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Let's talk SmackDown. All right.Since SmackDown has been completely ignored thus far
on our podcast, I want tobe able to dive into this a little
bit further with SmackDown and of courseRaw, but SmackDown specifically. And you
know, the first thing that cameto my mind after coming off, well,
the first thing I was left withafter the showing off the air is
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man that India Show took some starsaway, you know, then India Show.
While it did produce some great contentfor India and future events there and
have a moment for John Cena andall that, it did take John Cena
away from SmackDown and it you know, for those of you in Boston,
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the Ted Garden, my God,that's not a small market to not have
John Cena there. You know,I'm sure a lot of the kids and
really everybody, not just the kidsanymore. We're disappointed. But he's coming
from India. I mean, it'sjust not possible, right, you know,
because that show was you know,that show aired Friday, and of
course the show was that same thereFriday. It was the same day,
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the day before, I believe itwas. So there's just no way he
could have got back in time.So that being said, uh, you
know that that's an unfortunate situation.But we did get a big promotion for
next week. Cody's back next weekon Raw, you know, with John
Cena is back on next week onSmackDown, and so you know, we're
also getting the Women's World Championship matchon Raw next week. John Cena is
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coming back to the Grayson Waller effecton SmackDown next week. So next week
seems to be kind of a returnto normal business here as as the stars
returned. But that was one impressionI came off of. The other one
is and this is not and wasnot the focus of the show. Let's
let's be honest, okay, Butit was something that was a foreshadowing to
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not Survivor series, but probably waybeyond is the interaction between Paul Hayman and
l A. Night, the firsttime on camera that they were introduced to
one another. Their characters were.I really enjoyed it, you know,
Paul Hayman acting like the nice guy, acting like the courteous, the courteous
gentleman in the room and then turningit to say, you know, we'll
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do yourself a favor the next timeyou see me conducting business and you know
I'm in here. He says,knock, like telling him what to do,
and La Knight just gets in hisface and says yeah and walks away.
I think he could have you know, it's fine. I wish he
kind of snapped back at Paul alittle bit more and wasn't so welcoming to
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shake his hand, But that's nitpicking. I thought the segment was a nice
teaser of what's to come and thenext maybe six months. It's not gonna
happen right away. It's not goingto be something that is snap your fingers.
Oh, they're alluding to it.It's a robbertster, no fast lane,
no okay, but it's nice tosee right now La Knight is locked
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up with them, is and lA Night is I think in a nice
program with them. Is that I'mglad is also going to be ending next
week. They're not waiting for fastLane for that, And that makes sense.
You know, he kind of alreadyjumped that hurdle, so he's gonna
jump it again on free TV andhe should and then move on to his
next real opponent. Now, theother thing is, and we'll get to
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the whole Austin theory and Grayson Waller'ssegment with La Knight, but who is
the one who's being traded from Roda SmackDown? You know? Like that
is also the speculation running around issince Jay was drafted inexplicably with Cody helping,
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makes no sense. Uh, theyjust wanted to give Cody the good
feelings that fans have of seeing Janeassociate it with, Oh thank you,
Cody. It's ridiculous. But he'sthere, so regardless of what the story
tells us, he's there for he'sthere. And you know, when I
look at the raw roster, whichI'm pulling up right now, clicking through,
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you know, I'm trying to thinkof who would be an equivalent Jay
Usso to Raw back to SmackDown trade? Who is that equivalent? And I
mean I gotta run through some nameshere of who you guys think could it
could be? Right now, Ithink Bronze Strowman could be a you know,
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in some in some schools of thought, an equivalent trade to SmackDown.
Bron Stroman could definitely come to SmackDown, you know he if he's I believes
he might be injured, so he'sa possibility. So think about bron Stroman.
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We've got Matt Riddle, no,Kevin Owens and Sammy's and I think
are gonna for the time being stayas a team. I think that's kind
of it. Ricochet, I guesscould but that's it. So you've got
Ricochet, Sammy or Kevin again unlikelyand bron Stroman really are it? Or?
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I mean, you could have Drew, but I think he needs to
be competing for the world titles,so I don't. I wouldn't touch Drew
McIntyre and bring him to SmackDown.He's got a nice home on Raw.
Albeit with Riddle, it's still anice move. So that's really it.
So I think bron Stroman your guyif he's healthy. So that's my thought,
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but let's dive into it. Let'sdive into a little bit more of
SmackDown. And it started with apayback promo or recap video, which is
nice. I like them showing youknow what happened to remind us as our
week erases our minds. It hasthat habit doesn't it. But it started
with a tag team match of SHOTSIand Charlotte versus EO and Bailey. And
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this match went nine minutes and itwas caused by okay, well Shotzi and
and Charlotte did win. But thisis weird because this is the finish of
the match. Bailey climbed the toprope and Oscar caused the descraption. Descraption
maybe that's a new word, bygrabbing the title from Dakota Kai from the
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timekeepers area. Charlotte then knocked EOfrom the apron with a big boot and
Shots he put Bailey down with aDDT for the win. Number one.
I like ddts being finishes. That'snice to see being brought back. Number
two, Why are we being distractedby things outside the ring as professionals?
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It's one of those things. Ijust and This is not specific to this
match. It's just kind of it'sbeen much more even than than normal lately.
It's been a company wide, prowrestling wide decade problem. I mean,
this is not a problem that isa very localized by any stretch.
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It's one that's you know, it'sfrustrating from this perspective that we're watching professionals
in the ring who get distracted,knowing that if you get distracted, you
could lose the match, and theperson outside the ring can't come in the
ring, and if they do,the disqualification will likely be in your favor
and you win. It's just aweird dynamic were that the heels and baby
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faces in matches are still being distractedby what's outside the ring. I know,
I guess I'm in the mood tocomplain, but it's not the only
match that happened on tonight, however, Shotzi or rather, after the match,
Osca confronted EO and held up thetitle in her face. And after
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the match we saw Osca actually usewords, hey, she knows the English
language. Who the hell knew?And you know, her accent is very
heavy. We know this, We'veknown for a long time. Or her
accents heavy. But you know whatthe fans haven't known for a long time,
most of us that just to watchher on WWTV, not her Instagram
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or anywhere else, is that sheknows more words than just nobody's ready for
OSCA, which, by the way, needs to be retired. Can she
come up with something else? Shehas lost a lot of matches, so
to say that no one's ready forOSCA is it's like saying I'm undefeated.
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No, no, no, you'renot. You've lost. You know what
I'm gonna do. I'm going tothrough the magic of editing. I'm gonna
pause this. You guys won't evenknow I'm pausing it, and I'm gonna
come back and give you the winloss record in total for OSCA. Well,
actually here, I'm back. Youdidn't even know that I cut it,
that said OSCA. This is justtwenty twenty three. Okay, She's
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had forty three matches, of whichshe's she's twenty seven and fourteen. She's
lost fourteen matches two draws, andshe has a sixty three percent winning percentage.
So that's uh. She has,by the way, the most losses
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in twenty twenty three. I believeout of any woman on the roster.
And that's in twenty twenty three,just twenty twenty three. So let's let's
retire there. Nobody's ready for Oscar, bit can we? Anyway? I
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am excited for Oscar and io Sky. That is a match that many of
us have kind of been after fora while, and given their heritage,
their lineage, right, you've beenlike, I wonder how this is gonna
go. I'm excited for it froman in ringing perspective. And you know
what, even promotion promo, Ithink they can. I think what they've
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done with the Shinsky Nakamura and thesuccess that that we have found and seen
from Shinsky doing the backstage pre tapedpromos that are subtitled but also perfectly produced,
I think he has shattered the moldfinally of what they do with stars
that can't speak English or have aninsanely heavy accent that they don't want to
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be don't want that person with alive mic to be able to try to
communicate with the cow to crowd andcut a promo because they feel like it
could be an impending disaster. Andwe've seen with Shinsky that that's a that's
a false, a false predetermined outcome, because not that Osca needs to do
that exact format, but it's shownthat people listen. I understand exactly what
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she said, you know, soI'm all for OSCA and EO Sky.
Now, EO Sky doesn't need alittle work. Okay, let's be honest.
When I say work, I meancredibility as a champion. EO Sky
is not exactly a scary champion.She doesn't have the swagger of a champion.
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She's not a joke of a champion. That's not That's not where I'm
taking this. She just feels likeit feels like wwe used the title to
try to make her instead of hertrying to make the belt. And it
all comes down to the follow uptoo. They haven't done a lot with
her. In fact, since shebecame champion, the focus has been taken
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off of her, which is tosay the least disappointing and sure having the
spotlight being put back on Bailey fora little bit, seeing her in the
ring with Charlotte, it's a nicechange other than her just being a mouthpiece.
Great, but it's almost as ifEO has been the third wheel in
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other stories going on and she's thechampion, so it's just a bit disappointing
thus far, and maybe things willturn around for her, at least from
the creative perspective, in the weeksand months ahead if she remains champion.
All right, Moving on what happenednext here? We then got Hayman backstage
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with aj Styles. That's when thewhole deal with Paul Hayman, by the
way, continuing to use his earpieceto call Roman Reigns, Call Roman Reigns,
Paul, for the love of God, if you're gonna if you're going
to create the illusion of fake phonecalls in twenty twenty three, when everyone
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in the world knows how to operatean iPhone, at least make it look
like you're calling Roman Reigns properly,Hey, number one, number one.
Not only is he speaking into hisearpiece instead of the bottom of the phone,
which I understand doesn't look as good, but at least it's accurate.
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You also can't just say to yourphone call unless he's holding down to button
that act debates Siri on the iPhone. You don't just like I couldn't pick
up my phone right now and saycall my dad. You have to say
hey, Siri, and then youknow that's what you and I just activated
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my phone, of course, whichis sitting right next to me. But
that's how you do it. Youhave to say the magic words, the
magic two words. And he doesn'tdo They just call Roman Reigns. Okay.
The thing is it's small and insignificantto a lot of you. I'm
like, who cares? But ithappens every single time we see Paul heyman,
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he's constantly saying to his phone tocall Roman. If you're gonna do
it, and do it that manytimes, for the love of God,
just do it accurately, Sell mea little bit, make me believe.
I think it's it's total ignorance.He doesn't. I mean, they're just
unaware that they're not even properly creatinga fake phone call. Oh my god,
it's too much. Jimmy attacks setor seth. Jimmy attacked a backstage
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and moving on. That's set upthe match between Jimmy and AJ for later
in the night. Then we gotnight coming out addresses in his performance with
the Invisible John Sena on Raw playingdress up the next week or the whatever
it was, and that he didn'tneed Sena's helper endorsement. He was respected
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what he accomplished at the end,but at the end of the day he
did count the three and Knight toldMiss that he will force him to accept
the bitter pill of defeat. Andthat's when Grayson Waller interrupted, and Waller
rambled about absolutely nothing and then broughtout Austin Theory, and then Theory came
out and told Miss he had alreadydefeated Sena and Knights and that he was
when he was done with the Missdone with him. Miss wouldn't waste his
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time. Night responded and asked Wallerin Theory if they were done boring everybody
in that that would show those incells how to do this. He then
spoke about the TV Garden being legendsway and he would kick theories. Twenty
six year old Keister with everybody's sayin l A and I I don't dislike
Austin, Theory and Waller together,In fact, they kind of need one
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another. And you know, I'mI'm behind l A and I. I
love this movement right now. He'sa star that appeals to more than just
a specific demo, which is whyI think he's also so successful right now.
Not only because he's talented on themicrophone, talented in the ring,
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he's got a great look. He'syou know, he is older than the
typical up and coming star, nodoubt by about fifteen years. But that's
kind of what makes him appealing isthat he's he feels like kind of a
mature star that's been here all alongand which trying to get the most out
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of him right now. We seea star right now, and it's just
he isn't just mister chain Gang appealingto, you know, the pre pubescent
kids that was super annoying as anattitude era fan with John Cena. Yeah,
he appeals to a wide range ofpeople. I think that's one of
the very positive things about him.And the only critique I could make is
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that he some of these elementary insults. Even Waller kind of said that on
the commentary side of things, hedoes kind of make up names for people
that instead of insulting them specifically,he makes general insults where he just you
know, he could say anything aboutor he could call anybody those names,
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and it's instead of hem just likedude, can you like hit him where
it hurts, you know, bringup to Grayson Waller, the fact that
he hasn't want to match since he'sin here, right, or since if
Austin Theory wants to talk about JohnCena and WrestleMania, I would say,
hey, hey, Theory, where'syour career gone since WrestleMania? If that
wind was so big for you,what happened to your career? What happened
to your title? I mean,maybe that's a little bit too fourth wall
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breaking, and Wwe would perhaps geta little bit you know, peed off
by that, but that would getthe crowd going. You know that to
me would hit him where it hurts. I'm like, if you want to
hit the low hanging fruit, it'sright there, bro, And instead the
lad goes for some it is it'slike grade school names for these guys,
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like the crotch Chopper or the crotchsomething, crotch goblins or something like funny
if you use it every once ina while, or in addition to your
main insult about their careers. Sothat's the only critique I have about it
is, you know, hit themwith real stuff. Don't give them general
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you know mom jokes, like youknow your mom is so fat, she
sits around the house. She sitsaround the house like that kind of crap
stuff you heard in you know,eighth grade on your bus ride home from
school, that kind of stuff Iwould I would minimize. You can do
it every once in a while.The rock, you know, the rock
is called people popcorn farts, youknow, and you know, uh,
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some really funny names. But that'sjust kind of the you know, the
side show. That's not the meatand potatoes of what he should be focusing
on. That's all. It's notreally a complaint, is it is an
opportunity I see for him that he'smissing. All right, We did get
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Austin Knight. Austin Knight. Wow, that's a new name. Huh.
Maybe it's just he's with p Jmcdonaldhs somewhere right La Night in Austin Theory.
Nice match here. Nine minutes seemsto be kind of the magic number
of the night here. And hewas in control, a Night was in
control when the commercial break ended,and then the action spilled outside the ring
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where Theory land. Theory landed asnapsuplex and Waller jumped up on the apron
and pulled the turnbuckle will pad offand Night landed a power slam back in
the ring and that fired up thecrowd. He landed an elbow drop with
the La Night. Yeah, Wallergot to the apron and that offered a
distraction and it backfired his theory.Nearly got shoved into the exposed turnbuckle and
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he walked right into a bft fromNight. He got the cover and the
victory nine minutes. You know.After that, Waller tried to sneak attack,
but it was foiled and Night celebratedwith the crowd, and yeah,
so that's it was fine Night continuingto get victories, racking them up,
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working with different talent. It's asmart move here by Triple H. I
know, remember all the way backand what was it May whoever it was
when we all wanted La Night towin the money in the bank. Oh
my god, you're gonna win.He's gonna win. He's gonna win.
Aren't all of us kind of happy? He didn't though, I know that
we don't know the end game yet, but if I'm w w WE number
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one, they took the smart wayon this. They didn't do a knee
jerk reaction. They said, youknow what, if this yeam movement is
real, if this support for LaNight is real. The fans are gonna
stick with him, and we're goingto test the fans and push the fans
and anger the fans and do theystick with him or do they push him
aside? So they tested the fansand so far I think the fans have
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passed in a big way. Andnow they are setting up La Night for
a traditional bottom up move and itmakes a trajectory and I like that you're
getting to see him work with othertalent that he hasn't worked before instead of
going to the top cashing in andhe's chance mpion. It's much better of
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a story to tell if he doesthings in a more traditional way. I'm
not saying everything needs to be thesame, but so far it's been.
It's been great, I think.So let's see now then we got where
we at here Finn Beller and DamianPriest versus Butch and Ridge Holland. So
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I like the fact that they alludedto the judgment day being able to be
or rather see I gotta clarify thewhole fact that if you're an undisputed champion,
you can be on either show withspecifically with the tag titles. Makes
total sense. I still don't understandwhy they're two physical belts for one championship,
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but I'm not the one carrying themevery day, so that makes sense
for Finn and Damien. What explainto me? Why why why Dom is
there again? Though? Please?Why is Dom there again? I don't
I don't understand that. So Iguess you know, we're supposed to brush
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that part off that the brand splitdoesn't or only applies to those that are
undisputed champion. But if you're associatedwith the group, suddenly by extension,
you're also included in being able tocome over. This is where again,
if a draft actually was enforced,Dom would not be there. So,
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however, butch and Ridge coming outhere, Boy did they get a kind
of deflating reaction after a ton ofheat for a dominic which they were trying
to set the table for butcher Ridgehere. I mean, they did everything
they could to elicit a heat reactionfrom the crowd and TD and they they
succeeded. But when a baby facecame out to interrupt it's they went,
(29:56):
oh hm, butch and Ridge hog. You know, I'm sure some people
are going huh. It was akind of very lukewarm reaction for Butch and
Ridge. No booze, just airlet out of the building of that all
all that heat was built up forthese two. However, this I thought
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the match was good. And youknow what, hearing Ridge on the mic
is actually a nice thing once ina while. He's usually the silent type,
kind of like Dakota Kai in DamageControl, doesn't say anything. So
this match ended with Damien and Finnbeating Ridge and Butch as they should and
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then we got a big surprise afterthis match. But we're gonna take a
quick break for the sponsor of today'sepisode, and we'll come back with more
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about what happened after the match.Who confronted Finnan Damian, Well, that
would be this yet to be namedgroup of Bobby Lashley and the Street Prophets
walking down to the ring, andhe got in the face of Priest and
said that while he's right that theBloodline is crumbling, it won't be Judgment
Day taking over. It will bethem. So a lot of shots being
(32:55):
thrown around to the Bloodline from JudgmentDay, but also this I'll just call
them Street the herpe As a twopoint zero, which that's not the official
name's name. I'm just giving themto shorten it is. They'll they are
(33:16):
shooting shots at the Judgment Day,but the Judgment Day are shooting shots presumably
at the bloodline that's crumbling. However, I think what they're doing here is
potentially setting up a Survivor Series WarGames match in about a month and a
half or two months time here,and that match could be could be a
(33:45):
Bloodline and Judgment Day alliance versus BobbyLashley, the Street Prophets, Kevin and
Sammy and another opponent or another anotherally so maybe Seth, perhaps Seth it's
the thought Seth and Roman in thematch. I keep harping on that for
(34:05):
the last two years, but that'smy thought, guys, is that is
that that's probably what they're doing here, especially with Bobby and the street profits
that have been established firmly into thebaby Face roll. It's good to see
them in that role. The crowdgave them a much warmer, although not
explosive response coming out to confront thejudgment TA. That was nice. But
(34:31):
the match here, by the way, the match was solid. Again.
I know I say that a lot, but I only give you the ending
of the match because that's what mostpeople want to know what happened. But
unless there's something interesting to happen inthe middle of the match, I'm not
going to dive into the nitty grittyof it. I'll leave other podcasts to
do that. I also don't wantto sound like I'm discounting what they do
(34:53):
in the ring. I just Idon't want to have this podcast be four
hours. So okay, then wegot aj Styles and Jimmy Uso. This
match was a longer one fifteen minutesand forty three seconds. This one also
(35:14):
also it was the third one ofthe night ended in a distraction by silently
getting attention from Styles. Jimmy thenknocks Styles off the turnbuckle and choked him
on the ropes. Styles rolled tothe floor and Solo refused to attack him
and turned his back. AJ kicksSolo in the back of the head.
He then shoved Jimmy into the ringpost He and then landed a phenomenal forearm
(35:36):
to get the victory. After thematch, AJ tried to get out of
there to avoid Solo, but wasattacked by Damien and Finn, who dumped
him back into the ring so Solocould land a Simone spike. Solo starred
or stared down a smiling priest inbalord to close the show. You I
was waiting for, Like Cody Rhodes, mister mister has his hands and everything
(35:57):
to come out and make the safe. He'll probably be be in that War
Games match to face off against Romanand tease part two for WrestleMania if the
rocks not there right so you know, mister bleach Blonde will will be in
you know, three different programs makingsure that all the heels aren't out numbering
the good guys and doing weird politicaldeals and things he shouldn't even have his
(36:19):
hands into. But nonetheless, thiswas interesting that Damien and Finn, while
they were taking shots at the JudgmentDays, you know, earlier and in
prior weeks, they appeared to helpout the blood line here what's left of
the blood line. They appeared tohelp them out and rolling Aj back into
(36:44):
the ring, giving them, youknow, allowing Solo to hit the Smoe
spike and so forth. But thisis I mean, there's no way that
the blood Line and Judgment Day aregoing to go at it unless they're trying
to turn a whole group heel ora baby face. It doesn't make any
sense to me. They might teaseintention if it's fun to think about,
but I don't think anybody really wantsto see at this juncture Judgment Day versus
(37:07):
Bloodline, especially Bloodline in its weakenedstate. No Roman, I mean I
haven't. We haven't seen Roman,and I feel like two months, you
know, And I know presumably hewas injured after his previous match with Jay,
but luckily his schedule, with howoften he's out, it's already built.
He's built an injury recovery schedule withouteven realizing he's built an injury recovery
(37:31):
schedule. That's how often he's off. But you know, I just don't
think we're going to get a JudgmentDay Bloodline program. He'll heal. It
doesn't make a ton of sense,not yet, unless they're trying to turn
people baby face. So this isgoing to be a again, a set
(37:55):
up for a temporary alliance between JudgmentDay and Bloodline. That's my thought,
all right. Quickly over to Rawas we remember what happened many moons ago
on Raw, which always feels likea jillion years ago, And I'll give
you the cliff Knowltes version. Andthe matches anyway are Drew and Matt Riddle
(38:20):
versus the Viking Raiders, Eric Ivarand in a Tornado tag team match.
This one was Kingston accidentally hitting Riddleand it allowed Eric to cover Riddle to
get three count. Tension is risingbetween New Day and Riddle and True many
(38:42):
people believing that this could lead toa Drew Heel turn. I don't.
I hope, so I don't careif it's a New Day that does it.
I don't care how it's happening orhow it happens. Drew needs to
turn heel. He just does.But you know, we'll see a lot
of promotion throughout the show of theIntercontinental Champions of the Past. Perfect loved
(39:05):
it added much more value to thebelt or I mean, I don't know
how I can add much more,but it continued to remind you of what
Gunther's going to do here later inthe show, and Nakamura rejecting Seth trying
to give him a title match wasweird. I know one of the listeners
brought that up. I'm glad theydid. And then the mailbag segment of
(39:25):
the podcast this week, it wasweird that you have to shove a title
match down someone's throat. How doesthat work? That was weird. But
I still enjoy Shinskay and Seth,and I'm looking forward to their matchup that's
yet unannounced at fast Lane. Buthe did face off Shinsky, that is,
(39:45):
against Ricochet, and Shinsky did loseor win. I'm sorry Ricochet did
beat Knakamura by DQ in nine minutesand thirty five seconds, but it's because
we had Nakamura slamming a chair overthe back of Ricochet and just wanting to
(40:06):
hurt him. We then had Shinskitried to use the chair to break the
neck of Ricochet. Loved that.Actually what else? What else? JD
McDonough came out during the promo withJudgment Day and gave priests the news send
(40:27):
your money in the bank briefcase.I've told you my theory on that.
And let's see Piper oh oh.I didn't mention this on wrong, but
Pierce did mention that Piper Niven wasnot medically cleared. So Piper Niven do
drop to those of you that remember, is not medically cleared yet, but
(40:50):
she's still She's still active, butdoes have an injury, I guess.
And we did get Shana basilorn ZoeStark though. On the women's side of
things, Shandy Basler beat Zoe Starkat eight minutes in fifty seconds and then
they fist bumped after that, soso she adn't it beat Zoe, but
(41:12):
then they fist bumped, so theyare likely going to be partners. Sure.
Chelsea Green and versus Roquel Rodriguez.This was a crazy fast match.
Roquelle did beat Chelsea in a minuteforty seconds and then announced that she would
be facing Ripley for the championship nextweek, which is by the time you're
(41:36):
listening to this either tonight or tomorrownight, depending on when you're listening,
or it could have already happened.We did get Let's see the miss talking
about La Night again and a promoand the empty chair and the whole invisible
John Cena deal. The next matchwas Sammy Zane versus j D McDonough,
with JD defeating Sammy eight minutes andthen Zane attack Dom after the match.
(42:00):
Zane in this was hell bent ongetting a helluvah kick on someone, and
it eventually ended up being on jD McDonogh because Zane is trying to get
Dom, but Dom keats sliding away, So all right. Gunther versus Chad
(42:22):
Gable Icy title fifteen minutes and fiftyseconds. Gunther beat Gable another really good
match here, no issues and theshot of his children, gables children or
daughter crying was just gold. Ithink it was. I think it was
authentic by her daughter, his daughter, and Gunther is now officially the longest
(42:45):
reigning intercontinental champion of all time.Hell of an accomplishment. Great job by
WWW promoting this. The matches thatwere the series of match is that Gable
and Gunther had should be commended andapplauded. I hope for Gable's sake coming
(43:06):
out of this that it's not he'snot you know, one and done here
or three and done in this case. I hope he continues to build on
the support, on the respect thatthe fans have for him, and he
doesn't go back to being this ridiculousside kick or rather kind of side comedy
piece that w W often views himas. And I just hope it leads
(43:30):
to bigger and better things for Gablebecause we know he's capable of them.
The shoosh thing is cute, youknow, a thank you all. That
those are kind of offshoots of adifferent time in his career than as successful
as they are. I hope ifthey decide to ever put any kind of
(43:52):
support rocket behind him, that theyactually, you know, they evolve from
that, because you can't have characterthat has evolved into this wrestling machine in
the ring that we've seen the lastmonth, but also doing the you know,
all the shoe stuff. And it'snot it's not that it'll kill his
(44:12):
career. I think it's just stiflingin a bit because those are two different
eras of his career. That's all. It's not a it's not an absolute
must. I just think eventually thosebranches are going to stop producing fruit,
and I think it's close and heneeds to evolve into something else that the
fans can take more serious. IfWWE is going to take him more seriously,
(44:35):
if he's if they're not, thensure, you know, him promoting
those catchphrases are printing money for himbecause they put him on T shirts and
people buy them. So there isthat. I understand that too, there's
the money aspect of it. Butwell, I'm sure that any of you
out there are looking forward to thisweekend wrestling as we have a lot of
big returns, we have a lotof you know, interesting segments. We're
(45:00):
getting closer to fast Lane, whichis on what is in October seventh,
So it doesn't feel like along.It doesn't feel close, does it.
It's still about a month away andit'll go fast, it will, I
promise always. Does you know,you're oh my god, four weeks you
turn around, it's next week everytime, so have no fear time will
(45:22):
pass you by. So that isit for me tonight, guys. It
feels it feels good to be backagain, and for some reason this past
few days have felt like a weekor two. It feels like I've abandoned
you and now I'm back Daddy's home, guys, Daddy's home. So all
(45:43):
right, thanks are getting creepy.I'm gonna end it here. It is
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it's not a it's just I guessit's a slide in pro wrestling, but
a slide that leads us into WrestleManiaseason. I know it sounds crazy to
already be talking about, but therewere a lot of hints this past week
on SmackDown specifically that really alluded toa Survivory Series matchup in war Games.
(04:01):
And we'll talk about that, youknow, as we get deeper into the
show. But I don't think it'stoo early to start talking about it.
Okay, it's certainly not, andI want you guys to think about it,
because maybe this was a bit ofa precursor foreshadowing to Survivor Series.
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(06:13):
Let's talk SmackDown. All right.Since SmackDown has been completely ignored thus far
on our podcast, I want tobe able to dive into this a little
bit further with SmackDown and of courseRaw, but SmackDown specifically. And you
know, the first thing that cameto my mind after coming off, well,
the first thing I was left withafter the showing off the air is
(06:33):
man that India Show took some starsaway, you know, then India Show.
While it did produce some great contentfor India and future events there and
have a moment for John Cena andall that, it did take John Cena
away from SmackDown and it you know, for those of you in Boston,
(06:58):
the Ted Garden, my God,that's not a small market to not have
John Cena there. You know,I'm sure a lot of the kids and
really everybody, not just the kidsanymore. We're disappointed. But he's coming
from India. I mean, it'sjust not possible, right, you know,
because that show was you know,that show aired Friday, and of
course the show was that same thereFriday. It was the same day,
(07:24):
the day before, I believe itwas. So there's just no way he
could have got back in time.So that being said, uh, you
know that that's an unfortunate situation.But we did get a big promotion for
next week. Cody's back next weekon Raw, you know, with John
Cena is back on next week onSmackDown, and so you know, we're
also getting the Women's World Championship matchon Raw next week. John Cena is
(07:48):
coming back to the Grayson Waller effecton SmackDown next week. So next week
seems to be kind of a returnto normal business here as as the stars
returned. But that was one impressionI came off of. The other one
is and this is not and wasnot the focus of the show. Let's
let's be honest, okay, Butit was something that was a foreshadowing to
(08:11):
not Survivor series, but probably waybeyond is the interaction between Paul Hayman and
l A. Night, the firsttime on camera that they were introduced to
one another. Their characters were.I really enjoyed it, you know,
Paul Hayman acting like the nice guy, acting like the courteous, the courteous
gentleman in the room and then turningit to say, you know, we'll
(08:37):
do yourself a favor the next timeyou see me conducting business and you know
I'm in here. He says,knock, like telling him what to do,
and La Knight just gets in hisface and says yeah and walks away.
I think he could have you know, it's fine. I wish he
kind of snapped back at Paul alittle bit more and wasn't so welcoming to
(09:01):
shake his hand, But that's nitpicking. I thought the segment was a nice
teaser of what's to come and thenext maybe six months. It's not gonna
happen right away. It's not goingto be something that is snap your fingers.
Oh, they're alluding to it.It's a robbertster, no fast lane,
no okay, but it's nice tosee right now La Knight is locked
(09:24):
up with them, is and lA Night is I think in a nice
program with them. Is that I'mglad is also going to be ending next
week. They're not waiting for fastLane for that, And that makes sense.
You know, he kind of alreadyjumped that hurdle, so he's gonna
jump it again on free TV andhe should and then move on to his
next real opponent. Now, theother thing is, and we'll get to
(09:46):
the whole Austin theory and Grayson Waller'ssegment with La Knight, but who is
the one who's being traded from Roda SmackDown? You know? Like that
is also the speculation running around issince Jay was drafted inexplicably with Cody helping,
(10:09):
makes no sense. Uh, theyjust wanted to give Cody the good
feelings that fans have of seeing Janeassociate it with, Oh thank you,
Cody. It's ridiculous. But he'sthere, so regardless of what the story
tells us, he's there for he'sthere. And you know, when I
look at the raw roster, whichI'm pulling up right now, clicking through,
(10:31):
you know, I'm trying to thinkof who would be an equivalent Jay
Usso to Raw back to SmackDown trade? Who is that equivalent? And I
mean I gotta run through some nameshere of who you guys think could it
could be? Right now, Ithink Bronze Strowman could be a you know,
(10:56):
in some in some schools of thought, an equivalent trade to SmackDown.
Bron Stroman could definitely come to SmackDown, you know he if he's I believes
he might be injured, so he'sa possibility. So think about bron Stroman.
(11:18):
We've got Matt Riddle, no,Kevin Owens and Sammy's and I think
are gonna for the time being stayas a team. I think that's kind
of it. Ricochet, I guesscould but that's it. So you've got
Ricochet, Sammy or Kevin again unlikelyand bron Stroman really are it? Or?
(11:41):
I mean, you could have Drew, but I think he needs to
be competing for the world titles,so I don't. I wouldn't touch Drew
McIntyre and bring him to SmackDown.He's got a nice home on Raw.
Albeit with Riddle, it's still anice move. So that's really it.
So I think bron Stroman your guyif he's healthy. So that's my thought,
(12:05):
but let's dive into it. Let'sdive into a little bit more of
SmackDown. And it started with apayback promo or recap video, which is
nice. I like them showing youknow what happened to remind us as our
week erases our minds. It hasthat habit doesn't it. But it started
with a tag team match of SHOTSIand Charlotte versus EO and Bailey. And
(12:30):
this match went nine minutes and itwas caused by okay, well Shotzi and
and Charlotte did win. But thisis weird because this is the finish of
the match. Bailey climbed the toprope and Oscar caused the descraption. Descraption
maybe that's a new word, bygrabbing the title from Dakota Kai from the
(12:52):
timekeepers area. Charlotte then knocked EOfrom the apron with a big boot and
Shots he put Bailey down with aDDT for the win. Number one.
I like ddts being finishes. That'snice to see being brought back. Number
two, Why are we being distractedby things outside the ring as professionals?
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It's one of those things. Ijust and This is not specific to this
match. It's just kind of it'sbeen much more even than than normal lately.
It's been a company wide, prowrestling wide decade problem. I mean,
this is not a problem that isa very localized by any stretch.
(13:37):
It's one that's you know, it'sfrustrating from this perspective that we're watching professionals
in the ring who get distracted,knowing that if you get distracted, you
could lose the match, and theperson outside the ring can't come in the
ring, and if they do,the disqualification will likely be in your favor
and you win. It's just aweird dynamic were that the heels and baby
(14:01):
faces in matches are still being distractedby what's outside the ring. I know,
I guess I'm in the mood tocomplain, but it's not the only
match that happened on tonight, however, Shotzi or rather, after the match,
Osca confronted EO and held up thetitle in her face. And after
(14:22):
the match we saw Osca actually usewords, hey, she knows the English
language. Who the hell knew?And you know, her accent is very
heavy. We know this, We'veknown for a long time. Or her
accents heavy. But you know whatthe fans haven't known for a long time,
most of us that just to watchher on WWTV, not her Instagram
(14:46):
or anywhere else, is that sheknows more words than just nobody's ready for
OSCA, which, by the way, needs to be retired. Can she
come up with something else? Shehas lost a lot of matches, so
to say that no one's ready forOSCA is it's like saying I'm undefeated.
(15:09):
No, no, no, you'renot. You've lost. You know what
I'm gonna do. I'm going tothrough the magic of editing. I'm gonna
pause this. You guys won't evenknow I'm pausing it, and I'm gonna
come back and give you the winloss record in total for OSCA. Well,
actually here, I'm back. Youdidn't even know that I cut it,
that said OSCA. This is justtwenty twenty three. Okay, She's
(15:33):
had forty three matches, of whichshe's she's twenty seven and fourteen. She's
lost fourteen matches two draws, andshe has a sixty three percent winning percentage.
So that's uh. She has,by the way, the most losses
(15:58):
in twenty twenty three. I believeout of any woman on the roster.
And that's in twenty twenty three,just twenty twenty three. So let's let's
retire there. Nobody's ready for Oscar, bit can we? Anyway? I
(16:18):
am excited for Oscar and io Sky. That is a match that many of
us have kind of been after fora while, and given their heritage,
their lineage, right, you've beenlike, I wonder how this is gonna
go. I'm excited for it froman in ringing perspective. And you know
what, even promotion promo, Ithink they can. I think what they've
(16:40):
done with the Shinsky Nakamura and thesuccess that that we have found and seen
from Shinsky doing the backstage pre tapedpromos that are subtitled but also perfectly produced,
I think he has shattered the moldfinally of what they do with stars
that can't speak English or have aninsanely heavy accent that they don't want to
(17:06):
be don't want that person with alive mic to be able to try to
communicate with the cow to crowd andcut a promo because they feel like it
could be an impending disaster. Andwe've seen with Shinsky that that's a that's
a false, a false predetermined outcome, because not that Osca needs to do
that exact format, but it's shownthat people listen. I understand exactly what
(17:29):
she said, you know, soI'm all for OSCA and EO Sky.
Now, EO Sky doesn't need alittle work. Okay, let's be honest.
When I say work, I meancredibility as a champion. EO Sky
is not exactly a scary champion.She doesn't have the swagger of a champion.
(17:56):
She's not a joke of a champion. That's not That's not where I'm
taking this. She just feels likeit feels like wwe used the title to
try to make her instead of hertrying to make the belt. And it
all comes down to the follow uptoo. They haven't done a lot with
her. In fact, since shebecame champion, the focus has been taken
(18:18):
off of her, which is tosay the least disappointing and sure having the
spotlight being put back on Bailey fora little bit, seeing her in the
ring with Charlotte, it's a nicechange other than her just being a mouthpiece.
Great, but it's almost as ifEO has been the third wheel in
(18:38):
other stories going on and she's thechampion, so it's just a bit disappointing
thus far, and maybe things willturn around for her, at least from
the creative perspective, in the weeksand months ahead if she remains champion.
All right, Moving on what happenednext here? We then got Hayman backstage
(19:04):
with aj Styles. That's when thewhole deal with Paul Hayman, by the
way, continuing to use his earpieceto call Roman Reigns, Call Roman Reigns,
Paul, for the love of God, if you're gonna if you're going
to create the illusion of fake phonecalls in twenty twenty three, when everyone
(19:30):
in the world knows how to operatean iPhone, at least make it look
like you're calling Roman Reigns properly,Hey, number one, number one.
Not only is he speaking into hisearpiece instead of the bottom of the phone,
which I understand doesn't look as good, but at least it's accurate.
(19:53):
You also can't just say to yourphone call unless he's holding down to button
that act debates Siri on the iPhone. You don't just like I couldn't pick
up my phone right now and saycall my dad. You have to say
hey, Siri, and then youknow that's what you and I just activated
(20:15):
my phone, of course, whichis sitting right next to me. But
that's how you do it. Youhave to say the magic words, the
magic two words. And he doesn'tdo They just call Roman Reigns. Okay.
The thing is it's small and insignificantto a lot of you. I'm
like, who cares? But ithappens every single time we see Paul heyman,
(20:36):
he's constantly saying to his phone tocall Roman. If you're gonna do
it, and do it that manytimes, for the love of God,
just do it accurately, Sell mea little bit, make me believe.
I think it's it's total ignorance.He doesn't. I mean, they're just
unaware that they're not even properly creatinga fake phone call. Oh my god,
it's too much. Jimmy attacks setor seth. Jimmy attacked a backstage
(21:00):
and moving on. That's set upthe match between Jimmy and AJ for later
in the night. Then we gotnight coming out addresses in his performance with
the Invisible John Sena on Raw playingdress up the next week or the whatever
it was, and that he didn'tneed Sena's helper endorsement. He was respected
(21:25):
what he accomplished at the end,but at the end of the day he
did count the three and Knight toldMiss that he will force him to accept
the bitter pill of defeat. Andthat's when Grayson Waller interrupted, and Waller
rambled about absolutely nothing and then broughtout Austin Theory, and then Theory came
out and told Miss he had alreadydefeated Sena and Knights and that he was
when he was done with the Missdone with him. Miss wouldn't waste his
(21:51):
time. Night responded and asked Wallerin Theory if they were done boring everybody
in that that would show those incells how to do this. He then
spoke about the TV Garden being legendsway and he would kick theories. Twenty
six year old Keister with everybody's sayin l A and I I don't dislike
Austin, Theory and Waller together,In fact, they kind of need one
(22:15):
another. And you know, I'mI'm behind l A and I. I
love this movement right now. He'sa star that appeals to more than just
a specific demo, which is whyI think he's also so successful right now.
Not only because he's talented on themicrophone, talented in the ring,
(22:38):
he's got a great look. He'syou know, he is older than the
typical up and coming star, nodoubt by about fifteen years. But that's
kind of what makes him appealing isthat he's he feels like kind of a
mature star that's been here all alongand which trying to get the most out
(23:00):
of him right now. We seea star right now, and it's just
he isn't just mister chain Gang appealingto, you know, the pre pubescent
kids that was super annoying as anattitude era fan with John Cena. Yeah,
he appeals to a wide range ofpeople. I think that's one of
the very positive things about him.And the only critique I could make is
(23:29):
that he some of these elementary insults. Even Waller kind of said that on
the commentary side of things, hedoes kind of make up names for people
that instead of insulting them specifically,he makes general insults where he just you
know, he could say anything aboutor he could call anybody those names,
(23:52):
and it's instead of hem just likedude, can you like hit him where
it hurts, you know, bringup to Grayson Waller, the fact that
he hasn't want to match since he'sin here, right, or since if
Austin Theory wants to talk about JohnCena and WrestleMania, I would say,
hey, hey, Theory, where'syour career gone since WrestleMania? If that
wind was so big for you,what happened to your career? What happened
to your title? I mean,maybe that's a little bit too fourth wall
(24:18):
breaking, and Wwe would perhaps geta little bit you know, peed off
by that, but that would getthe crowd going. You know that to
me would hit him where it hurts. I'm like, if you want to
hit the low hanging fruit, it'sright there, bro, And instead the
lad goes for some it is it'slike grade school names for these guys,
(24:40):
like the crotch Chopper or the crotchsomething, crotch goblins or something like funny
if you use it every once ina while, or in addition to your
main insult about their careers. Sothat's the only critique I have about it
is, you know, hit themwith real stuff. Don't give them general
(25:00):
you know mom jokes, like youknow your mom is so fat, she
sits around the house. She sitsaround the house like that kind of crap
stuff you heard in you know,eighth grade on your bus ride home from
school, that kind of stuff Iwould I would minimize. You can do
it every once in a while.The rock, you know, the rock
is called people popcorn farts, youknow, and you know, uh,
(25:23):
some really funny names. But that'sjust kind of the you know, the
side show. That's not the meatand potatoes of what he should be focusing
on. That's all. It's notreally a complaint, is it is an
opportunity I see for him that he'smissing. All right, We did get
(25:45):
Austin Knight. Austin Knight. Wow, that's a new name. Huh.
Maybe it's just he's with p Jmcdonaldhs somewhere right La Night in Austin Theory.
Nice match here. Nine minutes seemsto be kind of the magic number
of the night here. And hewas in control, a Night was in
control when the commercial break ended,and then the action spilled outside the ring
(26:11):
where Theory land. Theory landed asnapsuplex and Waller jumped up on the apron
and pulled the turnbuckle will pad offand Night landed a power slam back in
the ring and that fired up thecrowd. He landed an elbow drop with
the La Night. Yeah, Wallergot to the apron and that offered a
distraction and it backfired his theory.Nearly got shoved into the exposed turnbuckle and
(26:36):
he walked right into a bft fromNight. He got the cover and the
victory nine minutes. You know.After that, Waller tried to sneak attack,
but it was foiled and Night celebratedwith the crowd, and yeah,
so that's it was fine Night continuingto get victories, racking them up,
(26:57):
working with different talent. It's asmart move here by Triple H. I
know, remember all the way backand what was it May whoever it was
when we all wanted La Night towin the money in the bank. Oh
my god, you're gonna win.He's gonna win. He's gonna win.
Aren't all of us kind of happy? He didn't though, I know that
we don't know the end game yet, but if I'm w w WE number
(27:18):
one, they took the smart wayon this. They didn't do a knee
jerk reaction. They said, youknow what, if this yeam movement is
real, if this support for LaNight is real. The fans are gonna
stick with him, and we're goingto test the fans and push the fans
and anger the fans and do theystick with him or do they push him
aside? So they tested the fansand so far I think the fans have
(27:38):
passed in a big way. Andnow they are setting up La Night for
a traditional bottom up move and itmakes a trajectory and I like that you're
getting to see him work with othertalent that he hasn't worked before instead of
going to the top cashing in andhe's chance mpion. It's much better of
(28:02):
a story to tell if he doesthings in a more traditional way. I'm
not saying everything needs to be thesame, but so far it's been.
It's been great, I think.So let's see now then we got where
we at here Finn Beller and DamianPriest versus Butch and Ridge Holland. So
(28:29):
I like the fact that they alludedto the judgment day being able to be
or rather see I gotta clarify thewhole fact that if you're an undisputed champion,
you can be on either show withspecifically with the tag titles. Makes
total sense. I still don't understandwhy they're two physical belts for one championship,
(28:49):
but I'm not the one carrying themevery day, so that makes sense
for Finn and Damien. What explainto me? Why why why Dom is
there again? Though? Please?Why is Dom there again? I don't
I don't understand that. So Iguess you know, we're supposed to brush
(29:11):
that part off that the brand splitdoesn't or only applies to those that are
undisputed champion. But if you're associatedwith the group, suddenly by extension,
you're also included in being able tocome over. This is where again,
if a draft actually was enforced,Dom would not be there. So,
(29:33):
however, butch and Ridge coming outhere, Boy did they get a kind
of deflating reaction after a ton ofheat for a dominic which they were trying
to set the table for butcher Ridgehere. I mean, they did everything
they could to elicit a heat reactionfrom the crowd and TD and they they
succeeded. But when a baby facecame out to interrupt it's they went,
(29:56):
oh hm, butch and Ridge hog. You know, I'm sure some people
are going huh. It was akind of very lukewarm reaction for Butch and
Ridge. No booze, just airlet out of the building of that all
all that heat was built up forthese two. However, this I thought
(30:17):
the match was good. And youknow what, hearing Ridge on the mic
is actually a nice thing once ina while. He's usually the silent type,
kind of like Dakota Kai in DamageControl, doesn't say anything. So
this match ended with Damien and Finnbeating Ridge and Butch as they should and
(30:41):
then we got a big surprise afterthis match. But we're gonna take a
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about what happened after the match.Who confronted Finnan Damian, Well, that
would be this yet to be namedgroup of Bobby Lashley and the Street Prophets
walking down to the ring, andhe got in the face of Priest and
said that while he's right that theBloodline is crumbling, it won't be Judgment
Day taking over. It will bethem. So a lot of shots being
(32:55):
thrown around to the Bloodline from JudgmentDay, but also this I'll just call
them Street the herpe As a twopoint zero, which that's not the official
name's name. I'm just giving themto shorten it is. They'll they are
(33:16):
shooting shots at the Judgment Day,but the Judgment Day are shooting shots presumably
at the bloodline that's crumbling. However, I think what they're doing here is
potentially setting up a Survivor Series WarGames match in about a month and a
half or two months time here,and that match could be could be a
(33:45):
Bloodline and Judgment Day alliance versus BobbyLashley, the Street Prophets, Kevin and
Sammy and another opponent or another anotherally so maybe Seth, perhaps Seth it's
the thought Seth and Roman in thematch. I keep harping on that for
(34:05):
the last two years, but that'smy thought, guys, is that is
that that's probably what they're doing here, especially with Bobby and the street profits
that have been established firmly into thebaby Face roll. It's good to see
them in that role. The crowdgave them a much warmer, although not
explosive response coming out to confront thejudgment TA. That was nice. But
(34:31):
the match here, by the way, the match was solid. Again.
I know I say that a lot, but I only give you the ending
of the match because that's what mostpeople want to know what happened. But
unless there's something interesting to happen inthe middle of the match, I'm not
going to dive into the nitty grittyof it. I'll leave other podcasts to
do that. I also don't wantto sound like I'm discounting what they do
(34:53):
in the ring. I just Idon't want to have this podcast be four
hours. So okay, then wegot aj Styles and Jimmy Uso. This
match was a longer one fifteen minutesand forty three seconds. This one also
(35:14):
also it was the third one ofthe night ended in a distraction by silently
getting attention from Styles. Jimmy thenknocks Styles off the turnbuckle and choked him
on the ropes. Styles rolled tothe floor and Solo refused to attack him
and turned his back. AJ kicksSolo in the back of the head.
He then shoved Jimmy into the ringpost He and then landed a phenomenal forearm
(35:36):
to get the victory. After thematch, AJ tried to get out of
there to avoid Solo, but wasattacked by Damien and Finn, who dumped
him back into the ring so Solocould land a Simone spike. Solo starred
or stared down a smiling priest inbalord to close the show. You I
was waiting for, Like Cody Rhodes, mister mister has his hands and everything
(35:57):
to come out and make the safe. He'll probably be be in that War
Games match to face off against Romanand tease part two for WrestleMania if the
rocks not there right so you know, mister bleach Blonde will will be in
you know, three different programs makingsure that all the heels aren't out numbering
the good guys and doing weird politicaldeals and things he shouldn't even have his
(36:19):
hands into. But nonetheless, thiswas interesting that Damien and Finn, while
they were taking shots at the JudgmentDays, you know, earlier and in
prior weeks, they appeared to helpout the blood line here what's left of
the blood line. They appeared tohelp them out and rolling Aj back into
(36:44):
the ring, giving them, youknow, allowing Solo to hit the Smoe
spike and so forth. But thisis I mean, there's no way that
the blood Line and Judgment Day aregoing to go at it unless they're trying
to turn a whole group heel ora baby face. It doesn't make any
sense to me. They might teaseintention if it's fun to think about,
but I don't think anybody really wantsto see at this juncture Judgment Day versus
(37:07):
Bloodline, especially Bloodline in its weakenedstate. No Roman, I mean I
haven't. We haven't seen Roman,and I feel like two months, you
know, And I know presumably hewas injured after his previous match with Jay,
but luckily his schedule, with howoften he's out, it's already built.
He's built an injury recovery schedule withouteven realizing he's built an injury recovery
(37:31):
schedule. That's how often he's off. But you know, I just don't
think we're going to get a JudgmentDay Bloodline program. He'll heal. It
doesn't make a ton of sense,not yet, unless they're trying to turn
people baby face. So this isgoing to be a again, a set
(37:55):
up for a temporary alliance between JudgmentDay and Bloodline. That's my thought,
all right. Quickly over to Rawas we remember what happened many moons ago
on Raw, which always feels likea jillion years ago, And I'll give
you the cliff Knowltes version. Andthe matches anyway are Drew and Matt Riddle
(38:20):
versus the Viking Raiders, Eric Ivarand in a Tornado tag team match.
This one was Kingston accidentally hitting Riddleand it allowed Eric to cover Riddle to
get three count. Tension is risingbetween New Day and Riddle and True many
(38:42):
people believing that this could lead toa Drew Heel turn. I don't.
I hope, so I don't careif it's a New Day that does it.
I don't care how it's happening orhow it happens. Drew needs to
turn heel. He just does.But you know, we'll see a lot
of promotion throughout the show of theIntercontinental Champions of the Past. Perfect loved
(39:05):
it added much more value to thebelt or I mean, I don't know
how I can add much more,but it continued to remind you of what
Gunther's going to do here later inthe show, and Nakamura rejecting Seth trying
to give him a title match wasweird. I know one of the listeners
brought that up. I'm glad theydid. And then the mailbag segment of
(39:25):
the podcast this week, it wasweird that you have to shove a title
match down someone's throat. How doesthat work? That was weird. But
I still enjoy Shinskay and Seth,and I'm looking forward to their matchup that's
yet unannounced at fast Lane. Buthe did face off Shinsky, that is,
(39:45):
against Ricochet, and Shinsky did loseor win. I'm sorry Ricochet did
beat Knakamura by DQ in nine minutesand thirty five seconds, but it's because
we had Nakamura slamming a chair overthe back of Ricochet and just wanting to
(40:06):
hurt him. We then had Shinskitried to use the chair to break the
neck of Ricochet. Loved that.Actually what else? What else? JD
McDonough came out during the promo withJudgment Day and gave priests the news send
(40:27):
your money in the bank briefcase.I've told you my theory on that.
And let's see Piper oh oh.I didn't mention this on wrong, but
Pierce did mention that Piper Niven wasnot medically cleared. So Piper Niven do
drop to those of you that remember, is not medically cleared yet, but
(40:50):
she's still She's still active, butdoes have an injury, I guess.
And we did get Shana basilorn ZoeStark though. On the women's side of
things, Shandy Basler beat Zoe Starkat eight minutes in fifty seconds and then
they fist bumped after that, soso she adn't it beat Zoe, but
(41:12):
then they fist bumped, so theyare likely going to be partners. Sure.
Chelsea Green and versus Roquel Rodriguez.This was a crazy fast match.
Roquelle did beat Chelsea in a minuteforty seconds and then announced that she would
be facing Ripley for the championship nextweek, which is by the time you're
(41:36):
listening to this either tonight or tomorrownight, depending on when you're listening,
or it could have already happened.We did get Let's see the miss talking
about La Night again and a promoand the empty chair and the whole invisible
John Cena deal. The next matchwas Sammy Zane versus j D McDonough,
with JD defeating Sammy eight minutes andthen Zane attack Dom after the match.
(42:00):
Zane in this was hell bent ongetting a helluvah kick on someone, and
it eventually ended up being on jD McDonogh because Zane is trying to get
Dom, but Dom keats sliding away, So all right. Gunther versus Chad
(42:22):
Gable Icy title fifteen minutes and fiftyseconds. Gunther beat Gable another really good
match here, no issues and theshot of his children, gables children or
daughter crying was just gold. Ithink it was. I think it was
authentic by her daughter, his daughter, and Gunther is now officially the longest
(42:45):
reigning intercontinental champion of all time.Hell of an accomplishment. Great job by
WWW promoting this. The matches thatwere the series of match is that Gable
and Gunther had should be commended andapplauded. I hope for Gable's sake coming
(43:06):
out of this that it's not he'snot you know, one and done here
or three and done in this case. I hope he continues to build on
the support, on the respect thatthe fans have for him, and he
doesn't go back to being this ridiculousside kick or rather kind of side comedy
piece that w W often views himas. And I just hope it leads
(43:30):
to bigger and better things for Gablebecause we know he's capable of them.
The shoosh thing is cute, youknow, a thank you all. That
those are kind of offshoots of adifferent time in his career than as successful
as they are. I hope ifthey decide to ever put any kind of
(43:52):
support rocket behind him, that theyactually, you know, they evolve from
that, because you can't have characterthat has evolved into this wrestling machine in
the ring that we've seen the lastmonth, but also doing the you know,
all the shoe stuff. And it'snot it's not that it'll kill his
(44:12):
career. I think it's just stiflingin a bit because those are two different
eras of his career. That's all. It's not a it's not an absolute
must. I just think eventually thosebranches are going to stop producing fruit,
and I think it's close and heneeds to evolve into something else that the
fans can take more serious. IfWWE is going to take him more seriously,
(44:35):
if he's if they're not, thensure, you know, him promoting
those catchphrases are printing money for himbecause they put him on T shirts and
people buy them. So there isthat. I understand that too, there's
the money aspect of it. Butwell, I'm sure that any of you
out there are looking forward to thisweekend wrestling as we have a lot of
big returns, we have a lotof you know, interesting segments. We're
(45:00):
getting closer to fast Lane, whichis on what is in October seventh,
So it doesn't feel like along.It doesn't feel close, does it.
It's still about a month away andit'll go fast, it will, I
promise always. Does you know,you're oh my god, four weeks you
turn around, it's next week everytime, so have no fear time will
(45:22):
pass you by. So that isit for me tonight, guys. It
feels it feels good to be backagain, and for some reason this past
few days have felt like a weekor two. It feels like I've abandoned
you and now I'm back Daddy's home, guys, Daddy's home. So all
(45:43):
right, thanks are getting creepy.I'm gonna end it here. It is
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!