April 4, 2023 • 37 mins
Welcome to our Ringside Xtra episode. It looks like Jay White is Not WWE bound afterall. Last nights RAW saw historically low numbers. Vince is killing his own product in every which way possible, we also get a video of Rollins getting his segment cut while in front of the fans... all this plus more on WWE Ringside Podcast: Ringside Xtra.
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Welcome everybody to WWE Ringside Podcast.We have a few topics to go over
on this this episode, and Iwant to dive into a little bit of
raw from last night, not toomuch as a show was absolutely shitty.
So with that being said, firstthing, J White news so two weeks
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ago about Triple H was increasingly confidentthat WWE was going to sign j White.
Reports as of about an hour orso ago now state that j White
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is not heading for WWE. Perpw Insider, they say that it appears
that White is not WWE bound basedon conversations pw Insider have had with WWE
officials and wrestlers. There was notalk about Jay White at all over the
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weekend backstage, leading to the speculationthat Jay White is no longer heading heading
to WWE. All right, let'sjust dive right into this. To me,
this screams Vince McMahon. How couldit not? This is gonna be
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a very Vince slandered show because Ifeel like most of the ship coming out,
most of the ship in this episode. Do I want to talk about
all stems from one man and weall know who that is. That's Vince
McMahon. So Triple H wants tosign him. Triple H wants Jay White
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in the company. Vince never did. Vince doesn't see him as a player.
And with the merger going on andVince now openly involved, Jay White
is now out of the picture.Can't tell me that's not Vince McMahon.
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You can't. He's one of thebiggest free agents out there and you have
no interest. But you did,you did just a few weeks ago.
And then wrestle Mania Week started coming, started getting Nick Con on CNBC on
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ESPN, start getting out there,get your voices out there, start talking
more. Well, now Vince isback, Now we've merged, all right,
Jay White is not not coming.I just feel like we're I feel
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like this is gonna happen a lotnow. I feel like free agents are
gonna start dipping. They're gonna notwant to be at WW, or they're
not gonna want to come to WW. So we'll have to just see what
happens. I know I don't reallyfollow n XT, but I believe it
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was yesterday the grizzled young veterans askedfor their release. Probably another Vince will
let it let a incident. They'regonna happy, Let people go. This
is post WrestleMania, this is cutseason. They're gonna happy. If you
want to go by, get thefuck out. But this is gonna this
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is gonna be interesting to see becausewe have names like Drew McIntyre who's come
out and says contract is up andthey're not near close to come into a
deal yet. Does he jump ship? Does Bray jump ship? I wouldn't
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be surprised. And you can't justsay that I'm gonna go to ae W
because I mean, I get it. They have a lot of money,
but at some point you have toput out too much money. The checkbook
is only so big, and youonly have so many hours of television to
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put on good pro unless you're gonnaput rampage for two hours, make it
live and give me actual storylines ona rampage that are worthy of listening to
or watching. I don't think allthese talents are gonna jump ship from WWE
over to AW. But j Whiteis the first name that looks to be
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WWE bound according to reports that andnow are no longer WWE bound. Makes
me wonder about FTR. I'm surethey've already signed with AW, but if
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they hadn't if they in their intheir career versus titles match, if they
were set to lose that to goto WWE, I mean, do they
change their mind? Do they endup winning those titles because they see what
is out there and it's shit?I doubt it. I'm sure that that
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these decisions were probably may weeks ago, but I don't know. I just
guess me thinking. So, justkeep an eye out for free agents that
we all thought might end up withWWE that now may not based off of
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the reports of Vince being back andTalent seemingly being distraught overnight, which is
kind of a segue into my nextmy next segment, actually the next thing
I wanted to talk about with Yeah, last night on ww E RAW,
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if you guys remember seth Rawlins madeits way out to the ring and when
he was in the ring up acommercial break, we come back and he's
just playing maestro and then he leaves, and you know, we were all,
especially me, we're kind of lookingat that, like, what what
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the fuck? What was the pointof that. There could have been another
match involved in that, There couldhave been another segment involved. They could
have been sing way better than theexcitement of seth Rawlins coming out for those
fans and for people on TV thatwant to see him and don't say shit,
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player his conductor and leaves. Okay, So this morning on Twitter,
there's the video going around that duringthat commercial break that they took, there
are what looks to be I don'tknow if the producers or somebody on the
side of the ring talking to sethRawlins, and he looks up and kind
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of looks around and then describes amicrophone and then that's kind of what we
got. That was a segment wegot. He grew come back from commercial
and that was it. So reportsare saying that that was actually they were
telling seth Rawlins at that point theycut a segment. What they cut his
fucking segment while he's live on TVtalk about some fucking improv like come on,
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the dude comes out there to thering thinking he's gonna have a segment.
They cut to commercial break. He'sready to come back from commercial break
and do his segment, only tobe told, oh, yeah, Vince
fucking cut it in the back.We'll come back from commercial play conductor and
then leave. Morale is going tobe shot within the company, it's already
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gotta be plummeting. There's so manyreports out there that scripts were ripped up,
scripts were cut, matches were cut. There was a list of matches
that were supposed to happen on Rawlast night that didn't happen because they got
cut last minute or cut during theshow. Even while the show's going on,
they're pulling the matches off the thrownew ones on that were shit to
begin with. If I'm talent andI'm seeing what's happening off of was supposed
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to be your biggest Raw of theyear. If I'm talent seeing what being
done, and I'm trying to findthe closest fucking door, you don't know.
You show up too Raw with ascript, but they plan you've been
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thinking about, even planning it foryour own work, so you can get
better, so they can get better, just to get told when they get
there. They've been practicing for it, and rehearsing for and thinking about how
to make the show great for thefans. They get there just for events
to say no, we cut yoursegment, go home or sit in the
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back. We may throw you ina two minute match. Really, and
you expect talent to want to staythere. Unless you're a top five name,
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I'd be worried. I'd be sofucking worried. If you're not a
top five name, a lessener,A rains I not my actually BA.
They cut lastly from WrestleMania. They'recutting Rollin's segments now live when he's in
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front of the audience, cutting thesegments when he's in front of the audience,
to telling him your segment is cut. Sorry, put yourself in Rollin's
shoes. In that instance, you'rein front of seventeen thousand people, ready
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to perform after this two minute commercial, and then wre in front of the
audience. They tell you all yoursegments cut. But you can't just leave,
can't come back in commercial when you'regone, So you gotta do something
after the commercial break. But yourstatement your head is cut. I mean,
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if I was in his shoes,I'd be embarrassed. I'm gonna find
seventeen thousand people and my statement hasbeen cut. I'm fucking pissed. When
I get to the back of theGorilla, I asked him, what the
fuck happened? You send me outthere to embarrass myself, But Vince doesn't
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care. Vince thinks this is greatshit. Everybody begs to differ events.
You're a fucking delusional see now,old man, and I'm sorry, but
you need to get out the fuckingshow. The product last night was awful
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for a Monday night raw after WrestleMania. It was awful for any raw,
not even as the wrestling. Forany raw, it was awful, absolutely
awful. So these are the matcheswe got. We had, and we
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see here we had one, two, three, four, five matches.
Five matches in a three hour showdoesn't sound too terrible. But we had
a one minute and forty one secondmatch. We had a thirty eight second
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match. Okay, so there's twomatches that were less than to minutes.
So you have three matches the restof the time. One goes seven minutes,
one goes nine to twenty four,and one goes twelve fifty six.
Only one of them was over tenminutes. You you have less than thirty
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minutes total of matches at the threehour show, but you have only thirty
minutes of wrestling matches and the wholeshow combined combined time of all the matches
less than thirty minutes in a threehour show. Wow. And not to
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mention the matches. We even gotOmas versus Elias crowd dead as fuck for
this match, lastly versus All E. I mean, I just don't get
it. The tag team title ontap for the titles. But Ko and
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Zane versus The Street Profits was agood match. I like that match.
I mean, but I feel likeyou're already put down one of your better
tag teams. Why. I mean, Ko and Sammy already beat the Profits
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now, so where are they atnow in their title run? Going for
those titles? You're gonna bear themright off the back? Theory versus Mysterio.
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I actually didn't mind this match.I feel like they're kind of building
theory some legend killer just based offof the names he's taken out and not
going after Ray because he because they'reall the past, He's the future,
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He's the now. I said thatmonths ago, months ago, that I
could see this happening, and itseems becoming true again. I'm right,
So what's new with that? Right? So, and we get a nine
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minute match. We'll have to justsee where it goes from here, probably
nowhere. But and then we getOh Boy Women's Tag Team Number one contenders
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match. And when I when Iheard that, I instantly said, what
didn't we just have a number onecontenders match at WrestleMania. Wasn't what the
women's showcase match was for a numberone contenders? So why are we having
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another one? Raw number one contendersthat won at WrestleMania didn't even get their
title shot yet? So how doyou have two number one contenders? You
can't have two number one contenders atWrestleMania. You got Ronda and Shana barely
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even involved in the match, barelyeven involved to win it. Only the
next day to have new number onecontenders, and the new number one contenders
were in that match. We're inthe show case match. Is this makes
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my it? It makes my headhurt. I don't, I don't have
I don't know. I'm lost forwords. If you were gonna get to
live and requel as number one contenders, why the fuck did they not just
win the Showcase at WrestleMania the dayprior. I don't get it. It's
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because Ronda needed the WrestleMania win.Is it because they're still hurt Ronda?
I think Ronda is still hurt oryou know, Rondo was out with injury.
Is that why? That's why theyhave to tell us. You can't
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just assume that we know. Youhave to explain, Hey, Ronda or
Shanna is out with injuries, sowe're gonna have a new number one contenders
match. All right, I getit. I understand that, and that
makes a lot more sense than theship we got tonight. But they don't
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explain anything to us. They makeit seem to make the match that WrestleMania
was just a match for nothing.But if that's the case, and why
I didn't Raquel and Live when thento showcase a better product to build that
quote unquote momentum into this match,because Ronda and Shanna beating Live and Raquel
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in that fatal foray kind of proofsthey're they're the better team. But yet
they're not number one contenders anymore becausethey It doesn't make sense. There is
no logic at all in any ofthis. I mean, I just I
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don't I don't understand. I justI want help understanding. Where where are
we going with those women's teg division? Nobody knows. Nobody knows because there
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isn't one, and I don't know. I lead is a part timer.
So I feel like everybody assumes we'recal and we we're going to win,
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and they're very well could. Butat that same time, do we actually
get I believe, I believe it'sthe Saudi Show after Backlash. If that's
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the case, is that where weget Ronda and Shana versus Becky and Leda
I don't know, or a backlash? Do we get that? I don't
know. I think everybody assumed thatthey might actually drop the tiles clearly as
a part timer. But hold yourphone, hold the horses there. You
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know, we have backlashes a fewweeks away. Raquel and Live can still
lose this match, and we getRonda and Shana at Backlash because they were
the number one candidates from WrestleMania.The can play with the fast storyline whatever,
or we get a trouble threat matchall three teams, whatever, it
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doesn't matter. We know that they'redropping those titles fairly quickly. It's just
too who and we're assuming it's Rondaand Shana. But but the injury concerns,
we just don't know anymore because maybethey are legitimately injured. Maybe Ronda
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is legitimately injured injured. I heardsomebody say Shana was injured, but I
haven't seen any. I mean,I know Ronda was out before Mania with
injury, and I didn't see Shanaget hurt in the match. But either
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way, if one of them areinjured, then maybe their injury is more
severe and they're gonna last longer,so they want to get the titles off.
And I get back to that tothe other point, who knows,
who knows, But I just reallyfear for the talents morale. Let's see
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cage match. I believe it wascagematch dot netmybe dot com. I don't
quite know, but they they havetheir Raw ratings and they rated last night's
Monday Night Raw a point sixty threeout of ten. Let me let that
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sink in. Just sink and pointsix three out of ten. There was
one hundred and sixty votes conducted atthis point in time on this their their
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site, they do they have.The average rating for Raw was zero point
five nine. One hundred and fourteenvotes went to zero out of ten,
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nineteen went to one, fifteen wentto two, eight went to three,
one went to four, two wentto five and one. I gotta speak
to this motherfucker. One person gaveRaw an eight out of ten? Eight?
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Was he watching the same fucking productwho gave an eight? Was that
Vince McMahon, one of Vince's yesmen trying to boost the ratings. Give
me a fucking break, Raw wasnot an eight. You can't give me
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thirty minutes worth of matches total ina three hour show. I don't get
it. Also on Raw, wegot a brock Lessener heel turn and I
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don't know what to say about thissegment, Like, all right, so
Endeavor takes over or merges with WWE. Sorry, Endeavor takes over WWE and
they merge ufcwe together to that effect. One of your biggest UFC stars,
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brock Lessner, at one point intime. We get Brock in the opening
segment tonight, We get Brock inthe closing segment tonight, and Brock does
a heel turn, and Brock flipsoff the camera and cusses him and gets
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beat when he's talking. Broacklestner isthe star and broadleaster who don't give a
fuck because he has Vince backing him, and he has Dana White backing him,
and he knows he's brock fucking Lessener. Let's go. I find that
a coincidence. I find that tooironically coincidental that you've got UFC merging and
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this is the one of UFC's biggeststars and he's doing this shit. He's
not supposed to be doing. Whatdid we make of this heel turn?
Why did it happen? Why didBrocklestener turn on Cody? Roads adversity mountain
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backlash? You best believe it.We're gonna get Lessner versus Roads, and
Roads is gonna win because Roads hasto start his climbed back up. Roads
has to start building back up,taking down these hurdles, showing the struggle
like what we were talking about,to get back at Roman. It all
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starts Brocklestener. He's the first pieceof this rebuild on Cody to build him
back up. It's a formula they'veused before, and I mean it's a
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formula where we may see again.I don't I feel like Cody in this
instance isn't gonna benefit too much,honestly, because what do we got.
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We got Lessener, who all lastyear lost to Roman. He think what
starts losing to Bobby Lashley. Imean, Lessener hasn't been shown as some
big hot commodity. Where are hiswins? I get it, it's brock
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Lessner, he's the abust I getit. But where are his victories?
I mean, he's got one againstlastly, but that's it. That's all
I can remember in the last twoyears. So yeah, he's gonna put
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him over the same way he's putover Roman, the same way he's put
over Bobby Way, he's gonna putover Cody. It's there. It sees
that part of his career name alone, is gonna They think it's gonna make
it seem like he overcame a struggle. But this is just the first step,
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the first building block, and we'llhave to see where it goes from
here. But real quick, Iknow you guys have probably all heard by
now the merge with Endeavor. I'mreally not going to get into it as
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much as you know, as acontent creator, I probably should. That's
strictly and only really because I feellike it's out there so much right now.
Everybody already has the information. They'veonly released so much info on it,
and I feel like everybody's already heardor seen about it. But there
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are like Nick con wanting to goback to the old pay per view model,
charging for possibly the major pay perviews, Big five or whatever.
You know, all I really haveto say is no, No, that
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would be that'd be dumb. Iget why they're doing it, and I
get why they would Now nothing's officialso they're doing that. There's just talk
that they have thought about it,and they were exploring the possibility of possibly
doing it. And with Endeavor nowtaking over, you know, going back
to going to the UFC pitview model. It's brought UFC a lot of money,
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So why wouldn't they want to dothat with WrestleMania, with Summer Slam,
Rumble, Survivor series, you know, shows over it, Clashed the
Castle, possibly big shows overseas,you know where if they can get additional
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money, why wouldn't they. Butyou got to put a better product out
there. You put out products likewe got last night, four or five
weeks in a row and expect someoneto pay fifty sixty seventy dollars for the
paper leading up to it. No, you're gonna can get anybody. No
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one's gonna sign for that. Youhave to put better product out there weekly
on TV to justify a price point. So steep with the price point you
pay on Peacock, you know,for no ads or whatever it is.
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I'm sorry, you can put badproduct out to justify the price. You
can have, you know, threeweeks of just pure excellent storytelling and then
a week or two of shitty becauseyou're not paying a premium price for the
product. I'm still paying for theproduct, and i still want damn good
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content, or I'm not gonna payfor the product anymore. But they can
get away with the bad shows thereonce in a while when you're expecting to
pay seventy dollars or whatever they're gonnacharge for these pay per views. I
don't think you get any bad days. These people that are going to be
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paying for this product, they workhard for their money, and if what
you're putting out there is shit,you know, there's other things these people
need to spend with their money.You know, you've got to put compelling
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TV out there toward that. Butwith that being said, I will say
the current Peacock deal is for fiveyears, and it does run into twenty
twenty six, so you know,we've got probably three years of the way
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the current style we have, andthen after that we might see the old
paperbew moan come back. But therereally is no reason to freak too much
about it because we still have threeyears and you know a lot can happen
in three years, so you know, just chill. This Endeavor merge is
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not as bad as we say itis or people say it is. Yes,
Vince is there, Yes Vince isin charge, but Vince now has
to answer to somebody and he's neverhad to do that before, but he
has to do now. And youbet you're ass. If the product is
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continually shit and we continually have trendinghashtags of worst raw ever or whatever is
trending something with that effect, youbet you're ass, they're gonna look at
Vince and say, what the fuck'sgoing on and the product will change,
the product will get better. I'mI'm I'm holding out hope that they didn't
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want to purchase this group or mergedwith this group and just to have this
ship product. You know, youwant Endeavor to be happy about their requirement,
not dejected by it. And afterlast night, I I would hate
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to be Endeavor because the product thatwas shown that they're going to keep putting
out shit like that. That mergewas awful for them, but I don't
know. I think that as giveit a few more weeks, let's see
how it progresses. You know,it came off of arguably one of the
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better WrestleManias of all time. Nighttwo put a damper on it, so
I did bring it down, bringit down some, but it was still
really good at WrestleMania. So wehad really high expectations going into this this
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raw, and it really fell flat, which makes everybody overreact, like myself
even more. So let's just breathe. Let's see what the next week or
weeks hold. Let's see if itgets better, if they are building more
storylines, because we gotta start fresh. We're starting with fresh, new storylines
coming out of WrestleMania, so let'sjust see what happens. Let's let it
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breathe, and you know, ina few weeks, if we're still getting
these shitty raws, and well wehaven't seen SmackDown yet, hopefully SmackDown is
better, which it has been SmackDown. SmackDown has been arguably, oh not
even arguably, it's been no doubt, the better show. So we'll just
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have to see how Raw goes.And in a few weeks, I was
still shitty. We can definitely definitelyreassess what we got going on because their
plans might be in the wrong spot, their priorities might be the wrong spots,
and we'll be here to discuss that. But until then, I hope
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y'all have a good one. I'lltry to keep the episodes rolling as much
as I can. I hope y'allhave a good day and be safe.
Welcome everybody to WWE Ringside Podcast.We have a few topics to go over
on this this episode, and Iwant to dive into a little bit of
raw from last night, not toomuch as a show was absolutely shitty.
So with that being said, firstthing, J White news so two weeks
(00:29):
ago about Triple H was increasingly confidentthat WWE was going to sign j White.
Reports as of about an hour orso ago now state that j White
(00:53):
is not heading for WWE. Perpw Insider, they say that it appears
that White is not WWE bound basedon conversations pw Insider have had with WWE
officials and wrestlers. There was notalk about Jay White at all over the
(01:18):
weekend backstage, leading to the speculationthat Jay White is no longer heading heading
to WWE. All right, let'sjust dive right into this. To me,
this screams Vince McMahon. How couldit not? This is gonna be
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a very Vince slandered show because Ifeel like most of the ship coming out,
most of the ship in this episode. Do I want to talk about
all stems from one man and weall know who that is. That's Vince
McMahon. So Triple H wants tosign him. Triple H wants Jay White
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in the company. Vince never did. Vince doesn't see him as a player.
And with the merger going on andVince now openly involved, Jay White
is now out of the picture.Can't tell me that's not Vince McMahon.
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You can't. He's one of thebiggest free agents out there and you have
no interest. But you did,you did just a few weeks ago.
And then wrestle Mania Week started coming, started getting Nick Con on CNBC on
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ESPN, start getting out there,get your voices out there, start talking
more. Well, now Vince isback, Now we've merged, all right,
Jay White is not not coming.I just feel like we're I feel
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like this is gonna happen a lotnow. I feel like free agents are
gonna start dipping. They're gonna notwant to be at WW, or they're
not gonna want to come to WW. So we'll have to just see what
happens. I know I don't reallyfollow n XT, but I believe it
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was yesterday the grizzled young veterans askedfor their release. Probably another Vince will
let it let a incident. They'regonna happy, Let people go. This
is post WrestleMania, this is cutseason. They're gonna happy. If you
want to go by, get thefuck out. But this is gonna this
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is gonna be interesting to see becausewe have names like Drew McIntyre who's come
out and says contract is up andthey're not near close to come into a
deal yet. Does he jump ship? Does Bray jump ship? I wouldn't
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be surprised. And you can't justsay that I'm gonna go to ae W
because I mean, I get it. They have a lot of money,
but at some point you have toput out too much money. The checkbook
is only so big, and youonly have so many hours of television to
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put on good pro unless you're gonnaput rampage for two hours, make it
live and give me actual storylines ona rampage that are worthy of listening to
or watching. I don't think allthese talents are gonna jump ship from WWE
over to AW. But j Whiteis the first name that looks to be
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WWE bound according to reports that andnow are no longer WWE bound. Makes
me wonder about FTR. I'm surethey've already signed with AW, but if
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they hadn't if they in their intheir career versus titles match, if they
were set to lose that to goto WWE, I mean, do they
change their mind? Do they endup winning those titles because they see what
is out there and it's shit?I doubt it. I'm sure that that
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these decisions were probably may weeks ago, but I don't know. I just
guess me thinking. So, justkeep an eye out for free agents that
we all thought might end up withWWE that now may not based off of
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the reports of Vince being back andTalent seemingly being distraught overnight, which is
kind of a segue into my nextmy next segment, actually the next thing
I wanted to talk about with Yeah, last night on ww E RAW,
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if you guys remember seth Rawlins madeits way out to the ring and when
he was in the ring up acommercial break, we come back and he's
just playing maestro and then he leaves, and you know, we were all,
especially me, we're kind of lookingat that, like, what what
(07:26):
the fuck? What was the pointof that. There could have been another
match involved in that, There couldhave been another segment involved. They could
have been sing way better than theexcitement of seth Rawlins coming out for those
fans and for people on TV thatwant to see him and don't say shit,
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player his conductor and leaves. Okay, So this morning on Twitter,
there's the video going around that duringthat commercial break that they took, there
are what looks to be I don'tknow if the producers or somebody on the
side of the ring talking to sethRawlins, and he looks up and kind
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of looks around and then describes amicrophone and then that's kind of what we
got. That was a segment wegot. He grew come back from commercial
and that was it. So reportsare saying that that was actually they were
telling seth Rawlins at that point theycut a segment. What they cut his
fucking segment while he's live on TVtalk about some fucking improv like come on,
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the dude comes out there to thering thinking he's gonna have a segment.
They cut to commercial break. He'sready to come back from commercial break
and do his segment, only tobe told, oh, yeah, Vince
fucking cut it in the back.We'll come back from commercial play conductor and
then leave. Morale is going tobe shot within the company, it's already
(09:15):
gotta be plummeting. There's so manyreports out there that scripts were ripped up,
scripts were cut, matches were cut. There was a list of matches
that were supposed to happen on Rawlast night that didn't happen because they got
cut last minute or cut during theshow. Even while the show's going on,
they're pulling the matches off the thrownew ones on that were shit to
begin with. If I'm talent andI'm seeing what's happening off of was supposed
(09:50):
to be your biggest Raw of theyear. If I'm talent seeing what being
done, and I'm trying to findthe closest fucking door, you don't know.
You show up too Raw with ascript, but they plan you've been
(10:16):
thinking about, even planning it foryour own work, so you can get
better, so they can get better, just to get told when they get
there. They've been practicing for it, and rehearsing for and thinking about how
to make the show great for thefans. They get there just for events
to say no, we cut yoursegment, go home or sit in the
(10:41):
back. We may throw you ina two minute match. Really, and
you expect talent to want to staythere. Unless you're a top five name,
(11:01):
I'd be worried. I'd be sofucking worried. If you're not a
top five name, a lessener,A rains I not my actually BA.
They cut lastly from WrestleMania. They'recutting Rollin's segments now live when he's in
(11:26):
front of the audience, cutting thesegments when he's in front of the audience,
to telling him your segment is cut. Sorry, put yourself in Rollin's
shoes. In that instance, you'rein front of seventeen thousand people, ready
(11:48):
to perform after this two minute commercial, and then wre in front of the
audience. They tell you all yoursegments cut. But you can't just leave,
can't come back in commercial when you'regone, So you gotta do something
after the commercial break. But yourstatement your head is cut. I mean,
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if I was in his shoes,I'd be embarrassed. I'm gonna find
seventeen thousand people and my statement hasbeen cut. I'm fucking pissed. When
I get to the back of theGorilla, I asked him, what the
fuck happened? You send me outthere to embarrass myself, But Vince doesn't
(12:41):
care. Vince thinks this is greatshit. Everybody begs to differ events.
You're a fucking delusional see now,old man, and I'm sorry, but
you need to get out the fuckingshow. The product last night was awful
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for a Monday night raw after WrestleMania. It was awful for any raw,
not even as the wrestling. Forany raw, it was awful, absolutely
awful. So these are the matcheswe got. We had, and we
(13:35):
see here we had one, two, three, four, five matches.
Five matches in a three hour showdoesn't sound too terrible. But we had
a one minute and forty one secondmatch. We had a thirty eight second
(13:56):
match. Okay, so there's twomatches that were less than to minutes.
So you have three matches the restof the time. One goes seven minutes,
one goes nine to twenty four,and one goes twelve fifty six.
Only one of them was over tenminutes. You you have less than thirty
(14:20):
minutes total of matches at the threehour show, but you have only thirty
minutes of wrestling matches and the wholeshow combined combined time of all the matches
less than thirty minutes in a threehour show. Wow. And not to
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mention the matches. We even gotOmas versus Elias crowd dead as fuck for
this match, lastly versus All E. I mean, I just don't get
it. The tag team title ontap for the titles. But Ko and
(15:07):
Zane versus The Street Profits was agood match. I like that match.
I mean, but I feel likeyou're already put down one of your better
tag teams. Why. I mean, Ko and Sammy already beat the Profits
(15:28):
now, so where are they atnow in their title run? Going for
those titles? You're gonna bear themright off the back? Theory versus Mysterio.
(15:48):
I actually didn't mind this match.I feel like they're kind of building
theory some legend killer just based offof the names he's taken out and not
going after Ray because he because they'reall the past, He's the future,
(16:12):
He's the now. I said thatmonths ago, months ago, that I
could see this happening, and itseems becoming true again. I'm right,
So what's new with that? Right? So, and we get a nine
(16:33):
minute match. We'll have to justsee where it goes from here, probably
nowhere. But and then we getOh Boy Women's Tag Team Number one contenders
(16:55):
match. And when I when Iheard that, I instantly said, what
didn't we just have a number onecontenders match at WrestleMania. Wasn't what the
women's showcase match was for a numberone contenders? So why are we having
(17:18):
another one? Raw number one contendersthat won at WrestleMania didn't even get their
title shot yet? So how doyou have two number one contenders? You
can't have two number one contenders atWrestleMania. You got Ronda and Shana barely
(17:41):
even involved in the match, barelyeven involved to win it. Only the
next day to have new number onecontenders, and the new number one contenders
were in that match. We're inthe show case match. Is this makes
(18:04):
my it? It makes my headhurt. I don't, I don't have
I don't know. I'm lost forwords. If you were gonna get to
live and requel as number one contenders, why the fuck did they not just
win the Showcase at WrestleMania the dayprior. I don't get it. It's
(18:34):
because Ronda needed the WrestleMania win.Is it because they're still hurt Ronda?
I think Ronda is still hurt oryou know, Rondo was out with injury.
Is that why? That's why theyhave to tell us. You can't
(18:56):
just assume that we know. Youhave to explain, Hey, Ronda or
Shanna is out with injuries, sowe're gonna have a new number one contenders
match. All right, I getit. I understand that, and that
makes a lot more sense than theship we got tonight. But they don't
(19:21):
explain anything to us. They makeit seem to make the match that WrestleMania
was just a match for nothing.But if that's the case, and why
I didn't Raquel and Live when thento showcase a better product to build that
quote unquote momentum into this match,because Ronda and Shanna beating Live and Raquel
(19:47):
in that fatal foray kind of proofsthey're they're the better team. But yet
they're not number one contenders anymore becausethey It doesn't make sense. There is
no logic at all in any ofthis. I mean, I just I
(20:11):
don't I don't understand. I justI want help understanding. Where where are
we going with those women's teg division? Nobody knows. Nobody knows because there
(20:33):
isn't one, and I don't know. I lead is a part timer.
So I feel like everybody assumes we'recal and we we're going to win,
(20:55):
and they're very well could. Butat that same time, do we actually
get I believe, I believe it'sthe Saudi Show after Backlash. If that's
(21:17):
the case, is that where weget Ronda and Shana versus Becky and Leda
I don't know, or a backlash? Do we get that? I don't
know. I think everybody assumed thatthey might actually drop the tiles clearly as
a part timer. But hold yourphone, hold the horses there. You
(21:37):
know, we have backlashes a fewweeks away. Raquel and Live can still
lose this match, and we getRonda and Shana at Backlash because they were
the number one candidates from WrestleMania.The can play with the fast storyline whatever,
or we get a trouble threat matchall three teams, whatever, it
(21:59):
doesn't matter. We know that they'redropping those titles fairly quickly. It's just
too who and we're assuming it's Rondaand Shana. But but the injury concerns,
we just don't know anymore because maybethey are legitimately injured. Maybe Ronda
(22:21):
is legitimately injured injured. I heardsomebody say Shana was injured, but I
haven't seen any. I mean,I know Ronda was out before Mania with
injury, and I didn't see Shanaget hurt in the match. But either
(22:41):
way, if one of them areinjured, then maybe their injury is more
severe and they're gonna last longer,so they want to get the titles off.
And I get back to that tothe other point, who knows,
who knows, But I just reallyfear for the talents morale. Let's see
(23:14):
cage match. I believe it wascagematch dot netmybe dot com. I don't
quite know, but they they havetheir Raw ratings and they rated last night's
Monday Night Raw a point sixty threeout of ten. Let me let that
(23:40):
sink in. Just sink and pointsix three out of ten. There was
one hundred and sixty votes conducted atthis point in time on this their their
(24:03):
site, they do they have.The average rating for Raw was zero point
five nine. One hundred and fourteenvotes went to zero out of ten,
(24:23):
nineteen went to one, fifteen wentto two, eight went to three,
one went to four, two wentto five and one. I gotta speak
to this motherfucker. One person gaveRaw an eight out of ten? Eight?
(24:47):
Was he watching the same fucking productwho gave an eight? Was that
Vince McMahon, one of Vince's yesmen trying to boost the ratings. Give
me a fucking break, Raw wasnot an eight. You can't give me
(25:07):
thirty minutes worth of matches total ina three hour show. I don't get
it. Also on Raw, wegot a brock Lessener heel turn and I
(25:40):
don't know what to say about thissegment, Like, all right, so
Endeavor takes over or merges with WWE. Sorry, Endeavor takes over WWE and
they merge ufcwe together to that effect. One of your biggest UFC stars,
(26:04):
brock Lessner, at one point intime. We get Brock in the opening
segment tonight, We get Brock inthe closing segment tonight, and Brock does
a heel turn, and Brock flipsoff the camera and cusses him and gets
(26:30):
beat when he's talking. Broacklestner isthe star and broadleaster who don't give a
fuck because he has Vince backing him, and he has Dana White backing him,
and he knows he's brock fucking Lessener. Let's go. I find that
a coincidence. I find that tooironically coincidental that you've got UFC merging and
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this is the one of UFC's biggeststars and he's doing this shit. He's
not supposed to be doing. Whatdid we make of this heel turn?
Why did it happen? Why didBrocklestener turn on Cody? Roads adversity mountain
(27:18):
backlash? You best believe it.We're gonna get Lessner versus Roads, and
Roads is gonna win because Roads hasto start his climbed back up. Roads
has to start building back up,taking down these hurdles, showing the struggle
like what we were talking about,to get back at Roman. It all
(27:38):
starts Brocklestener. He's the first pieceof this rebuild on Cody to build him
back up. It's a formula they'veused before, and I mean it's a
(28:02):
formula where we may see again.I don't I feel like Cody in this
instance isn't gonna benefit too much,honestly, because what do we got.
(28:23):
We got Lessener, who all lastyear lost to Roman. He think what
starts losing to Bobby Lashley. Imean, Lessener hasn't been shown as some
big hot commodity. Where are hiswins? I get it, it's brock
(28:48):
Lessner, he's the abust I getit. But where are his victories?
I mean, he's got one againstlastly, but that's it. That's all
I can remember in the last twoyears. So yeah, he's gonna put
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him over the same way he's putover Roman, the same way he's put
over Bobby Way, he's gonna putover Cody. It's there. It sees
that part of his career name alone, is gonna They think it's gonna make
it seem like he overcame a struggle. But this is just the first step,
(29:41):
the first building block, and we'llhave to see where it goes from
here. But real quick, Iknow you guys have probably all heard by
now the merge with Endeavor. I'mreally not going to get into it as
(30:06):
much as you know, as acontent creator, I probably should. That's
strictly and only really because I feellike it's out there so much right now.
Everybody already has the information. They'veonly released so much info on it,
and I feel like everybody's already heardor seen about it. But there
(30:29):
are like Nick con wanting to goback to the old pay per view model,
charging for possibly the major pay perviews, Big five or whatever.
You know, all I really haveto say is no, No, that
(30:52):
would be that'd be dumb. Iget why they're doing it, and I
get why they would Now nothing's officialso they're doing that. There's just talk
that they have thought about it,and they were exploring the possibility of possibly
doing it. And with Endeavor nowtaking over, you know, going back
to going to the UFC pitview model. It's brought UFC a lot of money,
(31:18):
So why wouldn't they want to dothat with WrestleMania, with Summer Slam,
Rumble, Survivor series, you know, shows over it, Clashed the
Castle, possibly big shows overseas,you know where if they can get additional
(31:38):
money, why wouldn't they. Butyou got to put a better product out
there. You put out products likewe got last night, four or five
weeks in a row and expect someoneto pay fifty sixty seventy dollars for the
paper leading up to it. No, you're gonna can get anybody. No
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one's gonna sign for that. Youhave to put better product out there weekly
on TV to justify a price point. So steep with the price point you
pay on Peacock, you know,for no ads or whatever it is.
(32:23):
I'm sorry, you can put badproduct out to justify the price. You
can have, you know, threeweeks of just pure excellent storytelling and then
a week or two of shitty becauseyou're not paying a premium price for the
product. I'm still paying for theproduct, and i still want damn good
(32:45):
content, or I'm not gonna payfor the product anymore. But they can
get away with the bad shows thereonce in a while when you're expecting to
pay seventy dollars or whatever they're gonnacharge for these pay per views. I
don't think you get any bad days. These people that are going to be
(33:09):
paying for this product, they workhard for their money, and if what
you're putting out there is shit,you know, there's other things these people
need to spend with their money.You know, you've got to put compelling
(33:31):
TV out there toward that. Butwith that being said, I will say
the current Peacock deal is for fiveyears, and it does run into twenty
twenty six, so you know,we've got probably three years of the way
(33:54):
the current style we have, andthen after that we might see the old
paperbew moan come back. But therereally is no reason to freak too much
about it because we still have threeyears and you know a lot can happen
in three years, so you know, just chill. This Endeavor merge is
(34:17):
not as bad as we say itis or people say it is. Yes,
Vince is there, Yes Vince isin charge, but Vince now has
to answer to somebody and he's neverhad to do that before, but he
has to do now. And youbet you're ass. If the product is
(34:39):
continually shit and we continually have trendinghashtags of worst raw ever or whatever is
trending something with that effect, youbet you're ass, they're gonna look at
Vince and say, what the fuck'sgoing on and the product will change,
the product will get better. I'mI'm I'm holding out hope that they didn't
(35:05):
want to purchase this group or mergedwith this group and just to have this
ship product. You know, youwant Endeavor to be happy about their requirement,
not dejected by it. And afterlast night, I I would hate
(35:28):
to be Endeavor because the product thatwas shown that they're going to keep putting
out shit like that. That mergewas awful for them, but I don't
know. I think that as giveit a few more weeks, let's see
how it progresses. You know,it came off of arguably one of the
(35:52):
better WrestleManias of all time. Nighttwo put a damper on it, so
I did bring it down, bringit down some, but it was still
really good at WrestleMania. So wehad really high expectations going into this this
(36:12):
raw, and it really fell flat, which makes everybody overreact, like myself
even more. So let's just breathe. Let's see what the next week or
weeks hold. Let's see if itgets better, if they are building more
storylines, because we gotta start fresh. We're starting with fresh, new storylines
coming out of WrestleMania, so let'sjust see what happens. Let's let it
(36:38):
breathe, and you know, ina few weeks, if we're still getting
these shitty raws, and well wehaven't seen SmackDown yet, hopefully SmackDown is
better, which it has been SmackDown. SmackDown has been arguably, oh not
even arguably, it's been no doubt, the better show. So we'll just
(36:59):
have to see how Raw goes.And in a few weeks, I was
still shitty. We can definitely definitelyreassess what we got going on because their
plans might be in the wrong spot, their priorities might be the wrong spots,
and we'll be here to discuss that. But until then, I hope
(37:20):
y'all have a good one. I'lltry to keep the episodes rolling as much
as I can. I hope y'allhave a good day and be safe.
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