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And hello everybody and welcome back to another

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episode of Finishes and Factions does Monday

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Night Raw. This week we are in Glasgow, Scotland

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in the OVO Hydra Arena and well this is one of

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the ones a lot closer to home for myself and

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for my co -host Adam as well. Adam, one of the

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home European legs of the tour. So this one was

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right up our street watching it live. Oh, 100%.

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We've well and truly hit home ground. No longer

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touring around the US. No longer are WWE touring

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around the US and mainland Europe. They have

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hit the British Isles and hit it hard in Glasgow,

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Scotland. And yeah, just an absolute, I mean...

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Just an absolutely like phenomenal crowd response

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again from a homeland from for us a homeland

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territory Yes Glasgow had just shy of 11 ,000

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people in attendance and they sold out over hydro

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arena and that was just under 11 ,000 people

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who were chanting John Cena sucks as Cena's music

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hit and he begrudgingly made his way down the

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ramp to start off this week's programming in

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RIC. Yeah, so it's nice to see Cena making a

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little bit more of an appearance on this farewell

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tour. I thought he'd already done the tour and

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said farewell. Yeah, pretty much But yeah, very

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much a very sort of detached John Cena this week

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coming down into into the OVO hydro and The Glasgow

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crowd really let him have it Well, like they

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did not hold back at all. I mean, we know a few

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Scottish people We've played some Call of Duty

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over the years against quite a few Scottish people

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When have we ever known the Scots to hold back

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Adam? No, I know but still They have levels and

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they even surpassed their own levels this week

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with the the amount of noise they gave mr. Mr.

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Cena Yeah, very much so which only fed into his

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tyrain to be fair Well 100 % I definitely felt

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like he was taunting the Glasgow crowd to begin

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with It's a case that he didn't wait anywhere

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near as long as he did the first time round When

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we saw him last week on Raw it was a case that

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we got He very much let the crowd react this

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week none of that keeping it sort of trying to

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keep it very short and sweet but Yeah I mean

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this entire promo I think took up at least a

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good quarter of the time that Raw had. It was

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a very very long promo and it was an awful lot

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more of what we got last time of just seeing

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it berating the WWE Universe and just playing

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them off against themselves. Working them like

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a little bit of a stress putty in his fingers

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and that's pretty much all the crowd were translate

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Yeah, you worked each and every single one of

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them. So so easily got the the reaction that

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he's so You know so Wanted so badly That uh,

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yeah to him like and he tells us all the way

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through this this promo. You're just making this

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easy for me Like there is nothing about this

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heel turn, and he's walked straight into it,

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and he's doing it so well, and you look at him

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and think he's been doing it for 20 years, when

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he hasn't. No, this is - I don't even think he's

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been a heel for 20 days yet. I think he, no.

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Elimination chamber. No, I think it's been more

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than 20 days. But yeah, he's very much putting

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the crowd Firmly in his crosshair and reminding

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them Almost within every sentence that this is

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all about them not about him. It's about them

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and He's very careful with what he can do. I

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mean he brings up By now any wrestling fan worth

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their salt will have seen all of the the memes

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the clips I mean, WWE posted it themselves of

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the kid in Brussels last week. It got absolutely

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ripped to shreds. That was a stand -up comedy

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show. That guy would have been crying. Yet he

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stood there and took that tirade from Cena. And

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yeah, the only thing he had to do was kind of

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pick his jaw up off the floor like, is that really

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happening? Did he just say that to me? This is

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John Cena. Oh my God, how can he say that? But

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he did. Yeah. Oh, 100%. We all heard him loud

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and clear. And for once, we actually all saw

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him too. Yeah. Oh, but we can't make jokes like

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that. He doesn't like it anymore. He's a Karen.

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He's Karen Cena. He is Karen Cena. And after

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he sort of... spends a good five, six, maybe

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seven minutes just ripping into the crowd, basically

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saying, yeah, I know you better than you know

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yourselves at this point, because every time

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you give a reaction to anything I've done over

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the last 25 years, I've listened, I've learned,

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and I know how you think and feel. He's been

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studying the WWE Universe. To him, this has all

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just been one big experiment, along with, you

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know, the WWE throwing in code. childish, curse

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-ridden nursery rhymes to quote John Cena on

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that one. Yeah, he didn't like the fact that

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the Glasgow crowd were using quite a lot of profanity

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as well, and that seemed to really bother Cena.

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A Scotsman using a swear word? I don't fucking

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believe it, Adam, I really don't. Well, I was

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about to say something similar, to be quite honest.

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I mean, they're Scottish, I don't know what exactly

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you expect. All drunk people swear all the time

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Yeah, then he starts going over some of his part

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some of the things that have happened in the

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past and one of the first points he sort of comes

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to is the world famous spinner belt they bought

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in in 2005 I believe April 2005 when we got the

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famous spinning title and a lot of us i quite

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enjoyed it i liked it i thought it was fresh

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and i thought it worked yeah 100 i loved the

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spinner belt but a lot of the hardcore gatekeeping

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wrestling fans they did not like that it was

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just a toy how could you make the most prestigious

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thing in pro wrestling a toy Well it's a toy

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that people are still buying replicas of 20 years

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later. Let me just throw that out there. 20 years

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later people are going to these shows and buying

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replica spinner belts. So did John Cena make

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some serious cheese off that? Yes he did. Is

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John Cena still making some serious cheese off

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that? Yes he is. Those belts, they're not cheap.

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Yeah, not those replica belts are not cheap at

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all No, definitely not now the next thing that

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he says and this is a like even for John Cena

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This is a bold claim to make but he says that

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he or he claims to be able to ruin wrestling

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for Everybody not just fans but superstars everyone

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Well, and he's got a plan of doing this. Now,

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do you not think that this plan of his, and I'll

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go into it in a second, is very CM Punk -y 2013?

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Yes, very much so. The irony of it is. I've seen

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it threatened to run away and retire with the

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world title in his hands, which is exactly the

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same. As CM Punk did when he beat John Cena at

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SummerSlam in I believe it was 2013 and walked

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out and threw the crowd with that title, walked

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home, threw the belt in the fridge and left it

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there. He just discarded it. He threw it in the

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fucking fridge of all places. Like, really? At

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least if you throw it in the bin, you know it's

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done with, right? Now it's gone. Fuck it. Trash

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goes out on Tuesday. He put it in the fridge

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bro every time he made a coffee Yeah, very much

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so so To be more precise CM Punk on January 27th

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in 2014 After a final match at the Royal Rumble

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I'm double -checking myself now, just to make

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sure. He left WWE after the Royal Rumble, citing

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unhappiness for the company and broken promises.

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No, never mind. I think Google has done me dirty

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there, to be quite honest. CM Punk controversially

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walked out of WWE and the WWE Championship on

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January 27th 2014 after a final match Yeah, and

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then he came back about a month and a half later

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or something like that Yeah, it was something

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like that I'm pretty sure like if you look at

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his wedding His wedding day that was when he

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was issued his his papers to leave Yeah very

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much so that would give you the the date of when

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the rest of his championship ran end but we digressed

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with that one masina goes on to say that you

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know after we all ate him alive for that spinning

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championship he's going to ruin wrestling for

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everyone by winning his 17th title at wrestlemania

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and then we can all get the name of rick flair

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out of our minds Because the only name in professional

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wrestling that we'll need to worry about will

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be John Cena because he'll be known as the greatest

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and with that he's gonna retire with the championship

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take it with him and He'll be the last real champion

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in WWE and he says that revenge is best served

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cold and he's paying us back by ripping out our

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hearts while everyone and Buddy walks away with

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with it and no one can stop him At which point

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the only person who feels who can stop him Comes

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as So he comes running out to the ring It's more

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of a fast -paced walk with a little bit of crowd

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interaction on the way, but Cody Rhodes music's

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hit We get to hear from a member of the only

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royal family of wrestling He comes out and basically

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just asked Cena, you know why he thinks he's

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gonna be allowed to do that and The really cheeky

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comment it goes he goes you've come out here

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You told told all these people that you're gonna

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take this title from them. You gotta take it

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from me first Like yeah, and that was a beautiful

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sort of way of wording it like yeah, you're coming

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out here making all these promises dickhead,

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but I'm still walking around with the title No,

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we haven't even got to WrestleMania yet. So you

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can sit down and watch your neck Well, he sort

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of wrote Cody Rhodes very much claims that John

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Cena made a big mistake by making these claims

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with Rhodes in the building Yeah, I mean Obviously

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these these statements were made to bait Cody

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out into the ring whether it was so they could

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have a bit of Brawl or whether they could have

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an exchange of words Yet to be seen I Mean I

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find it a little bit odd that Cody Rhodes for

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all intent and purpose is the heavyweight champion

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for Smackdown yet all of their Interactions between

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him and his challenger a challenger at WrestleMania

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John Cena are all taking place on raw John Cena

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is a Raw roster wrestler. So I'm guessing it's

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because it's his tour. It's all been done on

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Raw, which is his show. Is he a Raw wrestler?

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I'm not sure. Oh, fair enough. I mean, after

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taking whatever it is the Rocks got to offer

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him, I'm pretty sure he probably is Raw. Yeah,

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but basically Rhodes Rhodes then goes on to call

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Cena vain and then basically offers Cena out

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in the ring and says do you know what? Why wait

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for WrestleMania if you want to try and take

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the title off me and retire with it fucking have

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at it. I'll throw down here and that here and

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now and and Cena for the most part at least for

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a good one to two minutes looks to be sort of

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getting ready to go and then ducks and dips.

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Skinner isn't actually assigned to Rost at currently.

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It doesn't say whether he's SmackDown or Raw.

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So it just says up until the November 4th 2023

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he was SmackDown. From the 5th November 2023

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to present it just doesn't have him listed as

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a... a roster, specifically. Oh, fair enough.

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Yeah, so Cena's making his way back up the entrance

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ramp, heading towards the back, and Rhodes just

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shouts after him. It's just like, Cena! And Cena

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pretty much turns on his heel and starts... and

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starts marching with purpose back towards the

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ring which I thought meant we were going to get

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a fight, I'm not going to lie I thought we were

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getting a fight I think part of the psychology

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here is that Cena heard himself being called

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out and the thought process behind it is that

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he's turned on his heel almost out of instinct

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to go back to the ring and to have this fight

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but then sort of remembers where he is, what

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he's doing, and like, no, I'm supposed to be

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heel. I'm gonna turn round and fuck off instead.

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Oh, that's fair enough. Do the opposite to what

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everyone wants you to do. It's the perfect heel

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move. Yeah, I mean, he's very much taking...

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He's made claims of wanting to punish the WWE

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Universe for all the dishonesty that they've

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given him over the years and everything along

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those lines. So he isn't gonna give them anything

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that they want Unless he absolutely has to so

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Looks like at least for the moment. We're gonna

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have to wait until Wait for Las Vegas Wait for

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Las Vegas to to basically Get these two in a

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ring together to actually do anything more than

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just chat shit to one another We don't have too

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long to wait to be fair. It is less than 30 days

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away. So we are in the last couple of shows where

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everything's going to be finalized. We'll get

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contract signings. We'll get all the fun stuff.

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There might even be a bit of a rumble in the

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jungle at that contract signing. A little bit

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of a brawl. Maybe. Maybe. But yeah, Rhodes' last

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words on the subject was that... John is going

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to be walking away from John is not going to

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be allowed to walk away from WWE and take see

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and take Rhodes his title with him Cena will

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be walking out of mania and out of WWE empty

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-handed We'll be honest it's I Wouldn't put it

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past WWE storyline writers to have John Cena

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not necessary. I don't think he'll ill If they

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do go down the route of allowing him to retire

00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:19.900
with the title. I don't think they'll lift it

00:19:19.900 --> 00:19:29.119
off Cody at WrestleMania and have Cena hold it

00:19:29.119 --> 00:19:32.039
concurrently for the next nine months or so.

00:19:32.700 --> 00:19:34.980
I just don't think that's how that's going to

00:19:34.980 --> 00:19:37.059
work, because that means that Cena's got to put

00:19:37.059 --> 00:19:40.180
in the time to be able to have that title run.

00:19:40.559 --> 00:19:44.359
Well, he's currently filming in, I want to say

00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:48.839
Hungary, but once that show is finished, he is

00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:51.660
meant to be back full -time week in, week out.

00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:58.250
I mean, he's doing all right so far. Yeah, but

00:19:58.250 --> 00:20:00.410
he's in Europe. It's a couple of hours on a plane

00:20:00.410 --> 00:20:04.710
rather than 14 18 each way back and then having

00:20:04.710 --> 00:20:08.809
to go, you know, Hungary to New York to Florida

00:20:08.809 --> 00:20:14.349
to Wisconsin to Chicago to Hungary to Washington.

00:20:14.369 --> 00:20:18.369
Yeah, this is a lot of miles there. A lot of

00:20:18.369 --> 00:20:22.470
miles. Talking about mileage though, our next

00:20:22.470 --> 00:20:28.190
segment. was a recap on Bron Breakers war against

00:20:28.190 --> 00:20:31.430
the Judgment Day the last few weeks where he's

00:20:31.430 --> 00:20:36.549
had matches against Finn Balor. We've seen him

00:20:36.549 --> 00:20:40.329
have multiple attacks when it comes to Dirty

00:20:40.329 --> 00:20:46.170
Domus Stereo, Carlito. It's been a massive war,

00:20:46.589 --> 00:20:48.710
but I say you can go through each and every one

00:20:48.710 --> 00:20:55.180
of those recaps. from our previous episodes to

00:20:55.180 --> 00:20:58.880
find out what's been going on. This VT is basically

00:20:58.880 --> 00:21:06.099
promoting the main event. Which is Brunt Breaker

00:21:06.099 --> 00:21:10.380
versus Penta for the Intercontinental Championship.

00:21:11.779 --> 00:21:14.099
Which is a match I was really looking forward

00:21:14.099 --> 00:21:16.700
to, I will be honest, but we're going to keep

00:21:16.700 --> 00:21:18.960
you in suspense just for a little while longer.

00:21:19.579 --> 00:21:22.359
So that we can talk about the rest of raw rather

00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.420
than just get into the good bit. So this next

00:21:26.420 --> 00:21:29.160
bit was also a bit of a good bit. So we were

00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:34.500
told last week that Jimmy Uso would be sorry,

00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:38.079
J Uso would be having a match against a town

00:21:38.079 --> 00:21:42.420
down under this week in a tag match with a mystery

00:21:42.420 --> 00:21:45.559
tag partner. I did just completely fuck it for

00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:51.000
everyone this week. we got to see the Usos reunited

00:21:51.000 --> 00:21:56.319
in a tag match as Jimmy came to help his brother

00:21:56.319 --> 00:21:59.779
Jay out in this match. Now this is the first

00:21:59.779 --> 00:22:04.500
time we've seen the Usos in a tag match in 18

00:22:04.500 --> 00:22:07.900
months with just a standard tag match outside

00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:09.960
of the bloodline stuff and that's when they beat

00:22:09.960 --> 00:22:15.259
Raymond Reigns and Solo Sokoa. So yeah, but once

00:22:15.259 --> 00:22:19.900
I'd realised we were getting... My notes were

00:22:19.900 --> 00:22:22.359
reasonable, but the fan in me was just like,

00:22:22.579 --> 00:22:29.619
yeah, Usos. I've been a big Usos fan for years.

00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.799
I'd love watching the Usos, but this was one

00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:35.380
of those. It was like, yes, we get a little bit

00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:37.319
of nostalgia back. It's like giving me the hardies

00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:45.420
on Monday Night Raw. Yeah, pretty much. The only

00:22:45.420 --> 00:22:47.819
other bit of research that didn't come with Monday

00:22:47.819 --> 00:22:50.660
Night Raw that I did have my own back, and there

00:22:50.660 --> 00:22:53.259
are bits of this interspersed within this episode

00:22:53.259 --> 00:22:58.619
today. So I'll either take the praise or apologize

00:22:58.619 --> 00:23:00.460
now, depending on how you want to look at it.

00:23:02.579 --> 00:23:07.819
But Usos have, in total in their career as tag

00:23:07.819 --> 00:23:13.420
team wrestlers, have won 13 tag titles. in their

00:23:13.420 --> 00:23:18.759
WWE career. It's an insane amount of titles.

00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:23.000
That's a Hall of Fame style career tag team there.

00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:29.160
And even they know it. 100%. 100%. And they're

00:23:29.160 --> 00:23:32.799
not anywhere close to being done just yet. Oh

00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:40.480
hell no they're not. But yeah, I got a few spots

00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.460
from this match that I really... Really, really

00:23:43.460 --> 00:23:47.500
rather enjoyed. One of the earliest spots was

00:23:47.500 --> 00:23:52.740
Big Jim's hellacious chop to Grayson Waller in

00:23:52.740 --> 00:23:55.599
the corner. I mean, I felt that damn thing when

00:23:55.599 --> 00:24:03.039
it came off. Yeah, that was a very, very powerful

00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:05.980
chop. I would not like to have received that

00:24:05.980 --> 00:24:10.880
myself. I will give you that. No, and in fairness

00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.880
Austin Theory did get his own back shortly afterwards

00:24:13.880 --> 00:24:19.740
with a huge forearm to Big Jim's face, basically

00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:24.539
There was a few big moves in this match that

00:24:24.539 --> 00:24:31.460
were really really good I couldn't pick out Where

00:24:31.460 --> 00:24:34.380
to start to be fair. I think if I had to I think

00:24:34.380 --> 00:24:37.819
it'd be where Grayson Waller tried to to take

00:24:37.819 --> 00:24:42.339
on a Sling blade on Big Jim, but Big Jim reverses

00:24:42.339 --> 00:24:49.559
it into a Samoan drop and Grayson Waller Yeah,

00:24:49.720 --> 00:24:52.200
it's it's that was the next one I was going to

00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:55.220
be talking about in fairness because Not we've

00:24:55.220 --> 00:24:57.420
seen Grayson Waller do this on a number of different

00:24:57.420 --> 00:24:59.759
occasions in the past where he'll dive in from

00:24:59.759 --> 00:25:03.660
the outside through the ropes and Forward roll

00:25:03.660 --> 00:25:07.890
and hit that swing blade flush But the reversal,

00:25:08.309 --> 00:25:11.569
even commentary on Monday Night Raw, we're not

00:25:11.569 --> 00:25:17.069
100 % certain about whether that was a successful

00:25:17.069 --> 00:25:19.329
move or whether it was a reversal, but it was

00:25:19.329 --> 00:25:23.910
a very subtle reversal. Oh, and it was beautiful

00:25:23.910 --> 00:25:27.170
as well. I mean, both of those guys played that

00:25:27.170 --> 00:25:32.250
one off. I had a little bit later on... Jay got

00:25:32.250 --> 00:25:35.109
some super kicks out of his system on both Grace

00:25:35.109 --> 00:25:38.630
and Warner on Austin Theory and tried to cover

00:25:38.630 --> 00:25:40.910
Austin Theory for a two count. The one thing

00:25:40.910 --> 00:25:43.170
I did really enjoy about this match, and I really

00:25:43.170 --> 00:25:46.450
don't want to say this to be fair, was Atown

00:25:46.450 --> 00:25:48.890
Down Under had a really sneaky sort of chemistry

00:25:48.890 --> 00:25:51.869
with them tonight. A lot of sneaky hidden tags

00:25:51.869 --> 00:25:55.769
that the referee didn't see. So the commentary

00:25:55.769 --> 00:25:59.410
did and we did that meant that... the guy in

00:25:59.410 --> 00:26:01.329
the ring that was doing a lot of the wrestling

00:26:01.329 --> 00:26:04.849
wasn't actually the active wrestler for that

00:26:04.849 --> 00:26:07.930
team. So the other guy was getting some really

00:26:07.930 --> 00:26:10.970
good cheap shots in the active wrestler that

00:26:10.970 --> 00:26:16.730
wasn't actually wrestling. Yeah, very much so.

00:26:18.670 --> 00:26:20.609
I just thought it was really cool the way that

00:26:20.609 --> 00:26:22.690
Atown Down Under were doing that. I was quite

00:26:22.690 --> 00:26:25.700
impressed, I'm not gonna lie. Think it did really

00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:29.279
well to protect a town down under as a tag team

00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:31.420
I mean, they don't have much of a reputation

00:26:31.420 --> 00:26:36.140
other than being cannon fodder anyway, but It

00:26:36.140 --> 00:26:40.880
helped them attain a level of The world I'm looking

00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:45.059
for it helped them attain a level of Credibility.

00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:49.720
Yes I mean to be fair Grayson wall has got a

00:26:49.720 --> 00:26:52.700
lot of credibility It's Austin Theory that holds

00:26:52.700 --> 00:26:56.000
Blackhay Town down under. Personally. You think?

00:26:56.259 --> 00:27:00.839
Yeah. Well, Austin Theory got a really, really

00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:03.980
big push. And then they've just shit on him.

00:27:04.200 --> 00:27:07.240
Like, he's done nothing since Hunter came into

00:27:07.240 --> 00:27:12.140
WWE, really. Like, in charge. But Grace Waller,

00:27:12.259 --> 00:27:13.960
I think, is probably the better one of the two.

00:27:14.740 --> 00:27:16.859
It's more charismatic. Austin Theory's a bit

00:27:16.859 --> 00:27:23.220
boring. For me personally. I'm not a huge fan

00:27:23.220 --> 00:27:26.480
of either of them. I respect what they've achieved

00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.099
and all the rest of it, but Yeah, I'm just not

00:27:30.099 --> 00:27:34.819
a not a huge fan of either of them So never really

00:27:34.819 --> 00:27:37.400
sort of paid that much attention unless they're

00:27:37.400 --> 00:27:39.900
actively sort of put in front of me It might

00:27:39.900 --> 00:27:42.119
feel like a bit of a stretch on the comparison,

00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:46.180
but to me they compare a little bit to Enzo Big

00:27:46.180 --> 00:27:49.859
Cass They are brilliant to that they're all right

00:27:49.859 --> 00:27:51.759
together but you split them up and neither of

00:27:51.759 --> 00:27:56.759
them can do nothing oh yeah no they what they

00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:05.099
produce apart is hail is a weak imitation yes

00:28:05.099 --> 00:28:10.160
of anything realistically um but we also secure

00:28:10.160 --> 00:28:15.000
the wall with some really super smooth like silky

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.880
smooth double team moves to secure the victory

00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:27.220
in the end. As they were celebrating up on the

00:28:27.220 --> 00:28:34.500
turnbuckle, we got to see our favourite interruptee

00:28:34.500 --> 00:28:37.700
when it comes to Jay. So at the moment Gunther

00:28:37.700 --> 00:28:42.759
pulls Jim off the top rope and then jumps in.

00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:48.980
and starts trying to get funky with Jay. I mean,

00:28:49.019 --> 00:28:52.559
Jay can hold his own to begin with, but... He

00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:54.559
does need a bit of help from Big Brother at the

00:28:54.559 --> 00:29:01.880
end. Yeah, this is it. Jimmy does end up coming

00:29:01.880 --> 00:29:07.690
in with the chair and sort of chasing... Chasing

00:29:07.690 --> 00:29:10.430
Gunther off a little bit like a scolded cat.

00:29:10.430 --> 00:29:12.390
Who would have thought Gunther would be afraid

00:29:12.390 --> 00:29:16.509
of a steel chair? I mean this guy portrays himself

00:29:16.509 --> 00:29:20.769
as the maximum professional. Well any professional

00:29:20.769 --> 00:29:22.730
knows how to take a chair shot properly surely.

00:29:24.049 --> 00:29:25.769
Well he knows how to take one, he just doesn't

00:29:25.769 --> 00:29:28.950
want to take it. I suppose yeah, they still hurt.

00:29:29.930 --> 00:29:32.009
I was going to say, I can't say I blame him.

00:29:32.690 --> 00:29:37.140
It's not going to be fun by any measure. Definitely

00:29:37.140 --> 00:29:41.859
not, definitely not. So yeah, Gunther does one

00:29:41.859 --> 00:29:50.420
and we end up going backstage into Judgment Day's

00:29:50.420 --> 00:29:53.480
little hidey hole for the week. Adam, did you

00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:56.339
spot any cool little bits in Judgment Day's hidey

00:29:56.339 --> 00:29:59.259
hole that we need to know about this week? No,

00:29:59.700 --> 00:30:03.059
nothing. Oh, I thought they might have had a

00:30:03.059 --> 00:30:05.140
little tidbit for us. No, I didn't, I didn't.

00:30:05.180 --> 00:30:07.819
But I know you're pretty good at picking up the

00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:09.579
smaller details. I thought you might have had

00:30:09.579 --> 00:30:13.259
a bit of information for us today. No, I'll be

00:30:13.259 --> 00:30:15.299
honest. I felt a little bit against the crunch

00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:19.440
this week. So some of the background details

00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.720
might have escaped me, I'm afraid. But yeah,

00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:25.599
we come to a backstage promo where Liv and Raquel

00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:28.059
are discussing Raquel's match later on in the

00:30:28.059 --> 00:30:31.279
card, which is for the Women's Intercontinental

00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:38.589
Championship. Which, yeah, it comes in a very

00:30:38.589 --> 00:30:43.750
little bit. They are then joined by Dom and Carlito,

00:30:44.170 --> 00:30:47.309
where it's revealed that Dom's had a chat earlier

00:30:47.309 --> 00:30:52.089
in the evening with Finn, which apparently didn't

00:30:52.089 --> 00:30:57.349
go well. Any conversation between Finn and Dom

00:30:57.349 --> 00:31:01.369
at the moment isn't going well. No, I think Finn's

00:31:01.369 --> 00:31:05.819
still smarting from from basically not being

00:31:05.819 --> 00:31:08.200
able to secure a victory over Bron Breaker last

00:31:08.200 --> 00:31:12.660
week. Well yeah and to be fair he wasn't all

00:31:12.660 --> 00:31:15.059
over Bron Breaker but he had a very very good

00:31:15.059 --> 00:31:17.259
chance compared to some of the other people we've

00:31:17.259 --> 00:31:20.839
seen Bron defend his title against up until Dom

00:31:20.839 --> 00:31:26.480
and Carlito got involved. Yeah this is it and

00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:30.500
Liv's basically there giving Dom A pep talk.

00:31:30.579 --> 00:31:33.819
I love the fact that Carlito makes it I'm I think

00:31:33.819 --> 00:31:36.279
it was a semi -serious suggestion that he goes

00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:41.279
and challenges for the IC title now the last

00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:48.859
time He is literally just there to take a bump

00:31:48.859 --> 00:31:51.440
and make everyone else look good the fact that

00:31:51.440 --> 00:31:54.299
he thinks he's got a chance the IC title is brilliant

00:31:54.299 --> 00:31:59.789
Well in fairness Carlito has had one run with

00:31:59.789 --> 00:32:05.569
the IC title before, back in 2005. He defeated

00:32:05.569 --> 00:32:09.349
Shelton Benjamin for the IC title. He then had

00:32:09.349 --> 00:32:12.190
a run with that for 90 days, where he ends up

00:32:12.190 --> 00:32:17.269
losing it then to Ric Flair. Let me guess, Ric

00:32:17.269 --> 00:32:19.549
Flair had been off injured, came back and wanted

00:32:19.549 --> 00:32:24.859
a title. Sorry, that's Charlotte. didn't look

00:32:24.859 --> 00:32:28.480
that deep into it but yeah Liv's pep talk basically

00:32:28.480 --> 00:32:33.640
ends up telling Dom to trust his instincts and

00:32:33.640 --> 00:32:38.059
continue trying to recruit Penta which is who

00:32:38.059 --> 00:32:41.480
the Judgement Day well some of the Judgement

00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:45.000
Day have had their eye on to recruit recruit

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:50.160
into their ranks sort of thing it'll be interesting

00:32:50.160 --> 00:32:56.440
to see how when he eventually returns JD McDonner

00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:59.880
ends up sort of figuring into all of this because

00:32:59.880 --> 00:33:02.359
it's been a very long it feels like it's been

00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:05.359
a very long time since the last time we saw Mr.

00:33:05.579 --> 00:33:09.200
McDonner obviously off last time we saw JD McDonner

00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:13.000
we saw him giving himself a punctured lung and

00:33:13.000 --> 00:33:18.079
some fractured ribs off the announce table Well,

00:33:18.079 --> 00:33:20.279
I thought he'd stopped his neck and ripped his

00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:24.059
head off and shit down his own neck, but um Yeah,

00:33:24.059 --> 00:33:28.799
Jesus You got a little bit too close to her too

00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:32.960
close to God that day. Oh 100 % I think he saw

00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:42.740
the big guy probably most likely Yeah, very much

00:33:42.740 --> 00:33:47.170
very much we when went from that backstage promo

00:33:47.170 --> 00:33:51.269
into a VT promo, which I'm going to be honest,

00:33:51.369 --> 00:33:54.009
I wasn't sure what to make of this to begin with

00:33:54.009 --> 00:33:57.529
until I realised what it was. This was the cheesiest

00:33:57.529 --> 00:34:02.309
Lucha Libre history in VT in the world. So it

00:34:02.309 --> 00:34:06.069
was basically saying that Lucha Libre had had

00:34:06.069 --> 00:34:08.809
some quality guys in this history. It mentioned

00:34:08.809 --> 00:34:14.099
Blue Demon, the Guerrero family. But it also

00:34:14.099 --> 00:34:16.840
said that one star shines brighter than all of

00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:19.679
them and that was El Grande Americano from the

00:34:19.679 --> 00:34:23.420
Gulf of America and he rose basically up through

00:34:23.420 --> 00:34:27.460
the ranks to become a top face of Lucha Libre

00:34:27.460 --> 00:34:31.039
But he he got blackballed by his enemies and

00:34:31.039 --> 00:34:33.440
disappeared and now he's back to bring honor

00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:40.130
and To the to the lucha style again I mean This

00:34:40.130 --> 00:34:43.309
was a bit fucking weird. We know at this point

00:34:43.309 --> 00:34:47.570
El Grande Americano is Chad Gable in a costume,

00:34:47.650 --> 00:34:52.570
right? We've surely got to know this. I think

00:34:52.570 --> 00:34:55.670
we're being pushed in a direction where we're

00:34:55.670 --> 00:34:59.090
being told that's who we need to think it is.

00:34:59.469 --> 00:35:02.150
But I can't think of anyone off the top of my

00:35:02.150 --> 00:35:05.309
head that it could be that isn't Chad Gable.

00:35:05.750 --> 00:35:08.610
I know it's not Aleister Black because Alistair

00:35:08.610 --> 00:35:12.369
black has an awful lot of tattoos and la grande

00:35:12.369 --> 00:35:17.829
americano has Fuck all in the way of tattoo line

00:35:17.829 --> 00:35:21.650
Yeah, Alistair black also has about three -quarters

00:35:21.650 --> 00:35:29.550
of a foot on Chad gable so and But yeah, that's

00:35:29.550 --> 00:35:33.769
I I'm very much sort of believing what WWE are

00:35:33.769 --> 00:35:36.849
feeding us at the moment at that is The Al Grande

00:35:36.849 --> 00:35:43.210
Americano is Chad Gable basically. Last week

00:35:43.210 --> 00:35:46.150
backstage wasn't the real Al Grande Americano.

00:35:46.289 --> 00:35:49.809
It was just a stitch up to shut up the interviewer.

00:35:51.230 --> 00:35:57.909
I think so. Now we transition from this VT into

00:35:57.909 --> 00:36:02.150
the GM's office where Adam Pearce is sort of

00:36:02.150 --> 00:36:05.440
watching that vignette with Rey Mysterio and

00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.420
Dragon Lee who are quite literally just stood

00:36:09.420 --> 00:36:13.199
there like What the fuck is that? They must be

00:36:13.199 --> 00:36:17.219
insulted by that vignette. That was terrible

00:36:17.219 --> 00:36:21.940
Well, yeah, it's I mean Rey Mysterio one of the

00:36:21.940 --> 00:36:26.940
most one of one of if not the most famous lucha

00:36:26.940 --> 00:36:35.980
libre professional in the industry today is stood

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:38.480
there basically watching a vignette that says

00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:43.539
that there's somebody that is basically a Lucha

00:36:43.539 --> 00:36:48.900
God, but nobody's ever heard of him. Right, a

00:36:48.900 --> 00:36:53.940
bit like Chad Gable. Yeah. Outside of WWE, no

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:58.050
one's got a fucking clue who Chad Gable is. Well

00:36:58.050 --> 00:37:01.550
speaking of Chad Gable he then comes in to basically

00:37:01.550 --> 00:37:05.769
corroborate to say that yeah El Grande Americano

00:37:05.769 --> 00:37:11.690
is It's not just a large cup of black coffee

00:37:11.690 --> 00:37:17.150
it's a he is the one of the greatest lucha libre

00:37:17.150 --> 00:37:30.019
stars in the world and It's something that I've

00:37:30.019 --> 00:37:32.219
only just tweaked in fairness it was something

00:37:32.219 --> 00:37:34.559
I literally I was just sat thinking I was like

00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:50.500
Where have I heard that phrase before? At the

00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:52.340
point that we're recording this in fairness,

00:37:52.340 --> 00:37:54.480
I've only finished watching it about an hour.

00:37:54.480 --> 00:37:57.900
I only finished watching raw maybe an hour Hour

00:37:57.900 --> 00:38:00.900
an hour and a half ago. So yeah, this is all

00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:03.260
still sort of ruminating in my head But yeah,

00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:06.239
I'll grande ca - I'll grande americano large

00:38:06.239 --> 00:38:14.599
black large black covered. Oh That is some Vince

00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:23.030
McMahon level bullshit that is Anyway Speaking

00:38:23.030 --> 00:38:26.469
of Chad Gable, he comes in, corroborates it,

00:38:27.789 --> 00:38:31.969
and also hands a doctor's note to Adam Pearce,

00:38:32.250 --> 00:38:34.489
excusing him from his match as he should have

00:38:34.489 --> 00:38:38.809
been competing against Dragon Lee later on in

00:38:38.809 --> 00:38:41.909
the card. Basically says that he's got too much

00:38:41.909 --> 00:38:47.670
of the sniffles to work, which is a pretty weak

00:38:47.670 --> 00:38:53.500
excuse, really. Now there was one bit in the

00:38:53.500 --> 00:38:57.019
one bit right at the very end of this promo that

00:38:57.019 --> 00:39:00.679
I Feel like there was some significance to it,

00:39:00.679 --> 00:39:05.500
but I just don't know what it is Adam Pierce

00:39:05.500 --> 00:39:08.960
Adam Pierce turns to Chad Gable about this doctor's

00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:11.019
note, and he's already verified. It's legit,

00:39:11.159 --> 00:39:16.159
but he mentions the doctor's name And the doctor's

00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:20.300
name was dr. Snow Now I feel like there's some

00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:24.719
significance to that name And I'm not sure if

00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:29.619
I'm right What's your theory? I don't have a

00:39:29.619 --> 00:39:32.219
theory that's that I'm genuinely clueless as

00:39:32.219 --> 00:39:43.179
to it feels like it is It feels like it's It

00:39:43.179 --> 00:39:48.559
means more than It probably does but maybe that's

00:39:48.559 --> 00:39:51.039
me I'm looking for something where there isn't

00:39:51.039 --> 00:40:22.460
anything digress with that one before we digress

00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:25.739
too far we'll move into our next segment which

00:40:25.739 --> 00:40:32.000
was actually match number two of the evening

00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.679
yes second match of the evening was the women's

00:40:36.679 --> 00:40:40.019
intercontinental title match which sees Lyra

00:40:40.019 --> 00:40:45.320
Valkyria defending her title against Raquel Rodriguez

00:40:47.670 --> 00:40:51.670
Yeah, joined at ringside by her tag team partner

00:40:51.670 --> 00:40:57.010
Liv Morgan. We also got a little bit of a promotional

00:40:57.010 --> 00:41:02.590
VT here for the fact that WWE is in Tampa Bay

00:41:02.590 --> 00:41:07.210
for Memorial Day weekend in May, letting us know

00:41:07.210 --> 00:41:12.070
which dates and which programs are where in Tampa.

00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:20.019
If you're living in Florida or near Tampa and

00:41:20.019 --> 00:41:23.360
off to one of those shows, then send us an email.

00:41:23.699 --> 00:41:28.719
Let us know how excited you are. Let us know

00:41:28.719 --> 00:41:31.739
how much the tickets cost. Yeah, it'd be nice

00:41:31.739 --> 00:41:34.300
to be in comparison for something like that compared

00:41:34.300 --> 00:41:38.460
to the extortionate price of two kidneys they

00:41:38.460 --> 00:41:43.340
wanted for two tickets over here. Yeah, true

00:41:43.340 --> 00:41:50.170
that. Yeah, this match, did this not feel a little

00:41:50.170 --> 00:41:54.590
bit reminiscent of the Piper Niven -Zelina Vega

00:41:54.590 --> 00:41:59.670
match on Friday Night SmackDown just gone? Yes,

00:42:00.429 --> 00:42:03.869
because Raquel Rodriguez ragged old Lyra Valkyria

00:42:03.869 --> 00:42:08.429
for pretty much the entire goddamn match. But

00:42:08.429 --> 00:42:11.869
unlike the Piper Niven match the other night,

00:42:12.050 --> 00:42:18.280
Lyra Valkyria did not get a news full of Raquel

00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:23.699
Rodriguez ring piece No, she didn't but she did

00:42:23.699 --> 00:42:27.980
get a chest She did get a chest full of Raquel

00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:38.760
Rodriguez's boot I've seen I've seen shotguns

00:42:38.760 --> 00:42:41.360
in video games with less stopping power than

00:42:41.360 --> 00:42:43.840
that boot that was delivered to Lyra Valkyrie.

00:42:43.840 --> 00:42:49.039
I mean she stopped dead yeah you definitely know

00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.539
that um Raquel Rodriguez uses uh marathon and

00:42:52.539 --> 00:42:55.639
stopping power and her loadouts on the war zone

00:42:55.639 --> 00:43:00.460
she absolutely stopped Vakira a few times and

00:43:00.460 --> 00:43:04.059
it did not seem to matter what Lyra did to to

00:43:04.059 --> 00:43:07.039
try and drop her down a peg a tube or what direction

00:43:07.039 --> 00:43:09.539
she came out of from or what style she came out

00:43:09.539 --> 00:43:13.480
with Raquel Rodriguez had Lyra Vakira's number

00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.920
this evening like all through this launch, Raquel

00:43:16.920 --> 00:43:20.980
Rodriguez was in charge. Pretty much. There wasn't

00:43:20.980 --> 00:43:24.159
many, there were a few spots where Lyra did seem

00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:26.500
to have the upper hand, but it didn't seem to

00:43:26.500 --> 00:43:30.179
last very long. I mean, Lyra did manage to send

00:43:30.179 --> 00:43:34.940
Raquel Rodriguez careening into the announce

00:43:34.940 --> 00:43:38.639
desk with a Huracan Rana, which I actually quite

00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:40.300
enjoyed to the point that I think I may have

00:43:40.300 --> 00:43:43.039
rewound it two or three times to watch it back.

00:43:46.460 --> 00:43:52.460
the I've also got Valkyria had a Massive leg

00:43:52.460 --> 00:43:55.280
drop onto the back of the neck of Rodriguez at

00:43:55.280 --> 00:43:58.280
one point It was one of the spots I picked up

00:43:58.280 --> 00:44:05.320
on That leg drop was fantastic. I had the Wasn't

00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.940
a spot. It was more of a fact. This was the recall

00:44:09.940 --> 00:44:14.460
Rodriguez's first time going for a singles championship

00:44:15.269 --> 00:44:18.469
And if she was to win this match should be the

00:44:18.469 --> 00:44:21.989
second ever women's intercontinental title holder

00:44:21.989 --> 00:44:29.489
So Raquel Rodriguez hits a corkscrew elbow for

00:44:29.489 --> 00:44:32.250
a two count at one point I really I don't know

00:44:32.250 --> 00:44:34.510
how she does it. She's a big girl, but she pulls

00:44:34.510 --> 00:44:38.289
off some really interesting moves and that corkscrew

00:44:38.289 --> 00:44:43.389
Elbow is really really nice Yeah, I mean they

00:44:43.389 --> 00:44:47.150
were Solid wrestling during this match not not

00:44:47.150 --> 00:44:50.030
gonna lie. I mean even from Laura Valkyrie who

00:44:50.030 --> 00:44:53.969
was obviously at a disadvantage here based on

00:44:53.969 --> 00:44:57.849
saw but based on size and strength of Raquel

00:44:57.849 --> 00:45:02.389
Rodriguez going into this match, but Yeah, I

00:45:02.389 --> 00:45:04.389
mean still manages to pull off some big moves.

00:45:04.389 --> 00:45:08.849
I've got the Liv Morgan at one point interferes,

00:45:09.130 --> 00:45:12.150
hooking Rodriguez's leg on the bottom rope after

00:45:12.150 --> 00:45:16.449
an absolutely astounding DDT from Lyra Valkyria,

00:45:16.909 --> 00:45:21.409
but only obviously ends in a two count for it.

00:45:26.449 --> 00:45:30.909
The only other bit that I've got for this match

00:45:30.909 --> 00:45:34.530
within the match itself is the Valkyria does

00:45:34.530 --> 00:45:39.449
end up retaining her championship after countering

00:45:39.449 --> 00:45:43.949
a Tohuna bomb with a small package pin, which

00:45:43.949 --> 00:45:46.929
I know you're not normally a fan of the sneaking

00:45:46.929 --> 00:45:51.769
pins and things like that, but was this something

00:45:51.769 --> 00:45:54.690
to change your opinion or still not a fan? I

00:45:54.690 --> 00:45:56.630
quite enjoyed this one purely for the fact that

00:45:56.630 --> 00:46:01.849
I really like Valkyria, but yeah, it worked for

00:46:01.849 --> 00:46:03.860
me today. We'll let them have it. Well done,

00:46:03.860 --> 00:46:06.920
WW. You haven't abused it too much this week,

00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:13.510
so far. Speaking of abused... But Laura Valkyria,

00:46:13.510 --> 00:46:17.530
I think, after the match's end, ends up getting

00:46:17.530 --> 00:46:23.550
royally abused by Liv and Raquel, who very much

00:46:23.550 --> 00:46:27.329
seem to take their frustrations out on poor Laura

00:46:27.329 --> 00:46:31.750
Valkyria in the ring after the bell goes sort

00:46:31.750 --> 00:46:34.050
of thing. They beat the absolute shit out of

00:46:34.050 --> 00:46:40.030
us. That was until, of course, we had Big Booty

00:46:40.030 --> 00:46:44.539
Bailey come out. Or as Rich pointed out to me

00:46:44.539 --> 00:46:47.539
before I had a chance to watch it. It's big boobies

00:46:47.539 --> 00:46:54.800
Bailey and Yeah, she comes running out to to

00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:59.940
Lyra's aid and we did actually spot in Quite

00:46:59.940 --> 00:47:04.440
a big top was that? Pop. Oh, sorry. Quite a big

00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:15.550
pop from the crowd Not a big pop and a top mean

00:47:15.550 --> 00:47:24.769
it could have been anyway so yeah baby comes

00:47:24.769 --> 00:47:29.570
out and and evens the odds against Liv and Raquel

00:47:29.570 --> 00:47:32.489
and the minute that Liv and Raquel sort of lose

00:47:32.489 --> 00:47:37.070
their advantage they again run off like a couple

00:47:37.070 --> 00:47:41.380
like like a couple of chastised children basically,

00:47:43.440 --> 00:47:48.420
where we go from that match into a VT promo which

00:47:48.420 --> 00:47:53.460
sees a raw recap from, it starts off two weeks

00:47:53.460 --> 00:47:56.320
previous and then sort of jumps forward halfway

00:47:56.320 --> 00:48:00.880
through, basically recapping the run -up with

00:48:00.880 --> 00:48:07.989
IoSky, Bianca Bella and Chria Ripley. obviously

00:48:07.989 --> 00:48:13.210
real ripply lost her women's title to EO Sky

00:48:13.210 --> 00:48:19.010
Bianca Belair at ringside yep and Bianca Belair

00:48:19.010 --> 00:48:22.789
won elimination chamber which gives her a match

00:48:22.789 --> 00:48:27.110
opportunity at WrestleMania against the women's

00:48:27.110 --> 00:48:32.659
title holder which at the moment is EO Sky Yeah,

00:48:32.659 --> 00:48:35.099
Rhea Ripley is not happy at the fact that she

00:48:35.099 --> 00:48:40.760
lost her title to EO Sky Because she feels that

00:48:40.760 --> 00:48:46.840
Bianca Belair interfered in the match Yeah, and

00:48:46.840 --> 00:48:52.900
It was all a little bit Bianca basically Yeah,

00:48:53.219 --> 00:48:57.239
she didn't interfere into fear, but she she distracted

00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:01.119
Rhea which gave EO an opportunity to counter

00:49:01.710 --> 00:49:04.489
the move that she was popping for a three count.

00:49:05.349 --> 00:49:08.269
So Rhea's pissed at the fact that Bianca was

00:49:08.269 --> 00:49:11.090
there and she was stupid enough to let Io get

00:49:11.090 --> 00:49:15.269
the better of her. Io's pissed because they keep

00:49:15.269 --> 00:49:17.530
both putting their hands on her face whenever

00:49:17.530 --> 00:49:20.289
she's trying to say something and she feels that

00:49:20.289 --> 00:49:22.969
as the women's champion she should be respected

00:49:22.969 --> 00:49:26.570
more, and being to be fair, last week she did

00:49:26.570 --> 00:49:31.099
manage to lay off two. incredible slaps on both

00:49:31.099 --> 00:49:34.320
Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair in the middle of

00:49:34.320 --> 00:49:36.539
the ring. It might have been a week before actually,

00:49:36.860 --> 00:49:41.519
but yeah. She hit them both very hard. The reason

00:49:41.519 --> 00:49:44.800
that this is brought to our attention, at a contract

00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:48.699
signing last week, we saw Rhea Ripley sign her

00:49:48.699 --> 00:49:52.059
name on the WrestleMania contract as if that

00:49:52.059 --> 00:49:54.880
sort of... Basically as if that means something

00:49:54.880 --> 00:49:57.000
as if that means that she's then in the match

00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.719
Which I think in the past and we've seen other

00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:02.539
we've seen other people do this and it does end

00:50:02.539 --> 00:50:05.360
up with them being involved in the match itself

00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:09.219
But we're being told that Adam Pierce is going

00:50:09.219 --> 00:50:12.619
to come out to the ring Clarify the position

00:50:12.619 --> 00:50:15.679
that WWE are taking on this specific incident

00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.420
for it and that's coming up very very very soon

00:50:20.210 --> 00:50:23.349
However, we've got another promo to get to before

00:50:23.349 --> 00:50:25.849
this happens, and I've got to admit, out of all

00:50:25.849 --> 00:50:30.150
the promos they did within this week's Raw, this

00:50:30.150 --> 00:50:41.929
one was probably one of my favourites. So we

00:50:41.929 --> 00:50:45.269
see this promo involves Jimmy and Jay basically

00:50:45.269 --> 00:50:48.309
having a bit of a heart -to -heart in somewhere

00:50:48.309 --> 00:50:52.030
backstage where Obviously we've seen over the

00:50:52.030 --> 00:50:54.909
last few weeks Jay has been getting jumped by

00:50:54.909 --> 00:50:57.510
Gunther at pretty much every opportunity Gunther

00:50:57.510 --> 00:51:00.989
can possibly make for himself and it's causing

00:51:00.989 --> 00:51:05.210
Jay to have a real sort of like confidence crisis

00:51:05.210 --> 00:51:08.309
which for somebody like WrestleMania main event

00:51:08.309 --> 00:51:13.070
Jay Uso to have a crisis of confidence is pretty

00:51:13.070 --> 00:51:20.050
much catastrophic for him and Basically Jimmy's

00:51:20.050 --> 00:51:24.190
there saying look at this point you're not gonna

00:51:24.190 --> 00:51:27.889
win that match at WrestleMania because this version

00:51:27.889 --> 00:51:33.929
of J Isn't gonna win fuck all we need the enforcer

00:51:33.929 --> 00:51:36.889
J. We need the one that became main event when

00:51:36.889 --> 00:51:40.869
he first Done that name of main event J. You

00:51:40.869 --> 00:51:47.929
so we need that J back That J can win at WrestleMania

00:51:47.929 --> 00:51:51.909
this J is gonna have his ass handed to him by

00:51:51.909 --> 00:51:56.730
an Austrian with a freaking bell Yes, I thought

00:51:56.730 --> 00:51:58.289
you were going somewhere completely different

00:51:58.289 --> 00:52:04.449
then I was like no Adam, please No, I'm not I'm

00:52:04.449 --> 00:52:11.449
not here to bury anyone But yeah, and after this

00:52:13.469 --> 00:52:17.769
after this little pep talk where basically Jimmy's

00:52:17.769 --> 00:52:20.969
telling his brother get your fucking act together

00:52:20.969 --> 00:52:26.050
pull your head out your ass he then he must have

00:52:26.050 --> 00:52:29.710
spotted Gunther walk past the stairwell where

00:52:29.710 --> 00:52:34.789
they were as he literally rounds the corner on

00:52:34.789 --> 00:52:38.719
Gunther to basically say right you and me next

00:52:38.719 --> 00:52:41.159
week you've been bullying my brother i'm gonna

00:52:41.159 --> 00:52:49.300
fucking have you and Gunther accepts but warns

00:52:49.300 --> 00:52:53.059
him not to slip like his brother did which is

00:52:53.059 --> 00:52:55.159
actually something i don't think we covered from

00:52:55.159 --> 00:52:57.599
that original match in the commentary we gave

00:52:57.599 --> 00:53:00.860
so to give it a little bit more context around

00:53:00.860 --> 00:53:04.099
that at one point towards the end of the attack

00:53:04.099 --> 00:53:07.269
from Gunther Gunther is in a vulnerable position.

00:53:07.289 --> 00:53:10.269
We've got Jay in the corner getting ready to

00:53:10.269 --> 00:53:16.309
hit hit the best spear of his life when Jay ends

00:53:16.309 --> 00:53:20.889
up his feet just fall from under him Which is

00:53:20.889 --> 00:53:25.369
a Huge mistake you'd never expect anybody in

00:53:25.369 --> 00:53:29.670
WWE to make let alone Somebody has experienced

00:53:29.670 --> 00:53:47.300
as Jey Uso They'd have got rid of something like

00:53:47.300 --> 00:53:52.059
that before they even made it into WWE realistically

00:53:52.059 --> 00:53:57.000
But yeah Gunther basically warns him not to slip

00:53:57.000 --> 00:54:02.039
like his brother did and When I tell you that

00:54:02.039 --> 00:54:07.199
big Jim slaps the fucking taste out of Gunther's

00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:10.119
mouth. Like I'm pretty sure I saw every last

00:54:10.119 --> 00:54:15.820
taste bud that Gunther has within his mouth fly

00:54:15.820 --> 00:54:18.500
out from between his lips with that freaking

00:54:18.500 --> 00:54:21.460
slap. If that wasn't the case, if Gunther ate

00:54:21.460 --> 00:54:24.260
chicken and it tasted like chicken before the

00:54:24.260 --> 00:54:26.519
slap, if he ate chicken afterwards it'd be tasting

00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:31.139
like prawns. That's how much his mouth was rearranged

00:54:31.139 --> 00:54:36.400
by the slap. Big Jim I'm well expecting that

00:54:36.400 --> 00:54:39.260
when next week rolls around Gunther's gonna turn

00:54:39.260 --> 00:54:42.780
up to raw with a jet with a big Jim handprint

00:54:42.780 --> 00:54:47.340
on the side of his face from that freaking slap

00:54:47.340 --> 00:54:59.630
Yes very well could do I mean we've seen Gunther

00:54:59.630 --> 00:55:03.130
struggling more and more week in week out to

00:55:03.130 --> 00:55:06.250
pull off these sneak attacks now whether that's

00:55:06.250 --> 00:55:10.150
just because Jay is expecting it more and knowing

00:55:10.150 --> 00:55:14.190
how to counter it or whether Gunther is just

00:55:14.190 --> 00:55:19.530
losing his edge but I'm sticking with my initial

00:55:19.530 --> 00:55:22.690
prediction Jay you so to win at WrestleMania

00:55:23.679 --> 00:55:26.480
You've got Jay to win, you've got Jay to win.

00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:33.079
Yeah, so I'm not even sure what I want to do

00:55:33.079 --> 00:55:34.940
in that situation at the moment. I'm definitely

00:55:34.940 --> 00:55:37.039
not putting any money on it. It's too close to

00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:39.820
call. I think that will be match of the night

00:55:39.820 --> 00:55:42.059
by any stretch of the imagination, no matter

00:55:42.059 --> 00:55:44.000
which way it goes, it'll be match of the night.

00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:47.239
I think both Gunther and Jay are going to put

00:55:47.239 --> 00:55:51.599
on the show of shows at the show of shows. Yeah.

00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:56.239
very much so but we're going to cut back to in

00:55:56.239 --> 00:56:00.099
-ring at this point as we have Adam Pearce stood

00:56:00.099 --> 00:56:02.340
in the middle of the ring not somewhere we see

00:56:02.340 --> 00:56:05.260
him very often but it seems to be happening more

00:56:05.260 --> 00:56:08.519
and more regularly and he's basically come out

00:56:08.519 --> 00:56:12.219
to clarify if Rhea Ripley has managed to insert

00:56:12.219 --> 00:56:17.320
herself in the match or whether she has whether

00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:25.869
it's all been for naught basically So basically

00:56:25.869 --> 00:56:33.389
Adam Pearce comes out to basically say, Ria Ripley,

00:56:33.690 --> 00:56:35.949
the fact that you've signed this contract means

00:56:35.949 --> 00:56:40.989
absolutely sweet FA because you're not in the

00:56:40.989 --> 00:56:45.389
match. It doesn't get you anything and you're

00:56:45.389 --> 00:56:47.909
not getting anything. It's a case that Adam Pearce

00:56:47.909 --> 00:56:52.880
has been trying to pin her down for her for her

00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:56.320
contracted rematch from when she lost her title

00:56:56.320 --> 00:57:01.039
initially and she's been evading not wanting

00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:04.699
to sort of commit or anything along those lines

00:57:04.699 --> 00:57:14.039
and yeah. This is when we see EO Sky come out

00:57:14.039 --> 00:57:17.380
and Yeah, I don't think this was invited nor

00:57:17.380 --> 00:57:21.219
expected by Adam Pearce as he seems to get a

00:57:21.219 --> 00:57:23.599
touch eye rate at the fact that he's been interrupted.

00:57:25.260 --> 00:57:27.500
And Eos Guy basically comes out to say, do you

00:57:27.500 --> 00:57:30.119
know what? I don't care who I have to take on.

00:57:30.159 --> 00:57:32.400
I'll take them both on at the same time at WrestleMania.

00:57:33.420 --> 00:57:36.139
I really don't care. I'll take Bianca Bella and

00:57:36.139 --> 00:57:40.179
Rhea Ripley on. And yeah, because I'm the women's

00:57:40.179 --> 00:57:47.579
champion. And... Adam Pearce basically tries

00:57:47.579 --> 00:57:50.019
to set the record straight with EO, gets about

00:57:50.019 --> 00:57:53.840
maybe one and a half to two words out. When Bianca

00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.539
Beller's music hits, more frustration from Adam

00:57:57.539 --> 00:58:00.800
Pearce. He's pissed at this point as well, isn't

00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:06.739
he? Oh, 100%. I mean, Adam Pearce is not normally

00:58:06.739 --> 00:58:11.159
the one we see to lose their cool. And he well

00:58:11.159 --> 00:58:14.119
and truly have lost. He's off the deep end at

00:58:14.119 --> 00:58:18.050
this point. But Bianca Belair comes out, her

00:58:18.050 --> 00:58:20.210
music hits, she comes out and basically says,

00:58:20.610 --> 00:58:25.110
no, my elimination chamber tells me, or my elimination

00:58:25.110 --> 00:58:29.949
chamber win. Puts me at number one contender.

00:58:30.670 --> 00:58:35.010
Yes, you have a rematch, but I'm first. You've

00:58:35.010 --> 00:58:37.610
waited three weeks. Wait another three weeks

00:58:37.610 --> 00:58:43.250
and you can face me instead. And yeah, so she

00:58:43.250 --> 00:58:46.440
comes out and says, My Elimination Chamber win

00:58:46.440 --> 00:58:49.820
entitles me to a one -on -one match with the

00:58:49.820 --> 00:58:52.039
champion that wasn't selected by the Royal Rumble

00:58:52.039 --> 00:58:55.360
winner. Adding another person in is completely

00:58:55.360 --> 00:59:00.059
unfair. Even though, again, this has been done

00:59:00.059 --> 00:59:05.059
in the past. But again, Adam Pearce goes to set

00:59:05.059 --> 00:59:10.019
the record straight with Bianca Beller and EO

00:59:10.019 --> 00:59:14.480
Sky for... Rhea Ripley's music to hit as well.

00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:18.400
And yeah, this is like the straw that broke But

00:59:18.400 --> 00:59:21.119
it's the straw that broke the camel's back at

00:59:21.119 --> 00:59:25.000
the end of the day And you now understand why

00:59:25.000 --> 00:59:28.119
Adam Pierce has the haircut he has Because with

00:59:28.119 --> 00:59:33.139
this woman he would have tore it all out Yeah,

00:59:33.340 --> 00:59:36.920
very much so and I mean Rhea Ripley mommy comes

00:59:36.920 --> 00:59:40.639
out basically just to say do you know what? I

00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:42.840
just want my title back. I don't care what I've

00:59:42.840 --> 00:59:45.800
got to do to do it. Book the match, whatever

00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:49.320
match it is that I need. And I just want to be

00:59:49.320 --> 00:59:52.380
able to get my title back. She doesn't care if

00:59:52.380 --> 00:59:54.880
it's WrestleMania or next week. She wants her

00:59:54.880 --> 01:00:00.000
title back. Yeah, pretty much. Bianca Belair

01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.960
and Rhea Ripley get into a back and forth, which

01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:05.440
we've started to see over the last few weeks.

01:00:05.849 --> 01:00:08.829
they really get sort of zeroed in on one another

01:00:08.829 --> 01:00:14.909
and last week it was Bianca Belair that put her

01:00:14.909 --> 01:00:18.489
hands on the women's champion EO Sky this week

01:00:18.489 --> 01:00:21.710
it was Rhea Ripley who got her hand put it in

01:00:21.710 --> 01:00:28.070
EO's face and properly mugged her off and that

01:00:28.070 --> 01:00:33.860
was it that was the that was very much the The

01:00:33.860 --> 01:00:37.059
straw that broke the camel's back The match and

01:00:37.059 --> 01:00:40.139
the couch and the powder keg, that blew the entire

01:00:40.139 --> 01:00:44.260
situation well up and out of proportion Well

01:00:44.260 --> 01:00:48.019
it blew Adam Pearce up as he basically well and

01:00:48.019 --> 01:00:50.780
truly loses his shit like right I've had enough

01:00:50.780 --> 01:00:57.739
Seriously, Rhea and EO title bout next week as

01:00:57.739 --> 01:01:01.599
Rhea's contracted rematch and the winner of that

01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:05.110
goes on to face Bianca Belair at WrestleMania

01:01:05.110 --> 01:01:10.010
and he leaves the ring incensed he's furious

01:01:10.010 --> 01:01:15.809
at this point and a brawl between Bianca Rhea

01:01:15.809 --> 01:01:22.489
and Io erupts in the match where yeah it's they're

01:01:22.489 --> 01:01:27.909
all at each other's necks And in the end, once

01:01:27.909 --> 01:01:30.949
all the dust settles, Bianca Bella is the one

01:01:30.949 --> 01:01:33.849
who's left in the ring standing on her own two

01:01:33.849 --> 01:01:42.230
feet. It's just complete and utter freaking chaos

01:01:42.230 --> 01:01:50.210
at this point. Now we go from in -ring to backstage

01:01:50.210 --> 01:01:54.030
where we see Penta preparing for the main event.

01:01:54.710 --> 01:01:58.909
as Dom basically comes along obviously inspired

01:01:58.909 --> 01:02:02.449
by his chat with Liv earlier on following his

01:02:02.449 --> 01:02:05.210
instinct and basically says it basically makes

01:02:05.210 --> 01:02:07.949
an offer that judgment day if he joins the judgment

01:02:07.949 --> 01:02:10.710
day they'll help him win tonight sort of thing

01:02:10.710 --> 01:02:14.050
I mean that's definitely signing on for him to

01:02:14.050 --> 01:02:16.750
join the judgment day and get the intercontinental

01:02:16.750 --> 01:02:19.809
title that's definitely a hell of a check that

01:02:19.809 --> 01:02:23.329
I'm surprised Dom's had the authority to write

01:02:23.329 --> 01:02:34.670
that sort of check Yeah, very much so but Yeah,

01:02:34.670 --> 01:02:37.530
I mean that was a very short promo in of itself

01:02:37.530 --> 01:02:45.760
We then went to a not to it It's a familiar segment,

01:02:45.760 --> 01:02:49.039
but not one that we get very regularly. And this

01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.920
is WWE facts from the city that we're in at the

01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:55.679
moment, which obviously we've mentioned. Glasgow,

01:02:55.820 --> 01:03:01.800
Scotland. This was the second time Raw had been

01:03:01.800 --> 01:03:06.019
broadcast from Glasgow. First time for Netflix.

01:03:07.739 --> 01:03:12.480
It's the 13th TV broadcast from Glasgow. The

01:03:12.480 --> 01:03:17.820
last time. The last broadcast from Glasgow was

01:03:17.820 --> 01:03:24.219
on the 8th of November 2000 and at 2016 I've

01:03:24.219 --> 01:03:26.500
got down here and it was a it was an episode

01:03:26.500 --> 01:03:35.699
of smackdown live Oh No, I went a step further

01:03:35.699 --> 01:03:39.800
The main event from that smackdown was a six

01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:44.460
-man tag team match and this saw Randy Orton

01:03:44.460 --> 01:03:48.940
Bray Wyatt and Luke Harper versus Dean Ambrose

01:03:48.940 --> 01:03:53.960
Kane and A name that you may well remember James

01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:59.139
Ellsworth the chinless wonder the chinless wonder

01:03:59.139 --> 01:04:06.780
and and Yeah, it was that and It was Orton Wyatt

01:04:06.780 --> 01:04:09.159
and Harper that ended up going on to win that

01:04:09.159 --> 01:04:13.809
match now. This is when This was when Orton was

01:04:13.809 --> 01:04:17.510
In sort of indentured servitude to the Wyatt

01:04:17.510 --> 01:04:20.690
family at this point But the sombre in fact that

01:04:20.690 --> 01:04:23.570
I find in that is out of the three men that won

01:04:23.570 --> 01:04:28.449
that match only one of them is still alive and

01:04:28.449 --> 01:04:31.650
That is a really sad thing to think about that

01:04:31.650 --> 01:04:37.449
it wasn't that long ago I mean nine years ago

01:04:37.449 --> 01:04:44.329
give or take nine years ago and only one of only

01:04:44.329 --> 01:04:46.809
one of those men is still alive obviously we

01:04:46.809 --> 01:04:50.269
lost Bray Wyatt recently Luke Harper went on

01:04:50.269 --> 01:04:55.409
the 26th of December in 2020 I believe so he's

01:04:55.409 --> 01:05:00.849
been he's been gone about been gone coming up

01:05:00.849 --> 01:05:06.130
to four and a half years because Luke Harper

01:05:06.130 --> 01:05:11.530
was known as Brody Lee in AEW and he was actively

01:05:11.530 --> 01:05:14.829
wrestling for AEW when he passed away at home

01:05:14.829 --> 01:05:19.190
with family. A shock to the wrestling world that

01:05:19.190 --> 01:05:22.650
was the same as when Bray Wyatt passed as well.

01:05:22.849 --> 01:05:25.969
A hell of a shock to the wrestling world. A shock

01:05:25.969 --> 01:05:28.469
that is still felt to this day, especially with

01:05:28.469 --> 01:05:32.489
the likes of Bray Wyatt more so. Definitely,

01:05:32.610 --> 01:05:38.690
he knew them all to be. He did, he did. Anyway...

01:05:39.469 --> 01:05:45.750
Turning things around we went into a a War Raiders

01:05:45.750 --> 01:05:50.190
vignette at that point we did yes showing them

01:05:50.190 --> 01:05:55.010
destroying every tag team in the division Yeah,

01:05:55.070 --> 01:05:58.289
and I mean they are the smackdown tag team champions.

01:05:58.309 --> 01:06:01.849
We don't see them compete nearly as often as

01:06:01.849 --> 01:06:05.349
maybe the Smackdown tag team titles are defended,

01:06:05.389 --> 01:06:10.539
but they are still Raw's tag team champions and

01:06:10.539 --> 01:06:13.139
after that vignette we switched to backstage

01:06:13.139 --> 01:06:17.199
where we can very obviously see the stress is

01:06:17.199 --> 01:06:21.480
really getting to Adam Pearce as he has Kofi

01:06:21.480 --> 01:06:23.980
Kingston and Xavier Woods come in and demand

01:06:23.980 --> 01:06:29.960
a tag title match at WrestleMania to which Adam

01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:32.900
Pearce basically comes back and says do you know

01:06:32.900 --> 01:06:35.039
what most people would have come in and said

01:06:35.039 --> 01:06:41.530
that I want an opportunity to compete for a match

01:06:41.530 --> 01:06:44.929
at WrestleMania. You've come in and demanded

01:06:44.929 --> 01:06:47.510
it. So the answer is no, until you can come back

01:06:47.510 --> 01:06:50.489
and tell me that you want to compete in a match

01:06:50.489 --> 01:06:53.590
next week for a chance to go to WrestleMania

01:06:53.590 --> 01:06:59.590
in a tag team match. And they're basically told

01:06:59.590 --> 01:07:10.650
to go fuck themselves. No, definitely not It's

01:07:10.650 --> 01:07:15.170
and it doesn't stop there because the next person

01:07:15.170 --> 01:07:20.309
in is Bianca Belair who comes in and Again, it's

01:07:20.309 --> 01:07:24.750
this word. It's she demands to know who her opponent

01:07:24.750 --> 01:07:29.280
is at WrestleMania and Considering Bianca Belair

01:07:29.280 --> 01:07:32.039
is part of the reason for Adam Pearce's stress,

01:07:32.059 --> 01:07:34.900
I can sort of understand why the guy sees red

01:07:34.900 --> 01:07:39.280
and basically says, do you know what? Your opponent

01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:43.099
at WrestleMania, whoever wins out of next week's

01:07:43.099 --> 01:07:47.000
match between Rhea and Io, and I'm adding a stipulation

01:07:47.000 --> 01:07:49.599
to it that you're going to be the special guest

01:07:49.599 --> 01:07:54.159
referee. That's going to screw both Io and...

01:07:57.539 --> 01:08:00.480
Well, it actually turns out that Bianca Belair

01:08:00.480 --> 01:08:04.099
has absolutely no clue by her own admission how

01:08:04.099 --> 01:08:07.280
to be a referee So she's got a week to learn

01:08:07.280 --> 01:08:12.559
And it actually makes a lot of sense for a sit

01:08:12.559 --> 01:08:19.460
a I've seen a social media post Bianca basically

01:08:19.460 --> 01:08:22.479
begging one of the referees I'm guessing to teach

01:08:22.479 --> 01:08:25.239
her how to be a referee but now that makes sense

01:08:25.239 --> 01:08:28.819
when at the time when I saw it it really didn't

01:08:41.760 --> 01:08:45.560
3 of the evening. This one was a men's singles

01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:49.119
match between Dragon Lee and El Grande and Maricano

01:08:49.119 --> 01:08:53.600
or the large black coffee as that translates

01:08:53.600 --> 01:09:02.760
to with the new member of LWO. This is fucked

01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:06.619
up. It's not LWO, that's the thing. It's not.

01:09:09.159 --> 01:09:11.460
I can't even think what the group's called because

01:09:11.460 --> 01:09:13.640
I'm too busy laughing at the fact that, yeah,

01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:19.039
no. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't particularly enamoured

01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:23.100
by this match. The ending, 100%, loved that,

01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:27.539
loved sort of... I loved how they ended it. It

01:09:27.539 --> 01:09:30.960
wasn't great. It wasn't like a showstopper or

01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:33.159
anything like that, but it was a really interesting

01:09:33.159 --> 01:09:37.279
match. But... What we got was actually a really

01:09:37.279 --> 01:09:42.899
competitive match between the two. For anybody

01:09:42.899 --> 01:09:46.420
just sort of just coming into this storyline,

01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:52.720
Chad Gable of American Made has recently come

01:09:52.720 --> 01:09:56.579
back from a pilgrimage to learn the ways of lucha

01:09:56.579 --> 01:10:03.600
or has struggled with the wrestling style in

01:10:03.600 --> 01:10:07.710
the past. And since he's come back he seems to

01:10:07.710 --> 01:10:12.649
have bought back with him Who we now know as

01:10:12.649 --> 01:10:16.789
El Grande Americano There are quite a few people

01:10:16.789 --> 01:10:22.989
myself included Chad Gable in cosplay and There

01:10:22.989 --> 01:10:26.350
were a few Mitigating factors that would suggest

01:10:26.350 --> 01:10:30.550
it. They are a similar height build skin tone

01:10:30.550 --> 01:10:36.100
both like to do the the german suplex in slow

01:10:36.100 --> 01:10:40.779
motion it's uh yeah there's a few different hints

01:10:40.779 --> 01:10:44.159
and clues there but chad gable is adamant that

01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:48.140
he is not the large black coffee he is chad gable

01:10:48.140 --> 01:10:56.899
not el grande americano and uh the office is

01:10:56.899 --> 01:10:58.939
taking the piss with that one that is fucking

01:10:58.939 --> 01:11:03.409
brilliant As I said, I'm pretty sure I said this

01:11:03.409 --> 01:11:07.789
before but if I haven't it is some Vince McMahon

01:11:07.789 --> 01:11:11.529
level Bullshittery that we've ended up with a

01:11:11.529 --> 01:11:14.649
wrestler the wrestlers name that basically translates

01:11:14.649 --> 01:11:23.869
into large black coffee Yeah, just but a few

01:11:23.869 --> 01:11:28.210
nice little bits here, I mean El Grande at German

01:11:28.210 --> 01:11:32.090
suplexes dragging Lee off the apron at one stage

01:11:32.090 --> 01:11:36.449
which actually I wasn't expecting but again it

01:11:36.449 --> 01:11:41.750
gives us that definite thought that it's Chad

01:11:41.750 --> 01:11:45.029
Gable as we've again got something that he's

01:11:45.029 --> 01:11:48.010
quite proficient at using the German suplex.

01:11:49.829 --> 01:11:58.039
Yeah it's basically his go -to move. Everything

01:11:58.039 --> 01:12:02.800
in this about this Lucha screams Chad Gable I

01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:05.859
just need I want to see this this guy have a

01:12:05.859 --> 01:12:09.239
match against Chad Gable just to prove it's not

01:12:09.239 --> 01:12:14.399
Chad Gable But we all know that's not going to

01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:19.000
happen Well, yeah, this is WWE we're not gonna

01:12:19.000 --> 01:12:23.989
get things we want things going on here No, John

01:12:23.989 --> 01:12:26.010
Cena's gone heel we're not getting anything we

01:12:26.010 --> 01:12:34.890
want But yeah We have a point in the match where

01:12:34.890 --> 01:12:39.770
both superstars literally narrowly and I'm narrowly

01:12:39.770 --> 01:12:48.850
avoid Narrowly avoids a double count out they

01:12:48.850 --> 01:12:51.010
literally get to about nine and three quarters

01:12:51.010 --> 01:12:55.739
and Managed to dive back into the ring Nice little

01:12:55.739 --> 01:13:00.560
bit of tension builder Yeah, it was it was some

01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:03.140
added flavor that this match seriously lacked

01:13:03.140 --> 01:13:07.520
otherwise But as I said the really really interesting

01:13:07.520 --> 01:13:11.479
part about this match for me was the ending and

01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:18.260
by that I mean Oh Grande manages to Dmask Dragon

01:13:18.260 --> 01:13:20.640
Lee, which ironically is something that Dragon

01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:23.600
Lee tried doing to El Grande earlier on in the

01:13:23.600 --> 01:13:27.600
match. But El Grande Americano was slightly more

01:13:27.600 --> 01:13:30.619
successful in ripping Dragon Lee's mask off.

01:13:31.159 --> 01:13:34.159
He basically, Dragon Lee sat on the top turnbuckle

01:13:34.159 --> 01:13:38.239
and El Grande Americano grabs his mask and pulls

01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:41.210
him forward. so he ends up kind of like as the

01:13:41.210 --> 01:13:43.229
mask comes off he ends up front flipping down

01:13:43.229 --> 01:13:45.550
onto his stomach pretty much trying to hide his

01:13:45.550 --> 01:13:50.630
face el grande americano goes for an ankle lock

01:13:50.630 --> 01:13:53.909
where we've only ever seen two people try that

01:13:53.909 --> 01:13:58.770
submission move more than once well i disagree

01:13:58.770 --> 01:14:01.170
i disagree with michael cole on that because

01:14:01.170 --> 01:14:03.930
that's where we got that information from He

01:14:03.930 --> 01:14:05.970
says there were only two people that ever use

01:14:05.970 --> 01:14:09.449
it, and he said it's Kurt Angle and Chad Gable.

01:14:10.010 --> 01:14:13.390
Whereas Jack Swagger also used the ankle lock,

01:14:13.609 --> 01:14:17.130
as did Michael Cole himself, which he does later

01:14:17.130 --> 01:14:20.050
admit to. So there are lots of people that use

01:14:20.050 --> 01:14:23.649
the ankle lock. Well, we know the mass luchador

01:14:23.649 --> 01:14:26.010
isn't Jack Swagger because he's currently in

01:14:26.010 --> 01:14:30.270
AEW still, I believe. Under a different name.

01:14:33.340 --> 01:14:35.460
Michael Cole was on commentary, so it certainly

01:14:35.460 --> 01:14:40.800
wasn't him. No, the person in the mask wasn't

01:14:40.800 --> 01:14:50.500
overweight enough. No, exactly. But yeah, so

01:14:50.500 --> 01:14:53.739
I disagree with Michael Cole's analysis on that

01:14:53.739 --> 01:14:56.310
one, but. Then again, I tend to disagree with

01:14:56.310 --> 01:14:58.810
Michael Cole quite a lot generally. I feel we

01:14:58.810 --> 01:15:00.989
have to fact check Michael Cole quite a lot because

01:15:00.989 --> 01:15:05.369
he's a rather poor source of information. He

01:15:05.369 --> 01:15:08.289
can be. He did want to tell us there was a PLE

01:15:08.289 --> 01:15:10.569
that had held six, there was a city that had

01:15:10.569 --> 01:15:13.670
held six PLEs and for days me and Adam could

01:15:13.670 --> 01:15:18.829
only find five. No, I think we did actually manage

01:15:18.829 --> 01:15:21.289
to find six in the end. Did we cover all six?

01:15:21.470 --> 01:15:25.470
God damn it. Yeah, we didn't. We didn't take

01:15:25.470 --> 01:15:27.649
into when we did when we tried going through

01:15:27.649 --> 01:15:32.789
it we didn't We didn't take into consideration

01:15:32.789 --> 01:15:40.090
NXT PLEs We were looking at main roster PLEs.

01:15:40.130 --> 01:15:42.210
Well when we took into consideration the NXT

01:15:42.210 --> 01:15:52.189
ones we did manage to find all six Yes But yes

01:15:52.189 --> 01:15:58.539
digressing away Um, yeah, so In his ww in this

01:15:58.539 --> 01:16:01.859
character's wwe debut, uh, he walks out of it

01:16:01.859 --> 01:16:06.020
with with a win over a rather disgraced dragon

01:16:06.020 --> 01:16:10.220
lee as uh Any loot any lucha fan worth their

01:16:10.220 --> 01:16:14.000
salt knows that you don't remove the mask No,

01:16:14.000 --> 01:16:17.359
and uh ray mysterio got into a lot of trouble

01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:22.270
With it when he was in triple a um Lucha because

01:16:22.270 --> 01:16:24.810
he got de -masked or he took his mask off and

01:16:24.810 --> 01:16:27.409
he had to get permission from the Lucha authorities

01:16:27.409 --> 01:16:31.109
to use a mask when he went to WWE under a different

01:16:31.109 --> 01:16:37.149
name. Oh right. He used to wrestle as Rey Mysterio

01:16:37.149 --> 01:16:43.050
Junior whichever one he is and then when he moved

01:16:43.050 --> 01:16:48.970
to WWE he lost the bit on the end because in

01:16:48.970 --> 01:16:53.609
one of the One of the matches he'd had at Lucha

01:16:53.609 --> 01:16:56.529
Libre, he ended up taking his mask off or unmasking

01:16:56.529 --> 01:16:58.890
himself and to be able to reuse the mask he had

01:16:58.890 --> 01:17:01.869
to have permission, but some people still don't

01:17:01.869 --> 01:17:04.789
agree with Rey using a mask again. You basically

01:17:04.789 --> 01:17:06.829
have to change your character. If you unmask

01:17:06.829 --> 01:17:09.050
the character you can't keep that character.

01:17:09.189 --> 01:17:12.149
You have to have a different Lucha character.

01:17:15.909 --> 01:17:18.689
That's what watching Chris Van Vliet gets you.

01:17:22.090 --> 01:17:24.250
I watch a lot of the stuff that he puts out on

01:17:24.250 --> 01:17:28.590
social media, but yeah, even I was in the dark

01:17:28.590 --> 01:17:31.390
on that one. He did an interview with Rey Mysterio.

01:17:32.409 --> 01:17:34.250
I love Rey Mysterio. I think he's brilliant.

01:17:34.369 --> 01:17:36.090
I've watched some of his indie stuff as well

01:17:36.090 --> 01:17:39.409
when he wasn't working with WWE. Rey Mysterio

01:17:39.409 --> 01:17:41.850
had a match against Will Ospreay, who is now

01:17:41.850 --> 01:17:45.590
BW Talent at the Pro Wrestling World Cup, and

01:17:45.590 --> 01:17:49.430
it was an absolutely phenomenal, phenomenal match.

01:17:50.259 --> 01:17:52.720
If you don't get an opportunity to watch it just

01:17:52.720 --> 01:17:55.420
on YouTube Will Ospreay, Rey Mysterio, Pro Wrestling

01:17:55.420 --> 01:17:59.579
World Cup I think it was like Maybe 2017 or so

01:17:59.579 --> 01:18:04.180
like between 2017 and COVID but it was it was

01:18:04.180 --> 01:18:07.079
Amazing one of the best indie matches I've ever

01:18:07.079 --> 01:18:14.359
watched on YouTube Fair enough But yeah moving

01:18:14.359 --> 01:18:19.789
on from moving on from Dragon Lee and We'll start

01:18:19.789 --> 01:18:22.890
to get to the meat and veg of our storylines

01:18:22.890 --> 01:18:26.949
with this next segment. This next segment is

01:18:26.949 --> 01:18:34.550
a recap slash promo from the storyline between

01:18:34.550 --> 01:18:40.229
Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and CM Punk. So as

01:18:40.229 --> 01:18:42.810
we've seen recently, there has been quite a lot

01:18:42.810 --> 01:18:47.079
of animosity between the three. It tends to be

01:18:47.079 --> 01:18:50.199
a lot more between Roman and Seth, but Punk's

01:18:50.199 --> 01:18:54.899
been dragged in because of Seth's hatred of Punk

01:18:54.899 --> 01:18:58.439
and in fact, Punk wants Roman's wise man and

01:18:58.439 --> 01:19:03.340
Roman's wise man owes CM Punk a favour. So we

01:19:03.340 --> 01:19:06.739
get a recap on what's happened so far. So the

01:19:06.739 --> 01:19:10.760
eliminations from Royal Rumble, the kickoff after

01:19:10.760 --> 01:19:12.880
they were all eliminated from Royal Rumble between

01:19:12.880 --> 01:19:17.270
the three of them on the outside, bits elimination

01:19:17.270 --> 01:19:23.250
chamber between Rollins and Punk then when Roman

01:19:23.250 --> 01:19:26.069
returned when Rollins and Punk were in a cage

01:19:26.069 --> 01:19:29.470
match and Roman basically was like you know I've

01:19:29.470 --> 01:19:31.329
been screwed by Seth enough times so I was coming

01:19:31.329 --> 01:19:33.350
out here to screw him and I've been screwed by

01:19:33.350 --> 01:19:35.630
Punk enough times so I was coming out here to

01:19:35.630 --> 01:19:39.989
screw him too and like we had this conversation

01:19:39.989 --> 01:19:42.729
a little bit earlier in the episode and we've

01:19:42.729 --> 01:19:46.399
had it more Like a few times in the previous

01:19:46.399 --> 01:19:50.779
episodes The Roman Reigns pop when they talk

01:19:50.779 --> 01:19:52.840
about him is incredible when you see him It's

01:19:52.840 --> 01:19:55.600
even more incredible for someone that was pushed

01:19:55.600 --> 01:19:59.039
so much down our throats For a few years that

01:19:59.039 --> 01:20:02.119
we were so sick of seeing Roman I think that

01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:04.800
break we've had between especially the end of

01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:07.600
the bloodline stuff between WrestleMania last

01:20:07.600 --> 01:20:09.619
year and then when he returned and stuff with

01:20:09.619 --> 01:20:12.819
solo and those guys and then he's had a bit of

01:20:12.819 --> 01:20:15.680
a break and you know it's it's been nice it's

01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:19.640
nice to see Roman coming back after a break where

01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:21.439
beforehand it was like fuck's sake just send

01:20:21.439 --> 01:20:23.399
him on holiday for a few weeks no one wants to

01:20:23.399 --> 01:20:28.739
see him yeah there are always those die -hard

01:20:28.739 --> 01:20:31.539
fans of Roman Reigns who think the guy walks

01:20:31.539 --> 01:20:36.579
on water i will be honest i do think he's he's

01:20:36.579 --> 01:20:39.279
played a good part over the last few years with

01:20:39.279 --> 01:20:42.399
tribal chief stuff and Everything along those

01:20:42.399 --> 01:20:45.960
lines really enjoyed all bloodline all majority

01:20:45.960 --> 01:20:49.199
of the bloodline stuff But yes, it did get to

01:20:49.199 --> 01:20:52.579
a point at one stage where we were seeing him

01:20:52.579 --> 01:20:57.500
Way too often. He's like he never Changed things

01:20:57.500 --> 01:21:00.220
up. He never did anything any differently. He

01:21:00.220 --> 01:21:03.000
just kept rolling out He found something that

01:21:03.000 --> 01:21:05.619
worked and kept going back to the well and for

01:21:05.619 --> 01:21:12.680
me it just got really old really quickly So I

01:21:12.680 --> 01:21:16.739
am a Roman Reigns fan in moderation. I'm not

01:21:16.739 --> 01:21:19.300
ever going to sit here and call myself a die

01:21:19.300 --> 01:21:23.039
-hard fan that would simply watch two hours of

01:21:23.039 --> 01:21:26.140
Roman Reigns in a ring, because yeah, that's

01:21:26.140 --> 01:21:28.680
fucking boring. I mean, I'd watch two hours of

01:21:28.680 --> 01:21:32.500
Roman Reigns in ring, but in the ring with a

01:21:32.500 --> 01:21:38.520
microphone, you can fuck right off. See there's

01:21:38.520 --> 01:21:41.380
a part of me that doesn't think again. I go back

01:21:41.380 --> 01:21:44.380
to my original statement I think Roman Reigns

01:21:44.380 --> 01:21:47.460
is overrated to a certain point I don't think

01:21:47.460 --> 01:21:50.579
he's as good as everybody makes him out to be

01:21:50.579 --> 01:21:54.180
even in ring I mean, I'll watch him in ring purely

01:21:54.180 --> 01:21:59.279
for the fact that he's a an entertaining entertainer

01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:02.699
but you know if someone said to me two hours

01:22:02.699 --> 01:22:07.369
of Roman Reigns or two hours of CM Punk or two

01:22:07.369 --> 01:22:10.489
hours of the hardies or you know, like whoever

01:22:10.489 --> 01:22:13.510
Roman would be very much bottom of my list if

01:22:13.510 --> 01:22:16.430
I had to watch two hours of constant wrestling

01:22:16.430 --> 01:22:23.250
from someone Yeah Shit, I'd rather watch two

01:22:23.250 --> 01:22:32.710
hours of bad news Wade Barrett But yes, we go

01:22:32.710 --> 01:22:38.729
from like the the recap of last week and everything

01:22:38.729 --> 01:22:43.590
to do with what's going on. And we have actually

01:22:43.590 --> 01:22:50.649
CM Punk in Ring for a promo completely on his

01:22:50.649 --> 01:22:53.750
own. Well, this isn't really a promo. This is

01:22:53.750 --> 01:22:57.850
just more of an extended pipe bomb. Remember

01:22:57.850 --> 01:23:01.189
watching this and then messaging Adam who was

01:23:01.189 --> 01:23:04.149
a little bit behind me just going pipe bomb incoming

01:23:04.149 --> 01:23:08.609
I knew he'd look at it and go oh Okay, I know

01:23:08.609 --> 01:23:10.909
how I know where he is So when he got to that

01:23:10.909 --> 01:23:13.970
bit he knew to be excited and it was I don't

01:23:13.970 --> 01:23:16.670
know if it works But I thought it was a great

01:23:16.670 --> 01:23:20.729
great little promo we cut Especially when he

01:23:20.729 --> 01:23:23.289
comes to the ring and he gets a hell of a pop

01:23:23.289 --> 01:23:25.550
right punk is one of those wrestlers when he

01:23:25.550 --> 01:23:28.600
comes out whether you love punk or hate punk,

01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:33.520
he gets the noise. And he comes out to a hell

01:23:33.520 --> 01:23:36.439
of a good sort of standing, considering a lot

01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:38.819
of people dislike what he's done for professional

01:23:38.819 --> 01:23:41.340
wrestling. And he comes out and says he's in

01:23:41.340 --> 01:23:43.539
a bit of a bad mood, but it's not because of

01:23:43.539 --> 01:23:46.859
where he is or why he's there. He's just tired.

01:23:46.920 --> 01:23:49.420
He's jet lagged. He's uncertain of his road to

01:23:49.420 --> 01:23:52.600
WrestleMania and he isn't getting what he wants.

01:23:53.319 --> 01:23:56.970
Where is he? You know, like he's... He knows

01:23:56.970 --> 01:24:00.409
he's got that favour from Paul Heyman. We know

01:24:00.409 --> 01:24:02.670
he's still got that favour from Paul Heyman.

01:24:03.289 --> 01:24:06.090
I want to know what that favour from Paul Heyman

01:24:06.090 --> 01:24:09.090
is going to be like everyone else does and I

01:24:09.090 --> 01:24:11.630
don't think we're going to find out until after

01:24:11.630 --> 01:24:16.409
the match at WrestleMania. No, definitely not.

01:24:16.550 --> 01:24:18.390
I don't think it's... I think we'll get the match

01:24:18.390 --> 01:24:20.689
and then we'll get the favour rather than the

01:24:20.689 --> 01:24:24.069
favour before the match. It's not going to be

01:24:24.069 --> 01:24:28.060
something that... Punk calls in on a whim sort

01:24:28.060 --> 01:24:31.199
of thing. I am gonna backtrack slightly nothing

01:24:31.199 --> 01:24:33.619
to do with the actual promo But more so to do

01:24:33.619 --> 01:24:35.560
with the fact that you said that you said to

01:24:35.560 --> 01:24:38.939
obviously you said a few ago the yes I was a

01:24:38.939 --> 01:24:42.079
few I was about 20 minutes behind you terms in

01:24:42.079 --> 01:24:45.539
terms of watching raw this week And you sent

01:24:45.539 --> 01:24:55.640
me a message saying high bomb incoming That just

01:24:55.640 --> 01:25:02.520
explains how yesterday went. So, yeah, you didn't

01:25:02.520 --> 01:25:06.159
say... I now know what he was trying to say,

01:25:06.560 --> 01:25:09.319
but at the time I just got a message going, pie

01:25:09.319 --> 01:25:11.899
-bombing coming. I was like, is this motherfucker

01:25:11.899 --> 01:25:16.720
sending me pie? Yeah, no. As long as he's not

01:25:16.720 --> 01:25:23.340
sending me strudel. I'd had some pie, but yeah.

01:25:24.909 --> 01:25:28.189
Actually the same flavor that both Kane and Undertaker

01:25:28.189 --> 01:25:40.569
like Oh Right, but yeah It's a case that We've

01:25:40.569 --> 01:25:43.390
now had it confirmed that the triple threat between

01:25:43.390 --> 01:25:46.149
Seth Rollins Roman Reigns and CM Punk is officially

01:25:46.149 --> 01:25:48.989
happening at WrestleMania Punk actually makes

01:25:48.989 --> 01:25:52.039
a comment on the The graphic that they use for

01:25:52.039 --> 01:25:54.279
it. I mean, it's very lucky graphic. I'll give

01:25:54.279 --> 01:25:59.399
them that it's uh It's very understated It's

01:25:59.399 --> 01:26:02.720
not big. It's not flashy. It's understated Which

01:26:02.720 --> 01:26:04.880
is what that matches that match isn't going to

01:26:04.880 --> 01:26:09.199
be big and flashy. It's gonna be all Sort of

01:26:09.199 --> 01:26:13.020
like cheap shots and low blows and dirty maneuvers

01:26:13.020 --> 01:26:16.020
that matches a match. It's gonna be one on on

01:26:16.020 --> 01:26:22.590
cheap on on cheating Yeah Pretty much. Especially

01:26:22.590 --> 01:26:27.689
when the second C -sync comes out on top. Punk

01:26:27.689 --> 01:26:30.289
makes an interesting reference to Seth Rollins

01:26:30.289 --> 01:26:34.489
calling him the world heavyweight champion of

01:26:34.489 --> 01:26:42.029
being a pissy diaper baby. Yep. Or some sort

01:26:42.029 --> 01:26:44.409
of words to that effect. Oh no, you pretty much

01:26:44.409 --> 01:26:47.939
got that word for word. Alright, okay. I wasn't

01:26:47.939 --> 01:26:50.739
100 % sure if I had or not. He was a black belt

01:26:50.739 --> 01:27:01.300
being a pissy diaper, baby And Yeah makes it

01:27:01.300 --> 01:27:04.880
makes a bit of a Tongue -in -cheek comment about

01:27:04.880 --> 01:27:08.460
the fact that Romans wise man is not just his

01:27:08.460 --> 01:27:12.319
wise man Well goes on to say that for the other

01:27:12.319 --> 01:27:16.090
two people in this much. It's personal They have

01:27:16.090 --> 01:27:21.189
a personal vendetta against each other For and

01:27:21.189 --> 01:27:24.409
they have had four years since Seth stuck the

01:27:24.409 --> 01:27:26.529
chair in the middle of Romans back when they

01:27:26.529 --> 01:27:29.890
were all part of the shield So for those two

01:27:29.890 --> 01:27:32.590
it is personal but punk says for him. It's business

01:27:32.590 --> 01:27:36.149
You know, he's there because he needs to be there

01:27:36.149 --> 01:27:42.670
but he knows that It starts getting a little

01:27:42.670 --> 01:27:46.430
bit confusing between Like towards the end with

01:27:46.430 --> 01:27:48.890
my notes because my spelling at this point meant

01:27:48.890 --> 01:27:53.609
absolute crap But they he does basically say

01:27:53.609 --> 01:27:56.750
that next week in London. We have a contract

01:27:56.750 --> 01:28:01.409
signing For this match at WrestleMania and Punk's

01:28:01.409 --> 01:28:04.109
gonna make sure that he He reads all the fine

01:28:04.109 --> 01:28:05.970
print to see if he's getting what he wants or

01:28:05.970 --> 01:28:08.090
if the rug is being pulled out from underneath

01:28:08.090 --> 01:28:12.689
him yet again Because obviously CM Punk and WrestleMania

01:28:12.689 --> 01:28:16.689
appearances Never quite work out the way they're

01:28:16.689 --> 01:28:24.689
supposed to at CM Punk No And to close out this

01:28:24.689 --> 01:28:30.890
segment Punk makes two final points One of them

01:28:30.890 --> 01:28:35.270
is that he sort of reiterates that Neither one

01:28:35.270 --> 01:28:37.789
of his two of WrestleMania opponents have ever

01:28:37.789 --> 01:28:42.059
beaten him without the help from the other and

01:28:42.059 --> 01:28:46.239
makes a point of saying that he bought them both

01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:51.020
into WWE and it seems only fitting that he take

01:28:51.020 --> 01:28:56.800
both out of WWE. I mean, I do not think that

01:28:56.800 --> 01:29:00.380
they are going anywhere specifically if Punk

01:29:00.380 --> 01:29:03.659
wins. You know, you're not going to see Seth

01:29:03.659 --> 01:29:08.510
Rollins up, pack his bag and go to AEW. You'll

01:29:08.510 --> 01:29:11.590
certainly never see Romans Romans the WWE guy

01:29:11.590 --> 01:29:14.189
you won't ever see him go anywhere either He

01:29:14.189 --> 01:29:16.170
might end up doing what the Rock does and disappears

01:29:16.170 --> 01:29:18.750
for six months and then comes back and goes finally

01:29:18.750 --> 01:29:24.109
The original tribal chief is back in wherever

01:29:24.109 --> 01:29:27.510
he is, you know, but Yeah, that neither of them

01:29:27.510 --> 01:29:29.529
are going anywhere specifically. They're both

01:29:29.529 --> 01:29:35.439
definitely WWE guys And there's rumours going

01:29:35.439 --> 01:29:37.600
that Seth's only got a few more years left in

01:29:37.600 --> 01:29:39.939
and apparently he's stated that he's retiring

01:29:39.939 --> 01:29:43.000
when he's 45 and he's only 39 so he's only got

01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:45.539
another 6 years left of Seth if that's true.

01:29:47.239 --> 01:29:49.500
Well by then he might have run out of stupid

01:29:49.500 --> 01:29:52.079
outfits to wear. Fuck off that guy is never going

01:29:52.079 --> 01:29:54.840
to run out of stupid outfits. I'm pretty sure

01:29:54.840 --> 01:29:57.340
the reason we don't see Becky Lynch anymore is

01:29:57.340 --> 01:29:59.279
because she's currently running around America

01:29:59.279 --> 01:30:01.560
running to charity shops looking for the most

01:30:01.560 --> 01:30:07.460
hideous outfits you can find. Mean quite possibly

01:30:07.460 --> 01:30:10.340
Seth Rollins has committed several fashion crimes

01:30:10.340 --> 01:30:15.020
against humanity with those outfits And that's

01:30:15.020 --> 01:30:18.840
just this month right that's without going over

01:30:18.840 --> 01:30:24.960
the last 10 years Yeah, this is it Going from

01:30:24.960 --> 01:30:30.640
there we actually have I call it a social media

01:30:30.640 --> 01:30:36.819
promo as It's a a video taken from what I can

01:30:36.819 --> 01:30:41.920
only assume Instagram page where he's basically

01:30:41.920 --> 01:30:47.600
calling out AJ Styles AJ Styles to be in to be

01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:51.920
at Raw next week where where he's gonna be at

01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:56.119
least I think it was raw and Logan Paul ends

01:30:56.119 --> 01:31:00.439
up rehashing an old a very old soul sir was thrown

01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:04.260
AJ Styles AJ Styles as well Oh, the old soccer

01:31:04.260 --> 01:31:08.220
mum haircut. The old soccer mum haircut. I mean,

01:31:08.300 --> 01:31:10.819
I think AJ's thick enough to not worry too much

01:31:10.819 --> 01:31:14.100
about being called a soccer mum. Yeah, I don't

01:31:14.100 --> 01:31:15.840
think that's going to get to him somehow. I think

01:31:15.840 --> 01:31:18.359
he's been in the industry too long now to let

01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:21.699
little comments like that get to him. This is

01:31:21.699 --> 01:31:25.039
the guy who joined aces and eights for one night

01:31:25.039 --> 01:31:28.460
just to turn on them and give them a kick in.

01:31:30.199 --> 01:31:34.579
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, so we went from this

01:31:34.579 --> 01:31:41.760
social media promo into a backstage segment with

01:31:41.760 --> 01:31:46.680
Cathy Kelly talking to Bron Breaker about what

01:31:46.680 --> 01:31:52.699
he feels about the Penta possibly joining Judgment

01:31:52.699 --> 01:31:56.579
Day and Bron Breaker basically just tells Cathy

01:31:56.579 --> 01:31:59.060
Kelly he's not getting involved in any of that

01:31:59.060 --> 01:32:02.479
what Penta does is up to Penta he's just concentrating

01:32:02.479 --> 01:32:06.159
on retaining his title because the and to quote

01:32:06.159 --> 01:32:11.319
the dogs are barking in glasgow that's gotta

01:32:11.319 --> 01:32:14.659
be one of the cheesiest corniest lines ever like

01:32:14.659 --> 01:32:17.920
dude it doesn't work over here i get like i get

01:32:17.920 --> 01:32:20.479
in georgia it works right that's the home of

01:32:20.479 --> 01:32:24.579
the bulldogs it's gonna but it don't work over

01:32:24.579 --> 01:32:27.270
here like that Changer the thing about it is

01:32:27.270 --> 01:32:29.649
is that he made that comment and it was just

01:32:29.649 --> 01:32:32.609
you could hear that they sort of tried piping

01:32:32.609 --> 01:32:35.390
they tried piping into that that little promo

01:32:35.390 --> 01:32:42.909
the the expected crowd noise that just never

01:32:42.909 --> 01:32:59.859
came But yeah, so we went from that little little

01:32:59.859 --> 01:33:05.260
backstage promo to What it was the main event

01:33:05.260 --> 01:33:10.619
of the evening It was we went into our main event

01:33:10.619 --> 01:33:13.939
of the evening, which was Bron breaker Defending

01:33:13.939 --> 01:33:18.199
his intercontinental title against penta. So

01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:23.390
this was Panters first Shot at a singles title

01:33:23.390 --> 01:33:28.670
in WWE since he joined Not that long ago, but

01:33:28.670 --> 01:33:31.369
it feels like he's been here for ages. He's already

01:33:31.369 --> 01:33:34.770
had some some seriously good matches with Ludwig

01:33:34.770 --> 01:33:42.010
Kaiser and Pete Dunne the series with Was it

01:33:42.010 --> 01:33:44.670
Don Mysterio he had a couple of matches against

01:33:44.670 --> 01:33:48.850
he's had I think he's had one match against Don

01:33:48.850 --> 01:33:53.810
Mysterio. The majority of his matches have been

01:33:53.810 --> 01:34:01.010
against Ludwig Kaiser and Pete Dunne. Which,

01:34:01.770 --> 01:34:06.529
as you said, have been phenomenal matches, realistically.

01:34:10.010 --> 01:34:15.060
But this is the first one that we've had. very

01:34:15.060 --> 01:34:24.039
first attempt at a title belt in WWE and curiously

01:34:24.039 --> 01:34:28.199
as Brom Breaker is making his entrance into the

01:34:28.199 --> 01:34:33.520
ring Michael Cole makes an announcement that

01:34:33.520 --> 01:34:36.100
the Slammy Awards are just around the corner

01:34:36.100 --> 01:34:38.659
and apparently Brom Breaker is up for at least

01:34:38.659 --> 01:34:43.529
two of them One of them being the OMG moment

01:34:43.529 --> 01:34:49.470
of the year when he hit that spear on iShow Speed.

01:34:50.270 --> 01:34:56.430
Yeah, he hit iShow Speed hard. I actually, ironically,

01:34:56.649 --> 01:34:59.390
as you bring this up about five minutes ago on

01:34:59.390 --> 01:35:04.010
social media, I came across a video clip of iShow

01:35:04.010 --> 01:35:08.170
Speed doing a backflip on the Great Wall of China.

01:35:08.510 --> 01:35:11.409
It's the same backflip he did seconds before

01:35:11.409 --> 01:35:14.409
he got launched into oblivion by Bron Breaker.

01:35:17.350 --> 01:35:18.850
Yeah, I'm pretty sure when he was on the Great

01:35:18.850 --> 01:35:23.069
Wall of China, he wasn't looking around for Bron

01:35:23.069 --> 01:35:27.189
Breaker coming charging his way. No, he probably

01:35:27.189 --> 01:35:31.210
was not at all. He should have been looking out

01:35:31.210 --> 01:35:33.090
for that in the Royal Rumble though, because

01:35:33.090 --> 01:35:35.689
like we like to mention, it isn't every man for

01:35:35.689 --> 01:35:39.300
himself. You know as Roman got this wrong in

01:35:39.300 --> 01:35:42.020
in his promo last week where he reckons punk

01:35:42.020 --> 01:35:45.319
screwed him, but nope Can't screw a man when

01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:49.560
it's every man for himself No, this is it and

01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:55.699
Yeah, I mean this was this was probably one of

01:35:55.699 --> 01:35:58.279
the most competitive matches I've seen in a while

01:35:58.279 --> 01:36:02.159
because Both of these men had each other incredibly

01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:06.930
well scouted. They did they certainly did Like

01:36:06.930 --> 01:36:10.310
they there was very little between both of them

01:36:10.310 --> 01:36:13.630
that They didn't have an answer for I mean we

01:36:13.630 --> 01:36:18.310
know penta has a Absolute wealth of experience

01:36:18.310 --> 01:36:24.510
outside of WWE and he has zero fear Yeah, that's

01:36:24.510 --> 01:36:33.289
it and And Brom breaker is I mean he comes from

01:36:33.289 --> 01:36:37.779
the he comes from the same family as I mean this

01:36:37.779 --> 01:36:43.640
guy is not fearful of anything and I mean he's

01:36:43.640 --> 01:36:47.239
adopted he's adopted some some things from his

01:36:47.239 --> 01:36:50.579
uncle and his father that yeah this guy is just

01:36:50.579 --> 01:36:55.859
an absolute animal I mean you only have to see

01:36:55.859 --> 01:36:59.479
you only have to see the devastating clothesline

01:36:59.479 --> 01:37:03.449
he hits on Penta after Running the ropes I mean

01:37:03.449 --> 01:37:05.850
it's always impressive when you have to see how

01:37:05.850 --> 01:37:08.590
much speed that Bronbreaker can build up when

01:37:08.590 --> 01:37:11.630
bounce in between those ropes I'm pretty sure

01:37:11.630 --> 01:37:15.329
that when Bronbreaker hit that clothesline a

01:37:15.329 --> 01:37:17.250
Little bit of poo that came out of Penta when

01:37:17.250 --> 01:37:20.390
he stood up It was still in the same spot in

01:37:20.390 --> 01:37:22.609
the air when Penta hit the floor. That's how

01:37:22.609 --> 01:37:26.170
hard and fast he went down Like he took that

01:37:26.170 --> 01:37:31.899
back bump with everything Oh, 100%. There was,

01:37:31.899 --> 01:37:37.039
uh, there was, uh, maybe with how violent he

01:37:37.039 --> 01:37:40.939
hit the floor. But then he still needs to get

01:37:40.939 --> 01:37:45.840
up and put off a hurricane runner. Like Panto

01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:48.520
wasn't trying to hide from Bronbreaker at all.

01:37:48.699 --> 01:37:52.859
He was trying to, he was willing to go toe to

01:37:52.859 --> 01:37:55.800
toe with the, with the big man and pretty much

01:37:55.800 --> 01:38:01.079
did, you know, like. We sit here and think about

01:38:01.079 --> 01:38:04.260
how athletic Penta is for the fact that he's

01:38:04.260 --> 01:38:07.460
not a huge guy But he's bigger than your standard

01:38:07.460 --> 01:38:11.260
guy He's a he's quite a tall bloke But then when

01:38:11.260 --> 01:38:13.640
you see Brom Breaker when he jumps from the ring

01:38:13.640 --> 01:38:16.539
apron on to the front like across the announce

01:38:16.539 --> 01:38:20.020
table for that crossbody Just absolutely wiping

01:38:20.020 --> 01:38:24.420
himself and Penta out and you're like Fuck man.

01:38:24.659 --> 01:38:26.880
How are you supposed to hide from a guy who can

01:38:26.880 --> 01:38:30.819
jump six seven eight? nine meters in front of

01:38:30.819 --> 01:38:38.500
him with ease. Yeah, there is, I mean, nobody's

01:38:38.500 --> 01:38:41.939
really hiding from Bronte Breaker. If you're

01:38:41.939 --> 01:38:45.840
in a ring with him, you're gonna commit 100%.

01:38:45.840 --> 01:38:51.409
Oh yeah, definitely. Quite early on in this match

01:38:51.409 --> 01:38:56.470
we see Dom, Mysterio and Carlito of the Judgment

01:38:56.470 --> 01:38:59.289
Day make their appearance and sort of make their

01:38:59.289 --> 01:39:02.989
way down the entrance ramp. They're not necessarily

01:39:02.989 --> 01:39:05.529
at this stage coming in to interfere but they

01:39:05.529 --> 01:39:08.270
are very much making their presence known as

01:39:08.270 --> 01:39:11.090
we know. Earlier in the evening Dom made an offer

01:39:11.090 --> 01:39:14.029
to Penta about joining the Judgment Day and basically

01:39:14.029 --> 01:39:16.510
said, look we're happy to help you win the title.

01:39:16.960 --> 01:39:19.899
Long as you commit to the judgment day will be

01:39:19.899 --> 01:39:24.920
will be all sound Yeah I mean for a new person

01:39:24.920 --> 01:39:28.300
to WWE if I was in penta shoes at that point

01:39:28.300 --> 01:39:31.420
I'd probably gone You know fuck it. I've got

01:39:31.420 --> 01:39:33.779
a lot of friends here. You guys speak Spanish

01:39:33.779 --> 01:39:37.060
Dom does anyway, I'm sure Carlito probably knows

01:39:37.060 --> 01:39:40.199
a little bit and uh, Raquel Rodriguez will know

01:39:40.199 --> 01:39:44.539
some as well You know so he can fit in He's got

01:39:44.539 --> 01:39:46.479
a little bit of extra protection. He gets some

01:39:46.479 --> 01:39:49.239
help at ringside to defend his title. That's

01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:51.880
not really a bad little deal. Unfortunately,

01:39:51.880 --> 01:39:54.859
you have to deal with dickhead Don Mysterio and

01:39:54.859 --> 01:40:02.600
the slightly, slightly neurotic Finn Balor. Slightly.

01:40:03.380 --> 01:40:05.739
I was trying to be polite to the guy. You know,

01:40:05.939 --> 01:40:09.659
he's he's doing more than I am, but he's still

01:40:09.659 --> 01:40:15.739
an asshole. Oh, 100 percent. Yeah, so there were

01:40:15.739 --> 01:40:20.500
a few other spots that I did take a Did take

01:40:20.500 --> 01:40:24.060
some some notes around I mean break Penta hit

01:40:24.060 --> 01:40:28.460
a Backstabber for a two count on bra breaker

01:40:28.460 --> 01:40:33.539
and then manages also to hit an absolutely stunning

01:40:33.539 --> 01:40:39.689
The Mexican destroyer made Bron Breaker's eyes

01:40:39.689 --> 01:40:42.350
roll into the back of his head. I thought he

01:40:42.350 --> 01:40:47.130
was out out at that point. It was beautiful.

01:40:48.489 --> 01:40:54.029
Yeah, this is it. I mean, the the reversal that

01:40:54.029 --> 01:40:56.210
Panda put in so Bron Breaker went to go for a

01:40:56.210 --> 01:40:58.550
spear a little bit earlier on in the match and

01:40:58.550 --> 01:41:01.250
Panda reverses it with a super kick and then

01:41:01.250 --> 01:41:04.760
hits him with a sling blade as well. Yeah, this

01:41:04.760 --> 01:41:06.640
is what I meant earlier on when I said about

01:41:06.640 --> 01:41:09.199
the fact that they've got an answer for everything.

01:41:09.279 --> 01:41:12.800
The only thing that I did not see Penta have

01:41:12.800 --> 01:41:16.359
an answer for, and Bron Breaker is an absolute

01:41:16.359 --> 01:41:21.079
animal for doing this, that Frankensteiner at

01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:28.779
the end. As Pat McAfee is taking to calling it

01:41:28.779 --> 01:41:33.300
the Breikensteiner. Pretty much, because... It

01:41:33.300 --> 01:41:35.640
breaks people but yeah, he just box jumps from

01:41:35.640 --> 01:41:39.220
the floor to the top rope and flips them out

01:41:39.220 --> 01:41:45.079
like fuck you, dude He pretty much flipped Penta

01:41:45.079 --> 01:41:47.859
best part of the three quarters of the way across

01:41:47.859 --> 01:41:55.539
the ring like Yeah, this is it and it just speaks

01:41:55.539 --> 01:41:58.760
again to the Athleticism behind Bronbreaker.

01:41:58.760 --> 01:42:01.100
There's a reason that he's held that title as

01:42:01.100 --> 01:42:05.159
long as he has I'm looking at it though going

01:42:05.159 --> 01:42:08.779
they built him into such a strong powerful character

01:42:08.779 --> 01:42:12.819
That only another strong powerful character is

01:42:12.819 --> 01:42:15.340
going to be able to relieve him of that title

01:42:15.340 --> 01:42:22.119
belt Who is it? Well, this is what this is it

01:42:22.119 --> 01:42:25.279
is that you look at the guys that Brombreaker

01:42:25.279 --> 01:42:29.640
is defended against Penta, Fen 'Bala, Seamus

01:42:29.640 --> 01:42:36.350
you know like I'm sure there's probably even

01:42:36.350 --> 01:42:39.710
more over the last three months since we've been

01:42:39.710 --> 01:42:46.369
doing Finishes and Factions. It's incredible.

01:42:47.569 --> 01:42:51.350
So we've done almost 50 episodes. I think this

01:42:51.350 --> 01:42:58.100
one's 43, 44, something along those lines. Yeah,

01:42:58.100 --> 01:43:00.979
he's held that IC title for pretty much the entire

01:43:00.979 --> 01:43:03.439
time that we've been doing this podcast and he's

01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:05.800
had some massive matches defending that belt

01:43:05.800 --> 01:43:09.399
So who's yeah, I can't think of anyone at the

01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:11.920
moment that's big enough to take him down Unless

01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:14.460
they throw him against Braun Strowman who's also

01:43:14.460 --> 01:43:16.319
another big animal and that would be a great

01:43:16.319 --> 01:43:18.460
match Braun Strowman and Braun Breaker for an

01:43:18.460 --> 01:43:23.699
IC title or if they fed him to Jacob Fatu But

01:43:23.699 --> 01:43:25.920
I really don't want to see him get done that

01:43:25.920 --> 01:43:29.720
way that would be a dirty doing if you get me

01:43:29.720 --> 01:43:33.539
No, this is it and I don't I don't think we're

01:43:33.539 --> 01:43:37.100
we're gonna get him getting sort of buried in

01:43:37.100 --> 01:43:45.159
quite that way realistically, it's No, it's it

01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:47.819
would be one surefire way of being able to kill

01:43:47.819 --> 01:43:52.279
his character in about zero seconds flat and

01:43:52.300 --> 01:43:55.939
And his character would never recover from that

01:43:55.939 --> 01:43:58.779
rig listing. Yeah, pretty much. But yeah, so

01:43:58.779 --> 01:44:02.239
like I said with this one, Bronbreaker hit the

01:44:02.239 --> 01:44:07.100
Frankensteiner for the two count and then we

01:44:07.100 --> 01:44:11.619
get the fun from Dirty Dom Mysterio as he comes

01:44:11.619 --> 01:44:14.420
running into the ring and starts beating down

01:44:14.420 --> 01:44:18.619
on Bronbreaker. This then gets the match stopped

01:44:18.619 --> 01:44:23.439
due to a disqualification. Which means that Bron

01:44:23.439 --> 01:44:27.840
Breaker wins and retains his intercontinental

01:44:27.840 --> 01:44:31.960
title now At this point I did really sort of

01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:34.960
feel sorry for Penta because I don't think he

01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:40.020
was 100 % he got screwed harder than Bonnie Blue

01:44:40.020 --> 01:44:45.859
But he does get a little bit of comeuppance for

01:44:45.859 --> 01:44:52.479
that screwing so during the beatdown by Dominic

01:44:52.479 --> 01:44:56.220
Mysterio. Finn Balor arrives in the ring with

01:44:56.220 --> 01:45:00.859
a steel chair and gives Bronn a beating with

01:45:00.859 --> 01:45:04.119
that from behind. He then gives the chair to

01:45:04.119 --> 01:45:07.699
Dom and instructs Dom to beat down on Bronn Breaker,

01:45:08.159 --> 01:45:12.699
which he does. To kind of prove, you know, I'm

01:45:12.699 --> 01:45:14.819
still part of this. I'm Judgment Day through

01:45:14.819 --> 01:45:17.239
and through. Then they hand the chair to Penta.

01:45:18.140 --> 01:45:23.220
Well before that, Dom's even got the chair Bala

01:45:23.220 --> 01:45:26.880
looks as though he's gonna take us Dom with it

01:45:26.880 --> 01:45:30.800
Could we blame him? No, I'm pretty sure if I

01:45:30.800 --> 01:45:33.199
was holding a chair in front of Dominic Mysterio

01:45:33.199 --> 01:45:35.100
I'd probably take a swing at him for it and he

01:45:35.100 --> 01:45:37.659
didn't don't fuck all the mate I mean to be fair

01:45:37.659 --> 01:45:40.899
Dom got himself in a match that he didn't need

01:45:40.899 --> 01:45:44.199
to get involved in without the permission of

01:45:44.199 --> 01:45:49.069
Finn Bala We are led to believe by WWE that Finn

01:45:49.069 --> 01:45:52.069
is the leader of Judgment Day as much as everyone

01:45:52.069 --> 01:45:57.010
else congregates more towards Dom than Finn Finn

01:45:57.010 --> 01:46:01.229
still is shown to us as the ringleader of Judgment

01:46:01.229 --> 01:46:03.930
Day and if Dom's gone behind Finn's back and

01:46:03.930 --> 01:46:07.329
offered Penta that slot and then gone down there

01:46:07.329 --> 01:46:12.050
to interfere in Penta's match then yeah, Finn's

01:46:12.050 --> 01:46:14.109
got every right to want to stick a steel chair

01:46:14.109 --> 01:46:21.479
across Dom's face That and Finn still blames

01:46:21.479 --> 01:46:25.359
Dom for Costing him his intercontinental match

01:46:25.359 --> 01:46:28.819
a week previously I mean I blame him there either

01:46:28.819 --> 01:46:31.300
because he did hang Finn up by his nuts on the

01:46:31.300 --> 01:46:33.960
top apron And that is not a nice place for you

01:46:33.960 --> 01:46:37.119
want to be squashing your gingang gullies No,

01:46:37.180 --> 01:46:40.939
definitely not and but in fairness, it wasn't

01:46:40.939 --> 01:46:43.760
I don't think it was necessarily intentional

01:46:43.760 --> 01:46:50.810
to Finn take a plum shot a plum shot from the

01:46:50.810 --> 01:46:53.390
top turnbuckle. I don't think it was intentional

01:46:53.390 --> 01:46:56.689
but accidents don't you can't always blame it

01:46:56.689 --> 01:46:59.390
on a blame it on the buggy and it was an accident

01:46:59.390 --> 01:47:02.850
sometimes you have to own up to your own your

01:47:02.850 --> 01:47:05.229
own mistakes and say well actually maybe I shouldn't

01:47:05.229 --> 01:47:06.850
have got involved it wouldn't have happened you

01:47:06.850 --> 01:47:11.729
look like you had it sorted. Yeah this is it

01:47:11.729 --> 01:47:15.329
but as you were saying The chair is handed to

01:47:15.329 --> 01:47:18.890
Dom. Dom delivers a few stiff shots to the breaker.

01:47:19.470 --> 01:47:22.609
Dom then gives the chair to Penta and basically

01:47:22.609 --> 01:47:26.270
says, your turn. Look, this is your opportunity.

01:47:26.670 --> 01:47:29.090
Take a swing at him and you're as good as in

01:47:29.090 --> 01:47:34.189
the judge day by. But this is what I like to

01:47:34.189 --> 01:47:37.609
see. A nice little bit of spine from a man who

01:47:37.609 --> 01:47:39.750
feels like he doesn't have one because he is

01:47:39.750 --> 01:47:42.569
completely flexible beyond all points of recognition.

01:47:43.919 --> 01:47:46.960
Penta throws the chair back at Dom and then super

01:47:46.960 --> 01:47:51.460
kicks Dom through the chair Which was yeah, it

01:47:51.460 --> 01:47:54.720
was beautiful Watching Dom Mysterio take a kick

01:47:54.720 --> 01:47:57.500
to the face is always always gonna be one of

01:47:57.500 --> 01:48:00.180
my favorite things to do Up there with watching

01:48:00.180 --> 01:48:03.060
Logan Paul get dicked on in any way shape or

01:48:03.060 --> 01:48:07.060
form and ends up a moray getting hit in the balls

01:48:13.869 --> 01:48:16.210
No one knows he's taking a leaf out of Bonnie

01:48:16.210 --> 01:48:18.409
Blue's book and getting dicked more than a thousand

01:48:18.409 --> 01:48:24.069
times in a ten -minute match Fair enough, but

01:48:24.069 --> 01:48:29.109
yeah, no So Dom gives the chair to Penta and

01:48:29.109 --> 01:48:32.529
Penta uses the chair on Dom basically saying

01:48:32.529 --> 01:48:36.250
no to the judgment day and then Bala takes out

01:48:36.250 --> 01:48:41.189
Penta and Breaker and Finishes it up delivering

01:48:41.189 --> 01:48:47.920
a coup de grace to Penta himself. And the episode

01:48:47.920 --> 01:48:52.460
ends with Judgement Day standing tall over Penta's

01:48:52.460 --> 01:48:55.840
broken little body. With Bron Breaker lying broken

01:48:55.840 --> 01:49:00.920
on the outside. Yeah, very much so. And that

01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:03.220
very much brings me to the end of my notes for

01:49:03.220 --> 01:49:06.859
SmackDown. Mine are very much done as well, to

01:49:06.859 --> 01:49:09.850
be fair. The only thing I'm going to throw into

01:49:09.850 --> 01:49:13.250
there is I couldn't pick a match of the night,

01:49:13.250 --> 01:49:17.489
you know, after the first watch through and stuff,

01:49:17.670 --> 01:49:20.010
after recording this and having a conversation

01:49:20.010 --> 01:49:24.609
between it all. I think for me, if you take out

01:49:24.609 --> 01:49:27.829
the interference, I think the Dom, not the Dom,

01:49:28.550 --> 01:49:31.229
the Panther Brawnbreaker match was probably one

01:49:31.229 --> 01:49:32.869
of the better ones of the night, to be fair.

01:49:34.029 --> 01:49:38.359
But I will also say that the Dragon Lee versus

01:49:38.359 --> 01:49:41.939
the large black coffee was also a half decent

01:49:41.939 --> 01:49:46.260
match for what it was see if i had to choose

01:49:46.260 --> 01:49:48.680
one out of the because this was a very promo

01:49:48.680 --> 01:49:53.460
heavy episode of it was this was a big storytelling

01:49:53.460 --> 01:49:56.880
episode of raw realistically we weren't here

01:49:56.880 --> 01:50:02.000
for action we were here for story um but yeah

01:50:02.000 --> 01:50:06.939
i probably go actually with the uh The opening

01:50:06.939 --> 01:50:13.119
match who shows versus a town down on Okay Even

01:50:13.119 --> 01:50:16.159
with the ending and everything like that I've

01:50:16.159 --> 01:50:18.800
always enjoyed watching the USOs do business

01:50:18.800 --> 01:50:28.619
they do business like only the USOs can But yes,

01:50:28.619 --> 01:50:32.899
um, I suppose the only thing to say is that that

01:50:32.899 --> 01:50:35.989
is finishes and factions does Monday night over

01:50:35.989 --> 01:50:38.850
and done with for another week. We hope you've

01:50:38.850 --> 01:50:42.149
enjoyed listening to it. Any feedback is welcome.

01:50:43.109 --> 01:50:48.989
And we will see you back again for Finishes and

01:50:48.989 --> 01:50:54.090
Factions Does NXT from the Performance Center.

01:50:55.029 --> 01:51:00.250
So yeah, lots to look forward to there. I'll

01:51:00.250 --> 01:51:03.470
see you on NXT, Adam. Peace out. See you in a

01:51:03.470 --> 01:51:03.649
bit.