WWE Smackdown 9/12/25 Review | Cody Rhodes RETURNS And Brock Lesnar SPLITS HIS PANTS! - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You know, after a last week's show, I had enough
sense to Ashley use my VPN for SmackDown tonight, which
made it more tolerable during some of the matches, so
that way I didn't have to deal with commercial palooza
like we did on SmackDown last week. Tonight, we got
to talk about a few things. We got to talk
about the return of the WWE Champion, Cody Rhodes. We

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have not seen Cody in many weeks since McIntyre gave
him a Claymore kick in the bottom part of the
announced table apparently that killed him dead. We haven't seen
Cody since. So there he was tonight, guile in all
his presence back on SMACKDOWD and the match has been
made for Russell Poluza next weekend. It will be Cody
Rhoades defending the WWE Championship against Drew McIntyre. That was

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coming off the Randy Orton. Drew McIntyre made event that
we had here of this show, which was solid enough.
I didn't think it was a great main event, but
it was solid enough. We had two championship matches on
this show. We had one match that was anything but solid.
We had one championship match that was tremendous between Sammy
Zain and Ray Phoenix in the US Title Open Challenge.

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This is a match that you should go out of
your way to see. If there's one thing from SmackDown
Tonight that I would say you need to go out
of your way to watch, that would be it. The
other championship match that we had on this show was
for the WWE Women's Championship between Tiffany Stratton and Jade
Car gild And while I cannot heap the same amount
of praise on that match, it was not a bad match.

(01:27):
Actually I thought it was slightly better than the match
they had at Summer Slim, which was not a bad
match either. But we had no resolution to their issue.
We had no winner decided, but Naya Jacks was the
last woman standing when it was all said and done.
So we are heading towards a triple threat match very
soon for the Women's Championship. A very very weak top

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of the division right now. I don't know what's going
on with the top of the SmackDown Women's division. The championship,
the main title, very very weak, especially when you compare
to what's going on on the off side right now.
They really need Bianca bell airback as quickly as possible,
and even getting Bianca back, there's work to be done. Yeah,

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because you have Charlotte and Alexa, they're off doing the
tag team thing and beyonc has been out for months
ever since WrestleMania. It really shows that we are now
back to Tiffany Stratton and Nya Jackson again with a
little bit of Jade car Gill thrown in there, so
that part of it is not great. Brock Lesner was
also promoted for this show tonight now John Cena. John

(02:31):
Cena is done with SmackDown. You are never going to
see him on SmackDown for the rest of this retirement run.
We'll see him on Raw this coming Monday. But we
had brock Lesnar on the show tonight. Now, if you
have brock Lesnar on the show but no John Cena,
it stands to reason that if brock is going to
do anything, he's not going to be attacking random people.
You would hope that, you know, we've got brock Lesner

(02:51):
coming out and talking about why he's been going around
kicking this guy's ass. Maybe we'll get some sort of
explanation for why why Now, Is it just that he
wanted to give him one last ass kicking before Seena
calls it a day and signs off and rides off
into the sunset. I'm still wondering what the answer to
that question is because we didn't get an explanation tonight.

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We didn't get much of anything from Brocklesner except a
very memorable moment. And look, this shit happens on live TV.
Sometimes you don't want to be the person that it
happens to. If you're brock Lesner, you just sort of
laugh it off. Right, Who's going to make fun of
brock Lesner and point and mock him and you know,
do anything other than just laugh along with him. Uh.

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We saw more of Brocklesner at the end of that
segment than I care to see. And when there is
a wardrobe malfunction, that is the most newsworthy part of
a Brocklesner segment. That tells you there wasn't a whole
hell of a lot to that brock Lesner segment. But
that is what we had here on SmackDown Tonight. Now,
for all of the goings on and happenings here on

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SmackDown Tonight, the big news of the day, and I'm
not going to do on this because I'm going to
save this for the sound off on Sunday, but the
big news of the day, and they promoted it here
on the show tonight, the big announcement that Triple H
was teasing the other day. Triple H was dropping these
hints on Twitter about changing the game, some sort of
game changing announcement that there was going to be today,

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and we already knew what it was going to be
because it leaked. It leaked a couple of days early,
and it was exactly what we expected it to be.
At three o'clock this afternoon in Las Vegas, which is
where WWE is right now for Worlds Collide, which is
happening as we speak, they made the announcement that Saudi
Arabia will play host to WrestleMania forty three coming up

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in twenty twenty seven, and they had a bunch of
stars on the dais there. They had Sean Michaels, and
they had The Undertaker, and they had Bianca bel Air,
and they had Charlotte Flair and Seth Rollins and Logan Paul,
and they had Live Morgan, who we haven't seen in
many months, and she looked like she would rather be
anywhere but where she was. But they had them all
lined up. Triple H comes out and they made the

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announcement WrestleMania, not Super WrestleMania, not the greatest WrestleMania, WrestleMania
itself will be coming to Saudi Arabia in twenty twenty seven.
And look, whatever your opinion may be of that news,
and there was a lot of opinions, a lot of
divided opinion about that announcement. Might also depend on where

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you live in the world. Forgetting that for a second,
I made a comment on Twitter after the announcement was
initially made and the event was still ongoing, and I
made a comment to the effect of still waiting for
this quote unquote game changing announcement to be made. Maybe

(05:42):
it'll be made at the end of the event, And
it never was, because that's how Triple H couched it,
you know, on social media the day before. Now I'm
just wondering, you know, where, where's the game changing part
of this announcement? And if I tell you all of
the dumb shits that came out of the woodwork that
we're leaving comments under this tweet all throughout the afternoon.

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It would make your head spin. And one thing I
learned very clearly today on social media and specifically X,
is that people on that platform have the reading comprehension
of a pineapple. So let me break it down very
succinctly here for the people who dropped out of school,
which was most of the ones that had to interact
with today. I was making a comment about the so

(06:29):
called game changing nature of the announcement and if you
want to dispute that, and you think it was a
game changing announcement because oh my god, Wrestlemane is leaving
North America for the first time. I had a lot
of people saying, oh, Wrestlemani is going international for the
first time, which is not true, blatantly not true. But okay,
if you want to make that your your argument, well,
it's game changing for this reason. It's game changing for

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that reason. It's a matter of semantics here, we're playing
with words. Okay. I don't look at it as a
game changing thing for a variety of reasons that I
will get into on Sunday, but we could have that
difference of opinion. What I don't like is when people
read something that clearly isn't there, and they manufacture some
message or narrative in their head that doesn't exist. So
if I tell you how many messages I had to

(07:12):
sift through today, sifting through message after message, people who
read that tweet, who turned it into oh, well, if
you don't like it, then don't watch it, or oh
you must hate the people in this part of the world.
They're oh, if you hate this so much, And I'm like,
again the reading comprehension of a pineapple, I'm like, what

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exactly are you talking about? Where in what I wrote?
Are you getting this? Like? Where is this coming from?
I couldn't understand. It didn't make any sense to me.
Just dumb shit message after dumb shit message after dumb
shit message. It was unbelievable. Wrestling fans, yeah, really showing

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their ass today on social media. So that was the
nature of what I was dealing with coming out of
this big, big announcement, this big event that they held
earlier today. This was not a surprising announcement. Nobody should
be surprised by this announcement. They have had a relationship
with Saudi Arabia now for over seven years. They have

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hosted countless events at fifty million dollars a pop. Right,
and I'm sure they're going to extend that relationship when
it comes up. It was a ten year deal when
they signed it, and it started in twenty eighteen, so
you do the math. Something like this was inevitable for
the money that they are paying for these sporting events.
And it's not just wrestling. You know, there's boxing events,

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and there could be mixed martial arts events. It's all
kinds of events. For the money that they're doling out, right,
they have lived, golf, all this stuff, it was inevitable
that they were going to get a wrestle media. They
got the Royal Rumble. They're going to be in Saudi
for the Royal Rumble in January. We now have a
date on that, by the way, January thirty first, So
that much we know. So WrestleMania was only a matter

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of time. I'm not surprised by it. There's gonna be
a lot of people who are very upset because they
go to WrestleMania every year and now they can't because
they're not going to fly to Saudi Arabia, or because
they simply are not going to be able to afford
that trip. You think prices in Las Vegas for this
year's WrestleMania and next year's WrestleMania are wild. What do
you think those prices are going to look like in
Saudi in twenty twenty seven. There's gonna be a lot

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of people who make WrestleMania their destination vacation every year
who now are not going to be able to go
have every right to be upset. On the other hand,
there's also a lot of fans who live over there
in that part of the world, or are specifically in
Saudi Arabia, including people who listen to the podcast who
I interact with on a regular basis, who I know
are going to be very happy that they get to
go to WrestleMania for the first time, and I'm happy

(09:47):
for them. So again, I'll get into the nuts and
bolts of this when we talk about it on Sunday,
because I also think there is opportunity here moving WrestleMania
out of the United States overseas, which is by the way,
going to be airing in a completely, you know, different
time zone. So depending on where you are, Wrestlemanti is
going to be airing a lot earlier in the day.

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It presents opportunity for others, which I will get into
talk about SmackDown. This is your SmackDown review. It is
Friday night. It is September twelve, twenty twenty five. I
am the Solemn Monster. I want to point out something
else we had yesterday. I actually pushed it out last night,

(10:28):
A brand new retro episode of the SoundOff, and this
one is going back aways. Yes, the lost episodes are back.
I have not uploaded an older episode in quite some time.
I intend to do more. Get back on that horse.
Episode fourteen of the SoundOff from February of two thousand

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and eight is up right now. If you are a
Legends Tier Channel member, so on my sound Up Channel members,
if you are on the Legends Tea, you have access
to that episode. It is up for you right now,
with more to come. Talking about a whole bunch of
things in that episode. Whatever was going on in the
world of wrestling back in February of two thousand and eight.

(11:13):
That's what I'm sounding off on. So if he didn't
get the notification, just be aware of that. It is
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get episode fifteen up very soon. So if you are
not a channel member on that Legends tier, now is
a good chance to take advantage of that and get
in the party. All right, let's get into this SmackDown

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show here. Because we had a different announced crew for
tonight's show. We had the NXT crew, Vic, Joseph and
Booker t They took over the announcing duties for tonight's show.
Corey Graves was on the call in Vegas for the
Triple A World's Collide show, and Michael Cole, based on
some of the recent performances he's had, he could use

(11:55):
a few days off. He could probably use a few
weeks off, so I didn't have any issue with him
rotating the NXT crew in there. After replaying what happened
last week where brock Lesner attacked John Sena and Sammy's
Ain after the match for the United States Championship, brock
Lesner open this week's show. Brock Lesner is in the
main event. He is closing the show at Wressell Palooza.

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That's what Joe Tessitor confirmed on ESPN today. I think
we already figured that was going to be the main event,
but it is confirmed. John Cena versus brock Lesner will
be headlining Wressell Palooza next weekend. Brock Lesner comes out
to cheers, but when he gets in the ring and
they stop his music, we hear chants of you suck

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directed at Brock. Before he could say a word, he
didn't even get a word out. Our truths music hid
and Our Truth comes out and he wraps his way
to the ring. What's up? What's up? Right? I mean
it's like I mean, if you would have pushed a
button and taking you back to two thousand and twelve,
twenty nineteen, twenty twenty three, it's the same. Our Truth.

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He comes out, he wraps his way down to the
ring and into the ring and he says, I'll tell
you what's up, and Brock cuts him off immediately and says,
man shut up. Truth said that he was going to
be the first WWE superstar to say Brock welcome back,
and Brock laughed. Truth said that he's he used to

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be scared of him, but he's not scared of him
no more. And Brock said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.
I don't even know who you are, and you better
have a damn good reason for coming out here and
interrupting me. Truth said that Brock's been disrespecting his childhood hero,
John Cena for the past twenty five years. Brock asked him,

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how old are you? He's older than Brock. They tell
you that he's older than Brock. He might not look
like it, but he's older than Brock. He goes, how
old are you? And what is your name? So Truth
told him, and he said that he's done with the disrespect.
Brock said, he's here for one thing tonight. I'm looking

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for John Cena. Do you know where John Cena is tonight?
Truth told him that he doesn't. Brock wanted to know again,
why are you in the ring right now? I had
the same question watching this, And Truth told him he
was here to defend his older brother, John Cena, and
your name is our Truth, And Truth said his name

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was Ron Sena. He's got a Ron Sena chan. So
you don't know where John is? No, I don't, And
so why are you here right now? I felt like
I was in some sort of like infinite loop watching this,
like are we gonna move the conversation alog here? We
just gonna repeat ourselves over and over again. So he goes,

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I'm here to stop the disrespect. Brock John Cena is
built different. He went crazy this year. He made a
little kid cry, super Sena is coming for you, dog.
And he's fueled by hustle, loyalty, respect, and two drops
of those kids tears. So he won't be running from
the beast, he'll be feeding on him. And you're his

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brother from another mother, says Brock says, no, we got
the same daddy, ah comedy. Do you know that you're
missing a tooth? He said, And before Truth could even
answer him, he scooped him up on his shoulders and
he gave him an F five. And this was all

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a colossal waste of time. But in giving him the
F five, when Brock popped back up to his feet,
he had split his pants, the back of his pants
right down his ass crack. I mean, it wasn't like
a little He split his fucking jeens. Okay, these weren't
some flimsy, you know, shitty pants that he was wearing.

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He was out there wearing jeans and somehow I don't
even know how you do that, honestly, but he split
his jeans and like the way he jumped up, it
was almost like his underwear rode up into his ass
crack or something, and he immediately realized and he starts laughing,
and you could see him he's kind of mouthing the words,
I ripped my pads. And then he bends over because

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now he's like in his head, he's like, Okay, I
gotta I gotta roll with the punches here. How do
I how do I handle this? Right? So he bends
over to uh to moon everybody full moon. You could
see his blue underwear. I know that you know you
watch for these details here. So then he danced a
little jig. It's been a while since between Brock dance,

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remember Mariachi Brock from many years ago. So he dances
a little bit in the ring as he's trying to
figure out what to do here, and then he leaves
the ring and as he's walking down the aisle, he's
looking directly into the camera and he tells Stu the Hammerman.
He goes, fucking stew I ripped my pants. Blue underwear,
he said, and he smacked hands with the fans like

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he was a fucking baby face. As he walked to
the back, Brock ripping his pants. He was wearing Batista's
skinny jeans. Maybe so, maybe so, but still when to
rip your pants is one thing. To rip your jeans though,
Like that's impressive. Brock ripping his pants was the only

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entertaining thing about this segment outside of that this was
a gigantic waste of time instead of actually hearing anything
of substance from brock Lesner, who was headlining this first
big ESPN event, right, this first this first big pl
e on ESPN technically ESPN Unlimited, that's the name of
the app. Instead of giving us any sort of real

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promo or explanation as to why this has been going
on lie lately, what we got here was campy Vince
McMahon comedy with him. In truth, I don't know what
the point of that was. I mean, some fans had
a nice laugh about it, okay, I mean it's an
interesting choice taking this story, this storyline, this angle of

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all things and turning it into comedy. The real comedy, though,
was one Brock split his pants. That was the most
entertaining part of the entire segment, and that was the
last time we saw brock Lesner for the rest of
this show. I don't even know why they bothered even
having him show up. Why even waste the brock lesnar
appearance on this show if that's all you're gonna do
with him. That's how they opened the show. After this,

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we had a vignette from Solo Socoa where he expressed
anger he's by himself. We didn't see the other MFTs.
He expressed anger about having lost his bloodline, he lost
his Ulafalla, he lost his United States championship. I was
waiting for him to say that he lost his smile
as well, but he never said that. He vowed to

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take back what he lost, said that he lived in
the shadows of others for far too long and it
was time for others to live in the shadow of
him and his family tree. The MFTs, I will say this,
they definitely don't live in the shadows. I mean, they
get at least what three or four segments on the
show on most weeks. I'd like to banish them to

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the shadow realm for a while. They certainly aren't living
in the shadows. I'll say that. In the back, Sammy's
aim was talking to his latest challenger in the US
Title Open Challenge. They kept the camera on Sammy, so
we couldn't see at first who he was interacting with,

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but he said they're gonna have a hell of a
match and he was looking forward to it. The camera
panned over to show Ray Phoenix. Yes, the forgotten Lucha
bro At least Pent actually gets television time on Monday.
I can't say the same for Ray Phoenix, but he
was there tonight and he shook hands with Sammy, and
Sammy left and that led to our first match of

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the night, the best match of the night, the only
match of the night that you really need to pay
any attention to. Sammy's ain defending the United States Championship
in this open challenge against Ray Phoenix. No booze for
Sammy this week. I was waiting to see what the
reaction would be. He was booed a lot in Chicago
last week, and I just couldn't really understand why, and

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I figured it, if anything, I mean, it had more
to do with just a very pro John Cena crowd
in Chicago, and anybody who would have come out of
that situation, or almost anybody probably would have been booed.
It's the only thing I could really come up with.
And so he comes out tonight, I said, that will
be the test to see if that carries over into
other cities, and it did not, so there were no

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booze for Sammy's ain tonight, although oh, I will say
they went to commercial ninety seconds into this match, and
during the break the crowd did start a very loud
let's go Phoenix chant, but that's different than booing Sammy.
Coming out of the break, Sammy hit a beautiful tilted
whirl backbreaker that only got him a two count. Phoenix

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then countered out of a blue thunderbomb with a head
scissors into a pin only for two. After that, a
super kick buckled Sammy Phoenix fell down on top of him,
only got a two count. Phoenix, then headed up top
he crashed and burned on a moon salt. Sammy went
for a halluva kick Phoenix, though moved, he did a

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forward roll into this great DDT and both men were
down heading into the second commercial break. During the break,
they were on the ropes. Sammy hit a sunset bomb
only for a near fall, So we got a chance
of this is awesome. Not the first. Oh actually this
was the first, but not the only time in this
match that you would hear the fans chanting that. Sammy

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headed back up to the top. As he came down,
he fucking ate a super kick here from Ray Phoenix
for a great near fall and a close one, so
much so that poor referee got chance of ref You suck.
Sammy got to his knees and he ate a couple
of kicks to the chest, like yes kicks, and it

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looked like it was just making a med but then
Phoenix delivered one, just flushed right to the face, and
Sammy went down. They came back out of the break
and they ended up back on the ropes again. It
looked like Sammy was gonna go. It looked like he
was actually setting up maybe for like an avalanche, you know,
attitude adjustment or something. Phoenix got free, and so with

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Sammy still sitting on the ropes, but he was sort
of bent over, like hunched forward, Phoenix jumped over his head,
double stumped the back of his neck and then landed
on his feet in the ring. And then he followed
that with a springboard moonsalt onto Sammy and he covered him.
Sammy kicked out, so now they went at it. Phoenix

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hit the ropes. Now picture Jay Lethal going for the
lethal injection right, Phoenix hits the ropes in the same way,
but when he comes off the rope, Sammy catches him
and spins him, drops him with a blue thunderbomb for
another great near fall. So these two, I mean, at
this point in the match, here, these two were cooking

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with oil. Sammy caught him, he gave him an exploder
into the corner. Now he's setting up for the Halluva kick.
He's setting up for the kill shot. Here as he
came in, though, Phoenix jumped up, took him over with irana,
had his legs hooked forward. Sammy, though kicked out, so
we got more chance of this is awesome. This is
indeed awesome. Phoenix hit the Goodbye Amigo kick, then came

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into the corner for another kick. This kick missed, though,
and Sammy gave him another exploder, and this time he
would not be denied. The Halluva kick connects and then
into the cover and Sammy Zaying retained the United States
Championship and all I wrote on Twitter when this match
was over, although again it's probably a pointless exercise because again,

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like I said before, reading comprehension of a door knob.
But I wrote on Twitter. What a fucking match, What
a fucking match this was here? And I'll tell you
what more. I don't know how long they're going to
drag this open challenge gimmick out for. It may just
be for a few weeks. It could be for a
couple of months, right, we don't know. You give us
more matches like the one that we got here on

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this show. This will rival potentially, if not exceed, the
quality of the John cena Us Title Open Challenge that
we got ten years ago. If you give us more
matches like this, this was tremendous stuff. And I think
about other potential opponents for Sammy. You really want to
have fun with this open challenge here and get him
in the ring with guys that maybe he just hasn't

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worked with before, like tonight, right, he had never worked
with Ray Phoenix before. One on one. You've got androde
right Phoenix is I guess now former tag team partner
who also has been just out of the picture, not
seen for a while, really not seen since the TLC
match at SummerSlam. Why not get Sammy in there with
Andrade for a match? Why not get him in there

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with a Nathan Fraser? Why not get him in there
with axiom. Carmelo Hayes is an obvious one. Carmelo Hayes
is the next one because in a backstage segment later
in the show, Hayes confronted Sammy and said I got next.
Finally he smartened up. He's been trying to get a
word with Nick Aldus for weeks now and all this
keeps blowing him off, and then the Miz gets involved.

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I'm like, dude, after last week, Sammy opened this challenge
up to anybody, I'm like, how dumb is Carmelo Hayes
gonna look knowing this? If he doesn't just go right
to the source. I'm like, dude, just either confront him
in the back, or if Sammy comes out and throws
it open to anybody, you'd be the first one to
walk out. Like, if Carmelo Hayes is not the first
person or one of the first people to, you know, again,

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accept this open challenge, it's like, what are we doing here?
So he wasn't the first, but I was happy that
he actually went up to Sammy in the back and
said I got next, and Sammy said, okay, don't miss
So then mis showed up. He was not happy when
he found out that Hayes had done this. He didn't

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think that he's ready to be the United States Champion
because Miss of course in the past has been the
United States Champion and he's more interested in them going
after the tag team titles. But he was not happy
about this. That seems like a very bad sign for
Carmelo Hayes next week. I am not expecting Carmelo Hayes
to win the United States Championship. But it's a first step.

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We'll see where it leads to. But it's a first step.
This open Challenge, I'll tell you what though, would also
be good as a way to introduce a new talent
from NXT and so a couple of the names that
I immediately come to mind for me Ethan Page, Evans,
and it doesn't have to be like a full time
call up. Javon is not somebody I would call up

(27:06):
full time just yet. Ethan Page is absolutely ready to
be called up. I've seen some of the stuff that
he's been doing with Chelsea Green, and I do think
that that could be a main event act on SmackDown.
I would actually love to see them paired up together.
I think that would be good for both. So someone
like even Paige, absolutely I could see him on the
main roster today. Ricky Saints is another one, but he's

(27:28):
obviously involved with I guess Obafemi right now. But yeah,
like someone like that, or a Javon Evans or I
mean whoever. I mean, name whoever you want. But you
can really throw it open to a whole bunch of
different people and all it takes is one standout match
like the one we had tonight to really you know,
make an impact here on this show. So this was

(27:49):
this was tremendous stuff. Though as far as and I
just hope that Phoenix does not get you know, banished
back to Catering and we don't see him again for
six weeks. My thing is, if you're not going to
do anything with Phoenix, it would be better to just
put the Luca bros. Together. Yeah, it looked like they
were really pushing Pent as a single there for a while,
and maybe they had plans for him, maybe with the

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Intercontinental title, which he ended up not winning. Unless there's
some sort of solid singles planned for him coming up
real soon, I think both of them would be well
served to just be put back together as a tag
team and let them have a tag run together. Right now,
you could still do singles with them, but I think
Penta and Phoenix reunited would be much better. It would

(28:34):
be good for both of them, but it would be
much better for Phoenix because it's very clear they don't
really have a real plan for him Penta. They have
him doing stuff with New Day and Grace and Waller,
which is not terribly interesting, but at least it's something Phoenix,
especially after a performance like this, Phoenix deserves more. He
needs something that might just be it. So they aired

(28:57):
a video here, one of these VHS style videos with
Bo Dallas and the rest of the wy AT six,
and Bo asked where the street profits go from here
now that they failed their test. Eric Rowan said that
he was sad to see Tez and Dawkins acting this way,

(29:17):
but it's common for people to not see what they
have until it's gone. Dallas said that they were the
ones who sow the seeds that sprouted horns, and then
he tells us to follow the buzzards. Sure, sure, okay.

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In the back earlier today, they showed Julia and Keana
James confronting beefab talked about them stepping up to her
girl Mitchen, and Julia said that she could talk smack
if she can back it up in the ring tonight.
And that brings us to our next match, which was
not a championship match, and actually it wasn't a match
at all as it turned, but it was supposed to

(30:01):
be Julia one on one against BFAB. That's not what
we got though. Instead, what we got here before the
match could even start, Julia and Keana they assaulted Beefab.
They tossed her into the barricade. Back in the ring,
James was stomping on Beefab. Julia delivered a running a
Rivederci knee to the face. She then bent Bfab's arms

(30:23):
behind her back and was holding her with her arms
behind her back like she was about to give her
a curb stump. Before she could do anything, though, she
was frozen in her tracks by music. It was Miechen's music.
And Michen comes running out and Julia sends Keana to
go take care of her. So Keana leaves the ring,
and Michen, of course has a kendo stick, which is

(30:43):
every woman's weapon of choice here in WWE, so she
whacks Keana across the ribs with it she gets in
the ring. She took a swing at Julia, Julia duckt
and escaped the ring to safety. I cannot be mad
that we did not get b FAB in the ring
tonight against Julia. I can't say that I was greatly

(31:04):
looking forward to this match, although it would be nice
to see Julia wrestling on a regular basis. But it
wasn't much of a segment either. It sets up an
obvious tag team match. If that's the direction they want
to go in, you do meechin in BFAB against Julia
and Keana. I mean, I've said my piece on Julia.
What more is there to say? This is just she's

(31:27):
in mid card hell right now in WWA, and the
mid card is not always a terrible place to be,
but the mid card is very hit or miss. You
can have a mid card feud that actually is interesting
and engaging and can be used to try to elevate
somebody so that one day they are in the main event.
You could have a mid card feud that clearly is

(31:49):
being put together because we have to do something and
we don't know what to do. That's kind of what
this feels like. She may be the United States Champion.
But what they have done with Julius since she left
NX and came to the main roster to do has
been underwhelming. And I'm being polite when I say that.
They aired a video with a WrestleMania Saudi announcement from

(32:11):
earlier today where everybody was making different comments about how
great it is and the biggest of all time and
all the things that you would expect them to say
to build up an announcement like this. More on all
this this Sunday on SoundOff nine twenty nine. Then we
got an Alistair Black video where he warned that he

(32:32):
is the sickness and the cure for Damian Priest, who
he beat on last week's show. They can keep fighting
because of Priest's code and die by it, and he
calls himself the profit of violence. After this, we had
our second championship match of the evening, Tiffany Stratton defending

(32:52):
the WWE Women's Championship against Jade Cargill. This was a
rematch from SummerSlam. Aid immediately went for a pump kick,
Stratton avoided it. Jade tried to lift her up got
met with a high dropkick, so Cargil got the advantage
with a power slam, followed that up with a supplex
attempt that Tiffany was able to avoid. Jade ended up

(33:14):
outside the ring, which allowed Tiffany to vault over the
top rope with a dive that took us into the
commercial break. So Jay delivered a fallaway slam coming out
of the brake, kicked right back up to her feet.
Stratton fired back with a spinebuster. Both women are down.
Jade attempts a power bomb. Stratton, though, reverses into a
head scissors. Tiffany did a flipping back elbow, you know,

(33:38):
the handspring elbow that she does, and a double stomp.
She finished the combo off with a top rope swanton
bomb for a near fall. And again, I know I've
said this before, she does the swan tom bomb and
she waits until the last possible second to tuck her
head on the landing. And and I'm just telling you

(34:01):
she every time she does that, she is tempting fate.
It looks like she's doing she's about to face plan
like a javelin, right into the mat. Tiffany set up
for the prettiest moon Salt ever. Jade, though was able
to shove her shove her down as she scaled the ropes,
so she had a power bomb out of the corner

(34:22):
and covered for a near fall. Jade went for a
choked slam, Stratton rolled through for two. She followed with
an Alabama slam. Stratton went for another Moon Salt, but
Jade rolled out of the way and she delivered. Jade
did this great looking pumpkick. So now both women were down.
They traded strikes out on the apron. Jade went for

(34:43):
a spear, ended up posting herself shoulder first. Tiffany went
up top, missed the moon Salt to the floor. She
looked like she smacked her head real good on the
landing there. As Jade got up, she speared Tiffany. Both
women went crashing through the time key Deeper's barricade. Meanwhile,
the referee had been counting the entire time. Now both

(35:04):
women are down, referee counts ten throws the match away.
This match is a double count out, and the fans booed.
They were not happy about that. They would be less
happy about what came next because after it was over,
a wild Naya Jacks appeared at ringside. She attacked both women.
She sent Jade into the ring steps and then delivered

(35:25):
a Samoan drop on the floor. Then she brought Stratton
into the ring and hit an annihilator, and so at
the end of this Women's Championship match, the last woman
standing at the end of all this was Nya jacks
So we're back to Nya Jackson, Tiffity Stratton with a
little sprinkle of Jade Cargill thrown in there. So there's

(35:46):
a triple threat match incoming very soon. I don't know
that they're going to add that to the Wrestle Polooza card.
They could, but it just feels like probably going to
be a SmackDown match at some point. What else do
they have right now? Now? I look at this and
I grown, just because we've been there, done that with

(36:06):
all three of these women, but especially Tiffany and Naya,
and even some of their matches were not bad matches,
but like, been there, done that, and it just feels
like we're rolling down the hill backwards here. But then
I think, and I look at the roster that they
have on SmackDown with the women right now, and I just,
you know, I kind of throw my hands up in
the air, like, well, what else are they supposed to

(36:27):
do right now. They don't have any depth at the
top of the food chain in this women's division on
Friday nights. Bianca Belle air is, I don't know if
she's cleared and they're just waiting for a chance to
bring her back if she's still not cleared with the finger,
I don't know what's going on there. All I know
is that she has been out of the ring since
April and she has been sorely missed on this show,

(36:49):
at least by me, she has. And even if they
were to get her back very soon, it's still not enough.
I mean, there are changes that have to be made here,
whether it's moving one or two people over from Raw,
whether it's calling one or two people up from NXT,
because it's not like they have, you know, a lack
of female talent in the pipeline down there. Soul Ruka

(37:11):
could be on SmackDown right now, Jordan Grace could absolutely
be on SmackDown right now. Blake Monroe could be on
SmackDown right now. Take your pick. You don't need all three,
you know, one to start would be okay, that would
be nice, But they've got to make some changes here
because the women's title scene on this show really for

(37:32):
both titles, very very weak. And it's too bad about
the finish here because I actually thought they were having
a good match before that. I would even put it
slightly above the match they had at Summer Slam, although
they were very similar matches and about the same length.
This one might have been a couple minutes longer if

(37:52):
I had one thing I could compliment them on. They
were able to hold off on sending Naya out there
until the match was already over. Not that it was
much better than a double count out finish, but Naya
did not interfere in the match. They waited until the
match was over, and then she came out and did
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(41:07):
This walked out of his office, he was accosted by
Chelsea Green and Alba Fire who were leaning up against
the wall waiting for him to come out, and they
demanded a women's tag Team Championship match, and all This
proposed that the two of them faced the winners of
the tag team title match that is taking place next
Tuesday at the NXT homecoming show. NXT is back at

(41:29):
Full Sale University for those who don't know, that's the
period where I first started watching NXT full time and
became an NXT fan, the old Full Sale days. They're
going to be back there. It's kind of like an
anniversary show on Tuesday, and Charlotte and Alexa are going
to be defending the women's tag team titles against the

(41:49):
Culling Tatum Paxley an isy Dame. So he said, the
winners of that match, you guys can get them for
the tag team titles, and they were very happy about that.
Where is Piper Niven She's still gone, She's still missing.
There's something going on with Piper nivin. I don't know
what it is, but there's definitely something going on there.

(42:12):
After this, they aired a long video package on the
history between John Cena and Brock Lesner, and this was
narrated by Joe tessitour like something you would see before
a big boxing fight on ESPN if they were doing
some sort of history package, and it covered their beginnings

(42:33):
in OVW. They even had some training footage of them
in the ring at OVW training together and shaking hands
at one point. They covered the move for each to WWE,
their Backlash match from two thousand and three, Lesner's exit
from the company in two thousand and four, and Seina
taking the torch as the face of the company after
he left, and they promoted Part two will be coming

(42:56):
up on the show next week, which is going to
be twenty four hours before Wressell Palooza. So it was
a good history lesson, especially for fans who may not
be familiar with their past together. But this one segment
was better than anything that John Cena or Brock Lesnar
themselves have done in the last few weeks to actually

(43:19):
promote this match at Wressell Palooza. It just shouldn't be
that way. You know, they're just relying on their star power,
That's really all it is. They're relying on the fact
that they have history together, two major names, a lot
of star power there, Brock's first match back in over
two years. There. It is by the show like they

(43:39):
have done the absolute bare minimum, and even that I
don't even think they clear that benchmark in terms of
what they've done with these two. So the video package here,
the history lesson they gave us was better than all
of that, all the segments they've been a part of
put together. It's pathetic. They went backstage in Vegas where
raymus Steer was he was being interviewed. This was at

(44:02):
the World's Collide Show, which again is taking place as
we speak right now. As he was being interviewed, Dominic
Mysterio walked in said that he would be the first
Mysterio to be the Mega Champion. He told his deadbeat
Dad that if he wins, I need you to come
out and put the title strap the title around my waist.

(44:22):
So Ray said sure if you win, and Dom said
when he wins. So Ray left and Finn Baalor walked
in because Finn Balor has a match on the show
as well, and Balor said that Dom would prove that
he's the greatest luchador of all time when he won
the title alone. Good luck. They closed the show. Is

(44:46):
the end of SmackDown already? They closed the show with
Randy Orton one on one against Drew McIntyre. Orton set
McIntyre crashing into the outside or crashing outside with a
clothes line out over the top. They went to a
break early in the match. During the break, Orton was
in the ring and he's shaking his leg out and
he's teasing that he may have tweaked his knee. Might

(45:06):
be some issue there with the knee. So Orton hit
some Garvin stumps and a running knee drop. He grabbed
at his knee again. McIntyre noticed this. He took control
by kicking the leg and then delivering a chop block.
He drove his shoulder into the bad knee he applied
a figure four. Orton reversed the hole to reverse the pressure.

(45:27):
McIntyre was able to roll to the ropes. The action
spilled outside. They battled near the announced desk. McIntyre suplexed
Orton onto the announced desk and then hit another chop
block on the floor, and that took us into yet
another commercial break. McIntyre continued to target the bad knee.
He went for another figure four. Orton, though, shoved him

(45:48):
into the ring post and he hit a power slam
and the crowd fired up. Orton set up for a
draping DDT. McIntyre escaped to the floor. Orton followed him out.
He returned the favor superlex back and tire onto the
announced desk, and then he did it again after the
crowd chatted one more time, so he obliged. Orton was

(46:09):
very sluggish getting back in the ring, kind of like
the pace of this match, and McIntyre delivered a Claymore kick,
but he rolled to the floor. Orton came back. He
delivered an RKO after McIntyre tossed him back into the ring,
but then drew rolled to the apron, so Orton pulled
him back in with a draping DDT and then he
got that look in his eyes, got that look in

(46:32):
his eyes. He set up for the punt kick, but
the referee jumped in the way to stop him. McIntyre
used that distraction to shove Orton towards the referee in
the corner. Orton stopped short so he didn't squash him.
But then he turned around right into another Claymore and
Drew McIntyre pins Randy Orton. So after the match is over,

(46:55):
Drew set up Orton next to the announced desk. He
was going to go for a third Claymore kick, but
he had him set up kind of by the bottom part.
He was gonna do to him what he did to
Cody Rhads. Enter Cody Roads, They hit his music and
outcomes Gile himself, the WWE champion. Done with filming, time

(47:16):
to get back to this wrestling thing. He charges down
to the ring, sprints down to the ring. You know,
I have to say, how very nice of him to
wait in the back very patiently all night, all match
until we had ninety seconds left in this show to
finally make his grand return, just sitting in the gorilla

(47:38):
position the entire time, having a snack watching the show.
Finally he comes out. He sprints into the rings, a
very patient man. He sprints into the ring, he attacks McIntyre.
He drops him with a Cody cutter. Cody then took
the mic said the champ is back and he would
see McIntyre at Wressel Paulooza. Emphasize, he really emphasized the

(48:00):
Palooza part Wressell Palooza. So that match is now official.
It'll be Cody Rhoades defending the WWE Championship on that
show against Drew McIntyre. We got a good fifteen minutes
or so here of working the knee. We got fifteen
minutes of working the body part. And for all of

(48:20):
those fifteen minutes of working the knee, it did not
even play a role in the finish of this match.
I don't know what the point of that was. I
really don't. I don't. It's not even like when Orton
went for the punk kick he kind of tripped because
the knee gave out on him. Nope, fifteen minutes of
working on the knee and it didn't even factor into
anything in the end. There was nothing. And look, there's

(48:42):
nothing wrong with working a body part in the match.
I mean, Orton has certainly made a career out of
that type of ring psychology, and there's nothing inherently wrong
with that. But I just thought here, it made for
a very dull match. You know, you do the methodical
tight match and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

(49:04):
This was a solid match, but it really you know,
for a big match like this, it wasn't anything out
of the ordinary that you wouldn't see in your average
SmackDown main event. I expected the Cody return here. That
was not a surprise. He had to return here. They
had no choice if they're going to have him wrestling
at Wressell Paluza, which of course they're going to because

(49:25):
he's the WWE champion. It's your first ESPN show. Why
the hell would he not be on that show. If
you're going to have him wrestling and defending the title
on that show tonight, he had to come back. Next
week is too late, you know, you need at least
one more week to promote that match. So he came back.
He made the save for Orton before Orton was going

(49:45):
to get his head caved in and Drew was going
to do the same thing to him that he had
done to Cody, and then Cody made the match official.
Question now is what role, if any, does Randy Orton
play in this match at Wressell Paloozo. Right? Maybe he does,
maybe he doesn't. I don't know. But as far as
this show here, look some solid inring action on the
show with this and the women's title match. But honestly,

(50:09):
the only things of any real note were the Sammy's
Ain match, which was excellent, and the return of Cody Rhoades,
which they rushed through at the very end, literally the
last ninety seconds of the show. They rushed through it.
They were right at the very end. Other than that,
not much to the show. Very disappointed with their use

(50:29):
of brock Lesner here. You know, look when the best
thing I can say about it is that he split
his pants and laughed about it. I mean that pretty
much tells you everything you need to know about their
use of brock Lesnar on this show. What did you
think of SmackDown from Norfolk, Virginia. Here's the Twitter poll
right now, sixty six point six soh oh the mark

(50:52):
of the Beast sixty sixty six thirty three point four
percent thumbs down. So that is the pole so far.
Let's go through super chats and then we got some

(51:12):
to go through here Gile Guile from Street Fighter. We
are at two hundred and eighty two likes, so be
the booker will not be happening tonight. Very disappointing. Let's
see here. Well again, I mentioned Boots at the beginning.
Boots had that big one bombs, so Boots, who may

(51:34):
or may not be passed out at this point. I
don't know where he is, but Boots, thank you, brother.
I can find your message here there it is. It
may be the surveysa talking, but I get a kick
out of Ludwig Kai, I mean Grande Americano singing Si

(51:56):
Alito Lindo. I could use the surveysor right about now,
Joseph Stewart buy or sell Woody or buzz Lightyear. Joseph
just thought this was such an exciting show tonight on
USA Network that he decided, you know what I'm gonna

(52:20):
ask about toy Story and Woody and buzz Lightyear. Boots
on the floor, Yeah, Steve says, Boots on the floor.
Oh man, me, I gotta go buzz light Year. I

(52:41):
think buzz light Year is cool. How different would Sid's
career have been if he was the one to beat
Vader at Stark ninety three for the world title. You
know what, I honestly don't think it would have made
that much of a difference. I think that there would
have been some inevitable falling out, he would have left,
he would have ended up in WWE, and he would

(53:02):
have won the championship there. I don't see Sid as
the world champion at that point in time in WCW,
leading to some sort of business resurgence for WCW. I
don't think it would have changed his career radically. What
is your favorite Billy Kidman match in WCW? Is that

(53:25):
a trick question? I wish I could tell you that
The implication there is that I have one Holiday one
ninety seven. Hey Solo, what are your thoughts on WrestleMania
being in Saudi and the reports that they're aiming to
bring back Shawn Michaels, Undertaker, Rock and Stone Cold for
this pay per view? Well? I will talk more about

(53:47):
it on Sunday, but I think that is very stupid.
We need to be going forwards, we do not need
to be going backwards. So that part of the report,
which is all rumor right now. A lot of it
came from Meltzer in The Observer, but I think that's
very stupid. I have no interest in seeing really, I mean,

(54:07):
most of those people, frankly back in the ring. And
keep in mind we're talking not even this year or
next year. Two years from now, they'll all be two
years older than they are now. I certainly have no
interest whatsoever in seeing Undertaker back in the ring that
I can tell you. Joseph Stewart, do you remember when
David Flair, Daphne and Crowbar were a trio in WCW

(54:31):
in late nineteen ninety nine. I do, I do, and
I actually covered that in the Dark Side of the
Ring episode on Her that they did on Daphne. He
also says I heard a rumor that Keana James has

(54:51):
heat in WWE backstage. Do you know if it's true.
I've not heard anything like that, so I'm going to say, no,
it is not true. Face Bears will get annual Arabian
WrestleMania's they can afford it. I'll tell you what if
it just boils down to money and nothing else. If
they want WrestleMania five years in a row, if that's

(55:12):
the criteria now then, yeah, they may be the permanent
host of WrestleMania. Joseph Steward, do you remember when Raven
formed a group with Vampiro and the Insane clown Posse
in WW called the Deadpool in late nineteen ninety nine?
I don't. Could Rick Steiner have been w CW champion
like his brother Scott Steiner? No? No, Rick Steiner is

(55:35):
not world championship material. Broley seven, Julia and Tiffany could
be wrestling lyra eo Osca, Becky, Rhea, Kyrie, Roxanne, Get Soul,
Jordan and Fatal Influence on SmackDown from your Lips to
the Wrestling God's Ears. They got to get somebody up there.
Something has to be done. Tiffany's run ever since she

(55:58):
beat Charlotte A WrestleMania has been as forgettable as you
could possibly expect it to be. A completely forgettable run
as champion. Holliday says, where was Jacob Fatu tonight? He's
starting to blend in as another mid upper card guy.

(56:19):
They need to put him in a meaningful storyline. Oh well,
didn't you see Solo Sokoa's video tonight? Solo Soca is
probably gonna be coming after Jacob Fatu. They're gonna run
that back again. I wouldn't be surprised Boots with another
ten will uh here he is has the constant adds

(56:46):
for Canelo versus Crawford. Piqued your interest. I think I
might watch it. Uh No, it has not for me.
But if you watch it, enjoy brother. I don't hear
about too many big boxing fights anymore. They seem to
be few and far between. Stevie Hurley, So would you

(57:07):
call this sweet? Saudi money eight? This takes the cake.
They were doing so many shows. I just I stopped
doing the names a long time ago. This would have
to be like the ultimate nickname that we would have
to come up with. Joseph with the two bucks. Sena done,
I'm done to rest in peace. Wwe rot in Hell? Wow? Well,

(57:31):
I mean there you go. I think that pretty much
sums it up right there, rot in Hell, he says.
Holiday one ninety seven. Thoughts on Dominic mysterio turning on
the Judgment day and joining Seth's faction. This would lead
to an interesting feud between dom and Finn Balor and

(57:54):
give Breaker and read More motive to go after the
tag team titles. So the implication there is that the
judgment day would go babyface. YEH mean live Morgan will
probably end up being a baby face when she comes
back anyway, So I mean, you can make it work
dom in the vision. I don't know if I see

(58:19):
Dom in the vision though, I don't know if I
like that. I mean, your idea could work, though I
don't know that I would do that. Dried Chicken says
time to pop the champagne bottles for WrestleMania forty three
Super Sweet Saudi Mania. Also this five dollars super chat

(58:45):
from him says he would roast Brock on the mic hell.
I'll fight Brock and pissed Tkoh yeah, you do that,
You do that, brother? The sheltered kid. Ever watched Camp WWE?
Did you like it or no? I did? I watched it.
I liked it for the most part. I liked story

(59:06):
Time more though. Storytime was another one of those WWE
network shows, and they actually gave a shit about doing
shows like that. I like that one more mactub Greater,
All Time for you Overall Cain or Seth Cain drive

(59:31):
Shake and says Triple H has turned Julia into a boring, stale,
mundane noodle creative teams should be arrested. Julia has so
much personality in her, it's just a matter of coming
up with the right stories, you know, to kind of
bring it out of her. Mactub has Cody surpassed his

(59:57):
father's legacy for you, No, not yet. Try checking Buy
or Sell disrespected EVP bucks or Morning New Day disrespected
EVP Bucks far more entertaining. Bobby means with Saudi getting
many of forty three, is there a chance of it

(01:00:19):
being live earlier in the day, like around one or
three pop. Well, of course it's gonna be a live show.
So the Saudi shows here usually start I think of one.
I'm expecting Wrestlemandi to start around one or two o'clock
in the afternoon. One of the benefits I suppose for
me it's to watch the show earlier and go live earlier.

(01:00:45):
But as I said before, it opens up opportunity for
other people. We'll cover it more a little more in
depth on the podcast this Sunday. You know, it's it's whatever.
I'm just it's just so deflating seeing the different comments

(01:01:12):
from just so many idiots online today who incorporated of course,
the tribal nature of things, I saw it degenerated into
a wweaw thing. I mean, it's just the typical bullshit
that you would expect to see, you know, in terms
of some of the online discourse. But again, I mean,
nobody should be surprised by the announcement. This is something

(01:01:34):
that was inevitable. It's happening, maybe a little sooner than
I thought it would. I do think it's a slap
in the face for them to get it before the
UK does. But it comes down to dollars and cents,
and there's no way the UK can compete with the
amount of money that we're talking about here, which was
not and never is going to be officially announced, but

(01:01:54):
the belief is that it is. It could be upwards
of two hundred million dollars for one show technically too,
because it's still going to be two nights, but for
one weekend. What other country is going to be able
to compete with that? Right? The UK can't compete with that.
They can't just blindly throw that money around. That's why

(01:02:16):
I said, like, if it literally just comes down to
money and nothing more, it is not out of the
realm of possibility that you know, the Saudis could end
up getting WrestleMania the year after that. Look what happened
with Vegas. Look at what happened with Vegas. They literally
sent the rock out on live television in New Orleans
to announce that WrestleMania forty two was coming to New Orleans.

(01:02:39):
And then they change their mind when they saw how
much money they made this year in Vegas. They couldn't
even wait. We gotta go back to Vegas. Sorry, Nola,
we gotta go back to Vegas. Why money? This is
the first WrestleMania in Saudi. I guarantee you it will
not be the last. We'll talk more about it on Sunday.

(01:03:03):
That's gonna be Episode nine twenty nine of the Sound
of Dried Chicken. Says, imagine Eo Sky doing Darby's coffin
drop in WWE She doesn't have to. She's got her
her beautiful moon salt that she does. She doesn't have
to go around stealing other people's moods. And really, whatever

(01:03:30):
the number is, whether it's one hundred and fifty million,
two hundred million, it could be more, could be two
hundred and fifty million, right, we don't know, but even
one hundred million. It's it's insane, you know, it's crazy.
But they're gonna go where the money is. You know,
fuck everything else. It's just how they operate. Nobody should

(01:03:53):
be surprised. You could be disappointed by it, but nobody
should be surprised by it. But this idea that this
is some sort of game changing type announcement, again, it's
all a matter of semantics here. I fail to see
what's so game changing about this. There's nothing game changing
about this. This was as predictable as predictable could be.

(01:04:14):
They've been running shows in Saudi for years. They've been
doing large stadium shows in international locations for years. Summerslim
has expanded to two nights, Like WrestleMania doesn't mean what
it used to mean. There's nothing game changing about this.
I'll tell you who's game change today. Though maybe you
could argue was their bank account curdly, But again, they

(01:04:36):
make a lot of money off the Saudi shows, so
they'll make a little bit more for WrestleMania. To me,
that doesn't change the game. You know, it changes the
total in their bank account. But in terms of the audience,
when you put out a message like that that it's
a game changer. I fail to see how it really
changes the game for everybody else. Anyway. I know there's

(01:04:56):
a lot of people who are watching World's Collide right now.
I will have to check it out out after myself
Duff's VIDs. I was told yesterday that I was color blind.
The news came right out of the purple, Right out
of the purple. Who is that in the background when
Sammy had his segment with Mellow Was that knock Hima?

(01:05:18):
Was it knockingma? Oh my god? Can you imagine? Can
you imagine fucking knock him? Mora is still lurky. I
did not notice anybody in the background, honestly, so I
can't tell you who it was. But if it was Knockamora,
you have got You've just got to be kidding me.
Oh I see ah haha, Yes, of course, out of

(01:05:39):
the purple. Okay, all right, yes, out of the blue,
out of the purple. I don't know how I miss
that anyway. Be well, stay safe, have yourselves a great
rest of your night. If you're gonna go watch World's Collide,
enjoy whatever I see of World's Collide. We'll review that
and talk about that on Sunday. As well. Uh and
I will see you back here for more live YouTube

(01:06:00):
streaming on Monday night for the raw post show. Until then,
take care, guys,

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