WWE RAW Review: Jey Uso vs. Ilja Dragunov, Gunther vs. Kofi, Iyo Sky vs. Shayna Baszler in King & Queen of the Ring Quarterfinal Matches

This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to the WWE podcast show,
the one that everybody wants me God, ste sixteenth says, I just used
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Raw Review here on the w W Podcast. It is Tuesday, May fourteenth,
twenty twenty four. We're gonna get into Monday Night Raw, and really,
what can I say about Raw? It was the most wrestling heavy Raw
I've seen in quite a while. I don't think I've seen a larger focus
on the King of the Ring tournament than I have this year. And it's
not a complaint. I'm just not used to it. It's usually a side
project. It's this other thing going on, but pay attention to the main
story, this King of the Ring things going on or Queen of the Ring
now. But my god, And maybe it's because I saw the Hulu version
of Raw, and now I know what happened beyond Hulu. But I watched
the Hulu version like many of you do, and if you did, I
mean I don't think we're used to this month's wrestling. On a wrestling show,
usually it's a lot of talking, twenty minutes of talking to set up
a five minute match. You do backstage segments to get through, recaps and
interviews and all that. This felt like one after the other after the other,
and they had a lot of matches to get through, so understandably this
was a wrestling heavy show. They have a lot to get through. There
was some live event consequences, consequential matches, which is not something you see
very often. And now we're down to the quarterfinals, semifinals, and then
next week we have a big matchup between Gunther and jay Uso and that will
determine who's in the finals. I mean, you look on the other side
of the bracket. We'll get a lot of answers this coming Friday on SmackDown.
It could come down to Gunther. It could come down to jay Uso
in the finals. We also have Tomatonga still in it. We have La
Knights still in it. I mean there could be a maybe a Gunther La
Night Showdown. That's very possible. La Knight and jay Uso. I mean
Tomatanga and jay I mean there's Tomatanga and jay us how about that for a
final. There's a lot of interesting men left in the bracket, and for
the women there's still some out there as well. You know, we can
look at the bracket as we get deeper into raw and talk about the winners
and losers of each match. But here's the question that I have is what
is this all going to mean. They've done a lot of promotion and credit
to them, and you know what, they've even done promotional video package for
the matches of the actual tournament. And I don't know if you guys caught
that. It's another production change from the Kevin Dunn Vince McMahon era to a
more sports based, reality based coverage of pro wrestling. They have reviews of
each match, even the matches you don't think that they would even cover.
They make you feel like it matters for the match you're about to see that.
It's just little things like that where fans are conditioned to usually look at
a match and go who cares? And if video package can get you excited
pretty quickly, the magic of video editing is can't be understated. So I
appreciate that, and again, but what is this all going to mean?
Whoever, the respective winners are the men and the women's side, what is
this all going to mean ultimately, Is it ultimately going to mean that the
perspective winners are going to act like core gestures for the next twelve weeks.
Do we get court jesters again that we get every single time? I would
hope not. And you know what else all would would like to see changed
up a bit, a babyface to win once in a while. I understand,
just like money in the bank, that this is a heel prize to
win because with King of the Ring, there's end Queen of the Ring.
Now we don't call it Queen's crown, thank god. It is a very
much kind of a It's something you put on your resume that you can brag
about, but there's no real accomplishment here outside of you get to wear a
crown and play per tend for a while. So if there's some kind of
ultimate prize, some kind of ultimate destination that the WWE wants the man and
the woman who win the tournament to get too, then I' all for it.
If this is just some tournament to crown a winner for both both sexes,
but there's no ultimate goal, I'm off board. We'll see, we'll
see what Paul Evec comes up with and what ultimately this is going to meet.
So in the meantime though, this is a lot of wrestling, as
I've said, and we're gonna get into the matches in just a minute.
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of mondayet Raw into the detail here, into the nitty gritty, and we
did have Mondonette Raw open with the footage of Gunther and Kofe Kinkson arriving separately.
Again, this is in Greenville, South Carolina. I think they mentioned
that once, but it's so funny when they're in a big city versus a
small city. You know, they say it once, or maybe not at
all, they just mentioned the state and not the city, or in they're
in the shadow of ex City or whatever. But they did mention it here
a little bit. I think Drew did. But they're doing a lot of
the footage of the stars arriving to the arena, and I, you know,
I generally enjoy it. I think it's something that was never done before,
at least not on a consistent basis. And you know what it does.
It humanizes all of the wrestlers because if you go to wrestling events,
even if you just watch them from home every week, it's almost as if
they just magically appear you know, like you don't think about the travel,
you don't think about them arriving. I mean, who the hell thinks about
them walking into the building every week? You know, that little thing humanizes
the experience for me. I like it. You know, I don't need
to see people's dogs, you know what I'm referencing come to the arena right
or you know, I think I think jay Uso brought his kid this week,
which was kind of cool, But generally, I think it's something that
you it feels like you're seeing footage that you shouldn't see. That it's like
exclusive that they arrived to the arena, because like, who's filming them to
the arena purposefully? You know? I like it. So I don't need
to see everyone arrived to the arena, but those that they have a plan
for that night and may be a good idea. And I like this here.
So we got let's see McIntyre coming to the ring and there were punk
chants and he said that maybe if they were in Atlanta or Charlotte, Uh
yeah, that only punk makes the big towns and he won't show up in
Greenville, which is I mean, there is some truth to that. McIntyre
brought up the line about the greatest trick the devil played was convincing the world
he doesn't exist. McIntyre said Punk looks like a drug addict, even though
he's never done drugs, and that if you're CM punk, if you're a
CM punk fan, then you're stupid. That is good, I mean,
even though it's elementary insults, it's still like it still works with Drew.
The best part of his character, as I continue to say he is the
hero of his own story, is just continuing to be brilliant. And he
goes on to talk about accusing Adam Pierce of giving Punk inside scoops regarding his
schedule, and McIntyre said he'll get his hands on Punk and then Punk will
beg him to tear his tricep. Until then, McIntyre said he wouldn't waste
his time on a guy that won't be cleared for twenty years, and said
his target is the World Heavyweight Championship and that quote paper champion Damian Priest,
and then Damian Priest comes out and by himself and he said that McIntyre had
serious issues and that let's see McIntire said Priest deserves all the success in the
world. He just doesn't deserve to be world champion. And McIntyre said it's
a case of the title making the man. And McIntyre labeled it the raw
title and said it needs him, it needs him in its infancy. And
Priest called McIntire delusional, and he said he blames everyone else for his failures,
and Priest told him to find a mirror and blame that guy. And
then Priest said McIntyre just had to grab his wife's hand after winning the title
and go enjoy his moment, but he saw punk and made him more important
than himself, the championship and his wife. And then Priest mocked mctyre for
getting zast whooped by a one armed man, and pre said McIntyre could call
him a paper champion all he wants, but he'll eat those words once he's
finished with him. You know this is this did not come off heelish to
me with Priest. Priest feels very much like he's making a subtle turn of
sorts towards babyface. He doesn't ask for a lot of help. He continually
turns down help. He confronted McIntyre on his own, who admittedly is also
a heel, so you don't have too many heel heel interactions to open the
show. I can't remember many in the last several months where it's heel heel
that opens the show. But if I were to guess, it seems like
Priest is turning babyface. Now that said, don't forget where we're going for
the next pl you know in June, guess where we're going Scotland, all
right, that I mean, there's a zero chance of Drew getting booed there.
So maybe Drew just for a night is a babyface, But in the
overall story, it's Damien that's turning. So no matter what they do,
they're not gonna get Drew bood in scotlandy ain't gonna happen, right, But
for a night he'll be the hometown hero. But I just I get babyface
vibes from Damien. And it's a lot of online criticism that's being brought into
the story here of Damian being a transitional champion. He's a paper champion,
you know, he doesn't He's not making the belt. The belt's making him.
And there's you know what, there's a lot of truth, at least
a sliver of I shouldn't say a lot. There's a sliver of truth and
all of those claims. Is Damien I need to be world champion? I
think many people felt not really, not quite yet does do most of us,
I think believe that the belt should make the man or the man should
make the belt. I think most of us would say that the man should
make the belt. You know, the guy holding it should be the one
to add value to whatever he's holding. And does it feel like Damien's helping
the world title? Not really? I mean, you go from Seth Rollins
to Damien Priest, who admittedly has been on the assent steadily for the last
year and a half to two years, it still feels like a big drop
from Seth to him, but not a gigantic drop, significant but not gigantic.
But Damien is starting to come into his own. You know, he
cuts good promos, he's good in the ring, he's good in backstage.
He's good as the de facto leader of the judgment day. Even though they
say they don't have a leader, they kind of do. But as good
is just good good enough? Do they really have a long term plan for
Damien to hold that belt longer than you know, the presumed match in Scotland.
I don't know. I would think probably because I think you're gonna have
Punk screw Drew in Scotland because you can't have then here's the thing, here's
what's gonna get interesting. It's in Scotland. So no matter what, Drew
could murder someone on the air. I mean, he could literally kill someone's
grandma on the air live in person. Just grab some old lady and just
you know, choker out in the ring. I don't getting a little bit
extreme and dramatic, but there's nothing they can do to get the crowd to
boo Drew in Scotland. Right, We've established that. So if you have
Punk screw Drew McIntyre over again in his presumed match in Scotland in June,
then you're gonna have seeing Punk bood in Scotland. I mean. So if
that's not if they can take that for a night, then fine. But
maybe they have uh, maybe they have Punk avoid Drew at all costs in
that arena, so they don't even have an option of getting Punk booed.
It's just something I've been thinking about with Scotland looming and Drew in the you
know, on a great heel run. Going to Scotland and turning babyface for
a night may not be the worst thing, but does WW care enough on
a pl stage to reverse the roles of Punk getting booed for a night while
McIntyre gets cheered Damien gets booed, which he's been getting booed anyway, So
there could be a little bit of a reversal of roles in that respect.
We'll have to see it all plays out. But I don't even know if
it's going to take till June for Punk to get cleared it could. It
seems like he is maybe that maybe it's already halfway through May. I thought
it was some reason. I thought it was like April or something. No,
so you know, maybe it is. Maybe that's how they do it.
But all right, We then get EO Sky versus Shanna Basler in a
Queen of the Ring quarterfinal match. You know this this was a pleasure and
bringing back the rivalry between Basler and EO Sky was a nicer reminder, especially
for those that weren't aware or forgot, like myself. And you know,
you know you didn't just remember how good Shannon Basler is, but she really
looked at EO Sky and said, Hey, where the hell was this during
her six to eight nine month run when she was invisible on SmackDown? Where
the hell was this to me? And I said this on the rest Mania
review a month and month and a little over a month, five six weeks
ago. Eo Sky had her best night as champion the night she lost it.
She had one of the best matches of WrestleMania with her and Bailey.
It was awesome to punt a overused chant and it was though, And I'm
like sitting there going, really, you waited until her last night is champion
to show us what she can do here. And I'm sure Eo if you
gave her truth here and be like yeah, see, I mean that's been
in the tank the whole time. They just never let it, let me
get it out. And Neo Sky here with Shanna Basler did a nice job,
but the right person winning. I know that a lot of people thought
this could be the rebirth of Shannon Basler and it ended up not being that.
But you know what, it's just I want to say, just Queen
of the Ring, but title's not on the line here. It's more of
a bragging right type of prize at the end of this. But they had
a nice match physical EO Skies over the Moon Salt is beautiful to watch and
I just generally really like this And I put out a tweet on X Dick
again, do they still call it tweets on X or is it a post
on it? I put on X that can we all remember how effing good
EO Sky is because she is really good and I could see and it's starting
to You're starting to hear the crowd a bit start to turn in favor of
EO. You know, I don't believe it was damage control out of there.
I don't think they were. If they were, they were minimal in
the matchup, but forced to choose, the crowd's going to choose EO Sky
over shanea Basler, And I think that there could be something there with an
Eosky babyface turn that she ends up turning on the group or just leaving the
group or whatever, because you're not going to turn all that the whole damn
controlled group babyface. You're not going to do it EO Sky though, through
her work rate, through how damn good she is in the ring, and
yes, you can overcome the language barriers. We know the formula, now
we know the antidote, and it is shinskan A Kamura in his promo style.
So that's no longer really as big of an issue as it had been
in the past. So there's really no excuse here now to continue to move
EO Sky in whatever direction they want. They could continue with her as a
heel, but every time you watch her, even for like just a few
minutes, you're going, oh, wow, yeah, this is a She's
just buttersmooth. She's more athletic than you give her credit for on face value.
She's she's in her I like her interest music too, So I don't
know, I'm just really starting to become more and more every week a bigger
advocate of EO Sky. So Carlito continues to try to infiltrate himself into the
judgment A group. I mean, priest was really I mean, he kind
of had a funny line where Carlier goes, I get it, I get
it, you don't trust me, And you're thinking that you know, Damien's
gonna have this long response to that, and like you know of why,
and he just looks at Curly that goes nope. He's like, nope,
yeah, I don't trust you. It was funny, you know, Damian
Priest is becoming more like likable and I don't know if that's by design or
not. As I've said in the open with Drew McIntyre, I don't know
if it's by design, but I'm getting more babyface vibes from him and Carly
Dole trying to infiltrate the group to with the old logic of you scratch my
back, I'll scratch yours is starting to while we had we had Damien initially
say no, things that happened later in the show is starting to I think
change his mind a bit and we'll see what. I don't know what the
ultimate thing is for Carlito, what the ultimate goal is for Carlito. I
know that he has got some unfinished business with the LWO oh and that's going
to be a thing. And Judgment Day is going to get involved with the
LWO and so maybe that's what it is. But at least Carletto is there
and he's he's doing something much more significant than he had since his debut.
Re debut, he even lost his mustache and gave it to dom So dom
stole his mustache and I don't know when he's going to get it back,
So there is a there is that, So alrighty, we uh, let's
see get in more video packages of the King of the Ring opening round matches
that set up KOFE versus Gunther, and we then have let's see Gunther versus
KOFE Kingston and a King there in quarterfinal. Some nice promo for this,
a nice uh yeah, kind of small build to this, and you know,
this match even over delivered. I think it was fourteen minutes, just
under fourteen minutes, and there were some nice moves or a nice false finishes
in here, with trouble in Paradise, the near count out of both men.
Eventually guntherer hit a power bomb and made him submit to a Boston crab.
So I like that Gunther is starting to expand his finishing arsenal. That
it's not just the power bomb, which I also really enjoy as a finish
that's been brought back as a finish, but the Boston crab that has forever
been used as a submission move that you know no one's ever gonna really tap
out to. And yes, there's been variations like the Lion Tamer right with
Chris Jericho, that have been used more as a submission finish, But I
like the Boston Crab, I mean, just old school. Here's what I
like about Gunther His moves. The moves he uses as finishes are a lot
of what the men and women use as just part of the match, right,
It's just part of the match, and gun Thry uses it as a
finish. He's old school basic Boston Crab, basic maneuver, power bomb,
basic maneuver, both of them being used as finishing maneuvers. It just fits
his character perfectly. And I like how Kofe tapped here, not because I
hate the Kofe character, perhaps on the same level as the babyface character of
Cody Rhodes, which always brings a you know, a tear of joy to
my eye to see either of those men lose. I think that again,
having him tap is a different type of defeat or victory, depending on which
side you're looking at, because it's more definitive to me, having someone voluntarily
quit, which is what you're doing, is more definitive and more humiliating than
just being knocked out for a one to two three. I think so again,
Gunther now is going to be facing the winner, and we all know
who it is now. But Dragon Ov versus Jay in next week's semi final
match that we all know who won there. But we'll get to that in
a minute. All right, we got let's see moving on, there's a
lot of a lot of filler, guys. I'm reading through a complete rundown
of raw, and I don't want to go through every little backstage segment with
Adam Pearson, the tag team title situation, and oh, it's gonna be
a fatal four way. I go, okay, I don't need I'm not
gonna go through every little thing, just so you know. But Bronson read
versus a Kurra Tazala. This is embarrassingly quick as expected, with Bronson Reid
beating a Curra Tazawa in one minute and fifteen seconds. We got I know
it was a hang on. I saw it in the description here and I
somehow missed it. Oh. The Chad Gables, speaking with Maxine Otis and
Akira Tazawa back age, Gable said dupre blew her opportunity and embarrassed Alpha Academy.
Gable announced that Otis would face Sammy's ain he said he didn't want any
I wouldn't want funny man Otis because he needed him to soften up Zaying for
his IC title match, and Gable told to Zawa he would face Brons and
reed and warned him not to blow it or do his dance. So okay.
Admittedly I didn't see this, but I can picture it in my mind.
I appreciate that they're continuing with this. Maybe there's more of a payoff
coming. There wasn't you ever since Chad went heal and berated his team and
then also asked for their allegiance, which was just a perfect SOB thing to
do, and you're thinking, oh, here we go. They're gonna make
this a big thing on Raw every week, and now it's just been kind
of pushed to the backstage quick mention, small push forward for the Alpha Academy,
And it's not a for gotten story. I just was hoping at this
point things would have been a little bit more pushed, a little bit more
ahead than it is now. But they still got time. And it all
comes down to when do they want to turn Otis? Because I think Otis
is gonna turn on Gable at some point. NAC scene is certainly going to
turn on him, slap him, probably kick him in the nuts. But
a carrots Is now is gonna get beat down next week, and then he's
gonna probably ask Otis to do something he doesn't want to do. Otis is
going to hesitate while maybe Chad Gable berets him and forces him to do it.
That kind of thing. So right, d we after the characters our
match, we got more. I think at some point I forget what match
it was. It might have been a women's match. Another QR code I'm
getting. I'm not following them. I know a lot of you are.
I didn't, so you can continue to let me know what those QR codes
say. Probably some creepy stuff, very bray wyattish. It has to be
the re debut of Bo Dallas in some form or fashion. I don't know
what else it or who else it could be, but let's move on.
Lyra Valkyria Did I get that right? Finally? I don't know why I
can't pronounce her name. Lyra Valkyria versus Zoe Stark and a Queen of the
Ring quarterfinal match? Physical was this predictable? Not really? I mean,
you could see both of these women winning Zoe Starks was at one point you're
thinking, oh my, she's gonna be a big star. She's with tris
stratus. Then she kind of disappears for a while and doesn't talk. It's
no again, gets no mic time, little in ring time. You're thinking,
oh boy. And then she has a couple of good matches and you're
like, all right, here we go. And then they pulled the rug
out from underneath her again because Valkyria is the one to get the victory here
in nine minutes after hitting the night Wing and getting the victory. So we
then had Jackie Redman come in the ring and spoke of Valkyria, who asked
if Redmond wanted to know why she's so confident. Valkyria then spoke in Gaelic
and then said everyone would find out what that means. She says she's a
former xd Women's champion and she only travels as the crow flies straight to the
top. The match was fine. I don't know what the hell any of
this means for Valkyria. I mean, I'm never a proponent of speaking in
another language to your audience that is a mainly English speaking audience. Obviously,
there are portions of this audience, even those of you that listen to the
show that under bilingual, or maybe even more that you. Oh, I
know, what are you talking about. I know more than English. I
know I know Spanish, I know French, I know German. That's all
great, but the facts are the facts. I mean, the majority of
your audience is English, and whenever you have a wrestler speak in a different
tongue, especially Gaelic, I mean I couldn't even tell tell you one word
from that language. So anyway, yeah, so moving on, but going
to the Icy Champion, Sammy Zane versus Otis in a non title match.
We got Sammy zan beating Otis in two minutes and this was a pretty again
quick match, as I said, but we got Otis going for the worm
and Gable climbed into the ring apron and told him not to do it,
and then Otis hit them move anyway, and Gable then barked it Otis to
perform his finish. Otis went for it, Zane moved, hit the hoover
cake and got the victory. After the match, Gable yelled at Otis,
shoved the side of his head, and Zane returned to the ring and gave
Gable gave Gable an exploder souplex, and then Zane set up for his finish,
but Gable avoided it, which I like. And then Otis tried to
drag Gable away and Gable stopped him. Gable told the Otis that it was
his fault and then slapped him. Oh I love this. I love this.
As I said, it's continuing to see how far you can push the
big man before he turns. And again, I'm telling you, next week
he's probably gonna tell him tell Otis to destroy to destroy Kirat Desau for his
loss and bark orders at him, and we'll see how far he can get
pushed. Okay. We then had Braunz Strowman wish that the Creed brothers wish
to wish them luck. Ivan Nile stood by, and then J. D.
McDonough showed up and told Stroman to consider himself warned about sticking his nose
in the judgment day's business, and then Stroman laughed. So I honestly,
and I'm not even kidding you, I forgot that Stroman even returned. I
wasn't on wrong going, oh right, I didn't even think about it.
It didn't even cross my mind. And again nothing against the big man who
is again I will sing his praises when it comes to his ability and what
he should and shouldn't be able to do. He's got a great look,
all of it, but his character is not engaging. It's very one dimensional.
Just is, sorry, Braun, it just is. Now you've been
able to make a great living on that one dimension of being a big monster
and doing choo choo train noises around the ring, and that's all fine and
well. But while you're playing Thomas the tank Engine, the rest of us
are going Is there more to this character? Is there more? We'll find
out, But right now he's just backstage wishing everybody good luck. I think
he did it to Ricochet last week, and now he's getting paid to just
wish people luck backstage. I mean, I'm sure they have bigger plans obviously
with the judgment day, But right now, bron Stroman, I didn't even
think about him. He didn't even I don't think he was even in my
subconscious at all. Like he wasn't even in my subconscious. That's how uninterested
I am at the moment. Subjects change, of course with Bronz Stroman okay
uh. We got the women's world champion, Becky Lynch versus Dakota Kai,
and Saye held up a King Koda fan ring fan sign at ringside, which
is kind of cool. And we got Becky Lynch beating Dakota Kai in ten
minutes by d Q though because we had Sky Insane run in and attack Lynch
for the DQ finish. But after the match we got Sky and Sane who
were continuing to beat up Lynch. Lyra Vakiria ran out, made the save,
and then Live Morgan from behind hit Lynch into the ring post, and
I just I'm really enjoying Live. I know she didn't have a massive impact
this week in terms of a promo or whatever. I mean, she just
had this one moment, but it was effective and I like what Live has
to offer over the last month or so. Yes, I was critical of
her silly sounding revenge to her initially, Yes I was, but I think
it has developed into a logical story. Liv has found her voice. She's
found her confidence, which I think we're both missing for the first well not
the first majority of her career up until just lately. So I'm looking forward
to a Live Becky Lynch Showdown. All right, we then have Finn Baler
and j D versus Julius Creed or the Cree Brothers versus the New Catch Republic
versus the AOP and it was for a shot at the World Tag Team titles.
Now, this was made by Adam Pierce earlier, who was talking about
oh, it's a new era, oh, which means new opportunities. He
was just like inspired by this, very very happy with himself, very impressed,
and it was a good match. Now did the right team win of
having Finn and Jane D beat the Creed Brothers and everyone else? I mean,
I guess, but now you're gonna have, potentially and maybe even dare
I say likely the Judgment they take back the World Tag Team titles that they
just lost to Truth and MS who really, by the way, I know
they appeared on rawbackstage a little bit. They haven't done a ton with those
titles, and to be fair, I don't think a lot of us expected
a long title ran anyway. So I mean, I guess putting it back
on the Judgment day wouldn't be the worst thing. But at some point you're
gonna have to bring in some new blood into the World Tag Team title match
and title scene, meaning new if you're going to transfer the belts to me,
who I'd make champion Creed Brothers Man, I really would. Now,
I would do a little more character development before that. But the crowd is
behind them. The crowd sees the ability of these two men who are just
pure athletes, and they respect that, and they put on a hell of
a show. They're no nonsense. They're simple, they're trunks, they're ring
attire. It's all simple. It's not flashy. They're very basic. But
the crowd is connecting with them, and I think if they do a little
bit of groundwork with personality, pre taped promos, if they're not good at
promos, you could do those, you know again, video packages. I
mean there's a lie you can do even a brief in ring promo in ring
you know, live one if they dare. But they need a little bit
of that, and that's how I would do it, But clearly they have
other plans. I still don't understand how just by the mere number of people
in a match somehow dictates whether it's disqualification or not. Still makes absolutely no
sense to me. Oh it's triple threat. There's three people not too Oh
well there's no rules. Wait a minute, it's a it's a tag team
match. But you're saying there's more than one team, no rules. I
mean, it's just it's insane. It's insane. Now, you guys know
I had to complain about something, Well, here it is. It's a
complain I've had forever. If you've listened to the show for any length of
time. Now someone may say, well, they do that because how is
it fair to the team that wasn't involved to lose the match if someone interferes.
Well, here's what you do. Here's what you do. Okay,
someone interferes. You have couple options, all right. You could restart the
match and ban that personthing from the arena. You could have whoever was if
someone was shown behind an attack, that team is now gone from the match.
Right. You could take that team out of the match if they are
if they are the reason why they're you know, say they It doesn't even
have to be a third party. You could have weapons be used, right,
the team that is using the weapons gets disqualified throughout the match. Now
it's just a one on one you know what I'm saying, Like there's ways
to get around it, and they just refuse it and it's silly to go.
Oh, it depends on how many people are involved. If there's more
people, there's less rules. I don't get it all right, we have
next week's raw being hyped. So here's next week's raw in a nutshell before
we get to the main event. Sammy versus Chad Gable in a non title
match, Larra of Valkyria versus Eo Sky in a Queen of the Ring semifinal
match, Gunther versus jay Uso, and the King of the Ring semifinal match.
So some big matchups next week. Sounds like we're gonna get more of
the same with more a lot more wrestling. No complaints here, and then
again jay Uso coming out for the main event and it was a thirteen minute
main event with jay Uso beating Dragonov to advance to the semifinals. And they
did this match did like I think one or two others get it. This
is awesome. Chant Dragonof clearly has it now. There are many people that
are not happy with this decision given Dragonof just came up. He was on
a bit of a mini winning streak. You know you wanted to get some
momentum. I would say, even in the loss. Here here, here's
where I would argue again swins and losses having meaning. When you just come
up, you just come up from NXT, it is not expected you're gonna
shoot to the main event and become champion and beat everyone on the roster.
Therefore, if you go to the main event and you lose, the fact
that you were in the main event at all, I think speaks volumes to
where WWE views you in the future. So, yeah, he lost the
match, but you know what people are gonna remember. They're gonna remember that
Dragon Off was in the main event of Raw, and remember is how good
he is in the ring, because I think he really is that good.
And jay USO's his credit, did a nice job as well as he always
does. Again, the super kicks are horrendous at this point, I would
ban them from jay USO's arsenal. But he hit a spear and hit his
splash. I like that. Jay Usaw has really done a nice job of
mimicking Roman Reigns as spear a lot of intensity. It's like a mid air
collision. It's not like a Goldberg collision. It's a nice, just athletic
spear like just well done, and then the splash to get to victory and
Jayoso advances. Now it's Jaos versus Gunther. We'll have to see how the
rest of the bracket plays out on Friday before we can figure out, well,
jay you'll probably win. Oh no, no, Gunther. Right,
so we'll see who advances on Friday to get more of an idea of who
was likely to lean the victor on Raw next week. So, uh again,
very good wrestling, A lot of wrestling if you're used to the you
know, the pomp and circumstance, the promos, the backstage bits, the
skits. This was probably not the show for you know, we got some
of the that. We did get a little bit of that, but the
majority of the show was you guessed it professional wrestling. Dare I say?
And I think this was a nice focus on the King of the Ring,
Queen of the Ring. And can anybody, I mean, honestly tell me
the last time WWE took the tournaments this series, even just I know the
Queen of the Ring has actually this may be the very first Queen of the
Ring I understand there was a Queen's crown, but they didn't call it Queen
of the Ring. I think this is the very first one in this current
format. But tell me the last time they took the King of the Ring
tournament? This seriously? Now they always bring up the winners of the past.
Trible. Ah, right, you got Stone Colls, Steve Austin.
They got to bring that one up every time that Austin three sixteen was born
a King of the Ring. We know this right in nineteen ninety six,
which nearly nearly is thirty years ago. How is it even possible? Right,
Like, in two years it would have been thirty years since Austin three
sixteen was born. How time is a thief? It's like, okay,
twenty eight years. It's just it's mind blowing. It's mind blowing. It's
been that long since Austin three sixteen was born. Just crazy? Oh boy?
All right, Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the show. Seems
like it's a little bit shorter than normal maybe now it's usually fortyish minutes,
is how I roll. And hopefully if you're listening to my show and you're
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