And good evening Finishes and Factions fans and
welcome to the first episode of a new format
over the podcast with myself and my co -host
Adam. Adam, how are you doing buddy? I'm not
bad mate, not bad at all but yeah new format
coming to you in a brand new way. We've decided
to condense down a lot of what we've done in
the past whereas we've literally gone from opening
credits to closing credits, giving you more or
less an audio description of what happened in
the episode. It's a case now that we're working
to sort of condense it all down. It makes it
easier for us to create and hopefully gives you
guys a little bit of an idea of what we found
that the highlights of each episode to be. So
how it works now is that we're this is all gonna
be basically be one episode PLEs at the moment
we are thinking are gonna be episodes within
their own right and We're gonna sort of figure
that out as we go But we'll basically break down
our personal highlights from this week's raw
NXT and smackdown all in one go Yeah, make it
just that little bit rather than having to Record,
produce and publish three episodes a week. It's
one episode a week with occasional additional
extras for PLEs. Which then gives us the option
as and when we need to to throw you guys some
bonus content without killing ourselves trying
to do so. which I think might make it a little
bit easier. So we are going to jump straight
in with Raw this week. Raw this week was from
Omaha, Nebraska. And I believe we were told this
was the 15th Raw to come from Nebraska or from
Omaha itself. So it means that it's quite a reasonable
stable when it comes to wrestling in Ohio. And
not Ohio, Nebraska, sorry the wrong episode wrong
location Yeah, pretty much but yeah, no it's
it's a case you're likely to have more of this
sort of stuff than I am because I've literally
I've watched it the way I've done I've even changed
the way that I'm That I'm prepping for that prepping
for everything now, so it's a case that I'm watching
the episode and then literally afterwards making
a note of what I felt were the most interesting
parts of the episode. Well, a little bit of history
about wrestling in Nebraska for you. Nebraska
has had one pay -per -view in its past, and that
was Judgment Day 2008. The rest of the events
that have been in Nebraska have all been either
Monday Night Raw, SmackDown, NXT, or the old
WWF house shows. I will say there was one main
event that I can see off the top of my list,
possibly like two or three in there altogether
from sort of early 2010 to 2015 area. So we've
not had anything big come from Nebraska for a
while, but hopefully that will change when we
get there. A little bit more into the future
anyway. Yeah, who knows? Who knows? Yeah, well
this one started with a Jeyuso. promo really
was what we were expecting to be a build up for
his match at Backlash at the end of the week
with Logan Paul. But there was a few different
bits that came into this one. We had a nice little
visit from Paul Heyman. What did he call him
now? He's not the wise man. Is he just Seth Rollins
bitch or is that just the way that's going to
work? Don't I think we'll find out more as weeks
progress on what he wants to be called and so
far I think we're just gonna call him Seth Rollins
is advocate at this stage. It was nice to hear
that ladies and gentlemen my name is Paul Heyman
again because normally when you see him as a
wise man you didn't really get a lot of that
and I don't think within the work with the bloodline
that he's done we actually had a promo as emotion
-filled as this one was from Paul Heyman. No,
and this is one thing that I picked up on as
well. So yeah, it's a case that whereas when
he was in the bloodline, Paul Heyman was sort
of very much a, he was a background character,
if nothing else. He was. It's a case now that
he's able to to be a little bit more centre stage
he's not the main character he's still very secondary
but he can still sort of take centre stage as
and when which is something that he did to phenomenal
success during the opening promo certainly as
it seems that well basically he comes out and
we find out later on that he tricks Jay into
giving Seth Rollins a world heavyweight title
shot on this episode of Raw. Yeah, so that I
believe was our main event of the evening, wasn't
it? It was, yeah. Yeah with the new format, I'm
not sure how we sort of balance this out now
because it's a case we've started talking about
Paul Heyman and Jey Uso I think we should just
go straight into we should finish it off with
that section So sort of come back to it yeah,
we'll say We'll come back to come back to the
actual match itself a little bit later on in
this in this episode and And we'll kind of push
our way through briefly and just kind of see
where we get. So a little bit of what was said
here was yes he did trick Jey Uso into giving
Seth Rollins that title shot a little bit later
but he's all out here kind of saying you know
Seth Rollins has to be champion because to be
a champion you have to have the power and the
control and Jay doesn't know what to do with
that sort of power where Seth does. He's been
a champion before, he's been a top tier champion.
So he's held, I think it was the heavyweight
title he had at one point. He also had the universal
championship and that was a thing. He's had a
lot of gold in the time that he's been within
WWE. So it would make sense that they kind of
He's gonna use that experience to try and kind
of show Jay what's going on, because obviously
Jay's not, he's had tag titles before, but he's
never had a main title. So for him, like, it's
quite a big one. Yeah, looking through this one,
he's had the WWE Championship two times, the
Heavyweight Championship once. The Universal
Championship twice. He was an NXT champion. He's
been an Intercontinental champion twice. The
United States champion twice. Tag team champion
six times. There's a long list of partners there.
He's done Money in the Bank. He's won the Royal
Rumble. He's done all sorts. So for him to be
able to, he's got that experience. He knows with
great power comes great responsibility where...
You know, everyone just seems to think that Jay
is just a yeet specialist who gets lucky. I think
Jay, the storyline with Jey Uso coming up to
this point, especially with this match at WrestleMania,
which we covered in previous episodes in the
old format. You know, the long -term storytelling
with Jey Uso has been great, especially with
the tap out with Gunther and stuff like that.
So it's kind of... the story aspect of it's been
really good but yeah the experience side of things
he doesn't necessarily have where Seth does and
I think Seth feels that he's a more powerful
champion than Jay but we then find out within
this conversation that Brom Breaker is just stage
one of the plan stage two of the plan is the
world heavyweight title so what happens afterwards.
Obviously, we have this match later. I'm not
going to spoil the result now, but this line's
got to go a little bit further. There's got to
be more of an extended run to this storyline.
I'm hoping this wasn't just a fill -up of backlash
and then possibly money in the bank, which is
coming up in a month's time. But yeah, we find
out, like I said, that Jay so says, well, with
the time and the place that I get to choose,
we'll do it today and we'll do it now. yeah we
finish off the show with that one and then our
first proper match of the show is um penta and
jd mcdonough which was a strange concept we've
seen a bit of jd since the ad is you come back
from injury but i'm not entirely sure where the
penta angles come from here because penta was
looking at the intercontinental championship
a little while ago and that was around bron breakers
Waste and now Dom's got it. He doesn't seem to
be too interested No, he seems to have shifted
his focus Yeah, it's I'm gonna be honest I didn't
really The penta as much as I enjoy watching
penta. I think he's a fantastic He's a phenomenal
superstar always has been he is not one of my
highlights of this week in fact the match that
comes after this is one of the It was one of
the ones that I was more interested in talking
about but Yeah, it didn't really hold an awful
lot of substance The penta JD McDonough match
was more there to further the Judgment Day storyline
than anything else? Yeah and I mean we've been
saying for months that we feel the end of the
Judgment Day is not too far away and yet somehow
week in, week out they seem to scrape through
and it's kind of annoying I'm not gonna lie.
Like I'd love to see a finale between Finn and
Dom for the Judgment Day. Just I don't know I
think there's been quite a few different angles
teased I think this constant teasing of breaking
up the Judgment Day is getting a little bit tedious
now. Either do it or give him a decent story
run. So I think that as much as it can come across
as tedious, it's necessary. Judgment Day has
been around for a while. There's been a number
of different faces to the Judgment Day. And yeah,
it's... There's going to be different odds and
ends to it. They can't just unceremoniously give
them the chop. It doesn't work that way. We've
seen them do that with other teams in the past
and all it serves to do is confuse the viewer,
confuse the fan because if they are then thrown
directly into another storyline The fans aren't
paying attention to what's going on in that storyline
because they're still trying to figure out what
happened to the storyline they were in before
There's gonna be a there's gonna be a progression
to it that certainly does and I think the only
thing I could see from this with the match going
the way it went because um JD's still Not quite
as fit as he used to be But boy that guy is gonna
continuously give everything he's got every time
guys a workhorse Like I'm not gonna lie to you
if I'd have had an injury like he had in the
in the way he did it I Think it would have taken
me a little while to want to get back into the
high -flying side of things She wouldn't have
seen me doing moon salts off the fucking top
rope at that point, especially nowhere near an
announce table But he won't, he wouldn't have
come back unless he could do those things because
that's what That's what us as fans have come
to expect from him Yeah, but as I said Not really
what I'm certainly got not an awful lot more
to say about that match So it's more the next
match that I'm more interested in I will just
throw it here that during the course of this
match both Finn Parler and Carlito were told
to fuck off by the referee and sent back to the
locker room. One of the big sort of moves I saw
was at the beginning of the match penta kick
JD in the leg so hard he flipped like it was
a hell of a calf kick he got in and then JD manages
to pop off a standing Spanish fly which I think
was quite impressive. Chad Gable made a a slight
appearance trying to interfere with this one
behind the referee's back and as normal penta
finished this one off with a mexican destroyer
for the one two three whereas he would refer
to it as the undos tres but uh yeah like adam
said the next match on on the card was something
that i wasn't expecting i very much enjoyed it
and uh yeah adam There were so many other ways
to enjoy this as well, in fairness. This match
is more so introduced during a backstage promo
where it appears that Grayson Waller was supposed
to be gracing the ring for us. Yeah, me too,
but they magnanimously gave that opportunity
up for for Austin Theory to have a match instead
Made it out like he was doing his homeboy a favor.
Well instead he was just sending his own lamb
to slaughter. Oh 100 % he fed his he fed his
mate to to somebody you're not wanting to feed
anybody to at this point Celtic warrior WWE's
big ginger, not himself, good old Sheamus. I
love watching Sheamus. There is just something
about the way he wrestles that it's not the most
finesse. He's not a high flyer. He's just good.
He does everything to a high standard and makes
it look good. And the thing is, is that we haven't
actually seen Sheamus on screen since the Royal
Rumble. No. But it's not been it's not been mentioned.
Nobody's made any sort of attempt to explain
why he's not been on screen. He's just not been
written in. I was really confused because we
saw him have a match against Bron Breaker for
the IC title. For a number one contendership
to the IC title. We saw him have a match with
something to do with the IC title between just
before the Royal Rumble, I'm sure. Then he came
back for the Rumble and then disappeared. I get
there's no storyline that needs him at the moment,
but it's still a little bit like there was no
storyline before WrestleMania for him. A lot
of the storylines in the build up to Backlash
haven't really changed. So they just pulled him
in to try and see if they can use it to break
A -Town down under through. Are we going to have
a thing? where it's kind of like Austin Theory
who's like, you know, I got my ass kicked because
of you, you dick. Fuck you, I'm out. I think
this is the breakdown, basically. This is the
breakdown of A -Town down under. And that's what
we're seeing here. But yeah, I mean, I think
it's generous at this point to start calling
what we have here a match as such. It was more
of a mauling. it was because Austin Theory barely
got any offense going and yeah the guy just got
absolutely just got absolutely done in and done
over by one of his best mates but then if you
think about it when was the last time you had
a returning superstar come back and lose their
return match it don't happen very often Especially
not someone of the caliber and someone who's
been as loyal as Shamus Like yes, he's not really
been featured a lot recently cool But he could
have just used that as an opportunity to be like
after this my contracts due up soon I'll go all
elite or I'll go to TNA or I'll do something
like that. No, he's he's stuck there Yeah, I'm
not being used cool. I'll sit in the hotel. I'll
drive around I'll help build a stage still getting
paid You know, he's not complained about it.
I haven't seen him on social media going. Oh,
I've got a match I'm really not happy about it.
I've not been used. I've got a storyline You
just see him doing other things Seamus has got
his own projects and everything going on at the
minute He's been doing that workout showing as
well in the like the the workout with Seamus
whatever is yeah 100 % and Yeah from what I understand
it's gained some a reasonable amount of Reasonable
amount of popularity for it. I mean can't Can't
sit here and say well don't know why that's happened.
Seamus is a decent bloke He's one of those as
well You see on social media a lot of these big
fans that like you go to the airport afterwards
And he's always the one that's there taking photographs
well before everyone else is pissed off So yeah,
it was a Quite a big one to be fair. I'd say
I really enjoyed watching this. I didn't have
Too many notes for it to be fair. There wasn't
a lot going on. It was a squash match. It was
just Seamus getting a warm -up, I suppose. So
I picked this match as one of my highlights purely
because it was an in -ring return for Seamus.
I've always been a huge fan of Seamus and will
always be a huge fan of Seamus. So it's a case
that him coming back after such a long absence
was noteworthy for me. So yeah, that was sort
of the reason I was more interested to talk about
that than I was to talk about anything else.
One of the other things that I'm also quite interested
to make sure we make mention of from this week's
Raw was the next segment which was an in -ring
promo between... Well, started off with an in
-ring promo from Becky Lynch. Yeah, it did. I'm
just going to backtrack slightly because we said
we hadn't seen Seamus for a while. Seamus' last
singles match before this last one. was August
the 18th, 2023 in Toronto where he defeated Edge.
And then in that September he suffered the shoulder
injury that kept him out for the best part of
18 months. So yeah, it's always nice to see Seamus
back. Becky Lynch, someone that's been around
for a long time that I'm not gonna lie, I had
not missed watching. Heal Becky Lynch is crap
like this version of heel becky lynch is trash
it's got no there's no rhyme or reason behind
it it is a case that we are being fed we are
being fed when i when i watch wwe at the moment
i feel like i'm a toddler stuck in a high chair
being force -fed stuff i don't want becky lynch
and Charlotte Flair it just seems to be so much
of two people that yes have done a huge amount
for the industry but the industry doesn't need
them anymore especially when you've got the guys
coming up from NXT into the main roster doing
a better job than they have they currently are
yeah this is it's and I understand the historical
significance of Becky Lynch She was one of the
four horsewomen revolutionized the women's division
in WWE, and paved the way for all of the female
wrestlers that we enjoy watching today. Nothing
taking away from any of her achievements. It
is just that, and I mentioned this to Rich off
podcast a few days ago, a few days before we
recorded this. And it's a case that I genuinely
feel That Becky Lynch was bought back as This
is a huge boost for Lyra Valkyrie. They're trying
to use her to get Lyra over It was a profile
boost. It was and to give her, you know a match
at backlash against the one of the women in pro
wrestling that has done the most said one of
not the most but it is No matter what happens
with this match, Lyra doesn't have anything to
lose. If she wins, she's got a hell of a name
under her belt. If she loses, her character doesn't
get affected because she's lost to a future Hall
of Famer. It's a similar circumstance to Tiffany
Stratten versus Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania.
It was. They're very much the same yet. If Tiffy
had lost, she lost to the greatest of all time
in some people's opinion. And if she won, which
she did, she had the biggest feather in her cap
that you can get. How many other people can turn
around and say, I beat Charlotte Flair at WrestleMania?
Not many women can say that. Yeah, this is it.
It's a case that Yeah, it just It feels like
Becky Lynch was thrust into this circumstance
into this situation She didn't really want to
be there. Well, we haven't seen Bailey since
she was attacked though Did Bailey get injured
in a match the couple of days before? WrestleMania
and this was a way of being able to write her
out with the injury or no because normally we'd
see it again And I don't believe we've seen it
since mania no we haven't we know that for storyline
purposes they're saying that that Becky Lynch
is the one that attacked Bailey which is yeah
fair enough it writes her out of TV for a little
while it could either be that she's got an injury
of some kind or it could be that because she's
been quite vocal on social media recently In
interviews and things like that in very much
the same way that Carrie and cross has speaking
out against the speaking out against the WWE
and sort of claiming unfair treatment and things
like that is the is this WWE's way of retaliating
because we know they've done this before historically
so it's not About carrying cross which I'm not
gonna talk too much about because it does ruin
some storylines But we'll get to that in a little
bit, but it was fucking hilarious. I think I
sent it to you on Facebook actually there is
that possibility and I know there was a Non -title
match between EO Sky and Roxanne Perez next and
as much as a fan of Roxanne Perez as I am Didn't
really get I didn't really feel like this match
was up too much. So didn't really do an awful
lot with it I will say before we go too far into
this Roxanne -Perezio skymarch Lyra Valkyria
came out with a line during the promo which I
thought was fucking phenomenal she turns after
Becky calls her like calls recycling she referred
to her ass and Lyra Valkyria comes out and says
look you're f big one talking about recycling
because you've been recycling the same moves
and the same tired old act for years and then
comes out with a few minutes later saying I've
defended this title more times than you've shown
up for work this year and I'm like fair fucking
play it's about time someone stuck it to some
of these part -timers I'm like nah bollocks to
you I'm here week in week out I do my thing week
in week out and you sit at home Just watch on
Netflix and just kind of like oh, that's nice.
I could do that It's nice to see some of these
younger superstars taking it to these ones that
been around for a while and going fuck you I'm
not taking your shit Yeah, which is what Roxanne
Perez does with the oh sky in the next one she
does not take very much shit Now as I've said
I didn't personally get a An awful lot from this
match, so it's kind of okay I'm more than happy
to sort of gloss over it at this point So EO
Sky won this one my notes consist of nothing
amazing in this match But EO came out with the
win and the best part about this match after
the bell rung we got to see Roxanne Perez kind
of looked like she was trying to give EO a bit
of sort of like a big up like you know that was
a great match well done thank you for that when
in turn it was just Roxanne Perez holding Io's
attention so Julia could basically jump in and
attack her and we finish it off with Julia and
Roxanne Perez beating Io down now we don't have
any last time Rhea came out to save Io's ass
But Rio wasn't there this week. She was in Australia
doing some promo stuff for the event happening
in Perth in October. So it was basically just
a fair game for Julia in Roxanne Perez to give
Io a kick in after she'd won the match. But yeah,
I really didn't have a huge amount for this one.
The same as the next one. I did not have a lot
for the next match. But... The only thing I will
say about this match with EO Sky and Roxanne
Perez is that it's nice to see, because I've
been saying for quite a while, Roxanne Perez
is due a call up. I think this is the... I've
said this before with something else, I remember
saying it. I genuinely believe that this is Roxanne
Perez's call up. Well... Yes and no to a point.
I think at the moment we are going to see a lot
of Roxanne Perez, Julia and some of the other
top NXT stars performing double duties for a
few weeks. So A, they can finish off their NXT
storylines. B, they can start their main roster
storylines and C, so WWE can see if the move
from NXT to main roster is warranted. Now, Roxanne
Perez and Julia are two that should definitely
be on the main roster on a permanent basis. Is
Raw the right place for them? I'm not so sure.
With previous weeks, we've both sat here and
said that SmackDown has been the superior show,
followed by NXT and then Raw kind of sitting
at the bottom of the ladder not doing much. I
think they could both be wasted on Raw. I'd like
to see one of them go to SmackDown. At least
they have an opportunity there to do something
a little bit more, I think. Not diminishing Julia
under any circumstances at all. But I think she,
for the moment, belongs in NXT. I don't think
she's ready for the main roster. Roxanne Perez,
completely different story. I think that raw
is actually the perfect fit for it despite what
we've been telling what we've been saying because
Roxanne Perez has that quality to potentially
shake things up enough in raw to allow for some
different angles to be written to start improving
the quality of the program that they're churning
out. I hope the quality of the product for raw
gets better is it the moment we started off this
podcast for me going dude i can't watch this
nxt shit it is killing me to the point now where
i'm like ah dude nxt was epic but raw was shit
yeah and if anything the next match the the next
match was one of the one of sort of the re the
things that sort of epitomize why raw is, in
my view, not doing very well at the minute because
the next one was Rusev's in -ring debut or re
-debut. Yeah, re -debut. However you want to
rare it. So once he'd finished his contract at
AEW under the name of Miro, having him come back
to WWE is not a bad thing. We have both said
this, though. They're going to give him a bit
of a push at the start. He's gonna have a couple
of matches like this one where he's gonna go
in With the you know, get us get his stuff done.
It will all be done quite quickly and Then eventually
he'll just go back to being the standard mid
carder that no one ever really talks about His
His in re is in ring re debut if you like Against
Otis don't get me wrong Love the fact that Otis
is getting that on -screen time because I genuinely
think he's underutilised. This comedy shit they
get him doing, I think he could be so much more
given the right opportunity. Putting him in a
squash match with the Bulgarian brute, however.
Not my idea of good booking. Quite honestly my
idea of good booking wouldn't have seen Rusev
return at all For the very reason that Rich has
just finished explaining is that he'll have a
couple of weeks He may even have a pay -per -view
match maybe two I think they'll give him an opportunity
at a belt They'll give him an opportunity at
a belt and then he'll fade into the mid card
did it in WWE the first time round. I think they
even stuck a belt on him the first time round.
He then went to AEW, pretty much the same story,
faded into the mid card. And yeah, just the only
reason that I picked this as a highlight was
because I know how generally popular Rusev is.
One thing I was a little bit confused about.
was when Rusev was in WWE originally his wife
Lana was his manager she went with him to AEW
they got divorced they got remarried and then
they both resigned to WWE but Lana has not resigned
in a manager capacity so are we going to see
her in an in -ring capacity at some point Or
is she gonna be one of those that just gets fucked
off on the next lot of cuts because they've got
nowhere to put her and they regret signing her?
I think honestly only time's gonna tell with
that one Yeah Because I was never a huge Lana
fan. She was nice to look at don't get me wrong,
but As far as a as an in -ring talent or a personality?
No. She was there because he was there. And it
could very well be the same thing again. Yeah,
that's fair enough. That's a good point. I don't
know, if we see her in an in -ring capacity I
wouldn't be too concerned. I just don't... I
think the women's division at the moment has
got too many people so... It kind of works out
what's going to happen. And for a women's division
that has an awful lot of superstars, I wish we'd
get to see a little bit more of some of the ones
we don't get to see as much of. I don't know
about you, but I'm getting bored of seeing the
same five or six people a week in, week out.
Yeah, I certainly see where you're coming from
with it. It's one of the reasons why I've been
so hyped on the fact that Zelina Vegas finally
have a title put on her, that they're finally
giving her something to do other than act in
a valet managerial pastime. And can we have Rhea
in a storyline that doesn't evolve a world title
please? I love Rhea, I think Rhea is a great
wrestler, but you don't see her when she doesn't
have a title storyline. And then she comes back,
she wins the title, she's there for the entire
title run, loses the title and she disappears
again for a bit. Can we have Rhea in a storyline
where maybe she's not going for the big, big
title? Maybe she's, you know, tag title or the
IC title or the, do you know what I mean? Yeah,
something a little bit more varied. Stick her
in a pool of wrestlers that... Don't get the
same amount of attention as she does generally.
Yeah, she gets an awful lot of tension and yes
She's talented and she can do well, but I don't
need to see Rhea week in week out week in week
out with this that storyline got especially before
Mania did get very Serious say me. Yes. Yeah
One thing I will say though about the I'm gonna
take us back on track here with the Otis Rusev
match For those football fans that also listen
to us, and by football I mean American football,
we had Matt Ruhl in the building with a couple
of the Nebraska University football team in attendance,
which was always nice. Now I believe their nickname
was the Corner Huskers. The NCAA is not something
I watch a lot of. I do spend a lot more time
watching The NFL, but yeah, the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
What a way to pop that one down, eh? What a name
as well. I think it's brilliant. It makes a lot
of sense. Well, yeah, Nebraska is definitely
a big farming state. So to be able to have that.
But yeah, Matt Rawls in his third season at the
Nebraska Cornhuskers and he's not having it.
He hasn't got a great record, but he's doing
all right. He's not necessarily got a bad record
either from what I understand. Yeah, so again
within his reign at Nebraska. He's currently
12 for 13 and But he's got an all -time record
of 924 to 430 Nebraska have got a half decent
record there and they've claimed some national
titles as well the most recent one being 1997
Yeah, I've got a fair few rivals as well. And
they've had a couple of Heisman Trophy winners,
which you got to be lucky to get one of those.
Last one of those was 2001 though, it's Eric
Crouch. The Heisman Trophy for those of you who
don't know is basically like the college football
player of the year. It's the most, it's the MVP
of the season out of all the league. Fair enough.
I don't have a huge amount of interest in American
football personally, but always nice to branch
out to different listeners out there. It does
link in to the next section, the American football
reference, because the next bit to this one was
Pat McAfee going face to face with Gunther in
the ring before they face it backlash. because
Gunther decided after losing his title at WrestleMania
that he was going to attack Michael Cole. And
then when Pat McAfee decided to step in and say,
hey, you don't pick on a 60 year old man, he
got choked out at ringside for it. So obviously
with that, with Gunther's suspension, it was
lifted for a sanctioned match backlash against
Pat McAfee. And Pat, as we know, was the punter
for the Indianapolis Colts. He was he's also
enjoyed some some relative success when it comes
to in ring WWE career as well as he's had a few
few matches down in NXT and And different he's
had a WrestleMania match summer slam match. I
believe as well so he's no stranger to in ring
competition, but Yeah, the fact that though he's
being pitted up against Gunther Is it feels a
little bit sacrificial lambish and Yeah, apart
from a small a short -term storyline like the
one that they're pushing at the moment Can't
really say that I see the point No, no, I think
this is just I think this was just a tiny little
filler. I don't think they had anything to do
for Gunther. You can't just have a guy drop a
title and then not have anything. They've got,
especially for a guy who spent 80 % of his time
in the WWE with a strap around his waist. It
just felt a little bit, no, you've got to do
something with him. And I think they probably
could have done something better than this, but
Pat McAfee has spoken. About the fact that he
wants to become you know, he quit the NFL to
become a WWE wrestler It just didn't happen straight
away No, but a lot of that comes down to his
age Well, yeah, he was 29 when he retired from
the NFL. They said that most of the time, you
know WWE don't recruit anyone over the age of
30 so that was his clock ticking he did get a
foot in the door but he's not like i said a full
-time in -ring competitor no i mean pat is 38
years old he is not it is a case that he is not
going to be he's not going to be an in -ring
competitor not a regular one at least um and
i don't know i just think they If they're gonna
pit Mac again, if they're gonna pit Pat against
someone Let's not make it somebody like Gunther
Yeah, Kira Tozawa maybe But then I suppose it
did work nicely into the storyline because obviously
where Gunther was fed up of the clowning around
and who's the biggest clown in WWE outside of
Jey Uso? Pat McAfee so It did follow through.
It made sense in some aspects, but didn't make
sense in others. Coming full circle, we're going
to come back to talking about Jeyuso and Seth
Rollins, Paul Heyman and Bron Breaker. world
heavyweight title match or the world heavyweight
title fight at the end of the night. That was
a mouthful. It was. I don't want to say that
too many times after a few beers. But yeah. This
one didn't have a lot to it in the start of it.
It had a bit of a slow The match itself didn't
have a slow start, the atmosphere did, I suppose
the best way to think about it. The first thing
that I picked up on through this entire match
was Paul Heyman trying to get the crowd to sing
Seth Rollins entry music, which a few weeks ago
we had him on television saying, I'll never sing
that, I don't like it, I don't like Seth Rollins,
and then all of a sudden he's in Seth's. Seth's
corner trying to persuade everyone to sing his
music which was an iffy one and I will throw
one of my highlights from this match itself and
we've seen him do it a few times recently against
different people but the reverse the spear reversal
into the pedigree he did it on Roman he's now
done it on Jay like most of these most of I mean
if you fuck that up you're taking the top of
someone's head to your balls right that's that's
the worst thing that could happen but yeah it
looks so good i struggle to think i struggle
to think of anybody else who would be able to
pull that sort of move off Seth Rollins is whether
you love him or hate him you can't sort of deny
that the guy is talented i mean he's a revolutionary
he's a visionary he's a I've got really bad dress
sense too, but we're not going to commit to that
one. In fairness, since Paul Heyman, since he's
been hanging around with Paul Heyman, it's a
case that his dress sense seems to have improved.
I'm sorry, did you not see the glasses last week
with the eyeballs painted on them? Look, I said
improving. It's a progression. It is everything
else. Yes, Seth Rollins has decided he no longer
wants to be the Sam Smith of WWE's Getting a
normal wardrobe Yeah now The the match itself
sort of can it Sort of concludes where well they
have better the longer it went on the better
it got but that was because we got a surprise
entrant the honorary ooze uh we didn't want to
start off with we only had one the second one
did come out at the end of the match oh yeah
the honorary ooze decided he was gonna come out
and join the fun so mr sammy zane's music hit
bron breaker is looking up the ramp waiting for
sammy zane to come running down from there And
instead, Zayn takes a ticket from the old shield
book and came flying out the crowd and hit him
instead. Sami Zayn versus Bron Breaker was, it
was a bit of a messed up one last week. Have
decent match to watch, but you knew which way
it was going. But this week, I think Sami Zayn
had Bron Breaker's number. I mean, the fact that
he ate a spear. whilst trying to hype the crowd
up was a little bit one of them, but he was the
ultimate underdog. He'll eat every finishing
move you can possibly throw at him and not have
an issue with it. Yeah. I mean, Sami Zayn came
out to the ring with his ribs taped up. He's
still hurting from his last match. It's a case
that did he really have any business being there?
Well, he was, it was, I think it was Seth Rollins
based. He told him that if you move to Smackdown,
you can have a match against the winner of Randy
Orton and John Cena after backlash. So he was
trying to bribe him off the, off Raw. But why,
why is Rollins so afraid of Sami Zayn? Well,
the point of that was that it was, um, Seth Rollins
was, Seth Rollins and Sami Zayn, they've come
up, they've more or less come up together it's
a case that they are they are friends outside
of the ring and he was trying to he was trying
to help his friend because they've gone down
the normal route of if you're not with me you're
against me and if you're against me you're probably
going to eat a curb stomp at some point or several
you never just get one curb stomp you always
get more than one No, this is it well there is
that too, but yeah, it's a case that We had Sami
Zayn come out to try to balance the equation
because during this match with Seth Rollins he
had Rollins had two people in his two people
in his corner who were likely gonna do anything
they could to make sure that Seth won the match
Even though Seth is perfectly capable of winning
matches all on his bringing home he's been doing
that since the shield split yeah pretty much
he's not he's uh not very often that Seth Rollins
doesn't have somebody in his corner to help him
win by any means necessary well exactly um and
then like we said there was a a second surprise
to come out and that was CM Punk He decided that
he was gonna come and try to even the odds a
little bit more as he came running down with
a steel chair in his hands Which is a always
nice to see CM Punk with a steel chair Yeah,
well he sort of he used the steel chair initially
to take out Brombreaker by throwing the chair
to Brom Breaker and then super kicking the chair
into his face. And then comes down and starts
laying into pretty much anybody that got in the
chair's way. I mean, we both know, and if you
listen to this podcast, you're a wrestling fan,
you know that punk and Rollins do not get on.
So for that chair to be introduced was definitely
a more fun aspect of it. So I have got down here
that Jeyuso wins this one because But I've got
a feeling it was classed as a no DQ because of
Punk and Cher According to WWE website the match
ends so The match ends with Seth Rollins defeating
Jeyuso via disqualification But champions advantage
means that Jay Uso gets to keep his title Yeah,
pretty much. I mean, that's fair enough But yeah,
they're basically finished with the credits rolled
on this one with Jay Uso CM Punk and Sami Zayn
standing. Well, it's mainly Punk and Zayn that's
standing in the ring Uso is kind of sat in a
corner going fuck that hurt From his encounter
with Rollins and Bron Breaker, but that leaves
the question. I feel we're gonna have a tag match
at some point between Juso, CM Punk, and Sami
Zayn versus Seth Rollins, Bron Breaker, and a
third. Now I have no idea who that third person
is gonna be. I don't even want to speculate because
I'd probably fuck it up pretty hard. But I think
it's one of those at some point we're gonna find
out who that third person is and be the final.
member of Seth Rollins version of evolution I
suppose. Yeah this is it and yeah we've they've
got plenty of time to spin that out so I don't
think we'll find out about it anytime soon but
yeah the only other thing that happened uh happened
in raw and it sort of happened after raw went
off the air um was that there is a clip that
circulated around where Logan Paul attacks J
U so after the cameras go out from within the
crowd so comes out of the crowd lays a Titanium
fist into Jay's jaw and Yeah, basically runs
off like a scared child afterwards Logan Paul
acting like a little bitch what surprised her
I Know right and on that man on that message.
I think that was all we both had for raw It was,
yeah, it's pretty much all I've got. We'll move
on to NXT. Right, so NXT this week actually came
from the Performance Center. They seem to be
spending more time at the Performance Center
than they do out on the road. But we started
off. That is sort of the deal with NXT that I'm
aware of at least, is that they don't spend as
much time out on the road. I think it was the
development, when it was the developmental. territory
for the WWE. It was a case that they didn't spend
as much time out on the road for them to be able
to spend more time training. Yeah. I suppose
that's one upside to it. I just don't think the
performance sentence is big as it could possibly
need to be capacity wise for the amount of people
that are wanting to watch NXT over Things like
raw and smackdown. I know I definitely want to
watch NXT over raw still have a preference for
smackdown When it comes to the quality of the
programming we're getting but yeah, it does make
it a little bit more intimate I suppose so you
get a bit more of an indie feel to it like a
local show How close you are? Everything's got
their own swings and roundabouts so whether they're
better or not this first match of the NXT this
week though was um I felt it was a little bit
of a letdown I'm not gonna lie so the first match
was Hank and Tank with Joe Hendry versus Dark
State in a six -man tag match and um yeah apart
from sort of the interference towards the end
of the match There wasn't a huge amount in this
one that I really wanted to talk about obviously
like you get to see Joe Hendry, which is a good
point, but Probably one of the only things and
even then this match with Joe Hendry really didn't
do for me What I thought it was gonna do Which
was a bit of a disappointment. I'm not gonna
lie So this much just sort of acted as a bit
of a A bit of an extension, if you like, off
the back of TNA episode. Off what happened at
TNA where Trick Williams came and interfered.
And Trick Williams did very much the same in
Venice. He did. That was the thing I was talking
about at the end of the match actually. Trick
Williams comes out and basically attacks Joe
Hendry. Well, he doesn't attack him. He kind
of pulls him off the turnbuckle, doesn't he?
the two of them just end up kind of running up
the ramp having a bit of a fight while the rest
of the other four get on with it in the ring
yeah then i suppose the big news story with this
one for me is that do we really have to have
another six man tag with dark state no i hope
not i mean dark state as it stands uh me and
rich have talked a lot off recording about it
it's a case that there's no character development
There's no personality and say one sugar is a
lazy fuck with that of the three tool three six
-man tag matches dark state of had Take one sugars
ain't being part of it. He's been at ringside.
They ain't actually been in a match yet Yeah,
it just and the other three are boring I'm not
gonna lie I'm gonna say it's fucking dog Butler
and Osiris look like they have the ability to
be Big superstars. But yeah, Saquon Sugars doesn't
have that ability and the other guy's name I
can't even piss and remember so it shows. Oh,
Dion Lennox. He probably should have stayed in
the NCAA and played football. They probably might
have gone a bit further. Not earned as much money,
but they might have gone a bit further. Well,
as it stands, Cutler James. Pretty sure he is
off the first season of LFG. Possibly. Osiris
Griffin, not a clue. No. Dion Lennox, I know
he's a football star of some description. And
Saquon Shuggers, he could be the... No, I'm not
going to say the next part. What about what I
said after I said it? What about what I said
after I said it? What about what I said after
I said it? What about what I said after I said
it? What about what I said after I said it? body
there's no character development and they're
just they were exciting to begin with because
they were new we didn't know who they were and
it's a case that we didn't know what their agenda
was yeah and about five six weeks down the line
we are in exactly the same position we still
don't know who they are we still don't know what
they've what they're like as what they're like
as individuals We don't know what their agenda
is, other than to kick shit out of anybody they
can possibly get their hands on. So yeah, what's
the point? So from what I can see here, Saquon
Sugars was in the indie circuit for a little
while under the name of Lucky Ali. He was actually
in AEW for a while as well. He debuted in 2022
in AEW. a taped match for AEW's Dark Elevation
where he lost to Frankie Kazarian. But yeah,
you've not seen, he's probably out of all of
them, he's probably the only one that's actually
a proper wrestler, I think. Like, I say proper
wrestler, he's had more experience with pro wrestling
and Saquon Sugar was also on NXT's Level Up last
year, he lost to Tabian Heights. And then had
a quite big knee injury. So yeah, that's why
we've not seen much of him Right, okay So Yeah,
I still don't feel like I know them any better.
It's still I can't say I can't say that anything
they do is on brand or on character for that
particular individual and yeah, like Dark states
just a bit of a letdown You've then got the other
side to this match where You've got the TNA world
heavyweight champion in Joe Hendry. Yeah, and
you've got the NXT tag team champions in Hank
and Tank We know who they are. We know what they
do and it's a case that Like one of that one
of that one one member of that trio in Joe Hendry
isn't even a part of the WWE. And we know who
he is. We've had Dark State on our screens for,
as I said, about five, six weeks now. Yeah, I
would agree with that. But the reason we know
who Joe Hendry is is because we believe in Joe
Hendry. And he's just incredibly over. The internet
side of it was something that I think they were
trying to push through and see if he's actually
as over as he is, as they think he is. And he
definitely is. WWE aren't doing Joe Hendry any
favors and they didn't do a Hank and Tanka favor
in this one either because Why do you have the
current tag champions and like you said the TNA
heavyweight champion losing to? nobodies Literally
Yeah, it's I Understand how they made the loss
more legitimate in the sense that trick Williams
came in drag Joe Hendry out leaving Hank and
Tank on their own, but these are, as you said,
they're four nobodies, they're four upstarts,
they're four rookies who have just taken out
the TNA Tag Team Champions. The NXT Tag Team
Champions and the TNA Heavyweight Champion. Yeah.
So these, I mean, yes, Dark State with this have
got a reasonable size feather in their cap. They
deserve it. Not in my opinion. Are we gonna see
them getting more reasonably large feathers in
their cap? Probably. Do they deserve it? Again,
not in my opinion. There's nothing that Dark
State have that anyone else in NXT needs. NXT
doesn't need Dark State, Dark State needs NXT.
Yeah, pretty much. That's the way I've looked
at it. yeah it's just not it it's not interesting
it's not it's not grabbing my attention anymore
yeah i mean when we first saw them it was like
oh what's this what's going on here oh they've
just beaten up Ricky Saints or they've just beaten
up you know Tony D 'Angelo or but now and they
didn't even have a particular pattern when they
were just running around kicking the crap out
of people either it was just like oh there's
a guy stood on his own let's kick the shit out
of him Yeah, you have similar issues similar
issues at English football games. Yes, for example
You have groups of people running round Groups
of people running round kicking the shit out
of random people. It's just the way it works
Yeah, but this wasn't it To be fair and we went
from this into a And I think that's all we really
need to say about that hand -to -hand tag match,
the six -man tag league there. We move on from
that with the dark state win into Karmen Petrovic
backstage talking to, I think, it wasn't Sarah,
was it Sarah Schreiber? No. Yes. Yes, it was
Sarah Schreiber. And, you know, you get sort
of like Jada Parker then kind of comes in and
basically have Karmen Petrovic say that. Jada
choked it stand and deliver and then we find
out from that that we're gonna see Carmen Petrucic
and Jada Parker are going one -on -one a little
bit later Which you know is a on paper could
be a half decent much Not gonna lie to you it
probably wasn't one of my matches of the day,
but it was On paper, it's got something. The
one match that I did really want to have a little
conversation about was the next match, actually,
which was the Kalani Jordan Zaria match. And
the reason I wanted to talk about this one is
because, yes, we've all seen what both of these
women can do. Every time Zaria comes out to the
ring, I become more of a fan. And I can't even
tell you why. It's just, yeah, she's a very talented
superstar, but she's very gripping as well. There's
something about the way she works that kind of
goes, ooh, I'm not gonna finish doing what I'm
doing. I'm gonna watch this match, which is not
something I normally find with the women wrestlers.
Normally, not too interested in their storylines,
especially. like you go back sort of the last
sort of if you take the last five years of women's
wrestling out of it when you know like and go
back to the point it was five years ago that
would have been the perfect opportunity during
a wwe show for me to go make a cup of tea and
i wouldn't have cared about what i missed so
really wasn't that interested but the zarya stuff
has kind of got me at the moment obviously you
see her working with soruka occasionally I'm
not sure how that's going to work now Soruka's
got her hands on. Is it the North American title
she had her hands on? Yes it is. Yeah so I'm
not sure how much we're going to see of them
in tag capacities now Soruka is currently holding
the women's North American title. But it could
be an interesting storyline in the build up to
that. I just hope they don't split them up. I
was actually quite enjoying watching them. Yeah,
there is an endearing quality to the pair of
them now I found out something this week as well
that I didn't know. Did you know Soruka was dating
Tyler Bate? Yes, I didn't I was like yes the
man from mustache mountain is is doing well for
himself Yeah, no and if we're gonna talk about
this match which honestly I wasn't intending
to There's not much here that I put down to be
fair. I just really enjoy watching Zarya. The
fact that she put Kalani Jordan through the barricade
was quite fun though. Yeah, do you know what?
The fact that Kalani Jordan is involved in this
match is sort of the reason why I don't want
to talk about it. I've said on numerous occasions
before that she's fucking dull. She's like Dark
State. She's had no character development. Her
storyline doesn't go very far in her own ring.
Capacity is not as good as it probably could
be No, the worst thing is is that Kalani Jordan
has had character development and she's still
doll The bitch is boring Like I'm I don't mean
to be rude or anything, but it's a case that
I Just don't I don't there's no excitement for
her to come out the most exciting crowd either
is that Like she's tried taking on a really mean
edge to her recently, which I thought, do you
know what, that'll inject some life into her
character. Nope. No, she's the most boring, mean
heel superstar I think I've ever known in my
life. We thought Becky Lynch's heel turn this
time round was bad. Kalani Jordan, welcome to
that number one spot. I'm sorry Becky Lynch's
heel turn this time round is bad but it's it's
not boring bad it's just bad yeah this is boring
bad yeah it's like I may be that it's not a it's
sort of a hill I'm willing to die on but Kalani
Jordan for the next round of cuts I just don't
I don't see that she's got any distance. I don't
see that she's got any distance in her character.
I don't think there's anything there. I mean,
yeah, no, I can I can probably get behind that.
The one thing that I am going to get behind,
though, was this next match. Now, before we go
into the next match, we did have a little backstage
thing with Tony D 'Angelo talking to Wesley Tyson
to point and a gentleman whose surname is Igwe,
but I can't remember his first name and I didn't
write it down. i'd have to look back through
my note back through my historic notes to find
that out yeah i would too but anyway yeah so
tony giangelo is is backstage talking to to these
three gentlemen wesley basically takes a cheap
shot at him and tony says well you know if you
think you're a tough guy we can go and go out
to the ring now if you want at which point wesley's
like i would but i've got a battle royale to
win And that Battle Royale is for the number
one contender ship at Ober Femi's NXT title at
Battleground. Yes. Yes. I just wanted to double
check. I didn't write that one down. I'm just
going off memory here. Tyreke Igwe. That's the
one. Yeah. It was bugging the shit out of me.
I thought it might do, but I didn't want to be
like, yep. I knew he'd go looking for it. I could
have googled it to be fair but I don't feel it
mattered quite as much as it did. So yeah like
I said we've got a battle royale for the number
one contender for Oberfemi's title at Battleground
and there is a few people within this match that
I did not expect to see here to be fair. One
of them being a former WWE superstar who quite
a few people would know from when he used to
like taking long walks. Obviously I'm talking
about the man who is now known as Elijah in TNA
but used to be known as Elias in WWE and obviously
everyone liked to walk with a light. This Bart
Royale was great to watch. I did really enjoy
watching it. There was a few people within it
that I was a little bit like, I'm kind of glad
that you've gone out quite quickly. Mainly one
like Ashanti Theodonis. Rick Williams slapped
that motherfucker so hard he basically back flipped
over the top rope and hit the floor. You know,
there was a part of this match where, like, this
was a 25 -man battle royale. So there were 25
human bodies in this ring, all competing to stay
in there at the same time. Yeah, we only got
three of them with entry music coming down to
the ramp. Yeah. Well, can you imagine sitting
through 25 entrances? Oh, no, no, I fully get
that. I do. but who backstage sits and goes right
i've got 25 homies here i'm allowed three entrances
who am i picking right because why did that have
to be ethan page for one of them i think we have
do we have we didn't have entry music for alias
but he did have a little he had an entrance yeah
it was it was him with his with his guitar Very
Jeff Jarrett like that guy very Jeff Jarrett
like that guy, but slightly more talented in
the ring and Yes, there wasn't I'm just trying
to think she had Ethan page Elias had one Was
it trick Williams that got one? Yeah, and I think
there was one more. I'm not a hundred percent
sure It's I don't think it's horrendously important
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go, hey dude, this is how it goes. Coming back
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keep track of who went out when. I did try, but
I gave up. Yeah, I got to number four and that
was about as far as I got. I also tried to do
it with the Andre the Giant Battle Royale over
WrestleMania weekend and my entire notes page
basically just turned into such and such eliminated
such and such. Such and such eliminated this
person. this person was eliminated by that person
and that person eliminated that person and that
person at the same time and it was all very like
yeah it was more notes on that that i think i've
ever written from one match in my entire life
so i basically just kind of went through to the
last four um after sean spears walked elijah
over the top rope to the back and uh trick williams
decided he was removing Yoshi Inamura and Ridge
Holland in one shot after Inamura was, well,
he was on the front end of a rather large fuck
up on his behalf, actually, because Inamura managed
to knock his tag team partner Josh Briggs off
the turnbuckle. Whilst he was trying to take
out rich Holland rich Holland. He was trying
to rip off it off the side Might have been someone
else but yet Josh Briggs was on the side busy
on the apron busy having a bit of fun with another
competitor when Your sheehee in a more accident.
He knocked him off and then yeah took rich Holland
out in one attempt in the same attempt So I think
that's the way I've written it. I believe it
was yeah Josh Briggs and rich Holland on the
outside We then saw Joe Hendry's - Before we
go any further, it's worth mentioning that later
on after this match finishes we do actually find
out that this 25 man number one contenders battle
royale I think is actually going to be Yoshiki
and Amura's last WWE match for a little while
as he announces his - He's going back to Japan,
which isn't the first time he's done something
like this. So I'm not sure how he did it once
before to try and get it. He did it once before
and guilt tripped Ava into giving him a into
giving him and Josh Briggs a NXT tag team title
opportunity. The only reason I'm not sure if
this is if. Why do I get the impression that
you'd have no notes or no memory of this? It
might have been when I was off ill at the beginning
of the year. No, it's more recent than that.
That might be one of the episodes that you've
done then. Towards the end of the last season
of Finishes and Fractions, it was getting to
a point where our scheduling was not lining up
to save our ass. So you actually got more episodes
with either one or the other one of us than you
did with both of us Which is part of the reason
why we decided a reformat was the best way to
do And yeah, we're gonna try this one for a little
while and see if it works a little bit better
for us Yeah, that's it. But yes, we'll come back
round to the match. Anyway, final four ended
up being Well, that was Ethan Page Javon Evans
and Miles Bourne. Yes. So I'm going to throw
it here. Does Miles Bourne look uncannily like
his father? It's not his dad. I know who you're
talking about. It's not his dad. Pretty sure
it is. They just look very similar. Because I
had to Google it. And Miles Bourne's parents
are undisclosed. So he's not Randy's? No. Fair
enough. Did you know he's the only partially
deaf wrestler employed by WWE? I do. Fun fact
view if you didn't know. I did even go to the
extent of researching why he's deaf, why he's
partially deaf, but it's moved on, so. Oh, that
is brilliant. Would that have something to do
with the condition he had when he was born, the
persistent pulmonary hypertension? That's the
one yeah, that's uh, that's not pleasant But
uh, no the fact that he's managed the fact that
he's managed to make it to all the way to WWE
Yeah, no and and do well So we get to the point.
Like we said the last four Ethan page. My was
born Sean Spears and Siobhan Evans and It finishes
So it finishes Miles Bourne ends up drop kicking
Ethan Page over the ropes after Javonna Evans
had been tossed out. Yes, Javonna Evans was the
first one to go leaving the final three of Miles
Bourne, Ethan Page and Sean Spears. Now, someone
threw Sean Spears over the top rope but both
feet didn't touch the floor. And then Miles Bourne
dropped kicked Ethan Page over the same rope
knocking Shawn Spears and Ethan Page onto the
floor, meaning that Miles Bourne is the winner
of the Battle Royale and becomes the number one
contender to over Femi's NXT Championship. I'm
not going to lie, out of the 25 people in that
Battle Royale, Miles Bourne is Probably number
24 of people I thought was going to win this
world by this this particular event Any person
I knew there were at least there were at least
five of them that I know I'd never heard of before
Well, there was a couple of guys from LFG in
there Yeah, there was two from LFG made an appearance
you had the two for TNA I only noticed Elijah
and There was there was more than that because
there was a guy with green hair who was formerly
of NXT that now operates in TNA He was having
an issue with someone in the ring when it was
he was getting he was having disagreements with
But there was also two from evolve. Yes, which
I haven't actually watched any of but I haven't
one of them was one of them was Ejected rather
quickly The other one gentleman by the name of
Sean legacy made it to I think he made it to
the final six in the end I think he was eliminated
by Javon Evans in the in the end as it goes so
but Yeah, Javon Evans gets ejected from the ring
by both Sean Spears and Ethan Page. And then
Miles Bourne manages to double eliminate both
Spears and Page out of the ring to win the Battle
Royale. And yeah, as it goes, I wouldn't have
called that one to go with it, but it is laying
up a rather interesting storyline coming up.
Because miles born there's been a bit of a quiet
member of the no quarter catch crew Yeah, so
obviously the no quarter catch crew is miles
born Charlie Dempsey Tavion Heights and The last
person it's four, isn't it? Yeah, there is And
I can't remember a name either Wren Sinclair
That's the one yeah, so yeah, we had all three
of these guys She was Charlie Dempsey in the
match. I know Tavian Heights was in the battle
royale Charlie Dempsey was eliminated third By
it with no help from Miles Bourne as it goes
It's one of the it's one of the reasons why it
sets up a rather unique Or a rather interesting
storyline art coming up for it. It does. And
I'm actually a little bit intrigued by how they're
gonna do this. And I think it's gonna be interesting
how they do it as well. But before we get to
that, we do have a little conversation backstage
with Jordan Grace and Sarah Schreiber. And I
did not realize, compared to some of the other
women in the women's division, how short is Jordan
Grace? I know, right? I'm so glad it wasn't just
me. So Jordan Grace is having a conversation
with Sarah Schreiber about the fact that she
has to have a match against Julia to go on to
face, the winner of that match goes on to face
Stephanie Baker at Battleground for the NXT women's
title. and Izzy Dames comes in on one side and
Lash Legend comes in on the other one and compared
to these two women Jordan Grace is tiny like
she doesn't the top of her head doesn't even
come up to the bottom of Izzy Dames boobs that's
how short Jordan Grace is and Lash Legend I'm
not sure if she's been in the gym a little bit
more recently but fuck me she's Chunked up a
little bit and it's not like oh my god She's
been eating too many doughnuts and she's got
she fucking built like a brick shithouse Like
like Jordan braces as well, but lush legends
huge Lash legends has always been that way in
fairness I have just been the camera angles sometimes
that you look at her and don't think she's as
big as she is but she wide like she I'm a big
bloke like I think I'm about six to six three
so like mmm, probably closer to 200 pounds than
I should be and She makes me look tiny and I'm
not exactly a small bloke It was um, yeah, it
was a an interest in one It's basically finishes
with Jordan grace saying that once she's won
the title the battleground she'll be back for
both of Izzy for both Izzy Dame and lash legend
on the other side and That leads us in to Was
that Jada Parker versus Carmen Petrovich? Yeah,
Jada Parker. Jada Parker versus Carmen Petrovich
was the next match. Big story out of this one
was, or more of the big story out of this one
is that since the Netflix era began, Carmen Petrovich
has been carrying on with Ashanti Adonis. They've
broken up now haven't they? They have yes and
yeah I think this is basically them trying to
find out if Carmen Petrova is strong enough to
stand on her own almost. Yeah and from this match
I would say no. Yeah, no actually I think at
this point you could probably add Carmen Petrovich
to the same list as Kalani Jordan is on for the
next round of cuts I am not going to be that
quick to add her to that list only because I
feel like she's It's it's not been long enough
for her to have been on her own for us to have
seen everything there is to see from her She
was an interesting competitor when she had a
shanty Adonis at ringside Bearing in mind that
a shanty Adonis didn't really do an awful lot
Yeah, no, he wasn't ready. I don't think I've
actually seen him in In is he being an in -ring
competition? No, that's one point. Yeah, he's
been spending a lot of time backstage and Like
the back of promos and things like that. But
yeah Could he be one to go soon as well? I think
he might be. I think he is going to be. Unless
something happens drastically, he will most likely
be in the next round of cuts whenever they happen
to be. We can only speculate on cuts We don't
want anybody to lose their jobs because it's
not a very nice thing to do both me and rich
have lost jobs before now Yes, not with the sort
of pay that these guys get No, I think I'd have
been more pissed off if I'd have lost the pay
that these guys are on to be quite honest, but
But yeah, it's never a nice thing because it
leaves their families and themselves in uncertain
circumstances in some cases, especially when
WWE superstars lose their job as they're subject
to at least a 30 -day non -compete clause. Yeah,
so that was quite a big change brought in with
Triple H, actually, where it used to be under
Vince. It was 90 days. If you left WWE or WWE
told you to go fuck yourself and leave, three
months without being able to appear anywhere
else must have really hurt financially unless
they were being paid for that 90 days to make
up for it. But the fact that Triple H has reduced
it down to a 30 -ball period actually makes it
a lot better for the talent that are working
there, which means... That you know, we soon
get an opportunity to see guys like Braun Strowman
on different promotions I really hope he doesn't
go all elite but probably could and some of the
other guys that were released in the previous
cuts after WrestleMania Braun Strowman actually
is gonna be starring on a cooking show Braun
Strowman is going to be starring on a cooking
show. Yes, that's funny because the Miz has just
announced today that he's going to be the host
for the American Gladiator. Yep. Which means
he might be off TV for a while and I can't think
of anything better. Yeah hopefully they snatch
him away for good. I mean to be fair he's been
doing alright kind of giving Carmelo Hayes a
little bit of a push and he's been useful there
but now Carmelo Hayes has got the Andre the Giant
battle royale behind him. You know the match
that was brought in to give Superstars that needed
a bit of a push a push that they don't actually
get but um Yeah We'll see what where that one
goes in with it with this one though it ended
up with Jada Parker winning what was quite an
easy match to be fair and She also manages to
land a few on Thea Hale who came out to help
Jada Carmen Petrovich as well See I'm really
I'm still really interested by Thea Hale. It's
a case that I'm genuinely interested to find
out what they're going to use her for now that
she's come back. She's a former Chase U alumni.
That was something I was going to bring up actually
because I haven't made any notes about it but
we do see Andre Chase in this episode. Along
with the two guys whose names I can never fucking
remember that are basically just the chase you
ass kisses. I know one of them is Cale Dixon.
Yeah, that is... I only recognise the name because
you've said it. I wouldn't be able to point at
the TV and be like, Mum, Mum, that's Cale Dixon.
You know what I mean? Worrying about why you
would go to your mum, to be quite honest. Yeah,
I mean, yeah. But yes, we see we're seeing a
lot of promotional material for the return of
chase you as that seems to be official now They're
gonna bring that back. Well, he's got new uniform.
He's in a track suit rather than a polo shirt
and a jumper. I Mean, it's better than him being
the gravy stained shirt. He was in before. Is
that the one we had the frickin who was that
match against? He got squashed by someone but
was it over family? Was it moose? I don't think
it was moose either. Either way, he got squashed
by someone a few weeks back. Yeah he did. But
squashed pretty hard. Might have been Trick Williams
actually. Javon Evans. It was, yeah. It was one
of the big NXT four that we see a lot of. And
we then are told in a backstage segment that
with Ava and Joe Hendry, Basically, Ava is dressing
Joe Hendry down and then says, actually, you
know what, I've spoken to Santino Morello, who
we should all recognize who is currently the
TNA general manager. Is he the TNA GM or is he
one of the like the... He's the head of authority.
is official job title. But even that, I've seen
bits from TNA recently, even that's in contention.
So yeah, we won't go into that too much just
because I don't know an awful lot about it. And
we are a WWE based podcast, not TNA based podcast.
At the moment, we could probably in the future,
if they decided to add another four or five hours
to the day, pull. a bit of TNA and a bit of AEW
out there. I don't want to do AEW myself because
I'd spend all the time talking about the timeless
one. And you guys don't need to know about the...
The obsession. The obsession. Yeah. Or we all
adore. Right. But yeah. And so it works out that
at Battleground for the first time ever... a
TNA title is being defended on a WWE programming.
So, Javon, not Javon Evans, Trick Williams and
Joe Hendry are going one on one for the TNA heavyweight
title at Battleground. Now, I think that is gonna
be a cracking match. A phenomenal match, so to
speak. Yeah, it could be. It could be. It depends
on how they play it. It does. It does. I mean,
I don't think we're going to see a WWE star holding
a TNA title at this time. I think it's a five
year deal they've got between the two brands.
I don't think they're going to do it in the first
six months. If they do do it, if they had done
it in the first six months, I think they probably
would have tried to do it on the grandest stage
of them all. or one of the top four pay -per
-views. So it could either be SummerSlam, Royal
Rumble, mainly at the end of this year, next
year. I don't think we're gonna have it done
at something like Battleground. I really don't
think that's the way they're gonna do it. I think
it might surprise you. I mean, I'm always down
to be surprised. I'm always down to be surprised.
It's the joys of professional wrestling, I suppose.
The next bit, we had a promo from a team called
OTM, which I know a buck all about. So I'm hoping
Adam's done some research or he knows who they
are. No, it was not a highlight of NXT for me,
so I didn't bother. Yeah, so we had an OTM promo,
saw a little bit of Wesley on the phone talking
about some bait being taken. We then see that
little bit from Yoshiki Inamura where he tells
Josh Briggs that he's failed him a few too many
times and he's going back to Japan and the few
members of the culling that are left basically
pop into one side and say hey I think you could
be the problem here dude and sort of have a little
word with Josh Briggs which is an interesting
line of action to take because I haven't really
seen anything from Josh Briggs that would make
it look like he's the problem at all. But we
will see where that storyline goes. And then
like we alluded to earlier with Miles Bourne
winning the Battle Royale, we have a backstage
segment with No Quarter Catch Crew celebrating
and Charlie Dempsey saying, Miles Bourne won
the battle royale for the team but it will be
Charlie Dempsey that is taking on Oberfammy at
Battleground at which point Miles Bourne's a
little bit like um excuse me my good sir but
I believe you can go fuck yourself that would
be my opportunity that I've earned and then basically
feeding Charlie Dempsey to the beast himself
when Oberfammy comes in to the uh into the picture
basically just to congratulate Miles Bourne on
winning the battle royale and saying us I'll
see you at battleground and uh yeah Miles Bourne
says that uh basically just replete some of the
stuff that Charlie Dempsey has said about how
he'd love to to kick his head around and he's
just a bit bit soft and uh at which point Charlie
Dempsey starts to sort of cower back and well
I didn't say that no that's not what I said and
um And Miles says, well, you know, next week,
Charlie, you can show me how to deal with Oberfemi.
And he'll see Oberfemi at Battleground. So yeah,
what was supposed to have been Charlie Dempsey
taking that opportunity off Miles Bourne and
using it to further his own career has basically
turned into Charlie Dempsey is going to get his
ass whooped by Oberfemi next week as a warmup,
but Oberfemi whooping Miles Bourne's ass. Because
I am going to throw it, if... Miles Bourne takes
that title off Boba Femi at Battleground. I'd
rather have seen Jevon Evans take it off him
at Stand and Deliver. Yeah, I've got to admit
that I was pleasantly surprised by how they went
about getting With the winner of the battle royale
the fact that they're now sort of playing into
it which makes a lot more sense it's yeah, I'm
I Wholeheartedly endorse these messages as it
goes. It's so It it's opening so many more doors,
which some of the lower card guys as well Yeah,
it just feels like the main roster could stand
to learn from what NXT are doing? Yes, I would
completely agree with that, especially when all
we've seen when it comes to the NXT title recently
has been, well, since Moose had a go at trying
to take it off Oberfemi, it's literally just
been Javon Evans and Tripp Williams. And I do
like watching all three of these superstars.
over Femi and Javon Evans a little bit more than
Trick Williams because I am not one of those
guys that wants to pump that trick. I'm actually
quite bored of Trick Williams. He's NXT's version
of Drew McIntyre, I think. He's just a white
little bitch. I feel very much the same way.
Since he lost his title at New Year's Evil, it
was the case that - First ever NXT programming
that finishes in factions did, by the way. Yes.
Back when we didn't know who any fucker was.
It's a case ever since. Ever since. All we've
seen is Trick Williams try again and again and
again and again and fail every single time. As
far as I'm concerned, Trick Williams is the Drew
McIntyre of NXT. He's just a crying, whingey
little bitch. Drew McIntyre wished he got as
many opportunities as Trick Williams could. I
mean that's a very good point. Talking about
opportunities though, our final match of the
evening was between Julia and Jordan Grace for
an opportunity to meet Stephanie Vacare at Battleground
for the women's NXT title. And my notes for this
were not very big at all. I basically just got
here that Jordan Grace walked out of this one
victorious. and I think the only reason she did
this is because Julia's got a concussion because
there were two moves that happened in this match
that I spotted and there could be more where
poor Julia got bounced off the top of her skull
or the back of her head a lot harder than she
should have done. I generally think that This
much could have been a damn sight better if those
two I'm not gonna call them botches I think I'm
gonna refer to them as miss moves because Yeah,
she completely missed the move and dropped Julia
scurrying her fucking dome Like quite drastically
as well. She may not be very tall Jordan grace
But when you're being dropped on your head from
four and a half feet in the air, it's still gonna
work. Oh 100 % and there's still damage to be
done there for it. It's I'm not sure though if
it was a set up or if they were missed matches
or missed moves sorry whether they were they
were purposefully missed if it was a shit or
not yeah whether it was done to try and enhance
the storyline I don't think it was I'm just concerned
that Jordan Grace is gonna take the title off
Stephanie Baker and someone in the near future
is gonna end up injured because it's not the
first time in the last few weeks that she's mismatched
a move and it looked as though it's gone quite
wrong. Yeah, I sort of know what you mean. I
don't think they're ready to lift the title off
Stephanie just yet. Yeah, I really hope they
don't to be fair. I think she's doing a phenomenal
job, you know, being the base of the women in
NXT. And I actually think Stephanie's probably
doing a slightly better job being the face of
NXT than Oberfamily. Which is strange, like I
said earlier in the episode, I'm not normally
a big fan of women's wrestling, but Stephanie
May Kerr is a very talented woman. And the fact
that they chose her to be the double champ over
Julia as well shows a big thing by NXT. Yes,
Julia is currently getting to play in Raw and
occasionally, but yeah, Stephanie. Yeah, it's
probably the better wrestler but she's doing
so well with NXT at the moment. I think they'd
be stupid to try and move her up there unless
they've got someone to step in as the face of
women's wrestling in NXT. And we sure as fuck
know that's not gonna be Kalani Jordan taking
her spot. I certainly fucking hope not. It'd
be another Roman Reigns situation. But yeah,
no, Stephanie Vega is not ready yet to move up
to or it is not her time. I'm not going to say
she's not ready because 100 % she could move
up to the main roster tomorrow and do really
well. You mean like tracks whom have done the
right way? Yeah. I'm not going to spoil too much
because they're going to be in the Smackdown
section of this episode. But yeah, no, Stephanie
Raker has definitely got a lot more to do in
NXT, but she's definitely got the ability to
go in and make a massive impact on the main roster
when she goes to main roster. Well, while we
mentioned Fraxiom, it may well be the best way
to say that, yeah, we know that Jordan Grace
walks out of this match victorious. It's a case
that she is going... She's the number one contender.
She goes on to face Stephanie at Battleground,
which, do you know what? I'm actually really
rather looking forward to that match. I'm not
going to disagree with you there either. I'm
definitely looking forward to that on myself.
But for me, I think that is the end of our NXT
coverage for the week. And we will make a crack
on with SmackDown. All right, so we will move
quickly into this week's episode of SmackDown.
And this was from Dayton, Ohio. A little bit
WWE trivia for you here, Adam. This is the place
where Hulk Hogan lost his title to Yokozuna.
many, many years ago. Learned something new every
day. We won't dwell in history for too long.
We won't. Yeah, plenty to talk about and not
much time to talk about it in. So, yeah, I mean,
first match. The first match. Before the first
match or? No, we went straight into the first
match. It was, yeah, which was Damian Priest
and LA Knight versus Jacob Fatu and Solo Sikola.
in tag team action. Which is a main event quality
match and we are opening the card with this and
then I think the reason I latched onto this match
so much because yeah the match itself was decent.
It was. It's just a case that it was more of
a case that this was the match we got to open
Smackdown with whereas nothing in Smackdown was
Nothing in Monday Night Raw was anywhere near
this good No, and the night before backlash as
well where you expect everything to be toned
down a little bit because the guys are going
into a PLE the night after and especially, you
know, we've with this first match we've already
got three of You know the one of the matches
in this match for the for the first time as well.
So And they're the only person that's missing
would be swapping solo Sakura out for mr. Makin
cryer and Who does make an appearance towards
the end of the match this one was kind of really
kind of setting up where la night and Damien
priest to kind of Get themselves a little bit
heat for tomorrow night. I think a little bit
of anger a little bit pissed off a little bit
typical dysfunctional tag team. We used to have
this with team hell no. It was a case that they
can't stand one another, but they won anyway.
Yeah, without having to go into too much detail.
Like you said, yeah, they can't stand each other.
They won anyway. It worked. And then it kind
of... I don't know, apart from the fact that
it was just generally, it was a decent match,
but there wasn't a huge amount of stuff within
it to tell you about. I was actually more interested
in the second match on the card for this one
as well, to be fair, which was again, another
tag match. I mean, oddly enough, so was I, and
I know precisely why you were. Well, yeah, I
was excited for this one because we got to see
Zelina Vega wrestling some tag action considering
she's just won the women's United States title,
you know, as a singles competitor. It's nice
to see her in a bit of tag action. It's also
nice when you have to get to see Chelsea Green
and Piper Nevins stuck in a situation where they
could possibly lose, which is more common and
not. But yeah, the reason I was looking forward
to this and I saw a spoiler on on social media
before I got round to watching it. And it was
because the one and only Alexa Bliss made her
return to SmackDown this week. Yeah, so she competed
alongside Zelina Vega in her first match, her
first appearance, well, her first match, who?
We haven't seen her since Royal Rumble. Oh no,
she was in the elimination chamber, wasn't she?
She was in the elimination chamber. And this
is, I've got to admit, I'm reading at the moment
from WWE's own coverage and even they're saying
that it was her first time competing since the
Royal Rumble. So even they seem to have forgotten
that she was in the elimination chamber. I don't
think she, yeah, she was in the elimination chamber.
Yeah, according to Google, it's just done that.
WWE have fucked up, haven't they? We'll point
that out to their social media team. Then I would
remember they fired half of them last week. So
Yeah, that's probably why that mistake was made.
Um, but yeah, this one was was quite nice. Um,
obviously Anytime Alexa Bliss comes back to the
to the WWE. It's a good thing. Um The only big
bits I picked up at this match was Selena Vega
hit a stacked up 619 on both Chelsea Green and
Piper Nevin Which was It takes a lot to be able
to swing yourself around Piper Nevin to hit Chelsea
Green in the face. Yeah, pretty much. And then
Alexa Bliss managed to pull off the win with
the sister Abigail DDT onto Chelsea Green. Chelsea
Green? Yeah. 100%. So we're going to keep, yeah,
Smackdown, we're going to keep short and sweet
because Smackdown was pretty much short and sweet
with the new format. We're trying to kind of...
Change that instead of giving you the play -by
-play. It's more of a storyline change There
wasn't much for storyline to this apart from
the fact that Alexa bliss has come back It'd
be interesting to see whether we see her next
week or whether this is just a little one -off
appearance until She's ready to come back as
it was her home state of Ohio that we were in
Well, this is the thing and it's not it's not
the last time we see it tonight, but if we move
forward and so and talk about what happens next
which is the Do you know what actually the so
we actually get an in -ring promo from Fucking
Charlotte Flair we do but before that we see
Los Garza kick the living shite out of a ray
Phoenix backstage and We have andrade coming
in to check on him. So there is still quite a
big chunk of beef between Santos Escobar and
Los Garza and Rey Fenix at the moment. We will
keep you updated on how that one goes. Yes. As
it goes with the Charlotte Flair promo, that
was actually pretty short and sweet, thankfully,
because it was a case that she came out, basically
gave props to Tiffy who Beat her at WrestleMania
Must have that must have stung a little bit Well,
the thing is is that Tiffany pointed it out during
the run -up is that Charlotte Flair went into
that match with the most most to lose Either
way, he was protected No, and her character was
protected and it was nice. But yeah, once she
got booed out of the ring Rona toys out of the
priority. It was brilliant. Charlotte Flair gets
booed harder than Hulk Hogan It is brilliant.
We should start calling her Charlotte Hogan.
But yeah, no, she got booed out, threw her toys
out the pram again. And I'm pretty sure there's
gonna be an injury coming soon followed by a
divorce, you know. There seems to be a cycle.
We then see her. No, she hasn't. She's only just
got rid of the last victim, poor Andrade. But
yeah, no, we see her backstage arguing with Nick
Aldis. And he basically says look you need to
grow up and stop throwing your toys at the pram
at which point she kind of walks off towards
her SUV going take me to the airport and then
door shuts and Little Miss Bliss has got out
of the back of Charlotte Flair's SUV and is staring
her down. I think I'd love to see Charlotte Flair
and Alexa Bliss have something else go on just
have Alexa Bliss beat her and hopefully retire
Charlotte Flair. Oh, that would be nice. I look
forward to that day. Um, but what we got on the
back of the in -ring promo was, um, do you know
what? I'd actually class this as a bit of a,
I think this is some people's idea of a dream
match realistically, because we had, uh, Nia
Jax versus Jade Cargill, two of the most powerful
women in the WWE today. Faced off in a ring in
a WWE women's titles number one contenders match
and From what I can remember of this match. It
was a case that Jade Cargill pretty much had
it won. Yes It was only Up until there was some
interference wasn't there? Yeah, so we had some
interference from Naomi Yeah, I didn't I haven't
got written down what she did, but she was definitely
Definitely there. Well Tiffy was out at ringside
to watch the number one contenders match. Yeah,
she was sat next to commentary wasn't she sat
next to Wade Barrett Naomi came out to to attack
Tiffy she attacked Tiffy at ringside distracted
Jade who then got taken down by Naya Jax and
an annihilator. So Naya Jax is now the number
one contender for Tiffy's Women's World Championship.
Which is nice because obviously Tiffy cashed
in that money in the bank briefcase to remove
it from Naya's possession coming up to a year
later because money in the bank is three weeks
away this weekend. We're gonna have a rematch
at Money in the Bank, I think. This is gonna
be beautiful. Yeah, I just hope that they don't
drop the title back to Nia Jax for it, because
it would just invalidate everything that Tiffy's
done. Yeah, I completely agree with that. She
needs to keep it a little bit longer. Yeah. And
she needs to lose it. Yeah, to be fair, you can
drop it to anyone but Nia Jax. Don't. Even if
she drops it to Jade Cargill at SummerSlam. Oh,
that could be that. Oh, I like that. That's not
a bad shout. Jade Cargill at SummerSlam. Talking
about sort of like, you know, we're up and coming
guys coming through. with Jade Cargill being
one of those that we've not seen a lot of her,
but she's dumped herself right to some pretty
major storylines and doing very well for herself.
Someone else who's doing very well for themselves
with their recent move to SmackDown actually
would be Fraxium. The former NXT tag team title
holders look like they've pretty much made their
full -time main roster run a thing. this is the
third week in a row that we've seen them on smackdown
and uh they've uh they've gotten called out the
street profits well they came out during a street
profits in -ring promo which not only was painful
for the street profits to uh to perform it was
a case that it was painful to watch as well yeah
after the tlc match that these guys won to retain
their championship uh on um it was the friday
night smackdown before wrestlemania these guys
are still hurting it was that match should have
been on the wrestlemania card triple h you fucked
up yeah 100 um it's a case though that the uh
That yeah, Fraxium come out. They basically talk
themselves. They're trying to talk themselves
into a title match But instead end up talking
themselves into a non title match against the
champions Which we both we all know you win against
the champions in a non title match You're pretty
much guaranteed a future title shot. Well, pretty
much and that's what happened They went They
did they did and it was yeah, it was nuts I quite
enjoyed it. I really did enjoy it. The next match
I didn't think so much of. My notes for this
one are very much one line. The next match was
Carmelo Hayes versus Aleister Black. Aleister
Black won the match. It was a half decent match.
Wasn't great, wasn't amazing, either or. And
to make things slightly better for it, the Miz
managed to run in at the end and eat yet another
black mass. The next match was Los Garza versus
Andrade and Rey Fenix. All I can tell you from
this was it was a pretty even match, but Rey
Fenix and Andrade came out of that one. And we
did have a little segment in there before that
match started. It's like we had the competitors
come out, went to the segment. where we see Motor
City Machine Guns telling Fraxi and they did
really well in their match. And you know, it's
going to be the two of them teams together taking
over the tag team division and DIY basically
come in and give them both an ass whooping and
backstage and leave them there. And then we pretty
much get to the main event of the evening, which
I'm not going to lie to you. Didn't think was
that great. The main section of it, the main
match. The main event of the evening when it
comes to matches was the Los Garza -Andrade -Ray
-Phoenix match, which did not live up to the
hype it should do for the last match on the card.
But the final promo at the end with John Cena
was half decent, to be fair. Yeah, so it is a
case that John Cena come out and cut a pretty
standard John Cena heel promo, to be quite honest.
I don't need this. I don't need you. I'm the
last real champion and Randy Orton hasn't got
a hope in freaking hell of taking me down at
Blacklash. I mean, someone did try to take him
down. I thought it was Miles Bourne, but Adam
said it wasn't Miles Bourne. No, but there is
a theory that it could be either So it was pointed
out to me by somebody else that it could be one
of two people and there's very I sort of can't
deny the logic behind it one of them's ricochet
No The other one is Sean Spears from NXT I mean,
it can definitely... It's down to the tattoo
work on the assailant's arm. Yeah, well, we all
know that it's more than likely going to be Sean
Spears because Ricochet is busy bashing WWE on
Twitter at the moment because he's a ballad.
But yeah, and then after that master assailant
attempted an RKO, Cena is... kind of holding
his title up and then all of a sudden randy orton
comes out and pops him with one instead so he
did get to eat that slice of humble pie which
is always good fun but uh that was pretty much
smackdown in a nutshell i haven't got much more
for it either to be fair it was pretty smackdown
this week was the better of the three shows but
it wasn't yeah with nxt in the close second but
smackdown weren't great NXT would have been better
if some of the matches they had in there just
weren't there. I think that's the easiest way
to put it. If they had different matches, it
would have been better. No, if they just took
it taken out, it was the miles born winning the
battle royale that really kind of confused me
to be fair. They just didn't seem to be fluid.
I think we're going to see, with that we're going
to see We're going to see that come good, I can
promise you. I hope so. That's going to be an
interesting storyline. I hope so, but until the
next episode, ladies and gentlemen, which will
be finishes and factions, does backlash, I think
that's all from me. Adam? Yeah, and that's all
from me as well. Peace out, homies. See you at
backlash.