WWE Smackdown 8/8/25 Review | John Cena Tags With Cody Rhodes On A TERRIBLE SHOW - Solomonster Sounds Off

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
SmackDown was in Montreal tonight. Great fans in Montreal, very
loud tonight, even though they were really given not a
whole lot of reasons to be so, but they were
in Montreal. First SmackDown here coming out of Summer Slim,
and I have but one question to ask you. How
is it that this show went from three hours to
two hours and somehow managed to get worse. How does

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that happen? I don't know. But John Cena was on
the show tonight, his first appearance since losing the WWE
Championship to Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam last week. On SmackDown,
John Cena seemingly went babyface out of nowhere forty eight
hours before the main event on Night two. They turned

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him Babyface, and I said, I wasn't convinced that it
was an actual Babyface tern. I thought that maybe there
was something going on here. This was so sudden, it
was so out of nowhere, and to do it before
Summer Slim and not do it coming out of SummerSlam
was a little weird to me. Now, in hindsight, the
match that we got with Cody and John Cena at
SummerSlam was fantastic. It was the best John Cena match

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in years. It was honestly the best John Cena match
since he won Number sixteen against aj Styles at the
Royal Rumble in twenty seventeen. That's how far back you
would have to go to find a John Cena match
that great. So it all worked out in that regard,
and he put Cody over when the match was over,
and then we all saw what happened at the end

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of the show. Of course, on Sunday with John Cena
and brock Lesnar, there was no follow up with brock
Lesnar tonight. Brock Lesner, even though he is a Canadian resident,
he was not on the show in Canada tonight, and
the limited number of times that John Cena mentioned brock
Lesnar in the opening promo, and it was very limited,

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was the only mention of him the entire night outside
of a video package showing what happened. So if you
were hoping for some sort of meaningful follow up to
the John Cena bro k Lesner thinking why did brock
Lesnar attack John Cena at the end of SummerSlam, tonight
was not the night that you got it. You're gonna
have to wait a little bit longer. They're gonna prolong this.
They're gonna drag this out. There will be no match

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between John Cena and Brock Lesner a Clash in Paris.
Maybe maybe they'll try in Perth, maybe at Crown Jewel
on October tenth, or maybe not. Maybe they're gonna drag
that out until it's seen his final match at the
end of the year. I don't know, but what we
do have for Clash in Paris is a John Cena
Logan Paul match. That match was made official tonight, so

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he will be wrestling on that show. We also had
John Cena in the main event of this show. It
was an impromptu main event that they made in the
opening segment where John Cena and Cody Rhodes would join
forces to take on Logan Paul and Drew McIntyre, who
were successful at SummerSlam against Randy Orton in Jelly Roll.

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That was the tag team main event that they made
here for the end of this show, a main event
that barely got ten minutes, probably not even ten minutes
of match time, and ended with Logan Paul giving John
Cena a low blow as the two of them fought
off to the back. That left Cody Rhoads and Drew
McIntyre alone to fight at ringside, and McIntyre blast him

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with the championship and then delivers a Claymore kick that
sends Cody through the bottom part of the announced desk
and Cody is laying there dead. Now. Roman Reigns is
going to be filming for a Street Fighter in September.
I don't know if Cody Rhods is going to be
filming at the same time that Roman Reigns is going

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to be filming, but this felt to me like a
wait for them to write Cody off the show for
at least a few weeks, So one would assume from
this that he perhaps is going to be filming his
role as Guile in the next Street Fighter movie imminently,
maybe before Roman fills his part. I don't know, but
this felt like a way to get him off TV
for a little bit and then announce a match with

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him and Drew McIntyre for Clash in Paris. That appears
to be the direction for Paris at the end of
the month would be Cody Rhods defending the WWE Championship
against Drew McIntyre. That was not made official, but It's
very easy to connect the dots based on what they
did there in that closing segment. Now I mentioned that
the main event and I was an impromptu match, not

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the only one on this show. Oh no, we had
two more imprompt two matches. We had Sammy z Ain,
who was the hometown boy, got a great reaction, obviously
being in Montreal. Tonight Monday Night raws. Sammy's aim wrestling
the United States Champion non title. He's in the ring
against Solo Socoa. Then we got another impromptu match where

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Charlotte Flair went one on one with Chelsea Green. And
I asked this question on Twitter. I will ask us
all of you here watching this review right now, what
the hell does Nick all this due all day that
he has room for so many imprompt two matches on
this show. He's sitting there all day long in the back,
and he has a show to book. He's going on

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the air live on USA Network at eight o'clock. It's
got two hours of television time to fill and this
man apparently has room enough on the show to fill
it with a bunch of matches that aren't even made
until showtime. What exactly does he do during the day.
Does he play cards? Is he scrolling social media? What
is he doing? I would like to know. I don't

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know about this whole general manager business here. He doesn't
seem to be doing his job. A lot of imprompt
two matches on one show. This was a terrible show.
I did not like this show. I thought this was
a terrible show. And it was a show in Canada
in front of mostly a hot Montreal crowd. It had
John Cena in one of his final appearances. Sina, we're

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almost out of double digits, okay, with the number of
a appearances that John Cena has left before he retires,
so they have that going for them tonight. I don't
know how it is that you have a show like that,
And the nicest thing I could say about it is
that it was average at best, and that's me being nice.
I did not like this episode. Really, what I felt

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when it was over it just felt boring. It just
felt boring. The commercials felt longer than they usually are,
even though they really weren't, but it felt that way.
That's what it feels like when you're watching a boring show.
You notice these things a little bit more. I'm also
waiting to see what is going to be the next
big compelling story on this show. We need at least

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that one big compelling match, that one big compelling storyline
and whatever John Cena and brock Lesniar is going to be.
Obviously they're putting it off for a while. Where is
that one big angle feud match, whatever it is that
just grabs you and pulls you in. We need something
compelling on the show. We have nothing right now, and

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that's a problem. Now they set up some new directions,
so in some cases they're just getting started on some
of these stories, but I still don't see it. I'm
looking around waiting for that compelling story. SmackDown just feels
like it's in a rut right now. And John Cena
only has so many appearances left. He's not even going
to be on the show every single week. So when
John Cena is done and he's retired and he's gone,

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what are they going to fill that with because he
ain't gonna be around for much longer. That's what I'm wondering.
But how do we go from three hours to two hours?
And somehow the show feels worse. It feels like we've
taken a step backwards here, and believe me, three hours
was not the answer. We would just get three hours
of this. I don't know, I don't understand it, but

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we'll talk about it. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review.
It is August eighth, twenty twenty five. I am the
solemn Monster List fan, says I miss hel Sena, so
you're the one. You know what, as abrupt as it was,
the way that they turned him back Babyface, it was
the right move because the heel tern was not working.

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The heel tern was a massive letdown. I don't even
I don't even hate the fact that they have turned
him babyface in the way that they did. Was it
sudden and kind of lazy? Sure, yeah it was. It was,
but you know what, it had to happen. It had
to happen because what they were doing before wasn't working.

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It was forced, It didn't It just didn't feel authentic.
It just it was a colossal failure. There's no other
way to put it. So I don't even fault them
for turning him back Babyface. Although there was a segment
in the back tonight, and I'll hold off and talk
about it when we get to it, involving Sena and
somebody else who underwent seemingly a character transformation a few

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months ago that now has been dropped seemingly based on
what they did tonight. It appears that this other character
direction has also been dropped out of nowhere, and that
too has been a disappointment as I look back at
what they did tonight. But we'll talk about that, like
and subscribe super chats are open. I'll be reading your messages.

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You know the drill here and I appreciate all the support.
We had a big Summer Slam weekend. I thank you
all again for that. I wish I had a much
more exciting show to talk about, but it is what
it is. Sometimes these reviews can end up being more
entertaining than the shows themselves. So they wasted no time

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with John Cena coming out, the smiling Baby Faces back,
John Sena coming out to open the show here in Montreal.
They had the ring announcer Mark Nash do the introductions
once Sena was in the ring, adding now they're calling
him not only the greatest of all time, I believe
he referred to him as the last real champion, so

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that is how they are referring to Sena. And he
was here to celebrate with all of the fans. Scena said,
for the longest time, WWE was afraid to come to
Montreal for fear that the audience would hijack the show.
No no, no, no, no, no, no. Back up a little bit.
WWE wasn't afraid to come to Montreal. Vince McMahon was

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afraid to come to Montreal. And he ain't here no more.
Although watching this show tonight, there were moments where I
questioned that and I was wondering if maybe he's snuck
into the backstage area. Well, let's be honest here, it
was Vince McMahon who was afraid that the fans might
hijack the show. It was Vince McMahon when they would
go to some of these cities and if it wasn't

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Detroit or Chicago or New York City or Boston, if
it was some other suburb, right, well we can't call
it by that name. We gotta go what's the nearest
suburb or nearest city that people would wreck it. He
had these weird little little things about him that was
a Vince McMahon thing. Just to just to specify here there,

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I fixed it for you. Sena said that he wasn't
afraid of that possibility though, because he knew that the
audience was the show, so that if we watched it home,
we could see the crowd and go, man, I wish
I was there. Man only I had six hundred and
fifty bucks. I wish I was there. Sina noted that
the Montreal crowd was so loud he could barely hear

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himself talk. He said that it didn't last forever, unfortunately,
as the crowd chanted, thank you, Sena, the Green pianists,
that's a great one. In the shadows of New York City.
You know full well Evince was still running the show.
We just had a Summer Slam right in New Jersey.
New Jersey was actually incorporated into the logo. Ain't no

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way that would have been SummerSlam New Jersey. It would
have been SummerSlam New York, New Jersey in the shadows
of New York City, right, And so that's how long
Island used to be treated. He said that he's been
coming here for over two decades and he has shared
many valuable moments in this ring, and all that he

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had to say was thank you. Sena reminded the crowd
that after tonight he has eleven dates left before his retirement.
Scena admitted that every time a day goes by, he
gets more and more afraid, and he thanked everybody for that.
He said, then, no matter how much he gave to
the crowd in the little amount of time left, it
would not be enough. And he continued by saying that

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he was also afraid that after he was gone and
wwe moved on without him, which they should, but when
that happens, the fans would forget him, going for that
sympathy card. Of course, everybody booed, oh, we're not going
to forget you, John Cena. It's kind of hard to do.
I mean, he was fanks to the company for what
fifteen years, It's a little hard to do. So Sena

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finally got around to addressing the two hundred and seventy
five pound elephant in the room, that being brock Lesner.
He said, there is no universe in which he ever
backs down from brock Lesnar. Is he afraid? Hell, yes,
he's afraid that brock Lesnar just got himself a John

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Cena problem. Said time is winding down, and if any
of us saw Summer Slam we saw that he's not
going down without a fight. So brock Lesner, when you
want some, come get some. And to anyone brave enough
to walk that aisle and face off with the last
real champion, just know that he plans to go down
guns blazing. He says, the last time is now, so

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if you want some, and the fans finished it and
said come get some. So that brought out not brock Lesnar,
it brought out Logan Paul. Not what people were expecting
or hoping for here, but here comes Logan Paul, massive booze.
Paul said that this version of John Cena made him sick,

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noted that he wants respect, had seen it, but no
longer because he switched up in his eyes and as
he got into the ring, Scena told him that he
might have just made the biggest mistake of his life.
Paul claimed that the people didn't know who John Cena
was and that he did wwe better than any professional wrestler.
Sena responded by calling him the biggest dumbass that he

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has ever seen in his life. So Logan called Sena
a liar, said he wanted to face him in a match,
and he said that they could do it in a
beautiful French speaking country in the middle of France. He
swerved him. He got all these Montreal fans all worked
up and then he swerved him and they didn't like

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that very much. He said Sena and him could do
their match at Clash in Paris, and as he rambled on,
Drew McIntyre suddenly snuck up on Sena. He ambushed him
and as the two heels beat him down, Cody Rhoades
ran out to make the save. He helped Seena clear
the ring of both heels. Sena accepted Paul's challenge for

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Clash from Paris, but said, you know, it's pretty clear
that you two guys want to fight, and then he
threw down the challenge for an impromptu made event tonight
where he would tag with Cody Rhoades to take on Logan,
Paul Andrew McIntyre. So there you go, baby Face John Cena.
If you weren't convinced already, baby Face John Cena is
back in full force again. Abandoning the heel turn was

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the only move to make here. First of all, he's
only got eleven dates left, all right, or maybe after
tonight ten that's it? And so he was always going
to go back Babyface at some point as we got
into the latter half of this year, he had to.
Now I thought they were going to do a redemption arc.
There was a story to tell with John Cena finally
seeing the error of his ways and slowly but surely

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converting and morphing back into the John Cena that we
all knew coming into this year, right. He had dropped
little hints of it in different points. He dropped a
little hint of it after the match with Randy Orton
a backlash, he dropped a little hint of it the
last time we saw him previously, and match with Punk,
so we knew it was all building to this. They
just decided, you know what, we're not going to wait

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any longer and we're just gonna have him do it
in a prombo forty eight hours before SummerSlam. So even
though I don't disagree with them making the move, I
will say there was an opportunity for them to take
a little bit of time to tell the story a
little bit better. They opted not to do that. They
just it's like, rip the fucking band aid off and

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so here we are fine. Now we got an impromptu
John Cena match on TV, which is nice since we
don't get too many of those. He's gonna be wrestling
Logan Paul in Paris. You know, look, I think that
that could end up being a good match. I'm not
expecting a match like we got with Sena and Cody
at SummerSlam. But again, Logan Paul at SummerSlam showed what

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he can do when he was in there with Jelly
Roll and they were in the tag match, and he
was the MVP of that match. So I will not
doubt his ability to go in there and take a
match that otherwise might be decent and turn it into
a really fun match. We'll see, We'll see what the
two of them can do. You know, this is a
match that at one point a couple of years ago,
I mean he was claiming on his podcast he was

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texting Triple H telling him, Hey, you want to make
box office records, put me in Sena in the ring
of WrestleMania. I think that was for thirty nine. We're
seen ended up wrestling Austin theory. So now he's getting
the match, and you know, look, does that have a
lot of real appeal to me? It doesn't. Again, it
could be. It could end up being a really good match.

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I can't say it's a match that gets me terribly
excited for Clash from Paris. So we'll see how the
rest of the card shapes up. We already know Cody
and Drew, which we'll get to that clearly is going
to be a direction probably for that show. We know
Naomi is defending her Women's World Championship from Raw against
Stephanie Vicaire and there's going to be some kind and

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then we'll find out this Monday what they're going to
do coming out of Raw this week. There's really a
couple of options, right, a tag team match of some
kind involving Roman Reigns CM punk In La Night on
one side against Seth Rawlins and his crew, or a
triple threat match for the World Heavyweight title would Seth
Rollins defending against punk and La Night, which really is
what the match should be, because why would punk In

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La Night not want a championship match after they were
both screwed out of championships, So that would really be
the match to do. And on these cards, Triple h
generally does not like doing more than five matches, maybe six,
so I kind of feel like nearly the full card
has already come into focus for Paris, but some of

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the matches haven't been made official yet. Hunter says, I
think they do a fatal four way for the championship
with Roman in the match. Possible, possible again. I thought
coming out of the Angle that they did on Monday
that we wouldn't see Roman again until the very end

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of the month, or maybe he wouldn't even be on
that show. But he's being advertised for Raw in ten days,
so he'll be on the show. It's just a matter
of what they have him doing. Maybe one on one
against bron Breaker. I would probably save that match for Actually,
you know what, I take that back, It shouldn't be
bron Breaker. Save that match for a bigger show. You
know what match would make sense. Roman reigns against Bronson

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Reid because Bronton Reed keeps stealing his fucking shoes the
second time. Now that Bronton Reed has stolen the shoes
off of this man's feet, that should be the match
at Clash in Paris. Let the other three have a
triple threat for the World Heavyweight Championship. Keep Roman in
seth away from each other until you're ready to do
a singles match. I kind of don't like the idea

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of Roman and Seth being in a match like that.
If it's not one on one, that's just me. We
have the MotorCity machine Guns against Talatanga and J. C.
Matteo of yeah, Sola Sola Soco is MFTs. So they
are a team now, Mateo and Alex Shelley. They opened

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the match. They traded some offense until Shelley and Sabin
used a double team, moved to floor Mateo sent him outside.
Sabin took down Mateo with a suicide dive. Tonga Loa
jumped up on the apron, which caused a distraction that
gave Talatanga time to pick Sabin off the apron and
throw him into the barricade. That sent us into one

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of many commercial breaks that always happened to come at
the exact same time, just moments into these matches. So
Matteo worked over Sabin before supplexing him and going for
the pin. Shelley broke it up. Talatanga made a blind
tag before Shelley and Sabin hit Mateo with a double superkick.
Shelley and Sabin set up for scull and bones, but

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Talatanga hit Shelley with a big boot that knocked him
off the ropes all the way to the floor, and
Talatanga delivered a choke slam to Chris Sabin and pinned him.
Decent at best. This is what they're using the MotorCity
machine guns for. MotorCity machine guns are not going to
be the focus of anything. They're being used to put

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over a team like the MFTs. And even still, I mean,
they're not going out there with the intent of having
some kind of classic match. You know, They're going out
there to put the heels over to give them some heat.
That's what they did. The match was decent. It was
decent to best. It looks like Mateo and Talatoga that
are going to be a permanent team going forward. After

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the match, Solo Sokoa got on the mic. He declared
that he and his MFTs are what greatness looks like.
If this man was hooked up to a polygraph in
the ring and said that he would fail even he
doesn't believe that. He said that we are looking at

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the soon to be WWE Tag team champions and the
most dominant United States champion. And who's that, by the way,
Like I was scratching my brain for five minutes trying
to figure out who is he referring to as the
most dominant United States champion. I don't know. I'm not sure.
Lex Lueger is probably still the greatest United States champion,

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but that's going back aways. Solo said that he was
feeling good, he was ready for a fight, but the
problem is that nobody wanted to fight him. He said
that this was the last place that he wanted to
fight anyway, so he was ready to head out and celebrate.
When Nick all this what's causing all this? He walked
out and he announced that he found someone who was

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also ready for a fight. Points funny. I mean, how
quickly that happened, isn't it amazing? He just so happened
to find this person, and he was going to bring
that person on out here right now, because this person's
ready for a fight right here in Montreal, someone Solo
knows very well, someone that the fans here in Montreal
knew very well, and outcomes Sammy's to a big reaction

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here from the hometown crowd. Another impromptu match made for tonight.
What is Sammy's? I understand like it's his hometown. But
I don't know why Ish Monday Night raws, Sammy's angel
is walking around backstage that Nick Allders can go, hey,

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you come here, I got something for you. I don't know.
It's funny how that works. Roderick says Rick Rude. Rick
Rud was a very good champion, Yes he was. I
just got done watching a three hour Rick Rude compilation
from the WWE Vault channel, and there were some good
WCW matches on there, but some of them were for

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the World Heavyweight Champions. By the way, real quick, this
it really annoys me. So I'm watching this Rick Rude compilation.
There's a match on there with him and Rick Flair.
It had to be. I think it was Fall Brawl
September ninety three. I am still to this day, I
am completely confused by the whole title situation in WCW

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at that time, because they're fighting over the big gold belt, right,
but then like Flair is beating Vader for the Flair's
already the champion. Flair is beating Vader for the belt
a few months later at Starcade. I know they had
left the NWA around that time, but like there was
a world International Champion. I am so confused, Like I

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looked up the title lineage to just because I just
was having trouble figuring all this out, and I was
still I was just as confused after trying to look
up the lineage on Wikipedia as I was beforehand. I
don't know what was going on during that period, but
it's very, very confusing, so I just want to put
that out there. So after a commercial break, it was
Sammy's Ay against Solo Socoa, and the crowd broke into

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an ololola sing along for Sammy. At the beginning, Solo
tried to beg off by throwing up the ones, just
like the old blame line days, but he got slapped
in the face for his troubles. Zay sent Sokoa to
the outside with a clothes line. He sized them up
for a dive, and then hit the dive out over
the top rope. When he stood up, he was surrounded
by the other members of the mft my family tree

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right in front of the announced desk, and that took
us into actually, no, that's god, my god. I thought
there was another commercial break here. I don't think they
went to commercial here. I was just so scarred by
all these all these commercial breaks. So back in the ring,
Sokoa he ran distraction that allowed Tala Tonga to climb
up on the apron and hit Sammy with a clothes
line that took okay see, I knew it, I knew it.

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I knew it was coming up. That's when we got
the commercial break. He's gonna drive me nuts, So that's
when we went into the commercial. Now we came back
with Sammy connecting on a sunset flip power bomb from
the top rope that got a very close near fall.
Zayane followed that up by trying to lift up Solo
to no avail and attempted blue thunderbomb was met by

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a spinning Solo from the United States Champion, but only
for a near fall. So now Solo is sizing Sammy
up for a samo and spike. Sammy, though, gets a
boot up threw him into the corner with an exploder.
Sammy looked like he was about to hit a Halluva kick,
but Tonga Loa provided the distraction. Another exploder was followed
by an attempted Halluva kick, but jac Matteo this time

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provided the distraction. Talatonga then got up on the apron.
He faced off with Sammy, who stood defiant, but this
opened him up to a super kick by Solo, and
the champion looked like he had this one. He was
gonna go for the SAMO and spike. Sammy, though, ducked it.
He got the surprise roll up and he pinned the

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United States Champion. Sammy's a Monday Night raws Sammy's Ain
pins the United States Champion, Zan immediately rolled out of
the ring, Solo's sitting there in the ring looking completely confused,
and Sammy gets the big hometown win, solid enough match.
It feels like it simply existed to get Sammy a

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match in his hometown. That was literally the only reason
it felt like for this match to exist. Are they
setting up a United States Championship match? They should? I
always say it. I always say it. If you are
a champion and you get beaten on TV, if you
get pinned on TV in a non title match, whoever
beats you should be next in line for a championship match.

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And the fact that Sammy's Ain is on Monday Night
Raw and not on SmackDown, apparently it shouldn't matter anymore
because we just had La Knight, who was still listed
on the SmackDown roster challenging Seth Rollins for the World
Heavyweight Championship. So it doesn't matter. So yes, sammy's Ain
should get the next shot, maybe in Paris. I'm not
saying that I am over the moon about seeing the match,

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but if we're being logical here, yes, samyse Ain should
now challenge for the US title. He'll be wrestling russef
on Raw this Monday. Are we going to see Solo
Sokoa and the MFTs on Raw? Mike ought, I hope not,
but we might. Yes, I think we will. I think
we will. I think that the MFTs might bleed over

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into Monday Night Raw. Oh boy. We got a VHS
style promo from the Wyatt six. Uncle Howdie said that
they would never lead us astray and when they spoke,
they only spoke the truth like me. Each member got
a chance to speak, and they said that they woke

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up the SmackDown Tag Team division to their true reality.
Said this was about something bigger than the tag team
titles and there are more lessons to be learned. Okay.
Then moving on backstage, the Street Profits and DIY they
got into an argument with Tamaso Champa calling the prophets

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a bunch of mother killers for what happened to and
Lay during the TLC match at SummerSlam. They even pointed
the huge pointed out the huge bruise on her thigh
from that latter spot. So the bickering continued until Nick
all this interrupted, not that he was doing anything anyway,
he walked in. He said, the TLC match doesn't seem

(29:16):
like kept everyone in check. So here's what we're gonna
do next week on SmackDown. It's gonna be DIY against
the Street profits. I feel like I have watched this
movie before. I guess we get to watch it again
next week. The new women's tag team champions are Charlotte

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Flair and Alexa Bliss, a move that I approve of.
So now where to next? Well, tonight, they made their
way out to the ring for a birthday celebration because
tomorrow Alexa Bliss turns I believe, thirty four years old.
It is her birthday, so the ring was decked out
with balloons. They had a cake. Gee, I wonder what'll

(30:03):
happen to the cake? And they had a gift box
sitting on a table or a podium or whatever pedestal.
So Flair said that Bliss's birthday just so happened to
fall at the same time as their championship celebration, and
she said that she could have made it all about herself,
but she decided to share the spotlight. So Alexa looked

(30:25):
at the cake, and the cake had this message in
huge lettering that said congratulations Charlotte Flair, and then in
little writing underneath it, it said an Alexa Bliss and
it had a ps note that said happy Birthday, also
in tiny lettering. So Charlotte insisted the cake was for Alexa,

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not for me. It's for you. So Flair then opened
the gift box and presented Alexa with Lily the Doll.
Oh god, we're back to the doll. You know for
some of these shows, I feel like I need a doll.
I do. I feel like I need some sort of

(31:05):
therapy doll sitting right next to me. I'm this close,
So Lily the Doll is back. And then Charlotte said, well,
since you and I are tag team partners, Lily has
to have a tag team partner too, and she pulled
out the Is it Charlie, it's Charlie right, you pronounce

(31:27):
it the Charlie doll from four years ago. She said,
I barely have any memory of this. I think I
may have blocked it out. But from four years ago,
I guess when they last feuded, there was a Charlotte doll.
It's basically the Alexa doll, but with long blonde hair,
long blonde locks. I can't I just barely have any

(31:52):
recollection of this. But she presented it to her and
the crowd started chanting, Charlie. We got a Charlie chant
here from this crowd. Don't encourage this. Don't encourage this.
So Flair then gave Bliss permission to hug her, and
Alexa said, I don't know if that's really necessary, and
Charlotte said, you may hug the queen. So a reluctant

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Alexa went in for a hug. But before we could
get the hug, they were interrupted by Chelsea Green and
the secret hervists Voodoo. Hey, you know what, I already
got my doll. That's right, I got my voodoo doll.
A few more episodes like this and I may have
to start putting some curses on people. So Chelsea said

(32:37):
that she's a proud Canadian, but the fans supporting Flair
and Bliss made her want to turn in her passport.
She healed on the Montreal Canadians hockey team. She told
Bliss that she had now Flair did. Flair told Alexa,
you know, Alexi, I got another gift for you, the
gift of kicking Chelsea Green's ass. So Nick all this

(32:59):
walked out with a referee that I've never seen before,
which stopped Chelsea from leaving all this. Wish Bliss a
happy birthday and said that his gift was a brand
new referee, and he said the new referees first assignment
would be working the match between Charlotte Flair and Chelsea Green,
who threw a fit as they went to a commercial break.

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That is the third impromptu match of the night. We
got three of them on this two hour show. The
fans in this segment here, they did not really react
to the cake bit, but the Charlie doll. They got
a Charlie chan going, so they like that. By the way,

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I have to ask this question. I probably I should
have looked this up, but help me out here. I'm
sure there's some rational explanation for this. Why are the
Montreal Canadians called the halves. I know they're called the halves,
but I have no idea. Why can someone just fill

(34:05):
me in on this? Why are they called the habs,
the habs and the have nots. Let's go backstage before
we get to this match here, because here's somebody that
we don't get to see very often on SmackDown, Carmelo Hayes.
Even when the show was three hours long, we didn't
get to see him all that often. But here he is.

(34:26):
Carmelo Hayes is in the back and he goes to
knock on Nick Alldos's office door. But of course nick
All this is not in because Nick All this does
not do his job when he's in the back. Nick
All this was off somewhere, probably playing a fucking arcade game.
So he knocks on the door and who answers the door?
But the miss the mizz answers the door, and Carmelo

(34:46):
wasn't very happy to see him. He said, what the
hell happened to you? You disappear on me for two months.
You were supposed to help take me to that next level.
You vanished on me. So Hayes said that he was
going to go talk to all this about getting himself
a United States Championship match, and Mis stopped him and
said that he had already gone to Nick all This
and gotten them a tag team match next week. He

(35:06):
asked Hayes if they were good, and he did their
stupid little catchphrase, I'm the mis and I'm you know whatever.
We're ass him. It's so stupid, and Carmelo was like okay,
and they shook hands and he walked off. And after
he left, Nick all This showed up and he asked
what was that all about, and Mis said all this
was just the man he wanted to talk to. So basically,

(35:30):
he lied to Carmelo Hayes about getting them that tag
team I mean, he may get them a tag team
match now, but he had not already spoken to Nick
all this. That was bullshit. So we'll see what ends
up happening between the two of them next week. By
the way, you might be interested to know, or maybe not.
Carmelo Hayes wrestled tonight, not on SmackDown. He wrestled on

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Main Event. Got to win over Axiom. At least he
can actually win a match somewhere. Would have been nice
to see that match on this show. Tonight. So Halbs
is short for habitants, the early French settlers of New France,
which is known today as Quebec. There you go. See,
I knew there was an explanation for it. I never

(36:13):
would have guessed that, So now I know. Thank you. See,
we're all trying to educate each other around here. It's
a very important information I need to know. Charlotte Flair
against Chelsea Green, Flair had the advantage early on. Green
finally got the upper hand with a boot to the face.

(36:34):
On the apron. Flair fended off Alba Fire and Piper
Niven before she took to the top rope and hit
a diving crossbody for a near fall. The secret hervists
they provided a momentary distraction which really didn't provide any
sort of real advantage whatsoever for Chelsea. There was a
roll up attempt by Charlotte that got countered by Chelsea

(36:55):
as she pushed Charlotte into the middle turn buckle, and
that took us into a commercial brain. We came back
and we found out that the birthday cake from the
birthday celebration in the earlier segment was placed outside the
ring during the commercial break while the match was in progress.
Flair connected with Natural Selection, but Chelsea kicked out it too.

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As Flair tried to run at her, she was met
with a big boot, but Charlotte quickly recovered and tried
to head up top Green stunder and landed a superplex
for a near fall. Chelsea then motioned to the Secret
Herves to bring the birthday cake to her, and so
Piper Niven and Alba Fire. They slid the cake into
the ring. On the outside, Alexa Bliss took out both

(37:40):
members of the Secret hervist with the dive inside the ring,
Green set Flare up for and unpretty her onto the cake. Charlotte, though,
reversed it and delivered an unpretty her of her own
and dropped Chelsea face first down onto the cake, and
then she applied the figure eight for the submission victory.

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Shout out to Whitney. Whitney just upgraded their membership from
sound Off Superstar to sound Off Legend. You are a
legend in my book. Thank you, Whitney. You want to
check out some of the earliest shows I've ever done
Episode one through thirteen so far of the SoundOff that

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is up for the Legends tier members. I sound like
a completely different person on those shows. This was a
solid match. Fans pop for the cake spot. So there's that.
You know. I'm all for doing more skits and stuff
like that which Charlotte and Alexa to get over the

(38:49):
fact that they have this newfound friendship. I mean, this
segment isn't what I was kind of hoping for. But
more of this kind of stuff, but maybe in kind
of of vignette form would be nice to see. But
this is what we got. We got Lily the Doll,

(39:10):
and we got Charlie the Doll, and we got a
cake here on this show. Very good. Now we go backstage.
Tiffany Stratton was interviewed by Kathy Kelly about what was
next for her coming out of SummerSlam. She got that
big win over Jade Cargill. She said that she would
just keep on doing what she's been doing for the

(39:30):
past two hundred and sixteen days. She was interrupted by
Jade Cargill, the loser from SummerSlam, and she promised that
the outcome would be different next time that she and
Stratton face it next time. Next time she got beat. Actually,

(39:51):
you know what I loved about this, She said the
outcome would have been very different had she now gotten
her foot on the bottom rope. That was after she
hit Jaded. But of course, if you remember that match
at SummerSlam, it was Jade who looked like she plays
Tiffany's foot on the rope. So she's got nobody to
blame for that but herself. I kind of laugh when
she brought that up here. So as Stratton left, Jade

(40:14):
was confronted by Julia and Keana James, who handed Jade
her business card. Car Gill said that she would go
after the title on her own time. And I assume
here she was referring to the world championship. I don't
believe she was referring to the US title, even though
Julia is the United States champion. Basically, she was telling

(40:35):
James keep the card, I don't need your help, and
Keana told her keep the card anyway, and the two
of them walked off. So then finally Meechen showed up.
We went from Tiffany to Jade, from Jade to Keana
and Julia, and from Keana and Julia to Meechen. This
was quite the journey that we took here in this
backstage segment. So Meechen shows up and she says, you

(41:00):
really gonna use that card? And Jay says nope, and
she handed it to Michin and Michen said, I might
just give Keana a call and get myself a United
States Championship match. Do any babyfaces other than Meechen and
Zelina Vega give a shit about challenging for the United
States Championship because they're the only ones who seem to care.

(41:23):
What other babyfaces in the women's division do they even
have on this show who would be at that level
wrestling for that title? B Fab, I don't even know
if they have anybody else. Everyone else is pretty much
accounted for. Bianca bel Air is gonna come back and
probably go after the world title. Jade wants to go
back after the world title. I mean, you got Candice Loray,

(41:47):
but she's a heel. That may be it. We may
be looking at Zeleina, Meechen and Befab as the only
other female babyfaces left on the show. It just feels
like it's the same people over and over again. No
hint though here of heel Jade Cargill. I really thought
there was a chance on this show coming out of

(42:08):
SummerSlam that she might turn heel or there might be
some big hint of a heal turn coming, because in
all honesty, like I was expecting that we would end
up getting a rematch at some point, maybe in Paris,
between Jade and Tiffany, maybe I see. I don't know
if that's going to happen in Paris, though, it really
just depends on the number of matches that are already
set for the show. Maybe they do it on SmackDown

(42:31):
the Friday before, so it's pretty clear. I think we're
going to get a rematch between the two. I still
think there's a decent chance that Jade ends up going
heel out of this. By that point, Bianca maybe back.
You could branch off and do something with Bianca and
Jade kind of in the long term. That's the direction
that I see with Jade. I just think she would

(42:51):
be better in that role. They aired an alistair black
video package said that he's allowed to use violence to
stop greater violence, and if you think that's evil, then
there's no such thing. The crowd cheered Damian Priest, who
he said was out with a hairline fracture to his jaw.
They cheered Priest, trying to put him through a table. Well,

(43:13):
Black isn't an eye for an eye guy. He's a
head for an eye kind of guy. He warned us,
all the violence begets violence, so he escalated things. When
Priest is pushed, he pushes back. But when Black is pushed,
he pushes you off a cliff and he waits to
hear you hit the ground. It's like the road Runner

(43:35):
and the UH and the Coyote. Coyote always fell, always
fell to the ground. You always saw a little plume
of smoke. I don't know why that made me think
of that, but I would rather have watched that than
this show. Quite frankly, in fact, I might do that
when we're done here. John Cena was walking backstage. Here

(43:58):
we go, John Cena is walking in the back and
our Truth shows up. I don't know that we've seen
our truth since that Saturday Night's Made Event match. Actually no,
that's not true. He wrestled Alistair Black many many weeks ago,
but we haven't seen all that much of him since
they brought him back to the company. Because there was

(44:20):
no plan to bring him back. He was fired, and
then there was such an uproar over it that they
descepted not only from the fans, but from people in
the locker room that they brought him back, right, that's great,
he got his job back. We haven't seen too much
of him, but one of the things that we saw

(44:40):
was on Raw right after they brought him back, stood
up on the announced desk. He cut a serious promo
and he cut his hair off. It was like him
parting ways with the old our Truth, that our Truth
is dead. This is Ron Killings, And I thought, this

(45:02):
is pretty cool. We're gonna get to see a different
side of our Truth, a more serious side. Because he's
played the comedy goofball for years and it worked for him.
But you know what, now's a good time to get
a little more serious and let's see what they can
do with it. So he confronts John Cena here in
this backstage segment and they act like their mirror images,

(45:24):
going like this, going like the doinks at WrestleMania nine,
and Truth said that you're back, and if Seena's back,
then I'm back too. Sena said that he was worried
about Truth because he acted really weird for five months there.
Seena said, Truth changed his hair, he was really mean

(45:46):
to people, and he even made that one kid cry
in Brussels. Sina said, Truth claimed that he wanted to
ruin wrestling, and then he asked him he ever really
thought that was gonna work, did you? Seena told Truth
that it was good to have him back, and then
he walked away, leaving Truth very confused. He was not
the only one. So much for serious ron killings Our

(46:09):
Truth the clown is back, so much for that. That
was certainly my takeaway from this segment. Whatever whatever idea
they may or may not have had for a more
serious Our Truth has seemingly been flushed down to toilet.
It's as if it never happened at all. Kind of

(46:29):
the same thing with the John Cena heel turn right,
It's as if it never happened at all. And while
I agree with it for John Cena, the fact that
they really didn't do anything with Our Truth, I mean
he cut his hair off. He probably wanted to anyway.
He was probably like, it's time, so let's incorporate it
into the show. Can you imagine if it wasn't, if

(46:52):
that was something the company recommended that he do, because
we're gonna we're gonna make you more serious, and he
cuts his fucking hair off. And they're like, yeah, you
know what, on second thought, we're just gonna turn you
back to what you were doing before. Fucking people. Oh man,
what a waste. They could have done something there. The

(47:13):
main event was John Cena and Cody Rhodes. Quiz Quizzical says,
sixty four more likes to hit the be the booker goal,
Let's do it, Joey says. The former NW two time
NWA World Champion Ron Killings is dead. He didn't really

(47:38):
have enough time to live quite frankly here on this show.
Just I don't know. There was some fun stuff that
could have been done there, but what are you gonna do?
John Cena and Cody Rhodes in the main event against
Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul. Twenty minutes went by between

(48:03):
them announcing that the main event was coming up next
and the time that the main event actually started. That
left us with less than ten minutes of actual match
time for a main event that they announced with John
Cena in it. Right, nice big hook there, nice big
attraction here for the end of the show. So we
wait the full twenty minutes, we get the match. We

(48:24):
don't even get ten These shows are insufferable when it
comes to stuff like that. It has never never been
this bad before. I feel it now more than ever
when I watched these show Raw SmackDown, But it feels
like it's worse on SmackDown for some reason with the

(48:45):
long breaks, and then you go into the next one.
Is it is insufferable. So Cody and Logan started things
off after a suplex. Rhodes tried to tag in Sena.
Logan though, roll them up and drag the champion back
to the heel corner. McIntyre tagged into the match, Cody
caught him with a running power slam. Meanwhile, Paul ran

(49:06):
a distraction which gave McIntyre the chance to blast Cody
with the Glasgow kiss. McIntyre in the ring provided a
distraction of his own as Logan hit Cody with a
clothes line out on the floor, and that took us
into another commercial. With a little over five minutes left
in this show, we came back with McIntyre attempting to

(49:29):
prevent Cody from making the tag to Sina. And it's
funny too because Cody was, I mean literally fingertips away
from Sena and I'm pretty sure they touched and you
could see Sena like backup, backup, back up, like you're
too close. Seena is like pulling back. So I think
he did tag him, but they didn't call it a tag.

(49:50):
Rhodes managed to create some separation after avoiding a shoulder
charge from McIntyre which sent him crashing into the post.
This allowed Sena to get the hot tag and the
Crab was very happy to see him tag in and
he unleashed his five moves of doom on Logan Paul.
He delivered the five knuckle shuffle, the attitude adjustment, McIntyre

(50:12):
broke up the pin, then he targeted Seena for a
Claymore kick, but Cody intervened and at that point Logan
Paul caught John Cena with a low blow for the disqualification.
And this tag team main event is over just like that.
And that was also, by the way, the end of
John Cena's final match ever in Montreal. So Logan and

(50:37):
Sena they brawled to the back while Cody and McIntyre
they fought at ringside. McIntyre smacked Cody in the face
with a WWE championship and with the champion sitting prone
in front of the announced desk, McIntyre delivered a Claymore
kick that managed to break the bottom part of the
announced desk and put Cody through it. As Cody laid

(50:59):
there underneath the desk unconscious, and officials poured out to
swarm the area, So the match was brief. It existed
solely to set up the next two big directions on
this show, likely both for Paris. We know John Seen
is wrestling Logan Paul in Paris. While no official announcement

(51:21):
yet has been made because they just shot the angle,
it looks like Cody. I don't see any reason why
Cody would not be on that show. It looks like
Cody will be defending the title on that show, and
it will be against Drew McIntyre, which I'm okay with.
I think Drew is a good choice. I think you
can get a couple of matches out of it. First
match can be in Paris, they could do a rematch
in Perth. This felt like a way to write Cody

(51:45):
off the show for a while so that he can
go off and maybe film for Street Fighter, unless he's
not filming until September like Roman Reigns. But I would
not expect to see him on the show next week.
But then again, some some times they do an angle
like this and you see the guy back on the show.
He's got you know, tape on his ribs and he's
back next week, So who the hell knows. But it

(52:07):
didn't feel like we're going to be seeing Cody on
the show next week, and no brock Lesnar follow up,
which is probably what a lot of people were waiting
to see. Would he be on the show or would
there be some sort of explanation about why, which we
never actually got. When Brock feuded with Cody Rhodes two
years ago was the last time we saw Brock. The
last feud he had was with Cody, and we never

(52:29):
got a real explanation from him on why he attacked Cody,
So why would it be any different with John Cena.
But yes, there was no follow up on that story.
You know, when this show was over again, you're in Canada,
You're in Montreal, which is one of the great wrestling
cities in the world, and they were hot for you know,
some of the things on this show. They were hot

(52:50):
for John Cena, they were hot for you know, Cody
and seeing them tagging in the main event, they were
hot for Sammy's ain obviously, and you had the added
attraction of Johnson actually wrestling on TV, which is a
rare thing. And yet when this show was over, I
was completely bored this show, the big SmackDown, first SmackDown

(53:11):
coming out of Summer Slim, and it just Yes, they
did set up some new directions, but the show. You
still want the show to be entertaining, and for me,
it completely missed the mark. I was waiting for something
to really grab me on this show, and it missed
the mark, and I I thought this was a terrible
episode of SmackDown. This show is a slog to sit

(53:33):
through tonight, so they need to do better next week.
We have some new directions for Paris that's not coming
until the end of the month, so we'll see what
they do, especially if Cody's not going to be around,
what they do to build up that match with him
and Drew if we get that. I don't know when
John seen his next appearances. I don't know that he'll
be on the show next week. I haven't checked his

(53:56):
calendar again, he's only got about ten or eleven appearances left.
Shall see. But yeah, this SmackDown tonight was no good
I'm sorry, this was not it this show. Let's take
the poll on the screen here and check it out.
How would you grade SmackDown from Montreal? Barely twenty percent

(54:16):
give this show an A, thirty one percent give it
a B, twenty three percent give it a C, and
twenty six percent give it a D. Yeah, I'm in
the C and D category. Probably a solid C is
what it would get from me. At Solo Monster is
where you can vote on X. Melissa says without SmackDown,

(54:44):
sleeping would not Sleeping would be impossible. She said, I
thought it was like that said sleeping would be uh
never mind, Thank you, Melissa sleep Down. You know what,

(55:09):
if I didn't have to take notes, it might have
been it might have been you know, I don't know, man,
SmackDown can be very hit or miss. But there was
a period of time, especially earlier this year, where SmackDown

(55:30):
was just absolutely fucking terrible. And I wouldn't say it's
been fucking terrible, you know, for the last few weeks,
but this show reminded me more of something we would
have seen earlier this year. And that's not a compliment.
That's not a good thing. All right, Let's take a

(55:51):
look at your super chats here. Thank you guys. We
are currently, by the way, sitting at three hundred and
seven likes, so we need about twenty more. If we
hit twenty more, we'll be doing be the Booker here.
Death Side is going to get us started out here.
It's going on. Death Side feels like Triple H took

(56:15):
all his frustrations he had with Vince and projected it
onto Austin Theory and he is buried and made to
look like a clown. Yes, Austin Theory is injured. Apparently
it's a legitimate injury, not just something Grayson Waller was
talking about on TV. So that's why he's been removed
from the active roster, not because he's leaving, but because

(56:38):
he's hurt. But yes, go back prior to him getting hurt,
and it's not like Triple H was doing anything with
Austin Theory. I don't think Triple H likes Austin Theory
very much, not that he has anything personal against him,
But if he really truly liked him and believed in him,
we would see him on TV and we don't. I
don't need him to tell me that. I could just
judge it based on how he uses certain people and

(57:00):
doesn't use other people on this show. He is clearly
not an Austin theory guy in the way that Vince
McMahon was JDFA or JDFVA Sena in the Hall of Fame.
Win When they need a big name in the Hall
of Fame and he's available, they'll make it happen, right.

(57:21):
We know he's going in, we know Rock is going in,
we know Batista's going in. It all comes down to
their availability. If Seena is shooting a movie and can't
make the commitment to be at the Hall of Fame
and be at WrestleMania next year, then it won't be
in Vegas. You know they'll hold out for another year.
But I don't really think there's a big rush to
do it. Holiday one ninety seven says Hi Solo. It's

(57:45):
unlikely to happen, but I hope Cody drops the belt
to Drew with Orton screwing Cody leading to a WrestleMania program.
Then if Sammy wins the rumble, he can pick between
Seth and Drew. Sammy has a story with both of them. Well,
the story with Drew McIntyre is that Sammy's ain has
never been eating him. They've had a whole bunch of
matches and Sammy Zane has just never been able to

(58:05):
beat Drew McIntyre. So you're you're right, there is there
is a story there with both men. They wanted to
do that, but they're not going to take the title
off Cody just yet, especially to keep it off of
him until WrestleMania. They're not going to do that. They

(58:29):
didn't put the belt back on Cody just to take
it off of him that soon. William says Sola Monster.
I was thinking about wrestling on the drive to work
tonight and wonder if you can opine on the best
you people promos that you recall. I don't know about
all of them, but the Brett Hart won from nineteen
ninety seven, it's probably my favorite talking about all you

(58:53):
people as all of you American wrestling fans. To me,
if that isn't the best one, that's one of the
that's one of the better ones for sure. When he
went heeled boots, what's going on? Boots? Says Sola Monster,
serenaded Nick Wayne's mom. Can you sing Happy Birthday to

(59:13):
Alexa Bliss and send her the clip on behalf of
the chat. I'm asking for a friend. I cannot No,
that would be creepy. I think Alexa Bliss gets enough
creepy videos and messages from people. I don't want to
pile on that. I will just do this. I will
wish and we can have everybody in the chat wish
her a happy birthday and throw up the birthday cake emojis.

(59:35):
We all wish Alexa Bliss, no one more so than
our resident Bliss fan a very happy birthday tomorrow. There
you go, Death Side. How is Michael Hayes still employed
the plane Ride from Hell making an ass out of

(59:56):
himself at Triple H's wedding using a racial slur the
Janelle Grant lawsuit. He could have his own dark Side
of the Ring episode? He could, Yes, but there he
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Dry Chicken says less is more in WWE equals the

(01:02:49):
bare minimum. Well, I mean sometimes it feels like they
do the bare minimum and they know they can get
away with it. I mean, look at all the guaranteed
money they have pouring in right, their audience just you know,
eats up whatever they give them. You watch, I mean
even just me saying that I didn't like this show tonight, right,
like the hate that I'll get because there are fans

(01:03:12):
and this is a problem across both companies. But for
all the aw Sikos that there are who truly do
live up to the word WWE has almost an equal
amount that will lap up whatever is given to them.
And you know, God helped the person who dare says

(01:03:34):
that you know, they didn't like this show or this
show sucked or this show was boring, and they'll give
you a thesis as to why you're wrong, why my
opinion is wrong. That's that's what always makes me laugh.
But it brings me great joy knowing that on some
level it bothers them that much. Like truly, it truly

(01:03:54):
makes me happy. Joseph says buy Er sale the rock
song You're Welcome from Disney's Moana or the rock Pie
song from WWF, the volume WWF Music, He says, Volume five,
Oh my god, I forgot about that pie song. I

(01:04:18):
don't know You're a welcome song from Moana is not bad.
I'll buy on that one. Also, in your opinion, do
you think the role of Maui is the rock signature
movie role? Well, I know what your favorite movie is.

(01:04:40):
Is that his signature movie role? I think if you
were to ask Rock, he was kind of hoping Black
Adam would be his signature movie role, but I guess
Maui probably would be. Those movies are very popular WWE

(01:05:03):
wrestling in gaming with Cina versus Logan in Paris. I
think the Brock return was just a one off and
the potential match is scrapped due to fan backlash. That
is absolutely not the case. Let me tell you something.
I'll tell you two things, and I'm gonna talk a
lot more about Brock on the sound off this weekend.

(01:05:25):
But two things. Number One, WWE doesn't give a shit.
They've made that very clear they don't care. Number Two,
if Brock was scrubbed and they canceled their plans, he
would not have been mentioned on the show tonight. He
was mentioned in a video package they showed the highlights
of him coming back and John Cena brought him up
in his promo. So no, they are going to drag

(01:05:51):
this out as long as they possibly can. Again, maybe
the match happens in Perth next month, but no, the
match has not been scrapped. Abystle Zones, I had considered
attending this spack that in person because originally LA night

(01:06:12):
was advertised. Thankfully I didn't, so I saved myself hundreds
of dollars. Yes you did, Yes you did, although I
will say I did see a note. The tickets for
Forbidden Door are selling really well for the O two

(01:06:32):
in London, and apparently the tickets on the secondary market
to the raw that night are the highest they've ever been.
And like the cheapest get in ticket, like whatever the
equivalent would be in pounds, is like six or seven
hundred dollars American like something crazy. Like these are like

(01:06:53):
WWE numbers. I'm like, that's ridiculous, but they're popular over there,
very popular in the UK. Dry Chickens says, Paul Avec
can try to rig the game, but he can't fake influence.
At the end of the day, wrestling fans can decide
who they want to believe Joseph Stewart with a nine

(01:07:18):
to ninety nine. Would Kurt Angle have joined ECW if
not for the Raven and Sandman angle that they did.
I feel like Angle might have come in for a
match or two, but ultimately he was going to end
up in WWA. I really don't think it would have
made that much of a difference. I don't think it
like change the course of history or anything like that.

(01:07:41):
I think he would have ended up exactly where he
ended up. All right, So now now we can catch
up here with this list fire Panda with a fifty
dollars super Chat quick question with how quickly seen a

(01:08:01):
turn face? Again? Does that mean the heel run is
now non canon? Was it all a fever dream in
the story of WWI did we accidentally slip into the
twilight zone for five months? I'm confused. No. I think
he explained it last week when he said that it
took Cody to kind of give him that kick, and

(01:08:21):
he asked that he needed to realize that he had
made a mistake and he allowed himself to get duped
by you know, without naming them, he basically said the
Rock and Travis Scott, who were supposed to be there
with him the whole way, and they weren't. So now
they acknowledged it, and he just kind of woke up

(01:08:43):
from the days that he was in and now he's
back to being Himself's as simple as that. Hey, Nags,
what's going on? Naje? Yeah, this backdown sucked. I'm sorry, brother,
I'm sorry brother. It was no good, but I'm glad

(01:09:09):
you enjoyed it. Barry says, Have they said where all
the old shows go when WWE's deal with Peacock ends.
I've been waiting months for Netflix to just have all
the old raw shows. No, they have not, because that's
not part of this ESPN deal, And what they'll have
to end up doing is work out another deal and

(01:09:34):
that way because the NXT at ples don't have a
home as of next year, so all of this will
be worked out before then. But as of this moment,
other than the Vault channels on YouTube, the answer is
no when the Peacock deal is over, unless they make
a new one before then, which they probably will, whether
it's with Peacock or Netflix or someone else. The library

(01:09:54):
content will just sort of be in per until they
reach a deal to bring it somewhere else, but that
stuff will not be on the ESPN streaming service. That
is not part of this deal. Duff's VIDs. When a

(01:10:20):
deaf girl gives you a hand job, wouldn't that be
considered or is that a zero? Yeah, that's just the bad.
The punchline just is no good on that one. I
don't like that one. I like you, You're okay. Jeremy

(01:10:45):
Rose with the twelve wwe fumbled this while Sina's last
run other than a money grab, nothing compelling, horrible heel turn,
last second, lazy face turn. Now two months left, what
is there to look forward to? Well, they're hoping that
you're going to look forward to Brock being back. Tony

(01:11:16):
Beloney McCall ten dollars Superchat, who called Naomi as a
better heel turned than John Cena on their twenty twenty
five bingo card not me Xgate, thank you for the
twenty five activating bremode. Oh, it wouldn't send with the letter. Oh,

(01:11:38):
I wouldn't send with the letter. Oh why are you
not allowed to use the letter? Oh? You have the letter? Oh,
and the rest of the super Chat that makes no sense.
But yeah, that's no good either way. Retrokoh. Do you

(01:11:58):
think they are setting up for games with Seth's crew
with possibly one or two others against Punk Knight, Roman,
et cetera. It feels that way. I mean, who else
would be in there? The NFTs? Who else is going
to be in wargames? Duffs vis What's an adult Star?
You know? I with this new format, every time it

(01:12:23):
updates for whatever reason, it knocks the list all the
way down and I have to scroll down to go
find it again. What's an adult Star's favorite animal? A cockatoo? Better?
Still not quite there, but better? Holiday one ninety seven.

(01:12:45):
The WWE Championship has not been defended on SmackDown in
a year. It needs to be defended on that show
a little bit more. SmackDown needs attractions. Well, even when
they get attractions like a John Cena match, that doesn't
mean it's going to be a good show. Tonight was
great example of that. But I agree it's okay for
the WWE title to be defended on SmackDown every now
and then. Was the last time the cage match with

(01:13:07):
Cody and Solo? That was in September of last year.
I don't remember the title being defended on SmackDown Since
then Terrible Dried Chicken Carmelo Hayes is going to go
up to Paul Avec's slap him purposely get himself released.

(01:13:27):
Either Mello moves over to RAW or he gets out
of WWE. No, I don't think he's going anywhere. I
don't think he wants to leave. I just think he
wants them, probably to do more with him. I mean,
how could he not. There's no way he's content in
the role that he's in right now. He wants to

(01:13:48):
contribute in a meaningful way. Anybody on that roster would
feel the same way. So I think he wants to
have success in WWE. You know, and his fiance works
in n XT. That is Killannie Jordan Retro says, if

(01:14:14):
Solo needs a doll, let's chip in together and buy
him a real doll. The shows will never upset him again.
You know how much those things are. Duff Svin says,
if you fall in your own driveway, you can't blame
anybody else because it's your own asphalt, your own asphalt. Whitney,

(01:14:50):
thank you again for upgrading sound Off Legend JDFVA, celebrating
sixteen months of membership. Keep up the amazing work. Thank you,
I will try. Thank you for the sixteen months duffs VIDs.

(01:15:14):
Why was the crow on top of the telephone pole?
He was trying to make a long distance call. So bad.
That's so bad. You're right. The asphalt one. I will
remember that one. This one we flush away. It's going on.

(01:15:41):
Jake and Jake the original tribal Chief in the chat
with us MLK zero one zero. What is your mount
rush What is your mount rushmore favorite wrestling moments? I
don't have a mount rushmore favorite wrestling moments. I have
favorite wrestling moments, though his is Kurt Angle's TNA debut,

(01:16:03):
the Rock and Hogan Stare Down at WrestleMania Triple h
Returns in two thousand and two, and the WrestleMania forty Endgame.
The WrestleMania forty End Game is a favorite of mine. Again,
I don't have the mount Rushmore for everything like this,
so all I can tell you is that there's certain
moments that are favorites, like the Megapowers split on the

(01:16:27):
main event back in eighty nine on NBC. That's one
of my earliest favorite moments and most memorable moments. I
think Hogan slamming Andre of Mania three has to be
among those moments. It's just it's that epic moment, you know,
with the crowd behind them and everything, that iconic moment, DoD.

(01:16:51):
I mean, my God's talking about moments. Geez, there's been
so many of them. When Brett Hart came back in
twenty ten, I never thought I would see him back
on WWE television. There he was. I just wish that
they didn't change his music. That part of it was
no good. I think the Edge spear on Jeff Hardy

(01:17:19):
and TLC in two thousand and one has to be
on there as well. Again, there's just too many to
sit here and name. Those are some of them? Mactubb,
Taker or Triple H greater overall performer and why well,

(01:17:42):
I mean they're similar in that they've both been healed,
they've both been babyfaced, so they've played both roles. Undertaker
has evolved his character numerous times over the years, so
he was able to stay relevant for a much longer
period of time than most people his position. I don't know,

(01:18:06):
I mean there's a lot of similarities between them. Undertaker's
matches got better the deeper into his career that he went.
I mean, some of the best matches of his career
happened in the mid to late two thousands. I gotta go.
Undertaker probably just enjoyed his body of work overall, more

(01:18:34):
just on a personal level. Dry chicken. Charlotte Flair, need Charlotte.
Oh my god, let's doing this is not gonna work.
Oh man, Charlotte Flair, Let's go back. Can we find
this again? Please? There it is. Charlotte Flair needs some dreadlocks,

(01:18:57):
ripped up jeans, and a bandanna that would complete her
transformation named Charlie. Yeah, let's not do that. That sounds awful.
Javier three sixteen, I solo, catching up on one of

(01:19:19):
your streams. Do you think Stephanie Vviquierre has a chance
of beating Naomi in Paris? And where do you see
her going next? She's got a chance. I don't think
she's going to I can't say that she has no chance.
I think Naomi's gonna hold it for a little while longer.
I think they're real will get a shot in Perth,
whether it's a Crown Jewel or on raw that Monday,

(01:19:43):
because again we don't know for sure yet if they're
doing the whole champion versus Champion gimmick again at Crown Jewel.
If they do, then it wouldn't be Rhea. But they're
doing a raw show in Perth that Monday, so I
think she's gonna get a shot there. She may win
the title back there. I think that's the direction for her.
For Stephanie, I think the longer term direction honestly is

(01:20:04):
Stephanie and Rhea. I mean that should be a WrestleMania match.
In the meantime, you could have Stephanie challenging Becky soon
for the Intercontinental Championship. I would love to see that,
Becky and Stephanie for the IC title. I think that
should be a direction in the probably the latter part

(01:20:28):
of this year, Like that could be Becky's next big
feud and you can drag that out for a few matches,
pay it off with Stephanie winning the championship. That's what
I'd like to see. Prince Vegeta says, how long do
you see this rain for Cody this time around? And

(01:20:48):
who do you see beating him? If they weren't doing
Drew right away, I would say him. I still say Randy,
I still think you got to build a Cody Randy.
That's what I think. Oh my god, as I live

(01:21:09):
and breathe, look who it is. It is Sidro. Sidro
is cheating tonight. No one snitch. Sidro found the room key,
came up to the room bas Beer is so Logan

(01:21:34):
versus Sena At the next pay per view? Where is Brock.
He's back on the farm, getting paid is full guarantee,
so he don't care. Mactub WWE Wrestler of the Year
so far in twenty twenty five. Ah, yo boy, it's

(01:21:59):
between EO Sky and Gun. I'm gonna go EO Sky.
EO Sky would be my choice. Bobby means, what are
your predictions for WWE now that we are approaching the
second half of the year. I think Chelsea Green will
vie for the title? What title? There's a million titles?
What title she already held? The US title? I assume
you mean the women's the main championship, because I don't

(01:22:23):
see that happening. I do think we're gonna get a
Jade heeltern though, I do. That's my prediction as far
as the women go. And I think Rhea is gonna
get the belt back in Perth. I think that's what
they're building to. I don't think Naomi drops it until
Ria gets it from her In Perth. Cripple Punk, it

(01:22:47):
sounds like my choice to take a nap over watching
SmackDown was the more productive choice. I hope you're having
a good night Solo, having a better night with you
guys than I was watching this show tonight. I can
tell you that. Fire Panda says, Eosky, Gunther and Dirty

(01:23:11):
Dom my top three for twenty twenty five so far.
All good choices. Yeah, I was going back and forth
between EO and Gunther, but I ended up going EO.
Cripple Punk also says thank you for reviewing it as
of late. I would rather support you over WWE any day.

(01:23:32):
Bring it on, let me have all the love. I'm
here for you every week. I love it. I love it,
I love hearing it. I love hearing it. Death sith.
If I had one wish, it would be a Freddie
versus Jason Versus Michael film, or at least a Michael
versus Jason film, and who's your pick to win? I

(01:23:52):
love Michael, I love Jason. I don't really care for Freddy,
so it's not Freddy oh Man, you know. I got
I gotta go Jason, I gotta go Jason. It's a
great name too, that sithe if I had won. Oh,

(01:24:21):
we just read that one Devin from NJ have seen
a state of heel. Would he have retained against Cody
at SummerSlam so they could continue the story of him
possibly retiring with the title? No, I think the plan
was always for him to lose the championship at SummerSlam.

(01:24:45):
They were not gonna have him hold it until the
very last match of the year. I never believed that
that was the plan. I never believed that that was
the whole point of the storyline, is that he has
to hold the title until the end of the year.
I think it worked out in that regard. I think
it worked out exactly the way that they intended for
it to Darth panic. Folks on the internet keeps saying

(01:25:12):
TKO is ruining WWE's TKO actually calling the shots within WWE?
Or is it Triple H and Nick Con? Oh, believe me,
TKO definitely has influence here. If you don't think they
have influence, I got news for you. I mean Triple
H and Nick Con obviously have a lot of power
and say, especially Nick Con over what happens. But yes,

(01:25:33):
there is influence from TKO. They are all collaborating together,
Mark Shapiro are Immanuel. They're intimately involved with all the
key business decisions. Decisions are not being made or approved
without TKO knowing about it or pitching for it. Whether
or not you believe they're ruining WWE is, you know, subjective.

(01:25:55):
They're certainly making more money now than they've ever made before,
So if you go strictly based on money made, then
they're not ruining WWA. But if you don't like the constant,
you know, the sponsorships and the logos and the mats
and all these other things they've integrated into the product,
then you probably feel like TKO is ruining WWA. There's

(01:26:20):
a lot of things, a lot of changes that have
been made to the product that I don't like. But
they're still making money hand over fist, so that's what
they care about. Chris Hogan, who sings back to love
the song with the long sas intro. I tried looking
it up. All I get is Chris Brown. Result, it's
definitely not Chris Brown, Ultra Boss. It's a great song.

(01:26:46):
We didn't open with it tonight, but you never know
when we might open with it. But it's a band
called Ultra Boss. Should go check them out. Joseph Stewart,
do you remember between January until his return at Super

(01:27:07):
Bowl two thousand? In w CW, it says Sting sat
in Sting Shadow in Dark Silhouette appeared on the Nitro
set pointing his bat at Lex Luger, scaring both Lex
Luger and Elizabeth. I don't remember that. Actually, I remember

(01:27:30):
the Sting in Vampiro stuff that I don't remember. No,
I don't like that period of w CW. I did
not like the product in the year two thousand. Joseph
Brooks by cell rent on these dream matches and feuds
that ended up being disappointing. AJ Styles and Nakamora, Lashley

(01:27:52):
and Lesnar, Moxley and Punk. I was most disappointed by
what they did with Lashly and Lesnar, and then AJ
and Akimore and then Moxley and Punk, Moxley and Punk,
I I mean, I I mean didn't have any great
expectations one way or the other for that feud. It
wasn't a feud. I was clamoring to see. You know,

(01:28:13):
it was fine, but the other two were definitely more
disappointing to me. Bes verus buy or sell mister Kennedy
or Austin theory from mcmahonson. I don't know what you
mean by that, buy or sell, buy or sell in
what way? Theory? I still think theory has a pretty

(01:28:35):
big upside as a as a potential star. I don't
know if he'll ever realize it. Kennedy, though, was on
his way to being a world champion. I mean, if
you want to frame it as the bigger disappointment, then
I think the answer is Ken Kennedy should have been
a much bigger star than he was, and there were
different reasons why that didn't happen. Ultra Beast boys better

(01:29:01):
potential wrestling heel Vic Mackeye or Shane from The Walking Dead.
They were both very good heels. Vic Mackie, though, is
one of my favorite all time TV characters. Imagine Vic
Mackey is like the general Manager, be a better GM
than Nick All. This was tonight Base bearis Lashley should

(01:29:26):
have been way bigger in ww A. Duffs of is
why did the lawnmowers stop working? It got tired of
being pushed around? That might be my favorite one so far.

(01:29:48):
Jungle Jesus says thank you Solo, thank you Jungle Jeeves.
I appreciate it very much. T J. Stevens just showing
some love drop alike. Yeah, I think we already broke
the goal for be the booker, the secondary goal. We're
a little more than halfway there, but we're four to
sixty three, so you're gonna get at least one round

(01:30:09):
to be the booker if you want to. We'll see
if we get ten out of ten on that supercheck goal.
I got. WWE Wrestling and Gaming. Do you see scene
of competing in Wargames in November? He is on the poster,
I believe right. I think he's on the poster for
Survivor series. And I don't believe he's ever been in
a War Games match before, so maybe he wants to
do one before he retires. So yeah, I could see

(01:30:33):
scene in Wargames. Unless the plan is to save the
scene of Brock match for Survivor series, do a big
match in Petco Park, then you can have Scena versus Lesnar,
and you can have your two War Games matches. Prince
Vegeta ranked these emotional Wrestlemandia World title wins, Ben Wah, Daniel,

(01:30:55):
Bryan ben Wah, the list of ben Wan twice, Kofe, Cody,
and j Uso. You want me to rank them, huh.
I was in the stadium for two of those. I

(01:31:15):
was in the stadium for Daniel Brian and for Kofe.
Kofe was actually a very emotional moment. I like literally
could see people crying in the crowd. With Daniel Brian,
I didn't see people crying. It was just jubilation and
just happiness and excitement. So I remember that the I mean,

(01:31:36):
the ben Wah thing is emotional in a different kind
of way. Now, I think for me personally, I gotta
go Brian number one. For me, I go Brian number one.
I go m debating if I do Cody and then

(01:32:06):
Kofe or Kofe and then Cody. I think I go Brian, Cody, Kofe.
I'm not gonna rank Benoa. I just I can't rank
it anymore, so I'm taking him off the list. And
jay Uso is is dead last. You can't go wrong
with Brian Kofe or Brian Cody and then Kofe, but

(01:32:31):
jay Uso is is definitely last. Eminem says, I'll kick
off my Birthday weekend with you and the Solo Faan,
and finish off Monday Night with you and the Solo
fam right. Well, first of all, happy birthday, eminem My.
Top five Summer Slam matches. Brett versus Taker, number five,

(01:32:51):
HBK against Triplation, number four, Brock and Roman, number three,
Brock and Roman, Oh twenty two. Okay, yes, yes, yes, okay,
I was thinking of the wrong one, the last Man's
Standing match. Okay, that's fine. Number two Brett versus Owen
and number one Brett versus Bulldog. Yeah. All great matches.

(01:33:16):
If you want to know my list, I just ranked
them on the podcast this weekend, this past weekend, episode
nine twenty three. Go check it out. Death Side. I
dread to imagine how Mother Wayne would have been booked
under Vince McMahon. You know how she would have been
booked under Vincent. She would have been booked literally under
Vince McMahon on the couch in the back, like you

(01:33:39):
did with all the other divas. You don't even have
to ask the question, you already know the answer. Sidrow
have been heard from Sidrow in a while. No one
ever laughs at my joke about a skunk who got

(01:34:02):
its anal glands surgically removed. I guess it doesn't make
any sense. Loved you Solo. I love how Cidro's first
joke back in quite some time, and he had to
work anal glands into the joke terrible dried Chicken. In

(01:34:34):
the next few years, WWE will land a huge sponsorship
deals with McDonald's under Armor and Coca Cola. That's what
they want. The more the merrier. As far as like
those big brands, the ones that always shunned wrestling and
looked down and thumb their nose at wweve Insmictman always
hated he couldn't get these big car commercials, And now

(01:34:56):
all these big brands are tripping over each other to
do business with WA. It's the Nick con effect, the
Tko effect. Base Beer says. Orton's wife is way hotter
than Cardi b She's a looker. Zidro. What has two

(01:35:18):
butts and kills people? Oh my god? An assassin? An
assassin two butts and kill two butts and kills people?
Oh Man, I love you Sidra Joseph Brooks and the

(01:35:47):
Mark Henry A and E documentary. He said that the
Hall of Pain run came because he was legit upset
about a prank. Him being legit angry at the time
is what made that run good. What say you, yeah,
I remember that prank. That prank was he was out
for a dark match after SmackDown one night. So he
went to the ring and he waited and he waited

(01:36:09):
and he waited. They had no match for him. They
only sent him out there because he thought he had
a match. While he went out there, everybody left the
backstage area, They left Gorilla, so he got angry waiting
out there. Finally he just went to the back and
he saw nobody was around. Everybody was gone, and he
was not happy, and there was a look in his eyes,

(01:36:33):
and I think Vince was like that guy right there,
that's the guy needs you to be for me on TV.
And that's how the Hall of Paine run happen. Larry Jester,
you win the Intercontinental Gold in ninety four? What's the
strap color? White? I would have it on a white strap.

(01:37:02):
Bace Beer is scariest wrestler ever. I say unmasked Caine
in two thousand and three. I don't know. I would say,
especially if I had to be in the ring with him,
I would say either brock Lesnar or Big Van Vader.
In the early nineties, Sigerow solo, you really should take

(01:37:32):
up marathon training. It will help you in the long run.
And just drove past a hold on. Just drove past
a burning cyber truck. I can smell the elon musk.

(01:38:04):
I hope nobody here owns one. But those trucks are
just the ugliest thing I've ever seen. I've seen a
couple of them around here, and I had a park
next to one. I feel like they were made for
people who just like to drive around thinking they're in
a Transformers movie. I think their ugliest sin Dove's VIDs.

(01:38:29):
What did the bra say to the hat? You go
on ahead and I'll give these two a lyft. You know,
I was gonna say Sidrow was kind of getting a
leg up on Dove's VIDs, and then Dove's VIDs he
kind of redeemed himself with that one. You go on
ahead and I'll give these two a lift. I like it, Leopoldo.

(01:38:59):
When a blind girl gives you a hand job in
her girlfriend or boyfriend, well maybe girlfriend boyfriend walks in
on you, would you say, I kept telling her, bro
that's not my hand. Man. You guys gonna get your
your your mind out of the gutter. Man, you've been
hanging out with the wrong people. We had one about

(01:39:26):
a deaf girl, now we got one about a blind
girl Navy forty one eighty one. After what's been happening
in the WNBA, Cody Road should be grateful that he
was only hit with a rubber chicken at WrestleMania. Oh man,

(01:39:49):
can you imagine if he got hit with one of
those one of those neon green I'm trying to picture
that by like, it would have completely ruined the ending
of Wrestlemandia's supposed to be the serious moment, and then
somebody throws one of those things in the ring. I

(01:40:15):
don't give anybody any ideas dry Chicken, heel Heat Tonight
and Boomy he Man was a terrible cartoon show. Yeah,
that's a pretty shitty opinion. I think less of you

(01:40:36):
now than I did five seconds ago. He Man is
like one of the all time great cartoons. Super Pony.
Who are your top five Canadian wrestlers of all time?
Brett Noen are definitely on that list. Jericho has to

(01:40:56):
be on that list. So we got Brett, we got Owen,
Wet Jericho mhm's been a lot of Canadians that come
out in the wrestling world over the years. I might
have Kevin Owens on that list, honestly, Brett Owen, Jericho Owens.

(01:41:27):
I don't know who my number five would be. Ah,
Kenny Omega, Yes, of course, Kenny Omega. How is Kenny
Omega not going to be on that list? I think
there you go. I think that completes it. Boss Top

(01:41:55):
Rich blem and Ronnie failed to clear the room and
two times killed Terry. Get over it and don't bring
it up again. Bonus points to you. If you get
that reference, you're somebody that I would definitely get along with.
Thank you, Boss Top, Thank you Boss Top. Ah what

(01:42:22):
a great show. I miss it. I have to rewatch it.
I have to rewatch the Shield again one of these days,
all seven seasons, great show. Happy birthday again to eminem.
All right, so, as we are approaching five hundred likes,

(01:42:44):
it is time for our one and only round here,
and I'm hoping for a good one tonight, our one
and only round of be the booker. Let's do it,
Let's do it. It is now time to be the
booker Earthquake Dino Bravo. See now you're just naming Canadian wrestlers,

(01:43:08):
supposed to be naming the best Canadian wrestlers. All right,
it would not be a complete card without a tag
team match player. So let's book one and we have
the Street Profits Montese Ford Angelo Dawkins now the former

(01:43:31):
WWE Tag Team Champions kicking us off here and be
the booker the Street Profits. Uh oh, we had a
little we had a little hiccup there. We thought we
were going with Mistruth and actually this is a downgrade
because we ended up on AOP. I might have given

(01:43:57):
it the buzzer regardless, but at least there was a chance.
But Akam and Razarre against the Street Profits is not
a match that I cared a book for my show.
I'm sorry. That is a fail. Women's be the booker.

(01:44:19):
We have Roxanne Perez here. She is the former NXT
Women's Champion, current women's Well no, actually I'm stuck in
last week I was gonna say one half of the
women's tag team Champions, but not anymore, not after Summer Slim.

(01:44:45):
It will be Roxanne Perez against Queen Zalina. That is
our women's match, and now I really do I like Roxanne.
Though on the strength of Roxanne, I have to give
that the bell two tiny women, But I am a

(01:45:09):
big Roxamperez fan. And our main event of the evening,
the main event to end all main events, is upon us,
and we are kicking things off with Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.

(01:45:31):
I like it. I approve now if only we can
get him a really good opponent, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat
against the bad guy Razor Ramone. I approve a match

(01:45:52):
that we never got to see anywhere, Scott Hall Raisor
Ramone against Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. That would have been
a really good wrestling match. See, this is why we
do be the booker. Man. Now I'm thinking about what
a match like that would have looked like. I think

(01:46:12):
that would have been a hell of a match. Damn.
Now I'm pissed we never got to see it. Two
out of three, that's right. I'll take it, Chico. I'll
take it, Chico. That'd be an excellent match. Put the

(01:46:33):
Intercontinental title on the line. You got yourself one hell
of a championship match right there, Sidrow, what did the
coffee report to the police a mugging And why do

(01:46:59):
people in Finishland stay home during winter for happiness? From
all the indoor fins? Oh Man, the endorphins, oh Man, Sidrow,

(01:47:25):
Joseph Brooks as bad as Goldberg's first run. Are there
any bright spots in that run? The only ones I
could think of are him beating the rock and he
won the world title. Yeah, there actually is. It's called
the elimination chamber at SummerSlam, which is where he should
have won the championship. He went on a tear in
that elimination chamber match. I mean he was ripping people

(01:47:48):
left and right, and the fans were into it, and
then he got hit with a sledge hammer and pinned.
Killed the whole vibe. Plus you know, he had a
spear he gave to Christian where he just fucking destroyed
that guy, and the spirit to Nunzio as well in
the Royal Rumble in two thousand and four. So yeah,

(01:48:09):
there were some bright spots and terrible dried chicken says
just kidding about he Men. I never hated it. Skeletor
was one of the funniest villains in the eighties. His
one liners were funny as hell. Skeletor is the best man.
I love Skeletor on Robot Chicken as well. Whenever they
would have a skit for he Men, Skeletor was fucking great.

(01:48:42):
Andre says, I didn't get the one from Finland. Someone
explained it to Andre. Yes, another screw job in the
Reign of Terror Summer Slam two thousand and three. It's
too bad because you know, the next month is when
Goldberg actually on the title. But I don't remember liking
that match nearly as much. That was. See that was

(01:49:06):
a biker shorts Triple H. He had torn his growin.
He was wrestling with a torn growing and he had
to wear these really really tight biker shorts. He just
looked ridiculous. He did. I think he was mostly clean shaven,
he had like the mustache, but that was he just
looked so fucking weird during that period. I hate I

(01:49:29):
hate that version that like that period of Triple H
and the Reign of Terror. I just fucking hate it
so much. Oh my god, Bass Bears says, I remember
listening to you in the summer of twenty thirteen TV tracks.
You were talking about the Wyatt's upcoming debut at SummerSlam Man.

(01:49:52):
I'm old, that's a long time ago, but thank you
Bass Bears. Bass Beers has been around with me for
quite some time. Skeletor has better quips than the crypt Keeper.

(01:50:19):
He had the white tape on his quads along with
the biker trail. Yeah, he was just all beat up
and just very boring, you know, but it just it
was not a fun period of time for me. Watching
WWE television SmackDown gave me more joy than Raw did.
He was one of the reasons why he was the
main reason why Devin from NJ my dad thinks that

(01:50:45):
Seena's abrupt face turn is due to the ESPN deal.
Do Solo agree? No, one doesn't have anything to do
with the other. It has everything to do with the
fact that they have certain opponents now lined up for
him in the latter half of this year who were

(01:51:05):
heels that he can now work with, including Logan Paul,
including Brock and whoever else they're going to set him
up with. I would like to think it was also
a realization that the heel stuff wasn't working, But if
you ask them they would probably say, oh, it's cinema.
It went exactly the way that we were hoping it would.

(01:51:27):
I think that as the years go on, time will
not be kind. I feel like time's already not kind,
but time will not be kind to the John Cena
Heel turn. And a lot of people are going to
look at what happened to Elimination Chamber and they're going
to say, man, what might have been? Maybe it could
have worked if they just would have zigged instead of zagging,
and if this guy stuck around and it just it

(01:51:48):
could have been so much better. And it just shit
the bed. But I also believe it came thirteen years
too late. He was too late. He was at least
a decade too late. Better tales from the Crypt movie

(01:52:11):
Demon Knight or Bordello of Blood. I remember Bordello of Blood.
I don't remember much about Demon Knight, which was the
one that had Dennis Miller in it? Was that Bordella
of Blood? I think that one. God, when did that
come out? That probably came out like ninety four. Ken

(01:52:32):
says was at met Life last weekend and the crowd
really popped for Sena after the Titan tron showed the
colors of og Sena. Yeah, it was actually kind of
cool the way they did that, because they had the
white letters on the screen that said John Cena and
so you think okay, or at least I mean I didn't,
but there were people in the stadium who were probably thinking,
like little kids, like oh man, he's still a heel

(01:52:55):
and then boom the colors hit and like everybody goes nuts.
So the way they did that was very clever. Demon
Knight was better. I maybe do for a rewatch then.
I haven't seen Demon Night since it probably first came out.

(01:53:15):
Bordella was Dennis Miller and Angie Everhar. Oh my god,
Angie Everhart forgot all about her. So yeah, on the
sound Off this weekend, I'll do a whole segment on
the ESPN stuff, give my thoughts on that, try to
break things down because there's still a lot of confusion
over it. So we'll talk about the ESPN deal, what

(01:53:39):
it means, what we know, what we don't know. I'll
talk more about Brock. I'll talk there's actually a bunch
of little news and notes. There's aw news and controversy
and Hogan's funeral. Brooke Hogan and Brett Hart made some
comments about a lot of things and Joey Ryan tried

(01:54:01):
to sneak back into wrestling and was quickly excommunicated yet again.
So we'll talk about all that. That'll be episode nine
twenty four, So that'll drop later in the afternoon on Sunday,
so keep your eye out for that. What were Sola
Monster's favorite snacks as a kid. I used to pack
some of that Pollo string cheese in my lunch box

(01:54:24):
when I would go to school. You know what. I
used to eat this candy cold bonkers, and I don't
know if they still sell it. That was my thing.
So like think Starburst. It was kind of like a
candy like and I like Starburst too, but it was
kind of like that one of those little squares you
put them in your mouth and chew them, but it
was called bonkers. So I love those, and probably a

(01:54:48):
lot of the crap that every kid liked back then,
you know, all the candy bars and shit and fucking
ring pops and sour straws, all the stuff that you
really should not be had. I was all about that

(01:55:09):
fruit by the foot, fruit roll ups, bes beers. What's
going on with carrying Cross? I will address carrying Cross
as well on the sound Off this weekend. But in short,
the update is there is no update, and Cross himself

(01:55:31):
has said that everything you're reading online, don't believe any
of it. The truth will come out very soon. But
we'll talk about that as well. Joseph Stewart, thank you
for the four ninety nine brother. Do you think Brett
Hart could have made a career in Hollywood after a
Lonesome Dove? I don't. I don't. Brett never struck me

(01:55:56):
as the type that was going to go to Hollywood
and really make a big I love Bratt, but I
don't see him as some Hollywood star. I'm sorry. Could
he have found some sort of TV role? Maybe? I
mean he did on Lonesome Dove for that one season
or two seasons, But in movies, yeah, I don't see it.

(01:56:21):
Anyone remember squeeze It? Never heard of squeeze It? That
what she said. I don't know, never heard of it.
Dunk a Roux, I've heard of dunk a Rouse. I
didn't partake Twinkie. Oh, of course, twinkies yellow dye number

(01:56:49):
five twinkies were good. I'm getting fat just talking about
this shit. Holiday one ninety seven. Do you see Chris
Jerico returning to wwe to retire. Yes, yes I do.

(01:57:10):
Corey says, grapes. You know what, that's the healthiest thing
anybody's mentioned in the chat so far. I love strawberries, strawberries, grapes, apples, cantalope.
Not a fan of honeydew. Not really a watermelon guy.
I don't hate watermelon, but I'm not really a big

(01:57:31):
fan of it. I hate the seeds. Pineapple, eh, not
really kiw No pears, no nectarines, not so much. But
instead of all this other garbage, she's gotta have a

(01:57:53):
good fruit salad. That's what you need. Pizza rolls, oh god,
starbirds yeah, well, starburst was a favorite of mine. I
did not like the lemon. I did not, so I

(01:58:14):
would go through the bag if it was like a bag,
or if it wasn't, if it was just a regular package,
I would pick out the yellows and throw them away.
My favorites were the cherry and then the strawberry orange.
I could tolerate lemons. I didn't like cotton. Oh god,

(01:58:40):
cotton candy. Oh god, that's the worst. That's just the worst.
It's like fucking hair. How do you eat that shit?
I felt like I was eating hair. I was like gagging.
It's like, who the hell eats this garbage? Strawberry Starburst

(01:59:02):
is all you need. They didn't sell full packages of it,
though you'd have the mix. If they would have sold
full packages of the cherry or the strawberry, I would
have bought them. Did they have an all reds pack
all read Everything? I didn't know that. This is news
to me. Actually, there was another one, a gummy snack

(01:59:26):
that I liked. They were like little gummies and you
would bite into them and they had oh god, what
was it called shit? You would bite into them and
it was like a red cherry goo would come out
of them. What the hell were those things called? Those?

(01:59:47):
I really liked. If I remember the name, I'll tell you.
Chris Manson. Look at this guy showing off fifty one
months of membership. What were some of your favorite freestyle
songs from back in the day? Freestyle freestyle songs? I

(02:00:11):
don't know. Give me some examples. Jog my memory. Gushers, Yes,
thank you, gushers. Loved gushers. Gushers are awesome. That will

(02:00:33):
try Mexican candy. I have not no faith beer says
they have all strawberry mentos. I did not know that
is be my lover considered a freestyle. I like to
be my lover those sort of early nineties like dance

(02:00:57):
songs or club songs all about that, like LaBouche and
all that. I'm all into that. It takes me back
dev to dust. Remember when Tom Brady used to terrorize

(02:01:19):
the Jets. Oh I remember Return of the Mac, of course,
and we got penny. It says, what's your favorite bagel order?

(02:01:42):
Oh Man, Back in the day, it would have been
just a simple plain bagel toasted with cream cheese. And
I can't do the cream cheese anymore. So, honestly, you're
gonna be very upset with me when I say this.
But for me, it's just a toasted, plain bagel. That's it.
Nothing on it. If I put anything on it, maybe
some grape jelly. I never I never like locks or

(02:02:08):
you know, anything like that, So but I could just
do it plain. What can I say, Alice DJ hadaway,
I used to have a whole playlist of all of

(02:02:31):
those songs. Navy says all this candy talk reminds me
of Encino Man shout out. Brendan Fraser. Amber yep Amber
was another one jellyhead. That was another one. No peanut butter.

(02:03:04):
Peanut butter on a bagel? No, why would I do that? Yeah? No,
no peanut butter on my bagel. Try to see if
I can bring up my playlist here, just to see
what I have. Oh, here we go. I do have

(02:03:26):
my Uh well, it's kind of disorganized, but I have
in my list here. Oh, this is how we do it.
Of course, Montel Jordan Rhythm is a dancer. I mentioned,
Oh Another Night by Real McCoy, everything but the girl missing.

(02:03:56):
Got some ace of bass on there, mister Vaine culture beat,
gotta have mister Vain on there. Got some Robert Miles.
I think I have some Paul Oakenfold on my list.
Remember in college I was listening to Oakenfold, Good stuff though,

(02:04:26):
a right Dreamer Live and Joy? Who let the Dogs Out?
Who said that? Brian said? Who let the Dogs Out?
Or Scatman Joe or Cotton Eye Joe? Nolan is Nolan

(02:04:56):
Thomas on the no on only the one song Brother Brother.
I think what else I had? I had, Sir, mix
a lot. I definitely had Baby Got Back. They knew
all the words to that. There's a group called uh

(02:05:25):
lick click song called call Me Basse Beer says grilled cheese.
Sharon Cox, this is the rhythm of the night. Oh yeah,

(02:05:47):
see Sharon knows Ray Dino. I've been a fan of
yours since the first wrestling matches between the first Men
of the First Wars. I believe that was the Those
were the early podcasts from the BC era that I did.

(02:06:09):
It was a little hard to send the signal out
to people, but we managed to pull it off. Yes,
those are the early days of a sound off. He
used to wear a loincloth when I would record. It's
too bad I didn't have my video camera working at
the time, and so nobody saw me. Chris Manson, what's
that song that went like it's getting kind of hectic? Oh,

(02:06:31):
I don't remember, it's getting kind of hectic. Help us
out chat, oh Man Castles in the Sky, That boy
slim cc penis that. Finally, don't forget Barbie Girl by Aqua,

(02:07:05):
Earth Wind and Fire. That's a little that's a little
earlier than what we're talking about here. The Mortal Kombat
theme is goaded. Hell yeah, you can hear it actually
in the trailer for the Mortal Kombat Too movie. Coming
out in October The Power by Snap Yep, I've got

(02:07:30):
the Power Thong song by Cisco. So now we're getting
into like ninety seven. Now we're getting into like the
late nineties. Now I know Zachary Zachary Candido, I know
he's a big fan of the Thong song right, sings

(02:07:50):
it every day Tom's Diner. Man, you guys are you
guys are taking me back here? Up? You're jotting these down?
By the way, if some of you are too young
to know about these songs, you better be collecting these
names here. Did prodigy the fujis with mister Fuji? Uh?

(02:08:30):
Did you like Ice MC? You're talking with Vanilla Ice?
Ninja rap is his best song. Actually, there was a
song called Snow by Inform or maybe it was no,
I'm sorry it was called Informer. The song was Informer.
It was by Snow and nobody ever knew the lyrics

(02:08:51):
to this song. Every time you would sing the song,
it was just total gibberish, like nobody knew the actual
words to this song. But there was a minute there
where that was a big hit. Naughty by Nature down
with opp Man, I want to go out now, I want,

(02:09:14):
I want to go hit the fucking club. Still early,
it's not even one. We'll do a meet up in
the city. We'll hit the club. There you go arrested
development mm hm oh god, were they the ones that

(02:09:38):
did mister Wendell? Remember mister Wendell? Yeah, mister nobody that.
I don't know if those were the actual words, but
that's basically all anybody would say. A licky boom boom.
I'm like, what the fuck is a licky boom boom?
What does that even mean? Drew mackincock says, drinks on me.

(02:10:05):
I'm gonna hold you to that. I'm gonna hold you
to that. See and See Music Factory, Quad City DJs,
Solid Monster, hit the lake clubs. I want to see
that gangst Is Paradise by Coolio mm hmm. And Fantastic

(02:10:34):
Voyage of course. I mean, come on, if Gangster's Paradise
is number one, then Fantastic Voyage is number two two unlimited.
Look at this guy, Drew. Drew already knows, man, he says,

(02:10:55):
Jack and Coke for the Solom Monster, he already knows.
Only if it's a double Maddy's like gen Z's in here,
Like what the fuck? Yeah, I feel bad for all
you gen zs you missed out. Now you got your

(02:11:17):
songs now, for all you know, it's fucking AI that's
singing you. You don't even know if it's real. West
Coast James fifty months of membership Nine Inch Nails. Yeah,
I wasn't listening to it much back then, but yeah,
nine inch Nails is great, Drew, I'm gonna buy you

(02:11:40):
cactie Travis Scott's Seltzer. You don't have to do that,
but I appreciate the offer. I am not drinking anything
from Travis Scott. Oh, Drew. Drew says he's gen Z.

(02:12:03):
I didn't know that, Okay, all right, well, look I'm
giving you a little bit of an education. I like
a lot of the ship now too, But I'm just
saying there was some good stuff back then too, that
you should check out Fien Fiend Fiend Way to kill

(02:12:26):
the mood there, Skyler. Do I like Travis Scott's music.
It's not bad. Amish Paradise radio Head. They had a

(02:12:47):
great song called Karma Police Ramstein. I love Ramstein mine
Hers Brent. Will you be watching the TMZ special on

(02:13:11):
Hulkogain next week? No, I'm busy, Yeah, Ricky, Michael Jackson.
Michael Jackson is uh is goaded himself in terms of
his music. Absolutely American males, American males. Now, I'm gonna

(02:13:33):
have that stuck in my head. Who did that to me?
Is that? Ray? I'm enjoying this list that I'm seeing
here in the chat. Oh, I didn't know that mine
Hers Brent was in hell Boy two. I didn't know that. Well,

(02:13:57):
of course I didn't see hell Boy too, so how
would I know that? That's pretty cool? Mays, thank you
for the five so solo you being an eighties kid?
How big was thriller back then? It was huge? Thriller

(02:14:19):
beat it? MJ. MJ was huge back then. Steely Dane.
There were a couple of others before I get out,
Before I get out of here, there were a couple
of others. I was trying to think of, see if

(02:14:39):
it would jog my memory. But it's not. It's not
coming to me. Don't forget though, you know, Baltimara, Tarzan Boy,
Little jungle Jack over there, jungle Jack, Perry Chris Manson.

(02:15:04):
How big of a news was it when Michael Jackson
went from black to white? Oh, they made a big
deal about it. He was always in the news. Every
time his appearance would change or he you know, would
would change something about himself. It was like worldwide news.

(02:15:29):
He really did, though, end up just looking like a
completely different person. It's really quite shocking. Metallica with Hogan
on base. Have a good night, Sarah. Pepsi commercial. Pepsi

(02:15:50):
commercial was huge pepsi commercials where he got burned and
his hair caught on fire. Actually there was a song,
and this is not like it can you give songs.

(02:16:12):
There was a song and it wasn't eighties or even nineties,
well maybe it was late nineties, but there was a
song called by c. K Y called ninety six Quite
Bitter Beings that somebody sent me once they go, hey,
listen to this, you might like it. And I remember
that being don't. I couldn't tell you any other song
that they ever did, but ninety six Quite Bitter Beings

(02:16:35):
is a song that stands out to me if you've
never heard that one before. And then of course you
know you got things like the Devil Went Down to Georgia, right,
Charlie Daniels band throw some of that in there kind
of a mutt when it comes to music, you can

(02:16:57):
go from one type of song to the other. I'm
not really married to like one kind, Ogan wrote Billy
Jean from Michael Jackson. The Juliette says, I'm doing my
part for double be the booker. Can we get three

(02:17:17):
more for the goal? I even realized we're at seven
out of ten. I don't think we're going to make
the goal, But Juliette, I do appreciate the love. I
don't think we're quite close enough here. Although I've been
I've been enjoying this music discussion far more than I
enjoyed SmackDown Tonight. That I buy John Cena or Macho

(02:17:41):
Man's album, I did not, no, I just thought to enjoy.
The silence was a great depeche Mode song. Gets some
Don Henley in there. You're rocking the boat. That was

(02:18:03):
always a good one. Oh, it's a direction you can
fuck Maybe not beas bears. The twenty three says, assemble,
we're assembling quite the album here. I have to say.
We'd put this all together on like a CD or something.

(02:18:27):
We might sell some copies. See and See Music Factory
asked Hogan to sing Everybody Dance Now, but he was
wrestling Andre in Wembley. Well, what are you gonna do?
He was busy. He was wrestling Andre and Wembley in
front of ninety seven thousand. I mean priorities. Anyone remember

(02:18:49):
Carmen Elektra's rap album. I don't believe you. I don't
believe that Carmen Electra ever had a rap album. I
don't want to believe that. Zach Reina with the nineteen
ninety nine since Down with the Sickness was always the
go to backyard wrestling song. What would be your best

(02:19:12):
early two thousand's? Does that say? Does that say butt rock? Oh? No,
it is Darth Panic. Who look at this guy? Darth Panic,

(02:19:34):
with that super chat has actually unlocked a bonus round
of be the Booker, which I honestly was not even
paying attention to. I was so engrossed in this music
discussion that we have hit ten out of ten and
for you, I will play some eagle Eye cherry tonight.

(02:19:54):
There you go, save tonight. He saved it, That's what
he did. Darth Panics saved tonight by letting us hit
the goal. But let me just go back to Zach here,
what would be your best early two thousands does that say, like,
I feel like I'm misreading this butt rock? What the

(02:20:18):
hell is butt rock? Hold on a second, Well, I
don't know, I don't know what you mean by that,
but early two thousands are rock song for wrestling? Oh man?

(02:20:39):
Does they have to be one that that they actually used?
I mean they used so many different songs back then,
and obviously I mean I mean, look, you think of
ACDC Highway to Hell for SummerSlam back in ninety eight. Yeah. See,
I'm not the only one. What is butt rocks? As
loves cats? Butt rock is what they call mainstream rock?

(02:21:05):
Why why do they call it that? What a weird
way to to describe it. It's Creed Nickelback type of
b I see, Okay, I see, well, w we sure
love their Creed back in the day. But I don't

(02:21:27):
know if I had a favorite. I mean, I enjoyed
some of it, even even the Fred Durst stuff. I
don't know if I had I don't know if I
had a favorite. I really like Lincoln Park. I don't
know if that would qualify, but it was a big
Lincoln Park fan. Let the bodies hit the floor. Drew

(02:21:59):
mckencoon says, can we get an, Oh you got me brother,
super chat? Oh you there is none, but I'll give
that to you. There you go, you got me brother.
A super chat though, might not be a bad idea,

(02:22:19):
like a like a low one. Bass Beer says, no
repo man tonight. I can't guarantee it. I make no guarantees.
We don't know what it's going to land on. Bass
Beer says, the Juliet may be the booker happened. Shout
out to her, Shout out to the Juliet got the

(02:22:41):
ball rolling retro. Koh, never forget that. Michael Jackson and
Brad Buser helped do the music for Sonic three, the game,
not the movie. Well there you go. I didn't know that.
Duffs VIDs What does an escalator say when it stops working? Nothing?

(02:23:03):
It just stares, stares get it because it's not moving
and power spying games weathered by Creed still goes hard. Yeah. Look,
I mean Creed, Creed had some good songs, man, not

(02:23:23):
just My Sacrifice was not the only song they had.
I mean they had God, what was is this the end?
That was another one? One last breath Weather It is
a great one. There was one more that I liked
to whom it may concern. So they had a few,

(02:23:44):
They had a few good ones. I also like the
the Google Dolls too. There were a lot of songs
they had that I like Big Machine, Black Balloon, Iris.
Iris is still the best. Iris is just like the
climax of that song is just this epic climax that

(02:24:06):
would be like perfect for a movie. Uh rickshaw with
a ten dollars super chat was going to finish the goal.
But thanks anyway for the decade, probably since I first
remember seeing and hearing Solo Monster. Let's fucking go be

(02:24:28):
the booker. Hell yeah, hell yeah. All right, let's not
waste any more time. Then let's get into it. Be
the booker. Ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to
be the booker. Well, as we usually do here with
these bonus rounds, we are going to tack on a stipulation.

(02:24:52):
That's how it works. A dog collar match. A dog
collar match. I can't really do a tag team dog
collar match, where can you? We'll do a women's How
about that? We'll do a women's dog collar match. I

(02:25:15):
feel like we did one already, but we'll do We'll
do another one. We'll do another one. Wendy Chew. Wendy
Chew in a dog collar match. It's good to see

(02:25:36):
we have a lot of Iris fans in here. Iris
is just a fucking great song man. And you know
what's weird. Also, Black Balloon, more so than Iris. Black Balloon.
It's funny how the brain works, because there's certain songs
that I associate with certain time periods in certain years.
And I know that those songs they came out right
around nineteen ninety eight, and I will always associate those

(02:25:58):
songs with the attitude because I was going to a
bunch of rows back then, and I remember being in
the car and these songs would be what was playing
on the radio, and I always associated those songs with
that attitude, like the summer of ninety eight for example,
like that whole period. It's weird how that works. Wendy

(02:26:21):
Chew in a dog collar match against Julia Julia in
a dog collar match. Julia is going to fuck up
some shit in that match, is what she's gonna do. Yeah,

(02:26:44):
Daddy Ugarte says, Wendy Chow had a great match with
Tiffany and then got sent down to evolve. What the
hell was that? That's the match where they had like
the legos in the ring. Yet that was actually a
really good match on NXT, and I think Tiffany disappeared
after that, and the belief was that she got injured
in the match. And then she went on Logan Paul's
podcast this week and revealed that she actually did not

(02:27:07):
get hurt, but didn't get hurt in the ring, but
she actually got into an incident in her parking garage
or something and she and really she caused it, and
she got out of her car and she confronted the
other driver and she pushed the woman first, and then

(02:27:27):
the woman pushed back, and then the woman's husband basically
I think, punched her in the face and then started
they started stomping on her. She had a bootprint on
her face, she had like a broken bone in her face,
like really crazy shit. And she never told anybody about
this until now. That's how she got hurt. That's why
she was out for so many months. But really she

(02:27:49):
brought that whole thing on herself by getting out of
her fucking car, which you should never do. But I
remember that being a good match, the one with her
and Wendy Chew. I forgot the stipulation, but it was
one of those weapons garbage hardcore matches. Yeah. Then she
gets back in her car and she's crying and she

(02:28:10):
leaves and then realizes she left her phone, so she
drives back to go retrieve her phone, and they're still
there and they chase after her like that. Whole story
is just wild, and she never reported it. She never
went to the police. She never reported it because she
didn't want to get in trouble. She didn't want WWE
to find out, so she said, I'm not going to

(02:28:32):
say anything. Meanwhile, this guy beat her up and stomped
on her fucking face and broke I don't know if
it was her orbital or whatever it was, but broke
a bone in her face. It's craziness. All right, We're
gonna have ourselves a Texas death match. It's gonna get bloody.

(02:28:56):
How about a tag team Texas death match? You don't
see too many of those. Yes, we're talking about Tiffany
Stratton snow Dog. What is with these fucking guys? Oh
my god, it's well done. From mid nineties. WWF, this

(02:29:20):
has to be ninety four. Timothy Well and Stephen Dunn
get it. They're well done. That's the way Daddy Ugarte
eats his steak well done against money incorporated Texas Deathmatch.

(02:29:45):
Oh man, I mean it just you talk about a
stipulation that just doesn't fit. Imagine irs in a fucking
Texas death match. No one, yes, no one can save
this match. As soon as we landed on well done,

(02:30:09):
it was cooked. That was the end. Saturday morning squash
a Texas death match on Saturday morning. All right, our
main event is going to ooh, look at this solemn
monster's choice. What kind of match do we want? What

(02:30:34):
kind of match do we want? We get to pick.
I throw it to you. What is our stipulation here
for the main event we get to choose. I don't
know it won't be Texas death I know that nothing
that we've landed on recently. Helen is Cell says, whole, blindfold,

(02:31:06):
kennel from hell. These are these are awful choices. By
the way, he burned, burned alive, buried my god, buried
a live match, buried a live match. I am a
sucker for a good buried a live match, first blood.
I quit fight pitt uh fuck it. We'll do buried alive.

(02:31:31):
We'll do buried alive. All right, we got to bury
a live main event. No repo, no repo, Man, no repo,
no repo, no repo. Are you kidding me? For the
second straight main event tonight, Ricky the Dragon's steamboat. Now

(02:31:57):
all we need is raise a ramone again. Ricky the
Dragon is back in a buried A live match. But wait,
liv Morgan gives you her room key. Now pick a stipulation.

(02:32:17):
But I already did pick a stipulation. I picked my stipulation.
So we pick again. We do it over again. Steamboat
is a draw. Ricky Steamboat against Booker t in a

(02:32:39):
buried A live match. I think Booker and Ricky might
have been in WCW at the same time in like
ninety four. I don't think they wrestled each other. I
don't know. Actually I don't think they wrestled each other.
I wouldn't think, but they were probably in the company
at the same time, so it could have happened. There

(02:33:06):
you go, There you go, folks. Ricky the Dragon is
a draw man. He's main eventing ball shows. Ricky was
on the a crew, got on a flight, got on
the private jet, flew to the next town for the

(02:33:27):
for the Evening Show, Joey Jojo Junior says, buy or
sell Creed or alter Bridge, alter Bridge. Somebody will be
very upset with me if I gave another answer and
Nacier Alexander. Remember when Triple H took over and we

(02:33:51):
were hype Pepperidge Farm remembers still better than what we had.
Ricky and Booker actually don't need a stip. Well, they
don't need a stip, but we gave it one because
those are the rules. Was that a clean sweep? You

(02:34:14):
must have missed? Well done? In the Texas Deathmatch against
Money Inc. No, it was not a clean sweep. How
can you forget that debacle? The stip kind of ruins it? Though.
Are you saying you don't like the stipulation that I
picked because I'll have security revoke your ticket and kick

(02:34:39):
you out of the building. Well done? Is that forgettable?
Apparently it is? To duve VIDs. Do they have lips
on their gear? They do? I don't know why. I
have no idea why. I don't want to know why.
But they have lips on their gear. I guess that's

(02:35:04):
where their opponents can kiss their ass. Whatever happens, you
well done after ninety four who gives a shit. Thank
you guys for a very fun stream. I do believe
we had more fun here in the latter half than

(02:35:24):
many of us had watching SmackDown tonight. So SmackDown ever
goes sideways like it did tonight, at least we can
always redeem ourselves here on the stream. Thank you for
helping me hit both goals tonight. You guys are awesome.
Always the best way to close out the week. Sunday,
Episode nine twenty four of the podcast will be dropping

(02:35:45):
in the afternoon at some point. A lot of news
to cover, big and small. I hope you'll tune in
and download and help get us to the top of
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here on this channel will be Monday night. That will
be for the Raw post show. As soon as Monday
Night Raw goes off the air, so I hope and
expect to see you all here with me then. If

(02:36:06):
you well, stay safe, see you guys then. Until then,
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