WEBVTT 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:37.320 Good evening everyone and welcome to another 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:40.500 episode of Finishes and Factions Does Smackdown. 00:00:41.079 --> 00:00:44.899 This week we are coming from the Allstate Arena 00:00:44.899 --> 00:00:50.859 in Chicago. We've got one hell of an episode 00:00:50.859 --> 00:00:53.079 for you this week ladies and gentlemen I can 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.719 promise you that. So to start off with we are 00:00:55.719 --> 00:01:02.219 informed that Chicago has held three WrestleMania's 00:01:02.219 --> 00:01:06.719 and those three WrestleMania's were WrestleMania 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:11.900 2 which was involved along with WrestleMania 00:01:11.900 --> 00:01:17.340 13 and WrestleMania 22. WrestleMania 22 of course 00:01:17.340 --> 00:01:21.099 was the one where John Cena had the Al Capone. 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:24.480 home entry and we got to see our first glimpse 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.099 of the second city saint hanging off the side 00:01:27.099 --> 00:01:32.019 of one of his cars. A little bit of a trip back 00:01:32.019 --> 00:01:35.299 into WrestleMania history for you. So to start 00:01:35.299 --> 00:01:39.299 off this week's episode we began with a recap 00:01:39.299 --> 00:01:42.879 of last week's contract signing between Roman 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:47.480 Reigns Seth Rollins and CM Punk. We find out 00:01:47.480 --> 00:01:50.260 a little bit about the favor that he asked for 00:01:50.260 --> 00:01:53.519 and the favor that he feels he was owed. At this 00:01:53.519 --> 00:01:59.719 point, Mr. Punk's music hits and Chicago explodes. 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:05.280 Like I said, Second City Saint, Mr. CM Punk is 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:10.280 a Chicago local. And I mean, he comes out and 00:02:10.280 --> 00:02:13.400 he says a whole heap of things. He starts off 00:02:13.400 --> 00:02:17.759 by him saying that... He knew the TV audiences 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.240 overseas were mental and were told that they 00:02:21.240 --> 00:02:26.319 were the best but for him nothing beats the hometown 00:02:26.319 --> 00:02:29.199 of Chicago and at this point we get to see cameraman 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.819 punk as he takes the camera off Rico at ringside 00:02:32.819 --> 00:02:35.439 and shows us his perspective of what he's seeing 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.360 in the ring and that is literally just Chicago 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:44.979 going absolutely mental. He starts off by saying, 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.259 again, that he shouldn't really listen to outside 00:02:48.259 --> 00:02:50.819 voices. After all, he's not supposed to be here. 00:02:51.219 --> 00:02:53.520 He goes on to kind of tell us a little bit more 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:57.960 about the life of CM Punk, I suppose. Starting 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:59.759 off with the fact that he was born with his cord 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.680 around his neck, and they brought him back to 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:09.020 life in the maternity suite there and then, and 00:03:09.020 --> 00:03:13.900 he just wants to thank the entire hometown arena 00:03:13.900 --> 00:03:17.319 and everyone in Chicago for the support that 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:21.759 he's had over the time. Now normally CM Punk 00:03:21.759 --> 00:03:24.460 says that he goes into each arena each day he 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:28.360 gets up and he's looking to make new fans you 00:03:28.360 --> 00:03:30.960 know everyone he wants to to introduce more people 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:34.000 to CM Punk but this time he's he's not really 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:39.000 doing that he's he's here to appreciate the the 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:44.000 guys that they're there and then and well he 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.379 uh starts uh starts giving us a little limitation 00:03:46.379 --> 00:03:49.639 of the rock out here tapping his arm goosebumps 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:54.759 like jesus man this is nuts but um we get there 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:56.759 and he gets to a point where he shouldn't be 00:03:56.759 --> 00:03:59.979 here but he's you know he's earned everything 00:03:59.979 --> 00:04:03.500 that he's got you know he was he was told that 00:04:03.500 --> 00:04:06.919 when he came through and like i said he was al 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.719 capone dressed on john cena's wrestlemania entrance 00:04:10.159 --> 00:04:13.780 That was the furthest he'd get. But for him, 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:16.100 getting to the main event of WrestleMania means 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:21.699 the hard work starts now. He's got a date with 00:04:21.699 --> 00:04:23.939 Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns at WrestleMania, 00:04:23.980 --> 00:04:25.399 and he's going to give one of them a whooping 00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:32.439 and one of them a beating. And we get a little 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:35.459 bit more of an insight to him. He says that he's 00:04:35.459 --> 00:04:38.560 thankful to his wife April, who we know as AJ 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.310 Lee. and we get quite a few AJ Lee chants running 00:04:42.310 --> 00:04:46.709 around and then we even get one for his puppy 00:04:46.709 --> 00:04:53.170 Larry the dog and then as normal he reminds us 00:04:53.170 --> 00:04:57.230 that without CM without Chicago there is no CM 00:04:57.230 --> 00:05:00.970 Punk which is always an interesting one he is 00:05:00.970 --> 00:05:05.129 very much all about the people for him and the 00:05:05.129 --> 00:05:06.769 people that have helped him get to where he is 00:05:06.769 --> 00:05:10.050 these days And he's just trying to kind of show 00:05:10.050 --> 00:05:12.410 us how thankful he is. We never thought as fans 00:05:12.410 --> 00:05:15.089 that when he left the first time, we'd ever see 00:05:15.089 --> 00:05:16.949 CM Punk in a professional wrestling ring again. 00:05:17.050 --> 00:05:20.250 He was very much against the idea. And to be 00:05:20.250 --> 00:05:21.930 fair, I think a lot of people were very much 00:05:21.930 --> 00:05:24.670 against the idea of him being in a pro wrestling 00:05:24.670 --> 00:05:27.089 ring again. But I tell you something, I am so 00:05:27.089 --> 00:05:30.850 happy that he is back and I, for one, cannot 00:05:30.850 --> 00:05:33.050 wait to see this main event at WrestleMania. 00:05:35.009 --> 00:05:38.980 He's joined in the ring at this point. by a gentleman 00:05:38.980 --> 00:05:43.800 we know as the wise man now the wise man was 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:47.079 CM Punk's best friend still is CM Punk's best 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:51.519 friend within the wrestling industry and we get 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:55.939 that classic line that every time I hear it personally 00:05:55.939 --> 00:05:59.680 makes me feel amazing and it's that ladies and 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:06.379 gentlemen my name is Paul Heyman and for me that 00:06:06.379 --> 00:06:08.980 makes Everything that's about to happen so much 00:06:08.980 --> 00:06:11.600 better. I am definitely a massive Paul Heyman 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:16.699 guy I'd love to be a Paul Heyman guy if I ever 00:06:16.699 --> 00:06:20.680 ever had the ability to get to WWE working with 00:06:20.680 --> 00:06:24.540 Paul Heyman would be the ultimate goal But Paul 00:06:24.540 --> 00:06:26.620 Heyman comes out and basically says that he's 00:06:26.620 --> 00:06:29.040 really sorry he's late and he means no disrespect 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:34.160 to Chicago or to CM Punk But tonight is not a 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.910 what about Chicago can do for Paul Heyman it's 00:06:38.910 --> 00:06:42.069 about what Paul Heyman can do for Chicago and 00:06:42.069 --> 00:06:44.970 uh and basically says you know CM Punk belongs 00:06:44.970 --> 00:06:47.949 in the main event at WrestleMania you know between 00:06:47.949 --> 00:06:50.529 the two of them they recap a history of his return 00:06:50.529 --> 00:06:54.589 how he saved the bloodline of war games but Paul 00:06:54.589 --> 00:06:58.490 Heyman has one more favor to ask Punk and he 00:06:58.490 --> 00:07:04.240 asks what you know and he asked Paul Heyman What 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:06.899 Paul Heyman owes him anyway, you know punks punks 00:07:06.899 --> 00:07:10.220 like, you know favors are stacking up here But 00:07:10.220 --> 00:07:13.040 as you already you already owe me one like, you 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:14.939 know, I don't mind giving you a second one, but 00:07:14.939 --> 00:07:20.160 we're gonna have to see what this is and when 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:23.100 Sam Punk has if Roman Reigns is there and Paul 00:07:23.100 --> 00:07:25.560 Heyman says he's in a training camp for WrestleMania 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:28.800 Punk says, you know, I'll let you know what the 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:34.810 favor is When the tribal chief shows up And yeah, 00:07:35.649 --> 00:07:40.870 what a start to the show this was. Yeah, I mean, 00:07:41.089 --> 00:07:42.769 even just talking about it now, I've got the 00:07:42.769 --> 00:07:45.129 same sort of goosebumps I had watching it, and 00:07:45.129 --> 00:07:49.550 it was fantastic to watch. So as far as I'm concerned 00:07:49.550 --> 00:07:52.870 with that one, if the opening part of this show 00:07:52.870 --> 00:07:56.110 is anything to go by, what an opening start, 00:07:56.230 --> 00:08:00.769 I'll tell you. We then get a little VT. about 00:08:00.769 --> 00:08:03.649 a man that has been spoken about an awful lot 00:08:03.649 --> 00:08:10.990 he is a former aw superstar he is one half of 00:08:10.990 --> 00:08:14.990 one of a what of a very distinguished tag team 00:08:14.990 --> 00:08:21.310 and uh today he is making his wwe debut and of 00:08:21.310 --> 00:08:24.569 course i am talking about none other than ray 00:08:24.569 --> 00:08:27.389 phoenix so we get a little bit of a ray phoenix 00:08:27.389 --> 00:08:32.320 debut vt um just kind of Showing us who ray phoenix 00:08:32.320 --> 00:08:37.940 is and basically Telling us that we're getting 00:08:37.940 --> 00:08:43.740 his smackdown debut now and ray phoenix makes 00:08:43.740 --> 00:08:48.700 his WWE Smackdown debut against one half of the 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:53.980 NXT tag team champions at Nathan Fraser Now when 00:08:53.980 --> 00:08:56.019 I looked at this originally I was sight here 00:08:56.019 --> 00:08:58.179 going this is actually going to be a really poor 00:08:58.179 --> 00:09:02.779 mismatch Quality I've seen video stuff of ray 00:09:02.779 --> 00:09:05.820 phoenix on YouTube. I've not seen him wrestle 00:09:05.820 --> 00:09:08.559 I've not watched whole matches. I've just seen 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:11.700 clips and I've not really seen him wrestle anyone 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:15.320 kind of worth talking about at this point and 00:09:15.320 --> 00:09:19.039 yes, I know it was an AW but Apart from the odd 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:22.840 sort of ex WWE superstar and Tony storm. I couldn't 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:25.539 really tell you much about a all -elite wrestling 00:09:25.539 --> 00:09:31.169 but As we go into this match this match I I didn't 00:09:31.169 --> 00:09:34.250 think it was going to be The match it was nathan 00:09:34.250 --> 00:09:38.110 frazer gave him one hell of a match. Um, i've 00:09:38.110 --> 00:09:42.330 got a few little notes here. Um The the fan of 00:09:42.330 --> 00:09:44.690 me got to this match more than the podcaster. 00:09:45.070 --> 00:09:49.129 Um But I did my best for you guys and you know, 00:09:49.129 --> 00:09:52.769 that is the best I can I could have done so we 00:09:52.769 --> 00:09:56.990 had um ray phoenix at one point pulled off a 00:09:56.990 --> 00:09:59.909 head scissors for a two count roll up at the 00:09:59.909 --> 00:10:03.889 start of the match and just before that after 00:10:03.889 --> 00:10:06.710 some collar and tie wrestling they both ended 00:10:06.710 --> 00:10:09.070 up with a double kip up now this was actually 00:10:09.070 --> 00:10:11.610 quite impressive because i can't do a kip up 00:10:11.610 --> 00:10:14.269 um me trying to do a kip up looks like rakishi 00:10:14.269 --> 00:10:17.929 trying to do the worm and uh we are not going 00:10:17.929 --> 00:10:20.970 down that route and we are definitely not adding 00:10:20.970 --> 00:10:25.419 that short form content in the future um But 00:10:25.419 --> 00:10:27.659 these guys were all over the place. It was very 00:10:27.659 --> 00:10:32.059 very fast -paced and I didn't know where to look 00:10:32.059 --> 00:10:35.159 really and I had at one point that Nathan Fraser 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:37.860 pulled a head scissors on ray phoenix to put 00:10:37.860 --> 00:10:43.059 him You know to the outside so he He pulled the 00:10:43.059 --> 00:10:45.220 head scissors off ray phoenix rolled to the outside 00:10:45.220 --> 00:10:48.779 for a little bit space and then Nathan Fraser 00:10:48.779 --> 00:10:53.429 came running out with a suicide dive At which 00:10:53.429 --> 00:10:56.429 point we get Ray Phoenix kind of he's the first 00:10:56.429 --> 00:11:00.009 one to pull himself up Gets back onto the apron 00:11:00.009 --> 00:11:03.710 and we see a corkscrew crossbody onto Nathan 00:11:03.710 --> 00:11:07.090 Fraser now I don't know if it is just the luchador 00:11:07.090 --> 00:11:11.830 way or if the corkscrew seems like Manic Modification 00:11:11.830 --> 00:11:14.370 to some of these moves makes it just a little 00:11:14.370 --> 00:11:17.470 bit better, but there is a few different ones 00:11:17.470 --> 00:11:20.590 where there is a corkscrew elements for example 00:11:20.590 --> 00:11:23.309 a nathan frazer superplexed ray phoenix off the 00:11:23.309 --> 00:11:27.610 top rope and then hit a corkscrew net breaker 00:11:27.610 --> 00:11:31.750 for a two count now that could be described as 00:11:31.750 --> 00:11:34.009 a corkscrew net breaker or it could have been 00:11:34.009 --> 00:11:36.889 looked at as a diamond cutter or a corkscrew 00:11:36.889 --> 00:11:40.509 diamond cutter but either way it was it was pretty 00:11:40.509 --> 00:11:44.730 nice um nathan frazer mixed a phoenix splash 00:11:44.730 --> 00:11:49.299 and a rather big knee Resulting in ray phoenix 00:11:49.299 --> 00:11:52.379 hitting him with a drop kick and then a goodbye 00:11:52.379 --> 00:11:57.159 amigo kick Followed up with a fire driver DDT 00:11:57.159 --> 00:12:01.299 for the two count and I've noticed this was quite 00:12:01.299 --> 00:12:05.820 a lot of intense high action with a lot a lot 00:12:05.820 --> 00:12:11.580 of near falls in this and So ray phoenix then 00:12:11.580 --> 00:12:16.129 does another kip up with a super kick Then pulls 00:12:16.129 --> 00:12:21.350 off what is referred to as an MMB for the three 00:12:21.350 --> 00:12:25.789 count for Ray Phoenix to win his debut match 00:12:25.789 --> 00:12:29.470 in the smackdown which we could Sorry Which we 00:12:29.470 --> 00:12:31.610 could see coming and they weren't gonna bring 00:12:31.610 --> 00:12:34.549 someone of Ray Phoenix's caliber into smackdown 00:12:34.549 --> 00:12:38.289 and Not give him a win in his first match, especially 00:12:38.289 --> 00:12:41.669 against someone like Nathan Fraser But this does 00:12:41.669 --> 00:12:44.370 not hurt Nathan Fraser at all Like I said, he's 00:12:44.370 --> 00:12:47.090 won half of Fraxium, which is the current NXT 00:12:47.090 --> 00:12:53.450 tag team or tag title holders. And yeah, this 00:12:53.450 --> 00:12:55.909 actually did an awful lot for Nathan Fraser within 00:12:55.909 --> 00:12:57.590 this match, because he's shown that he can come 00:12:57.590 --> 00:13:00.850 up to the main roster and he can get on and have 00:13:00.850 --> 00:13:04.110 a decent match with basically one of the best 00:13:04.110 --> 00:13:06.690 in the industry at this point when it comes to 00:13:06.690 --> 00:13:09.419 tag team wrestling. if you take out sort of the 00:13:09.419 --> 00:13:12.539 hardy boys and some of the older more vintage 00:13:12.539 --> 00:13:15.940 tag teams that are still going, when Ray Phoenix 00:13:15.940 --> 00:13:20.340 and Penta were the Lucha Brothers, and that is 00:13:20.340 --> 00:13:23.700 something we could possibly see in the next sort 00:13:23.700 --> 00:13:26.460 of couple of months. I know they are on separate 00:13:26.460 --> 00:13:28.279 brands at the moment, but you never know what 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:32.399 is gonna happen. Like I said off podcast with 00:13:32.399 --> 00:13:37.139 Adam the other day, I personally think that if 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:40.480 we end up with Penta with the Intercontinental 00:13:40.480 --> 00:13:42.879 title, which he's currently sort of in the running 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:46.440 for that over on Raw, and we get Ray Phoenix 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:50.419 with a hit at the United States Championship 00:13:50.419 --> 00:13:54.299 at some point. Now, I believe what I'd like to 00:13:54.299 --> 00:13:58.000 say in time for sort of like Survivor Games, 00:13:58.779 --> 00:14:02.399 I think we could have Ray Phoenix versus Penta 00:14:02.399 --> 00:14:05.779 at Survivor Games, both of them holding Midcard 00:14:05.779 --> 00:14:10.240 titles would be really really nice After this 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.000 match Byron Saxton jumps into the ring with Rey 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:16.759 Fenix to ask how he feels about his WWE debut 00:14:16.759 --> 00:14:19.639 Rey Fenix says that he's had a lot of history 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:22.059 in Chicago, but tonight isn't just the debut 00:14:22.059 --> 00:14:25.679 of Rey Fenix It's a rebirth and he's been reborn 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:31.659 with more passion and he is now a WWE amigo Which 00:14:31.659 --> 00:14:33.600 was you know, I mean we've been waiting weeks 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:38.460 for this This ray phoenix debut. We got it and 00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:42.559 personally. I'm not mad at it at all. Um Just 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:45.100 to finish off with this section on ray phoenix. 00:14:45.100 --> 00:14:49.259 We jump backstage where we see a legado de la 00:14:49.259 --> 00:14:53.679 fall Tasma backstage with basically Santos Escobar 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:58.980 telling the other members of Los Gaza that that's 00:14:58.980 --> 00:15:01.100 the sort of performance he expects from both 00:15:01.100 --> 00:15:04.350 of them going into the future and one of the 00:15:04.350 --> 00:15:07.009 gentleman from las gaza says yeah that's that's 00:15:07.009 --> 00:15:08.450 you know that's not a problem actually you know 00:15:08.450 --> 00:15:10.970 what i reckon i could i could give ray phoenix 00:15:10.970 --> 00:15:13.590 a kicking on my own in santos escobargo as well 00:15:13.590 --> 00:15:16.509 you know what mate i'm gonna go and talk to nick 00:15:16.509 --> 00:15:19.070 aldis and see if we can get ray phoenix versus 00:15:19.070 --> 00:15:23.110 elberto so we have a possible match next week 00:15:23.110 --> 00:15:28.850 for ray phoenix against one half of las gaza 00:15:28.850 --> 00:15:32.509 which will definitely be interesting opportunity 00:15:32.509 --> 00:15:38.409 for that one. So our next little section of Smackdown 00:15:38.409 --> 00:15:43.250 this week was a VT with our favorite Scottish 00:15:43.250 --> 00:15:49.090 warrior, Mr. Drew McIntyre. Drew in this sort 00:15:49.090 --> 00:15:51.990 of this little clip is wearing an eye patch. 00:15:52.320 --> 00:15:56.659 This is because last week Damian Priest put him 00:15:56.659 --> 00:16:01.000 through the windscreen of a BMW in the back of 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.860 the o2 arena in London on the final night of 00:16:03.860 --> 00:16:08.480 their WWE European tour and and he's basically 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:13.679 coming out to cry again about Damian Priest and 00:16:13.679 --> 00:16:18.399 It's pretty much like look every time I do something 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:22.220 you there to try and Try and see what scraps 00:16:22.220 --> 00:16:25.299 you can you can feed off. You know, he says that 00:16:25.299 --> 00:16:28.100 Damien stole both of his tight opportunities 00:16:28.100 --> 00:16:30.320 to get to you know Both of his opportunity sorry 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:33.460 to get a title at WrestleMania and Damien Priest 00:16:33.460 --> 00:16:35.779 eliminated him from the elimination chamber he 00:16:35.779 --> 00:16:39.500 also threw him over the top rope at Royal Rumble 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:42.259 and Drew basically says instead of facing me 00:16:42.259 --> 00:16:47.200 like a man you attacked me in the dark and He 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:51.320 then states that It's now time for Drew McIntyre 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.940 to stop praying and when when Drew McIntyre prays 00:16:55.940 --> 00:17:01.139 bad things happen now This is definitely building 00:17:01.139 --> 00:17:03.840 up to what is going to be a hell of a match at 00:17:03.840 --> 00:17:07.559 WrestleMania and I'm not gonna not gonna lie 00:17:07.559 --> 00:17:09.680 to you I'm definitely looking forward to seeing 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:15.599 Damian Priest do one over Drew McIntyre Coming 00:17:15.599 --> 00:17:20.079 up next we had a recap of Braun Strowman's US 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:24.359 title match last week against LA Knight LA Knight 00:17:24.359 --> 00:17:27.000 obviously being the current US title holder which 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:30.099 he took from Shinsuke Nakamura not too long ago 00:17:30.099 --> 00:17:34.359 and in this specific match we had an interference 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:38.940 from Jacob Fatu and he basically attacked Braun 00:17:38.940 --> 00:17:42.160 Strowman on the outside with a vicious flying 00:17:42.160 --> 00:17:47.029 elbow Then took it in to the ring to carry on 00:17:47.029 --> 00:17:50.049 and if you have not seen that match you can jump 00:17:50.049 --> 00:17:54.210 in on our last episode of finishes and factions 00:17:54.210 --> 00:17:57.589 the smackdown and catch up with that one and 00:17:57.589 --> 00:17:59.910 It was a hell of a match. I will give you that 00:17:59.910 --> 00:18:03.769 And we then go to a little backstage section 00:18:03.769 --> 00:18:07.509 with Byron Saxton making another appearance Byron 00:18:07.509 --> 00:18:09.730 Saxton gets his money this week ladies and gentlemen 00:18:10.119 --> 00:18:13.440 Byron Saxton is making that dollar. He's busy 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.319 talking to Braun Strowman about Jacob Fatu and 00:18:16.319 --> 00:18:20.599 you know why tonight we're gonna see Why he's 00:18:20.599 --> 00:18:24.319 such a monster in his last man standing match 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:30.660 against Jacob Fatu which I believe is Basically 00:18:30.660 --> 00:18:34.160 our main event of the evening is the last match 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.339 of the evening that last man standing match So 00:18:38.339 --> 00:18:41.849 we are gonna get Little bit of what we can from 00:18:41.849 --> 00:18:46.029 both of these guys in the build -up to it Which 00:18:46.029 --> 00:18:51.349 is always a bonus to be fair so at this point 00:18:51.349 --> 00:18:58.490 just after Byron Saxton wanders off You see a 00:18:58.490 --> 00:19:02.589 solo Sacoa come out and say that Braun Strowman 00:19:02.589 --> 00:19:05.349 is basically finished and he still has to face 00:19:05.349 --> 00:19:10.650 Jacob Fatu when a LA Knight makes his way in 00:19:10.650 --> 00:19:22.230 coming on to a Basically comes in and says that 00:19:22.230 --> 00:19:25.829 he's gonna they've got a keep an eye on on these 00:19:25.829 --> 00:19:30.170 cross -eyed half wits when a Braun Strowman has 00:19:30.170 --> 00:19:34.670 his match against Jacob Fatu Yes, it basically 00:19:34.670 --> 00:19:38.039 kind of and Sona Sikoa says to LA Knight that 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:40.359 LA Knight's got some pretty big balls talking 00:19:40.359 --> 00:19:42.779 to him like that and I haven't quite written 00:19:42.779 --> 00:19:46.380 down what LA Knight said but there was definitely 00:19:46.380 --> 00:19:50.319 some cojones being mentioned in this point and 00:19:50.319 --> 00:19:53.000 LA Knight basically turns around and says I've 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:56.880 got gigantuan bollocks mate massive bollocks 00:19:56.880 --> 00:20:00.599 and there is nothing new Or Tamatonga are going 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:02.420 to be able to do with them and Tama you better 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:04.559 be ready because you've got an ass kicking coming 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:08.380 your way as He makes his way through gorilla 00:20:08.380 --> 00:20:12.059 for his match against well for the next match 00:20:12.059 --> 00:20:16.119 of the evening which is LA night versus Tamatonga 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:20.220 and This is only Tamatonga's fifth singles match 00:20:20.220 --> 00:20:23.640 while he's been in smackdown. We have seen an 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:27.279 awful lot of Tamatonga and pushing through with 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:31.359 like There's backup for Jacob Fattu, backup for 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:36.779 Solis Okoa, backup for the Bloodline. We haven't 00:20:36.779 --> 00:20:41.380 really seen a lot of him in singles competition 00:20:41.380 --> 00:20:44.339 and I definitely don't think we have seen him 00:20:44.339 --> 00:20:49.200 in singles competition for a long time. I can't 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:53.619 think off the top of my head his last singles 00:20:53.619 --> 00:21:01.789 match at all to be fair. But then it is going 00:21:01.789 --> 00:21:04.329 to be one of those that he wasn't bought in really 00:21:04.329 --> 00:21:08.150 to be a solo Wrestler he was brought in to be 00:21:08.150 --> 00:21:12.829 part of a stable Especially with with his tag 00:21:12.829 --> 00:21:16.089 team partner injured Tonga lower is currently 00:21:16.089 --> 00:21:18.309 out and not really heard much about Tonga lower 00:21:18.309 --> 00:21:20.549 for a while So that's kind of where tamatanga 00:21:20.549 --> 00:21:25.750 has ended up kind of waiting for His targeting 00:21:25.750 --> 00:21:29.299 partner to come back which is always a bonus. 00:21:30.259 --> 00:21:32.740 So within this one at the very start of the match 00:21:32.740 --> 00:21:38.519 we get a distraction from Solo Sacoa on LA Knight 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:41.619 basically just kind of throwing some words at 00:21:41.619 --> 00:21:45.460 him and gives Tamatonga an opportunity to try 00:21:45.460 --> 00:21:49.039 and get in a cheap shot and he does do this and 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:51.700 he manages to get off quite a nice elbow drop 00:21:51.700 --> 00:21:54.720 as well at the start. My notes for this match 00:21:54.720 --> 00:21:58.140 weren't Overly massive. I know Adams notes were 00:21:58.140 --> 00:22:01.240 a lot better for mine, but I think this is purely 00:22:01.240 --> 00:22:04.000 just for the fact that It's an LA night match 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:06.819 and I love watching LA night as does Adams So 00:22:06.819 --> 00:22:08.880 between the two of us we end up getting caught 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:13.579 short. Um with this one there is always going 00:22:13.579 --> 00:22:18.539 to be sort of the the threat within this match 00:22:18.539 --> 00:22:21.640 that solo Sacoa is going to end up biting off 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:23.700 more than he can chew and it's going to end up 00:22:23.700 --> 00:22:28.180 in a disqualification of some kind but this match 00:22:28.180 --> 00:22:30.559 wasn't a title match so it doesn't make much 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.240 difference on how that one goes and with champions 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.460 advantage anyway a disqualification would not 00:22:36.460 --> 00:22:38.960 hurt hurt LA Knight but it would definitely hurt 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:44.660 Tamatonga. So a few bits that I've got with this 00:22:44.660 --> 00:22:48.059 one most of mine Most of my notes are mainly 00:22:48.059 --> 00:22:49.920 about LA night. There's a few bits in there I've 00:22:49.920 --> 00:22:52.599 got Tamatanga hits a rather nice back suplex 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.559 and ends up getting it up for a two count and 00:22:56.559 --> 00:22:59.519 There's a couple of big boots and there's a little 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:02.380 section at one point where LA night is bashing 00:23:02.380 --> 00:23:05.380 Tamatanga's head off the announce table With 00:23:05.380 --> 00:23:09.339 that solo Sikoa looking on very much from the 00:23:09.339 --> 00:23:13.039 side kind of like you think you'll do it and 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:15.990 towards the middle Let's say towards the middle 00:23:15.990 --> 00:23:19.210 of the match. We get another distraction from 00:23:19.210 --> 00:23:23.109 Solo Sokoa, this time towards the ref. And Tamatonga 00:23:23.109 --> 00:23:25.829 ends up sending LA Knight off onto the announce 00:23:25.829 --> 00:23:29.430 table from the apron. So LA Knight was stood 00:23:29.430 --> 00:23:32.069 on the apron and Tamatonga was in the ring when 00:23:32.069 --> 00:23:35.069 he kind of shoved LA Knight who went absolutely 00:23:35.069 --> 00:23:40.829 flying. Apart from sort of like a few other bits, 00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:45.950 Tamatonga went up onto the top. Top turnbuckle 00:23:45.950 --> 00:23:48.710 sat up there and tried doing LA Knight shtick, 00:23:48.769 --> 00:23:53.309 you know the whole L A Knight Yeah, which did 00:23:53.309 --> 00:23:57.869 not work at all and as he ended up jumping down 00:23:57.869 --> 00:24:01.650 To pull the elbow drop he he missed because LA 00:24:01.650 --> 00:24:05.970 Knight had fucked off out of there and To which 00:24:05.970 --> 00:24:09.289 LA Knight then counters that with a jumping net 00:24:09.289 --> 00:24:14.910 breaker power slam And then the BFT for the three 00:24:14.910 --> 00:24:18.509 count after Solo Sokoa tried to spike him from 00:24:18.509 --> 00:24:21.549 the outside. Basically, yeah, he had to avoid 00:24:21.549 --> 00:24:24.509 Solo to hit this BFT and Solo's a big motherfucker. 00:24:25.049 --> 00:24:28.130 Avoiding him is never going to be too easy to 00:24:28.130 --> 00:24:32.410 do. Which is, I mean, fair play to him. I don't 00:24:32.410 --> 00:24:34.869 think I could have moved that quickly, but it 00:24:34.869 --> 00:24:37.299 is one of them and it... is kind of how it goes. 00:24:37.619 --> 00:24:40.500 So LA Knight manages to pick up this win against 00:24:40.500 --> 00:24:44.319 Tamatonga. I don't think this really did much 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.099 for either wrestler to be fair. LA Knight is 00:24:48.099 --> 00:24:50.859 another win under his belt on his road to WrestleMania 00:24:50.859 --> 00:24:54.160 where he is going to be defending his US title 00:24:54.160 --> 00:24:58.740 against at this precise moment. I can't remember 00:24:58.740 --> 00:25:02.059 who is in the running for it. I've got a feeling 00:25:02.059 --> 00:25:04.259 it's Jacob Fatu that is currently the number 00:25:04.259 --> 00:25:07.789 one contender for the US title but I could be 00:25:07.789 --> 00:25:11.490 wrong and I'm sure I might be so if I am and 00:25:11.490 --> 00:25:14.369 you guys can tell me who is the current number 00:25:14.369 --> 00:25:16.910 one contender for the United States title drop 00:25:16.910 --> 00:25:20.230 me an email it's finishes and factions at gmail 00:25:20.230 --> 00:25:23.910 .com both myself and Adam do our best to get 00:25:23.910 --> 00:25:27.049 into the emails as often as we can and reply 00:25:27.049 --> 00:25:33.019 to them as and when we can and Turning with the 00:25:33.019 --> 00:25:37.220 next section. We see Byron Saxton again This 00:25:37.220 --> 00:25:40.200 guy is definitely getting his appearances in 00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:43.700 this week and he is trying to talk to Paul Heyman 00:25:43.700 --> 00:25:48.500 backstage about the favor and Basically Paul 00:25:48.500 --> 00:25:50.279 Heyman says no matter what the favor is his answer 00:25:50.279 --> 00:25:54.420 is yes and he can Just you can tell him that 00:25:54.420 --> 00:25:56.720 the answer is yes, and basically he just needs 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:01.319 to get out of trouble with Roman Reigns So it's 00:26:01.319 --> 00:26:05.480 kind of insinuating Well, I've watched this so 00:26:05.480 --> 00:26:08.660 I know what's going on looking back at this you 00:26:08.660 --> 00:26:11.799 can see from the very start of this episode where 00:26:11.799 --> 00:26:16.299 this is building up to and It is quite an interesting 00:26:16.299 --> 00:26:18.299 way They've gone through it and you will you 00:26:18.299 --> 00:26:20.759 will find out more about this when we get to 00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:23.920 the very end of the episode purely because that 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:26.339 Is where the meat and veg in this episode is 00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:28.920 and the build -up to that specific storyline 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.339 And as Paul Heyman's busy talking to Byron Saxton 00:26:33.339 --> 00:26:37.559 about this black SUV starts pulling up and at 00:26:37.559 --> 00:26:39.380 this point Heyman starts getting a little bit 00:26:39.380 --> 00:26:42.160 concerned obviously normally when black SUVs 00:26:42.160 --> 00:26:46.799 show up that indicates that our Tribal chief 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:50.099 is about to jump out the back of it, but it was 00:26:50.099 --> 00:26:54.740 not the tribal chief this time It was a man who 00:26:54.740 --> 00:26:59.650 is a revolutionary We get mr. Seth Rollins come 00:26:59.650 --> 00:27:02.569 out and he based he's like, oh You're expecting 00:27:02.569 --> 00:27:06.170 someone else. Oh You were looking for the other 00:27:06.170 --> 00:27:10.369 member of the shield Which I mean out of the 00:27:10.369 --> 00:27:12.230 three members of the shield any two of them get 00:27:12.230 --> 00:27:15.930 reference now poor poor John Moxley Dean Ambrose 00:27:15.930 --> 00:27:19.809 as he was known It's basically a naughty word 00:27:19.809 --> 00:27:25.089 in WWE right now which um, I think I don't really 00:27:25.089 --> 00:27:27.759 understand Moxley was well within his rights 00:27:27.759 --> 00:27:30.220 to do what he did. What he's done at AEW has 00:27:30.220 --> 00:27:32.980 been incredible. Some of it very fucking stupid. 00:27:33.140 --> 00:27:35.079 Do not get me wrong, but some of the stuff he's 00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:39.680 done at AEW has been incredible. Seth Rollins 00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:42.539 continues basically going, Paul, you don't look 00:27:42.539 --> 00:27:46.160 so good. You feeling all right? Which, I mean, 00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.640 Paul Heyman shitting himself at this point, and 00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:50.759 I think I would be if I'd done something that 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:53.859 could possibly piss off the tribal chief, Roman 00:27:53.859 --> 00:27:59.710 Reigns. Talking about people that piss a lot 00:27:59.710 --> 00:28:07.329 of people off we get our Least favorite female 00:28:07.329 --> 00:28:09.630 superstar decide that she's gonna make an entrance 00:28:09.630 --> 00:28:13.289 to the ring at Charlotte flair comes out this 00:28:13.289 --> 00:28:18.269 week. We basically well We know there is gonna 00:28:18.269 --> 00:28:20.809 be a little bit of a promo between these two 00:28:20.809 --> 00:28:24.329 women and god forbid after last time they had 00:28:24.329 --> 00:28:27.490 a Slung in match on air. It didn't go too. Well, 00:28:27.490 --> 00:28:30.390 there's been ass kickings galore on air as well 00:28:30.390 --> 00:28:34.670 and then Yeah, there is definitely no love lost 00:28:34.670 --> 00:28:36.789 between these two women But once Charlotte Flair 00:28:36.789 --> 00:28:40.210 makes her way to the ring we get an Alistair 00:28:40.210 --> 00:28:44.789 black vignette So Alistair black has confirmed 00:28:44.789 --> 00:28:50.430 that he is coming back to WWE There hasn't been 00:28:50.430 --> 00:28:56.559 a date confirmed for his debut But within this, 00:28:56.839 --> 00:28:59.759 a lot of people and a lot of fans have spotted 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.400 certain things in these vignettes. Certainly 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:05.819 some of it has been a selection of numbers. The 00:29:05.819 --> 00:29:07.859 number four has been played around with, and 00:29:07.859 --> 00:29:12.900 so has the number 25. A lot of US fans are kind 00:29:12.900 --> 00:29:17.660 of hoping this means that his debut will be on 00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:26.009 the 25th of April, which is the week after So 00:29:26.009 --> 00:29:33.509 we could get after WrestleMania a very interesting 00:29:33.509 --> 00:29:36.150 debut. Well, it's not even a debut. It's more 00:29:36.150 --> 00:29:40.569 of a return. Aleister Black is a former WWE wrestler 00:29:40.569 --> 00:29:48.329 that went to AEW and has decided that he is coming 00:29:48.329 --> 00:29:53.319 back. And if that is true, then It will be on 00:29:53.319 --> 00:29:59.420 the Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, Texas. So that 00:29:59.420 --> 00:30:04.740 could be an interesting night in Texas, especially 00:30:04.740 --> 00:30:09.140 after the prospect of a fantastic WrestleMania 00:30:09.140 --> 00:30:14.039 in Las Vegas the weekend beforehand. So after 00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:17.619 we have the Aleister Black vignette, we get some 00:30:17.619 --> 00:30:21.240 Tiffy time. Tiffy Stratton walks. Out to the 00:30:21.240 --> 00:30:23.960 ring and I will tell you something I think both 00:30:23.960 --> 00:30:26.059 Tiffy and Charlotte have been shopping in the 00:30:26.059 --> 00:30:28.480 same place because they were both wearing the 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:33.000 same pair of trousers Charlotte finished hers 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.640 off with a black corset while Tiffy just went 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:38.720 I'm guessing with what was supposed to go with 00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:42.220 it anyway Charlotte did not look happy at this 00:30:42.220 --> 00:30:46.599 at all and because of the tension between those 00:30:46.599 --> 00:30:51.579 two women we have well i'd like to say he's a 00:30:51.579 --> 00:30:54.099 local wrestler he's not local to the americans 00:30:54.099 --> 00:30:59.240 he's a little bit local to me um by we're from 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.640 the same country with just different ends of 00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:06.119 it we have the former bare knuckle boxer and 00:31:06.119 --> 00:31:10.660 former wwe superstar wade barrett moderating 00:31:10.660 --> 00:31:13.180 this interview to make sure that these women 00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:16.980 keep it above board and uh no low blows no low 00:31:16.980 --> 00:31:21.970 shots and no fucking fighting if Tommy Shelby 00:31:21.970 --> 00:31:24.509 was there those would be the two words that he 00:31:24.509 --> 00:31:28.349 wrote the phrase he'd be using no fucking farting 00:31:28.349 --> 00:31:33.710 and I mean we get a little bit of a The crowd 00:31:33.710 --> 00:31:36.170 really are not a fan of Charlotte in this place 00:31:36.170 --> 00:31:39.049 and every time she goes to open her mouth she 00:31:39.049 --> 00:31:44.359 gets booed pretty goddamn hard But between the 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.180 two of them they did manage to get some interesting 00:31:47.180 --> 00:31:49.880 points up now Wade Barrett asks one question 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:55.339 in this this section and it's basically The Charlotte 00:31:55.339 --> 00:31:57.839 to be fair. It was like he asked Charlotte why 00:31:57.839 --> 00:32:02.180 she chose Tiffy Stratton for her champion of 00:32:02.180 --> 00:32:06.859 choice After she won the Royal Rumble and after 00:32:06.859 --> 00:32:10.000 the recent interactions between the two of them 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:15.680 Was it the best choice? Now, Charlotte Flair 00:32:15.680 --> 00:32:17.900 says that Tiffy Stratton was begging for some 00:32:17.900 --> 00:32:22.220 attention and you know Charlotte is just the 00:32:22.220 --> 00:32:24.859 gift that keeps on giving and to be fair she 00:32:24.859 --> 00:32:26.920 does say afterwards she hasn't done any charity 00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:31.279 work recently which I thought was fucking hilarious 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:36.119 but that was just the start of the spitting of 00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:38.339 feathers between these two women. I'm pretty 00:32:38.339 --> 00:32:39.940 sure if Wade Barrett hadn't been in the middle 00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:43.240 of them a punch would have been thrown. and these 00:32:43.240 --> 00:32:46.200 women it would not have been a fake punch either 00:32:46.200 --> 00:32:49.579 they would have been beating each other for real 00:32:49.579 --> 00:32:56.039 i am pretty sure of that um so basically charlotte 00:32:56.039 --> 00:32:59.759 flair says that you know she wanted to show the 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:04.519 smartest wwe fans in chicago there really just 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:08.319 isn't a comparison between her and tiffy and 00:33:08.319 --> 00:33:10.440 at which point tiffy asks like you know where's 00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:13.660 the woo We've heard everything else you've got 00:33:13.660 --> 00:33:16.380 to say give us the whoo that you stole off your 00:33:16.380 --> 00:33:20.460 daddy and then and a lot of Tiffy's points to 00:33:20.460 --> 00:33:23.519 Charlotte are literally just like Trying to be 00:33:23.519 --> 00:33:26.579 your dad, you know naught and three in your marriage 00:33:26.579 --> 00:33:31.680 just in marriages just like your dad Well, that 00:33:31.680 --> 00:33:34.420 wasn't that wasn't her exact words that's not 00:33:34.420 --> 00:33:37.019 quote that was pretty much that would have been 00:33:37.019 --> 00:33:40.009 in her mind I'm guessing so yeah, she Tiffany 00:33:40.009 --> 00:33:42.890 Stratton Basie says that after WrestleMania when 00:33:42.890 --> 00:33:45.670 she retains the title against Charlotte that 00:33:45.670 --> 00:33:49.170 Charlotte is gonna be just like she is You know 00:33:49.170 --> 00:33:51.609 outside of wrestling she can be all on her own 00:33:51.609 --> 00:33:53.769 She then goes into the little bit where she brings 00:33:53.769 --> 00:33:56.529 up about Charlotte's recent divorce from Andrade 00:33:56.529 --> 00:34:00.089 Saying that in marriages, you know, she's nought 00:34:00.089 --> 00:34:07.349 and three at which point she She gets a pretty 00:34:07.349 --> 00:34:14.510 ruthless comment to her um is the fact that uh 00:34:14.510 --> 00:34:16.610 charlotte flair turns on and goes i might be 00:34:16.610 --> 00:34:19.409 alone at the moment but are you aware that your 00:34:19.409 --> 00:34:24.449 boyfriend has been in my dms so i mean looked 00:34:24.449 --> 00:34:26.769 with kaiser has got to be the only bloke in the 00:34:26.769 --> 00:34:28.650 world who's been accused of cheating and the 00:34:28.650 --> 00:34:32.269 whole world's gone fuck off he didn't do it that's 00:34:32.269 --> 00:34:37.619 a lie bullshit um I mean, let's face it, ladies 00:34:37.619 --> 00:34:40.500 and gentlemen, if you are in a happy relationship 00:34:40.500 --> 00:34:43.460 with Tiffany Stratton, are you going to throw 00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:46.519 that away for an opportunity to slide up into 00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:49.739 Charlotte Flair's DMs as a man personally? I 00:34:49.739 --> 00:34:55.039 sure as fuck ain't. 20 years ago, what now? But 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:57.500 then that's the difference between these two 00:34:57.500 --> 00:35:01.940 women. Charlotte's like, she's in a say she's 00:35:01.940 --> 00:35:05.500 in her early 40s just for the, you know, the 00:35:07.469 --> 00:35:09.949 The sake of saying it but we've then got to remember 00:35:09.949 --> 00:35:13.130 that Tiffy Stratton's only 25 And she is the 00:35:13.130 --> 00:35:16.929 current Smackdown's women title holder when Charlotte 00:35:16.929 --> 00:35:19.349 Flair was only 25 She was still trying to be 00:35:19.349 --> 00:35:21.670 a volleyball player drinking in daddy's basement. 00:35:22.289 --> 00:35:26.829 So um Yeah, definitely some big differences between 00:35:26.829 --> 00:35:31.250 those two There is a little bit with Charlotte 00:35:31.250 --> 00:35:33.309 Flair's just taking a piss out of how Tiffy's 00:35:33.309 --> 00:35:37.119 so squeaky and I mean We've heard the nepo baby 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:39.760 reference a few times the last few weeks so it 00:35:39.760 --> 00:35:42.980 is one of those That there wasn't really much 00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:45.659 extra to this that I could give you apart from 00:35:45.659 --> 00:35:48.840 the the big bits Which is yes Tiffany Stratton 00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:52.619 having a pop at Charlotte Flair's Owen three 00:35:52.619 --> 00:35:56.239 for her marriages and Charlotte Flair trying 00:35:56.239 --> 00:35:58.300 to make Tiffy feel a little bit bad by making 00:35:58.300 --> 00:36:01.019 her think that Ludwig Keis is up in her DMs when 00:36:01.019 --> 00:36:05.949 we all know he's not if he has been If he has 00:36:05.949 --> 00:36:08.050 been that is going to be the biggest shock in 00:36:08.050 --> 00:36:12.630 the world and I personally I'd want to see the 00:36:12.630 --> 00:36:14.449 proof of what you were saying beforehand. I'd 00:36:14.449 --> 00:36:15.949 be like, yeah You may have been in your DMS, 00:36:15.949 --> 00:36:17.469 but there's a big difference going can I have 00:36:17.469 --> 00:36:20.050 an autograph and can I fuck you? You know what 00:36:20.050 --> 00:36:24.030 I mean, but we will leave that one because we 00:36:24.030 --> 00:36:28.369 then get a little bit of news from Nick oldest 00:36:28.369 --> 00:36:33.969 backstage talking about some cross -brand work 00:36:33.969 --> 00:36:36.570 that's going to be going on. So SmackDown and 00:36:36.570 --> 00:36:40.130 Raw are going to be combining their women's tag 00:36:40.130 --> 00:36:44.469 divisions for a women's tag team gauntlet match. 00:36:45.110 --> 00:36:47.670 And the winners of this tournament will be facing 00:36:47.670 --> 00:36:51.570 Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez for the women's 00:36:51.570 --> 00:36:55.190 tag titles at WrestleMania. And there's going 00:36:55.190 --> 00:36:59.510 to be some good matches in this. Gauntlet tournament. 00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:01.590 I haven't seen any of the teams that have been 00:37:01.590 --> 00:37:05.050 put in there yet But I'm sure at some point we're 00:37:05.050 --> 00:37:07.130 gonna find out a little bit more about this I'm 00:37:07.130 --> 00:37:10.010 guessing probably Monday night on raw we will 00:37:10.010 --> 00:37:13.730 get the first match and We can find out all about 00:37:13.730 --> 00:37:16.429 that in the next episode of finishes and factions 00:37:16.429 --> 00:37:23.550 does Monday night rule Our next match of the 00:37:23.550 --> 00:37:27.329 evening is a number one contenders match for 00:37:27.329 --> 00:37:31.909 the tag team titles. We're between Motor City 00:37:31.909 --> 00:37:36.070 Machine Guns, which is Chris Saban and Alex Shelley, 00:37:36.829 --> 00:37:42.329 versus DIY, the team of Johnny Gargano and Tomasa 00:37:42.329 --> 00:37:45.130 Ciampa. This is the gentleman that our truth 00:37:45.130 --> 00:37:48.809 thinks is Triple H, which I thought was brilliant. 00:37:49.489 --> 00:37:53.469 For this match, Street Profits, they came out 00:37:53.469 --> 00:37:56.880 first with their titles to watch. the match now 00:37:56.880 --> 00:37:59.099 I presumed they were going to be sitting in their 00:37:59.099 --> 00:38:03.360 normal bitch seats next to commentary but these 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:05.420 two decided that wasn't for them they're not 00:38:05.420 --> 00:38:07.800 bitches they are the tag team title holders and 00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:09.380 they're gonna go and sit in the front row with 00:38:09.380 --> 00:38:13.460 the crowd which is a always a nice little touch 00:38:13.460 --> 00:38:17.960 um now a lot of this match I'm gonna put out 00:38:17.960 --> 00:38:23.530 there was not easy to make notes on eh because 00:38:23.530 --> 00:38:25.530 I like watching Motor City Machine Guns. I think 00:38:25.530 --> 00:38:28.710 they're a fantastic, fantastic tag team. And 00:38:28.710 --> 00:38:30.550 every week when I watch them, I get more and 00:38:30.550 --> 00:38:33.230 more hooked on the product they're selling me. 00:38:34.050 --> 00:38:36.909 I know Adam's a massive fan of MCMG. He's watched 00:38:36.909 --> 00:38:40.230 them pretty much in most of the promotions they've 00:38:40.230 --> 00:38:42.329 been in. I know he's had a lot of fun watching 00:38:42.329 --> 00:38:46.639 them when they were in TNA. I've seen a little 00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:50.179 bit of DIY previously before finishers and factions 00:38:50.179 --> 00:38:55.440 started when they were in NXT. I believe they 00:38:55.440 --> 00:38:58.820 were tag title holders there the last time I 00:38:58.820 --> 00:39:05.260 saw them wrestle. But we do get off to a nice 00:39:05.260 --> 00:39:08.340 little start with this one. At the start of the 00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:10.099 match there was a lot of double teams. I did 00:39:10.099 --> 00:39:12.039 find a lot of this match seemed to be sort of 00:39:12.039 --> 00:39:16.139 like two on one. a lot of the time but there 00:39:16.139 --> 00:39:20.460 were some pretty pretty nice bits in the match 00:39:20.460 --> 00:39:23.199 that we're gonna go through some of the bigger 00:39:23.199 --> 00:39:27.320 spots where Johnny Gargano hit a slingshot spear 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:31.559 now I'm not massively knowledgeable about Johnny 00:39:31.559 --> 00:39:36.199 Gargano's sort of move set and the sort of the 00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.699 things that he does a lot of but that spear was 00:39:39.699 --> 00:39:42.610 nicely done and it It did the damage it needed 00:39:42.610 --> 00:39:48.210 to do Chris Shelley manages Now don't get me 00:39:48.210 --> 00:39:51.610 wrong. I am a big fan of use what is in your 00:39:51.610 --> 00:39:56.110 environment to your benefit At no point did I 00:39:56.110 --> 00:39:58.809 think Chris Shelley would run up the front of 00:39:58.809 --> 00:40:03.769 Tommaso Ciampa to hit a tornado DDT on Johnny 00:40:03.769 --> 00:40:08.579 Gargano while alex shelly suicide dives onto 00:40:08.579 --> 00:40:15.480 the outside taking out diy who uh all they'll 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:18.239 just get into their feet at this point after 00:40:18.239 --> 00:40:22.400 the um the the tornado ddt and the fact that 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:25.639 somebody ran up in the front of you um i thought 00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:29.460 was uh was quite an incredible little move um 00:40:29.460 --> 00:40:32.619 it's just one of those quirky little things that 00:40:32.619 --> 00:40:35.119 you see in a in a pro wrestling ringling get 00:40:35.119 --> 00:40:38.840 away with, that you probably would not see at 00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:41.460 the UFC. I don't think you'd see anyone running 00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:44.280 up the side of the cage to perform a DDT on someone 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:48.639 in a cage, but that, you know, it can be done. 00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:53.960 There was a little bit of a two -and -throw in. 00:40:54.139 --> 00:40:56.880 Motor City Machine Guns were trying to set themselves 00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:00.559 up for the Skyline Crossbones on a few different 00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.280 attempts. with johnny gargano doing a great job 00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:06.820 of playing defense and making sure those didn't 00:41:06.820 --> 00:41:10.400 happen while his teammate tamasa champa was taking 00:41:10.400 --> 00:41:16.260 on the guys in the ring um at one point during 00:41:16.260 --> 00:41:21.940 the setup for a skull and bones The top turnbuckle 00:41:21.940 --> 00:41:25.800 gets exposed when one of the guys from Motor 00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:28.380 City Machine Guns grabs hold of it trying to 00:41:28.380 --> 00:41:30.719 steady themselves as Johnny Gargano tries to 00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:36.699 tip them off over the outside. Which will come 00:41:36.699 --> 00:41:39.599 to play a little bit later in this match but 00:41:39.599 --> 00:41:45.059 for now we don't see too much of it. There's 00:41:45.059 --> 00:41:48.619 some really really interesting bits at the end 00:41:48.619 --> 00:41:51.340 here. So alex shelly tried to set up a faceless 00:41:51.340 --> 00:41:56.199 which uh, johnny gargano Was not allowing to 00:41:56.199 --> 00:41:59.179 happen and he also johnny gargano managed to 00:41:59.179 --> 00:42:03.219 stop a second skull and bones attempt uh while 00:42:03.219 --> 00:42:07.360 Just shortly afterwards tamasa champa tried getting 00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:11.219 the best of the referee here Charles Robinson 00:42:11.219 --> 00:42:15.579 trying to use the ropes on a dirty pin was it 00:42:15.579 --> 00:42:19.179 for the for Basically, he got caught on the two 00:42:19.179 --> 00:42:22.219 count when he got to to the the referee spotted 00:42:22.219 --> 00:42:25.320 it and kind of went nah, you can't do that not 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:30.519 allowed you cannot do that at all and As he kind 00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:33.659 of stumbles out this one and he's finished arguing 00:42:33.659 --> 00:42:38.159 with the ref about it. He runs towards Alex Shelley 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:42.369 in the corner who moves out the way and leaves 00:42:42.369 --> 00:42:48.909 Tomaso Ciampa running directly into the exposed 00:42:48.909 --> 00:43:03.510 turnbuckle. So after running himself off that 00:43:03.510 --> 00:43:07.449 exposed turnbuckle he basically leaves himself 00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:11.880 On his back, he domed himself pretty well with 00:43:11.880 --> 00:43:15.860 that exposed turnbuckle, letting Motor City Machine 00:43:15.860 --> 00:43:19.800 Guns get the pin for the three count, meaning 00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:22.940 that Motor City Machine Guns become the number 00:43:22.940 --> 00:43:26.179 one contenders to street profits tag team titles 00:43:26.179 --> 00:43:29.920 and those two teams will meet at WrestleMania. 00:43:33.719 --> 00:43:38.369 Which... Wow. Street Profits and Motor City Machine 00:43:38.369 --> 00:43:42.369 Guns at WrestleMania. Goddamn! What a match that 00:43:42.369 --> 00:43:45.570 is gonna be. On the way back up the ramp towards 00:43:45.570 --> 00:43:47.789 Gorilla in the backstage area where I'm guessing 00:43:47.789 --> 00:43:50.150 Motor City Machine Guns are off for a cold beer 00:43:50.150 --> 00:43:55.349 and a hot shower. They walk past Street Profits 00:43:55.349 --> 00:43:58.329 who are sat in the crowd and say, look, we're 00:43:58.329 --> 00:44:01.510 coming for those titles. Those are coming back 00:44:01.510 --> 00:44:05.159 to us. Obviously Motor City machine guns have 00:44:05.159 --> 00:44:08.159 already held those tag titles. We've seen DIY 00:44:08.159 --> 00:44:12.400 also hold those tag titles up until very recently 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.420 Where they they lost to Street Profits to drop 00:44:16.420 --> 00:44:22.000 those titles over? Yeah, we This tag division 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:26.579 is strong. Okay, it There's no other way of saying 00:44:26.579 --> 00:44:29.679 it the smackdown tag division is incredibly strong 00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.019 and we don't even get to see bearing in mind 00:44:32.019 --> 00:44:35.920 we haven't seen Wyatt six yet or uh you know 00:44:35.920 --> 00:44:37.960 we haven't there's a few people we've not seen 00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:40.559 and uh it's only going to get stronger this tag 00:44:40.559 --> 00:44:44.480 division talking about smackdown's tag team division 00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:49.900 though we do see a couple more of them backstage 00:44:49.900 --> 00:44:54.019 now we get to see the Miz and Carmelo Hayes commonly 00:44:54.019 --> 00:44:58.480 known as Mello don't Miz backstage talking about 00:44:58.480 --> 00:45:02.280 some opportunities when they see uh We also get 00:45:02.280 --> 00:45:05.880 to see Pretty Deadly backstage as well. Basically, 00:45:06.059 --> 00:45:08.039 Miz and Melo are taking the piss out of the fact 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:12.800 that Pretty Deadly, who managed to have a title 00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:17.099 match opportunity in their hometown, or their 00:45:17.099 --> 00:45:21.139 home country, sorry, of London last week. Well, 00:45:21.340 --> 00:45:23.760 London, England, they had a match last week. 00:45:24.800 --> 00:45:29.340 Basically, they... mellow if he accuses them 00:45:29.340 --> 00:45:32.539 of fumbling at the one -yard line and kind of 00:45:32.539 --> 00:45:36.300 says, you know Chicago Bears and For those of 00:45:36.300 --> 00:45:40.539 you who are not NFL fans the Chicago Bears are 00:45:40.539 --> 00:45:44.280 known for fumbling the ball and the one large 00:45:44.280 --> 00:45:47.139 iron and basically just making some pretty basic 00:45:47.139 --> 00:45:49.639 mistakes in fact the last time the Chicago Bears 00:45:49.639 --> 00:45:53.880 did anything half -decent and They won the Super 00:45:53.880 --> 00:45:56.980 Bowl in 1985 beating the New England Patriots 00:45:57.150 --> 00:46:00.190 Being a Patriots fan, currently sat here wearing 00:46:00.190 --> 00:46:02.989 a Patriots shirt while recording this. One of 00:46:02.989 --> 00:46:05.769 my friends is a Bears fan and he does like to 00:46:05.769 --> 00:46:08.150 remind me of that every time we get to the start 00:46:08.150 --> 00:46:12.869 of the football season. But they do, we do get 00:46:12.869 --> 00:46:16.789 pretty deadly have a comeback to Melo don't miss 00:46:16.789 --> 00:46:19.730 his jokes about their opportunities by going, 00:46:19.889 --> 00:46:23.809 hey, we got some jokes. I mean, look at the Marine 00:46:23.809 --> 00:46:27.559 three, the Marine four. Marine five which were 00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.199 all basically just cheap. Well, I'm gonna say 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:36.579 cheap They were not very cheap option To make 00:46:36.579 --> 00:46:39.039 but they were movies made to try and give Miz 00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:41.960 a little bit more over with the crowd and quite 00:46:41.960 --> 00:46:45.780 frankly it did not work those series of movies 00:46:45.780 --> 00:46:48.320 are Incredibly poor and I actually think the 00:46:48.320 --> 00:46:51.280 last three of them went straight to DVD rather 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:56.110 than actually making it into the cinema But Miz 00:46:56.110 --> 00:47:00.989 does try and get his his comeuppance again, you 00:47:00.989 --> 00:47:03.670 know, he asked how pretty deadly his musicals 00:47:03.670 --> 00:47:07.690 going Pretty deadly getting back really by saying 00:47:07.690 --> 00:47:10.530 that he is the Leonardo DiCaprio of tag team 00:47:10.530 --> 00:47:14.210 wrestling Yes, this guy is a nine times tag champion. 00:47:14.769 --> 00:47:17.690 But each time he's won a title it's been with 00:47:17.690 --> 00:47:21.949 a with a different wrestler as his tag partner 00:47:21.949 --> 00:47:24.559 and this time They're kind of he's got Carmelo 00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:27.380 Hayes and they're Asking him. Well, you know, 00:47:27.539 --> 00:47:30.400 why have you been what have you done to get relegated 00:47:30.400 --> 00:47:47.559 back down to the bottom? Which is basically finished 00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:49.920 off by pretty deadly telling them they're not 00:47:49.920 --> 00:47:52.760 really a tag team and that they could beat them 00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:57.739 on their worst day which is a bit of a disrespectful 00:47:57.739 --> 00:48:01.260 thing to put in there but the disrespect continues 00:48:01.260 --> 00:48:05.139 as we go into our next match between bfab and 00:48:05.139 --> 00:48:09.440 naomi this one is a i'd say it's a little bit 00:48:09.440 --> 00:48:12.159 of a grudge match this match came along because 00:48:12.159 --> 00:48:16.360 bfab and mishin were siding with jade cargill 00:48:16.360 --> 00:48:19.000 a fortnight ago after obviously it all came out 00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:21.760 naomi was the one who put Jade Cargill in the 00:48:21.760 --> 00:48:25.639 hospital, giving her one massive ass kicking. 00:48:27.099 --> 00:48:30.039 Last week, Mishin went one -on -one with Naomi, 00:48:30.519 --> 00:48:33.940 which Naomi won. You can hear our coverage of 00:48:33.940 --> 00:48:37.840 that match in our last episode of Finishes and 00:48:37.840 --> 00:48:42.659 Factions does Smackdown. And then, you know, 00:48:42.760 --> 00:48:47.170 we get BFab come out with Mishin. Mishin decided, 00:48:47.449 --> 00:48:49.269 you've got to have a really close eye on this, 00:48:49.329 --> 00:48:51.530 but as B -Fab is walking down the ramp to the 00:48:51.530 --> 00:48:55.050 ring, we see Mishin disappear back through the 00:48:55.050 --> 00:48:57.849 curtain, back into Gorilla to go and sort something 00:48:57.849 --> 00:49:00.210 else out, I'm guessing, but she was not ringside 00:49:00.210 --> 00:49:02.849 with B -Fab, but she did kind of make a slight 00:49:02.849 --> 00:49:05.329 appearance with her at the top of the entry ramp. 00:49:07.329 --> 00:49:10.090 As Naomi starts making her way down the ramp 00:49:10.090 --> 00:49:14.519 though, we get a... We get us this isn't a surprise 00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:17.320 to be fair We were told by Jade Cargill that 00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:19.739 whenever she saw her it would be on site and 00:49:19.739 --> 00:49:23.480 on site it was As Jade Cargill attacked Naomi 00:49:23.480 --> 00:49:26.599 on the entrance ramp and the security guys that 00:49:26.599 --> 00:49:29.380 followed her out We're doing a reasonable job 00:49:29.380 --> 00:49:33.159 of trying to keep her kind of contained but They 00:49:33.159 --> 00:49:36.739 could have done a better job Jade Cargill though 00:49:36.739 --> 00:49:40.300 is an absolute animal and it is definitely one 00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:44.659 of those so after the slight beat down that Naomi 00:49:44.659 --> 00:49:47.420 took from Jade Cargill on the entrance ramp, 00:49:47.739 --> 00:49:50.039 Naomi kind of runs off down to the ring to try 00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:54.400 and see if she can escape and as soon as she 00:49:54.400 --> 00:49:58.980 hits the ring the bell goes and BFab is on top 00:49:58.980 --> 00:50:04.960 of her pretty hard and basically just grabs her 00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.380 by the hair and drags her down and starts giving 00:50:07.380 --> 00:50:10.489 her a Big beating and there's a big kick in a 00:50:10.489 --> 00:50:12.710 super kick in there at some point for a two count 00:50:12.710 --> 00:50:16.130 She just starts teeing off again like there is 00:50:16.130 --> 00:50:19.269 a lot of pent up rage from b -fab here And she 00:50:19.269 --> 00:50:22.389 feels Naomi's weakened because of what Jade Cargill 00:50:22.389 --> 00:50:25.369 did to her on the entrance ramp as well I mean 00:50:25.369 --> 00:50:27.610 and to be fair if Jade Cargill had given me a 00:50:27.610 --> 00:50:29.489 beat down on the entrance ramp But the last thing 00:50:29.489 --> 00:50:31.429 I'd want to be doing is going into a match with 00:50:31.429 --> 00:50:38.199 b -fab But uh in the end after as much of an 00:50:38.199 --> 00:50:40.619 effort as BFab puts in and she is in control 00:50:40.619 --> 00:50:44.699 for I'm gonna say about 95 % of this match is 00:50:44.699 --> 00:50:48.400 all BFab. We get to see something new from Naomi. 00:50:49.639 --> 00:50:53.579 So we had told and I couldn't tell you it was 00:50:53.579 --> 00:50:55.500 new. The only reason that I know it's new is 00:50:55.500 --> 00:50:58.679 because the announce team told us it was. Naomi 00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:01.239 hit something called a modified lung blower to 00:51:01.239 --> 00:51:04.599 be able to get the three count on BFab this weekend. 00:51:04.980 --> 00:51:08.219 Basically, The only way I can describe it to 00:51:08.219 --> 00:51:14.199 you is... I'm just trying to think of the name 00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:18.300 of the move. It's a code breaker to the front 00:51:18.300 --> 00:51:22.679 rather than a code locker to the back. But yeah, 00:51:23.179 --> 00:51:26.500 it looked like it hurt. It was definitely an 00:51:26.500 --> 00:51:31.199 effective move for a finisher move. Yeah, no, 00:51:31.199 --> 00:51:33.570 it was... Something new from Naomi along with 00:51:33.570 --> 00:51:36.269 a sort of like the new ring attire the new entrance 00:51:36.269 --> 00:51:39.989 Which has all been pretty cool. Obviously. We 00:51:39.989 --> 00:51:42.530 can't be feeling the glow right now after she's 00:51:42.530 --> 00:51:46.909 a Come out basically Admitted to beating Jade 00:51:46.909 --> 00:51:49.389 Cargill. That's not a very face move So we've 00:51:49.389 --> 00:51:52.690 now got the full deep darkened package to go 00:51:52.690 --> 00:51:55.389 with it as well Which is always a always a bonus 00:51:55.389 --> 00:51:58.219 but sometimes when these guys change from one 00:51:58.219 --> 00:52:01.039 to the other, face to heel, heel to face. We 00:52:01.039 --> 00:52:05.019 don't always get a change in the character, but 00:52:05.019 --> 00:52:09.739 we definitely did get it this time. At this point, 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:11.760 at the end of the match, Naomi's in the ring 00:52:11.760 --> 00:52:13.760 still. She's got a mic in her hand and she's 00:52:13.760 --> 00:52:17.440 like, Jade Cargill, where you at, bitch? And 00:52:17.440 --> 00:52:19.880 Jade Cargill was already waiting for us. She 00:52:19.880 --> 00:52:22.699 was hiding in the crowd and she comes flying 00:52:22.699 --> 00:52:26.960 out and hits a massive big boot. And looks to 00:52:26.960 --> 00:52:29.340 set up her finisher. I can't tell you what it 00:52:29.340 --> 00:52:32.800 is, but I can describe it to you If I was if 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:35.900 you look at a pedigree where they hook the arms 00:52:35.900 --> 00:52:39.860 You know above them from the front It's basically 00:52:39.860 --> 00:52:42.179 like a pedigree from the back and into a sit 00:52:42.179 --> 00:52:45.880 -down sort of face drop It's beautiful to watch. 00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:48.699 I really should find the name of it out, but 00:52:48.699 --> 00:52:53.000 it is amazing at this point security come down 00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:56.500 and break these two up and Jade Cargill does 00:52:56.500 --> 00:52:59.159 not look happy about that and she basically just 00:52:59.159 --> 00:53:01.820 starts whipping the security around and dumping 00:53:01.820 --> 00:53:05.719 them out of the ring and then sort of Naomi at 00:53:05.719 --> 00:53:08.699 this point is kind of sat on the entrance ramp 00:53:08.699 --> 00:53:12.579 watching the carnage when Nick Aldis comes out 00:53:12.579 --> 00:53:17.960 through the tightrope to say look I'm fed up 00:53:17.960 --> 00:53:21.190 with this and there's only one solution. to what 00:53:21.190 --> 00:53:23.849 is going on here so both of you two ladies that 00:53:23.849 --> 00:53:27.210 is both Naomi and Jade Cargill are going to be 00:53:27.210 --> 00:53:30.469 going one -on -one at WrestleMania and both of 00:53:30.469 --> 00:53:33.889 these women look incredibly happy with that announcement 00:53:33.889 --> 00:53:37.030 like these women wanted an opportunity to beat 00:53:37.030 --> 00:53:38.590 fuck out of each other and they're going to be 00:53:38.590 --> 00:53:41.630 doing that on the grandest stage of them all 00:53:41.630 --> 00:53:47.349 um i mean that that this this in theory has the 00:53:47.349 --> 00:53:50.250 option to be a really good match but It's definitely 00:53:50.250 --> 00:53:53.030 one of the ones at WrestleMania that I think 00:53:53.030 --> 00:53:56.489 is going to be a starting, like within the first 00:53:56.489 --> 00:54:00.010 two matches on probably the first day to be fair. 00:54:00.289 --> 00:54:03.010 One of the first matches I think we get to see. 00:54:03.650 --> 00:54:06.889 Purely for, not just to get it over and done 00:54:06.889 --> 00:54:09.050 with, but the rest of the matches that are coming 00:54:09.050 --> 00:54:13.690 through seem a lot bigger and a lot better than 00:54:13.690 --> 00:54:15.869 what Naomi and Jade Cargill are going to be able 00:54:15.869 --> 00:54:21.150 to throw around for us. So the next section of 00:54:21.150 --> 00:54:25.889 this week's episode was a Damien Priest VT Replying 00:54:25.889 --> 00:54:29.150 basically to the Drew McIntyre one we had earlier 00:54:29.150 --> 00:54:34.469 And saying that it wasn't me that that cost you 00:54:34.469 --> 00:54:36.929 these things. It was your obsession with punk 00:54:36.929 --> 00:54:40.590 that cost you You know your own title and you 00:54:40.590 --> 00:54:43.429 basically keep screwing yourself, you know clash 00:54:43.429 --> 00:54:46.150 can't clash of the castle. Sorry, it should have 00:54:46.150 --> 00:54:50.380 been all about sort of Priest and McIntyre but 00:54:50.380 --> 00:54:55.139 McIntyre was so obsessed with CM Punk still and 00:54:55.139 --> 00:54:58.699 you know Priest just did his job um at Money 00:54:58.699 --> 00:55:02.739 in the Bank you know stopped him from his baggage 00:55:02.739 --> 00:55:06.920 stopped him from cashing in same with you know 00:55:06.920 --> 00:55:09.420 the Royal Rumble where he was eliminated by Damien 00:55:09.420 --> 00:55:11.980 Priest the Elimination Chamber where he was taken 00:55:11.980 --> 00:55:15.619 out by Damien Priest you know he got him really 00:55:15.619 --> 00:55:19.900 easily and then when Drew McIntyre attacked him 00:55:19.900 --> 00:55:24.239 cost him his WrestleMania title shot Damien Priest 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:26.960 says that Drew McIntyre is a hypocrite. He's 00:55:26.960 --> 00:55:29.719 a junkie getting high off playing cheap jokes 00:55:29.719 --> 00:55:35.000 and being a victim and now Damien Priest is is 00:55:35.000 --> 00:55:39.199 gonna make him a victim at WrestleMania which 00:55:39.199 --> 00:55:42.820 I'm not entirely sure what I'm feeling about 00:55:42.820 --> 00:55:46.460 that. I'm glad someone's stepping up to shut 00:55:46.460 --> 00:55:51.010 up Drew McIntyre, but is the eyeliner wearing 00:55:51.010 --> 00:55:53.530 Teemu version of an undertaker going to be the 00:55:53.530 --> 00:55:57.070 guy to do it? I'm not sure I mean both know what 00:55:57.070 --> 00:55:59.530 these guys can do they've been a war a few times, 00:55:59.530 --> 00:56:04.469 but I Am I'll be intrigued to see how this one 00:56:04.469 --> 00:56:09.730 goes down. I'm talking about wars though we get 00:56:11.929 --> 00:56:15.269 in ring promo from Nick Aldis now we don't see 00:56:15.269 --> 00:56:17.650 much of Nick Aldis in the ring as it is very 00:56:17.650 --> 00:56:19.989 much it's normally coming out just to do it sort 00:56:19.989 --> 00:56:23.869 of officiating and things but this time he says 00:56:23.869 --> 00:56:26.150 he's out here to do a part of his job that he 00:56:26.150 --> 00:56:28.250 really doesn't like doing and you know within 00:56:28.250 --> 00:56:30.730 the industry that they're in there is a fine 00:56:30.730 --> 00:56:32.969 line between being able to come back next week 00:56:32.969 --> 00:56:36.010 and finding out that you may never wrestle again 00:56:36.010 --> 00:56:39.469 he goes I know it is a massive cliche but there 00:56:39.469 --> 00:56:42.369 is a huge reason and a very big reason we tell 00:56:42.369 --> 00:56:46.369 you do not try this at home and the one person 00:56:46.369 --> 00:56:49.909 that can give you a better reason than that is 00:56:49.909 --> 00:56:55.329 Kevin Owens. We get a very subdued Kevin Owens 00:56:55.329 --> 00:56:59.590 walking down to the ring which is unusual for 00:56:59.590 --> 00:57:02.530 us anyway we don't see subdued Kevin Owens at 00:57:02.530 --> 00:57:04.750 all even when he's just had his ass handed to 00:57:04.750 --> 00:57:10.130 him he's normally still pretty Pretty quick on 00:57:10.130 --> 00:57:12.449 his feet and still trying to cause trouble and 00:57:12.449 --> 00:57:15.969 make a mess for himself At which point Kevin 00:57:15.969 --> 00:57:17.949 comes out he says, you know, he's been doing 00:57:17.949 --> 00:57:22.190 this this this business for 25 years and you 00:57:22.190 --> 00:57:25.010 know in the 25 years He's been doing it. He every 00:57:25.010 --> 00:57:28.889 time he gets in the ring. He's given that Everything 00:57:28.889 --> 00:57:32.130 he has on that specific night. He said some nights 00:57:32.130 --> 00:57:35.949 not as much as others, but I've given it Everything 00:57:35.949 --> 00:57:39.420 I've had to give at that point and the industry 00:57:39.420 --> 00:57:42.559 has given him an absolutely phenomenal lifestyle, 00:57:42.900 --> 00:57:46.159 he's had a great life with it, his family have 00:57:46.159 --> 00:57:49.739 had amazing things and he's done really well 00:57:49.739 --> 00:57:54.019 within it but eventually in professional wrestling 00:57:54.019 --> 00:57:56.559 there is a price you have to pay and the toll 00:57:56.559 --> 00:58:01.639 it takes on your body is a very very big thing 00:58:01.639 --> 00:58:04.239 and he says that for the last four or five months 00:58:04.239 --> 00:58:06.820 he's been dealing with quite a serious neck injury 00:58:06.820 --> 00:58:09.800 but they didn't Realize how serious it was until 00:58:09.800 --> 00:58:13.659 this week now if you take it as four months But 00:58:13.659 --> 00:58:16.219 he's had this industry had this injury that'd 00:58:16.219 --> 00:58:18.639 be roughly the same time that we have been running 00:58:18.639 --> 00:58:22.400 with finishers and factions Look at the matches. 00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:25.099 We've seen this guy take part in you know, you 00:58:25.099 --> 00:58:27.920 had the unsanctioned match elimination chamber 00:58:27.920 --> 00:58:31.539 with Sammy's aim if you Weren't aware of that 00:58:31.539 --> 00:58:34.380 one. We have our you know our coverage of it 00:58:34.380 --> 00:58:38.630 for the elimination chamber episode He had that 00:58:38.630 --> 00:58:42.469 incredible match with Cody Rhodes at the Royal 00:58:42.469 --> 00:58:49.949 Rumble for the real title. So to speak between 00:58:49.949 --> 00:58:53.510 the winged eagle championship and the actual 00:58:53.510 --> 00:58:59.829 championship that is floating around. And those 00:58:59.829 --> 00:59:02.510 two matches just on their own have been incredible. 00:59:02.550 --> 00:59:06.150 So if he's done those with a neck injury that 00:59:06.150 --> 00:59:09.510 could potentially put him out of his career then 00:59:09.510 --> 00:59:12.030 fair play to the guy like he really has given 00:59:12.030 --> 00:59:15.889 it everything he's got and um he says he basically 00:59:15.889 --> 00:59:19.710 he needs to go and have neck surgery um and the 00:59:19.710 --> 00:59:22.489 timing of this is really shit because no matter 00:59:22.489 --> 00:59:24.829 you know how this is going he was really looking 00:59:24.829 --> 00:59:27.349 forward to sharing a ring with Randy Orton at 00:59:27.349 --> 00:59:31.570 Wrestlemania and um you know he can't do that 00:59:31.570 --> 00:59:35.269 now and he's he's thankful for the WWE for allowing 00:59:35.269 --> 00:59:38.329 him to come into the ring and have five minutes 00:59:38.329 --> 00:59:40.929 with the crowd to have a conversation because 00:59:40.929 --> 00:59:43.469 it's maybe something he doesn't get to do again 00:59:43.469 --> 00:59:47.469 and he has learned that after everything he's 00:59:47.469 --> 00:59:50.909 uh he will never take this industry for granted 00:59:50.909 --> 00:59:54.610 because you know I suppose if you wake up every 00:59:54.610 --> 00:59:56.730 day going yeah I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine and 00:59:56.730 --> 00:59:59.550 then you wake up going I'm not fine that's that's 00:59:59.550 --> 01:00:01.269 especially if you've been doing something like 01:00:01.269 --> 01:00:07.090 that for 25 years man That's a long time. Kevin 01:00:07.090 --> 01:00:09.530 Owens has been wrestling since I was 9 years 01:00:09.530 --> 01:00:17.710 of age. That's incredible. At which point we 01:00:17.710 --> 01:00:22.130 find out that he's not going to be wrestling 01:00:22.130 --> 01:00:25.489 at WrestleMania and that Randy Orton's music 01:00:25.489 --> 01:00:29.789 hits and we kind of, Randy comes out and walks 01:00:29.789 --> 01:00:32.349 again quite somberly down to the ring and the 01:00:32.349 --> 01:00:35.230 two of them share a moment on the apron where 01:00:35.230 --> 01:00:38.449 kevin's coming out of the ring randy's getting 01:00:38.449 --> 01:00:41.969 into it and they kind of give each other a look 01:00:41.969 --> 01:00:44.389 that kind of says fair play man i hope you're 01:00:44.389 --> 01:00:47.050 good you know backstage they would have probably 01:00:47.050 --> 01:00:50.070 shaken hands and had a conversation and whatnot 01:00:50.070 --> 01:00:52.730 and kind of hugged it out you know what it's 01:00:52.730 --> 01:00:57.630 like the man thing to do so to speak but um we 01:00:57.630 --> 01:00:59.929 get a little conversation between nick aldis 01:00:59.929 --> 01:01:03.039 and Randy Orton in the ring. This is basically 01:01:03.039 --> 01:01:05.840 just Nick Aldis affirming with Randy that he 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:09.579 no longer has a WrestleMania opponent So therefore 01:01:09.579 --> 01:01:15.280 he does not have a WrestleMania match Now a lot 01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:18.860 of people will probably seen in a few days since 01:01:18.860 --> 01:01:24.800 Smackdown and We've got round two recording this 01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:29.750 That There's been quite a few clips and memes 01:01:29.750 --> 01:01:33.130 made of this next bit and that is basically because 01:01:33.130 --> 01:01:39.730 I believe It was two years ago Might be slightly 01:01:39.730 --> 01:01:44.750 longer and Randy Orton was fined $50 ,000 for 01:01:44.750 --> 01:01:48.809 hitting an RKO on Nick Aldis in the ring And 01:01:48.809 --> 01:01:50.449 Randy actually gave him a check for a hundred 01:01:50.449 --> 01:01:53.130 thousand when Nick questioned that he said that's 01:01:53.130 --> 01:01:57.960 for next time and then Lo and behold this man 01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.659 that he's definitely got a good memory and a 01:02:00.659 --> 01:02:02.619 definitely a good judge of character But then 01:02:02.619 --> 01:02:06.380 you know if I'd overpaid something by $50 ,000 01:02:06.380 --> 01:02:10.480 I think I'd remember it too He he got his receipt 01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:12.699 for that extra little bit on the respond the 01:02:12.699 --> 01:02:14.940 year on the check because Randy Orton hit an 01:02:14.940 --> 01:02:17.239 RKO and Nick Aldis in the middle of the ring 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:21.119 Leaves Nick lying there and just strolls off 01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:24.679 casually like yeah I'm listening to those voices 01:02:25.690 --> 01:02:27.969 I'll tell you something fair play to the guy. 01:02:28.250 --> 01:02:29.989 It's not very often. You can get away with the 01:02:29.989 --> 01:02:35.909 RKO in your boss once but twice so We definitely 01:02:35.909 --> 01:02:39.289 find out that Randy Orton's got some I can't 01:02:39.289 --> 01:02:43.809 you in size kahuna's here as Yeah, pop like I 01:02:43.809 --> 01:02:46.889 said he pops that RKO and leaves it where it 01:02:46.889 --> 01:02:53.119 goes and Here we have it. This is our main event 01:02:53.119 --> 01:02:56.320 of the evening. So as we were notified earlier 01:02:56.320 --> 01:03:01.500 on we have a last -man standing match between 01:03:01.500 --> 01:03:08.059 Braun Strowman and Jacob Fartoo and this I believe 01:03:08.059 --> 01:03:11.599 is for the number one contender for the United 01:03:11.599 --> 01:03:15.820 States title which LA Knight currently holds. 01:03:16.329 --> 01:03:19.289 So with a last man standing match the rules are 01:03:19.289 --> 01:03:22.170 slightly different. There are no pinfalls. There 01:03:22.170 --> 01:03:27.250 are no submissions The only way you can win a 01:03:27.250 --> 01:03:30.989 last man standing match is to beat your opponent 01:03:30.989 --> 01:03:36.210 that badly They cannot stand for a 10 count So 01:03:36.210 --> 01:03:40.849 basically There are no rules within this match 01:03:40.849 --> 01:03:44.510 apart from beat the guy that badly he can't stand 01:03:44.510 --> 01:03:49.079 up for 10 seconds Right as long as he gets the 01:03:49.079 --> 01:03:53.159 refereeing count from 1 to 10 The man is done 01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:57.719 and between these two absolute monsters Between 01:03:57.719 --> 01:04:01.619 Braun Strowman the big sob and the Samoan werewolf 01:04:01.619 --> 01:04:07.840 Jacob Fatu We know we're gonna get some serious 01:04:07.840 --> 01:04:11.880 beatings laid out in this one and It basically 01:04:11.880 --> 01:04:15.760 it starts very, very early on. Jacob Fatu is 01:04:15.760 --> 01:04:18.239 the first one to come down to the ring. When 01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:21.440 Braun Strowman makes his entrance, Fatu decides, 01:04:22.219 --> 01:04:25.739 I'm not waiting, and runs towards him. They meet 01:04:25.739 --> 01:04:30.179 at the ramp, and Braun Strowman throws Fatu square 01:04:30.179 --> 01:04:32.460 into the steel steps on the left -hand side. 01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:38.059 Going into this match, Braun Strowman has never 01:04:38.059 --> 01:04:43.219 lost a last -man standing match. has had quite 01:04:43.219 --> 01:04:48.639 a few of them. I know for a fact that he has 01:04:48.639 --> 01:04:54.579 had two Monday Night Raw episodes and one at 01:04:54.579 --> 01:04:57.840 pay -per -view. I believe the pay -per -view 01:04:57.840 --> 01:05:03.659 one was Extreme Rules 2019 where he defeated 01:05:03.659 --> 01:05:08.849 Bobby Lashley and then he had one on Monday Night 01:05:08.849 --> 01:05:14.449 Raw where he beat Kane in 2018 and then in 2017 01:05:14.449 --> 01:05:18.190 we had another one where Braun Strowman defeated 01:05:18.190 --> 01:05:22.429 Roman Reigns Actually, I've just fact -checked 01:05:22.429 --> 01:05:27.369 myself because on the 2nd of January 2017 He 01:05:27.369 --> 01:05:31.409 defeated Sami Zayn in a Last Man Standing match 01:05:31.409 --> 01:05:34.030 too. So there we go going into this Braun Strowman 01:05:34.030 --> 01:05:40.230 is 4 -0 in last man standing matches which is 01:05:40.230 --> 01:05:43.949 an incredible feat on its own to be fair because 01:05:43.949 --> 01:05:47.889 both of these men are known for dealing out an 01:05:47.889 --> 01:05:50.630 awful lot of damage and they're both known for 01:05:50.630 --> 01:05:52.570 being able to receive a fair chunk of it as well. 01:05:52.710 --> 01:05:54.309 They've dealt enough of it to each other over 01:05:54.309 --> 01:06:01.230 the last few weeks. This one started like I said 01:06:01.230 --> 01:06:04.010 at the get -go As they were coming out, we had 01:06:04.010 --> 01:06:06.789 moonsaults, we had reverse moonsaults, we had 01:06:06.789 --> 01:06:12.889 running slams. There was, you know, reversals 01:06:12.889 --> 01:06:15.929 here, there and everywhere. Some of them big, 01:06:16.070 --> 01:06:20.690 big moves that I made note of. Braun Strowman 01:06:20.690 --> 01:06:23.590 ends up popping a pop -up power bomb on Jacob 01:06:23.590 --> 01:06:26.690 Fatu, which was really, really quite nice. After 01:06:26.690 --> 01:06:28.889 he'd done that with the aftermath, he went onto 01:06:28.889 --> 01:06:31.130 the outside of the ring, grabbed himself a table. 01:06:31.550 --> 01:06:34.050 from underneath the ring and set it up in the 01:06:34.050 --> 01:06:36.110 corner. Now it looked as though he was going 01:06:36.110 --> 01:06:40.289 to try and put Fatu through the table. That's 01:06:40.289 --> 01:06:43.170 not how we decided that he was going to do this. 01:06:45.550 --> 01:06:48.670 The table doesn't actually come into play until 01:06:48.670 --> 01:06:57.630 a lot later in the match where we see Braun Strowman 01:06:57.630 --> 01:07:00.610 get put through it. But before that, I mean, 01:07:00.750 --> 01:07:02.969 They were out on the outside of the ring beating 01:07:02.969 --> 01:07:06.269 each other down. There was a point where Braun 01:07:06.269 --> 01:07:08.929 Strowman ran at Jacob Fatu. Fatu pulled the ropes 01:07:08.929 --> 01:07:11.949 down to send Strowman to the outside and then 01:07:11.949 --> 01:07:15.150 popped a suicide dive through the second and 01:07:15.150 --> 01:07:19.429 third rope to take him out. Runs him into the 01:07:19.429 --> 01:07:23.090 ring post at one point. We get a steel chair 01:07:23.090 --> 01:07:26.570 introduced where basically Braun Strowman just 01:07:26.570 --> 01:07:28.670 hits Fatu in the face with it on the outside. 01:07:29.179 --> 01:07:32.260 Fatu ran at him and Strowman just popped it square 01:07:32.260 --> 01:07:34.179 in between his eyes. I didn't even see he was 01:07:34.179 --> 01:07:36.440 holding it to start off with. All you heard was 01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:40.500 a DOING as that piece of metal bounced off the 01:07:40.500 --> 01:07:45.559 Samoan werewolves forehead. He dropped like a 01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:48.340 sack and you kind of expect it to be fair. If 01:07:48.340 --> 01:07:49.980 someone hit me in the head with a steel chair 01:07:49.980 --> 01:07:55.349 I'd go down pretty fucking quickly too. as Fatou 01:07:55.349 --> 01:07:58.269 is recovering from that chair shot we see Braun 01:07:58.269 --> 01:08:01.190 Strowman go for a sprint around the ring the 01:08:01.190 --> 01:08:04.730 Strowman Express heats up and as Jacob Fatou 01:08:04.730 --> 01:08:08.369 turns round Braun Strowman just dumps him straight 01:08:08.369 --> 01:08:12.469 through the barricades into timekeeping at which 01:08:12.469 --> 01:08:15.150 point the referee in the ring is counting up 01:08:15.150 --> 01:08:18.609 to nine when both men finally manage to get to 01:08:18.609 --> 01:08:23.199 their feet We then cut for a commercial to find 01:08:23.199 --> 01:08:26.319 them, you know, when they get back we see them 01:08:26.319 --> 01:08:30.140 fighting in the production area just off the 01:08:30.140 --> 01:08:33.020 side of the ring where there's some water coolers 01:08:33.020 --> 01:08:34.840 and a few tables and stuff that have been laid 01:08:34.840 --> 01:08:40.119 around. Braun Strowman manages to suplex Jacob 01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:44.720 Fatou off the top of some of these like equipment 01:08:44.720 --> 01:08:49.420 cases straight through the production tables. 01:08:49.630 --> 01:08:53.569 And again, both men struggle to get back up in 01:08:53.569 --> 01:08:55.649 time for the 10 count. Both of them actually 01:08:55.649 --> 01:08:58.649 get into their feet when the referee calls nine. 01:09:00.069 --> 01:09:03.829 And then sort of they make their way back into 01:09:03.829 --> 01:09:08.250 the ring area and back into the ring. And the 01:09:08.250 --> 01:09:11.449 camera is concentrating an awful lot on Braun 01:09:11.449 --> 01:09:13.510 Strowman getting back into the ring. This guy 01:09:13.510 --> 01:09:17.229 is struggling. He like he's limping physically 01:09:17.229 --> 01:09:21.779 like he must be getting close to close to being 01:09:21.779 --> 01:09:25.220 done and as he crawls into the ring just by the 01:09:25.220 --> 01:09:29.659 table we see Jacob Fatou come running across 01:09:29.659 --> 01:09:35.119 with a running hip attack straight to Strohman's 01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:38.500 face to be fair and the aftermath of that is 01:09:38.500 --> 01:09:42.000 Strohman ends up going through the table along 01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:45.699 with Fatou and both of them are just lying in 01:09:45.699 --> 01:09:48.659 a broken heap on the floor as the referee starts 01:09:48.659 --> 01:09:53.119 counting At 9 Fatu manages to get to his feet, 01:09:53.319 --> 01:09:56.960 but Stroman does not get to his feet at all He 01:09:56.960 --> 01:10:01.359 does try but doesn't get there and And gets counted 01:10:01.359 --> 01:10:04.720 out. So Jacob Fatu wins this match. He beats 01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:08.840 Braun Stroman and breaks his record in last man 01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:12.680 standing matches and Aligns himself as the number 01:10:12.680 --> 01:10:18.880 one contender for LA Knights US title which I'm 01:10:18.880 --> 01:10:22.439 guessing that match at Mania is going to be incredible. 01:10:25.260 --> 01:10:29.220 I'm not sure I see LA Knight holding on to his 01:10:29.220 --> 01:10:34.260 title at Mania in this match, but it's going 01:10:34.260 --> 01:10:37.939 to be an interesting match. Let's just hope it's 01:10:37.939 --> 01:10:39.880 as good in the ring as it is on paper because 01:10:39.880 --> 01:10:42.960 that's going to be absolutely phenomenal. And 01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:47.380 as we make our way Into the final segment of 01:10:47.380 --> 01:10:55.100 this week's smackdown we we get a recap of sort 01:10:55.100 --> 01:10:59.239 of Cody Rhodes and John Cena from raw and everything 01:10:59.239 --> 01:11:05.060 that happened there and Then we get another backstage 01:11:05.060 --> 01:11:09.199 bit with Paul Heyman and Byron Saxton Saxton 01:11:09.199 --> 01:11:12.800 has definitely made his money this week asking 01:11:13.210 --> 01:11:15.909 you know when the tribal chief Roman Reigns is 01:11:15.909 --> 01:11:18.189 going to arrive and Paul Heyman says look he's 01:11:18.189 --> 01:11:21.270 going to be here any minute now and when Roman 01:11:21.270 --> 01:11:24.050 gets there he gets out of the SUV and he walks 01:11:24.050 --> 01:11:26.869 straight past Paul Heyman ignores him completely 01:11:26.869 --> 01:11:30.449 walks straight through to the ring there's no 01:11:30.449 --> 01:11:34.109 pyro with his entrance which is unusual because 01:11:34.109 --> 01:11:36.750 normally when Roman's entrance pops there is 01:11:36.750 --> 01:11:39.789 a lot of fire this time there was just just his 01:11:39.789 --> 01:11:43.159 entry music and a stomping and he had it He had 01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:45.979 a march on him today. It was definitely one of 01:11:45.979 --> 01:11:49.739 those things where he He was pissed and he he 01:11:49.739 --> 01:11:52.199 wanted he didn't he really know he wanted to 01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:55.460 be there but Realizing he had to be though being 01:11:55.460 --> 01:11:57.479 dragged away from the training camp that poor 01:11:57.479 --> 01:12:01.000 Haman told us he was in He's annoyed when he 01:12:01.000 --> 01:12:03.880 gets to the ring. He held his hand out like microphone, 01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:07.239 you know, like It starts off with the standards, 01:12:07.399 --> 01:12:11.550 you know, Chicago acknowledge me And Roman asks 01:12:11.550 --> 01:12:13.869 Paul Heyman, like is he here? And Paul Heyman 01:12:13.869 --> 01:12:17.510 says, yeah, he's here. To which Roman responds, 01:12:17.829 --> 01:12:20.630 is he still talking about the favor? And Paul 01:12:20.630 --> 01:12:25.289 Heyman's like, yeah, pretty much. And Roman then 01:12:25.289 --> 01:12:27.350 turns around to say, you know, CM Punk wouldn't 01:12:27.350 --> 01:12:30.710 be back in the WWE if it wasn't for him. You 01:12:30.710 --> 01:12:33.409 know, Punk wouldn't be in the main event of WrestleMania 01:12:33.409 --> 01:12:38.090 if it wasn't for him. He said that Punk has wrestled 01:12:38.090 --> 01:12:41.649 everyone under the sun. Hall of Famers future 01:12:41.649 --> 01:12:44.529 Hall of Famers, you know different promotions. 01:12:44.850 --> 01:12:47.449 He's wrestled a lot of places Obviously, we know 01:12:47.449 --> 01:12:50.210 before his WWE run last time he was in Ring of 01:12:50.210 --> 01:12:53.109 Honor He worked a lot of indies. He's been in 01:12:53.109 --> 01:12:57.449 AEW Not that he'd discuss his AEW stuff very 01:12:57.449 --> 01:12:59.729 much I don't think but you know, he's done he 01:12:59.729 --> 01:13:03.350 wrestled a lot a lot of big names But he's never 01:13:03.350 --> 01:13:05.710 been in the main event at WrestleMania until 01:13:05.710 --> 01:13:08.869 the tribal chief Introduced him to the main event 01:13:09.770 --> 01:13:13.010 And, uh, Rowan says that, uh, he's, you know, 01:13:13.010 --> 01:13:16.829 I'm standing here, but where's punk? At which 01:13:16.829 --> 01:13:19.369 point, you know, we're, we're waiting for punk 01:13:19.369 --> 01:13:21.510 to come out. We don't get punk straight away. 01:13:21.729 --> 01:13:25.449 We get the visionary, the revolutionary Seth 01:13:25.449 --> 01:13:28.850 Rollins music hits. And he comes out basically 01:13:28.850 --> 01:13:30.670 saying, I ain't missing this shit for the world. 01:13:31.010 --> 01:13:33.329 Said, I don't know what the favor is, but whatever 01:13:33.329 --> 01:13:36.390 it is, it's going to knock your socks off. And, 01:13:36.449 --> 01:13:39.220 uh, Roman you don't like living in the world 01:13:39.220 --> 01:13:43.899 in the real world but you know when you do come 01:13:43.899 --> 01:13:46.899 out of you know reality tends to bite you in 01:13:46.899 --> 01:13:51.220 the ass even quotes two examples the heist of 01:13:51.220 --> 01:13:57.000 the century and Being example a and example B 01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:01.520 was WrestleMania last year. Obviously Seth Rollins 01:14:01.520 --> 01:14:10.220 helped Cody Rhodes beat Roman Reigns, obviously 01:14:10.220 --> 01:14:12.220 there was quite a lot of people who made appearances 01:14:12.220 --> 01:14:15.739 in that match including John Cena, The Rock, 01:14:16.199 --> 01:14:18.720 The Undertaker, I'd say Rollins was there as 01:14:18.720 --> 01:14:21.439 well and that's plus Cody and Roman at the same 01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:25.899 time so it was a big match, big big match. I'd 01:14:25.899 --> 01:14:30.000 say watch, you can listen to our previous episode 01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.020 but unfortunately The podcast wasn't a thing 01:14:33.020 --> 01:14:35.039 this time last year. This is going to be finishes 01:14:35.039 --> 01:14:39.380 and factions first WrestleMania and both myself 01:14:39.380 --> 01:14:41.800 and Adam are gonna be very excited for that one 01:14:41.800 --> 01:14:43.579 a lot of work for us But it's gonna be definitely 01:14:43.579 --> 01:14:50.199 well worth it in the end So we then get Seth 01:14:50.199 --> 01:14:52.939 Rollins telling Roman that he underestimated 01:14:52.939 --> 01:14:56.739 CM Punk and You know Seth Rollins tried to ignore 01:14:56.739 --> 01:14:59.260 him and it didn't work and now he's in the main 01:14:59.260 --> 01:15:02.149 event of WrestleMania Rollins hates the fact 01:15:02.149 --> 01:15:04.189 that punks in the main event at WrestleMania. 01:15:04.189 --> 01:15:06.569 I mean Rollins has done everything he can really 01:15:06.569 --> 01:15:10.149 to try and stop punk from getting there You know, 01:15:10.149 --> 01:15:12.750 they had the issues at Royal Rumble that was 01:15:12.750 --> 01:15:16.350 sort of dealt with and then obviously the issue 01:15:16.350 --> 01:15:20.489 at elimination chamber where Punk eliminated 01:15:20.489 --> 01:15:23.569 Rollins and then Rollins curb stomp punk so Cena 01:15:23.569 --> 01:15:28.180 could pin him or submit him as he did You know, 01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:32.420 it is there's definitely some some issues there 01:15:32.420 --> 01:15:37.659 and And then basically rains calls punk out and 01:15:37.659 --> 01:15:42.899 Rollins just wants to hear from punk What's going 01:15:42.899 --> 01:15:49.520 on? Where is he? So at that point we then get 01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:53.979 CM punks music kit and the comes down to the 01:15:53.979 --> 01:15:57.779 Chicago crowd for a second time Obviously he 01:15:57.779 --> 01:16:00.579 did open up the show. He's closing it as well. 01:16:00.579 --> 01:16:02.640 So he's definitely definitely gonna be loving 01:16:02.640 --> 01:16:08.880 this and it's all a little little to and fro 01:16:08.880 --> 01:16:13.420 between The three of them are basically punk 01:16:13.420 --> 01:16:15.600 saying, you know, what's the favor? This is about 01:16:15.600 --> 01:16:19.140 friendship and legacy and promises made and promises 01:16:19.140 --> 01:16:23.119 kept and loyalty Now why he says the word loyalty 01:16:23.119 --> 01:16:26.500 is busy trying to stare Seth Rollins out which 01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:30.479 yes Seth Rollins is not known for his uh loyal 01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:33.060 actions especially from when he was a member 01:16:33.060 --> 01:16:37.899 of the shield um you know CM Punk tells Roman 01:16:37.899 --> 01:16:40.899 Reigns that Paul Heyman prophesied what was happening 01:16:40.899 --> 01:16:43.720 10 years ago actually I think it was longer than 01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:46.739 I think it was 12 years ago where Paul Heyman 01:16:46.739 --> 01:16:49.359 told CM Punk that one day he would be in the 01:16:49.359 --> 01:16:53.460 main event at WrestleMania and uh it has happened 01:16:54.289 --> 01:16:59.149 You know talk about when CM Punk Big Show RVD 01:16:59.149 --> 01:17:01.310 and Paul Heyman were having a conversation when 01:17:01.310 --> 01:17:05.170 Paul Heyman was leaving I think and Punk was 01:17:05.170 --> 01:17:10.470 saying you You can't leave they're gonna they're 01:17:10.470 --> 01:17:12.989 gonna fire me and Paul Heyman said that he'd 01:17:12.989 --> 01:17:16.770 be fine and You know, it's it's all kind of worked 01:17:16.770 --> 01:17:19.770 out for him But Punk asked Heyman what he can 01:17:19.770 --> 01:17:22.390 do for him and Heyman says when he made events 01:17:22.750 --> 01:17:26.590 WrestleMania that you have to he's gonna force 01:17:26.590 --> 01:17:30.409 them to deal with us and they aren't You know 01:17:30.409 --> 01:17:33.569 He was gonna have to be forced to dealing with 01:17:33.569 --> 01:17:36.130 with Vince McMahon, but Vince isn't here anymore 01:17:36.130 --> 01:17:39.789 So instead he's gonna force Roman out of his 01:17:39.789 --> 01:17:43.369 comfort zone It's gonna be an interesting one 01:17:43.369 --> 01:17:49.770 because the WrestleMania main event in CM Punk's 01:17:49.770 --> 01:17:54.600 corner will be Paul Heyman The wise man basically 01:17:54.600 --> 01:18:01.079 told Roman Reigns That well, I mean punk told 01:18:01.079 --> 01:18:04.899 I Told Roman that the wise man was gonna be in 01:18:04.899 --> 01:18:07.819 his corner and Roman looks at Paul really confused 01:18:07.819 --> 01:18:10.699 and Seth is Leaning against the ring ropes at 01:18:10.699 --> 01:18:15.260 this point absolutely pissing himself like Roman 01:18:15.260 --> 01:18:18.560 Romans annoyed and Seth knew that this was gonna 01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:20.920 knock Roman socks off. He said it earlier and 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:23.109 this is really dropped in for six because he 01:18:23.109 --> 01:18:25.909 does not know what to do or say at this point 01:18:25.909 --> 01:18:29.289 and Roman kind of looks at him and laughs and 01:18:29.289 --> 01:18:34.310 then says to Paul that you know I saved you you 01:18:34.310 --> 01:18:38.550 need me and Roman said that you know even if 01:18:38.550 --> 01:18:40.630 he would let the wise man do it the wise man 01:18:40.630 --> 01:18:44.449 wouldn't do it and uh and kind of asked him come 01:18:44.449 --> 01:18:47.029 on wise man let the man let this fall down easy 01:18:47.029 --> 01:18:50.710 and Paul doesn't say much Roman's looking even 01:18:50.710 --> 01:18:53.310 more confused at this point and he's like come 01:18:53.310 --> 01:18:58.470 on let it down easy and uh he kind of we get 01:18:58.470 --> 01:19:01.329 that look and Paul Heyman starts crying Roman 01:19:01.329 --> 01:19:04.210 kind of says to him you crying he says like wipe 01:19:04.210 --> 01:19:06.869 him up tell him no come on and Roman's getting 01:19:06.869 --> 01:19:09.090 more and more agitated at this point like come 01:19:09.090 --> 01:19:12.310 on he says look I'm gonna give you one last chance 01:19:12.310 --> 01:19:15.390 to tell him no at which point Paul Heyman breaks 01:19:15.390 --> 01:19:17.569 down a little bit more and says I can't do that 01:19:17.880 --> 01:19:20.640 And as Roman sort of pushes him back towards 01:19:20.640 --> 01:19:22.819 the corner, kind of like, what are you talking 01:19:22.819 --> 01:19:25.979 about? You can't do that. What do you mean you 01:19:25.979 --> 01:19:30.460 can't do that? CM Punk attacks Roman from behind 01:19:30.460 --> 01:19:35.579 and drops him with a go to sleep, at which point 01:19:35.579 --> 01:19:38.260 we get Punk staring at Rollins. Rollins is staring 01:19:38.260 --> 01:19:41.939 back and Punk's like, come on, we can do this. 01:19:42.199 --> 01:19:44.920 Like, he's not a problem now. We can do this. 01:19:45.100 --> 01:19:48.189 And Rollins is very much like, Well, you know 01:19:48.189 --> 01:19:52.729 what? I'm not interested in this mess. This business 01:19:52.729 --> 01:19:55.109 is not something I want to do right now. We've 01:19:55.109 --> 01:19:59.250 got a time for our match and I'm gonna slide 01:19:59.250 --> 01:20:01.430 out through these ropes and I'm gonna wait until 01:20:01.430 --> 01:20:06.250 WrestleMania because Well, it was the end of 01:20:06.250 --> 01:20:09.489 the show and that leaves me at the end of my 01:20:09.489 --> 01:20:11.390 notes for this one as well So thank you all for 01:20:11.390 --> 01:20:14.850 listening. It has been a very pleasant episode 01:20:14.850 --> 01:20:18.140 to talk to you guys about and I hope you've enjoyed 01:20:18.140 --> 01:20:21.319 listening to it too. So I will catch up with 01:20:21.319 --> 01:20:24.739 you in the next episode which will be Finisher's 01:20:24.739 --> 01:20:28.619 and Faction's Monday Night Raw coming very, very 01:20:28.619 --> 01:20:32.000 soon. Enjoy the rest of your evening. Peace out.