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And good evening Finishes and Factions fans and

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welcome to the first episode of a new format

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over the podcast with myself and my co -host

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Adam. Adam, how are you doing buddy? I'm not

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bad mate, not bad at all but yeah new format

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coming to you in a brand new way. We've decided

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to condense down a lot of what we've done in

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the past whereas we've literally gone from opening

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credits to closing credits, giving you more or

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less an audio description of what happened in

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the episode. It's a case now that we're working

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to sort of condense it all down. It makes it

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easier for us to create and hopefully gives you

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guys a little bit of an idea of what we found

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that the highlights of each episode to be. So

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how it works now is that we're this is all gonna

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be basically be one episode PLEs at the moment

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we are thinking are gonna be episodes within

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their own right and We're gonna sort of figure

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that out as we go But we'll basically break down

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our personal highlights from this week's raw

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NXT and smackdown all in one go Yeah, make it

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just that little bit rather than having to Record,

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produce and publish three episodes a week. It's

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one episode a week with occasional additional

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extras for PLEs. Which then gives us the option

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as and when we need to to throw you guys some

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bonus content without killing ourselves trying

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to do so. which I think might make it a little

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bit easier. So we are going to jump straight

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in with Raw this week. Raw this week was from

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Omaha, Nebraska. And I believe we were told this

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was the 15th Raw to come from Nebraska or from

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Omaha itself. So it means that it's quite a reasonable

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stable when it comes to wrestling in Ohio. And

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not Ohio, Nebraska, sorry the wrong episode wrong

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location Yeah, pretty much but yeah, no it's

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it's a case you're likely to have more of this

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sort of stuff than I am because I've literally

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I've watched it the way I've done I've even changed

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the way that I'm That I'm prepping for that prepping

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for everything now, so it's a case that I'm watching

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the episode and then literally afterwards making

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a note of what I felt were the most interesting

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parts of the episode. Well, a little bit of history

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about wrestling in Nebraska for you. Nebraska

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has had one pay -per -view in its past, and that

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was Judgment Day 2008. The rest of the events

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that have been in Nebraska have all been either

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Monday Night Raw, SmackDown, NXT, or the old

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WWF house shows. I will say there was one main

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event that I can see off the top of my list,

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possibly like two or three in there altogether

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from sort of early 2010 to 2015 area. So we've

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not had anything big come from Nebraska for a

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while, but hopefully that will change when we

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get there. A little bit more into the future

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anyway. Yeah, who knows? Who knows? Yeah, well

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this one started with a Jeyuso. promo really

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was what we were expecting to be a build up for

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his match at Backlash at the end of the week

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with Logan Paul. But there was a few different

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bits that came into this one. We had a nice little

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visit from Paul Heyman. What did he call him

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now? He's not the wise man. Is he just Seth Rollins

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bitch or is that just the way that's going to

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work? Don't I think we'll find out more as weeks

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progress on what he wants to be called and so

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far I think we're just gonna call him Seth Rollins

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is advocate at this stage. It was nice to hear

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that ladies and gentlemen my name is Paul Heyman

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again because normally when you see him as a

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wise man you didn't really get a lot of that

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and I don't think within the work with the bloodline

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that he's done we actually had a promo as emotion

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-filled as this one was from Paul Heyman. No,

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and this is one thing that I picked up on as

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well. So yeah, it's a case that whereas when

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he was in the bloodline, Paul Heyman was sort

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of very much a, he was a background character,

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if nothing else. He was. It's a case now that

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he's able to to be a little bit more centre stage

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he's not the main character he's still very secondary

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but he can still sort of take centre stage as

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and when which is something that he did to phenomenal

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success during the opening promo certainly as

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it seems that well basically he comes out and

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we find out later on that he tricks Jay into

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giving Seth Rollins a world heavyweight title

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shot on this episode of Raw. Yeah, so that I

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believe was our main event of the evening, wasn't

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it? It was, yeah. Yeah with the new format, I'm

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not sure how we sort of balance this out now

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because it's a case we've started talking about

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Paul Heyman and Jey Uso I think we should just

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go straight into we should finish it off with

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that section So sort of come back to it yeah,

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we'll say We'll come back to come back to the

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actual match itself a little bit later on in

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this in this episode and And we'll kind of push

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our way through briefly and just kind of see

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where we get. So a little bit of what was said

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here was yes he did trick Jey Uso into giving

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Seth Rollins that title shot a little bit later

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but he's all out here kind of saying you know

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Seth Rollins has to be champion because to be

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a champion you have to have the power and the

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control and Jay doesn't know what to do with

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that sort of power where Seth does. He's been

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a champion before, he's been a top tier champion.

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So he's held, I think it was the heavyweight

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title he had at one point. He also had the universal

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championship and that was a thing. He's had a

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lot of gold in the time that he's been within

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WWE. So it would make sense that they kind of

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He's gonna use that experience to try and kind

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of show Jay what's going on, because obviously

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Jay's not, he's had tag titles before, but he's

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never had a main title. So for him, like, it's

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quite a big one. Yeah, looking through this one,

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he's had the WWE Championship two times, the

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Heavyweight Championship once. The Universal

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Championship twice. He was an NXT champion. He's

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been an Intercontinental champion twice. The

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United States champion twice. Tag team champion

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six times. There's a long list of partners there.

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He's done Money in the Bank. He's won the Royal

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Rumble. He's done all sorts. So for him to be

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able to, he's got that experience. He knows with

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great power comes great responsibility where...

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You know, everyone just seems to think that Jay

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is just a yeet specialist who gets lucky. I think

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Jay, the storyline with Jey Uso coming up to

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this point, especially with this match at WrestleMania,

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which we covered in previous episodes in the

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old format. You know, the long -term storytelling

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with Jey Uso has been great, especially with

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the tap out with Gunther and stuff like that.

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So it's kind of... the story aspect of it's been

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really good but yeah the experience side of things

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he doesn't necessarily have where Seth does and

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I think Seth feels that he's a more powerful

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champion than Jay but we then find out within

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this conversation that Brom Breaker is just stage

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one of the plan stage two of the plan is the

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world heavyweight title so what happens afterwards.

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Obviously, we have this match later. I'm not

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going to spoil the result now, but this line's

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got to go a little bit further. There's got to

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be more of an extended run to this storyline.

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I'm hoping this wasn't just a fill -up of backlash

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and then possibly money in the bank, which is

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coming up in a month's time. But yeah, we find

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out, like I said, that Jay so says, well, with

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the time and the place that I get to choose,

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we'll do it today and we'll do it now. yeah we

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finish off the show with that one and then our

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first proper match of the show is um penta and

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jd mcdonough which was a strange concept we've

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seen a bit of jd since the ad is you come back

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from injury but i'm not entirely sure where the

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penta angles come from here because penta was

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looking at the intercontinental championship

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a little while ago and that was around bron breakers

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Waste and now Dom's got it. He doesn't seem to

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be too interested No, he seems to have shifted

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his focus Yeah, it's I'm gonna be honest I didn't

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really The penta as much as I enjoy watching

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penta. I think he's a fantastic He's a phenomenal

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superstar always has been he is not one of my

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highlights of this week in fact the match that

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comes after this is one of the It was one of

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the ones that I was more interested in talking

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about but Yeah, it didn't really hold an awful

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lot of substance The penta JD McDonough match

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was more there to further the Judgment Day storyline

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than anything else? Yeah and I mean we've been

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saying for months that we feel the end of the

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Judgment Day is not too far away and yet somehow

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week in, week out they seem to scrape through

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and it's kind of annoying I'm not gonna lie.

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Like I'd love to see a finale between Finn and

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Dom for the Judgment Day. Just I don't know I

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think there's been quite a few different angles

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teased I think this constant teasing of breaking

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up the Judgment Day is getting a little bit tedious

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now. Either do it or give him a decent story

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run. So I think that as much as it can come across

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as tedious, it's necessary. Judgment Day has

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been around for a while. There's been a number

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of different faces to the Judgment Day. And yeah,

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it's... There's going to be different odds and

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ends to it. They can't just unceremoniously give

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them the chop. It doesn't work that way. We've

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seen them do that with other teams in the past

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and all it serves to do is confuse the viewer,

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confuse the fan because if they are then thrown

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directly into another storyline The fans aren't

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paying attention to what's going on in that storyline

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because they're still trying to figure out what

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happened to the storyline they were in before

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There's gonna be a there's gonna be a progression

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to it that certainly does and I think the only

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thing I could see from this with the match going

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the way it went because um JD's still Not quite

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as fit as he used to be But boy that guy is gonna

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continuously give everything he's got every time

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guys a workhorse Like I'm not gonna lie to you

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if I'd have had an injury like he had in the

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in the way he did it I Think it would have taken

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me a little while to want to get back into the

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high -flying side of things She wouldn't have

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seen me doing moon salts off the fucking top

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rope at that point, especially nowhere near an

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announce table But he won't, he wouldn't have

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come back unless he could do those things because

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that's what That's what us as fans have come

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to expect from him Yeah, but as I said Not really

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what I'm certainly got not an awful lot more

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to say about that match So it's more the next

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match that I'm more interested in I will just

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throw it here that during the course of this

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match both Finn Parler and Carlito were told

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to fuck off by the referee and sent back to the

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locker room. One of the big sort of moves I saw

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was at the beginning of the match penta kick

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JD in the leg so hard he flipped like it was

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a hell of a calf kick he got in and then JD manages

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to pop off a standing Spanish fly which I think

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was quite impressive. Chad Gable made a a slight

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appearance trying to interfere with this one

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behind the referee's back and as normal penta

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finished this one off with a mexican destroyer

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for the one two three whereas he would refer

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to it as the undos tres but uh yeah like adam

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said the next match on on the card was something

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that i wasn't expecting i very much enjoyed it

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and uh yeah adam There were so many other ways

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to enjoy this as well, in fairness. This match

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is more so introduced during a backstage promo

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where it appears that Grayson Waller was supposed

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to be gracing the ring for us. Yeah, me too,

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but they magnanimously gave that opportunity

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up for for Austin Theory to have a match instead

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Made it out like he was doing his homeboy a favor.

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Well instead he was just sending his own lamb

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to slaughter. Oh 100 % he fed his he fed his

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mate to to somebody you're not wanting to feed

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anybody to at this point Celtic warrior WWE's

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big ginger, not himself, good old Sheamus. I

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love watching Sheamus. There is just something

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about the way he wrestles that it's not the most

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finesse. He's not a high flyer. He's just good.

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He does everything to a high standard and makes

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it look good. And the thing is, is that we haven't

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actually seen Sheamus on screen since the Royal

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Rumble. No. But it's not been it's not been mentioned.

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Nobody's made any sort of attempt to explain

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why he's not been on screen. He's just not been

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written in. I was really confused because we

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saw him have a match against Bron Breaker for

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the IC title. For a number one contendership

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to the IC title. We saw him have a match with

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something to do with the IC title between just

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before the Royal Rumble, I'm sure. Then he came

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back for the Rumble and then disappeared. I get

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there's no storyline that needs him at the moment,

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but it's still a little bit like there was no

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storyline before WrestleMania for him. A lot

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of the storylines in the build up to Backlash

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haven't really changed. So they just pulled him

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in to try and see if they can use it to break

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A -Town down under through. Are we going to have

00:17:15.609 --> 00:17:18.039
a thing? where it's kind of like Austin Theory

00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:19.940
who's like, you know, I got my ass kicked because

00:17:19.940 --> 00:17:25.160
of you, you dick. Fuck you, I'm out. I think

00:17:25.160 --> 00:17:27.599
this is the breakdown, basically. This is the

00:17:27.599 --> 00:17:31.480
breakdown of A -Town down under. And that's what

00:17:31.480 --> 00:17:36.740
we're seeing here. But yeah, I mean, I think

00:17:36.740 --> 00:17:39.200
it's generous at this point to start calling

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what we have here a match as such. It was more

00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:48.680
of a mauling. it was because Austin Theory barely

00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:55.000
got any offense going and yeah the guy just got

00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:59.680
absolutely just got absolutely done in and done

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over by one of his best mates but then if you

00:18:02.579 --> 00:18:05.839
think about it when was the last time you had

00:18:05.839 --> 00:18:10.339
a returning superstar come back and lose their

00:18:10.339 --> 00:18:14.809
return match it don't happen very often Especially

00:18:14.809 --> 00:18:17.349
not someone of the caliber and someone who's

00:18:17.349 --> 00:18:21.490
been as loyal as Shamus Like yes, he's not really

00:18:21.490 --> 00:18:26.049
been featured a lot recently cool But he could

00:18:26.049 --> 00:18:28.309
have just used that as an opportunity to be like

00:18:28.309 --> 00:18:31.490
after this my contracts due up soon I'll go all

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elite or I'll go to TNA or I'll do something

00:18:33.849 --> 00:18:36.049
like that. No, he's he's stuck there Yeah, I'm

00:18:36.049 --> 00:18:37.990
not being used cool. I'll sit in the hotel. I'll

00:18:37.990 --> 00:18:40.970
drive around I'll help build a stage still getting

00:18:40.970 --> 00:18:43.930
paid You know, he's not complained about it.

00:18:43.930 --> 00:18:46.349
I haven't seen him on social media going. Oh,

00:18:46.349 --> 00:18:48.230
I've got a match I'm really not happy about it.

00:18:48.230 --> 00:18:51.049
I've not been used. I've got a storyline You

00:18:51.049 --> 00:18:54.029
just see him doing other things Seamus has got

00:18:54.029 --> 00:18:56.089
his own projects and everything going on at the

00:18:56.089 --> 00:18:58.509
minute He's been doing that workout showing as

00:18:58.509 --> 00:19:00.509
well in the like the the workout with Seamus

00:19:00.509 --> 00:19:07.109
whatever is yeah 100 % and Yeah from what I understand

00:19:07.109 --> 00:19:10.700
it's gained some a reasonable amount of Reasonable

00:19:10.700 --> 00:19:14.759
amount of popularity for it. I mean can't Can't

00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:16.299
sit here and say well don't know why that's happened.

00:19:16.559 --> 00:19:19.759
Seamus is a decent bloke He's one of those as

00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.900
well You see on social media a lot of these big

00:19:22.900 --> 00:19:24.980
fans that like you go to the airport afterwards

00:19:24.980 --> 00:19:27.039
And he's always the one that's there taking photographs

00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:31.400
well before everyone else is pissed off So yeah,

00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:35.559
it was a Quite a big one to be fair. I'd say

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I really enjoyed watching this. I didn't have

00:19:39.309 --> 00:19:44.089
Too many notes for it to be fair. There wasn't

00:19:44.089 --> 00:19:49.930
a lot going on. It was a squash match. It was

00:19:49.930 --> 00:19:53.450
just Seamus getting a warm -up, I suppose. So

00:19:53.450 --> 00:19:57.009
I picked this match as one of my highlights purely

00:19:57.009 --> 00:20:00.269
because it was an in -ring return for Seamus.

00:20:01.950 --> 00:20:05.490
I've always been a huge fan of Seamus and will

00:20:05.490 --> 00:20:07.970
always be a huge fan of Seamus. So it's a case

00:20:07.970 --> 00:20:14.849
that him coming back after such a long absence

00:20:14.849 --> 00:20:25.589
was noteworthy for me. So yeah, that was sort

00:20:25.589 --> 00:20:27.690
of the reason I was more interested to talk about

00:20:27.690 --> 00:20:31.089
that than I was to talk about anything else.

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One of the other things that I'm also quite interested

00:20:34.180 --> 00:20:36.319
to make sure we make mention of from this week's

00:20:36.319 --> 00:20:40.980
Raw was the next segment which was an in -ring

00:20:40.980 --> 00:20:45.900
promo between... Well, started off with an in

00:20:45.900 --> 00:20:49.099
-ring promo from Becky Lynch. Yeah, it did. I'm

00:20:49.099 --> 00:20:51.339
just going to backtrack slightly because we said

00:20:51.339 --> 00:20:55.400
we hadn't seen Seamus for a while. Seamus' last

00:20:55.400 --> 00:21:01.880
singles match before this last one. was August

00:21:01.880 --> 00:21:08.519
the 18th, 2023 in Toronto where he defeated Edge.

00:21:09.960 --> 00:21:12.660
And then in that September he suffered the shoulder

00:21:12.660 --> 00:21:14.940
injury that kept him out for the best part of

00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:20.440
18 months. So yeah, it's always nice to see Seamus

00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:23.680
back. Becky Lynch, someone that's been around

00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.319
for a long time that I'm not gonna lie, I had

00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:31.119
not missed watching. Heal Becky Lynch is crap

00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:37.039
like this version of heel becky lynch is trash

00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:41.420
it's got no there's no rhyme or reason behind

00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:46.660
it it is a case that we are being fed we are

00:21:46.660 --> 00:21:53.079
being fed when i when i watch wwe at the moment

00:21:53.079 --> 00:21:56.759
i feel like i'm a toddler stuck in a high chair

00:21:56.759 --> 00:21:59.880
being force -fed stuff i don't want becky lynch

00:22:00.059 --> 00:22:03.480
and Charlotte Flair it just seems to be so much

00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:06.559
of two people that yes have done a huge amount

00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:09.339
for the industry but the industry doesn't need

00:22:09.339 --> 00:22:12.700
them anymore especially when you've got the guys

00:22:12.700 --> 00:22:16.279
coming up from NXT into the main roster doing

00:22:16.279 --> 00:22:20.079
a better job than they have they currently are

00:22:20.079 --> 00:22:27.059
yeah this is it's and I understand the historical

00:22:27.059 --> 00:22:30.930
significance of Becky Lynch She was one of the

00:22:30.930 --> 00:22:34.309
four horsewomen revolutionized the women's division

00:22:34.309 --> 00:22:38.990
in WWE, and paved the way for all of the female

00:22:38.990 --> 00:22:42.730
wrestlers that we enjoy watching today. Nothing

00:22:42.730 --> 00:22:45.470
taking away from any of her achievements. It

00:22:45.470 --> 00:22:49.630
is just that, and I mentioned this to Rich off

00:22:49.630 --> 00:22:52.529
podcast a few days ago, a few days before we

00:22:52.529 --> 00:22:55.910
recorded this. And it's a case that I genuinely

00:22:55.910 --> 00:23:01.529
feel That Becky Lynch was bought back as This

00:23:01.529 --> 00:23:04.109
is a huge boost for Lyra Valkyrie. They're trying

00:23:04.109 --> 00:23:08.069
to use her to get Lyra over It was a profile

00:23:08.069 --> 00:23:12.890
boost. It was and to give her, you know a match

00:23:12.890 --> 00:23:16.829
at backlash against the one of the women in pro

00:23:16.829 --> 00:23:20.170
wrestling that has done the most said one of

00:23:20.170 --> 00:23:26.009
not the most but it is No matter what happens

00:23:26.009 --> 00:23:29.269
with this match, Lyra doesn't have anything to

00:23:29.269 --> 00:23:33.670
lose. If she wins, she's got a hell of a name

00:23:33.670 --> 00:23:38.089
under her belt. If she loses, her character doesn't

00:23:38.089 --> 00:23:40.670
get affected because she's lost to a future Hall

00:23:40.670 --> 00:23:46.549
of Famer. It's a similar circumstance to Tiffany

00:23:46.549 --> 00:23:48.849
Stratten versus Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania.

00:23:48.990 --> 00:23:52.680
It was. They're very much the same yet. If Tiffy

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.319
had lost, she lost to the greatest of all time

00:23:55.319 --> 00:23:59.940
in some people's opinion. And if she won, which

00:23:59.940 --> 00:24:04.240
she did, she had the biggest feather in her cap

00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.359
that you can get. How many other people can turn

00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.380
around and say, I beat Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania?

00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:16.319
Not many women can say that. Yeah, this is it.

00:24:16.920 --> 00:24:25.730
It's a case that Yeah, it just It feels like

00:24:25.730 --> 00:24:28.390
Becky Lynch was thrust into this circumstance

00:24:28.390 --> 00:24:31.750
into this situation She didn't really want to

00:24:31.750 --> 00:24:34.230
be there. Well, we haven't seen Bailey since

00:24:34.230 --> 00:24:36.890
she was attacked though Did Bailey get injured

00:24:36.890 --> 00:24:41.529
in a match the couple of days before? WrestleMania

00:24:41.529 --> 00:24:43.509
and this was a way of being able to write her

00:24:43.509 --> 00:24:46.150
out with the injury or no because normally we'd

00:24:46.150 --> 00:24:48.210
see it again And I don't believe we've seen it

00:24:48.210 --> 00:24:54.539
since mania no we haven't we know that for storyline

00:24:54.539 --> 00:24:59.259
purposes they're saying that that Becky Lynch

00:24:59.259 --> 00:25:02.799
is the one that attacked Bailey which is yeah

00:25:02.799 --> 00:25:05.319
fair enough it writes her out of TV for a little

00:25:05.319 --> 00:25:09.460
while it could either be that she's got an injury

00:25:09.460 --> 00:25:12.500
of some kind or it could be that because she's

00:25:12.500 --> 00:25:18.289
been quite vocal on social media recently In

00:25:18.289 --> 00:25:20.589
interviews and things like that in very much

00:25:20.589 --> 00:25:24.009
the same way that Carrie and cross has speaking

00:25:24.009 --> 00:25:27.329
out against the speaking out against the WWE

00:25:27.329 --> 00:25:30.789
and sort of claiming unfair treatment and things

00:25:30.789 --> 00:25:35.730
like that is the is this WWE's way of retaliating

00:25:35.730 --> 00:25:38.750
because we know they've done this before historically

00:25:38.750 --> 00:25:49.660
so it's not About carrying cross which I'm not

00:25:49.660 --> 00:25:51.640
gonna talk too much about because it does ruin

00:25:51.640 --> 00:25:53.799
some storylines But we'll get to that in a little

00:25:53.799 --> 00:25:56.339
bit, but it was fucking hilarious. I think I

00:25:56.339 --> 00:25:59.039
sent it to you on Facebook actually there is

00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:03.839
that possibility and I know there was a Non -title

00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:07.000
match between EO Sky and Roxanne Perez next and

00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:10.559
as much as a fan of Roxanne Perez as I am Didn't

00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:13.160
really get I didn't really feel like this match

00:26:13.160 --> 00:26:15.759
was up too much. So didn't really do an awful

00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:19.299
lot with it I will say before we go too far into

00:26:19.299 --> 00:26:22.859
this Roxanne -Perezio skymarch Lyra Valkyria

00:26:22.859 --> 00:26:25.579
came out with a line during the promo which I

00:26:25.579 --> 00:26:29.440
thought was fucking phenomenal she turns after

00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:34.180
Becky calls her like calls recycling she referred

00:26:34.180 --> 00:26:39.200
to her ass and Lyra Valkyria comes out and says

00:26:39.200 --> 00:26:42.599
look you're f big one talking about recycling

00:26:42.599 --> 00:26:44.599
because you've been recycling the same moves

00:26:44.599 --> 00:26:48.220
and the same tired old act for years and then

00:26:48.220 --> 00:26:51.140
comes out with a few minutes later saying I've

00:26:51.140 --> 00:26:53.660
defended this title more times than you've shown

00:26:53.660 --> 00:26:57.539
up for work this year and I'm like fair fucking

00:26:57.539 --> 00:27:00.740
play it's about time someone stuck it to some

00:27:00.740 --> 00:27:02.700
of these part -timers I'm like nah bollocks to

00:27:02.700 --> 00:27:04.960
you I'm here week in week out I do my thing week

00:27:04.960 --> 00:27:08.750
in week out and you sit at home Just watch on

00:27:08.750 --> 00:27:10.630
Netflix and just kind of like oh, that's nice.

00:27:10.630 --> 00:27:14.109
I could do that It's nice to see some of these

00:27:14.109 --> 00:27:16.349
younger superstars taking it to these ones that

00:27:16.349 --> 00:27:18.309
been around for a while and going fuck you I'm

00:27:18.309 --> 00:27:23.369
not taking your shit Yeah, which is what Roxanne

00:27:23.369 --> 00:27:26.009
Perez does with the oh sky in the next one she

00:27:26.009 --> 00:27:32.890
does not take very much shit Now as I've said

00:27:32.890 --> 00:27:37.819
I didn't personally get a An awful lot from this

00:27:37.819 --> 00:27:39.920
match, so it's kind of okay I'm more than happy

00:27:39.920 --> 00:27:42.920
to sort of gloss over it at this point So EO

00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:45.980
Sky won this one my notes consist of nothing

00:27:45.980 --> 00:27:48.359
amazing in this match But EO came out with the

00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:51.579
win and the best part about this match after

00:27:51.579 --> 00:27:56.940
the bell rung we got to see Roxanne Perez kind

00:27:56.940 --> 00:28:01.099
of looked like she was trying to give EO a bit

00:28:01.099 --> 00:28:03.990
of sort of like a big up like you know that was

00:28:03.990 --> 00:28:06.369
a great match well done thank you for that when

00:28:06.369 --> 00:28:12.029
in turn it was just Roxanne Perez holding Io's

00:28:12.029 --> 00:28:15.609
attention so Julia could basically jump in and

00:28:15.609 --> 00:28:18.970
attack her and we finish it off with Julia and

00:28:18.970 --> 00:28:23.190
Roxanne Perez beating Io down now we don't have

00:28:23.190 --> 00:28:28.089
any last time Rhea came out to save Io's ass

00:28:28.660 --> 00:28:31.519
But Rio wasn't there this week. She was in Australia

00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:34.680
doing some promo stuff for the event happening

00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:39.460
in Perth in October. So it was basically just

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:43.039
a fair game for Julia in Roxanne Perez to give

00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:46.799
Io a kick in after she'd won the match. But yeah,

00:28:46.900 --> 00:28:48.900
I really didn't have a huge amount for this one.

00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.619
The same as the next one. I did not have a lot

00:28:52.619 --> 00:28:55.779
for the next match. But... The only thing I will

00:28:55.779 --> 00:28:59.380
say about this match with EO Sky and Roxanne

00:28:59.380 --> 00:29:03.099
Perez is that it's nice to see, because I've

00:29:03.099 --> 00:29:06.799
been saying for quite a while, Roxanne Perez

00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:10.119
is due a call up. I think this is the... I've

00:29:10.119 --> 00:29:12.720
said this before with something else, I remember

00:29:12.720 --> 00:29:16.160
saying it. I genuinely believe that this is Roxanne

00:29:16.160 --> 00:29:22.789
Perez's call up. Well... Yes and no to a point.

00:29:22.930 --> 00:29:25.089
I think at the moment we are going to see a lot

00:29:25.089 --> 00:29:29.049
of Roxanne Perez, Julia and some of the other

00:29:29.049 --> 00:29:32.849
top NXT stars performing double duties for a

00:29:32.849 --> 00:29:36.170
few weeks. So A, they can finish off their NXT

00:29:36.170 --> 00:29:40.210
storylines. B, they can start their main roster

00:29:40.210 --> 00:29:46.049
storylines and C, so WWE can see if the move

00:29:46.049 --> 00:29:51.420
from NXT to main roster is warranted. Now, Roxanne

00:29:51.420 --> 00:29:55.200
Perez and Julia are two that should definitely

00:29:55.200 --> 00:29:59.140
be on the main roster on a permanent basis. Is

00:29:59.140 --> 00:30:02.200
Raw the right place for them? I'm not so sure.

00:30:04.420 --> 00:30:07.259
With previous weeks, we've both sat here and

00:30:07.259 --> 00:30:11.019
said that SmackDown has been the superior show,

00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:16.079
followed by NXT and then Raw kind of sitting

00:30:16.079 --> 00:30:19.420
at the bottom of the ladder not doing much. I

00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:22.720
think they could both be wasted on Raw. I'd like

00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:24.740
to see one of them go to SmackDown. At least

00:30:24.740 --> 00:30:27.019
they have an opportunity there to do something

00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:30.579
a little bit more, I think. Not diminishing Julia

00:30:30.579 --> 00:30:34.240
under any circumstances at all. But I think she,

00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:37.859
for the moment, belongs in NXT. I don't think

00:30:37.859 --> 00:30:41.079
she's ready for the main roster. Roxanne Perez,

00:30:41.579 --> 00:30:44.900
completely different story. I think that raw

00:30:44.900 --> 00:30:47.819
is actually the perfect fit for it despite what

00:30:47.819 --> 00:30:52.819
we've been telling what we've been saying because

00:30:52.819 --> 00:30:56.960
Roxanne Perez has that quality to potentially

00:30:56.960 --> 00:31:01.119
shake things up enough in raw to allow for some

00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:05.140
different angles to be written to start improving

00:31:05.140 --> 00:31:07.559
the quality of the program that they're churning

00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.799
out. I hope the quality of the product for raw

00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:15.200
gets better is it the moment we started off this

00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:17.599
podcast for me going dude i can't watch this

00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:20.779
nxt shit it is killing me to the point now where

00:31:20.779 --> 00:31:25.519
i'm like ah dude nxt was epic but raw was shit

00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:31.920
yeah and if anything the next match the the next

00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:36.480
match was one of the one of sort of the re the

00:31:36.480 --> 00:31:41.569
things that sort of epitomize why raw is, in

00:31:41.569 --> 00:31:44.210
my view, not doing very well at the minute because

00:31:44.210 --> 00:31:50.109
the next one was Rusev's in -ring debut or re

00:31:50.109 --> 00:31:53.809
-debut. Yeah, re -debut. However you want to

00:31:53.809 --> 00:31:57.369
rare it. So once he'd finished his contract at

00:31:57.369 --> 00:32:02.029
AEW under the name of Miro, having him come back

00:32:02.029 --> 00:32:06.190
to WWE is not a bad thing. We have both said

00:32:06.190 --> 00:32:07.549
this, though. They're going to give him a bit

00:32:07.549 --> 00:32:10.380
of a push at the start. He's gonna have a couple

00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:12.619
of matches like this one where he's gonna go

00:32:12.619 --> 00:32:16.200
in With the you know, get us get his stuff done.

00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:19.640
It will all be done quite quickly and Then eventually

00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.019
he'll just go back to being the standard mid

00:32:22.019 --> 00:32:29.299
carder that no one ever really talks about His

00:32:29.299 --> 00:32:35.960
His in re is in ring re debut if you like Against

00:32:35.960 --> 00:32:40.480
Otis don't get me wrong Love the fact that Otis

00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:44.539
is getting that on -screen time because I genuinely

00:32:44.539 --> 00:32:48.359
think he's underutilised. This comedy shit they

00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:51.700
get him doing, I think he could be so much more

00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:56.480
given the right opportunity. Putting him in a

00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.440
squash match with the Bulgarian brute, however.

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:05.660
Not my idea of good booking. Quite honestly my

00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:07.880
idea of good booking wouldn't have seen Rusev

00:33:07.880 --> 00:33:11.339
return at all For the very reason that Rich has

00:33:11.339 --> 00:33:13.559
just finished explaining is that he'll have a

00:33:13.559 --> 00:33:15.799
couple of weeks He may even have a pay -per -view

00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:24.140
match maybe two I think they'll give him an opportunity

00:33:24.140 --> 00:33:29.519
at a belt They'll give him an opportunity at

00:33:29.519 --> 00:33:33.039
a belt and then he'll fade into the mid card

00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:37.160
did it in WWE the first time round. I think they

00:33:37.160 --> 00:33:39.380
even stuck a belt on him the first time round.

00:33:39.799 --> 00:33:43.920
He then went to AEW, pretty much the same story,

00:33:44.539 --> 00:33:51.640
faded into the mid card. And yeah, just the only

00:33:51.640 --> 00:33:53.940
reason that I picked this as a highlight was

00:33:53.940 --> 00:33:57.720
because I know how generally popular Rusev is.

00:33:58.380 --> 00:34:01.359
One thing I was a little bit confused about.

00:34:01.500 --> 00:34:05.200
was when Rusev was in WWE originally his wife

00:34:05.200 --> 00:34:11.139
Lana was his manager she went with him to AEW

00:34:11.139 --> 00:34:15.920
they got divorced they got remarried and then

00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:20.780
they both resigned to WWE but Lana has not resigned

00:34:20.780 --> 00:34:24.719
in a manager capacity so are we going to see

00:34:24.719 --> 00:34:28.940
her in an in -ring capacity at some point Or

00:34:28.940 --> 00:34:31.179
is she gonna be one of those that just gets fucked

00:34:31.179 --> 00:34:32.800
off on the next lot of cuts because they've got

00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:36.260
nowhere to put her and they regret signing her?

00:34:40.559 --> 00:34:42.480
I think honestly only time's gonna tell with

00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:47.340
that one Yeah Because I was never a huge Lana

00:34:47.340 --> 00:34:50.340
fan. She was nice to look at don't get me wrong,

00:34:50.519 --> 00:34:58.659
but As far as a as an in -ring talent or a personality?

00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:05.579
No. She was there because he was there. And it

00:35:05.579 --> 00:35:08.719
could very well be the same thing again. Yeah,

00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:13.219
that's fair enough. That's a good point. I don't

00:35:13.219 --> 00:35:15.039
know, if we see her in an in -ring capacity I

00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:18.900
wouldn't be too concerned. I just don't... I

00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:20.619
think the women's division at the moment has

00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:24.219
got too many people so... It kind of works out

00:35:24.219 --> 00:35:26.340
what's going to happen. And for a women's division

00:35:26.340 --> 00:35:29.099
that has an awful lot of superstars, I wish we'd

00:35:29.099 --> 00:35:30.719
get to see a little bit more of some of the ones

00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:33.880
we don't get to see as much of. I don't know

00:35:33.880 --> 00:35:35.599
about you, but I'm getting bored of seeing the

00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:38.059
same five or six people a week in, week out.

00:35:41.320 --> 00:35:43.579
Yeah, I certainly see where you're coming from

00:35:43.579 --> 00:35:46.119
with it. It's one of the reasons why I've been

00:35:46.670 --> 00:35:49.969
so hyped on the fact that Zelina Vegas finally

00:35:49.969 --> 00:35:52.170
have a title put on her, that they're finally

00:35:52.170 --> 00:35:56.269
giving her something to do other than act in

00:35:56.269 --> 00:36:00.329
a valet managerial pastime. And can we have Rhea

00:36:00.329 --> 00:36:02.730
in a storyline that doesn't evolve a world title

00:36:02.730 --> 00:36:07.889
please? I love Rhea, I think Rhea is a great

00:36:07.889 --> 00:36:11.389
wrestler, but you don't see her when she doesn't

00:36:11.389 --> 00:36:14.829
have a title storyline. And then she comes back,

00:36:15.030 --> 00:36:17.170
she wins the title, she's there for the entire

00:36:17.170 --> 00:36:19.630
title run, loses the title and she disappears

00:36:19.630 --> 00:36:23.730
again for a bit. Can we have Rhea in a storyline

00:36:23.730 --> 00:36:26.010
where maybe she's not going for the big, big

00:36:26.010 --> 00:36:30.670
title? Maybe she's, you know, tag title or the

00:36:30.670 --> 00:36:35.329
IC title or the, do you know what I mean? Yeah,

00:36:35.389 --> 00:36:39.650
something a little bit more varied. Stick her

00:36:39.650 --> 00:36:44.769
in a pool of wrestlers that... Don't get the

00:36:44.769 --> 00:36:47.190
same amount of attention as she does generally.

00:36:47.550 --> 00:36:49.369
Yeah, she gets an awful lot of tension and yes

00:36:49.369 --> 00:36:52.510
She's talented and she can do well, but I don't

00:36:52.510 --> 00:36:54.949
need to see Rhea week in week out week in week

00:36:54.949 --> 00:36:58.190
out with this that storyline got especially before

00:36:58.190 --> 00:37:04.670
Mania did get very Serious say me. Yes. Yeah

00:37:04.670 --> 00:37:08.610
One thing I will say though about the I'm gonna

00:37:08.610 --> 00:37:12.030
take us back on track here with the Otis Rusev

00:37:12.030 --> 00:37:15.630
match For those football fans that also listen

00:37:15.630 --> 00:37:18.269
to us, and by football I mean American football,

00:37:18.989 --> 00:37:21.750
we had Matt Ruhl in the building with a couple

00:37:21.750 --> 00:37:27.389
of the Nebraska University football team in attendance,

00:37:27.489 --> 00:37:29.730
which was always nice. Now I believe their nickname

00:37:29.730 --> 00:37:33.449
was the Corner Huskers. The NCAA is not something

00:37:33.449 --> 00:37:37.590
I watch a lot of. I do spend a lot more time

00:37:37.590 --> 00:37:43.500
watching The NFL, but yeah, the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

00:37:43.960 --> 00:37:47.800
What a way to pop that one down, eh? What a name

00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.139
as well. I think it's brilliant. It makes a lot

00:37:52.139 --> 00:37:54.860
of sense. Well, yeah, Nebraska is definitely

00:37:54.860 --> 00:37:59.280
a big farming state. So to be able to have that.

00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:01.900
But yeah, Matt Rawls in his third season at the

00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:03.760
Nebraska Cornhuskers and he's not having it.

00:38:03.760 --> 00:38:06.820
He hasn't got a great record, but he's doing

00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:11.400
all right. He's not necessarily got a bad record

00:38:11.400 --> 00:38:13.800
either from what I understand. Yeah, so again

00:38:13.800 --> 00:38:16.860
within his reign at Nebraska. He's currently

00:38:16.860 --> 00:38:21.420
12 for 13 and But he's got an all -time record

00:38:21.420 --> 00:38:30.440
of 924 to 430 Nebraska have got a half decent

00:38:30.440 --> 00:38:32.119
record there and they've claimed some national

00:38:32.119 --> 00:38:36.179
titles as well the most recent one being 1997

00:38:38.529 --> 00:38:41.630
Yeah, I've got a fair few rivals as well. And

00:38:41.630 --> 00:38:43.369
they've had a couple of Heisman Trophy winners,

00:38:43.670 --> 00:38:46.449
which you got to be lucky to get one of those.

00:38:46.789 --> 00:38:49.030
Last one of those was 2001 though, it's Eric

00:38:49.030 --> 00:38:53.389
Crouch. The Heisman Trophy for those of you who

00:38:53.389 --> 00:38:55.949
don't know is basically like the college football

00:38:55.949 --> 00:39:00.650
player of the year. It's the most, it's the MVP

00:39:00.650 --> 00:39:11.150
of the season out of all the league. Fair enough.

00:39:12.010 --> 00:39:15.829
I don't have a huge amount of interest in American

00:39:15.829 --> 00:39:18.869
football personally, but always nice to branch

00:39:18.869 --> 00:39:25.829
out to different listeners out there. It does

00:39:25.829 --> 00:39:28.429
link in to the next section, the American football

00:39:28.429 --> 00:39:32.210
reference, because the next bit to this one was

00:39:32.210 --> 00:39:36.429
Pat McAfee going face to face with Gunther in

00:39:36.429 --> 00:39:41.789
the ring before they face it backlash. because

00:39:41.789 --> 00:39:44.989
Gunther decided after losing his title at WrestleMania

00:39:44.989 --> 00:39:47.710
that he was going to attack Michael Cole. And

00:39:47.710 --> 00:39:52.150
then when Pat McAfee decided to step in and say,

00:39:52.550 --> 00:39:54.949
hey, you don't pick on a 60 year old man, he

00:39:54.949 --> 00:39:57.630
got choked out at ringside for it. So obviously

00:39:57.630 --> 00:39:59.730
with that, with Gunther's suspension, it was

00:39:59.730 --> 00:40:04.150
lifted for a sanctioned match backlash against

00:40:04.150 --> 00:40:07.670
Pat McAfee. And Pat, as we know, was the punter

00:40:07.670 --> 00:40:13.179
for the Indianapolis Colts. He was he's also

00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:16.980
enjoyed some some relative success when it comes

00:40:16.980 --> 00:40:21.519
to in ring WWE career as well as he's had a few

00:40:21.519 --> 00:40:26.239
few matches down in NXT and And different he's

00:40:26.239 --> 00:40:28.760
had a WrestleMania match summer slam match. I

00:40:28.760 --> 00:40:32.699
believe as well so he's no stranger to in ring

00:40:32.699 --> 00:40:36.119
competition, but Yeah, the fact that though he's

00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:41.710
being pitted up against Gunther Is it feels a

00:40:41.710 --> 00:40:47.570
little bit sacrificial lambish and Yeah, apart

00:40:47.570 --> 00:40:51.329
from a small a short -term storyline like the

00:40:51.329 --> 00:40:54.210
one that they're pushing at the moment Can't

00:40:54.210 --> 00:41:02.150
really say that I see the point No, no, I think

00:41:02.150 --> 00:41:06.960
this is just I think this was just a tiny little

00:41:06.960 --> 00:41:08.559
filler. I don't think they had anything to do

00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:11.219
for Gunther. You can't just have a guy drop a

00:41:11.219 --> 00:41:14.840
title and then not have anything. They've got,

00:41:15.179 --> 00:41:17.880
especially for a guy who spent 80 % of his time

00:41:17.880 --> 00:41:22.559
in the WWE with a strap around his waist. It

00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:24.780
just felt a little bit, no, you've got to do

00:41:24.780 --> 00:41:27.639
something with him. And I think they probably

00:41:27.639 --> 00:41:29.760
could have done something better than this, but

00:41:29.760 --> 00:41:33.469
Pat McAfee has spoken. About the fact that he

00:41:33.469 --> 00:41:36.710
wants to become you know, he quit the NFL to

00:41:36.710 --> 00:41:40.530
become a WWE wrestler It just didn't happen straight

00:41:40.530 --> 00:41:45.010
away No, but a lot of that comes down to his

00:41:45.010 --> 00:41:47.610
age Well, yeah, he was 29 when he retired from

00:41:47.610 --> 00:41:50.929
the NFL. They said that most of the time, you

00:41:50.929 --> 00:41:53.510
know WWE don't recruit anyone over the age of

00:41:53.510 --> 00:41:58.010
30 so that was his clock ticking he did get a

00:41:58.010 --> 00:42:00.550
foot in the door but he's not like i said a full

00:42:00.550 --> 00:42:06.750
-time in -ring competitor no i mean pat is 38

00:42:06.750 --> 00:42:12.429
years old he is not it is a case that he is not

00:42:12.429 --> 00:42:17.329
going to be he's not going to be an in -ring

00:42:17.329 --> 00:42:22.190
competitor not a regular one at least um and

00:42:22.190 --> 00:42:26.099
i don't know i just think they If they're gonna

00:42:26.099 --> 00:42:30.780
pit Mac again, if they're gonna pit Pat against

00:42:30.780 --> 00:42:36.179
someone Let's not make it somebody like Gunther

00:42:36.179 --> 00:42:41.940
Yeah, Kira Tozawa maybe But then I suppose it

00:42:41.940 --> 00:42:44.739
did work nicely into the storyline because obviously

00:42:44.739 --> 00:42:47.019
where Gunther was fed up of the clowning around

00:42:47.019 --> 00:42:50.059
and who's the biggest clown in WWE outside of

00:42:50.059 --> 00:42:56.280
Jey Uso? Pat McAfee so It did follow through.

00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:58.760
It made sense in some aspects, but didn't make

00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:08.159
sense in others. Coming full circle, we're going

00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:13.659
to come back to talking about Jeyuso and Seth

00:43:13.659 --> 00:43:20.869
Rollins, Paul Heyman and Bron Breaker. world

00:43:20.869 --> 00:43:23.530
heavyweight title match or the world heavyweight

00:43:23.530 --> 00:43:27.510
title fight at the end of the night. That was

00:43:27.510 --> 00:43:31.929
a mouthful. It was. I don't want to say that

00:43:31.929 --> 00:43:39.949
too many times after a few beers. But yeah. This

00:43:39.949 --> 00:43:43.789
one didn't have a lot to it in the start of it.

00:43:43.949 --> 00:43:48.690
It had a bit of a slow The match itself didn't

00:43:48.690 --> 00:43:51.730
have a slow start, the atmosphere did, I suppose

00:43:51.730 --> 00:43:53.789
the best way to think about it. The first thing

00:43:53.789 --> 00:43:56.010
that I picked up on through this entire match

00:43:56.010 --> 00:44:00.250
was Paul Heyman trying to get the crowd to sing

00:44:00.250 --> 00:44:05.190
Seth Rollins entry music, which a few weeks ago

00:44:05.190 --> 00:44:10.230
we had him on television saying, I'll never sing

00:44:10.230 --> 00:44:13.030
that, I don't like it, I don't like Seth Rollins,

00:44:13.090 --> 00:44:15.639
and then all of a sudden he's in Seth's. Seth's

00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:17.460
corner trying to persuade everyone to sing his

00:44:17.460 --> 00:44:22.039
music which was an iffy one and I will throw

00:44:22.039 --> 00:44:24.900
one of my highlights from this match itself and

00:44:24.900 --> 00:44:27.139
we've seen him do it a few times recently against

00:44:27.139 --> 00:44:30.820
different people but the reverse the spear reversal

00:44:30.820 --> 00:44:33.579
into the pedigree he did it on Roman he's now

00:44:33.579 --> 00:44:38.679
done it on Jay like most of these most of I mean

00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:43.139
if you fuck that up you're taking the top of

00:44:43.139 --> 00:44:46.190
someone's head to your balls right that's that's

00:44:46.190 --> 00:44:50.710
the worst thing that could happen but yeah it

00:44:50.710 --> 00:44:53.110
looks so good i struggle to think i struggle

00:44:53.110 --> 00:44:55.289
to think of anybody else who would be able to

00:44:55.289 --> 00:45:00.050
pull that sort of move off Seth Rollins is whether

00:45:00.050 --> 00:45:03.949
you love him or hate him you can't sort of deny

00:45:03.949 --> 00:45:07.449
that the guy is talented i mean he's a revolutionary

00:45:07.449 --> 00:45:13.489
he's a visionary he's a I've got really bad dress

00:45:13.489 --> 00:45:15.489
sense too, but we're not going to commit to that

00:45:15.489 --> 00:45:19.610
one. In fairness, since Paul Heyman, since he's

00:45:19.610 --> 00:45:21.829
been hanging around with Paul Heyman, it's a

00:45:21.829 --> 00:45:23.809
case that his dress sense seems to have improved.

00:45:24.230 --> 00:45:26.750
I'm sorry, did you not see the glasses last week

00:45:26.750 --> 00:45:32.849
with the eyeballs painted on them? Look, I said

00:45:32.849 --> 00:45:37.510
improving. It's a progression. It is everything

00:45:37.510 --> 00:45:40.409
else. Yes, Seth Rollins has decided he no longer

00:45:40.409 --> 00:45:44.070
wants to be the Sam Smith of WWE's Getting a

00:45:44.070 --> 00:45:51.630
normal wardrobe Yeah now The the match itself

00:45:51.630 --> 00:45:58.929
sort of can it Sort of concludes where well they

00:45:58.929 --> 00:46:01.610
have better the longer it went on the better

00:46:01.610 --> 00:46:05.650
it got but that was because we got a surprise

00:46:05.650 --> 00:46:11.969
entrant the honorary ooze uh we didn't want to

00:46:11.969 --> 00:46:13.969
start off with we only had one the second one

00:46:13.969 --> 00:46:16.230
did come out at the end of the match oh yeah

00:46:16.230 --> 00:46:21.070
the honorary ooze decided he was gonna come out

00:46:21.070 --> 00:46:24.809
and join the fun so mr sammy zane's music hit

00:46:24.809 --> 00:46:28.710
bron breaker is looking up the ramp waiting for

00:46:28.710 --> 00:46:31.489
sammy zane to come running down from there And

00:46:31.489 --> 00:46:37.369
instead, Zayn takes a ticket from the old shield

00:46:37.369 --> 00:46:40.250
book and came flying out the crowd and hit him

00:46:40.250 --> 00:46:44.489
instead. Sami Zayn versus Bron Breaker was, it

00:46:44.489 --> 00:46:48.610
was a bit of a messed up one last week. Have

00:46:48.610 --> 00:46:51.670
decent match to watch, but you knew which way

00:46:51.670 --> 00:46:54.969
it was going. But this week, I think Sami Zayn

00:46:54.969 --> 00:46:58.190
had Bron Breaker's number. I mean, the fact that

00:46:58.190 --> 00:47:00.650
he ate a spear. whilst trying to hype the crowd

00:47:00.650 --> 00:47:04.909
up was a little bit one of them, but he was the

00:47:04.909 --> 00:47:07.409
ultimate underdog. He'll eat every finishing

00:47:07.409 --> 00:47:09.650
move you can possibly throw at him and not have

00:47:09.650 --> 00:47:17.210
an issue with it. Yeah. I mean, Sami Zayn came

00:47:17.210 --> 00:47:20.170
out to the ring with his ribs taped up. He's

00:47:20.170 --> 00:47:22.610
still hurting from his last match. It's a case

00:47:22.610 --> 00:47:25.750
that did he really have any business being there?

00:47:26.059 --> 00:47:29.639
Well, he was, it was, I think it was Seth Rollins

00:47:29.639 --> 00:47:31.599
based. He told him that if you move to Smackdown,

00:47:31.619 --> 00:47:34.539
you can have a match against the winner of Randy

00:47:34.539 --> 00:47:36.699
Orton and John Cena after backlash. So he was

00:47:36.699 --> 00:47:39.260
trying to bribe him off the, off Raw. But why,

00:47:39.460 --> 00:47:44.219
why is Rollins so afraid of Sami Zayn? Well,

00:47:45.260 --> 00:47:49.840
the point of that was that it was, um, Seth Rollins

00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:52.239
was, Seth Rollins and Sami Zayn, they've come

00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:55.179
up, they've more or less come up together it's

00:47:55.179 --> 00:47:58.539
a case that they are they are friends outside

00:47:58.539 --> 00:48:02.320
of the ring and he was trying to he was trying

00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:05.679
to help his friend because they've gone down

00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:08.179
the normal route of if you're not with me you're

00:48:08.179 --> 00:48:11.719
against me and if you're against me you're probably

00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:14.960
going to eat a curb stomp at some point or several

00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:19.599
you never just get one curb stomp you always

00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:24.630
get more than one No, this is it well there is

00:48:24.630 --> 00:48:29.170
that too, but yeah, it's a case that We had Sami

00:48:29.170 --> 00:48:31.449
Zayn come out to try to balance the equation

00:48:31.449 --> 00:48:34.710
because during this match with Seth Rollins he

00:48:34.710 --> 00:48:38.909
had Rollins had two people in his two people

00:48:38.909 --> 00:48:42.230
in his corner who were likely gonna do anything

00:48:42.230 --> 00:48:46.809
they could to make sure that Seth won the match

00:48:46.809 --> 00:48:50.190
Even though Seth is perfectly capable of winning

00:48:50.190 --> 00:48:53.909
matches all on his bringing home he's been doing

00:48:53.909 --> 00:48:59.670
that since the shield split yeah pretty much

00:48:59.670 --> 00:49:03.789
he's not he's uh not very often that Seth Rollins

00:49:03.789 --> 00:49:07.130
doesn't have somebody in his corner to help him

00:49:07.130 --> 00:49:11.590
win by any means necessary well exactly um and

00:49:11.590 --> 00:49:14.909
then like we said there was a a second surprise

00:49:14.909 --> 00:49:19.389
to come out and that was CM Punk He decided that

00:49:19.389 --> 00:49:21.590
he was gonna come and try to even the odds a

00:49:21.590 --> 00:49:24.409
little bit more as he came running down with

00:49:24.409 --> 00:49:28.849
a steel chair in his hands Which is a always

00:49:28.849 --> 00:49:34.409
nice to see CM Punk with a steel chair Yeah,

00:49:34.530 --> 00:49:38.269
well he sort of he used the steel chair initially

00:49:38.269 --> 00:49:45.960
to take out Brombreaker by throwing the chair

00:49:45.960 --> 00:49:48.280
to Brom Breaker and then super kicking the chair

00:49:48.280 --> 00:49:51.820
into his face. And then comes down and starts

00:49:51.820 --> 00:49:55.719
laying into pretty much anybody that got in the

00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:59.960
chair's way. I mean, we both know, and if you

00:49:59.960 --> 00:50:01.840
listen to this podcast, you're a wrestling fan,

00:50:01.940 --> 00:50:04.380
you know that punk and Rollins do not get on.

00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:08.860
So for that chair to be introduced was definitely

00:50:08.860 --> 00:50:18.260
a more fun aspect of it. So I have got down here

00:50:18.260 --> 00:50:24.559
that Jeyuso wins this one because But I've got

00:50:24.559 --> 00:50:29.159
a feeling it was classed as a no DQ because of

00:50:29.159 --> 00:50:33.739
Punk and Cher According to WWE website the match

00:50:33.739 --> 00:50:40.340
ends so The match ends with Seth Rollins defeating

00:50:40.340 --> 00:50:44.849
Jeyuso via disqualification But champions advantage

00:50:44.849 --> 00:50:49.210
means that Jay Uso gets to keep his title Yeah,

00:50:49.230 --> 00:50:52.949
pretty much. I mean, that's fair enough But yeah,

00:50:52.949 --> 00:50:55.590
they're basically finished with the credits rolled

00:50:55.590 --> 00:51:00.110
on this one with Jay Uso CM Punk and Sami Zayn

00:51:00.110 --> 00:51:03.710
standing. Well, it's mainly Punk and Zayn that's

00:51:03.710 --> 00:51:05.710
standing in the ring Uso is kind of sat in a

00:51:05.710 --> 00:51:10.969
corner going fuck that hurt From his encounter

00:51:10.969 --> 00:51:15.420
with Rollins and Bron Breaker, but that leaves

00:51:15.420 --> 00:51:17.860
the question. I feel we're gonna have a tag match

00:51:17.860 --> 00:51:21.920
at some point between Juso, CM Punk, and Sami

00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:27.239
Zayn versus Seth Rollins, Bron Breaker, and a

00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:29.860
third. Now I have no idea who that third person

00:51:29.860 --> 00:51:31.820
is gonna be. I don't even want to speculate because

00:51:31.820 --> 00:51:35.119
I'd probably fuck it up pretty hard. But I think

00:51:35.119 --> 00:51:38.219
it's one of those at some point we're gonna find

00:51:38.219 --> 00:51:41.920
out who that third person is and be the final.

00:51:42.059 --> 00:51:46.500
member of Seth Rollins version of evolution I

00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:52.119
suppose. Yeah this is it and yeah we've they've

00:51:52.119 --> 00:51:55.360
got plenty of time to spin that out so I don't

00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:58.139
think we'll find out about it anytime soon but

00:51:58.139 --> 00:52:01.860
yeah the only other thing that happened uh happened

00:52:01.860 --> 00:52:04.360
in raw and it sort of happened after raw went

00:52:04.360 --> 00:52:08.619
off the air um was that there is a clip that

00:52:08.619 --> 00:52:12.289
circulated around where Logan Paul attacks J

00:52:12.289 --> 00:52:15.530
U so after the cameras go out from within the

00:52:15.530 --> 00:52:21.309
crowd so comes out of the crowd lays a Titanium

00:52:21.309 --> 00:52:25.889
fist into Jay's jaw and Yeah, basically runs

00:52:25.889 --> 00:52:30.789
off like a scared child afterwards Logan Paul

00:52:30.789 --> 00:52:33.530
acting like a little bitch what surprised her

00:52:33.530 --> 00:52:36.969
I Know right and on that man on that message.

00:52:37.010 --> 00:52:40.269
I think that was all we both had for raw It was,

00:52:40.289 --> 00:52:42.750
yeah, it's pretty much all I've got. We'll move

00:52:42.750 --> 00:52:48.210
on to NXT. Right, so NXT this week actually came

00:52:48.210 --> 00:52:49.909
from the Performance Center. They seem to be

00:52:49.909 --> 00:52:51.409
spending more time at the Performance Center

00:52:51.409 --> 00:52:54.530
than they do out on the road. But we started

00:52:54.530 --> 00:52:58.170
off. That is sort of the deal with NXT that I'm

00:52:58.170 --> 00:53:01.570
aware of at least, is that they don't spend as

00:53:01.570 --> 00:53:05.610
much time out on the road. I think it was the

00:53:05.610 --> 00:53:08.389
development, when it was the developmental. territory

00:53:08.389 --> 00:53:12.750
for the WWE. It was a case that they didn't spend

00:53:12.750 --> 00:53:15.110
as much time out on the road for them to be able

00:53:15.110 --> 00:53:19.690
to spend more time training. Yeah. I suppose

00:53:19.690 --> 00:53:22.389
that's one upside to it. I just don't think the

00:53:22.389 --> 00:53:24.250
performance sentence is big as it could possibly

00:53:24.250 --> 00:53:28.309
need to be capacity wise for the amount of people

00:53:28.309 --> 00:53:32.880
that are wanting to watch NXT over Things like

00:53:32.880 --> 00:53:34.940
raw and smackdown. I know I definitely want to

00:53:34.940 --> 00:53:37.780
watch NXT over raw still have a preference for

00:53:37.780 --> 00:53:41.360
smackdown When it comes to the quality of the

00:53:41.360 --> 00:53:44.039
programming we're getting but yeah, it does make

00:53:44.039 --> 00:53:45.900
it a little bit more intimate I suppose so you

00:53:45.900 --> 00:53:48.679
get a bit more of an indie feel to it like a

00:53:48.679 --> 00:53:54.659
local show How close you are? Everything's got

00:53:54.659 --> 00:53:58.179
their own swings and roundabouts so whether they're

00:53:58.179 --> 00:54:03.670
better or not this first match of the NXT this

00:54:03.670 --> 00:54:07.789
week though was um I felt it was a little bit

00:54:07.789 --> 00:54:10.250
of a letdown I'm not gonna lie so the first match

00:54:10.250 --> 00:54:12.929
was Hank and Tank with Joe Hendry versus Dark

00:54:12.929 --> 00:54:20.090
State in a six -man tag match and um yeah apart

00:54:20.090 --> 00:54:26.610
from sort of the interference towards the end

00:54:26.610 --> 00:54:30.550
of the match There wasn't a huge amount in this

00:54:30.550 --> 00:54:33.469
one that I really wanted to talk about obviously

00:54:33.469 --> 00:54:36.730
like you get to see Joe Hendry, which is a good

00:54:36.730 --> 00:54:39.670
point, but Probably one of the only things and

00:54:39.670 --> 00:54:43.349
even then this match with Joe Hendry really didn't

00:54:43.349 --> 00:54:46.969
do for me What I thought it was gonna do Which

00:54:46.969 --> 00:54:48.989
was a bit of a disappointment. I'm not gonna

00:54:48.989 --> 00:54:52.849
lie So this much just sort of acted as a bit

00:54:52.849 --> 00:54:56.050
of a A bit of an extension, if you like, off

00:54:56.050 --> 00:55:00.730
the back of TNA episode. Off what happened at

00:55:00.730 --> 00:55:03.429
TNA where Trick Williams came and interfered.

00:55:04.730 --> 00:55:07.449
And Trick Williams did very much the same in

00:55:07.449 --> 00:55:10.510
Venice. He did. That was the thing I was talking

00:55:10.510 --> 00:55:11.869
about at the end of the match actually. Trick

00:55:11.869 --> 00:55:15.710
Williams comes out and basically attacks Joe

00:55:15.710 --> 00:55:18.349
Hendry. Well, he doesn't attack him. He kind

00:55:18.349 --> 00:55:19.929
of pulls him off the turnbuckle, doesn't he?

00:55:21.280 --> 00:55:23.239
the two of them just end up kind of running up

00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:26.239
the ramp having a bit of a fight while the rest

00:55:26.239 --> 00:55:28.179
of the other four get on with it in the ring

00:55:28.179 --> 00:55:33.519
yeah then i suppose the big news story with this

00:55:33.519 --> 00:55:36.500
one for me is that do we really have to have

00:55:36.500 --> 00:55:40.019
another six man tag with dark state no i hope

00:55:40.019 --> 00:55:44.320
not i mean dark state as it stands uh me and

00:55:44.320 --> 00:55:46.880
rich have talked a lot off recording about it

00:55:46.880 --> 00:55:49.460
it's a case that there's no character development

00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:54.039
There's no personality and say one sugar is a

00:55:54.039 --> 00:55:57.760
lazy fuck with that of the three tool three six

00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:01.260
-man tag matches dark state of had Take one sugars

00:56:01.260 --> 00:56:04.320
ain't being part of it. He's been at ringside.

00:56:04.320 --> 00:56:08.800
They ain't actually been in a match yet Yeah,

00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:11.679
it just and the other three are boring I'm not

00:56:11.679 --> 00:56:15.760
gonna lie I'm gonna say it's fucking dog Butler

00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:19.139
and Osiris look like they have the ability to

00:56:19.139 --> 00:56:26.230
be Big superstars. But yeah, Saquon Sugars doesn't

00:56:26.230 --> 00:56:28.150
have that ability and the other guy's name I

00:56:28.150 --> 00:56:30.909
can't even piss and remember so it shows. Oh,

00:56:30.929 --> 00:56:34.889
Dion Lennox. He probably should have stayed in

00:56:34.889 --> 00:56:37.769
the NCAA and played football. They probably might

00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:39.969
have gone a bit further. Not earned as much money,

00:56:40.289 --> 00:56:43.369
but they might have gone a bit further. Well,

00:56:43.389 --> 00:56:47.670
as it stands, Cutler James. Pretty sure he is

00:56:47.670 --> 00:56:56.250
off the first season of LFG. Possibly. Osiris

00:56:56.250 --> 00:57:01.449
Griffin, not a clue. No. Dion Lennox, I know

00:57:01.449 --> 00:57:04.489
he's a football star of some description. And

00:57:04.489 --> 00:57:08.369
Saquon Shuggers, he could be the... No, I'm not

00:57:08.369 --> 00:57:13.840
going to say the next part. What about what I

00:57:13.840 --> 00:57:16.380
said after I said it? What about what I said

00:57:16.380 --> 00:57:25.440
after I said it? What about what I said after

00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:30.559
I said it? What about what I said after I said

00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:40.900
it? What about what I said after I said it? body

00:57:40.900 --> 00:57:43.119
there's no character development and they're

00:57:43.119 --> 00:57:46.440
just they were exciting to begin with because

00:57:46.440 --> 00:57:50.300
they were new we didn't know who they were and

00:57:50.300 --> 00:57:53.480
it's a case that we didn't know what their agenda

00:57:53.480 --> 00:57:59.380
was yeah and about five six weeks down the line

00:57:59.380 --> 00:58:03.000
we are in exactly the same position we still

00:58:03.000 --> 00:58:06.179
don't know who they are we still don't know what

00:58:06.179 --> 00:58:08.059
they've what they're like as what they're like

00:58:08.059 --> 00:58:10.889
as individuals We don't know what their agenda

00:58:10.889 --> 00:58:13.750
is, other than to kick shit out of anybody they

00:58:13.750 --> 00:58:17.170
can possibly get their hands on. So yeah, what's

00:58:17.170 --> 00:58:20.469
the point? So from what I can see here, Saquon

00:58:20.469 --> 00:58:25.630
Sugars was in the indie circuit for a little

00:58:25.630 --> 00:58:31.329
while under the name of Lucky Ali. He was actually

00:58:31.329 --> 00:58:35.989
in AEW for a while as well. He debuted in 2022

00:58:35.989 --> 00:58:40.909
in AEW. a taped match for AEW's Dark Elevation

00:58:40.909 --> 00:58:44.829
where he lost to Frankie Kazarian. But yeah,

00:58:45.289 --> 00:58:48.250
you've not seen, he's probably out of all of

00:58:48.250 --> 00:58:49.690
them, he's probably the only one that's actually

00:58:49.690 --> 00:58:54.230
a proper wrestler, I think. Like, I say proper

00:58:54.230 --> 00:58:59.030
wrestler, he's had more experience with pro wrestling

00:58:59.030 --> 00:59:02.070
and Saquon Sugar was also on NXT's Level Up last

00:59:02.070 --> 00:59:05.840
year, he lost to Tabian Heights. And then had

00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:07.659
a quite big knee injury. So yeah, that's why

00:59:07.659 --> 00:59:14.920
we've not seen much of him Right, okay So Yeah,

00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:17.000
I still don't feel like I know them any better.

00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:20.940
It's still I can't say I can't say that anything

00:59:20.940 --> 00:59:23.800
they do is on brand or on character for that

00:59:23.800 --> 00:59:28.280
particular individual and yeah, like Dark states

00:59:28.280 --> 00:59:32.619
just a bit of a letdown You've then got the other

00:59:32.619 --> 00:59:37.059
side to this match where You've got the TNA world

00:59:37.059 --> 00:59:40.800
heavyweight champion in Joe Hendry. Yeah, and

00:59:40.800 --> 00:59:44.679
you've got the NXT tag team champions in Hank

00:59:44.679 --> 00:59:48.420
and Tank We know who they are. We know what they

00:59:48.420 --> 00:59:53.840
do and it's a case that Like one of that one

00:59:53.840 --> 00:59:58.159
of that one one member of that trio in Joe Hendry

00:59:58.159 --> 01:00:01.400
isn't even a part of the WWE. And we know who

01:00:01.400 --> 01:00:05.099
he is. We've had Dark State on our screens for,

01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:08.500
as I said, about five, six weeks now. Yeah, I

01:00:08.500 --> 01:00:10.400
would agree with that. But the reason we know

01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:12.579
who Joe Hendry is is because we believe in Joe

01:00:12.579 --> 01:00:18.159
Hendry. And he's just incredibly over. The internet

01:00:18.159 --> 01:00:19.619
side of it was something that I think they were

01:00:19.619 --> 01:00:21.400
trying to push through and see if he's actually

01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:24.340
as over as he is, as they think he is. And he

01:00:24.340 --> 01:00:28.719
definitely is. WWE aren't doing Joe Hendry any

01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.260
favors and they didn't do a Hank and Tanka favor

01:00:31.260 --> 01:00:35.159
in this one either because Why do you have the

01:00:35.159 --> 01:00:38.099
current tag champions and like you said the TNA

01:00:38.099 --> 01:00:43.840
heavyweight champion losing to? nobodies Literally

01:00:43.840 --> 01:00:49.739
Yeah, it's I Understand how they made the loss

01:00:49.739 --> 01:00:52.940
more legitimate in the sense that trick Williams

01:00:52.940 --> 01:00:56.739
came in drag Joe Hendry out leaving Hank and

01:00:56.739 --> 01:01:00.940
Tank on their own, but these are, as you said,

01:01:01.079 --> 01:01:03.380
they're four nobodies, they're four upstarts,

01:01:03.519 --> 01:01:07.559
they're four rookies who have just taken out

01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:11.579
the TNA Tag Team Champions. The NXT Tag Team

01:01:11.579 --> 01:01:14.880
Champions and the TNA Heavyweight Champion. Yeah.

01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:19.480
So these, I mean, yes, Dark State with this have

01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:22.719
got a reasonable size feather in their cap. They

01:01:22.719 --> 01:01:25.800
deserve it. Not in my opinion. Are we gonna see

01:01:25.800 --> 01:01:27.800
them getting more reasonably large feathers in

01:01:27.800 --> 01:01:30.559
their cap? Probably. Do they deserve it? Again,

01:01:30.719 --> 01:01:35.300
not in my opinion. There's nothing that Dark

01:01:35.300 --> 01:01:42.079
State have that anyone else in NXT needs. NXT

01:01:42.079 --> 01:01:44.659
doesn't need Dark State, Dark State needs NXT.

01:01:48.199 --> 01:01:51.380
Yeah, pretty much. That's the way I've looked

01:01:51.380 --> 01:01:58.119
at it. yeah it's just not it it's not interesting

01:01:58.119 --> 01:02:01.539
it's not it's not grabbing my attention anymore

01:02:01.539 --> 01:02:04.559
yeah i mean when we first saw them it was like

01:02:04.559 --> 01:02:06.300
oh what's this what's going on here oh they've

01:02:06.300 --> 01:02:09.119
just beaten up Ricky Saints or they've just beaten

01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:13.460
up you know Tony D 'Angelo or but now and they

01:02:13.460 --> 01:02:15.059
didn't even have a particular pattern when they

01:02:15.059 --> 01:02:16.500
were just running around kicking the crap out

01:02:16.500 --> 01:02:17.920
of people either it was just like oh there's

01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:19.739
a guy stood on his own let's kick the shit out

01:02:19.739 --> 01:02:23.940
of him Yeah, you have similar issues similar

01:02:23.940 --> 01:02:29.059
issues at English football games. Yes, for example

01:02:29.059 --> 01:02:36.559
You have groups of people running round Groups

01:02:36.559 --> 01:02:39.000
of people running round kicking the shit out

01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:42.119
of random people. It's just the way it works

01:02:42.119 --> 01:02:47.300
Yeah, but this wasn't it To be fair and we went

01:02:47.300 --> 01:02:50.219
from this into a And I think that's all we really

01:02:50.219 --> 01:02:52.099
need to say about that hand -to -hand tag match,

01:02:52.440 --> 01:02:54.980
the six -man tag league there. We move on from

01:02:54.980 --> 01:02:58.780
that with the dark state win into Karmen Petrovic

01:02:58.780 --> 01:03:03.360
backstage talking to, I think, it wasn't Sarah,

01:03:03.360 --> 01:03:08.380
was it Sarah Schreiber? No. Yes. Yes, it was

01:03:08.380 --> 01:03:10.960
Sarah Schreiber. And, you know, you get sort

01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:14.380
of like Jada Parker then kind of comes in and

01:03:14.380 --> 01:03:18.440
basically have Karmen Petrovic say that. Jada

01:03:18.440 --> 01:03:21.719
choked it stand and deliver and then we find

01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:28.340
out from that that we're gonna see Carmen Petrucic

01:03:28.340 --> 01:03:30.599
and Jada Parker are going one -on -one a little

01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:37.639
bit later Which you know is a on paper could

01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:42.980
be a half decent much Not gonna lie to you it

01:03:42.980 --> 01:03:45.019
probably wasn't one of my matches of the day,

01:03:45.079 --> 01:03:50.510
but it was On paper, it's got something. The

01:03:50.510 --> 01:03:54.150
one match that I did really want to have a little

01:03:54.150 --> 01:03:57.309
conversation about was the next match, actually,

01:03:57.409 --> 01:04:01.570
which was the Kalani Jordan Zaria match. And

01:04:01.570 --> 01:04:03.409
the reason I wanted to talk about this one is

01:04:03.409 --> 01:04:07.050
because, yes, we've all seen what both of these

01:04:07.050 --> 01:04:11.010
women can do. Every time Zaria comes out to the

01:04:11.010 --> 01:04:14.230
ring, I become more of a fan. And I can't even

01:04:14.230 --> 01:04:18.139
tell you why. It's just, yeah, she's a very talented

01:04:18.139 --> 01:04:23.880
superstar, but she's very gripping as well. There's

01:04:23.880 --> 01:04:25.900
something about the way she works that kind of

01:04:25.900 --> 01:04:28.559
goes, ooh, I'm not gonna finish doing what I'm

01:04:28.559 --> 01:04:31.699
doing. I'm gonna watch this match, which is not

01:04:31.699 --> 01:04:35.980
something I normally find with the women wrestlers.

01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:39.920
Normally, not too interested in their storylines,

01:04:41.039 --> 01:04:44.550
especially. like you go back sort of the last

01:04:44.550 --> 01:04:48.269
sort of if you take the last five years of women's

01:04:48.269 --> 01:04:51.969
wrestling out of it when you know like and go

01:04:51.969 --> 01:04:54.610
back to the point it was five years ago that

01:04:54.610 --> 01:04:56.550
would have been the perfect opportunity during

01:04:56.550 --> 01:04:58.909
a wwe show for me to go make a cup of tea and

01:04:58.909 --> 01:05:00.989
i wouldn't have cared about what i missed so

01:05:00.989 --> 01:05:04.929
really wasn't that interested but the zarya stuff

01:05:04.929 --> 01:05:07.969
has kind of got me at the moment obviously you

01:05:07.969 --> 01:05:11.269
see her working with soruka occasionally I'm

01:05:11.269 --> 01:05:13.230
not sure how that's going to work now Soruka's

01:05:13.230 --> 01:05:17.989
got her hands on. Is it the North American title

01:05:17.989 --> 01:05:22.389
she had her hands on? Yes it is. Yeah so I'm

01:05:22.389 --> 01:05:24.409
not sure how much we're going to see of them

01:05:24.409 --> 01:05:28.469
in tag capacities now Soruka is currently holding

01:05:28.469 --> 01:05:31.809
the women's North American title. But it could

01:05:31.809 --> 01:05:36.010
be an interesting storyline in the build up to

01:05:36.010 --> 01:05:38.250
that. I just hope they don't split them up. I

01:05:38.250 --> 01:05:42.039
was actually quite enjoying watching them. Yeah,

01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:44.400
there is an endearing quality to the pair of

01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:47.579
them now I found out something this week as well

01:05:47.579 --> 01:05:49.860
that I didn't know. Did you know Soruka was dating

01:05:49.860 --> 01:05:55.480
Tyler Bate? Yes, I didn't I was like yes the

01:05:55.480 --> 01:05:58.059
man from mustache mountain is is doing well for

01:05:58.059 --> 01:06:04.579
himself Yeah, no and if we're gonna talk about

01:06:04.579 --> 01:06:07.099
this match which honestly I wasn't intending

01:06:07.099 --> 01:06:11.989
to There's not much here that I put down to be

01:06:11.989 --> 01:06:14.190
fair. I just really enjoy watching Zarya. The

01:06:14.190 --> 01:06:16.329
fact that she put Kalani Jordan through the barricade

01:06:16.329 --> 01:06:20.050
was quite fun though. Yeah, do you know what?

01:06:21.590 --> 01:06:25.190
The fact that Kalani Jordan is involved in this

01:06:25.190 --> 01:06:27.349
match is sort of the reason why I don't want

01:06:27.349 --> 01:06:30.429
to talk about it. I've said on numerous occasions

01:06:30.429 --> 01:06:34.050
before that she's fucking dull. She's like Dark

01:06:34.050 --> 01:06:36.250
State. She's had no character development. Her

01:06:36.250 --> 01:06:38.789
storyline doesn't go very far in her own ring.

01:06:38.809 --> 01:06:40.909
Capacity is not as good as it probably could

01:06:40.909 --> 01:06:44.429
be No, the worst thing is is that Kalani Jordan

01:06:44.429 --> 01:06:47.889
has had character development and she's still

01:06:47.889 --> 01:06:56.650
doll The bitch is boring Like I'm I don't mean

01:06:56.650 --> 01:06:58.829
to be rude or anything, but it's a case that

01:06:58.829 --> 01:07:03.610
I Just don't I don't there's no excitement for

01:07:03.610 --> 01:07:06.690
her to come out the most exciting crowd either

01:07:06.690 --> 01:07:15.619
is that Like she's tried taking on a really mean

01:07:15.619 --> 01:07:18.699
edge to her recently, which I thought, do you

01:07:18.699 --> 01:07:21.739
know what, that'll inject some life into her

01:07:21.739 --> 01:07:25.239
character. Nope. No, she's the most boring, mean

01:07:25.239 --> 01:07:27.400
heel superstar I think I've ever known in my

01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:30.780
life. We thought Becky Lynch's heel turn this

01:07:30.780 --> 01:07:33.579
time round was bad. Kalani Jordan, welcome to

01:07:33.579 --> 01:07:37.840
that number one spot. I'm sorry Becky Lynch's

01:07:37.840 --> 01:07:41.780
heel turn this time round is bad but it's it's

01:07:41.780 --> 01:07:46.679
not boring bad it's just bad yeah this is boring

01:07:46.679 --> 01:07:55.300
bad yeah it's like I may be that it's not a it's

01:07:55.300 --> 01:07:59.420
sort of a hill I'm willing to die on but Kalani

01:07:59.420 --> 01:08:02.099
Jordan for the next round of cuts I just don't

01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:04.860
I don't see that she's got any distance. I don't

01:08:04.860 --> 01:08:07.039
see that she's got any distance in her character.

01:08:07.199 --> 01:08:09.539
I don't think there's anything there. I mean,

01:08:09.699 --> 01:08:11.420
yeah, no, I can I can probably get behind that.

01:08:11.880 --> 01:08:15.340
The one thing that I am going to get behind,

01:08:15.539 --> 01:08:18.539
though, was this next match. Now, before we go

01:08:18.539 --> 01:08:20.800
into the next match, we did have a little backstage

01:08:20.800 --> 01:08:23.939
thing with Tony D 'Angelo talking to Wesley Tyson

01:08:23.939 --> 01:08:27.659
to point and a gentleman whose surname is Igwe,

01:08:27.720 --> 01:08:29.979
but I can't remember his first name and I didn't

01:08:29.979 --> 01:08:34.489
write it down. i'd have to look back through

01:08:34.489 --> 01:08:37.229
my note back through my historic notes to find

01:08:37.229 --> 01:08:39.989
that out yeah i would too but anyway yeah so

01:08:39.989 --> 01:08:43.029
tony giangelo is is backstage talking to to these

01:08:43.029 --> 01:08:46.630
three gentlemen wesley basically takes a cheap

01:08:46.630 --> 01:08:49.010
shot at him and tony says well you know if you

01:08:49.010 --> 01:08:52.689
think you're a tough guy we can go and go out

01:08:52.689 --> 01:08:56.069
to the ring now if you want at which point wesley's

01:08:56.069 --> 01:08:58.510
like i would but i've got a battle royale to

01:08:58.510 --> 01:09:02.100
win And that Battle Royale is for the number

01:09:02.100 --> 01:09:08.199
one contender ship at Ober Femi's NXT title at

01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:13.560
Battleground. Yes. Yes. I just wanted to double

01:09:13.560 --> 01:09:15.020
check. I didn't write that one down. I'm just

01:09:15.020 --> 01:09:20.239
going off memory here. Tyreke Igwe. That's the

01:09:20.239 --> 01:09:22.979
one. Yeah. It was bugging the shit out of me.

01:09:23.140 --> 01:09:25.880
I thought it might do, but I didn't want to be

01:09:25.880 --> 01:09:29.250
like, yep. I knew he'd go looking for it. I could

01:09:29.250 --> 01:09:34.170
have googled it to be fair but I don't feel it

01:09:34.170 --> 01:09:38.550
mattered quite as much as it did. So yeah like

01:09:38.550 --> 01:09:40.430
I said we've got a battle royale for the number

01:09:40.430 --> 01:09:43.590
one contender for Oberfemi's title at Battleground

01:09:43.590 --> 01:09:48.930
and there is a few people within this match that

01:09:48.930 --> 01:09:54.649
I did not expect to see here to be fair. One

01:09:54.649 --> 01:10:03.170
of them being a former WWE superstar who quite

01:10:03.170 --> 01:10:08.569
a few people would know from when he used to

01:10:08.569 --> 01:10:13.390
like taking long walks. Obviously I'm talking

01:10:13.390 --> 01:10:17.170
about the man who is now known as Elijah in TNA

01:10:17.170 --> 01:10:22.369
but used to be known as Elias in WWE and obviously

01:10:22.369 --> 01:10:28.439
everyone liked to walk with a light. This Bart

01:10:28.439 --> 01:10:33.560
Royale was great to watch. I did really enjoy

01:10:33.560 --> 01:10:38.979
watching it. There was a few people within it

01:10:38.979 --> 01:10:42.739
that I was a little bit like, I'm kind of glad

01:10:42.739 --> 01:10:48.119
that you've gone out quite quickly. Mainly one

01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:51.460
like Ashanti Theodonis. Rick Williams slapped

01:10:51.460 --> 01:10:54.460
that motherfucker so hard he basically back flipped

01:10:54.460 --> 01:10:58.560
over the top rope and hit the floor. You know,

01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:02.579
there was a part of this match where, like, this

01:11:02.579 --> 01:11:06.539
was a 25 -man battle royale. So there were 25

01:11:06.539 --> 01:11:10.000
human bodies in this ring, all competing to stay

01:11:10.000 --> 01:11:12.000
in there at the same time. Yeah, we only got

01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:14.899
three of them with entry music coming down to

01:11:14.899 --> 01:11:18.979
the ramp. Yeah. Well, can you imagine sitting

01:11:18.979 --> 01:11:21.680
through 25 entrances? Oh, no, no, I fully get

01:11:21.680 --> 01:11:24.890
that. I do. but who backstage sits and goes right

01:11:24.890 --> 01:11:28.390
i've got 25 homies here i'm allowed three entrances

01:11:28.390 --> 01:11:34.729
who am i picking right because why did that have

01:11:34.729 --> 01:11:40.310
to be ethan page for one of them i think we have

01:11:40.310 --> 01:11:43.149
do we have we didn't have entry music for alias

01:11:43.149 --> 01:11:48.510
but he did have a little he had an entrance yeah

01:11:48.510 --> 01:11:52.319
it was it was him with his with his guitar Very

01:11:52.319 --> 01:11:55.500
Jeff Jarrett like that guy very Jeff Jarrett

01:11:55.500 --> 01:11:57.399
like that guy, but slightly more talented in

01:11:57.399 --> 01:12:05.020
the ring and Yes, there wasn't I'm just trying

01:12:05.020 --> 01:12:08.800
to think she had Ethan page Elias had one Was

01:12:08.800 --> 01:12:13.579
it trick Williams that got one? Yeah, and I think

01:12:13.579 --> 01:12:16.359
there was one more. I'm not a hundred percent

01:12:16.359 --> 01:12:20.180
sure It's I don't think it's horrendously important

01:12:21.430 --> 01:12:23.989
If you're that interested in thinking and trying

01:12:23.989 --> 01:12:26.390
to correct me, you can watch the episode yourself

01:12:26.390 --> 01:12:29.829
and then you can contact us on both Twitter,

01:12:31.050 --> 01:12:35.550
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01:12:35.550 --> 01:12:40.390
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01:12:40.390 --> 01:12:44.569
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01:12:44.569 --> 01:12:47.130
you thought of this week's episodes in there.

01:12:47.850 --> 01:12:49.930
if there's anything you'd like us to talk about

01:12:49.930 --> 01:12:52.789
in future episodes specifically or any storylines

01:12:52.789 --> 01:12:55.170
that you need catching up with but don't have

01:12:55.170 --> 01:12:56.930
the time to watch that you want us to kind of

01:12:56.930 --> 01:13:03.590
go, hey dude, this is how it goes. Coming back

01:13:03.590 --> 01:13:07.810
to this match as it goes, I started trying to

01:13:07.810 --> 01:13:12.609
keep track of who went out when. I did try, but

01:13:12.609 --> 01:13:16.569
I gave up. Yeah, I got to number four and that

01:13:16.569 --> 01:13:20.130
was about as far as I got. I also tried to do

01:13:20.130 --> 01:13:25.430
it with the Andre the Giant Battle Royale over

01:13:25.430 --> 01:13:31.470
WrestleMania weekend and my entire notes page

01:13:31.470 --> 01:13:34.670
basically just turned into such and such eliminated

01:13:34.670 --> 01:13:37.529
such and such. Such and such eliminated this

01:13:37.529 --> 01:13:40.420
person. this person was eliminated by that person

01:13:40.420 --> 01:13:42.960
and that person eliminated that person and that

01:13:42.960 --> 01:13:46.579
person at the same time and it was all very like

01:13:46.579 --> 01:13:49.859
yeah it was more notes on that that i think i've

01:13:49.859 --> 01:13:51.979
ever written from one match in my entire life

01:13:51.979 --> 01:13:54.500
so i basically just kind of went through to the

01:13:54.500 --> 01:13:59.859
last four um after sean spears walked elijah

01:13:59.859 --> 01:14:06.220
over the top rope to the back and uh trick williams

01:14:06.319 --> 01:14:13.779
decided he was removing Yoshi Inamura and Ridge

01:14:13.779 --> 01:14:21.300
Holland in one shot after Inamura was, well,

01:14:22.100 --> 01:14:26.699
he was on the front end of a rather large fuck

01:14:26.699 --> 01:14:29.319
up on his behalf, actually, because Inamura managed

01:14:29.319 --> 01:14:32.779
to knock his tag team partner Josh Briggs off

01:14:32.779 --> 01:14:35.789
the turnbuckle. Whilst he was trying to take

01:14:35.789 --> 01:14:38.170
out rich Holland rich Holland. He was trying

01:14:38.170 --> 01:14:41.550
to rip off it off the side Might have been someone

01:14:41.550 --> 01:14:44.550
else but yet Josh Briggs was on the side busy

01:14:44.550 --> 01:14:47.149
on the apron busy having a bit of fun with another

01:14:47.149 --> 01:14:50.550
competitor when Your sheehee in a more accident.

01:14:50.550 --> 01:14:53.989
He knocked him off and then yeah took rich Holland

01:14:53.989 --> 01:14:56.890
out in one attempt in the same attempt So I think

01:14:56.890 --> 01:14:58.529
that's the way I've written it. I believe it

01:14:58.529 --> 01:15:00.850
was yeah Josh Briggs and rich Holland on the

01:15:00.850 --> 01:15:06.979
outside We then saw Joe Hendry's - Before we

01:15:06.979 --> 01:15:10.039
go any further, it's worth mentioning that later

01:15:10.039 --> 01:15:12.560
on after this match finishes we do actually find

01:15:12.560 --> 01:15:17.579
out that this 25 man number one contenders battle

01:15:17.579 --> 01:15:22.760
royale I think is actually going to be Yoshiki

01:15:22.760 --> 01:15:25.699
and Amura's last WWE match for a little while

01:15:25.699 --> 01:15:29.560
as he announces his - He's going back to Japan,

01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:31.659
which isn't the first time he's done something

01:15:31.659 --> 01:15:36.060
like this. So I'm not sure how he did it once

01:15:36.060 --> 01:15:38.579
before to try and get it. He did it once before

01:15:38.579 --> 01:15:42.399
and guilt tripped Ava into giving him a into

01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:45.899
giving him and Josh Briggs a NXT tag team title

01:15:45.899 --> 01:15:51.420
opportunity. The only reason I'm not sure if

01:15:51.420 --> 01:15:55.020
this is if. Why do I get the impression that

01:15:55.020 --> 01:15:58.859
you'd have no notes or no memory of this? It

01:15:58.859 --> 01:16:03.739
might have been when I was off ill at the beginning

01:16:03.739 --> 01:16:08.600
of the year. No, it's more recent than that.

01:16:09.500 --> 01:16:11.039
That might be one of the episodes that you've

01:16:11.039 --> 01:16:15.199
done then. Towards the end of the last season

01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:17.359
of Finishes and Fractions, it was getting to

01:16:17.359 --> 01:16:20.960
a point where our scheduling was not lining up

01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:25.539
to save our ass. So you actually got more episodes

01:16:25.539 --> 01:16:27.819
with either one or the other one of us than you

01:16:27.819 --> 01:16:31.739
did with both of us Which is part of the reason

01:16:31.739 --> 01:16:34.840
why we decided a reformat was the best way to

01:16:34.840 --> 01:16:38.279
do And yeah, we're gonna try this one for a little

01:16:38.279 --> 01:16:40.199
while and see if it works a little bit better

01:16:40.199 --> 01:16:44.340
for us Yeah, that's it. But yes, we'll come back

01:16:44.340 --> 01:16:46.560
round to the match. Anyway, final four ended

01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:53.869
up being Well, that was Ethan Page Javon Evans

01:16:53.869 --> 01:17:00.789
and Miles Bourne. Yes. So I'm going to throw

01:17:00.789 --> 01:17:05.390
it here. Does Miles Bourne look uncannily like

01:17:05.390 --> 01:17:11.189
his father? It's not his dad. I know who you're

01:17:11.189 --> 01:17:13.750
talking about. It's not his dad. Pretty sure

01:17:13.750 --> 01:17:20.149
it is. They just look very similar. Because I

01:17:20.149 --> 01:17:25.779
had to Google it. And Miles Bourne's parents

01:17:25.779 --> 01:17:38.899
are undisclosed. So he's not Randy's? No. Fair

01:17:38.899 --> 01:17:40.720
enough. Did you know he's the only partially

01:17:40.720 --> 01:17:46.420
deaf wrestler employed by WWE? I do. Fun fact

01:17:46.420 --> 01:17:50.170
view if you didn't know. I did even go to the

01:17:50.170 --> 01:17:52.909
extent of researching why he's deaf, why he's

01:17:52.909 --> 01:18:01.630
partially deaf, but it's moved on, so. Oh, that

01:18:01.630 --> 01:18:10.090
is brilliant. Would that have something to do

01:18:10.090 --> 01:18:15.329
with the condition he had when he was born, the

01:18:15.329 --> 01:18:18.829
persistent pulmonary hypertension? That's the

01:18:18.829 --> 01:18:24.050
one yeah, that's uh, that's not pleasant But

01:18:24.050 --> 01:18:27.130
uh, no the fact that he's managed the fact that

01:18:27.130 --> 01:18:30.449
he's managed to make it to all the way to WWE

01:18:30.449 --> 01:18:36.729
Yeah, no and and do well So we get to the point.

01:18:36.789 --> 01:18:39.470
Like we said the last four Ethan page. My was

01:18:39.470 --> 01:18:45.329
born Sean Spears and Siobhan Evans and It finishes

01:18:45.329 --> 01:18:51.590
So it finishes Miles Bourne ends up drop kicking

01:18:51.590 --> 01:18:57.829
Ethan Page over the ropes after Javonna Evans

01:18:57.829 --> 01:19:02.710
had been tossed out. Yes, Javonna Evans was the

01:19:02.710 --> 01:19:05.189
first one to go leaving the final three of Miles

01:19:05.189 --> 01:19:08.989
Bourne, Ethan Page and Sean Spears. Now, someone

01:19:08.989 --> 01:19:12.029
threw Sean Spears over the top rope but both

01:19:12.029 --> 01:19:16.710
feet didn't touch the floor. And then Miles Bourne

01:19:16.710 --> 01:19:20.600
dropped kicked Ethan Page over the same rope

01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:24.979
knocking Shawn Spears and Ethan Page onto the

01:19:24.979 --> 01:19:29.279
floor, meaning that Miles Bourne is the winner

01:19:29.279 --> 01:19:33.060
of the Battle Royale and becomes the number one

01:19:33.060 --> 01:19:37.720
contender to over Femi's NXT Championship. I'm

01:19:37.720 --> 01:19:41.600
not going to lie, out of the 25 people in that

01:19:41.600 --> 01:19:46.220
Battle Royale, Miles Bourne is Probably number

01:19:46.220 --> 01:19:48.800
24 of people I thought was going to win this

01:19:48.800 --> 01:19:52.859
world by this this particular event Any person

01:19:52.859 --> 01:19:55.159
I knew there were at least there were at least

01:19:55.159 --> 01:19:58.159
five of them that I know I'd never heard of before

01:19:58.159 --> 01:20:00.399
Well, there was a couple of guys from LFG in

01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:05.840
there Yeah, there was two from LFG made an appearance

01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:12.819
you had the two for TNA I only noticed Elijah

01:20:12.819 --> 01:20:18.039
and There was there was more than that because

01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:20.340
there was a guy with green hair who was formerly

01:20:20.340 --> 01:20:25.460
of NXT that now operates in TNA He was having

01:20:25.460 --> 01:20:29.100
an issue with someone in the ring when it was

01:20:29.100 --> 01:20:31.460
he was getting he was having disagreements with

01:20:31.460 --> 01:20:36.039
But there was also two from evolve. Yes, which

01:20:36.039 --> 01:20:40.600
I haven't actually watched any of but I haven't

01:20:40.600 --> 01:20:45.119
one of them was one of them was Ejected rather

01:20:45.119 --> 01:20:50.859
quickly The other one gentleman by the name of

01:20:50.859 --> 01:20:54.260
Sean legacy made it to I think he made it to

01:20:54.260 --> 01:20:59.739
the final six in the end I think he was eliminated

01:20:59.739 --> 01:21:04.300
by Javon Evans in the in the end as it goes so

01:21:04.300 --> 01:21:10.699
but Yeah, Javon Evans gets ejected from the ring

01:21:10.699 --> 01:21:16.430
by both Sean Spears and Ethan Page. And then

01:21:16.430 --> 01:21:20.010
Miles Bourne manages to double eliminate both

01:21:20.010 --> 01:21:22.789
Spears and Page out of the ring to win the Battle

01:21:22.789 --> 01:21:26.829
Royale. And yeah, as it goes, I wouldn't have

01:21:26.829 --> 01:21:32.289
called that one to go with it, but it is laying

01:21:32.289 --> 01:21:37.310
up a rather interesting storyline coming up.

01:21:38.060 --> 01:21:40.840
Because miles born there's been a bit of a quiet

01:21:40.840 --> 01:21:44.300
member of the no quarter catch crew Yeah, so

01:21:44.300 --> 01:21:47.420
obviously the no quarter catch crew is miles

01:21:47.420 --> 01:21:58.060
born Charlie Dempsey Tavion Heights and The last

01:21:58.060 --> 01:22:06.060
person it's four, isn't it? Yeah, there is And

01:22:06.060 --> 01:22:13.109
I can't remember a name either Wren Sinclair

01:22:13.109 --> 01:22:19.210
That's the one yeah, so yeah, we had all three

01:22:19.210 --> 01:22:22.109
of these guys She was Charlie Dempsey in the

01:22:22.109 --> 01:22:23.789
match. I know Tavian Heights was in the battle

01:22:23.789 --> 01:22:30.850
royale Charlie Dempsey was eliminated third By

01:22:30.850 --> 01:22:33.970
it with no help from Miles Bourne as it goes

01:22:33.970 --> 01:22:36.789
It's one of the it's one of the reasons why it

01:22:36.789 --> 01:22:40.699
sets up a rather unique Or a rather interesting

01:22:40.699 --> 01:22:44.399
storyline art coming up for it. It does. And

01:22:44.399 --> 01:22:46.920
I'm actually a little bit intrigued by how they're

01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:52.060
gonna do this. And I think it's gonna be interesting

01:22:52.060 --> 01:22:55.539
how they do it as well. But before we get to

01:22:55.539 --> 01:23:01.539
that, we do have a little conversation backstage

01:23:01.539 --> 01:23:07.409
with Jordan Grace and Sarah Schreiber. And I

01:23:07.409 --> 01:23:09.869
did not realize, compared to some of the other

01:23:09.869 --> 01:23:12.510
women in the women's division, how short is Jordan

01:23:12.510 --> 01:23:16.350
Grace? I know, right? I'm so glad it wasn't just

01:23:16.350 --> 01:23:19.029
me. So Jordan Grace is having a conversation

01:23:19.029 --> 01:23:21.010
with Sarah Schreiber about the fact that she

01:23:21.010 --> 01:23:24.550
has to have a match against Julia to go on to

01:23:24.550 --> 01:23:26.869
face, the winner of that match goes on to face

01:23:26.869 --> 01:23:30.069
Stephanie Baker at Battleground for the NXT women's

01:23:30.069 --> 01:23:33.869
title. and Izzy Dames comes in on one side and

01:23:33.869 --> 01:23:38.109
Lash Legend comes in on the other one and compared

01:23:38.109 --> 01:23:43.229
to these two women Jordan Grace is tiny like

01:23:43.229 --> 01:23:45.289
she doesn't the top of her head doesn't even

01:23:45.289 --> 01:23:48.489
come up to the bottom of Izzy Dames boobs that's

01:23:48.489 --> 01:23:51.989
how short Jordan Grace is and Lash Legend I'm

01:23:51.989 --> 01:23:54.229
not sure if she's been in the gym a little bit

01:23:54.229 --> 01:23:57.829
more recently but fuck me she's Chunked up a

01:23:57.829 --> 01:23:59.550
little bit and it's not like oh my god She's

01:23:59.550 --> 01:24:01.189
been eating too many doughnuts and she's got

01:24:01.189 --> 01:24:06.590
she fucking built like a brick shithouse Like

01:24:06.590 --> 01:24:09.550
like Jordan braces as well, but lush legends

01:24:09.550 --> 01:24:13.489
huge Lash legends has always been that way in

01:24:13.489 --> 01:24:16.130
fairness I have just been the camera angles sometimes

01:24:16.130 --> 01:24:17.850
that you look at her and don't think she's as

01:24:17.850 --> 01:24:21.770
big as she is but she wide like she I'm a big

01:24:21.770 --> 01:24:25.409
bloke like I think I'm about six to six three

01:24:26.469 --> 01:24:29.770
so like mmm, probably closer to 200 pounds than

01:24:29.770 --> 01:24:34.069
I should be and She makes me look tiny and I'm

01:24:34.069 --> 01:24:38.710
not exactly a small bloke It was um, yeah, it

01:24:38.710 --> 01:24:42.350
was a an interest in one It's basically finishes

01:24:42.350 --> 01:24:44.109
with Jordan grace saying that once she's won

01:24:44.109 --> 01:24:46.010
the title the battleground she'll be back for

01:24:46.010 --> 01:24:48.890
both of Izzy for both Izzy Dame and lash legend

01:24:48.890 --> 01:24:57.079
on the other side and That leads us in to Was

01:24:57.079 --> 01:25:01.199
that Jada Parker versus Carmen Petrovich? Yeah,

01:25:01.399 --> 01:25:04.359
Jada Parker. Jada Parker versus Carmen Petrovich

01:25:04.359 --> 01:25:08.500
was the next match. Big story out of this one

01:25:08.500 --> 01:25:12.479
was, or more of the big story out of this one

01:25:12.479 --> 01:25:21.340
is that since the Netflix era began, Carmen Petrovich

01:25:21.340 --> 01:25:28.800
has been carrying on with Ashanti Adonis. They've

01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:33.380
broken up now haven't they? They have yes and

01:25:33.380 --> 01:25:37.680
yeah I think this is basically them trying to

01:25:37.680 --> 01:25:41.520
find out if Carmen Petrova is strong enough to

01:25:41.520 --> 01:25:50.659
stand on her own almost. Yeah and from this match

01:25:50.659 --> 01:25:57.039
I would say no. Yeah, no actually I think at

01:25:57.039 --> 01:26:00.199
this point you could probably add Carmen Petrovich

01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:03.199
to the same list as Kalani Jordan is on for the

01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:08.920
next round of cuts I am not going to be that

01:26:08.920 --> 01:26:11.399
quick to add her to that list only because I

01:26:11.399 --> 01:26:17.720
feel like she's It's it's not been long enough

01:26:17.720 --> 01:26:20.039
for her to have been on her own for us to have

01:26:20.039 --> 01:26:24.460
seen everything there is to see from her She

01:26:24.460 --> 01:26:26.880
was an interesting competitor when she had a

01:26:26.880 --> 01:26:29.760
shanty Adonis at ringside Bearing in mind that

01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:33.220
a shanty Adonis didn't really do an awful lot

01:26:33.220 --> 01:26:37.779
Yeah, no, he wasn't ready. I don't think I've

01:26:37.779 --> 01:26:41.619
actually seen him in In is he being an in -ring

01:26:41.619 --> 01:26:45.220
competition? No, that's one point. Yeah, he's

01:26:45.220 --> 01:26:49.500
been spending a lot of time backstage and Like

01:26:49.500 --> 01:26:51.939
the back of promos and things like that. But

01:26:51.939 --> 01:26:57.590
yeah Could he be one to go soon as well? I think

01:26:57.590 --> 01:27:02.310
he might be. I think he is going to be. Unless

01:27:02.310 --> 01:27:07.369
something happens drastically, he will most likely

01:27:07.369 --> 01:27:11.010
be in the next round of cuts whenever they happen

01:27:11.010 --> 01:27:20.449
to be. We can only speculate on cuts We don't

01:27:20.449 --> 01:27:22.689
want anybody to lose their jobs because it's

01:27:22.689 --> 01:27:24.810
not a very nice thing to do both me and rich

01:27:24.810 --> 01:27:28.310
have lost jobs before now Yes, not with the sort

01:27:28.310 --> 01:27:31.770
of pay that these guys get No, I think I'd have

01:27:31.770 --> 01:27:33.470
been more pissed off if I'd have lost the pay

01:27:33.470 --> 01:27:35.949
that these guys are on to be quite honest, but

01:27:37.750 --> 01:27:41.109
But yeah, it's never a nice thing because it

01:27:41.109 --> 01:27:45.430
leaves their families and themselves in uncertain

01:27:45.430 --> 01:27:48.449
circumstances in some cases, especially when

01:27:48.449 --> 01:27:53.529
WWE superstars lose their job as they're subject

01:27:53.529 --> 01:27:58.029
to at least a 30 -day non -compete clause. Yeah,

01:27:58.069 --> 01:28:00.770
so that was quite a big change brought in with

01:28:00.770 --> 01:28:02.970
Triple H, actually, where it used to be under

01:28:02.970 --> 01:28:07.609
Vince. It was 90 days. If you left WWE or WWE

01:28:07.609 --> 01:28:10.630
told you to go fuck yourself and leave, three

01:28:10.630 --> 01:28:13.090
months without being able to appear anywhere

01:28:13.090 --> 01:28:17.250
else must have really hurt financially unless

01:28:17.250 --> 01:28:21.109
they were being paid for that 90 days to make

01:28:21.109 --> 01:28:24.609
up for it. But the fact that Triple H has reduced

01:28:24.609 --> 01:28:27.189
it down to a 30 -ball period actually makes it

01:28:27.189 --> 01:28:29.890
a lot better for the talent that are working

01:28:29.890 --> 01:28:34.460
there, which means... That you know, we soon

01:28:34.460 --> 01:28:37.239
get an opportunity to see guys like Braun Strowman

01:28:37.239 --> 01:28:39.220
on different promotions I really hope he doesn't

01:28:39.220 --> 01:28:42.180
go all elite but probably could and some of the

01:28:42.180 --> 01:28:44.420
other guys that were released in the previous

01:28:44.420 --> 01:28:48.899
cuts after WrestleMania Braun Strowman actually

01:28:48.899 --> 01:28:53.979
is gonna be starring on a cooking show Braun

01:28:53.979 --> 01:28:56.140
Strowman is going to be starring on a cooking

01:28:56.140 --> 01:28:59.739
show. Yes, that's funny because the Miz has just

01:28:59.739 --> 01:29:04.500
announced today that he's going to be the host

01:29:04.500 --> 01:29:09.939
for the American Gladiator. Yep. Which means

01:29:09.939 --> 01:29:12.159
he might be off TV for a while and I can't think

01:29:12.159 --> 01:29:16.479
of anything better. Yeah hopefully they snatch

01:29:16.479 --> 01:29:19.340
him away for good. I mean to be fair he's been

01:29:19.340 --> 01:29:21.539
doing alright kind of giving Carmelo Hayes a

01:29:21.539 --> 01:29:23.760
little bit of a push and he's been useful there

01:29:23.760 --> 01:29:26.079
but now Carmelo Hayes has got the Andre the Giant

01:29:26.079 --> 01:29:29.420
battle royale behind him. You know the match

01:29:29.420 --> 01:29:32.180
that was brought in to give Superstars that needed

01:29:32.180 --> 01:29:35.220
a bit of a push a push that they don't actually

01:29:35.220 --> 01:29:41.000
get but um Yeah We'll see what where that one

01:29:41.000 --> 01:29:45.279
goes in with it with this one though it ended

01:29:45.279 --> 01:29:47.380
up with Jada Parker winning what was quite an

01:29:47.380 --> 01:29:51.500
easy match to be fair and She also manages to

01:29:51.500 --> 01:29:54.039
land a few on Thea Hale who came out to help

01:29:54.039 --> 01:29:58.000
Jada Carmen Petrovich as well See I'm really

01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:01.479
I'm still really interested by Thea Hale. It's

01:30:01.479 --> 01:30:03.899
a case that I'm genuinely interested to find

01:30:03.899 --> 01:30:06.140
out what they're going to use her for now that

01:30:06.140 --> 01:30:09.140
she's come back. She's a former Chase U alumni.

01:30:11.020 --> 01:30:14.079
That was something I was going to bring up actually

01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:16.119
because I haven't made any notes about it but

01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:22.619
we do see Andre Chase in this episode. Along

01:30:22.619 --> 01:30:25.640
with the two guys whose names I can never fucking

01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:28.560
remember that are basically just the chase you

01:30:28.560 --> 01:30:32.000
ass kisses. I know one of them is Cale Dixon.

01:30:32.439 --> 01:30:35.680
Yeah, that is... I only recognise the name because

01:30:35.680 --> 01:30:37.140
you've said it. I wouldn't be able to point at

01:30:37.140 --> 01:30:39.180
the TV and be like, Mum, Mum, that's Cale Dixon.

01:30:39.760 --> 01:30:42.380
You know what I mean? Worrying about why you

01:30:42.380 --> 01:30:44.260
would go to your mum, to be quite honest. Yeah,

01:30:44.319 --> 01:30:50.550
I mean, yeah. But yes, we see we're seeing a

01:30:50.550 --> 01:30:53.630
lot of promotional material for the return of

01:30:53.630 --> 01:30:56.390
chase you as that seems to be official now They're

01:30:56.390 --> 01:30:59.270
gonna bring that back. Well, he's got new uniform.

01:30:59.550 --> 01:31:02.470
He's in a track suit rather than a polo shirt

01:31:02.470 --> 01:31:05.789
and a jumper. I Mean, it's better than him being

01:31:05.789 --> 01:31:08.210
the gravy stained shirt. He was in before. Is

01:31:08.210 --> 01:31:11.029
that the one we had the frickin who was that

01:31:11.029 --> 01:31:14.750
match against? He got squashed by someone but

01:31:14.750 --> 01:31:20.500
was it over family? Was it moose? I don't think

01:31:20.500 --> 01:31:23.199
it was moose either. Either way, he got squashed

01:31:23.199 --> 01:31:26.420
by someone a few weeks back. Yeah he did. But

01:31:26.420 --> 01:31:29.399
squashed pretty hard. Might have been Trick Williams

01:31:29.399 --> 01:31:34.279
actually. Javon Evans. It was, yeah. It was one

01:31:34.279 --> 01:31:39.319
of the big NXT four that we see a lot of. And

01:31:39.319 --> 01:31:43.380
we then are told in a backstage segment that

01:31:43.380 --> 01:31:48.340
with Ava and Joe Hendry, Basically, Ava is dressing

01:31:48.340 --> 01:31:50.819
Joe Hendry down and then says, actually, you

01:31:50.819 --> 01:31:54.119
know what, I've spoken to Santino Morello, who

01:31:54.119 --> 01:31:57.039
we should all recognize who is currently the

01:31:57.039 --> 01:32:02.220
TNA general manager. Is he the TNA GM or is he

01:32:02.220 --> 01:32:08.319
one of the like the... He's the head of authority.

01:32:12.459 --> 01:32:15.880
is official job title. But even that, I've seen

01:32:15.880 --> 01:32:20.619
bits from TNA recently, even that's in contention.

01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:23.060
So yeah, we won't go into that too much just

01:32:23.060 --> 01:32:25.939
because I don't know an awful lot about it. And

01:32:25.939 --> 01:32:29.340
we are a WWE based podcast, not TNA based podcast.

01:32:30.359 --> 01:32:34.020
At the moment, we could probably in the future,

01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:36.840
if they decided to add another four or five hours

01:32:36.840 --> 01:32:41.090
to the day, pull. a bit of TNA and a bit of AEW

01:32:41.090 --> 01:32:43.170
out there. I don't want to do AEW myself because

01:32:43.170 --> 01:32:45.590
I'd spend all the time talking about the timeless

01:32:45.590 --> 01:32:51.289
one. And you guys don't need to know about the...

01:32:51.289 --> 01:32:56.970
The obsession. The obsession. Yeah. Or we all

01:32:56.970 --> 01:33:02.529
adore. Right. But yeah. And so it works out that

01:33:02.529 --> 01:33:07.630
at Battleground for the first time ever... a

01:33:07.630 --> 01:33:13.550
TNA title is being defended on a WWE programming.

01:33:15.630 --> 01:33:18.670
So, Javon, not Javon Evans, Trick Williams and

01:33:18.670 --> 01:33:24.069
Joe Hendry are going one on one for the TNA heavyweight

01:33:24.069 --> 01:33:26.789
title at Battleground. Now, I think that is gonna

01:33:26.789 --> 01:33:32.010
be a cracking match. A phenomenal match, so to

01:33:32.010 --> 01:33:36.239
speak. Yeah, it could be. It could be. It depends

01:33:36.239 --> 01:33:41.319
on how they play it. It does. It does. I mean,

01:33:41.319 --> 01:33:44.760
I don't think we're going to see a WWE star holding

01:33:44.760 --> 01:33:48.819
a TNA title at this time. I think it's a five

01:33:48.819 --> 01:33:51.220
year deal they've got between the two brands.

01:33:51.359 --> 01:33:52.880
I don't think they're going to do it in the first

01:33:52.880 --> 01:33:56.100
six months. If they do do it, if they had done

01:33:56.100 --> 01:33:58.180
it in the first six months, I think they probably

01:33:58.180 --> 01:33:59.880
would have tried to do it on the grandest stage

01:33:59.880 --> 01:34:03.239
of them all. or one of the top four pay -per

01:34:03.239 --> 01:34:10.180
-views. So it could either be SummerSlam, Royal

01:34:10.180 --> 01:34:13.140
Rumble, mainly at the end of this year, next

01:34:13.140 --> 01:34:15.300
year. I don't think we're gonna have it done

01:34:15.300 --> 01:34:20.819
at something like Battleground. I really don't

01:34:20.819 --> 01:34:24.979
think that's the way they're gonna do it. I think

01:34:24.979 --> 01:34:27.619
it might surprise you. I mean, I'm always down

01:34:27.619 --> 01:34:29.819
to be surprised. I'm always down to be surprised.

01:34:29.979 --> 01:34:32.239
It's the joys of professional wrestling, I suppose.

01:34:33.180 --> 01:34:36.960
The next bit, we had a promo from a team called

01:34:36.960 --> 01:34:40.260
OTM, which I know a buck all about. So I'm hoping

01:34:40.260 --> 01:34:42.539
Adam's done some research or he knows who they

01:34:42.539 --> 01:34:47.880
are. No, it was not a highlight of NXT for me,

01:34:48.460 --> 01:34:52.680
so I didn't bother. Yeah, so we had an OTM promo,

01:34:53.159 --> 01:34:55.560
saw a little bit of Wesley on the phone talking

01:34:55.560 --> 01:34:59.630
about some bait being taken. We then see that

01:34:59.630 --> 01:35:02.890
little bit from Yoshiki Inamura where he tells

01:35:02.890 --> 01:35:06.050
Josh Briggs that he's failed him a few too many

01:35:06.050 --> 01:35:11.350
times and he's going back to Japan and the few

01:35:11.350 --> 01:35:14.250
members of the culling that are left basically

01:35:14.250 --> 01:35:18.850
pop into one side and say hey I think you could

01:35:18.850 --> 01:35:22.069
be the problem here dude and sort of have a little

01:35:22.069 --> 01:35:25.770
word with Josh Briggs which is an interesting

01:35:26.039 --> 01:35:29.340
line of action to take because I haven't really

01:35:29.340 --> 01:35:31.699
seen anything from Josh Briggs that would make

01:35:31.699 --> 01:35:34.840
it look like he's the problem at all. But we

01:35:34.840 --> 01:35:38.359
will see where that storyline goes. And then

01:35:38.359 --> 01:35:41.859
like we alluded to earlier with Miles Bourne

01:35:41.859 --> 01:35:44.079
winning the Battle Royale, we have a backstage

01:35:44.079 --> 01:35:47.159
segment with No Quarter Catch Crew celebrating

01:35:47.159 --> 01:35:53.729
and Charlie Dempsey saying, Miles Bourne won

01:35:53.729 --> 01:35:58.109
the battle royale for the team but it will be

01:35:58.109 --> 01:36:01.369
Charlie Dempsey that is taking on Oberfammy at

01:36:01.369 --> 01:36:03.970
Battleground at which point Miles Bourne's a

01:36:03.970 --> 01:36:06.590
little bit like um excuse me my good sir but

01:36:06.590 --> 01:36:09.010
I believe you can go fuck yourself that would

01:36:09.010 --> 01:36:15.609
be my opportunity that I've earned and then basically

01:36:15.609 --> 01:36:19.069
feeding Charlie Dempsey to the beast himself

01:36:19.069 --> 01:36:22.699
when Oberfammy comes in to the uh into the picture

01:36:22.699 --> 01:36:25.800
basically just to congratulate Miles Bourne on

01:36:25.800 --> 01:36:28.140
winning the battle royale and saying us I'll

01:36:28.140 --> 01:36:31.479
see you at battleground and uh yeah Miles Bourne

01:36:31.479 --> 01:36:35.680
says that uh basically just replete some of the

01:36:35.680 --> 01:36:37.640
stuff that Charlie Dempsey has said about how

01:36:37.640 --> 01:36:41.060
he'd love to to kick his head around and he's

01:36:41.060 --> 01:36:45.380
just a bit bit soft and uh at which point Charlie

01:36:45.380 --> 01:36:47.560
Dempsey starts to sort of cower back and well

01:36:47.560 --> 01:36:49.800
I didn't say that no that's not what I said and

01:36:49.800 --> 01:36:52.420
um And Miles says, well, you know, next week,

01:36:52.600 --> 01:36:54.560
Charlie, you can show me how to deal with Oberfemi.

01:36:55.520 --> 01:37:00.020
And he'll see Oberfemi at Battleground. So yeah,

01:37:00.500 --> 01:37:02.600
what was supposed to have been Charlie Dempsey

01:37:02.600 --> 01:37:05.140
taking that opportunity off Miles Bourne and

01:37:05.140 --> 01:37:07.319
using it to further his own career has basically

01:37:07.319 --> 01:37:09.800
turned into Charlie Dempsey is going to get his

01:37:09.800 --> 01:37:12.460
ass whooped by Oberfemi next week as a warmup,

01:37:12.659 --> 01:37:16.340
but Oberfemi whooping Miles Bourne's ass. Because

01:37:16.340 --> 01:37:20.470
I am going to throw it, if... Miles Bourne takes

01:37:20.470 --> 01:37:23.130
that title off Boba Femi at Battleground. I'd

01:37:23.130 --> 01:37:26.529
rather have seen Jevon Evans take it off him

01:37:26.529 --> 01:37:31.529
at Stand and Deliver. Yeah, I've got to admit

01:37:31.529 --> 01:37:40.649
that I was pleasantly surprised by how they went

01:37:40.649 --> 01:37:46.819
about getting With the winner of the battle royale

01:37:46.819 --> 01:37:49.600
the fact that they're now sort of playing into

01:37:49.600 --> 01:37:54.979
it which makes a lot more sense it's yeah, I'm

01:37:54.979 --> 01:37:58.140
I Wholeheartedly endorse these messages as it

01:37:58.140 --> 01:38:04.020
goes. It's so It it's opening so many more doors,

01:38:04.100 --> 01:38:08.779
which some of the lower card guys as well Yeah,

01:38:08.979 --> 01:38:14.319
it just feels like the main roster could stand

01:38:14.319 --> 01:38:18.020
to learn from what NXT are doing? Yes, I would

01:38:18.020 --> 01:38:20.300
completely agree with that, especially when all

01:38:20.300 --> 01:38:23.260
we've seen when it comes to the NXT title recently

01:38:23.260 --> 01:38:27.180
has been, well, since Moose had a go at trying

01:38:27.180 --> 01:38:29.119
to take it off Oberfemi, it's literally just

01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:34.119
been Javon Evans and Tripp Williams. And I do

01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:36.960
like watching all three of these superstars.

01:38:37.960 --> 01:38:41.079
over Femi and Javon Evans a little bit more than

01:38:41.079 --> 01:38:43.380
Trick Williams because I am not one of those

01:38:43.380 --> 01:38:45.520
guys that wants to pump that trick. I'm actually

01:38:45.520 --> 01:38:49.600
quite bored of Trick Williams. He's NXT's version

01:38:49.600 --> 01:38:52.460
of Drew McIntyre, I think. He's just a white

01:38:52.460 --> 01:38:54.239
little bitch. I feel very much the same way.

01:38:54.560 --> 01:39:00.920
Since he lost his title at New Year's Evil, it

01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:03.899
was the case that - First ever NXT programming

01:39:03.899 --> 01:39:08.250
that finishes in factions did, by the way. Yes.

01:39:08.250 --> 01:39:10.909
Back when we didn't know who any fucker was.

01:39:11.529 --> 01:39:14.970
It's a case ever since. Ever since. All we've

01:39:14.970 --> 01:39:20.810
seen is Trick Williams try again and again and

01:39:20.810 --> 01:39:25.529
again and again and fail every single time. As

01:39:25.529 --> 01:39:27.569
far as I'm concerned, Trick Williams is the Drew

01:39:27.569 --> 01:39:30.909
McIntyre of NXT. He's just a crying, whingey

01:39:30.909 --> 01:39:34.350
little bitch. Drew McIntyre wished he got as

01:39:34.350 --> 01:39:36.739
many opportunities as Trick Williams could. I

01:39:36.739 --> 01:39:39.279
mean that's a very good point. Talking about

01:39:39.279 --> 01:39:42.579
opportunities though, our final match of the

01:39:42.579 --> 01:39:46.420
evening was between Julia and Jordan Grace for

01:39:46.420 --> 01:39:49.840
an opportunity to meet Stephanie Vacare at Battleground

01:39:49.840 --> 01:39:54.560
for the women's NXT title. And my notes for this

01:39:54.560 --> 01:40:00.300
were not very big at all. I basically just got

01:40:00.300 --> 01:40:04.359
here that Jordan Grace walked out of this one

01:40:04.359 --> 01:40:08.170
victorious. and I think the only reason she did

01:40:08.170 --> 01:40:11.869
this is because Julia's got a concussion because

01:40:11.869 --> 01:40:15.289
there were two moves that happened in this match

01:40:15.289 --> 01:40:18.810
that I spotted and there could be more where

01:40:18.810 --> 01:40:22.029
poor Julia got bounced off the top of her skull

01:40:22.029 --> 01:40:24.890
or the back of her head a lot harder than she

01:40:24.890 --> 01:40:32.840
should have done. I generally think that This

01:40:32.840 --> 01:40:36.699
much could have been a damn sight better if those

01:40:36.699 --> 01:40:39.340
two I'm not gonna call them botches I think I'm

01:40:39.340 --> 01:40:43.119
gonna refer to them as miss moves because Yeah,

01:40:43.119 --> 01:40:45.319
she completely missed the move and dropped Julia

01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:49.380
scurrying her fucking dome Like quite drastically

01:40:49.380 --> 01:40:51.520
as well. She may not be very tall Jordan grace

01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:53.460
But when you're being dropped on your head from

01:40:53.460 --> 01:40:55.060
four and a half feet in the air, it's still gonna

01:40:55.060 --> 01:40:58.800
work. Oh 100 % and there's still damage to be

01:40:58.800 --> 01:41:02.539
done there for it. It's I'm not sure though if

01:41:02.539 --> 01:41:04.800
it was a set up or if they were missed matches

01:41:04.800 --> 01:41:06.859
or missed moves sorry whether they were they

01:41:06.859 --> 01:41:10.000
were purposefully missed if it was a shit or

01:41:10.000 --> 01:41:13.579
not yeah whether it was done to try and enhance

01:41:13.579 --> 01:41:19.699
the storyline I don't think it was I'm just concerned

01:41:19.699 --> 01:41:23.000
that Jordan Grace is gonna take the title off

01:41:23.000 --> 01:41:27.420
Stephanie Baker and someone in the near future

01:41:27.420 --> 01:41:30.180
is gonna end up injured because it's not the

01:41:30.180 --> 01:41:34.920
first time in the last few weeks that she's mismatched

01:41:34.920 --> 01:41:37.619
a move and it looked as though it's gone quite

01:41:37.619 --> 01:41:42.680
wrong. Yeah, I sort of know what you mean. I

01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.300
don't think they're ready to lift the title off

01:41:45.300 --> 01:41:47.560
Stephanie just yet. Yeah, I really hope they

01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:49.779
don't to be fair. I think she's doing a phenomenal

01:41:49.779 --> 01:41:54.079
job, you know, being the base of the women in

01:41:54.079 --> 01:41:57.159
NXT. And I actually think Stephanie's probably

01:41:57.159 --> 01:41:59.060
doing a slightly better job being the face of

01:41:59.060 --> 01:42:02.760
NXT than Oberfamily. Which is strange, like I

01:42:02.760 --> 01:42:04.199
said earlier in the episode, I'm not normally

01:42:04.199 --> 01:42:05.899
a big fan of women's wrestling, but Stephanie

01:42:05.899 --> 01:42:08.460
May Kerr is a very talented woman. And the fact

01:42:08.460 --> 01:42:12.119
that they chose her to be the double champ over

01:42:12.119 --> 01:42:16.939
Julia as well shows a big thing by NXT. Yes,

01:42:16.960 --> 01:42:20.479
Julia is currently getting to play in Raw and

01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:27.560
occasionally, but yeah, Stephanie. Yeah, it's

01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:30.380
probably the better wrestler but she's doing

01:42:30.380 --> 01:42:32.800
so well with NXT at the moment. I think they'd

01:42:32.800 --> 01:42:35.319
be stupid to try and move her up there unless

01:42:35.319 --> 01:42:37.539
they've got someone to step in as the face of

01:42:37.539 --> 01:42:40.539
women's wrestling in NXT. And we sure as fuck

01:42:40.539 --> 01:42:42.500
know that's not gonna be Kalani Jordan taking

01:42:42.500 --> 01:42:46.319
her spot. I certainly fucking hope not. It'd

01:42:46.319 --> 01:42:50.279
be another Roman Reigns situation. But yeah,

01:42:50.399 --> 01:42:53.979
no, Stephanie Vega is not ready yet to move up

01:42:53.979 --> 01:42:56.770
to or it is not her time. I'm not going to say

01:42:56.770 --> 01:42:59.430
she's not ready because 100 % she could move

01:42:59.430 --> 01:43:03.970
up to the main roster tomorrow and do really

01:43:03.970 --> 01:43:05.689
well. You mean like tracks whom have done the

01:43:05.689 --> 01:43:09.430
right way? Yeah. I'm not going to spoil too much

01:43:09.430 --> 01:43:10.789
because they're going to be in the Smackdown

01:43:10.789 --> 01:43:13.930
section of this episode. But yeah, no, Stephanie

01:43:13.930 --> 01:43:15.750
Raker has definitely got a lot more to do in

01:43:15.750 --> 01:43:17.989
NXT, but she's definitely got the ability to

01:43:17.989 --> 01:43:22.810
go in and make a massive impact on the main roster

01:43:22.810 --> 01:43:27.090
when she goes to main roster. Well, while we

01:43:27.090 --> 01:43:30.810
mentioned Fraxiom, it may well be the best way

01:43:30.810 --> 01:43:33.550
to say that, yeah, we know that Jordan Grace

01:43:33.550 --> 01:43:37.890
walks out of this match victorious. It's a case

01:43:37.890 --> 01:43:42.529
that she is going... She's the number one contender.

01:43:43.750 --> 01:43:46.170
She goes on to face Stephanie at Battleground,

01:43:46.829 --> 01:43:48.869
which, do you know what? I'm actually really

01:43:48.869 --> 01:43:51.029
rather looking forward to that match. I'm not

01:43:51.029 --> 01:43:53.329
going to disagree with you there either. I'm

01:43:53.329 --> 01:43:54.930
definitely looking forward to that on myself.

01:43:55.789 --> 01:44:00.930
But for me, I think that is the end of our NXT

01:44:00.930 --> 01:44:04.369
coverage for the week. And we will make a crack

01:44:04.369 --> 01:44:09.569
on with SmackDown. All right, so we will move

01:44:09.569 --> 01:44:12.569
quickly into this week's episode of SmackDown.

01:44:12.750 --> 01:44:16.869
And this was from Dayton, Ohio. A little bit

01:44:16.869 --> 01:44:21.109
WWE trivia for you here, Adam. This is the place

01:44:21.109 --> 01:44:24.050
where Hulk Hogan lost his title to Yokozuna.

01:44:24.879 --> 01:44:30.960
many, many years ago. Learned something new every

01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:34.039
day. We won't dwell in history for too long.

01:44:34.500 --> 01:44:37.899
We won't. Yeah, plenty to talk about and not

01:44:37.899 --> 01:44:40.979
much time to talk about it in. So, yeah, I mean,

01:44:41.239 --> 01:44:44.579
first match. The first match. Before the first

01:44:44.579 --> 01:44:47.539
match or? No, we went straight into the first

01:44:47.539 --> 01:44:49.699
match. It was, yeah, which was Damian Priest

01:44:49.699 --> 01:44:54.180
and LA Knight versus Jacob Fatu and Solo Sikola.

01:44:54.719 --> 01:44:58.899
in tag team action. Which is a main event quality

01:44:58.899 --> 01:45:01.420
match and we are opening the card with this and

01:45:01.420 --> 01:45:05.300
then I think the reason I latched onto this match

01:45:05.300 --> 01:45:08.560
so much because yeah the match itself was decent.

01:45:08.699 --> 01:45:12.699
It was. It's just a case that it was more of

01:45:12.699 --> 01:45:15.000
a case that this was the match we got to open

01:45:15.000 --> 01:45:22.600
Smackdown with whereas nothing in Smackdown was

01:45:25.009 --> 01:45:27.609
Nothing in Monday Night Raw was anywhere near

01:45:27.609 --> 01:45:33.310
this good No, and the night before backlash as

01:45:33.310 --> 01:45:35.409
well where you expect everything to be toned

01:45:35.409 --> 01:45:37.069
down a little bit because the guys are going

01:45:37.069 --> 01:45:40.930
into a PLE the night after and especially, you

01:45:40.930 --> 01:45:43.989
know, we've with this first match we've already

01:45:43.989 --> 01:45:48.869
got three of You know the one of the matches

01:45:48.869 --> 01:45:52.329
in this match for the for the first time as well.

01:45:52.329 --> 01:45:54.989
So And they're the only person that's missing

01:45:54.989 --> 01:45:58.270
would be swapping solo Sakura out for mr. Makin

01:45:58.270 --> 01:46:02.890
cryer and Who does make an appearance towards

01:46:02.890 --> 01:46:05.369
the end of the match this one was kind of really

01:46:05.369 --> 01:46:09.550
kind of setting up where la night and Damien

01:46:09.550 --> 01:46:13.109
priest to kind of Get themselves a little bit

01:46:13.109 --> 01:46:14.710
heat for tomorrow night. I think a little bit

01:46:14.710 --> 01:46:16.829
of anger a little bit pissed off a little bit

01:46:19.150 --> 01:46:21.149
typical dysfunctional tag team. We used to have

01:46:21.149 --> 01:46:26.489
this with team hell no. It was a case that they

01:46:26.489 --> 01:46:29.829
can't stand one another, but they won anyway.

01:46:30.909 --> 01:46:34.529
Yeah, without having to go into too much detail.

01:46:35.430 --> 01:46:37.250
Like you said, yeah, they can't stand each other.

01:46:37.329 --> 01:46:42.470
They won anyway. It worked. And then it kind

01:46:42.470 --> 01:46:46.439
of... I don't know, apart from the fact that

01:46:46.439 --> 01:46:48.100
it was just generally, it was a decent match,

01:46:48.140 --> 01:46:50.020
but there wasn't a huge amount of stuff within

01:46:50.020 --> 01:46:55.300
it to tell you about. I was actually more interested

01:46:55.300 --> 01:47:00.439
in the second match on the card for this one

01:47:00.439 --> 01:47:03.819
as well, to be fair, which was again, another

01:47:03.819 --> 01:47:07.439
tag match. I mean, oddly enough, so was I, and

01:47:07.439 --> 01:47:10.920
I know precisely why you were. Well, yeah, I

01:47:10.920 --> 01:47:13.779
was excited for this one because we got to see

01:47:13.779 --> 01:47:16.720
Zelina Vega wrestling some tag action considering

01:47:16.720 --> 01:47:20.840
she's just won the women's United States title,

01:47:20.840 --> 01:47:23.680
you know, as a singles competitor. It's nice

01:47:23.680 --> 01:47:26.359
to see her in a bit of tag action. It's also

01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:28.960
nice when you have to get to see Chelsea Green

01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:31.199
and Piper Nevins stuck in a situation where they

01:47:31.199 --> 01:47:33.939
could possibly lose, which is more common and

01:47:33.939 --> 01:47:35.659
not. But yeah, the reason I was looking forward

01:47:35.659 --> 01:47:38.960
to this and I saw a spoiler on on social media

01:47:38.960 --> 01:47:41.159
before I got round to watching it. And it was

01:47:41.159 --> 01:47:44.279
because the one and only Alexa Bliss made her

01:47:44.279 --> 01:47:48.720
return to SmackDown this week. Yeah, so she competed

01:47:48.720 --> 01:47:53.699
alongside Zelina Vega in her first match, her

01:47:53.699 --> 01:47:57.380
first appearance, well, her first match, who?

01:47:58.279 --> 01:48:01.069
We haven't seen her since Royal Rumble. Oh no,

01:48:01.069 --> 01:48:02.529
she was in the elimination chamber, wasn't she?

01:48:02.569 --> 01:48:04.409
She was in the elimination chamber. And this

01:48:04.409 --> 01:48:07.229
is, I've got to admit, I'm reading at the moment

01:48:07.229 --> 01:48:13.350
from WWE's own coverage and even they're saying

01:48:13.350 --> 01:48:15.930
that it was her first time competing since the

01:48:15.930 --> 01:48:18.409
Royal Rumble. So even they seem to have forgotten

01:48:18.409 --> 01:48:20.270
that she was in the elimination chamber. I don't

01:48:20.270 --> 01:48:22.670
think she, yeah, she was in the elimination chamber.

01:48:23.149 --> 01:48:24.770
Yeah, according to Google, it's just done that.

01:48:25.430 --> 01:48:26.909
WWE have fucked up, haven't they? We'll point

01:48:26.909 --> 01:48:30.100
that out to their social media team. Then I would

01:48:30.100 --> 01:48:33.260
remember they fired half of them last week. So

01:48:33.260 --> 01:48:35.720
Yeah, that's probably why that mistake was made.

01:48:36.300 --> 01:48:39.520
Um, but yeah, this one was was quite nice. Um,

01:48:39.539 --> 01:48:43.340
obviously Anytime Alexa Bliss comes back to the

01:48:43.340 --> 01:48:48.020
to the WWE. It's a good thing. Um The only big

01:48:48.020 --> 01:48:50.399
bits I picked up at this match was Selena Vega

01:48:50.399 --> 01:48:53.819
hit a stacked up 619 on both Chelsea Green and

01:48:53.819 --> 01:48:59.090
Piper Nevin Which was It takes a lot to be able

01:48:59.090 --> 01:49:01.390
to swing yourself around Piper Nevin to hit Chelsea

01:49:01.390 --> 01:49:06.069
Green in the face. Yeah, pretty much. And then

01:49:06.069 --> 01:49:09.590
Alexa Bliss managed to pull off the win with

01:49:09.590 --> 01:49:14.869
the sister Abigail DDT onto Chelsea Green. Chelsea

01:49:14.869 --> 01:49:17.890
Green? Yeah. 100%. So we're going to keep, yeah,

01:49:18.069 --> 01:49:19.449
Smackdown, we're going to keep short and sweet

01:49:19.449 --> 01:49:22.109
because Smackdown was pretty much short and sweet

01:49:22.109 --> 01:49:24.149
with the new format. We're trying to kind of...

01:49:24.119 --> 01:49:26.140
Change that instead of giving you the play -by

01:49:26.140 --> 01:49:27.899
-play. It's more of a storyline change There

01:49:27.899 --> 01:49:30.020
wasn't much for storyline to this apart from

01:49:30.020 --> 01:49:33.939
the fact that Alexa bliss has come back It'd

01:49:33.939 --> 01:49:36.220
be interesting to see whether we see her next

01:49:36.220 --> 01:49:38.680
week or whether this is just a little one -off

01:49:38.680 --> 01:49:41.220
appearance until She's ready to come back as

01:49:41.220 --> 01:49:45.439
it was her home state of Ohio that we were in

01:49:45.439 --> 01:49:49.579
Well, this is the thing and it's not it's not

01:49:49.579 --> 01:49:53.199
the last time we see it tonight, but if we move

01:49:53.199 --> 01:49:56.340
forward and so and talk about what happens next

01:49:56.340 --> 01:50:00.539
which is the Do you know what actually the so

01:50:00.539 --> 01:50:05.600
we actually get an in -ring promo from Fucking

01:50:05.600 --> 01:50:09.359
Charlotte Flair we do but before that we see

01:50:09.359 --> 01:50:12.539
Los Garza kick the living shite out of a ray

01:50:12.539 --> 01:50:16.899
Phoenix backstage and We have andrade coming

01:50:16.899 --> 01:50:21.319
in to check on him. So there is still quite a

01:50:21.319 --> 01:50:25.659
big chunk of beef between Santos Escobar and

01:50:25.659 --> 01:50:30.399
Los Garza and Rey Fenix at the moment. We will

01:50:30.399 --> 01:50:34.800
keep you updated on how that one goes. Yes. As

01:50:34.800 --> 01:50:37.859
it goes with the Charlotte Flair promo, that

01:50:37.859 --> 01:50:40.340
was actually pretty short and sweet, thankfully,

01:50:40.420 --> 01:50:44.359
because it was a case that she came out, basically

01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:49.789
gave props to Tiffy who Beat her at WrestleMania

01:50:49.789 --> 01:50:54.630
Must have that must have stung a little bit Well,

01:50:54.630 --> 01:50:57.029
the thing is is that Tiffany pointed it out during

01:50:57.029 --> 01:50:59.270
the run -up is that Charlotte Flair went into

01:50:59.270 --> 01:51:03.270
that match with the most most to lose Either

01:51:03.270 --> 01:51:06.890
way, he was protected No, and her character was

01:51:06.890 --> 01:51:08.989
protected and it was nice. But yeah, once she

01:51:08.989 --> 01:51:12.550
got booed out of the ring Rona toys out of the

01:51:12.550 --> 01:51:15.050
priority. It was brilliant. Charlotte Flair gets

01:51:15.050 --> 01:51:19.039
booed harder than Hulk Hogan It is brilliant.

01:51:19.699 --> 01:51:21.659
We should start calling her Charlotte Hogan.

01:51:24.180 --> 01:51:26.199
But yeah, no, she got booed out, threw her toys

01:51:26.199 --> 01:51:29.680
out the pram again. And I'm pretty sure there's

01:51:29.680 --> 01:51:31.520
gonna be an injury coming soon followed by a

01:51:31.520 --> 01:51:33.699
divorce, you know. There seems to be a cycle.

01:51:35.220 --> 01:51:39.859
We then see her. No, she hasn't. She's only just

01:51:39.859 --> 01:51:42.180
got rid of the last victim, poor Andrade. But

01:51:42.180 --> 01:51:45.399
yeah, no, we see her backstage arguing with Nick

01:51:45.399 --> 01:51:49.399
Aldis. And he basically says look you need to

01:51:49.399 --> 01:51:51.460
grow up and stop throwing your toys at the pram

01:51:51.460 --> 01:51:53.520
at which point she kind of walks off towards

01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:56.979
her SUV going take me to the airport and then

01:51:56.979 --> 01:52:00.880
door shuts and Little Miss Bliss has got out

01:52:00.880 --> 01:52:03.399
of the back of Charlotte Flair's SUV and is staring

01:52:03.399 --> 01:52:10.699
her down. I think I'd love to see Charlotte Flair

01:52:10.699 --> 01:52:13.720
and Alexa Bliss have something else go on just

01:52:13.720 --> 01:52:17.699
have Alexa Bliss beat her and hopefully retire

01:52:17.699 --> 01:52:21.640
Charlotte Flair. Oh, that would be nice. I look

01:52:21.640 --> 01:52:26.000
forward to that day. Um, but what we got on the

01:52:26.000 --> 01:52:29.699
back of the in -ring promo was, um, do you know

01:52:29.699 --> 01:52:31.939
what? I'd actually class this as a bit of a,

01:52:32.159 --> 01:52:34.100
I think this is some people's idea of a dream

01:52:34.100 --> 01:52:37.420
match realistically, because we had, uh, Nia

01:52:37.420 --> 01:52:42.699
Jax versus Jade Cargill, two of the most powerful

01:52:42.699 --> 01:52:47.770
women in the WWE today. Faced off in a ring in

01:52:47.770 --> 01:52:52.189
a WWE women's titles number one contenders match

01:52:52.189 --> 01:52:55.810
and From what I can remember of this match. It

01:52:55.810 --> 01:52:58.989
was a case that Jade Cargill pretty much had

01:52:58.989 --> 01:53:06.489
it won. Yes It was only Up until there was some

01:53:06.489 --> 01:53:10.130
interference wasn't there? Yeah, so we had some

01:53:10.130 --> 01:53:16.250
interference from Naomi Yeah, I didn't I haven't

01:53:16.250 --> 01:53:18.710
got written down what she did, but she was definitely

01:53:18.710 --> 01:53:23.390
Definitely there. Well Tiffy was out at ringside

01:53:23.390 --> 01:53:26.270
to watch the number one contenders match. Yeah,

01:53:26.270 --> 01:53:27.949
she was sat next to commentary wasn't she sat

01:53:27.949 --> 01:53:34.869
next to Wade Barrett Naomi came out to to attack

01:53:34.869 --> 01:53:39.399
Tiffy she attacked Tiffy at ringside distracted

01:53:39.399 --> 01:53:44.079
Jade who then got taken down by Naya Jax and

01:53:44.079 --> 01:53:48.819
an annihilator. So Naya Jax is now the number

01:53:48.819 --> 01:53:51.260
one contender for Tiffy's Women's World Championship.

01:53:51.500 --> 01:53:54.359
Which is nice because obviously Tiffy cashed

01:53:54.359 --> 01:53:57.180
in that money in the bank briefcase to remove

01:53:57.180 --> 01:54:00.439
it from Naya's possession coming up to a year

01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:03.539
later because money in the bank is three weeks

01:54:03.539 --> 01:54:08.310
away this weekend. We're gonna have a rematch

01:54:08.310 --> 01:54:10.130
at Money in the Bank, I think. This is gonna

01:54:10.130 --> 01:54:15.329
be beautiful. Yeah, I just hope that they don't

01:54:15.329 --> 01:54:17.989
drop the title back to Nia Jax for it, because

01:54:17.989 --> 01:54:20.869
it would just invalidate everything that Tiffy's

01:54:20.869 --> 01:54:23.350
done. Yeah, I completely agree with that. She

01:54:23.350 --> 01:54:26.329
needs to keep it a little bit longer. Yeah. And

01:54:26.329 --> 01:54:30.270
she needs to lose it. Yeah, to be fair, you can

01:54:30.270 --> 01:54:34.479
drop it to anyone but Nia Jax. Don't. Even if

01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:39.779
she drops it to Jade Cargill at SummerSlam. Oh,

01:54:40.800 --> 01:54:45.939
that could be that. Oh, I like that. That's not

01:54:45.939 --> 01:54:50.939
a bad shout. Jade Cargill at SummerSlam. Talking

01:54:50.939 --> 01:54:54.119
about sort of like, you know, we're up and coming

01:54:54.119 --> 01:54:57.840
guys coming through. with Jade Cargill being

01:54:57.840 --> 01:54:59.560
one of those that we've not seen a lot of her,

01:54:59.579 --> 01:55:01.460
but she's dumped herself right to some pretty

01:55:01.460 --> 01:55:03.859
major storylines and doing very well for herself.

01:55:04.699 --> 01:55:06.579
Someone else who's doing very well for themselves

01:55:06.579 --> 01:55:09.159
with their recent move to SmackDown actually

01:55:09.159 --> 01:55:14.020
would be Fraxium. The former NXT tag team title

01:55:14.020 --> 01:55:17.439
holders look like they've pretty much made their

01:55:17.439 --> 01:55:24.039
full -time main roster run a thing. this is the

01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:26.859
third week in a row that we've seen them on smackdown

01:55:26.859 --> 01:55:31.260
and uh they've uh they've gotten called out the

01:55:31.260 --> 01:55:35.140
street profits well they came out during a street

01:55:35.140 --> 01:55:38.640
profits in -ring promo which not only was painful

01:55:38.640 --> 01:55:43.560
for the street profits to uh to perform it was

01:55:43.560 --> 01:55:46.619
a case that it was painful to watch as well yeah

01:55:46.619 --> 01:55:49.720
after the tlc match that these guys won to retain

01:55:49.720 --> 01:55:54.569
their championship uh on um it was the friday

01:55:54.569 --> 01:55:56.810
night smackdown before wrestlemania these guys

01:55:56.810 --> 01:56:03.050
are still hurting it was that match should have

01:56:03.050 --> 01:56:06.130
been on the wrestlemania card triple h you fucked

01:56:06.130 --> 01:56:12.729
up yeah 100 um it's a case though that the uh

01:56:12.680 --> 01:56:15.880
That yeah, Fraxium come out. They basically talk

01:56:15.880 --> 01:56:17.960
themselves. They're trying to talk themselves

01:56:17.960 --> 01:56:21.220
into a title match But instead end up talking

01:56:21.220 --> 01:56:23.500
themselves into a non title match against the

01:56:23.500 --> 01:56:26.939
champions Which we both we all know you win against

01:56:26.939 --> 01:56:29.260
the champions in a non title match You're pretty

01:56:29.260 --> 01:56:32.000
much guaranteed a future title shot. Well, pretty

01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:37.680
much and that's what happened They went They

01:56:37.680 --> 01:56:43.229
did they did and it was yeah, it was nuts I quite

01:56:43.229 --> 01:56:46.210
enjoyed it. I really did enjoy it. The next match

01:56:46.210 --> 01:56:49.909
I didn't think so much of. My notes for this

01:56:49.909 --> 01:56:52.050
one are very much one line. The next match was

01:56:52.050 --> 01:56:55.270
Carmelo Hayes versus Aleister Black. Aleister

01:56:55.270 --> 01:56:57.810
Black won the match. It was a half decent match.

01:56:57.949 --> 01:57:01.909
Wasn't great, wasn't amazing, either or. And

01:57:01.909 --> 01:57:04.970
to make things slightly better for it, the Miz

01:57:04.970 --> 01:57:07.810
managed to run in at the end and eat yet another

01:57:07.810 --> 01:57:14.659
black mass. The next match was Los Garza versus

01:57:14.659 --> 01:57:18.960
Andrade and Rey Fenix. All I can tell you from

01:57:18.960 --> 01:57:21.439
this was it was a pretty even match, but Rey

01:57:21.439 --> 01:57:25.460
Fenix and Andrade came out of that one. And we

01:57:25.460 --> 01:57:29.640
did have a little segment in there before that

01:57:29.640 --> 01:57:32.760
match started. It's like we had the competitors

01:57:32.760 --> 01:57:36.939
come out, went to the segment. where we see Motor

01:57:36.939 --> 01:57:38.859
City Machine Guns telling Fraxi and they did

01:57:38.859 --> 01:57:43.300
really well in their match. And you know, it's

01:57:43.300 --> 01:57:45.340
going to be the two of them teams together taking

01:57:45.340 --> 01:57:48.500
over the tag team division and DIY basically

01:57:48.500 --> 01:57:50.380
come in and give them both an ass whooping and

01:57:50.380 --> 01:57:54.739
backstage and leave them there. And then we pretty

01:57:54.739 --> 01:57:56.659
much get to the main event of the evening, which

01:57:56.659 --> 01:58:00.899
I'm not going to lie to you. Didn't think was

01:58:00.899 --> 01:58:03.340
that great. The main section of it, the main

01:58:03.340 --> 01:58:05.619
match. The main event of the evening when it

01:58:05.619 --> 01:58:08.560
comes to matches was the Los Garza -Andrade -Ray

01:58:08.560 --> 01:58:11.100
-Phoenix match, which did not live up to the

01:58:11.100 --> 01:58:13.119
hype it should do for the last match on the card.

01:58:13.220 --> 01:58:16.260
But the final promo at the end with John Cena

01:58:16.260 --> 01:58:22.640
was half decent, to be fair. Yeah, so it is a

01:58:22.640 --> 01:58:26.859
case that John Cena come out and cut a pretty

01:58:26.859 --> 01:58:30.199
standard John Cena heel promo, to be quite honest.

01:58:30.239 --> 01:58:34.619
I don't need this. I don't need you. I'm the

01:58:34.619 --> 01:58:38.239
last real champion and Randy Orton hasn't got

01:58:38.239 --> 01:58:44.119
a hope in freaking hell of taking me down at

01:58:44.119 --> 01:58:49.079
Blacklash. I mean, someone did try to take him

01:58:49.079 --> 01:58:52.479
down. I thought it was Miles Bourne, but Adam

01:58:52.479 --> 01:58:56.819
said it wasn't Miles Bourne. No, but there is

01:58:56.819 --> 01:59:02.760
a theory that it could be either So it was pointed

01:59:02.760 --> 01:59:05.479
out to me by somebody else that it could be one

01:59:05.479 --> 01:59:09.000
of two people and there's very I sort of can't

01:59:09.000 --> 01:59:12.199
deny the logic behind it one of them's ricochet

01:59:12.199 --> 01:59:20.619
No The other one is Sean Spears from NXT I mean,

01:59:20.779 --> 01:59:23.060
it can definitely... It's down to the tattoo

01:59:23.060 --> 01:59:26.180
work on the assailant's arm. Yeah, well, we all

01:59:26.180 --> 01:59:28.699
know that it's more than likely going to be Sean

01:59:28.699 --> 01:59:31.779
Spears because Ricochet is busy bashing WWE on

01:59:31.779 --> 01:59:33.560
Twitter at the moment because he's a ballad.

01:59:35.420 --> 01:59:38.260
But yeah, and then after that master assailant

01:59:38.260 --> 01:59:43.210
attempted an RKO, Cena is... kind of holding

01:59:43.210 --> 01:59:45.909
his title up and then all of a sudden randy orton

01:59:45.909 --> 01:59:48.310
comes out and pops him with one instead so he

01:59:48.310 --> 01:59:50.489
did get to eat that slice of humble pie which

01:59:50.489 --> 01:59:55.569
is always good fun but uh that was pretty much

01:59:55.569 --> 01:59:58.430
smackdown in a nutshell i haven't got much more

01:59:58.430 --> 02:00:00.989
for it either to be fair it was pretty smackdown

02:00:00.989 --> 02:00:04.909
this week was the better of the three shows but

02:00:04.909 --> 02:00:09.090
it wasn't yeah with nxt in the close second but

02:00:09.090 --> 02:00:13.470
smackdown weren't great NXT would have been better

02:00:13.470 --> 02:00:17.229
if some of the matches they had in there just

02:00:17.229 --> 02:00:21.250
weren't there. I think that's the easiest way

02:00:21.250 --> 02:00:23.489
to put it. If they had different matches, it

02:00:23.489 --> 02:00:25.810
would have been better. No, if they just took

02:00:25.810 --> 02:00:30.710
it taken out, it was the miles born winning the

02:00:30.710 --> 02:00:34.050
battle royale that really kind of confused me

02:00:34.050 --> 02:00:36.590
to be fair. They just didn't seem to be fluid.

02:00:36.590 --> 02:00:39.569
I think we're going to see, with that we're going

02:00:39.569 --> 02:00:42.170
to see We're going to see that come good, I can

02:00:42.170 --> 02:00:44.010
promise you. I hope so. That's going to be an

02:00:44.010 --> 02:00:47.989
interesting storyline. I hope so, but until the

02:00:47.989 --> 02:00:50.010
next episode, ladies and gentlemen, which will

02:00:50.010 --> 02:00:53.810
be finishes and factions, does backlash, I think

02:00:53.810 --> 02:00:57.050
that's all from me. Adam? Yeah, and that's all

02:00:57.050 --> 02:00:59.430
from me as well. Peace out, homies. See you at

02:00:59.430 --> 02:00:59.770
backlash.