WWE Crown Jewel 2025 Review | Cena And Styles PAY HOMAGE To Past Rivals In Another CLASSIC - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it definitely wasn't a C show this time. I
think it's safe to say Crown Jewel is in the books.
Crown Jewel was a very good show. Crown Jewel is
more like in the B plus range. I would say
if the last show was to see, this is definitely
in the range of a BB plus because I enjoyed

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this show. I enjoyed largely this show off the back
of one match in particular, which was John Cena and
AJ Styles. You removed that match from this card, and
I'm not going to be so generous. It was still
a good show, but not nearly as good if you
took that match out. And I will point out to
you because I think it's worth pointing out that since

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his return to being a babyface after that failed heel
run at the beginning of the year, John Cena, right
before SummerSlam, right went back to being a babyface again.
And here's a guy who and I will admit because
I was one of these people who was saying it
when John Cena would show up on occasion to do
a match over the last few years, when John Cena

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would come in and have you know, a singles match
of WrestleMania with Austin Theory a couple of years ago.
You know, you hear things like, oh, he's washed. That's it.
He doesn't have it anymore, he can't go anymore. The
man is washed. Right for a guy who was washed,
I will point out to you that John Cena has

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stolen the show on three of the last four pls.
So that doesn't sound like a guy who's washed me.
It sounds like a guy who still has it within
him to pull out something very special if the circumstances
are right, and if he has the right dance partner
in the ring with him. He proved that at SummerSlam.

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He proved it in Paris with Logan Paul because they
had the best match on that show, and he proved
it tonight at Crown Jewel with Aj Styles because these
two men went out there and they had a fantastic match.
They rekindled a lot of that old chemistry that they
had when they began their feud back in twenty sixteen.

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And if you really look at all of the matches
they had prior to this show, they have never had
a bad match before. Never from the very first match
that they had at Money in the Bank until that
very last big pl match they had at the Royal
Rumble We're Sena one number sixteen, and even the television
match on SmackDown the year after that. Every single time

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these two get in the ring together, they put on
an absolute masterclass in the ring. That again, you just
have certain opponents that can bring the best out of you.
That's what we got with John Cena and Cmpunk. That's
what we got many times with John Cena and Edge Right,
you didn't always get it, but with the right person.

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AJ Styles was that person. I will also point out
to you that, and I was actually a little surprised.
I don't recall the announcers even mentioning this. They mentioned
it on TV during the week, but I don't think
they mentioned this on the show. CERT didn't when the
match was over. This was John Cena's one hundredth pl
E win, So he now sits in second place all
time in WWE, second only to the Undertaker with one

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oh seven. And obviously he's not going to pass the
Undertaker because John Cena has I guess one ple E
left unless you count Saturday Night's Made event as a
premium live event, which I don't Uh, he's only got
one left and that is Survivor Series. Actually, John Cena
only has four dates left in general, and that is it.
That is it. So much time wasted on that heel run.

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I mean, we're going to look back on it and
there'll be the post mortem and everything once scene is
actually done. But I'll tell you what, this last leg
of the retirement tour, I am greatly enjoying it. I
only wish we had more time and we could have
made better use of this year. But this was a
match I was hoping to get when they first announced
that he was going to be going on this retirement tour.
And you make you know, everyone makes their list the

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top five, top ten people you want to see him
in the ring with, and I don't know that there
would have been a single person who wouldn't have had
aj Styles on that list. So I'm very happy we
got the match. We got a lot of callbacks in
this match. We've got a lot of people who were honored.
I guess you would say by either Sina or AJ
past foes of theirs, because remember, John Cena is not

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the only one whose career was coming to an end
very soon. AJ Styles has already made it very clear
he has done in the year twenty twenty six. He
made it very clear in Australia again this week. So
to see him making, you know, or putting together these
moves to pay respect to people like staying in Samoa Joe,

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and then you see John Cena in there paying homage
to all the men that he's not going to be
able to step into the ring with because there's not
enough time left. Whether it's Rusev or whether it's the
Miz or whoever, it is only added to the match.
It was just a really enjoyable twenty seven minutes, I
want to say. Now, contrast that with another match on

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the show that went about his long and actually a
little bit longer than the Scena an Aj match, and
that match when it was over, I felt like there
was no reason for that match to be as long
as it was right. You could you could tell them
the level of enjoyment I had for each of these matches.
You had the Scena match where the thought never crossed
my mind of oh, you know, this match has gone
a little too long as compared to the main event,

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which was not a bad match, but that match I
definitely felt like there was no reason for this match
to be going thirty minutes, which is what it went.
Seth Rollins is your Crown Jewel Champion for twenty twenty five.
Last year it was Cody. This year at Seth, nobody
should be surprised by that. They came into this match.
Seth Rollins was in a zero for three hole right now.

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If this were the oh, I don't know, the Red Sox,
let's say, of two thousand and four with the Yankees, yeah,
you would. You would expect them. They're gonna climb out
of that hole and make history. I mean, who could
have predicted that? But you look at the numbers here
and it's just like, what does Cody Rhodes have to
gain by beating some Deth Rollins? Absolutely nothing? Right that

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the outcome here was preordained from the moment they announced
the match, But they try to wrap it around this
story of Seth Rollins and Paul Hayman in self doubt
creeping in and I have to win, I must win
bron breaker and Bronson Reid going to Paul Hayman and saying, well,
what happens if Seth loses? And Hayman telling Rollins right,

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the other week. You want to know what happens if
you lose, You lose the respect of your peers, you
lose the respect of your fellow Vision members. They no
longer believe in the vision that you are putting forth,
and they want you to believe that a Seth Rollins
loss here could be catastrophic for this faction. It could
very well be the end of the Vision. But you
had to know coming in this was not going to

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be the end of the Vision. In fact, it only
made sense that this night would make the Vision even stronger,
which meant Seth Rollins had to win, and it meant
that Bronson Reid had to win his match against Roman
Reigns because a loser he would look like had he
come in and lost his second straight pl match to
Roman Reigns. And I'm happy to say they did the

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right thing, and in fact, Bronson Reid did come out
of this show on the winning end of things. But
we'll get into all the different matches here. Of course,
we also had Rhea, Ripley and Eosky against Oscar and
Kyrie saying that story's been playing itself out now for
several months on WWE television, and I mentioned Bronson Reid
the biggest win of his career on this show, and

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then we had another Crown Jewel Championship match with a women,
Stephanie Vaquierre Tiffany Stratton. Unlike the Cody Rhods and Seth
Rollins match which was actually coming into this show, had
the best story. It had the richest history of any
of the matches on this show, which is kind of
funny now that I look back at this that we're
talking about this five match pl e right, a Triple

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H special, and of all the matches on the card,
the match that I enjoyed the most and to me,
inarguably the best match on the entire show was the
one that had absolutely no story. I mean, they have
a history together, but that's not the story. There's no
story about this match. They decided to put together a
match between these two guys, knowing that, yeah, I'm sure

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Sena wanted to work with him, but they put this
match together because now they wanted to put together this
dream match that they could promote for the show. Sena
never appeared once on television. We had not seen John
Cena at all since he got destroyed by Brock Lesner
at Wressell Palooza. They just announced the match, but that
was the best thing on the entire show. Now, Stephanieva

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kaeron Tiffitty Stratton, no story there whatsoever. We have this
Crown Jeweled Championship, which is bigger than most of the
women they have on the fucking roster, and we had
the champion on one brand facing the champion on the
other brand for an even bigger belt that we will
not see again for another three hundred and sixty five days.
Not much to it. Really not a bad match, but

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not a whole lot to it, and definitely not something
that anybody who's going to go back and have the
hankering to go watch again. But when the show is over,
I felt like there was nothing bad on the show,
and there's one thing, one thing that is going to
be memorable. If there's one thing that I do think
people are going to go back and relive and watch
over time, it is the scene of aj match. Everything

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else on the show really just felt mostly inconsequential and
not particularly memorable. And that was really the story of
Crown Jewel. I thought it was an enjoyable three hours.
It was really all about one match, but it was
better than Russell Palooza. I will say that this is
your WWE Crown Jewel Perth review. It is Saturday, October eleventh,

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twenty twenty five. I am the Solemn Monster. Yeah, I
did see on the Post Show they brought Triple H
out again the way they do the Post shows now
because they don't do the media quote unquote scrums anymore.
So they have the panel which is usually Jackie red
Mind and Biggie is there, and they and Peter Rosenberg

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and so they bring people out and you see the
fans in the background. So they brought out Triple H,
who of course comes out and he talks about what
a great show it was, what a great night and
all of this stuff. And I'm watching some of the
highlights of this thing. And if you remember when the
fans behind him, maybe it was Summer Slim, We're chanting,

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we want Cross, we want Cross, and he of course
pretended like, oh you want Brock, well you got him. Yeah,
it had to be the night that brought came back
a Summer slig Oh you want Brock, right, you want Brock,
you got him? Yeah, selective hearing. So this time this
is even better. So this time, you have fans chanting

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for MJF. I don't know where that came from, but
you got MJF chance from the crowd. Of course he's
no selling it and ignoring it, but there's no way
he doesn't hear it. And then after that, after that,
you've got fans that start chanting, we want Edge, we
want Edge again. I don't know where that came from,

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and almost like under his breath, like he didn't like
turn around to address them. But you know, Triple H's
response is, well, you can't have him, which is true.
I mean contractually, you just you can't. There's nothing he
could do about it. So he says, you can't have him.
And so what did the fans do? They begin to
sing the lyrics to Metalingis. I felt like it's just

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like they're all like and half of them didn't even
I don't think really know the words to the song,
but they start singing the song anyway, as Triple H
is going through his usual spiel about you know, what
a great show and all this other nonsense, and these
people are just they're too busy singing alter Bridge in
the background. They're just look, they're just there to have
a good time. Right. They were there for SmackDown on Friday,

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they were there for Crown Jewel. They're gonna have Raw
again in Australia. It's gonna be another early start here
on the East Coast. So we got Raw in Perth
on Monday and you know, largely a hot crowd who
did all the things that you would expect them to do.
When you have these international crowds, the singing now is universal.
It doesn't matter if they're in the UK, if they're

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in Paris, France, they're in Australia, Canada. They all have
to sing now. This is the new thing. They all
have to sing. I'm begging them to come up with
something new. You know they sing They basically just take
the wrestler's name and they just sing the same song, right.
It's kind of the same beat, like yeah, Roman Roman

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runs right, and then they'll just do the same thing
over and over again with other people. It's like, come on,
come up with some new material. Seriously, if you're gonna
serenade us, it's the least. It's the least you could do.
It's really all I ask. I will not be doing
any singing tonight though, So you don't have to worry
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So there's a lot going on. And then of course
it starts all over again eight o'clock in the morning
with raw on Monday. So the work never ends. But

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I thank you for sticking with me for all of it.
Now we get into this show here. Michael Call and
Wade Barrett they handled commentary for the show, so they
were on the call for this one. They opened with
the Australian street fight between the Big Aussie himself. Bronson
Reid out with Paul Hayman. So no bron breaker and

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definitely not getting any sort of heroes welcome, even though
he is from the country. I don't know what part
of Australia he's from, but that shouldn't matter, you know,
he's still he's one of them. But no, they did
not cheer for him when he came out, but he
went one on one with the man that they did
very much cheer for here, which was Roman Reigns. Rains

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was all Overread for the first I'd say five minutes
or so here of this match. They ended up outside
the ring. Rains found the trash can and he hit
Read with it. But then he found a few toys,
I guess for him to play with. He found a
cricket bat, so he pulled that out and then he
threw what might at Paul Hayman. He threw what Michael

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Cole said was a rugby ball. It was not the
rugby ball that Michael Cole would have you believe that
it was. It was an Australian rules football. This is
a very serious thing here. You got to get it right.
Australian rules football is what it was, so he threw

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it to Paul Hayman, which I thought was kind of funny.
They got back in the ring, Rains used the cricket
bat as a weapon, sent Read back out to the floor,
so Rains went to ringside. As soon as he did, though,
Read or Rains that Read steam rolled over him and
briefly took control. Roman then worked him over with a
kendo stick. You can't have a WWE street fight without

(15:32):
a kendo sticks. It's just it's a prerequisite. Here, Rains
grabbed the house mic. At that point, he told the
crowd Perth, if you want tables, acknowledge me. So they
chanted otc and acknowledged him, and he pulled out a
slim gym table from underneath the ring. Reid hit Rains
from behind, He ran him into the ring steps, and

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then he slid the table back underneath the ring. Instant heat.
You want to get heat, he's the table. And then
you shove it back under the ring. And you don't
even have to stay into the word. You have to
do anything, You don't have to say anything. The booze
will just rain down upon you. Tables are just the
biggest baby face in all of wrestling. So you do

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something like that, you want to get heat. That's one
way to get heat. So Reid grabbed the piece of
the ring steps and he battered Roman with it twice
before tossing him back inside the ring. Reid pulled out
two chairs and he hit Roman with one of them,
which then he wedged in the corner of the ring.
Reid set up a chair in the ring. Roman, though,
shot back up and he hit a Samoan drop to

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this big sob right on top of the chair. This chair,
This chair got just destroyed as soon as he dropped
him on the chair. It's as if the chair like
under the weight of Bronson Reed. This fucking chair just
collapsed in a heap, just flattened it. Rains then ran
Read into the chair that was wed in the corner.

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He hit him with a superman punch. Rains went to
the corner. He let out his battle cry where I
call it his al pacino. Huah. He let out his
h huah. I don't know why that's funny to me read.
They rolled out of the ring to avoid the spear,

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so instead, Rains went to the floor. He started to
circle the ring. He was going to go for a spear,
and what happened. Bron Breaker hops the barricade and he
catches Roman before Roman can catch Reid, and he cuts
him down with his spear. So Michael Cole said, there's
nothing the referee can do because it's a street fight.
There's no diequalification. Breaker hoisted reins up. He handed him

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off to Read, who power bombed him through the announced table.
So that brought out the USSOS. So they did make
the trip, even after Roman told him on rom Mounday night,
I don't want you there. I don't want you there.
I don't need your help. They were there anyway, Jimmy
and Jay. He dropped Breaker with a double superkick and
then did the same to Bronson Reid the usso's hip

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simultaneous hip attacks to Reid m Breaker the in opposite corners.
Then he dropped Breaker with the one D so the
USSOS they went up top for a double USO splash.
Read those shoved Jimmy off the ropes. Breaker shot up.
He grabbed Jay off the ropes and he military pressed
him over his head and he dropped him onto his
knees for a Gupbuster. So Breaker went to the floor

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and he ran around the ring before spearing Jimmy through
the timekeeper's barricade. Reid went up top, Rains caught him
with a superman punch and then a second one. Rains
was ready to charge him for a spear, but he
had to go over and he had to give a
superman punch to bron Breaker to knock him off the apron,
which he went ahead and did. Reid then hoisted up Roman,

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who fought free, and as Jay Usso came in for
a spear of his own, Reid moved out of the
way and Jay accidentally speared Roman through the table that
was propped up in the corner. Uh oh, so Jay
couldn't believe what he just did. Breaker returned to the
ring and he speared Jay while Breaker dragged Roman over

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to the other corner so that his good buddy Bronson
Reid can ascend to the top and come flying off
with the tsunami splash. One tsunami splash is all it
took to pancake Roman Reigns, and with that tsunami splash,
Bronson Reid pins Roman Reigns in Perth. They actually did it.

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Good on them, good on them, the right call. I
mean there should have been a no brainer. But you know,
with these people, you never know, but good on them.
That was the right call to make. That was absolutely
the right call to make, because it now makes Roman's
win over him at clash in Paris at least understandable
if the plan had been to run this back and
do it this way and give him the win here,

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understand right, But I mean, we've seen stuff before where
they're just afraid. They're afraid to beat somebody, whether it's
a Roman Reigns or even another big babyface, they just
it's like they're allergic to doing it sometimes. And a
guy like Roman Rains is a made guy. So whether
you beat him clean or whether you beat him with
some assistance, if Roman takes the loss, Roman Reigns is

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going to wake up the next day and he's still
going to be Roman Reigns. He's still going to be
the tribal chief of the OTC or whatever nickname he's
going by this week. He's still going to be as
popular as he was when he laid his head on
the pillow the night before. Right, for him, nothing changes,
But for the person he's in the ring with, that
can mean the world. Right, that's a big deal. So

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Bronson Reid picks up again inarguably the biggest win of
his career, and with this he becomes only the second man,
the second man behind only Cody Rhodes, who has a
singles pinfall win over Romans since twenty nineteen. That's against

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Baron Corbin when Roman was still the big dog. Baron
Corbin pinned him. I want to say it was the
TLC pay per view in twenty nineteen, Cody Rhodes and
Bronson Reid. He's in rarefied air. Now. It's a very
short list since you know this tribal chief Bloodline Roman
stuff started back in twenty twenty. In terms of singles matches,

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those are the only two guys. And not only that,
but Bronson Reid is now on a list where he
has pinfall wins over Roman Reigns and Kazushka Okada. Not
too many people can say that. In fact, I'm not
sure if anybody can say that. I mean, I'm sure
somebody will hear this and let me know if I'm wrong.
I can't think of, I mean, who else would be

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on that list, at least in terms of like Bloodline
Roman that he beat Roman Reigns and Okada. I mean,
who else would even have the chance to have been
on that list. I can't think of anybody, So it
was a big win for him. Now, was it a
clean wind? No, No, it wasn't clean and it would
have been nice for Reid to shock the world and

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do it all by himself. Of course he had help
from bron Breaker, but you know what, Roman had help
from the USOS. He had backup of his own. So
the way I look at it, it kind of balances
things out a little bit. You know, Reid was out
numbered as well when it comes to the USOS going
out there. You had Jimmy and Jay and Roman and
then Bronzon only had bron Breakers. So in a way,

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I mean it was kind of unfair. But I mean,
as far as street fights go, this one was very basic.
It did have a lot of interference. So the best
I can really say about it is that it was
a solid opener. It really wasn't anything more than that. Right,
think about the way they built this up when they
announced the stipulation on TV. It really built it up

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like if you're gonna beat this man, you're gonna have
to do it in an Australian street fight, as if
this was like a known thing that when he was
on the independent scene in Australia, this was like his
specialty or something that he was known for, Like he's
deadly in these Australian street fights. Because I thought they
were going to make it a stretcher match, and you
hear that and it's like, again, the crowd had no

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reaction to that announcement when they made that stipulation, and
I look at it and go, well, of course they
have no real reaction to it because they see street
fights every single week on TV. They see street fights
on every single ple and they all have the same formula, right,
you see the same weapons, the same slim gym tables

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and kendo sticks and they you know, take the top
part of the stairs off and they have the chair
across the back and it's like it's the same bullshit
all the time. And so now it's an Australian street fight.
And I joked the other day, I was like, well,
what does that mean, Like are they going to throw?
You know, what kind of objects? Are they going to
find a thread? Sure enough, they had the rugby bat
and they had the Australian football and that was really it.

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That was about the only unique stuff they could think of.
I guess, to have that you wouldn't find in a
normal street fight. That's all it was. And so as
street fights go, this was pretty fucking tame. I'm not
saying I want them to go in there. I want,
you know, fucking Darby Allen ripping John Moxley's ear off
and all this gore and shit. But you know, it
was solid. I can't really say it was anything more

(24:18):
than that. The bigger story wasn't the match itself, right,
Reid winning was like one major story here. The real
major story is what came after the match. Roman and
the usso's are sitting in the ring right, not next
to each other, but they're all sitting in the ring
and they're just stewing. And they cut the music off
and the vision has left and Rains is looking over

(24:41):
at the ussos and he is scolding his cousins and
he says, the whole world thinks I can't do shit
on my own. I told you I'm going to do
this on my own. And he go he looks at Jimmy,
he goes, I love you. He looks at Jay and
he goes, I love you, but he says, I don't

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want to see y'all until Christmas, and with that he leaves,
and I'm like, oh man, like that's I mean, that
cuts deep. Like he's not even inviting them to Thanksgiving
dinner this year. I just pictured my head like this
big like Samoan feast for Thanksgiving, like all the family
members just I don't even know if they could find
a place big enough to house all of them, but

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like one long table, yeah, something like that. And now
they're not even invited. Now Roman says I don't want
to see you until Christmas. That's brutal. But anyway, Roman
leaves the ring and the fans begin to chant someone's
in trouble, turning this from what was supposed to be
a serious angle into comedy. Basically, Jay was very upset.

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He told Jimmy he always do him right, like he
always looks out for himself. And I'm sitting here going like, yeah,
no shit, I could have told you that, Like this
is the same person that we saw for those thirteen
hundred plus days when he was the champion, Like absolutely
nothing has changed about Roman Reign since he lost that
championship at WrestleMania last year to Cody Rose. Nothing, nothing

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except his music has changed. He has a new T shirt.
That's about it. That's it. He came back. He's not
acting any differently. He's telling people to acknowledge him. Right,
nothing has changed. He was an asshole then, he's an
asshole now. And the only difference is the fans cheer
for him because the fans are assholes. But that's it.

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And yet they act like, oh, well, he always looks
out for himself. He always he do him, he do him. Yeah,
no shit, like he's been hanging around this guy for
years and years and years. But Jay's very upset about this,
and Jay basically says I'm out. He says, I'm out,
And that's how the latest Bloodline soap opera ended here
on this show. Roman doesn't want to see them until Christmas,

(26:53):
he says, but there is a Wargames match coming up
before that, right after Thanksgiving, So I'm thinking that Roman
is going to see his cousins a lot sooner than Christmas.
I don't know that either one of the usos are
going heel out of this whole thing. Jay has definitely
been acting more heelish of late, which I like. I

(27:14):
like that they've kind of tweaked this character to try
to give it a harder edge. Roman can't go heel
because he never won babyface. No matter what Roman does,
you cannot call it a heel turn. If you do,
I'll tell you to your face you're wrong because he
never went babyface. So it's impossible for him to go heal.
But I don't see, you know, jay Uso actually going

(27:36):
full blown heel, you know, and ending the yeat stuff
like that's not gonna happen if Jimmy were to go heal,
like it to me, like, that's not even that big
of a deal, you know what I mean. So I
don't And you've reunited the usso's I'm not really sure
why you would want to split them up. So I
don't see that happening. But you know, Roman, as far
as him saying what he said here, like people say

(27:57):
I can't do shit by myself. So the idea here,
I guess with the character is that you know, clearly
it's bothering him that people say he cannot win without
help from his family, so he wants to go it alone.
Now you know, that's that's the path that he wants
to pursue. So Rains and Reid now are one win apiece, right,

(28:17):
Roman won it clash in Paris, read one here at
Crown Jewel. If they wanted to have a rubber match,
they could get one more match out of this. You know,
there's no reason that it has to stay fifty to fifty.
They have a Saturday Night's main event coming up on
November first. They could do the match there, you know,
if they wanted to. But then somebody really does. I mean,
you could always have some sort of no contest finish,

(28:39):
but you know somebody has to then win, and then
it becomes like Roman just beat him, or do you
have a Reid win again? I mean, you really want
to solidify or read you haven't beat Roman a second time.
I don't know if that's the direction they want to
go in here, But then you have wargames, you know
at Survivor series that can't imagine the Vision is not
going to be on the heel side in that match

(29:00):
and Roman will be on the baby face side. And
question then becomes who does he recruit? Well, I don't
know that he'll be the captain necessarily, but if Roman's
on the team, let's assume he would be the team captain,
because why would Roman be on a team in taking
orders from someone else who populates that team? Could it
be the ussos would see I'm punk Bey on his team.

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Is John Cena going to be in Wargames? It looks
like that's not the case if rumors are to be believed,
So we'll see how the Wargames situation shakes out. After this,
we had our first of two Crown Jewel Championship matches
here on this show, this one with the women. It

(29:43):
was the Women's World Champion Stephanie Vicaire one on one
against the WWE Women's Champion, Tiffany Stratton. Tiffany came into
this match undefeated so far here in the year of
twenty twenty five, seventeen and zer record, which I say
that out loud, and that reminds me of Jim Ross
WrestleMania twenty five when the Undertaker beat Sean Michaels seventeen

(30:05):
and zero. That's what Tiffany Stratton was coming into this match.
So they were both cheered pretty much equally. Yeah, you
have two baby face champions here, I would say from
entrance to exit, I don't really recall there being a
moment in this match where either of these women up booed.
Vicaire kept getting the better of Tiffany. She tried to

(30:27):
submission Tiffany, though countered out with a back suplex. Stratton
followed with a handspring elbow in an Alabama slam for two.
Later on, she tried to swanton off the top and
Vicaer got her knees up. Stephanie did the Devil's Kiss
and the old version of her SVB backbreaker for a
two count. Stratton came back with the rolling sent on,

(30:49):
but then missed the prettiest moon salt ever, and Vicierre
followed quickly with the corkscrew splash off the top that
won her the Women's World Championship when she went one
on one at Wressell Palooza with the Oh Sky and
it was a thing of beauty. I mean, that move
is a beautiful thing. But it was a rough landing
for Tiffany because it looked like, I mean, she ate

(31:12):
those knees, like right in the chest, like the chest
in midsection. Stephanie's knees just landed right on top of her.
I'm sure she's fine. If anything, maybe it knocked the
wind out of her better that those knees come down,
I would say on her chest than on her face,
I would say that would not have ended well. But
she gets the clean win and Stephanie Vaquerre is the

(31:35):
Crown Jewel Champion. Triple h gets in the ring after
the match to present Stephanie with the Crown Jewel belt
and the Crown Jewel ring because you get a belt
and you get a ring, and he strapped the title
around her waist, and this was I wish I would
have taken a picture of this. This was hilarious. She
straps or he straps this championship around her waist and

(31:58):
it's I can't even say her waist. He basically strapped
it around her body. This belt took up the majority
of her upper body, let alone her midsection. This belt
is gigantic and it reminded me of when liv Morgan
won last year, and Live is even smaller than Stephanie.
Ass comical, Like I remember thinking to myself because I

(32:20):
guess Live was also she would have had to have
been the Women's World Champion at that point, so she
had two belts. But it's like, how does this girl
on that tip over? I mean I would love to
know how much that belt weighs. It's just it's so
just absolutely over the top in terms of how large
these belts are. But she was very emotional. Jackie Redman

(32:44):
got in the ring to interview her, and she said
that they all did this together. She said the title
represented all of the emotional support from the fans that
they gave her. She followed her dreams, the fans believed
in her, and now she believes in herself. Basically the
same speech that she gave after she won the Women's
World Championship. And then she posed on the ropes as

(33:05):
they shot off Piro over by the stage. Yes, the
belt looked like a shield. It looked like body armor,
like really gaudy body armor. They had a good wrestling
match with a clean finish, right, never a bad thing
to have a clean finish, but nothing terribly memorable. Again,

(33:29):
there was no story of any kind. You compared the
two Crown Jewel matches, right, polar opposites in terms of
there was a real story independent of the Crown Jewel
stuff going into the men's match, and they didn't have
anything like that here For the women. It was about
a championship that doesn't matter. It might look nice, and
I'm sure it cost a fortune to make those belts
with the gems and everything in them, but beyond that,

(33:53):
there was nothing here to really invest in. And it
was two babyfaces. So it's not even like good versus Evil,
We're gonna get behind this person because we really don't
want this person to win. You got two baby faces
wrestling for a championship. That doesn't matter. They're on two
separate brands. There's no prior interaction with them. There's no
real story there. So you had the match. The match

(34:14):
was okay, it was fine, and that's it. Nothing memorable
about it. They got short change, though, because they only
gave them about ten minutes. So yeah, while everything I
just said is true, they should have gotten a little
more time. I would have shaved time from the men's match.
I mean, there's no reason that the women's Crown Jewel
match gets ten minutes and the men's gets thirty. And

(34:36):
I understand the men's has more of a story, but
that's a huge disparity between those two matches. I'm not
saying that they each should have been exactly the same
amount of time, but you could have given the women
a few more minutes here. So Tiffany went unbeaten the
entire year. It was the right outcome here. It was
she's in a better position to take a loss here

(34:58):
than Stephanie. Stephanie just won the women World Championship not
even a month ago. You know, Tiffany has had that
championship the entire year. Basically, when did she win that title?
Did she win the title last year? I don't even
remember when she won that belt because she wrestled Charlotte
at WrestleMania for it. I don't remember when did she

(35:22):
win she won the title on TV? I remember that, God,
when did she win it? Trying to think I don't
know she cashed in the briefcase whenever it was. She's
had that championship for a long time. So I wouldn't
be beating Stephanie right now given that she just won
the title. But here's the thing about all of this,

(35:45):
I would not have put the championship on Stephanie to
begin with. You know, if Naomi was able to wrestle
her in Paris like she was originally supposed to do,
I don't believe Stephanie was winning that match. I just
I do not believe there was any chance of taking
that championship off of Naomi in her first or second

(36:06):
title defense. That would have been ridiculous. I guess it
would have been her second because she would have had
the match on TV with EO, and as it turned out,
neither match ended up happening, so Stephanie would have lost
and it wouldn't have killed her. And then at that point,
you can take your time building to it because you
know that championship is gonna make its way to this woman.
This woman, she's incredibly good in the ring. She's a

(36:29):
very good pro wrestler. She's very likable, she's very attractive
and very marketable, like checks all the boxes that you
would want to check in a star on your roster.
You take your time, you let her overcome some adversity
of some kind and build to a championship win. That's

(36:50):
how I would have done it, and maybe that's how
wwe would have done it. But plans changed and Naomi
had to vacate the belt and they had to put
the belt on somebody, and it was I mean, realistically,
it was gonna be Riha EO or Stephanie, and I
didn't get the impression they were ready to put that
belt back on Rhea. Ria doesn't need the belt right now,

(37:10):
so it was either EO or Stephanie, and I figured,
you know, you put the belt back on EO, and
then you can have EO drop it to you know whoever,
because EO probably wouldn't have it for very long. But
this is what they opted to do. So I wouldn't
have even had the championship on her in the first place,
but that's the way the things ended up happening. But

(37:31):
here's my fear, and this is the reason why I
don't think I would have done that. My fear is
that she won the world title. She just won the
Crown Jewel title. Right She's got two titles, she's got
a ring. Is it too much? Too soon? She's very likable,

(37:52):
but now that she's won everything, it is incumbent upon
them to keep things interesting when it comes to whatever
it is that she's doing on television, whatever story you're telling,
whatever opponent you want to put her in the ring with.
They're in a better position at least to put her
in the ring with some interesting people because the raw
women's division is a lot stronger right now than the

(38:15):
SmackDown women's division, and hopefully they'll be a rebalancing soon
and they'll take steps to correct that, especially with some
of these creative changes that we've heard about on the
Friday Show. But I'm more worried about three months from now.
You know, four months from now, as we're heading into
WrestleMania season, are we going to be talking about how

(38:36):
bland everything feels with Stephanie. That's my fear, because she's
been given so much so soon that she's done everything
there is to do on her side of the aisle
on that brand. How do you keep things interesting? Now?
Do you reach a point where the fans begin to

(38:56):
resent her or get bored of this? Maybe not. Tiffany
Stratton is still very popular. I look at this run
that Tiffany Stratton has had this year. For the most part,
it's been very uneventful. It's been very dull. She has
not had something to really sink her teeth into in
the way that she has with certain other people that

(39:18):
she's worked with in the past. Right, I mean, look
at what they've They had to go back to Nia Jackson,
Jade Cargill like it hurt that Bianca was not around,
but That's what I mean when I say they need
to really shore up the women's side on that roster.
But yeah, look, Tiffany is still very popular. Maybe Stephanie
will not fall victim to that, but other people have

(39:39):
fallen victim to that in the past. That's the problem
when you just hey, here's everything right, and now it's like,
you got to give them some sort of obstacle at
some point. You got to give them a reason to
chase after that so called brass ring that you know,
used to hear Vince McMahon talking about. But there has

(40:00):
to be something there or the fans are going to
turn on you, and the fans are gonna get bored
and they're gonna be like, all right, well, you know,
we've seen her beat this person in that person and
she has this belt in that belt, and it's like, well,
you know, now what So that's my only concern there.
And I look at the potential you know, challengers for her,
and it's like they're going to come back around to Rhea.

(40:23):
It's just inevitable. The Ria and Osca and Kyrie and
EO stuff is not over yet, certainly not with EO
and Osca. Maybe maybe Rhea moves on to something else now,
but it seems like that's going to continue, probably for
a little while longer. But you got Rhea, of course
you could always fall back on her. You've got EO
eos Off doing her own thing, right, So is Osca

(40:44):
Live Morgan is going to come back in a few months.
What's going to happen when Live Morgan comes back. I
think Live Morgan is going to come back and the
fans are gonna probably treat her as a babyface. You
could do something with Live and Roxanne. I guess Live
Morgan may come back and win the Royal Rumbleland Challenge
for the Championship, and I could see the people wanting
her to beat Stephanie if it comes to a Stephanie
Live match at WrestleMania next year. So it's gonna be

(41:07):
very interesting to see how they handle this now in
the months to come, because there's been no struggle. There
is something to be said for having that struggle, and
she hasn't had that now. Backstage, Paul Hayman congratulated Bronson
Reid on his big win. Reid was sitting there with
an ice pack on his neck after his big Roman

(41:30):
reigns victory, Hayman said the vision of the future now
meant Red and Breaker. Hayman also told them to stay
in the back if seth Rollins called for help tonight
in his match with Cody Rhodes, Hayman said that we
would find out who the better man was and then
he left and bron Breaker did not seem to like this.
He asked Bronson Reid, what's gonna happen if Cody wins

(41:52):
this match? What happens then? And Hayman heard this and
he returned to tell him, I think you both know
the answer to that question. Intrigue. What does that mean? Well,
we'll worry about that some other time, because after this,
it was time for the match that I was most

(42:14):
looking forward to here on this show. Funny enough, the
match with absolutely no story coming into this show is
the match that I was looking forward to the most.
And really, you know, one last time, this was the
end of an era in many ways, because you know,
Johnsen is on his way out the door, and we
know AJ Styles is not too far behind, you know,
and these guys. John Cena debuted on WWE television in

(42:36):
two thousand and two. AJ Styles debuted not that long
before him, right, he had a few years on Sena.
He would have ended up in WCW had WCW not
gone under. But their careers in terms of length, their
careers have mirrored each other in many ways, you know. Basically,
you know, twenty five, twenty eight years, whatever it's been,

(42:58):
and now that's coming to an end, and it feels
like man, you know, like and Tana Hashi is retiring,
you know, in January. So it really does feel like
we're in the middle of this sort of changing of
the guard in many ways. But we had John Cena
one on one with AJ Styles. There was no recap
video here like they had for all the other matches

(43:20):
because there was nothing to recap. John Cena was not
around for any television before this match or after this
match was promoted, so they came into this all knotted
up at two wins apiece. This ride here was the
rubber match of their series. Styles entered first, and he
was sporting the same trunks that he wore in the

(43:42):
OG days of TNA, because back then AJ wore trunks.
He didn't wear long tights and that was like the
NWA TNA days. But the blue and white trunks that
he was wearing. I mean, I don't want to say
it was the exact same pair. Maybe he had a
new one made, but those were the trunks that he wore.
On the very first episode of Impact that debuted on

(44:05):
Spike TV in two thousand and five, he had a
match I think opened the show against Frankie Kazarian or
I'm sorry enough Franki Kazari. He wrestled the Rohetorick Strunk,
and he wore that same gear. So that was I mean,
that's I mean, you talk about throwbacks, that's throwing it back.
And it's so weird too, because it's like the Jericho thing.

(44:26):
When Jericho suddenly switched over from tights to trunks. It
was jarring at first. It's like, wait, something's different here
because he had spent his entire career wearing lung tights
and then all of a sudden, like the guy's getting
older and now he's wearing trunks. Usually it's the opposite,
where you get older, you're a little more out of shape.
You don't want to show off your legs anymore, so

(44:47):
you cover them up, right. I mean, that's it's kind
of funny, Like I think of the macho man talking
about him recently, and if you think about you know,
the early part of his career, right, he never wore
a shirt, he didn't have like a top on when
he wrestled, and then all of a sudden, like in
nineteen ninety ninety one, whatever it was, all of a sudden,
I think it was ninety one. Now he's now his

(45:10):
whole gear change, and it's like, yeah, of course, because
he's not on the same shit that he was on before,
and he's getting older. So anyway, it was a little weird,
but that's how he started his career. Now, John Cena
came out, he got a monster reaction. He told Stu
the cameraman that this was the last international show of
his career. In the ring, Alicia Taylor introduced Sena, but

(45:34):
before she could do the same for AJ, Sina stopped her,
handed her a piece of paper and told her to
go ahead and read what was on that paper. This
is the intro that Sena himself, I assumed Sena himself
wrote for AJ Styles. She called him the definition of
total NonStop action, the ace and undisputed boss of the

(45:56):
Bullet Club. It is our honor as fans and my
honor as an opponent to see if he can beat
up John Cena one final time. He is the face
that runs the place, the phenomenal AJ styles and Style smiled.
He seemed caught off guard by that intro, so that

(46:17):
that was very nice. That was a nice moment there,
Alexander says about Savage. His gear changed because his gear changed, Yes,
yes it did. Yeah, yep. Macho wasn't taking his vitamins anymore.

(46:39):
I'll tell you what though. He was taking his vitamins
in the late stages there of WCW. He was making
up for lost time, is what he was doing. I'm
sure that didn't help his heart. So they rang the
bell and immediately we got a holy shit chant. Then
they got a dueling chance for Sina and AJ, back

(46:59):
and forth. Sena set up for a five knuckle shuffle.
Styles though stop that with a well placed kick. Seen
it came right back with a slam, and he did
do the five knuckle shuffle, and he followed that up
with an attitude adjustment for a near fall. Granted, we
were only five minutes into this match and we already
had an attitude adjustment here. Styles head in Ushi Garochi

(47:22):
right across the knee, but then came up selling his
knee and Michael Cole even called it by that name,
and he credited and I quote my buddy Morrow for
teaching him how to pronounce it. Scena paid homage to
the Miz then with a skull crushing finale for a
near fall, and this was the first of many homages

(47:42):
from both men here in this match. This is what
this match will be most remembered for is all of
the different moves that were stolen. I will say this though,
if you're gonna steal someone else's move, at least make
it look good. And John Cena was making it look good.
He didn't, I mean, he did justice to the moves
at least that he was pulling off. Here, Stiles hit

(48:03):
a torture rag bomb for a near fall of his
own styles, then hit a scorpion death drop for another
near fall. Cole acknowledged that it was an homage to
another one of AJ's great opponents. He said that without
mentioning the name Sting, that's funny. All the people that
Sena was paying homage to, they mentioned their name. All

(48:25):
the people that AJ was paying homage to, I don't
think a single name was mentioned. That's how it goes.
Sena caught Styles in the STFU, which I will say
looked fucking horrendous. I mean this, it looked terrible. Styles
escaped and put Sena in a cross face. Sena got
out of that. He put aj in a camel clutch,

(48:48):
or you might say the accolade former WrestleMania opponents in
Russev that actually got chance of Rusev Day from some
of the fans crowd. Styles escaped and he puts seen
it in what Michael Cole assumed what and this he
called it this what Michael Cole assumed was a co

(49:08):
Qina clutch, and he said this with that ever mentioning
Samoa Joe by name. After that, Styles went for a
calf crusher, but Seena countered into not just the Boston crab.
Cole said, that's the walls of Jericho and the crowd,
you know, broke out and why two Jay chance. So

(49:28):
in case you're wondering, and nobody should have been wondering
this to begin with, because you know, a lot of
people got very sick of seeing Chris Jericho in aw
and you know, just the learning tree and it's just
after a while absence does make the heart grow fonder.
Sometimes it's better to go away for self preservation. It's

(49:49):
better to leave and go away sometimes and then come
back than to never leave it all, because how could
they miss you if you don't leave. And I'll bet
you like the minute that Jericho returns WWE, and I
fully believe he is coming back to WWE early next year.
The minute he comes back, he's going to be treated
like a god. That first time back, he's going to

(50:10):
get this monster reaction because it's been years since people
have seen him in WWE. You know, I want to
say it might have been that very first Saudi Arabia
show in the Greatest Royal Rumble. That may have been
the last WWE match that he was in. So that
first time back at least or first couple of times,
of course, he's going to get a great reaction. But
if you were wondering will he or won't he, this

(50:32):
should silence any and all doubt about that. Of course
you will. He'll get a heroes welcome when he comes back.
Styles countered out into a calf crusher. Sena escaped the hold.
He went for the STFU, which he gave up when
Styles got close to the robes, Stiles hit Sena with

(50:53):
the Styles clash for a earfall. Aj went for a
phenomenal forearm, but Sena caught him in position for a
Sister Abigail and that got a rise out of the
crowd big time. And Sena leaned over and he kissed
Aj on the forehead and he dropped him with Sister Abigail.

(51:15):
When I say that he was paying respect to these moves,
he had a pretty fucking good Sister Abigail, some good
velocity there as he took Aj down to the mat.
He got a great near fall out of that one.
The fans went nuts for the Bray Wyatt tribute. They
even pulled out their phones. We got the fireflies in
the crowd and thank you. As a thank you Wyatt,

(51:36):
I think they were chanting, and it looked like Seena,
even in the ring, was kind of taking a moment
to admire it and kind of take it all in.
Styles then hit a Christopher Daniels Angels wings for a
near fall. Seena came back with a pedigree attempt, but
Styles countered that with the fade to black a la

(51:58):
Frankie Kazarian. Although you may know that move these days
as the dead Eye from one Hangman page the aw
World Champion. I didn't hear any cowboy shit chance, though
I did hear holy shit chance after this, but I
did not hear them say cowboy shit. Sena came back

(52:18):
and hit the Randy Orton draping DDT, to which Cole
shouted vintage John Cena, which doesn't really make any sense, Cole,
and then he hit the vipers pose. Styles got up
and Sena dropped him with an RKO, and as soon
as he hit that RKO the place exploded, but he

(52:39):
only got two now. At that point, Sena backed into
the corner he was setting up for the Orton punt kick.
As he came in for the kick, Styles moved out
of the way. He hit Sena with an attitude adjustment
of his own, again only for two and a half.
Styles started to do that you can't see me bit
to Sena, but Sena reached up and he goozled him.

(53:00):
I have him by the throat, Undertaker Style, and then
he lifted aj and slammed him with a choke slam
for a near fall. So a little nod there to
the Boneyard match at WrestleMania between Styles and Undertaker, And
at this point the crowd picked up on. I mean,
how could you not right pick up on what's going
on here with all these moves, So the crowd's like, oh,

(53:22):
this might be the new thing now for however many
mattress Sena has left. Oh, since we're kind of going
back in the greatest hits, we want to see him
do a six y one nine of all the fucking
I mean, they could have the Phoenix splash. I mean,
it could have been worse, but they start chanting six
y one nine right, and I'm sure in his head

(53:42):
scene is like, oh, we got improvise here, you know,
And I'm like, I gotta see this, Like this will
either be if he actually does this, this will either
be the greatest thing I've ever seen or the worst,
like one or the other. And sure enough, immediately after
the fans begin channing six to one nine and again
just the absurdity of it is just hilarious to me.

(54:06):
But right after that, he drops Styles onto the middle
rope in perfect position for a six one nine, and
I'm like, son of a bitch, I am seated. I
have to see this. There's no fucking what. You got
two guys in the ring who were in no position
to be doing a six to one nine. Especially Sena.

(54:27):
Styles is more athletically gifted than Sena when it comes
to pulling off some of these moves. Even Aj Styles,
it's a movie he's never done before. He's forty eight
years old. He ain't doing a fucking six to one nine.
And if AJ Styles is not doing a six y
one nine, then John Cena sure as hell ain't doing
a six one nine. But damn it, it looks like
he's gonna try. So he hits the ropes and as

(54:47):
soon as he comes off, aj cuts him off with
a clothesline. And that was the only time in this
entire match that Aj Styles actually got booed by this
crowd because they were deprived of seeing either the greatest
or the worst ever delivered in the history of wrestling.
It could still happen. There's rumors of Sena and Dom.

(55:08):
I'm just saying there could be more chance of sixty
one nine. Sena may end up having his chance at
some point. So Styles followed with a springboard four point fifty,
but there was no pin attempt. He tuned up the
band instead, and he hit a picture perfect Sean Michael's
sweet Chin music and only got a two and a

(55:30):
half count. Styles removed his elbow pad and he hit
the phenomenal forearm, but again only got two. Seena hit
an attitude adjustment out of nowhere for an earfall. Scena
then sat Styles on the top turn buckle and he
went to the middle rope and Sena tried to get
Styles on his shoulders. Styles instead knocked him off the ropes.

(55:52):
Seena's on his feet now and Aj comes diving off
at Sena with a crossbody, and Sena rolls through and
then he hit Styles with a tombstone pile driver and
Sena immediately hoists him back up and he hits one
final AA to put him away and pin Aj Styles.

(56:12):
This is about twenty seven minutes or so into this match.
After the match was over seeing, it helped Aj to
his feet and the two men hugged and they raised
each other's arms before Styles left the ring so that
Scena could celebrate all by himself. Sena left the ring,
he kissed his wife at ringside, and he headed to
the back. This was an excellent match with plenty of

(56:36):
callbacks and tributes to some of their greatest rivals. If
it was anybody else doing this, okay, if it was
any other circumstance, if it was anybody else spamming finishers,
spamming other people, not even their own, just like a
fucking video game. And I think Wade Barrett even made
the car or maybe cold it. But they made the
comment at one point that it's like a video game

(56:57):
where you sort of create your own wrestlerroom program them
to use every fucking finishing move from the existing roster.
That's what this was. This was like the video game
match in some ways of the show. Anybody else does this,
it's probably gonna get raked over the coals, you know,
and it's gonna be like, all right, we can we
not do this please. But in this case, this is

(57:19):
a little bit different because it wasn't just that these
two were relying on going out there and just spamming moves,
you know, from other people. Here you have two men
who are in the twilight of their careers. Okay, Sena
is down after this show here, Sena is down to
the final four appearances and even flashed the four like

(57:42):
the horsemen when the match was over. You've got Boston
on November tenth, so we're not seeing him for another month,
by the way, Boston on November tenth, Madison Square Garden
on November seventeenth, Survivor Series on November twenty ninth, Saturday
Night's Main Event on December thirteenth, and that's it. So

(58:04):
there's a lot of guys on that roster that he's
not going to have the chance to work with, like
the Miz, like russev Right, like Edge when he busted
out Edges moves at was it in the Logan Paul match,
might have been Clash in Paris, maybe SummerSlam. So there's
a lot of guys that he's not going to have

(58:25):
the chance to work with. And this is his way
of saying thank you, you know, It's like it's like
a wink and a nod. And you see what Copeland did,
by the way, the aw pay per viewed all out
when he was using John Cena's moves, right, This is
just their way of sort of paying it back and
showing respect to each other. And as far as you
know AJ Styles is concerned, yeah, I would say that

(58:45):
there's zero chance that aj Styles if he's true and
honest about retiring next year, possibly as soon as WrestleMania.
He's not going to have the chance to work with
Samoa Joe, He's not going to have the chance to
work with a Frankie Kazarian or Christopher Daniels, and he's
certainly not going to be working with Sting. So was

(59:05):
there way to just, you know, again, tip that and
have some fun with it And the fans were having
fun with it, and there's nothing wrong with that, So
it's just added to the match. It added to the
fun of the match. But you consider the names they
paid tribute to tonight, and I was thinking about this also,
like aj right, Sting, Kazarian, Daniels, Right, Daniels goes back

(59:30):
a long way too, to those the turn of the century,
really late nineties, turn of the century, Samoa Joe and
then seen It right Miz and Russev And in the
past he's paid tribute to other wrestlers as well. But
they they kind of run the gamut, you know, over
the last couple of decades, and it just illustrates how

(59:54):
long their careers have stretched. These guys have been around
for a long time and it's a weird thing for
someone like me, because I've been a fan of wrestling
since nineteen eighty seven, okay, and I was very young
at that point, but I would say those were probably
my earliest memories of wrestling from around that time period,
like WrestleMania three right around then. So I grew up

(01:00:16):
and I was a big fan of the Golden Era
of wrestling right mid to late eighties, early nineties. Then
you got the late nineties and the Monday Night War
and the Attitude era and all that. It's just this
really fun time to be a fan. And then that
bled into the Ruthless Aggression era, and that's really where
while there was a lot of great stuff during that era,

(01:00:38):
it was really from that point and beyond that, once
we got past the SmackDown six era and all that,
where it's like, all right, you know, this stuff doesn't
really compare to what came before it. But now we're
sitting here and it's over twenty fucking years since the
Ruthless Aggression era, and so guys like John's are now

(01:01:00):
looked at as the old crusty veterans, you know, And
I'm just sitting here and going, man, I'm still thinking
about you know, fucking Randy Savage and Jake Roberts and
Brett Hart and Legion of Doom and Demolition and all
those guys. And I know I'm not the only one,
but it just shows you, like time passes by quickly,
you know, the errors go by, and you don't really

(01:01:23):
you don't spend your waking hours of every day thinking
about it, and then one day you just turn around.
It's like, holy shit, I can't believe that you know,
this much time has gone by, But that's who these
guys are now. Now, these guys are the legends. You know.
These guys are, you know, the old guys, and it's
just crazy. It's crazy how the errors come and go,

(01:01:44):
you know, And when these guys are gone, the people
that you see on TV right now, there will be
plenty of fans who are watching wrestling right now in
ten fifteen years, who we're going to look at Roman
Reigns the same way, and Drew McIntyre the same way,
and Kevin Owens the same way. One day, Logan Paul,
he'll be looked at that way too. It's pretty incredible.

(01:02:08):
Sena versus Stone Cold is missed. Well, that's you know,
it's one of those kind of Battle of the Eras
matches that just kind of passed us by. See, I
never thought that would have been a good match to
do anyway, Like of all the old dream matches that
you could have done, were like they kind of just
missed each other. Sena and Stone Cold, that would not
have been very high on my list. I'm sure it

(01:02:28):
would have been for some people, but eh, I don't know.
Maybe it would have been good, but that wouldn't have
been near the top of my list. These two, though, again,
they always had a chemistry in the ring that was great.
I've never seen them had a single bad match in
my entire life. I thought this was a fitting end
to what ended up being a classic rivalry, and I'm

(01:02:51):
very happy for not only Sena that he had the
chance here at the tail end of this run to
sort of course correct and show people what he can
really do, but Aj styles too, because let's be honest here,
Aj the last several years in WWE has felt wasted,
like they could have been doing a lot more with him,

(01:03:12):
and now we know that he's hanging it up soon too,
So I'm glad he got to have a match like
this where he can go out there and steal the
show and get the kind of reaction that he got here,
you know, tonight. And I can only hope. I can
only hope that WWE will treat, you know, the end

(01:03:34):
of AJ's career in the way that they are now
treating this last leg of John Cena's run, and not
the first half of it, because I would not trust
WWE to do an AJ Styles retirement tour next year,
you know, a retirement program heading into WrestleMania. Sure, a

(01:03:54):
retirement run these people, not a chance that think about
like this was John Cena, like one of the biggest
stars of all time in the history of this company,
and somehow they bungle the good portion of this. What
do you think they would do to a guy who
actually did not make his name in WWA. I don't

(01:04:16):
want to find out, but for AJ's sake, I hope
they give him a nice sendoff. We had Rhea Ripley,
and we had Eosky against Oscar and Kyrie Sayne. This
was a homecoming for Rhea on what just so happens
to be her twenty ninth birthday. I didn't even realize

(01:04:36):
that I already figured Ria was gonna win anyway. Then
I realized, oh shit, it's on her birthday. There's no
fucking chance that this woman is losing here. But think
about what she has already accomplished. Think about what she
has accomplished, and think about like how popular she is.
She's not even thirty yet. Wild So Oscar and Kyrie

(01:05:00):
they attacked the baby faces right at the bell, everybody
got involved. EO, though, was alone with Oscar. When the
dust settled, EO got the better of their exchange. She
hit Oscar with a crazy suicide dive out to the floor.
EO dodged an attack by Kyrie, but that allowed Oscar
to then shove EO into the ring post. And you know,

(01:05:20):
the way they worked this match was kind of smart
and it makes sense. They kept Rhea out of it
as long as they possibly could not, unlike the way
they booked the tag match at Russell Paloozo. Yet see
I'm punking aj styles against Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch.
How do you do a match like that? You keep
aj aut as long as possible, right, and you just
get people like salivating to see this woman finally tag

(01:05:44):
into this match, and then when she does right, it
blows the roof off the place. That's kind of how
they work this, right. The Heels got the heat on
EO for a long time. Every time she would try
to go for a tag, they would pull her away,
and Rhea was just on the apron begging for a
tag and waiting for a tag, and the people wanted
her to get the hot tag. So finally she gets
it and the place goes nuts and Kyrie cut her

(01:06:05):
off actually pretty quick, and the Heels took over until
Ripley nailed Kyrie with a big boot. Rhea gave Kyrie
a razor's edge at one point that just absolutely folded
this poor girl up, I mean like a freaking accordion,
only for EO to follow with a missile drop kick.
As soon as Kyrie kind of stumbled back to her feet,

(01:06:26):
she got blasted by a missile drop kick off the
top rope. EO went for recover, only got a two count.
So Kyrie gave Leo and Alabama slam much safer than
the one that she gave on Raw on Monday Night
and knocked Rhea Ripley off the apron. Leo brought Kyrie

(01:06:47):
off the top with an arm drag and went to
the top herself, but Osca distracted her. Kyrie then knocked
down EO and drove Ripley into the steel steps. EO
came back and she wiped out both Kabuki warriors with
an Asai moon salt on the floor. She followed with
a proper moon salt on Kyrie in the ring, but
Oscar broke up the cover. Osca then held Ripley almost

(01:07:10):
in like a scorpion death drop type position so that
Kyrie can come off the top with an insane elbow. EO,
though was able to break up the cover. Ripley dropped
Osca face first on the top turn buckle and then
pulled Oska up for an avalanche riptide attempt she was
attempting here when Kyrie tagged herself in. Ripley ended up

(01:07:32):
hitting Kyrie with the riptide instead, and then she tagged
in EO so that she could hit her over the
moon salt. I like that, even though she's in her
home country, in front of her family and friends and
her home people, her countrymen and women, she allowed her
good friend EO to pick up the winning fall here
in this match, and EO hits the moon salt and
she puts it away for the baby Faces, and Michael

(01:07:54):
Cole said, you know, in reference to this toxic relationship
here with Oscar and Kyrie, you know what they say,
blind faith in your leaders will get you killed. Yes,
yes it will. Look at Michael Cole dropping knowledge here.
So Kyrie took the bullet for Oscar. How is Oscar

(01:08:15):
going to respond to that? Now? It would be very
easy for them to get their heat back. All you
gotta do on Monday is have OSCA once again go
ahead and missed EO in the face, or at least
try to, because that really is the goal here, right,
The goal is to get us to a match between
EO Sky and OSCA. And you have a show coming
up on November first, Saturday Night's main Event that would

(01:08:37):
be a good place to do that match. So I
have to assume that we're going to be getting that
match before we get the Survivor Series, and they're not
going to do a match between them at Survivor Series.
Doesn't make sen. I mean, it would make more sense
if they end up in the women's war Games match.
So if we get that match with EO and OSCA,

(01:08:58):
even Saturday Nights Made Event is still several weeks away,
But to me, that would make sense instead of just
kind of doing it on TV, that they would do
it on a show like that. But they have, you know, again,
more runway here, I think with this feud, so we're
not done yet. Does Rhea move on to something else
and kind of leaves EO to her own with Oscar

(01:09:20):
and Kyrie? No, I don't think so necessarily because why
would she do that. You know, she wants to back
up her friend. So I think that we'll get more
probably with all four of them. I enjoyed the match.
You know, Rihea got the big reaction for her entrance
and her hot tags and all the big spots that
you would expect. But it's very interesting. I felt like
during the match itself, I felt like it was EO

(01:09:43):
who was getting more of the chance. Right. The crowd
was every bit as much into Eo Sky because again,
she's super likable. They really, I mean, between EO and Stephanie,
they have two babyfaces on that women's raw roster that
are extremely likable. And with EO, she gets a reaction
with everything she does pretty much every time she's out there,

(01:10:04):
so I mean they make a great combination. Here is
a big win for the baby Face is a clean
win for the baby Faces. I don't think anybody should
have really expected her to lose in Perth. Why would
that mean is Vince McMahon secretly running the show? Still?
Wait a minute, Wait a minute, Pale, you mean to

(01:10:26):
tell me not only are we in her home country,
but it's her birthday. We got a beat her, It'll
be great heat. Of course, Ria was winning in Perth.
The only thing that surprised me is that we got
to Perth and Ria wasn't challenging for the championship. That's
the only thing that surprised me, because when they first
announced this, I thought, for sure, if not at Crown Jewel,

(01:10:46):
then on the Raw after Rio would be getting a
shot of the Women's World Championship. And I don't know,
maybe you know what, I maintain that that is what
we would have gotten had Naomi now gotten pregnant. I
think it would have been maybe not on this show
because it's champion against champion, but I think it would
have been Naomi and Rhea on Raw this Monday, because

(01:11:08):
how do you not build to that, you know what
I mean? Like, what would Naomi or who would Naomi
be feuding with otherwise, I still believe that would have
been the destination most likely. But Ria in Perth, I mean,
come on, man, I mean you could not have honestly
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solo Monster. And they closed with the Men's Crown Jewel
Championship match between Cody Rhoades and Seth Rollins. Rollins wore
the watch that Cody gifted it. See, his watch was
a lot nicer than mine. Nobody gifted me this watch.
I bought this for myself. But I will tell you

(01:14:00):
what I don't do. I don't take the watch off
each night when I put it on the charger. I
don't do it as dramatically as Seth Rollins did here
because when he got down to the ring and now
this is the watch, I should point out, this is
the watch that Cody gifted to him in Philadelphia after

(01:14:21):
WrestleMania last year, when Cody finished the story and Rollins
was his shield right and he provided the assist so
that he could win the WWE Championship, But he very
dramatically removed the watch as he disrobed here in the ring,
and he also had some yellow dusty polka dots going

(01:14:42):
down the length of his tights. Early in the match,
the crowd chanted wanker or wanka at Rollins, which he
was not very happy about. They had called him a
wanker on SmackDown Friday Night as well when Cody was talking.
So leaves the ring. He goes over to the announced
desk and he's putting the blame on them, and specifically

(01:15:04):
he's putting the blame on Wade Barrett for this for
some reason. And Cole is kind of in between them,
and he gives Michael Cole a shove and Cole's like,
what are you doing? Calm down, you know, and all
this stuff. So now he's assaulting the announcers and Cody
attacks him from behind as Rollins is quarreling here with Cole. Anyway,
Cody gets draped over the barricade by Seth. Seth delivers

(01:15:28):
a double foot stomp to the shoulder. Later on, Rhodes
went for a disaster kick. Rolins, though ran up behind
him and he had a set out power bomb for two.
Rollins targeted the arm in the shoulder and at one
point he did the star dust cartwheel and pose, you know,
a little pose that I can't do it, but you
know the star dust pose mocking him. He's mocking this man.

(01:15:53):
And then Rollins did some dusty jabs. Cody responded with
jabs of his own. Rollins applied to figure four and
Road struggled for a while before finally getting out of it.
Cody fought back and hit a vertebraker and Cody then
after that landed a disaster kick, a bionic elbow, a
suicide dive, and a Cody cutter, which is quite the

(01:16:17):
flurry of offense. It still was not enough to hit
a three count, though he got two and a half
out of it, but it still wasn't enough. She's still angry.
She's still angry, isn't she? Jeremy Rose with a fifteen
dollars Kyrie super chat oscar is going to be very angry.

(01:16:41):
I can only imagine the Kyrie that she's going to
let out on Raw this Monday. Kyrie is the one
who took the losing fall in that Tech team match.
Can you imagine how loud that's going to be? Thank you, Jeremy,
So Rollins he avoided another does aster a kick attempt

(01:17:02):
quickly followed that up with a pedigree for a two count.
You know, we ought to make a list. This could
be a good exercise here. We ought to make a
list of all of the old finishing moves that used
to mean something in wrestling, and now they mean absolutely
fuck all, because the super kick and the pedigree would
be number one and two. I think at the top

(01:17:24):
of that list, Like these moves used to be. Like
when these guys would hit these moves, they were done right.
It was rare people would kick out, but it was
rare that people would kick out of it. And now
especially the pedigree, Like, first of all, it doesn't even
look good. It didn't look good honestly for the last
probably fucking ten years that Triple H was actually using

(01:17:47):
it himself, just kind of lets go when the guy
just falls down. But man, I mean it's it's just
another move. Man. I can't even call it a set
up move. It's just what is it setting up for.
It's not setting up for anything. It's not setting up
for the finishes Canadian Destroyer, thank you, Except Penta does
use it as a finisher in WWE, which I appreciate.

(01:18:07):
So I try to forget about all the times in
aw where he just used it and it you know,
people just got right back up from it. I'm looking
at you, Orange Cassidy. But seriously, those two moves would
have to be at or near the very top of
the list. So Cody tried to cross roads. Rollins hit
one of his own for two Rhoades, avoided a Phoenix
splash but missed a super Cody Cutter in spectacular fashion.

(01:18:33):
This was actually hilarious, so Cody he went flying. This
was almost as hilarious as that match with Cody and
Carmelo Hayes on SmackDown that time when they each went
for something and they both missed and they just kind
of flew by. They like passed by each other through
mid air like two passing ships in the night, and
just crashed and burned. This wasn't quite as funny as that.

(01:18:56):
But Cody went up for this super Cody cutter and
nobody was there. Rollins had moved and Cody he got
some height and he just splatted on the mat. Rollins
then immediately hit a curb stump but only got a
near fall. So at that point Rollins went outside over
to the timekeeper's area and he sees the watch. The

(01:19:20):
watch is sitting right next to the timekeeper Berkeley Berkeley Hoptman,
the son of a tugboat two, sees the watch and
he picks it up and he places the watch around
his fist, right right around his fingers, which I think
is the same thing that John Cena did to Cody
when Sena kicked him in the dick and turned heel

(01:19:43):
an elimination chamber, right. I remember Michael Cole was like, oh,
he hit him with brass nuts. It's like, it's a
fucking watch, Cole. So he puts the watch around his
fingers and he he goes back to the ring, but
before he gets in the ring, he's having this crisis
of conscience and he's struggling with this and should I
or should not? And he takes the watch off and
he places it on the mat right in the corner

(01:20:04):
of the ring, so he's not going to use it right.
But he gets back in the ring, and as soon
as he gets back in the ring, Cody is there
waiting for him, and he meets him with a Cody
cutter and a crossroads and he only gets a near fall,
so Cody ended up trapped upside down. After this in
the corner in a tree of woe, Rollins goes to
the ropes in the far corner, same side of the ring,

(01:20:25):
but in the far corner, and he hit a great
coast to coast diving headbutt that honestly looked like it
took as much out of him as it did out
of Cody. Rollins followed with a Spanish fly off the
top rope, and then he hit a manhandle slam to
Cody for a near fall. Both men found themselves perched

(01:20:47):
on the top rope yet again, but this time Cody
delivered an avalanche Crossroads. You know what, we got to
add another move to that list, the crossroads. When was
the last time we saw Cody win with one crossroads?
He's the WWE champion. If ever, there was a finish
in this company to protect like they protect the tsunami splash,

(01:21:10):
they protect the robe kick. Why are you not protecting
the fucking champions finish? Why does it take three fucking
crossroads to win most of his matches? Here and so
here he hits a super crossroads right off the ropes
and he goes for the cover, and of course Seth
kicks out and to me, that was one fall too many. Now,

(01:21:33):
I will say, CNNAJ, they had a lot of near
falls in that match too, But I like that match
right that. It just it worked there. I can excuse
it in that match, I cannot excuse that here this
was And I feel like we in many of these
big main events where they do go overboard sometimes with
the near falls. We see it in both companies way

(01:21:54):
too often, but there's always that one moment, that one
move where it's like, eh, I can't tell you why,
but like that right there, that was too much for me.
Like that, That's that was the issue I really started
having with like Adam Cole matches where it's like I've
seen Adam Cole matches with tons of near falls and
it's like this these great epic battles and the crowds

(01:22:14):
going nuts for it. But then I would see these
matches where it's like, what the fuck are we doing here?
Like I've lost count of how many near falls we've
had here. It's ridiculous and it kind of takes me
out of the match. I thought this was this was
the one right here. I don't know how you guys
felt about that, but for me, an avalanche crossroads. That
needs to be the end of the match, and I

(01:22:34):
knew that Cody wasn't winning, so it's like, why even
do that. Let him attempt to do it, and then
you know, Seth can kind of work his way out
of it, you know, hit a phoenix splash or something.
So they traded spots until Cody set up for a pedigree.
There it is again, He's gonna go for a pedigree, guys.
Rollins got out of it, though, he crawled to the watch,

(01:22:56):
which was on the corner. Remember he set the watchdown
on the mat in the corner and Rollins wraps it
around his hand. The referee didn't see this, neither did Cody.
Rollins then accidentally, on purpose, bumps the referee, and as
Cody is setting up for crossroads, Rollins reaches up and
just punches him right in the head with the watch,

(01:23:17):
and down goes Cody. Rollins followed with a curb stump
and then a second curb stump off the middle rope
to finally exercise the demons and get that elusive win
over Cody Rhodes. He came into this zero for three
no longer, and as he did earlier with Stephanie, Vicaier.

(01:23:40):
Triple H then gets in the ring. After the match,
he straps the Crown Jewel title around Seth's waist and
presents him with his brand new ring. Kathy Kelly gets
in the ring. She was about to interview Rollins, but
he yanked the mic away from her like she was
Tony Schavanni, and Rollins said that he knew what she
was going to. Ask him how it felt to get

(01:24:01):
that monkey off his back? He said, it felt better
than anybody could ever imagine. Some of us dream impossible
dreams and have the fortitude to reach those dreams. But
only one man reached higher than the highest. He was
no longer the greatest of his generation. He is now
the greatest of all time. And then they shot off
Pyro for him as Stephanie viquerre joined Rollins in the

(01:24:23):
ring so that they could both pose with their big
gaudy belts, just like Cody and liv Morgan did last year.
I thought that I thought for sure cm Punk was
about to jump Seth during that speech, like I was
waiting for it. I'm like, all right, now you're gonna
have him gloat and cut a speech. It's like, all right,
this is where's punk coming from? Right? And then there

(01:24:44):
was no cmpunk, but he was there. There's a photo
even floating around that he was like in the crowd,
standing there and he had his hoodie on and everything
all covert. I think he was watching the John Cena
aj Styles match. He had a big smile on his
face because again Raw is in Perth, so he's probably
gonna be on Raw Mon night. He was there, and
I'm like, Okay, I mean, I guess maybe they'll save

(01:25:04):
it for Monday, but I don't know why you wouldn't
because we all know they're going to wrestle again, probably
at Saturday nights made event, right, we know we're getting
the match. Like as sick as I am of punking
Rolins at this point has been done to death, we
know it's coming. So I was surprised they didn't have
him jump Seth in that spot right there. But you know,

(01:25:25):
I guess you could say in kind of a way
that time was not on Cody's side. Just didn't work
out for him tonight, but the watch paid off for
Seth Rollins. A win is a win. He did not
need bron Breaker's help. He did not need Bronton Reid's help,
but he got the win over Cody Rhodes. This did

(01:25:45):
not need thirty minutes. This match went thirty minutes, and
I did not enjoy this match as much as I
did seen in styles. I did think it was a
strong match, but it did not need to go thirty minutes.
It was overly long. I thought that they went a
little overboard in a way that just didn't work for
me on some of those near falls. Still a strong match,

(01:26:09):
it's just not one of my favorites. I do appreciate
that it was one of those rare Vision matches that
didn't have all the interference that we've come to expect
in the Vision matches. I can't call it a clean win.
It wasn't a clean win, but at least we didn't
have people running into the match. But Rollins had to
win this, you know, especially heading into Wargames again, assuming

(01:26:31):
the Vision is going to be a part of war Games,
because why wouldn't they be. You got to keep the
Vision strong going into that show. They did that with
Bronton Reid right, absolutely the right move, and so Seth
Rollins had to win. Cody Rhoades stood to gain nothing.
What is Cody gain from beating him a fourth time. Nothing.

(01:26:53):
The story was Seth he was losing his mind, Cody
had gotten under his skin, Cody had gotten in his
head about you know, needing help or or you know, Hayman,
can he be trusted? You know who's really running the
show here. And that's been the storyline over the last
few weeks. And I'll tell you what, I'm happy they
didn't do. And they even teased it on a guy.

(01:27:14):
I guess it was yesterday on the kickoff show where
I think Rollins was out there with the vision and
then he kind of just walked off without them, And
I'm like, all right, are we going to get like
a swerve right where they want you to think that?
Seth and Hayman, Oh my god, they're on the outs.
They're actually gonna split these guys up. And then you
know it's like they interfere. Here's Reed or here's Breaker,

(01:27:38):
and then Seth wins and they're all cackling as the
show goes off the air. I thought there was a
decent chance that we might get that. I'm glad they
didn't do that. Like the whole ruse. Oh he pulled
the wool over your eyes. You actually bought it, hook
line and sinker like, I'm glad they didn't do that
because now the story is still there. There's still potential

(01:27:58):
drama here to be played out with the ranks of
the Vision. Remember earlier in the show backstage when bron
Breaker said to Bronson, read, well what happens if Cody
beats him? And then Hayman came back in and says,
I think you know the answer to that question, right?
What did he mean by that? They should have seth
Rolald that should be the first thing in his opening
promo on Monday Night. That should be absolutely something that

(01:28:20):
he brings up. He should confront Paul Hayman about that
and build on that. What did you mean by that?
Did you lose faith in me? What about you? Did
you lose faith in me? You didn't think I could
do it? Did you? But what does you mean by that?
So again, that's a story angle that's kind of interesting
that they could pursue on TV this week. I know

(01:28:43):
why they close with this match. I mean they wanted
to have that parting shot, you know, of the two
Crown Jewel winners posing together and then shoot off a
bunch of Pyro and all that, So I get that,
and also, look, this had the real course story. Out
of all of the matches on this show coming into this,

(01:29:04):
this one had a better story than most. Having now
seen the show and the match order and how everything
played out and the quality of the matches and everything,
they should have closed with johnsen and AJ Styles. That's
the match that should have ended the show. It was
John Seenea's last ever international match, last ever match in Australia.

(01:29:25):
It was a match between two you know, legendary iconic
figures here in the world of wrestling. You knew it
was going to be special, and I do feel that
the crowd, not that they weren't quiet for the rest
of the show, but I do feel like there were
moments maybe during the last two matches where they could
have been a little more animated than they were. Look,

(01:29:48):
the women went on immediately after that Style's AJ match
or that Style Scena match, not an enviable position to
be in, but smart because Rhea of course, was always
going to get a reaction. I just feel like that
would have been an appropriate way to close the show
and send Sena off, you know, his last match in
the country, and just sort of fade to black. But

(01:30:10):
I get it. I get why they wanted to go
with this. I thought it was a very good show overall,
much more enjoyable than Wrestle Poll Looser. Zoom says the
match that saved the show. I feel like saved is
too strong of a word that implies that without the match,
the show would have sucked, which is not true for me,

(01:30:31):
though it was. If you take that match out of
this card, then to me, this card is only marginally
better than Wrestle Poll Loose. It's probab Actually, it's probably
in the same same range, maybe like a B minus
or something like that, because this really, of all the
matches on this card, and there weren't that many of them,
of all the matches on this card, the only one

(01:30:52):
that will be memorable months from now is this match
John c and n aj Styles. Nobody is going to
be talking about or remembering or thinking about Cody and
Seth for the Crown Jewel title, or Stephanie and Tiffany
for the Crown Jewel title, or a tag match for
Ria and EO. Like, no one's gonna be talking about that.
This is the match that people will look back on

(01:31:13):
when they go over like some of John cens greatest
matches or aj Styles's greatest matches, or some of the
best matches of twenty twenty five in WWE, And this
is a match that will be on that you know,
on that list for most people, you take that match out. Yes,
it is a much weaker show, but I don't really
know that. Saying it save the show is yes, elevated.

(01:31:34):
I say that's a better Leopard Toe says elevated. That's
a better word for it. It elevated the show. Let
me take a look at the Oh I did not
get a Twitter poll up, but I forgot about that. See,
I knew I forgot something. Well, I'm gonna guess that
most people probably gave the show a thumbs up. Just
based on the reaction I'm seeing in the chat here,

(01:31:56):
I think most people are pretty much in agreement with
the sentiment that I expressed here. Now, don't forget Raw
on Monday again, early start eight o'clock in the morning,
Eastern time on Netflix. I'll have to let you know
when I'm gonna go live. I'm not gonna go live
as soon as Raw's over. I'd rather not go live

(01:32:17):
at eleven o'clock at night if it could be avoided.
But I don't know what's going on yet, so kind
of like today, I'll keep you guys posted on X
most likely or maybe the podcast tomorrow, but I'll let
you guys know what's going on with that. Think a

(01:32:38):
look at your super chats here and find out what
you guys thought of. Crown Jewel Raw at eight am
is crazy. It's Monday morning. Raw. You could have raw

(01:33:02):
with your eggs and bacon. You could have a raw
with your coffee in the morning if you drink coffee,
maybe a bagel donut. Joseph Stewart says, rest in peace,
Diane Keaton, Yes, indeed if she passed away today the
age of seventy nine. Joseph wants to know what are

(01:33:30):
your three favorite scenes in the Dark Night? Oh, my God,
in the Dark Night. My three favorite scenes, well, my
absolute favorite scene, maybe in any movie ever, is the
interrogation scene. Fucking unbelievable. The tension ugh so great and

(01:33:54):
the spliceing going back and forth between the different locations
as he's interrogating him. So the interrogation scene, I would
say the Joker's pencil trick has to be one, and
I don't know, maybe the opening bank heist. Maybe. I
think the scene on the train, it was a train

(01:34:15):
right with the boat. I'm sorry not the train with
Zeus would be pretty high up there as well. It's
funny how Zeus Tiny Tiny Lister, the late Tiny Lister,
actually had a pretty pivotal role in that movie. Joseph says,
if he had lived, do you think that Heath Ledger

(01:34:38):
would have returned as the Joker in The Dark Knight Rises?
I do. I do think he would have. Maybe he
I don't think he would have been necessarily the main
antagonist in the movie. That probably still would have been Bane,
But I do think he would have been in that movie.

(01:34:58):
Do you know why Jack Nicholson was in the party?
That party picture at the end of The Shining? You know,
I saw The Shining many years ago. I don't know.
I don't remember. I don't remember. Joseph says, would you

(01:35:23):
like to see Christian Bale and Hathaway and Christopher Nolan
return and do another Batman movie like a Dark Knight
Returns movie in the Nolan verse? Now, I I'd rather
he just sort of leave it alone. I think what
he created is sort of a masterpiece all by itself,
and I think that probably best to just leave well

(01:35:44):
enough alone, Prince Vegeta. I remember when we were all
saying that John Cena was washed up and can't go anymore.
Since SummerSlam, he has proved a lot of us wrong.
I said at the beginning of the review. Man, I said,
the last three of four plees, the John Cena match

(01:36:08):
has stolen the show SummerSlam Paris and now this show.
The stuff with Brocket Russell Palouza was fucking terrible, so
we don't count that. Joseph Stewart says, how different would
The Dark Knight Rises have been if Leonardo DiCaprio played
the Riddler in the movie in Bain was not the villain.

(01:36:30):
DiCaprio is the Riddler. It would have been different. Would
it have been better? It's hard to say. Man, I
don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying
to picture Leo as the Riddler. I don't I don't

(01:36:51):
know if that's the right fit for him. Have you
seen Bram Stroker's Dracula with Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder?
That is one I did not see. Also, who do
you think could have played Harley Quinn and Christopher Nolan's

(01:37:11):
Batman movies. I think Sarah Michelle Geller would have been
perfect in the role or Julius Stiles. You know, Sarah
Michelle Geller is an interesting one. I think her over
Julius Styles. I think that could have worked. What character
did she play in that Scooby Doo movie? Tommy Kalela

(01:37:33):
with a twenty dollars super chat says that scene of
versus aj match was such a beautiful love story wrestling wise,
honestly would say that might be the match of the year.
I just loved aj styles face when Alicia announced him
like he was genuinely shocked and laughed. Buy or sell

(01:37:54):
Joker and Harley Quinn or Mickey and Mallory Knox from
Natural Born Killers. I'm gonna buy on Joker and Harley Quinn.
I was very young when I saw that Natural Born
Killers movie in the theater when it came out, and
I was definitely too young to be seeing it. It

(01:38:14):
was yeah, and that was not my father's brightest move.
Joseph Stewart says, does Bo Dallas' uncle Howdy reminds you
of Heath Ledger's Joker and was Heath Ledger's Joker and
inspiration of the Uncle Howdy character. I see a little
bit of it in there. Maybe I don't want to

(01:38:35):
say that it was the inspiration for it because I
don't know if that's true, and there's not enough about
the character that like it screams like a blatant, you know,
copy of the Joker. It's possible that he borrowed elements
for it, but I'm gonna say no. Dry Chickens says
the talent did good on the Crown Jewel Show. I'm

(01:38:55):
still not watching Raw and SmackDown. They need to shake
up the roster, the creative team and stories. Thank you,
brother Joseph Stewart. Did you know that Batman comic Nightfall
was the inspiration of the dark Knight Rises with Bain
breaking Batman's back? I didn't know that. Actually I knew

(01:39:23):
about Nightfall's reload this year. Get all the latest ones
here on the list that you guys can see him
loving this new format. By the way, I found a
way to avoid that other new format that I fucking hated.

(01:39:44):
This is so much better. We have horrifying dried chicken
with a five dollars super Chat, Triple H got to
call up Obafemi, Trick Williams, Kalanie, Jordan, Lash Legends, and
Jada park We need some more black wrestlers on the
main roster. I think you just named all of them

(01:40:04):
like gotta save something for NXT. Brother. You can't be
calling them all up at once. I think all of
them will eventually make their way to the main roster,
but you can't. I mean you're gonna put them all
together in a faction because that would be even worse.
Oba Femi, get Oba Femi up first. I think lash
Legend will actually do well on the main roster. I

(01:40:26):
would not have said that a year ago, year and
a half ago, but I do think that she'll get
the call sooner than later. I think there's no reason
to rush Kalani, not with what she's doing right now
with the TNA stuff. Jada Parker Jada Parker probably, but
you gotta figure. You got to prioritize who because you

(01:40:48):
don't want to call them all up at once. Joseph says.
It was announced at New York Comic Con that they
are making an animated adaptation the Batman comic Nightfall. I
did not hear that I had a couple of friends

(01:41:08):
who are actually at Comic Con today. I think right
still going on MGM balling with the nine nine nine.
He says, h O G was a banger last night solo.
I was the guy who stops you for a high
five and called you Mark Henry with the sharp salmon suit.

(01:41:28):
It was cool to meet you, and I appreciated a
minute of your time. Hey, I appreciate you coming to
the show and saying hello. Man, I don't get to
see everybody all the time. Actually, last night you were
there and you saw how packed it was. I've never
seen it that packed before. I couldn't even see the floor,
there were so many people. So I'm glad we we
at least had that moment at least, but my god,

(01:41:48):
I mean the uh we had a very unplanned uh
sort of how shall I how shall I say it?
I don't know, recreation, A very surprising recreation of the
infamous chair throwing incident in ECW during our main event

(01:42:12):
last night. It was one of those moments where I'm
very happy that we no longer have the commentary desk
at ringside. That was scary and crazy and cool. I
guess all the same time, it was a wild night
to say the least. Holiday one ninety seven says Hey Solo.
If Chris Jericho returns to WWE early next year, I

(01:42:34):
would like to see Jericho and AJ Styles have a
match together before AJ retires, maybe at WrestleMania. If Gunther
doesn't face AJ, it could be a good match. Yeah,
I don't know, man, if that's AJ's last match against Jericho, like,
I think we could do better than that. If you

(01:42:54):
want to do it, do it. I'm not sold on
it as a WrestleMania match, though, I'm not saying I
can't be convinced. You know, it's all about story at
the end of the day. But yeah, some Bliss fans
says it would be ten years since there WrestleMania thirty
two match. You know, next year is ten years of

(01:43:15):
AJ Styles in WWE. It's I mean, he may not
be there the entire year, but I think it would
be kind of nuts if they don't promote around that,
like ten years of Styles in WWE. Holiday one ninety
seven says thoughts On reports that Sina may challenge Dominic
for the IC title at Survivor Series if it's true.

(01:43:37):
We know seen it as walking into his match as
a Grand Slam champion. I hope not. I'll talk more
about that on the show tomorrow. I saw the same reports.
I think it's unnecessary. Honestly, I don't mind the match itself,
but you know, the whole thing about the IC title
and everything, I just I don't think it's needed. Prince
Vegeta ninety five, I'm patiently waiting for this mega push

(01:43:58):
of Seth rollins to and he is insufferable, great wrestler,
but his character sucks. Yeah. I've never been a fan
of this whole character with him with the wild, wacky
outfits and laughing for no reason like a hyena. And

(01:44:19):
it doesn't do anything for me either. Holliday says, it
appears they are exploring putting the SmackDown Tag team titles
and US title belts back on the MFTs. If it happens,
I still won't take the MFTs seriously. Yeah, I mean
nobody will until they actually take the time to really

(01:44:40):
flesh out their characters more. You could put paint on
their faces, but it doesn't it doesn't change anything We've got.
Naima Khan, I always listen to your podcast and fall asleep,
So thank you. Okay, all right, then there you go.
I guess whatever works, I hope. I hope you're not
in play lying that the podcast puts you to sleep.

(01:45:02):
I've had people tell me that the sound of my voice,
though I don't know, I guess it could be calming
sometimes and it helps them sleep at night, and I mean, hey,
if it does, I'm happy to hear it. Mark Martineza,
my Sena opponent predictions from a month ago have been

(01:45:25):
correct so far. So next is Domit Survivor Series, and
then gun through at Saturday Night's Made Event, and if
a raw match happens, I predict Seamus. I would love
to see Sena and Shamus not not in his final match,
but I would love to see it, and there's only
two more chances to do it. You got Ron Boston,
you got raw MSG if we assume he's wrestling Domit

(01:45:47):
Survivor Series, which, by the way, I guess that gives
away the outcome of the match on Monday, doesn't it.
I think the outcome of the match on Monday was
given away the minute that Penta accidentally kicked Russev last Monday,
So I think we can pretty much figure we're gonna
see Russev get involved there. But thank you Mark, Ricky Cornflakes,

(01:46:09):
you look like Mark Henry when the Shield beat him up.
It's gotta love the solomonst I've gotten a lot of
Mark Henry comparisons over the last twenty four hours. I
will say, don't worry, I got a lot left in
the tank. H we got here, we got here? Is

(01:46:38):
it Mark? It is Mark? Mark Martinez. What do you
think the idea of Sena tapping to Gunther in his
last match, since it's never give up for Sena all
of his career and that being his last match. The
thing with Sina though, I hm, I don't see him.
It's hard for me to imagine him tapping out. I

(01:47:00):
could see him passing out, but I don't know about
tapping out. We have not seen John Cena tap out
in the match since two thousand and three, It's been
over twenty years. That would be a huge thing if
he did, but it would it would go against everything
that character is about. I mean, he's never give up,

(01:47:21):
so you know he refuses to give up. He goes out,
referee raises the arm, it drops, and that I could
see I don't know if you know it's hard though,
I mean, do you beat him? Do you have somebody
else beat him and get the rub? Not that Gunther

(01:47:42):
needs the rub, but then that could kind of become
his gimmick where he's the guy that goes in there
and ends these legends once and for all. He did
it with Goldberg, he does it with Sena. Maybe he
does it with aj at WrestleMania next year. He canna
have a lot of very upset people if Seena goes
in there in DC and lo Jeremy Rose. So guessing

(01:48:08):
Survivor series post show will be crowdless. Oh after what
happened today, Now they'll just chalk it up to those
crazy international fans. I think if it keeps happening where
they're kind of like bullying poor Triple H, then yeah,
we may end up with they may have like AI

(01:48:29):
fans behind Triple H. The way things are going with
AI today, would we even know the difference? It says
Becky gonna go after Stephanie for flirting with Seth at
the at the end of the show. Why didn't see
him punk ruin Seth's celebration? Come on, let's make it
believable because they had to get the money shot at

(01:48:51):
the end with the two Crown Jewel champions posing with
their big belts. Yeah, that was say this. If the
idea is to go to Seth and Punk next, then
it was very stupid not to have him attack him
there at the end. The real CSAs would you move

(01:49:11):
Ria to SmackDown? I think she's needed there more than
on Raw. Yeah, I mean they could definitely use her.
You're not wrong about that. Would I do it? I
kind of want to see Rha and Stephanie. I don't
know if I would I would move Rhea. I might

(01:49:32):
maybe I find somebody else, But I mean, you're not wrong.
They could definitely use her on that show. SMG Kobe,
what are your current and all time favorite finishers? I mean,
in no particular order. The sharpshooter, the razor's edge was

(01:49:53):
always a favorite of mine. The crossfaced chicken wing submission
was the favorite of mine. Stone called stunner. I think
that maybe the most beautiful finishing move to watch is
Hacks black Arrow, or when he was Neville, the red Arrow,

(01:50:14):
the red arrow of the black Arrow. Call it whatever
you want, that's just a beautiful move. I mean, those
are the ones I'll name off the top of my head.
Current finishers. Though, if you say current ones, do I
have a favorite current finish? It's a good question. I

(01:50:34):
don't think I do. In WWA, in ae W, do
I have a favorite? No, I don't think I do.
I don't think I have that one move that's like, oh,
that's my favorite. Not really, not really. Most finishers aren't

(01:51:06):
even really finishers anymore, you know. Maybe that's why A
d sas solo thoughts on Roman beating Seth at WrestleMania
and in the future drops the belt to Bron who
turns face after the match, becoming officially the guy Roman

(01:51:27):
beating Seth and then in the future drops the belt.
I'll see you want to put the World Heavyweight Championship
on Roman? Yeah, I mean it would be a big

(01:51:48):
deal though for Breaker if that played out that way,
I could get behind that because it will mean more
for Bron Breaker, then I could get behind that. Holiday
one ninety sevent do you think we could see a
World Heavyweight Championship match between Rollins and punk on raw
giving punk Is in Australia. SmackDown had some attraction matches

(01:52:12):
last night. No, I don't see them. I mean, unless
they announce it in advance, I don't. I don't think so.
I think they're gonna probably want to save it for
Saturday Night's made event. That would be my guess, horrifying.
Dried Chicken says, let me tell you how Kyrie saying
can calm Oscar's nerves. Brother Kyrie gives Osca brownies with

(01:52:37):
nice edibles and takes her out to shipping down edibles
for Oscar. That might actually calm her down. Actually Osca
on edibles, we'd be kind of entertaining to see how
that plays out on TV. Toma Tonga super fan is
with us. I'll bet he's excited. Guess who came back
on Friday Night? The man, the myth and legend, Toma

(01:52:59):
Tonga is back in WWE, just in time to be
seen as last opponent. Good misdirect by WWE to let
people think it's gunther Is that what it is? See
it's a misdirect everybody, you know. I'll bet that Sina

(01:53:21):
writing in the Bullet Club in AJ's intro on the
show tonight is like a little Easter egg because tom
A Tonga was a member of Bullet Club see Triple
Ah is playing chess. Everybody else is playing checkers. I
think you may be onto something or you just may
be on something, but either way, thank you brother. We

(01:53:46):
got Bobby's world and look at what Bobby's World dropped
on us. Bobby's World dropped a gunhar bomb, Holy shitty
dollar gunhar bomb. Hey, Solo, thank you for my early
birthday wish on your birthday. Since I typically donate to
you on your birthday and mine, I think a birthday

(01:54:07):
wish eight months early is nice. Hey, it's the least
I could do. And I'll say it again here. Happy
birthday Bobby's World, whenever it may be. I hope it's
a very happy day. Thank you for the support. Tomatonga

(01:54:28):
super fan again ten dollars, super chat. Tomatonga and Tangala
being back in WWE together has made smack Down the
a show again. That's going to make your Friday nights
end with a smile on your face. Yes, it might,
Actually it might. Like Jack Nicholson in The Shining when
he had the smile on his face. Bogus Fan says,

(01:54:54):
keep killing it, Solo. Thank you, Bogus Fan. It's another
show I used to watch. Another cart I used to
watch years ago, Mister Bogus. Remember mister Bogus, and then
they made a live action movie with Gerard de Perdue
playing mister Bogus. Jeremy Rose, remember when Triple Ah first
took over and everyone was glazing how good the product was,

(01:55:16):
And now things are so much different. Yes, the bloom,
as they say, is off the Rose Diego Vasquez. That
bray Wyatt tribute almost made me cry. It was a
very nice gesture and it was a very nice response
that it got from the crowd. I'm sure it meant
a lot to Bow as well. Rojoe Beart twenty four.

(01:55:41):
Every time I see Seth in the main event, I
just think to myself, Man, I miss Gunther. Well, the
good news is he should be back very soon. Jeremy says,
do you think Jay versus Roman is happening soon? If so,
do you think, well, no, Roman doesn't want to see
them until Christmas? Says, if so, do you think Roman

(01:56:01):
wants to put him over so that he can take
over the tribal chief character? Because Roman has one foot
out the door, he does kind of feel like he
has one foot out the door, but he's not going
anywhere yet. So no, I don't think they're building to
that just yet. If they're building to it at all,
I don't think that's happening anytime soon. And if they do,

(01:56:24):
then I hope it's a hell of a lot better
than that tribal combat garbage we got at SummerSlam two
years ago. We got Prince Vegeta, who says, if you
had the pen, who would you have picked as the
first British WWE World Champion, Davey boy Smith, William Regal

(01:56:46):
or Wade Barrett would have been Wade Back, not Wade
Barret would have been William Regal during that period where
he was I think he was the general Was he
the general manager? Yeah? I think he was the GM
during that period. It was the period where he was
likely going to end up with the World heavyweight title.
And he flunked a task and then that was it,

(01:57:08):
Like that was one in fraction too many and he
fucked himself over. Was his own fault, but him even
hiss WWE Champion, World Heavyweight Champion, whatever, I would say,
Regal during that period could have had at least a
short run with it. The Juliette says, rest in peace,

(01:57:30):
and Diane Keaton. Jeremy says, solo, you can change one
thing in current day wrestling. What do you change? Get
rid of the what chant? Get rid of the what chance?

(01:57:50):
And if you do chant what during one of these shows,
you get an electric shock to your nipples. That'll shut
him down real quick. Rohobert, that might not be illegal, though,
Rohobert twenty four. I haven't watched Raw ever. You could
just end a sentence there. I've never seen a single

(01:58:11):
episode of Monday Night Raw, he said. I haven't watched
Raw ever since Seth Rollins won the World Heavyweight Championship.
Thank God for Monday Night Football. Well, that's why you
have me, so I can keep you up to date
on what you're missing. Ad says the story will be
Roman doesn't care about the world title but takes away

(01:58:33):
what Seth took from him. Is a karma story. Yeah,
I mean I could see that basically being the story
around a WrestleMania match between those two. It's not about
what I need, it's you know what the company needs,

(01:58:53):
or it's well, actually, you know what for this Roman character,
he doesn't give a shit about the company. He would
be more self fish about it. It's like I haven't
forgotten what you did to me in Philadelphia two years ago. Yeah,
I could see that, and Tomatonga super fan. We are
now on the path for Tomatonga and Tongaloa to win
the tag team belt at WrestleMania forty two and then

(01:59:16):
set up a year old build. I think you mean
a year long build, set up a year old build
to a singles match at WrestleMania forty three in the
main event. You know Saudi Arabia is a top three
fan base for the tongas well. I'll tell you what,

(01:59:40):
if his excellency over there wanted Tomatonga against Tongaloa, triple
H would kiss the ring and give him the match
that he wants. So if he if he's as big
of a Tongans fan as you say he is, I
put nothing past these people and Diego VASc what Sena

(02:00:00):
dream Match has delivered or just with aj you mean
you talked about this year. I mean the scene of
punk match was pretty good. Yeah, the Sena Orton match
was much better than I expected it to be. It's

(02:00:21):
not like my favorite match of the year or anything.
So I don't know if you're just referring to match
it because that's a short list. You know, you're just
talking about matches this year. M yeah, I mean AJ
would be like of the quote unquote dream matches, AJ
would be number one. Good shit, thank you Diego. And

(02:00:47):
I actually see just now. I don't know why I
just noticed, but we had a bonus goal going in
the chat and we have hit that goal. And the
main goal where at four hundred and sixty three likes,
can we get that to five hundred before we get
out of here live. That's gonna be up to you
guys while you work on that. Let's be the booker.

(02:01:09):
Ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker.
And doctor Scorpio is with us. Doctor Scorpio is with us,
he says. For a second, I thought you were reading

(02:01:30):
random comments. Well technically you are, but didn't see the
super chat Lol. Thanks for watching, so I don't have to, brother,
it's literally on the screen. It's the whole list of them.
Thank you, doctor Scorpio. Oh, it's always good when we
get a double B the booker, isn't it. It's always

(02:01:51):
good when we get to see those old tag team
belts too. And there you see the Steiner brothers, Rick
and Scott. Isn't that the senator from the state of Florida.
Isn't that Rick Scott's kind of took the two names

(02:02:14):
and put them together. Can't trust somebody with two first names.
The Steiner brothers are going to be taking on the
two dudes with attitude. This is when they had all
the goal. You talk about bell collectors, these are the
original belt collectors right here, Shawn Michaels and Diesel. I
don't think Scott Steiner is gonna or Rick Steiner for

(02:02:35):
that matter, is going to be taking Shawn Michael's shit
from nineteen ninety five. Shawn Michaels better be on his
best behavior. That would be a hell of a match, though,
Diesel and Michaels against the Steiner brothers, it's a great
pick right there. All right, our women's match is going

(02:02:58):
to have the Love Maurice Ah Maurice Maurice against Dana Brook. Well. Look,

(02:03:18):
we wish all the best of Dana Brook. She had
to abruptly vacate her impact or well in TNA now
TNA Knockouts Championship for reasons that were not disclosed. Hopefully
the situation is not serious. Be that as it may.
This is not a match that uh, this is not
a match I would book on my card. I'm sorry,

(02:03:44):
Sol Goes, I gotta be honest to Robb says, I
don't trust Neil Patrick Harris. Three first names. That's even worse.
Oh my god, three first names. We have Yoko Zuna

(02:04:06):
as one half of our main event, former two time
WWF champion Yoko Zuna against the Undertaker. See but this
is Ministry Undertaker. We never got to see Yoko Zuna

(02:04:29):
against Ministry Undertaker. But there was just something about those
Undertaker Yoko Zuna matches that I have a soft spot for.
I actually enjoyed watching them have those matches and wrestle together.
That's right, Grant says, BSk lives. That's right, BSk lives.

(02:04:55):
They got they got the tats Man. It's a brotherhood,
all right. You unlocked round number two. This should be interesting.
We go from the Bone Street Crew and the Undertaker
to Buried Alive, staying with the Undertaker motif here buried

(02:05:20):
a live match. We're gonna have ourselves a tag team
buried a live match. That's what we're gonna do. And
there has in fact been a tag team buried a
live match on SmackDown many years ago, and I actually
remember enjoying that match greatly. So we have Hulk Hogan
and Dennis Rodman Hulk Hogan in a buried alive match.

(02:05:43):
Who's getting buried? And I do mean buried. Let's find
out who are the poor schmucks who are getting buried
by the Hulkster here in this match? Oho, this is
going to be the mother of all burier is what
this is gonna be. Hulk Hogan's gonna take one look

(02:06:04):
at Fandango and say that don't work for me, brother,
which is too bad, because I'm a Tyler Breeze mark
man I have. But when he came back to NXT recently,
he looked like he had stepped out of twenty fourteen.
That's the Tyler Breeze man that I was a big
fan of. But Hogan's gonna take one look at these

(02:06:26):
two guys and he may not even show up that night.
He made no show the event. Rodman is definitely not
showing up for that. Fandango has no chance. Actually, Fandango
shouldn't show up right Our next stipulation, Oh for Fuck's sake.

(02:06:52):
We just picked this the other night. What is with
the Punjabi prison stipulation? My god, you know I ended
up in one of these one What was it? Me
against Goldberg or something? In a Punjabi prison match? Be
the booker was it? Definitely had had it out for
me that night. Do we put the poor ladies in

(02:07:15):
the Punjabi prison or should we do the men's match
and make that Punjabi prison? All right, we'll do with them.
We'll spare the ladies the indignity of being a part
of this. Just absolute monstrosity. Oh no, that's right, Oh
my god, How could I forgot? It was me against Khali?
That's right. We landed on Punjabi prison for a fucking

(02:07:37):
coli match and I was his opponent that night. Just
buzz the match. No, I want to see. I want
to see. Well, who's going to be in this match?
Ravishing Rick Rude is going to be in a Punjabi
prison match? See I You know, I feel like he
can make this work. It really all depends on who

(02:07:58):
he's in the ring with. Ravishing Rick Rude can make
almost anything work. Ravishing Rick Rud against Mark Brisco in
a Punjabi prison. You know what, you're gonna call me
crazy for this. I'm actually gonna give that the bell

(02:08:21):
because I think that these two could find a way
to make this work and to make this entertaining. I
really do. I'm gonna put my faith in these two.
I think they could pull it off. Am I still

(02:08:45):
in be the book? Oh? I'm in there somewhere. I'm
still in there. I haven't demoted myself yet. And we're
gonna end with a traditional steel cage match. We go
from the crazy cage to the regular steel cage. Well,
I would say this is a little bit better here
for the ladies, so I feel better about this for them.

(02:09:07):
But let's see here we go with the women, get
the main event here, which is a rarity here, and
be the booker. We have Gail Kim. You know what,
I'll tell you what we're gonna do. We're gonna do

(02:09:27):
something a little bit different. I'm gonna make a deck.
We're shaking things up. We are shaking things up here,
and be the booker for the first time. We're gonna
have ourselves an intergender main event. We have Gail Kim
on one side of this match. This is a steel

(02:09:48):
cage match mind you. Okay, we're gonna have Gail Kim
in an intergender main event. This is gonna make things
very interesting. Gail Kim against William Regal in a steel
cage match. How do you like that? The tag team

(02:10:14):
image ruined it from being a clean sweep. But Gail
Kim and William Regal two great professional wrestlers. You put
them in a cage, and you know what, I think
they'd have a pretty damn good match. Everyone's saying, Kenny Omega,
you imagine if I actually landed on him, how do

(02:10:37):
you like that? You never know what You're gonna get
here and be the book. Oh, we're gonna be shaking
things up a little bit more too, once I actually
gets all the updates I want to do. I just
haven't had time lately with all the work I've had
to do. But we're gonna be updating this. I'm gonna
be revamping it. But yeah, every now and then, you might, yeah,
you know, you might get some intergender I mean, WWE
doesn't have the balls to do it, but you might

(02:11:01):
get an intergender match or two. You never know. Horrifying
dried chicken with flavor it does, Regal does regal have
the brass nuts. It's a steel cage match, so if
he's got them tucked away in his tights, it's totally legal.
So sure. Dried Chicken says delete one horror movie, Scream

(02:11:28):
a nightmare on Elm Street, Child's Play or the Thing
a Nightmare on Elm Street. I just I wasn't a
big Freddie guy. I like all I like all the
other ones. Though. Cameron Spencer before Undertaker retired, I wanted

(02:11:49):
to see him face Rick Flair and a wrestle Mania
retirement match with Vince as the referee. Would you have
been down for that? No, thank you, Cameron. Chicken without
flavor says Maurice. Against ash By Elegance, loser has to
pose for pictures with Art the clown. Yeah. I should

(02:12:10):
point out that in that one it was Dana Brook
and not ash By Elegance, if that matters. Jeremy Rose says,
name you're Mount Rushmore of heels. I don't have a
Mount Rushmore of heels, but I could tell you that
some of the people that would be on like a
top shortlist for me. For me, Vince McMahon is the

(02:12:31):
greatest in many real life. I think mirror's fiction in
many ways. But the greatest wrestling heel of all time
is Vince McMahon. Mister McMahon, So he would have to
be on there, yeah, to do it in like a
Mount Rushmore like it's tough, but Vince Vince would be

(02:12:53):
number one. And then I mean when you look at
you know, top heels. I mean again, I grew up
on guys like dB Yasi who would buy people off
and kick basketballs away from little kids when he promised
to pay them money and you know, they fifteen times
and then kick it away at fourteen, like what a dick?
You know. Jake Roberts is a heel, one of the

(02:13:15):
greatest heels I've ever seen, as over as he was
as a babyface like evil heel. Jake from like nineteen
ninety one into ninety two is right there at the
top of the list, you know, not for nothing. Triple
H was a great heel too. I'm not even talking
about the Reign of Terror. I'm talking about when he

(02:13:37):
was like still in his physical prime, like two thousand,
two thousand and one. I'm not saying he'd be on
my Mount Rushmore necessarily, but he was a damn good heel,
you know during that period. Yeah, modern day you think
modern day wrestling, MJF pretty damn high up on that list.

(02:14:01):
Man Rick Flair, of course, Suit Jericho, that's uh or
as I call it, No Country for old Men, Jericho,
Anton Sugar, Jericho, death Side. I hope CM Punk at
AJ styles at the first two entrants and the final

(02:14:24):
two in the Royal Rumble because it feels like the
only way we're getting any kind of singles match between
them at this point. You know, that actually would not
be a bad final two. Let's say Punk is going
to win the Rumble, you have AJ with him at
the very end, and given that he has announced that

(02:14:44):
he's going to be retiring, you could have people buy
into the idea that, oh my god, maybe AJ is
going to win the Rumble, you know, and he'll get
one last like championship opportunity at WrestleMania. Like people I
think would buy into that. Dry Chickens says Gail Kim
against William Regal with the Jeepers Creeper as the special

(02:15:07):
guest referee. Good to see he's in the Halloween Spirit
Spirit Halloween Tactical Butt Cheek ninety three, Still one of
the best names calling it now seeing his next opponent
is getting a stunner rock Bottom and or tombstone pile driver.

(02:15:30):
He already had an opponent tonight that got a tombstone
pile driver. He literally gave aj a tombstone pile driver.
Solo monster is the goat, Yeah, but the thing is
like a rock Bottom. Yes, a stunner. I don't see
a stunner because he never wrestled Austin. I feel like
he's pretty much keeping it to guys that he's worked

(02:15:51):
with before, so it wouldn't be a stunt. He has
taken a stunner, though, he took a stunner once on
one of those Tribute to the Troop shows. Actually it
might have been in two thousand and three. It might
have been Actually right at the beginning part of his career.
I want to say two thousand and three is when

(02:16:12):
they started doing them. Well, thank you guys for hanging
out with me here a little bit later than I
wanted to go. I was hoping to go earlier, but
the day got away from me. So I said, all right,
we'll go. We'll go in primetime. It's all good. The
next time I am live with you and Retro and Michael.

(02:16:36):
I'm going to get to your chats here in a moment,
but the next time I'm live with you, I am
shooting to go live tomorrow night after Bound for Glory.
I was live after Slammiversary. I would like to be
live after Bound for Glory. It is their biggest show
of the year. They have Mike Santana going for the
TNA World Championship in the main event. I could see

(02:16:56):
him getting an assist from Ricky Saints, not that I
think he should need an assist from the NXT champion,
but the NXT champion had Trick Williams bail on him
during the Invasion Special on Tuesday. I could see Ricky
getting some revenge on Trick by coming out and he
could distract him. He could prevent Trick from cheating. It
could be anything either way. I think we're getting a

(02:17:19):
new TNA World Champion. We got the Hardy's and the
Dudley's one final table winner take All match. Hardy's by
the way, the new Hog Tag Team champions. Kalanie Jordan
I believe is defending her Knockouts Championship against Indy Hartwell,
you've got Leon Slater defending the X Division Championship against
Javon Evans and a bunch of other matches. So I'm

(02:17:43):
aiming to do that, but of course I have a
podcast to do tomorrow first, So that's episode nine thirty
three of the SoundOff. Hey, Havelily, look at this. Haaveli,
twenty eight months of channel membership, says, what up, Sola
Monster shout out from Brisbane, Australia. How are you doing today? Thought? Thought?

(02:18:08):
On the rumor Wargames teams, you are the goat, Javeli,
I were you at the show? I know Brisbane's see,
Australia is a gigantic country, so I don't know offhand
how far Brisbane is from Perth, but I'm assuming it's
many hours away. So I don't know if you were
at the show, Javili. I'm going to assume you were not.

(02:18:30):
I'm doing well. I'm a little tired, but I hope
you were doing very well as far as the wargames stop.
I'm gonna get into that on the sound off tomorrow,
So tune into the podcast and we'll address all the
rumors for mister Meltzer. This week he dropped some news
and we'll talk about the rumored lineups for wargames and

(02:18:50):
a bunch of other things. Michael Jensen with forty nine
months of channel membership that Oscar super Chat has hilariously
scared the crap out of with me repeatedly since its arrival.
Oh good, so I'm not the only one then, that's
good to know. And Retrokoh with a member Chat thirty

(02:19:11):
one months, Happy belated birthday. How was the Hog Show?
I heard the Hardys won their third set of belts
on the show, well technically fourth, they have those fourth
rope belts from the other promotion. It was a wild
show again. I'll talk briefly about it tomorrow as well.

(02:19:35):
It was our ended up being our biggest show of
the year in many ways, and there were a lot
of wild things that happened last night. And if you
didn't see it, the replay is up on Triller, so
you can check it out there. With all my esteemed commentary,
it's always the best part. Let's be honest, hey, Doctor Scorpio,

(02:19:58):
When did Hologram joined the Kallis family? That would be
el Clone, So you got to get it right. It's
el Clone. Julian with a twenty dollars super Chat. Tiffany
against Bianca is a WrestleMania caliber match, but ken wwe
hold off on it that long given the lack of

(02:20:20):
challengers for Tiffany. I mean, as long as Bianca has
been out for are we even going to have her
back in time for WrestleMania. I think that's the better question.
She broke some fingers. She's been out since April, it's
now October. I don't know. I don't know when she's
coming back. Rumble maybe, or does she make it back

(02:20:43):
in time for a women's Wargames match at Survivor Series.
Doctor Scorpio, Oh lord, don't tell me. Tony Kahan taking
a page from Undertaker against Undertaker in ninety four with Hologrand,
that's the whole point of the character. Though. El Clone
is supposed to be the evil Lucha twin. Basically, you

(02:21:04):
know he was going to come in. He was going
to cost Holograham his thirty four and oh undefeated streak,
and they were gonna probably have a match at Wrestle
Dream And now that's all out the window because Holograham
suffered a serious knee injury and now l Clone debuted
is one of the twenty nine members of the don
Kallis family, and he will he will just fade into
the background. But I said, you know, let him amass

(02:21:27):
his own thirty four and oh record that nobody will
give a shit about. And when Holograham comes back, then
you can match him up. I've already put more thought
into this though than I should have. Look of all
the things to put thought into, that's that's not really
one of them that I'm too concerned about anyway. Thank
you guys for all the support tonight. We got episode

(02:21:47):
nine thirty three tomorrow and potential Bound for Glory review.
And I will keep you abreast. I love that word.
I will keep you abreast of my raw plans for
streaming on Monday. Be well, stay safe, and I will
see you back here real soon for more SoundOff live
here on YouTube. Hit that like button on your way out,

(02:22:09):
and I will see you next time for more SoundOff.
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