WWE SmackDown Review: Final Build For Crown Jewel

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