WWE Raw Review: Bronson Reed & Braun Stroman Destroy One Another, Punk Addresses Hell in a Cell, New Day About to Break Up?

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<v Speaker 2>Monday Night Raw, guys, with just a couple of weeks
<v Speaker 2>away until Hell in a Cell, well, bad blood with
<v Speaker 2>a hell in a Cell match. I keep wanting to
<v Speaker 2>call it Helen a cell. I don't know why, but
<v Speaker 2>bad blood in just a few weeks, and we've got
<v Speaker 2>some some things to talk about tonight with Monday Night
<v Speaker 2>Raw concluding in Portland, Oregon. It was Portland, right, yeah, Portland, Oregon,
<v Speaker 2>and seeampunks showed up, Gunther showed up. We had some
<v Speaker 2>continued chaos with Bronson Reid and Bronze Stroman, which I
<v Speaker 2>think is just a very surprising success with those two.
<v Speaker 2>You know, they caught lightning in a bottle with them.
<v Speaker 2>We all know that it can't last too long. Eventually
<v Speaker 2>they're going to have to come to a conclusion and
<v Speaker 2>where that match ends and all that we don't know
<v Speaker 2>and what the stipulation is. I mean, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>They can't do a lumberjack match with Bronz Stroman and
<v Speaker 2>Bronson Reid. I thought about that. That makes no sense
<v Speaker 2>because they're tossing bodies around. They can't do a cage
<v Speaker 2>match at Bad Blood because it's dwarfed by the hell
<v Speaker 2>of a sale match. So the question is what do
<v Speaker 2>they do with Bronson Reid and Bronze Stroman. Well, it
<v Speaker 2>probably will be something that's concluded on Raw, much like
<v Speaker 2>the Intercontinental Championship that's being defended next week, and not
<v Speaker 2>at Bad Blood. But I have no problem with that
<v Speaker 2>because Bad Blood has a higher purpose, and that is
<v Speaker 2>to actually conclude feuds, personal feuds, and on many cases
<v Speaker 2>at that event that is a conclusive event before we
<v Speaker 2>restart things at Survivors Series. That Survivor series will have
<v Speaker 2>ramifications all the way to WrestleMania, make no mistake about it.
<v Speaker 2>So Bad Blood is the conclusion of a lot of
<v Speaker 2>things that have happened over the summer, and we've got
<v Speaker 2>a lot of good things to talk about, including the
<v Speaker 2>cmpunk promo, which I have bixed feelings on. We'll talk
<v Speaker 2>about that. I generally thought it was effective, but I'll
<v Speaker 2>give you my in depth thoughts in a minute. But
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<v Speaker 2>Let's talk about Mondonette Raw and let's start at the
<v Speaker 2>beginning of the show. And it had Sampunk arriving at
<v Speaker 2>the arena, we had Bronze Stroman arriving at the arena,
<v Speaker 2>Bronze and Reid arriving at the arena. I've generally enjoyed
<v Speaker 2>these create some more sports like field. Along with the
<v Speaker 2>results icons are little notifications. If you notice during the
<v Speaker 2>Monaet Raw show, you'll see results actually being put out
<v Speaker 2>on the show, Like you know, Bronson, Reid and bron
<v Speaker 2>Stroman go to a noequ finish or whatever the case
<v Speaker 2>may be. It's nice. It's like they take their results seriously.
<v Speaker 2>It's like it does add to the sports like feel,
<v Speaker 2>which is ultimately what I think the Triple H regime
<v Speaker 2>is attempting to do. And I think those little, small
<v Speaker 2>but effective things all add up. So we got Cmpunk
<v Speaker 2>opening the show and a very somber Cmpunk comes out,
<v Speaker 2>a big response from the Portland crowd and fans chanted
<v Speaker 2>his name, and he throughout this promo had a it's
<v Speaker 2>like he found another octave in his voice and he
<v Speaker 2>just stayed in that lane the whole promo. I know
<v Speaker 2>it was supposed to be a darker version of Punk,
<v Speaker 2>and it was. It was supposed to be adding base
<v Speaker 2>to your voice, and he's it was. But and look,
<v Speaker 2>Punk is obviously, as we all know, very effective on
<v Speaker 2>the microphone. It's how he has generally made most of
<v Speaker 2>his money and how he has become such a big
<v Speaker 2>star is not just in ring, but his promo. Let's
<v Speaker 2>just be real, this was a little forced. Again, not
<v Speaker 2>the content. The content of his promo will get into.
<v Speaker 2>It was weird hearing Punk just purposefully talk three octaves
<v Speaker 2>down in his voice the whole time. I understand he
<v Speaker 2>was trying to convey this is a darker version, this
<v Speaker 2>is now the devil, very somber, very, this is on
<v Speaker 2>a hell Okay, Like I get what he was doing.
<v Speaker 2>I don't have a problem with it. It just felt
<v Speaker 2>a little contrived and just it was a but I
<v Speaker 2>will say it was also nice not hearing say Punk
<v Speaker 2>talk about these lovely fans in insert name of city,
<v Speaker 2>just like MJF called him out on aew and honestly,
<v Speaker 2>it wouldn't have made sense for him to come out
<v Speaker 2>and after getting his ass kicking and going to the
<v Speaker 2>hospital two weeks ago because of jermacats howre wouldn't made
<v Speaker 2>a whole lot of sense for him to come out
<v Speaker 2>there and just be good old Cmpunk, good old Phil Brooks.
<v Speaker 2>It made total sense for him to do this. It
<v Speaker 2>was just a little weird hearing him like he was
<v Speaker 2>trying to be trying to talk in a deeper voice
<v Speaker 2>the whole time. Weird. That's all the content of his promo, however,
<v Speaker 2>I mean, made total sense. He never seems to fail
<v Speaker 2>in that regard. But let's get into it. He said
<v Speaker 2>that he didn't I'm sorry he didn't come to WWE
<v Speaker 2>to make friends. He said that didn't exactly mean he
<v Speaker 2>came to make a mortal enemy, but that's what happened,
<v Speaker 2>and the only way to end things between him and
<v Speaker 2>Drew is hell in a cell. He feels a little
<v Speaker 2>naive for thinking the feud was over after he touched
<v Speaker 2>four turnbuckles in Berlin and said maybe Punk, or rather McIntyre,
<v Speaker 2>was a little naive for thinking things are over after
<v Speaker 2>he jumped him in Chicago and brought his wife and
<v Speaker 2>dog into it. Punk said everybody can probably agree that
<v Speaker 2>it should have ended when McIntyre sent him to a
<v Speaker 2>hospital two weeks ago, but Punk said he's just too
<v Speaker 2>damn stubborn. And Punk said McIntyre's fatal mi steak is
<v Speaker 2>not getting the job done. And now things are drastically different,
<v Speaker 2>and people ask him how many hell of a cell
<v Speaker 2>matches he has left in him. He said, honestly, the
<v Speaker 2>answer is zero. And his family begged him not to
<v Speaker 2>do this, and he recalled telling McIntyre the last time
<v Speaker 2>they were in Portland that if he pushed him far
<v Speaker 2>enough that he could he could become the devil himself.
<v Speaker 2>And now he said, the devil is here, and the
<v Speaker 2>devil is in his heart, telling him the only way
<v Speaker 2>this ends is hell in a cell. He said he
<v Speaker 2>can't promise that he's going to kill McIntyre because he
<v Speaker 2>can't make promises that he one hundred percent can't deliver on.
<v Speaker 2>And Punk promised that he would make McIntyre bleed and
<v Speaker 2>McIntyre would have to kill him. Punk said he is
<v Speaker 2>prepared to die and for his heart to stop beating it,
<v Speaker 2>for it to be all over with and he has
<v Speaker 2>a great he has had a great career and if
<v Speaker 2>this is the end, so be it, Punk said, he's
<v Speaker 2>prepared for this to be the end of him, and
<v Speaker 2>if McIntyre is prepared for it to be the end
<v Speaker 2>of him as well, then he'll see him in hell.
<v Speaker 2>Very effective promo. I thought it came across very well. Again,
<v Speaker 2>the octave part is a little weird, but it didn't
<v Speaker 2>destroy the message. The message was delivered loud and clear,
<v Speaker 2>well designed, well crafted promo. This is an evil version
<v Speaker 2>of Punk that that we've been all waiting to see,
<v Speaker 2>the malicious, true CM Punk, not the happy, go lucky
<v Speaker 2>pandering to the crowd that we've seen really for weeks
<v Speaker 2>and weeks now. This is cmpunk at his darkest, and
<v Speaker 2>that's where he's been pushed, and that's how his character
<v Speaker 2>should that's how his character honestly should be presented. You
<v Speaker 2>shouldn't be going out there and being in any kind
<v Speaker 2>of good mood given the stakes here, given the heated
<v Speaker 2>rivalry that has been going on for months since really
<v Speaker 2>January of twenty twenty four of this past year, and
<v Speaker 2>it makes sense so I can appreciate it. The content
<v Speaker 2>of his promo very good. Obviously, he was basically saying,
<v Speaker 2>I'm willing to die in this match, and there's been
<v Speaker 2>a lot of bringing up of death in wrestling as
<v Speaker 2>of late, that you know you're gonna have to kill me.
<v Speaker 2>I think Drew said that too, along with one or
<v Speaker 2>two others, And it's usually not something that I prescribe
<v Speaker 2>to bringing in death into pro wrestling, because you know,
<v Speaker 2>it's never ever ever going to be something that anyone
<v Speaker 2>can ever deliver on. Ever, it's immediately a lie because
<v Speaker 2>you know they're just talking through their ass, because it's
<v Speaker 2>way over dramatized. In this case, I actually don't take
<v Speaker 2>issue with it because he wasn't talking about killing killing McIntyre.
<v Speaker 2>He said that, you know he can't, he can't. He's
<v Speaker 2>not gonna make a promise he can't deliver on. But
<v Speaker 2>he said he himself is willing to die in this match.
<v Speaker 2>My heart, I've basically come to peace and come to
<v Speaker 2>peace with my own demise in this match. And it
<v Speaker 2>was just very it was it was very effective. It
<v Speaker 2>was effective and credits to Punk credits Punk very good.
<v Speaker 2>And yeah, so this, you know, I'm ready for it,
<v Speaker 2>though I don't know how much more promo we can
<v Speaker 2>do for this. I don't have many more time, So
<v Speaker 2>you need to see these two bloods in each other.
<v Speaker 2>The other note that I that I did make in
<v Speaker 2>this promo, though, was one word that I was hoping
<v Speaker 2>I would hear, and that is blood. There has to
<v Speaker 2>be blood in this match. And Punk said he promised
<v Speaker 2>he would make Drew McIntyre bleed. That's awesome. I love that,
<v Speaker 2>not only because it's been so long since we've heard
<v Speaker 2>somebody say they're going to make somebody else bleed, but
<v Speaker 2>blood has been absent for too long, especially when it's warranted.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to see it in every promo, or
<v Speaker 2>rather every match, even if it's an intense match with
<v Speaker 2>a blowoff. Blood should be reserved for put intended blood feuds.
<v Speaker 2>Helena Cell almost requires you to shed blood. It's like
<v Speaker 2>a right of passage in that match. You must shed
<v Speaker 2>blood to the blood gods before you enter that cell.
<v Speaker 2>And there have been many a Helen of Cell matches,
<v Speaker 2>unfortunately over the PG era when Helena Cell was its
<v Speaker 2>own plee, which is a cardinal sin in my book,
<v Speaker 2>but there have been many that have not had blood,
<v Speaker 2>and it's it's a missing element. This makes me excited
<v Speaker 2>because it's now a one guarantee we'll see it. Am
<v Speaker 2>I a bloodthirsty savage. Yeah, guilty is charged. I don't care.
<v Speaker 2>Everyone listening to this podcast, I would imagine you are
<v Speaker 2>in the same boat, whether you admit it or not.
<v Speaker 2>Blood can be extremely effective, especially the fact that we
<v Speaker 2>haven't seen it on purpose very much over the last
<v Speaker 2>ten to twelve years. So all right, so we have
<v Speaker 2>Seamus versus Pete Dunn, not butch Pete Dunn beats Seamus
<v Speaker 2>in eleven minutes and fifteen seconds after he attempted a
<v Speaker 2>Shealey attack. We had Seamus catch him, and then we
<v Speaker 2>had Pete Dunn while the referee was distracted, handing up
<v Speaker 2>hitting hitting a Seamus with what was it a paddle,
<v Speaker 2>a cricket or cricket bat or something, and then it
<v Speaker 2>ended with Pete Dun just hitting a knee of the
<v Speaker 2>face and hitting Seamus sloppy finish. I mean, the match itself,
<v Speaker 2>I would say, was pretty well done and brought a
<v Speaker 2>crowd in from for a matchup that honestly, most of
<v Speaker 2>us don't have a ton of storage in our brain
<v Speaker 2>for most of us aren't really thinking about Seamous versus
<v Speaker 2>Pete done, but they brought us in and then they
<v Speaker 2>had this match the finish that was like, hmmm, hmmm,
<v Speaker 2>like like, I don't know if it wasn't just executed
<v Speaker 2>great or if it wasn't just it wasn't even strategized correctly,
<v Speaker 2>even if they did execute it perfectly, But we get
<v Speaker 2>the premise this isn't over. Seamus and Pete done are
<v Speaker 2>not done, and they can make up for this kind
<v Speaker 2>of womp womp ending by having another kick ass match,
<v Speaker 2>or as they would put it, a banger. They can
<v Speaker 2>easily make it out, make that up because both men
<v Speaker 2>are extremely capable. My concern though, for Pete Donn is
<v Speaker 2>and I'm being blunt and this is just the way
<v Speaker 2>it is and calling it like I see it. No
<v Speaker 2>one gives a damn about Pete Dunn's character, No one cares.
<v Speaker 2>Nobody does, and I don't know what the solution is
<v Speaker 2>for that. Maybe more mic time, maybe another sit down interview,
<v Speaker 2>but no one seems to care. His music isn't exciting.
<v Speaker 2>I will say the joint manipulation is stupid. I hate
<v Speaker 2>to be so elementary in my analysis here, but the
<v Speaker 2>joint manipulation it's not fun to watch. The crowd doesn't
<v Speaker 2>seem to react to it. I know it's a unique thing,
<v Speaker 2>but it's not a visual It's not visually satisfying to
<v Speaker 2>watch in a pro wrestling match. I know, joint manipulation
<v Speaker 2>in real life would hurt like hell and you could
<v Speaker 2>break and snap many things by doing it, but there's
<v Speaker 2>something visually about watching it that just bores the hell
<v Speaker 2>out of me, and it doesn't do anything for me
<v Speaker 2>and the Pete Dune character. While it's nice, he's no
<v Speaker 2>longer Butch. That's good. The bar was set so low
<v Speaker 2>with Butch that going to Pete Dunn wasn't that much
<v Speaker 2>higher because we don't know much more about him other
<v Speaker 2>than Seamus held me down. He's the reason I didn't
<v Speaker 2>succeed the end. Okay, but who are you? You know?
<v Speaker 2>So maybe change up your attire a little bit. He
<v Speaker 2>still looks like a kid. I don't know. I This
<v Speaker 2>is not me crapping on his wrestling. He's obviously very
<v Speaker 2>good in the ring. I'm trying to help the kid,
<v Speaker 2>whom I am thirty nine of calling people kids, but
<v Speaker 2>I really am, because with somebody that good in the ring,
<v Speaker 2>you can get a good match to great match out
<v Speaker 2>of him almost every time. But his character is just boring.
<v Speaker 2>There's no emotional investment from the crowd, and I hope
<v Speaker 2>that improves, but it's not going to improve if you
<v Speaker 2>just put him out there in matches and don't do
<v Speaker 2>anything with the character. So okay, had Natalia was Zelena
<v Speaker 2>Vega and Lyra versus Zoe Stark, who was also with
<v Speaker 2>Sonya Deville and Shanna Basler, and we had Natalia beating
<v Speaker 2>Zoe Stark in seven minutes. Stark rolled up Natalia, who
<v Speaker 2>countered into a pin of her own and got the
<v Speaker 2>three count. So Natalia wins. It was the second week
<v Speaker 2>in a row miss maybe perhaps Natalia's longest winning streak
<v Speaker 2>in the last ten years. I say that half jokingly.
<v Speaker 2>I mean Natalia disappears for six months at a time,
<v Speaker 2>and then when she comes back, it's often to put
<v Speaker 2>over whatever talent they're trying to get over at that time.
<v Speaker 2>And so this maybe not only is it a streak
<v Speaker 2>for her winning, but also streak of being on television
<v Speaker 2>in a televised match two weeks in a row. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it's got to be at least ten years, right, I'm
<v Speaker 2>half serious. I'm surprised they keep Natalia around, and not
<v Speaker 2>that she doesn't have some value. And sure her uncle
<v Speaker 2>who her uncle is but she has been one of
<v Speaker 2>the early pioneers of the women's evolution. You know, before
<v Speaker 2>she's the precursor to the four horse women. You know,
<v Speaker 2>she was the wrestler that you took seriously when a
<v Speaker 2>lot of other female wrestlers were taken as still jokes
<v Speaker 2>during the Jievas Championship era. And she's a veteran, she's
<v Speaker 2>a mainstay. She you know, all those things are true,
<v Speaker 2>and she's the gatekeeper. But what are we doing with Natalia?
<v Speaker 2>What are we doing? I'm not advocating for her to
<v Speaker 2>be fired, no I'm not, But my question is, what
<v Speaker 2>are we doing with her? In any kind of sense?
<v Speaker 2>Is there a plan at all? Is she just gonna
<v Speaker 2>come out of the woodwork every four to six months
<v Speaker 2>like she has been. I guess that's the answer. But hey,
<v Speaker 2>she's got a winning streak. Let's enjoy it. The longest
<v Speaker 2>winning streak in a long time for Natalia. I say
<v Speaker 2>ten years, but I really don't know how long it's been.
<v Speaker 2>Fields it's got to be like at least a year.
<v Speaker 2>Somebody out there proved me wrong, but it feels like forever.
<v Speaker 2>So all right, And it's also interesting too. Sonya Deville
<v Speaker 2>rather it has just gotten back and she's super underrated
<v Speaker 2>or at least underutilized, I should say, especially on the microphone.
<v Speaker 2>And she's done nothing but lose or be associated with
<v Speaker 2>losing since she returned, which is unusual. So it just
<v Speaker 2>it tells me they don't have any imminent plans for Sonya.
<v Speaker 2>But all right, let's go to the next segment here,
<v Speaker 2>or a backstage or rather Finn Crash an interview with
<v Speaker 2>Kathy Kelly, who was conducting one with Rhea and Balar
<v Speaker 2>told Ripley that she's just as bad as priest and
<v Speaker 2>confess to her that he was the one encouraging Dom
<v Speaker 2>to go after live. I love that right in her face,
<v Speaker 2>he told her. I loved it, and I was glad.
<v Speaker 2>You know, I thought a brawl was going to break
<v Speaker 2>out and Ria Ripley and in finnbal We're gonna brawl.
<v Speaker 2>Thank god that didn't happen. Pre stepped in, or I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 2>jay Uso stepped in. Thank god, because it felt like
<v Speaker 2>they were about to take that step into the Pandora's
<v Speaker 2>box that you can't close with Rhea just basically entering
<v Speaker 2>the men's division. So I'm glad that didn't happen all right,
<v Speaker 2>So Joe Tessa Tore mentioned on Raw that USA network
<v Speaker 2>finale for December thirtieth was December thirtieth, while while also
<v Speaker 2>mentioning that role will be two hours in length, starting
<v Speaker 2>in October and running through the end of the year.
<v Speaker 2>The angels are singing from the heavens, my friends. Two
<v Speaker 2>hours of Raw. Now, this doesn't really affect those of
<v Speaker 2>us that watched the Hulu version. That's in fact, it's
<v Speaker 2>going to not change a thing. And for those of
<v Speaker 2>us also looking for the Hulu version of SmackDown, I
<v Speaker 2>know I was. Apparently the contract with Hulu and SmackDown
<v Speaker 2>has expired, and you have to just either find a
<v Speaker 2>one of those streams, if you know what I mean,
<v Speaker 2>or look at the highlights or read about it, or
<v Speaker 2>you know, get your cable subscription, because right now it
<v Speaker 2>looks like the Hulu version of SmackDown is no longer
<v Speaker 2>a thing on Hulu for the time being. Maybe that'll change,
<v Speaker 2>but as of now, I was looking for it just
<v Speaker 2>like you were. But for monet Raw going for three
<v Speaker 2>to two hours, I went through this I think at
<v Speaker 2>length the last show or the show before that. It's
<v Speaker 2>a blessing for everyone involved. Everyone Now Raw is going
<v Speaker 2>to be two hours when they go to Netflix. They
<v Speaker 2>must be getting a boatload of money to make up
<v Speaker 2>for the lack of ad revenue, as I've talked about,
<v Speaker 2>but for not just the fans who have an attention
<v Speaker 2>span lower than at any time in history because of
<v Speaker 2>our smartphones and how quickly the news cycle, you know,
<v Speaker 2>basically renews itself. It is a blessing not just for
<v Speaker 2>us as fans and our attention span, but also the
<v Speaker 2>quality of the content of the show should increase because
<v Speaker 2>there's less content, which means they have more time to
<v Speaker 2>focus on the things they want to do. And I guess,
<v Speaker 2>in turn, just naturally things should improve because there's more
<v Speaker 2>time spent on fewer things. So we'll see if that
<v Speaker 2>actually takes place. We'll see what happens. But also for
<v Speaker 2>the talent and creative, they're all just going thank god.
<v Speaker 2>They're all just saying thank God. All right, let's move
<v Speaker 2>on to jay Uso coming out, and he said that
<v Speaker 2>his desire to win your continental title. Talked about that
<v Speaker 2>and paused for the fans to say, yeat bron Breaker
<v Speaker 2>comes out, and we had let's see Barrett's say Breaker
<v Speaker 2>is the future of the industry and said it might
<v Speaker 2>be a cold day in hell before someone takes the
<v Speaker 2>title from him. And Breaker recalled Jay telling Jeddi's stay away,
<v Speaker 2>but he's gone on a relentless pursuit of his championship,
<v Speaker 2>and Breaker said Jay is trying to prove that he
<v Speaker 2>doesn't need any help to be a single star, and
<v Speaker 2>he did his homework. And Jay's been in WW for
<v Speaker 2>fourteen years, and Breaker said Jay's one of the biggest
<v Speaker 2>stars ine and the fans love him. Breaker said the
<v Speaker 2>funny thing is that he's done more as a singles
<v Speaker 2>wrestler in six months than Jay has done during his
<v Speaker 2>entire career. And Jay told Breaker he sees that dog
<v Speaker 2>in him and he wouldn't take Breaker lightly, but he's
<v Speaker 2>only been here for six months. And Jay was winning
<v Speaker 2>championships in w when Breaker was still in diapers, and
<v Speaker 2>Jay said he would quote walk dog walk your ass.
<v Speaker 2>That was a good line. And Jay said he'd find
<v Speaker 2>out what Breakers made of and said it might be
<v Speaker 2>short and sweet like his NFL career. I was also
<v Speaker 2>a nice little singer. Back Breaker showed. The line got
<v Speaker 2>to him and then they went face to face and
<v Speaker 2>they ended up in a brawl with Breaker attempting a spear.
<v Speaker 2>My god, can he run the ropes fast? In fact,
<v Speaker 2>Michael Cole will tell you how fast he can run.
<v Speaker 2>It was it like twenty three miles an hour or
<v Speaker 2>something insane? It is, it is quite insane. I mean
<v Speaker 2>it's remarkable. But Breaker went for a spear, but Jay
<v Speaker 2>beat him to it, and Breaker sold the spear very well.
<v Speaker 2>And that was it. And you know, I know a
<v Speaker 2>lot of people around Brown Breaker. His music does suck?
<v Speaker 2>It does it still?
<v Speaker 1>Does?
<v Speaker 2>They need to just I don't know what they were doing.
<v Speaker 2>They just went from one crappy song to the next.
<v Speaker 2>They need to find something for him. I don't know
<v Speaker 2>what it is, all right, that's not my job. My
<v Speaker 2>job is to simply tell you when it's good or
<v Speaker 2>bad because I'm a fan. But the music as now
<v Speaker 2>is not memorable. It's not effective. It doesn't need to
<v Speaker 2>be a sing along song like a Sammy's Ain or
<v Speaker 2>a seth Rollins or a you know, a Cody wrote odes.
<v Speaker 2>But it needs to be something that is just oh okay,
<v Speaker 2>I know what that is, right, Like, oh okay, Breaker
<v Speaker 2>needs music and that will really help in the meantime.
<v Speaker 2>He's showing us that he can cut a promo, and
<v Speaker 2>he can cut a promo not just backstage, not just
<v Speaker 2>pre taped, but in ring against one of the top
<v Speaker 2>talents and feel like he belongs. That's an important point too.
<v Speaker 2>A lot of times talents will come up from NXT
<v Speaker 2>and they don't have that innate feeling of belonging this.
<v Speaker 2>There's that kind of NXT stink, and I don't mean
<v Speaker 2>that disrespectfully an NXT it is. It is a brand
<v Speaker 2>that has re energized what it means to come up from,
<v Speaker 2>you know, to debut on the main roster. It is
<v Speaker 2>their own farm system that they've been able to monetize
<v Speaker 2>and then be able to monetize again when they bring
<v Speaker 2>that person up to the main roster. It has also
<v Speaker 2>become kind of an anti brand to w WE. What
<v Speaker 2>used to be all the Vince McMahon's stuff on Ron
<v Speaker 2>SmackDown and Triple H was running smack Down n XT.
<v Speaker 2>It felt like they were almost competing with each other.
<v Speaker 2>It was the old school of doing wrestling versus Vince's
<v Speaker 2>way of doing wrestling. And even though it was it
<v Speaker 2>wasn't a counter brand, but it was a brand still
<v Speaker 2>under the same company name, which is quite wild. But
<v Speaker 2>my point about all this is ron Breaker wasn't one
<v Speaker 2>of those guys that came up and felt like he
<v Speaker 2>needs a little bit more time. I think he feels
<v Speaker 2>authentically confident, he feels real, He cuts promos concisely, he
<v Speaker 2>doesn't waste time, and in the ring he's an absolute
<v Speaker 2>freak of nature. He's not Goldberg as many people have
<v Speaker 2>compared him to. I don't want to hear about the
<v Speaker 2>spear anymore. Then Ah is just Goldberg with the spear.
<v Speaker 2>How many people are using this spear right now? How
<v Speaker 2>many people? I mean it's also used as kind of
<v Speaker 2>for some a transition move, but for just to finish.
<v Speaker 2>We have three guys, off the top of my head
<v Speaker 2>that uses it as a finish, bron Breaker, j Uso, Roman, Reigns.
<v Speaker 2>All three use that as a spear. I'm sure you
<v Speaker 2>could say the USO splash is part two of j
<v Speaker 2>but Jay still uses that as a finish. He has
<v Speaker 2>finished matches with it. One matches with that move. That's
<v Speaker 2>three right off the bat, you know, including before Edge
<v Speaker 2>left Adam Copeland. He obviously had the spear. I'm sure
<v Speaker 2>I'm missing more, but so it's not the spirit. He
<v Speaker 2>is not Goldberg with the spear. He's not okay, I know,
<v Speaker 2>always from Atlanta, Georgia. I don't care, same place as Goldberg.
<v Speaker 2>I don't care. He doesn't look like Goldberg, he doesn't
<v Speaker 2>talk like Goldberg, all right, So I know there was
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people making comparisons to that, and he
<v Speaker 2>is far from it. He's infinitely more talented than Goldberg
<v Speaker 2>is on the microphone, although the bar is low on
<v Speaker 2>that one as well, and in the ring he is
<v Speaker 2>more than just a one trick pony. So I mean,
<v Speaker 2>it sounds like I'm disrespecting Goldberg, and I guess in
<v Speaker 2>some ways i am. But he was very successful, but
<v Speaker 2>he was in the right place at the right time
<v Speaker 2>and had the right look. But honestly, he had no
<v Speaker 2>business being in a wrestling ring. And you know, he
<v Speaker 2>has made millions off of his gig, and great for him.
<v Speaker 2>He seems like a genuinely nice guy with his son
<v Speaker 2>and all that, and it's a feel good story, and
<v Speaker 2>he has an intensity and a look that can't be matched.
<v Speaker 2>But he just is not very skilled in the ring.
<v Speaker 2>His move set is as limited as mine is. And
<v Speaker 2>I've spent ten minutes inside a wrestling ring. That there's
<v Speaker 2>a story I'll maybe tell you sometime I was. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'll leave that for another day. But that is you know,
<v Speaker 2>that was Goldberg. This is not Goldberg. Brown Breaker is
<v Speaker 2>not Goldberg. But he doesn't need to find music that
<v Speaker 2>is a little more exciting. And Sammy's Ain. We'll get
<v Speaker 2>to that in a minute. But I know people are
<v Speaker 2>all excited about Sammy Zain and that you know, he
<v Speaker 2>feels some people are saying there might be a chance
<v Speaker 2>we'll get to that in a minute, that he could
<v Speaker 2>beat Gunther. Yeah, we'll talk about that in a minute.
<v Speaker 2>All right, here comes something else interesting that happen on
<v Speaker 2>Raw and well this is the next match. But before
<v Speaker 2>we get to that next match, with a tag team
<v Speaker 2>match for the tag titles, the men's tag titles, the
<v Speaker 2>women's tag team champions of Bianca and Jade were backstage
<v Speaker 2>when EO Sky showed up yelling, and it edited with
<v Speaker 2>Bianca challenging Kyrie Say or Yo Sky rather to a match,
<v Speaker 2>which of course she accepted. But how many times are
<v Speaker 2>we going to be treated to the just insufferability of
<v Speaker 2>Bianca and Jade walking to the arena with their titles
<v Speaker 2>and their shoulders and their sunglasses and their hand gestures
<v Speaker 2>and all their They're very synchronized, you know, movements. I
<v Speaker 2>can't stand it anymore. I I'm this is this is
<v Speaker 2>at the point of the fans. I think maybe starting
<v Speaker 2>to turn on this. You'll know when the fans starts
<v Speaker 2>are about to turn on it when they stop reacting
<v Speaker 2>positively and it's it's not negative yet, but it's about
<v Speaker 2>to go that way. And I think fans are starting
<v Speaker 2>to in my mind when you listen to the reactions,
<v Speaker 2>they're nowhere near what they used to be for Bianca
<v Speaker 2>and Beyonca is being hurt by this too, and I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if it's worth it anymore. I don't know
<v Speaker 2>if it's worth because Jade doesn't get singles or w W,
<v Speaker 2>let's be honest, doesn't trust or feel like Jade is
<v Speaker 2>at the point where she can have televised matches on
<v Speaker 2>her own on a regular basis, and they have Beyonca
<v Speaker 2>do it. Who I feel is she needs to break
<v Speaker 2>out again. And I don't care if there's two Bianca
<v Speaker 2>and Jade have a program we can wait on that.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe they just break up quietly. Bianca needs to get
<v Speaker 2>back in the women's division. They need to put her
<v Speaker 2>in a position to compete for a championship again. She
<v Speaker 2>doesn't have to win it necessarily, but Bianca her presence
<v Speaker 2>while she's been there, it feels like she hasn't been there.
<v Speaker 2>Let Jade work things out on her own. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>you can't sacrifice one of your greatest talents in the
<v Speaker 2>women's division forever for a talent that honestly may not
<v Speaker 2>work out. I understand they're trying to build a new star.
<v Speaker 2>She can work with her behind the scenes. I know
<v Speaker 2>they're covering up her weakness by putting her in a
<v Speaker 2>tag team. They're trying to maximize her strengths, which is
<v Speaker 2>get a hot tag, get the victory after five maneuvers,
<v Speaker 2>and look good flexing and have an entrance that you
<v Speaker 2>know maximizes. Look at my body, don't I have a
<v Speaker 2>great And she's even putting on X. This is Jade.
<v Speaker 2>I smell like. She's talking about how good she smells
<v Speaker 2>and how you know, Uh, fans that hug her are
<v Speaker 2>going to quote moan that she's when they hug her,
<v Speaker 2>if they hug her, because she smells so good. And
<v Speaker 2>I put this out there and I said, yeah, I said, Jade,
<v Speaker 2>you know, always getting to the heart of the issues
<v Speaker 2>that fans really care about. How good they're you know,
<v Speaker 2>they smell like no I mean, of course, no one
<v Speaker 2>wants to to hug anybody that smells like you know, manure.
<v Speaker 2>But I mean Jade is presenting herself as a very superficial,
<v Speaker 2>just this uh you know, china esque figure that doesn't
<v Speaker 2>and hasn't done much other than just look good for
<v Speaker 2>a photo shoot. She's had glimpses in the ring. She
<v Speaker 2>had a really nice rumble debut, but like, what's her
<v Speaker 2>standout moment besides that? What have they done since bringing
<v Speaker 2>her into the ring physically? Since January? That's been eight months.
<v Speaker 2>Eight months and we still don't have Jade Cargill singles matches.
<v Speaker 2>Why why is that? Well, the answer is clear. She
<v Speaker 2>is ready when it comes to the camera on her,
<v Speaker 2>but she's not ready when it comes to n ring.
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not saying she never will be. I do
<v Speaker 2>see why they keep her. I like her look a
<v Speaker 2>lot when it comes to her. You know, she's got
<v Speaker 2>a very unique look. It's impressive. Clearly spends a lot
<v Speaker 2>of time on herself and her physique, and it's commendable.
<v Speaker 2>But you're holding Bianca hostage. You are holding one of
<v Speaker 2>the greatest talents that the company has, especially in ring,
<v Speaker 2>and it's being held hostage by an experiment that may
<v Speaker 2>not work out at all, and I hope it does.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like I'm rooting against Jade. I am not
<v Speaker 2>rooting against Jade. I'm telling you what I see right
<v Speaker 2>now and have seen for eight months. I've been in
<v Speaker 2>her corner at times saying that she, you know, fans
<v Speaker 2>should give her a chance. She's shown promise, and she
<v Speaker 2>has at times, but I'm generally now looking at the pattern,
<v Speaker 2>not individual events. The pattern has been really solid. Rumble
<v Speaker 2>debut looks really good on camera, and whenever a photograph
<v Speaker 2>has taken over, she smells really good, apparently because that's
<v Speaker 2>something we need to share with fans. It's really important stuff.
<v Speaker 2>And she gets the hot tag for Bianca and her
<v Speaker 2>matches are under eight minutes long even in tag team
<v Speaker 2>scenarios outside of PLS, so that tells me we need
<v Speaker 2>to cover up her lack of ability in the ring.
<v Speaker 2>She also has yet to show us that she can
<v Speaker 2>cut a really good promo, and Jade is living She's
<v Speaker 2>living and breathing based on her look, and she knows it,
<v Speaker 2>and I hope she improves. She's not abysmal. They haven't
<v Speaker 2>done anything to show you like, oh my god, that
<v Speaker 2>was horrible. I mean, she's had some botches, but they've
<v Speaker 2>minimized her to a point that you know that what
<v Speaker 2>you're gonna get with her is very little on the mic,
<v Speaker 2>quick explosions in the ring, and that's it. They haven't
<v Speaker 2>allowed her weaknesses to be exposed too much. But by
<v Speaker 2>not expanding what she's doing on the mic and in ring,
<v Speaker 2>you're essentially admitting that they don't trust her to do
<v Speaker 2>anything else at this point. But again, I hope she
<v Speaker 2>does well. I truly do, because if they ever find
<v Speaker 2>the formula with her and she ends up really excelling
<v Speaker 2>on the mic, gets it in the ring, things start
<v Speaker 2>to click. I think you have a Hall of Famer
<v Speaker 2>right there. But we'll see. I went off on a
<v Speaker 2>jade tangent and somebody you're gonna talk about all the
<v Speaker 2>jade hate somebody. Just everything I just said complimentary about her,
<v Speaker 2>And I hope she stays. And I do think she's
<v Speaker 2>gonna be a Hall of Famer. She puts it together
<v Speaker 2>everything I just said for the past ten minutes, somebody's
<v Speaker 2>gonna summarize as all the jade. You're a jade hater.
<v Speaker 2>You're spending so much time in talking about how much No, no,
<v Speaker 2>then you didn't listen to what I said. I'm getting
<v Speaker 2>ahead of arguments by arguing with myself. It's like a
<v Speaker 2>pre argument. Let's see if it works, all right, Finn
<v Speaker 2>and JD versus the New and this is for the
<v Speaker 2>world tag team titles, so the New Day don't win here.
<v Speaker 2>This was nearly nine minutes with JD and Finn beating
<v Speaker 2>Kofe and Xavier, and it ended with Woods getting hit
<v Speaker 2>with coup de gras and Balor getting Woods covered for
<v Speaker 2>the win. This, of course didn't come without any controversy.
<v Speaker 2>With liv and Dom and Carlito getting to ringside, they
<v Speaker 2>were countered by Dragon Lee, Joaquin Wilde and Cruise del
<v Speaker 2>Toro and they evened out the score, so to speak.
<v Speaker 2>But that was enough to distract Xavier, who ended up
<v Speaker 2>getting angry at the end of the match and yelling
<v Speaker 2>at Kofe. Didn't shove him or anything yet, but after
<v Speaker 2>the match, Kingston tried to confront Woods or comfort rather
<v Speaker 2>not confront but comfort who pulled him away. Woods yelled
<v Speaker 2>why a few times, and that's when he was backstage
<v Speaker 2>yelling at you know, the Joaquin Wild and Dragonly and
<v Speaker 2>Cruz Alto, talking about how we don't need them and
<v Speaker 2>what about us and ever since E left, you know,
<v Speaker 2>we're not enough and so this is hopefully leading to
<v Speaker 2>a split at the tenth anniversary of their of their creation.
<v Speaker 2>I really hope it is. It's one of those Festival
<v Speaker 2>of Friendships moments that Chris Jericho and Kevin Owens had
<v Speaker 2>a number of years ago, where it looks like maybe
<v Speaker 2>all is well, Xavier has calmed down. Here's a video
<v Speaker 2>tribute to you, Kofe and Xavier and or rather Big Ee.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe even Big E shows up as kind of a
<v Speaker 2>cameo appearance, even though he's not clear to wrestle. He
<v Speaker 2>could just show up for a photo op of sorts,
<v Speaker 2>or be there for the big moment when Xavier turns
<v Speaker 2>on Kofe, and you know, maybe Big E's there to
<v Speaker 2>just cry. I don't know, because I mean, obviously I
<v Speaker 2>hope Big E's eventually cleared to wrestle, but if he's not,
<v Speaker 2>he could still make an impact on the tenth anniversary,
<v Speaker 2>which is coming up in November. So I hope that
<v Speaker 2>this is a split. If it's not a split and
<v Speaker 2>it's a swerve, I mean, if everybody involved, if this
<v Speaker 2>is all leading to, uh you thought you guys were
<v Speaker 2>gonna split, We're gonna be the first team in history,
<v Speaker 2>or one of the only few teams in his factions
<v Speaker 2>in history, to never split. I think the crowd actually
<v Speaker 2>boo because fans are ready. They've been ready for I
<v Speaker 2>mean they've been together what ten years. Fans have been
<v Speaker 2>ready for about seven years. Maybe I'm speaking for myself,
<v Speaker 2>but I've I'm Alice, I've been ready for the group
<v Speaker 2>to disband for like the last eight or nine years.
<v Speaker 2>But you know, this more than has run its course.
<v Speaker 2>They need to split. It would create buzz. They aren't
<v Speaker 2>exactly killing it in merch. So yeah, this needs to
<v Speaker 2>be a split. With Xavier being the heel. I don't
<v Speaker 2>care if Xavier is to heal. In fact, that would
<v Speaker 2>tell me that they are going to focus on Xavier
<v Speaker 2>rather than KOFE, because Xavier, I think has been underutilized
<v Speaker 2>much like you know, uh, well it's just said Sonya
<v Speaker 2>Deville or others, and you watch him in the ring
<v Speaker 2>and Xavier goods really good. Exavierd They say, Xavier Good,
<v Speaker 2>Xavier Woods is really good. That's one thing I haven't
<v Speaker 2>and won't take away from him, all the criticism I've
<v Speaker 2>given him for ten years, and the cringey moments and
<v Speaker 2>the terrible inside jokes and all that. He still is
<v Speaker 2>really good in the ring, really good. And I hope
<v Speaker 2>that this does work. And he turns on Kofe and
<v Speaker 2>Biggie's there to witness it.
<v Speaker 1>All right.
<v Speaker 2>We had let's say, Bronz Stroman come out, bron Stroman
<v Speaker 2>comes out, and it's Bronson Reevers' is bron Stroman. And
<v Speaker 2>once they were in the ring, Stroman avoided a charging Reid,
<v Speaker 2>who crashed in the corner and pulled the turnbuckle down,
<v Speaker 2>which caused the top rope to collapse. Stroman went to
<v Speaker 2>ringside and did his just I'm sorry, it's a horrible
<v Speaker 2>freight train thing. Reid grabbed a planted fan and then
<v Speaker 2>threw him at Stroman, which was funny, and then he
<v Speaker 2>speared Read through the barricade into the timekeeper's area, and
<v Speaker 2>Stroman charged Read. After security and producers and referees led
<v Speaker 2>Red to the back and his shoulder blocked him against
<v Speaker 2>the side of a production crate, and then Stroman continued
<v Speaker 2>to fight Read into the back stage area, tossed a
<v Speaker 2>bunch of security guards aside, and Stroman pushed a golf
<v Speaker 2>cart over, which allowed or caused a I guess an
<v Speaker 2>outage on one of the cameras, which I think was
<v Speaker 2>clearly planted. But Reid jumped off a crate and put
<v Speaker 2>thro Stroman through a table, and then Stroman got up
<v Speaker 2>and drove Read through some drywall and that was it,
<v Speaker 2>so a fun one backstage segment was a little bit staged,
<v Speaker 2>of course it was, but I don't want it to
<v Speaker 2>look that way. And some of the spots did look
<v Speaker 2>a little staged, like when the dry wall spot. All right,
<v Speaker 2>dry wall doesn't break like that, all right, I mean
<v Speaker 2>it does. It does break apart, but it doesn't break
<v Speaker 2>apart cleanly like that between studs. I mean, it just
<v Speaker 2>doesn't unless you pre cut it. In addition, were those
<v Speaker 2>like frying pans above them that were dropped in like
<v Speaker 2>some baking tins and stuff. If it was, I have
<v Speaker 2>many questions. Number one, why did it take so long
<v Speaker 2>for them to drop? It was like five seconds after
<v Speaker 2>Bronson Reid was put through the dry wall that those
<v Speaker 2>metal objects again, I think they were cooked. There's some
<v Speaker 2>kind of cookwar fell from the ceiling. So bad timing.
<v Speaker 2>It should have happened much sooner. It was like delayed pyro.
<v Speaker 2>And then also why who was storing cookwaar uh in
<v Speaker 2>an arena? I mean that was weird. I know it
<v Speaker 2>was just supposed to be something loud and for effect, like,
<v Speaker 2>you're not gonna have something soft and wimpy fall from that.
<v Speaker 2>I understand the I understand the visual. And also why
<v Speaker 2>didn't the camera pan up? You know, if something's falling,
<v Speaker 2>like metal objects are falling, the camera needs to pan up.
<v Speaker 2>Now they aren't gonna because people are clearly up there
<v Speaker 2>dropping dropping stuff. But so outside of that little kind
<v Speaker 2>of eye rolling moment, I generally have enjoyed Bronson Reid
<v Speaker 2>and Bronze Strowman. I think they have done an excellent
<v Speaker 2>job of and they've got the chemistry together. People want
<v Speaker 2>to see more destruction. What is the ultimate pay off
<v Speaker 2>of these two? What's the match? I guess I said,
<v Speaker 2>you can't do a cage match because of Helena cell overshadowing.
<v Speaker 2>It can't do a lumberjack match, because the you're not
<v Speaker 2>gonna have to anybody to be able to control them.
<v Speaker 2>What do you do? Do you just have these two
<v Speaker 2>in a parking lot brawl? Do you punjabi prison them?
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I mean, I guess you could do a
<v Speaker 2>steel cage, but I don't know. I don't know, because
<v Speaker 2>you know, a steel cage. Steel cages don't contain anybody.
<v Speaker 2>Steel cages. Are we really supposed to still believe that
<v Speaker 2>narrative today that you know, there's nowhere to go. We're
<v Speaker 2>gonna lock you to in a steel cage. Yeah, there's
<v Speaker 2>nowhere to go except for the door that the referee
<v Speaker 2>will generously open if you even come within three feet
<v Speaker 2>of it, or the fact that could just like you know,
<v Speaker 2>climb over the top real quick. Yeah. Beyond that, sure, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>nobody can get in or out. Sure, So I don't
<v Speaker 2>want to have to be told that nonsense. So what
<v Speaker 2>do you guys think? What is the stipulation for Stroman
<v Speaker 2>and read? What do you do with them? How do
<v Speaker 2>you pay off this kind of fun mini rivalry? All right,
<v Speaker 2>let's go. We then had Sammy z Ain come out
<v Speaker 2>and he's dressed in a plaid shirt at which we had.
<v Speaker 2>Who was it? We had somebody the announcers call him
<v Speaker 2>Paul Bunyan. I think I think that was Wade Barrett.
<v Speaker 2>That's pretty funny. So saying comes out, I mean, it
<v Speaker 2>does look like he was about he was out in
<v Speaker 2>the woods all all day, chopping down trees or something,
<v Speaker 2>and he called recalled Brett Heart talking about what it
<v Speaker 2>takes to be a champion, and all he could think
<v Speaker 2>of all week was that he needs to be the
<v Speaker 2>world champion, and the fans deserve a guy that will
<v Speaker 2>be here in weekend and week out. Oh my god,
<v Speaker 2>gag me uh and how we deserve a fighting champion?
<v Speaker 2>Can we drop this nonsense? Wade Barrett also said something
<v Speaker 2>very smart. He said, you don't just give out championship
<v Speaker 2>opportunities like candy, title shots like candy. They need to
<v Speaker 2>be earned. Yeah, Ali lujah, ollielulia. This just ridiculous narrative.
<v Speaker 2>And this is not me picking on the same heasaying
<v Speaker 2>character per se, this is every babyface champion that has
<v Speaker 2>ever existed for the last twenty years in w that
<v Speaker 2>they always must and forever must defend the title for
<v Speaker 2>all comers, otherwise they will be viewed as a coward,
<v Speaker 2>which again, you can split the hair here. You can
<v Speaker 2>kill two birds with one stone. You know how you
<v Speaker 2>do this by avoiding the cowardly accusation at the same
<v Speaker 2>time that you are going to be a fighting champion.
<v Speaker 2>What you do simple, you can still fight somebody in
<v Speaker 2>a non title match that does exist. So if you
<v Speaker 2>have babyface Champion A, and you have contender number one
<v Speaker 2>contender Heel or a potential number one contender heel wrestler B,
<v Speaker 2>and that heel wants a shot at the title, instead
<v Speaker 2>of just saying yeah, sure you deserve it because you
<v Speaker 2>came out and asked, which is ridiculous, what you do
<v Speaker 2>is say, no, you don't deserve this. I won't fight
<v Speaker 2>you for this championship, but I will fight you. I
<v Speaker 2>will just fight you, right. That makes more sense than
<v Speaker 2>just devaluing the belt by saying anyone that just comes
<v Speaker 2>out deserves a shot. It's ridiculous. It's also nauseating, all right,
<v Speaker 2>But Zain said Gunther has repeatedly decided declined his title challenges.
<v Speaker 2>Ludwig Kaiser comes out and Kaiser asked why Zain, out
<v Speaker 2>of all people, is asking for a title match, and
<v Speaker 2>said Gunther's trying to save Zane from the worst embarrassment
<v Speaker 2>of his life. Kaiser entered the ring while looking back
<v Speaker 2>at WrestleMania, which he said was the greatest night of
<v Speaker 2>Zain's career and said it was one the one time
<v Speaker 2>that the Zane family, Zaye's family looked up to him
<v Speaker 2>rather than looked down on him.
<v Speaker 3>And.
<v Speaker 2>Zay questioned if Kaiser thought he would gain respect by
<v Speaker 2>Gunther being Gunther's mouthpiece, and Zane told Kaiser to have
<v Speaker 2>the balls to speak for himself. Gunther comes out told
<v Speaker 2>Zane he would answer his challenge it a bit, but
<v Speaker 2>wanted to know if Kaiser had anything to tell him.
<v Speaker 2>Kaiser turned and hit Zaye with a microphone and then
<v Speaker 2>hit Zaye with punches, and Gunther said that his challenge.
<v Speaker 2>The answer to his challenge is and will remain no.
<v Speaker 2>Kaiser and Gunner hugged before Guntherer left the ring, and
<v Speaker 2>eventually Samy's Ain got the upper hand as Gunther left
<v Speaker 2>and hit a halluva kick on Kaiser. And so I'm
<v Speaker 2>really enjoying this, not that I think sammy'seein has a
<v Speaker 2>shot in hell, but the continuous knows by Gunthro this
<v Speaker 2>is what three weeks in a row that Guntherer has
<v Speaker 2>denied Sammy's Ain. We all know it's eventually going to
<v Speaker 2>be a Yes, he'll be you know, strong armed into
<v Speaker 2>it by Adam Pierce or through Sammy's Ain winning a
<v Speaker 2>Number one Contenders match of sorts. So it's going to happen.
<v Speaker 2>It's a matter of how when Gunther has no choice,
<v Speaker 2>you'll have to face Sammy. But this has been a
<v Speaker 2>fun little story, you know, Sammy Zain and being his
<v Speaker 2>underdog from the underground character. Whether he likes it or not,
<v Speaker 2>he is in this story no matter what he wants
<v Speaker 2>to be. He is the underdog from the underground for
<v Speaker 2>this particular story, and Gunther is the overwhelming favorite, and
<v Speaker 2>he should be. It's a fun story. It's a fun story.
<v Speaker 2>I think that it's one that is going to surprise
<v Speaker 2>a lot of people at the end of it, not
<v Speaker 2>that Sammy's Ain has a chance to win, but one
<v Speaker 2>that could end up really helping Zaane get something to
<v Speaker 2>really springboard off of and do something consistent on a
<v Speaker 2>weekly basis that doesn't involve the Intercontinental Championship, but rather,
<v Speaker 2>you know, hey, maybe a bloodline spot. I still think
<v Speaker 2>he could join rejoin the u OG bloodline and be
<v Speaker 2>that final piece. I know I bring back the bloodline
<v Speaker 2>every time, but I do believe in order Jimmy will return, Actually,
<v Speaker 2>Paul Hayman will return. Jimmy will then return, Jay will return,
<v Speaker 2>and then we'll have the final piece of Sammy Zain
<v Speaker 2>returning to take on Solo's bloodline. That's how I think
<v Speaker 2>the returns and order are going to go. I don't
<v Speaker 2>think it's going to be at all at once massive
<v Speaker 2>reunion on the same show. That makes no sense, all right.
<v Speaker 2>We then have Bianca Belair versus EO Sky. Nice to
<v Speaker 2>see Bianca in a singles match. It was twelve minutes,
<v Speaker 2>which is nice to also see. But Eo Sky beats
<v Speaker 2>Bianca because Sky went up for her finish, bell Air
<v Speaker 2>pulled her off and set her up for her finish
<v Speaker 2>and then Sky countered into an inside cradle for the victory,
<v Speaker 2>and so that was kind of Honestly, there was a
<v Speaker 2>bit of a surprising finish. Another one that just supports
<v Speaker 2>my narrative that Bianca is being just I don't know,
<v Speaker 2>she's like shadow Band or something. I don't think she
<v Speaker 2>did anything that she shouldn't have done in WWE. She's
<v Speaker 2>just being a good soldier, taking losses, helping build new stars,
<v Speaker 2>taking a back seat. But you can only do that
<v Speaker 2>for so long before you need the star themselves to
<v Speaker 2>help make money for you in the company and come
<v Speaker 2>out of her shell. And I think Beyonca, it's time
<v Speaker 2>for Beyonca to do that. She's been doing this for
<v Speaker 2>like the better part of a year now, Okay, Sky
<v Speaker 2>getting the victory is not the worst thing in the
<v Speaker 2>world though. Yeah, all right. We had let's see, we
<v Speaker 2>had a video package on American Maid and it was
<v Speaker 2>like a top gun eighties style and jay Us was
<v Speaker 2>walking backstage, ran into a dragon Off and congratulated him.
<v Speaker 2>And after jay left, the Judgment Day surrounded Dragon and
<v Speaker 2>Off and Bali took issue with dragon Off showing respect
<v Speaker 2>to Damien, Rhea and Jay. Then we get the main
<v Speaker 2>event and we had Damian Priest versus Dominic Waisterio and
<v Speaker 2>it was thirteen minutes of a main event with Damian
<v Speaker 2>Priest beating dom after he hit South of Heaven. After
<v Speaker 2>the match, the Judgment Day members as always attack Priest
<v Speaker 2>and Rhea tried to help, but Morgan pulled her off
<v Speaker 2>the apron and ran her into the ring steps and
<v Speaker 2>then Morgan tossed Ripley inside the ring and started pounding
<v Speaker 2>on her. Jay Uso made his entrance and we had
<v Speaker 2>bron Breaker come out of nowhere and spear jay Uso,
<v Speaker 2>returning the favor from earlier in the night. The Judgment
<v Speaker 2>Day members continued their attack on Priest. Morgan hit oblivion
<v Speaker 2>on Ripley. Balor hit Priest with coupdi gras while other
<v Speaker 2>members held him down and Balor went up top to
<v Speaker 2>hit two more hit it too more times so heels
<v Speaker 2>get the heat at the end solid Monday Night Raw.
<v Speaker 2>It'll be even better when two hours are a thing.
<v Speaker 2>And I think it really progressed things nicely towards Bad Blood,
<v Speaker 2>which is October fifth, three weeks away. I said it's two,
<v Speaker 2>it's three, so three weeks away. Bad Blood comes to
<v Speaker 2>us from is that Atlanta? Atlanta making that up? So
<v Speaker 2>it should be a lot of fun. This this is
<v Speaker 2>the preseason to WrestleMania in just about a month after
<v Speaker 2>you get through Bad Blood, we are pre WrestleMania season.
<v Speaker 2>That's not what WWE says, but that's just me. So
<v Speaker 2>I'm making my own rules. So that'll do it for
<v Speaker 2>the Monday Night Raw review. I appreciate it everybody again,
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<v Speaker 2>again for the next two smackdowns, but then for most
<v Speaker 2>of October a man will not be covering SmackDown as
<v Speaker 2>she takes some well deserved time off, and then she'll
<v Speaker 2>be back at the end of October. So take a
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