WEBVTT 00:00:33.710 --> 00:00:39.670 And welcome, welcome one and all to not just 00:00:39.670 --> 00:00:42.670 Finishes and Factions does Monday Night Raw but 00:00:42.670 --> 00:00:45.890 welcome to the beginning of WrestleMania week. 00:00:46.109 --> 00:00:50.109 And what a WrestleMania week we started out with. 00:00:51.090 --> 00:00:55.890 We had Raw come to us from Sac City, Sacramento, 00:00:55.969 --> 00:01:02.189 California, in the Golden One Center. And they 00:01:02.189 --> 00:01:09.689 had 14 ,158 fans in attendance, plus the millions. 00:01:11.189 --> 00:01:15.890 millions around the world tuning in for what 00:01:15.890 --> 00:01:24.489 has to be the busiest and best week for any wrestling 00:01:24.489 --> 00:01:28.790 fan out there. Now my name of course is Adam 00:01:28.790 --> 00:01:31.849 I am your host this evening unfortunately I am 00:01:31.849 --> 00:01:36.439 doing this on my own but will try to make this 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:40.560 as entertaining as we can as we are as I record 00:01:40.560 --> 00:01:44.819 this four days away from the beginning of WrestleMania 00:01:44.819 --> 00:01:50.700 and we're here to talk about the final Monday 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:56.680 Night Raw before the show of shows so enough 00:01:56.680 --> 00:02:01.890 of the fanfare let's crack straight in now We 00:02:01.890 --> 00:02:06.530 started off with a VT recap of last Monday night, 00:02:06.590 --> 00:02:12.310 which was and this centered on Jey Uso WrestleMania 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:18.310 main event Jey Uso and His promo that he cut 00:02:18.310 --> 00:02:23.389 on Gunther in the middle of that ring now We 00:02:23.389 --> 00:02:27.669 covered this all in last week's episode and basically 00:02:27.669 --> 00:02:34.080 the general gist of it was that Jay as he doesn't 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.039 fear Gunther anymore he doesn't want he's ascended 00:02:38.039 --> 00:02:41.340 to a higher plane of some kind where he does 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:49.830 not fear the ring general and yeah we we go from 00:02:49.830 --> 00:02:56.310 this VT recap into an in -ring promo which according 00:02:56.310 --> 00:02:58.930 to Michael Cole on commentary this week was supposed 00:02:58.930 --> 00:03:02.849 to take place a little bit later on but Gunther 00:03:02.849 --> 00:03:06.530 had other ideas now Gunther came to the ring 00:03:06.530 --> 00:03:10.930 and very much sort of expedited this this interview 00:03:10.930 --> 00:03:15.280 that was supposed to be going on and Bless him. 00:03:15.419 --> 00:03:17.479 Cole is trying to treat this like an interview, 00:03:18.280 --> 00:03:20.919 but for all it was worth, I think Cole could 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:23.879 have stayed sat at the announce desk for all 00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:27.120 the talking that that man did during the interview 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:33.419 itself. Gunther basically is not happy that Jay 00:03:33.419 --> 00:03:36.919 is claiming that he is no longer afraid of him. 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:41.919 He thinks he's very much inside of old Ouse's 00:03:41.919 --> 00:03:50.560 head. Yeah, it's a case that I mean Yeah, that 00:03:50.560 --> 00:03:55.500 Gunther has had Jay's number for months and months 00:03:55.500 --> 00:03:58.979 and but this predates his his victory at Royal 00:03:58.979 --> 00:04:02.219 Rumble or anything like that Gunther has very 00:04:02.219 --> 00:04:05.439 much had his number and that is how he's played 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.159 it up to this point, but In Gunther attacking 00:04:09.159 --> 00:04:13.460 Jimmy Uso a few weeks ago leaving him a bloody 00:04:13.460 --> 00:04:19.199 mess in the middle of the ring, yeah, you don't, 00:04:19.259 --> 00:04:22.220 you're not getting the same yeet -jay -oo so 00:04:22.220 --> 00:04:30.040 that we had so many times in the past. So, and 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.800 apparently a lot of people have been saying that 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:35.420 Gunther's out of control, Gunther, he's not, 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:42.860 he's not having, control of his own sort of abilities 00:04:42.860 --> 00:04:48.459 and everything along those lines but yeah he's 00:04:48.459 --> 00:04:52.250 basically saying screw you to everybody and very 00:04:52.250 --> 00:04:54.410 much bigging himself up. I mean, Gunther's got 00:04:54.410 --> 00:04:57.509 a lot to big himself up for. I mean, even by 00:04:57.509 --> 00:05:00.149 his own reckoning. And I think the math more 00:05:00.149 --> 00:05:03.550 or less works out that roughly about 80 % of 00:05:03.550 --> 00:05:08.149 Gunther's WWE career he has spent as a champion 00:05:08.149 --> 00:05:15.449 in one form or another. And yeah, he's not... 00:05:15.500 --> 00:05:20.160 He's not going to let a clown like Jey Uso take 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:24.759 his strap from him, which, I mean, any champion 00:05:24.759 --> 00:05:27.000 would come out and say probably more or less 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:32.759 the same thing, but Gunther basically doesn't 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.839 think that Jey is worthy enough to lace his boots, 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:40.720 and this is the superiority. I'm gonna call it 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:43.420 a superiority complex for lack of a better way 00:05:43.420 --> 00:05:45.720 of putting it, that we've had from Gunther in 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:51.540 recent weeks and yeah, I think that he has almost 00:05:51.540 --> 00:05:54.259 become a little bit complacent with Jey Uso. 00:05:54.339 --> 00:05:57.300 We're now starting to see a very different, much 00:05:57.300 --> 00:06:03.579 darker, visceral Jey Uso coming out and it's, 00:06:03.980 --> 00:06:07.569 yeah. It's it it's gonna do one or two things 00:06:07.569 --> 00:06:10.129 it will be the undoing of Gunther as a world 00:06:10.129 --> 00:06:14.589 champion or it will be the precipice that pushes 00:06:14.589 --> 00:06:19.709 Gunther right over the edge and Either way, we're 00:06:19.709 --> 00:06:26.519 here to see all of it. So Yeah Gunther claims 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:31.100 that he has never lost control in 37 years and 00:06:31.100 --> 00:06:34.160 at this point I mean he's he's got that sickening 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:38.839 smile broadened like oh yeah no there's nothing 00:06:38.839 --> 00:06:41.680 good comes out of that smile on that man's face 00:06:41.680 --> 00:06:46.720 but the closing message from Gunther was that 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.180 he is very much looking forward to calling his 00:06:49.180 --> 00:06:53.379 mother and telling her how enjoyable it was to 00:06:53.449 --> 00:06:58.350 beat the living daylights out of Jeyuso. I mean, 00:06:58.490 --> 00:07:01.189 if his mother wants to hear about that, then 00:07:01.189 --> 00:07:06.509 fair enough, go Mrs. Gunther. We then go from 00:07:06.509 --> 00:07:12.680 that promo into a VT recap of... Friday night 00:07:12.680 --> 00:07:16.000 smackdown where we had the world tag team at 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:19.360 the women's tag team gauntlet number one contenders 00:07:19.360 --> 00:07:23.839 match which was won in the end by Bailey and 00:07:23.839 --> 00:07:27.079 light the team of Bailey and Lyra Valkyria our 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:31.639 current women's intercontinental champion and 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:35.600 and Yeah, this is basically setting up for a 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:37.579 one -on -one match that comes along in just a 00:07:37.579 --> 00:07:39.740 few moments time. We've got one more item to 00:07:39.740 --> 00:07:41.939 talk about before we get to that point, however. 00:07:42.540 --> 00:07:45.800 And that is a VT promo. Now, this is the first 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:48.720 of three promos we get throughout the evening. 00:07:49.100 --> 00:07:53.720 This first one is hosted by Bianca Belair, talking 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:56.459 about her road to WrestleMania, the stuff that 00:07:56.459 --> 00:07:59.579 happened between her, Naomi, and Jade Cargill, 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:04.160 which she... oddly seems to be weirdly separate 00:08:04.160 --> 00:08:08.519 from now. The beef in all of that seems to be 00:08:08.519 --> 00:08:11.819 between Naomi and Jade Cargill, whereas Bianca 00:08:11.819 --> 00:08:14.680 has sort of been pushed to the one side because 00:08:14.680 --> 00:08:18.540 I'm assuming she has this big world title shot 00:08:18.540 --> 00:08:22.740 that she earned at Elimination Chamber just last 00:08:22.740 --> 00:08:26.319 month. And then she starts talking about all 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:32.240 the stuff to do with her EOS guy and Mommy Rhea 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.080 Ripley. Now, these are the other two ladies we 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:39.179 will be hearing from later in the program. But 00:08:39.179 --> 00:08:42.919 then we move on from there into her first match, 00:08:42.980 --> 00:08:47.200 into the first match, which is a women's singles 00:08:47.200 --> 00:08:50.259 match, which sees Liv Morgan, who is accompanied 00:08:50.259 --> 00:08:55.179 by a tag team partner, Raquel Rodriguez, and 00:08:55.179 --> 00:08:57.679 Bailey, who comes out to the ring with a well. 00:08:58.340 --> 00:09:00.679 She doesn't come out. We don't see Bailey enter 00:09:00.679 --> 00:09:03.379 the ring, so I'm assuming that Lyra Valkyria 00:09:03.379 --> 00:09:06.639 joined her out to the ring for it. And you know 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:10.279 what? This was a phenomenal first match to kick 00:09:10.279 --> 00:09:15.460 off Raw with. Liv played a normal playbook at 00:09:15.460 --> 00:09:18.259 the beginning of the match, gets a bit gobby 00:09:18.259 --> 00:09:21.279 and then decides, hang on, no, I don't want any 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.899 of that. And it starts a bit of a cat and mouse 00:09:23.899 --> 00:09:28.909 game around the ring. At which point... as Bailey 00:09:28.909 --> 00:09:31.370 is getting herself back in the ring having chased 00:09:31.370 --> 00:09:34.549 Liv around it. Liv takes full advantage of a 00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:39.470 prone position and sort of stakes her dominance 00:09:39.470 --> 00:09:44.690 over that from that point on. Now, those who 00:09:44.690 --> 00:09:47.909 have heard the podcast before or even spoken 00:09:47.909 --> 00:09:50.970 to me in person will know that I am a big Liv 00:09:50.970 --> 00:09:56.509 Morgan fan. That woman is hotter than lava and 00:09:56.990 --> 00:10:00.169 There is one thing there is one tiny little gripe 00:10:00.169 --> 00:10:05.009 I have with her and it's that She seems to do 00:10:05.009 --> 00:10:09.110 one hell of a lot of screaming and it's a No, 00:10:09.110 --> 00:10:12.009 it's not even a scream. It's a screech. It's 00:10:12.009 --> 00:10:16.009 this battle screech that she seems to come out 00:10:16.009 --> 00:10:21.990 with and it is Phenomenally irritating. I don't 00:10:21.990 --> 00:10:24.330 know if anybody else feels this way, but I certainly 00:10:24.330 --> 00:10:28.960 do But, yeah, she ends up, at one point, the 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:32.080 ref doing his job, and doing a remarkable job, 00:10:32.100 --> 00:10:35.980 I must say, comes in to break up Liv Morgan, 00:10:36.080 --> 00:10:38.679 who's managed to get Bailey pinned in a corner, 00:10:39.679 --> 00:10:42.759 and is met with nothing but a screaming Liv Morgan 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:47.059 right up against his face, which, under different 00:10:47.059 --> 00:10:49.919 circumstances, I'm sure the referee himself wouldn't 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:53.659 mind, but I'm not sure... Dirty Dom would feel 00:10:53.659 --> 00:10:56.440 the same way, however, but yeah, it's one of 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.320 those. Obviously we've heard a lot over the last 00:10:59.320 --> 00:11:03.580 week or two about Bailey specifically feeling 00:11:03.580 --> 00:11:08.429 quite frustrated with how her... how her more 00:11:08.429 --> 00:11:10.990 recent career has been going over the last few 00:11:10.990 --> 00:11:13.389 months where she hasn't even been able to score 00:11:13.389 --> 00:11:19.210 a win on a match. Rewind back to last Monday 00:11:19.210 --> 00:11:22.990 night and last Monday night obviously Bayley 00:11:22.990 --> 00:11:26.649 faced Lyra Valkyria for the Women's Intercontinental 00:11:26.649 --> 00:11:30.850 Champion and she couldn't quite do enough to 00:11:30.850 --> 00:11:33.690 put Lyra away and take the strap off her then 00:11:33.690 --> 00:11:39.799 which yeah, I mean it's it's frustrating for 00:11:39.799 --> 00:11:43.240 the future Hall of Famer because we all know 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:48.100 one day maybe soon maybe not but Bailey will 00:11:48.100 --> 00:11:51.740 end up with one of those Hall of Fame rings on 00:11:51.740 --> 00:11:55.779 her finger and it will be every bit deserved 00:11:55.779 --> 00:12:01.179 so we look forward to that of course now It is 00:12:01.179 --> 00:12:04.379 revealed at the beginning of this match that 00:12:04.379 --> 00:12:07.840 Liv Morgan has never beaten Bayley one -on -one. 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:11.639 However, little caveat to that is that she did 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:14.539 actually end up eliminating Bayley in the Elimination 00:12:14.539 --> 00:12:19.539 Chamber this year. So there have been victories 00:12:19.539 --> 00:12:24.440 held over Bayley by Liv Morgan, I believe, but 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:30.379 never in one -on -one competition. One bit that 00:12:30.379 --> 00:12:33.600 does seem to have gone a tiniest bit viral, even 00:12:33.600 --> 00:12:37.480 in 24 hours removed from Monday Night Raw, is 00:12:37.480 --> 00:12:41.519 Liv and Bailey end up on the outside. Liv starts 00:12:41.519 --> 00:12:45.159 three Amigos, which obviously was made famous 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:49.759 by the late, great... Eddie Guerrero Mr Latino 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:55.059 Heat himself and yeah Liv Morgan has taken to 00:12:55.059 --> 00:12:57.659 using it since her affiliation with Dirty Dominic 00:12:57.659 --> 00:13:03.620 Mysterio and she does two of the three amigos 00:13:03.620 --> 00:13:07.740 on the outside but gets the third one foiled 00:13:07.740 --> 00:13:11.850 by Bailey but manages to get herself into a position 00:13:11.850 --> 00:13:15.289 just a few moments later where Bailey is all 00:13:15.289 --> 00:13:19.330 of a sudden finding herself receiving that third 00:13:19.330 --> 00:13:24.129 amigo coming off the steel steps, hitting that 00:13:24.129 --> 00:13:28.649 barely padded concrete floor of the outside. 00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:32.590 And hats off to Liv Morgan. She will have got 00:13:32.590 --> 00:13:36.929 as much of that as Bailey did and still managed 00:13:36.929 --> 00:13:43.710 a brief... sort of, what do you call it, like 00:13:43.710 --> 00:13:49.629 the shoulder thing that Eddie Guerrero used to 00:13:49.629 --> 00:13:52.330 do, my mind has gone completely blank on what 00:13:52.330 --> 00:13:55.389 to call it, but she even manages one of those, 00:13:55.450 --> 00:14:00.269 even fighting through the pain. So ever the professional 00:14:00.269 --> 00:14:06.090 Liv Morgan, which we love to see. Liv, I mean, 00:14:06.190 --> 00:14:08.730 most of my notes here seem to be centered around 00:14:08.730 --> 00:14:12.250 Liv Morgan. Most of them start Liv or Morgan, 00:14:12.269 --> 00:14:15.830 and yeah, it just seems to be the way it goes. 00:14:15.870 --> 00:14:18.649 I mean, I've got down here that Liv dodges a 00:14:18.649 --> 00:14:22.250 sunset flip buckle bomb, sending Bailey into 00:14:22.250 --> 00:14:28.029 the turnbuckle herself. But never fear, Liv Morgan 00:14:28.029 --> 00:14:32.370 does manage a, or Bailey rather, does manage 00:14:32.370 --> 00:14:38.120 a... It does manage a sunset flip buckle bomb 00:14:38.120 --> 00:14:45.279 later in the match. Now Liv even sort of goes 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:47.559 to the extent of delivering a code breaker on 00:14:47.559 --> 00:14:53.440 the apron. But one of the absolute moves of this 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:57.779 match was Bailey catching Liv off the ropes with 00:14:57.779 --> 00:15:02.269 a modified stunner. then goes for a bailey to 00:15:02.269 --> 00:15:05.549 belly which should have put Liv Morgan away had 00:15:05.549 --> 00:15:11.230 it not been for Raquel Rodriguez and moving Liv's 00:15:11.230 --> 00:15:15.889 foot to break the count and we've seen Liv Morgan 00:15:15.889 --> 00:15:18.690 and Raquel Rodriguez do this for each other on 00:15:18.690 --> 00:15:21.210 a number of different occasions. It is eternally 00:15:21.210 --> 00:15:23.809 frustrating when they do because it means that 00:15:23.809 --> 00:15:26.110 some of our favourite superstars don't get the 00:15:26.110 --> 00:15:28.529 win when we think they're supposed to get it 00:15:28.529 --> 00:15:31.899 but their heel characters we know what we signed 00:15:31.899 --> 00:15:37.200 up for with these two. Now after this happens 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.500 Lyra Valkyria makes herself known comes in to 00:15:40.500 --> 00:15:43.960 teach Raquel a lesson but Lyra is put down with 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.259 ease which honestly does not bode very well considering 00:15:48.259 --> 00:15:51.559 Raquel is one of the one of the two people she 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:56.840 will be facing at WrestleMania for the women's 00:15:56.840 --> 00:16:01.750 tag team titles with Bailey and Yeah, if she 00:16:01.750 --> 00:16:04.210 can't find a way to get the better of Raquel 00:16:04.210 --> 00:16:09.330 Rodriguez, then we may well have found Liv at 00:16:09.330 --> 00:16:13.990 Lyra Valkyria's sort of kryptonite essentially 00:16:13.990 --> 00:16:20.230 Now The last note I have on this is that Liv 00:16:20.230 --> 00:16:23.789 hits a backstabber to Bailey as Liv goes for 00:16:23.789 --> 00:16:32.789 oblivion on Bailey Lyra Valkyria blocks the attempt 00:16:32.789 --> 00:16:36.429 by holding on to Bailey from the outside. This 00:16:36.429 --> 00:16:39.710 gives Bailey the chance to finish the job with 00:16:39.710 --> 00:16:43.990 a jackknife pin which finishes up that match 00:16:43.990 --> 00:16:51.610 from there. Now we go from there into a VT recap 00:16:51.850 --> 00:16:56.169 promo where we are basically recapping the favour 00:16:56.169 --> 00:16:59.950 announcement and the fallout and we see Paul 00:16:59.950 --> 00:17:04.589 Heyman after this waiting on the tribal chief 00:17:04.589 --> 00:17:10.950 Mr Roman Reigns in the back and it's revealed 00:17:10.950 --> 00:17:13.990 at this point that since that favour announcement 00:17:13.990 --> 00:17:17.250 Mr Heyman has not had any form of conversation 00:17:17.250 --> 00:17:23.930 with his tribal chief. And yeah, it's obviously 00:17:23.930 --> 00:17:27.210 spelling the end now. The rumour and innuendo 00:17:27.210 --> 00:17:32.430 out of WWE is that the Tribal Chief will be retired. 00:17:32.670 --> 00:17:38.049 The gimmick, not the wrestler. after this WrestleMania. 00:17:38.190 --> 00:17:41.589 So this main event, this triple threat could 00:17:41.589 --> 00:17:46.170 be the very end of Roman Reigns as the Tribal 00:17:46.170 --> 00:17:50.289 Chief. Which honestly I think is possibly a little 00:17:50.289 --> 00:17:55.349 bit overdue. For me personally, I've had enough 00:17:55.349 --> 00:17:59.390 of the bloodline and the Tribal Chief stuff. 00:17:59.890 --> 00:18:01.970 I know some people have really got a kick out 00:18:01.970 --> 00:18:05.029 of it and there are some parts of it, yeah. 100 00:18:05.029 --> 00:18:08.849 % I mean I am still waiting for somebody else 00:18:08.849 --> 00:18:13.630 to call Roman the tribal queef because that rib 00:18:13.630 --> 00:18:17.750 got me something rotten and still to this day 00:18:17.750 --> 00:18:23.410 lives rent -free in my head however We go from 00:18:23.410 --> 00:18:28.130 there into a VT promo for Rhea Ripley. Now, this 00:18:28.130 --> 00:18:32.490 is two of three. And this is Rhea's chance to 00:18:32.490 --> 00:18:36.549 vent on her frustrations with Bianca Belair, 00:18:36.789 --> 00:18:41.210 primarily, as well as a little caveat for Io 00:18:41.210 --> 00:18:45.410 Sky, our current women's champion for Monday 00:18:45.410 --> 00:18:49.609 Night Raw. And yeah, I mean, she's she's pissed 00:18:49.609 --> 00:18:54.220 off. She doesn't feel like she. She wasn't. necessarily 00:18:54.220 --> 00:18:57.200 looking for a way into WrestleMania as she wasn't 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.359 expecting to have to fight for it in the way 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:02.539 that she has. I mean, she wasn't expecting to 00:19:02.539 --> 00:19:06.660 lose her title to EO Sky. In fact, it says during 00:19:06.660 --> 00:19:09.079 this promo that she even gave EO... the only 00:19:09.079 --> 00:19:12.559 reason EO Sky had that title shot was purely 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:17.400 out of pity. She felt sorry after everything 00:19:17.400 --> 00:19:22.980 that went down. She cost EO a chance and... Yeah, 00:19:22.980 --> 00:19:25.720 wanted to make it up to her, but that feeling 00:19:25.720 --> 00:19:31.420 of obligation has all but backfired on her a 00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:34.000 little bit. And obviously all the stuff with 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:38.039 Bianca Belair, Rhea feels that Bianca is playing 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:40.640 with her emotions, I believe is a phrase she 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:46.559 used in this specific promo. Obviously, initially 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:51.410 only being out at ringside during... the match 00:19:51.410 --> 00:19:55.250 where Io picked up the belt off Rhea and she 00:19:55.250 --> 00:19:58.670 was only supposed to be there as impartial but 00:19:58.670 --> 00:20:01.430 seemed to be trying to help Io back into the 00:20:01.430 --> 00:20:05.730 match and then when she was a special guest referee 00:20:05.730 --> 00:20:09.369 Rhea feels that she cost her in that opportunity 00:20:09.369 --> 00:20:17.319 as well. for once cannot agree with Rhea Ripley. 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:20.220 It's one of those things. I think she has cost 00:20:20.220 --> 00:20:24.059 herself her own opportunities and is basically 00:20:24.059 --> 00:20:28.140 looking for a scapegoat in the form of the EST 00:20:28.140 --> 00:20:36.380 of WWE. Now we went from there into a men's singles 00:20:36.380 --> 00:20:41.400 match which sees Rey Mysterio with the rest of 00:20:41.400 --> 00:20:48.359 the LWO. versus Julius Creed with his tag team 00:20:48.359 --> 00:20:52.880 partner Brutus Creed as well as Ivy Nile and 00:20:52.880 --> 00:20:56.539 Chad Gable there on the outside. The only person 00:20:56.539 --> 00:21:00.119 who was not present during this match, or at 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:02.759 least at the beginning of this match, was El 00:21:02.759 --> 00:21:07.480 Grande Americano. Or, as anybody who's ever been 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:11.140 into a coffee shop in the UK knows, a large black 00:21:11.140 --> 00:21:17.009 coffee. How nobody but me has picked up on that 00:21:17.009 --> 00:21:20.170 as of yet. I have absolutely no clue. But yeah, 00:21:20.269 --> 00:21:26.750 we digress from there now We got before this 00:21:26.750 --> 00:21:31.140 a Quick VT recap from last week where we saw 00:21:31.140 --> 00:21:35.500 El Grande Americano won the six -man tag team 00:21:35.500 --> 00:21:40.259 match but did so with a loaded mask which was 00:21:40.259 --> 00:21:42.880 not picked up by the referee but Rey Mysterio 00:21:42.880 --> 00:21:47.480 certainly saw it and had more than a few choice 00:21:47.480 --> 00:21:50.839 words which has ended in a WrestleMania match 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:55.730 between Rey Mysterio and El Grande. And I'm going 00:21:55.730 --> 00:21:57.910 to take a guess that at one stage or another, 00:21:58.630 --> 00:22:00.869 someone's going to end up losing their mask. 00:22:01.569 --> 00:22:07.250 And we'll finally find out who is El Grande Americano. 00:22:07.329 --> 00:22:10.269 Although I've personally still got, I'd be willing, 00:22:10.369 --> 00:22:13.029 if I had any, I'd be willing to put money on 00:22:13.029 --> 00:22:19.599 it saying that it's Chad Gable. despite the fact 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:22.880 that we have indeed once seen him and El Grande 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:28.700 in roughly the same place at the same time. It's 00:22:28.700 --> 00:22:32.759 only been that once. And I'm just not convinced 00:22:32.759 --> 00:22:37.019 that it isn't Chad Gable behind the mask. So, 00:22:37.019 --> 00:22:41.380 yeah, we're we're waiting eagerly for that. But 00:22:41.380 --> 00:22:46.359 we go into the into the match and. As far as 00:22:46.359 --> 00:22:49.099 Julius Creed goes, this is actually his very 00:22:49.099 --> 00:22:56.119 first career singles match in WWE. And yeah, 00:22:56.180 --> 00:22:58.839 I've got to admit the fan in me took over. I 00:22:58.839 --> 00:23:02.700 had real trouble keeping my professional head 00:23:02.700 --> 00:23:07.640 on as a wrestling podcaster in trying to take 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:10.519 notes for this match because I was just in absolute 00:23:10.519 --> 00:23:15.000 awe of the match that these two superstars put 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:20.700 on. Now relatively early on we do see both the 00:23:20.700 --> 00:23:25.900 LWO and American made interfering in the match 00:23:25.900 --> 00:23:28.819 almost at the same time as one another to the 00:23:28.819 --> 00:23:33.140 point that the referee has had enough and kicks 00:23:33.140 --> 00:23:38.660 them but all six American made and LWO faction 00:23:38.890 --> 00:23:43.349 at faction members out of the arena and sends 00:23:43.349 --> 00:23:49.089 them into the back for an early shower and yeah 00:23:49.089 --> 00:23:52.309 this leaves Julius Creed and Rey Mysterio to 00:23:52.309 --> 00:23:55.569 to battle it out mano a mano with no outside 00:23:55.569 --> 00:23:58.450 interference which is let's face it it's the 00:23:58.450 --> 00:24:03.720 way we would want to see it so Yeah, I mean the 00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:07.140 next thing that I've got out of this was that 00:24:07.140 --> 00:24:10.859 Rey Mysterio did, they referred to it as a baseball 00:24:10.859 --> 00:24:13.480 slide and I can really understand why they called 00:24:13.480 --> 00:24:17.000 it a baseball slide but normally when we see 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:19.839 wrestlers do a baseball slide it's feet first 00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:24.779 not face first as tactically not the best move 00:24:24.779 --> 00:24:29.240 in the world to do so Yeah, I'm gonna continue 00:24:29.240 --> 00:24:31.420 to call it a baseball slide on this occasion 00:24:31.420 --> 00:24:34.480 because it did facilitate what Julius Creed did 00:24:34.480 --> 00:24:39.339 next which was catch Ray Mysterio in this baseball 00:24:39.339 --> 00:24:45.380 slide and Manages to hold him up in a suplexable 00:24:45.380 --> 00:24:53.470 position and walks walks around the ring, up 00:24:53.470 --> 00:24:57.509 the ring steps, and only when Rey Mysterio gets 00:24:57.509 --> 00:25:01.910 to within grasping distance of the ropes themselves, 00:25:02.509 --> 00:25:06.009 does he manage to free himself of that position 00:25:06.009 --> 00:25:09.690 because it was a... Honestly, I mean Rey Mysterio 00:25:09.690 --> 00:25:13.529 is not a big guy, but I can imagine the the guy's 00:25:13.529 --> 00:25:16.849 dense Like he's he's probably at he's not gonna 00:25:16.849 --> 00:25:19.150 be a light. He's not gonna be a light fucker 00:25:19.150 --> 00:25:23.349 at all Despite how that man flies through the 00:25:23.349 --> 00:25:27.230 wind flies through the air making birds jealous 00:25:27.230 --> 00:25:36.450 No The neck at so Suplex position Ray removes 00:25:36.450 --> 00:25:39.869 himself from the hold on the apron as Julius 00:25:39.869 --> 00:25:46.890 is sent or Julius is dodged by Rey Mysterio sent 00:25:46.890 --> 00:25:50.769 into the ring post after Julius Creed decides 00:25:50.769 --> 00:25:54.970 to create a bit of space between them with a 00:25:54.970 --> 00:25:59.529 This is Sparta style kick on Rey Mysterio sending 00:25:59.529 --> 00:26:03.640 him flying backwards on the apron Now, the next 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:07.039 note I've got after that was Mysterio counters 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.759 a counter with a spiked DDT on Julius Creed. 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.700 Now, most of what Ray Mysterio has done throughout 00:26:14.700 --> 00:26:18.279 his entire career is impressive because of how 00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:23.400 high the man flies, of how fast he runs, but 00:26:23.400 --> 00:26:26.720 nothing... and I mean nothing is any more impressive 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:29.619 out of that man than how he can take on a much 00:26:29.619 --> 00:26:33.980 larger stronger opponent and very much bring 00:26:33.980 --> 00:26:37.740 them to task on what it is they can do and being 00:26:37.740 --> 00:26:41.319 able to spike DDT somebody like Julius Creed 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:47.349 is is no mean feat at all now I did tease this 00:26:47.349 --> 00:26:50.289 towards the beginning of this segment where El 00:26:50.289 --> 00:26:52.609 Grande Americano hadn't come out to the ring. 00:26:53.049 --> 00:26:56.289 Obviously we know that American made including 00:26:56.289 --> 00:26:59.329 Chad Gable had been sent to the back minutes 00:26:59.329 --> 00:27:03.130 earlier to this point but El Grande Americano 00:27:03.130 --> 00:27:09.250 does make his way down to the ring and him and 00:27:09.250 --> 00:27:12.009 Ray get into a bit of an altercation on the outside 00:27:12.009 --> 00:27:16.589 where Ray is basically trying to unmask El Grande 00:27:16.589 --> 00:27:21.609 to reveal him to the world as he feels the El 00:27:21.609 --> 00:27:24.410 Grande Americano is an insult to the name of 00:27:24.410 --> 00:27:29.349 Lucha, which obviously Rey Mysterio has dedicated 00:27:29.349 --> 00:27:33.710 a vast majority of his life to portraying and 00:27:33.710 --> 00:27:37.089 bringing to the larger world, which we thank 00:27:37.089 --> 00:27:41.269 him enormously for as Lucha Libre as a style 00:27:41.269 --> 00:27:48.500 is so very entertaining. Now, after, so Creed 00:27:48.500 --> 00:27:50.920 tries to get the roll -up on Mysterio, but only, 00:27:51.380 --> 00:27:55.960 well, I take issue with this because the count, 00:27:56.319 --> 00:27:59.839 the referee, if you listen, so if you deprive 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:02.359 yourself of the image of what's going on in the 00:28:02.359 --> 00:28:05.720 match and listen to the sound, Ray Mysterio kicks 00:28:05.720 --> 00:28:08.460 out of the roll -up in one. Michael Cole says 00:28:08.460 --> 00:28:10.839 that he gets out at the count of two, which is 00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:18.049 ridiculous. Yeah, and then Mysterio drives Julius 00:28:18.049 --> 00:28:21.410 into the ring ropes which sends El Grande flying 00:28:21.410 --> 00:28:28.329 off the apron. Rey hits the 6 -1 -9 to win the 00:28:28.329 --> 00:28:33.630 match as El Grande decides to sneak attack Rey 00:28:33.630 --> 00:28:37.410 and drops the rest of the LWO who come out after 00:28:37.410 --> 00:28:40.690 the match to try and help Rey Mysterio with El 00:28:40.690 --> 00:28:44.869 Grande as it is revealed that El Grande Americano 00:28:44.869 --> 00:28:51.569 still has that loaded mask and yeah not a He 00:28:51.569 --> 00:28:54.089 basically when we say loaded mask if you've missed 00:28:54.089 --> 00:28:57.250 it already he puts a steel plate We are told 00:28:57.250 --> 00:28:59.990 it is a well, we're not going to describe the 00:28:59.990 --> 00:29:03.009 metal. It is a metal plate now whether that's 00:29:03.009 --> 00:29:06.509 an aluminium Steel iron, whatever the hell it 00:29:06.509 --> 00:29:10.910 is metal don't bend metal that thick doesn't 00:29:10.910 --> 00:29:14.950 bend easily and is certainly unforgiving. So 00:29:14.950 --> 00:29:19.769 having a headbutt dropped on you where that person 00:29:19.769 --> 00:29:25.470 has got a forehead of metal or a plate of metal 00:29:25.470 --> 00:29:28.430 on his forehead is not going to be pleasant for 00:29:28.430 --> 00:29:30.910 either person, but the person on the receiving 00:29:30.910 --> 00:29:35.940 end definitely gets the worst of it. And after 00:29:35.940 --> 00:29:41.099 that match, we go into a rare VT promo from our 00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:46.640 Raw Tag Team Champions, The War Raiders, who 00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:51.920 are basically addressing the new day on what 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:55.319 happened during their last match. As we saw, 00:29:55.519 --> 00:30:00.160 I believe it may have been last week, where... 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:04.220 not only were the New Day coming after the War 00:30:04.220 --> 00:30:08.460 Raiders tag team titles, but they were coming 00:30:08.460 --> 00:30:12.779 after what looked like poor Eric's career, maybe 00:30:12.779 --> 00:30:19.420 even his life trying to damage his neck further 00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:23.799 as they have both Eric and Ivar come out of neck 00:30:23.799 --> 00:30:27.099 surgery which has ended other wrestlers careers 00:30:27.099 --> 00:30:33.930 before now. Now, the basic gist of the War Raiders 00:30:33.930 --> 00:30:37.869 VT, other than calling the New Day cowards, was 00:30:37.869 --> 00:30:40.009 that they are promising, they're not promising 00:30:40.009 --> 00:30:43.450 a match at WrestleMania. They are not promising 00:30:43.450 --> 00:30:48.769 a fight at WrestleMania. They are promising war, 00:30:49.750 --> 00:30:53.390 which somebody called the War Raiders, not entirely 00:30:53.390 --> 00:30:58.799 unsurprising. But still following directly on 00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:02.619 from that we see none other than Jackie Redmond 00:31:02.619 --> 00:31:06.660 Who manages to catch the new day playing? Well, 00:31:06.660 --> 00:31:10.940 they described it as Clash of Clans WWE crossover, 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:13.200 which is a an event that Clash of Clans have 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:17.119 at the moment I haven't played it myself, but 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:22.980 it's WWE related. I'm sure it's amazing But new 00:31:22.980 --> 00:31:27.750 day feel like they are constantly at war and 00:31:27.750 --> 00:31:32.730 well they fit they say they are constantly at 00:31:32.730 --> 00:31:38.029 war but not before admonishing poor Jackie for 00:31:38.029 --> 00:31:42.529 her lack of etiquette in terms of interrupting 00:31:42.529 --> 00:31:46.180 somebody while they're gaming I mean As a fellow 00:31:46.180 --> 00:31:49.059 gamer myself, I can sort of understand it But 00:31:49.059 --> 00:31:51.700 that doesn't necessarily mean that you stop poor 00:31:51.700 --> 00:31:56.740 Jackie Redmond from doing her job Kofi and Xavier 00:31:56.740 --> 00:32:02.220 now, I will be honest I was impressed by Xavier 00:32:02.220 --> 00:32:06.960 Woods this week in this promo as it's not I don't 00:32:06.960 --> 00:32:12.019 think with the first run of the new day the face 00:32:12.019 --> 00:32:16.890 new day we didn't really get much of an opportunity 00:32:16.890 --> 00:32:23.210 to see much of Xavier Woods apart from a trombone 00:32:23.210 --> 00:32:28.990 playing unicorn penis wearing goof basically 00:32:28.990 --> 00:32:36.190 and since the loss of Big E and their heel turn 00:32:36.190 --> 00:32:41.200 Xavier Woods has really sort of taken the reins 00:32:41.200 --> 00:32:46.220 and really taken the mantle and it's nice to 00:32:46.220 --> 00:32:51.119 see him get something because up to this point 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:54.359 I really don't feel like he's had anything other 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:57.779 than riding the coattails of Kofi and Big E. 00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:03.200 Some might say that this is only to be expected. 00:33:03.420 --> 00:33:07.359 His tag team partner is out and he should be 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:10.220 doing things like this. But I'm still going to 00:33:10.220 --> 00:33:14.660 give credit where credit's due. Xavier Woods 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:20.900 hasn't had as much time on camera since him and 00:33:20.900 --> 00:33:28.369 Paige last did a video together. Promise we won't 00:33:28.369 --> 00:33:32.650 make as many page porn jokes as as we seem to 00:33:32.650 --> 00:33:35.549 do when it comes to Xavier Woods But this is 00:33:35.549 --> 00:33:37.809 the thing is that he needs to now give us something 00:33:37.809 --> 00:33:43.029 to remember him by rather than being Yeah one 00:33:43.029 --> 00:33:51.190 of two dicks in a page Anyway So new day are 00:33:51.190 --> 00:33:54.359 basically saying in this promo that They are 00:33:54.359 --> 00:33:57.539 ready to re -ascend the mountain. They are ready 00:33:57.539 --> 00:34:02.140 to go back up to the tippy top of Raw's tag team 00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:07.380 division. I've very much got the impression that 00:34:07.380 --> 00:34:09.579 they feel like they've got something to prove 00:34:09.579 --> 00:34:14.119 to the rest of the wrestlers in the locker room 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.980 as apparently they've been getting teased and 00:34:16.980 --> 00:34:20.800 all the rest of it. Which yeah, I can probably 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:23.940 sort of see some of the stories I've heard about 00:34:23.940 --> 00:34:28.079 the boys and all the rest of it is yeah No matter 00:34:28.079 --> 00:34:31.980 what age you live in that That is always going 00:34:31.980 --> 00:34:35.380 to be what defines the wrestler the wrestler 00:34:35.380 --> 00:34:40.260 and the wrestling era for it now from there we 00:34:40.260 --> 00:34:44.860 went into another VT this was a Hall of Fame 00:34:44.860 --> 00:34:50.079 promotional video and I haven't I still haven't 00:34:50.079 --> 00:34:52.500 quite figured out why they're using old matches 00:34:52.500 --> 00:34:56.059 but getting to relive this match in particular 00:34:56.059 --> 00:35:00.840 was absolutely amazing Now the match that I'm 00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:03.920 talking about of course was from WrestleMania 00:35:03.920 --> 00:35:11.400 28 all the way back in 2012 which saw Undertaker 00:35:11.400 --> 00:35:18.019 versus Triple H in a hell in a cell match with 00:35:18.019 --> 00:35:23.980 the special guest referee being Shawn Michaels. 00:35:25.179 --> 00:35:29.809 Now What a match this was. If you haven't seen 00:35:29.809 --> 00:35:33.289 it, I would question whether you're a wrestling 00:35:33.289 --> 00:35:36.710 fan at all. If you haven't seen it, I happen 00:35:36.710 --> 00:35:39.590 to know that every single WrestleMania is on 00:35:39.590 --> 00:35:43.429 Netflix right now. Go and watch WrestleMania 00:35:43.429 --> 00:35:48.489 28. One of the main events of that night was 00:35:48.489 --> 00:35:54.900 this match and... You cannot deny the gravitas 00:35:54.900 --> 00:35:58.860 that went into this match. This was billed as 00:35:58.860 --> 00:36:05.960 the end of an era in terms of the two that were 00:36:05.960 --> 00:36:09.940 in the ring. Now, I'm not going to spoil anything 00:36:09.940 --> 00:36:12.199 about the match by talking about it in great 00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:15.780 detail as much as the wrestling fan in me wants 00:36:15.780 --> 00:36:20.360 to because I remember watching this match. And 00:36:20.360 --> 00:36:23.139 if I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure the 00:36:23.139 --> 00:36:27.699 ending brought tears to my eyes. And if you've 00:36:27.699 --> 00:36:30.579 seen it, you know. And if you haven't seen it, 00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:33.960 go and watch it so you can fucking well find 00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:43.099 out. But that is a teaser for WrestleMania's 00:36:43.099 --> 00:36:48.090 Hall of Fame ceremony, which takes place on Friday 00:36:48.090 --> 00:36:56.050 the 18th of April following Smackdown Now we 00:36:56.050 --> 00:36:59.550 at finishes and factions have produced an episode 00:36:59.550 --> 00:37:02.230 which will be coming out I believe if I remember 00:37:02.230 --> 00:37:07.369 correctly the day before that at 8 a .m. GMT 00:37:07.369 --> 00:37:12.139 so Please, if you are interested, I break down 00:37:12.139 --> 00:37:16.179 each and every entrant into the Hall of Fame 00:37:16.179 --> 00:37:22.360 Class of 2025. And it's not a terribly long episode, 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:27.360 but it's all there. I break it all down so that 00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.400 you can, if you don't know who these people are, 00:37:30.739 --> 00:37:33.900 then you will find out who they are and what 00:37:33.900 --> 00:37:37.659 they've achieved and why they deserve to go in. 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:44.260 But enough about the Hall of Fame for now We 00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:49.780 go from that VT into the third match of the night, 00:37:49.800 --> 00:37:54.619 which is another men's singles match which sees 00:37:54.619 --> 00:38:02.579 a the phenomenal AJ Styles versus Karrion Kross 00:38:02.579 --> 00:38:06.860 Who we haven't seen wrestle at all. I think this 00:38:07.289 --> 00:38:12.309 If I may be able to be corrected here, but this 00:38:12.309 --> 00:38:16.809 is a this is carrying crosses first match of 00:38:16.809 --> 00:38:19.949 the Netflix era as I don't think we've covered 00:38:19.949 --> 00:38:23.210 anything like this on finishes and factions previously. 00:38:24.989 --> 00:38:28.230 But. Do you know what a match this was? This 00:38:28.230 --> 00:38:31.510 match was born of Karrion Kross really trying 00:38:31.510 --> 00:38:35.869 to encourage the darker side of AJ Styles out 00:38:35.869 --> 00:38:39.889 for his WrestleMania match versus Logan Paul, 00:38:40.449 --> 00:38:46.610 the internet dwelling interloper into WWE. And 00:38:46.610 --> 00:38:51.849 yeah, I mean, I'm gonna be honest, for the first 00:38:51.849 --> 00:38:54.010 part of this match, it was the Karrion Kross 00:38:54.010 --> 00:38:59.260 show. Carrie and cross was dominating and I mean 00:38:59.260 --> 00:39:07.480 dominating AJ Styles and yeah it's it's a case 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:11.820 that Carrie and cross tries using every trick 00:39:11.820 --> 00:39:17.519 in the book to see if he can goad that absolute 00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:22.119 animalistic side of AJ Styles I mean AJ Styles 00:39:22.119 --> 00:39:26.019 in general in the ring is a phenomenally gifted 00:39:26.019 --> 00:39:30.099 athlete but if you have watched him as long as 00:39:30.099 --> 00:39:33.340 I have watched him and I mean I used to watch 00:39:33.340 --> 00:39:36.920 him when he was back in TNA competing for the 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:41.059 X Division Championship before he had his soccer 00:39:41.059 --> 00:39:46.849 mom haircut and all the rest of it and Yeah, 00:39:46.849 --> 00:39:51.849 he is a phenomenally gifted athlete but when 00:39:51.849 --> 00:39:56.269 he hits that dark switch it is a case that we 00:39:56.269 --> 00:40:01.630 see an entirely new side of AJ Styles come out 00:40:01.630 --> 00:40:05.630 and this is the AJ Styles that Karrion Kross 00:40:05.630 --> 00:40:13.940 is trying to unlock and Yeah, I mean cross at 00:40:13.940 --> 00:40:16.940 one point feigns an injury to cheap shot AJ, 00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:20.659 which only serves to anger styles, which as I've 00:40:20.659 --> 00:40:24.019 said, I think was the entire point of everything 00:40:24.019 --> 00:40:29.780 coming out. And to anybody that's already watched 00:40:29.780 --> 00:40:31.880 this match and is simply listening to the sound 00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:35.539 of my voice at this point, if you have watched 00:40:35.539 --> 00:40:40.440 this match, please tell me. It can't just be 00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:45.119 me who has seen eight who saw Once that phenomenal 00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:47.940 forearm was geared up once carrying cross knew 00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:51.079 what was coming You saw the look of acceptance 00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:54.940 cross his face That was the look of a man who'd 00:40:54.940 --> 00:40:58.820 done the job He went out to do and that is the 00:40:58.820 --> 00:41:03.420 impression I got from from that match now after 00:41:03.420 --> 00:41:09.630 this after this Logan Paul makes an entrance 00:41:09.630 --> 00:41:13.610 into the arena claiming to come out to congratulate 00:41:13.610 --> 00:41:17.710 AJ on his win as well as ragging on the crowd 00:41:17.710 --> 00:41:24.929 of Sacramento who do not take kindly to Logan 00:41:24.929 --> 00:41:28.170 Paul's presence as pretty much all of us don't 00:41:28.170 --> 00:41:34.679 realistically Let's see, let's see, let's see, 00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:39.159 let's see, let's see. Paul comes out to introduce 00:41:39.159 --> 00:41:43.699 his own VT that he has created, which is basically 00:41:43.699 --> 00:41:47.500 all about himself being anything but humble, 00:41:47.579 --> 00:41:50.760 which is what apparently he is, according to 00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:55.820 his own rhetoric. And after we watch this complete 00:41:55.820 --> 00:42:00.239 drivel... AJ says that he's good to go with Paul 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:02.400 right now. Who needs to wait for WrestleMania? 00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:08.840 Let's go! And Paul makes his way to the ring 00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:12.780 as Karrion Kross comes up from behind and tries 00:42:12.780 --> 00:42:17.860 to sneak attack AJ. And while AJ puts up a valiant 00:42:17.860 --> 00:42:22.760 effort against the newly teamed up or the temporary 00:42:22.760 --> 00:42:28.019 team of Kross and Paul, he eventually succumbs 00:42:28.019 --> 00:42:31.639 to the numbers and is eventually laid out with 00:42:31.639 --> 00:42:36.739 a pulveriser in the middle of the ring and that 00:42:36.739 --> 00:42:40.059 was all she wrote on that particular segment 00:42:40.059 --> 00:42:43.880 of Raw this week. Now one special mention we 00:42:43.880 --> 00:42:48.510 do have to give during this time of year especially 00:42:48.510 --> 00:42:54.489 this year, is to Mr. Michael Cole, who has sort 00:42:54.489 --> 00:42:58.630 of taken on the mantle of the voice of the WWE. 00:43:00.730 --> 00:43:04.769 And this WrestleMania, WrestleMania 41 from Las 00:43:04.769 --> 00:43:10.230 Vegas, Nevada, marks Michael Cole's 28th WrestleMania. 00:43:10.940 --> 00:43:13.639 which he has sat at the announce position. That 00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:18.119 is a phenomenal number. I don't think anybody 00:43:18.119 --> 00:43:21.280 else can even come close to that in terms of 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.179 announcers. In fact, I don't even think there's 00:43:24.179 --> 00:43:30.420 talent that have wrestled in that many WrestleMania's 00:43:30.420 --> 00:43:33.940 if I'm completely honest with you. So. Well done 00:43:33.940 --> 00:43:37.539 Mr Michael Cole on your 28th WrestleMania this 00:43:37.539 --> 00:43:40.539 weekend and we look forward to watching it as 00:43:40.539 --> 00:43:43.199 always. The only way that it could honestly get 00:43:43.199 --> 00:43:48.099 better for me is if good old JR comes back to 00:43:48.099 --> 00:43:54.500 voice over another WrestleMania but we severely 00:43:54.500 --> 00:44:00.880 doubt that will happen but we digress. We then 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:07.440 go into well and in ring promo which is mostly 00:44:07.440 --> 00:44:12.960 taken up by the crowd getting some arm exercises 00:44:12.960 --> 00:44:19.780 in as they yeet all over Sacktown and as we see 00:44:19.780 --> 00:44:26.460 WrestleMania main event Jey Uso come out to the 00:44:26.460 --> 00:44:29.449 ring and uh yeah it's been mentioned a couple 00:44:29.449 --> 00:44:31.769 of times during the uh during the monday night 00:44:31.769 --> 00:44:38.510 roar episode that sack town is yeet town um and 00:44:38.510 --> 00:44:43.630 yeah i mean jay uso is that he has surprisingly 00:44:43.630 --> 00:44:48.409 little to say uh we do find out that mrs uso 00:44:48.409 --> 00:44:54.989 mrs jay uso is in the arena tonight, but it's 00:44:54.989 --> 00:44:58.690 unknown as to where she is. It surprises me that 00:44:58.690 --> 00:45:05.250 she could not get a front row seat. So, yeah, 00:45:05.389 --> 00:45:10.369 what's up with that? But Jay isn't here to address 00:45:10.369 --> 00:45:13.449 Gunther or anybody else. He is here to address 00:45:13.449 --> 00:45:19.090 the fans. And basically, Jay is saying, you know 00:45:19.090 --> 00:45:22.019 what? I'm locked in. and he knows that he's got 00:45:22.019 --> 00:45:27.320 Gunther pissed. Now, it is a case that he's pissed 00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:30.980 off the world champion. Now, this is a man that 00:45:30.980 --> 00:45:34.400 could probably defeat most common people with 00:45:34.400 --> 00:45:38.960 a chop on its own. So to piss off the ring general 00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:43.219 is probably not the smartest move, to be quite 00:45:43.219 --> 00:45:48.550 honest, Deuce. But do you know what? everything 00:45:48.550 --> 00:45:54.170 about this promo is specific to to piss off the 00:45:54.170 --> 00:45:59.650 ring general Gunther as we get about three or 00:45:59.650 --> 00:46:04.889 four rounds of it's all me ooze day one it's 00:46:04.889 --> 00:46:10.349 just me ooze seeing Pat McAfee yeet till he sweats 00:46:10.349 --> 00:46:17.400 now we go from there that surprisingly short 00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:23.159 promo into a VT promo which sees... which basically 00:46:23.159 --> 00:46:26.179 recaps Penta's win over Dominic Mysterio last 00:46:26.179 --> 00:46:32.659 week. And what I have dubbed as the viral spears 00:46:32.659 --> 00:46:37.900 from Bron Breaker that followed. I mean, poor 00:46:37.900 --> 00:46:43.980 Carlito is lucky he can walk at this rate. But... 00:46:44.670 --> 00:46:48.389 we see after that promo after that promo finishes 00:46:48.389 --> 00:46:54.030 airing it is a case that Kathy Kelly is interviewing 00:46:54.030 --> 00:46:56.909 Bron Breaker about the match at WrestleMania 00:46:56.909 --> 00:47:00.429 and before Bron Breaker can really get many words 00:47:00.429 --> 00:47:05.690 out if any the judgment day completely lay waste 00:47:05.690 --> 00:47:10.090 to him leaving him in an absolute heap which 00:47:10.090 --> 00:47:13.739 is only really gonna settle to piss off Brom 00:47:13.739 --> 00:47:17.840 Breaker and there are lots of people in the WWE 00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:20.619 you don't want to piss off. I think Brom Breaker 00:47:20.619 --> 00:47:23.559 sits pretty close to the top of that list if 00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:28.039 we're honest. Now this feeds into our main event 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:31.000 of the evening which is another men's singles 00:47:31.000 --> 00:47:36.119 match which sees the always impressive Penta 00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:43.889 versus Finn Balor. This match I'm gonna be honest 00:47:43.889 --> 00:47:47.670 Actually was this the main event? I've got a 00:47:47.670 --> 00:47:50.210 double check myself. No it was it was the main 00:47:50.210 --> 00:47:55.349 event match of the evening Now things have obviously 00:47:55.349 --> 00:47:59.230 been heating up in the men's Intercontinental 00:47:59.230 --> 00:48:02.630 Championship matches, especially now that we 00:48:02.630 --> 00:48:06.369 know that for the first time ever in WrestleMania 00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:10.329 history, the Intercontinental Championship is 00:48:10.329 --> 00:48:14.670 being defended in a fatal four -way position. 00:48:15.409 --> 00:48:20.090 And again, never before have we seen the IC title 00:48:20.090 --> 00:48:22.769 being defended in a fatal four -way position 00:48:22.769 --> 00:48:26.880 at WrestleMania. we have to make that distinction 00:48:26.880 --> 00:48:33.320 so yeah I mean Penta has now been here long enough 00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:36.639 to know that you do not let Judgment Day get 00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:41.139 a foothold in and like the the ever -adaptable 00:48:41.139 --> 00:48:45.260 superstar that he is Penta gets the drop on Balor 00:48:45.260 --> 00:48:48.980 as soon as he hits the ring which is probably 00:48:48.980 --> 00:48:51.400 the best way to deal with it if I'm completely 00:48:51.400 --> 00:48:58.019 honest with you Now again, I really enjoyed this 00:48:58.019 --> 00:49:02.119 match the fan in me got out of got sort of in 00:49:02.119 --> 00:49:05.559 the way a little bit and I was just sat watching 00:49:05.559 --> 00:49:09.960 the match like yeah like nothing on earth so 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:16.940 I've got a few notes from it here Penta basically 00:49:16.940 --> 00:49:21.239 shushed the entire crowd got everything silent 00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:26.050 for an absolutely echoing chop to Finn Balor. 00:49:26.590 --> 00:49:29.750 Balor responded to this a little while afterwards 00:49:29.750 --> 00:49:36.730 with a superplex to Penta and Penta then answers 00:49:36.730 --> 00:49:41.849 this again little ways down the line with a backstabber 00:49:41.849 --> 00:49:46.710 and hits the sacrifice which yeah I think they 00:49:46.710 --> 00:49:49.510 make a... don't get me wrong I fully believe 00:49:49.510 --> 00:49:54.500 that the sacrifice hurts like fuck. but I do 00:49:54.500 --> 00:49:58.260 think that commentary possibly oversell it just 00:49:58.260 --> 00:50:01.280 a little bit fully understand where they're coming 00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:03.820 from where it'll sort of get to a point where 00:50:03.820 --> 00:50:06.920 if it's done in the right way it could certainly 00:50:06.920 --> 00:50:10.760 dislocate a shoulder but yeah it's one of those 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.599 I think it's been overhyped just a touch um but 00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:20.980 Yeah as Penta was in control looking to end it 00:50:20.980 --> 00:50:26.420 we see Dom and Carlito come to the come to ringside 00:50:26.420 --> 00:50:30.539 to give Finn the opening as or to give Finn an 00:50:30.539 --> 00:50:34.539 opening as Finn has Penta in the position for 00:50:34.539 --> 00:50:40.860 the coup de grace. We see or we hear Brom Breakers 00:50:40.860 --> 00:50:47.719 music hit as the dogs in the yard start Yeah 00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:53.980 just going absolutely nuts. Brombreaker obviously 00:50:53.980 --> 00:50:56.900 before the match was set upon by Judgement Day 00:50:56.900 --> 00:51:00.260 and did not take to this very kindly. Now Paul 00:51:00.260 --> 00:51:02.800 Carlito seems to have found himself in a bit 00:51:02.800 --> 00:51:06.340 of a deja vu position as he finds himself at 00:51:06.340 --> 00:51:10.760 the foot of the entrance ramp right in... Bron 00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:14.119 break us crosshairs but this time he is we can 00:51:14.119 --> 00:51:16.679 say a lot of things about Carlito we cannot call 00:51:16.679 --> 00:51:24.699 him daft but by any measure as he makes his way 00:51:24.699 --> 00:51:28.179 as Bron is making his way down to the ring fin 00:51:28.179 --> 00:51:32.059 but Carlito thinks nah fuck this mate I'm off 00:51:32.059 --> 00:51:38.440 and apparently runs over the ring over the announce 00:51:38.440 --> 00:51:42.519 desk and hides under the announce desk very nearly 00:51:42.519 --> 00:51:49.380 apparently breaking Michael Cole's leg Inverted 00:51:49.380 --> 00:51:51.940 commas as I realized this is an audio file not 00:51:51.940 --> 00:51:55.420 a video and you can't see me when I use inverted 00:51:55.420 --> 00:52:01.789 commas Now The match ends up getting called a 00:52:01.789 --> 00:52:04.829 no contest as when Brom Breaker misses the opportunity 00:52:04.829 --> 00:52:09.130 at Carlito decides to take out Finn Balor instead 00:52:09.130 --> 00:52:12.550 and the minute that he took out Finn Balor it 00:52:12.550 --> 00:52:19.010 was all called a no contest so yeah I mean it's 00:52:19.070 --> 00:52:22.849 lot of physicality with not a lot of promo skills 00:52:22.849 --> 00:52:26.210 from Brombreaker and I wonder how sustainable 00:52:26.210 --> 00:52:29.409 that character is going to be unless they can 00:52:29.409 --> 00:52:32.550 widen his character development a little bit 00:52:32.550 --> 00:52:36.050 as I feel that a lack of a lack of an ability 00:52:36.050 --> 00:52:38.889 to cut an effective promo can sometimes limit 00:52:38.889 --> 00:52:44.250 a superstars stardom and When when looking to 00:52:44.250 --> 00:52:48.679 go a little bit further we've seen superstars 00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:53.019 with phenomenal promo ability and very little 00:52:53.019 --> 00:52:57.219 in -ring ability get a lot further than superstars 00:52:57.219 --> 00:53:02.300 with in -ring ability over promo ability so it's 00:53:02.300 --> 00:53:04.480 it's all about how you market yourself at the 00:53:04.480 --> 00:53:10.719 end of the day but yeah At the end of it all, 00:53:11.019 --> 00:53:13.300 Penta is the one who is left standing tall in 00:53:13.300 --> 00:53:17.800 the ring as we go into WrestleMania and see those 00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:23.500 four gentlemen duke it out over the IC title. 00:53:23.679 --> 00:53:27.900 Will Brom Breaker walk out of WrestleMania an 00:53:27.900 --> 00:53:31.380 Intercontinental Champion or will we see it fall 00:53:31.380 --> 00:53:34.980 to either Finn Balor, Dirty Dominic Mysterio 00:53:34.980 --> 00:53:41.659 or see his very first title reign of PENTA! We 00:53:41.659 --> 00:53:45.489 will have to wait and see of course! Now, coming 00:53:45.489 --> 00:53:49.130 out of the main event match, we come to the last 00:53:49.130 --> 00:53:53.550 of the trilogy of VT promos for the Women's Championship 00:53:53.550 --> 00:53:58.789 match. We save the champion for last in this 00:53:58.789 --> 00:54:03.230 case, as we see EO Sky cut an entire VT promo 00:54:03.230 --> 00:54:07.090 in nothing but Japanese. Now, thankfully, WWE 00:54:07.090 --> 00:54:12.800 did supply... subtitles for it and again we say 00:54:12.800 --> 00:54:16.420 this on a regular basis is that it it really 00:54:16.420 --> 00:54:22.380 takes me out of the experience to not have a 00:54:22.380 --> 00:54:27.159 Superstar let alone a champion not cut the promo 00:54:27.159 --> 00:54:32.820 in some form of English It's I know it sounds 00:54:32.820 --> 00:54:36.300 bad, but it does it just it breaks the mystique 00:54:36.300 --> 00:54:40.099 for me If I wanted to listen to a wrestler cut 00:54:40.099 --> 00:54:42.840 a promo in Japanese, I'd go and watch new Japan 00:54:42.840 --> 00:54:47.280 Pro Wrestling Is my honest answer? I've got no 00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:49.780 issue with their wrestlers coming over into WWE 00:54:49.780 --> 00:54:53.159 and vice versa as we've seen many crossovers 00:54:53.159 --> 00:54:57.559 in the past where wrestlers will break with one 00:54:57.559 --> 00:55:02.599 of the other and end up going into the counterpart 00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:06.360 and do really well over there. Japan really love 00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:09.800 their wrestling and why not? The style of wrestling 00:55:09.800 --> 00:55:13.500 over there is very different but it is a case 00:55:13.500 --> 00:55:20.019 that you're coming to western promotion and yeah 00:55:20.019 --> 00:55:24.059 it just I'm just not I'm not there for it I'm 00:55:24.059 --> 00:55:29.300 not there for it but the gist of EO Sky's promo 00:55:29.300 --> 00:55:32.380 was that she's basically sick and tired of playing 00:55:32.380 --> 00:55:36.760 second fiddle to Bel Air and Ripley which do 00:55:36.760 --> 00:55:39.420 you know what as the Women's World Champion you'd 00:55:39.420 --> 00:55:42.159 expect to not have to play second fiddle to any 00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:49.840 fucker let alone the EST and Mommy. But Eoskai 00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.659 has been playing second fiddle to both of them 00:55:52.659 --> 00:55:56.300 and at WrestleMania plans to give them neither 00:55:56.300 --> 00:55:59.760 of them reason to forget about her or disregard 00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:05.280 her again. Now we go from there to backstage. 00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:08.679 Throughout the evening we have seen small excerpts 00:56:08.679 --> 00:56:15.480 of Paul Heyman. who has been waiting all night 00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:20.280 for Roman Reigns to make his appearance and you 00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:22.840 know what I think CM Punk has watched him all 00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:26.119 night and has felt sorry for Paul Heyman and 00:56:26.119 --> 00:56:29.159 has come to keep him company which you know what 00:56:29.159 --> 00:56:32.079 good friends do if you see your friends sat on 00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:34.619 their own for no apparent reason you go over 00:56:34.619 --> 00:56:37.280 you find out what's going on and CM Punk basically 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:39.679 says do you know what Paul you look stressed 00:56:40.590 --> 00:56:44.210 Even makes a play on his on his entrance music 00:56:44.210 --> 00:56:47.849 by saying look look into my eyes. What do you 00:56:47.849 --> 00:56:52.909 see? as Paul Heyman timidly responds a cult of 00:56:52.909 --> 00:57:02.550 personality Now It's a case the as they're sat 00:57:02.550 --> 00:57:07.070 there Being all Pali as best friends have a tendency 00:57:07.070 --> 00:57:13.110 to do Roman arrives and clocks eyes on his wise 00:57:13.110 --> 00:57:19.409 man being all up and cosy with the enemy for 00:57:19.409 --> 00:57:23.710 it and storms off like a bit of a jealous ex. 00:57:27.630 --> 00:57:34.250 Now moving to in -ring as Paul Heyman, Nyon runs 00:57:34.250 --> 00:57:40.940 after the tribal chief. he Roman Reigns makes 00:57:40.940 --> 00:57:45.639 his way from backstage to in -ring the entire 00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:50.619 time being aware that he is being followed by 00:57:50.619 --> 00:57:54.880 Paul Heyman but not acknowledging Paul Heyman 00:57:54.880 --> 00:57:59.000 now we know the tribal chief's big thing is to 00:57:59.000 --> 00:58:05.719 be acknowledged um but it wouldn't kill him just 00:58:05.719 --> 00:58:08.849 to say Just to sort of acknowledge the fact that 00:58:08.849 --> 00:58:11.710 he's there which once he's in ring in fairness 00:58:11.710 --> 00:58:15.150 he does do just not necessarily in the nicest 00:58:15.150 --> 00:58:20.289 manner as After he has finished being acknowledged 00:58:20.289 --> 00:58:27.239 by Sacramento Roman very first thing he does 00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.699 after or before even getting acknowledged or 00:58:30.699 --> 00:58:33.739 be asking for the acknowledgement from the Sacramento 00:58:33.739 --> 00:58:37.559 crowd Paul Heyman is stood there microphone in 00:58:37.559 --> 00:58:41.199 hand ready to hand his tribal chief the microphone 00:58:41.199 --> 00:58:45.099 to cut his promo Which Roman Reigns every other 00:58:45.099 --> 00:58:48.460 time has taken that microphone and cut his promo 00:58:48.460 --> 00:58:56.000 but in a a small act which says or a small nod 00:58:56.000 --> 00:59:03.239 that says a lot Paul Heyman is rejected as Roman 00:59:03.239 --> 00:59:05.760 Reigns goes and gets his own microphone doesn't 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:10.260 want to use the betrayers microphone heaven forbid 00:59:10.260 --> 00:59:15.559 and then cuts a promo calling out Heyman's betrayal 00:59:15.559 --> 00:59:20.619 as the crowd start chanting start chanting at 00:59:20.619 --> 00:59:23.960 Paul Heyman you fucked up and the thing that 00:59:23.960 --> 00:59:27.460 I found funny about all of this was Netflix trying 00:59:27.460 --> 00:59:30.860 to bleep out the swear words in what the crowd 00:59:30.860 --> 00:59:33.840 was saying and their rhythm was completely off 00:59:33.840 --> 00:59:39.940 in the edit that I watched so yeah but the crowd 00:59:39.940 --> 00:59:43.260 chanting you fucked up at Paul Heyman as Roman 00:59:43.260 --> 00:59:51.659 asks his wise man why Why are you siding with 00:59:51.659 --> 00:59:56.699 him? As Paul himself points out it's not a betrayal 00:59:56.699 --> 01:00:02.340 my tribal chief I owed a favor and I am paying 01:00:02.340 --> 01:00:07.460 that favor back which Like him or like him or 01:00:07.460 --> 01:00:11.320 hate him Paul Heyman is a man of his word He 01:00:11.320 --> 01:00:15.380 will keep a favor if he if he owes one. He will 01:00:15.380 --> 01:00:20.989 repay that favor in the manner in which he is 01:00:20.989 --> 01:00:25.610 expected to, even to his own detriment, which 01:00:25.610 --> 01:00:29.610 we are seeing here, of course. Now, Roman takes 01:00:29.610 --> 01:00:33.010 all of this in his stride and basically continues 01:00:33.010 --> 01:00:37.230 on, well, the only one in this favour transaction 01:00:37.230 --> 01:00:40.289 that feels like they're getting screwed here 01:00:40.289 --> 01:00:46.280 is me. Why should I, the tribal chief, Who doesn't 01:00:46.280 --> 01:00:50.079 owe anybody a favor has never asked for a favor. 01:00:50.380 --> 01:00:57.380 Why is it that I am left? Foot in the bill for 01:00:57.380 --> 01:01:00.679 a favor that I didn't ask for that I didn't need 01:01:00.679 --> 01:01:03.920 or anything like that now we have to remind at 01:01:03.920 --> 01:01:06.619 this point that the favor came about because 01:01:06.619 --> 01:01:11.039 they were looking for an extra man at war games 01:01:11.039 --> 01:01:17.260 last year and Paul Heyman not Paul Heyman Roman 01:01:17.260 --> 01:01:20.599 Reigns didn't have too many allies as this was 01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:24.559 the the strength at one of the strengths of the 01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:29.480 bloodline storyline and His house was fractured 01:01:29.480 --> 01:01:38.860 at best but Yeah, it is a case that Roman Reigns 01:01:38.860 --> 01:01:41.820 would never owe a favour, he would never ask 01:01:41.820 --> 01:01:44.480 for a favour, so why should he foot the bill? 01:01:45.260 --> 01:01:52.219 At which point we hear, BURN IT DOWN! As Seth 01:01:52.219 --> 01:01:54.860 Rollins enters, do you know what, dressed somewhat 01:01:54.860 --> 01:01:59.619 normally for a change? I was actually quite pleasantly 01:01:59.619 --> 01:02:02.500 surprised to see him. dressed somewhat normally. 01:02:02.940 --> 01:02:04.679 I'm not going to say he was completely normal 01:02:04.679 --> 01:02:14.820 in it because he wasn't. Seth begins by basically 01:02:14.820 --> 01:02:18.260 telling Roman that you're starting to come into 01:02:18.260 --> 01:02:21.699 the light. You're starting to see how I've been 01:02:21.699 --> 01:02:25.460 saying things and how I've been telling this 01:02:25.460 --> 01:02:30.719 story. but you're missing a piece, you're missing 01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:35.500 something that I know about that you don't and 01:02:35.500 --> 01:02:41.039 being very sort of evasive with the tribal chief 01:02:41.039 --> 01:02:45.079 which I don't think Roman really appreciates 01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:47.840 speak to him straight and you'll get a straight 01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:50.599 answer speak to him in riddles and you'll still 01:02:50.599 --> 01:02:53.079 get a straight but it'll be a left hand straight 01:02:56.370 --> 01:02:59.610 Seth says that this triple threat is the most 01:02:59.610 --> 01:03:05.110 important in WrestleMania history and possibly 01:03:05.110 --> 01:03:09.329 the history of the WWE as the winner gets to 01:03:09.329 --> 01:03:15.630 define what the future of WWE looks like. Seth 01:03:15.630 --> 01:03:19.309 goes on to say that it can't be Roman. As if 01:03:19.309 --> 01:03:22.309 Roman wins and defines what the future of WWE 01:03:22.309 --> 01:03:26.670 looks like, the business dies as... a part -timer 01:03:26.670 --> 01:03:34.150 is it comes out on top and and says that it can't 01:03:34.150 --> 01:03:38.610 be punk as will then be left with a flood of 01:03:38.610 --> 01:03:42.550 punk clones who pick up there to Take their ball 01:03:42.550 --> 01:03:45.610 and go home and go and sign with another promotion 01:03:45.610 --> 01:03:48.409 when things get a little bit tough and then come 01:03:48.409 --> 01:03:53.269 back ten years later to to feed off the scraps 01:03:53.269 --> 01:03:57.800 of Of the hard -working stay -hards that have 01:03:57.800 --> 01:04:05.260 been there all this time Now Seth believes after 01:04:05.260 --> 01:04:09.619 last week that He is owed a favor because he 01:04:09.619 --> 01:04:13.579 did not put Paul Heyman in the hospital now He 01:04:13.579 --> 01:04:17.239 does also say that he does not expect Heyman 01:04:17.239 --> 01:04:21.960 to honor this favor as I mean I'm sure Heyman 01:04:21.960 --> 01:04:23.900 would have done had he been asked but he was 01:04:23.900 --> 01:04:26.679 never asked he never asked not to be put in the 01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:29.079 hospital which is a weird thing to not have to 01:04:29.079 --> 01:04:36.760 have to ask for but it is a case that Yeah, he's 01:04:36.760 --> 01:04:41.860 It's a case that he's just not expecting much 01:04:41.860 --> 01:04:45.340 out of Heyman because his belief at this point 01:04:45.340 --> 01:04:50.639 is that Heyman is not Doing this out of obligation 01:04:50.639 --> 01:04:53.880 out of an obligation of a favor owed and needs 01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:57.300 to be repaid That he's doing this out of choice 01:04:57.300 --> 01:05:03.079 He is choosing to side with CM Punk and not the 01:05:03.079 --> 01:05:08.420 tribal chief And yeah, basically Seth is really 01:05:08.420 --> 01:05:14.539 start is really trying to stir the pot as Roman 01:05:14.539 --> 01:05:17.940 seems to really be buying what Seth is selling 01:05:17.940 --> 01:05:20.820 here, or at least that's what it looks like. 01:05:22.539 --> 01:05:24.960 As Reigns all of a sudden turns round and attacks 01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.840 Seth, then shoves away the wise man which triggers 01:05:28.840 --> 01:05:34.739 the entrance of the second city saint CM Punk 01:05:34.739 --> 01:05:41.480 to come and save his best friend. Now, as CM 01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:45.250 Punk took care of Reigns and then turns around 01:05:45.250 --> 01:05:49.469 to check on Heyman. He's there like, mate, you 01:05:49.469 --> 01:05:56.210 okay? You okay? He sees a horror look in Heyman's 01:05:56.210 --> 01:06:01.010 eyes as he turns around and gets the spear from 01:06:01.010 --> 01:06:07.309 Roman Reigns. Now, Roman Reigns himself is... 01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:14.099 In by no means safe at this point as he get as 01:06:14.099 --> 01:06:16.820 Roman Reigns gets back to his feet We see Seth 01:06:16.820 --> 01:06:21.000 Rollins appear in the background Chair in hand 01:06:21.000 --> 01:06:25.280 very reminiscent of the downfall the final nail 01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:31.139 in the coffin for the shield as Seth absolutely 01:06:31.139 --> 01:06:36.679 lays into Roman Reigns in the back with the steel 01:06:36.679 --> 01:06:44.039 chair and between CM Punk and Roman Reigns they 01:06:44.039 --> 01:06:50.519 each eat a curb stump from Seth Rollins and the 01:06:50.519 --> 01:06:56.360 final pictures we see of Monday Night Raw this 01:06:56.360 --> 01:07:03.960 week is CM Punk laid out, Roman Reigns laid out, 01:07:04.460 --> 01:07:09.699 Seth Rollins cackling to himself like a demented 01:07:09.699 --> 01:07:15.659 joker in this story and Paul Heyman looking fearful, 01:07:16.420 --> 01:07:22.139 fearful for his own existence as the picture 01:07:22.139 --> 01:07:27.639 fades to black and we come to the end. of finishers 01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:32.380 and factions does Monday Night Raw. Now, myself 01:07:32.380 --> 01:07:34.480 and Rich normally do a lot of these episodes 01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:38.059 together. However, we are trying to split the 01:07:38.059 --> 01:07:41.300 workload on what is going to be a phenomenally 01:07:41.300 --> 01:07:44.570 busy week. for us here at Finishers and Factions. 01:07:44.769 --> 01:07:47.710 So please, please, please, the next time you 01:07:47.710 --> 01:07:49.809 will get an episode of Finishers and Factions. 01:07:49.909 --> 01:07:52.489 It will be rich! Who brings you Finishers and 01:07:52.489 --> 01:07:58.190 Factions does NXT on the go -home episode before 01:07:58.190 --> 01:08:03.230 Stand and Deliver. I will be watching it as a 01:08:03.230 --> 01:08:06.590 fan and I hope... that you all come and give 01:08:06.590 --> 01:08:10.510 Rich the same level of support if not better 01:08:10.510 --> 01:08:14.409 than what you give me for this episode. Now I 01:08:14.409 --> 01:08:17.569 am going to go before I lose my voice entirely 01:08:17.569 --> 01:08:24.329 and leave you guys to ponder. What happens next? 01:08:24.789 --> 01:08:28.569 We of course still have NXT and we have Smackdown 01:08:28.569 --> 01:08:33.149 to come before the show of shows, WrestleMania 01:08:33.149 --> 01:08:38.409 41 at the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. 01:08:38.989 --> 01:08:43.970 Until then, thank you and we'll see you all soon 01:08:43.970 --> 01:08:48.270 where you come to catch some action. Thank you 01:08:48.270 --> 01:08:48.890 so much.