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And good evening to this, our 50th episode of

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Finishers and Factions. And this episode has

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landed on Finishers and Factions does Monday

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Night Raw from April 7th. the date what when

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this episode was aired there were 12 days till

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WrestleMania and that we this raw took place

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in Minneapolis Minnesota in the Target Center

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now as Always well I say as always I've been

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absent the last couple of last episode or two

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that we've done I think but as always my uh my

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co -host has been keeping things together keeping

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the trains running smoothly rich how the devil

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are you i'm doing all right my good sir how are

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you doing yeah i'm all good all good glad to

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be back in the podcast seat so uh yeah i mean

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it's nice to have you back it's a little bit

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boring on me own it does get that way sometimes

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especially without somebody else to bounce off

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of um No one will flick peanuts across the office

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up. Well, I think you can keep your peanuts to

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yourself, thank you. Especially considering you're

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allergic. Well, yeah, that's probably a good

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point, to be fair. Better not be flicking peanuts

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across the office. Might end up having a trip

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to Miami instead. Yeah, and we don't want that

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because that just puts our recording schedule

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even further behind. It certainly does. Yeah,

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well. Let's not let it get too far behind and

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let's just jump straight into our first section

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of the evening where we got a little recap of

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last week between the match of Io Sky and Rhea

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Ripley for the women's title with Bianca Belair

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as the special guest referee. Yeah and as we

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should all know by this point the Match was called

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a double disqualification after both champion

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and challenger managed to land a Purpose not

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on purpose blows to the special guest referee

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who? Eventually just had enough and decided nope.

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I don't want to be a referee anymore I'm gonna

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lay into you as a competitor instead. I mean

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to be fair she did take two Pretty hefty move

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she took a boot of rear Ripley in a missile drop

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kick off EO sky if I did that as a special guest

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ref I'd be pissed too. I'll be like you motherfuckers

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Yeah, but we're not gonna go into too much detail

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about that because that's in last week's episode

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Yeah, that's last week's episode. If you haven't

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listened to it, you're slacking catch up. We're

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trying to Yeah, pretty much We start this one

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off with Adam Pearce coming into the ring after

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the recap of last week. Basically coming in to

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say that the situation between Io, Rhea and Bianca

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needs to be settled and addressed. And he therefore

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proceeds to call all three ladies to the ring.

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I did find it rather amusing that the ring announced

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this week. referred to Rhea Ripley as representing

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the Judgement Day. Well, I'm pretty sure she's

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not part of that one anymore. Pretty sure even

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the commentary called him out on that fucking

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booboo. That was a big whoopsie there. Yep, no,

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if you are not aware that Rhea is not part of

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Judgement Day anymore, you've missed an awful

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lot of episodes. I would get recapping. You've

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missed a lot. Yes, 100 % but once all three women

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are in the are in the ring here sort of goes

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I mean takes a cheap shot the end result of this

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is that We sort of saw the end result of this

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coming or at least I did it was teased to it

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was teased a few weeks back realistically, but

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yeah as soon as reassigned the contract between

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the two of them we all knew this was going to

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be a triple threat and a that is basically the

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way it's it's it's going um which for ria and

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io not too much of an issue it was bianca that

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had a few words to say about the situation well

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ria just wants the title back and she'll she's

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more interested in fighting bianca bella for

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it anyway pretty much i mean that's how it should

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have gone it should have you know originally

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before io Got her hands on it. It should have

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been Rhea versus Bianca at WrestleMania and pretty

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sure that's what Rhea is after Bianca don't give

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a flying who she's got a face in fairness. She

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just wants that title too She'd just rather go

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through Io because it's an easier opportunity

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than having to go through Rhea Having to go through

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both of them is not going to be pleasant for

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her, but it's One of those and poor Io. I mean

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she can lose her title without even being pinned

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So, you know, she really doesn't have a champion's

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advantage here. She's kind of being screwed But

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then you look at it this way both Ria and Bianca

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are gonna drop her to a point She spends majority

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of the time out the ring They're gonna do some

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serious damage to each other and then in true

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EO fashion She's gonna come in pin the weakest

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competitor and win it to retain I think that's

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that's pretty much how I'm gonna go into this

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I mean WWE have used that angle before in a triple

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threat title situation. I mean, Io said from

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the very beginning, she'd quite happily take

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both of them on anyway. Yeah, and she's just

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looking to be the champion that she feels that

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she should be. And with her ring ring ability,

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great champion, her mic skills let her down drastically.

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But that is purely just because of the language

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barrier that we have within this. situation yeah

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but in the end all three all three superstars

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agreed to the new match stipulation that it is

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a triple threat all three of them well two of

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them signed the contract I struggle to remember

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if EO ever actually got a chance to sign it yeah

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EO stormed out at the end and then stormed back

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in Sign the title and then I sign the contract.

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Sorry and then storm back off She kind of got

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to the apron and then kind of realized oh shit

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I haven't signed this and then went back to sign

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it and and That was pretty much it done Yeah,

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but I've got here that she hits a missile drop

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kick into rear from behind that pushes her into

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Bianca And she then signs the contract and takes

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the title and pisses off The reason for that

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is because Rhea's quite literally yet again put

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her hands in her face. The thing is Rhea don't

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care whose face she's putting her hands in. Io

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is the smallest of the three competitors and

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she does come up to hand height so unfortunately

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when Rhea puts her hand up to say just piss off.

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You're not involved in this situation at all

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even though she is. It just catches Io in the

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face. So yeah, that missile dropkick was definitely

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deserved to Rhea and throwing her into Bianca

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was just Io's way of saying, fuck, they're both

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of you. I mean, yes, but still, I think it's...

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You don't disregard the champion in a championship

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match scenario. You shouldn't do, but Rhea and

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Bianca are more interested in each other. And

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that's the way I mean, that's the way that much

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is gonna go I think but talking about matches

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and WrestleMania now the contract for that one

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has been signed sealed and delivered We are informed

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of the how they're gonna get the Intercontinental

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title Defended at WrestleMania and it is going

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to be in a fatal four way between Bronbreaker

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Finn Balor Penta and dirty dominic mysterio so

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basically you have two members of the judgment

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day and penta up against bron breaker for his

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title which you blatantly know is going to end

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up with penta and not penta and dom dom and finn

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basically working this match as a tag team until

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one of them realizes they can get one over on

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the other one so uh it's gonna be an interesting

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interesting opportunity i think in that dynamic

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yes i can sort of see they'll get to a point

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where them pair are the only two left in the

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ring and it's not necessarily a realization that

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i can get one over on somebody else it's a case

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of oh i have to get something over on this person

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that i'm aligned with Because otherwise I haven't

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got a fucking donkey donkey in hell's chance

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of winning this match Yeah, and both Dom and

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Finn are gonna need the other person's help enough

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both talented superstars on their own don't get

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me wrong, but Takes a little bit of something

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different to do a fatal four way, especially

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when you've got the the quality of brawn breaker

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and penta Neither of those guys you can shake

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a stick at and kind of go, he doesn't deserve

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to be in that match. Bron and obviously is the

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champion and Penta is one of the most electrifying

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things on Monday Night Raw at the moment. You

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could kind of argue that maybe Finn and Dom don't

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need to be in this match and it could just be

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Bron and Penta one -on -one for the title but

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you know it worked out the way it's worked out

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and again it's not going to be a bad match to

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be fair. Mean on paper looking at it. That's

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us a pretty good match. I Mean you're not wrong

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as it stands I am I'm actually backing Dom to

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win this one You reckon they're gonna put gold

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on dirty Dom No, it wouldn't no it wouldn't he's

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had a tag championship and he did hold the NXT

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title for a little while so You know, it's definitely

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one of those. I mean, it'd be nice. From a perspective,

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it'd be interesting to see what Dom could do

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with the intercontinental title. I'm not going

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to lie to you. I'd rather they put it on Sheamus.

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I know he's not in this match, but I'd rather

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let that guy have his grand slam mania moment

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so he can retire afterwards. Yeah, we haven't

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seen Seamus for a little while. Not since he

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had that title match. He had one random match

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for the IC title against Brom Breaker or it was

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a number one contendership match or something.

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He had one random match and then he's just disappeared

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off again. I just don't think they've got anything

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for him that there's no way for him to fit into

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storylines at the moment No, I know and I fully

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get that I'm just saying that you know if Apart

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from having Bron retain which I mean he's had

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the title for a fair while now You know, it's

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kind of an obvious one if they let him do that

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But I wouldn't necessarily say that the other

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three Penta maybe hasn't been there quite long

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enough Finn's towards the end of his career and

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he's not winding up so to speak but he's he's

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probably more in that giving back sort of stage

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a title run probably it could help him but he

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doesn't really need it he's already over enough

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as it is and then dom yeah like you said dom

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could be an interesting choice it's not one that

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i'd necessarily have gone with the outside is

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always a an odds on favorite in the eyes of some

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i suppose So yeah, that's a good shout to be

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fair, Don Mysterio. But talking about the members

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of Judgment Day that are in this March, we actually

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get to hear what Judgment Day think about Adam

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Pearce's announcement in the next section in

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the Judgment Day's little den they found for

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themselves this week in Minneapolis. Yeah, we

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cut to the Clubhouse if you like the judgment

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days clubhouse is basically the Mickey Mouse's

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clubhouse for adults really in Yeah, I'm not

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sure I'm not sure it'd make quite as good a TV

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series somehow I don't know but Carlito is pretty

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much the Miska Miska tool because he's a fucking

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tool. I Mean I can't argue with you, but Damn

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doing Carlito day. Yeah Mean to be fair. I'm

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not the only one this week that does Carlos Carlito

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dirty, but we'll discuss a little bit later We'll

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get to that in a little bit Speaking of Carlito.

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I mean the beginning of this little segment.

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He seems a bit upset with his 2k 25 rating and

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I Think he's just I think he should just account

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himself fortunate that he's even in the frigging

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game I mean, yeah, this is a guy. He doesn't

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he's there to take bumps and look pretty You're

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not getting a match out of Carlito and he's even

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said this himself on numerous interviews that

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I Can't do any of it anymore. I could take a

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bump But I can't do any of the stuff that used

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to be had to do too old and too broken and too

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beaten up But you can still eat apples like he

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used to be able to and he can still spit a good

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apple, too Yeah, I mean he's still got all his

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own teeth. I'm pretty sure that's the prerequisite

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for that Which is surprising being a professional

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wrestler that he still has all his own teeth

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But yeah Finn Balor comes into the clubhouse

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with everybody else there as they're sort of

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just chilling out and he seems completely bewildered

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of the why it's a fatal four -way match and seems

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perfectly ignorant to the fact that maybe Dom

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wanted a title opportunity as well. Liv did say

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last week that she was going to go and talk to

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Adam Pearce about getting Dom a match with Brom

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Breaker but yeah she has done what she said she

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was going to go and do and at the grandest stage

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of them all as well. Yeah I don't actually believe

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that this is Dom's first WrestleMania match.

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I think he may have had one against his dad at

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WrestleMania. I think he might have had two.

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I think he's had one with his dad and one against

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his dad. I mean, not 100 % sure to be fair. No,

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I'm not. But yeah, I mean Liv's the one to point

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out the fact that in terms of odds. They hold

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an almost 50 -50 chance of being able to walk

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out of that with a strap going into Judgement

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Day's trophy cabinet. And yeah, it's a case that

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she sort of points out. It doesn't really matter

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who wins as long as one of you wins and brings

00:17:05.859 --> 00:17:11.500
it back to the Judgement Day, so to speak. But

00:17:11.500 --> 00:17:14.339
Balor then sort of... I think he's just trying

00:17:14.339 --> 00:17:17.240
to get in Dom's head a little bit with this next

00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.640
bit as he starts airing about some Rumors that

00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:24.200
Dom doesn't have it in him to or doesn't have

00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:28.400
what it takes to win The big win at the grandest

00:17:28.400 --> 00:17:31.779
stage of them all I mean I think that rumor is

00:17:31.779 --> 00:17:35.619
just purely stuck in Finn Balor's head to be

00:17:35.619 --> 00:17:39.440
fair and Just to go back Dominic had one match

00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:44.289
at WrestleMania against his dad at WrestleMania

00:17:44.289 --> 00:17:55.170
XL. Oh right, okay. The other thing that Balor,

00:17:56.809 --> 00:17:59.670
Balor says, he says the words, I just don't think

00:17:59.670 --> 00:18:04.150
he actually believes what he says, but he says

00:18:04.150 --> 00:18:10.259
about believing that he can beat. That Dom can

00:18:10.259 --> 00:18:13.579
beat Penta solo, which is a good thing because

00:18:13.579 --> 00:18:20.759
Pretty sure they have a match a Match just the

00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:24.019
two of them not too far away as it goes and yeah,

00:18:24.019 --> 00:18:27.339
I think that's next No, it's later on in the

00:18:27.339 --> 00:18:31.140
evening It's later on. It's before we get to

00:18:31.140 --> 00:18:39.890
hear up more about this favor and Basically the

00:18:39.890 --> 00:18:42.769
segment closes out with Carlito promising to

00:18:42.769 --> 00:18:49.309
have Dom's back, which would be an asset potentially.

00:18:49.470 --> 00:18:51.470
I mean it could be. I'm not sure I would class

00:18:51.470 --> 00:18:56.069
it as an asset. I mean it depends in what respect

00:18:56.069 --> 00:18:58.890
you know Carlito's got Dom's back if it's in

00:18:58.890 --> 00:19:01.430
an apple eating competition and oh yeah I'd have

00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:04.769
Carlito on my side. If it's going out there and

00:19:04.769 --> 00:19:08.089
trying to lay the smacketh down on raw then i'd

00:19:08.089 --> 00:19:13.970
probably choose someone else but when choices

00:19:13.970 --> 00:19:16.269
are limited you have to stick with what you've

00:19:16.269 --> 00:19:19.869
got unfortunately you do you do which is the

00:19:19.869 --> 00:19:25.349
case for our next match and the uh opponent that

00:19:25.349 --> 00:19:28.950
our women's intercontinental holder lyra valkyria

00:19:28.950 --> 00:19:33.490
has is uh at the moment it just seems to be bailey

00:19:33.490 --> 00:19:39.140
that's after that title she holds Well, I think

00:19:39.140 --> 00:19:43.180
this was if I remember correctly this might have

00:19:43.180 --> 00:19:48.339
actually been something so I've got it in my

00:19:48.339 --> 00:19:52.200
head that Lyra arranged this title opportunity

00:19:52.200 --> 00:19:55.859
for Bailey off the back of Bailey saving Lyra's

00:19:55.859 --> 00:20:02.579
ass. I believe that is very true. Yes, I Believe

00:20:02.579 --> 00:20:06.579
that is true One of the odd things about this

00:20:06.579 --> 00:20:16.490
match Yes On Smackdown obviously we had announced

00:20:16.490 --> 00:20:20.789
last week which Rich very kindly covered for

00:20:20.789 --> 00:20:26.089
us. It's a case that there is a Yeah, these two

00:20:26.089 --> 00:20:31.150
women team up for that this week on Smackdown

00:20:31.150 --> 00:20:35.630
for their opportunity to go and face Liv Morgan

00:20:35.630 --> 00:20:39.940
and Raquel Rodriguez for the Women's Tag Titles

00:20:39.940 --> 00:20:43.240
at WrestleMania. Yeah, so the fact that they're

00:20:43.240 --> 00:20:46.640
competing one -on -one with each other for the

00:20:46.640 --> 00:20:49.180
Women's Intercontinental Championship this evening

00:20:49.180 --> 00:20:53.880
is a little bit odd. It is, but there are a few

00:20:53.880 --> 00:21:01.819
other teams within that gauntlet match that look

00:21:01.819 --> 00:21:10.480
a little bit interesting as well. Know the main

00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:13.019
one that I thought I've sort of focused in on

00:21:13.019 --> 00:21:17.619
is Maxine Dupree and Natalia that was that was

00:21:17.619 --> 00:21:19.759
the one I was trying to think of but I didn't

00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:23.920
want to mess up on my first Opportunity, so I

00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:29.059
was just going to Google who's in it But yes,

00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:37.859
so you've got B Fab and Misha in a one. Yeah

00:21:38.940 --> 00:21:44.859
Yep. You've got, uh, Alba Fire and Piper Nevin.

00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:50.119
Secret Hermes. Yep. Obviously Maxine Dupree and

00:21:50.119 --> 00:21:55.319
Natalia. You've got Bailey and Lyra Valkyria.

00:21:56.259 --> 00:22:01.839
Mm -hmm. And then you've got Zoe Stark and Shayna

00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:07.819
Baszler. And Kayden Carter and Kartana Chance.

00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:11.559
So Kayden Carter and Katana chance we've seen

00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:15.359
recently we have Zoe Stark and Shayna Baszler

00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.559
now They were part of a faction with Sonya Deville

00:22:18.559 --> 00:22:21.859
before her release, but I forget what it was

00:22:21.859 --> 00:22:26.039
called Yeah, I've got no idea either because

00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:32.519
I've forgotten all about the The two women in

00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:35.380
that specific team I didn't even realize they

00:22:35.380 --> 00:22:40.930
were still with the company to be fair So I knew

00:22:40.930 --> 00:22:43.710
they hadn't been I knew they hadn't been released.

00:22:44.029 --> 00:22:49.269
I'm just struggling to remember We haven't seen

00:22:49.269 --> 00:22:51.950
Shayna Baszler yet on finishers and factions

00:22:51.950 --> 00:22:55.329
and we've been going since the beginning of the

00:22:55.329 --> 00:22:59.670
Netflix era So we haven't seen her in we haven't

00:22:59.670 --> 00:23:03.230
seen her in in ring action, but we have seen

00:23:03.230 --> 00:23:08.720
a sort of appearing backstage and Things like

00:23:08.720 --> 00:23:11.900
that. I'm just more notes to see if I can find

00:23:11.900 --> 00:23:14.920
her I know I've written about them because I

00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:18.240
can I can remember writing it. It's just I don't

00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:25.579
remember Top my head Possibly one of them may

00:23:25.579 --> 00:23:31.180
have made an appearance at the Royal Rumble Think

00:23:31.180 --> 00:23:34.630
that we start Yeah, I think we might be right

00:23:34.630 --> 00:23:39.150
there. Shayna Baszler might have done as well.

00:23:40.509 --> 00:23:44.750
Potentially. Yeah, so not too far, not thinking

00:23:44.750 --> 00:23:48.789
too much ahead. But yeah, we end up with this

00:23:48.789 --> 00:23:52.349
IC title match between Bailey and Lyra Valkyria.

00:23:53.549 --> 00:23:55.789
And I'll go through that a little bit for you

00:23:55.789 --> 00:23:57.990
while Adam is flicking through his notes because

00:23:57.990 --> 00:23:59.890
I know it's going to wind him up if he doesn't

00:23:59.890 --> 00:24:02.839
find it. I'm going to just live with it, mate,

00:24:02.900 --> 00:24:05.839
to be honest. I've put the notebook away because

00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:07.759
it's going to wind me up even more if I can't

00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:11.920
find it. So the start of this match was very,

00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:16.059
very sort of like fast paced, quickly, sort of

00:24:16.059 --> 00:24:19.420
everything was very sort of counter -pertuitive.

00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:24.579
Very few moves were lasting longer than a second

00:24:24.579 --> 00:24:30.980
in this Collaring Tie start. until there was,

00:24:30.980 --> 00:24:35.980
you know, a series of quick roll -up two counts

00:24:35.980 --> 00:24:39.799
while the two of them are just trying to establish

00:24:39.799 --> 00:24:42.720
who is the more dominant superstar on this particular

00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:47.680
opportunity. I mean, the first big move of the

00:24:47.680 --> 00:24:51.619
night was a big knee from Bailey onto Lyra Valkyria

00:24:51.619 --> 00:24:54.710
that finished with a roll -up two count. and

00:24:54.710 --> 00:24:57.970
then Lyra Valkyria returning the effort with

00:24:57.970 --> 00:25:01.690
a Northern Lights suplex and popping that one

00:25:01.690 --> 00:25:06.029
up into an Irish swing and the rolling her up

00:25:06.029 --> 00:25:10.049
into a two count from the half guard. So like

00:25:10.049 --> 00:25:13.329
I said, this was very fast paced and very, very

00:25:13.329 --> 00:25:16.109
sort of like counter wrestling. There was a lot

00:25:16.109 --> 00:25:19.940
of reversal wrestling. I mean, it was a really

00:25:19.940 --> 00:25:22.299
solid wrestling match. The one thing that bugged

00:25:22.299 --> 00:25:25.000
me about this match had nothing to do with the

00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.660
match itself. It was more of a case of the crowd.

00:25:29.099 --> 00:25:34.380
Now, this is the first Raw back since the European

00:25:34.380 --> 00:25:37.279
tour. And in the European tour, we've talked

00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:40.680
on Finishers and Factions a lot about the crowd

00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:43.880
reactions, how great they were, how engaging

00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:48.339
it was and... We've come to Minneapolis, Minnesota,

00:25:48.400 --> 00:25:52.160
and they've been presented with this phenomenal,

00:25:52.779 --> 00:25:56.500
technically sound wrestling match. And honestly,

00:25:57.319 --> 00:26:00.700
we could have had tumbleweeds running through

00:26:00.700 --> 00:26:03.640
the target center. I mean, at some points we

00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:06.339
did get the this is awesome chance, but it wasn't

00:26:06.339 --> 00:26:08.900
until it got really, really heated. And don't

00:26:08.900 --> 00:26:11.700
get me wrong, it was... some aspects of the match

00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:14.660
that was awesome and there were some some really

00:26:14.660 --> 00:26:17.480
good sections to it but if that had been in front

00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.859
of a european crowd it would have been a completely

00:26:20.859 --> 00:26:24.279
different kettle of fish yeah completely different

00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:27.220
kettle of fish absolutely eating it eating it

00:26:27.220 --> 00:26:30.339
whole and had no issue going back for seconds

00:26:30.339 --> 00:26:34.339
because i was sat in my i was sat i'm I was at

00:26:34.339 --> 00:26:37.240
my computer watching it on my monitor thinking

00:26:37.240 --> 00:26:39.940
exactly the same thing like yeah if I'd been

00:26:39.940 --> 00:26:42.039
at that match I'd have fucking loved every second

00:26:42.039 --> 00:26:45.819
of it I mean right I'd have loved every second

00:26:45.819 --> 00:26:47.920
of it because I was at a wwe event but that's

00:26:47.920 --> 00:26:50.200
beside the point I mean we've got some pretty

00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:54.140
interesting moves in this one so there was a

00:26:54.140 --> 00:26:57.039
uh uh lyra valkyria hit a cross body at one point

00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:59.059
and ended up trying to go for a two count with

00:26:59.059 --> 00:27:03.019
a lateral press we had half like boston crabs

00:27:03.019 --> 00:27:07.940
locked in um the best move of all though you've

00:27:07.940 --> 00:27:10.759
already mentioned was the they call it an irish

00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:18.200
swing but i've uh it looked a lot like a walls

00:27:18.200 --> 00:27:23.180
of jericho do you not think well yeah it was

00:27:23.180 --> 00:27:25.980
um it was a little bit like a walls of jericho

00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:28.380
but there was a suspension element in it as well

00:27:28.380 --> 00:27:32.849
which just blew me away yeah but obviously they're

00:27:32.849 --> 00:27:38.009
not going to reference it as a well yeah they're

00:27:38.009 --> 00:27:39.910
not going to reference it that way but we will

00:27:39.910 --> 00:27:43.329
we'll take the hit so WWE don't have to it was

00:27:43.329 --> 00:27:46.230
a walls of Jericho with an extension or a modified

00:27:46.230 --> 00:27:50.700
walls of Jericho Look if WWE want to sponsor

00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:53.259
this one want to sponsor the podcast so that

00:27:53.259 --> 00:27:55.460
we don't start mentioning things like walls of

00:27:55.460 --> 00:28:00.859
Jericho and Chris Benoit and 100 % I'll take

00:28:00.859 --> 00:28:02.920
their money and I won't mention them ever again

00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:12.559
in my life Exactly right. Yep. Yeah Which one

00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:14.559
would be talking about that as well because I

00:28:14.559 --> 00:28:19.039
realized we were talking about both of them Both

00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:22.500
have the same name. That's my mini rant over

00:28:22.500 --> 00:28:27.940
and done with for the moment. But yeah, we had

00:28:27.940 --> 00:28:31.720
a Tornado DDT roll through into a Fisherman Suplex

00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:37.240
from Lyra Valkyria. I mean, there's nothing to

00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.279
compare Lyra Valkyria to in terms of women's

00:28:40.279 --> 00:28:43.259
IC title holders, because she's the inaugural

00:28:43.259 --> 00:28:49.180
champion. She has yet to be dethroned. She's

00:28:49.180 --> 00:28:52.880
setting a really high bar for it. She is, and

00:28:52.880 --> 00:28:54.960
I'm not even mad about it. I'd never heard of

00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.500
this woman until she won that Intercontinental

00:28:57.500 --> 00:29:02.359
title. I didn't even know she existed. But by

00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:04.660
God, do I enjoy watching this person wrestle?

00:29:04.940 --> 00:29:07.920
Yes I do. She's a very talented person and she's

00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:10.799
doing wonders for that. This is definitely not

00:29:10.799 --> 00:29:14.720
a weak title run either. No, not. I'm going to

00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:16.799
throw it out there we are going to say Lyra does

00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:21.680
retain this title after some really really um

00:29:21.680 --> 00:29:23.740
it was a fantastic match and it was finished

00:29:23.740 --> 00:29:28.720
with a night wing um off a attempted roll up

00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:32.880
on a rose plant reversal so uh you can't really

00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:35.160
complain too much about how this match finished

00:29:35.160 --> 00:29:40.559
to be fair um I just wish the crowd saw what

00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:44.720
we saw. They did see, they were there seeing

00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:48.400
what we saw and they just couldn't give a fuck.

00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:56.839
It's sad when two middle -aged men a few thousand

00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.859
miles away are more excited about what is going

00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:03.400
on in that arena than the 16 odd thousand people

00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:09.460
that were sat in that arena. precisely i mean

00:30:09.460 --> 00:30:12.900
not for this reason but uh we do see at the end

00:30:12.900 --> 00:30:15.700
of the match bailey's well michael cole talks

00:30:15.700 --> 00:30:18.059
about this quite a bit throughout the match is

00:30:18.059 --> 00:30:21.099
that bailey's feeling frustrated that she hasn't

00:30:21.099 --> 00:30:25.180
won a match in two straight months she's done

00:30:25.180 --> 00:30:28.559
but she hasn't had a bad match in those two straight

00:30:28.559 --> 00:30:30.859
months and if you also take into account she

00:30:30.859 --> 00:30:33.599
featured in the royal rumble she's been in the

00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.299
elimination chamber We've seen a public down

00:30:37.299 --> 00:30:40.759
on NXT and she's done she was she a roadblock

00:30:40.759 --> 00:30:46.200
in a title match at NXT like this woman is Rafted

00:30:46.200 --> 00:30:48.539
in those two months and fair enough. Yes. She's

00:30:48.539 --> 00:30:50.579
not won a match, but she's had some phenomenal

00:30:50.579 --> 00:30:55.319
matches And she's given some other wrestlers

00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:58.839
some phenomenal opportunities to you know it

00:30:58.839 --> 00:31:02.589
like this much for example having The sculpt

00:31:02.589 --> 00:31:06.650
of Bailey does Lyra Valkyria an awful lot of

00:31:06.650 --> 00:31:11.549
good As Bailey has held every women's title apart

00:31:11.549 --> 00:31:16.150
from this one So yeah by keeping her down and

00:31:16.150 --> 00:31:18.569
keeping her at bay. They're only making Lyra

00:31:18.569 --> 00:31:23.269
stronger and for a mid card women's title She's

00:31:23.269 --> 00:31:27.029
doing a great job And Bailey even acknowledges

00:31:27.029 --> 00:31:29.269
that at the end of the match, you know, Lyra

00:31:29.269 --> 00:31:31.549
offers her a handshake. Like we said at the start,

00:31:32.390 --> 00:31:37.349
these two are teaming up with each other on Saturday.

00:31:38.630 --> 00:31:41.210
No, Friday, sorry, for SmackDown. That's my bad.

00:31:43.250 --> 00:31:46.650
SmackDown hasn't been on Saturday for like, it's

00:31:46.650 --> 00:31:49.269
never been on Saturday, is it? I can see your

00:31:49.269 --> 00:31:53.500
confusion because for us in the UK, it is broadcast

00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:57.519
on saturday yeah it is yeah one o 'clock in the

00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:01.180
morning anyway so i will save your ass on that

00:32:01.180 --> 00:32:04.660
one she uh larry valkyria offers uh bailey a

00:32:04.660 --> 00:32:07.279
hand and bailey for a handshake and bailey kind

00:32:07.279 --> 00:32:09.539
of slaps it away and goes to walk away and then

00:32:09.539 --> 00:32:12.859
she realizes hey wait a minute that's not what

00:32:12.859 --> 00:32:15.079
bailey's about bailey's about hugging and she

00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:16.839
gets back in the ring and hugs it and they hug

00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:20.599
it out and we haven't seen a a huggable bailey

00:32:20.599 --> 00:32:24.349
for a while She raises the champs hand, but yeah,

00:32:24.349 --> 00:32:26.589
there's some definite frustration which is so

00:32:26.589 --> 00:32:31.230
in the seed for a future storyline with a frustrated

00:32:31.230 --> 00:32:36.150
Bailey who you just want to win so Yeah, just

00:32:36.150 --> 00:32:38.250
don't send her anywhere near Xavier Woods and

00:32:38.250 --> 00:32:43.869
Brad Maddox. She's too frustrated anyway We get

00:32:43.869 --> 00:32:47.069
into a nice little backstage segment with Kathy

00:32:47.069 --> 00:32:52.930
Kelly talking to a celebrity comedian Me and

00:32:52.930 --> 00:32:57.630
Adam know who this gentleman is from one specific

00:32:57.630 --> 00:32:59.609
sketch, but she's having a conversation with

00:32:59.609 --> 00:33:03.750
a gentleman called Bert Kreischer about his new

00:33:03.750 --> 00:33:08.609
comedy special on Netflix. Yeah, I'm the machine.

00:33:10.170 --> 00:33:12.509
I haven't actually seen. I've seen that you've

00:33:12.509 --> 00:33:15.029
got a new special. I haven't taken the time to

00:33:15.029 --> 00:33:19.289
watch it. But if you've never experienced Bert

00:33:19.289 --> 00:33:22.960
Kreischer, please. go and watch it the man is

00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.720
incredibly funny and i mean the one thing that

00:33:27.720 --> 00:33:30.299
he seems to stand out for more than anything

00:33:30.299 --> 00:33:33.160
else is the fact that he does his entire set

00:33:33.160 --> 00:33:37.940
topless i mean and he's not got the figure that

00:33:37.940 --> 00:33:40.720
you would expect him to have for the confidence

00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.140
that that man has um he is a little bit of an

00:33:45.140 --> 00:33:48.779
acquired taste i will uh forewarn you he may

00:33:48.779 --> 00:33:51.789
not be for some um I personally find him quite

00:33:51.789 --> 00:33:55.529
funny, and I know Adam does, but just be warned.

00:33:57.470 --> 00:34:02.789
He can be a little bit marmite. Yeah, he is very

00:34:02.789 --> 00:34:05.970
much that case. And one person that seems to

00:34:05.970 --> 00:34:11.269
really like him is Chad Gable of American Made.

00:34:12.590 --> 00:34:15.929
Him and his latest bunch of cronies decide to

00:34:15.929 --> 00:34:18.849
come and gate crash this little interview with

00:34:18.849 --> 00:34:24.050
Kathy Kelly and Yeah, basically saying are Admit

00:34:24.050 --> 00:34:26.650
Chad Gable admits to being a fan and it's like

00:34:26.650 --> 00:34:28.989
I'm a big fan of yours. I know you're a fan of

00:34:28.989 --> 00:34:31.909
mine Unfortunately due to a doctor's note. I

00:34:31.909 --> 00:34:34.690
dropped last week. I'm not competing tonight.

00:34:34.789 --> 00:34:39.650
However There is a six -man tag against LWO where

00:34:39.650 --> 00:34:58.530
the Creed brothers are I find that slightly concerning

00:34:58.530 --> 00:35:02.210
that they have nicknamed a white wrestler who

00:35:02.210 --> 00:35:07.449
is pretending to be Mexican a large black coffee.

00:35:09.529 --> 00:35:13.809
Someone in the character development office of

00:35:13.809 --> 00:35:18.909
the WWE production in Connecticut is having a

00:35:18.909 --> 00:35:25.510
real fucking laugh with this guy. Yeah, there's

00:35:25.510 --> 00:35:29.269
so many layers to how fucked up that is, but

00:35:29.269 --> 00:35:32.070
it's the fact that nobody seems to have acknowledged

00:35:32.070 --> 00:35:36.909
it on WWE TV just yet. Not yet, no. There will

00:35:36.909 --> 00:35:43.460
be a day though. There will and yeah, but And

00:35:43.460 --> 00:35:47.019
but bless his heart. Let's Chad down easy by

00:35:47.019 --> 00:35:49.820
admitting that he's not actually here to see

00:35:49.820 --> 00:35:54.519
He's not actually here to see Chad Gable or American

00:35:54.519 --> 00:35:59.539
made. He's actually here to find it to see Alpha

00:35:59.539 --> 00:36:04.760
Academy and and more specifically Oh tease Yeah,

00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:07.460
this was definitely not a connection I put together

00:36:07.460 --> 00:36:10.519
but once I saw them both ripping off their shirts

00:36:10.519 --> 00:36:14.380
and giving each other a big old bear hug They

00:36:14.380 --> 00:36:19.000
look very similar They do I will say that It

00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.659
was a lovely little moment that him and Otis

00:36:21.659 --> 00:36:26.780
had for the fact that Bert has said in many sort

00:36:26.780 --> 00:36:29.760
of interviews and tv shows that he's done that

00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:32.800
he's a wwe fan if he thought he had the stamina

00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.179
for it he'd quite happily put himself forward

00:36:35.179 --> 00:36:39.559
as an active superstar but can you just imagine

00:36:39.559 --> 00:36:43.039
burke crisis entry music right the room goes

00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:45.940
dark it'd be the it'd be the it'd be the entrance

00:36:45.940 --> 00:36:48.550
theme to his movie the machine That'd be it.

00:36:48.690 --> 00:36:50.250
The room would go dark and all you'd just hear

00:36:50.250 --> 00:36:53.750
is, I have the machine! And he'd just come running

00:36:53.750 --> 00:36:56.690
down. Can you imagine Burt Kreischer making a

00:36:56.690 --> 00:36:58.889
guest, like a celebrity appearance at the Royal

00:36:58.889 --> 00:37:02.050
Rumble? Just hearing, I have the machine! And

00:37:02.050 --> 00:37:04.250
Burt Kreischer come running down in a pair of

00:37:04.250 --> 00:37:06.230
jeans and a pint in his hand like, fuck you,

00:37:06.309 --> 00:37:10.849
wait for me! So I'm going to put forward a bit

00:37:10.849 --> 00:37:14.590
of a scenario here. So Royal Rumble next year,

00:37:14.630 --> 00:37:19.570
Burt Kreischer makes a... A celebrity entrance

00:37:19.570 --> 00:37:23.829
into the into the Royal Rumble match with everything

00:37:23.829 --> 00:37:27.110
that you've just said on top of the fact that

00:37:27.110 --> 00:37:32.369
he has John Cena's old cyborg the cyborg fucking

00:37:32.369 --> 00:37:38.849
gimmick He literally comes down pretending to

00:37:38.849 --> 00:37:48.199
be a machine it's quality but yeah we we need

00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:52.000
to we need to continue because otherwise we weren't

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:56.460
we will get stuck on this all night and we continue

00:37:56.460 --> 00:38:00.559
with a another backstage interview with jackie

00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:05.780
redmond talking to the phenomenal one mr aj styles

00:38:05.780 --> 00:38:09.199
i'm basically asking him about what how he feels

00:38:09.199 --> 00:38:14.440
about logan paul said last week and uh aj It's

00:38:14.440 --> 00:38:17.659
a case that he's got a his own WrestleMania match

00:38:17.659 --> 00:38:21.780
And where he faces Logan Paul, it's the opportunity

00:38:21.780 --> 00:38:27.639
to shut that guy's mouth. Oh, yes It certainly

00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.280
is and there was a few mouths that we'd like

00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:32.599
to have seen shut it at WrestleMania this year

00:38:32.599 --> 00:38:36.619
Logan Paul's is one and Unfortunately, Kevin

00:38:36.619 --> 00:38:39.380
Owens has got himself a sick note. So his mouth

00:38:39.380 --> 00:38:43.630
won't be getting shut at WrestleMania, but That

00:38:43.630 --> 00:38:47.949
is a Neither here nor there, but we are gonna

00:38:47.949 --> 00:38:51.650
see McIntyre's mouth get shut at WrestleMania.

00:38:52.369 --> 00:38:58.309
Whoo We are now the other person we see at this

00:38:58.309 --> 00:39:03.260
point cuz AJ explains he's confident as there's

00:39:03.260 --> 00:39:06.880
no substitute for experience, but he's also interrupted

00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:10.480
by one, Carrion Cross, who we haven't seen in

00:39:10.480 --> 00:39:13.079
a few weeks. I've not seen him in ring for a

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:16.480
little while either. Well, that is all about

00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:20.800
to be remedied, dear Richard. It is a case that

00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.699
Carrion basically saying that... This AJ styles

00:39:24.699 --> 00:39:27.820
that we have before us is not the one to shut

00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:30.860
Logan Paul's mouth that he needs to find that

00:39:30.860 --> 00:39:37.280
other gear that darker place to to really really

00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:41.400
stick it to Logan Paul who From everything that

00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:44.820
Carrie and cross is saying is it is he's just

00:39:44.820 --> 00:39:48.969
as upset that Logan Paul is in WWE ring as a

00:39:48.969 --> 00:39:53.530
WWE superstar as well me and Richard that he's

00:39:53.530 --> 00:40:00.650
there But yeah pretty piston Yeah, pretty much

00:40:00.650 --> 00:40:03.510
but carrying cross feels he's gonna be the one

00:40:03.510 --> 00:40:07.559
that sort of takes AJ Styles to that to that

00:40:07.559 --> 00:40:10.179
next level just before his WrestleMania match.

00:40:10.780 --> 00:40:13.760
So next week on Monday Night Raw, we will see

00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:17.960
AJ Styles versus Karrion Kross in a one -on -one

00:40:17.960 --> 00:40:19.900
singles match. That's going to be a really good

00:40:19.900 --> 00:40:22.139
match. I can't wait to cover that, to be fair.

00:40:23.059 --> 00:40:25.880
Oh, 100%. I am looking forward to that as much

00:40:25.880 --> 00:40:29.380
as you are, my friend. But moving on from there,

00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:31.960
we go into our second match of the evening where

00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:36.079
this is the six -man tag team match, which sees

00:40:38.789 --> 00:40:43.170
LWO we accompanied to the ring by their mentor

00:40:43.170 --> 00:40:47.309
Ray Mysterio versus the Creed Brothers and El

00:40:47.309 --> 00:40:51.449
Grande Americano accompanied to the ring by Ivy

00:40:51.449 --> 00:40:56.369
Nile. Yes we've got Julius and Brutus and the

00:40:56.369 --> 00:41:02.840
large black coffee. Yep. What a mouthful. I mean

00:41:02.840 --> 00:41:05.900
the only way that he's ever gonna he's never

00:41:05.900 --> 00:41:08.219
gonna be able to shake that off is if he comes

00:41:08.219 --> 00:41:13.179
to the Comes to the ring dressed like a Starbucks

00:41:13.179 --> 00:41:17.260
takeaway cup. I'll make that be brilliant Wouldn't

00:41:17.260 --> 00:41:23.920
it just I'm gonna email creative It's a it's

00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:27.079
a very Vince McMahon move isn't it send him out

00:41:27.079 --> 00:41:36.219
looking like a takeaway coffee cup Why does it

00:41:36.219 --> 00:41:39.199
remind me of some really bad sketch like skits

00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:41.820
somewhere where they have like a wrestler walk

00:41:41.820 --> 00:41:44.159
up to a coffee truck and be like ah I'll have

00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:46.760
a grande americano and he just pops up and goes

00:41:46.760 --> 00:41:51.119
ah senora I am here yeah I know what you mean

00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:57.369
it's like a really bad naughties like tv commercial

00:41:57.369 --> 00:41:59.389
or something like that one of those ones that

00:41:59.389 --> 00:42:01.949
they had in america which are just so over the

00:42:01.949 --> 00:42:04.730
top it's like if they'd have swapped marty genetti

00:42:04.730 --> 00:42:08.769
and uh sean michaels out of the barbershop into

00:42:08.769 --> 00:42:12.369
a coffee shop you could have got away with involving

00:42:12.369 --> 00:42:20.550
this guy yeah pretty much um anyway i personally

00:42:20.550 --> 00:42:23.170
didn't get a massive amount of notes for this

00:42:23.170 --> 00:42:26.730
match because Honestly the action was that thick

00:42:26.730 --> 00:42:32.269
and fast I struggled so I had a few bits here

00:42:32.269 --> 00:42:36.989
I had that there was a few double teams at the

00:42:36.989 --> 00:42:40.909
start with both both teams trying to pull a double

00:42:40.909 --> 00:42:49.250
team Brutus and Julius getting Well Brutus dropping

00:42:49.250 --> 00:42:53.599
at Cruz del Toro. Sorry with a Massive shoulder

00:42:53.599 --> 00:43:00.840
tackle at the start as well There is We had head

00:43:00.840 --> 00:43:06.000
scissors Reversals are from Julius You know we

00:43:06.000 --> 00:43:11.079
had on Julius. Sorry At one point you had all

00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:14.260
six people in the ring kicking living balls up

00:43:14.260 --> 00:43:17.579
each other at the same time absolute pandemonium

00:43:17.579 --> 00:43:21.630
referee did not have this dubious to what was

00:43:21.630 --> 00:43:25.269
going on and even commentary turn around and

00:43:25.269 --> 00:43:28.070
said actually I'm not entirely sure who the legal

00:43:28.070 --> 00:43:31.210
men are at this point because The tags have all

00:43:31.210 --> 00:43:32.829
just gone out the window because everyone was

00:43:32.829 --> 00:43:34.570
just talking each other on the back and running

00:43:34.570 --> 00:43:38.769
around and tapping and it got confused Didn't

00:43:38.769 --> 00:43:41.630
we get us at this point like three simultaneous

00:43:41.630 --> 00:43:48.190
superplexes as well? Yes, we did American American

00:43:48.190 --> 00:43:55.539
made the large black coffee at one point had

00:43:55.539 --> 00:44:05.219
all three members of LWO up on the on the turnbuckle

00:44:05.219 --> 00:44:11.500
and yes they did hit the three simultaneous superplexes

00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:14.699
and it was actually quite interesting to watch

00:44:14.699 --> 00:44:17.920
as well to be fair the The choreography in that

00:44:17.920 --> 00:44:21.360
was definitely very good. Oh, they had to be

00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:24.320
so well placed not to end up slamming into one

00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:28.059
another realistically. Yes, definitely. And also

00:44:28.059 --> 00:44:30.300
just the timing on it, because it's not exactly

00:44:30.300 --> 00:44:32.019
as though you could have someone on the outside

00:44:32.019 --> 00:44:36.340
going, one, two, three, superplex. You know,

00:44:36.420 --> 00:44:40.239
it was all very well done. It just shows why

00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:43.199
they're professionals and we're not. We just

00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:47.230
sit on a couch talking about it. It's not even

00:44:47.230 --> 00:44:49.550
a couch. It's a really uncomfortable office chair.

00:44:50.050 --> 00:44:52.889
But yeah, it will do. Oh, my office chair is

00:44:52.889 --> 00:44:58.829
lovely. I need a new one. But yeah, I mean, we

00:44:58.829 --> 00:45:02.289
even had, it wasn't just America Made that pulled

00:45:02.289 --> 00:45:04.570
off some impressive moves here. I mean, I've

00:45:04.570 --> 00:45:10.489
got a note here saying Joaquin Wild with a corkscrew

00:45:10.489 --> 00:45:13.750
from the top rope to the... To the floor. I mean

00:45:13.750 --> 00:45:16.030
that guy spanned more than a beyblade on its

00:45:16.030 --> 00:45:21.670
best day He certainly did he certainly did I

00:45:21.670 --> 00:45:23.809
mean there was loads of different bits in here

00:45:23.809 --> 00:45:28.650
that but you I mean Dragon Lee manages to pull

00:45:28.650 --> 00:45:31.809
out a set out a sit -out power bomb at one point

00:45:31.809 --> 00:45:37.829
and then it there was a shooting star From Julius

00:45:37.829 --> 00:45:40.650
to break up the the pin that Dragon Lee had sat

00:45:40.650 --> 00:45:45.429
on I mean, you don't see a shooting star very

00:45:45.429 --> 00:45:47.530
often. I think the last time we saw someone try

00:45:47.530 --> 00:45:49.849
that, that was a Brock Lesnar move, wasn't it?

00:45:49.889 --> 00:45:53.110
The shooting star press. It's not something we

00:45:53.110 --> 00:45:56.050
see very often, but I think even on commentary

00:45:56.050 --> 00:45:58.030
towards the end of this match, they were saying

00:45:58.030 --> 00:46:01.429
like, I feel sorry for the highlight reel guys

00:46:01.429 --> 00:46:03.929
who are now going to have to try and pick the

00:46:03.929 --> 00:46:07.230
best bits out of this match because there was

00:46:07.230 --> 00:46:10.820
some great bits. they could have put the entire

00:46:10.820 --> 00:46:13.900
match back on over again and they wouldn't have

00:46:13.900 --> 00:46:17.719
been wrong so no exactly these guys did very

00:46:17.719 --> 00:46:21.860
very well but american maid did end up walking

00:46:21.860 --> 00:46:28.389
away with the win along with this was uh achieved

00:46:28.389 --> 00:46:31.130
because Ivy Nile ends up slipping a metal plate

00:46:31.130 --> 00:46:36.570
to El Grande Americano to basically store within

00:46:36.570 --> 00:46:41.150
his mask giving him essentially a loaded face

00:46:41.150 --> 00:46:44.889
mask. The cheating bastard Eddie Guerrero would

00:46:44.889 --> 00:46:52.860
have been very proud. 100 % he would have done.

00:46:52.900 --> 00:46:56.219
I mean there was a reason his mantra was we lie,

00:46:56.480 --> 00:47:00.800
we cheat, we steal. Viva la razza! But yeah,

00:47:01.940 --> 00:47:07.760
definitely. But yeah, I mean Rey Mysterio himself

00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:10.400
catches a headbutt with this loaded head mask

00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:13.699
as well as somebody else, but I didn't quite

00:47:13.699 --> 00:47:19.000
catch who it was. But yeah, basically that is

00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:22.880
how The Creed brothers in El Grande walk out

00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:37.500
this with the win. And that goes, that goes from

00:47:37.500 --> 00:47:44.579
there into a VT recap of probably one of the

00:47:44.579 --> 00:47:49.340
most visceral moments we've had in WWE. in recent

00:47:49.340 --> 00:47:55.219
memory. I'm of course talking about the Gunther

00:47:55.219 --> 00:48:01.159
-Jimmy Uso match from last week's Raw where poor

00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:07.360
Jimmy Uso was beaten to a bloody pulp and Gunther

00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:11.539
walked out of there essentially coated in Jimmy

00:48:11.539 --> 00:48:18.000
Uso's own blood. It was a very, very visceral

00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:20.960
scene. And yeah, I mean, heartbreaking for Jay

00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:25.380
Uso, who was zip tied to the middle rope, having

00:48:25.380 --> 00:48:29.380
to watch each and every last second of this beat

00:48:29.380 --> 00:48:35.079
down and being just out of reach of being able

00:48:35.079 --> 00:48:42.460
to do anything about it. We then go into an arena

00:48:42.460 --> 00:48:46.360
side promo now. I'm gonna be completely honest

00:48:46.360 --> 00:48:49.659
and say that my so when I'm watching these episodes

00:48:49.659 --> 00:48:53.239
back my Netflix does something really weird and

00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:58.519
it does it at different points so It will almost

00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.739
time lock some of the at one specific point So

00:49:02.739 --> 00:49:05.599
I can't actually go back and rewind through it

00:49:05.929 --> 00:49:08.650
In this case it decided to time lock on this

00:49:08.650 --> 00:49:12.409
particular promo so I missed a vast majority

00:49:12.409 --> 00:49:15.289
of this arena side promo with Liv Morgan and

00:49:15.289 --> 00:49:18.349
Raquel Rodriguez. I didn't even get it. By Jackie

00:49:18.349 --> 00:49:21.190
Redmond. I didn't even get it. There was nothing

00:49:21.190 --> 00:49:25.369
for me there. Oh was there not? So it was kind

00:49:25.369 --> 00:49:28.849
of like, I went into this specifically looking

00:49:28.849 --> 00:49:31.130
out for this because you said you'd had an issue

00:49:31.130 --> 00:49:35.289
and at no point During this watch through of

00:49:35.289 --> 00:49:37.789
the episode, do I remember seeing Liv Morgan

00:49:37.789 --> 00:49:42.550
and Raquel Rodriguez? It was an arena side promo.

00:49:42.630 --> 00:49:45.210
I saw the beginning bit and I saw the end bit,

00:49:45.510 --> 00:49:47.829
but everything that was in between, it was a

00:49:47.829 --> 00:49:50.170
good three, four minute promo as well. And I

00:49:50.170 --> 00:49:52.869
just couldn't watch any of it because Netflix

00:49:52.869 --> 00:49:56.239
would not allow me to. so I've got no clue what

00:49:56.239 --> 00:49:59.239
was said during that promo so if any of you do

00:49:59.239 --> 00:50:01.679
know of course find us on our socials drop us

00:50:01.679 --> 00:50:05.480
an email because I'd love to find out what it

00:50:05.480 --> 00:50:07.699
was right I would too because I feel like we're

00:50:07.699 --> 00:50:09.719
missing a big part of the story here especially

00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:13.199
considering those guys will be facing the winner

00:50:13.199 --> 00:50:16.760
of the gauntlet match at WrestleMania I want

00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:19.019
to know what they've got to say about this if

00:50:19.019 --> 00:50:22.800
I had to theorize I would say that the interview

00:50:22.800 --> 00:50:27.199
was Primarily about that gauntlet match. I'm

00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:29.079
gonna take a guess that they've probably turned

00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:31.099
round and said, you know What doesn't matter

00:50:31.099 --> 00:50:33.300
who we actually face will kick the shit out of

00:50:33.300 --> 00:50:36.179
them regardless But we're more focused on Dom

00:50:36.179 --> 00:50:39.460
Mysterio's match later on. So that's what we're

00:50:39.460 --> 00:50:43.440
that's what we're zeroing in on and yeah pretty

00:50:43.440 --> 00:50:47.260
much probably break for the day from there, but

00:50:47.260 --> 00:50:52.789
we then go into a Hall of Fame D -Generation

00:50:52.789 --> 00:50:56.409
X vignette to promote this year's Hall of Fame

00:50:56.409 --> 00:51:00.550
class which quite honestly is huge as they've

00:51:00.550 --> 00:51:04.969
added a further three people to the Hall of Fame

00:51:04.969 --> 00:51:09.630
class of 2025. So it's not just Triple H, it's

00:51:09.630 --> 00:51:13.670
not just Lex Luger, not just the natural disasters

00:51:13.670 --> 00:51:18.130
or the match between Stone Cold and Brett the

00:51:18.130 --> 00:51:23.539
Hitman Hart. Yeah, we've now got Kamala, Ivan

00:51:23.539 --> 00:51:28.500
Koloff, and Dory Funk Senior. Yeah. Senior, not

00:51:28.500 --> 00:51:33.079
Junior. Yeah, and... Out of a class. I'd say

00:51:33.079 --> 00:51:37.820
I sent you this a few days ago. wwwfoldschool

00:51:37.820 --> 00:51:41.780
.com was the source that I got it from originally.

00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:50.030
One of the websites I use for... Most of my WWE

00:51:50.030 --> 00:51:55.230
sort of reading material during the week and

00:51:55.230 --> 00:51:57.730
Slightly more reliable than the certain other

00:51:57.730 --> 00:52:00.130
ones we could mention, but we're not going to

00:52:00.130 --> 00:52:09.989
because that's slander and that's a crime We

00:52:09.989 --> 00:52:19.889
do not commit crimes We then go from that little

00:52:19.889 --> 00:52:26.650
vignette into an in -ring promo which sees Gunther

00:52:26.650 --> 00:52:29.550
coming out and I mean we've seen him in a few

00:52:29.550 --> 00:52:33.170
backstage walkthroughs since this episode aired

00:52:33.170 --> 00:52:37.829
or since this episode started and he has not

00:52:37.829 --> 00:52:43.070
stopped smiling. Nah, Gunther got laid. He must

00:52:43.070 --> 00:52:45.429
have done for a man to smile that much he got

00:52:45.429 --> 00:52:49.809
laid. Don't think it was that oddly enough. I

00:52:49.809 --> 00:52:53.610
just think he was He was enjoying himself after

00:52:53.610 --> 00:52:57.030
he laid the whooping Big Jim last weekend or

00:52:57.030 --> 00:53:01.550
last week. Sorry with the main event Jay handcuffed

00:53:01.550 --> 00:53:06.369
to the ropes with Cable ties and he did lay the

00:53:06.369 --> 00:53:12.130
smacketh down on Big Jim to Big Jim was bleeding

00:53:12.130 --> 00:53:15.800
by the end of this and uh it finished basically

00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:18.480
with Gunther wiping Jay's blood all over him

00:53:18.480 --> 00:53:22.019
like warping and uh that pissed Big Jim that

00:53:22.019 --> 00:53:26.719
pissed off uh pissed off Jay yeah Big Jim had

00:53:26.719 --> 00:53:32.260
no idea he was out oh he was sleepies he was

00:53:32.260 --> 00:53:35.900
done done before Gunther makes his way all the

00:53:35.900 --> 00:53:38.139
way to the ring before he's even had chance to

00:53:38.139 --> 00:53:41.480
bring the mic to his lips to say anything we

00:53:41.480 --> 00:53:49.269
are met with Yeah, so Minneapolis Minnesota found

00:53:49.269 --> 00:53:57.429
out that main event Jeyuso is in the city Yeah,

00:53:57.489 --> 00:54:01.710
and I'm sorry I couldn't resist almost in while

00:54:01.710 --> 00:54:07.119
the up almost the entire arena was eating their

00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.679
best life. It is a case that there was one man

00:54:10.679 --> 00:54:13.880
in that arena that most certainly was not eating

00:54:13.880 --> 00:54:18.440
and it was the one person you would not even

00:54:18.440 --> 00:54:22.179
begin to expect. Your commentary at this point

00:54:22.179 --> 00:54:25.679
actually point out that Gunther is moving more

00:54:25.679 --> 00:54:32.280
to the music than Main Event Jeyuso and he didn't

00:54:32.280 --> 00:54:35.099
pop a yeet, not one yeet, not a single yeet.

00:54:39.680 --> 00:54:47.820
No, this is it. Oh Bless you I was waiting for

00:54:47.820 --> 00:54:50.780
that. I bet you were that sounded impressive.

00:54:50.780 --> 00:54:55.460
Do you feel better? Yeah Thank you. Well, do

00:54:55.460 --> 00:54:58.360
you know who else felt better? after clearing

00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:02.559
something off their chest big Jay Jay felt better

00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:05.780
after getting a whole heap of stuff off his chest

00:55:05.780 --> 00:55:10.380
a good I mean, Gunford was basically the... He

00:55:10.380 --> 00:55:12.760
may as well have been a straw dummy sat up in

00:55:12.760 --> 00:55:15.679
the ring at this point. He was a verbal punchbag.

00:55:16.260 --> 00:55:21.440
Jay let him have it. And at least for half of

00:55:21.440 --> 00:55:25.780
this promo, he was continued to smile. He did.

00:55:27.159 --> 00:55:31.179
The smile was soon wiped off his face as... Yeah,

00:55:31.280 --> 00:55:36.679
I mean, Jay, so... Juso ends up slapping the

00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:40.039
mic out of Gunther's hand when he has a chance

00:55:40.039 --> 00:55:45.980
to speak, which is a brave move by anybody to

00:55:45.980 --> 00:55:49.059
slap a mic out of the hand of the ring general.

00:55:49.719 --> 00:55:54.039
Well, this is a very emotional Juso anyway, a

00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:58.000
very emotional Juso. So we see that before he

00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:01.420
even starts speaking, you can see him shaking,

00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:05.869
trembling. can't quite work out if it's anger

00:56:05.869 --> 00:56:08.110
that's building up inside him that's making him

00:56:08.110 --> 00:56:11.949
tremble like that or whether it's just adrenaline

00:56:11.949 --> 00:56:15.349
knowing that this guy that he's in the ring with

00:56:15.349 --> 00:56:17.989
that he's gonna be meeting in the ring and what

00:56:17.989 --> 00:56:22.730
did you say it was 12 days gonna be getting the

00:56:22.730 --> 00:56:27.030
living life whooped out of him more than likely

00:56:27.030 --> 00:56:29.730
I mean this match is gonna be the match between

00:56:29.730 --> 00:56:35.509
these two at WrestleMania is gonna be fire Incredible

00:56:35.509 --> 00:56:41.610
But oh 100 % I mean We got put money of you know,

00:56:41.710 --> 00:56:43.949
I money where our mouths are here. It's just

00:56:43.949 --> 00:56:47.329
this Jay got this I Mean after this promo and

00:56:47.329 --> 00:56:50.349
after some of the stuff he says, you know He

00:56:50.349 --> 00:56:53.469
asked Gunther if he'd spoken to his mom recently,

00:56:53.469 --> 00:56:56.550
you know And what do you talk about when you're

00:56:56.550 --> 00:56:59.570
talking on the phone with your mom? He says,

00:56:59.670 --> 00:57:02.199
you know, I was having to tell mine that Jimmy's

00:57:02.199 --> 00:57:05.239
in the hospital and he's got 15 stitches in his

00:57:05.239 --> 00:57:08.340
forehead That's I mean to get smashed with a

00:57:08.340 --> 00:57:11.300
title belt 15 stitches. That's a hell of a hell

00:57:11.300 --> 00:57:20.159
of a gosh And a no way to talk about Jimmy's

00:57:20.159 --> 00:57:27.420
mother Oh Rikishi I didn't mean it bro, please

00:57:27.420 --> 00:57:33.670
don't stink face me You've gone and done me with

00:57:33.670 --> 00:57:40.949
that one. Oh Yes, he's got 15 surprise WrestleMania

00:57:40.949 --> 00:57:46.769
main event I've just booked you a one -way ticket

00:57:46.769 --> 00:57:50.269
to Las Vegas homeboy. Yeah straight to the stink

00:57:50.269 --> 00:57:55.050
face. Yes basically 15 stitches that is that's

00:57:55.050 --> 00:57:58.170
quite an impressive thing, but J's mom asked

00:57:58.170 --> 00:58:01.380
like why didn't you protect Jimmy in? Jay basically

00:58:01.380 --> 00:58:07.219
says I was afraid of you he said yeah now he's

00:58:07.219 --> 00:58:12.559
not afraid of him so I mean this is the one thing

00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:15.119
about when you face the greatest fear is that

00:58:15.119 --> 00:58:17.860
generally you're looking at what what else do

00:58:17.860 --> 00:58:20.659
you fear after facing it as you face it and you

00:58:20.659 --> 00:58:26.239
walk away alive what what more is there to fear

00:58:26.950 --> 00:58:30.570
Right I mean and and death is definitely a possibility

00:58:30.570 --> 00:58:33.090
when you're getting into a ring with Gunther

00:58:33.090 --> 00:58:38.309
He just does not care. He's an animal and He

00:58:38.309 --> 00:58:41.750
wants to slap the clown out of Jay in and get

00:58:41.750 --> 00:58:45.449
on with his day and In fairness, I think he might

00:58:45.449 --> 00:58:48.150
have I think he might have achieved his goal

00:58:48.150 --> 00:58:51.449
to some degree is that? There is no longer any

00:58:51.449 --> 00:58:55.590
clowning about in Jey Uso. Jey Uso is laser focused

00:58:55.590 --> 00:59:01.050
and hyper aggressive at this point. He's feeling

00:59:01.050 --> 00:59:05.730
disrespected at the fact that Gunther has essentially

00:59:05.730 --> 00:59:10.570
violated his twin. He had to watch his twin brother

00:59:10.570 --> 00:59:18.519
being absolutely brutalized in the ring. mere

00:59:18.519 --> 00:59:22.599
inches from his face in some just in some circumstances

00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:28.340
and he had to watch all of that and then get

00:59:28.340 --> 00:59:30.440
questioned by his own mother at the fact that

00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:34.719
he didn't protect his brother right i mean does

00:59:34.719 --> 00:59:40.699
mrs uso not not watch freaking wwe tv i mean

00:59:40.699 --> 00:59:45.079
i'm guessing probably not after that but yeah

00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:52.639
um It's a case that Jay is, he's had an epiphany

00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:58.139
of having no more fear. He has looked fear in

00:59:58.139 --> 01:00:02.599
the eyes and lived to tell the tale, so Gunther

01:00:02.599 --> 01:00:07.559
now has no smile on his face. He looks uncomfortable

01:00:07.559 --> 01:00:12.159
at this point. Jay, he's got no idea what Jay's

01:00:12.159 --> 01:00:14.460
capable of at this point because this is a version

01:00:14.460 --> 01:00:18.630
of Jay Uso. that he's definitely never seen and

01:00:18.630 --> 01:00:21.590
we've never seen either. No, we haven't seen

01:00:21.590 --> 01:00:25.489
a desperate Jey Uso. We don't know what a desperate

01:00:25.489 --> 01:00:27.710
Jey Uso going to do, especially when there's

01:00:27.710 --> 01:00:31.469
a title on the line at WrestleMania. I don't

01:00:31.469 --> 01:00:33.510
think this is about the title anymore. I don't

01:00:33.510 --> 01:00:36.070
think Jey Uso could give to a given monkeys if

01:00:36.070 --> 01:00:38.909
he did walk out of it with. This is about Jimmy

01:00:38.909 --> 01:00:44.230
and what Gunther did to him. Yeah. Gunther's

01:00:44.230 --> 01:00:48.650
made this so personal that I don't think that

01:00:48.650 --> 01:00:52.230
Jay is going to give up until he's made it so

01:00:52.230 --> 01:00:56.110
that Gunther is being carried out of the Allegiant

01:00:56.110 --> 01:01:02.809
Stadium in Las Vegas. No, definitely doesn't

01:01:02.809 --> 01:01:08.010
seem it's going to be that way. And we move from

01:01:08.010 --> 01:01:13.349
there into a recap of the ending of Smackdown

01:01:13.349 --> 01:01:20.929
from last week which I went over more in last

01:01:20.929 --> 01:01:24.750
week's episode of Smackdown and this was basically

01:01:24.750 --> 01:01:29.690
just finding it like a recap of what else we

01:01:29.690 --> 01:01:33.929
found out about the the favor from from CM Punk

01:01:33.929 --> 01:01:38.940
and Paul Heyman and with Rollins and Rains. It

01:01:38.940 --> 01:01:45.760
was an interesting segment. We now know what

01:01:45.760 --> 01:01:50.679
the favour is. The favour is known. It is. It

01:01:50.679 --> 01:01:57.760
is. But that recap leads us into a... a GM Office

01:01:57.760 --> 01:02:01.260
promo where we see Adam Pearce and Maxime Dupree

01:02:01.260 --> 01:02:04.420
hearing some of Natalia's concerns about having

01:02:04.420 --> 01:02:08.199
to go into this gauntlet match and I can sort

01:02:08.199 --> 01:02:11.039
of understand is that all of the other teams

01:02:11.039 --> 01:02:13.539
within that gauntlet match obviously we went

01:02:13.539 --> 01:02:16.980
through them a few moments ago but all of those

01:02:16.980 --> 01:02:20.980
other teams have had at least one match together

01:02:20.980 --> 01:02:27.119
as a team whereas Well, I would play possibly

01:02:27.119 --> 01:02:31.780
aside from Lyra Valkyria and Bailey But all of

01:02:31.780 --> 01:02:34.119
those other all of those other teams within that

01:02:34.119 --> 01:02:38.019
gauntlet match are tried and tested teams. Yeah

01:02:38.019 --> 01:02:45.119
Where Maxine Dupree and Natalia? Really? I mean

01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:46.900
don't get me wrong. We got to see Natty back

01:02:46.900 --> 01:02:53.340
but It's one of those I mean it's I struggle

01:02:53.340 --> 01:03:01.099
to remember when Maxine Dupree's last televised

01:03:01.099 --> 01:03:06.659
match was I will be honest I don't think it's

01:03:06.659 --> 01:03:08.639
been while we've done finishes and factions because

01:03:08.639 --> 01:03:13.199
I don't remember like talking about a too much

01:03:13.199 --> 01:03:20.840
apart from like promos backstage no this is it

01:03:23.369 --> 01:03:28.849
So apparently Maxine has had a match at an NXT

01:03:28.849 --> 01:03:39.409
live event on March 7th 2025. I'm just having

01:03:39.409 --> 01:03:45.210
a look now to see when her last televised match

01:03:45.210 --> 01:04:00.699
was. So Maxine Maxine's last televised match

01:04:00.699 --> 01:04:05.940
Was she entered into the Royal Rumble this year

01:04:05.940 --> 01:04:10.000
that was Maxine Dupree's last Televised match

01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:12.559
I've got to admit. I do not remember her entry

01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:17.780
I don't They must involve if she if she was in

01:04:17.780 --> 01:04:21.000
the Royal Rumble and we don't remember then Her

01:04:21.000 --> 01:04:23.239
performance couldn't have been too significant.

01:04:23.579 --> 01:04:30.070
Yeah before that it was a women's women's world

01:04:30.070 --> 01:04:33.170
title number one contendership battle royale

01:04:33.170 --> 01:04:39.570
on the 3rd of November in 2024 so she's had two

01:04:39.570 --> 01:04:44.750
matches in six months yeah well two televised

01:04:44.750 --> 01:04:48.070
matches at least well yeah two televised matches

01:04:48.070 --> 01:04:54.179
in six months that's that's not great and then

01:04:54.179 --> 01:04:57.360
we ended up with Adam Pearce having a conversation

01:04:57.360 --> 01:05:03.360
with Rey Mysterio asking basically Adam Pearce

01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:05.280
says that he can have a match with Chad Gable

01:05:05.280 --> 01:05:08.539
whenever he wants one but Rey says it's not Chad

01:05:08.539 --> 01:05:13.900
Gable he wants he wants El Grande Americano and

01:05:13.900 --> 01:05:16.800
basically just says that he wants to pick the

01:05:16.800 --> 01:05:19.179
time and the location of this match and that

01:05:19.179 --> 01:05:22.559
he wants to have this match at WrestleMania so

01:05:23.000 --> 01:05:29.679
wants to have this matchup in Las Vegas. I think

01:05:29.679 --> 01:05:33.340
Rey Mysterio comes and asks. Rey Mysterio gets

01:05:33.340 --> 01:05:36.320
basically. Pretty much and I think at this point

01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:40.599
El Grande Americano is getting unmasked at WrestleMania.

01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:45.480
Rey is gonna whoop his butt and remove his mask.

01:05:47.179 --> 01:05:51.619
The thing is are we gonna expect it? Are we sort

01:05:51.619 --> 01:05:54.280
of siding with Michael Cole on this? Are we expecting

01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:57.320
to find Chad Gable under that mask? Or is it

01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.519
going to be a case that El Grande Americano gets

01:06:00.519 --> 01:06:04.980
unmasked and it's not Chad Gable at all? I mean,

01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:11.400
I'm going to go with it's not Chad Gable. But

01:06:11.400 --> 01:06:14.440
that's purely because we've seen them both at

01:06:14.440 --> 01:06:16.960
the same time on television, but one was in a

01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:20.139
mask and one wasn't. You know, we have seen them,

01:06:20.139 --> 01:06:23.719
but whether it's... I mean, we know it's not

01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:29.099
Hornswoggle. It's too tall. Yeah. But I don't

01:06:29.099 --> 01:06:31.119
think it's Chad Gable. It could be Spike Dudley

01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:36.900
for all we know. I mean, El Grande Americano

01:06:36.900 --> 01:06:40.860
has some half -decent ability in the ring. Spike

01:06:40.860 --> 01:06:44.360
Dudley was basically just a rag doll used for

01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:49.539
people's finishes. That guy's had concussions

01:06:49.539 --> 01:06:55.280
more concussions than you've had like Fucking

01:06:55.280 --> 01:06:57.519
why he doesn't say he's probably had more concussions

01:06:57.519 --> 01:07:00.820
than you've had wanks you can't like if that

01:07:00.820 --> 01:07:09.159
guy is basically just In a lifetime Very concussed

01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:11.539
fellow I think you'd have to be freaking dead

01:07:11.539 --> 01:07:14.820
to do to match that record. I suppose you've

01:07:14.820 --> 01:07:21.360
been single a while I just called myself a prolific

01:07:21.360 --> 01:07:24.820
wanker. You did. Talking about prolific wankers

01:07:24.820 --> 01:07:27.260
though, we have two of them in our next match.

01:07:27.960 --> 01:07:33.039
And before we get into the next match, I never

01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:36.119
thought I'd see the day where Tony Hinchcliffe

01:07:36.119 --> 01:07:44.400
would be on WWE programming. I don't know a tremendous

01:07:44.400 --> 01:07:47.539
amount about Tony Hinchcliffe. He seems to have

01:07:47.539 --> 01:07:53.719
completely passed me by. Tony Hinchcliffe is

01:07:53.719 --> 01:07:57.639
a comedian. He does a program called Kill Tony.

01:07:58.300 --> 01:08:02.440
It is basically a live panel, live audience.

01:08:03.940 --> 01:08:07.159
So the audience is normal people. The live panel

01:08:07.159 --> 01:08:09.719
is normally celebrities and other comedians.

01:08:10.119 --> 01:08:13.219
and they then invite local and up -and -coming

01:08:13.219 --> 01:08:16.220
comedians onto the Kill Tony show to come and

01:08:16.220 --> 01:08:20.520
they have like a 60 second set on the show and

01:08:20.520 --> 01:08:23.880
basically the professionals rip the living balls

01:08:23.880 --> 01:08:25.960
off them and they get an opportunity to bounce

01:08:25.960 --> 01:08:30.119
back. It is really really funny, some of it's

01:08:30.119 --> 01:08:34.140
close to the bone but that's why I like it. But

01:08:34.140 --> 01:08:37.619
Tony Hinchcliffe is also the guy that does the

01:08:37.619 --> 01:08:41.460
roasts on television. So like the roast of Tom

01:08:41.460 --> 01:08:46.340
Brady was hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe. He helped

01:08:46.340 --> 01:08:50.439
set that up as well, the whole process. He is

01:08:50.439 --> 01:08:53.579
doing the roast of WrestleMania this year. So

01:08:53.579 --> 01:08:57.810
there are quite a few WWE superstars. are getting

01:08:57.810 --> 01:09:00.770
involved in this and Tony Hinchcliffe is gonna

01:09:00.770 --> 01:09:05.130
rip them all a new one for I'm guessing the sake

01:09:05.130 --> 01:09:09.050
of viewings and money which is something you

01:09:09.050 --> 01:09:14.189
know everybody likes yeah I mean fair play to

01:09:14.189 --> 01:09:17.029
the guy if that's what he's going out there to

01:09:17.029 --> 01:09:22.130
do then yeah he is a funny funny guy the Kill

01:09:22.130 --> 01:09:25.689
Tony program is I'm a little bit confused why

01:09:25.689 --> 01:09:29.189
they're advertising it because It's uh, it's

01:09:29.189 --> 01:09:32.869
on at the same time as wwb programming Um is

01:09:32.869 --> 01:09:41.329
on a monday at 8 pm eastern Yes, um, but it's

01:09:41.329 --> 01:09:46.409
it's hilarious it is great. I love it I watch

01:09:46.409 --> 01:09:55.729
it on youtube though Um, yeah As I said, I enjoyed

01:09:55.729 --> 01:09:58.329
a lot of the roasting that he did while he was

01:09:58.329 --> 01:10:04.489
While he was on Yeah, when he was on the program

01:10:04.489 --> 01:10:06.949
it was it was pretty good but unfortunately though

01:10:06.949 --> 01:10:11.310
the guys are massive new day fan But he actually

01:10:11.310 --> 01:10:14.529
agrees that new day did the right thing by booting

01:10:14.529 --> 01:10:17.890
biggie out and I'm like, oh that's naughty He's

01:10:17.890 --> 01:10:21.800
trying to get some cheap heat in them seats 100

01:10:21.800 --> 01:10:24.920
% and I think he managed it to me if we're completely

01:10:24.920 --> 01:10:28.840
honest with one another Yeah, so as you've guessed

01:10:28.840 --> 01:10:32.800
it, this is a men's tag men's World Tag Team

01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:36.380
Championship match which sees our current championships

01:10:36.380 --> 01:10:44.500
the war Raiders versus the new new day Who yeah

01:10:44.500 --> 01:10:47.840
been on a bit of a heel turn since turning their

01:10:47.840 --> 01:10:52.890
backs on Big E I will tell you though, to start

01:10:52.890 --> 01:10:55.069
off with I was a little bit against this new

01:10:55.069 --> 01:10:59.750
New Day. They are starting to grow on me slightly.

01:11:01.289 --> 01:11:05.770
I don't know why. What they're doing and what

01:11:05.770 --> 01:11:08.810
they're saying is obviously meant to upset and

01:11:08.810 --> 01:11:12.989
meant to turn people off them and yeah for a

01:11:12.989 --> 01:11:15.569
majority of it unfortunately I'm buying into

01:11:15.569 --> 01:11:19.430
it. I was never a huge New Day fan to begin with

01:11:19.430 --> 01:11:23.420
when they were dancing around giving out fucking

01:11:23.420 --> 01:11:26.260
pancakes and shit oh when they had the unicorn

01:11:26.260 --> 01:11:30.220
penises on their head yeah i was never never

01:11:30.220 --> 01:11:33.979
a huge fan so thank you final boss for that one

01:11:33.979 --> 01:11:41.460
it was one of those things where i yeah it's

01:11:41.460 --> 01:11:44.619
never been truly enamored with them they've never

01:11:44.619 --> 01:11:50.079
it's never been the one for me I mean I can get

01:11:50.079 --> 01:11:55.220
behind that. But I mean everybody's different

01:11:55.220 --> 01:12:04.220
and yeah I'm sure there were people that absolutely

01:12:04.220 --> 01:12:08.659
adored the new day before their heel turn and

01:12:08.659 --> 01:12:11.199
probably some people that have started to like

01:12:11.199 --> 01:12:16.680
them now that they've made their heel turn. Each

01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:24.680
to their own at the end of the day. But Yeah,

01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.640
I'm just not never been a huge New Day fan. I

01:12:27.640 --> 01:12:32.020
don't really I like Kofi Kingston Yes, I thought

01:12:32.020 --> 01:12:35.319
Kofi Kingston as a singles competitor phenomenal

01:12:35.319 --> 01:12:39.979
his world title reign was ludicrously short and

01:12:39.979 --> 01:12:43.180
Was actually an insult to the man in my one of

01:12:43.180 --> 01:12:46.579
the best Jamaican superstars to ever grace the

01:12:46.579 --> 01:12:55.699
WWE ring Yeah, but Xavier Woods I think he's

01:12:55.699 --> 01:12:58.380
really come into his own since the heel turn

01:12:58.380 --> 01:13:01.760
Before he was the comic relief on the outside

01:13:01.760 --> 01:13:04.739
Kofi and Big E used to do all the heavy lifting

01:13:04.739 --> 01:13:08.800
Is that what he was with Paige and Brad Maddox

01:13:08.800 --> 01:13:16.000
the comic relief on the outside? I had to know

01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:17.899
that there was something like that on the way

01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:23.239
i had to know it um but yeah i think since the

01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:26.560
new day's heel turn since they lost big e and

01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:29.159
they've turned their back on him it is a case

01:13:29.159 --> 01:13:32.560
that xavier woods has had to step up he's had

01:13:32.560 --> 01:13:36.619
to step up and i think he's done that in a big

01:13:36.619 --> 01:13:41.479
way he has he's definitely wrestled more in the

01:13:41.479 --> 01:13:45.170
last let's say six to nine months that Big E's

01:13:45.170 --> 01:13:47.970
been out of the picture than he has done in the

01:13:47.970 --> 01:13:52.010
last let's say five to six years that the New

01:13:52.010 --> 01:13:53.670
Day's been running. Yeah, because a lot of the

01:13:53.670 --> 01:13:59.109
time it was Big E and Kofi Kingston. It was very

01:13:59.109 --> 01:14:03.350
rarely the three of them or sort of Xavier in

01:14:03.350 --> 01:14:05.989
the combination of the other one or the other

01:14:05.989 --> 01:14:09.590
two, sorry. It never really happened that way.

01:14:09.850 --> 01:14:14.000
But yeah, I mean This match they got with the

01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:17.659
War Raiders for the title is the 13th match that

01:14:17.659 --> 01:14:21.439
sees the War Raiders versus the New Day. But

01:14:21.439 --> 01:14:26.140
only the first match where a championship is

01:14:26.140 --> 01:14:32.279
involved. Again, I didn't get a great many notes

01:14:32.279 --> 01:14:34.899
for this. The last time I didn't get many notes

01:14:34.899 --> 01:14:37.180
I said was because the action was thick and fast.

01:14:37.239 --> 01:14:40.260
This one I got purely because I was just enjoying

01:14:40.260 --> 01:14:45.380
what I was watching. I see I'm glad you did because

01:14:45.380 --> 01:14:48.140
I'll leave you to talk about it because war Raiders

01:14:48.140 --> 01:14:52.699
Do me in this I find them so incredibly boring

01:14:52.699 --> 01:14:57.800
Really? Yeah I'm not I'm not gonna say I'm not

01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:00.039
gonna sit here and say that I'm a huge war Raiders

01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:03.439
fan because I'm not It's simply not possible

01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:06.579
to be a huge war Raiders fan in my in my personal

01:15:06.579 --> 01:15:09.640
opinion Do I think that some of the moves that

01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:12.880
these two did these two? rather portly gentlemen

01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:17.520
can pull off in the ring. I think they're hugely

01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:20.800
impressive. Don't get me wrong. Some really fat

01:15:20.800 --> 01:15:23.779
fuckers in my time that can't move half as well

01:15:23.779 --> 01:15:27.079
as these guys. Don't get me wrong. Their ability

01:15:27.079 --> 01:15:30.699
is not... I'm not knocking their ability. Their

01:15:30.699 --> 01:15:35.199
matches really struggle to hold me. They haven't

01:15:35.199 --> 01:15:37.539
got a lot of legs for them for long matches.

01:15:38.079 --> 01:15:42.069
They haven't. and it's normally the same sort

01:15:42.069 --> 01:15:46.189
of routine match it's this move followed by this

01:15:46.189 --> 01:15:48.729
move followed by that move followed by this attempt

01:15:48.729 --> 01:15:52.529
it's all just very samey samey and i just i struggle

01:15:52.529 --> 01:15:56.670
with them but you see this week i didn't feel

01:15:56.670 --> 01:15:58.729
that was the case because i can certainly see

01:15:58.729 --> 01:16:03.970
where you're coming from but this week new day

01:16:03.970 --> 01:16:07.810
really sort of tugging at that here tugging it

01:16:07.810 --> 01:16:11.329
took in at the heel cord as such as they were

01:16:11.329 --> 01:16:14.409
really sort of trying to use numbers to isolate

01:16:14.409 --> 01:16:17.430
off one of the one or both of the war raiders

01:16:17.430 --> 01:16:22.909
off from one another some real really sort of

01:16:22.909 --> 01:16:26.250
basic tag team wrestling basically but doing

01:16:26.250 --> 01:16:31.649
it with a a heel sort of twist to it it was it

01:16:31.649 --> 01:16:34.789
was really nicely done The match itself didn't

01:16:34.789 --> 01:16:38.909
go on for phenomenally long and this was because

01:16:38.909 --> 01:16:42.489
Xavier Woods for the like two or three times

01:16:42.489 --> 01:16:47.310
tried to introduce a a steel chair. Tries to

01:16:47.310 --> 01:16:50.630
introduce a steel chair but it's just really

01:16:50.630 --> 01:16:56.029
really poor timing on the ref's part that he

01:16:56.029 --> 01:16:58.890
ends up turning around to see Ivar laying into

01:16:58.890 --> 01:17:03.069
Xavier Woods with the chair itself and Yeah,

01:17:03.869 --> 01:17:10.210
the Nudeia declared winners by DQ, which it doesn't

01:17:10.210 --> 01:17:13.750
earn them the title, but it certainly gets them

01:17:13.750 --> 01:17:16.229
a mark in the win column against the champions,

01:17:16.609 --> 01:17:21.050
which will dictate a future title opportunity

01:17:21.050 --> 01:17:23.310
for them. This won't be the last time we see

01:17:23.310 --> 01:17:26.409
this match again. We'll probably see this one

01:17:26.409 --> 01:17:30.699
at main year, to be fair. I don't think we'll

01:17:30.699 --> 01:17:32.880
see it at Mania. I think we could possibly see

01:17:32.880 --> 01:17:35.479
it at the Roar after Mania. Yeah, that's a good

01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:37.119
show actually. I've forgotten about Roar after

01:17:37.119 --> 01:17:40.779
Mania. So we'll possibly see it at the Roar after

01:17:40.779 --> 01:17:43.800
Mania. I don't think we'll see it at Mania itself.

01:17:44.539 --> 01:17:48.539
Or even it might be a pre -show event. Yeah.

01:17:50.619 --> 01:17:53.479
But basically New Day have ramped this right

01:17:53.479 --> 01:17:56.800
up as... Towards the end of this little segment

01:17:56.800 --> 01:17:59.479
officials were storming the ring as new days

01:17:59.479 --> 01:18:03.500
basically tried to end the certainly the career

01:18:03.500 --> 01:18:05.859
I could make an argument for the life of poor

01:18:05.859 --> 01:18:09.319
Eric of the war Raiders as they had him tied

01:18:09.319 --> 01:18:13.140
up in a chair as a necklace basically trying

01:18:13.140 --> 01:18:17.239
to do a an off the top rope dive off the top

01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:21.060
rope dive attack to to poor Eric laced up in

01:18:21.060 --> 01:18:26.340
this chair Had the officials not managed to release

01:18:26.340 --> 01:18:33.359
Ivar from that cold steel necklace, he would

01:18:33.359 --> 01:18:36.220
have possibly spent the rest of his life in a

01:18:36.220 --> 01:18:39.960
wheelchair, quite frankly. But, yeah, this just

01:18:39.960 --> 01:18:43.619
goes to show what levels The New Day are now

01:18:43.619 --> 01:18:46.979
willing to sink to, to try and get what they

01:18:46.979 --> 01:18:49.739
want. Yeah, well they want that time pin sip

01:18:49.739 --> 01:18:51.579
gold and they're going to do whatever they can.

01:18:52.109 --> 01:18:55.130
You know, if they hurt one of them badly enough,

01:18:55.149 --> 01:18:57.390
they have to relinquish the titles. It just makes

01:18:57.390 --> 01:19:00.689
life easier, doesn't it? Yeah, certainly does.

01:19:02.010 --> 01:19:05.710
We then have a VT promo. I've got to admit a

01:19:05.710 --> 01:19:09.949
really long VT promo for John Cena versus Cody

01:19:09.949 --> 01:19:14.569
Rhodes at WrestleMania for the WWE title. Basically

01:19:14.569 --> 01:19:18.050
recapping the journey so far from the swift kick

01:19:18.050 --> 01:19:22.119
to the plums to the verbal beatdowns that we've

01:19:22.119 --> 01:19:24.260
had, the verbal sparring matches in ring that

01:19:24.260 --> 01:19:26.739
we've had over the last couple of weeks. In fact

01:19:26.739 --> 01:19:31.640
this is the first time on Monday Night Raw in

01:19:31.640 --> 01:19:35.100
a good few weeks where we haven't seen either

01:19:35.100 --> 01:19:38.619
Cody Rhodes or John Cena come to the ring. That

01:19:38.619 --> 01:19:43.699
is very true to be fair. That is very true. But

01:19:43.699 --> 01:19:47.819
after this VT promo that quite honestly probably

01:19:47.819 --> 01:19:54.890
could have been put into an email. is the final

01:19:54.890 --> 01:19:58.069
match of the evening, the main event match, if

01:19:58.069 --> 01:20:01.789
you will. It's the men's singles match which

01:20:01.789 --> 01:20:08.270
sees Penta versus Dirty Dominic Mysterio, accompanied

01:20:08.270 --> 01:20:14.529
to the ring by Carlito. Yeah, this wasn't a bad

01:20:14.529 --> 01:20:16.729
match and considering this is the first time

01:20:16.729 --> 01:20:19.979
the two of them have ever met, One -on -one as

01:20:19.979 --> 01:20:23.119
well. It was an interesting scenario to put myself

01:20:23.119 --> 01:20:25.720
in I didn't have anything to compare it against

01:20:25.720 --> 01:20:30.779
but um Apparently it's the foot according to

01:20:30.779 --> 01:20:32.720
commentary. It's the first time these two have

01:20:32.720 --> 01:20:41.439
ever met in ring Yeah, we've been down this route

01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:44.720
before and I've been proven wrong. Not willing

01:20:44.720 --> 01:20:46.819
to, you know, not wanting to urinate on your

01:20:46.819 --> 01:20:50.159
fireworks at all, but Michael Cole is a very

01:20:50.159 --> 01:20:54.140
trustworthy source. Yeah, generally. It's not

01:20:54.140 --> 01:20:56.560
very often we've been able, in fact I don't think

01:20:56.560 --> 01:20:58.760
we've managed to point a hole in any of his facts

01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:02.180
just yet. We did try with one, but we pushed

01:21:02.180 --> 01:21:03.840
it a little bit further and realised we were

01:21:03.840 --> 01:21:08.279
counting NXT PLEs as well. Yeah, this is it.

01:21:10.139 --> 01:21:14.079
but yeah I mean I've got to admit considering

01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:19.880
it there wasn't huge stakes in this match and

01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:23.060
realistically for this match Dom sort of needed

01:21:23.060 --> 01:21:25.659
to come out of a win to go into mania with some

01:21:25.659 --> 01:21:30.159
momentum behind him Dom seemed more distracted

01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:32.760
by the crowd now than I think we've seen him

01:21:32.760 --> 01:21:36.239
in a little while he seemed to be sort of drifting

01:21:36.239 --> 01:21:40.779
off We and focusing more on what the crowd were

01:21:40.779 --> 01:21:45.619
saying rather than What? Was going on in the

01:21:45.619 --> 01:21:49.020
matching places which just helped Penta get really

01:21:49.020 --> 01:21:52.260
early control Yeah, and I think it's probably

01:21:52.260 --> 01:21:54.500
done for a reason they were they're obviously

01:21:54.500 --> 01:21:57.560
trying to Heighten one of these guys up and when

01:21:57.560 --> 01:21:59.979
they're both being in the same match at WrestleMania

01:21:59.979 --> 01:22:03.640
They can't really have one squash the other you'd

01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:06.460
expect the same thing again at WrestleMania,

01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:10.869
so It's um, they're trying to keep both of these

01:22:10.869 --> 01:22:13.770
guys strong whilst having one lose is going to

01:22:13.770 --> 01:22:19.930
be difficult No, this is it now Both of these

01:22:19.930 --> 01:22:22.989
men sort of trotted out the classics that they're

01:22:22.989 --> 01:22:27.130
known for we had Dom hit three amigos and have

01:22:27.130 --> 01:22:30.930
two attempts at a 619 only one of which is only

01:22:30.930 --> 01:22:33.770
one of which actually managed to hit yeah, we

01:22:33.770 --> 01:22:40.609
have penta with his patented penta driver and

01:22:40.609 --> 01:22:45.510
I mean which he manages to actually hit again

01:22:45.510 --> 01:22:50.170
he has two attempts at the penta driver and only

01:22:50.170 --> 01:22:53.670
hits the one but the one was all he needed as

01:22:53.670 --> 01:22:57.869
he'd also penta had also managed to hit the sacrifice

01:23:00.239 --> 01:23:04.600
Which is it looks really painful. I will be honest

01:23:04.600 --> 01:23:07.760
and but Penta basically walks out of this one

01:23:07.760 --> 01:23:11.819
with the With the win and as always with a judgment

01:23:11.819 --> 01:23:14.899
day at judgment day match It is not what happens

01:23:14.899 --> 01:23:18.060
in the match within between the bell between

01:23:18.060 --> 01:23:21.399
the bells ringing that is of any consequence

01:23:21.399 --> 01:23:26.479
it's normally what happens afterwards and Yeah,

01:23:26.640 --> 01:23:29.659
Carlito basically jumps Penta with a backstabber

01:23:29.659 --> 01:23:37.600
as the match ends. It's brutal. It was a phenomenal

01:23:37.600 --> 01:23:45.060
match. Phenomenal. But the truly phenomenal thing

01:23:45.060 --> 01:23:49.760
was... as Judgement Day are laying into penta

01:23:49.760 --> 01:23:53.680
in the middle of the ring we see the Intercontinental

01:23:53.680 --> 01:24:00.640
Champion himself Mr. Brom Breaker break the sound

01:24:00.640 --> 01:24:03.739
barrier pretty much running down the entrance

01:24:03.739 --> 01:24:08.899
ramp to spear Carlito clean in half oh yeah took

01:24:08.899 --> 01:24:11.260
him clean off his feet mate absolutely wiped

01:24:11.260 --> 01:24:15.840
him right out and if by this point you haven't

01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:20.779
seen it then please just social media it social

01:24:20.779 --> 01:24:23.899
media will show you multiple different angles

01:24:23.899 --> 01:24:28.939
of Brombreaker just snap it like the speary hit

01:24:28.939 --> 01:24:32.119
off that entrance ramp was probably more devastating

01:24:32.119 --> 01:24:34.899
than the one that i show speed can probably still

01:24:34.899 --> 01:24:38.880
feel oh yeah no i show speeds was uh horrific

01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:42.640
but that one on Carly i was insane like Brombreaker

01:24:42.640 --> 01:24:46.699
went through him and then flipped over in mid

01:24:46.699 --> 01:24:50.420
-air. It was just pure insanity. It was incredible.

01:24:51.420 --> 01:24:55.439
Yeah and Brombreaker does not stop there as he

01:24:55.439 --> 01:25:00.939
delivers another bright neck spear to Dom and

01:25:00.939 --> 01:25:05.359
then even goes up one step further and delivers

01:25:05.359 --> 01:25:13.239
another spear to Penta. The only thing that seems

01:25:13.239 --> 01:25:18.260
to slow his role as it goes is uh Finn Balor

01:25:18.260 --> 01:25:22.779
sneaking up on uh sneaking up and attack attacking

01:25:22.779 --> 01:25:27.380
Brombreaker and avoiding a spear of his own I

01:25:27.380 --> 01:25:29.779
mean ballsy motherfucker I wouldn't want to be

01:25:29.779 --> 01:25:33.359
trying to take Brombreaker from behind nope no

01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:39.100
certainly not um but this gives Finn Balor some

01:25:39.100 --> 01:25:43.100
unexpected momentum going into going into the

01:25:43.100 --> 01:25:48.000
WrestleMania match because Yeah, he seems to

01:25:48.000 --> 01:25:51.239
have got one over on the champ. I know he seems

01:25:51.239 --> 01:25:54.800
to have done anyway. Yeah I'm still sticking

01:25:54.800 --> 01:25:56.840
with my prediction from the beginning of the

01:25:56.840 --> 01:25:59.920
show though. I've got an odd feeling that he's

01:25:59.920 --> 01:26:04.680
that this title is gonna find its way on to on

01:26:04.680 --> 01:26:08.020
to Don Mysterio and the circumstances around

01:26:08.020 --> 01:26:13.010
which will probably be a little bit sus but yeah

01:26:13.010 --> 01:26:18.529
it'll be a little bit dirty we then to close

01:26:18.529 --> 01:26:22.670
out the show we are treated to an in -ring promo

01:26:22.670 --> 01:26:29.930
which sees the wise man Paul Heyman basically

01:26:29.930 --> 01:26:33.550
comes to talk to us about what happened after

01:26:33.550 --> 01:26:37.010
smackdown was it Was it Smackdown? Yeah, Smackdown

01:26:37.010 --> 01:26:39.609
went off the air when we found out what happened

01:26:39.609 --> 01:26:43.050
with the favour and everything that goes along

01:26:43.050 --> 01:26:46.710
with that. And he basically wants to get a few

01:26:46.710 --> 01:26:49.989
things perfectly clear, is that he's pledging

01:26:49.989 --> 01:26:56.670
eternal loyalty to the one true tribal chief,

01:26:57.010 --> 01:27:00.810
Roman Reigns. He's also pledging eternal loyalty

01:27:00.810 --> 01:27:05.029
to his bestest friend in the world, Mr. CM Punk.

01:27:05.260 --> 01:27:16.840
Calm down Jericho. Oh him and Kevin Owens were

01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:22.039
the best friends for ages. The most outstanding

01:27:22.039 --> 01:27:24.819
best friends and if you did something to upset

01:27:24.819 --> 01:27:31.600
one of them you made the list of Jericho. I wonder

01:27:31.600 --> 01:27:34.119
how long that list ended up being? I'm pretty

01:27:34.119 --> 01:27:38.859
sure he ended up on the list, didn't he? Quite

01:27:38.859 --> 01:27:41.060
possibly. I mean, it's Jericho. He's annoying

01:27:41.060 --> 01:27:45.840
enough to make his own list. I can 100 % see

01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:48.439
that. Yeah, Kevin Owens put him on it and then

01:27:48.439 --> 01:27:51.779
put him through a table or something. That sounds

01:27:51.779 --> 01:27:53.600
about right for Kevin Owens, to be honest. Yeah,

01:27:53.600 --> 01:27:58.550
it does. But, yeah. Paul Heyman had one more

01:27:58.550 --> 01:28:00.470
point that he wanted to make perfectly clear

01:28:00.470 --> 01:28:04.850
but didn't actually get the opportunity as Mr

01:28:04.850 --> 01:28:10.430
Seth Rollins comes to the ring to talk us through

01:28:10.430 --> 01:28:15.970
his takeaways from Friday Night Smackdown. Well

01:28:15.970 --> 01:28:21.350
yeah, he certainly did and he says about Paul

01:28:21.350 --> 01:28:23.590
talking about loyalty and that's the reason he

01:28:23.590 --> 01:28:27.449
came out to say hi. as he wants to know whose

01:28:27.449 --> 01:28:30.229
side Paul Heyman is going to be on. Is it going

01:28:30.229 --> 01:28:35.189
to be on the side of Pankor or Reigns? And he

01:28:35.189 --> 01:28:37.310
also says that Paul Heyman is trying to convince

01:28:37.310 --> 01:28:39.710
everyone, including himself, that he can do both

01:28:39.710 --> 01:28:45.329
aspects. But, well, in fairness, he's neither.

01:28:46.609 --> 01:28:48.470
You know, Roman doesn't give a damn about Paul

01:28:48.470 --> 01:28:51.670
Heyman and Seth says that Roman's only using

01:28:51.670 --> 01:28:55.909
him and doesn't respect him. Then goes on to

01:28:55.909 --> 01:29:00.449
say a lot more He points out that Roman quite

01:29:00.449 --> 01:29:05.029
happily abandoned Paul Heyman to Solo Sokoa and

01:29:05.029 --> 01:29:09.270
the members of the new bloodline while he Went

01:29:09.270 --> 01:29:12.649
off to lick his wounds and that's very true save

01:29:12.649 --> 01:29:18.609
him. He was not no And then Seth turns his attention

01:29:18.609 --> 01:29:21.649
to possibly his favorite person in the whole

01:29:21.649 --> 01:29:25.659
goddamn world mister CM Punk, who he didn't have

01:29:25.659 --> 01:29:29.199
very glowing things to say about either. No,

01:29:29.199 --> 01:29:32.539
but he's still talking about him. So he's obviously

01:29:32.539 --> 01:29:34.640
still feeling a little bit more than just anger

01:29:34.640 --> 01:29:40.140
there. Yeah, this is it. And I'll be honest,

01:29:40.180 --> 01:29:42.500
this didn't go the way I thought it was going

01:29:42.500 --> 01:29:44.340
to. And I know me and you have talked about this

01:29:44.340 --> 01:29:49.680
off stream. Yes, we have. and or off podcast

01:29:49.680 --> 01:29:54.060
rather it is a case that I fully expected Seth

01:29:54.060 --> 01:29:56.680
Rollins to really play devil's advocate here

01:29:56.680 --> 01:30:00.579
and just say do you know what Paul let's do something

01:30:00.579 --> 01:30:03.199
that nobody was ever going to expect you to do

01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:06.479
because everybody expects you to make a decision

01:30:06.479 --> 01:30:11.100
between siding with CM Punk or siding with the

01:30:11.100 --> 01:30:15.460
tribal chief no one expects them to choose Rollins

01:30:15.460 --> 01:30:18.579
yeah I fully expected him to turn around and

01:30:18.579 --> 01:30:23.819
go fuck the both of them side with me and that

01:30:23.819 --> 01:30:27.039
means that both of them are just as pissed off

01:30:27.039 --> 01:30:32.659
with you as they are but no Seth Rollins was

01:30:32.659 --> 01:30:37.460
offering to help Paul Heyman but he was hoping

01:30:37.460 --> 01:30:40.199
that he was going to be able to help him by curb

01:30:40.199 --> 01:30:44.460
stomping him Into a hospital bed. Oh, yeah, definitely

01:30:44.460 --> 01:30:46.300
which is not something we want to see by the

01:30:46.300 --> 01:30:49.140
way I'd love to see Paul Heyman get to him first

01:30:49.140 --> 01:31:02.319
Yeah, but Yeah, it's a case that Then like really

01:31:02.319 --> 01:31:05.640
sort of pushing the envelope with with Paul Heyman

01:31:05.640 --> 01:31:08.939
starts putting hands on him starts slapping him

01:31:08.939 --> 01:31:13.380
about a little bit and as much as Paul Heyman

01:31:13.380 --> 01:31:17.720
can be a rather spineless character he is he

01:31:17.720 --> 01:31:21.760
is by no means a pushover oh he's that he is

01:31:21.760 --> 01:31:27.840
not he eventually snaps back is like and is don't

01:31:27.840 --> 01:31:32.119
you fucking touch me mate and not that he's got

01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:37.079
the the chops to take on Mr. Seth Rollins in

01:31:37.079 --> 01:31:40.239
a one -on -one fight. It's it's just not going

01:31:40.239 --> 01:31:46.819
to happen. No, it's definitely not Basically

01:31:46.819 --> 01:31:52.899
as as Paul and Seth are squaring up in the ring

01:31:52.899 --> 01:31:56.699
or squaring up as much as Mr. Paul Heyman can

01:31:56.699 --> 01:32:00.199
Contrary to everything that Seth has been saying

01:32:00.199 --> 01:32:04.640
Mr. CM Punk come running out to that ring to

01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:08.159
save his bestest friend in the whole wide world

01:32:08.159 --> 01:32:15.039
Yes, he certainly does and They're basically

01:32:15.039 --> 01:32:19.310
just involved with the Punk and Rollins Fighting

01:32:19.310 --> 01:32:22.829
on the outside and punk throwing Rollins into

01:32:22.829 --> 01:32:25.670
the seal steps And then I believe at one point

01:32:25.670 --> 01:32:30.729
over the top of the announce table as well Yes,

01:32:30.770 --> 01:32:37.949
very possibly But basically Yeah, it ends in

01:32:37.949 --> 01:32:42.890
an all -out brawl which basically sees CM Punk

01:32:42.890 --> 01:32:45.310
being laid out in the middle of the ring after

01:32:45.310 --> 01:32:50.050
taking a curb stomp and Credit to Seth Rollins

01:32:50.050 --> 01:32:52.550
here. We don't give him much on this podcast,

01:32:52.569 --> 01:32:58.270
but I will give it him here is that as Paul Heyman

01:32:58.270 --> 01:33:00.869
is see is trying to tend to his best friend in

01:33:00.869 --> 01:33:05.029
the world he inadvertently sets himself up almost

01:33:05.029 --> 01:33:09.470
perfectly for his own curb stop, but Seth stops

01:33:09.470 --> 01:33:13.750
himself makes Paul Heyman shit himself though

01:33:13.750 --> 01:33:18.899
and then leaves the ring after telling him now

01:33:18.899 --> 01:33:24.140
you owe me a favor i mean yeah there's a lot

01:33:24.140 --> 01:33:27.539
of favors floating around but i i've seen a lot

01:33:27.539 --> 01:33:29.640
of things online as well saying you know who

01:33:29.640 --> 01:33:32.100
is paul heyman going to leave wrestlemania with

01:33:32.100 --> 01:33:35.359
is he going to leave a rollins reigns or punk

01:33:35.359 --> 01:33:41.859
i personally hope it's punk i've um seen a um

01:33:41.859 --> 01:33:46.170
a clip on like a an article online saying that

01:33:46.170 --> 01:33:48.890
Roman's planning on retiring the tribal chief

01:33:48.890 --> 01:33:55.189
gimmick at WrestleMania so there's a lot of interesting

01:33:55.189 --> 01:33:58.270
stuff floating around but I think for me I really

01:33:58.270 --> 01:34:00.270
want to see Heyman walk away with Punk because

01:34:00.270 --> 01:34:05.350
he's the original Paul Heyman guy and I miss

01:34:05.350 --> 01:34:07.649
seeing Paul Heyman week in week out like we did

01:34:07.649 --> 01:34:10.630
with Brock Lesnar you know like You get to hear

01:34:10.630 --> 01:34:14.609
the ladies and gentlemen my name is Paul Heyman

01:34:14.609 --> 01:34:17.949
and like the whole my client CM Punk it's gonna

01:34:17.949 --> 01:34:20.510
be quality mate. Punk's the proper Heyman guy.

01:34:20.729 --> 01:34:24.409
It's gonna be the best thing in the world. See

01:34:24.409 --> 01:34:27.130
I don't have a preference as to who Paul Heyman

01:34:27.130 --> 01:34:30.449
walks out of WrestleMania with. I couldn't even

01:34:30.449 --> 01:34:32.489
give a toss if Paul Heyman doesn't walk out of

01:34:32.489 --> 01:34:35.050
WrestleMania at all to be quite honest. It's

01:34:35.050 --> 01:34:36.810
nothing against Paul Heyman. I think he's an

01:34:36.810 --> 01:34:39.859
absolute icon of the industry. I just think that

01:34:39.859 --> 01:34:42.579
he's such a superfluous character in this in

01:34:42.579 --> 01:34:47.899
this feud that they're trying to that using Paul

01:34:47.899 --> 01:34:51.439
Heyman's own sort of analogy against him is that

01:34:51.439 --> 01:34:53.800
they're trying desperately to bring him to an

01:34:53.800 --> 01:34:56.539
island of relevance that doesn't exist for Paul

01:34:56.539 --> 01:35:00.619
Heyman in this story. No, definitely not. And

01:35:00.619 --> 01:35:03.359
something else that doesn't exist so far for

01:35:03.359 --> 01:35:06.420
me is any more notes that I have for this week's

01:35:06.420 --> 01:35:10.770
Monday Night Raw. No, I am fresh out of those

01:35:10.770 --> 01:35:14.229
myself, good sir. So, yeah, this brings to a

01:35:14.229 --> 01:35:18.529
close our episode of Finisher's and Faction's

01:35:18.529 --> 01:35:22.850
Does Monday Night Raw. We, of course, will return

01:35:22.850 --> 01:35:27.989
with Finisher's and Faction's Does NXT, so keep

01:35:27.989 --> 01:35:33.010
your notifications peeled for that. episode and

01:35:33.010 --> 01:35:36.989
don't forget to let your friends know as well

01:35:36.989 --> 01:35:39.750
they might also enjoy listening to the same sort

01:35:39.750 --> 01:35:42.909
of stuff you do and your opinions and theirs

01:35:42.909 --> 01:35:45.569
may vary the same as me and Adams which means

01:35:45.569 --> 01:35:47.810
you can have the same discussions that we have

01:35:47.810 --> 01:35:51.170
with your homies and then let us know who wins

01:35:51.170 --> 01:35:57.189
yeah we've been doing this now for 50 goddamn

01:35:57.189 --> 01:36:01.720
episodes and Yeah, there was a bit I think there

01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:04.819
were points where me neither me or rich thought

01:36:04.819 --> 01:36:11.220
we'd get to 10 episodes let alone 50 so Yeah

01:36:11.220 --> 01:36:15.819
It took some time, but we got there. We got there

01:36:15.819 --> 01:36:20.500
We've gotten there and now we are not going anywhere

01:36:20.500 --> 01:36:25.760
We are we are seeing this through to the bitter

01:36:25.760 --> 01:36:33.779
bitter end and on that very, very gloomy note.

01:36:34.260 --> 01:36:37.159
Just before I lose the power of speech altogether,

01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:40.479
we will bid you adieu. Good night.