December 1, 2025 • 28 mins
Daniel R. reviews this past week's WWE main event as well as his thoughts on the Survivor Series PLE.
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What is going on? Everybody, And welcome to this week's
episode of the Main Event Review straight out of Survivor series.
That means we'll be reviewing Survivor series as well, So again,
really keen to go through everything. But before I do,
I do want to let you guys know I'm not
sure if it's been confirmed by Matt or not, but
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I will be filling in for SmackDown reviews for the
next couple or so weeks, so really keen to sort
of give my take on SmackDown. I know a lot
of this Main Event review is about Main Event and
Raw and also PR's and I haven't given SmackDown as
much love, so having the opportunity to talk about slack
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SmackDown Slackdown will be good and yeah, excited to share that.
So they'll be happening for three weeks. As Amanda is
on a bit of a break, I'll be feeling in
for for SmackDown, so be sure to check that out
as well if you do enjoy these episodes on a
weekly basis too. But yeah, we'll get into it. Before
I start, I will sort of talk about what I
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thought about Survivor series as a whole. Yeah, again, it
was a good PRL but again, I don't think there
was anything super groundbreaking. We obviously had Live Morgan's return,
which was quite nice, and the angle there was pretty good.
We thought she was going to be a babyface. A
lot of people were hyping up that she could potentially
come back as a babyface given her sort of really
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good run before she got injured. But she ends up
being with Dominic, which we'll talk about. And then also
this mysterious man who Look, if it's not Austin theory,
then I don't know who it's going to be. And
I've got terrible eye sight because someone to climb the
ladder that quick the frame, and also the fact that
he used the curb stop and he was also part
of the Messiah crew, it would only make sense that
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it is Austin theory. And I've mentioned it on this podcast,
and I think it's been mentioned across all ww rumors
and news that Austin theory would be a potential Vision member,
and I think he's the perfect person for that. Like
in the past, he didn't really have any good runs
with the company. Vincepect Man did a really good job,
but after that not much teaming up with Grayson Waller
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getting jobbed, like he literally lost on a cross body
from jay Usso like that's how low it's been for
Austin Theory, and everyone knows his potential, So him joining
up with this group could be exciting, but it's not confirmed.
We could be completely wrong, but it's something to obviously
discuss about and it's a big talking point, I think,
and we'll find that more on Raw as it comes.
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But yeah, those are the two main things that happened.
Other than that, I guess it was quite underwhelming, Like
the men's match didn't have the crazy spots that I
would have expected. The women's was a lot better in
terms of the war games, but even then, there wasn't
that many crazy spots. Like there were obviously some decent spots.
You had the combined spear into the table. You also
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had a few other things, but nothing like nothing major
I would have expected, like Logan Paul to do some
more acrobatic stuff. I didn't see that. I didn't see
anything crazy from Bronson Reid. Obviously, I know he got
injured in the last war Game, so they probably didn't
want him to do a tsunami off the top. But
it just it just could have been a little bit
more crazy. I would have thought brock Lesna, Drew McIntyre,
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brom Breaker would have been a bit more ruthless. But yeah,
that was a crazy bump. By the way, the neck hit,
Hope broad Breaker is okay, looks like he is, but
for a second I thought his neck was done. But AnyWho,
Before we get into all that, obviously we'll talk more
about it. I will just say to wrap it up,
it was a quite average Survivor series and there has
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been better Survivor series before, so we'll leave it at
that for now. We'll go straight to main Event, where
we had Kid Wilson back on main event, but someone
that you would never think would ever be on a
main event show, and that was Damien Price. They went
head to head. Obviously, Damon Priest got the victory, and
we're not going to talk too much about the match
because the match went how everyone would have thought the
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same sort of pacing as normal, Kid Wilson matches getting
all ego and arrogant at the start, Damien Priez dominating
Kid Wilson, having a bit of sort of momentum, and
then getting killed off by yourself of Heaven. But yeah,
just I can't believe I saw Damien Priest do main
event today, Like they are really struggling with his storyline.
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Obviously alstabout Black is the person is coming up against,
but like, this guy was literally world heavyweight champion and
fighting people like Drew McIntyre and Gunfa and now he's
on main event. Like, albeit Alista Black, he is a
good opponent, but in contrast to what he's faced in
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the past, it's apples and oranges. Like, honestly, it's it's surprising.
I don't know what their plans are with Priests. They
obviously want to put They obviously wanted to make him
a big shoot star by adding the belt on to
him in the past, but like there's no path to
suggest that he will become a world heavyweight champion again.
And and I'm sure if it's because of the plethora of
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talent we have on that side or he just hasn't
been working. But from the time he was World evyweight champion.
He did a really good job in being a champion.
So yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the
goal is with his character. I just don't. I just
know for a fact that he should not be a
main event and him being on there, Good on him
for doing it, but that should not happen. They need
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to find a way to book him to be a
lot stronger. There's money in the bank coming up. I
don't think he will obviously win it, but his last
significant match was the elimination chamber and wrestlemining itself, so
he ended up beating Drew mcindonale as well. We hit
the concertos in a still cage match. I'm pretty sure
it was. So yeah, I don't get it, Like you
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come back from that, you're supposed to be pushed over,
and then you result to being on main event later
like yeah, disappointing. Disappointing, but it is what it is.
We got to see him on main event, we get
to talk about him now, So who am I complaining?
I just just hope more for him to be honest,
we then have I always say that the main event staple,
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but talk about a main event match that is hard
to review. It's the Alpha Academy taking on the Creed Brothers.
Like I've seen this match from reviewing Main Event from
last year to now. I reckon I've seen this match
up about ten times, maybe fifteen if I count the
singles matches in between them, two teams that we know
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are for Academy. I'm not going to mention that, but
the Creed Brothers, like what are they what are they doing?
Like where is Chad Gable? Chad Gable really needs to
come back and bring this team back to life, and
bring this crew back to life, because they have been flat.
I know Ivan now has sort of teased the fact
that she's gone for the title. I did mention that
last week. It looks like she will, but they're not
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doing anything. It's just like a waste of time and
you can't even like, I can't review this match to
you because it's just exactly what we would expect. The
only thing I will say is that the finish was
that a curates as a will hit the sent On
got the three count, we had Otus getting in the
hot tag, he did the worm like we all know this,
Like you don't even need to watch the match to know.
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I think that's the issue with Main Event as a whole,
to be honest, But again, like, oh, the Creed Brothers
just I don't know, Like I I don't know what
they're doing. I don't know where they're going. I don't
know if they need a new angle, if they need
to start competing for tag teams like titles like them
in the war Raiders. Just they've done nothing and I
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don't know if Yeah, I have no words for it.
I think the tag team division really needs a big
shake up. They've really ruined it at the moment SmackDown
looks like we've got a thing going with the White
Six and MFT, but what's happening with the rest of them,
Like bring some to Raw, get them on for the
world tag team titles. That hasn't really been a shift
and change in the tag team division across brands for
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a long time, and I think it's time to do it,
because at least like you send I don't know the
Cree Brothers to smack Down and they can be like, oh, yeah,
we're making a statement. We just joined the Blue Brand
or vice versa for like I don't know, DIY or
thrasium or even the machine guns like put them on raw,
get something going, get some fraction, get some sort of
team building going, because there's really nothing at the moment
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and it is quite frustrating. But the other academy get
the victory, feel good feeling for everyone, and yeah, that
pretty much wraps up main event and we will get
the good stuff. In terms of predictions for Survivor Series
four out of four, I mean wasn't the hardest to predict.
Let's be honest, four matches as well, and if you
were going to look at like the way things were
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set up, it would make sense for all the results
to happen. So one thing I'll give triple h is
that the booking was correctly done in terms of who won,
But just the excitement factor wasn't there for me across
the whole board. The first match we had the Women's
War Games, which was really good. It was cool to
see er Skuy have her own like labeled bin. That's
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something that I observed. Obviously they're making that a sort
of thing for her. Kind of similar to when COVID
Kingston found methods to survive in the Raw Rumble, they're
doing the same with er Skuy with the bin different
table spots. She obviously came out with the lid of
the bin, and then we Ripley ended up coming later
with the the bottom of the bin as well, So
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that was a quite observation that I had. But it
did start with Charlotte Flair and Ascar and yeah, which
was solid. Like again with Wargames, I don't really understand why,
Like what's the point of the first five badges? Like
you you get tired, but everyone's not tired, So I mean,
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I don't know if it's just an exhibition, but this
is where I say the spots should happen, obviously towards
the end because we're getting to the point where there's
going to be a result, but there needs to be
stuff happening in the middle to make it feel as
though that it's exciting. Like it was good. This one
was better than the Men's But just saying Wargames as
a whole was like that they're doing a Royal Rumble entry.
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I don't mind it, but I still like the dramatic
parts of the cage where someone's meant to come out
and you had that few like one of the most
views viewed videos on Instagram and TikTok. Last year was
Roman Reigns stopping Seampunk from going out and telling something
he's aiming to go. That's what creates the drama, and
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like they're all in this cage together. It just shows
like you could have done an angle with Ripley and
Charlotte Flair where they sort of have a bit of
tension and I don't know, like this is just me
sort of complaining about sort of the little details here.
I don't mind the Royal Rumbo entry, but when you
get to the fifth one, it's like everyone knows who
it's gonna be. Like Lash Legend to be the last
person is extremely underwhelming, Like I know she's the wild
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card and the new factor here, but no one really
knows her. For her to be the last entry, just
to me doesn't make sense. It would have been more
smarter to come out with I know Becky Lynch would
have been predictable, but even like Naya Jack's at the end,
worst case just getting a bunch of booze. But yeah,
Real Ripley came out as the very very last person.
I'm pretty sure because of the no Real Ripley was
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before that, Lash Legend was the very last, So there
you go. If Ree Ripley was the very last, it'd
makes more sense. But for the baby Face team, her
being last I made a lot of sense. They did
a really good job in sort of protecting aj Lee.
It didn't look like she took a lot of bumps,
so that was good. But basically in the conclusion of
the match, we obviously had the Eosky front flip. We
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had the save from Charlotte Flair to rear Ripley, which
was massive from the myst that usca used on to
I'm pretty sure it was lash Legend that copped the
myst anyway by just showing that Charlotte Flair was to
be trusted and they're probably on better terms now. And
then we had the forearm from Alexa Bliss and then
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that led to a black widow by aj Lee tapping
out Becky Lynch, so their story is going to continue.
But they ended with her theme music and aj Lee
to get the sort of pin and victory, which I
don't mind because I think of the five y five ramifications,
that is a good storyline to take into WrestleMania. We
have Becky Lynch and aj Lee that haven't had their
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program together yet, so that will build that up nicely.
The babyfaceers get the victory, and in terms of the
star power the Babyface team had, it makes complete sense
for them to get the victory here, and I'm not
against that. I just had like some intricacy complaints about
how Survivor series is set up as a whole all
the wargames. I hope it goes back to the cages
because we already know the entrances of ror Um, but
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we don't need to see a cool, ely entrance. I mean,
if you want to, if you want to have your
entrance music still involved, just I don't know. Once I
get out of the cage, play the music. But the
cage part was the cool part about it. I really
like that. So I'm pretty sure Michael Cole explained why
it was the case, but I've I lost that and
I didn't actually hear his explanation, So apologies if I've
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missed something important there and crucial as to why they
removed the cages. But nevertheless, even if there was a
justification for it, I'd still prefer cages. So yeah, that
pretty much wraps up the first match, which is which
was the women's wargame match as I got my water
and then we move on to John sceneare taking on
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Dominic Mysterio for the Intercontinental Championship. We had Johnson to
come out to his last ever PLI. Again, I got
a lot emotional, but it started to hit me that
this is we're really getting close. I think he's got
one more date left, so it's gonna be really emotional
to know that John cenas gone and he's going to
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be having his last match in two weeks and this
was his last ever PLI against Don Masteriro who comes
out with Roxanmperez with Roccal Rodriguez, and yeah, the match
continued started. We had a spot where it looked like
Dom done his shoulder well executed. As Dom was getting treatment.
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For a second, I did think that it was a concern,
and then it wasn't until Roxan Perez came into the
ring did a Tahannah bomb, and then I mean Rocaal
Rodriguez did the Tahanna bomb and then Roxanne followed up
with a pop Rocks. That's when Dom and Nick Missiro
miraculously recovered went for the six to one nine, tried
to get the pin and that's where the ref was like, Naph,
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we're not doing this, Like, you're not cheating your way
to victory here. I like that. Obviously the ref's got
a job to ref the game, but the ref the match.
But in the end of the day, obviously Dom was
blatantly cheating and it was a nice attempt and I
really liked it. We had the girls attack John Cena
maybe to give them an opportunity to be in the
ring with him. I kind of feel as though that
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it was just a touch of like just the compliment
and giving them the opportunity to do that, and I
think they will appreciate that a lot, and John Cena
would be having given them that sort of free will
to do that since they've they've worked really hard, so
I'm not against that. I am impressed with Raco Rotriguez
been able to tarn him on two hundred and fifty pounds.
That is impressive, really really impressive, like the strength displayed
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there from her and to execute that, and he got
pretty high up to be fair, so honestly, very very
very good. But then they got booted out and then
we had the match that was pretty fair, but it
was there, and then liv Morgan coming out to the
ring while the referee was knocked out. We had the
same thing where Johnson did the STF without the referee
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being in part of the matches as john got pushed
into him or shoulder tackled, he shoulder tackled the ref Actually,
my apologies. Liv Morgan comes out. That was a nice
surprise I mentioned at the start. I was really impressed
with that. It was cool to see Liv Morgan back.
I really thought she was going to come back Royal Rumble.
She came in and originally slapped Dominic Mysterio. It looked
like it was a ruse, but I felt like there
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was some serious to it. I think that'll be part
of the storyline moving forward. Obviously, Dom's been very sort
of forgetful of her and also been moving a little
bit towards Rox sam Perez but not really doing much
with her. So I think again it was a slap
that meant some stuff but didn't really. And that's when
Liv Morgan hugged John Cena. She was known to have
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a crush on her, That's probably why she did it,
and it just added to the storyline. And that's when
she did exactly what John Cena did to Cody Rhodes,
and I was kick him in the nuts. Then I'm
hitting with the bolt followed by a six point nine,
and we have a new Intercontinental Champion and that is
Dominic Mysterio. Again, the correct decision just continues to highlight
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the point that they pretty much handed John Cena the
title to just finish off his Grand Slam championships and
have every belt to solidify him as the goat. As
I mentioned, and as I think everyone is aware, Am
I against it? No, it's just what it was. It's
obvious that that was the case, so I have to
call that out and that's what I think about it.
But in the end of the day, the Live Morgan
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angle coming back gives an appropriate justification as to why
Dom got his title back, and just I guess re
sort of configurates the timeline and path for Dom to
have the title back. So as much as we knew
that Dom was going to get it back, and as
much as we knew that John Cena had this handed
to him, the fact that liv Morgan was involved in
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this made that look a lot better Again. People were
not happy about sort of her return that it's put
Dom over and that they had an opportunity to make
her a baby face. But at the same time, I'm thinking,
I think it was the right decision. I think bringing
her back, getting her prepared for WrestleMania. She was featured
in the Women's WrestleMania teaser video makes things more exciting.
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And now I'm really keen for what she has to
say on Monday Night Raw and how she gets back
involved in the Judgment Day. And let's be real, now
we're all excited again to see what's going to be
happening with the Judgment Day because Live Morgan is back,
and for a faction that has been off and on
and dead and survive for so long, there's still some
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extraction we can take from the Judgment Day. We can
squeeze the final parts of the fruit and get some
juice because we've got to Live Morgan back, and how
she's going to react to things while she was gone,
how she's going to react to rox Samperez being part
of the group, how she's going to react to what's
been happening with Finn Bala and Dominique Mysterio and all
these external things. Is going to be one to be
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excited for so yes, I'm a keen for that. I
also forgot to mention that obviously JD and Finn Bala
did come out to try and to feel the match.
We saw the Elite spot with John CeNAT A and
both just an incredible display of strengths as well at
his age to be able to carry two people on
his back as a fireman's carry and hit a attitude
adjustment on both is quite impressive. But again leaving Morgan's
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back judgment, they look to be half relevant. Again, Everyone's
interested to see what's going to happen with them, so
that would be really exciting. We then get the third
match of the night, and Mate, this was one of
the worst, most boyingous matches I've ever watched. And there's
only one person to blame for that, and that's Nicki Balla.
Because Stephanie Veker has put on banger after banger after
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bagger and I'm shouting like Shamus at the moment, and
then as soon as she gets into the ring with
Nicky Baller, the crowd was dead, the match was dead.
We had the sort of devil's kiss on the table
when Nicki Balla just looked like a starfish terrible selling
from her, and also when they did into the ring,
terrible selling again, like she couldn't even do ten on
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her because of the fact that Nicki Balla couldn't sell
the move. This just shows how much better the women's
division is when it comes to performing and in ring
compared to what it was in the past, because Nicki
Bella looked like a rookie in there. She just wasn't
She just couldn't compete with Stephanie va Kare She was
a lot better than her, and it just made the
match look worse because it felt as though that Nicki
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Bella just had no business being there. We did expect.
There was a lot of rumors that Brie was going
to come and interfere with the match. I'm so glad
that didn't happen because there's no way that Nicki Balla
deserves to be a women's World champion, not in this climate,
and not did the fact that Stephanie Vakierre just got
the title as well, and she's been doing a great job.
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But yeah, the match ends up finishing with a corkscrew
no interference. It would have been nice to see four.
I guess other people that wanted to see something that
crazy happened, but I'm glad it didn't because I didn't
want Nicki Bella to win the title. I have owned
liked it if it just brought some extra excitement, but
it didn't. It was It was a match that probably
didn't need to be on Survivor Series. But again, with
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all the feuds and storylines happening, I can understand why
it's the case, but I make an argument that it
would have been better fitting that the Survivor Series Classic
match would have been on Survivor Series and you would
have just had this match on Raw because nothing really
happened to make it like Grand Stakes on Survivor Series.
It was just a filler match in my opinion, which
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is exactly it was like half the time. I found
myself just like tuning in and out of it like
I was watching, but it wasn't one hundred percent focused
or like in sort of immersion with it as I
was for the other three matches. For normal and understanding reasons.
It is obviously the weakest match on the card, but
the match itself wasn't even good to make it feel
as though that it was better. But we finish off
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with the men's wargame match. We had Cem Punk taking
on Bronze Breaker at start of the match, and it's
fitting that those two started and that's how they finished
as well, because bron Breaker ends up pinning c and
Punk due to that outside interference. Who we think it
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is Austin theory with the curve stump and how quick
he went out, so we've addressed that a nice surprise.
But again, like, like I said, it's cool to know
who did it? Who was this that that? But like,
if we know it's Austin theory, if it is Austin theory,
let's say it is hypothetically, are people going to be
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excited and be like whoa what a review? Like the
chance to put him over would have been for him
to unmask himself, do the move and then walk out
with the vision. Like I think that would have been
a lot better. We would have been able to sort
of look back ten years and see where Austin theory,
if they get this right, started and propelled his career,
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and it would have been that moment and he would
have been there for the whole world to see. But no,
they opted for this mysteriousness. Unless it is someone else
that's crazy, then I can understand it. But for someone
that hasn't been proven that is the future, that isn't
a legend that's making a return, then I don't think
this was the right play. But again it leaves us
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with questions to say who it is if we don't
know already, we all think it is Austin theory. He
obviously helped out and contributed to the Vision getting the victory,
which again was the right decision because the future is now.
You need to push these stars. The guys are obviously
not getting along with each other. By the guys, I
mean the baby faces, and now we've created some tension
within the team. So bron Breaker is the one that
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got the pin on Sea and Punk, so that is
definitely going to lead to him potentially going for the
World Heavyweight Championship. And again, when we look back at
when bron Breaker turned on Seth Rowlins, that's exactly why
what happened. He was carrying the belt. He gave it back,
but he's always been saying he wants to go for
the gold, and that basically solidified that. And it looked
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as though that not much attention was being placed on
bron Breaker recently if you really think about it, especially
with the Bronson Reid Robin Reins feud where Bronson Reid
got the pin. This court sort of circled back and
brought this back to the bron Breaker being the guy
and the people that or where WW want to move to,
and that's him, and he's elite for it. He's ready,
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He's been unbelievable. So I've got no I guess objections
for it. So bring it on. Bring on bron Breaker,
bring on Sampunk for a title, whether it's going to
be at WrestleMania where it's going to be earlier than that,
we'll find out. But that might give you a hint
as to who will potentially win the Royal Rumble. And
I think we did say Sam he's ain, but like,
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where's the path for him? I don't think there is
a path for him right now to get there. So
bring on bron Breaker and Sampunk potentially for the World
Heavyweight Championship. We'll have to wait and see again again,
we'll find out, but that's what I'm thinking. In terms
of the rest the stuff. They all walk out together
and after the match, we had Roman Rains fist pumping
Seampunk which was quite interesting, and then also going up
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to Cody Roads and saying this is the last time
we'll ever team up and leaving us questions as to
who Roman Rains is talking about back on Raw. This
might answer it, or he might just sway us a
whole different way, but it looks as though that he's
After Cody wrote, so could we see a trilogy of
this matchup at WrestleMania. I feel like we do need
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a trilogy? Do we need it now? I don't know,
but again we'll have to wait and see. But yeah,
we have the vision getting the victory and of the
vision with Brocoles, Naphi Cannon as part of the vision
and Drew McIntyre. Again, I don't know what's Is Loganpool
part of the vision or not? Like I I'm so
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confused with that. I think he is, but like, yeah,
I know Austin Theories is a lot better for the
vision than I. And then I think Logan Paul he
obviously is part of the future and he would be
someone they're propelling to. But yeah, I don't know, We'll
wait and see. There was actually and I was checking
this before I forgot to mention it that Okay, if
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it's not Austin theory, it could have been monteese Fort
that was like the other sort of theory based on
who the mass Man was, whether the mask Man is
the reveal or if those two like the plants, it
could be that as well. It could be they're just
planted for that. But yeah, we'll find out. I guess
we'll find out, and that's kind of the main thing
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that we'll find out there. We obviously saw the ramifications
of what happened that Rohan Rains has mentioned with Cody Rhodes,
if they're going to do a trilogy or whether Sampunk
will have a say in that. But WrestleMania is definitely
slowly shaping up, which is good to see. And yeah,
we're getting close. It's going to be there in four months.
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So the roads to WrestleMania as of once we get
past all the John Cena that's crazy two weeks it's
going to be his last match. Once you get past
all that, we will have a clear road to WrestleMania
path getting formed and that will be really exciting with
starting with the raw Rubble, So yeah, we'll keep in
tune for that. It's crazy how fast things go, but
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it just seems like time's gone click quick. The year's
done and one more month and john sena is going
to be finished up. Which yeah, we'll save that reaction
for when it happens, but I'm not mentally prepared for
it because I think it's going to be huge. But again,
it's been your boy, Daniel. You've listened to another main
event review. I will catch you guys next week for
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What is going on? Everybody, And welcome to this week's
episode of the Main Event Review straight out of Survivor series.
That means we'll be reviewing Survivor series as well, So again,
really keen to go through everything. But before I do,
I do want to let you guys know I'm not
sure if it's been confirmed by Matt or not, but
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I will be filling in for SmackDown reviews for the
next couple or so weeks, so really keen to sort
of give my take on SmackDown. I know a lot
of this Main Event review is about Main Event and
Raw and also PR's and I haven't given SmackDown as
much love, so having the opportunity to talk about slack
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SmackDown Slackdown will be good and yeah, excited to share that.
So they'll be happening for three weeks. As Amanda is
on a bit of a break, I'll be feeling in
for for SmackDown, so be sure to check that out
as well if you do enjoy these episodes on a
weekly basis too. But yeah, we'll get into it. Before
I start, I will sort of talk about what I
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thought about Survivor series as a whole. Yeah, again, it
was a good PRL but again, I don't think there
was anything super groundbreaking. We obviously had Live Morgan's return,
which was quite nice, and the angle there was pretty good.
We thought she was going to be a babyface. A
lot of people were hyping up that she could potentially
come back as a babyface given her sort of really
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good run before she got injured. But she ends up
being with Dominic, which we'll talk about. And then also
this mysterious man who Look, if it's not Austin theory,
then I don't know who it's going to be. And
I've got terrible eye sight because someone to climb the
ladder that quick the frame, and also the fact that
he used the curb stop and he was also part
of the Messiah crew, it would only make sense that
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it is Austin theory. And I've mentioned it on this podcast,
and I think it's been mentioned across all ww rumors
and news that Austin theory would be a potential Vision member,
and I think he's the perfect person for that. Like
in the past, he didn't really have any good runs
with the company. Vincepect Man did a really good job,
but after that not much teaming up with Grayson Waller
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getting jobbed, like he literally lost on a cross body
from jay Usso like that's how low it's been for
Austin Theory, and everyone knows his potential, So him joining
up with this group could be exciting, but it's not confirmed.
We could be completely wrong, but it's something to obviously
discuss about and it's a big talking point, I think,
and we'll find that more on Raw as it comes.
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But yeah, those are the two main things that happened.
Other than that, I guess it was quite underwhelming, Like
the men's match didn't have the crazy spots that I
would have expected. The women's was a lot better in
terms of the war games, but even then, there wasn't
that many crazy spots. Like there were obviously some decent spots.
You had the combined spear into the table. You also
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had a few other things, but nothing like nothing major
I would have expected, like Logan Paul to do some
more acrobatic stuff. I didn't see that. I didn't see
anything crazy from Bronson Reid. Obviously, I know he got
injured in the last war Game, so they probably didn't
want him to do a tsunami off the top. But
it just it just could have been a little bit
more crazy. I would have thought brock Lesna, Drew McIntyre,
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brom Breaker would have been a bit more ruthless. But yeah,
that was a crazy bump. By the way, the neck hit,
Hope broad Breaker is okay, looks like he is, but
for a second I thought his neck was done. But AnyWho,
Before we get into all that, obviously we'll talk more
about it. I will just say to wrap it up,
it was a quite average Survivor series and there has
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been better Survivor series before, so we'll leave it at
that for now. We'll go straight to main Event, where
we had Kid Wilson back on main event, but someone
that you would never think would ever be on a
main event show, and that was Damien Price. They went
head to head. Obviously, Damon Priest got the victory, and
we're not going to talk too much about the match
because the match went how everyone would have thought the
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same sort of pacing as normal, Kid Wilson matches getting
all ego and arrogant at the start, Damien Priez dominating
Kid Wilson, having a bit of sort of momentum, and
then getting killed off by yourself of Heaven. But yeah,
just I can't believe I saw Damien Priest do main
event today, Like they are really struggling with his storyline.
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Obviously alstabout Black is the person is coming up against,
but like, this guy was literally world heavyweight champion and
fighting people like Drew McIntyre and Gunfa and now he's
on main event. Like, albeit Alista Black, he is a
good opponent, but in contrast to what he's faced in
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the past, it's apples and oranges. Like, honestly, it's it's surprising.
I don't know what their plans are with Priests. They
obviously want to put They obviously wanted to make him
a big shoot star by adding the belt on to
him in the past, but like there's no path to
suggest that he will become a world heavyweight champion again.
And and I'm sure if it's because of the plethora of
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talent we have on that side or he just hasn't
been working. But from the time he was World evyweight champion.
He did a really good job in being a champion.
So yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the
goal is with his character. I just don't. I just
know for a fact that he should not be a
main event and him being on there, Good on him
for doing it, but that should not happen. They need
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to find a way to book him to be a
lot stronger. There's money in the bank coming up. I
don't think he will obviously win it, but his last
significant match was the elimination chamber and wrestlemining itself, so
he ended up beating Drew mcindonale as well. We hit
the concertos in a still cage match. I'm pretty sure
it was. So yeah, I don't get it, Like you
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come back from that, you're supposed to be pushed over,
and then you result to being on main event later
like yeah, disappointing. Disappointing, but it is what it is.
We got to see him on main event, we get
to talk about him now, So who am I complaining?
I just just hope more for him to be honest,
we then have I always say that the main event staple,
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but talk about a main event match that is hard
to review. It's the Alpha Academy taking on the Creed Brothers.
Like I've seen this match from reviewing Main Event from
last year to now. I reckon I've seen this match
up about ten times, maybe fifteen if I count the
singles matches in between them, two teams that we know
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are for Academy. I'm not going to mention that, but
the Creed Brothers, like what are they what are they doing?
Like where is Chad Gable? Chad Gable really needs to
come back and bring this team back to life, and
bring this crew back to life, because they have been flat.
I know Ivan now has sort of teased the fact
that she's gone for the title. I did mention that
last week. It looks like she will, but they're not
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doing anything. It's just like a waste of time and
you can't even like, I can't review this match to
you because it's just exactly what we would expect. The
only thing I will say is that the finish was
that a curates as a will hit the sent On
got the three count, we had Otus getting in the
hot tag, he did the worm like we all know this,
Like you don't even need to watch the match to know.
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I think that's the issue with Main Event as a whole,
to be honest, But again, like, oh, the Creed Brothers
just I don't know, Like I I don't know what
they're doing. I don't know where they're going. I don't
know if they need a new angle, if they need
to start competing for tag teams like titles like them
in the war Raiders. Just they've done nothing and I
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don't know if Yeah, I have no words for it.
I think the tag team division really needs a big
shake up. They've really ruined it at the moment SmackDown
looks like we've got a thing going with the White
Six and MFT, but what's happening with the rest of them,
Like bring some to Raw, get them on for the
world tag team titles. That hasn't really been a shift
and change in the tag team division across brands for
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a long time, and I think it's time to do it,
because at least like you send I don't know the
Cree Brothers to smack Down and they can be like, oh, yeah,
we're making a statement. We just joined the Blue Brand
or vice versa for like I don't know, DIY or
thrasium or even the machine guns like put them on raw,
get something going, get some fraction, get some sort of
team building going, because there's really nothing at the moment
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and it is quite frustrating. But the other academy get
the victory, feel good feeling for everyone, and yeah, that
pretty much wraps up main event and we will get
the good stuff. In terms of predictions for Survivor Series
four out of four, I mean wasn't the hardest to predict.
Let's be honest, four matches as well, and if you
were going to look at like the way things were
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set up, it would make sense for all the results
to happen. So one thing I'll give triple h is
that the booking was correctly done in terms of who won,
But just the excitement factor wasn't there for me across
the whole board. The first match we had the Women's
War Games, which was really good. It was cool to
see er Skuy have her own like labeled bin. That's
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something that I observed. Obviously they're making that a sort
of thing for her. Kind of similar to when COVID
Kingston found methods to survive in the Raw Rumble, they're
doing the same with er Skuy with the bin different
table spots. She obviously came out with the lid of
the bin, and then we Ripley ended up coming later
with the the bottom of the bin as well, So
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that was a quite observation that I had. But it
did start with Charlotte Flair and Ascar and yeah, which
was solid. Like again with Wargames, I don't really understand why,
Like what's the point of the first five badges? Like
you you get tired, but everyone's not tired, So I mean,
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I don't know if it's just an exhibition, but this
is where I say the spots should happen, obviously towards
the end because we're getting to the point where there's
going to be a result, but there needs to be
stuff happening in the middle to make it feel as
though that it's exciting. Like it was good. This one
was better than the Men's But just saying Wargames as
a whole was like that they're doing a Royal Rumble entry.
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I don't mind it, but I still like the dramatic
parts of the cage where someone's meant to come out
and you had that few like one of the most
views viewed videos on Instagram and TikTok. Last year was
Roman Reigns stopping Seampunk from going out and telling something
he's aiming to go. That's what creates the drama, and
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like they're all in this cage together. It just shows
like you could have done an angle with Ripley and
Charlotte Flair where they sort of have a bit of
tension and I don't know, like this is just me
sort of complaining about sort of the little details here.
I don't mind the Royal Rumbo entry, but when you
get to the fifth one, it's like everyone knows who
it's gonna be. Like Lash Legend to be the last
person is extremely underwhelming, Like I know she's the wild
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card and the new factor here, but no one really
knows her. For her to be the last entry, just
to me doesn't make sense. It would have been more
smarter to come out with I know Becky Lynch would
have been predictable, but even like Naya Jack's at the end,
worst case just getting a bunch of booze. But yeah,
Real Ripley came out as the very very last person.
I'm pretty sure because of the no Real Ripley was
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before that, Lash Legend was the very last, So there
you go. If Ree Ripley was the very last, it'd
makes more sense. But for the baby Face team, her
being last I made a lot of sense. They did
a really good job in sort of protecting aj Lee.
It didn't look like she took a lot of bumps,
so that was good. But basically in the conclusion of
the match, we obviously had the Eosky front flip. We
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had the save from Charlotte Flair to rear Ripley, which
was massive from the myst that usca used on to
I'm pretty sure it was lash Legend that copped the
myst anyway by just showing that Charlotte Flair was to
be trusted and they're probably on better terms now. And
then we had the forearm from Alexa Bliss and then
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that led to a black widow by aj Lee tapping
out Becky Lynch, so their story is going to continue.
But they ended with her theme music and aj Lee
to get the sort of pin and victory, which I
don't mind because I think of the five y five ramifications,
that is a good storyline to take into WrestleMania. We
have Becky Lynch and aj Lee that haven't had their
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program together yet, so that will build that up nicely.
The babyfaceers get the victory, and in terms of the
star power the Babyface team had, it makes complete sense
for them to get the victory here, and I'm not
against that. I just had like some intricacy complaints about
how Survivor series is set up as a whole all
the wargames. I hope it goes back to the cages
because we already know the entrances of ror Um, but
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we don't need to see a cool, ely entrance. I mean,
if you want to, if you want to have your
entrance music still involved, just I don't know. Once I
get out of the cage, play the music. But the
cage part was the cool part about it. I really
like that. So I'm pretty sure Michael Cole explained why
it was the case, but I've I lost that and
I didn't actually hear his explanation, So apologies if I've
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missed something important there and crucial as to why they
removed the cages. But nevertheless, even if there was a
justification for it, I'd still prefer cages. So yeah, that
pretty much wraps up the first match, which is which
was the women's wargame match as I got my water
and then we move on to John sceneare taking on
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Dominic Mysterio for the Intercontinental Championship. We had Johnson to
come out to his last ever PLI. Again, I got
a lot emotional, but it started to hit me that
this is we're really getting close. I think he's got
one more date left, so it's gonna be really emotional
to know that John cenas gone and he's going to
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be having his last match in two weeks and this
was his last ever PLI against Don Masteriro who comes
out with Roxanmperez with Roccal Rodriguez, and yeah, the match
continued started. We had a spot where it looked like
Dom done his shoulder well executed. As Dom was getting treatment.
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For a second, I did think that it was a concern,
and then it wasn't until Roxan Perez came into the
ring did a Tahannah bomb, and then I mean Rocaal
Rodriguez did the Tahanna bomb and then Roxanne followed up
with a pop Rocks. That's when Dom and Nick Missiro
miraculously recovered went for the six to one nine, tried
to get the pin and that's where the ref was like, Naph,
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we're not doing this, Like, you're not cheating your way
to victory here. I like that. Obviously the ref's got
a job to ref the game, but the ref the match.
But in the end of the day, obviously Dom was
blatantly cheating and it was a nice attempt and I
really liked it. We had the girls attack John Cena
maybe to give them an opportunity to be in the
ring with him. I kind of feel as though that
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it was just a touch of like just the compliment
and giving them the opportunity to do that, and I
think they will appreciate that a lot, and John Cena
would be having given them that sort of free will
to do that since they've they've worked really hard, so
I'm not against that. I am impressed with Raco Rotriguez
been able to tarn him on two hundred and fifty pounds.
That is impressive, really really impressive, like the strength displayed
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there from her and to execute that, and he got
pretty high up to be fair, so honestly, very very
very good. But then they got booted out and then
we had the match that was pretty fair, but it
was there, and then liv Morgan coming out to the
ring while the referee was knocked out. We had the
same thing where Johnson did the STF without the referee
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being in part of the matches as john got pushed
into him or shoulder tackled, he shoulder tackled the ref Actually,
my apologies. Liv Morgan comes out. That was a nice
surprise I mentioned at the start. I was really impressed
with that. It was cool to see Liv Morgan back.
I really thought she was going to come back Royal Rumble.
She came in and originally slapped Dominic Mysterio. It looked
like it was a ruse, but I felt like there
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was some serious to it. I think that'll be part
of the storyline moving forward. Obviously, Dom's been very sort
of forgetful of her and also been moving a little
bit towards Rox sam Perez but not really doing much
with her. So I think again it was a slap
that meant some stuff but didn't really. And that's when
Liv Morgan hugged John Cena. She was known to have
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a crush on her, That's probably why she did it,
and it just added to the storyline. And that's when
she did exactly what John Cena did to Cody Rhodes,
and I was kick him in the nuts. Then I'm
hitting with the bolt followed by a six point nine,
and we have a new Intercontinental Champion and that is
Dominic Mysterio. Again, the correct decision just continues to highlight
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the point that they pretty much handed John Cena the
title to just finish off his Grand Slam championships and
have every belt to solidify him as the goat. As
I mentioned, and as I think everyone is aware, Am
I against it? No, it's just what it was. It's
obvious that that was the case, so I have to
call that out and that's what I think about it.
But in the end of the day, the Live Morgan
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angle coming back gives an appropriate justification as to why
Dom got his title back, and just I guess re
sort of configurates the timeline and path for Dom to
have the title back. So as much as we knew
that Dom was going to get it back, and as
much as we knew that John Cena had this handed
to him, the fact that liv Morgan was involved in
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this made that look a lot better Again. People were
not happy about sort of her return that it's put
Dom over and that they had an opportunity to make
her a baby face. But at the same time, I'm thinking,
I think it was the right decision. I think bringing
her back, getting her prepared for WrestleMania. She was featured
in the Women's WrestleMania teaser video makes things more exciting.
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And now I'm really keen for what she has to
say on Monday Night Raw and how she gets back
involved in the Judgment Day. And let's be real, now
we're all excited again to see what's going to be
happening with the Judgment Day because Live Morgan is back,
and for a faction that has been off and on
and dead and survive for so long, there's still some
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extraction we can take from the Judgment Day. We can
squeeze the final parts of the fruit and get some
juice because we've got to Live Morgan back, and how
she's going to react to things while she was gone,
how she's going to react to rox Samperez being part
of the group, how she's going to react to what's
been happening with Finn Bala and Dominique Mysterio and all
these external things. Is going to be one to be
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excited for so yes, I'm a keen for that. I
also forgot to mention that obviously JD and Finn Bala
did come out to try and to feel the match.
We saw the Elite spot with John CeNAT A and
both just an incredible display of strengths as well at
his age to be able to carry two people on
his back as a fireman's carry and hit a attitude
adjustment on both is quite impressive. But again leaving Morgan's
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back judgment, they look to be half relevant. Again, Everyone's
interested to see what's going to happen with them, so
that would be really exciting. We then get the third
match of the night, and Mate, this was one of
the worst, most boyingous matches I've ever watched. And there's
only one person to blame for that, and that's Nicki Balla.
Because Stephanie Veker has put on banger after banger after
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bagger and I'm shouting like Shamus at the moment, and
then as soon as she gets into the ring with
Nicky Baller, the crowd was dead, the match was dead.
We had the sort of devil's kiss on the table
when Nicki Balla just looked like a starfish terrible selling
from her, and also when they did into the ring,
terrible selling again, like she couldn't even do ten on
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her because of the fact that Nicki Balla couldn't sell
the move. This just shows how much better the women's
division is when it comes to performing and in ring
compared to what it was in the past, because Nicki
Bella looked like a rookie in there. She just wasn't
She just couldn't compete with Stephanie va Kare She was
a lot better than her, and it just made the
match look worse because it felt as though that Nicki
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Bella just had no business being there. We did expect.
There was a lot of rumors that Brie was going
to come and interfere with the match. I'm so glad
that didn't happen because there's no way that Nicki Balla
deserves to be a women's World champion, not in this climate,
and not did the fact that Stephanie Vakierre just got
the title as well, and she's been doing a great job.
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But yeah, the match ends up finishing with a corkscrew
no interference. It would have been nice to see four.
I guess other people that wanted to see something that
crazy happened, but I'm glad it didn't because I didn't
want Nicki Bella to win the title. I have owned
liked it if it just brought some extra excitement, but
it didn't. It was It was a match that probably
didn't need to be on Survivor Series. But again, with
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all the feuds and storylines happening, I can understand why
it's the case, but I make an argument that it
would have been better fitting that the Survivor Series Classic
match would have been on Survivor Series and you would
have just had this match on Raw because nothing really
happened to make it like Grand Stakes on Survivor Series.
It was just a filler match in my opinion, which
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is exactly it was like half the time. I found
myself just like tuning in and out of it like
I was watching, but it wasn't one hundred percent focused
or like in sort of immersion with it as I
was for the other three matches. For normal and understanding reasons.
It is obviously the weakest match on the card, but
the match itself wasn't even good to make it feel
as though that it was better. But we finish off
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with the men's wargame match. We had Cem Punk taking
on Bronze Breaker at start of the match, and it's
fitting that those two started and that's how they finished
as well, because bron Breaker ends up pinning c and
Punk due to that outside interference. Who we think it
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is Austin theory with the curve stump and how quick
he went out, so we've addressed that a nice surprise.
But again, like, like I said, it's cool to know
who did it? Who was this that that? But like,
if we know it's Austin theory, if it is Austin theory,
let's say it is hypothetically, are people going to be
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excited and be like whoa what a review? Like the
chance to put him over would have been for him
to unmask himself, do the move and then walk out
with the vision. Like I think that would have been
a lot better. We would have been able to sort
of look back ten years and see where Austin theory,
if they get this right, started and propelled his career,
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and it would have been that moment and he would
have been there for the whole world to see. But no,
they opted for this mysteriousness. Unless it is someone else
that's crazy, then I can understand it. But for someone
that hasn't been proven that is the future, that isn't
a legend that's making a return, then I don't think
this was the right play. But again it leaves us
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with questions to say who it is if we don't
know already, we all think it is Austin theory. He
obviously helped out and contributed to the Vision getting the victory,
which again was the right decision because the future is now.
You need to push these stars. The guys are obviously
not getting along with each other. By the guys, I
mean the baby faces, and now we've created some tension
within the team. So bron Breaker is the one that
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got the pin on Sea and Punk, so that is
definitely going to lead to him potentially going for the
World Heavyweight Championship. And again, when we look back at
when bron Breaker turned on Seth Rowlins, that's exactly why
what happened. He was carrying the belt. He gave it back,
but he's always been saying he wants to go for
the gold, and that basically solidified that. And it looked
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as though that not much attention was being placed on
bron Breaker recently if you really think about it, especially
with the Bronson Reid Robin Reins feud where Bronson Reid
got the pin. This court sort of circled back and
brought this back to the bron Breaker being the guy
and the people that or where WW want to move to,
and that's him, and he's elite for it. He's ready,
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He's been unbelievable. So I've got no I guess objections
for it. So bring it on. Bring on bron Breaker,
bring on Sampunk for a title, whether it's going to
be at WrestleMania where it's going to be earlier than that,
we'll find out. But that might give you a hint
as to who will potentially win the Royal Rumble. And
I think we did say Sam he's ain, but like,
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where's the path for him? I don't think there is
a path for him right now to get there. So
bring on bron Breaker and Sampunk potentially for the World
Heavyweight Championship. We'll have to wait and see again again,
we'll find out, but that's what I'm thinking. In terms
of the rest the stuff. They all walk out together
and after the match, we had Roman Rains fist pumping
Seampunk which was quite interesting, and then also going up
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to Cody Roads and saying this is the last time
we'll ever team up and leaving us questions as to
who Roman Rains is talking about back on Raw. This
might answer it, or he might just sway us a
whole different way, but it looks as though that he's
After Cody wrote, so could we see a trilogy of
this matchup at WrestleMania. I feel like we do need
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a trilogy? Do we need it now? I don't know,
but again we'll have to wait and see. But yeah,
we have the vision getting the victory and of the
vision with Brocoles, Naphi Cannon as part of the vision
and Drew McIntyre. Again, I don't know what's Is Loganpool
part of the vision or not? Like I I'm so
(25:52):
confused with that. I think he is, but like, yeah,
I know Austin Theories is a lot better for the
vision than I. And then I think Logan Paul he
obviously is part of the future and he would be
someone they're propelling to. But yeah, I don't know, We'll
wait and see. There was actually and I was checking
this before I forgot to mention it that Okay, if
(26:13):
it's not Austin theory, it could have been monteese Fort
that was like the other sort of theory based on
who the mass Man was, whether the mask Man is
the reveal or if those two like the plants, it
could be that as well. It could be they're just
planted for that. But yeah, we'll find out. I guess
we'll find out, and that's kind of the main thing
(26:34):
that we'll find out there. We obviously saw the ramifications
of what happened that Rohan Rains has mentioned with Cody Rhodes,
if they're going to do a trilogy or whether Sampunk
will have a say in that. But WrestleMania is definitely
slowly shaping up, which is good to see. And yeah,
we're getting close. It's going to be there in four months.
(26:55):
So the roads to WrestleMania as of once we get
past all the John Cena that's crazy two weeks it's
going to be his last match. Once you get past
all that, we will have a clear road to WrestleMania
path getting formed and that will be really exciting with
starting with the raw Rubble, So yeah, we'll keep in
tune for that. It's crazy how fast things go, but
(27:16):
it just seems like time's gone click quick. The year's
done and one more month and john sena is going
to be finished up. Which yeah, we'll save that reaction
for when it happens, but I'm not mentally prepared for
it because I think it's going to be huge. But again,
it's been your boy, Daniel. You've listened to another main
event review. I will catch you guys next week for
a main event review and potentially hey SmackDown review as well,
(27:39):
but you guys take it.
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