WWE Raw 12/8/25 Review | SHOVEL THE DIRT ON TOP AND POUR ONE OUT FOR LA KNIGHT - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:18):
I didn't even give him ten bells. I had to
give him five. He's not even deserving of ten. That
was our five bell salute for La Knight, Poor La Night.
What more can be said about l A Night here
on these shows? We saw La Knight in the finals

(00:39):
of the John Cena Tournament. Right he wrestled Gunther on
SmackDown last week. I think we all knew how that
match was going to go, and sure enough he lost, right,
so he got not only did he lose to gun
there on Friday, but he tapped out to gun Through
in the middle of the ring, so he tapped out
to him. And of course we have tonight, La and

(01:02):
I finds himself back in the main event on Monday
Night Raw and you would think, well, a great place
for him to be back in the main event, right, Well,
he goes in there in the main event against Logan
Paul and he gets pinned. And then the topper of
all toppers here, Now, how does he get pinned? He
gets pinned in part due to the masked man who
made two appearances on the show tonight. Of course they're

(01:23):
not revealing who he is just yet, but he helped
cost La Night the match. When the match is over,
La Night gets speared by bron Breaker, which we've seen
a million fucking times over the course of the summer
and the fall, and now we're heading into the winter.
And then he gets not one but two tsunami splashes,
and so La and I gets carried off to the back.

(01:45):
But that's not enough, because you see, to end the
show tonight, they went backstage to further kick this man's ass,
and they proceed to put La Knight through a table
in the backstage area, and when he is still showing
some some of life, they decide, you know what, this
man is not buried beneath the earth quite enough just yet.

(02:06):
Why don't we dump him on top of a car
and we will have Bronson Reid tsunami splash him on
top of the car. That seems to be a sufficient
enough beatdown for La Knight, who, then, if you didn't
see the post show footage, was strapped to a gurney
and loaded into the back of an ambulance where he
is now en route to the nearest medical facility. So long,

(02:31):
La Knight. It was nice knowing you that, my friends,
is how you write someone off of television. And I
can only hope that it's a situation where maybe he
asked for some vacation time because he is I mean,
last year, I think he may have had more matches
than anybody in WWE. If not, it was very close,
and I think it's very close this year. Also. If

(02:52):
he doesn't have the most matches of anybody on the roster,
he's in that top mix. So he's been working a
lot of matches and maybe he gets a well deserved
little break here heading into the holidays. Frankly, it doesn't
even really matter whether it's requested time off or it's
just another example in a long line of examples about
what Triple H really thinks of La Knight. What became

(03:13):
very clear watching the show tonight is that it doesn't
matter how over he is. It doesn't matter how many
times do people like to go yeah and the people
you know just love La Knight. La Knight is only
going to get to a certain level in this company
for whatever reason. For whatever reason, Triple H, he has
his guys, he has his plans for what he wants
to do with the World Heavyweight Title and with the

(03:35):
WWE Championship. La Knight does not fit into that mix,
and so this is going to continue even after La
Knight comes back, assuming he comes back at all and
can crawl out of the grave from which he was
buried in tonight, he'll come back and he'll end up
in the same spot that he's always been in. There
was a point in time where people would be like,
what did La Knight do to piss off Triple H?

(03:57):
Right now, I didn't really have an answer. I'm like, well,
you know whatever, It's just they're pushing the vision, they're
pushing the bloodline. Like there's always some kind of excuse,
But now it's just to a point where I really
there's no logical explanation for it. I cannot sit here
and defend it. I cannot sit here and tell you
exactly why this is the way that things have gone
for La Night. Maybe Triple H or somebody really does

(04:20):
have it out for him in some form or fashion.
It's kind of a hard thing to ignore at this point.
But I'm just watching this play out tonight after the
rage that some people had within them after Friday, and
I was almost sitting here laughing because I knew it
was almost like just rubbing salt in the wound for
all the La Knight fans out there like, oh, you

(04:41):
want a bitch and moan that he didn't win the tournament. Hi,
you want a bitch and moone that he didn't wrestle
John Cena in his final match, which he was never
going into to do, of course, But I'll show you,
and boy did they show us. But yes, that's how
we're all went off the air tonight with the demise
of La Night. And it's the five bells salute that

(05:01):
you heard here at the beginning of the review, but
it was the Vision standing Tall Logan, Paul bron Breaker,
Bronson Reid, and the Mask Man, whoever this person ends
up being as they are rolling towards January fifth, and
bron Breaker challenging CM Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship.

(05:22):
There was no CM Punk on the show tonight for
the second week in a row. He is filming a
role in a new Netflix movie, so at least for
this week, that is where he was. Maybe he'll be
back on the show next week. Maybe not. Maybe they're
gonna hold him out until January fifth. I don't know.
That's when I expect the reveal of the mass Man.

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And we got another bron Breaker promo at the end
of the show as well. But again, as far as
the La Knight stuff, there's really nothing more that can
be said. You know, time after time, like the wins
that he has picked up in that John sne A
tournament in recent weeks were some of the only real
significant wins that he has had in many, many months.

(06:04):
You know, he's won a couple of TV matches over
the last like three or four months that really, I mean,
he had like a fucking trick or treat win over
Solo Socoa on TV. It's like it's a fuck. But
like in the tournament, he'd be you know, Zach Ryder
and he he got to win over jay Uso. He
did get a win over jay Uso, but evidently they
didn't won jay us So tapping out to gun through

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that was La Knight's role. So it has not been
a very a very kind twenty twenty five for La Knight.
But I think it's going to be a very rewarding
twenty twenty six for bron Breaker when he wrestles for
that World Heavyweight Championship, because even if he doesn't win
it on January fifth, he'll probably end up winning the
Royal Rumble and challenging for it at WrestleMania anyway. So anyway,

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that was what happened at the end of the show.
Now there's a big match coming up this weekend. For
those of you who have been living under a rock
and haven't been paying attention and don't know what's going on,
we have John Cena is going to be wrestling his
final match on Saturday night's main event. He will be
wrestling gun through the Ring General. John Cena was not

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on Raw tonight because John Cena has no appearances left
until Saturday. This is one of the things that has
been unfortunate about the limited number of dates that they
have him for going into the match with aj Styles.
You know, we didn't get that one in ring like
face to face promo with them, right. We got some
cool video packages, eh, okay, great, but we didn't get

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him on TV you know what I mean before the match.
And so it's the same thing with Guntherro. Because they
waited until just this past Friday to have the finals
of the tournament, there was no time to have any
sort of interaction at all between the two of them. Literally,
the only interaction that we are going to get between
John Cena and Gunther is going to be in the
ring on Saturday. So you had Gunther come out, and

(07:53):
there's only so much that he can really say. I
thought the promo you know, that he did at the
beginning of the show was good, But what's left to say?
You know, the story they are going to tell here
is that he is intent on not only beating John Cena,
but submitting him, tapping him out, forcing him to do
the one thing that he has not done in twenty
plus years, although to hear wwe tell it has never

(08:17):
been done before because nothing existed before the year two
thousand and five. But that's the story they're telling going
into Saturday, and I am looking forward to the show.
I'm looking forward to the match. They added a new
match to the Saturday night's main event card, which is
one that I hope I helped will into existence when
I mentioned it on the sound off yesterday. I'm very
happy about this. One other person who will not be

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in main events anymore. He's got to change his name now.
Main Event jay Uso is dead. There is no more
Main Event jay Uso. It's back to tag Team jay Uso,
which is really where he belongs right now. He's not
really needed in the main event mix, so that's good.
But I think it's only temporary, so we'll talk about
that and not a whole lot else happened on this show.

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In all honesty, this show is pretty boring tonight. It
was not offensively boring, but it was nonetheless mostly a
drag to sit through. This was not a terribly exciting
show to watch. This review will hopefully be more exciting
and entertaining than Raw was tonight. This is your Raw
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On the note of what I just talked about the
big event coming up this weekend that John Sena is
saying farewell, and I will be here to talk about it.
Because after Saturday Night's main event is over, you can

(10:12):
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Night is going to be the White Knackamora. Really, that's

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quite the comparaison. Do you remember when the two of
them feuded a white Knackamora. That is quite the analogy there.
So let's take it from the top here. Gunther came
out to open the show. He is facing John Cena,
so he had a message for Sina. He's wearing all

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black and roundly booed here by the in Kansas City.
So the booze turned into chance for Sina. Gunther said
that he would be the final opponent, but the greatest
sports entertainer of all time. But he wanted to make
one thing very clear. Sena would be facing the greatest
professional wrestler of all time. He goes, put up the

(11:21):
clock and on the not even the tron, on the
led boards by the entrance way. They put up a
special countdown clock and he goes, this is how many
days and hours and minutes and seconds are left until
we get to the match. This is what's left in
the career of John Cena. He called Scena the man
who never gave up. But beating Sena wasn't enough. He

(11:43):
would break Sina's spirit. I mean, this is the Rocky
four story. I will break you. He's literally saying he's
going to break John Cena. It's Rocky four. He's Evan Drago, right,
He's the evil foreign here. John Seen is the white meat,
good old American babyface. This is the story they're telling.

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He says, he's gonna break see his spirit. He's gonna
bully him. He's gonna drop him on his head, wrap
his arms around his neck, and squeeze until the last
bits of hustle, loyalty and respect left his body. He
said there was only one way out, and Sina would
do the one thing that he said he never would
give up. And he looked dead into the camera as

(12:31):
he said this, and that was it. The message was clear,
the message was brief, it was short, it was to
the point, it was what it needed to be. There's
nothing more to be said. If Seena is not gonna
be on the show, there's nothing more to be said.
There's nobody for gun Through to go out there and
beat up. There's no little scene of midget that he's
gonna bring out to the ring to beat up, No
silly nonsense, none of that garbage. All that's left now

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is the match on Saturday. And I've laid out my
reasons for why I think John Cena should win on Saturday,
even though the right business move I'm sure would be
to have Gunther win. And there may be certain situations
coming out of this show heading into WrestleMania, depending on
what their plans are for Gunther, where it would make

(13:14):
sense for him to win, Like if he was going
to wrestle brock Lesnar, which I think is a very
real possibility of WrestleMania, then it would be the battle between,
you know, two men who beat John Cena on his
way out of the company. In that case, I guess
Gunther has to win. But short of something like that,
I just feel like if you are telling the Rocky
four story. The babyface should go over, and you should

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give the people what they want. You should give the
people the happy moment, the happy climax, the happy everybody
wants a happy climax, a happy finale on Saturday. I
won't be, you know, upset if Gunther wins. I'm just saying,
I think I've come around to the idea that John
Cena should get that big win on his way out,

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And they were really leaning very heavily into this idea
that guntherro is just going to mop the floor with
this guy and he's gonna tap him out in the
middle of the ring, and what a boss he would
be if he actually does that, if he does what
he says he's gonna do. But it's almost like, Okay,
they're kind of throwing it in your face and really
pushing this idea, this narrative that he's gonna, you know,
tap him out, which tells me that maybe he's not

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going to and either he's going to pass out or
seeing he's going to outright win. I don't know, but
I'm looking forward to seeing what they do on Saturday.
I'm really looking forward to the entire show. I'm enjoying
these WWE versus NXT matches that they put together. So far,
there's still only four matches on the show. Maybe they
add one more later in the week. It seems unlikely

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at this point. But I also get it because now
they're on Peacock, they're not on NBC. But you know
they're going to have their commercial breaks in between the matches,
and they're gonna plug all their shit. If they feel
they need a lot of time for Sina, for the entrances,
for the match, for maybe a post match speech, I
get it. I mean from start to finish, all the

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scene of stuff alone is probably going to be at
least an hour, right, and then that leaves the three
other matches, So if you want to give them some length,
I get it. It would be nice to get one
more match, but it looks like they're probably gonna keep
it at four. We had a singles match between Eosky,
who came out to the ring with rear Ripley and

(15:26):
no more protective mask for Rhea. EO took on Kyrie Saying,
who came out with her tag team Championship partner Aska
in her corner. Before the match, they showed the new
NXT Champion. He is him, He's that guy. He's the
ruler Oba Femei, the brand new NXT Champion. He won

(15:49):
the belt back from Ricky Sayin to deadline on Saturday,
they showed him in the front row. They plugged his
match against Cody Rhodes. Coming up on Saturday night's main event,
EO was about to go for a dive. Oscar jumped
up on the apron to block it as Kyrie distracted
the referee. EO went after Oscar. Oscar, though, dropped the

(16:10):
rope and EO spilled out to the floor. Ripley then
confronted Osca. Kyrie used that distraction to take down EO
with a leaping forearm off the apron. EO fought back
when they got back from the brake and hit a
springboard missile dropkick. Hit a corner Meteora for two, and
then she set up for her moon salt, but Kyrie
quickly went up to block it and followed with a

(16:31):
double foot stop for a two count. Kyrie tried to
backdrop on the apron, EO landed on her feet. Kyrie
didn't notice, so EO gave her a German suplex on
the apron. Eo followed with an Asai moon salt to
the floor. EO set up again in the ring for
the moon Saw, but again Oska interfered, with the referee
not noticing this time by knocking EO off the top rope.

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Ripley at this point said fuck this, I've had enough,
and she went after Osca. She ended up dumping Osca
into the timekeeper's area. Kyrie failed to take advantage of
the distraction. Eo then hit her Genius of the Sky
Moonsalt and she got the win. This was a perfectly
fine TV match. It's getting very repetitive seeing Kyrie Sane

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always lose in these matches. She just lost to Alexa
Blizz on Friday, she lost here to Eo Sky. Yeah.
It's to the point now where when they put the
graphic up showing that she's going to be wrestling in
a singles match, I already know what the outcome of
the match is going to be. It's already a very
predictable conclusion. We already know, like Kyrie is not winning
this match. In the back Logan Paul approached the rest

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of the Vision, who were just sort of sitting around
and talking amongst themselves, and he asked, did you see
Raymusterio smacked me in the face last week? Bronton Reid
said he did, and he didn't like it. Bron Breaker,
he seemed unbothered by all of this. Logan wanted something
to be done about it. So the Bronze stood up
and they said, you want us to handle it, we'll

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handle it, and Logan said that would be great. Logan
pulled Paul Hayman aside and said he wanted the situation
handled tonight, and Hayman assured him that for the first
time in Logan's life, he had backup, and Logan was
cool with that, but he wanted them to know that
he was their backup if they needed him. Hayman said
he didn't think he could respect Logan any more than

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he already did, and then he pulled out the brass
knuckles and he gave them to Logan just in case.
Why is bron Breaker He answered this for me. Why
is bron Breaker even offering to help Logan in any
way or do Logan's dirty work for him in any way?
He should be telling him to piss off, do it yourself.

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It's almost like he's acting subservient to him, although it
did come off also like they're just sort of almost
tolerating him, probably for the sake of Hayman, but still
it's like it goes back to when the Breaker bounced
seth Rollins out of the group and felt in that
moment felt like the de facto leader of the faction.

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And in comes Logan Paul in this segment and he's like,
I want this done. I want I'm like, who the
fuck are you? And why is bron Breaker seemingly going
along with this shit? But I you know, otherwise, I
have no problem with Logan Paul being a part of
the Vision because it looks like he is going to
be a full time member of this group. That was
my only potential hang up with him being a part
of really any faction. If he's going to do this

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pop in, pop out thing, then I don't want to
see it. But if he's going to be there week
to week, I mean, he may miss a week or
two here or there, but like, if he's pretty much
full time and he's going to be there with the
rest of these guys, then cool, because he you know,
he fits in with what they're looking for in this group.
So I don't have an issue with that. And he's

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been around for weeks now, even before Wargames right and
then Wargames and now two weeks straight on Ross, so hey,
as long as he's going to be around, I don't
have an issue with it. Now, we were supposed to
get a match between Ray Masterio and Finn Balor. That's
what they announced last week. Mysterio made his way out
to the ring, but he got ambushed by Logan Paul.
Mysterio fought him off. He set up for a six

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to one nine. He got attacked from behind by the
masked man who slid into the ring, the masked man
from War Games, and he super kicked Mysteria. He hit
a curb stomp and then he got chased away through
the crowd by security. Mysterio slowly got to his feet.

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Logan knocked him out though with the brass knucks. La
Knight's music hits, and here he comes, and he comes
out to the ring, even though the damage has already
been done to poor Raymisterio. I guess La was waiting
for his music to play, so out to the ring
he comes, and Logan bailed. So Knight said he took

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a microphone. He said he was going to have an
aneurysm if the mass man did turn out to be
seth Rawlins said that he would stomp his head in.
He said he thought the vision couldn't suck any more
than they already did. But then Logan decided to join them,
and he said, in case you couldn't tell, I'm a
little pissed off right now, things haven't exactly been going
my way lately. No, you don't say I haven't noticed.

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We should fast forward to the end of the show.
He said it didn't help watching Logan attack a legend
like Raymisterio. He said, Logan would pay not on Friday,
not on Saturday, it would be right here tonight in
Kansas City. And then Knight decided to say yeah over
and over again. This was La and Night over and

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over again here this segment, and the fans were chanting
yeah right along with him. And then we found out
the match was made official. Our main event, Logan Paul
against La Night, which of course we saw that match show.
It was a couple of years ago now right last year, oh,
I think it was last year at Summerslim we had

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aj Styles and Dragon Lee defending the World Tag team
titles against the war Raiders. Yes, the war Raiders. We
haven't seen them in a while, and all of a sudden,
they're getting their rematch that they never got from April
for the tag team titles. That you could tell how
excited this crowd was by the level of apathy that

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was directed towards these men. These fans could not be
bothered to give a single solitary shit about these men.
But before the match, the best part about this, Before
the match, they showed Javon Evans was in the crowd
and they threw a graphic up to announce that this
weekend at Saturday Night's main event, no titles on the line,

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but it would be aj Styles and Dragon Lee against JAVONN.
Evans from NXT and the TNA X Division Champion, Leon Slater.
If you listen to the sound off yesterday, I was
talking about what's been going on lately with this card
and what they added to a Saturday Nights Made event,
and I said, you know, I'm just throwing this out there.

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It would be really cool if we got a match
given that it's brand against brand, And I said, I
know he's part of the TNA roster. He's not technically NXT,
but how great would it be if we got AJ
Styles and Dragon Lee against Javon Evans and Leon Slater.
And now we are getting AJ Styles and Dragon Lee
against Jovon Evans and Leon Slater. And I am here

(23:33):
for it because that match is going to fucking rock.
So I'm very much looking forward to that. It's the
closest we're probably ever going to get to getting AJ
Styles in the ring with Leon Slater. Remember you put
Leon over big when he showed up at Slammiversary. AJ
didn't wrestle, but he did what he could on the
mic to really put this kid over. So now they're

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going to be sharing a ring. And for Leon Slater,
I mean, he's part of the TNA roster and now
he gets to be part of this big show this weekend,
this big John Cena retirement show. So for him and Javon,
this is a big showcase. That's why I love the idea.
You know, I give scene a credit. Man, it's a
great idea, just to add some variety to the show
instead of doing what they were originally going to do,

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which was just turned the entire thing into a John
Cena Tribute show, as long as they leave time for
John Cena Tribute to maybe some cameo appearances from certain people,
Like I still want them to do all of that,
but to fill up two hours with it and not
have anybody else featured, It's just one giant masturbatory thing,

(24:36):
like why not do something like this? So why not
shine a spotlight on some of the stars I can't
even say of tomorrow. I mean, these guys are stars
right now, but stars that are on the rise. Who
could really use the rub and who can really use
the spotlight by being a part of a show like this. Ohbafemi,
Javon Evans, soul Ruka is gonna be wrestling Bailey on

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that show. So I love it. I love it that
we're getting this match. But also I was thinking about
this because you know, AJ has said he's retiring next year.
We don't know when, but he has said next year
will be his final year. And it's just wild to
think about. If you combine the ages, okay of Javan

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Evans and Leon Slater, they are still not as old
as AJ styles AJ still has them beat by six years.
That's just wild to me, just ridiculous. So kofe Kkesa,
Xavier Woods, and Grayson Waller. They were at ringside watching
this next match, Eric and Ivar. They blocked early dive

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attempts by Aj and Aj Lee. Eric drove Lee into
the barricade outside, Ivar squashed Aj into the side of
the ring. That took us into a commercial break. They
worked over Aj until Dragon League got a hot tag
and he ran wild after the break, with Eric hanging

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upside down in the ropes and holding himself up for
the spot. Lee hit a double foot stop which we saw.
We saw the same spot in the opening match with
EO and Kyrie, but then there was a spot here
and blessed this man. He thought he could do it.
He tried. Dragon Lee picked up Ivar, who's a big dude,

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and Dragon Lee is not not as big as Ibar,
but he went to go pick up Ivar on his shoulders. Now,
I don't know what he was attempting to do. Maybe
a death valley driver. Maybe he was gonna give him
attitude adjustment, I don't know, but he dropped him. He
had him up for a few seconds and he fell
backwards and he just they fell into the ropes and
he just he couldn't do it, so he tried again,

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because if at first you don't succeed, try try again,
right well, not necessarily always the case that you should
be doing that. He shouldn't have been doing it in
the first place, picked him up, dropped him again. So
now Ivar is like clubbing blows to the back, trying
to save the spot here and trying to, you know,

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show that he's fighting back, pretending to counter Dragonly tries
for a third time to pick this man up, and
he does, but then very quickly he went to go
dump him with a DVD and he kind of did.
It really didn't look that good, so this whole thing
was just one big fail. The crowd, though, was very forgiving.

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Crowd didn't shit on them for it. If this was
ECW back in the day, forget about it, they would
have been run out of town on a rail. So
Dragonly went for a hurricane rona on Eric on the
apron after this, but instead he got caught and then
in a cool spot, he tossed him to Ivar, who
was standing outside waiting for him. Ivar catches him and

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immediately drops him with a power slam on the floor,
so they got him back in the ring. Ivar goes
up top. He hits a top rope moonsaal squashing Dragon
Lee and had him beat Styles, though broke up the
pin so a little bit later, Styles pulled Ivar from
the ropes with a hurricane Rona that launched Ivar into Eric,

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who then tumbled out to the floor. Lee hit a
flip dive out onto Eric and that left Aj to
hit Ivar with the phenomenal forearm and he pinned him
to retain the titles. It was not always pretty, I'll
say that about this match. It was not a pretty match,
especially those Dragon Lee attempts, which were ill advised. But

(28:40):
I thought it was a solid match. It just it
had no heat. It had I mean, certain things that
Aj and Dragon Lee did got a reaction. The war
Raiders basically got no reaction at all because the crowd
is not invested in them. They I couldn't even tell you, okay,
if you told me, I have to answer or my

(29:01):
life will end in five seconds. Then everything's going black
because I could not tell you the last time that
we saw Eric and Ivar on this show. It's been months,
and then out of nowhere, they get this tag team
title match, and it's like, eh, whatever, we already know
they're not losing the championships here. Look, it may not
be a title match on Saturday. But I thought it
was kind of weird that they didn't wait until the

(29:23):
match was over to announce that aj and Dragon Lee
were wrestling Javon and Leon on Saturday, just because even
a non title situation. By announcing it beforehand, you knew
that they weren't beating a Jane and dragon Ly. Save
that shit for when the match is over. I don't
know why they did that at the beginning of the match.
That was kind of weird, but again, nobody cares about

(29:44):
the vikings of the football variety or the wrestling variety.
Nobody cares. After the match, Kingston Woods and Waller, they
entered the ring and they approached Styles and Lee. Wouldn't
we hear jay u theme song? It's just me Oose

(30:04):
And there they are, Jimmy and Jay coming through the crowd. Now,
when we saw jay usso last on this show, he
was having a whole crash out last week when he
left the building. But now he's in the crowd, he's
holding babies and he's yeating with his brother. So they
come down to the ring and Jimmy said that they
had an announcement to make, which is that the USOS

(30:29):
are back in the Tag Team Division, back where they belong. Yes,
the USOS are back going after the tag team titles.
He said they've been getting hit hard these past few months.
They lost their war games, said they lost it wrestled Palooza.
Jay lost his World championship, and then he lost his

(30:51):
train of thought and he said Jay lost john Sena's
final match. He meant he lost his match in the
johnson A tournament is what he meant. He was really
burying little brother here on the mic. J lost this
Jay loss that. He said he saw his brother crashing
out last week and knew he had to do something.

(31:12):
So he called Jane in the middle of the night,
two o'clock in the morning, and he asked him, what
are we going to do about this? So then Jay
spoke and he said that they would get back to us.
They would block the noise, they would body them all,
they would put the Tag team division on notice. The
best damn tag team was now in Yosiday he goes,
we need gold, We need gold, oose. So the Uso

(31:36):
has meant no disrespect to the current champions, but he
said Styles and Lee didn't know them, but these guys do.
And they turned to face the New Day and he
compared their rivalry to Ali against Fraser and to Austin
versus the Rock. It's New Day and the Ussos. I'm

(31:57):
gonna reserve comment on that. I know what he was
trying to say, and they did have a lengthy rivalry together,
so we'll leave it at that. So they turned their
attention then to Styles and Lee until Newday tried to
attack them from behind, so they made short work of
Kofe Kingston and Xavier Woods. Grayson Waller acted like he

(32:18):
wanted to run it back then he took the hint
He's like, okay, I'm gonna go this way, so he
leave the ring and the segment ended with Stiles and
Lee exchanging words with the USSO so main event jay
Usso is no more main evnjay Uso realistically should not
have been a thing many months ago after he lost
the World Championship to Gunther, But here we are in December,

(32:43):
and at least for the time being made of n
jay Usso is no more. The world is healing. But
the question is for how long because my impression and
I'm curious to get your impression if you felt the
same way. And it really hit me when I was
listening to Jimmy just kind of run down all the
l's that Jay in particular has taken. I'm like, you know,

(33:04):
it feels to me like this is a vehicle not
to get the tag team belts back on the ussos
and really entrench them in the tag team division, which
is mostly dead, so much as it is a way
to eventually get to a point where Jay turns on Jimmy,
crashes out again, turns heel. Maybe they get that Tag
Team Championship match and they take another L and that's

(33:27):
the ultimate crash out moment for Jay USO and he
just can't take it anymore and he turns on Jimmy,
and we may well be in for another Jimmy and
j match or WrestleMania next year, because I know that
they would love to have a redo on the match
that they had in Philadelphia two years ago or last year,
I guess because that match sucked. That's one of the

(33:50):
worst WrestleMania matches of all time. I'm sorry, so I
know they would love to run that back again and
have another crack at it. I'm sure they would. Jay
has even acknowledged he was not happy with how that
turned out. I think that may be where we're headed.
So back together for now in the tag team division,
but for how long. I don't know that this is
going to be more than maybe a couple of months

(34:11):
before things begin to disintegrate between these two. They don't
win those tag team titles. Jay's going heel, not Jimmy.
Jay's goinghel First time it was Jimmy is the heel, right,
and I think Jay was the babyface. This time it'll
be the opposite. That's what I think. Big Brother may
want to watch his back after a break. Jackie Redman

(34:33):
was in the ring to introduce the women's World champion,
remember her, Yes, I know, in all the chaos of
the women's tag team division stuff, and look, it's great
that they're finally focusing on an actual division that they have,
but I think that they've been doing that at the
expense of both of their singles championships, the top world
championships on both brands. Jade Cargill has no challenger. Stephanie

(34:56):
Vicuaier she's in the wilderness. Where has she been? Well,
let's see what they have in mind here. I was curious, like,
who's next in line? Because Nicki Bella right one and
done at Survivor Series. So who would be next up?
Is it Raquel? Is it rock Sanne? Is it somebody
we're not thinking of? Is it Live Morgan? So she
congratulated Stephanie on her Survivor Series win over Nicki Bella.

(35:19):
Jackie actually said, you destroyed Nicki. I don't know that
she destroyed her if she beat her. Stephanie said that
she wants to face everyone. She's not someone who talks
too much. She speaks through her actions. She says she
is the best, and no, it's not because of the
Devil's kiss. She is the best. And Nicki, you're a

(35:40):
legend today in WWE, in the women's division, it's different
than fifteen years ago, she said. In this locker room,
we have Rheo Ripley, we have Bailey, we have Natty,
we have EO Sky and do you know who was
at the top? Well, do you know what happened next?
Before she could answer that question, we heard Nicki fucking

(36:04):
Bella's theme music and my heart sank I said, oh no,
we can't be going back to this again. So Nicki
walks out. She got a mic. She said the fans
in Kansas City didn't deserve a legend, a celebrity like her.
She gets up on the apron she demands a rematch

(36:26):
with Stephanie, when all of a sudden, Raquel Rodriguez shows
up and pulls her down from the apron and then
throws her head first into the ring post, throws her
fuck that scared the shit out of me. Throws her
into the ring post head first and knocks her the
fuck out down. Goes Nicki bella, thank you Raquel. Never

(36:50):
thought I would say that, but thank you Raquel Rodriguez
to no reaction. Though, unfortunately for Raquel, she threw her
into the ring post and got no reaction. So then
Raquel got in the ring and she told Stephanie, you
name the time and the place and I will be
there to kick your ass. So now we know. The

(37:10):
good news is now we know who's next in the line,
and it's not Nicky Bell, it's Raquel Rodriguez. And I
don't have an issue with that. If it was Raquel,
if it was Roxanne cool, but it was kind of
sad how it didn't get any reaction. That was sad
to watch, But at least we're moving on to something here.

(37:31):
Because Stephanie, it's so weird. For all the success that
she's had, Women's Championship, Crown, Jeweled Champion, I feel like
I barely see her. She's barely a presence on these shows.
That has to change, and frankly, I think she needs
more promo time. Promo's maybe the weakest part of her
game compared to everything she can offer inside the ring,

(37:55):
and even that of late seems to be reduced to
the Devil's Kiss. She even said in her promo, I'm
not just the Devil's kiss. Yeah, well, I mean the
way they portrayed you on TV over the last several months,
that's pretty much like one of the only things people
pop for. It seems like she's so much more than
just that, but they put so much emphasis on it
because it gets a big pop. So it's on them

(38:16):
to show, hey, you know what this woman could do
more than just that. I saw someone had a video
on X the other day was highlights of the match
with Stephanie and Mercedes from Forbidden Door. Last year, right
before she got signed by WWE, and I'm watching this
match and I'm like, man, like, you know, she's doing
other things, like we need to get that Stephanie Vicaire,

(38:37):
you know, back on television here in WWE, So I
want to see more of her. I want to hear
more from her. There needs to be more emphasis on
that Women's World Championship, not just the tag team titles.
I know, the tag team titles. It's an easy way
to get like six or eight different women involved at once.
Ria and EO and Oscar and all these names live

(38:57):
and that's great, but don't do it at the expense
of your World Championship. And that goes for Jade Cargill
on SmackDown too. Jade Cargill may not be the best
in ring worker, they have not even close, but she
needs people to work with. She needs to work with
a Charlotte Flair, She needs to work with some of

(39:19):
those you know what would be in the division, the
elite level of performers there, instead of just you know,
killing mid carters every week, because that's going to get old,
really really fast. It's already old. So don't focus on
one thing at the expense of sort of the big
picture here. I hope that going into twenty twenty six

(39:40):
and we're going into Rumble season WrestleMania season, that should
start to change. We'll get a pretty good sense of
who Jade's going to be going up against and Stephanie's
going to be going up against, assuming Stephanie is the
champion going into WrestleMania. But yeah, it's just that really
hit me watching and listening to her tonight, Like, man,

(40:01):
we rarely get to see and hear from this woman
on this show and that needs to change. And maybe
that's why all the women they have her working with
and all the people around her, you know, haven't been
getting very big reactions because they're not dedicating a whole
lot of time on television. That's part of the problem.

(40:21):
Going into Survivor series with Nikki Bella, nobody cared. Niki
Bella had like that one heel promo where she ambushed
Stephanie on the stage and then she spoke and like
you could hear a pin drop, Nobody cared. They have
to change that. I'm curious if this new gimmick though
with Nicki is going to be her basically coming out

(40:42):
asking for a rematch and then just getting beaten up
by random people every week and turned it into like
a comedy gimmick. I mean, that could be entertaining. So
we had Byron Saxton during the commercial break was interviewing
Ivy Nile, who was getting a women's Intercontinental title match
on TV next week against Maxine Dupre. But she was

(41:03):
with the Creeds. Some of you have asked me recently,
whatever happened to the Creed brothers. Well, there they are.
They're still around, they're still employed. You know, I'm old
enough to remember a period of time, even earlier this year,
where people were looking at Julius Creed as maybe the
next big breakout star from this pack of like young

(41:25):
stars on the WWE roster. Man. Look at all these
souplexes and all these fancy moves that Julius can do.
I haven't heard his name mentioned in six months. I mean,
you talk about someone who has been downplayed, it is scary.
But they were there with Ivs. She was being interviewed,

(41:48):
and she didn't care that Natalia, her old friend, was
the one training Maxine. She said, Maxine would drop the
ball just like the Kansas City Chiefs. Didy yesterday, and
the crowd did not like that. They roundly booed this woman,
mind you, to the point that I just made literally
what was I just talking about in terms of certain
women not being focused on and not getting any reactions.

(42:11):
So Nicki Bella goes into Survivor Series wrestles Stephanie for
the Women's World Championship, and you wonder why people don't
give a shit because Nicki Bella hadn't even won a
match since July and she's getting a title match, right.
Ivy Nile can talk all she wants to about how
Maxine Dupree has never beaten me before, but you know what,

(42:32):
the last time that we saw Ivy Nile, the last
time she wrestled on raw was June June. That's even
worse than Nikki when she got her win over Chelsea
Green and the last time she won a match on
TV on TV over a year ago. But she's in

(42:54):
a championship match next week. So when she comes out
to Crickets and the crowd doesn't care, I want you
to remember that. Backstage the judgment day, met Baller was
very happy that he had an easy night after Raymisterio
got laid out Raquel showed up and live. Morgan was
very surprised. She goes, how come you didn't run your
plan by me right to attack Stephanie. Then Raquel said, well,

(43:19):
I didn't know that we had to run these things
by you, and Liv was like no, no, no, no,
it's fine, it's fine. I'm happy for you. I'm happy
for you getting a women's championship match, and then Raquel
was all smiles. Oh, by bestie, Right, everything's cool. She goes, well,
I'm going to go talk to Adam Pierce about getting
that championship match, So off she goes, and Liv turns

(43:40):
to Raquel or Roxanne Perez and said that I'm going
to be in your corner tonight. Roxanne's like, uh really,
It's like why because I have to protect you because
it looks like you and I are going to be
going after the women's tag team titles. So off they
went to go prepare for Roxanne match, which was up next,

(44:02):
because finally it was time for another match on this show.
It had been thirty minutes since we had a match
on this show, and now we have another one lyra
Valkyria with Bailey against Roxanne Perez, who had lived Morgan
in her corner. Bailey came out and as she's kind
of going around ringside, she briefly had a stare down

(44:24):
with Soul Ruka, who was in the front row. Again.
Bailey and Soul are going to be having a match
on Saturday Night's main event this weekend. So Lyra lifted
Roxanne for a Northern Light suplex for two. Roxanne used
the crooked referee Jessica car to take a cheap shot
at Lyra. Roxanne sent Lyra into the steps and then

(44:46):
she started to ram her arm repeatedly into the steps.
Heading into a break. Roxanne was still working over the
arm when they came back. Lyra hit a crossbody Perez
Tho bridged out of it, and then later on Roxanne
got a Fuji war armbar applied. Lyra got out. She
hit a capture German suplex. Liv got up on the apron.

(45:07):
Perez took advantage by hitting pop Rocks off the distraction
to pick up the win. The match was all right,
nothing special until the finish with all the interference from Live,
which was fucking lame. That finish was rough. It was
it looked like Live missed. She threw a kick on

(45:28):
the apron. It looked like a mist and then she
threw another one and that didn't look good. So yeah,
that finish was no good. After this, we got another
dungeon training vignette. I enjoyed the one they did last week.
This was part two. This was with Maxine Dupree. She
tapped out a whole bunch of women, every single one

(45:49):
of them in the ankle lock. You see them tap out,
and then Maxine would stand up and she would scream
again after each one. So a new opponent would come
in and she would tap them out again, and then
another one would come in, until finally Natty stepped in
and said, how about me? So the two of them
start wrestling and trading control back and forth. And again

(46:11):
they shot this in a very kind of dark, gritty way,
and she ends up tapping out Natty in the ankle lock,
and then she still wanted more as the segment ended.
And I'm really liking these, but again I think I
said this last week. I just find it hilarious that

(46:32):
this woman is training harder after she won the championship
than she ever did before she won the championship. Like
these segments you would think would air before she won
the title, but they're actually airing after. But they did
establish that her ankle lock works, and so that's going
to be the setup for her beating Ivy and Ale
next week. When she beats Ivy, it's going to be

(46:53):
with the ankle lock. They're really trying to get that
hold over. I think this is the kind of character
building that they should do more of with people on
these shows. Like this type of segment, this type of
stuff right here is great, and it's going to help
get Maxine over that much more, at least you hope
it is. And it's the sort of thing that they
should be doing more of as they call people up

(47:14):
from NXT and they try to get some new faces
established instead of just kind of throwing them into the
deep end of the pool without anybody really knowing a
lot about them. This is really where you help build
character and really show the audience something about these people
you know that you want to help get over. In
this case, it's her grit and her determination. Right, she

(47:36):
gets knocked out, she gets right back up, right, they're
trying to really get her over as a babyface. Great.
These are great. We had La Knight against Logan Paul yes,
we're already up to the main event here, and they
were out to the ring. It was before ten pm.
It was like a few minutes before ten pm. And
I'm looking at this going. These guys aren't going thirty minutes,

(47:58):
so it's a little early to get to the main event.
Something must be happening. After the main event, Logan gave
Knight a cheap shot as he entered the ring. Night
fought back. He cleared off the announced desk outside before
bouncing Logan's head off the table multiple times. Night was
in control until Logan in the ring hit a zigzag

(48:19):
for a near fall or I guess a danger zone.
I guess is what he calls it. Now. Logan hit
an alleyute facebuster. When they came back, Night fought back
with a leaping clothesline, the Russian leg sweep neck breaker.
Here come the Bronze marching down to the ring. As
Night set up on the top rope, Logan used that

(48:41):
brief distraction to knock Night off the top. He hit
a clunky looking flying crossbody for two. Night countered a
gut wrench slam into a reverse DDT, and he followed
that up with his leaping elbow drop off the top.
Night knock Breaker off the apron, but he got knocked
down by Reid, and the referee ejected the bronze from ringside,

(49:03):
but they did not immediately leave. Now Knight attacks Logan
over by the announced desk, and you could see on
the other side the referee is trying to get Breaker
and Read out of there. As Night is quarreling with
Logan over by the announced desk. He has his head
like leaned over in such a way where the mass

(49:24):
man reappears and he gets on top of the announced
desk and he gives La Knight a stomp on top
of the desk. So they get back in the ring,
and Logan follows with a frog splash and he picks
up the wind. You know, as as sure as the
sun will rise tomorrow, La Knight loses yet another main

(49:47):
event match back to back shows. Actually very impressive. Impressive
that he was in the main event, but not so
impressive that he lost both matches. I think it's nice
to be in the main event. If you have been
following these reviews over the last several months, you'll remember
that La Knight actually had quite a few main events,
almost all of them against various members of the vision,

(50:11):
and he lost I think all but maybe one. So
it was not a very successful summer unless you just
judge it on the fact that, well, at least he
was in the main event. He gets paid the same
no matter what. If that's really all that matters to him,
then maybe he doesn't care. It's like, it's not like
the old days where you get paid based on where
you are on the card and if you have a belt.

(50:32):
I think Punk talked about this recently. He goes, Now,
it's not like that. Now you get paid like whatever
your contract amount is, whatever your salary is, you get
paid the same, whether you're in the main event or
you're jerking the curtain, whether you're winning or whether you're losing.
So maybe La Night is like, you know what, as
long as the checks keep getting cashed, you want to
pin me and pay me, then so be it. I
don't know that would be a great attitude for him

(50:54):
to have, because if he cares about where this you
know character is going on the television show from week
to week, he's got to be pulling his fucking hair
out of his head wondering what do I have to
do to kind of get by here to that next level.
What do I have to do? What do I have
to say? I don't know, but another loss here for

(51:15):
La nine. Now the Bronze attacked him when the match
was over, Breaker speared Knight Red then hit him with
not one, but two tsunami splashes. So as Night is
helped out of the ring and off to the back,
Paul Hayman gets into the ring with a mic just
as they went to one final commercial break, And during

(51:38):
the commercial Hayman talked as slowly as I possibly could,
Ladies and gentlemen, I mean, you know the way Paul
Hayman talks, and he did it as slowly as he
could as he introduced each member of the Vision one
by one, just to kill time until they came back.

(51:59):
I feel like that's what seventy five percent of these
shows are really every week, is just trying to find
ways to kill time. So they briefly cut to the
back and they show La Night being carried. You know,
he's got his arms over these two guys and they're
carrying him through the back. But they just cut to
it for like three or four seconds, and then they
just cut back to what was going on. In the ring.

(52:20):
I'm like, they mean to do that one last indignity.
Let's just go to the back really quick and show
this guy being helped off by a couple of geeks.
So Hayman promised the new world heavyweight champion on January fifth,
and he said his name is bron Breaker, and he
hands the mic off to Breaker, who said that he

(52:43):
just has one question, where is CM Punk. He's certainly
not here because if he was, there would be two
losses back to back in Kansas City. He doesn't mean
where is CM punk? Physically, he's asking where is the
real CM Punk? Because this new guy, this new nice
guy CM Punk, he doesn't buy it. He doesn't believe him.

(53:08):
Now he follows all the rules these days, and he's
taking pictures of all the talent in the back. He's
a fraud, he said. Imagine preaching your entire career that
you're straight edge. You've never done drugs a day in
your life. I've never drank a sip of alcohol. Yet
he ends up looking like the biggest crack addict that
anyone has ever seen. He doesn't want to face the

(53:29):
new nice guy CM Punk on January fifth, because he'll
kill that guy. What he wants is the old CM punk.
He wants the guy from twenty eleven, twenty twelve, twenty thirteen.
I don't think he wants that guy. Actually, that was
the guy that had the uh what was the thing
that he had, that puss filled thing that he was

(53:50):
wrestling with. God, I remember him telling that story when
he finally went to go get it drained and like
they opened it up. Guy, what was it like a
sister or something. He goes like it like squirted all
over the room, Like, oh God, it was some kind
of infection that he had. So they gave him the

(54:12):
z pac for. But that's what he wants. He wants
the cmpunk from twenty eleven or twenty twelve or twenty thirteen.
He said he wants the guy who walked around as
someone who was feared in the back. Well, that would
be twenty twenty three CM punk who made Tony Kahan

(54:33):
fear for his life. So he should have said that.
He should have said, I want twenty twenty three CM punk,
the man who made people fear for their lives. That's
the guy that I want. The guy that went around
punching other people in the fucking face. He didn't say that.
He said I want the guy who beat the Rock,

(54:54):
and I'm I stopped and I'm like, I don't think
that you're look for the right guy then, because in fact,
CM punk has never beaten the Rock. So I don't
know what he was talking about there, because officially he
has two losses to the Rock, but he has no
wins over the Rock, not counting that Royal Rumble match

(55:17):
where it got overturned that didn't count. They ran the
match back and the Rock won, So yeah, I don't
know what he was talking about there. He goes, I
want the guy who held the world title for over
four hundred and thirty four days, actually it was exactly
four hundred and thirty four days, the guy who was
one of the greatest wrestlers to lace up a pair
of boots, and he begged for the old CM Punk

(55:41):
so that he could beat the best in the world.
Because if he doesn't he doesn't get that CM Punk,
he's gonna bronze break him and he's gonna take his
world heavyweight title and while he's at it, he'll take
his wife too. All of a sudden, in the back
up on the tron, they cut back to La Knight,
who was shooing away the geeks. I don't need any help.

(56:03):
I don't want any help. Meanwhile, Logan Paul and Bronson
Reid have left the ring. They're on their way to
the back, so we cut back to bron Breaker again.
This was all very weird, this whole segment. It felt
as if somebody said this, and I agree. It felt
as if they had something else planned and they had
to like stretch for time. I'm not saying that's what
happened here, but like it was, it was laid out

(56:26):
in a very weird way that felt like we have
time to kill, so let's just drag this out as
long as we possibly can. So now they cut back
to bron Breaker again and he said with punk it'll
be spear one two three, spear one two. He repeated
this a few times. Then we cut back to the

(56:47):
backstage area again and Logan, Paul and Bronson Reid are
again again. They are attacking La Knight. La Knight has
no friends. This is what I learned tonight is that
l A Night evidently has absolutely no friends. In the
back now, we know Jay Usso is not too fond
of him, so I wouldn't expect him to come out
and do anything. But this guy has no fucking friends.

(57:10):
Think of all the people in the back that they
had there tonight, right that we saw on the show, right,
Aj Styles and Dragon Lee and the war Raiders. I mean,
I'm sure they had plenty of baby faces in the back.
Nobody came out to help La Knight. So he's getting
the shit kicked out of him, and then there happens
to be a table there, so they pick him up
and they power bomb him through the table and they're like,

(57:34):
look at this guy. Right. They start to walk off,
and then they turn and they see he's stirring again. Right,
He's still alive. He's not fully buried yet. There's a
hand coming up out of the dirt. So they pick
him back up again. They drop him face first on
the hood of a nearby suv. Reid then tells Logan

(57:55):
put him on the hood of the car because there's
a bunch of equipment cases all stacked up. So Reid
goes to climb is the same angle they did with
him and braun Struwman in the parking lot, which was
a great angle when they did it. That was outdoors.
He stood on a concrete wall when he dove off,
that was more impressive. But he climbed to the top
of these equipment boxes and La Night is sprawled out

(58:18):
on the roof of this car and Bronson Reid jumps
off and he hits a fucking tsunami splash onto the
roof of the car for the second time in his life,
the second time he's done this, and he squashes La Knight.
Adam Pearce shows up. He's screaming, he's got officials, get MANX,
get mad X right. He's like losing his mind. And

(58:39):
that is how they went off the air. So rest
in peace, La Knight. It was nice knowing you again.
After the show was over, they strapped him to a gurney.
They loaded him into the ambulance and off he went
to the hospital. And this was the way to write
him off television. Question is why was this something that
was requested? Is this something like a planned vacation? Was

(59:03):
this something entirely different? I don't know. I'm not gonna
lie to you, Like I'm watching this angle and part
of me is like, I wonder if we're gonna get
the news item from Fightful in a day or two,
like La Knight and wwe have parted ways, Like I
don't think so, but like that thought did occur to me,
Like I don't, I don't know. I don't know where

(59:24):
he goes from here. It could be as simple, he's
getting time off, he's going to be back for the
Royal Rumble, he gets a big pop, he gets eliminated,
and then it's onto whatever they're gonna do with him.
I had said that if Chris Jericho comes back, I
could absolutely see Jericho and Knight as a WrestleMania program.
And I think that that could actually work because you

(59:46):
have two guys who know how to use a microphone, right,
they know how to talk. I think they could get
that over. I almost like it with Night going heel,
just because as over as he is as a baby face,
it's very clear that he's only going to go so far.
If turning heel is going to give him more opportunities
just to do more because maybe they just you know,

(01:00:09):
don't maybe they have a surplus of babyfaces and there's
no room for him, So sometimes it makes more sense
to go heal. So what happened with Brett Hart in
ninety seven? Now he's told the story he went to
Vince Vincent, He's like, he didn't want to go Heal.
They wanted him to go Heal. He didn't want to
go Heal, and they presented him with a list. They said, Okay,

(01:00:29):
if you stay Babyface, here's a list of the heels
that you're gonna work with. And the number one guy
on the list that he would have worked with it
was Vader. He didn't want to work with Vader. He
thought Vader smelled he didn't want to work with him.
But if you go Heal, here's all the guys that
you'll be able to work with. And he had Undertaker,
and he had Sean Michael. He had like all these people.

(01:00:49):
He's like, you know what, I'll go Heal. So maybe
that makes more sense for La Night. I don't know,
but I still feel like if Jericho comes in, that's
probably going to be a rest media match, and honestly,
that's not a bad place for La Knight to be.
I'll just say this. When I talked about the SmackDown

(01:01:10):
result on Friday, I said, the right man one Gunther
should have won that tournament. Gunther did win the tournament.
He is the right man for that spot. Against John
Cena on Saturday. I'm not saying that I think la
Knight should have been in that match. I actually don't
think he should be in that match. The bigger issue
is that you have a guy here who is very over,

(01:01:32):
is actually more over than he should be for the
level of push that he gets, and he can talk.
It's one of his strongest attributes, more so than a
lot of other people on the roster. I think he
is someone that even if Okay, it's not time for
him to be the world champion, right, but you should
want to protect someone like that as much as possible.

(01:01:54):
When you constantly put him in situations where he's losing
and losing and losing and losing and losing. What ends
up happening is if it hasn't already happened, you get
a reputation for being a loser. That's the problem. When
there's no end in sight and all you do is lose,
you become the Dov Ziggler of WWE. Talented guy, everybody

(01:02:19):
loves him, good dude, but not necessarily the place that
you want to be. If you have aspirations to do
more right in WWE, you don't want to just be
that guy, and I feel like if he's not already there,
that's he's rapidly approaching that territory where it's going to
be hard for him to really break out of that
and he won't be as over as he is now.

(01:02:41):
And I don't want to see that happen. But the
more you lose, I know, people say, well, wins and
losses they don't matter, they don't mean as much as
they used to it, and now they still matter. They
still matter because you will have guys that will always
win and will be kept super strong, like Gunther largely
has been since he came to the main and you
can see how that benefits someone. So I'm not saying

(01:03:03):
la Night needs to win every match that he's in,
But when you have a guy like that and he's
constantly being beaten and beaten and beaten and beaten and
beaten and made to look like a fucking idiot, it's
not going to You know, he's not bulletproof. He's not
a made man like a Roman Reigns or a brock Lesnar.
He's not made. It will eventually have an effect, That's

(01:03:24):
the issue. And I think that, more than anything, is
what bothers people. So then to see what they did
on the show tonight, it which almost made me laugh.
It's like it's actually very fitting what they did with
him at the end of the show tonight, and it
does make you wonder, you know, how Triple H really
feels about this guy. Doesn't seem to me like he's

(01:03:46):
one of Triple H's boys. Whatever he may have done,
whatever he may have said, I don't know, but I
think there's definitely something going on there. But bye at
least for a while, by La Knight, and enjoy the
rest of your year. We'll see you in twenty twenty
six maybe, and then we'll see if things go any
differently for him. But I'm going to guess that the

(01:04:08):
answer to that is now the Saturday Night's made a
van card for this weekend. Yeah, blueneon look, he says,
La Knight needs a talk show. I don't know if
you heard the god what review was it last week
or the week before. I literally just got done talking

(01:04:30):
about this. We had a whole discussion about what to
call it. Like, I agree, I think he is very
much like of this current era of WWE, probably the
closest thing to like a Roddy Piper type of Chris
Jericho type. Right, they had their own talk show segments.

(01:04:51):
I think that it would work with him. I think
absolutely you could do an La Night talk segment and
maybe even use that to help spark some some feuds
for him. I think, I mean, you could do it
with him as a babyface, but I just feel like
he's a natural heel. I think at the end of
the day, he's gonna gravitate towards that because I feel

(01:05:11):
like that's gonna end up being the role for him.
But yeah, talk show segment with La Night. Let Me
talk to you there it is, Let Me talk to
you with La Knight. Perfect Saturday Night's Made event this weekend.
Four matches. What are they Bailey against Soul Ruka. We've

(01:05:32):
got aj Styles and Dragonly against Javon Evans and Leon Slater.
We have Cody Rhodes against Obafemi, where I am expecting
a Drew McIntyre appearance to ruin the festivities. And in
the main event, John Cena his final ever match wrestles Gunther.
Four matches. That is what they have on tap so far.

(01:05:55):
Maybe some surprise appearances maybe I don't know, maybe a
Dave Batista, maybe Alane Johnson who just got nominated I
saw for a Golden Globe for the Smashing Machine. I
think that's his first nomination. So anyway, I will be
live for the full post show on Saturday. We have
a lot to come before that. We have TNT tomorrow night,

(01:06:17):
we have the Dynamite Winter is Coming Review on Wednesday,
SmackDown on Friday. You got a lot of content before
we get to Saturday. But I'll be live on Saturday
as well. Here's the poll. What did you think of Raw?
From Kansas City? Fifty six point three percent thumbs up
forty three point seven percent thumbs down for tonight's show.

(01:06:42):
That is with nearly nine hundred votes in counting in
so far. Hey, Nicholas, welcome to the Channel. Retro Koh
says a new talk show segment late late at night
with La Night. No, it's got to be let me
talk to you. I mean, come on, man, That's why

(01:07:03):
I always saying, like when the Undertaker started his podcast,
I'm like, how do you not call that dead man talking?
And I just assume that's already trademarked by somebody else.
Would La and I'd have succeeded in the Golden era. Uh,
in the golden era, yes, in the attitude era. No,

(01:07:28):
in the Attitude era, he would not have succeeded because
he clearly borrows from Steve Austin and the Rock and
so it would have been so incredibly obvious back then.
Or actually maybe those guys were only really first getting
over in those roles, so maybe he would have borrowed
from somebody else. It would have been a totally different person.

(01:07:49):
But in the Golden era, yeah, I think, you know,
he keeps himself in good shape. He's you know, decent size.
There were a lot of giants and fucking monsters back then,
but nights and good shape, he can talk. Yeah, I
think he would do well. He'd be fed to Hogan
and as everybody else was. But sure. This week's episode

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and chicken with flavor, says Triple H. Fears Oba Feme.
I'm telling you, man, if Obafemi comes up to the
main roster and they fuck him up like you would
have to be super super super just out to lunch
to be handed Oba Feme and find a way to
fuck it up. Also, Becky Lynch should have dressed up

(01:10:47):
as Max Mayfield from Stranger Thing. You know, Becky Lynch
is still protesting, refusing to show up on Raw until
she gets her rematch for the Intercontinental title. And the
worst thing to have on the holiday season is eating
a dried prime rib. Yeah, that would sound like a
bad idea. That doesn't sound very appetizing, Victor, what are

(01:11:13):
your favorite John Cena matches? John Cena against cmpunk Chicago
Money in the Bank twenty eleven. That's my number one
in terms of John Cena matches. That would be number one.
Very very close though, would be his SummerSlam match in
twenty sixteen with aj Styles and then They're Royal Rumble

(01:11:34):
match in twenty seventeen. That was the one where Sena
one title number sixteen. So those are a few, Dangle
Bryan SummerSlam twenty thirteen, rock Lesnar at Extreme Rules in
twenty twelve, just to name a few. Of course, the
raw match from the UK with Sewn Michaels is another one.

(01:11:57):
I was never really a fan of any of the matches,
which of ble h they wrestle Mania matchin and stuff
didn't do anything for me. And how would you describe
John Cena's overall legacy. When I think of John Cena's legacy,

(01:12:19):
I see him as the first babyface that the fans
really rebelled against like in a very visceral way. I
see him as the ultimate company guy who did everything
that was asked of him, and you know, was someone
that they could rely on, who never got into trouble

(01:12:41):
and would never create any sort of problems or headaches
for them, and also the ultimate ambassador for them when
it came to their work with Make a Wish, nobody
did more than John Cena did. Those Those are probably
the key three things I think of when I think
of Sena and the legacy that he leaves behind. Victor

(01:13:03):
also says, are you good at doing any wrestling impressions? No,
I'm good at doing the impression of a wrestling podcaster.
I'm pretty good at that, Aaron with a nine ninety nine.
I wonder if the plan is for Cody to lose
to Drew. Cody wins and turns heel in the rematch
out of desperation and faces Roman. Drew then gets to

(01:13:26):
have a proper Maine Event baby face run in front
of fans. I admire your optimism for Drew McIntyre getting
that proper run, but I'm gonna say no, Cody may
well go heal, either going into or coming out of
WrestleMania next year. I actually just talked about this on

(01:13:46):
the podcast yesterday. I laid out a couple of different
scenarios for that, none of which involved Drew McIntyre. I
don't see that happening, phil Lyra Valkeyria is boring and
this raw crowd is dead. Yeah, the not the best
crowd tonight. I don't find Lyra boring. I think Lyra

(01:14:10):
is quite good. Ragdarock Triple H and wwe got what
they wanted. I will never buy Kyrie sing or La
Night winning any prominent singles matches. Sees. How over was

(01:14:31):
EO tonight? EO's always over When EO gets going in
the course of a match and then she flips to
her feet and she starts pointing at herself. That doesn't
matter what city they're in. How hot the crowd is
not hot? The crowd is like crowd always gets behind her.
Alfonso of the nine ninety nine fu Triple H. How

(01:14:53):
can you do that to someone as talented as La Night.
We need fresh faces on top for God's sake. Oba
Femi win on Saturday. A lot of people think of
that Obafemi is gonna win, or that he should win
Opa Femi winning would be great, but I'm thinking Drew
McIntyre is going to show up play a role. Maybe

(01:15:15):
Oba wins because Drew gets involved. I don't know, but
I'm not convinced that's going to happen. By the way,
we're seven out of ten on the bonus goal. We
already unlocked one round to be the booker. We passed
four hundred likes. We need three more of those ten
or over super chats and then we get a intergender round.

(01:15:40):
Will we hit the goal? Super Pony rip l A
Knight twenty twenty one to twenty twenty five. Back to
Max Dupree? You go? You imagine like they wrote him
off television tonight just to bring him back as Max
Dupree to manage Maxine during her title run. Would you

(01:16:06):
really be surprised? MGM ball In with A nine ninety
nine had a whole rant about Triple X l nos
in l A Night, but it wouldn't let me send.
It's all right. I could feel your rage through the
super chat. It's all good. Bass Bears got my green

(01:16:30):
skull tonight. I love it. Keep forgetting like what the
red skull corresponds to the green The Blue. I think
the Blue is I want to say, fifty fifty months
and above of membership super Pony. Sina should win. Gunther
will be fine. Yeah, Gunther's gonna be fine, win or lose.

(01:16:55):
I agree, I think Sina should win. Bass Beers, Gunther
beat Sina, Lesnar face off afterwards. No, not on this show.
They're gonna save that for another time. Why would you
do a face off on this show? If they if
they have a match, it's not gonna happen until WrestleMania.

(01:17:16):
You could build something in the rumble match. The hell
are you gonna have them face off now for unless
they're wrestling at the Rumble. That's way too early to
do that, Alexander, what happened to La night tonight reminded
me of when Hunter dropped a diarrhea splash on their
Spirit Squad and Vince in like six o seven. Ah Yes,

(01:17:37):
the uh the toilet humor that Vince loves so much,
Isaac buy or Sell clubver Lang or Yvonne Drago. I mean,
I love mister t, but I mean you gotta go,
Drago man, you gotta go. That's a classic story from

(01:17:59):
Rocky four. Base Beer has vacant attacked Ray. He's here
to take he does. He does resemble vacant. That's true. Actually,
I hadn't really put two and two together on that.
I said, boy, this guy reminds me of someone. Uh dude,
here's seventy three. After the Madison Square Garden Show, I

(01:18:21):
questioned Gunther's new theme forgetting that it was his old
NXT theme. Well, I can now say with certainty this
theme is better than the deaf Rebel theme. Also, best
wishes to l A Knight, Yes, best best wishes to
l A. Knight, as he is convalescing now in the
hospital being treated for those severe burns that he sustained tonight,

(01:18:46):
burned by the booking tokes Kazim Raquel Rodriguez needs that
big title push. Ever since Kevin Nash was like she
needs to start working big, she sort of adapted her
style and she's made noticeable improvements, even just in her presentation.

(01:19:11):
She seems more confident now. When she's in the ring,
she you know, she stands above everybody, not just because
she's taller than a lot of the women, but she
stands above them. She carries herself, you know, like a
monster of the division, which is what she should be doing.
Phil says love Stephanie, but the Devil's kiss is losing

(01:19:33):
its bite. Good, then maybe people will start paying attention
to the rest of her work and not just one
fucking move. Duffs VIDs. Why was E the only one
to get presents for Christmas? All the other letters were naughty? Yes,

(01:19:55):
not E naughty? Did you find that one? All the
other letters were n E MGM ball And it's almost
as if Triple Ah were the one behind the camera, like, Lol,
look at this dork. Get him boys, Well, I mean

(01:20:18):
he puts the show together, so in a way he
was directing it. My coworker told me her son watches
WWE and of course loves j Usso I asked him
if he likes AW and yelled AW sucks. Well the

(01:20:42):
kid yelled at I didn't know. Tribalism starts that young.
Thank you, Carlos. Carlos Galvan the nine ninety nine. It's terrible.
Oh man, that kid's gonna grow up to be air

(01:21:04):
gold Barry MK four hundred, said Sean Ross. Sat posted
about most of WWE's library slowly coming to YouTube for
the NXT fans. Every show from twenty twelve to May
of twenty fifteen, twenty nineteen is already up. They post

(01:21:25):
a full NXT show every day. I've noticed that on
the NXT channel. The issue is when it comes to
like the library that they have on Peacock right now
for things like Primetime Wrestling Superstars, Mid South World Class,
Like where's that going? There's been no clarity. There's been

(01:21:47):
no clarity at all. Like their communication throughout this whole
thing for the fans that care about this kind of
shit has been fucking atrocious. It's like me showing up
the subway today. I haven't been to sub way in months.
I want it to get a sandwich and I always
get flatbred and they're like, no, we don't have that anymore.

(01:22:07):
They stop selling flatbread. Like what are you talking about
a few months ago, had you still had flatbread? Yeah,
we don't have it anymore now, like you have like
six different breads you got rid of the one that
I liked. What the fuck? So now I find out
that evidently, starting at the beginning of the year, it

(01:22:29):
will be up to the individual stores I guess whether
or not they carry flatbread, but like they stop selling it.
But yet if you go on the app. It's still
listed on there, like they don't know what they're doing
and their communication is awful, Like you just don't even
let people know. It's like, oh, we'll just take it away.
We'll still list it on the website, or we'll have
it in the app. But yeah, we don't have that anymore. Communication.

(01:22:53):
Communication is key with your customers. Dovestad's what goes oo
Santa walking backwards, abystal Zones. Who would have thought back

(01:23:18):
in twenty twenty two when La Knight got his name
back that Triple H would end up being more excited
to push Maxine Duprix than him. Yeah, Maxine dupri and
Jay Usso and Julia is completely fucked. La Knight's a loser.

(01:23:44):
I don't know, man, foxs is Ricky Saints a is Ricky? Oh?
I read that wrong? Is Ricky Saints a trans champion?
He sure ain't holding belts for a transitional champion. I
see he ain't holding belts for long side note enjoyed
the review, Thank you Fox. I don't think he well,

(01:24:07):
Ricky Saints, he already lost the belt though. Oh he
ain't holding belts for long? I see, Yeah, I don't
think his time in NXT is going to be that great.
I think he'll be main Roster Bounden sooner than later.

(01:24:28):
Leopoldo says yes, because right now LA segment is let
me lose to you. Well, that's an awful segment. We
have to do away with that segment. MGM Balin with

(01:24:49):
a nine ninety nine. Why is yeat Man favored over La?
Do you think Rikishi found Triple H in the same
way Meadow Soprano Meadow Soprano's boyfrien friend found veto Sorry,
just watched that episode last night? Or is it a
k FA favor for running over Stone Cold Steve Austin. Well,

(01:25:11):
you know Meadow's boyfriend has a name. You know, his
name was Finn. Well, the eat Man is Samoan. La
Knight is not baby. I'll tell you what. If l
A Knight comes back like he's gonna go away for
a while. If l A Knight comes back and he's

(01:25:31):
got like the tribal tattoos and everything, grows his hair
out a little bit, I think Triple H might give
him a bigger push. You'll get like the sleeves and everything.
He's gonna travel. He's gonna travel all the way over there,
he's gonna he's gonna join like one of the families

(01:25:53):
of the tribes and try to ingratiate himself and get
all the markings and the tattoos and come back and
just try to like fit in. Like all right, I'm
ready for my push now sees. What's your favorite EO
Sky match this year? It's between the WrestleMania Triple Threat
match and the Evolution match with Rhea Ripley. I really

(01:26:15):
I could go either way. I'm I'm I lean towards
I really want to lean towards the Rea match. I
just love the one on one matches, but then they
kind of ruined it with the money in the bank
cash and but I'm inclined to go Rhea and an EO.
But we'll see where they rank when I do my

(01:26:36):
Top Matches of the Year countdown. It's definitely one of
those two. Though Emperor commet what was that weird noise
on the podcast when commenting on John Cena's theme I
need that as a sound that was part of John
Cena's theme song. It's the ad and I'm not going

(01:26:56):
to repeat it. I'll have a whole I had a
whole segment on the podcast about the lawsuit that John
Cena is facing over his theme music Duff's VIDs. What's
the difference between Black Eyed Peas and Chickpeas. Black Eyed
Peas can sing us a song, but Chickpeas can only

(01:27:17):
hummus a song? Holy shit wrestling. Never forget when Hey
Sus returned to Earth. You thought I was gonna say, Jesus,
Hey Sus return to Earth just to stab John Cena

(01:27:41):
and then drop to him thirteen days from Christmas at
a pay per view called Armageddon. I do remember that.
I do remember that. Bobby means, with the route that

(01:28:03):
Raquel Rodriguez is going, she might just find herself vying
for that women's world title in twenty twenty six. Could
you see her possibly being a dark horse in the
Royal Rumble. She's not winning the Rumble. I don't even
have her as a dark horse. I would not be
shocked if she eventually finds her way to the championship,
but she's not winning the Royal Rumble. What do you

(01:28:30):
get when you pick a pig's nose ham boogers? Oh
my god, you deserve that one. I'm sorry, brother, but
that one, that one you deserve Jeremy Rose, Nikki is

(01:28:50):
the cockroachs that won't go away? I thought that was Tna.
Leopoldo Ooh says if Cody goes heal, wouldn't it be
great to turn Drew face again because of the same
means he became a heal by continuing to talk the

(01:29:11):
truth to Cody's political bs. That would be very apropos,
wouldn't it. I think it would be, But I just
I don't see them doing it. I just don't see
them doing it. Nick Grosso with a nine ninety nine
buyer sell on the better cop duo Riggs and Murtaw
from Lethal Weapon or Lee and Carter from Rush Hour.

(01:29:32):
I gotta go Riggs and Murtaw from Lethal Weapon. Then
I'm a little more old school in that way. I
gotta go with my Lethal Weapon crew. Of course they're
no Hunter and McCall, but then again, who is and
Jeremy Rose. I know it don't look good today, But

(01:29:54):
is it too late for la Night to win money
in the bank? Has his time passed? Yes? There were
two different money in the bank matches where I feel
like he should have won one of them at least,
and he didn't. And you just get to a point
where it's like, you know what, I'm not going to
continue to do this where I assume, well, this is

(01:30:15):
the time, this is the year, It's going to be different.
Now it's like, no, it's not. It's not. There'll be
somebody else, you know that they come up with the
idea for Hey, you know, we got to get the
briefcase on this guy. We got this new kid that
we called we got to put the money in the
bank on him. And la Nie is not going to
be that guy. It's just not going to happen. It's

(01:30:42):
right what Merta said. Man, I'm too old for this shit.
All right, Well, we hit the bonus goal and the
main goal, which means we get a duel be the Booker,
the second of which we'll have a bonus intergender round

(01:31:05):
where we will do. In the bonus round, we will
do tag women's and men's. We'll do three matches. I guess,
I mean, I guess there'll be uh men and women
mixed in all three. But we'll have some fun with
that Navy with a five. After what Breakers said about
his wife, maybe instead of the twenty thirteen version, Punk

(01:31:27):
can channel his inner macho man and cut a mean
Tuesday in Texas promo. I don't think he has it
in him. Savage went down deep in his acting chops
for that promo. There's nobody on the roster right now
that can replicate what he did in that promo. We've

(01:31:50):
never seen that promo. I think without context. You really
need the context and everything that led up to it.
But you should definitely check out that promo. Just uploaded
it to the vault actually the other day on the
Tuesday in Texas show. All right, let's be the booker,
ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker.

(01:32:14):
Nave in the chat says La Knight's a bum. Yes,
yes he is. I don't disagree. All right, we land on,
nick All. This calls for you to add a stipulation. Dude,

(01:32:36):
I just started. You already want me to add stipulations?
Nick All, this wants me to add a stipulate. All right,
Well we're getting a stipulation now for this tag team mash.
We're already off to the races here. Oh my god,
anarchy in the area. Well, are you fucking kidding me? Now?

(01:32:56):
How am I gonna do? This? Be a tag team match?
All right, well then we'll do this. Then we'll start
with the guys. We're gonna book in reverse this time,
and we're gonna book an anarchy in the arena match.

(01:33:19):
Although I guess anarchy in the arena it is technically
a tag team match, but we have to we have
to do it with individuals though. So what is it?
Is it four on four or five? It's five on five,
isn't it? Oh my god, Oh my god. I'm gonna
need your help, guys, because I'm gonna pick ten different

(01:33:40):
wrestlers here, and I need you to remember who I'm
picking as I'm going along here. Okay, so pull out
the old pencil and paper and let's keep track of
things here. I'm gonna build our first team here in
Anarchy in the arena. We have Rob van dam not bad.

(01:34:05):
We have Jusian thunder Liger. Okay, are you keeping track
of this? This is the first team here, r VD
Jusian thunder Liger. What a team so far? Oh my god,
Bruno Sam Martino. We have RVD Liger, Bruno aj styles.

(01:34:34):
This is like the best team ever. I know who
I'm picking here and the last member of their squad
the British Bulldog Davy boy Smith. So we have RVD

(01:34:54):
Jusian thunder Liger, Bruno, Sam Martino, AJ Styles and the
British Bulldog. Do I even have to pick another team?
How are we gonna beat that? We gotta pick now
the other team. That's just one team. What music am

(01:35:18):
I going to play throughout anarchy in the arena? That's
a good question. I'm gonna play Barbie Girl by Aqua.
All right, here's the other team. The former ae W
World champion Swerve Strickland. He'll love him a good anarchy

(01:35:45):
in the arena match hollyo Oh my god, Swerve Strickland,
and then his partner, Hollywood Hulk Hogan, who says that
don't work for me, brother, But you ain't got no
choice beaming up with Swerve Strickland whether you like it
or not. We got Swerve, we got Hollywood. We got

(01:36:09):
no no, no, no no no no no no no, no, nope, nope.
Can't do that. You can't have Bruno. Bruno was already taken.
Bruno is already taken. We must choose again. One big
son of a bitch, Braun Stroman has joined the crew.

(01:36:41):
Oh look who it? Is everybody. We know who's losing
this match. Look at that. We know what the L
in l A. Knight stands for. L A. Knight is
in anarchy in the area. How do you like that?
Swerve Strickland, Hollywood, Hogan, braun Stroman l A and Terry Funk. Dude,

(01:37:14):
these teams are incredible. You got Swerve Strickle in Hollywood,
Hogan and Terry Funk all on the same team. But
we know who's winning. It is not this team. LA
Knight will take the losing fall for his team because
it has to be. It just has to be. Now

(01:37:42):
we can pick a tag team match. I don't think
we're gonna be able to top that. I mean, that
match just came out of nowhere, but holy shit, what
a combination of teams that is. Yeah, I think I
think Bruno Bruno gets the win over LA Night in
that one. Hogan's team may lose, but he ain't taken

(01:38:05):
the losing fall. We have the real Americans. We have
Cesaro and Jack Swacker and tag Team be the Booker
and they're going to be taken on Stone Cold, Steve
Austin and Triple h. The two men Power Trip and

(01:38:35):
the women get the main event spot. We are given
the women in the main event here and be the booker,
and it's going to be Lana in the main event
of be the booker, Lana against Riha Ripley. And I've

(01:39:03):
already given it the buzzer because Lana in the main
event would be the booker. It gets a buzzer. I mean,
there's no other button to push. But I wanted to
see who she would wrestle, and she will be wrestling
Ria Ripley, So there you go. I mean, hey, could
be worse. Could have been Lana against the Rosa Mendez

(01:39:26):
or something. Look at that skull. Well, it's too bad
because this really should have been a clean sweet But
could Rea even make that work? I don't think so.

(01:39:46):
I don't think Rihea can make that work. It would, yes,
it would basically just be a squash. I don't want
no squash in my main event. And reappins La Night somehow. Yes,
let's sub La Night exec coulive been the intergender match
in the next round. We could very well, before we

(01:40:08):
are done here, we could very well book La Night
in an intergender match to lose to one of the
women here. All right, so promise to you that you
get a second round, and I intend to deliver on
that promise. So here's what we're gonna do. Because we

(01:40:31):
don't have women's tag team be the booker. There aren't
enough women's tag teams, although now they're probably you know what, now,
there probably would be enough for a women's tag team
round if you include the WWE women's tag teams and
the aw women's tag teams. I'll have to write that down.

(01:40:54):
We're gonna pick a men's tag team and then I'm
gonna pick two individual women. So that's how this round
is gonna work. You, son of a bitch, choose two
single stars to form a makeshift team. Okay, so actually,
you know what, that might work better because we're basically
doing that with the women already, so we'll just do

(01:41:15):
that with the men. All right, let's pick the women first.
We're gonna pick two women at random, and then we're
gonna pick two men at random, and that's gonna be
our tag team match. See it all works out. Lunavashan,
I like Luna. I met Luna by the way twice

(01:41:37):
and a total sweetheart. I don't want to ruin the gimmick,
but she was a sweetheart. Lunavashon and Alexa Bliss. It
is Dark Alexa, Dark Alexa. All right, so now we

(01:41:59):
gotta pick the boys. So it'll be very interesting. We
have someone asked about him before. We have Ricky Saints,

(01:42:20):
Luna Vashon and Dark Alexa against Ricky Saints and Mike Santana.
Not for nothing. I think Luna Vashon would give Ricky
Saints a run for his money. I think she would
probably put a beating on Ricky Saints. Interesting though, right,

(01:42:44):
interesting tag team match there, I give that. I give
that a bell. I like that match, all right, and
now we got two matches left, very simple, one man,
one woman, and that's gonna wrap up. Be the booker.

(01:43:07):
So here we go Luna and Alexa. Though as a
tag team, what an interesting team that would be. We
have soul Ruka Hang ten. Everybody Hang ten. It's soul
Ruka wrestling Bailey this weekend. Big match coming up. Soul

(01:43:31):
Ruka stepping into the squared Circle with who Don't be Kalie,
don't be Callie uh oh, She's stepping in the ring
with Samoa Joe. I'm not gonna end well for soul Ruka.
Can you imagine Samoa Joe feeding into the soul Snatcher?

(01:43:56):
I like Lily, look, I'm a fan of the soul Snatcher.
There are certain times that that she will hit the
move where it's like, you know what she really should have,
like a second finishing maneuver. Sometimes the way these women
feed into it looks a little ridiculous. Soul Ruca and
Samoa Joe. How's that for a match? Yes, Soul Souls.

(01:44:20):
So Soul's not gonna I'm not gonna do too well
in that. She's not gonna fare very well in that match.
And now we have our main event. All comes down
to this could be a clean sweep Raquel Rodriguez. We

(01:44:45):
just talked about her. Raquel Rodriguez looking for a women's
championship match that she will be getting very soon. But
first she must step into the ring with this gentleman
right here, mister Bob Backland against Raquel Rodriguez. Mister Backland

(01:45:16):
would like everybody to know that he does not eat marijuana.
He's going to put Raquel on the cross faced chicken wing.
She's going to find a way to counter out of
it and pick him up for the tehanabamb and she
will pin mister Backland and he will end up snapping
and losing his mind. That's your main event. Cross Faced

(01:45:39):
Chicken Wing second best move ever behind the Sharpshooter. It
was my favorite submission to put on my brother when
I was a kid, and a painful one too. If
his screams were any indication. Raquel for the well Crazy

(01:46:04):
Bob Man, Crazy Bob, Crazy Bob was great. We got
Wink the Cosmic Grandma, thank you for being a Channel member.
We got Paul Carpenter thirty two months of membership, says

(01:46:24):
I am the masked Man. Well that's very lame. If
you're the mask Man. What a terrible reveal. We can
do better, Paul says, just seeing if you got the Yes,
I did, I just I just got it. Thank you.

(01:46:46):
Brother Joe says, rest in peace. Larry Night wasn't as
buried as Eli Drake. That's true. And des VIDs had
to fire one of the fruit truck drivers yesterday. I
had to let the Oh my god, I had to

(01:47:06):
let the mango. The mango he was driving me bananas.
All right. I had to let the mango. He was
driving me bananas. That was That was actually well done.
I hate to say it, but that was actually well done.

(01:47:27):
La Knight should go crazy and bring back the crossfaced
chicken wing. That would be great. I would love to
see that crazy La Night with the big eyes just
putting the chicken wing on people. Favorite James Bond movie,

(01:47:48):
Favorite James Bond movie. It's funny, you know. One of
my favorite ones is the last one that Roger Moore
ever did, which is probably the most hated one of
you to a kill with Christopher Walking. I liked a
lot of he was my guy when it came to
James Bond. I kind of grew up with him. A

(01:48:09):
lot of people would say Sean Connery, but you know,
the spy who loved me. It might be the spy
who loved me. But like the spy who loved me Octopussy,
Yes that was the name of the movie. But I
like Daniel Craig also, and Casino Royal. You know what,
Casino Royale may be my my second favorite Bond movie.

(01:48:34):
I really enjoyed Casino Royale. Goldfinger Yeah yeah, again, that's
not really my jam Duffs VIDs. You went out on
a high note, brother. You saved the best for last.

(01:48:55):
No tomatoes from me. Yeah, the spy who loved me
was great and me remember Jaws with the with the
metal teeth. My favorite is GoldenEye. It's a great game.
Thank you guys for fun stream tonight. I'm gonna be

(01:49:16):
live with you back here on this channel Wednesday night.
That will be for the Winter is Coming post show Samoa,
Joe and Eddie Kingston for the AW World Championship and
new AW Women's Tag Team champions will be crowned. Will
it be Tony Storm and Mina Sheira Cowell? Will it
be Willow Nightingale and Harley Cameron. We'll find out. It's

(01:49:38):
some more Continental classic crap. Friday Night is SmackDown of course.
Tomorrow night, Tuesday Night Titans over on JD's channel, and
Saturday John Cena's Final match, one last match and then
we'll talk about it live on the stream. If you
missed episode nine one of the podcast, Chock Full of
News and a Opinions, go back and check it out.

(01:50:01):
I covered a lot of shit, including the Netflix, WBD
paramount stuff, TNA getting a deal with AMC we I
mean just obviously the Sena stuff, and talk a little
bit about Cody maybe a he'll turn, possibly heading into WrestleMania.
Hogan's family responds to Rick Flair, a lot of stuff covered,

(01:50:23):
be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of
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