Revisiting WWE RAW 2004 Evolution Turn On Randy Orton, Lita Bridal Shower For Kane Wedding, $250,000 Diva Search, All Or Nothing Match

The boys are back to the Deadlock Podcast episode number two hundred and whoa how
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Whoa whoa? Oh man, she got a call down, bro,
This guy's craves yourself. Nah. This week it is a Tony and James
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joany yea yeah joany episode here? This Harkin's back, I mean good Marcus.
Back to the days of old Deadlock where I went to Japan and left
you and uh you had to get Johnny to get on so oh yeah,
you're right, yeah, or you know the podcast when Marcus would spreadically not
be around it, it would just be me and you. He would always
be around. He'd always be saying your random and the podcast, which is
always very fun. But this week we are back here. Johnny is taking
care of some stuff in real life, so it is Meet and Tony taking
the helm. This week we are talking about Monday and Night Raw August sixteenth,
two thousand and four. If you saw on the screen video version right,
they're great for audio podcast. I did thumbs up, thumbs juff.
Oh well, yeah, it's the episode where Evolution turns on Randy Orton.
How could day? How could they do that? Man? He just won
the title for Ben Watt's Summer Slim bro It's funny. I went through to
grab the observers this time, Tony, and I don't think that anyone thought
this was too great at the time, But looking back on it, I
look back on it pretty pretty good. I like this. Yeah, yeah,
we'll get into it, but yeah, it was definitely I thought it
was cool when he beat Ben Wall. I never thought that was gonna happen,
so that was pretty sweet. Oh, before we get into that,
we have some deadlock updates for you guys. Watch this is up on the
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don't you, dude? The streak is over or not? Maybe it
is, dude, interesting match Giant Gonzalez, Big Man, Little Dick and
Ball. There's almost none really, you're right, ass Cracks. There's a
bunch of must kids in the crowd too. Yeah, you're right. Yeah,
this is a very You have to watch it. You have to see
it to believe it to be To be honest, one the Undertaker dies and
comes back. It's incredible. You have to watch this. And there's a
Hogan promo where he has a black eye, so maybe check that one out.
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watched ECW Guilty Has Charged two thousand and one, which was their final pay
per view ever. Yeah for good reason. Yeah man, Uh, I
don't know how Time looks back on that pay per view, but it was
a doozy I'll give it that name it and gone. He's out of here.
Bro, I'm going I'm on raw already. I think I don't blame
him, but you gotta watch it. You gotta watch it to see.
It's another one of those uh see to believe it. Rob van Dam comes
back, of course at that show. He's w w eat out at this
point, but he returns as if you don't remember, he just left because
he wasn't getting paid. So that's cool, makes sense to me. So
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over there all right. Time to get into Monday Night Raw August sixteenth,
two thousand and four. It's my life in a box. We're not even
close, bro, we are so drugged. The money. I like the
drugs. I like the drugs and the money. I think that's the best.
Yeah, the drugs are cool. The drugs can get you the money
too, oh yeah, or could lose you the money, you know,
could take down the wrong damn. That's that's some real ship man here from
the wrong side of the tracks. You know, it could happen. Before
we get into that, we're gonna go over some observer notes from that era.
I'm gonna be taking this back over. We're going a full circle with
this segment. I guess then we're gonna do the I got four w and
I have observer stuff sucks. I'm ready, Okay, Yeah, I do
have tuff here. I actually got a lot of stuff here from from I
went from like August ninth to August like twenty third or something. Okay,
So I got a couple of things here that was funny about zim ww's experiment
of doing three pay per view shows in six weeks is now over. The
results of the final card, which was Vengeance in Hartford, was headlined by
Crispin Wah versus Triple H and then we're disappointing. The estimates have it at
two hundred and twenty thousand buys. Tony two hundred and twenty thousand buys was
weak and the and the three pay per view shows in six weeks they did
was seven hundred and fifteen thousand pay per view buys compared to seven hundred and
fifty thousand buys for two shows last year. So the matches that were headlined
on all three of these shows were Triple As versus Shawn Michaels Helen a Cell,
which Meltzer rights here. It should have done better. JBL versus Eddie
Guerrero in a bull rope match, which apparently did very very well, and
then of course the disappointing Triple H versus CRISP and WAH headliner. Yeah.
Yeah, So it looks like Shawn O'Hare has been arrested on charges of assault
and battery, as well as violation of conditions of a bond and was taken
to an attention center. He was later released and wrestled over the weekend for
UPW and Anaheim and he claimed that it was in self defense. So obviously
he was released and he wrestled, and we moved on from this. Meltzer,
Uh yeah, I mean, Shanno Hare's a big ass dude. I
don't want to be assaulted or batter anything close to this, probably yeah,
and he's you know, it's from the power Plant. You know, sorrys
had a real hand and it starts of the govic. So uh, Meltser
actually writes like pretty much how Shawn O'Hare's WWF run went. I don't know
if we've like talked about how everything went with him, because it was pretty
quick. You know, he came in and then he was They wanted to
let him go, but they didn't, and then you know, he did
the gimmick with Roddy Piper and then he ended up leaving anyways, But he
writes down here, I wanted to talk about his run because I don't know
a chance to talk about it anymore. But this was basically how Shawn Ohaar's
running in WWF went. So of course he came in as WCW Tag team
champion. Meltzer rights here that he and Palumbo came into WWF recognized as the
champs, and he was ostracized at first because WF was burying everything I had
to do with WCWE, including a real life gang beat down many w WF
guys on the two x WCW guys on a live raw episode, orchestrated by
JBL as a painful initiation classic JBL style, particularly Undertaker. It could have
been either one. Undertaker is not gonna do it out there though you know
I do a backstage. Honestly, he probably won't even hit you. What
he'll do is he'll good events as they just fire him and he'll do it
quickly. He was given the label by WWF wrestlers as someone who didn't know
how to work, so they dropped the belts on August seven to Undertaker and
Kane. He was sent to Heartland Wrestling Association as due to his power plant
training, all he learned how to do was high spots to work short action
matches because Eric Bischoff at the time believe that is what the TV audience wanted.
So when WWF officials wanted him to slow it down and do more matt
based wrestling, he did not know how to do that. So he went
down to Heartland and he learned a little bit, and he was brought back.
Of course, Meltzer rights here as a unique devil like gimmick in some
strong vignettes. Of course he's talking about the trench jacket and all that stuff
with Roddy Piper, and he was given the role of Roddy Piper's bodyguard,
which even got to count out win over a whole cogen on TV. So
they obviously saw something them, right, Yeah, yeah, Well, when
Roddy Piper was fired, uh, they just gave up on Shawn O'Hare send
him back down to ov W, where he got over Strong as Jim Ross's
personal baby face and forcer. What yeah, that's right on OVW, and
he was forced to feud with Inspector Impact and Inspector Impact was Luther Reins Tonty,
but the company felt he wasn't progressing and he was cut after doing an
injury angle on a WW House show in Louisville. He was given a shot
with New Japan Pro Wrestling, doing a high profile match on their Tokyo Dome
show, losing to Hiroshi Tonahashi, but the match sucked and he wasn't brought
back. Tough time. I mean, if I had to run a program,
I think Inspector Impact, I think my career would be over. You
know, Inspector Impact. It's got to be the craziest name of all time.
You know, that's got to be the craziest name of all time.
That's that's insane. That's like a TNA name, right, Inspector Impact.
That would be like a mystery guy. Who's right it would be? Yeah,
it would probably be Eric Young or Austin Aries either one. Yeah,
that's also true. And then he would bind his leave showing here. Man.
I love he had a look though. Man, he looked in that
trench coat look, I mean, the devil thing whatever. I like the
little vignettes they're kind of cool for a moment, but the power Plant.
Teaching guys only high spots to work short action matches is fucking crazy, kind
of big brain. I'm not gonna lie, man, that's kind of I've
never heard that before, because, like you think of those raw matches back
in the age here, they're like, you know, three minutes with a
non finish, like you just teaching the ice bus. It'll be fine,
you gotta slow it down and run. I guess at this time in two
thousand and four or whatever, you gotta learn how to work. But back
in the day, man, you could get away with that. No,
you're right, because I think as especially we'll see it over the next couple
of years too, right, I guess from like two thousand two into two
thousand two, early two thousand and three forward, they started really relying on
the wrestling base shit right, yeah, exactly, Yeah, Like the matches
are starting to get longer, guys were starting to get more time. But
yeah, I mean the power plant only teaching so all the natural born thrillers
guys that came to the power Plant, they only knew how to do high
spots for short matches because they were doing angles. Bro. They would do
a run in and a non finish and a bunch of stupid ships. How
sick is that, Tony? So you go to the power plant, you
learn how to do all your sick high spots. They put you on TV
and give you a crazy contract with a bunch of fucking money, and all
you do is your high spots and then you win the tag Belts. Sounds
are bad, yeah, I guess, or they went out of business,
you know, but you gotta worried get a work. So Melzer writes that
Rakishi is not interested in going to TNA. He says that he was apparently
told when he was cut from w B that as long as he doesn't go
to TENA that they will bring him back at some point. Me when I'm
like, he had intermediaries sending feelers to TNA a'm up back or two,
and he expected to be cut from WWE because he was getting nasal surgery and
he was taking more time off because he didn't let w B know ahead of
time. So they were planning on cutting him and he ensteed up going to
TNA, which he's not interested in doing. He's planning on cutting a record
with a christ In record company. Okay, So Rakishi Christian album coming out
whatever, a little ass on got it up. He's already talked about besides
all Japan going to Mexico for CMLL. But his his indie dates rates is
very high. Oh brother, when did he go to TNA? What year
is that? Said, Uh, let's see if I can find out.
Find it out, because he ends up going to TNA. And then remember
he asked for one money and he's not Jeff Jarrett. I remember oh seven
seven Wow, So this is is August oh four. So he waited around,
you know, and said, uh, well, there's probably a Rakishi
Christian record out there someone. We're gonna find that one little ass on.
God's believe that's the number one. It's single. Dude. That's the craziest
gas lighting though, Like, yeah, you just don't go to TNA.
We'll hire you back. Sometimes maybe that is crazy, Like Tony, TNA
wasn't even like a weekly fucking show at this point. No, I think
they were still pay per view right or whatever. Yeah, they were like
they were just finishing up pay per views, like just right now, finishing
up actually written down some of this. Yeah, that is crazy. Nuts.
So we go over to August sixteenth, observers here. While not announced
officially, several sources have confirmed that TNA has made the decision to cease weekly
pay per view shows. All right, Wow, the company had fallen to
about six thousand buyas per week on pay per view before getting on Fox Sports
Net, which of course we all know is uh where they really started taking
off. The money losses were probably hovering around one hundred thousand dollars per week
on these pay per views. Fuck, what can you imagine fucking losing a
heart thousand dollars per week? That's fucking insane. Of course, this is
a little side note that I just wanted to include here. Of course,
everybody knows that next for TNA is they move from Nashville to Orlando, they
start filming at the sound stage for weekly shows they're gonna air on Fox Sports
Net, and then of course that leads to pay per views, so their
entire format changes, like right now, like everything that they were doing before
is now being changed completely. So interesting times for TEA. Yeah, that
is great because like one point, I think they were still right they were
running pay view and weekly at the same time on Fox. Yeah, they
had like they had to because they had to finish up. I think some
they had like something they had to finish up, like some contract or something.
I guess where they had to do like the buyers are. Yeah,
like they had to do a certain amount of payer views or something, so
they were doing it like that. But yeah, so of course this starts
where they moved to Orlando at the sound stage and we started getting to the
tena that everybody knows and loves were absolutely hates card to Brian melts Or rights
here that even though kur Angele has toned down his style, he has already
been told by management that he is taking way too many bumps at house shows.
That's crazy. Well, he has not slow down even a bit.
No, actually he actually refuses to slow down so much that he goes to
TNA, which is crazy, and he doesn't slow down either. There he
goes crazy. Yeah, he actually never slows down ever. And I think
around this time too, he wanted to do the fucking Olympics again, Tony.
This guy was crazy. He was a workaholic, dude. His neck
was fused like a million times by a time. He couldn't what the Yeah,
probably I doubt the Olympics would even let him fucking do anything like imagined
medical stuff like he could not get cleared for the Olympics. I guarantee it.
So we head back over to four W newsletter four seven seven, August
sixteen. Alvarez rights here that indie promoters have been complaining that TNA has really
raised the prices to book talent, particularly some of the lower level exhivision guys.
The wrestlers are worried since they figured this is going to result in them
getting way less bookings. And at the time in TNA, most guys were
getting paid between three hundred and five hundred dollars a shot if they're a segment
aired on TV. Though right, it wasn't that the deal that was they
did have that er. Yeah, they changed it and then they changed it
again so it was per match, and then it got change to per appearance
on the show, and sometimes the guys would get cut from the show,
so they didn't get paid for the work that they thought on the show.
So Alvarez also writes explosion was a repeat this week as the tape TNA sent
to the station did not work. Welcome to w c W oh most guys
so f four W four seven eight, which is the next week, August
twenty three, brock Lessner plays his first preseason game against the Cardinals, number
sixty nine. Now it's fucking crazy, Tony, I cannot believe they let
this motherfucker pick number sixty nine. Brock Lessner is now playing in the NFL.
He left the WWE, of course, and now he is trying to
play for the Vikings, and he's got his first preseason game against the Cardinals.
He's been practicing with the team and they said he's looks a little lost
sometimes, but other than that, he looks impressive. But Alvarez writes in
short, Lessner played against the third and fourth stringers of the Arizona Cardinals,
a team, by the way, which is generally not expected to be any
good, and did not look all that impressive, which reinforces what was already
known. Brock Lesner will probably not make the team and if anything, will
be signed to the practice squad. Damn bruh. Well, w W also
agreed at the time, they fucking buried brock Lessner all the time, they
said he couldn't make it, But nowadays, Tony, that is not the
case. He was on the Vikings, he did very well on the board.
You know. Now it's a little different. Back then, it was
not that way, and they made George to tell people that he did not
make it and he would not make it. Of course, when he goes
to the UFC becomes UFC Heavyweight Champion, things are a little different. WB
treats it a little different. Of course with Brock returns, Yeah, things
are treating a little different. But at the time, you know, that's
how it was. Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, I don't know. I remember.
I remember rating for the Arizona Cardinals wide receivers on ESPN NFL two K
five at the time, and Quan bold and Larry Fitzgerald. I was training
for Larry Fitzgerald and Quan Bolden. Every time Kurt Warner want thrown to nobody,
We'll throw to nobody. Back in the day, you know what I
mean, Like you get left with whatever I give it you because you could,
like you could really like the draft pick trades back then, we're so
cheese, Like yeah you could, Yeah, you could cheese draft pick trades.
That's awesome. They'll take like a third and fourth next year draft or
you know what I mean. It's like, dude, I'm going, I'm
fucking winning the super Bowl. You can take my third and fourth round,
you know what I mean? Like, yeah, get it? Get a
clue here. So Alvarez mentions here that Raw did a miserable three point two
this week on the episode we were talking about Believe it or not. That
was actually the good news this week at smacked down to a two point six,
which Alvarez rights, I believe is the lowest rating of all time.
Well, Alvarez from two thousand and four things, you know, I get
better for WB and in regards those ratings, two point six is actually very
good nowadays. And you know they when they do a two point six,
that has considered a rousing success. So Jeff Hardy apparently hasn't been late in
a few weeks to any of the TNA tapings that he was booked on,
as says, this is very huge news. That's what I was just thinking.
What the hell? So Brian Avres talks about Danielson and aries two out
of three falls match in ROH that went seventy five minutes long. So Tony,
I don't know if you've ever heard of this match before, but this
match was originally announced as each fall being a sixty minute time limit and not
the whole match, every fall having a sixty minute time limit, so it
would be one hundred and eighty minutes altogether if they were to go the time
limit. All right, yeah, okay, so the match originally Tony was
supposed to go one hundred and seventy five minutes, which would have been absolutely
fucking insane crazy. Yeah, So Brian Danielson just called an audible in the
match and they didn't go that one. They only went seventy five minutes.
Only Avres mentions that Danielson just books his own R eight ship to the four,
which I thought was interesting, Like he just books his own angles and
matches and ship. You know, when you're the best fucking wrestler in the
world, I guess, you know, Gabe just kind of lets him do
whatever. But I think I thought it was funny to mention that because now
he's helping book a w which is kind of crazy to think about. Like
he was always regarded as the best, like that was just gimmick who was
the best wrestler in the world, but now like it's almost undisputable at this
point, and now he gets to book aw when he was helping book rh
and aw owns r H. I don't know, just a bunch of connected
stuff. Fucked up, man, that's crazy. I think Danielson and okay,
maybe we can't do Danson areas again, we can do Danielson and uh
we got the goddamn Hangman page. Yeah, come on in perides. That's
crazy. Also, just a quick side note before we actually get into this
episode, and I apologize for going super long on these, but there's a
ton of stuff we needed to read here beside not completely SummerSlam, which I
believe just happened before we watched his episodes, All right, Tony, Uh
yeah, it was the day before. Yeah. Yeah, so there was
a match Undertaker versus JBL, and during that match there was a limousine out
there and oh yes, yeah, so Undertaker slams JBL through the limousine.
But I don't know if you ever heard this port TONI, but the reason
why the limo roof spot during Undertaker versus JBL came off so bad was because
that five minutes prior to them going to do the spot, a fan ran
out into the floor, climbed on top of the limo, and began to
dance on it. Due to this, the limo set up was ruined and
the fan could have ruined the entire spot by just falling through the gimmicks of
the limousine. But they got him off and then they did the spot.
So dude. But the craziest together a fan falls in the limo and he's
just stuck. That'd be crazy. That is fucked up. A fan that
rushed the fucking limo and danced on top of that is crazy. I guess
the limo was pretty close, like it was up so like he was he
could do that. But what a h I feel like every time we watched
someone the undertake or something stupid like they remember like the last time we watched
someone was like his bike didn't work or something on SmackDown or something like that.
Ye see to walk to the ring. Yeah, I don't know if
something's always happening to this, that's that's crazy. That guy could have died
fell through the limo roof. That had been awesome, dude. What if
he just ruined the whole fucking Like, what do you even do at that
point? Like the whole spot hinges on this fucking thing, you know,
I don't know you had tubstone him on the fucking front of the car,
or the glass is real glass? You know he would have got him on.
I'd love just I don't know if anyone's got footage of the fan dancing
on top of the limousines. Someone's two thousand and four. Man, that's
that's rough, like you know what I mean, Like, I don't think
there's footage of that is there. I've never seen footage. Remember Lebron had
like the flip phone back in the day, wasn't it. Yeah, and
that was even later than this, I think, right, Yeah, I
don't even know. Let me see if I can find like two summer,
same doesn't fur fan limo? I see JBL chokes them him through the limo.
Yeah, I don't see anything about the fan. I can't believe that
doesn't exist. Two thousand and four was sucked up, man. Someone had
to have a camera back, dude. There's gotta be a video photo or
something on that. We have to get ww E to release the footage,
Release the limo footage, Release the footage of the guy dancing on the limb.
I gotta see it, dude. Wow, all right, so we
found the footage, Tony found the footage here of this Summer Slam thing.
It's actually in the match. You can see it when take Or throws jb
All out of the ring. The match is like already over there, ended
in DQ and then this guy with George takes off his shirt and stands out
top of the limo. It's kind of crazy. That is John's cea.
Tony shit, dude. Remember that fan ran out and like Beard Seth rawls
or something. Oh, I dude, man, he fucking obliterated, like
the football tackled him. That was crazy. Yeah, that was nuts.
And I can't remember what it was Tony. It was like he like,
I think it was something like he some he got like catfish for money on
like Twitter or something, and he jumped Seth Rolens because he wanted his money.
It was something, so no way, that's never heard the story.
That's Sawyer. That was what it was, like he got catfished by Seth,
that he took money from him and it wasn't him, and that he
tackled him at a fucking event or something. I don't remember what it was.
He ran like full sprint and knocked him down. That was the craziest
thing. Every Okay, here's what it is. Tony the guy said that
he told the outlet that several years ago he met Seth Rollins in a meeting
great event. Around the same time he began talking to him pretending to be
Seth Rollins via what'sapp he catfished him and scammed him out of three thousand dollars.
Okay, holy you got catfished. He lost three thousand dollars and he
got arrested. That's crazy tale. Well, that is all the observers here
for this time, and we'll get into the actual episode of Monday Night Raw.
All right, let's get into the actual episode of Raw. Here August
sixteen, two thousand and four. We are fresh off of summers Slam Out.
Yeah, live from London. Candidate Yeah, so are think actually live?
I don't know. I think was it live? I don't know.
Yeah, you're right. First off, this is easy because we get Rick
Flair on this show, and there's some crazy signs for Rick Flair and I'm
excited talking about. Before we get into that, we get the Eric Bischoff
wipe at the beginning of the show, which is a classic aggression era.
Uh. And then of course we get the drugs, the drugs, the
money, Just drugs and money. That's it. There's no sex, not
anymore. No, all right, No, well we start off with the
Randy Orton town Hall. Randy Orton is the new world heavyweight champion. He
defeated Crispin Waugh. I think he defeated him, fucking clean, Tony at
the pay per view. Yeah, last night he won, and he's the
youngest world heavyweight champion in the history of ever, all time. I think,
what's the fucking celebration? Got confetti balloons? That was not a good
idea doing confetti and balloons at the start of the show, a Tony.
No, not their greatest idea, especially with the confetti because it keeps falling
and falling and falling, and that's it's like glitter. You know. You
just can't get that ship out the whole show. Yeah. Well, Randy
Orton was on the front of the Toronto's Son magazine. Can you guys believe
that he was but ass naked too? Why? Why was he? Yeah?
That was a crazy They cut. The angle was from like his like
belly button right above his waistline, and then it was just like his chest.
He looked naked with the belt. But all right, well he gets
a real, real long intro here, like they let him really like soak
it all in because you, I mean, they knew, everyone knew.
His ass is not keeping his belt that long. I'll tell you that much.
No way, bro, no way. So Jerry Lawler says that he
cannot wait to hear what his first words are as champion and Tony. I
know that Mark Jendrek was at Guerrilla Tone Orton he needs to go out there
and say pussy triple staring daggers at both of them. Gonna picture Harley raising
his fucking hand like, don't fucking do it. Don't you dare say that?
Ship Well, Randy Orton tells all the twenty four year old men in
the arena to please stand up, and they do. Tony. There's a
lot of twenty four year old dudes out here. This was a terrible idea.
I don't know what his thought was here. This is this is fucked
up, Tony. They are they these guys are all like forty something now
unbelievable to think about. Yeah, you're right, you're right. Well,
one guy stands up, Tony, and he also has the world heavyweight championship.
How the fuck did that guy get to him? He's the real champion
or what. Well, Randy tells him all to stand up, and Randy
says, this is what your average twenty four year old looks like. I'll
be honest, Tony. They all looked all right. I mean, they
zoomed in on one guy that was like a little out of shape, but
for the rest of them, they just look like average college kids. I
don't know. Yeah, Randy says, all right, now take off your
shirts. I was like, shit, I know it's gonna get like that
in there, and they do it, Tony. The fucking crowds and they
zoom in on him. I don't know what what they were thinking, he
Tony. And they all have two thousand and four necklaces on, of course
they all do. They're all Puka shell necklaces. They all got that surfer
boys why you know, Yeah, yeah, Roh is Papa crazy, all
right, they know. But I have to say, Randy Jordan has the
Triple H promos downpat. I mean, there's not many guys in the history
of this business that could replicate Triple H at this level, but a triple
Randy ort was definitely one of them. Yeah, this was This is very
interesting as a first promo. Hey, twenty four year old, stand up
and take your shirts off. Take your shorts off, right fucking Let's see
your necklace. You got necklace? Who doesn'tford necklace? So Orton says that
the Randy Orton era has just begun grand opening, grand closing on that one
on time. So Orton olds the title up and I'll be god damn Crispin
wise music hit study. Your twitter was gnarly. It is fucking hilarious.
Like whenever I think of whenever I think of someone getting interrupted tony, like
even when we do it in DPW of like someone getting interrupted or something.
That's how I think an interruption should be. It should beat them looking at
the hard camera of the music hitting and them like looking angrily to like the
right. Yeah. Yeah, they zoomed in and he does a little Randy
or thing where he does his jaw together and his thing moves. I don't
know how he does it with his little temples, and then he looks the
left, looks the and then music hits boom and then oh shit, it's
Chris Ben Wah's here. Well, Kris Ben Wak comes out in purple gear
and he says that your first defense will be against me. You know why
Tony because he has a rematch clause. Oh yes, he's one of those
guys. Not many, you know, not many guys have that clause too
much anymore. I don't think that was that was an old school thing.
Yeah, well, I'm actually got a match. That's how it works.
So Orton says, hey, man, I'm cool. That's cool with me.
I'll do that, you know, give me two three weeks, he'll
up and we'll have that match. And ben Wah says, not, I
don't know about that. When I came from Eric Bischof's office, and I'm
not gonna wait another month, another week, or another day. We're gonna
have the match here tonight in Canada. So I thought, first thing that
goes through the head Tony, there's gonna be a lot of shit. It
gonna be awful. This is gonna be like a four minute run in shit
ass match, I'll be honestly, that was my first thought. Yeah,
that'll be one of those bait and switch raw made events that they have done
very often, especially the attitude are they would do it all the time.
Well, they had the twenty minute banger at Summer Slam, so they're definitely
not recreating that on raw. So then it's actually not bad. You know.
If the damn main event wasn't bad, we'll talking about it when we
get there. But the boys were working, man, I'll give him that
much. Yeah. So first match the evening is Rhino versus Sylvan Graner uh
Antony. This is an all or nothing match, you know? Yeah,
what is an all or nothing match? Can you can you explain this to
me? Well? Litly? And Garcia breaks it down in the most complicated
way I've ever heard in my life. No one in the crowd knows what's
going on, No one on commentary understands the rules. They on comments say,
oh, nothing match. Oh it's also first time ever all or nothing
match. Yeah, they were just they're coming out with shit. You know.
The'sest way to explain it would have been if they don't win, they
could never challenge for the titles. That was it. She did not say
that. It's very easy. Rhino either fucking wins this match and he gets
a title shot, or they lose and they never challenge for these fucking belts
ever again. I feel like if and Garcia could say fucking it would have
been very easy for her to get this out the way. But Ryano comes
out here, he's got Tony. He not only has the deadlock D on
his back, it's orange deadlock D on the back. I love it.
And you know what, man, I gotta be honest with this match.
Fucking stump Tony. That was awful. No, this is uh, this
is typical television wrestling match here for sure. You know what they should have
done for this all or nothing stiff was you guys, go out there and
have a good match, or you're all fucking fired. And if that was
a stipulation, Tony, everyone would lost or nothing. Either you have a
good match or you're done. You're fired. It's feasts are fired. Actually
you get it. We get and it's feast are fired. In all the
briefcases have fired in it. You're all out of here. You're done.
I think done that before. They should do that. By the way,
they have a pink slip match. If they ever had a pink slip like
pink slip here four pink slip matches. Whoever grabs them first gets fired.
Pink slip on a pole. That'd be like a aw trap or something.
Really, it'd be like, here's four peak slips on a pole in a
quarter. First one to grab it gets fired. If no one grabs him,
then you're all fired. Anyways, Holy shit, someone's gotta get fired
or everyone's fired. That's crazy. Yeah, all right, someone gets fired
or everyone's fired. Where you sacrifice yourself for the greater good. Yeah,
you have to man justice. So vine Granier hits a spinning belly to back
here where he doesn't move his arm out of the way and almost breaks his
own fucking arm, which would have been really crazy, saying bro Holy City
lands right on top of it. So von Granier then goes to use the
flag, but to Jerry grabs it and miss him, allowing Rhino to gore
him and win the match. So Rhino and did Jerry do get tag team
tunnel shots against the current tag team champions Law Resistance. Yeah, though I
don't know if you know it's here. They're calling him robear Conway here not
is that right? It's Rebet my daddy Roberto. That's what they should have
been calling him. Oh during this, that's too they were Barry Canadians,
uh like about like their Olympic team being terrible. Like, I don't know
what Keane was on. He was on it all night for something about the
Olympics. I don't know what the deal was. I guess the Olympics were
going on at the time. But he's like, Canada should have said a
lot of resistance to the Olympics. I'm like, all right, whatever,
Tony. Jerry Lawler is fucked up this entire night, especially about this Kane
and lead up thing. He has fucked up beyond belief. We will talk
about that a little later, dude. He also says something about women synchronized
diving one of bronze medal in Olympics, and he's like, that's right up
there with the ribbon thing, and then jr No sells him and it just
keeps calling the acid. It's so funny. I did like at the end
of this match where Rhino covered his face on the pin so they didn't see
the miss and covered his mouth. Yeah, he thought that, I like
that cover up the miss stuff. That's that's really here. Miss. Sometimes
people remembers not as they don't, but they did hear, and I thought
that was But we go to a pre tape Kane for some reason, he
is doing his own voice over for his pre tapes, which is crazy.
But Kane invites everyone to his marriage with Leda, which is happening, I
believe next week on Row's all right, yes, it's the wedding of Kane
and Lida, which might have to write that down as an episode we should
visit sometime. But Kane's so if you're in a boot doing a voiceover,
you could tell because I'm Mike super close to his mouth and he's popping all
the peas there and he's doing his stupiden. He does his stupidest I hate
his laugh. Bro Oh my god, I'm glad you said that because I
wrote the same ship Tony People cartoons laugh saying he'll like he'll do it,
like mid sentence to this is an invitation to everyone all over the world,
and he's trying to get everybody to come see the wedding. I don't know
they're gonna be in uh next Monday, it's gonna be in the Arrowhead Pond
in Anaheim, California, Live on Raw all right, man, I got
him. I know you're happy by the marriage, but Lita is also pregnant
at this point also, and it's with Kane's kid, right, Yes,
So do we talk about this He'll death do us part? Match like this
is the craziest fucking shit in the world. On the one in Summer Slam.
Yeah. They They fucking had a match where if Kane wins, he
gets to marry Leda and she has no saying it and then just fights Matt
Hardy for the match and Matt hart I don't know how that got set up.
I haven't looked back on it, but crazy for Matt Hardy said yeah
you could. We'll do the match and you can marry her if I lose.
It's crazy. Should ever heard? So? Yeah Jr. And Jerry
Lawler actually give us the rundown of not only a bunch of fucking matches,
but the match you just talking about. Kane Matt Hardy a SummerSlam. Kane
beat Matt Hardy by choke slamming him off the top of rope. Dude,
holy shit. We said, why is this match like do part? Because
that was crazy. They had a w magazine stills here, which I thought
was kind of cool. You know, they used to promote the row.
It was a raw magazine. It wasn't even w W mag It was raw
magazine, that's what it was. I like the stills, Tony. I
think that was fun, like a fun way to do it without spoil in
the ship. Always it always sold me on. I man, I gotta
see this match now. So we go backstage. Coach asked Leda about her
marriage to Kane, and while she just tells Coach that she wants to be
left alone just just to marry this guy, and she's pregnant by Kane.
I'll be honest with you, I remember this. I don't remember what order
this happened, and I don't remember she got pregnant before she's pregnant, because
later on in the night they say, oh, she's pregnant or whatever.
Oh, Tony, I know she's fucking pregnant, because this segment is about
to show me that she's pregnant. So Leda goes into the women's locker room
and they have a little bridle shower going on in there. For it's Gail
Kim, Jazz, Tris Stratus, and Molly Holly, which apparently they're all
fucking evil, Tony. They're evil as hell. E Tricia's is evil.
Is fucking this she's crazy. Tris Stratis is orchestrating this so little bridle shower
here for Leda, who is fucking pregnant and forced to marry the most ugly
man a lot. What the most funked up haroline I've ever seen in my
life. Dude, it's halfway on top of his head. I don't know
what's going on there, Dude. Kane is just his All he needs is
a fresh cut, and he looked fucking fine. I love how they always
this is the ugliest fucking freak. It's like, oh, man, look
done, just shave his hey, Gali, he's just bald. So Gail
Kim jazz dress drives a Molly Holly. Molly says that she has a gift
here for for Leda. She says that since Lda likes to sleep around so
much, she got her birth control pills and condoms. It doesn't work like
that. She's already frightening, Tony. It's all right because Gail Kim says,
I know you're upset and you have to marry Kane. So she gives
a photo of Kane trying to kiss her on the lips. Tony, that's
their first kiss, so obviously you gotta get that. But not only does
she give him a photo of Kane trying to kiss her or their first kiss.
I guess Tony Gail Kim didn't gives her a fucking photo of their maybe
baby. Tony there maybe baby. This could be their baby. And it
is a fucking baby with a Kane head bald and Leta lips o day.
It's got one leada in one knee. It's the Kane I with the contact
lips on by oh my god, lips dude. They the frames. They
took these frames on vincement Man's house. These are the nicest frames on pictures
I've never seen. Yeah, this is crazy. These are nice with than
any frames that I have in my house currently. And this is for a
fucking maybe baby picture with Kane and Leo lips is fucked up. Yeah,
this you have to see this to believe this. The picture, like whatever
I'm saying does not do this justice. You have to see this fucking picture
of this baby. Jazz then gives Leta a vibrator called the Big Red Machine
for those lonely cold nights alone or something. Right. I don't think Kane
they're getting married, Jazz, they're getting married. I think Kane's gonna be
there a lot. He really was to get married. Well, Tris says,
well, you can thank us now for the bridal shower, and of
course Leo walks out. She's pissed. Trish follows her and says, hey,
you forgot your condoms? All right? Victoria thing comes up and then
Trish, look, this is crazy. This is crazy hating Tony. This
is like next level hating. Trish goes from shipping on Lida. Victoria walks
up, and Trish says, hey, Victoria, great job Diva's dodgeball.
Who was your coach, Steve Wonder? Holy, she's the biggest hater in
two thousand and four, Tony, this is crazy. Good job at dodgeball,
bitch, dude. I don't know if I've ever seen this, Tony.
The Summer Slam Diva's dodgeball match. You've never seen that. Holy,
I don't think I've ever seen that, Michelle. It's like a shoot dodgeball
thing, and it's yeah, I heard it was like a shoot for real.
I swear there was a heat from it, like somebody got heat from
it. I think Michelle because gunna want to spoil it. But I think
Michelle Cool got heat because she was like actually throwing dodgeballs like crazy as fuck.
So I think she was like legit Dodgeball because I think, am I
remembering into movie Dodgeball come out that year? Or like is he coming out
or it did come out or something that definitely seems like a year like a
two thousand and four comedy. When did that movie come out? Uh?
Yes, it's two thousand and four, but I don't know. Yeah,
you're right, two thousand and four because there, that's definitely why they did
that. It must have come out right around there. Oh yeah, she
was eighteen was this but it wasn't like a comedy or anything. This was
like a shoot Diva's Die. I think it was supposed to be, you
know, like a fun little sexy dodgeball comedy. You know, Diva's a
little sexy dodgeball comedy. Is exactly how instruments he said, Yeah, yeah,
that Dodgeball movie. They get funny and sexy. Okay, apparently Michelle
McCool Tony Okay, So first off, Tony, I found a forum that
is talking about this match. It's just it's it's actually not that long.
Oh my god, I saw the year twenty twelve, Tony, I said,
oh, that's not that long ago. Twenty twelve is a long time
that's a long time ago. But yes, for twenty twelve. And apparently
Michelle McCool had a super strong performance in the dodgeball game and it was a
shoot. And then uh, the guy that there's only one response to the
threat, Tony, and and it's from Joker Pace and he said Penis And
that's the Forbes win again, Tony, Diva's Dodgeball. I say, if
Vince Vaughan would have show up, a Diva Dodgeball would been all worth it.
But they don't think he showed up. I don't think. I don't
think so. This, of course, Deva's Dodgeball was a part of the
Diva's search, which they're looking for new Diva's to add to the Diva's division.
I'm not too sure what dodgeball would do for them, but that's what
they did. So if you think about tough enough, it's exactly the opposite
of that. It's like Kini's and jumping around and that's it. Yeah,
So Victoria slaps Trish and then walks away. Trisha has heat with everybody.
This is awesome. Yeah, that is good. So HPK gets a return
video package to Booze because they're in Canada, which is even that. I
think they thought Sean was gonna be there. Yeah, I thought he was
gonna be there because like they just played like it it looks like an entrance
video. So it did, You're right, it did, like and be
like, hell, yeah, Sean's here. But then it's like, oh
no, he's coming. So we have Victoria versus Gail Kim up next here.
Gail Kim, of course, is just from Korea. That's it,
full stop, just Korea from Korea, all right, and Victoria delayed match
with Go Go Dude that song. This is a remix version though, Go
Go Go. So Victoria starts this match off Booty Pop and Moon Saw You
like that. That's I love that, dude. Dude, Tera being the
motorcycle girl in TDA you remember that, Yeah, yeah, Basserine and Terra
versus the beautiful people come on, dude, Yeah, Victor, I remember
Victoria being TENA was awesome because like, oh damn, we're finally gonna get
some good workers back. That's awesome. Uh. So Gail Kim Sparta kicks
Victoria out of the ring in this match, just strip kicks here in the
stomach twice like big style knockstar the ring and on commentary, Tony this is
crazy. Jr. Says that we have not seen HBK since Kane busted his
throat up. What bro, I don't know, dude, that's Kage is
talking about. Okay. I think it might have been JR. Or what
No, it's King because he was like, this is the fun. He's
like, it's Sean Can I've used one of those machines to talk and then
he goes speaking machines. What about that machine and that leader was given?
Dude? And then talking about the vibe Bror Jarar says nothing. It just
keeps calling the action. Eventually JR. Loses it. I can't remember what
matches I'll talk about it. I think it's I think it's the one after
this. I think it's the Kane match. When you say it's like,
I think it's Kane. Yeah, He's just like, I don't I hear
it no more, which is crazy, but I think you can create me
if I'm wrong. Here were they chanting you screwed Brett in this match?
Yeah? So they started a little bit at the beginning, but then as
it went on it got really loud and said you screwed Brett. But it
was right after the promo that they played with the HBK hype or whatever.
So, dude, can you do Victoria's because you do it very well.
That is like good, that's good. Yeah, yeah, yes, that's
like theme songs, like we all have our theme songs. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. Victoria gets Gale up into the t KO, but then
Gayale reverses it into a head scissors, which, honestly all very smooth.
She was very good. Cool that Victoria hits the Widow's Peak and wins the
match. Yeah, there's a huge pop when she put her in the power
bomb position to get her up for that. It was cool. Yeah,
Widow's Peak is probably the I mean, up to this point in this division,
this is probably the most brutal fucking finisher they got. Yeah, what
else is there? The chick Kick and Women's Slap Special number three. Yeah,
they were, I mean, they were really hustling for some movies,
I guess the lead of sault, but but in terms of like actual impact,
like not like a top rope or anything. It's pretty fucked up,
Like this is pretty crazy. Yeah, so it was cool. Trish then
rushes the ring, of course because Victoria slapped her earlier before the match,
and then Tyson fucking tom Cooke comes in because he is the special afforcer for
Trish Stratus. I'm sort of the problem solver. I believe it's what they
call the problem the solver. Tomk Yeah, what do they call a teenager
the solver? So they could call the problem solvers. I was like,
this is tys of Tomco the solver. Christian said something. I forgot what
it was, tom Co. It was something like that because it was just
Christian and Tomko. Again, he's like, this is my solver or something
like that. I see what they say the insurance policy. Okay, that's
even better. Yeah, there was Tyson. Tomko comes in and he restrains
Victoria for Trisha hit her. Tom Co then goes and grabs Victoria and tries
to hit the mother eff and bomb. But someone with a red wig comes
in. Tony Yes, okay, so it was a woman. It was
a it was as Tony. Yeah, So mother ff and bomb here,
red wig, red wig person low blows Tom Cooke The mystery woman then goes
outside to help Victoria on the floor, and this one dude, Tony very
loudly as the mystery woman with the red wig goes over to check on Victoria,
says Stephen Richard, if you got it, but as he like when
he first got in the ring, he must have. You must have ran
down the ring. Besides he could so his face was shown or whatever because
there was Stevie Chen. I think that Stephen Richards and this guy just yell,
it's one guy isolated on the mic somehow, I guess because the crowd
was so low at this point. Yeah, this guy was super isolated.
But it was very funny. Stephen Richard. It's hilarious because they're on commentary're
like, who is this? Who? Who's just who's this mystery? You're
right, dude. After he's after the expansy Steven Richards, Dad, who
is this? Who is this? God? Who is this mystery woman?
Dude? Can we talk about Steve Richards? How you like the most fucked
up run of like give it like he had like a fucked up on in
w like he's always wearing something crazy, donny. As long as they could
dress Stephen Richards up he had a place in w As long as Steven Richards
kept saying yes, I would love to dress up as somebody else, they'd
be like all right. Maybe maybe it was his idea the whole time.
That might be right. Yeah, he probably wanted to work with Victoria,
you know what I mean? Like so because they have a little run together
and do some other Yeah, pretty good run. So Eric Bischoff's wedding gift
to Kane everybody is that he gave him an icy title shot versus Edge.
So that's how we're getting Kane versus Edge here tonight for the Interconeal Championship.
Okay, I guess sure, So yeah that's next. Actually, Kane versus
Edge icy title wedding gift. And Kane starts off the match by saying he
dedicates his match to his bride to be Lena. He does say it like
that? What does? He also said something crazy this whole ending part of
his match, tunny is fucked up beyond belief. It's a Kane thing.
It should be studied, dude. There is also confetti everywhere, still still
still raining down, still coming down from the ceiling. It never stops.
There's a couple of signs in the crowd. Here Hogan is dating my grandma
sign which you know, brother, I don't know if that's right. Hogan
his daughter, dude. There's also a Kane who's your daddy sign? Kane's
DDY would be Paul BarreR. We had established that already. Please watch the
product. It out. So Lawler on commentary says that maybe they should bring
a camera to their honeymoon and they could maybe make like a Paris Hilton video.
Alright, alright, alright, I don't know about this Paris Hilton,
but let's talk about the action here. Jerry fucking shut says. That's the
first thing. Jerry's shut down all these I don't know what damn thing about
a parents the Hilton video. All right, So they do nothing until commercial
Tony what I mean, Edgin Kane did nothing? They did nothing. Huh
No, they this was slowed down city here. Yeah. Man, you
know what's even crazier is they do nothing until commercial Leda comes out here to
ringside. We come back, and then we're back to commentary again where they're
trying to figure out to say about this shit, and Lawler says, Kane
is gonna contact Marilyn Manson singing at the wedding, and Jr. Says,
yeah, it is all right. Well maybe he didn't get Charles mansh and
get a day pass to beat the minister. Sheryler says, what are you
talking about? Jay from Hill the bullshit? I hate this fucking shit,
I really hate. Just match all hot and we come back from conversion Tony
Kane chinlock it's this we second? Is this a second? We can row?
We've seen Kane hinlock. I feel like killer Kane chinlock man. Damn
it all right, said Kane, chinlock Again, Kane hits up. I
will okay, so things start turning up thankfully after this Kane, it's a
nice short arm clothesline to reverse the impaler that Edge was gonna give him.
Probably put some meat behind that. I was cool. Edge and Kane fight
up to the top rope. Kane pushes Edge off, knocking him into the
referee, knocking the ref out. Kane then hits the Kane line from the
top signals with the choke slam. Leta grabs Kane's leg from the outside and
Jim Rossi mused says, you are pregnant. You're pregnant. Leave him alone?
What are you doing? Edge then runs for the spear, catches a
big boot Matt Hardy, then fucking runs in speed a light here, it's
a twist of fade on. Kane then throws the fucking v one up.
What the fuck is going off? Boys? Edge? It's a spear and
he retains the icy title. Yeah, maybe Charm's man should get a day
passed to be a minister. What are you talking about? Jared did say,
I wonder if Kane and Lead are registered as Satan are us? What
are you talking about? So after the match, Kane goes the outside and
grabs Leader by the arm and Jr. Is going on a tangent. She
is a pregnant lady. Come on, Kane. That gets behind her in
the ring prom post style with a microphone and Kane says, you're probably thinking
I'm angry about what just happened, but I'm not. Kane says, next
week right here? Laugh on, Well why did he say this in a
country? Excit? Next week right here? Laugh? Did he started off?
He's like, you think I'm angry, but I'm not. Ha ha.
I can see where this relationship is going, and I'm gonna enjoy ha
haha. Next week lave a raw lave Oh, all right, next week's
royal Uh, we are getting married. Kane then says, we will consummate
the marriage. Okay, she's pregnant already, right, yeah, all right,
so I guess we're gonna consummate the marriage and we're gonna act like they
haven't had sex yet. Leta then slaps Kane and Kane says yeah, yeah.
He says, yeah, I like it that way. This is gonna
be a hell even Kane then does the fucking pyro in the rain. This
is fucking nut study. This is crazy. What the fuck? You know
what? That piro was crazy too. I wouldn't being in the middle of
the ring because Leta just stands there the entire time and takes because I guarantee
she's never been in there for that pirro like that. That's gotta be loudest
funk. I would not want to. She looked down and like yeah,
she got like that's crazy. But Kane being for the toxic relationship shit does
not surprise me at all, Tonic because he is the ugliest freak that's ever
lived a day of a day of his life. Cannot you cannot even realize
in your head. You can dream about it, you can think about it.
No one can understand how ugly and and he's got a tiny weener.
So there's that, dude. Yeah, what a horrible, horrible life that
Cane lives. Shitty little weener kid. Yeah, just a just a rafa.
But it's gonna be hell of a honeymoon for Kane Kenny. Yeah,
yeah, is he going down? But it's a pregnant lady. Come on,
actually could have used a dildo. Huh. Oh my god, would
you shut the fuck up a pregnant lady. She is pregnant. Kane just
locked in a chin lock again. Oh my god. Yeah, So Kane
and Lita has got to be the most fucked up thing ever, which is
crazy because I think if you really would have taken down a list of fucked
up stuff, Kane's storyline has gotta be up there. It gotta at least
be top five, top ten. He's got a lot of them, man,
Yeah, this a lot of fucked up storylines in the history WB.
He can never just like be in contingent for a title or nothing. No
way to be married people and consummating the marriage, all right, so we
had backstage after Kane and Lita and we get I'll be honest with at first,
I had not know what this was. I know, women dancing,
and I was like, I don't know what I'm looking. This might be
the most fucked up back to back segments of all time in wrestling history.
I think, Yeah, I mean I don't, uh, I don't remember
this at all. So this is pretty interesting. But it's the Diva Search
Tony, and this is a segment they do apparently where they have the divas
for some reason do video profiles of their answers instead of just asking them while
they're there. Yeah. Interesting, gives me real Season one n XT vibes
of like, uh, we're gonna throw a little reality in here and see
what happens, which they should have scripted the whole thing, because the Carmela
does remind me of Brian Danielson quite a bit. That's so, there are
seven divas backstage and they are dancing very weirdly with Jonathan Coachman. I actually
I think that they just anytime they hear the music, they just start dancing.
I don't Yeah, it's almost like they're like programmed to like just dance
whenever they hear this music. But they are backstage. These seven divas that
are left in the Diva search for this year are Joy, Mimi Webberny her
name is Joy, Donny Joy no last name. The only person there's only
a few people who were last names, oh, Joy, Mimi Webber of
course, Carmela Tracy, Maria Cannellis, Christy, Himmy, and Michelle McCool.
Not Carmella and w B by the way, just different Carmela. No,
they actually hate Carmella Tony. They want Carmella to die, all of
them all the time. I'm excited to uh to explain to you guys here,
so all seven of these women are back here when when you look at
it, there's a lot of names back here, right, tell you,
Georgiovanni, Mimi Webber of course, which becomes a big part of JBL's cabinet.
Maria Cannellis, Christi, Himmy, Michelle McCool Yeah, yeah, Carmello.
I don't think Carmelo Tracy did everything, did anything in w W or
anything. No, I don't think so. But they kept a lot of
them around, like Michelle Cool probably is the most successful out of all of
them. Right, Yeah, I think so. I mean Undertaker was gonna
make that happen either way. Yeah, I want to tell you this much,
Tony. There's a lot of low rise jeans in this shot. I
don't know if you really see that too much anymore. Yeah, but yeah,
yeah, I'll come on me here jeans. Yeah. And they asked
the diva's in video profiles on this fucking TV who would they like to a
limb from the current seven people? Now, Tony, I thought, okay,
popular vote? Whoever is the popular vote leaps They're out right, They're
done, sure, Like yeah, it's like a like they've done reality shows
like that before, Like you vote for who you want off the island and
they're gone. That's it. That's how it should have been. That's what
I thought it was. I was like, why else would be watching these
video profiles, But it's not. It's not about who they vote for.
It is about who the audience voted for. So we're gonna sit here and
we're gonna listen to these seven divas tell us who we think should be eliminated
before none of that matters, and we just go to the audience for the
poll. But we'll go down the list anyways, here, Michelle McCool says
that Carmela should be eliminated because she doesn't take this ship serious and I can
see what undertake her saw on her exactly. Christy Emmy says Carmella should be
eliminated because she doesn't take this serious. I was like, oh my god,
Tony, there's a group chat agenda foot right. Maria says Carmelo should
be eliminated because she doesn't take this very serious. As a god, and
he got the agenda. She acts like a dishrag, So there's that.
Well, that's her friends say in the group chats that she acts like a
dish rag. That is, she is crying, Tonny, Carmelo is like,
shoot, crying. Why did you say that? The way you could
tell that it's for shoot because when they play Maria's tape, she like puts
her head down. She knows, like, oh fuck, she's gonna hear
what I said about her. Would they tell him we're gonna record this a
nut show? Anybody like guys like they recorded it and then they didn't know
they'd have to stand there and wash it as a Yeah, they definitely be
in the same room, right, Yeah, yeah, well, Tracy cannot
say Carmela, right, Tonny, Tracy could not say Carmela. No way
what Tracy says Carmela? Fuck you guys, man, you can't do this.
Camel like this, dude. Everyone votes for Carmela so much when it
gets to Carmelo, John the coaches, So did you vote for yourself?
Carmela does not. Carmella votes for Joy. You know why she votes for
Joy? Well, because she is married and has babies. You were a
good mother. Get the fuck out of here for real, You're it'll be
real hard because you have kids and are made all right. Well, there's
no way Mimi Webber can vote for Carmela. This can't happen. Uh,
except sadly, Mimi Webber votes for Carmela. This is you know why,
because she doesn't want to be here. She doesn't want to be here,
Tony. And that's that seems to be a real reoccurrent thing that I think
that someone has made an agenda about. And if I were to guess who
out of these seven probably made that, I'm gonna have to go with Mimi
Webber. She seems like she's a schemer. Sure, yeah, that makes
sense, makes sense. So that's right. Carmela got the unpopular vote here,
so she's voted off the island, right, Yep, that's what I
thought, Tony. I was like, this is a slaughter, this is
this is it. She's out. There's no fucking way that Carmela is not
out of here. At this point, Jonathan Coachman then says, all right,
so now that we're done with that, let's take the audience. Polosy
who actually gets voted out? I said, what the fuck did I just
watch? Then? What did I just watch? Dude? That was crazy?
But the audience voted, and after a long pause here, Jonathan Coachman
announced that the next to be eliminated from the Diva Search is Michelle McCool.
Get the fuck out it? What she just want? Diva Dodgeball? She
was awesome. It's because she took it too serious, pissed off it,
pissed everybody off, stopped taking this ship so serious. Stratus did not like
the dodgeball, I tell you that much. She was pissed. The Undertaker's
backstay snapping pistols, Tony, he's fucking furious. This guy's pissed. Why
is he furious? We don't know. He doesn't even know this girl yet,
but he is mad. You will undertaking with the time sheet is sucking
pisstonions. He's mad. But yeah, So that's the Diva Search segment.
And apparently at Summer Slam Tony they took that when they did the Diva's Dodgeball
thing. They just played the whole thing on the on the screens. Everybody
had to kind of just watch it. Oh no, that's rough, Yeah,
that's dude. They played some song after this when she got eliminated.
What was the song they played? It was like open your eyes by what
was it? Creed? You? No, who was it? It was
a altar bridge they played. I didn't even hear that? Did you hear
that? You go back and watch that segment? Would you open your arm?
Interesting? That's when they opened their eyes and realize we are worn on
and on, we stand alone until the day's comb. When they open I
thought it was Cree, but his alter Bridge is before edge that well maybe
Edge at alter Bridge at this time, I don't know because he didn't come
out to that. So who's to say. Well, the w w rewind
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Yeah, someone better a story class actually lawsuit. That's that's a strong claim.
There's no way. Well, Batista kicked Edges asked while Chris Jericho just
watched. And that's so Chris Jericker versus Batista is up next. Do you
think that maybe in this match that Batista will kick Chris Jericho's ass while Edge
watches. That's a good idea. They should do that. I like that.
Yeah, I guess we'll see if that happens. Well, I would
be honestly see him Bautista. Well, let me make this first off,
Chris Jericho did not have the girl Tron anymore, which is very sad.
No, just fucked up, bro. It's up because it goes as why
why five J? And the counts down to why two J? And it's
not enough want wones, so it cuts off. I can expect you one
more and it doesn't give you the last one. So it's like why that's
why you guys asking Tony because they because he fucked to Tron. Like probably
send him the wrong video and then they probably blame it on the company.
You know that happens quite a bit. Welcome to w c W. So
Chris Jericho versus Batista is up next, mad Early Batista like chin piece hair,
fucking not doing anything but kicking dude's asses real early Batista here. Yeah,
there is a huge four piece fucking sign because Rick Flair came out here
with Bautista, huge four piece sign that says Saskatoon ninety two. Heart defeated
Flair. Whoa superlog, super big Lair, look right at it. Shit
was funny as hell? Was this like a house show or whatever? Well,
that was probably one of the more legendary matches this Rick Flair. Here
we go Tony On this day in sports. Thirty years ago, Brett Hart
beat Rick Flair for his first WF title win. On October twelfth, ninety
two, one of the most bizarre wrestling title wins in history took place.
Brett Hart won the WWF World Championship from Rick Flair in Saskatoon. So Rick
Flair won the bell right and then he just lost it on a house show
to Brett. Is that how that worked? I guess? Then he goes
back to w W. Right, isn't that what happens? I guess looks
like it, because what was so unique about this title change was that it
did not take place on a pay per view, but rather on a WWF
Superstars taping that was originally meant as a part of a colissy and video release.
And while Flair had been known to drop the title and then win it
back a short time later, Heart remained champion until WrestleMania and nine. So,
yeah, they just did it on a house show and then showed it
on Superstars. Wow, that's crazy. And then Flair goes back to W
or WV you after then? I think, right, he doesn't wrestle Wrestumani
at nine, right? Fair? Flair said an interview Tony that he dropped
the title to Heart here because the Ultimate Waird dropped me on my fucking head
the night before, and I didn't know what was going on. Is that
right? There's no way what the fuck that be? What I'm lying?
Yeah, I didn't know what what I agreed to a right fucking hell,
there's no way I'm reading this right? What that sounds like a total Rick
Flair store. Yeah, I didn't know man, I just said you whatever.
He said, my balance was affected. So he dropped the championship and
he sat out and then uh, he said the match wasn't good. And
then by the following year you had Tony Loser leaves town. He lost to
mister perfect. Flair was back in wcw uh and there you go, yeah
wow, so he's ultimate Wayrior dropped Rick Flair on his fucking head, and
then he dropped into what a house show? I bet Vice was fucking livid.
I be what the fun is going on? Let's go on here?
But great sign uh and Flair looked right at it was it was great.
So Rick Flair grabs Jacker's foot here, trips him up. There's a little
strut on the outside in the suits. Fucked up dude. Man, he's
like old but not old. Like he's not old old Jet. He's not
yet, no, no, no, but he's definitely getting there. So
Jericho goes for the walls, but Batissa powers out. Flair is now in
the apron jacket off, just swinging that shit around, calls the scene on
the apron. The refs like, I don't know what's going on. Jericho
triangle drop kicks Flare off the apron, drop kicks Batista two hits the Facebuster,
goes for the Lion Salt, but Flair knocks him off the ropes.
Ref calls for the bell and it's a d Q. Al right, Batisa
and Flair assault him. Flair then fucking low blows Chris Jericho on the ground.
It just crazy. He does like pick him up the low blow.
He legit pushes his legs aside and then knees him in the fucking balls and
Dick Beauzi said, then picks him up and hits him with the spinebuster.
Beast. They beat the ship out of trip Lay said, laid in their
boys buttisaid the spinebuster and then Edges music hits and he's down here. Edge
tries to get in the ring, but Jericho is down and Flare Batista up.
So we got the numbers game. And then Edge just shakes his head,
smile and walks away as Jericho gets hit with the fucking Bautista bom.
Oh shit, let's go. Jericho stood and you know he watched, and
now Edge stoodn't watched. Ah, Yes, I like it. You like
the story. Don't see what they're doing that that's that clear, So ultra
storytelling, like, yeah, pipuls are gone in three days and less or
whatever. Well Tony don't forget to vote for which diev was going home next
week. Yeah, so they got all the divas standing on the stage here
and then they announced their name and then they just start dancing in a bikini
because that music play. So they got a dance. As you were saying,
they got they have to Tony is programmed inside of them. I would
actually let you see what happens if they don't dance. I'm sure someone backstage
would be snapping Pizels, crazy Dude, Fence, Batista, Flair. They're
all snapping pens. Batista and Flair are pissed. They have another to doing
this segment, but they're pissed. This is fucking radiating backstage. They are
also this is the most fucked up way to vote, so they I think
they might have had a graphic on the screen on the original version, but
on this version there was no graphic on the screen. So it's like call
one, eight hundred, stop whatever, and then there's like an extension you
have to after that to vote for him, and they're just name it off
numbers. He can't even tell what number to call or what to do here.
Guy like me is recording this on VHS and then going back and voting.
That's what I'm doing. I thought, Jonathan Coachman when it like first
introduces segment, Tony, I thought this was taped. Like I thought they
like did this after the show or something, because it was so fucking silent.
It was so silent, like he came out and you could hear a
pin drop in that arena. Yeah, that's sold out in this Yeah,
very craze. These Diva Search segments are kind of rough to watch, but
yeah, you know, all the women are very hot. Can you believe
that all the Diva Search women are very very hot? They're very hot.
They turned around, they shake their ass, they pull their underwear up.
It's cool. There you go. Cool? Yeah, Memi Webber. Coachman
was like, oh my god, maybe Webber's gonna win. He's like,
I forgot the number. I don't even know what a number is anymore.
Just vote on w dot com. Who cares? So we go backstage.
Randy Orton is in the locker room. Triple H walks in talking about Batistic
killing Jericho. Very proudly. Yeah, we are totally in the middle of
a Randy Orton faced turn, and you can feel it in this segment here
too. Yeah, exactly. Triple is in a full fucking suit, by
the way, he was just walking around full suit back in the day evolution
style. Triple A says that he knows how Randy could feel. You know,
you could lose all night, buddy, like you have been walking beach
at night. Well, then he gives him a pep speech and he's like,
look, there's no problem because evolution is the solution, and when he
beat spend Water to night, they're going to celebrate like only evolution can.
Yeah, what do you think of that tagline? Evolution is your solution?
I don't know if it lasts very long, don't the one the only time
I ever heard it kind of sucks. Yeah, man, I think that
was the end of that one. He's trying to do like the four Horsemen
type shit, but the tagline isn't there for evolution. Yeah, he needed
Mango McMichael, really don't really. Yeah, of course you get Peppe right
like more crazy Yo could had Crispin wad joint right then you would have really
been cooking, dude, you could have huh, yeah, that's right in
there with the dog. That would have been awesome. Ok. First off,
gin dreck Is every every time they fly him out is just to fucking
make fun of him. At this point, they're not using where as shit,
they're just making triple h is just making fun of him. So we
go to the main event of the evening. It's Randy Orton versus Crisp and
while World Heavyweight title on the line. They've been kind of building this up
throughout the entire evening. Here, I thought this match was going to be
complete dogshit. Yeah, I thought Evolution was going to run down. It
was going to be a short, little four minute gimmick thing here or whatever.
But it wasn't. Man. They went like seventeen eight if twenty,
I don't know it was. It was quite a long match, man.
Yeah, so world Heavyweight Titan on the line. Orton of course just turned
twenty four, and he's just the new World Heavyweight Champion, which makes him
the youngest champion in w E history, which, of course I would be
inclined. And I believe I read this somewhere Tony that they did this just
because they didn't want brock Lesner to have that accolade anymore because he left and
there he bles so much. They hate him now, Tony, but it's
running with the Vikings was fucking legendary nowadays. But Orton, yeah he might,
you know, he and the youngest champion. Uh And well, like
I said earlier, Grand opening, Grand closing, but Orton might be twenty
four here, Tony, but new DPW World Champion Jay Malachi is only nineteen
years old. Let's talk about that DW World champion. Nineteen years old,
the youngest probably ever. Man. Come on, let's get really here,
man, that's what we need to talk about, dude. Historically the youngest
world champion in the history of all of wrestling. I think that's what I've
been hearing. That's what I heard. So Randy Orton and Chris beIN Wa
one on one World Heavyweight title, and they're working here, man, and
it's actually like a second stage act to their Summer Slam match. Ben Wa
is the early aggressor here, right, Ben Wah is gonna wear down to
Orton. Orton is probably not even I don't even know what's going on Orton's
head at this point because Tony ben Wah is on top for like twelve minutes.
I feel like I feel like he is. He is kicking his ship
out of Randy Orton here. Yeah, there's like there's so much Ben Wat.
And you were talking earlier about like telling Kurt Angle to Sloan at the
House shows fucking ben Wash just going like crazy like the entire time. It's
it's it's insane, mister intensity. Man. He really had it like that
Ben Wash Superplex. Early in this one, like three minutes in Superplex,
I was like, oh shit, all right, I didn't know we were
doing all that. And then he really puts it in their Northern Lights Suplex,
and like, I don't think ben Watt like the way that this match
was like set up. It feels like ben Watt has not stopped thinking about
this since last night, Like he's been standing in a wall for twenty four
straight hours. He said, all right, I'm gonna kick your fucking assid
next time, you see. It was easy to buy into the intensity he
was there, like I gotta get this spell back tonight and it's gonna happen.
Drop kick off the apron to Orton did not expect that. I definitely
expect like an armpit dive the offsite. For some reason, playing this drop
he was insane, like, I don't think I've ever seen a drop kick
off the apron. I can't recall, like straight up drop kick where he
falls straight on the fucking outside. It's gnarly to the floor. Yeah,
like off the apron to the floor. I was like, Oh, he's
gonna how should dive or something, armpit dive, but no, dude,
fucking drop kick. I was like, oh shit, all right. Ben
Wall then starts targeting the legs, slimming it into the stairs. Here we
go to commercial, we come back. Ben Wah has been trying to get
the Sharp Shooter in through the first commercial, and then when we come back
from commercial, we finally has it in. Orton finally gets back into the
match after getting out of the Sharp Shooter with a drop kick, sending Ben
Wall off the apron. Orton really selling the Sharp Shoot at this point,
hits the d drop slow cover because of his knee. Fucking Orton then snapped
Ben Wah's neck fiend style Tony, did you see that? That was crazy?
The fed creak. So we get neck breaker double down. They have
slowed this match down to a snail's fucking pace. At this point, I'm
like, Wow, we are like getting a real match. I couldn't believe
my fucking eyes, don'ty Yeah, yeah, of course. Orton then with
the crossbody off the top fucking beautiful, gave it a little froggy in the
middle of there too. Nobody home. I love that moved Orton is bumping
his ass off. Tony Orton is really like he's a you're you're twenty four
years old, You're bumping to night, you know what I mean. Like
he put the bumps in like and he was he was really he was selling.
It was very good. Ben while with the triple German supplex is here
transition straight into the crossface. Orton tries to roll through, but Ben Watch
keeps it on. I always loved that when some one just to roll out
of the cross face but it can't. Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
It's like it's like when when like Danielson does like the Tiger suplex and then
like he'll hold on and then they'll try to get out of it, but
then he gets it in like cattle mutilation. I always love that. Yeah.
I always think a Triple H rolling out of the cross face and then
back into it, getting back into it. Yeah, that's it's awesome.
Crop pop for a huge every time too. Orton is about a tap here,
but evolution is a solution, Tony. And then Orton hits the fucking
craziest RKO ever. This dude was floating in the loved crazy on that.
This might have been. I don't know if he was doing the cutter like
that at this time. Was he he might have just started doing like the
out of nowhere cutter because they said r KO out of nowhere. Dude grabs
the head arm out old school style, floating in the air, young man
twenty four years old. He fucking beats Crispin. How about that? Man,
that's awesome. Good job. So Batista then attacks Crisp and Wall after
the match, leaving Evolution to celebrate in the ring only the way evolution can.
Obviously, Trip Lates told us all this earlier. Yes, Orton and
gets on Batista's shoulders to celebrate, and Triple H gives him the double thumbs
up. He's like, yeah, man, good, yeah you did it.
Yeah tell you. I actually didn't know while we were watching this episode.
Oh really you didn't. No, But then I saw himive him the
double thumbs up and I said, holy fucking shit, I can't believe it.
Yeah, dude, that is fucking nuts. I was. I was.
That was sweet. It was cool because I didn't I didn't expect it.
So it Triples gives him the double thumbs up, and then Triple H
gives him the most over exaggerated, beautiful thumbs up two thumbs down ever,
and he tells Batista to fucking drop him, and Batista gives Orton the electric
chair drop and there it is, baby Randy. Orton's turned his face.
He's a made super baby face. It'll workout great. I swear it will
work out great, and Mark Jin Dreck will also do very well after this
all sat evolution then grabs Orton, triple puts the title in his face,
and he tells him grand opening, grand closing, I'm winning this and unforgiven,
I promised you a little bits and Triple h hits Orton with the title.
Orton is bleeding, Triple H is now fucking punching his bleeding head to
ship. There is no commentary over any of it. No, No,
there isn't. When they do talk. It's like very very quiet, like
serious talk. Batista then hits the Batista bomb on a bloody Randy Orton.
Look bad. I don't really give a fuck up. Power bomb for a
finish is awesome every time I see the crazy move. Also, blood splatters
off his head when he hits the canvas. I was pretty sweet. Yeah,
this is this is elite. Tony trip Leason hits the pedigree on bloody
Orton. Randy Orton is not officially a face and Triple H is going to
beat him with his unforgiven so he loses the title just as quick as he
won it. That's all right. He could have had a dude, I
could have thought, you could have Ben Wall could have got it back and
it still would have been fine, you know, just one night. I
think that's what a lot of people were staying at the time. Tony was
that, like, I think there was a better way to do this than
to put the title on him and then take it off him immediately and turn
them like that. But I also think it was a lot of pettiness about
the Brock Lesner thing, and I think that they were very adamant on making
sure that Lesner wasn't the youngest champion in uh WW history. So dude,
I can't believe it. One month and then it's gone and it's over already.
That's crazy. Yeah. And you know what, man, he had
some pretty good matches with with with Ben Wah, Like the Summers simeone was
pretty good. I thought this one was really good too. Yeah, but
I think it was hard to you know Orton really there's it's so funny because
like it's that stupid fucking phrase Tony that if you built a superstar from the
ground up for WB, you get Randy Orton. But like it's fucking true.
Like Randy Orton like he encapsulates the entirety of the WB style almost to
a t. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like Triple H like created a
clone and then like just taught him different moods. Yeah, you're right.
It's like Randy Orton already knew, like because he's he's got in his blood.
You know, he's already going to be a big superstar. But then
Triple H taking him in and I'm sure Flair Game advised to. And this
was the time when he was still shitting in Diva's bags though, right,
he was still shitting in. Uh dude, he was a little asshole to
Randy Orton was an asshole. Yeah. The biggest thing I think that people
people said he won the title and they're like, how because he had been
going he had been such a menace backstage and such a little asshole with Mark
gent Trek to everybody, Right, how the fuck did did they put the
title in this guy? But I think a lot of it had to do
with the pettiness of the Lesner thing, and you know, and they found
a way storyline wise to make it make sense where like we can push this
guy out, give Triple H the belt back, we can get HBK back
into the mix, you know all that. Sure, Yeah, so it
works out in the end, I think, And of course Randy Orton goes
on to have a legendary career in WB Paul Randy Orton was different twenty eight
roster was that crazy? They give me a start on that. It's kind
of a you know, I kind of do like the way they did this,
because like, all right, now Ben wat he had his rematch,
he's out of the picture. But now Orton's got like, you know,
actual people to fight with now for new Championship stuff. So there you good.
Little Chris beIN Watt was super protected here. Yeah, he pretty much
had to Orton beat the whole fucking match until Evolution came down, and then
you know they are And not only that, but they made the RKO was
super like a super finisher, like where one of them beat ben Wah,
you know what I mean. Yeah, I'm gonna put him down. I
saw a couple of people say that maybe like Ben Wah looked a little weak,
like losing that quickly after like kicking Orton's ass, But like, it
makes sense to me to keep the finisher strong. Getting beat up by three
of the top fucking guys, four of the top guys in the company,
you know, and getting hit with the ark out of nowhere, It's not
like he was laid out for twenty minutes. Yeah, yeah, Triple it
looks like Triple A tolds the belt, then it gets vacated on Raw in
December when there's a double pinfall, and then he wins it back at New
Year's Revolution in the Chamber, and then he loses it to Batista at WrestleMania,
so he holds it all the way up. This kind of a cool
little story Brandy orton Triple H. Then back to Batista when he finally decides
to choose he I think he doesn't that be dude, Batista does do that
Tony does. So it's all full circle there and that's pretty cool. It
is cool, and that is a cool moment with the clipboard. I like
that. Yeah, that was awesome. That was sweet. So there you
go. Yeah, but this title is definitely the evolution title. It was,
of course, if everybody remembers how they introduced this title into WB,
they awarded it to Late not winning. He was just awarded to him,
and then he said, I think I'm going to have this forever. While
the title was on Raw. He had it one, two, three,
four five times on Raw and it was only dude two thousand and two to
two thousand and five. And then Batista went to SmackDown or whatever and took
the belt I think or whatever. He was never he always orbited the belt
like it was always right there. There was Striple H's belt. Yeah,
and the Raw brand. Yeah, that was his brand because strip Leah didn't
want to work tuesdays. Didn't want to work tuesdays, Yes, sir,
come on, but JBL. He's got that brand unlocked. The ratings are
going high for SmackDown, let me tell you. Yeah, man, these
are going well oh wait no they aren't all right, Oh yeah, they
get the belt off this guy. But yeah, man, that is h
That is what day was this August sixteenth, two thousand and four Raw And
I had to be honest with you, Tony. Pretty easy fucking watch of
this episode. Yeah, I will say this though, I was expecting a
lot more backstage segments and more Eric Bischoff on the show, but maybe they
weren't at that point yet. I can't remember. T N A. T
and A kind of follows the same format for for a long time, where
the undercard is more I don't want to say squashes, but they're shorter,
but then the main event just gets more time. It's just like a it's
like a legendary philosophy for for building a TV card. It's like your undercard
usually goes shorter, you have like Semi Maine where it might go a little
bit longer, and then your main just goes like really long. Right yeah
yeah, And I mean historically it's worked. I think it's interesting now,
like it's nice to have a company that doesn't follow that, because like TNA
and WB were doing that exact same formatting pretty much the entire time they both
existed. Yeah, you're right, You're right, Yeah, definitely different.
Yeah, AW said we'll start with a twenty minute match, you know what
I mean, Like that's what it's It's kind of cool to see that there's
like a different company that's doing get completely fucking different, like formatting wise,
at the very least. Yeah, you don't open every show with a fifteen
minute promo and leading to the main event and then have your main event match.
So because because to be honest with Donny, I actually like the format
of like shorter matches leading to the longer matches just because it makes sense to
me. But I also like Aw's approach where it's like the guys are gonna
get time regardless, you know what I mean, Like if the match needs
time, it's gonna get time. Yeah that makes sense. Yeah, because
there's a ton of there's a ton of W matches. I remember watching other
years. I'm like, why, I don't know this was, like why
they even have this match, you know what I mean? Like I don't
even know what I'm looking at. Like it would go so short. Yeah,
I guess the idea was to like keep people watching TV, like you
know, and just keep giving them those short matches and then on the next
one and people tune in and keep watching. I guess, yeah, I
guess so, and uh well, I mean it worked for him, I
guess, or didn't. I don't know. The ratings fluctuate pretty hard there.
It was all time or ratings of all times of the muscle work.
I get, Yeah, you're right. So, yeah, that's it.
Raw August sixteenth, two thousand and four. So that's gonna be our show.
How about that pretty good episode of Raw here? What are you good
with? A pretty good main event? Oh my gosh, you've seen it?
Have you heard? You've heard about this? They're getting married on RAW
next week. I don't want to fucking talk about this. No fucking more,
all right, Johnny, Johnny's not fucking here, so I don't want
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