WWE RAW Review: Cody Rhodes, Cena & CM Punk Appearances, Breakker vs Penta for IC Title, Women's IC Title Match, Racial Contoversy

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome everybody to the Monday Night Raw Review. It's time
<v Speaker 2>to talk Monday Night Raw. Very controversial Monday Night Raw.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't think it would be controversial. Typically raws are
<v Speaker 2>just about wrestling. Sometimes we throw some outside forces in there,
<v Speaker 2>and tonight's one of those nights. Because oliver x and
<v Speaker 2>other social media platforms, people are talking about things that
<v Speaker 2>just I don't. I mean, it's a sign of the
<v Speaker 2>times and a sign of the culture, is what this is.
<v Speaker 2>We'll talk about that, and we'll try to clog up
<v Speaker 2>too much of the time talking about it, but it
<v Speaker 2>is a big topic of interest and a big conversation
<v Speaker 2>piece over on social media with two things Bianca Bella
<v Speaker 2>are getting booed and why she's getting booed and the
<v Speaker 2>Chad Gable gimmick a Grande Americano, which people are losing
<v Speaker 2>their minds over and why it's culturally insensitive and all
<v Speaker 2>this just nonsense. We'll talk about it, but first I
<v Speaker 2>want to welcome you to the show. This is the
<v Speaker 2>Monday Night Raw Review here on March twenty fifth, twenty
<v Speaker 2>twenty five, and we're gonna dive into raw. We're going
<v Speaker 2>to dive into a raw that beyond the controversial couple
<v Speaker 2>of topics that we will discuss is a promo from
<v Speaker 2>John Cena that was a little weird. I didn't think
<v Speaker 2>it was a bad promo. It's hard to get a
<v Speaker 2>bad promo out of John Cena, to be honest. It
<v Speaker 2>was viewed by many as a step back. I thought
<v Speaker 2>it was a little weird, but I see where they're
<v Speaker 2>going with it. I guess it's not real clear what
<v Speaker 2>the hell's going on with what John Cen is trying
<v Speaker 2>to accomplish. Well, we'll talk about it, but thank you
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<v Speaker 2>if you want to try us. And it's WrestleMania a
<v Speaker 2>season with just what three weeks left of television? Is
<v Speaker 2>it three weeks left of television? Incredible? WrestleMania is less
<v Speaker 2>than a month away, and we'll be ready to roll
<v Speaker 2>in Vegas. Okay, So I want to talk about Chad
<v Speaker 2>Gable first. We'll talk about Bianco a little bit later
<v Speaker 2>in the show when that actually that segment pops up.
<v Speaker 2>But let's talk about it. Grande Americano. Now, this is
<v Speaker 2>a gimmick that is clearly a gimmick of a gimmick.
<v Speaker 2>We all know who Grande Americano is. That's half the
<v Speaker 2>fun that it's the worst kept secret in the company.
<v Speaker 2>We all know who it is. It's I think an
<v Speaker 2>offshoot of the Mister America that Hulk Hogan did back
<v Speaker 2>in two or three when Vince mcmahn fired him and
<v Speaker 2>he came back as Mister America, even though we all
<v Speaker 2>know who he was a little bit different, of course,
<v Speaker 2>different circumstances. Chat isn't fired, but it's really it really
<v Speaker 2>is ignited a lot of rage for those in the
<v Speaker 2>Latino community, and not everybody. Not everybody's an outrage by this,
<v Speaker 2>and many people feel that it's inspired by cultural events
<v Speaker 2>right now with America, the tension between America and Mexico,
<v Speaker 2>the tariffs between America and Mexico that they recently have
<v Speaker 2>just implemented on Mexico, and the tensions rising, and the
<v Speaker 2>Gulf of America instead of now the Gulf of Mexico
<v Speaker 2>no longer exists, all that kind of thing. And now
<v Speaker 2>they WWE dares dares to in a world of professional
<v Speaker 2>wrestling put a American wrestler under the guise of a luchador,
<v Speaker 2>how dare they? That's cultural appropriation, which again I mean
<v Speaker 2>cultural appropriation doesn't really mean a whole lot, okay, because
<v Speaker 2>everything is appropriated from another culture, dating back to the
<v Speaker 2>dawn of time, everyone has appropriated something from some culture,
<v Speaker 2>which is how cultures evolve and grow and change. All right,
<v Speaker 2>So those of you that are offended somehow or want
<v Speaker 2>to be offended on behalf of another culture. Because a
<v Speaker 2>luchador is using the American flag and the American colors
<v Speaker 2>as their outfit, as their attire in the ring. Whatever
<v Speaker 2>happened to the phrase of imitation is the sincerest form
<v Speaker 2>of flattery. That's certainly to me is the case here?
<v Speaker 2>I know people are looking for reasons to be offended
<v Speaker 2>and reasons to take aside and reasons to virtue signal
<v Speaker 2>and reasons to try to be offended on behalf of
<v Speaker 2>an entire culture. Okay, just it's, of course, just a
<v Speaker 2>sign of the times. Unfortunately, I've even seen, and I
<v Speaker 2>won't mention names a prominent female TikToker slash streamer who
<v Speaker 2>is saying that because her friends who are Latino or
<v Speaker 2>Latino are angry about this particular character, that now she
<v Speaker 2>is going to be because they're apparently going to dictate
<v Speaker 2>how she should feel. I'm not kidding, and I like
<v Speaker 2>this person. I'm not going to call them out by name.
<v Speaker 2>There's not a lot of prominent female TikTokers slash streamers
<v Speaker 2>on Twitch and everywhere else, so you can probably deduce
<v Speaker 2>who that is. But I like her, I really do.
<v Speaker 2>But if I was to say, I mean, how weak
<v Speaker 2>is somebody? How weak is your opinion that you need
<v Speaker 2>to have it preapproved by an entire race in order
<v Speaker 2>for it to be valid, in order for you to
<v Speaker 2>stand by your principles in your opinion, you need to
<v Speaker 2>have it preapproved. Is this okay? How I feel?
<v Speaker 1>Well?
<v Speaker 2>You tell me how I should feel? How does that work?
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, the people are losing their minds over it.
<v Speaker 2>I love it, crowd loved it. Chad Gable here is
<v Speaker 2>reinventing himself. We'll see how far this goes. This is
<v Speaker 2>clearly a gimmick that at some point has an end,
<v Speaker 2>has an expiration. I don't know what the payoff is.
<v Speaker 2>I doubt WWE does, but he gets a victory here
<v Speaker 2>over Dragonly in a fun match that you'd expect it
<v Speaker 2>to be, just a very fun luchador style go reversal
<v Speaker 2>for reversal, hurricane Rono's and a lot of a lot
<v Speaker 2>of uh, just tiphline stuff, and that's what we got it.
<v Speaker 2>It was fun, So I have no issue with it
<v Speaker 2>at all. I wouldn't even care if someone who was
<v Speaker 2>trying to quote unquote culturally appropriate, white, straight forty year
<v Speaker 2>old men that have their head shaped I don't care. Cool.
<v Speaker 2>I'm at it, man, I mean how soft? How much
<v Speaker 2>is your need to be a victim on display when
<v Speaker 2>you are going to be offended or trying to be
<v Speaker 2>or pretend to be about a wrestling character. I mean seriously.
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, that's issue number one. We'll talk about Bianca,
<v Speaker 2>which is a somewhat similar issue in just a few
<v Speaker 2>which is to me even a bigger issue, at least
<v Speaker 2>according to X. And we'll talk about that a little bit.
<v Speaker 2>But I want to talk about some other stuff here
<v Speaker 2>on the show that's not controversial and just pure wrestling.
<v Speaker 2>And I want you guys to know again, I don't
<v Speaker 2>bring up these cultural topics that have nothing to do
<v Speaker 2>with were kind of a mix of hybrid of politics
<v Speaker 2>and culture and all that. I don't bring it up
<v Speaker 2>because a lot of all the wrestling fans are talking
<v Speaker 2>about it, and it's starting to become a trend, and
<v Speaker 2>we all know that WWE does pay attention to trends.
<v Speaker 2>Look what happened to Cody Roads last year. They changed
<v Speaker 2>the entire WrestleMania and event because of a trend, because
<v Speaker 2>of a hashtag, not fully but a large part of it.
<v Speaker 2>So let's continue. Let's start at the beginning of the show.
<v Speaker 2>John Cena comes out. Yes, he comes out at the
<v Speaker 2>beginning here in Glasgow. Did I say that right? I
<v Speaker 2>don't know. I probably didn't. That's okay. The fans booed,
<v Speaker 2>and well, at first they cheered, and then they realized,
<v Speaker 2>oh wait, crait, crapy, We're not supposed to cheer for Sina.
<v Speaker 2>We got to boo him, and they complied pretty well.
<v Speaker 2>Sina said, is something on your mind? It seems like
<v Speaker 2>you have something you want to say. Fans booed, and
<v Speaker 2>Sina said the fans were there to do their worst
<v Speaker 2>and said they finally understand what's going on and that
<v Speaker 2>he's turning the spotlight on the fans. And Seena said
<v Speaker 2>he couldn't or could turn on any fan of the
<v Speaker 2>crowd and rip them to shreds. It's true, he's that
<v Speaker 2>good of a talker. He talked about the clueless kid
<v Speaker 2>he put on blast last week and said that poor
<v Speaker 2>pathetic a kid's poor pathetic face was everywhere and you
<v Speaker 2>all loved it. A lot of f you've seen a chance.
<v Speaker 2>And he asked whether he's worse than the one who
<v Speaker 2>he's worse as the person telling the truth or the
<v Speaker 2>fans who are using profanity and laugh at a kid.
<v Speaker 2>He said the fans will find out how he will
<v Speaker 2>make them pay for the twenty five years of abuse
<v Speaker 2>that he put him through and shut the f up.
<v Speaker 2>Chant broke out and seeing it, told the fans that
<v Speaker 2>they make it so easy. And he's been testing, quizzing, studying, prodding,
<v Speaker 2>and rewarding fans for playing along with their childish ridden
<v Speaker 2>nursery rhymes hell of a twenty five year test. Huh.
<v Speaker 2>He said that he knows everything about the fans, but
<v Speaker 2>they don't know anything about him, and Sina said, their
<v Speaker 2>lives are sad and this is the best it's going
<v Speaker 2>to get. This is all you have, he said to him,
<v Speaker 2>It's been nothing more than an experiment and we are
<v Speaker 2>just rats in a cage. He then said that fans
<v Speaker 2>will always tell him everything about themselves because they so
<v Speaker 2>desperately want to matter, and recalled giving fans the Spinner
<v Speaker 2>Championship and the fans ate him alive. He said that
<v Speaker 2>all you have to do is google comments about the
<v Speaker 2>Spinner Belt and talked about how it's a toy and
<v Speaker 2>said that it was the biggest mistake they ever made
<v Speaker 2>because it told them what fans care about the most.
<v Speaker 2>And he declared that he's going to ruin wrestling.
<v Speaker 3>Now.
<v Speaker 2>I love that line. Love that line a lot. It's
<v Speaker 2>the money line. That's a headline you could put on
<v Speaker 2>a newspaper. If you all kids don't know what a
<v Speaker 2>newspaper is, you can google that too, don't does anyone
<v Speaker 2>even get a newspaper? Deliver to their house anymore. I
<v Speaker 2>actually miss that. I remember when I lived with my
<v Speaker 2>parents many years ago, that they get a you know,
<v Speaker 2>their Sunday paper delivered, and you still can. I guah,
<v Speaker 2>it's like New York Times still does it, if your
<v Speaker 2>local paper does it. But I do miss a physical
<v Speaker 2>copy of a print paper newspaper. I don't know. I
<v Speaker 2>don't know what that has to do with anything here.
<v Speaker 2>It doesn't. But my point about this is that is
<v Speaker 2>the headline, that's what the title of this article could be,
<v Speaker 2>is I'm going to ruin wrestling quote unquote. That's awesome line. No,
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if anyone's ever said that. It's awesome.
<v Speaker 2>I just I don't know why I like it so much.
<v Speaker 2>But what followed is a little weird. He said he's
<v Speaker 2>gonna ruin it. He's gonna ruin it for every fan,
<v Speaker 2>every wrestler, everyone. He said he's gonna make history, right
<v Speaker 2>winning a seventeenth world championship, and he's gonna forget the
<v Speaker 2>name Rick Flair and they will forever say the name
<v Speaker 2>John Cena. But even worse, he said, I'm going to
<v Speaker 2>win that championship. This is where it gets weird. He
<v Speaker 2>said he's gonna win that championship, the center of every superstar,
<v Speaker 2>of this entire business, of every fan in this building.
<v Speaker 2>I will win that championship and retire with it. I'm
<v Speaker 2>taking it home with me. And he said that he
<v Speaker 2>will force fans to create a new, brand new toy belt,
<v Speaker 2>a brand new toy belt, because he's taking the real
<v Speaker 2>belt home. He said that he'll be the last real
<v Speaker 2>champion in WWE and said his revenge is best served cold,
<v Speaker 2>and he's paying back the fans by ripping their hearts
<v Speaker 2>out and nothing. There's nothing that we can do to
<v Speaker 2>stop him. So before Cody comes out, let me just
<v Speaker 2>talk about this quick. First of all. As much as
<v Speaker 2>I just said it, I love that line. What followed.
<v Speaker 2>I was with him up until he talked about going home.
<v Speaker 2>So he talked about the Spinner Belt. I'm glad he
<v Speaker 2>acknowledged it. It was one of the worst championship belts
<v Speaker 2>ever created. They might have sold a whole bunch of merchant.
<v Speaker 2>WWE and John Cena had their pockets filled with cash
<v Speaker 2>because they sold a lot of them to younger fans,
<v Speaker 2>and that's true, but for anybody over the age of fourteen,
<v Speaker 2>it was a. It was a complete slap of the face.
<v Speaker 2>It was disrespectful to the championship itself. So his plan,
<v Speaker 2>and this is where it falls off the rails for me,
<v Speaker 2>is not about the Spinner Belt, which he acknowledges as good.
<v Speaker 2>The next step he took here in the promo is
<v Speaker 2>where I go. What are you talking about? Because he
<v Speaker 2>says he's gonna take and win the championship, okay, and
<v Speaker 2>then go home. So two things. One, does that mean
<v Speaker 2>you're just like leaving after wrestler, say, say he wins
<v Speaker 2>after beats Cody Rose to WrestleMania. According to his plan,
<v Speaker 2>he's just gonna leave and we're not gonna see him.
<v Speaker 2>He's not gonna come back. He's just gonna take the
<v Speaker 2>championship and leave. Well then, well, you already talked about
<v Speaker 2>how you're going to wrestle through December, So how does
<v Speaker 2>that work? You know, Like, so you're cutting your retirement
<v Speaker 2>short by like six months? Is that what that is?
<v Speaker 2>Number two? WWE has often changed championship belts like frequently.
<v Speaker 2>Actually over the last ten years, there has been a
<v Speaker 2>change in this in the actual physical belt. It's gone
<v Speaker 2>from the Universal Championship, which went away right that morphed
<v Speaker 2>into the undisputed WWE Championship. Finally, after Roman Reigns carried
<v Speaker 2>around two belts for four years, Cody Rhodes got it right.
<v Speaker 2>We have at one point we had the red Original,
<v Speaker 2>the Red Universal Championship that was actually created out of
<v Speaker 2>whole cloth, like out of nowhere, just out of thin air.
<v Speaker 2>The WWE Universal Championship was created Finn Balor wanted as
<v Speaker 2>we remember, and held it for a day. So even
<v Speaker 2>if Sarah John Cena was to somehow cut his retirement
<v Speaker 2>short six months, take the championship that Cody Roads is
<v Speaker 2>holding him, bring it home. How is that going to
<v Speaker 2>anger anyone? I mean, how is that? Because the championship
<v Speaker 2>isn't a physical object, it is a It's an anointment
<v Speaker 2>that you hold that's symbolized by a physical championship. You
<v Speaker 2>could toss all the championships into a dumpster fire, the
<v Speaker 2>actual physical belts into a dumpster fire, the belts themselves. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>wwe would still have all of their championships intact. Why,
<v Speaker 2>Because the championship is an intangible object. You can instill
<v Speaker 2>it in any object, but we choose to make it
<v Speaker 2>a championship belt. So WWE. Yeah, sure, okay, John state
<v Speaker 2>it takes it home and then they'll just create a
<v Speaker 2>new one which will represent the same exact thing. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>They've done that a lot actually over the years as
<v Speaker 2>belts have evolved. And if someone were to just take
<v Speaker 2>it home and leave, no, WWE just creates another one.
<v Speaker 2>It all means the same, right. The meaning of the
<v Speaker 2>championship isn't defined by the physical belt, so that may
<v Speaker 2>made no sense to me. That's not gonna piss anybody off.
<v Speaker 2>It's just a it's a physical representation of what you
<v Speaker 2>as champion means. It's not the actual championship itself. Like
<v Speaker 2>you being a champion doesn't actually require you to hold
<v Speaker 2>a championship, And what being champion means isn't it isn't
<v Speaker 2>hinged upon you holding a specific physical object.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>I can't explain it any better. So that made no
<v Speaker 2>sense to me. Secondly, if he had or thirdly, if
<v Speaker 2>he had gone on this, gone down the path of
<v Speaker 2>the Spinner belt and I thought he was gonna do
<v Speaker 2>this and he didn't, he should have said that I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to bring back the very thing you hate. In
<v Speaker 2>other words, he's going to bring back the spinner belt.
<v Speaker 2>I would have loved that. Yeah, that makes sense. He's
<v Speaker 2>going to disrespect us with the very physical representation of
<v Speaker 2>the championship that we hated so much, many of us did,
<v Speaker 2>and he's going to throw away the one Cody has
<v Speaker 2>and he's going to bring back the Spinner belt. Now,
<v Speaker 2>that may actually be the plan, and it's one that
<v Speaker 2>I think makes the most sense. But that's what he
<v Speaker 2>should have said, instead of just just kind of nonsensical. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>you take the championship. That doesn't okay, we'll just create
<v Speaker 2>another one man that means the same thing. You have fun,
<v Speaker 2>you know, like, okay, you take it, take it, put
<v Speaker 2>it on your wall, because we'll just create another. It's
<v Speaker 2>going to mean the same thing. The lineage won't change, right,
<v Speaker 2>it has no interruption. Interruption in lineage because you take
<v Speaker 2>a physical championship and you hold it hostage in your home.
<v Speaker 2>The lineage continues because guess what, the shows continue, People
<v Speaker 2>battling for championships continue. So that was the big hiccup
<v Speaker 2>here in this promo, which I don't know how they
<v Speaker 2>didn't see this one through. So all right, so Cody
<v Speaker 2>comes out and of course, see doesn't attack chown scene
<v Speaker 2>I mean, apparently all is all is forgiven. Nobody can
<v Speaker 2>do anything to Cody that'll make them attack him, attack you,
<v Speaker 2>kicking you in the nuts on live television, bloodying you,
<v Speaker 2>none of that. And I still need know. I did
<v Speaker 2>not forget about Travis Scott. He still deserves a kick
<v Speaker 2>right in the nuts for real. Someone needs to do that.
<v Speaker 2>I told you, I will hire a bron breaker out
<v Speaker 2>of my own pocket. Just coerce Travis Scott into the arena,
<v Speaker 2>tell him we're gonna make him. Yeah, we're gonna make you.
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna shine you up real nice tonight. Will you know?
<v Speaker 2>You get a couple of shots in on Cody again,
<v Speaker 2>And I would hire bron breaker a undisclosed sum of
<v Speaker 2>money to just spear Travis Scott in half. Oh sorry, man,
<v Speaker 2>you signed an uh you know, you signed a uh
<v Speaker 2>a release that we you know you can't see WWE
<v Speaker 2>if you're injured. Sorry, you know, here's your hospital bed.
<v Speaker 2>That's what I mean. It's a little morbid, but that's
<v Speaker 2>what's running through my head anyway. Cody Rhodes does not
<v Speaker 2>attack John Cena. He doesn't. He just has more stiff
<v Speaker 2>words for John Cena, and he asked to, you know,
<v Speaker 2>challenges Sena to do what he said he's gonna do
<v Speaker 2>and take the championship from him, And he did say
<v Speaker 2>that this is perhaps the most dangerous John Cena he's
<v Speaker 2>ever seen. And he recalled again saying that he wants Sina,
<v Speaker 2>wants to take the belt off of him, and Sina
<v Speaker 2>as a heel, he can call himself whatever he wants.
<v Speaker 2>He's yeah, he's a human being, but he's still a heel.
<v Speaker 2>You see, when he called himself a human being last
<v Speaker 2>year or last week, he seemingly missed the point that, sure,
<v Speaker 2>he's trying to make him more real, but no, in
<v Speaker 2>this story, you are still a human being. That's never
<v Speaker 2>in question. In fact, if you weren't a human being,
<v Speaker 2>I'd have a lot more questions claiming that he's an
<v Speaker 2>alien life force or if he's some kind of uh,
<v Speaker 2>some kind of bird, I mean, I'd have more questions.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, you are a part of the human species
<v Speaker 2>that's not mutually exclusive to being just the heel. You know,
<v Speaker 2>either being that or a babyface or a heel like
<v Speaker 2>you can be both of those things. Sorry, guys, I'm
<v Speaker 2>breaking down John Seen's promo more as I think about it,
<v Speaker 2>poking holes where I can, because this is a weird build.
<v Speaker 2>I like the Stena turn, I don't. I don't wish
<v Speaker 2>that they didn't do it. I'm glad they did do it.
<v Speaker 2>We're getting to see what a John seen a heel
<v Speaker 2>looks like, but him being a human being is not
<v Speaker 2>mutually exclusive to yep. Well, if you're a human you
<v Speaker 2>can't be one of these things. Well no, you're in
<v Speaker 2>pro wrestling. You can be. In fact, that's what the
<v Speaker 2>entire pro wrestling premise is built on, is it?
<v Speaker 3>What are you?
<v Speaker 2>Are you good? Are you bad? Should we root for you?
<v Speaker 2>Should we not? Why should we? Or can we relate?
<v Speaker 1>You know?
<v Speaker 2>And he's just trying your shades of gray? Yeah, well
<v Speaker 2>that's yeah. In real life there is there's never usually
<v Speaker 2>a clear cut good and bad guy. Usually, but it's
<v Speaker 2>par wrestling, different art form. So I didn't think i'd
<v Speaker 2>get this fired up about this. John Sene as a
<v Speaker 2>heel walks away, that's it, that's it, that's all. We
<v Speaker 2>got no physicality yet, And there's only a couple more
<v Speaker 2>times that John Sene is gonna be on Raw, apparently
<v Speaker 2>before WrestleMania, So I'd imagine the next time that these
<v Speaker 2>two go toe to toe. Here's what I want for
<v Speaker 2>the next couple of times that they come into contact.
<v Speaker 2>The next time that those two are in the same building.
<v Speaker 2>Here's what I think they should do, a real toe
<v Speaker 2>to toe promo. Not this. John Cena comes out, speaks,
<v Speaker 2>Cody interrupts, talks for two minutes, and then John Cena
<v Speaker 2>cowardly leaves. No no, no, no, no, no no. Okay, we've
<v Speaker 2>seen that a couple of times. Now, now it's time
<v Speaker 2>to up the formula, up the any a little, which
<v Speaker 2>means John comes out or or Cody Roads comes out,
<v Speaker 2>and they have a promo toe to toe, oh, back
<v Speaker 2>and forth, scalding. That's what these two men should do
<v Speaker 2>and are more than capable of doing. There's some of
<v Speaker 2>the best two talkers in the company. They can do it,
<v Speaker 2>and they should. So that should be the next one,
<v Speaker 2>maybe resulting in a couple of cheap shots. This one
<v Speaker 2>may even warrant. Dare I say a pull apart brawl
<v Speaker 2>Johnson and maybe low blows Cody, and you know that's
<v Speaker 2>that's how it ends. So I finally escalates to physicality
<v Speaker 2>and then the final raw. These two may have little
<v Speaker 2>to no words and just at each other's throats. That
<v Speaker 2>that's how it should end, and then you're at a
<v Speaker 2>boiling point for WrestleMania, so that's how I think it
<v Speaker 2>should go. Okay. We then have Jay Usa coming out
<v Speaker 2>for his tag team match, and Cole wondered who's who
<v Speaker 2>Jay's tag team partner would be, and it was Jimmy
<v Speaker 2>Usso who took Down took the place of the tag
<v Speaker 2>team partner to take Down take on a town Down
<v Speaker 2>under Austin Theory grace of Waller. This match lasted nine
<v Speaker 2>minutes and fifteen seconds, with Jimmy and Jay winning after
<v Speaker 2>hitting the one D and Theory loses again. So a
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I know on the weekend review, I had
<v Speaker 2>said that SmackDown apparently was the Joe Hendry potential return,
<v Speaker 2>and I messed that up. It was supposed to be
<v Speaker 2>last night, but no matter because we got the same result.
<v Speaker 2>Joe Henry is a no show, a big womp womp
<v Speaker 2>for a lot of people who I understand it's the
<v Speaker 2>USOS legendary that I would say they are a legendary
<v Speaker 2>tag team. That's not exaggerating, no doubt, But Joe Henry
<v Speaker 2>would have been a perfect fit here, especially for a
<v Speaker 2>team like Great Waller in Austin theory that there's no
<v Speaker 2>harm on anyone by beating them. They're already at the
<v Speaker 2>bottom of the barrel when it comes to the totem
<v Speaker 2>pole of tag teams. So that would have been a
<v Speaker 2>perfect place to have Jay bring in Grayson Waller or
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, bring in Joe Henry. Perfect So I don't
<v Speaker 2>understand why they didn't. You're in Scotland. Everyone wanted it.
<v Speaker 2>I don't understand it. There was really no need for
<v Speaker 2>Jimmy here. I understand that Jimmy slapped Gunther in the
<v Speaker 2>backstage area, which was a really hard hit, and then
<v Speaker 2>he left and he's gonna be taking on Cutther next week,
<v Speaker 2>so I get it, but I don't know. It was
<v Speaker 2>kind of a big letdown. I was waiting for Joe
<v Speaker 2>Hendry as well, all right. So we then have again
<v Speaker 2>the El Grande Americano video package air. It started by
<v Speaker 2>focusing on the Lucha Libre legends before ending up with
<v Speaker 2>El Grande Americana was the greatest of them all. And
<v Speaker 2>then let's see, we had well Lyarra Valkyria versus Raquel
<v Speaker 2>Rodriguez for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. This match, we'll get
<v Speaker 2>the time stamp lasted eight minutes and twenty five seconds,
<v Speaker 2>with Lyra of Valkyria getting the victory here on Raquel
<v Speaker 2>to retain the Women's Icy title. The finish was Valkyria
<v Speaker 2>ducking a big boot which hit liv Morgan who was
<v Speaker 2>on the outside. She blasted Morgan with a dropkick through
<v Speaker 2>the ropes. That was Valkyia. Rodriguez grabbed Valkyria, try to
<v Speaker 2>get a to hot a bomb, but Valkyria countered into
<v Speaker 2>a pin got the three count. So that's it. Not
<v Speaker 2>much to really write home about. It's good that they're
<v Speaker 2>giving the Women's Center Continental Championships some attention. That's important.
<v Speaker 2>Just like her counterpart Chelsea Green on SmackDown, if they
<v Speaker 2>created these championships out of nowhere, you gotta give them attention.
<v Speaker 2>And sure, it wasn't exactly the best and most exciting
<v Speaker 2>build in the world to get to Valkyria versus Rodriguez,
<v Speaker 2>but eight minutes respectable time. It's a respectable amount of
<v Speaker 2>time for these two not ideal, but respectable compared to
<v Speaker 2>two three minute matches that women were getting for for
<v Speaker 2>a long time. So then we have highlights airing of
<v Speaker 2>the recent issues between EO, Bianca and Ripley. Adam Pierce
<v Speaker 2>was shown walking backstage with a contract folder and a
<v Speaker 2>video package aired which was just I mean, I remember
<v Speaker 2>this of Triple H versus The Rock for the Intercontinental
<v Speaker 2>Championship at SummerSlam nineteen ninety eight. Jim Ross's play by
<v Speaker 2>play could be heard, which was just God, it brings
<v Speaker 2>me back. Triple H won that match and Cole hype
<v Speaker 2>Triple H is the headliner for the Hall of Fame
<v Speaker 2>this year. And backstage, this is where Jimmy slapped Gunther
<v Speaker 2>and Adam Pierce was in the ring and recalled Ria
<v Speaker 2>Ripley signing her name to the contract for the Women's
<v Speaker 2>World Championship match at WrestleMania, and Pierce said, the matches
<v Speaker 2>between EO and Bianca and Ripley signing the contract means nothing. Hollylujah.
<v Speaker 2>A little common sense goes a long way. So I
<v Speaker 2>really enjoyed that statement from Adam Pierce. I was glad
<v Speaker 2>to acknowledge there is no binding agreement because Ria Ripley
<v Speaker 2>signed a contract that had her name appear nowhere. That's good.
<v Speaker 2>So then Eosky comes out said she doesn't care about
<v Speaker 2>the contract. She would take on Bellair and Ripley because
<v Speaker 2>she is the champion. And that's when Bianca comes out
<v Speaker 2>to booze, We'll get to that and told Sky to
<v Speaker 2>hold up. Bellair said she went through elimination chamber to
<v Speaker 2>get to WrestleMania, and she wasn't about to let Ripley
<v Speaker 2>head better way into the match. Ripley's made her entrance,
<v Speaker 2>said she doesn't give a damn about WrestleMania or who
<v Speaker 2>she has to go through to get her title back.
<v Speaker 2>She comes in the ring and then took a look
<v Speaker 2>to Pears and said, all I want is my rematch.
<v Speaker 2>Bellair said she couldn't wait until after WrestleMania, or she
<v Speaker 2>could wait till after WRESTLEMANI to get a rematch with
<v Speaker 2>her as champion, and then they started to bicker. Sky
<v Speaker 2>was pie faced again. Boy a lot of rinse and repeat,
<v Speaker 2>a lot of rinse and repeat here, boy oh boy,
<v Speaker 2>especially with Gunther at the beginning. I didn't talk about that.
<v Speaker 2>Gunther attacking Jay after his match beating Austin Theory and
<v Speaker 2>Grayson Waller. You know, he he slipped quote unquote which
<v Speaker 2>was a planned slip to spear Gunther after he did
<v Speaker 2>his typical post match attack and then he uh, you know,
<v Speaker 2>hit Jay hit a couple of superkicks on Gunther. Gunther
<v Speaker 2>exits the ring. So you know, that is a much,
<v Speaker 2>very much such a program that needs to have something
<v Speaker 2>injected different. And I put that on X as well,
<v Speaker 2>and people are like, oh, what do you do? I
<v Speaker 2>don't know anything, sit down interviews, video packages, promos. They
<v Speaker 2>need to talk. They need to talk, have a conversation.
<v Speaker 2>That's what they need, like literally almost anything other than
<v Speaker 2>what we've seen the last few weeks, which has not
<v Speaker 2>been an exciting build. It's been like if you missed
<v Speaker 2>the last four weeks, you haven't missed anything with this build.
<v Speaker 2>There's been no developments with Jay and Gunther, none, nothing.
<v Speaker 2>It's just rinse and repeat. It's not a bad formula,
<v Speaker 2>but it is over you. It's they just they're in
<v Speaker 2>their safety zone with this build and they don't know
<v Speaker 2>what to do to go outside because they're afraid if
<v Speaker 2>they do anything outside of this that maybe that, you know,
<v Speaker 2>things can go off the rails. But it's not a
<v Speaker 2>fun build. I don't think I like Jay, I love Gunther,
<v Speaker 2>but I've never seen a build be so repetitive over
<v Speaker 2>three four, four weeks now it's kind of the same thing.
<v Speaker 2>And I understand they're trying to build heat for Gunther
<v Speaker 2>attacking from behind, but that they've kind of plateaued on
<v Speaker 2>that front for with how they're getting him heat. It's like, Okay, weeah,
<v Speaker 2>we get it all right? Yeah, like can we get
<v Speaker 2>a little more development as to why we should care
<v Speaker 2>about Jay other than no one believes in him and
<v Speaker 2>everybody thinks you can't beat Gunther. I've never beaten Gunther? Okay, well,
<v Speaker 2>what makes you think you can this time? Yeah, what's
<v Speaker 2>the reason? Don't tell me it's yeat, give me something else.
<v Speaker 2>So they're just you can't tell me they can't do
<v Speaker 2>anything else. These are professionals. They got to get people
<v Speaker 2>more excited about this match because people are not talking
<v Speaker 2>about this match for WrestleMania. They're talking about Cody, talking
<v Speaker 2>about John Cena, they're talking about the women just kind
<v Speaker 2>I'll get back to in a moment. They're talking about
<v Speaker 2>the Rock and what he could do, Stone Colcive of
<v Speaker 2>Austin and what he's likely going to do at WrestleMania
<v Speaker 2>and should do or I will stop watching wrestling. Of course,
<v Speaker 2>that's an empty threat. They're talking about Roman reigns and
<v Speaker 2>Punk and Seth and what that could mean and what
<v Speaker 2>you know, what the favorite could be. But they're not
<v Speaker 2>talking about this match. They're not you know, you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's just it's kind of a they're talking about Randy
<v Speaker 2>Orton Kevin Owens more than they're talking about this championship
<v Speaker 2>match because it has not been an exciting build. Same
<v Speaker 2>with Tiffany and Charlotte, and I talked about that in
<v Speaker 2>the week review. Okay, sir Clinn, back back on track here.
<v Speaker 2>Uh so with the bel Air thing and Sky, who
<v Speaker 2>is the you know, who is the take on All
<v Speaker 2>Commerce champion and the crowd seems to be really behind her.
<v Speaker 2>The crowd was very much behind Sky, pretty solidly behind Ripley,
<v Speaker 2>and about two percent behind bel Air on this particular occasion,
<v Speaker 2>and same with last week. European crowds don't seem to
<v Speaker 2>be taken to bel Air. Bell Air does not seem
<v Speaker 2>to be at the you know, in the the babyface
<v Speaker 2>category for a lot of the European fans, and naturally,
<v Speaker 2>according to X the only conclusion you can draw from
<v Speaker 2>this is that well fifteen thousand people every single week
<v Speaker 2>must be racists, right, they must be racist, right, it's
<v Speaker 2>they don't like her because she's black. I mean, I'm
<v Speaker 2>not making this up. I'm not trying to create clicks.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not trying to create controversy. This is literally, for
<v Speaker 2>word for word, what people are saying, that people are
<v Speaker 2>booing Bianca in these European rout because of her skin color. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Never mind the fact that you have several other raw
<v Speaker 2>stars and SmackDown stars that are not white that get
<v Speaker 2>cheered very loudly on a weekly basis and have over
<v Speaker 2>the last couple of weeks. But when it comes to Bianca,
<v Speaker 2>apparently it's it's it's racism, it's racism. Yeah, I don't
<v Speaker 2>buy that. In fact, I'm sure if you talk to
<v Speaker 2>anybody in the arena, what they would say is, well,
<v Speaker 2>first of all, you know the racism claim. I wouldn't
<v Speaker 2>even ask, I would just ask, why do you why
<v Speaker 2>are you booing Bianca here? You know what they'd say,
<v Speaker 2>We don't like her. We like EO right now, we
<v Speaker 2>like Eo, we like Rhea Bianca we find annoying. She's
<v Speaker 2>also been a babyface for several years now. Ria at
<v Speaker 2>least had a chance to be bad. Ripley or EO
<v Speaker 2>had a chance to be a bad guy, bad girl. Right,
<v Speaker 2>She's been a heel. Ria's been a heel. Bianca has
<v Speaker 2>for the most part, not been a heel her entire
<v Speaker 2>career on the main roster. There was a small bit
<v Speaker 2>of time on the main roster I think during the
<v Speaker 2>pandemic era that was like a lifetime ago. So fans
<v Speaker 2>are ready, I think, to turn on her, and I'm
<v Speaker 2>very curious to see if this translates into the North
<v Speaker 2>American audiences. Very curious if it does. It does, if
<v Speaker 2>it doesn't, it doesn't. But the fact that you can
<v Speaker 2>only draw the conclusion that fifteen thousand people plus in
<v Speaker 2>a stadium all filled with racists, that's the only thing
<v Speaker 2>that there's no other explanation there just there can't be
<v Speaker 2>an explanation other than no, it's just because she's black.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not trying to make this a race thing.
<v Speaker 2>I'm only talking about it because people are literally saying
<v Speaker 2>these things, and those tweets are trending like crazy on
<v Speaker 2>Twitter and other places. So hey, you know, people are
<v Speaker 2>gonna believe, but they want to believe to fit their narrative,
<v Speaker 2>you know, and apparently being able to speak for fifteen
<v Speaker 2>thousand people a week the last couple of weeks is
<v Speaker 2>something that you can do. And you can get into
<v Speaker 2>the minds of fifteen thousand people and just assume that
<v Speaker 2>they're racist, which, by the way, being racist it's a
<v Speaker 2>hard thing to prove, hard thing to prove because racism
<v Speaker 2>is in your mind. How are you supposed to get
<v Speaker 2>in the mind of someone. And if you call somebody
<v Speaker 2>racist and they deny it, well, to some people, that
<v Speaker 2>makes you more racist, right, But calling people racist nowadays
<v Speaker 2>is just it's such an overused label. It means nothing now,
<v Speaker 2>doesn't mean anything. If someone calls racist, I'm just like, yeah, sure, whatever, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>that doesn't mean anything to me, doesn't mean I don't
<v Speaker 2>need to prove anything to you. And again, being racist
<v Speaker 2>is in the mind of the person you're accusing, and
<v Speaker 2>you can't get in the mind of anyone other than
<v Speaker 2>your own. So whatever, I don't think it's racist obviously.
<v Speaker 2>Because they booed Bianca, I actually kind of like that
<v Speaker 2>they booed Bianca because I've been advocating for her to
<v Speaker 2>be booed for a long time and be a heel
<v Speaker 2>For a long time. I've been advocating for her to
<v Speaker 2>get the hell out of the women's tag team division,
<v Speaker 2>which she has now done. And people are booing her
<v Speaker 2>because they don't like her, they like Io and they
<v Speaker 2>like Rhea. Perhaps that call me crazy. Perhaps that's a reason.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. And you know, again, i'm speaking into
<v Speaker 2>the void here, I'm sure to a lot of people
<v Speaker 2>that are just whatever. You're just stuck on the racist
<v Speaker 2>claim because you need it to fit the narrative that
<v Speaker 2>you prefer, and it's just out the world's fill a
<v Speaker 2>racist now whatever. It's just again, I understand this isn't
<v Speaker 2>fully a wrestling conversation on this show, but it's going
<v Speaker 2>all over the place. So it's I think warranted to
<v Speaker 2>talk about because now Beyonce has been booed a couple
<v Speaker 2>of weeks in a row, and of course the racist
<v Speaker 2>mob comes in on Twitter, the racist slash wrestling fan
<v Speaker 2>mob comes in and immediately labels everybody that boos a
<v Speaker 2>black wrestler racist. I mean, that's just the logical conclusion.
<v Speaker 2>What other possible reasons could there be? So with that said,
<v Speaker 2>we have an interesting finish here to this segment, though,
<v Speaker 2>because next week. It's going to be Ripley getting a
<v Speaker 2>rematch with EO Sky next week, and the winner of
<v Speaker 2>that match will defend her title against Beyonce at WrestleMania,
<v Speaker 2>and that could lead to a potential still one on one.
<v Speaker 2>But you know that this match is destined to be
<v Speaker 2>a Schmas finish with Ripley and Eo. You know Bianca
<v Speaker 2>is going to come out there to do something wonky
<v Speaker 2>to cause a Schmas finish, which then will force Peers
<v Speaker 2>to create a triple thread here. So they're just dancing
<v Speaker 2>around the bush and they're eventually just going to go out. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it's a triple threat, but they're telling a story to
<v Speaker 2>get there, and I appreciate that, so I don't feel
<v Speaker 2>like my intelligence is insulted. We're still going to get
<v Speaker 2>the triple thread. I believe they're just trying to pretend
<v Speaker 2>it's still one on one until we have to force
<v Speaker 2>a triple thread, which will be next week. So everybody
<v Speaker 2>at the end here had a really very choreographed finish,
<v Speaker 2>and everything Bianca did, they booed. Which one last thing
<v Speaker 2>on the racist thing, I promise is the last thing.
<v Speaker 2>If the crowd truly was racist, and they truly hated
<v Speaker 2>Bianca because she was black, which again I absolutely do
<v Speaker 2>not leave. Wouldn't they have indifference to her if they
<v Speaker 2>really wanted to show WWE that they don't want her
<v Speaker 2>in the company, or if they don't like her, wouldn't
<v Speaker 2>you just show indifference Because the worst thing you can
<v Speaker 2>do to a wrestler is to not react at all.
<v Speaker 2>Silence will be your enemy. So if you want to
<v Speaker 2>send a message to WWE and you really don't like
<v Speaker 2>this person because of their color of their skin, don't
<v Speaker 2>react at all. Wouldn't they have done that? I'd rest
<v Speaker 2>my case. Okay, So the end of this match or
<v Speaker 2>the end of the segment again tried to get to
<v Speaker 2>a singles match we know is still going to end
<v Speaker 2>in a triple threat. And this was a very choreographed finish.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody was getting their spots because we had sky charge
<v Speaker 2>bel Air, who popped her up, sky hitted Ripley with
<v Speaker 2>a DDT. Bell Air cleared Ripley from the ring with
<v Speaker 2>a closed line sky clothesline. Bel Air using the top rope,
<v Speaker 2>then hit a hurricane ron on Rea rip Ripley at ringside.
<v Speaker 2>Eo then got back into the ring, landed on her
<v Speaker 2>feet went for a springboard. I mean, it was just
<v Speaker 2>everybody choreographed perfectly. It didn't seem very spontaneous. I'll just
<v Speaker 2>say that small criticism. I still love this triple threat,
<v Speaker 2>even though I still would have liked Rio, Ripley and
<v Speaker 2>Bianca at some point. Eo Sky is the one that
<v Speaker 2>everybody wants to have as they're champion right now and retain.
<v Speaker 2>She's kind of the underdog people in order of who wants.
<v Speaker 2>The crowd wants her to win. I mean, they want
<v Speaker 2>you to retain, but they'd accept Ripley winning and they
<v Speaker 2>don't want Beyonca to win, which maybe is more of
<v Speaker 2>a case of Beyonca to win if they want to
<v Speaker 2>turn her heel. But this segment was fine, little choreographed
<v Speaker 2>at the end, So let's move on. We've got Kofe
<v Speaker 2>backstage and Xavier, who barged into Adam Pierce's offense, demanded
<v Speaker 2>a title shot of World Tag team title shot at WrestleMania.
<v Speaker 2>Pierce took issue with them making demands and told them
<v Speaker 2>to come back when they were ready to ask for
<v Speaker 2>a match. So we then have Pierce informing oh, that's right.
<v Speaker 2>Pierce informed Bianca that she's going to be the special referee. Good,
<v Speaker 2>I'm glad I didn't miss that for the EO Ria
<v Speaker 2>match next week. And she said she doesn't know how
<v Speaker 2>to referee and Pierce told her she has a week
<v Speaker 2>to figure it out. So, you know, never mind the
<v Speaker 2>fact that it's a championship on the line. They're going
<v Speaker 2>to throw somebody in that admittedly has no idea how
<v Speaker 2>to do the job. And then you have a manager
<v Speaker 2>just say I figure it out. Where in the world
<v Speaker 2>would any other form of labor would that fly? But
<v Speaker 2>there you go. That's how you get your schmas finished.
<v Speaker 2>So we already talked about Al Grande defeating Dragonly, so
<v Speaker 2>I won't talk about that anymore. We then had Cmpunk
<v Speaker 2>come out and fans loved him, and he said it's
<v Speaker 2>hard to be pissed off when you come out to
<v Speaker 2>an ovation like that. He said he's tired, jet lagged
<v Speaker 2>and said he's not getting what he wants or am I.
<v Speaker 2>Punk said he wanted to win the Royal Rumble, but
<v Speaker 2>he didn't. He said he needed to win the elimination chamber.
<v Speaker 2>He said the more things change, the more they stayed
<v Speaker 2>the same, and he said, I work with children. He
<v Speaker 2>called seth Rollins a little diaper piss boy, which was
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if I've ever heard those those words
<v Speaker 2>in that order. Punk said, it's simple math that the
<v Speaker 2>two men standing in his way must go. He said
<v Speaker 2>Rollins has been crying since he returned because the shadow
<v Speaker 2>he cast over Rollins belittles his entire career and said
<v Speaker 2>that the Roman reign sees in real time that his
<v Speaker 2>wise man isn't just his wise man, and he winked
<v Speaker 2>into the camera. He said it's just business for him
<v Speaker 2>and that there'll be an old fashioned contract signing next week.
<v Speaker 2>And he asked why fans were booing. He said why
<v Speaker 2>because he wanted to be in Glasgow and he said
<v Speaker 2>that that's why he's there. He wondered if the match
<v Speaker 2>would get him closer to what he wants or if
<v Speaker 2>it'll just be another rug pull from the powers that be,
<v Speaker 2>and he reminded rains Enrollman or I'm sorry Rollins, and
<v Speaker 2>rains that neither man has beaten him without the other
<v Speaker 2>man's help, and that you know he's gonna be the
<v Speaker 2>man that took them into business or was, and he's
<v Speaker 2>going to be men to take them out, so kind
<v Speaker 2>of obviously an analogy to or akin to, I brought
<v Speaker 2>you into this world, I can take you out of
<v Speaker 2>it kind of thing I made you. I'm going to
<v Speaker 2>break you all the same premise, which is fine, a
<v Speaker 2>fine line. So punk was there, which was good to
<v Speaker 2>keep this story going. No rollins, no rains. They'll be
<v Speaker 2>in London next week or next was it Friday that
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna be. Yeah, Monday is gonna be three o'clock
<v Speaker 2>Eastern in London. I am kind of enjoying the early raws.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't think I would, but the fact that you
<v Speaker 2>can see what's going on before you go to bed,
<v Speaker 2>especially if you're on the East Coast, you don't have
<v Speaker 2>to stay up late kind of nice. It's not gonna
<v Speaker 2>last long, and I'm sure those in London and those
<v Speaker 2>in Europe do you guys love this too? So I mean,
<v Speaker 2>can we have like seasons of raw done in North
<v Speaker 2>America and seasons of raw done overseas? I mean, just
<v Speaker 2>the time isn't as bad as I expected it to be.
<v Speaker 2>So anyway, there's gonna be a contract signing and that
<v Speaker 2>is clearly gonna end in chaos. But the only progression
<v Speaker 2>here outside of just punk being there to remind you
<v Speaker 2>of this triple threat that at the moment doesn't have
<v Speaker 2>any actual consequences or reward. Is Punk continues to talk
<v Speaker 2>about his goal now. He doesn't explicitly say he's after
<v Speaker 2>the World Championship or the w wun Disputed Championship, but
<v Speaker 2>that has been his stated goal in the past, and
<v Speaker 2>he even actually before the Seth Rollins program ended, went
<v Speaker 2>and targeted Gunther until he was interrupted for the World Championship,
<v Speaker 2>So we know what he's after, and he's saying that
<v Speaker 2>Rollins and Reigns are in his way. So that still
<v Speaker 2>leads me to believe there's potential that this triple threat
<v Speaker 2>could be the reward of the reward being you're an
<v Speaker 2>automatic number one contender maybe for Backlash. I have no
<v Speaker 2>issue with that. I think that's a logical reward. The
<v Speaker 2>winner gets the winner of Cody and Sena at Backlash. Good.
<v Speaker 2>That's totally believable and reasonable to me and gives me
<v Speaker 2>a lot more reason to care about who wins and
<v Speaker 2>loses this match. Okay, Sue, We then have the third
<v Speaker 2>hour of Raw here, getting close to the end, we
<v Speaker 2>have bron Breaker versus Penta for the Intercontinental Championship eleven
<v Speaker 2>minutes and thirty twenty five seconds. Excuse me the one
<v Speaker 2>to chip them of the five seconds. And it ends
<v Speaker 2>though with bron Breaker beating him by d Q because
<v Speaker 2>of dom mystereo in an otherwise really good match. Of course,
<v Speaker 2>Dom screws it up and Dom attacks Breaker. Fought a.
<v Speaker 2>Breaker quickly fights back, but Finn Baler shows up hits
<v Speaker 2>Breaker with a chair in the back with a chair,
<v Speaker 2>and then Balor hit Breaker with another chair shot and
<v Speaker 2>Baler looked like he might go after Dom, but he
<v Speaker 2>passed him the chair and then watched Dom jab Breaker
<v Speaker 2>with it. Penta then asked for the chair, Dom gave
<v Speaker 2>it to him and then made Penta's hand gesture. Penta
<v Speaker 2>looked at Breaker and then to the crowd and tossed
<v Speaker 2>the chair at Dom, who caught it, and then pent
<v Speaker 2>To super kicked the chair at Dom, and Baler attacked
<v Speaker 2>Penta and then knocked a Breaker out of the ring
<v Speaker 2>by slamming the chair over his back again. Baler went
<v Speaker 2>up to the top to hit the coup de gras
<v Speaker 2>on Penta. Balor helped Dom to his feet and then
<v Speaker 2>jawed at him about wanting Penta to join judgment and
<v Speaker 2>Ballard Domin Carlito stood over Penta while Breaker was still
<v Speaker 2>down at ringside, and that was it. So I have
<v Speaker 2>to say this was a I mean nothing against Breaker
<v Speaker 2>or Penta, but if you signed up for A and
<v Speaker 2>bought tickets to this raw for a Schmas Intercontinental Championship
<v Speaker 2>finish of Breaker, nothing again, nothing against bron Breaker versus Penta.
<v Speaker 2>On the road to WrestleMania, Like three and a half
<v Speaker 2>weeks out from WrestleMania, that's your main event with a
<v Speaker 2>Schmas finish. It sounds like I'm disrespecting these guys, but
<v Speaker 2>this is the road to WrestleMania, and that's the raw
<v Speaker 2>to main event. You get my apologies. I'm gonna apologize
<v Speaker 2>on behalf of the company for that. Not I mean, yes,
<v Speaker 2>you got Punk, Okay, you got Punk, you got Sena,
<v Speaker 2>you got Cody. So sure, three massive stars there to
<v Speaker 2>further their storylines. But if you're looking for a great
<v Speaker 2>wrestling main event with big implications potentially for main events
<v Speaker 2>of WrestleMania, yeah you didn't get that, not even close.
<v Speaker 2>I mean I've seen some house shows, non televised events
<v Speaker 2>that have bigger main events than this, with definitive conclusions.
<v Speaker 2>So nonetheless a decent raw kind of weird with the
<v Speaker 2>John Cena logic holes that I poked earlier in the show,
<v Speaker 2>but it's got to be pointed out. I won't rehash it,
<v Speaker 2>but sometimes the logic, well, I'm watching pro wrestling. I
<v Speaker 2>know I'm watching pro wrestling, and you have to turn
<v Speaker 2>your mind off a lot of the time. Sometimes there
<v Speaker 2>are just too big of logic holes to let go.
<v Speaker 2>You gotta point them out, and I think they're fair
<v Speaker 2>ones that I mentioned at the beginning of the show.
<v Speaker 2>So with that all said, I want to invite you
<v Speaker 2>guys to head on over to Patreon. I also want
<v Speaker 2>to know if you guys are interested in live shows returning.
<v Speaker 2>I used to be on blog talk radio many years ago,
<v Speaker 2>I say many a couple of years ago. Blog talk radio,
<v Speaker 2>if you remember, you had a call in number and
<v Speaker 2>you'd be put on hold and all that, and they
<v Speaker 2>had a really nice setup there. Blog talk radio is
<v Speaker 2>actually done. They don't exist anymore. They actually shut down
<v Speaker 2>a couple of months ago, I think January mid January
<v Speaker 2>they shut down. So I do have another platform that
<v Speaker 2>I could use. It's not free, but I do genuinely
<v Speaker 2>want your guys' opinions. Those of you on Patreon can
<v Speaker 2>message me or just comment on this video, comment on
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<v Speaker 2>you guys want a call in show specifically on the road, WrestleMania, Postmania,
<v Speaker 2>all that, where you'd like to have a number you
<v Speaker 2>can call in, we can chat. Let me know. I
<v Speaker 2>do have a program that I can use or a
<v Speaker 2>st that I can purchase to actually allow that to happen.
<v Speaker 2>So if you're interested, I may do it. If I
<v Speaker 2>get no response, then I'm not going to embarrass myself
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