Official 2025 Backlash Review & Reaction

<v Speaker 1>This is WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre and you're listening to
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<v Speaker 3>Well, Backlash has come and gone, and we are now
<v Speaker 3>focused on Saturday Night main event as the next kind
<v Speaker 3>of ple e and then from there it's onto money
<v Speaker 3>in the bank. But this is going to be a
<v Speaker 3>show up and down, from wall to wall backlash as
<v Speaker 3>intended by the title, and overall, I will say I
<v Speaker 3>I did enjoy Backlash, despite the fact that they were
<v Speaker 3>not as many returns or swerves as I would have liked.
<v Speaker 3>And yes, we got a debut, one that no one
<v Speaker 3>saw coming and one that made me and a lot
<v Speaker 3>of people be honest, go who's this again? Who right?
<v Speaker 3>And we'll get to that debut that new member of
<v Speaker 3>the Blood and the newest member of the Bloodline in
<v Speaker 3>just a few minutes, because that Bloodline story just will
<v Speaker 3>not die. There have been so many iterations, in twists
<v Speaker 3>and turns in that story. Are we all ready to
<v Speaker 3>say it's over yet? Are we all? Every time you
<v Speaker 3>think the Bloodline story is kind of fizzling out. They
<v Speaker 3>just find a way to revive it. And sometimes it's
<v Speaker 3>really good. Sometimes it's okay, and this time, yeah, it's
<v Speaker 3>a new face. But I'm kind of ready for the
<v Speaker 3>Bloodline to stop being a thing. I don't know how
<v Speaker 3>you guys feel about it, but just generally, I'm just
<v Speaker 3>I don't know, I'm just no matter it's seemingly what
<v Speaker 3>they do to it, They've kind of done everything. They've
<v Speaker 3>introduced new people, They've had people turn babyface and heel
<v Speaker 3>from it. They've had champions go four years plus running
<v Speaker 3>the company. We've had an absentee champion, Roman Reigns. We've
<v Speaker 3>had a Babyface infiltrate, a heel group with Sammy Zain.
<v Speaker 3>We've had a new version of the Bloodline version two
<v Speaker 3>point zero with Solo Socoa and his his tonguins and
<v Speaker 3>now the new guy will get to him. And so
<v Speaker 3>we've kind of seen it all done at all, and
<v Speaker 3>I'm not I will say I'm not against watching it.
<v Speaker 3>I just feel like I'm it's being oversaturated and they
<v Speaker 3>are squeezing every ounce of this Bloodline faction that they
<v Speaker 3>can out of out of the story, and that's their job.
<v Speaker 3>I guess, But thank you everybody for joining me here.
<v Speaker 3>I hope you all enjoyed Backlash. I was not an
<v Speaker 3>active participant very much. I was exhausted yesterday, so I
<v Speaker 3>didn't get to watch backlast really till this morning, and
<v Speaker 3>even then I didn't watch every single thing. I did
<v Speaker 3>skim through some things and go through entrances and just
<v Speaker 3>watch the matches, which saves you a lot of time.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, if you're not a big entrance person
<v Speaker 3>and just want to watch the meat of the whole show,
<v Speaker 3>you can, and it cuts the time at about half.
<v Speaker 3>But I think the time overall was a nice pace
<v Speaker 3>for the show. I mean three hours, you can't beat
<v Speaker 3>that for a ple And it was very wrestling heavy,
<v Speaker 3>as ples tend to be outside WrestleMania, and there's a
<v Speaker 3>lot to get to. There's a lot to get to,
<v Speaker 3>but first I want to get to big Ease comments.
<v Speaker 3>Y'all know I was going to talk about this Biggie
<v Speaker 3>on the pre show, talking about quote unquote giving grace
<v Speaker 3>to the older performers, the older women female performers, and
<v Speaker 3>again it came in response to Becky Lynch's comments. So
<v Speaker 3>Becky Lynch had said that quote I'll do continue to
<v Speaker 3>do what I'm doing. I'll be great. I'll just beat
<v Speaker 3>all these younger people, beat newer people. It's not that hard.
<v Speaker 3>For some reason, it seems to be hard. It seems
<v Speaker 3>to be harder on the women's vision. Look at all
<v Speaker 3>the men. Who do you got that's hot and young
<v Speaker 3>over there? None? You got a bunch of old lads
<v Speaker 3>beating each other up. Nobody's saying nothing. The man really
<v Speaker 3>drove her point home when she said that no one
<v Speaker 3>is asking for Sampunker, even seth Rollins to step aside
<v Speaker 3>and big Eie, here's what Biggie said about that, you
<v Speaker 3>see two Irish women.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like so much of the narrative is is
<v Speaker 4>this a passing.
<v Speaker 2>Of the torch moment?
<v Speaker 4>But it's also very interesting when I hear from Becky
<v Speaker 4>and she talks a lot about age and the way
<v Speaker 4>we talk about age with the women and the way
<v Speaker 4>we talk about age with the men, and that for
<v Speaker 4>a lot of women who are in their late thirties,
<v Speaker 4>it's all are you winding down? When are you ready
<v Speaker 4>to get out? It feels like seventy five percent of
<v Speaker 4>the male side is thirty eight thirty ninety five ready
<v Speaker 4>Randy wanted to do another ten years exactly exactly. So
<v Speaker 4>let's give the women the same honor in the same
<v Speaker 4>grace as well.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, first of all, mister male feminist, all right, the
<v Speaker 3>first couple things, all right, And to hear that from Biggie,
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's such a it feels like a corporate line,
<v Speaker 3>does it not. Okay, two big things here. One, men
<v Speaker 3>and women are different. I know that comes as a shock,
<v Speaker 3>It probably comes as a revelation, but if you look around,
<v Speaker 3>you just kind of can tell inherently that men and
<v Speaker 3>women are not the same. They don't age the same,
<v Speaker 3>they don't have the same strengths and weaknesses. And if
<v Speaker 3>we're just talking about physically now, just physically, men are superior.
<v Speaker 3>They just are biologically right. Otherwise, I mean, men competing
<v Speaker 3>in women's sports it would be a travesty. And we're
<v Speaker 3>seeing that now and a lot of actions taken. Again,
<v Speaker 3>So what there should which should be? I mean, you
<v Speaker 3>can't have men competing in women's sports. That's what the
<v Speaker 3>delineation is for fairness, right, But that aside, Okay, the
<v Speaker 3>fact that men and women are different. The idea though,
<v Speaker 3>that we have to give women grace right, and that
<v Speaker 3>Becky first of all, can't speak proper English, Okay. I
<v Speaker 3>mean she says, quote, you got a bunch of old
<v Speaker 3>lads beating each other up. Nobody's saying nothing. That's from
<v Speaker 3>Becky Lynch. Expand, Becky, please please expand on that. It
<v Speaker 3>seems to be harder on the women's division. How in
<v Speaker 3>what way? Because of age?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Age is a big factor because women do not age
<v Speaker 3>the same. When you take a woman who already is
<v Speaker 3>physically limited compared to the men, and physically limited in
<v Speaker 3>the ring compared to men, their muscle mass, their bone density,
<v Speaker 3>everything down to their cellular level degrades at a slower
<v Speaker 3>pace than men. That's just that's just fact. Okay. So
<v Speaker 3>you don't have a lot of these women. Do you
<v Speaker 3>see Sable wanting to come out at sixty years old
<v Speaker 3>and have a match? Who do you see on the
<v Speaker 3>women's side that the ww fans or the w WE
<v Speaker 3>are like, hey, you know what was that person doing?
<v Speaker 2>These days?
<v Speaker 3>You don't see it because women are not as physically
<v Speaker 3>strong and capable as men period. I mean, we just
<v Speaker 3>had Stone Cold come out of retirement a few years ago,
<v Speaker 3>sixty years old, nearly sixty and had a bust ass
<v Speaker 3>match with Kevin Owens. Right, we had John Cena and
<v Speaker 3>Randy Orton at nearly fifty years old, nearly fifty having
<v Speaker 3>a hell of a match last night at Backlash. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>these men are because well, yes, their drive and their
<v Speaker 3>their lifestyle and all that helps promote their maintaining, maintaining
<v Speaker 3>of muscle mass and all of that, and their lung
<v Speaker 3>capacity which is far superior to women's. Again, physically, I'm
<v Speaker 3>not talking about mentally. I'm not talking about emotionally. I'm
<v Speaker 3>not talking about what they contribute to society as a whole,
<v Speaker 3>or that women don't have strengths. I know a lot
<v Speaker 3>of you are reading into this. I'm talking about physically
<v Speaker 3>purely from a professional wrestling standpoint, all right, but very
<v Speaker 3>clear about that. No matter what I say, I'm sure
<v Speaker 3>I'm already angering some of you. And that's just is
<v Speaker 3>what it is. If you're angry at this, then you
<v Speaker 3>have your own agenda, which it means you're just angry
<v Speaker 3>at facts. I have no issue if women want to
<v Speaker 3>come out of retirement, Okay, that's fine with me, but
<v Speaker 3>it's going to be embarrassing and it's also going to
<v Speaker 3>be unsafe. It's I mean, yes, there's an inherent risk
<v Speaker 3>even for men that come out and they're older, because
<v Speaker 3>they're just we are all slaves to father time. They all,
<v Speaker 3>we all will die. We all have our bodies right
<v Speaker 3>now as we speak, breaking down. That's it, right, But
<v Speaker 3>men do it at a slower pace and they're able
<v Speaker 3>to absorb more punishment in the ring for a longer
<v Speaker 3>period of time. Professional wrestling forever will be a man's sport.
<v Speaker 3>It just will be. You're gonna have women who do
<v Speaker 3>a hell of a job and they're always going to
<v Speaker 3>be a part of professional wrestling, but pro wrestling at
<v Speaker 3>its core will always be a man's sport. It just
<v Speaker 3>is going to be. It doesn't need to transition to
<v Speaker 3>a female sport, and it really wouldn't anyway. People don't
<v Speaker 3>want that. I don't think people. People just want a
<v Speaker 3>healthy mix, and you're not going to see a lot
<v Speaker 3>of these women at fifty five sixty years old do this.
<v Speaker 3>It's not gonna happen, so big ee cool it all right.
<v Speaker 3>I know he's trying to play the I'm an ally
<v Speaker 3>of the feminist card. I can see it. Unless I mean,
<v Speaker 3>he probably truly believes it too, which makes it worse.
<v Speaker 3>I'd love to have to ask him like, Okay, what
<v Speaker 3>do you mean by that? Exactly? Give them the same
<v Speaker 3>grace in what way? Because of their age? Are we
<v Speaker 3>now being sexist and agist? Is it because when they
<v Speaker 3>get older they don't look as good? So that's why
<v Speaker 3>we're saying they can't compete and they shouldn't commit. But
<v Speaker 3>come back, is that what you're implying is because they
<v Speaker 3>as women get older, they don't look as good. Is
<v Speaker 3>that what you're implying And that's what we care about
<v Speaker 3>the most. Is that what you're saying, Biggie sounds like it.
<v Speaker 3>But also, Becky Lynch, on top of all this, has
<v Speaker 3>said recently that she would beat MJF in a promo. Yes, yes,
<v Speaker 3>she said that. I don't know what world, what reality
<v Speaker 3>Becky Lynch is Rebecca Quinn is living in. She cannot
<v Speaker 3>truly believe that she would in a shoot promo or
<v Speaker 3>even a work promo because MJF would add his own flavor,
<v Speaker 3>actually come out on top against MJF. She's kidding, right, MJF.
<v Speaker 3>I think could school John Cena. And that is saying
<v Speaker 3>something right now, MJF. Is he is the best promo
<v Speaker 3>I've ever seen in my lifetime by a mile. Becky
<v Speaker 3>Lynch can't even form a sentence, and she thinks that
<v Speaker 3>she could defeat MJF in a promo. Is this just
<v Speaker 3>trying to get attention? Is this her just trying to
<v Speaker 3>scream for attention? Is that what this is? It's a
<v Speaker 3>cry for attention, Becky Lynch saying that she could defeat MJF.
<v Speaker 3>MJF in his sleep you know, you know how some
<v Speaker 3>people sleep talk in his sleep talk? Could torch Becky
<v Speaker 3>Lynch much less a fully conscious, rested MJF. I don't
<v Speaker 3>I mean, she can't truly believe this. She can't believe
<v Speaker 3>it herself, So I don't know if she's trying to
<v Speaker 3>fool Becky Lynch. Just is zero for two here and
<v Speaker 3>then you got Biggie oh for one. All right, Well,
<v Speaker 3>if I've still got you with me, and you're currently
<v Speaker 3>in the middle of writing a review that I'm I
<v Speaker 3>don't know, some kind of some kind of hateful, sexist whatever,
<v Speaker 3>continue I don't want to interrupt, So continue with that review, which,
<v Speaker 3>by the way, those reviews help me, So go ahead
<v Speaker 3>and post it all you want. But let's get to
<v Speaker 3>the backlash, alright, because that's where you're here. Let's talk
<v Speaker 3>about John Cena, Let's talk about Randy or I'm going
<v Speaker 3>to go right to it, because this match was awesome.
<v Speaker 3>I know a lot of people, including myself, looked at
<v Speaker 3>this as a match that ended our childhood at least
<v Speaker 3>our our ruthless aggression or ruthless aggression childhood era. It
<v Speaker 3>was a way to close that chapter forever. It is
<v Speaker 3>the last time unless something changes. But I doubt it
<v Speaker 3>that Randy Orton and John Cena are ever going to
<v Speaker 3>have a match together. So that's kind of sad that
<v Speaker 3>we see that also kind you know, kind of appreciative
<v Speaker 3>as well. It was an appreciative, sad moment. I don't
<v Speaker 3>care that John Sena is heel, doesn't matter to me.
<v Speaker 3>That meant nothing. He clearly meant nothing to the fans
<v Speaker 3>afterwards too, who were still channing for Cena and thank
<v Speaker 3>you and all that who were cheering for him after
<v Speaker 3>the show and off the air, And I want to
<v Speaker 3>talk about that moment too, because I still think it's
<v Speaker 3>a work. Meaning John Cena is appreciative of that moment.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure he felt that moment in real life of
<v Speaker 3>the fans saying thank you, and he had this look
<v Speaker 3>on his face of just sadness as the reality of
<v Speaker 3>his career coming to a close is starting to really
<v Speaker 3>catch up to him. That that's what I read in
<v Speaker 3>that moment. If you watch the after show footage where
<v Speaker 3>he's holding his belt and the fans are channing and
<v Speaker 3>he just kind of walks up the ramp, and then
<v Speaker 3>after the show he ends up saying that, you know,
<v Speaker 3>to the reporters kind of in a very monotone voice,
<v Speaker 3>that you guys, you know you deserve a little better
<v Speaker 3>you you know you earn your chance to be here.
<v Speaker 3>Somebody takes a question or gives a question to Seena,
<v Speaker 3>and then Our Truth interrupts and we know what happens there.
<v Speaker 3>Scena gives Our Truth an AA through the table during
<v Speaker 3>the post conference, the post press conference. So I still
<v Speaker 3>think John Cena's heel. I know a lot of people
<v Speaker 3>are looking to this as a baby face turn. I
<v Speaker 3>think it's a red herring. It's him trying to loop
<v Speaker 3>us in just to drop us again. I think he's
<v Speaker 3>trying to double down on it. We saw this a
<v Speaker 3>couple of times throughout you know throughout history in w
<v Speaker 3>big turns, including stone colds. If you remember again a
<v Speaker 3>failed turn, Austin ended up turning heel. It's wrestlinga seventeen.
<v Speaker 3>No one wanted to see it. And then he comes
<v Speaker 3>out the next and that under raw and looks like
<v Speaker 3>he's gonna whip Vince McMahon's ass. He doesn't. He turns
<v Speaker 3>again on the crowd, and then actually a third time
<v Speaker 3>he ends up as the whole Alliance versus WWF. At
<v Speaker 3>the time was going on. Vince said he needs the
<v Speaker 3>old stone Cold. Austin eventually gives him that old stone Cold,
<v Speaker 3>but turns again on the WWF joins the Alliance as
<v Speaker 3>the leader of the Alliance to try to triple down
<v Speaker 3>on his heel turn, which still didn't work. So I
<v Speaker 3>think we might be getting that from Sena. It might
<v Speaker 3>be a trap that we're all supposed to fall into
<v Speaker 3>where the footage is shown and ww wants us to
<v Speaker 3>see it and seen it seems kind of humbled and
<v Speaker 3>he realizes the error of his ways, only to drop
<v Speaker 3>us again. Now, John Cena's final match I believe has
<v Speaker 3>been announced, or at least his final date. It's going
<v Speaker 3>to be in December at the TD Garden in Boston
<v Speaker 3>for his final appearance slash probably final match, So we
<v Speaker 3>do know when, at least the location, so there is that,
<v Speaker 3>but just be careful of that moment. A lot of
<v Speaker 3>people are looking to that as a baby face turn,
<v Speaker 3>but I don't think that's coming yet. I think he's
<v Speaker 3>going to really try to, you know, give it a
<v Speaker 3>second chance here. And I have to say, John Cena's
<v Speaker 3>heel turned has been very strange. It doesn't feel right still,
<v Speaker 3>and maybe that's because you have twenty five years of
<v Speaker 3>somebody being some a certain way and then when they
<v Speaker 3>turned suddenly, it's it feels a little bit like really
<v Speaker 3>a quarter century apparently you faked it, you know, But
<v Speaker 3>I don't. I don't think that this was still the
<v Speaker 3>wrong choice. I do believe that John scen to turning heel.
<v Speaker 3>I would have if given the opportunity, I'd still do
<v Speaker 3>it all over again, because I'd rather get to the
<v Speaker 3>end of John Cena's career and go, eh, Well, that
<v Speaker 3>didn't work the way we quite hoped it would. The
<v Speaker 3>success wasn't as high as we hoped it was going
<v Speaker 3>to be. The numbers and all that, and the reception
<v Speaker 3>but you know what, we had the balls to do it.
<v Speaker 3>To me, that is more important that you actually went
<v Speaker 3>through it, even if it didn't work out the way
<v Speaker 3>you hoped. So what I'd rather know that than go
<v Speaker 3>back and go oh man, but like what would that
<v Speaker 3>have looked like? So, but the match was really good.
<v Speaker 3>I enjoyed their pacing as we expected. The pacing of
<v Speaker 3>the match was was awesome. Yes, the kickouts of finishes,
<v Speaker 3>the aa IS is about as effective as a closed
<v Speaker 3>line at this point. We've known that for twenty five
<v Speaker 3>years as well. No Travis Scott, we had the obligatory
<v Speaker 3>ref bump. The ref took a hell of a belt
<v Speaker 3>shot off his face by the way, woof, And then
<v Speaker 3>all the you know, all the manage, all management comes
<v Speaker 3>out and Nick all this comes out, and all of
<v Speaker 3>you know, the agents come out to try to look
<v Speaker 3>at the and help the referee, which, by the way,
<v Speaker 3>why wouldn't he have just sent another referee out? If
<v Speaker 3>this match is so important, how can you not have
<v Speaker 3>somebody officiating it? What are you doing out there? Just
<v Speaker 3>send the medical team out? What are you gonna do?
<v Speaker 3>They're the trained medical professionals, you know what I mean?
<v Speaker 3>So logically, it didn't make sense for any of them
<v Speaker 3>to be out there other than bring out the EMTs
<v Speaker 3>if you think there's something going on and immediately have
<v Speaker 3>a referee at hand. I mean, this is something and
<v Speaker 3>I know it's pro wrestling, and I'm not actually hammering
<v Speaker 3>WWE because it's pro wrestling, and this is just one
<v Speaker 3>of those holes we have to accept in our brains.
<v Speaker 3>Is with how many refs take bumps, especially during main
<v Speaker 3>events that's been going on for like fifty years. How
<v Speaker 3>does not have a backup ref at the ready to
<v Speaker 3>go so there's no gap in the officiating of a match,
<v Speaker 3>you know what I mean? It takes forever for someone
<v Speaker 3>to come to or for someone to come from the back,
<v Speaker 3>and there's this several minute gap. How is that even possible?
<v Speaker 3>After it happening nearly every single time, especially in the
<v Speaker 3>modern age it's much more common. But Nick, all this
<v Speaker 3>getting the RKO and you know, five other people, six
<v Speaker 3>other people getting the RKO is funny. You would think
<v Speaker 3>that this is the third time now that Nick Alldos
<v Speaker 3>has got in the RKO. It's going to lead to something.
<v Speaker 3>It has to, and I would think it's got to
<v Speaker 3>be Nick alldis not just finding him. Maybe he comes
<v Speaker 3>out on SmackDown, maybe he does say he's Randy Orton suspended,
<v Speaker 3>but maybe Randy Orton shows up. Anyway, RKO is him
<v Speaker 3>a fourth time, and that's what snaps Nick. But he
<v Speaker 3>could also come out and say, you know what, I
<v Speaker 3>was gonna find him. I was going to suspend him,
<v Speaker 3>but I think I want to punish him in a
<v Speaker 3>different way. And he shows his ring gear, right, I
<v Speaker 3>think Nick Aldis taking on Randy Orton would be fun.
<v Speaker 3>Why not be a fun, little little kind of side
<v Speaker 3>show there. I'd have no issue with it. Nick alldos,
<v Speaker 3>I've been waiting to see what he's got left too,
<v Speaker 3>So that'll be a fun response to a third RKO
<v Speaker 3>on Nick all this. But yeah, the match ends with
<v Speaker 3>a belt shot and John cenor Saint as she should have.
<v Speaker 3>I know we're in Saint Louis, it's Randy Orton's hometown.
<v Speaker 3>I get it, But did anyone truly believe that Randy
<v Speaker 3>Orton had a chance, especially the way that the build
<v Speaker 3>led up to it and Randy Orton RKO John Cena
<v Speaker 3>like three times on the way to their match at Backlash.
<v Speaker 3>If that wasn't a telltale sign that he was going
<v Speaker 3>to lose at the Plee. I don't know what was
<v Speaker 3>all right? So what other matches took place beyond the
<v Speaker 3>main event? I mean I spent twenty minutes here talking
<v Speaker 3>about Biggie and Becky Lynch. And now the main event.
<v Speaker 3>Let's go to the actual Fatal four Way for the
<v Speaker 3>United States Championship. I know in my previous show I
<v Speaker 3>said it was one on one, but that was because
<v Speaker 3>the PREVIEWRS reading was wrong and I thought they changed something.
<v Speaker 3>But no, it's Fatal four way Jacob Fattu Drew Mcatire,
<v Speaker 3>Damian Priest and l Knight for the United States Championship.
<v Speaker 3>Crowd was really in Fatu's corner here. I mean, they
<v Speaker 3>still see a star, we all do. He's got a
<v Speaker 3>very much Umaga. Look. Umaga had a great face for
<v Speaker 3>the business, a great marketable face for the business. He
<v Speaker 3>was believable, he looked genuinely mean, he's got that trait
<v Speaker 3>going for him. Fatu is to me reminiscent of Umaga
<v Speaker 3>in a lot of ways. And so this match, let
<v Speaker 3>me just give you the time here. Do I have
<v Speaker 3>the time?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Eighteen minutes just under a shade under eighteen minutes where
<v Speaker 3>we had a Jacob Fatu retaining the United States Championship.
<v Speaker 3>I think a lot of people anticipated this, but boy
<v Speaker 3>was I mean the match was just really good. Now,
<v Speaker 3>up until the debut of Jeff Cobb, we did have
<v Speaker 3>a bust ass match as expected, the Claymores, the kickouts, yes,
<v Speaker 3>the kickouts of a zillion finishers, and that needs to
<v Speaker 3>just stop. Someone in w W needs to get in
<v Speaker 3>the ear of triple h. And can we just make
<v Speaker 3>it a policy. Can we have just like maybe a
<v Speaker 3>running lottery where like per month, per month, there's but
<v Speaker 3>maybe three kickouts of finishes, not including house shows. I'll
<v Speaker 3>let how shows do what they want, but include any
<v Speaker 3>televised event. There are only three times in total for
<v Speaker 3>every match televised that you can have a kickout of
<v Speaker 3>a finish. So we start to re educate the audience
<v Speaker 3>that kickouts of finishes are exciting, they're unexpected, they're a
<v Speaker 3>big moment. Even the announcers don't even get excited anymore,
<v Speaker 3>or at least they can't even pretend to get excited
<v Speaker 3>about kickouts of finishes. You can hear in their voice
<v Speaker 3>that they anticipated Michael Cole is like, I had a
<v Speaker 3>Claymore from McIntyre and you know he's won two, you know,
<v Speaker 3>and oh in five two kicks out, Like he's not
<v Speaker 3>even excited when there's a finish because he knows that
<v Speaker 3>he's you know, he's seen it a gajillion times, so
<v Speaker 3>he's not even going to try to sell it because
<v Speaker 3>he doesn't even believe it in the pretend world. That's
<v Speaker 3>how beaten down we are that we can't even play
<v Speaker 3>pretend that it's exciting anymore. So it would I think
<v Speaker 3>it would be a really big deal for the business,
<v Speaker 3>just WWE if they just implement a policy where guys
<v Speaker 3>can we just reduce our kickouts and finishes, stop using
<v Speaker 3>it as a crutch. I know it's cool when kickouts
<v Speaker 3>and finishes happen, but it needs to happen less, not more,
<v Speaker 3>for a whole host of reasons that I won't dive
<v Speaker 3>into that I've gone into before. But the match was good.
<v Speaker 3>Now Here here's the finish. We had Priest run Fatu
<v Speaker 3>into the ring post slam his head on the broadcast table.
<v Speaker 3>Knight put Fatu on top of the broadcast table, went
<v Speaker 3>to the second rope and played to the crowd and
<v Speaker 3>then Solo comes out pulled Fatu off the broadcast table.
<v Speaker 3>Night goes after Solo, but he was punched by a
<v Speaker 3>man on the other side of the barricade. Jeff Cobb,
<v Speaker 3>who's wearing a black shirt and black pants, was mentioned
<v Speaker 3>by Cole as the man who hit La Night, and
<v Speaker 3>Fatu recovered, seemingly surprised by Cobb's involvement as he looked
<v Speaker 3>at him, and Solo mentioned for Fatu to return to
<v Speaker 3>the ring and have his way with Knight, and Fatu
<v Speaker 3>did that and hit his Moon Salt finish for the victory.
<v Speaker 3>So instead of a Solo Soca turn that I predicted,
<v Speaker 3>and I think some of us did a lot of
<v Speaker 3>you did too, we get not only Solo not turning,
<v Speaker 3>but another member added. Now the member being added could
<v Speaker 3>be the an ultimate setup for Solo to turn on
<v Speaker 3>Fatu because he has somebody to watch his back in
<v Speaker 3>Jeff Cobb. So when you know Fatu tries to get
<v Speaker 3>his hands out Solo, Jeff Cobb could be the one
<v Speaker 3>to interfere, and then you got a Jeff Cobb versus
<v Speaker 3>you know, Fatu matchup, and so there could be just
<v Speaker 3>setting the groundwork for that now instead of just solo turning.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm fine with that too. I don't need it now.
<v Speaker 3>I just was wrong. So again, when I heard Jeff Cobb,
<v Speaker 3>I'm I'm thinking. I looked at the screen, I looked
<v Speaker 3>at I'm like who, I said, who's this dude? And
<v Speaker 3>I know a lot of you are probably how'd you
<v Speaker 3>not know? It's because, hey, I don't have the time.
<v Speaker 3>I just simply don't have the time to watch you know,
<v Speaker 3>things that aren't on the main roster. I just don't.
<v Speaker 3>I don't. So that's the simple answer. I got too
<v Speaker 3>much going on for me to do that. So for
<v Speaker 3>somebody who's not locked in to the outside forces that
<v Speaker 3>are not WWE the main roster, I just I'm just
<v Speaker 3>everyone's reacting in the arena, which made me feel stupid.
<v Speaker 3>But also I'm thinking to myself, how's anyone at home
<v Speaker 3>sitting there going, Oh, I know who that is? I
<v Speaker 3>don't know who the f this dude is. So anyway,
<v Speaker 3>that aside, Jeff Cob, good luck, big guy, and it'll
<v Speaker 3>be fun to see how he fits into the store
<v Speaker 3>line here. So then we have Lyra Valkyria versus Becky
<v Speaker 3>Lynch for the women's Intercontinental Championship. I really enjoyed this one.
<v Speaker 3>This was a lot of fun. This may have been
<v Speaker 3>one of the longest singles women's matches that I've seen
<v Speaker 3>in a long time. Nearly nineteen minutes, eighteen minutes and
<v Speaker 3>forty five seconds for this matchup, and it deserved every
<v Speaker 3>minute of it. This was a really good match. Not
<v Speaker 3>so I mean Becky had You know what kind of
<v Speaker 3>wrestler she is. She's very good. We know what she is,
<v Speaker 3>we know her legacy. She's a walk in Hall of Famer,
<v Speaker 3>we know that. But for Lyra, who's been on a roll,
<v Speaker 3>I think it was very important for her as this
<v Speaker 3>is clearly the most important match of her entire career
<v Speaker 3>to continue that momentum and build on her promo that
<v Speaker 3>she had last week that actually made her have a personality.
<v Speaker 3>It appeared she had one, and she built on it
<v Speaker 3>brilliantly this time last night with a quality match with
<v Speaker 3>Becky Lynch. And here's the finish if he didn't catch it.
<v Speaker 3>Lynch attacked valkyriap sorry, Lynch runs into Valkyria, who was
<v Speaker 3>the turnbuckle was exposed. The referee got in the way
<v Speaker 3>and then went to ringside and grabbed the turnbuckle pad. Meanwhile,
<v Speaker 3>Lyra hit Lynch with her night wing finish, but the
<v Speaker 3>referee was focused on the turnbuckle pad and was too
<v Speaker 3>late to get the three got a two count, and
<v Speaker 3>Lynch then stuffed the night wing attempt and thumbed the
<v Speaker 3>eye of Valkyria, who was able to catch Lynch in
<v Speaker 3>a pin for a three count while also selling her eye.
<v Speaker 3>And then Lynch immediately attacks with Lyra and put her
<v Speaker 3>in the disarmer adam pears, referees, producers ran out, and
<v Speaker 3>eventually she released the hold and Cole told said Valkyria
<v Speaker 3>retained her title. Then questioned at what cost, and Lynch
<v Speaker 3>headed to the back and Cole said Valcaria may have
<v Speaker 3>broken her nose, but said she had arrived, and that's
<v Speaker 3>exactly right. I think that's a great way for Cole
<v Speaker 3>to put it. Lyra has arrived. At first, she came
<v Speaker 3>in as a kind of shy, meek, not so confident.
<v Speaker 3>And again, if you didn't watch NXT, kind of a
<v Speaker 3>generic NXT you know, call up, you didn't know too much,
<v Speaker 3>you weren't that interested. And now she has by far
<v Speaker 3>over the last week. Again, just the last week, I
<v Speaker 3>think she has risen higher than anybody at the beginning
<v Speaker 3>of the week. So she has had the highest upward
<v Speaker 3>momentum out of anybody in the last seven days. I think,
<v Speaker 3>so good for her. I think that there's more to
<v Speaker 3>be had here. She'll have her down time, she'll have
<v Speaker 3>her uptimes, and right now we're in one of those
<v Speaker 3>ascents and we'll see how far it can take her.
<v Speaker 3>And you know how she follows up here. But I,
<v Speaker 3>like many thought Becky Lynch was going to win, because
<v Speaker 3>if she lost, it's like, well, she just turned, where's
<v Speaker 3>her to go? And really where her is for to
<v Speaker 3>go is simply darker. That's where she goes. She starts
<v Speaker 3>to spiral. That's what she does. It was so obvious
<v Speaker 3>to me afterwards, where she just continues to complain and
<v Speaker 3>blame her and blame the fans and whoever else anyone
<v Speaker 3>gets blamed other than herself, and she's gonna spiral and
<v Speaker 3>that's fine with me, all right. So then we have
<v Speaker 3>Penta versus Dominic for the Intercontinental Championship. Nine minutes and
<v Speaker 3>twenty seconds. So this one was short. This was half
<v Speaker 3>the time that Lyra and Becky were how about that?
<v Speaker 3>But Dominic gets some pretty good crowd support here. Now.
<v Speaker 3>The finish was Carlito walking out, distracting the ref, and
<v Speaker 3>Finn and JD hopped the barricade. McDonough held Penta, but
<v Speaker 3>Baler took his sweet time until the referee turned around
<v Speaker 3>and spotted them, and Penta dove over the ref, hit
<v Speaker 3>a flip dive on carl Toohi, McDonough and Balor climbed
<v Speaker 3>on the apron argue with the ref while Penta was
<v Speaker 3>on the ropes. Al Grande Americano showed up headbudted Penta
<v Speaker 3>while the ref was distracted, and Dom went up top
<v Speaker 3>and hit the frog splash on Penta before pinning him,
<v Speaker 3>and Dom defeats Penta in nine minutes and twenty seconds
<v Speaker 3>to retain the Intercontinental Championship. This this was good. It
<v Speaker 3>didn't blow me away. We still again, just like I
<v Speaker 3>potentially thought a solo socoaturn could happen on Fatu, thought
<v Speaker 3>that Finn could turn on Dom here and that didn't happen.
<v Speaker 3>We did not get a Dom Finn explosion. Yet they
<v Speaker 3>are on the slow burn pace. I think sometimes I
<v Speaker 3>fall back on the Vince McMahon era of something, you know,
<v Speaker 3>rushing through things and not building slowly and just pulled
<v Speaker 3>the trigger while we can type of mentality, and Triple
<v Speaker 3>H has shown quite the opposite over the last two years,
<v Speaker 3>so this is fine with me. They're building to something.
<v Speaker 3>And as I mentioned at on my Backlash review show
<v Speaker 3>that backlash is very much, often, very often a just
<v Speaker 3>kind of a leftover from WrestleMania. Not really a ton
<v Speaker 3>of title changes happened here. In fact, it's the least
<v Speaker 3>probably the least likely pl for any title to the
<v Speaker 3>change hands is backlash, and that certainly held true last night. Alright,
<v Speaker 3>So then we got a video package for Gunther and
<v Speaker 3>McAfee in this match with guntherer McAfee that fourteen minutes.
<v Speaker 3>If you told me this match was going to go
<v Speaker 3>fourteen minutes, I would have had a really hard time
<v Speaker 3>believing you. But it did because of the pace, and
<v Speaker 3>I mean, McAfee showed his toughness, had some hope spots,
<v Speaker 3>he showed he can go, he can brawl, he can
<v Speaker 3>even wrestle a little bit. And I also like Coal
<v Speaker 3>getting involved. That to me was this is a weird
<v Speaker 3>thing for me to say, but it's almost as if
<v Speaker 3>for Michael Cole that was the moment that showed the
<v Speaker 3>fans have completely turned or fallen, I don't want to
<v Speaker 3>say in love, but they've I guess, finally showed their
<v Speaker 3>appreciation to Cole. And I know it's in a wrestling
<v Speaker 3>story capacity, but the fans have really had a chance
<v Speaker 3>to cheer Coal in a storyline scenario. He's throughout the
<v Speaker 3>year has been really shown as a heel. Remember the
<v Speaker 3>coal mine, and the fans despise or really they were
<v Speaker 3>sour on Coal because he didn't sound like Jim Ross.
<v Speaker 3>And whoever was going to follow Jim Ross immediately was
<v Speaker 3>in the hole because you're following the greatest announcer of
<v Speaker 3>all time. And I still believe he is. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>Jim Ross is still the greatest announcer of all time.
<v Speaker 3>He's lost a couple of steps at his age now
<v Speaker 3>in aw and he's got a ton of health issues,
<v Speaker 3>and you know, he certainly doesn't have a whole lot
<v Speaker 3>of years left on this planet. He doesn't. It's just
<v Speaker 3>a sad reality. But in his heyday, nobody could touch
<v Speaker 3>Jim Ross. Nobody, and so he followed Jim Ross and
<v Speaker 3>after them, and there was a lot of resentment for Cole,
<v Speaker 3>who had nothing to do with it, just doing his job,
<v Speaker 3>and it took a long time for fans to warm
<v Speaker 3>up to Cole. But I think last night it's one
<v Speaker 3>of those moments that shows now it didn't happen in
<v Speaker 3>that moment. I think fans have felt this way for
<v Speaker 3>a while, but they got the chance that there was
<v Speaker 3>an opportunity presented for them to show Cole that they
<v Speaker 3>actually support him, really appreciate all the day he's done
<v Speaker 3>for the company and continues to do for the company
<v Speaker 3>by cheering him in that scenario, trying to help McAfee
<v Speaker 3>by holding Gunther's leg. I mean, it was just it
<v Speaker 3>was it was really good. Now, Gunther beating McAfee was
<v Speaker 3>absolutely expected. It should have happened. There's no goldberg here,
<v Speaker 3>no Goldberg. I repeat. So I went over three on
<v Speaker 3>my predictions on that as far as potential returns or turns.
<v Speaker 3>But the person who won here was Gunther, and and
<v Speaker 3>I don't think there was that was ever really in doubt.
<v Speaker 3>So the finish was McAfee rather a Pat McAfee rolling
<v Speaker 3>up Gunther for a two count, which again that should
<v Speaker 3>never happen, but it did. And then Gunther tried to
<v Speaker 3>suplex on McAfee from the apron, but Cole tripped Gunther,
<v Speaker 3>causing McAfee to land on top of him for a
<v Speaker 3>two count. Gunther put McAfee in a sleeper. McIntyre fired
<v Speaker 3>up at one point, but he faded and the ref
<v Speaker 3>call for the bell and then that's when Cole came
<v Speaker 3>in to check on mcafe and Gunter looked down and
<v Speaker 3>McAfee got to his feet and Gunther gave him a
<v Speaker 3>bit of a hat tip style acknowledgment before leaving the ring,
<v Speaker 3>and Cale hugged McAfee and then left him to have
<v Speaker 3>a moment in the ring. So the live crowd love this.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's because you know that the bar is
<v Speaker 3>set super low here because you're not expecting a Ricky
<v Speaker 3>Steamboat match up here, a Ricky Steamboat Rick Flair match.
<v Speaker 3>You know you're not gonna get you know, Brett hard
<v Speaker 3>Austin at WrestleMania thirteen. You just kind of know the
<v Speaker 3>style of the match here. It's, you know, somebody that's
<v Speaker 3>a badass, legit badass in the ring, no nonsense. Isn't
<v Speaker 3>super fancy against an announcer who has a limited move
<v Speaker 3>set to begin with? You know the kind of match
<v Speaker 3>you're going in, so the bar is set low already,
<v Speaker 3>but that's what made it fun. You don't have a
<v Speaker 3>lot of expectations, so anything above just basic wrestling maneuvers
<v Speaker 3>that you see, fans are gonna pop for it because
<v Speaker 3>it's like, well this, this is an announcer. That's awesome,
<v Speaker 3>he can do this. It's amazing how the lens of
<v Speaker 3>the match before you watch it, how you view it,
<v Speaker 3>what your expectations are, can really really dictate how you
<v Speaker 3>react to the match while you're watching it. So that
<v Speaker 3>the crowd loved it. And again, do I like the
<v Speaker 3>fact that Gunther came close to losing a few times?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 3>Did you know they were going to do that? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>because otherwise it wouldn't be very entertaining and it would
<v Speaker 3>just be a total squash. But no Goldberg, and I'm
<v Speaker 3>okay with that, at least not yet. All Right, then
<v Speaker 3>we got the decibel meter graphic on the screen when
<v Speaker 3>Randy Orton's music played, and it max at around one
<v Speaker 3>point fifteen, which, again I have a real problem believing
<v Speaker 3>that that thing's real. Nonetheless, so the crowd's singing his
<v Speaker 3>song and he it was still it was still a
<v Speaker 3>good matchup again. I already talked about it at length here.
<v Speaker 3>To say I enjoyed it would be pretty accurate. It
<v Speaker 3>was an nostalgic feel to the match, and it went,
<v Speaker 3>by the way, twenty eight minutes. Twenty eight minutes. That's
<v Speaker 3>not including entrances. So this match was over thirty minutes
<v Speaker 3>including entrances, and it was It was fun. It was fun.
<v Speaker 3>The ref bumps continue to happen. As I said, they're
<v Speaker 3>an obligatory part of every main event for the Undisputed
<v Speaker 3>Championship since its inception. I mean, it's just it's getting
<v Speaker 3>insane now. But ultimately, the only thing we got, Guys,
<v Speaker 3>we didn't get Travis Scott. We didn't get a Faux
<v Speaker 3>Rock appearance. We didn't get Goldberg, we didn't get a
<v Speaker 3>soul so CoA turn. We didn't get what was the
<v Speaker 3>other turn, I can't remember, but we didn't get any
<v Speaker 3>of that. We didn't get any of that. We got
<v Speaker 3>a Jeff debut, That's what we got. We got a
<v Speaker 3>Jeff Cobb debut. But now we got Saturday Night main event,
<v Speaker 3>which I fully expect to be pretty much on par
<v Speaker 3>with this match or the show here. Wrestling heavy not
<v Speaker 3>a lot of returns, not a lot of star power,
<v Speaker 3>very much a you know, a house show on steroids,
<v Speaker 3>no pun intended. That's what Saturday Night main event is
<v Speaker 3>going to be and has been historically, and that's okay.
<v Speaker 3>You know what, here's the thing. Sometimes a wrestling show
<v Speaker 3>can just be a wrestling show, meaning it's just two guys,
<v Speaker 3>two girls, or multiple guys and multiple girls in the
<v Speaker 3>ring competing with each other trying to win the match.
<v Speaker 3>That's okay. That can be the case. There doesn't always
<v Speaker 3>need to be interference or shenanigans. We've educated ourselves fans,
<v Speaker 3>partly due to our own fault and partly due to
<v Speaker 3>the promotion's fault of always having especially big matches having
<v Speaker 3>to have some kind of wonky bloodline WrestleMania forty esque
<v Speaker 3>finish with three or four different people interfering, and that
<v Speaker 3>that just we shouldn't have that expectation. Triple H has
<v Speaker 3>gone back to a much more straightforward slow burn process,
<v Speaker 3>and we're trying, at least for me, I know, I'm
<v Speaker 3>trying to acclimate to that. Sometimes I'm stuck in the
<v Speaker 3>Vince McMahon era of booking in my mind of oh,
<v Speaker 3>I can see this coming I bet you're gonna do
<v Speaker 3>it here. Oh, I can see Solo turning. The're gonna
<v Speaker 3>bet you're gonna do that here, and they don't, and
<v Speaker 3>they don't and they wait right and you're, oh, the
<v Speaker 3>finn Balor. That's the other thing, Finn Balor turning on Dom.
<v Speaker 3>You're like, oh, I can see that coming, and while
<v Speaker 3>it is gonna happen, you just don't know when. So
<v Speaker 3>a lot of times w is struggling with not trying
<v Speaker 3>to fool the fans with what's gonna happen, but when. Now,
<v Speaker 3>if you can do the what's gonna happen, that's a
<v Speaker 3>better surprise than the when, because at least with the what,
<v Speaker 3>you never saw that coming, versus the when, you're like, well, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't know whether we're going to do it, but
<v Speaker 3>I knew that were going to at some point. So
<v Speaker 3>the second one is more common because it's, you know,
<v Speaker 3>one that it's harder to fool fans nowadays with all
<v Speaker 3>the leaks and people just out you know, going through
<v Speaker 3>every possible scenario and one of them is going to
<v Speaker 3>be it. So I think sometimes though, looking at wrestling shows,
<v Speaker 3>we can just have a wrestling show. We can just
<v Speaker 3>look at it and go, you know what, No o's interference,
<v Speaker 3>no shenanigans. What's gonna happen If these two are the
<v Speaker 3>only ones who have a say in the match, no
<v Speaker 3>ref bump, no foreign objects, just these two individuals or
<v Speaker 3>however many even individuals in that match, What's going to happen.
<v Speaker 3>So I'm not against distractions and debakery. I mean, like,
<v Speaker 3>let's be honest, I love chaos just as much as
<v Speaker 3>then person. But I think we often expect it too much,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm trying to recalibrate my expectations as to what
<v Speaker 3>driple H's and TKO's vision of professional wrestling is. It's
<v Speaker 3>not the wrestling of yesteryear.
<v Speaker 1>Is.
<v Speaker 3>It's evolving, and in some ways I love it. In
<v Speaker 3>other ways I hate it. In the ways I love it,
<v Speaker 3>I love slow burns. I'm all about story arcs. I
<v Speaker 3>love when they reward fans for remembering things. I love
<v Speaker 3>when they can talk about wrestling using the word wrestling.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 3>I love the fact that they've gone a little more edgy.
<v Speaker 3>I hate the ads in the ring, un raw or anywhere.
<v Speaker 3>I hate the fact that they have pulled back the
<v Speaker 3>curtain every chance they get reminding you that the magic
<v Speaker 3>you're watching isn't real. Every chance you get all the time,
<v Speaker 3>I despise that I always will. That's not going to change.
<v Speaker 3>So there are some things I really don't like and
<v Speaker 3>things I love. But the fact is that TKO and
<v Speaker 3>w A themselves and management and Triple H and Company
<v Speaker 3>and his team creative have their own vision and it's
<v Speaker 3>not a McMahon run company anymore. And we have to
<v Speaker 3>remember that that it's not Vince McMahon at the top
<v Speaker 3>of the pile. There's not a Shane McMahon. There's not
<v Speaker 3>a Stephanie McMahon, although she may have us say indirectly
<v Speaker 3>with her husband because they're married obviously. But we I think,
<v Speaker 3>as fans, we should really try to remember that. So
<v Speaker 3>and other news, Sabu dies. So he died at sixty
<v Speaker 3>years old. We don't at least as of this writing
<v Speaker 3>or this recording, I don't know the cause right now.
<v Speaker 3>There's little known cause about what happened. I mean, you
<v Speaker 3>can deduce things that are common, perhaps, you know, heart failure.
<v Speaker 3>We're all, I mean, a lot of us just jump
<v Speaker 3>to heart failure from steroid use, right, I mean, because
<v Speaker 3>that's it was kind of prevalent, but we don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I don't know. Maybe after you hear this,
<v Speaker 3>everyone will know what the cause of Sabo's death is.
<v Speaker 3>Right now, I don't know. There are updates though, two
<v Speaker 3>injuries from two top stars being banged up after backlash,
<v Speaker 3>and this is coming from Wrestling Inc. So the show
<v Speaker 3>opened with a fatal four way as we talked about
<v Speaker 3>where I Fatu retained his championship, and there were some
<v Speaker 3>bumps and bruises as you'd imagine. I'm going I'm paraphrasing
<v Speaker 3>the article here, and this is according to Triple H
<v Speaker 3>quote Jacob, Damien, Drew, and Elleen Knight was incredible. What
<v Speaker 3>a performance. I hate that word again. It's like it's
<v Speaker 3>like I'm watching a magic show. I despise it. Luckily,
<v Speaker 3>everybody's healthy. I think Priest got a tooth that he's
<v Speaker 3>hoping will stay inside of his head for a couple
<v Speaker 3>of days here and gets solid again. But other than that,
<v Speaker 3>Drew is a little banged up but totally fine. So
<v Speaker 3>really happy that turned out the way it did. So okay,
<v Speaker 3>Damien gets a little a loose tooth that nearly got
<v Speaker 3>knocked out, but they're hoping will strengthen back I mean
<v Speaker 3>that that would freak me out. That freak me out.
<v Speaker 2>I know.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know about you, but sometimes I have dreams
<v Speaker 3>about my teeth falling out. Anyway, fa two let's see,
<v Speaker 3>and it's three challenges. Weren't the only men involved and
<v Speaker 3>blah blah. Okay, so it's basically the Fatal four way.
<v Speaker 3>That was really good and I had a feeling that
<v Speaker 3>one could steal the show, and you can make a
<v Speaker 3>case that it did. But back attires banged up. We
<v Speaker 3>don't know what banged up means. Probably just bruised and
<v Speaker 3>sore and the usual bumps that he's accustomed to, but
<v Speaker 3>nothing that's going to allow him to or would force
<v Speaker 3>him to take time off. So I don't know if
<v Speaker 3>there's any other news coming out of there. I think
<v Speaker 3>as far as injuries go, that might be the last
<v Speaker 3>of the injuries. And yeah, so that will do it
<v Speaker 3>for my Backlash review. I think that this was a
<v Speaker 3>show again that was a good wrestling show, not a
<v Speaker 3>lot of surprises or returns, and that has been the
<v Speaker 3>theme for Triple H's run thus far. I mean, look
<v Speaker 3>no further than the main event of WrestleMania I'm gonna
<v Speaker 3>keep bringing it up. You didn't have somebody that was
<v Speaker 3>an integral part of the storyline there because he wanted
<v Speaker 3>the attention on someone else. At least that's the public reason.
<v Speaker 3>So we'll continue to hammer that because it's just totally excusable.
<v Speaker 3>So all right, and that's actually a question for you guys,
<v Speaker 3>when or where do you think the Rock will actually
<v Speaker 3>come back. I mean, he's gonna come back at some point, SummerSlam,
<v Speaker 3>maybe next years, WrestleMania, who knows. I really for me,
<v Speaker 3>I think it might be money in the bank make
<v Speaker 3>an appearance, or his music. As I had mentioned last time,
<v Speaker 3>for John Cena, I predicted that the music would hit
<v Speaker 3>Travis Scott's there. They're trying to recreate WrestleMania. The crowd's
<v Speaker 3>just so pissed off, so angry, but Travis Scott eats
<v Speaker 3>an RKO, John Cena hits the belt shot one, two three.
<v Speaker 3>I would have literally recreated except add the literally just
<v Speaker 3>add the Rocks entrance music to the WrestleMania and I
<v Speaker 3>two finish for the backlash finish. That's exactly what I
<v Speaker 3>would have done to send the crowd into into nuclear mode.
<v Speaker 3>You could still do that at the Money in the
<v Speaker 3>Bank or yeah, money the Bank, you could do it.
<v Speaker 3>Saturday Night Main event, you could also do it, but
<v Speaker 3>I would save that for a Money in the Bank
<v Speaker 3>and or Summer Slam finish for John Cena. But we
<v Speaker 3>got a lot of time until that happens. Of course,
<v Speaker 3>the Saturday Night Main Event, though, was only two weeks. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>we got two weeks, so that that's going to come
<v Speaker 3>pretty quickly. The big gap is going to be between
<v Speaker 3>the the Money in the Bank event and the Saturday
<v Speaker 3>Night made event. So I think we have a pretty
<v Speaker 3>decent gap as far as wpls. Let me look at
<v Speaker 3>the gap here we have. Okay, we had Eluminius Chamber,
<v Speaker 3>we've got backlash. So Saturday Night Main event is May
<v Speaker 3>twenty fourth. Then we have the Money in the Bank event.
<v Speaker 3>Oh it's June seventh. I thought it was July seventh.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, I take that back. I thought some
<v Speaker 3>reason it was July seventh. It is June seventh for
<v Speaker 3>Money in the Bank. Okay, so we've got two weeks
<v Speaker 3>and then two weeks. Every two weeks we've we're gonna
<v Speaker 3>get a pl type of show. Wow. All right, so
<v Speaker 3>they don't have time to really build it much of anything. However,
<v Speaker 3>there is then a Evolution event on w Evolution that's
<v Speaker 3>gonna be a lot of fun. I'm glad they brought
<v Speaker 3>that back on July fifth in Mohegan Sun. They've got
<v Speaker 3>the Saturday Night Made Event on July twelfth, and then
<v Speaker 3>Summer Slam August third. Okay, oh, Night of Champions, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 3>Night of Champions. So between Money in the Bank and
<v Speaker 3>Night of Champions, there's three weeks, and then between Night
<v Speaker 3>of Champions and I'm not even gonna count Saturday Night
<v Speaker 3>Made Event, and then between let's see the Night of
<v Speaker 3>Champions and Summer Slam, it's three weeks. I think it
<v Speaker 3>is four weeks, five weeks. Let me look, they don't
<v Speaker 3>have the damn date. I don't see it. So anyway,
<v Speaker 3>it's every couple of weeks from now until the end
<v Speaker 3>of June that we have a pl So they're gonna
<v Speaker 3>come rapid fire. Now, they're gonna come hot and heavy.
<v Speaker 4>All right.
<v Speaker 3>That'll do it for me. Thank you so much everybody
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<v Speaker 3>video on YouTube or on Spotify or on you know,
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<v Speaker 3>maintain and I probably will shut it down as a
<v Speaker 3>vast majority listened to us on Apple or Spotify or
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