October 10, 2025 • 29 mins
Amanda from the UK reviews the final show before tomorrow's Crown Jewel PLE.
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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hello, whatever time it
is with you and wherever you are. Thank you for
downloading this SmackDown with you as part of the w
W podcast. As always, it's an absoutely pleasure to have
you listening along. Once again. I'm Amanda, you're host of
the SmackDown Review. And before we get started, huge apologies
not making the last week's show. He actually almost totally
lost my voice off for a cold or COVID or whatever.
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I felt really badly matten you guys down. Anyway back
this week, let's have a real quick look at the
card for Crown Jewel and make some predictions. First up,
we've got Cody versus Seth. Now, I think after this
week's raw and Hayman's comments that if Seth loses, he
will lose the respect of the Vision and have Hayman
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wondering if he backed the wrong horse with Seth over
Roman and Punk. So I think we get a Cody
win and the beginning of the end of the vision.
Now that might be wishful thinking on my part, but
it's what I'm going with. Stephanie versus Tiffy. I think
we get Stephanie win here and what will be a
brilliant match. I'm sure Sena versus Styles. I mean, come on,
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nothing but Sena win here, right, and we still don't
know who his last opponent will be. I am sticking
with Jericho, which is looking less and less likely. But
let's see. I think we know that Brock won't make
an appearance in Australia. That's far too far for him
to try, so at least he won't be an issue
this time. I'm assuming we've got Rear and EO versus
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the Kabuki Warriors. This has got to be a win
for EO and Rear, with the home country crowd well
and truly behind Rear Bronson read versus Roman a win
for Roman surely, or maybe not. Maybe Bronson Reid doing
what Seth couldn't do and get the win. Maybe that's
going to be an angle. I can't call this one.
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I really don't know. I mean, obviously, Roman doesn't need
the win at this point in his career after his
record breaking title run of a couple of years back.
He doesn't need anything really and it would make Bronson
read it really strong to go over and I guess
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it would, as I said, if he gets the win
where Seth couldn't. Maybe that's uh, that's the road we
go down. But let's see I see only one I
can't call, and then what the only returns? Could we
see Live yet? I don't know how well she is
and how her recovery is going, but i'd love to
see Live actually miss her being on the show. And
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as always, when the show goes to Australia, I want
to see the Iconics back together again. I know that's
never going to happen, but I really like them and
I'd love to hear that Iconics. Anyway, let's get to
it and review the SmackDown the air tenth of October
from Perth, Australia. Time in here as I start this
podcast is just past five pm in the evenings, which
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means I'm basically doing this podcast on work time, which
makes me happy. It's the small things, and we start
tonight's show with a bougie vignette on the Royal Transfer
showing the blingy belt's being brought over to OZ. You
might ask yourself, how much does it cost to have
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WWE decide they're going to in their ethics and you know,
any kind of moral high ground and hold a royal
rumble and a mania in your backyard if you're Saudi Arabia.
And the cost that well a couple of billion probably
and two ridiculously blingy belts and over to Australia. Cole
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kicks us off, welcoming us to Perth for a sold
out SmackDown. On first out, we have Cody to a
massive pop. Of course everyone wants to see Cody when
the WWE go on tour and a reminder of Cody
and Randy versus the bronze match last week and come
selling the crisis in the vision quite hard. Cody starts
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off asking Perth what they want to talk about. He says,
we can talk about Seth Rawlings and that gets an
absolutely massive boo, which I would say was equal to
the size of his pop he got when he came out.
He says Seth and his doom and gloom outlook and
his feelings that the match between them has something to
do with the future of the industry he thought was ridiculous,
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and he says he poked fun at Seth for that,
but after hearing Hayman describe the actual stakes, he started
to think that Seth was right. He says, Seth is
becoming the man he sacrificed himself to beat, and he
says that dismantling the vision has fallen on his shoulders
and he's okay with that. He says he doesn't blame
Seth because once you love w Dowey like Ceph does,
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she'll do anything to predict it. But once you start
to think that you are the only one that can
carry all of it, that's the downfall, and it tips
the scales far away from where he started. Cody says
that he loves leading WWE, but he knows there's a
bunch of people who can and will stand up like
and he names Randy Roman, Rhea j even cm Punk.
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He says he could also be talking about Seth and
the crowd boo loud. He says, maybe Seth could fill
the spot, but Cody is interrupted as the crowd start
is a wanker charm. Cody asked for clarification on what
they are saying, and he chucks the mic to Wade,
who says it out loud on the mic for all tier,
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which was brilliant, and the crowd now chanting thank you Barrett.
Cody says he doubt says he's listening. He doubts he
ever listens, but he will aren't he does, ask him,
who am I to you? He says he is up
three nail to him and any night in any era,
he's the guy that Seth can't beat. I thought this
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was a good opening segment actually, and the Aussie crowd
absolutely loving life and bringing loads to it. Really liked
the bit where Cody was free wheeling and interacting with
the crowd, and I like how they have Seth totally
taking the angle of very serious is the future of
w E and Cody being more like shoulder shrug, you
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just can't beat me. It's nicely injured up out of
pretty much nothing. And I'm hoping, as I predicted, we
get a Cody winn leaving Seth in a vulnerable position
with the bronze and Hayman and then what that's quite interesting.
Next up, we've got some arrivals, and we've got priest
arriving for his match with Alistair Black later, which is
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the Last Man's Standing match, and the profits with BFAB
have another title match against the Wyat six later. That's
match ninety two in the series, or at least it
feels like it is. We then go backstage where we've
got Stephanie Va Kerr who's approached by Chelsea, who wants
to congratulate on her title success. She of course makes
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it all about her, says she knows how it feels
being champ and makes her an offer to join the
Secret hervis and starts bad mouthing Tiffy, who she calls
her takey time in a nice line. Tonight. Tiffy approaches
and off sculls Chelsea. Stephanie tells Tiffy she has her
back and those twof he has hers, but tomorrow may
the best woman win. So loving this Stephanie Stephanieve occur
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being you know, on different brands, getting her face out there,
enjoying that. A bit worried about Chelsea. She doesn't seem
to have any direction at the moment. I know obviously,
what say obviously, Like as if I know anything, they
don't seem to know. How much longer that pipe and
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Nvin is going to be out of action for and
if in fact she'll ever be fit enough to come back.
So I think they are maybe sort of treading water
a bit with that whole storyline, but I do wish
that Chelsea could get a decent storyline to get her
teeth into. We've then go to Austra first Engling action
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of the night and it's Sammy in his open challenge
for the US title. Again. I don't know who this
will be, maybe an Aussie? Could it be Grayson Waller.
Before that match, we have got Cody backstage and he
runs into Fatou. He tells Cody once he's finished with Seth,
he's coming for the title. That's cool, Oh, I would
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like to see that very much. Nick comes along and
tells him he needs to speak to him and should
pop by his office. Fatou is then attacked from behind
by the Scottish idiot who gives him a beatdown. It
takes Nick and some officials to pull him away, and
he says he wants to talk to Nick later. So
I'm thinking hopefully Fatoo versus Dru for a Number one
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Contenders match to face Cody, Please God. Fatoo wins that,
but I would like to see it back to the
ring and we wait to see who Sammy faces. He's
currently five for five in terms of defenses, and he is,
to be fair to him, a true fighting champion, defending
every single week. And out comes the person and it's Shinske. Well,
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it's been that long since we saw him. It took
me a minute to figure out his entrance music, so
this should be interesting. He seems to have changed back
to a less evil, weirdo version of himself. There's no
mask or spooky wooky face paint, which I'm pleased about. Seriously, though,
how many returns is this for Shinskey? I mean, he's
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He's been in and out like a what's it? And
every time he comes back I get excited and think, yes,
this is awesome, and then within a couple of weeks
and I'm like, God, you're boring, So let's hope. Anyway,
this one kicks off with both guys tying up in
the middle of the ring and it's predictably awesome. As
the crowd chant welcome back. Cole mentions it has been
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months since we last saw Shinske. Sammy just about clothesline
Shinsky's head off in it, but then he takes too
long getting out to the top rope, allowing Shinsky back
into the match, and we get a series of great
near pins as each guy hitting some epic looking moves.
Shinsky gets a super close cover as he hits the
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conchasser and Sammy just reaches the rope with his legs.
He looks like he's just about to finish off Sammy
and take the titles. He hits a scissor kick off
the ropes, but he's pulled from the ring by our
favorite WW character, generic guy in hoodie, causing a deky
finish and Sammy to retain. But who is the guy
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in the hoodie? It's Tamatonga. He's back, and all the
mft's appear in gen Simon's style face paint and go
all in on Sammy and Shinskey. What did I miss?
What are the mft's pissed with these two for? Or
is it just because they can The crowd are raging
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that a brilliant match has been ruined by these goons,
and you can count me in on that as well.
And now Solo comes to ringside and does not receive
a warm welcome from the Aussie crowd. Segment ends with
the MFT Stroke Kiss Tribute band kneeling over Shinskate and
Sammy in the ring, while Solo stands in the middle
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in a suit looking like the awkward cousin at the
family wedding. Honestly, though, where are we headed of this?
So the MFTs just show up and beat people down
because they can. Okay, I guess we'll see, but I'm
not instantly loving it. We are just going round around
again Bloodline version nineteen Yawn contraplate. You can do better
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than just re hashing the whole Bloodline thing again. Please
backstage now, with Nick telling a ref he needs to
see Solo immediately, Drew approaches and Nick tells him next
week it's Drew and Fatoo one on one. Fatoo comes
in again and the brawl starts all over between these two.
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So I guess we get the match, but it isn't
a number one contenders match yet. Maybe it will be.
I hope it gets there, or maybe Fatoo just knocks
off Drue and just becomes number one contender. That would
be dreamy. Next up, we have a tag match. It's Stephanie,
and as I said before, it's great to see her
on SmackDown. I like her a lot. She's with Tiffany
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and they are versus Julia and Keana James, and this
is cool. I mean, it isn't believable, but let's not
pull at that thread. If we start pulling at that thread,
the whole of WWE and their storylines will slowly unravel.
But to be fair, I'm always complaining that the woman's
division is stale and I want to see new matchups
with new people. Well, here we go. I can't complain.
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Let's see how the faces get on and what gets
set up for tomorrow's ple match. Stephanie kicks off with
Keana James, who has her handbag on the apron and
immediately tries to sucker in Vaker, but straight away La
Premira manages to get her imposition and hit the Devil's
Quick Kiss, which the Aussi crowd are completely loving. Stephanie
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stays in the ring quite some time and Julia and
Kiana giving her the run around with some decent tag
team moves. Finally we get a tag to Tiffy Tiffy
tag to the light of the Aussy crowd. She gets
a close pin on Keana almost straight away. Now. I
don't know what's in the water in the women's division
at the moment, but the normally impeccable Tiffy misses a
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dropkick by a country mile Jesus, come on, girls, you're
setting us back years now. Before you know it, we'll
be back to bras and panties matches and jello wrestling.
Julia manages to hit a Northern Lights bomb on Tiffy
force in baka to break the count from outside of
the ring. This one ends as Tiffy hits the prettiest
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moon Salt gets the cover on Keana James. No shenanigans
in this one. Pretty clean. So we move on to
the match tomorrow with these two well preserved as faces,
and it'll be exciting to see what happens. Now it's
the current crown George Chump Live. Did we see that
in Saudi last year? I think we did. Wouldn't it
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be cool if she came out tomorrow night and interfered
in some way being the current holder of the Crowndeel Championships. Again,
I'm probably reaching. I don't know how well she is,
but it would be wicked. Backstage now to Soul Ruka
with Bliss and Flair. Flair says last week they were
impressed by their performance, but do they realize that a
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match with Bliss and Flair means stepping into her spotlight?
Bliss corrects her to our spotlight, and I am loving
how they are still selling this angle of Blair being
an egomaniac but not really seeing it and Bliss just
sort of patting her on the head and correcting her
along the way. Bliss says, stepping in the ring with
us will be a massive lesson, and she doesn't think
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they're ready. They say, if you think we aren't ready,
step into the ring of us, improve it. They agree
to the match, so that should be a good one,
and I wonder and that is scheduled for and whether
it will be title or non tile straight into the
next match, Now we have Profits versus Wyat six again yawn.
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This one kicks off Gasey in with both profits and
so far, so good for the profits. They sum to
be on the same page. Put in some good tag
team moves, but let's see how long that lasts. We
then get the obligatory double sueflex from the top, leading
to a cover which Nicki Cross breaks and then Niki
(16:33):
then takes out beefab ringside and the Profits are distracted
as Rowan approaches and Dawkins takes him's him out over
the top rope. This one finishes up quick as the
Wyat Six hit the plague and retain. Now, will we
get the end of the Profits? Please God? At the
very least, we get the end of this rivalry, which
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is beyond dull. After the match, we get the mft's
appearing again and they face off with the wy At
Six in the ring, including Nicki but minus Uncle Howdy.
As the crowd tells Solo where to go again, Nicky
faces off to Solo and the MFTs leaves the ring.
Cole says Solo made his point, did it cold because
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it looked like they bailed when teeny Tiny Nicky Cross
scared them off. Sigh. Now we get a reminder of
the aggravation between Mellow and Miss from last week, with
Miss face planting Mellow before he could take another shot
at Sammy's US title. We get Kathy backstage with Miss,
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who asks him why he turned on Mello last week.
He says, let's turn that round and look at it
from the other way. He says he saw the potential
in him, and he offered to be his mentor. Mello
have the audacity to tell him that he was done
with him. Miss Reel's off accomplishments to Kathy and tells
it that he is in the spotlight, and he says
to Mellow Mellow, pardon me that he missed. He also says,
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what kind of journalists die? You didn't even wish me
a happy birthday, to which Kafee looks a little bit embarrassed.
So I guess we're heading down the road for a
Mellow Miss feud, which I think is okay. I would
rather see that than them as a team. I think,
as I've said a thousand times before on this pod,
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the Tag Division on SmackDown doesn't need a Mellow Miss team.
They have more than an US strength and depth. So
to see them feud, actually, yeah, that might be quite interesting.
Let's see MEZ put Mellow over. And now we go
to a pre recorded Alistair Black vignette. He tells Priest
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it's time for him to take off his mask and
show him what hell looks like. He says he will
show the world how misguided and hollow he is. He
says he will be the profit of violence. Priesten says
that he is the consequences, and we get shown what
happened last week in the build up to tonight's Last
Man Standing match. Before that match, though, we get some
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footage from earlier in the day of the kickoff show,
and we've got the vision on stage with Seth and
Hayman does his big introduction for Seth, and Seth just
turns around and walks off, which is weird. Cole says
that that's because of Cody being in Seth's head and
if he loses tomorrow, he knows he will lose it all.
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Now this set up a little red flag in my head.
I think, now they're pushing this angle so hard, and
I'm wondering now if we will get Seth win or
maybe some shenanigans to cause a hokey finish. Personally, can't
see a Cody lost, But usually and in the past,
when wwe are pushing an angle this hard, doesn't go
the way they are pushing us in. So maybe there's
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something more, But I don't know what. And I don't
want to say a Cody lost because I don't think
it will be a Cody lost. I think We're going
down Shenanigan's shirt. Nanigan's now tonight's main event, Last Man Standing,
Black versus Priest. Looking at the time staff on Netflix,
We've got just over twenty minutes left, so this won't
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be the longest Last man Standing match ever. Before we
go into the match, what do you guys think of
the booking of Black since he's been back in WWE.
Me personally, I was excited to see him back in
the company. I liked him first time around, but he
was booked horribly and I hope that Trips would do
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better with him, and I think he has he hasn't
had earth showering stories, more like slow burners like this one,
for example. This should be a great match, and it
should be a nice way to tie you up this rivalry.
Then what for each man? I don't want for a
priest options and I would like to see him fight
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his way back to the top of the card, maybe
get another run on the tile. But Black, what's next?
Or who's next? Anyway to this match? And it starts
off with kender sticks and still steps being brandished around
right off the bat and the crowd immediately chanting for tables.
I surely think they mean the slim Gin tables. Early
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on in the match, it's all Priest as he sets
up the steps in the middle of the ring, but
ends up getting his own face smashed into them. Priest
then tries South of Heaven, but Black somehow turns it
into a meteor onto the step, which looked cool. And
now we've got all the momentum with Black a bit
of a bochy mood, I think move, sorry not mood.
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Bit of a bochy move outside the ring as Black
chucks Priest into the steps and Priest catches the back
of his head and neck, which looked a bit painful,
but Priest then puts Black through the announced desk. We
get a very very cool looking old school with Kendo
stick and that ends up with Damien getting a kick
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in the face. As both men are down for account
of eight in the first quote unquote near four, Priest
hits a running raisor's edge into the announced desk, getting
a count of nine, barely getting up, and then hits
another raisor's head show the announced desk again again another
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count of nine. They make their way through the crowd,
back and forth. They make their way to a set
up raised desk sort of mini stage area which randomly
had some like construction hats and start on it in
the middle of the crowd. Anyway, they make their way
from there to there rather and randomly, Zelina Vega appears
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from literally nowhere and gets in between them. Priest goes
for South of Heaven, but Black gets a life or
something out and launches a viable onto his face, which
is unexpected. I haven't seen that for a long time
in WWE. After the fire ball, he delivers Black masks
and Priest stays down for the ten count and Black
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takes the win. So for literally all the tea in China,
it looked as though Priest had that in the bag.
If you'd let me guess all day, I wouldn't have
called a Zelena Vega interference. They are real life married, right,
pretty sure they are? And is this a return to
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Heill manager? Zelena? Was she manager for Ander Day for
a long time. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
That she was.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
If so, I am very here for that. Maybe that
changes things. So that's not a quote unquote clean win,
is it?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Do you think we get one more time? Maybe? I
cage for sure. I guess this is Priest written off
TV for a while, returning maybe next peer Le scard
Bird pissed off to Hell to rip Black apart. I
think Zelena as a manager for Black is a good call.
She's great on the mic, so she would be exactly
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what Black needs to give him a bit of a
bump up the card. I actually really enjoyed this show.
I thought it was good and the early time is
just perfect. I'm going to start petitioning WWE to have
these times of a SmackDown. To me, it definitely suits me.
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Looking forward to Crown Jewel and is anyone else surprised
that it doesn't look like we've got any Punk or
AJ involvement. Perhaps Punk features in the Seth Cody match.
It would serve Seth Wright if Punk did him dirty
after Seth cashed in on him after his fraudul injury
at Summer Slam. I'm still not over that. I'm still
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hoping at some point that we get an AJ Becky
match for the title, and I would love to see
a live return. But I think all being all, I
think we are set for a decent Crown duel in
Perth tomorrow lunchtime, so looking forward to that. Before we
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sign off, today a couple more things. First of all,
santrans Escobar looks like he's been released by WWE heard
somewhere I can't remember where, so I can't remember to
credit them this week. And Anderde obviously has left WWE
and gone back to AW for the one hundredth time.
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I'm sure he'll be back in w W in the
next few years. He seems to just go back and
forth like a bouncy ball, So maybe this year we're
not going to get the huge releases all at once,
and seemed to be much more of a drip feed.
But that was two quite big ones that have happened
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in the last couple of weeks, and then over on
RAW this week. Just wondering what you guys think of
the Bailey storyline and how it does seem to be
going down the road that we thought it would go down,
with her having a bit of a split personality, Lyra
spending most of her life completely confused as to what
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the hell is going on with her? Is she gonna
hug her or smash her in the face? I think
that's cool. I wonder how long Lyrah Valkyria will hang
around for her nonsense before she she comes to the
end of her tether and then what next? What next
for Bailey? What other stories are they going to tell
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over there on Raw? But here to talk about SmackDown.
So all in all, this week great show, much improved
as to where we were a few weeks ago, and
a really really great running for Crown Jaw. Now up
next in terms of p L, I think it's a
viv series, and obviously we've got Sena's last last appearance
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on a Saturday night's main event, which I understand I
hear is going to be a bit of a tribute
show to Sina. Finally, Nia Jacks haven't seen anything of
her since the Almighty Botch, which I believe they've now
edited off the off of the Netflix version of SmackDown
that we watched a couple of weeks ago. Obviously we've
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seen Tiffy, haven't seen Jade, but I imagine that she's
under concussion protocols after getting read bashed into the steps.
We saw the ref who I think was unfairly blamed
in some channel for the botch. So really, the only
bon we've seen Tiffy obviously, I think the only person
we haven't really seen is Naya so hoping that she
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has been taken off TV for some time until she
finally sorts herself out, because you know, there's been a lot,
an awful lot of commentary around what happened. A lot
of people I'd heard saying it was the ref's fault,
but to be honest, I think the performers have got
to take the responsibility, and in this case it's Naya.
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She didn't kick out. She should know the finish, she
should know where they are in the match. So personally,
my opinion is that that was another Naya botch, just
also what she did to Jade earlier on in the match,
basically throwing her into the steps, not giving her enough
chance to get her hands up. So I think maybe
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it's telling that Nya is the only person that we
haven't seen back on TV, albeit Jade's clearly concussed since
the botch. So my hope is that WWE actually hopefully
finally may begin to take some action with Naya. And yeah, anyway, guys,
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that just about does it for this week's show. My
voice is starting to get a bit rubbish again, so
I think I will sign off, thank you for having
me in your ears, and remember until next time, be kind.
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W podcast. As always, it's an absoutely pleasure to have
you listening along. Once again. I'm Amanda, you're host of
the SmackDown Review. And before we get started, huge apologies
not making the last week's show. He actually almost totally
lost my voice off for a cold or COVID or whatever.
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I felt really badly matten you guys down. Anyway back
this week, let's have a real quick look at the
card for Crown Jewel and make some predictions. First up,
we've got Cody versus Seth. Now, I think after this
week's raw and Hayman's comments that if Seth loses, he
will lose the respect of the Vision and have Hayman
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wondering if he backed the wrong horse with Seth over
Roman and Punk. So I think we get a Cody
win and the beginning of the end of the vision.
Now that might be wishful thinking on my part, but
it's what I'm going with. Stephanie versus Tiffy. I think
we get Stephanie win here and what will be a
brilliant match. I'm sure Sena versus Styles. I mean, come on,
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nothing but Sena win here, right, and we still don't
know who his last opponent will be. I am sticking
with Jericho, which is looking less and less likely. But
let's see. I think we know that Brock won't make
an appearance in Australia. That's far too far for him
to try, so at least he won't be an issue
this time. I'm assuming we've got Rear and EO versus
(02:08):
the Kabuki Warriors. This has got to be a win
for EO and Rear, with the home country crowd well
and truly behind Rear Bronson read versus Roman a win
for Roman surely, or maybe not. Maybe Bronson Reid doing
what Seth couldn't do and get the win. Maybe that's
going to be an angle. I can't call this one.
(02:29):
I really don't know. I mean, obviously, Roman doesn't need
the win at this point in his career after his
record breaking title run of a couple of years back.
He doesn't need anything really and it would make Bronson
read it really strong to go over and I guess
(02:49):
it would, as I said, if he gets the win
where Seth couldn't. Maybe that's uh, that's the road we
go down. But let's see I see only one I
can't call, and then what the only returns? Could we
see Live yet? I don't know how well she is
and how her recovery is going, but i'd love to
see Live actually miss her being on the show. And
(03:11):
as always, when the show goes to Australia, I want
to see the Iconics back together again. I know that's
never going to happen, but I really like them and
I'd love to hear that Iconics. Anyway, let's get to
it and review the SmackDown the air tenth of October
from Perth, Australia. Time in here as I start this
podcast is just past five pm in the evenings, which
(03:35):
means I'm basically doing this podcast on work time, which
makes me happy. It's the small things, and we start
tonight's show with a bougie vignette on the Royal Transfer
showing the blingy belt's being brought over to OZ. You
might ask yourself, how much does it cost to have
(03:57):
WWE decide they're going to in their ethics and you know,
any kind of moral high ground and hold a royal
rumble and a mania in your backyard if you're Saudi Arabia.
And the cost that well a couple of billion probably
and two ridiculously blingy belts and over to Australia. Cole
(04:19):
kicks us off, welcoming us to Perth for a sold
out SmackDown. On first out, we have Cody to a
massive pop. Of course everyone wants to see Cody when
the WWE go on tour and a reminder of Cody
and Randy versus the bronze match last week and come
selling the crisis in the vision quite hard. Cody starts
(04:42):
off asking Perth what they want to talk about. He says,
we can talk about Seth Rawlings and that gets an
absolutely massive boo, which I would say was equal to
the size of his pop he got when he came out.
He says Seth and his doom and gloom outlook and
his feelings that the match between them has something to
do with the future of the industry he thought was ridiculous,
(05:04):
and he says he poked fun at Seth for that,
but after hearing Hayman describe the actual stakes, he started
to think that Seth was right. He says, Seth is
becoming the man he sacrificed himself to beat, and he
says that dismantling the vision has fallen on his shoulders
and he's okay with that. He says he doesn't blame
Seth because once you love w Dowey like Ceph does,
(05:24):
she'll do anything to predict it. But once you start
to think that you are the only one that can
carry all of it, that's the downfall, and it tips
the scales far away from where he started. Cody says
that he loves leading WWE, but he knows there's a
bunch of people who can and will stand up like
and he names Randy Roman, Rhea j even cm Punk.
(05:49):
He says he could also be talking about Seth and
the crowd boo loud. He says, maybe Seth could fill
the spot, but Cody is interrupted as the crowd start
is a wanker charm. Cody asked for clarification on what
they are saying, and he chucks the mic to Wade,
who says it out loud on the mic for all tier,
(06:10):
which was brilliant, and the crowd now chanting thank you Barrett.
Cody says he doubt says he's listening. He doubts he
ever listens, but he will aren't he does, ask him,
who am I to you? He says he is up
three nail to him and any night in any era,
he's the guy that Seth can't beat. I thought this
(06:38):
was a good opening segment actually, and the Aussie crowd
absolutely loving life and bringing loads to it. Really liked
the bit where Cody was free wheeling and interacting with
the crowd, and I like how they have Seth totally
taking the angle of very serious is the future of
w E and Cody being more like shoulder shrug, you
(07:01):
just can't beat me. It's nicely injured up out of
pretty much nothing. And I'm hoping, as I predicted, we
get a Cody winn leaving Seth in a vulnerable position
with the bronze and Hayman and then what that's quite interesting.
Next up, we've got some arrivals, and we've got priest
arriving for his match with Alistair Black later, which is
(07:22):
the Last Man's Standing match, and the profits with BFAB
have another title match against the Wyat six later. That's
match ninety two in the series, or at least it
feels like it is. We then go backstage where we've
got Stephanie Va Kerr who's approached by Chelsea, who wants
to congratulate on her title success. She of course makes
(07:43):
it all about her, says she knows how it feels
being champ and makes her an offer to join the
Secret hervis and starts bad mouthing Tiffy, who she calls
her takey time in a nice line. Tonight. Tiffy approaches
and off sculls Chelsea. Stephanie tells Tiffy she has her
back and those twof he has hers, but tomorrow may
the best woman win. So loving this Stephanie Stephanieve occur
(08:10):
being you know, on different brands, getting her face out there,
enjoying that. A bit worried about Chelsea. She doesn't seem
to have any direction at the moment. I know obviously,
what say obviously, Like as if I know anything, they
don't seem to know. How much longer that pipe and
(08:32):
Nvin is going to be out of action for and
if in fact she'll ever be fit enough to come back.
So I think they are maybe sort of treading water
a bit with that whole storyline, but I do wish
that Chelsea could get a decent storyline to get her
teeth into. We've then go to Austra first Engling action
(08:55):
of the night and it's Sammy in his open challenge
for the US title. Again. I don't know who this
will be, maybe an Aussie? Could it be Grayson Waller.
Before that match, we have got Cody backstage and he
runs into Fatou. He tells Cody once he's finished with Seth,
he's coming for the title. That's cool, Oh, I would
(09:15):
like to see that very much. Nick comes along and
tells him he needs to speak to him and should
pop by his office. Fatou is then attacked from behind
by the Scottish idiot who gives him a beatdown. It
takes Nick and some officials to pull him away, and
he says he wants to talk to Nick later. So
I'm thinking hopefully Fatoo versus Dru for a Number one
(09:35):
Contenders match to face Cody, Please God. Fatoo wins that,
but I would like to see it back to the
ring and we wait to see who Sammy faces. He's
currently five for five in terms of defenses, and he is,
to be fair to him, a true fighting champion, defending
every single week. And out comes the person and it's Shinske. Well,
(09:57):
it's been that long since we saw him. It took
me a minute to figure out his entrance music, so
this should be interesting. He seems to have changed back
to a less evil, weirdo version of himself. There's no
mask or spooky wooky face paint, which I'm pleased about. Seriously, though,
how many returns is this for Shinskey? I mean, he's
(10:21):
He's been in and out like a what's it? And
every time he comes back I get excited and think, yes,
this is awesome, and then within a couple of weeks
and I'm like, God, you're boring, So let's hope. Anyway,
this one kicks off with both guys tying up in
the middle of the ring and it's predictably awesome. As
the crowd chant welcome back. Cole mentions it has been
(10:44):
months since we last saw Shinske. Sammy just about clothesline
Shinsky's head off in it, but then he takes too
long getting out to the top rope, allowing Shinsky back
into the match, and we get a series of great
near pins as each guy hitting some epic looking moves.
Shinsky gets a super close cover as he hits the
(11:06):
conchasser and Sammy just reaches the rope with his legs.
He looks like he's just about to finish off Sammy
and take the titles. He hits a scissor kick off
the ropes, but he's pulled from the ring by our
favorite WW character, generic guy in hoodie, causing a deky
finish and Sammy to retain. But who is the guy
(11:26):
in the hoodie? It's Tamatonga. He's back, and all the
mft's appear in gen Simon's style face paint and go
all in on Sammy and Shinskey. What did I miss?
What are the mft's pissed with these two for? Or
is it just because they can The crowd are raging
(11:47):
that a brilliant match has been ruined by these goons,
and you can count me in on that as well.
And now Solo comes to ringside and does not receive
a warm welcome from the Aussie crowd. Segment ends with
the MFT Stroke Kiss Tribute band kneeling over Shinskate and
Sammy in the ring, while Solo stands in the middle
(12:07):
in a suit looking like the awkward cousin at the
family wedding. Honestly, though, where are we headed of this?
So the MFTs just show up and beat people down
because they can. Okay, I guess we'll see, but I'm
not instantly loving it. We are just going round around
again Bloodline version nineteen Yawn contraplate. You can do better
(12:31):
than just re hashing the whole Bloodline thing again. Please
backstage now, with Nick telling a ref he needs to
see Solo immediately, Drew approaches and Nick tells him next
week it's Drew and Fatoo one on one. Fatoo comes
in again and the brawl starts all over between these two.
(12:51):
So I guess we get the match, but it isn't
a number one contenders match yet. Maybe it will be.
I hope it gets there, or maybe Fatoo just knocks
off Drue and just becomes number one contender. That would
be dreamy. Next up, we have a tag match. It's Stephanie,
and as I said before, it's great to see her
on SmackDown. I like her a lot. She's with Tiffany
(13:12):
and they are versus Julia and Keana James, and this
is cool. I mean, it isn't believable, but let's not
pull at that thread. If we start pulling at that thread,
the whole of WWE and their storylines will slowly unravel.
But to be fair, I'm always complaining that the woman's
division is stale and I want to see new matchups
with new people. Well, here we go. I can't complain.
(13:33):
Let's see how the faces get on and what gets
set up for tomorrow's ple match. Stephanie kicks off with
Keana James, who has her handbag on the apron and
immediately tries to sucker in Vaker, but straight away La
Premira manages to get her imposition and hit the Devil's
Quick Kiss, which the Aussi crowd are completely loving. Stephanie
(14:00):
stays in the ring quite some time and Julia and
Kiana giving her the run around with some decent tag
team moves. Finally we get a tag to Tiffy Tiffy
tag to the light of the Aussy crowd. She gets
a close pin on Keana almost straight away. Now. I
don't know what's in the water in the women's division
at the moment, but the normally impeccable Tiffy misses a
(14:20):
dropkick by a country mile Jesus, come on, girls, you're
setting us back years now. Before you know it, we'll
be back to bras and panties matches and jello wrestling.
Julia manages to hit a Northern Lights bomb on Tiffy
force in baka to break the count from outside of
the ring. This one ends as Tiffy hits the prettiest
(14:42):
moon Salt gets the cover on Keana James. No shenanigans
in this one. Pretty clean. So we move on to
the match tomorrow with these two well preserved as faces,
and it'll be exciting to see what happens. Now it's
the current crown George Chump Live. Did we see that
in Saudi last year? I think we did. Wouldn't it
(15:05):
be cool if she came out tomorrow night and interfered
in some way being the current holder of the Crowndeel Championships. Again,
I'm probably reaching. I don't know how well she is,
but it would be wicked. Backstage now to Soul Ruka
with Bliss and Flair. Flair says last week they were
impressed by their performance, but do they realize that a
(15:29):
match with Bliss and Flair means stepping into her spotlight?
Bliss corrects her to our spotlight, and I am loving
how they are still selling this angle of Blair being
an egomaniac but not really seeing it and Bliss just
sort of patting her on the head and correcting her
along the way. Bliss says, stepping in the ring with
us will be a massive lesson, and she doesn't think
(15:51):
they're ready. They say, if you think we aren't ready,
step into the ring of us, improve it. They agree
to the match, so that should be a good one,
and I wonder and that is scheduled for and whether
it will be title or non tile straight into the
next match, Now we have Profits versus Wyat six again yawn.
(16:13):
This one kicks off Gasey in with both profits and
so far, so good for the profits. They sum to
be on the same page. Put in some good tag
team moves, but let's see how long that lasts. We
then get the obligatory double sueflex from the top, leading
to a cover which Nicki Cross breaks and then Niki
(16:33):
then takes out beefab ringside and the Profits are distracted
as Rowan approaches and Dawkins takes him's him out over
the top rope. This one finishes up quick as the
Wyat Six hit the plague and retain. Now, will we
get the end of the Profits? Please God? At the
very least, we get the end of this rivalry, which
(16:56):
is beyond dull. After the match, we get the mft's
appearing again and they face off with the wy At
Six in the ring, including Nicki but minus Uncle Howdy.
As the crowd tells Solo where to go again, Nicky
faces off to Solo and the MFTs leaves the ring.
Cole says Solo made his point, did it cold because
(17:18):
it looked like they bailed when teeny Tiny Nicky Cross
scared them off. Sigh. Now we get a reminder of
the aggravation between Mellow and Miss from last week, with
Miss face planting Mellow before he could take another shot
at Sammy's US title. We get Kathy backstage with Miss,
(17:43):
who asks him why he turned on Mello last week.
He says, let's turn that round and look at it
from the other way. He says he saw the potential
in him, and he offered to be his mentor. Mello
have the audacity to tell him that he was done
with him. Miss Reel's off accomplishments to Kathy and tells
it that he is in the spotlight, and he says
to Mellow Mellow, pardon me that he missed. He also says,
(18:07):
what kind of journalists die? You didn't even wish me
a happy birthday, to which Kafee looks a little bit embarrassed.
So I guess we're heading down the road for a
Mellow Miss feud, which I think is okay. I would
rather see that than them as a team. I think,
as I've said a thousand times before on this pod,
(18:29):
the Tag Division on SmackDown doesn't need a Mellow Miss team.
They have more than an US strength and depth. So
to see them feud, actually, yeah, that might be quite interesting.
Let's see MEZ put Mellow over. And now we go
to a pre recorded Alistair Black vignette. He tells Priest
(18:52):
it's time for him to take off his mask and
show him what hell looks like. He says he will
show the world how misguided and hollow he is. He
says he will be the profit of violence. Priesten says
that he is the consequences, and we get shown what
happened last week in the build up to tonight's Last
Man Standing match. Before that match, though, we get some
(19:15):
footage from earlier in the day of the kickoff show,
and we've got the vision on stage with Seth and
Hayman does his big introduction for Seth, and Seth just
turns around and walks off, which is weird. Cole says
that that's because of Cody being in Seth's head and
if he loses tomorrow, he knows he will lose it all.
(19:38):
Now this set up a little red flag in my head.
I think, now they're pushing this angle so hard, and
I'm wondering now if we will get Seth win or
maybe some shenanigans to cause a hokey finish. Personally, can't
see a Cody lost, But usually and in the past,
when wwe are pushing an angle this hard, doesn't go
the way they are pushing us in. So maybe there's
(20:01):
something more, But I don't know what. And I don't
want to say a Cody lost because I don't think
it will be a Cody lost. I think We're going
down Shenanigan's shirt. Nanigan's now tonight's main event, Last Man Standing,
Black versus Priest. Looking at the time staff on Netflix,
We've got just over twenty minutes left, so this won't
(20:22):
be the longest Last man Standing match ever. Before we
go into the match, what do you guys think of
the booking of Black since he's been back in WWE.
Me personally, I was excited to see him back in
the company. I liked him first time around, but he
was booked horribly and I hope that Trips would do
(20:42):
better with him, and I think he has he hasn't
had earth showering stories, more like slow burners like this one,
for example. This should be a great match, and it
should be a nice way to tie you up this rivalry.
Then what for each man? I don't want for a
priest options and I would like to see him fight
(21:03):
his way back to the top of the card, maybe
get another run on the tile. But Black, what's next?
Or who's next? Anyway to this match? And it starts
off with kender sticks and still steps being brandished around
right off the bat and the crowd immediately chanting for tables.
I surely think they mean the slim Gin tables. Early
(21:26):
on in the match, it's all Priest as he sets
up the steps in the middle of the ring, but
ends up getting his own face smashed into them. Priest
then tries South of Heaven, but Black somehow turns it
into a meteor onto the step, which looked cool. And
now we've got all the momentum with Black a bit
of a bochy mood, I think move, sorry not mood.
(21:48):
Bit of a bochy move outside the ring as Black
chucks Priest into the steps and Priest catches the back
of his head and neck, which looked a bit painful,
but Priest then puts Black through the announced desk. We
get a very very cool looking old school with Kendo
stick and that ends up with Damien getting a kick
(22:08):
in the face. As both men are down for account
of eight in the first quote unquote near four, Priest
hits a running raisor's edge into the announced desk, getting
a count of nine, barely getting up, and then hits
another raisor's head show the announced desk again again another
(22:29):
count of nine. They make their way through the crowd,
back and forth. They make their way to a set
up raised desk sort of mini stage area which randomly
had some like construction hats and start on it in
the middle of the crowd. Anyway, they make their way
from there to there rather and randomly, Zelina Vega appears
(22:53):
from literally nowhere and gets in between them. Priest goes
for South of Heaven, but Black gets a life or
something out and launches a viable onto his face, which
is unexpected. I haven't seen that for a long time
in WWE. After the fire ball, he delivers Black masks
and Priest stays down for the ten count and Black
(23:14):
takes the win. So for literally all the tea in China,
it looked as though Priest had that in the bag.
If you'd let me guess all day, I wouldn't have
called a Zelena Vega interference. They are real life married, right,
pretty sure they are? And is this a return to
(23:36):
Heill manager? Zelena? Was she manager for Ander Day for
a long time. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
That she was.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
If so, I am very here for that. Maybe that
changes things. So that's not a quote unquote clean win,
is it?
Speaker 1 (23:57):
So?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Do you think we get one more time? Maybe? I
cage for sure. I guess this is Priest written off
TV for a while, returning maybe next peer Le scard
Bird pissed off to Hell to rip Black apart. I
think Zelena as a manager for Black is a good call.
She's great on the mic, so she would be exactly
(24:20):
what Black needs to give him a bit of a
bump up the card. I actually really enjoyed this show.
I thought it was good and the early time is
just perfect. I'm going to start petitioning WWE to have
these times of a SmackDown. To me, it definitely suits me.
(24:42):
Looking forward to Crown Jewel and is anyone else surprised
that it doesn't look like we've got any Punk or
AJ involvement. Perhaps Punk features in the Seth Cody match.
It would serve Seth Wright if Punk did him dirty
after Seth cashed in on him after his fraudul injury
at Summer Slam. I'm still not over that. I'm still
(25:05):
hoping at some point that we get an AJ Becky
match for the title, and I would love to see
a live return. But I think all being all, I
think we are set for a decent Crown duel in
Perth tomorrow lunchtime, so looking forward to that. Before we
(25:27):
sign off, today a couple more things. First of all,
santrans Escobar looks like he's been released by WWE heard
somewhere I can't remember where, so I can't remember to
credit them this week. And Anderde obviously has left WWE
and gone back to AW for the one hundredth time.
(25:50):
I'm sure he'll be back in w W in the
next few years. He seems to just go back and
forth like a bouncy ball, So maybe this year we're
not going to get the huge releases all at once,
and seemed to be much more of a drip feed.
But that was two quite big ones that have happened
(26:12):
in the last couple of weeks, and then over on
RAW this week. Just wondering what you guys think of
the Bailey storyline and how it does seem to be
going down the road that we thought it would go down,
with her having a bit of a split personality, Lyra
spending most of her life completely confused as to what
(26:35):
the hell is going on with her? Is she gonna
hug her or smash her in the face? I think
that's cool. I wonder how long Lyrah Valkyria will hang
around for her nonsense before she she comes to the
end of her tether and then what next? What next
for Bailey? What other stories are they going to tell
(26:58):
over there on Raw? But here to talk about SmackDown.
So all in all, this week great show, much improved
as to where we were a few weeks ago, and
a really really great running for Crown Jaw. Now up
next in terms of p L, I think it's a
viv series, and obviously we've got Sena's last last appearance
(27:23):
on a Saturday night's main event, which I understand I
hear is going to be a bit of a tribute
show to Sina. Finally, Nia Jacks haven't seen anything of
her since the Almighty Botch, which I believe they've now
edited off the off of the Netflix version of SmackDown
that we watched a couple of weeks ago. Obviously we've
(27:45):
seen Tiffy, haven't seen Jade, but I imagine that she's
under concussion protocols after getting read bashed into the steps.
We saw the ref who I think was unfairly blamed
in some channel for the botch. So really, the only
bon we've seen Tiffy obviously, I think the only person
we haven't really seen is Naya so hoping that she
(28:08):
has been taken off TV for some time until she
finally sorts herself out, because you know, there's been a lot,
an awful lot of commentary around what happened. A lot
of people I'd heard saying it was the ref's fault,
but to be honest, I think the performers have got
to take the responsibility, and in this case it's Naya.
(28:30):
She didn't kick out. She should know the finish, she
should know where they are in the match. So personally,
my opinion is that that was another Naya botch, just
also what she did to Jade earlier on in the match,
basically throwing her into the steps, not giving her enough
chance to get her hands up. So I think maybe
(28:51):
it's telling that Nya is the only person that we
haven't seen back on TV, albeit Jade's clearly concussed since
the botch. So my hope is that WWE actually hopefully
finally may begin to take some action with Naya. And yeah, anyway, guys,
(29:12):
that just about does it for this week's show. My
voice is starting to get a bit rubbish again, so
I think I will sign off, thank you for having
me in your ears, and remember until next time, be kind.
Speaker 4 (29:26):
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