WWE Raw 3/17/25 Review | John Cena RAGES At Fans In First Heel Promo In Over 20 YEARS! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
WWE was sold out tonight in Brussels for the very
first episode ever of Monday Night Raw in Belgium, and
they had a very loud crowd, only about eight thousand people.
It wasn't twenty thousand, it wasn't fifty thousand, but there
were enough people in there. It was loud enough and
they got to bear witness to It's almost tantamounts to Bigfoot.

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It's something that I personally never thought that we would see.
When John Cena announced that this was going to be
his retirement year, this was going to be it the
John Cena Appreciation Tour. The thought never occurred to me
realistically that he would turn heel in his final year.
So we saw what happened to Elimination Chamber shock the
world when he took his foot and he placed it

(00:46):
in Cody's crotch in Toronto, and then we didn't see
him again. And so now here we are two and
a half weeks later, and it's finally time to hear
from John Cena. And so the people in Brussels got
to hear the first John Cena Healed promo in more
than two decades. So this was rare and I, like

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many of you. I had certain expectations for what I
was expecting to see and what I was hoping to see,
and we talked about this last week. The presentation and
the substance of his promo, Heal John Cena, in my opinion,
needed to be as far removed from the John Scena

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that we have grown accustomed to seeing for all these years,
and that includes his wardrobe, that includes his music, not
just the attitude, but everything about him. I was wondering
if we might see something completely different from what we
are accustomed to seeing. What we got tonight was actually
none of that. But what we got tonight was John

(01:51):
Cena's you People promo. It's basically a rite of passage
in wrestling when you turn heel that you have to
cut the you people promo. You people did this to me,
You people cause me to become this monster. You people
took me for granted, you didn't know what you had

(02:12):
in me. I gave and I get. And this is
what John Cena talked about in his promo tonight, talked
about how he's been in a toxic relationship for the
last twenty five years with me, with me and you
and everybody else out there, and he gives and he
gives and he gives, and the people take and they

(02:32):
take and they take, and they show him no respect,
They show him no appreciation. They just take and they
just drain the life out of him. And so what
he decided to finally do was to cut that off
once and for all, end the relationship, and dump each

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and every one of us. John Cena dumped us tonight
on Monday Night. Raw. Can you believe this. I know
some of you, some of you were not big John
Cena fans, but the fans at large. But he put
the blame squarely on the fans for what he did
to Cody at the elimination chamber. And that goes for everybody.
Everybody who cheered him, everybody who bought a T shirt,

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a hat, a dog tag, everybody who supported him, everybody
who booed him, everybody who wished death upon him, everybody
who chanted Sena sucks, everybody who talked about how John
Cena buries people. Man, He's burying everybody. He lumped them
all in together and said, fuck you. Like what Cody
said to the Rock, I'm not doing it anymore. This

(03:37):
is my time now. He tried to do something nice
the retirementor right, John Cena is coming to town for
the final time. Everything. It was a little strange because
John Cena is a figure that has grown beloved in
the last five plus years. Right those days of half
the crowd booing John Cena and the fifty to fifty
split with let's go Sena. Sena sucks if you really

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think about it, It's been a while since we've had
that right as many many years ago. But that was
at the peak when John Cena was at his popularity
peak in WWE, his physical prime, when he was the champion,
when he was the man, when he was the guy
on top, he was Vince's golden goose. That's when he
was getting abused by so many fans who just refused

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to accept what, in their view was Vince McMahon's idea
of what a champion should be. It's the exact same
thing that Roman Reins went through when Vince tried to
push the Big Dog and the fans were like, no, no, no,
we don't want the big Dog. The Big Dog sucks.
Roman was cool when he was in the Shield, but
now you've taken something that was cool and you've made
him uncool. We don't want him. We want Daniel Bryant,

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and we want this person, and we want that person.
We want CM Punk, They didn't want Roman Rains. He
went through the exact same thing. And John Cena brought
all of that up tonight and said, for twenty five years,
I've had to go through this, and now you expect
me to just forget all that. It was not the
promo that I would say I was expecting, per se,

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but the message here was that you don't deserve me
here in my final year. So what do we get
in this promo? Well, what we did not get was
a new wardrobe. John Cena walks out there, he's got
the hat, he's got the T shirt, he's got the jeorts,
same music, he comes out, we hear the trumpets. So

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why did they keep it the same? Why did they
maintain the status quo here? Because that's what we wanted.
That's what I sat here last Monday and said, man,
I really hope that they changed the music and they
changed the gear, and they change this and they change that.
And he said, that's what everybody wants. He's not going
to give the people what they want. The people want

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all that stuff too, bad. You're not going to get
it now. Maybe eventually we'll get it. I'm not saying
that he won't have new music at some point, but
we didn't get it to night. But that was the
explanation that they gave. It wasn't just that he walked
out there and didn't say anything about it. He acknowledged,
this is why I'm not giving this to you. You

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don't deserve it. I'm tired of giving you what you want.
I've been giving you what you want for twenty five years.
Now what do I have to show for you? People
have used and abused me, fickle fans. What else did
we not get on this show? No mention of the rock,
not a single mention of the rock of the Final Boss,

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And obviously Rock was not on the show to now,
which he wasn't going to be because his appearance was
not promoted, so he wasn't there. No mention of the rock.
We'll get to the whole selling the soul thing, because
he didn't really mention that, but he kind of he
did explain that aspect to it. But no mention of
number seventeen, which is such an important part of this
John Cena story. Here in his final year. He's already

(06:49):
acknowledged that he's done when this year is over, and
he's one championship went away from setting this fictitious record
of number seventeen most world championship wins of all time history.
He has the opportunity to do that in four weeks
at WrestleMania. They may set a new record at WrestleMania
seventeen world titles if he can beat Cody Roads. There

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was no mention of that. There was no mention of seventeen.
Even though after the Royal Rumble he made it very
clear that it's what's best for business. None of that
really was addressed here in this promo tonight. And also,
Cody Rhoads was under the same roof, so you had
to know that he would make it appearance during this segment,
and he did. And so we had John Cena and

(07:32):
Cody rhad sharing the ring together for the first time
since Elimination Chamber, and not much of a back and
forth between these two. Sina stayed mostly silent. He let
Cody do the talkie, which was by design, let the
champion have his moment. Tonight. Cody went out there, he
ripped into Scena, seated didn't respond and then Cody left.

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And so I think it's important to remember here that
this is just week one post turn week one of
John Cena appearances here on TV. He is going to
be on the show next week. He is going to
be on the show the week after that. Right, They're
going to be in Scotland next week, the week after that,
they're going to be in London, and we're gonna get
John Cena appearances each of these next two weeks coming up.

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There is still time for all of that to come.
They did not want to give all of it away
in week one, so they gave you enough to let
you know why Sena resents the fans and why he's
so upset and why he did what he did kind of,
but they didn't give it all away. And I'm hopeful
that there will be more to come, and it's not
just going to be Well, what we saw tonight is

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the only explanation that we're gonna get. But they didn't
want to give it all away. In Brussels, it did
feel incomplete without him mentioning the rock and selling his soul.
And yes, there was one person when I made that
comment on Twitter earlier who said, well, He did explain
that in the promo as far as like, quote unquote
why he sold his soul? And yes, you are correct,
he did offer his explanation for why he felt like

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he had to do what he did, But that doesn't
really explain why he felt the need to do what
he did and stand side by side with the rock
at the end of Elimination Chamber, right, and do it
in the way that he did it and betray everything
that this John Cena character has stood for now for
twenty five years coming out and all the slogans and

(09:28):
the T shirts and you know, never give up. And
I mean he was the picture of wholesomeness here and
all the fans that looked up to this man and
idolized him. And there he is an Elimination Chamber kicking
people in the balls and busting them open and making
them bleed, standing next to the rock and standing next
to Travis Scott. That's how they went off the air

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at Elimination Chamber. So we need a little bit more
as far as why why him? What? You know, it's
like Jim Ross used to say, why this way? Right?
We still I think need a little bit more of
an explanation as far as that goes, because you know,
you see this guy out there doing what he did,
and it really does it feels like you've just taken

(10:09):
everything that you have talked about and represented for two
decades and you threw it all away, right, You to
one big giant dump on everything that this John Cena
character stood for. Why why so there's still more runway left,
you know, for them to explain, I think in a

(10:30):
little more detail. But like you know, the last five
years I mentioned that John Cena has largely been beloved.
You know when he makes those sporadic appearances, he would
come out and the people would largely cheer for him.
You really don't hear booze anymore when John Cena comes
out because we don't get to see him that often. Right,
he would make an appearance here and there, and it's
pretty much universal love. Now over the last five plus

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years when we would see Scena on TV on those
rare occasions. But the last five years, right, does not
change the fifteen that came before it. Now that seen
all of a sudden is on his retirement tour, everybody
is wanting to see John Cena one last time because
this is their last chance, and they're buying up his

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merch and you hear these crowds. He came out at
the Royal Rumble and the place he erupted, and he
came out of the elimination chamber in Toronto, his last
time there in Toronto, and the place erupted, and everybody's
being so nice to him, and everybody's adored, right, And
it makes me wonder And didn't really get into it
here in the prombo, but maybe this is part of,

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you know, maybe the explanation that we will eventually get.
But I look at this and it's like John Cena
won the WWE Championship for the first time in two
thousand and five, and at the beginning, I think buying
large people. You know, they took to him pretty well.
I don't remember it being an immediate thing where people
were let's go see a Scena sucks, you know, from
day one. But it wasn't that long after, you know,

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as I recall that, you started to hear there was
a split in the crowd and that's where the whole
let's go see a Sena sucks thing came in and
they just embraced it, right, I mean, they didn't turn
John Cena heel. They were you know, they weren't like,
oh my god, what are we gonna do. Their attitude
was it's better than them not making any noise at all.
And so if the fans are loud and they're reacting, great,

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let's embrace it. And so they leaned into it. Here's
Cody Rhodes. Though he won the WWE Championship, he finished
his story right. He won the title for the first
time almost a year ago. Now WrestleMania, Cody Rhodes doesn't
have to go through any of that stuff. When Cody
Rhoads comes out on television every week, he is universally
loved on TV. And there are people out there who

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don't like Cody, or they don't think that he should
be the champion, they think he's boring. When he comes out,
you don't hear those people. Those people, if they're there,
they're drowned out by the universal love that this man gets.
And maybe you know, on some level there is a
hint of jealousy and resentment from John c Right, Where
how come I had to go through all this and

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I had to be abused in the way that I
was abused for all those years but Cody Rhodes, Oh man,
he's the WonderBoy, right, Cody Rhoads is beloved by all
of these fans. He doesn't know what I had to
go through. Right, this is the shit that these people
put me through. And I put a smile on my face,
I put up a brave face, and I'm like, hey,
it's all good with me. But like, deep down, as

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a performer, right, you gotta be at least a little
bit bothered by that. Right. I'm sure at the beginning
it was like, oh man, this sucks. Right, you got
half the crowd that loves me, half the crowd that
hates me. Cody hasn't had to go through any of that,
So maybe on some level there's some of that going
on too. Maybe that's why he did what he did
at the elimination chamber to Cody Rhodes, because there's that resentment.

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So maybe that'll be, you know, part of the story
as well. So there is more to come. I thought
that as a first strike, even though it did feel
incomplete to me, I thought it was great. Enjoyed the segment.
Even some of the things that I was hoping we
would get that we did not get. I thought they
did a good explanation of at least trying to explain
why we didn't get it. I did like that explanation,

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though we weren't going to get new music and new
not even gear, but like, you know, a new appearance
for Sena. At least he kind of threw it back
at the fans and said, this is what you want,
You're not going to get it, so you know, fuck
you basically was the message that he gave the crowd tonight.
But this is a side of John Cena that I
personally have been waiting years to see. I never thought

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this day would come. I'd given up on the idea
of a John Cena heeal term. People would email me
and ask me about it, and I would just laugh
and go, dude, that ship sailed a long time ago,
Like you got to give it up. It's not going
to happen. And now he's retiring, right, they're not going
to turn him heel in his retirement year. So now
we're getting it. And I love it because if we
were going to get John Cena and Cody Rose to WrestleMania,

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the one thing I did not want to see was
John Cena coming out as the baby face every single
week and Babyface Cody Rhodes and the two of them
cutting promos on each other every week as fan favorites
or even worse. Sena is the sentimental favorite going into WrestleMania,
and now all of a sudden, you're starting to hear

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mixed reactions to Cody, which really fucks him over, because
Cody is your top babyface. John sen is not going
to be here a year from now, Cody Rose is.
It just wouldn't have worked. But all of a sudden,
it's this whole new way of looking at this feud,
where okay, this is interesting. Now this is a side
of John Sena that I've been waiting a long time

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to see, and so I'm anxious to see where next
week takes us. As far as what he has to
say in his promo, then I'm anxious to see what
that promo in London is going to look like. I
remember the last time we saw John Cena in London,
they went nuts for him. That was when he made
the announcement. Remember that he said, let's bring a WrestleMania

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to London. He showed up in money in the bank
that time and people went crazy for him, right how
are they going to react? I will say this though
you know this promo, what it felt to me like
when it was over, Because I'm sure there's gonna be
people who feel a little bit differently. They're a little
upset or disappointed or underwhelmed by what he had to say.

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And why is he leaning so hard into the fans
when the fans have been nice to him the last
five years. This felt to me like the promo that
John Cena would have cut and wanted to cut thirteen
years ago, when he was told you're going heel. He
was told in twenty twelve, after the feud with the Rock,

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We're going to turn you heel, and he had new gear, made,
seven singlets, knew, he laid down a new track, And
this sounds like the sort of thing we would have
heard in that promo in twenty twelve. Had Vince not
gotten cold feet and pulled the plug, he's been holding
this in has been all bottled up for thirteen years.

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He's had probably like pages of notes to remind him
of all the shit that he would want to say
if the day ever came that he would turn heel.
There was a lot of that in this promo. Tonight.
That would have made even more sense had it happened
back then, as opposed to waiting all these years and
doing it now. But again, it was Cody's night. He
gave Cody the floor at the end of that promo segment.

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He could have ethered that man on the microphone if
he wanted to, and he held back. I suspect that
next week, when they're both in the same building again,
I hope we get more of a back and forth
between these two. Sena was very quiet tonight when Cody
hit the ring. He'd let Cody have his moment. This
was his night and he got to walk out on
his own terms, and he got one over on John Cena.

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I suspect that will not happen next week. But as
a first segment, as a first night, I enjoyed this,
and this really was the highlight of the night. It
overshadowed everything else on the show because it was all
about that first John Cena heel promo. But I thought
it delivered what it had to deliver, and I enjoyed it. Now.
We also had tonight an Intercontinental Championship match, bron Breaker

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defending his title against Finn Balor. We had Rhea Ripley
and by the way, our old friend Pinnbaler was back
on the show tonight, Rhea Ripley signing her name to
a contract that her name wasn't even on. Yeah, is
she part of the women's championship match at WrestleMania. No
will she be? Yes, yes she will. We'll talk about

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what happened in that segment of what came after. And
then there's jay Usso and look, I was one of
those people, and I still look jay Usso very popular. Okay,
he's over. He's popular. People like him, they like going
yeat and he's very likely going to win the World
Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania from Gunther because he has to.

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I mean he almost has to. He has a win
at WrestleMania. It's over. I don't want to see him
in a world championship feud after this. Again, it's already
been beaten by this man three times. If they don't
tell the story of him fine overcoming Goonther and winning
that title of WrestleMania, then this is a complete waste
of time. And I don't know why they had him
win the Royal Rumble, but he did win the Royal Rumble,
and it's been several weeks now, It's been about six

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or seven weeks since he won the Royal Rumble. We
still have another four weeks left to go this feud,
with each passing week with him and Goother is fizzling
out badly. And tonight another very basic segment. But four
more weeks of this unless they really find a way
to shake this up. And I had one idea for

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what they could do to try to put a little
more heat on this. I talked about it on Friday,
and I'll mention it again later. Unless they find a
way to really shake this up. I mean, this is
really feeling you talk about feeling secondary. It's feeling more
like third or fourth down from the top of the
card on Night one. Potentially this thing is fading fast

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and they have to find a way to shake it up.
I mean, this is your World Heavyweight Championship match going
into WrestleMania, so here we are a month out. It
just doesn't feel special at all. Part of the problem
is that there are people who just can't accept Jay Usso.
In this spot on the Wrestle media card, I looked
at it and said, look, he's one of the most
popular guys on RAW, so he's the right guy for

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that spot. But I'm not a huge fan of what
they've been doing so far because it just feels so underwhelming.
Tonight didn't do anything to really change my mind on
that or advance that. But I said, shit, we're a
month out. Something has to change here. But I'll tell
you what. You know, they were in Brussels. They were

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very lucky that they were in Brussels because this RAW show.
If you had done this show anywhere in the US, Okay,
I guarantee you the fans would not be as lively
as they were and as just energetic and as loud
as they were in Brussels tonight here for this show
anywhere in the States, this would have fallen flat. So
it's a good thing that they were international for this show. Look,

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it was an easy watch. Three o'clock in the afternoon
on a Monday. They didn't even go to the full
two and a half hours that they've been going recently.
They went off the air ten minutes early. But I
mean when the show was over, I thought, okay, the
opening segment, that was really the star of the show.
Right there. We had a couple of good matches. You know,
there was a Pentam match that was good. The main
event was fine for what it was. It wasn't anything special.

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This was largely a forgettable show. Outside of the John
Cena stuff, this was a forgettable show. Now, I know
the fans in Brussels they had fun with it. I'm sure.
I already got an email from one of our listeners, Ronnie.
Shout out to Ronnie in Belgium. He went to the show.
He just got home a little while ago. He said
he had a good time. He was very disappointed that
CM punk was not there. He was hoping and expecting

(21:44):
him to be there because he is on the Raw
roster and unfortunately for Ronnie, CM Punk Raw Superstar CM
punk is not on Raw tonight, but he will be
on SmackDown on Friday, which is in Italy. So poor
Ronnie got fucked over. And I know he was as
pointed about that. But the fans, at least in Brussels
had fun with this show tonight. This is your Raw

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on Netflix review. It is Saint Patti's Day. It is Monday,
March seventeenth, twenty twenty five. I am the Solen Monster.
Thank you for hanging out with me a little bit
earlier than usual here on a Monday night. I like it.
I like it. I wish it was like this every week,
but it'll be like this again for the next couple
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super chats are open. You will see them popping up
on your screen. This was Ronnie when they announced that
seam Punk was not on this show. This was the reaction. Suck.
That was the reaction in Brussels, probably in the building
when they found out Punk was not there. I do
want to say thank you and just throw this up

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here for a second, because episode nine oh five of
the sound Off went up yesterday afternoon and we hit
number two on the Apple Podcast charts for all pro
wrestling podcast all over the country. So thank you for that.
If you did not listen to episode nine oh five,
make sure you do. There's some good stuff on there. Actually,

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the Hogan segment is just a must listen. I had
more fun with that, honestly than anything else that happened
in wrestling this week. So I definitely check out episode
nine oh five. And also, you know, because they were overseas,
they were not stateside. We had no celebrities in the crowd.
This was this was nice because every week now we
have all of these you know, B and C and

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D list celebrities and Netflix people that they're constantly showing
in the crowd every single week. And I made the
comment last week, I said, you know, one of these weeks,
they're gonna cut to the front row and they're gonna
show that fucking limu Emu from the Washington Mutual commercials
and that's going to be the celebrity guest in the
front row. And lo and behold, there he is, everybody,
the Limu Emu. He was spotted tonight. You didn't see him.

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They didn't show him on TV. But there he is.
No Dug though we have the EMU, but there's no Doug.
Fuck Doug. Doug didn't have a ticket. They would not
let him into the building. He tried to sneak in.
They beat him down with their billy clubs. And anyway
he'll need he'll need to check with his insurance carrier.
But the lemu Emu, lady and gentlemen see so sayth

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and then boom, there it is shout out to Dean.
All right, let's get into this show here. They were overseas.
No Pat McAfee, he stayed behind. He has his own
show to do. And so in his place sitting next
to Michael Cole on the show tonight. Yes, they let
him out of detention. Corey Graves was back in the

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chair on Monday night. Raw uh, and he did he
did a good job. I mean again, him and Cole,
they have a chemistry together that you know, they worked
very well together. It's not like this was their first
time working together. And frankly McAfee can get on my nerves.
So it was nice to get a respite here from
Pat McAfee this week. And then we heard the trumpets

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and I was like, ah, man, I was hoping for
some new music, but we heard the trumpets, and I
was wondering, how negative is this reaction gonna be? Man Like,
is it gonna be fifty to fifty? I mean they
were in Belgium, right, When was the last time these
people had a chance to see John sena alive? Right,
maybe this is gonna be their last time. So for

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all we know, they're gonna cheer this man when he
comes out We didn't have to worry about that because
this crowd, I mean, Brussels did not disappoint. Let's put
it that way. Okay. When the trumpets hit and John
Cena came out, there there were thunderous booze from this crowd.
And he walks out and he's got his T shirt on.

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It's that Farewell Tour T shirt that they're selling. He
was wearing the hat, he was wearing the jeorts. He
was stone faced. He did not run to the ring,
because when you're a heel, you don't run unless you're
running away from somebody. Then you run wise, you walk,
you take your time. That's when he did coming to

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the ring. So to start, we had loud dueling. Let's
go Sena sucks chance from the crowd. Seena picked up
the microphone to speak. They booed louder, and so he
teased leaving. Then he stopped and he went back and
tried to speak again, only to get hit with you
sold out chance, And so again he teased, dropping the

(26:23):
mic and leaving. But then he turned back and he said,
when someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have
to look outside themselves for approval which is the same
quote that he posted on X earlier. This was like
four point thirty in the morning, but I guess whatever
time that would have been in Brussels probably I don't
know how many hours are they ahead of us, right

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about five hours, six hours. So he posted that on
X earlier. This morning, they chanted something at him and
he said, you're making this so easy for me. For
twenty five years, I have been the victim of an
abusive relationship. He said, no, no, no, no, you have
lost your time to talk, and they showered him with
you sold out chance. He goes, yeah, okay, fine, take

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the floor. And what do you do with it? All
you do is be hurtful. And all you've ever done
is bully me into being your damn puppet and expect
me to do it with a smile on my face.
He said, no more. So we got fuck you seen
a chance? And they censored it on Netflix, which is
very lame Netflix. Although Netflix apparently from what I read,

(27:33):
Netflix has seated production control of the shows over to WWE,
so whether it was Netflix or ww it might have
been WWE for all we know, but they're on Netflix.
Very lame. Sina said it was very classy. He said,
I am not a babyface. This This is where I
rolled my eyes. He said, I am not a babyface,

(27:54):
I am not a heel. I'm a human being, and
each and every one of you has awful to me.
And the fans booed that. I hated that. I hated
and I get it. Everyone breaks the fourth wall. Now.
Remember Roman Reigns back during the Big Dog era. I'm
not a bad guy. I'm not a good guy. I'm

(28:16):
the guy, right. I mean, it's not the first time
that something like that has been said on TV, although
not with these words. I am not a heel, I
am not a babyface, I am not shooting, I am
not working right. I don't need to hear this on
the show. I know, in the grand scheme of things,
it's not a big deal. It's the way things are now.
Blah blah blah. I get it, it is what it is.

(28:38):
But I fucking hated that. The idea though, the idea
behind it though, was that the fans talk about him
as a babyface, and they talk about him as a heel.
Is he gonna turn right? Because they've been talking about
a possible Johnston a heel turn for you He even
joked about it on Raw many years ago. He said
something like heel turn and they showed his foot and
he was literally doing a heel turn at a little

(28:59):
wink and a nod. Right, So this is something that
people have dreamt about and talked about for years, and
they talk about him like, Hey, I'm a human being. Okay,
you could talk about me being a healer or babyface,
but I'm flesh and blood. Okay, I'm a real person
just like you. You don't take my feelings into account.
You don't treat me like a human being. You treat

(29:21):
me just like a character on a television show. So
that was the idea behind it. I liked the message,
but I just cringed hearing the words. So the fans booed,
and he said, go ahead, he goes. You have been
awful and it's been the same damn noise for twenty
five years, says When he first came to WWE, the
fans made it real clear how much they hated him.

(29:43):
Moments of embarrassment and shame just like this. So what
did he do. He went and changed himself, hoping the
fans would like him, and it worked for a little bit,
but it wasn't enough. So what did he do? He
worked hard and he started to win and win and
win and win and win, and funny enough, that's when

(30:05):
people started to turn on him because he was winning
and winning and winning and winning, and people got tired
of it. That's where the whole super Sena thing came from.
They started to resent him for it, and he says,
you hated it. It wasn't enough. So what did he do.
He spent the next ten years of his life trying
to give away everything he possibly could, and it was

(30:28):
not enough. So then we got shut the fuck up,
Chance says, and in my final moments, what's the only
thing I can do. I can walk away. And they cheered.
What a great example, he said. They go from shut
the f up to cheering when I say that I'm
going to walk away. So he announces his retirement. It

(30:50):
says he's actually going to walk away at the end
of this year, says, I tried one last time to
get along with the fans, to do something nice for them,
and they ruined it, just like they ruin everything, because
just like tonight, for two seconds it was great and
then it's never enough. So the fans now started singing
the Nana Na Hey Hey goodbye song, says, each one

(31:15):
of these idiots is proving my point with every breath.
No matter what I do, it's never enough. And we
should all be ashamed of ourselves, we being the fans.
All the fans ever do is take and take and
take and take, and the fans only care about themselves.
He put his values on the line to make a
very important choice in his life, and all the fans
can think of is what do we get? John Cena

(31:39):
is coming to our town. What do we get? This
is trending. What do we get? Not one of you
sons of bitches asked me how I feel? No one,
It's just what do we get? You get nothing, he says.
You get what you have earned, and what you have
earned is nothing. You don't get a new look. And

(32:01):
this is where he addressed the presentation that I talked about.
He goes, you don't get a new look because you
dress like me. I don't dress like you idiots. You
don't get new music. That's my voice on that song.
And your time is finally up, and my time is
finally now. The only thing you get is to take
a long look in the mirror to see how awful

(32:24):
each and every one of you have been to me
for twenty five years. So now we have we want Cody.
Chance says, you're chanting for Cody, of course, your brand
new shiny toy, because you're about to put this one
out to pasture. Like I said, with every breath, you
prove my point that you are awful people. And that's

(32:45):
every single person in this room. No one is safe,
especially the people he can pick out in the crowd.
And he starts looking at it into the crowd and
picking this guy off and that guy off, and he says, oh,
this guy's wearing my shirt and all the let's go
seeing a people, the people that are like, man, I
support you. So then we get loud. Let's go see
a scene sucks. Chance says, you hear that, world, the

(33:08):
scene of sucks. Jackobs have already proven themselves awful people.
I'm about to tell you why. The let's go Scena
people are just as awful. You claim to support me.
What have you ever done to support me? Huh? What
have you ever done for me? All you ever do
is steal from me. You steal my personal moments, you
steal my time, You have made me your friggin You

(33:31):
have taken me and you have taken my time away
from me. You have stolen it from me. You have
made me the butt of a stupid, invisible joke for
fifteen years. And it's not funny, it's pathetic. You are pathetic,
says Oh, you don't want to hear this. You're not
ready to hear this, and lean into an uncomfortable conversation.

(33:53):
The truth is, you don't wear this for support. You
talk about a shirt now. You don't wear this for support.
You wear it to make yourself feel good. You where
words like hustle, loyalty, and respect. I live them every
single day. You think that you can buy the words
never give up. I am the definition of perseverance and
everyone here knows it. You do not support me. What

(34:15):
you do is you use me as an excuse for
your pathetic failure of a life, because all you've ever
done for twenty five years is sit on your ass
and watch me be great. No more, this says everybody. This,
even that kid right there in the crowd, that one
little kid right there in the crowd. This is a toxic,

(34:37):
dysfunctional relationship. The fans chance shut the fuck up at him.
Oh you don't want to hear it, do you? He says, Well,
listen to this. I'm breaking up with you. I'm done.
I'm breaking up with every single person. You're dumped. I
don't need you anymore. I don't care about you and

(34:57):
you don't matter to me. And you know that I'm
right and you know that you're wrong. And that's when
Cody made his way out again. You listen to what
he is saying here, and I swear like, this is
exactly the promo we would have gotten thirteen years ago,
because at that time, that is exactly what he was

(35:17):
going through. Right that the mixed reactions and the people are,
we're sick of Johnsena. We want something near, we want somebody,
we want Ane Toy, right, we're tired of him. He
always went, and that was what he was going through
at the time, right, it was fresh in everybody's minds.
It would have made all the sense in the world
for him to finally snap and go, fuck, I'm done
with you people. So it's a little weird that we're

(35:39):
first getting it now, but it's now or never, right,
because if you think about it, like John Cena turning
heel now when he's a made guy, like when he
first turned heel an elimination chamber. It's a big moment
and it got everybody talking, right, one of the biggest
heel turns of all time, just because he is one
of the biggest stars in the business of all time.

(36:01):
And you look at it and you just go he
sold his soul to the Rock. The Rock was promising
Cody Rhodes the world, Cody, you're here. I can get
you here. Look at the social media followers that you
have relative to me, look at the movies on me.
I can do all that for you. And it's like,

(36:22):
but John Sene already has all that. You know, if
the Rock is here, John Sene is right there. He's
not that far behind him. He's got his own movies
and his own career in Hollywood and television, and you know,
like so, on the surface, it didn't seem to make
a whole lot of sense why John Cena, of all people,
would be the one to take Rock up on his offer.

(36:43):
But this was Sena releasing a lot of kind of
buried anger that he has suppressed for many years on
the fans, saying all the things that he probably has
wanted to say for a very long time, and throwing
it back in people's faces and saying, all you people
are making plans for me. You want me to come
dressed a certain way, you want me to come out
to new music. You want this, you want that. This

(37:03):
is my retirement year. This is it. I'm done when
this year is over, and I'm not doing this for
you anymore. I'm doing it for me because you're selfish
and I deserve this. I earn this. That's what I
got out of this. Now Cody's music hits and he,
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the ring. They did the whoh they did the whole
nine yards, and they were singing a song to him.
I mean, I'll call it the Cody Road Song, but
they were basically just singing his name. Once he got
in the ring, and then we got our first face off,
first time that these two men have shared the ring

(40:13):
together since seen it turned on him at the elimination chamber.
Cody said everybody was willing to hear him out, even
himself if he understood correctly, They've given you their worst,
and he said, sure, they might have, but they've also
given you their best for twenty five years. And they
did that because you were special. They did that because

(40:35):
you could take it, because you could carry it. Sena
started to walk towards him and he said, listen, kid.
Cody immediately cut him off and screamed enough and it
certainly is not kid, it's WWE champion, says, who the
hell are you. It's talking to Scena. Now, where's the

(40:55):
guy on this shirt right here? Even after what you did,
I was excited at the prospect of going face to
face week to week with John Cena, and instead I
got this, said, well, this better nut show up at WrestleMania,
because if it does, then I run it over and
I run it out because I took its best shot
and it wasn't good enough. I retire it early. So

(41:19):
go find John Cena because I want to wrestle him
at WrestleMania forty one. Not this whiny bitch. Everybody popped
him with that. Cody dropped the microphone, he left the ring.
Sena stood around for a little bit. He was soaking
up the reaction. Then he dropped the microphone. Once Cody
was gone, he left the ring. The fans again serenaded
him with the goodbye song as he slowly made his

(41:42):
way towards the back. But then he stopped, like he
was the undertaker, right to do one last look behind,
and he turned his head to look at the fans
kind of glared at them one last time, and then
he headed backstage, and there was a great sign in
the crowd. He was right there, right on the heart
camera that said Sina lost his soul and his hair.

(42:04):
And I was like, oh man, it's like right there
right on TV. Perfect placement. He did, you know he did?
And maybe that's why he's so angry. See that would
make more sense to me. I could understand that, you know,
And everybody mocking him for it and everything, and so
it just makes you go crazy. Honestly, I could have
bought into that as an explanation too. You guys have

(42:25):
taken the best of the best of me, twenty five
of my best years, and now you're mocking me for
having a bald spot, which happens to everybody when they
get to a certain age. You're gonna mock me for
it and tell stupid invisible jokes. See that I can
buy into Michael Cole. They cut back to Michael Cole,
and I was wondering if this might happen because Jim

(42:46):
Ross has done this in the past. I don't remember
the last one he did. It was sometime when Bischoff
was the GM. There was something that happened. It might
have involved Austin. Actually it might have involved maybe when
Austin was was done in two thousand and three. I've
got the angle. But like, they showed Jim Ross on
camera and they really like zoomed in on him, and

(43:07):
he cut this impassioned promo and obviously with Austin he
had that personal relationship. What they've established recently is that
John Cena and Michael Cole are very close, like Austin
and Jr. Used to be very close, and he was
his biggest advocate on commentary, and all Michael Cole ever
says on commentary is he's the goat, He's the greatest
of all time, and he's he's constantly putting over John Cena.

(43:30):
So I was curious, like, how would Michael cole respond
or would John Cena even cut a promo on him?
They show Michael Cole he apologizes in advance for what
he said. We're going to be personal and emotional comments,
and he says, for two decades, I believed in that
man I wrote alongside that man I bought everything that

(43:51):
he was selling. And then he has the audacity to
come out here and blame the WWE fans. John Cena
is sixteen time champion because of the fans. John Cena
is a massive millionaire and movie star because of the fans.
And what does he do. He comes out and he
cries and he acts like any irrational prick. That's what

(44:14):
John Cena is. He called this man a prick. We
were more than half an hour into the show by
the time this was over, and yet it still didn't
feel long enough. As I said, I have, and I'm
sure many of you have as well. I have waited
a very long time for a heel. John Cena promo

(44:37):
presentation may not have been exactly what I was expecting.
It didn't go exactly in the direction even content wise
that I thought it would. Certain things were not mentioned,
they were left out. I'm going to hope and assume
it's because this was only week one. It's ridiculous that
we had to wait two and a half weeks coming
off that hot angle to even get him on TV.
His schedule is what it is, It's still ridiculed. It

(44:58):
should not have taken to a a half weeks to get
to this point, but they had no choice. So here
we are now, and it was only I look at
this as week one. This was only week one. He's
going to be back on the show next week. We'll
see if we have. You know, even Cody can bring
up the Rock. You know, and and because seen in Rock,
I mean they have worked against each other, they've stood

(45:19):
side by side together, and they're both looked at as
these big legendary Hall of Fame stars. So why, you know,
why why align with the Rock? Why side with the Rock? Hopefully,
he'll he'll get into his relationship, you know, if any
with the Rock. Maybe in the next promo that we
see he comes out though in the georts and the

(45:39):
T shirt and all that. To me, it's it's ridiculous
to still see him out there dressing like that every
single week. You know, now almost fifty years old, he's
out there wearing fucking jorts, you know, baseball hat. But
I like the explanation at least that they offered for
why he's not changing that and he's not changing the
music because I don't want to give the people what

(46:02):
they want. I've spent my entire career giving you what
you want, and I'm not going to do that anymore.
So at least they took the time to explain that.
And I'm very glad they were overseas for this show.
The fans in Brussels, they knew the assignment and they
reacted accordingly, and they just absolutely showered this man with booze.
And we will see in Scotland and we will see

(46:24):
in London if it's the same, and also when they
get back to the States. We have not yet seen
John Cena as a heel in the United States. When
he turned heel. He was in Canada, now he was,
he was in Brussels. He's not going to be back
on us soil as a heel until next month, and
so will. I don't know what that first city is

(46:45):
going to be that he'll be in, but we'll see
what the reaction is when they get there. There's still
time to address all of these things. There's still time
for him to bring up number seventeen. It sounds to me,
based on what he said here in this promo, may
end up being a case where it's like, look, I'm
not doing this for you. I'm doing it because it's
best for business and because I want to set the record.
This is for me. It's like my gift to myself.

(47:09):
I've given everything to other people. Right. He didn't mention
make a wish, but you can use that as an
example too. I do for others, This one's for me, right,
Maybe that that'll be the explanation. But there was no
mention to that, no mention of number seventeen at all
here on this show. And again he did not respond
to Cody at the end of this promo. He let

(47:31):
him have his moment, But if he wants to, he
can ether this man on the microphone and how will
Cody respond to that? Cody had it easy tonight. I'm
still waiting to see how is Cody going to respond
when John Cena as a heel brings his A game
on the microphone and throws it right back in his face.

(47:52):
Maybe he'll throw his history in his face leaving the
company and without mentioning aaw right, the aaw stuff, and
what's he going to bring up? You know, what is
he going to throw at Cody Rose? How will Cody
respond to that? Because the one thing is you don't
want Cody to come off is uncool like Roman Rains
did when he was in the ring with John Sena

(48:12):
all those years ago in twenty seventeen, and he just,
I mean, he got completely massacred. And Roman Rains was
the guy they were trying to put over. I mean
Scena put him over when they had their match at
No Mercy or whatever that show was. But the damage
was done, like Roman looked like an absolute goofball at
the end of that segment. You don't want Cody Roads
to come off that way. Scena let him off easy tonight.

(48:36):
But I enjoyed this segment on the whole. Then we
had Penta taking on Ludwig Kaiser no holds barred pinfaller
submission only. Kaiser hit an early death valley driver on
the announced desk, which did not break. In the ring,

(48:57):
Penta hit a backstabber for a two count. Kaiser came
back with a sling blade and a DVD for a
two count. At ringside, Kaiser went for his running kick
that he does. Penta, though, back dropped him onto the
announced desk, which again did not break. Penta rolled Kaiser
back inside followed him in. Michael call On commentary mentioned

(49:17):
that Penta is a former TNA and Lucha Underground champion,
and also that he's a multiple time tag team champion.
Kaiser slammed the chair over pent his back. Penta fought back,
hit the sacrifice arm breaker to snap the arm. Penta
then picked up the chair and Kaiser is looking up
at him and going, I give up, you win, And

(49:39):
apparently the referee didn't give a shit because the match
continued and Kaiser took the chair away from him. He
got the chair kicked back into his face though, and
Kaiser got hit with a Mexican destroyer off the middle
rope onto the chair and then pent To followed with
the Penta driver for the win. This was a fine
match that the fans were super into, really. I mean,

(50:01):
they had the no holds barred stipulations, so you know,
you could bring the chair in and stuff like that.
But I mean the match itself, it wasn't really any
any different than any of the other matches that we've
seen Penta in so far, because it's just there's a
sameness to it. It's time to move on from this.
I mean, I'm glad that they found something for Kaiser
to do, and they should always find something for him

(50:23):
to do because Kaiser is very good. But think about this.
Penta has been on television now for two months. Okay,
it was about two months ago when he made his
debut on Raw. Since debuting on Raw, by my count,
he's had about half a dozen matches on this show.
Let's say it's about six. Out of those six matches, okay,

(50:44):
he has had three different opponents in those six matches,
very different variations. One of them I think was a
triple threat. But it's been some combination of Chad Gable,
Ludwig Kaiser, and Pete Dunn. Okay, six matches the same
three opponents over and over again. It's time to move on,
right He got another win tonight, that's great. He keeps

(51:06):
racking up wins. That's great, but we need to move
on from this. After the match, Kathy Kelly met pent
in the isleway. She brought up WrestleMania and she asked
pent to what's next, and he cut a fiery promo.
He thanked the crowd. He's super over here in Brussels.
But he said that he was coming after the Intercontinental Championship,
so now we have a direction for him for WrestleMania.

(51:29):
After this, they showed Dakota Kai walking through the back
on her way to the ring for the next match.
If you watched right behind her, it wasn't even like
all the way, it was right there in the background.
As she was walking by, Dominic Mysterio was in deep
conversation with carrying Cross, which is very interesting. After a break,
we go backstage. Finn Balor is talking to Live Morgan

(51:50):
and Raquel Rodriguez. Balor and Morgan. They are continuing to
be very phony with one another, and sarcastic Dominic walks
in and Balor thanks him for getting him that icy title.
Match tonight in the Maine Event against bron Breaker, and
Dominic again, as he does every single week, he brings

(52:11):
up the idea of adding a new member to the
judgment day and he said that he has the perfect person.
They say who. He goes Henta and Baalor blows up
on him about him wanting to add not only a
new member, which he has said no to, but to
add the man who just literally in the previous segment

(52:32):
just said that he is coming after the very championship
that Baler is challenging for tonight or as Balor said,
here my intercontinental title. So Baller called dom a snake,
and then he walked away, and Dominic turned around and
he told Carlito, I didn't even know that Penta wanted
to go for the intercontinental title, And Carlita responded with
you don't watch the show, do you? Oh? I think

(52:55):
he watches the show. See, I think Dom's a slick one.
See he knew exactly what he was doing here, So
there's no way that he didn't know. Not only did
he know that Penta had just said he was going
after the intercontinental title, he specifically said Penta knowing that
it would make Balor absolutely crazy, and it would just

(53:15):
make him angry and make him just blow his top
and get all worked up. Because Dom is scheming. He's scheming,
he's scheming. I thought by now he would already be
the new leader of the Judgment day. I still say
that in the end, the goal here is to get
Dom in a position where he's either the leader or
maybe he helps kick Balor out and brings in whoever
the new leader is going to be. But he's scheming.

(53:38):
He knew exactly what he was doing here. We had
Dakota Kai one on one against Ivy Nile Off. It's
a direction you can fuck. That's what John Cena has
said to all the fans tonight. Off is the direction
that they can fuck. He has been waiting twenty years
to cut this problem, and that is what he did.

(54:02):
Chad Gable, wearing a suit, ran out to the ring
just as the match began between Dakota and Ivy to
join the Creed Brothers at ringside. In Ivy's corner. Nile
used a distraction by American Maid to hit some Uranagi
variation only got a two count Raymisterio and Dragonly Big Pop.
They come down to the ring, they clear out American

(54:22):
Maid from ringside. In the ring, Dakota hits Ivy with
her GTK finish and she picks up the win. This
did not even last Three minutes. After this, we had
the Raw general manager Adam Pierce. He was in the
ring for a contract signing for the Women's World Championship
match at WrestleMania with the champion Eo Sky and the challenger,

(54:45):
Bianca Belair. EO spoke first. She told Bianca that she
would not disrespect her again. Rhea Ripley will not disrespect
me again. No one will disrespect me again because I
am the Women's World Champion, and every buddy cheered, and
then after WrestleMania she says, I will still be the
Women's World Champion, loud cheers. EO signs the contract so

(55:10):
she gets chance of you deserve it, and Bianca speaks
and she says that she has all the respect in
the world for EO, but last week I gave you
a pass because it was low key my fault what happened.
But if you think that I'm gonna let you put
your hands on me without any repercussions, then you don't

(55:30):
know me at all. And at WrestleMania, I will be
the new Women's World Champion, and the crowd booed. Bianca
got booed, and then she signed the contract and make
it official for WrestleMania. But you knew that we were
and done yet, and we weren't, and they hit Rio
Ripley's music, and the place erupted. Adam Pierce now is

(55:52):
frantically calling for referees. He's asking Rio, what the hell
are you doing out here? Rhea said EO slapped her
in the face last week, and she wasn't just gonna
do nothing about it. Yeah, I mean, she was so
upset she could have responded last week. How come she
didn't respond when she got smacked in the face last week?
She waited an entire week. And again Rhea is admonishing

(56:14):
Bianca for getting involved in her match a few weeks
ago with EO. So she said, I was going to
take a page at of your book, Bianca and come
out here and simply watch. Even though the segment was over.
They had both signed the contract already. Bianca said, I
guess you're just going to be watching WrestleMania. But since
you want to be in my business, how about I
make you my business. So here comes Eo Sky again

(56:37):
left out of the entire conversation. Here Eo comes over,
tries to intervene Bianca, pie faces her. Ria then gives
Bianca a head butt and Beanca. She lays down on
the contract table in the ring. Ria then set Eo
up for a power bomb onto Bianca and the table
did not break. Pierce is freaking out. Now Rhea picks

(57:00):
the contract up off the floor and Rhea Ripley signs
her name to the contract and Adam Pierce is yelling
at her, and She's saying, I'm in the match now.
I'm in the match now too, And Adam Pierce is
following her down the aisle to the back and yelling
at her the entire time as they go to the back. Well,

(57:23):
that's definitely not legal, okay, Number one. She could sign whatever,
she could put her name down wherever she wants. I
don't think that's a legally binding contract, okay for Rhea Ripley,
That's not how this works. It would be like me
if I knew. Let's say that a friend of mine
was closing on a new house that they just bought,
and I show up in my car right, I just like,

(57:44):
I pull right in, right into the driveway, and I
just go over and I signed my name whatever mortgage
paperwork and the contract is there, you know, the loan
papers whatever, and I just signed my name on the contract. Well,
it's my house. Now, I'll be like, Soraya, I'll be like, page,
this is my house. Right. That's not the way it works.

(58:04):
That's not the way that this whole thing works. So
and I know they did this years ago with Shawn
Michaels going into WrestleMania twenty, So there's there's a precedent
for this. It's a shitty precedent, I mean, but it's
not like this hasn't happened before in WWE. Still dumb.
Very interesting to note though, Eo super over Rhea super

(58:25):
over Bianca, not that she's not over, but booed fans
did not have an issue booing Bianca bell Air. And
I know it's only one city. These international cities, you
never know how they're going to respond, who they're going
to cheer for, who they're going to boo, But they
didn't have an issue boom and Bianca bell Air here,
So yeah, if they wanted to turn her heel even

(58:46):
if they waited until WrestleMania. I don't think it would be,
you know, a stretch to think that people would have
no issue booing Bianca, especially because the other two involved
here are so popular. And Bianca of course, has been
a baby since she got called up to the main roster.
I mean she was a heel I think at the
very beginning in NXT, but since she got called up.

(59:07):
What year was it when she got called up? Twenty
had to be twenty twenty. She's been a babyface, you know,
basically this entire time. I think she would make a
great heal. The only question is does she want to
go heal? And does wwe want her to go heal?
And I'm just saying if they wanted her to, I
don't think it's going to be a problem. Now later

(59:28):
in the show, let's skip ahead to the continuation of this,
because this was not the last that we heard from
these women. Later in the show, backstage, they showed Adam
Pierce is still yelling at Rhea Ripley, who would not
hand over the contract. She still had the contract in
her hand, and he kept telling her just signing your
name does not add you to the match, and Riea
kept saying no, no, no, no, no, no, no, all

(59:49):
over again, and he said, it's like talking to a child.
Give me the contract. See Charlotte was right. Charlotte Flair
called Ria Ripley a child. I know people don't want
to hear this, but I think Charlotte was right. Rhea
eventually did surrender the contract to him. Bianca bel Air
showed up attacked Ria. Then EO Sky showed up attacked Ria,

(01:00:13):
and Bianca told her she's mine, and then they all
started fighting. Pierce he came back in to try to
separate them. Rhea finally left and she shouted for him
to put her in the match. Put me in is
what she said. So they left it unresolved. She has
not been added to the match. Okay, that is not
how contracts work. However, she will of course be added

(01:00:36):
to the match because there is no other match for
her to be added to, if not the women's championship match.
So it's as simple as next week. EO Sky's the champion.
All EO has to do is go put her in
the match. Bianca may not like it. I mean kind
be fucking over Bianca in a way. I don't see
any reason why she would want Ria in the match.

(01:00:58):
I mean, if she does, she's a babyface. This is
her shot. It's not Rhea's shot, but EO Sky. She's
a defending champion. She backs down from no one, She's
been disrespected. It's as simple as EO going to Adam
Pearson saying I want Rhea in the match. If they
want Ria to wrestle somebody to earn her way into

(01:01:20):
the match, they could do that too. Who would she wrestle?
Live Morgan? Live? Morgan's the only one I could think of.
There's no one, There's nobody at that level that would be. Okay,
you want a spot in the Women's world title match
of WrestleMania, you gotta beat this person for a wea
you gonna do. You're gonna put Ria in the ring
with who Raquel Ivy Nile. There is nobody else. Just

(01:01:41):
have EO say I want her in, and that's it.
She's in, and that's how you get your triple threat
match of wrestle Mania. Now, in the back Jayu and
I don't know what the deal was with the building
that they were in, but the backstage area they had
like color graffiti all over the wall. I thought it

(01:02:01):
looked cool. Actually, it's almost like a graffiti mural all
over the walls. In the back, Jay Usso is there.
The camera's following him as he's walking through the back,
cutting of promo, saying he hasn't been himself lately. He
should have a snickers. Then says his mind was playing
tricks on him, so he flew halfway across the world
to whip somebody's ass. Tonight it was Austin Theory, but

(01:02:23):
at WrestleMania it's gonna be Gunther. So then Gunther shows up,
He confronts him, and officials got in between them. Gunh
told Jay that he spoke with Jimmy, and Jimmy was
just as dumb as Jay was. So Jay shoved him
and they got separated and off Jay went to the
ring for his match, which was one on one against

(01:02:44):
Austin Theory. Jay, I'm gonna tell you right now this
is what the match was. Almost immediately, Jay caught Theory
with a spear and he pinned him. This match went
barely thirty seconds, which honestly is all it needed to go.
That's what this match should have been. Last week against
Grayson Waller and that went like ten minutes. This went

(01:03:06):
thirty seconds. This did not need to be longer than that.
So after the match, Jay super kicked Waller and then
he went to go do a dive. So like, up
to this point, Jay looked dominant, right, he was all
fired up, right, he looked good, and then he had
to do a dive. Everybody dives, so Jay's got to

(01:03:27):
do a dive to wipe them out. Hits the ropes.
He's coming off the ropes and he doesn't look like
he's really built up out a lot of speed. He
hasn't really built up a good head of steam here,
and he jumps to do a flip dive out over
the top rope. He gets caught up on the way
down in the top rope. I don't even think he
touched Theory or Waller. They fell down anyway. Jay looked

(01:03:51):
like he may have landed on his fucking head on
the apron. So he was it was not good and
he knew it and clearly he was in back. He
immediately got up. He got back. This was you know,
this was this like this was like a top dollar
dive out of the ring, right, he got the top
dollar tonight here on rass. So he crawls back into
the ring and you could see him now the words

(01:04:11):
like I'm okay, I'm okay, but like he was definitely
embarrassed after that. So Gunther showed up. He tried to
put him out with a sleeperhold. Again, he grabbed him
from behind. Jay broke free. He ripped the world title
from Gunther's waist. Gun Thro charged at him. Jay moved
held the top rope down, which caused Gunther to tumble
out to the floor. Jay went to the ropes. He

(01:04:34):
held up the championship and then he tossed it back
to the champion. Yes, yes, he he yeeded on himself.
He did, he did. He yeeded on himself tonight. This
was really all that it needed to be, especially jay
In Theory. I'm not interested in seeing a fucking nine

(01:04:54):
minute Jay Usso Austin Theory match on this show. I'm sorry.
Thirty seconds in and out, wham bam, thank you, ma'am.
That's all this needed to be. But as I said
at the beginning, man, this is getting very tiresome every
fucking week with this. He puts him in a sleeper
Oh okay, he tried to and this time he evaded it,
and then he holds up the title and he goes

(01:05:14):
yeats like, what the fuck are we doing here? Here's
what they need to do. Add a little bit of
heat to this. Gunther has to lay a fucking beat
down on Jimmy, his twin brother. I don't know what
they're doing with Jimmy at WrestleMania. The idea that I
was thinking of watching that show on Friday was we
may get another triple threat, this time on the SmackDown
side for the US title. I could see La Knight

(01:05:36):
defending his title against Jimmy and Jacob Fatu, and we
don't even get Solo Soka in a match. Solo Soka
can interfere and backfires, and then that kind of adds
fuel to the fire with him and Jacob. But at
least it gives Jimmy a match, and it gives Jimmy
something to do on the WrestleMania card, whether he is
or is not in that match. Shoot an angle on
SmackDown one of these weeks, maybe this week where Gunther

(01:05:59):
attacked Jimmy, looks right into the camera, delivers a message
to Jay this is you. I want you to take
a look this face. You see that this can be
your face at WrestleMania, and it should be even more
than just a sleeper. He could put him out with
a sleeper, take a chair, very ungunther like, really put
some heat on this right, Go after the man's family,

(01:06:21):
go after his blood. Give Jay a real reason to
get fired up and get pissed off and get angry
and not come out and just do yeat, but really
get fucking angry and say, now you've taken it too far.
That's what this feud needs. Something like that is what
this few need. Because Gunher told him at the very beginning,
when there were ten weeks left to go until WrestleMania,

(01:06:41):
I'm gonna if you pick me for WrestleMania, so help
me God, I'm gonna make your life a living hell
for the next ten weeks. The only hell here is
for the fans who have to sit through what basically
feels like the same fucking segment every single week. This
would be different, This would add some fuel to the
fire here. So that's what I would do. I hope
they do something along those lines, anything different, instead of

(01:07:04):
doing the same thing again, which is what this feels like.
We're getting every single week. We had Ramisterio and dragon
have Gunther go to Rakishi. Okay, now, okay, so now
people are mentioning Rakishi, and you know what that works too.
I said family Obviously, I think Jimmy, but family could

(01:07:28):
be Rakishi as well. Look, I'm sure Rakishi knew that
it was gonna, you know, help get his son over
here on this march to WrestleMania. You know, he would
take one for the team and doesn't have to take
a big bump. He could just be putting a sleeperhole
and get put down. Sure, sure you could have gun
through attack Rakishi. That works too. We had Ramisterio and

(01:07:49):
Dragonly against the Creed Brothers. Creeds dominated through a commercial break.
Ray made a hot tag though after the break fend
it off Brutus his attempted interferreeer and and then he
gave Julius a DDT before Dragon Lee young Brutus off
the apron with a hurt and Rana from the inside
of the ring leaping to the outside of the ring.
He took him off the apron with Irana to the floor.

(01:08:12):
Ray hit Julius with a six y one nine and
a springboard splash for the win Crab was super hot
for the LWO as they wore most things on this show,
and then the American masked luchador from last week reappeared.
Then he hit the scene again. After the match, he
attacked both Ray and Dragonle. He gave Ray a released

(01:08:34):
German soup plex onto Dragonly, and then he hit Lee
with a diving head butt off the top rope. The
crowd yelled shoosh at him before security chased them away
to the back. So it's good to see Ray Phoenix
back on Raw for the second straight week with his
new American mask. Now. During the match, as the commentators

(01:08:57):
were speaking, Michael It's All insisted that the luchador we
saw on the show last week was Chad Gable, which
of course there's no evidence of and Corey Graves said
it could be anybody said it could be Del Wilkes,
it could be Tom Brandy, or maybe he sold the
gimmick to somebody else, so maybe it was somebody else

(01:09:19):
under the mask. Hey, Corey, I don't think it's Del Wills.
That'd be a hell of a magic trick if it was.
I'm pretty sure it's not Del Wills. I'm just saying
so After a video package recapping last week's steel cage
match between CM Punk and Seth Rollins at Madison Square

(01:09:42):
guard with the return of Roman Reigns, which Tommy Dreamer
thinks may have been the greatest steel cage match of
all time. Rollins comes out and he dances his way
down to the ring. So they go to a commercial break.
All through the break, the people are singing this stupid song.
They come back from break, they're still singing the song,

(01:10:05):
and they continued singing this song for about two and
a half minutes. Rollin just stood in the middle of
the ring as they did the oooooooo okay they sang
the song. Finally they're done. They got it all out
of their system. And then he got into his whole
the visionary, the revolutionary, his whole stick that he does,
all the nonsense, and they sang some more. Fans chanted

(01:10:27):
Cmpunk's name, and Rollin said, he'll get to him, but
let's get to Roman Reigns first. So the fans chanted OTC.
Somebody has to alert them it's no longer OTC now
it's YTC. All that money they spent on that OTC shirt, right,
I don't know what it is these days. With w
W Shop. It's fucking fanatics. So who the hell knows
between the shirt and the shipping and everything is probably

(01:10:48):
fifty bucks a shirt. Now they got to spend another
fifty because now it's WYTC that he's wearing. In two
weeks it'll be something else. That's how you make money.
It's like when John Cena would come out with all
these different color he would have a red shirt and
a green shirt, and a blue shirt, and a black shirt,
and a white shirt and a purple shirt. Smart the
shirts could say the exact same thing, but it's a

(01:11:11):
different color. So the kids want their parents to buy
them the new color. They want the whole set. That's
what Roman's gonna do now. It's going to go from
OTC to YTC, FTC, BTC, go down the whole alphabet.
Someone needs to let seth Rawlins know this. But he said, look,
he's not upset over what Roman did last week because

(01:11:33):
he'd had done the same damn thing. Even after all
these years and a wise man in his ear, he
still can't come up with a plan. He needs an
architect to do it for him. But he left one
little detail out, which is the man whose name the
fans were chanting a moment ago the luckiest loser on
the face of the planet, because if he had just

(01:11:53):
a few more seconds in that cage match last week,
cmpunk would have gotten his head stomped into the mets
stomped through the mat. He said, he would have ended
his WrestleMania dreams and put his career on ice. He
would have taken care of the cmpunk problem for all
of us, including Roman. But just like the good old days,

(01:12:14):
he's left to clean up Roman's mess. And it just
so happens that his two favorite people in the world
CM Punk and Roman Reigns are going to be in
the same place at the same time on Friday on SmackDown,
and the fans booed because they don't care about SmackDown.
You're not in Italy, you're in Belgium, and they know

(01:12:36):
that Roman Reigns is not there, and they know that
CM punk is not there, and so they're like our
friend Ronnie from earlier that I mentioned, who just got
back from the show. He was very disappointed that there
was no cm punk on this show. So Rollin says, oh,
trust me, Brussels, I wish they were here too. But
I was thinking, He said, why should I let them
have all the fun. Maybe I'll make a little trip

(01:12:57):
down to Italy and SmackDown and I'll put myself right
in between Roman Reigns and CM Punk. So then he said, look,
we got a great Intercontinental title match coming up next,
and he pitched it back to the crowd to sing
his song one more time. At least the fans were
happy to see him because he is a star and
they got to sing his song and all that. Because

(01:13:20):
like the Paul Hayman segment that we got on SmackDown
on Friday night, this was a gigantic waste of time. Basically,
what this segment was was seth Rollins coming out and
saying Roman Reigns is not here. CM Punk is not here.
They're going to be on the other show on Friday,
and I think I'll join them on that show too.

(01:13:41):
Now sing my song. That's what this segment why, that's
all this segment was. The Hayman segment on Friday was
honestly the worst Paul Hayman promo that I've ever seen.
And it wasn't even like in the delivery. It was
just like the substance of what he was saying there
was no point him being out there. Nothing he said

(01:14:03):
in that promo, in the middle of that ring, in
front of that live crowd on Friday in Barcelona is
nothing that could not have been said in a pre
tape sixty second video they could have spliced into the show,
at least with Rollins. He's a star, he's got a song,
he comes out, it's part of the experience of being there.
Hayman has no song. He's a fucking manager. He killed

(01:14:25):
the crowd. The crowd was booing him because he came
out and said Roman Reigns is not here. He's gonna
be on the show next week. And oh, by the way,
the video game is out, so go play the video game.
That segment was even more pointless than this one. And
this was pointless. But they actively killed the crowd with
that segment on Friday. It was a complete waste of time.

(01:14:47):
This one was not much better than that one. We
go backstage, Kathy Kelly is interviewing AJ Styles and she's
asking him about Logan Paul. But AJ pause to a
knowledge the crowd when they started singing for him, and
then he was interrupted yet again by Carrying Cross, who
had Scarlet with him. This time, Cross said that maybe

(01:15:09):
AJ's not actually mad at Logan Paul, maybe he's mad
at himself. How many years did it take for you
to make it to the WWE to find validation? What
was it sixteen years? And AJ corrected him and said seventeen.
Didn't take Logan Paul seventeen years to do it. Are
you telling me that you can't find respect for this
kid who just waltzed into our business and accomplished everything

(01:15:31):
that AJ wanted to do since he was a little kid,
and in record time? And AJ told him, I see
what you're trying to do, and it's not going to work.
And he walked away, and then Cross looked over at
Scarlet and whispered, I think it's working. I love how
he has straightened his hair. This was a second week
in a row where he had the straight hair too.
I guess kind of mirror AJ's hair. I don't know

(01:15:55):
where this is going. I thought they were building to
something with Cross and Sammy's ain Right now, it doesn't
look like Sammy's even gonna have a match at WrestleMania.
I thought, maybe are they building to Sammy's ain't and
carrying Cross Sammy hasn't been seen since the Elimination Chamber.
It's going to be three weeks next week since we've
seen him, and I don't know, I'm not aware of
him even being on the tour, so I'm not expecting

(01:16:17):
him to be on TV next week either. That feels
like it was dropped. AJ is obviously on a collision
course with Logan Paul, So I mean, look, I like
that he stirs up shit with different people. He's the
shit stir of the locker room, and Cross is very

(01:16:37):
good in these types of segments. I'm just not sure
where the n ring direction comes in for him. At
some point, he's got to get in the ring with somebody.
He was talking to Dominic Mysterio earlier. Is he a
potential candidate as the new leader of the Judgment day
things didn't work out too well for the Final Testament.
Are they're going to plug him into another faction and
have him as the leader of the Judgment. I mean,

(01:16:58):
I don't know. I don't know what the plan is
here for him. They close with the Intercontinental Championship on
the line with bron Breaker who crowsed pads with Penta
in the back as he was making his way out
to the ring, defending against Finn Balor, who was trying
to win his first singles title in three years. Well,

(01:17:22):
the Street Profits just won their first tag team titles
in four years on Friday nights, So there's hope. Not tonight,
but there's hope that maybe at some point in the
next few months, maybe we'll see Balor with a single.
I don't know what that singles title would be. He's
not winning the World Championship, he's not winning the Intercontinental Championship.
So what other singles championship is there for him to

(01:17:43):
win unless he goes down to NXT. I don't know,
but at least there's hope that maybe he can find
a way to win something. So early in the match,
Bron went for a running spear outside. As he came
barreling in the Baler cut him off with a sling
blade and he had control. Heading into the final commercial break,
Baalor started to vary dismissively. He had Bron down on

(01:18:05):
the mat in the ring, and he was very dismissively,
kind of kicking him and paint brushing him as he
was talking shit to him. Bron fired up. He fought
back with a leaping back elbow hit an overhead supplex
in a power slam. Here comes Dom and Carlito, so
there was a little bit of a distraction as they
made their way out to the ring. Baalor got an

(01:18:27):
ear fall out of it. Bron knocked Baalor out of
the ring with a running clothes line. He followed that
with his trademark leaping clothes line off the apron over
the announced desk. You know, they finally smartened up after
twenty five years, they finally smartened up and they reinforced
these announced desks, because there were at least three instances
tonight on this show where guys either landed on the

(01:18:50):
announced desk where they kind of touched it and went
over it didn't even budge. Maybe they're made of the
same solid oak that the aw ones are. But I'm
glad it took them more than two decades to figure
this out that maybe we should reinforce these announced desks
so they don't break so easily. Balor cut them off
again with a sling blade in the ring. He followed

(01:19:10):
that with a shotgun drop kick. He went up top.
He went for the kudigrass Broun avoided it. Balor, though
was able to side step a spear attempt school boyed
him again, only got a two count. Breaker, hit a
power slam, and then set up for a superplex, but
Carlito distracted the referee, and as he distracts the referee,

(01:19:31):
Dominic gets up on the apron. He knocks bron Breaker
off the ropes so he falls backwards back into the ring.
But in doing so, what he also did was he
inadvertently caused Ballor to get crotched on the top rope.
So Bron knocked dom and Carlito off the apron and
he hit Baalor with a step up Frankensteiner and then

(01:19:51):
he caught him with a spear to retain the Intercontinental title.
Pin Balor, everybody, I'm glad he made the trip overseas.
I wasn't sure he was going to make it to
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When the match was over, here comes Penta. He runs
out to make the save. Penta hands out superkicks, Breaker
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(01:22:45):
title and he held it up for a moment, hands
it over to bron Breaker and he holds the belt
up high as they go off the air. This was
a decent main event to cap off a very average
show outside of the scene promo, which felt like a
big deal because again, this is something that a lot
of people have been waiting for for a very long time.

(01:23:07):
And the scene of heel turn, I mean it literally
went mainstream like it made mainstream news. It was a
big deal, so that you always knew that first scene
of promo was going to be a big deal. So
that was the best thing on the entire show. It
opened the show, and so it was pretty much, you know, downhill.
I wouldn't say a steady decline, but it was definitely

(01:23:28):
downhill after that opening segment. As far as these guys here,
Penta has made it very clear he wants to go
after the Intercontinental title. I cannot see them doing just
Breaker and Penta. Though this feels like a multi man match.
The idea of them doing bron Breaker against Penta and
then doing Finn Balor against Dominic as a separate match,
I don't. I don't see that. I could see this

(01:23:51):
as a fatal four way. You get all four men involved,
and whatever's going to happen between dom and you know,
and Valor almost like they'll kind of cancel each other out.
I could see Penta winning the championship at WrestleMania without
even having to pin bron Breaker to win it. But
this feels like a four way situation to me. That's
what this feels like. What that would also do is

(01:24:13):
if he's going to challenge for the IC title Penta,
it would take him out of any potential match that
I thought maybe they would do where it was him
and Ray Mysterio against the New Day. And you know,
we saw that teaser vignette on Friday for Ray Phoenix.
Unless I miss something, they didn't air that tonight, that
could be a sign that maybe he is heading to

(01:24:34):
SmackDown because I thought, look, if they aired that same
Vignette tonight. Then it doesn't mean that he's going to
be attached to smack Down. It doesn't mean he's going
to be attached to Raw. He could end up on
either show, now that I think about it, I don't
know if they aired that tonight. If they did, maybe
I missed it. I don't know what the commercial breaks like.
I got some commercials, but I don't know. It didn't

(01:24:56):
feel like I got all the commercials, So maybe maybe
they aired it and I missed it. But if they did,
I didn't see it. But I can envision a scenario
where Chad Gable is still attacking the LWO or whoever's
in the mask, got to keep kfap here and we
can get a trios match. It could be Chad Gable
a New Day against Ray Dragon Lee and a debuting

(01:25:20):
Ray Phoenix. Instead of it being Ray Penta and Phoenix,
it would be Ray Dragon, Lee and Phoenix. I still
think that would be the best way to debut. I mean,
my other idea was that you have Chad Gable go
to WrestleMania throw out an open challenge to any Lutrador
in the world who wants to test their skills against him.
And that's where Phoenix debuts. That would put more of
the spotlight on him in a one on one situation.

(01:25:43):
But you got to get these other guys on the show,
and you're not just gonna do Ray and Dragonly against
the New Day. So I feel like, if Gable's in there,
you have a third spot. Who fills that spot? Ray Phoenix? Right,
what a great way to debut him at WrestleMania is
on early next week again on Netflix. This time it's

(01:26:04):
going to be a four pm Eastern start time. This
week it was three o'clock. Next week it starts an
hour later. They're gonna be in Glasgow, Scotland. I will
be going early again as well. I don't know if
it'll be eight o'clock again or nine o'clock, probably eightish,
it'll be somewhere in that range. We'll go live on YouTube.
John Cena and Cody Rhodes once again, second week in

(01:26:26):
a row. They will be under the same roof. CM
Punk will be there. Poor Ronnie, Ronnie, you missed it
by a week man. Maybe you could fly to Glasgow.
How far is this? How far of a trip is
it from Belgium to Scotland? I don't know, maybe Ronnie
really wanted to see CM punk tonight. I know he

(01:26:47):
was very upset about that. Jay Usso and a mystery
partner will take on Austin Theory and Grayson Waller. Hey,
you know what it could be Jimmy. Maybe they shoot
the angle on Raw next week and Gunther does something
heinous to Jimmy on that show doesn't have to be SmackDown,
and Lyra Valkyria will defend the Intercontinental title against Raquel Rodriguez.

(01:27:11):
Now also be aware SmackDown this week is also aware
is SmackDown Italy or in Bologna, Italy, and so it's
going to be airing earlier if you are out of
the States or if you have a trustee VPN. So
I will be using my Express VPN again to watch
SmackDown earlier, which means I'll go live earlier, probably around

(01:27:33):
nine o'clock Eastern. I will keep you guys posted on
social media as far as what time I'm going live.
I am not going, but just be aware. I'm not
going to go live at eleven thirty at night. I'm
going to start earlier than that. I'm loving these international shows.
I gotta tell you, I could get used to this.
I think this is great. Let's take a look at
the raw pole. What did you think of Raw from Brussels?

(01:27:56):
Seventy percent thumbs up, twenty two point eight percent thumbs
in the middle, seven point two percent thumbs down. Hey Turtlehead,
if you want your ExpressVPN code, look, if you're going
to sign up for a VPN, it may it may
as well be that one. You can get four extra
months free if you use the show code ExpressVPN dot

(01:28:18):
com slash solo Monster. Make sure you use that link.
I think there's a code too. It might be Solemn Monster.
It's it's in the description down below. But if there
was ever a time to sign up for a VPN,
I'm telling you this is it right here. With all
these international shows, this is the time to do it.

(01:28:41):
I don't know what I would do without it. All right,
let's take a look at your super chats here. Thank
you guys. We do have a goal going. I don't
think we're going to hit it, but we are still
aiming to do one round of be the Booker. Because
we are closing in on seven hundred likes and counting.

(01:29:03):
I love it. Let's get that up even more look
at this. We already got, We already got. Seena's bald
spot is dropping a super chat here, please solo, please,
we need a You're the worst. Why did you do this?
Hulk Hogan super chat? Yeah, if you missed it, man,

(01:29:27):
it's a hell of a segment and it is up
on the YouTube channel right now from the podcast this weekend.
If you want to hear a wild story of some
very disappointed Hull Cogin fans, a couple of very disappointed
little kids. I got the audio. You gotta go check

(01:29:48):
that out. Honey, deep Fried Chicken. John Cena needs a
change of outfits and a new theme song. We need
the unreleased heel scene, a theme from twenty twelve. I
still think there's a chance we may get it if
the heel turned stretches beyond WrestleMania. It doesn't seem likely,

(01:30:11):
but I think there's a chance it still could happen.
Remember I mean when the rock first won heel. I
think it was a few weeks and then we got
hit with the remix with the Hollywood Rock theme, which
I love the Hollywood Rock theme, So I wouldn't give
up hope just yet. Matt omen I like that Sena

(01:30:32):
did not change his gear or music because in his
mind he has not changed, but he still should have
better explain why he attacked Cody. I agree, and I'm
hoping that this was just week one and they want
to hold back a little bit and then give us
more next week. Because again Sena left Cody really to

(01:30:54):
his own devices. He did not have a rebuttal for him.
Cody called him a bit and he left, so Sena
has to give it right back to him. It would
make more sense in the rebuttal for him to get
up in Cody's face and explain there you know why
he did what he did, and maybe it'll be some

(01:31:17):
variation of what I said. You know all all the
shit that I had to go through, and you don't
know how easy you have it. You think you're you know,
you're the you're the beloved one, You're the golden boy.
You're still coming out and getting these big reactions. But
I'm telling you, one day, one day, when they get
bored of you, they're going to turn on you, just

(01:31:38):
like they turned on me. Prince Vegeta says during his
final run, you should have Seena absolutely obliterate Timu Sina
Austin Theory. I mean, the dude's career is already fucked. Man,
It's like that. It's like that Simpson's like, he's just stop.

(01:32:02):
He's already dead. I don't think there's much more you
can do to kill off Theory's career. Jonathan says, could
Randy cause Cody the title of WrestleMania? No, No, Randy
should be wrestling Seen a title or no title at

(01:32:22):
Backlash in Saint Louis. There's no reason for him to
help See at WrestleMania. Joseph says Seen his promo was
ten years too late. Feed was awful. You know, I
saw a lot of people complaining about the Netflix feed.
I didn't have any issues. I guess I was one
of the lucky ones because I saw a lot of

(01:32:43):
that one of the w W tweets during that segment,
and everybody was complaining about the feed. I didn't have
any issues, though, Brother Fluff Salisbury. I love the scene
of promo. I love it when someone gives very valid
reasons or turning heel. You go from one message saying
the promo was awful, and the very next super chat

(01:33:06):
is the promo is great. Just goes to show you.
I mean different, Different people have different expectations or different
ways of interpreting the the promo, different opinions. I thought
I would. I thought I would hate it more because

(01:33:26):
of the things that we did not get. But I
didn't hate it. I thought it was good. Seen as
bald Spot, We'll see. As far as that super Chat,
I'll see. I mean that that's a that's a tough
one to resist. I might have to I might have

(01:33:48):
to do that one. Yes, different strokes for different folks,
says Sidro. David Theory with the twenty dollars super Chat
just wanted to stop in quick. It doesn't have to
be quick. You can hang around for a little bit.
You're always welcome to say thumbs up on the show

(01:34:08):
on Saturday, Commissioner. In the latest episode of the sound Off,
the main event between CBK and Main Event was an
all out war and I loved it. Man. They beat
the hell out of each other. Thank you, David. I'm
glad you enjoyed it. Thank you, Brother Jerome Ugenio. Why
bother winning the rumble or chamber when you can just
sign the contract and go to WrestleMania exactly, just do

(01:34:31):
what Rhea Ripley did tonight, just sign your name on
the contract. It doesn't have to be on the signature line.
You can just sign it in the corner. You can
initial the contract, as Adam Pierce says, Thankfully, he had
enough sense to say, it doesn't work that way. You
can't do that. Oh good, David says, he's here. He

(01:34:56):
had to just leave briefly to go and make dinner.
That's why I didn't go live right away tonight. I
wanted to eat first. Otherwise I would have no dinner.
People were like, hookhim. You're not live right away, so
I have to fucking eat. If I don't eat, I
get angry. You don't want to see me when I'm hungry.

(01:35:18):
Retro Koh, I like that he still hills out the
merch scene of be like, I hate you all, but
you will all still give me your money? Dev to dust,
who's your favorite Knicks player? Favorite Knicks player, I don't
have one. Jeremy Rose, with a twenty two dollars super

(01:35:42):
chat says seen it promo was weak, but the gravity
of the situation I expected more creativity. Him dropping the
mic and walking out would have been the better heel move. No,
that would have been terrible. Yeah, I might have gotten
people more stirred up, but that would have been fucking awful.
If we had to wait two and a half weeks
for him to come out soaking the booze and then

(01:36:04):
just leave, that would have been terrible. Also, Cody got
his ass beat and doesn't touch Sino. What the hell
this was weak? Well, I mean, fairpoint, fairpoint. Cody could
have come out and just double legged him and tried

(01:36:26):
to beat the shit out of him. Cody's too much
of a nice guy. That's the problem with Cody. He's
got to be more forceful. But that's a fair point.
And again, I'm sure the reason that they didn't do
it is because they're gonna We're gonna have a pull
apart brawl at some point. I'm sure they're gonna they're
gonna go at it. They didn't want it to be

(01:36:48):
on the first night. They don't want to give too
much away on the first night. I'm sure that had
a lot to do with it. But you're right, I mean,
they made the man bleed. Joseph Stewart, do you think
stone cold Steve Austin will get involved in this storyline

(01:37:08):
with Sina Cody and The Rock. I am hoping that
he will make an appearance in the match of WrestleMania
defend off the Rock if The Rock tries to get involved.
Do I think he's going to be involved in the
story as far as joining with Rock and Sena or
having a role beyond a cameo at WrestleMania, Absolutely not,
But I am hopeful that he will play a role

(01:37:31):
in the match in some way. He will be there.
He's already been announced for signings that week, and he's
going to be in Las Vegas. There's no way he
isn't on the show in some way, even if it's
just to make an appearance in Wave Hello and drink beer.
He'll be there. Luis says John Cena has let down
all of the sick make a Wish kids whose wishes
of meeting him were fulfilled. Screw heel, John Cena, he

(01:37:54):
now sucks. Is obviously not very happy about this heel turn.
See Luis, You're one of the people he was talking
about in his promo tonight. This is why he turned
heel because of people like you. This journey called life.

(01:38:18):
I really enjoyed hearing Corey on commentary. Yeah, yeah, I mean, look,
he never should have been taken off raw or SmackDown
to begin with, so I wasn't surprised that he gelled
well with Cole Larry Jester. Which of these attacks would
build up a better story Sina beats up our Truth

(01:38:41):
or Gunther visits Rakishi or Gunther beats up Jimmy or
should they do all three? I think they should do
all three of them, or just have guntherer beat up
one family member and have Truth just you know, massacred
in some way by seeing at some point, I think
they both should happen. We got Aaron. That scene of

(01:39:07):
promo was surreal. I was smiling the entire time. I
never thought we would see this as clear Shay as
the U People shtick is. This may have been the
best U People promo of all time. I just started
laughing as soon as he went into the whole U
people thing because I called it, I said last week,
but he got to give us the U people, right,

(01:39:28):
and then what does he do? He goes out there
and gives us the U people. I'm telling you, man,
it's like it's a rite of passage in wrestling. When
you turn heel, you've got to blame the people. It's
their fault. Brother Fluff says, and seen his defense, the
IWC is pretty toxic. Yeah, but dude, I don't think

(01:39:49):
that little kid he was pointing to in the front
row wearing the John Cena shirt who was like six
or seven is part of the IWC. Maybe he is,
I don't know. Chris Ludek, this senior heel promo was lacking.
He did not mention the title or the rock even once.
He said nothing back at Cody. Besides, kid, they need

(01:40:10):
to move this angle along. They only have four weeks
left until WrestleMania. Well, brother, he's going to be on
the show next week, and he's going to be on
the show the week after that. So if he still
hasn't addressed some of these things by the end of
the month, when we have three weeks left to go,
then I would agree with you. But we still have

(01:40:31):
two more appearances this month, including one with Cody next week.
I'm sure more of this will be addressed. Chris says
the booing wasn't even huge heat. It just felt like
the two thousand and six Redone. He should dress in
more formal clothes since he is a sellout in my opinion. Yeah,

(01:40:56):
I mean I thought we would get something different. We didn't.
I thought the explanation good. You know you want me
to dress differently. I see because he sees all the
comments online and so I'm not going to do it.
I'm not going to give it to you, Vincent with
the five dollars super chat. Unpopular opinion. I would love

(01:41:19):
hen to to stay a solo star in WW instead
of being stuck at a tag team with Ray Phoenix.
I don't see what's so unpopular about that. I said
the same thing last week, and given the state of
tag team wrestling in this company, heent is better of
doing the singles thing for a while. I think that

(01:41:40):
would probably be a popular opinion, not an unpopular opinion.
Joseph Brooks, what is the real world title record? Of sixteen?
Is fake? Well, it depends. I mean you want to
count Memphis. Jerry Lawler has like one hundred and something championships. Flair,

(01:42:00):
if you're going by Flair. Flair has said the real record,
what is it twenty one or twenty three? I think
twenty I think twenty one. It's over twenty The quote
unquote real record, whatever you consider to be real it's
over twenty. I don't know. I don't know exactly when

(01:42:21):
they settled on sixteen. It was during Flair's time in WCW.
I don't remember exactly when. But even Flair will, like
in interviews, he'll say, like, you know, he could win sixteen,
he could win seventeen. I still got the real record, Donovan.

(01:42:44):
What happened to moves like the atomic drop, ten punches
in the corner on the top rope, Russian leg sweep,
and the hulk up. We get ten punches in the corner, dude,
like almost every week, so that hasn't gone anywhere. Russian
leg sweep, Yeah, I don't see that as much. The
atomic drop is a lost art. Nobody could take an

(01:43:05):
atomic drop like Rick Rude. I think there's an entire
Twitter account actually dedicated to like daily posts of nothing
but Rick Rude taking the atomic drop. Kurt Hennick took
a good atomic drop too. We need more atomic drops
hidden network. Thank you for the two bucks. Is the

(01:43:26):
solemn monster still grinding? Have a well deserved Monday night off, pal,
I'm gonna try. Turtlehead says, this background music sounds like
a love scene in one of those eighties movies where
a guy takes out an entire village. That's oddly specific.
I would say that it kind of sounds like the

(01:43:46):
background music of like a late night skin Imax movie
back in the day, like a love scene. This is
our love scene here on the sound though, Honey deep
Fried Chicken says, this Gunther versus Jay Uso hype is
like eating a cold potato salad. It's like eating a

(01:44:09):
cold potato forget the salad. Bobby's world. So shout out
to you, Solo Taker and the Hulkster. A week ago,
I sent you that super chat about Survivor series ninety one,
and now Hogan goes and does something stupid that prompts
you to talk about it again. I'll never miss an

(01:44:31):
opportunity to talk about that. I'm actually kind I'm kind
of pissed at myself because there were actually a couple
of things I wanted to add to it that I
forgot to even mention, because Hogan has told so many
different versions of that story about what happened to his
neck supposedly, I think, well, he did two books. Each
one of his books has two completely different explanations for

(01:44:54):
what happened, one where he says my head didn't actually
come close to hitting. The other one where he says
my head hit like he's so full of shit he
can't even keep track of his own lies even that,
or his brain is mush. Maybe it's a combination of both.
Keep an eye out though. That segment's going up on
the YouTube channel tomorrow. Nick Grosso. Within nineteen ninety nine,

(01:45:21):
there's Armed Anderson. I'm not crazy about using this comparison,
but this Chad Gable angle reminds me of the Owen
Hart blue Blazer angle. The blue Blazer would show up
and Owen would say it wasn't him and send other
people out in the mask as well. No, it's very similar. Actually,
I was thinking the same thing. There are definite similarities

(01:45:43):
between it. But as long as we don't get any
stupid stunts with Chad Gable than we should be fine. EJ.
Shout out to Nick Bockwinkle for no particular reason other
than he was awesome and is a goat. Hey, Bockwinkle

(01:46:04):
and Heenen men hell of a combo. You know. People
talk about Brock and Paul Hayman, they talk about Undertaker
and Paul Bear, Bobby Heenan and Nick Bockwinkle. I didn't
grow up on them because I wasn't watching the AWA
back then, but they were a hell of a duo.
Honey deep Fried Chicken, says Eo Sky is so over

(01:46:25):
this chicken can't nitpick on her promos. I'll buy her
some Belgian waffles. You know, I had a Belgian waffle
for the first time a few weeks ago. You know,
I talk on the podcast sometimes about Hello Fresh and
you know Factor, and I'm gonna be talking about Green

(01:46:45):
Chef this weekend. I think it was a HelloFresh. I
got a Belgian waffle one week and I'm like, man,
this one waffle, it's like three hundred and fifty calories.
I don't know, fucking awesome, man, Like, what if I've
been missing out on I love that Belgian waffle. Bobby's World. Also,

(01:47:14):
I resent you for spoiling this raw for me, even
though the title clearly says review. And I can choose
not to be here like I would ever choose that. Yes,
our poor friend from Friday Night? Was it John? Is
it mister McCann? Was that his name? Poor John? Yeah?
I don't think we're going to be seeing John again.

(01:47:36):
The Real CS people on X saying they want Jay's
partner to be Joe Hendry. I hope I'm wrong, but
I don't think it will be him. Well, they're probably
saying Joe Henry because they're gonna be in Scotland next
week and he'll get a monster reaction if he comes
out there. I don't, I don't know. I don't. I

(01:47:59):
don't think it's going to be him either, but I mean, yeah, whatever,
if it's him, Oh Joe, I said what I say, John,
it was Joe. He's so insignificant, already forgot his fucking name,
John Joe, John Doe. Nobody cares Alex the spiteful Garrochu.

(01:48:26):
I must admit seeing John sena shit all over the
fans this afternoon felt very surreal and cathartic. He said
everything that I always wish I knew he wanted to say,
telling man, that would have been the promo we would
have gotten on TV thirteen years ago, when he could still,
you know, go on a regular basis. We could have

(01:48:47):
gotten so many heel Scena matches. The real csays, I
use Express VPN to watch Raw and NXT good see
Smart one Sidrow. What do you call a horny cow,
beef Jerky, Welcome Back, Sidro, Honey deep fried Chicken with Flavor.

(01:49:17):
This Chicken would add two new singles titled Belts for
Raw and SmackDown. Well, thank Christ, you don't have power
on that show. Yeah, that's exactly what we need, Darth Panic.
We need a take your vitamins and become a drunk
super chat Please, no, no, no no, it's not take

(01:49:40):
your vibe, it's what was it what that guy say?
Drink drink, drink your beer and become a drunk man.
Those fans were angry at Hogan in that video. They
were not happy. We have got Schmidt, Holy Schmidt. Look

(01:50:07):
at this six dollars super chest thoughts Roman versus Punk
versus Rolins. Winner gets the services of Paul Hayman. Punk
Roman obviously won Hayman. Seth could be to take Hayman
away from them now as an official stipulation of the match. Now, now,
if you're gonna shoot an angle where Hayman is gonna

(01:50:29):
leave Roman and go with Punk because of the favor,
or if they did us a big turn and a
big swerve and Hayman ends up with Rollins, then that's
one thing but for the match to be for the services,
it's like it's almost like the custody of dominic Like
I don't like that as a stipulate, like a formal
stipulation for that match. I wouldn't do it that way.

(01:50:54):
Bace Beer says, Hogan is for the kids. That's what
I thought. That's what I thought until he said fuck
them kids and he went running out the back of
the supermarket. Ul Cogan hanging out in Shopwright up in
Hudson Valley, New York, Sidrow. What did Pinocchio's lover say

(01:51:21):
to him? Lie to me? Is that Pinocchio's dirty talk?
You know you're ruining my childhood right now? You know that, right?
Carlos Channel member for forty months? What the fuck is this?

(01:51:41):
Gunther and Jay and Tiffany Charlotte build. Is this the
hell that Gunther was talking about? I think it is.
I think it is also happy forty months. Well, thank
you for being a channel member for forty months. Hey,
memberships are always open. You can gift memberships to other people.
Don't forget thank you, Carlos. Not too many people longer

(01:52:05):
than Carlos at forty months. We have a few Cody
with twenty seven months, says the Sena promo was Chef's kiss.
He says Duff's VIDs. Why shouldn't you tell secrets in
a cornfield because there's too many ears around? Oh my god,

(01:52:29):
what is this the comedy seller tonight? I said Sidro's
got competition. Duff's vis is trying to be the new Sidro?
What the original the OTC is in the chat here?
So bace Bears says Sina should get his win back
from Theory on TV as if he's going to wrestle

(01:52:54):
on TV before WrestleMania. That's cute, hey, look at that
speak speak and it happens. Jamie Dorsh just gifted five
channel memberships. That's five new members here on the channel. Jamie,
thank you. Citro says no one can replace me. That's right,

(01:53:19):
you tell duffs. Juliette says, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Happy
Saint Patrick's Day to those celebrating. I think I skipped
ahead here, but yes, Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Nonetheless, I
did skip ahead. Uh dark effect. I've been singing John
Cena sucks for twenty five years. It's about time everyone

(01:53:41):
finally realized this. I've hated every spinner belt he's ever won,
for every wrestler who was buried under his boot. John
Cena sucks. Jamie says that Sina promo blah, well it
was fiery. Found it disappointing. Yeah, I mean there's been
a lot of divided opinion about it here tonight in

(01:54:03):
the in the chat dark effect. I've never once sheared
Seena going to the all the way back to the prototype,
and that won't change now. I will say, however, that
this heel run has mean more interested in what he
is doing than the last twenty five years combined. That's
why I'm enjoying it so far. Not that we've seen

(01:54:25):
a lot. We've had one fucking appearance since the Elimination Chamber.
But you know, this is what I've been waiting for,
and I would much rather be like this than just
have two babyfaces like Sina and Cody who were kind
of like one and the same. It's almost like it's
almost like bre mode. You know, it would be awful.

(01:54:47):
So I'm glad that at least they went in this
direction with one of them, and it wasn't going to
be Cody, so it had to be seen it because
that would have been foolish. Holiday one ninety seven. It was.
It's a good promo from John Cena, but I would
have liked to have seen them go further and lean
in more to the heel of Persona. Show us a
side of Sena that haunts fans is arrogant and vicious.

(01:55:09):
Well again, there's time for him to go after people.
That's why I mentioned our Truth. I mean, you go
after somebody who was beloved by the fans, and Our
Truth has been literally imitating him and mimicking and stealing
his moves for years. Like, how do you not do
something with them? You want to put more heat on Sena?
He goes after somebody like that, I mean, it just

(01:55:31):
rights itself. Honey, deep fried chicken. Hogan was late at
the meet and greet because he had too many tacos
and burritos that kept him in the bathroom. Brother, it
was a burrito blast with the haul. Cogan TJ Stevens,
what's the second best cage match of all time? See,
he's smart. He's smart because he knows he knows not

(01:55:54):
to ask me what the first cage match would be
on that line, he already knows the answer. You know,
if you're talking regular steel cage matches, I don't know.
I'd have to think about that. I was just watching
the Madison Square Garden Cage match compilation earlier that they
put up on the vault like a week ago. There

(01:56:17):
is a pretty good one on there with Savage and Dbiassi.
I'll tell you what. There's a tag team one and
this is from like eighty six with the Mesh Cage,
before they even debuted the Blue Bar one, and it
has Savage and Adrian Adonis against Tito Santana and Bruno
San Martino. I never even knew that match existed. I'm like,

(01:56:42):
I'm watching this and I'm like, man, this is pretty good.
Tito got busted open in that match. That had to
be right at the very end. Like Bruno had to
be gone shortly after that, because by eighty seven, I
don't think he was there anymore. Maybe he was, though
maybe I know Bruno did him. I think the last
match he ever did for them was a tag match

(01:57:04):
at a live event, teaming with Hogan, which was, like,
I mean, Hogan was the antithesis of what he thought
wrestling should be. I'm almost positive that came in eighty seven. So,
but yeah, what I would say would be my number two?
I don't know. I'd have to think about that. I
know what my number one is, it's Brett Noen. Jamie says,

(01:57:26):
after listening to the latest mailbag on the podcast, I
have to say Paul Hayman should change his name to
Paul Herman. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there is a
actually there is. It wasn't. Nick sent me an email
that there is a Paul Herman out there. Magnum Ta

(01:57:46):
and Tully Blanchard in eighty five in the cage. You
know what, that might be number two. Some would say
that's number one. I just can't. I can't not have
Brett Noan in the number one spot. I have a
personal affection for that match. But Magnum t A and
Telly Blanche would probably be the answer. Scott Woodford, Joe

(01:58:10):
Hendry is going to have a meet and greet WrestleMania
at WWE World. Is he going to have a meet
and greet in Glasgow next week? Because that might be
a sign. That might be a sign then of who
Jay USO's mystery partner is going to be. TJ says,
also props for matching your pop filter to the shows. Well,

(01:58:32):
I try to be stylish in that way. You know,
Monday is red, Friday is blue. I might use the
blue for more than Friday. I like blue is my
favorite color and black black is for aw Leopoldo. If

(01:58:55):
Jay beats Theory in thirty seconds, does Scena get his
win back in three h At this point, Theory and
Waller should both lay down for him and just be
buried down under for good. You know, brother, if that
grave gets dug any deeper, they're not gonna be able
to climb out of it. It's getting awful deep for

(01:59:17):
those two. Bread Heart. I don't want Penta and Ray
Phoenix associated with Ray mysterio. I'm not a superstitious bread
but it seems that every Latino that works him ends
up less over or forgotten. Penta and Ray will work
together at some point. I mean, I can almost guarantee

(01:59:40):
you they're gonna work together at some point. I don't
know about Phoenix, but Penta and Ray, I mean they
already did. They opened the Royal Rumble number one and
number two. But they're gonna They're gonna work a match
together at some point. Chris Manson should Athena beat the
Hogan record. No, what is she even up to? At

(02:00:01):
this point? It's got to be closing in on like
nine hundred days as the Ring of Honor Women's Champion
Pro Wrestling Fan nineteen ninety five, with thirty three months
catching up to Carlos, you only got seven more to go.
I really enjoyed seeing his first heel promo. Great stream
is always amazing. I made that up. He didn't stay amazing.

(02:00:25):
Great Stream as always listening to you while I play
two K twenty five. Yes, I have a copy of
a freshly downloaded copy of two K twenty five. I
have no idea when I'll be able to play it,
but if I ever do, we will reignite SoundOff Gamer,
at least until I rage quit like I did last year.

(02:00:48):
So I just have to find the time to sit
down and actually play around with it, and I have
to craw. God, I have to create a new character
now all over again. You know, it takes me like
five hours to create this freaking character. Every I wish
there was a way to port the character over from
two K twenty four to two K twenty five? Can
I do that? Is there a way to do that?
I haven't. I have not uninstalled two K twenty four yet.

(02:01:13):
That would make my life a lot easier if there
was a way to do that the real cs. I
want to see the Hearties against phraxium again, Well, then
go back and replay Roadblock, then you can see it again.
Little Baby firepanned with the forty eight dollars super Chat
the first solemn Monster heel stream is gonna hit like crack.

(02:01:33):
You have bullied me into being your damn puppet. Oh
I'm gonna you. I'm gonna U people you when the
time is right. I haven't been pushed to the brink yet,
but when I am, I the U People promo, I'm
gonna cut on all of you men. It's gonna be.
It's going to be nuclear, David says, be the Booker
second round unlocked. Yes, indeed, thank you, David. David of

(02:01:56):
course helped get us there, Alex with a twenty five
brother solo, a great first promo from Sina. Do you
think that we are still going to get a complete
character change with a new look in music, but they
are gonna take their time with it. Also, maybe save
the ar Truth attack for it later. Yeah, I mean
the ar Truth thing. I hope they do something like

(02:02:17):
that at some point. Our truth is on SmackDown. Maybe
they want to save it for a SmackDown before WrestleMania.
I don't know. I mean, as far as a new
look in new music, yeah, there's still time for that.
But based on his explanation tonight, I didn't get the
sense that we're going to be getting anything like that

(02:02:37):
anytime soon, which would be too bad. I mean, I
know he explained why. I like the explanation, but I'm
still gonna be disappointed if we don't get some new
look feel music wise, wardrobe. Why something different in that regard.

(02:02:58):
If we go through this entire he'll turn and there's
nothing like that at any point. Yeah, to me, I'm
gonna be disappointed because this is it. I mean, this
is the last shot at that. Although Sina has said,
you know, when he retires, we're never gonna see the
T shirt and the jorts and the hat. He said,
we're gonna see him in suits. So I'm not saying

(02:03:19):
he has to come out in a suit and tie.
We're gonna get that after he retires, but just something different.
Duff's VIDs. I'm reading a book about anti Gravity. It's
so good it's impossible to put It's impossible to put down.
I'm convinced that Duff's VIDs and Sindrow are pulling from

(02:03:42):
the same book of jokes. I'm convinced of this, Scott Woodford.
I thought the dryer was shrinking my clothes, but turns
out it was my refrigerator. Lea Poldo. That romantic song

(02:04:04):
you played earlier sounds just like the De Niro love
scene track and Heat, which, by the way, cheesy song aside,
I agree, is an all time great Now you wanna.
I love the end of Heat. When the credits roll
and they play that Mobi song which I forget the
name now it has like a long name. That's a

(02:04:29):
great song. Carlos with the nine ninety nine can't wait
for ww to promote Happy Gilmore too on Netflix so
that they show MJF sitting in the crowd. He'll be
on their television show. Give it a few years, Alex
the spiteful Garroci think Ray will turn Heel at some point.

(02:04:50):
Phoenix or Mysteria Mysterio. Now I know I said that
about Sena, but Ray Mysteria is not to Ernie Heel
not at this point, Tonga lois superfan. Do we have
to accept the reality that we might be heading for
a Tonga Loe Liss WrestleMania. I mean I accepted it

(02:05:13):
three months ago. I don't know what's taking you so long.
Alejandro says, Sala Monster are going to show up in
full John Cena attire one live stream and scream you
people promo and say that you will get nothing, and
then I just end the stream. I come on live
and then literally like a minute later, I say you
get nothing, and then the stream just ends. Laid back lashar.

(02:05:42):
I like the promo, that scenic cup, but I felt
that at times it was a little bit exaggerated. How
do you feel about that? I think that's fair. There
were times where you could say that maybe it was
a little forced, just the idea that he was so adamantly,
you know, healing on the fans when he's been so
well received now the last few years. That's why I said,

(02:06:04):
it feels like this is the promo that would have
been better cut thirteen years ago. But I think he
found a way to make it work, just the idea
that you know, he has spent the last twenty plus
years trying to please everybody else, and this is it
because it's his last year, this is my time now.
Like I mean, I hate to cut the promo for him,

(02:06:24):
But basically I look at it as we don't know
why he felt he needed to do what he did
to Cody at elimination Chamber. Again, he never mentioned the rock,
He never mentioned why he felt the need to hug
him and everything, and then all of a sudden he
kicks him in the balls and you know, leaves him bloody.

(02:06:45):
But if the idea is that this is my last
chance to do things for myself and that one thing
that I felt I needed to do, and you people
turned on me, it took one act on my part
after twenty plus years of giving you everything, and you

(02:07:09):
turn on me. You boo me. The reaction that I
got coming out here tonight, he got a nuclear heat
coming out tonight. There was no mixed reaction. That's kind
of how I look at it. As far as you
would how you would explain, you know, why he did
what he did right because of you people. That was
a whole essence of him healing on the fans. So

(02:07:31):
you hate me because why because I kick Cody and
the Dick. That's it, just like that. You hate me.
You turn on me after everything I've done, everything I've
given you. You people are awful base bears. You wearing green,
wear the batman mask again. I'm not wearing green. I

(02:07:54):
didn't even think, honestly, I should have wore green. Alexander
brother solo. Would you say Mercedes Rheas, Charlotte, Britt and
Trish are the five most iconic female wrestlers of all time?
Who are your? I mean, you just name all wrestlers
from the current era. You didn't even mention you talk

(02:08:18):
at all time. There's a movie out right now about
one the movie out right now about Mildred Burke. She's
getting the movie treatment. I mean, you got sensational Sherry,
who could do it all. She could work, she could talk,
she could be a manager. So no, I would not

(02:08:41):
say that those five that you just named are the
most iconic female wrestlers of all time. There is a
high recency bias there. I don't even know why Britt
is on that list. I mean nothing, it's not a
knock on her personally, but I mean, how is Britt
one of the most iconic female wrestlers of all time.

(02:09:04):
I don't understand that. How is she on that list?
What is the criteria for this list? Ray with the
four ninety nine hey Man been a listener since the
eighth grade in twenty eleven, Hey boo boo, just subscribe,

(02:09:27):
but he's been a fan since the eighth grade in
twenty eleven. Will always support the podcast. By the way,
this heel turn got me thinking, what would Bruce Blitz think?
Oh my god, there's a blast from the past. Yeah,
he was no John Cena fan, right. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't even know what he's up

(02:09:47):
to these days. David with the five dollars super Chat.
After all these jokes, solo Monster is going to need
a drink like Adam Pierce. I need a drink like
Adam Pierce every week. It's a miracle. I'm not an alcoholic.

(02:10:09):
Aw Defender Doctor Scorpio can't wait for Senior to win
the title at WrestleMania and then hide it in a briefcase.
Refuse to put people over and give us subpar made
events and tell us this is a good shit pal,
Thank you, aw Defender. We got a World Championship match

(02:10:31):
coming up this Wednesday. John Moxley against Adam Copeland Part two,
Tongalo a super fan. Do you think we'll get any
heel rock scene of Tag Team Matches? No, I didn't
even mention the rock tonight. His name never came up once.

(02:10:53):
Cameron Spencer, Fire, Nico Harrison and Bass beers better Promo
raven Or, Jake Roberts, Jake Roberts, Leopoldo. There it is, Moby.
His song was God Moving over the Face of the Waters.

(02:11:16):
Perfect song for a perfect ending. The only ones who
ever got each other. But brother, you are going down.
That's a great movie, man, I gotta watch it again
one of these days. He nineteen ninety five, I know
the exact year that movie came out, But yeah, that

(02:11:37):
was the name of the song I was talking about before,
God Moving over the Face of the Waters. It's a
very emotional song. There's no words to it, but it's
like a very something about that song. Man. It just
makes me very, very melancholy. That's a good word for it. Awesome. Awesome.

(02:12:01):
Well we hit the again. We hit the second goal,
so we're gonna get two rounds in tonight of be
the Booker Man. You guys have crushed it. Guys, we
are heading towards it. We are heading towards pre mode.
We are heading towards Brembo. That's the third one tonight, Eminem,
but I love it. I hate it, but I love it.
Eminem with the twenty five dollars super Chat says one

(02:12:27):
for the money, two for the show, and a double
B the booker to go, Go go. The Barcelona crowd
serenading Sena with John Cena sucks to his theme was
music to my ears. I think Barcelona. He wasn't in Barcelona.
I think you're talking about Brussels. And do you think

(02:12:48):
there's too many multiperson matches in WrestleMania? Right now? There
are no multiperson matches in WrestleMania. These are all the
matches that it appears where we are going to get.
Nothing has actually officially been announced yet, so we can't
say that there are too many multiman matches at WrestleMania
or multi person matches because none of them have actually
been announced yet. But if they pan out the way

(02:13:11):
that I think they're gonna pan out, then yeah, I
think there may there may be one too many of them. Yes, Barcelona, though,
was Friday tonight? Tonight was Brussels. Then it's Bologna on Friday.
And so my mom used to put in my lunchbox
when I was a little solemn monster, some Bologna. I

(02:13:32):
used to have a Bologna sandwich. See, I got the
jokes too. I didn't say they were good, but I
got the jokes too. All Right, two rounds coming up.
Be the booker. Let's go to round one. Let's do it,
ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. Hey,

(02:13:54):
it was on this day, this very day, back in
nineteen ninety seven RAW that this match right here, a
steel cage match, took place between Brett Hart and Psycho
sid So the WWF Championship. Had Brett won the title, man,
it could have been Brett Hart and Steve Austin for
the world title at WrestleMania. But he blew the whole

(02:14:17):
damn thing because he's a loser. Of course, we all
know what came after that match. They put that match
up on the Vault channel today. They cut the entire
ending out, so we didn't we did the best part
of that segment. They didn't include that in the upload.
All Right, we're gonna start with women's be the booker,
just to do things a little bit different here in

(02:14:40):
this round number one, and we are beginning with Ivory.
This is from her right to censor days. I hated
right to censor, not in the heel way, I just
like in the get off my TV way and Leda.

(02:15:04):
That had to be a match back then. I'm sure
that match actually happened to Ivory and Leda. I'm sure
it did. All right, tag team, be the booker. That's right,
Psycho Sidrow Baby, we have best friends, Trent and Chuck. Yeah,

(02:15:30):
all right. Not liking where this is going. Best friends
and the East West connection from the AWA, from the
Twin Cities. It is Jesse Ventura and Adrian Adonis against
best friends. I don't mind these two, but it's not

(02:15:52):
a match I really care for, I'm sorry to say.
And now we come to the first main event, and
we got one more round left to go. None of
these matches excite me though. I need an exciting match.
Give me an exciting match. Oh, for the love of God,

(02:16:16):
Oh my god, here we go. The almost Sapiens will rise.
It is Omas. It is Omas in the main event.
Here of be the booker. I can't believe it's wwe
won't book him, but we have him booked here in
be the booker. Oh my god, Omas against rowdy Roddy Piper.

(02:16:48):
I must admit I would like to see what that
match would look like Piper and Omas. I can't remember
remember Roddy ever being in a singles match against a
like a big guy like that, So I don't know

(02:17:08):
how the match itself would go, Probably not very well,
but I think Piper can Yeah, I think Piper can
make this work. I think he can make that work. Now,
as we usually do with round number two, we are
going to do stipulations for each of these matches. Some

(02:17:30):
new ones have been added. Let us find out what
this tag team match will be. It will be a
Mimosa Mayhem match. A tag team Mimosa Mayhem match. Piper
would say the most horrific shit about Omas on the mic. Well,
I mean Roddy Piper from nineteen eighty four. Would Roddy

(02:17:52):
Piper from nineteen ninety two, Maybe not so much. I
remember Piper did a Piper's Pit Madison Square Garden ones
with Bruno and I think he I don't want to
repeat what he said, but yeah, he said some he
said some shit. He definitely knew how to get heat
in the garden back then. All right, Mimosa Mayhem, this

(02:18:15):
is this is gonna be a disaster here. Can you
even fit two people in the Mimosa bath. I don't
think it's big enough. The Rock and Roll Express, this
is like sacrilege here. You put these two in a
Mimosa Mayhem match. Ricky and Robert, the Rock and Roll Express,
a great tag team, one of the all time great
tag teams, in fact, against pretty deadly in a Mimosa

(02:18:43):
Mayhem match. I mean, it should have been a buzz
right from the stip but I wanted to see who
was going to be in this match. Well, the stipulation
killed it. See if we have better luck with the
ladies here, terrible. I'll bet the Rock and Roll Express

(02:19:04):
had their fair share of Mimosa's back in the day.
After the matches, all right, we gotta fight pit with
the women. We got a female fight pit match here.
This gonna be interesting. We need some tough ladies here.
They're gonna tape up the fists, enter the fight pit.

(02:19:30):
Who's going in? Who is going into the fight pit?
Lacy Evans is one of the women entering the fight pit. Well,
she did serve, didn't she did? She not in the
armed forces. I believe she could probably hold her own

(02:19:51):
in the fight pit. Lacy Evans gonna be taking on
rock Sane Perez. How are we feeling about this? Lacy
Evans Roxanne fight pit? Is that the right step? I
don't know. I'm sorry. That's enough for me, Doug. We

(02:20:21):
are we are heading towards whatever the opposite is of
we are. We are headed towards whatever the opposite is
of a clean sweep. And we're going old school here man,
good old fashioned steel cage match. Because we didn't get
enough of those last week. We need to have another one.

(02:20:44):
Talk about killing a gimmick dead a steel cage main event.
Kenny Omega, the reigning a e W International champion, will
be on one side of the cage and on the other.

(02:21:05):
Who's it going to be? Kenny's in the main event.
I feel pretty good about this one. Well, I feel
great about this one. In the cage Kenny Omega and
Menoru Suzuki. We we avoided catastrophe here. We got one,

(02:21:27):
and that's all you need. Sometimes all you need is one.
Kenny Omega and Minora Suzuki in a cage. I like that.
Maybe not for Kenny, but I do like that. You
got two rounds of be the booker there. We just
booked a full card. We had what six matches. That's
one match too many for Triple h though on his pls,

(02:21:52):
too many matches for him AW defender Doctor Scorpio. Normally
I stand up for AW, but I can't stand up
for another Mox versus Cope. It's like watching Hogan versus
Hollywood Hogan at their worst. Politically, neither guy wants to
lose clean hashtag death Riders for life. Well, somebody's gonna

(02:22:17):
have to lose on Wednesday. Something's got to give. Find
out if they can make up for what we got
last weekend. Duffsvid says, last one, if the megalodon was
still alive, what would it eat? Fish and chips? Not
your best work, you see. I feel like the last

(02:22:42):
one you would have ended on a high note. But
thank you, Duffsvids. There were some good ones in there.
Today you have given Psycho Cidrow some some good competition.
I will say we got a good back and forth
going on here. Bace Bears says, the next bond Rip
is for you, solo. Thank you. Enjoy Dimitrius Hodge Ivory

(02:23:06):
versus Alda, a rematch twenty five years in the making.
Blue Jay Santana did a great tribute to Eddie Guerrero
at Sacrifice. I would have loved for you and JD Tocoll.
You know what that's right? Sacrifice was on? Was it
Friday or Saturday? No? Saturday? Right? Yeah, Well that's why

(02:23:32):
Santana was not available for the show this weekend here
in New York. Blue Jay says in his beautiful city
of El Paso, Texas, I've never been to El Paso.
I've been to Dallas, but I've never been to El Paso. Hey,
Eminem just gifted five channel memberships. Look at this guy
over here. Thank you, Thank you, brother, much appreciated Eminem.

(02:24:03):
Devin from New Jersey. Would the Sopranos have been as
successful without James Gandolfini as Tony or like Hogan for
the nWo. It had to be him, you know, I
feel like it had to be him because that's that's
the Tony soprano we know. I mean, if they found
the right actor and we had no knowledge of Gandolfini
ever playing the role. Who's to say that there's nobody

(02:24:24):
else out there who could have done a great job.
I can't say that, but it felt like he was
he was born to play that role, like he was
Tony Soprano, Honey, deep Fried, Chicken, Omega versus Suzuki, Jim
Cornett as the referee and Solo Monster as the enforcer.
I don't want to get anywhere near that man fucking enforcer.

(02:24:46):
What am I gonna winforce? What am I gonna do?
I'm gonna win force. I don't want to get anywhere
near these guys I already got. I got a little
too close to the cage in a House of Glory
back in December, and look what happened to me? And
Turtle had just gifted a channel membership to Proto Man.

(02:25:09):
Look at that Proto Man is now a channel member.
We have a superhero among us. Have I ever tried
Deal Dough Pizza in Brooklyn? No, never heard of him. Yeah.
It's like Big G says, he can't picture anybody else
other than Brian Cranston being Walter White. It's just I'm

(02:25:32):
sure there is some other great actors out there who
would have made a great Walter White, But we know
of Brian Cranston, and I don't want to see anybody
else even attempt to play that role. Because he is
Walter White. I can't say that nobody else would have
been able to do as good of a job. Oh boy,
it is David with five gifted memberships. Look at this

(02:25:57):
guy over here? How about that David Thearing with five
more membership. Duff's VIDs was gifted a channel membership. I
thought Duff's vis was already a member. Look at that.
He just got like a bonus membership. It's all random,
so you never know who's gonna end up with with
one of them. Thank you for the slightly earlier raw streams.

(02:26:20):
See it's nice because normally I wouldn't be going live
for another what thirty minutes and then end up going
to bet at three thirty in the morning. So maybe
tonight I'll go to bed at two thirty. Yeah, we'll
get We'll get that extra hour of sleep that we
never get. The ghost is still float We haven't seen
the ghost. The ghost does not have been seen tonight.

(02:26:43):
I'm sure he's floating around somewhere. SoundOff gamer returning. I
am hopeful that yes, SoundOff Gamer will return. I have
two K twenty five downloaded in Steam. I have not
played it yet. I have not had a chance to
to even try it out, so I don't know when,

(02:27:06):
but there should be a new SoundOff Gamer coming very soon.
The next time I'm gonna be live here with you
will be Wednesday night, right back here for the Dynamite
post show. I am hoping against hope that we will
get a better show than the one that we got
last week, and a better main event than the one
that we got at Revolution, because they've kind of loaded

(02:27:27):
the show up this week. We have a World Championship
street Fight in the main event. We have an International
four Way to find out who's wrestling Kenny Omega at Dynasty,
Megan Bain and Chris Statlander Again. They've announced i think
a couple of other matches as well. So let's see.
Let's see how Dynamite turns out Tomorrow night and then

(02:27:48):
Friday again. I'll be live a little bit earlier than usual,
maybe nine ish. I'll keep you guys posted. Oh you'll
see the page will go up at some point. Just
just make sure you're sub to the channel and you
should get the notif the k for it, but they're
going to be live in Italy and so we'll talk
about the Roman reigns and see I'm punk seth Rollins
confrontation that's coming. We should have a wrestle media match

(02:28:09):
coming out of it. We'll see how Paul Hayman factors
into that. That'll be on Friday night, and then next
Monday we'll do the same thing that we did tonight,
but maybe I know maybe an hour later. Again, we're
all gonna be live on Netflix at four Eastern, so
just be aware of that and I'll have dinner after.
I'm not going to go live right after, but we'll

(02:28:30):
go live earlier again next Monday. So trying to make
the most of this earlier schedule while we have it.
So yeah, those are the upcoming streams on this channel.
Of course, I'll be live tomorrow night for Tuesday Night
Titans over on JD's channel, so we have that obviously,
we'll talk about the John Cena stuff. So a lot
of live content coming up this week. Hopefully you guys
will check it all out. Go back check out episode

(02:28:53):
nine oh five of the podcast. Again, thank you for
getting us to number two. You got me to number
two wrestling podcast in all of the US on Apple below.
Only that guy right there. One of these days, I'm
telling you, man, one of these days, we're gonna knock
him out of that spot one week, I'm telling you.
But thank you for that. Be well, stay safe, have

(02:29:15):
a great rest of your night, and back here on
this channel live again on Wednesday for the Dynamite post showed.
So until then, say goodbye to Limu the EMU. There
he is in the crowd. Look at his shades. He's
looking very cool in his yellow dress shirt and tie.
Poor Doug, he was not allowed into the building tonight.

(02:29:37):
He's been taken into custody. He unfortunately, he did not
go quietly and things happened. So if I have an
update on Doug the next time I see you, I'll
let you know what happened. Poor Doug. Nobody gives a
shit about Doug. I'll see you guys Wednesday night for
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