WWE Week in Review: Knight vs Theory, Gunther Makes History, Jey Uso Arrives on Raw, AJ vs Jimmy, Hints of Survivor Series?

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Let's talk SmackDown. All right. Since SmackDown has been completely ignored thus far
on our podcast, I want to be able to dive into this a little
bit further with SmackDown and of course Raw, but SmackDown specifically. And you
know, the first thing that came to my mind after coming off, well,
the first thing I was left with after the showing off the air is
man that India Show took some stars away, you know, then India Show.
While it did produce some great content for India and future events there and
have a moment for John Cena and all that, it did take John Cena
away from SmackDown and it you know, for those of you in Boston,
the Ted Garden, my God, that's not a small market to not have
John Cena there. You know, I'm sure a lot of the kids and
really everybody, not just the kids anymore. We're disappointed. But he's coming
from India. I mean, it's just not possible, right, you know,
because that show was you know, that show aired Friday, and of
course the show was that same there Friday. It was the same day,
the day before, I believe it was. So there's just no way he
could have got back in time. So that being said, uh, you
know that that's an unfortunate situation. But we did get a big promotion for
next week. Cody's back next week on Raw, you know, with John
Cena is back on next week on SmackDown, and so you know, we're
also getting the Women's World Championship match on Raw next week. John Cena is
coming back to the Grayson Waller effect on SmackDown next week. So next week
seems to be kind of a return to normal business here as as the stars
returned. But that was one impression I came off of. The other one
is and this is not and was not the focus of the show. Let's
let's be honest, okay, But it was something that was a foreshadowing to
not Survivor series, but probably way beyond is the interaction between Paul Hayman and
l A. Night, the first time on camera that they were introduced to
one another. Their characters were. I really enjoyed it, you know,
Paul Hayman acting like the nice guy, acting like the courteous, the courteous
gentleman in the room and then turning it to say, you know, we'll
do yourself a favor the next time you see me conducting business and you know
I'm in here. He says, knock, like telling him what to do,
and La Knight just gets in his face and says yeah and walks away.
I think he could have you know, it's fine. I wish he
kind of snapped back at Paul a little bit more and wasn't so welcoming to
shake his hand, But that's nitpicking. I thought the segment was a nice
teaser of what's to come and the next maybe six months. It's not gonna
happen right away. It's not going to be something that is snap your fingers.
Oh, they're alluding to it. It's a robbertster, no fast lane,
no okay, but it's nice to see right now La Knight is locked
up with them, is and l A Night is I think in a nice
program with them. Is that I'm glad is also going to be ending next
week. They're not waiting for fast Lane for that, And that makes sense.
You know, he kind of already jumped that hurdle, so he's gonna
jump it again on free TV and he should and then move on to his
next real opponent. Now, the other thing is, and we'll get to
the whole Austin theory and Grayson Waller's segment with La Knight, but who is
the one who's being traded from Rod a SmackDown? You know? Like that
is also the speculation running around is since Jay was drafted inexplicably with Cody helping,
makes no sense. Uh, they just wanted to give Cody the good
feelings that fans have of seeing Jane associate it with, Oh thank you,
Cody. It's ridiculous. But he's there, so regardless of what the story
tells us, he's there for he's there. And you know, when I
look at the raw roster, which I'm pulling up right now, clicking through,
you know, I'm trying to think of who would be an equivalent Jay
Usso to Raw back to SmackDown trade? Who is that equivalent? And I
mean I gotta run through some names here of who you guys think could it
could be? Right now, I think Bronze Strowman could be a you know,
in some in some schools of thought, an equivalent trade to SmackDown.
Bron Stroman could definitely come to SmackDown, you know he if he's I believes
he might be injured, so he's a possibility. So think about bron Stroman.
We've got Matt Riddle, no, Kevin Owens and Sammy's and I think
are gonna for the time being stay as a team. I think that's kind
of it. Ricochet, I guess could but that's it. So you've got
Ricochet, Sammy or Kevin again unlikely and bron Stroman really are it? Or?
I mean, you could have Drew, but I think he needs to
be competing for the world titles, so I don't. I wouldn't touch Drew
McIntyre and bring him to SmackDown. He's got a nice home on Raw.
Albeit with Riddle, it's still a nice move. So that's really it.
So I think bron Stroman your guy if he's healthy. So that's my thought,
but let's dive into it. Let's dive into a little bit more of
SmackDown. And it started with a payback promo or recap video, which is
nice. I like them showing you know what happened to remind us as our
week erases our minds. It has that habit doesn't it. But it started
with a tag team match of SHOTSI and Charlotte versus EO and Bailey. And
this match went nine minutes and it was caused by okay, well Shotzi and
and Charlotte did win. But this is weird because this is the finish of
the match. Bailey climbed the top rope and Oscar caused the descraption. Descraption
maybe that's a new word, by grabbing the title from Dakota Kai from the
timekeepers area. Charlotte then knocked EO from the apron with a big boot and
Shots he put Bailey down with a DDT for the win. Number one.
I like ddts being finishes. That's nice to see being brought back. Number
two, Why are we being distracted by things outside the ring as professionals?
It's one of those things. I just and This is not specific to this
match. It's just kind of it's been much more even than than normal lately.
It's been a company wide, pro wrestling wide decade problem. I mean,
this is not a problem that is a very localized by any stretch.
It's one that's you know, it's frustrating from this perspective that we're watching professionals
in the ring who get distracted, knowing that if you get distracted, you
could lose the match, and the person outside the ring can't come in the
ring, and if they do, the disqualification will likely be in your favor
and you win. It's just a weird dynamic were that the heels and baby
faces in matches are still being distracted by what's outside the ring. I know,
I guess I'm in the mood to complain, but it's not the only
match that happened on tonight, however, Shotzi or rather, after the match,
Osca confronted EO and held up the title in her face. And after
the match we saw Osca actually use words, hey, she knows the English
language. Who the hell knew? And you know, her accent is very
heavy. We know this, We've known for a long time. Or her
accents heavy. But you know what the fans haven't known for a long time,
most of us that just to watch her on WWTV, not her Instagram
or anywhere else, is that she knows more words than just nobody's ready for
OSCA, which, by the way, needs to be retired. Can she
come up with something else? She has lost a lot of matches, so
to say that no one's ready for OSCA is it's like saying I'm undefeated.
No, no, no, you're not. You've lost. You know what
I'm gonna do. I'm going to through the magic of editing. I'm gonna
pause this. You guys won't even know I'm pausing it, and I'm gonna
come back and give you the win loss record in total for OSCA. Well,
actually here, I'm back. You didn't even know that I cut it,
that said OSCA. This is just twenty twenty three. Okay, She's
had forty three matches, of which she's she's twenty seven and fourteen. She's
lost fourteen matches two draws, and she has a sixty three percent winning percentage.
So that's uh. She has, by the way, the most losses
in twenty twenty three. I believe out of any woman on the roster.
And that's in twenty twenty three, just twenty twenty three. So let's let's
retire there. Nobody's ready for Oscar, bit can we? Anyway? I
am excited for Oscar and io Sky. That is a match that many of
us have kind of been after for a while, and given their heritage,
their lineage, right, you've been like, I wonder how this is gonna
go. I'm excited for it from an in ringing perspective. And you know
what, even promotion promo, I think they can. I think what they've
done with the Shinsky Nakamura and the success that that we have found and seen
from Shinsky doing the backstage pre taped promos that are subtitled but also perfectly produced,
I think he has shattered the mold finally of what they do with stars
that can't speak English or have an insanely heavy accent that they don't want to
be don't want that person with a live mic to be able to try to
communicate with the cow to crowd and cut a promo because they feel like it
could be an impending disaster. And we've seen with Shinsky that that's a that's
a false, a false predetermined outcome, because not that Osca needs to do
that exact format, but it's shown that people listen. I understand exactly what
she said, you know, so I'm all for OSCA and EO Sky.
Now, EO Sky doesn't need a little work. Okay, let's be honest.
When I say work, I mean credibility as a champion. EO Sky
is not exactly a scary champion. She doesn't have the swagger of a champion.
She's not a joke of a champion. That's not That's not where I'm
taking this. She just feels like it feels like wwe used the title to
try to make her instead of her trying to make the belt. And it
all comes down to the follow up too. They haven't done a lot with
her. In fact, since she became champion, the focus has been taken
off of her, which is to say the least disappointing and sure having the
spotlight being put back on Bailey for a little bit, seeing her in the
ring with Charlotte, it's a nice change other than her just being a mouthpiece.
Great, but it's almost as if EO has been the third wheel in
other stories going on and she's the champion, so it's just a bit disappointing
thus far, and maybe things will turn around for her, at least from
the creative perspective, in the weeks and months ahead if she remains champion.
All right, Moving on what happened next here? We then got Hayman backstage
with aj Styles. That's when the whole deal with Paul Hayman, by the
way, continuing to use his earpiece to call Roman Reigns, Call Roman Reigns,
Paul, for the love of God, if you're gonna if you're going
to create the illusion of fake phone calls in twenty twenty three, when everyone
in the world knows how to operate an iPhone, at least make it look
like you're calling Roman Reigns properly, Hey, number one, number one.
Not only is he speaking into his earpiece instead of the bottom of the phone,
which I understand doesn't look as good, but at least it's accurate.
You also can't just say to your phone call unless he's holding down to button
that act debates Siri on the iPhone. You don't just like I couldn't pick
up my phone right now and say call my dad. You have to say
hey, Siri, and then you know that's what you and I just activated
my phone, of course, which is sitting right next to me. But
that's how you do it. You have to say the magic words, the
magic two words. And he doesn't do They just call Roman Reigns. Okay.
The thing is it's small and insignificant to a lot of you. I'm
like, who cares? But it happens every single time we see Paul heyman,
he's constantly saying to his phone to call Roman. If you're gonna do
it, and do it that many times, for the love of God,
just do it accurately, Sell me a little bit, make me believe.
I think it's it's total ignorance. He doesn't. I mean, they're just
unaware that they're not even properly creating a fake phone call. Oh my god,
it's too much. Jimmy attacks set or seth. Jimmy attacked a backstage
and moving on. That's set up the match between Jimmy and AJ for later
in the night. Then we got night coming out addresses in his performance with
the Invisible John Sena on Raw playing dress up the next week or the whatever
it was, and that he didn't need Sena's helper endorsement. He was respected
what he accomplished at the end, but at the end of the day he
did count the three and Knight told Miss that he will force him to accept
the bitter pill of defeat. And that's when Grayson Waller interrupted, and Waller
rambled about absolutely nothing and then brought out Austin Theory, and then Theory came
out and told Miss he had already defeated Sena and Knights and that he was
when he was done with the Miss done with him. Miss wouldn't waste his
time. Night responded and asked Waller in Theory if they were done boring everybody
in that that would show those in cells how to do this. He then
spoke about the TV Garden being legends way and he would kick theories. Twenty
six year old Keister with everybody's say in l A and I I don't dislike
Austin, Theory and Waller together, In fact, they kind of need one
another. And you know, I'm I'm behind l A and I. I
love this movement right now. He's a star that appeals to more than just
a specific demo, which is why I think he's also so successful right now.
Not only because he's talented on the microphone, talented in the ring,
he's got a great look. He's you know, he is older than the
typical up and coming star, no doubt by about fifteen years. But that's
kind of what makes him appealing is that he's he feels like kind of a
mature star that's been here all along and which trying to get the most out
of him right now. We see a star right now, and it's just
he isn't just mister chain Gang appealing to, you know, the pre pubescent
kids that was super annoying as an attitude era fan with John Cena. Yeah,
he appeals to a wide range of people. I think that's one of
the very positive things about him. And the only critique I could make is
that he some of these elementary insults. Even Waller kind of said that on
the commentary side of things, he does kind of make up names for people
that instead of insulting them specifically, he makes general insults where he just you
know, he could say anything about or he could call anybody those names,
and it's instead of hem just like dude, can you like hit him where
it hurts, you know, bring up to Grayson Waller, the fact that
he hasn't want to match since he's in here, right, or since if
Austin Theory wants to talk about John Cena and WrestleMania, I would say,
hey, hey, Theory, where's your career gone since WrestleMania? If that
wind was so big for you, what happened to your career? What happened
to your title? I mean, maybe that's a little bit too fourth wall
breaking, and Wwe would perhaps get a little bit you know, peed off
by that, but that would get the crowd going. You know that to
me would hit him where it hurts. I'm like, if you want to
hit the low hanging fruit, it's right there, bro, And instead the
lad goes for some it is it's like grade school names for these guys,
like the crotch Chopper or the crotch something, crotch goblins or something like funny
if you use it every once in a while, or in addition to your
main insult about their careers. So that's the only critique I have about it
is, you know, hit them with real stuff. Don't give them general
you know mom jokes, like you know your mom is so fat, she
sits around the house. She sits around the house like that kind of crap
stuff you heard in you know, eighth grade on your bus ride home from
school, that kind of stuff I would I would minimize. You can do
it every once in a while. The rock, you know, the rock
is called people popcorn farts, you know, and you know, uh,
some really funny names. But that's just kind of the you know, the
side show. That's not the meat and potatoes of what he should be focusing
on. That's all. It's not really a complaint, is it is an
opportunity I see for him that he's missing. All right, We did get
Austin Knight. Austin Knight. Wow, that's a new name. Huh.
Maybe it's just he's with p J mcdonaldhs somewhere right La Night in Austin Theory.
Nice match here. Nine minutes seems to be kind of the magic number
of the night here. And he was in control, a Night was in
control when the commercial break ended, and then the action spilled outside the ring
where Theory land. Theory landed a snapsuplex and Waller jumped up on the apron
and pulled the turnbuckle will pad off and Night landed a power slam back in
the ring and that fired up the crowd. He landed an elbow drop with
the La Night. Yeah, Waller got to the apron and that offered a
distraction and it backfired his theory. Nearly got shoved into the exposed turnbuckle and
he walked right into a bft from Night. He got the cover and the
victory nine minutes. You know. After that, Waller tried to sneak attack,
but it was foiled and Night celebrated with the crowd, and yeah,
so that's it was fine Night continuing to get victories, racking them up,
working with different talent. It's a smart move here by Triple H. I
know, remember all the way back and what was it May whoever it was
when we all wanted La Night to win the money in the bank. Oh
my god, you're gonna win. He's gonna win. He's gonna win.
Aren't all of us kind of happy? He didn't though, I know that
we don't know the end game yet, but if I'm w w WE number
one, they took the smart way on this. They didn't do a knee
jerk reaction. They said, you know what, if this yeam movement is
real, if this support for La Night is real. The fans are gonna
stick with him, and we're going to test the fans and push the fans
and anger the fans and do they stick with him or do they push him
aside? So they tested the fans and so far I think the fans have
passed in a big way. And now they are setting up La Night for
a traditional bottom up move and it makes a trajectory and I like that you're
getting to see him work with other talent that he hasn't worked before instead of
going to the top cashing in and he's chance mpion. It's much better of
a story to tell if he does things in a more traditional way. I'm
not saying everything needs to be the same, but so far it's been.
It's been great, I think. So let's see now then we got where
we at here Finn Beller and Damian Priest versus Butch and Ridge Holland. So
I like the fact that they alluded to the judgment day being able to be
or rather see I gotta clarify the whole fact that if you're an undisputed champion,
you can be on either show with specifically with the tag titles. Makes
total sense. I still don't understand why they're two physical belts for one championship,
but I'm not the one carrying them every day, so that makes sense
for Finn and Damien. What explain to me? Why why why Dom is
there again? Though? Please? Why is Dom there again? I don't
I don't understand that. So I guess you know, we're supposed to brush
that part off that the brand split doesn't or only applies to those that are
undisputed champion. But if you're associated with the group, suddenly by extension,
you're also included in being able to come over. This is where again,
if a draft actually was enforced, Dom would not be there. So,
however, butch and Ridge coming out here, Boy did they get a kind
of deflating reaction after a ton of heat for a dominic which they were trying
to set the table for butcher Ridge here. I mean, they did everything
they could to elicit a heat reaction from the crowd and TD and they they
succeeded. But when a baby face came out to interrupt it's they went,
oh hm, butch and Ridge hog. You know, I'm sure some people
are going huh. It was a kind of very lukewarm reaction for Butch and
Ridge. No booze, just air let out of the building of that all
all that heat was built up for these two. However, this I thought
the match was good. And you know what, hearing Ridge on the mic
is actually a nice thing once in a while. He's usually the silent type,
kind of like Dakota Kai in Damage Control, doesn't say anything. So
this match ended with Damien and Finn beating Ridge and Butch as they should and
then we got a big surprise after this match. But we're gonna take a
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about what happened after the match. Who confronted Finnan Damian, Well, that
would be this yet to be named group of Bobby Lashley and the Street Prophets
walking down to the ring, and he got in the face of Priest and
said that while he's right that the Bloodline is crumbling, it won't be Judgment
Day taking over. It will be them. So a lot of shots being
thrown around to the Bloodline from Judgment Day, but also this I'll just call
them Street the herpe As a two point zero, which that's not the official
name's name. I'm just giving them to shorten it is. They'll they are
shooting shots at the Judgment Day, but the Judgment Day are shooting shots presumably
at the bloodline that's crumbling. However, I think what they're doing here is
potentially setting up a Survivor Series War Games match in about a month and a
half or two months time here, and that match could be could be a
Bloodline and Judgment Day alliance versus Bobby Lashley, the Street Prophets, Kevin and
Sammy and another opponent or another another ally so maybe Seth, perhaps Seth it's
the thought Seth and Roman in the match. I keep harping on that for
the last two years, but that's my thought, guys, is that is
that that's probably what they're doing here, especially with Bobby and the street profits
that have been established firmly into the baby Face roll. It's good to see
them in that role. The crowd gave them a much warmer, although not
explosive response coming out to confront the judgment TA. That was nice. But
the match here, by the way, the match was solid. Again.
I know I say that a lot, but I only give you the ending
of the match because that's what most people want to know what happened. But
unless there's something interesting to happen in the middle of the match, I'm not
going to dive into the nitty gritty of it. I'll leave other podcasts to
do that. I also don't want to sound like I'm discounting what they do
in the ring. I just I don't want to have this podcast be four
hours. So okay, then we got aj Styles and Jimmy Uso. This
match was a longer one fifteen minutes and forty three seconds. This one also
also it was the third one of the night ended in a distraction by silently
getting attention from Styles. Jimmy then knocks Styles off the turnbuckle and choked him
on the ropes. Styles rolled to the floor and Solo refused to attack him
and turned his back. AJ kicks Solo in the back of the head.
He then shoved Jimmy into the ring post He and then landed a phenomenal forearm
to get the victory. After the match, AJ tried to get out of
there to avoid Solo, but was attacked by Damien and Finn, who dumped
him back into the ring so Solo could land a Simone spike. Solo starred
or stared down a smiling priest in balord to close the show. You I
was waiting for, Like Cody Rhodes, mister mister has his hands and everything
to come out and make the safe. He'll probably be be in that War
Games match to face off against Roman and tease part two for WrestleMania if the
rocks not there right so you know, mister bleach Blonde will will be in
you know, three different programs making sure that all the heels aren't out numbering
the good guys and doing weird political deals and things he shouldn't even have his
hands into. But nonetheless, this was interesting that Damien and Finn, while
they were taking shots at the Judgment Days, you know, earlier and in
prior weeks, they appeared to help out the blood line here what's left of
the blood line. They appeared to help them out and rolling Aj back into
the ring, giving them, you know, allowing Solo to hit the Smoe
spike and so forth. But this is I mean, there's no way that
the blood Line and Judgment Day are going to go at it unless they're trying
to turn a whole group heel or a baby face. It doesn't make any
sense to me. They might tease intention if it's fun to think about,
but I don't think anybody really wants to see at this juncture Judgment Day versus
Bloodline, especially Bloodline in its weakened state. No Roman, I mean I
haven't. We haven't seen Roman, and I feel like two months, you
know, And I know presumably he was injured after his previous match with Jay,
but luckily his schedule, with how often he's out, it's already built.
He's built an injury recovery schedule without even realizing he's built an injury recovery
schedule. That's how often he's off. But you know, I just don't
think we're going to get a Judgment Day Bloodline program. He'll heal. It
doesn't make a ton of sense, not yet, unless they're trying to turn
people baby face. So this is going to be a again, a set
up for a temporary alliance between Judgment Day and Bloodline. That's my thought,
all right. Quickly over to Raw as we remember what happened many moons ago
on Raw, which always feels like a jillion years ago, And I'll give
you the cliff Knowltes version. And the matches anyway are Drew and Matt Riddle
versus the Viking Raiders, Eric Ivar and in a Tornado tag team match.
This one was Kingston accidentally hitting Riddle and it allowed Eric to cover Riddle to
get three count. Tension is rising between New Day and Riddle and True many
people believing that this could lead to a Drew Heel turn. I don't.
I hope, so I don't care if it's a New Day that does it.
I don't care how it's happening or how it happens. Drew needs to
turn heel. He just does. But you know, we'll see a lot
of promotion throughout the show of the Intercontinental Champions of the Past. Perfect loved
it added much more value to the belt or I mean, I don't know
how I can add much more, but it continued to remind you of what
Gunther's going to do here later in the show, and Nakamura rejecting Seth trying
to give him a title match was weird. I know one of the listeners
brought that up. I'm glad they did. And then the mailbag segment of
the podcast this week, it was weird that you have to shove a title
match down someone's throat. How does that work? That was weird. But
I still enjoy Shinskay and Seth, and I'm looking forward to their matchup that's
yet unannounced at fast Lane. But he did face off Shinsky, that is,
against Ricochet, and Shinsky did lose or win. I'm sorry Ricochet did
beat Knakamura by DQ in nine minutes and thirty five seconds, but it's because
we had Nakamura slamming a chair over the back of Ricochet and just wanting to
hurt him. We then had Shinski tried to use the chair to break the
neck of Ricochet. Loved that. Actually what else? What else? JD
McDonough came out during the promo with Judgment Day and gave priests the news send
your money in the bank briefcase. I've told you my theory on that.
And let's see Piper oh oh. I didn't mention this on wrong, but
Pierce did mention that Piper Niven was not medically cleared. So Piper Niven do
drop to those of you that remember, is not medically cleared yet, but
she's still She's still active, but does have an injury, I guess.
And we did get Shana basilorn Zoe Stark though. On the women's side of
things, Shandy Basler beat Zoe Stark at eight minutes in fifty seconds and then
they fist bumped after that, so so she adn't it beat Zoe, but
then they fist bumped, so they are likely going to be partners. Sure.
Chelsea Green and versus Roquel Rodriguez. This was a crazy fast match.
Roquelle did beat Chelsea in a minute forty seconds and then announced that she would
be facing Ripley for the championship next week, which is by the time you're
listening to this either tonight or tomorrow night, depending on when you're listening,
or it could have already happened. We did get Let's see the miss talking
about La Night again and a promo and the empty chair and the whole invisible
John Cena deal. The next match was Sammy Zane versus j D McDonough,
with JD defeating Sammy eight minutes and then Zane attack Dom after the match.
Zane in this was hell bent on getting a helluvah kick on someone, and
it eventually ended up being on j D McDonogh because Zane is trying to get
Dom, but Dom keats sliding away, So all right. Gunther versus Chad
Gable Icy title fifteen minutes and fifty seconds. Gunther beat Gable another really good
match here, no issues and the shot of his children, gables children or
daughter crying was just gold. I think it was. I think it was
authentic by her daughter, his daughter, and Gunther is now officially the longest
reigning intercontinental champion of all time. Hell of an accomplishment. Great job by
WWW promoting this. The matches that were the series of match is that Gable
and Gunther had should be commended and applauded. I hope for Gable's sake coming
out of this that it's not he's not you know, one and done here
or three and done in this case. I hope he continues to build on
the support, on the respect that the fans have for him, and he
doesn't go back to being this ridiculous side kick or rather kind of side comedy
piece that w W often views him as. And I just hope it leads
to bigger and better things for Gable because we know he's capable of them.
The shoosh thing is cute, you know, a thank you all. That
those are kind of offshoots of a different time in his career than as successful
as they are. I hope if they decide to ever put any kind of
support rocket behind him, that they actually, you know, they evolve from
that, because you can't have character that has evolved into this wrestling machine in
the ring that we've seen the last month, but also doing the you know,
all the shoe stuff. And it's not it's not that it'll kill his
career. I think it's just stifling in a bit because those are two different
eras of his career. That's all. It's not a it's not an absolute
must. I just think eventually those branches are going to stop producing fruit,
and I think it's close and he needs to evolve into something else that the
fans can take more serious. If WWE is going to take him more seriously,
if he's if they're not, then sure, you know, him promoting
those catchphrases are printing money for him because they put him on T shirts and
people buy them. So there is that. I understand that too, there's
the money aspect of it. But well, I'm sure that any of you
out there are looking forward to this weekend wrestling as we have a lot of
big returns, we have a lot of you know, interesting segments. We're
getting closer to fast Lane, which is on what is in October seventh,
So it doesn't feel like along. It doesn't feel close, does it.
It's still about a month away and it'll go fast, it will, I
promise always. Does you know, you're oh my god, four weeks you
turn around, it's next week every time, so have no fear time will
pass you by. So that is it for me tonight, guys. It
feels it feels good to be back again, and for some reason this past
few days have felt like a week or two. It feels like I've abandoned
you and now I'm back Daddy's home, guys, Daddy's home. So all
right, thanks are getting creepy. I'm gonna end it here. It is
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