WEBVTT
1
00:00:17.489 --> 00:00:32.679
BANG! whoa wrestling podcast just when they think they got
2
00:00:32.740 --> 00:00:46.729
the answers i change the question who are you to
3
00:00:46.789 --> 00:00:49.509
to doubt ldan because this guy's a serious professional.
4
00:00:54.159 --> 00:01:26.450
It's me, Austin. I will never repair!
5
00:01:30.689 --> 00:01:32.750
For more than! For more than! Promotional consideration paid for
6
00:01:32.769 --> 00:01:40.299
by the following. Hey, yo, pro wrestling podcast listeners. Welcome
7
00:01:40.340 --> 00:01:42.079
to the show where we don't sing it, we bring it.
8
00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.739
Help us out and click subscribe to show your support
9
00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.780
on whatever social media platform you're using. And look, it
10
00:01:48.810 --> 00:01:52.670
could be any of them. YouTube, Rumble, Odyssey, Dailymotion, Twitter.
11
00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:56.769
discord you name it we're there we're on almost everything
12
00:01:57.030 --> 00:01:58.810
but the best help you can give us is to
13
00:01:58.870 --> 00:02:02.310
like share comment or subscribe especially the comments so that
14
00:02:02.349 --> 00:02:04.189
i can respond to those and put those into a
15
00:02:04.209 --> 00:02:06.489
future episode and it allows me to be able to
16
00:02:06.549 --> 00:02:09.169
engage with you and hopefully it also helps the logarithm
17
00:02:09.490 --> 00:02:11.349
so you get to engage with us we'd love to
18
00:02:11.409 --> 00:02:14.289
have you do that um if the comment section is
19
00:02:14.349 --> 00:02:15.990
not to your liking you could always call into the
20
00:02:16.030 --> 00:02:20.449
fur wrestling sound offline 267-642-1160 And leave your comments, questions,
21
00:02:20.469 --> 00:02:22.229
concerns there. I will definitely get to those in a
22
00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:25.909
future episode there as well. However, let's get into our
23
00:02:25.990 --> 00:02:29.259
sponsor for the night. As always, if you are looking
24
00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.159
for something better than dropping $ 50, $ 60, $ 80, $ 100 every
25
00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.520
year for a wrestling game like you do every year,
26
00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:38.000
we all do it. We understand. And you want to
27
00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:39.680
start putting some of that cash back in your pocket,
28
00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:41.000
one of the ways you can do that is check
29
00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:46.259
out Wrestler Unstoppable. It is totally free. App.wrestlerunstoppable.com is the
30
00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.210
website where you go and use your email to log in,
31
00:02:48.250 --> 00:02:50.780
create an account, Create a wrestler, sign contracts, get into
32
00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.229
the storylines, headline PLEs, even build your own corporation from
33
00:02:54.270 --> 00:02:57.009
the ground up, all included in Wrestler Unstoppable, available now,
34
00:02:57.409 --> 00:02:59.650
totally free. If you want to become a member of
35
00:02:59.669 --> 00:03:01.990
the Fro Wrestling Podcast family, you want your name in
36
00:03:02.009 --> 00:03:04.689
the shoutouts like my good buddy John in Texas and
37
00:03:04.740 --> 00:03:07.900
my newest Patreon, Sarah, the best way to do that
38
00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:11.840
is to go to Fro Wrestling's Patreon page at patreon.com
39
00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:14.759
slash frowrestlingpodcast, sign up today, and there's multiple ways you
40
00:03:14.780 --> 00:03:16.819
can do this. One, you can just sign up at
41
00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:19.840
the free tier, no cost, no obligation. It'll just notify
42
00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:22.259
you every single time we put up new content. If
43
00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:23.860
you would like to help us keep the lights on
44
00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.419
and bring in new content, though, and you want to
45
00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:28.240
be a monetary donor to the organization, then the best
46
00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.099
way to do that is to click off one of
47
00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:35.509
the dollar tiers. 1, 5, 15, 750, 25, whatever you
48
00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:38.930
want to do, we appreciate anything. Everything from a dollar
49
00:03:38.969 --> 00:03:42.909
up gets a shout out. If you're at the $ 15 level,
50
00:03:43.069 --> 00:03:44.430
you get to do more than that. You get to
51
00:03:44.469 --> 00:03:47.310
be a part of the show, co-host with myself, We'll
52
00:03:47.430 --> 00:03:50.689
create an episode around your interests. Otherwise, if you're at
53
00:03:50.710 --> 00:03:53.430
the 750 tier, you get entered into a drawing to
54
00:03:53.550 --> 00:03:56.330
also potentially host an episode with myself, which I try
55
00:03:56.349 --> 00:03:57.909
to do that once a month if I have somebody
56
00:03:57.930 --> 00:03:59.770
who's at that tier to draw them out of a
57
00:03:59.789 --> 00:04:01.870
hat and see who wants to host with me. I'd
58
00:04:01.889 --> 00:04:03.169
love to do that with you guys. I'd love to
59
00:04:03.210 --> 00:04:06.629
be able to have that one-on-one conversation. That being said,
60
00:04:07.129 --> 00:04:09.469
welcome to tonight's episode. I am Dr. Fro. Thank you
61
00:04:09.490 --> 00:04:12.370
for joining us. I really do appreciate it, especially our
62
00:04:12.409 --> 00:04:14.550
most loyal fans who've been tuning in for years now.
63
00:04:15.370 --> 00:04:18.250
and just a moment of personal before I get into business.
64
00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.079
This channel was started way back in 2012, and after
65
00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.439
14 years of being on the air, I have never, ever, ever,
66
00:04:24.579 --> 00:04:28.120
ever seen so many people tuning into the show as
67
00:04:28.180 --> 00:04:30.370
I have the last several weeks, and I cannot tell you,
68
00:04:30.810 --> 00:04:33.870
after all these years of grinding and grinding and grinding,
69
00:04:34.250 --> 00:04:36.269
to see so many of you coming back and watching
70
00:04:36.329 --> 00:04:39.009
the episodes every week, it absolutely warms my heart. I
71
00:04:39.050 --> 00:04:40.910
cannot tell you what it means to me. It makes
72
00:04:40.949 --> 00:04:43.529
me feel like it's all been worth it, the the
73
00:04:43.569 --> 00:04:46.589
long hours the weeks the months the years it was
74
00:04:46.750 --> 00:04:49.149
all worth it thank you thank you thank you for
75
00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:51.910
all of you for being so gracious to share part
76
00:04:51.930 --> 00:04:54.920
of your day taking in my content and we know
77
00:04:54.949 --> 00:04:57.000
that there are so many podcasts and shows out there
78
00:04:57.019 --> 00:04:59.939
you could choose instead for whatever reason you chose mine
79
00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:02.819
that means the world to me and that's genuine straight
80
00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:04.939
from the heart every time I open up my account
81
00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.500
and I see the number of views and the number
82
00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:11.180
of subscribers and all that stuff it almost moves me
83
00:05:11.459 --> 00:05:13.569
to tears man it really does So thank you to
84
00:05:13.790 --> 00:05:15.769
all of you who are tuning in every week. I really,
85
00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.060
really appreciate you, and I am committed to continue bringing
86
00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.540
you as much content as I possibly can with my crazy,
87
00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.100
insane schedule that I lead in my private life. But
88
00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:26.120
that being said, tonight's episode, now that I got all
89
00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.300
that lovey-dovey stuff out of the way, because you guys
90
00:05:28.339 --> 00:05:30.199
deserve it, because you guys made me this happy about
91
00:05:30.220 --> 00:05:32.810
all this, let's get into the business for the evening,
92
00:05:33.110 --> 00:05:37.730
which is the reactions and analysis of Monday Netflix Raw.
93
00:05:38.149 --> 00:05:42.009
The show started... With Roman Reigns coming in and meeting
94
00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:44.709
up with the Usos. And it sounded as though the
95
00:05:44.860 --> 00:05:47.839
Usos were right about to get into family business. And
96
00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.199
then all of a sudden, right before that could even
97
00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.720
get started, LA Nights music hits. And you could tell instantly, Roman,
98
00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:57.439
he's got some phenomenal facial expressions. Sometimes that little thing
99
00:05:57.459 --> 00:05:59.220
where he wiggles his jaw and all that kind of
100
00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:02.040
drives me nuts. This is not that. This was much better.
101
00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:04.660
It looked like he was genuinely annoyed the LA Nights
102
00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:07.019
music hit. And he's going to head straight to the ring.
103
00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.350
That being said, in the ring... LA Knight is there,
104
00:06:10.370 --> 00:06:14.029
he's talking trash, he's putting down Romy, setting up more
105
00:06:14.089 --> 00:06:17.209
heat for their match this weekend at Money in the Bank.
106
00:06:17.790 --> 00:06:20.180
My only problem with all of this is, it took
107
00:06:20.379 --> 00:06:23.160
LA Knight this long to get another opportunity at the championship,
108
00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.139
and you and I both know that there is, I
109
00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:30.259
would argue, a 75-85% chance that LA Knight is going
110
00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:33.709
to lose this weekend, because I don't think WWE wants
111
00:06:33.730 --> 00:06:35.910
to take a championship off of Roman Reigns, who's one
112
00:06:35.930 --> 00:06:40.329
of their golden geese, and take down that aura around
113
00:06:40.389 --> 00:06:44.050
him before he gets to Obafemi. Unless it's to Penta.
114
00:06:44.230 --> 00:06:46.470
Those are the only two people I could realistically see
115
00:06:46.509 --> 00:06:49.019
doing it. So this match, though I'm excited for it,
116
00:06:49.029 --> 00:06:51.350
and I hope LA Knight really comes out and shows
117
00:06:51.430 --> 00:06:54.939
us something, I don't expect him to win. That being said,
118
00:06:55.060 --> 00:06:58.259
Roman comes out. He interrupts LA Knight. His music hits.
119
00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.779
Love seeing him walk out. He responded in kind to
120
00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:06.220
all the negativity coming from LA Knight. And here's the thing.
121
00:07:06.339 --> 00:07:08.600
I actually thought this was some really great promo work
122
00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.449
on Roman's part. LA Knight, in a lot of ways,
123
00:07:12.509 --> 00:07:15.189
is always pretty solid in my opinion. But Roman has
124
00:07:15.389 --> 00:07:16.970
ones where it's a hit and some where it's a miss.
125
00:07:17.009 --> 00:07:19.790
Sometimes he uses really generic stuff. I love that he
126
00:07:20.329 --> 00:07:22.649
basically referred to LA Knight as another egg in the
127
00:07:22.829 --> 00:07:24.699
omelet and told him on Saturday he was going to
128
00:07:24.819 --> 00:07:28.240
crack his ass. I thought that was hilarious. I really did.
129
00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:32.189
Interesting line, whoever came up with that thought process. Um,
130
00:07:32.490 --> 00:07:35.170
as Roman gets done cutting his promo and he, you know,
131
00:07:35.509 --> 00:07:39.050
having St. Louis acknowledge him, he goes to leave LA Knight,
132
00:07:39.110 --> 00:07:41.569
grabs him by the arm and it, look, I understand
133
00:07:41.589 --> 00:07:43.970
that this stuff is predetermined and it's staged or whatnot,
134
00:07:44.470 --> 00:07:47.149
but to look on Roman's face looks so legit. It
135
00:07:47.189 --> 00:07:50.230
was hilarious to me because it's believe it for somebody who,
136
00:07:50.470 --> 00:07:53.240
if you were somebody who never watches wrestling, you'd have
137
00:07:53.250 --> 00:07:55.000
thought that these two were ready to kill each other
138
00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.839
because it looked that legit. And then of course, LA
139
00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.740
Knight finishes off the segment. more banter back and forth
140
00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:04.480
about this weekend's match. I thought it was a solid
141
00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:06.980
segment to open the show. It really did. From there,
142
00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.939
we get something I never really felt like we needed,
143
00:08:10.060 --> 00:08:11.769
but I guess it makes a lot of sense. We
144
00:08:11.790 --> 00:08:14.850
get Javon Evans and Penta taking on Braun Breaker in
145
00:08:14.910 --> 00:08:17.750
Austin Theory. And here's why I say I don't feel
146
00:08:17.769 --> 00:08:22.910
like we needed this. Javon Evans and Penta have other
147
00:08:23.009 --> 00:08:24.649
things to worry about when it comes to Money in
148
00:08:24.670 --> 00:08:28.189
the Bank. I understand that Braun Breaker is in Money
149
00:08:28.209 --> 00:08:30.269
in the Bank as well. I get it. They attacked
150
00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:32.490
them last week. It all makes sense. I don't have
151
00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:35.470
a problem per se with the booking. My issue is
152
00:08:35.850 --> 00:08:39.669
you're talking about the world tag team champions taking on
153
00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.460
a makeshift team that has never competed before in any
154
00:08:43.659 --> 00:08:49.179
high profile anything. So when you see Javon Evans and look,
155
00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.580
there was a really cool spot in the middle of
156
00:08:50.620 --> 00:08:53.860
this where like brass knucks were slid into the ring
157
00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.120
from Logan Paul and they missed Austin Theory and somehow
158
00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:58.740
Javon Evans got a hold of him and he used
159
00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.779
him on Theory to help, you know, get the match.
160
00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:05.639
I love that. I'm okay with that. That was very entertaining,
161
00:09:06.139 --> 00:09:09.000
except I don't want to see a makeshift tag team
162
00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.419
defeat the world tag team champions. It makes those tag
163
00:09:12.470 --> 00:09:18.909
team championships seem so insignificant. And my opinion was about
164
00:09:18.929 --> 00:09:21.169
a month and a half ago is it seemed like
165
00:09:21.190 --> 00:09:23.710
when they were heading into this Oba versus Braun match
166
00:09:23.750 --> 00:09:26.320
back at Sunday night's main event, that they were moving
167
00:09:26.340 --> 00:09:30.970
towards reestablishing Braun Breaker as a premium top-tier talent. When
168
00:09:31.009 --> 00:09:34.190
you do this, and it takes away from his championship reign,
169
00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:36.750
and then after the match is over, there's like a
170
00:09:36.809 --> 00:09:41.970
beatdown starts up, Bronson Reed hits the ring, they're stomping
171
00:09:42.029 --> 00:09:46.200
everybody's tsunami, tsunami, get ready for a tsunami on Javon Evans,
172
00:09:46.340 --> 00:09:49.740
and then Oba's music hits. But before that, while you're
173
00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:53.700
doing all of that, Braun Breaker has again taken a backseat,
174
00:09:53.740 --> 00:09:56.649
this time to Bronson Reed. You could have established him
175
00:09:56.690 --> 00:09:59.419
as a main level star you had that ending you
176
00:09:59.460 --> 00:10:02.399
had to his match with oba at sunday night's main
177
00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:05.500
event to begin with which made it so neither person
178
00:10:05.580 --> 00:10:09.409
took anything away from their current position but you've done
179
00:10:09.490 --> 00:10:13.269
nothing with it and now it's once again kicking him
180
00:10:13.809 --> 00:10:16.879
you know down the pecking order and moving Bronson Reed
181
00:10:16.899 --> 00:10:18.840
up to the top of the pecking order in the group.
182
00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.720
And if he's supposed to be the main event star
183
00:10:20.740 --> 00:10:23.120
of the future, he should still be at the top
184
00:10:23.139 --> 00:10:26.399
of the food chain. But he's not. And that's problematic
185
00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.299
for me. Now, from there, Oba comes out, and he
186
00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.159
is taking on all comers. And he's beaten down the
187
00:10:33.220 --> 00:10:36.399
entire vision, which made Bronson Reed, in my opinion, look
188
00:10:36.450 --> 00:10:41.129
relatively weak in this segment. Because this is a guy who,
189
00:10:41.230 --> 00:10:43.529
up until this moment, I have yet to believe is
190
00:10:43.570 --> 00:10:46.379
a legitimate, credible threat to Oba Femi. I don't think
191
00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.879
anybody going into Money in the Bank thinks that Obafemi's losing.
192
00:10:48.980 --> 00:10:51.940
I don't think anybody would buy it if it happened.
193
00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:54.559
I can't imagine what they'd have to do to make
194
00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.070
that happen and make it believable. Even with outside interference
195
00:10:58.090 --> 00:11:00.250
from the vision, it's kind of ridiculous. He laid out
196
00:11:00.289 --> 00:11:04.570
most of the vision tonight. But there is even a
197
00:11:04.909 --> 00:11:07.350
part here where in the middle of him fighting and
198
00:11:07.389 --> 00:11:11.450
hitting the uppercuts on Braun Breaker and on Bronson Reed,
199
00:11:11.710 --> 00:11:15.110
Logan Paul even got physically involved. Came in, hit him.
200
00:11:15.580 --> 00:11:16.700
And then he turned out like he was going to
201
00:11:16.740 --> 00:11:18.519
kill Logan Paul and Logan Paul ducked out of the ring.
202
00:11:18.860 --> 00:11:20.559
Still has his arm in the sling. I know he
203
00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.179
was hoping to be ready to go by now. Clearly
204
00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.389
he's not. And probably won't be, I would imagine, until
205
00:11:26.409 --> 00:11:28.870
closer to the Royal Rumble. But it was nice to
206
00:11:28.889 --> 00:11:30.210
see him get in the ring and at least throw
207
00:11:30.250 --> 00:11:32.009
some kind of physicality in. It makes it so he
208
00:11:32.049 --> 00:11:35.389
has some kind of value. It also gives a highlight
209
00:11:35.429 --> 00:11:37.580
that he could then promote all over social media, which
210
00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.799
is something Logan Paul is great for. And then he
211
00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:43.519
ducks out of the ring and all this, the melee happens.
212
00:11:45.019 --> 00:11:48.299
Oba ends up knocking Braun Breaker over the top rope,
213
00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.669
which I absolutely hated because Braun, for as much as
214
00:11:51.710 --> 00:11:53.450
he can do in the ring, I don't like the
215
00:11:53.490 --> 00:11:55.529
way he sells getting knocked over the top rope. It
216
00:11:55.570 --> 00:12:00.070
looks weak to me. He looks so weak. After that,
217
00:12:00.870 --> 00:12:03.190
there's a spot where it looks like there's going to be,
218
00:12:03.309 --> 00:12:06.110
you know, he gets attacked by Bronson Reed from behind.
219
00:12:06.169 --> 00:12:07.730
It looks like Bronson is going to go for another
220
00:12:07.789 --> 00:12:10.379
tsunami on him this time. But he pops up and
221
00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.379
he hits an uppercut on Bronson Reed up on the
222
00:12:12.419 --> 00:12:14.870
turnbuckle and Bronson Reed falls outside the ring. And then
223
00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.870
he cuts a really, really great program. He really does.
224
00:12:19.490 --> 00:12:23.110
And I mean, look, this is going to be a
225
00:12:23.149 --> 00:12:25.730
hard hitting match. I think it'll be very entertaining. I
226
00:12:25.850 --> 00:12:28.789
love Bronson Reed's new figure. I feel like he is
227
00:12:28.850 --> 00:12:32.070
in just phenomenal shape compared to what he was maybe
228
00:12:32.090 --> 00:12:34.309
a year or even two years ago when he was
229
00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:38.490
just a huge mass of a guy. Now he strikes
230
00:12:38.549 --> 00:12:40.730
me as a legit shooter. Like, he looks like a
231
00:12:40.789 --> 00:12:44.490
legit threat. So I don't know. I don't see any
232
00:12:44.509 --> 00:12:46.929
way for Oba to lose the match. But it definitely
233
00:12:46.970 --> 00:12:50.149
does not hurt for Bronson Reed in his current state
234
00:12:50.169 --> 00:12:53.529
to be in this feud. Because he's arguably the biggest
235
00:12:53.570 --> 00:12:56.269
star in the company right now. From there, we get
236
00:12:56.549 --> 00:13:00.029
a backstage vignette with Liv Morgan talking trash about Becky Lynch.
237
00:13:00.049 --> 00:13:02.000
Because they're going to be facing each other in the
238
00:13:02.059 --> 00:13:06.080
main event. Number one contendership for the Women's Championship. Then
239
00:13:06.100 --> 00:13:09.799
we get another video feature on Worlds Collide, highlights from
240
00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:15.330
the show. They specifically talked about the Rey Mysterio, CM Punk,
241
00:13:15.500 --> 00:13:19.029
El Grande Americano match, which is going to come into
242
00:13:19.070 --> 00:13:22.450
play a little bit later because after that video package,
243
00:13:22.470 --> 00:13:25.009
we go to Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee in the back.
244
00:13:25.029 --> 00:13:28.409
They're talking, you know, celebratory type stuff. And then comes
245
00:13:28.730 --> 00:13:33.039
Dirty Dom and JD McDonough. Again, constant banter, King of
246
00:13:33.059 --> 00:13:35.460
the Luchas, all that kind of stuff, trash talk of Rey,
247
00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.299
deadbeat dad. And I love that they pointed out, and
248
00:13:38.350 --> 00:13:41.429
this is something that really hit my spidey senses, they
249
00:13:41.509 --> 00:13:44.950
pointed out that Rey, when he chose his partners for
250
00:13:45.049 --> 00:13:51.830
AAA's Worlds Collide show, he chose CM Punk and El
251
00:13:51.850 --> 00:13:55.279
Grande Americano and didn't choose Dragon Lee, implying that there
252
00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.100
should be a reason Dragon Lee should be upset. And
253
00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.659
is this purposely being done To turn Dragon Lee heel
254
00:14:00.750 --> 00:14:03.450
at some point. I actually hope that's not the case.
255
00:14:03.990 --> 00:14:06.309
I like his character as he is. But I did
256
00:14:06.389 --> 00:14:08.850
find the line rather interesting. And the fact that Dom
257
00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:10.970
put it out there. And it seems like something you
258
00:14:11.009 --> 00:14:13.850
could see happening. Even though I don't want to. So
259
00:14:13.870 --> 00:14:15.470
I'm going to have to monitor that. But we do
260
00:14:15.529 --> 00:14:18.250
have a challenge made for a tag team match later
261
00:14:18.289 --> 00:14:19.730
in the show. We all could have seen that coming.
262
00:14:20.470 --> 00:14:26.580
From there another vignette. The 946 with their latest pre-recorded vignette.
263
00:14:26.990 --> 00:14:29.100
It was all right. It wasn't phenomenal. I mean, I
264
00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.820
don't think any of these guys are the best orators
265
00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.480
in the world. And right after that vignette, we have
266
00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:36.419
the Usos back in the back again. This time, Roman
267
00:14:36.460 --> 00:14:40.080
Reigns walks in again, you know, talks about he doesn't
268
00:14:40.139 --> 00:14:43.830
understand why they're taking orders from Jacob. You know, he
269
00:14:43.870 --> 00:14:46.750
made them the captains and Jacob's a soldier. He's supposed
270
00:14:46.789 --> 00:14:49.590
to fall in line. That hasn't been happening. And then
271
00:14:49.649 --> 00:14:52.379
Roman Reigns says he's taking it on himself, basically. To
272
00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.320
go fix this. Now I didn't know what that meant.
273
00:14:54.419 --> 00:14:57.360
I actually thought we might get a Roman Reigns 9-4-6 segment.
274
00:14:57.860 --> 00:15:00.059
I'm glad we didn't yet. Because he still has to
275
00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.850
get this match out of the way. With LA Knight.
276
00:15:02.870 --> 00:15:04.519
Like I said earlier. None of us think LA Knight
277
00:15:04.539 --> 00:15:05.730
is going to win anyway. So if it's not going
278
00:15:05.750 --> 00:15:10.649
to happen. Just keep it moving. After he walks off screen.
279
00:15:11.210 --> 00:15:17.070
We get Lola Weiss. And Sol Ruka. Taking on Roxanne Perez.
280
00:15:17.129 --> 00:15:21.220
And Raquel Rodriguez. And look. A couple things. One. I
281
00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.679
absolutely hate that Lola Weiss spends so much time trying
282
00:15:24.700 --> 00:15:26.960
to be flashy and flirtatious in the ring. I know
283
00:15:26.980 --> 00:15:29.240
that's like a part of her shtick, but it's just
284
00:15:29.299 --> 00:15:33.000
not to my taste. It doesn't make sense that when
285
00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:35.789
you hit somebody with a basic move, they're then somehow
286
00:15:35.950 --> 00:15:38.389
incapacitated long enough for you to shake your ass in
287
00:15:38.409 --> 00:15:43.029
the ring. It's kind of ridiculous when she does the
288
00:15:43.070 --> 00:15:44.549
same thing in the middle of the ring with Sol
289
00:15:44.590 --> 00:15:46.690
Ruka doing it too. It doesn't make it any better.
290
00:15:47.350 --> 00:15:50.110
It doesn't make sense. A lot of this match was
291
00:15:50.169 --> 00:15:52.440
very sloppy. It seemed like there was a lot of
292
00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:55.139
missed spots, a lot of botches. I don't want to
293
00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.580
say botches, but it certainly wasn't as crisp as it
294
00:15:57.620 --> 00:15:59.500
could be. There was one move where somebody tried to
295
00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.179
hit something on Raquel Rodriguez, and it looked like they
296
00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.899
almost dropped her on her head. There was several times
297
00:16:05.950 --> 00:16:09.610
where running the ropes seemed either labored or slow. And look,
298
00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:11.470
I'm not one of them. I'm not on the biggest
299
00:16:11.490 --> 00:16:13.590
stage in the world. I just know as a wrestling fan,
300
00:16:13.690 --> 00:16:16.000
it seemed sloppy is the best way I could put it,
301
00:16:16.549 --> 00:16:17.870
which I don't want to say that because I don't
302
00:16:17.889 --> 00:16:21.470
want to see them change any of their upward trajectory
303
00:16:21.529 --> 00:16:25.049
these people have. I think Raquel's amazing. I think Roxanne
304
00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:27.659
is amazing. I think Sol Ruka is amazing. I also
305
00:16:27.700 --> 00:16:30.379
think Lola Weiss is amazing. So I don't know what
306
00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.419
it is about the chemistry, but it's just not working. Now,
307
00:16:33.460 --> 00:16:35.580
of course, that lack of chemistry plays into the end
308
00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.340
of the match because Lola Weiss goes for an MIA
309
00:16:38.419 --> 00:16:42.080
backfist and misses her target and drills Sol Ruka and
310
00:16:42.100 --> 00:16:44.960
then gets rolled up for the win for the judgment day.
311
00:16:45.529 --> 00:16:48.110
which I didn't see coming, I actually expected Lola Weiss
312
00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:53.909
and Sol Ruka to win, so it was a pleasant surprise, but,
313
00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.259
you know, it's one of these things where I love
314
00:16:57.299 --> 00:17:00.679
how Roxanne and Raquel are able to do what they
315
00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.700
need to do without the outside interference that Liv always needs,
316
00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:06.839
and that's something I hope plays into whenever they finally
317
00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:09.039
break up the Judgment Day, I hope that plays into
318
00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:13.210
that conversation. Now, Once the match is over, we go
319
00:17:13.230 --> 00:17:16.549
back to the back for yet another promo segment. And
320
00:17:16.589 --> 00:17:17.789
here's the thing. I'm going to give you a final
321
00:17:17.849 --> 00:17:19.970
count at the end of this. But the Usos and
322
00:17:20.009 --> 00:17:22.430
Roman Reigns are back there. Adam Pearce is back there.
323
00:17:23.019 --> 00:17:24.839
And it's next week. They're going to have a six-man
324
00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.799
tag team match. And the Usos right away are all happy. Like, oh,
325
00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:29.720
we're going to be teaming with the OTC. And he says,
326
00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:32.759
you're not teaming with me. You're teaming with him. And
327
00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:38.059
into frame comes Solo Sakoa. I don't understand this at all.
328
00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.200
Not even a little bit. Why Solo would want to
329
00:17:41.220 --> 00:17:44.400
be with them? Why Roman would want him in there.
330
00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:52.029
He's made no claims that he's changed his perspective on things.
331
00:17:53.930 --> 00:17:55.970
Other than unifying to try to take out the 9-4-6,
332
00:17:56.009 --> 00:17:59.029
I guess that works. I just don't like it. I
333
00:17:59.150 --> 00:18:02.430
don't want to see Solo in the bloodline again. And
334
00:18:02.490 --> 00:18:07.940
I know we're all headed for a Survivor Series matchup
335
00:18:08.099 --> 00:18:10.859
in War Games. I get it. I'm just not a
336
00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:13.339
fan of it. Solo is doing his best work of
337
00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:16.700
his entire career, and you've kind of killed that part
338
00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.440
of him off. From there, we get our next match,
339
00:18:19.579 --> 00:18:22.819
Ethan Page versus Ray Phoenix. No championship on the line
340
00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.720
in this matchup. And this match, honestly, probably the best
341
00:18:26.769 --> 00:18:30.069
thing I saw tonight. Ethan Page is so underappreciated. That
342
00:18:30.089 --> 00:18:33.549
guy is worldly talented. I really hope WWE figures out
343
00:18:33.589 --> 00:18:36.130
something substantial for him to do. In the meantime, I
344
00:18:36.150 --> 00:18:38.269
feel like he's been toiling in the mid-card and hasn't
345
00:18:38.289 --> 00:18:42.589
gotten any kind of real traction. Ray Phoenix, good God,
346
00:18:42.609 --> 00:18:44.549
that guy could do anything you ask him to do.
347
00:18:44.609 --> 00:18:48.789
He looked phenomenal. The whole match, top to bottom, was fantastic.
348
00:18:48.809 --> 00:18:51.230
It was great. Ray Phoenix picking up the win. I'm
349
00:18:51.250 --> 00:18:54.029
actually kind of surprised. I didn't expect that. I kind
350
00:18:54.069 --> 00:18:56.769
of expected Ethan Page to get it to further that
351
00:18:57.089 --> 00:18:59.809
as it potentially being a legit feud, but we didn't
352
00:18:59.829 --> 00:19:02.230
get that. So shut him down. I guess he doesn't
353
00:19:02.250 --> 00:19:04.769
get a title opportunity now if he ever shed some weight.
354
00:19:05.710 --> 00:19:10.420
From there, Another vignette. Video. We'll say video instead of vignette.
355
00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.259
Where they get a Money in the Bank video. It
356
00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:14.019
kind of gave me the vibes of what they play
357
00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:17.410
before the Royal Rumble. The history of it and things
358
00:19:17.430 --> 00:19:20.990
like that. There was one glaring omission. The fact that
359
00:19:21.210 --> 00:19:23.430
Edge was not featured at all. And I get it.
360
00:19:23.450 --> 00:19:27.130
He's in AEW. But history is history. You know? The
361
00:19:27.210 --> 00:19:31.150
thing started with Edge. He's cashed in more than once.
362
00:19:31.769 --> 00:19:34.799
The guys won the world championship off of a cash in.
363
00:19:35.579 --> 00:19:39.769
I would have continued to show the history. It doesn't
364
00:19:39.829 --> 00:19:43.750
matter where somebody wrestles now. I think you still show
365
00:19:43.769 --> 00:19:47.509
the history. Because otherwise it's a disingenuous video. And that
366
00:19:47.549 --> 00:19:50.720
part kind of bothered me. We get a Judgment Day
367
00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:55.200
backstage segment. And look, it's just more banter back and
368
00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.460
forth with all members of Judgment Day. Oh, Liv's going
369
00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.319
to win her championship back. We're going to have all
370
00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.660
the gold. He and JD can go after the tag
371
00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:04.619
titles or whatnot.
372
00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:06.099
But.
373
00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.809
At the end of the vignette, they talk about Joe
374
00:20:09.849 --> 00:20:12.589
Hendry a little bit. And a package arrives for JD McDonough,
375
00:20:12.609 --> 00:20:17.309
which inside has a card from Joe Hendry and a
376
00:20:17.349 --> 00:20:20.150
Funko Pop. He rips the Funko Pop out of the thing,
377
00:20:20.190 --> 00:20:21.829
makes fun of the fact that it has the big head,
378
00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:24.869
it's not proportionate, whatever. Then they have to leave because
379
00:20:24.910 --> 00:20:27.329
they're supposed to be going and having a match. And
380
00:20:27.349 --> 00:20:29.190
when they leave, here's the part that I really thought
381
00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:32.470
was interesting. The Funko Pop, the girls in the back,
382
00:20:32.910 --> 00:20:35.990
when they walked away, Liv, Raquel, and Roxanne, They all
383
00:20:36.029 --> 00:20:38.259
seem to be laughing at the Funko. Is that leading
384
00:20:38.299 --> 00:20:41.140
to some dissension between them? You know, I don't know.
385
00:20:41.299 --> 00:20:44.460
In the promo in the back, at one point they
386
00:20:44.500 --> 00:20:46.839
talked about nobody getting a big head, and then they
387
00:20:46.859 --> 00:20:49.400
looked at JD and started apologizing. Are they going to
388
00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:51.710
be poking fun at him to lead to him eventually
389
00:20:51.769 --> 00:20:54.349
having a change of heart, so to speak? I don't know.
390
00:20:54.369 --> 00:20:56.170
We'll have to wait and see. We then get the
391
00:20:56.190 --> 00:20:58.849
tag team matchup, Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee versus JD
392
00:20:58.869 --> 00:21:01.769
McDonough and Dominic Mysterio. And look, I'll be honest with you.
393
00:21:01.869 --> 00:21:04.390
Dom has been coming on, man. That kid can go now.
394
00:21:04.470 --> 00:21:07.609
He can wrestle. JD is absolutely phenomenal. He's one of
395
00:21:07.630 --> 00:21:09.549
the best wrestlers in the world. Dragon Lee as well.
396
00:21:10.029 --> 00:21:12.430
But I got to be honest, man. And I understand
397
00:21:12.579 --> 00:21:15.039
I'm older than some of you guys. But the athleticism
398
00:21:15.500 --> 00:21:19.160
that Rey Mysterio can put on at that age is
399
00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.700
absolutely mind-boggling. He is going as if he's still like
400
00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:27.029
a 25-year-old man. I don't understand how he does it.
401
00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.819
That's absolutely crazy to me. The match is going well
402
00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.099
until there's a referee distraction, which I'll never understand how
403
00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.759
stupid the referees are because they watch wrestling just like
404
00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:38.740
we do. But the referee is distracted. And while that's happening,
405
00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:42.740
Big Cass appears and he takes out Dragon Lee. And
406
00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:44.839
then he goes, Rey Mysterio shoots himself over the top
407
00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:47.140
rope trying to take him out. He looks like he's
408
00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.589
going to like take care of Rey. Rey reverses it,
409
00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:52.519
shoves him into a turnbuckle, gets back in the ring.
410
00:21:53.089 --> 00:21:57.069
And Ray's whole thing here, he knocks Dom Mysterio down.
411
00:21:57.390 --> 00:22:00.119
He's in position for the 619. As he goes to
412
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.240
hit it, J.D. McDonough jumps into the ring and hits
413
00:22:02.259 --> 00:22:06.160
a headbutt on Ray Mysterio. And Ray gets pinned. And
414
00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:09.599
the winners are the Judgment Day, J.D. McDonough and Dominic Mysterio.
415
00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:12.740
I actually kind of like the ending. I don't like
416
00:22:12.779 --> 00:22:15.140
the involvement of Big Cass. I really don't. I don't
417
00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:17.160
know why they put him into this thing where he's
418
00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.490
going after all these small guys. They could have done
419
00:22:19.529 --> 00:22:21.309
something so much better with him. And they just have
420
00:22:21.329 --> 00:22:25.299
dropped the ball completely. Um, again, maybe they've given up
421
00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:27.779
on him. Maybe they haven't. Maybe this is leading to
422
00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.579
the return of Enzo. I don't know. I just don't
423
00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:32.940
love it. I really don't love it. What a waste
424
00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:35.220
of a big man and an athletic big man with
425
00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.980
a really, he's really worked hard on his body. You
426
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.460
could do so much more with him and they just
427
00:22:39.529 --> 00:22:43.009
simply aren't. Then we get another prerecorded vignette, Becky Lynch
428
00:22:43.029 --> 00:22:45.509
in the back talking about Liv Morgan. Of course she
429
00:22:45.589 --> 00:22:48.349
is because we're just trying to get some heat on
430
00:22:48.390 --> 00:22:51.220
this main event we're going to have tonight. And, of course,
431
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:54.579
it's more of this same banter about what they're going
432
00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:56.720
to do to each other and all that kind of
433
00:22:56.740 --> 00:22:59.599
fun stuff. So from the Becky Lynch vignette, we then
434
00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:02.779
get Lyra Valkyria in the back for her segment where
435
00:23:02.819 --> 00:23:04.799
she's complaining about how long she's going to have to
436
00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.599
wait for her opportunity. And then after beating her like
437
00:23:08.619 --> 00:23:12.660
a redheaded stepchild the last couple weeks, Bayley just walks
438
00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.529
into the screen casually behind her and basically explains to
439
00:23:16.549 --> 00:23:19.349
her that it's not over until she says so. And
440
00:23:19.369 --> 00:23:22.230
then just casually walks off the screen. These women are
441
00:23:22.309 --> 00:23:26.470
bitter rivals. Walking in slowly, standing there having a conversation
442
00:23:26.490 --> 00:23:30.009
and walking away slowly does not make sense. I don't
443
00:23:30.029 --> 00:23:31.950
know about you guys, but think about back to your
444
00:23:31.970 --> 00:23:35.319
time in middle and high school. If two people were beefing,
445
00:23:35.910 --> 00:23:37.640
they would not walk up to each other, talk trash
446
00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:39.900
and then just walk away. It would not happen that way.
447
00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:42.500
There would be fisticuffs. If it was ladies, they'd be
448
00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.799
ripping hair out. Instead, these two have been in like
449
00:23:44.819 --> 00:23:48.380
a blood feud and they did nothing. They just barely
450
00:23:48.420 --> 00:23:53.390
just walked away. Horrible. Absolutely hated it. From there, another
451
00:23:53.430 --> 00:23:56.609
backstage segment, another vignette or promo or whatever you want
452
00:23:56.630 --> 00:24:02.450
to call it, a segment. 946, this time with Jada Parker. Again,
453
00:24:02.849 --> 00:24:05.230
talking about what they're going to do to the Usos,
454
00:24:05.250 --> 00:24:09.069
the bloodline to Jacob or whatnot. And like, it should
455
00:24:09.109 --> 00:24:11.670
be obvious by now, we've all speculated that, you know,
456
00:24:11.690 --> 00:24:13.450
we're going to get Naomi back and she'll be the
457
00:24:14.009 --> 00:24:19.829
foil for Jada Parker. But, I mean, why do we
458
00:24:19.869 --> 00:24:23.630
have to have a vignette, a pre-recorded vignette earlier in
459
00:24:23.670 --> 00:24:26.829
the show and then another one here? Why? Why couldn't
460
00:24:26.849 --> 00:24:28.650
you have got that done in one vignette instead of
461
00:24:28.690 --> 00:24:33.130
having another one? Then we go to the back. Another vignette.
462
00:24:33.210 --> 00:24:35.769
Paul Heyman's in the back. Bronson Reed walks in camera.
463
00:24:36.250 --> 00:24:38.089
And this leads to a whole back and forth banter
464
00:24:38.109 --> 00:24:39.970
with them, which I thought was, when it comes to
465
00:24:40.029 --> 00:24:43.759
all these vignettes, I thought it was absolutely hilarious. that
466
00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:48.000
Paul Heyman kept saying, tsunami, tsunami, tsunami. So I think
467
00:24:48.019 --> 00:24:49.920
he did five or six the first thing. And then
468
00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:53.369
he paused and tsunami, tsunami again and again and again.
469
00:24:54.529 --> 00:24:56.769
I stopped counting. I got tired of counting how many
470
00:24:56.789 --> 00:24:59.789
times he screamed tsunami. Then he got quiet and he
471
00:24:59.910 --> 00:25:02.809
said it a couple of times. Talking about basically that
472
00:25:02.890 --> 00:25:04.269
this is what you're going to have to do because
473
00:25:04.309 --> 00:25:08.769
of how, you know, Obafemi basically destroyed Brock Lesnar. And
474
00:25:08.789 --> 00:25:10.809
then if you don't do that, that, you know, he'll
475
00:25:10.950 --> 00:25:13.940
take you out as well. And I love the way
476
00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:17.500
Paul Heyman talked about Oba. He started doing the same
477
00:25:17.539 --> 00:25:20.119
kind of thing he does with Brock. We're talking about
478
00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:23.640
the ruler. We're talking about, you know, all that kind
479
00:25:23.660 --> 00:25:26.619
of stuff. He had all of his little one-line tag monikers,
480
00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.940
and he did it almost in the style that he
481
00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:31.720
does when he talks about an NCAA Division I champion,
482
00:25:32.019 --> 00:25:34.920
a former UFC heavyweight champion when he's talking about, with
483
00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:37.410
a one in 21-1 when he does that kind of
484
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:39.720
thing for Brock Lesnar. it almost makes me feel like
485
00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:42.839
Heyman is going to manage Obafemi at some point in
486
00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:46.890
the near future. For now, not so much. Then we
487
00:25:46.910 --> 00:25:49.430
get to our last match of the evening, Becky Lynch
488
00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:53.589
versus Liv Morgan, number one contendership to Stephanie Vetker's Women's
489
00:25:53.630 --> 00:25:57.549
World Heavyweight Championship. And like, here's the thing, the match
490
00:25:57.569 --> 00:26:00.950
was going well. And then like we've seen every single
491
00:26:01.049 --> 00:26:03.430
flipping week for months and months and months and months
492
00:26:03.490 --> 00:26:06.539
and months to the point that It doesn't have just
493
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:09.240
heat because they're doing it. It has go-away heat. Like,
494
00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:10.799
we don't want to see you kind of heat. And
495
00:26:10.819 --> 00:26:15.039
that's not good for a wrestling show. But what I'm
496
00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.180
talking about is the appearance of Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne
497
00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:23.430
Perez coming out once again to get involved in Liv's match. Like,
498
00:26:23.509 --> 00:26:26.730
she can't have a match without some kind of interference.
499
00:26:27.150 --> 00:26:28.710
And let me tell you the part that really pissed
500
00:26:28.750 --> 00:26:31.170
me off. If you can't tell, when you tune into
501
00:26:31.190 --> 00:26:33.369
my show, I don't curse very often. I've said a
502
00:26:33.369 --> 00:26:36.200
couple words tonight. And I just went there. I apologize
503
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:38.359
if that offends you. I don't mean to. But, like,
504
00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:44.460
if I see one more freaking match where somebody grabs
505
00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:46.940
someone else's leg and puts it over the bottom rope.
506
00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:51.150
Because here's another match where Roxanne did that. She grabbed
507
00:26:51.230 --> 00:26:53.349
Liv's foot when Becky was going for the cover and
508
00:26:53.390 --> 00:26:55.589
put Liv's foot on the bottom rope. And it breaks
509
00:26:55.630 --> 00:26:58.490
the hold. And the referee has to reset. And then
510
00:26:58.730 --> 00:27:02.890
at some point, Stephanie Vecure runs out. And she alerts
511
00:27:02.930 --> 00:27:05.500
the referee. that there's cheating going on. As the referee
512
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:09.259
turns around, Raquel Rodriguez looks like she's handing the Intercontinental
513
00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:13.839
Championship belt to Liv Morgan, and that gets thrown out
514
00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:16.589
of the arena. As the referee's trying to make that happen,
515
00:27:16.609 --> 00:27:20.829
his initiative to get them out, Stephanie Vecura's still in
516
00:27:20.869 --> 00:27:24.470
the apron, and Liv is livid, no pun intended. And
517
00:27:24.509 --> 00:27:27.829
she's screaming at her, and there's a whole back-and-forth banter
518
00:27:27.869 --> 00:27:30.619
going on. It leads to Becky Lynch coming in, trying
519
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.480
to get a roll-up. Very sloppy. Didn't look good, but
520
00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:38.119
she tried. Some more back and forth exchanges. Not sure
521
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.759
who's going to win. And then at one point, Becky
522
00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:45.319
accidentally hits Stephanie Vecure. Okay, that is what it is.
523
00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:48.240
And then Liv goes for an oblivion and she misses
524
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.930
and hits Stephanie Vecure. What does Stephanie do? Charges into
525
00:27:52.950 --> 00:27:57.609
the ring, attacks both of them. And I mean, I
526
00:27:57.630 --> 00:27:59.009
think we all could have seen that this was going
527
00:27:59.029 --> 00:28:01.430
to be a triple threat coming. Not a fan, dude.
528
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.349
Just not a fan. I would have preferred to see
529
00:28:04.369 --> 00:28:06.269
a winner here. Now, if you're saving that for down
530
00:28:06.309 --> 00:28:08.650
the line when one of the other one is a champion, great.
531
00:28:09.390 --> 00:28:11.250
I would have done it slightly differently. I just would have.
532
00:28:11.289 --> 00:28:14.289
I would have, you know, had the singles match, follow
533
00:28:14.309 --> 00:28:17.470
it up. Schma's ending that if you want to. That
534
00:28:17.509 --> 00:28:21.180
way you're giving two people, you're giving two people an
535
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.140
opportunity in a ring to just go out there and
536
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.259
ball out. And then you could screw it up at
537
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:28.839
the end and do another one. And then screw that
538
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:30.660
up at the end. Then do the three-way or something.
539
00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:33.819
but this, this just felt so rushed to me. It
540
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:36.180
didn't feel authentic to me. I wasn't a big fan
541
00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:39.849
of this segment. Um, and then Stephanie Viqueur calls out,
542
00:28:40.009 --> 00:28:42.849
you know, Adam Pierce and she wants both of them
543
00:28:43.210 --> 00:28:45.690
at money in the bank women's, you know, three, three
544
00:28:45.710 --> 00:28:49.119
way for the women's world heavyweight championship, whatever it is,
545
00:28:49.150 --> 00:28:50.950
what it is. The money in the bank card is
546
00:28:50.990 --> 00:28:53.519
looking better and better. It really is. Um, I don't
547
00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:55.660
know if we'll get anything added on SmackDown. I will
548
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:58.759
be coming out with a prediction episode later in the week. Um,
549
00:28:59.789 --> 00:29:02.200
But the card does have some great matches on it.
550
00:29:02.490 --> 00:29:04.819
But here's what I don't like, right? How many times
551
00:29:04.859 --> 00:29:06.720
tonight did you hear me talk about a vignette or
552
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:09.319
a backstage segment or a promo or something like that?
553
00:29:10.099 --> 00:29:14.720
If you weren't counting, I'll tell you. Raw had 13
554
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:17.829
vignettes slash backstage segments.
555
00:29:17.829 --> 00:29:18.579
13!
556
00:29:18.579 --> 00:29:22.710
14 if you count the promo that Obafemi cut after
557
00:29:22.769 --> 00:29:25.390
he fought off The Vision. So if you count that,
558
00:29:25.430 --> 00:29:33.099
it's 14 different speaking segments. versus five wrestling matches. Five!
559
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.230
Our only wrestling matches was the Javon Evans-Penta match against
560
00:29:37.990 --> 00:29:41.039
Braun Breaker and Austin Theory. So we got that. We
561
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:46.619
got the Lola Weiss-Solruca versus Roxanna Raquel. We got that.
562
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.680
We got Ethan Page versus Rey Fenix. We got Rey
563
00:29:49.700 --> 00:29:53.240
Mysterio and Dragon Lee versus JD McDonough and Dom Mysterio.
564
00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:56.500
And then we got Becky versus Liv. That's it. Five
565
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.349
matches against 13 slash 14 if you count Oba's at
566
00:30:00.369 --> 00:30:03.309
the end of their little thing. All those speaking segments.
567
00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:06.710
Just chewing up time. It's a wrestling show. I want
568
00:30:06.750 --> 00:30:08.880
to see them wrestle. I don't want to see them
569
00:30:08.990 --> 00:30:12.019
talk all the time. I want to see action. This
570
00:30:12.099 --> 00:30:16.259
is why AEW, there's so much tribalism. And I'm not, again,
571
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:19.519
I love WWE. I love what they're doing on SmackDown
572
00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:21.579
where you actually get to see people wrestle. I just
573
00:30:21.619 --> 00:30:23.650
don't understand why you're not doing that on Raw as well.
574
00:30:23.970 --> 00:30:25.750
It'd be different if you had the same talent on
575
00:30:25.789 --> 00:30:28.069
Raw and SmackDown. Raw could be used as, like, the
576
00:30:28.329 --> 00:30:31.329
promotional show for, like, the speaking segments and all that
577
00:30:31.349 --> 00:30:34.210
and storyline stuff. And then SmackDown's where the hate goes down.
578
00:30:34.750 --> 00:30:38.450
But that's not the case. They're separate rosters completely. So,
579
00:30:38.569 --> 00:30:41.349
I don't know, man. I've been giving shows ratings for
580
00:30:41.369 --> 00:30:44.279
a couple weeks now. I'm thinking about this one. I
581
00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:46.660
was really trying to figure out how I felt. Because,
582
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:50.619
you know, the matches were all good matches. Especially the
583
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:56.480
Rey-Phoenix-Ethan Page match. Like, that was fine. But... And the
584
00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:59.059
main event was okay until there was outside interference, but
585
00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:01.240
then how much do I weigh the outside interference in
586
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:05.140
affecting the overall quality of the show? We have, you know,
587
00:31:05.259 --> 00:31:09.349
Roman Reigns is there, but he didn't get physical at all. Nothing.
588
00:31:09.690 --> 00:31:12.730
Not a punch. Not a kick. Not a brawl between
589
00:31:12.769 --> 00:31:14.869
he and LA Knight. How am I supposed to invest?
590
00:31:14.910 --> 00:31:17.490
This is the go-home episode of Raw. How am I
591
00:31:17.490 --> 00:31:19.390
supposed to be invested in this match when there's been
592
00:31:19.789 --> 00:31:23.480
almost no physicality? What, because LA Knight dropped Roman Reigns
593
00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:28.049
at You know, Worlds Collide, whoop-dee-doo. Or, I'm sorry, at
594
00:31:28.220 --> 00:31:31.869
Raw in Mexico. Whoop-dee-doo. It's not enough to make me
595
00:31:31.930 --> 00:31:33.849
want to see the match. I want to see it
596
00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:36.009
just because I would love to see LA Knight win.
597
00:31:36.490 --> 00:31:38.609
But you and I both know that's not happening, so
598
00:31:38.630 --> 00:31:40.759
a little frustrated. This could have been so much better.
599
00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:44.200
It is what it is. I just hope that this
600
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.640
pay-per-view delivers and sets us up for some great storylines
601
00:31:47.660 --> 00:31:50.700
heading into eventually Crown Jewel and then after that Survivor Series.
602
00:31:51.289 --> 00:31:53.369
We already know the crown jewel. We're probably going to
603
00:31:53.410 --> 00:31:56.609
see Roman Reigns versus Sami Zayn on the women's side
604
00:31:56.650 --> 00:32:00.589
of things. You know, Chelsea Green, current champion over on SmackDown.
605
00:32:01.130 --> 00:32:03.640
Stephanie Viqueur currently on Raw. I don't know how I
606
00:32:03.670 --> 00:32:05.599
feel about that. Those two is a matchup. So I
607
00:32:05.630 --> 00:32:08.339
feel like you could change things up. Who would Chelsea
608
00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:10.200
be better in the ring with? Liv. That actually I
609
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.059
think might be an interesting matchup. Chelsea and Becky, I
610
00:32:13.099 --> 00:32:16.380
don't really buy into. I think Becky would steamroller. But
611
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:19.799
I'd be into the whole, you know, Liv Morgan match.
612
00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:23.009
That would be interesting for Chelsea. very different matchup for
613
00:32:23.049 --> 00:32:27.029
her versus what she's been doing either way. Raw. If
614
00:32:27.089 --> 00:32:29.609
I'm giving it a rating out of five stars, honestly,
615
00:32:29.869 --> 00:32:32.490
three and a quarter, maybe three and a quarter stars,
616
00:32:32.509 --> 00:32:35.170
three to three and a quarter stars, not overly impressed.
617
00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:37.819
I'm not hating the whole show, just not loving the
618
00:32:37.859 --> 00:32:40.420
whole show either. So you say what you will in
619
00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.359
the comments. I'd appreciate it. Let me know. What do
620
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.339
I have? Right. What did I get wrong? You know,
621
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.900
I I'm always open to your suggestions, your feedback. You
622
00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:51.349
guys are the most important thing to me. Um, I
623
00:32:51.369 --> 00:32:53.730
believe it was Simon Cowell on an episode of America's
624
00:32:53.769 --> 00:32:56.490
Got Talent. No, I believe it was Britain's Got Talent
625
00:32:56.509 --> 00:32:59.289
when he said, all you have to do is listen
626
00:32:59.309 --> 00:33:02.150
to the audience. The audience always gets it right. If
627
00:33:02.170 --> 00:33:04.069
you guys are tuning in, it must be going right.
628
00:33:04.309 --> 00:33:06.569
I appreciate you. But this is all the time we
629
00:33:06.609 --> 00:33:08.900
have for this episode. Check back with us next episode.
630
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:10.660
We'll run down the latest wrestling news and rumors. Special
631
00:33:10.700 --> 00:33:12.559
thanks as always goes to Suno for creating the music
632
00:33:12.619 --> 00:33:14.480
and sound effects we use in our show. If you
633
00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:15.839
want to bring a new friend to Family Game Night,
634
00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:18.259
it's easy. You could grab Sketchy People by Beazle Games.
635
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.779
You could grab If you're looking for your next career decision,
636
00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:23.940
you're considering college, university life, maybe you just need some
637
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:46.519
formal training for your next opportunity. Go to my website
638
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.480
at frolifeplanning.com for all your higher education needs as Fro
639
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.579
Life Educational Planning is for today, for tomorrow, and for
640
00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:55.700
life with Fro Life. I'm Fred Froelich, better known as Dr.
641
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:55.819
Fro.
642
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:56.900
I want to thank you for taking some time with
643
00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.890
us today. Until next time, take care, everybody. Have a
644
00:33:58.910 --> 00:33:59.309
great night.
645
00:33:59.329 --> 00:34:28.010
I'll sleep again Oh, wrestling heart.
1
00:00:17.489 --> 00:00:32.679
BANG! whoa wrestling podcast just when they think they got
2
00:00:32.740 --> 00:00:46.729
the answers i change the question who are you to
3
00:00:46.789 --> 00:00:49.509
to doubt ldan because this guy's a serious professional.
4
00:00:54.159 --> 00:01:26.450
It's me, Austin. I will never repair!
5
00:01:30.689 --> 00:01:32.750
For more than! For more than! Promotional consideration paid for
6
00:01:32.769 --> 00:01:40.299
by the following. Hey, yo, pro wrestling podcast listeners. Welcome
7
00:01:40.340 --> 00:01:42.079
to the show where we don't sing it, we bring it.
8
00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:44.739
Help us out and click subscribe to show your support
9
00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:48.780
on whatever social media platform you're using. And look, it
10
00:01:48.810 --> 00:01:52.670
could be any of them. YouTube, Rumble, Odyssey, Dailymotion, Twitter.
11
00:01:53.250 --> 00:01:56.769
discord you name it we're there we're on almost everything
12
00:01:57.030 --> 00:01:58.810
but the best help you can give us is to
13
00:01:58.870 --> 00:02:02.310
like share comment or subscribe especially the comments so that
14
00:02:02.349 --> 00:02:04.189
i can respond to those and put those into a
15
00:02:04.209 --> 00:02:06.489
future episode and it allows me to be able to
16
00:02:06.549 --> 00:02:09.169
engage with you and hopefully it also helps the logarithm
17
00:02:09.490 --> 00:02:11.349
so you get to engage with us we'd love to
18
00:02:11.409 --> 00:02:14.289
have you do that um if the comment section is
19
00:02:14.349 --> 00:02:15.990
not to your liking you could always call into the
20
00:02:16.030 --> 00:02:20.449
fur wrestling sound offline 267-642-1160 And leave your comments, questions,
21
00:02:20.469 --> 00:02:22.229
concerns there. I will definitely get to those in a
22
00:02:22.250 --> 00:02:25.909
future episode there as well. However, let's get into our
23
00:02:25.990 --> 00:02:29.259
sponsor for the night. As always, if you are looking
24
00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.159
for something better than dropping $ 50, $ 60, $ 80, $ 100 every
25
00:02:32.199 --> 00:02:35.520
year for a wrestling game like you do every year,
26
00:02:35.620 --> 00:02:38.000
we all do it. We understand. And you want to
27
00:02:38.020 --> 00:02:39.680
start putting some of that cash back in your pocket,
28
00:02:39.759 --> 00:02:41.000
one of the ways you can do that is check
29
00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:46.259
out Wrestler Unstoppable. It is totally free. App.wrestlerunstoppable.com is the
30
00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.210
website where you go and use your email to log in,
31
00:02:48.250 --> 00:02:50.780
create an account, Create a wrestler, sign contracts, get into
32
00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.229
the storylines, headline PLEs, even build your own corporation from
33
00:02:54.270 --> 00:02:57.009
the ground up, all included in Wrestler Unstoppable, available now,
34
00:02:57.409 --> 00:02:59.650
totally free. If you want to become a member of
35
00:02:59.669 --> 00:03:01.990
the Fro Wrestling Podcast family, you want your name in
36
00:03:02.009 --> 00:03:04.689
the shoutouts like my good buddy John in Texas and
37
00:03:04.740 --> 00:03:07.900
my newest Patreon, Sarah, the best way to do that
38
00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:11.840
is to go to Fro Wrestling's Patreon page at patreon.com
39
00:03:11.860 --> 00:03:14.759
slash frowrestlingpodcast, sign up today, and there's multiple ways you
40
00:03:14.780 --> 00:03:16.819
can do this. One, you can just sign up at
41
00:03:16.860 --> 00:03:19.840
the free tier, no cost, no obligation. It'll just notify
42
00:03:19.860 --> 00:03:22.259
you every single time we put up new content. If
43
00:03:22.300 --> 00:03:23.860
you would like to help us keep the lights on
44
00:03:23.879 --> 00:03:25.419
and bring in new content, though, and you want to
45
00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:28.240
be a monetary donor to the organization, then the best
46
00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:30.099
way to do that is to click off one of
47
00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:35.509
the dollar tiers. 1, 5, 15, 750, 25, whatever you
48
00:03:35.550 --> 00:03:38.930
want to do, we appreciate anything. Everything from a dollar
49
00:03:38.969 --> 00:03:42.909
up gets a shout out. If you're at the $ 15 level,
50
00:03:43.069 --> 00:03:44.430
you get to do more than that. You get to
51
00:03:44.469 --> 00:03:47.310
be a part of the show, co-host with myself, We'll
52
00:03:47.430 --> 00:03:50.689
create an episode around your interests. Otherwise, if you're at
53
00:03:50.710 --> 00:03:53.430
the 750 tier, you get entered into a drawing to
54
00:03:53.550 --> 00:03:56.330
also potentially host an episode with myself, which I try
55
00:03:56.349 --> 00:03:57.909
to do that once a month if I have somebody
56
00:03:57.930 --> 00:03:59.770
who's at that tier to draw them out of a
57
00:03:59.789 --> 00:04:01.870
hat and see who wants to host with me. I'd
58
00:04:01.889 --> 00:04:03.169
love to do that with you guys. I'd love to
59
00:04:03.210 --> 00:04:06.629
be able to have that one-on-one conversation. That being said,
60
00:04:07.129 --> 00:04:09.469
welcome to tonight's episode. I am Dr. Fro. Thank you
61
00:04:09.490 --> 00:04:12.370
for joining us. I really do appreciate it, especially our
62
00:04:12.409 --> 00:04:14.550
most loyal fans who've been tuning in for years now.
63
00:04:15.370 --> 00:04:18.250
and just a moment of personal before I get into business.
64
00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:21.079
This channel was started way back in 2012, and after
65
00:04:21.079 --> 00:04:24.439
14 years of being on the air, I have never, ever, ever,
66
00:04:24.579 --> 00:04:28.120
ever seen so many people tuning into the show as
67
00:04:28.180 --> 00:04:30.370
I have the last several weeks, and I cannot tell you,
68
00:04:30.810 --> 00:04:33.870
after all these years of grinding and grinding and grinding,
69
00:04:34.250 --> 00:04:36.269
to see so many of you coming back and watching
70
00:04:36.329 --> 00:04:39.009
the episodes every week, it absolutely warms my heart. I
71
00:04:39.050 --> 00:04:40.910
cannot tell you what it means to me. It makes
72
00:04:40.949 --> 00:04:43.529
me feel like it's all been worth it, the the
73
00:04:43.569 --> 00:04:46.589
long hours the weeks the months the years it was
74
00:04:46.750 --> 00:04:49.149
all worth it thank you thank you thank you for
75
00:04:49.430 --> 00:04:51.910
all of you for being so gracious to share part
76
00:04:51.930 --> 00:04:54.920
of your day taking in my content and we know
77
00:04:54.949 --> 00:04:57.000
that there are so many podcasts and shows out there
78
00:04:57.019 --> 00:04:59.939
you could choose instead for whatever reason you chose mine
79
00:05:00.300 --> 00:05:02.819
that means the world to me and that's genuine straight
80
00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:04.939
from the heart every time I open up my account
81
00:05:04.959 --> 00:05:07.500
and I see the number of views and the number
82
00:05:07.540 --> 00:05:11.180
of subscribers and all that stuff it almost moves me
83
00:05:11.459 --> 00:05:13.569
to tears man it really does So thank you to
84
00:05:13.790 --> 00:05:15.769
all of you who are tuning in every week. I really,
85
00:05:15.800 --> 00:05:19.060
really appreciate you, and I am committed to continue bringing
86
00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:21.540
you as much content as I possibly can with my crazy,
87
00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.100
insane schedule that I lead in my private life. But
88
00:05:24.180 --> 00:05:26.120
that being said, tonight's episode, now that I got all
89
00:05:26.160 --> 00:05:28.300
that lovey-dovey stuff out of the way, because you guys
90
00:05:28.339 --> 00:05:30.199
deserve it, because you guys made me this happy about
91
00:05:30.220 --> 00:05:32.810
all this, let's get into the business for the evening,
92
00:05:33.110 --> 00:05:37.730
which is the reactions and analysis of Monday Netflix Raw.
93
00:05:38.149 --> 00:05:42.009
The show started... With Roman Reigns coming in and meeting
94
00:05:42.060 --> 00:05:44.709
up with the Usos. And it sounded as though the
95
00:05:44.860 --> 00:05:47.839
Usos were right about to get into family business. And
96
00:05:47.879 --> 00:05:50.199
then all of a sudden, right before that could even
97
00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.720
get started, LA Nights music hits. And you could tell instantly, Roman,
98
00:05:54.120 --> 00:05:57.439
he's got some phenomenal facial expressions. Sometimes that little thing
99
00:05:57.459 --> 00:05:59.220
where he wiggles his jaw and all that kind of
100
00:05:59.259 --> 00:06:02.040
drives me nuts. This is not that. This was much better.
101
00:06:02.459 --> 00:06:04.660
It looked like he was genuinely annoyed the LA Nights
102
00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:07.019
music hit. And he's going to head straight to the ring.
103
00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:10.350
That being said, in the ring... LA Knight is there,
104
00:06:10.370 --> 00:06:14.029
he's talking trash, he's putting down Romy, setting up more
105
00:06:14.089 --> 00:06:17.209
heat for their match this weekend at Money in the Bank.
106
00:06:17.790 --> 00:06:20.180
My only problem with all of this is, it took
107
00:06:20.379 --> 00:06:23.160
LA Knight this long to get another opportunity at the championship,
108
00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:25.139
and you and I both know that there is, I
109
00:06:25.740 --> 00:06:30.259
would argue, a 75-85% chance that LA Knight is going
110
00:06:30.300 --> 00:06:33.709
to lose this weekend, because I don't think WWE wants
111
00:06:33.730 --> 00:06:35.910
to take a championship off of Roman Reigns, who's one
112
00:06:35.930 --> 00:06:40.329
of their golden geese, and take down that aura around
113
00:06:40.389 --> 00:06:44.050
him before he gets to Obafemi. Unless it's to Penta.
114
00:06:44.230 --> 00:06:46.470
Those are the only two people I could realistically see
115
00:06:46.509 --> 00:06:49.019
doing it. So this match, though I'm excited for it,
116
00:06:49.029 --> 00:06:51.350
and I hope LA Knight really comes out and shows
117
00:06:51.430 --> 00:06:54.939
us something, I don't expect him to win. That being said,
118
00:06:55.060 --> 00:06:58.259
Roman comes out. He interrupts LA Knight. His music hits.
119
00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:02.779
Love seeing him walk out. He responded in kind to
120
00:07:02.899 --> 00:07:06.220
all the negativity coming from LA Knight. And here's the thing.
121
00:07:06.339 --> 00:07:08.600
I actually thought this was some really great promo work
122
00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:12.449
on Roman's part. LA Knight, in a lot of ways,
123
00:07:12.509 --> 00:07:15.189
is always pretty solid in my opinion. But Roman has
124
00:07:15.389 --> 00:07:16.970
ones where it's a hit and some where it's a miss.
125
00:07:17.009 --> 00:07:19.790
Sometimes he uses really generic stuff. I love that he
126
00:07:20.329 --> 00:07:22.649
basically referred to LA Knight as another egg in the
127
00:07:22.829 --> 00:07:24.699
omelet and told him on Saturday he was going to
128
00:07:24.819 --> 00:07:28.240
crack his ass. I thought that was hilarious. I really did.
129
00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:32.189
Interesting line, whoever came up with that thought process. Um,
130
00:07:32.490 --> 00:07:35.170
as Roman gets done cutting his promo and he, you know,
131
00:07:35.509 --> 00:07:39.050
having St. Louis acknowledge him, he goes to leave LA Knight,
132
00:07:39.110 --> 00:07:41.569
grabs him by the arm and it, look, I understand
133
00:07:41.589 --> 00:07:43.970
that this stuff is predetermined and it's staged or whatnot,
134
00:07:44.470 --> 00:07:47.149
but to look on Roman's face looks so legit. It
135
00:07:47.189 --> 00:07:50.230
was hilarious to me because it's believe it for somebody who,
136
00:07:50.470 --> 00:07:53.240
if you were somebody who never watches wrestling, you'd have
137
00:07:53.250 --> 00:07:55.000
thought that these two were ready to kill each other
138
00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.839
because it looked that legit. And then of course, LA
139
00:07:58.120 --> 00:08:01.740
Knight finishes off the segment. more banter back and forth
140
00:08:01.779 --> 00:08:04.480
about this weekend's match. I thought it was a solid
141
00:08:04.500 --> 00:08:06.980
segment to open the show. It really did. From there,
142
00:08:07.439 --> 00:08:09.939
we get something I never really felt like we needed,
143
00:08:10.060 --> 00:08:11.769
but I guess it makes a lot of sense. We
144
00:08:11.790 --> 00:08:14.850
get Javon Evans and Penta taking on Braun Breaker in
145
00:08:14.910 --> 00:08:17.750
Austin Theory. And here's why I say I don't feel
146
00:08:17.769 --> 00:08:22.910
like we needed this. Javon Evans and Penta have other
147
00:08:23.009 --> 00:08:24.649
things to worry about when it comes to Money in
148
00:08:24.670 --> 00:08:28.189
the Bank. I understand that Braun Breaker is in Money
149
00:08:28.209 --> 00:08:30.269
in the Bank as well. I get it. They attacked
150
00:08:30.290 --> 00:08:32.490
them last week. It all makes sense. I don't have
151
00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:35.470
a problem per se with the booking. My issue is
152
00:08:35.850 --> 00:08:39.669
you're talking about the world tag team champions taking on
153
00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:43.460
a makeshift team that has never competed before in any
154
00:08:43.659 --> 00:08:49.179
high profile anything. So when you see Javon Evans and look,
155
00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:50.580
there was a really cool spot in the middle of
156
00:08:50.620 --> 00:08:53.860
this where like brass knucks were slid into the ring
157
00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:57.120
from Logan Paul and they missed Austin Theory and somehow
158
00:08:57.159 --> 00:08:58.740
Javon Evans got a hold of him and he used
159
00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.779
him on Theory to help, you know, get the match.
160
00:09:02.740 --> 00:09:05.639
I love that. I'm okay with that. That was very entertaining,
161
00:09:06.139 --> 00:09:09.000
except I don't want to see a makeshift tag team
162
00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:12.419
defeat the world tag team champions. It makes those tag
163
00:09:12.470 --> 00:09:18.909
team championships seem so insignificant. And my opinion was about
164
00:09:18.929 --> 00:09:21.169
a month and a half ago is it seemed like
165
00:09:21.190 --> 00:09:23.710
when they were heading into this Oba versus Braun match
166
00:09:23.750 --> 00:09:26.320
back at Sunday night's main event, that they were moving
167
00:09:26.340 --> 00:09:30.970
towards reestablishing Braun Breaker as a premium top-tier talent. When
168
00:09:31.009 --> 00:09:34.190
you do this, and it takes away from his championship reign,
169
00:09:34.549 --> 00:09:36.750
and then after the match is over, there's like a
170
00:09:36.809 --> 00:09:41.970
beatdown starts up, Bronson Reed hits the ring, they're stomping
171
00:09:42.029 --> 00:09:46.200
everybody's tsunami, tsunami, get ready for a tsunami on Javon Evans,
172
00:09:46.340 --> 00:09:49.740
and then Oba's music hits. But before that, while you're
173
00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:53.700
doing all of that, Braun Breaker has again taken a backseat,
174
00:09:53.740 --> 00:09:56.649
this time to Bronson Reed. You could have established him
175
00:09:56.690 --> 00:09:59.419
as a main level star you had that ending you
176
00:09:59.460 --> 00:10:02.399
had to his match with oba at sunday night's main
177
00:10:02.440 --> 00:10:05.500
event to begin with which made it so neither person
178
00:10:05.580 --> 00:10:09.409
took anything away from their current position but you've done
179
00:10:09.490 --> 00:10:13.269
nothing with it and now it's once again kicking him
180
00:10:13.809 --> 00:10:16.879
you know down the pecking order and moving Bronson Reed
181
00:10:16.899 --> 00:10:18.840
up to the top of the pecking order in the group.
182
00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.720
And if he's supposed to be the main event star
183
00:10:20.740 --> 00:10:23.120
of the future, he should still be at the top
184
00:10:23.139 --> 00:10:26.399
of the food chain. But he's not. And that's problematic
185
00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:30.299
for me. Now, from there, Oba comes out, and he
186
00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.159
is taking on all comers. And he's beaten down the
187
00:10:33.220 --> 00:10:36.399
entire vision, which made Bronson Reed, in my opinion, look
188
00:10:36.450 --> 00:10:41.129
relatively weak in this segment. Because this is a guy who,
189
00:10:41.230 --> 00:10:43.529
up until this moment, I have yet to believe is
190
00:10:43.570 --> 00:10:46.379
a legitimate, credible threat to Oba Femi. I don't think
191
00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:48.879
anybody going into Money in the Bank thinks that Obafemi's losing.
192
00:10:48.980 --> 00:10:51.940
I don't think anybody would buy it if it happened.
193
00:10:53.179 --> 00:10:54.559
I can't imagine what they'd have to do to make
194
00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.070
that happen and make it believable. Even with outside interference
195
00:10:58.090 --> 00:11:00.250
from the vision, it's kind of ridiculous. He laid out
196
00:11:00.289 --> 00:11:04.570
most of the vision tonight. But there is even a
197
00:11:04.909 --> 00:11:07.350
part here where in the middle of him fighting and
198
00:11:07.389 --> 00:11:11.450
hitting the uppercuts on Braun Breaker and on Bronson Reed,
199
00:11:11.710 --> 00:11:15.110
Logan Paul even got physically involved. Came in, hit him.
200
00:11:15.580 --> 00:11:16.700
And then he turned out like he was going to
201
00:11:16.740 --> 00:11:18.519
kill Logan Paul and Logan Paul ducked out of the ring.
202
00:11:18.860 --> 00:11:20.559
Still has his arm in the sling. I know he
203
00:11:20.600 --> 00:11:23.179
was hoping to be ready to go by now. Clearly
204
00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:26.389
he's not. And probably won't be, I would imagine, until
205
00:11:26.409 --> 00:11:28.870
closer to the Royal Rumble. But it was nice to
206
00:11:28.889 --> 00:11:30.210
see him get in the ring and at least throw
207
00:11:30.250 --> 00:11:32.009
some kind of physicality in. It makes it so he
208
00:11:32.049 --> 00:11:35.389
has some kind of value. It also gives a highlight
209
00:11:35.429 --> 00:11:37.580
that he could then promote all over social media, which
210
00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.799
is something Logan Paul is great for. And then he
211
00:11:40.860 --> 00:11:43.519
ducks out of the ring and all this, the melee happens.
212
00:11:45.019 --> 00:11:48.299
Oba ends up knocking Braun Breaker over the top rope,
213
00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:51.669
which I absolutely hated because Braun, for as much as
214
00:11:51.710 --> 00:11:53.450
he can do in the ring, I don't like the
215
00:11:53.490 --> 00:11:55.529
way he sells getting knocked over the top rope. It
216
00:11:55.570 --> 00:12:00.070
looks weak to me. He looks so weak. After that,
217
00:12:00.870 --> 00:12:03.190
there's a spot where it looks like there's going to be,
218
00:12:03.309 --> 00:12:06.110
you know, he gets attacked by Bronson Reed from behind.
219
00:12:06.169 --> 00:12:07.730
It looks like Bronson is going to go for another
220
00:12:07.789 --> 00:12:10.379
tsunami on him this time. But he pops up and
221
00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.379
he hits an uppercut on Bronson Reed up on the
222
00:12:12.419 --> 00:12:14.870
turnbuckle and Bronson Reed falls outside the ring. And then
223
00:12:14.879 --> 00:12:18.870
he cuts a really, really great program. He really does.
224
00:12:19.490 --> 00:12:23.110
And I mean, look, this is going to be a
225
00:12:23.149 --> 00:12:25.730
hard hitting match. I think it'll be very entertaining. I
226
00:12:25.850 --> 00:12:28.789
love Bronson Reed's new figure. I feel like he is
227
00:12:28.850 --> 00:12:32.070
in just phenomenal shape compared to what he was maybe
228
00:12:32.090 --> 00:12:34.309
a year or even two years ago when he was
229
00:12:34.370 --> 00:12:38.490
just a huge mass of a guy. Now he strikes
230
00:12:38.549 --> 00:12:40.730
me as a legit shooter. Like, he looks like a
231
00:12:40.789 --> 00:12:44.490
legit threat. So I don't know. I don't see any
232
00:12:44.509 --> 00:12:46.929
way for Oba to lose the match. But it definitely
233
00:12:46.970 --> 00:12:50.149
does not hurt for Bronson Reed in his current state
234
00:12:50.169 --> 00:12:53.529
to be in this feud. Because he's arguably the biggest
235
00:12:53.570 --> 00:12:56.269
star in the company right now. From there, we get
236
00:12:56.549 --> 00:13:00.029
a backstage vignette with Liv Morgan talking trash about Becky Lynch.
237
00:13:00.049 --> 00:13:02.000
Because they're going to be facing each other in the
238
00:13:02.059 --> 00:13:06.080
main event. Number one contendership for the Women's Championship. Then
239
00:13:06.100 --> 00:13:09.799
we get another video feature on Worlds Collide, highlights from
240
00:13:10.039 --> 00:13:15.330
the show. They specifically talked about the Rey Mysterio, CM Punk,
241
00:13:15.500 --> 00:13:19.029
El Grande Americano match, which is going to come into
242
00:13:19.070 --> 00:13:22.450
play a little bit later because after that video package,
243
00:13:22.470 --> 00:13:25.009
we go to Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee in the back.
244
00:13:25.029 --> 00:13:28.409
They're talking, you know, celebratory type stuff. And then comes
245
00:13:28.730 --> 00:13:33.039
Dirty Dom and JD McDonough. Again, constant banter, King of
246
00:13:33.059 --> 00:13:35.460
the Luchas, all that kind of stuff, trash talk of Rey,
247
00:13:35.600 --> 00:13:38.299
deadbeat dad. And I love that they pointed out, and
248
00:13:38.350 --> 00:13:41.429
this is something that really hit my spidey senses, they
249
00:13:41.509 --> 00:13:44.950
pointed out that Rey, when he chose his partners for
250
00:13:45.049 --> 00:13:51.830
AAA's Worlds Collide show, he chose CM Punk and El
251
00:13:51.850 --> 00:13:55.279
Grande Americano and didn't choose Dragon Lee, implying that there
252
00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:57.100
should be a reason Dragon Lee should be upset. And
253
00:13:57.159 --> 00:14:00.659
is this purposely being done To turn Dragon Lee heel
254
00:14:00.750 --> 00:14:03.450
at some point. I actually hope that's not the case.
255
00:14:03.990 --> 00:14:06.309
I like his character as he is. But I did
256
00:14:06.389 --> 00:14:08.850
find the line rather interesting. And the fact that Dom
257
00:14:08.889 --> 00:14:10.970
put it out there. And it seems like something you
258
00:14:11.009 --> 00:14:13.850
could see happening. Even though I don't want to. So
259
00:14:13.870 --> 00:14:15.470
I'm going to have to monitor that. But we do
260
00:14:15.529 --> 00:14:18.250
have a challenge made for a tag team match later
261
00:14:18.289 --> 00:14:19.730
in the show. We all could have seen that coming.
262
00:14:20.470 --> 00:14:26.580
From there another vignette. The 946 with their latest pre-recorded vignette.
263
00:14:26.990 --> 00:14:29.100
It was all right. It wasn't phenomenal. I mean, I
264
00:14:29.120 --> 00:14:30.820
don't think any of these guys are the best orators
265
00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.480
in the world. And right after that vignette, we have
266
00:14:33.500 --> 00:14:36.419
the Usos back in the back again. This time, Roman
267
00:14:36.460 --> 00:14:40.080
Reigns walks in again, you know, talks about he doesn't
268
00:14:40.139 --> 00:14:43.830
understand why they're taking orders from Jacob. You know, he
269
00:14:43.870 --> 00:14:46.750
made them the captains and Jacob's a soldier. He's supposed
270
00:14:46.789 --> 00:14:49.590
to fall in line. That hasn't been happening. And then
271
00:14:49.649 --> 00:14:52.379
Roman Reigns says he's taking it on himself, basically. To
272
00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:54.320
go fix this. Now I didn't know what that meant.
273
00:14:54.419 --> 00:14:57.360
I actually thought we might get a Roman Reigns 9-4-6 segment.
274
00:14:57.860 --> 00:15:00.059
I'm glad we didn't yet. Because he still has to
275
00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.850
get this match out of the way. With LA Knight.
276
00:15:02.870 --> 00:15:04.519
Like I said earlier. None of us think LA Knight
277
00:15:04.539 --> 00:15:05.730
is going to win anyway. So if it's not going
278
00:15:05.750 --> 00:15:10.649
to happen. Just keep it moving. After he walks off screen.
279
00:15:11.210 --> 00:15:17.070
We get Lola Weiss. And Sol Ruka. Taking on Roxanne Perez.
280
00:15:17.129 --> 00:15:21.220
And Raquel Rodriguez. And look. A couple things. One. I
281
00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:24.679
absolutely hate that Lola Weiss spends so much time trying
282
00:15:24.700 --> 00:15:26.960
to be flashy and flirtatious in the ring. I know
283
00:15:26.980 --> 00:15:29.240
that's like a part of her shtick, but it's just
284
00:15:29.299 --> 00:15:33.000
not to my taste. It doesn't make sense that when
285
00:15:33.019 --> 00:15:35.789
you hit somebody with a basic move, they're then somehow
286
00:15:35.950 --> 00:15:38.389
incapacitated long enough for you to shake your ass in
287
00:15:38.409 --> 00:15:43.029
the ring. It's kind of ridiculous when she does the
288
00:15:43.070 --> 00:15:44.549
same thing in the middle of the ring with Sol
289
00:15:44.590 --> 00:15:46.690
Ruka doing it too. It doesn't make it any better.
290
00:15:47.350 --> 00:15:50.110
It doesn't make sense. A lot of this match was
291
00:15:50.169 --> 00:15:52.440
very sloppy. It seemed like there was a lot of
292
00:15:52.460 --> 00:15:55.139
missed spots, a lot of botches. I don't want to
293
00:15:55.159 --> 00:15:57.580
say botches, but it certainly wasn't as crisp as it
294
00:15:57.620 --> 00:15:59.500
could be. There was one move where somebody tried to
295
00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:02.179
hit something on Raquel Rodriguez, and it looked like they
296
00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.899
almost dropped her on her head. There was several times
297
00:16:05.950 --> 00:16:09.610
where running the ropes seemed either labored or slow. And look,
298
00:16:09.759 --> 00:16:11.470
I'm not one of them. I'm not on the biggest
299
00:16:11.490 --> 00:16:13.590
stage in the world. I just know as a wrestling fan,
300
00:16:13.690 --> 00:16:16.000
it seemed sloppy is the best way I could put it,
301
00:16:16.549 --> 00:16:17.870
which I don't want to say that because I don't
302
00:16:17.889 --> 00:16:21.470
want to see them change any of their upward trajectory
303
00:16:21.529 --> 00:16:25.049
these people have. I think Raquel's amazing. I think Roxanne
304
00:16:25.100 --> 00:16:27.659
is amazing. I think Sol Ruka is amazing. I also
305
00:16:27.700 --> 00:16:30.379
think Lola Weiss is amazing. So I don't know what
306
00:16:30.399 --> 00:16:33.419
it is about the chemistry, but it's just not working. Now,
307
00:16:33.460 --> 00:16:35.580
of course, that lack of chemistry plays into the end
308
00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:38.340
of the match because Lola Weiss goes for an MIA
309
00:16:38.419 --> 00:16:42.080
backfist and misses her target and drills Sol Ruka and
310
00:16:42.100 --> 00:16:44.960
then gets rolled up for the win for the judgment day.
311
00:16:45.529 --> 00:16:48.110
which I didn't see coming, I actually expected Lola Weiss
312
00:16:48.330 --> 00:16:53.909
and Sol Ruka to win, so it was a pleasant surprise, but,
313
00:16:54.120 --> 00:16:57.259
you know, it's one of these things where I love
314
00:16:57.299 --> 00:17:00.679
how Roxanne and Raquel are able to do what they
315
00:17:00.720 --> 00:17:03.700
need to do without the outside interference that Liv always needs,
316
00:17:03.759 --> 00:17:06.839
and that's something I hope plays into whenever they finally
317
00:17:06.900 --> 00:17:09.039
break up the Judgment Day, I hope that plays into
318
00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:13.210
that conversation. Now, Once the match is over, we go
319
00:17:13.230 --> 00:17:16.549
back to the back for yet another promo segment. And
320
00:17:16.589 --> 00:17:17.789
here's the thing. I'm going to give you a final
321
00:17:17.849 --> 00:17:19.970
count at the end of this. But the Usos and
322
00:17:20.009 --> 00:17:22.430
Roman Reigns are back there. Adam Pearce is back there.
323
00:17:23.019 --> 00:17:24.839
And it's next week. They're going to have a six-man
324
00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:27.799
tag team match. And the Usos right away are all happy. Like, oh,
325
00:17:27.819 --> 00:17:29.720
we're going to be teaming with the OTC. And he says,
326
00:17:29.740 --> 00:17:32.759
you're not teaming with me. You're teaming with him. And
327
00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:38.059
into frame comes Solo Sakoa. I don't understand this at all.
328
00:17:38.720 --> 00:17:41.200
Not even a little bit. Why Solo would want to
329
00:17:41.220 --> 00:17:44.400
be with them? Why Roman would want him in there.
330
00:17:44.980 --> 00:17:52.029
He's made no claims that he's changed his perspective on things.
331
00:17:53.930 --> 00:17:55.970
Other than unifying to try to take out the 9-4-6,
332
00:17:56.009 --> 00:17:59.029
I guess that works. I just don't like it. I
333
00:17:59.150 --> 00:18:02.430
don't want to see Solo in the bloodline again. And
334
00:18:02.490 --> 00:18:07.940
I know we're all headed for a Survivor Series matchup
335
00:18:08.099 --> 00:18:10.859
in War Games. I get it. I'm just not a
336
00:18:10.940 --> 00:18:13.339
fan of it. Solo is doing his best work of
337
00:18:13.420 --> 00:18:16.700
his entire career, and you've kind of killed that part
338
00:18:16.720 --> 00:18:19.440
of him off. From there, we get our next match,
339
00:18:19.579 --> 00:18:22.819
Ethan Page versus Ray Phoenix. No championship on the line
340
00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.720
in this matchup. And this match, honestly, probably the best
341
00:18:26.769 --> 00:18:30.069
thing I saw tonight. Ethan Page is so underappreciated. That
342
00:18:30.089 --> 00:18:33.549
guy is worldly talented. I really hope WWE figures out
343
00:18:33.589 --> 00:18:36.130
something substantial for him to do. In the meantime, I
344
00:18:36.150 --> 00:18:38.269
feel like he's been toiling in the mid-card and hasn't
345
00:18:38.289 --> 00:18:42.589
gotten any kind of real traction. Ray Phoenix, good God,
346
00:18:42.609 --> 00:18:44.549
that guy could do anything you ask him to do.
347
00:18:44.609 --> 00:18:48.789
He looked phenomenal. The whole match, top to bottom, was fantastic.
348
00:18:48.809 --> 00:18:51.230
It was great. Ray Phoenix picking up the win. I'm
349
00:18:51.250 --> 00:18:54.029
actually kind of surprised. I didn't expect that. I kind
350
00:18:54.069 --> 00:18:56.769
of expected Ethan Page to get it to further that
351
00:18:57.089 --> 00:18:59.809
as it potentially being a legit feud, but we didn't
352
00:18:59.829 --> 00:19:02.230
get that. So shut him down. I guess he doesn't
353
00:19:02.250 --> 00:19:04.769
get a title opportunity now if he ever shed some weight.
354
00:19:05.710 --> 00:19:10.420
From there, Another vignette. Video. We'll say video instead of vignette.
355
00:19:10.440 --> 00:19:12.259
Where they get a Money in the Bank video. It
356
00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:14.019
kind of gave me the vibes of what they play
357
00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:17.410
before the Royal Rumble. The history of it and things
358
00:19:17.430 --> 00:19:20.990
like that. There was one glaring omission. The fact that
359
00:19:21.210 --> 00:19:23.430
Edge was not featured at all. And I get it.
360
00:19:23.450 --> 00:19:27.130
He's in AEW. But history is history. You know? The
361
00:19:27.210 --> 00:19:31.150
thing started with Edge. He's cashed in more than once.
362
00:19:31.769 --> 00:19:34.799
The guys won the world championship off of a cash in.
363
00:19:35.579 --> 00:19:39.769
I would have continued to show the history. It doesn't
364
00:19:39.829 --> 00:19:43.750
matter where somebody wrestles now. I think you still show
365
00:19:43.769 --> 00:19:47.509
the history. Because otherwise it's a disingenuous video. And that
366
00:19:47.549 --> 00:19:50.720
part kind of bothered me. We get a Judgment Day
367
00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:55.200
backstage segment. And look, it's just more banter back and
368
00:19:55.240 --> 00:19:58.460
forth with all members of Judgment Day. Oh, Liv's going
369
00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.319
to win her championship back. We're going to have all
370
00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:03.660
the gold. He and JD can go after the tag
371
00:20:03.700 --> 00:20:04.619
titles or whatnot.
372
00:20:05.920 --> 00:20:06.099
But.
373
00:20:07.359 --> 00:20:09.809
At the end of the vignette, they talk about Joe
374
00:20:09.849 --> 00:20:12.589
Hendry a little bit. And a package arrives for JD McDonough,
375
00:20:12.609 --> 00:20:17.309
which inside has a card from Joe Hendry and a
376
00:20:17.349 --> 00:20:20.150
Funko Pop. He rips the Funko Pop out of the thing,
377
00:20:20.190 --> 00:20:21.829
makes fun of the fact that it has the big head,
378
00:20:21.869 --> 00:20:24.869
it's not proportionate, whatever. Then they have to leave because
379
00:20:24.910 --> 00:20:27.329
they're supposed to be going and having a match. And
380
00:20:27.349 --> 00:20:29.190
when they leave, here's the part that I really thought
381
00:20:29.210 --> 00:20:32.470
was interesting. The Funko Pop, the girls in the back,
382
00:20:32.910 --> 00:20:35.990
when they walked away, Liv, Raquel, and Roxanne, They all
383
00:20:36.029 --> 00:20:38.259
seem to be laughing at the Funko. Is that leading
384
00:20:38.299 --> 00:20:41.140
to some dissension between them? You know, I don't know.
385
00:20:41.299 --> 00:20:44.460
In the promo in the back, at one point they
386
00:20:44.500 --> 00:20:46.839
talked about nobody getting a big head, and then they
387
00:20:46.859 --> 00:20:49.400
looked at JD and started apologizing. Are they going to
388
00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:51.710
be poking fun at him to lead to him eventually
389
00:20:51.769 --> 00:20:54.349
having a change of heart, so to speak? I don't know.
390
00:20:54.369 --> 00:20:56.170
We'll have to wait and see. We then get the
391
00:20:56.190 --> 00:20:58.849
tag team matchup, Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee versus JD
392
00:20:58.869 --> 00:21:01.769
McDonough and Dominic Mysterio. And look, I'll be honest with you.
393
00:21:01.869 --> 00:21:04.390
Dom has been coming on, man. That kid can go now.
394
00:21:04.470 --> 00:21:07.609
He can wrestle. JD is absolutely phenomenal. He's one of
395
00:21:07.630 --> 00:21:09.549
the best wrestlers in the world. Dragon Lee as well.
396
00:21:10.029 --> 00:21:12.430
But I got to be honest, man. And I understand
397
00:21:12.579 --> 00:21:15.039
I'm older than some of you guys. But the athleticism
398
00:21:15.500 --> 00:21:19.160
that Rey Mysterio can put on at that age is
399
00:21:19.480 --> 00:21:23.700
absolutely mind-boggling. He is going as if he's still like
400
00:21:23.720 --> 00:21:27.029
a 25-year-old man. I don't understand how he does it.
401
00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:29.819
That's absolutely crazy to me. The match is going well
402
00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:33.099
until there's a referee distraction, which I'll never understand how
403
00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.759
stupid the referees are because they watch wrestling just like
404
00:21:35.779 --> 00:21:38.740
we do. But the referee is distracted. And while that's happening,
405
00:21:39.259 --> 00:21:42.740
Big Cass appears and he takes out Dragon Lee. And
406
00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:44.839
then he goes, Rey Mysterio shoots himself over the top
407
00:21:44.880 --> 00:21:47.140
rope trying to take him out. He looks like he's
408
00:21:47.160 --> 00:21:49.589
going to like take care of Rey. Rey reverses it,
409
00:21:49.599 --> 00:21:52.519
shoves him into a turnbuckle, gets back in the ring.
410
00:21:53.089 --> 00:21:57.069
And Ray's whole thing here, he knocks Dom Mysterio down.
411
00:21:57.390 --> 00:22:00.119
He's in position for the 619. As he goes to
412
00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.240
hit it, J.D. McDonough jumps into the ring and hits
413
00:22:02.259 --> 00:22:06.160
a headbutt on Ray Mysterio. And Ray gets pinned. And
414
00:22:06.220 --> 00:22:09.599
the winners are the Judgment Day, J.D. McDonough and Dominic Mysterio.
415
00:22:10.220 --> 00:22:12.740
I actually kind of like the ending. I don't like
416
00:22:12.779 --> 00:22:15.140
the involvement of Big Cass. I really don't. I don't
417
00:22:15.180 --> 00:22:17.160
know why they put him into this thing where he's
418
00:22:17.200 --> 00:22:19.490
going after all these small guys. They could have done
419
00:22:19.529 --> 00:22:21.309
something so much better with him. And they just have
420
00:22:21.329 --> 00:22:25.299
dropped the ball completely. Um, again, maybe they've given up
421
00:22:25.380 --> 00:22:27.779
on him. Maybe they haven't. Maybe this is leading to
422
00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:30.579
the return of Enzo. I don't know. I just don't
423
00:22:30.599 --> 00:22:32.940
love it. I really don't love it. What a waste
424
00:22:32.980 --> 00:22:35.220
of a big man and an athletic big man with
425
00:22:35.240 --> 00:22:37.980
a really, he's really worked hard on his body. You
426
00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.460
could do so much more with him and they just
427
00:22:39.529 --> 00:22:43.009
simply aren't. Then we get another prerecorded vignette, Becky Lynch
428
00:22:43.029 --> 00:22:45.509
in the back talking about Liv Morgan. Of course she
429
00:22:45.589 --> 00:22:48.349
is because we're just trying to get some heat on
430
00:22:48.390 --> 00:22:51.220
this main event we're going to have tonight. And, of course,
431
00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:54.579
it's more of this same banter about what they're going
432
00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:56.720
to do to each other and all that kind of
433
00:22:56.740 --> 00:22:59.599
fun stuff. So from the Becky Lynch vignette, we then
434
00:22:59.640 --> 00:23:02.779
get Lyra Valkyria in the back for her segment where
435
00:23:02.819 --> 00:23:04.799
she's complaining about how long she's going to have to
436
00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.599
wait for her opportunity. And then after beating her like
437
00:23:08.619 --> 00:23:12.660
a redheaded stepchild the last couple weeks, Bayley just walks
438
00:23:12.720 --> 00:23:16.529
into the screen casually behind her and basically explains to
439
00:23:16.549 --> 00:23:19.349
her that it's not over until she says so. And
440
00:23:19.369 --> 00:23:22.230
then just casually walks off the screen. These women are
441
00:23:22.309 --> 00:23:26.470
bitter rivals. Walking in slowly, standing there having a conversation
442
00:23:26.490 --> 00:23:30.009
and walking away slowly does not make sense. I don't
443
00:23:30.029 --> 00:23:31.950
know about you guys, but think about back to your
444
00:23:31.970 --> 00:23:35.319
time in middle and high school. If two people were beefing,
445
00:23:35.910 --> 00:23:37.640
they would not walk up to each other, talk trash
446
00:23:37.700 --> 00:23:39.900
and then just walk away. It would not happen that way.
447
00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:42.500
There would be fisticuffs. If it was ladies, they'd be
448
00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.799
ripping hair out. Instead, these two have been in like
449
00:23:44.819 --> 00:23:48.380
a blood feud and they did nothing. They just barely
450
00:23:48.420 --> 00:23:53.390
just walked away. Horrible. Absolutely hated it. From there, another
451
00:23:53.430 --> 00:23:56.609
backstage segment, another vignette or promo or whatever you want
452
00:23:56.630 --> 00:24:02.450
to call it, a segment. 946, this time with Jada Parker. Again,
453
00:24:02.849 --> 00:24:05.230
talking about what they're going to do to the Usos,
454
00:24:05.250 --> 00:24:09.069
the bloodline to Jacob or whatnot. And like, it should
455
00:24:09.109 --> 00:24:11.670
be obvious by now, we've all speculated that, you know,
456
00:24:11.690 --> 00:24:13.450
we're going to get Naomi back and she'll be the
457
00:24:14.009 --> 00:24:19.829
foil for Jada Parker. But, I mean, why do we
458
00:24:19.869 --> 00:24:23.630
have to have a vignette, a pre-recorded vignette earlier in
459
00:24:23.670 --> 00:24:26.829
the show and then another one here? Why? Why couldn't
460
00:24:26.849 --> 00:24:28.650
you have got that done in one vignette instead of
461
00:24:28.690 --> 00:24:33.130
having another one? Then we go to the back. Another vignette.
462
00:24:33.210 --> 00:24:35.769
Paul Heyman's in the back. Bronson Reed walks in camera.
463
00:24:36.250 --> 00:24:38.089
And this leads to a whole back and forth banter
464
00:24:38.109 --> 00:24:39.970
with them, which I thought was, when it comes to
465
00:24:40.029 --> 00:24:43.759
all these vignettes, I thought it was absolutely hilarious. that
466
00:24:43.799 --> 00:24:48.000
Paul Heyman kept saying, tsunami, tsunami, tsunami. So I think
467
00:24:48.019 --> 00:24:49.920
he did five or six the first thing. And then
468
00:24:49.940 --> 00:24:53.369
he paused and tsunami, tsunami again and again and again.
469
00:24:54.529 --> 00:24:56.769
I stopped counting. I got tired of counting how many
470
00:24:56.789 --> 00:24:59.789
times he screamed tsunami. Then he got quiet and he
471
00:24:59.910 --> 00:25:02.809
said it a couple of times. Talking about basically that
472
00:25:02.890 --> 00:25:04.269
this is what you're going to have to do because
473
00:25:04.309 --> 00:25:08.769
of how, you know, Obafemi basically destroyed Brock Lesnar. And
474
00:25:08.789 --> 00:25:10.809
then if you don't do that, that, you know, he'll
475
00:25:10.950 --> 00:25:13.940
take you out as well. And I love the way
476
00:25:14.019 --> 00:25:17.500
Paul Heyman talked about Oba. He started doing the same
477
00:25:17.539 --> 00:25:20.119
kind of thing he does with Brock. We're talking about
478
00:25:20.519 --> 00:25:23.640
the ruler. We're talking about, you know, all that kind
479
00:25:23.660 --> 00:25:26.619
of stuff. He had all of his little one-line tag monikers,
480
00:25:27.240 --> 00:25:28.940
and he did it almost in the style that he
481
00:25:28.980 --> 00:25:31.720
does when he talks about an NCAA Division I champion,
482
00:25:32.019 --> 00:25:34.920
a former UFC heavyweight champion when he's talking about, with
483
00:25:34.980 --> 00:25:37.410
a one in 21-1 when he does that kind of
484
00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:39.720
thing for Brock Lesnar. it almost makes me feel like
485
00:25:39.740 --> 00:25:42.839
Heyman is going to manage Obafemi at some point in
486
00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:46.890
the near future. For now, not so much. Then we
487
00:25:46.910 --> 00:25:49.430
get to our last match of the evening, Becky Lynch
488
00:25:49.470 --> 00:25:53.589
versus Liv Morgan, number one contendership to Stephanie Vetker's Women's
489
00:25:53.630 --> 00:25:57.549
World Heavyweight Championship. And like, here's the thing, the match
490
00:25:57.569 --> 00:26:00.950
was going well. And then like we've seen every single
491
00:26:01.049 --> 00:26:03.430
flipping week for months and months and months and months
492
00:26:03.490 --> 00:26:06.539
and months to the point that It doesn't have just
493
00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:09.240
heat because they're doing it. It has go-away heat. Like,
494
00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:10.799
we don't want to see you kind of heat. And
495
00:26:10.819 --> 00:26:15.039
that's not good for a wrestling show. But what I'm
496
00:26:15.079 --> 00:26:18.180
talking about is the appearance of Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne
497
00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:23.430
Perez coming out once again to get involved in Liv's match. Like,
498
00:26:23.509 --> 00:26:26.730
she can't have a match without some kind of interference.
499
00:26:27.150 --> 00:26:28.710
And let me tell you the part that really pissed
500
00:26:28.750 --> 00:26:31.170
me off. If you can't tell, when you tune into
501
00:26:31.190 --> 00:26:33.369
my show, I don't curse very often. I've said a
502
00:26:33.369 --> 00:26:36.200
couple words tonight. And I just went there. I apologize
503
00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:38.359
if that offends you. I don't mean to. But, like,
504
00:26:39.460 --> 00:26:44.460
if I see one more freaking match where somebody grabs
505
00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:46.940
someone else's leg and puts it over the bottom rope.
506
00:26:47.500 --> 00:26:51.150
Because here's another match where Roxanne did that. She grabbed
507
00:26:51.230 --> 00:26:53.349
Liv's foot when Becky was going for the cover and
508
00:26:53.390 --> 00:26:55.589
put Liv's foot on the bottom rope. And it breaks
509
00:26:55.630 --> 00:26:58.490
the hold. And the referee has to reset. And then
510
00:26:58.730 --> 00:27:02.890
at some point, Stephanie Vecure runs out. And she alerts
511
00:27:02.930 --> 00:27:05.500
the referee. that there's cheating going on. As the referee
512
00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:09.259
turns around, Raquel Rodriguez looks like she's handing the Intercontinental
513
00:27:09.279 --> 00:27:13.839
Championship belt to Liv Morgan, and that gets thrown out
514
00:27:13.880 --> 00:27:16.589
of the arena. As the referee's trying to make that happen,
515
00:27:16.609 --> 00:27:20.829
his initiative to get them out, Stephanie Vecura's still in
516
00:27:20.869 --> 00:27:24.470
the apron, and Liv is livid, no pun intended. And
517
00:27:24.509 --> 00:27:27.829
she's screaming at her, and there's a whole back-and-forth banter
518
00:27:27.869 --> 00:27:30.619
going on. It leads to Becky Lynch coming in, trying
519
00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.480
to get a roll-up. Very sloppy. Didn't look good, but
520
00:27:33.500 --> 00:27:38.119
she tried. Some more back and forth exchanges. Not sure
521
00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:41.759
who's going to win. And then at one point, Becky
522
00:27:41.859 --> 00:27:45.319
accidentally hits Stephanie Vecure. Okay, that is what it is.
523
00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:48.240
And then Liv goes for an oblivion and she misses
524
00:27:48.400 --> 00:27:52.930
and hits Stephanie Vecure. What does Stephanie do? Charges into
525
00:27:52.950 --> 00:27:57.609
the ring, attacks both of them. And I mean, I
526
00:27:57.630 --> 00:27:59.009
think we all could have seen that this was going
527
00:27:59.029 --> 00:28:01.430
to be a triple threat coming. Not a fan, dude.
528
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:04.349
Just not a fan. I would have preferred to see
529
00:28:04.369 --> 00:28:06.269
a winner here. Now, if you're saving that for down
530
00:28:06.309 --> 00:28:08.650
the line when one of the other one is a champion, great.
531
00:28:09.390 --> 00:28:11.250
I would have done it slightly differently. I just would have.
532
00:28:11.289 --> 00:28:14.289
I would have, you know, had the singles match, follow
533
00:28:14.309 --> 00:28:17.470
it up. Schma's ending that if you want to. That
534
00:28:17.509 --> 00:28:21.180
way you're giving two people, you're giving two people an
535
00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:25.140
opportunity in a ring to just go out there and
536
00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.259
ball out. And then you could screw it up at
537
00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:28.839
the end and do another one. And then screw that
538
00:28:28.880 --> 00:28:30.660
up at the end. Then do the three-way or something.
539
00:28:31.140 --> 00:28:33.819
but this, this just felt so rushed to me. It
540
00:28:33.839 --> 00:28:36.180
didn't feel authentic to me. I wasn't a big fan
541
00:28:36.220 --> 00:28:39.849
of this segment. Um, and then Stephanie Viqueur calls out,
542
00:28:40.009 --> 00:28:42.849
you know, Adam Pierce and she wants both of them
543
00:28:43.210 --> 00:28:45.690
at money in the bank women's, you know, three, three
544
00:28:45.710 --> 00:28:49.119
way for the women's world heavyweight championship, whatever it is,
545
00:28:49.150 --> 00:28:50.950
what it is. The money in the bank card is
546
00:28:50.990 --> 00:28:53.519
looking better and better. It really is. Um, I don't
547
00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:55.660
know if we'll get anything added on SmackDown. I will
548
00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:58.759
be coming out with a prediction episode later in the week. Um,
549
00:28:59.789 --> 00:29:02.200
But the card does have some great matches on it.
550
00:29:02.490 --> 00:29:04.819
But here's what I don't like, right? How many times
551
00:29:04.859 --> 00:29:06.720
tonight did you hear me talk about a vignette or
552
00:29:06.759 --> 00:29:09.319
a backstage segment or a promo or something like that?
553
00:29:10.099 --> 00:29:14.720
If you weren't counting, I'll tell you. Raw had 13
554
00:29:14.720 --> 00:29:17.829
vignettes slash backstage segments.
555
00:29:17.829 --> 00:29:18.579
13!
556
00:29:18.579 --> 00:29:22.710
14 if you count the promo that Obafemi cut after
557
00:29:22.769 --> 00:29:25.390
he fought off The Vision. So if you count that,
558
00:29:25.430 --> 00:29:33.099
it's 14 different speaking segments. versus five wrestling matches. Five!
559
00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.230
Our only wrestling matches was the Javon Evans-Penta match against
560
00:29:37.990 --> 00:29:41.039
Braun Breaker and Austin Theory. So we got that. We
561
00:29:41.079 --> 00:29:46.619
got the Lola Weiss-Solruca versus Roxanna Raquel. We got that.
562
00:29:46.640 --> 00:29:49.680
We got Ethan Page versus Rey Fenix. We got Rey
563
00:29:49.700 --> 00:29:53.240
Mysterio and Dragon Lee versus JD McDonough and Dom Mysterio.
564
00:29:53.539 --> 00:29:56.500
And then we got Becky versus Liv. That's it. Five
565
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:00.349
matches against 13 slash 14 if you count Oba's at
566
00:30:00.369 --> 00:30:03.309
the end of their little thing. All those speaking segments.
567
00:30:03.369 --> 00:30:06.710
Just chewing up time. It's a wrestling show. I want
568
00:30:06.750 --> 00:30:08.880
to see them wrestle. I don't want to see them
569
00:30:08.990 --> 00:30:12.019
talk all the time. I want to see action. This
570
00:30:12.099 --> 00:30:16.259
is why AEW, there's so much tribalism. And I'm not, again,
571
00:30:16.279 --> 00:30:19.519
I love WWE. I love what they're doing on SmackDown
572
00:30:19.539 --> 00:30:21.579
where you actually get to see people wrestle. I just
573
00:30:21.619 --> 00:30:23.650
don't understand why you're not doing that on Raw as well.
574
00:30:23.970 --> 00:30:25.750
It'd be different if you had the same talent on
575
00:30:25.789 --> 00:30:28.069
Raw and SmackDown. Raw could be used as, like, the
576
00:30:28.329 --> 00:30:31.329
promotional show for, like, the speaking segments and all that
577
00:30:31.349 --> 00:30:34.210
and storyline stuff. And then SmackDown's where the hate goes down.
578
00:30:34.750 --> 00:30:38.450
But that's not the case. They're separate rosters completely. So,
579
00:30:38.569 --> 00:30:41.349
I don't know, man. I've been giving shows ratings for
580
00:30:41.369 --> 00:30:44.279
a couple weeks now. I'm thinking about this one. I
581
00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:46.660
was really trying to figure out how I felt. Because,
582
00:30:46.680 --> 00:30:50.619
you know, the matches were all good matches. Especially the
583
00:30:50.960 --> 00:30:56.480
Rey-Phoenix-Ethan Page match. Like, that was fine. But... And the
584
00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:59.059
main event was okay until there was outside interference, but
585
00:30:59.079 --> 00:31:01.240
then how much do I weigh the outside interference in
586
00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:05.140
affecting the overall quality of the show? We have, you know,
587
00:31:05.259 --> 00:31:09.349
Roman Reigns is there, but he didn't get physical at all. Nothing.
588
00:31:09.690 --> 00:31:12.730
Not a punch. Not a kick. Not a brawl between
589
00:31:12.769 --> 00:31:14.869
he and LA Knight. How am I supposed to invest?
590
00:31:14.910 --> 00:31:17.490
This is the go-home episode of Raw. How am I
591
00:31:17.490 --> 00:31:19.390
supposed to be invested in this match when there's been
592
00:31:19.789 --> 00:31:23.480
almost no physicality? What, because LA Knight dropped Roman Reigns
593
00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:28.049
at You know, Worlds Collide, whoop-dee-doo. Or, I'm sorry, at
594
00:31:28.220 --> 00:31:31.869
Raw in Mexico. Whoop-dee-doo. It's not enough to make me
595
00:31:31.930 --> 00:31:33.849
want to see the match. I want to see it
596
00:31:33.890 --> 00:31:36.009
just because I would love to see LA Knight win.
597
00:31:36.490 --> 00:31:38.609
But you and I both know that's not happening, so
598
00:31:38.630 --> 00:31:40.759
a little frustrated. This could have been so much better.
599
00:31:40.779 --> 00:31:44.200
It is what it is. I just hope that this
600
00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.640
pay-per-view delivers and sets us up for some great storylines
601
00:31:47.660 --> 00:31:50.700
heading into eventually Crown Jewel and then after that Survivor Series.
602
00:31:51.289 --> 00:31:53.369
We already know the crown jewel. We're probably going to
603
00:31:53.410 --> 00:31:56.609
see Roman Reigns versus Sami Zayn on the women's side
604
00:31:56.650 --> 00:32:00.589
of things. You know, Chelsea Green, current champion over on SmackDown.
605
00:32:01.130 --> 00:32:03.640
Stephanie Viqueur currently on Raw. I don't know how I
606
00:32:03.670 --> 00:32:05.599
feel about that. Those two is a matchup. So I
607
00:32:05.630 --> 00:32:08.339
feel like you could change things up. Who would Chelsea
608
00:32:08.380 --> 00:32:10.200
be better in the ring with? Liv. That actually I
609
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:13.059
think might be an interesting matchup. Chelsea and Becky, I
610
00:32:13.099 --> 00:32:16.380
don't really buy into. I think Becky would steamroller. But
611
00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:19.799
I'd be into the whole, you know, Liv Morgan match.
612
00:32:19.819 --> 00:32:23.009
That would be interesting for Chelsea. very different matchup for
613
00:32:23.049 --> 00:32:27.029
her versus what she's been doing either way. Raw. If
614
00:32:27.089 --> 00:32:29.609
I'm giving it a rating out of five stars, honestly,
615
00:32:29.869 --> 00:32:32.490
three and a quarter, maybe three and a quarter stars,
616
00:32:32.509 --> 00:32:35.170
three to three and a quarter stars, not overly impressed.
617
00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:37.819
I'm not hating the whole show, just not loving the
618
00:32:37.859 --> 00:32:40.420
whole show either. So you say what you will in
619
00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.359
the comments. I'd appreciate it. Let me know. What do
620
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:44.339
I have? Right. What did I get wrong? You know,
621
00:32:44.359 --> 00:32:47.900
I I'm always open to your suggestions, your feedback. You
622
00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:51.349
guys are the most important thing to me. Um, I
623
00:32:51.369 --> 00:32:53.730
believe it was Simon Cowell on an episode of America's
624
00:32:53.769 --> 00:32:56.490
Got Talent. No, I believe it was Britain's Got Talent
625
00:32:56.509 --> 00:32:59.289
when he said, all you have to do is listen
626
00:32:59.309 --> 00:33:02.150
to the audience. The audience always gets it right. If
627
00:33:02.170 --> 00:33:04.069
you guys are tuning in, it must be going right.
628
00:33:04.309 --> 00:33:06.569
I appreciate you. But this is all the time we
629
00:33:06.609 --> 00:33:08.900
have for this episode. Check back with us next episode.
630
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:10.660
We'll run down the latest wrestling news and rumors. Special
631
00:33:10.700 --> 00:33:12.559
thanks as always goes to Suno for creating the music
632
00:33:12.619 --> 00:33:14.480
and sound effects we use in our show. If you
633
00:33:14.500 --> 00:33:15.839
want to bring a new friend to Family Game Night,
634
00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:18.259
it's easy. You could grab Sketchy People by Beazle Games.
635
00:33:18.640 --> 00:33:21.779
You could grab If you're looking for your next career decision,
636
00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:23.940
you're considering college, university life, maybe you just need some
637
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:46.519
formal training for your next opportunity. Go to my website
638
00:33:46.559 --> 00:33:49.480
at frolifeplanning.com for all your higher education needs as Fro
639
00:33:49.519 --> 00:33:52.579
Life Educational Planning is for today, for tomorrow, and for
640
00:33:52.619 --> 00:33:55.700
life with Fro Life. I'm Fred Froelich, better known as Dr.
641
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:55.819
Fro.
642
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:56.900
I want to thank you for taking some time with
643
00:33:56.960 --> 00:33:58.890
us today. Until next time, take care, everybody. Have a
644
00:33:58.910 --> 00:33:59.309
great night.
645
00:33:59.329 --> 00:34:28.010
I'll sleep again Oh, wrestling heart.
