WWE Raw 8/18/25 Review | Naomi Makes MAJOR Announcement, VACATES World Title! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How do you get out of having five straight weeks
of a show with a disqualification ending by having a
main event with no disqualifications. Finally, the streak has ended.
Raw Tonight was in Philadelphia, and so they made the
main event tonight an extreme rules match, because when you're

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in Philly, that's what you do, especially when Paul Hayman's
guy is in the main event. And so that is
how they ended the show tonight, bron Breaker and Jay
Usso in an extreme rules match, which featured the return
of one Roman Reigns. We saw him laid out a
few weeks ago. Two weeks ago, I think, so he
was back tonight. Not only was Roman Reigns back, he

(00:41):
helped his cousin win jay Usso gets the win, but
also we now have a new match added to the
Clash from Paris Card. It is going to be Roman
Reigns one on one with Bronson Reid, the Battle of
the Shoe Lafalla. Roman is going to try to get
his shoes back. I assume although he's got more than
enough money, he he could just keep buying new pairs.

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It really doesn't matter. But as a matter of respect,
I don't think he wants Bronson Reid walking around with
his shoes around his neck for the rest of time,
so he'll try to get his shoes back in Paris.
But that was how they closed the show, and I
actually thought the main event was good. There was some
chaos there at the very end. Again, it was your
typical WWE extreme rules match and mean nothing you haven't

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seen before, and they largely kept it to ringside. They
didn't really go through the crowd or anything like that.
We also had tonight a very special announcement from the
Women's World Champion, another member of the bloodline, Naomi, who
was disqualified from competition last week, not medically cleared. She
was supposed to defend her title against EO Sky. That

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did not happen, and they'd been very very hush hush
all week long about Naomi's condition. Nothing leaked, nothing was
said about an injury or an illness or anything else,
but rumors were going bonkers. Obviously on social media. I
talked about what I thought it might be, but it
was all speculation. It is speculation. No more Naomi is

(02:09):
with child, and so therefore Naomi has vacated the Women's
World Championship. And again I think a lot of people
expected this to be the case, especially Naddie un busted open.
The other day. I mentioned this on the podcast. She
made a comment about clearly she had spoken to Naomi
and she knew more than she was letting on. But

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she made a comment to the effect of, yeah, things
are kind of crazy right now, but crazy in a
good way, not necessarily crazy in a bad way. And
to me, I think that basically gave it away, right
if it's if it's a good kind of crazy, then
it could only be one thing. And so big jim
who knew that, you know, of all the people who
could take that championship from Naomi, it was Jimmy Usso.

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But yes, he did not proceed with caution, and so
she is pregnant. She will now go off to to
her family, and the Women's World Championship is vacant. They
did not shed any light on what they plan on doing.
They did mention the fact that Stephanie Vicaire has a
guaranteed Women's Championship match in Paris well at this point,

(03:14):
probably less than two weeks, but that next week they'll
shed some more light on exactly how they intend to
work that out, and I've talked about. It's very simple
actually in terms of how you work this out. It
should just be a one on one match. Stephanie gets
her title shot. EO gets the title shot that she
was supposed to get last week but got cheated out

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of Eo Sky against Stephanie Vicaire. Let him go out
there for fifteen minutes and tear it up. That's it now.
The only thing I can think of is if they
really want Rhea Ripley on that show, they just kind
of toss her in there to make it a triple
threat just to get her on the card because she
is such a big star, but she's really not needed.
I mean again, if they want her on the show,

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then have her come out and do commentary or something.
I don't know, but the solution seems very obvious to me,
without the need to have some sort of number one
contenders match or qualifying match or mini tournament or something
like that. So we'll find out about that next week.
But in terms of the announcement itself, I have to
say the actual announcement that Naomi made tonight was fucking

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great in terms of these types of announcements, and I
don't just mean like a pregnancy announcement, but like an
injury announcement, somebody has to vacated championship. This was among
the very best that I've ever seen. And obviously she
didn't have very long as the champion, and she only

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defended her title once in that time. I mean, it
wasn't quite you know, Finn Balor getting hurt at SummerSlam
after winning the Universal title and then having to forfeit
the very next night wasn't quite that extreme. The timing. Look,
the timing for her career could not come at a
worse time, but it is the best possible. And obviously

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she's I'm sure she's over the moon. She's spoken very
openly about her desire to start a family. I believe
she's thirty seven years old, and you just get to
a point where it's like, all right, this is either
going to happen or it's not. And she was kind
of right there where if it was going to happen,
it kind of had to happen right now, and it did.

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So the timing for her career may not be the best.
She'll come back. Hopefully she can pick up where she
left off. She's been doing great work as a heel.
It's been very entertaining in these segments on TV the
last few weeks, so she was really coming into her
own where Raw kind of gets a body blow in

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This is because Live Morgan went down with an injury. Effectively,
what they did was they moved Naomi from SmackDown to
Raw to replace liv Morgan. Is the top female heel
on Monday Nights, and she was doing a very good job,
and now she's gone and Live Morgan is still many
months away from coming back, So now they're back kind

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of to square one. As far as who takes that
spot as the top female heel on Monday Night Raw,
you know, is it Osca who's certainly been teasing that
she's going to be going heel soon? Is it Bailey?
And tonight we got another and this was a very
weird segment, kind of a pre taped segment with Bailey,

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who it appears is probably going heel, but she can
be the top heel on the show. Does Becky Lynch
as the Intercontinental Champions sort of become the de facto
top female heel? There's an opening now, you know, where
situations like this come up. It presents an opportunity for
somebody else to step up. Who that person ends up being,

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we'll have to wait and see. There was a solid
match on the show tonight between Eoski and Raquel Rodriguez
outside of that and the Naomi segment and the main event,
and that's enough right there to automatically make this a
better show than last week. But still the rest of
the show very dull, very lifeless, as was this crowd

(07:09):
in Philly. Honestly, outside of where they hit Roman's music,
this was not a very lively crowd here in Philadelphia.
The rest of the show is just kind of there.
Like I said, very boring, very uneventful. Lifeless is probably
a good word for it. We've seen a lot of this,
especially since summerslim. We've seen a lot of this on
WWE television Raw and SmackDown, and so tonight really wasn't

(07:33):
all that different. Now, a couple of notes here, It
sounds like we're going to be getting an announcement in
the next couple of days, probably by midweek, there will
be an announcement made about this September pl You've been
hearing a lot of rumors about it. They are going
to be doing a pl E. It's going to be
running opposite aw All Out that's going to be on Saturday,

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September twentieth, And it appears that this show is going
to be called Wressel Palooza, which is a name that
ECW used back in the midnight mid to late nineties
and they took it from Lollapalooza. That's how Wressell Poalooza
became a thing, and so it sounds like that's going
to be the name of the show, and it also

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sounds like it's going to be airing on ESPN. And
there's a possibility that all of the remaining pls this
year may also either air or simulcast on ESPN, but
this one, it sounds like some kind of announcement is
going to be made in the next few days that
Wressell Palooza will be airing on ESPN on September twentieth.
So that's what we know now about that it'll be

(08:38):
confirmed in a couple of days. That's where we're going
to be getting the John Steen of brock Lesner main
event next Monday, because they're about to kick off this
international tour, so Friday, for example, they're going to be
in Dublin Ireland. First time the WWE in its history
has ever done TV in Dublin or anywhere in Ireland.
I have to check. I believe if you are in

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certain markets you want to use your VPN, that you
could probably watch SmackDown early. I want to say, maybe
around three o'clock Eastern time. I'll confirm that. If that
is the case, that's what I plan on doing. And
if so, the plan would then be to go live
reunt eight o'clock Eastern time for the live stream, which

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is when SmackDown would be starting here in the States,
So just be aware of that. But also next Monday,
they're going to be in England, and they flat out
said that on Netflix the show is airing live at
three pm Easter. You don't need a VPN for that one.
Three o'clock Eastern twelve pm Pacific, much earlier start time
for Raw next Monday, which means an earlier review. Also

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probably eight o'clock Eastern. So I'm not going to go
live immediately after Raw, but we will be going live
earlier next week. Now there's another very interesting item. Could
mean nothing, could mean something. People who have tickets to
some of the upcoming episodes of Raw in September have

(10:05):
seen the start times on their tickets updated a little
bit earlier than they were originally scheduled for. So, for example,
the RAW on September fifteenth is now listed for a
six thirty pm local start time. September twenty second Raw
in Evansville, Indiana is now listed for a five thirty
pm local start time, which would be six thirty Eastern,

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and the September twenty ninth RAW in Raleigh, North Carolina
is now listed for a six thirty pm local time.
There is speculation and this could tie into Monday Night
football starting up soon, that potentially starting in September, RAW
could be moved up an hour earlier from eight pm
Eastern to seven pm Eastern, and this has not been confirmed.

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It is at this point just speculation, but there could
be smoked to that fire. So just be aware of
that that the start time for RAW, at least on
a temporary basis, perhaps could be moving up by an hour.
So if I hear anything new on that, I will
keep you guys in the loop. But again, just be

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aware of that, especially if you are in those markets
and you have tickets for those shows, that the shows
have been bumped up a little bit. This is your
Raw on Netflix review. I am the Solo Monster. It
is Monday night. It is August eighteenth, twenty twenty five.
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(11:36):
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(11:57):
It's good stuff. Cover a lot of other stuff, Triple
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on the podcast right now. If you missed it, please
go back and check that out. So let's get into
this raw show here. Tonight, they advertised that the Vision
would be appearing on the show. They did not tell

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us what the Vision would be doing. They did not
give us really any information about what the Vision would
be involved in tonight collectively, just that they would be appearing,
and so they opened the show with them. They didn't
waste any time. We had Seth Rollins and his crew
come out to the ring. Rollins, now, look, I know

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that Rollins is always wearing something very outlandish on these shows,
some kind of weird outfit, giant moon boots. It's always
something with this guy. Tonight he was wearing shirt and
pants that had a floral pattern. He looked like my
grandmother's garden. I don't know why he was dressed this way.

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This man is the world heavyweight champion, but there he is.
So the fans were cheering for Paul Hayman, who said
that he was a god in this city. Did I
mention they were in Philadelphia tonight said the city would
build him a statue, but he was far too humble
to accept credit that he deserved for everything that he's done,

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both in front of the camera and behind the camera. Bluntly,
he says, I am the goat. Then Hayman said the
ring was filled with goats, and he put over bron Breaker.
He put over Bronson Reid, who still had Romans shoes
around his neck. Hayman put over Rollins and said that
he's beaten Roman Reigns, not once, but twice. Rollins was

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about to speak, but Jay Usso's music hit and he
entered through the crowd, and he stayed in the crowd.
He was cutting his promo surrounded by kids and fans.
He was in the crowd, and he said that he
was tired of the vision. He's not the only one.
He called Breaker a puppy dog who would have to

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deal with him tonight because they were scheduled to go
one on one. Rollins was in the ring just egging
on Bron Breaker, and he's claiming that Jay was saying
things about Breaker and his family that he really wasn't saying.
He claimed that Jay just said, you know, he was
a better and stronger athlete than you. Claimed that j
said that Bron's father was stupid and that his uncle

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was a moron, and that Breaker's family is a bunch
of fat asses. And what I loved about this is
that it was the fatass line that finally broke Bron Breaker,
and he almost made a b line into the crowd
towards Jay Uzo. He had to be held back by
the other members of the group. Everything else was fair game,
but once, once he said he's calling your family a

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bunch of fat asses, that was it. He was ready
to murder someone. So Hayman said, you want to do
this to us in Philadelphia and then he went to
went on to pay homage to members of the ECW Roster,
and he said that you want to do this to

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us in Philly in a bingo hall not far away.
Men used to settle their differences in the ring in
a particular kind of match, no disqualifications, no countouts, winner
by pinfall or tap out only in the name of
the Sandman, smashing a beer can into his head, in

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the name of New Jack being the only real gangsta
in the business. In the name of Rob van Dam
smoking his opponents all the way to the corner of
Swanson and Rittner, in the name of the late great Saboo,
innovating moves that no one ever saw before, in the
name of the late great Tommy Dreamer. And then he

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stopped himself and he said, yeah, yeah, I know he's
not dead yet, but he should be. It's like, wow, okay,
all right. And the best part of this that wasn't
even the best part of this. The best part of
this is he says all of this, and then bron

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Breaker walks over to him and like he says this
with this genuine look of like wonderment in his face.
He just walks over to Hyman, and he just asks
him he's still alive, like he genuinely couldn't believe it,
like he really he's still alive. I'll tell you what,
Hayman is lucky to be alive. If you know about

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the plot that Dreamer once talked about nearly hatching at
WrestleMania is seventeen. Do you know that story? Hayman ought
to be thinking his lucky stars that fate intervened that night.
I wonder how much money he still owes Dreamer after
all these years. So they kept going. He goes in

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the name of the Dudley Boys, putting everyone through tables,
and at that point Jay had heard enough, and so
he cut him and off, and he suggested, you know what,
the only rules I'm interested in, since we seem to
be on the same wavelength here, the only rules that
I'm interested in are extreme rules. And he issued the
challenge to bron Breaker tonight to an extreme rules match,

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and that is how we got our main event. Yes,
Quizzical says, Fate equals Jim Ross. It was a Jim
Ross phone call, right, I believe it. It was a
voicemail or a phone call, and maybe maybe Dreamer took
the call. I don't remember, but as the story goes,
yes Ha had j are not called Dreamer, And again

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it's just a story. You take him at his word,
but who knows, maybe he's making stuff up. But like
if he would have followed through on the evil intentions
that he had in his mind, my god, you imagine
Wrestlemanius said right, widely regarded as the greatest WrestleMania of
all time and certainly one of them, if not the

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greatest WrestleMania of all time. And Jim Ross and Paul
Hayman are ringside doing commentary. That was actually Hayman's first show,
I believe, first the pay per view since coming to WWE,
where he was doing commentary, and Dreamer, yeah, talked about
how he was going to come up behind Hayman in
the front row and just pop him, just like bust

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the cap in his head, and I think he said
he was going to off himself too, like just really
horrific shit. I mean, that would have put a damper
on WrestleMania. I mean, Vince McMahon, he would have waited
five whole minutes before continuing with the rest of the show.
As they hauled the bodies off. So anyway, that was
your opening segment to build to our main event. You

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got some ECW references there from Hayman. We'll see if
a Dreamer gives them a little zinger. Back on Busted Open,
Sky was backstage. She was shown at the gorilla position
getting ready to head out for her match tonight when
Osca and Kyrie Sain walked up to her. Osca apologized

(19:09):
for shoving EO. There was some drama last week between
the Kabuki Warriors and EO, mainly EO and Oscar. Kyrie
has been kind of in the background trying to play peacemaker.
It's really Osca who has been annoyed with EO Sky recently. Yeah,
the the Willie says, it would have lowered, It would
have lowered the moon just a little bit. It WrestleMania.

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I'm trying to give Vince credit. Maybe he would have
waited six whole minutes. Clean up ringside. You got brain
matter on the floor and shit, you gotta you gotta
sweep that ship up. Hey, hey, Hebner outside, Chad Patten,
you come here, think, come on, we're all working together here,
clean this ship up. We got a show to do

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maybe maybe six minutes. So the Kabuki Warriors they confront
Eo here and Kyrie said, you know, let us know
if you need help tonight. And Eo said, look, I
know that you always have my back, but I need
to do this on my own, Oska, just like you,
just like you have none in the past, I need

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to do this by myself. And then they all smiled
and they all high fived each other, and everything seemed
all hunky dory between them, and EO went out to
the ring for her match, which was EO Sky one
on one against Raquel Rodriguez. EO was about to go
for a dive. She got tripped up early in the
match by Roxane Perez on the outside. Raquel used that distraction.

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As soon as EO turned around, she ate that foot man.
She mowed this woman down with a big boot and
that took us into the commercial break. As soon as
they came back from the break, wouldn't you know, Eo
made her come back. It's almost like they know. Leo
hit a missile drop kick, went for the bullet train
running knees. Rodriguez, though, caught her and hit a samoe

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and drop, followed by a corkscrew elbow for two. Raquel
avoided a moon Salt, turned EO inside out with a clothesline.
EO wiped out Roxanne with a suicide dive and then
went for one on Raquel. Raquel, though, caught her and
then rolled through to her feet. Raquel lawn darted EO

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onto the ring apron and then went for a tehanabaum
in the ring, but EO countered out of it and
hit the bullet train and then EO followed with her
genius of the sky. Moon Salt for the wind put
it away for EO Sky yet another victory, so Perez
and Rodriguez. They attacked EO when the match was over
until Rhea Ripley not the Kabuki Warriors who were told

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by EO stay in the back. I gotta do this
by myself, but she never said that to Rhea Ripley.
So Rhea Ripley comes out, makes the save. EO joins
in they work together to get rid of Raquel. The
match picked up nicely in the second half. Second half
was definitely better than the first half, and the postmatch
angle obviously designed to add more friction to the relationship

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between Eosky and Osca, and that's exactly what happened, because
in the back a couple of segments later, EO is
thanking Ria Ripley for helping her. Riea was trying to
explain herself, I had to do you know, I had
to do something, and EO's just, you know, thanking her.
Here come Osca and Kyrie and they walk up, and
Osca did not look very happy, and Oscar took issue

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with EO, letting Ria help her, but telling the two
of them that we can't help you. So Ripley and
Oscar they got into a shouting match, and then EO
just completely lost her mind. She's trying to get in
between them. She's trying to shout them down. She's screaming.
Then she starts muttering to herself in Japanese and she
walks off, and Oscar looks at Rhea and tells Ria,

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stay out of our business, and Oscar leaves. So now
it's just Ria and Kyrie, and Kyrie's got her hands
on her head like she's got this pained expression on
her face. Ultimately she leaves to follow them. Ria's in
the hallway all by herself. I thought that they were
going to pan over to somebody else that she was
going to bump into. She didn't bump into anybody. Instead,

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what happened was she looks over and they show the wall.
I don't mean you know the WCW. Oh, it's the wall, brother,
I'm not talking about the WCW wall. He's dead. But
she looks at the wall and then I remember it's
Philadelphia and it's the same wall that Riha got ran
into when she injured her shoulder in that backstage attack

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by Live Morgan the night after WrestleMania or two nights later,
whatever it was. I think it was the raw after
WrestleMania last year when she hurt her shoulder and that
necessitated that Rhea be out of action for months, which
led to Live Morgan basically getting the rocket strapped to
her in that division, and it ended up being a
very advantageous thing for Live Morgan because it launched her

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in a way that maybe otherwise she would not have
been launched, and they would have loan off the Rea
in the live field a lot earlier than they ended
up doing. So, she was having flashbacks, she was having
a little PTSD as she stared at this wall, and
then she walked into the locker room. Jackie Redmond interviewed

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La Knight in the back. Before he could say really anything,
CM Punk interrupted. Punk thought that Knight didn't like him.
Knight said, look, it's not personal, it's just business. You
keep sticking your nose in my business. Punk thought they
should stay on the same page so that way they
have some strength in numbers against Seth's crew. Knight wasn't

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interested after Punk attacked him last week, and Knight said
he was focused on walking out of Paris as the
new World heavyweight Champion. Yes, the Wall, you did not
know that the Wall died. I mean, I can't blame you.
There's been so many wrestler debts over the years it's
kind of hard to keep track. But yes, I don't

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remember how old he was. He wasn't that old, yes,
but the Wall from WCW he passed many years ago.
We had Penta one on one with Xavier Woods, who
had Kofe Kingston and Grayson Waller in his corner. Woods
took control ninety seconds into the match, which could only
mean one thing. We're getting a commercial break, and sure enough,

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that's what we got. Penta made a comeback. He wiped
out Woods and Waller with a dive. Crowd was completely
dead silent. This was as quiet a crowd has been
for a Penta match in WWA. And it wasn't just
this match, there were multiple matches on this show where
the crowd was just very very quiet. So Penta did

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not immediately go for a cover after he hit the
Penta driver. Instead, Woods he kind of rolled a few
times to get himself closer to the ropes. Penta went
for the pin Kofe was able to grab the foot
place Woods's on the bottom rope for the break. I mean,
just based on the positioning of the referee. I have
no idea how the referee didn't see this. Obviously he

(26:08):
was not supposed to see it, but it kind of
looked like he did, but he pretended he didn't, so
that broke up the pin cover. So Penta then just
went and wiped out Kingston and Waller with a flip
dive out to the floor. This was basically the only
reason that Grayson Waller was even at ringside for this
match was to take multiple dives. He didn't do anything else.

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All he has to do is stand there and be
a crash test dummy and just take these dives. That's
it just be a cushion for the person who's diving
out of the ring. So Woods tried to steal a
win after this with a small package. Penta kicked out
and he followed with a Canadian destroyer or a Mexican destroyer,
and he got the win. So with that win, I

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checked cage match because I was curious, so I checked
the cage match statistics. With this wind tonight, Penta moves
back into the wind column. Basically, if you're a baseball fan,
he had basically been batting you know five hi. I mean,
he was basically like even as far as his wins
and losses, and so he's now made it above the

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five hundred mark, nineteen wins, eighteen losses, back in the
win column. Now we just got to get him back
in the creative column where we get him some interesting
stories and feuds. This is not one of them. Of
all the ones he's had so far, he actually hasn't
had that many that many very interesting feuds with hardly anybody. Right,

(27:32):
He had that whatever that was with Kaiser and Pete Dunn,
and then he was kind of I guess, feuding with
Dom and going after the IC title, but really, he
hasn't done a whole lot else. That has to change.
Speaking of dom they showed Dominic Mysterio getting pinned by
the Kingo in the four way match from triple Mania

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this past weekend, and that was thanks in part to
a surprise cameo for one aj Styles, who not only
appeared at Slammiversary and WrestleMania, but triple Mania all in
the same year. He's all over the place, and I
was thinking about this. You know, I've gotten more emails

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and tweets about this in the last few months than
you might think, people who asked me, should John Cena
win the Intercontinental title? And my answer is always the same, why,
Like he has so few days? Even then when they
asked me the question, it was like, he has so
few dates left and those dates aren't even all matches, right,

(28:36):
So he has so few matches left and he was
the w He's still the WWE champion. And I'm getting
these questions about the IC title, like why the hell
would John Cena go after the time just because he's
never held it before, Like, who gives a shit? He's
not shamous, he doesn't give a shit about the Intercontinental title,
I can promise you. But we are now in a
situation where AJ Styles is going to be challenging Dominic

(28:59):
in Paris. I belie leave. I don't know if that's
official for Paris, but they're going to be having a
rematch soon for the Intercontinental title. If AJ Styles was
to win the Intercontinental Championship, that makes it very interesting
because one of the matches I would still love to
see John Cena have before he's done one more time

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is John Cena and AJ Styles. So do I think
it's actually gonna happen. I'm ninety percent sure it's not.
But if aj was to beat Dom to win the
IC title, which is certainly possible, Dom's going to be
going after the Triple A Mega Title next month. Maybe
he drops the IC first goes and wins the Mega title.

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If AJ Styles is the Intercontinental Champion, you might get
your wish at least in terms of John Cena challenging
for the title. Him winning the title is a different
story altogether, and my answer is still the same. No,
John Cena does not need to win the Intercontinental title.
He's not going to win the Intercontinental title. But if
giving him an IC title match is the only way

(30:04):
to get another Sena aj Styles match. I'd be okay
with that. I'm holding out hope. I'm not terribly optimistic
about it, but it's at least possible. But yes, they
showed the footage of the end of the main event
from Triple Media, which was a very good match and
it was very interesting. They were playing very loud music

(30:27):
over the crowd's reaction at the end when Vikingo won,
so that you couldn't hear the booze because he gets
the John Cena treatment now in Mexico where they boo him.
He hasn't done anything wrong. He's just a victim of
circumstance because they took the title away from Alberto del
Dipshit and they put it on Vikingo, and people didn't
like that. They wanted Alberto to kind of be the

(30:51):
face of Triple A and still be the Mega Champion,
so they resent Vikingo for it and they boo him
just mercilessly. But you would never know if you were
watching this footage here. So then they had some footage
that they shot in the hallway backstage after the show
on Saturday, where Dom was walking down the hallway. He

(31:12):
called aj and Old Bat for costing him the championship
and said that he would beat vi Kingo at Worlds
Collide for the Triple A Mega title. Now that show
is being held on Friday night, September twelfth, and I assumed,
because I believe they had announced this previously, but I
assumed that the show would be airing immediately after SmackDown

(31:35):
ten pm Eastern, and in fact, that is what they
announced it for originally when they put the graphic up
here on this show for Dominic and Vikingo. On the bottom,
it listed three pm Eastern twelve pm Pacific as the
start time for this World's Collide show, and I thought, well,

(31:57):
still a lot of wrestling in the same day because
he smacked Down that night. But okay, I kind of
liked that better. I was a little skeptical because I
was confused, and then sure enough, later in the show
they plugged it again, and this time they had Michael
Cole do the narration for the plug and it was
back to ten pm Eastern seven pm Pacific. So I

(32:18):
don't think these people know what the fuck they're doing,
because they've now announced multiple times for this show. Obviously
it's ten pm Eastern. It's in Las Vegas, so to
do it at three o'clock Eastern, that's what made me
go Eh, is that accurate? I'm not sure, but it is.
It is, in fact, not three pm Eastern. Just be
aware of that. It is seven o'clock local time, ten

(32:41):
pm Eastern time. They got to get their graphics on
the same page. Finn Balor and JD McDonough. They're your
World Tag Team champions, but their titles were not on
the line here Dirty Dom in their corner. They took
on Dragon Lee and mister Iguana. I think this was

(33:03):
his first appearance of any kind on this show, certainly
his first match on Raw, and not much of a
reaction for mister Iguana. Dragon Lee was in control for
a couple of minutes before tagging in the Iguana. He
got some light chance when he tagged in Balor, though
immediately cut him off. Dragonle and Mister Iguana then wiped

(33:24):
out Balor and McDonagh w with dives ahead of a
commercial break. When they came back, McDonough hit Dragon Lee
with a poison rana. Lee quickly responded with a laggerbomb.
Mister Iguana tagged in and his offense consisted of using Jeska.
His puppet Iguana did not get much of a reaction.

(33:48):
Dragonly tagged himself in. McDonogh wiped out the iguana with
a springboard moon salt Balor hit dragon Ly with a
sling blade. Le though came back with a superkick. McDonagh
distracted the referee as Dominic grabbed Lee by the leg.
This allowed Baller to hit Dragonly with a superkick or
a dropkick rather coup de Grass for the win, wins

(34:09):
it for the judgment day. Dom then cleared off the
announced table and the camera panned over and standing on
the timekeeper's barricade is Viking Goo. There he is. He's
just standing there and he hits a shotgun dropkick to
Dom And actually when he hit the shotgun dropkick, vi
Kingo took a back bump on the announced desk. These

(34:32):
reinforced announced desks, so that was a bit of a
rough bump. And then in the ring he attacked JD. McDonough.
Dom though, came back and he blasted Vikingo right in
the back of the head with the triple A Mega
title and dom went up to the top. He hit
the Kingo with a frog splash left him laying and
he posed with both belts. He had the Intercontinental title

(34:53):
of one hand, he had the Triple A Mega title
in the other hand. Where was Dimonito? Says a technician.
Demonito is on WWE shop, and if you've got one
hundred dollars, not including shipping and handling, you can own
your very own Demonito puppet with shipping. I would imagine

(35:14):
it's like one hundred and fifteen dollars if you want
the demon Balor puppet. So that's where it is. Well, look,
at least the booze didn't follow if we can go
to the States. He didn't get boots to Actually he
didn't get really cheered either. He just sort of the
crowd was kind of indifferent towards him. He got some
light cheers, but yeah, neither he or myster Iguana got
much of a reaction. But they also, you know, they're

(35:36):
not regulars on WWE programming. If they're going to be
appearing on a regular basis, then people will, you know,
come around to them. But they really didn't seem to
give a shit here on this show. So then we
got some follow up to the segment last week with
Bailey which was a pre produced vignette of her sitting

(35:59):
in a looking into the camera talking about how she
has just been on this horrific streak of bad luck.
She used to be this and she used to have
this championship and everything has just fallen apart around her.
She has nothing right. That was the gist of the
of the promo last week. But it looked like she

(36:21):
was kind of almost having like a nervous breakdown. And
then the very end you heard that old heel cackle
when she was a heel doing the ding dong hello segments.
And I thought the segment itself was well done. I
didn't think it really needed the you know, the cackle
at the end to kind of give away the store here,
which is that she's going heel. This was the follow

(36:42):
up to what they gave us last week, and basically
she's talking to herself now. That's basically what she's what
she's doing now. We could hear her inner voice tormenting
her we were in this woman's head, and the voice
promise to steer her in the right direction if she
listened to it, and Bailey is just putting her hands

(37:05):
over her ears and plugging up her ears. And finally
the voice stopped and Bailey, you know, she unplugged her ears,
and she said that she doesn't know what she needs.
And then the closing voice that you hear in the
segment is is sort of the heel or what sounded
like the heel Bailey voice saying how about a hug,

(37:26):
and that's how the segment ended. This was very goofy.
Not only does she hear voices, now we hear the
same voices, good luck explaining that unless we're just going
full Luca Underground here, which honestly the way these shows
have been lately, I'd be okay with that. At least

(37:46):
it would make the shows interesting. But this was a
very goofy segment here, but interesting enough that they appear
to be going in the direction of, uh, you know,
split per personality or I mean, I don't know what
forum this is going to take. I joked last week

(38:06):
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So we had Becky Lynch against Natalia. This was not
Bloodsport Natty. This was not the Natalia that we saw
at Triple Media. This was WWE Natalia and this was
for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. You know, I made the
comment on my show because a lot of people are like, man,
they should really use that version of Natty, but use
it on WWE television't want them to. And this is

(41:02):
why this match toon nat is a perfect example of
why you may think you want that version of Natty,
but you don't. Believe me. Trust me, you don't because
nothing will be different other than her appearance when she
comes out. Maybe her style will be a little bit
different because it's it's it is a different version of her,
but the outcome is going to be the same. And

(41:24):
if you do that and you just continue to beat
her on television like you always do. Then whatever this
is that she's been doing, like on these indie shows
and at triple Mania, if it has any kind of uniqueness,
if it feels special in any way, you're going to
beat the specialty out of it by having her portray
that version of herself on TV and continuing to book

(41:47):
her like a jobb or what do you think is
going to happen. No one's gonna give a shit about
blood Sport Natty anymore. So unless they have a specific
idea for her to do something with her on TV,
a story for her, which they don't, why would you
want them to let her start doing that on TV?
You're just gonna completely kill it. Let her go work

(42:10):
the Josh Barnett shows, let her do indies here and there.
Let her do a Triple Mania show or a TNA
show and be Bloodsport Natty and actually feel special and
unique on those shows. I'd rather they do that. So
as far as the match, you know, Becky posted Natalia
they went to break ninety seconds into the match. They

(42:32):
tried to play it up like Natty had a shoulder injury.
The referee went over to check on her. Becky worked
over her arm through the commercial break, Lynch applied an
armbar when they came back, and Natty eventually fought out
of it, hit a power bomb. Natty sold her arm
before going for a sharpshooter. Becky avoided it. Natty hit
a discus clothesline only for a two count. So Maxine

(42:55):
Dupria's outside, she's checking on Natalia. So Becky boots Maxine
and then she hits Tozawa who's out there with a
baseball slide because he was checking on Natty. This led
to Natty applying a cradle, which I am going to
assume was intended to lead to a reaction. It was
a reaction that never came, so just whatever they were

(43:20):
trying for, it didn't work. Becky kicked out. She applied
the disarm her and got the submission win. It was
very underwhelming. Becky ended up attacking Natty and Maxine when
Maxine helped Naty to her feet after the match, she
put Maxine in the disarm her until Nicki Bella ran out.
They hit her music and here comes Nicki and Nicki
ended up laying out Becky with her rack attack two

(43:43):
point zero. I will say the Nicki attack was good.
She had a lot of fire in the attack and
ended up leaving Becky laying. The match itself was just
a big disappointment though. I mean, the match with Maxine
was very a very basic, nothing doing kind of match.
But I figured the goal was you kind of graduate

(44:06):
from the Maxine match to doing something a little bit
more in the Natty match, because Natty is a vet
and Becky is a vet, and you give them some
time and try to have them go in there and
have a competitive match and it could end up being good.
And it's like they didn't even really bother trying here.
It was just a big disappointment. The crowd could not

(44:27):
possibly give a shit and why would they. Again, they
don't do anything with Natty, So you throw her out
there in a championship match. Absolutely nobody, nobody, nobody expected
her to have a chance of winning the intercontinental titles.
So it's a championship match. But you've taken away any

(44:47):
drama that there could potentially be in this match. You
haven't really built it up at all. It's not like
Natty has featured on a regular basis on this show.
She's racked up some wins recently, like no, so, like
I can't even blame the fans for not caring. Why
would they They've not been given a reason to do so.
This was very, very very flat. Now, Jackie Redman was

(45:11):
in the back and she attempted to interview Seamus, but
they were interrupted by Russev. So here we go again,
Here we go, and they're about to butt heads here
in the hallway. Here comes security, Here come agents and everybody.
Here comes Adam Pierce to get in between them, and
Adam Pearce is furious. He's screaming, he's losing his mind.

(45:34):
He looks like he's about to stroke out. Okay, he's
turning red in the face, and he says, you know
what this has to end, and it's going to end.
You want each other clash in Paris. Look at that.
They're actually going to get a pl match, Clash in Paris. Now,
what have I been saying? What have I been mentioning
to you? As far as the stipulation, right, the good

(45:54):
old fashioned Donnie Brooke? When are we gonna get the
announcement of the good old fashioned Donnie Brook It tonight,
Seamus and Russev one on one the blowoff match Clash
in Paris in a good old fashioned Donnie Brook. So
now the match is official and at least they're actually
going to get a pl E slot. That might be

(46:16):
the most surprising part about the entire show tonight was
these two people that never get on these ples are
actually going to have a pl match. So elsewhere in
the back, CM punk approached Jay Uso, who was getting
ready for the main event. He offered to have his
back tonight to help make sure that he makes it
to Paris, and Jay took offense to this, and as

(46:37):
with La Knight earlier, I don't think CM punk got
the answer he was looking for. Jay wanted to do
this on his own and he said that he was
focused on Paris, and they shook hands and everything was
copa setic between the two of them. Now at this point,
the announcers they set up a clip from Stephanie McMahon's podcast. So,

(47:00):
if you don't know, Jimmy Usso and Naomi were the
guests on Stephanie's podcast last week. It dropped on Thursday,
and a lot of people, myself included, were wondering if
we were going to get the announcement on that podcast
of what was going on with Naomi. You know, possibly
a pregnancy announcement. And then it became clear that the

(47:22):
interview was recorded previously. I believe it might have been
recorded in late July, so we weren't going to get
anything new on there, but they set up this clip
where there was a bonus podcast, like Stephanie is sitting
on a couch and there's Naomi and there's Jimmy, and
then there's another woman on the end who I think

(47:44):
co hosts Stephanie's podcast. I think it's like a friend
of hers, and Stephanie says, were back. We got a
bonus show because there's a big announcement that you guys
want to make, and they, you know, the two of
them were looking all giddy. Andaomi said, Jimmy has a
message to share, and Jimmy is getting ready to share

(48:05):
the message. And that's where they cut it off, and
that was the segue into the live segment. In front
of the crowd in the ring is the Raw general manager,
Adam Pierce, and he introduces Naomi. She comes out with
her brand new Women's World Championship. She got a custom

(48:27):
designed strap with the caution tape on. It actually looks
pretty cool. So she's got her brand new Custom World
title belt. She comes down to the ring and Pierce says, Champ,
the floor is yours, and he takes a step back
and you could tell him that Naomi is very emotional.
So at this point, like you understand, this is one

(48:51):
of two things. And I think we already knew what
this was going to be, especially after the setup with
the Stephanie clip. But at this point, the woman standing
in the ring, she's not visibly injured. Either she's having
a baby or she's dying, right and thankfully she's not dying,
so we pretty much knew where this was headed. And
the fans start chanting her name, and Naomi says, man,

(49:13):
this is hard, and she says, you know what, play
the rest of the footage from that clip from Stephanie's podcast,
and they put it back up and it's Jimmy who says,
y'all need to proceed with caution because there's a baby
on board. Everybody in the arena cheers. Stephanie then had

(49:35):
Naomi formally announce that she is pregnant and she is
in fact having a baby, so everybody is happy. Everybody
in the building is applauding and cheering and Adam Pierce
congratulates Naomi and she's got tears coming down her face.
Then Naomi goes into heal Naomi mode and her demeanor

(49:59):
changes and she said, yeah, I'll bet that you're happy
for me. She said it's not the first time for
her relinquishing a championship. She said that she gave it
up the first time, but this time she wasn't handing
him shit. She said, horror. Her hormones were jumping like
a disco and she told him to get the hell

(50:19):
out of her face. And Pierce left the ring, and
Naomi sang the goodbye song to him to try to
get the crowd to sing it, and she did her
evil cartoon villain laugh. She told Pierce that she hoped
he tripped in his church shoes. So Naomi said, the
women backstage shit, thank Big Jim because they had no
chance to take this title off of her. But thanks

(50:41):
to Big Jim. You know he likes to Netflix and chill,
if you know what I mean, she said. Fans started
chanting you deserve it. On the bright side, she said,
I guess the bloodline continues, baby, and she laughed again,
and for some reason, this led to an otc chant idea,
Why okay, let's put up the ones. So Naomi, she

(51:07):
looked at her new custom belt and she said that
she would lay it down on the mat. That's what
she's going to do. The fans started a baby uso chant.
Naomi said that she would give the hefes. God reminds
me that Brandy Rhodes promo, all you heifs who told

(51:29):
you it was open Mike Night bitch man that promo.
Still it still lives rent free in my head. It
made me think of that for some reason. But Naomi
said she would give the hefas a chance to do
whatever they wanted to do with her title for the
next nine months and change. She said that she would
be coming back to pick up where she left off

(51:51):
and whoever has that title, when I do, I strongly
advise you to proceed with caution. And then she winked
into the hard cam, laid the title down, and made
her exit and that was the end of that. She
never addressed the poor Stephanie Velcrow, who she was going

(52:11):
to defend her title against at Clash in Paris. Obviously
that's no longer going to happen now, you know, as
these types of announcements go where somebody has to come
out and forfeited championship. This was fucking great. She's been
great as a heel, no matter how hard she tried
to be one. Here you know, when this was over,
I mean, she was being cheered like a babyface obviously,

(52:34):
and look, the timing for her career could not be
any worse. She was on. I mean, actually, I take
that back. The only way this could have been worse
is if she had won money in the bank and
had not yet cashed in and got the announcement, you know,
found out the news that she was pregnant and she
couldn't cash in to win the championship. Outside of that,

(52:56):
the timing could not be any worse because she had
just won the championship. She was really coming into her
own as a heel. She again effectively replaced liv Morgan
is the top heel on the show. She had a
match coming up with Stephanie. She had other matches that,
you know, I'm sure they were planning on with her
and Rhea and then maybe her and EO again and

(53:18):
Oscar who knows right, who knows who they would have
programmed her with live when she came back, and so
that's all out the window now and she has to
give up the championship and everything goes on the back
burner and who knows, you know, when we're going to
see her again. Alexa Bliss went away at the Royal
Rumble in twenty twenty three. We didn't see her until
this year. She was gone two years. Becky Lynch, I

(53:42):
don't know that Becky was at as long as Alexa,
but it was probably a good year and a half, right,
I mean, you know in the promo, Naomi's like, you know,
nine months in change, Like we're not going to see
her for probably closer to a year and a half.
It's going to be a while. And it's great for her.
I mean, this is what she wanted. It's a wonderful
announcement and very happy for her because she's been very

(54:03):
open about how important this was. She's talked about wanting
to start a family and you know, my biological clock
is ticking and she only has one ovary, like she's
talked about all this. So it's great news. But I'm
sure it's a little bittersweet because this was her opportunity
to finally kind of grab the bull by the horns

(54:26):
and really get that run she's probably always dreamed of having,
and you saw the potential for how great it could be,
like her character work, and it's all out the window now.
But Michael Cole said that we would have to wait
until next week to find out the status of the
Women's World Championship, which is now officially back in the
hands of our good friend Vacant claims another one, but

(54:50):
we would find out on the show. Now, we have
one raw left next week in Birmingham before clash in Paris.
That's the last raw before the plee, so we're gonna
to find out what's going on. Then. I think the
path of least resistance is Eo Sky against Stephanie Vacaire.
That's it. And as I, you know, I look at it,
I go, how would I go about doing this? You know,

(55:16):
I think I would put the title back on Eo.
Here's what I would do. I would do Eosky and
Stephanie Vcaire in Paris. Let him go out there and
have a killer match. Right, Stephanie comes close and it's
a very competitive match. Eosky wins right clean, wins, straight up.
Eo wins. You go to Perth, whether it's Crown Jewel,

(55:38):
whether it's the Raw after Crown Jewel again, a lot
of it depends on what the format is of Crown Jewel. Well,
this champion versus champion nonsense. But in Perth, Rio Ripley
earns herself a championship match, and we get Ria in
EO one more time. And the story isn't just Ria
trying to get the world title back. The story is

(55:59):
that Riha has never beaten Eo Sky, right, she finally does.
Ria finally beats Eo Sky and she wins the World
Championship back. And that's where you begin the build, and
maybe it's WrestleMania, whatever it is. You begin to build
to Ria and Stephanie for the Women's World Championship, and

(56:19):
Stephanie Vaquier takes the title from Rio Ripley. Because she
could beat Eo for the title and have a short
run with it and then drop it to Rio. I'd
rather see her win the championship for the first time
from Rio Ripley. I just think it would mean more
Ria and Stephanie though, should be the long term direction here.
That's why I say probably a WrestleMania match. But that's

(56:41):
how I would set things up. So to me, I mean,
you don't really have to reinvent the wheel here. It's
pretty straightforward stuff. Eo and Stephanie both have claims to
getting a shot at the title, so just put them together,
let them do their thing. Two of the best in
that division. That's how I would set it up. Now,

(57:03):
backstage the Judgment Day, they were not sure where Dom
was and they found him. He was talking to El
Grande Kaiser or El Grande Americano. Dom told Balor he
just wanted to ensure the Judgment Day always stays on top.
Because they were curious, like, what are you talking to
him for? And Balor acted like he was okay with this,

(57:26):
but clearly he was very caught off guard. So they
closed the show with bron Breaker against jay Usso, who
was paying homage to New Jack. He had a bandana
on his head and his shirt was cut off. He
also rolled a shopping cart out to the ring with
various weapons in It reminded me of Raven back in

(57:47):
the days of him being the hardcore champion. Jay Uso
against bron Breaker this was an extreme rules match. Blue
Blue Onion says be the booker has been obtained. That's perfect.
We'll be doing be the booker later. That's awesome. Thank
you guys. Keep hitting that the thumbs up button. See

(58:09):
if we can get to five hundred. Early on, j
clothesline Breaker over the top rope and the shopping car
was positioned right outside the ring, and Breaker landed knees
first right on top of the shopping car. So his
knees went right into the garbage can and he hit
the floor. He immediately grabbed his leg like he was injured.

(58:32):
So Jay goes and he pulls a table out. He
pulls a slim gym table out from underneath the ring,
which gave Breaker some time to regroup. Jason breaker back
out to the floor, hit him with a suicide dive
that took us into the final commercial break. So we
had chairs and we had kendo sticks strewn about the ring.

(58:52):
They were all introduced into the match. Jay came back
very briefly. Breaker though turned him inside out with a clothesline.
He had a little trickle of blood on the bridge
of his nose. Nothing too serious. Breaker set up two
chairs back to back in the ring, and then he
cut off Jay's comeback attempt, dropped him gut first onto

(59:14):
the top part of both chairs, and then Breaker did
his usual leaping clothesline spot after this, The only difference
is Jay's like up against the announced desk. Breaker this
time grabbed a garbage can and he launched himself off
the apron hit Jay on the way down with the
garbage can. They both went flying over the announced desk.

(59:34):
So back in the ring, Bron hit a Frankensteiner or
a franken Breaker, I think he calls it now is
that's the official name for it, Franken Breaker and went
for a super spear as he came off the ropes,
though Jay cut him off with a spear of his own.
Jay hit him repeatedly with a steel chair and then
hit another spear, followed that with an USO splash, seemingly

(59:58):
had the wind, but as the referee went for the count,
Bronson Reid showed up and Bronson Reid I don't believe
he was out there before, but he was there now,
and Bronson Reid pulled the referee out of the ring
and notice qualifications. Thankfully, here in this match, Red attacked

(01:00:20):
Jay USO. Cole points out this is all legal, which
one might question why Bronson Reid did not come out
to assist bron Breaker earlier in the match. That's actually
a very good point. It was all legal. Why did
he have to interfere in the match now? I mean
it could have been two on one right from the

(01:00:41):
opening bell. But you know what, this is also a
show where we saw a character having a breakdown, and
we could hear that character's inner voices, we could hear
the voices in her head. So probably a good thing
to leave the logical question off to the side. So

(01:01:02):
La Knight ran out to try to even the odds seth.
Rollins then ran out through the crowd and his ridiculous
flowery outfit again, I swear to you when she was alive,
I know my grandmother had a dress like that. I
remember it. It had all kinds of flowers and collars
on it. I don't know, I don't know. I don't

(01:01:24):
know what to say this man of the World heavyweight champion.
So anyway, he runs out and he attacks La Night.
Rollins then gets in the ring. He lays out Jay
Usso with a pedigree. See I'm punk Enters. Rollin's wound
up getting attacked by Night and punk. One guy would
punch him, Rolins would go the other guy would punch him.

(01:01:44):
Punk set up Rollins for a go to sleep. Rollin
slipped out shoved Punk into Night, whose back was turned.
He was standing on the apron getting ready for some
sort of attack on Bronson Reed, who was on the floor,
but there was a slim Gym table set up on
the floor outside. When Rollin shoves punkin Tonight, Night goes
flying off the apron. He crashes through the slim Gym table,

(01:02:05):
which is very appropriate because he's one of their spokespeople.
La Knight and Bianca bell Air I believe are the two,
and of course Randy Savage are the official spokespeople for
slim Gym. Do I remember Jeff Hardy's voices in TNA.

(01:02:28):
I don't doubt that Jeff Hardy was hearing voices in TNA,
But no, I don't remember that, And I certainly hope
that you're not. I certainly hope you're not citing TNA
as some example of great creative here or something. I

(01:02:51):
certainly hope not. But Punk sees this, and he just
shrugs his shoulders and leaves the ring and chases Rollin's
out into the crowd. So with the match still in progress,
Breaker set a table up in the ring. Jay super
kicked him. Breaker fell nice and neatly. He was laid
out on the table. Jay went to the top when

(01:03:13):
Bronson Reid shoved him off, and the crowd at this
point is chanting for Roman Reigns because they know he's there.
He was advertised locally for this show. They know he's
coming out. It's only a matter of time, right, Like
he's obviously going to be on this show. So sure enough,

(01:03:34):
as Breaker goes outside to set up for a super
spear where he's gonna kind of run around the ring,
they hit the OTC's music and the roof came off
the place. Finally, like the first person on this entire show,
maybe outside of Rhea, but not quite to get this

(01:03:54):
kind of reaction. They go nuts for this. Now, bron
he's looking at the stage, He's waiting for Roman to
come out. He kind of hesitates, right, He's like waiting
and waiting and waiting, and nobody comes out. So basically
he's like, all right, fuck it, and he goes for
his super spear. But as he rounds the corner, Roman
he came out through the crowd, jumps over the timekeeper's

(01:04:15):
barricade and Roman spears him instead on the floor. Rain's
also then speared Bronson Reid. Roman throws Breaker back into
the ring. He ends up on the table again and
this time Jay Usso lands in. Usso splash through the
table and pins bron Breaker to win the match. And

(01:04:36):
as Jay is posing for the crowd, Rain's told Reid,
who is in the aisle with Paul Hayman. They're kind
of looking at each other and he tells him that
he will see him in Paris and Bronton Reid is
completely on board with this. He tells him, I'll see
you in Paris, and I'm gonna take your shoes again
because he doesn't have enough pairs of Roman shoes. He's

(01:04:56):
gonna take another trophy for himself. The best part of
this being an Extreme rules match is that meant no
disqualification finish. So the streak is over. The streak of
four straight weeks with bullshit and dq main event finishes
on this show has officially come to an end. We
actually had a winner tonight and I thought as a
main event it was good. It was a good main event,

(01:05:19):
your typical WWE Extreme Rules match, but with the added
bonus of a Roman Reigns return, who again helped wake
that crowd up because they were pretty quiet for most
of the show. Punk accidentally colliding with La Night obviously
is going to cause more problems between them on next
week's show. And now we have another match made official

(01:05:40):
for Paris. It'll be Roman Reigns one on one against
Bronson Reid. But I will say, you know, outside of
the main event and the Naomi segment, it was another
very missible show in a long line recently, a very
missible WW show, And I was just thinking, like I

(01:06:02):
thought back to last year. You remember when they actually
try to be creative and they were doing those really
fun segments with Bronson Reid and braun Stroman. Remember the
segment where Bronson Reid he did a fucking splash off
the concrete wall down onto Braunz Stroman on top of

(01:06:23):
a car and the parking like they were doing stuff
that was out of the box and it was fun
and chaotic, Like I missed that. We don't get enough
of that. I'm not saying, you know, two big guys
killing each other in the parking lot specifically, but they
were actually attempting to come up with creative ideas to

(01:06:43):
make the show more fun and exciting. We don't get
enough of that these days. It's like they're on cruise control.
They push a button, they know they're going to sell out,
and they don't give a shit, and it really brings
down the enjoyment of these shows. You'll find a couple
of segments here and there that kind of shine through.
Were a really good match. Again, the Naomi thing was
the best part of the entire show. The main event

(01:07:05):
I thought was good. I can't say a whole lot
about everything else on the show. It was just there.
These shows they have no life to them, and it's
not just a raw problem lately, it's a SmackDown problem.
It's bled over into both shows and I'm just begging them.
I'm begging them to start doing some stuff to make
me look at this show and think, Man, that was exciting.

(01:07:28):
I can't wait to see what they come up with
next week, because that's how I felt when we were
seeing those segments. It made me think of it looking
at Bronson read here in the closing segment. When we
were getting those segments, that was fun and it helped.
That's actually one of the key things that helped Bronson
read get over in the first place. I missed that
we need more of that type of stuff on this show,

(01:07:51):
because whatever this is, especially the last few weeks, Wolf
no reason that seventy five percent of the show should
be a fucking bore. Take a look at the poll.
What did you think of Raw from Philadelphia? Here, the
city of Brotherly Love. I'll be in Philadelphia in a

(01:08:13):
few weeks. Hope to see some of you there. Twenty
four percent of you gave the show an A grade,
forty point five percent give it a B, twenty one
point eight percent give it a C, and roughly fourteen
percent gave this show a D. Let's start with uh

(01:08:37):
love Dog's avery with the dollar ninety nine. So I
want to give a shout out to the self made guys.
I'm self made. You're giving me a shout out. I'll
give you a shout out right back. GMB Final Boss

(01:08:57):
Rock or Hollywood Rock. Final Boss is kind of a
version of Hollywood Rock, not exactly. I got a special
place though in my wrestling fandom for Hollywood Rock. We

(01:09:18):
really did not get him for long enough. That's the
shame of it. I think I might go Hollywood Rock,
though honestly just as a heel character, not someone that
was an authority figure, which is basically what Final Boss
Rock was. I kind of like it a little bit more,

(01:09:41):
but either one is fine, really, Andre Johnson with the
four ninety nine, why did the Scarecrow win an award
because he was outstanding in his field? I like that
the first time I heard it when Conan used it
in his induction speech for Raymisterio in the Hall of Fame.
Thank you, Andre, he says. I also hate that Natty

(01:10:03):
was beat just for us to get to Bella versus Lynch. Well,
I mean that was always the plan. Nicky and Becky
is probably gonna be the clash in Paris match. So
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(01:12:33):
Dried Chicken says I will admit the announcement is joyful
and at the same time underwhelming because it's another huge
loss for the women's division. Congrats to Naomi. I wish
her the very best. We all wish her the very best.
The women's division will heal itself somehow, some way. The
women's division, at least on Raw is in slightly better

(01:12:54):
shape than SmackDown. I talked about the SmackDown Women's division,
especially with the titles and that whole situation. It is
very dire right now. Joseph Stewart says Dominic is going
to be the next big megastar in WWE. Dom's going
to be a big babyface when the time comes, He's

(01:13:17):
going to be a very big babyface. Also, he says
congratulations to both Naomi and Jimmy, rest in peace to
Terrence Stamp. Were you a fan of Terrence Stamp as
General Zod in Superman two? I was not, because I

(01:13:41):
was not really into the Superman movies. I am aware
of who General z Odd is. But was I a fan
of General z Odd? No, I can't say that I was.
Do you remember coolioh was in Batman and Robin. I

(01:14:03):
did not remember that. I did not remember that, says
Coolio was going to play the Scarecrow in Batman five,
after Batman and Robin, After Batman and Robin with Madonna
as Harley Quinn and Jack Nicholson returning as the Joker.
I think you made that up. I think you made
that up. Hulkling ninety three says the paraphrase Alan Iverson's

(01:14:26):
legendary practice. Rant Bronson's big threat to Roman tonight was
to take his shoes. We're threatening shoes. We ain't threatening careers.
We're threatening shoes. Man, Hey, those are expensive shoes. Those
are some expensive shoes. Joseph Stewart Robin was going to

(01:14:55):
become night Wing in Batman five. Do you think Ray
and I'm gonna wear them every week just to piss
you off. It's a Hollywood Dave. We talked about Hollywood Rock.
We have Hollywood Dave Batista. Hmm, Hollywood Dave was a

(01:15:18):
great character too. Do you think Dominic Mysterio would make
a great Zorro in a Zoro movie or a Zoro series.
I wasn't really aware that anybody cared enough to want
to see a Zoro movie or he a Zorro series.
Zorro is kind of a blast from the past, but no,

(01:15:43):
I don't. Do you think that we could have had
a Raven flock versus nWo feud in WCW and would
you have liked to have seen that feud happen Raven's
flock in the nWo no, no, not really. Do you

(01:16:05):
remember the song face to Face by Susie and the Bansheese,
the song from Batman Returns, I don't, I do not.
Do you remember you too, hold Me, kissed Me, Thrilled
Me from Batman Forever in the music video hold on

(01:16:31):
a Second. That's in here somewhere there it is, and
the music video showing clips from Batman Forever that one.
I think I vaguely, I vaguely do remember that. Do
you remember the Warner Brothers store that were in the

(01:16:51):
malls in the nineties. I don't, but I remember sun
Hot video used to be a thing. Terrible dry Chicken.
Call up Klanie Jordan, Lola Ice. Well, Lola Ice has
been sent over to Triple A. That's where she is

(01:17:13):
right now. Call up Kilani, Lola, Jada Parker, Carmen Petrovic
and Lash Legend need more fresh blood for that division.
I agree with you on Lash, Jada and Kilani. I
feel like Lola Ice should probably stick with Triple A
for a while. Carmen, you know, I honestly, I haven't

(01:17:36):
seen enough of her her work recently to say whether
or not she should stay with NXT for a while.
Or if she's ready to be called up. But I
think with the other women like Lash and Jada like
they're ready, like you can, and even Klani like you
can get them up. Now spread them out, you know,
maybe two new faces, maybe on SmackDown, one on Raw.

(01:18:00):
Lola got optioned to Triple A. Yes, it's exactly what happened.
She got optioned to Triple A. Terrible Dried Chicken says,
let me tell you how to piss off this Philly crowd.
Brother Woods wears Braves outfits, Kofee wears Celtics outfits, and

(01:18:25):
Waller wears Cowboys outfits. I still don't think the crowd
would have really reacted much. It was a very quiet
crowd tonight. Joseph says, what is your favorite coolio song?
I have two of them. Gangsta's Paradise is one and
Fantastic Voyage is the other. Also, do you think bron

(01:18:52):
Breaker should have been Goldberg's final opponents. It's the idea
that I pitched Gunther ended up being a good final opponent,
but I would have gone with bron Breaker, given him
the rub by having him beat Goldberg, not only beat Goldberg,
be the man to retire Goldberg abistle zones. I expect

(01:19:19):
Naomi to be a massive babyface when she comes back. Well,
I mean initially she will be. But if they want
her to be a heel, it shouldn't be that difficult.
Like initially she'll get that baby face pop. But I
would love to see her, you know, go back to
the heel persona that she was doing. It's tough, though,

(01:19:40):
you know, you never know if you could kind of
recapture that magic that you had. Joseph says, did you
know Coolio sung the theme song to the show Keenan
and Kel. I did know that. I didn't know that.
I would check out Keenan and Kel when I could.
I was a little I was a little old for it,
but my brother would watch it, so I would watch

(01:20:03):
Keenan and Kel and I always enjoyed it, except, of
course Dan Schneider being on there. Knowing what we know now,
it's very creepy. The mount Burning kid Christopher Bennett Bailey
better start flipping a double headed coin and calling herself

(01:20:24):
Bailey dent dried Chicken says, I double dog dare Natty
to work a death match on GCW. I think that
the bet really should be I double dog dare Paul
Levec to allow Natty to work a death match in GCW.

(01:20:47):
I think Natty would do it. She'll never get permission
to do it, but I think she would do it. Frank,
thanks again for the encouragement. Brother, You're very welcome. Thank
you for the email, Alex with the Five Brother solo.

(01:21:11):
I know we're ways out, but can you see why
two j being the big surprise return for the Royal
Rumble in twenty twenty six. I don't know when his
contract is up. There's been all kinds of rumors about
twenty twenty six, twenty twenty seven. I don't know when
his deal is up, so I can't say for sure

(01:21:32):
whether or not he'll even be able to be a
surprise in the Rumble. Can they keep that surprise? It's
hard to keep surprises these days. They did with Brock,
but considering that the Royal Rumble is in Saudi Arabia, also,
I'm gonna say no, my guess is no. Joseph says,

(01:21:56):
have you seen the movie Dangerous Minds with Michelle Pfeiffer. Yes,
bj Blaize Kuwitz your video last night hit on what
Aw's future could look like if Tony kan and AW
don't get their heads out of their ass and actually

(01:22:20):
and actually look at what they need to fix and
make AW as valuable as possible. Well, I mean there
were there. There was a lot of uh, there was
a lot to take away from that segment. I wouldn't
say that was the number one point of it. But
certainly if Tony Kahn, if what he said at that

(01:22:40):
scrum three years ago was accurate, and he's got cards
to play, you know, WWE wants to play hard hardball,
then would I would say, now is the time to
start showing some of those cards. Either that or he
was just full of hot air base beers. Buy or

(01:23:04):
sell Adam Pierce or aj Lee? Best authority figure, best
authority figure. That would be the solemn monster in the
House of Glory, But the second best would be a
J Lee. I would buy a J Lee over Adam Pierce.
See aj She knew how to lay down the wall.

(01:23:25):
Christopher Bennett, The Mount Vernon Kids, says my brother Hulkling
ninety three, and I are glad to hear that you
loved Sinners my favorite movie of twenty twenty five. Do
you have a favorite character and scene? I look, I
thought Michael B. Jordan killed it in the movie playing
two different characters. Forget which I say. I don't want to.

(01:23:51):
I was gonna say which which one of them? Which
one of those two characters? Which brother was my favorite?
But I would be spoiling the movie a little bit,
so I won't do that. But as far as my
favorite scene, it might have been where we had the
vampires singing the Irish the Irish song, I love that songs,

(01:24:16):
a very catchy song, and there's a scene where they're
all outside the building and they're singing the song and
dancing and everything. I don't know, that might be my favorite.
It's a great movie. Again, my only regret is that
I didn't see it in theaters when it first came out.

(01:24:39):
Bobby means, I'm happy for Naomi. But in the meantime,
this is a perfect time for Rox Sane Perez to
take that belt. But I feel like we may get
some call ups, maybe soul Ruca. Soul Ruca's absolutely soul
Ruka has been rumored that they really like her a lot.
She was on SmackDown not that long ago, and oh
it might have been that weekend that they ran up

(01:25:01):
against all in Weekend Right. She was on three shows
that week. She was on SmackDown, she was on The
Great American Bash, and she was at Evolution. So they
think very highly of her. We didn't mention her before
when we were talking about potential call ups. Joseph says,

(01:25:22):
were you a fan of Sid running in WCW his
run in w CW from nineteen ninety nine until he
broke his leg in two thousand and one? No, not really,
And I wasn't a fan of Savage as late WCW
run either. It was sad. It was sad to see
him in that state. You couldn't do anything, He really couldn't.

(01:25:43):
His knees were just completely shot. He was so roided up.
I hate that run for him. Actually, that's my least
favorite version of Randy Savage and for Sid. I didn't
hate his run as much as I hated Savages run,
but I don't really look back on it with any

(01:26:04):
great fondness. Bas Beerris, I so missed the energy of
Attitude era crowds. I was part of a lot of
those crowds. Believe me, I feel it too, Joseph. Have
you seen Mask of Zorro with Antonio banderish No. I

(01:26:31):
did see Carrie Elwais though, playing his own his own
version of Zorro in The Prince's Bride. I saw that
Mark Kwan sol on my side. You're still hurting from
you mentioning Vampiro farting on the microphone. Then I found
video and ouch, I'm telling you Ben. I talked about
this in my Triple Mania review. There have been some

(01:26:51):
bad Triple Manias. This was one of the better ones,
and I haven't seen them all, but like, clearly this
was one of the better ones. But there's that infamous
one from six years ago where Vampiro was on commentary
and he just did not give a shit. He's fucking
responding to mean tweets about him. During the show, Matt

(01:27:13):
Striker's trying to get him to focus, and then at
one point he just he farted so loud it was
like a nuclear explosion. You could hear it. You could
hear it on his headset. His headset's on his head,
it's not on his ass, and you could hear it.
And then the stuff later where they wouldn't play his music, say,

(01:27:33):
he wouldn't do the run in until they played his music,
and he's cussing up a storm. What a disaster. Entertaining,
but what a disaster. Joseph says, do you like what
WWE is doing with Keana James on SmackDown? I don't
mind her being a representative for Julia, but they're not
really doing anything with it, so no, so far, I'm

(01:27:56):
not mactubb. How much do you blame Sena for the
failed heel run. I blame him to the extent that
he just kind of goes with the flow, you know,
He's like, yeah, sure, you want to do this, that
sounds great, Okay, cool, because I mean it's and maybe

(01:28:17):
he doesn't care because it's his final year, so it's
not like, well, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.
You know. It's not like he's in a position where
failed creative is going to somehow doom him for the
next few years. And he's pretty much teflon anyway at
this point. But I think if he was someone who

(01:28:38):
was a little more assertive with this stuff, I don't know,
maybe things would have turned out differently. I don't know.
I don't know what kind of creative mind he has,
but that if I assign any blame to him at all,
that would be it just the fact that he just
and he says it, he admits it in every interview
he does. Where I don't politic or life for opponents,

(01:29:01):
and I don't really you know, say no to stuff.
I just show up and I do what I'm told
to the best of my ability. And this is one
of those situations where I wish he would have been
a little more assertive and involved. Leopardtows has been a

(01:29:25):
Channel member for nine months. Catching a flight back to
law school in five hours, says, wish me safe travels,
save travels, get there in one piece. Thank you for
all that you do. You've helped me through a very
tough times. Well, one of the reasons why I'm here.

(01:29:46):
I'm glad to hear that again. Safe travels. Brother. Then
why did he beat the Nexus? Why do you think
because Vince McMahon thought that this is how it has
to be. John Cena has to beat the Nexus. Well

(01:30:07):
do you think that that's all Sena's idea? Vince couldn't
possibly want John Cena to go over on the Nexus.
Whose fault do you think it is? Come on, dude,
stuff's vins. This morning, my son put his shoes on
the wrong feet. I don't even know where he got

(01:30:27):
someone else's feet. Joseph buy or Sell, Austin breaking into
Pillman's house or Triple h breaking into Randy Orton's house.
Austin breaking into Pilman's house. Javier says, hey, Sola Monster,

(01:30:51):
How is raw tonight? Not great? Not as bad as
last week, but not great? MJF. Kenny, Omega or the
young Bucks? Who do you ever see going to WWE
in the future? MJF. For sure, I don't see the

(01:31:20):
Bucks going. Omega I could see going. I could see Omega.
The only one I'm for sure like at some point
he's going is MJF. Brian Fanelli Dreamer tweeted a gift

(01:31:41):
with the raw hashtag, seemingly in response to Hayman. If
you a gif with the raw hashtag, was that even me? Well,
at least he didn't tweet a picture of a gun
we got, Doctor Scorpio. I finally came up with the
good clock pun, It's about time I'll show my Oh,

(01:32:05):
it's about time. God, it's about time. It's about time.
I'll see myself out. Thanks for watching, so I don't
have to. Well, that's why I'm here. I watch, so
if you don't want to, you don't have to. Edward.

(01:32:34):
Maybe we get three faces of Bailey, role model, ding Dong, heel,
and Hugger. I just hope something good comes from it. Also,
they release Becky's new theme on YouTube if you want
to hear it. Oh no, they released it on Spotify.
So they released it on Spotify at midnight, depending on
what time zone you're in. So I grabbed it of Bailey. Well,

(01:33:05):
let's see what happens. Let's not kill the idea completely
until we see it play out. Chris Mike Sell, I
wish Luna was with us today. I remembered you saying
that you met her once. She would have been happy,
for sure to see how the women's division turned out.
It would have been nice if she would have gotten
her flowers from the company while she was still alive. Yeah,

(01:33:29):
I met her twice. Actually, I got her autograph, I
got pictures with her. I met her for the first
time I met her was in ninety four, and the
second time I met her was in the luxury box
at the Meadowlands at the first raw that I ever
went to in ninety eight. She was very, very nice.

(01:33:51):
I've posted the pictures mactub What could Rock Austin have
done to surpass Triple H. I'm not triple H Hulk Hogan.
They already surpassed Triple H. What could they have done
to surpass Hulk Hogan as the goat for you? Or

(01:34:15):
was that just not hold on or was that just
not possible? So do you think Chuck McGill works as
a manager? I do. I do as far as goat.

(01:34:38):
I mean, they didn't lay the foundation for the company
in the way that Hogan did, and that has to
for me anyway, factors into things, a factors into his
spot on Rushmore and you know, his overall impact on
the company. I don't I don't think that there's anything
that they could have done to you know, kind of

(01:35:00):
in my mind rank above him in terms of just
the impact that he had, and Austin and Rock themselves
had great impact. But I don't know that there's anything
they could have done. I mean, Hogan was just right guy,
right time, and they went with him and it worked,
and it just came at the right time that he became,

(01:35:24):
you know, available and was the face of their national expansion.
And from that expansion we got the attitude room Austin.
You know, it's sort of like Austin or not Austin,
but Hogan had to lay the foundation so that Austin
and Rock could build upon that foundation, and Sina and

(01:35:45):
everybody in Roman and everybody else who came after that,
We got duves Vince. I meet this girl at a
party last night, Brie. She was a little cheesy. I

(01:36:10):
don't like cheese and terrible dried chicken. Big shout out
to Kenoski Takeshta for winning the g One Climax, AAW
signing him paid off. He's got contracts with three different companies, DDT,
New Japan and AAW, and he did win the g

(01:36:33):
One he beat Evil in the finals. He has said
that he would like to walk into the Tokyo domas
the champion, so it's entirely possible, like Zach Saber last year,
that he may win the championship in the next few
months before he even gets to wrestle Kingdom. I kind
of liked that idea better because I feel like he's
not a long term IWGP champion, So if he was

(01:36:57):
to where was he born? Is he from Osaka? You
know they have these shows that usually come between the
end of the G One and the beginning of the
year Power Struggle and whatever other shows there may be.
I mean, maybe they could work it where they do

(01:37:17):
a show from you know, his hometown, if it's somewhere
in Osaka or something, and he can win the championship
there and let him hold it until Wressell Kingdom and
have one of those the young guys that they really
need to start prepping to be the guy. I don't
know what's taking them so long, because they have a
bunch of them, you know, whether it's a show to

(01:37:39):
Umino or Yotasuji, and there's others as well. Suji got
bounced in the semi finals of the G One and
so maybe he could end up in He may end
up in the main event a Wrestle Kingdom, and then
you can have him unseat to Kesha to win the championship.
I feel like for the health and future of New Japan,
they really have to are going all the way with

(01:38:00):
some of these guys and building them up. Because Tanahashi
has aged out, Nito is gone, a lot of guys
are gone. Frankly, a lot of them are in aw No,
kot is gone. You've got to really start building these
guys up quicker. You know, I saw stat that said
that the attendance for the g One this year was
the lowest it's been in more than a decade. You know,

(01:38:25):
they're in a rebuilding phase right now. But I don't
think time is on their side. You know, I'm not saying,
you know, rush everybody to the top, but like they've
been building these guys up now for a few years,
and at some point you got to pull the trigger
and say, Okay, we're going to crown this guy, or
we're going to crown that guy. Takesh is great, but
it's a full time job to be the IWGP champion.

(01:38:47):
Aw is still his priority. Tony Kahn's not going to
allow him, you know, to be IWGP champion for a
full fucking year, you know, and spend half the year
in Japan. That's just not going to happen. But I
think giving him a short run and having somebody like
Suji beat him for the belt makes all the sense
in the world. But Ghetto is gonna do what Ghetto

(01:39:08):
is gonna do. Ghetto is not gonna be winning Booker
of the Year anytime soon. Terrible Dried Chicken says happy
thirty years to Mortal Combats nineteen ninety five movie thirty years. Huh,

(01:39:29):
where does the time go? Duffsvid says, why did Beethoven
get rid of his chickens? All they said was back
back Bach. You know, I should have given you the
flush for that, but it was kind of clever. Carlos

(01:39:49):
Galvan forty five months of membership, says, Hey, Solo, any
fond memories of your cat that you can remember? Yeah,
lots lots of great memories of Jinx the cat. I mean,
I can't think of any crazy story off the top
of my head, but I have a lot of fond memories,

(01:40:12):
a lot of positive memories of her. She lived a
full life, almost eighteen years on this earth, probably the
last pet that I'll ever have, Thank you, Carlos. Actually
I do remember one thing years ago. God, this had

(01:40:35):
to be maybe twenty eighteen, maybe sometime around then, because
she died in twenty nineteen, so maybe twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen.
It was during this period where Raw was just, oh God,
it's just awful, absolutely awful, and I was laying on
the bed watching Raw and I had this perfect of

(01:41:00):
her on the bed in front of me, passed out cold,
and in the background you see raw on the TV,
and I just said, this is the perfect metaphor for
this show, and I tweeted it out, so that was
kind of funny. Joseph, what is your favorite Chris Farley

(01:41:23):
roll from Saturday Night Live? I mean, how could I
vote against the in a van down by the river? God?
What the hell was his name? That was Matt Foley?
Was What was his character's name in that skin segment?
Was it Matt Foley? Then he takes the bump through

(01:41:45):
the table, and everybody on the set, including David Spade,
is trying very hard not to just completely crack up
laughing bass bears Hogan. I ready, two companies is a
face and a heel. Yeah. I pointed that out, you know,
when I did my eulogy and the whole memorial segment

(01:42:09):
for him, I said, I cannot think of another person
in the history of the wrestling business who it's not
just a matter of carrying a company. It's more like,
was the face of a business boom for two different
companies kind of lit the fuse. And not only two
different companies, but one is a baby face and one

(01:42:29):
is a heel. That's that's insane. Matt Fisher says, be
the booker. Yes, we are going to be the booker momentarily.
Matt Foley motivational Santa, good old Matt Foley. I miss

(01:42:56):
Chris Farley. He was awesome. Joseph Stewart says, have you
seen the deleted scene on YouTube from Batman Forever where
Bruce Wayne confronts the giant bat underneath the bat Cave? No,
I have not. I think you have every scene in

(01:43:19):
the movie memorized. It's actually it's very impressive. It's very impressive.
Nick Grosso with a nine ninety nine. Do you think
it's a mistake for the lights out steel Cage match
to main event over MJF and Hangman? I mean, do
we know for sure that it is? I know, typically

(01:43:39):
those matches, because they're not sanctioned right do close out
the show. But do we know for a fact that
that's closing out the show? I mean technically you can.
You can do it earlier. I mean you could do
it before the main event. Is it a mistake? It

(01:44:01):
all depends on what they have planned for the show.
If there's some kind of major angle return debut that
might necessitate that match going on last or if the
finish for Hangman MJF they feel like is going to
be such that it's gonna leave people disappointed, then it's
not a mistake, right. I don't know what they have planned.

(01:44:25):
Maybe there's a reason for it. Also, do you think
Dakota Kai shows up at Forbidden Door? I don't know
in what role she would show up. I know Shana
Basler was kind of teasing that she would love to

(01:44:47):
come to aw maybe, and she's got friends there like
Marina Shafir. I'm gonna say no if she does come in,
I don't know why it would be Forbidden Door. All Right,
we're currently sitting at five hundred and twelve likes, which

(01:45:09):
is awesome. On that note, just be the Booker, Ladies
and gentlemen. It is now time to be the Booker.
Barley's skit with Patrick Swayzee in the Chippendales Tryout is hilarious.
That's a classic one. Chris Farley and John Candy, two comedians,

(01:45:44):
two actors. I really really wish we're still around. All right,
tag team, be the Booker, and we begin with the
All American Boys, the Fabulous Rougeau brothers, Jacques and Raymond.

(01:46:07):
They got a bitchin theme song too. No deaf rebel here.
Everyone had a unique theme song. It kind of gave
them this unique identity. Now it all just sort of
blends together, doesn't it. They're gonna be facing Jurassic Express,
Jungle Boy and Luca Source. I think that would be

(01:46:31):
a very good tag team match. The Rougeau's were a
very good team all right. On the lady side, you know,
with Naomi out of the picture, now we can't pick
her and be the booker. Now she's with child, she

(01:46:51):
is ineligible to compete, but she's not Eve tore Hello, Hello,
there she is former Divish champion Eve Torres. I had
a thing for Eve, but now she's married. She married
to like Hener Gracie or something. I'm not gonna I'm

(01:47:13):
not gonna mess around there. Eve Torres is gonna go
one on one with Piper Niven. Although in this image
this is do drop, I don't know. It just doesn't
have that marquee match I was looking for here. I

(01:47:37):
was looking for a bigger match than that. I didn't
get it, so I gotta give it the buzz. So
no clean sweep tonight. But let's see what our main
event will yield for us here, shall we? And it
yields an Olympic gold medalist who won a gold medal

(01:47:59):
with a broken heaking neck, Kurt Angle in the main event.
It's gonna be a good main event. It's gonna be
a good night with kurd Angle in the main event
of be the booker card Angle against Orange Cassidy. Card

(01:48:23):
Angle is in it. Orange Cassidy can go. It's a
good match, man, it's a good match. You may not hate.
You may you can hate on oc all you want,
but prime curd Angle Orange Cassidy be a hell of
a match. The moment that Orange Cassidy pulls that pocket
shit on curd Angle, he's getting suplex. I'm talking like

(01:48:48):
if we're talking like machine kurd Angle from two thousand
and two, two thousand and three. Yeah, he's not putting
up with that shit Kurt Angle versus Solom Monster. Oh,
I'm submitting. I'm forfeiting the match. I'm not even good.
I'm not even going to attempt. I'm good to attempt

(01:49:11):
to win the match. I am in be the booker.
By the way, we've landed on me a few times.
As you recall, we had Solom Monster and Collie in
what I believe was a Punjabi prison match once. Be
the booker really had it out for me that night. Thankfully,

(01:49:32):
tonight I'm safe, all right. So Wednesday night we have
the Dynamite post show back here on this channel. Before then,
I'll be live tomorrow night over on JD's channel for
another episode of Tuesday Night Titans. So we have Dynamite
on Wednesday, we have SmackDown on Friday. Be aware, I
probably will be going live earlier than usual, so I

(01:49:56):
normally would go live on Fridays around eleven, well not
eleven thirty ish if I'm able to watch RAW at
three o'clock in the afternoon with my Express VPN. You
can get four extra months free by the way, with
our offer. Check the description down below if you need
a VPN. I'll probably go live then around eight o'clock

(01:50:17):
Eastern if you can join, would love to have you.
And then next Monday, RAW airs earlier at three o'clock
Eastern time, so that'll be an eight pm stream most
likely that night. By the way, Forbidden Door is coming
up this weekend and I think it's going to be
the same thing. For Bidden Door has a one pm
Eastern start time for the main card, so if you

(01:50:38):
figure it's an aw show, so it's probably not ending
before five o'clock, my plan would be to go live
around eight, so that way I can actually eat food
when the pay per view is over and then get
myself situated and then we can go live. So just
to give you guys a heads up on the schedule
coming up this weekend, that's probably how we're going to
work things, and then if that goes well, I'll probably

(01:51:01):
do the same thing for Clash from Paris the following Sunday,
because that starts at two o'clock in the afternoon Eastern time.
Figure I'll watch the show, take notes, have dinner, get ready,
and then go live around eight o'clock. There's no reason
to just kill myself and rush right into it. And
you know, it's just ridiculous. These shows are out of control,

(01:51:24):
but that's how we'll work it. So I will see
you guys. Then go back and check out episode nine
to twenty five of the podcast. I was really happy
with that episode and off the ground, I was able
to cover one of those rare weekends where I didn't
have news break as soon as I am done recording
the show, as is known to happen sometimes, be well,

(01:51:45):
stay safe. Is collision going to be on Thursday? I
don't fucking know. I don't know. Bounces back and forth
so many times between Oh that's right, Wait a minute,
Wait a minute, Hold on a second, wait a minute.
Dynamite is in Scotland. Shit, I didn't think about that.

(01:52:07):
That's a very good point. And see, I don't know
how that's gonna work. Let's see if we could figure
this out. I completely forgot that Dynamite is in Glasgow
on Wednesday. Is it going to be airing earlier on
HBO Max in certain international markets? Can somebody check and
let me know? I totally forgot about that. Even even

(01:52:30):
Dynamite is airing internationally, but I don't know if it's
going to be airing on HBO see HBO Max. I
thought HBO Max was was only a domestic anyway. All right, well,
just assume that Dynamite Wednesday night is going to be
as normal, and if it's not, follow me on X

(01:52:52):
at Solomons or I'll keep you guys posted on there
all this international mayhem here, I'll see you guys. Thank
you for all the love. Come on back for more
sound up here on YouTube. Until then, take care guys,

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