Official 2025 Money in the Bank Review

<v Speaker 1>This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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<v Speaker 2>Well, here we are, everybody. It is the Money in
<v Speaker 2>the Bank review show on this eighth day of June, Sunday,
<v Speaker 2>June eighth, twenty twenty five. And what a money in
<v Speaker 2>the bank it was for so many different reasons. And yes,
<v Speaker 2>our Truth we will open with that in a moment. Absolutely,
<v Speaker 2>I've got some very poignant thoughts when it comes to
<v Speaker 2>Our Truth's return, both good and bad, not directed at
<v Speaker 2>Ron killings, but we'll talk about that in a minute. First,
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<v Speaker 2>called the War on Truth politics culture forewarned. Okay, so
<v Speaker 2>if those topics are not your forte, not of your interest,
<v Speaker 2>then do not check out the War on Truth. But
<v Speaker 2>if you are, then check it out. If not, cool,
<v Speaker 2>all right, our truth is back, and let me give
<v Speaker 2>you If you haven't already seen this, you probably have.
<v Speaker 2>What Triple H's answer was regarding our truth return. It's
<v Speaker 2>about a fifteen second clips, so bear with me. This
<v Speaker 2>was asked during the post show. So here is what
<v Speaker 2>he said.
<v Speaker 1>Did fans play a role in it?
<v Speaker 2>Or was there something else that made you guys decide, like,
<v Speaker 2>you know what we want?
<v Speaker 3>This guy still here?
<v Speaker 2>I love the question, enjoying the show the whole part
<v Speaker 2>of the show man, all part of the show Man. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>First of all, when you answer somebody with the phrase
<v Speaker 2>to some degree of thank you for the question, what
<v Speaker 2>a great question, I love the question. That immediately infers
<v Speaker 2>that you hate the question, that you're not going to
<v Speaker 2>actually answer the question directly. That's exactly what we got
<v Speaker 2>from Triple H, who did not answer the question. In fact,
<v Speaker 2>he deflected to a question or an answer that was
<v Speaker 2>not asked of. Hey, did I enjoy the show or
<v Speaker 2>can I enjoy the show? That's not what the guy asked.
<v Speaker 2>The guy asked, did the fantaviny involvement in bringing our
<v Speaker 2>truth back? In terms of your decision to bring him back?
<v Speaker 2>That was the question. Triple Ag' is like, oh, did
<v Speaker 2>you enjoy it? It's all part of the show man, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>That is a slap in the face to fans. And
<v Speaker 2>here's what I'll give you as terms in terms of
<v Speaker 2>why they answered the way they did and why I
<v Speaker 2>say they and not Triple h is he probably knew
<v Speaker 2>he was going to be you know, brought this question
<v Speaker 2>at the post conference and rightfully so. But he's also
<v Speaker 2>answering on behalf of an organization. It's not just himself.
<v Speaker 2>He's answering on behalf of the creative team of w WE,
<v Speaker 2>of TKL, the board, right, And what they're trying to
<v Speaker 2>do here Before I get to the fans part, what
<v Speaker 2>they are doing from their perspective is not enabling us,
<v Speaker 2>not giving us credit, because if they do, then we're
<v Speaker 2>going to feel that we can just bring anybody back
<v Speaker 2>that we feel should be with the company. Next we'll
<v Speaker 2>move on to Carlito, right, or move on to Bronze
<v Speaker 2>Strowman or whoever we choose next. We'll start chanting for
<v Speaker 2>them and expect you to rehire them. They also have
<v Speaker 2>been in this quiet kind of war with fans. We
<v Speaker 2>heard it before WrestleMania when Triple H went after the
<v Speaker 2>fans for the Internet the quote unquote Internet fans. Again,
<v Speaker 2>that group of people doesn't exist. I know what they're
<v Speaker 2>trying to do there too. That's a different, different argument,
<v Speaker 2>different rant. But the week before WrestleMania, remember all the
<v Speaker 2>slap of the fans that Triple H gave about just
<v Speaker 2>basically shut up and enjoyed the show, and that, you know, wrestling,
<v Speaker 2>the online wrestling community isn't really real life and all
<v Speaker 2>this stuff, well apparently it is because it brought our
<v Speaker 2>truth back, all right, So that's what they're trying to do.
<v Speaker 2>So that's the corporate perspective. They are not going to
<v Speaker 2>be giving us any credit that enables us to being
<v Speaker 2>encouraged to continue to do stuff like this because it's
<v Speaker 2>a defeat on their end. It is a defeat. It's not,
<v Speaker 2>you know, the end of the war. If you're looking
<v Speaker 2>at WW versus the fans, which I really wouldn't. I
<v Speaker 2>don't think it's a good perspective to have, but unfortunately
<v Speaker 2>that's kind of where we are. That's reality. A lot
<v Speaker 2>of times when it comes to the creative end of things,
<v Speaker 2>it feels like a lot of the times it is
<v Speaker 2>us versus WWE when we're all trying to love the
<v Speaker 2>product and they're trying to put out a good product.
<v Speaker 2>But then we feel like we know better, but they
<v Speaker 2>tell us no, no, no, you're going to like this
<v Speaker 2>and if you don't shut up, which just encourages us
<v Speaker 2>to want to be louder. So they're trying not to
<v Speaker 2>give us a win here. They don't want to take
<v Speaker 2>d L because then it would be an admission of
<v Speaker 2>defeat and they don't want that. That's exactly what that
<v Speaker 2>answer was. It's exactly what it was. So that's the
<v Speaker 2>corporate perspective. I mean, it's also good for business too,
<v Speaker 2>it is. It's just a good deal to bring Our
<v Speaker 2>Truth back. I didn't predict him to come back, very
<v Speaker 2>few people did. But here's the fans things. Our Truth
<v Speaker 2>was a beloved character. There was nobody that seemed to
<v Speaker 2>have a bad word about him, whether that was a
<v Speaker 2>fan or anybody in the business that worked with him.
<v Speaker 2>Many of us were disappointed that Our Truth never got
<v Speaker 2>an opportunity to really have a championship championship match with
<v Speaker 2>John C. And I thought it was at Saturday at
<v Speaker 2>main event. Wasn't I know that now? But now it
<v Speaker 2>looks like they could. But at the time it was
<v Speaker 2>disappointing end for Our Truth that you felt you could
<v Speaker 2>have gotten more with. And now they have Our Truth
<v Speaker 2>in the palm of their hand. Our Truth at the
<v Speaker 2>ripe old age of what is he? Forty five forty
<v Speaker 2>six is one of the hottest stars WWE has at
<v Speaker 2>this moment. Again, his flame could go out quickly. I
<v Speaker 2>don't anticipate him carrying the company for the next year
<v Speaker 2>two years, No, but he's hot. And when a guy
<v Speaker 2>like this comes along, the fans gravitate. They realized, Hey,
<v Speaker 2>we love this guy. We don't want to see him go.
<v Speaker 2>Why did you leave? Let him go? And I was
<v Speaker 2>of the defense of WWE, saying, hey, nobody has a
<v Speaker 2>lifelong contract, and I stand by that nobody does or
<v Speaker 2>should be entitled to a lifelong contract because they're beloved
<v Speaker 2>by fans. Companies got to do what they got to do.
<v Speaker 2>But given the backlash, which is exactly what this is
<v Speaker 2>in response to, and I don't want to hear otherwise.
<v Speaker 2>This is exactly what this is in response to. It's
<v Speaker 2>the backlash of fans and talent and major platforms, podcasts,
<v Speaker 2>you name it, that were really angry with the company
<v Speaker 2>for letting our truth go. They are now charing directing course.
<v Speaker 2>And how often do we hear, hey, yeah, we had
<v Speaker 2>to pivot. They'd love to use that word pivot, We
<v Speaker 2>got to pivot, pivot, pivot. Well, why couldn't they have
<v Speaker 2>just said we, you know, we had to pivot. Or
<v Speaker 2>if Triple H could have just said hey, and he
<v Speaker 2>could have made this real easy by saying, we do
<v Speaker 2>it's best for the fans. That's it. We do what
<v Speaker 2>we think is in the best fans best interest, right,
<v Speaker 2>Or I could have said, he could have said, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we listened to fans, right, that's it. Leave it at
<v Speaker 2>that instead some backhanded oh, it's all part of the show,
<v Speaker 2>Like he designed this. No, they didn't. They didn't design it.
<v Speaker 2>They did not design this. I don't want to hear
<v Speaker 2>that they did. Like so many things that have happened
<v Speaker 2>in the past, like, for example, uh Becky Lynch's heel
<v Speaker 2>turn at SummerSlam with twenty seventeen when they tried to
<v Speaker 2>turn her heel, tried to turn her heel, tried to
<v Speaker 2>turn her heel, didn't work. They tried it for a
<v Speaker 2>couple of weeks and said screw it, and then they
<v Speaker 2>had to pretend that it was still part of the plan,
<v Speaker 2>that she was now turning babyface and became one of
<v Speaker 2>the hottest people in the industry. How many time. I
<v Speaker 2>mean the company does, That's what they do is pivot.
<v Speaker 2>That's what the creative of WW allows them to do.
<v Speaker 2>What they produce, the content they produce can be and
<v Speaker 2>should be adjusted on the fly. Now, you should have
<v Speaker 2>an overarching store, you should know where you're going generally,
<v Speaker 2>but pivoting is what they do. So now for Triple
<v Speaker 2>H to comme on, So, who's part of the show, Well, technically, yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 2>it is part of the show. Like that that's a
<v Speaker 2>non answer. It is part of the show. Yes, like
<v Speaker 2>everything we see for the three hours of the show,
<v Speaker 2>whatever it is. Yes, everything is part of the show.
<v Speaker 2>But what it's inferring is are we meant to do this?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we had this. We had these designs drawn up
<v Speaker 2>months and months ago and see we got you bullshit.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm just gonna call it like it is.
<v Speaker 2>That is a bunch of crap. No, you didn't know,
<v Speaker 2>you didn't, Okay, so I know. I'm We're going on
<v Speaker 2>a ten minute ran here to open the show. I'm
<v Speaker 2>happy Archrus back. We'll get to the good stuff. But
<v Speaker 2>Triple H needs to be called out. Tkowwe need to
<v Speaker 2>be called out. They are not responsible for bringing our
<v Speaker 2>truth back. You know who is you, me and everybody
<v Speaker 2>in the arenas that we're chanting we want truth. That's
<v Speaker 2>who's responsible WWE. It's not that they didn't have a choice,
<v Speaker 2>but they made the right choice to bring back Ron
<v Speaker 2>Killings and it was a hell of a pop. My
<v Speaker 2>got a hell of a pop in that main event,
<v Speaker 2>which I gotta say. I mean, look, if you don't
<v Speaker 2>see the talent in Logan Paul now by this point,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, if you don't genuinely don't see it, stop
<v Speaker 2>watching wrestling. Just quit. Go watch I don't know, Go
<v Speaker 2>watch a TV series, Restart Breaking Bad, I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>Restart Game of Thrones for the third time, Go watch
<v Speaker 2>The Office for the eighteenth time, I don't know, Because
<v Speaker 2>you should not be watching wrestling. If you cannot see
<v Speaker 2>Logan Paul and the talent that he possesses, and if
<v Speaker 2>he does commit to this long term, he could not
<v Speaker 2>be a major star in the company he already is.
<v Speaker 2>Is he a face of the company.
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>Is he a household name yet? Actually, with his platform,
<v Speaker 2>he's more of a household name than a lot of
<v Speaker 2>people that have been in the company for four times
<v Speaker 2>as long as he has because of the platform he
<v Speaker 2>built beforehand, and there's no shame in that. But in
<v Speaker 2>terms of wrestling, no, he's not a household name with
<v Speaker 2>wrestling yet. But if the talent he possesses is just incredible,
<v Speaker 2>I've got nothing but respect for Logan Paul on a
<v Speaker 2>professional level. He is I mean, he delivers, and you
<v Speaker 2>know what, it's unfortunate for John Cena. It exposes just
<v Speaker 2>how slow John Cena is at this point in his career.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not knocking John nothing but respect for him
<v Speaker 2>to appreciate the heel turn would still do it even
<v Speaker 2>though it has been a flop. I generally say thus far,
<v Speaker 2>but with somebody as young as Logan is, as athletic
<v Speaker 2>as he is, and when you put him side by
<v Speaker 2>side with John, he is the polar opposite of John
<v Speaker 2>Cena in terms of style, ability, agility, athleticism. He may
<v Speaker 2>not be as strong as John, may not have the
<v Speaker 2>star power like John he meant again, but he does
<v Speaker 2>everything else in the ring ten times better than John
<v Speaker 2>Cena does, and that's you know. Look, even in John
<v Speaker 2>Seenea's prime, Logan Paul would still put him to shame
<v Speaker 2>with the athletic part. But the athleticism is only a piece.
<v Speaker 2>And of course John scene is a I mean, in
<v Speaker 2>terms of star power, just light years ahead of Logan
<v Speaker 2>Paul with wrestling. So I enjoyed the hell out of
<v Speaker 2>that match. I really did. I think all of those men,
<v Speaker 2>all four men, including Cody Rhodes, did an awesome job.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think we saw any slim Jim table spots,
<v Speaker 2>did we? Good Lord on SmackDown. I know that I'm
<v Speaker 2>not really gonna cover too much of SmackDown because this
<v Speaker 2>is nearly a one hundred percent pure money to bank review,
<v Speaker 2>But to not mention the table spot with the slim
<v Speaker 2>gym table spot, are we really doing this now? We
<v Speaker 2>did have a fireball ladder, we'll talk about that, which
<v Speaker 2>actually looked kind of cool, But that's maybe the only
<v Speaker 2>time that you hear me say that a branded ladder
<v Speaker 2>or a branded object looked cool. But Fireball is kind
<v Speaker 2>of a cool name. It worked nicely on the side
<v Speaker 2>of the ladder. But it seems as if if there's
<v Speaker 2>a blank space anywhere that TK was going to try
<v Speaker 2>to monetize it. It just seems like that's where they're headed.
<v Speaker 2>If you see a blank space anywhere, they mark my words,
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna be And this actually is being reported. And
<v Speaker 2>take again, Dave Meltzer is what he is in the
<v Speaker 2>wrestling industry. Some people hate him, love him, in between whatever.
<v Speaker 2>But what he said was that, you know, I wouldn't
<v Speaker 2>be surprised if in the near future you see wrestlers
<v Speaker 2>coming out wearing gear that has branded sponsors on them,
<v Speaker 2>like a slim gym, tights or whatever. That sounds to
<v Speaker 2>some of you insane. I think it's already happening. I
<v Speaker 2>think I saw a picture of somebody. It might have
<v Speaker 2>been an X tack. I couldn't remember, but we're not
<v Speaker 2>far off from that happening in mass It's gonna happen
<v Speaker 2>because then they can pay extra get more money out
<v Speaker 2>of the sponsors for the wrestlers to wear essentially be
<v Speaker 2>a walking billboard for whatever company is sponsoring that particular segment.
<v Speaker 2>They're doing tables and they had like slim gym stickers
<v Speaker 2>on it. It's horrible. I understand the company has to
<v Speaker 2>make money. I'm the first one to say, great, you're
<v Speaker 2>a for profit organization. You should make money, or you're
<v Speaker 2>out of business and we don't get to watch wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>I approve that, But is there no shame and no respect?
<v Speaker 2>Is there no just decency or dignity or any kind
<v Speaker 2>of just anything that's off limits when it comes to advertisements.
<v Speaker 2>There's nothing left. They've already desecrated the canvas on Monday nights.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's a sacrisanct act. They have just sacriligious
<v Speaker 2>I should say act. They have just completely, uh disrespected
<v Speaker 2>the canvas by throwing all the stickers crap all over
<v Speaker 2>the mat. Of course the aprons of the ring. They
<v Speaker 2>have forty different, you know, different segments throughout the show,
<v Speaker 2>especially on Ples. They had some last night too, of
<v Speaker 2>people just pretending that they care about a certain brand. Suddenly.
<v Speaker 2>I forget who did it last time. It might have
<v Speaker 2>been Cody Rhodes or somebody. He did he Yeah, Cody
<v Speaker 2>Roads did a whiskey is some kind of whiskey. It's
<v Speaker 2>it just it just doesn't stop. I tweeted this out
<v Speaker 2>last night. By the way, follow me at Wrestling Underscore
<v Speaker 2>Audio or just search ww podcast that it feels like
<v Speaker 2>I'm watching one long late night infomercial with wrestling breaks, right,
<v Speaker 2>And that's what it feels like I'm watching. It's it's
<v Speaker 2>too much. It takes away from so much of the
<v Speaker 2>actual wrestling and the just the presentation of the show.
<v Speaker 2>So I don't know how you Let me know how
<v Speaker 2>you guys feel about the branding. Is it too much?
<v Speaker 2>Do you not care? Do you feel like it's distracting?
<v Speaker 2>Let me know. Mailbag at WWE podcast dot com will
<v Speaker 2>read some of the emails on Friday. So anyway, let's
<v Speaker 2>get to the actual matches, because we had some good ones,
<v Speaker 2>and yes, we had a big turn. We had absolutely
<v Speaker 2>a big turn here. And let's see here. We started
<v Speaker 2>off with the men's money in the bank, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 2>the women's money in the bank briefcase match, and this match,
<v Speaker 2>I have to say, really was. It took a little
<v Speaker 2>time to get going, but I enjoyed it more than
<v Speaker 2>I have in years past. It was a match that
<v Speaker 2>there were a couple of potential winners, one that I
<v Speaker 2>thought I was trying to be smart with Alexa Bliss.
<v Speaker 2>Obviously I lost on most people did pick Naomi, and
<v Speaker 2>she's the right choice. She's the right choice. So let
<v Speaker 2>me go through some of the things here, some of
<v Speaker 2>the parts of the match. Again, it was Alexa Bliss,
<v Speaker 2>Roxanne Perez, Rhea, Julia, not Gulia, but Naomi and Stephanie
<v Speaker 2>vacuor or Raquer. I've pronounced a couple different ways. And
<v Speaker 2>let's see here we had, oh, the Mexican Destroyer spot.
<v Speaker 2>Remember that that was so perfectly coordinated on the ladder.
<v Speaker 2>I mean that that kind of stuff. Yeah, sure, it's
<v Speaker 2>clearly choreographed and they're waiting for the other person timing
<v Speaker 2>it just right so it looks like a stereo. I
<v Speaker 2>get it. There is something to be said for just
<v Speaker 2>spot in eighty and trying to win the match and
<v Speaker 2>not trying to make sure that you do cool stereo
<v Speaker 2>moves that are clearly just spots in the match. But
<v Speaker 2>that's again, I'm an old I'm the old guy. Now.
<v Speaker 2>It's fine. But let's see we had Vicaire make a
<v Speaker 2>play for the briefcase. This is later on in the match,
<v Speaker 2>Perez runs up the ladder. A second ladder bridge was
<v Speaker 2>created on the other side, and thecare and Perez fought
<v Speaker 2>on one ladder bridge while Bliss and Naomi fought on
<v Speaker 2>the other. Bliss and Perez hit again a nearly stereo.
<v Speaker 2>It was code read and pop rocks on the ladder bridges.
<v Speaker 2>That was pretty cool. And at the end and Bliss
<v Speaker 2>climbed the opposite sides of the main ladder through punches.
<v Speaker 2>Once they got near the top, Naomi started to tip
<v Speaker 2>the ladder ripley and Bliss wisely moved down a few
<v Speaker 2>steps before taking bumps onto a ladder wedge in the corner,
<v Speaker 2>and then Naomi climbed the ladder and pulled the briefcase
<v Speaker 2>down to win twenty five minutes. Naomi wins and I
<v Speaker 2>thought it was a well done match. Nobody seemingly got injured.
<v Speaker 2>That's a plus. It's always high risk. That's a match again.
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure this morning they all woke up and collectively
<v Speaker 2>groaned as they rolled out of bed and go right
<v Speaker 2>the man and women. It's a brutal match, no doubt
<v Speaker 2>about it. Those ladders are. They're lighter weight, I think
<v Speaker 2>than most ladders, but they have to be real. They
<v Speaker 2>have to be real ladders to support the weight of
<v Speaker 2>the wrestlers. Otherwise they're unsafe, so they can't be worked ladders.
<v Speaker 2>They just have to be lightweight aluminum. So it's certainly
<v Speaker 2>nothing that I would take part in. But yeah, Alexa
<v Speaker 2>Bliss I picked to win, she didn't. But Naomi it
<v Speaker 2>made sense. Naomi is the hotter character with more momentum.
<v Speaker 2>She has reinvented herself with this new character going heel.
<v Speaker 2>She's been rebirthed essentially these latter matches. As I keep
<v Speaker 2>warning people that pick babyfaces to win, as I picked
<v Speaker 2>the Lexa to win, look at me talk, but they're
<v Speaker 2>made for heels to win. They are made for heels
<v Speaker 2>to win because of the way you cash in the prize.
<v Speaker 2>So Naomi winning made complete sense. She can now tease
<v Speaker 2>the champions of Raw or SmackDown. I don't know when
<v Speaker 2>she'll cash in a lot of time to think about it.
<v Speaker 2>I know many people expected it could be on well
<v Speaker 2>about last night, Well no, because we didn't really have
<v Speaker 2>any any vulnerable champions down to take advantage of. So yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that didn't happen. But Naomi is going to be a
<v Speaker 2>fun women's money in the bank briefcase holder. She can
<v Speaker 2>gloat on SmackDown and she'll be fun to tease. And
<v Speaker 2>you know, I do think that when she cashes and
<v Speaker 2>she'll be successful. The women have a one hundred percent
<v Speaker 2>success rate. Granted they've been doing this only since twenty seventeen,
<v Speaker 2>but still they have one hundred percent success rate, and
<v Speaker 2>I think they'll be that. Naomi will be successful and
<v Speaker 2>she should be. I want to see Naomi as champion.
<v Speaker 2>I think she would be fun and to be honest,
<v Speaker 2>Tiffany Stratton, while I am a fan of Tiffany, I
<v Speaker 2>kind of find her off putting when and what I
<v Speaker 2>mean by that is her in ring, of course, is exceptional.
<v Speaker 2>She doesn't have a unique look, Okay I don't. Her
<v Speaker 2>look is just kind of the tall, pretty blonde. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>we already have Mariah May just came in. She kind
<v Speaker 2>of looks like almost everyone else that's run through here.
<v Speaker 2>I know people are excited about Mariah Ma. They're going
<v Speaker 2>to rename her, they'll give her a new name. But
<v Speaker 2>she I look at her and I go all right, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that kind of looks like a younger Charlotte or you know,
<v Speaker 2>Tiffany Stratton two point zero. There's the pretty blonde is
<v Speaker 2>just something that needs to be I mean, you gotta
<v Speaker 2>do something different. And I know they try to dye
<v Speaker 2>their hair or they try to do something else, their
<v Speaker 2>ring gear, their entrance. You gotta do something. But Mariah
<v Speaker 2>May whoever, they end up whatever, and they end up
<v Speaker 2>giving her a name. As I looked at her and
<v Speaker 2>I just go, oh man, yeah, pretty blonde. But that's
<v Speaker 2>a dime a dozen, you know, in terms of just
<v Speaker 2>pure look, not saying ability, just look. So when it
<v Speaker 2>comes to yeah in Naomi, I really do hope she
<v Speaker 2>cashes in. And I was gonna say with Tiffany though,
<v Speaker 2>she seems a little off putting with her promos because
<v Speaker 2>it's burned in my mind when she talked to a
<v Speaker 2>Lexa Bliss and Charlotte a couple of weeks ago when
<v Speaker 2>she called them vintage and then she said, you two
<v Speaker 2>are the I don't know the vintage and I'm the upgrade.
<v Speaker 2>And the way she said it is just like I mean,
<v Speaker 2>there was nothing endearing about it. It was very just shrill.
<v Speaker 2>It was the way she said it was I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes Tiffany can inadvertently be extremely annoying, and I don't
<v Speaker 2>think she's trying to be She's trying to play the
<v Speaker 2>babyface here, and at times the way her voice just
<v Speaker 2>naturally cracks, or the way her voice naturally is is
<v Speaker 2>not a pleasant voice to listen to at times, And
<v Speaker 2>I don't think she meant to do things do that,
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know, so that's burning in my mind.
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, Tiffany's I mean, she's a fun champion, no doubt,
<v Speaker 2>more fun than it would have been for Charlotte to
<v Speaker 2>win at WrestleMania. But I think Naomi Cash is in,
<v Speaker 2>which could be SummerSlam. Maybe maybe earlier, but SummerSlam is
<v Speaker 2>maybe what we're targeting here. Then it'll be in Naomi's time,
<v Speaker 2>I hope. So let's talk next about a surprise match
<v Speaker 2>that none of us knew were going to happen until
<v Speaker 2>the night before. Dominic Mysterio took on Octagon Junior for
<v Speaker 2>the Intercontinental Championship, a five minute match and this, uh,
<v Speaker 2>this ended with Dom getting the victory because let's see here,
<v Speaker 2>the finish was Dom went for a six to one nine.
<v Speaker 2>He caught Dom with a kick, then picked up a
<v Speaker 2>two count Octagon, went up top Morgan, climbed onto the
<v Speaker 2>apron Live Morgan and distracted Octagon long enough for Dom
<v Speaker 2>to hit him from behind, hit the six one nine,
<v Speaker 2>followed up with a top rope frog splash, got the victory.
<v Speaker 2>So thanks to Live. I mean, it was just a
<v Speaker 2>carryover from World's Collide. And I know that they're trying
<v Speaker 2>to really show us the Hey Triple A. You know,
<v Speaker 2>look at this, see Triple A. Most of you didn't
<v Speaker 2>even know this, this promotion existed, right, you got to
<v Speaker 2>most of us, Let's be honest, most wrestling fans that
<v Speaker 2>are just w fans did not know or have ever
<v Speaker 2>heard of Triple A ever, didn't know it it was
<v Speaker 2>a thing. So they're trying to bring a little of
<v Speaker 2>a bit of awareness to Triple A. And I get it.
<v Speaker 2>They just made a large acquisition, spent a large amount
<v Speaker 2>of cash, so makes sense that they're trying to make
<v Speaker 2>people aware of it. And this match was fine. It
<v Speaker 2>was fine short. They did what they could with it,
<v Speaker 2>typical distraction by Live and a victory by Dom, and
<v Speaker 2>the people kind of bought it. I mean, the people
<v Speaker 2>didn't rebel. They didn't. They didn't get annoyed with Dom.
<v Speaker 2>They seem to be on DOM side, despite the fact
<v Speaker 2>that he hasn't officially turned babyface yet, he's still in
<v Speaker 2>the heel, in a heel role getting cheered, all right.
<v Speaker 2>So then we have Lyra Valkyrie versus Becky Lynch for
<v Speaker 2>the Women's Intercontinental Championship, and we all know the stipulation here.
<v Speaker 2>I like how Cole pointed out that Lynch was desperate
<v Speaker 2>because she was zero for five in her last five
<v Speaker 2>title matches. I love when Cole pulls this stuff out
<v Speaker 2>of his ass because none of us know those stats.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know where he does this or comes up
<v Speaker 2>with it, but I appreciate these things that he brings up.
<v Speaker 2>When Kevin Owens hasn't held the singles championship in how
<v Speaker 2>many years? Remember that six? Six, seven years, something, just
<v Speaker 2>criminally long. And I mentioned none of us knew this
<v Speaker 2>little factoid about Lynch not getting a winning the championship
<v Speaker 2>in her last five chances. They're a championship, so pretty
<v Speaker 2>astounding stuff. And so there were some let's go Becky,
<v Speaker 2>Becky sucks chance that did happen. I like the new
<v Speaker 2>ring year that Becky wore nice change. The white shirt
<v Speaker 2>was a nice change. I seeing Becky Lynch in just
<v Speaker 2>a different color felt different, and it felt just a
<v Speaker 2>little refreshing. And then let's see here some spots. We
<v Speaker 2>had Valkyia dropkick Lynch through the ropes. She went through
<v Speaker 2>the apron, hit a cross body. Valkyria tossed Lynch over
<v Speaker 2>the barricade in front of the timekeeper's area, and Valkyia
<v Speaker 2>jumped the Spanish broadcast table and hit Lynch with a
<v Speaker 2>leg drop. Valcaria rolled Lynch back inside the ring, dove
<v Speaker 2>at Lynch, who power bombed her on the way down,
<v Speaker 2>and then Lynch hit a man handle slam from the
<v Speaker 2>second rope for a good near fall. Here it says
<v Speaker 2>good near fall in the description, I would argue, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it'd be a good near fall if you know. People
<v Speaker 2>didn't kick out of finishes all the time, even the
<v Speaker 2>announcers don't even they can't even pretend to get excited
<v Speaker 2>about seeing a finish anymore. The announcers don't even by it,
<v Speaker 2>and they're paid to. So Valcyia then hit her night
<v Speaker 2>wing finish on the floor. Both women stayed down until
<v Speaker 2>the last moment and barely beat the refs ten count
<v Speaker 2>and then they threw up and we're punching and slapping,
<v Speaker 2>and Valkyria got the got Lynch in for a two count.
<v Speaker 2>Lynch reversed held the tights while getting the three count.
<v Speaker 2>Cole was calling out Lynch for grabbing the tights and
<v Speaker 2>acted like the replay supported his claim, but it actually didn't.
<v Speaker 2>If you watch the replay, it doesn't really look that
<v Speaker 2>bad for Lynch, it really doesn't. It looks like she's
<v Speaker 2>just kind of flat, flat palming her butt. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>you know, she didn't seemingly grab the tights in a
<v Speaker 2>very conclusive way, So I know they're trying to sell
<v Speaker 2>it to try to protect Lyra. But the replay Kanda
<v Speaker 2>said otherwise, So is that so anyway, Becky Lynch wins,
<v Speaker 2>she's the new Women's inter Continental Champion or Lyra's one
<v Speaker 2>hundred and forty five day reign, I think as Intercontinental
<v Speaker 2>Champion has come to an end. I would say a
<v Speaker 2>very successful championship run, the inaugural Women's Intercontinental Champion one
<v Speaker 2>hundred and forty five days, that's absolutely respectable. She she
<v Speaker 2>has blossomed from as I think even the announcer said,
<v Speaker 2>were kind of a shy personality to this confident woman,
<v Speaker 2>and that's what I felt the same as well. She
<v Speaker 2>has gone from essentially being an amateur to a professional
<v Speaker 2>in front of her eyes as women's Intercontinental champion. So
<v Speaker 2>I think this has been nothing but good for her.
<v Speaker 2>Despite the fact she lost here, it's okay, But what
<v Speaker 2>happened next was was also good for Lyra because Becky
<v Speaker 2>milked this for everything that she had, and even though
<v Speaker 2>the stipulation said that all Lyra had to do was
<v Speaker 2>hold up her hand, Becky was somehow just forcing Lyra
<v Speaker 2>to bring her to every post of the ring and
<v Speaker 2>then put the belt on her waist. I mean, I'm
<v Speaker 2>thinking to myself, hey, no, unless you guys have other
<v Speaker 2>stuff in the contract, we didn't see. We were only
<v Speaker 2>told that the only stipulation here was to hold up
<v Speaker 2>her hand and that's it. So why she was doing
<v Speaker 2>the other stuff made no sense, although it didn't really
<v Speaker 2>matter because Lyra ends up flattening Becky Lynch, hits her
<v Speaker 2>with night Wing and walks away. So that was fine.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, she say face here and that was that
<v Speaker 2>was good and Becky Lynch's champion, which is fine. Right now.
<v Speaker 2>I see some people complaining that she's winning a secondary title.
<v Speaker 2>Who cares? Aren't you trying to elevate that championship? And
<v Speaker 2>yet how is Becky Lynch holding it elevating the women's
<v Speaker 2>Inner Continental Championship. Tell me again, it's a good thing.
<v Speaker 2>Lyra is not hurt by this at all at all.
<v Speaker 2>But even more importantly, if you didn't catch it, in
<v Speaker 2>the crowd, we saw Travis Baker and Courtney Kardashian with
<v Speaker 2>their child. So that's that's that's important stuff, big stuff
<v Speaker 2>here in La big stuff. And you know the other
<v Speaker 2>thing I was gonna mention that I forgot besides the
<v Speaker 2>celebrity you know, the celebrity nonsense. They're just they're so
<v Speaker 2>self satisfied by showing some of the celebrities in the crowd.
<v Speaker 2>I hate it, but that's what they do. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>WrestleMania was half the broadcast was them just showing other
<v Speaker 2>people in the crowd. I mean it felt like just absurd,
<v Speaker 2>an absurd amount of celebrities that most of us didn't
<v Speaker 2>even know were in the crowd. And we're all supposed
<v Speaker 2>to be impressed or something. I guess it's all optics
<v Speaker 2>of Look, isn't wrestling Wrestling's cool. We have these celebrities here.
<v Speaker 2>I know what they're doing. But at the beginning of
<v Speaker 2>the show, for the first like thirty to sixty minutes,
<v Speaker 2>there was nobody in the arena. Now, I had people
<v Speaker 2>tweet me. I know it's not Twitter anymore, but that's
<v Speaker 2>what I use. It's they tweet right on X people
<v Speaker 2>were telling me that no, no, no, no, it's actually full.
<v Speaker 2>It's because of the lighting. Uh no, it wasn't okay,
<v Speaker 2>Like there was a good amount of time at the
<v Speaker 2>beginning of that pl where the camera it looked like
<v Speaker 2>an AEW taping in AW Dynamite taping. I mean that's yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's kind of a slap to AW. But they call
<v Speaker 2>a Spades spades sometimes their attendance isn't great. It looked
<v Speaker 2>like that. It looked horrible. There was nobody in the
<v Speaker 2>front section. Now there were people on the floor, so
<v Speaker 2>those people found their way, but on the camera side,
<v Speaker 2>there was nobody. It was an empty arena. It looked
<v Speaker 2>like thirty percent full. I don't want to hear that.
<v Speaker 2>It's all the lights. I know what people look like,
<v Speaker 2>and I know what lights look like. These two things
<v Speaker 2>are distinctly different. Okay. And then I also had other
<v Speaker 2>people tell me, no, it's because of the traffic and
<v Speaker 2>the riots going on in La which is makes sense
<v Speaker 2>given what's going on in the political culture over there
<v Speaker 2>and the ice agents and all the I mean not
<v Speaker 2>getting into politics, but that's the reason that some people
<v Speaker 2>gave me of the traffic's horrible police rerouting, and that
<v Speaker 2>made sense to me, except for one problem. Then, how
<v Speaker 2>was everyone on the floor able to get there yet
<v Speaker 2>everybody in the lower section could not? Was it just
<v Speaker 2>happenstance that they, the police who were managing the riots,
<v Speaker 2>check with every car going through their checkpoint, saying where's
<v Speaker 2>your tickets? Are you guys on the floor for money
<v Speaker 2>in the bank? Will come on through. You're good. Oh
<v Speaker 2>you're on the lower section. In the upper section, okay,
<v Speaker 2>we'll get you in at some point. Hold on, Is
<v Speaker 2>that what they did? That's what it felt like. So
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what was going on. For the first
<v Speaker 2>like hour of the event that it looked like they
<v Speaker 2>were just you know, they didn't sell the tickets. We
<v Speaker 2>were constantly told to sell out, and by the end
<v Speaker 2>of the show it looked like a sellout. So I
<v Speaker 2>believe them, But I don't know what was going on.
<v Speaker 2>It very well could have been the riots and all
<v Speaker 2>the traffic. I mean, that'll cause a crapload of traffic,
<v Speaker 2>I get it, and just to travel headaches. But it
<v Speaker 2>was just a visually bad look for the company for
<v Speaker 2>the first hour. So anyway, okay, so let's continue. We'll
<v Speaker 2>get to the men's money in the bank ladder match
<v Speaker 2>here and this is this is a lot of fun. Now.
<v Speaker 2>This match went thirty three minutes. Yes, Seth rollins wins. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>I was hoping for La Knight because you know, he
<v Speaker 2>needs a win, and I heard this, I'm busted open.
<v Speaker 2>And they made a good point. Okay, I'll give them
<v Speaker 2>a free shot. I have nothing against those guys. La
<v Speaker 2>Knight needs the victory. La Knight needs a win because
<v Speaker 2>La Knight, as talented as he is, as much of
<v Speaker 2>a star as the fans have helped him become. I
<v Speaker 2>think we're losing faith. This is kind of a This
<v Speaker 2>is a backbreaker if you're an La Knight fan. I
<v Speaker 2>understand why they did it with Seth. I really don't
<v Speaker 2>disagree from where they're trying to go with Seth. I
<v Speaker 2>get it, but at some point you gotta have La
<v Speaker 2>Knight do something big. He's not a young guy.
<v Speaker 3>We have.
<v Speaker 2>I've seen him in the US Title Picture seemingly since birth.
<v Speaker 2>I mean he's been Okay, he had the maximum Male
<v Speaker 2>Model thing for a hot minute, but essentially since birth
<v Speaker 2>in WWE, he's been in the United States Tittle Picture.
<v Speaker 2>Besides that maximum male Model moment and the very brief
<v Speaker 2>appearance with Roman Reigns in the match he had, but
<v Speaker 2>outside of that, like ninety eight percent of the time
<v Speaker 2>he has been United States Title Picture, Title Picture, US
<v Speaker 2>Title Picture, US Title Picture. Did I mention he was
<v Speaker 2>in the United States Title Picture? And it's hard to
<v Speaker 2>complain about a guy chasing a major championship that's constantly
<v Speaker 2>getting TV time that you like. But there has to
<v Speaker 2>be a point where it's like, all right, are we
<v Speaker 2>actually gonna do anything with this guy? Or is this
<v Speaker 2>his ceiling? And it feels like this is his ceiling.
<v Speaker 2>This is his third time in the money Bank Ladder match,
<v Speaker 2>his third consecutive loss. It's kind of a three strikes
<v Speaker 2>and I think the fans might be out here and
<v Speaker 2>it's to no fault of La Knight. Now he'll still
<v Speaker 2>get big reactions, but I don't think the fans are
<v Speaker 2>now thinking, hey, we need to get behind this guy
<v Speaker 2>because they might be able to do something with him.
<v Speaker 2>We'll push him to the finish line. We'll start channing,
<v Speaker 2>we'll start hashtag trends. The fans aren't going there anymore
<v Speaker 2>with that. I think they're not gonna do it because
<v Speaker 2>they don't believe the company is gonna do it. And
<v Speaker 2>it's just the timing for ellly Night seemingly hasn't lined
<v Speaker 2>up for him, and I think they might be missing
<v Speaker 2>the boat here with him getting a major championship run.
<v Speaker 2>When I say major, yeah, I'm talking world title slash
<v Speaker 2>WWE on the speed of Championship. Now, Johnson is going
<v Speaker 2>to hold that thing for who knows how a lot
<v Speaker 2>much longer, but he's certainly gonna drop it before he leaves.
<v Speaker 2>We all know that. So there's an expiration date on
<v Speaker 2>john holding that belt. I really do believe that La
<v Speaker 2>Knight and Jay Uslo should be swapped. Like La Knight
<v Speaker 2>as world champion on raw feels and sounds so much
<v Speaker 2>better than Jay Uso who just can't and the WWE
<v Speaker 2>clearly ever since his fumble Bumble promo with Gunther, who
<v Speaker 2>is feeding him his own lines during the during the
<v Speaker 2>television taping of Raw, they have not given him a
<v Speaker 2>single thing to say other than yeat and I'm in
<v Speaker 2>your city and yeat and then I think there was
<v Speaker 2>another What was the other thing? Oh, yeat? I think
<v Speaker 2>it was the other thing they allowed him to say.
<v Speaker 2>So that's all they've let him do. Essentially. It just
<v Speaker 2>could cover his weakness, But actually doesn't that expose his
<v Speaker 2>weakness more. I know that they're trying to keep him
<v Speaker 2>from having any kind of lengthy promo. When I say
<v Speaker 2>lengthy for j that's beyond twenty seconds, I'm not even kidding.
<v Speaker 2>But it covers it actually exposes him more because you're
<v Speaker 2>looking for him to bounce back, You're looking for him
<v Speaker 2>to do something, and instead the company gives him less,
<v Speaker 2>which shows that the company has less faith in him
<v Speaker 2>and they're trying to protect his weaknesses, but it actually
<v Speaker 2>exposes his weakness even further. Do that makes sense, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because that's what they've essentially done by not letting him
<v Speaker 2>get back on the horse. So anyway, that's what I
<v Speaker 2>would do. I would have La Knight go to Raw,
<v Speaker 2>And why the hell not? At this point, there's no
<v Speaker 2>brand Split. There's no draft. I don't want to hear
<v Speaker 2>a single thing about a draft from the company. Everybody's
<v Speaker 2>on everyone's show now. It's just it's it's getting continually worse,
<v Speaker 2>to the point where they should they really just should
<v Speaker 2>declare the Brand Split dead. They won't because they want
<v Speaker 2>the best of both worlds. But it is dead. I
<v Speaker 2>will continue to say that it is dead completely. And
<v Speaker 2>you had Wade Barrett call Seth Rollins's group invader from Raw.
<v Speaker 2>If that was really true, where's security?
<v Speaker 1>You know?
<v Speaker 2>Where is Nick all this out there losing his mind?
<v Speaker 2>Get out of my show, go back to Raw calling
<v Speaker 2>Adam Pierce. None of that happens. Everyone just kind of
<v Speaker 2>shrugs and goes, Yeah, that's it. So the Brand Split
<v Speaker 2>is dead. It's gone. I don't want to hear anything else.
<v Speaker 2>But if that's the case, then then let's take advantage
<v Speaker 2>of this and put l A. Knight over on Raw
<v Speaker 2>where he could flourish and have a new change of scenery.
<v Speaker 2>La Knight on Raw I think would be the best
<v Speaker 2>thing for him. Get out of the US title picture, please.
<v Speaker 2>I know that he talked about challenging Soul, or rather
<v Speaker 2>Jacob Fatu for the US title. No one wants to
<v Speaker 2>see that. No one wants to see that. You know
<v Speaker 2>why not because it won't be a fun match. And
<v Speaker 2>you get to, you know, say yeah with La Knight
<v Speaker 2>and no, you know why, it's not gonna be fun
<v Speaker 2>because the fans don't even care if he wins, you
<v Speaker 2>know why, because they've lost faith in the character and
<v Speaker 2>they've already seen him as US Champion. They don't want
<v Speaker 2>La Knight chasing the US title for the forty second time.
<v Speaker 2>They want La Knight in a bigger stage, chasing a
<v Speaker 2>bigger championship. And that bigger championship right now could only
<v Speaker 2>be the world title because John Cena has again. They've
<v Speaker 2>kind of held that whole thing hostage again until they
<v Speaker 2>decide to have him drop it with who knows who, right,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, maybe Seth Rollins cashes in on John Cena.
<v Speaker 2>Who the hell knows. But my point is, bring La
<v Speaker 2>Night over. Now. This match was crazy, Okay, there was
<v Speaker 2>there was in this one. I think a Canadian Destroyer
<v Speaker 2>on top of the ladder. This one. There were some
<v Speaker 2>scary spots, no doubt about it. There always is. They're
<v Speaker 2>just they're always is. Who had Americano set up the ladder,
<v Speaker 2>try to climb it, Solo cuts him off. He slammed
<v Speaker 2>the Americano onto another ladder that was leaning in the corner.
<v Speaker 2>Night then ran Solo into the same ladder, threw punches
<v Speaker 2>at him. He grabbed the ladder, but Solo superkicked it
<v Speaker 2>into his legs. Then Superkick Knight, who came back by
<v Speaker 2>slamming Socoa onto a ladder himself, and then La Knight
<v Speaker 2>cleared Solo from the ring, climbed the ladder, but Penta
<v Speaker 2>cut him off, and Rollin set up a taller ladder
<v Speaker 2>next to the small one and it climbed it while
<v Speaker 2>Americano scooted up the other side, and all six men
<v Speaker 2>fought on the three ladders. Andrade hit a sunset bomb
<v Speaker 2>on Americano off the ladder, pent A superplex, Rollin's off
<v Speaker 2>on ladder onto another one. I mean, it's all that
<v Speaker 2>kind of stuff that you just go I hope no
<v Speaker 2>one dies, Like that's the goal here. If you're watching
<v Speaker 2>this as a fan, it is fun, is entertaining. It
<v Speaker 2>is a car crash. I think there's a lot of
<v Speaker 2>unnecessary risks, but that's what fans have come to expect
<v Speaker 2>that's the standard that has been set, that's the expectation
<v Speaker 2>that has been set now by these matches. Is you
<v Speaker 2>want to see your car crash. I actually don't. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I appreciate the bumps, but I actually am more concerned
<v Speaker 2>about the health and well being of these men. And
<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying I'm holier than now or that you
<v Speaker 2>know I'm above this. I care more about their health
<v Speaker 2>than the performance. No, that's just I've seen so many
<v Speaker 2>of these, like many of you have. You've seen a
<v Speaker 2>zillion ladder matches, TLC matches. We can't even count them all.
<v Speaker 2>And I think you might have to admit maybe, maybe,
<v Speaker 2>And again this is not a mean you're a good
<v Speaker 2>or bad person, but perhaps you're just kind of numb
<v Speaker 2>to these matches to the point where you're just like
<v Speaker 2>I just it'll be fun. It's cool to car crash.
<v Speaker 2>But I just hope no one dies or gets seriously injured.
<v Speaker 2>Because these matches present so many opportunities for additional error,
<v Speaker 2>it narrows the margin of error so significantly as well. Again,
<v Speaker 2>I have nothing against them as a concert. I just
<v Speaker 2>that's how I view them now. I view them through
<v Speaker 2>the lens of just human beings and just going, oh
<v Speaker 2>my god. You know, like I just guys be careful.
<v Speaker 2>You know. I know that they're trying to be as
<v Speaker 2>safe as they can, and no one cares that I
<v Speaker 2>care about about their health. But that's how I view it.
<v Speaker 2>So that's luck Luckily. I don't think we got any
<v Speaker 2>of that. Andrade stood out here a couple of times,
<v Speaker 2>which was good. He had a couple of moments which
<v Speaker 2>he's been essentially a non factor upon his return, which
<v Speaker 2>is kind of sad. But we did get the predictable
<v Speaker 2>interference from Bronson, Red and bron Breaker as expected, and
<v Speaker 2>then we got the this was a cool moment. Jacob
<v Speaker 2>Fatu and Jason Matteo also came out and they came
<v Speaker 2>face to face with essentially their equals of Bronson and Braun.
<v Speaker 2>That was a nice, cool moment. I even the announcers
<v Speaker 2>pointed out when they went face to face. You're like, man,
<v Speaker 2>all right, let's do it. It's you know, this is this.
<v Speaker 2>This is interesting because both Solo and Seth have recruited
<v Speaker 2>essentially the same kind of guys, so that was really fun.
<v Speaker 2>I I that was a moment that stood out to me.
<v Speaker 2>I go all right, even the crowd got into it.
<v Speaker 2>I love that moment. So we did have a Mateo
<v Speaker 2>scoop up Breaker who slipped away, ran Matteo into the post.
<v Speaker 2>Breaker speared jac Matteo through the barricade in front of
<v Speaker 2>the timekeepers area, and then Fatu performed a pop up
<v Speaker 2>Samo and drop on Reid who went up to the
<v Speaker 2>who went to the floor, and then Fatu Fatu hit
<v Speaker 2>Read with a suicide dive and Fatu rolled in Solo
<v Speaker 2>into the ring and helped him set up the tall
<v Speaker 2>ladder and that's where the turn happened because Solo was
<v Speaker 2>going up, and that's where Jacob Fatu, as Solo was
<v Speaker 2>about to grab the briefcase, was holding his foot and
<v Speaker 2>he looked down. Solo was just like perplexed as to
<v Speaker 2>why he can't go anywhere, which you know, Solo, I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what they're trying to do here, but
<v Speaker 2>Solo's low key funny. They've added an element of humor
<v Speaker 2>to his character that I think a lot of people
<v Speaker 2>are enjoying, to the point where I don't know who
<v Speaker 2>the fans are going to cheer for here. I know
<v Speaker 2>that there's a lot of support for jacob Atu there
<v Speaker 2>has been right from the beginning, but Solo as of late,
<v Speaker 2>has kind of evolved his character from this ruthless killer
<v Speaker 2>that can't be beat to this kind of comedic ruthless
<v Speaker 2>leader that also still has a soft side. It's an
<v Speaker 2>interesting evolution. But he's kind of a funny guy, and
<v Speaker 2>whether he meant to be funny or not here or
<v Speaker 2>just over selling it, he was just perplexed as to
<v Speaker 2>why he can't move up any further, and it took
<v Speaker 2>him like fifteen seconds to look down, as if you
<v Speaker 2>don't know someone's holding your foot. It's kind of like
<v Speaker 2>when there's the line in the script that says pause
<v Speaker 2>for dramatic effect. He took that to heart where he's
<v Speaker 2>at actually reading his script in his mind and he's like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>I have to pause here? Am I being dramatic enough?
<v Speaker 2>Why can't I move? I'm so befuddled? Am I stuck
<v Speaker 2>in mud? You know? Like, how do you not know
<v Speaker 2>someone's holding your effing ankle? Dude? However, it was still
<v Speaker 2>a moment where that people, of course will remember. We'll
<v Speaker 2>watch the replay four hundred times over the next few weeks,
<v Speaker 2>and we'll have Fatsu where we did have Fatsu look
<v Speaker 2>up at Solo and say I hate you. That was
<v Speaker 2>just kind of a plane Jane turn, but interesting because
<v Speaker 2>how often do you see somebody say I hate you
<v Speaker 2>and then that's it. And we had Solo hit a
<v Speaker 2>Moon Salt and beat down Solo, and that allowed, of
<v Speaker 2>course Rollin's to take advantage. La Knight had a last
<v Speaker 2>minute fury not to be successful though, and Seth Rollins wins.
<v Speaker 2>So yes, Seth Rollins wins. I mean, I know he's
<v Speaker 2>saying this allows me to control everything control well, not
<v Speaker 2>really like if anything. It's kind of like, oh well, okay,
<v Speaker 2>now I just need and now I just know I
<v Speaker 2>found a champion. I'm like, okay, well now I know
<v Speaker 2>who could cash it on me. And if I'm down,
<v Speaker 2>I know that at any time somebody could come out.
<v Speaker 2>So you're not gonna really take anyone by surprise, if anything,
<v Speaker 2>because we all know you're mister money in the bank,
<v Speaker 2>so like your identity has been revealed, we know who
<v Speaker 2>you are. When we see you, it's like, oh okay,
<v Speaker 2>you're probably here to cash in. Uh, So you don't
<v Speaker 2>really control anything. Also, you could have just easily gone
<v Speaker 2>after the champion without the briefcase and got a match anyway.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, we all know that golden rule, the golden
<v Speaker 2>rule of just you know, just ambush the champion and hey,
<v Speaker 2>you're rewarded. So there's also that. But fine, I'll go
<v Speaker 2>with the narrative because Paul Haymond wants me to, so
<v Speaker 2>I guess I will for the wise Man. So we
<v Speaker 2>had then again Rollin's win, and the the crowd's gonna
<v Speaker 2>be interesting, as I mentioned, because I don't know who
<v Speaker 2>they're trying to try to turn babyface or heal here,
<v Speaker 2>because there's a little bit of both of the reactions
<v Speaker 2>for both these men. We all thought it was gonna
<v Speaker 2>be Solo turning on Fatu, which would have absolutely been
<v Speaker 2>a pretty clear role. But now that Fatu is the
<v Speaker 2>one that turned on Solo, I mean, the crowd didn't
<v Speaker 2>really boo Jacob. They definitely were on his side. But
<v Speaker 2>also Solo is kind of the sympathetic character because it's like,
<v Speaker 2>what did what did he do to deserve this? You know,
<v Speaker 2>So we'll see. I mean, I still think it'll be fine.
<v Speaker 2>They'll mostly go with siding with Jacob Fatu, but there
<v Speaker 2>is that chance that you know, it's a bit of
<v Speaker 2>a split reaction. All right, Well, one last piece of
<v Speaker 2>news here before we wrap things up, and that is
<v Speaker 2>WrestleMania forty two. Because as Triple H said, hey, anything
<v Speaker 2>that's worth doing that that's uh what did he say?
<v Speaker 2>Anything that's good is worth doing twice or something something
<v Speaker 2>along those lines. So we're going back to Vegas next year,
<v Speaker 2>guys for WrestleMania forty two. And I mean, I don't
<v Speaker 2>have anything personal against it. I didn't go last year.
<v Speaker 2>I don't I doubt I'll go this year, just because
<v Speaker 2>of the pricing is out of this world in Vegas.
<v Speaker 2>But that's why they're going, clearly. I mean, if you
<v Speaker 2>don't think this is driven by money, I mean, as
<v Speaker 2>some people say, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to
<v Speaker 2>sell you, you know, So it's just, of course it's money.
<v Speaker 2>Of course it is is one hundred percent money. They
<v Speaker 2>looked at what they could make in Vegas and look
<v Speaker 2>at the way they they could make in New Orleans,
<v Speaker 2>and they're like, yeow, bro we out. You know, we're out.
<v Speaker 2>We're going to make what we made in Vegas last year.
<v Speaker 2>So that's fine. WrestleMania forty two in Vegas, they get
<v Speaker 2>a redo first time since nineteen eighty eight eighty nine
<v Speaker 2>that they have gone back to back in the same
<v Speaker 2>place for WrestleMania, and yeah, so great. We can how
<v Speaker 2>all see the celebrities that no one knows come back
<v Speaker 2>out and and all the rest, and you know, all
<v Speaker 2>the advertisements and everything else that they do that it's
<v Speaker 2>just kind of the TKO branding of w W right now.
<v Speaker 2>Their vision of w w W is just how much
<v Speaker 2>can we get out of our sponsors. Screw the wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>I don't you know, let's just let's just uh call
<v Speaker 2>it the sponsors that you guys want a table that'll
<v Speaker 2>be five hundred thousand dollars for two minutes. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>I'm being a bit egregious, but I don't know how
<v Speaker 2>much it is. Don't you wonder what was the price
<v Speaker 2>tag on slapping a slim gym logo on a table?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I I do wonder what was the price
<v Speaker 2>tag on that? Or or to put you know, your
<v Speaker 2>fireball logo on the side of a of a ladder,
<v Speaker 2>which admittedly rare, rare occasion that actually looked kind of cool,
<v Speaker 2>the red fireball logo. But yeah, also, as we speak,
<v Speaker 2>Nicki Bella might be on raw. Yeah, are we supposed
<v Speaker 2>to be hyped for that? Who was asking for Nicky
<v Speaker 2>Bella to come back? She seemed to be the only
<v Speaker 2>one excited about teasing she could come back. Everyone else
<v Speaker 2>is like, no, we're good. I mean, I'm sorry. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>maybe there are some fans out there that want nick
<v Speaker 2>I don't have any interest ever in seeing any of
<v Speaker 2>the bell either of the Bella twins ever. Again, ever,
<v Speaker 2>there's just they They didn't do anything to me of
<v Speaker 2>significance outside of be kind of that bridge between the
<v Speaker 2>women's in divas eras. That's it. And Nicky used to
<v Speaker 2>date John Cena. They were engaged, that's it. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>that's kind of their contributions. Didn't one of them have
<v Speaker 2>a mattress Stephanie? Was that Nicky or Brie? I think
<v Speaker 2>it might have been Brie had a mattres Stephanie McMahon.
<v Speaker 2>I like, I cannot name a single great moment that
<v Speaker 2>either of them had. They just they did did just
<v Speaker 2>to me or prior to the Women's Revolution. Everything else
<v Speaker 2>is just hogwash. Everything was just kind of half assed
<v Speaker 2>and forgotten. And I mean you think things are forgotten today?
<v Speaker 2>If you want you want to go look at disrespecting
<v Speaker 2>women's wrestling look prior to the Women's Revolution. It's horrible.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if she's just trying to get a
<v Speaker 2>spot on the Women's Evolution two pay per view. I'm
<v Speaker 2>not sure, but I don't have a single bit of
<v Speaker 2>interest in seeing Nicki, Bella or Brie. There's and I
<v Speaker 2>hope there's just no reaction for her tonight. I don't
<v Speaker 2>need to see her do her little stripper dance at
<v Speaker 2>the top of the ramp. I just keep that home.
<v Speaker 2>I don't need it. No one, no one's interest, at
<v Speaker 2>least I hope not. All right, I'll tell you how
<v Speaker 2>I really feel later. I'm being a bit coy, I know,
<v Speaker 2>a little foggy in my opinion. But we're also getting
<v Speaker 2>a jus So Gunther match for the World Championship. They've
<v Speaker 2>been promoting that for a little while now, so that
<v Speaker 2>should have some pretty big implications. Big steaks, big big outcome.
<v Speaker 2>I'm guessing they'll get twenty minutes or so, so that'll
<v Speaker 2>be good too. We'll see what happens. Obviously, I haven't
<v Speaker 2>watched a lick of raw. That'll come to you tomorrow
<v Speaker 2>night or Tuesday. Rather if you're listening to this Tuesday
<v Speaker 2>evening for the raw review, and I appreciate it. Guys.
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