August 4, 2025 • 40 mins
In a night of unexpected turns and high-stakes championship matches, Cody Rhodes emerged victorious over John Cena in a brutal street fight for the Undisputed WWE Championship.
The night also saw Naomi successfully defend her Women's World Championship in a triple-threat match against Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky, replicating the surprise pinfall strategy used at a previous event.
The Wyatt Sicks, consisting of Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy, retained their WWE Tag Team Championship in a chaotic Six-Pack Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. Despite the involvement of women and a high-energy performance, some teams like Motor City Machine Guns, Fraxiom, and #DIY received a subdued reaction from the crowd. The event featured many tables being broken, much to the delight of the sponsor, Slim Jim.
In a "Last Chance" match, Becky Lynch defeated Lyra Valkyria for the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship, meaning Valkyria can no longer challenge for the title while Lynch is champion. The match's intense resistance from Valkyria, including surviving a zip tie and a monkey wrench attack, led some to question the realism of her character's resilience, especially after her continued push was challenged by the appearance of Bayley.
The event's other championship matches saw Solo Sikoa defeat Jacob Fatu in a Steel Cage match for the WWE United States Championship, with an uncharacteristically small cage being used. Dominik Mysterio also successfully defended his WWE Intercontinental Championship against AJ Styles.
There were several significant moments that were missed on camera, including Fatu breaking his handcuffs, Mysterio hitting a boot, and Valkyria putting Becky through a table.
The night ended with a clear setup for a new rivalry between John Cena and the returning Brock Lesnar.
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The night also saw Naomi successfully defend her Women's World Championship in a triple-threat match against Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky, replicating the surprise pinfall strategy used at a previous event.
The Wyatt Sicks, consisting of Dexter Lumis and Joe Gacy, retained their WWE Tag Team Championship in a chaotic Six-Pack Tables, Ladders, and Chairs match. Despite the involvement of women and a high-energy performance, some teams like Motor City Machine Guns, Fraxiom, and #DIY received a subdued reaction from the crowd. The event featured many tables being broken, much to the delight of the sponsor, Slim Jim.
In a "Last Chance" match, Becky Lynch defeated Lyra Valkyria for the WWE Women's Intercontinental Championship, meaning Valkyria can no longer challenge for the title while Lynch is champion. The match's intense resistance from Valkyria, including surviving a zip tie and a monkey wrench attack, led some to question the realism of her character's resilience, especially after her continued push was challenged by the appearance of Bayley.
The event's other championship matches saw Solo Sikoa defeat Jacob Fatu in a Steel Cage match for the WWE United States Championship, with an uncharacteristically small cage being used. Dominik Mysterio also successfully defended his WWE Intercontinental Championship against AJ Styles.
There were several significant moments that were missed on camera, including Fatu breaking his handcuffs, Mysterio hitting a boot, and Valkyria putting Becky through a table.
The night ended with a clear setup for a new rivalry between John Cena and the returning Brock Lesnar.
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(01:05):
going ballistic that Brocklaster returned. But this sucks, pedophile that
you know, Grant, you know Grant. Okay, we haven't heard
anything about that lawsuit. Okay, it's still under mediation. It
is not a lawsuit in court. Okay. And while Brockloser's
name might have been mentioned in the report in the
(01:26):
lawsuit following forty four times, no charges, no nothing. I mean,
what do you want? Okay, this company, if you thought
they actually were so sensitive your feelings about oh if
Brocklaser were to return, no one thought he was coming back.
(01:47):
But hey man, you know when EKO wwe needs to
go ahead and get somebody in there for a pop,
whoever they can get to get that big pop, because
look they made the change with John Cena. He drops
the belt. Cody Roads tonight, nice little respect, respect, respect,
and let's play out what happened since Friday. Just to
(02:08):
clarify this for the fandom out here, I'm gonna make
sure to clarify all this for you here. It is
so we got the correction on the John Cena, he'll
turn Friday Night's back down. The reason why, it's like
when you want to put some bad news to rest,
if you want to make sure something that happens goes
(02:32):
under the radar, you report on it. You put the
news out there. But a normal thing is you put
it out like a press release. You don't if you
don't want people that are going to pay attention to it.
You put it on a Friday night or on the
weekend when nobody's paying attention. So no one was really
caring or aware of the John Cena He'll turn. Correction.
(02:54):
They didn't want to amplify the fact that John Cena's
heel turn was a mistake. Okay, so for the last
what four months that they decided to go and do
this heel turn, it was a flop. It did not
work because no Rock, no Travis Scott, all of the
intangibles that would have made the storyline make sense, we're
(03:17):
stripped of them because the Rock never showed up as
your elimination Tabor, nothing else, and seeing it winning the
belt as a heel sucked. But him going out in
true fashion now becoming a babyface to lose the belt
to Cody Rhodes. This should have been the WrestleMania made event.
(03:38):
The way this was positioned, this should have been what
WrestleMania finished up with. But w just can't finish that
big show without something big happening. So we're gonna give
Seena another opponent. Now. According to some of the news
that's going on now, as of the post show that's
(04:00):
going on as we speak, I think is still going on.
No more press conferences by w They're not even doing
those anymore. Those are gone. Very interesting. But let's get
back to this now. Okay. In the news, it comes
out of everything. Here's what we got from the Summerset
(04:22):
post show. Triple H is on the panel and a
couple of things happened to him while this is going on.
He's asked about who John Cena wanted to work with
on his retirement tour. That John Cena asked to work
with brocklists from Triple H quote, this is John Cena's
wish list, John Cena's. It's him writing the last chapter
of his book. And I think people saw a conversation
(04:43):
with us where he said we'd have to screw it
up pretty badly to ruin his career. Well by not
executing a proper heel turn like he might have wanted,
would have been a mistake. Let's make that clear. I
think the fact that Brocklister was even brought back was
kind of like, all right, con I think they were
(05:03):
trying to go ahead and correct the situation where the legacy,
the perception of John Cena going into the retirement tour
and this heel turned did not work. Well, let's make
an adjustment. Let's pivot. We're not gonna make this a
big deal on the pay per view or on any
major show. We're gonna put it on Friday Night's back
(05:24):
down of all places, the night before Summer Sam begins.
So nobody's really paying attention to that too much unless
you might be watching the clips, so you watch the
show on Friday Night. So that's the first part I
had to be done, was to make the correction because
to see Cody Roads now go here. So no heel
turned by Cody Rhads. We did not get a double turn.
(05:46):
Cody now gets to get the belt back and might
be a refreshing return for him to be the world
the undisputed champion once again. I'm sure there's opponents you
could plan and put up for him going forward. That's fine.
That transition from Cody going back to the belt. I
(06:06):
don't have a problem with that, especially when you have
John con to coming back and it was a good
guy in effort. And you know, when I was at
the Regal Cinema tonight watching the nine two forty people
in there with me. I'll tell you a pretty lively crowd.
Definitely were into They were definitely an arena type crowd
(06:27):
if they would have in the arena, they were doing
the Houghton the Holler, and they would have been doing
if they were in the arena tonight. So they cheered
big for Sina, cheered big for Cody, and you know
the normal that you would expect from all of that
more from Triple H. But it's not about that for me.
(06:49):
It's about John being able to go out the way
he wants to go out to write his chapter. I
know what that's like as a performer. I know what
that's like for everybody to feel that, and I think
for John to be able to do what he wants
to do. See as I said with the Unreal Show,
Triple H has no autonomy. He cannot say, Okay, John,
(07:09):
if we're going to do this retirement tour, we need
you to do this for us. He's not doing that.
He doesn't get to say that. Vince would be the
only one that could do that. So Triple Age is
appeasing John Cena because he has to. So there's that
part being fixed up going into tonight. Everything be done
(07:32):
to give John Cena the return back to being a face,
the conversion back. Johnson did a great job bringing himself
back to a babyface again and saying that what happened
in the last four months was a blip. It was
a mistake on his part, so he corrects it. He
basically because there wasn't much added to the storyline after
(07:55):
the fact, He basically put an explanation towards that. That
steals up that part of the storyline and then he
can go back to being a babyface. And at this point,
four months left into his retirement run, it's not going
to hurt him at all. It won't hurt him at
all to be a part of this. That's fine for him.
He'll have Brockluster Goo to deal with next and who
(08:18):
else he'll have going forward, and that'll be it. But
no more title and he won't be taking the belt
with him because that would't made sense for him to
do that either. Fine. The match was the match. It
was a pretty good match for John Cena, very long match,
very a typical the kind of matches we've seen him
in before. In the street Fight helped out with that,
(08:38):
and Cody did well fine, great don't care that now.
Brock Lester coming back, Well, you had to give a pop.
You can't just have anybody returned when you have the
caliber of Cody Roads and John Cena. But who do
you have? Are you are any other Roman? Rings is
probably gonna be taking some time off again and returning
back by Survivor series we're hearing and there is nobody
(09:01):
else in the bullpen part time or anything that you
could bring back that gonna be facing john Con right
now anyway, except for brock Lester. It's always like the
callback to that you're not gonna get the Undertaker coming
back for another match. I don't think so. I don't
know who else you have that would be in that
role right now that Johnson would take out of the
current roster. You'd have to find somebody and bring them in.
(09:23):
So brock Lesler coming back, I mean he's just sitting
back there. He's been hunting and fishing and whatever he's
been doing. He's been fine. He hasn't had to do
much else of anything else, been off TV, been off
of everything for a while. For him to come back,
I mean your conventional crowd to see see then Lester
(09:44):
back in there again. That's fine, but the juveitial delusional
fandom is up and added about it. But again, and
I understand too, there's a route a lot of things
that everybody's been saying about tonight that they're not happy about.
That's fine, and we'll go through some of that right
now as we learned about it. So there were a
couple of people talking to doctor Chris Featherstone from Sports
(10:07):
Kida and question was asked, who else is going to
go up against him in his final year? It might
as well have been Triple HCA's call. It's the final
match against brock Leicester. I can't wait to see it
one more time. Future match against a future superstar maybe,
but they've already There is nobody right now that they
feel like that John C is going to take on
except for some of the greatest hits. I don't see him,
(10:31):
you know, hanging up his boots to some future superstar
that's going to be up there. Because of the current roster.
There isn't anybody on the current roster that I think
is ready for that. Rub. I mean, there there are
stars within the making, but they're not in the position
of do that. Right when I look at the card
(10:51):
that we had tonight, and the names that I can
think of that are superstars of the future that are
going to be in that mad event picture eventually for
this company. Just by looking tonight, it might not have
felt like it, but Jacob absolutely is gonna be a
star in the making. That's gonna be the main event level.
(11:13):
You're gonna put him up there right away. But he's
still in the storyline right right now with Solo Soca,
and he still has to deal with the MFT storyline.
That's what they gotta go and deal with. Can't do
much about that. Gun Through right now is at the
very top. I mean, you could put Gunther in a
match with Sina. We haven't gone to that part yet.
But the thing with gun Through is that I feel
(11:35):
like we've already had gun Through out there enough with
the rub on certain stars. So I don't know what
you get by giving gun Through that spot. Because there's
anybody that is of the future, like sols Co, I
still think is very much an upside to him, but
there isn't that many people, And I think Dominant Macterio
(11:57):
clearly at some point needs to be looked at us
that as well. He is main event level coming up someday,
but there will be to be a few things that
will happen. Probably next week he goes to Triple Mania,
he will win the four fatal four way for the
trible A Mega Championship and he'll probably win that and
he'll probably do really well with that and give him
a long run. And I think that's gonna happen. It
(12:20):
would work for that company to go and see him
right there. I mean even compared to like what with
Alberta or Patron that they had, No I'd like that.
I'd like to go and see dominic Asterio rule Triple A.
If they're gonna have trible A be taken over by
the company right now by w then yeah, seeing dominant
Mysterio in this role, I think he fits well for him.
And then after that, I like to see him make
(12:41):
it in after that mega title run and go for
a main event title push. That's what they should do
with him, but there is not much else. And then
broad Breaker, I feel like is end also in that
same respect as well. And there are other stars they
have that could be brought on the come up, like
I mean, Trick Williams get that kind of rub as well.
(13:01):
I mean, you already got a chance to go to
get chokes lay about undertaker. What if Trick Williams were
able to make his way up and be the one
that gets the crowning, you know, he gets the big
rub from John Cena. That's somebody that could definitely benefit
from it. So there's some names in there. Absolutely I
could see some of those being put in that role.
Carry On Cross and has lost the samuzine. That has
(13:23):
not left the minds of the folks out there. Last night.
They were cheering at Triple H. They want we ll
Cross and I mean, hey, you know, credit to Triple
H the way he had to handle it and on
the fly, but the crowd once again and gave it
to him.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It makes it unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It's it's you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Have it, You've got it. Yeah you want Brock, You've
got him. So he took that and misconstrued on purpose.
But yeah, people want to carry on Cross. And let
me tell you, with carrying Across, I mean, you're not
gonna give him a chance to go after John Cena,
but that would be a good thing for him. But
they're you know, this company is not gonna go ahead.
(14:10):
They're not gonna stand behind carrying across. That's not gonna happen.
I don't expect it. And carrying across or Kevin Robert Kossar,
he writes on X Tonight, unreal. They write the scripts,
but the friends write the truth. Thank you, TikTok, but
nice to rub for him. So the crowd definitely wants
to go to see him somewhere, but that's not what they want.
(14:31):
And by the way, we want cross is trending right
now on X, but hey, what does this company care about?
Want anything else? By the way, somebody else on X,
I'm gonna just sleeve the name out. Should have just
ended with the passing of the torch between Cody and Sina.
That should be the headline. I don't get what was
gaining here. Expect bad backlash and bad headlines. Got of
(14:54):
coming out of Somerset. But here's what nobody wants, what
TKO wants or anything else. Listen to the pop and
this is how the juvenile delusional fandom is right there
at metlight study and Tonight quoting sixty thousand plus Tonight
tickets sold one hundred and thirteen thousand total for the weekend.
But listen it comes to this company. They want moments
(15:17):
like this and the juvenile delusion fandom that was in
New York City tonight or in the Meadowlands tonight at
Metlight Stadium. They bought this hook line and sync. They
didn't think about the Janot Grant lawsuit because they acted
like this.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
We have four months left to enjoy the greatness that
is John Sata.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What holy sat.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh job?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yep. Proud didn't think about Janelle Grant or all those
accusations before they went in and popped like crazy right there.
I know in the theater. I was that they pop
like crazy for that too. Hey, you did it for
the pop and then you get a little upset after that,
you get a little bit flustered, you get pissed off,
and now you go keyboard warring on X saying, oh no, pedophil,
(16:17):
sex rapist. You know what. That's why when you're playing
to that crowd, okay you are. You can't just focus
on that crowd. That's about trying to make them happy.
So I don't play to that part. I understand what's
going on here. Business is business. What's good for business? Hey,
(16:41):
it's not just a promo tagline, Okay, it's what this
company's gonna do. So the cheapest ticket is Summer Samson
I eighty bucks. Not cheap. You're talking about the way
up there at the very top. You get overlooked better
look at the Hudson River. Then you get the actual
ring downstairs. Okay, well there you go, and brock Luster
(17:05):
comes back. Everybody's all into it. It's gonna give them
headlines whatever, and we get some comments out there. We
get one comment here. I can't and won't defend going
back to the Brock Well. Not interested in another Brock
Cody feud. Not interested in another Brock return, not interested
if anything. Have Brock come back against Cody, because the
last time we saw him was celebrating with Cody at
(17:26):
Cody after losing to them two years ago at Summer
sam butul it made more sense of Brock cut of promo,
saying that it was a ruse that he was waiting
for this moment to have a title rematch. I don't
think Cody and Brock is the plan. I think it's
definitely Brock and Sina. I don't think Brock is getting
involved in the Cody feud. I think broc is just
here just for John Cena and that's it. I don't
(17:49):
see him coming back for any particular way at all.
That's what comes down to. And then there's more comments
about the allegations. Here we go. Somebody comes up, oh uh,
Brocloser zimm is bitching decided four or four times, would
you know? Grants a minute complaining against w and phensmic
band the kamplete A Ledge Pens tried using grant for
sex favors to get Lester under a new contract. We
(18:12):
know about that. And then of course somebody writes in
any proofd proc anger engage in any way not proven. No,
we haven't heard anything about that yet, and I'm not
disputing that or not. But I'd rather let the court
the case play out. That's what I want. But we
haven't heard about that. Justin Lebar writes, well, Lester wasn't
(18:35):
on the bingo car for tonight, and Johnson he'll turn
truly is done. It will a rank somewhere around Austin's
he'll turn in two thousand and one. After the shock
and all moment of the turn, everything after, we will
calmly try to forget good call. Justin Lebar, Yes, Johnson's
he'll turn is very similar to the Austin Hill turn
during the Invasion. Agreed, well pointed, and I don't know
(18:55):
if and I think was wasn't it Austin that wanted
to make that heel turn too? This is where you
know what you sway your talent. Maybe not a good idea,
but a correction was made so the legacy of the
Star doesn't get hurt. Can't just didn't keep going down
the wrong path if it's not working. Russell view right,
(19:16):
so says what a moment brought. This was back just
a year and a half ago they disperately removed quickly
discovered from a video game release because of the fallen
out of the Vince McMahon debacle. Now he's back and
he looks to be seen his final main opponent. Right,
So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, okay to
see this change now I get it. Also, more commentary
(19:40):
going on before the night came up. So just to
be clear, in the last month, the w has worked
the locker room in an effort for fans, explained away
a storyline to the breaking the idea of k fabe
slash acknowledging creative and feature the slub and a high
profile tag match. Where have I seen this before? Yes,
we're talking about WW. It is it is peak WCW,
(20:02):
Buddy Night, Troe and all that. Yeah, totally, totally, oh well,
and also getting a lot of rounds out there tonight.
A fight breaking out in the summer, same cloud, the
same crow crowd. Quite a fight between a couple of
girls out there pulling hair and all this and going
after each other. And you did see the orange shirted
(20:24):
security guards get over there quickly and start handling the mess.
But it got out there pretty funny. But a lot
of stuff coming out of all this is just I'll
tell you, man, what a what a day? Man, this show?
Let me tell you what. So let's go and go
into what we got tonight out of all this, Naomi
(20:45):
defends the Women's World title triple threat match against reriplat
Neo Sky and the way they decided to go ahead
and get through it, well, let's just replicate the finish
of Trick Williams versus Mike Santana and Joe Henry at
Slammer Versary last month. That's what we'll do, because that's
exactly what they did. I mean, I think it was
(21:09):
exactly the same, like Trick did get the roll, the
trick roll off of the not the trick roll, but
like just they was to sneak the pin fall away
and get the pin and that was it and Trick
Williams there you go out the door and he stays champion. Well,
I mean the match was pretty good. I kind of
(21:29):
missed a little bit of this. I caught a little
bit late. But you know, the other thing too is
that you also see Reorub, you know Sky. They definitely
love to have these two in the ring together, so
why not let them do most a lot of the
work in here in Naomi's just kind of like in
that third role, inserting as needed. But again, she doesn't
have to worry about it. She's the heel. She doesn't
have to be the one that has to put all
(21:50):
the work in as long as she's not getting pinned
and no one else gets pinned. That's the other part too,
only she needs to be getting the pinning done. So
that match, you know, took care of things and that
was a decent start. Everybody was pretty happy about that.
Wyatt six and dextra Lumus Joe Gacy in this and
six pack tables, letters, and chairs match. So you look
(22:14):
at some of the stars they decided to bring out
for the match, motorsty machine guns, Whyatt Wyatt entrance. Nobody
was cheering him, Praxium, Nobody was cheering them, but you
didn't hear it. You didn't hear the big pop for them.
And Dy also subdued reactions. He got him. It was
for street profits and maybe something a little bit for
(22:36):
Andre and Rae Phoenix a little bit, but yeah, why
six they come out and to see them come out daytime,
there's no regard to this group. Listen, this is not
a main event storyline anymore. It's a mid card and
it's not even that good a mid card storyline, and
to see that group coming out here can good in
(23:00):
darkness because the match is not worthy enough to be
down the card. It's basically just a buffer. But they
featured the match, Hey, listen, a lot of tables got broken.
Slim gyms happy about that. So in the moves that
came out there there was some interesting stuff. I mean,
Ray Phoenix is a Spanish fly pretty far up into
that table, and you know, and re Veoenix just shined
(23:23):
quite a bit of all this. But hey, man, we
don't even see Penta out there. Pent isn't even in
a match, and re Phoenix is out here getting paired
up with Androtte. I mean, were these guys just brought
in just because they don't want them working anywhere else?
I honestly feel like listen, Penton, Ree Phoenix, and Androtti personally,
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they're not gonna get much of a play on the
main roster, no titles, nothing like that for them. But
for Triple A, they're gonna be a great draw for
that brand. I guess that's what they're gonna be. I
don't know. I guess that's the reason why they're here.
I don't know if any other way all from her
aw stars, Yeah, they're not gonna get putting anything important.
They're not gonna be putting a NXT, gonna be downgraded,
(24:08):
They're gonna be used for Triple A basically most part
last chance match, last chance, no cutout, Becky Lynch, Lyrivir
Carrier all right, this match, you know, I mean, I
give Becky Lynch a lot of credit. You know, she
is doing so much to try to get this young girl.
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Sheesus not he's not good. She can't do promos. Well,
he's not that great in the ring. She's got a
couple of moves that are good, but like, for the
most part, that match was totally scripted. And one of
the biggest blunders that I saw in the match was
when there was a roll around and you see Leras
(24:51):
Vircia get there's a zip tie that gets pulled out
from Becky Lynch to use all lyricvir Carrea to tie
her up, and for the most part, among the other
things where there's like a million pinfalls of everything that
Beculation could possibly do, put her on a table, chairs, tables, ladders, whatever,
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window sticks, and it doesn't matter what you do. Larvacuria
is indestructible and cannot be pinned. I mean, I feel
like she had more Supercina than John Cena did tonight.
I mean it was like, how do you just go
and let her keep kicking out all the time when
there was so many times that it shouldn't happen. Okay,
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So the zip tie, okay, a couple of points was
actually pretty good. You had her, you know, with her
hands locked on the back of the of the steel
post and she's getting whipped the window stick, and then
you got that whole setup. But then there's a part
when they're rolling around on the mat and Leary Verrcuria
(25:57):
the zip tie wasn't put that tight. Beculae made sure
that because she wanted to make sure that later in
the match her Vircariia, as was going to be scripted,
was going to take the zip tie off. She's gonna
find her way out of it. Unfortunately, the zip tie
came off in the middle. They're rolling around as Lara
Vircaria was able to break free and Larry Vicaria, oh,
(26:22):
she was gonna be slick. He put it back on
and work with her the rest of the batch. And
I was like, I saw it. I laughed my ass off.
Oh like, oh man, let me tell you what what
a mess? And they went through it and then eventually, oh,
we see the and they of course then commentary they
said something about the zip tie, and then they get
(26:43):
to the part where the zip tie was supposed to be,
where Learve Vircia is gonna get her comeback, and she
freed herself with the zip tie. Any veteran in that ring,
I would imagine if it was somebody else out there,
they probably would have said, you know what, I would
have just taken the damn zip tie off and just
improvised in the garty about fifteen minutes said, let's just
improvise this all right, it's not worth by putting it
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back on. It looked really bad. And the worst part
was is that a little over curio. Okay, I'm looking
at the clip once again and I see her there.
At one point she's keeping her hands locked, but you
can see that her right hand has a zip tie,
the left hand doesn't. And then what she does, she
tries to do some kind of magic trick where she
rolls around on the top is she would have done
(27:30):
it and was lying on her stomach, so no money
could see what happened and maybe keep it covered. I
could have given the benefit of the towel, but no,
you could clearly see she put her hand back into
the zip tie because what she does is she kind
of acts like just there and then she tries to
roll from one side one shoulder to the other and
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automatically like sto chain joh. The zip ties back on.
It looked bad. You want to check for yourself exposing
ITWC on X actually put that out there, and I'm
glad they did because it looked bad. That was not good.
Oh boy, And when people actually cared okay, tip tie
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monkey wrench attack doesn't matter, clear of her curio should
not be seen and resilient, okay. Becky Lynch is a
multi time women's champion, comes out to a new entrance
song which always is like a telling sign like there's
just no reason for her to go and be here. Okay,
and then you know, for her to not have to
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go through the icy title now as long as Biggy
Lynch has it, don't mind me be for too long
because they don't have something else, somebody else going after that,
when people started caring about the match was when Bailey
came back out, which, by the way, remember we went
back to that part where Becky and Bailey and Lira
were at each other before the setup for the last match.
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So there we go with that, and Bailey and Becky
is the part of the storyline that we care about.
It doesn't need much of a storyline because they have
a storied past with themselves. Liara, we've already exhausted everything
they've done with her, and the screwjob of the tag
titles or the IC title change when she lost the belt,
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all that's been done at this point, I think another thing,
just like John Cenas Hiltern didn't work, Layer of a
curious purse push. Let me say this again, John Cenas
Hiltern did not work. And at the same time they
learned that leer of a curious push is not working
either and they need to stop it. Let it go.
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Solska and Jacoba two steel cage match for the United
States Championship smaller cage. Did you notice it looked like
it needed like a third level of the cage, like
a third floor, but it didn't have that for a
couple of reasons. Number one, if you're gonna get Jason
Boteo to get his board over the top of that
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that cage, same thing for you know, Hicicleo aka Tala
Tonga or whatever. You want to get those guys out
there and be able to get them over. I think
it was really for just the fact that jac Matteo,
he's a big boy right now, he's not much in shape,
so for him to go ahead and make that climb
up to the fence, up that steel cage to get
up there. And then the other part was that you
got Jacob too out there three hundred pounds and that
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guy's gonna go ahead and execute a moon salt off
the top of the cage. That was all that was for.
They really didn't use the steal cage much. And the MFT,
now I know it's call is for my family tree.
Still don't like the acronym stucks And yeah, people are
now comparing MFT to retribution. Yeah, this group of Simons
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they brought in together in this bastard bloodline. Now it's
those code does not benefit from this, like Souls to
Go and Jacoba Tuo should be alone on this and honestly,
Tanga Tamatanga, Tongaala, all these others they don't need to
be here. I mean, if they are, put them in
somewhere else. But they are not meant to be part
(31:15):
of the Jacviteo as well. They're just not a fit here.
And that's okay because you know, the Simone wrestlers can
go and work a lot of other places. You do
not have to be here, especially when the bloodline storyline
is not a focus right now. It's just not. I mean,
the only part that is a focus is Souls to
Go in Jacobatu and that's it. But souls that go
(31:36):
and the need some bodies to go ahead and still
be the Heel champion here and for Jacafatu to go
and continue to have the fight against his brotherhood to
try to do something here. That's it, Duminum Mysterio. As
I said earlier, when's the Icy title again? Over aj
Style's nice submit of tributes to Eddie Guerrero throughout the
(31:57):
match because of what was going with that. That's all cool,
but I gotta say, man, Dominant Masterio he is, He's
really come into his own and I'm telling you to
see him out there fresh without judgment day. Damn though,
was that good? That felt good to me? And I
need to see Dominant Masterio now not has Judgment Day
(32:19):
with him when he goes to Mexico. He should not
be going. So that Fatal four Way is next week
Arena Mexico, Mexico City, next Saturday night Sato four Way match.
The match will have Dominant Masterio, Dragon Lee and Grunny
(32:41):
Americano challenging Elheil the Viking go for the Triple A
Mega Championship. That'll be a fun match, that'll be very
good and I can absolutely see Dominant Masterio coming away
with the win, not a grunny Americano because Luvit Kaiser's
right now donning the outfit and I don't expect it
or him or Pete done whichever one. I don't expect
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either one of them to go ahead and work in
this match and be taking that that's supposed to be
Chad Gables part. I don't expect Dragon Lead here going
to be that part. Obviously, he'll be good for the match,
but no dominant Masterio that's my favorite right now. I
predict that he will win the Mega Championship next week.
That looks like that's what's gonna happen to me. That
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looks like the choice that this company is going to do.
By the way they are running it on YouTube next
week fantastic And because of that, I will probably do
a post show about that next week. So it's gonna
be live on YouTube both spanshionting and commentary. Jermy Bosh,
thanks you for writing that out. That's awesome, And just
to give your heads up of what the paper fee
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is going to be next week Triplemania thirty three in
Mexico City, and so far we only have that match scheduled.
We don't know what the other matches have been put
in here yet, but so far that way match with
the Triple A Mega Championship is what's scheduled right now.
And by the way, we also know that w is
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definitely interested in having Dominosterio being given and crowned the
Triple A Mega Champion, which I could expect that to happen. Overall,
I'm just surprised I haven't booked it near the matches yet,
but I mean, we'll look at it next week and
I think it will absolutely go and watch this next Saturday.
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It might be interesting how to see that it's going
to go up against Collision next week. I don't know
if Collision is going to be on Saturday or not.
It's been so hard to kind of figure out when
they're on or not because they've been on Thursdays, and
if not on Thursdays, I don't know. I don't know yet. Actually,
I hope that Warner Brothers Discovery, which is now Discovery Networks,
because the plan is the cable channels for the Warner
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Brothers Discovery group as a whole, all the cable channels
will now be under the umbrella A Discovery and Warner
Brothers will be strictly for movies, streaming and television. That's
two separate entities altogether, but Warner Brothers in Discovery will
be separated in terms of the properties that they actually manage.
(35:11):
So hopefully there's more to go on with they're gonna
do with that pay review, but hopefully we'll get more announcements,
and if I get any of those, we'll talk about
those on Wednesday night. Let's see what happens with that.
A couple other things that I mentioned, well, some of
the things I did not mention yet that were significant tonight.
Was I mean, of course, besides the fact that ay
man ik Ao and WD are so concerned about the
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commercials and the product placement. Man, they are like really
big about that part. And I guess the product placement
might have dissuaded the fact that there are certain points
in all these matches that maybe the camera shots should
have been focused on the actual action, because there are
three points where there were things that were missing on
camera that would have been integral to the matches and
(35:56):
the outcome. First of all, you had a layer of
vercury hitting Becky through a table when Becky was trying
to go and get onto a table and kind of
get herself back up after Bailey attacked her, and then
all of a sudden you see Becky near a table
and Larr of Vircarria all of a sudden comes into
the camera view and lands on Becky through a table,
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But we never saw her go up there or anything
like that. It wasn't until like instant replay after that.
Then you have about two where he was handcuffed at
the top of the cage and sol Saka looking at
trying to go ahead and leave the cage through the
cage door. And again people were saying Jesse Venture would
(36:40):
have a fit if he saw that going on again.
But yeah, so Let'sicoa kept trying to find his way
through the door to get out of the ring, and
of course he used the MFT to try to get
through the through the hold Jacob too long enough for
Solsicoa to get out of the cage, but there was
a point where Jacoba two was able to go ahead
and catch up one. Again, all of a sudden we
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see him in a camera view. We can't see the
handcuffs being taken off, but Pa two is able to
go even get down to the CoA once again. And
at the last second he's able to go ahead and
pull the CoA back into the cage. And it wasn't
until after the match we saw the instant replay that
we could see that faut two broke the handcuffs. That
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would have been good to see during the match. And
the third thing was is when Dominic Masterio wins over
Aj Styles, there's a point where Aj Styles has the
cash crusher on Mysterio. But what didn't show you as
well is that Dominant Masterio actually these like bug boots.
(37:42):
Whatever he had had a side zipper. He unzipped the boot. Okay,
it was a cool spot in the Masterio Styles match
where they played back the bake getting hit with a
steel chair where Dominic did it, but then Aj decided
the one up with it over his head and then
just going like complete convulsions. That was really cool the
(38:04):
way they set that up. But yeah, Mysterio, if they
would have shown this in the match itself and we
would have seen Mysterio actually taking the boot and undoing it,
then it would have looked better to see Styles going
on with the calf crusher. The boot comes off, and
now we understand why the boot came off and then
(38:28):
the bait and switch by Dominic Bill they use the
boot on Styles and then get the win. This is
also that should have been happened. And then the part
is that if you would have had this going on
and the cameras would have caught it on the monitors
for Michael Cole and Wade Barrett, they could have called it.
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And it sounds so bad when I hear Wade bart
having to go ahead and erectcon the comments about dominant
masterio and how smart he was and how can I
think he was at that boot off so he could
use it on AJ Styles to win and keep the title.
They missed that completely. But that's some things that that's
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enough going on right there that should be understood and
should be called out. Cause so those are some huge
mist But hey man, you know, at the end of
it all, all a sudden done rock Lester came out,
you got the big pop at the end. You had
a couple of things that happened. There were some memorable
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things that came out of SummerSlam this weekend and they'll
play out now on rows back down this coming week.
So at least we got that the work off of
I'll least give it that. Like I said, we'll see
what they do and what is decided upon when it
comes to Dominant Asterio next week. Because now out of
everything that.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Happened on Summerslaming, I'm not interested to the Dominus going
after the Triple A Mega champions.
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Let think that's going to be a run for him,
that's to be important for.
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Us to live.
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So we'll see the fall out of Summer Sam's going
on this week, we'll.
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going ballistic that Brocklaster returned. But this sucks, pedophile that
you know, Grant, you know Grant. Okay, we haven't heard
anything about that lawsuit. Okay, it's still under mediation. It
is not a lawsuit in court. Okay. And while Brockloser's
name might have been mentioned in the report in the
(01:26):
lawsuit following forty four times, no charges, no nothing. I mean,
what do you want? Okay, this company, if you thought
they actually were so sensitive your feelings about oh if
Brocklaser were to return, no one thought he was coming back.
(01:47):
But hey man, you know when EKO wwe needs to
go ahead and get somebody in there for a pop,
whoever they can get to get that big pop, because
look they made the change with John Cena. He drops
the belt. Cody Roads tonight, nice little respect, respect, respect,
and let's play out what happened since Friday. Just to
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clarify this for the fandom out here, I'm gonna make
sure to clarify all this for you here. It is
so we got the correction on the John Cena, he'll
turn Friday Night's back down. The reason why, it's like
when you want to put some bad news to rest,
if you want to make sure something that happens goes
(02:32):
under the radar, you report on it. You put the
news out there. But a normal thing is you put
it out like a press release. You don't if you
don't want people that are going to pay attention to it.
You put it on a Friday night or on the
weekend when nobody's paying attention. So no one was really
caring or aware of the John Cena He'll turn. Correction.
(02:54):
They didn't want to amplify the fact that John Cena's
heel turn was a mistake. Okay, so for the last
what four months that they decided to go and do
this heel turn, it was a flop. It did not
work because no Rock, no Travis Scott, all of the
intangibles that would have made the storyline make sense, we're
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stripped of them because the Rock never showed up as
your elimination Tabor, nothing else, and seeing it winning the
belt as a heel sucked. But him going out in
true fashion now becoming a babyface to lose the belt
to Cody Rhodes. This should have been the WrestleMania made event.
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The way this was positioned, this should have been what
WrestleMania finished up with. But w just can't finish that
big show without something big happening. So we're gonna give
Seena another opponent. Now. According to some of the news
that's going on now, as of the post show that's
(04:00):
going on as we speak, I think is still going on.
No more press conferences by w They're not even doing
those anymore. Those are gone. Very interesting. But let's get
back to this now. Okay. In the news, it comes
out of everything. Here's what we got from the Summerset
(04:22):
post show. Triple H is on the panel and a
couple of things happened to him while this is going on.
He's asked about who John Cena wanted to work with
on his retirement tour. That John Cena asked to work
with brocklists from Triple H quote, this is John Cena's
wish list, John Cena's. It's him writing the last chapter
of his book. And I think people saw a conversation
(04:43):
with us where he said we'd have to screw it
up pretty badly to ruin his career. Well by not
executing a proper heel turn like he might have wanted,
would have been a mistake. Let's make that clear. I
think the fact that Brocklister was even brought back was
kind of like, all right, con I think they were
(05:03):
trying to go ahead and correct the situation where the legacy,
the perception of John Cena going into the retirement tour
and this heel turned did not work. Well, let's make
an adjustment. Let's pivot. We're not gonna make this a
big deal on the pay per view or on any
major show. We're gonna put it on Friday Night's back
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down of all places, the night before Summer Sam begins.
So nobody's really paying attention to that too much unless
you might be watching the clips, so you watch the
show on Friday Night. So that's the first part I
had to be done, was to make the correction because
to see Cody Roads now go here. So no heel
turned by Cody Rhads. We did not get a double turn.
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Cody now gets to get the belt back and might
be a refreshing return for him to be the world
the undisputed champion once again. I'm sure there's opponents you
could plan and put up for him going forward. That's fine.
That transition from Cody going back to the belt. I
(06:06):
don't have a problem with that, especially when you have
John con to coming back and it was a good
guy in effort. And you know, when I was at
the Regal Cinema tonight watching the nine two forty people
in there with me. I'll tell you a pretty lively crowd.
Definitely were into They were definitely an arena type crowd
(06:27):
if they would have in the arena, they were doing
the Houghton the Holler, and they would have been doing
if they were in the arena tonight. So they cheered
big for Sina, cheered big for Cody, and you know
the normal that you would expect from all of that
more from Triple H. But it's not about that for me.
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It's about John being able to go out the way
he wants to go out to write his chapter. I
know what that's like as a performer. I know what
that's like for everybody to feel that, and I think
for John to be able to do what he wants
to do. See as I said with the Unreal Show,
Triple H has no autonomy. He cannot say, Okay, John,
(07:09):
if we're going to do this retirement tour, we need
you to do this for us. He's not doing that.
He doesn't get to say that. Vince would be the
only one that could do that. So Triple Age is
appeasing John Cena because he has to. So there's that
part being fixed up going into tonight. Everything be done
(07:32):
to give John Cena the return back to being a face,
the conversion back. Johnson did a great job bringing himself
back to a babyface again and saying that what happened
in the last four months was a blip. It was
a mistake on his part, so he corrects it. He
basically because there wasn't much added to the storyline after
(07:55):
the fact, He basically put an explanation towards that. That
steals up that part of the storyline and then he
can go back to being a babyface. And at this point,
four months left into his retirement run, it's not going
to hurt him at all. It won't hurt him at
all to be a part of this. That's fine for him.
He'll have Brockluster Goo to deal with next and who
(08:18):
else he'll have going forward, and that'll be it. But
no more title and he won't be taking the belt
with him because that would't made sense for him to
do that either. Fine. The match was the match. It
was a pretty good match for John Cena, very long match,
very a typical the kind of matches we've seen him
in before. In the street Fight helped out with that,
(08:38):
and Cody did well fine, great don't care that now.
Brock Lester coming back, Well, you had to give a pop.
You can't just have anybody returned when you have the
caliber of Cody Roads and John Cena. But who do
you have? Are you are any other Roman? Rings is
probably gonna be taking some time off again and returning
back by Survivor series we're hearing and there is nobody
(09:01):
else in the bullpen part time or anything that you
could bring back that gonna be facing john Con right
now anyway, except for brock Lester. It's always like the
callback to that you're not gonna get the Undertaker coming
back for another match. I don't think so. I don't
know who else you have that would be in that
role right now that Johnson would take out of the
current roster. You'd have to find somebody and bring them in.
(09:23):
So brock Lesler coming back, I mean he's just sitting
back there. He's been hunting and fishing and whatever he's
been doing. He's been fine. He hasn't had to do
much else of anything else, been off TV, been off
of everything for a while. For him to come back,
I mean your conventional crowd to see see then Lester
(09:44):
back in there again. That's fine, but the juveitial delusional
fandom is up and added about it. But again, and
I understand too, there's a route a lot of things
that everybody's been saying about tonight that they're not happy about.
That's fine, and we'll go through some of that right
now as we learned about it. So there were a
couple of people talking to doctor Chris Featherstone from Sports
(10:07):
Kida and question was asked, who else is going to
go up against him in his final year? It might
as well have been Triple HCA's call. It's the final
match against brock Leicester. I can't wait to see it
one more time. Future match against a future superstar maybe,
but they've already There is nobody right now that they
feel like that John C is going to take on
except for some of the greatest hits. I don't see him,
(10:31):
you know, hanging up his boots to some future superstar
that's going to be up there. Because of the current roster.
There isn't anybody on the current roster that I think
is ready for that. Rub. I mean, there there are
stars within the making, but they're not in the position
of do that. Right when I look at the card
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that we had tonight, and the names that I can
think of that are superstars of the future that are
going to be in that mad event picture eventually for
this company. Just by looking tonight, it might not have
felt like it, but Jacob absolutely is gonna be a
star in the making. That's gonna be the main event level.
(11:13):
You're gonna put him up there right away. But he's
still in the storyline right right now with Solo Soca,
and he still has to deal with the MFT storyline.
That's what they gotta go and deal with. Can't do
much about that. Gun Through right now is at the
very top. I mean, you could put Gunther in a
match with Sina. We haven't gone to that part yet.
But the thing with gun Through is that I feel
(11:35):
like we've already had gun Through out there enough with
the rub on certain stars. So I don't know what
you get by giving gun Through that spot. Because there's
anybody that is of the future, like sols Co, I
still think is very much an upside to him, but
there isn't that many people, And I think Dominant Macterio
(11:57):
clearly at some point needs to be looked at us
that as well. He is main event level coming up someday,
but there will be to be a few things that
will happen. Probably next week he goes to Triple Mania,
he will win the four fatal four way for the
trible A Mega Championship and he'll probably win that and
he'll probably do really well with that and give him
a long run. And I think that's gonna happen. It
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would work for that company to go and see him
right there. I mean even compared to like what with
Alberta or Patron that they had, No I'd like that.
I'd like to go and see dominic Asterio rule Triple A.
If they're gonna have trible A be taken over by
the company right now by w then yeah, seeing dominant
Mysterio in this role, I think he fits well for him.
And then after that, I like to see him make
(12:41):
it in after that mega title run and go for
a main event title push. That's what they should do
with him, but there is not much else. And then
broad Breaker, I feel like is end also in that
same respect as well. And there are other stars they
have that could be brought on the come up, like
I mean, Trick Williams get that kind of rub as well.
(13:01):
I mean, you already got a chance to go to
get chokes lay about undertaker. What if Trick Williams were
able to make his way up and be the one
that gets the crowning, you know, he gets the big
rub from John Cena. That's somebody that could definitely benefit
from it. So there's some names in there. Absolutely I
could see some of those being put in that role.
Carry On Cross and has lost the samuzine. That has
(13:23):
not left the minds of the folks out there. Last night.
They were cheering at Triple H. They want we ll
Cross and I mean, hey, you know, credit to Triple
H the way he had to handle it and on
the fly, but the crowd once again and gave it
to him.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
It makes it unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
It's it's you.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Have it, You've got it. Yeah you want Brock, You've
got him. So he took that and misconstrued on purpose.
But yeah, people want to carry on Cross. And let
me tell you, with carrying Across, I mean, you're not
gonna give him a chance to go after John Cena,
but that would be a good thing for him. But
they're you know, this company is not gonna go ahead.
(14:10):
They're not gonna stand behind carrying across. That's not gonna happen.
I don't expect it. And carrying across or Kevin Robert Kossar,
he writes on X Tonight, unreal. They write the scripts,
but the friends write the truth. Thank you, TikTok, but
nice to rub for him. So the crowd definitely wants
to go to see him somewhere, but that's not what they want.
(14:31):
And by the way, we want cross is trending right
now on X, but hey, what does this company care about?
Want anything else? By the way, somebody else on X,
I'm gonna just sleeve the name out. Should have just
ended with the passing of the torch between Cody and Sina.
That should be the headline. I don't get what was
gaining here. Expect bad backlash and bad headlines. Got of
(14:54):
coming out of Somerset. But here's what nobody wants, what
TKO wants or anything else. Listen to the pop and
this is how the juvenile delusional fandom is right there
at metlight study and Tonight quoting sixty thousand plus Tonight
tickets sold one hundred and thirteen thousand total for the weekend.
But listen it comes to this company. They want moments
(15:17):
like this and the juvenile delusion fandom that was in
New York City tonight or in the Meadowlands tonight at
Metlight Stadium. They bought this hook line and sync. They
didn't think about the Janot Grant lawsuit because they acted
like this.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
We have four months left to enjoy the greatness that
is John Sata.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
What holy sat.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Oh job?
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Yep. Proud didn't think about Janelle Grant or all those
accusations before they went in and popped like crazy right there.
I know in the theater. I was that they pop
like crazy for that too. Hey, you did it for
the pop and then you get a little upset after that,
you get a little bit flustered, you get pissed off,
and now you go keyboard warring on X saying, oh no, pedophil,
(16:17):
sex rapist. You know what. That's why when you're playing
to that crowd, okay you are. You can't just focus
on that crowd. That's about trying to make them happy.
So I don't play to that part. I understand what's
going on here. Business is business. What's good for business? Hey,
(16:41):
it's not just a promo tagline, Okay, it's what this
company's gonna do. So the cheapest ticket is Summer Samson
I eighty bucks. Not cheap. You're talking about the way
up there at the very top. You get overlooked better
look at the Hudson River. Then you get the actual
ring downstairs. Okay, well there you go, and brock Luster
(17:05):
comes back. Everybody's all into it. It's gonna give them
headlines whatever, and we get some comments out there. We
get one comment here. I can't and won't defend going
back to the Brock Well. Not interested in another Brock
Cody feud. Not interested in another Brock return, not interested
if anything. Have Brock come back against Cody, because the
last time we saw him was celebrating with Cody at
(17:26):
Cody after losing to them two years ago at Summer
sam butul it made more sense of Brock cut of promo,
saying that it was a ruse that he was waiting
for this moment to have a title rematch. I don't
think Cody and Brock is the plan. I think it's
definitely Brock and Sina. I don't think Brock is getting
involved in the Cody feud. I think broc is just
here just for John Cena and that's it. I don't
(17:49):
see him coming back for any particular way at all.
That's what comes down to. And then there's more comments
about the allegations. Here we go. Somebody comes up, oh uh,
Brocloser zimm is bitching decided four or four times, would
you know? Grants a minute complaining against w and phensmic
band the kamplete A Ledge Pens tried using grant for
sex favors to get Lester under a new contract. We
(18:12):
know about that. And then of course somebody writes in
any proofd proc anger engage in any way not proven. No,
we haven't heard anything about that yet, and I'm not
disputing that or not. But I'd rather let the court
the case play out. That's what I want. But we
haven't heard about that. Justin Lebar writes, well, Lester wasn't
(18:35):
on the bingo car for tonight, and Johnson he'll turn
truly is done. It will a rank somewhere around Austin's
he'll turn in two thousand and one. After the shock
and all moment of the turn, everything after, we will
calmly try to forget good call. Justin Lebar, Yes, Johnson's
he'll turn is very similar to the Austin Hill turn
during the Invasion. Agreed, well pointed, and I don't know
(18:55):
if and I think was wasn't it Austin that wanted
to make that heel turn too? This is where you
know what you sway your talent. Maybe not a good idea,
but a correction was made so the legacy of the
Star doesn't get hurt. Can't just didn't keep going down
the wrong path if it's not working. Russell view right,
(19:16):
so says what a moment brought. This was back just
a year and a half ago they disperately removed quickly
discovered from a video game release because of the fallen
out of the Vince McMahon debacle. Now he's back and
he looks to be seen his final main opponent. Right,
So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, okay to
see this change now I get it. Also, more commentary
(19:40):
going on before the night came up. So just to
be clear, in the last month, the w has worked
the locker room in an effort for fans, explained away
a storyline to the breaking the idea of k fabe
slash acknowledging creative and feature the slub and a high
profile tag match. Where have I seen this before? Yes,
we're talking about WW. It is it is peak WCW,
(20:02):
Buddy Night, Troe and all that. Yeah, totally, totally, oh well,
and also getting a lot of rounds out there tonight.
A fight breaking out in the summer, same cloud, the
same crow crowd. Quite a fight between a couple of
girls out there pulling hair and all this and going
after each other. And you did see the orange shirted
(20:24):
security guards get over there quickly and start handling the mess.
But it got out there pretty funny. But a lot
of stuff coming out of all this is just I'll
tell you, man, what a what a day? Man, this show?
Let me tell you what. So let's go and go
into what we got tonight out of all this, Naomi
(20:45):
defends the Women's World title triple threat match against reriplat
Neo Sky and the way they decided to go ahead
and get through it, well, let's just replicate the finish
of Trick Williams versus Mike Santana and Joe Henry at
Slammer Versary last month. That's what we'll do, because that's
exactly what they did. I mean, I think it was
(21:09):
exactly the same, like Trick did get the roll, the
trick roll off of the not the trick roll, but
like just they was to sneak the pin fall away
and get the pin and that was it and Trick
Williams there you go out the door and he stays champion. Well,
I mean the match was pretty good. I kind of
(21:29):
missed a little bit of this. I caught a little
bit late. But you know, the other thing too is
that you also see Reorub, you know Sky. They definitely
love to have these two in the ring together, so
why not let them do most a lot of the
work in here in Naomi's just kind of like in
that third role, inserting as needed. But again, she doesn't
have to worry about it. She's the heel. She doesn't
have to be the one that has to put all
(21:50):
the work in as long as she's not getting pinned
and no one else gets pinned. That's the other part too,
only she needs to be getting the pinning done. So
that match, you know, took care of things and that
was a decent start. Everybody was pretty happy about that.
Wyatt six and dextra Lumus Joe Gacy in this and
six pack tables, letters, and chairs match. So you look
(22:14):
at some of the stars they decided to bring out
for the match, motorsty machine guns, Whyatt Wyatt entrance. Nobody
was cheering him, Praxium, Nobody was cheering them, but you
didn't hear it. You didn't hear the big pop for them.
And Dy also subdued reactions. He got him. It was
for street profits and maybe something a little bit for
(22:36):
Andre and Rae Phoenix a little bit, but yeah, why
six they come out and to see them come out daytime,
there's no regard to this group. Listen, this is not
a main event storyline anymore. It's a mid card and
it's not even that good a mid card storyline, and
to see that group coming out here can good in
(23:00):
darkness because the match is not worthy enough to be
down the card. It's basically just a buffer. But they
featured the match, Hey, listen, a lot of tables got broken.
Slim gyms happy about that. So in the moves that
came out there there was some interesting stuff. I mean,
Ray Phoenix is a Spanish fly pretty far up into
that table, and you know, and re Veoenix just shined
(23:23):
quite a bit of all this. But hey, man, we
don't even see Penta out there. Pent isn't even in
a match, and re Phoenix is out here getting paired
up with Androtte. I mean, were these guys just brought
in just because they don't want them working anywhere else?
I honestly feel like listen, Penton, Ree Phoenix, and Androtti personally,
(23:45):
they're not gonna get much of a play on the
main roster, no titles, nothing like that for them. But
for Triple A, they're gonna be a great draw for
that brand. I guess that's what they're gonna be. I
don't know. I guess that's the reason why they're here.
I don't know if any other way all from her
aw stars, Yeah, they're not gonna get putting anything important.
They're not gonna be putting a NXT, gonna be downgraded,
(24:08):
They're gonna be used for Triple A basically most part
last chance match, last chance, no cutout, Becky Lynch, Lyrivir
Carrier all right, this match, you know, I mean, I
give Becky Lynch a lot of credit. You know, she
is doing so much to try to get this young girl.
(24:30):
Sheesus not he's not good. She can't do promos. Well,
he's not that great in the ring. She's got a
couple of moves that are good, but like, for the
most part, that match was totally scripted. And one of
the biggest blunders that I saw in the match was
when there was a roll around and you see Leras
(24:51):
Vircia get there's a zip tie that gets pulled out
from Becky Lynch to use all lyricvir Carrea to tie
her up, and for the most part, among the other
things where there's like a million pinfalls of everything that
Beculation could possibly do, put her on a table, chairs, tables, ladders, whatever,
(25:13):
window sticks, and it doesn't matter what you do. Larvacuria
is indestructible and cannot be pinned. I mean, I feel
like she had more Supercina than John Cena did tonight.
I mean it was like, how do you just go
and let her keep kicking out all the time when
there was so many times that it shouldn't happen. Okay,
(25:36):
So the zip tie, okay, a couple of points was
actually pretty good. You had her, you know, with her
hands locked on the back of the of the steel
post and she's getting whipped the window stick, and then
you got that whole setup. But then there's a part
when they're rolling around on the mat and Leary Verrcuria
(25:57):
the zip tie wasn't put that tight. Beculae made sure
that because she wanted to make sure that later in
the match her Vircariia, as was going to be scripted,
was going to take the zip tie off. She's gonna
find her way out of it. Unfortunately, the zip tie
came off in the middle. They're rolling around as Lara
Vircaria was able to break free and Larry Vicaria, oh,
(26:22):
she was gonna be slick. He put it back on
and work with her the rest of the batch. And
I was like, I saw it. I laughed my ass off.
Oh like, oh man, let me tell you what what
a mess? And they went through it and then eventually, oh,
we see the and they of course then commentary they
said something about the zip tie, and then they get
(26:43):
to the part where the zip tie was supposed to be,
where Learve Vircia is gonna get her comeback, and she
freed herself with the zip tie. Any veteran in that ring,
I would imagine if it was somebody else out there,
they probably would have said, you know what, I would
have just taken the damn zip tie off and just
improvised in the garty about fifteen minutes said, let's just
improvise this all right, it's not worth by putting it
(27:09):
back on. It looked really bad. And the worst part
was is that a little over curio. Okay, I'm looking
at the clip once again and I see her there.
At one point she's keeping her hands locked, but you
can see that her right hand has a zip tie,
the left hand doesn't. And then what she does, she
tries to do some kind of magic trick where she
rolls around on the top is she would have done
(27:30):
it and was lying on her stomach, so no money
could see what happened and maybe keep it covered. I
could have given the benefit of the towel, but no,
you could clearly see she put her hand back into
the zip tie because what she does is she kind
of acts like just there and then she tries to
roll from one side one shoulder to the other and
(27:52):
automatically like sto chain joh. The zip ties back on.
It looked bad. You want to check for yourself exposing
ITWC on X actually put that out there, and I'm
glad they did because it looked bad. That was not good.
Oh boy, And when people actually cared okay, tip tie
(28:15):
monkey wrench attack doesn't matter, clear of her curio should
not be seen and resilient, okay. Becky Lynch is a
multi time women's champion, comes out to a new entrance
song which always is like a telling sign like there's
just no reason for her to go and be here. Okay,
and then you know, for her to not have to
(28:36):
go through the icy title now as long as Biggy
Lynch has it, don't mind me be for too long
because they don't have something else, somebody else going after that,
when people started caring about the match was when Bailey
came back out, which, by the way, remember we went
back to that part where Becky and Bailey and Lira
were at each other before the setup for the last match.
(28:58):
So there we go with that, and Bailey and Becky
is the part of the storyline that we care about.
It doesn't need much of a storyline because they have
a storied past with themselves. Liara, we've already exhausted everything
they've done with her, and the screwjob of the tag
titles or the IC title change when she lost the belt,
(29:22):
all that's been done at this point, I think another thing,
just like John Cenas Hiltern didn't work, Layer of a
curious purse push. Let me say this again, John Cenas
Hiltern did not work. And at the same time they
learned that leer of a curious push is not working
either and they need to stop it. Let it go.
(29:46):
Solska and Jacoba two steel cage match for the United
States Championship smaller cage. Did you notice it looked like
it needed like a third level of the cage, like
a third floor, but it didn't have that for a
couple of reasons. Number one, if you're gonna get Jason
Boteo to get his board over the top of that
(30:07):
that cage, same thing for you know, Hicicleo aka Tala
Tonga or whatever. You want to get those guys out
there and be able to get them over. I think
it was really for just the fact that jac Matteo,
he's a big boy right now, he's not much in shape,
so for him to go ahead and make that climb
up to the fence, up that steel cage to get
up there. And then the other part was that you
got Jacob too out there three hundred pounds and that
(30:29):
guy's gonna go ahead and execute a moon salt off
the top of the cage. That was all that was for.
They really didn't use the steal cage much. And the MFT,
now I know it's call is for my family tree.
Still don't like the acronym stucks And yeah, people are
now comparing MFT to retribution. Yeah, this group of Simons
(30:53):
they brought in together in this bastard bloodline. Now it's
those code does not benefit from this, like Souls to
Go and Jacoba Tuo should be alone on this and honestly,
Tanga Tamatanga, Tongaala, all these others they don't need to
be here. I mean, if they are, put them in
somewhere else. But they are not meant to be part
(31:15):
of the Jacviteo as well. They're just not a fit here.
And that's okay because you know, the Simone wrestlers can
go and work a lot of other places. You do
not have to be here, especially when the bloodline storyline
is not a focus right now. It's just not. I mean,
the only part that is a focus is Souls to
Go in Jacobatu and that's it. But souls that go
(31:36):
and the need some bodies to go ahead and still
be the Heel champion here and for Jacafatu to go
and continue to have the fight against his brotherhood to
try to do something here. That's it, Duminum Mysterio. As
I said earlier, when's the Icy title again? Over aj
Style's nice submit of tributes to Eddie Guerrero throughout the
(31:57):
match because of what was going with that. That's all cool,
but I gotta say, man, Dominant Masterio he is, He's
really come into his own and I'm telling you to
see him out there fresh without judgment day. Damn though,
was that good? That felt good to me? And I
need to see Dominant Masterio now not has Judgment Day
(32:19):
with him when he goes to Mexico. He should not
be going. So that Fatal four Way is next week
Arena Mexico, Mexico City, next Saturday night Sato four Way match.
The match will have Dominant Masterio, Dragon Lee and Grunny
(32:41):
Americano challenging Elheil the Viking go for the Triple A
Mega Championship. That'll be a fun match, that'll be very
good and I can absolutely see Dominant Masterio coming away
with the win, not a grunny Americano because Luvit Kaiser's
right now donning the outfit and I don't expect it
or him or Pete done whichever one. I don't expect
(33:02):
either one of them to go ahead and work in
this match and be taking that that's supposed to be
Chad Gables part. I don't expect Dragon Lead here going
to be that part. Obviously, he'll be good for the match,
but no dominant Masterio that's my favorite right now. I
predict that he will win the Mega Championship next week.
That looks like that's what's gonna happen to me. That
(33:25):
looks like the choice that this company is going to do.
By the way they are running it on YouTube next
week fantastic And because of that, I will probably do
a post show about that next week. So it's gonna
be live on YouTube both spanshionting and commentary. Jermy Bosh,
thanks you for writing that out. That's awesome, And just
to give your heads up of what the paper fee
(33:45):
is going to be next week Triplemania thirty three in
Mexico City, and so far we only have that match scheduled.
We don't know what the other matches have been put
in here yet, but so far that way match with
the Triple A Mega Championship is what's scheduled right now.
And by the way, we also know that w is
(34:08):
definitely interested in having Dominosterio being given and crowned the
Triple A Mega Champion, which I could expect that to happen. Overall,
I'm just surprised I haven't booked it near the matches yet,
but I mean, we'll look at it next week and
I think it will absolutely go and watch this next Saturday.
(34:29):
It might be interesting how to see that it's going
to go up against Collision next week. I don't know
if Collision is going to be on Saturday or not.
It's been so hard to kind of figure out when
they're on or not because they've been on Thursdays, and
if not on Thursdays, I don't know. I don't know yet. Actually,
I hope that Warner Brothers Discovery, which is now Discovery Networks,
because the plan is the cable channels for the Warner
(34:51):
Brothers Discovery group as a whole, all the cable channels
will now be under the umbrella A Discovery and Warner
Brothers will be strictly for movies, streaming and television. That's
two separate entities altogether, but Warner Brothers in Discovery will
be separated in terms of the properties that they actually manage.
(35:11):
So hopefully there's more to go on with they're gonna
do with that pay review, but hopefully we'll get more announcements,
and if I get any of those, we'll talk about
those on Wednesday night. Let's see what happens with that.
A couple other things that I mentioned, well, some of
the things I did not mention yet that were significant tonight.
Was I mean, of course, besides the fact that ay
man ik Ao and WD are so concerned about the
(35:35):
commercials and the product placement. Man, they are like really
big about that part. And I guess the product placement
might have dissuaded the fact that there are certain points
in all these matches that maybe the camera shots should
have been focused on the actual action, because there are
three points where there were things that were missing on
camera that would have been integral to the matches and
(35:56):
the outcome. First of all, you had a layer of
vercury hitting Becky through a table when Becky was trying
to go and get onto a table and kind of
get herself back up after Bailey attacked her, and then
all of a sudden you see Becky near a table
and Larr of Vircarria all of a sudden comes into
the camera view and lands on Becky through a table,
(36:19):
But we never saw her go up there or anything
like that. It wasn't until like instant replay after that.
Then you have about two where he was handcuffed at
the top of the cage and sol Saka looking at
trying to go ahead and leave the cage through the
cage door. And again people were saying Jesse Venture would
(36:40):
have a fit if he saw that going on again.
But yeah, so Let'sicoa kept trying to find his way
through the door to get out of the ring, and
of course he used the MFT to try to get
through the through the hold Jacob too long enough for
Solsicoa to get out of the cage, but there was
a point where Jacoba two was able to go ahead
and catch up one. Again, all of a sudden we
(37:01):
see him in a camera view. We can't see the
handcuffs being taken off, but Pa two is able to
go even get down to the CoA once again. And
at the last second he's able to go ahead and
pull the CoA back into the cage. And it wasn't
until after the match we saw the instant replay that
we could see that faut two broke the handcuffs. That
(37:22):
would have been good to see during the match. And
the third thing was is when Dominic Masterio wins over
Aj Styles, there's a point where Aj Styles has the
cash crusher on Mysterio. But what didn't show you as
well is that Dominant Masterio actually these like bug boots.
(37:42):
Whatever he had had a side zipper. He unzipped the boot. Okay,
it was a cool spot in the Masterio Styles match
where they played back the bake getting hit with a
steel chair where Dominic did it, but then Aj decided
the one up with it over his head and then
just going like complete convulsions. That was really cool the
(38:04):
way they set that up. But yeah, Mysterio, if they
would have shown this in the match itself and we
would have seen Mysterio actually taking the boot and undoing it,
then it would have looked better to see Styles going
on with the calf crusher. The boot comes off, and
now we understand why the boot came off and then
(38:28):
the bait and switch by Dominic Bill they use the
boot on Styles and then get the win. This is
also that should have been happened. And then the part
is that if you would have had this going on
and the cameras would have caught it on the monitors
for Michael Cole and Wade Barrett, they could have called it.
(38:49):
And it sounds so bad when I hear Wade bart
having to go ahead and erectcon the comments about dominant
masterio and how smart he was and how can I
think he was at that boot off so he could
use it on AJ Styles to win and keep the title.
They missed that completely. But that's some things that that's
(39:12):
enough going on right there that should be understood and
should be called out. Cause so those are some huge
mist But hey man, you know, at the end of
it all, all a sudden done rock Lester came out,
you got the big pop at the end. You had
a couple of things that happened. There were some memorable
(39:32):
things that came out of SummerSlam this weekend and they'll
play out now on rows back down this coming week.
So at least we got that the work off of
I'll least give it that. Like I said, we'll see
what they do and what is decided upon when it
comes to Dominant Asterio next week. Because now out of
everything that.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
Happened on Summerslaming, I'm not interested to the Dominus going
after the Triple A Mega champions.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
Let think that's going to be a run for him,
that's to be important for.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Us to live.
Speaker 4 (40:00):
So we'll see the fall out of Summer Sam's going
on this week, we'll.
Speaker 1 (40:04):
Talk about it on the next podcast, and then I'll probably.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Do a post show for Diplomatia in Mexico City next week.
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