May 13, 2023 • 39 mins
On this week's episode we take a look at WWE BACKLASH 2023 from San Juan, Puerto Rico. This was a pretty solid card with an unexpected match of the night (not the main event). We discuss the matches and where we think the results will take the storylines in the future.
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The Supermedia Bros. Podcast is afounding member of the Odd Pods Media network
Supers. I'm a very fun factto point out about this paper view whenever
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we get into the meat of it. Okay, I bet you can't even
guess what it is by the timewe get to it when we because it
could mean Welcome to episode two hundredseventy but the supermedi Bros. Podcast.
I'm Richie, I'm Devin. We'rehere to talk about Backlash twenty twenty three
from San Juan, Puerto Rico,which I thought was really neat that they
went there because this was the firsttime that they've been in thirty years.
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I thought, it's been a longfucking time. Yeah, And as a
lot of the listeners know, I'mactually really good friends with like three Puerto
Ricans, and I don't know it. It's a very like small thing for
me, but like I know,I'm in the minority, but being able
to watch it with people of thatculture, it was actually like I don't
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know, it just made me feelall warm inside. And the crowd was
fucking hot all night, dude.I think that's why it is, because
like it was so infectious from theTV to then looking at people of the
actual culture and actually did live inthe country. I don't know. It
was just like, wow, dude, seven matches and none of them ended
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any other way than a pinfall.That's the thing, because WWE is notorious
for like, let's just do afucking small's ass DQ or some dumb shit.
I was fucking thoroughly impressed. Theone critique that I actually have for
the event overall isn't even booking either. It's match layout. There's a couple
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of discrepancies, I think, andI think we might both be on the
same page with one of them,and I already know that EGO was involved
in the decision on that one mostlikely. All right, so let's get
into it. We're not going totake too much of your time up because
I know I'm pretty positive there areone, two, three matches we're going
to spend a little more time on, and that's probably being very generous.
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So Bianca bell Air and EO Skyfor the Raw Women's Championship opens the pay
per view, but Bianca gets fuckingbooed and EO Sky becomes like the kind
of like de facto baby face ofthe night, which I thought was really
cool, but like San Juan isa huge wrestling place, so they're gonna
be I am ring for who thefuck they want to see. And I
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noticed like Japanese wrestlers are extremely popular. Yes, over there they are.
And that was actually a mention thatmy friends had given me. And they
were like, they were like,you know, there's some how do I
word this in a PC way ordo I have to completely gloss over it?
Uh? Okay. So this wasall over Twitter too, And then
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here's the thing is like I nevernoticed this, and because I think it's
half bullshit and I think it's justpeople talking shit on the internet, they
tried to say that the crowd wasbeing extremely racist towards Bianca and I'm sitting
here going but you cheered Bobby Lashley. There's no fucking way unless it's just
a thing with women, you knowwhat I'm saying. That's essentially what I
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gathered from my friends because keep themthey're not like that, but they're not
well if they come from there,That's what I was. That's what I
was gonna say. They live thereand they've seen it, so they have
a place to speak upon that Idon't ride, and it is a thing
apparently. Um, yeah, that'sunfortunate. It is. Uh as far
as Bobby goes, I don't know. Um, I guess Bobby is a
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loud to the islands. He hegot invited to the island. He got
invited to the island cook out.Yeah, like damn it, he got
invited to the family reunion. Youknow, I don't know. I'm not
sure. I really don't know.But it's a thing. Yeah, I
mean, it's a thing. Butit's just it's just so fucking wild because
these two put on a fucking hellof a math they did, and Bianca
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now being the longest reigning champ inthe modern era, that's pretty crazy.
Who is longer? You're probably gonnafind Trish, I don't I don't have
it pulled up right here. AndI'm sure somebody out there listening knows this,
Like just leave a comment or somethingalready. Yeah, but dude,
I I know they're going to keepthe strap on Bianca for a good while.
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But god damn, Eo Sky wouldbe a hell of a fucking champ.
Well, my question is, though, Okay, so this is the
pop that she got here, howwould things go everywhere else? Though?
I don't know. I feel likeif you built her right, you'd be
looking at kind of like a JamieHayter situation here, m yeah, where
like you absolutely could. Yeah,that's the whole thing if you play it
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where Bailey is going to fuck oneof them over, because you know that's
what they're trying to plant those seeds. Yes, and the sky being carved
into the back of her hair,right, that was absolutely what I was
looking at whenever you saw that angleof Bailey. Yes, absolutely, for
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sure. Absolutely, I only lookedat her hair right, nothing else.
Yeah, because that definitely wasn't tryingto be a distraction from the what color
was her hair? Again? Dude, who the fuck came up with those
pants? Bro? That was adog. I couldn't help it, shit,
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man, Like, I mean,she did. You want to go
back to her haircut real quick,though, I swear to fuck you know
what. The first thing I thoughtabout was, yeah, yes, but
hocus pocus. You remember the scene? Yes, how many times I gotta
tell you my name? He don'teven know more. It's ice. It's
ice. This is ice, fuckingpoison to bag of his head. I'm
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like, oh my god, whatthe fuck. But god dog like for
real? Come on, Bianca Bellawins the match by a pinfall and ask
me the color of anything? Yeah, exactly. Moving on to Seth Franklin
Rollins. Remember that shit Seth freakingRollins u versus O Moss. Well,
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so Moss's best match. Yeah,And that's saying a lot, because fucking
Seth can make anybody look good.He can um. I often find that
he might a lot of his matches. I find to be over zealous.
He seems to, and I meanthis in both a good and bad way.
It feels like he puts his wholerepertoire in every single match. He
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gets his shit in. He does, he absolutely does, but sometimes it's
to the dismay of himself because thenI'm like, I've seen it right.
I don't know. I would leavea little bit for special occasions or often.
Sure, but that's a nitpick.You know. Seth is very,
very talented, correct, And Ithink what they're doing with this is they
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are not necessarily that Seth needs tobe rebuilt. He's definitely reached that status
where he's big with his name.He doesn't need a championship, but my
god, put a world championship onthis man because he is the workhorse of
this company. Dude. Yeah,this dude. I don't envy the jobs
of whoever had to book this becauseyou've got Omas who has been not a
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losing streak because he wins on rawand whatnot. But like, in terms
of Big five feels, I don'ttake him serious and I don't either,
but he's still greener than Goose.Shit he is. But I'm just saying
he's got the look in the sizeof the town. I don't believe the
character as a thread. I seenthe Beast slay too many times, kind
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of like somebody else, but we'llget there. Yeah. Um, I
don't take that as a genuine threadanymore. But then Seth has also been
on the losing end quite a bit, so it's like he needs this though.
Yeah, and it's weird to saySeth Rawlins needs a victory, right,
It's weird, But it's also like, dude, no matter who won
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this match, it's like, Goddamn it, that other person couldn't really
fuck use that dub buck. Yeah, but here's the thing. The way
they booked it made him look strongin defeat because he stopped the stomp on
the ground and it's like, oh, fuck, now, what do you
do? And then he does itoff the top, which was that was
fucking genius, which I figured thatwas coming, but it was a good
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finish and it made Seth not lookdesperate to win, but it made him
like what the fuck do I haveto do to stop this? Big but
solid for what it was. Itwas ten minutes and thirty seconds long.
Seth takes the victory and rolls intothe Championship tournament, which he won on
Monday Night Raw, and he's gonnaface the winner of the SmackDown half of
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the tournament, which it's so weirdthat they're gonna be like, oh,
we're gonna it's a Raw exclusive title, but we're gonna put the SmackDown guys
in it. You know, Sethis winning it at this fucking point.
Oh yeah, I convinced um zeroout of ten would give it to Randy
Orton instead. Injury or not right, just just presented to him. Yeah,
just like he's just fucking sitting athome and they just knock on his
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door. What do you want?We brought this for you. Whenever you're
ready to come back, Okay,he's just looking like throws it to the
side because he's been awarded it.His reign has begun, so he's officially
like he fucking tops Roman reigns hisreign just sitting out. Yeah. No,
great for Seth. I'm being facetiousjust because Ordon is one of my
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favorites of all time. But no, Seth has got here like I love
Seth same even the gimmicks that I'mnot crazy about that kind of irked me.
I still think he's a very talentedperformer. Absolutely. Moving on to
the triple threat match for the UnitedStates title, Austin Theory versus Bobby Lashley
and Bronson read this was all right, Yeah, it served its purpose.
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It got you know, Austin Theorylike another victory, but like just barely
winning it. Like I thought theway he did it was it was smart
because it looks like, oh,you fucking you know, fucked me over,
like Bobby lash could be like thatwas mine, you fucked me out
of it, and blah blah blah. Well it's because Bobby Lashley hit his
finisher, a couple of finishers,and Austin Theory just happened to be in
the right place. At the righttime and dumped his ass and fucking got
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the pinfall on Bronson. So theystill haven't kind of set up like Lashley's
kind of chasing the title, butAustin Theory just barely makes it out.
Even Austin Theory was kind of hotin this at this event. Absolutely,
I thought all three of these guysdelivered in this. Oh yeah, I'm
talking about crowd reactions, sure,but I mean, like it's Austin Theory
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at this point, Like he's becomingthat tier of a superstar at this point.
How do you feel about him?I'm slowly being sold on him because
they don't have him acting like afucking cocksmith anymore. Like they let him
grow his fucking facial hair out soit doesn't look a goddamn pervert, and
he's starting to Actually, the onlyproblem that I've got with him is he
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cannot talk, no, and heproved that with Cina. He's got a
lot of work to do with thetalking and shit. But he looks good.
He looks like a million dollars.He can wrestle, he can perform.
Got to work on the stick.I want of you or a listener
to create an omnibus of you talkingabout theory from the first time from the
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jump, yes, right, andjust have a super cut of just those
segments. There's a few topics overthe course of the last seven Here's Jesus
Christ. There's a lot of shitover the last seven years that I have
spoken about that, like, Ihave had an opinion on and it has
grown and it has changed, andthat's okay. Oh yeah, And I
know you're I know it's okay,but like, um, I see the
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comedy in it though, Yeah,because like you're the type of person that
whenever you are pissed off or angryabout something in media, you're like,
nope, fuck that guy, fuckthis movie, fuck this band, whatever
the fuck. And then it's likeslowly over timing, like god, damn
it. Fuck, it's not thatbad. Yeah, We've we've had this
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discussion with Stained where you're like,dude, fuck that album, and I'm
like, I love that album.I mean it's not that I guess like
like poor guy. You're like,I'll throw this asshole bone guy. Yeah
right, I mean, at leastthey still got a couple of fucking shit
albums. But it's I disagree.I know you do uh, moving on,
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Austin theory retains in six minutes andfifty seconds, it's the shortest match
of the night, and we're gonnamove on to the second shortest match of
the night, which is Mommy,Sorry, Mommy, I'm sorry, Mommy
sorry. Fuck re Ripley versus ZelenaVega, the hometown queen for the SmackDown
Women's Championship. Oh boy, didZelena Vega get a humongous welcome home.
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And it was fucking dude. Iwas sitting there like for her, just
like, but then we Ripley comesout and I'm like, this bitch losing.
Yeah, ruh. The fact thatpeople thought that they were going to
call in an audible or something,Oh hell no, man, fuck that
shit. Ripley crushed her fucking dreamsin about seven minutes and ten seconds.
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Solid match. But yeah, buthey, Selena got a good, like
fucking standing ovation leaving though. That'sthat's and I have a lot of respect
for because like, Ria, Ripleycould have easily they could have easily booked
it this way, and she couldhave easily like audibled and just healed it
the fuck up and stomped a mudholein her ass and her home fucking town.
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As soon as she wons she gother ship and rolled out of that
fucking ring and let Zelena have hera moment with her fucking family in the
crowd, and shit, h well, it also made Ria look like a
badass who shows like, because Ialways think of that scene from the movie
Warrior. I don't know if you'veever seen it. Yeah, great film.
Yeah, but whenever Tom Hardy's characterjust comes in punches that dude that
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one time, yeah, and thendoes not even do the celebration. He
just walks out of the cave this. Yeah, it just marches back to
the fucking locker room and I'm gonnafight me. Fucking cunt, beats a
piss out of you with one hitand then leaves, not even worth his
time. I'm like, that's fuckingfire, right, And so that whatever
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Riha did that not only was itrespectful to the hometown girl, but also
just that you know, it worksboth ways. It was really cool.
Right, So we're gonna take aquick break, but when we come back,
we're gonna talk about the last threematches, two of which were considered
a co main event and the othermatch was like it was just it felt
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pushing a storyline along, it's stillfelt kind of filler. But we'll explain
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listen, become one of our loyalcommanders. Bunnies can fly and look.
The first co main event the SanJuan Street Fight with Bad Bunny and Damian
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Priest, which in my opinion ismatch of the fucking night. Yeah,
the longest match of the night,as it should be and should have made
evented this fucking thank you, thankyou. Everybody in the room was like,
why the fuck and here's the here'sthe thing, is uh, my
friends' family, you know their dadhas not watched wrestling since he was like
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a kid, and he was like, man, because you know how them
old heads are with wrestling is they'relike, man, this ship is so
corny now, you know, it'snot like in the old days, you
know. I mean, guess ohboy was into it, wasn't he?
Dude about at first He's like,okay, okay, okay, oh oh,
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jaleo this year singer. Because Jealewas like, he's a Bad Bunny
fan, huge, huge, nothingwrong with that Bad Bunny Fox dude.
Oh yeah, Like I'm not shippingon him. Plus, it's it's nice.
I'm sure to finally have like amega star from that community. I'm
sure I'm missing somebody. Bad Bunnyis transcended a lot. Well argier,
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I feel like, oh absolutely,And just the reception he fucking got.
Dude, that whole crowd knew everyfucking lyric to that goddamn song and it
was it was so cool. Ohyeah. But so at first, you
know, the dad was just like, Okay, okay, sure whatever,
that's your boy, all right,I guess I'll watch it with you,
okay, okay, Oh wow whatokay? Oh hell yeah, yeah you
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know, right, right right,And it was just so cool to watch
because it's like I'm seeing it fromthe perspective of my friends who are poor
ricon and it's fun to sort ofsee like their pride and heritage and whatnot,
and then myself as just a purewrestling fan in general, I'm actually
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getting goosebumps on my arms. Butseeing like that passion like ignite in somebody
that has not watched it in yearsand years and years get re lit,
and like that's the shit that Ilive for, the booking, the product,
and the people involved. One somebodyover that was a former fan if
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you will, Yeah, and itwas just it makes me so happy because
like, this is one of myfavorite things of all time. I love
pro wrestling, and man, wheneveryou can get somebody like that, it's
like it's magic. Man, itreally fucking is. And the coolest part
about this is both competitors are ofPuerto Rican descent because Damian Priest is from
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fucking Puerto Rico. And dude,holy shit, when I say that,
I really mean when I say thiswas matching like bad Bunny wins, like
full fucking spoiler, Like obviously forall these matches but Bad Bunny wins and
he looked believable doing the shit.Damian Priest is a fucking made man at
this point. He put this guyover like Bad Bunny has already been super
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mega talented, and they teamed togetherat WrestleMania a couple of years back,
Like, okay, can we canwe talk about the fact that between Bad
Bunny and Logan Paul has this justbeen the era of where the fucking celebrities
that come in to do this shitare good. Dude, it's insane,
yeah, And I mean it's notlike Okay, So obviously, like Rollins
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and Logan had a great match atMania, and obviously Seth helped carry that
match, but Logan stood on hisown very fucking well. Yeah, Bad
Bunny stood on his own very fuckingwell here too, but Damian Priest made
him look like even more of amillion fucking bucks. Dude. It was
so fucking good. And the factthat he Bunny came out with the fucking
WWF jack. Yes, I lovedthat. And if you listen to him
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like talk about rustling, he's likehe knows a ship, dude. Oh
dude, He'll talk about like,oh yeah, Ever since I was a
little kid, and it doesn't feellike you know, some celebrities whenever they
come out they're like, yeah,whenever I was a little kid, but
you kind of get the feeling ofyeah, when you were a kid,
right exactly. Bad Bunny strikes meas a type who's like, no,
I never fell off, So I'velike, oh, he's been right or
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died the whole time. Yeah,and that's so fucking cool to me.
Right. And Damian Priest, onthe other hand, like I keeps saying
that he made him look like amillion dollars, but Damian Priest at this
point being put in this position,he's a top player now. He is
absolutely like he's reached, Like thisdude needs to be in the world title
picture at some point because he's thatfucking good. He's good at the selling,
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he's good at the aggression, he'she's safe in the ring. It
looks like for the most part,because I mean there's a couple of spots
where, Bro, when Bad Bunnywent to do that fucking slice of bread
number two out of the corner,he landed on his own fucking head,
I was like, oh, doyou think them not putting this last was
Bad Bunny saying like no, no, no, no, that's for them.
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Fuck no, this was brock Lessner'sego. See, I was thinking
it was Bad Bunny's lack of ego, or or maybe he was like,
no, I have engagements. Ihave to be in this country at this
time. That's also a possibility.I mean that sure, but I really
feel like brock Lessner politicked that shipto be man of him, because you
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know, he was like I openedMania, fuck off. Yeah, I
hate to be that way. Iknow Lessner works with whoever he works with,
and he's all about business. ButI feel like, at this point,
think about how that match win.But also the match was so short.
I know we'll move into it ina minute. I just feel like
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I feel like brock is also thetype he's liked. Just let me be
in and out. I don't care. I don't know. He's had too
many like minute mongs thirty minute longsto really count. Where it's like depends
on who he's working with. Yeah, but Bad Bunny goes over in a
big way in this street fight,and everybody wins this outcome. Everybody wins
with this outcome, and twenty fiveminutes only fuck great match. If it
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ended right there, it'd be likenine to ten out of ten. Yeah.
Absolutely, it was wonderful event.Moving on to the Bloodline, which
is Solo, Sakoa and Jay andJimmy USO versus Matt Riddle, Kevin Owens
and Sammy Zane in a six mantag. Look, this is meant to
just continue the entire Bloodline story andkind of put some cracks in it a
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little more, because now you're seeingJay and Solo kind of start bickering.
Jay is still pissed off at Sammy'ssaying like, this is your fault.
You're breaking my family apart. Itlooks like all your fault and ship.
But I feel like at this point, Kevin and Sammy or They're just kind
of there now with this storyline becausenow that they've been removed and they've removed
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the Tag Championships, the cracks arealready formed, and now the Bloodline can
start doing this storyline continuing without anybodyelse that they really wanted to. Yeah,
and I'm very interested to see wherethis goes. Yeah, Like I
gave up on predicting anything Bloodline related, because just when I think I know
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exactly what's coming, they always doa quick little shift, even if we
get to the same destination. It'slike, no, but there's always going
to be that one little thing thatgets in the way or changes it.
Do you still feel like at somepoint that I know we're about to just
predict it here, which, bythe the Bloodline wins this match. No
things in small part to Solosokoa pickingthe victory up, but common thing.
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But yes, But here's what Ithink. So there is a lot of
tension between Jay and Solo right now. One or two outcomes are going to
happen. Jay Ouso becomes the oddman out and kind of sees what Sammuel
was trying to tell him the wholetime, and maybe humbly is like I'm
fucking sorry. Maybe they men fencessomehow, which that's a far stretch.
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The outcome I think that will behappening is that Solo Socoa becomes baby face
and breaks off from the fucking group. That's what I would prefer, even
though us being the one would belong term booking accidentally, because keep in
mind it was the first one topin Roman reigns period, right. But
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I mean it's so tough because it'slike well, that's fucking perfect. But
then I've said it for a whilenow, Solo Socoa being Solo like it's
in his fucking name, right andpull the trigger, kids, got it?
He really does. He's definitely gotthe charisma and the look, and
you can tell the crowd wants tobe behind him if they go this route.
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It's you're going to strike gold witheither direction you go in. And
that's what's so amazing about the bloodline, Like, I love it. Yep,
it's definitely gonna be one of theother. But I don't know which
one. Yeah, I think time'sgonna tell that one. And I'm glad
to say that. I'm glad tosay I don't know which one. Me
too, because I don't like itwhen it's predictable. I like being fooled
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and I like being swerved, andI like being caught off guard. That's
what makes it, that's what makeswrestling magic point being we're excited about this
fucking storyline eventually reaching its crescendo andthen seeing where the aftermath takes it from
there. Yeah, because here's thething WrestleMania forty is. Whenever I think
that's when Cody gets the big one. Yes, that's what I think is
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going to happen. But my questionis, then, what what do you
have for him? I think anyand everything at that point, because you
could have the fallout of maybe therest of the Bloodlines try to challenge him
to fucking win the goddamn honor beinghead of the table by getting the championship.
That is good. Yeah, speakingof you want to go to the
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main goddamn renda dude. So intwenty two minutes, the Bloodline picks up
the victory and then we move onto the nine minute and forty second main
event of Cody Rhodes versus brock Lessner. Now, I really liked how Cody
was like, fuck this, I'mgonna kick your ass before the bell rings,
because let's be honest. A lotof people and I saw this,
a lot of people on Twitter werelike, so Cody in the interview called
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brock Lessner a coward, but yethe's doing this shit And I'm like,
no, but look at anybody elsethat has literally done this to brock because
they know the fucking guy he is. When that bell rings, he's gonna
fuck you up. Yeah, Solet's get to the Christindo of the match,
because one thing I do like aboutLessner is when he works with guys
that are a little smaller than him, he works with them. You get
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a wrestling match out of Brock wheneveryou do that. And you want to
know something, though, I oftenforget just how big Cody is. Seeing
him next to Lesner, though,I was like, no, that's a
beefy boy. Cody put on likefifteen pounds a muscle he did. I'm
not saying that. I'm just sayinglike, it's easy to forget right until
(29:15):
you get that like that ratio.Yeah, dude, but it looks good
side by side. It looks believablethat Cody Rhodes would both be able to
mount some offense but have really bigtrouble with the follow up or even just
like you know, now, it'snot that I ever doubted him as world
(29:36):
champion. I never did. I'mjust saying, like, you look at
I mean, it's like that isthe guy, like you can tell,
oh, absolutely, Cody Rhodes isprobably this company's best hope in producing a
Hogan Austin Sena rains person to kindof maybe take the flag and go with
(29:57):
it, because the dude has theLook, he's got the fan base,
he's he's so over with the kids. It's so crazy. He's a fucking
dad bro. Like, you don'tknow what I'm saying. It is so
crazy that you were talking about HoganAustin Rock Rains and then I was just
like, dude, I remember wheneveryou and I went to WrestleMania years ago
(30:18):
and you could stand Rains and Iwas indifferent to him at the time,
and it's like, Wow, thisguy has really turned it around. He's
so good now. That's what I'msaying. When they let him whenever,
they stopped trying to write him andlet Roman Rains just be himself, that's
what sold me on him. Theylet his attitude just kind of take over
the ring, and I'm like,that's that's the ship I wanted. Yeah,
(30:41):
nobody wants any of these dudes forceddown their throat, even Cody.
I don't want him forced down.What they're doing with him is right,
Yeah, they're making him chase thatship because Cody Rhodes works the very best
as the white hot baby face thatfights from underneath, as the underdog.
That's why he works in WWE insteadof an A E. W he's a
big shark in the e W inw W E, he's smaller comparatively speaking,
(31:06):
superstar satisfied. I mean, he'sgetting he's over as fuck. But
putting him in there with Brains andLessner and all these other fucking dudes that
have been or even Seth dude,for him to have a one on one
with Seth Rawlins at last year's Manyand it'd be as good as it was
was a big fucking deal. Butanyway to get to the meat and potatoes
of this match, the caliber ofthe match is really good because Lessner is
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over as a heel. That's thething I'd like about Brock is if he's
over as a phase, he's wayover. If he's over as a heel,
he's way over. There's no inbetween with him. They were very
physical to the point and this iswhat I want to break up. Lessner
got split open the hard way withan exposed turnbuckle, and I knew that
was going to happen. The momentthat he ripped the padding off, I
was like, oh, that gettingused. And whenever he went into that
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motherfucker with no man, he rawdogged it. That motherfucker's pink and he
fucking like headbutted the ship out ofit. He did, he did to
himself what I did trying to loadyour fucking crossbow in my apartment. Dude,
I remember that. That shit fuckingrocked my face. I still have
a scar from that. The roomgot real quiet in that moment. The
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room got real spinny in that moment. I just say it. But point
being is he he laced his goddamnface wide open, and dude, it
poured it. Did you notice howmuch of a hot minute it took for
the ref to put his fucking gloveson, and how much he fucking bled,
(32:35):
and how much Cody just saw thatshit and got the biggest boner you've
ever seen in your life because hejust seen that ship and he said,
rubbed it all his fucking chest likehe fucking started like jacking off with it.
And shit, Cody lives for that, man, he does. I'm
surprised that he didn't get busted opentoo. Well. Here's the thing.
I think it's because Lessner has morepool with that shit. Yeah, he's
(32:58):
probably got enough money to pay thefine if they did find him for that
third leap the endeavor deal, mI feel like they may have been like,
we're gonna be a little more lenientwith the blood flow now because we
house UFC, and I know fora fact that part of that deal endeavor
wants the WWE to present more likea sports brand than a fucking sports entertainment
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brand, which I'm all for.So if that means that we get a
little bit of bloodshit, it's bestfor business at this point. Because the
way the match ended was that whenLester saw his own blood, he started
beating the piss out of Cody,like Cody got to drop on him maybe
thirty seconds. Then Lesser was like, oh, nobody makes me bleed my
own blood. Motherfucker beat his ass, put him in a fucking Kamora lock,
(33:45):
and the literal most unexpected finish ofthe match, Cody like arches over
and fucking rolls Lester into a pinfall. I did not expect that finish,
no, and a lot of peopleon Twitter thought that was a bullshit finish,
and I was like, dude,no, that's probably the best way
to fucking have done him. Yeah, yeah, like you weren't gonna fight
(34:07):
him right now. Look, andit's not the exact same finish, but
The way I look at it iswhen the way Brett penned Steve Austin at
Survivor Series ninety six, he beathim by fucking just using his own weight
and momentum against him, and thefact that Austin was so hell bent on
trying to beat him that he wouldn'tlet go of that hold. That's the
same thing that happened with Brock.He was so pissed off trying to beat
(34:29):
Cody and break his arm, hedidn't let go of the hold. Cody
Rhodes wins at nine minutes and fortyseconds. What a match though, and
Cody just rolls out in Hal's ass. He's like, fuck this, I
gotta go. I got kids,I have a child. But but the
(34:50):
paper he just kind of goes offair and it's like, yeah, I
to say that I was underwhelmed withthe ending is unfa because it's like there
was nothing wrong with the show.It's just I would have put it in
a different place. Yeah, Iwould have absolutely maybe had Roads and Lessener
(35:10):
like second to last. But here'sthe thing. I feel like Lessner and
Cody were the only two people thatknew that that bloodshed was gonna happen,
and they were like, we don'twant to make a cleanup crew for the
Yeah, yeah, that's true.Yeah, but I mean overall excited to
see where this goes. Yeah.I know Roads and Lessner are far from
(35:31):
over because on Raw the next night, Lessner came out and laid him out
again and was like, I'm I'mgonna fucking fight you and and Saudi and
it's like, all right, dude, a a champions. These two were
gonna fight. As as as Lessnersaid, he's like, I'm looking for
a fight like he was. Hesounded like Neville from Harry Potter. That
(35:51):
motherfucker sat there beat this ship outof Cody and he's just like you.
I love when Brock does your vocalthings you're talking about like that or no,
the one I'm talking about right,yes, or the one whenever he
broke into Triple H's office. Idon't even remember what he said, but
(36:13):
it was something that just maybe fuckingcackle and then his infamous I'm coming and
I'm just gonna keep coming that thatwhole fucking thing, that whole goddamn fucking
thing. Dude. I love Brock. I give him a hard time sometimes
because he's brock but yeah, butat the end of the day, the
man is accidentally hilarious. He is. But then you watch him in interviews
(36:36):
and he's such a nice he's sofucking laid back. He's just a goddamn
farmer. He's just a farmer fromfucking Minnesota. Dude. He just wants
to fuck his wife and plow thegoddamn field all day with his tractor.
There were two instances that really wonme over with Brockles or the human one
of which was I don't remember whoit was for, but it was a
it was some kind of interview andthey were in the middle of the fucking
(36:58):
field walking around, was snowing,and he was and like it was breezing
cold. Like the news anchor waslike, dude, it's it's so cold,
and he was just like, yeah, I'm gonna let you talk to
my wife and I'm gonna stay outhere and enjoy this beautiful weather. And
I was just like, I don'tknow what it is. He's just a
country boy man. I was justlike, I like you, you're cool,
(37:22):
right, You're just vibing. Andthen there was that and the Pack
McAfee interview, right that's that's areally good interview action. Yeah, like
and just how personal he can be. Right, Hopefully Cody Rhodes gets kind
of um, he's gonna have afew transitional feuds before he gets his way
(37:43):
back around to the championship. I'msure, yeah, and he should,
yeah, because the big stories hegot screwed out of the championship tournament that
seth Rawlins had one, which youknow, that's a whole different story.
But again, just interested to seewhere all these storylines go. And I'm
actually very much looking forward to Nightof champions Oh for sure, come back
next week. We are actually goingto be attending the XFL Championship game in
(38:07):
San Antonio. Is the DC Defendersgoing one on one with the Arlington Renegades,
And holy fuck, I hope theRenegades stunt that ass. I don't
know if it's going to happen,about it, I hope. I would
not put money on that, butto be fair, I would not have
put money on the Orlando Guardians beingthe only team to have defeated the Defenders.
(38:28):
Yeah, which we'll get into thethe entirety of all this fucking discussion
next week when we talk about it. But holy fuck, that's gonna be
a hell of a drive Saturday.Yeah. Speaking of which, we should
probably get the fuck out of hereso we can get some sleep yep I
work tomorrow. But I'm gonna dolike Laundrne, get the fit ready for
the ga. Hell yeah, I'mgoing in comfort. I don't give a
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could mean Welcome to episode two hundredseventy but the supermedi Bros. Podcast.
I'm Richie, I'm Devin. We'rehere to talk about Backlash twenty twenty three
from San Juan, Puerto Rico,which I thought was really neat that they
went there because this was the firsttime that they've been in thirty years.
(01:12):
I thought, it's been a longfucking time. Yeah, And as a
lot of the listeners know, I'mactually really good friends with like three Puerto
Ricans, and I don't know it. It's a very like small thing for
me, but like I know,I'm in the minority, but being able
to watch it with people of thatculture, it was actually like I don't
(01:34):
know, it just made me feelall warm inside. And the crowd was
fucking hot all night, dude.I think that's why it is, because
like it was so infectious from theTV to then looking at people of the
actual culture and actually did live inthe country. I don't know. It
was just like, wow, dude, seven matches and none of them ended
(01:57):
any other way than a pinfall.That's the thing, because WWE is notorious
for like, let's just do afucking small's ass DQ or some dumb shit.
I was fucking thoroughly impressed. Theone critique that I actually have for
the event overall isn't even booking either. It's match layout. There's a couple
(02:20):
of discrepancies, I think, andI think we might both be on the
same page with one of them,and I already know that EGO was involved
in the decision on that one mostlikely. All right, so let's get
into it. We're not going totake too much of your time up because
I know I'm pretty positive there areone, two, three matches we're going
to spend a little more time on, and that's probably being very generous.
(02:42):
So Bianca bell Air and EO Skyfor the Raw Women's Championship opens the pay
per view, but Bianca gets fuckingbooed and EO Sky becomes like the kind
of like de facto baby face ofthe night, which I thought was really
cool, but like San Juan isa huge wrestling place, so they're gonna
be I am ring for who thefuck they want to see. And I
(03:02):
noticed like Japanese wrestlers are extremely popular. Yes, over there they are.
And that was actually a mention thatmy friends had given me. And they
were like, they were like,you know, there's some how do I
word this in a PC way ordo I have to completely gloss over it?
Uh? Okay. So this wasall over Twitter too, And then
(03:23):
here's the thing is like I nevernoticed this, and because I think it's
half bullshit and I think it's justpeople talking shit on the internet, they
tried to say that the crowd wasbeing extremely racist towards Bianca and I'm sitting
here going but you cheered Bobby Lashley. There's no fucking way unless it's just
a thing with women, you knowwhat I'm saying. That's essentially what I
(03:44):
gathered from my friends because keep themthey're not like that, but they're not
well if they come from there,That's what I was. That's what I
was gonna say. They live thereand they've seen it, so they have
a place to speak upon that Idon't ride, and it is a thing
apparently. Um, yeah, that'sunfortunate. It is. Uh as far
as Bobby goes, I don't know. Um, I guess Bobby is a
(04:08):
loud to the islands. He hegot invited to the island. He got
invited to the island cook out.Yeah, like damn it, he got
invited to the family reunion. Youknow, I don't know. I'm not
sure. I really don't know.But it's a thing. Yeah, I
mean, it's a thing. Butit's just it's just so fucking wild because
these two put on a fucking hellof a math they did, and Bianca
(04:30):
now being the longest reigning champ inthe modern era, that's pretty crazy.
Who is longer? You're probably gonnafind Trish, I don't I don't have
it pulled up right here. AndI'm sure somebody out there listening knows this,
Like just leave a comment or somethingalready. Yeah, but dude,
I I know they're going to keepthe strap on Bianca for a good while.
(04:55):
But god damn, Eo Sky wouldbe a hell of a fucking champ.
Well, my question is, though, Okay, so this is the
pop that she got here, howwould things go everywhere else? Though?
I don't know. I feel likeif you built her right, you'd be
looking at kind of like a JamieHayter situation here, m yeah, where
like you absolutely could. Yeah,that's the whole thing if you play it
(05:17):
where Bailey is going to fuck oneof them over, because you know that's
what they're trying to plant those seeds. Yes, and the sky being carved
into the back of her hair,right, that was absolutely what I was
looking at whenever you saw that angleof Bailey. Yes, absolutely, for
(05:38):
sure. Absolutely, I only lookedat her hair right, nothing else.
Yeah, because that definitely wasn't tryingto be a distraction from the what color
was her hair? Again? Dude, who the fuck came up with those
pants? Bro? That was adog. I couldn't help it, shit,
(05:59):
man, Like, I mean,she did. You want to go
back to her haircut real quick,though, I swear to fuck you know
what. The first thing I thoughtabout was, yeah, yes, but
hocus pocus. You remember the scene? Yes, how many times I gotta
tell you my name? He don'teven know more. It's ice. It's
ice. This is ice, fuckingpoison to bag of his head. I'm
(06:19):
like, oh my god, whatthe fuck. But god dog like for
real? Come on, Bianca Bellawins the match by a pinfall and ask
me the color of anything? Yeah, exactly. Moving on to Seth Franklin
Rollins. Remember that shit Seth freakingRollins u versus O Moss. Well,
(06:44):
so Moss's best match. Yeah,And that's saying a lot, because fucking
Seth can make anybody look good.He can um. I often find that
he might a lot of his matches. I find to be over zealous.
He seems to, and I meanthis in both a good and bad way.
It feels like he puts his wholerepertoire in every single match. He
(07:04):
gets his shit in. He does, he absolutely does, but sometimes it's
to the dismay of himself because thenI'm like, I've seen it right.
I don't know. I would leavea little bit for special occasions or often.
Sure, but that's a nitpick.You know. Seth is very,
very talented, correct, And Ithink what they're doing with this is they
(07:28):
are not necessarily that Seth needs tobe rebuilt. He's definitely reached that status
where he's big with his name.He doesn't need a championship, but my
god, put a world championship onthis man because he is the workhorse of
this company. Dude. Yeah,this dude. I don't envy the jobs
of whoever had to book this becauseyou've got Omas who has been not a
(07:50):
losing streak because he wins on rawand whatnot. But like, in terms
of Big five feels, I don'ttake him serious and I don't either,
but he's still greener than Goose.Shit he is. But I'm just saying
he's got the look in the sizeof the town. I don't believe the
character as a thread. I seenthe Beast slay too many times, kind
(08:11):
of like somebody else, but we'llget there. Yeah. Um, I
don't take that as a genuine threadanymore. But then Seth has also been
on the losing end quite a bit, so it's like he needs this though.
Yeah, and it's weird to saySeth Rawlins needs a victory, right,
It's weird, But it's also like, dude, no matter who won
(08:31):
this match, it's like, Goddamn it, that other person couldn't really
fuck use that dub buck. Yeah, but here's the thing. The way
they booked it made him look strongin defeat because he stopped the stomp on
the ground and it's like, oh, fuck, now, what do you
do? And then he does itoff the top, which was that was
fucking genius, which I figured thatwas coming, but it was a good
(08:54):
finish and it made Seth not lookdesperate to win, but it made him
like what the fuck do I haveto do to stop this? Big but
solid for what it was. Itwas ten minutes and thirty seconds long.
Seth takes the victory and rolls intothe Championship tournament, which he won on
Monday Night Raw, and he's gonnaface the winner of the SmackDown half of
(09:18):
the tournament, which it's so weirdthat they're gonna be like, oh,
we're gonna it's a Raw exclusive title, but we're gonna put the SmackDown guys
in it. You know, Sethis winning it at this fucking point.
Oh yeah, I convinced um zeroout of ten would give it to Randy
Orton instead. Injury or not right, just just presented to him. Yeah,
just like he's just fucking sitting athome and they just knock on his
(09:39):
door. What do you want?We brought this for you. Whenever you're
ready to come back, Okay,he's just looking like throws it to the
side because he's been awarded it.His reign has begun, so he's officially
like he fucking tops Roman reigns hisreign just sitting out. Yeah. No,
great for Seth. I'm being facetiousjust because Ordon is one of my
(10:03):
favorites of all time. But no, Seth has got here like I love
Seth same even the gimmicks that I'mnot crazy about that kind of irked me.
I still think he's a very talentedperformer. Absolutely. Moving on to
the triple threat match for the UnitedStates title, Austin Theory versus Bobby Lashley
and Bronson read this was all right, Yeah, it served its purpose.
(10:26):
It got you know, Austin Theorylike another victory, but like just barely
winning it. Like I thought theway he did it was it was smart
because it looks like, oh,you fucking you know, fucked me over,
like Bobby lash could be like thatwas mine, you fucked me out
of it, and blah blah blah. Well it's because Bobby Lashley hit his
finisher, a couple of finishers,and Austin Theory just happened to be in
the right place. At the righttime and dumped his ass and fucking got
(10:48):
the pinfall on Bronson. So theystill haven't kind of set up like Lashley's
kind of chasing the title, butAustin Theory just barely makes it out.
Even Austin Theory was kind of hotin this at this event. Absolutely,
I thought all three of these guysdelivered in this. Oh yeah, I'm
talking about crowd reactions, sure,but I mean, like it's Austin Theory
(11:11):
at this point, Like he's becomingthat tier of a superstar at this point.
How do you feel about him?I'm slowly being sold on him because
they don't have him acting like afucking cocksmith anymore. Like they let him
grow his fucking facial hair out soit doesn't look a goddamn pervert, and
he's starting to Actually, the onlyproblem that I've got with him is he
(11:31):
cannot talk, no, and heproved that with Cina. He's got a
lot of work to do with thetalking and shit. But he looks good.
He looks like a million dollars.He can wrestle, he can perform.
Got to work on the stick.I want of you or a listener
to create an omnibus of you talkingabout theory from the first time from the
(11:54):
jump, yes, right, andjust have a super cut of just those
segments. There's a few topics overthe course of the last seven Here's Jesus
Christ. There's a lot of shitover the last seven years that I have
spoken about that, like, Ihave had an opinion on and it has
grown and it has changed, andthat's okay. Oh yeah, And I
know you're I know it's okay,but like, um, I see the
(12:16):
comedy in it though, Yeah,because like you're the type of person that
whenever you are pissed off or angryabout something in media, you're like,
nope, fuck that guy, fuckthis movie, fuck this band, whatever
the fuck. And then it's likeslowly over timing, like god, damn
it. Fuck, it's not thatbad. Yeah, We've we've had this
(12:39):
discussion with Stained where you're like,dude, fuck that album, and I'm
like, I love that album.I mean it's not that I guess like
like poor guy. You're like,I'll throw this asshole bone guy. Yeah
right, I mean, at leastthey still got a couple of fucking shit
albums. But it's I disagree.I know you do uh, moving on,
(13:03):
Austin theory retains in six minutes andfifty seconds, it's the shortest match
of the night, and we're gonnamove on to the second shortest match of
the night, which is Mommy,Sorry, Mommy, I'm sorry, Mommy
sorry. Fuck re Ripley versus ZelenaVega, the hometown queen for the SmackDown
Women's Championship. Oh boy, didZelena Vega get a humongous welcome home.
(13:26):
And it was fucking dude. Iwas sitting there like for her, just
like, but then we Ripley comesout and I'm like, this bitch losing.
Yeah, ruh. The fact thatpeople thought that they were going to
call in an audible or something,Oh hell no, man, fuck that
shit. Ripley crushed her fucking dreamsin about seven minutes and ten seconds.
(13:48):
Solid match. But yeah, buthey, Selena got a good, like
fucking standing ovation leaving though. That'sthat's and I have a lot of respect
for because like, Ria, Ripleycould have easily they could have easily booked
it this way, and she couldhave easily like audibled and just healed it
the fuck up and stomped a mudholein her ass and her home fucking town.
(14:11):
As soon as she wons she gother ship and rolled out of that
fucking ring and let Zelena have hera moment with her fucking family in the
crowd, and shit, h well, it also made Ria look like a
badass who shows like, because Ialways think of that scene from the movie
Warrior. I don't know if you'veever seen it. Yeah, great film.
Yeah, but whenever Tom Hardy's characterjust comes in punches that dude that
(14:35):
one time, yeah, and thendoes not even do the celebration. He
just walks out of the cave this. Yeah, it just marches back to
the fucking locker room and I'm gonnafight me. Fucking cunt, beats a
piss out of you with one hitand then leaves, not even worth his
time. I'm like, that's fuckingfire, right, And so that whatever
(14:58):
Riha did that not only was itrespectful to the hometown girl, but also
just that you know, it worksboth ways. It was really cool.
Right, So we're gonna take aquick break, but when we come back,
we're gonna talk about the last threematches, two of which were considered
a co main event and the othermatch was like it was just it felt
(15:20):
really filler. I hate to saythat, even though it's going to be
pushing a storyline along, it's stillfelt kind of filler. But we'll explain
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evented this fucking thank you, thankyou. Everybody in the room was like,
why the fuck and here's the here'sthe thing, is uh, my
friends' family, you know their dadhas not watched wrestling since he was like
(18:45):
a kid, and he was like, man, because you know how them
old heads are with wrestling is they'relike, man, this ship is so
corny now, you know, it'snot like in the old days, you
know. I mean, guess ohboy was into it, wasn't he?
Dude about at first He's like,okay, okay, okay, oh oh,
(19:07):
jaleo this year singer. Because Jealewas like, he's a Bad Bunny
fan, huge, huge, nothingwrong with that Bad Bunny Fox dude.
Oh yeah, Like I'm not shippingon him. Plus, it's it's nice.
I'm sure to finally have like amega star from that community. I'm
sure I'm missing somebody. Bad Bunnyis transcended a lot. Well argier,
(19:30):
I feel like, oh absolutely,And just the reception he fucking got.
Dude, that whole crowd knew everyfucking lyric to that goddamn song and it
was it was so cool. Ohyeah. But so at first, you
know, the dad was just like, Okay, okay, sure whatever,
that's your boy, all right,I guess I'll watch it with you,
okay, okay, Oh wow whatokay? Oh hell yeah, yeah you
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know, right, right right,And it was just so cool to watch
because it's like I'm seeing it fromthe perspective of my friends who are poor
ricon and it's fun to sort ofsee like their pride and heritage and whatnot,
and then myself as just a purewrestling fan in general, I'm actually
(20:12):
getting goosebumps on my arms. Butseeing like that passion like ignite in somebody
that has not watched it in yearsand years and years get re lit,
and like that's the shit that Ilive for, the booking, the product,
and the people involved. One somebodyover that was a former fan if
(20:33):
you will, Yeah, and itwas just it makes me so happy because
like, this is one of myfavorite things of all time. I love
pro wrestling, and man, wheneveryou can get somebody like that, it's
like it's magic. Man, itreally fucking is. And the coolest part
about this is both competitors are ofPuerto Rican descent because Damian Priest is from
(20:53):
fucking Puerto Rico. And dude,holy shit, when I say that,
I really mean when I say thiswas matching like bad Bunny wins, like
full fucking spoiler, Like obviously forall these matches but Bad Bunny wins and
he looked believable doing the shit.Damian Priest is a fucking made man at
this point. He put this guyover like Bad Bunny has already been super
(21:15):
mega talented, and they teamed togetherat WrestleMania a couple of years back,
Like, okay, can we canwe talk about the fact that between Bad
Bunny and Logan Paul has this justbeen the era of where the fucking celebrities
that come in to do this shitare good. Dude, it's insane,
yeah, And I mean it's notlike Okay, So obviously, like Rollins
(21:36):
and Logan had a great match atMania, and obviously Seth helped carry that
match, but Logan stood on hisown very fucking well. Yeah, Bad
Bunny stood on his own very fuckingwell here too, but Damian Priest made
him look like even more of amillion fucking bucks. Dude. It was
so fucking good. And the factthat he Bunny came out with the fucking
WWF jack. Yes, I lovedthat. And if you listen to him
(21:59):
like talk about rustling, he's likehe knows a ship, dude. Oh
dude, He'll talk about like,oh yeah, Ever since I was a
little kid, and it doesn't feellike you know, some celebrities whenever they
come out they're like, yeah,whenever I was a little kid, but
you kind of get the feeling ofyeah, when you were a kid,
right exactly. Bad Bunny strikes meas a type who's like, no,
I never fell off, So I'velike, oh, he's been right or
(22:22):
died the whole time. Yeah,and that's so fucking cool to me.
Right. And Damian Priest, onthe other hand, like I keeps saying
that he made him look like amillion dollars, but Damian Priest at this
point being put in this position,he's a top player now. He is
absolutely like he's reached, Like thisdude needs to be in the world title
picture at some point because he's thatfucking good. He's good at the selling,
(22:44):
he's good at the aggression, he'she's safe in the ring. It
looks like for the most part,because I mean there's a couple of spots
where, Bro, when Bad Bunnywent to do that fucking slice of bread
number two out of the corner,he landed on his own fucking head,
I was like, oh, doyou think them not putting this last was
Bad Bunny saying like no, no, no, no, that's for them.
(23:07):
Fuck no, this was brock Lessner'sego. See, I was thinking
it was Bad Bunny's lack of ego, or or maybe he was like,
no, I have engagements. Ihave to be in this country at this
time. That's also a possibility.I mean that sure, but I really
feel like brock Lessner politicked that shipto be man of him, because you
(23:29):
know, he was like I openedMania, fuck off. Yeah, I
hate to be that way. Iknow Lessner works with whoever he works with,
and he's all about business. ButI feel like, at this point,
think about how that match win.But also the match was so short.
I know we'll move into it ina minute. I just feel like
(23:52):
I feel like brock is also thetype he's liked. Just let me be
in and out. I don't care. I don't know. He's had too
many like minute mongs thirty minute longsto really count. Where it's like depends
on who he's working with. Yeah, but Bad Bunny goes over in a
big way in this street fight,and everybody wins this outcome. Everybody wins
with this outcome, and twenty fiveminutes only fuck great match. If it
(24:17):
ended right there, it'd be likenine to ten out of ten. Yeah.
Absolutely, it was wonderful event.Moving on to the Bloodline, which
is Solo, Sakoa and Jay andJimmy USO versus Matt Riddle, Kevin Owens
and Sammy Zane in a six mantag. Look, this is meant to
just continue the entire Bloodline story andkind of put some cracks in it a
(24:42):
little more, because now you're seeingJay and Solo kind of start bickering.
Jay is still pissed off at Sammy'ssaying like, this is your fault.
You're breaking my family apart. Itlooks like all your fault and ship.
But I feel like at this point, Kevin and Sammy or They're just kind
of there now with this storyline becausenow that they've been removed and they've removed
(25:04):
the Tag Championships, the cracks arealready formed, and now the Bloodline can
start doing this storyline continuing without anybodyelse that they really wanted to. Yeah,
and I'm very interested to see wherethis goes. Yeah, Like I
gave up on predicting anything Bloodline related, because just when I think I know
(25:29):
exactly what's coming, they always doa quick little shift, even if we
get to the same destination. It'slike, no, but there's always going
to be that one little thing thatgets in the way or changes it.
Do you still feel like at somepoint that I know we're about to just
predict it here, which, bythe the Bloodline wins this match. No
things in small part to Solosokoa pickingthe victory up, but common thing.
(25:53):
But yes, But here's what Ithink. So there is a lot of
tension between Jay and Solo right now. One or two outcomes are going to
happen. Jay Ouso becomes the oddman out and kind of sees what Sammuel
was trying to tell him the wholetime, and maybe humbly is like I'm
fucking sorry. Maybe they men fencessomehow, which that's a far stretch.
(26:15):
The outcome I think that will behappening is that Solo Socoa becomes baby face
and breaks off from the fucking group. That's what I would prefer, even
though us being the one would belong term booking accidentally, because keep in
mind it was the first one topin Roman reigns period, right. But
(26:36):
I mean it's so tough because it'slike well, that's fucking perfect. But
then I've said it for a whilenow, Solo Socoa being Solo like it's
in his fucking name, right andpull the trigger, kids, got it?
He really does. He's definitely gotthe charisma and the look, and
you can tell the crowd wants tobe behind him if they go this route.
(27:00):
It's you're going to strike gold witheither direction you go in. And
that's what's so amazing about the bloodline, Like, I love it. Yep,
it's definitely gonna be one of theother. But I don't know which
one. Yeah, I think time'sgonna tell that one. And I'm glad
to say that. I'm glad tosay I don't know which one. Me
too, because I don't like itwhen it's predictable. I like being fooled
(27:22):
and I like being swerved, andI like being caught off guard. That's
what makes it, that's what makeswrestling magic point being we're excited about this
fucking storyline eventually reaching its crescendo andthen seeing where the aftermath takes it from
there. Yeah, because here's thething WrestleMania forty is. Whenever I think
that's when Cody gets the big one. Yes, that's what I think is
(27:44):
going to happen. But my questionis, then, what what do you
have for him? I think anyand everything at that point, because you
could have the fallout of maybe therest of the Bloodlines try to challenge him
to fucking win the goddamn honor beinghead of the table by getting the championship.
That is good. Yeah, speakingof you want to go to the
(28:07):
main goddamn renda dude. So intwenty two minutes, the Bloodline picks up
the victory and then we move onto the nine minute and forty second main
event of Cody Rhodes versus brock Lessner. Now, I really liked how Cody
was like, fuck this, I'mgonna kick your ass before the bell rings,
because let's be honest. A lotof people and I saw this,
a lot of people on Twitter werelike, so Cody in the interview called
(28:30):
brock Lessner a coward, but yethe's doing this shit And I'm like,
no, but look at anybody elsethat has literally done this to brock because
they know the fucking guy he is. When that bell rings, he's gonna
fuck you up. Yeah, Solet's get to the Christindo of the match,
because one thing I do like aboutLessner is when he works with guys
that are a little smaller than him, he works with them. You get
(28:52):
a wrestling match out of Brock wheneveryou do that. And you want to
know something, though, I oftenforget just how big Cody is. Seeing
him next to Lesner, though,I was like, no, that's a
beefy boy. Cody put on likefifteen pounds a muscle he did. I'm
not saying that. I'm just sayinglike, it's easy to forget right until
(29:15):
you get that like that ratio.Yeah, dude, but it looks good
side by side. It looks believablethat Cody Rhodes would both be able to
mount some offense but have really bigtrouble with the follow up or even just
like you know, now, it'snot that I ever doubted him as world
(29:36):
champion. I never did. I'mjust saying, like, you look at
I mean, it's like that isthe guy, like you can tell,
oh, absolutely, Cody Rhodes isprobably this company's best hope in producing a
Hogan Austin Sena rains person to kindof maybe take the flag and go with
(29:57):
it, because the dude has theLook, he's got the fan base,
he's he's so over with the kids. It's so crazy. He's a fucking
dad bro. Like, you don'tknow what I'm saying. It is so
crazy that you were talking about HoganAustin Rock Rains and then I was just
like, dude, I remember wheneveryou and I went to WrestleMania years ago
(30:18):
and you could stand Rains and Iwas indifferent to him at the time,
and it's like, Wow, thisguy has really turned it around. He's
so good now. That's what I'msaying. When they let him whenever,
they stopped trying to write him andlet Roman Rains just be himself, that's
what sold me on him. Theylet his attitude just kind of take over
the ring, and I'm like,that's that's the ship I wanted. Yeah,
(30:41):
nobody wants any of these dudes forceddown their throat, even Cody.
I don't want him forced down.What they're doing with him is right,
Yeah, they're making him chase thatship because Cody Rhodes works the very best
as the white hot baby face thatfights from underneath, as the underdog.
That's why he works in WWE insteadof an A E. W he's a
big shark in the e W inw W E, he's smaller comparatively speaking,
(31:06):
superstar satisfied. I mean, he'sgetting he's over as fuck. But
putting him in there with Brains andLessner and all these other fucking dudes that
have been or even Seth dude,for him to have a one on one
with Seth Rawlins at last year's Manyand it'd be as good as it was
was a big fucking deal. Butanyway to get to the meat and potatoes
of this match, the caliber ofthe match is really good because Lessner is
(31:27):
over as a heel. That's thething I'd like about Brock is if he's
over as a phase, he's wayover. If he's over as a heel,
he's way over. There's no inbetween with him. They were very
physical to the point and this iswhat I want to break up. Lessner
got split open the hard way withan exposed turnbuckle, and I knew that
was going to happen. The momentthat he ripped the padding off, I
was like, oh, that gettingused. And whenever he went into that
(31:49):
motherfucker with no man, he rawdogged it. That motherfucker's pink and he
fucking like headbutted the ship out ofit. He did, he did to
himself what I did trying to loadyour fucking crossbow in my apartment. Dude,
I remember that. That shit fuckingrocked my face. I still have
a scar from that. The roomgot real quiet in that moment. The
(32:13):
room got real spinny in that moment. I just say it. But point
being is he he laced his goddamnface wide open, and dude, it
poured it. Did you notice howmuch of a hot minute it took for
the ref to put his fucking gloveson, and how much he fucking bled,
(32:35):
and how much Cody just saw thatshit and got the biggest boner you've
ever seen in your life because hejust seen that ship and he said,
rubbed it all his fucking chest likehe fucking started like jacking off with it.
And shit, Cody lives for that, man, he does. I'm
surprised that he didn't get busted opentoo. Well. Here's the thing.
I think it's because Lessner has morepool with that shit. Yeah, he's
(32:58):
probably got enough money to pay thefine if they did find him for that
third leap the endeavor deal, mI feel like they may have been like,
we're gonna be a little more lenientwith the blood flow now because we
house UFC, and I know fora fact that part of that deal endeavor
wants the WWE to present more likea sports brand than a fucking sports entertainment
(33:21):
brand, which I'm all for.So if that means that we get a
little bit of bloodshit, it's bestfor business at this point. Because the
way the match ended was that whenLester saw his own blood, he started
beating the piss out of Cody,like Cody got to drop on him maybe
thirty seconds. Then Lesser was like, oh, nobody makes me bleed my
own blood. Motherfucker beat his ass, put him in a fucking Kamora lock,
(33:45):
and the literal most unexpected finish ofthe match, Cody like arches over
and fucking rolls Lester into a pinfall. I did not expect that finish,
no, and a lot of peopleon Twitter thought that was a bullshit finish,
and I was like, dude,no, that's probably the best way
to fucking have done him. Yeah, yeah, like you weren't gonna fight
(34:07):
him right now. Look, andit's not the exact same finish, but
The way I look at it iswhen the way Brett penned Steve Austin at
Survivor Series ninety six, he beathim by fucking just using his own weight
and momentum against him, and thefact that Austin was so hell bent on
trying to beat him that he wouldn'tlet go of that hold. That's the
same thing that happened with Brock.He was so pissed off trying to beat
(34:29):
Cody and break his arm, hedidn't let go of the hold. Cody
Rhodes wins at nine minutes and fortyseconds. What a match though, and
Cody just rolls out in Hal's ass. He's like, fuck this, I
gotta go. I got kids,I have a child. But but the
(34:50):
paper he just kind of goes offair and it's like, yeah, I
to say that I was underwhelmed withthe ending is unfa because it's like there
was nothing wrong with the show.It's just I would have put it in
a different place. Yeah, Iwould have absolutely maybe had Roads and Lessener
(35:10):
like second to last. But here'sthe thing. I feel like Lessner and
Cody were the only two people thatknew that that bloodshed was gonna happen,
and they were like, we don'twant to make a cleanup crew for the
Yeah, yeah, that's true.Yeah, but I mean overall excited to
see where this goes. Yeah.I know Roads and Lessner are far from
(35:31):
over because on Raw the next night, Lessner came out and laid him out
again and was like, I'm I'mgonna fucking fight you and and Saudi and
it's like, all right, dude, a a champions. These two were
gonna fight. As as as Lessnersaid, he's like, I'm looking for
a fight like he was. Hesounded like Neville from Harry Potter. That
(35:51):
motherfucker sat there beat this ship outof Cody and he's just like you.
I love when Brock does your vocalthings you're talking about like that or no,
the one I'm talking about right,yes, or the one whenever he
broke into Triple H's office. Idon't even remember what he said, but
(36:13):
it was something that just maybe fuckingcackle and then his infamous I'm coming and
I'm just gonna keep coming that thatwhole fucking thing, that whole goddamn fucking
thing. Dude. I love Brock. I give him a hard time sometimes
because he's brock but yeah, butat the end of the day, the
man is accidentally hilarious. He is. But then you watch him in interviews
(36:36):
and he's such a nice he's sofucking laid back. He's just a goddamn
farmer. He's just a farmer fromfucking Minnesota. Dude. He just wants
to fuck his wife and plow thegoddamn field all day with his tractor.
There were two instances that really wonme over with Brockles or the human one
of which was I don't remember whoit was for, but it was a
it was some kind of interview andthey were in the middle of the fucking
(36:58):
field walking around, was snowing,and he was and like it was breezing
cold. Like the news anchor waslike, dude, it's it's so cold,
and he was just like, yeah, I'm gonna let you talk to
my wife and I'm gonna stay outhere and enjoy this beautiful weather. And
I was just like, I don'tknow what it is. He's just a
country boy man. I was justlike, I like you, you're cool,
(37:22):
right, You're just vibing. Andthen there was that and the Pack
McAfee interview, right that's that's areally good interview action. Yeah, like
and just how personal he can be. Right, Hopefully Cody Rhodes gets kind
of um, he's gonna have afew transitional feuds before he gets his way
(37:43):
back around to the championship. I'msure, yeah, and he should,
yeah, because the big stories hegot screwed out of the championship tournament that
seth Rawlins had one, which youknow, that's a whole different story.
But again, just interested to seewhere all these storylines go. And I'm
actually very much looking forward to Nightof champions Oh for sure, come back
next week. We are actually goingto be attending the XFL Championship game in
(38:07):
San Antonio. Is the DC Defendersgoing one on one with the Arlington Renegades,
And holy fuck, I hope theRenegades stunt that ass. I don't
know if it's going to happen,about it, I hope. I would
not put money on that, butto be fair, I would not have
put money on the Orlando Guardians beingthe only team to have defeated the Defenders.
(38:28):
Yeah, which we'll get into thethe entirety of all this fucking discussion
next week when we talk about it. But holy fuck, that's gonna be
a hell of a drive Saturday.Yeah. Speaking of which, we should
probably get the fuck out of hereso we can get some sleep yep I
work tomorrow. But I'm gonna dolike Laundrne, get the fit ready for
the ga. Hell yeah, I'mgoing in comfort. I don't give a
(38:49):
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