Good evening everyone and welcome to another
episode of Finishes and Factions Does Smackdown.
This week we are coming from the Allstate Arena
in Chicago. We've got one hell of an episode
for you this week ladies and gentlemen I can
promise you that. So to start off with we are
informed that Chicago has held three WrestleMania's
and those three WrestleMania's were WrestleMania
2 which was involved along with WrestleMania
13 and WrestleMania 22. WrestleMania 22 of course
was the one where John Cena had the Al Capone.
home entry and we got to see our first glimpse
of the second city saint hanging off the side
of one of his cars. A little bit of a trip back
into WrestleMania history for you. So to start
off this week's episode we began with a recap
of last week's contract signing between Roman
Reigns Seth Rollins and CM Punk. We find out
a little bit about the favor that he asked for
and the favor that he feels he was owed. At this
point, Mr. Punk's music hits and Chicago explodes.
Like I said, Second City Saint, Mr. CM Punk is
a Chicago local. And I mean, he comes out and
he says a whole heap of things. He starts off
by him saying that... He knew the TV audiences
overseas were mental and were told that they
were the best but for him nothing beats the hometown
of Chicago and at this point we get to see cameraman
punk as he takes the camera off Rico at ringside
and shows us his perspective of what he's seeing
in the ring and that is literally just Chicago
going absolutely mental. He starts off by saying,
again, that he shouldn't really listen to outside
voices. After all, he's not supposed to be here.
He goes on to kind of tell us a little bit more
about the life of CM Punk, I suppose. Starting
off with the fact that he was born with his cord
around his neck, and they brought him back to
life in the maternity suite there and then, and
he just wants to thank the entire hometown arena
and everyone in Chicago for the support that
he's had over the time. Now normally CM Punk
says that he goes into each arena each day he
gets up and he's looking to make new fans you
know everyone he wants to to introduce more people
to CM Punk but this time he's he's not really
doing that he's he's here to appreciate the the
guys that they're there and then and well he
uh starts uh starts giving us a little limitation
of the rock out here tapping his arm goosebumps
like jesus man this is nuts but um we get there
and he gets to a point where he shouldn't be
here but he's you know he's earned everything
that he's got you know he was he was told that
when he came through and like i said he was al
capone dressed on john cena's wrestlemania entrance
That was the furthest he'd get. But for him,
getting to the main event of WrestleMania means
the hard work starts now. He's got a date with
Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns at WrestleMania,
and he's going to give one of them a whooping
and one of them a beating. And we get a little
bit more of an insight to him. He says that he's
thankful to his wife April, who we know as AJ
Lee. and we get quite a few AJ Lee chants running
around and then we even get one for his puppy
Larry the dog and then as normal he reminds us
that without CM without Chicago there is no CM
Punk which is always an interesting one he is
very much all about the people for him and the
people that have helped him get to where he is
these days And he's just trying to kind of show
us how thankful he is. We never thought as fans
that when he left the first time, we'd ever see
CM Punk in a professional wrestling ring again.
He was very much against the idea. And to be
fair, I think a lot of people were very much
against the idea of him being in a pro wrestling
ring again. But I tell you something, I am so
happy that he is back and I, for one, cannot
wait to see this main event at WrestleMania.
He's joined in the ring at this point. by a gentleman
we know as the wise man now the wise man was
CM Punk's best friend still is CM Punk's best
friend within the wrestling industry and we get
that classic line that every time I hear it personally
makes me feel amazing and it's that ladies and
gentlemen my name is Paul Heyman and for me that
makes Everything that's about to happen so much
better. I am definitely a massive Paul Heyman
guy I'd love to be a Paul Heyman guy if I ever
ever had the ability to get to WWE working with
Paul Heyman would be the ultimate goal But Paul
Heyman comes out and basically says that he's
really sorry he's late and he means no disrespect
to Chicago or to CM Punk But tonight is not a
what about Chicago can do for Paul Heyman it's
about what Paul Heyman can do for Chicago and
uh and basically says you know CM Punk belongs
in the main event at WrestleMania you know between
the two of them they recap a history of his return
how he saved the bloodline of war games but Paul
Heyman has one more favor to ask Punk and he
asks what you know and he asked Paul Heyman What
Paul Heyman owes him anyway, you know punks punks
like, you know favors are stacking up here But
as you already you already owe me one like, you
know, I don't mind giving you a second one, but
we're gonna have to see what this is and when
Sam Punk has if Roman Reigns is there and Paul
Heyman says he's in a training camp for WrestleMania
Punk says, you know, I'll let you know what the
favor is When the tribal chief shows up And yeah,
what a start to the show this was. Yeah, I mean,
even just talking about it now, I've got the
same sort of goosebumps I had watching it, and
it was fantastic to watch. So as far as I'm concerned
with that one, if the opening part of this show
is anything to go by, what an opening start,
I'll tell you. We then get a little VT. about
a man that has been spoken about an awful lot
he is a former aw superstar he is one half of
one of a what of a very distinguished tag team
and uh today he is making his wwe debut and of
course i am talking about none other than ray
phoenix so we get a little bit of a ray phoenix
debut vt um just kind of Showing us who ray phoenix
is and basically Telling us that we're getting
his smackdown debut now and ray phoenix makes
his WWE Smackdown debut against one half of the
NXT tag team champions at Nathan Fraser Now when
I looked at this originally I was sight here
going this is actually going to be a really poor
mismatch Quality I've seen video stuff of ray
phoenix on YouTube. I've not seen him wrestle
I've not watched whole matches. I've just seen
clips and I've not really seen him wrestle anyone
kind of worth talking about at this point and
yes, I know it was an AW but Apart from the odd
sort of ex WWE superstar and Tony storm. I couldn't
really tell you much about a all -elite wrestling
but As we go into this match this match I I didn't
think it was going to be The match it was nathan
frazer gave him one hell of a match. Um, i've
got a few little notes here. Um The the fan of
me got to this match more than the podcaster.
Um But I did my best for you guys and you know,
that is the best I can I could have done so we
had um ray phoenix at one point pulled off a
head scissors for a two count roll up at the
start of the match and just before that after
some collar and tie wrestling they both ended
up with a double kip up now this was actually
quite impressive because i can't do a kip up
um me trying to do a kip up looks like rakishi
trying to do the worm and uh we are not going
down that route and we are definitely not adding
that short form content in the future um But
these guys were all over the place. It was very
very fast -paced and I didn't know where to look
really and I had at one point that Nathan Fraser
pulled a head scissors on ray phoenix to put
him You know to the outside so he He pulled the
head scissors off ray phoenix rolled to the outside
for a little bit space and then Nathan Fraser
came running out with a suicide dive At which
point we get Ray Phoenix kind of he's the first
one to pull himself up Gets back onto the apron
and we see a corkscrew crossbody onto Nathan
Fraser now I don't know if it is just the luchador
way or if the corkscrew seems like Manic Modification
to some of these moves makes it just a little
bit better, but there is a few different ones
where there is a corkscrew elements for example
a nathan frazer superplexed ray phoenix off the
top rope and then hit a corkscrew net breaker
for a two count now that could be described as
a corkscrew net breaker or it could have been
looked at as a diamond cutter or a corkscrew
diamond cutter but either way it was it was pretty
nice um nathan frazer mixed a phoenix splash
and a rather big knee Resulting in ray phoenix
hitting him with a drop kick and then a goodbye
amigo kick Followed up with a fire driver DDT
for the two count and I've noticed this was quite
a lot of intense high action with a lot a lot
of near falls in this and So ray phoenix then
does another kip up with a super kick Then pulls
off what is referred to as an MMB for the three
count for Ray Phoenix to win his debut match
in the smackdown which we could Sorry Which we
could see coming and they weren't gonna bring
someone of Ray Phoenix's caliber into smackdown
and Not give him a win in his first match, especially
against someone like Nathan Fraser But this does
not hurt Nathan Fraser at all Like I said, he's
won half of Fraxium, which is the current NXT
tag team or tag title holders. And yeah, this
actually did an awful lot for Nathan Fraser within
this match, because he's shown that he can come
up to the main roster and he can get on and have
a decent match with basically one of the best
in the industry at this point when it comes to
tag team wrestling. if you take out sort of the
hardy boys and some of the older more vintage
tag teams that are still going, when Ray Phoenix
and Penta were the Lucha Brothers, and that is
something we could possibly see in the next sort
of couple of months. I know they are on separate
brands at the moment, but you never know what
is gonna happen. Like I said off podcast with
Adam the other day, I personally think that if
we end up with Penta with the Intercontinental
title, which he's currently sort of in the running
for that over on Raw, and we get Ray Phoenix
with a hit at the United States Championship
at some point. Now, I believe what I'd like to
say in time for sort of like Survivor Games,
I think we could have Ray Phoenix versus Penta
at Survivor Games, both of them holding Midcard
titles would be really really nice After this
match Byron Saxton jumps into the ring with Rey
Fenix to ask how he feels about his WWE debut
Rey Fenix says that he's had a lot of history
in Chicago, but tonight isn't just the debut
of Rey Fenix It's a rebirth and he's been reborn
with more passion and he is now a WWE amigo Which
was you know, I mean we've been waiting weeks
for this This ray phoenix debut. We got it and
personally. I'm not mad at it at all. Um Just
to finish off with this section on ray phoenix.
We jump backstage where we see a legado de la
fall Tasma backstage with basically Santos Escobar
telling the other members of Los Gaza that that's
the sort of performance he expects from both
of them going into the future and one of the
gentleman from las gaza says yeah that's that's
you know that's not a problem actually you know
what i reckon i could i could give ray phoenix
a kicking on my own in santos escobargo as well
you know what mate i'm gonna go and talk to nick
aldis and see if we can get ray phoenix versus
elberto so we have a possible match next week
for ray phoenix against one half of las gaza
which will definitely be interesting opportunity
for that one. So our next little section of Smackdown
this week was a VT with our favorite Scottish
warrior, Mr. Drew McIntyre. Drew in this sort
of this little clip is wearing an eye patch.
This is because last week Damian Priest put him
through the windscreen of a BMW in the back of
the o2 arena in London on the final night of
their WWE European tour and and he's basically
coming out to cry again about Damian Priest and
It's pretty much like look every time I do something
you there to try and Try and see what scraps
you can you can feed off. You know, he says that
Damien stole both of his tight opportunities
to get to you know Both of his opportunity sorry
to get a title at WrestleMania and Damien Priest
eliminated him from the elimination chamber he
also threw him over the top rope at Royal Rumble
and Drew basically says instead of facing me
like a man you attacked me in the dark and He
then states that It's now time for Drew McIntyre
to stop praying and when when Drew McIntyre prays
bad things happen now This is definitely building
up to what is going to be a hell of a match at
WrestleMania and I'm not gonna not gonna lie
to you I'm definitely looking forward to seeing
Damian Priest do one over Drew McIntyre Coming
up next we had a recap of Braun Strowman's US
title match last week against LA Knight LA Knight
obviously being the current US title holder which
he took from Shinsuke Nakamura not too long ago
and in this specific match we had an interference
from Jacob Fatu and he basically attacked Braun
Strowman on the outside with a vicious flying
elbow Then took it in to the ring to carry on
and if you have not seen that match you can jump
in on our last episode of finishes and factions
the smackdown and catch up with that one and
It was a hell of a match. I will give you that
And we then go to a little backstage section
with Byron Saxton making another appearance Byron
Saxton gets his money this week ladies and gentlemen
Byron Saxton is making that dollar. He's busy
talking to Braun Strowman about Jacob Fatu and
you know why tonight we're gonna see Why he's
such a monster in his last man standing match
against Jacob Fatu which I believe is Basically
our main event of the evening is the last match
of the evening that last man standing match So
we are gonna get Little bit of what we can from
both of these guys in the build -up to it Which
is always a bonus to be fair so at this point
just after Byron Saxton wanders off You see a
solo Sacoa come out and say that Braun Strowman
is basically finished and he still has to face
Jacob Fatu when a LA Knight makes his way in
coming on to a Basically comes in and says that
he's gonna they've got a keep an eye on on these
cross -eyed half wits when a Braun Strowman has
his match against Jacob Fatu Yes, it basically
kind of and Sona Sikoa says to LA Knight that
LA Knight's got some pretty big balls talking
to him like that and I haven't quite written
down what LA Knight said but there was definitely
some cojones being mentioned in this point and
LA Knight basically turns around and says I've
got gigantuan bollocks mate massive bollocks
and there is nothing new Or Tamatonga are going
to be able to do with them and Tama you better
be ready because you've got an ass kicking coming
your way as He makes his way through gorilla
for his match against well for the next match
of the evening which is LA night versus Tamatonga
and This is only Tamatonga's fifth singles match
while he's been in smackdown. We have seen an
awful lot of Tamatonga and pushing through with
like There's backup for Jacob Fattu, backup for
Solis Okoa, backup for the Bloodline. We haven't
really seen a lot of him in singles competition
and I definitely don't think we have seen him
in singles competition for a long time. I can't
think off the top of my head his last singles
match at all to be fair. But then it is going
to be one of those that he wasn't bought in really
to be a solo Wrestler he was brought in to be
part of a stable Especially with with his tag
team partner injured Tonga lower is currently
out and not really heard much about Tonga lower
for a while So that's kind of where tamatanga
has ended up kind of waiting for His targeting
partner to come back which is always a bonus.
So within this one at the very start of the match
we get a distraction from Solo Sacoa on LA Knight
basically just kind of throwing some words at
him and gives Tamatonga an opportunity to try
and get in a cheap shot and he does do this and
he manages to get off quite a nice elbow drop
as well at the start. My notes for this match
weren't Overly massive. I know Adams notes were
a lot better for mine, but I think this is purely
just for the fact that It's an LA night match
and I love watching LA night as does Adams So
between the two of us we end up getting caught
short. Um with this one there is always going
to be sort of the the threat within this match
that solo Sacoa is going to end up biting off
more than he can chew and it's going to end up
in a disqualification of some kind but this match
wasn't a title match so it doesn't make much
difference on how that one goes and with champions
advantage anyway a disqualification would not
hurt hurt LA Knight but it would definitely hurt
Tamatonga. So a few bits that I've got with this
one most of mine Most of my notes are mainly
about LA night. There's a few bits in there I've
got Tamatanga hits a rather nice back suplex
and ends up getting it up for a two count and
There's a couple of big boots and there's a little
section at one point where LA night is bashing
Tamatanga's head off the announce table With
that solo Sikoa looking on very much from the
side kind of like you think you'll do it and
towards the middle Let's say towards the middle
of the match. We get another distraction from
Solo Sokoa, this time towards the ref. And Tamatonga
ends up sending LA Knight off onto the announce
table from the apron. So LA Knight was stood
on the apron and Tamatonga was in the ring when
he kind of shoved LA Knight who went absolutely
flying. Apart from sort of like a few other bits,
Tamatonga went up onto the top. Top turnbuckle
sat up there and tried doing LA Knight shtick,
you know the whole L A Knight Yeah, which did
not work at all and as he ended up jumping down
To pull the elbow drop he he missed because LA
Knight had fucked off out of there and To which
LA Knight then counters that with a jumping net
breaker power slam And then the BFT for the three
count after Solo Sokoa tried to spike him from
the outside. Basically, yeah, he had to avoid
Solo to hit this BFT and Solo's a big motherfucker.
Avoiding him is never going to be too easy to
do. Which is, I mean, fair play to him. I don't
think I could have moved that quickly, but it
is one of them and it... is kind of how it goes.
So LA Knight manages to pick up this win against
Tamatonga. I don't think this really did much
for either wrestler to be fair. LA Knight is
another win under his belt on his road to WrestleMania
where he is going to be defending his US title
against at this precise moment. I can't remember
who is in the running for it. I've got a feeling
it's Jacob Fatu that is currently the number
one contender for the US title but I could be
wrong and I'm sure I might be so if I am and
you guys can tell me who is the current number
one contender for the United States title drop
me an email it's finishes and factions at gmail
.com both myself and Adam do our best to get
into the emails as often as we can and reply
to them as and when we can and Turning with the
next section. We see Byron Saxton again This
guy is definitely getting his appearances in
this week and he is trying to talk to Paul Heyman
backstage about the favor and Basically Paul
Heyman says no matter what the favor is his answer
is yes and he can Just you can tell him that
the answer is yes, and basically he just needs
to get out of trouble with Roman Reigns So it's
kind of insinuating Well, I've watched this so
I know what's going on looking back at this you
can see from the very start of this episode where
this is building up to and It is quite an interesting
way They've gone through it and you will you
will find out more about this when we get to
the very end of the episode purely because that
Is where the meat and veg in this episode is
and the build -up to that specific storyline
And as Paul Heyman's busy talking to Byron Saxton
about this black SUV starts pulling up and at
this point Heyman starts getting a little bit
concerned obviously normally when black SUVs
show up that indicates that our Tribal chief
is about to jump out the back of it, but it was
not the tribal chief this time It was a man who
is a revolutionary We get mr. Seth Rollins come
out and he based he's like, oh You're expecting
someone else. Oh You were looking for the other
member of the shield Which I mean out of the
three members of the shield any two of them get
reference now poor poor John Moxley Dean Ambrose
as he was known It's basically a naughty word
in WWE right now which um, I think I don't really
understand Moxley was well within his rights
to do what he did. What he's done at AEW has
been incredible. Some of it very fucking stupid.
Do not get me wrong, but some of the stuff he's
done at AEW has been incredible. Seth Rollins
continues basically going, Paul, you don't look
so good. You feeling all right? Which, I mean,
Paul Heyman shitting himself at this point, and
I think I would be if I'd done something that
could possibly piss off the tribal chief, Roman
Reigns. Talking about people that piss a lot
of people off we get our Least favorite female
superstar decide that she's gonna make an entrance
to the ring at Charlotte flair comes out this
week. We basically well We know there is gonna
be a little bit of a promo between these two
women and god forbid after last time they had
a Slung in match on air. It didn't go too. Well,
there's been ass kickings galore on air as well
and then Yeah, there is definitely no love lost
between these two women But once Charlotte Flair
makes her way to the ring we get an Alistair
black vignette So Alistair black has confirmed
that he is coming back to WWE There hasn't been
a date confirmed for his debut But within this,
a lot of people and a lot of fans have spotted
certain things in these vignettes. Certainly
some of it has been a selection of numbers. The
number four has been played around with, and
so has the number 25. A lot of US fans are kind
of hoping this means that his debut will be on
the 25th of April, which is the week after So
we could get after WrestleMania a very interesting
debut. Well, it's not even a debut. It's more
of a return. Aleister Black is a former WWE wrestler
that went to AEW and has decided that he is coming
back. And if that is true, then It will be on
the Dickies Arena, Fort Worth, Texas. So that
could be an interesting night in Texas, especially
after the prospect of a fantastic WrestleMania
in Las Vegas the weekend beforehand. So after
we have the Aleister Black vignette, we get some
Tiffy time. Tiffy Stratton walks. Out to the
ring and I will tell you something I think both
Tiffy and Charlotte have been shopping in the
same place because they were both wearing the
same pair of trousers Charlotte finished hers
off with a black corset while Tiffy just went
I'm guessing with what was supposed to go with
it anyway Charlotte did not look happy at this
at all and because of the tension between those
two women we have well i'd like to say he's a
local wrestler he's not local to the americans
he's a little bit local to me um by we're from
the same country with just different ends of
it we have the former bare knuckle boxer and
former wwe superstar wade barrett moderating
this interview to make sure that these women
keep it above board and uh no low blows no low
shots and no fucking fighting if Tommy Shelby
was there those would be the two words that he
wrote the phrase he'd be using no fucking farting
and I mean we get a little bit of a The crowd
really are not a fan of Charlotte in this place
and every time she goes to open her mouth she
gets booed pretty goddamn hard But between the
two of them they did manage to get some interesting
points up now Wade Barrett asks one question
in this this section and it's basically The Charlotte
to be fair. It was like he asked Charlotte why
she chose Tiffy Stratton for her champion of
choice After she won the Royal Rumble and after
the recent interactions between the two of them
Was it the best choice? Now, Charlotte Flair
says that Tiffy Stratton was begging for some
attention and you know Charlotte is just the
gift that keeps on giving and to be fair she
does say afterwards she hasn't done any charity
work recently which I thought was fucking hilarious
but that was just the start of the spitting of
feathers between these two women. I'm pretty
sure if Wade Barrett hadn't been in the middle
of them a punch would have been thrown. and these
women it would not have been a fake punch either
they would have been beating each other for real
i am pretty sure of that um so basically charlotte
flair says that you know she wanted to show the
smartest wwe fans in chicago there really just
isn't a comparison between her and tiffy and
at which point tiffy asks like you know where's
the woo We've heard everything else you've got
to say give us the whoo that you stole off your
daddy and then and a lot of Tiffy's points to
Charlotte are literally just like Trying to be
your dad, you know naught and three in your marriage
just in marriages just like your dad Well, that
wasn't that wasn't her exact words that's not
quote that was pretty much that would have been
in her mind I'm guessing so yeah, she Tiffany
Stratton Basie says that after WrestleMania when
she retains the title against Charlotte that
Charlotte is gonna be just like she is You know
outside of wrestling she can be all on her own
She then goes into the little bit where she brings
up about Charlotte's recent divorce from Andrade
Saying that in marriages, you know, she's nought
and three at which point she She gets a pretty
ruthless comment to her um is the fact that uh
charlotte flair turns on and goes i might be
alone at the moment but are you aware that your
boyfriend has been in my dms so i mean looked
with kaiser has got to be the only bloke in the
world who's been accused of cheating and the
whole world's gone fuck off he didn't do it that's
a lie bullshit um I mean, let's face it, ladies
and gentlemen, if you are in a happy relationship
with Tiffany Stratton, are you going to throw
that away for an opportunity to slide up into
Charlotte Flair's DMs as a man personally? I
sure as fuck ain't. 20 years ago, what now? But
then that's the difference between these two
women. Charlotte's like, she's in a say she's
in her early 40s just for the, you know, the
The sake of saying it but we've then got to remember
that Tiffy Stratton's only 25 And she is the
current Smackdown's women title holder when Charlotte
Flair was only 25 She was still trying to be
a volleyball player drinking in daddy's basement.
So um Yeah, definitely some big differences between
those two There is a little bit with Charlotte
Flair's just taking a piss out of how Tiffy's
so squeaky and I mean We've heard the nepo baby
reference a few times the last few weeks so it
is one of those That there wasn't really much
extra to this that I could give you apart from
the the big bits Which is yes Tiffany Stratton
having a pop at Charlotte Flair's Owen three
for her marriages and Charlotte Flair trying
to make Tiffy feel a little bit bad by making
her think that Ludwig Keis is up in her DMs when
we all know he's not if he has been If he has
been that is going to be the biggest shock in
the world and I personally I'd want to see the
proof of what you were saying beforehand. I'd
be like, yeah You may have been in your DMS,
but there's a big difference going can I have
an autograph and can I fuck you? You know what
I mean, but we will leave that one because we
then get a little bit of news from Nick oldest
backstage talking about some cross -brand work
that's going to be going on. So SmackDown and
Raw are going to be combining their women's tag
divisions for a women's tag team gauntlet match.
And the winners of this tournament will be facing
Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez for the women's
tag titles at WrestleMania. And there's going
to be some good matches in this. Gauntlet tournament.
I haven't seen any of the teams that have been
put in there yet But I'm sure at some point we're
gonna find out a little bit more about this I'm
guessing probably Monday night on raw we will
get the first match and We can find out all about
that in the next episode of finishes and factions
does Monday night rule Our next match of the
evening is a number one contenders match for
the tag team titles. We're between Motor City
Machine Guns, which is Chris Saban and Alex Shelley,
versus DIY, the team of Johnny Gargano and Tomasa
Ciampa. This is the gentleman that our truth
thinks is Triple H, which I thought was brilliant.
For this match, Street Profits, they came out
first with their titles to watch. the match now
I presumed they were going to be sitting in their
normal bitch seats next to commentary but these
two decided that wasn't for them they're not
bitches they are the tag team title holders and
they're gonna go and sit in the front row with
the crowd which is a always a nice little touch
um now a lot of this match I'm gonna put out
there was not easy to make notes on eh because
I like watching Motor City Machine Guns. I think
they're a fantastic, fantastic tag team. And
every week when I watch them, I get more and
more hooked on the product they're selling me.
I know Adam's a massive fan of MCMG. He's watched
them pretty much in most of the promotions they've
been in. I know he's had a lot of fun watching
them when they were in TNA. I've seen a little
bit of DIY previously before finishers and factions
started when they were in NXT. I believe they
were tag title holders there the last time I
saw them wrestle. But we do get off to a nice
little start with this one. At the start of the
match there was a lot of double teams. I did
find a lot of this match seemed to be sort of
like two on one. a lot of the time but there
were some pretty pretty nice bits in the match
that we're gonna go through some of the bigger
spots where Johnny Gargano hit a slingshot spear
now I'm not massively knowledgeable about Johnny
Gargano's sort of move set and the sort of the
things that he does a lot of but that spear was
nicely done and it It did the damage it needed
to do Chris Shelley manages Now don't get me
wrong. I am a big fan of use what is in your
environment to your benefit At no point did I
think Chris Shelley would run up the front of
Tommaso Ciampa to hit a tornado DDT on Johnny
Gargano while alex shelly suicide dives onto
the outside taking out diy who uh all they'll
just get into their feet at this point after
the um the the tornado ddt and the fact that
somebody ran up in the front of you um i thought
was uh was quite an incredible little move um
it's just one of those quirky little things that
you see in a in a pro wrestling ringling get
away with, that you probably would not see at
the UFC. I don't think you'd see anyone running
up the side of the cage to perform a DDT on someone
in a cage, but that, you know, it can be done.
There was a little bit of a two -and -throw in.
Motor City Machine Guns were trying to set themselves
up for the Skyline Crossbones on a few different
attempts. with johnny gargano doing a great job
of playing defense and making sure those didn't
happen while his teammate tamasa champa was taking
on the guys in the ring um at one point during
the setup for a skull and bones The top turnbuckle
gets exposed when one of the guys from Motor
City Machine Guns grabs hold of it trying to
steady themselves as Johnny Gargano tries to
tip them off over the outside. Which will come
to play a little bit later in this match but
for now we don't see too much of it. There's
some really really interesting bits at the end
here. So alex shelly tried to set up a faceless
which uh, johnny gargano Was not allowing to
happen and he also johnny gargano managed to
stop a second skull and bones attempt uh while
Just shortly afterwards tamasa champa tried getting
the best of the referee here Charles Robinson
trying to use the ropes on a dirty pin was it
for the for Basically, he got caught on the two
count when he got to to the the referee spotted
it and kind of went nah, you can't do that not
allowed you cannot do that at all and As he kind
of stumbles out this one and he's finished arguing
with the ref about it. He runs towards Alex Shelley
in the corner who moves out the way and leaves
Tomaso Ciampa running directly into the exposed
turnbuckle. So after running himself off that
exposed turnbuckle he basically leaves himself
On his back, he domed himself pretty well with
that exposed turnbuckle, letting Motor City Machine
Guns get the pin for the three count, meaning
that Motor City Machine Guns become the number
one contenders to street profits tag team titles
and those two teams will meet at WrestleMania.
Which... Wow. Street Profits and Motor City Machine
Guns at WrestleMania. Goddamn! What a match that
is gonna be. On the way back up the ramp towards
Gorilla in the backstage area where I'm guessing
Motor City Machine Guns are off for a cold beer
and a hot shower. They walk past Street Profits
who are sat in the crowd and say, look, we're
coming for those titles. Those are coming back
to us. Obviously Motor City machine guns have
already held those tag titles. We've seen DIY
also hold those tag titles up until very recently
Where they they lost to Street Profits to drop
those titles over? Yeah, we This tag division
is strong. Okay, it There's no other way of saying
it the smackdown tag division is incredibly strong
and we don't even get to see bearing in mind
we haven't seen Wyatt six yet or uh you know
we haven't there's a few people we've not seen
and uh it's only going to get stronger this tag
division talking about smackdown's tag team division
though we do see a couple more of them backstage
now we get to see the Miz and Carmelo Hayes commonly
known as Mello don't Miz backstage talking about
some opportunities when they see uh We also get
to see Pretty Deadly backstage as well. Basically,
Miz and Melo are taking the piss out of the fact
that Pretty Deadly, who managed to have a title
match opportunity in their hometown, or their
home country, sorry, of London last week. Well,
London, England, they had a match last week.
Basically, they... mellow if he accuses them
of fumbling at the one -yard line and kind of
says, you know Chicago Bears and For those of
you who are not NFL fans the Chicago Bears are
known for fumbling the ball and the one large
iron and basically just making some pretty basic
mistakes in fact the last time the Chicago Bears
did anything half -decent and They won the Super
Bowl in 1985 beating the New England Patriots
Being a Patriots fan, currently sat here wearing
a Patriots shirt while recording this. One of
my friends is a Bears fan and he does like to
remind me of that every time we get to the start
of the football season. But they do, we do get
pretty deadly have a comeback to Melo don't miss
his jokes about their opportunities by going,
hey, we got some jokes. I mean, look at the Marine
three, the Marine four. Marine five which were
all basically just cheap. Well, I'm gonna say
cheap They were not very cheap option To make
but they were movies made to try and give Miz
a little bit more over with the crowd and quite
frankly it did not work those series of movies
are Incredibly poor and I actually think the
last three of them went straight to DVD rather
than actually making it into the cinema But Miz
does try and get his his comeuppance again, you
know, he asked how pretty deadly his musicals
going Pretty deadly getting back really by saying
that he is the Leonardo DiCaprio of tag team
wrestling Yes, this guy is a nine times tag champion.
But each time he's won a title it's been with
a with a different wrestler as his tag partner
and this time They're kind of he's got Carmelo
Hayes and they're Asking him. Well, you know,
why have you been what have you done to get relegated
back down to the bottom? Which is basically finished
off by pretty deadly telling them they're not
really a tag team and that they could beat them
on their worst day which is a bit of a disrespectful
thing to put in there but the disrespect continues
as we go into our next match between bfab and
naomi this one is a i'd say it's a little bit
of a grudge match this match came along because
bfab and mishin were siding with jade cargill
a fortnight ago after obviously it all came out
naomi was the one who put Jade Cargill in the
hospital, giving her one massive ass kicking.
Last week, Mishin went one -on -one with Naomi,
which Naomi won. You can hear our coverage of
that match in our last episode of Finishes and
Factions does Smackdown. And then, you know,
we get BFab come out with Mishin. Mishin decided,
you've got to have a really close eye on this,
but as B -Fab is walking down the ramp to the
ring, we see Mishin disappear back through the
curtain, back into Gorilla to go and sort something
else out, I'm guessing, but she was not ringside
with B -Fab, but she did kind of make a slight
appearance with her at the top of the entry ramp.
As Naomi starts making her way down the ramp
though, we get a... We get us this isn't a surprise
to be fair We were told by Jade Cargill that
whenever she saw her it would be on site and
on site it was As Jade Cargill attacked Naomi
on the entrance ramp and the security guys that
followed her out We're doing a reasonable job
of trying to keep her kind of contained but They
could have done a better job Jade Cargill though
is an absolute animal and it is definitely one
of those so after the slight beat down that Naomi
took from Jade Cargill on the entrance ramp,
Naomi kind of runs off down to the ring to try
and see if she can escape and as soon as she
hits the ring the bell goes and BFab is on top
of her pretty hard and basically just grabs her
by the hair and drags her down and starts giving
her a Big beating and there's a big kick in a
super kick in there at some point for a two count
She just starts teeing off again like there is
a lot of pent up rage from b -fab here And she
feels Naomi's weakened because of what Jade Cargill
did to her on the entrance ramp as well I mean
and to be fair if Jade Cargill had given me a
beat down on the entrance ramp But the last thing
I'd want to be doing is going into a match with
b -fab But uh in the end after as much of an
effort as BFab puts in and she is in control
for I'm gonna say about 95 % of this match is
all BFab. We get to see something new from Naomi.
So we had told and I couldn't tell you it was
new. The only reason that I know it's new is
because the announce team told us it was. Naomi
hit something called a modified lung blower to
be able to get the three count on BFab this weekend.
Basically, The only way I can describe it to
you is... I'm just trying to think of the name
of the move. It's a code breaker to the front
rather than a code locker to the back. But yeah,
it looked like it hurt. It was definitely an
effective move for a finisher move. Yeah, no,
it was... Something new from Naomi along with
a sort of like the new ring attire the new entrance
Which has all been pretty cool. Obviously. We
can't be feeling the glow right now after she's
a Come out basically Admitted to beating Jade
Cargill. That's not a very face move So we've
now got the full deep darkened package to go
with it as well Which is always a always a bonus
but sometimes when these guys change from one
to the other, face to heel, heel to face. We
don't always get a change in the character, but
we definitely did get it this time. At this point,
at the end of the match, Naomi's in the ring
still. She's got a mic in her hand and she's
like, Jade Cargill, where you at, bitch? And
Jade Cargill was already waiting for us. She
was hiding in the crowd and she comes flying
out and hits a massive big boot. And looks to
set up her finisher. I can't tell you what it
is, but I can describe it to you If I was if
you look at a pedigree where they hook the arms
You know above them from the front It's basically
like a pedigree from the back and into a sit
-down sort of face drop It's beautiful to watch.
I really should find the name of it out, but
it is amazing at this point security come down
and break these two up and Jade Cargill does
not look happy about that and she basically just
starts whipping the security around and dumping
them out of the ring and then sort of Naomi at
this point is kind of sat on the entrance ramp
watching the carnage when Nick Aldis comes out
through the tightrope to say look I'm fed up
with this and there's only one solution. to what
is going on here so both of you two ladies that
is both Naomi and Jade Cargill are going to be
going one -on -one at WrestleMania and both of
these women look incredibly happy with that announcement
like these women wanted an opportunity to beat
fuck out of each other and they're going to be
doing that on the grandest stage of them all
um i mean that that this this in theory has the
option to be a really good match but It's definitely
one of the ones at WrestleMania that I think
is going to be a starting, like within the first
two matches on probably the first day to be fair.
One of the first matches I think we get to see.
Purely for, not just to get it over and done
with, but the rest of the matches that are coming
through seem a lot bigger and a lot better than
what Naomi and Jade Cargill are going to be able
to throw around for us. So the next section of
this week's episode was a Damien Priest VT Replying
basically to the Drew McIntyre one we had earlier
And saying that it wasn't me that that cost you
these things. It was your obsession with punk
that cost you You know your own title and you
basically keep screwing yourself, you know clash
can't clash of the castle. Sorry, it should have
been all about sort of Priest and McIntyre but
McIntyre was so obsessed with CM Punk still and
you know Priest just did his job um at Money
in the Bank you know stopped him from his baggage
stopped him from cashing in same with you know
the Royal Rumble where he was eliminated by Damien
Priest the Elimination Chamber where he was taken
out by Damien Priest you know he got him really
easily and then when Drew McIntyre attacked him
cost him his WrestleMania title shot Damien Priest
says that Drew McIntyre is a hypocrite. He's
a junkie getting high off playing cheap jokes
and being a victim and now Damien Priest is is
gonna make him a victim at WrestleMania which
I'm not entirely sure what I'm feeling about
that. I'm glad someone's stepping up to shut
up Drew McIntyre, but is the eyeliner wearing
Teemu version of an undertaker going to be the
guy to do it? I'm not sure I mean both know what
these guys can do they've been a war a few times,
but I Am I'll be intrigued to see how this one
goes down. I'm talking about wars though we get
in ring promo from Nick Aldis now we don't see
much of Nick Aldis in the ring as it is very
much it's normally coming out just to do it sort
of officiating and things but this time he says
he's out here to do a part of his job that he
really doesn't like doing and you know within
the industry that they're in there is a fine
line between being able to come back next week
and finding out that you may never wrestle again
he goes I know it is a massive cliche but there
is a huge reason and a very big reason we tell
you do not try this at home and the one person
that can give you a better reason than that is
Kevin Owens. We get a very subdued Kevin Owens
walking down to the ring which is unusual for
us anyway we don't see subdued Kevin Owens at
all even when he's just had his ass handed to
him he's normally still pretty Pretty quick on
his feet and still trying to cause trouble and
make a mess for himself At which point Kevin
comes out he says, you know, he's been doing
this this this business for 25 years and you
know in the 25 years He's been doing it. He every
time he gets in the ring. He's given that Everything
he has on that specific night. He said some nights
not as much as others, but I've given it Everything
I've had to give at that point and the industry
has given him an absolutely phenomenal lifestyle,
he's had a great life with it, his family have
had amazing things and he's done really well
within it but eventually in professional wrestling
there is a price you have to pay and the toll
it takes on your body is a very very big thing
and he says that for the last four or five months
he's been dealing with quite a serious neck injury
but they didn't Realize how serious it was until
this week now if you take it as four months But
he's had this industry had this injury that'd
be roughly the same time that we have been running
with finishers and factions Look at the matches.
We've seen this guy take part in you know, you
had the unsanctioned match elimination chamber
with Sammy's aim if you Weren't aware of that
one. We have our you know our coverage of it
for the elimination chamber episode He had that
incredible match with Cody Rhodes at the Royal
Rumble for the real title. So to speak between
the winged eagle championship and the actual
championship that is floating around. And those
two matches just on their own have been incredible.
So if he's done those with a neck injury that
could potentially put him out of his career then
fair play to the guy like he really has given
it everything he's got and um he says he basically
he needs to go and have neck surgery um and the
timing of this is really shit because no matter
you know how this is going he was really looking
forward to sharing a ring with Randy Orton at
Wrestlemania and um you know he can't do that
now and he's he's thankful for the WWE for allowing
him to come into the ring and have five minutes
with the crowd to have a conversation because
it's maybe something he doesn't get to do again
and he has learned that after everything he's
uh he will never take this industry for granted
because you know I suppose if you wake up every
day going yeah I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine and
then you wake up going I'm not fine that's that's
especially if you've been doing something like
that for 25 years man That's a long time. Kevin
Owens has been wrestling since I was 9 years
of age. That's incredible. At which point we
find out that he's not going to be wrestling
at WrestleMania and that Randy Orton's music
hits and we kind of, Randy comes out and walks
again quite somberly down to the ring and the
two of them share a moment on the apron where
kevin's coming out of the ring randy's getting
into it and they kind of give each other a look
that kind of says fair play man i hope you're
good you know backstage they would have probably
shaken hands and had a conversation and whatnot
and kind of hugged it out you know what it's
like the man thing to do so to speak but um we
get a little conversation between nick aldis
and Randy Orton in the ring. This is basically
just Nick Aldis affirming with Randy that he
no longer has a WrestleMania opponent So therefore
he does not have a WrestleMania match Now a lot
of people will probably seen in a few days since
Smackdown and We've got round two recording this
That There's been quite a few clips and memes
made of this next bit and that is basically because
I believe It was two years ago Might be slightly
longer and Randy Orton was fined $50 ,000 for
hitting an RKO on Nick Aldis in the ring And
Randy actually gave him a check for a hundred
thousand when Nick questioned that he said that's
for next time and then Lo and behold this man
that he's definitely got a good memory and a
definitely a good judge of character But then
you know if I'd overpaid something by $50 ,000
I think I'd remember it too He he got his receipt
for that extra little bit on the respond the
year on the check because Randy Orton hit an
RKO and Nick Aldis in the middle of the ring
Leaves Nick lying there and just strolls off
casually like yeah I'm listening to those voices
I'll tell you something fair play to the guy.
It's not very often. You can get away with the
RKO in your boss once but twice so We definitely
find out that Randy Orton's got some I can't
you in size kahuna's here as Yeah, pop like I
said he pops that RKO and leaves it where it
goes and Here we have it. This is our main event
of the evening. So as we were notified earlier
on we have a last -man standing match between
Braun Strowman and Jacob Fartoo and this I believe
is for the number one contender for the United
States title which LA Knight currently holds.
So with a last man standing match the rules are
slightly different. There are no pinfalls. There
are no submissions The only way you can win a
last man standing match is to beat your opponent
that badly They cannot stand for a 10 count So
basically There are no rules within this match
apart from beat the guy that badly he can't stand
up for 10 seconds Right as long as he gets the
refereeing count from 1 to 10 The man is done
and between these two absolute monsters Between
Braun Strowman the big sob and the Samoan werewolf
Jacob Fatu We know we're gonna get some serious
beatings laid out in this one and It basically
it starts very, very early on. Jacob Fatu is
the first one to come down to the ring. When
Braun Strowman makes his entrance, Fatu decides,
I'm not waiting, and runs towards him. They meet
at the ramp, and Braun Strowman throws Fatu square
into the steel steps on the left -hand side.
Going into this match, Braun Strowman has never
lost a last -man standing match. has had quite
a few of them. I know for a fact that he has
had two Monday Night Raw episodes and one at
pay -per -view. I believe the pay -per -view
one was Extreme Rules 2019 where he defeated
Bobby Lashley and then he had one on Monday Night
Raw where he beat Kane in 2018 and then in 2017
we had another one where Braun Strowman defeated
Roman Reigns Actually, I've just fact -checked
myself because on the 2nd of January 2017 He
defeated Sami Zayn in a Last Man Standing match
too. So there we go going into this Braun Strowman
is 4 -0 in last man standing matches which is
an incredible feat on its own to be fair because
both of these men are known for dealing out an
awful lot of damage and they're both known for
being able to receive a fair chunk of it as well.
They've dealt enough of it to each other over
the last few weeks. This one started like I said
at the get -go As they were coming out, we had
moonsaults, we had reverse moonsaults, we had
running slams. There was, you know, reversals
here, there and everywhere. Some of them big,
big moves that I made note of. Braun Strowman
ends up popping a pop -up power bomb on Jacob
Fatu, which was really, really quite nice. After
he'd done that with the aftermath, he went onto
the outside of the ring, grabbed himself a table.
from underneath the ring and set it up in the
corner. Now it looked as though he was going
to try and put Fatu through the table. That's
not how we decided that he was going to do this.
The table doesn't actually come into play until
a lot later in the match where we see Braun Strowman
get put through it. But before that, I mean,
They were out on the outside of the ring beating
each other down. There was a point where Braun
Strowman ran at Jacob Fatu. Fatu pulled the ropes
down to send Strowman to the outside and then
popped a suicide dive through the second and
third rope to take him out. Runs him into the
ring post at one point. We get a steel chair
introduced where basically Braun Strowman just
hits Fatu in the face with it on the outside.
Fatu ran at him and Strowman just popped it square
in between his eyes. I didn't even see he was
holding it to start off with. All you heard was
a DOING as that piece of metal bounced off the
Samoan werewolves forehead. He dropped like a
sack and you kind of expect it to be fair. If
someone hit me in the head with a steel chair
I'd go down pretty fucking quickly too. as Fatou
is recovering from that chair shot we see Braun
Strowman go for a sprint around the ring the
Strowman Express heats up and as Jacob Fatou
turns round Braun Strowman just dumps him straight
through the barricades into timekeeping at which
point the referee in the ring is counting up
to nine when both men finally manage to get to
their feet We then cut for a commercial to find
them, you know, when they get back we see them
fighting in the production area just off the
side of the ring where there's some water coolers
and a few tables and stuff that have been laid
around. Braun Strowman manages to suplex Jacob
Fatou off the top of some of these like equipment
cases straight through the production tables.
And again, both men struggle to get back up in
time for the 10 count. Both of them actually
get into their feet when the referee calls nine.
And then sort of they make their way back into
the ring area and back into the ring. And the
camera is concentrating an awful lot on Braun
Strowman getting back into the ring. This guy
is struggling. He like he's limping physically
like he must be getting close to close to being
done and as he crawls into the ring just by the
table we see Jacob Fatou come running across
with a running hip attack straight to Strohman's
face to be fair and the aftermath of that is
Strohman ends up going through the table along
with Fatou and both of them are just lying in
a broken heap on the floor as the referee starts
counting At 9 Fatu manages to get to his feet,
but Stroman does not get to his feet at all He
does try but doesn't get there and And gets counted
out. So Jacob Fatu wins this match. He beats
Braun Stroman and breaks his record in last man
standing matches and Aligns himself as the number
one contender for LA Knights US title which I'm
guessing that match at Mania is going to be incredible.
I'm not sure I see LA Knight holding on to his
title at Mania in this match, but it's going
to be an interesting match. Let's just hope it's
as good in the ring as it is on paper because
that's going to be absolutely phenomenal. And
as we make our way Into the final segment of
this week's smackdown we we get a recap of sort
of Cody Rhodes and John Cena from raw and everything
that happened there and Then we get another backstage
bit with Paul Heyman and Byron Saxton Saxton
has definitely made his money this week asking
you know when the tribal chief Roman Reigns is
going to arrive and Paul Heyman says look he's
going to be here any minute now and when Roman
gets there he gets out of the SUV and he walks
straight past Paul Heyman ignores him completely
walks straight through to the ring there's no
pyro with his entrance which is unusual because
normally when Roman's entrance pops there is
a lot of fire this time there was just just his
entry music and a stomping and he had it He had
a march on him today. It was definitely one of
those things where he He was pissed and he he
wanted he didn't he really know he wanted to
be there but Realizing he had to be though being
dragged away from the training camp that poor
Haman told us he was in He's annoyed when he
gets to the ring. He held his hand out like microphone,
you know, like It starts off with the standards,
you know, Chicago acknowledge me And Roman asks
Paul Heyman, like is he here? And Paul Heyman
says, yeah, he's here. To which Roman responds,
is he still talking about the favor? And Paul
Heyman's like, yeah, pretty much. And Roman then
turns around to say, you know, CM Punk wouldn't
be back in the WWE if it wasn't for him. You
know, Punk wouldn't be in the main event of WrestleMania
if it wasn't for him. He said that Punk has wrestled
everyone under the sun. Hall of Famers future
Hall of Famers, you know different promotions.
He's wrestled a lot of places Obviously, we know
before his WWE run last time he was in Ring of
Honor He worked a lot of indies. He's been in
AEW Not that he'd discuss his AEW stuff very
much I don't think but you know, he's done he
wrestled a lot a lot of big names But he's never
been in the main event at WrestleMania until
the tribal chief Introduced him to the main event
And, uh, Rowan says that, uh, he's, you know,
I'm standing here, but where's punk? At which
point, you know, we're, we're waiting for punk
to come out. We don't get punk straight away.
We get the visionary, the revolutionary Seth
Rollins music hits. And he comes out basically
saying, I ain't missing this shit for the world.
Said, I don't know what the favor is, but whatever
it is, it's going to knock your socks off. And,
uh, Roman you don't like living in the world
in the real world but you know when you do come
out of you know reality tends to bite you in
the ass even quotes two examples the heist of
the century and Being example a and example B
was WrestleMania last year. Obviously Seth Rollins
helped Cody Rhodes beat Roman Reigns, obviously
there was quite a lot of people who made appearances
in that match including John Cena, The Rock,
The Undertaker, I'd say Rollins was there as
well and that's plus Cody and Roman at the same
time so it was a big match, big big match. I'd
say watch, you can listen to our previous episode
but unfortunately The podcast wasn't a thing
this time last year. This is going to be finishes
and factions first WrestleMania and both myself
and Adam are gonna be very excited for that one
a lot of work for us But it's gonna be definitely
well worth it in the end So we then get Seth
Rollins telling Roman that he underestimated
CM Punk and You know Seth Rollins tried to ignore
him and it didn't work and now he's in the main
event of WrestleMania Rollins hates the fact
that punks in the main event at WrestleMania.
I mean Rollins has done everything he can really
to try and stop punk from getting there You know,
they had the issues at Royal Rumble that was
sort of dealt with and then obviously the issue
at elimination chamber where Punk eliminated
Rollins and then Rollins curb stomp punk so Cena
could pin him or submit him as he did You know,
it is there's definitely some some issues there
and And then basically rains calls punk out and
Rollins just wants to hear from punk What's going
on? Where is he? So at that point we then get
CM punks music kit and the comes down to the
Chicago crowd for a second time Obviously he
did open up the show. He's closing it as well.
So he's definitely definitely gonna be loving
this and it's all a little little to and fro
between The three of them are basically punk
saying, you know, what's the favor? This is about
friendship and legacy and promises made and promises
kept and loyalty Now why he says the word loyalty
is busy trying to stare Seth Rollins out which
yes Seth Rollins is not known for his uh loyal
actions especially from when he was a member
of the shield um you know CM Punk tells Roman
Reigns that Paul Heyman prophesied what was happening
10 years ago actually I think it was longer than
I think it was 12 years ago where Paul Heyman
told CM Punk that one day he would be in the
main event at WrestleMania and uh it has happened
You know talk about when CM Punk Big Show RVD
and Paul Heyman were having a conversation when
Paul Heyman was leaving I think and Punk was
saying you You can't leave they're gonna they're
gonna fire me and Paul Heyman said that he'd
be fine and You know, it's it's all kind of worked
out for him But Punk asked Heyman what he can
do for him and Heyman says when he made events
WrestleMania that you have to he's gonna force
them to deal with us and they aren't You know
He was gonna have to be forced to dealing with
with Vince McMahon, but Vince isn't here anymore
So instead he's gonna force Roman out of his
comfort zone It's gonna be an interesting one
because the WrestleMania main event in CM Punk's
corner will be Paul Heyman The wise man basically
told Roman Reigns That well, I mean punk told
I Told Roman that the wise man was gonna be in
his corner and Roman looks at Paul really confused
and Seth is Leaning against the ring ropes at
this point absolutely pissing himself like Roman
Romans annoyed and Seth knew that this was gonna
knock Roman socks off. He said it earlier and
this is really dropped in for six because he
does not know what to do or say at this point
and Roman kind of looks at him and laughs and
then says to Paul that you know I saved you you
need me and Roman said that you know even if
he would let the wise man do it the wise man
wouldn't do it and uh and kind of asked him come
on wise man let the man let this fall down easy
and Paul doesn't say much Roman's looking even
more confused at this point and he's like come
on let it down easy and uh he kind of we get
that look and Paul Heyman starts crying Roman
kind of says to him you crying he says like wipe
him up tell him no come on and Roman's getting
more and more agitated at this point like come
on he says look I'm gonna give you one last chance
to tell him no at which point Paul Heyman breaks
down a little bit more and says I can't do that
And as Roman sort of pushes him back towards
the corner, kind of like, what are you talking
about? You can't do that. What do you mean you
can't do that? CM Punk attacks Roman from behind
and drops him with a go to sleep, at which point
we get Punk staring at Rollins. Rollins is staring
back and Punk's like, come on, we can do this.
Like, he's not a problem now. We can do this.
And Rollins is very much like, Well, you know
what? I'm not interested in this mess. This business
is not something I want to do right now. We've
got a time for our match and I'm gonna slide
out through these ropes and I'm gonna wait until
WrestleMania because Well, it was the end of
the show and that leaves me at the end of my
notes for this one as well So thank you all for
listening. It has been a very pleasant episode
to talk to you guys about and I hope you've enjoyed
listening to it too. So I will catch up with
you in the next episode which will be Finisher's
and Faction's Monday Night Raw coming very, very
soon. Enjoy the rest of your evening. Peace out.