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Welcome back everyone to a new episode of Finishes

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and Factions The Smackdown. This week we are

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live from the O2 Arena in London and as normal,

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myself Rich and my co -host Adam. Adam, welcome

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in buddy. Acknowledge me. Ah, it's the tribal

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chief reference. Yeah! I'm gonna try and come

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up with a new one every time, so. I mean, are

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we going old school eventually as well or are

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we just sticking with the current ones? I will

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eventually run out of ideas and have to go old

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school, yes. What? And I'm not talking about

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tightrope walking and then dropping my full body

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weight on somebody either. No, definitely not.

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Didn't think about that one when I mentioned

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it. But hey, that was definitely something I

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should have seen coming, I'm not gonna lie. So

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should millions millions and millions of the

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Rocks fans and the 20 ,000 Canaanites and What

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is it 50 ,000 Hulkamaniacs, I think so depending

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on how far we're going back Anyway, yeah, the

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the big red machine the rock and the Hulk Hogan

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and not running wild on this one brother No,

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no, they are not but smackdown most certainly

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was running wild in London's o2 arena this week

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And to be fair what? It's the second to last

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show on the European tour with a Monday night

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raw also coming from the o2 arena on Monday And

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this definitely set the tone for for what raw

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hasn't stage for us Even though like we said

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a few times I think Smackdown at the moment has

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been the better programming and it definitely

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started off that way. Oh Definitely it's a case

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that it's just provided this Raw seems to be

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made up of a lot of filler at the moment, which

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is a bit of a shame As it's always been the flagship

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show and they still call it the flagship show.

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I just don't think it's I think it's more a bit

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in there are weeks where it's more shit show

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rather than flagship show yeah that's normally

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when we have an extensive use of the same superstar

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it tends to go downhill quite a lot but uh i

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mean we had a really good start to this week's

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episode um with the uh with the champ himself

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Cody Rhodes joining us in the ring to break uh

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break things off uh for the week Cody Cody roads.

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Yeah, that's been going through my head all day

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as well along with Roman Roman reigns in a Slightly

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alternate version that we got a little bit later

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on in the show when we got the contract signing

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Yeah, that's it. That's that's all you're getting

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for now. Um Between the crowd singing Cody Rhodes

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his name and let's go Cena Cena sucks I love

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Cody Rhodes little thing at the moment where

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he comes down to the ring and he says London

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What do you want to talk about and everybody

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knows what we want to talk about at the moment?

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We'll talk about what he's got to say about John

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Cena, you know Not really that interested in

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what Cody Rhodes had for tea last night Not really

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no one's gonna turn around and be like hey, how's

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Brandi? Nope, we want to know what you've got

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to say about John Cena your opponent at WrestleMania

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the man who's on a mission to beat Ric Flair's

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record and get that 17th world title. I mean,

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I'd quite happily ask about Brandy, but that

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would be with less than innocent intentions,

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to be quite honest. Yeah, fair enough, mate.

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Fair enough. You got me there. But we don't get

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to hear... Like him or loathe him, his wife is

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hot. He's definitely punching above his weight.

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Definitely. He's not the only one in Smackdown

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that's punching above his weight either. CM Punk

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is definitely punching above his weight. 100%.

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I know they call him Chick Magnet Punk for a

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reason, but yeah, he definitely realized that

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he had to wipe that one up and did it quickly

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with AJ. Definitely. Anyway, this is more digression

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than I think we've had in the first five minutes

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of an episode, so. Hey, we've broken a record.

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Back on track We well, I mean, yeah, it's only

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one person that can get us back on track to be

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fair after After Cody's very small little segment

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at the beginning kind of saying You know what

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he want kind of asking the question and in saying

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what he's got to say because we we get Randy

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Orton come out to the ring pretty quickly as

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well and again the London crowd do not disappoint

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us singing the voices back at him and Yeah, a

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lot of the superstars in this opening segment

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took the opportunity just to sit back well actually

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throughout the course of the program just to

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sit and kind of take in this this London crowd

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and The the engagement they had with it because

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even Randy Orton took his time coming to the

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ring Just kind of soaking it in and kind of like

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it's ain't gonna get old anytime soon Well, this

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is the last smackdown of the European tour. Yeah

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because later on in the program they mentioned

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that next week they're there in Chicago which

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means that they're back in obviously back in

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the states which means we are going to have a

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big CM Punk presence and a CM Punk match next

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week because CM Punk is from Chicago Illinois

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yeah of course um and uh to his favorite pizza

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place too but um but Yes, we did. We had the

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Apex Predator himself come out to the ring and

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I actually made a note of one thing that has

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absolutely nothing to do with wrestling other

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than the fact that it appeared in a SmackDown

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ring and it's one of those little details that

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apparently my brain latched onto because I found

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it eternally funny. There were two guys in the

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front row during this segment. I didn't notice

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them throughout the rest of the episode because

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honestly I never thought about it afterwards.

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both of them wearing football tops so well soccer

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tops one of them was in a villa shirt one either

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dirty bastard The other one was wearing a blue

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nose shirt. So they were literally stood shoulder

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to shoulder. Yeah Directly next to one another

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you have one of them in a village strip the other

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one in the Birmingham City Football Club strip

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which for those in our American listeners and

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Australia as well, they are massive rivals The

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reason I don't like them is because the football

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team I support is from the same city. I'm a West

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Bromwich Albion fan and those two teams are our

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biggest rivals and they themselves are also massive

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rivals. So the fact they were stood side by side

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is a quite an interesting one. It'd be like putting

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a Chicago Bears fan next to a Green Bay Packers

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fan. It does happen, but they are gonna bitch

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about it. The rivalry for the rivalry in this

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season has sort of died down a little bit with

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Birmingham City having been relegated One and

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Villa have somehow managed to stay in the frickin

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Premier League I don't really understand how

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Aston Villa are one of the only English teams

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left in the Champions League Right that says

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something with Villa are still in the Champions

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League and like Liverpool and not in it Arsenal

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have gone Man United aren't in Europe anymore

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So for Villa to be left, that's a that makes

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me sick to my stomach Do you know actually while

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we're talking about football teams I saw I saw

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a video the other day again We're digressing

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so far off so far off topic, but because we bought

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it up. I can't not think about it is that I saw

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a video where Plymouth Argyle has two different

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fan bases They have a fan base in the UK in Plymouth

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itself where the team is based. They also have

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a fan base in Plymouth in the States. They do.

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Who are also huge Argyle fans. They're both pilgrims.

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I've found that eternally funny. Anyway, back

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to wrestling. We're not here to talk about football.

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So Randy Orton comes out to basically give Cody

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Rhodes a bit of a big up. Which wasn't quite

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what I was expecting to be fair. He kind of comes

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out and says look You got a look at who Cody

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Rhodes is as a person and where he's come from

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within this industry He said, you know, Cody

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wasn't happy with the way he was being treated

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at WWE He didn't like what was going on. He wasn't

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getting anywhere. So what did he do? He left

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he worked on himself He went to the, you know,

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he set up another company, which is now their

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competitor in all elite wrestling. He went to

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the top and got himself so over at AEW and on

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the indie circuits that when he came back to

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WWE, it continued and he's just grown further

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and further and further on. So the point where

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it kind of, you know, Randy goes on to talk about

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his adversity. He brings up that quality match

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that we had a few years ago where some Cody Rhodes

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faced Seth Rollins at Hell in a Cell with his

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pectoral muscle torn pretty much off his chest

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by the time he finished that match. Like I've

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had some injuries myself over the years and I

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couldn't think of how painful that is and that

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guy is still wrestling a match with a oh and

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it looked disgusting too. This is it. It's it

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looked gnarly as fuck. And yeah, this is just

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it's a side of Randy Orton. We don't see very

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regularly. It's the warm, fuzzy side of Randy

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Orton, which we really, really don't see very

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often. It's not something we're accustomed to.

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No, definitely not. It's the legend killer, the

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apex predator, the viper, the You know, he's

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not the cuddly teddy bear. When you think of

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Randy Orton, you don't think of, oh, gummy, gimme,

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gimme, gimme, and grabbing his cheeks. You're

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thinking of RKOs off the top of steel cages,

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off backflips. I was going to say, if you're

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going to try and do anything like that, then

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yes, you probably are going to end up with an

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RKO of some description. Yes. I mean, definitely.

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But, yeah, it was kind of interesting to see

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because obviously this is You know randy goes

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on to say how kody's in charge of his own legacy

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And that he uh, he loves and respects kody and

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is really proud of what he's done But now it's

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it's wrestlemania time and because it's wrestlemania

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time This was the perfect opportunity for randy

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orton to bring up his match at wrestlemania and

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uh Basically saying he's got his match against

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kevin owens and he cannot wait to kick Kevin

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Owens head all over Las Vegas. While at the same

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time, he thinks Cody Rhodes is gonna be whooping

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John Cena all over the Vegas strip too. But.

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I mean, I think we're all hoping for it realistically.

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Oh, you know what? I mean, I'd love to see Randy

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punt Kevin Owens head that hard. It literally

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does pop off his shoulders. On the other hand.

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I'm in John Cena's corner rooting for him to

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win that title I just want to see someone I just

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want to see someone wipe the smug fucking grin

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off Ric Flair's face which therefore in turn

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Wipes that smug fucking grin off Charlotte Flair's

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face because her daddy isn't number one anymore

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Juan Cena will be and if we can wipe Charlotte

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Flair's smile off her face That means that Tiffy's

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got more of an opportunity to retain that title

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and I am rooting for Tiffy So I like how you

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sort of connected all the dots there the only

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thing that I'm gonna sort of rain on your parade

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with is that I've seen an interview with Charlotte

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Flair recently where they talked to her about

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oh what happens if If Sina breaks daddy dearest

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record sort of thing and she go and she basically

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just turns around and says well then I'm breaking

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his record so If because her idea her Charlotte

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flair wants to wants to be the one to break her

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father's record Yeah world titles held and Yeah,

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I can sort of understand that But either way,

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it sounds like we could end up with a flare on

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top regardless Skeletor looking bitch. I mean,

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yeah allegedly I'm gonna throw that out there

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for legal reasons. Allegedly she looks like she's

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a skeletal looking bitch But talking about bitches

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Right after Randy Orton has finished telling

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everyone about what he wants to do to Kevin Owens

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We get WWE's biggest bitch come out and I'm not

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talking about the Miz either I'm talking about

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Drew McIntyre. He does come out later, but this

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time we're talking about Drew McIntyre and how

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he comes back out to the ring to do yet more

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crying about how Randy hasn't done anything since

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his big amazing return and that he's had more

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people talking about his five -minute title reign

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than they've ever spoken about Randy Orton's

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whole career. Bullshit. I call bullshit. We've

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spoken more about Randy Orton's career on this

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podcast than we have Drew McIntyre's five -minute

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title reign. So bullshit. So it's not Randy Orton's

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career. It's more his comeback His comeback for

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this time is it so Drew's is saying that We've

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that people are talking more about his five -minute

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title reign than Randy Orton's comeback since

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since Elimination chamber Yes. Well, I'm going

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to hold off the vulgar joke that I have sat on

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the tip of my tongue just this once because we've

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got a little bit more of this episode to go into

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and we don't need my cheap jokes this far into

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it. Well, Drew doesn't just sort of go after

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Randy Orton's comeback. One of the things that,

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again, my brain really latched onto because...

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Yeah, I can't really sort of - Adam Risen with

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the tism while watching SmackDown this week.

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Well, it was just the fact that he managed to

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call both Randy Orton and Cody Rhodes, he called

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them both nepo babies. Right. It just enriched

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to me that the biggest crier in WWE is calling

00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.330
somebody else a baby. Oh yeah. It is slightly

00:16:45.330 --> 00:16:50.269
ironic but don't worry Drew will continuously

00:16:50.269 --> 00:16:53.990
cry until Drew McIntyre gets what he thinks he's

00:16:53.990 --> 00:16:57.850
earned but he's not on the indies anymore and

00:16:57.850 --> 00:16:59.570
he's definitely not being given the push he was

00:16:59.570 --> 00:17:02.570
back there I don't know he's to be fair he's

00:17:02.570 --> 00:17:04.369
on a pretty solid push at the moment but it's

00:17:04.369 --> 00:17:07.250
not really not really leading anywhere for him

00:17:07.250 --> 00:17:09.349
there's no title shots no title opportunities

00:17:09.349 --> 00:17:11.710
at the moment coming Drew McIntyre's way and

00:17:11.710 --> 00:17:14.809
it has been a while I'd say it's been a while

00:17:14.809 --> 00:17:23.349
since McIntyre had a title. About a year? He

00:17:23.349 --> 00:17:25.490
was champion at WrestleMania last year, wasn't

00:17:25.490 --> 00:17:27.990
he? As both him and Cody came out of WrestleMania

00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:32.430
as champions. For five minutes, yeah. But until

00:17:32.430 --> 00:17:37.180
he got cashed in on. So he didn't come out of

00:17:37.180 --> 00:17:40.079
WrestleMania as a champion. He went in not being

00:17:40.079 --> 00:17:43.099
a champion. He won the championship, lost it

00:17:43.099 --> 00:17:45.660
again, and then came out without his championship

00:17:45.660 --> 00:17:51.559
even so. Yeah, fantastic. I mean, almost as thrilling

00:17:51.559 --> 00:17:54.680
as... We're sort of just proving his point at

00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.160
this stage. Yeah, let's not do that too much.

00:17:57.539 --> 00:18:00.279
He does mention at some point that, as normal,

00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:03.119
it should be Drew McIntyre versus Cody Rhodes

00:18:03.119 --> 00:18:10.069
for the title. As he is the UK's only ever champion

00:18:10.069 --> 00:18:14.890
which again, I'm gonna dispute because Actually,

00:18:14.930 --> 00:18:18.809
I don't think I can use that one Now I'm gonna

00:18:18.809 --> 00:18:21.089
have to put that dispute down because I was gonna

00:18:21.089 --> 00:18:24.390
call Seamus English and that's very offensive

00:18:24.390 --> 00:18:29.930
because he's Irish I Mean he's any Scottish when

00:18:29.930 --> 00:18:32.569
he's when he's winning his English when he's

00:18:32.569 --> 00:18:35.759
losing but like Andy Murray's before Well, yeah,

00:18:35.759 --> 00:18:39.059
this is it Except normally with Andy Murray.

00:18:39.059 --> 00:18:40.740
It's the other way around when he was actually

00:18:40.740 --> 00:18:43.559
competing. He's retired now I did find it quite

00:18:43.559 --> 00:18:47.400
funny how the London crowd did pick on the Scottish

00:18:47.400 --> 00:18:49.740
wrestlers a little bit I'll get into it a little

00:18:49.740 --> 00:18:51.799
bit further on but they did have a few words

00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:55.759
to say during pipe and Nevins match that the

00:18:55.759 --> 00:18:59.359
Netflix and WWE had to edit out which made the

00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:03.710
Commentary a little bit hard to follow I've got

00:19:03.710 --> 00:19:06.349
to admit, I must have completely blanked on that

00:19:06.349 --> 00:19:08.710
one. So I look forward to hearing about that.

00:19:09.589 --> 00:19:12.849
But yeah, it doesn't take long for Drew to bring

00:19:12.849 --> 00:19:15.309
everything round to his own problems that he's

00:19:15.309 --> 00:19:19.390
been having with the Temu version of the Undertaker.

00:19:20.730 --> 00:19:24.609
Was it guy liner wearing Temu version Undertaker?

00:19:25.269 --> 00:19:27.170
Which I thought was fucking hilarious, to be

00:19:27.170 --> 00:19:30.990
fair. Considering... You know that Damian Priest

00:19:30.990 --> 00:19:35.849
himself was trained by Mark Calloway He's just

00:19:35.849 --> 00:19:39.490
as good as he's definitely not a T -Moe version

00:19:39.490 --> 00:19:44.470
No, I think that was more aimed at his look than

00:19:44.470 --> 00:19:48.910
anything else if I'm completely honest But yeah,

00:19:48.910 --> 00:19:53.420
it's a case that Drew just thought starts really

00:19:53.420 --> 00:19:56.039
trying to prod at different areas to see where

00:19:56.039 --> 00:19:59.079
he can get a reaction And he did get one to be

00:19:59.079 --> 00:20:04.900
fair The person I expected No, so Drew poked

00:20:04.900 --> 00:20:07.640
at Randy Orton a little bit saying and it won't

00:20:07.640 --> 00:20:09.819
be him that takes the title off Cody Rhodes It'll

00:20:09.819 --> 00:20:16.579
be Drew McIntyre Yeah, he explains the pathways

00:20:17.859 --> 00:20:25.460
He makes a pass at the fact that it was He was

00:20:25.460 --> 00:20:34.200
making a pass at it potentially being Is it could

00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:37.240
be Randy Orton's last ever WrestleMania if his

00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:39.859
back doesn't hold out basically Yeah, pretty

00:20:39.859 --> 00:20:42.660
much. He says Randy Orton's only jacked on the

00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:46.579
outside because the inside his back is shattered

00:20:47.370 --> 00:20:49.809
The word I used in my notes is fucked, but that

00:20:49.809 --> 00:20:51.950
is not the word that came out of Drew McIntyre's

00:20:51.950 --> 00:20:56.269
mouth. Basically, Randy Orton's back is destroyed

00:20:56.269 --> 00:21:01.029
and Drew McIntyre will break it if needed. At

00:21:01.029 --> 00:21:03.890
which point he then turns his attention to Cody

00:21:03.890 --> 00:21:06.730
Rhodes. I didn't make a note of what was said

00:21:06.730 --> 00:21:10.470
to Cody. I did make a note of Cody Rhodes punching

00:21:10.470 --> 00:21:16.119
Drew McIntyre square in the mouth. And I don't

00:21:16.119 --> 00:21:18.700
think he ever actually got any words out to Cody

00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:23.099
before basically he decided No, I've heard enough

00:21:23.099 --> 00:21:26.779
Yeah, so Cody hits him in the mouth Randy Alton

00:21:26.779 --> 00:21:31.319
goes for an RKO, but Drew McIntyre manages to

00:21:31.319 --> 00:21:33.700
Wiggle his way out of it like the dirty little

00:21:33.700 --> 00:21:36.240
rat bastard he is and makes his way up the entrance

00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:39.119
ramp looking back at the guys in the ring with

00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:47.440
utter disgust before we run into a WrestleMania

00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:54.660
VT. Now I'm not 100 % sure what the contents

00:21:54.660 --> 00:21:57.299
of the VT about WrestleMania were because I didn't

00:21:57.299 --> 00:22:01.460
make a note of it. I was more into trying to

00:22:01.460 --> 00:22:03.880
catch up on my notes from the end of the promo

00:22:03.880 --> 00:22:07.920
when the VT was playing. So Adam, did you get

00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:11.440
any notes on what this VT WrestleMania VT had

00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:15.900
content wise? No, I did not because when I watched

00:22:15.900 --> 00:22:18.319
it through it had no relevance to any storyline

00:22:18.319 --> 00:22:25.380
Yeah, so that makes our life a bit easier there

00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:27.299
was a WrestleMania BT I'm guessing it was probably

00:22:27.299 --> 00:22:29.960
just giving you the dates and some of the announced

00:22:29.960 --> 00:22:33.700
matches that we've already got Before it is announced

00:22:33.700 --> 00:22:37.319
that tonight we are getting a match between Randy

00:22:37.319 --> 00:22:43.890
Orton and Drew McIntyre before We get taken into

00:22:43.890 --> 00:22:49.150
our first match of the evening. I'll wait for

00:22:49.150 --> 00:22:52.369
Adam to say if I've missed something. Nope. Nope.

00:22:52.470 --> 00:22:54.150
Yeah. So we get taken into the first match of

00:22:54.150 --> 00:22:57.049
the evening, which is a tag team title match,

00:22:57.890 --> 00:23:01.730
which is Street Profits who come in as the current

00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:06.789
champions versus Pretty Deadly. And Pretty Deadly

00:23:06.789 --> 00:23:10.130
are wrestling in their, not their hometown, so

00:23:10.130 --> 00:23:13.759
to speak, but this is their home show for all

00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:17.519
intensive purposes on this uh wrestlemania road

00:23:17.519 --> 00:23:20.859
to wrestlemania european tour um which i've seen

00:23:20.859 --> 00:23:23.859
a lot of people complaining about on social media

00:23:23.859 --> 00:23:25.900
about why they've done a european tour in the

00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:28.960
road to wrestlemania a lot of people are speculating

00:23:28.960 --> 00:23:31.700
it's because cena was filming in hungary and

00:23:31.700 --> 00:23:35.180
it was easier for him to be able to fly to Few

00:23:35.180 --> 00:23:38.319
European dates cut a promo disappear back to

00:23:38.319 --> 00:23:40.240
Hungary to carry on filming then it was for him

00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:45.619
to fly to America for a week or so the last three

00:23:45.619 --> 00:23:47.460
weeks were they two weeks will I've been on the

00:23:47.460 --> 00:23:51.819
tour and then lose that filming time I think

00:23:51.819 --> 00:23:56.240
a lot of the backlash from having for the fans

00:23:56.240 --> 00:24:02.039
have had about Like the European tour is more

00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:05.240
I'm going to be honest, it's more the Americans

00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:11.640
who have had to... Basically their watch times

00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:14.319
have been completely screwed because of the time.

00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:16.339
It's been putting them on at like three o 'clock

00:24:16.339 --> 00:24:18.220
in the afternoon and one o 'clock in the afternoon

00:24:18.220 --> 00:24:21.039
depending on which location in America you're

00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:25.440
in. You can't sit down and do it either. It must

00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:30.349
annoy them. But at the same time I had this exact

00:24:30.349 --> 00:24:33.849
I had I remember very explicitly having an argument

00:24:33.849 --> 00:24:40.789
with an online last year with a An American WWE

00:24:40.789 --> 00:24:44.230
fan who really went to town on the fact that

00:24:44.230 --> 00:24:47.700
how inconvenient it was for him at the fact that

00:24:47.700 --> 00:24:50.819
it was like they were in the middle of a european

00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:54.359
tour at the time all of america's watch times

00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:58.480
were thrown out of whack and they were having

00:24:58.480 --> 00:25:02.819
to like get up ridiculously early to try and

00:25:02.819 --> 00:25:06.359
to try and watch the show basically i remember

00:25:06.359 --> 00:25:09.440
saying yeah it's almost as if the european fans

00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:13.420
don't we have to do that every week if i wanted

00:25:13.420 --> 00:25:16.509
to sit and i will not lie to you I do not watch

00:25:16.509 --> 00:25:19.450
these episodes live purely for the fact that

00:25:19.450 --> 00:25:21.410
they're on at one o 'clock in the morning for

00:25:21.410 --> 00:25:24.769
me and for Adam as well we both have jobs family

00:25:24.769 --> 00:25:26.809
commitments I can't be sitting watching wrestling

00:25:26.809 --> 00:25:28.549
from one o 'clock to four o 'clock in the morning

00:25:28.549 --> 00:25:32.569
and then straight recording a podcast until six

00:25:32.569 --> 00:25:34.529
o 'clock in the morning to then start doing school

00:25:34.529 --> 00:25:37.809
running the rest of my day I never see my pillow

00:25:37.809 --> 00:25:40.430
and me and my pillow have a half decent relationship

00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:44.640
I don't want to know what you do with your pillow,

00:25:44.839 --> 00:25:46.759
mate. I just like sleeping with my pillow, to

00:25:46.759 --> 00:25:48.480
be fair, but I don't get enough time with it

00:25:48.480 --> 00:25:55.319
as it is. No, this is it. But yeah, no, it's

00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:58.660
so I think a lot of the backlash is from really

00:25:58.660 --> 00:26:03.940
salty American fans that are having to wait and

00:26:03.940 --> 00:26:12.180
die. I think I think I've seen that. I've seen

00:26:12.180 --> 00:26:14.220
that it's been like nine o 'clock in the morning

00:26:14.220 --> 00:26:18.539
in some cases When they've had to when they when

00:26:18.539 --> 00:26:27.039
the show's been going out It just doesn't You've

00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:31.680
no room to complain when Let's say 42 out of

00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:37.440
the 52 weeks a year that WWE tours the states

00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:42.849
repeatedly Right there for another for another

00:26:42.849 --> 00:26:47.890
five or six weeks you have to Maybe miss watching

00:26:47.890 --> 00:26:51.410
it live and watch it on catch -up instead Because

00:26:51.410 --> 00:26:55.609
you guys have got families and jobs and school

00:26:55.609 --> 00:26:58.990
runs and things like that to do. I mean Yeah,

00:26:58.990 --> 00:27:01.829
no, I'm not gonna say what I was about to say

00:27:01.829 --> 00:27:06.710
but yeah, it just I think it's a lot of very

00:27:06.710 --> 00:27:10.410
salty American fans that have just that become

00:27:10.410 --> 00:27:14.170
incredibly, I'm gonna use the word entitled to

00:27:14.170 --> 00:27:18.630
the fact that WWE is an American corporation

00:27:18.630 --> 00:27:22.990
that will ever so occasionally do European tours

00:27:22.990 --> 00:27:25.109
and things like that. I mean, there's another

00:27:25.109 --> 00:27:29.630
one planned for - August. For the summer, so.

00:27:29.750 --> 00:27:33.730
But yeah, I mean, after this match, there was

00:27:33.730 --> 00:27:36.329
a lot of salty English wrestling fans because,

00:27:37.109 --> 00:27:40.099
well. as nice as it was to see Pretty Dadly in

00:27:40.099 --> 00:27:43.900
the ring and they did put on a very solid performance

00:27:43.900 --> 00:27:49.839
against a very strong Street Profits. They were

00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:54.019
unlucky enough this time to not walk away with

00:27:54.019 --> 00:27:57.779
the win but they, like I said, they put up a

00:27:57.779 --> 00:28:00.519
hell of a fight and there were some brilliant

00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:04.720
moves in there that I've picked up. I got at

00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.779
one point that One of the members of pretty deadly

00:28:08.779 --> 00:28:11.980
hit spear while the other guy hit a sling blade

00:28:11.980 --> 00:28:15.819
and So someone referred to it on commentary as

00:28:15.819 --> 00:28:23.220
a move called spilt milk on Yeah on Angela Hawke

00:28:23.220 --> 00:28:28.740
on Angelo Hawkins Angela Hawkins. Yep Didn't

00:28:28.740 --> 00:28:31.640
realize they were doing mixed tag matches Yeah,

00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:35.740
no, and Montez Ford saved the count on that one

00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:39.740
by throwing his body in the way to get the shoulders

00:28:39.740 --> 00:28:44.319
off the mat for his teammate. And again, I seem

00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:46.720
to remember Pretty Deadly doing something similar

00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:50.019
with a move that the Street Profits were trying

00:28:50.019 --> 00:28:53.119
to pull off where you had one of Pretty Deadly

00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:55.180
push the other one out the way and literally

00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:58.059
take the bullet for him. He did. I made a note

00:28:58.059 --> 00:29:02.670
of that, actually. There is a section where Montez

00:29:02.670 --> 00:29:06.849
Ford comes off the top rope to hit, I'm guessing

00:29:06.849 --> 00:29:09.230
it was a, I think it was a splash or an elbow,

00:29:09.910 --> 00:29:13.410
but Kit Wilson pushed his partner, rolled his

00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:16.170
partner out of the way and took the shot. And

00:29:16.170 --> 00:29:19.670
Elton Prince then got the roll up on Montez Ford

00:29:19.670 --> 00:29:23.930
for a two count with that section of the match,

00:29:23.970 --> 00:29:27.529
which to be fair was really nicely timed wrestling.

00:29:28.490 --> 00:29:30.630
We go back to this quite often and say there

00:29:30.630 --> 00:29:32.809
was there was a lot of really good technical

00:29:32.809 --> 00:29:35.349
Wrestling in this but these guys for the the

00:29:35.349 --> 00:29:37.490
high flying moves they were doing it was all

00:29:37.490 --> 00:29:41.190
so well scripted and timed it was Yeah, it was

00:29:41.190 --> 00:29:43.490
a lot of these moves pretty much hit to perfection

00:29:43.490 --> 00:29:51.589
to be fair So again when we talk It was pretty

00:29:51.589 --> 00:29:56.250
simple to see in my view at least that this that

00:29:56.250 --> 00:30:00.720
while Yes, Pretty Deadly were on home turf for

00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:03.920
all intent and purpose. They were never realistically

00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:08.240
going to win this match. It didn't make sense

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:12.279
in the grander scheme of things for them to win

00:30:12.279 --> 00:30:15.720
the title at this stage. I mean, me and you had

00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.880
more of a chance to win the title this time round

00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:21.299
because Street Profits have only had it for,

00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:24.680
what, two weeks? They are not dropping that title

00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:28.900
off that team. Two weeks before mania two three

00:30:28.900 --> 00:30:31.259
weeks before mania if that title is not changing

00:30:31.259 --> 00:30:33.400
hands again Because that is going to completely

00:30:33.400 --> 00:30:35.599
discredit the team that go into WrestleMania

00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:38.599
with it Because of how many times it would have

00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:40.859
changed hands in the buildup to WrestleMania

00:30:40.859 --> 00:30:44.180
So that that title those titles have to stay

00:30:44.180 --> 00:30:46.720
with street profits until at least WrestleMania

00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:52.500
and as far as I'm aware I could be wrong, but

00:30:52.500 --> 00:30:55.900
I believe that hasn't actually had a match set

00:30:55.900 --> 00:30:58.960
for those tag team titles yet at WrestleMania.

00:30:59.819 --> 00:31:02.539
That could be wrong, but it's not one that I

00:31:02.539 --> 00:31:04.779
remember going, oh, Street Profits are facing

00:31:04.779 --> 00:31:07.380
DIY at WrestleMania. That's going to be such

00:31:07.380 --> 00:31:09.400
and such. I just pulled that one out of my ass

00:31:09.400 --> 00:31:12.160
as an example. But yeah, I don't think their

00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:14.299
match has been announced yet, so they're definitely

00:31:14.299 --> 00:31:17.400
not going to have those titles dropped when they're

00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.380
still building a storyline for WrestleMania.

00:31:21.160 --> 00:31:23.660
Yeah, no nothing has been announced just yet

00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:26.000
pretty deadly had this match this week because

00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:28.720
they were the number one contenders for it Yeah,

00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:33.019
I'm not sure now that they have I've sort of

00:31:33.019 --> 00:31:36.500
had their shot who would be sort of next in line

00:31:36.500 --> 00:31:38.900
But the idea is is that pretty deadly now go

00:31:38.900 --> 00:31:41.839
to the back of the queue. I think guessing it's

00:31:41.839 --> 00:31:45.240
Los Garza Yeah, because I'm only going with Los

00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:49.240
Garza purely for the fact that we saw a Backstage

00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:51.640
promo. I believe it was last week could have

00:31:51.640 --> 00:31:58.359
been the week before with DIY and So Johnny Gargano

00:31:58.359 --> 00:32:01.480
and Tommaso Ciampa with motor city machine guns,

00:32:01.519 --> 00:32:06.019
so Chris Saban and Alex Shelley basically Alex

00:32:06.019 --> 00:32:09.099
the Motor City machine guns told them welcome

00:32:09.099 --> 00:32:12.980
to the back of the queue for the titles So the

00:32:12.980 --> 00:32:15.720
only other teams I could think of apart from

00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:19.849
those two DIY and um pretty reckless uh pretty

00:32:19.849 --> 00:32:22.769
deadly sorry and the the holder of street profits

00:32:22.769 --> 00:32:27.269
is los gaza yeah i feel like there's another

00:32:27.269 --> 00:32:29.869
one that we're forgetting but i want to say it's

00:32:29.869 --> 00:32:37.009
like american alpha academy no they're on um

00:32:37.009 --> 00:32:40.410
they're on raw yeah hunk and tank aren't broad

00:32:40.410 --> 00:32:48.019
nxt yes yes they are um yeah no i can't think

00:32:48.019 --> 00:32:51.539
of another one i'm sure it will become evident

00:32:51.539 --> 00:32:55.240
as time goes on anyway yes so street profits

00:32:55.240 --> 00:32:57.839
finished this one off with a double team it was

00:32:57.839 --> 00:33:02.640
a doomsday blockbuster for a three count so they

00:33:02.640 --> 00:33:07.460
retained their title that way and then adam what

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:12.539
happened next so we go from that match into a

00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:19.819
into a backstage promo, which sees a couple of

00:33:19.819 --> 00:33:22.519
people that we haven't seen a massive amount

00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:24.920
of, especially in the time that we've been doing

00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.640
this podcast, in a case that brought to the point

00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:34.559
that I had to Google who the fuck they were.

00:33:36.079 --> 00:33:39.900
Just because, again, we haven't seen a massive

00:33:39.900 --> 00:33:47.829
amount of them. No, this is it and so that we

00:33:47.829 --> 00:33:51.549
were referring to is Hayden Carter on a chance

00:33:51.549 --> 00:33:55.869
We're talking with Zelina Vega backstage about

00:33:55.869 --> 00:33:59.269
her match last week, which she had with Piper

00:33:59.269 --> 00:34:05.890
Niven Basically discussing the the the ever -present

00:34:05.890 --> 00:34:09.889
numbers game that goes with when you're in a

00:34:09.889 --> 00:34:13.090
one -on -one competition whether it be with Chelsea

00:34:13.090 --> 00:34:16.690
green herself or a member of the secret her this

00:34:16.690 --> 00:34:21.909
Yeah, and We've seen a lot of Chelsea green the

00:34:21.909 --> 00:34:27.949
secret her this the last few few weeks In different

00:34:27.949 --> 00:34:31.369
places because they've been making appearances

00:34:31.369 --> 00:34:35.210
everywhere They have been making the rounds in

00:34:35.210 --> 00:34:44.610
all fairness. It's 100 % but yeah so they were

00:34:44.610 --> 00:34:48.150
discussing discussing about this when they were

00:34:48.150 --> 00:34:52.969
joined by well alba fire and piper niven to begin

00:34:52.969 --> 00:34:56.250
with yeah they coming clear the room making it

00:34:56.250 --> 00:35:01.889
safe uh chelsea green to enter stupid well um

00:35:01.889 --> 00:35:04.949
but uh they basically come in make a couple of

00:35:04.949 --> 00:35:08.829
short jokes at selena vega's expense and then

00:35:08.829 --> 00:35:13.460
we have um Chelsea Green herself join join in

00:35:13.460 --> 00:35:18.179
and Yeah, continue to make these fucking chokes

00:35:18.179 --> 00:35:22.500
at Selena Vegas expense realistically I mean

00:35:22.500 --> 00:35:28.519
I think despite Selena Vega having lost the match

00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:32.360
last week I think she's still being viewed or

00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:38.099
trying to be portrayed in contendership for For

00:35:38.099 --> 00:35:42.369
the United States champion championship and I'll

00:35:42.369 --> 00:35:44.789
be honest I would really like to see the belt

00:35:44.789 --> 00:35:53.110
on her because yeah I'm sort of past the yeah

00:35:53.110 --> 00:35:58.070
the gimmicks tired now it's that they've played

00:35:58.070 --> 00:36:02.610
it to death for me and as much as I enjoy watching

00:36:02.610 --> 00:36:05.230
Chelsea Green wrestle because I think she's she

00:36:05.230 --> 00:36:08.880
is an incredibly talented individual Just not

00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:13.320
a fan of the gimmick. I have seen on social media

00:36:13.320 --> 00:36:17.880
that Chelsea Green's husband is Due to be making

00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:22.019
an appearance on AEW soon for a match against

00:36:22.019 --> 00:36:25.340
Adam Cope So we're gonna see Matt Cordana on

00:36:25.340 --> 00:36:28.719
AEW again. I Think it's just a one. It's just

00:36:28.719 --> 00:36:31.019
a one -off. I've seen that on social media today

00:36:31.019 --> 00:36:34.619
That'd be an interesting much Might be one I'll

00:36:34.619 --> 00:36:36.179
have to go to YouTube to have a little look out

00:36:36.179 --> 00:36:40.960
afterwards. Um So the end of this promo basically

00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:45.719
finishes with Caden Carter and Katana chance

00:36:45.719 --> 00:36:49.639
Having setting up a match against the secret

00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:56.860
her this later on today But so that's yeah can

00:36:56.860 --> 00:37:00.019
be Caden Carter and Katana chance versus Piper

00:37:00.019 --> 00:37:10.710
Nevin and Albert fire we then go into a BT This

00:37:10.710 --> 00:37:12.750
I'll tell you what it is and then I'll get into

00:37:12.750 --> 00:37:16.449
the reasons why I really dislike this WWE this

00:37:16.449 --> 00:37:19.889
year for the first time are inducting matches

00:37:19.889 --> 00:37:24.269
into the Hall of Fame And the first one that

00:37:24.269 --> 00:37:26.349
they are going to be inducting into the Hall

00:37:26.349 --> 00:37:29.610
of Fame was the Stone Cold Steve Austin Bret

00:37:29.610 --> 00:37:33.670
Hart match from WrestleMania 13 If you haven't

00:37:33.670 --> 00:37:36.929
seen it, it's on Netflix. You can go and find

00:37:36.929 --> 00:37:42.440
it It's a hell of a match. Definitely, definitely

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:47.760
Hall of Fame worthy. But the reason I don't like

00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.360
the fact that adding matches into the Hall of

00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:55.980
Fame now is because I feel like they've run out

00:37:55.980 --> 00:37:58.679
of wrestlers they want to put into a Hall of

00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:00.360
Fame and they're just trying to find things to

00:38:00.360 --> 00:38:04.980
fill the slots. I mean there is going to be an

00:38:04.980 --> 00:38:09.659
element of that in it I think and yeah I think

00:38:09.659 --> 00:38:12.539
we'd be silly to dismiss it in any way shape

00:38:12.539 --> 00:38:19.659
or form just because yeah it's I do and I don't

00:38:19.659 --> 00:38:24.639
like the fact that they've they're putting matches

00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:29.579
into it because there are it gives them a whole

00:38:29.579 --> 00:38:35.590
lot of scope for What for them to put so much

00:38:35.590 --> 00:38:41.610
more into the Hall of Fame as it goes It's a

00:38:41.610 --> 00:38:47.530
case It's a case that I'm sort of in the same

00:38:47.530 --> 00:38:50.710
boat. I don't think matches are such I think

00:38:50.710 --> 00:38:54.210
you're gonna end up because there are so many

00:38:54.210 --> 00:38:56.989
matches I could think of that would be worthy

00:38:56.989 --> 00:39:01.989
of Hall of Fame entry just off the top of my

00:39:01.989 --> 00:39:04.690
head the first one that came to mind was Undertaker

00:39:04.690 --> 00:39:08.929
and mankind in the Hell in a Cell match Yeah,

00:39:08.969 --> 00:39:12.710
and we're then going to end up with we've got

00:39:12.710 --> 00:39:19.050
a few Two -time Hall of Fame entrance for different

00:39:19.050 --> 00:39:21.929
reasons and things like that Which isn't a bad

00:39:21.929 --> 00:39:24.809
thing because it gives that it gives different

00:39:24.809 --> 00:39:30.420
different superstar setups a recognition that

00:39:30.420 --> 00:39:35.300
they do deserve. We've also got the celebrity

00:39:35.300 --> 00:39:38.719
wing of the WWE Hall of Fame where they've inducted

00:39:38.719 --> 00:39:42.500
different celebrities in such as I think Snoop

00:39:42.500 --> 00:39:44.960
Dogg was inducted I think actually the current

00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:47.659
US president has been inducted. I'm sure Donald

00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:52.440
Trump's the celebrity Hall of Fame here. And

00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:55.429
nothing against this Celebrity Hall of Fame at

00:39:55.429 --> 00:40:03.070
all. I like the idea but this match idea we're

00:40:03.070 --> 00:40:07.889
going to end up with like how many of let's for

00:40:07.889 --> 00:40:13.590
instance let's take Ric Flair Undertaker Kane

00:40:13.590 --> 00:40:17.050
just as three people that I can think of off

00:40:17.050 --> 00:40:20.969
the top of my head they are all three are already

00:40:20.969 --> 00:40:25.750
if not If they haven't been inducted already

00:40:25.750 --> 00:40:29.409
they soon will be they are each gonna be two

00:40:29.409 --> 00:40:33.269
time Hall of Fame entrance The first two I mentioned

00:40:33.269 --> 00:40:36.909
definitely are Kane I'm a little bit unsure of

00:40:36.909 --> 00:40:40.250
He's in with the Brothers of Destruction Same

00:40:40.250 --> 00:40:45.909
with Undertaker Undertaker has been inducted

00:40:45.909 --> 00:40:51.110
now I'm not sure if Kane has No, this is it and

00:40:51.110 --> 00:40:54.090
this is where I'm unsure but let's take Rick

00:40:54.090 --> 00:40:58.949
Flair and Undertaker both prolifically good superstars.

00:40:58.989 --> 00:41:02.849
Oh yeah, Kane was class of 2021. Oh was he? Okay,

00:41:02.909 --> 00:41:07.349
fair enough. So all three prolifically good superstars,

00:41:07.610 --> 00:41:10.010
hence the reason why they are two -time Hall

00:41:10.010 --> 00:41:14.630
of Fame inductees. How many more rings can they

00:41:14.630 --> 00:41:18.250
fit on their fucking fingers before it becomes

00:41:18.250 --> 00:41:21.460
a problem? I don't know, but Ozzy Osbourne's

00:41:21.460 --> 00:41:27.760
a WWE Hall of Famer as well. He's got some rings

00:41:27.760 --> 00:41:30.599
on his fingers as it is, so I think he'd probably

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:34.039
need a few more fingers. And yep, Donald Trump

00:41:34.039 --> 00:41:36.219
is definitely on that list as well. Kid Rock

00:41:36.219 --> 00:41:41.679
is as well. Oh wow, okay. Arnold Schwarzenegger's

00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:43.820
on the list, but he also used to be a wrestler,

00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:48.989
so yeah. No, he was a bodybuilder. I'm pretty

00:41:48.989 --> 00:41:51.769
sure he was active within the wrestling ring

00:41:51.769 --> 00:41:54.150
for a little while with WWE though. I'm sure

00:41:54.150 --> 00:41:59.269
he did something No, don't think he was Not to

00:41:59.269 --> 00:42:03.750
the best of my memory anyway He might have done

00:42:03.750 --> 00:42:07.670
some like some celebrity spots at some point,

00:42:07.690 --> 00:42:12.030
but I don't think he was ever like I Don't think

00:42:12.030 --> 00:42:15.539
we're ever gonna find Regular match card entries

00:42:15.539 --> 00:42:19.920
for him or anything like that Not that I can

00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:26.940
think of I could be wrong But yes, regardless

00:42:26.940 --> 00:42:31.380
anyway, it's a case that where does it end? pretty

00:42:31.380 --> 00:42:34.239
much so we're gonna end up with some superstars

00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:42.019
that are 27 time inducted and it just it then

00:42:43.090 --> 00:42:47.429
Loses what makes it special to begin with in

00:42:47.429 --> 00:42:56.409
my view. Yes But yeah, I mean it's WWE's Hall

00:42:56.409 --> 00:42:58.190
of Fame they do with it what the fuck they want

00:42:58.190 --> 00:43:03.710
and at the end of the day it's But yes that takes

00:43:03.710 --> 00:43:08.039
us into our That takes us into our second. Oh,

00:43:08.059 --> 00:43:09.900
actually it doesn't we get a small backstage

00:43:09.900 --> 00:43:12.219
clip of Paul Heyman getting out the back of a

00:43:12.219 --> 00:43:17.159
black SUV joined by Roman Reigns at the front

00:43:17.159 --> 00:43:20.320
before they wander off into the building and

00:43:20.320 --> 00:43:24.480
then we go into our First match of the day. I'm

00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:26.800
sorry second match of the day Which was Kayden

00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.739
Carter and Katana chance versus the secret service

00:43:29.739 --> 00:43:33.409
of Piper Nevin and Albert fire Accompanied to

00:43:33.409 --> 00:43:38.710
the ring by Chelsea Green Yeah Now I'll be honest.

00:43:38.710 --> 00:43:42.130
I'm not 100 % certain what how I felt about this

00:43:42.130 --> 00:43:47.289
match to be quite honest It wasn't a bad match

00:43:47.289 --> 00:43:50.710
but again, I have my own feelings about the secret

00:43:50.710 --> 00:43:55.030
herviss and I know I think they've sort of they

00:43:55.030 --> 00:43:57.250
may have overplayed their hand a little bit with

00:43:57.250 --> 00:44:00.909
it, but having said that Very competitive match.

00:44:00.949 --> 00:44:04.869
It was very nice. It was actually nice to see

00:44:04.869 --> 00:44:11.650
Caden a chance to see Caden and Katana In the

00:44:11.650 --> 00:44:15.269
ring sort of things it because again as we mentioned

00:44:15.269 --> 00:44:18.309
earlier on the last time they were involved in

00:44:18.309 --> 00:44:22.789
in ring competition It was back in December of

00:44:22.789 --> 00:44:25.489
last December of last year. So it was the last

00:44:25.489 --> 00:44:30.030
time we saw them in a match in match inside the

00:44:30.030 --> 00:44:32.429
the squared circle other than that we have not

00:44:32.429 --> 00:44:36.989
seen them at all which seems honestly a crying

00:44:36.989 --> 00:44:41.530
shame for them because they certainly put on

00:44:41.530 --> 00:44:47.210
a what I view to be a clinic in terms of in terms

00:44:47.210 --> 00:44:49.530
of what it was that they've done in the ring

00:44:49.530 --> 00:44:56.809
I mean let's see what have I got so Did you get

00:44:56.809 --> 00:44:59.929
the Samoan drop that Carter popped on Piper Nevin?

00:45:01.750 --> 00:45:05.190
I Didn't make a note of that. I do remember seeing

00:45:05.190 --> 00:45:07.269
it, but I don't remember I didn't make a note

00:45:07.269 --> 00:45:10.210
of it right without being Disrespectful Piper

00:45:10.210 --> 00:45:13.429
Nevin is a big girl. We know this right? Yes,

00:45:13.610 --> 00:45:17.269
but the fact that someone managed to pick her

00:45:17.269 --> 00:45:21.889
up You know Caden Carter's not a big girl right?

00:45:22.050 --> 00:45:25.260
She's not as built as Jade Cargill she you know,

00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:28.059
she's your average sized wrestler average -sized

00:45:28.059 --> 00:45:31.360
person and she just yeah the way she dropped

00:45:31.360 --> 00:45:33.719
like Samoan drops Piper Nevin like she's just

00:45:33.719 --> 00:45:40.500
a bag of sugar. Yeah, what I It was mental and

00:45:40.500 --> 00:45:43.860
they yeah do a really cool double team move as

00:45:43.860 --> 00:45:47.320
well. It's called the kickstand One of them they

00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:52.269
basically end up like in a vertical base between

00:45:52.269 --> 00:45:55.050
them, like they were going to do a suplex of

00:45:55.050 --> 00:46:00.329
some kind, but they stop it at the top. And I

00:46:00.329 --> 00:46:02.750
can't even describe where it goes from there.

00:46:03.010 --> 00:46:05.349
But it was just, it was a really cool little

00:46:05.349 --> 00:46:09.849
move that they pulled onto Piper Nevin for a

00:46:09.849 --> 00:46:12.250
two count that Alba Fire had to break up with

00:46:12.250 --> 00:46:17.269
a jumping onto the, onto the count, onto the

00:46:17.269 --> 00:46:18.949
two wrestlers while they were being counted.

00:46:19.980 --> 00:46:22.760
But I'm the things I noticed in this match. Do

00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.539
you not so when it when it comes to this like

00:46:25.539 --> 00:46:29.659
the secret service I Feel that pipe and even

00:46:29.659 --> 00:46:32.059
sort of took a bit of a backseat with this one

00:46:32.059 --> 00:46:34.380
out before I did a lot of the heavy lifting for

00:46:34.380 --> 00:46:40.599
this in my in my view or No, you are correct,

00:46:40.599 --> 00:46:43.159
I would I would agree with you you are correct

00:46:43.159 --> 00:46:46.000
this week that our book our fire was doing a

00:46:46.000 --> 00:46:49.239
lot of the legwork But in previous weeks, we've

00:46:49.239 --> 00:46:52.119
seen Piper Nevin do more of the legwork than

00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:54.400
Albifire. So I think between the two of them,

00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:55.800
they're just trying to help each other out by

00:46:55.800 --> 00:46:58.079
keeping each other fresh. You know, one person

00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:00.420
takes more of the legwork this time, they're

00:47:00.420 --> 00:47:02.019
going to be feeling a little bit rougher for

00:47:02.019 --> 00:47:03.820
next week, but the other person's still going

00:47:03.820 --> 00:47:06.900
to be pretty fresh. And then they just keep it

00:47:06.900 --> 00:47:09.460
going. So they're rehab time. So you basically

00:47:09.460 --> 00:47:14.380
you get two matches where you're like precious

00:47:14.380 --> 00:47:17.920
a daisy every month. or every rotation so to

00:47:17.920 --> 00:47:21.980
speak so yeah i mean it's sensible that's the

00:47:21.980 --> 00:47:25.980
way i do it anyway but i mean albify did take

00:47:25.980 --> 00:47:28.840
a beating and considering we haven't seen kaden

00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:31.599
carter and katana chance on finishes and factions

00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:35.000
yet their last match was actually in december

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:39.119
um they didn't really have much ring rust they'd

00:47:39.119 --> 00:47:43.610
look pretty good didn't they Definitely. Really

00:47:43.610 --> 00:47:46.150
enjoyed what I saw of them. I'm looking forward

00:47:46.150 --> 00:47:48.289
to seeing more. Yeah, definitely. I'm hoping

00:47:48.289 --> 00:47:50.809
this is something we see continuously. I know

00:47:50.809 --> 00:47:54.590
the women's tag division is quite stacked, but

00:47:54.590 --> 00:47:56.690
these guys look like they've got a decent chance

00:47:56.690 --> 00:48:01.710
to push up the leaderboards a little bit and

00:48:01.710 --> 00:48:05.110
maybe get a few matches for number one contendership.

00:48:05.389 --> 00:48:08.010
They might not necessarily pull off, but definitely

00:48:08.010 --> 00:48:10.760
get a couple of opportunities to go to B. Try

00:48:10.760 --> 00:48:13.619
and become a number one contender for the women's

00:48:13.619 --> 00:48:17.260
tag titles at some point Well, I certainly think

00:48:17.260 --> 00:48:19.360
they'd be able to put on a decent match with

00:48:19.360 --> 00:48:23.860
current champions Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez

00:48:23.860 --> 00:48:30.739
Yeah, so But yeah, it was a case that this match

00:48:30.739 --> 00:48:35.460
itself the match wasn't particularly long, but

00:48:35.460 --> 00:48:40.659
again, it's Comes down to what happens after

00:48:40.659 --> 00:48:49.039
the match rather than anything else So There's

00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:52.840
a we've seen a lot in terms of like the secret

00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.719
service and Chelsea Green. There's a lot of miscommunication

00:48:55.719 --> 00:49:00.059
normally between Between the service members

00:49:00.059 --> 00:49:04.159
and we saw that again this week where so I wouldn't

00:49:04.159 --> 00:49:07.920
this Is it a miscommunication? Because she was

00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:10.780
on target until the target moved, basically.

00:49:11.139 --> 00:49:14.579
But by the time the target had moved, she hadn't

00:49:14.579 --> 00:49:19.219
got any way of being able to adjust it. And what

00:49:19.219 --> 00:49:22.679
I'm talking about here is that Piper Niven delivers

00:49:22.679 --> 00:49:27.760
a Swanton drop to end up actually delivering

00:49:27.760 --> 00:49:31.659
it to Albert Fire. rather than I think it was

00:49:31.659 --> 00:49:35.099
Katana Chance who was due to take that bump and

00:49:35.099 --> 00:49:39.719
decided nope. That's not something I'd want to

00:49:39.719 --> 00:49:43.739
take either to be fair. No I can't say I'd be

00:49:43.739 --> 00:49:46.579
I'd be all up for taking that either to be quite

00:49:46.579 --> 00:49:49.619
honest I feel like I'd probably have a well I'd

00:49:49.619 --> 00:49:51.860
probably have the similar similar injuries to

00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:55.739
JD McDonner at this point. A couple of broken

00:49:55.739 --> 00:50:00.860
ribs and a punctured lung. I mean, yeah, we wouldn't

00:50:00.860 --> 00:50:03.500
know how to take the move So we would get hurt

00:50:03.500 --> 00:50:05.380
in the process of doing that where these guys

00:50:05.380 --> 00:50:08.300
are trained professionals and do know how to

00:50:08.300 --> 00:50:11.440
take these moves therefore Don't get hurt unless

00:50:11.440 --> 00:50:13.860
you are JD McDonough and you decide to rag dolly

00:50:13.860 --> 00:50:16.860
yourself in the midair then I'm off the announce

00:50:16.860 --> 00:50:21.719
table the fact that I Got up and walked away

00:50:21.719 --> 00:50:29.030
He finished the match like I thought Guide pretty

00:50:29.030 --> 00:50:31.469
much near decapitated himself on the announce

00:50:31.469 --> 00:50:34.210
table gets up and finishes the match, but absolutely

00:50:34.210 --> 00:50:37.550
nuts But now this match finished by Chelsea Green

00:50:37.550 --> 00:50:41.869
Distracting the referee while pipe and Nevin

00:50:41.869 --> 00:50:45.610
hits the pipe bomb It's pipe bomb or piper bomb.

00:50:45.650 --> 00:50:47.849
I'm not 100 % sure. I think pipe bomb sounds

00:50:47.849 --> 00:50:51.429
a little bit better for a three count I think

00:50:51.429 --> 00:50:56.539
commentary described it as a Niven driver Then

00:50:56.539 --> 00:51:02.559
I completely ruin that one. Okay Yes, so that

00:51:02.559 --> 00:51:05.239
brings the three count and then after the three

00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:08.260
count the two members of the secret her this

00:51:08.260 --> 00:51:12.760
and our current women's United States champion

00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:16.699
Decide to give Kayden Carter and Katana chance

00:51:16.699 --> 00:51:21.429
a little bit of a beat down afterwards Up until

00:51:21.429 --> 00:51:27.050
we get an interference, well it's not an interference

00:51:27.050 --> 00:51:30.969
or such, it was more of a rescue from Adam's

00:51:30.969 --> 00:51:33.369
favourite SmackDown superstar at the moment,

00:51:33.510 --> 00:51:37.610
Zelina Vega. I wouldn't necessarily call her

00:51:37.610 --> 00:51:42.690
a favourite, I'm a big advocate for her in the

00:51:42.690 --> 00:51:44.809
sense that I just don't think she's been booked

00:51:44.809 --> 00:51:46.969
very well up to this point. I think she's got

00:51:46.969 --> 00:51:50.159
loads more to give. Yeah, it's nice to see her

00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:52.800
getting a push at long last, a push on her own,

00:51:52.900 --> 00:51:55.219
rather than a push with a faction of some kind,

00:51:55.340 --> 00:51:59.380
which is what Rawl were doing with her up to

00:51:59.380 --> 00:52:04.860
the transfer window. But yeah, Zelina Vega seems

00:52:04.860 --> 00:52:10.539
to clean house with the Hervis, and then she

00:52:10.539 --> 00:52:14.179
gets the hands of the champion herself, as Chelsea

00:52:14.179 --> 00:52:17.530
green basically. It's actually nice to see Chelsea

00:52:17.530 --> 00:52:19.710
Green getting her hands dirty for once and not

00:52:19.710 --> 00:52:22.510
just relying on the hervist to sort of take care

00:52:22.510 --> 00:52:25.190
of everything for her. Kind of had to to be fair

00:52:25.190 --> 00:52:27.929
because Selena Vega had already dispatched the

00:52:27.929 --> 00:52:32.210
hervist and it was literally just her and Chelsea

00:52:32.210 --> 00:52:35.949
Green left. Yeah unfortunately Chelsea Green

00:52:35.949 --> 00:52:42.570
managed to keep hope alive until Niven and Alba

00:52:42.570 --> 00:52:45.750
Fire had managed to Recover enough to come and

00:52:45.750 --> 00:52:50.130
help her but and Zelina Vega is left once again

00:52:50.130 --> 00:52:53.690
laid out in the middle of the ring Alba fire

00:52:53.690 --> 00:52:57.210
hits a super kick on Selena Vega and then Piper

00:52:57.210 --> 00:53:00.329
Nevin hits a well, I've got it down as a running

00:53:00.329 --> 00:53:07.170
power bomb but it was more of a she Cannonball

00:53:07.170 --> 00:53:11.530
kind of run out her and then just sent on Running

00:53:11.530 --> 00:53:14.639
sent on is that what you'd agree with? Yeah,

00:53:14.639 --> 00:53:16.860
I think so. Yeah, there we go trying to get that

00:53:16.860 --> 00:53:23.659
one right so we go from that one into a little

00:53:23.659 --> 00:53:27.699
backstage Tiny little thing where we watch LA

00:53:27.699 --> 00:53:32.719
night walk towards gorilla With his United States

00:53:32.719 --> 00:53:37.239
title hanging over his shoulder Over shoulder

00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:39.739
around his waist. He's got his title with him

00:53:39.739 --> 00:53:45.389
as he walks out to his for his match to defend

00:53:45.389 --> 00:53:51.849
the United States title against the biggest SOB

00:53:51.849 --> 00:53:58.190
in the WWE, Mr. Braun Strowman. Yeah, and this

00:53:58.190 --> 00:54:00.550
matchup is actually really looking forward to.

00:54:00.909 --> 00:54:06.570
Again, big fan of the megastar. Mike works fantastic.

00:54:07.170 --> 00:54:09.710
Big fan of Braun Strowman as well, to be fair.

00:54:09.869 --> 00:54:13.179
Yeah. I'm I was about to say exactly the same

00:54:13.179 --> 00:54:15.440
thing. It's not taking anything away from the

00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:21.340
fact that Braun Strowman is I mean He is for

00:54:21.340 --> 00:54:23.960
all intent and purpose he's an attraction wrestler

00:54:23.960 --> 00:54:26.320
the guy looks as though he's about as big as

00:54:26.320 --> 00:54:31.099
a telegraph pole. Yeah and Yeah, I mean he has

00:54:31.099 --> 00:54:33.980
had some absolutely phenomenal matches, but he

00:54:33.980 --> 00:54:39.170
is not like traditional Attraction wrestlers.

00:54:39.170 --> 00:54:42.030
So when we'd look at attraction wrestlers, we're

00:54:42.030 --> 00:54:44.449
talking like one of the most famous attraction

00:54:44.449 --> 00:54:48.949
wrestlers was Andre the giant the big show These

00:54:48.949 --> 00:54:53.650
guys didn't have rate calling matches Yeah, they

00:54:53.650 --> 00:54:57.190
didn't have long extended matches. It was a case

00:54:57.190 --> 00:55:03.769
that they came out demolished and Left. Yeah,

00:55:03.769 --> 00:55:09.039
it wasn't they didn't have the build for prolonged

00:55:09.039 --> 00:55:12.699
match types. Now, Andre the Giant definitely

00:55:12.699 --> 00:55:16.219
fits that bill. Great Carly definitely fits that

00:55:16.219 --> 00:55:21.099
bill. But Big Show, little bit different. And

00:55:21.099 --> 00:55:24.239
again, Braun Strowman, we've seen clips of him

00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:28.480
throwing announce chairs directly, like directly

00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:34.360
at Roman Reigns at one point. And we've seen

00:55:34.360 --> 00:55:39.559
in ragdoll superstars like Brock Lesnar. Are

00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:43.059
we also forgetting that we have seen this motherfucker

00:55:43.059 --> 00:55:47.400
flip an ambulance with Roman Reigns in it? Is

00:55:47.400 --> 00:55:50.579
it Roman Reigns or John Cena? We've also seen

00:55:50.579 --> 00:55:55.820
him pull apart part of the ring, like the entrance

00:55:55.820 --> 00:56:00.230
set. he's pulled down a full like full scaffolding

00:56:00.230 --> 00:56:04.070
on top of I forget who he was wrestling but I

00:56:04.070 --> 00:56:07.949
remember watching him take a rope that had been

00:56:07.949 --> 00:56:14.670
tied to this like 16 foot tall lot of I can only

00:56:14.670 --> 00:56:17.670
describe it a scaffolding and he literally pulled

00:56:17.670 --> 00:56:22.449
the damn thing over. Also pretty sure we've seen

00:56:22.449 --> 00:56:27.440
him bend cars like break car doors off for fun

00:56:27.440 --> 00:56:33.300
as well yeah i mean the guy is to say he's built

00:56:33.300 --> 00:56:36.719
like a brick shithouse is pretty much insulting

00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:39.980
like shithouses at this point this guy is huge

00:56:39.980 --> 00:56:42.400
before we get too much into this match there's

00:56:42.400 --> 00:56:45.659
a couple of vts that we uh adam probably didn't

00:56:45.659 --> 00:56:47.739
make too many notes on because they weren't too

00:56:47.739 --> 00:56:52.760
relevant to anything inside the ring um We had

00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:55.239
a quick little VT about Stephanie McMahon's new

00:56:55.239 --> 00:57:00.219
programming, Stephanie's Place. They've got 10

00:57:00.219 --> 00:57:05.360
episodes of that WWE original on ESPN+. The first

00:57:05.360 --> 00:57:10.739
one I believe was with CM Punk. They also showed

00:57:10.739 --> 00:57:13.019
us a couple of people that were in the crowd.

00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:17.320
Lewis Capaldi was in the crowd. Unfortunately,

00:57:17.420 --> 00:57:22.539
he is a massive Drew McIntyre fan. Well, they

00:57:22.539 --> 00:57:24.679
are both Scottish so it was kind of obvious that's

00:57:24.679 --> 00:57:29.239
where that was going And then they showed us

00:57:29.239 --> 00:57:31.679
a gentleman by the name of Oban Elliott who is

00:57:31.679 --> 00:57:35.420
the UFC welterweight prospect from Wales currently

00:57:35.420 --> 00:57:40.599
on an eight win streak in the UFC and One thing

00:57:40.599 --> 00:57:43.340
I have just remembered from the previous match

00:57:43.340 --> 00:57:45.980
that I forgot to add in at one point during the

00:57:45.980 --> 00:57:48.820
match if you watch the edited version the London

00:57:48.820 --> 00:57:54.260
crowd were chanting If you hate Scotland, stand

00:57:54.260 --> 00:58:00.320
up and fuck off Scotland. Because Piper Nevin

00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:03.699
is Scottish and the crowd in London were ruthless

00:58:03.699 --> 00:58:07.139
bastards. But yeah, because of the editing and

00:58:07.139 --> 00:58:10.579
the loudness of the crowd, the commentary kept

00:58:10.579 --> 00:58:13.420
cutting out during that match at one point for

00:58:13.420 --> 00:58:17.260
the fuck off Scotland chant. because Netflix

00:58:17.260 --> 00:58:20.460
don't allow the word fuck on some of their programming

00:58:20.460 --> 00:58:23.820
unless they put it up to a certain age rating.

00:58:23.980 --> 00:58:27.559
And that is not what WWE's contract is. It's

00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:34.260
a PG rating. Yeah, this is it. But yeah, we we

00:58:34.260 --> 00:58:37.360
went into this match for the United States title

00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.440
between LA Knight and Braun Strowman after those

00:58:40.440 --> 00:58:45.519
series of events. And Adam's going to Let us

00:58:45.519 --> 00:58:47.179
know a little bit about that much to start off

00:58:47.179 --> 00:58:50.840
with I mean I didn't get a huge amount of notes

00:58:50.840 --> 00:58:56.980
of like There wasn't a huge amount of spots in

00:58:56.980 --> 00:58:59.820
this match the only one that I really sort of

00:58:59.820 --> 00:59:05.239
made note of was the fact that We see sort of

00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:09.320
in quite typical Braun Strowman fashion He very

00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:12.440
much sort of overpowered LA night. LA night was

00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:16.269
trying to fight Braun Strowman on an equal footing

00:59:16.269 --> 00:59:20.150
when I was very much the underdog in terms of

00:59:20.150 --> 00:59:22.909
strength at least It would take three LA nights

00:59:22.909 --> 00:59:27.130
to build one Braun Strowman. Yeah But having

00:59:27.130 --> 00:59:31.050
said that LA night the crazy fucker still managed

00:59:31.050 --> 00:59:35.710
to deliver a backdrop to Strowman got him off

00:59:35.710 --> 00:59:41.360
the floor after a couple of attempts and It was

00:59:41.360 --> 00:59:44.000
more of an angle slam to be fair, but yeah, even

00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:47.320
still he got him up and he dropped him like a

00:59:47.320 --> 00:59:50.539
deuce You know, um, I got a couple of different

00:59:50.539 --> 00:59:54.780
ones here. I've uh I got the fact that um brawn

00:59:54.780 --> 00:59:57.239
stroman went to run at la night at one point

00:59:57.239 --> 00:59:59.239
and la night grabbed the top rope and dropped

00:59:59.239 --> 01:00:02.460
himself down and sent brawn stroman To the outside

01:00:02.460 --> 01:00:05.219
and then kicked him in the face for doing so

01:00:05.219 --> 01:00:10.239
Oh fair enough, okay I also got that LA Knight

01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:14.139
hit a bulldog from the second rope to finally

01:00:14.139 --> 01:00:20.619
drop the monk's man on his knees. Sorry, I just

01:00:20.619 --> 01:00:26.539
sneezed and it's aggravating my nose. There was

01:00:26.539 --> 01:00:29.519
quite a nice little elbow drop at one point from

01:00:29.519 --> 01:00:31.760
LA Knight onto Braun Strowman for a two count.

01:00:33.000 --> 01:00:36.280
And again at one point Braun Strowman reversed

01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:42.559
and attempted BFT And LA Knight pretty much just

01:00:42.559 --> 01:00:44.619
got tossed out of the ring at this point onto

01:00:44.619 --> 01:00:50.860
the outside of the of the arena There was an

01:00:50.860 --> 01:00:54.400
attempt for the Strowman Express now I will say

01:00:54.400 --> 01:00:58.440
an attempt LA Knight was on the outside Braun

01:00:58.440 --> 01:01:02.570
Strowman was a running the train was gathering

01:01:02.570 --> 01:01:06.769
speed but as he rounded that last corner before

01:01:06.769 --> 01:01:11.630
LA night he bumped into a flying Jacob Fatu who

01:01:11.630 --> 01:01:15.369
appeared it from out of the crowd and in very

01:01:15.369 --> 01:01:20.769
much a you know an out of nowhere um sort of

01:01:20.769 --> 01:01:25.329
lineup but yeah he basically flying elbowed Braun

01:01:25.329 --> 01:01:29.750
Strowman and then uh give him a bit of a whoop

01:01:29.750 --> 01:01:34.099
down To then finish it off with well finish this

01:01:34.099 --> 01:01:38.099
specific section of the work that whooping Off

01:01:38.099 --> 01:01:40.360
with a some moment. He's some moment dropped

01:01:40.360 --> 01:01:45.159
Braun Strowman onto the announce table like Basically

01:01:45.159 --> 01:01:48.219
just picked up a car and dropped it backwards

01:01:48.219 --> 01:01:52.800
Yeah, so we've been We've been down on Jacob

01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:55.679
Fatu for a little while because of the no selling.

01:01:56.320 --> 01:01:58.239
And don't get me wrong, the no selling still

01:01:58.239 --> 01:02:02.199
bothers me now. I don't like the fact that they've

01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:04.780
given him the ability to do that and they've

01:02:04.780 --> 01:02:06.760
given him the license to do that. Just like to

01:02:06.760 --> 01:02:09.139
put out there that I have not gone down on Jacob

01:02:09.139 --> 01:02:11.519
Fatu. What Adam has done in his own time is up

01:02:11.519 --> 01:02:28.159
to him. Childish fuck. Yeah Yeah, we we've seen

01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:31.460
a lot of these two going off against each other

01:02:31.460 --> 01:02:35.059
but for this The fact that Braun Strowman is

01:02:35.059 --> 01:02:38.599
again twice the size of Jacob Fatu For the fact

01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:41.099
that Fatu just kind of picks him up and drops

01:02:41.099 --> 01:02:44.800
it and then kind of walks it off is a little

01:02:44.800 --> 01:02:48.690
bit like, yeah Like the no selling for Fatu I

01:02:48.690 --> 01:02:50.550
think is just part of him now. We're not he's

01:02:50.550 --> 01:02:52.309
not gonna change that He's been doing it for

01:02:52.309 --> 01:02:54.710
too long. He even did it before he came to WWE.

01:02:54.769 --> 01:02:58.469
So it's not something he's learned to do at WWE

01:02:58.469 --> 01:03:03.210
No, and that's only from I don't agree with it

01:03:03.210 --> 01:03:05.010
at all do not agree with it at all But I only

01:03:05.010 --> 01:03:06.809
know about his previous stuff because I've watched

01:03:06.809 --> 01:03:12.730
a few matches on YouTube Where I've seen like

01:03:12.730 --> 01:03:19.739
things suggested and just kind of got But We

01:03:19.739 --> 01:03:23.380
we see I'm getting fed up with watching Jake

01:03:23.380 --> 01:03:26.340
and Fatou and Braun Strowman just go at it. I

01:03:26.340 --> 01:03:33.139
really am Finish it already It's It doesn't seem

01:03:33.139 --> 01:03:35.599
like it's a program they're quite finished with

01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:38.139
yet and we'll get to that in a moment because

01:03:38.139 --> 01:03:41.960
they're That basically the the men's United States

01:03:41.960 --> 01:03:44.900
Championship match was ended in a no contest.

01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:48.360
Yeah which is a little bit odd because I know

01:03:48.360 --> 01:03:50.519
it's down to referees discretion as to how they

01:03:50.519 --> 01:03:53.920
end it but because Jacob Fatu the first person

01:03:53.920 --> 01:03:58.500
he attacked was Braun Strowman it could have

01:03:58.500 --> 01:04:02.380
been a DQ it could have technically been a DQ

01:04:02.380 --> 01:04:06.480
win for Braun Strowman on that effect it wouldn't

01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:10.239
have won him the title but they could have done

01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.269
it that way instead but I'm guessing there's

01:04:14.269 --> 01:04:16.369
a reason behind why they've just written it off

01:04:16.369 --> 01:04:20.610
as a no contest and maybe Braun Strowman will

01:04:20.610 --> 01:04:22.730
get another shot at LA Nights somewhere down

01:04:22.730 --> 01:04:26.030
the line. Who knows? We might see that in Chicago.

01:04:26.329 --> 01:04:31.690
We might not. Potentially. I doubt it, but potentially.

01:04:32.730 --> 01:04:37.610
We go from that match into a VT recap of one

01:04:37.610 --> 01:04:42.719
of my favorite moments yeah this is the uh the

01:04:42.719 --> 01:04:49.440
clip that went viral from uh chimmy uso where

01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:58.559
to quote the the uso's cousin he slapped the

01:04:58.559 --> 01:05:04.079
lips off a gunther and i mean adam sent me some

01:05:04.079 --> 01:05:06.519
tiktoks throughout the week since Monday Night

01:05:06.519 --> 01:05:11.179
Raw, including this slap and the Bruno Mars one

01:05:11.179 --> 01:05:17.400
was fucking hilarious. There have been some absolutely

01:05:17.400 --> 01:05:20.900
phenomenal ones. I mean, it was described during

01:05:20.900 --> 01:05:25.579
the during what happens next by Jackie Redmond

01:05:25.579 --> 01:05:30.800
as the slap heard around the world and I'm sorry,

01:05:31.280 --> 01:05:34.320
I completely freaking agree. I do. That thing

01:05:34.320 --> 01:05:38.940
was a thing of beauty. That was the nicest fake

01:05:38.940 --> 01:05:44.519
open hand slap I have ever seen in my life. especially

01:05:44.519 --> 01:05:46.699
considering how smooth it was i'd argue whether

01:05:46.699 --> 01:05:49.099
it was actually fake or not i was just about

01:05:49.099 --> 01:05:52.179
to say that because with the sound and the look

01:05:52.179 --> 01:05:58.539
on gunther's face afterwards was it fake did

01:05:58.539 --> 01:06:02.780
he that man serve him a check and is he due a

01:06:02.780 --> 01:06:12.530
receipt because I mean we've seen receipts get

01:06:12.530 --> 01:06:16.110
given in matches before there was a match actually

01:06:16.110 --> 01:06:20.929
referring back where Braun Strowman tagged Brock

01:06:20.929 --> 01:06:25.949
Lesnar with a rather mean knee to the jaw and

01:06:25.949 --> 01:06:29.809
Brock Lesnar got up and went full UFC on him

01:06:29.809 --> 01:06:33.829
and dropped him down to a knee in the ring actually

01:06:33.829 --> 01:06:35.530
I think Braun Strowman was quoted afterwards

01:06:35.530 --> 01:06:37.670
by saying yeah the dude actually fucking hit

01:06:37.670 --> 01:06:42.920
me in as many words. And he saw some slight stars

01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:46.800
because Brock Lesnar did land one on his chin

01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:50.820
in that combination of punches thrown. That were

01:06:50.820 --> 01:06:54.960
definitely not fake. Yeah, so in the business

01:06:54.960 --> 01:06:57.539
you can write that off as a receipt. There's

01:06:57.539 --> 01:07:02.280
a certain level of... There's still a certain

01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:09.079
level of... respect and safeguarding that goes

01:07:09.079 --> 01:07:13.099
into giving receipts. One of the examples I always

01:07:13.099 --> 01:07:18.340
use is Stone Cold Steve Austin tells a story

01:07:18.340 --> 01:07:20.739
about a receipt that he had to deliver the once.

01:07:20.960 --> 01:07:24.019
I forget who it was. I've got a feeling that

01:07:24.019 --> 01:07:27.460
he says it's Big Boss Man. Which, if you remember

01:07:27.460 --> 01:07:30.860
the Attitude era, I feel everybody should remember

01:07:30.860 --> 01:07:36.400
Big Boss Man, as he was a former prison guard,

01:07:37.519 --> 01:07:42.800
whose gimmick was a prison guard. Very inventive

01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:46.230
by Big Boss Man, though. I mean it had nothing

01:07:46.230 --> 01:07:48.889
to do with Big Boss Man, let's face it. It was

01:07:48.889 --> 01:07:53.409
Old Man McMahon who put that one in place, I'm

01:07:53.409 --> 01:07:57.429
afraid. And yeah, he had a tendency to get a

01:07:57.429 --> 01:07:59.789
bit overexcited in his matches and work a little

01:07:59.789 --> 01:08:06.090
bit stiff. And basically, if anybody's ever described

01:08:06.090 --> 01:08:08.869
as working a bit stiff, it's never normally a

01:08:08.869 --> 01:08:15.840
work. They're genuinely hitting people. And yeah,

01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:20.279
basically Don Cold Steve Austin tells a story

01:08:20.279 --> 01:08:22.899
about how he's working with Big Boss Man. He's

01:08:22.899 --> 01:08:28.399
working a bit stiff and basically runs him against

01:08:28.399 --> 01:08:31.800
the ropes for him to do a clothesline where instead

01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:38.000
of holding his arm at chest level to knock his

01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:41.640
center of balance, help him take the bump. and

01:08:41.640 --> 01:08:44.460
holding his arm more or less straight. He holds

01:08:44.460 --> 01:08:47.699
his arm at a complete right angle, which means

01:08:47.699 --> 01:08:50.800
that he's still knocking him off balance, knocking

01:08:50.800 --> 01:08:53.100
his centre of gravity, but he's also punching

01:08:53.100 --> 01:09:00.460
him in the nose at the same time. Now obviously

01:09:00.460 --> 01:09:02.479
that story sounds a hell of a lot better coming

01:09:02.479 --> 01:09:04.659
out of Steve Austin's mouth than it does mine,

01:09:04.659 --> 01:09:10.760
but you get the general idea. Yeah, it's a case

01:09:10.760 --> 01:09:15.800
that as I've mentioned Jackie Redmond grabs Jimmy

01:09:15.800 --> 01:09:23.100
Uso for an interview and basically Jimmy Uso

01:09:23.100 --> 01:09:25.500
goes on a little bit of a rant about how he says

01:09:25.500 --> 01:09:30.180
that he's gonna beat Gunther next week in a match

01:09:30.180 --> 01:09:34.119
and then Jay's gonna go on to beat him in a match

01:09:34.119 --> 01:09:38.640
at WrestleMania and everything the world will

01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:44.340
be right again basically um and then he he he

01:09:44.340 --> 01:09:52.260
does the uh four letters one word adam uh -huh

01:09:52.260 --> 01:09:57.699
what is it yeet that's the one he's borrowed

01:09:57.699 --> 01:09:59.840
his brother's catchphrase for a little night

01:09:59.840 --> 01:10:03.699
as he wanders off though he bumps into two rather

01:10:03.699 --> 01:10:07.520
smug looking bitches by the name of uh The Miz

01:10:07.520 --> 01:10:13.020
and Carmelo Hayes. Or as they're collectively

01:10:13.020 --> 01:10:19.460
known, Mellow Don't Miz. Only the Miz could come

01:10:19.460 --> 01:10:24.859
up with something that stupid that actually seems

01:10:24.859 --> 01:10:31.560
as though it's going to work. I mean, yeah. And

01:10:31.560 --> 01:10:35.140
yeah, basically they've overheard the, I would

01:10:35.140 --> 01:10:39.760
say they. Carmelo Hayes says scarily little in

01:10:39.760 --> 01:10:43.420
this promo realistically. The Miz has overheard

01:10:43.420 --> 01:10:50.020
him and is mocking Jimmy Uso to Carmelo as Jimmy

01:10:50.020 --> 01:10:52.420
rounds the corner and basically catches him in

01:10:52.420 --> 01:10:57.260
the act. And then the Miz of all people goes

01:10:57.260 --> 01:11:02.699
on a bit of a tirade where he's telling him that

01:11:02.939 --> 01:11:05.920
Jimmy is always going to be known as the other

01:11:05.920 --> 01:11:11.859
Uso and Both Uso's are basically career sidekicks

01:11:11.859 --> 01:11:17.220
Which is pretty rough by coming from the Miz

01:11:17.220 --> 01:11:21.159
of all people who Coming from the guy who got

01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:27.800
out wrestled by his sidekick Which one that's

01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:34.090
the question Alex Riley Alex Reilly, Damian Sandow,

01:11:34.590 --> 01:11:38.289
R -Truth. Every time he has had a sidekick, he

01:11:38.289 --> 01:11:43.489
gets out -wrestled by them completely. And it

01:11:43.489 --> 01:11:46.590
is absolutely hilarious. Yeah, having said that

01:11:46.590 --> 01:11:51.729
though, scarily few of those sidekicks ever actually

01:11:51.729 --> 01:11:56.909
end up having a decent run in the WWE. Aside

01:11:56.909 --> 01:12:01.329
from R -Truth and... When he used John Morrison

01:12:01.329 --> 01:12:04.930
as well just because he did have a decent run

01:12:04.930 --> 01:12:07.909
And then he left and then he came back tried

01:12:07.909 --> 01:12:10.810
to have another decent run and just couldn't

01:12:10.810 --> 01:12:16.550
Couldn't get the couldn't get traction but Yeah,

01:12:16.550 --> 01:12:23.329
and then basically me as says about Talks it

01:12:23.329 --> 01:12:25.810
he tries talking a big game and says if Jimmy

01:12:25.810 --> 01:12:29.090
ever slapped him like Jimmy had slapped Gunther

01:12:29.430 --> 01:12:33.149
that he'd still be on the floor that jimmy had

01:12:33.149 --> 01:12:36.270
still be on the floor until jimmy raised his

01:12:36.270 --> 01:12:41.989
hand and the miss cowered like a bitch oh 100

01:12:41.989 --> 01:12:46.270
% to say that he flinched was probably a bit

01:12:46.270 --> 01:12:49.850
of an understatement pretty sure he pooped i'm

01:12:49.850 --> 01:12:53.029
pretty sure he may have left a little a little

01:12:53.029 --> 01:12:58.489
mark now we are also treated to the fact that

01:12:59.949 --> 01:13:03.210
Jimmy Uso and the Miz are going to be facing

01:13:03.210 --> 01:13:08.229
off in a match later on in the night Jimmy walks

01:13:08.229 --> 01:13:10.289
off saying he's going to go and talk to Nick

01:13:10.289 --> 01:13:13.489
Aldis because he he gonna show the Miz the right

01:13:13.489 --> 01:13:19.869
way to be dealt with by the Uso Yeah, pretty

01:13:19.869 --> 01:13:25.270
much and now We go from there to get another

01:13:25.270 --> 01:13:30.210
area of backstage Not quite. We have a short

01:13:30.210 --> 01:13:34.569
VT about an event that is happening during WrestleMania

01:13:34.569 --> 01:13:39.449
week. So every so often when WWE do their tours

01:13:39.449 --> 01:13:42.010
and big events and stuff like this they put on

01:13:42.010 --> 01:13:45.449
a big package deal and there's lots of other

01:13:45.449 --> 01:13:47.789
bits going on at the same sort of time. This

01:13:47.789 --> 01:13:51.069
year around WrestleMania they have an event going

01:13:51.069 --> 01:13:56.289
on called the One Dead Man Show which is basically

01:13:56.619 --> 01:14:01.300
an evening with The Undertaker in a Q &A style

01:14:01.300 --> 01:14:05.439
thing, get to hear stories, life from Mark Halloway,

01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:09.920
behind the ropes, so it's like style conversations,

01:14:10.380 --> 01:14:13.560
you get to ask him questions and general like

01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:16.640
small sort of things. So we had a little VT for

01:14:16.640 --> 01:14:24.020
that before we went backstage to find some people

01:14:24.020 --> 01:14:27.090
having a conversation. Adam, who was the? Was

01:14:27.090 --> 01:14:31.949
having that conversation? Well, it was we were

01:14:31.949 --> 01:14:35.050
initially treated to the fact that Jacob far

01:14:35.050 --> 01:14:38.489
too moving through backstage after Well, I imagine

01:14:38.489 --> 01:14:40.489
he was feeling pretty bloody pleased with himself

01:14:40.489 --> 01:14:42.710
to be quite honest. I had a little work to young

01:14:42.710 --> 01:14:48.590
and it was then sort of confronted by both solo

01:14:48.590 --> 01:14:54.760
Sokoa and tamatanga now I found this More interesting

01:14:54.760 --> 01:14:57.380
than I probably should have done in the sense

01:14:57.380 --> 01:15:00.619
that when Solo Sokoa first returned after his

01:15:00.619 --> 01:15:03.600
little after his little bitch fit after losing

01:15:03.600 --> 01:15:08.279
tribal combat He was being very apologetic very

01:15:08.279 --> 01:15:15.800
sort of up the ass of Jacob Fatu This was the

01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:19.460
first time in my view that we saw that saw that

01:15:19.460 --> 01:15:23.310
mask sort of slip I noticed this as well actually

01:15:23.310 --> 01:15:27.569
to be fair, but it was because I saw a lot of

01:15:27.569 --> 01:15:31.029
Tribal Chief Solo Sokoa come through in the it

01:15:31.029 --> 01:15:33.649
come through in what he goes to Fatou and says

01:15:33.649 --> 01:15:37.210
and basically tries to rip Fatou a new one for

01:15:37.210 --> 01:15:41.210
almost going rogue and In a passively aggressive

01:15:41.210 --> 01:15:45.149
way Oh, no, I felt I didn't feel like there was

01:15:45.149 --> 01:15:48.960
any passive aggressiveness in this at all um

01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:53.000
and actually i saw i don't know again if it was

01:15:53.000 --> 01:15:56.079
intentional i feel like it might have been but

01:15:56.079 --> 01:15:59.840
at one point you see jacob fatu talking and his

01:15:59.840 --> 01:16:02.640
hands go into the prayer position in very much

01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:07.340
the same way that he used to during bloodline

01:16:07.340 --> 01:16:11.760
2 .0 sort of thing because it was very i love

01:16:11.760 --> 01:16:16.770
you so low with His hands in the prayer position

01:16:16.770 --> 01:16:19.850
sort of thing and and his hands started going

01:16:19.850 --> 01:16:24.789
that way during this conversation with With solo

01:16:24.789 --> 01:16:27.430
Sokoa here where basically he said well, why

01:16:27.430 --> 01:16:29.170
didn't you tell us what you were gonna do? We

01:16:29.170 --> 01:16:33.510
could have come and helped you and and Jacob

01:16:33.510 --> 01:16:36.670
Fatu slapped straight back and said did you check

01:16:36.670 --> 01:16:38.689
in with me before you interfered and cost me

01:16:38.689 --> 01:16:42.800
the match last week? That's a fair point It is

01:16:42.800 --> 01:16:45.539
a fair point. I couldn't argue that much. I couldn't

01:16:45.539 --> 01:16:48.840
have argued my way out of that one myself and

01:16:48.840 --> 01:16:51.079
And after some back -and -forth it basically

01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:55.220
ends with Jacob Fatu saying look You're either

01:16:55.220 --> 01:16:58.380
in this with me or you get the fuck out of my

01:16:58.380 --> 01:17:01.359
way So I've got it written down that he will

01:17:01.359 --> 01:17:03.939
be he quotes. He'll be the last man standing

01:17:03.939 --> 01:17:09.199
with Braun Strowman, so Get in where you fit

01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:12.619
in he's going for the US title and they'll do

01:17:12.619 --> 01:17:15.500
it with them or without them. You know what I

01:17:15.500 --> 01:17:21.399
mean? Yeah. We didn't get a far two though as

01:17:21.399 --> 01:17:24.699
he walked away. Normally we get him doing a fat

01:17:24.699 --> 01:17:28.180
at the end of it. We didn't get that this week.

01:17:28.500 --> 01:17:33.640
Jacob, I'm disappointed my bro. I gotta keep

01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:36.560
things fresh, I suppose. Definitely. Talking

01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:40.340
about fresh, that lines up very nextly. very

01:17:40.340 --> 01:17:49.260
nicely, sorry, for our next VT. We got something

01:17:49.260 --> 01:17:54.220
a little bit different from Naomi this week in

01:17:54.220 --> 01:18:01.420
VT form discussing how she basically feels that

01:18:01.420 --> 01:18:04.979
she did the right thing. She's always been known

01:18:04.979 --> 01:18:09.020
to be a woman who does the right thing and you

01:18:09.020 --> 01:18:10.739
know she's out there kind of she's she's kind

01:18:10.739 --> 01:18:14.560
of saying you know Bianca why do you think that

01:18:14.560 --> 01:18:17.899
this attack on Jade was any different you know

01:18:17.899 --> 01:18:21.100
after everything that Naomi feels she sacrificed

01:18:21.100 --> 01:18:27.039
and and given up for Bianca and it just kind

01:18:27.039 --> 01:18:29.699
of breaks her heart how she's been made out to

01:18:29.699 --> 01:18:32.119
be the bad one in this situation and how Jade

01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:35.020
comes out of nowhere and takes Naomi's place

01:18:35.020 --> 01:18:40.029
within that friendship Feeling very replaced

01:18:40.029 --> 01:18:43.350
by Jade with Bianca at this point Although I

01:18:43.350 --> 01:18:46.050
would make an argument for how you can be the

01:18:46.050 --> 01:18:51.649
good guy when you hit somebody with a car I mean

01:18:51.649 --> 01:18:55.229
With an unprovoked attack as well. It's not as

01:18:55.229 --> 01:18:58.250
though Jade card girl had given Naomi a beat

01:18:58.250 --> 01:19:00.869
down in Naomi I thought fuck you you hit me with

01:19:00.869 --> 01:19:06.069
a steel chair. I hit you with an SUV Yeah, this

01:19:06.069 --> 01:19:08.949
is it there was no sort of escalation normally

01:19:08.949 --> 01:19:13.970
leads you to go into prison yeah this is it and

01:19:13.970 --> 01:19:18.489
um we're just definitely seeing a much darker

01:19:18.489 --> 01:19:21.750
side of naomi which they're not gonna lie i'm

01:19:21.750 --> 01:19:25.289
not i'm not against i definitely was not feeling

01:19:25.289 --> 01:19:30.810
the glow it's nice to see that the this different

01:19:30.810 --> 01:19:36.239
direction of um of character development for

01:19:36.239 --> 01:19:40.279
Naomi and I think very much the theme of this

01:19:40.279 --> 01:19:43.180
new side of Naomi that we're going to be seeing

01:19:43.180 --> 01:19:49.600
is Proceed with caution She's not fucking about

01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:53.619
anymore. She she feels that she's gone too soft

01:19:53.619 --> 01:19:58.239
for too long and Yeah, not gonna stand for any

01:19:58.239 --> 01:20:04.479
of it we then cut from that VT to a Somewhere

01:20:04.479 --> 01:20:08.880
backstage where Jade Cargill is having a conversation

01:20:08.880 --> 01:20:13.239
with Nick Aldous about, surprise surprise, Naomi.

01:20:13.920 --> 01:20:17.800
Yep. Basically Jade is fucked off that she still

01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:20.939
hasn't managed to get hands on Naomi properly

01:20:20.939 --> 01:20:26.500
since Elimination Chamber. Yeah, but you know

01:20:26.500 --> 01:20:28.779
there's been plenty of opportunities for her,

01:20:29.039 --> 01:20:32.029
she just hasn't taken them. I'm sure the two

01:20:32.029 --> 01:20:33.630
of them have been at the same building at the

01:20:33.630 --> 01:20:35.989
same time somewhere. If they're both in London,

01:20:36.130 --> 01:20:38.569
they were probably both in previous locations.

01:20:40.050 --> 01:20:42.630
Well, this is what Jade is trying to ascertain

01:20:42.630 --> 01:20:45.829
from Nick Aldis during this promo is she wants

01:20:45.829 --> 01:20:49.449
to know where Naomi is. And Nick, I think, has

01:20:49.449 --> 01:20:52.590
been hiding. He's either tried to play it diplomatically

01:20:52.590 --> 01:20:56.289
and lied to Jade, or he's been very honest and

01:20:56.289 --> 01:20:59.029
said, look, as far as I'm aware, nobody's seen

01:20:59.029 --> 01:21:03.930
her. And yeah, there's not really an awful lot

01:21:03.930 --> 01:21:07.970
I can do if she's not here And Jade basically

01:21:07.970 --> 01:21:12.590
leaves Nick older saying look If I see her it's

01:21:12.590 --> 01:21:17.510
on site She is going down Yeah, so as she walks

01:21:17.510 --> 01:21:20.909
away from Nick oldest she bumps into mission

01:21:20.909 --> 01:21:24.930
and beef up Let's say that they they're gonna

01:21:24.930 --> 01:21:30.710
go and take care of business and they know that

01:21:30.710 --> 01:21:33.770
Jade is gonna do the same as well with Naomi

01:21:33.770 --> 01:21:38.670
and Mishin's taking her business tonight is Charlotte

01:21:38.670 --> 01:21:42.470
Flair. At which point they both wish each other

01:21:42.470 --> 01:21:48.529
good luck and we bump off into an Evolve VT.

01:21:49.210 --> 01:21:52.409
I haven't been watching Evolve so I'm not gonna

01:21:52.409 --> 01:21:55.949
be able to fill you in too much on that myself.

01:21:58.429 --> 01:22:01.329
But it's not something you've been watched watching

01:22:01.329 --> 01:22:05.170
either is it No, so I've watched a little bit

01:22:05.170 --> 01:22:08.890
of LFG. Yes. No evolve. Yeah, that's fair enough

01:22:08.890 --> 01:22:11.550
I've not watched evolve yet either if you've

01:22:11.550 --> 01:22:19.949
watched LFT or Evolve and you want to let us

01:22:19.949 --> 01:22:22.170
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01:22:22.569 --> 01:22:25.369
with our email, it's finishes and factions at

01:22:25.369 --> 01:22:29.270
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01:22:29.270 --> 01:22:34.029
well, so that's Finn and Fan Pod on Twitter.

01:22:34.649 --> 01:22:41.970
Finn and Fan Pod. So we go from the Evolve VT

01:22:41.970 --> 01:22:48.390
into an Alistair Black vignette. suspected Alistair

01:22:48.390 --> 01:22:53.750
Black vignette. Yeah, it's not, but this is probably

01:22:53.750 --> 01:22:56.670
the worst kept secret in professional wrestling.

01:22:58.470 --> 01:23:02.350
Other than the fact that professional wrestling

01:23:02.350 --> 01:23:07.470
is choreographed. You know, everyone knows what's

01:23:07.470 --> 01:23:12.310
happening. And then from that vignette that takes

01:23:12.310 --> 01:23:17.310
us into our next match, which was Mishin versus

01:23:17.310 --> 01:23:20.710
Charlotte Flair. Mishin was accompanied to the

01:23:20.710 --> 01:23:27.069
ring by BFab. And as the two of them are in the

01:23:27.069 --> 01:23:30.369
middle of the ring waiting for Charlotte's music

01:23:30.369 --> 01:23:35.729
to hit, we got a surprise. Adam, did this surprise

01:23:35.729 --> 01:23:41.149
you? Do you know what? It surprised me to begin

01:23:41.149 --> 01:23:44.909
with because I didn't expect what happened to

01:23:44.909 --> 01:23:49.020
happen. But what happened made sense once it

01:23:49.020 --> 01:23:51.300
had happened, if that makes any sense at all.

01:23:51.420 --> 01:23:55.460
So basically, we'll fill the blanks in. So Naomi

01:23:55.460 --> 01:23:59.899
comes out of the crowd, sneaks up behind both

01:23:59.899 --> 01:24:06.539
Mishun and B -Fab and basically goes after, well,

01:24:06.579 --> 01:24:08.899
she goes after B -Fab more than Mishun. I think

01:24:08.899 --> 01:24:13.579
Mishun was more collateral damage than anything

01:24:13.579 --> 01:24:18.220
else. a lot of the offense from Naomi was focused

01:24:18.220 --> 01:24:22.279
on B -Fab and this was all born out of the conversation

01:24:22.279 --> 01:24:28.840
from between Mishin, B -Fab and Jade Cargill

01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:31.920
backstage before the Alistair Black vignette.

01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:37.560
I feel Naomi went after B -Fab slightly more

01:24:37.560 --> 01:24:40.760
than Mishin purely for the reason that Charlotte

01:24:40.760 --> 01:24:46.279
Flair was coming out anyway to deliver a substantial

01:24:46.279 --> 01:24:50.039
kick into Mishin anyway. That's obviously what

01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:51.920
we're going to presume at this point. It's Charlotte

01:24:51.920 --> 01:24:55.619
Flair and Mishin, you know, in the road to WrestleMania

01:24:55.619 --> 01:24:57.079
with the fact there's only three weeks left,

01:24:57.180 --> 01:24:59.420
they're not going to give Charlotte Flair a loss.

01:25:00.800 --> 01:25:03.800
So you knew that she was going to come out and

01:25:03.800 --> 01:25:06.260
have a strong performance against Mishin. So

01:25:06.260 --> 01:25:08.779
why does Naomi need to waste her energy on Mishin

01:25:08.779 --> 01:25:12.060
and someone else is going to do it for her? No,

01:25:12.060 --> 01:25:16.510
this is it. Work smarter, not harder. Naomi did

01:25:16.510 --> 01:25:21.109
enough to Mishin to stop her from being, to stop

01:25:21.109 --> 01:25:23.250
her from interfering with basically putting the

01:25:23.250 --> 01:25:28.229
beat down on B -Fab. Yes. And I mean, Naomi does

01:25:28.229 --> 01:25:32.430
a hell of a job of taking B -Fab out of the equation

01:25:32.430 --> 01:25:35.609
as by the end of the beat down, we have Jade

01:25:35.609 --> 01:25:40.449
Cargill come in to see off Naomi. Naomi runs

01:25:40.449 --> 01:25:43.970
like a little bitch too. she does I mean this

01:25:43.970 --> 01:25:46.529
is part of her heel turn this is now going to

01:25:46.529 --> 01:25:55.710
be expected and yeah it's a case that as BFab

01:25:55.710 --> 01:25:58.270
is left in a pretty bad way to the point that

01:25:58.270 --> 01:26:00.609
she has to be helped out of the ring she has

01:26:00.609 --> 01:26:04.970
to be helped out of ringside into the back by

01:26:04.970 --> 01:26:12.600
an official as well as Jade Carter herself ordinarily

01:26:12.600 --> 01:26:15.779
if something like this happens they we have known

01:26:15.779 --> 01:26:19.460
them before to call the match off now because

01:26:19.460 --> 01:26:22.579
it's Charlotte Flair I feel this is the reason

01:26:22.579 --> 01:26:28.619
why this match wasn't actually called off because

01:26:28.619 --> 01:26:31.159
Charlotte Flair came out while they were helping

01:26:31.159 --> 01:26:34.140
BFAB to the back and we did have a small moment

01:26:34.140 --> 01:26:39.579
where we saw sort of Jade Cargill and Charlotte

01:26:39.579 --> 01:26:43.079
Flair sort of Oying each other up. Oh, I think

01:26:43.079 --> 01:26:46.279
each of the world there was some pure filthy

01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:49.180
side I coming from Jade Cargill to Charlotte

01:26:49.180 --> 01:26:51.680
Flair just looking at I like Fucked you think

01:26:51.680 --> 01:26:53.979
you are you ain't nothing sweetheart. I will

01:26:53.979 --> 01:26:58.479
fuck you up Well, maybe we get to see this sort

01:26:58.479 --> 01:27:02.760
of after WrestleMania is maybe a program with

01:27:02.760 --> 01:27:08.520
Charlotte Flair and and Jade Cargill was I'd

01:27:08.520 --> 01:27:10.000
love to see that. I'm not gonna lie. I was about

01:27:10.000 --> 01:27:12.300
to say I'd pay to see that but I do pay for my

01:27:12.300 --> 01:27:16.340
Netflix subscription. So I do pay to see it.

01:27:17.380 --> 01:27:19.739
Pay to see everything. Do it all legally here.

01:27:20.619 --> 01:27:25.319
Yeah, this is it. And yeah, so Charlotte Flair

01:27:25.319 --> 01:27:28.180
basically makes her way down to the ring to start

01:27:28.180 --> 01:27:31.340
her match, a scheduled match with Mishin who's

01:27:31.340 --> 01:27:36.310
now sort of operating at half capacity. Yeah,

01:27:36.390 --> 01:27:39.069
she's at least she's been she's are fucked up.

01:27:39.069 --> 01:27:42.069
She's not feeling good And then she's got to

01:27:42.069 --> 01:27:45.470
try and take on a very fresh Charlotte flair

01:27:45.470 --> 01:27:50.210
and To be fair. I'm gonna give it to her. She

01:27:50.210 --> 01:27:54.430
does manage to get in some pretty sweet offensive

01:27:54.430 --> 01:27:58.590
moves and She got dropped by a kick at one point

01:27:58.590 --> 01:28:01.470
that Charlotte flair tried to pin her for she

01:28:01.470 --> 01:28:05.220
got one count, but This was Charlotte Flair trying

01:28:05.220 --> 01:28:07.460
to assert some dominance that she's the queen

01:28:07.460 --> 01:28:10.739
and she'll do what she wants. Mi Shin managed

01:28:10.739 --> 01:28:15.180
to hit back a little while later with a, I've

01:28:15.180 --> 01:28:19.020
got it down as a tornado DDT, but I don't think

01:28:19.020 --> 01:28:21.880
that's the right phrasing. Either way, it was

01:28:21.880 --> 01:28:29.430
a DDT and she got a two count off it. Charlotte

01:28:29.430 --> 01:28:33.689
flair with a belly to back suplex which was a

01:28:33.689 --> 01:28:37.810
quite the quite nicely done At one point she

01:28:37.810 --> 01:28:40.750
does try and embarrass mission a little bit She

01:28:40.750 --> 01:28:42.949
just steps on her like she's a little bit of

01:28:42.949 --> 01:28:45.430
nothing and she's walking to the turnbuckle to

01:28:45.430 --> 01:28:51.210
jump up for her attempted moonsault of which

01:28:51.210 --> 01:28:54.609
mission managed to reverse get Charlotte flair

01:28:54.609 --> 01:28:57.819
on her shoulders and drop her with a sit down

01:28:57.819 --> 01:29:04.579
powerbomb for a two count. We are reminded by

01:29:04.579 --> 01:29:08.180
the commentary team that this is Mishin's first

01:29:08.180 --> 01:29:13.739
match outside of Chelsea Green and the Secret

01:29:13.739 --> 01:29:19.260
Hervis members for quite a while. Mishin's programming

01:29:19.260 --> 01:29:22.640
recently has been all sort of Chelsea Green and

01:29:22.640 --> 01:29:26.300
Albert Fire and Piper Nevin. So it's nice to

01:29:26.300 --> 01:29:28.659
see her facing someone that's not one of those

01:29:28.659 --> 01:29:31.779
three and the fact that she is facing the most

01:29:31.779 --> 01:29:37.880
decorated female superstar is There's a good

01:29:37.880 --> 01:29:41.460
Test of character for a good judge of ability

01:29:41.460 --> 01:29:45.380
and she put on a set great match against Charlotte

01:29:45.380 --> 01:29:50.539
flair. I feel anyway wasn't necessarily Match

01:29:50.539 --> 01:29:52.100
of the night, but it was still a great match

01:29:52.100 --> 01:29:54.180
one thing. I did enjoy I'm gonna throw out there

01:29:54.180 --> 01:29:57.760
at one point the crowds chanting fuck you Charlotte

01:29:57.760 --> 01:30:02.460
and Charlotte flair just flips the crowd off

01:30:02.460 --> 01:30:08.079
and It was quite funny to be fair She was definitely

01:30:08.079 --> 01:30:10.479
playing that heel roll well in the crowd definitely

01:30:10.479 --> 01:30:13.300
rate like played into the fact that she was a

01:30:13.300 --> 01:30:16.819
heel by chanting that at her Giving her the opportunity

01:30:16.819 --> 01:30:22.609
to give him the old the old birdie light Definitely

01:30:22.609 --> 01:30:25.029
it gave her that little bit of extra heat within

01:30:25.029 --> 01:30:29.890
the the O2 arena Yeah, and this match basically

01:30:29.890 --> 01:30:33.329
ends it ends as we sort of anybody could have

01:30:33.329 --> 01:30:37.149
predicted it was going to end Is that Flair does

01:30:37.149 --> 01:30:40.050
end up winning this as she locks in the figure

01:30:40.050 --> 01:30:44.829
eight? Which is a figure four with a bridge extension.

01:30:45.250 --> 01:30:50.020
So just branking up that extra pressure for it,

01:30:50.539 --> 01:30:57.079
which we know that Charlotte Flair used on BFab,

01:30:57.100 --> 01:30:59.239
I think it was last week or the week before.

01:30:59.319 --> 01:31:02.279
I think so, even this week, Meeshan Tapp virtually

01:31:02.279 --> 01:31:05.140
instantly, she was not going to let Charlotte

01:31:05.140 --> 01:31:09.000
Flair hold that in for too much longer. And we

01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:11.319
have known recently that Charlotte Flair has

01:31:11.319 --> 01:31:13.680
not always been the fastest at breaking that

01:31:13.680 --> 01:31:18.050
hold after the bell has rung. No, but again,

01:31:18.069 --> 01:31:25.449
this is part of her so Part of who she is So

01:31:25.449 --> 01:31:29.750
after this match we go straight into a backstage

01:31:29.750 --> 01:31:32.590
promo where Jackie Redmond is interviewing our

01:31:32.590 --> 01:31:38.550
current Smackdown Women's Champion Tiffany Stratton

01:31:38.550 --> 01:31:43.409
And yeah, basically I think I thought this was

01:31:43.409 --> 01:31:46.020
actually They could have done this at any other

01:31:46.020 --> 01:31:48.260
point during the during the night, but it had

01:31:48.260 --> 01:31:52.060
the most effect exactly where it was directly

01:31:52.060 --> 01:31:56.319
after Charlotte's match. And yeah, this basically

01:31:56.319 --> 01:32:00.359
gave considering Charlotte Flair in their side

01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:03.039
by side video interview, I think it was last

01:32:03.039 --> 01:32:06.579
week. It wasn't she fucking shit all over Tiffy

01:32:06.579 --> 01:32:10.060
gave her no time to talk and just basically bullied

01:32:10.060 --> 01:32:12.560
her out of her own promotional interview for

01:32:12.560 --> 01:32:19.289
her WrestleMania. match yeah and this gave tiffany

01:32:19.289 --> 01:32:23.149
a chance to basically sort of retort to that

01:32:23.149 --> 01:32:27.310
and uh she made a couple of really nice points

01:32:27.310 --> 01:32:31.109
i mean one is that obviously charlotte is incredibly

01:32:31.109 --> 01:32:34.270
insecure the fact that she had she felt she had

01:32:34.270 --> 01:32:41.470
to bury tiffany on that promo is yeah just fuel

01:32:41.470 --> 01:32:45.270
to the fire at this point One point that she

01:32:45.270 --> 01:32:49.970
does make that I can't really dispute is that

01:32:49.970 --> 01:32:53.569
Tiffany hasn't got anywhere near as much to lose

01:32:53.569 --> 01:32:59.489
by losing the match at WrestleMania She loses

01:32:59.489 --> 01:33:04.529
till Tiffy mentioned it and We'll break it down

01:33:04.529 --> 01:33:06.970
for you. So Tiffy Stratton Pacey says if she

01:33:06.970 --> 01:33:12.710
loses at WrestleMania she's lost to the the woman

01:33:12.710 --> 01:33:17.970
with the most ever women's titles in WWE. No

01:33:17.970 --> 01:33:21.710
one has done what she has done title wise in

01:33:21.710 --> 01:33:26.569
the WWE. One of the most decorated female superstars.

01:33:26.970 --> 01:33:30.029
If not the most decorated female superstar in

01:33:30.029 --> 01:33:34.329
WWE today. So for Tiffy, that's just I lost to

01:33:34.329 --> 01:33:37.770
the greatest female WWE performer in history

01:33:37.770 --> 01:33:41.170
at WrestleMania. That still doesn't hurt. her

01:33:41.170 --> 01:33:45.409
character at all if charlotte loses to tiffy

01:33:45.409 --> 01:33:49.649
her character is basically destroyed yeah because

01:33:49.649 --> 01:33:52.189
if charlotte flair loses to tiffany bearing in

01:33:52.189 --> 01:33:56.489
mind tiffany hasn't been in smackdown for a year

01:33:56.489 --> 01:34:03.770
yet she's she and yes like titles come and titles

01:34:03.770 --> 01:34:08.979
go tiffany has loads of time to win back a title

01:34:08.979 --> 01:34:13.239
belt at a later date if she does lose. Charlotte

01:34:13.239 --> 01:34:15.619
Flair has not got enough time to rebuild her

01:34:15.619 --> 01:34:18.340
reputation if she ends up losing at WrestleMania.

01:34:19.699 --> 01:34:23.479
So I actually think - Nobody, so to speak. Some

01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:27.119
people would see - This mindset by Tiffany Stratton

01:34:27.119 --> 01:34:29.899
is quite a negative, quite a defeatist attitude.

01:34:30.300 --> 01:34:32.319
But actually I think this is going to be something

01:34:32.319 --> 01:34:35.619
that frees Tiffany from the pressure that that

01:34:35.619 --> 01:34:38.159
WrestleMania match holds. It's going to take

01:34:38.159 --> 01:34:40.500
all the stress off her shoulders and she can

01:34:40.500 --> 01:34:42.760
just go out there and be as natural as she needs

01:34:42.760 --> 01:34:46.779
to be. This is a woman who's been to the Olympics,

01:34:47.119 --> 01:34:49.619
so stress is not going to be an issue for her.

01:34:50.020 --> 01:34:51.779
She'll be a little bit nervous, don't get me

01:34:51.779 --> 01:34:56.069
wrong. If she wasn't, I'd be scared. But once

01:34:56.069 --> 01:34:58.890
she gets out there, she'll be fine because that

01:34:58.890 --> 01:35:02.329
Olympic mode will kick in. Gymnast mode will

01:35:02.329 --> 01:35:03.949
kick in and she'll zone into what she's got to

01:35:03.949 --> 01:35:05.630
do and that'll be it. She'll do it. She'll do

01:35:05.630 --> 01:35:09.989
it very well, I think. Oh, yeah. I personally,

01:35:11.010 --> 01:35:14.710
as much as I don't want this to happen because

01:35:14.710 --> 01:35:19.149
I'm a rather large fan of Tiffy Shratten, I think

01:35:19.149 --> 01:35:23.000
Charlotte's going to win at WrestleMania. Yeah,

01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:25.260
I think she is as well. They're gonna save her

01:35:25.260 --> 01:35:27.560
character because like you said don't think she's

01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:32.899
got Do I reckon she's got more than this rest

01:35:32.899 --> 01:35:34.939
I think she'll probably do this WrestleMania

01:35:34.939 --> 01:35:38.180
and next WrestleMania if she loses the next one

01:35:38.180 --> 01:35:42.739
she'll retire then No, she's a father's daughter.

01:35:42.760 --> 01:35:45.079
She'll be going until she's on a Zimmer frame

01:35:45.079 --> 01:35:47.699
mate. No, you're not fucking wrong to be fair

01:35:47.880 --> 01:35:54.619
100 % Charlotte Flair 105 time women's WWE champion

01:35:54.619 --> 01:35:58.460
Rick Flair has said on has gone on record already

01:35:58.460 --> 01:36:01.199
and said that he's actually feels he's got one

01:36:01.199 --> 01:36:03.899
more match left in him. Oh, no, I think he's

01:36:03.899 --> 01:36:05.760
like guy has one more match. It's gonna be a

01:36:05.760 --> 01:36:08.380
casket match. Yeah, and he's gonna finish it

01:36:08.380 --> 01:36:14.720
going into a casket So, yeah, it's it's not gonna

01:36:14.720 --> 01:36:18.159
I don't There is going to come a point where

01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:22.500
Charlotte Flair should retire. She won't. But

01:36:22.500 --> 01:36:25.560
she won't. And every match we get from her will

01:36:25.560 --> 01:36:28.060
basically just be the same quality as that tag

01:36:28.060 --> 01:36:30.739
match in Saudi Arabia between the Brothers of

01:36:30.739 --> 01:36:35.920
Destruction and DX. Yeah. I mean that's pretty

01:36:35.920 --> 01:36:38.859
much what we get from her now but yeah. I'm going

01:36:38.859 --> 01:36:42.260
to use the DX reference here as a segue into

01:36:42.260 --> 01:36:47.079
our next little VT because we get a VT for Triple

01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:52.840
H's, it was a VT for the Hall of Fame. One of

01:36:52.840 --> 01:36:55.239
this year's inductees, one of the very first

01:36:55.239 --> 01:37:02.819
announced inductees is Chief Content Creation

01:37:02.819 --> 01:37:09.789
Officer Triple H, Paul Levesque. and it was all

01:37:09.789 --> 01:37:14.550
based around just his entrances. I mean, he's

01:37:14.550 --> 01:37:17.069
had some iconic ones over the years and this

01:37:17.069 --> 01:37:20.529
VT basically gives them to you. It shows them,

01:37:20.710 --> 01:37:24.170
you know, it even has a little breakdown from

01:37:24.170 --> 01:37:27.510
Steffi on some of them. It was actually quite

01:37:27.510 --> 01:37:29.470
informative. I quite enjoyed this little VT.

01:37:29.710 --> 01:37:31.649
I actually wish it had been a little bit longer,

01:37:31.670 --> 01:37:35.239
I'm not going to lie. I enjoyed the fact that

01:37:35.239 --> 01:37:37.840
it gave you an insight into how his entrances

01:37:37.840 --> 01:37:43.300
are created in that Triple H was always really

01:37:43.300 --> 01:37:47.140
personally involved Yeah, I'd like to see what

01:37:47.140 --> 01:37:49.600
they did with that. It's like a if they did like

01:37:49.600 --> 01:37:53.960
an hour -long episode of with Hunter between

01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:56.960
Like talking about his entrances and stuff like

01:37:56.960 --> 01:38:01.649
that. I'd watch it Oh yeah, 100%. Even if it

01:38:01.649 --> 01:38:07.170
was just like a WWE original one -off series

01:38:07.170 --> 01:38:11.270
of just veterans in the industry talking about

01:38:11.270 --> 01:38:14.210
how they did and how they set up their major

01:38:14.210 --> 01:38:17.810
entrances for pay -per -views and things and

01:38:17.810 --> 01:38:20.069
all the good ones they've done. Like this one,

01:38:20.130 --> 01:38:23.369
some of the Undertaker ones would have been pretty

01:38:23.369 --> 01:38:28.829
cool. So yeah, Triple H has always had a bit

01:38:28.829 --> 01:38:32.390
of a knack for creating entrances because Triple

01:38:32.390 --> 01:38:35.729
H was very hands -on with creating Penta's entrance

01:38:35.729 --> 01:38:38.710
and I can imagine he's gonna be quite hands -on

01:38:38.710 --> 01:38:45.289
with When when we see Rey Fenix enter WWE which

01:38:45.289 --> 01:38:50.890
is next week Yes, there is a little bit later

01:38:50.890 --> 01:38:53.770
on in the programming that Rey Fenix will be

01:38:53.770 --> 01:38:59.319
debuting on Smackdown cargo Illinois next week.

01:39:00.100 --> 01:39:05.300
Yes. Now we move into a semi -familiar segment

01:39:05.300 --> 01:39:09.140
here where WWE recant us on some of the statistics

01:39:09.140 --> 01:39:12.920
from the city in which the program takes place.

01:39:14.460 --> 01:39:18.899
So WWE in London. Now this episode of SmackDown

01:39:18.899 --> 01:39:23.619
happens to be the 16th episode of SmackDown broadcast

01:39:23.619 --> 01:39:29.920
from London itself. and the 36th TV broadcast

01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:34.600
ever. And the last. But it is the first Smackdown

01:39:34.600 --> 01:39:39.840
since 2023. Yes. Not 100 % sure which month.

01:39:40.140 --> 01:39:42.979
You've probably got that written down. No, I

01:39:42.979 --> 01:39:46.159
haven't. I was meant to go and research it and

01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:48.939
just haven't had time in the day to do it. Yeah,

01:39:48.979 --> 01:39:52.039
it's a day for both of us, to be fair. Yes, it

01:39:52.039 --> 01:39:56.060
most certainly has. That sort of very short segment

01:39:56.060 --> 01:40:01.619
there takes us into match five on the card, unless

01:40:01.619 --> 01:40:07.359
I've missed something. I know this brings us

01:40:07.359 --> 01:40:14.779
into Randy Orton vs Drew McIntyre. This is the

01:40:14.779 --> 01:40:19.000
ninth time the two of them have gone one on one

01:40:19.000 --> 01:40:26.859
in WWE. Drew McIntyre is 3 and 0 in London. He

01:40:26.859 --> 01:40:34.439
has not lost a WWE show in London. And going

01:40:34.439 --> 01:40:37.920
into this one, it's got a bit of a WrestleMania.

01:40:37.939 --> 01:40:41.520
It was quoted by commentary as having a WrestleMania

01:40:41.520 --> 01:40:45.260
or a PLE style main event match just thrown into

01:40:45.260 --> 01:40:48.909
a normal television episode. And to be fair,

01:40:49.130 --> 01:40:51.449
I kind of agree with that. These are two massive

01:40:51.449 --> 01:40:55.970
superstars. They did say on Drew's entrance that

01:40:55.970 --> 01:41:01.590
combined in the ring, they had 17 world titles.

01:41:02.329 --> 01:41:05.270
What I'd like to point out is that Randy Orton

01:41:05.270 --> 01:41:11.430
has 14 of them himself. It wasn't quite as impressive

01:41:11.430 --> 01:41:14.050
of a statistic as they were trying to make it

01:41:14.050 --> 01:41:17.039
out to be. but yeah so between them they have

01:41:17.039 --> 01:41:20.319
17 world titles but randy orton has 14 of those

01:41:20.319 --> 01:41:23.460
yeah and the shortest of those title reigns was

01:41:23.460 --> 01:41:26.640
about five and a half minutes um but that wasn't

01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:29.979
randy orton's uh but we're not supposed to focus

01:41:29.979 --> 01:41:36.079
on that um but you know what randy orton do you

01:41:36.079 --> 01:41:39.680
know what because it's a randy orton match it's

01:41:39.680 --> 01:41:42.439
it instantly became a favorite of mine i mean

01:41:42.439 --> 01:41:47.109
of I've always been a fan of Randy Orton, the

01:41:47.109 --> 01:41:49.850
presentation he puts forward, the professionalism

01:41:49.850 --> 01:41:52.189
behind his matches. I just like his entrance

01:41:52.189 --> 01:41:59.010
music. That too. I've treated to it twice in

01:41:59.010 --> 01:42:01.069
one night, which is always a bonus because he

01:42:01.069 --> 01:42:03.310
was talking to Cody Rhodes at the start of the

01:42:03.310 --> 01:42:06.149
evening and now he's having a match midway through

01:42:06.149 --> 01:42:15.079
it. Yeah, this is it. It's just like Randy Orton

01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:20.640
in general and again I rag on Drew Mackencryer

01:42:20.640 --> 01:42:23.920
quite a lot and I'm not letting the name go.

01:42:24.439 --> 01:42:26.199
That's going to be something that sticks with

01:42:26.199 --> 01:42:31.800
me for a very long time. Big fan of Drew, in

01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:34.819
fairness. I like the presentation that Drew puts

01:42:34.819 --> 01:42:38.239
forward. So I am very sort of behind this match.

01:42:38.319 --> 01:42:40.159
Don't get me wrong, his current persona being

01:42:40.159 --> 01:42:42.560
a whiny bitch, I just don't get behind at all.

01:42:43.380 --> 01:42:49.859
But yeah, it is a case that, it is a case that

01:42:49.859 --> 01:42:54.939
this match was just phenomenal. I mean, realistically.

01:42:56.539 --> 01:42:58.920
Any particular spots in this bridge that you

01:42:58.920 --> 01:43:02.439
want to sort of bring up or I mean I've got here

01:43:02.439 --> 01:43:06.659
that Randy Orton hit a rather sweet snap slam

01:43:06.659 --> 01:43:12.500
on on the Scottish crybaby He used the second

01:43:12.500 --> 01:43:19.600
rope to deliver his normal DDT But I do know

01:43:19.600 --> 01:43:23.939
it's very cool Do it and he does do it pretty

01:43:23.939 --> 01:43:30.409
much every time he hits the ring match We at

01:43:30.409 --> 01:43:33.649
some point end up with Kevin Owens watching from

01:43:33.649 --> 01:43:38.689
the ramp and Kevin Owens being there takes Randy

01:43:38.689 --> 01:43:42.329
Orton's concentration away from the Scottish

01:43:42.329 --> 01:43:48.689
crybaby and with that Drew McIntyre hits a rather

01:43:48.689 --> 01:43:54.189
sweet claymore for the for the three or for the

01:43:54.189 --> 01:43:59.430
one two three And that gives McIntyre his fourth

01:43:59.430 --> 01:44:02.670
win in London, which means he's still unbeaten

01:44:02.670 --> 01:44:10.829
in London with WWE shows. And well, after Randy

01:44:10.829 --> 01:44:14.409
Orton's got his ass up from being smashed by

01:44:14.409 --> 01:44:18.489
that Claymore, him and Kevin Owens end up getting

01:44:18.489 --> 01:44:21.970
into it to the point where Kevin goes to slam

01:44:21.970 --> 01:44:28.159
him onto the announce desk. and Randy manages

01:44:28.159 --> 01:44:33.119
to bang him off it, bouncing Kevin Owens off

01:44:33.119 --> 01:44:35.479
the announce table and then at one point Kevin

01:44:35.479 --> 01:44:38.659
Owens has got Randy in position for a package

01:44:38.659 --> 01:44:42.899
pile driver attempt on the announce desk. But

01:44:42.899 --> 01:44:47.000
Randy manages to get himself out of that one,

01:44:47.199 --> 01:44:50.180
the Viper slithers himself out of that because

01:44:50.180 --> 01:44:52.859
that was what put him out injured for so long.

01:44:55.239 --> 01:44:57.760
as he lines up. Kevin Owens finds himself in

01:44:57.760 --> 01:45:01.739
a dangerous position for a punt kick. Ah yes

01:45:01.739 --> 01:45:06.600
but again like Naomi the dirty little rat went

01:45:06.600 --> 01:45:10.220
running out through the crowd as officials and

01:45:10.220 --> 01:45:13.939
security stopped Randy Orton from punting Kevin

01:45:13.939 --> 01:45:17.560
Owens head off his shoulders. I am virtually

01:45:17.560 --> 01:45:23.180
now guaranteeing I feel that we are going to

01:45:23.180 --> 01:45:25.640
see that punt kick at WrestleMania. I do not

01:45:25.640 --> 01:45:28.260
think we'll see it beforehand. They're going

01:45:28.260 --> 01:45:30.899
to use that to get people to watch it because

01:45:30.899 --> 01:45:32.979
they're going to be like, is Randy Orton going

01:45:32.979 --> 01:45:35.079
to kick his head off his shoulders? Fucking right,

01:45:35.140 --> 01:45:36.880
Randy Orton's going to kick his head off his

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shoulders. Oh, 100 % he is. I can't believe it.

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Heaven Owens is going to be on the receiving

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end of an ass kicking from hell in two consecutive

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pay -per -views. Yeah, this is it, but... Moving

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on from that match, it is a case that we then

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get the Rey Fenix vignette that we mentioned

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a few moments ago, where he's debuting next Friday.

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We then go into the very last match.