WWE RAW Review: Jey Uso vs Bron Breakker, Becky Lynch vs Roxanne Perez vs Natalya for MITB Qualifier, Devastating Zoey Stark Injury

<v Speaker 1>This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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<v Speaker 3>Welcome to the Monday Night Wrong Review. Everybody here on
<v Speaker 3>this Tuesday, the twentieth day of May twenty twenty five,
<v Speaker 3>as really devastating Raw has come and gone. And by
<v Speaker 3>devastating you probably know that I'm talking about Zoe Stark
<v Speaker 3>and the injury that she suffered during her tag team match,
<v Speaker 3>which was just brutal. If you slow it down, it
<v Speaker 3>gets worse. The knee injury that she suffered is I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's one of those it's one of those that it's
<v Speaker 3>hard to look away, but you can't not stare. And
<v Speaker 3>again i'd really advise in slow motion that you watch
<v Speaker 3>it or don't, depending on your squeamishness. It's a pretty
<v Speaker 3>damn brutali. I'm looking for the current diagnosis, but it
<v Speaker 3>just seems to be pretty general right now that it's
<v Speaker 3>just a quote serious knee injury. Well, no kidding, right,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, look what happened. There can't not be in
<v Speaker 3>the way that she grabbed her knee. This is not
<v Speaker 3>a work, This is not any part of the story.
<v Speaker 3>There are still some people that believe it could be.
<v Speaker 3>It's not, and we wiars Zoe's speedy recovery. And you know,
<v Speaker 3>I know it's an overly used phrase nowadays, but this
<v Speaker 3>could be a blessing in disguise for Zoe. She instantly
<v Speaker 3>has true, genuine sympathy from the audience, the average view.
<v Speaker 3>Even if you don't normally care about Zoe Stark, you
<v Speaker 3>don't really even pay attention when she's on the screen.
<v Speaker 3>You're mildly interested in what she's doing, and that may
<v Speaker 3>be overstating it. You now are paying attention. You instantly
<v Speaker 3>had sympathy. If you're a human being with a soul,
<v Speaker 3>you instantly generated sympathy for somebody that you didn't even
<v Speaker 3>care if they came out. Now you have a connection
<v Speaker 3>with the fans. Now you have something that you can
<v Speaker 3>build on upon your return. I'm not saying it's going
<v Speaker 3>to totally change her career and she's going to be
<v Speaker 3>at the top of the division, but I think fans
<v Speaker 3>will recognize her when she comes back as someone that
<v Speaker 3>they had sympathy for that they connected with. We all
<v Speaker 3>can connect with somebody who is going through pain, even
<v Speaker 3>if it's not a knee injury. Most of us can't
<v Speaker 3>relate to the actual injuries zoe Stark suffered, but rather
<v Speaker 3>just categorically pain and being able to and not being
<v Speaker 3>able to do something you love because of whatever pain
<v Speaker 3>you're experiencing. And seeing Zoey Stark get injured is rough.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, luckily it's nothing life threatening. It's you know,
<v Speaker 3>not her neck or you know something else. That's that's great.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, if you're going to choose an injury, a
<v Speaker 3>knee isn't the worst thing, but certainly painful, and it
<v Speaker 3>could end up creating a genuine connection with the fans
<v Speaker 3>it already has. So we'll see how long she's out.
<v Speaker 3>It could be three months, six months, twelve months, don't know.
<v Speaker 3>We don't know this extent, could be the acl MCL,
<v Speaker 3>it could be more. Don't know. We'll get an official
<v Speaker 3>diagnosis in the coming days, if you don't already have
<v Speaker 3>that by the time you're listening to this. But I
<v Speaker 3>think the best way to look at this, the best
<v Speaker 3>lens to look at this through if you're wwe and
<v Speaker 3>even more more so if you're Zoe Stark herself, this
<v Speaker 3>is an opportunity. You just got more sympathy from fans
<v Speaker 3>in a moment than you did in how many years
<v Speaker 3>in being the company because it's real. It's genuine, amazing.
<v Speaker 3>Right when something's real and genuine, fans instantly connect. They
<v Speaker 3>know it's not BS. And now you can turn something
<v Speaker 3>devastating into something positive because what you can what you
<v Speaker 3>can do, and maybe if you're Zolways Stark, you can
<v Speaker 3>talk to those powers that be in the company of Hey,
<v Speaker 3>here's the diagnosis, six, eight, twelve months, whatever it is.
<v Speaker 3>As we get closer, I would really like to capitalize
<v Speaker 3>on this injury by having quick vignettes about my return,
<v Speaker 3>about my recovery, about the surgery, about my physical therapy,
<v Speaker 3>the pain I'm going through. So when I come back,
<v Speaker 3>I can really just grab hold of that sympathy that
<v Speaker 3>fans will have for me, and I can ride it
<v Speaker 3>as long as it'll go, because if you take fans
<v Speaker 3>on that journey through those videos, they're gonna relate to that.
<v Speaker 3>Who can't relate to something like that. Again, not the
<v Speaker 3>exact scenario, but you can all relate to that in
<v Speaker 3>some way. If not just as a fellow human being.
<v Speaker 3>So I really think that they have an opportunity here. Now,
<v Speaker 3>does w W or always start push for that? Hopefully
<v Speaker 3>I could see them also doing absolutely nothing. And then
<v Speaker 3>she's a surprise entrant in the twenty twenty six Royal Rumble,
<v Speaker 3>a surprise return, and we're all going, oh, oh, that's right,
<v Speaker 3>I forgot she got injured. Well that's right, cool, Oh
<v Speaker 3>she's back next No, I mean that would be the
<v Speaker 3>worst case scenario actually, is to have no build up,
<v Speaker 3>no reminder to fans of what's going on, nothing with
<v Speaker 3>her recovery, and just have her return as a surprise
<v Speaker 3>entrant at number twenty in the Women's Royal Rumble next year,
<v Speaker 3>and then the announcers have to remind you Cole's reminding
<v Speaker 3>you if your recalls she had that devastating knee injury
<v Speaker 3>earlier last year or in the spring of last year,
<v Speaker 3>that took her twelve months to come back or whatever
<v Speaker 3>the math is from May to January. Not twelve months,
<v Speaker 3>but eight months, whatever it is, you know, And she's
<v Speaker 3>back and she gets a couple of eliminations, and then
<v Speaker 3>the next buzzer goes off and we all forget about her. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so she got her two minutes or ninety seconds of
<v Speaker 3>fame and then we all go Okay, cool, welcome back,
<v Speaker 3>and next that is the worst case scenario. So I
<v Speaker 3>know that they're not going to try to make her
<v Speaker 3>the focal point of the women's division. But you never
<v Speaker 3>know what can happen. You never know what the fans
<v Speaker 3>will grab onto and stick with. So I know I'm
<v Speaker 3>spending a significant amount of time talking about Zoe Stark,
<v Speaker 3>the most time I've ever spent talking about Zoe Stark,
<v Speaker 3>much less opening the show with her. But it is
<v Speaker 3>a relevant injury, and when you have an injury like this,
<v Speaker 3>there's an opportunity to capitalize. There's an opportunity to really
<v Speaker 3>grab hold of something and see where it takes. You
<v Speaker 3>could just lead to nothing, But when you have a
<v Speaker 3>situation like this that's serious and real and the fans
<v Speaker 3>can really relate to you and it felt more for
<v Speaker 3>you in ten minutes than in how again, three year,
<v Speaker 3>four years since she's been here, then that's something you
<v Speaker 3>need to at least try.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 3>Not every single injury needs to have this happen, where
<v Speaker 3>you have vignettes and struggling and the surgery and post
<v Speaker 3>surgery and doctor's comments and all. You don't need all
<v Speaker 3>that family having their two cents of what this injury
<v Speaker 3>did to them and how they feel about their son
<v Speaker 3>or daughter or cousin or brother or sister. You don't
<v Speaker 3>need all that all the time. I'm just saying, this
<v Speaker 3>is an opportunity for Zoe, and we'll see what they do.
<v Speaker 3>But more to talk about here as Saturday Night's main
<v Speaker 3>event comes to us in just a few days, Saturday
<v Speaker 3>the twenty fourth, We've got a Prediction show coming for you.
<v Speaker 3>Even though it's again kind of an between pl e
<v Speaker 3>not really nothing significant could come from it, although I
<v Speaker 3>do see a potential here he'll turn her two in there,
<v Speaker 3>maybe a Sammy's Ain turn. I've been a little bit
<v Speaker 3>a little bit weary of sammys Ain's body language as
<v Speaker 3>of late, his hesitations, his stares. I know that the
<v Speaker 3>fans love Sammy, but I could definitely see Sammy's Ain
<v Speaker 3>turning on punk and joining Seth's group. Now. I do
<v Speaker 3>still believe Bronson Reed is a perfect fit, but I
<v Speaker 3>do see Samy's Ain as a contender to turn. But
<v Speaker 3>we'll get more into that when the Prediction Show comes
<v Speaker 3>to you on Friday. So let's get into Monday Night ROW. Actually,
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<v Speaker 3>go into Monday Night RAW. We're gonna start here with
<v Speaker 3>Logan Paul coming out, and we were assured that Logan
<v Speaker 3>Paul was gonna quote unquote cook here. He's gonna cook.
<v Speaker 3>He's gonna he's gonna, you know, whip up some some
<v Speaker 3>food and cook for us. Yes, I know what cook means.
<v Speaker 3>I'm just being an old timer. So Paul, welcome fans
<v Speaker 3>to RAW, because of course everyone has to. I still
<v Speaker 3>think that's the one of the dumbest things that w
<v Speaker 3>W does is whoever comes out. Imagine stone Cold Steve
<v Speaker 3>Boston back in the day coming out and instead of
<v Speaker 3>talking about what it's it's important to him, his character,
<v Speaker 3>his storyline, he has to toe the company line and
<v Speaker 3>welcome fans to Monday Night Raw, as if that's the
<v Speaker 3>most important thing on his mind. Is you know, playing announcer.
<v Speaker 3>It's stupid. There's no need to do that. I continue
<v Speaker 3>to say it's stupid until damn it, the company listens
<v Speaker 3>to me. It's such a simple thing. Just don't do it.
<v Speaker 3>Don't do it. But he said the fact that he'll
<v Speaker 3>beat it's a fact he'll beat Jay Usa on Saturday
<v Speaker 3>and will be the new world champion when he appears
<v Speaker 3>on next week's Raw. He barked at the crowd and
<v Speaker 3>you know for chanting yeat and said, is the fact
<v Speaker 3>that Jay can't handle the weight of being champion, And
<v Speaker 3>said the biggest fact of all is he's knocked out
<v Speaker 3>Jay three times. And he started to say that he
<v Speaker 3>would knock out Jay again on Saturday and become the
<v Speaker 3>new world champion, but he was interrupted by Gunther, and
<v Speaker 3>he said Paul seemed very confident about beating the man
<v Speaker 3>who beat Gunther for the world title, and he assumed
<v Speaker 3>that Paul he meant Paul believes he can beat him.
<v Speaker 3>Gunther praised Paul as a self created social media star
<v Speaker 3>who built his own empire and said that there are
<v Speaker 3>things he can learn from Paul, who boasted that Gunther
<v Speaker 3>was right, and Gunther stopped him and said that Paul
<v Speaker 3>winning the championship would be great for business, and Logan asked,
<v Speaker 3>who knew Gunther knew business. Gunther said, it's business to Paul,
<v Speaker 3>whereas it's very personal for him. Gunther spoke of beating
<v Speaker 3>Jay to regain the championship and said he would feel
<v Speaker 3>disrespected if Paul took that away from him, and Gunther
<v Speaker 3>said he sees no heart when he looks in Paul's eyes.
<v Speaker 3>And Gunther said if he and Paul meet for the
<v Speaker 3>title on June ninth, he'll eat Paul alive, which isold
<v Speaker 3>have had more weight. If Gunther wasn't beating up announcers
<v Speaker 3>and losing to Jay Uso at Wrestle Media in a
<v Speaker 3>record tap out time, that would certainly help. But what
<v Speaker 3>do I know, Logan, Paul, I'm sorry, guntherer just needs
<v Speaker 3>to be rebuilt a bit. I hate saying that because
<v Speaker 3>he should know where be nowhere near the point of
<v Speaker 3>being rebuilt. He's not a legacy star in the backside
<v Speaker 3>of his career. He's a guy that is one of
<v Speaker 3>the faces of the company. He's the embodiment of a
<v Speaker 3>throwback wrestler. He's the embodiment of what wrestling used to
<v Speaker 3>feel and look like. I think that's why a lot
<v Speaker 3>of fans gravitate to him. They may not cheer him,
<v Speaker 3>but they respect him, and people pay attention when they
<v Speaker 3>see him, because he is the perfect symbol of what
<v Speaker 3>a wrestler. In a lot of people's eyes, though not
<v Speaker 3>a lot, but in a lot of people's eyes, what
<v Speaker 3>a wrestler should be and act like and look like.
<v Speaker 3>Is Gunther. He is all about respect. He most of
<v Speaker 3>the time doesn't cheat to win. He's all business. He
<v Speaker 3>doesn't fool around. He doesn't try to make people laugh.
<v Speaker 3>For me, it's more about what Gunther doesn't do than
<v Speaker 3>what he does, because he doesn't do about ninety percent
<v Speaker 3>of what most wrestlers do today, even if their heels.
<v Speaker 3>Trying to make people laugh one more time, one more
<v Speaker 3>time and then granting the wishes of the fans as
<v Speaker 3>heals it makes no sense for me. Gunther's character is
<v Speaker 3>actually built on the omissions of his actions instead of
<v Speaker 3>the things he actually does. By him not doing what
<v Speaker 3>most people do, speaks volumes as to who he is.
<v Speaker 3>He doesn't try to do suicide dives and work one
<v Speaker 3>hundred miles an hour and do off the top rope stuff.
<v Speaker 3>He's ground pound chain, That's who he is. Gunther is
<v Speaker 3>an immeasurable asset to the company. I've said that since
<v Speaker 3>the day he appeared on the main roster. I was
<v Speaker 3>worried he was never going to come over from NXT UK.
<v Speaker 3>There were I remember him even saying he had no
<v Speaker 3>interest in coming over to the US at the time.
<v Speaker 3>He drops a bunch of weight shows up in NXT dominates,
<v Speaker 3>comes to the main roster and it's been history. As
<v Speaker 3>they say, since that point record Intercontinental Championship reign, World
<v Speaker 3>Heavyweight Championship rain that'll unfortunately was destined to end with
<v Speaker 3>Jay Uso. And I say unfortunately, not that I have
<v Speaker 3>anything against Jay, but Gunther did not need to lose there.
<v Speaker 3>He could have definitely continued his reign. Jay Uso, still,
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry, doesn't feel like a world heavyweight champion. He
<v Speaker 3>doesn't have that to me. Sure, he's got the crowd support,
<v Speaker 3>but it's more than that crowd loves him. I've got
<v Speaker 3>nothing against his character other than at times it would
<v Speaker 3>be nice to hear him enunciate his promos instead of
<v Speaker 3>just having to sift through the yeat and promo voice
<v Speaker 3>that he has. And he's done that and it was
<v Speaker 3>capable of it. The overuse of the super Kicks into
<v Speaker 3>all that, But all that put together, I really I
<v Speaker 3>don't have anything personal against Jay entering respect wise, it's
<v Speaker 3>just the whole package, the whole feeling I get for
<v Speaker 3>Jay still to me doesn't feel like a world champion,
<v Speaker 3>and perhaps that's because it came from Gunther. A dude
<v Speaker 3>that looks the part, feels the part. He's not trying
<v Speaker 3>to play a part, because he is it. He's living himself.
<v Speaker 3>That's who he is, and that's how it feels anyway,
<v Speaker 3>and perceptions reality. With Jay, I feel like he's a
<v Speaker 3>cartoon character that pushes out a lot of merch, has
<v Speaker 3>a cute catchphrase, is very flamboyant in the ring, has
<v Speaker 3>a lot of high flying moves. He's very flashy, whereas
<v Speaker 3>Gunther is again the complete opposite. He's all business. So
<v Speaker 3>I understand why Jay's champion. I don't like it. Again,
<v Speaker 3>I don't I have nothing against Jay, But to me,
<v Speaker 3>Gunther had more in that run than he showed us
<v Speaker 3>or w W showed US. So when Gunther faces likely
<v Speaker 3>Jusso on June ninth, from money in the bank, I
<v Speaker 3>still fully expect, Unfortunately, jus So retain when you have
<v Speaker 3>a WrestleMania victory of that magnitude after coming off winning
<v Speaker 3>the Royal Rumble, it would be an admission of a
<v Speaker 3>mistake by WWE. If they were to put the belt
<v Speaker 3>back on gun Through. I think they don't want to
<v Speaker 3>do that. I don't even know if there's even any
<v Speaker 3>serious discussion to do that. But to correct course that quickly,
<v Speaker 3>there would have to be some real there'd have to
<v Speaker 3>be a real downslide in ratings every time that he's on.
<v Speaker 3>There would have to be a tanking of merch, a
<v Speaker 3>real lowering of crowd reaction. I mean, And none of
<v Speaker 3>those metrics are pointing down. In fact, all of them
<v Speaker 3>are pointing up merch ratings and his you know, the
<v Speaker 3>crowd reaction every time he gets in front of a
<v Speaker 3>live crowd. I mean, it's so none of those factors
<v Speaker 3>tell WWE you gotta change course, correct course now. So
<v Speaker 3>with that said, and you put on top of the
<v Speaker 3>fact that, hey, it's just been a couple of months
<v Speaker 3>since he's won the belt, not even by the time
<v Speaker 3>they have their rematch on June ninth, because it was
<v Speaker 3>what April twentieth, twenty first when he lost the belt
<v Speaker 3>April twentieth, so not even two months. They're not gonna
<v Speaker 3>have Jay drop the belt. I would do it, but
<v Speaker 3>that's me. So again, this should be a fun match though,
<v Speaker 3>between Logan Paul and jaus So Logan Paul at the
<v Speaker 3>end of the night, and we'll talk about this more
<v Speaker 3>a little bit later. But he ends up knocking out
<v Speaker 3>jay Uso for a fourth time. I think that's cool.
<v Speaker 3>I know that jay Uso ends up leaving Logan Paul
<v Speaker 3>light out with a superkick. And what's the difference between
<v Speaker 3>this superkick that looks like it could have put Logan
<v Speaker 3>Paul down for a forty count versus the eighteen he'll
<v Speaker 3>give him during the actual match, and none of them
<v Speaker 3>will be you know, none of them will decide the match.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. Maybe he summoned Sean Michael's innered spirits
<v Speaker 3>and was able to hit a sweet chin music versus
<v Speaker 3>just a superkick. I don't know, but yeah, so it's
<v Speaker 3>the same thing when Randy Orton was rko ing John
<v Speaker 3>Cena for four weeks straight, and it would put John
<v Speaker 3>Cena down for twenty minutes. And then during the match,
<v Speaker 3>you know, he'll kick out of one or two of them,
<v Speaker 3>and it's like, what's the difference, what's the difference here?
<v Speaker 3>It's you know, and that's what happened to Jau. So
<v Speaker 3>that maybe the longest anyone's been down from a superkick
<v Speaker 3>from jay Uso in the probably fifty seven thousand superkicks
<v Speaker 3>he's delivered in his career. That maybe the single one
<v Speaker 3>caught on camera where they were down the longest. I know,
<v Speaker 3>I'm pissing some of you guys off because I'm breaking
<v Speaker 3>down the little stuff, but this is the little stuff
<v Speaker 3>that that my brain catches. So then we get Penta
<v Speaker 3>coming out, and it was a triple thread here with
<v Speaker 3>I'm sorry tag team match with aj and Penta versus
<v Speaker 3>Finn and j D McDonough with Carlito, and this match
<v Speaker 3>went pretty long, seventeen minutes and fifteen seconds. The finish though,
<v Speaker 3>was a Grande Americanos showing up in the crowd. He
<v Speaker 3>grabs Penta from behind and he head butt him, head
<v Speaker 3>butted him in the back of Penta's head, while Cole
<v Speaker 3>accused him of having his metal plate. The metal plate
<v Speaker 3>he puts in his head, and once Penta was back
<v Speaker 3>in the ring, Baller hit him with the Kudi Gras
<v Speaker 3>and got the victory. Enjoyed the tag team match, enjoyed
<v Speaker 3>the hell out of it. These four men are I mean,
<v Speaker 3>polished performers. They they can put on a match for
<v Speaker 3>forty five minutes, and I don't think many of us
<v Speaker 3>would get bored. In fact, I think a forty five
<v Speaker 3>minute match would would be something that would be I
<v Speaker 3>don't know who could pull it off, or rather not
<v Speaker 3>even who could pull it off. Who wwe would have
<v Speaker 3>the faith in to pull off an iron Man match?
<v Speaker 3>And that's a hell of a question. Do you guys
<v Speaker 3>think we will ever again see an iron Man match,
<v Speaker 3>a true sixty minute iron Man match? Do you think
<v Speaker 3>we'll ever see it again? Where that match, whatever it
<v Speaker 3>is or whoever it is, takes up an hour of
<v Speaker 3>a pl It could happen on a televised event, but
<v Speaker 3>you save something like that for a PL for sure,
<v Speaker 3>it wouldn't happen at a WrestleMania. You can't stuck up
<v Speaker 3>that much time for one match. It would happen on
<v Speaker 3>a B level pl e. It could happen again on
<v Speaker 3>money in the bank, or it could happen at a
<v Speaker 3>no Way out or something like that elimination chamber, I guess.
<v Speaker 3>But do you think we'll ever see it again? I
<v Speaker 3>hope we do. The sixty minute iron Man match would
<v Speaker 3>be again. Given the right opponents, be awesome, bring it on.
<v Speaker 3>It's just you gotta find the right guys on the
<v Speaker 3>right rivalry to be able to do it and be
<v Speaker 3>able to hold the crowds attention for sixty minutes. I
<v Speaker 3>think the last one I saw might have been. Was
<v Speaker 3>it kurd Angle involved, because my first instinct is to
<v Speaker 3>go to Triple H versus a Triple H versus the
<v Speaker 3>Rock at Judgment Day two thousand, when the Undertaker first
<v Speaker 3>returned as the American Badass. But I know there's been
<v Speaker 3>more since then, not many, but some. Not thirty minute.
<v Speaker 3>There's been thirty minute iron Man matches. I'm talking a
<v Speaker 3>true sixty minute Iron Man match. I don't even know
<v Speaker 3>the last one. I think it was with kurd Angle
<v Speaker 3>and someone in the mid two thousands, if I'm not mistaken. Actually,
<v Speaker 3>I just googled it. I don't want to ruin it
<v Speaker 3>for you, you guys ready, I had the last three
<v Speaker 3>Iron Man matches true sixty minutes. So the one before
<v Speaker 3>the Rock and Triple Hi Judgment Day two thousand was
<v Speaker 3>Shawn Michael's Brett Hart. At WrestleMania twelve, Shawn Michaels won
<v Speaker 3>the WF Championship in a classic match that Sea Cole
<v Speaker 3>or whoever claimed it was an instant classic. Instant classics
<v Speaker 3>are determined after the fact and by longevity. Okay, not
<v Speaker 3>letting the longevity of the match, but longevity of the
<v Speaker 3>perception of the match by fans. However, Shawn Michaels about
<v Speaker 3>heart WrestleMania A twelve, then Triple H Rocket Judgment to
<v Speaker 3>A two thousand, and the last one was twenty two,
<v Speaker 3>nearly twenty two years ago, on September eighteenth, two thousand
<v Speaker 3>and three, Brock Lesner versus Kurt Angle. So I was right,
<v Speaker 3>I just wasn't sure if it was Brock. I knew
<v Speaker 3>Kurt was in part of it, and Lesner won the
<v Speaker 3>WWE Championship ship on September eighteenth, two thousand and three,
<v Speaker 3>twenty two years I think it's time we bring it back.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I don't want one every year. I don't
<v Speaker 3>want one every five years. But it's been twenty two years.
<v Speaker 3>You could market the hell out of that.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 3>The biggest problem WW we would have and the biggest,
<v Speaker 3>the biggest, uh, the biggest argument against it is Bob
<v Speaker 3>crowd doesn't have the attentions for that. Oh we're gonna
<v Speaker 3>get bored. Well, then they don't like wrestling, because that,
<v Speaker 3>to me tells That tells me that you don't think
<v Speaker 3>that having that much wrestling on a wrestling show is good. Now,
<v Speaker 3>watching two guys wrestle for sixty minutes, you're gonna have downtime.
<v Speaker 3>You're gonna have periods where they're in a reverse chin lock. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>not every every second of it can be a you know,
<v Speaker 3>a pin into a reversal into a finish, into a
<v Speaker 3>high spot into where we're a reversal into a submission
<v Speaker 3>into no no. The pacing of the match is going
<v Speaker 3>to have to be very much up and down, ending
<v Speaker 3>on who the opponents are, will depend on how the
<v Speaker 3>ebb and flow of the match goes. But I know,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't expect to talk about an iron Man match here.
<v Speaker 3>I don't even know where the hell I got that
<v Speaker 3>from but twenty two years since an iron Man match,
<v Speaker 3>it's due. There's more of an argument for it than
<v Speaker 3>there is against it. What do you think? What do
<v Speaker 3>you guys think? There's your homework assignment for the week.
<v Speaker 3>Do you think not not some some kind of crippled
<v Speaker 3>version of an iron Man? Not a twenty minute, not
<v Speaker 3>a thirty minute, not a forty minute, a sixty minute
<v Speaker 3>iron Man match? Would you want to see it in
<v Speaker 3>twenty twenty five, twenty two years after the last one?
<v Speaker 3>And who would you want to see do that? Man
<v Speaker 3>or woman? But a one on one match. I'm not
<v Speaker 3>asking for a a you know Survivor series matchup in
<v Speaker 3>the cage or you know war games. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 3>straight up one on one? Who would you want it
<v Speaker 3>to be?
<v Speaker 2>There?
<v Speaker 3>You guys got your homework asigned for the week. I'll
<v Speaker 3>answer those questions on the mail bag if you guys,
<v Speaker 3>or I'll answer your and read your suggestions on the
<v Speaker 3>mail bag, which, by the way, if you want to
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<v Speaker 4>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>That's right, the tag team match that spun me into
<v Speaker 3>the Iron Man whole virgam roll all right. We then
<v Speaker 3>had EO. Sky interviewed by Kathy Kelly backstage, and Sky
<v Speaker 3>started to talk about how she's ready to beat anyone.
<v Speaker 3>Becky Lynch showed up and said Sky has never beaten her.
<v Speaker 3>Sky stood her ground, and then Lynch made her entrance
<v Speaker 3>for the qualifier Logan. Paul was on the phone when
<v Speaker 3>Seth Rollins approached him. Rollins told Paul that Jay would
<v Speaker 3>be hurt tonight for sticking his nose in his business,
<v Speaker 3>and Rollin said the odds would be in Paul's favor
<v Speaker 3>when he faces Jay, and Rollin said that if Paul
<v Speaker 3>can get past Jane Gunther, he'd be waiting on the
<v Speaker 3>other side for him. Rollin said Paul would know who
<v Speaker 3>to think if he had the championship on his shoulder,
<v Speaker 3>and said they might have to run back their WrestleMania match,
<v Speaker 3>only this time with the World Heavyweight Championship on the line.
<v Speaker 3>And then New Day could be seen speaking with Grayson
<v Speaker 3>Waller in the background. Dun't dun't dum. Could we finally
<v Speaker 3>see an Austin theory baby face turn. We've been talking
<v Speaker 3>about that. I mean, you guys have been talking about it.
<v Speaker 3>Most of the fan base has been talking about an
<v Speaker 3>Austin theory turn. If Grayson Waller aligns himself on New Day, fine,
<v Speaker 3>here's really what I'd just recommend. With Grayson Waller and
<v Speaker 3>with Austin theory, It's really very simple. Just do something anything.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I don't mean that facetiously. I mean just
<v Speaker 3>do something because where they are right now is a
<v Speaker 3>dead zone. Nobody cares about Austin theory and Grayson Waller.
<v Speaker 3>There's no more. The Waller effect was at least mildly entertaining.
<v Speaker 3>There was a little bit of momentum for Austin theory
<v Speaker 3>at one point. Remember he was Vince McMahon's chosen one,
<v Speaker 3>and people started to really buy in. I even was
<v Speaker 3>starting to buy in. And then he beat John Cena
<v Speaker 3>and then fell off the face of the earth. Literally
<v Speaker 3>since that moment, so I'm being said, like, do anything.
<v Speaker 3>Turn Austin theory heel and make Grayson Waller baby face,
<v Speaker 3>Make aust babyface and turn Waller heel. As many expect
<v Speaker 3>just do something because this is a career killing place
<v Speaker 3>that they're both in. They're in no man's land, get
<v Speaker 3>them out, just do anything, all right. So then we
<v Speaker 3>have Becky Lynch versus Roxanne versus an Italian, a triple
<v Speaker 3>threat qualifier for the women's Money in the bank. And
<v Speaker 3>I enjoyed this match, I really did. I thought this
<v Speaker 3>was a really high effort match and was a pl
<v Speaker 3>equality I mean, yes it could be. I mean you
<v Speaker 3>could have made this a pl E not maybe not
<v Speaker 3>a main event, but certainly a pl equality match. With
<v Speaker 3>nearly fifteen minutes given. It ends with ROXANM. Perez beating
<v Speaker 3>the Italian Becky Lynch again in about fifteen minutes to qualify,
<v Speaker 3>So Roxan Perez is in, and don't forget rox and
<v Speaker 3>Perez also ends up, I guess, befriending herself to Judgment
<v Speaker 3>Day a little bit later and gives Dom some chicken
<v Speaker 3>nuggets and gives carlto and apple, and Finn is trying
<v Speaker 3>to kind of jab the knife in a little bit
<v Speaker 3>by you know, making sure liv knows that we're trying
<v Speaker 3>to bring another female in. And yeah, so Finn is
<v Speaker 3>kind of backhandedly turning on the judgment day by at
<v Speaker 3>the same time trying to offer them gifts and bringing
<v Speaker 3>somebody new. Well, not as an official member, but as
<v Speaker 3>a kind of a an ally, I should say. But
<v Speaker 3>this match was good, by the way. I don't want
<v Speaker 3>to disrespect the match and not talk about the finish,
<v Speaker 3>because the finish was Natalia, who, Yes, she still works here.
<v Speaker 3>I thought the same thing every time I see her.
<v Speaker 3>I figured she had kind of retired and gone full
<v Speaker 3>time on Instagram talking about her cats or putting on
<v Speaker 3>some kind of you know, bikini or some showing how
<v Speaker 3>often she works out, or putting some caddiers on or something.
<v Speaker 3>And Nope, she still knows how to wrestle. Apparently, so Natalia,
<v Speaker 3>just like a lot of us thought, I really thought
<v Speaker 3>she was retired. It was kind of quietly gone in retirement.
<v Speaker 3>But nope, no, she's still here. If not a hologram
<v Speaker 3>of her worked on Monday end, I'm not sure, but
<v Speaker 3>Natalia or someone that looked like her held the sharp
<v Speaker 3>shooter on Perez and Lynch returned and hit the man
<v Speaker 3>handle slam on Perez. Valkyria shows up and pulled Lynch
<v Speaker 3>to ringside and fought with her, and then Lynch broke
<v Speaker 3>free returned to the ring. Natalia set up for the
<v Speaker 3>sharp shooter on Lynch, but Valkyria pulled Lynch to the
<v Speaker 3>floor and Perez hit pop rocks on. Natalia got the victory.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, you knew that Natalia was there to take
<v Speaker 3>the pinfall, as she normally is in any kind of
<v Speaker 3>multi woman match, and the right move Roxan Perez is
<v Speaker 3>on the upside here, having her be showcase in the
<v Speaker 3>money of the Bank ladder match, even if she doesn't win,
<v Speaker 3>is the right move Natalia is. I mean, she's again,
<v Speaker 3>no disrespect. I do make fun of how often they
<v Speaker 3>use her, but she's just long past the point where
<v Speaker 3>they're ever going to put her in a position where
<v Speaker 3>she could become the champion and be a long standing champion.
<v Speaker 3>She's not in that stage and she's just done. It's
<v Speaker 3>not gonna happen anymore. But she's a valuable still a
<v Speaker 3>valuable piece because she's that grizzly veteran. She's the one
<v Speaker 3>that's kind of the gatekeeper, or used to be. And
<v Speaker 3>she's also probably more valuable honestly backstage than in the ring,
<v Speaker 3>helping the other women, answering questions, mentoring and what am
<v Speaker 3>I to tell her what to do with her the
<v Speaker 3>rest of her career, But from an outsider's perspective, from
<v Speaker 3>a you know, a very wide view from a random
<v Speaker 3>fan here, that's kind of how I would utilize in
<v Speaker 3>Italia at this point. Is you know, sure you could
<v Speaker 3>occasionally use her in the ring, but I think she's
<v Speaker 3>much more valuable outside of it, helping in the training
<v Speaker 3>center and all that and NXT and that kind of thing.
<v Speaker 3>But Valkyria getting involved with Lynch and the reaction for
<v Speaker 3>Valkyria here was something that should be noted. Valkyria got
<v Speaker 3>a nice reaction when she pulled Lynch to the floor.
<v Speaker 3>Fans have started to get on board with Valkyria, and
<v Speaker 3>that's that's good because the last couple of weeks she
<v Speaker 3>started to find her voice, her fire, and she retained
<v Speaker 3>against Lynch, which most people didn't expect to happen. Most
<v Speaker 3>people said, wolf Lynch doesn't win, including myself. Where does
<v Speaker 3>she go from here? So Valkyria is right now in
<v Speaker 3>a good place. The crowd is also on board with her,
<v Speaker 3>and it's all systems go. So then we have let's
<v Speaker 3>see the A graphic listed from June twenty twelve, featuring
<v Speaker 3>Johnson A beating Michael Cole in a no DQ match,
<v Speaker 3>and we have a footage shown from the match. I'd
<v Speaker 3>forgotten about it. McAfee did his tellustrator bit while pointing
<v Speaker 3>out that's the strange placement of Cole's calf tattoo.
<v Speaker 2>It is weird.
<v Speaker 3>And he said he didn't have to be put to
<v Speaker 3>sleep to get his tattoo. And he also said that
<v Speaker 3>it was it was embarrassing, and not as embarrassing as
<v Speaker 3>what hiden Reich did to him. That maybe the first
<v Speaker 3>time I've heard the name hiden Reich on WWETV in
<v Speaker 3>about fifteen years. Does anybody remember hiden Reich? He was
<v Speaker 3>around the time of Mordecai. Maybe even Jimmy Wang Yang
<v Speaker 3>that's a name I brought up a few months ago.
<v Speaker 3>Or Paul Burchill. I think he was like a pirate
<v Speaker 3>or something. Kyrie Sayin would have been all over him.
<v Speaker 3>Trying to think all the other some of the random
<v Speaker 3>people they've brought in around that time. Yeah, I'm sure
<v Speaker 3>there's others that that'd be a good kind of trivia.
<v Speaker 3>Is some of the some of the random wrestlers that
<v Speaker 3>were there for a short period but left an impact
<v Speaker 3>on you. Nathan Jones kind of is it that mind?
<v Speaker 3>The right era? I think I am Nathan Jones, who
<v Speaker 3>was just great look but a disaster in the ring.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, I mean Hide and Reich was also in
<v Speaker 3>that same category where Hide and Reich had a great
<v Speaker 3>look but he couldn't work A lick Undertaker did not
<v Speaker 3>like working with him. Great Colleie also, well, Great Colleigue
<v Speaker 3>is a much more nostalgic Ussian, and I guess maybe
<v Speaker 3>nostalgic is the right word, but uh, Great Collie is
<v Speaker 3>a legend in his country, Great Colleague, despite the fact
<v Speaker 3>that you know he can't work at all, it's not
<v Speaker 3>almost his fault because he's such a giant human being
<v Speaker 3>that you can't expect much out of him. He's an
<v Speaker 3>attraction and a limited attraction. So maybe it's not fair
<v Speaker 3>to put Khali in that same boat as all the
<v Speaker 3>other men that I just mentioned. But anyway, how's that
<v Speaker 3>for some nostalgia for those of you that are old
<v Speaker 3>time fans, right, all those great matches with Jimmy Wang
<v Speaker 3>Yang and Paul Burchill and Hide and Reich and Mordecai. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>damn remember all those classics they had me too. So
<v Speaker 3>we had then Seamus take on Grayson Waller again. No
<v Speaker 3>one cares about Grays and Waller, Austin theory, get them,
<v Speaker 3>just stop it just to have them do anything, okay,
<v Speaker 3>But it's cool to see Seamus. I like his shorter hair.
<v Speaker 3>I have to say, it feels like he's younger. It's
<v Speaker 3>like he's been refreshed a bit since he's uh, you know,
<v Speaker 3>got his hair cut a little bit. And Seamus beats
<v Speaker 3>Grayson Waller in about twelve minutes, and we have Seamous
<v Speaker 3>kits victory, and we have Austin Theory kind of smiling
<v Speaker 3>at ringside. Do there's no need to keep them together anymore.
<v Speaker 3>There's no need to tease us with a long breakup
<v Speaker 3>or whatever. I honestly think it's not that they're teasing
<v Speaker 3>us to see how fans are on the edge of
<v Speaker 3>the seat. When are they gonna break them up? The
<v Speaker 3>fact is, I think they just don't have a plan
<v Speaker 3>for them. There's just no plan. They don't have a
<v Speaker 3>viable plan in place. That's what this is about, and
<v Speaker 3>that's why it's taking so long. Is not that they
<v Speaker 3>don't intend on doing it or they're playing games with
<v Speaker 3>fans of we're gonna do it, We're gonna nope, we're
<v Speaker 3>pulling back. See yeah, we're gonna take you on a ride.
<v Speaker 3>That's not this case here. They simply just don't know
<v Speaker 3>what the hell they're gonna do after they turn them
<v Speaker 3>one or ball or one of them is gonna turn obviously,
<v Speaker 3>or who's gonna do what? And after they feud together,
<v Speaker 3>what happens. It's like that commercial famously. I mean, this
<v Speaker 3>guy's in so many different memes and where it's an
<v Speaker 3>old fisherman and he's holding like a dollar on the
<v Speaker 3>end of his fishing hook and somebody's for it. He's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>you almost had it. He almost had it right, Oh
<v Speaker 3>you almost got it. It's that everybody knows the commercial
<v Speaker 3>I'm talking about. It might be Geico or something, but
<v Speaker 3>that's what it is. With Grayson Waller and Austin Theory.
<v Speaker 3>People are like, Okay, well, let's just do it. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know. It's not even going to be a big
<v Speaker 3>reaction when it happens because people have been seeing it
<v Speaker 3>coming for about fourteen years now, so people are more
<v Speaker 3>of just going to be relieved when it happens, not
<v Speaker 3>surprised or excited. Just kind of like, okay, okay, cool, fine,
<v Speaker 3>it's finally done. Now let's do something of actual consequence
<v Speaker 3>with them. So then we had Cole speak about Tyresee
<v Speaker 3>Halliburton and Jalen Brunson facing off in the NBA Eastern
<v Speaker 3>Conference Finals and Cole Cole said he was at Madison
<v Speaker 3>Square Garden the last time the Knicks won the NBA Championship,
<v Speaker 3>and McAfee said that if the Indiana Pacers win, Cole
<v Speaker 3>has to has to do raw at a full tank top.
<v Speaker 3>He said he'd wear a full suit or a TuS
<v Speaker 3>if the Knicks won. Cole then interviewed Haliburton, who appeared
<v Speaker 3>to be in his home, and he, you know, he
<v Speaker 3>had to be pretty much paid to say how excited
<v Speaker 3>he was to be a downloadable character on a WW
<v Speaker 3>video game. He said it would be I mean, are
<v Speaker 3>you kidding me? Didn't didn't? If I'm not mistaken, I
<v Speaker 3>only half paid attention to this interview. Did McAfee ask
<v Speaker 3>Caliburton if it was a dream come true to be
<v Speaker 3>in a video game, and specifically a downloadable character in
<v Speaker 3>thew W video game. I'm pretty sure that's not a
<v Speaker 3>dream come true. If he dedicated his life to becoming
<v Speaker 3>a professional basketball player who is now potentially going to
<v Speaker 3>be potentially going to be in the NBA finals. I'm
<v Speaker 3>pretty sure that's not on his bucket list of dreams.
<v Speaker 3>So he's pretty much he's being paid by w W
<v Speaker 3>in two K to sell the game and pretend to
<v Speaker 3>be excited about being a downloadable character. By the way,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know who the hell. And this is just
<v Speaker 3>because I don't really follow the NBA. I'm only following
<v Speaker 3>it somewhat from a distance because I'm in New York
<v Speaker 3>and the Knicks haven't been in the NBA finals and
<v Speaker 3>you know forever, and uh, you know, much less the
<v Speaker 3>much less win an NBA final. So I mean, I
<v Speaker 3>know who Jalen Brunson is only because I've been following
<v Speaker 3>the Knicks as of recent But I when they showed
<v Speaker 3>Tyrese Haliburton, I go, I'm just thinking who once again?
<v Speaker 2>Who?
<v Speaker 3>So I don't know. I maybe I'm the old guy
<v Speaker 3>in the room again. But when they showed these celebrities,
<v Speaker 3>especially for the PLS and WrestleMania, they were just obsessively
<v Speaker 3>showing celebrities, ninety four percent of them. I had no
<v Speaker 3>clue who they were, and again last night, I was
<v Speaker 3>embarrassed by going, who the hell's Tyrese Haliburton. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I had no clue, no clue. I'm the guy that
<v Speaker 3>a lot of outside wrestling fans are. If it's not
<v Speaker 3>the big big names, I don't know who you are,
<v Speaker 3>meaning those who aren't wrestling fans, ask oh, is Stone
<v Speaker 3>Cold gonna be at WrestleMania's the Rock gonna be a
<v Speaker 3>WrestleMania's Undertaker's still going to show up?
<v Speaker 1>Is?
<v Speaker 2>You know?
<v Speaker 3>They name all the legends that used to wrestle and
<v Speaker 3>occasionally pop in for WrestleMania. I'm like that with the NBA.
<v Speaker 3>I'm the wrestling fan that's passionate about we that pops
<v Speaker 3>in during the NBA Finals and go, oh is Lebron
<v Speaker 3>in there? I know who Lebron James is and I
<v Speaker 3>couldn't name it single stat he has, but I know
<v Speaker 3>his name, I know his face. He's a household name.
<v Speaker 3>Like that's me. I'm the equivalent of a very casual
<v Speaker 3>WWE fan that only comes around during WrestleMania. I'm that
<v Speaker 3>guy mirrored in the NBA. So when I heard Halibert
<v Speaker 3>and I just I went, I go am I supposed
<v Speaker 3>to be excited about this guy. Who's this So okay,
<v Speaker 3>let's go here. So Gunther was about to be interviewed
<v Speaker 3>by Kathy Kelly when Seth Rollin shows up and Rollin
<v Speaker 3>said it's been a while since they shared the same space.
<v Speaker 3>Rollin said he wanted Gunther to know that the work
<v Speaker 3>he did with my World Heavyweight Championship was pretty good,
<v Speaker 3>and Gunther said he heard about the long term plan
<v Speaker 3>that Paul Hayman mentioned. Gunther said he is the real future.
<v Speaker 3>Rollin said he would cut the crap. He said he
<v Speaker 3>came with professional courtesy for someone he thought he had
<v Speaker 3>respect for, and then he said that if Gunther wins
<v Speaker 3>the title, he'll be treated no differently than anyone else
<v Speaker 3>and will make himself a target. Gunther said he was
<v Speaker 3>eagerly awaiting it. So a little bit of you know,
<v Speaker 3>kind of uncertainty here, which I like. In the World
<v Speaker 3>Heavyweight Championship scene, you have Logan Paul and Jay Usso
<v Speaker 3>the winner of that match, which is, let's be honest,
<v Speaker 3>probably gonna be Jay taking on gun Through at the
<v Speaker 3>next event money in the bank, which is two weeks
<v Speaker 3>after the Saturday Night main event. Then you have Rolins
<v Speaker 3>now poking his head in the picture. Here is Rollin's
<v Speaker 3>gonna chase Gunther and or insert himself into the Jay
<v Speaker 3>versus Gunther proposed matchup, making it a triple threat. Perhaps
<v Speaker 3>it could be Jay versus Gunther versus Rollin's money at
<v Speaker 3>the Money in the Bank event, or Seth could win
<v Speaker 3>the briefcase. I mean, lots of scenarios, but I like
<v Speaker 3>how they're adding more than just one or two players here.
<v Speaker 3>They're really making you think about all the moving pieces here.
<v Speaker 3>So Riea Ripley, Kyrie Sayin, Zoe Starking a triple threat
<v Speaker 3>qualify for the women's Money in the Bank match. Again,
<v Speaker 3>this is really overshadowed. Even though Rea Ripley won here
<v Speaker 3>and defeated Kyrie Sayane in ten minutes to qualify. The
<v Speaker 3>real the real story and that people they're talking about
<v Speaker 3>really coming out of Raw in general, is the Zowey
<v Speaker 3>Stark injury, which we talked about at length to open
<v Speaker 3>the show, so I won't rehash it. But very Ripley
<v Speaker 3>did win, and she is right now a favorite to
<v Speaker 3>win the Money in the Bank. But I always caution
<v Speaker 3>people when they say that babyfaces are going to win
<v Speaker 3>the money in the bank man or woman. Because of
<v Speaker 3>the nature of the prize you're winning, it doesn't lend
<v Speaker 3>itself at all to a babyface in any respect. Because
<v Speaker 3>you have to take advantage of the champion when they
<v Speaker 3>are at their most vulnerable. That goes in the face
<v Speaker 3>of the morals of a babyface. You don't take advantage
<v Speaker 3>of champions when they're down. You go face to face.
<v Speaker 3>You want them at their full strength so they don't
<v Speaker 3>have any any excuse. You also don't want to belittle
<v Speaker 3>your own title reign by taking advantage of a champion
<v Speaker 3>when they are at their week, because then when you're
<v Speaker 3>carrying the belt it feels illegitimate. There's lots of things
<v Speaker 3>that are that's going to go in the face of
<v Speaker 3>a babyface winning that championship. And as I said a
<v Speaker 3>few weeks ago, if you want to make it on
<v Speaker 3>the up and up and do what John Cena did
<v Speaker 3>at one point I can't remember what year when he
<v Speaker 3>won the money in the bank briefcase, you could give
<v Speaker 3>the champion of heads up. Hey, I'm cashing this in
<v Speaker 3>at the next pl e. I want my shot. I'm
<v Speaker 3>calling my shot that gives you two three, four weeks
<v Speaker 3>to prepare whatever it is. Then that makes you look
<v Speaker 3>like a fool, because the point of that that the
<v Speaker 3>briefcase is to nearly guarantee yourself a title victory by
<v Speaker 3>taking advantage of a champion when they're at their weakest.
<v Speaker 3>So it just the very nature of the money in
<v Speaker 3>the bank. Briefcase screams heel.
<v Speaker 2>You get.
<v Speaker 3>Have babyfaces win it. They've won it before, but more
<v Speaker 3>often than not. I'd love to look at the percentage.
<v Speaker 3>It's heels that win, and they should. So let's go here.
<v Speaker 3>We then have a Roussev promo airing. He said he
<v Speaker 3>admired Tazawa's courage. He said he was trying to fix
<v Speaker 3>Tazawa and called him an ungrateful little man. He took
<v Speaker 3>issue with Tazala challenging him and told him that now
<v Speaker 3>he has a problem. Russov said Tazawa's eagle might get
<v Speaker 3>him cheered, but his arrogance will get him slaughtered and
<v Speaker 3>said he will embrace Tazawa's challenge with open arms, and
<v Speaker 3>said he would forgive Tizawa's stupidity and forget his existence. So, Rusev,
<v Speaker 3>this is what two three weeks in a row where
<v Speaker 3>they just have relegated him to promo videos. Now that's
<v Speaker 3>at least something. The worst case would be that he
<v Speaker 3>just is not on TV at all. He feels a
<v Speaker 3>little bit like Alistair Black. Since they brought Alistair Black back,
<v Speaker 3>they slotted him kind of right back to where he
<v Speaker 3>was before he left. And Russev, while he feels like
<v Speaker 3>a more polished version of himself, is kind of in
<v Speaker 3>that same boat where he's a big dude that's intense.
<v Speaker 3>He's a heel. Now, he was a heel. He was
<v Speaker 3>a heel mostly and then he became a baby face
<v Speaker 3>with Russev Day and the rest of it, but majority
<v Speaker 3>of the time he was a heel. He doesn't have Lana,
<v Speaker 3>I understand that. So he's not the same exact guy.
<v Speaker 3>But in terms of the pecking order on the roster,
<v Speaker 3>he's kind of slipped right back into it. Not the
<v Speaker 3>worst place to be. He's not that lower card. He's
<v Speaker 3>you know, he's but he's messing with Tazawa. And I'm
<v Speaker 3>not saying you need to reward a guy that's been
<v Speaker 3>out of the company and you know, and just shoot
<v Speaker 3>him right back into the world title picture. I'm not
<v Speaker 3>saying that that that's not my, my, my suggestion, but
<v Speaker 3>it just it feels like both of those guys specifically
<v Speaker 3>are right back where they left off, and I was
<v Speaker 3>hoping for a little more off the bat, but there's time.
<v Speaker 3>It's not like these they didn't just sign it a
<v Speaker 3>three week deal, like they're gonna be here probably for
<v Speaker 3>years to come. The Judgment Day were hanging out in
<v Speaker 3>the clubhouse. This is where I mentioned about Perez and
<v Speaker 3>bribing the Judgment Day and giving Dom chicken nuggets and stuff.
<v Speaker 3>So that was fun. And then Cole listed some matches
<v Speaker 3>for next week's Raw on Tampa more Money in the
<v Speaker 3>Bank qualifying matches russav versus The Caura, Tazawa New Day
<v Speaker 3>versus War Raiders, and Eric versus Julius Creed and Bruce
<v Speaker 3>Creed in a triple threat for the World tag team titles.
<v Speaker 3>Jay us So was shown walking with a group of
<v Speaker 3>fans in the concourse and then making his entrance. So
<v Speaker 3>we had Jay Us versus Broun Breaker in a non
<v Speaker 3>title match. The match went sixteen minutes, with Jay beating
<v Speaker 3>Braun by an apparent DQ again non title. Here's the finish.
<v Speaker 3>Haymon climbs onto the apron distracts the ref while Breaker
<v Speaker 3>grabs a chair and enters the ring. Jay superkicks Breaker
<v Speaker 3>before he could use the chair, which the referee cleared
<v Speaker 3>from the ring. Jan Jan Jay ran the ropes, Haymon
<v Speaker 3>tripped him. Jay left the ring and went after Hayman,
<v Speaker 3>who took his jacket off and he had this fists up,
<v Speaker 3>which is really funny. Seeing Paul Hamon with his fist
<v Speaker 3>up was just there's something about that that's just so
<v Speaker 3>helpless and pitiful that you can't help but laugh. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I seeing Paul Hayman in a fighter's poses is someone
<v Speaker 3>needs to frame that. It's great. But Rollins hopped over
<v Speaker 3>the barricade and attacked Jay from behind to end the match. Again.
<v Speaker 3>So Jay you so again it's all just kind of semantics.
<v Speaker 3>But Jay beats Breaker in a DQ for keeping track
<v Speaker 3>at home. That's when Rollins and Breaker worked over j
<v Speaker 3>Samy Zane's music hit. He runs to the ring, stood
<v Speaker 3>on the apron, and that's where I'm thinking, Okay, what's
<v Speaker 3>the pause here? That's where I got a little nervous.
<v Speaker 3>This is where Sammy, and maybe it's totally unintentional, I'm
<v Speaker 3>looking for things. Perhaps that aren't there. But Sammy pausing
<v Speaker 3>gave me pause because we've seen those kinds of turns
<v Speaker 3>before where it looks like the White Night is coming
<v Speaker 3>out to dispatch the dastardly heels and what does that
<v Speaker 3>babyface do? They pause, making you think they're gonna attack,
<v Speaker 3>and then they attack and help beat down the baby
<v Speaker 3>face that's already beaten down. We've seen that before, and
<v Speaker 3>that kind of gave me those vibes. But people were
<v Speaker 3>chanting for punk and boy to the Place explode. I
<v Speaker 3>did not expect to pop like that for Saampunk. I mean, look,
<v Speaker 3>Saampunk is a how dare I say, a household name
<v Speaker 3>at this point, big name, huge name, Paull of Famer.
<v Speaker 3>So he got a pop that I mean it was.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know why it was such a big pop,
<v Speaker 3>but credit to the crowd there. They loved it. They
<v Speaker 3>were also singing Seempunk's music because they didn't get the
<v Speaker 3>full version of it. They didn't get enough of the song,
<v Speaker 3>so they sang it theirself, which was fun. And they
<v Speaker 3>entered the ring, cleared the heels to the floor, and
<v Speaker 3>Breaker hit Punk from the floor, which, by the way,
<v Speaker 3>can Breaker learn how to throw punches when someone's on
<v Speaker 3>the ground. When he's mounting someone on the ground, can
<v Speaker 3>Breaker please learn how to throw punches? And Breaker is
<v Speaker 3>a legit badass. I won't want to be in the
<v Speaker 3>ring with him, but he's being too safe. Yes, there's
<v Speaker 3>such a thing you need to lay your s in.
<v Speaker 3>We've heard that before. I'm not saying hurt Punk. I'm
<v Speaker 3>not saying actually punch his face, but good lord, get closer.
<v Speaker 3>There was a TikTok going around last week where Breaker
<v Speaker 3>was pummeling Punk on the ground, and his punches when
<v Speaker 3>especially when they're in slow mo, were beyond embarrassingly bad.
<v Speaker 3>Embarrassingly bad. I've never had a match in my life,
<v Speaker 3>and I can guarantee you with one hundred percent certainty
<v Speaker 3>that I could have thrown better punches in the ring
<v Speaker 3>when if I was mounting someone on the ground. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know what it is. Breaker did not do much
<v Speaker 3>better this week. Maybe a shade better. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>what it is. Breakers punches when he's pummeling somebody looks
<v Speaker 3>so pathetically weak because they don't come anywhere near the
<v Speaker 3>person's head or face. I'm sorry. I'm a big fan
<v Speaker 3>of Breaker. I love what they've done with him and Rollins.
<v Speaker 3>They are slated to be a huge force going forward
<v Speaker 3>in the summer of twenty five. I'm not belittle his
<v Speaker 3>work or what he's capable of, or he's legit d no,
<v Speaker 3>but I can certainly critique his punches that are abysmal
<v Speaker 3>on the ground. Now, the rest of us work. He
<v Speaker 3>speares the hell out of people. Think that's the thing.
<v Speaker 3>He spears people in half, And yet he's worried about
<v Speaker 3>some punches he's landing accidentally hitting his opponent in the
<v Speaker 3>head for real. But I'm sorry, they're abysmally bad, So
<v Speaker 3>please break her clean it up just a bit, okay,
<v Speaker 3>from one random fan that you don't know to somebody
<v Speaker 3>who obviously has had infinitely more time in the ring.
<v Speaker 3>I can look at it. Anybody can look at it
<v Speaker 3>and go bruh, like clean it up. You're awesome in
<v Speaker 3>the ring. I don't know how your punches are this bad.
<v Speaker 3>They look like punches that somebody who has a first
<v Speaker 3>has like a wrestling a wrestling camp, or if it's
<v Speaker 3>their first day you know, at a at the at
<v Speaker 3>wrestling school. How someone would throw punches. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>why they're so bad. I don't know, but other than that, Breaker,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, he's a badass. He's just a legit badass.
<v Speaker 3>So I wanted to point that out because I have
<v Speaker 3>to have some kind of critique. I can't be totally positive.
<v Speaker 3>That's just not me. Now we had again both Punk
<v Speaker 3>and Zaye team together to take out Rollins and Breaker,
<v Speaker 3>and then in the ring, the referee gave the belt
<v Speaker 3>to Jay. Logan Paul shows up after they all were
<v Speaker 3>fighting in the crowd, and Logan Paul drops Jay with
<v Speaker 3>a knockout punch, his fourth knockout of Jay, and then
<v Speaker 3>Paul smiled as he licked the blood off his teeth.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know why he had blood on his teeth
<v Speaker 3>or that was a weird thing. How did Logan Paul
<v Speaker 3>have blood on his teeth? Did he are we supposed
<v Speaker 3>to believe that it was from the superkick much earlier
<v Speaker 3>in the night, and he just decided to not move
<v Speaker 3>and let the blood sit in his mouth so he
<v Speaker 3>could have that moment like, I don't understand that ordered
<v Speaker 3>he accidentally hit himself on the way to the ring.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what happened there, but it was strange.
<v Speaker 3>I go, he just showed up. Why does he have
<v Speaker 3>blood on his teeth, so that was kind of weird.
<v Speaker 3>But the knockout punch was fun because again, it makes
<v Speaker 3>you believe that he can have that one moment, and
<v Speaker 3>that's really been Logan Paul's claim to fame, at least
<v Speaker 3>in the build to his some of his matches. If
<v Speaker 3>you remember the Roman Reigns build where he did the
<v Speaker 3>same thing where most people knew that Logan Paul wasn't
<v Speaker 3>gonna win. It was about just putting Logan Paul on
<v Speaker 3>the map and competing with Roman Reigns and how can
<v Speaker 3>he handle the pressure and that kind of thing. But
<v Speaker 3>the idea was all it's going to take is one punch,
<v Speaker 3>one moment, And he knocked out Roman Reigns a couple
<v Speaker 3>of times on that build to their match for the Championship,
<v Speaker 3>and you're thinking, oh my god, okay, maybe, and then
<v Speaker 3>he knocked out Roman Reigns in the match and I
<v Speaker 3>forget the rest of it. But obviously he didn't win
<v Speaker 3>the championship. So that's kind of the same build here,
<v Speaker 3>same build, and that's fine. I actually enjoyed the fourth
<v Speaker 3>knockout of Jay good finish, so good show. Obviously, it
<v Speaker 3>was sadly overwhelmed or overshadowed by the Zoe Stark knee injury.
<v Speaker 3>Hopefully she's back sooner than later. But let's what they
<v Speaker 3>Maybe they can capitalize on it as it keeps saying,
<v Speaker 3>make a positive into a negative. Look at me being
<v Speaker 3>all wishy washy. All right, that'll do it for me.
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