And good evening to this, our 50th episode of
Finishers and Factions. And this episode has
landed on Finishers and Factions does Monday
Night Raw from April 7th. the date what when
this episode was aired there were 12 days till
WrestleMania and that we this raw took place
in Minneapolis Minnesota in the Target Center
now as Always well I say as always I've been
absent the last couple of last episode or two
that we've done I think but as always my uh my
co -host has been keeping things together keeping
the trains running smoothly rich how the devil
are you i'm doing all right my good sir how are
you doing yeah i'm all good all good glad to
be back in the podcast seat so uh yeah i mean
it's nice to have you back it's a little bit
boring on me own it does get that way sometimes
especially without somebody else to bounce off
of um No one will flick peanuts across the office
up. Well, I think you can keep your peanuts to
yourself, thank you. Especially considering you're
allergic. Well, yeah, that's probably a good
point, to be fair. Better not be flicking peanuts
across the office. Might end up having a trip
to Miami instead. Yeah, and we don't want that
because that just puts our recording schedule
even further behind. It certainly does. Yeah,
well. Let's not let it get too far behind and
let's just jump straight into our first section
of the evening where we got a little recap of
last week between the match of Io Sky and Rhea
Ripley for the women's title with Bianca Belair
as the special guest referee. Yeah and as we
should all know by this point the Match was called
a double disqualification after both champion
and challenger managed to land a Purpose not
on purpose blows to the special guest referee
who? Eventually just had enough and decided nope.
I don't want to be a referee anymore I'm gonna
lay into you as a competitor instead. I mean
to be fair she did take two Pretty hefty move
she took a boot of rear Ripley in a missile drop
kick off EO sky if I did that as a special guest
ref I'd be pissed too. I'll be like you motherfuckers
Yeah, but we're not gonna go into too much detail
about that because that's in last week's episode
Yeah, that's last week's episode. If you haven't
listened to it, you're slacking catch up. We're
trying to Yeah, pretty much We start this one
off with Adam Pearce coming into the ring after
the recap of last week. Basically coming in to
say that the situation between Io, Rhea and Bianca
needs to be settled and addressed. And he therefore
proceeds to call all three ladies to the ring.
I did find it rather amusing that the ring announced
this week. referred to Rhea Ripley as representing
the Judgement Day. Well, I'm pretty sure she's
not part of that one anymore. Pretty sure even
the commentary called him out on that fucking
booboo. That was a big whoopsie there. Yep, no,
if you are not aware that Rhea is not part of
Judgement Day anymore, you've missed an awful
lot of episodes. I would get recapping. You've
missed a lot. Yes, 100 % but once all three women
are in the are in the ring here sort of goes
I mean takes a cheap shot the end result of this
is that We sort of saw the end result of this
coming or at least I did it was teased to it
was teased a few weeks back realistically, but
yeah as soon as reassigned the contract between
the two of them we all knew this was going to
be a triple threat and a that is basically the
way it's it's it's going um which for ria and
io not too much of an issue it was bianca that
had a few words to say about the situation well
ria just wants the title back and she'll she's
more interested in fighting bianca bella for
it anyway pretty much i mean that's how it should
have gone it should have you know originally
before io Got her hands on it. It should have
been Rhea versus Bianca at WrestleMania and pretty
sure that's what Rhea is after Bianca don't give
a flying who she's got a face in fairness. She
just wants that title too She'd just rather go
through Io because it's an easier opportunity
than having to go through Rhea Having to go through
both of them is not going to be pleasant for
her, but it's One of those and poor Io. I mean
she can lose her title without even being pinned
So, you know, she really doesn't have a champion's
advantage here. She's kind of being screwed But
then you look at it this way both Ria and Bianca
are gonna drop her to a point She spends majority
of the time out the ring They're gonna do some
serious damage to each other and then in true
EO fashion She's gonna come in pin the weakest
competitor and win it to retain I think that's
that's pretty much how I'm gonna go into this
I mean WWE have used that angle before in a triple
threat title situation. I mean, Io said from
the very beginning, she'd quite happily take
both of them on anyway. Yeah, and she's just
looking to be the champion that she feels that
she should be. And with her ring ring ability,
great champion, her mic skills let her down drastically.
But that is purely just because of the language
barrier that we have within this. situation yeah
but in the end all three all three superstars
agreed to the new match stipulation that it is
a triple threat all three of them well two of
them signed the contract I struggle to remember
if EO ever actually got a chance to sign it yeah
EO stormed out at the end and then stormed back
in Sign the title and then I sign the contract.
Sorry and then storm back off She kind of got
to the apron and then kind of realized oh shit
I haven't signed this and then went back to sign
it and and That was pretty much it done Yeah,
but I've got here that she hits a missile drop
kick into rear from behind that pushes her into
Bianca And she then signs the contract and takes
the title and pisses off The reason for that
is because Rhea's quite literally yet again put
her hands in her face. The thing is Rhea don't
care whose face she's putting her hands in. Io
is the smallest of the three competitors and
she does come up to hand height so unfortunately
when Rhea puts her hand up to say just piss off.
You're not involved in this situation at all
even though she is. It just catches Io in the
face. So yeah, that missile dropkick was definitely
deserved to Rhea and throwing her into Bianca
was just Io's way of saying, fuck, they're both
of you. I mean, yes, but still, I think it's...
You don't disregard the champion in a championship
match scenario. You shouldn't do, but Rhea and
Bianca are more interested in each other. And
that's the way I mean, that's the way that much
is gonna go I think but talking about matches
and WrestleMania now the contract for that one
has been signed sealed and delivered We are informed
of the how they're gonna get the Intercontinental
title Defended at WrestleMania and it is going
to be in a fatal four way between Bronbreaker
Finn Balor Penta and dirty dominic mysterio so
basically you have two members of the judgment
day and penta up against bron breaker for his
title which you blatantly know is going to end
up with penta and not penta and dom dom and finn
basically working this match as a tag team until
one of them realizes they can get one over on
the other one so uh it's gonna be an interesting
interesting opportunity i think in that dynamic
yes i can sort of see they'll get to a point
where them pair are the only two left in the
ring and it's not necessarily a realization that
i can get one over on somebody else it's a case
of oh i have to get something over on this person
that i'm aligned with Because otherwise I haven't
got a fucking donkey donkey in hell's chance
of winning this match Yeah, and both Dom and
Finn are gonna need the other person's help enough
both talented superstars on their own don't get
me wrong, but Takes a little bit of something
different to do a fatal four way, especially
when you've got the the quality of brawn breaker
and penta Neither of those guys you can shake
a stick at and kind of go, he doesn't deserve
to be in that match. Bron and obviously is the
champion and Penta is one of the most electrifying
things on Monday Night Raw at the moment. You
could kind of argue that maybe Finn and Dom don't
need to be in this match and it could just be
Bron and Penta one -on -one for the title but
you know it worked out the way it's worked out
and again it's not going to be a bad match to
be fair. Mean on paper looking at it. That's
us a pretty good match. I Mean you're not wrong
as it stands I am I'm actually backing Dom to
win this one You reckon they're gonna put gold
on dirty Dom No, it wouldn't no it wouldn't he's
had a tag championship and he did hold the NXT
title for a little while so You know, it's definitely
one of those. I mean, it'd be nice. From a perspective,
it'd be interesting to see what Dom could do
with the intercontinental title. I'm not going
to lie to you. I'd rather they put it on Sheamus.
I know he's not in this match, but I'd rather
let that guy have his grand slam mania moment
so he can retire afterwards. Yeah, we haven't
seen Seamus for a little while. Not since he
had that title match. He had one random match
for the IC title against Brom Breaker or it was
a number one contendership match or something.
He had one random match and then he's just disappeared
off again. I just don't think they've got anything
for him that there's no way for him to fit into
storylines at the moment No, I know and I fully
get that I'm just saying that you know if Apart
from having Bron retain which I mean he's had
the title for a fair while now You know, it's
kind of an obvious one if they let him do that
But I wouldn't necessarily say that the other
three Penta maybe hasn't been there quite long
enough Finn's towards the end of his career and
he's not winding up so to speak but he's he's
probably more in that giving back sort of stage
a title run probably it could help him but he
doesn't really need it he's already over enough
as it is and then dom yeah like you said dom
could be an interesting choice it's not one that
i'd necessarily have gone with the outside is
always a an odds on favorite in the eyes of some
i suppose So yeah, that's a good shout to be
fair, Don Mysterio. But talking about the members
of Judgment Day that are in this March, we actually
get to hear what Judgment Day think about Adam
Pearce's announcement in the next section in
the Judgment Day's little den they found for
themselves this week in Minneapolis. Yeah, we
cut to the Clubhouse if you like the judgment
days clubhouse is basically the Mickey Mouse's
clubhouse for adults really in Yeah, I'm not
sure I'm not sure it'd make quite as good a TV
series somehow I don't know but Carlito is pretty
much the Miska Miska tool because he's a fucking
tool. I Mean I can't argue with you, but Damn
doing Carlito day. Yeah Mean to be fair. I'm
not the only one this week that does Carlos Carlito
dirty, but we'll discuss a little bit later We'll
get to that in a little bit Speaking of Carlito.
I mean the beginning of this little segment.
He seems a bit upset with his 2k 25 rating and
I Think he's just I think he should just account
himself fortunate that he's even in the frigging
game I mean, yeah, this is a guy. He doesn't
he's there to take bumps and look pretty You're
not getting a match out of Carlito and he's even
said this himself on numerous interviews that
I Can't do any of it anymore. I could take a
bump But I can't do any of the stuff that used
to be had to do too old and too broken and too
beaten up But you can still eat apples like he
used to be able to and he can still spit a good
apple, too Yeah, I mean he's still got all his
own teeth. I'm pretty sure that's the prerequisite
for that Which is surprising being a professional
wrestler that he still has all his own teeth
But yeah Finn Balor comes into the clubhouse
with everybody else there as they're sort of
just chilling out and he seems completely bewildered
of the why it's a fatal four -way match and seems
perfectly ignorant to the fact that maybe Dom
wanted a title opportunity as well. Liv did say
last week that she was going to go and talk to
Adam Pearce about getting Dom a match with Brom
Breaker but yeah she has done what she said she
was going to go and do and at the grandest stage
of them all as well. Yeah I don't actually believe
that this is Dom's first WrestleMania match.
I think he may have had one against his dad at
WrestleMania. I think he might have had two.
I think he's had one with his dad and one against
his dad. I mean, not 100 % sure to be fair. No,
I'm not. But yeah, I mean Liv's the one to point
out the fact that in terms of odds. They hold
an almost 50 -50 chance of being able to walk
out of that with a strap going into Judgement
Day's trophy cabinet. And yeah, it's a case that
she sort of points out. It doesn't really matter
who wins as long as one of you wins and brings
it back to the Judgement Day, so to speak. But
Balor then sort of... I think he's just trying
to get in Dom's head a little bit with this next
bit as he starts airing about some Rumors that
Dom doesn't have it in him to or doesn't have
what it takes to win The big win at the grandest
stage of them all I mean I think that rumor is
just purely stuck in Finn Balor's head to be
fair and Just to go back Dominic had one match
at WrestleMania against his dad at WrestleMania
XL. Oh right, okay. The other thing that Balor,
Balor says, he says the words, I just don't think
he actually believes what he says, but he says
about believing that he can beat. That Dom can
beat Penta solo, which is a good thing because
Pretty sure they have a match a Match just the
two of them not too far away as it goes and yeah,
I think that's next No, it's later on in the
evening It's later on. It's before we get to
hear up more about this favor and Basically the
segment closes out with Carlito promising to
have Dom's back, which would be an asset potentially.
I mean it could be. I'm not sure I would class
it as an asset. I mean it depends in what respect
you know Carlito's got Dom's back if it's in
an apple eating competition and oh yeah I'd have
Carlito on my side. If it's going out there and
trying to lay the smacketh down on raw then i'd
probably choose someone else but when choices
are limited you have to stick with what you've
got unfortunately you do you do which is the
case for our next match and the uh opponent that
our women's intercontinental holder lyra valkyria
has is uh at the moment it just seems to be bailey
that's after that title she holds Well, I think
this was if I remember correctly this might have
actually been something so I've got it in my
head that Lyra arranged this title opportunity
for Bailey off the back of Bailey saving Lyra's
ass. I believe that is very true. Yes, I Believe
that is true One of the odd things about this
match Yes On Smackdown obviously we had announced
last week which Rich very kindly covered for
us. It's a case that there is a Yeah, these two
women team up for that this week on Smackdown
for their opportunity to go and face Liv Morgan
and Raquel Rodriguez for the Women's Tag Titles
at WrestleMania. Yeah, so the fact that they're
competing one -on -one with each other for the
Women's Intercontinental Championship this evening
is a little bit odd. It is, but there are a few
other teams within that gauntlet match that look
a little bit interesting as well. Know the main
one that I thought I've sort of focused in on
is Maxine Dupree and Natalia that was that was
the one I was trying to think of but I didn't
want to mess up on my first Opportunity, so I
was just going to Google who's in it But yes,
so you've got B Fab and Misha in a one. Yeah
Yep. You've got, uh, Alba Fire and Piper Nevin.
Secret Hermes. Yep. Obviously Maxine Dupree and
Natalia. You've got Bailey and Lyra Valkyria.
Mm -hmm. And then you've got Zoe Stark and Shayna
Baszler. And Kayden Carter and Kartana Chance.
So Kayden Carter and Katana chance we've seen
recently we have Zoe Stark and Shayna Baszler
now They were part of a faction with Sonya Deville
before her release, but I forget what it was
called Yeah, I've got no idea either because
I've forgotten all about the The two women in
that specific team I didn't even realize they
were still with the company to be fair So I knew
they hadn't been I knew they hadn't been released.
I'm just struggling to remember We haven't seen
Shayna Baszler yet on finishers and factions
and we've been going since the beginning of the
Netflix era So we haven't seen her in we haven't
seen her in in ring action, but we have seen
a sort of appearing backstage and Things like
that. I'm just more notes to see if I can find
her I know I've written about them because I
can I can remember writing it. It's just I don't
remember Top my head Possibly one of them may
have made an appearance at the Royal Rumble Think
that we start Yeah, I think we might be right
there. Shayna Baszler might have done as well.
Potentially. Yeah, so not too far, not thinking
too much ahead. But yeah, we end up with this
IC title match between Bailey and Lyra Valkyria.
And I'll go through that a little bit for you
while Adam is flicking through his notes because
I know it's going to wind him up if he doesn't
find it. I'm going to just live with it, mate,
to be honest. I've put the notebook away because
it's going to wind me up even more if I can't
find it. So the start of this match was very,
very sort of like fast paced, quickly, sort of
everything was very sort of counter -pertuitive.
Very few moves were lasting longer than a second
in this Collaring Tie start. until there was,
you know, a series of quick roll -up two counts
while the two of them are just trying to establish
who is the more dominant superstar on this particular
opportunity. I mean, the first big move of the
night was a big knee from Bailey onto Lyra Valkyria
that finished with a roll -up two count. and
then Lyra Valkyria returning the effort with
a Northern Lights suplex and popping that one
up into an Irish swing and the rolling her up
into a two count from the half guard. So like
I said, this was very fast paced and very, very
sort of like counter wrestling. There was a lot
of reversal wrestling. I mean, it was a really
solid wrestling match. The one thing that bugged
me about this match had nothing to do with the
match itself. It was more of a case of the crowd.
Now, this is the first Raw back since the European
tour. And in the European tour, we've talked
on Finishers and Factions a lot about the crowd
reactions, how great they were, how engaging
it was and... We've come to Minneapolis, Minnesota,
and they've been presented with this phenomenal,
technically sound wrestling match. And honestly,
we could have had tumbleweeds running through
the target center. I mean, at some points we
did get the this is awesome chance, but it wasn't
until it got really, really heated. And don't
get me wrong, it was... some aspects of the match
that was awesome and there were some some really
good sections to it but if that had been in front
of a european crowd it would have been a completely
different kettle of fish yeah completely different
kettle of fish absolutely eating it eating it
whole and had no issue going back for seconds
because i was sat in my i was sat i'm I was at
my computer watching it on my monitor thinking
exactly the same thing like yeah if I'd been
at that match I'd have fucking loved every second
of it I mean right I'd have loved every second
of it because I was at a wwe event but that's
beside the point I mean we've got some pretty
interesting moves in this one so there was a
uh uh lyra valkyria hit a cross body at one point
and ended up trying to go for a two count with
a lateral press we had half like boston crabs
locked in um the best move of all though you've
already mentioned was the they call it an irish
swing but i've uh it looked a lot like a walls
of jericho do you not think well yeah it was
um it was a little bit like a walls of jericho
but there was a suspension element in it as well
which just blew me away yeah but obviously they're
not going to reference it as a well yeah they're
not going to reference it that way but we will
we'll take the hit so WWE don't have to it was
a walls of Jericho with an extension or a modified
walls of Jericho Look if WWE want to sponsor
this one want to sponsor the podcast so that
we don't start mentioning things like walls of
Jericho and Chris Benoit and 100 % I'll take
their money and I won't mention them ever again
in my life Exactly right. Yep. Yeah Which one
would be talking about that as well because I
realized we were talking about both of them Both
have the same name. That's my mini rant over
and done with for the moment. But yeah, we had
a Tornado DDT roll through into a Fisherman Suplex
from Lyra Valkyria. I mean, there's nothing to
compare Lyra Valkyria to in terms of women's
IC title holders, because she's the inaugural
champion. She has yet to be dethroned. She's
setting a really high bar for it. She is, and
I'm not even mad about it. I'd never heard of
this woman until she won that Intercontinental
title. I didn't even know she existed. But by
God, do I enjoy watching this person wrestle?
Yes I do. She's a very talented person and she's
doing wonders for that. This is definitely not
a weak title run either. No, not. I'm going to
throw it out there we are going to say Lyra does
retain this title after some really really um
it was a fantastic match and it was finished
with a night wing um off a attempted roll up
on a rose plant reversal so uh you can't really
complain too much about how this match finished
to be fair um I just wish the crowd saw what
we saw. They did see, they were there seeing
what we saw and they just couldn't give a fuck.
It's sad when two middle -aged men a few thousand
miles away are more excited about what is going
on in that arena than the 16 odd thousand people
that were sat in that arena. precisely i mean
not for this reason but uh we do see at the end
of the match bailey's well michael cole talks
about this quite a bit throughout the match is
that bailey's feeling frustrated that she hasn't
won a match in two straight months she's done
but she hasn't had a bad match in those two straight
months and if you also take into account she
featured in the royal rumble she's been in the
elimination chamber We've seen a public down
on NXT and she's done she was she a roadblock
in a title match at NXT like this woman is Rafted
in those two months and fair enough. Yes. She's
not won a match, but she's had some phenomenal
matches And she's given some other wrestlers
some phenomenal opportunities to you know it
like this much for example having The sculpt
of Bailey does Lyra Valkyria an awful lot of
good As Bailey has held every women's title apart
from this one So yeah by keeping her down and
keeping her at bay. They're only making Lyra
stronger and for a mid card women's title She's
doing a great job And Bailey even acknowledges
that at the end of the match, you know, Lyra
offers her a handshake. Like we said at the start,
these two are teaming up with each other on Saturday.
No, Friday, sorry, for SmackDown. That's my bad.
SmackDown hasn't been on Saturday for like, it's
never been on Saturday, is it? I can see your
confusion because for us in the UK, it is broadcast
on saturday yeah it is yeah one o 'clock in the
morning anyway so i will save your ass on that
one she uh larry valkyria offers uh bailey a
hand and bailey for a handshake and bailey kind
of slaps it away and goes to walk away and then
she realizes hey wait a minute that's not what
bailey's about bailey's about hugging and she
gets back in the ring and hugs it and they hug
it out and we haven't seen a a huggable bailey
for a while She raises the champs hand, but yeah,
there's some definite frustration which is so
in the seed for a future storyline with a frustrated
Bailey who you just want to win so Yeah, just
don't send her anywhere near Xavier Woods and
Brad Maddox. She's too frustrated anyway We get
into a nice little backstage segment with Kathy
Kelly talking to a celebrity comedian Me and
Adam know who this gentleman is from one specific
sketch, but she's having a conversation with
a gentleman called Bert Kreischer about his new
comedy special on Netflix. Yeah, I'm the machine.
I haven't actually seen. I've seen that you've
got a new special. I haven't taken the time to
watch it. But if you've never experienced Bert
Kreischer, please. go and watch it the man is
incredibly funny and i mean the one thing that
he seems to stand out for more than anything
else is the fact that he does his entire set
topless i mean and he's not got the figure that
you would expect him to have for the confidence
that that man has um he is a little bit of an
acquired taste i will uh forewarn you he may
not be for some um I personally find him quite
funny, and I know Adam does, but just be warned.
He can be a little bit marmite. Yeah, he is very
much that case. And one person that seems to
really like him is Chad Gable of American Made.
Him and his latest bunch of cronies decide to
come and gate crash this little interview with
Kathy Kelly and Yeah, basically saying are Admit
Chad Gable admits to being a fan and it's like
I'm a big fan of yours. I know you're a fan of
mine Unfortunately due to a doctor's note. I
dropped last week. I'm not competing tonight.
However There is a six -man tag against LWO where
the Creed brothers are I find that slightly concerning
that they have nicknamed a white wrestler who
is pretending to be Mexican a large black coffee.
Someone in the character development office of
the WWE production in Connecticut is having a
real fucking laugh with this guy. Yeah, there's
so many layers to how fucked up that is, but
it's the fact that nobody seems to have acknowledged
it on WWE TV just yet. Not yet, no. There will
be a day though. There will and yeah, but And
but bless his heart. Let's Chad down easy by
admitting that he's not actually here to see
He's not actually here to see Chad Gable or American
made. He's actually here to find it to see Alpha
Academy and and more specifically Oh tease Yeah,
this was definitely not a connection I put together
but once I saw them both ripping off their shirts
and giving each other a big old bear hug They
look very similar They do I will say that It
was a lovely little moment that him and Otis
had for the fact that Bert has said in many sort
of interviews and tv shows that he's done that
he's a wwe fan if he thought he had the stamina
for it he'd quite happily put himself forward
as an active superstar but can you just imagine
burke crisis entry music right the room goes
dark it'd be the it'd be the it'd be the entrance
theme to his movie the machine That'd be it.
The room would go dark and all you'd just hear
is, I have the machine! And he'd just come running
down. Can you imagine Burt Kreischer making a
guest, like a celebrity appearance at the Royal
Rumble? Just hearing, I have the machine! And
Burt Kreischer come running down in a pair of
jeans and a pint in his hand like, fuck you,
wait for me! So I'm going to put forward a bit
of a scenario here. So Royal Rumble next year,
Burt Kreischer makes a... A celebrity entrance
into the into the Royal Rumble match with everything
that you've just said on top of the fact that
he has John Cena's old cyborg the cyborg fucking
gimmick He literally comes down pretending to
be a machine it's quality but yeah we we need
to we need to continue because otherwise we weren't
we will get stuck on this all night and we continue
with a another backstage interview with jackie
redmond talking to the phenomenal one mr aj styles
i'm basically asking him about what how he feels
about logan paul said last week and uh aj It's
a case that he's got a his own WrestleMania match
And where he faces Logan Paul, it's the opportunity
to shut that guy's mouth. Oh, yes It certainly
is and there was a few mouths that we'd like
to have seen shut it at WrestleMania this year
Logan Paul's is one and Unfortunately, Kevin
Owens has got himself a sick note. So his mouth
won't be getting shut at WrestleMania, but That
is a Neither here nor there, but we are gonna
see McIntyre's mouth get shut at WrestleMania.
Whoo We are now the other person we see at this
point cuz AJ explains he's confident as there's
no substitute for experience, but he's also interrupted
by one, Carrion Cross, who we haven't seen in
a few weeks. I've not seen him in ring for a
little while either. Well, that is all about
to be remedied, dear Richard. It is a case that
Carrion basically saying that... This AJ styles
that we have before us is not the one to shut
Logan Paul's mouth that he needs to find that
other gear that darker place to to really really
stick it to Logan Paul who From everything that
Carrie and cross is saying is it is he's just
as upset that Logan Paul is in WWE ring as a
WWE superstar as well me and Richard that he's
there But yeah pretty piston Yeah, pretty much
but carrying cross feels he's gonna be the one
that sort of takes AJ Styles to that to that
next level just before his WrestleMania match.
So next week on Monday Night Raw, we will see
AJ Styles versus Karrion Kross in a one -on -one
singles match. That's going to be a really good
match. I can't wait to cover that, to be fair.
Oh, 100%. I am looking forward to that as much
as you are, my friend. But moving on from there,
we go into our second match of the evening where
this is the six -man tag team match, which sees
LWO we accompanied to the ring by their mentor
Ray Mysterio versus the Creed Brothers and El
Grande Americano accompanied to the ring by Ivy
Nile. Yes we've got Julius and Brutus and the
large black coffee. Yep. What a mouthful. I mean
the only way that he's ever gonna he's never
gonna be able to shake that off is if he comes
to the Comes to the ring dressed like a Starbucks
takeaway cup. I'll make that be brilliant Wouldn't
it just I'm gonna email creative It's a it's
a very Vince McMahon move isn't it send him out
looking like a takeaway coffee cup Why does it
remind me of some really bad sketch like skits
somewhere where they have like a wrestler walk
up to a coffee truck and be like ah I'll have
a grande americano and he just pops up and goes
ah senora I am here yeah I know what you mean
it's like a really bad naughties like tv commercial
or something like that one of those ones that
they had in america which are just so over the
top it's like if they'd have swapped marty genetti
and uh sean michaels out of the barbershop into
a coffee shop you could have got away with involving
this guy yeah pretty much um anyway i personally
didn't get a massive amount of notes for this
match because Honestly the action was that thick
and fast I struggled so I had a few bits here
I had that there was a few double teams at the
start with both both teams trying to pull a double
team Brutus and Julius getting Well Brutus dropping
at Cruz del Toro. Sorry with a Massive shoulder
tackle at the start as well There is We had head
scissors Reversals are from Julius You know we
had on Julius. Sorry At one point you had all
six people in the ring kicking living balls up
each other at the same time absolute pandemonium
referee did not have this dubious to what was
going on and even commentary turn around and
said actually I'm not entirely sure who the legal
men are at this point because The tags have all
just gone out the window because everyone was
just talking each other on the back and running
around and tapping and it got confused Didn't
we get us at this point like three simultaneous
superplexes as well? Yes, we did American American
made the large black coffee at one point had
all three members of LWO up on the on the turnbuckle
and yes they did hit the three simultaneous superplexes
and it was actually quite interesting to watch
as well to be fair the The choreography in that
was definitely very good. Oh, they had to be
so well placed not to end up slamming into one
another realistically. Yes, definitely. And also
just the timing on it, because it's not exactly
as though you could have someone on the outside
going, one, two, three, superplex. You know,
it was all very well done. It just shows why
they're professionals and we're not. We just
sit on a couch talking about it. It's not even
a couch. It's a really uncomfortable office chair.
But yeah, it will do. Oh, my office chair is
lovely. I need a new one. But yeah, I mean, we
even had, it wasn't just America Made that pulled
off some impressive moves here. I mean, I've
got a note here saying Joaquin Wild with a corkscrew
from the top rope to the... To the floor. I mean
that guy spanned more than a beyblade on its
best day He certainly did he certainly did I
mean there was loads of different bits in here
that but you I mean Dragon Lee manages to pull
out a set out a sit -out power bomb at one point
and then it there was a shooting star From Julius
to break up the the pin that Dragon Lee had sat
on I mean, you don't see a shooting star very
often. I think the last time we saw someone try
that, that was a Brock Lesnar move, wasn't it?
The shooting star press. It's not something we
see very often, but I think even on commentary
towards the end of this match, they were saying
like, I feel sorry for the highlight reel guys
who are now going to have to try and pick the
best bits out of this match because there was
some great bits. they could have put the entire
match back on over again and they wouldn't have
been wrong so no exactly these guys did very
very well but american maid did end up walking
away with the win along with this was uh achieved
because Ivy Nile ends up slipping a metal plate
to El Grande Americano to basically store within
his mask giving him essentially a loaded face
mask. The cheating bastard Eddie Guerrero would
have been very proud. 100 % he would have done.
I mean there was a reason his mantra was we lie,
we cheat, we steal. Viva la razza! But yeah,
definitely. But yeah, I mean Rey Mysterio himself
catches a headbutt with this loaded head mask
as well as somebody else, but I didn't quite
catch who it was. But yeah, basically that is
how The Creed brothers in El Grande walk out
this with the win. And that goes, that goes from
there into a VT recap of probably one of the
most visceral moments we've had in WWE. in recent
memory. I'm of course talking about the Gunther
-Jimmy Uso match from last week's Raw where poor
Jimmy Uso was beaten to a bloody pulp and Gunther
walked out of there essentially coated in Jimmy
Uso's own blood. It was a very, very visceral
scene. And yeah, I mean, heartbreaking for Jay
Uso, who was zip tied to the middle rope, having
to watch each and every last second of this beat
down and being just out of reach of being able
to do anything about it. We then go into an arena
side promo now. I'm gonna be completely honest
and say that my so when I'm watching these episodes
back my Netflix does something really weird and
it does it at different points so It will almost
time lock some of the at one specific point So
I can't actually go back and rewind through it
In this case it decided to time lock on this
particular promo so I missed a vast majority
of this arena side promo with Liv Morgan and
Raquel Rodriguez. I didn't even get it. By Jackie
Redmond. I didn't even get it. There was nothing
for me there. Oh was there not? So it was kind
of like, I went into this specifically looking
out for this because you said you'd had an issue
and at no point During this watch through of
the episode, do I remember seeing Liv Morgan
and Raquel Rodriguez? It was an arena side promo.
I saw the beginning bit and I saw the end bit,
but everything that was in between, it was a
good three, four minute promo as well. And I
just couldn't watch any of it because Netflix
would not allow me to. so I've got no clue what
was said during that promo so if any of you do
know of course find us on our socials drop us
an email because I'd love to find out what it
was right I would too because I feel like we're
missing a big part of the story here especially
considering those guys will be facing the winner
of the gauntlet match at WrestleMania I want
to know what they've got to say about this if
I had to theorize I would say that the interview
was Primarily about that gauntlet match. I'm
gonna take a guess that they've probably turned
round and said, you know What doesn't matter
who we actually face will kick the shit out of
them regardless But we're more focused on Dom
Mysterio's match later on. So that's what we're
that's what we're zeroing in on and yeah pretty
much probably break for the day from there, but
we then go into a Hall of Fame D -Generation
X vignette to promote this year's Hall of Fame
class which quite honestly is huge as they've
added a further three people to the Hall of Fame
class of 2025. So it's not just Triple H, it's
not just Lex Luger, not just the natural disasters
or the match between Stone Cold and Brett the
Hitman Hart. Yeah, we've now got Kamala, Ivan
Koloff, and Dory Funk Senior. Yeah. Senior, not
Junior. Yeah, and... Out of a class. I'd say
I sent you this a few days ago. wwwfoldschool
.com was the source that I got it from originally.
One of the websites I use for... Most of my WWE
sort of reading material during the week and
Slightly more reliable than the certain other
ones we could mention, but we're not going to
because that's slander and that's a crime We
do not commit crimes We then go from that little
vignette into an in -ring promo which sees Gunther
coming out and I mean we've seen him in a few
backstage walkthroughs since this episode aired
or since this episode started and he has not
stopped smiling. Nah, Gunther got laid. He must
have done for a man to smile that much he got
laid. Don't think it was that oddly enough. I
just think he was He was enjoying himself after
he laid the whooping Big Jim last weekend or
last week. Sorry with the main event Jay handcuffed
to the ropes with Cable ties and he did lay the
smacketh down on Big Jim to Big Jim was bleeding
by the end of this and uh it finished basically
with Gunther wiping Jay's blood all over him
like warping and uh that pissed Big Jim that
pissed off uh pissed off Jay yeah Big Jim had
no idea he was out oh he was sleepies he was
done done before Gunther makes his way all the
way to the ring before he's even had chance to
bring the mic to his lips to say anything we
are met with Yeah, so Minneapolis Minnesota found
out that main event Jeyuso is in the city Yeah,
and I'm sorry I couldn't resist almost in while
the up almost the entire arena was eating their
best life. It is a case that there was one man
in that arena that most certainly was not eating
and it was the one person you would not even
begin to expect. Your commentary at this point
actually point out that Gunther is moving more
to the music than Main Event Jeyuso and he didn't
pop a yeet, not one yeet, not a single yeet.
No, this is it. Oh Bless you I was waiting for
that. I bet you were that sounded impressive.
Do you feel better? Yeah Thank you. Well, do
you know who else felt better? after clearing
something off their chest big Jay Jay felt better
after getting a whole heap of stuff off his chest
a good I mean, Gunford was basically the... He
may as well have been a straw dummy sat up in
the ring at this point. He was a verbal punchbag.
Jay let him have it. And at least for half of
this promo, he was continued to smile. He did.
The smile was soon wiped off his face as... Yeah,
I mean, Jay, so... Juso ends up slapping the
mic out of Gunther's hand when he has a chance
to speak, which is a brave move by anybody to
slap a mic out of the hand of the ring general.
Well, this is a very emotional Juso anyway, a
very emotional Juso. So we see that before he
even starts speaking, you can see him shaking,
trembling. can't quite work out if it's anger
that's building up inside him that's making him
tremble like that or whether it's just adrenaline
knowing that this guy that he's in the ring with
that he's gonna be meeting in the ring and what
did you say it was 12 days gonna be getting the
living life whooped out of him more than likely
I mean this match is gonna be the match between
these two at WrestleMania is gonna be fire Incredible
But oh 100 % I mean We got put money of you know,
I money where our mouths are here. It's just
this Jay got this I Mean after this promo and
after some of the stuff he says, you know He
asked Gunther if he'd spoken to his mom recently,
you know And what do you talk about when you're
talking on the phone with your mom? He says,
you know, I was having to tell mine that Jimmy's
in the hospital and he's got 15 stitches in his
forehead That's I mean to get smashed with a
title belt 15 stitches. That's a hell of a hell
of a gosh And a no way to talk about Jimmy's
mother Oh Rikishi I didn't mean it bro, please
don't stink face me You've gone and done me with
that one. Oh Yes, he's got 15 surprise WrestleMania
main event I've just booked you a one -way ticket
to Las Vegas homeboy. Yeah straight to the stink
face. Yes basically 15 stitches that is that's
quite an impressive thing, but J's mom asked
like why didn't you protect Jimmy in? Jay basically
says I was afraid of you he said yeah now he's
not afraid of him so I mean this is the one thing
about when you face the greatest fear is that
generally you're looking at what what else do
you fear after facing it as you face it and you
walk away alive what what more is there to fear
Right I mean and and death is definitely a possibility
when you're getting into a ring with Gunther
He just does not care. He's an animal and He
wants to slap the clown out of Jay in and get
on with his day and In fairness, I think he might
have I think he might have achieved his goal
to some degree is that? There is no longer any
clowning about in Jey Uso. Jey Uso is laser focused
and hyper aggressive at this point. He's feeling
disrespected at the fact that Gunther has essentially
violated his twin. He had to watch his twin brother
being absolutely brutalized in the ring. mere
inches from his face in some just in some circumstances
and he had to watch all of that and then get
questioned by his own mother at the fact that
he didn't protect his brother right i mean does
mrs uso not not watch freaking wwe tv i mean
i'm guessing probably not after that but yeah
um It's a case that Jay is, he's had an epiphany
of having no more fear. He has looked fear in
the eyes and lived to tell the tale, so Gunther
now has no smile on his face. He looks uncomfortable
at this point. Jay, he's got no idea what Jay's
capable of at this point because this is a version
of Jay Uso. that he's definitely never seen and
we've never seen either. No, we haven't seen
a desperate Jey Uso. We don't know what a desperate
Jey Uso going to do, especially when there's
a title on the line at WrestleMania. I don't
think this is about the title anymore. I don't
think Jey Uso could give to a given monkeys if
he did walk out of it with. This is about Jimmy
and what Gunther did to him. Yeah. Gunther's
made this so personal that I don't think that
Jay is going to give up until he's made it so
that Gunther is being carried out of the Allegiant
Stadium in Las Vegas. No, definitely doesn't
seem it's going to be that way. And we move from
there into a recap of the ending of Smackdown
from last week which I went over more in last
week's episode of Smackdown and this was basically
just finding it like a recap of what else we
found out about the the favor from from CM Punk
and Paul Heyman and with Rollins and Rains. It
was an interesting segment. We now know what
the favour is. The favour is known. It is. It
is. But that recap leads us into a... a GM Office
promo where we see Adam Pearce and Maxime Dupree
hearing some of Natalia's concerns about having
to go into this gauntlet match and I can sort
of understand is that all of the other teams
within that gauntlet match obviously we went
through them a few moments ago but all of those
other teams have had at least one match together
as a team whereas Well, I would play possibly
aside from Lyra Valkyria and Bailey But all of
those other all of those other teams within that
gauntlet match are tried and tested teams. Yeah
Where Maxine Dupree and Natalia? Really? I mean
don't get me wrong. We got to see Natty back
but It's one of those I mean it's I struggle
to remember when Maxine Dupree's last televised
match was I will be honest I don't think it's
been while we've done finishes and factions because
I don't remember like talking about a too much
apart from like promos backstage no this is it
So apparently Maxine has had a match at an NXT
live event on March 7th 2025. I'm just having
a look now to see when her last televised match
was. So Maxine Maxine's last televised match
Was she entered into the Royal Rumble this year
that was Maxine Dupree's last Televised match
I've got to admit. I do not remember her entry
I don't They must involve if she if she was in
the Royal Rumble and we don't remember then Her
performance couldn't have been too significant.
Yeah before that it was a women's women's world
title number one contendership battle royale
on the 3rd of November in 2024 so she's had two
matches in six months yeah well two televised
matches at least well yeah two televised matches
in six months that's that's not great and then
we ended up with Adam Pearce having a conversation
with Rey Mysterio asking basically Adam Pearce
says that he can have a match with Chad Gable
whenever he wants one but Rey says it's not Chad
Gable he wants he wants El Grande Americano and
basically just says that he wants to pick the
time and the location of this match and that
he wants to have this match at WrestleMania so
wants to have this matchup in Las Vegas. I think
Rey Mysterio comes and asks. Rey Mysterio gets
basically. Pretty much and I think at this point
El Grande Americano is getting unmasked at WrestleMania.
Rey is gonna whoop his butt and remove his mask.
The thing is are we gonna expect it? Are we sort
of siding with Michael Cole on this? Are we expecting
to find Chad Gable under that mask? Or is it
going to be a case that El Grande Americano gets
unmasked and it's not Chad Gable at all? I mean,
I'm going to go with it's not Chad Gable. But
that's purely because we've seen them both at
the same time on television, but one was in a
mask and one wasn't. You know, we have seen them,
but whether it's... I mean, we know it's not
Hornswoggle. It's too tall. Yeah. But I don't
think it's Chad Gable. It could be Spike Dudley
for all we know. I mean, El Grande Americano
has some half -decent ability in the ring. Spike
Dudley was basically just a rag doll used for
people's finishes. That guy's had concussions
more concussions than you've had like Fucking
why he doesn't say he's probably had more concussions
than you've had wanks you can't like if that
guy is basically just In a lifetime Very concussed
fellow I think you'd have to be freaking dead
to do to match that record. I suppose you've
been single a while I just called myself a prolific
wanker. You did. Talking about prolific wankers
though, we have two of them in our next match.
And before we get into the next match, I never
thought I'd see the day where Tony Hinchcliffe
would be on WWE programming. I don't know a tremendous
amount about Tony Hinchcliffe. He seems to have
completely passed me by. Tony Hinchcliffe is
a comedian. He does a program called Kill Tony.
It is basically a live panel, live audience.
So the audience is normal people. The live panel
is normally celebrities and other comedians.
and they then invite local and up -and -coming
comedians onto the Kill Tony show to come and
they have like a 60 second set on the show and
basically the professionals rip the living balls
off them and they get an opportunity to bounce
back. It is really really funny, some of it's
close to the bone but that's why I like it. But
Tony Hinchcliffe is also the guy that does the
roasts on television. So like the roast of Tom
Brady was hosted by Tony Hinchcliffe. He helped
set that up as well, the whole process. He is
doing the roast of WrestleMania this year. So
there are quite a few WWE superstars. are getting
involved in this and Tony Hinchcliffe is gonna
rip them all a new one for I'm guessing the sake
of viewings and money which is something you
know everybody likes yeah I mean fair play to
the guy if that's what he's going out there to
do then yeah he is a funny funny guy the Kill
Tony program is I'm a little bit confused why
they're advertising it because It's uh, it's
on at the same time as wwb programming Um is
on a monday at 8 pm eastern Yes, um, but it's
it's hilarious it is great. I love it I watch
it on youtube though Um, yeah As I said, I enjoyed
a lot of the roasting that he did while he was
While he was on Yeah, when he was on the program
it was it was pretty good but unfortunately though
the guys are massive new day fan But he actually
agrees that new day did the right thing by booting
biggie out and I'm like, oh that's naughty He's
trying to get some cheap heat in them seats 100
% and I think he managed it to me if we're completely
honest with one another Yeah, so as you've guessed
it, this is a men's tag men's World Tag Team
Championship match which sees our current championships
the war Raiders versus the new new day Who yeah
been on a bit of a heel turn since turning their
backs on Big E I will tell you though, to start
off with I was a little bit against this new
New Day. They are starting to grow on me slightly.
I don't know why. What they're doing and what
they're saying is obviously meant to upset and
meant to turn people off them and yeah for a
majority of it unfortunately I'm buying into
it. I was never a huge New Day fan to begin with
when they were dancing around giving out fucking
pancakes and shit oh when they had the unicorn
penises on their head yeah i was never never
a huge fan so thank you final boss for that one
it was one of those things where i yeah it's
never been truly enamored with them they've never
it's never been the one for me I mean I can get
behind that. But I mean everybody's different
and yeah I'm sure there were people that absolutely
adored the new day before their heel turn and
probably some people that have started to like
them now that they've made their heel turn. Each
to their own at the end of the day. But Yeah,
I'm just not never been a huge New Day fan. I
don't really I like Kofi Kingston Yes, I thought
Kofi Kingston as a singles competitor phenomenal
his world title reign was ludicrously short and
Was actually an insult to the man in my one of
the best Jamaican superstars to ever grace the
WWE ring Yeah, but Xavier Woods I think he's
really come into his own since the heel turn
Before he was the comic relief on the outside
Kofi and Big E used to do all the heavy lifting
Is that what he was with Paige and Brad Maddox
the comic relief on the outside? I had to know
that there was something like that on the way
i had to know it um but yeah i think since the
new day's heel turn since they lost big e and
they've turned their back on him it is a case
that xavier woods has had to step up he's had
to step up and i think he's done that in a big
way he has he's definitely wrestled more in the
last let's say six to nine months that Big E's
been out of the picture than he has done in the
last let's say five to six years that the New
Day's been running. Yeah, because a lot of the
time it was Big E and Kofi Kingston. It was very
rarely the three of them or sort of Xavier in
the combination of the other one or the other
two, sorry. It never really happened that way.
But yeah, I mean This match they got with the
War Raiders for the title is the 13th match that
sees the War Raiders versus the New Day. But
only the first match where a championship is
involved. Again, I didn't get a great many notes
for this. The last time I didn't get many notes
I said was because the action was thick and fast.
This one I got purely because I was just enjoying
what I was watching. I see I'm glad you did because
I'll leave you to talk about it because war Raiders
Do me in this I find them so incredibly boring
Really? Yeah I'm not I'm not gonna say I'm not
gonna sit here and say that I'm a huge war Raiders
fan because I'm not It's simply not possible
to be a huge war Raiders fan in my in my personal
opinion Do I think that some of the moves that
these two did these two? rather portly gentlemen
can pull off in the ring. I think they're hugely
impressive. Don't get me wrong. Some really fat
fuckers in my time that can't move half as well
as these guys. Don't get me wrong. Their ability
is not... I'm not knocking their ability. Their
matches really struggle to hold me. They haven't
got a lot of legs for them for long matches.
They haven't. and it's normally the same sort
of routine match it's this move followed by this
move followed by that move followed by this attempt
it's all just very samey samey and i just i struggle
with them but you see this week i didn't feel
that was the case because i can certainly see
where you're coming from but this week new day
really sort of tugging at that here tugging it
took in at the heel cord as such as they were
really sort of trying to use numbers to isolate
off one of the one or both of the war raiders
off from one another some real really sort of
basic tag team wrestling basically but doing
it with a a heel sort of twist to it it was it
was really nicely done The match itself didn't
go on for phenomenally long and this was because
Xavier Woods for the like two or three times
tried to introduce a a steel chair. Tries to
introduce a steel chair but it's just really
really poor timing on the ref's part that he
ends up turning around to see Ivar laying into
Xavier Woods with the chair itself and Yeah,
the Nudeia declared winners by DQ, which it doesn't
earn them the title, but it certainly gets them
a mark in the win column against the champions,
which will dictate a future title opportunity
for them. This won't be the last time we see
this match again. We'll probably see this one
at main year, to be fair. I don't think we'll
see it at Mania. I think we could possibly see
it at the Roar after Mania. Yeah, that's a good
show actually. I've forgotten about Roar after
Mania. So we'll possibly see it at the Roar after
Mania. I don't think we'll see it at Mania itself.
Or even it might be a pre -show event. Yeah.
But basically New Day have ramped this right
up as... Towards the end of this little segment
officials were storming the ring as new days
basically tried to end the certainly the career
I could make an argument for the life of poor
Eric of the war Raiders as they had him tied
up in a chair as a necklace basically trying
to do a an off the top rope dive off the top
rope dive attack to to poor Eric laced up in
this chair Had the officials not managed to release
Ivar from that cold steel necklace, he would
have possibly spent the rest of his life in a
wheelchair, quite frankly. But, yeah, this just
goes to show what levels The New Day are now
willing to sink to, to try and get what they
want. Yeah, well they want that time pin sip
gold and they're going to do whatever they can.
You know, if they hurt one of them badly enough,
they have to relinquish the titles. It just makes
life easier, doesn't it? Yeah, certainly does.
We then have a VT promo. I've got to admit a
really long VT promo for John Cena versus Cody
Rhodes at WrestleMania for the WWE title. Basically
recapping the journey so far from the swift kick
to the plums to the verbal beatdowns that we've
had, the verbal sparring matches in ring that
we've had over the last couple of weeks. In fact
this is the first time on Monday Night Raw in
a good few weeks where we haven't seen either
Cody Rhodes or John Cena come to the ring. That
is very true to be fair. That is very true. But
after this VT promo that quite honestly probably
could have been put into an email. is the final
match of the evening, the main event match, if
you will. It's the men's singles match which
sees Penta versus Dirty Dominic Mysterio, accompanied
to the ring by Carlito. Yeah, this wasn't a bad
match and considering this is the first time
the two of them have ever met, One -on -one as
well. It was an interesting scenario to put myself
in I didn't have anything to compare it against
but um Apparently it's the foot according to
commentary. It's the first time these two have
ever met in ring Yeah, we've been down this route
before and I've been proven wrong. Not willing
to, you know, not wanting to urinate on your
fireworks at all, but Michael Cole is a very
trustworthy source. Yeah, generally. It's not
very often we've been able, in fact I don't think
we've managed to point a hole in any of his facts
just yet. We did try with one, but we pushed
it a little bit further and realised we were
counting NXT PLEs as well. Yeah, this is it.
but yeah I mean I've got to admit considering
it there wasn't huge stakes in this match and
realistically for this match Dom sort of needed
to come out of a win to go into mania with some
momentum behind him Dom seemed more distracted
by the crowd now than I think we've seen him
in a little while he seemed to be sort of drifting
off We and focusing more on what the crowd were
saying rather than What? Was going on in the
matching places which just helped Penta get really
early control Yeah, and I think it's probably
done for a reason they were they're obviously
trying to Heighten one of these guys up and when
they're both being in the same match at WrestleMania
They can't really have one squash the other you'd
expect the same thing again at WrestleMania,
so It's um, they're trying to keep both of these
guys strong whilst having one lose is going to
be difficult No, this is it now Both of these
men sort of trotted out the classics that they're
known for we had Dom hit three amigos and have
two attempts at a 619 only one of which is only
one of which actually managed to hit yeah, we
have penta with his patented penta driver and
I mean which he manages to actually hit again
he has two attempts at the penta driver and only
hits the one but the one was all he needed as
he'd also penta had also managed to hit the sacrifice
Which is it looks really painful. I will be honest
and but Penta basically walks out of this one
with the With the win and as always with a judgment
day at judgment day match It is not what happens
in the match within between the bell between
the bells ringing that is of any consequence
it's normally what happens afterwards and Yeah,
Carlito basically jumps Penta with a backstabber
as the match ends. It's brutal. It was a phenomenal
match. Phenomenal. But the truly phenomenal thing
was... as Judgement Day are laying into penta
in the middle of the ring we see the Intercontinental
Champion himself Mr. Brom Breaker break the sound
barrier pretty much running down the entrance
ramp to spear Carlito clean in half oh yeah took
him clean off his feet mate absolutely wiped
him right out and if by this point you haven't
seen it then please just social media it social
media will show you multiple different angles
of Brombreaker just snap it like the speary hit
off that entrance ramp was probably more devastating
than the one that i show speed can probably still
feel oh yeah no i show speeds was uh horrific
but that one on Carly i was insane like Brombreaker
went through him and then flipped over in mid
-air. It was just pure insanity. It was incredible.
Yeah and Brombreaker does not stop there as he
delivers another bright neck spear to Dom and
then even goes up one step further and delivers
another spear to Penta. The only thing that seems
to slow his role as it goes is uh Finn Balor
sneaking up on uh sneaking up and attack attacking
Brombreaker and avoiding a spear of his own I
mean ballsy motherfucker I wouldn't want to be
trying to take Brombreaker from behind nope no
certainly not um but this gives Finn Balor some
unexpected momentum going into going into the
WrestleMania match because Yeah, he seems to
have got one over on the champ. I know he seems
to have done anyway. Yeah I'm still sticking
with my prediction from the beginning of the
show though. I've got an odd feeling that he's
that this title is gonna find its way on to on
to Don Mysterio and the circumstances around
which will probably be a little bit sus but yeah
it'll be a little bit dirty we then to close
out the show we are treated to an in -ring promo
which sees the wise man Paul Heyman basically
comes to talk to us about what happened after
smackdown was it Was it Smackdown? Yeah, Smackdown
went off the air when we found out what happened
with the favour and everything that goes along
with that. And he basically wants to get a few
things perfectly clear, is that he's pledging
eternal loyalty to the one true tribal chief,
Roman Reigns. He's also pledging eternal loyalty
to his bestest friend in the world, Mr. CM Punk.
Calm down Jericho. Oh him and Kevin Owens were
the best friends for ages. The most outstanding
best friends and if you did something to upset
one of them you made the list of Jericho. I wonder
how long that list ended up being? I'm pretty
sure he ended up on the list, didn't he? Quite
possibly. I mean, it's Jericho. He's annoying
enough to make his own list. I can 100 % see
that. Yeah, Kevin Owens put him on it and then
put him through a table or something. That sounds
about right for Kevin Owens, to be honest. Yeah,
it does. But, yeah. Paul Heyman had one more
point that he wanted to make perfectly clear
but didn't actually get the opportunity as Mr
Seth Rollins comes to the ring to talk us through
his takeaways from Friday Night Smackdown. Well
yeah, he certainly did and he says about Paul
talking about loyalty and that's the reason he
came out to say hi. as he wants to know whose
side Paul Heyman is going to be on. Is it going
to be on the side of Pankor or Reigns? And he
also says that Paul Heyman is trying to convince
everyone, including himself, that he can do both
aspects. But, well, in fairness, he's neither.
You know, Roman doesn't give a damn about Paul
Heyman and Seth says that Roman's only using
him and doesn't respect him. Then goes on to
say a lot more He points out that Roman quite
happily abandoned Paul Heyman to Solo Sokoa and
the members of the new bloodline while he Went
off to lick his wounds and that's very true save
him. He was not no And then Seth turns his attention
to possibly his favorite person in the whole
goddamn world mister CM Punk, who he didn't have
very glowing things to say about either. No,
but he's still talking about him. So he's obviously
still feeling a little bit more than just anger
there. Yeah, this is it. And I'll be honest,
this didn't go the way I thought it was going
to. And I know me and you have talked about this
off stream. Yes, we have. and or off podcast
rather it is a case that I fully expected Seth
Rollins to really play devil's advocate here
and just say do you know what Paul let's do something
that nobody was ever going to expect you to do
because everybody expects you to make a decision
between siding with CM Punk or siding with the
tribal chief no one expects them to choose Rollins
yeah I fully expected him to turn around and
go fuck the both of them side with me and that
means that both of them are just as pissed off
with you as they are but no Seth Rollins was
offering to help Paul Heyman but he was hoping
that he was going to be able to help him by curb
stomping him Into a hospital bed. Oh, yeah, definitely
which is not something we want to see by the
way I'd love to see Paul Heyman get to him first
Yeah, but Yeah, it's a case that Then like really
sort of pushing the envelope with with Paul Heyman
starts putting hands on him starts slapping him
about a little bit and as much as Paul Heyman
can be a rather spineless character he is he
is by no means a pushover oh he's that he is
not he eventually snaps back is like and is don't
you fucking touch me mate and not that he's got
the the chops to take on Mr. Seth Rollins in
a one -on -one fight. It's it's just not going
to happen. No, it's definitely not Basically
as as Paul and Seth are squaring up in the ring
or squaring up as much as Mr. Paul Heyman can
Contrary to everything that Seth has been saying
Mr. CM Punk come running out to that ring to
save his bestest friend in the whole wide world
Yes, he certainly does and They're basically
just involved with the Punk and Rollins Fighting
on the outside and punk throwing Rollins into
the seal steps And then I believe at one point
over the top of the announce table as well Yes,
very possibly But basically Yeah, it ends in
an all -out brawl which basically sees CM Punk
being laid out in the middle of the ring after
taking a curb stomp and Credit to Seth Rollins
here. We don't give him much on this podcast,
but I will give it him here is that as Paul Heyman
is see is trying to tend to his best friend in
the world he inadvertently sets himself up almost
perfectly for his own curb stop, but Seth stops
himself makes Paul Heyman shit himself though
and then leaves the ring after telling him now
you owe me a favor i mean yeah there's a lot
of favors floating around but i i've seen a lot
of things online as well saying you know who
is paul heyman going to leave wrestlemania with
is he going to leave a rollins reigns or punk
i personally hope it's punk i've um seen a um
a clip on like a an article online saying that
Roman's planning on retiring the tribal chief
gimmick at WrestleMania so there's a lot of interesting
stuff floating around but I think for me I really
want to see Heyman walk away with Punk because
he's the original Paul Heyman guy and I miss
seeing Paul Heyman week in week out like we did
with Brock Lesnar you know like You get to hear
the ladies and gentlemen my name is Paul Heyman
and like the whole my client CM Punk it's gonna
be quality mate. Punk's the proper Heyman guy.
It's gonna be the best thing in the world. See
I don't have a preference as to who Paul Heyman
walks out of WrestleMania with. I couldn't even
give a toss if Paul Heyman doesn't walk out of
WrestleMania at all to be quite honest. It's
nothing against Paul Heyman. I think he's an
absolute icon of the industry. I just think that
he's such a superfluous character in this in
this feud that they're trying to that using Paul
Heyman's own sort of analogy against him is that
they're trying desperately to bring him to an
island of relevance that doesn't exist for Paul
Heyman in this story. No, definitely not. And
something else that doesn't exist so far for
me is any more notes that I have for this week's
Monday Night Raw. No, I am fresh out of those
myself, good sir. So, yeah, this brings to a
close our episode of Finisher's and Faction's
Does Monday Night Raw. We, of course, will return
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with your homies and then let us know who wins
yeah we've been doing this now for 50 goddamn
episodes and Yeah, there was a bit I think there
were points where me neither me or rich thought
we'd get to 10 episodes let alone 50 so Yeah
It took some time, but we got there. We got there
We've gotten there and now we are not going anywhere
We are we are seeing this through to the bitter
bitter end and on that very, very gloomy note.
Just before I lose the power of speech altogether,
we will bid you adieu. Good night.