WWE Raw 12/22/25 Review | Austin Theory Is UNMASKED, But Does He Have A Real Future Now? - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh wwe gave me an early Christmas present. Tonight. We
had a taped show that I could fast forward through.
I love it. I love it. Between all of the
entrances and all of the ads. That's half the show
gone right there. It's perfect. Austin Theory was the mass man.

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We saw him at the end of the show last week,
and so the question coming into this show here tonight
was is he officially a member of the Vision or
is he sort of a vigilante like Sting but without
the makeup and not as cool. And he ended up
being a part of Team Vision in the main event tonight,

(00:42):
effectively auditioning for a role in the group, and he
won the match for his team. It was Austin Theory
and Bronton Reed taking on CM Punk and Raymistereo, and
he picked up a win. So we still don't know
if he is officially a member of the Vision or not,
but obviously he is ingratiating himself very well to Paul
Hayman in this group Gunther again not making any friends. Tonight,

(01:06):
he came out and basically did the same thing he
did last week. The only difference is they censored him
this time. Apparently Netflix doesn't like the word bitch. But
beyond that, he didn't do a whole hell of a
lot different than what we saw him do last week.
We had some drama between the women of the Judgment Day.

(01:27):
There really isn't a whole lot else to speak of
when it comes to the show. This was not much
of a show. This was a taped holiday episode of Raw.
Everything is building towards January fifth, that is when we
are getting the Cmpunk bron breaker match for the World
Heavyweight Championship, and until then, I don't expect a whole
hell of a lot to be happening on these shows.
I got this episode of Raw tonight done in seventy

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five minutes, so it's a beautiful thing, I must say.
Of course, it's not so beautiful when you think of
what's coming. Not this fry, but next Friday. It's like
a slow moving iceberg and there's nothing you can do.
We're not there yet. This is your Raw on Netflix review.
It is December twenty second, twenty twenty five. I am

(02:15):
the solemn monster. Let it snow, Let it snow. Yes,
Christmas is coming up this week. Brian, I feel you. Brian.
Brian's like man, Raw was so boring. Raw was so boring.
I am still dealing with a sore throat, by the way,
so it's gonna take a miracle for me now to
choke to death here during this stream. So I have

(02:37):
no issue with a quicker edition of Raw, believe me.
But thank you for all the great feedback to the
sound off this weekend. Now it's been I'm trying to
think like the last time I did the Flagship sound Off,
the main Sunday SoundOff, where it went almost three hours, like,
I haven't done a show that long in a very
long time. So we covered a lot of ground, including

(03:00):
the year and review and the award stuff. So if
you missed any of it, that is up for you
when you're done here to go back and listen to
either tonight or tomorrow. A lot of good stuff in there.
But thank you for all of the positive feedback to that.
Like and subscribe. Superchats are open. We got a bunch
of them that came in earlier, so I will be
reading your messages. We'll have plenty of time for that.

(03:23):
I don't know that we're going to be hitting the
goal for be the Booker tonight. It just might be
one of those nights. But we'll see. We'll see again.
Four hundred likes is the minimum, and we'll see if
we get there. There's a brand new superchat that I
posted as well to new thirty five dollars one. It's
in the description down below. Just FYI. So with all

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that housekeeping out of the way, let us get into
this show here. Thank you, Alvin. Alvin says he liked
my video ranking John Cena's best matches. Yeah, that went
up last week. Those are what I believe to be
the fifteen best matches of John Seena's career. So it's

(04:04):
been a while since I did countdowns, and so you
got one last week, and you're gonna get one next
week because I'm doing my top ten or fifteen matches
of twenty twenty five. That'll be on the sound off
next Sunday. So you're getting like countdown Madia here at
the end of the year. The show was taped on Friday.
The show that aired tonight here on Netflix. It was
taped on Friday, so the announcers were Michael Cole and

(04:24):
Corey Graves. There was no Joe Tessitur and there was
no way Barrett in the back. As the Vision entered,
Paul Hayman told the bronze do you guys go ahead?
Because he saw that standing off to the side was
Austin Theory, who we saw at the very end of
the show last week. Hayman asked him, what the hell

(04:46):
are you doing? Theory said that he wore the mask
because he wanted everyone to feel his actions before they
saw his face. Said, he's made some mistakes in the past.
He's got he got comfortable before he got got injured.
He appreciated that the Vision did not just wait around.
They go and they take, They take what they want.

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Theory said that was him now. He knew the Vision
had a tag team match later on tonight, and so
he wanted to take that opportunity to help out and
Hayman he was skeptical, but he was intrigued as he
walked off, and then it was off to the opening match,
which saw Rheo Ripley against Osca. This was a wrestle

(05:27):
Mania thirty seven rematch. How many of you remember that
that was the first Mania coming out of Covid. In
the back, though, before the match, Rio was talking to
EO Sky and she asked EO to stay in the back.
You stay back here, you're not one hundred percent. She
was concerned because Eo was nursing her back. If you
remember last week she took the bullet for Rhea, remember

(05:50):
when she just laid on top of her and she
took an insane elbow right to the spine. So she
told el stay in the back. Late in this match,
Rheo was motioning for a razor edge and Oscar rolled out.
She got a two coup. Oscar got caught by Rhea, though,
and they were jostling around on the apron until Oscar
hit a German suplex on the apron. She went up

(06:13):
top and she ended up jumping right into a Rhea
superkick right to the face. So Rhea knead her out
of the ring and then hit a cannon ball off
the apron. Rhea goes up top and Kyrie saying, who
is out there in Oscar's corner? Of course they are
the women's tag team champions. She goes up top or
up on the apron rather, and she crotches Rhea, who

(06:35):
was on top. She trips her up off the ropes,
so that brings out Eo Sky. She can't help herself,
even though Rhea said stay in the back. She comes
limping out. She's holding her back as she makes her
way down to the ring. So Eo takes out Kyrie.
But then Kyrie comes back and takes out EO's leg
as EO was standing on the apron, and so when

(06:59):
Eo gets trip or you know, on the apron, she
lands on her back right. See this is why Ria
told her stay in the back. Do not come out here.
You're a liability, you're hurt, You're not one hundred percent
neither am I. But see I'm working anyway. I'm doing
this stream. People don't listen. This is the message here.

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People don't look after their health enough. They're too concerned
about what everybody else thinks, or what everybody what's going
on with everybody else. They got to look out for
themselves a little bit more. They got to take care
of themselves. I gotta take my own advice. Ria goes
over to check on Kyrie to see how she is,
and this distraction allows Oscar to sneak up behind her

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and roll her up for the win. So Osca picks
up the win here over Rhea Ripley. Solid stuff from
these two here before the nonsense here at the finish.
I mean, look, it's about time the Champions actually won
a fucking match. They won those tag team titles over
a month ago. I don't think they've won a single

(08:02):
match since, either as a team or individually until tonight.
I know, Kyrie's taken a whole bunch of losses, and
actually the Champions they got beat straight up, I think
by Lash Legend and Naya Jackson Friday. So this was
an overdue win here for the Women's Tag Team Champions.
As far as Ria NEEO, I have somebody in the

(08:23):
chat ass Is this the start of some kind of
split between them? I know, I don't think so. I
don't believe that to be the case. Backstage, the Bronze
were skeptical about Austin Theory being a part of this thing.
Paul Hayman said that he had a vision for Theory,
so tonight it would be Theory in Bronson Reid taking

(08:44):
on Raymistereo and Cmpunk, and either Austin Theory carries out
their vision or the two of them make sure they
carry theories ass out of WWE. Becky Lynch was back.
She's been boycotting this year show there were weeks where
I wish I could boycott this show. But Becky comes

(09:05):
out she's been boycotting this show ever since she, in
her mind, got screwed out of the Intercontinental Championship by
Maxine Duprie. She said, Maxine is not the legitimate champion.
She is the real Intercontinental Champion. She knows the fans
are upset about all of this corruption, and if Petty

(09:26):
Pierce won't do anything about it, she knows some very
powerful people who will. Hey, Alvin, thank you for the superchat, brother.
I appreciate that. She went to her good friends at Netflix.
She says, the big wigs, the biggest of whigs, and
they told her you need to be you need to

(09:47):
go to Miserable Michigan. That's where they were tonight. So
of course the crowd booed, and she said, they told
me I need to go to Grand Rapids, which by
the way, I haven't seen a single rapid, very misleading.
You have to go there and take matters into your
own hands, and that's what she's going to do. So
Maxine's music interrupted, and she had a microphone, and she

(10:10):
made her way out to the ring and she says,
I will admit Sports Illustrated was right. Becky is the
greatest of all time and she is but just a
just a rookie, she says. But let's not forget that
this rookie beat the greatest of a rookie. I mean,
by the way, she's been on television for like two

(10:31):
or three years. Now, at what point do you stop
being a rookie? I mean, she makes it, Sally, she
just debuted, you know, six months ago. It's called a job, brother,
Why don't why don't she just stop doing your job
and see how that goes for you? Okay, Well, why
do people ask stupid questions? Don't make stupid comments. So anyway,

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she says, Look, the rookie beat the greatest of all time,
she says, But she says, I didn't just beat you.
I beat you three times. She knows Becky wants a
shot at her title again, as she can have in
any time, any place, but she will stop at nothing
to beat her again. And then she started screaming, she
was getting all fired up. Here was Maxine, and she

(11:19):
said that she is not only their intercontinental champion, but
she also is Becky's champion, and she just wants to
hear Becky admit that she said in that moment when
she beat her, Becky didn't look like the greatest of
all time. She looked like someone whose best days are
behind her. And see that was the trigger comment there

(11:42):
that got under Becky's skin. So Becky sucker punched her
to the mat. She started pounding away on her. She
posed with her title, and then she started to beat
on her again until Maxine picked the ankle, and she
got an ankle. Locke applied and eventually Becky had no sure.
She was struggling and fighting and fighting, and eventually she
had no choice. She wasn't anywhere near the ropes and

(12:05):
she tapped out. So look, this was a rare in
ring probably gonna say rare in ring live promo. I
mean it was live when she cut it in front
of a live audience. Obviously the show wasn't live. But
it's rare that we see Maxine in the ring with
a microphone in her hand. Right, She hasn't had too
many opportunities like that. I thought she did well here.

(12:29):
This is not a situation that she is used to,
but it's the sort of thing where if they're going
to build her up, if she's going to be a champion.
This is the sort of thing that she should be
doing more of. And so I thought she actually did
pretty well, and she showed some good fire, and she
showed some good confidence on the microphone here. So this
is how you learn. This is how you build someone

(12:51):
up right to a level where they have not been before.
And by working with Becky, I think again, it has
it certainly has benefited mac scene long term. What her
ceiling is, I don't know. I don't know. I cannot
sit here and tell you that Maxine's gonna be world
champion one day. She could be, she could be. But

(13:11):
compare where she is now to where she was a
year ago, right, she's in a much better place now
and she's working with the right people. If she wants
to improve and get better and get television time, she'll
get that working with Becky Lynch. So for her, I
thought it was a good showing. Here the backstage, Stephanie
Vacaire confronted the bald fraud Petty Pierce says that she

(13:35):
wants Nicki Bella and Raquel Rodriguez in a triple threat
match for the women's World Championship, and Pierce liked the
sound of that idea, so he made the match official
for Raw next Monday. I believe they are live again
next Monday. I don't believe next week is a tape show.
I believe it is live. Next week we had Javon Evans.

(13:56):
Javan Evans has been everywhere these past few months. Javan
Evans has been in NXT. He's even wrestled for the
NXT Championship before he got screwed out of the title
by Ricky Saints. We saw him, actually we saw him
at least once, right, if not multiple times, in TNA.
We have seen him on SmackDown, we have seen him
on Raw. Just this past Saturday, he was on the

(14:19):
Triple A Show. So Javan is everywhere. He took on
Ryo Americano with Bravo Americano and El Grande Americano in
his corner. Ryo, for those who don't know, is Pete done.
And if it was Pete Done without the silly gimmick

(14:41):
against Javon Evans, they would go out there and they
would kill it. But it is not Pete Dunn out there.
It is Ryo Americano. And so of course you're not
going to get exactly a peak done match. This was
nothing outstanding. They still went out there and had a
good match. I'm not saying it was, you know, a
terrible match. It was just comedy. It was good. It

(15:01):
was good. But I know these two could have more
than just a good match. Javan has an energy to
him that it just makes them very likable. It makes
them fun to watch, It makes them very likable. I
think that will be a good thing for him. It's
a good character trait to have. It will help carry
him far once he does make his way up to
the main roster. Things were going well enough for him

(15:22):
that El Grande Kaiser got spooked, so he jumped up
on the apron to distract the referee. So then Dravan
goes over to the ropes on the other side. He
grabs Ryo and he's attempting some kind of move where
he's like, yeah, he jumps on the top rope with
his legs, but Bravo is there, So now Bravo and
Ryo they have him and they crotch him on the

(15:43):
top rope. So moving forward, after this, they show that
Ryo puts him down with a Mitchinoku driver, but he
kicks out, so coming out of that, Evans tried to
springboard and move. He had his back turned as he
was springing off the ropes and he got blasted right
in the back of the head with a forearm shot

(16:05):
on the way down. Ryo then went up top for
a moon salt, but he landed on his feet and
he rolled through. But as soon as he got up,
he ate an og cutter because Javan is very quick,
so he was already on the ropes springing off, and
he caught him with the cutter on the way down,
and he got the win. And after the match, Grande

(16:27):
and Bravo or Ryo, I don't fucking know, they tried
to go after him and he evaded them. He escaped them,
and he escaped out to the floor and that was that. Now.
Michael Colin made an interesting comment here. He referred to
Javaon as a free agent, and he was asking the
question which brand is he going to end up on?
So I guess apparently his NXT contract expired and so

(16:50):
now he's a free agent, which means that he's being
called up to the main roster, because I mean, unless
Sean Bichels is going to do what Steve Cohen apparent
with the Mets is not willing to do with certain people,
and he's willing to bust open the checkbook to re
sign Javon to an NXT contract to keep him down
there for a little while longer, which I suppose he could.

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The indication here is that he is going to be
a raw star or a SmackDown star going into the
new year, which I don't have an issue with. Now.
I have said that if it were me, I would
build him up for the NXT Championship. I'm not saying
he needs a year with it. He doesn't have to
have an Oba Femi run, but I just feel like

(17:33):
he should win the NXT Championship. I think after what
happened where Ricky sains cost him the title against Oba,
you could build to that. Whether it's stand and deliver.
If you want to do it a little bit earlier
than stand and deliver, maybe you put the title on
him and just give him a little more time in
NXT and let him make appearances here and there on
the main roster. But you know what, if they want

(17:54):
to call him up to the main roster, now I
don't have an issue with it. He would be a
fun young addition to that roster, whether it's Mondays or Fridays.
I don't even really have a preference one way or
the other. Right, SmackDown has certain needs, especially on the
women's side, but honestly, Raw could use him, SmackDown could

(18:15):
use him. It doesn't matter. Javon I think would be
a welcome edition on any of these shows now. They
aired a pretay video promo from bron Breaker plugging his
World Heavyweight Championship match, which is coming up with CM
Punk on the January fifth episode of Raw. He at
the very end of this he mocked Punk, saying I'm

(18:37):
only here to make money. Actually the quote was, I'm
not here to make friends, I'm here to make money.
He says, Well, he hopes Punk has saved all of
his money and cashed all of his checks, because after
the match is over and he's the new champion, Punk
won't be worth a dollar to anyone. This was not
as good as the end ring promos we've gotten from
Breaker in recent weeks, But we're kind of at a

(18:59):
point now where we got a couple of weeks left.
There's not a whole lot left. Lot, not a whole lot. Loud,
I can't even speak there's not a whole lot left
to do here. Usually they don't do contract signings, do
they for like a television title match? They do those
for the pl title matches. So I mean, you could
do a contract signing, I guess next week. But what

(19:19):
else is left to do other than do the match?
So we'll get these types of video promos between here,
between now and January fifth, that they were showing Michael
Cole and Corey Graves on camera. They were or Cole anyway,
was speaking at ringside when they were interrupted by Nicki Bella.
She did not get an entrance, They did not play

(19:40):
her music. She just sort of appeared out of the
crowd and she had a microphone in her hand, and
she stood on top of the announced desk and she
said that she is a legend, she is a Hall
of Famer. She's also a former champion. This is what
a champion looks like. But how would these people know
what champians look like. They root for the Lions. Boo right,

(20:05):
everybody booze, and the Lions wish they were as good
as the Philadelphia Eagles oooh or better. Yet, she says,
Ohio State, let's run through every sports trope that we
can think of here. Let's just do that to get
heat here in this segment, she said, last week she

(20:26):
destroyed Raquel's face. That was when she threw her into
the ring. Steps next week, she will destroy Stephanie's reign.
And she gets it. Stephanie is a good you know,
she's very good in the ring. She's a good deal, right,
a big deal in the ring. But Nikki, she says,
I'm a big deal everywhere because she's a celebrity, you see,

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and it's about time that the women's world title is
around the waste of a true global superstar. And with
that she dropped the mic and she left, thank you, Nicky.
You know, I would actually not be surprised if they
put the championship on Nicki Bella. She's getting heat when
she comes out now. Uh. And it's a triple threat match,

(21:14):
so Stephanie doesn't even have to lose to lose the title.
And I'm gonna about to get into some of the
drama within the judgment day, right, Raquel arguably costs Roxanne
Perez win tonight, so it may, you know, the shoe
may be on the other foot next week where they
cost Raquel right, maybe accidentally on purpose, but it could

(21:34):
be Nicki Bella with an assist from the other members
of the judgment Day, getting a win in that match
and taking the women's championship. I'm telling you, but I
had to make a prediction right now about how that
match is gonna go next week. I think Nicki Bella
is gonna win the fucking title. That's what I think now.
After this, we had Bailey with Lyra Valkeria in her

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corner against Roxane Perez, who came out with liv Morgan.
Raquel showed up at ringside midway through the match. Right
the match was going on, it was okay, nothing much
to speak up here, but like midway through, Rakel shows
up at ringside and when she tried to get involved,
Lyra went over to attack her, but then Live came
over and Live tossed Lyra over the announced desk and

(22:16):
she took this big bump. She rolled off the announced
desk and she landed on the floor in the ring,
Roxanne got sent into the turn buckles with a sunset.
Liv Morgan reached in and she tripped up Bailey when
Bailey went to go hit the ropes. Then Lived distracted
the referee while Roxanne removed one of the middle turn
buckles and Bailey ended up going into it face first,

(22:38):
so Roxanne covered her. But now Raquel was on the
other side of the ring on the apron, yelling at
the referee and you know, inadvertently, I guess distracting the referee.
Live Morgan sees this. She goes and she yanks Raquel
down to the ground outside and she's like, what the hell,
what are you doing? So now Live and Kelly are

(22:59):
you know, going out at it back and forth or
yelling at each other. Roxanne comes over, she's yelling what
are you doing? Right? This is in the middle of
her match here and as this judgment day drama unfolded,
this gave Lyra Valkeria an opportunity to get back up
on the announced desk. She dove off the desk and
she took down live In Raquel in the ring, Bailey

(23:22):
hit a belly to back suplex Lyra. Then she is
talking to Bailey, right, she's like reaching in and cheerleading
for her right, but she's trying to hype her up.
She smacks her right across the face and when she
does that, she wakes up Psycho Bailey. And now Bailey
is just on a rampage and she's attacking Roxanne. She

(23:43):
climbs up top, she hits the diving elbow drop and
she covers Roxanne and she gets the win. So everything
was going fine here for Roxanne until Raquel came out.
Now stop me. If you've heard this before, I know
you're not gonna believe this when I tell you, But
there there is drama in the Judgment Day. I know,

(24:05):
who's ever heard of such a thing? So fucking group
has been nothing but drama for three years. Now, now
we have more drama in the Judgment Day. You know,
I thought occurred to me here. The Judgment Day basically
at this point is a women's faction. The Judgment Day
is basically a women's faction at this point, right Live

(24:27):
Morgan kind of feels like the de facto leader, even
though they don't really have a leader. But you got
Live Morgan, you got Riquel Rodriguez, and you've got Roxane
Perez and this is where all of the drama now
is centered. Right at least for the time being. Dominic
for those who don't know Dominic Mysterio, I watched the
main event of that Triple A show on Saturday night.
He very clearly injured his shoulder. I don't know what

(24:50):
the injury was. I don't know if he dislocated something.
I don't know if he tours, I don't know. Hopefully
it is nothing too serious, but it is very clear
he was not selling. He got hurt on a DDT
that he took from remysteria from his dad, and so
we have to wait and see what the diagnosis is
going to be. At the very least, he may not

(25:10):
be able to wrestle for a matter of weeks if
it's something more serious than that. Hopefully he doesn't need surgery.
We just had Lived Morgan out with surgery. She was
gone with her shoulder for months. So Dom is hurt.
JD McDonagh has had some surgery for some minor stuff,
so he's out. That leaves Finn right, Carlito has been
gone for a while. Finn Baler is the only one left.

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This is a women's faction now, basically all this drama
and the judgment day my god. Now, they did have
a backstage segment later on with all the members minus JD,
who again wasn't there. Dom was there, but again remember
this is a tape show, so there was no evidence
of any injury here, but they were yelling at each other,

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and Raquel said that she was just trying to help
something that they should have done. When Nicki entered erupted
her match last week, liv said that we were just
doing what you told them to do, right, what you
told us to do, because Raquel told him not to
get involved. But then liv said, look, we're a family.
Raquel said that she doesn't need this. I have a
championship match that I need to prepare for, so good luck,

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and off she went. In the back. Austin Theory wanted
to know from Bronson Reed what's the plan? And Reid
told him, look, you're in the big leagues now, kid,
just follow my lead. And Theory said, I'm no kid.
I'm going to start the match and then you can
follow my lead. I love this idea that Austin Theory

(26:45):
is some like he's some kid from NXT, right, dude,
it's been on the main roster for like four years,
has a WrestleMania win over John Cena being treated like
a rookie yere who just made his debut on TV.
I love it. Gunther was out next the man who

(27:07):
retired John Cena. Actually, John Cena technically retired himself by
announcing a year and a half in advance that he
would be wrestling his last match this month. But Gunther
will get to now go around for the rest of
his life being able to claim that I am the
man who retired John Cena. And of course he was

(27:29):
laughing as he was last week. He was booed as
he was last week. He posed again on the turnbuckles.
The crowd told him that he sucked. Eventually he left
the ring. He stood on top of the announced desk
and this is all stuff he did last week on
the show. So eventually he hops down. He gets back
in the ring. He says, the fans really shouldn't be

(27:49):
mad at him. They should be mad at the guy
who tapped out like a little bitch. And they actually
censored the word bitch. I was taking notes on what
he was saying as he was saying it, and then
I didn't hear the word, and I said, surely they
didn't censor the word. I mean he was saying. He

(28:11):
said it multiple times last week on the show. No problem, right,
Multiple people on most weeks will say the word bitch,
so I rewound it. Sure enough, they fucking censored the
word bitch. I would love to know how this works,
I really would. Is it a case where on Netflix
when it airs live, they don't censor it, but if

(28:32):
you go into the archives and you watch it back,
they edit that word out. Or is this a new thing.
I'm just I'm fascinated by this. I'm fascinated by what
the rules are here, especially now that they're on Netflix. Right,
you don't have to worry about the FCC or anything
like that. But I'm just fascinated. How we could hear
it last week but we couldn't hear it this week.

(28:56):
I don't know. Apparently it's a bad word, bad bad word.
You can't say bitch. See how Punk's music interrupted out
to the ring walk the world heavyweight champion. He was
walking with a purpose, and he stormed right into the ring.
He walked right up to gun there, and they went
nose to nose, and after a few seconds, Gunther just left,

(29:21):
but not before he was on the steps. He turns
back to Punk and he does the you can't see me,
and then he laughs and then he goes to leave.
He made it maybe halfway down the aisle. Ray Mysterio's
music hits because again they're coming out for the main event.
They're teaming up. So Ray meets Gunther in the isleway
and confronts him, and Gunther just laughs in his face

(29:42):
and he goes to the back. Mysterio, though, was out
to the ring with Punk to join from the main
event against Austin Theory and Bronson Reid Befirst. They would
go to a commercial break. They come back from commercial
and it's to the back again. Gunther's walking and who
does he bump into for the second week in a row.
He bumps into AJ Styles and Styles tells him you

(30:06):
just don't know when to shut up, do you? And
Gunther says, guess I don't, and he laughs and he
walks off. So they're really leaning into this idea of
AJ Styles against Gunther. I see that as a WrestleMania match,
and they're leaning into it so much now that I mean,
it's not even January yet, right, WrestleMania is in April,

(30:28):
so I don't know. I don't know if this is
just a couple of early teases for a media match,
or if they're not waiting until Mania to do this.
You know, maybe it's a Saturday Night's main event match
because there's a Saturday Nights made event the week before
the Royal Rumble. Maybe it's a Royal Rumble match. I
don't know. I don't know, but we are clearly going

(30:49):
to get gun Thro an AJ, which I think is great.
If AJ really is retiring next year. I thought Gunther
would make for an appropriate final opponent for him, But
I don't know. I guess it all comes down to
the timing of it. You know, they're really the second
week in Ronda that they're leaning into this. It would
be weird if they just sort of then got away
from it and didn't circle back around to it until

(31:11):
Rumble time or until Mania time. So we'll see. So
we had our main event. Yes, we are already up
to our main event. Theory in case you're interested, and
I'm sure many of you were not, But for those
of you who are, Theory is now wearing black and
gray cargo pants in the ring. It's got the shaved head.

(31:33):
Of course, he started out with Raymistereo, then it was
Read and Punk and Reed was dominating. They were working
well together so far. Reid and Theory were working well together.
Punk got a hot tag to Raymistereo, and he went
to work on Reid until Theory got a tag and
immediately got taken down by a hurricane. Rana seated sentan

(31:56):
off the apron by Ray when they came back from break.
Thet had control over Ray for a few minutes. Eventually
he got a hot tag back to Punk, leg lariat
to Austin Theory, and then a swinging neck breaker by
the champion running knee in the corner into the running bulldog.
Say it Coal, Say It Coal, Vintage Punk. Now it's

(32:19):
time to go to sleep, but Theory elbows his way out.
He makes a tag to read, but he can't knock
the big guy down. One clothes line doesn't go down,
Two closed lines doesn't go down, Three closed lines doesn't
go down. Punk heads up top he connects out a
flying clothes line, not enough for a three count, though
Mysterio got read in position for a six to one

(32:39):
nine did not see Austin Theory make the blind tag,
and when Ray came off the ropes, Theory wiped him
out with a wicked clothes line. Hell of a collision
actually on that clothesline, so Theory went for a power
bomb Ray Tho sends him into the ropes in position
forty six to one nine, and this time he connected.

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Then the drop of the dime, and it looked like
Ray had this one put away, but Bronson Reid reaches
in and he yanks raym Stereo out of the ring
to the floor before the three count. Punk then hits
a suicide dive out on to Read. He tackles him,
then over the timekeeper's barricade. They both tumble over. So
back at the ringside, Ray is slowly stirring outside and

(33:22):
he gets back up on the apron. He and Theory
are the legal men. Ray gets him down. He heads
up top. Theory, though hits the ropes, which causes Ray
to slip. He gets crotched and down to the mat.
He goes and then Theory hits the stomp and he
covers Ray and he gets the pin to win the

(33:42):
match for the Vision. Bron Breaker runs out to attack Punk,
who by this point was back of the ring. He
almost made it in time to make the save, but
he was just a little bit late, so Theory got
the wind. But now Breaker comes down. He goes after Punk. Punk, though,
is fighting everybody off and he close lines Theory out
of the ring. But when he turns around, guess who's

(34:03):
waiting for him, Ron Breaker, and he cuts down CM
Punk with a spear, and as Michael Cole said, if
he hits that, in two weeks, we're gonna have a
new world heavyweight champion. There you go. Theory notches his
first win back. That's his first win in what I

(34:23):
don't know. I don't even know, maybe over a year.
I couldn't even tell you the last time I saw
Austin Theory win a match. It has been many, many months.
At the very least, he had to win tonight. The
story was that he was effectively auditioning for a spot
in the Vision, so he had to win. He had
to look strong in some way, so they gave him

(34:44):
the win. Here here's what I fear, though. I fear
that more than anything, they are adding him to the
Vision so that the Vision has someone who going forward,
whether it's singles or tags, can lose, can eat pins
because they want to protect Bronson Reed and they want
to protect bron Breaker as much as possible. So whenever

(35:06):
the Vision is out there, somebody's got to win, somebody's
got to lose. Well, you throw somebody like Austin Theory
in the group and guess what, all we can just
have Theory lose. Right, he won tonight, but will that
be the case going forward. I'm very skeptical of that.
Guarantee you. That was one of the main reasons they
added him to this group. We'll see. I mean, Theory

(35:27):
is starting out twenty twenty six in a good spot. Now.
He just needs creative on his side right in a
way that they weren't on his side before. And if
they can do that, then I think he can do well.
This was not much of a show. This was why
I was able to zip through the show in an
hour and fifteen minutes because it's basically a nothing show.
It really is. It's just a fucking nothing show. I

(35:49):
could get used to the length. I would love to
have a great hour and fifteen minute show, or an
hour and thirty minute show. That'd be fantastic. If they
were actually real interesting things going on, that would be great.
But unfortunately we got SmackDown going back to three hours,
not this week but next week. So that makes Solo

(36:11):
Monster a sad panda. What can I say? That was
Monday Night Raw. That was Monday night. Rall get out
of here, you evil pop up. It's like, oh man,

(36:32):
see short to the point, very succinct. I like it.
All right, let's get into your super chats. Yes, I know,
Lucky Dog says, I need a drink for three hours
of SmackDown. We'll all drink together. We'll all drink together,
We'll have some fun with it. Yeah. I would like

(36:58):
to see Theory succeed as well. Look the thing about
Theory is, and you saw it out there right, He's
not bad. I mean Theory, like in ring, Theory is
very competent. He's a good wrestler, and I think he
could He could certainly do better than what they had
him doing previously. Question is how serious are they in

(37:19):
getting behind him like they're gonna put him in the vision.
Vision is the top heel faction on raw. But what
exactly is his role in the vision going to be? Right?
That's the question. And when it comes to that World
Championship match on January fifth, I said this last week,
just because they revealed Theory as the mass Man does
not mean there can't be another mass Man. But that

(37:41):
all depends on whether or not they're actually gonna do
a world title change on that show. I still feel like,
if you know we're gonna get two world title matches
at the beginning of the year, which we are, we're
getting one January fifth, and we're gonna get one on
January ninth in Germany, that if only one championship had
to change hands, it should be the WWE Championship because

(38:03):
Drew McIntyre can ill afford another loss bron breaker if
he doesn't win the championship on January fifth. Yeah, depending
on how they do the finish, he could come back
and win the Royal Rumble and get another shot of WrestleMania.
Like he's gonna be fine. Drew McIntyre has already lost
two or three times, so if anybody could use a

(38:24):
win in these championship matches, Adred Drew McIntyre. Hey, Joseph Stewart,
I wish you a happy Monday as well, my friend.
I wish you a happy Monday, and I wish you
a very merry Christmas if you are celebrating this week.

(38:44):
Let's barrel through all of Joseph's questions here. He wants
to know. I remember on SNL when Macaulay Culkin pulled
Chris Farley into a table that were acting out the
pizza scene from Home Alone on SNL. I don't remember that,
but of course I do remember the Oh God, was
it Matt Foley right the van down by the river

(39:04):
when he went through that he took the table bump
in that segment that I remember buy Er, sal Joker
and Harley or Mickey and Mallory Joker and Harley. Did
you know Rodney Dangerfield was in Natural Born Killers as
Mallory's dad? I did? Did you know that? In God?
What scene would have been? There's a scene where Rodney

(39:27):
Dangerfield is in his lazy boy watching television. He's watching
WWF Superstars. There's a Tatanka match on in that scene.
See that. You may not have known that. I remember.
I remember when I watched that movie for the first time.
I go, oh, look, he's watching wrestling. Now why I
was watching that movie at that age? I'd have to

(39:49):
ask my father that question, and he's not around anymore,
so I can't get that answered. Buy Er Seal, Joker
and Harley are Bonnie and Clyde Joker and Harley. Do
I remember the movie Surf Ninja's I do not, or
the Page Master. Nope, nope, I know the good Son.

(40:11):
Do you remember the Disney movie The Emperor's New Groove? Nope.
The Pinocchio, I know about the Jonathan Taylor Thomas Pinocchio
from ninety six. Didn't see it, but I'm aware of it.
Luke and Laura from General Hospital? Do I remember? Yes?

(40:32):
I do. Do I remember Susan Lucci from All My Children?
She played Erica Kane. I remember when she finally won
the Emmy. They made a big deal about it, like
nineteen Seasons. She finally wins a fucking Emmy. Did I
watch some soap operas? And if so, which ones do
you watch? I did not, and I do not watch.

(40:54):
The only soap opera I watch is professional wrestling. That's
about it. Happy anniversary to the Tom Hanks movie Castaway.
It was released on this day back in two thousand, wow,
twenty five years ago. Crazy remember Wilson Wilson the volleyball

(41:16):
on Christmas Day? It's the anniversary of Batman, Mask of
the Phantasm. Jack Nicholson was at the recent Lakers game.
Jack Nicholson is at every Lakers game. That's not news.
Should make him a member of the team. At this point.
I think his son was actually in Yeah, that movie Smile.

(41:37):
I think they came out with a second one, and
I think he's in that movie I saw. I didn't
see the movie, but I saw a scene with him
in it. And in that scene that I saw, or
he's smiling. God, he's a dead ringer for his father
in The Shining, dead ringer for his father in The Shining.
Is it true Chris Jericho is supposed to be in

(41:57):
the main event of WrestleMania sixteen. Well, I know it
is WrestleMania two thousand and Yes, there were discussions about it.
There was actually a poster that was made with him
in it, but plans change and didn't work out that way.

(42:19):
How different would WrestleMania nine be if Brett Hart against
Macho Man was the main event? Well, it would have
been a better main event and Brett would not have
lost his championship that night. That's what the WrestleMania main
event should have been that year. Do you think Diesel
versus Sean should have been the main event for WrestleMania eleven? Yes?

(42:46):
Were you a fan of Toka and Razar from Turtles
two Secret of the Ooze? I love that movie. I
love that movie. I'm more of a super shredder guy,
but yes, I love that movie. I used to have
one of the little small flip books with images from
a particular scene in the movie, and you just kind

(43:07):
of flip the pages in it, like animates buy or
Cell Bebop and rock Steady or a Toka and Razor
Bbop and rock Steady. Did you know Mcaulay Culkin was
almost in Home Alone three as teenager? Kevin did not
know that. Have you seen the movie Wild Things when
Nev Campbell, Matt Dylan, and Denise Richards. Yeah, actually got

(43:30):
a great soundtrack too. I love the music in that movie.
Do you remember the Men in Black song by Will Smith?
Of course? Favorite Rick James song, super Freak. Have you
seen the movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. I've never
heard of such a thing, so no, I've not seen it.

(43:51):
Do you think Carley Cameron is going to be a
big star in AW I think I would say she's
already a star in AAW and I think one day
she'll be a big star in WWA. Dried Chicken, Dried
ribs and Chicken with Flavor says that he wants to
give a chance to say thank you to John Cena

(44:12):
for a wonderful WWE career. And if John Cena we're
here right now, I am sure he would give you
some kind of words salad response thanking you. He'd be like, no, no, no,
it's not thank me, it's thank you. Thank you because
with that, you guys being there in the buildings every
week and painting the portrait of what it is like

(44:34):
to be a WWE superstar and an entertainer doing what
we do on the palette. You know, we we paint
a picture of our palette and then how the fans
take it, of course, it's up to the individual fan.
But you know that's what makes what we do so great, right,
It's just that it's just this, this just blank canvas
that we're able to draw on. And the fans they

(44:54):
either like the painting where they don't like the painting,
but as long as they're reacting in some way, you know,
that's all that in any way, thank you very much,
and let's have a drink right now. That was the
interview with him and Cody Robs the other day. And
then just throw a plug in there for Wheatley Vodka
where was I, I says, I'm going to say this,
Andrade should Be should completely dye his entire hair golden

(45:17):
blonde in twenty twenty six. Maybe I should do that.
Maybe I should dye my hair golden blonde in twenty
twenty six. What do you think about that? Hey, Zizu

(45:38):
channel number for forty three months, wishing you a Merry
Christmas solo Merry Christmas? Is Zezu shout out to anobe
just joining us? Joseph says, Do I think I think

(46:00):
I missed this one? Do I think Megan Bain is
going to be a big star in AW? Yes, Megan
Bain is going to be a big star wherever she
ends up, whether she stays with AW or she goes
somewhere else. Yes, I know I'm already blonde, but I'm
talking like platinum blonde. I'm talking like blonde blonde highlights

(46:26):
in the blonde. How would that look? WWE and Stranger
Things collaboration is actually going to happen? Also, will you
have a Stranger Things graphic on your stream during New
Year's I'm not sure what that is in reference to,
but no, I'm not planning on that at all. With

(46:48):
the year coming to a close my random not on
my bingo card moment, says Groovy Goose of twenty twenty five.
Was Macaulay Culkin getting a pop with across the Nation plane?
Well you could say Macaulay Culkin getting a bigger pop
than Hulk Cogan did when he came out on a
row dried ribs and chicken. You know what I miss

(47:15):
in WWE Guilty Pleasure of Mine? A standard WWE food
fight on TV. Yeah, we had Thanksgiving come and go
and there was no food fight. I think the last
food fight we got was the one where Kevin Owens
ended up under the table got hit with a pie.
Did we ever find out who hit him with that pie?
Robbie and Friends? Do you consider Rocky four to be

(47:37):
a Christmas movie? Rocky fought Drago on Christmas Day in
nineteen eighty five? Nope, not a Christmas movie. Not a
Christmas movie. That's a no for me. JDFVA touch the

(48:03):
Solemn Monster you get screwed. That's right. Darren Richardson found
that out at the House of Glory show the other day.
What does Cartman say on South Park? Respect my authority?
Mess with the commissioner, you'll be put on the naughty list. Yes,

(48:25):
when Seth Rollins returns to WWE, his new favorite song
will be Bye Bye Bye by n Sync. He's got
to take out the Vision Deadpool style, annis he says,

(48:45):
is what the hell is up with triple lame? And
men in black hoodies? Does triple h Where men in
black hoodies? I don't pay attention to his wardrobe, power
spying games. Rest in Peace, Chris Reya of driving Home
for Christmas fame. I don't know who that is, but yes,

(49:07):
rest in peace. Italian Stallion with a fifteen Australian Kurt
Angle is one of my personal favorite wrestlers of all time.
What are your thoughts on the career of the Olympic hero?
He's just so purely good man. Oh, it's true, Kurt's
one of the goats. The only thing with Kurt is

(49:29):
like his run in WWE wasn't that long. It still
blows my mind when I think that his run in
TNA actually bested time wise the run that he had
in WWE. Actually a lot of people would say his
run just overall was better in TNA than it was
in WWE, and I don't know that they would be
wrong about that. He had a lot of great matches

(49:52):
and moments in TNA and was actually very instrumental I
think in that company having the success that had had,
you know when he came in when he did in
two thousand and six. But Kirk could do it all. Man.
He could be a babyface, he could be a heel,
he could be a comedy goofball legitimately laugh out loud, funny,
but then be like a serious killer wrestling machine. And

(50:16):
on top of that, he was just a great fucking wrestler.
One of the only people I could think of who
made Hulk Hogan as a babyface tap out. I who
can say that they did that? Even brack Lesner. He
beat Hogan with a bear hug, but Hogan didn't tap out.
He tapped out to the ankle lock. That's one of

(50:39):
the more impressive achievements honestly on his resume. Yeah, I
did see that. Actually, the co creator, I believe of
call of duty. He died in a car accident. I
think he was driving his Porsche or his Corvette. I

(51:00):
think he hit a concrete median. He got ejected from
the car, and I think the story said that he
was trapped like it burst into flames and he was trapped,
so he died on the scene, and then a passenger
who was in the car with him died at the hospital.
And he was only in his early fifties, mid fifties.

(51:21):
I think so. Yeah, I was sorry to hear that
Holiday says Merry Christmas solo. I'm wondering if they're setting
up for La Knight to return and win the Men's
Royal Rumble Challenged Braun at WrestleMania. I would at least
it would at least be a longer term program for

(51:41):
a major WrestleMania match. Yeh. But you know, as a
fan of La Knight's work, I think that would be great.
But do you honestly see one of the WrestleMania main
events being bron Breaker against La Knight. That's a raw match.
It's hard for me to envision that Becky Lynch should

(52:05):
join the New Day and become the sister Sherry of
that group. That would be a downgrade. Why would you
do that? Why would you downgrade Becky? She's a much
bigger star than the New Day. Can't just make her
a manager. Raggedarock, what's going on? Ragnarok? Happy Holiday's brother

(52:27):
another tag team main event of the Vision versus insert
babyface team here. I'll jump solo. I promise I will
buy or sell Sceena dodging every real interview answer or
Hogan's hoganisms. Oh, I got to buy on Hogan's hoganisms.
At least those were entertaining. Sena was more like a

(52:49):
Sena interview is just frustrating. Whenever Hogan would come up
with like a hoganism, like a new one to add
to the list, it was just it was entertaining. Barry MK,
you looked amazing in the cover art for Yesterday sound off.
Wish I could look like that. Well, you know, I
got my pump on. That's my holiday pump. No Christmas

(53:11):
cookies this year, I said, Man, if I'm gonna be
in that kind of shape, we gotta make sure we
take a cover photo without the shirt on. I'm glad
you enjoyed it. Show it to your girlfriends and they
won't be your girlfriend no more. Louis with the five dollars,

(53:34):
Nicky Bella throwing pipe bombs on the microphone. See I'm
punk called he wants his pipe bine. If that's a
pipe bomb, Louise, then that term doesn't mean what it
used to mean. I think you're overstating it just a bit,
Bobby means, says Solomoster. I hope to god you're wrong
about putting that title on Nicky Bella talk about really

(53:55):
fucking things up. Speaking. Look, I'm watching her tonight, and
I'm watching the drama play out with Raquel and the
other members of the Judgment day and I'm just telling you,
I'm not I can't sit here and tell you for
sure that it's going to happen, but I'm watching this
and I'm like, I feel like they're going to put

(54:16):
that championship on her. And it may just be a
case where Stephanie, you know, takes it right back at
the rumble or something. But you know, NICKI turnheel and
then they beat her. And it was like, all right,
well you turn this woman heel, then you beat her
in a nothing match. And so if it's one and done, okay, fine,
move on to the next. But no, they're continuing with it.

(54:38):
If they're going to continue with it, they must. That
tells me that they're continuing with it for a reason.
And she does go out there and get heat. Now
you know, the fans are buying into it. Now, you
may call it go away heat. I'm not saying it
isn't go away heat, but to them, oh it's heat
right there, booing. I'm telling you, don't be surprised. Don't
be surprised if they do a title change next week,

(55:04):
says I'm sensing a split with Rodriguez and Perez. Yeah,
I mean whatever. I mean again, we have Judgment Day
drama every week. Who knows how it's gonna play out.
I think Raquel does next year. I think Raquel does
end up though as a singles. Babyface Joseph wanted to

(55:27):
send you Happy Holidays solo. You saved my sanity from
watching WWE. By the way, if you love The Dark Knight,
seek out comic The Long Halloween. Okay, all right, I
might have to do that. The Long Halloween is that Batman.

(55:50):
I don't know why that makes me think that's a
Batman comic. Uh, Dried Ribs and shaken Foolish Pride, heal
syndrome by the Judgment Day Italian Stallion with a couple
of super chats. Hot take. I hate Gunther's new goofy theme, Well,
it's his old goofy theme. It's not new. Is there

(56:12):
anyone more boring than Damian Priest? I can think of
a few people. Do you realize that Damien Priest and
Alistair Black have been feuding for like six months now?
I say it every week I go, who's benefited from
this feud? In these in these six months? Who has
benefited from this feud? Priest? Priest actually feels less over

(56:38):
for it. Tommy Daves seen his last match, gave me
two thousand and eight Mets last game at Shay vibes,
a disappointed crowd that had to swallow anger and frustration
during the quote celebrations spoken like a true Mets fan.

(57:04):
Furious Nation? What's up? Solo? What's up? Furious Nation? Raw
wasn't bad but felt like a build to January fifth,
twenty twenty six. Not sure if there's a TNT tomorrow,
but I want to wish you in JD both Merry Christmas,
Thank you brother. I think the plan is that there
will be, But yeah, my throat is not doing too well.

(57:30):
It hurts to swallow. That's never a good sign. So
I don't know what's gonna be. It's gonna depend on
how I feel tomorrow. But that is the plan. But
we'll see how it goes. It's not like there's a
whole ton of news going on to begin with. But
thank you, brother, wish you a very merry Christmas as well.
Toya ain't nice says Merry Christmas solo. Merry Christmas, Toya,

(57:56):
and a happy New Year and furious Nation. In my opinion,
my favorite Christmas move movies are Home Alone and Home Alone,
two such great movies. By the way, thoughts on the
two thousand and six film Night at the Museum, you know,
believe it or not, I never watch Night at the Museum,
never had an interest in watching it. I mean, is

(58:19):
it worth watching? Is it really that good that I
should go back and watch I just never. I don't know,
I just I was not really interested in going to
see it. Home Alone is like the quintessential Christmas movie.
People are gonna say, you know, the Miracle on thirty

(58:40):
fourth Street or you know whatever. Those classic Christmas movies
are for me, in no particular order, Die Hard, Home Alone,
and Jingle All the Way. Jingle all the Way is
I'm sorry, that's just it's a great Christmas movie. I
love that move. Schwartzenegger's Sindbad Bill Hartman, Great Stuff three

(59:12):
fresh here and see if I missed anybody. I don't
believe I did, but let's see we got a few
more furious Nation. Who could you see jumping ship to
WWE in twenty twenty six from aew Also, I've seen
the TV schedule for USA Network tomorrow with Law and

(59:34):
Order SVU all day. If they didn't have Law and
Order SVU, this network would have nothing to air except
SmackDown on Friday nights, and then it would be like
a five hour SmackDown because they have nothing else. Who
can I see jumping ship to WWE depends whose contract

(59:55):
is HUF I don't know their contracts that is, so
I couldn't tell you. I mean MJFT is locked in
for a couple more years at least, and the same
for Osprey and Swerve and really all the key names,
I'll say Jericho. Jericho is the obvious one. Jericho I
think is WWE bound at the beginning of the year.

(01:00:16):
He would be the number one. Paul Carpenter rest in Peace,
Peter Green and James Rizzone from The Mask and It
Chapter two, also from The Wire Men. The struggling is
the struggle I think he means is real, get help
if struggling. Yes, that is a good message to convey,

(01:00:38):
especially this time of year. Unfortunately, people get in their
head and they get in their thoughts around this time
of year. They get very lonely around the holidays, and
you know, you need to convey that message that there
is always someone there to talk to. It is much
better than the alternative. Sometimes people just they get their

(01:01:00):
own heads and they just become their own worst enemy.
All you need to do is reach out and talk
to someone. Yeah, I think I just I think I
overdid it. On I definitely overdid it. I did a
lot of yelling and screaming at people. People were pissing
me off on Friday Night, so I was doing a

(01:01:20):
lot of yelling and screaming and you know, play by
play carrying the whole show there. So didn't do my
voice any favors. But now I just I don't know.
I just feel all congested now and the throat something
going on here that time of year. I just hope
this doesn't turn into something really bad. That's what I'm

(01:01:41):
worried about. Yuki oh Rules says Solo. You could totally
join the americanos so what would I be? I would
be a solo Americana. Would that be my name? But
dude here, thank you for breaking in the new third
super Chat. Just wanted to say Merry Christmas. You have

(01:02:06):
Filthy Animal, shout out to one of my favorite holiday movies,
and thanks for all the great content this year. Well,
dude here, thank you for all the support this year,
and I'm glad you enjoy the content. And we still
have another, uh another week left before we're done, and
that includes New Year's Eve, by the way, because unless

(01:02:28):
something comes up, the plan is to be live as
we are every year. This is gonna be the sixth
year in a row that I will be doing the
make It Till Midnight New Year's Eve stream. It just
so happens that this year falls on a Wednesday, which
is actually kind of perfect because that way we can
at least incorporate, you know, a Dynamite review, even if
we kind of go in and out of it. So

(01:02:49):
we'll cover Dynamite. But we will be live on New
Year's Eve, and I know you guys usually show up
with mega support or even just to hang out, grab
a drink, whatever it may be. As we count down
to the New Year, so that'll be next Wednesday. It's
become an annual tradition around here. I like that Solo Americano,

(01:03:10):
I think that works and Randy Bobandi, Hey Solo. Just
curious if you ever watched the og HBO show OZ
highly underrated. I have not. OZ and The Wire were
two shows I had never watched, and I finally got
around to watching The Wire last year, which was great.

(01:03:32):
I still haven't watched OZ. Right, that was the guy
in the wheelchair, right, still haven't watched OZ. I know
there were a lot of like OG shows. I mean
the Sopranos obviously I watched the greatest show of all time.
But I never watched OZ. I never watched r Lists,
you know, this show about the sports agent. I never

(01:03:53):
watched Entourage. You know there were just I don't know,
there were certain shows that I just ever got into
Game of Thrones. Everyone's like, oh, you would love Game
of Thrones. I just I never watched it. I might
love it. I hope I get around to it one day.
I just I never watched Game of Thrones. I know
it's very violent and there's dragons and shit. I just

(01:04:15):
never watched it. Uh, prison No, I did not. I
did not see prison Break. My brother is a big
fan of prison Break, but to know I didn't, I
did not see prison Break, or or Homeland or or
any of those shows. Westworld, No Westwood. I'm not Westwood, Deadwood, Westwood, Deadwood,

(01:04:44):
and I didn't see Deadwood. Ah Breaking. Look. I go
back and forth between The Shield, Breaking Bed, and the Sopranos.
You could put them in whatever order you want to.
Those are the three greatest shows that I've ever seen. Sopranos,
Breaking Bed, the Shield better call Saul is up in

(01:05:05):
that conversation as well. Honestly, for me, the first season
of the Last of Us, like the early seasons of
The Walking Dead. It's been some great television. Yeah, The
Shield is I recommend that to anybody that's never seen

(01:05:26):
it any chance I get. I have talked about it
periodically over the years in the podcast, and I always
love getting the inevitable email later on from someone like
thanking me like I'm so glad you mentioned it. I
didn't even know it existed, and thank you for turning
me on to the show. And it's just a it's
a great show. The only reason I started watching it

(01:05:48):
when it first came on the air in two thousand
and two. Was because I was a fan of Michael Chickliss.
He's just one of those actors that I'm a big
fan of, so I watch a lot of stuff that
he's in. He even did a pilot. This was I
don't know, four or five years ago, probably it's around
COVID time. He did a pilot for Paramount Plus for

(01:06:10):
a show called Oh My God. He was a border
patrol agent on the show and the name escapes Me
played a character named Ben, and it was only like
maybe half a dozen episodes. It didn't get picked up, unfortunately,

(01:06:31):
but I enjoyed it. You know, I'm like, Oh, Michael
Chickless is in it. I'll watch it. So I used
to watch him on a show called The Commission back
in the nineties. So when I saw that he was
going to be a cop again, but it was like
a very different kind of cop, I was like, Oh,
I gotta watch this. And that show was very groundbreaking
at the time for cable, for Basic Cable because it
aired on FX and the way it was shot it

(01:06:55):
was very gritty and just the kind of character he portrayed.
I just I fell in love with the show. I
recommend it wholeheartedly to anybody listening who's never seen it before.
The first time I saw Walton Goggins as well. Now
he's everywhere, He's in fucking Walmart commercials. It's the first

(01:07:17):
time I saw him acting in anything. Coyote, Yes, that
was the name of the show, Coyote. Well, anyway, thank
you guys for hanging out with me on an abbreviated
raw stream tonight. Too bad. It can't be like that
every week. I could get used to, Oh, raw's been uploaded. Okay,
let's just skip through all the gaga and just watch

(01:07:37):
the important parts. But anyway, I'm going to be live
with you again. The plan is for there to be
a TNT tomorrow night. Whether or not there is will
depend on how I feel tomorrow. But here on this channel.
There will be a Dynamite stream on Christmas Eve, so
if you want to spend your Christmas Eve with me,
that's where I'll be. I'll be here, and then Friday

(01:08:00):
night is a taped SmackDown. I will be live for
that as well, and that will lead into World's End weekend.
I'm still very much undecided about whether or not I
am going to go live for this pay per view.
I am leaning towards doing a review on the SoundOff
on Sunday because I just cannot stand these late aw

(01:08:21):
pay per views. I just I can't stand it. It's
very difficult for me because of the timing of the podcast.
If I didn't have the Sunday podcast to do, I
don't think I would mind as much. But as late
as those fucking pay per views end and then I
first go live and then I have a show to
do the next day, it's it's ridiculous. So I don't

(01:08:42):
know what I'm doing on Saturday. I'll keep you guys posted,
but you'll definitely get a World's End review at some point,
whether it's live or not. And then we're into the
final week of twenty twenty five, so exciting stuff. And
I am still working on this next installment of rspw rewind.

(01:09:04):
Since you guys hit that goal a few weeks ago,
I haven't forgotten about you. You unlock the goal, so
you'll be getting that as well. And wouldn't you know,
we just hit four hundred and five likes, which means
we hit the goal. We hit the goal for be

(01:09:24):
the Booker Power spying games. Have you ever revisited any
childhood interests? My childhood interest was wrestling. I'm still a
wrestling fan. What's to revisit? Watch wrestling in baseball and
I still do to this day. I'm not sure what
other childhood interests there would be that you're referring to.

(01:09:50):
Oh Man, all right, let's go ahead and be the booker.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.
Here we go, let's do it. I didn't think we
were going to be doing this tonight, but we're getting

(01:10:11):
things kicked off with the Heart Foundation, m Brett the
Hitman Heart and Jim the Anvil Nightheart. This is already
a winner right here. This is already going to be
a winner. I can feel it. We got the Heart Foundation. Man,
it would take a lot to fuck this up. Doom,

(01:10:36):
Ron Simmons and the Natural Butcher read and in the
middle is Teddy Long. This would have been during a
time period in WCW when if you've listened to any
Teddy Long shoots over the years, Rick Flair was on
the booking committee and Rick Flair, for whatever reason, was

(01:10:58):
not much of a fan of Teddy Long, and he
had some very unflattering language that he would use about
Teddy Long that I will not repeat. And I believe
Teddy when he tells these stories doesn't paint Rick Flair
in a very flattering light. Let's just say that, women's
be the booker. See what we got here, Ah, we

(01:11:22):
got angry Beth Phoenix. Look how angry she is. Angry
Beth Phoenix, don't make her mad. Don't make her mad.
She will be taking on Naomi. Let's see, this is

(01:11:45):
still babyface Naomi. This is not the heel Naomi that
we got this year that was so great until she
was forced to relinquish her championship. But still a good matchtheless.
And now our main event, the main event of the

(01:12:08):
evening ladies and gentlemen, and we have the macho man
ooh yeh uh huh Randy Savage. This right here, this
is pro wrestling in one image. This is pro wrestling.
That's ridiculous, Like if you showed this to any non

(01:12:29):
wrestling fan, they would look at this and laugh. But still,
this is pro wrestling. You talk about goats, that's one
of the goats. Macho man Randy Savage against John Cena,

(01:12:54):
that's one of those kind of cross generational fantasy matchups
that you kind of think about, like, how would that go?
How would a Macho man John Cena match have been?
Like prime Macho against John Cena from like ten years
ago when he was in his physical prime, would have
been a fantastic match. Book it. Book it right, the
Battle of the Goats. I could see the billing. Now

(01:13:17):
super Bell. I wish I got to get a super Bell.
If I had a super Bell, that would have been
a super bell. But it was a clean sweep. Look
at that. I didn't even know if we were going
to do. Be the booker. We ended up getting a
clean sweep here, John Cena not done yet. You thought
Gunther was his retirement match, but he's now back. He's

(01:13:37):
back out of retirement. Let's see nine days later. It
only took nine days to get him back out of
retirement to wrestle the macho man. That's sorry. Cocaine and
wrestling was good back then. That's what made the wrestling
so good. Hey, Caden, what's going on? Care? Ayden? Caden

(01:14:02):
Crawford celebrating a membership says, I hope you feel better,
says Roxy looked great in that gear tonight. I hope
everybody has a merry Christmas. Well, Roxanne looks great pretty
much every week. Thank you, Kate, and I wish you
a very merry Christmas as well. I'm hoping. I'm hoping

(01:14:23):
that I don't wake up and feel worse tomorrow because
my head feels like it's about to explode and my
throat is on fire. Oh man, urion five dollars super Chet.
Haven't been able to be around for the streams, but
wanted to say Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays to you solo
and the rest here. Same to you, my friend. I

(01:14:47):
hope it is a very merry day for you. You get
all the gifts that you're looking for. Hope Santa leaves
something good for you under the tree and doesn't leave
any Michael Cole in your stocking. It's the last thing
you need in your stocking. Can you imagine that you
open up your stocking on Christmas Day and it's just
you just open it up and you just hear like,

(01:15:08):
oh my, it's boss time. I would take that. I
would take that stocking and just remember Jason and one
of the Friday the thirteenth movies with the the famous
scene actually with the sleeping bag. He just smashes it
against the tree. That's what I would do with that
stocking if it started talking to me and saying it's

(01:15:30):
the big dog, it's boss time, I'd smash that shit
against the wall. We don't need none of that. What
would you rather have in your stocking? Michael Cole or
Adam Cole? There's a question to answer, all right, be well,
stay safe, have yourself say great rest of your evening

(01:15:55):
here man, not even eleven o'clock and we're out of here.
I love it. I will see you back here on
Wednesday night, hopefully live for the Christmas Eve Dynamite stream.
Until then, take care, guys,

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