Revisiting WWE RAW 2005 Shawn Michaels Greatest Superkick To Shelton Benjamin, World Title Gold Rush Tournament

The boys back in town. Welcome to the Deadline Podcast, episode number two
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really good? Welcome back. We are talking about Monday Night, Raw May
second, two thousand and five on this episode, which is none other than
the start of the gold Rush, the gold Rush Tournament first time ever,
which I forgot what the concept even was because I think they had them in
the video games. It was called gold Rush, but I just it was
a tournament. Okay, Yeah, I just thought it was just another name
for just a tournament. But I didn't realize there's like a gimmick to it.
Dude. I swear like subconsciously I would call tournaments just the gold Rush
tournament. I think I did from the video games. Yeah, we're going
to talk about that. That is, of course a couple of yeah,
I don't want to say great matches. They've got a couple of good matches
in there. But then there's of course the one Shawn Michaels and Shelton Benjamin
match that everybody knows, and we will talk about that when we get to
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Monday Night Raw May second, two thousand and five, the start of the
gold Rush Tournament after WWE's backlash the gold Rush Tournament, which you know,
most people will know this episode from being the episode where Shawn Michaels takes on
Shelton Benjamin in a pretty sweet match. But before we get to that,
let's take a look at what was going on in the World Wrestling at the
time with the Wrestling Observer newsletter from The Observer, May second, two thousand
and five, a lot of drama going on here, James in w News.
It hit the fan this week, some is expected, some surprisingly,
as w's decision to fire Matt Hardy turned into a corporate embarrassment because of the
furious fans in Madison Square Garden and because of Lisa Ortiz Copeland Adams soon to
be ex wife Adams In Adam Copeland. Of course Adam, aw guy,
I know he was working at this point. It's fir wow. Lisa Copeland
got a hold of Adam Copeland's emails and sent copies of many letters, including
the ones described last week on The Observer, not just Events and Stephanie,
but to everyone she could find an email address for in the company. She
was furious because she felt Hardy, who had done nothing wrong, was now
being fired while the company protected Adam just because he was the bigger star,
and even though he had quote unquote ruined two lives. Four days later,
after her letters to McMahons and many other w officials were ignored, she wrote
a lengthy letter on Hardy's website, Copeland's letter Lisa Copland. His letter included
charges that Adam had been using steroids and making fun of his statements on Tasen's
off the record recently that he tried them once but it didn't like how they
made him feel, which is fucking crazy. Definitely got pot for steroids too.
Was he a part of that? Oh? Yeah, maybe right.
Lisa Copland said both Adam and Dumas had opportunities to tell the truth through the
significant others, but continued to lie. She claimed that Adam had his backstage
heat because when he was confronted by management at first, supposedly he told John
Lorenetta that it was his personal life and it was nobody's business and brought up
that married wrestlers having affairs with other women in the company wasn't exactly unheard of.
He started naming names of others. She went on to say, Edge
and Leada maybe one thing, but take away Adam steroids and what would he
be another six or four skinny guy. Damn. Yeah, she fucking went
there. There was a lot more here. Yeah, this is like smack
dab in the middle of the Matt Hardy, Leada, Edge, Yeah,
I mean it was pretty sloppy. Yeah. Were you still watching at this
time? Uh? Not really no? No oh so you didn't see any
of this when it went down. I heard about it, of course,
okay, oh yeah not yeah, sure, yeah, I was still in
wrestling, but like I wasn't like tuning in everything. I mean, this
was pretty fucking crazy at the Yeah. Sure, yeah, I know,
because it was a big part of like internet stuff too, you know.
Yeah, yeah, like you know, twenty and five, Like you know,
I mean, obviously dirt sheets were our popular before then, but like
five, it was only getting more and portant. Really every year after,
like w CW died, dirt She's got way more popular, and now we're
like, you know, everybody ever hear there's no way to avoid this.
Yeah, it was more like aggregator dirt sheets, you know, like YAQ
or something. You know, it's click on the link and it'll take you
here and no, no, no no, yeah, and you can see
pictures of Stacy Keeler's heine always thank you for that. I'm curious. I
mean, obviously I'll never know, but what you know, how their careers
ended up without this happening, because Edge gets a pretty nutty push after this,
I guess he was already money in the bank holder though, so maybe
they were already planning to kind of go one way with them. But this
definitely, I mean, Edge gain would lead it on TV. Definitely made
him like the top heel if not one of them. Yeah, yeah I
did. And I mean also they just made his character like he pretty much.
Yeah, it was pretty much like he just made did exactly what people
thought he was. Yeah, he was like, Okay, if you think,
if you think on this, then on TV, I am that.
In r O H news here, Simojoe on his website talked about being very
concerned about his future in the business and wondering if wrestling is for him.
This is in two thousand goddamn five Meltzers has far more wrestlers than you think
regularly go through this, but if you make it public. In Joe's case,
it is understandable. How can you possibly have better matches than he had
in the past year on the indie level, Yet he's still where he is
and in a sense lower because he's not even a top guy on r OH.
He's still not getting any regular bookings with New Japan and w WE has
shown no interest because he doesn't have the look they want, even with the
high recommendations from Foley. I hate reading this. I mean, I'm glad
this he doesn't stop, But like I I wonder Shoe on the top guy?
Is that what they said in RH Yeah, I guess so, I
don't, but he definitely was. And then yeah, he was the pure
champion and like even after they he dropped the world title, like he was
still held onto the like he was like one of the first guys to really
put down the too. Yeah, of course, John Walter. But yeah,
so I don't know, that's uh, that's a crazy statement. Well,
yeah, he was definitely his fucking world tunnel run already happened by that
point, right, Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's so. I
don't I'm not sure what he meant by that, but unless he meant like,
maybe he's not a top guy anymore, like all the way down,
but that's yeah, maybe that's yeah, because he waits up here title soon
after year, they stick up because they want because he's still a draw for
r oh. Yeah, hell yeah he was. Probably he's probably one of
the first guys that put our h on the map. It's definitely probably more
than people do realize though. That's kind of why I put this in here
that you know, it definitely fucks dude's heads up when they think like there's
no going to w W E. It happens a lot, yeah, especially
back then. Yeah, Yeah, I mean maybe maybe not as much now,
or maybe more now because there's more top companies and if you don't get
into any of those quick enough, then you're like fucking what the fuck.
But it can alter your wrestling style, who you are as a person,
like your your confidence and how much you like wrestling, and yeah, yeah
it can really it really can't fuck with you pretty bad. Yeah. The
idea that Samo Joe may have quit wrestling because he didn't make it a WWE
makes me very sad. Yeah, I'm glad you win a TNA fuck yeah
man, hell yeah. In other RH news, there was an incident on
the April second show in Asbury Park, New York. Can't be right at
Asbury Park, New Jersey is definitely where that is. Or CM Punk went
after a fan shocking I know. It was after the angle where the embassy,
who they are trying to elevate from prelim comedy to serious heel status,
tried to use a cheese grater to apparently slice off Sam Punk's tattoo on his
stomach, the straight edge tattoo. Yeah. Sure. Apparently the angle didn't
go over well because a lot of people didn't understand what was being done.
Plus it took a long time. A long time regular fan, Andrew Kessler,
who can be heard making wise common and heckling wrestlers on r H DVDs,
screamed at Punk as he left the ring, saying, are you bleeding
yet? Then? Why should I care? Oh? Nice? Punk looked
at Kessler, who heckled back, and Punk jumped the rail to confront him.
That was no surprise, but it was when Punk shoved him down to
the ground and started putting the boots to him while screaming do you care now?
See the security guards were in there quickly he shoved him down and started
stop him and said, do you care now? That is fucking nuts.
Yeah, that is especially when he's about to be signed. Yeah, that
is fucking that is unbelievable. He had to pop one off in the crowd
real quick. He's gonna try out, he said, I'm taking you on
with me. Yeah, fully got the dude, So I'm going I kick
your ass regardless. Uh. In TNA news, I'm sure you're gonna be
shocked by this, James. I mean, this has got to be one
of the more surprising news stories I've heard in TNA. His for here,
Kid Cash was back in the complaining mode on Audio Wrestling dot Com, where
he said he would not continue to work for TNA what his contract expires because
he hates. Have we not talked about this? Somehow, this is one
we have not talked about. No one has had access to online radio shows
more than kid Cash in their entire lives. After word of his interview got
out where he trashed the company, the company finally got tired of him publicly
complaining and fired him, although that is what he'd been asking for for months.
He said he was never used right by the company and blames it on
TNA management, considering him an ECW guy. Uh. He said the company
is in deeper debt for bringing in has beens, who, if they were
really big stars, WW wouldn't have gotten rid of them. He said he's
no longer giving one for DNA after the guys who bought the company were pushed
aside for the newcomers. He said he asked management to do the ECW pay
per view for WWE and was first told he couldn't. He said there was
recent developments for TENA may allow his talent to work the show. Vince makes
the call to allow TNA wrestlers on the show. He said if in September,
if he could get a WB deal, even if it was beginning this
he's still on contract. On this interview. By the way, he said,
if he could get a WB deal, even if it was a beginning
developmental level deal, he would take care. Why not? Yeah, who
cares? Get a heartland or whatever. I think he could be a heart
throb. You don't know what that is. No, I don't know what
that is. He said Jeff Jarrard was a nice guy, but it shouldn't
be World Champion and doesn't help TNA's ratings with him on top, and noted
WB didn't want Jeff Jarrett either. Has there ever been a man that tated
TNA as much as this guy other than Brian Alvarez? Uh? No,
I don't know. That's a tough one, Yeah, Vinny, Yeah,
that's fucking true. In WB news, due to the enormous success of the
Raw Versus SmackDown video game, every wrestler involved in the game received huge royalty
checks for the quarter over the past two weeks. Depending on involvement level involvement
in the game, the checks range from thirty five thousand dollars to maybe ninety
thousand dollars. Is this the Is this the one where Cane first SVR?
Uh? Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I think that's that one.
Yeah, coo, and like there's a ton of a cane. Yeah,
well it's a regular guy. Yeah, it was probably bought here. That
is fucking a lot of money. This was. This was definitely the they
have Yeah, as you said, they have voiceovers in this game. So
I guess if you did more lines you would get more money. Thirty five
thousand and ninety thousand dollars for that. I'm sure maybe maybe might have talked
about this. Oh no, he wasn't. Inn SVR that boost said his
biggest payday ever came from the video game. That's right, Yeah, that
is fucking I wonder and he was in the worst one. I can't he
was in the fucking worst one. And he's not in the next one.
He's not in this one either. He's not in the ECW back sadly from
the Observer, May fourth, twosand and five, Andrew the Test of Martin
the Punisher has just gotten clear to return after being out of action for nine
months after next surgery. The reason you may not see him out there every
weekend on the indies is because he's charging twenty five hundred dollars plus a three
hundred and seventy five dollars agents fee, along with round trip trends from Tampa
and a hotel room and a fifty percent deposit has to be put up in
advance and the remainder has to be paid in cash the match. Yeah,
yeah, last twice. I just want to let you know that things have
fucking not changed. Yeah, I tell you hit us in one of those
book you once and then I never talked to you ever again. Yeah,
we talked about you after. Believe that, and you can run and tell
that motherfucker in rh News Smoe Joe's okay now. According to his updated website
post, the story said that made him worry about his career was after all
the months of helping out at the New Japan Los Angeles dojo, he has
asked about a tour with a g He asked about a tour with the group,
which he had been led to believe he'd be starting in March. He
was turned down and his feeling was as hard as he's worked. We doesn't
like his body type and New Japan doesn't think he's worth it, and was
frustrated spinning his wheels and not getting to the major so to speak. This
past week, New Japan came back to him and is going to start using
him, even though he's going to start at a low money figure. There
he goes. It works out. Then we have from The Observer May nine,
two thousand and five, Simojoe noted on four to twenty seven he turned
down the new Japan offer and turned his first tour with the company. He
said they renagged on their deal and turned a small opportunity into a ridiculous one.
So back to square one. Well okay, well, I'm glad he's
took her on the business. It works out for him eventually. Yeah,
yeah, it works out good. Does he ever get a new Japan tour?
He faces for zero one guys? Yeah, yeah, that's fair.
He goes to zero one and probably Russell Steve Krino, Yeah, low ki
Yeah. Last thing here we news. Hul Cogan did an interview in Manchester,
New Hampshire to promote the live tick sales for Backlash. The best line
was when talking about his match with The Rock in Toronto wrestle Mania three years
ago. He said Rock was scared because of the size of the crowd,
but Hogan calmed him down, saying, don't worry, dude, I'll walk
you through it. Meltzer says, what's funny is Rock wrestled in the main
event at Mania the year before with the crowd just as large. He was
scared too, brother. They called me in and took him down. I
called him, brother, don't worry, just start slapping your arm. Hogan
also claimed he was making one billion dollars per year in merchan day during the
eighties. Per year in the eighties on merched, it was all about right
there, you know who the fuck was making merch man was making his house.
He sounded for one billion dollars. His shirt shirt press don't worry,
dude, that's crazy. Wow. Yeah, one billion dollars per year.
That's fucking unbelievable. Man. Good for him, Come and get him money.
Reverse inflation. He's taking a billion bags. They started to do.
What the fun dude. They start hitting with the taxes in the nineties.
He said, hey, you know what, the brother, you gotta be
fucking kidding me. Brother. The one billion untaxed dollars in nineteen six,
it's very impressive. Let me take a look at that. How much does
your wife want? But that is it for the wrestling sever pressure on the
show. I'm sorry about how much does she want to Let's talk about Monday
Night Raw, May second, two thousand and five. All right, let's
get into this wrong. No long, don't let it get this wrong.
Eric Bishoff slides by in the audience booze. Of course, they don't like
Eric Bishoff here in this No, no, it's yet, it's uh attit
you don't entertain and bumper at the top with Bischoff face and uh I uh
yeah. I will always remember these intros. I don't. I don't know
if they've ever gone back to doing something like that, but I especially like
that when Stone Cold would be at it too, because they would boo bisch
Off and then cheer Austin's big ship. This is a crazy Steve Austin picture
on that. He was smiling, yeah, a little smiles. Nuts.
So he started with the cold up and here Batista is the world heavyweight champion
retaining at Backlash, and he is here with Christy Hemmy and they are flirting
backstage. Yeah was it? I don't remember this, I don't no,
you know, he was just going for his thing that I just had one
of the lady Yeah, And Eric Bischoff said, hey, what's going on?
Over here, dudes. Yeah, and Beitchoff is here and he is
bald, but also gray hair. Not sure how this works, that's bresident.
How bald is he? He looks fucking bald. I think he had
died hair, okay, or he just wasn't dyeing his hair and it was
just gray. Oh shit, I don't know, yah, but in the
in this light, it looked like a combination of both. Yeah, I
mean, he's a definitely an interesting looking fellow, I'll tell you that much.
Bischoff asks for the room, and Christy goes to leave, but Batista
holds on to her and says, hey, you are not going anywhere,
Bischoff. You hurry up. Tell me what you need to say. I've
got some shit to do here. Yeah, Christy was telling Bautista, you
know, he did a great job at the pay per view, and Bautista
gets closer ear and goes and yeah. Eric says he's just here to congratulate
them, and you know the great match he had against Triple H at Backlash,
And he thought tonight would be the perfect night to name an eight man
tournament, to name a new number one contender. And I thought I'd call
it the gold Rush tournament like that, like a gold Rush tournament. Yeah,
that's definitely like like I said earlier, I don't remember it for this,
I remember it for being in the games. Yeah, all tournaments are
the gold Rush, all of them. He said. Eight men are going
to be in the tournament. They know they're in the tournament, but they
don't know who their opponent will be in the first match tonight of the show
will begin the tournament. I mean that's I'm actually surprised this hasn't been like
done again like today, or stolen by anybody else or anything. I think
it's a pretty cool concept, especially if you had like a weekly TV show.
I don't know if it works for an indie. Yeah, it probably
doesn't work for an indie, but I definitely think you could do it here.
You're talking about it before, you know, like as long as you
announce like the main event or at least something like that, or at least
you know that something for us to tune into and see that we know someone
will be there. I don't really need to know the entire show beat by
beat before. I too, No, no, and I like a surprise.
I think most people do too. You know, well, Bischoff says
that he is going to give Batista the night off, and then Batista looks
at Christy, Himmey and says, I think I'm gonna stick around here tonight.
That sucks. Yeah, you can leave. Oh no, I'm not
leaving, and you're paying me double yeah, pay me, trimple, I
got a suit on? What the fuck? Please remember the Batista's wearing a
suit here. By the way, This is important information for later in the
night. He looks good too, man, he does look good. He's
a world champ, he says, sounds good, but not tonights. You
know, I think I'd like him, and in fact, I think I'd
like a match tonight. You know, I was trying to come up with
opponent and maybe someone brave, someone powerful, someone brave enough to take on
vincemoc Man and the Monday Night Wars, and Bischoff is obviously not too happy
about I want to wrestle God God took off. I want to bet on
the Westminster Dog Show, he said, since Triple it's got to wrestle j
R. You know, maybe I'd like a match with you, and maybe
we can start that match right now, and Bechoff goes no no no no
no no no no no no no, and Batista laughs and he brushes him
off and says, relax, you know, come on, you need the
night off and Bischoff, but he's the leaves with Christie and Bischoff definitely wanted
to say, you know, fuck you, You're fucking fired christ Now I'm
surprised that that doesn't happen, like, but you know, that's a very
w thing where they just punished the girlfriend or you know, associate of the
dude for fucking around with them. Not on the rest of the show at
all, though. Oh she isn't that's weird. Yeah, same, she
got the business double Batista and then she probably headed out. So after that,
of course we get the intro for Raw of this era, very cool
music. So this collage of clips I don't remember, and I was like,
why don't I remember this? And I was like, oh, because
this isn't the one that they use in the video games. Yeah, the
video games are a huge part of like my memory and my my everything that
I remember from like this era, and absolutely too, Yeah, a lot
of that solid Yeah, yeah, I mean that's not a bad thing.
I guess, you know, it helped me remember all that ship. I
don't know if they did it for that reason, you know, it was
just timely, but yeah, I remember all that ship just because of the
games, especially the intro video. Yeah, and that goes for a lot
of pop culture ship like football, baseball or whatever the fuck, you know
what I mean. Like a lot of my knowledge comes from like the rosters
of those games. Yeah, just playing the video games over and over and
over again. I'm like, okay, I know these guys. Yeah sure.
Uh So we start off the night here with the first match in the
gold Rush Tournament. It's Christian Cage versus Kane. It's just Christian. I'm
sorry, it won't be soon. Yeah, Christians out here with Tomco.
He comes out in the gold jumpsuit with Tomco. There's a sign in the
crowd that says, Christian can't rapush dude, forshizzle change the world for white
people. That was such a beast praise. That was a culture shift,
not just I guess for everybody, but specifically for white people. That Yeah,
man, I love this Christian. Look. This says everything for me.
This guy could have been slotted in the main event here and I've been
like, oh, yeah, you know what, that's cool. He was
for a second and then they said it was not long. Yeah. Yeah,
So they say his opponent is and then Piro goes off and Jarrison,
Oh my god, Kane comes out with Lida. Lida is on one crutch.
Lida is also his wife and they are fucking yeah, they're happily married,
of course. Yeah, Okay, the crowd is not happy with one
of them, and shockingly enough, it is not Kine that they have a
problem with. It is Leitada has off screen heat. Yeah, Caine,
who has done every despicable, horrible, fucking possible thing to Lida, uh,
is the good guy here and Lida, well, Lida, I guess,
is a whore in the eyes of everybody here. So that's how we're
gonna handle this. Well. Jr. Drops a great line here. He
says, Oh, there's Kin who was pushed to the limit last night by
Viscera and I said two thousand by Viscera. Push came in the limit.
My first thought goes to this ship last night, backlash. But Vicera has
not started fucking this ship, dude, just yet. But this is the
start. You're right, this might be the first fucking night. As far
as I know, I don't know. We've talked about Viscera and Kine and
you know why, I remember this, But I don't remember why we talked
about them because I think we had just learned about uh, Viscera popping.
Yeah, and then I think we also had an episode where Caine was like
a big part of that. Yeah, so it just kind of coincided with
that. Yeah, okay, but yeah, for people who don't know,
Viscera was known for just popping Viagra's backstage just walking around hard on TV.
No, he was. I don't even know he was there. He was
just backstage, hard as fuck, just hanging out with the boys. Teddy
Long was the one giving him to Yeah he was. Was he selling them?
I remember, I think it's yeah, dude, nice dick, dude.
Yeah, that sweet fucking cocky got them. Let me give you a
couple more. So, thank you. So I guess that was a rib.
I guess, And I'm hungry morning. So this ara hardest ship.
And then they said that's just gonna be your character. You're just gonna go
out there and you're gonna fuck dudes. I mean that's just what it is.
Yeah, you're gonna right up their asses and you can like you can
flirt with girls, but you're sucking these dudes. Yeah, and it's in
the video games, and it is what I will never forget seeing that for
the very first time, I said, hey, you know what the fuck
I mean? Go on, it's full circle was locked and he came up.
Dude, he would slapped their asks before that ship was crazy as hell.
Man. But yeah, Christian, uh, Christian versus Kane is this
match Viscera comes out later. Don't worry about that. Don't you get some
of that Christians in the dead lock artist? Right? Are you kidding?
I'm saying with this dude like that, Come on, man, come through
Christian. You know you want you Yeah, you can face folk Obana here,
you could want here. I want to do yeah, whatever anyone wants.
Yeah, it worked age. Yeah, so they don't do much here.
But Kane didn't exit in the ring. And I wanted to bring this
up because Kane exits the ring in this match, and he does it in
the way that only kanean Taker did and I assume because they told anyone backstage,
if you do this, we will kill you one site. I promise
you and not only that, I'm sure Taker also said that to them,
not just anybody in management. I'll take your balls, yeah for sure.
But I always love this, and I thought it was cool as ship.
And it was also in the games, and I thought that was also awesome.
It was in the games, and it made for some great spots because
I would always get my buddies to do it, and then I would throw
a chair at their head and they would land on their head on the floor.
So tom Co gets involved here, Christian takes over. No j R.
Says and there's Lda Missus Kane on the outside. Okay to missus missus
shooting name now lead Leada Dewey Caine Dowey. So Christian spends a little too
much time trying to undo a turn buckle, and we want Matt, we
want that. Well, you gotta shut the funk up out there. This
is Missus Kane right here. What do you mean, Matt. The Christian
tries to undo a turn buckle, but Kane takes back over quick come back.
That leads to nothing, by the way, Yeah, just to get
his little ship in there real quick, he goes off for a choke slam.
Christian grabs a sleeper Kane sidewalk slams, and these are most of Kane's
matches there, most Kanes moves. I'm sure kank on all this, and
she just said, all right, cool whatever, I'm not gonna argue with
you. Kane goes up, Tomko pushes him off. Christian goes for the
unprettier, but Kane reverses, goes for the tombstone, cannot do it.
Caine then pushes Christian into Tomco, which he then hits a choke slam and
wins the match. Christian's counter, by the way, for the tombstone was
to float off of him and I poke him. And Kane selling his eyes
is very funny to me for some reason. Why dude, he's got special
eyes. He's got one normal eye and one fun to find. I don't
know why. So tom Co gets in after the match and attacks Kane,
but then Kane bitches them out and beats his as he kicks the shirt off.
And what the fuck was the I was like, I thought they were
gonna both double team them and then somebody would come out for the same.
No. Tomko jumps Kane. Then Kane says fuck you, and big Boots
him and choke slam, so he kicks his ass. It doesn't even do
his piro. So my first thought was, Oh, they're going to TNA
like now, And then I was like, oh no, it's another year
at least, No, we got some time. But I guess they're gonna
get a SmackDown soon. Oh the draft as soon, isn't it? Yeah?
I think so? Yeah, okay, sure, sure got to give
it to Kane. He needs to give it to k They gotta heat him
back up because he's about to lose the edge a lot. Yeah, well,
k I can't get a lot of heat from being a leader for no
reason. He probably said, what the fuck all the horrible things he did
just for being with leader? Yeah, this on lead up thing, man,
it's really fucking me up out here. So we go backstage Christian uh
Is. Of course, he ran away after the match, and he runs
into Rick Flair, who looks at him and says, t he I don't
know why he's just with Chris Anchor. Yeah, what the hell was that?
So you guys, do you lose that? Like, what did you
see? I'm that match? I wasn't watching it, he said, Also,
weren't you wrapping out that pay per view last night, he says,
actually, I'm gonna wrap to ship. You lost the match, kid,
so take it from the NH. The winner of this tournament will be Triple
h woo a little strutt and walks away. And that's the same cadence he
doesn't and by the way, he's not like trying to do it on a
beat or anything. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So Flair does dance,
walks away, and then Christian looks at it and goes, I hate that
guy. I hate that guy. I'll shoot the Triple hod fuck. So
we get a pre tape for Sean and Hogan. Uh. I guess they
want you to buy Backlash because but this already happened. Yeah, it's a
pre tape for that happened. Yeah. Yeah. It was a Hulkokan one
More Match hype video, which I was like, oh, fuck, this
must be leading to Sean versus Hogan. I guess it is. But this
was just an advertisement for the show that happened last night. And Jared says,
oh, what a what a show last night at Backlash. If you
didn't watch it, shame on you, man thousand So it shays w dot
Com it says w dot com. All this stuff from backlash. Oh yeah,
they dot com screenshot. Yeah, just a different time. Yeah,
Sean and Hogan face Mohammed a Son and Davari at the Baby's That is correct.
Well, now it's time for the Muhammed Asan. I can't fucking hear
mohammeda San's theme without thinking of you're the man now dog. There was a
thousand different YMTD fucking videos to this song where it was just it'd be something
happening and then it would be interrupted by Mohammed. This song is super cursed.
Yeah, it's unbelievable. And that's I mean, that's all he did.
Every fucking week. He would just someone be doing something in La this
man why because oh yeah, So Muhammed a Son and Davari come out here
to tremendous booze. Dude, there's one guy in the crowd that does the
cutthroat taunt when they're coming out. I said, Jesus Christ, Yeah,
I mean, they're really about this ship in two thousand and five. So
there's one guy in the front row, bald, looks like Stone Cold and
a Yankees sung shirt and he also does all right, dude, that's the
old guy. He like cuts to his road trying to fight people all night.
Uh, there's a sign in the crowd that says Muhammed a Son dead
or alive, and the alive is crossed out, and then it says five
thousand dollars award only five thousand dollars. Well, that's a lot of money
to do. That's five dude. I don't know. I got one billion
dollars in today's sixty Well not anymore, dude. They took it all.
So Davari cuts a promo in a different language, and then yes, Muhammed
a San cuts a promo in English. Yeah, Hassan says he's out here
just breaking up. Yeah yeah, well, uh, what kind of because
Davari stays with him, So I don't know, but yeah, it's he's,
of course, shockingly Mohammed Asan talking about the injustice of the w WI,
and he says he's undefeated on raw. He lost a backlash, but
he's undefeated on raw, which is very funny. He says, yet again,
I'm excluded from the gold Rush Tournament, and I was excluded from WrestleMania
by the prejudice staff of the w w WI. And why was I excluded
is because of what happened in backlash. What happened to me at Backlist was
a travesty. And I blame Sean Michaels, I blame your so called American
here A HULLL. Cogan. But most importantly I blame he j every single
one of you. I don't know why I one franchise there. Yeah,
I blame all you. So there's one more person that needs to be held
accountable for their actions. And he turns around and looks at Davari and says
you he should have did the Hull cokain point you. He said, last
night I had Michaels and Hogan on their knees and you blew it. Last
night. I could have became a legend. I could have became an icon,
and you blew it. And then he slaps the fuck out of Davari,
and Davari bumps. He starts to get up to apologize I was on,
slaps him down again. Then he kicks him in the head and he
spits on him and leaves. Hey. Yeah, and she here says,
you slapped me once and then leave. Sorry, brother, I gonna go
talk to Edie Gerrera about this fucking camma crazy dude follows them out after though,
that's still his boy, you know. So now we get Viscera versus
Simon Dean. I legit wrote, Oh fuck, it's Viscera, and Jr.
Says welcome back to because they just come back from walking back to money
and raw and well here's a load, dude. My my, this segment
for me was like a rollercoaster of emotions. My notes go from really sad
to like super happy over the moon, and I'm down again and then at
the end I'm like, yeah, yeah, But the first thing I wrote
down here was Viscera comes out here and for some reason, he's not interested
in having sex with anybody, so I'm not interested in this. Well,
he's in a big villain rope with a song that I'd never heard before and
a promo. I was like, what the fuck is going on? Promo?
Yeah, that was fucking crazy. I because for some reason in my
mind, I don't know if I know what he sounds like, other than
when he says the world's largest love is seen Vicera. So Viscera says that
last night he proved just how physical he can be, and I was like,
all right, Well, that sounds kind of sexual. So are we
getting close to it? He said? And I also proved my hunger for
love, I said. He is break the fuck up. He's horner.
The fun comes out here is about to get fucking destroyed. He's got a
boner. This is real, man, Oh god, all caps, I'm
rocking. So yeah. He turns around and in the ring still is Lilian
Garcia, and Vicenter returns to Lily and says, which brings me to you?
Yeah? You see, I'm sure you know that I'm a big man.
No way, no fucking way. He's a big man. And I
like to eat spicy and seeing as you're a spicy latina, why don't you
let me go south of the border tonight. The crowd goes crazy. He
says, you like that? You like that? Simon fucking deep? He
says, whoa, whoa? He said, you're good about this? All
wrong women. They don't want men who are out of shape like you.
And then Simon Dean turns around in the aisleway and clenches his ass cheeks repeatedly,
and dree Law says, whoa, Simon system his ass cheeks a lot.
I'm gonna start doing that. I think it works. I've been doing
it's working. Ship. How's that? Oh good? He blew out.
You threw out your back though, Yeah, well you know when you start
working hard. That's just now I'm going to be blowing out back. Simon
says, I'm he gonna help this because if you use my Pat and Simon
system when you show up to a woman's front door, you wouldn't cause a
solar eclipse. That's a fat fucking guy right there, he's saying. That
is man. God damn, he said, everyone else here in Boston,
Just like everyone else here in Boston, it would take a lifetime of using
my products, uh to get in shape, you disgusting, ugly bitch.
The world champion the world Visa ghuzlesom and I guess it starts a match.
Yeah, man, I'm locked the fuck in. I'm locking the Simon Dean
fucking going off on him at the end was funny as fuck. You get
in shape, you fucking disgusting Salad Dodger Carby Rotund. That's really shit man.
Well Visa, yeah, Visra guzles them. He chops the funk out
of Simon Dean, then he gees him up for one more. He looks
at the crowd and says, one more. Chops him again face. Vista
is very strange to me. Yeah, well, I mean he wants to
have sex, you know, and the crowd loves that ship. They fucking
hate Mohammed Asana and they love fucking sigfat perverts. They can relate to wanting
to have sex, you know what I mean, of course, So Vistra,
Yeah, he chops his ship out of him. He gets him the
tree a Woe, runs at him, hits him with his ass at mock
speed. Did you what did you think that was gonna because I was very
confused. I don't know. I mean, he just asked him. Yeah,
yeah, he threw his ass right on him. I thought he was
gonna like start punching away at his bass. I thought he was gonna do
that Chris Saban delayed dropkick, so Simon Dan gets up for a minute and
goes for a flying nothing off the second and Vistra gives him the craziest ten
thirty one of all time. This is like, by the way, that
much respect, I appreciate the ten thirty one. It's always weird to hear
somebody other than me say, but I respect that ship, dude, Yes,
he like it's not he doesn't even grapple him. He like shut he
Simon Died jumps at him, and Viscera puts his hands out and just shoves
him into the fucking canvas as hard as humanly possible. But like you know,
it was too much going on. Yeah, it just had to give
it to him. And Simon Dean's head bounds. This is like a basketball
and then Viscera hits him with a big splash and gets the wind. And
then Lily and Garcia comes back. Oh my, well, she's at ringside
and Viscera goes out of the ring to go up to her. This is
nuts, Lily. Garcia is not doing it has nothing to do with any
of this. And Viscera all sweaty. Yeah, he goes all the way
out there to her. Yeah, and he says, Lilian, I just
want you to know, and every woman in the world to know, in
the world, in the whole world, that Big vis is back on the
market. And he gets closer to her and he looks in her eyes.
The black market that is Big VISs is horny. He's popping Viggie's and he's
on the black Market. I mean, hop on or hop the funk off
for real? Man, you too, Simon Ded I know you can cuss
over there, but when they get up, get on. Ball's mahoney was
just fucking annihilating his brain in E c W for years. I'm sure.
So it's fine. He was giving it back to so I'm sure he got
dude. Yeah. Wow, every woman in the world, hopefully everyone.
You think every woman in the world knew that he was back on the black
market. Yeah, I mean he announced it live. That's I mean the
world was watching, aren't they. Yeah, the longest and best episodic TV
show. Yeah, this walks away and he does the V finger and then
licks in between his fingers. Cromed do look at the tongue, look at
the disgusted that's him after a loss business given second I need so yeah,
he Let's see. He definitely gives th at one point. Let's see,
does he I feel like I remember a time where she left with him.
Oh. At vengeance in June, Garcia finally reciprocated, proposing to him in
the ring, only to be turned down and left crying in the ring.
When the Godfather arrived with many hose to show Viscera what he would be leaving
behind if he got married. Made a point that night, and then he
teamed up with Valvenus to form V Squared and they teamed for nearly nine months
on Heat. That's the end of the gimmick, I guess. So so
we go backstage Canus. Michelle is talking to Stacy Keebler about her spread and
the new Stuff magazine. Yeah, Wow, you're hot. I can't believe
you're dressed in that. Huh you look great in there. Look at this
magazine. So Eric Bischoff comes up and says, ooh, yeah, oh
I like that. What magazine's that? He says, Oh, it's Stuff
magazine, And but she's oh, what can I get that? Oh?
Stuff magazine next week? The fuck is this? How'd you get on this
shitt he ass magazine? And all were gonna get some of those? Uh,
I'll see ladies later. A fucking weird bastard. Then Bischoff walks down
the hallway and walks into his office where Triple Ah is standing Winnie the Poohs
shirt style with the Lemmy mustache. Bo says, what the fuck are you
doing here? We are motorhead like your ass, Triple He says, I
thought i'd come my hand out in your office and see if I can drum
up any answers for the questions I have, Like, what the hell you
think you're doing? Erica A tournament, A freaking tournament for what I pedigreed
Batisa's asked in the Miller Ring he was beaten. Uh, and you freaking
getting competent reps weren't there to do their job. I got screwed. There's
no need for a tournament. Give me a rematch. You need to give
me to me. Now you owe me, that says listen man. Yeah,
fuck you for real. I don't know you ship and when you pedigreed
one of my refs, you're lucky you're even in this tournament. All you
gotta do is win the turn and you get another shot of Batista. But
until then, we're gonna do things my way, understand, Tripley says,
you tell Batista he's on borrowed time, and I don't care who I gotta
go through. I will be world CHAMPI again. Sadly, he was right
many many, many many more times. Surprisingly, Tripley's does not beat Batista
for it again. Wow, actually, but I guess you know that was
his boy, so I guess I'm not too surprised. Yeah, he said,
I'm not working SmackDown. That's great, awesome, that's great. I'm
about to have a great I'm about to hate a lot of dudes. So
we go backstage again. Maria is with Shelton Benjamin, who is the Intercontinental
champion the Oval title. Yeah, I like that. It looks too,
it does look good on it. And yeah, she says, uh,
joining me is the man that's in the next gold Rush Tournament match selon Benjamin.
Shelton comes in and says why that. Maria says, you nervous about
not knowing who your opponent might be? And Sheln says nervous. I'm a
champ, you know I gotta be ready to go to to toe with anybody
day or night. And Jericho walks in and Jon says, I don't see
your guitarist, no concert? What do you want? Jericho puts him over,
though. Jerko says, I challenge you for the belt last night.
You beat me fair and square, and you do things in the ring that
no one can do, and I respect that. In fact is you're nobody's
bitch. I'm guessing he caught him a bitch before. This is a crazy
conversation. It is not. Yeah, you're nobody's bitch. And Sheldon says,
oh, that's what you came here for. That's supposed to mean something
to me. I'll tell you what it does. And Jerco says, cool,
Yeah, this is for Vado. Yeah, you're right. Shelon says
this gold Rush tournament, are you in it? And Jerki says, I'm
in it. You know I could be wrestling you next segment, next segment.
That's definitely fucking all of the paper. Ye, he says, deal
as this show, and I have to win the tournament. I haven't had
a one one title match in almost three years? Is that fucking right?
Well he got into the fazzy thing right, and he was only in the
chamber. Yeah, I guess somebody was. Yeah. Sure, he said
this could be my last chance. This is two thousand and five, by
the way, my last chance to get a world title shot. I've been
playing rock concerts with Fozzy and hosting the Highlight Reel. It's been great,
but I'd give that all up to be world champion one more time. I
like that playing in Fozzy and hosting the Highlight Reel are equally as important.
Yeah, those are his two favorite things to do, and Sjohn says I
can respect that. Best of luck and they shake hands. Yeah, this
was fucking strange, I guess the first conversation. Yeah, super Yeah,
I mean that's a great way to put it. You're nobody's bitch. Okay,
that's that right, Well, thank you, cool. I could be
facing you in the next segment. I need this, Shelton, I need
this more than you can imagine spamming the X on this is SVR. We
get a little screen that says in memory of Chris Candido nineteen seventy two to
two thousand and five. Yeah, that's super fucking cool. Yeah, we
uh, I mean, we talked about Candido's death and how it all happened,
and it's honestly a freak situation. That sucks that it happened that way,
and he should honestly still be alive now, you know, like it
was absolutely due. I think it was definitely something that uh, you know,
no one could have predicted. It was just just shitty. Yeah,
fucking horrible. Chris Candido was awesome. We've been watching a lot of his,
he said, shited recently. Blonde bombshell is one of the greatest wrestling
moves of all time. Oh yeah, like bar nune one of the coolest
moves ever. Yeah, dude, it's and uh more people need to do
it. And he looked awesome. He was in great She was always in
great shape. Yeah, man, he was always in fucking good shape.
And uh just a great character, like I mean him and the trumple threat
was awesome. He was not afraid to be the butt of the joke.
But he also, like again another those wrestlers that like didn't mind being the
butt of the joke, but when he was in the ring, everyone took
him serious because he was fucking good. Yeah right, yeah. The Rest
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well no, yeah, fuck you. That shit sucks. I mean I
don't I've definitely have seen the movie. I don't remember enjoying it. It's
your fucking fault two triple aze, you asshole. So we have Shelton Benjamin
versus Sewn Michaels in the gold Rush Tournament coming up next. Yes, first
round tournament match, Selton Benjamin Shawn Michaels. This match is awesome. I
enjoyed this very much. Yeah, I thought this match was great. I
mean I think it's held up, and not only as it held up,
but you know, it's a defining moment in Shelton's career and one of the
greatest HBK moments ever. Yeah, man, and like yes, So Shwton
comes out obviously an unannounced opponent. Michael's music hits and everyone loses his mind.
Josh King look as Shawn Michaels. Crowds fired up and they stay hot
through this whole match, which doesn't happen for the rest of the matches.
Throughout the night. Yeah, that's true. They blow their load here on
the finish and they said, ah, that's were good. But I mean
it's not like any of the other matches were really anything the right home about
either. No, man, Shelton was super snug in this. And I
think this also gets lost in time because most you know, most of us,
I mean even just even me too. I just remember the super kick
at the end, you know, I remember most of the match before.
Oh, but it's a solid fuck they like work, Yeah, solid,
well done match. It's not fifty to fifty like Shelton's kicking his ass the
whole way through it. Yeah, like out smart and them wrestling wise,
Yeah, out out wrestles them out everything. So HBKA is not up like
at all in this match. Oh, you're right. Very cool to see,
especially because he's the Icy champion at the time, so it was nice
for HBK to respect that a little bit and let him go up big on
him. And the only reason that HBK wins the matches because he gets a
fucking once in a lifetime super kick off And it is unbelievable how on point
that is. Yeah, I mean, it's it's one of the it's one
of the best finishes of all time. It is. Yeah, that's I
mean not even not even over exaggerating or anything or exaggering excuse me, like
that's it still holds up. Yeah. HBK can't get literally anything going here,
Like anytime he creates any separation, Shelton is like too quick. He's
just he's too good, Like he's just any anytime HBK tries to create separation
or maybe like try to get a double down or just anything at all,
like, Shelton's always right on his ass and he's visibly frustrated by this as
well. Yeah he is, and and Shelton makes him pay for it every
fucking time too. Yeah, it's Yeah. Shelton hits a samo and drop.
They go back and forth until Shelton huts has come back. HBK hits
a flying forearm and they double down to a seven. Uh. They lay
there for a while and HBK kIPS up. Crowd goes fucking nuts every single
time for the kip up, and then Sheldon kIPS up. Yeah, it
can't get away from him like anything that he's got, Like Shelton's like right
there, which puts over Shelton huge here, Shelton kIPS up and they hit
a sunset and they trade back and forth pins until Sean hits a diving chop,
which was pretty okay. That was fun. I legit wrote it down,
and this is Sean hits a crazy esh sho to jump and chop.
Yeah. HBK goes to sweet him music, but Shelton reverses into a fucking
mean spinning heel kick for a two dragon whiped crazy makes a great sound.
The crowd is biting on all these pinfalls, by the way, like the
every they do it, because they do a lot of pinfalls here, and
each time the crowd's not like any less believing that Shelton's gonna win. Like
the more it goes on, they're like, oh fuck, oh fuck,
oh fuck, And they're almost all Shelton spin falls. They are. Yeah.
The dragon whip, by the way, bust is Sean open on his
Oh oh that's what it was, okay, And man, I mean it
plays into the intensity of the match a lot. It's very well done.
Lucky that he was decided he was going to put that one in there.
So HBK hits an elbow drop then shrimps his way back to his feet to
the corner for sweet chim music. Shelton blocks it and hits a head kick
for a two point nine crowd just headkick, like bits for it. It's
not like a Superhelogit just kicks them in the face. It looks like like
from a standing position. It's very cool. Makes a great sound. Again,
another very close count. So Shelton jumps to the top rope from the
mat. It's a flying forearm for a two finals. Yeah, just a
crazy just a super athletic dude, athletic freaking man. Yeah, especially this
late in the match, you know, Yeah, pretty impressive. So HBK
throws Shelt into the apron, and I swear to God, if you're a
wrestling fan, like the second you see him throw him to the apron,
it's like you can feel the moment coming, like if you could be sent
this and like it's just some random thing. And you see Sean throws Shelt
into the apron, You're like, oh my god, all right, no,
what's about to happen? Yeah, dude, yeah, I feel it.
It's unbelievable. How far Like I don't know if it's talked about it
as much as how far Sheldon has to jump for this. Yeah, it's
across the entire ring. It's twenty so far. Yeah, it's one of
the best finishes ever. Shun goes for a springboard. HBK makes some fucking
pay for it. Sweet to use it right head. The crowd goes absolutely
fucking ape ship like they had just seen like the craziest mind blowing like this
is like to like, especially the WBE fan at the time, you know
what I mean, if you're not watching anything else, sure, like this
has got to be one of the absolute or none craziest fucking things they've ever
seen. None was doing this in w B at the time, no way,
And it's unreal. I remember, I even remember because they show another
angle of it from like the hardcam. I remember the front row reaction to
it, like that's how many times I've watched this dude in the hot so
well. Yeah, and like Sean hits this pinpoint, it's perfect. It's
a perfect fucking finish. Yeah, and uh it makes it better because Shelton
gave HBK a run for his money. The entire fucking match lost because Sean
caught him. He just caught him slipping in the most godly finish ever.
Yeah. Yeah, it's the only reason he lost. Sean gets up,
He's fucking got his own blood all over him, like he looks like he
lost. You know, the crowd's going nuts, just very I mean,
what a I mean, this is a perfect TV match. Yeah, I
think I should. You know, when this happened, you should probably just
fucking give Shelton like a mom. No, alright, all right, goddamn
you should put him on heat and then give him a mom. That's what
I wonder. What happened they did. They ended up fumbling the shit out
of him. I really don't know. I don't know. He must have
not ticked one of the boxes or some fucking bullshit. Really, I mean,
it's really what it was. I mean, he was never a great
promo, but like this fucking guy's I mean, he can go fucking toe
to toe with Sean. He has Uh. I don't remember the Triple H
matches, but obviously they put him up. Yeah yeah, but I guess,
you know it just it just wasn't enough. Shelton loses the inter kind
of title that Carlito a month later. Uh, and then Shelton goes on
a losing streak and then he gets a mom Yeah that sucks man, especially,
I didn't realize it was that fucking soon. Jesus. Well, I'm
sure I'm sure this wasn't the match they wonted anyway. Yeah, you're right,
Yeah, I'm sure they did not tell Sean to go out there.
I bet I bet they told Sean. They were probably like, look,
man, just fucking beat him or whatever. He's like, I'm going to
give him the match of his life real quick, and uh, you know,
because they the plans show that that is definitely not what they had planned.
So no, no, obviously not. But either way, at least
we got this though. Yeah. I mean, if you're a wrestling fan,
you probably remember this match at least the finish. And if you watch
this at any point and you go, maybe I'll check this match out again,
it's uh good. Every time you watch it, I can't believe how
it's actually better than I remember it. Yeah, it's it's a pretty timeless
match, like it feels like it was formatted for like today's era too,
So that's you know, pretty well done, especially because like we've talked about
it a little bit too. Just about shit going fifty fifty. It feels
like everything goes fifty to fifty, especially nowadays, so it's nice to go
back and especially where you definitely thought like, okay, you got a top
guy and a guy in the mid card and it's like, Okay, the
top guy is definitely gonna make them, you know, work for it.
But it was like totally the opposite, where like the card guy makes the
top guy work for it, which it works, and somehow that's lost that
arm of that. I mean, I think Sean was probably like you know,
if you want to look back at w B history, you know,
people would regard him as one of the best in peril baby faces when it
comes. Sure, you know, he was never a guess to not work
underneath, like if he was definitely better when he was working underneath than he
was sure I think so. Yeah, I mean, just everything all the
pieces fell together for this one. Said that was cool. None of the
matches tonight come close to this one. Yeah, I mean like no,
and that's I mean obviously, like we review episodes like this because there's you
know, it's just how it is. You know, there's a moment on
a show and the idea is you know, let's go and see what else
happened on that show that you know, because I mean everyone remembers this match,
Like you said, some episodes will find gems it's like, oh fuck,
this was also on this episode, and then there's ones like this where
it's like, oh the fuck I'm watching TNA. So if we go backstage,
Todd Grisham is here with Edge money in the bank yeah, and Todd
says, you know, we learned that Edge is gonna be in the tournament
and he's in the next match, and Tod says, why are you in
this tournament? You got a money in the bank shot already. What are
you doing this? Edge says, listen, listen, why would I want
two title matches? That's because no one, not even Batista, can withstand
two title matches against me. And Todd says, well, I mean,
you know, if you get drafted, doesn't as make your money in the
bank thing useless? And what are you trying to say, jump Stain.
He still hasn't figured out like how to be a cool heel yet, jumps
Dain. Todd says, you have a guaranteed world title shot, which is
here on Raw and SmackDown. They got the w W Championship, which I
guess I don't know if that's still as strict. No, I don't think
so yet. I think you just do whatever you want. Edays Listen,
all that matters is I will be champion, bank on it. And this
interview's over and Edge walks away and he walks into uh, Victoria and Leva.
He walked talking over to Victoria. That's this is the craziest thing I've
ever seen. He walks over to Victoria Lida and stands there and then looks
at them. He stands there and stares at them. They're talking to each
other. They're having a conversation, Yeah, a conversation. Edge walks over
from his interview, stands there staring at them. They look at him because
they're confused, and he says, what the hell are you too looking at
says absolutely nothing, and then Edge stares at Rida and then walks away.
Now why why they just wanted to put Edge and Leada next to each other?
This is the funniest way. He walks stands there, looks at him
like half smiling, all weird, because the hell are you looking at it?
You walk over? Here is Robb buddy, Yeah, crazy little dude,
a little briefcase. Nothing on the briefcase of black brief Oh yeah,
they, I guess they. That doesn't start for a minute unless it's just
the next one. So we have the w W Stack of the Night.
I guess you didn't care too much about this, which is the Stack of
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They said, put us all right before the Law Resistance match. Wait,
Hurricane and Rosie Stagg of the Knight and then us. Okay, so
yeah we got Hurricane and Rosie versus Law Resistance. Tag team titles are on
the line here. Yeah, Hurricane Rosie won the tag titles in the tag
team Turmoil match last night. I was the Stack of the Knight. You
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Lawler asks JR. If he's ever been to France, and Jared says,
I haven't had the privilege. How about you? And Lawler says you
haven't had the privilege? You say, and I haven't been there. I
know I haven't, but I do eat French fries. I'll make that clear,
all right. So we're a great tag man, No, but I
do have stagger XPLG motherfucker stacking to night Ashle. So yeah, man,
we got the tag two tiles on the line here, that's right. Yeah,
we talked about this before. Okay, first off, Hurricane is awesome,
Hurricane is sweet. Warning was cool too. Yes, Rose and Rosie
being ship super your own training was fun. It was fun. It was
funny then. Yeah, but you know, it's tough because like obviously they
present these guys as like mid Carter's like you know, so it's tough when
you have the world Tag Team titles on like people in the mid card because
like they did not care about these titles. Yeah. I don't even know
what conversation I'm trying to drum up right now. There's no conversation. Yeah,
they just they can't. I mean, you nailed the point immediately.
Yeah, we skipped all the he's gotten to the actual of it. Yeah.
So Rosie is up early here until law Resistance starts cheating and takes over.
Yeah you like law Resistance? No, come on, Robert Conway,
I like. I like Rob Conway with the glass like he was ball.
Yeah, that worked for me. Dude. The buff Bagball his mom shaving
his balls was a dark Syle of the Ring thing. Okay, yeah,
I don't know what episode though. People just said it's from Dark So the
Ring, So I don't know if there was a buff bagwell Ball's episode of
Dark Side or what. Oh yeah, probably Yeah, so that's but that's
from that, and I guess it was true. No, that's true or
not to me? Have to as buff Bagwell next time he's in North Carolina.
Yeah, I'm sure. So yeah, starts cheating. Hey man,
so your mom shaved your balls? Are no? No? No? Are
you Conway? Who argue? Yeah? So rosies up early, Resistance cheats,
takes over, Hurricane gets a hot tag, hits an inverted on prettier.
Dude, that was insane. I don't know what that even was.
I've never seen this. Yeah, someone should steal that because it didn't look
goofy. It was just what it looked goofy. Because Hurricane is doing it
like Hurricane comes out. I always thinking about Hurricane from the video game where
he's doing the fucking pots and yeah, it's just crazy. The Idol dude,
Idol stanswers are awesome in the wrestling game. They are, They're cooling
shit. And I don't know if he ever had the inverted un prettier.
I don't know if he had a name for this either. I'm sure if
someone like asked him now, he probably had a name for it. If
this is in the games, let us know what the name is, everybody.
I'm sure if it was, it was in an older game. By
the way, earlier in the match, by the way, Silvan jumped over
Rosie and tried to sunset with him and Rosie. He didn't sit down on
him like you know how a big guy, you think he would just like
rikihis house sit on him. He like dropped to his knees and just t
back. Yeah he did, Yeah, you're right, and he flipped him
over sky something stops, something sticks. Hurricane then punches Sylvan right in the
cock. He does what the fuck, dude, He punches them right in
the cock and like Jerry Lowler starts laughing, says he got right, that's
no just that anyways, hits the Hurricane rana for a two and uh hurricane
and Rosie hit an assisted eye of the hurricane. And when Rob Conway get
injured here doing what he gets set he guts up and over by hurricane and
sense of the floor and he like lands and he's immediately holding what happened there?
But it looked like you got engineer, dude. Yeah they really Okay,
I I thought you were saying you were like a big fan of them.
Okay this regard, Yeah, they fucking the sidewalk slam either Hurricane was
kind of cool. Yeah yeah, I mean you know, it's a mid
court finished for a midcart that's true, which is fine because that's what they
are. Yeah. Sure, sure that could have been so much more.
That's my favorite me booking my favorite mid carters to the World champions. They
could have been so much more me And the video game pushes over the top
of the league. Uh so we get w B. SmackDown Magazine presents the
SmackDown rebound stack of the Night by Stacker two XC and Grand Ex Carrot thank
you. Yes, wait, this is just like this is literally just recapping
a SmackDown angle, right, that's like the rebound, that's right. Yeah,
they do this on SmackDown for Raw as well. Sure, okay,
they're not at each other's necks like they used to be. Who's ah,
I'm not advertising SmackDown on my show. Yeah, you know what, that's
a good fucking point. I wish that's what it was. But no,
I guess they're cool. Yeah, they're kind of cool. I guess unless
like you, unless you like brain Cannon that like SmackDown bought commercial time on
Raw. Mmm okay, which I can? You know I could, I
could muster up the the canon for that. Sure, I can. My
disbelief or whatever. Yeah, sure, there's words here that I don't know
what to say, but you got it. Dis Belief is the perfect one.
Eddie. So this is uh. Eddie is asking Ray backstage if he's
ready to take on Eminem the Night and win the tag titles, and Ray
is not happy, and I was like, damn, why is Ray fucking
He's all somber, He's sad here. But it turns out Eddie has been
an asshole to him lately. He's been I guess they've been losing and Eddie's
been fucking shoving him and ship and being an asshole to him. And Ray
says, listen, I know you're not one hundred percent up here, but
sometime I do know as you're one hundred percent in your heart. Let's go
get these tag titles. So they go and have the match. Ray accidentally
crossbodies Eddie after Joey Mercury ducks, which leads to Eddie walking out on Ray,
but Eddie comes back. Eddie comes back, just stand on the apron
to watch reag and his ass kid. Yeah, just crazy, dude.
They kicked the ship out of hit him with a snapshot. Eminem gets to
win. Not only that, then Eminem starts stomping Ray out after the match,
throw him to the floor, throw him into the post. Eddie and
he's on the apron hold of the rope just staring at this, and then
he walks away again. Yeah man, sorry, Ray, I mean,
you know who knows what Ray was doing at the time. You know,
I I'm on Eddie's side here just because Macho. I don't like Macho and
thie, you should beat up Jimmy Jacobs real bad. You should put a
ray mask on him. Actually, so you get Edge versus Chris Jericho.
That is the next gold Rush tournament match. Yeah, uh, stinky little
match here for the boys. Yeah, they weren't even trying. Man.
No, they didn't really do fucking shit ass fuck here did they? They
probably just did what they were told to do. Shawn and Shelton did not
sewan and was so much better than the rest of the Guard whatever. But
you would think this would be a home run. I mean, like,
these guys have wrestled each other a fucking million times by this point. The
last time we saw these to wrestle was a cage awesome. Yeah that's right.
Yeah. So Jericho's out here in the velvet purple tights. That's cool.
Look, I was like, Jericho's tight, looks here, just looks
good. Here, he looks healthy. Just he does it? Looks good?
Yeah, he's uh and he does look good. Jr. Says you
lose, you shower, you win, you think about your next opponent.
Well no, first off, that made me. I was like, wow,
is the whole tournament tonight? But no, it's not so in Jr's
mind, you lose and you shower, you get the shower, and if
you win, you have to be stinky until the next roun. You had
to go on the plane with your hero sit next to a baby and a
sick man. Of course. So Edge and Jericho they start off the match
here, Edge, whatever you screwed match, you screwed the whole show.
Yeah, So Edge and Jericho start out, and Edge, I mean,
I mean this just I'm be honest with he was a stinker. So it
was a boring fucking match, you know, I mean, and they start
chanting it too, yeah, and Edges, Yeah they do, and Edges
Uh, he's just doing the most like basic heel day one fucking green ship.
I mean, Jericho at least, you know, it's a you know,
pops off a triangle drop kick at some point. But Jericho is also
doing pretty much, you know, like you know, a tier baby face
stuff like slamming Edges head off the turnbuckle and ship like that. I mean,
this is super basic match. Did you like the Jericho hitting his shoulder
tackle and then doing the running man on Edges back? Why do that?
I don't know, is that a thing that he did, I guess,
so maybe this era he was probably definitely in his fucking joking around era at
this point. Yeah, it was definitely fozzied out crazy. Yeah, that's
fucking fair. Edge. Then it hits Jericho with the briefcase when Earl's back
was turned. It's a missile drop kick for two caring cannot believe kicked out
of a missile drop kick. Oh my god, first ever on his fewd
to champion, multi double champion, kicked out of my missile drop an unbelievable
amount of bricks in the briefcase, I should have knocked him out. Yeah.
So Edge then just gets up and hits the spear and wins. Okay,
that was it, you know, it was it cool? And then
Edge Edge goes to the outside and the Yankees suck guy. He starts challenging
him to a fight. Yeah, man, Edges, he comes out the
other side better for it. But this is uh, this is definitely a
middle ground for him. Yeah. I mean, like again, I expected
so much more here, Like I understand, like, you know, he's
Edges doing this heel thing. So they probably told, you know, hey,
starts stripping away a lot of your cool shit. But that doesn't and
you gotta have a stinky match. Yeah yeah, I mean fucking come off
the back, I poke, man, that's Christian ship. First off,
don't be taking my boys. Don't be taking my man's deal ship. Yeah
damn well, Christians leaving so it's fine. Yeah, well he saw got
another year on his here. None of this ship matters because happy birthday to
the Rock if you're Somemell Rock. Yeah. I talked to him earlier today
and he can't wait to get back to electrify the fans a w W please
back, Please come back, Please. Get's funny because like they go from
like, Okay, all right, go do your fucking movie. Then you
come back, and the rocks like I think I'm gonna become like the biggest
movie star of all time. They say, hey, come back. I
don't when I don't think he comes back for like years, Yes, he's
gone gone, yeah yeah, because wrestle the WrestleMania where he teamed with Folio
already happened. He doesn't come back until twenty like two thousand and seven in
a pre tape, and he predicts that Bobby Lashley's gonna beat Umaga at WrestleMania.
Thank you, Dwayne Johnson. I appreciate that. Wow, he doesn't.
He doesn't come back for real until twenty eleven. Are you he lied?
Yeah, he lied to you, JR. Yeah, you talked to
the right. He talked soon again. Oh hey, JR. Talk to
you again. Oh hey, are you coming back shooting? Oh? You
know I am. I'm gonna I'm gonna work with Edge. I can't wait
to an election. You should put me with the mohammed A Son. I
can get you on that one. I got a great angle. I was
thinking with that guy, I could wear the lip shirt for me. That's
for you, JR. Hey, Jim, one question before I leave?
How's your limb? Don't find you? Just okay? I have a good
day. Wow, he's coming. Holy fu. So we go to uh
when you go to the master Lock talk, he didn't know. It's good
talking to you, Jim. You drain so Master Lock Challenge Sound Hall time.
Wow. I think it was the first time we've watched one of these.
I was like, I don't think we watched this before. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, this was a legendary two thousand ish gimmick. I'll be
honest with you. I love the legendary I think it's awesome, Like,
what a great gimmick. It's stupid as fuck, but got his move over.
He looked like a million bucks. And you know what, we should
fucking bury the shit out of this guy when we get the fucking first chance.
Yeah, I think we'll do that, Thank you j R. He
should put me with Chris Masters. I don't know about that. We're gonna
bury him sun. So yeah, Chris Masters is here and he has four
thousand dollars. He does the full entrance. Yeah, yeah he does.
Thank god. He does look good. He's like twenty two here or something.
Right, Yeah, he is fucking and he is juicy. But God
bless him for it. Man, that's great. Yeah, yeah, of
course that right. I think at the pay per view he did the master
Lock challenge to a woman. She didn't win. Sadly, no, no,
because I think that's what they're they're talking about during his entrance, but
they go into a whole fucking diet tribe of other shit and yeah, Master
says there hasn't been a man or woman for the matter, that has even
come close to breaking the Master Walk. And I was thinking about not having
a challenge tonight, seeing is you know, some tough New Yorker can't even
break it. Why would I think anybody in the Boston good. I mean,
that's fucking real shit. And he said, yeah, as you said,
he has four thousand dollars on the line. And Jared says, cash
money, folks, cash money, not like a lot of money. It's
just like a cliff. I was two and five. You know, it's
inflation. Yeah, you think like on TV they get like a big briefcase
full of bills or something. This is four thousand dollars. It's a huge
briefcase. And it was like I had this like little clip of money,
like yeah, it was tugged in his trunks. And he says, not
all, that's not all I have. You know how about this personally autographed
Tom Brady football. They actually weren't as excited for that all enough. Yeah,
yeah, because Jake Delane was putting it up his ass all the time.
Yeah, it's only because the Pages cheated in the Super Bowl anyways.
But yeah, So a guy comes into the ring and Masters keeps calling him
Tubby dude off the riff. He calls him Tubby. He says, you
you there, Tubby with the backglass shirt, and not only does he extreame
Bean Salad, Dodgers Jr. And Lawler also refer to him as Tubby throughout
this entire segment as well. He looks like he's in good shape. To
me, man, I swore he was a tough enough guy, but it
might have been somebody else. But Master says, what's your name, James
DeFalco? And Master says, where are you from? I'm right here from
Boston, Massachusetts. And Master says, are you a big Boston sports fan?
Heck yeah, Jersey, heck yeah, mass is all you want?
This football? Huh? But he keeps bringing it back and forth through his
face, and he says, don't think so. You gotta break the masterlock.
So the ref sets a chair in the middle of the ring. The
guy sits in the chair, and Cherry says, some day someone's gonna break
this masterlock. And Lawa says, is it gonna be Tubby? There's gonna
be Tubby, And chair says, I don't think it's gonna be Tubby,
but it could be. Might be. Tubby's got a lot of motivation.
Could hear his name? Couldn't hear a Tubby chant at any moment? Talk
about Tubby Dub Dub. Well Masters puts him in the Master lock and he
just joints this guy up out of his chair. Dude. Yeah, I
mean he annihilates this dude, fucking throws him around in the masterlock. The
ref calls for the bell, but Chris Masters does not let it go,
and JR is pa, Hey, oh my god, I mean, listen,
they've done a lot to JR. I mean, like we talked about
the top Batista talked about it where Triple H faced JR. I guess recently
here, by the way, which JR got a black eye from because Triple
H potato him. I don't know if I knew that. Oh really yeah,
I was in the observer for that. JR got a black guy from
that match. Man, you do enough to this guy protect the business.
But with that being said, but that being said, I do as j
R. Had participated in the Masterlock challenge. Ah ah, that's him yelling
and breaking the masterlock. Of course. Yeah, he breaks his ship out
of it. You could, Oh my god, I want four thousand dollars
just had this little bit of bills is in Oh god, oh my god,
I can't believe it. Break Chris mausers out of here. I can
break out of that floor right now. I do it like this. That's
me yelling JR. Weekly sucking ship about the block. Put me in this
can. I'll show you how to get out of it. I can break
these cops try it. I can't believe they never tried that. Yeah,
that's crazy. Wow. Yeah, they missed out on a lot here man.
They were doing it to Tubby. They should have been doing it to
j R. And Jerry Lawler. Jerry Lawler here GI give him one for
real too. We can put that now. Yeah, oh, Ship,
we're not gonna though. Yeah, we guys. I'm a little worse for
you, buddy. So Triple H is walking with Rick Flair and we were
heading to our main events. His shirt off. Yeah, hash, Jimmy
looks good here. I mean he looks like he's fucking hanging out with Chrismasters.
Yeah, the boys are chilling, you know, the seven Am Gym
meet up him, Chris Masters, everybody else on the Yeah. But he's
so Triple H is the main event and he does not know who he's gonna
face in the gold Rush Tournament. And this is the craziest ship out there
ever seen in my life. I don't know if I I guess, I
could have guessed. I was completely blanking out on who I thought it was
gonna be in and then all of a sudden you hear positive music. Is
nuts, man, It was inane. And also this might be the craziest
cell job I've ever seen been while doing a match ever. Oh yeah,
man, because like the story of the matches is that ben Wa got concussed
last night at Backlash or maybe not brother, they don't know. For some
reason, he got super concussed and Triple A said, I'm gonna target the
top of your head as much as I can here in this match, he
fucking pummels his brain repeatedly. It was actually nuts to look back on.
And also I definitely thought it was gonna be Rick Flair. I thought it
was gonna be uh yeah, Rick Flair, and then he just gets in
the ring and then wrestles, you know, sure, okay, And then
I thought the story was gonna be, oh, You're just gonna lay down
for me, right, Rick, and he's like, I'm Rick Flay or
you know, you know what that would It could have been fucking because Batista
said he wanted to match tonight, so it could have been Batista. Yeah
right, I guess we Christie HEMI yeah, sadly no. And then then
fucking Batista gives them the fucking Batista bomb, and then Christi hivy Fin's Triple
A. It would have been nuts. So yeah, Triple A's versus Cris
Bin Wah story of the matches. Ben Wat's head is fucked up and Triple
A is gonna make it worse. It was life, yeah, yeah,
yeah, Life imitates ard Ard doumb whatever. Yeah, so Ben Wah takes
it to Triple A's crazy here to start. These chops are academic. This
is a good match, by the way. I like this match. I
think it's awesome. Dude, you have Ben Wah, like, you know,
he could give it to you and then he'll take it back to he
snug is FuG here he is and it was nice. It was a nice
difference to the rest of the card, which was, you know, like
other than the HPK match, like it wasn't so snug, and then like
sure, finally getting back into it here was good. Yea, yea,
absolutely. This obviously wasn't as good as that one, but it was still
like it was good. I didn't feel like I wasted my time on this
match. Nah. So ben Wah takes it to him crazy triples and lines
them in the back of the fucking head, not in the back in the
back of the head like I thought I was because I wrote grimeline, but
they replayed and I think he just like legit, like fucking elbows him in
the head as hard as he can in the top of the head and ben
Wa goes the outside and stares off into space. It is the most eerie
shit to like just sit there and look at like this is horrible to see
Ben Wah laying there, bug eyes convulsing on the outside. It is haunting
to look at this point. Yeah, it's like crazy, like you got
you gotta you gotta see it for yourself. It's pretty crazy. Yeah,
they did something. They when you were saying earlier, they when they you
know, Triple H went for the petty rebin wall counter trying to go for
the cross face. I love when guys do that early in the match.
I love that. I love the both counter each other's finish shirt. Okay,
now we can move on to the rest of the match, because it's
like especially if you wouldn't you remove no and you're one hundre percent right,
and especially if you face each other on a hundred times, like yeah,
it was the Triple Ah resume of twenty and they have a history and like,
like I think you have to tell the story as it lies. Like
if you're facing somebody for the first time, like you had, there's that
feeling out you have to figure out. Yeah, you would be you know,
match to like like you know who was really good at that was Nigel
mcguinnis. He was fucking good at he would I mean he would always do
that, yeah, like every match, like and he would do it like
separately. He would remember the individual matches with people and like tell them as
they lied, and like aries was good at it too, Like Austin Ais
was good at it. I feel like every match he had to was like
building off of that last match, and most of his best stuff was with
Nigel because they could they just do it with each other. It was and
that's every punkin Joe match too. It was like it was like random ship
too. Like I remember one of the matches they had like fuck it could
have I think it was Nigel did like a dive and like hit his head
off the fucking barricade. Yeah, and like concuss himself or something. So
then in the next match they did they referenced it like the entire match.
Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yes, yeah, I think
aries did it and then like he hit his head off the barricade and like
like just shit like that, like being able to It's little, but it's
it's a reward if you remember, yeah, right, And like r O
H is very good at that and w B at times is very very good
at that, like calling back to stuff like the stuff. Yeah, and
I think that Ben Wah was one of the best at it, and yeah,
Triple H would would remember shit too. So but anyways, yeah,
so Triple H is targeting Ben was skull here it is fucked up. They
even say here. They come back from commercial and Jared says, oh,
Ben Wah, you know he may have came into this match concussed. You
know, a doctor and a trainer came out here during the break and you
got that they thought he was concussed going into the match. A doctor and
trainer came out as Triple H is pummeling his skull to ship and the doctor
said it's the main event. Back of their books. As the main event,
come on. So Triple ag gets a sleeper in ben Wall holds on
it runs him into the turn buckle. That was cool. I like that
a lot. Yeah, me too, Just simple problem solve in wrestling,
because it wasn't like he didn't rush him backwards into it. He ran towards
the buckle and then drop down and Triple A's went face first in the buckle.
I love that. Yeah, me too, me too. Ben Wa
hits a belly to back, tries to get the multi German suplex set up,
but Triple Ah reverses, gets into a pedigree, elbows him in the
head. Ben Wah reverses back. He does hit three of the Germans in
a row. Ben Wah then hits the diving head butt for a two.
I like that colsing because his head hurts. Yeah, I want to say,
regardless of if he got his head targeted. He said, I gotta
hit this move because like I gotta, I gotta get Yeah, I have
to. Yeah. Flair tries to get involved with but ben Wa pulls him
in starts chopping the ship out of him. I mean, he's really giving
it to him. Hearth, dude, he is lighting his ass up,
You're right. The ref tries to stop it, but Triple H attacks him
from behind, and then the ref gets knocked down two No. Flair then
just starts blomping. Ben Wah. Did they start jumping this ship out of
this dude? Dude. Flair is on the ground choking ben Wah. Triple
H knees been wah on the balls, his feet down. I thought they're
gonna stomp them out there, like tearing them down bit from by bit.
But then Batista comes out here to make the save. Batista comes down here,
he comes out to music. The referee, I guess is also deaf,
because yeah, Buttah also very confusing. Was it was that he was
in his gear? Now? Yeah? He wanted to imagine he just didn't
get one. But is that what it is? That's the explanation. It
is the explanation. You know that I'm with you, that I'm with you,
all right, all right? Yeah, So Battista and Triple H are
just fighting this ship out of each other. Man Triple H back body and
closed life for Flair. Triple Ah tries to hit the pedigree, but Batista
reverses it into a spine and Buster it's a fuck a big one too.
Triple Ah is down center of the ring. Ben Wa and Triple H both
get up, but ben Wa gets the sharpshooter first. Triple Ah tries to
crawl the ropes, ben Wa pulls him back to the middle. He tries
to grab the bottom rope, but Batista is right there smiling at him and
pulls the rope back. Dude, because the ref is in between Batista and
Triple H, she's obviously paying attention to Triple H and Batista shitting and Grin
pulls the bottom rop away and the crowd pop's huge. You know, the
Triple H Batista angle was actually pretty damn good. Yeah, yeah, I
I remember quite a bit of from the Evolution Ship to like him turning and
then like you know, Batista in the wind on like Triple H. You
know, I gotta give he always treated Big Dave well, yeah, I
guess because he saw a lot of them. Probably he said, yeah,
yeah, I mean, good, good call, because Patista is awesome.
He said, you go to a fucking movie and see how hard is never
get and then he goes super successful. Way, Hey, Dave, it's
me j Are you coming? Oh yeah, did, I'll be back very
soon. Oh that's good. You wanna do you want to wrestle fucking the
heart throbs. I'm actually gonna so. Triple A starts screaming. He's fucking
trying not to tap out of this because he needs to get back to Batista
in this World Heavyweight title match. And he's fucking screaming and he looks at
Batista and he says, you son of a bitch and taps out of that
huge pop from the crowd. I mean, great, good match, great
finish. Rewarding that. That's how I felt about the end of that.
I felt rewarded that. Yeah, me too, because I was like,
oh, you know, Triple A is gonna get because I actually am surprised
that Triple As didn't win. Yeah, man, the trainer was right.
Chrispin Wack could be concussed and still win. He did. Yeah, he
still con cuss the ship though. That's okay. It's Batista is laughing at
Triple H after this. He's slapping the canvas, mocking Triple H. And
the last thing you see is Triple H groveling and he's sad. As he
loses. Yeah, it's having a good time, hopefully Christy hem me still
in the building. No, she definitely laughed. She's fucking fired. She's
gonna go see what the embassy are doing, she said, Jimmy Ray,
Sure, she's gritting a funk. I would never join this company. I
would join though, of course. But yeah, that is that is the
gold Rush Tournament. Obviously there's more to the gold Rush Tournament. A little
spoiler here. I'm pretty sure Leita joins Edge in this tournament. Who ends
up winning this? Wait? Edge does win this? He does? Wow,
he beats Caine in the final and Lida turns, so that guess that
makes sense. Oh you know what, I thought maybe that would have been
semi finals or something, but sure, yeah, no, sure, yeah,
so yeah Edge Edge one's the tournament and then turns or sorry, Lda
turns joins him against Edge or against Kane and they do the Cane Edge feud
after that. So he has money in the bank and this that's right,
I'm guessing he loses to Batista. Yeah sure, yeah, so this is
the gold Rush Tournament. I don't know if do they do any more of
these? Is there more a second gold Rush Tournament. There's a million in
the video game. That's in my games. There absolutely was. Oh wow,
they do another one in twenty twelve on NXT. Oh okay, and
that's when Seth won the NXT title for the first time, like the first
NX champion. Really yeah, yeah, but yeah, that is I mean
the gold Rush Tournament. I think it's a very cool concept. Like we
said at the top, it works for w Yeah, if you have a
TV show, why the fuck not. Yeah, that's awesome. I mean
put in a I mean, I love the surprise of stuff like that.
I mean, even if you announce you know who's in the tournament, the
surprise of who's facing who is always cool, especially for a live crowd.
Pretty cool concept that I'm surprised that they didn't do more. I guess maybe
it didn't do well ratings wise, so they didn't go back to it or
something. The reason. Yeah, I mean not like a lot of things
are doing great rating wise around this that's true. It was only getting worse
at this point. Yeah, But that is it for Money Night Raw Mace
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