January 20, 2025 • 44 mins
Adam and Josh discuss the first ever Monday Night Raw on Netflix.
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Today we're going to talk about Monday Night Netflix.
The first episode of Monday Night Raw on Netflix.
But before we do that, we want to talk about a very major announcement and we want to say as a result of this Monday Night Raw on Netflix that we can officially say that Game Rage Rasslin' is now hashtag all elite.
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Anyways.
Alright.
So Monday night fucking Netflix.
It's Jover.
That's all you, that's the, that should be the title of the episode, it's fucking Jover.
Yeah.
I think I'm gonna say that it's Jover.
I, man, this thing was so bad.
All the way around almost.
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Yeah, I think, I think the hard part to digest was, I don't know why Triple H, Paul Levesque, I don't know why he opted to acknowledge.
I don't know why he chose to acknowledge the meta of wrestling.
Like what does that do?
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I don't understand it.
Like is that insulting to the intelligence of the viewer that we, we couldn't figure it out that it's not fucking real.
Like what, what, what does it mean, dude?
What he does something like that.
I will say this, right?
Because I've talked to a lot of WWE apologists about this over the last like fucking week or whatever it's been, week and a half.
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Yeah.
Oh no.
It's only been a week.
Yeah, that's right.
It was just last Monday.
My days are all fucked up.
But anyways, over the last week or six days, six and a half days since this has happened, I've been talking to a lot of WWE apologists and they, I brought that up as like, why the fuck did we need this?
And they're like, oh, it's for everybody.
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People that don't understand about wrestling.
I'm like, okay, I see what you're saying.
So you're telling me that at the beginning of like a TV show, if you're going to watch the first episode, that it's going to explain everything and what it is.
No, that's fucking not how it works.
This pissed me off as a wrestling fan.
I don't give a fuck about these new people that want to come in.
You'll learn the shit the hard way like we all did.
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Right.
Or some other asshole will explain it to you.
You can go on the internet now and you can look up these things and find out what they are.
You don't need, I don't need the guy who's running the show to come on and fucking say this shit.
Now, I also don't believe that Triple H has as much control as it's been led to believe.
I think that this was Netflix telling them they needed to do this.
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And I think that he didn't have a choice and he just went out there and had to do it.
So, which also I think does not bode well for this product if Netflix is going to be calling the shots with stuff.
And the apologists were very, oh man, we need to just be incorporating in all of a sudden.
Like, no, no, no, we don't need to do any of this shit.
I, as a fan, was insulted that this fucking shit had to come out and get explained to people.
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I didn't need to hear it.
Neither did anyone else, in my opinion.
And the reason I think the apologists are OK with this is because they're also stupid as hell.
And they're just fucking retarded.
So I cannot abide that.
It really pissed me off.
I didn't like that at all.
But again, I think that wasn't Triple H's decision.
I think that was him being told what to do.
So after Triple H's promo, we then get an immediate following of that of The Rock coming out.
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CEO Rock, corporate rock, full fucking shill mode.
I also don't like.
I don't like them parading these Netflix fucking executives around.
I also don't like The Rock sucking their balls on television.
Yeah, literally saying I love you.
As if his next paycheck is hinging on whether he sucks the balls of fucking Netflix or not.
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I mean, him and Triple H kind of sucked off Netflix and their executives by thanking them for allowing this to happen.
First of all, they paid you money for the rights to air this content.
Right.
Anyone USA would have been glad to continue having raw on fucking USA Network, I'm sure.
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So it's not like if Netflix didn't offer them this deal that raw would have just ceased to exist.
And that's kind of how they're acting.
And or at least that's what it was in these with these fucking jerk off sessions.
I also don't need you to show me these fucking rest of these Netflix executives who've likely never been to a WWE or wrestling event in their life.
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I don't need to see them in their fucking corporate skybox dancing around and being all happy and fucking walking around with title.
But I don't need to fucking see that in case you guys didn't fucking get the notes.
We're killing CEOs now. All right.
We're killing executives on the streets for fucking being assholes.
And I'll say this.
Netflix assholes get to go to this thing probably likely for free.
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These CEOs who could afford the tickets.
I couldn't we couldn't afford to go to the fucking show because it was here out here in L.A.
Nosebleeds were like two hundred eighty fucking dollars.
Well, the word is that they're not getting the WWE stars are not getting comps either for anything.
Right. But I guarantee you Netflix is I guarantee you they got cops.
I guarantee you those Netflix executives didn't have to pay for those that skybox.
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So, again, kind of fucking sent a bad message with that whole thing, in my opinion, really turned me off basically right from the get go.
Now, I had already started drinking like like prior to the show.
So like I was already anything would have set me to a foul mood.
I'm sure I was already had I had high expectations for this.
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I didn't and they were crushed the second it opened.
They were fucking instantly gone.
The stage shit gone.
The lighting was fucking amazing stage.
The stage was the live event stage.
Yeah. A little bit wider.
Yeah. Just a little wider.
But panoramic. Yeah.
And the lighting. Yeah.
The lighting was good.
Now, because we're going to shit on this.
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A couple of a good point.
Like you had brought up the camera work, the drone shit, the cinematic stuff.
That stuff was good, man.
They they did a good job with that.
Now, the content of the matches was kind of garbage, but they presented this turd very well.
Like, yeah, with the cinematic nature of the the cinematography.
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Yeah. Fucking drone shots look great.
Uh, what was the first match?
Sollas, the coa. Yeah, it was the it was the Oola fall a fucking match.
When did Hogan come into play? That was like halfway through.
OK, because I forgot when that happened, but so rock did you got anything else for the rock shit?
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No. Other than I mean, it'll roll into what happens in this fucking match afterwards with this Oola fall a thing because.
I don't. I'm not it's not making sense to me.
And sure, maybe there's some grand swerve and storyline that's going to happen, but like.
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You literally were trying to kill Cody Rhodes.
Not eight months ago, like you whooped his ass and you were like going to you were going to fuck his mom.
Yeah, like you were talking about fucking his mother and literally beating his ass, literally beating it, beating him to death in a parking lot.
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And now. You're you're friends, you're fully friends with Roman Reigns.
And you're also drinking it up, drinking, Tera, man, a brother.
Yeah, you're drinking fucking the rock liquor with Cody Rhodes in the back out of Red Solo Cups.
And you guys are just chopping it up and having a great time and just going all over the like.
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Like four months ago, he wasn't getting his ass whooped.
And so on Smackdown, Kevin Owens brought this up like Kevin Owens, dude, honestly, the lore keeper, dude, Kevin Owens might be the savior of WWE.
Like he he he may single handedly save all this shit because.
I was going to do a separate episode about this, but fuck it.
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I think we could just talk about it in relation to this thing specifically, because it's related.
I feel like they're just teasing the same old shit again.
I feel like we're going to get Roman Reigns and fucking Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania again for the third for the third year in a row.
This is the same fucking main event.
Now, granted, I'm hopeful that maybe Kevin Owens will be thrown in and this can be a three way.
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Oh, yeah, that'd be great. That would be awesome.
And maybe Kevin Owens gets gets the belt.
All right. Like, dude, they need somebody that's I know he's not what he was 10 years ago.
But. Why wouldn't you? I mean.
If there was a chance that fucking Kevin Owens would have a main event run now, I mean, it's been, dude, it's probably been since it's been probably 10 years in like, I think, since the dawn of the universal title.
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Yeah, like 2012, I think when he was the champion that one that one or two times.
Yeah, and it's it's been fucking 10 years like, dude, if they if they're going to do any with them for anybody to be believed or can have any delusion that Kevin Owens is going to have a championship and they're trying to make them look formidable by using.
I forgot what move it was. It's the.
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What is he? He's using some kind of like power drivers and he.
Yeah, something like that. He's using the stunner.
He's doing that, but he's and then I can't remember if he's also doing the muscle buster as well.
Yeah, I think he is actually because that was the thing that put Randy Orton away.
Yeah. So basically what I'm getting at is that they're trying to make them look formidable.
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And if they don't fucking pull the trigger now, then at what point do you believe that Kevin Owens is a threat in any regard if he's not going to win the championship?
Well, then you can't.
And then it's it's over. Yeah, it's over.
It's over for Kevin.
But anyways, back to fucking Monday night horseshit on Netflix.
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Yes, there was a couple.
The Rock said bullshit a couple of times.
I also want to just the Rock thing real quick to add to that, how he how he fucked up when he was when he was talking because he was he literally said finally the WWE or Monday Night Rock has come back to Netflix.
And I was like, you dumb motherfucker.
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They never been on Netflix.
Like, what do you mean they finally they've come back?
And then he immediately realized what he did.
And then he moved into, oh, you know, you don't want to hear that bullshit, though.
So and then he did the finally the Rock has come back to L.A. or whatever thing to cover that fuck up.
All right, because I don't know if I paid attention to that.
Is it possible he just said finally, Raw has come to Netflix instead of no, he said, then come back to the rules.
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Oh, fuck. Let's see if I can find it.
I can probably find it on YouTube.
We can watch it real quick just so we can be confirmed.
Maybe I'm wrong.
All right.
The Rock promo for promo.
WWE Raw Netflix.
Netflix.
Let's see the Raw.
That's some asshole.
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The Rock walks backstage preview.
They don't like Cody Rhodes.
Is this it?
No, that's on set.
Smackdown.
No, that's my name.
Oh, yeah, here it is.
All right.
All right.
We got it.
So we got we had to pause this.
Yeah.
All right.
So I'll pause the recording.
All right.
All right.
So we just do it.
Yeah.
Confirm that he does say come back.
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Yeah.
The WWE has come back to Netflix or whatever for the first time for the last time.
So that was AIDS.
Right.
Yeah.
Was that match, dude, that Roman Reigns and so was the call match.
That's what made me want to fucking say, dude, that it was way too fucking long.
The stakes.
I mean, the stakes could never have been lower.
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Yeah.
I mean, man, for us trying to get the idea that this was the pinnacle of the rivalry
between the two bloodlines and these two dickheads having an OK match and that the finish is
just fucking awful.
Of course, because it's tribal rules, which just is a hand wavy reason to have everybody
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else interfere.
Yeah.
Kevin Owens jumping in and doing his bullshit.
And I forgot who else intervened.
Sammy Zane and was it J. Uso or Jimmy J. Uso.
So they show up and shit.
Roman gets the pin.
And I just think, why the fuck?
Why the fuck are they going to give Roman exactly?
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Like, why are we going to end up exactly in the same situation?
Again, do you know everything that happened the last eight months was absolutely fucking
nothing?
Nothing.
It was pointless.
Not even.
And I'm like, man, what a great way to bury fucking so was ago.
Yeah.
As if he was on anybody's radar of being main event material.
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Gone.
B plus guy forever, dude.
B plus guy for fucking lifetime.
Not worth anybody's time.
Nobody gives a shit.
That thumb fucking strike to the.
I don't give a fuck, dude.
Wacky shit.
Horrible fucking finish.
I can't believe they did this.
I think the interesting thing would have been to actually have Roman Reigns lose to lose
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his wise man to soul.
So Koa that we might have had at the very least, we would have had something different.
Yeah.
Something semi interesting.
Yeah.
And then at the end of it to have the rock come out again and basically eat up another
15 fucking minutes of him fucking slowly sauntering to the ring, appearing to maybe have a confrontation
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and then like, you know, fucking raising him up and do all this shit.
And then they celebrate and all this dumb ass shit, right?
Which this was another problem I had in general with this opening of Netflix.
I got one more thing.
So when he came out to the ring, he also did that stupid thing that Maui does and fucking
my man, what a great way to shill Disney.
Yeah.
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The rock is basically become effectively the Gene Simmons of of wrestling where he's just
out there promoting every goddamn thing.
Yeah, true.
Not even not even the person that you knew him once as 30 years ago.
Yeah, that's fucking insane.
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So another issue that I have with this rate and we'll get to the other nostalgia acts
that came out in a minute.
But as the as we count it, essentially four segments were given to nostalgia acts, right?
Or portions of segments that were unnecessary.
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Given to nostalgia acts, one of them got to the rock being the rock, right?
And in meanwhile, you've got the guy who's your world heavyweight champion doing a fucking
three and a half minute pre-recorded video package.
That's on the side lies.
That's what he gets, right?
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You've got your inner continental champion sitting in the audience and he doesn't even
have the belt.
He's just sitting in the audience next to some dumb bitch.
And what a what a way as we've talked about and I've bitched about in the past, them not
giving any sway to titles at all.
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Like you've just effectively shown us that you don't give two fucks about any of these
titles that exist currently.
Like they don't matter.
Because with this show, this show should have been booked like a WrestleMania for Raw, in
my opinion.
And it's and I think my opinion is right.
It should have been booked as you've got.
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We should have got this fucking show with three hours and two minutes.
We should have gotten seven fucking matches.
We should have had World Heavyweight title defense be our main event.
We should have had an intercontinental title defense.
We should have had a tag team title defense.
Yes, the Women's World Championship did get decided in this show and that should have
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also been on there.
And then if you want to throw in your CM Punk versus Seth Rollins match, you can have that
be in there as well.
That's five.
Fucking yeah, that should be like the bologna or the salami sandwich.
You want to cap off with the titles.
Yeah, well, then you do.
And that's only if you have five.
But you want to have I think we should have got seven.
So you can have your dumbass Ulefala match.
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OK, that would have been six.
And then if you really wanted to, you could have had dumb shit Jey Uso and fucking True
McIntyre, Job McIntyre fucking go.
That could have been your seven.
That should have never been a fucking match in the in the whole night.
I agree.
It wasn't supposed to be.
I don't think they called an audible.
And originally we were supposed to get because they had been hyping it.
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Pentel Zero was supposed to fucking debut.
And they for some reason, because they were supposed to be a tag team match between Rey
Mysterio and the New Day and it was going to be Rey Mysterio and a mystery partner,
which we all knew who the fuck it was going to be.
Right now they scrapped that at the last minute.
And Rey Mysterio sitting in the audience like an asshole and not on the show anymore.
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And then I think the New Day were involved in some stupid ass backstage segment, which
was fucking stupid.
And then you've got that whole thing scrapped.
Now you've got Chad Gable being in this.
Oh, now he's going to fight some mystery partner this this Monday on Raw, which yes, I'm going
to watch because I want to see what they do with Pentel Zero in his first fucking debut
because I like Pentel Zero.
I'm a big fan and I want to see.
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I think I think that if the WWE, I don't have high hopes that they're going to use them
correctly.
And I hate to say this until Rey Fenix comes in, he is going to be essentially the Shinsuke
Nakamura of Mexican wrestling in WWE.
Like what they basically did to Shinsuke when he was when he came in there is what they're
going to fucking do to him.
He's going to be a jobber for a while.
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And then when Rey Fenix ends up coming into the WWE and signing his deal, they'll put
them together as the Lucha Bros and they're going to win both tag team belts.
And well, that'll be that'll be good for them, right?
They'll win some belts.
They'll do some shit.
But I feel like WWE is going to horribly misuse him as a singles competitor.
And it's kind of already beginning right now with this whole situation.
Like I listen, I like Chad Gable.
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All right.
And I think him and Chad Gable are going to have a great match.
And honestly, it doesn't mean anything, though, like it doesn't mean shit like this is what
a shitty way to debut.
Like it's like you're you're you're in a fucking a stupid ass match.
Check Gable.
And again, I know Chad Gable.
He's a he's a great wrestler.
I think he's going to do they're going to have a great match together.
But I don't know.
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I guess we'll see.
Maybe this will be some few.
That's probably what he'll hold over.
I'll have this feud for a month or two with Chad Gable.
And then who the fuck knows?
But again, we scrap other shit, but we get four segments of garbage.
We get the two segments to the next two, the other two segments with the Sal Jackson.
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I don't even understand what the fuck the point of them was.
But so, OK, so we had this we had the Roman Reigns match, which was fucking whack.
OK, we got through that.
Then after that, did we get John Cena?
Yeah, I think it was John Cena.
And then it was after well, then I think it was Drew McIntyre.
And the Jey Uso match.
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Yeah.
And then it was the women's world.
No, I think the women's world title went next.
And then it was the Jimmy and or the Jimmy Uso and Drew McIntyre.
Then it was CM Punk versus Seth Rollins.
Oh, yeah.
And then the John Cena segment, I think right after this, wasn't it?
Yeah, I think it was.
And that was straight hot garbage, man.
I have never wanted to see someone fail so bad.
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And I like John Cena.
All right.
I liked him back in the day.
He's now come back and he's cookie cutter John Cena.
Like good guy face John Cena.
And I also hate him basically doing this whole bullshit of like, oh, I'm not going to go and win and I'm not going to do this.
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Blah, blah, blah.
And then doing exactly what I said he was going to do.
He's going to fucking declare for the Royal Rumble.
And then maybe I'll win the Royal Rumble and go to WrestleMania and win my set.
Oh, it's not going to happen.
But they say never say never on the 17th title.
But I am going to go to the Royal Rumble.
I hated that.
That was fucking stupid.
He also showed for Netflix as well.
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I thought he was going to come out and start talking to give a given apology in Chinese again, potentially.
I was just not happy with the way this this this kind of played out.
This is just like I don't know if you ever seen Wayne's World when it became like an official television program and not just Cindy or not just broadcast it.
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Yeah.
And then they're like, oh, I'm going to go and get this cable.
So they get money.
And then it's like, all right, now we want you to do these things.
And it's like, oh, man, it's exactly like fucking Wayne's World.
They got the money.
They got the bag.
Now they have a TV show and now they have a company telling them exactly what they need to do.
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Yeah.
It's like all the things that were cool about wrestling are now gone.
They're all being pushed out.
It's all been corporatized.
They're all being pushed out of the show.
Netflix is apparently also running the show.
And honestly, like, say what you want about Vince McMahon and his personal life and all this bullshit, right?
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That's been going on.
But I will say this.
All that stuff happening and then him stepping down and all this stuff and then selling or whatever.
The worst thing that could have happened because now it is truly going to be corporatized, at least while Vince was around.
TKO was kind of just letting him do what he wanted to do.
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But now that he's out of the picture, that's it.
They now are calling the shots.
In my opinion, at least.
And also, I feel like Netflix is calling shots, too.
Dude, I'm kind of curious if this just ends up being a WCW situation with Turner Network.
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Well, Turner and what was it?
AOL Warner.
Oh, yeah.
That TKO is fucking Turner and then Netflix is fucking AOL Warner.
Yeah.
And they're kind of like, we need you to do all this bullshit.
We need to place our ads.
We need to fucking we need to do what we need.
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We need you to say thank you on the program and how great we are at all this shit.
It's like, oh, shit, here we go.
Here we go, dude.
Four billion dollars.
Like, yeah, you got your paycheck.
But who the fuck knows if people are going to check in to wrestling the next fucking year or two if you keep doing this shit?
Yeah, I mean, I'm already again because I'm the completionist.
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I will be watching this year to see John Cena's final fucking year, even though I fuck.
I hope he I hope he gets hit by a truck on semi on TV or some shit.
But I am not.
Excited about having to continue to I mean, the only thing I'm excited for is maybe Pentel zero.
And then I think Malachi back black is also coming back to the WWE.
I think he's done with the W and I think he's on his way back.
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So that'll be interesting to see if they do anything with that.
Yeah.
Other than put him on SmackDown to be show.
But I mean, I don't know if they'll maybe they'll do something with them on Raw.
But I digress.
So the Cena fucking thing was garbage.
Hated it.
Then after that, we get the Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley World Title match.
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I I also found it very strange.
The camera work.
I don't know if.
Like.
They they kept like zooming in on like when their legs would be open, they kept like zooming in on their snatches, man.
It was very weird.
And now granted the match, the wrestling itself wasn't like anything to fucking write home about.
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But.
That was like overshadowing the match.
I think was them keep zooming in on their fucking vaginas.
And I'm like, why? What is the point of this?
That wasn't even the worst part, man.
That wasn't even the fucking worst part.
It's the fact that Ray Ripley couldn't have her own fucking moment.
Well, actually, that's the worst part.
Yes, I take that back.
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So we get this tease of.
Mark Calloway.
Dead the dead man, the Undertaker, we get the flat, they get the lights.
The end when she's out, she's walking back to the ramp after she wins and she walks up and she's there with the belt and.
But they hold up like because he doesn't get the bike out there.
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I don't know what the fuck. I don't know if you got lost backstage or what the fuck it was.
But there was a point where Ray Ripley breaks the fourth wall, looks into the camera.
She's like, oh, look at my fucking pill.
And then he comes out, does a fucking lap or ignores her, doesn't even acknowledge her existence when he when she he drives right by her.
Yeah. And then he fucking does a lap.
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And then, you know, he does that thing where he puts it in neutral and then he fucking just like revs it.
Yeah, I was sitting there because I was watching it with Ian and Ed.
And I'm like, I was like, dude, wouldn't it be hilarious if right now he forgot to put it in neutral and fucking revs it and it shoots straight through the stage, goes right up from underneath them.
And he's just standing there and he's just like, oh, fuck, that would be hilarious.
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Didn't happen, obviously. But he does that.
And then he looks at her and he's like, oh, yeah, I forgot you're here.
But I think he says that they're like, oh, yeah, I fucking forgot.
I got to do this. And then she's like, standing next to me.
She's like, hey, do you want to do the thing with the arm?
And then she's like, OK. And then they do it.
And then I'm like, why?
What's the point of this? It's so stupid.
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You're not like Ray Ripley is not like a dead man type character.
She's not like the new Undertaker.
She's not like an undead creature of the night.
Her gimmick is not that like also he came out as the American badass.
So like she's also not that either.
She's not like a biker chick. She's Australian.
Yeah, she's a fucking Australian.
So none of that made any sense at all.
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And like also, she doesn't need a rub from the Undertaker.
Not anymore. No. I mean, dude, Undertaker for me is dropped in like his stock
in wrestling is dropped significantly that not even his own presence can can win me over.
Yeah, man. I was like, this was completely unnecessary.
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Give it to someone who needs it, at least like this was this made no fucking sense.
Yeah, dude, I just couldn't believe that he had to hog his.
She she had her moment, but he's like, oh, no, let me make this about me now.
Like, I got to have my two seconds.
Yeah, very fucking ridiculous.
Then we get into after that, I think we get the.
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Jeyuso and Drew McIntyre.
Not worth mentioning.
Definitely not.
That entrance. I just want to say this.
Um, Michael Cole standing out there doing the thing completely out of sync
and like like he has no idea what's happening.
Was the stupidest thing I think I've ever seen on television.
Why? Why? Also, why does Pat McAfee need to go away?
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Just fuck off, Pat McAfee.
Go somewhere else. You know, I don't need you ruining wrestling for me.
They're already doing a good enough job on their own.
We don't need you adding to the fucking shit show.
Yeah, there were some weird remarks like he said, oh, oh, man, I'm eating all over myself.
And then he's like, oh, don't eat in my suit or, you know, Michael Cole said something to the effect of like, don't eat in my suit.
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The fuck, dude. What the fuck?
Yeah, I also I don't even fucking that entrance was fucking stupid as hell.
And also, why does fucking what's his name? That fucking rapper that came out first.
Why is he walking out? Travis Scott. Yeah.
Why is he walking out with some weird hardcore title that doesn't like exist?
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It's like the new WWE title. And it's like it's just it's like they made it look like the old hardcore belt.
Like because he killed 10 people.
You got a hardcore champion. Yeah.
Ten people died at his concert. So it was like, oh, yeah, here's our core brother. Look, yeah. Ten people died at my concert.
Yeah. Yeah. What a strange what a strange.
I just I don't understand. And this probably is more telling of WWE or TKO that they associate with these people.
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But they have a knack for picking some of the worst people they really do.
I just I don't fucking know, dude. I don't know.
And yeah, and we get we get a shit ton more every every segment in between was people in the audience that are not wrestling, that are active, that are wrestlers that are not wrestling.
Right. And this is the other thing that I don't this is I this I fully believe this is from this is a TKO thing because I don't I don't need the US or the WWE to be more like the UFC because that's what the UFC does.
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That's what they do all the time in between matches and shit. They show all the guys that are fighting that night or whatever.
And they seem in the audience and they're there just watching where I don't need to see that.
I don't need that shit in my wrestling. I that is the worst fucking thing that they have added.
One of the worst things that I in my opinion is that they've added and I don't need them to do it.
I don't fucking need it. It's it's stupid. Again, like why even fucking show me that they're there?
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I don't I don't care. Why do I want to see Brombreaker sitting in the audience? I want to actually see him defend his belt like I want to start wrestling.
I don't want to see him sitting in the audience in street clothes. That makes that does nothing for me.
I understand why the guys in the UFC have to do that because they only fight once every like six months or whatever.
Right. Like I understand that's how it works over there in wrestling.
You wrestle every fucking week basically. All right. I don't need you sitting in the audience.
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That's that's terrible. Anyways, job McIntyre match was garbage.
Skip on that. And then after that we get for some fucking unknown reason, Hulk Hogan, which honestly what was funny is the ads in the ring.
Right. Real American beer was in two of the corners, I think. Yeah, they were they were directly daggily directly.
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Yeah. From each other. And I didn't it didn't dawn on me that that's what it was. No, I didn't know what it was either.
What the fuck? Yeah. And then when he comes out and starts talking about this real American beer, the second he gets on the mic, real American beer, brother.
I'm like, oh shit, that's what this fucking is. Yeah. And as he's out here trying to show his beer and getting booed out to fucking high heavens, that was also that was hilarious.
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I don't know what anybody was thinking of. Why would you bring out someone who's a known racist, obviously a known Trump supporter and bring him out in the bluest fucking city or the bluest fucking area in America almost in L.A.
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Like, why would you fucking parade Hulk Hogan out and expect something to happen that was good?
I know. Furthermore, why the fuck would they partner with real American beer, dude? What do they what does real American beer have to offer?
How do we know it's not just Budweiser with like a different label on it or something that actually would make a lot of sense if that's the case?
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Let me let me look up real American beer. Yeah, I'm thinking I don't think he there's no way this is like an original recipe for beer.
It's probably some other fucking other beer. It's produced by Great Central Brewery, a contract brewer in Chicago.
Okay, total wine and more has it for avail. God, wait a minute. Hold on a second. Is that 31.99? God, he charges in can form. He's charging more than a dollar a fucking can. What an asshole.
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Let's see the 12 pack is that in some cans and in some bottles 1499 Jesus.
That's terrible. Well,
the weird part was Michael Cole came to the defense of Hulk Hogan and said, If it were for Hulk Hogan,
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none of us would be here. I'm like, man, you're picking a weird person to defend right now.
I hope somebody clip that. I hope somebody clip that and remind. I hope somebody throws that Michael Cole's face like down the road. Hey, man, don't forget you supported a fucking racist.
Oh, yeah. Great.
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So, yeah, basically.
There are men. He didn't even make it is like his own fucking company, man, like, oh, is this just endorsing it. So I think it's just this company making it and they just basically hired him.
He's a jolly green giant for the fuck. Yeah, it is fucking beer. I don't think. Okay.
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Man, I don't know. That's pretty wack, dude. That is super wack. Well, anyways, fuck Hulk Hogan and fuck the Hulk Hogan. That's the iron cheek would say. Yeah, he was right about this.
And definitely just forever do for all time.
So where does that leave us? Then that boils us into the main events. CM Punk versus Seth Rollins, which I could barely remember that match.
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And the only thing I remember is that.
I think Seth Rollins gets a GTS.
He bumps into the ropes, walks into CM Punk again and gets another GTS. Correct. This was the exact finish from AEW all out.
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Twenty twenty two or three. And it was CM Punk, Adam Page.
He gives him the GTS. He literally bounces, does the same exact thing into the ropes and he falls on him.
I don't think it's Adam Page. It's John Moxley. Oh, you're right. It's John Moxley. Yeah.
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It was the same fucking finish, the exact same finish in the exact same way.
And I was like, get the fuck out of here. Once that once that one thing, once he fell on top of my I can't believe I just fucking watch that.
He walked himself over to him, dude. It was all my man.
This was not a good first impression for people that watch wrestling.
This if you thought it was ass hattery before. Oh, man, you definitely.
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You're sold on this. You're never going to watch this again ever.
Yeah. I thought this was going to be way cooler than I mean, the hopes were high.
But I mean, my my my disappointment is immeasurable. Yeah, it just fell apart, man.
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Like, I don't know what the fuck they were thinking. And yet again, I hate to bring it up, man.
But the Wyatt six, they did not bring him out to interfere or or nothing.
Just this is how you know they don't know what they're doing with them and they're just going to go away.
Nobody cares. I mean, maybe they might get one title, one arbitrary title.
It might be the fucking icy title. But that wasn't the that why make the big ass setup of the big return for, you know, somebody from the the Wyatt family to to to honor the memory.
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Of Bray Wyatt and nothing, nothing's really come of it, and especially for this fucking thing.
As impactful as it was supposed to be, this this WrestleMania of Monday Night Raw, dude, man, we got we got fucking gypped hardcore because this was this was as bad as you can imagine it.
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Like this was dog shit. This was like getting this was getting butt fucked without the condom. No lube, no lube and getting them blow your blow their load inside your butthole, too.
Yeah. Can you get your nuts squeezed? Oh, yeah.
And then you shouldn't come for like a week and a half because they just can't get it all out every time you shit.
There's just a little bit of just floating in the toilet. Yeah, it's it was terrible, man.
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I can't I believe it, but I can't believe you know what I'm saying. Like it was not it was not good. I'm not hopeful.
No. And that's the other thing is I feel gypped in the sense that they kept hyping this up as oh, this is the new era.
It's the Netflix era. This is a whole going to be a whole new thing. This was exactly same old shit.
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The chant on on Netflix was the same shit on Netflix, on Netflix.
It was like putting a black like, you know, like one of those label makers. Yeah.
A new era. And all you did was just put a fucking label. Yeah. You just put a new label on it.
Nothing, nothing new. Same recipe. Same shit.
Maybe even the worst recipe, maybe even worse ingredients have been now added.
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And now I got to add this. This has nothing to do with anything. But.
Remember last week when we were talking about Weider Wheeler, you just being a fucking job this week.
They had powerhouse Hobbs like clean house and then he was supposed to kick John Moxley's ass because he goes in the fucking ring.
So then powerhouse Hobbs goes after John Moxley and then one of the people that's in what's the new group called?
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That's not Black Bull Combat. What do they call that? The Death Riders.
So I think there's a woman in the Death Riders. Right. I don't know what her name is.
But yeah, she gets out of the way and who shows up as the last line of defense.
And he gets his fucking ass whoop, dude. And I'm like, oh, dude, I think I think Wheeler Yuta is becoming my favorite wrestler because it's like he's just he's just there to get his ass beat.
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He's like the least threatening member. It's like the nice guy.
Everybody can beat him. Like no big deal. Like, yeah, it's just so Moxley or fucking his cannon fodder.
Yeah. Castanet or whatever. Canoli. Yeah. It's just so either either of them has to take the take the job.
It's just he he's the job guy. Yeah, dude. The Death Riders. Yeah, that was that was the one thing that was good that happened to wrestling this week.
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Yeah, that's hilarious. So anyways, I guess see what the fuck happens.
So anyways, you got anything else to add about Monday night? Ship ship flicks?
Dude, I think you're probably right about the Pentel zero. He's he's gonna he's not gonna mount the shit.
Who are we fucking kidding? This is just to keep him away from a W. Not that he would go back.
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Anyways.
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So Monday night fucking Netflix.
It's Jover.
That's all you, that's the, that should be the title of the episode, it's fucking Jover.
Yeah.
I think I'm gonna say that it's Jover.
I, man, this thing was so bad.
All the way around almost.
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Yeah, I think, I think the hard part to digest was, I don't know why Triple H, Paul Levesque, I don't know why he opted to acknowledge.
I don't know why he chose to acknowledge the meta of wrestling.
Like what does that do?
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I don't understand it.
Like is that insulting to the intelligence of the viewer that we, we couldn't figure it out that it's not fucking real.
Like what, what, what does it mean, dude?
What he does something like that.
I will say this, right?
Because I've talked to a lot of WWE apologists about this over the last like fucking week or whatever it's been, week and a half.
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Yeah.
Oh no.
It's only been a week.
Yeah, that's right.
It was just last Monday.
My days are all fucked up.
But anyways, over the last week or six days, six and a half days since this has happened, I've been talking to a lot of WWE apologists and they, I brought that up as like, why the fuck did we need this?
And they're like, oh, it's for everybody.
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People that don't understand about wrestling.
I'm like, okay, I see what you're saying.
So you're telling me that at the beginning of like a TV show, if you're going to watch the first episode, that it's going to explain everything and what it is.
No, that's fucking not how it works.
This pissed me off as a wrestling fan.
I don't give a fuck about these new people that want to come in.
You'll learn the shit the hard way like we all did.
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Right.
Or some other asshole will explain it to you.
You can go on the internet now and you can look up these things and find out what they are.
You don't need, I don't need the guy who's running the show to come on and fucking say this shit.
Now, I also don't believe that Triple H has as much control as it's been led to believe.
I think that this was Netflix telling them they needed to do this.
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And I think that he didn't have a choice and he just went out there and had to do it.
So, which also I think does not bode well for this product if Netflix is going to be calling the shots with stuff.
And the apologists were very, oh man, we need to just be incorporating in all of a sudden.
Like, no, no, no, we don't need to do any of this shit.
I, as a fan, was insulted that this fucking shit had to come out and get explained to people.
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I didn't need to hear it.
Neither did anyone else, in my opinion.
And the reason I think the apologists are OK with this is because they're also stupid as hell.
And they're just fucking retarded.
So I cannot abide that.
It really pissed me off.
I didn't like that at all.
But again, I think that wasn't Triple H's decision.
I think that was him being told what to do.
So after Triple H's promo, we then get an immediate following of that of The Rock coming out.
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CEO Rock, corporate rock, full fucking shill mode.
I also don't like.
I don't like them parading these Netflix fucking executives around.
I also don't like The Rock sucking their balls on television.
Yeah, literally saying I love you.
As if his next paycheck is hinging on whether he sucks the balls of fucking Netflix or not.
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I mean, him and Triple H kind of sucked off Netflix and their executives by thanking them for allowing this to happen.
First of all, they paid you money for the rights to air this content.
Right.
Anyone USA would have been glad to continue having raw on fucking USA Network, I'm sure.
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So it's not like if Netflix didn't offer them this deal that raw would have just ceased to exist.
And that's kind of how they're acting.
And or at least that's what it was in these with these fucking jerk off sessions.
I also don't need you to show me these fucking rest of these Netflix executives who've likely never been to a WWE or wrestling event in their life.
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I don't need to see them in their fucking corporate skybox dancing around and being all happy and fucking walking around with title.
But I don't need to fucking see that in case you guys didn't fucking get the notes.
We're killing CEOs now. All right.
We're killing executives on the streets for fucking being assholes.
And I'll say this.
Netflix assholes get to go to this thing probably likely for free.
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These CEOs who could afford the tickets.
I couldn't we couldn't afford to go to the fucking show because it was here out here in L.A.
Nosebleeds were like two hundred eighty fucking dollars.
Well, the word is that they're not getting the WWE stars are not getting comps either for anything.
Right. But I guarantee you Netflix is I guarantee you they got cops.
I guarantee you those Netflix executives didn't have to pay for those that skybox.
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So, again, kind of fucking sent a bad message with that whole thing, in my opinion, really turned me off basically right from the get go.
Now, I had already started drinking like like prior to the show.
So like I was already anything would have set me to a foul mood.
I'm sure I was already had I had high expectations for this.
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I didn't and they were crushed the second it opened.
They were fucking instantly gone.
The stage shit gone.
The lighting was fucking amazing stage.
The stage was the live event stage.
Yeah. A little bit wider.
Yeah. Just a little wider.
But panoramic. Yeah.
And the lighting. Yeah.
The lighting was good.
Now, because we're going to shit on this.
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A couple of a good point.
Like you had brought up the camera work, the drone shit, the cinematic stuff.
That stuff was good, man.
They they did a good job with that.
Now, the content of the matches was kind of garbage, but they presented this turd very well.
Like, yeah, with the cinematic nature of the the cinematography.
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Yeah. Fucking drone shots look great.
Uh, what was the first match?
Sollas, the coa. Yeah, it was the it was the Oola fall a fucking match.
When did Hogan come into play? That was like halfway through.
OK, because I forgot when that happened, but so rock did you got anything else for the rock shit?
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No. Other than I mean, it'll roll into what happens in this fucking match afterwards with this Oola fall a thing because.
I don't. I'm not it's not making sense to me.
And sure, maybe there's some grand swerve and storyline that's going to happen, but like.
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You literally were trying to kill Cody Rhodes.
Not eight months ago, like you whooped his ass and you were like going to you were going to fuck his mom.
Yeah, like you were talking about fucking his mother and literally beating his ass, literally beating it, beating him to death in a parking lot.
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And now. You're you're friends, you're fully friends with Roman Reigns.
And you're also drinking it up, drinking, Tera, man, a brother.
Yeah, you're drinking fucking the rock liquor with Cody Rhodes in the back out of Red Solo Cups.
And you guys are just chopping it up and having a great time and just going all over the like.
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Like four months ago, he wasn't getting his ass whooped.
And so on Smackdown, Kevin Owens brought this up like Kevin Owens, dude, honestly, the lore keeper, dude, Kevin Owens might be the savior of WWE.
Like he he he may single handedly save all this shit because.
I was going to do a separate episode about this, but fuck it.
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I think we could just talk about it in relation to this thing specifically, because it's related.
I feel like they're just teasing the same old shit again.
I feel like we're going to get Roman Reigns and fucking Cody Rhodes at WrestleMania again for the third for the third year in a row.
This is the same fucking main event.
Now, granted, I'm hopeful that maybe Kevin Owens will be thrown in and this can be a three way.
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Oh, yeah, that'd be great. That would be awesome.
And maybe Kevin Owens gets gets the belt.
All right. Like, dude, they need somebody that's I know he's not what he was 10 years ago.
But. Why wouldn't you? I mean.
If there was a chance that fucking Kevin Owens would have a main event run now, I mean, it's been, dude, it's probably been since it's been probably 10 years in like, I think, since the dawn of the universal title.
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Yeah, like 2012, I think when he was the champion that one that one or two times.
Yeah, and it's it's been fucking 10 years like, dude, if they if they're going to do any with them for anybody to be believed or can have any delusion that Kevin Owens is going to have a championship and they're trying to make them look formidable by using.
I forgot what move it was. It's the.
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What is he? He's using some kind of like power drivers and he.
Yeah, something like that. He's using the stunner.
He's doing that, but he's and then I can't remember if he's also doing the muscle buster as well.
Yeah, I think he is actually because that was the thing that put Randy Orton away.
Yeah. So basically what I'm getting at is that they're trying to make them look formidable.
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And if they don't fucking pull the trigger now, then at what point do you believe that Kevin Owens is a threat in any regard if he's not going to win the championship?
Well, then you can't.
And then it's it's over. Yeah, it's over.
It's over for Kevin.
But anyways, back to fucking Monday night horseshit on Netflix.
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Yes, there was a couple.
The Rock said bullshit a couple of times.
I also want to just the Rock thing real quick to add to that, how he how he fucked up when he was when he was talking because he was he literally said finally the WWE or Monday Night Rock has come back to Netflix.
And I was like, you dumb motherfucker.
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They never been on Netflix.
Like, what do you mean they finally they've come back?
And then he immediately realized what he did.
And then he moved into, oh, you know, you don't want to hear that bullshit, though.
So and then he did the finally the Rock has come back to L.A. or whatever thing to cover that fuck up.
All right, because I don't know if I paid attention to that.
Is it possible he just said finally, Raw has come to Netflix instead of no, he said, then come back to the rules.
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Oh, fuck. Let's see if I can find it.
I can probably find it on YouTube.
We can watch it real quick just so we can be confirmed.
Maybe I'm wrong.
All right.
The Rock promo for promo.
WWE Raw Netflix.
Netflix.
Let's see the Raw.
That's some asshole.
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The Rock walks backstage preview.
They don't like Cody Rhodes.
Is this it?
No, that's on set.
Smackdown.
No, that's my name.
Oh, yeah, here it is.
All right.
All right.
We got it.
So we got we had to pause this.
Yeah.
All right.
So I'll pause the recording.
All right.
All right.
So we just do it.
Yeah.
Confirm that he does say come back.
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Yeah.
The WWE has come back to Netflix or whatever for the first time for the last time.
So that was AIDS.
Right.
Yeah.
Was that match, dude, that Roman Reigns and so was the call match.
That's what made me want to fucking say, dude, that it was way too fucking long.
The stakes.
I mean, the stakes could never have been lower.
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Yeah.
I mean, man, for us trying to get the idea that this was the pinnacle of the rivalry
between the two bloodlines and these two dickheads having an OK match and that the finish is
just fucking awful.
Of course, because it's tribal rules, which just is a hand wavy reason to have everybody
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else interfere.
Yeah.
Kevin Owens jumping in and doing his bullshit.
And I forgot who else intervened.
Sammy Zane and was it J. Uso or Jimmy J. Uso.
So they show up and shit.
Roman gets the pin.
And I just think, why the fuck?
Why the fuck are they going to give Roman exactly?
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Like, why are we going to end up exactly in the same situation?
Again, do you know everything that happened the last eight months was absolutely fucking
nothing?
Nothing.
It was pointless.
Not even.
And I'm like, man, what a great way to bury fucking so was ago.
Yeah.
As if he was on anybody's radar of being main event material.
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Gone.
B plus guy forever, dude.
B plus guy for fucking lifetime.
Not worth anybody's time.
Nobody gives a shit.
That thumb fucking strike to the.
I don't give a fuck, dude.
Wacky shit.
Horrible fucking finish.
I can't believe they did this.
I think the interesting thing would have been to actually have Roman Reigns lose to lose
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his wise man to soul.
So Koa that we might have had at the very least, we would have had something different.
Yeah.
Something semi interesting.
Yeah.
And then at the end of it to have the rock come out again and basically eat up another
15 fucking minutes of him fucking slowly sauntering to the ring, appearing to maybe have a confrontation
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and then like, you know, fucking raising him up and do all this shit.
And then they celebrate and all this dumb ass shit, right?
Which this was another problem I had in general with this opening of Netflix.
I got one more thing.
So when he came out to the ring, he also did that stupid thing that Maui does and fucking
my man, what a great way to shill Disney.
Yeah.
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The rock is basically become effectively the Gene Simmons of of wrestling where he's just
out there promoting every goddamn thing.
Yeah, true.
Not even not even the person that you knew him once as 30 years ago.
Yeah, that's fucking insane.
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So another issue that I have with this rate and we'll get to the other nostalgia acts
that came out in a minute.
But as the as we count it, essentially four segments were given to nostalgia acts, right?
Or portions of segments that were unnecessary.
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Given to nostalgia acts, one of them got to the rock being the rock, right?
And in meanwhile, you've got the guy who's your world heavyweight champion doing a fucking
three and a half minute pre-recorded video package.
That's on the side lies.
That's what he gets, right?
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You've got your inner continental champion sitting in the audience and he doesn't even
have the belt.
He's just sitting in the audience next to some dumb bitch.
And what a what a way as we've talked about and I've bitched about in the past, them not
giving any sway to titles at all.
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Like you've just effectively shown us that you don't give two fucks about any of these
titles that exist currently.
Like they don't matter.
Because with this show, this show should have been booked like a WrestleMania for Raw, in
my opinion.
And it's and I think my opinion is right.
It should have been booked as you've got.
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We should have got this fucking show with three hours and two minutes.
We should have gotten seven fucking matches.
We should have had World Heavyweight title defense be our main event.
We should have had an intercontinental title defense.
We should have had a tag team title defense.
Yes, the Women's World Championship did get decided in this show and that should have
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also been on there.
And then if you want to throw in your CM Punk versus Seth Rollins match, you can have that
be in there as well.
That's five.
Fucking yeah, that should be like the bologna or the salami sandwich.
You want to cap off with the titles.
Yeah, well, then you do.
And that's only if you have five.
But you want to have I think we should have got seven.
So you can have your dumbass Ulefala match.
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OK, that would have been six.
And then if you really wanted to, you could have had dumb shit Jey Uso and fucking True
McIntyre, Job McIntyre fucking go.
That could have been your seven.
That should have never been a fucking match in the in the whole night.
I agree.
It wasn't supposed to be.
I don't think they called an audible.
And originally we were supposed to get because they had been hyping it.
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Pentel Zero was supposed to fucking debut.
And they for some reason, because they were supposed to be a tag team match between Rey
Mysterio and the New Day and it was going to be Rey Mysterio and a mystery partner,
which we all knew who the fuck it was going to be.
Right now they scrapped that at the last minute.
And Rey Mysterio sitting in the audience like an asshole and not on the show anymore.
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And then I think the New Day were involved in some stupid ass backstage segment, which
was fucking stupid.
And then you've got that whole thing scrapped.
Now you've got Chad Gable being in this.
Oh, now he's going to fight some mystery partner this this Monday on Raw, which yes, I'm going
to watch because I want to see what they do with Pentel Zero in his first fucking debut
because I like Pentel Zero.
I'm a big fan and I want to see.
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I think I think that if the WWE, I don't have high hopes that they're going to use them
correctly.
And I hate to say this until Rey Fenix comes in, he is going to be essentially the Shinsuke
Nakamura of Mexican wrestling in WWE.
Like what they basically did to Shinsuke when he was when he came in there is what they're
going to fucking do to him.
He's going to be a jobber for a while.
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And then when Rey Fenix ends up coming into the WWE and signing his deal, they'll put
them together as the Lucha Bros and they're going to win both tag team belts.
And well, that'll be that'll be good for them, right?
They'll win some belts.
They'll do some shit.
But I feel like WWE is going to horribly misuse him as a singles competitor.
And it's kind of already beginning right now with this whole situation.
Like I listen, I like Chad Gable.
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All right.
And I think him and Chad Gable are going to have a great match.
And honestly, it doesn't mean anything, though, like it doesn't mean shit like this is what
a shitty way to debut.
Like it's like you're you're you're in a fucking a stupid ass match.
Check Gable.
And again, I know Chad Gable.
He's a he's a great wrestler.
I think he's going to do they're going to have a great match together.
But I don't know.
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I guess we'll see.
Maybe this will be some few.
That's probably what he'll hold over.
I'll have this feud for a month or two with Chad Gable.
And then who the fuck knows?
But again, we scrap other shit, but we get four segments of garbage.
We get the two segments to the next two, the other two segments with the Sal Jackson.
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I don't even understand what the fuck the point of them was.
But so, OK, so we had this we had the Roman Reigns match, which was fucking whack.
OK, we got through that.
Then after that, did we get John Cena?
Yeah, I think it was John Cena.
And then it was after well, then I think it was Drew McIntyre.
And the Jey Uso match.
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Yeah.
And then it was the women's world.
No, I think the women's world title went next.
And then it was the Jimmy and or the Jimmy Uso and Drew McIntyre.
Then it was CM Punk versus Seth Rollins.
Oh, yeah.
And then the John Cena segment, I think right after this, wasn't it?
Yeah, I think it was.
And that was straight hot garbage, man.
I have never wanted to see someone fail so bad.
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And I like John Cena.
All right.
I liked him back in the day.
He's now come back and he's cookie cutter John Cena.
Like good guy face John Cena.
And I also hate him basically doing this whole bullshit of like, oh, I'm not going to go and win and I'm not going to do this.
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Blah, blah, blah.
And then doing exactly what I said he was going to do.
He's going to fucking declare for the Royal Rumble.
And then maybe I'll win the Royal Rumble and go to WrestleMania and win my set.
Oh, it's not going to happen.
But they say never say never on the 17th title.
But I am going to go to the Royal Rumble.
I hated that.
That was fucking stupid.
He also showed for Netflix as well.
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I thought he was going to come out and start talking to give a given apology in Chinese again, potentially.
I was just not happy with the way this this this kind of played out.
This is just like I don't know if you ever seen Wayne's World when it became like an official television program and not just Cindy or not just broadcast it.
(23:40):
Yeah.
And then they're like, oh, I'm going to go and get this cable.
So they get money.
And then it's like, all right, now we want you to do these things.
And it's like, oh, man, it's exactly like fucking Wayne's World.
They got the money.
They got the bag.
Now they have a TV show and now they have a company telling them exactly what they need to do.
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Yeah.
It's like all the things that were cool about wrestling are now gone.
They're all being pushed out.
It's all been corporatized.
They're all being pushed out of the show.
Netflix is apparently also running the show.
And honestly, like, say what you want about Vince McMahon and his personal life and all this bullshit, right?
(24:23):
That's been going on.
But I will say this.
All that stuff happening and then him stepping down and all this stuff and then selling or whatever.
The worst thing that could have happened because now it is truly going to be corporatized, at least while Vince was around.
TKO was kind of just letting him do what he wanted to do.
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But now that he's out of the picture, that's it.
They now are calling the shots.
In my opinion, at least.
And also, I feel like Netflix is calling shots, too.
Dude, I'm kind of curious if this just ends up being a WCW situation with Turner Network.
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Well, Turner and what was it?
AOL Warner.
Oh, yeah.
That TKO is fucking Turner and then Netflix is fucking AOL Warner.
Yeah.
And they're kind of like, we need you to do all this bullshit.
We need to place our ads.
We need to fucking we need to do what we need.
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We need you to say thank you on the program and how great we are at all this shit.
It's like, oh, shit, here we go.
Here we go, dude.
Four billion dollars.
Like, yeah, you got your paycheck.
But who the fuck knows if people are going to check in to wrestling the next fucking year or two if you keep doing this shit?
Yeah, I mean, I'm already again because I'm the completionist.
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I will be watching this year to see John Cena's final fucking year, even though I fuck.
I hope he I hope he gets hit by a truck on semi on TV or some shit.
But I am not.
Excited about having to continue to I mean, the only thing I'm excited for is maybe Pentel zero.
And then I think Malachi back black is also coming back to the WWE.
I think he's done with the W and I think he's on his way back.
(26:13):
So that'll be interesting to see if they do anything with that.
Yeah.
Other than put him on SmackDown to be show.
But I mean, I don't know if they'll maybe they'll do something with them on Raw.
But I digress.
So the Cena fucking thing was garbage.
Hated it.
Then after that, we get the Liv Morgan and Rhea Ripley World Title match.
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I I also found it very strange.
The camera work.
I don't know if.
Like.
They they kept like zooming in on like when their legs would be open, they kept like zooming in on their snatches, man.
It was very weird.
And now granted the match, the wrestling itself wasn't like anything to fucking write home about.
(26:58):
But.
That was like overshadowing the match.
I think was them keep zooming in on their fucking vaginas.
And I'm like, why? What is the point of this?
That wasn't even the worst part, man.
That wasn't even the fucking worst part.
It's the fact that Ray Ripley couldn't have her own fucking moment.
Well, actually, that's the worst part.
Yes, I take that back.
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So we get this tease of.
Mark Calloway.
Dead the dead man, the Undertaker, we get the flat, they get the lights.
The end when she's out, she's walking back to the ramp after she wins and she walks up and she's there with the belt and.
But they hold up like because he doesn't get the bike out there.
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I don't know what the fuck. I don't know if you got lost backstage or what the fuck it was.
But there was a point where Ray Ripley breaks the fourth wall, looks into the camera.
She's like, oh, look at my fucking pill.
And then he comes out, does a fucking lap or ignores her, doesn't even acknowledge her existence when he when she he drives right by her.
Yeah. And then he fucking does a lap.
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And then, you know, he does that thing where he puts it in neutral and then he fucking just like revs it.
Yeah, I was sitting there because I was watching it with Ian and Ed.
And I'm like, I was like, dude, wouldn't it be hilarious if right now he forgot to put it in neutral and fucking revs it and it shoots straight through the stage, goes right up from underneath them.
And he's just standing there and he's just like, oh, fuck, that would be hilarious.
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Didn't happen, obviously. But he does that.
And then he looks at her and he's like, oh, yeah, I forgot you're here.
But I think he says that they're like, oh, yeah, I fucking forgot.
I got to do this. And then she's like, standing next to me.
She's like, hey, do you want to do the thing with the arm?
And then she's like, OK. And then they do it.
And then I'm like, why?
What's the point of this? It's so stupid.
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You're not like Ray Ripley is not like a dead man type character.
She's not like the new Undertaker.
She's not like an undead creature of the night.
Her gimmick is not that like also he came out as the American badass.
So like she's also not that either.
She's not like a biker chick. She's Australian.
Yeah, she's a fucking Australian.
So none of that made any sense at all.
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And like also, she doesn't need a rub from the Undertaker.
Not anymore. No. I mean, dude, Undertaker for me is dropped in like his stock
in wrestling is dropped significantly that not even his own presence can can win me over.
Yeah, man. I was like, this was completely unnecessary.
(29:33):
Give it to someone who needs it, at least like this was this made no fucking sense.
Yeah, dude, I just couldn't believe that he had to hog his.
She she had her moment, but he's like, oh, no, let me make this about me now.
Like, I got to have my two seconds.
Yeah, very fucking ridiculous.
Then we get into after that, I think we get the.
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Jeyuso and Drew McIntyre.
Not worth mentioning.
Definitely not.
That entrance. I just want to say this.
Um, Michael Cole standing out there doing the thing completely out of sync
and like like he has no idea what's happening.
Was the stupidest thing I think I've ever seen on television.
Why? Why? Also, why does Pat McAfee need to go away?
(30:21):
Just fuck off, Pat McAfee.
Go somewhere else. You know, I don't need you ruining wrestling for me.
They're already doing a good enough job on their own.
We don't need you adding to the fucking shit show.
Yeah, there were some weird remarks like he said, oh, oh, man, I'm eating all over myself.
And then he's like, oh, don't eat in my suit or, you know, Michael Cole said something to the effect of like, don't eat in my suit.
(30:44):
The fuck, dude. What the fuck?
Yeah, I also I don't even fucking that entrance was fucking stupid as hell.
And also, why does fucking what's his name? That fucking rapper that came out first.
Why is he walking out? Travis Scott. Yeah.
Why is he walking out with some weird hardcore title that doesn't like exist?
(31:09):
It's like the new WWE title. And it's like it's just it's like they made it look like the old hardcore belt.
Like because he killed 10 people.
You got a hardcore champion. Yeah.
Ten people died at his concert. So it was like, oh, yeah, here's our core brother. Look, yeah. Ten people died at my concert.
Yeah. Yeah. What a strange what a strange.
I just I don't understand. And this probably is more telling of WWE or TKO that they associate with these people.
(31:35):
But they have a knack for picking some of the worst people they really do.
I just I don't fucking know, dude. I don't know.
And yeah, and we get we get a shit ton more every every segment in between was people in the audience that are not wrestling, that are active, that are wrestlers that are not wrestling.
Right. And this is the other thing that I don't this is I this I fully believe this is from this is a TKO thing because I don't I don't need the US or the WWE to be more like the UFC because that's what the UFC does.
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That's what they do all the time in between matches and shit. They show all the guys that are fighting that night or whatever.
And they seem in the audience and they're there just watching where I don't need to see that.
I don't need that shit in my wrestling. I that is the worst fucking thing that they have added.
One of the worst things that I in my opinion is that they've added and I don't need them to do it.
I don't fucking need it. It's it's stupid. Again, like why even fucking show me that they're there?
(32:31):
I don't I don't care. Why do I want to see Brombreaker sitting in the audience? I want to actually see him defend his belt like I want to start wrestling.
I don't want to see him sitting in the audience in street clothes. That makes that does nothing for me.
I understand why the guys in the UFC have to do that because they only fight once every like six months or whatever.
Right. Like I understand that's how it works over there in wrestling.
You wrestle every fucking week basically. All right. I don't need you sitting in the audience.
(32:56):
That's that's terrible. Anyways, job McIntyre match was garbage.
Skip on that. And then after that we get for some fucking unknown reason, Hulk Hogan, which honestly what was funny is the ads in the ring.
Right. Real American beer was in two of the corners, I think. Yeah, they were they were directly daggily directly.
(33:22):
Yeah. From each other. And I didn't it didn't dawn on me that that's what it was. No, I didn't know what it was either.
What the fuck? Yeah. And then when he comes out and starts talking about this real American beer, the second he gets on the mic, real American beer, brother.
I'm like, oh shit, that's what this fucking is. Yeah. And as he's out here trying to show his beer and getting booed out to fucking high heavens, that was also that was hilarious.
(33:49):
I don't know what anybody was thinking of. Why would you bring out someone who's a known racist, obviously a known Trump supporter and bring him out in the bluest fucking city or the bluest fucking area in America almost in L.A.
(34:11):
Like, why would you fucking parade Hulk Hogan out and expect something to happen that was good?
I know. Furthermore, why the fuck would they partner with real American beer, dude? What do they what does real American beer have to offer?
How do we know it's not just Budweiser with like a different label on it or something that actually would make a lot of sense if that's the case?
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Let me let me look up real American beer. Yeah, I'm thinking I don't think he there's no way this is like an original recipe for beer.
It's probably some other fucking other beer. It's produced by Great Central Brewery, a contract brewer in Chicago.
Okay, total wine and more has it for avail. God, wait a minute. Hold on a second. Is that 31.99? God, he charges in can form. He's charging more than a dollar a fucking can. What an asshole.
(35:08):
Let's see the 12 pack is that in some cans and in some bottles 1499 Jesus.
That's terrible. Well,
the weird part was Michael Cole came to the defense of Hulk Hogan and said, If it were for Hulk Hogan,
(35:30):
none of us would be here. I'm like, man, you're picking a weird person to defend right now.
I hope somebody clip that. I hope somebody clip that and remind. I hope somebody throws that Michael Cole's face like down the road. Hey, man, don't forget you supported a fucking racist.
Oh, yeah. Great.
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So, yeah, basically.
There are men. He didn't even make it is like his own fucking company, man, like, oh, is this just endorsing it. So I think it's just this company making it and they just basically hired him.
He's a jolly green giant for the fuck. Yeah, it is fucking beer. I don't think. Okay.
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Man, I don't know. That's pretty wack, dude. That is super wack. Well, anyways, fuck Hulk Hogan and fuck the Hulk Hogan. That's the iron cheek would say. Yeah, he was right about this.
And definitely just forever do for all time.
So where does that leave us? Then that boils us into the main events. CM Punk versus Seth Rollins, which I could barely remember that match.
(36:46):
And the only thing I remember is that.
I think Seth Rollins gets a GTS.
He bumps into the ropes, walks into CM Punk again and gets another GTS. Correct. This was the exact finish from AEW all out.
(37:07):
Twenty twenty two or three. And it was CM Punk, Adam Page.
He gives him the GTS. He literally bounces, does the same exact thing into the ropes and he falls on him.
I don't think it's Adam Page. It's John Moxley. Oh, you're right. It's John Moxley. Yeah.
(37:28):
It was the same fucking finish, the exact same finish in the exact same way.
And I was like, get the fuck out of here. Once that once that one thing, once he fell on top of my I can't believe I just fucking watch that.
He walked himself over to him, dude. It was all my man.
This was not a good first impression for people that watch wrestling.
This if you thought it was ass hattery before. Oh, man, you definitely.
(37:54):
You're sold on this. You're never going to watch this again ever.
Yeah. I thought this was going to be way cooler than I mean, the hopes were high.
But I mean, my my my disappointment is immeasurable. Yeah, it just fell apart, man.
(38:15):
Like, I don't know what the fuck they were thinking. And yet again, I hate to bring it up, man.
But the Wyatt six, they did not bring him out to interfere or or nothing.
Just this is how you know they don't know what they're doing with them and they're just going to go away.
Nobody cares. I mean, maybe they might get one title, one arbitrary title.
It might be the fucking icy title. But that wasn't the that why make the big ass setup of the big return for, you know, somebody from the the Wyatt family to to to honor the memory.
(38:48):
Of Bray Wyatt and nothing, nothing's really come of it, and especially for this fucking thing.
As impactful as it was supposed to be, this this WrestleMania of Monday Night Raw, dude, man, we got we got fucking gypped hardcore because this was this was as bad as you can imagine it.
(39:10):
Like this was dog shit. This was like getting this was getting butt fucked without the condom. No lube, no lube and getting them blow your blow their load inside your butthole, too.
Yeah. Can you get your nuts squeezed? Oh, yeah.
And then you shouldn't come for like a week and a half because they just can't get it all out every time you shit.
There's just a little bit of just floating in the toilet. Yeah, it's it was terrible, man.
(39:32):
I can't I believe it, but I can't believe you know what I'm saying. Like it was not it was not good. I'm not hopeful.
No. And that's the other thing is I feel gypped in the sense that they kept hyping this up as oh, this is the new era.
It's the Netflix era. This is a whole going to be a whole new thing. This was exactly same old shit.
(39:56):
The chant on on Netflix was the same shit on Netflix, on Netflix.
It was like putting a black like, you know, like one of those label makers. Yeah.
A new era. And all you did was just put a fucking label. Yeah. You just put a new label on it.
Nothing, nothing new. Same recipe. Same shit.
Maybe even the worst recipe, maybe even worse ingredients have been now added.
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And now I got to add this. This has nothing to do with anything. But.
Remember last week when we were talking about Weider Wheeler, you just being a fucking job this week.
They had powerhouse Hobbs like clean house and then he was supposed to kick John Moxley's ass because he goes in the fucking ring.
So then powerhouse Hobbs goes after John Moxley and then one of the people that's in what's the new group called?
(40:43):
That's not Black Bull Combat. What do they call that? The Death Riders.
So I think there's a woman in the Death Riders. Right. I don't know what her name is.
But yeah, she gets out of the way and who shows up as the last line of defense.
And he gets his fucking ass whoop, dude. And I'm like, oh, dude, I think I think Wheeler Yuta is becoming my favorite wrestler because it's like he's just he's just there to get his ass beat.
(41:06):
He's like the least threatening member. It's like the nice guy.
Everybody can beat him. Like no big deal. Like, yeah, it's just so Moxley or fucking his cannon fodder.
Yeah. Castanet or whatever. Canoli. Yeah. It's just so either either of them has to take the take the job.
It's just he he's the job guy. Yeah, dude. The Death Riders. Yeah, that was that was the one thing that was good that happened to wrestling this week.
(41:30):
Yeah, that's hilarious. So anyways, I guess see what the fuck happens.
So anyways, you got anything else to add about Monday night? Ship ship flicks?
Dude, I think you're probably right about the Pentel zero. He's he's gonna he's not gonna mount the shit.
Who are we fucking kidding? This is just to keep him away from a W. Not that he would go back.
(41:53):
Not that he would go back anyways, but it's just one less toy that a W gets to play with. Yeah, exactly.
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