 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.139 of notes for this match in all fairness because 00:02:52.139 --> 00:02:55.699 I had the same problem is the podcaster in me 00:02:55.699 --> 00:03:01.680 was at war with fucking child me that watched 00:03:01.680 --> 00:03:05.379 the Hardy Boys growing and for both of us as 00:03:05.379 --> 00:03:10.599 well it was Quite in like we always love watching 00:03:10.599 --> 00:03:13.699 the Hardy Boys but to have a TNA tag title being 00:03:13.699 --> 00:03:19.099 defended on an NXT PLE That was we had to watch 00:03:19.099 --> 00:03:24.240 this. This was this was a massive first and It 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.479 didn't really disappointed over on paper it you 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:29.159 would have had the Hardy boys walking out of 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:33.900 this one easily, but actually Fraxium they gave 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:36.500 as good as they got for a majority of this match 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:41.819 and I Wouldn't say nearly all of it to be fair, 00:03:42.240 --> 00:03:46.740 but we got to see a lot from both teams that 00:03:46.569 --> 00:03:57.650 were incredible sort of bits to see. I went on 00:03:57.650 --> 00:03:59.530 record when me and you were talking about this 00:03:59.530 --> 00:04:03.409 Of podcast of saying what happened in this match 00:04:03.409 --> 00:04:07.150 would have been passable for anybody to do. The 00:04:07.150 --> 00:04:09.110 Hardy Boys just seemed to add a little bit of 00:04:09.110 --> 00:04:12.409 prestige to it, which just took it over the top 00:04:12.409 --> 00:04:14.849 for me. It was the nostalgia factor in this match 00:04:14.849 --> 00:04:19.209 that got me anything else yeah i mean these guys 00:04:19.209 --> 00:04:21.689 have been in this industry for probably just 00:04:21.689 --> 00:04:26.990 as long as we've been alive so i mean they're 00:04:26.990 --> 00:04:28.970 the people i think that everyone's favorite tag 00:04:28.970 --> 00:04:32.550 team i mean i know they're definitely one of 00:04:32.550 --> 00:04:36.009 mine so oh definitely sit and watch them was 00:04:36.009 --> 00:04:38.339 just kind of like I'll take this opportunity, 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:40.459 step my feet up and just enjoy it without having 00:04:40.459 --> 00:04:43.180 to go diving around on the internet for videos 00:04:43.180 --> 00:04:48.279 of the match itself if it was on TNA. Yeah, this 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:52.959 is it. But yeah, we'll talk a lot about the Hardy 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.879 Boys when it comes to this match, but we really 00:04:55.879 --> 00:04:59.180 can't take anything away from Fraxium here because 00:04:59.180 --> 00:05:02.379 we haven't had an awful lot of opportunity to 00:05:02.379 --> 00:05:06.519 see them properly wrestle. while we've been covering 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:15.100 NXT as they seem to have done more in TNA than 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:18.699 they have done in NXT, which is a little bit 00:05:18.699 --> 00:05:22.459 odd. It's odd, but I like it purely for the fact 00:05:22.459 --> 00:05:26.439 that they got to see more of the NXT brand before 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.079 we got to see more of the TNA brand. they've 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:33.379 had to send in their big guns to try and comprehend 00:05:33.379 --> 00:05:37.480 with what we're fighting with it within the NXT 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:42.180 roster. It's a very strong roster. Oh, 100%. 00:05:42.180 --> 00:05:47.439 I mean, I was a TNA fan a little while ago and 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:50.759 yeah, they've always had really strong talent 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:55.439 as far as, well, as far as any of it goes, really. 00:05:59.929 --> 00:06:02.769 So I mean just by watching obviously we know 00:06:02.769 --> 00:06:04.129 what we're gonna get with the hardy boys, but 00:06:04.129 --> 00:06:08.050 we've got a lot of I made a note of a few reasonably 00:06:08.050 --> 00:06:14.129 big spots from from fraxium and from both axiom 00:06:14.129 --> 00:06:20.569 and Nathan Fraser and and like It started we 00:06:20.569 --> 00:06:22.769 started off. I'm probably gonna get this wrong 00:06:22.769 --> 00:06:26.529 but with axiom and Matt Hardy in the ring and 00:06:26.529 --> 00:06:30.149 Matt hit in Quite a nice sit -down powerbomb 00:06:30.149 --> 00:06:34.089 on him before a tag was made when that tag was 00:06:34.089 --> 00:06:36.569 made and Jeff got in the ring there was more 00:06:36.569 --> 00:06:38.889 Energy for Jeff than there was for Matt, but 00:06:38.889 --> 00:06:41.930 there was still quite a lot of energy for both 00:06:41.930 --> 00:06:47.389 of the wrestlers Like I said axiom hits a moonsault 00:06:47.389 --> 00:06:50.470 from the top rope after Nathan freight and then 00:06:50.470 --> 00:06:52.569 afterwards Nathan Fraser hits a suicide dive 00:06:52.569 --> 00:06:55.230 onto the Hardy boys outside That's quite nice 00:06:55.230 --> 00:06:58.839 to see obviously we've got four Well -known high 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.939 -flying athletes in the ring. I say well -known 00:07:01.939 --> 00:07:04.040 but everyone in professional wrestling knows 00:07:04.040 --> 00:07:06.860 who the Hardy boys are in Fractum aren't gonna 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:09.300 be an NXT team for much longer if they keep going 00:07:09.300 --> 00:07:11.040 the way they're going They'll get pushed somewhere 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.500 up onto the main roster Saying that I don't really 00:07:14.500 --> 00:07:16.399 want that to happen purely for the fact that 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:18.680 NXT at the moment is the more exciting program 00:07:18.680 --> 00:07:20.839 Which I didn't think at the start of this podcast. 00:07:20.860 --> 00:07:25.279 I'd be saying You know two months in Almost three, 00:07:25.319 --> 00:07:33.319 but no this This is it it's a case It is a case 00:07:33.319 --> 00:07:37.500 that it's It's really grown on both of us. I 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:42.240 mean I was always Sort of trying to give it the 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.399 benefit of the doubt It was kind of a case of 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:46.500 right. We've got to keep going with it. We can't 00:07:46.500 --> 00:07:49.279 just Induct out on it because we don't know no 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.660 fucker and now I was done. I'm pretty familiar 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:58.819 I look forward to NXT during the week more than 00:07:58.819 --> 00:08:00.519 I look forward to Monday Night Raw and Friday 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:05.180 Night SmackDown. Yeah, I've got to admit, if 00:08:05.180 --> 00:08:08.000 I had to talk about the three shows in ranking 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:11.199 them sort of best or worst, I've got to admit, 00:08:11.939 --> 00:08:15.680 it's a tough draw for first place. But down at 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:17.860 the bottom, I've got to admit, I've not been 00:08:17.860 --> 00:08:22.500 enjoying Raw that much. No. Out of the three. 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:28.819 Raw has been a little bit weaker. Smackdown's 00:08:28.819 --> 00:08:33.659 definitely had some great storylines. And yeah, 00:08:33.659 --> 00:08:38.539 we get to see matches like Jacob Fatu and Braun 00:08:38.539 --> 00:08:43.259 Strowman, big powerful matches where Raw doesn't 00:08:43.259 --> 00:08:46.480 really have that. But NXT, I think is definitely 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:51.820 probably, I think NXT second. I think maybe Smackdown, 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:56.419 NXT, Raw. The it can it can change during the 00:08:56.419 --> 00:09:00.960 week for me. Yeah after this don't get me wrong 00:09:00.960 --> 00:09:04.039 Having already what having at this stage when 00:09:04.039 --> 00:09:07.059 we're recording or having already watched smackdown. 00:09:07.919 --> 00:09:12.879 I Would definitely put NXT over smackdown. Yeah, 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.679 so NXT smackdown war this first match set the 00:09:16.679 --> 00:09:21.039 tone for the rest of the PLE And once I'd seen 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:25.080 Axiom hit that Spanish fly on Jeff Hardy, and 00:09:25.080 --> 00:09:30.159 then the 450 splash afterwards, I was sold that 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:34.639 this was gonna be a hell of a PLE. The first 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.899 match either sets the tone, where it doesn't 00:09:37.899 --> 00:09:39.919 get any better, and the first match is normally 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:42.639 boom, or it's the standard where it's like, right, 00:09:42.679 --> 00:09:45.360 so this is where you've gotta start from, go 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.879 and make your match better. If you go by this, 00:09:49.440 --> 00:09:52.559 if this is the standard, then we are in for, 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:55.779 well the rest of the PLE was incredible. I loved 00:09:55.779 --> 00:10:00.860 it. Yeah. Not a bad match in any of it, realistically. 00:10:00.960 --> 00:10:04.360 I mean, the fact that we got to see in this first 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:06.720 match, we got to see the Hardys cutting out some 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:09.740 of the classics that we, that me and you grew 00:10:09.740 --> 00:10:12.659 up on. I mean, multiple. There was whisper in 00:10:12.659 --> 00:10:20.129 the winds. There was all sorts. Swantoms, there 00:10:20.129 --> 00:10:22.950 was a Swantom in there as well. F hits a frickin 00:10:22.950 --> 00:10:27.049 Swantom. I can't tell you how many beds I have 00:10:27.049 --> 00:10:31.169 brought as a child doing Swantom bombs off the 00:10:31.169 --> 00:10:33.129 court because yeah, I'm not stupid enough to 00:10:33.129 --> 00:10:36.470 do it on hard. Probably am now and wouldn't get 00:10:36.470 --> 00:10:39.789 up afterwards, but Let's put it this way someone 00:10:39.789 --> 00:10:42.250 who in the last 12 months has hit the floor like 00:10:42.250 --> 00:10:46.330 a sack of shit Personally, I don't want to be 00:10:46.330 --> 00:10:51.149 trying to do Swantoms Like, no, no, I'm not down 00:10:51.149 --> 00:10:53.370 for trying to do Swanton Bombs onto the outside 00:10:53.370 --> 00:10:57.470 of a ring. Jeff, you are an absolute fruit loop 00:10:57.470 --> 00:11:00.169 and no wonder you had a problem with narcotics, 00:11:00.389 --> 00:11:02.690 my good sir, because you need drugs to do some 00:11:02.690 --> 00:11:04.690 of the things that you jumped off in your career. 00:11:08.149 --> 00:11:12.149 Yes, most definitely. Yeah, as we have enamored 00:11:12.149 --> 00:11:16.169 with this one, the Hardy Boys retain their TNA 00:11:16.169 --> 00:11:21.409 tag title. belt um it's quite a large pot in 00:11:21.409 --> 00:11:25.909 no way oh it was not in no way is no definitely 00:11:25.909 --> 00:11:29.330 not fraxium definitely did themselves and nx 00:11:29.330 --> 00:11:33.830 proud in yeah no they certainly did so we went 00:11:33.830 --> 00:11:37.409 from there into a backstage segment which is 00:11:37.409 --> 00:11:39.950 not something so normally with PLEs we get a 00:11:39.950 --> 00:11:44.389 lot of matches and not a lot of of padding this 00:11:44.389 --> 00:11:46.799 time we got a bit of padding but we don't mind. 00:11:46.980 --> 00:11:49.840 So we've got a, it was a conversation between 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:54.700 Jada Parker and backstage with WWE Hall of Famer, 00:11:54.700 --> 00:11:59.440 Hall of Famer, sorry, Mickie James, who I believe, 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:02.360 and Adam will tell me if I'm wrong here, is currently 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:08.059 a coach on LFG. Yeah, so she's a season one coach 00:12:08.059 --> 00:12:12.659 for LFG. I've watched a few of the episodes for 00:12:12.659 --> 00:12:15.059 it definitely worth a watch. I haven't caught 00:12:15.059 --> 00:12:20.120 up yet, but Definitely definitely worth a watch 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:24.120 And Mickey James no stranger to TNA either. It's 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:27.700 where she Jada Parker towards the end of this 00:12:27.700 --> 00:12:30.740 Towards the end of this match or the end of this 00:12:30.740 --> 00:12:34.659 little promo makes a comment about hardcore country 00:12:34.659 --> 00:12:38.700 which was one of the monikers that Mickey James 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:43.580 wore while she was during her time in TNA. I 00:12:43.580 --> 00:12:47.059 didn't get that reference myself, not watching 00:12:47.059 --> 00:12:49.840 a lot of TNA, especially not at the time period 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:53.120 when Mickie James would have been destroying 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:58.860 the X Division. Well, she would have been destroying 00:12:58.860 --> 00:13:01.960 the Knockouts Division. That's how little I know 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:04.879 about TNA there, guys. I confused Moose's title 00:13:04.879 --> 00:13:07.879 with the women's title. I'm pretty sure Mischa 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.230 Slamovich would... I'll be too happy with that. 00:13:12.110 --> 00:13:14.690 No, probably not. Although I have seen some small 00:13:14.690 --> 00:13:20.950 clips of Cora Jade and Masha Slamovich's match. 00:13:21.590 --> 00:13:24.690 And I don't know what the result is, but it's 00:13:24.690 --> 00:13:28.450 whatever it is. Is it a brutal match? Oh, yeah. 00:13:28.649 --> 00:13:30.230 Go back and have a little look for that one. 00:13:30.710 --> 00:13:35.820 Talking about brutal matches. We go into. NXT 00:13:35.820 --> 00:13:39.259 did us brutally this time. So we've gone from 00:13:39.259 --> 00:13:43.519 this backstage segment with Jada and Mickie James 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:52.080 to Roxanne Perez entering the ring to then go 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:59.320 to a VT of like a backstage area made to look 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:03.299 like a restaurant to where the D 'Angelo family 00:14:03.299 --> 00:14:07.919 are sat around the table. So you've got Stacks, 00:14:10.019 --> 00:14:13.879 Rizzo, and there's a third one whose name I can't 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.220 remember because he never talks. I had a feeling 00:14:17.220 --> 00:14:20.580 you were going to ask me and I haven't managed 00:14:20.580 --> 00:14:22.659 to get far enough back in my notes because I 00:14:22.659 --> 00:14:24.840 did have to look it up at one point. We have 00:14:24.840 --> 00:14:27.799 this issue every time we talk about the D 'Angelo 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:32.100 family. There's the one guy who is the most And 00:14:32.100 --> 00:14:34.200 he's the most forgettable dude in the world at 00:14:34.200 --> 00:14:36.740 this present moment But he's he's in there too 00:14:36.740 --> 00:14:39.879 and it's basically a conversation about how stacks 00:14:39.879 --> 00:14:42.460 feels it's his fault that Tony lost his title 00:14:42.460 --> 00:14:49.279 and then But you know, we're not gonna get into 00:14:49.279 --> 00:14:55.120 that too much and He's basically set up a six 00:14:55.120 --> 00:15:04.009 -man tag match for next week for which is basically 00:15:04.009 --> 00:15:09.809 the D 'Angelo family versus the Culling as Sean 00:15:09.809 --> 00:15:14.570 Spears is now referring to his group of minions 00:15:14.570 --> 00:15:19.230 from what I've worked out. Yeah I'm still sort 00:15:19.230 --> 00:15:22.809 of referring to them as the Spears family. That's 00:15:22.809 --> 00:15:25.570 what I've got it written down in my notes and 00:15:25.570 --> 00:15:28.850 to be fair at the start of the program we get 00:15:28.850 --> 00:15:31.679 to see this VT I think that is what they are 00:15:31.679 --> 00:15:35.120 referred to, not referred to directly as, but 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:38.059 indirectly the Spears family. When we get the 00:15:38.059 --> 00:15:41.159 return VT later on with Sean Spears, which we'll 00:15:41.159 --> 00:15:43.820 go into a little bit later on, I think that's 00:15:43.820 --> 00:15:47.240 when they pop up a visual. But I have also seen 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:51.320 some interesting bits online regarding WWE visuals 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:53.639 this week, but I'm going to get into that more 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.159 on the SmackDown episode of this week's podcast 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:59.769 rather than this one. Fair enough. I know which 00:15:59.769 --> 00:16:01.350 ones you're talking about and I'm looking forward 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:05.370 to hearing what turned up But yes, so we've got 00:16:05.370 --> 00:16:08.230 a six man tag match between the D 'Angelo family 00:16:08.230 --> 00:16:11.690 and The Spears family the Cullen whatever you 00:16:11.690 --> 00:16:15.230 want to fucking call them And that's been set 00:16:15.230 --> 00:16:21.950 up for next week We then go I believe is in the 00:16:21.950 --> 00:16:27.429 performance center No, I think you are spot on 00:16:27.429 --> 00:16:33.370 there sir as normal Not always but we tried But 00:16:33.370 --> 00:16:35.549 yeah as we get into it so we've got this Roxanne 00:16:35.549 --> 00:16:40.649 Perez Jordan grace match Which is basically it 00:16:40.649 --> 00:16:43.110 was a bit of a strange one to think of but we 00:16:43.110 --> 00:16:46.830 saw after Jordan grace's match last week on NXT 00:16:46.830 --> 00:16:57.299 she was Thank you. Yeah, it wasn't It wasn't 00:16:57.299 --> 00:17:02.200 much of them it so last week was the Jordan grace 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.680 vs. Cora Jade man That's the stuff. Yeah, that's 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:10.740 the one and Obviously it like a little while 00:17:10.740 --> 00:17:14.039 after that match last week on NXT. There was 00:17:14.039 --> 00:17:19.809 a small clip backstage of Roxanne Perez Laying 00:17:19.809 --> 00:17:23.730 the chair into Jordan grace and basically shouting 00:17:23.730 --> 00:17:29.309 out of the NXT belongs to her I Have noticed 00:17:29.309 --> 00:17:32.470 and this point is brought up a little bit later, 00:17:32.690 --> 00:17:38.230 but all the more recent signings within WWE all 00:17:38.230 --> 00:17:42.349 the ones that are getting their ass kicked a 00:17:42.349 --> 00:17:46.950 majority of the time Right. So Jade Cargill is 00:17:46.950 --> 00:17:49.880 reasonably recent Got her ass handed to her by 00:17:49.880 --> 00:17:53.900 Naomi, right? Jordan Grace, a recent signing 00:17:53.900 --> 00:17:56.980 to NXT, had her ass handed to her by Roxanne 00:17:56.980 --> 00:18:00.019 Perez backstage with that chair. You've then 00:18:00.019 --> 00:18:07.140 had Ricky Saints. When he first signed his NXT 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:10.180 contract, he got done over by the four masked 00:18:10.180 --> 00:18:14.500 homies that we do not know who they are. So the 00:18:14.500 --> 00:18:18.920 last - they're playing that storyline low and 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:25.160 slow they are um and again yes i've i've mentioned 00:18:25.160 --> 00:18:28.420 our master amigos we will probably end up talking 00:18:28.420 --> 00:18:30.440 about them at some point we always seem to end 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:34.119 up having to discuss them when there is a title 00:18:34.119 --> 00:18:37.500 involved or someone who just needs bringing down 00:18:37.500 --> 00:18:39.400 a peg or two i'm surprised they haven't done 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:41.880 any thought yet because he needs to be brought 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:44.930 down a page or two Anyway, so we got we had the 00:18:44.930 --> 00:18:48.670 Roxanne Perez Jordan grace match which was the 00:18:48.670 --> 00:18:53.710 Follow -through from last week. I did not get 00:18:53.710 --> 00:18:58.269 a huge amount of notes for this And I'm not entirely 00:18:58.269 --> 00:19:00.490 sure if it's because it was a really good match 00:19:00.490 --> 00:19:06.549 and I got sucked in or It was a really poor match 00:19:06.549 --> 00:19:12.589 and I got bored So it was my notes of this maybe 00:19:12.589 --> 00:19:16.250 like six lines long. There was six lines. It's 00:19:16.250 --> 00:19:18.269 not a huge amount of notes at all, but it wasn't 00:19:18.269 --> 00:19:25.170 a hugely long match either. No, it wasn't. And 00:19:25.170 --> 00:19:27.829 I didn't get a massive amount of notes either. 00:19:29.470 --> 00:19:32.289 And I've put this down to the fact that I, again, 00:19:32.450 --> 00:19:36.329 I enjoyed this match. It's a case that it was 00:19:36.329 --> 00:19:38.990 a really enjoyable match to watch despite the 00:19:38.990 --> 00:19:42.390 fact that It was sort of predictable to know 00:19:42.390 --> 00:19:46.650 who was going to win this. Yeah. In my opinion, 00:19:46.950 --> 00:19:49.529 I think if you've been watching NXT programming 00:19:49.529 --> 00:19:52.549 the last few weeks, you will understand that 00:19:52.549 --> 00:19:55.029 they weren't going to let Jordan Grace have a 00:19:55.029 --> 00:19:58.970 match at PLE in Madison Square Gardens and lose. 00:20:00.250 --> 00:20:04.230 Where on the other hand, Roxanne Perez has been 00:20:04.230 --> 00:20:06.589 all over the place. We saw her in the elimination 00:20:06.589 --> 00:20:09.539 chamber. We've seen her on Raw. We've seen her 00:20:09.539 --> 00:20:13.980 on NXT and we saw her at Vengeance Day as well. 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.319 I think she maybe could have done with the wins 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:21.880 slightly more as the extra add to her character 00:20:21.880 --> 00:20:27.180 build. So this is the thing is that this match 00:20:27.180 --> 00:20:31.700 did nothing to diminish Roxanne Perez's character 00:20:31.700 --> 00:20:35.539 because she's still playing a bit of a heel role. 00:20:35.690 --> 00:20:39.670 Yeah. She did that in this match and did it well. 00:20:40.230 --> 00:20:44.390 She did. But we know what we're getting from 00:20:44.390 --> 00:20:48.289 Roxanne Perez though. You're getting a very rounded 00:20:48.289 --> 00:20:51.269 package where to start off with we had no idea 00:20:51.269 --> 00:20:54.470 what we were getting because she wasn't very 00:20:54.470 --> 00:20:58.910 easy to follow. What I felt she wasn't very easy 00:20:58.910 --> 00:21:00.730 to follow because one minute she was being nicey 00:21:00.730 --> 00:21:02.349 -nicey the next minute she was being an absolute 00:21:02.349 --> 00:21:04.329 bitch. It was whether they were trying to work 00:21:04.329 --> 00:21:10.539 out which way they were going to... No, I think 00:21:10.539 --> 00:21:12.319 they knew where they were going with her from 00:21:12.319 --> 00:21:15.880 the offset I'll be honest it's been a case that 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:26.119 She's yeah Yeah, it's a case that I think more 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:30.960 females will probably Sort of relate to her character 00:21:30.960 --> 00:21:34.380 than anything else and that's not me being sexist 00:21:34.380 --> 00:21:36.950 or anything Those lines, it is more the case 00:21:36.950 --> 00:21:41.029 that I think every woman at some point or another 00:21:41.029 --> 00:21:49.569 has known somebody like Roxanne Perez. Yes. It's 00:21:49.569 --> 00:21:52.390 basically, Roxanne Perez is the bitch who's nice 00:21:52.390 --> 00:21:54.809 to your face but will stab you in the back any 00:21:54.809 --> 00:21:58.009 chance she gets. Yeah, and then fuck your man 00:21:58.009 --> 00:22:00.809 just to make you feel bad about it. We all know 00:22:00.809 --> 00:22:09.440 those types. yeah no i really i was a little 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:11.839 bit undecided on this match i wasn't 100 sure 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:15.880 which way i went with it there were some there 00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:19.099 were some some pretty big high points within 00:22:19.099 --> 00:22:21.380 the match but a lot of it was just roxanne perez 00:22:21.380 --> 00:22:24.599 just grinding jordan grace down just trying to 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:26.920 take her like her arms and her knees out from 00:22:26.920 --> 00:22:30.279 her and she does do a good job of taking the 00:22:30.279 --> 00:22:33.119 one knee out quite well with a kick into the 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:38.200 steel steps on the outside after uh There was 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:42.859 a series of different moves between the two of 00:22:42.859 --> 00:22:46.559 them. There was quite an offensive spine buster 00:22:46.559 --> 00:22:50.880 from Jordan Grayson for a quick pin, but it was 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:54.700 only sort of a one count. And then as they kind 00:22:54.700 --> 00:22:57.220 of both rolled away from each other, they were 00:22:57.220 --> 00:22:59.619 closer to the corner, they ended up on the outside, 00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:01.339 so they just kind of had a bit of a go on the 00:23:01.339 --> 00:23:04.829 outside. Where let's say the knee got taken out 00:23:04.829 --> 00:23:06.730 you could see throughout the match Jordan grace 00:23:06.730 --> 00:23:09.170 was struggling trying to kind of with her knee 00:23:09.170 --> 00:23:13.390 and trying to keep her base and She sold it really 00:23:13.390 --> 00:23:17.410 well But the only problem I had personally was 00:23:17.410 --> 00:23:20.890 the the cell back into I'm okay now wasn't gradual 00:23:20.890 --> 00:23:23.210 enough It's kind of as though they were told 00:23:23.210 --> 00:23:26.210 to hurry the match up a little bit She went from 00:23:26.210 --> 00:23:28.250 being all many really hurts many really hurts 00:23:28.250 --> 00:23:35.970 to boom fine Powerlifting you for fun Yeah, I 00:23:35.970 --> 00:23:37.750 can sort of see where you're going with that 00:23:37.750 --> 00:23:41.910 it's Yeah, it didn't make her like a phenomenal 00:23:41.910 --> 00:23:47.250 amount a sense really but Do you know again? 00:23:48.369 --> 00:23:54.309 it was for all its shortcomings because I've 00:23:54.309 --> 00:23:56.950 got a feeling that they were possibly gonna try 00:23:56.950 --> 00:24:01.299 and build more of an angle for Her and Cora Jade 00:24:01.299 --> 00:24:04.240 and because of Cora Jade be next out of the match 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.759 last week it was a case that they just they had 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:11.220 to throw somebody else into mix and Roxanne Perez 00:24:11.220 --> 00:24:14.480 fit the bill sort of thing, but having said that 00:24:14.480 --> 00:24:20.500 it still came out as a I mean watching Roxanne 00:24:20.500 --> 00:24:23.559 Perez lock that crippler crossface in on Jordan 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:26.559 grace was funny Because I'm surprised Jordan 00:24:26.559 --> 00:24:28.910 grace bends the way she does muscle structure 00:24:28.910 --> 00:24:31.210 she has I'm pretty sure those legs like elastic 00:24:31.210 --> 00:24:32.970 bands they only go where they're supposed to 00:24:32.970 --> 00:24:36.609 like they don't go very far and yeah to get that 00:24:36.609 --> 00:24:41.750 cross face locked in you're not pleasant no definitely 00:24:41.750 --> 00:24:45.430 not my knee doesn't go that way so I don't want 00:24:45.430 --> 00:24:49.390 that locked in with me either no you and me both 00:24:49.390 --> 00:24:55.750 but yeah I mean ultimately Jordan grace walks 00:24:55.750 --> 00:24:58.269 out of this with a victory as we've already mentioned. 00:24:58.609 --> 00:25:03.930 It's there were some I Mean two matches in and 00:25:03.930 --> 00:25:07.470 already had some absolute bangers instant classics 00:25:07.470 --> 00:25:11.190 to a certain degree and I would put the Hardy 00:25:11.190 --> 00:25:14.849 Boys much over the Roxanne Perez Jordan grace 00:25:14.849 --> 00:25:17.289 much, but they were still very good matches. 00:25:17.289 --> 00:25:19.690 I think that is more because it was the Hardy 00:25:19.690 --> 00:25:23.599 Boys are nostalgic and I'm still reading the 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:26.140 first oh yeah hyper moment it was a good match 00:25:26.140 --> 00:25:28.779 don't get me wrong it just wasn't better than 00:25:28.779 --> 00:25:34.000 what fraxium and the hardy boys produced no but 00:25:34.000 --> 00:25:38.220 still a very good match um we went tea this week 00:25:38.220 --> 00:25:40.559 was the gift that kept on giving though because 00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:45.579 we had a backstage segment with oba femi and 00:25:45.579 --> 00:25:48.720 moose it starts off with moose walking into the 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:51.319 building i'm guessing it was more of a like walking 00:25:51.319 --> 00:25:54.680 around backstage Then we've got over Femi doing 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:58.759 the same thing What I can work out because of 00:25:58.759 --> 00:26:00.519 the running of things I think they were walking 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:02.839 from the changing rooms down towards like gorilla 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:07.200 position to get ready to go out But we see over 00:26:07.200 --> 00:26:09.759 Femi walked past Hall of Famer in the corridor 00:26:09.759 --> 00:26:16.019 and Adam which Hall of Famer was it? Well one 00:26:16.019 --> 00:26:18.480 of Teddy Long's favorites to stick in a match 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:21.279 it's if you were going to be stuck in a match 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:24.740 you were either going to be Tag team or you were 00:26:24.740 --> 00:26:29.839 going to go one -on -one with the Undertaker 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:35.019 and that's who over Femi runs. I mean, he didn't 00:26:35.019 --> 00:26:37.099 even look scared either, did he? If I walked 00:26:37.099 --> 00:26:40.440 into the dead man, I think I'd be a little bit 00:26:40.440 --> 00:26:45.119 like, ooh. I mean, I'd be starstruck and bouncing 00:26:45.119 --> 00:26:47.140 around like a 14 year old child. So I'd go, oh 00:26:47.140 --> 00:26:49.140 my fucking God, it's the Undertaker, what the 00:26:49.140 --> 00:26:51.700 fuck? But yeah, on the outside I'd be like, ooh. 00:26:51.980 --> 00:26:53.819 Oh shit, you're scary motherfucker. You're big 00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:58.220 and huge. I mean, Oberfemme is not exactly tiny 00:26:58.220 --> 00:27:03.000 guy. No he's not. Oberfemme is a big motherfucker. 00:27:03.160 --> 00:27:12.200 So is Moose though. Oh, 100%. Yeah, this was... 00:27:14.009 --> 00:27:16.190 Yeah, I mean we haven't even got to that point 00:27:16.190 --> 00:27:18.170 just yet We've still got something else to cover 00:27:18.170 --> 00:27:21.410 between between now and then but yeah, basically 00:27:21.410 --> 00:27:25.750 Basically undertaker is telling you go out you 00:27:25.750 --> 00:27:29.910 defend your yard boy or don't come fucking back 00:27:29.910 --> 00:27:32.809 Yeah, pretty much. That's what takers said to 00:27:32.809 --> 00:27:34.730 him. You don't need to ask don't come back on 00:27:34.730 --> 00:27:36.869 to the end of it It was the look that taker gave 00:27:36.869 --> 00:27:38.869 that basically knows you you know the deal here 00:27:38.869 --> 00:27:42.339 you lose You don't get to get changed in the 00:27:42.339 --> 00:27:44.420 locker room you're gonna go and share the broom 00:27:44.420 --> 00:27:52.940 cupboard with the maze the maze He got kicked 00:27:52.940 --> 00:27:56.680 out to the broom cupboard at one point Eating 00:27:56.680 --> 00:28:05.019 chicken over somebody else's bag bastard Anyway 00:28:05.019 --> 00:28:08.880 we went from there into a VT promo basically 00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:14.480 just detailing the building rivalry between Eddie 00:28:14.480 --> 00:28:19.599 Thorpe and Trick Williams, basically building 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.839 up to their underground match. Now, when they 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:24.880 originally said they were going to the underground, 00:28:25.140 --> 00:28:29.099 I misunderstood completely, thought it was like 00:28:29.099 --> 00:28:31.720 an NXT version of Saturday Night's main event, 00:28:31.799 --> 00:28:34.400 maybe, or something along those lines. Quite 00:28:34.400 --> 00:28:37.740 a BLE, but not quite a weekly show either. I 00:28:37.740 --> 00:28:40.059 mean, that would be pretty cool. NXT this Saturday 00:28:40.059 --> 00:28:44.519 night main event. I mean, there's nothing stopping 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:48.079 WWE sticking some of the may stick in some of 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:56.680 the NXT in event realistic. But yeah, the last 00:28:56.680 --> 00:28:59.259 match we saw Eddie and trick Williams competing 00:28:59.259 --> 00:29:03.160 was a strap match, which was very much apparently 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:08.309 Eddie Thorpe's forte. And yeah trick Williams 00:29:08.309 --> 00:29:12.049 is basically saying now underground match my 00:29:12.049 --> 00:29:15.809 match I'm walking out of this one with a winner 00:29:15.809 --> 00:29:21.269 and yeah I mean we know what sort of match to 00:29:21.269 --> 00:29:24.609 get from these two now it's you know what expect 00:29:24.609 --> 00:29:27.710 I'm interested to know what an underground matches 00:29:27.710 --> 00:29:29.869 I've never seen one before so when I get to sit 00:29:29.869 --> 00:29:32.049 and watch this it's gonna be a whole new experience 00:29:32.049 --> 00:29:35.640 for me So I've never sat down and watched one, 00:29:35.660 --> 00:29:37.799 but I do understand the premise of an underground 00:29:37.799 --> 00:29:46.720 match. So an underground match basically is the 00:29:46.720 --> 00:29:48.740 underground matches, as far as I'm aware, can 00:29:48.740 --> 00:29:53.200 only take place in the performance center because 00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:55.779 essentially what they do is they remove all the 00:29:55.779 --> 00:30:00.980 ring ropes and it is a, for all intent and purpose, 00:30:01.119 --> 00:30:07.009 a false count anywhere match. Hmm But you've 00:30:07.009 --> 00:30:09.630 got a ring with no ropes, so there's no running 00:30:09.630 --> 00:30:12.690 the ropes There's no fucking springboard moves. 00:30:12.690 --> 00:30:21.049 It is a straight -up fucking brawl Not something 00:30:21.049 --> 00:30:23.829 you see very often they do it sometimes in the 00:30:23.829 --> 00:30:28.750 Indy but WWE have not done many of this match 00:30:28.750 --> 00:30:32.269 type to my to my awareness And all of them have 00:30:32.269 --> 00:30:40.089 been done in NXT. But yeah, I mean, we went from 00:30:40.089 --> 00:30:44.930 there into the men's NXT heavyweight championship 00:30:44.930 --> 00:30:50.529 match, which saw Ober Femi defending his championship 00:30:50.529 --> 00:30:57.390 against the X division champ from TNA Moose. 00:30:58.349 --> 00:31:02.990 Yeah. So we've only seen Moose wrestle once before 00:31:02.990 --> 00:31:07.150 in NXT and that was with Alexis King in Ohio. 00:31:08.970 --> 00:31:11.450 But this guy's an absolute beast. He's huge. 00:31:11.789 --> 00:31:16.509 I mean, they both are, but damn. And the worst 00:31:16.509 --> 00:31:18.730 thing about it, one of the, I say the worst, 00:31:19.289 --> 00:31:22.109 one of the most intimidating things about Moose 00:31:22.109 --> 00:31:26.829 is that he's versatile. He's a big guy that can 00:31:26.829 --> 00:31:34.509 fly. There was a movie hit I think it was a suplex 00:31:34.509 --> 00:31:39.670 There was a big movie he hit off the top of the 00:31:39.670 --> 00:31:44.829 rope And it was like holy shit That's incredible. 00:31:44.829 --> 00:31:48.809 I think he jumped up and onto the top rope and 00:31:48.809 --> 00:31:51.029 Once it was a flip or something, but I just did 00:31:51.029 --> 00:31:55.970 not see it coming Yeah, I mean these guys were 00:31:55.970 --> 00:31:58.789 going pretty, trying to go for as much as possible 00:31:58.789 --> 00:32:03.869 blow for fricking blow. Yeah, there was six pounds 00:32:03.869 --> 00:32:06.410 worth, almost 700 pounds worth of Rassler trying 00:32:06.410 --> 00:32:09.589 to, between the two of them, beating living shit 00:32:09.589 --> 00:32:11.349 out of the other one in the middle of the room. 00:32:15.390 --> 00:32:18.829 I mean, a lot of the notes I've taken seem to 00:32:18.829 --> 00:32:21.349 revolve around some of Ober Femi's moves more 00:32:21.349 --> 00:32:24.529 than Moose's. It just seems to be what I seem 00:32:24.529 --> 00:32:31.029 to gravitate it towards. Early on in the match, 00:32:31.369 --> 00:32:37.190 Femi does a running chest chop that just takes 00:32:37.190 --> 00:32:42.589 Moose out on the apron so he gets put the fuck 00:32:42.589 --> 00:32:58.470 down. There was no way that wasn't going to hurt, 00:32:58.490 --> 00:33:05.789 let's face it. One of the interesting things 00:33:05.789 --> 00:33:08.250 the announce team actually said during this match 00:33:08.250 --> 00:33:13.069 is that traditionally at Roadblock the NXT title 00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:16.109 has always changed hands so it really didn't 00:33:16.109 --> 00:33:24.950 look good from a history point of view. not just 00:33:24.950 --> 00:33:27.710 having a match against another NXT superstar. 00:33:28.549 --> 00:33:30.490 He was having a match against someone who could 00:33:30.490 --> 00:33:33.930 take his belt out of that company, take it to 00:33:33.930 --> 00:33:37.849 TNA and lose it to someone else in TNA. And you 00:33:37.849 --> 00:33:39.849 don't know what you're going up against then. 00:33:40.869 --> 00:33:42.309 Like there is some hidden, like I said, we've 00:33:42.309 --> 00:33:45.109 got hidden talent on both rosters, but Oberfemi 00:33:45.109 --> 00:33:47.069 could not afford to lose this because he didn't 00:33:47.069 --> 00:33:48.950 know when he was going to get an opportunity 00:33:48.950 --> 00:33:50.589 and who he was going to have to go against to 00:33:50.589 --> 00:34:00.400 get it back. No, this is it and Yeah Storyline 00:34:00.400 --> 00:34:03.460 would be pretty cool though over Femi loses his 00:34:03.460 --> 00:34:06.539 title He gets really depressed about it gets 00:34:06.539 --> 00:34:10.619 exiled from NXT Has to go back to TNA fight through 00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:14.019 the TNA ranks to get back to a championship opportunity 00:34:14.019 --> 00:34:18.019 Let's say like bound for glory or something and 00:34:18.019 --> 00:34:19.980 then takes his title back at bound for glory 00:34:19.980 --> 00:34:27.510 allowed back into NXT with his title Yeah, it's 00:34:27.510 --> 00:34:30.769 I mean we could still see something like that 00:34:30.769 --> 00:34:34.889 necessarily him losing his title, but him basically 00:34:34.889 --> 00:34:41.170 making that making their way through Making their 00:34:41.170 --> 00:34:49.989 way through Are we time -stamping our calls now 00:34:49.989 --> 00:34:52.510 just to make sure that if anyone else tries to 00:34:52.510 --> 00:34:56.869 get it in there I had this on this podcast episode 00:34:56.869 --> 00:35:01.349 at this time, motherfucker. That's mine. You're 00:35:01.349 --> 00:35:04.070 not stealing my story, Sportskeeda. We were joking 00:35:04.070 --> 00:35:05.769 in an episode of SmackDown, I think it might 00:35:05.769 --> 00:35:07.630 have been last week's episode of SmackDown actually, 00:35:07.829 --> 00:35:10.369 about how we thought Shinsuke Nakamura was getting 00:35:10.369 --> 00:35:15.469 towards the end of his contract because he dropped 00:35:15.469 --> 00:35:19.110 his title so close to WrestleMania and hadn't 00:35:19.110 --> 00:35:21.849 really defended it much. He lost his brother 00:35:21.849 --> 00:35:26.039 a few weeks prior. And then it comes up on Sportskeelers 00:35:26.039 --> 00:35:28.719 website the next day that Shinsuke Nakamura's 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:31.679 contract could be getting, like, not renewed. 00:35:33.059 --> 00:35:37.260 And it was like, God damn it. How did we manage 00:35:37.260 --> 00:35:41.500 to pull that one up? Yeah, this is it. But yeah, 00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:43.460 talking about pulling some things out, so, right, 00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:45.679 we've got, like I said earlier, we've got two 00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:49.880 guys in the ring equated just below maybe 700 00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:54.840 pounds in weight, right? Ober Femi is six foot 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.139 three and three, well I'm sorry, Ober Femi managed 00:35:58.139 --> 00:36:02.019 to bench press a guy who was six foot three and 00:36:02.019 --> 00:36:06.860 300 pounds up in the air like he was a rag doll, 00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:12.739 like a bag of concrete and then just tossed him 00:36:12.739 --> 00:36:15.559 like a plastic bottle over the top rope onto 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:18.860 the floor. How would you just throw a guy who 00:36:18.860 --> 00:36:21.969 was like 300 pounds like he's Plastic an empty 00:36:21.969 --> 00:36:29.289 plastic bottle like off you go think I Mean these 00:36:29.289 --> 00:36:32.750 guys were trading power move for power move. 00:36:33.070 --> 00:36:39.909 It's It was they they were no small hits there 00:36:39.909 --> 00:36:44.989 were no Small moves. It was all just one after 00:36:44.989 --> 00:36:49.409 the other after the I mean we've got a note here 00:36:49.409 --> 00:36:53.250 if of a few different things, but we've got moose 00:36:53.250 --> 00:36:57.690 with diving headbutts on the second rope, suplexes 00:36:57.690 --> 00:37:00.289 from the top rope to then roll through it and 00:37:00.289 --> 00:37:04.289 hit another suplex straight afterwards. Well, 00:37:04.369 --> 00:37:06.650 I actually got a note about that as well. So, 00:37:06.650 --> 00:37:09.989 yeah, we've got moose hitting a huge superplex 00:37:09.989 --> 00:37:13.090 off the top rope onto Oberfemi. For Oberfemi 00:37:13.090 --> 00:37:16.869 to almost counter that with a suplex of his own, 00:37:17.269 --> 00:37:21.969 which was insane. Yeah, it was it was nuts and 00:37:21.969 --> 00:37:26.829 then This isn't something you see as much on 00:37:26.829 --> 00:37:31.150 NXT as you do on the other programs But moose 00:37:31.150 --> 00:37:34.929 put Oberfemi through the god damn announce table 00:37:34.929 --> 00:37:39.090 We are constantly told as well the last few months 00:37:39.090 --> 00:37:42.849 that these announce tables are reinforced And 00:37:42.849 --> 00:37:45.769 I think that is try and reiterate that you know 00:37:45.769 --> 00:37:48.489 how hard it is to put a superstar through these 00:37:48.489 --> 00:37:52.980 announce tables But yeah over Femi did not have 00:37:52.980 --> 00:37:55.800 a problem going through that announcement It 00:37:55.800 --> 00:37:59.599 was absolutely destroyed and so was over Femi 00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:03.880 by the time he worked out where he was what was 00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:09.639 going on Yeah, and regardless of all of that 00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:14.519 over Femi still manages to retain the NXT title 00:38:17.289 --> 00:38:20.809 Moose doesn't hit a limp spear. That thing was 00:38:20.809 --> 00:38:23.530 a proper missile. So he still, like I said, yeah, 00:38:23.570 --> 00:38:27.130 managed to get up from all that pain and retain 00:38:27.130 --> 00:38:33.610 his title. Yeah, I mean, again, taking nothing 00:38:33.610 --> 00:38:38.769 away from either one of them. What an absolute 00:38:38.769 --> 00:38:43.670 banger of a match. Oh, it's incredible. I wish 00:38:43.670 --> 00:38:49.440 we saw more of that on WWE programming just two 00:38:49.440 --> 00:38:52.099 big guys having to I know we're seeing a little 00:38:52.099 --> 00:38:54.360 bit on Smackdown with Braun Strowman and Jacob 00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:57.780 Fatu But just we need more big guys having more 00:38:57.780 --> 00:39:00.619 bangers of a match like that and we don't get 00:39:00.619 --> 00:39:04.059 me wrong I appreciate the luchador style and 00:39:04.059 --> 00:39:07.079 the other bits that we get within the WWE package, 00:39:07.099 --> 00:39:11.239 but I absolutely love this match I Am probably 00:39:11.239 --> 00:39:14.659 willing to say that I could put this as a contender 00:39:14.659 --> 00:39:20.440 for match at the PLA I would be willing to say 00:39:20.440 --> 00:39:22.619 the same thing if I didn't already know what 00:39:22.619 --> 00:39:27.260 was coming. So, I mean, we go from that match 00:39:27.260 --> 00:39:32.599 into a VT promo showing. So a few weeks ago, 00:39:32.699 --> 00:39:36.360 we saw Sol Ruka trying to sort of get through 00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:42.380 to the human side of Zarya with some rollerblading 00:39:42.380 --> 00:39:46.599 beach volleyball, ice cream, very much her surface. 00:39:47.550 --> 00:39:52.789 This week we've seen Zarya trying to unlock Sol 00:39:52.789 --> 00:39:55.670 Rooker's aggression in a rage room with some 00:39:55.670 --> 00:40:01.489 axe throw in. You know what? That rage room looked 00:40:01.489 --> 00:40:06.349 like... I think I might need to visit one. I'm 00:40:06.349 --> 00:40:09.150 not gonna lie, that rage room looked incredible. 00:40:10.530 --> 00:40:14.090 Oh, it looks like a men's fun, doesn't it? Just 00:40:14.090 --> 00:40:18.179 being allowed to walk into a room... with a baseball 00:40:18.179 --> 00:40:23.579 bat and told to fuck it up. You know what, the 00:40:23.579 --> 00:40:26.179 only person in this situation who seems, I feel, 00:40:26.300 --> 00:40:29.880 is losing is the person who's got to clean up 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:33.980 after someone like me has gone away. I'm an angry 00:40:33.980 --> 00:40:37.679 person. So yeah, I go into a rage room. I'm gonna 00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:43.210 cause havoc. It's not gonna be... Yeah, I can't 00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:45.670 imagine I'm not walking out there leaving a fucking 00:40:45.670 --> 00:40:48.110 mess to be quite honest I mean, I'll probably 00:40:48.110 --> 00:40:51.010 walk out of there a mess on its own. It's a case 00:40:51.010 --> 00:41:02.570 of Oh 100 % Definitely bonding and making I mean 00:41:02.570 --> 00:41:04.929 making the strength between the two of them as 00:41:04.929 --> 00:41:10.570 a tiger a lot stronger with this This next bit 00:41:10.570 --> 00:41:15.340 I got a little bit confused with. I'm not going 00:41:15.340 --> 00:41:18.019 to lie too much to you. So if I remember correctly, 00:41:18.139 --> 00:41:23.860 this next section is the Fallon Henley Ava conversation. 00:41:25.139 --> 00:41:27.599 Yeah, so Fallon Henley and the rest of Fatal 00:41:27.599 --> 00:41:30.619 Influence have been haranguing Ava, the general 00:41:30.619 --> 00:41:35.019 manager, about the Women's North American Championship 00:41:35.019 --> 00:41:39.340 and how Fallon Henley has yet to have a rematch. 00:41:40.619 --> 00:41:44.980 Yes. But rematches aren't always written in the 00:41:44.980 --> 00:41:49.179 clauses these days, are they? No, but I think 00:41:49.179 --> 00:41:54.820 as unless particularly stipulated It's fair to 00:41:54.820 --> 00:42:00.500 assume nine times that that We will have some 00:42:00.500 --> 00:42:04.460 kind of rematch clause in there. It's just not 00:42:04.460 --> 00:42:10.539 necessary always guaranteed that We will get 00:42:13.190 --> 00:42:15.969 It's not always guaranteed that they will be 00:42:15.969 --> 00:42:19.329 like the next the first defense of the titles 00:42:19.329 --> 00:42:28.789 sort of thing I mean I can sort of understand 00:42:28.789 --> 00:42:34.369 why she's upset Because it is a case that obviously 00:42:34.369 --> 00:42:37.530 the main event of roadblock is the title versus 00:42:45.420 --> 00:42:51.039 Yeah, Julia vs Stephanie Vacure and yeah, we'll 00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:53.760 get to that. We'll get to that shortly afterwards. 00:42:54.300 --> 00:42:56.599 Now the other person that gets involved in this 00:42:56.599 --> 00:43:01.659 promo is Ricky Saints. We've been quite vocal 00:43:01.659 --> 00:43:05.260 about Ricky Saints and what our thoughts are 00:43:05.260 --> 00:43:12.329 of him and Yeah, it's fair to say that we're 00:43:12.329 --> 00:43:18.289 underwhelmed thus far. But it would appear after 00:43:18.289 --> 00:43:23.130 this, I mean, everybody seems to, a lot of the 00:43:23.130 --> 00:43:27.489 roster seems to be jumping on sort of a similar 00:43:27.489 --> 00:43:31.389 branch to the same tree to us is that we're sort 00:43:31.389 --> 00:43:33.909 of been saying that we're a bit underwhelmed 00:43:33.909 --> 00:43:36.329 with how he's come in and everything on those 00:43:36.329 --> 00:43:40.119 lines built up to be this amazing superstar and 00:43:40.119 --> 00:43:44.559 we just haven't seen it everybody else is sort 00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:47.699 of saying well you don't belong here dude fuck 00:43:47.699 --> 00:43:52.039 you doing fuck off um i think he got over hyped 00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:55.679 and a lot of them didn't get that same hype up 00:43:55.679 --> 00:43:59.619 if you get me but i think what we have had with 00:43:59.619 --> 00:44:03.079 ricky since so far even though it's not been 00:44:03.079 --> 00:44:05.400 a huge amount i've seen some clips of some of 00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.679 the promos and some of the stuff he's done when 00:44:07.679 --> 00:44:14.719 he was at AW and it looks pretty good to be fair. 00:44:15.079 --> 00:44:18.320 There's one clip, he destroyed MJF in one clip 00:44:18.320 --> 00:44:22.139 I saw and it was like really good sort of promo 00:44:22.139 --> 00:44:26.320 cut between the two of them. So if we can get 00:44:26.320 --> 00:44:32.940 the Ricky Saints of that in NXT, it's gonna be 00:44:32.940 --> 00:44:38.500 incredible. It actually ends up that Ricky Saints 00:44:38.500 --> 00:44:42.239 has a singles match, which should give us a much 00:44:42.239 --> 00:44:46.440 better view. First hand, Next Week versus Ridge 00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:58.960 Holland. Yeah, and just as this promo ends, we 00:44:58.960 --> 00:45:03.500 see All Ego, Ethan Page come to... Just sort 00:45:03.500 --> 00:45:07.619 of poke a little bit of fun before he goes to 00:45:07.619 --> 00:45:11.840 participate in his own match, which is Next, 00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:17.679 which is a New York City street fight where Ethan 00:45:17.679 --> 00:45:24.079 Page takes on the bouncy Jevon Evans. This was 00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:28.760 the one match within the card as we were in the 00:45:28.760 --> 00:45:33.840 build -up to to roadblock that I was really interested 00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:38.380 about watching purely for the fact that we've 00:45:38.380 --> 00:45:43.179 seen quite a lot the last like three months almost 00:45:43.179 --> 00:45:47.400 of um of Ethan Page and Siobhan Evans with the 00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:51.360 jaw breaking and the taking the smile and and 00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:55.179 the unsanctioned match they had and all the they've 00:45:55.179 --> 00:45:59.360 had some some good matches but you've always 00:45:59.360 --> 00:46:03.050 seen Ethan Page come out on top of those in those 00:46:03.050 --> 00:46:06.650 matches. So for this one, it was very much like, 00:46:06.710 --> 00:46:09.610 oh, what are they going to do? And what are we 00:46:09.610 --> 00:46:12.429 going to see now more from Siobhan Evans? Because 00:46:12.429 --> 00:46:14.849 obviously he's lost a few times now. What else 00:46:14.849 --> 00:46:17.309 has he got left in the bag to try and make sure 00:46:17.309 --> 00:46:20.409 that doesn't happen again? And I think to be 00:46:20.409 --> 00:46:24.809 fair, Siobhan Evans bought it. He brought the 00:46:24.809 --> 00:46:27.030 smack earth down and he laid the smack earth 00:46:27.030 --> 00:46:32.639 down as well. Yeah, I mean, remember watching 00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:35.380 this match with you on discord it was a case 00:46:35.380 --> 00:46:40.860 that this was just a it was such a like a well 00:46:40.860 --> 00:46:44.679 put together match to go through it was it was 00:46:44.679 --> 00:47:02.780 beautiful basically we started off on the ramp 00:47:02.780 --> 00:47:06.519 and they went straight into the crowd and then 00:47:06.519 --> 00:47:13.199 that was it yeah absolutely nuts now i've got 00:47:13.199 --> 00:47:15.480 a note here and i can't remember why i wrote 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:18.940 this down but it's something about a lions den 00:47:18.940 --> 00:47:23.900 match in 1998 and i can't remember why i've written 00:47:23.900 --> 00:47:27.320 this specific note down i think the guys on commentary 00:47:27.320 --> 00:47:35.570 were discussing something to do with that match, 00:47:35.590 --> 00:47:38.030 but I can't work out why I've written it down. 00:47:41.170 --> 00:47:44.289 No, I can't quite remember myself as I didn't 00:47:44.289 --> 00:47:48.550 make any notes about a Lions Den match of any 00:47:48.550 --> 00:47:51.849 kind. It's not on today. I think they were talking 00:47:51.849 --> 00:47:59.550 about the... The match that we were in I think 00:47:59.550 --> 00:48:02.949 it's a unique cage match featuring a ring canvas 00:48:02.949 --> 00:48:05.710 with no ropes or turnbuckles where every match 00:48:05.710 --> 00:48:09.170 should Had to either end in knockout or submission 00:48:09.170 --> 00:48:14.769 Although they were talking about care Kevin Owen 00:48:14.769 --> 00:48:18.750 Ken Shamrock in Owen Hart at summer slam 98 and 00:48:18.750 --> 00:48:25.099 I think there was a VT with it Right, okay conversation 00:48:25.099 --> 00:48:27.340 they were having but I can't understand remember 00:48:27.340 --> 00:48:32.400 why For that note to be there, but it is in there 00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:37.079 So it must have been something important Because 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.300 I put it in yes with such things as Javon Evans 00:48:40.300 --> 00:48:44.280 hitting Ethan page with a chair and Ethan page 00:48:44.280 --> 00:48:47.260 throwing him into the steel steps as a return 00:48:47.260 --> 00:48:50.059 for it So Javon Evans sold in something and Ethan 00:48:50.059 --> 00:48:57.869 page gave her a receipt Yeah, 100%. I mean, everything 00:48:57.869 --> 00:49:01.750 about this match was receipts from Javon Evans, 00:49:01.889 --> 00:49:04.869 let's face it. Definitely. It was just one entire 00:49:04.869 --> 00:49:08.309 receipt, to be fair. And we saw all sorts of 00:49:08.309 --> 00:49:11.550 fun in this match as well. We had chairs and 00:49:11.550 --> 00:49:15.809 tables. I mean, I found this to be a little bit 00:49:15.809 --> 00:49:18.050 more competitive than their previous matches, 00:49:18.050 --> 00:49:22.110 as we've seen. A lot of Javon Evans dominating 00:49:22.110 --> 00:49:25.760 throughout the match. and then Ethan Page either 00:49:25.760 --> 00:49:29.940 having a well placed jab to the jaw I mean we 00:49:29.940 --> 00:49:33.760 saw that during this match as well but there 00:49:33.760 --> 00:49:40.300 were bits in this match that I remember sitting 00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:43.119 on here and it was like you were I think you'd 00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:45.599 managed to finish it by the time before I had 00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:49.500 and it was a case that I was reacting genuinely 00:49:49.500 --> 00:49:51.460 to some of the shit I was seeing during this 00:49:51.460 --> 00:49:53.639 match and it was like Oh, I think I know what 00:49:53.639 --> 00:49:58.739 bit you've just got to, or... And, yeah, I mean, 00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:03.119 Evans sets up the chairs to use as a platform, 00:50:04.059 --> 00:50:06.619 but whatever move it was he was attempting is 00:50:06.619 --> 00:50:09.440 reversed, Paige props Evans up on the top rope, 00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:13.880 on the top turnbuckle, and then rag doll tosses 00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:17.920 Evans back first onto these chairs. I mean, that 00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:23.760 was absolutely insane. That has to have shortened 00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:27.019 a young Javon Evans's career by at least five 00:50:27.019 --> 00:50:29.780 years. One manoeuvre. I mean there was that one 00:50:29.780 --> 00:50:32.219 section where Javon Evans brought out that table 00:50:32.219 --> 00:50:36.079 and put it in the corner. Ethan Page, he tried 00:50:36.079 --> 00:50:39.579 to like Alabama slam him through the table but 00:50:39.579 --> 00:50:41.820 they end up kind of counteracting themselves 00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:45.139 through and then there's a combination where 00:50:45.139 --> 00:50:47.780 they both end up like drop kicking each other. 00:50:48.460 --> 00:50:50.380 not drop kicking each other sorry trying to like 00:50:50.380 --> 00:50:52.860 super kick each other and then they're going 00:50:52.860 --> 00:50:54.760 to swing at each other with steel chairs but 00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:57.099 the chairs hit and I think I'm pretty sure he 00:50:57.099 --> 00:50:59.159 bounced off his forehead and did a Kevin Owens 00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.519 with it too because he looked rocked for a little 00:51:01.519 --> 00:51:04.719 while after that. Yeah I know which bit you're 00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:10.440 on about. While you mention tables I think one 00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:13.019 of the most brutal bits of this match that we 00:51:13.019 --> 00:51:18.829 saw all in all Was the over -the -top rope cutter 00:51:18.829 --> 00:51:21.909 through a table that Javon Evans managed to pull 00:51:21.909 --> 00:51:48.530 off? Yeah 100 % I mean We know to expect from 00:51:48.530 --> 00:51:52.110 Javon Evans now that we're gonna get some high 00:51:52.110 --> 00:51:58.010 -flying in during his match it's it's not a maybe 00:51:58.010 --> 00:52:02.170 this will happen it is a Definite this is going 00:52:02.170 --> 00:52:08.929 to happen sort of thing But the stops that these 00:52:08.929 --> 00:52:14.340 guys pulled out during this match I mean the 00:52:14.340 --> 00:52:18.860 ultimate receipt that that Javon Evans carried 00:52:18.860 --> 00:52:23.019 out was the finish to this match I saw this clip 00:52:23.019 --> 00:52:26.639 on social media before I got the opportunity 00:52:26.639 --> 00:52:29.659 to watch NXT but it wasn't like the full clip 00:52:29.659 --> 00:52:33.039 if you get me so I didn't see the pin to go with 00:52:33.039 --> 00:52:39.880 it but it was filthy I'm gonna let Adam go back 00:52:39.880 --> 00:52:46.139 over it See I was gonna let you go through it, 00:52:46.139 --> 00:52:51.980 but if you insist so Evans Javon takes a chair 00:52:51.980 --> 00:52:55.260 and basically loops it around the face of page 00:52:55.260 --> 00:52:58.860 encapsulate in his face in with this now we've 00:52:58.860 --> 00:53:01.619 got to remember the reason this feud started 00:53:01.619 --> 00:53:05.380 is Ethan page decided to rob Javon Evans of his 00:53:05.380 --> 00:53:08.559 smile and ability to eat solid food for a good 00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:13.079 couple of months and by royally shattering kids 00:53:13.079 --> 00:53:20.440 jaw and Javon Evans this complete lunatic decides 00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:27.780 to hit a springboard cutter on Ethan Page while 00:53:27.780 --> 00:53:31.280 he's wearing this chair that's trapped around 00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:37.739 his head to win this match and yeah it was it 00:53:37.739 --> 00:53:43.639 was near sickening to watch but absolute Beauty 00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:53.239 in carnet on that on that cutter. Yeah It was 00:53:53.239 --> 00:54:04.400 just a shame that Joanne Evans didn't have a 00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:09.800 lot of time He didn't get to celebrate at all 00:54:09.800 --> 00:54:13.300 because our four master sailors Decided to come 00:54:13.300 --> 00:54:14.920 and give him a bit of an ass kick and he wouldn't 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:20.340 remember The worst thing about this four is well 00:54:20.340 --> 00:54:23.320 two things a we don't know who the fuck they 00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:28.420 are and B we don't know what the fuck they want 00:54:28.420 --> 00:54:32.380 Because there's no rhyme reason or pattern to 00:54:32.380 --> 00:54:35.579 who it is they're attacking Nope is they've had 00:54:35.579 --> 00:54:39.880 Jovan Evans about Ricky Saints about the entire 00:54:39.880 --> 00:54:46.989 tag division Oberfemme So, I mean he's mainly 00:54:46.989 --> 00:54:50.050 for them they're obviously focusing on the male 00:54:50.050 --> 00:54:53.210 side of the Ross which is I suppose a breath 00:54:53.210 --> 00:54:57.969 of relief for the women in the division, but 00:54:57.969 --> 00:55:03.429 There still seems to be next to no rhyme or reason 00:55:03.429 --> 00:55:11.739 for For who they're attacking when and why Google 00:55:11.739 --> 00:55:15.280 still has him down as an American football player 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:21.599 But then that's Dion Lewis Yeah, but that doesn't 00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:25.320 really give us an awful lot of insight into Who 00:55:25.320 --> 00:55:29.099 the other three are and Yeah, they seem to be 00:55:29.099 --> 00:55:32.380 playing this storyline low and slow as it goes 00:55:32.380 --> 00:55:34.460 I Originally thought it might have just been 00:55:34.460 --> 00:55:36.679 like a group of local wrestlers. They just got 00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:41.480 in for the night to do something cool It's definitely 00:55:41.480 --> 00:55:48.780 not the way that's going No, definitely not Now 00:55:48.780 --> 00:55:53.239 we go into a selection of promos starting with 00:55:53.239 --> 00:55:57.980 a VT featuring the members of the Spears family 00:56:11.900 --> 00:56:14.300 Yeah Someone got caught in my throat there. I'm 00:56:14.300 --> 00:56:23.500 not sure what happened It was all the balls actually 00:56:23.500 --> 00:56:33.099 Oh Anyway, yeah, so Basically, we had the the 00:56:33.099 --> 00:56:35.619 Spears family or the culling or whatever it is. 00:56:35.639 --> 00:56:40.119 They call itself discussing their next move which 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:43.360 is obviously the six -man tag match they've got 00:56:43.360 --> 00:56:48.500 against the D 'Angelo family next week on NXT. 00:56:50.500 --> 00:56:54.619 Yeah, we then go to a ringside promo where we 00:56:54.619 --> 00:57:00.460 see Sarah about the NXT Underground match next 00:57:00.460 --> 00:57:04.619 week. Yeah, so she's talking to Eddie Thorpe 00:57:04.619 --> 00:57:11.110 about that one. I didn't get a huge amount from 00:57:11.110 --> 00:57:15.150 this one apart from we got a little bit of a 00:57:15.150 --> 00:57:18.230 guest and a little while but it was mainly just 00:57:18.230 --> 00:57:22.170 Eddie Thorpe kind of saying that he's the man 00:57:22.170 --> 00:57:26.050 even though everyone else thinks the man's actually 00:57:26.050 --> 00:57:30.210 trick Williams it's not it's Eddie Thorpe and 00:57:30.210 --> 00:57:33.389 he's gonna start making everyone believe it and 00:57:33.389 --> 00:57:37.989 show them that he's the man when yeah not quite 00:57:37.989 --> 00:57:40.940 he's not quite as over with the crowd as Trick 00:57:40.940 --> 00:57:49.019 Williams is anyway. I mean in fairness that is 00:57:49.019 --> 00:57:53.320 Eddie Thorpe's entire MO. Yeah he's definitely 00:57:53.320 --> 00:57:56.039 not trying to be everyone's best friend he's 00:57:56.039 --> 00:57:58.820 definitely trying to piss people off and Trick 00:57:58.820 --> 00:58:01.579 Williams is doing everything at the moment right 00:58:01.579 --> 00:58:04.300 to play that face character in this feud well 00:58:04.300 --> 00:58:08.300 including coming out and giving the heel an ass 00:58:08.300 --> 00:58:12.090 whooping and bouncing him off the announce table 00:58:12.090 --> 00:58:16.849 and then throwing him back into the ring after 00:58:16.849 --> 00:58:18.809 smashing his head off the announce table a few 00:58:18.809 --> 00:58:21.170 times to hit him with quite a ruthless spear 00:58:21.170 --> 00:58:24.449 to be fair and then just carry on the ability 00:58:24.449 --> 00:58:26.730 to just ground and pound on him. There wasn't 00:58:26.730 --> 00:58:29.429 much that Eddie Thorpe was doing at that point 00:58:29.429 --> 00:58:34.570 apart from covering his beautiful face. Yeah 00:58:34.570 --> 00:58:43.750 and I mean... It is a case of... Yeah, there's 00:58:43.750 --> 00:58:47.309 definitely no love lost between the pair. Now, 00:58:47.829 --> 00:58:51.050 we are sort of moving into the closing throws 00:58:51.050 --> 00:58:55.409 of NXT Roadblock here, but we've got one or two 00:58:55.409 --> 00:59:01.650 bits just to cover before we go any further. 00:59:03.769 --> 00:59:06.070 One bit I don't think Rich has any notes on at 00:59:06.070 --> 00:59:07.829 all just because I've got his notes in front 00:59:07.829 --> 00:59:10.400 of me. and I can see that he doesn't have anything, 00:59:11.480 --> 00:59:17.000 is that we find out, basically, United States 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:22.219 Champion Chelsea Green is not overly impressed 00:59:22.219 --> 00:59:25.400 about having a title defense on NXT next week. 00:59:26.679 --> 00:59:30.719 And we find all this about a post from, yeah, 00:59:30.900 --> 00:59:36.219 I mean, she, just before watching this match, 00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:40.340 we saw that she was or I saw in social media 00:59:40.340 --> 00:59:48.179 that she was attending a wedding in Devon. She 00:59:48.179 --> 00:59:52.880 then had to make her way over to I think it was 00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:59.719 Barcelona for Smackdown. Then she's having to 00:59:59.719 --> 01:00:03.900 jump back across the pond to the States for NXT. 01:00:05.389 --> 01:00:09.210 Girls gonna be racking up some air miles Especially 01:00:09.210 --> 01:00:13.530 if she's got to be back in Bologna Italy for 01:00:13.530 --> 01:00:18.670 next week's smackdown So yeah, that could definitely 01:00:18.670 --> 01:00:22.429 be some air miles being racked up there Making 01:00:22.429 --> 01:00:24.329 some decent money for doing it. So it's worth 01:00:24.329 --> 01:00:31.510 it. Oh 100 % But this is when we go into the 01:00:31.510 --> 01:00:40.480 main event title versus title winner takes all 01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:45.760 NXT women's champion versus the women's unite 01:00:45.760 --> 01:00:51.500 at That's the one Green is not in this match. 01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:53.159 Do not worry. You don't have to deal with that 01:00:53.159 --> 01:00:56.860 twice in five minutes No, definitely not. This 01:00:56.860 --> 01:01:02.639 is Stephanie Baker versus Julia and this was 01:01:02.829 --> 01:01:05.650 This has been getting hyped for the last few 01:01:05.650 --> 01:01:09.769 weeks and I think it lived up to the hype. I'm 01:01:09.769 --> 01:01:12.030 not going to lie to you. I think I've got more 01:01:12.030 --> 01:01:15.510 notes for this match than I have for some of 01:01:15.510 --> 01:01:17.929 the matches. Not as many as I thought I had. 01:01:18.769 --> 01:01:21.150 This is the one match I think I got sucked into 01:01:21.150 --> 01:01:26.949 and just could not stay away from. So, it was 01:01:26.949 --> 01:01:29.389 important to realise that this wasn't a match 01:01:29.389 --> 01:01:33.949 built out of a grudge. This was Both women had 01:01:33.949 --> 01:01:39.210 something to prove to one another Yeah, and That 01:01:39.210 --> 01:01:42.710 basically says to us that one of these two women 01:01:42.710 --> 01:01:46.829 Was like they may be losing a title tonight, 01:01:46.889 --> 01:01:48.949 but I think they're gonna gain something a lot 01:01:48.949 --> 01:01:53.769 bigger. I Personally think whoever loses this 01:01:53.769 --> 01:01:58.889 much is gonna end up getting taken to Raw or 01:01:58.889 --> 01:02:03.929 smackdown very soon I mean it is a very real 01:02:03.929 --> 01:02:06.929 possibility but for tonight... I can't think 01:02:06.929 --> 01:02:08.750 of any other reason why they'd have someone drop 01:02:08.750 --> 01:02:10.550 that title but for tonight we've got a hell of 01:02:10.550 --> 01:02:14.110 an exhibition match with titles on the line. 01:02:15.369 --> 01:02:19.969 Yeah so somebody's walking out of here a double 01:02:19.969 --> 01:02:26.909 title holder which has only been done like three 01:02:26.909 --> 01:02:30.969 times previously in NXT history as much as my 01:02:32.369 --> 01:02:35.010 And either one of these are going to write history 01:02:35.010 --> 01:02:37.650 regardless because they will be the first women 01:02:37.650 --> 01:02:48.289 in NXT to hold two titles at once But what a 01:02:48.289 --> 01:02:51.769 match I mean there was no malice behind any of 01:02:51.769 --> 01:02:58.199 it at least in the beginning but Julia just kind 01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:00.260 of just set the match up just kind of said, you 01:03:00.260 --> 01:03:02.159 know, you think you're the best I think I'm the 01:03:02.159 --> 01:03:05.579 best. Let's just see who's the best Yeah, let's 01:03:05.579 --> 01:03:08.239 do get out and figure out where we both stand. 01:03:08.340 --> 01:03:10.400 So maybe one of us can call ourselves the best 01:03:10.400 --> 01:03:23.260 Yeah, and I mean They got some fantastic little 01:03:23.260 --> 01:03:29.000 spots in this match We saw they could pull out 01:03:29.000 --> 01:03:33.860 the classic dragon screw to Julia out of the 01:03:33.860 --> 01:03:38.099 corner that brutal leg drag It makes me fuck. 01:03:38.099 --> 01:03:42.940 It makes me wince every time I think about Yeah, 01:03:42.940 --> 01:03:46.340 that wasn't even the first one Julia hit a massive 01:03:46.340 --> 01:03:49.400 missile dropkick on Stephanie Baker pretty much 01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:52.719 just off the belt They spent a few minutes like 01:03:52.719 --> 01:03:57.510 a few moments sizing each other Then yeah, once 01:03:57.510 --> 01:04:00.110 they really kind of said right sod it. We're 01:04:00.110 --> 01:04:02.989 good. Let's get going It was very much offense 01:04:02.989 --> 01:04:05.949 from both teeth like both both sides. There's 01:04:05.949 --> 01:04:10.590 no defense being played at all No, this is it. 01:04:10.730 --> 01:04:15.050 I mean interesting I got a few I got a few bits 01:04:15.050 --> 01:04:19.710 here that sort of Julia Julia managed I noted 01:04:19.710 --> 01:04:22.510 down that she managed to do a double underhook 01:04:22.510 --> 01:04:29.639 superplex to the cure which Oh, 100%. There is 01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:33.239 nothing to be understated about how brutal that 01:04:33.239 --> 01:04:40.519 movie looks. And I mean, I've got even something 01:04:40.519 --> 01:04:43.739 that the cure managed to manage to pull off. 01:04:44.159 --> 01:04:47.400 So, oh, no, it was Julia who managed to pull 01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:51.119 it off. So Julia kept the cure off the top rope 01:04:51.119 --> 01:04:56.880 in a triangle choke that admittedly she can't 01:04:56.880 --> 01:05:00.960 quite lock in properly so switches it to a rings 01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:04.960 of Saturn submission which the only way the cure 01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:07.579 has to break that is with a foot on the rope 01:05:07.579 --> 01:05:27.340 yeah or risk disqualification A lot of big car 01:05:27.340 --> 01:05:29.019 moves being done in this one, like I said, at 01:05:29.019 --> 01:05:32.840 one point there was SVBs. Well, we had four SVBs, 01:05:32.840 --> 01:05:36.239 I believe, in this match. I just took note of 01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:41.599 the two SVBs that Vakul managed to hit back to 01:05:41.599 --> 01:05:45.639 back to actually get the pin for himself. Yeah. 01:05:46.539 --> 01:05:50.699 Which then, yeah, leads us into it where Stephanie 01:05:50.699 --> 01:05:56.559 Vakul managed to pin Julia after the three SVBs 01:05:56.559 --> 01:06:00.739 to be the first woman since Becky Lynch to hold 01:06:00.739 --> 01:06:08.719 two singles titles at the same time in WWE, where 01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:11.599 Becky Lynch beat Charlotte Flair and Ronda Rousey 01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:14.159 for both the Raw and SmackDown Women's titles 01:06:14.159 --> 01:06:18.039 in a triple threat match. Stephanie's managed 01:06:18.039 --> 01:06:20.619 to walk out with both the titles in just having 01:06:20.619 --> 01:06:25.300 a solo match. Yeah, and I mean there's an upsides 01:06:25.300 --> 01:06:28.199 and downsides to that I'm sure bigger paycheck 01:06:28.199 --> 01:06:31.000 for Stephanie Viqueur at the same time It means 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:34.219 that in any one in any one show. She could be 01:06:34.219 --> 01:06:52.639 pulling double duty Exactly 100 % but Yeah, that 01:06:52.639 --> 01:06:58.139 brings us to the end of NXT roadblock and What 01:06:58.139 --> 01:07:12.219 what a PLA No, definitely not I Mean yeah, I 01:07:12.219 --> 01:07:14.719 mean if we had to sort of pin down a match of 01:07:14.719 --> 01:07:21.239 the night See I'm still going with Javon Evans 01:07:21.239 --> 01:07:28.699 and Ethan Page I think the lack of I Think the 01:07:28.699 --> 01:07:32.639 lack for me it was as much as I enjoyed the fact 01:07:32.639 --> 01:07:36.559 that there was malice behind any of it not having 01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:41.880 much of a good guy bad guy storyline to a title 01:07:41.880 --> 01:07:47.840 versus title match is It sort of takes away from 01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:51.340 the the gravitas of it. Whereas there was no 01:07:51.340 --> 01:07:53.760 title on the line for Javon Evans and Ethan Page. 01:07:53.860 --> 01:07:58.440 It was all malice. And that just bypassed it 01:07:58.440 --> 01:08:07.039 for me. But yeah, I mean, I suppose if you've 01:08:07.039 --> 01:08:10.619 got nothing left, we've only got time to basically 01:08:10.619 --> 01:08:13.920 say thank you all for tuning in for Finishes 01:08:13.920 --> 01:08:20.220 and Factions. NXT Roadblock 2025. We will be 01:08:20.220 --> 01:08:23.039 back, of course, when Finishes and Factions breaks 01:08:23.039 --> 01:08:27.279 down SmackDown, the start of the European tour 01:08:27.279 --> 01:08:30.939 for WWE. Live from Barcelona, SmackDown is, so 01:08:30.939 --> 01:08:33.819 we will see you in the next episode of Finishes 01:08:33.819 --> 01:08:37.119 and Factions and I will see you in that episode 01:08:37.119 --> 01:08:40.239 too, Adam. Yeah, see you soon, buddy. See you 01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:40.380 later.