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Hello everybody and welcome back to another episode

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of Finishes and Factions Does Smackdown. This

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week we are still on the European tour in Bologna,

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Italy in the Unipol Arena. We are here again

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with myself Rich and my co -host Adam as always.

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Adam, welcome in buddy. Yeah. Yeah, I've done

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you eat a few times on the last few episodes

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I thought I'd change it up a little bit but yes

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Bologna Italy and we are this is like the like

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the first time in about 18 years that WWE TV

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has been in Italy and the very first smackdown

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to be broadcast from Bologna so and I mean all

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throughout this European tour we've seen some

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absolutely Insane crowd reactions. I mean Brussels

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was the highlight of it all Belgium when Monday

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like raw was there was absolutely incredible

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And in fairness, the Italians did not did not

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disappoint either and either did the Spanish

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last week to be fair No, they didn't and this

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is what I'm saying was amazing. So yeah, no and

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the Italians definitely kept up with it but You've

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got to give the Italian they had it a little

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bit easy to keep up with Because the first person

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they got to see was the Viper Randy Orton Yeah,

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isn't there enough to hype you up anyway I mean

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if I was sat there and the first dude that I

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got to see at WWE live event was a 14 -time world

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champion Then I'd be pretty freakin hyped as

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well. Oh 100 % I am just gonna throw out there

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that Randy Orton isn't just a 14 -time world

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champion because they do give us a breakdown

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of Randy Orton's career as he comes to the ring.

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So he's a 10 -time WWE champion, a four -time

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world heavyweight champion, a one -time US champion,

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a one -time Intercontinental champion, a four

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-time tag champion. He also won the 2013 Money

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in the Bank and he's a two -time Royal Rumble

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winner as well and that was 2009 and 2017 so

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that's a hell of a list of accolades that man

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has got right there. I mean the guy has always

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been we all yeah he was always going to be a

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he's a third generation superstar he was always

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going to be a future hall of famer purely for

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the fact that he was born with this business

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swimming around in his nutsack do you know what

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I mean like It was already there. Pretty sure

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Randy Orton popped an RKO on his dad as he came

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out of his mum, to be fair. There is that possibility.

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I wouldn't put it past the guy. And we've said

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it before, but this guy, since he's come back,

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he looks fucking incredible. Like he is jacked.

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I don't think we've seen a Randy Orton like this

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in a long time. I would go as far as to say I

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don't think we've ever seen a Randy Orton quite

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like this I mean considering how old he is now

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it is a case that he is in probably the best

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shape of his career to date and there's no steroids

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involved no none at all that guy is cleaner than

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a whistle I mean just coming back to crowd noise

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I mean during Randy Orton's entrance I'm almost

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positive they probably had to jack the volume

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just a little bit, just to keep the music sort

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of audible. I think at one point they turned

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it off because all you could hear was the goddamn

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crowd singing voices. It was incredible. Honestly,

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it really was. Not that it lasted long though.

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Because before Randy got to say anything, we

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got another lot of bloody music hit. Yes, we

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did. We got Kevin Owens coming out and yeah,

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that was met with a very different crowd reaction.

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Oh, he got booed harder than Hulk Hogan trying

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to promote the All -American Ale. Well, and Dom

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Mysterio. He got booed worse than Dom as well.

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Yeah, yeah, that's true too. However... The crowd

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reaction we the crowd reaction aside This is

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a Kevin Owens that I would go as far as to say

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that I don't think we've ever seen before because

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Kevin Owens comes out and does the one thing

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that Kevin Owens never does he apologizes and

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admits fault This is probably something that

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Sammy's aim would like to have received rather

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than Randy Orton But yeah, Kevin's basically

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just kind of there to tell him he was wrong with

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the for hitting him with the package pile driver

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But Cody and Sammy deserved what they got just

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Randy didn't this makes me think that Kevin Owens

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might be a little bit scared of What Randy Orton

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could do to him? I mean he is the legend killer

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Let's think about it. Randy Orton has already

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promised that Kevin Owens is getting the... he

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is invited to the punt party. Oh yes. He's getting

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punted one way or the other and we've got to

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remember that Randy Orton at one stage was banned

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from using the punt kick because it was ending

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people's careers. Yes and... I'm not gonna lie

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when you get a move that is on the band list

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that they let appear every so often. Oh, don't

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get me wrong. I absolutely love it. My favorite

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one is Jordan Grace with the muscle buster. When

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she pops that muscle buster out and you know

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that she shouldn't be using it and she's probably

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been told do not use it but she just they're

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like, I don't give a fuck. So to see Randy Orton

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trying to line up that punk kick or you just

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kind of sat on the edge of your seat, especially

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with Kevin Owens like go on. kick him in the

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fucking edge of brick but considering we normally

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see Kevin Owens hyper aggressive hyper yeah just

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generally um coming out like the like the biggest

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dick in the locker room basically i mean we've

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got bitch Owens bitch this week oh 100 that guy

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came out with he pushed that out as well Well,

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he came out with his tail between his friggin

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legs. Which is nice to see, to be fair. I like

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seeing Kevin Owens with his tail between his

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legs. Because it makes him unpredictable. And

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that Kevin Owens when he's unpredictable is dangerous.

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Well, as it stands, we know that, I mean, everybody

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knows you don't piss off the Viper. The Viper

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is one person you don't piss off. And... Kevin

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Owens is well and truly within Randy Orton's

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sights, and Randy Orton tells him as much. I

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mean, Randy Orton's planning on kicking Kevin

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Owens' head clean off his shoulders as we have

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a match announced for WrestleMania, which will

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see Randy Orton versus Kevin Owens to settle

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the score. I'm hoping that this isn't just a

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standard singles much and I say this because

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I'm I'm really hoping that turns into an element

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where there is a stipulation where it's either

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no package pile driver no punt kick or where

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it goes no DQ These guys go hell for the leather.

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I don't necessarily want it to be in a steel

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cage or Like a specific a specified match type

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if you get me I just like there to be either

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a No, dick you element or you can't use a package

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pile driver with a punk kick So I've got a feeling

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that I sort of know how this that I don't think

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it's gonna be a standard singles match But I

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don't think it's going to be no DQ either. I've

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got a feeling it's going to be... No, it's not

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going to be a strap match either. I've got a

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feeling what we're going to see is a special

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guest referee match. And I've got a feeling that

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the ultimate underdog is going to end up being

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the special guest referee. It's gonna be Sami

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Zayn. It'll be Kevin Owens versus Randy Orton

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with Sami Zayn as the special guest referee.

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That would be an interesting match. Definitely.

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Just think about it. It would still be somewhat

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unbiased. We know that Sami Zayn has got a bit

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of a habit of forgiving and forgetting. He's

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also got a lot of reason to favour Randy Orton

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as well. So there's... There's a storyline twist

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there that could go several different ways in

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that WrestleMania match. Definitely. I'm going

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on record and saying that's the match stipulation

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I think they'll end up putting in place. I think

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Sami Zayn will end up coming back a week, maybe

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two weeks before WrestleMania officially kicks

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off. and he'll be added as a special guest referee

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so I've been known to make predictions before

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and I've got a reasonable degree of success that's

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my prediction for this match okay okay well fair

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enough fair enough we will leave that match there

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with Adam's prediction and we will move on to

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the next segment which was a recap of last week

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when Drew McIntyre attacked Damian Priest during

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his match with the Shinsuke Nakamura. Yes, the

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dead man walking. Yeah, and this sort of feeds

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into the... very first match of the night which

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sees actually a men's tag team match which sees

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Drew Mack in cryo team up with Shinsuke Nakamura

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and Damian Priest teaming with Big Jim, Jimmy

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Uso. On paper this was has the the elements to

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have been a really really good match and through

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a majority of the match it did follow where the

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paper would take it. I just think that they could

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have done maybe a little bit more with it within

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the time they had. For me this match got a little

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bit draggy towards the end. I sort of thought

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the match fell completely flat I will be honest.

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So match action starts before everybody's even

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made it into the ring so I'm going to point out

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Jim Uso didn't get an entrance. Nope. That we

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saw. No, I was very confused with this because

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we saw three entrances and then when we got down

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to I think the last man coming in, which was

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either Drew or David Priest. Yeah, it was Mocking

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Cry and Priest ran straight for him and it was

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only when the camera angle came round that I

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saw Jim in the ring and I'm like, what the fuck's

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Big Jim doing there? Because, you know, it's

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day one. I think if anybody was going to have

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no entrance in that match, possibly Shinsuke

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Nakamura. I don't think we really needed to see

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him come to the ring. No. There was no enhancement

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there. It's a case that it just wasn't worth.

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And we're not just stuck in on Shinsuke Nakamura

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because we don't like him. He has one of the

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longest most boring entrances in WWE and they'd

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show that over Big Jim Jimmy Uso's got a pretty

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good like entry. He's pretty upbeat and hype

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with it You know, he brings that that little

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bit extra. So Yeah, I'd much rather have had

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big Jim's over shinsuke's but WWE decided otherwise

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and we all got fucked Yeah, and I'm going to

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be honest, I didn't get an awful lot of notes

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on this match. I think I got three notes all

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together. Hit me with what you've got and I'll

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try and fill in the gaps. So I got the match

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action starts on the ramp as Priest runs to meet

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Drew on his entrance. I've then got the finish

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for the match, which was Damien Priest gets the

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pinfall after a South of Heaven to Nakamura.

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And then Mack and Cryer delivers a truly brutal,

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I mean, that beating that Priest got at the end

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was fucking brutal. I mean, that Claymore was

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brutal enough as it was. And if you get to see

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it, he sold it so, so well. So I'll fill in a

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little bit of the gaps here just to help everyone

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else out. So it started off in the ring when

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they all finally got in there and the bell was

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rung between Drew McIntyre and Jimmy Uso, but

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then Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest ended up

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following on from there there was a little bit

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of an exchange between the two with a tag coming

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to put Jay back into the ring and he ended up

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on the wrong side of a belly -to -belly suplex

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from McIntyre and Yeah, it was a Bit of an interest

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in moms afterwards McIntyre goes back to trash

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-talking Damian Priest This probably could have

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been better served as a singles match at some

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point because it was literally a lot of McIntyre

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and a lot of Priest We did get to see a few little

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bits at one point Jey Uso was running the ropes

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and Nakamura grabbed his legs out from underneath

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him Jimmy Yeah, I said Jade and I yeah, so Jimmy

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was running the rope sorry when Nakamura grabbed

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his legs out from underneath him to drop him

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on the floor and then basically after a secret

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tag that we you had to keep an eye on to really

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see the tag but Jimmy ends up on the announce

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table after a rather large kick from Shinsuke

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Nakamura Which didn't hold him back too much

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because once he got back into the ring he managed

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to hit a Beautiful Samoan drop on McIntyre Which

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gave himself a bit of time to recover because

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McIntyre really was not expecting that Samoan

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drop I don't think a few a few little bits from

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Damien Priest here We got to see an old school

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onto Nakamura with a crossbody modifier onto

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it Nakamura basically counted it with a rather

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large kick And then went to set up the Kinshasa,

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which was recounted by Damian Priest with a clothesline

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For a count which we didn't get too far into

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before the Scottish crybaby himself jumped on

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to break up the crown Break up the count. Sorry

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We've got a bit of a super kick special from

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Jimmy at one point Yeah drops drew goes through

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the ropes to knock drew onto the announce table

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Nakamura knocks him off the apron and That in

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the process allows at Damien Priest to hit that

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south of heaven on Nakamura for the three count

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Like we said here so Damian after the the match

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McIntyre attacks Damian Priest Telling you just

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reminding him that you know I said that it was

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gonna be on site and every time I've seen you

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on site I've whooped you and Kind of yeah, we

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go back to we had a bit of an ass kick in bit

00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:40.700
of a beat down and then that absolute Claymore

00:17:40.700 --> 00:17:45.380
that I say I I watch a lot of UFC right some

00:17:45.380 --> 00:17:48.049
of them Brutal knockouts you've seen in there.

00:17:48.049 --> 00:17:50.730
I will remind you of one from the ultimate fighter

00:17:50.730 --> 00:17:54.609
many years ago by a guy called Uriah Hall The

00:17:54.609 --> 00:17:57.789
guy that he dropped like a deuce Reminded me

00:17:57.789 --> 00:18:00.250
very much of Damien Priest in this point because

00:18:00.250 --> 00:18:03.789
he was full stiff eyes rolled back completely

00:18:03.789 --> 00:18:10.210
like he was He played the out out very very well

00:18:10.210 --> 00:18:15.680
But um, yeah, no it was I It sounds better than

00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:18.519
it was, you know, like, try and give you a bit

00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:19.920
of hype to it, because if you can get through

00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.559
this first match, you will really enjoy SmackDown

00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:26.039
this week. This was definitely a slow start to

00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:28.480
SmackDown, and it does progressively, I feel,

00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:33.039
get a little bit better. Yeah, it's, as I said

00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:35.680
before, it really sort of fell flat for me, so,

00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:38.759
hence that, like, a lot of the action that you've

00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:41.400
mentioned, I remember happening, and I remember

00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.119
enjoying those individual spots, but... The match

00:18:45.119 --> 00:18:47.480
itself, considering the players that were in

00:18:47.480 --> 00:18:51.180
it, was just really underwhelming for me. Yes,

00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:56.359
and I completely agree with that. But the one

00:18:56.359 --> 00:18:59.619
thing that wasn't overwhelming for me during

00:18:59.619 --> 00:19:03.079
this match, we had a fair amount of decent good

00:19:03.079 --> 00:19:06.079
quality promos. We've had the Randy Orton, Kevin

00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:09.240
Owens one. We move into a backstage segment with

00:19:09.240 --> 00:19:12.970
Braun Strowman. Working out and when we get to

00:19:12.970 --> 00:19:17.109
see LA Knight come in saying he needs to Slap

00:19:17.109 --> 00:19:20.670
him back into factory settings. Oh They're busy

00:19:20.670 --> 00:19:24.029
talking about Jacob Fatu because Braun Strowman

00:19:24.029 --> 00:19:29.509
has got a match a little bit later on with Jacob

00:19:29.509 --> 00:19:34.539
Fatu So we're just getting a little pre cap into

00:19:34.539 --> 00:19:36.819
that and both of these guys are basically saying

00:19:36.819 --> 00:19:39.759
that Jacob flat Jacob Fatou needs to get slapped

00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.759
back to factory settings and The LA night will

00:19:43.759 --> 00:19:48.420
be keeping his eye out when on for Braun These

00:19:48.420 --> 00:19:51.420
are and Braun says that he's spoken to Nick Aldis

00:19:51.420 --> 00:19:54.660
and actually the winner of this match gets a

00:19:54.660 --> 00:20:00.539
title shot against LA night and Next week in

00:20:00.539 --> 00:20:07.059
London So we got a little bit of an intro into

00:20:07.059 --> 00:20:09.980
where LA Knight is going to be going with his

00:20:09.980 --> 00:20:14.539
first defense of his United States Championship.

00:20:14.619 --> 00:20:17.940
He's either going to be seeing Jacob Fatu or

00:20:17.940 --> 00:20:24.579
the big son of a bitch Braun Strowman Yeah, and

00:20:24.579 --> 00:20:29.059
I mean Either one of those on their own is an

00:20:29.059 --> 00:20:32.059
intimidating challenge to be sure. Yeah, you

00:20:32.059 --> 00:20:35.519
then like the thought of having to go against

00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:39.759
either one of them Mr. No sell himself or As

00:20:39.759 --> 00:20:46.700
you've said the biggest SOB in WWE It's a case

00:20:46.700 --> 00:20:49.759
that Yeah, I'm not sure which one I'd prefer

00:20:49.759 --> 00:20:52.819
if I'm completely honest with you from a fan's

00:20:52.819 --> 00:20:57.420
perspective I'd rather watch him face Braun Strowman

00:20:57.420 --> 00:21:00.839
purely for the fact that like you said Mr. I'm

00:21:00.839 --> 00:21:04.740
not selling nothing Really is not gonna do much

00:21:04.740 --> 00:21:10.960
for LA night in that much and We've seen a lot

00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:15.599
of Jacob Fatu versus LA night over the last couple

00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:21.950
of weeks It would be nice to have like a change

00:21:21.950 --> 00:21:25.130
of pace essentially. Yeah I completely agree

00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:28.210
with you with that and a change of pace is actually

00:21:28.210 --> 00:21:33.009
what we get next. This next little bit we get

00:21:33.009 --> 00:21:38.150
a recap of last week's... I don't even know how

00:21:38.150 --> 00:21:42.160
to describe this. Last week's battle of the bitches

00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:48.839
between Tiffy Stratton and Charlotte Fleur with

00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:56.180
their chaotic brawl that basically also not only

00:21:56.180 --> 00:21:58.619
kind of took away a lot of time from what was

00:21:58.619 --> 00:22:01.259
going on from the rest of the show because it

00:22:01.259 --> 00:22:04.559
interrupted Miz TV I mean that's not a bad thing

00:22:04.559 --> 00:22:08.140
do not get me wrong But yeah, it was carnage

00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:12.180
and that that moonsault off the tytron from From

00:22:12.180 --> 00:22:14.799
Tiffy Stratton onto Charlotte and the security

00:22:14.799 --> 00:22:19.440
last week was was nuts it basically leads into

00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:23.299
this week that we're gonna get a a split -screen

00:22:23.299 --> 00:22:28.640
interview slash promo between the two of them

00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:31.640
Obviously after last week neither of these two

00:22:31.640 --> 00:22:33.779
can be in the same room as each other or even

00:22:33.779 --> 00:22:39.289
the same arena by the looks of it but so nice

00:22:39.289 --> 00:22:43.329
bit of homework in for both Charlotte Flair and

00:22:43.329 --> 00:22:45.490
Tiffany Stratton this week still managing to

00:22:45.490 --> 00:22:47.470
make an appearance on the European tour while

00:22:47.470 --> 00:22:53.130
sat at home with their feet up I'm sure but me

00:22:53.130 --> 00:22:55.690
and Rich talked about this this promo segment

00:22:55.690 --> 00:22:58.930
specifically off podcast and we sort of came

00:22:58.930 --> 00:23:04.259
to the same conclusion I think is that Charlotte

00:23:04.259 --> 00:23:11.119
Flair dominated this promo realistically. Not

00:23:11.119 --> 00:23:15.319
only did she sort of cut off Tiffy with a question

00:23:15.319 --> 00:23:19.079
that was directly aimed at Tiffy herself, claiming

00:23:19.079 --> 00:23:22.359
that the Queen will speak first, it's a case

00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.539
that she then went on just to completely bury

00:23:26.539 --> 00:23:33.890
Tiffany Stratton as it goes. She does not help

00:23:33.890 --> 00:23:36.769
herself. There are a lot of wrestling fans that

00:23:36.769 --> 00:23:40.569
really aren't interested in her anymore and she

00:23:40.569 --> 00:23:44.990
comes in and she's a the most disrespectful Person

00:23:44.990 --> 00:23:47.109
she could be to the current women's champion,

00:23:47.170 --> 00:23:49.430
which do not get me wrong. I get it. She's a

00:23:49.430 --> 00:23:52.710
heel character It's all she can bloody play but

00:23:52.710 --> 00:23:55.680
you know like So good job they weren't in the

00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:57.660
same room because I think Tiffy would have smacked

00:23:57.660 --> 00:24:01.200
a square in the mouth and we'd have had Barcelona

00:24:01.200 --> 00:24:06.140
bash 2 .0. It would have been bashing Bologna.

00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:09.039
Because I think if those two had been in the

00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:13.319
same room they'd have been fighting. I mean if

00:24:13.319 --> 00:24:15.359
that's how you want to spend your time bashing

00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.420
Bologna then you feel free. I'm not bashing no

00:24:18.420 --> 00:24:21.779
Bologna. We're happily married now and we don't

00:24:21.779 --> 00:24:27.160
do things like that. This this interview was

00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:31.900
very much dominated by Charlotte and Like I said

00:24:31.900 --> 00:24:36.019
a lot of it was very Yeah You know there's points

00:24:36.019 --> 00:24:37.740
in the interview with Charlotte saying that you

00:24:37.740 --> 00:24:40.000
know Tiffy doesn't deserve the championship and

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:43.079
you know it was She won it by a cash in she didn't

00:24:43.079 --> 00:24:46.339
beat anyone for it as such. It wasn't a fresh

00:24:46.339 --> 00:24:48.960
match You know Charlotte sees this as it was

00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:51.319
a dirty way of getting your hands on the title

00:24:51.319 --> 00:24:57.680
which Mean Yeah, it could be but there's a reason

00:24:57.680 --> 00:24:59.920
the money in the bank is there and that's to

00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:07.000
give someone a dirty cash in like you say It's

00:25:07.000 --> 00:25:09.759
not to say that if Charlotte flair had ever actually

00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:12.579
won a money in the bank match That she wouldn't

00:25:12.579 --> 00:25:15.400
be a winner one of her title reigns exactly the

00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:18.240
same way just so happens that she's never won

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.839
one Yeah, she's normally the champion that's

00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:25.609
gotta go against the winner Yes, and she doesn't

00:25:25.609 --> 00:25:27.829
have a terrible she doesn't have a terribly good

00:25:27.829 --> 00:25:30.609
track record of retaining against a money in

00:25:30.609 --> 00:25:33.470
the bank championship Money in the bank challenge

00:25:33.470 --> 00:25:37.869
to be quite honest But hence such is the way

00:25:37.869 --> 00:25:40.369
of money in the bank really I mean, there's only

00:25:40.369 --> 00:25:43.269
a few people that have ever failed and the first

00:25:43.269 --> 00:25:47.049
one of those was Mr. John Cena because he announced

00:25:47.049 --> 00:25:51.539
two weeks prior what he was going to do part

00:25:51.539 --> 00:25:54.380
of the beauty of money in the bank is the ability

00:25:54.380 --> 00:25:57.759
to the ability to surprise your opponent and

00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:00.220
nine times out of ten we see it after an absolutely

00:26:00.220 --> 00:26:03.019
hellacious match the champs out in the middle

00:26:03.019 --> 00:26:05.880
of the ring anyway and it's basically a way of

00:26:05.880 --> 00:26:08.220
being able to take full advantage of the situation

00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:12.279
which let's face it i'd fucking do it yes so

00:26:12.279 --> 00:26:14.839
charlotte money in the bank charlotte's lost

00:26:14.839 --> 00:26:16.779
give me a money in the bank give me a money in

00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:18.559
the bank briefcase and i'll run in the middle

00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:21.160
of fucking wrestlemania I don't care who the

00:26:21.160 --> 00:26:23.480
fuck it is. I'll cash in a money in the bank

00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:26.019
and get a championship reign. I'll fucking advocate

00:26:26.019 --> 00:26:27.900
it the next week just to make sure I don't get

00:26:27.900 --> 00:26:31.039
my ass kicked. But yeah. So Charlotte's lost

00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:33.079
to a money in the bank winner on three separate

00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:36.599
occasions in her career. She lost to Carmela

00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:43.220
in 2018. She lost to Bailey in 2019. And she

00:26:43.220 --> 00:26:47.319
lost to Nikki Ash, who we know more as Nikki

00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:55.470
Cross. July at 2021. Yes, she did. But yeah,

00:26:56.049 --> 00:27:01.289
this split screen promo was Tiffany got a few

00:27:01.289 --> 00:27:04.730
steady decent retorts in towards the end, but.

00:27:05.849 --> 00:27:08.730
Yeah, I mean she a very strong showing from the

00:27:08.730 --> 00:27:12.130
women's world champion against a potential challenger

00:27:12.130 --> 00:27:14.630
realistic I think the only note I made that Tiffy

00:27:14.630 --> 00:27:16.569
managed to open her mouth was was to say that

00:27:16.569 --> 00:27:18.630
the fans don't really want her and Charlotte

00:27:18.630 --> 00:27:20.950
says when Tiffy's here, she won't have a job

00:27:20.950 --> 00:27:26.849
anyway, so I mean She can't look any worse Charlotte

00:27:26.849 --> 00:27:29.670
Charlotte Flair buried Tiffany Stratton in this

00:27:29.670 --> 00:27:32.049
promo and I don't know if that was by design

00:27:32.049 --> 00:27:35.119
or what? But I'm hoping not if they if they're

00:27:35.119 --> 00:27:39.000
gonna start as they mean to carry on The only

00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.039
thing I can see from this is Charlotte walking

00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:43.660
out of WrestleMania with that damn title, which

00:27:43.660 --> 00:27:48.900
is something no WWE fan wants Especially not

00:27:48.900 --> 00:27:51.299
when Tiffy's so over at the moment. Yeah, she's

00:27:51.299 --> 00:27:53.119
not the greatest women's champion in the world

00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:54.880
She's not the greatest wrestler in the world,

00:27:54.880 --> 00:27:58.279
but she's over and it it it means something,

00:27:58.279 --> 00:28:00.779
you know, the crowd want her the crowd enjoy

00:28:00.779 --> 00:28:04.480
watching her and they react well with it yeah

00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:08.359
but um i suppose they definitely managed to build

00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:10.900
some heat within this promo for the match at

00:28:10.900 --> 00:28:13.940
wrestlemania it's just that i'm not sure they

00:28:13.940 --> 00:28:16.819
went about it entirely the right way but we'll

00:28:16.819 --> 00:28:21.359
move on We will move on as match two is a men's

00:28:21.359 --> 00:28:23.799
singles match. In fact, a men's singles match

00:28:23.799 --> 00:28:27.140
we've already started talking about because it

00:28:27.140 --> 00:28:32.000
sees the biggest SOB in WWE Braun Strowman versus

00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:36.619
the Samoan werewolf, Jacob Fatu. And as we found

00:28:36.619 --> 00:28:39.319
out earlier on, the winner of this match goes

00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:42.660
on to face LA Knight for the US title next week

00:28:42.660 --> 00:28:47.579
in London. Which we didn't manage to get tickets

00:28:47.579 --> 00:28:50.740
for because unfortunately I only have two kidneys

00:28:50.740 --> 00:28:54.700
and I need both of them and I couldn't get enough

00:28:54.700 --> 00:28:58.140
for just one to buy two tickets because For both

00:28:58.140 --> 00:29:01.059
of us to sit in the nosebleeds and watch the

00:29:01.059 --> 00:29:03.579
paper what the event through our mobile phone

00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:07.619
camera at full zoom Was a little bit more than

00:29:07.619 --> 00:29:10.980
I could afford this time. So maybe in October

00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.460
you'll get a finishes and factions goes live

00:29:14.460 --> 00:29:22.059
from WWE. Maybe we'll see. But yeah, actually

00:29:22.059 --> 00:29:25.740
I actually enjoyed this match to be fair. It

00:29:25.740 --> 00:29:30.619
was a very entertaining match to watch. Because

00:29:30.619 --> 00:29:33.519
these are two wrestlers generally that quite

00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.579
easily go on week after week just having squash

00:29:36.579 --> 00:29:40.930
matches and it's believable. Purely for the fact

00:29:40.930 --> 00:29:46.950
they are both massive men. I mean Massive they're

00:29:46.950 --> 00:29:49.029
both big blokes anyway, but they've both got

00:29:49.029 --> 00:29:53.089
big ring presences and big Big personalities.

00:29:53.210 --> 00:29:56.690
I mean we see that at the start where Braun Strowman

00:29:56.690 --> 00:30:01.470
crotch crosses Jacob Fatu Like you had been wearing

00:30:01.470 --> 00:30:06.390
a DX t -shirt Which I thought was quite funny

00:30:08.370 --> 00:30:11.170
Oh, 100%. You're telling the guy who put you

00:30:11.170 --> 00:30:14.490
in hospital with a hip, from running hip attacks

00:30:14.490 --> 00:30:20.849
to suck it. You know it's about to go down. Yeah,

00:30:21.789 --> 00:30:24.450
despite having said, despite what I've said about

00:30:24.450 --> 00:30:26.269
obviously enjoying the match, I didn't get a

00:30:26.269 --> 00:30:30.029
massive amount of notes in terms of sort of spots

00:30:30.029 --> 00:30:32.990
during the match. I know that there were two

00:30:32.990 --> 00:30:35.450
attempts at the Stroman Express as it's been

00:30:35.450 --> 00:30:39.140
dubbed. One of them was evaded which sent Braun

00:30:39.140 --> 00:30:42.180
Strowman flying over the announced position.

00:30:43.299 --> 00:30:45.200
And then a little bit later on in the match he

00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:48.259
tries it again and just blasts straight through

00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:52.200
Jacob Fatu. Oh mate, he ran through Fatu like

00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.160
Fatu was a fart in the wind. That guy, he just

00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.579
absolutely annihilated him. It was brilliant

00:30:59.579 --> 00:31:04.190
to watch. I absolutely loved it. 100 % I mean

00:31:04.190 --> 00:31:06.630
they could have quite easily gotten away with

00:31:06.630 --> 00:31:09.109
having Strowman continue running and he wouldn't

00:31:09.109 --> 00:31:13.269
have lost any pace at all No, pretty much and

00:31:13.269 --> 00:31:17.650
then there wasn't wasn't a lot of time between

00:31:17.650 --> 00:31:21.990
that happening and us getting a little glimpse

00:31:21.990 --> 00:31:27.549
of one of Jacob Fatu's friends stood on the turnbuckle

00:31:27.549 --> 00:31:30.769
Didn't hear any crowd noise to let us know this

00:31:30.769 --> 00:31:34.730
was going on But yeah, Strowman turns around

00:31:34.730 --> 00:31:38.910
to find Tamatonga just staring him in the face.

00:31:40.130 --> 00:31:46.269
On the apron. Which, I mean, fair play. If you've

00:31:46.269 --> 00:31:48.509
got Tamatonga staring you dead in the eyes going,

00:31:49.029 --> 00:31:51.009
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd

00:31:51.009 --> 00:31:53.869
be fucking like, what the fuck? And Strowman

00:31:53.869 --> 00:31:56.809
pretty much just grabbed him and yanked him straight

00:31:56.809 --> 00:32:00.529
over that top ramp. As though Tamatonga was just.

00:32:01.349 --> 00:32:05.710
a teddy bear of some kind. Yeah, I mean, as it

00:32:05.710 --> 00:32:07.750
stands, you mentioned that there was no crowd

00:32:07.750 --> 00:32:10.390
noise for when Tamatonga made his appearance.

00:32:10.730 --> 00:32:13.809
And that's not entirely surprising, as Tamatonga

00:32:13.809 --> 00:32:16.430
had... We haven't really seen enough of him to

00:32:16.430 --> 00:32:23.890
be anywhere close to over. He is just a... He's

00:32:23.890 --> 00:32:27.190
a warm body at this point. There's no... There's

00:32:27.190 --> 00:32:31.869
nothing building for him. since he lost his tag

00:32:31.869 --> 00:32:36.490
team partner in Tonga Loa they don't really seem

00:32:36.490 --> 00:32:39.369
to know what to do with him beyond the bloodline

00:32:39.369 --> 00:32:44.210
and Tonga Loa is not due back for a little while

00:32:44.210 --> 00:32:47.430
from his injury I don't think so it would be

00:32:47.430 --> 00:32:52.509
interesting to see how little they use him because

00:32:52.509 --> 00:32:55.589
he is literally just there at the moment to be

00:32:55.589 --> 00:32:59.650
Fatu and Solo's bitch Yeah, he's essentially

00:32:59.650 --> 00:33:03.450
a valet at this point, but Yeah, we don't just

00:33:03.450 --> 00:33:06.089
see Tamatonga at this point We also see Solo

00:33:06.089 --> 00:33:10.609
Sokoa as both of them end up costing Jacob Fatu

00:33:10.609 --> 00:33:15.670
the match As the match ends in a DQ because both

00:33:15.670 --> 00:33:19.750
of these pair come out and start attacking Braun

00:33:19.750 --> 00:33:24.740
Strowman, which I'll be honest Can sort of see

00:33:24.740 --> 00:33:27.720
why they might have done it but not really sort

00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.380
of understanding what they hope to gain out of

00:33:30.380 --> 00:33:34.279
it either Yeah, so the way they've set this up

00:33:34.279 --> 00:33:36.279
is a little bit strange. So they've done it.

00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:40.339
So obviously Braun Strowman has won this match

00:33:40.339 --> 00:33:45.299
by DQ which means he'll be going on to face LA

00:33:45.299 --> 00:33:50.799
night in London next week for the US title at

00:33:50.799 --> 00:33:55.180
some point Jacob Fatu is gonna want retribution

00:33:55.180 --> 00:33:58.539
for what's just happened, whether he goes, I

00:33:58.539 --> 00:34:04.319
mean, are we starting to see the end of the bloodline

00:34:04.319 --> 00:34:07.779
2 .0, so to speak? Are we gonna see Solo and

00:34:07.779 --> 00:34:12.400
Fatu split up to a point where, or end up to

00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:14.159
a point where are we gonna see them both facing

00:34:14.159 --> 00:34:18.690
each other at WrestleMania? I think that's possibly

00:34:18.690 --> 00:34:21.010
what we are going to end up with at this stage

00:34:21.010 --> 00:34:27.690
just because, yeah, it's... There's nothing left

00:34:27.690 --> 00:34:32.010
for the Bloodline to do. Like, Bloodline 2 .0,

00:34:32.050 --> 00:34:34.889
they don't really have a lot left to do. Unless

00:34:34.889 --> 00:34:36.710
they're going to start trying to put them in

00:34:36.710 --> 00:34:41.500
something with the Wyatt 6. But... if they were

00:34:41.500 --> 00:34:44.199
going to do that they'd have done it by now and

00:34:44.199 --> 00:34:46.780
we wouldn't have lost superstars like Alexa Bliss

00:34:46.780 --> 00:34:49.800
out of the programming at the moment and sort

00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.039
of because yeah we saw at the rumble we've seen

00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:55.320
her elimination chamber we haven't actually seen

00:34:55.320 --> 00:34:59.239
her since or in between so I think there seems

00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:01.340
to be an issue with Alexa at the moment as to

00:35:01.340 --> 00:35:02.780
what they're going to do with her which is why

00:35:02.780 --> 00:35:05.119
we're not seeing her but if they were going to

00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:07.719
bring back the Wyatt 6 to have something with

00:35:07.719 --> 00:35:13.780
the the bloodline 2 .0 you'd have seen seen Alexa

00:35:13.780 --> 00:35:19.159
Bliss by now yeah very much so and yeah we're

00:35:19.159 --> 00:35:25.260
just not yeah I'm just not sure of sort of how

00:35:25.260 --> 00:35:27.980
they're gonna build that because they could have

00:35:27.980 --> 00:35:30.800
Jacob Fatu take the they could take the easy

00:35:30.800 --> 00:35:35.400
route and just have Jacob Fatu and and the Samoans

00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:38.920
attack Braun Strowman during his match next week,

00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:42.099
which yeah, I suppose I could possibly see coming,

00:35:42.119 --> 00:35:46.920
but it just feels a bit predictable. Or it could

00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:50.219
end up being how they sort of split all of those

00:35:50.219 --> 00:35:55.179
up once and for all and have maybe Fatu and Tama

00:35:55.179 --> 00:35:58.440
Tonga go off in their direction. Solo Sokoa ends

00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:01.559
up being sort of outcast, maybe trying to make

00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:04.659
his way back in with Roman Reigns potentially.

00:36:04.659 --> 00:36:10.170
I don't know. but yeah um we'll move on from

00:36:10.170 --> 00:36:13.809
that match anyway uh into another backstage promo

00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:17.170
is what i've got down here which sees Kathy Kelly

00:36:17.170 --> 00:36:21.230
interviewing Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez

00:36:21.230 --> 00:36:26.130
um basically talking about the beef they've got

00:36:26.130 --> 00:36:29.030
going with uh with Jade Cargill at the minute

00:36:29.030 --> 00:36:32.250
well yeah and that's that's mainly because we

00:36:32.250 --> 00:36:36.019
found out no but Naomi was the one that gave

00:36:36.019 --> 00:36:40.239
Jade Cargill the ass kick in from hell but Liv

00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:42.840
and Raquel are still pissed off because Jade's

00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.539
had all this time out injured knowing who did

00:36:45.539 --> 00:36:48.780
it to her you know she's been on Instagram she's

00:36:48.780 --> 00:36:50.860
been on social media she's been doing all this

00:36:50.860 --> 00:36:52.780
sort of thing but hasn't had the time to text

00:36:52.780 --> 00:36:54.860
Liv or Raquel going look I know it wasn't you

00:36:54.860 --> 00:36:57.659
I'm sorry and that's pretty much that's why they're

00:36:57.659 --> 00:37:00.360
pissed and I mean I think I would be too you

00:37:00.360 --> 00:37:02.659
know if I'd been accused of something that I'd

00:37:02.429 --> 00:37:06.130
Hadn't done and I'll end up having a few scraps

00:37:06.130 --> 00:37:10.469
in the process of it Yeah, it's it's not and

00:37:10.469 --> 00:37:14.530
it's not outside of the ordinary to think that

00:37:14.530 --> 00:37:21.349
That Jade's been sat at home watching WWE TV

00:37:21.349 --> 00:37:23.250
for the last few months while she's been off

00:37:23.250 --> 00:37:28.469
injured and and watching the fact that Liv and

00:37:28.469 --> 00:37:30.789
Raquel have been getting the getting the blame

00:37:30.789 --> 00:37:33.610
for it so I can 100 % understand why they're

00:37:33.610 --> 00:37:43.309
pissed But Yeah, I can sort of very much see

00:37:43.309 --> 00:37:47.389
Liv and Raquel side to it, which I didn't actually

00:37:47.389 --> 00:37:49.030
think I'd ever be able to say with a straight

00:37:49.030 --> 00:38:00.019
face Yeah, no, I completely get you But yeah,

00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:09.840
so they Basically live during this mat during

00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:12.400
this little promo they're hyping up the match

00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:15.659
between Liv Morgan and Jade Cargill later on

00:38:15.659 --> 00:38:19.820
in the evening and Liv basically claiming that

00:38:19.820 --> 00:38:22.219
she's gonna finish the job that Naomi apparently

00:38:22.219 --> 00:38:26.039
wasn't capable of doing which is big talk from

00:38:26.039 --> 00:38:30.710
a little woman yes but as we know the smaller

00:38:30.710 --> 00:38:35.030
they are the feistier they become so uh it's

00:38:35.030 --> 00:38:37.349
definitely not someone you want to fuck around

00:38:37.349 --> 00:38:40.730
with anyway no this is it especially not when

00:38:40.730 --> 00:38:42.829
the smallest person on the roster has the tallest

00:38:42.829 --> 00:38:47.369
woman on the roster to help her out so we move

00:38:47.369 --> 00:38:50.150
from there and we get a small vt about the ending

00:38:50.150 --> 00:38:52.349
of the stroman far too much we will have just

00:38:52.349 --> 00:38:56.929
watched and then cut to backstage where Fatou

00:38:56.929 --> 00:39:02.190
is incensed. He pissed. He has every right to

00:39:02.190 --> 00:39:04.409
be pissed too. It just cost him another title

00:39:04.409 --> 00:39:09.050
shot. Yeah, this is a match that reasonably we

00:39:09.050 --> 00:39:12.250
could have seen Jacob Fatou go on to win his

00:39:12.250 --> 00:39:15.130
first singles title since being main roster sort

00:39:15.130 --> 00:39:18.329
of thing. This isn't, it wouldn't be an unusual

00:39:18.329 --> 00:39:23.530
thing to see at this stage. And yeah, we just

00:39:23.530 --> 00:39:26.590
start to see more of the cracks forming as basically

00:39:26.590 --> 00:39:29.889
Fatou tells Solo to keep his nose out. I mean,

00:39:29.949 --> 00:39:33.889
you can completely understand that. I mean, Solo

00:39:33.889 --> 00:39:36.469
got involved in Fatou's business, cost Fatou

00:39:36.469 --> 00:39:39.889
that title opportunity. And it's not the first

00:39:39.889 --> 00:39:42.570
time he's had Fatou's taken kicks off him and

00:39:42.570 --> 00:39:46.050
all sorts. Yeah, this is it. It's definitely

00:39:46.050 --> 00:39:48.829
splitting these guys down, but it needs to be

00:39:48.829 --> 00:39:53.760
done, I think. Yeah, I'm going to be glad of

00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:57.340
when the bloodline 2 .0 disappears. I will be

00:39:57.340 --> 00:40:01.159
completely honest with you. Yeah, this is it.

00:40:02.219 --> 00:40:05.480
But that was quite a short little promo, realistically.

00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:08.599
After that, we went into the third match, which

00:40:08.599 --> 00:40:10.519
was actually a match I've been really excited

00:40:10.519 --> 00:40:13.739
to see just because they've teased it for long

00:40:13.739 --> 00:40:16.460
enough. This was the women's singles match, which

00:40:16.460 --> 00:40:23.570
sees Piper Niven versus Zelina Vega. Previously

00:40:23.570 --> 00:40:28.090
I am a huge advocate for Zelina Vega because

00:40:28.090 --> 00:40:30.829
I think she is massively underutilized in the

00:40:30.829 --> 00:40:34.250
WWE. She could have beat so much more than what

00:40:34.250 --> 00:40:37.409
they've used her for up to this stage. Yeah,

00:40:37.409 --> 00:40:39.750
definitely. And this is the first time we've

00:40:39.750 --> 00:40:44.269
actually seen her in the ring since her brand

00:40:44.269 --> 00:40:49.190
transfer from Monday Night Raw. Actually the

00:40:49.190 --> 00:40:51.789
first time we've seen it in the ring while we've

00:40:51.789 --> 00:40:56.750
been doing finishers and factions as well Yeah,

00:40:56.789 --> 00:41:03.250
very much so and so But the choice of opponent

00:41:03.250 --> 00:41:11.269
I will say was Interesting to say the least only

00:41:11.269 --> 00:41:16.269
because An opponent I'd have put with Zelina

00:41:16.269 --> 00:41:19.280
Vega. I'm not gonna lie Mean the size difference

00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:21.679
in the two of them is incredible Zalina Vega

00:41:21.679 --> 00:41:25.960
is very small short and petite Piper Nevin is

00:41:25.960 --> 00:41:35.940
very Tall very well built and not as petite No,

00:41:36.059 --> 00:41:40.780
this is it and Like this this match actually

00:41:40.780 --> 00:41:43.659
makes up Zalina Vegas only a second match in

00:41:43.659 --> 00:41:48.670
2025 from what I'm able to find out so far. But

00:41:48.670 --> 00:41:56.610
yeah, just not... As I said, I think she's been

00:41:56.610 --> 00:42:01.550
massively sort of underutilised as it goes. And

00:42:01.550 --> 00:42:05.230
she could have done... She could have had so

00:42:05.230 --> 00:42:07.869
much more than what she's had. She could have

00:42:07.869 --> 00:42:09.690
done, she could have done. And she definitely

00:42:09.690 --> 00:42:14.010
gave us a reason in this match to expect that

00:42:14.010 --> 00:42:17.340
as well. I don't have a huge amount of notes

00:42:17.340 --> 00:42:22.519
for this match purely because I don't think there

00:42:22.519 --> 00:42:25.760
was a lot of high spots or a lot of big spots

00:42:25.760 --> 00:42:28.659
to tell you about. This was pretty much a Piper

00:42:28.659 --> 00:42:32.500
Nevin ragdoll Zelina Vega around for a while

00:42:32.500 --> 00:42:37.000
but Zelina Vega did put up a very good fight.

00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:41.480
At one point she managed to lock in, I had to

00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:45.179
ask Adam what this was called because it was

00:42:45.179 --> 00:42:48.619
slightly weird but it's a modified octopus hook

00:42:48.619 --> 00:42:51.920
that she managed to lock in on Piper Nevin and

00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:54.940
it only just managed to lock it in because of

00:42:54.940 --> 00:42:58.059
how wide Piper Nevin is and the length of her

00:42:58.059 --> 00:43:02.139
arms. Yeah it was a really interesting hole to

00:43:02.139 --> 00:43:04.840
view as it goes. Really cool cool move and there

00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.539
was another one where she went for a roll up

00:43:07.539 --> 00:43:12.579
gets a two count and You can tell I've been listening

00:43:12.579 --> 00:43:15.099
to a lot of Limp Bizkit recently because in my

00:43:15.099 --> 00:43:17.400
notes it goes that Selena Vega goes for a roll

00:43:17.400 --> 00:43:19.440
up and gets the two count and a face full of

00:43:19.440 --> 00:43:21.739
the chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored

00:43:21.739 --> 00:43:29.340
water Yeah, she gets a whole face full of a face

00:43:29.340 --> 00:43:32.380
full of Piper Nevins ass, which I'm sure is somebody's

00:43:32.380 --> 00:43:34.360
dream I just don't think it was Selena Vegas

00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:37.079
at the end of the day at that point and then

00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:40.679
the other big thing that I've got here from Zelina

00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:46.159
Vega which she managed to hit a satellite DDT

00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:52.199
on the on on Piper Nevin which is not something

00:43:52.199 --> 00:43:55.079
I was about to call it the Scottish Shrek for

00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:58.639
some reason but I think that's a little bit unfair

00:43:58.639 --> 00:44:03.820
um yeah too much of Drew Mack and Cry being referred

00:44:03.820 --> 00:44:06.039
to as the Scottish Crybaby just popping up there

00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:10.179
um but yeah no it was definitely a lot of things

00:44:10.179 --> 00:44:13.099
that i didn't expect to see that i enjoyed seeing

00:44:13.099 --> 00:44:20.019
i just i think they probably could have pushed

00:44:20.019 --> 00:44:25.320
this in a slightly different direction than what

00:44:25.320 --> 00:44:29.139
they did but they've been building Piper Nevin

00:44:29.139 --> 00:44:32.579
quite strongly recently with you know the matches

00:44:32.579 --> 00:44:35.119
she's had with Chelsea Green and being alongside

00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:40.500
Chelsea Green But it kind of was only going to

00:44:40.500 --> 00:44:43.739
end with in the way it went which was Piper Nevin

00:44:43.739 --> 00:44:50.519
winning after we had a little bit of of interference

00:44:50.519 --> 00:44:53.519
I say interference Chelsea Green was shouting

00:44:53.519 --> 00:44:58.519
some obscenities at Zelina Vega Zelina Vega clotheslined

00:44:58.519 --> 00:45:04.340
her off the apron and then she goes to hit a

00:45:04.340 --> 00:45:09.579
619 on Piper Nevin and then you get her kicking

00:45:09.579 --> 00:45:15.340
Albert fire in the face, so She does eventually

00:45:15.340 --> 00:45:18.960
end up getting caught by a running crossbody

00:45:18.960 --> 00:45:22.300
from Piper Nevin for Piper to get the three count

00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:25.400
But she didn't she didn't roll over. She gave

00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:27.079
a bit of a fight, but it was always going to

00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.260
go in the way of Piper Nevin, which is a member

00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:33.719
of the Secret Herbists for Chelsea Green. I mean,

00:45:33.820 --> 00:45:36.320
ultimately, Zelina Vega came into this match

00:45:36.320 --> 00:45:39.239
as possibly one of the most underdogged characters

00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:42.460
we've seen in a little while. She's only tiny

00:45:42.460 --> 00:45:46.519
as it is. She was up against an absolute woman

00:45:46.519 --> 00:45:50.679
mountain that is Piper Nevin. and even if they

00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:54.000
hadn't been massively mismatched as individuals

00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:59.400
we also had the Alba Fire and Chelsea Green in

00:45:59.400 --> 00:46:01.920
Piper Niven's corner who were not going to let

00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:07.719
Piper Niven take an L on this match. Realistically,

00:46:08.300 --> 00:46:13.000
Zelina Vega was never going to win but her loss

00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:17.619
did not hurt her in any way in terms of character

00:46:17.619 --> 00:46:23.599
development. I'm just hoping they don't kill

00:46:23.599 --> 00:46:26.119
this little bit of a run they've been giving

00:46:26.119 --> 00:46:31.300
Zelina Vega up to this point. They've transferred

00:46:31.300 --> 00:46:35.480
her from Raw over to Smackdown. made quite a

00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:38.039
big deal of it. She's made a few appearances

00:46:38.039 --> 00:46:41.500
on Smackdown. This was her first match on Smackdown

00:46:41.500 --> 00:46:44.599
since her transfer and yes it was a lot. Her

00:46:44.599 --> 00:46:46.940
only other match of the year was when she participated

00:46:46.940 --> 00:46:48.840
in the Royal Rumble where she was eliminated

00:46:48.840 --> 00:46:52.599
by Nia Jax so yeah she's still got a bit of ring

00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:54.559
rust in there as well but you wouldn't have seen

00:46:54.559 --> 00:46:59.489
it from this match. No, definitely not and Yeah,

00:46:59.489 --> 00:47:01.610
I'm just hoping that we see a lot more as Alina

00:47:01.610 --> 00:47:06.210
Vega moving forward because yeah massively underutilized

00:47:06.210 --> 00:47:10.449
Moving on from there. We had a VT promo which

00:47:10.449 --> 00:47:16.070
sees a Raw recap from the John Cena Cody Rhodes

00:47:16.070 --> 00:47:20.389
promo from Monday Night Raw just gone Which we

00:47:20.389 --> 00:47:25.949
covered in an earlier episode And then we went

00:47:25.949 --> 00:47:29.010
from there in... Oh, what was that? I said we've

00:47:29.010 --> 00:47:34.030
done that multiple times. Yes, we have. And then

00:47:34.030 --> 00:47:36.909
we went from there into another backstage promo

00:47:36.909 --> 00:47:40.250
where Cathy Kelly's interviewing Jade Cargill.

00:47:40.809 --> 00:47:43.110
We do, but before we go too much further, one

00:47:43.110 --> 00:47:45.670
thing we haven't recapped on is did you know

00:47:45.670 --> 00:47:47.809
that John Cena had a heel turn at Elimination

00:47:47.809 --> 00:47:51.230
Chamber? Do you know? It might have completely

00:47:51.230 --> 00:47:53.369
passed by. I don't think they've advertised it

00:47:53.369 --> 00:47:55.630
at all. No, they haven't mentioned anything about

00:47:55.630 --> 00:47:57.570
John Cena and Cody Rhodes with that heel turn,

00:47:57.570 --> 00:48:02.989
but yeah back to the to the Liv Morgan Jade Cargill

00:48:02.989 --> 00:48:07.909
match This was Jade Cargill's first match since

00:48:07.909 --> 00:48:14.050
August 9th last year Which was I mean that is

00:48:14.050 --> 00:48:18.610
a significant amount of time To be out of the

00:48:18.610 --> 00:48:24.349
ring. I know a lot of that was with injury But

00:48:24.349 --> 00:48:28.949
that's still a huge amount of time Yeah, very

00:48:28.949 --> 00:48:31.989
much so and I mean before the match started in

00:48:31.989 --> 00:48:35.590
that promo with Cathy Kelly Cargill is bowing

00:48:35.590 --> 00:48:39.789
to basically She's gonna use Liv Morgan as a

00:48:39.789 --> 00:48:43.869
doll to show Naomi what is in store for her when

00:48:43.869 --> 00:48:46.409
Jade Cargill eventually catches up with her but

00:48:46.639 --> 00:48:49.059
during this match I mean Jade Cargill spends

00:48:49.059 --> 00:48:51.920
a lot of the early part of the match in control

00:48:51.920 --> 00:48:54.380
very much sort of dominating the match to the

00:48:54.380 --> 00:48:57.460
point that Liv and Raquel try to duck out and

00:48:57.460 --> 00:48:59.719
just say no do you know what fuck this shit I

00:48:59.719 --> 00:49:03.880
don't need it tag team champions are out um only

00:49:03.880 --> 00:49:07.119
to be sort of have Liv dragged back to the ring

00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:10.559
by uh by a rather pissed off Jade Cargill and

00:49:10.559 --> 00:49:13.199
actually I'm gonna fat check myself there because

00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:16.619
I wasn't 100 % sure but Jade Cargill was last

00:49:16.619 --> 00:49:19.820
seen in the ring on August 9th, but it wasn't

00:49:19.820 --> 00:49:23.900
her last match. Her last match before this one

00:49:23.900 --> 00:49:27.219
today was actually May 17th last year where she

00:49:27.219 --> 00:49:29.679
lost to Nia Jax in the Queen of the Ring tournament

00:49:29.679 --> 00:49:33.860
at the quarterfinals. So yeah, no, almost a year

00:49:33.860 --> 00:49:36.699
out of the ring in a wrestling capacity. You

00:49:36.699 --> 00:49:38.440
would not have known it by the way she started

00:49:38.440 --> 00:49:45.780
this match. No, definitely not. And Unfortunately

00:49:45.780 --> 00:49:49.659
the control lasted for as long as it took Jade

00:49:49.659 --> 00:49:52.579
Cargill to drag Liv Morgan back into the ring

00:49:52.579 --> 00:49:57.880
and yeah sort of Liv gained and remained in control

00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:04.679
from that point on. Pretty much. I mean Jade

00:50:04.679 --> 00:50:09.599
does manage to reverse an oblivion attempt from

00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:13.179
Liv Morgan at one point but Liv Morgan also as

00:50:13.179 --> 00:50:19.170
she seems to have culturally appropriated a lot

00:50:19.170 --> 00:50:25.610
of Eddie Guerrero's moveset because of her relationship

00:50:25.610 --> 00:50:30.550
with Dominic Mysterio. We do also see a Three

00:50:30.550 --> 00:50:34.590
Amigos attempt at that as well. She hits at Three

00:50:34.590 --> 00:50:40.449
Amigos. 100%. And she even gives off the little

00:50:40.449 --> 00:50:44.590
shuffle to go afterwards. It looks a lot better

00:50:44.590 --> 00:50:48.489
when she does it than when Dom Mysterio does

00:50:48.489 --> 00:50:51.469
it. Yes. Doesn't hold the same appeal to me.

00:50:51.809 --> 00:50:54.190
Dom doesn't quite have the same figure either,

00:50:54.369 --> 00:50:59.710
so it doesn't work quite as well. No, I mean,

00:50:59.949 --> 00:51:08.909
he has that figure just not himself. Lucky fucker.

00:51:09.130 --> 00:51:12.650
Anyway. the big news story out of this match

00:51:12.650 --> 00:51:16.349
realistically was Naomi appearing at ringside

00:51:16.349 --> 00:51:20.429
with what looks like some new ring gear yeah

00:51:20.429 --> 00:51:25.989
it was very much new ring gear new um in our

00:51:25.989 --> 00:51:30.510
new look um you know it was but then we both

00:51:30.510 --> 00:51:33.030
made this this comment off the podcast it would

00:51:33.030 --> 00:51:35.829
be very hard for her to come back feeling the

00:51:35.829 --> 00:51:39.409
glow after she tried to eliminate Jade Cargill's

00:51:39.409 --> 00:51:42.940
glow So it's just a little bit hit -and -miss

00:51:42.940 --> 00:51:47.039
with that one, I think So we're seeing now before

00:51:47.039 --> 00:51:51.380
our very eyes a repackaging of Naomi, which Has

00:51:51.380 --> 00:51:54.139
happened before It'd be interesting to see what

00:51:54.139 --> 00:51:56.599
entry music they give her when she comes back

00:51:56.599 --> 00:51:59.079
into the ring. We didn't get any music this time.

00:51:59.500 --> 00:52:02.239
So She just kind of popped up and appeared. She

00:52:02.239 --> 00:52:07.599
was a run -in from the crowd Yeah, and the distraction

00:52:07.599 --> 00:52:10.079
from Naomi ends up allowing Liv Morgan to pick

00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:15.760
up the win as she hits oblivion on Jade Cargill

00:52:15.760 --> 00:52:20.199
after Naomi took Jade out with Basically blowing

00:52:20.199 --> 00:52:23.380
her away with a title belt Pretty much and I've

00:52:23.380 --> 00:52:26.380
got a few bits here from Jade Cargill that you

00:52:26.380 --> 00:52:30.679
know, she managed to get quite nice power slam

00:52:33.659 --> 00:52:36.579
Gosh, she's a slam -down power bomb for a two

00:52:36.579 --> 00:52:41.800
count The kip up after the three amigos suplex

00:52:41.800 --> 00:52:46.539
that she received from Liv Morgan But yeah, it

00:52:46.539 --> 00:52:51.980
wasn't a lot of big bits from From Jade Cargill

00:52:51.980 --> 00:53:00.469
not enough for For what? i'd have expected for

00:53:00.469 --> 00:53:02.449
her first match back i thought she'd have been

00:53:02.449 --> 00:53:06.349
raring to pop off some some big bits and and

00:53:06.349 --> 00:53:09.409
and blow off some steam so to speak but yeah

00:53:09.409 --> 00:53:13.570
it didn't quite happen no definitely did not

00:53:13.570 --> 00:53:20.510
um and yeah just uh the only thing that really

00:53:20.510 --> 00:53:23.789
had the naomi beat down on jade cargill afterwards

00:53:23.789 --> 00:53:25.949
throwing her out the ring into the announce table

00:53:25.949 --> 00:53:29.550
and then kind of Bouncing her head first off

00:53:29.550 --> 00:53:32.530
it kind of shouting at her that she's gonna she's

00:53:32.530 --> 00:53:35.670
gonna Kind of keep doing this. I suppose there's

00:53:35.670 --> 00:53:39.050
definitely some animosity between those two There's

00:53:39.050 --> 00:53:42.110
gonna be beat down after beat down. We then went

00:53:42.110 --> 00:53:47.570
to a backstage segment with Drew McIntyre and

00:53:47.570 --> 00:53:50.050
I believe it was Cathy Kelly, but I could be

00:53:50.050 --> 00:53:53.889
wrong Yeah, so Cathy Kelly manages to catch Drew

00:53:53.889 --> 00:53:57.820
just as he's leaving the arena to basically say

00:53:57.820 --> 00:54:02.699
and Drew says about how he's going to continue

00:54:02.699 --> 00:54:05.579
to beat down priest again and again and again

00:54:05.579 --> 00:54:10.860
and yeah Drew basically having it in his head

00:54:10.860 --> 00:54:14.119
that he's not wrong for doing what he's doing.

00:54:15.119 --> 00:54:18.980
No but we're not going to get Drew go the same

00:54:18.980 --> 00:54:21.480
way as Kevin Owens and think he's you know suddenly

00:54:21.480 --> 00:54:23.420
have an epiphany and go I'm really sorry I was

00:54:23.420 --> 00:54:26.500
doing that. The only way Drew's going to learn

00:54:26.500 --> 00:54:30.400
is when he gets his arse handed to him on a big

00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:36.260
silver platter. Yeah, very much so. And then

00:54:36.260 --> 00:54:40.679
he complains about that. Yeah, pretty much. And

00:54:40.679 --> 00:54:43.679
then to end that little segment off we have a

00:54:43.679 --> 00:54:46.139
little a little standoff as we see Seth Rollins

00:54:46.139 --> 00:54:51.480
arrive at the arena and Think I've given up trying

00:54:51.480 --> 00:54:53.880
to figure out what Seth Rollins looks like week

00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:56.239
from week But I think I made a comment to you

00:54:56.239 --> 00:54:58.340
about him looking like the fashion designer from

00:54:58.340 --> 00:55:02.099
Zoolander Yeah, I pretty much thought he looked

00:55:02.099 --> 00:55:04.260
like a blue bottle to be fair because those glasses

00:55:04.260 --> 00:55:07.659
made him look like he had bug eyes like fly eyes

00:55:07.659 --> 00:55:11.019
But um, yeah, he looked like a complete muppet

00:55:11.019 --> 00:55:16.599
again this week But we'll just go there that

00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:19.760
you know is Wrestling ability in this fashion

00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:21.679
sense go hand -in -hand. They're both a little

00:55:21.679 --> 00:55:26.300
bit tarnished But I've never had any doubt about

00:55:26.300 --> 00:55:29.219
Seth Rollins ability to go to do business in

00:55:29.219 --> 00:55:31.480
the ring I'm just I mean you asked him Bala about

00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:33.500
that buckle bomb when he picked up the Universal

00:55:33.500 --> 00:55:39.280
title Yeah Is that his fashion sense is probably

00:55:39.280 --> 00:55:41.280
worse than his ability in ring his ability in

00:55:41.280 --> 00:55:43.579
rings half -decent he never never fails to give

00:55:43.579 --> 00:55:48.280
us a bad match Talking about people that don't

00:55:48.280 --> 00:55:51.500
really fail to give us a bad match though Street

00:55:51.500 --> 00:55:54.699
profits we get an in -ring promo from straight

00:55:54.699 --> 00:56:00.699
profits the new Tag team champions after they

00:56:00.699 --> 00:56:07.019
beat DIY for their titles last week Yeah, so

00:56:07.019 --> 00:56:11.360
We're definitely seeing a happier side to the

00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:13.960
street profits as it goes just because they are

00:56:14.059 --> 00:56:16.039
they're not destroying everyone they've got their

00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:19.619
titles back yeah they got their gold after i

00:56:19.619 --> 00:56:21.760
think they said it was like four years or something

00:56:21.760 --> 00:56:25.420
like that yeah which is a long time for an active

00:56:25.420 --> 00:56:27.320
tag team i know they've had some injury issues

00:56:27.320 --> 00:56:31.059
but still it's a long time to to be without gold

00:56:31.059 --> 00:56:33.880
especially someone as talented as street profits

00:56:33.880 --> 00:56:38.199
and the Bologna crowd definitely feeling like

00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:41.380
street profits deserve their victory chanting

00:56:41.380 --> 00:56:49.369
you deserve it Yeah, just reminds me of the the

00:56:49.369 --> 00:56:55.210
guy off aloh aloh, I'm not gonna lie No, I'm

00:56:55.210 --> 00:56:58.929
not doing the impression no, that's fine. I wouldn't

00:56:58.929 --> 00:57:06.389
expect you to Yeah, it's They were basically

00:57:06.389 --> 00:57:08.570
sort of congratulating themselves on their win,

00:57:08.590 --> 00:57:11.150
but even they admitted they'd started to have

00:57:11.150 --> 00:57:14.389
doubts about their ability to to go basically.

00:57:14.929 --> 00:57:17.269
I think Zuniga said had so many issues and so

00:57:17.269 --> 00:57:22.489
many weird losses, but you know, they've got

00:57:22.489 --> 00:57:25.190
the titles. They can only build from where they

00:57:25.190 --> 00:57:27.409
are and have a hopefully a nice strong title

00:57:27.409 --> 00:57:31.170
reign. And we'll find out how strong that is

00:57:31.170 --> 00:57:36.139
going to be because we get to see The Gado Del

00:57:36.139 --> 00:57:41.480
Fantasma come out so we've got Santos Escobar

00:57:41.480 --> 00:57:46.739
and his little group of cronies Decide they're

00:57:46.739 --> 00:57:50.840
gonna come out and basically say That they may

00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:52.659
have the titles, but they're not gonna have them

00:57:52.659 --> 00:57:57.239
for much longer Which seems to be the thing that

00:57:57.239 --> 00:58:03.300
every new title holder gets told Yeah Very much

00:58:03.300 --> 00:58:08.659
so. It's a case that, I mean, I can sort of understand

00:58:08.659 --> 00:58:12.179
how this is all sort of coming about. Santos

00:58:12.179 --> 00:58:14.480
Escobar seems to think that he can skip the line.

00:58:14.900 --> 00:58:18.360
We have pretty deadly joiners out in the arena,

00:58:18.500 --> 00:58:20.599
but they don't really do a massive amount other

00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:25.260
than remind Los Garza and Santos Escobar that

00:58:25.260 --> 00:58:28.559
they're the number one contenders. They get first

00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:33.559
crack at the Tag Team Champions. Los Garza don't

00:58:33.559 --> 00:58:38.699
get a title shot, basically. And we see Santos

00:58:38.699 --> 00:58:43.119
Escobar actually lose his cool. He's not happy,

00:58:43.280 --> 00:58:49.000
is he? No, definitely not. He's a happy little

00:58:49.000 --> 00:58:56.900
Mexican. Yeah, no, he definitely is. He definitely

00:58:56.900 --> 00:59:03.019
is. But yeah, we we end up kind of saying with

00:59:03.019 --> 00:59:05.760
the Street Profits basically saying they'll give

00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:09.280
L 'Algardo del Fantasma a bit of a match Los

00:59:09.280 --> 00:59:14.360
Garza can have a can have a crack at it and Yeah,

00:59:14.440 --> 00:59:20.900
we then get a A little VT. It's more of it. It's

00:59:20.900 --> 00:59:24.400
not a reveal. It's It's basically yet. It's a

00:59:24.400 --> 00:59:27.739
vignette. Yes. We got the Ray Phoenix vignette

00:59:27.739 --> 00:59:33.940
so Well, I'm I'm putting my money on the fact

00:59:33.940 --> 00:59:36.980
it's a ray phoenix vignette, it's it was very

00:59:36.980 --> 00:59:45.840
very Very uncannily Similar Yeah, but we have

00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:50.699
seen a few ones recently with the Alistair black

00:59:50.699 --> 00:59:53.719
one that's been floating around We've seen a

00:59:53.719 --> 01:00:02.360
few times and there's one more No, I can't think

01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:04.059
of which one that is that you're thinking of

01:00:04.059 --> 01:00:12.039
either and Yeah If it will come to one of us

01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:15.599
I'm sure but where it leads us into the next

01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:19.679
match, which was the Street Profits versus Los

01:00:19.679 --> 01:00:23.219
Garza for a tag match This ended up actually

01:00:23.219 --> 01:00:25.539
being the main event match of the evening as

01:00:25.539 --> 01:00:29.000
there isn't another match after this one and

01:00:31.920 --> 01:00:34.920
Weirdly because it's the main event match we

01:00:34.920 --> 01:00:37.619
join this match in progress which sort of pissed

01:00:37.619 --> 01:00:40.559
me off a little bit Yeah, it really devalued

01:00:40.559 --> 01:00:42.820
the main event and I didn't realize that until

01:00:42.820 --> 01:00:45.840
just now realistically having watched it a day

01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:49.059
or two previous I would have expected to sort

01:00:49.059 --> 01:00:52.659
of Pick up on that a little bit more, but what

01:00:52.659 --> 01:00:55.820
we did see of the match I don't think we missed

01:00:55.820 --> 01:00:59.260
much if anything, but what we did see of the

01:00:59.260 --> 01:01:04.519
match. It is a case that, I mean, we saw that

01:01:04.519 --> 01:01:06.460
basically the Street Profits have not missed

01:01:06.460 --> 01:01:10.679
a step since they've been gone. No. Yes, Los

01:01:10.679 --> 01:01:18.880
Garza took a pretty early control, but it didn't

01:01:18.880 --> 01:01:25.539
really last for long, to be fair. I haven't got

01:01:25.539 --> 01:01:28.679
a lot of notes for this. it wasn't no i haven't

01:01:28.679 --> 01:01:31.980
i enjoyed the match that i that what i saw of

01:01:31.980 --> 01:01:35.320
the match i enjoyed and it's sort of the fan

01:01:35.320 --> 01:01:37.559
took over rather than the podcast although there

01:01:37.559 --> 01:01:40.280
is one spot that i know that you've seen as well

01:01:40.280 --> 01:01:44.480
because we've talked about it already um so mon

01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:48.579
uh both members of los gaza have got montez ford

01:01:48.579 --> 01:01:52.360
basically in an unwinnable situation which he

01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:55.719
still manages to turn around so they're both

01:01:55.719 --> 01:01:59.099
perched up on the top turnbuckle basically about

01:01:59.099 --> 01:02:04.940
to body drop montez ford who manages to land

01:02:04.940 --> 01:02:09.360
on his feet so very nonchalant and you can set

01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:12.019
up the camera angle all you've got is a completely

01:02:12.019 --> 01:02:15.059
straight face of montez ford having landed that

01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:20.400
perfectly and both members of Lost Gaza sat in

01:02:20.400 --> 01:02:24.400
the background with their jaws well and truly

01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:31.179
in their laps. I think they needed a crane to

01:02:31.179 --> 01:02:34.699
lift the jaws back up for those two because they

01:02:34.699 --> 01:02:37.440
really did not know what what happened at that

01:02:37.440 --> 01:02:41.539
point. So a lot of my notes for this are quite

01:02:41.539 --> 01:02:45.980
early. So I've got at one point Santos Escobar

01:02:45.980 --> 01:02:50.300
pulls down the ropes. So Angela Dawkins goes

01:02:50.300 --> 01:02:53.400
and I'm saying Angela Dawkins I could be wrong

01:02:53.400 --> 01:02:56.139
and it could be Montez Ford I'm still getting

01:02:56.139 --> 01:02:58.880
there and ends up going over the top rope and

01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:02.400
then receiving a suicide dive from Los Garza

01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:07.400
as well. I've got here that Los Garza at one

01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.500
point hit something called a Garza special. Now

01:03:10.500 --> 01:03:14.380
I'm Guessing that is a tag finishing move. They

01:03:14.380 --> 01:03:18.280
use but I couldn't tell you what it was for the

01:03:18.280 --> 01:03:23.059
life of me No, I mean that I've also got down

01:03:23.059 --> 01:03:25.539
here at one point that Montez Ford hits a rather

01:03:25.539 --> 01:03:33.119
nice superplex for a two count but It's the the

01:03:33.119 --> 01:03:35.679
from the heavens from Montez Ford that he hits

01:03:35.679 --> 01:03:41.900
for the three count to win and retain their tag

01:03:41.900 --> 01:03:50.840
titles. Yeah, very much so. But as I said, I

01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:53.179
enjoyed the match. I just think it devalued a

01:03:53.179 --> 01:03:55.579
main event that we joined the main event in progress

01:03:55.579 --> 01:03:58.260
and we didn't see it from the from the get go.

01:03:58.440 --> 01:04:01.420
I just don't feel like that was the main event

01:04:01.420 --> 01:04:06.500
either. No, it was very off the cuff. It kind

01:04:06.500 --> 01:04:08.739
of feels like they had to cancel a match that

01:04:08.739 --> 01:04:11.059
was supposed to be the main event, but they didn't

01:04:11.059 --> 01:04:15.760
want to tell anyone they'd cancelled it. Yeah,

01:04:15.820 --> 01:04:17.760
pretty much, but I couldn't tell you what that

01:04:17.760 --> 01:04:22.480
main event should have been, realistically. But

01:04:22.480 --> 01:04:26.679
yeah, it just felt a bit haphazard there, especially

01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:29.980
for a main roster show. It's something I would

01:04:29.980 --> 01:04:34.920
have 100 % expected in NXT. but not in Smackdown.

01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:41.579
But we go from there into a backstage promo with

01:04:41.579 --> 01:04:45.320
Pretty Deadly running into DIY. We know that

01:04:45.320 --> 01:04:48.300
obviously DIY former tag team champions were

01:04:48.300 --> 01:04:50.539
royally taking advantage of Pretty Deadly when

01:04:50.539 --> 01:04:55.619
they were the champs. And yeah, they're still

01:04:55.619 --> 01:04:57.739
trying to cash in on whatever social capital

01:04:57.739 --> 01:05:02.349
that they seem to still think they have. As they're

01:05:02.349 --> 01:05:05.150
basically coming in and saying look you guys

01:05:05.150 --> 01:05:07.369
have got a match with the Street Profits next

01:05:07.369 --> 01:05:11.230
week for the title in London We're more than

01:05:11.230 --> 01:05:13.210
happy to come in and make sure that you win those

01:05:13.210 --> 01:05:16.449
titles all we ask is that we get first run at

01:05:16.449 --> 01:05:20.150
you when you do and Pretty deadly tell them to

01:05:20.150 --> 01:05:26.679
go fuck themselves. I mean also fair Which is

01:05:26.679 --> 01:05:28.820
quite nice to see pretty deadly standing up for

01:05:28.820 --> 01:05:31.239
themselves because they have basically in DIYs

01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:35.659
bitches for the last few weeks so um Now they've

01:05:35.659 --> 01:05:37.619
basically just kind of gone well actually no

01:05:37.619 --> 01:05:41.260
you've not got anything we need now So we'll

01:05:41.260 --> 01:05:43.460
we'll just do what we've got to do to make sure

01:05:43.460 --> 01:05:46.599
we get what we want which is the tag team titles

01:05:46.599 --> 01:05:51.000
that Montez Ford and Angelo Hawkins currently

01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:56.139
hold Yeah, but it's not over for DIY just yet.

01:05:57.019 --> 01:06:01.119
As pretty deadly leave, DIY turn around to be

01:06:01.119 --> 01:06:04.719
met by, in their own words, by the people at

01:06:04.719 --> 01:06:08.519
the back of the queue, Motor City Machine Guns.

01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:11.679
Chris Sabin, yeah, the Motor City Machine Guns.

01:06:12.380 --> 01:06:15.550
They're looking for a fight for DIY. They're

01:06:15.550 --> 01:06:17.989
looking to collect on an ass -kicking basically

01:06:17.989 --> 01:06:21.469
DIY don't have the titles anymore So they are

01:06:21.469 --> 01:06:24.530
open season for all the guys that they tried

01:06:24.530 --> 01:06:28.489
to screw on Their way to the top and all the

01:06:28.489 --> 01:06:31.550
ones they screwed when they were at the top So

01:06:31.550 --> 01:06:33.769
yeah, Tommaso Ciampa and Johnny Gargano. They've

01:06:33.769 --> 01:06:36.530
got some receipts coming their way for some transactions.

01:06:36.710 --> 01:06:43.900
They've They've already made Yeah 100 % So we

01:06:43.900 --> 01:06:47.800
go into, from here, go into an in -ring promo.

01:06:47.860 --> 01:06:54.340
This is the very last piece of this episode for

01:06:54.340 --> 01:07:00.280
it, where we see the true tribal chief, Roman

01:07:00.280 --> 01:07:05.639
Reigns, come out with the wise man, Paul Heyman.

01:07:07.099 --> 01:07:13.300
And yeah, I mean, considering... considering

01:07:13.300 --> 01:07:17.500
Roman Reigns is part -time compared to a lot

01:07:17.500 --> 01:07:21.099
of the others the pop that he gets is insane

01:07:21.099 --> 01:07:24.800
yeah but he's he's one of those that when we

01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:26.900
were getting a force down our throats all the

01:07:26.900 --> 01:07:30.599
time you know he was there week in week out everyone

01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:32.659
booed the living hell out of him they've worked

01:07:32.659 --> 01:07:34.840
out it wasn't working they were overfeeding him

01:07:34.840 --> 01:07:37.320
to us we don't get him a lot less but when we

01:07:37.320 --> 01:07:39.659
do get him we appreciate the fact that we've

01:07:39.659 --> 01:07:43.840
got our tribal chief back Yeah, somehow I think

01:07:43.840 --> 01:07:45.940
the leukemia has probably got something to do

01:07:45.940 --> 01:07:48.360
with that as well So I mean, yeah that might

01:07:48.360 --> 01:07:51.539
have a very good point No matter how hard he's

01:07:51.539 --> 01:07:54.039
gonna try and be a heel now at any point like

01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:57.980
that is gonna make him the ultimate face This

01:07:57.980 --> 01:07:59.860
isn't the guy who just beat someone for a world

01:07:59.860 --> 01:08:04.320
title. He beat death to keep living Yeah, pretty

01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:08.440
much But yeah, he's coming out basically talking

01:08:08.440 --> 01:08:14.219
through what happened at the what happened at

01:08:14.219 --> 01:08:17.779
the cage match basically is that he came he came

01:08:17.779 --> 01:08:21.939
out there to get even with CM Punk and Seth Rollins

01:08:21.939 --> 01:08:25.020
who I Mean, yeah, I mean they've both sort of

01:08:25.020 --> 01:08:30.260
crossed him in one way shape or form Whether

01:08:30.260 --> 01:08:33.539
it be you know, whatever happened at Royal Rumble

01:08:33.539 --> 01:08:35.800
because there's a big issue at Royal Rumble between

01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:39.520
those three superstars you obviously had the

01:08:39.520 --> 01:08:44.699
issue between punk and Rollins, Elimination Chamber,

01:08:45.340 --> 01:08:48.800
you know, we've then had other issues between

01:08:48.800 --> 01:08:51.380
them. That cage match was a perfect opportunity

01:08:51.380 --> 01:08:54.439
for Roman to sneak out and fuck them both. And

01:08:54.439 --> 01:08:57.100
he did. And I'm not going to lie to you, I quite

01:08:57.100 --> 01:08:59.619
enjoyed the fact that I'm a massive CM Punk fan,

01:08:59.779 --> 01:09:03.659
but I enjoyed having Roman come out and continue

01:09:03.659 --> 01:09:07.760
the next step into that story. Because now we're

01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:13.729
all being reminded from previous... events how

01:09:13.729 --> 01:09:19.890
epic this storyline has been yeah so um brief

01:09:19.890 --> 01:09:24.109
recap obviously CM Punk eliminated Roman Reigns

01:09:24.109 --> 01:09:28.369
at Royal Rumble Seth Rollins basically tried

01:09:28.369 --> 01:09:33.409
to kill Roman Reigns at Royal Rumble there was

01:09:33.409 --> 01:09:35.729
a point in time where we where we thought he

01:09:35.729 --> 01:09:41.140
might have actually succeeded but uh um but Yeah,

01:09:41.239 --> 01:09:43.439
basically this is what Roman Reigns came out

01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:49.779
to avenge in the cage match a week or two previous.

01:09:50.479 --> 01:09:53.340
Basically Reigns stands in the ring with the

01:09:53.340 --> 01:09:56.920
biggest Cheshire cat grin on his face saying,

01:09:57.239 --> 01:10:00.439
I'm here if anybody wants to come out take advantage,

01:10:01.720 --> 01:10:05.720
confront me, go nuts. Someone did decide that

01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:08.859
this was the perfect opportunity to do this.

01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:15.239
That was the architect himself Seth freaking

01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:23.720
Rollins Yeah, Rollins answers the call comes

01:10:23.720 --> 01:10:27.000
out basically says that it goes on a bit of a

01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.279
tirade about CM Punk being dangerous to the industry

01:10:30.279 --> 01:10:36.470
and Roman basically fucked up by not allowing

01:10:36.470 --> 01:10:39.529
him to, not allowing Rollins to finish CM Punk

01:10:39.529 --> 01:10:43.710
in the cage as he was planning on doing. I mean,

01:10:44.270 --> 01:10:48.970
I don't think punk is as dangerous as Rollins

01:10:48.970 --> 01:10:52.649
makes them out to be, but Rollins can, in fairness,

01:10:53.289 --> 01:10:55.890
be equally as dangerous. I'm sure Finn Barlow

01:10:55.890 --> 01:11:01.149
would attest to that fact. But, you know, They're

01:11:01.149 --> 01:11:03.590
gonna say and do whatever they can to get underneath

01:11:03.590 --> 01:11:05.329
each other's skin knowing that they're gonna

01:11:05.329 --> 01:11:10.829
be facing each other in well Less than 30 days

01:11:10.829 --> 01:11:14.250
at the grandest stage of them all in Las Vegas

01:11:14.250 --> 01:11:19.210
at WrestleMania Yeah, and I mean Seth Rollins

01:11:19.210 --> 01:11:22.170
also starts talking to Roman about the sort of

01:11:22.170 --> 01:11:25.939
their shared history almost and that maybe it's

01:11:25.939 --> 01:11:29.319
time to add another chapter to what is already

01:11:29.319 --> 01:11:35.520
a meaty novel between these two superstars. I

01:11:35.520 --> 01:11:39.899
mean, they both came up to main roster as part

01:11:39.899 --> 01:11:46.760
of The Shield, and Seth Rollins betrayed The

01:11:46.760 --> 01:11:51.350
Shield for the authority. And then they found

01:11:51.350 --> 01:11:54.609
absolute iconic chair shot and Dean Ambrose's

01:11:54.609 --> 01:12:01.010
face like what the fuck did you just do? Yeah,

01:12:01.210 --> 01:12:04.970
pretty much back when Roman Reigns was completely

01:12:04.970 --> 01:12:09.949
incapable of cutting any kind of promo now He's

01:12:09.949 --> 01:12:16.310
he's at least improved how to do it Mean John

01:12:16.310 --> 01:12:18.310
Cena told him a few years ago, you know, it was

01:12:18.310 --> 01:12:20.310
a promo if you want to make it big You got to

01:12:20.310 --> 01:12:22.210
learn how to do it Roman went off and learned

01:12:22.210 --> 01:12:28.289
how to do it. He spoke to uncle Rocky I Mean

01:12:28.289 --> 01:12:30.090
if there's anybody you want to learn to cut a

01:12:30.090 --> 01:12:38.729
promo from it's definitely a rocky But yeah at

01:12:38.729 --> 01:12:43.630
this point it's CM Punk's turn to interrupt and

01:12:43.630 --> 01:12:45.789
I actually made a note of the fact that during

01:12:45.789 --> 01:12:49.029
CM Punk's entrance, Rollins just loses his shit,

01:12:49.270 --> 01:12:55.529
fucking throws his own microphone to the ground.

01:12:56.510 --> 01:13:01.409
We had that classic, sorry, I don't know where

01:13:01.409 --> 01:13:04.090
Chronic came from, one a few weeks ago where

01:13:04.090 --> 01:13:08.300
Punk was in the ring cutting a promo and Rollins

01:13:08.300 --> 01:13:10.960
music hit and you've just got him kind of go.

01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:14.619
Why couldn't it have been real? so You know,

01:13:14.640 --> 01:13:17.699
they both dislike each other as much as as they're

01:13:17.699 --> 01:13:22.500
portraying it. This isn't a Well, this is a story,

01:13:22.539 --> 01:13:25.520
but this has got some very real emotion behind

01:13:25.520 --> 01:13:31.119
it. So yeah, this is gonna get heated Yeah, I

01:13:31.119 --> 01:13:36.500
think eventually that the The real heat is I'd

01:13:36.500 --> 01:13:38.539
like to think it's gonna die away because if

01:13:38.539 --> 01:13:40.579
they're still holding on to these grudges It's

01:13:40.579 --> 01:13:44.840
it's not gonna make for a nice working environment

01:13:44.840 --> 01:13:48.720
for any of them. My production is My prediction

01:13:48.720 --> 01:13:52.380
is punk wins this at WrestleMania though. I have

01:13:52.380 --> 01:13:55.159
a feeling that Roman and Rollins aren't going

01:13:55.159 --> 01:14:00.390
to be able to uh We had a kind of liver alongside

01:14:00.390 --> 01:14:02.369
each other to try and turn it into a handicap.

01:14:02.470 --> 01:14:04.289
They'll start fighting in between themselves

01:14:04.289 --> 01:14:06.069
trying to get one over on the other and Punk

01:14:06.069 --> 01:14:10.750
will sneak it. Well, one of the few things that

01:14:10.750 --> 01:14:13.470
Punk sort of has to point out to both of them

01:14:13.470 --> 01:14:16.310
is that neither one of them have ever been able

01:14:16.310 --> 01:14:19.289
to beat him on his own, on their own. They've

01:14:19.289 --> 01:14:23.329
always needed the other one to do so. Well, yeah,

01:14:23.449 --> 01:14:26.729
exactly. I'm sure that is going to be something

01:14:26.729 --> 01:14:29.699
we hear a lot. going up onto the road to WrestleMania.

01:14:32.100 --> 01:14:39.300
Oh, 100%. Yeah, and Punk has to sort of remind

01:14:39.300 --> 01:14:44.199
Roman that as much as Roman thinks that Punk

01:14:44.199 --> 01:14:46.859
screwed him at the Rumble, that the Rumble is

01:14:46.859 --> 01:14:49.920
every man for himself. Yeah, I found that line

01:14:49.920 --> 01:14:53.069
quite good, to be fair, because he's... Obviously,

01:14:53.409 --> 01:14:56.189
there are allegiances made within the Royal Rumble

01:14:56.189 --> 01:14:58.670
between sort of tag partners and stuff like that.

01:14:58.670 --> 01:15:00.670
If they're in at the right time, they will try

01:15:00.670 --> 01:15:06.109
and help each other out. But yeah, Roman's experienced

01:15:06.109 --> 01:15:08.829
enough to know that you can't really get screwed

01:15:08.829 --> 01:15:11.210
in the Rumble. Like everyone's trying to fuck

01:15:11.210 --> 01:15:13.989
each other unless he thinks because of Survive,

01:15:14.050 --> 01:15:17.529
not Survivor series, Wargame, sorry, that Punk

01:15:17.529 --> 01:15:21.819
was a long term ally where Punk's just... More

01:15:21.819 --> 01:15:24.380
of a short -term distraction for Paul Heyman

01:15:24.380 --> 01:15:27.859
As it stands, I think punk couldn't have been

01:15:27.859 --> 01:15:32.020
more clear at war games that Yeah, no, I'm here

01:15:32.020 --> 01:15:35.159
to make the numbers. I'm here as a favor to Paul

01:15:35.159 --> 01:15:38.899
Heyman. I couldn't give a fuck about you pretty

01:15:38.899 --> 01:15:45.310
much And yeah, I mean that's pretty much Pong's

01:15:45.310 --> 01:15:47.510
attitude towards anything is that I'm here for

01:15:47.510 --> 01:15:50.810
myself and for nobody else. Unless it's donuts.

01:15:51.569 --> 01:15:56.029
He is very, very passionate about sharing his

01:15:56.029 --> 01:16:04.970
love in donuts. Fair enough. And yeah, it's a

01:16:04.970 --> 01:16:08.369
case that he does bring up about war games, about

01:16:08.369 --> 01:16:12.010
the fact that he came in and bailed Roman out

01:16:12.010 --> 01:16:16.729
and that Heyman still owes him a favour and I

01:16:16.729 --> 01:16:19.069
actually really enjoyed the little bit of mind

01:16:19.069 --> 01:16:21.470
games that Punk played at this point because

01:16:21.470 --> 01:16:24.789
I thought it was really clever is that he goes

01:16:24.789 --> 01:16:28.449
a step further and so after reminding everybody

01:16:28.449 --> 01:16:33.670
that Heyman still owes a favour to Punk he then

01:16:33.670 --> 01:16:37.270
goes and says oh I want to thank the wise man

01:16:37.270 --> 01:16:40.069
for delivering the tribal chief to me on a silver

01:16:40.069 --> 01:16:43.079
platter and you just sort of see it rooming in.

01:16:43.420 --> 01:16:46.399
Roman's face there. It's just like, wait a minute,

01:16:47.239 --> 01:16:50.340
are you, what the fuck are you doing? And then

01:16:50.340 --> 01:16:52.720
just as he turns around, Punk hits him around

01:16:52.720 --> 01:16:54.600
the back of the shoulders with the microphone

01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:57.239
and starts laying the second, laying him in.

01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:01.819
Yeah, this is it. Punk dinks Reigns in there.

01:17:02.380 --> 01:17:04.520
I put back of the head, but yeah, you might've

01:17:04.520 --> 01:17:06.699
been right, just sort of back of the neck, shoulders,

01:17:07.340 --> 01:17:12.770
that sort of area. And yeah, just chaos completely

01:17:12.770 --> 01:17:18.010
erupt. Oh yeah. Again, chaos always seems to

01:17:18.010 --> 01:17:24.850
erupt with these guys. Oh, 100%. And we have

01:17:24.850 --> 01:17:30.710
like WWE officials, security, refs pour out to

01:17:30.710 --> 01:17:35.060
try and contain them as... Each person challenges

01:17:35.060 --> 01:17:38.539
the other two to a match at WrestleMania So I

01:17:38.539 --> 01:17:40.500
get the feeling that at some point there's gonna

01:17:40.500 --> 01:17:44.500
be an argument about who challenged who first

01:17:44.500 --> 01:17:48.600
Yeah, I've got a feeling Punk wins that somehow

01:17:48.600 --> 01:17:52.859
I'm pretty sure Punk was the first one and Roman

01:17:52.859 --> 01:18:00.439
Reigns was last And yeah, it's That's gonna become

01:18:00.439 --> 01:18:03.359
another bone of contention I can imagine but

01:18:03.359 --> 01:18:08.859
yeah, so we've potentially got a triple threat

01:18:08.859 --> 01:18:13.199
match at WrestleMania at this point. Which is

01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:18.340
gonna be one hell of an event to get onto. Definitely

01:18:18.340 --> 01:18:21.239
building that WrestleMania card now. It's really

01:18:21.239 --> 01:18:24.880
looking really meaty this year. It's beefing

01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:29.079
out and it's not just the the number of matches

01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:31.600
but it's the quality of match that's written

01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:35.640
on that you know obviously we've got Sina Cody

01:18:35.640 --> 01:18:41.359
Rhodes we've got Gunther against Jeyuso we've

01:18:41.359 --> 01:18:44.119
got these three in their match you've got Charlotte

01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:46.800
Flair and Tiffy Stratton you've got Bianca Belair

01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:54.500
and EO Sky you know there's there's so so much

01:18:54.500 --> 01:18:57.449
floating around at the moment It's a hell of

01:18:57.449 --> 01:19:02.430
a card already. Yeah, 100%. But I think that

01:19:02.430 --> 01:19:05.130
actually brings me to the end of my notes for

01:19:05.130 --> 01:19:07.550
first Smackdown this week. Yeah, no, I haven't

01:19:07.550 --> 01:19:09.489
really got much after this at all, to be fair.

01:19:10.550 --> 01:19:12.789
I'm pretty much with you. My notes are done.

01:19:13.520 --> 01:19:16.340
Yeah, so I think that brings this episode to

01:19:16.340 --> 01:19:18.880
a close Thank you to everybody who's listened

01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:22.100
and obviously we will be back with finishes and

01:19:22.100 --> 01:19:26.640
factions does Monday night raw coming to coming

01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:30.979
to or that will be coming to us from Glasgow

01:19:30.979 --> 01:19:38.420
Scotland So we look forward to talking through

01:19:38.420 --> 01:19:41.239
that one as soon as that one comes out until

01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:45.210
then See you all soon. See you soon peace out