# WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Review | Danhausen Gets BOOED-HAUSEN IN CHICAGO!

An episode of [Solomonster Sounds Off](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/313139609), 2 Mar 2026, 2 h 39 min.

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Solomonster reviews WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 from Chicago with the weakest Chamber match in many years but the right outcome in both of them, Seth Rollins returns as the masked man, DANHAUSEN pops out of the crate and gets BOOED, CM Punk gets to use a throwback for his entrance and more. Speaking of entrances, I hope you really like them because they're gonna take a while! Support my sponsors this week by using the links below! EXPRESSVPN ▶ Get an extra FOUR MONTHS FREE of the #1 trusted VPN at http://www.expressvpn.com/solomonster BETTERHELP ▶ Get 10 PERCENT OFF your first month and give online therapy a try at http://www.betterhelp.com/solomonster to start being your best self. Thanks to BetterHelp for sponsoring this week's episode! WIX HARMONY ▶ The NEW WAY to create websites! Try it FREE at http://www.wix.com/harmony *** Follow Solomonster on X (formerly Twitter) for news and opinion: http://x.com/solomonster Subscribe to the Solomonster Sounds Off on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheSolomonster?sub_confirmation=1 Become a Solomonster Sounds Off Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9jcg7mk93fGNqWPMfl_Aig/join

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Well, Elimination Chamber has come and gone. Thank God, now
[0:05] Speaker 1: we can finally begin the build to WrestleMania proper. One
[0:10] Speaker 1: thing I have not been a fan of over the
[0:12] Speaker 1: last several weeks on WWE television is there's this lack
[0:16] Speaker 1: of excitement and energy for WrestleMania, and you know something
[0:20] Speaker 1: is wrong when the post show angle on the post
[0:24] Speaker 1: show has more energy to it than pretty much anything
[0:29] Speaker 1: we saw on the actual show tonight, because we had
[0:32] Speaker 1: a pretty big announcement that came after the Elimination Chamber
[0:36] Speaker 1: went off the air tonight in terms of the WWE Championship,
[0:40] Speaker 1: but it was just it was striking to me to
[0:43] Speaker 1: watch this show. You know, the Elimination Chamber is typically
[0:46] Speaker 1: a big pl. It's become a big pl over the years,
[0:49] Speaker 1: and it was very striking to me that they were
[0:51] Speaker 1: in Chicago tonight. Chicago is a big wrestling city. I've
[0:56] Speaker 1: said before that I think Chicago may be the best
[0:58] Speaker 1: wrestling city in the world, or at least in the country.
[1:03] Speaker 1: And so I'm watching this show, and for large parts
[1:07] Speaker 1: of the show, I thought it was very telling that
[1:10] Speaker 1: I was watching and going man, crowd doesn't seem terribly
[1:14] Speaker 1: excited by what they're seeing here. I don't know that
[1:17] Speaker 1: I remember a Chicago crowd, let alone for a big
[1:20] Speaker 1: event like this quite this quiet before, and this has
[1:24] Speaker 1: been a pattern. I've been making note of it on
[1:26] Speaker 1: a lot of the WWE shows over the last several weeks.
[1:29] Speaker 1: I was not expecting it tonight for the Chamber, But
[1:32] Speaker 1: when this show was over, two people had won the
[1:36] Speaker 1: Chamber and punched their ticket to WrestleMania, Randy Orton and
[1:41] Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley. They will be getting championship matches at Wrestlemandia.
[1:45] Speaker 1: The only question is who will the champion be, especially
[1:48] Speaker 1: on the WWE title side, by the time we get there.
[1:53] Speaker 1: Let's talk about this main event first, just to give
[1:57] Speaker 1: an overview here. I liked the fact that they actually
[2:02] Speaker 1: had Randy Orton go over instead of Cody Rhodes. I
[2:05] Speaker 1: had figured Cody Rhodes was going to win when I
[2:07] Speaker 1: saw Rhea Ripley win the women's Chamber. I actually think
[2:11] Speaker 1: Randy Orton winning is the right way and the better
[2:14] Speaker 1: way to go, because I do think if Cody and
[2:17] Speaker 1: Rhea had both won those chamber matches tonight, that would
[2:20] Speaker 1: have been a bit too much for a lot of
[2:22] Speaker 1: people to swallow, because I do think that there is
[2:26] Speaker 1: a level of fatigue, more so with Cody than with Rhea.
[2:30] Speaker 1: Although based on some of the social media comments I
[2:34] Speaker 1: saw tonight, maybe I'm wrong about that, and I'll address
[2:36] Speaker 1: that as well, but I think that would have been
[2:38] Speaker 1: a bit too much. And the fact that Randy Orton won,
[2:42] Speaker 1: not that it was impossible to conceive of him winning,
[2:45] Speaker 1: but I think a lot of people figured, Okay, right,
[2:48] Speaker 1: Cody didn't win the rumble. Cody's been constantly screwed over
[2:51] Speaker 1: by Drew McIntyre. This is how Cody gets his title
[2:55] Speaker 1: Magic WrestleMania. Right, It's almost like a foregone conclusion. So
[3:00] Speaker 1: what they did at the very end of the chamber
[3:01] Speaker 1: was the most interesting part of the entire match. The
[3:04] Speaker 1: problem is that was the last sixty seconds of the match.
[3:08] Speaker 1: That men's elimination chamber match was honestly one of the
[3:12] Speaker 1: weakest chamber matches that I've ever seen. I like the finish,
[3:17] Speaker 1: I liked what they did at the very end there,
[3:20] Speaker 1: but as a match, one of the weakest I've ever seen,
[3:23] Speaker 1: if not the weakest. The women's chamber not as good
[3:28] Speaker 1: as last year's. I thought last year as women's chamber
[3:30] Speaker 1: was the best chamber match I've ever seen, and I
[3:34] Speaker 1: don't think I was the only one who had that opinion,
[3:37] Speaker 1: and so this one was not that, but it was
[3:40] Speaker 1: still good. And so yet again the women outshine the men,
[3:44] Speaker 1: not the first time that that's happened. But Randy Orton
[3:48] Speaker 1: is going to WrestleMania, and so now the question becomes
[3:52] Speaker 1: where do you go from here? Right this is the
[3:55] Speaker 1: one thing that I really liked about what they did
[3:58] Speaker 1: with that main event tonight. They did something that I
[4:01] Speaker 1: have been waiting for and I have been begging for
[4:04] Speaker 1: now for quite some time. They have created some real
[4:07] Speaker 1: interest in the at least for me, in the WWE
[4:11] Speaker 1: title picture. As we head into WrestleMania, we have seven
[4:15] Speaker 1: weeks left to resolve. What does that championship match look like?
[4:19] Speaker 1: Because it will not be Randy Orton one on one
[4:21] Speaker 1: with Drew McIntyre. As I sit here now, the match
[4:25] Speaker 1: is Randy Orton against Drew McIntyre. It will not be that.
[4:28] Speaker 1: Like I'll guarantee you it will not be that. So
[4:32] Speaker 1: what is the match going to be? You look at
[4:34] Speaker 1: the world title scene, the main event picture right now
[4:37] Speaker 1: on SmackDown coming out of this show. Randy Orton firmly
[4:40] Speaker 1: in the mix. Cody obviously, he's still in the mix.
[4:43] Speaker 1: McIntyre is the one who's going around screwing people over,
[4:46] Speaker 1: Jacob Fatu, Sammy Zain. Like, there's a bunch of different
[4:50] Speaker 1: players involved here. And I'm not saying Samy's Ain will
[4:53] Speaker 1: be involved in the title match of WrestleMania, but he
[4:55] Speaker 1: has been. I mean, clearly he's been connected to all
[4:58] Speaker 1: of these other people. I just meant in the last
[5:00] Speaker 1: two months. So that's good, and that's what I want.
[5:04] Speaker 1: That's all I want. I want intrigue, I want interest,
[5:07] Speaker 1: I want excitement, I want something something to latch onto
[5:12] Speaker 1: as we head into Las Vegas in April when it
[5:16] Speaker 1: comes to the main Championship. When the show was over
[5:20] Speaker 1: because Drew McIntyre got involved in the elimination chamber match,
[5:23] Speaker 1: he wasn't the only one who got involved in the
[5:26] Speaker 1: elimination chamber match. We had two masked men. So you
[5:30] Speaker 1: talk about overbooked. We had a chamber match which was
[5:33] Speaker 1: bad enough that the entrances for the match and I'm
[5:36] Speaker 1: not even exaggerating when I say this, the total time
[5:39] Speaker 1: that they allocated for the entrances to the men's elimination
[5:44] Speaker 1: chamber match was almost as long as the match itself.
[5:48] Speaker 1: That is preposterous. It is ridiculous. But then in the
[5:54] Speaker 1: course of the match we had Logan Paul eliminating not
[5:58] Speaker 1: one can Paul, by the way, who was not even
[6:01] Speaker 1: supposed to be in the match. He was a sub
[6:03] Speaker 1: for somebody who got hurt. Not one elimination, not two eliminations,
[6:09] Speaker 1: three eliminations, and the crowd goes mild each and every
[6:15] Speaker 1: single time. And then we have a mass man decoy
[6:20] Speaker 1: that shows up. Then when the decoy gets carried off,
[6:25] Speaker 1: we have another mass man who shows up, and that
[6:28] Speaker 1: mass man turns out to be Seth Rollins, which of
[6:31] Speaker 1: course was the predictable outcome here. But I think we
[6:34] Speaker 1: all knew at the end of all this they were
[6:36] Speaker 1: going to drag this out until Seth Rollins could be revealed.
[6:39] Speaker 1: So there he was, and that actually got a pop.
[6:43] Speaker 1: Then Drew McIntyre runs in because the fucking door is open.
[6:47] Speaker 1: So it was this parade of just interference in the
[6:50] Speaker 1: elimination chamber badge that ultimately led to the finish. Uh. Ridiculous.
[6:55] Speaker 1: The whole thing was completely ridiculous. I was not a
[6:57] Speaker 1: fan of the match, but when the show is over,
[7:00] Speaker 1: Nick Alldos was not happy about Drew McIntyre getting involved
[7:04] Speaker 1: and he had to be pulled away from him, and
[7:06] Speaker 1: then he made an announcement that on SmackDown this coming Friday,
[7:11] Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre is going to be forced to defend the
[7:14] Speaker 1: WWE Championship against Cody Roads. So Cody, who lost the
[7:19] Speaker 1: elimination chaper today, he got dropped by Randy Orton with
[7:21] Speaker 1: an RKO because Randy Orton was willing to do what
[7:24] Speaker 1: Sammy Zain and others have failed to do, and even
[7:29] Speaker 1: Cody right three Stages of Hell, They've all failed to
[7:32] Speaker 1: capitalize on circumstances that were presented to them that could
[7:35] Speaker 1: have led to them winning. Randy Orton had no issue
[7:38] Speaker 1: with that. He delivered an RKO and so he won.
[7:42] Speaker 1: But Cody is going to get the first shot, so
[7:45] Speaker 1: that match is official for smackdod on Friday, and that
[7:48] Speaker 1: now creates a whole plethora of different possibilities here for
[7:51] Speaker 1: where this could be going for WrestleMania. Are we looking
[7:55] Speaker 1: at Cody Roads regaining the WWE Championship this Friday, and
[8:00] Speaker 1: we're gonna get Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton one on
[8:02] Speaker 1: one at WrestleMania, the very real possibility that we could
[8:06] Speaker 1: be looking at that, and then Drew McIntyre goes off
[8:09] Speaker 1: and has a match a Mania with Jacob Foughtu or
[8:13] Speaker 1: are we looking at some sort of disputed finish and
[8:16] Speaker 1: then we do end up with what I thought when
[8:18] Speaker 1: this show was over, it seemed pretty apparent to me
[8:21] Speaker 1: that we were gonna end up getting a fatal four
[8:23] Speaker 1: way at WrestleMania. We might still we might still get
[8:26] Speaker 1: a triple throw, we might still get a fatal four way,
[8:29] Speaker 1: very possible, but now we have options, like at least
[8:32] Speaker 1: until we get to Friday, everybody who's talking about this
[8:35] Speaker 1: is going to be talking about what were they going
[8:37] Speaker 1: to do? Which way are they going to go with it?
[8:39] Speaker 1: That's a good thing. That's a good thing. This entire
[8:42] Speaker 1: road to wrestle Mania this year and everything that's been
[8:45] Speaker 1: going on like this is not last year when everything
[8:50] Speaker 1: was John Cena going for number seventeen and the heel,
[8:52] Speaker 1: the ill fated heel turn, or the year before that,
[8:55] Speaker 1: where we had Cody's story that had been building and
[8:57] Speaker 1: building and building, and it was a rematch from the
[8:59] Speaker 1: year before for Roman reigns. We don't have anything like
[9:02] Speaker 1: that this year. Okay, we already know this, right, we
[9:05] Speaker 1: don't have to relitigate that. The roads to wrestle media
[9:07] Speaker 1: up until this point has been non existent. But they
[9:10] Speaker 1: have seven weeks now to create some genuine interest in
[9:13] Speaker 1: this show and in this match, and they have the
[9:16] Speaker 1: ability to do that now. Based on what's going on
[9:19] Speaker 1: just this week alone, this could branch off in any
[9:21] Speaker 1: number of directions, So I like that. Will I will
[9:25] Speaker 1: give them props for that. At least they've at least
[9:27] Speaker 1: created something that has caught my interest. I can't say
[9:31] Speaker 1: that this show itself was terribly interesting. It was not.
[9:36] Speaker 1: It was not. It will not go down as one
[9:37] Speaker 1: of the better elimination chamber shows. And it's not even
[9:40] Speaker 1: to say that there were matches on the show that
[9:42] Speaker 1: were just all this was terrible. The main event was
[9:44] Speaker 1: the main event was bad. I'm sorry. The main event,
[9:47] Speaker 1: up until the last minute or so, I thought, was
[9:49] Speaker 1: just fucking terrible. But the other matches on the show,
[9:52] Speaker 1: I mean, they were fine, you know, the women's chamber
[9:54] Speaker 1: was good, and the other matches that they were fine.
[9:57] Speaker 1: But again, there was nothing that really just kind of
[10:00] Speaker 1: jumps out and grabs you by the throat. Oh man,
[10:02] Speaker 1: this was great, or oh man, you gotta go back
[10:04] Speaker 1: and watch this. Not really, there really was nothing like
[10:07] Speaker 1: that on this show. It was as down the middle
[10:11] Speaker 1: kind of average as you could expect. That was kind
[10:15] Speaker 1: of the story of Elimination Chamber. I thought, But you know,
[10:21] Speaker 1: we had this crate. This crate popped up on television
[10:25] Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Do not open until you get
[10:29] Speaker 1: to February twenty eighth, which is the date of Elimination Chamber.
[10:32] Speaker 1: So here we are, right And at first, I, like
[10:35] Speaker 1: a lot of other people, were thinking, oh man, is
[10:37] Speaker 1: this the way they're going to bring Chris Jericho back,
[10:40] Speaker 1: you know, to WWE, because Jericho supposedly was coming. Meanwhile,
[10:43] Speaker 1: Jericho is still on the AW roster page. One person
[10:47] Speaker 1: is no longer on the AW roster page. In fact,
[10:50] Speaker 1: he was pulled from the page yesterday and that person
[10:53] Speaker 1: was Dan Housen. And Dan Hausen popped out of the
[10:59] Speaker 1: crate tonight. It sounded to me like there was an
[11:03] Speaker 1: initial pop and then he came down to the ring
[11:07] Speaker 1: and quite literally disappeared in a plume of smoke and
[11:10] Speaker 1: was never seen again. And the fans booed. The fans
[11:15] Speaker 1: booed Dan Hausen in Chicago, And I feel bad for
[11:20] Speaker 1: Dan Housen because it was a no win situation because
[11:25] Speaker 1: you get people's hopes up. Like I knew better when
[11:29] Speaker 1: I saw who was hanging around the crate on television
[11:32] Speaker 1: for the last week or so, Los Garza, Candice Lay,
[11:37] Speaker 1: Johnny Gargano, our truth. What did you think was going
[11:42] Speaker 1: to come out of the crate? Nothing of any real
[11:46] Speaker 1: significance as far as like a main event superstar name.
[11:49] Speaker 1: People were like bad Bunny might pop out, Like are
[11:52] Speaker 1: you out of your fucking mind? Like it was pretty
[11:55] Speaker 1: clear that nothing of any great, like top level importance
[11:59] Speaker 1: was going to come out of create angle. So I
[12:01] Speaker 1: just kind of saw it for what it was, and
[12:03] Speaker 1: then Dan Housen became like the name that most people
[12:06] Speaker 1: would agree on, It's probably gonna be Dan Housen, And
[12:09] Speaker 1: it was right. But I can understand if you were
[12:11] Speaker 1: somebody in the building in Chicago tonight and you're not
[12:14] Speaker 1: following that kind of shit the way you and I are,
[12:17] Speaker 1: You're probably looking at this going man who's coming out
[12:20] Speaker 1: of the crate, like who's coming back? Or like what's
[12:24] Speaker 1: going on here. They're saving it for the elimination chamber, right,
[12:27] Speaker 1: so it must be a big deal. I mean, look
[12:30] Speaker 1: at what happened on the show last year. We got
[12:31] Speaker 1: the Rock and Cody and Cody soul, like, oh, what
[12:34] Speaker 1: do they have in store for us this year? And
[12:37] Speaker 1: then you get a bunch of women with Dan Housen
[12:39] Speaker 1: face paint coming out and dancing, and then this fucking
[12:43] Speaker 1: creepy guy in clown makeup comes out with a jar
[12:45] Speaker 1: of teeth like I can understand some people being disappointed
[12:49] Speaker 1: by that, but I felt bad for him. Like they
[12:52] Speaker 1: booed Dan Hausen in Chicago. Who was the one who said,
[12:57] Speaker 1: like anything that comes out of a crate is instantly
[13:00] Speaker 1: going to be over? Was it Bruce? It was probably
[13:02] Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if this was Bruce's idea. We
[13:05] Speaker 1: could just blame Bruce dan Housen. If you know what
[13:11] Speaker 1: Dan Housen is, Dan Housen is, It's a silly, just
[13:16] Speaker 1: ridiculous comedy gimmick, nothing more, nothing less. Nobody should have
[13:23] Speaker 1: expected anything other than that. I don't know why you
[13:26] Speaker 1: would expect it to be some great thing. Have you
[13:29] Speaker 1: watched WWE television recently? Have they really given you a
[13:34] Speaker 1: lot of reasons to expect the best out of them?
[13:37] Speaker 1: The answer is no. So I wasn't surprised when I
[13:41] Speaker 1: saw him pop out of the fucking crate. And you
[13:44] Speaker 1: know what, I'm happy for the guy because this is
[13:46] Speaker 1: a guy who tried to get an early release a
[13:49] Speaker 1: long time ago from his AW contract, and Tony Kahn
[13:52] Speaker 1: would not let him out of his contract because I
[13:54] Speaker 1: guess Dan Hausen was so fucking important to AW that
[13:57] Speaker 1: we never saw him on TV. So he waited and
[14:00] Speaker 1: he waited and he waited, and he finally got his release.
[14:03] Speaker 1: Right his core contract expired. He's a freeman, and so
[14:07] Speaker 1: now he gets to go and actually work. And what
[14:12] Speaker 1: role is he gonna end up in WWE? Exactly the
[14:15] Speaker 1: role that you would expect, nothing more, nothing less. But
[14:20] Speaker 1: if there are people who are genuinely upset about this,
[14:24] Speaker 1: I mean, WWE set themselves up for it. But this
[14:27] Speaker 1: is the company that hatched an egg on the Survivor
[14:29] Speaker 1: series one year and had the gobblede googeru pop out
[14:32] Speaker 1: of it, Like, this is what we're dealing with here.
[14:35] Speaker 1: I don't know why you would have expected anything more
[14:37] Speaker 1: than that, but I did feel bad for when he
[14:41] Speaker 1: got booed, probably because he disappeared and people are like,
[14:45] Speaker 1: that's it. You built this up for weeks, that's it. Yeah,
[14:49] Speaker 1: that's it. That's WWE in twenty twenty six, where people
[14:56] Speaker 1: come out and they are a farm for twenty minutes,
[15:00] Speaker 1: almost as long as the actual matches. This is your
[15:05] Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber Review twenty twenty six. I am the Solemn Monster.
[15:09] Speaker 1: I got a lot to say about this show, and
[15:11] Speaker 1: hopefully you do too, So super chats are open, get
[15:14] Speaker 1: the money in. I will be reading all of your messages.
[15:16] Speaker 1: Let me know what you thought of the crate and
[15:19] Speaker 1: the main event finish and the Elimination Chamber tonight and
[15:22] Speaker 1: everything that happened here on this show. Like and subscribe
[15:24] Speaker 1: as well. You know YouTube TV. Do you feel him, sir?
[15:31] Speaker 1: I do not not tonight. I don't. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
[15:35] Speaker 1: Cody dan Housen cursed the Vision, says Hogdog. Well, if
[15:43] Speaker 1: there is one group in WWE that is forever cursed,
[15:46] Speaker 1: it certainly is the Vision, which apparently they're going to
[15:49] Speaker 1: keep what's left of the Vision together for now. I
[15:52] Speaker 1: don't know why, but I guess the Vision is still
[15:54] Speaker 1: going to be a thing. Seth Rollins needed somebody to
[15:57] Speaker 1: feud with when he came back. But I was to
[16:00] Speaker 1: say is YouTube tv continues to hold out on the
[16:05] Speaker 1: ESPN Unlimited app. We still do not have access to it,
[16:10] Speaker 1: so my Express VPN always comes in very handy. Now
[16:14] Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that you
[16:17] Speaker 1: know whether I did use it tonight or not, But
[16:19] Speaker 1: if I were to use it, I would imagine that
[16:21] Speaker 1: I would have been able to watch the Elimination Chamber
[16:24] Speaker 1: for free on Netflix. I'm not saying I did. I'm
[16:27] Speaker 1: not saying I didn't. I'm just saying I'm very glad
[16:29] Speaker 1: I have my Express VPN. I'm very glad I didn't
[16:32] Speaker 1: pay thirty dollars for this show. Very happy about that. Anyway,
[16:37] Speaker 1: let's spend the wheel and then we're going to get
[16:38] Speaker 1: into the review here. Find out how many likes we
[16:41] Speaker 1: need here for our be the Booker segment. If you're
[16:45] Speaker 1: new here, don't ask. We do it at the end
[16:49] Speaker 1: of most of these streams. If we hit the goal
[16:54] Speaker 1: four twenty, this show might have been a little more
[16:57] Speaker 1: pleasurable for those of you celebrating twenty tonight. That should
[17:01] Speaker 1: be easy. Four hundred and twenty likes minimum, and we
[17:05] Speaker 1: will do be the booker. They claimed nineteen thousand, three
[17:10] Speaker 1: hundred and forty six as an attendance record. I assumed
[17:15] Speaker 1: WWE attendance record obviously, because they were in the United Center.
[17:20] Speaker 1: Usually they run all state. They were in the United
[17:22] Speaker 1: Center tonight, and I just thought to myself, well, again,
[17:26] Speaker 1: assuming that is a legit number, I just thought to myself, Well, yes,
[17:30] Speaker 1: of course, that's what happens when you maybe run this
[17:33] Speaker 1: venue three times in the entire existence of your company.
[17:37] Speaker 1: They have not run the United Center very many times.
[17:40] Speaker 1: They ran it for SummerSlam thirty plus years ago. They
[17:44] Speaker 1: ran I want to say, a house show there and
[17:47] Speaker 1: then maybe this one. This might have been the third
[17:49] Speaker 1: show ever, third or fourth at the most. So I
[17:52] Speaker 1: guess that's their that's their record. But they opened with
[17:57] Speaker 1: the women's elimination Chamber match, which was a deaf the
[18:00] Speaker 1: better of the two elimination chamber matches tonight. We had
[18:05] Speaker 1: Tiffany Shratton, we had Osca, we had Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss,
[18:10] Speaker 1: Raquel Rodriguez, and Keana James. Jade Cargill was shown up
[18:16] Speaker 1: in one of the boxes of course, she was watching
[18:19] Speaker 1: this and taking a vested interest in this match because
[18:22] Speaker 1: the winner of this match would go on to WrestleMania
[18:24] Speaker 1: to challenge her for her WWE Women's Championship, So she
[18:28] Speaker 1: was watching with a keen eye to see who was
[18:30] Speaker 1: gonna come out the victor. Rhea coming off of title
[18:34] Speaker 1: loss last night, she and he Osky lost the women's
[18:37] Speaker 1: tag team titles on SmackDown to Naya Jackson lash Legend.
[18:43] Speaker 1: So the match, this is the first match of the night.
[18:46] Speaker 1: It finally started twenty minutes into this show, and the
[18:51] Speaker 1: entrances for this one were not nearly as long, I
[18:54] Speaker 1: don't believe as the ones for the men's match. But
[18:57] Speaker 1: at seven twenty we were finally underway. Here in this
[19:00] Speaker 1: chamber match, Tiffany and Keana, they started things off. Everybody
[19:05] Speaker 1: else was in their pods, and after some back and forth,
[19:08] Speaker 1: Tiffany she did a handspring flip outside. She caught nothing
[19:12] Speaker 1: but one of the pods, so she slammed into the glass,
[19:17] Speaker 1: so the countdown clock came up. Osca was into the
[19:20] Speaker 1: match next. Keana was not waiting for her to come
[19:22] Speaker 1: out of her pod, though, and she mounted a preemptive
[19:24] Speaker 1: strike and she went into the pod and she started
[19:27] Speaker 1: putting a beatdown on Osca, and boy was that a mistake.
[19:31] Speaker 1: That didn't do a whole hell of a lot except
[19:33] Speaker 1: piss off Osca and Osca unleashed her fury on Keana
[19:37] Speaker 1: James kicked her ash she was ramming her into the
[19:41] Speaker 1: side of one of the pods. Then she did the
[19:43] Speaker 1: same to Tiffany Stratton. So the next one to enter
[19:46] Speaker 1: was Alexa Bliss. Now, Alexi Bliss was my pick before
[19:52] Speaker 1: Rheo Ripley lost her Women's Tag Team Championship last night
[19:55] Speaker 1: on SmackDown. As soon as I saw her win or lose,
[19:59] Speaker 1: I should say her match last night, I said, well,
[20:02] Speaker 1: there goes my prediction down in flames, because now there's
[20:06] Speaker 1: no way, there's no way that Ria Ripley is not
[20:08] Speaker 1: going to win the elimination Chamber match. She's going to
[20:11] Speaker 1: be involved in a major match of WrestleMania, and the
[20:13] Speaker 1: other title is already occupied, so naturally she's going to
[20:17] Speaker 1: be wrestling Jade Cargill. So we got a face to
[20:22] Speaker 1: face here between Rhea and Alexa Bliss and Rhea and Tiffany.
[20:28] Speaker 1: There was a rolling sent on and then the prettiest
[20:30] Speaker 1: Moonsalt ever, was attempted Alexa, though crouched her on top.
[20:35] Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley was in next what I meant to say,
[20:41] Speaker 1: So she and Alexa went at it for a little
[20:42] Speaker 1: bit until all the ladies ended up outside and Alexa
[20:46] Speaker 1: wound up on top of one of the pods. She
[20:48] Speaker 1: hit twisted Bliss off the top of the pod, wiped
[20:50] Speaker 1: everybody out. Back inside, she had Keanu setup for the
[20:54] Speaker 1: sister Abigail DDT, but she was wasting time pointing up
[20:59] Speaker 1: at the stupid WrestleManias sign. And see, this is what
[21:02] Speaker 1: happens when you point to the dumb sign instead of
[21:06] Speaker 1: just wrestling and doing what needs to be done, you
[21:09] Speaker 1: end up paying a very big price for it. And
[21:12] Speaker 1: in this situation here Alexa Bliss, she got misted in
[21:15] Speaker 1: the face by Osca and then Keana James took advantage.
[21:20] Speaker 1: She rolled up Alexa for the pinfall, and Alexa Bliss
[21:24] Speaker 1: the first woman eliminated inside the elimination chamber match. See
[21:31] Speaker 1: this is what happened. This is what happens because her
[21:32] Speaker 1: tag team partner was not in there. No Charlotte Flair,
[21:36] Speaker 1: nobody in this match who has a friend or a
[21:39] Speaker 1: partner on the roster, none of the partners were in
[21:41] Speaker 1: there with them. So with Rhea, there was no EO.
[21:45] Speaker 1: With Alexa, there was no Charlotte. With Raquel, there was
[21:48] Speaker 1: obviously no Live, there was no Roxanne. Best wishes to Roxanne.
[21:53] Speaker 1: She had surgery recently to remove a I believe it
[21:55] Speaker 1: was a benign tumor on her back. I hope she's
[22:00] Speaker 1: not going to be gone for too long, so best
[22:02] Speaker 1: wishes to her. But again, you know, when I saw
[22:07] Speaker 1: the show last night, if it wasn't, if it wasn't
[22:09] Speaker 1: a foregun conclusion, it was then that Alexa Bliss was
[22:14] Speaker 1: not winning this match. If anything surprised me, it was
[22:16] Speaker 1: the fact that she was the first one to go out.
[22:19] Speaker 1: So Racael Rodriguez was the next woman in, and she
[22:22] Speaker 1: delivered a running power slam to Keana through one of
[22:25] Speaker 1: the pods, through one side, out the other side, and
[22:30] Speaker 1: I think it was Michael Cole on commentary said that
[22:32] Speaker 1: the Bulldog would be proud of that power slam. Then
[22:37] Speaker 1: in the ring, she delivered a Tehana bomb to Osca
[22:40] Speaker 1: on top of Keana. She stacked them up on top
[22:43] Speaker 1: of each other and pinned them both to eliminate them.
[22:48] Speaker 1: We had a double elimination spot on one pinfall, which
[22:54] Speaker 1: I don't believe has happened before inside the chamber. And look,
[23:00] Speaker 1: it's one thing like what Roman did years ago at
[23:03] Speaker 1: Wrestle Mating at thirty seven when he stacked up edge
[23:05] Speaker 1: and Daniel Bryan right stack him and pin him. But
[23:09] Speaker 1: he was pinning one person. It wasn't an elimination match, right,
[23:12] Speaker 1: it counts as one pin. This is an elimination match.
[23:15] Speaker 1: So this was very silly, Like, I'm sorry, this was
[23:18] Speaker 1: a very dumb spot. I know why they did it.
[23:20] Speaker 1: They were trying to establish dominance, make Raquel look as
[23:23] Speaker 1: strong as possible. That's fine. I just thought this was
[23:27] Speaker 1: this was kind of dumb. So then we were down
[23:30] Speaker 1: to three Rhea Ripley, Raquel Rodriguez, Tiffany Stratton. They did
[23:35] Speaker 1: a spot where Raquel got Tiffany seated on the top
[23:39] Speaker 1: rope with her back turned and so she was going
[23:42] Speaker 1: to follow her up for something we don't know what. Rhea, though,
[23:45] Speaker 1: was on top of that pod and she dove off
[23:49] Speaker 1: the pod with a cannon ball took out Raquel. Tiffany
[23:52] Speaker 1: then stands up on the ropes and she hits her
[23:55] Speaker 1: prettiest moon Salt ever. She covers Raquel for the pin
[23:58] Speaker 1: and Raquel Rodriguez is eliminated and we are down to two.
[24:02] Speaker 1: We are now down to Rhea Ripley and Tiffany Stratt.
[24:06] Speaker 1: Tiffany avoided the razor's edge and she delivered an Alabama slam,
[24:11] Speaker 1: only got two out of it. Rhea got her up
[24:13] Speaker 1: for a riptide. Tiffany escaped, Riea ended up posting herself
[24:18] Speaker 1: and then Stratton followed with a swanton bomb. She covered.
[24:22] Speaker 1: Rhea only got two. Tiffany was bleeding from the nose.
[24:25] Speaker 1: I didn't see how it happened. I would imagine she
[24:28] Speaker 1: probably one of the times she got slammed into the
[24:30] Speaker 1: fucking pods, so she was bleeding from the nose. She
[24:33] Speaker 1: went for a prettiest Moonsalt ever. Rhea, though shoved her again.
[24:38] Speaker 1: She went face first into the pod that was in
[24:40] Speaker 1: front of her, and then she got her back. At
[24:42] Speaker 1: the ring, she delivered riptide for the wind and Rhea
[24:46] Speaker 1: Ripley is going to WrestleMania to challenge for the championship.
[24:52] Speaker 1: I like that it came down to Riha and Tiffany.
[24:55] Speaker 1: I liked and they did the same thing in the
[24:56] Speaker 1: main event with Cody and Randy. I like it, And
[24:59] Speaker 1: maybe you can't do it all all the time, but
[25:00] Speaker 1: I like it more often than not when you have
[25:03] Speaker 1: it come down and it's no different in the Royal
[25:05] Speaker 1: Rumble match when it comes down to two people who
[25:08] Speaker 1: could plausibly win. I liked it when they did it
[25:11] Speaker 1: in the Rumble last year with John Cena and jay Uso,
[25:15] Speaker 1: and probably a lot of people figured John Cena was
[25:17] Speaker 1: going to win that, and I'm watching this go and
[25:18] Speaker 1: jay Uso is winning this fucking match. I like when
[25:21] Speaker 1: they do that. And once Alexa Bliss went out because
[25:25] Speaker 1: again I thought she might have a chance of winning,
[25:28] Speaker 1: it was pretty clear Rhea was going to win. But
[25:30] Speaker 1: if anybody had a shot other than Ria Ripley, like
[25:34] Speaker 1: you could see it being Tiffany Stratt. That's not the
[25:37] Speaker 1: match I wanted to see. We've seen it a bunch
[25:39] Speaker 1: of times already. I haven't had any interest in seeing
[25:41] Speaker 1: that as a wrestle media match, but you could at
[25:44] Speaker 1: least argue, Okay, maybe Tiffany might go over here. So
[25:47] Speaker 1: I like that because you always want to keep some
[25:51] Speaker 1: drama in that situation. Tiffany took a beating in that match,
[25:55] Speaker 1: by the way she was bleeding, but I mean she
[25:57] Speaker 1: took some hard bumps in that match. I thought Keana James,
[26:01] Speaker 1: you know, for her first not just her first chamber,
[26:04] Speaker 1: but her first like big match in WWE. I thought
[26:09] Speaker 1: that she looked good in that match. I thought that
[26:11] Speaker 1: she look and they clearly they set her up for
[26:13] Speaker 1: a big night because she was the first one in
[26:17] Speaker 1: to start the match and she was in there for
[26:19] Speaker 1: about twenty minutes, so she had no shot of winning.
[26:22] Speaker 1: But I thought she had a good showing. I thought
[26:24] Speaker 1: Raquel Uh looked good in the match as well. Again,
[26:27] Speaker 1: I know that they were trying to make her look
[26:30] Speaker 1: dominant with that double pin. I just thought that was
[26:32] Speaker 1: a goofy spot. RIEA Ripley winning this match makes sense.
[26:36] Speaker 1: Let's talk about this, okay. Ria Ripley winning this match
[26:40] Speaker 1: makes sense to me. Some people I know were not
[26:43] Speaker 1: gonna like it. It is a fresh match that we
[26:46] Speaker 1: have not seen before. It's tough to do that because
[26:50] Speaker 1: it feels like so many people And this is why
[26:52] Speaker 1: it's good to call up new people from NXT. You
[26:55] Speaker 1: get some new faces. Javon Evans, Trick Williams Obafemi and
[26:59] Speaker 1: then win as well Jordan Grace or soul Ruka who
[27:02] Speaker 1: you know, whoever it may be, because you just see
[27:05] Speaker 1: the same faces against each other over and over. Look
[27:08] Speaker 1: at Cody and Drew Right over and over and over
[27:10] Speaker 1: and over and over again. So it's a fresh match
[27:13] Speaker 1: that we have never seen before. Two women who are
[27:16] Speaker 1: very strong. Right, it's like two powerhouses in the women's
[27:19] Speaker 1: division clashing head to head for the first time. And
[27:24] Speaker 1: I look, Ria Ripley has been out of the world
[27:26] Speaker 1: title picture now for a year. The last time Ria
[27:29] Speaker 1: Ripley held a singles championship in this company, almost to
[27:33] Speaker 1: the day, was a year ago when she lost the
[27:36] Speaker 1: women's world title on Raw to Eo Sky and they
[27:39] Speaker 1: all went on to have that great triple threat match
[27:41] Speaker 1: of WrestleMania. Since then, she's challenged for it because she
[27:46] Speaker 1: wrestled Eo at Evolution for the belt, didn't win it,
[27:49] Speaker 1: But she has not held championship gold in the singles
[27:52] Speaker 1: division in a year, so a lot of time has
[27:55] Speaker 1: gone by. I know, it feels like Ria is always
[27:58] Speaker 1: in the Catbirds scene. She's always got a el right,
[28:00] Speaker 1: she had the women's tag team belt. There's the reason
[28:03] Speaker 1: why Ria Ripley is putting these situations because Riha Ripley
[28:06] Speaker 1: is super fucking over and this is a company that
[28:09] Speaker 1: has been besieged by injuries over the last few months.
[28:13] Speaker 1: And I know they wanted Bianca bel Air back for
[28:16] Speaker 1: this show in a perfect world, and it would have
[28:17] Speaker 1: probably been Bianca and Jade, and so Bianca was not
[28:20] Speaker 1: able to be back in time. But they've been besieged
[28:23] Speaker 1: by injuries and they've just had a lack of depth
[28:25] Speaker 1: on the women's side, especially on SmackDown, and you just
[28:29] Speaker 1: look at the options that were out there, and realistically,
[28:31] Speaker 1: you're looking at, Okay, Bianca's out, what are you looking at?
[28:35] Speaker 1: You're looking at Charlotte, which was my next choice, and
[28:38] Speaker 1: they bounced her out of the qualifying match. That's why,
[28:42] Speaker 1: in my mind I was thinking Alexa Bliss because then
[28:45] Speaker 1: you can find a way to work Charlotte in there,
[28:47] Speaker 1: because you know Charlotte and Alexa and there's issues between
[28:50] Speaker 1: the two of them, and maybe you do a triple threat.
[28:54] Speaker 1: I'm not a huge fan of doing all these multi
[28:56] Speaker 1: person matches, but this is what they've set themselves up for.
[28:59] Speaker 1: This is it's not the strongest wrestle media card this
[29:01] Speaker 1: company's ever put together. So that was what I had
[29:04] Speaker 1: in my mind, Like, you could do Charlotte Alexa Jade
[29:07] Speaker 1: and you know, do that match of wrestle media. If
[29:10] Speaker 1: they weren't going to do Charlotte, the only other option
[29:14] Speaker 1: was Rhea Ripley. Rio Ripley is one of the biggest,
[29:17] Speaker 1: not just stars in the women's division. She is the
[29:19] Speaker 1: biggest star in the women's division, number one, number two,
[29:22] Speaker 1: She's one of the biggest stars in the entire company.
[29:25] Speaker 1: So if you don't think that they don't want Rihea
[29:27] Speaker 1: Ripley in a prime spot of wrestle media, you're a
[29:29] Speaker 1: fucking fool. Now. I was worried that they were going
[29:32] Speaker 1: to have her stuck in tag team hell against Naya
[29:35] Speaker 1: and Lash and the Bellatoines, And I'm like, why would
[29:38] Speaker 1: you do that? Right? This is I was hoping, but
[29:40] Speaker 1: that would not happen in wrestle media. So I'm very
[29:42] Speaker 1: happy to see that. But again, why would you think
[29:46] Speaker 1: that Ria Ripley would not be in a position like
[29:48] Speaker 1: this when they have intentionally kept her out of the
[29:50] Speaker 1: title picture and holding a championship for a year. I
[29:55] Speaker 1: had a couple of people on social media toet that
[29:58] Speaker 1: I was going back and forth with who were like,
[30:00] Speaker 1: it should have been Charlotte Flair. And I laughed because
[30:04] Speaker 1: and again, if it were up to me, it would
[30:06] Speaker 1: have been Charlotte. But I laughed because you know damn
[30:09] Speaker 1: well that if they had gone with Charlotte Flair instead
[30:13] Speaker 1: of Rhea Ripley, you would have so many people losing
[30:16] Speaker 1: their fucking minds. Oh my god, I can't believe they're
[30:19] Speaker 1: going back to Charlotte Flair again. Here we go again,
[30:22] Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair getting another title match of wrestle Bania. Like,
[30:27] Speaker 1: tell me I'm wrong. You can't because you know I'm
[30:29] Speaker 1: not Charlotte and real, I mean, look at Charlotte. The
[30:33] Speaker 1: last time Charlotte held a World Championship singles was WrestleMania
[30:38] Speaker 1: last year. She lost to Tiffany Stratton. She's been out
[30:41] Speaker 1: of the title picture almost as long as Rhea has.
[30:44] Speaker 1: They've had her stuck in the tag team division as well,
[30:47] Speaker 1: which is the best thing, honestly that could have happened
[30:49] Speaker 1: to Charlotte Flair. You talk about people getting sick and
[30:51] Speaker 1: tired of somebody being in that top spot, right, people
[30:56] Speaker 1: were sick and tired of seeing Charlotte Flair at the
[30:58] Speaker 1: top of the card to tell me that it would
[31:01] Speaker 1: have been okay to have Charlotte Flair in that spot,
[31:04] Speaker 1: but not Rhea Ripley. Really, give me a fucking break.
[31:10] Speaker 1: You would have had as many people or more pissing
[31:13] Speaker 1: and moaning about Charlotte being back in the title picture
[31:16] Speaker 1: as you will with Rhea Ripley. I have no issue
[31:20] Speaker 1: at Rhea Ripley going to WRESTLEMANI I'm not even saying
[31:23] Speaker 1: she's gonna win now, She's gonna have her hands full
[31:27] Speaker 1: with Jade, because Jade is not at the level of
[31:30] Speaker 1: the most elite women they have in that division. She's not,
[31:34] Speaker 1: she's not. She just has not advanced to that level.
[31:37] Speaker 1: She's been there now for a few years. She's not there.
[31:41] Speaker 1: So you want to put her in the ring with
[31:42] Speaker 1: women that are gonna give her the best chance of
[31:46] Speaker 1: going out there and having a great match. Rhea Ripley
[31:49] Speaker 1: has had a lot of great matches at WrestleMania. So
[31:53] Speaker 1: if anybody can give Jade a great match at WrestleMania,
[31:55] Speaker 1: I would think Ria would be on a short list
[31:57] Speaker 1: of people who could do that, right, Charlotte might be one,
[32:00] Speaker 1: might be one. So again, I have no issue with
[32:03] Speaker 1: them doing that match. It's the strongest possible match, honestly
[32:07] Speaker 1: in terms of just name value that they could have done.
[32:11] Speaker 1: And this is gonna be the biggest match of Jade's career.
[32:14] Speaker 1: You want her to go in there and not, you know,
[32:16] Speaker 1: have a bad night. You put her in there with
[32:18] Speaker 1: Rhea Ripley, it's a pretty good chance she's gonna end
[32:20] Speaker 1: up having a good night. This was not as good
[32:23] Speaker 1: as last year as Women's Chamber, but it was definitely
[32:25] Speaker 1: the better of the two chamber matches tonight. It was
[32:28] Speaker 1: still a good match, but you know, I can't that
[32:33] Speaker 1: main event tonight. I know we're sitting a low bar here,
[32:36] Speaker 1: but easily this one clears the men's Chamber match. I
[32:41] Speaker 1: will say this though, and somebody brought this up to me,
[32:43] Speaker 1: and I was thinking about it, and this would have
[32:45] Speaker 1: been very interesting what they could have done. This is
[32:48] Speaker 1: kind of thinking outside the box or the crate, as
[32:51] Speaker 1: it were. You could have really surprised people and shocked
[32:55] Speaker 1: the world by having Raquel Rodriguez win this match, with
[32:59] Speaker 1: the idea that Raquel would kind of pull a swerve
[33:02] Speaker 1: and want to be inserted into the women's world title
[33:05] Speaker 1: match at WrestleMania, and that doesn't really work because the
[33:07] Speaker 1: stipulation was very clear, this is for a shot at
[33:10] Speaker 1: Jade's title. But if there was a way around that, right,
[33:13] Speaker 1: think about it, like if she decided, you know what,
[33:15] Speaker 1: I want a shot at the Women's World Championship, which
[33:19] Speaker 1: Live Morgan, who won the Royal Rumble, is already getting
[33:22] Speaker 1: a crack at. But now that turns into a triple
[33:24] Speaker 1: threat match, and you've got Live and Raquel fighting for
[33:28] Speaker 1: the same title of WrestleMania and furthering the drama with it,
[33:33] Speaker 1: because there's always drama with the judgment day. That would
[33:35] Speaker 1: have been very interesting. And then you still would have
[33:37] Speaker 1: had seven weeks of television to get to wherever you
[33:39] Speaker 1: want to go as far as Jade's title and deciding
[33:42] Speaker 1: on a challenger for Jade's belt, because you got seven
[33:45] Speaker 1: weeks of TV. You got to keep things interesting, man,
[33:47] Speaker 1: you got to keep things moving along here, So you
[33:49] Speaker 1: could have made that work, Like there were ways where
[33:52] Speaker 1: they could have made that work. It's an intriguing idea,
[33:55] Speaker 1: but at least now we know the field is set
[33:58] Speaker 1: and we know who the challengers are to be. Now,
[34:01] Speaker 1: the only other thing I'll say about this is this.
[34:03] Speaker 1: I don't know what this means for Eosky. That's my
[34:06] Speaker 1: only concern in this. EO is the best they have,
[34:11] Speaker 1: honestly in that division. She's one of the best wrestlers
[34:13] Speaker 1: in the world. She has a lot of fun to watch.
[34:15] Speaker 1: She has great matches. One of the few people that
[34:18] Speaker 1: even on a bad night where the fans are very quiet,
[34:21] Speaker 1: you could always rely when EO's in there to really
[34:24] Speaker 1: just light up the crowd. She's great and it would
[34:27] Speaker 1: be a sin for them not to have a decent
[34:31] Speaker 1: role for her on that WrestleMania car. We now know
[34:34] Speaker 1: it's not going to have anything to do with Rhea Ripley,
[34:37] Speaker 1: and she's not going to be wrestling for the tag
[34:39] Speaker 1: team titles, which is good, but she needs to be
[34:42] Speaker 1: on that show. You cannot hold EO Sky off the
[34:46] Speaker 1: elimination Chamber and then not have her in a match,
[34:50] Speaker 1: a decent match at WrestleMania. You can't do it. And
[34:54] Speaker 1: I actually do have faith in Triple H on this
[34:56] Speaker 1: one thing, because if you watch WWE Unreal, it's pretty
[35:00] Speaker 1: clear that he thinks very highly of EO Sky. Right
[35:03] Speaker 1: he was singing her praises and saying all these great
[35:05] Speaker 1: things about her, so I'm hopeful they will have some
[35:09] Speaker 1: role for her on that show. Is it a US
[35:11] Speaker 1: title match with Julia? I don't know what else it
[35:15] Speaker 1: would be? What else would it be? I don't know.
[35:20] Speaker 1: That would seem to be the likeliest option. Now, if
[35:22] Speaker 1: you want to throw more women in there, I guess
[35:23] Speaker 1: they could do that. But she needs to have a
[35:26] Speaker 1: fucking match on that show, and not some throwaway match,
[35:28] Speaker 1: not some fucking match on SmackDown the night before. Fuck that.
[35:32] Speaker 1: She needs to find a role on the WrestleMania card.
[35:35] Speaker 1: That's my only hope. I'm glad for Rhea. Congratulations. EO
[35:39] Speaker 1: cannot be left out of the conversation because to me,
[35:43] Speaker 1: that would just be completely ridiculous. Becky Lynch against aj
[35:51] Speaker 1: Lee for the Women's Intercontinental Championship. Wade Barrett on commentary
[35:56] Speaker 1: pointed out that he has had a singles match more
[36:00] Speaker 1: recently than aj Lee has, which is a wild stat
[36:05] Speaker 1: to think about, but it's true. Prior to tonight, aj
[36:09] Speaker 1: Lee's last singles match was a raw match in twenty
[36:12] Speaker 1: fifteen against Nicki Bella. Wade Barrett actually wrestled. I believe
[36:16] Speaker 1: his last match was in twenty sixteen, so he has
[36:20] Speaker 1: had a singles match more recently than aj Lee has now.
[36:25] Speaker 1: Jessica Carr was the referee, and may I mentioned this
[36:29] Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. I said, let's see who the
[36:31] Speaker 1: referee is for this match, because I'm thinking the Jessica
[36:35] Speaker 1: Carr because they kind of they haven't really focused on
[36:39] Speaker 1: that too heavily recently. Right, there was a lot of
[36:41] Speaker 1: issues between her and Becky and then they kind of
[36:43] Speaker 1: got away from it. I said, let's see if they
[36:46] Speaker 1: come back around to it on this show. So when
[36:49] Speaker 1: I saw the shit was the referee, I said, okay,
[36:52] Speaker 1: something going down here. So early in the match, Michael
[36:57] Speaker 1: Cole said that Becky was looking to take down A Styles,
[37:02] Speaker 1: and I mean, who wants to tell her that she
[37:06] Speaker 1: missed her chance? Who wants to be the one to
[37:09] Speaker 1: tell Becky Lynch the bad news? Aj Styles ain't around
[37:14] Speaker 1: no more. You ain't gonna be able to take him down.
[37:19] Speaker 1: First part of the match was Becky just kicking her ass,
[37:23] Speaker 1: and the Chicago crowd it just sounded like they were
[37:26] Speaker 1: sitting on their hands for most of it. They finally
[37:30] Speaker 1: started a very light aj Lee chant and they got
[37:34] Speaker 1: into a slug fest as much as you can buy
[37:37] Speaker 1: a five foot tall, you know, petit woman getting into
[37:42] Speaker 1: a slugfest with somebody. I wouldn't say that aj Lee
[37:45] Speaker 1: is a brawler. I wouldn't say that her strength. Her
[37:49] Speaker 1: strength is not throwing hands with people, but that's what
[37:51] Speaker 1: she was doing here with Becky Lynch. She caught Becky
[37:54] Speaker 1: with a bulldog coming off the ropes. That created some
[37:57] Speaker 1: separation for her to try to get back into things here.
[38:01] Speaker 1: She landed a tornado DDT off the ropes and then
[38:04] Speaker 1: caught Becky with a shining wizard that Michael Cole tried
[38:07] Speaker 1: to sell as a finish. That did used to be
[38:10] Speaker 1: one of her signature moves. The audience wasn't buying it,
[38:14] Speaker 1: or maybe they just didn't realize it because she hasn't
[38:16] Speaker 1: been around in so long. Becky exposed one of the
[38:19] Speaker 1: top turn buckles. At this point, she ripped the turnbuckle
[38:22] Speaker 1: pad off. Referee was checking on aj so Jessica did
[38:26] Speaker 1: not see it. Aj went up top for something, but
[38:29] Speaker 1: Becky cut her off followed her up, but she hit
[38:33] Speaker 1: a superplex off the ropes and she transitioned into an
[38:38] Speaker 1: arm bar. Aj though countered into a pin for a
[38:41] Speaker 1: two count. So at this point, Jessica Carr looks over
[38:44] Speaker 1: and she realizes that the protective padding has been removed,
[38:47] Speaker 1: so she picks up the turnbuckle pad and she's going
[38:50] Speaker 1: to try to replace it. So as she's in the
[38:53] Speaker 1: process of doing this, Becky shoves AJ into her in
[38:56] Speaker 1: the corner. And it was weird because she sold it
[39:01] Speaker 1: like the referee sold it, but didn't really take a
[39:03] Speaker 1: bump for it. She was like, oh, but then she
[39:07] Speaker 1: quickly went down to count the attempted fall. So then
[39:12] Speaker 1: Becky threw a kick at AJ ended up nailing Jessica
[39:15] Speaker 1: in the head with it, and this knocked her out cold.
[39:19] Speaker 1: So now Jessica car is down. AJ got a black
[39:22] Speaker 1: widow applied. There was no referee, so Becky ended up
[39:27] Speaker 1: taking Aj outside the ring. She's beating her up for
[39:29] Speaker 1: a while, then she slid a chair into the ring.
[39:32] Speaker 1: Jessica still down by the way, nobody's come down to
[39:34] Speaker 1: check on her. She's just laying there dead. So AJ
[39:38] Speaker 1: suddenly made a comeback outside and she's battering Becky up
[39:41] Speaker 1: against the barricade and puts her back in the ring. Becky, though,
[39:45] Speaker 1: plants AJ on the chair that's in the ring with
[39:48] Speaker 1: a ddtape, and then she got rid of the evidence
[39:51] Speaker 1: and she went to go wake up Jessica, and then
[39:54] Speaker 1: she dropped AJ with a man handle slam and she
[39:56] Speaker 1: covered her. Jessica's over to count. AJ kicks out of
[40:00] Speaker 1: two and a half. Now the crowd is. Crowd's waking
[40:04] Speaker 1: up now finally, so Becky goes to throw her into
[40:08] Speaker 1: the exposed buckle, but the referee got him the way
[40:11] Speaker 1: to stop her and says no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
[40:13] Speaker 1: you can't do that. Becky came charging into the corner
[40:17] Speaker 1: though she's gonna because AJ was in the corner, So
[40:19] Speaker 1: she comes charging into the corner. AJ side steps her
[40:23] Speaker 1: and Becky goes face first into the exposed steal, at
[40:26] Speaker 1: which point Becky stumbles backwards and she feeds right into
[40:31] Speaker 1: a black widow. AJ gets the hole applied, and she
[40:35] Speaker 1: didn't really wait too long before she tapped out. This
[40:38] Speaker 1: was like the the Gunther tap out in the sleeper
[40:40] Speaker 1: hole to Jay Usso WrestleMania last year, where j Usso
[40:43] Speaker 1: got the sleeper replied, and Gunther really didn't sell it
[40:46] Speaker 1: for too long. He just quickly tapped out, and that's
[40:48] Speaker 1: what Becky Lynch did here, she tapped out here, and
[40:52] Speaker 1: aj Lee, for the first time in twelve years, is
[40:56] Speaker 1: a champion again here in wait, let's talk about aj Lee. First.
[41:04] Speaker 1: We saw aj Lee in the wrestled Palooza mixtag match
[41:10] Speaker 1: last year, and that was a good match, right, but
[41:13] Speaker 1: it was a tag team match, so she didn't have
[41:15] Speaker 1: to really carry the full brunt of being in there
[41:18] Speaker 1: for the full fifteen twenty minutes whatever it was this match,
[41:22] Speaker 1: I think, what about fifteen minutes, And for someone who
[41:25] Speaker 1: hasn't had a singles match in all of these years
[41:28] Speaker 1: and doesn't really wrestle a lot even now at all,
[41:32] Speaker 1: I thought she looked fine. It was very slow in
[41:35] Speaker 1: the early going. It took a while to really get going,
[41:39] Speaker 1: and the crowd was like the crowd really didn't sound
[41:42] Speaker 1: too excited about it, and Becky was getting the heat
[41:45] Speaker 1: on her for so long. Then she made her come
[41:47] Speaker 1: back and then it kind of built to the finish
[41:49] Speaker 1: and it was fine. You know, she was not like
[41:52] Speaker 1: she was in there embarrassing herself where she looked like
[41:54] Speaker 1: she was gassed or anything like that. I can't say
[41:57] Speaker 1: the same for Punk in his match, but we'll get
[41:59] Speaker 1: to that. So I thought Becky and Becky looked fine,
[42:03] Speaker 1: and I thought aj Lee looked fine here in this match,
[42:05] Speaker 1: especially for someone who has been gone for so long
[42:07] Speaker 1: and hasn't had a singles match. But it's exactly like
[42:11] Speaker 1: I said coming into this match, watch for Jessica Carr's involvement.
[42:16] Speaker 1: And if you are going to do a title change
[42:19] Speaker 1: in this match, which I was hoping they would, Jessica
[42:23] Speaker 1: will factor into the finish of the match. Becky will
[42:26] Speaker 1: have something to rant and rave about when we see
[42:28] Speaker 1: her on TV this week, and it will feed into
[42:31] Speaker 1: a rematch. You can run this back again, maybe with
[42:34] Speaker 1: a stipulation for the championship at WrestleMania. And if the
[42:38] Speaker 1: idea is to get the belt back on Becky, put
[42:40] Speaker 1: the belt on aj now. She doesn't need to win
[42:42] Speaker 1: it at WrestleMania. You're in Chicago. Put the belt on
[42:46] Speaker 1: aj Lee here on this show. Because if aj Lee
[42:50] Speaker 1: is only going to appear sporadically, I don't want to
[42:53] Speaker 1: see her with the Intercontinental Championship. I don't want to
[42:55] Speaker 1: see anybody walking around with any championship. But we're going
[42:58] Speaker 1: to see them only sporadically. They don't need to be
[43:00] Speaker 1: a champion. They're a special attraction. They don't need a belt.
[43:04] Speaker 1: If she's going to be around great. If she's not,
[43:07] Speaker 1: then I would rather put the belt on her now,
[43:09] Speaker 1: let her get a little run with it, run it
[43:12] Speaker 1: back in Las Vegas, and get that fucking thing off her.
[43:16] Speaker 1: So I had no issue with them putting the belt
[43:18] Speaker 1: on her tonight. This felt like it was the right
[43:20] Speaker 1: place to do it. And if the idea is that
[43:23] Speaker 1: they're going to do this again, then Becky could always
[43:25] Speaker 1: win the belt back. Now. To be honest with you,
[43:27] Speaker 1: I don't even really need to see Becky Lynch win
[43:29] Speaker 1: the belt back. If we're being perfectly honest here, and
[43:31] Speaker 1: I said this on Twitter, I would be fine not
[43:33] Speaker 1: even doing this match again because they have really been
[43:36] Speaker 1: building up this issue for months now between Becky Lynch
[43:40] Speaker 1: and Jessica Carr now Jessica Carr for those who don't know,
[43:43] Speaker 1: she did wrestle previously. In fact, I think a number
[43:48] Speaker 1: of months ago. I want to say it was last
[43:50] Speaker 1: year when they had a bunch of might have been
[43:52] Speaker 1: evolved tapings, or if it was LF, I think it
[43:56] Speaker 1: was evolved. She wrestled on those tapings under a different name.
[44:00] Speaker 1: I think she was under a mask, so it's not
[44:02] Speaker 1: like she hasn't wrestled before. She could absolutely wrestle one match.
[44:06] Speaker 1: Are they building to a match between Becky Linch and
[44:09] Speaker 1: Jessica Carr. Now you could look at this and go, well,
[44:11] Speaker 1: why would they have her wrestling a referee? Because it's
[44:14] Speaker 1: an angle? Why do we have bad Bunny in the
[44:17] Speaker 1: fucking ring? Why do we have Jelly Roll in the ring.
[44:19] Speaker 1: It's a fucking attraction on the show. Jessica Carr has
[44:23] Speaker 1: been around now for a number of years and the
[44:25] Speaker 1: fans seem to like her, and they've clearly been building
[44:27] Speaker 1: some sort of story here with her and Becky. There's
[44:29] Speaker 1: got to be some sort of payoff to all this,
[44:31] Speaker 1: or where else would it be going If they weren't
[44:33] Speaker 1: going to do a match at some point, where the
[44:35] Speaker 1: hell else would this be going. So I would be
[44:38] Speaker 1: fine if they wanted to do Becky Lynch in a match,
[44:41] Speaker 1: just a one off match her and Jessica Carr at WrestleMania,
[44:45] Speaker 1: and then let aj Lee go defend the Intercommittal Championship
[44:47] Speaker 1: against somebody else and let her drop the belt to
[44:50] Speaker 1: somebody else. In the name I threw out there was
[44:52] Speaker 1: Roxane Perez. Now hoping and assuming that Roxanne will be
[44:57] Speaker 1: recovered and she'll be back in time for WrestleMania. I
[45:00] Speaker 1: know what her health status is with her back, but
[45:02] Speaker 1: let's assume that she'll be okay for WrestleMania. What else
[45:05] Speaker 1: would she be doing on the show that would be
[45:06] Speaker 1: the perfect role for her. I think Roxanne the work
[45:08] Speaker 1: that she's put in over the past year has been great,
[45:11] Speaker 1: and I think that Intercontinental title was Taylor made for
[45:15] Speaker 1: someone like her. Right not to say she can't be
[45:18] Speaker 1: a women's World champion at some point, but she's not
[45:20] Speaker 1: in that mix right now. That title would be perfect
[45:24] Speaker 1: around her waist for her to bring that belt into
[45:27] Speaker 1: the judgment day, and I think for her it would
[45:29] Speaker 1: be a real thrill because if I'm remembering, I believe
[45:33] Speaker 1: she was a huge aj Lee mark when she was younger.
[45:36] Speaker 1: She's like the biggest aj Lee fan, So for her,
[45:38] Speaker 1: I'm sure she'd be thrilled to be working a match
[45:41] Speaker 1: with her at WrestleMania. So yeah, I would have no
[45:45] Speaker 1: issue with that. I'd actually prefer to see that. Let
[45:48] Speaker 1: Becky go off and do her thing with Jessica Carr
[45:50] Speaker 1: and let aj defend the belt against someone like Roxanne
[45:53] Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. I think that'd be great. Now we talked
[45:58] Speaker 1: about aj Lee, so we got to talk about cm Punk.
[46:00] Speaker 1: He was up next, So Baler made his entrance first.
[46:04] Speaker 1: I'm very happy by the way that he is back
[46:06] Speaker 1: to using his better theme music. And then it was
[46:11] Speaker 1: time for Cmpunk's entrance. He got a special entrance tonight.
[46:17] Speaker 1: This I enjoyed. So they dim the lights and then
[46:22] Speaker 1: we hear Sirious by the Alan Parsons Project, which was
[46:28] Speaker 1: a nod to the Michael Jordan era of the Chicago Bulls,
[46:32] Speaker 1: or it could very well be a nod to Ricky
[46:34] Speaker 1: the Dragon Steamboat, take your pick, because that was Ricky
[46:37] Speaker 1: Steamboat's music in WWE many years ago, which is why
[46:40] Speaker 1: whenever they show his old shit on the Vault on YouTube,
[46:43] Speaker 1: it's or really anything DVDs or anything is always edited out.
[46:47] Speaker 1: It's not the music he used to come out to.
[46:50] Speaker 1: And don't discount the possibility that that was done intentionally,
[46:53] Speaker 1: because today happened to be Ricky Steamboat's birthday. Happy birthday,
[47:01] Speaker 1: he's seventy three years young. Ricky the Dragon Steamboat, I see.
[47:05] Speaker 1: I'd like to think it was a nod both to
[47:07] Speaker 1: the Jordan era of the Bulls and to Ricky Steamboat
[47:10] Speaker 1: as well. Didn't they work together in Ring of Honor?
[47:14] Speaker 1: I thought that Punk and Steamboat, oh even in AW
[47:18] Speaker 1: I think they did right. Wasn't that with Ricky Starks
[47:20] Speaker 1: and the Strap match stuff leading up to it? I
[47:24] Speaker 1: can't remember now anyway, Happy birthday to Ricky Steamboat. But
[47:29] Speaker 1: they also had the old PA announcer Ray Clay, who
[47:33] Speaker 1: used to deliver the introductions for the Jordan teams. He
[47:36] Speaker 1: delivered an introduction for CM Punk, who they showed in
[47:40] Speaker 1: the back walking out of his locker room, and before
[47:43] Speaker 1: he came out, they did play his cult of Personality theme,
[47:47] Speaker 1: so anyway, a little special entrance for him. I thought
[47:49] Speaker 1: that was very cool. So they start the match out
[47:54] Speaker 1: and Balor before long is targeting Punk's midsection for this long,
[48:01] Speaker 1: a very long, quiet stretch that dragged on for a
[48:04] Speaker 1: while as Punk got worked over. Balor slipped out of
[48:09] Speaker 1: a GTS attempt. Punk followed with a suicide dive and
[48:12] Speaker 1: a flying clothes line back in the ring for a
[48:14] Speaker 1: two count, so both men fought on the ropes. Punk
[48:18] Speaker 1: fell to the mat and Balor went for the cudigrass.
[48:21] Speaker 1: Punk was able to avoid it, and then Punk, who
[48:24] Speaker 1: came up with a bloody mouth. He came back with
[48:26] Speaker 1: a diving elbow off the top. He got the anacon
[48:29] Speaker 1: device applied, Balor escaped. He rolled Punk into a pin
[48:33] Speaker 1: only for a near fall, so Balor went up top.
[48:36] Speaker 1: He did finally hit the kuda grass and he covered.
[48:38] Speaker 1: Punk did not get three, so Balor showed frustration. He
[48:43] Speaker 1: starts looking over towards the entrance, and on commentary, Michael
[48:48] Speaker 1: Cole wondered if Balor was thinking twice about telling Dominic,
[48:51] Speaker 1: Mysterio and JD McDonough to hang back, because if you
[48:55] Speaker 1: remember on TV, Balor said, I need to do this alone.
[48:58] Speaker 1: I don't want anybody's helping to do this by myself,
[49:01] Speaker 1: so maybe he was starting to have second thoughts here.
[49:05] Speaker 1: Punk hit Balor with a GTS. Balor, though fell out
[49:07] Speaker 1: of the ring to the floor. Punk followed him out.
[49:10] Speaker 1: He got put down though with a sling blade. Balor
[49:12] Speaker 1: followed with a shotgun dropkick that sent Punk through the
[49:15] Speaker 1: timekeeper's barricade. Gotta have at least one of those on
[49:18] Speaker 1: every show. There you go. He hit our quota, so
[49:20] Speaker 1: Balor rolled Punk back in the ring. He followed and
[49:24] Speaker 1: Punk hoisted him up for a GTS. Balor slipped out.
[49:28] Speaker 1: He dropped him with another sling blade. Balor put Punk
[49:31] Speaker 1: down with a shotgun dropkick, and he was going for
[49:35] Speaker 1: another koudo grass. Punk, though, was ready for him, and
[49:39] Speaker 1: on the way down he caught his leg, turning it
[49:42] Speaker 1: into He transitioned into a sharpshooter, not a very good one.
[49:48] Speaker 1: He was struggling to get him in position for him,
[49:50] Speaker 1: but he tried. I myself am a big fan of
[49:55] Speaker 1: the sharpshooter, so I'll cut him some slack. But this
[50:01] Speaker 1: was not the best sharpshooter that you'll ever see. He
[50:03] Speaker 1: looked very tired. Punk looked more tired in this matter
[50:07] Speaker 1: than aj Lee did in hers. Balor reached the ropes
[50:11] Speaker 1: to break the whole. Punk held Balor's right arm. At
[50:13] Speaker 1: this point, he starts throwing kicks. He pulls Balor to
[50:17] Speaker 1: his feet, hoists him up for a GTS and it
[50:20] Speaker 1: connected Flush and he pinned him to retain the title.
[50:24] Speaker 1: When the match was over, Balor he shoved Punk. They
[50:26] Speaker 1: stared at one another until Balor put his hand out.
[50:30] Speaker 1: He extended his hand for a handshake, Punk accepted. There
[50:35] Speaker 1: was a little knot of respect in there between the
[50:37] Speaker 1: two men. I'm sure that won't go over too well,
[50:39] Speaker 1: but live Morgan. On Monday Night, aj Lee at this
[50:42] Speaker 1: point ran out with her new Intercontinental title. She got
[50:46] Speaker 1: in the ring to celebrate with her husband and they
[50:49] Speaker 1: both had their belts and they posed and it was
[50:52] Speaker 1: a nice moment here for the two of them. Look,
[50:55] Speaker 1: I thought it was a good match, as crowd reactions go,
[50:59] Speaker 1: Punk versus John Cena in Chicago, this was not This
[51:03] Speaker 1: was definitely not that I'm not saying I was expecting
[51:06] Speaker 1: that same atmosphere. But again, Chicago tends to be one
[51:09] Speaker 1: of the hottest wrestling crowds that you will find anywhere,
[51:13] Speaker 1: and this is CM punk in Chicago. Obviously, he got
[51:15] Speaker 1: a great reaction coming out. I was hopeful that maybe
[51:19] Speaker 1: there would be this great atmosphere here for a big
[51:21] Speaker 1: Punk title match, maybe the last who knows, maybe the
[51:25] Speaker 1: last title match, maybe the last title defense he'll ever
[51:27] Speaker 1: have in Chicago, right, who the hell knows? And we
[51:31] Speaker 1: did not get that here. They worked a very methodical
[51:34] Speaker 1: pace and look, they already announced what the main event
[51:39] Speaker 1: of WrestleMania is going to be. We knew this weeks ago.
[51:42] Speaker 1: We know it is Roman Reigns against CM Punk. By
[51:46] Speaker 1: the way, I don't have it in front of you,
[51:48] Speaker 1: but I know Roman Reigns on Twitter. I believe he
[51:52] Speaker 1: was sticking it to Punk. He made a post and
[51:55] Speaker 1: he said something. I don't know who was more tired,
[51:57] Speaker 1: the crowd or the champion. Tonight see you on Monday,
[52:02] Speaker 1: because I believe Roman is supposed to be on Raw
[52:04] Speaker 1: this Monday, so I'm not the only one poking fun
[52:07] Speaker 1: at the quiet crowd and how tired Punk looks. So hey,
[52:09] Speaker 1: don't look at me. Roman said the same thing, But
[52:14] Speaker 1: we already knew what the main event was going to be. Like,
[52:16] Speaker 1: nobody in their right mind honestly believed that Finn Balor
[52:20] Speaker 1: had a prayer of doing anything in this match other
[52:24] Speaker 1: than taking the pin one, two three, because that's what
[52:28] Speaker 1: he does. That's why I call him pin Balor. I've
[52:31] Speaker 1: been calling him that for years before anybody else was
[52:35] Speaker 1: literally years, I've been calling him pinn Balor. There's a
[52:37] Speaker 1: reason for that. Maybe if this company did not book
[52:40] Speaker 1: Finn Balor as a low mid carter for so many years,
[52:44] Speaker 1: maybe they would have had a little bit of hope
[52:46] Speaker 1: that things might have gone differently, even in that television
[52:48] Speaker 1: match they had about a month ago. But this is
[52:51] Speaker 1: what happens, you know. It's like all of a sudden,
[52:53] Speaker 1: they woke up at the beginning of the year and
[52:55] Speaker 1: they said, Okay, we're gonna do something with Finn Balor. Here.
[52:57] Speaker 1: We're gonna have him in a little mini feud with CMP.
[53:00] Speaker 1: He'll have a couple of title matches. And that's great
[53:02] Speaker 1: because I like Finn Balor. But let's be honest here,
[53:05] Speaker 1: the way that he has been booked now for the
[53:07] Speaker 1: last I don't know fucking three four five years, he
[53:10] Speaker 1: hasn't exactly been booked as anyone that you would look
[53:13] Speaker 1: at as like a main event player in this company.
[53:15] Speaker 1: He has been at a certain level. They have not
[53:18] Speaker 1: done a whole hell of a lot to convince you
[53:22] Speaker 1: that they look at him at this stage at any
[53:25] Speaker 1: level above the level that he has been at. So
[53:28] Speaker 1: when you put him in a situation like this, you're
[53:30] Speaker 1: looking for drama. You're looking to try to convince the
[53:32] Speaker 1: audience that maybe this match might go a different way,
[53:35] Speaker 1: maybe maybe just maybe he might actually walk out as
[53:38] Speaker 1: the world champion. There was no chance of that here.
[53:41] Speaker 1: People knew that, so that didn't help in terms of
[53:44] Speaker 1: the reaction and everything. People weren't buying into the near false.
[53:46] Speaker 1: People weren't buying into Finn Balor as a challenger to
[53:51] Speaker 1: the World Heavyweight title. Here. It doesn't matter how good
[53:53] Speaker 1: of a wrestler he is, it doesn't matter. They're not
[53:56] Speaker 1: buying what they're selling. So that did not help matters.
[54:02] Speaker 1: The Balor said he wanted to go it alone here
[54:05] Speaker 1: in this match, and then he shook Punk's hand when
[54:07] Speaker 1: the match was over. I think he did the same
[54:08] Speaker 1: thing in Ireland when they had that match in Dublin,
[54:12] Speaker 1: right or wherever they were. Now it wasn't Dublin. Where
[54:15] Speaker 1: were they I don't remember. Now Belfast that's where it was.
[54:21] Speaker 1: I don't want to piss off the people of Belfast.
[54:23] Speaker 1: We ain't Dublin. It was Belfast. But that's what created
[54:28] Speaker 1: problems with him and live Morgan. So here he is
[54:31] Speaker 1: again losing shaking hands with Cmpunk. Now we have this
[54:35] Speaker 1: match on Monday Night where Dominic, who wants Balor and
[54:40] Speaker 1: McDonough to be there to help him, is defending his
[54:42] Speaker 1: Intercontinental title against Pento. I still think the direction for
[54:46] Speaker 1: WrestleMania is going to be Balor and Dom, whether there's
[54:48] Speaker 1: a title on the line or not, might even get
[54:52] Speaker 1: the Demon back for that match. We'll see how that
[54:56] Speaker 1: story plays out. And we have several weeks to go
[54:59] Speaker 1: before we get to WrestleMania, but again Dom has a
[55:02] Speaker 1: title defense on Monday, so we shall see. It was
[55:07] Speaker 1: creat time, you're ready. There it is on screen. We
[55:11] Speaker 1: got to talk about the crate. They dimmed the lights
[55:14] Speaker 1: in the building and they cut to Adam Pierce and
[55:18] Speaker 1: Nick all This who were on stage, and they had
[55:22] Speaker 1: crowbars and they were using the crowbars to pry the
[55:27] Speaker 1: crate opened so we could see what's inside. And when
[55:30] Speaker 1: the front part of the crate popped off, what did
[55:32] Speaker 1: we see. We saw a wooden coffin inside the crate.
[55:39] Speaker 1: And then once the coffin opened, outwalked several female dancers.
[55:47] Speaker 1: I didn't count how many, it was at least half
[55:48] Speaker 1: a dozen female dancers that were wearing face paint very
[55:53] Speaker 1: much like Dan Hausen's face paint. And they all come
[55:57] Speaker 1: out and they're dancing, I think they were, say, and
[56:03] Speaker 1: so at least now we know why they chose to
[56:05] Speaker 1: do this entrance. By the way, by the stage and
[56:07] Speaker 1: not in the ring, because I could have sworn that
[56:09] Speaker 1: on television. Adam Pearce had said that just ship the
[56:13] Speaker 1: crate to Chicago. Me and Nickel opened it together in
[56:16] Speaker 1: the ring. Well, given what they did here, you couldn't
[56:20] Speaker 1: well do it in the ring because they had multiple
[56:22] Speaker 1: people who were coming out of the box, so it
[56:25] Speaker 1: had to be done the way they did it on
[56:26] Speaker 1: the stage. But we heard Dan Housen's voice and then
[56:32] Speaker 1: we heard what will be his music, and he emerged
[56:35] Speaker 1: from the coffin, and I'm pretty sure that I heard
[56:40] Speaker 1: a pop, small pop, but I do believe he got
[56:44] Speaker 1: an initial pop once people realized who it was and
[56:47] Speaker 1: he initially came out of the crate. It wasn't overwhelming,
[56:52] Speaker 1: it did not last very long, but it was there.
[56:54] Speaker 1: I know what I heard. I know what I heard
[56:57] Speaker 1: because again, this crowd was mostly quiet for the entire
[56:59] Speaker 1: fucking show. To believe me, if there was a pop
[57:02] Speaker 1: to be heard, I heard it. So he comes out,
[57:05] Speaker 1: and he and all of the women are making their
[57:08] Speaker 1: way down the aisle on their way to the ring,
[57:10] Speaker 1: and he circles the ring outside. He walks over by
[57:13] Speaker 1: the announced desk and he places his jar of teeth
[57:17] Speaker 1: on the announced desk in front of Michael Cole and
[57:20] Speaker 1: Wade Barrett. And Michael Cole does not know. He just
[57:23] Speaker 1: puzzled by all of this. He doesn't know what to
[57:25] Speaker 1: make of any of this. He's looking at the jar.
[57:27] Speaker 1: Wade Barrett congratulated Cole on getting his first set of dentures.
[57:32] Speaker 1: Dan Housen enters the ring as the women danced, and
[57:36] Speaker 1: then there was a puff of smoke, and then the
[57:41] Speaker 1: lights went out again. The music stopped, and the fans
[57:45] Speaker 1: in Chicago they booed, and then the lights came back
[57:50] Speaker 1: on and Dan Housen and the dancers were gone, and
[57:55] Speaker 1: Michael Cole wondered, what the hell just happened here. I'll
[57:59] Speaker 1: bet there were a lot of people in the crowd
[58:00] Speaker 1: wondering that same thing. I was wondering that the moment
[58:04] Speaker 1: this fucking crate showed up on TV. Nothing good has
[58:09] Speaker 1: ever come out of a crate in this company, or
[58:13] Speaker 1: an egg or anything else, or through a wall in WCW.
[58:20] Speaker 1: It was a ridiculous concept from the beginning, and that
[58:23] Speaker 1: should have been a dead giveaway about who or what
[58:25] Speaker 1: was going to come out of this thing. Even just
[58:28] Speaker 1: the idea that a human being would be locked inside
[58:30] Speaker 1: this crate for twelve days. Like that's why I joked.
[58:34] Speaker 1: You really think it's gonna be Jericho or seth Rollins
[58:37] Speaker 1: is gonna come back? Like, dude, they're gonna pride that
[58:40] Speaker 1: crate open and their dead body is gonna come tumbling out.
[58:43] Speaker 1: Are you out of here fucking mind? This was a
[58:46] Speaker 1: gimmick that was tailor made for someone like Dan Housen.
[58:51] Speaker 1: Now should they have done it on you know, a
[58:53] Speaker 1: pl e like this, No, because then you end up
[58:57] Speaker 1: with the reaction that you got. You set people's expectations
[59:00] Speaker 1: high because they love doing these mystery angles. They do
[59:04] Speaker 1: them back to back, the mystery man, the mystery crate,
[59:07] Speaker 1: the mystery meets like if it's a mystery, believe me,
[59:10] Speaker 1: they'll they'll do it. They love their mysteries. But people
[59:14] Speaker 1: just assume. Men, you're building this up for weeks and weeks,
[59:17] Speaker 1: and we got this big show coming up, and it
[59:19] Speaker 1: must be something big. So you can understand why people
[59:22] Speaker 1: would be a little disappointed either to see Dan Housen
[59:26] Speaker 1: or that he showed up and then proceeded to do
[59:28] Speaker 1: absolutely nothing. He came down to the ring and did nothing.
[59:32] Speaker 1: He didn't speak, he didn't do anything. He just disappeared.
[59:37] Speaker 1: And everyone's looking at this going two weeks, three weeks
[59:41] Speaker 1: of this create nonsense for that, really, you can understand
[59:45] Speaker 1: why they would be disappointed. It's still though, but you know,
[59:48] Speaker 1: I still felt bad though, because this is Dan Housen's
[59:51] Speaker 1: big WWE debut, and when it was over, it went
[59:54] Speaker 1: over like a fucking fart in church and people booed. So, now,
[59:58] Speaker 1: what role does he settle in on TV? He's going
[1:00:01] Speaker 1: to be like the mascot. That's basically what he's going
[1:00:03] Speaker 1: to be. He's going to be the mascot of WWE,
[1:00:06] Speaker 1: like when they had the Gobbledegooker all those years ago.
[1:00:09] Speaker 1: There was talk about apparently there was talk about the
[1:00:12] Speaker 1: Gobbledegooker was going to be like at least the annual
[1:00:15] Speaker 1: Survivor series mascot. I think that was the original intent
[1:00:18] Speaker 1: behind it, and I think they just realized, Man, this
[1:00:20] Speaker 1: is fucking stupid. We got to just pretend this never
[1:00:23] Speaker 1: happened until years later and they just sort of embraced it,
[1:00:25] Speaker 1: and he was in the Gimmick Battle Royal at WrestleMania.
[1:00:28] Speaker 1: They would trot him out there for anniversary shows but
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: I think that was the original idea. He would be
[1:00:33] Speaker 1: like the mascot for Survivor series, and I think that's
[1:00:37] Speaker 1: basically what Dan Housen is going to be here in WWE.
[1:00:41] Speaker 1: And who knows. I mean, maybe he'll interact with some
[1:00:43] Speaker 1: people high up on the card. He and Punk are
[1:00:45] Speaker 1: like this. Maybe Punk will be like, yeah, I want
[1:00:47] Speaker 1: to do some stuff with Dan Housen. But I certainly
[1:00:50] Speaker 1: would not have Cmpunk doing anything with Dan Housen as
[1:00:52] Speaker 1: he is building up his match with Roman Reigns for WrestleMania,
[1:00:56] Speaker 1: Let's wait a little bit before we have any sort
[1:00:58] Speaker 1: of real interaction with punkin Danausen. What's he gonna do?
[1:01:02] Speaker 1: I mean, who cares. It's whatever it is. It's gonna
[1:01:05] Speaker 1: be just comedy fodder for the show. I mean that's
[1:01:08] Speaker 1: what the character is. The character is not meant to
[1:01:10] Speaker 1: be taken seriously. But I do think it's something that
[1:01:13] Speaker 1: could get over with the audience in kind of like
[1:01:14] Speaker 1: a fun way. You know, some sort of like mid
[1:01:17] Speaker 1: card comedy act that gets over with certain people or
[1:01:20] Speaker 1: gets over with kids. I think it could work. I
[1:01:23] Speaker 1: think they could sell Dan house and merch. It's like
[1:01:26] Speaker 1: what mister Iguana is whenever he's out there with the
[1:01:29] Speaker 1: fucking puppet, you know, like like Yeska on his shoulder.
[1:01:31] Speaker 1: I mean, that's basically what this is. But you don't see,
[1:01:35] Speaker 1: you know, a giant crate with mister Iguana popping out
[1:01:38] Speaker 1: of it. So I just think the timing and you know,
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: the location for it and the way they did it.
[1:01:45] Speaker 1: It didn't do him any favors, unfortunately, But yes, Chicago
[1:01:49] Speaker 1: did boo Dan Housen. Unfortunately. That's like the Eagles fans
[1:01:54] Speaker 1: in Philly booing Santa Claus. I mean, you can't be
[1:01:56] Speaker 1: doing that. What are you doing here? Anyway, that was it.
[1:02:05] Speaker 1: That was the crate. That was the big reveal. Nothing
[1:02:08] Speaker 1: else was said about it, and they just moved on
[1:02:09] Speaker 1: and tried to pretend that it didn't even happen. Well,
[1:02:14] Speaker 1: we only had one match left because we had to
[1:02:16] Speaker 1: do the crate angle. We couldn't fit a fifth match
[1:02:19] Speaker 1: on this pla because we had to do the crate angle,
[1:02:22] Speaker 1: and because we need long entrances on this show. And
[1:02:27] Speaker 1: that was the story here of the beginning here of
[1:02:30] Speaker 1: this match, because they closed with the men's elimination chamber.
[1:02:34] Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton La Knight. I think maybe we
[1:02:39] Speaker 1: just found La Knight's opponent for WrestleMania. La Knight against
[1:02:45] Speaker 1: Dan Hausen at WrestleMania. Can't go any worse for La
[1:02:52] Speaker 1: Night than the night he had tonight. Randy Orton, La Knight,
[1:03:01] Speaker 1: Javon Evans, Trick Williams, and Logan Paul. Logan Paul qualified
[1:03:06] Speaker 1: for this match last night on smack Down with a
[1:03:08] Speaker 1: win over Jacob Fatu because jay Usso was taken out
[1:03:13] Speaker 1: by a mystery assailant. Are we going to get a
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: resolution to this story? Are we ever going to find
[1:03:19] Speaker 1: out who attacked jay Uso? Maybe? Maybe? Yes, maybe no.
[1:03:23] Speaker 1: I honestly don't know. They had to get out of
[1:03:27] Speaker 1: that as quickly as possible because jay Usso was never
[1:03:30] Speaker 1: intended to be in the elimination chamber. It was supposed
[1:03:34] Speaker 1: to be Bronson Reid. He got injured, He's already had
[1:03:36] Speaker 1: surgery for a torn bicep. He's on the mend. So
[1:03:39] Speaker 1: they just substituted one Vision member for another. Instead of
[1:03:44] Speaker 1: Bronson Reid, we have Logan Paul. I think they said
[1:03:46] Speaker 1: this was Logan Pol's third elimination chamber, which is kind
[1:03:49] Speaker 1: of crazy. Has he really been around for that long.
[1:03:53] Speaker 1: I mean, I guess he has the first match that
[1:03:55] Speaker 1: Logan Paul had in WWE would have been what twenty two?
[1:04:02] Speaker 1: It was that tag match right with the Miz at WrestleMania.
[1:04:04] Speaker 1: That had to be WrestleMania thirty eight. I think so. Yeah,
[1:04:08] Speaker 1: he's been around almost four years at this point. It's
[1:04:11] Speaker 1: pretty crazy. Trick Williams was out first and the crowd
[1:04:16] Speaker 1: was vibing with his theme music right They were chanting,
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: whoop that Trick. See the importance of good theme music.
[1:04:22] Speaker 1: Trick is a great example of that. He's one of
[1:04:24] Speaker 1: the few that they've actually gotten right now. I unfortunately
[1:04:30] Speaker 1: did not time all of this, so I don't know
[1:04:34] Speaker 1: what time all of these entrances started. But every single
[1:04:38] Speaker 1: person who came out here was, as they say, or
[1:04:42] Speaker 1: a farming taking their sweet time going from pod to pod.
[1:04:47] Speaker 1: So each time someone came out, you gotta go stare
[1:04:50] Speaker 1: at this person. You gotta go stare at that person.
[1:04:52] Speaker 1: You gotta go stare at that person. You gotta pose
[1:04:54] Speaker 1: for the crowd. You gotta climb on top of the pod.
[1:04:56] Speaker 1: You gotta cut your toenails, you gotta read a magazine,
[1:04:59] Speaker 1: you gotta make a fucking sandwich. My god, if I
[1:05:03] Speaker 1: tell you how long these entrances were, it now had
[1:05:08] Speaker 1: to go at least fifteen minutes. I didn't time it.
[1:05:11] Speaker 1: There's no way these entrances went any less than fifteen minutes.
[1:05:16] Speaker 1: And it felt like a lot longer than that. And
[1:05:20] Speaker 1: when this match was over, the entrances and I shit
[1:05:23] Speaker 1: you not, were almost as long as the match itself.
[1:05:27] Speaker 1: That should never ever happen, I mean is it is astonishing,
[1:05:36] Speaker 1: absolutely astonishing. It's no wonder they only have time for
[1:05:41] Speaker 1: four matches on these pls. When Javon Evans came out,
[1:05:48] Speaker 1: he was bouncing around for his entrance and he was
[1:05:51] Speaker 1: saying into the camera and now, I'm nervous, I'm nervous,
[1:05:55] Speaker 1: all right, this is his first elimination shame. It's the
[1:05:58] Speaker 1: biggest match of his career so far. He's gonna be
[1:06:00] Speaker 1: in there with Randy Orton, Cody Rhoades and the Great
[1:06:04] Speaker 1: Logan Paul. Right, He's gonna be in there with some
[1:06:07] Speaker 1: big names here. So he's saying, I'm nervous, I'm nervous.
[1:06:11] Speaker 1: Apparently he was not as nervous as the ring announcer was.
[1:06:15] Speaker 1: As Mark Nash announced him as not Javon Evans, but
[1:06:19] Speaker 1: he announced him as Javon Williams, just like, hey, you know,
[1:06:26] Speaker 1: shit happens. I think it was actually far worse a
[1:06:30] Speaker 1: few weeks ago on Raw when Michael Cole referred to
[1:06:33] Speaker 1: Javon Evans as Kofi Kingston. I think that was a
[1:06:37] Speaker 1: little bit worse. So Cody Rhodes was out last to
[1:06:41] Speaker 1: start the match with Javon. They went at it for
[1:06:45] Speaker 1: a little bit. Trick Williams entered next as the third man.
[1:06:49] Speaker 1: Logan Paul was in next at number four. He got
[1:06:51] Speaker 1: thrown through one of the pods by Cody and Trick
[1:06:54] Speaker 1: and he ended up threw one end and out the
[1:06:57] Speaker 1: other end of the pod. And that was the second
[1:06:59] Speaker 1: time on the show that they did a spot like that.
[1:07:02] Speaker 1: That was after the raquel spot in the first match
[1:07:04] Speaker 1: where she did the running power slam through one side
[1:07:07] Speaker 1: of the glass and out through the other. So that's
[1:07:10] Speaker 1: a new thing they're doing now. So there was a
[1:07:15] Speaker 1: point here in this match where Logan Paul hit his
[1:07:21] Speaker 1: they call it the snapshot lariot, but he did his
[1:07:24] Speaker 1: version of the buckshot lariot, and again when he vaults
[1:07:28] Speaker 1: over and he lands on his feet. He's got the
[1:07:30] Speaker 1: wobbly legs, and I don't know why he continues to
[1:07:33] Speaker 1: do it. I don't know why he continues to do it.
[1:07:36] Speaker 1: If you can't make it look as good or better
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: than the guy that you stole it from, I don't
[1:07:40] Speaker 1: know why he insists on continuing to do this move.
[1:07:44] Speaker 1: La Knight was in next. He went right after Logan Paul,
[1:07:47] Speaker 1: who he once beat to win his one lone singles
[1:07:51] Speaker 1: title here in WWE. He beat him for the US
[1:07:53] Speaker 1: title at SummerSlam a few years ago. That feels like
[1:07:55] Speaker 1: a fucking lifetime ago now, And obviously he's part of
[1:07:58] Speaker 1: the Vision. La has been dealing with the Vision going
[1:08:02] Speaker 1: back almost a fucking year now, so of course he
[1:08:06] Speaker 1: went first for Logan Paul. As soon as he came in,
[1:08:09] Speaker 1: Logan ended up on top of one of the pods.
[1:08:11] Speaker 1: Javon Evans, though, climbed up with him, as did La Knight,
[1:08:15] Speaker 1: and the two of them then launched Logan off the
[1:08:18] Speaker 1: top of the pod with a crossbody and they collided
[1:08:22] Speaker 1: with Cody Rhodes and Trick Williams in the ring down below.
[1:08:27] Speaker 1: Then Logan dropped Javon on top of the pod that
[1:08:30] Speaker 1: they were standing on with a BFT, which did not
[1:08:34] Speaker 1: look great because they didn't have a lot of room
[1:08:36] Speaker 1: to maneuver up there. And also like, how stupid of
[1:08:39] Speaker 1: La Night because of course they were both down after this,
[1:08:43] Speaker 1: because he also went down and landed on the fucking pod,
[1:08:46] Speaker 1: so he heard himself. So now they're both laying there
[1:08:49] Speaker 1: on top of the pod. As the countdown clock ticked away.
[1:08:54] Speaker 1: Randy Orton entered the match last. He was mowing everybody
[1:08:59] Speaker 1: down and the crowd was pretty damn quiet for all
[1:09:04] Speaker 1: of this, Quieter than you would think, So Randy Orton,
[1:09:08] Speaker 1: it's like Orton making a hot tag in a tag
[1:09:10] Speaker 1: team match. So he hit a double draping DDT, so
[1:09:16] Speaker 1: Logan Paul and Trick Williams. Then he struck his pose.
[1:09:19] Speaker 1: Rko is coming. La Knight though, spins him around plants
[1:09:24] Speaker 1: him with a DDT, so everybody was down except for Javon.
[1:09:30] Speaker 1: Javon was finally back up on his feet on top
[1:09:33] Speaker 1: of the pod. He stands up and off he dives
[1:09:37] Speaker 1: with a frog splash onto Trick Williams from the top
[1:09:40] Speaker 1: of the pod. Worked out a lot better for him
[1:09:43] Speaker 1: than it did for Rob Van Dam in the first
[1:09:45] Speaker 1: elimination chamber when the ceiling wasn't quite as high as
[1:09:48] Speaker 1: it is now, and of course RVD came down across
[1:09:52] Speaker 1: Triple H's larynx with his knee crushed his throat. No
[1:09:57] Speaker 1: problem here for Javon Evans. He's got a lot more
[1:10:00] Speaker 1: room up there to maneuver, and RVD did back then.
[1:10:04] Speaker 1: But then after he lands the frog splash, Logan Paul
[1:10:09] Speaker 1: grabs Javon Evans and he plants him with his pulverizer
[1:10:13] Speaker 1: finish and he pins him, and Logan Paul eliminates Javon Evans.
[1:10:18] Speaker 1: He dropped him right on his fucking neck like it
[1:10:22] Speaker 1: was a nasty landing that Javon took on that move.
[1:10:26] Speaker 1: And then the crowd just goes mild. Like Logan Paul
[1:10:30] Speaker 1: is very good at getting a heat. It's one of
[1:10:32] Speaker 1: the reasons they probably really enjoy using him is because
[1:10:34] Speaker 1: he's a heat magnet. Usually anytime he goes out there,
[1:10:38] Speaker 1: he pins Javon here, and the crowd doesn't boom. They
[1:10:40] Speaker 1: just they go mild. It's like I hit the mute
[1:10:43] Speaker 1: button by accident. They weren't making any noise. I don't
[1:10:47] Speaker 1: know if they were just stunned. I don't know if
[1:10:48] Speaker 1: they were just like groaning, like maybe a combination of both.
[1:10:52] Speaker 1: I don't know, but they didn't really react to this,
[1:10:56] Speaker 1: and so Javon Evans is the first man eliminated. And
[1:11:00] Speaker 1: I just hope you didn't get hurt on that spot.
[1:11:02] Speaker 1: Before I went live, I was checking. I didn't see
[1:11:05] Speaker 1: anything mentioned about his neck or his health or anything
[1:11:09] Speaker 1: like that, but that landing, that landing looked nasty. So
[1:11:16] Speaker 1: then unfortunately there was a bad botch where La Knight
[1:11:23] Speaker 1: went for. He does this every match, and usually he
[1:11:27] Speaker 1: hits it okay, right, He's had some flubs in the past,
[1:11:30] Speaker 1: but I feel like it's been a while since he's
[1:11:31] Speaker 1: fucked it up. But you know, he does that move
[1:11:35] Speaker 1: where he's standing and he'll do the kind of the
[1:11:39] Speaker 1: jump up onto the ropes and then do the big
[1:11:41] Speaker 1: dive off with the diving elbow. So he went and
[1:11:45] Speaker 1: he jumped up, and he slipped on the ropes and
[1:11:48] Speaker 1: he fell off the ropes. He didn't fall off the
[1:11:51] Speaker 1: ropes like the Demon did all those years ago against
[1:11:53] Speaker 1: Roman Reigns when the rope broke and he took a
[1:11:56] Speaker 1: fucking face plant on the mat and the Demon died
[1:11:58] Speaker 1: that night. It wasn't quite that bed, but he slipped
[1:12:01] Speaker 1: off the ropes and he fell back down, landed on
[1:12:04] Speaker 1: his feet. I mean you could hear the crowd, man,
[1:12:05] Speaker 1: they were like, oh, they're like groaning, and I'm sure
[1:12:09] Speaker 1: he felt like absolute fucking dog shit, like, oh my god,
[1:12:12] Speaker 1: what do I do here? So instead he just he
[1:12:15] Speaker 1: did a standing elbow. He jumped up in the air
[1:12:17] Speaker 1: and he just did a diving little elbow drop off
[1:12:19] Speaker 1: the mat here and then to make matters work like
[1:12:22] Speaker 1: that would be bad enough, right, And I'm sure he's
[1:12:23] Speaker 1: gonna beat himself up over it. There's a big spot
[1:12:26] Speaker 1: for him. And he fucked up one of his moves.
[1:12:29] Speaker 1: As if that isn't bad enough. This whole like little
[1:12:33] Speaker 1: sequence here was just horrendous for La Night because he
[1:12:37] Speaker 1: goes from that to taking a nutshot from Logan Paul,
[1:12:44] Speaker 1: who then rolls him up and pins him. La Knight
[1:12:49] Speaker 1: has been eliminated from the elimination chamber. I don't think
[1:12:54] Speaker 1: this could have gone any worse for La Knight if
[1:12:58] Speaker 1: they tried, and again, part of it was his own fault,
[1:13:03] Speaker 1: but for the botch to happen where it did, and
[1:13:07] Speaker 1: then for it to immediately segue into him taking a
[1:13:10] Speaker 1: nutshot and getting pinned. You can imagine the crowd reaction
[1:13:14] Speaker 1: to that. It was just like, what are we seeing here?
[1:13:17] Speaker 1: So this is now the second elimination for Logan Paul
[1:13:21] Speaker 1: here in this match. But I mean this again, this
[1:13:23] Speaker 1: was just absolute death for La Knight, who once again
[1:13:28] Speaker 1: is fucked over by a member of the Vision. Then,
[1:13:32] Speaker 1: now and forever, death taxes in La Knight taken an
[1:13:37] Speaker 1: l from the Vision. These things will never change. They
[1:13:41] Speaker 1: will be consistently true until the end of time. And
[1:13:45] Speaker 1: as far as what you do with La Night at WrestleMania,
[1:13:47] Speaker 1: I know there was that rumor that at one point
[1:13:49] Speaker 1: he was slotted in for a match with Brock Lesner.
[1:13:52] Speaker 1: I mean, I mean really it wasn't looking likely obviously
[1:13:58] Speaker 1: with this open challenge they just announced. But if there
[1:14:02] Speaker 1: was any chance of that before, I could just picture
[1:14:05] Speaker 1: like Brock I mean, the idea of brock Lesner sitting
[1:14:07] Speaker 1: at home watching this show is funny enough, but like
[1:14:10] Speaker 1: could picture him sitting at home watching this going about
[1:14:12] Speaker 1: working with this fucking guy. We could do we could
[1:14:16] Speaker 1: do better than this. Yeah, I don't know. I'd put
[1:14:20] Speaker 1: my hands in the air. I don't know we're going
[1:14:22] Speaker 1: into WrestleMania. I don't see a role for him on
[1:14:24] Speaker 1: the show. I really don't. So then Trick Williams. He
[1:14:30] Speaker 1: avoided a Paul Verizer, which is good because he almost
[1:14:34] Speaker 1: killed Javon Evans with it, but Cody hit him with
[1:14:38] Speaker 1: a Crossroads, and then Logan tossed Cody into the ring
[1:14:40] Speaker 1: post and he stole the pin on Trick. This was
[1:14:44] Speaker 1: Logan Paul's third elimination of this match. In case you
[1:14:48] Speaker 1: were wondering why, if the crowd wasn't already dying, they
[1:14:52] Speaker 1: died a little bit more on the inside watching this.
[1:14:54] Speaker 1: I don't think these people could believe what they were
[1:14:57] Speaker 1: doing here was just kind of bad enough as it was.
[1:15:03] Speaker 1: It was just sort of it was there, like this
[1:15:05] Speaker 1: match is kind of limping along here. I'm like, what
[1:15:07] Speaker 1: the fuck am I watching here? Everything is falling apart.
[1:15:11] Speaker 1: This is boring and there's no life to it. There's
[1:15:13] Speaker 1: no excitement. This is the main event. There's nothing else
[1:15:16] Speaker 1: after this. This is it. Where's the excitement. Well, the
[1:15:22] Speaker 1: part of the problem is you just had Logan Paul
[1:15:23] Speaker 1: eliminate three people from this match, so now he's got
[1:15:27] Speaker 1: three eliminations to his name, and I would say it
[1:15:31] Speaker 1: killed the crowd, but again they were dead already anyway.
[1:15:33] Speaker 1: So then right on cue, the door is open, trick
[1:15:37] Speaker 1: is you know, he's rolling out of the cage. He's
[1:15:39] Speaker 1: trying to get out of the cage, and here comes
[1:15:43] Speaker 1: another mask man. Now, if you saw SmackDown last night,
[1:15:48] Speaker 1: we had a mask man running in the main event,
[1:15:50] Speaker 1: and Logan pulled his mask off and I looked and
[1:15:53] Speaker 1: I said, I don't know who the fuck that is,
[1:15:56] Speaker 1: and neither did Joe Tessitor. He had no idea they used.
[1:15:59] Speaker 1: It was a dec right, we knew it. It was
[1:16:01] Speaker 1: a standard. We know it's not going to be whoever
[1:16:03] Speaker 1: the final person would end up being revealed as apparently
[1:16:07] Speaker 1: it was one of Seth Roland's students or someone who
[1:16:10] Speaker 1: trained at his academy and wrestled on aw Dark I
[1:16:15] Speaker 1: think a few years ago or whatever. Right, no one
[1:16:19] Speaker 1: of any consequence to any of these storylines. And so
[1:16:23] Speaker 1: now we have another mass man who begins to scale.
[1:16:28] Speaker 1: He doesn't run into the cage, but he is scaling
[1:16:31] Speaker 1: the chamber and so he gets pulled down by officials
[1:16:37] Speaker 1: who run out there to pull him down. And they're
[1:16:40] Speaker 1: dragging him down the aisle and Adam Pierce runs out
[1:16:46] Speaker 1: and Adam Pierce pulls the mask off the guy, and
[1:16:49] Speaker 1: as was the case on SmackDown, I'm looking at this guy.
[1:16:51] Speaker 1: He's got blonde hair. It's not me. I'm looking at
[1:16:55] Speaker 1: the guy going, I don't know who the fuck that is,
[1:16:58] Speaker 1: Like what are we doing here? So Pierce is like,
[1:17:02] Speaker 1: get him out of here? And whoever this guy is,
[1:17:04] Speaker 1: maybe another student, I don't know. They drag him away.
[1:17:08] Speaker 1: We get another masked man and I'm watching this and
[1:17:12] Speaker 1: at this point, I like, I could see where it's going,
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: but I'm like, this is so preposterous, Like this is
[1:17:17] Speaker 1: so stupid. This match is a fucking disaster. At this point,
[1:17:23] Speaker 1: to go from the La Night shit that we saw
[1:17:26] Speaker 1: Logan Paul three eliminations, another unmasked man that we don't
[1:17:30] Speaker 1: even know. Now we have another man in black and
[1:17:34] Speaker 1: this man, because the door is still wide open, this
[1:17:37] Speaker 1: man very casually he walks into the chamber. He super
[1:17:42] Speaker 1: kicks Logan in the in the midsection. So now he's
[1:17:47] Speaker 1: down and he comes off the ropes and he delivers
[1:17:50] Speaker 1: a curb stomp and I'm looking at this guy and
[1:17:54] Speaker 1: just his mannerisms and I'm like, okay, that's Seth Rollins.
[1:17:58] Speaker 1: Like what I saw that guy backdown last night and
[1:18:01] Speaker 1: the way he was moving around it what he reminded
[1:18:03] Speaker 1: me of. He reminded me of like a Mikey from
[1:18:07] Speaker 1: the Spirit Squad. I don't know, There's something about the
[1:18:09] Speaker 1: way he was like jumping up and down. I'm like,
[1:18:11] Speaker 1: that ain't Seth Rollins. But I'm watching this. I go,
[1:18:13] Speaker 1: this is Seth Rollins. And sure enough, he goes to
[1:18:18] Speaker 1: leave and he pulls the mask off and it is
[1:18:23] Speaker 1: in fact Seth Rollins. And it got a pop. We
[1:18:25] Speaker 1: actually got a pop. We got a Paul seer from
[1:18:27] Speaker 1: the fans in Chicago. And they cut to a shot
[1:18:30] Speaker 1: of Paul Hayman outside the chamber and he has to
[1:18:33] Speaker 1: sell this now. So he's selling this as a shocking awe.
[1:18:38] Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, he's saying.
[1:18:41] Speaker 1: Cody looks up at Rollins, Rollins looks back at Cody,
[1:18:45] Speaker 1: and then Rollins makes his exit through the crowd, and
[1:18:49] Speaker 1: on commentary, they're wondering, is he back, is he medically cleared?
[1:18:52] Speaker 1: You know, we don't know, and you know, tune into
[1:18:54] Speaker 1: Raw Monday night. We'll find out. Maybe we'll hear from
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: Seth Rollins. So the one thing I will say that
[1:19:00] Speaker 1: they got, maybe the only thing, frankly that they got
[1:19:04] Speaker 1: right here in this match was the final two, Cody
[1:19:07] Speaker 1: Rhodes and Randy Orton. This is what I was hoping
[1:19:10] Speaker 1: for when I did my predictions. I said it should
[1:19:12] Speaker 1: come down to Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton, because that's
[1:19:15] Speaker 1: where the story is. It's not Logan Paul, it's not
[1:19:18] Speaker 1: La Knight, it's not Trick Williams. It's these two right here.
[1:19:22] Speaker 1: And like with the women's chamber, you wanted to come
[1:19:25] Speaker 1: down to two people where it's fifty to fifty. Like
[1:19:28] Speaker 1: I could see Cody winning, I could see Randy winning.
[1:19:31] Speaker 1: This is great. That's the one thing they got right
[1:19:33] Speaker 1: here up until this point here in this match. So
[1:19:38] Speaker 1: they didn't get to do a whole lot though, because
[1:19:41] Speaker 1: the door is still open and here comes Drew McIntyre.
[1:19:45] Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a revolving door of bullshit here
[1:19:47] Speaker 1: in this match. Drew McIntyre comes up the stairs and
[1:19:51] Speaker 1: he blasts Cody in the back of the head or
[1:19:54] Speaker 1: the side of the head with the WWE championship and
[1:19:58] Speaker 1: he gets into the ring Cody fights him back, but
[1:20:00] Speaker 1: you know, Drew beats him down until Randy Orton finally,
[1:20:03] Speaker 1: he was just watching all of this, but finally Randy
[1:20:06] Speaker 1: Orton comes over and he drops Drew with an RKO,
[1:20:10] Speaker 1: and Cody then delivers a Crossroads to McIntyre and Orton's
[1:20:14] Speaker 1: like cheering a mon like yeah, yeah, yeah, and he
[1:20:16] Speaker 1: gives him across Roads and as soon as Cody pops
[1:20:19] Speaker 1: back up to his feet, Randy Orton drops him with
[1:20:22] Speaker 1: an RKO as he should, and then Randy Orton covers
[1:20:27] Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes and he pins Cody Rhodes to win the
[1:20:31] Speaker 1: elimination Chamber match. Yes, open door, that's right. Falcon Star
[1:20:35] Speaker 1: said it right. We had an open door policy in
[1:20:38] Speaker 1: the elimination Chamber tonight. I'm not even again, I don't
[1:20:46] Speaker 1: even know where to start with this. I already said
[1:20:49] Speaker 1: my piece about the entrances being almost as long as
[1:20:52] Speaker 1: the match itself is what it is as elimination chamber
[1:20:56] Speaker 1: matches go. This was easily one of the if not
[1:20:59] Speaker 1: the weakest one they've ever done. It's the weakest one
[1:21:02] Speaker 1: off the top of my head, and I've seen them
[1:21:04] Speaker 1: all and I haven't been a fan of all of them.
[1:21:06] Speaker 1: Some of them I like, some of them I love.
[1:21:09] Speaker 1: Like when I think of the elimination chamber matches that
[1:21:11] Speaker 1: I really love, I think of the first one in
[1:21:14] Speaker 1: two thousand and two. I think of the one in
[1:21:16] Speaker 1: twenty seventeen when Bray Wyatt won the w W Championship.
[1:21:20] Speaker 1: I thought that was a great one, and I could
[1:21:23] Speaker 1: pick others as well, like the one where John Cena
[1:21:25] Speaker 1: took everyone finish and you got beat and like, oh,
[1:21:29] Speaker 1: we're guaranteed to have a new champion. Like there are
[1:21:32] Speaker 1: memorable elimination chamber matches, this was not one of them.
[1:21:38] Speaker 1: This was most definitely not one of them. And it
[1:21:40] Speaker 1: was over booked to all hell. We had two mass
[1:21:43] Speaker 1: men and a Drew McIntyre running just in this one match.
[1:21:51] Speaker 1: But the match itself was just devoid of any excitement
[1:21:53] Speaker 1: up until the last I'd say sixty seconds maybe ninety seconds.
[1:21:58] Speaker 1: Got twenty five minute match here, and you got about
[1:22:01] Speaker 1: ninety seconds of genuine excitement at the very end, twenty
[1:22:07] Speaker 1: five minutes, to say nothing of the twenty minutes of entrances.
[1:22:10] Speaker 1: So I want you to think about that forty five
[1:22:12] Speaker 1: minutes to get to ninety seconds at the very end,
[1:22:16] Speaker 1: it's not worth it, like that should never happen with
[1:22:21] Speaker 1: your main event, Like what are we doing here? And
[1:22:25] Speaker 1: there's just a lot of times where I'm watching these
[1:22:27] Speaker 1: shows now and I'm not trying to knock the talent,
[1:22:29] Speaker 1: but my god, like I'm watching some of these shows,
[1:22:31] Speaker 1: I don't know why. Am I the only one who
[1:22:32] Speaker 1: feels this way? And this goes for the television show
[1:22:36] Speaker 1: sometimes also where I'm watching it and it just feels like,
[1:22:39] Speaker 1: just in general, like they're going through the motions, and
[1:22:44] Speaker 1: that's what this match felt like to me. I didn't
[1:22:45] Speaker 1: feel that way with the women's chamber, but there are
[1:22:47] Speaker 1: just times where I'm watching I'm like, why is why
[1:22:49] Speaker 1: does it feel like they're just going through the motions here?
[1:22:53] Speaker 1: Like what's missing from this? But very arming watching this
[1:23:00] Speaker 1: show how quiet Chicago was, And again I'm not blaming Chicago.
[1:23:05] Speaker 1: It was very alarming. I think there's a message in
[1:23:08] Speaker 1: all this. Whether or not that message is received, I
[1:23:11] Speaker 1: don't know, but it was very noticeable. This is typically
[1:23:16] Speaker 1: a hot wrestling crowd, and hot is not a word
[1:23:19] Speaker 1: I would use to describe them tonight or this show
[1:23:21] Speaker 1: for them matter definitely not. But I will tell you
[1:23:25] Speaker 1: what I do like, because I don't want to show
[1:23:27] Speaker 1: you that I'm not a negative Nancy about everything. I
[1:23:31] Speaker 1: did like Randy Orton winning, and I like what they
[1:23:35] Speaker 1: did with the finish, and I like that this at
[1:23:37] Speaker 1: least heats up this road to WrestleMania now when it
[1:23:41] Speaker 1: comes to the WWE title situation, which is something they
[1:23:46] Speaker 1: desperately needed to do because they just didn't have that
[1:23:49] Speaker 1: one really hot story around the title heading into the show,
[1:23:53] Speaker 1: Like the World Heavyweight Championship has already been locked down,
[1:23:55] Speaker 1: we already know what that's going to be. And once
[1:23:58] Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is back and we'll see what they do
[1:23:59] Speaker 1: with it. I'm on TV this week. But like, I
[1:24:01] Speaker 1: think back to that first promo and everybody was all
[1:24:04] Speaker 1: fired up, and it was great. It was a great
[1:24:06] Speaker 1: like opening salvo for their feud. But now you've got
[1:24:09] Speaker 1: to try to replicate that on the other side, right,
[1:24:11] Speaker 1: You've got to try to replicate that on the SmackDown
[1:24:13] Speaker 1: side now, And now that we've gotten this fucking show
[1:24:16] Speaker 1: out of the way, now we can focus on WrestleMania itself,
[1:24:19] Speaker 1: and hopefully now is where things really start to heat
[1:24:24] Speaker 1: up in a big way. You've got Drew McIntyre, you've
[1:24:27] Speaker 1: got Cody Rhodes, You've got Randy Orton, You've got Jacob Fatu,
[1:24:30] Speaker 1: you've got sammy's Ain throw him in there as well.
[1:24:33] Speaker 1: All of these guys have been, you know, in the
[1:24:36] Speaker 1: same orbit. They've all been kind of interlocked now for
[1:24:40] Speaker 1: quite some time. And the question now becomes like, how
[1:24:43] Speaker 1: does this all play out? What does this look like now?
[1:24:46] Speaker 1: You know, as we head into WrestleMania when the show
[1:24:50] Speaker 1: is over. I mentioned this at the beginning, they shot
[1:24:52] Speaker 1: a big angle when the show is over. In case
[1:24:54] Speaker 1: you missed it, nick All this was not happy about
[1:24:58] Speaker 1: Drew McIntyre involving himself in the elimination chamber match. This
[1:25:01] Speaker 1: is not the first time that Drew has gone against
[1:25:05] Speaker 1: what the GM has said. He has ignored what he
[1:25:09] Speaker 1: has told him to do. And Nick aldis finally had
[1:25:12] Speaker 1: enough and he said, Okay, here's what we're gonna do
[1:25:16] Speaker 1: on SmackDown this Friday. You're going to defend your WWE
[1:25:19] Speaker 1: Championship against Cody Rhods. So we have a big title match. Now.
[1:25:25] Speaker 1: This is gonna be the second time this year, by
[1:25:27] Speaker 1: the way, second time in less than two months or
[1:25:30] Speaker 1: about two months that these two are having a world
[1:25:33] Speaker 1: title match on TV. That match is going to take
[1:25:37] Speaker 1: place on Friday, and when the show was over before
[1:25:42] Speaker 1: this even happened, I'm watching this going, okay, well, we
[1:25:46] Speaker 1: know now it's going to be a fatal four way
[1:25:47] Speaker 1: to WrestleMania because Cody Rose and Jacob Fatu have both
[1:25:52] Speaker 1: been screwed over by Drew McIntyre more than once. I mean,
[1:25:56] Speaker 1: Jacob just got screwed over last night by Drew McIntyre
[1:26:01] Speaker 1: let alone in his qualifying match a few weeks ago,
[1:26:05] Speaker 1: and Cody, we already know what happened to him. So
[1:26:08] Speaker 1: it's like, you've got seven weeks to figure out how
[1:26:10] Speaker 1: are you gonna work these two guys into that match,
[1:26:12] Speaker 1: because it's only fair that you at least give them
[1:26:15] Speaker 1: an opportunity to work their way into the title match.
[1:26:18] Speaker 1: Then I see that they're doing a title match on Friday.
[1:26:21] Speaker 1: The easiest path would be to just put the belt
[1:26:24] Speaker 1: back on Cody and do Cody and Randy and finally
[1:26:28] Speaker 1: tell that story Cody and Randy at WrestleMania. Cody beats Randy,
[1:26:35] Speaker 1: Randy snaps matches over, drops him with an RKO, maybe
[1:26:42] Speaker 1: even a punk kick for good measure. Maybe at that
[1:26:45] Speaker 1: point we find out that Randy Orton was also the
[1:26:48] Speaker 1: one or shortly thereafter, but they wait until like the
[1:26:51] Speaker 1: turn happens, and then we find out that maybe he
[1:26:53] Speaker 1: was the one who attacked fo too. Like, again, there's
[1:26:55] Speaker 1: any number of ways you could go with that. I
[1:26:58] Speaker 1: just say that because if Tody wins the belt back
[1:27:01] Speaker 1: on Friday, which I think there's a possibility that he will,
[1:27:04] Speaker 1: I don't see them taking it away from him again
[1:27:07] Speaker 1: at WrestleMania, Like, are they really going to take it
[1:27:10] Speaker 1: away from him in January, put it back on him
[1:27:13] Speaker 1: in March, take it back off of him again in April, Like,
[1:27:17] Speaker 1: I don't see them doing that. I think it's more
[1:27:20] Speaker 1: likely if they do Cody and Randy, Randy loses and
[1:27:23] Speaker 1: then Randy goes heel and then they have sort of
[1:27:26] Speaker 1: an extended feud. So you could do that, and then
[1:27:29] Speaker 1: you could just do Drew and Jacob one on one,
[1:27:33] Speaker 1: and then Sammy's a and I I mean Sammy's ain
[1:27:35] Speaker 1: and I guess maybe against Trick Williams. Otherwise, I don't
[1:27:37] Speaker 1: know what you do with Sammy's ain, But I'm not
[1:27:41] Speaker 1: convinced that they're going to do that. I mean, I
[1:27:42] Speaker 1: could see some sort of fuck finish, a bunch of
[1:27:46] Speaker 1: people get involved, and you just kind of go from
[1:27:49] Speaker 1: there and you figure out how you get to that
[1:27:51] Speaker 1: fatal four way match, you know with Drew, Cody, Jacob,
[1:27:55] Speaker 1: and Randy at Wrestle Media, those are the key players
[1:27:58] Speaker 1: if you're going to do a multi man matcheria. I
[1:28:00] Speaker 1: don't want to see five or six or seven guys
[1:28:02] Speaker 1: in there, like I'm sorry, Sammy. I don't want Sammy's
[1:28:07] Speaker 1: ain't thrown in there, like, no, four is my limit?
[1:28:12] Speaker 1: You got your four key guys, like, okay, fine, beyond that,
[1:28:16] Speaker 1: we don't need to turn this into a six pack
[1:28:19] Speaker 1: challenge or you know, something ridiculous like that. But I
[1:28:23] Speaker 1: like that it at least opens up a few different
[1:28:25] Speaker 1: avenues now that they can go SmackDown to me, now
[1:28:27] Speaker 1: all of a sudden becomes musty in a way that
[1:28:29] Speaker 1: it wasn't twenty four hours ago. Like I'll be tuned
[1:28:33] Speaker 1: into smack Down with with more interest than I usually
[1:28:36] Speaker 1: have this week. Absolutely, so we'll see, we'll see where.
[1:28:44] Speaker 1: Actually I won't be here on Friday. I just realized
[1:28:49] Speaker 1: I won't even be here on Friday. Well, I'll watch
[1:28:51] Speaker 1: it I'll watch it when I come home. I'm gonna
[1:28:53] Speaker 1: be in Chicago. I'm gonna be in the city that
[1:28:55] Speaker 1: I just got done talking about, because we got House
[1:28:59] Speaker 1: of Gloriouse of a Bitch, I forgot. I forgot all
[1:29:01] Speaker 1: about that. That's this week. Naturally they would do a
[1:29:08] Speaker 1: WWE Championship match on Friday. But anyway, once I do
[1:29:12] Speaker 1: eventually watch the show, I will be settled in to
[1:29:15] Speaker 1: see what they do on SmackDown, and we'll be watching
[1:29:19] Speaker 1: with great interest because obviously this is going to be
[1:29:21] Speaker 1: a very important show now, you know, as it pertains
[1:29:23] Speaker 1: to WrestleMania. So we'll see what direction they go. All
[1:29:29] Speaker 1: I wanted, though, was some intrigue. I wanted some intrigue
[1:29:32] Speaker 1: in this title picture on the road to WrestleMania. We
[1:29:36] Speaker 1: now have that, so let's see where things settle. But
[1:29:40] Speaker 1: this is good. This is a good thing. It feels
[1:29:43] Speaker 1: like they're trying to maybe shake things up a little bit.
[1:29:45] Speaker 1: You don't know exactly where it's gonna go. That's not
[1:29:49] Speaker 1: necessarily a bad thing. So to me, that's like the
[1:29:51] Speaker 1: one good thing that actually comes out of what I thought,
[1:29:54] Speaker 1: overall was just a very average event. You know, it
[1:29:58] Speaker 1: wasn't a It wasn't a terrible show. Oh it wasn't
[1:30:00] Speaker 1: a great show. It was very middle of the road,
[1:30:02] Speaker 1: very average. If you missed it, you didn't really miss much.
[1:30:08] Speaker 1: It was one of those nights. It was not the
[1:30:10] Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber from Toronto last year. I will tell you
[1:30:13] Speaker 1: that it definitely was not that. But at least now
[1:30:17] Speaker 1: we have some more intrigue here in the world title picture.
[1:30:19] Speaker 1: I cannot say the same though. For the rest of
[1:30:22] Speaker 1: this show. The Dan Housen thing logo went over like
[1:30:25] Speaker 1: a lead balloon. We talked about all the reasons why.
[1:30:29] Speaker 1: I don't know what people expected out of it. It's
[1:30:33] Speaker 1: a fucking crate. What were you expecting. It's a crate.
[1:30:41] Speaker 1: Thirty seven percent thumbs up for tonight's show. Yes, it
[1:30:45] Speaker 1: was safe, as most WWE shows are. They make their money.
[1:30:51] Speaker 1: They could play it very very safe. Thirty seven up.
[1:30:55] Speaker 1: Sixty three percent thumbs down with almost two thousand votes
[1:30:59] Speaker 1: in so far, that is a down score for the
[1:31:04] Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber. Not good a box like structure. Yeah, well,
[1:31:17] Speaker 1: look there's always the chamber next year. Ava says two
[1:31:23] Speaker 1: good matches, two bad matches, fifty out of one hundred.
[1:31:27] Speaker 1: What was your second bad match? I assume the main
[1:31:29] Speaker 1: event was one of them. What was your second bad match?
[1:31:34] Speaker 1: Was the AJ match? Olivia? Much Love from Bulgaria, South
[1:31:43] Speaker 1: Park or Family Guy, Family Guy. I God, there's a
[1:31:52] Speaker 1: an IG page I follow that just posts the occasional
[1:31:56] Speaker 1: random family Yeah. Family Guy has these like random cutaway segments.
[1:32:00] Speaker 1: Those are the best. They make absolutely no sense, but
[1:32:04] Speaker 1: I laugh every time. Death Side how many or how funny?
[1:32:09] Speaker 1: He says? Would it be if Stone Cold Steve Austin
[1:32:12] Speaker 1: answered brock Lesner's open challenge? I hope I didn't just
[1:32:15] Speaker 1: wish that into existence, because I would not put it
[1:32:18] Speaker 1: past WWE, and I don't want Austin to die. Steve
[1:32:25] Speaker 1: Austin is happily retired and he is not answering the
[1:32:31] Speaker 1: open challenge, so you do not have to worry about that.
[1:32:36] Speaker 1: Steve Austin may be a lot of things, but stupid
[1:32:39] Speaker 1: is not one of them. Bace Bears, please someone give
[1:32:43] Speaker 1: Ria a dumbbell. Yeah, she was doing pull ups on
[1:32:48] Speaker 1: the great inside her pod. Rhea still looks absolutely gorgeous, Okay,
[1:32:55] Speaker 1: says so. My ads consist of Disney programs and Wheatley Vodka.
[1:33:02] Speaker 1: It's weird, you know, from what I've heard. When you
[1:33:06] Speaker 1: use a VPN and you watch on Netflix internationally, it's weird.
[1:33:11] Speaker 1: You get a mix of commercials, and then you get
[1:33:13] Speaker 1: breaks where you don't get the commercials and you have that.
[1:33:17] Speaker 1: It's just kind of like that page landing page with
[1:33:20] Speaker 1: the music in the background, a little countown clock in
[1:33:22] Speaker 1: the corner. I don't know why you go back and
[1:33:25] Speaker 1: forth like you get some ads but not all the ads.
[1:33:29] Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says, I double dog dare Tony Khan to
[1:33:31] Speaker 1: invite Travis and Bad Bunny to aw Yeah, I think
[1:33:38] Speaker 1: we can leave Travis out of that. Nick says. The
[1:33:43] Speaker 1: commercials are out of fucking control. It is wild to
[1:33:46] Speaker 1: look at a pay per view from a few years
[1:33:48] Speaker 1: ago compared to what we have now. They don't even
[1:33:51] Speaker 1: do backstage interviews and segments anymore that are not ads. Yeah,
[1:33:55] Speaker 1: it sucks, It sucks, and it makes for a terrible
[1:33:58] Speaker 1: viewing experience as compared to the way you used to be.
[1:34:00] Speaker 1: But unfortunately this is how it is now under TKO,
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[1:36:08] Speaker 1: Saint Clair, what's going on, man? He says, I know
[1:36:10] Speaker 1: it's not a recent change, but why don't they announce
[1:36:12] Speaker 1: wrestlers' weights during the intros? I wonder, I don't know.
[1:36:17] Speaker 1: I wonder if it has to do with they want
[1:36:21] Speaker 1: consistency and they're not going to do that when it
[1:36:23] Speaker 1: comes to the women. So maybe because they don't do
[1:36:26] Speaker 1: it with the women. They just don't do it with
[1:36:27] Speaker 1: the men. It stopped many years ago, and I don't
[1:36:31] Speaker 1: remember if there was a specific reason why, but that
[1:36:33] Speaker 1: would kind of make sense to me. As women's wrestling
[1:36:36] Speaker 1: really started to gain traction and pick up in WWE,
[1:36:39] Speaker 1: they just said, let's just not do that. Dry Chicken says,
[1:36:45] Speaker 1: WWE slash TKO, less is more approach is not working. No, See,
[1:36:50] Speaker 1: the problem is it is working. They're still making money.
[1:36:55] Speaker 1: If they weren't making as much money or selling as
[1:36:57] Speaker 1: many tickets, and then you could say it's not working.
[1:37:00] Speaker 1: But as long as they're still making money in selling tickets,
[1:37:02] Speaker 1: then they have no incentive to stop doing it. Saint
[1:37:10] Speaker 1: Clair says, what would be the phrase at the beginning
[1:37:13] Speaker 1: of your WWE theme, Boonster, That'd be the Great Deaf
[1:37:25] Speaker 1: Rebel intro for my theme song, Just monster and a
[1:37:29] Speaker 1: roar and then I come out to some generic, generic rock.
[1:37:37] Speaker 1: Dry Chicken says, unlike Sammy's Ain, Randy Orton did not
[1:37:42] Speaker 1: choose misery, misery, misery. You did whatever it takes to win.
[1:37:47] Speaker 1: He did. He saw an opening and he took it.
[1:37:50] Speaker 1: He didn't hesitate. Cody Rhodes hesitated against John Cen at
[1:37:54] Speaker 1: WrestleMania last year, and it cost him the championship. Men's
[1:38:04] Speaker 1: Chamber was the worst match of the night, says Chicago
[1:38:09] Speaker 1: for MBK, I agree with you one hundred WWE deserves
[1:38:17] Speaker 1: all the booze for the Dan Housen reveal. Yeah, but
[1:38:22] Speaker 1: I feel bad for Dan Housen though. Wasn't his idea.
[1:38:27] Speaker 1: I wouldn't think. Also, they should not have Cody beat
[1:38:31] Speaker 1: Drew next week. Yeah, I mean, if they don't, I'm
[1:38:36] Speaker 1: okay with that, because again, you could still set up
[1:38:40] Speaker 1: an intriguing match for WrestleMania. But if you want to
[1:38:42] Speaker 1: do Cody and Randy, I'd be okay with that too.
[1:38:45] Speaker 1: It would suck for Drew though, to get this close,
[1:38:48] Speaker 1: they actually walking into WrestleMania as the champion and then
[1:38:51] Speaker 1: have it taken away from him. Venom Catetsu. I thought
[1:39:00] Speaker 1: another new Triple H era was in the crate. It
[1:39:05] Speaker 1: might be. It might still be in there somewhere. There
[1:39:07] Speaker 1: were there were a lot of things that came out
[1:39:09] Speaker 1: of that crate. Who's to say that they didn't leave
[1:39:12] Speaker 1: some more stuff in there. I'm sure we'll be hearing
[1:39:15] Speaker 1: about the new era, the newest new era very soon,
[1:39:18] Speaker 1: probably after WrestleMania, we'll have another new era. Johnny Burnie
[1:39:23] Speaker 1: TKO have come to their senses that Drew is not
[1:39:26] Speaker 1: a WrestleMania headliner, and they will take the belt off
[1:39:29] Speaker 1: of him to do. Randy and Cody at least fought
[1:39:33] Speaker 1: too against Drew will be fun. I don't know. We'll see.
[1:39:40] Speaker 1: You're assuming there's going to be a title change. We'll
[1:39:42] Speaker 1: say powerful one. If they really want to sell WrestleMania tickets,
[1:39:46] Speaker 1: make it a six man helen A sell with Cody, Jacob,
[1:39:49] Speaker 1: Sammy and Alistair Black. Give Stone Cold a blank check here, Steve,
[1:39:57] Speaker 1: write whatever number you want. Be the referee. Triple H
[1:40:02] Speaker 1: can thank me later. We do not need a six
[1:40:06] Speaker 1: man helen a Cell at Wrestlemany. We just had two
[1:40:13] Speaker 1: elimination chamber matches. I'm okay with not having a Helen
[1:40:18] Speaker 1: a Cell match at Wrestlemany. Bork Laser eighty nine. Just
[1:40:27] Speaker 1: shut the fuck up and enjoy the products. So Lo
[1:40:29] Speaker 1: I was scrolling on X and saw somebody said that
[1:40:32] Speaker 1: to you on your Becky and Jessica Carr post LMAO.
[1:40:37] Speaker 1: Loved the show Man. Yeah, there were a lot of
[1:40:40] Speaker 1: dumb dums. That I was. Unfortunately I had the displeasure
[1:40:46] Speaker 1: of hearing from tonight. I didn't even say anything bad
[1:40:51] Speaker 1: about it. I was just making an observation and then
[1:40:54] Speaker 1: I took one look at the person. And this is
[1:40:56] Speaker 1: usually the way it works. If somebody has an irrational
[1:40:59] Speaker 1: or a response that seems very irrational, just take a
[1:41:02] Speaker 1: look at their profile, and nine times out of ten
[1:41:06] Speaker 1: that will tell you everything you need to know, especially
[1:41:09] Speaker 1: if if you could just see it right in their avatar.
[1:41:13] Speaker 1: As soon as I went on that person's page and
[1:41:15] Speaker 1: I just saw Becky Lynch, everything, Becky Lynch, and the
[1:41:18] Speaker 1: banner Becky Lynch, the pin photo Becky, I'm like, you
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: know what, I know people who are big fans who
[1:41:25] Speaker 1: don't react the way that this person did. This person
[1:41:30] Speaker 1: clearly has something going on. And I was like, Okay,
[1:41:32] Speaker 1: we're done with this. That's conversations over. There's no sense
[1:41:37] Speaker 1: in arguing with somebody like that. I mean, I get
[1:41:40] Speaker 1: being a fan, but there's a difference between being a
[1:41:42] Speaker 1: fan and being whatever the hell that was. Death Side.
[1:41:48] Speaker 1: I predict that Jacob will cost Drew the title to
[1:41:51] Speaker 1: which Drew invokes his rematch clause and Nick All This
[1:41:55] Speaker 1: also adds Jacob to the title match. I can't believe
[1:41:58] Speaker 1: my Drew Cody Randy Jacob match that I had pitched
[1:42:03] Speaker 1: could actually come true. Oh, akandemic. I think it's probably
[1:42:07] Speaker 1: the likeliest scenario at this point. Honestly, down Bad didn't
[1:42:14] Speaker 1: watch the show, but from what I saw on Twitter,
[1:42:16] Speaker 1: it was a bunch of hype moments and Aura trash yep.
[1:42:24] Speaker 1: Pretty much, Hey Oscar with a five cm punk locking
[1:42:30] Speaker 1: in a sharpshooter on pin. That shit hurt my soul. Well,
[1:42:40] Speaker 1: you had to know that he wasn't gonna submit because
[1:42:42] Speaker 1: it's pin balor right, He's not gonna submit. He's gonna
[1:42:47] Speaker 1: take a pin, which is exactly what he did. DJ says,
[1:42:52] Speaker 1: are the helicopters still circling your house? Solo Triple H
[1:42:56] Speaker 1: is looking for Royce Keys? I think, oh, I have
[1:43:00] Speaker 1: not heard them today. I have not heard that, although
[1:43:05] Speaker 1: when the stream is over last night they were still
[1:43:08] Speaker 1: flying around fucking helicopters. They were probably still I would
[1:43:13] Speaker 1: say they were still buzzing around until like two am,
[1:43:17] Speaker 1: looking for what. I have no idea. Daniel says, Wow,
[1:43:22] Speaker 1: Dan Housen was in the box. Great booking. Triple H
[1:43:28] Speaker 1: dry Chicken says the Elegance brand is better than the Vision.
[1:43:40] Speaker 1: I'm not really honestly, I'm not really terribly inspired by
[1:43:44] Speaker 1: any of these groups. You can put the the MFTs
[1:43:51] Speaker 1: in there, you can put the Wyots in there. Right now,
[1:43:53] Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, is there any group at the moment,
[1:43:57] Speaker 1: Is there any active faction in any promotion right now
[1:44:04] Speaker 1: that you would look at and say, man, I'm a
[1:44:06] Speaker 1: big fan of theirs, or that group is cool. Where
[1:44:09] Speaker 1: this is the number one faction in wrestling. I mean,
[1:44:14] Speaker 1: there's so many great there's so many great talents in
[1:44:17] Speaker 1: the Don Kallis family. But I hesitate to mention the
[1:44:20] Speaker 1: Kallous family because it's just so ridiculous that there's so
[1:44:22] Speaker 1: many fucking members there. Duves VIDs. I hate the ring announcer.
[1:44:30] Speaker 1: He sounds like he's straining to take a shit. Horrible,
[1:44:34] Speaker 1: and not everyone who comes out of a box gets
[1:44:37] Speaker 1: over fail. They proved that tonight. GMB says Women's Chamber
[1:44:47] Speaker 1: missed Bianca. She is the goat in them. She's had
[1:44:50] Speaker 1: some great chamber performances. Absolutely, let's see here the mocks
[1:44:58] Speaker 1: all that. The death Riders, Oh my god, the death Riders,
[1:45:05] Speaker 1: The conglomeration. Yet No, the rascals, Yeah, the rascals are
[1:45:08] Speaker 1: pretty good. Trel Mexican, says man. The twenty twenty six
[1:45:21] Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber makes December to December look like WrestleMania is seventeen.
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: The show will be nominated as the worst pay per
[1:45:28] Speaker 1: view of twenty twenty six without question. But Solo's review
[1:45:33] Speaker 1: will not be bad at all. No, Solo's review is
[1:45:37] Speaker 1: it's never bad. Some may be better than others, but
[1:45:41] Speaker 1: it's never bad. Thank you, brother, Alexander. With the four
[1:45:48] Speaker 1: ninety nine, Cody lost the chamber and still got a
[1:45:51] Speaker 1: shot at the title. Why have the chamber match at all?
[1:45:54] Speaker 1: I'm sick of raheem. Yes, but Cody, he didn't get
[1:45:59] Speaker 1: the title match wrestle Mania though, Right, It's all about WrestleMania.
[1:46:06] Speaker 1: See that's the difference there. Paul E twenty dollars, super chat,
[1:46:14] Speaker 1: hate chat, Solo. Keep up the good work. You're the
[1:46:17] Speaker 1: main source of awesome wrestling content. Thank you, brother. When
[1:46:21] Speaker 1: is Hog coming back to Los Angeles? The plan is
[1:46:26] Speaker 1: may I know the dates? We are not announcing it
[1:46:30] Speaker 1: just yet. I will leave that up to the powers
[1:46:32] Speaker 1: that be. Yes, there are other powers that be, but
[1:46:37] Speaker 1: we're looking in May, so stay tuned. Mister Rod, with
[1:46:41] Speaker 1: all the current injuries, does this year give you WrestleMania
[1:46:45] Speaker 1: thirty two vibes? God, I hope not, because WrestleMania thirty
[1:46:48] Speaker 1: two fucking sucked. Trust me, I was there, so I
[1:46:54] Speaker 1: sure hope not. You know, these injuries and the reshuffling
[1:46:58] Speaker 1: of the card and everything they've had to do, it
[1:47:00] Speaker 1: could end up being something that actually creates I think
[1:47:04] Speaker 1: Cody even said this the other day, and he's not
[1:47:06] Speaker 1: wrong that WrestleMania can end up being a sleeper show
[1:47:09] Speaker 1: this year. But just the idea that WrestleMania would be
[1:47:14] Speaker 1: a sleeper show, like, that's wrong, you know what I mean.
[1:47:18] Speaker 1: Like WrestleMania should never be a sleeper show. That's the problem.
[1:47:23] Speaker 1: The fact that it might be a sleeper show, that's
[1:47:25] Speaker 1: a problem. Mark Kwan, Dan Housen versus Our Truth. WrestleMania
[1:47:33] Speaker 1: pre show main events. Yeah, they don't do matches on
[1:47:35] Speaker 1: the pre show anymore, though, what do you think this
[1:47:41] Speaker 1: is zero hour? Jeremy Rose, Jacob will screw Drew out
[1:47:48] Speaker 1: of the title, Cody versus Randy Jacob against Drew and
[1:47:52] Speaker 1: separate matches at WrestleMania. Also want to see Tiffany against EO. Yeah,
[1:47:57] Speaker 1: I mean that'd be a big match with nothing on
[1:48:00] Speaker 1: the line, though, what would be the impetus for it,
[1:48:04] Speaker 1: Like why would I don't know, why would Tiffany all
[1:48:07] Speaker 1: of a sudden have an issue with EO unless the
[1:48:09] Speaker 1: idea is that Tiffany is upset that Riha beat her
[1:48:12] Speaker 1: in the chamber, Like if Tiffany's going to go heal,
[1:48:18] Speaker 1: I could see that, or maybe she attacks Ria un
[1:48:21] Speaker 1: SmackDown one week and EO comes to save Ria and
[1:48:25] Speaker 1: we end up with EO against Tiffany. That I could say,
[1:48:29] Speaker 1: but to me that really it works better if Tiffany
[1:48:31] Speaker 1: goes hel Phillips says, and I'll say, all I'll say
[1:48:40] Speaker 1: is poor Dan Housen, Yeah, I think he'll be okay.
[1:48:51] Speaker 1: Chicago for MBK, ticket prices act as a barrier for
[1:48:54] Speaker 1: hotter crowds. That's definitely part of it. I've said this before,
[1:48:58] Speaker 1: like you're your price seeing out a certain segment of
[1:49:01] Speaker 1: the audience. People are still buying tickets, But who are
[1:49:04] Speaker 1: these people? And it may well be that they just
[1:49:09] Speaker 1: they don't react the same way as other fans would
[1:49:12] Speaker 1: react at these shows. Or maybe they're not as invested
[1:49:16] Speaker 1: in the product week to week, they're not following the
[1:49:18] Speaker 1: ins and outs of the product, but it's kind of
[1:49:21] Speaker 1: the hot thing to do, and so they still they
[1:49:23] Speaker 1: buy tickets to go to these wrestling shows, like I
[1:49:26] Speaker 1: don't know, but it's been a noticeable trend, usually on TV,
[1:49:29] Speaker 1: like I've noticed that on Raw and SmackDown sometimes also,
[1:49:34] Speaker 1: But for a Chicago crowd, they claim nineteen thousand people
[1:49:39] Speaker 1: in the United Center, and it sounded like less than
[1:49:43] Speaker 1: half that. It's pretty crazy. Saint James says, let's see here.
[1:49:52] Speaker 1: Do you watch it at home with a frown? I
[1:49:54] Speaker 1: watched it at D and B with my goth Puerto
[1:49:59] Speaker 1: Rican even took a photo I paid twenty dollars for.
[1:50:06] Speaker 1: M reminds me of that woman who posted that tweet
[1:50:16] Speaker 1: earlier today. Did you see that one? The cheerleader who
[1:50:20] Speaker 1: apparently was very unhappy with the photo that she took
[1:50:23] Speaker 1: with Obafemi at the whatever. The event was some kind
[1:50:26] Speaker 1: of meet and greet, I guess in Chicago, and Oba
[1:50:31] Speaker 1: is like taking a picture with her and smiling at everything,
[1:50:34] Speaker 1: and she's like, and she tagged him in it too.
[1:50:38] Speaker 1: My first and last ever meet and greed with Oba
[1:50:42] Speaker 1: Femi because he didn't do the special pose that I
[1:50:45] Speaker 1: wanted him to do. He was refusing for me and
[1:50:49] Speaker 1: everybody else. It will be my last photo with Oba Femi. Oh,
[1:50:53] Speaker 1: I'm sure he's devastated. Get the pomp pop Yes, get
[1:51:02] Speaker 1: the pomp poms. It's okay. I'm sure she could see
[1:51:09] Speaker 1: a therapist. She'll be okay. She'll find a way, she'll
[1:51:12] Speaker 1: find a way to go on, She'll find a support group.
[1:51:17] Speaker 1: As long as she has a good support system, I
[1:51:19] Speaker 1: think she'll be okay. Z omg Ruler is wwe trying
[1:51:27] Speaker 1: to suck on purpose? They are trolling us? Alexander Jim
[1:51:39] Speaker 1: Cornett said that anyone that comes out of a box
[1:51:42] Speaker 1: is instantly over. We now have proof for the first
[1:51:45] Speaker 1: time that and I quote Maury that was a lie.
[1:51:55] Speaker 1: Jeremy says, why won't Why don't wwe have the Royal
[1:51:58] Speaker 1: Rumble winner declare who they picked during the raw after
[1:52:01] Speaker 1: the elimination chamber would make the chamber less predictable and
[1:52:05] Speaker 1: make that raw more entertaining. Isn't that where Roman did?
[1:52:11] Speaker 1: I mean they're not gonna do it with I mean
[1:52:13] Speaker 1: they might do it with one, but not the other
[1:52:15] Speaker 1: because they want to drag it out. They want to
[1:52:18] Speaker 1: drag it out, that's the whole purpose of it. They
[1:52:20] Speaker 1: want to keep people guessing. They want to, you know,
[1:52:24] Speaker 1: play it out in some sort of angle on TV.
[1:52:26] Speaker 1: Who are they gonna choose? Oh, I'm gonna show up
[1:52:29] Speaker 1: on the other show next week. I'm gonna scout the
[1:52:31] Speaker 1: other as if they don't know who the other fucking
[1:52:33] Speaker 1: champion is and they haven't been watching them on television
[1:52:35] Speaker 1: for five fucking years. I'm gonna go scout the champion, like,
[1:52:38] Speaker 1: get the fuck out of here. That's nonsense. Uh, Nick,
[1:52:45] Speaker 1: I would boot Dan Housen too if I paid what
[1:52:48] Speaker 1: people in Chicago paid and he came out and did
[1:52:50] Speaker 1: a shitty dance. Yes, but you know what those people
[1:52:53] Speaker 1: paid for, exactly what they paid for. They had to
[1:52:56] Speaker 1: know what they were going to get. I don't have
[1:53:00] Speaker 1: any sympathy for them at this point. You really, I mean,
[1:53:04] Speaker 1: you got to be pretty dumb to not know what
[1:53:06] Speaker 1: you're gonna get when you pay for these chefs, Like
[1:53:10] Speaker 1: you have a big enough sample size now to draw
[1:53:15] Speaker 1: from where you kind of know what to expect here, right,
[1:53:17] Speaker 1: You're not You're probably not gonna get anything terribly extraordinary
[1:53:21] Speaker 1: unless you get like a great match. I'm talking like
[1:53:23] Speaker 1: in terms of like a big angle or something like that.
[1:53:26] Speaker 1: Like it's pretty fucking rare. They play it very very
[1:53:30] Speaker 1: safe and very very cautious most of the time. Can't
[1:53:39] Speaker 1: really say, oh, I was expecting something else. Bender mc simpson,
[1:53:46] Speaker 1: buyer sell Alexa Bliss is a heel or a babyface spoiler.
[1:53:51] Speaker 1: Both answers are correct. Alexa Bliss as a heel a
[1:53:58] Speaker 1: wall Oba needs the Brock push and win the belt
[1:54:01] Speaker 1: at SummerSlam. It's fine with me. I think the Brock
[1:54:08] Speaker 1: push actually worked very well for Brock. Jeremy says Punk
[1:54:13] Speaker 1: just called Roman rusty rains on the post show because
[1:54:17] Speaker 1: he never wrestles Lol. Has a response to Roman, tweeting
[1:54:20] Speaker 1: how the crowd and Punk look tired. I mentioned that,
[1:54:25] Speaker 1: say I wasn't the only one to make that observation.
[1:54:27] Speaker 1: I'm not just pulling the shit out of my ass.
[1:54:34] Speaker 1: Thank you, Jeremy shapey ninety nine with the ten spot,
[1:54:38] Speaker 1: Well we got googered tonight. How does lesnar logan theory
[1:54:42] Speaker 1: versus seth La and Javon sound for WrestleMania. That sounds
[1:54:48] Speaker 1: pretty terrible as far as a Brock Lesner match goes
[1:54:51] Speaker 1: he has an open challenge out, So you mean his
[1:54:53] Speaker 1: open challenge is going to turn into a six man tag.
[1:54:58] Speaker 1: I mean, I think the other stuff, all this stuff
[1:55:00] Speaker 1: is fine. Could always plug a bron breaker in there
[1:55:04] Speaker 1: if he comes back early enough, But no Brock should
[1:55:07] Speaker 1: I have anything to do with that death side. I
[1:55:14] Speaker 1: have a song recommendation for everyone, damon En by Stallman.
[1:55:21] Speaker 1: Such a badass song, and it could easily be Gunther's
[1:55:24] Speaker 1: new theme song. And it's a lot better than most
[1:55:26] Speaker 1: of def Rebel's material. All right, well, there it is
[1:55:33] Speaker 1: d A m O n e n by Stallman s
[1:55:37] Speaker 1: t a h l m A n N. For the
[1:55:43] Speaker 1: people who end up listening to this, that's that's the song.
[1:55:51] Speaker 1: Stephen Harper, Stephen, thank you for the twenty So were
[1:55:56] Speaker 1: the dancing Danhausen girls shipped separately or were they all
[1:56:00] Speaker 1: quished together inside the one crate? I feel like this
[1:56:02] Speaker 1: is an important question that demands an answer. That is
[1:56:06] Speaker 1: actually a very good question. I would think that the
[1:56:09] Speaker 1: coffin was a portal to another dimension, that whatever dimension
[1:56:14] Speaker 1: it is that he's from, and so when the door
[1:56:17] Speaker 1: swung open, they were entering from a totally different dimension.
[1:56:24] Speaker 1: Either that or it's just like some of these terrible
[1:56:26] Speaker 1: stories you hear about where people are just trying to
[1:56:28] Speaker 1: get away from some you know, war torn country or something,
[1:56:32] Speaker 1: and they'll just all kind of squish together in some
[1:56:35] Speaker 1: sort of shipping container and sail the high seas until
[1:56:40] Speaker 1: they land somewhere. I don't know. Maybe that's what was
[1:56:42] Speaker 1: going on here with the crate. I have no idea.
[1:56:44] Speaker 1: I counted at least six different women, plus Dan Housen
[1:56:48] Speaker 1: would be seven. That's a lot of bodies Chicago for
[1:56:55] Speaker 1: MBK tired of the www you I think he meant
[1:57:01] Speaker 1: WWE gate money brags, fleecing fans bs. They've been bragging
[1:57:09] Speaker 1: about this shit for the last couple of years, and
[1:57:12] Speaker 1: every time they would do it, and they would have,
[1:57:14] Speaker 1: like the ring announcer announced it in the middle of
[1:57:16] Speaker 1: the ring and everybody would cheer. I just I just
[1:57:19] Speaker 1: sit here and laugh. Nothing funny about that. We'll be
[1:57:27] Speaker 1: hearing that at WrestleMania, Yeah, but I just laugh. It's like,
[1:57:33] Speaker 1: oh yeah, we helped you set the gate record, clapping
[1:57:38] Speaker 1: like seals Boots. Oh man, we're only first getting to
[1:57:45] Speaker 1: the first bomb, Boots, thank you for that. One hundred
[1:57:48] Speaker 1: dollars bomb. We have got or Whizzle Cody Drew Orton
[1:57:56] Speaker 1: and fought to four way elimination on Night one. Yeah.
[1:57:59] Speaker 1: I mean, if you're gonna do it, you can make
[1:58:00] Speaker 1: it an elimination match. But are they going to want
[1:58:03] Speaker 1: to do that? Yeah? They're very protective of people. They
[1:58:06] Speaker 1: don't like to put them in a situation where they
[1:58:09] Speaker 1: have to be eliminated, even though that's really what the
[1:58:11] Speaker 1: elimination chamber is. I'm just saying, though, are they going
[1:58:15] Speaker 1: to want to do something like that? I'd love to
[1:58:19] Speaker 1: see it. Holiday one ninety seven says, Hey, Solo, it's
[1:58:22] Speaker 1: pretty clear we're getting a fatal four way between Drew Orton, Cody,
[1:58:25] Speaker 1: and Fatu for the title. Who would be your choice
[1:58:28] Speaker 1: to walk out the winner of that match? It is
[1:58:32] Speaker 1: not predictable. It's not Drew and it's not Cody. So
[1:58:42] Speaker 1: for me, it would be Orton only Orton it because
[1:58:45] Speaker 1: the story is there with Cody and maybe somebody turns
[1:58:49] Speaker 1: in that situation. Maybe Orton ends up turning, But really
[1:58:53] Speaker 1: I would love for it to be Fa Tou. I'd
[1:58:55] Speaker 1: love to get some new blood in there. I think
[1:58:57] Speaker 1: Jacob would be would be a great choice. So I'm
[1:59:01] Speaker 1: kind of torn story wise Orton, but I'd love to
[1:59:04] Speaker 1: see fa two take it. You really want to shake
[1:59:09] Speaker 1: things up there, you go get a new face in there. Julian.
[1:59:15] Speaker 1: What's going on? Julian nineteen ninety nine. First Chicago show tonight.
[1:59:19] Speaker 1: Crowd felt hot in patches, but not as molten as
[1:59:22] Speaker 1: I expected. Just booked Hog in Vegas, hoping to finally
[1:59:27] Speaker 1: say hello and make up for missing you for drinks
[1:59:29] Speaker 1: and Nola at Wrestle MAINI at thirty four. That was
[1:59:33] Speaker 1: a fun mania. Actually, both New Orleans manias were very fun.
[1:59:37] Speaker 1: I was really looking forward to it being back there
[1:59:40] Speaker 1: this year. I'd be going. I mean, I guess I
[1:59:42] Speaker 1: am going to Vegas. But anyway, yes, I am planning
[1:59:47] Speaker 1: on being there. I should probably book my travel if
[1:59:49] Speaker 1: that's the case. I have not done that yet. I'm
[1:59:52] Speaker 1: a little scared too, but yes, I am looking forward
[1:59:58] Speaker 1: to it. Hopefully, h we will all be able to
[2:00:01] Speaker 1: see each other. I got a lot of people who
[2:00:03] Speaker 1: are gonna be coming out for that show. It's gonna
[2:00:06] Speaker 1: be a good time. I'll be able to get in
[2:00:10] Speaker 1: and then get out the next day so I can
[2:00:13] Speaker 1: make it back here in time. To do all of
[2:00:15] Speaker 1: the live reviews for WrestleMania that weekend, because that is
[2:00:17] Speaker 1: going to be a very busy weekend and I need
[2:00:22] Speaker 1: to be here. Julian, thank you, man I appreciate that.
[2:00:26] Speaker 1: Hopefully we will make that happen, Manu. The Vision's massed
[2:00:35] Speaker 1: attacker is Andrade. He jumps ship again. Hey, if anybody
[2:00:39] Speaker 1: could pull it off, it's Andrade. The way he's gone
[2:00:42] Speaker 1: back and forth. I don't want him in the Vision though.
[2:00:46] Speaker 1: I don't want him in the Vision. I don't want
[2:00:47] Speaker 1: him attacking the Vision. I don't want him to have
[2:00:50] Speaker 1: anything to do with the Vision. I like what he's
[2:00:52] Speaker 1: doing right now. Jeremy says, who do you think Penta face?
[2:01:01] Speaker 1: Is it WrestleMania as champion? I see champion or if
[2:01:06] Speaker 1: he loses, I think Oba is facing Brock, So La
[2:01:09] Speaker 1: Night is free. That's my thought. Yeah, all depends on
[2:01:16] Speaker 1: whether or not he wins that title on Monday Night.
[2:01:20] Speaker 1: I could see some sort of multiman Intercontinental title match
[2:01:24] Speaker 1: if he wins it. If he doesn't, I don't see
[2:01:30] Speaker 1: La Night against Penta. I don't see La Night against
[2:01:33] Speaker 1: Penta in any situation. Andrews says, terminator or terminator to
[2:01:41] Speaker 1: Judgment Day Terminator two retro KOA. Dan Housen will be
[2:01:50] Speaker 1: the new Boogeyman. A couple of matches and random cameos
[2:01:52] Speaker 1: and that's it. Well, Boogeyman has made a whole career
[2:01:55] Speaker 1: out of it. They still bring him back for special appearances.
[2:02:01] Speaker 1: I think dan Housen would probably be pretty happy with that.
[2:02:07] Speaker 1: Jeremy says, why does WWE think they can unveil dan
[2:02:11] Speaker 1: Housen like this, knowing their audience has no idea who
[2:02:13] Speaker 1: he is. They are so arrogant and dumb. I got nothing.
[2:02:23] Speaker 1: I got nothing for you. I got nothing to dispute
[2:02:24] Speaker 1: what you just said. Boots with another one hundred that
[2:02:27] Speaker 1: war bomb. Dan Housen new leader of the MFTs. Once
[2:02:31] Speaker 1: they kick Solo Socoha out, you want him in the
[2:02:33] Speaker 1: MFT vortex. Why would you do that to dan Housen?
[2:02:42] Speaker 1: You do you hate him that much? You would put
[2:02:46] Speaker 1: him with the MFTs. Maybe he'll put a curse on
[2:02:51] Speaker 1: the MFTs. Ah, you know what. The idea that I've
[2:02:54] Speaker 1: pitched before where you turn the MFTs the long term
[2:02:59] Speaker 1: plan is to turn them in to a bumbling babyface faction.
[2:03:03] Speaker 1: Because I know this could work, but maybe it all
[2:03:06] Speaker 1: begins with Dan Housen putting a curse on the MFTs.
[2:03:11] Speaker 1: And once he puts a curse on the MFTs, everything
[2:03:13] Speaker 1: starts going wrong. They lose their tag team titles. They
[2:03:15] Speaker 1: finally lose the lantern for good back to Uncle Howdie.
[2:03:19] Speaker 1: They start losing all their matches. These weird little final
[2:03:23] Speaker 1: destination type accidents start happening to them tripping over themselves.
[2:03:30] Speaker 1: Dan Housen putting a curse on them could be the
[2:03:32] Speaker 1: beginning of all that. You may be onto something there,
[2:03:36] Speaker 1: Jeremy says. Entrances were long. Imagine if Jay was there,
[2:03:39] Speaker 1: Oh my god, oh my god, he'd still be eating
[2:03:44] Speaker 1: in the chamber. Mikayla safe to say, La Knight is
[2:03:52] Speaker 1: cooked after tonight, cooked in charred all along the sides,
[2:04:01] Speaker 1: well done. You might say, Toya ain't. And I says,
[2:04:08] Speaker 1: I'm just waiting on the unreal episode of Who came
[2:04:10] Speaker 1: up with the Great Idea? Yeah? I have an idea?
[2:04:15] Speaker 1: Who that was? Shytown? Smart? Jesse says, I'll see you
[2:04:22] Speaker 1: on Friday here in Chicago. I'm looking forward to it.
[2:04:27] Speaker 1: Takla Jesse, it's Tecla. Tecla won't be on the show,
[2:04:30] Speaker 1: but we got. We got a lot of other people
[2:04:33] Speaker 1: who are going to be on the show. It's gonna
[2:04:34] Speaker 1: be good. William Lopez. I had to have a toothpole
[2:04:40] Speaker 1: that the dentist the other day. I would rather go
[2:04:42] Speaker 1: through that again than ever rewatch the show. Well. I
[2:04:48] Speaker 1: would also imagine that having the toothpole didn't take nearly
[2:04:51] Speaker 1: as long as the show did. Actually, I would wager
[2:04:53] Speaker 1: a bet that having your toothpole didn't take as long
[2:04:55] Speaker 1: as the entrances for the main event took. Retro says
[2:05:02] Speaker 1: my bike broke down three times this weekend. It was
[2:05:05] Speaker 1: a Honda Vision. Visions are truly cursed right now. I'm
[2:05:09] Speaker 1: sorry to hear that. Michael Michael bs Hayes. I like that.
[2:05:21] Speaker 1: I like that name better Michael bs Hayes. Funky Weapons
[2:05:28] Speaker 1: says fucking Dan Hausen. Really no, I have never fucked
[2:05:34] Speaker 1: Dan Hausen before, but thank you for the super chat
[2:05:39] Speaker 1: we got. B Just B says, what the fuck is
[2:05:43] Speaker 1: a Dan Hausen? It's kind of complicated. I don't really
[2:05:50] Speaker 1: know how to explain it to you. Bender mc simpson,
[2:05:54] Speaker 1: You're not alone. Twenty minute entrances are great for Twitter clips,
[2:05:58] Speaker 1: but they ruin the match and the fans they catered
[2:06:01] Speaker 1: to don't care about the match. Oh that was very
[2:06:03] Speaker 1: evident watching this show tonight. They didn't really give a
[2:06:08] Speaker 1: single solitary shit about that match until the last two minutes.
[2:06:14] Speaker 1: Bass Beer says Dan Housen attacked FA two like the
[2:06:17] Speaker 1: rock Tooth Fairy. He does collect teeth and jars. That
[2:06:27] Speaker 1: is true, Javeli, this is mark twenty two years ago.
[2:06:36] Speaker 1: WWE did an original album? Did you buy it? I heard?
[2:06:40] Speaker 1: I heard it and favorite song? My favorite is we Lie,
[2:06:44] Speaker 1: Cheat and Steal, Eddie and Chavo. They did an original album.
[2:06:51] Speaker 1: Which album was that? They've released a lot of albums.
[2:06:55] Speaker 1: If it was one of their like WWE the Music
[2:06:59] Speaker 1: Volume one, then yeah, I heard it, but I don't
[2:07:02] Speaker 1: have the I don't have the track. You should have
[2:07:04] Speaker 1: included some of the tracks for me. I can't give
[2:07:09] Speaker 1: you an answer because I don't I don't have all
[2:07:10] Speaker 1: the songs listed in front of me. But yeah, I
[2:07:12] Speaker 1: would have definitely listened to it. Uh. Super Pony says
[2:07:16] Speaker 1: I love Drew. Holy shit, his title reign has been awful,
[2:07:20] Speaker 1: worst one since I can't even remember. Also, La Night
[2:07:24] Speaker 1: has done mid Card for Life. Yeah, this was not
[2:07:27] Speaker 1: a good Night for La Night. This was not a
[2:07:31] Speaker 1: good night for La Night. Funky Weapon. Top three favorite
[2:07:39] Speaker 1: themes currently on the roster? Hmmm, what are my top
[2:07:50] Speaker 1: three favorite themes? I think Cody might be one of them, honestly,
[2:07:55] Speaker 1: I like Cody's theme. Yeah, I like OBUs theme. Uh.
[2:08:06] Speaker 1: What are my top favorite themes? Mmmm? Man, I don't know.
[2:08:17] Speaker 1: There aren't a lot of great ones unfortunately. Trick Williams. Yeah,
[2:08:22] Speaker 1: I like Trick Williams. I'll put Tricks on there. Uh,
[2:08:28] Speaker 1: Anti m Bishop. The WWE title needs an Armageddon Helen,
[2:08:32] Speaker 1: a cell match of media. Hell. Throw Nick Aldos in there.
[2:08:37] Speaker 1: Great Stream, Yeah, let's just throw everybody in there. Let's
[2:08:39] Speaker 1: throw Dan Housen in there too. I think Dan Housen
[2:08:43] Speaker 1: should be in there. Put Ilia Dragonov in there. Kit Wilson, Oh,
[2:08:54] Speaker 1: you're talking about the music still. Oh yeah, now we're
[2:08:57] Speaker 1: not putting We're not putting Kit Wilson's music on the
[2:08:59] Speaker 1: list of top three themes in ww What are you?
[2:09:01] Speaker 1: What do your mind? You've got to be trolling me.
[2:09:08] Speaker 1: Kit Wilson, Abistle Zones, Knight, and Balor both slipped on
[2:09:17] Speaker 1: the same spot. Actually it was the same corner. You're right,
[2:09:21] Speaker 1: it was that it was that far right corner Holiday
[2:09:28] Speaker 1: one ninety seven. I'm thinking that they should put the
[2:09:31] Speaker 1: WWE title women's title on Rhea Ripley a WrestleMania. It'll
[2:09:37] Speaker 1: shake up the women's scene on SmackDown. If Jade retains,
[2:09:40] Speaker 1: they'll keep it on her until Bianca is ready to return.
[2:09:44] Speaker 1: That's what I am thinking that they will do if
[2:09:48] Speaker 1: they have some sense that Bianca might be back not
[2:09:50] Speaker 1: long after Mania. I don't know. She's still really early
[2:09:56] Speaker 1: in her rehab, so I don't know. I don't know
[2:09:59] Speaker 1: where things stand with her. Rudy, thank you for the
[2:10:03] Speaker 1: dollar ninety nine and then a four ninety nine. What
[2:10:06] Speaker 1: if Cody gets screwed on Friday again? How many times
[2:10:11] Speaker 1: is this man gonna be screwed? My god? I hope
[2:10:16] Speaker 1: he uses lube. What if Cody gets screwed on Friday
[2:10:21] Speaker 1: which leads to a Drew versus Cody four Stages of
[2:10:25] Speaker 1: Hell match at rest? I feel like I'm in the
[2:10:28] Speaker 1: seventh circle of Hell at this point. Super Pony off topic,
[2:10:34] Speaker 1: but the two k ratings are an absolute joke. Nicky
[2:10:37] Speaker 1: Bella has a higher rating than Kevin Owens and aj Style.
[2:10:41] Speaker 1: Is that true? Does Nicky Bella have a higher rating
[2:10:46] Speaker 1: than AJ Styles. Like that that's enough reason right there,
[2:10:52] Speaker 1: just to boycott the entire game. Colin says, the dan
[2:11:01] Speaker 1: Housen debut felt like something from a WCW pay per
[2:11:05] Speaker 1: view in nineteen ninety four. It felt like you go
[2:11:10] Speaker 1: back even earlier than that. It felt like the debut
[2:11:12] Speaker 1: of Oz the Great Oz. Remember Kevin Nash is OZ
[2:11:16] Speaker 1: in WCW. Dan Housen is in eighty nine in two
[2:11:24] Speaker 1: K twenty six. How is NICKI Bella rated higher than
[2:11:28] Speaker 1: I would love to know the justification for that? Like
[2:11:32] Speaker 1: Kevin Owens, can I can? I don't know me he
[2:11:35] Speaker 1: missed most of the year. I guess I could kind
[2:11:37] Speaker 1: of even even that's ridiculous, But like AJ Styles, how
[2:11:41] Speaker 1: do you figure that? Like, I don't understand that. This
[2:11:43] Speaker 1: doesn't make any sense? How do they calculate these ratings?
[2:11:49] Speaker 1: San Juan Wolf based on how dull tonight was, I
[2:11:52] Speaker 1: have low expectations for WrestleMania if things are not looking great,
[2:11:55] Speaker 1: but that is to be expected at this point. I mean, look,
[2:12:00] Speaker 1: you try to look for a silver lining where you can,
[2:12:02] Speaker 1: but I mean this WrestleMania build so far and we
[2:12:05] Speaker 1: still got seven weeks, but it has not been great.
[2:12:11] Speaker 1: It has not been great at all. Retro Koh, the
[2:12:15] Speaker 1: Death Riders are somehow the best group in wrestling today
[2:12:18] Speaker 1: in terms of booking and relevance. What a horrific timeline
[2:12:22] Speaker 1: we are in. It's pretty horrific. Bobby means, could you
[2:12:28] Speaker 1: see Keana James vying for that women's US title? She's
[2:12:31] Speaker 1: come a long way and the crowd is getting behind her. Yeah,
[2:12:34] Speaker 1: I could see her. I think again, that title is
[2:12:36] Speaker 1: tailor made for someone like her, so at some point
[2:12:41] Speaker 1: in the not too distant future. I mean I wouldn't
[2:12:43] Speaker 1: put it on her immediately, but yes, yes, I think
[2:12:47] Speaker 1: that she will likely be wearing gold at some point
[2:12:52] Speaker 1: by the summertime. I would say buyer before the summer.
[2:12:58] Speaker 1: Prince Begeta says Michael Cole is very unbearable. The way
[2:13:03] Speaker 1: he was verbally creaming his pants about Rains and Punk
[2:13:05] Speaker 1: being the biggest thing ever. I had to put the
[2:13:08] Speaker 1: TV on mute. Well, that's his job. His job is
[2:13:15] Speaker 1: to sell the match because it's the only solid fucking
[2:13:18] Speaker 1: match they even have on that card right now, so
[2:13:21] Speaker 1: he has to go all out and act like it's
[2:13:24] Speaker 1: the greatest thing ever. That's seven more weeks of that.
[2:13:28] Speaker 1: By the way, Death Side says, HBK lost his smile
[2:13:35] Speaker 1: and ended up with a real injury. Seth Rollins faked
[2:13:38] Speaker 1: an injury and ended up with a real injury. Morale, morale, moral,
[2:13:45] Speaker 1: moral of the story. Don't fake an injury? Are you
[2:13:51] Speaker 1: implying that Sean Michaels did not have a bum knee
[2:13:54] Speaker 1: back in nineteen ninety seven, as Brett Hard has suggested,
[2:13:59] Speaker 1: is that what I'm hearing suggest? Ryan Hood, Hey, Angie,
[2:14:06] Speaker 1: welcome to the channel. Look at all the great stuff
[2:14:10] Speaker 1: that you've missed. Ryan says, Any chance Vince McMahon is
[2:14:14] Speaker 1: secretly involved in creative? Is there a chance? Well, yes,
[2:14:19] Speaker 1: apparently his avatar is still there, as Ronda Rousey called
[2:14:24] Speaker 1: him once. As long as Bruce is working in creative,
[2:14:26] Speaker 1: then Vince will always have a pipeline. I mean he
[2:14:29] Speaker 1: has one with Triple H, but he will always have
[2:14:32] Speaker 1: a pipeline to WWE creative if he wants to poke
[2:14:36] Speaker 1: his head. So I can't sit here and tell you
[2:14:39] Speaker 1: that there's no chance, because there absolutely is a chance.
[2:14:42] Speaker 1: Do I think he's actively involved in creative? No? I don't.
[2:14:48] Speaker 1: Death's Side Hopefully, if we get Obafemi answering brock Lesner's
[2:14:51] Speaker 1: open challenger Wrestlemani of forty two. I hope it is
[2:14:55] Speaker 1: a lot like the match that Brock had with Goldberg
[2:14:58] Speaker 1: and wrestle Mani at thirty three, A short action pack sprint,
[2:15:03] Speaker 1: but with Oba going over What are your thoughts? I
[2:15:06] Speaker 1: think that would be great. I think that's exactly the
[2:15:08] Speaker 1: way that I would book it. Oba goes over Mystic
[2:15:16] Speaker 1: Jay with Ria facing Jade. Where does this leave EO?
[2:15:20] Speaker 1: Maybe a feud with Oscar over Kyrie and just for
[2:15:24] Speaker 1: the hell of it, throwing the US title with Julia Well,
[2:15:27] Speaker 1: I mean, if it's not Tiffany and uh, I think
[2:15:31] Speaker 1: it was somebody asked about Tiffany or what was it
[2:15:33] Speaker 1: to Tiffany Ideo, Tiffany Anddeo. You know what, you could
[2:15:37] Speaker 1: definitely make a story out of Tiffany IDEO, But I
[2:15:39] Speaker 1: just feel like it works better if Tiffany went heel,
[2:15:44] Speaker 1: you know, because she's just very upset that Rhea beat
[2:15:47] Speaker 1: her in the elimination chamber and goes after Rhea. Then
[2:15:52] Speaker 1: EO has a reason to go after Tiffany and then boom,
[2:15:54] Speaker 1: get your match made. Maybe forty one. Congrats to aj
[2:16:01] Speaker 1: Seth Rollins for a husband of the year. Seth Rollins
[2:16:08] Speaker 1: for a husband of the year. Why what did he do?
[2:16:14] Speaker 1: His wife lost tonight? He was in the building. He
[2:16:17] Speaker 1: didn't even help his wife. How does that make him
[2:16:21] Speaker 1: a husband of the year, Jeremy Rose. Imagine how Trick
[2:16:27] Speaker 1: felt being in that pod watching all those entrances. They
[2:16:31] Speaker 1: definitely let Randy enter the pod last because he was
[2:16:34] Speaker 1: like fuck that death Site says, if Drew loses on SmackDown,
[2:16:40] Speaker 1: then he's about to go through his own and then
[2:16:44] Speaker 1: the message cuts off his own What Ryan Hood says,
[2:16:49] Speaker 1: Rikishi attack Jay. He did it for the rock and
[2:16:57] Speaker 1: that would be one hell of a story, wouldn't not.
[2:17:03] Speaker 1: We have a death sithe five stages of grief first
[2:17:09] Speaker 1: stage anger, second stage anger, third stage anger, fourth stage
[2:17:16] Speaker 1: uncontrollable seething rage, fifth stage repeat stages one through four,
[2:17:23] Speaker 1: Around and around it goes, and now you leave My
[2:17:29] Speaker 1: friend JD Alone SMG Gobi Fat two versus Sammy is
[2:17:36] Speaker 1: the play at Mania. I think sadly Fat two and Sammy, Yeah,
[2:17:43] Speaker 1: I mean, I guess they kind of planted a potential
[2:17:45] Speaker 1: seed for that on SmackDown last night. I don't know, man,
[2:17:50] Speaker 1: that match. It depends on the story. Right now, I'm
[2:17:57] Speaker 1: not feeling that I want I want Fat two in there.
[2:18:01] Speaker 1: Mario Tremayne Willingham. My birthday is February twenty ninth, So today,
[2:18:07] Speaker 1: March first, is my official birth Yeah. That is weird,
[2:18:09] Speaker 1: isn't it? Like if you were born on a leap year,
[2:18:13] Speaker 1: you're kind of fucked right, Like this year there is
[2:18:18] Speaker 1: no February twenty ninth, so technically you have no birthday
[2:18:23] Speaker 1: this year. It's like you were never born. It's kind
[2:18:27] Speaker 1: of weird. But anyway, he says, so today is my
[2:18:32] Speaker 1: official birthday. I love your streams. Keep doing what you
[2:18:36] Speaker 1: do well, even though it's technically natural birthday. I will
[2:18:39] Speaker 1: wish you a very happy birthday. That's actually it's that's
[2:18:42] Speaker 1: actually kind of cool that you were born on a
[2:18:45] Speaker 1: day of the year that doesn't even exist every single year.
[2:18:51] Speaker 1: Happy birthday, brother, SMG Kobe Sammy is who they will
[2:18:56] Speaker 1: pin attacking Jacob on earlier? What about Jay? Did he
[2:19:02] Speaker 1: attack J two? Is that the play here? DJ Blind
[2:19:10] Speaker 1: Dan Hausen is s Fenguli if you know, you know
[2:19:17] Speaker 1: and SMG Kobe Drew can either face all this or well.
[2:19:24] Speaker 1: And if you're gonna do that. You can't do Becky
[2:19:26] Speaker 1: Lynch then against Jessica Carr. Now we're getting a little
[2:19:29] Speaker 1: ridiculous here. You're gonna have Becky Lynch against a referee
[2:19:31] Speaker 1: and then Drew against the general manager. But he says,
[2:19:35] Speaker 1: Drew can either face all this or Randy and Cody
[2:19:38] Speaker 1: in a three way. I still think you include Fat
[2:19:43] Speaker 1: two in there in a four way, but I guess
[2:19:45] Speaker 1: you could always do Fat two in Sammy's ay, maybe
[2:19:47] Speaker 1: that is the match. Maybe that is the match for Sammy.
[2:19:56] Speaker 1: I don't know, man. They got seven weeks to figure
[2:19:58] Speaker 1: this shit out, and we got a title match on Friday.
[2:20:02] Speaker 1: Let's see what happens with the title match. That will
[2:20:05] Speaker 1: definitely answer some questions here, Super Pony more awful ratings.
[2:20:12] Speaker 1: Angle is in eighty seven. Uncle Howdie is in eighty eight.
[2:20:19] Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Mikey says, did you see Scream seven? Thoughts
[2:20:26] Speaker 1: if you did? I have not seen it. I have
[2:20:28] Speaker 1: not seen it. We were talking a little bit about
[2:20:30] Speaker 1: it last night because I know it's gotten some not
[2:20:32] Speaker 1: so not so great reviews, but no, I have not
[2:20:37] Speaker 1: seen it yet. I'm sure I will at some point.
[2:20:40] Speaker 1: I was actually thinking about going to the theater to
[2:20:42] Speaker 1: see it, but now I've been scared off, so I
[2:20:47] Speaker 1: just as expensive as it is these days to go
[2:20:50] Speaker 1: to the movies, I would much rather put that money
[2:20:52] Speaker 1: towards Street Fighter, Masters of the Universe, and the other
[2:21:00] Speaker 1: was it two or three movies I think that are
[2:21:01] Speaker 1: coming out this year street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Toy Story,
[2:21:09] Speaker 1: and Masters of the Universe, and then wait for Scream
[2:21:14] Speaker 1: to hit streaming. I think that might be the play
[2:21:20] Speaker 1: bad reviews, but big box. So yeah, well, I said,
[2:21:23] Speaker 1: I think it did forty million domestically in its first weekend.
[2:21:26] Speaker 1: So no matter what you think about Scream seven, clearly
[2:21:29] Speaker 1: there's going to be Scream eight as long as those
[2:21:33] Speaker 1: things make money. Oh god Zella, Yes, that's right, that's right.
[2:21:37] Speaker 1: Somebody did mention Godzilla minus zero and then they joked,
[2:21:41] Speaker 1: they said, wrestle Mania is here is a wrestle Mania
[2:21:43] Speaker 1: minus zero. I said, you know what you're bang on
[2:21:47] Speaker 1: with that? You got wrestle MAINI it's not WrestleMania forty
[2:21:49] Speaker 1: two this year, it's WrestleMania minus zero. Kind of feels
[2:21:54] Speaker 1: that way, Coyote versus Acme. That's not coming out though,
[2:22:00] Speaker 1: is it. Yeah? When is that coming out? That movie
[2:22:04] Speaker 1: wasn't even supposed to see the light of day and
[2:22:07] Speaker 1: then it got saved. But I wasn't aware there was
[2:22:11] Speaker 1: an actual release date attached to it. But if it's
[2:22:17] Speaker 1: coming out this year, yeah, I'll definitely see that. Death
[2:22:21] Speaker 1: site says buy or sell Randy Savage's long term Mega
[2:22:24] Speaker 1: Power storyline with Hogan or his short term feud with Jake.
[2:22:30] Speaker 1: The Megapower storyline with Hogan. But the storyline with Jake
[2:22:34] Speaker 1: is one of my all time favorites. Also, It just
[2:22:37] Speaker 1: it didn't have the box office or the longevity that
[2:22:42] Speaker 1: the Mega Powers one did, so I can't rank it
[2:22:45] Speaker 1: above that one. But those are those right there are
[2:22:48] Speaker 1: the ones that you just named. Those are two of
[2:22:49] Speaker 1: my all time favorites. Not a shock that match was
[2:22:54] Speaker 1: in both of them. He was great, all right? Well,
[2:22:59] Speaker 1: the let me bring up the wheel. What was the
[2:23:01] Speaker 1: goal of for twenty? Oh my god, I think we
[2:23:04] Speaker 1: crushed that nine to sixteen. We might actually, I don't know.
[2:23:11] Speaker 1: It's gonna be up to you guys, but we might
[2:23:12] Speaker 1: actually be able to hit a thousand before we get
[2:23:14] Speaker 1: out of here. It's gonna be close. We still have
[2:23:19] Speaker 1: eighty five more to go, but it is possible. But
[2:23:25] Speaker 1: let's go ahead and be the booker, shall we. Ladies
[2:23:28] Speaker 1: and gentlemen, It is now time to be the booker.
[2:23:34] Speaker 1: You know, I don't remember now if Dan Housen is
[2:23:36] Speaker 1: to be the booker. If he's not, I may have
[2:23:37] Speaker 1: to add him in here. Now. We may have to
[2:23:40] Speaker 1: get Dan Housen in here, all right, coyote versus actme.
[2:23:43] Speaker 1: August twenty eighth. How about that? I did not know that. Okay,
[2:23:49] Speaker 1: it be a busy year for me at the movies.
[2:23:53] Speaker 1: I haven't seen this many if I see all of
[2:23:55] Speaker 1: these movies, I don't think I've been to the movies
[2:23:58] Speaker 1: to see that many movies in a single years since
[2:24:04] Speaker 1: maybe I was in high school. Maybe and I already
[2:24:08] Speaker 1: went to go see that other movie in four D
[2:24:12] Speaker 1: X send Help, that Sam Raimi movie Send Help. That
[2:24:18] Speaker 1: was the first one I saw this year. Hey, Mega,
[2:24:23] Speaker 1: mister Joker just became a sound off superstar. Thank you. Yes.
[2:24:28] Speaker 1: Channel memberships are always open and welcome, and you get
[2:24:32] Speaker 1: access to all the emojis in the live chat and
[2:24:34] Speaker 1: the comments. You can gift memberships to people as well
[2:24:38] Speaker 1: helps the channel, and they're randomly assigned always puts a
[2:24:43] Speaker 1: smile on someone's face, including mine. All Right, here we go.
[2:24:47] Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you know what puts a smile on my face?
[2:24:49] Speaker 1: These two guys. You know, so far this year we
[2:24:53] Speaker 1: have Stephanie McMahon and we have aj Styles in the
[2:24:57] Speaker 1: WWE Hall of Fame, and with any luck, these two
[2:25:00] Speaker 1: will end up on that same list. Acts and Smash.
[2:25:05] Speaker 1: Demolition always a good way to kick off Be the Booker.
[2:25:10] Speaker 1: Demolition against the Creeds, Julius and Brutus. I'm gonna give
[2:25:21] Speaker 1: it a bell even though the Creeds have done absolutely
[2:25:26] Speaker 1: fuck all this year. Demolition and the Creeds closest we'll
[2:25:35] Speaker 1: ever get, I guess to demolition Steiner Brothers type match.
[2:25:42] Speaker 1: All right, Women's be the Booker. I made some changes today.
[2:25:45] Speaker 1: Today was update day for Women's Be the book I
[2:25:47] Speaker 1: did Men's the other day and the tag teams, and
[2:25:50] Speaker 1: we made some updates to Women's Be the Booker. So
[2:25:54] Speaker 1: let's see what we land on here. We're going to
[2:25:56] Speaker 1: land on Oh my god, we just landed on her yesterday,
[2:26:01] Speaker 1: Mighty Molly. Did we have Mighty Molly in the intergender round?
[2:26:08] Speaker 1: I forgot what her match was yesterday? Yeah, we hit
[2:26:11] Speaker 1: the super chat the bonus call yesterday, so we did
[2:26:14] Speaker 1: an intergender round. That was the goal tonight too, but
[2:26:16] Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna make it. But we just
[2:26:19] Speaker 1: landed on her yesterday and she just popped up again.
[2:26:24] Speaker 1: Let's give this one a drum roll. Mighty Molly against
[2:26:35] Speaker 1: Mickey James. I think that makes a fine professional wrestling match.
[2:26:46] Speaker 1: Those two ladies can go oh yes, yes, yes, yes,
[2:26:52] Speaker 1: yes yes. It was Molly and Penta in the intergender
[2:26:56] Speaker 1: match yesterday. I definitely gave that the bell. All right,
[2:27:03] Speaker 1: our main event of the night, Let's see what we're
[2:27:04] Speaker 1: gonna end up with here. We end up with your
[2:27:07] Speaker 1: Bounty boy. There he is. He was in the main
[2:27:09] Speaker 1: event tonight in the elimination chamber, and he is in
[2:27:12] Speaker 1: the main event of Be the Booker. Just added Javon
[2:27:16] Speaker 1: Evans making his Be the Booker debut. Your boy is bouncy.
[2:27:25] Speaker 1: That's Javon Evans, by the way, not Javon Williams. I
[2:27:39] Speaker 1: just that's always my reaction when we land on this photo.
[2:27:42] Speaker 1: I just I just what is this? You know what?
[2:27:50] Speaker 1: I got it? I have to do it. I have to,
[2:27:54] Speaker 1: I have to. I would like to see this match.
[2:27:57] Speaker 1: The Painmaker, the painmaker. Chris Jericho taking on Javan. I
[2:28:10] Speaker 1: don't know why. Oh man, can you imagine if this,
[2:28:16] Speaker 1: if this popped out of the crate tonight, this version
[2:28:21] Speaker 1: of his sweet swallow. Look at him and he's looking
[2:28:23] Speaker 1: at his physic He's looking at the biceps. Here. If
[2:28:26] Speaker 1: this version of Jericho popped out of the crate tonight,
[2:28:33] Speaker 1: Oh well, hey, we gotta look at that. We gotta
[2:28:38] Speaker 1: clean sweep, we gotta clean sweep. He's definitely making some
[2:28:43] Speaker 1: pain in that pain. Oh it's one of my favorite
[2:28:54] Speaker 1: options that we occasionally land on there and be the booker.
[2:29:00] Speaker 1: I wish I could remember what match that was from.
[2:29:03] Speaker 1: Obviously that was New Japan. I just I don't remember
[2:29:06] Speaker 1: who he was wrestling. Arabian Night, says WWE crowds. The
[2:29:13] Speaker 1: last two months sound comatos three thousand for aw Are
[2:29:18] Speaker 1: Louder Revolution will be twice as loud as the elimination Chamber.
[2:29:22] Speaker 1: Great in ring matters to fans, not entrance, entrances and
[2:29:26] Speaker 1: ads well two, it's two very distinctly different audiences, that
[2:29:34] Speaker 1: much is for sure. Tanahashi Okata, he wrestled Night Tel once.
[2:29:43] Speaker 1: I don't know it could be from any of those
[2:29:44] Speaker 1: matches he was the painmaker, and a few different matches
[2:29:48] Speaker 1: there said that wrestling with cholesterol may's the great solo.
[2:29:59] Speaker 1: You should really raised to be the booker goals because
[2:30:03] Speaker 1: with how great you are and how many people watch
[2:30:05] Speaker 1: these streams, these likes are too paltry. Four hundred is
[2:30:08] Speaker 1: not well, it's it's the wheel. I mean, look, take
[2:30:10] Speaker 1: a look at the wheel here. If you zoom in
[2:30:15] Speaker 1: on that there, we I actually updated some of the
[2:30:19] Speaker 1: values on the wheel and try and made them a
[2:30:21] Speaker 1: little bit bigger. You know, you want to have one
[2:30:24] Speaker 1: or two smaller ones on there. But I think now
[2:30:26] Speaker 1: we have six hundred likes, there might be seven hundred
[2:30:29] Speaker 1: on there. It's up to the wheel. It's like MJF
[2:30:34] Speaker 1: the other night on Dynamite leaving everything to chance with
[2:30:36] Speaker 1: his coin. It's up to the wheel. Maybe I'll make
[2:30:42] Speaker 1: the values on there even bigger. We'll see, Broley says.
[2:30:47] Speaker 1: The Jobber and Meme. The Jobber and Meme debuted on
[2:30:51] Speaker 1: pl in Front of nineteen thousand, while Mariah and Ricky
[2:30:55] Speaker 1: debuted in the PC. Whose idiotic idea was it to
[2:30:59] Speaker 1: debut him on pay per view? That would be Paul
[2:31:03] Speaker 1: of ec It's what we do what they do. Brother
[2:31:12] Speaker 1: death Side says, also, what would you say is the
[2:31:15] Speaker 1: best one night only storyline? Mine is No Mercy for
[2:31:18] Speaker 1: Triple h at No Mercy two thousand and seven, a
[2:31:23] Speaker 1: one night only storyline, j Uso being taken out of
[2:31:32] Speaker 1: the elimination chamber this year, it's my favorite storyline, No
[2:31:38] Speaker 1: Yeat and Navy forty one eighty one. Who should induct
[2:31:43] Speaker 1: Demolition and AJ Styles? John Cena should induct AJ Styles?
[2:31:50] Speaker 1: As far as Demolition, I don't know. I mean New
[2:31:55] Speaker 1: Day beat Demolition's record right is the long no, But
[2:31:58] Speaker 1: then USO's beat, Hm, I don't know. I would just say,
[2:32:05] Speaker 1: probably find like a modern current Day tag team to
[2:32:09] Speaker 1: do it, because there's really nobody in WWE. I don't
[2:32:13] Speaker 1: think that really has any sort of direct connection to
[2:32:15] Speaker 1: either one of these guys at this point. So I
[2:32:20] Speaker 1: would just say pick a tag team, and then it
[2:32:22] Speaker 1: just comes down to, I don't know, do you go
[2:32:26] Speaker 1: with the do USO's do you go with the New Day?
[2:32:31] Speaker 1: Probably just a tag team. I don't think there's anybody
[2:32:37] Speaker 1: you know in particular, at least that's currently working for
[2:32:40] Speaker 1: the company. As far as somebody outside the company, I
[2:32:43] Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they would want to recommend like a
[2:32:46] Speaker 1: friend of theirs and the business. Maybe the powers of
[2:32:48] Speaker 1: pain Barbarian and Warlord are still around and Bader Mohammad
[2:32:56] Speaker 1: ten dollars super chat. He says, Hello, I watched that
[2:32:59] Speaker 1: infamous segment of the cobra biting Randy Savage. That scene
[2:33:02] Speaker 1: of the kids in the crowd legitimately crying and the
[2:33:05] Speaker 1: cobra posing in the ring when Jake was unbelievable. It
[2:33:11] Speaker 1: like it's creepy as hell, like the way that Jake
[2:33:14] Speaker 1: is crouched in the corner and then the snake is
[2:33:17] Speaker 1: in the ring, and the way the snake is just
[2:33:19] Speaker 1: it's sitting there but like it's poking its head up
[2:33:22] Speaker 1: and it's like watching all the mayhem outside, like you
[2:33:25] Speaker 1: would almost think it was like an animatronic snake, like
[2:33:28] Speaker 1: it wasn't. But like that shot of the snake is
[2:33:32] Speaker 1: just like the money shot, Like that's just unbelievable. It's
[2:33:37] Speaker 1: uh an angle I saw when I was very young,
[2:33:41] Speaker 1: and it sticks me. I wasn't super duper young, but
[2:33:44] Speaker 1: like I was young enough to where it had an
[2:33:46] Speaker 1: impact on me too, And to this day, I mean
[2:33:49] Speaker 1: I remember it clear as day, like how can you
[2:33:51] Speaker 1: forget very well done? Super Pony says a triple Ah
[2:34:00] Speaker 1: NXT to perfection. What happened TKO? Wow, Triple h And
[2:34:05] Speaker 1: was it Ryan Ward or Ryan Ward, Ryan Ward, Ryan Katz,
[2:34:10] Speaker 1: Ryan Katz? Someone was helping Triple h Oul. Let's not
[2:34:14] Speaker 1: give him all the credit, but yes, NXT back then,
[2:34:18] Speaker 1: much smaller roster, not on television the way it is now,
[2:34:23] Speaker 1: not live on television. No, TKO to answer to his
[2:34:30] Speaker 1: priorities were very different then than they are now. Let's
[2:34:34] Speaker 1: just put it that way. This is not the same
[2:34:39] Speaker 1: person in death Site says I thought yours would have
[2:34:44] Speaker 1: been King of the Ring ninety three. Yeah, but that
[2:34:48] Speaker 1: was a one night pay per view. I don't look
[2:34:49] Speaker 1: at that as a one night storyline though, I was
[2:34:52] Speaker 1: thinking of actual storylines. That was the kickoff to a
[2:34:57] Speaker 1: long term feud between Brett Hart and Jerry Lawler that
[2:34:59] Speaker 1: w on literally for years. But I mean, if you
[2:35:03] Speaker 1: want to count that, then sure that would be my
[2:35:05] Speaker 1: number one. That's my favorite pay per view of all time.
[2:35:08] Speaker 1: So if you want to count that, then absolutely also
[2:35:16] Speaker 1: the best Brett Hart Kurt Henning match also on that show. Yeah,
[2:35:22] Speaker 1: mister Fuji was already inducted into the Hall of Fame.
[2:35:25] Speaker 1: I don't remember what year, but he's already in anyway,
[2:35:30] Speaker 1: Thank you guys for the incredible stream tonight and all
[2:35:33] Speaker 1: the great support. You guys killed it. We came very
[2:35:38] Speaker 1: close to a thousand likes during the live stream. We
[2:35:41] Speaker 1: usually don't have an issue getting there after the fact,
[2:35:45] Speaker 1: but we almost got there here on the live stream,
[2:35:48] Speaker 1: which is great, and I think we broke down the
[2:35:50] Speaker 1: elimination chamber as best we could. I'll have some more
[2:35:53] Speaker 1: thoughts on it, sleep on it. We'll see if there's
[2:35:55] Speaker 1: any other news that comes out coming out of the show.
[2:35:58] Speaker 1: I'm sure I will talk about it on the sound
[2:35:59] Speaker 1: Off in the morning. We'll talk all of the elimination
[2:36:03] Speaker 1: chamber fallout, what's coming up on SmackDown this week, and
[2:36:06] Speaker 1: a bunch of other news and notes, a bunch of
[2:36:09] Speaker 1: mailbag questions. Is gonna be a big podcast tomorrow. That's
[2:36:12] Speaker 1: gonna be episode nine fifty three of the SoundOff, So
[2:36:17] Speaker 1: you will not want to miss that show. So I
[2:36:21] Speaker 1: hope you will join me for that hy two J
[2:36:26] Speaker 1: beating Triple H for the belt, only for the decision
[2:36:28] Speaker 1: to be reversed. That was a great one too. It's
[2:36:31] Speaker 1: actually one of my favorite raw moments of all time. Man,
[2:36:35] Speaker 1: you talk about a hot crowd. Man, You know, you
[2:36:39] Speaker 1: guys are naming like all of these different moments, and
[2:36:44] Speaker 1: I'm just thinking of like the crowds compared to the
[2:36:47] Speaker 1: crowds that we have had recently in WWE, and what
[2:36:50] Speaker 1: a fucking difference. Holy shit, what the hell happened? Hey,
[2:36:58] Speaker 1: James Channel, remember for fifty six months? Thank you, brother,
[2:37:04] Speaker 1: I might be doing well. See listen to Falcon Star.
[2:37:08] Speaker 1: Falcon Star says solo. Moster sounds off as a must listen.
[2:37:11] Speaker 1: See this guy. He knows game and he knows ball.
[2:37:15] Speaker 1: Thank you, Falcon Star. Do you record the podcast in
[2:37:20] Speaker 1: the mornings? I record as early as I can. Sometimes
[2:37:23] Speaker 1: I'm still not done putting notes together. Is breaking news
[2:37:26] Speaker 1: even on Sundays? Of course, what usually happens is I'll
[2:37:30] Speaker 1: do an entire show and then get the show out,
[2:37:33] Speaker 1: and then Sunday night they'll be breaking news. Hopefully tomorrow
[2:37:37] Speaker 1: will not be one of those days. But yeah, I
[2:37:41] Speaker 1: don't like doing them piecemeal unless I'm going to be away.
[2:37:44] Speaker 1: I have to leave, not going to be around. Yeah, No,
[2:37:50] Speaker 1: I wake up in the morning, I have breakfast, I
[2:37:52] Speaker 1: get my shit together and as early as I possibly can,
[2:37:54] Speaker 1: and sometimes it might not be until eleven am or twelve,
[2:37:57] Speaker 1: but record and I get going on the podcast and
[2:38:03] Speaker 1: try to get it out as soon as I can,
[2:38:05] Speaker 1: usually midafternoon. So just keep your eyes peeled. Do you
[2:38:10] Speaker 1: guys know the drill speaker Spotify, Apple Podcasts. Of course,
[2:38:17] Speaker 1: don't forget the Uncrowned Wrestling show that's every Tuesday on
[2:38:21] Speaker 1: the Arial Helwani feed. We'll have fun with that this
[2:38:24] Speaker 1: week as well. All right, So I think that's everything.
[2:38:27] Speaker 1: I think I got everybody. Thank you again, be well,
[2:38:30] Speaker 1: stay safe, have yourselves a great rest of your night.
[2:38:33] Speaker 1: I got another show to do here in a few hours,
[2:38:36] Speaker 1: and I will see you tomorrow for nine to fifty
[2:38:38] Speaker 1: three and then back here live on YouTube Monday night
[2:38:42] Speaker 1: all the fallout from the Elimination Chamber on Monday Night Raw.
[2:38:45] Speaker 1: Until then, take care, guys,

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