# WWE Night Of Champions 2026 Review | HOLY CRAP, SAMI ZAYN WINS THE WWE CHAMPIONSHIP

An episode of [Solomonster Sounds Off](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/313139609), 28 Jun 2026, 2 h 11 min.

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Solomonster reviews WWE Night of Champions 2026 with Sami Zayn winning the WWE championship, Oba Femi and IYO SKY crowned King and Queen of the Ring and what it all means for Summerslam. 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 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: WWE actually did the right thing with all of the
[0:04] Speaker 1: key matches here on this show. I cannot believe that
[0:07] Speaker 1: I am sitting here right now and we are going
[0:10] Speaker 1: to talk about Night of champions a WWE Championship match,
[0:13] Speaker 1: a King of the Ring Final, a Queen of the
[0:15] Speaker 1: Ring Final, and WWE is batting a thousand. As far
[0:19] Speaker 1: as all of the key matches go, but none bigger
[0:21] Speaker 1: than what we just saw in the main event. This
[0:24] Speaker 1: went from being just another show to being a very
[0:26] Speaker 1: newsworthy show after what happened in the main event, which
[0:30] Speaker 1: was a triple threat match Cody Rhodes, Gunther and Sammy
[0:34] Speaker 1: Zain for the WWE Championship. This was the natural outgrowth
[0:39] Speaker 1: of everything that we've seen over the last few weeks.
[0:41] Speaker 1: We've already seen Cody and Gunther, Sammy Zay the whole
[0:44] Speaker 1: last real good guy thing. He's kind of worked his
[0:46] Speaker 1: way into this story, and so a triple thread only
[0:49] Speaker 1: made sense for this show. And coming into the show,
[0:52] Speaker 1: I said, you know what I would like to see.
[0:54] Speaker 1: I would like to see Cody Rhodes drop the WWE Championship.
[0:58] Speaker 1: But it was very clear it was not going to
[0:59] Speaker 1: beat a gun Th. Sure, I would love to see
[1:02] Speaker 1: Cody Roach drop the championship to Sammy's Ain. And I
[1:05] Speaker 1: couldn't even believe I was sitting here saying that, because
[1:08] Speaker 1: six months ago, if you would have told me that, hey,
[1:11] Speaker 1: you know what I think we should do. I think
[1:12] Speaker 1: we should put the World Championship on Sammy's Ain, I
[1:15] Speaker 1: would have said, you're out of your fucking mind. It
[1:18] Speaker 1: is incredible. This is a great example of just how
[1:22] Speaker 1: important a simple character tweak, a simple character change can
[1:27] Speaker 1: be in someone's career, because think of where this man
[1:31] Speaker 1: was at the beginning of the year. In fact, we
[1:32] Speaker 1: can go back even further. We are living in the
[1:35] Speaker 1: year twenty twenty six and I do believe it was
[1:38] Speaker 1: twenty sixteen when Sammy's Ain officially made his way to
[1:42] Speaker 1: the main roster. I think it was twenty fifteen when
[1:44] Speaker 1: he had that unfortunate, you know, injury when he wrestled
[1:48] Speaker 1: John Cena and he tore his freaking rotator cuff flailing
[1:52] Speaker 1: his arms around. By twenty sixteen, this man was on
[1:56] Speaker 1: the main roster. He's been there for a decade. And
[1:59] Speaker 1: Sammy's Ain has always been that guy, right, great worker,
[2:03] Speaker 1: He's a great wrestler, he's a good hand, he's a
[2:07] Speaker 1: good guy to put in there, maybe against the champion, right,
[2:10] Speaker 1: but he's not the champion. He doesn't look like a champion.
[2:12] Speaker 1: He doesn't look like somebody that you would build around.
[2:15] Speaker 1: He's not going to be the face of a brand.
[2:18] Speaker 1: He's the guy who works with the guy. Right. That
[2:20] Speaker 1: was kind of the rap on Sammy's a Right, Tag
[2:23] Speaker 1: Team Champion, Intercontinental Champion, United States Champion. The thing about
[2:27] Speaker 1: Sammy though, is that whatever you give him, he takes
[2:31] Speaker 1: it and he knocks it out of the park. He
[2:34] Speaker 1: did that recently with the US Title Open Challenge stuff
[2:38] Speaker 1: last year. He's the one who really got that going.
[2:40] Speaker 1: You went from him to Dragon Off, from Dragging Off
[2:42] Speaker 1: to Carmelo Hayes. But it was Sammy's Ain who really
[2:45] Speaker 1: got things in motion with that, and it was some
[2:47] Speaker 1: of the best television on SmackDown late last year. The
[2:52] Speaker 1: Bloodline stuff, need I say more? The Bloodline stuff was
[2:57] Speaker 1: obviously a much larger story, and I'm not saying it
[3:00] Speaker 1: was a terrible story. But when Sammy z Ain, the
[3:02] Speaker 1: whole Sammy USO thing, right, when Sammy z Ain came
[3:05] Speaker 1: into the picture, holy shit, I mean, did that not
[3:09] Speaker 1: level it up, you know, one level above whatever it
[3:12] Speaker 1: was they were doing before. He added a dimension and
[3:15] Speaker 1: an element to that that was very entertaining and really
[3:18] Speaker 1: took the Bloodline story to that next level. The bloodline
[3:21] Speaker 1: story does not work as well if they don't essentially
[3:25] Speaker 1: luck into the whole Sammy USO thing. So he was
[3:29] Speaker 1: very instrumental in that. He was part of that story.
[3:33] Speaker 1: He ended up getting a main event spot, He got
[3:36] Speaker 1: a main event win, won the tag team Championships in
[3:40] Speaker 1: the main event of WrestleMania. It's had a lot of achievements,
[3:43] Speaker 1: a lot of accomplishments in his career, but now he
[3:45] Speaker 1: can add one more to that list. Now he can
[3:48] Speaker 1: call himself WWE Champion. I didn't think they'd have the
[3:53] Speaker 1: balls to do it. In fact, when SmackDown was over
[3:55] Speaker 1: last night, I had this feeling that as much as
[3:59] Speaker 1: I want want to see Sammy win, this did not
[4:01] Speaker 1: come off to me like a show that was building
[4:04] Speaker 1: to a Sammy's ain title win. I came out of
[4:06] Speaker 1: that show last night thinking, boy, it sure feels to
[4:09] Speaker 1: me like they may just keep the belt on Cody
[4:12] Speaker 1: and we're not going to get any change at all.
[4:14] Speaker 1: And I was kind of hoping it would go a
[4:17] Speaker 1: different way, but I was not terribly optimistic about it.
[4:22] Speaker 1: Sammy's ain went out there in the main event tonight,
[4:27] Speaker 1: a man who only a few months ago, I want
[4:30] Speaker 1: to point this out to you, he was feuding with
[4:35] Speaker 1: Trick Williams and the gingerbread Man. In fact, he showed
[4:40] Speaker 1: up one week dressed up as the gingerbread Man. This
[4:43] Speaker 1: was only two months ago, three months ago. This wasn't
[4:46] Speaker 1: that far. This wasn't that far in the past that
[4:48] Speaker 1: we were doing the gingerbread Man stuff. Okay, I had
[4:51] Speaker 1: a funeral on SmackDown the SmackDown review last night that
[4:55] Speaker 1: I think was more entertaining than the gingerbread Man funeral
[4:58] Speaker 1: a few months ago. But that's the kind of stuff
[5:00] Speaker 1: that Sammy's Aim was doing not that long ago. The
[5:05] Speaker 1: reactions to him began to change, and to me, this
[5:08] Speaker 1: is a great example of something where you kind of
[5:10] Speaker 1: luck into it. There is this organic, natural response from
[5:15] Speaker 1: the audience where Sammy starts getting booed, but it's not
[5:19] Speaker 1: like total complete booze. It's not like he's coming out
[5:23] Speaker 1: there and getting dominic mysterio heat or anything like that.
[5:26] Speaker 1: But the reactions are changing and I'm sure Sammy in
[5:29] Speaker 1: real life is looking at this and he's he's how
[5:32] Speaker 1: can it not bother you? Right, He's probably looking this
[5:34] Speaker 1: and going, hmm, this is kind of strange. But then
[5:36] Speaker 1: if you're someone like Sammy's ain who's been doing this
[5:38] Speaker 1: for a long time, you realize pretty quickly, hey, we
[5:41] Speaker 1: may have something here. We may be able to parlay
[5:43] Speaker 1: this into something that could actually end up being a
[5:46] Speaker 1: really good thing for me. So let's just lean into
[5:49] Speaker 1: it and see where it goes. And hence the whole
[5:51] Speaker 1: you know, last real good guy stuff that he's been
[5:53] Speaker 1: doing where he's a heel but maybe not like one
[5:56] Speaker 1: hundred percent. You know, he comes out, he talks about
[5:59] Speaker 1: his right or fans. It was just an interesting change
[6:04] Speaker 1: to his character from what he had been doing previously.
[6:08] Speaker 1: But it just worked out so well. And the title
[6:10] Speaker 1: scene on SmackDown has been so lackluster they moved Gunther
[6:16] Speaker 1: over from Rowda SmackDown to try to fix the problem
[6:19] Speaker 1: because coming out of WrestleMania, they didn't have Drew MacIntyre,
[6:22] Speaker 1: and you couldn't well go back to Cody and Drew anyway,
[6:25] Speaker 1: you already play that out. They didn't have Randy Orton,
[6:29] Speaker 1: who I take it really is hurt. I saw he
[6:33] Speaker 1: just got pulled from a fanatics fest. He pulled out
[6:35] Speaker 1: a Fanatics Fest which is coming up in a few weeks.
[6:37] Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with him. That story,
[6:40] Speaker 1: to me is a dead story. I mean, sure, they
[6:41] Speaker 1: could always revisit it, but the level of interest in
[6:45] Speaker 1: excitement that I had finally for a Cody and Randy
[6:49] Speaker 1: story was ruined. They fucked it all up at WrestleMania.
[6:54] Speaker 1: So even if they revisit it one day, I don't
[6:56] Speaker 1: know that I'm going to have the same level of
[6:57] Speaker 1: enthusiasm for it. You know, they kind of botched the
[6:59] Speaker 1: whole thing up there. But then Randy Orton, you know,
[7:02] Speaker 1: punted Cody in the head. He hasn't been seen since WrestleMania.
[7:05] Speaker 1: So they had to shift Gunther over. With any hope
[7:09] Speaker 1: they'll move CM Punk over. I've been saying that for
[7:11] Speaker 1: a long time. It sounds like that is what they're
[7:13] Speaker 1: gonna do. They have to, they have to. Monday Night
[7:18] Speaker 1: Raw is the Roman Rain show, it is the Bloodline show,
[7:21] Speaker 1: and we already had a WrestleMania main event with Punk
[7:23] Speaker 1: and Roman Punk. He could use the change in scenery.
[7:27] Speaker 1: But for the time being, we were, you know, dealing
[7:30] Speaker 1: with Cody and Gunther, and Cody had already beaten him,
[7:33] Speaker 1: and then they had the rematch on TV right a
[7:35] Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago or a week ago, whatever it was,
[7:39] Speaker 1: and it was all done in a way that's set
[7:41] Speaker 1: up the match that we had here on this show.
[7:44] Speaker 1: The one negative as I look at these three men,
[7:48] Speaker 1: and I look at Gunther specifically, is the aura that
[7:52] Speaker 1: this man has lost, that he has shed in the
[7:56] Speaker 1: six months since he beat aj Styles, in the seven
[8:00] Speaker 1: since he retired John Cena. He was the man that
[8:03] Speaker 1: they chose. He was the man that John Cena said, Hey,
[8:07] Speaker 1: not only are we gonna work together and you're gonna
[8:10] Speaker 1: beat me, I have an idea for how I'd like
[8:13] Speaker 1: to go out right, I'm gonna give up. They bestowed
[8:19] Speaker 1: that upon Gunther. Look at where he is now, and
[8:23] Speaker 1: you honestly tell me, okay, you honestly tell me that
[8:28] Speaker 1: Gunther in June of twenty twenty six still feels the
[8:31] Speaker 1: same way that he felt in December or January of
[8:35] Speaker 1: this year. He doesn't. And I don't know how they
[8:40] Speaker 1: get that back. Not saying they can't, but I'm saying
[8:43] Speaker 1: what they had, it's kind of gone away, and I
[8:47] Speaker 1: didn't really have much of an interest at this point.
[8:49] Speaker 1: And even seeing Gunther win the championship from Cody but
[8:53] Speaker 1: Sammy that interested me because you can go in a
[8:57] Speaker 1: lot of different directions with that, not just because oh,
[9:00] Speaker 1: you know, I like Sammy, or because oh he deserves it.
[9:02] Speaker 1: He hasn't been the champion yet. You know, sometimes people
[9:05] Speaker 1: don't win the championship, but there are times where it
[9:08] Speaker 1: just makes sense to me. This is a moment in
[9:10] Speaker 1: time here where it made sense to shake things up
[9:12] Speaker 1: a little bit here on the road to Summer Slim.
[9:16] Speaker 1: I don't see the harm in doing it instead of
[9:18] Speaker 1: just playing the status quo. This now shakes up the
[9:22] Speaker 1: title picture on SmackDown in a way that makes things
[9:25] Speaker 1: interesting because we look ahead now to Summer Slam, we're
[9:27] Speaker 1: not exactly sure what the main event is going to
[9:30] Speaker 1: look like on the SmackDown side. Are we looking at
[9:33] Speaker 1: a scenario where we get Cody and Sammy in a
[9:37] Speaker 1: rematch one on one? I think that's very likely. I
[9:39] Speaker 1: cannot imagine a Summer Slim main event this year that
[9:42] Speaker 1: does not have Cody Roads in it. Are we looking
[9:45] Speaker 1: at a scenario where the new King of the Ring
[9:48] Speaker 1: is going to choose to go after Sammy and his championship.
[9:52] Speaker 1: Are we looking at something maybe completely off the wall
[9:56] Speaker 1: that we may not even be thinking of. Are we
[9:58] Speaker 1: even looking at Sammy's aing going into Summer Slam as
[10:01] Speaker 1: the champion? Are we looking at a situation where Sammy
[10:06] Speaker 1: Zane doesn't make it out of Saturday Night's main event
[10:08] Speaker 1: as the WWE champion. All of these options are now
[10:11] Speaker 1: on the table, and I welcome it because SmackDown could
[10:15] Speaker 1: use a real kick in the ass. It can use
[10:16] Speaker 1: a shot in the arm and a little unpredictability, and
[10:20] Speaker 1: I feel like, now that's what we have at least
[10:23] Speaker 1: in the main event scene here here on SmackDown. But again,
[10:28] Speaker 1: like I'm just thinking back to, you know, where we
[10:32] Speaker 1: were coming out of WrestleMania and where we are now,
[10:36] Speaker 1: and Gunther is there and Punk is likely coming in,
[10:38] Speaker 1: Sammy is the champion, you still got Cody in the mix,
[10:41] Speaker 1: and I don't know who else they may want to
[10:42] Speaker 1: throw in there. But all of a sudden, you've got
[10:45] Speaker 1: You've got something I think that people can at least
[10:48] Speaker 1: talk talk about and discuss in terms of like, I
[10:51] Speaker 1: don't know exactly where this is going to go. I
[10:54] Speaker 1: personally just look at that as a good thing. I
[10:57] Speaker 1: thought the main event tonight on this show easily the
[10:59] Speaker 1: best thing on the entire show. I knew coming in.
[11:02] Speaker 1: You put those three men in the ring together, you're
[11:03] Speaker 1: gonna get a great match. That's also why I like
[11:06] Speaker 1: the idea of them doing a triple threat, right, you
[11:08] Speaker 1: get a kick ass match out of it, And that's
[11:11] Speaker 1: exactly what we got. Great drama down the line. It
[11:14] Speaker 1: was it really I think stood out more so because
[11:17] Speaker 1: there were so many other things on this show that
[11:21] Speaker 1: came off so flat. And I can't even just blame
[11:24] Speaker 1: the crowd. The crowd was the crowd was very quiet
[11:27] Speaker 1: for a lot of the undercard, right of course, when
[11:30] Speaker 1: the big stars were out there. Sammy of course is
[11:32] Speaker 1: always beloved when he goes over to Saudi Cody Oba.
[11:37] Speaker 1: There were people like that who got I'm not saying
[11:39] Speaker 1: that they didn't get reactions, but so much on this
[11:42] Speaker 1: show the product came across so cold, like ice cold,
[11:48] Speaker 1: like rigamortis cold. But for a couple of matches on
[11:54] Speaker 1: the entire show, I didn't think this was a good show. Overall,
[11:58] Speaker 1: I was pretty fucking bored for most of it. The
[12:02] Speaker 1: big highlight of the show was that main event and
[12:04] Speaker 1: the main event finish, and again I liked the fact
[12:07] Speaker 1: that they batted a thousand. As far as I think
[12:10] Speaker 1: the outcomes for the key matches on the show, they
[12:13] Speaker 1: got it right when it came to the key matches
[12:16] Speaker 1: on this show, and some people may disagree when it
[12:19] Speaker 1: comes to the Seth and bron breaker match, although I
[12:22] Speaker 1: didn't look at that as one of the key matches
[12:24] Speaker 1: on this show, but where it mattered, where it counted,
[12:28] Speaker 1: I thought they got it right. I'm also just tickled
[12:30] Speaker 1: every time Michael Cole, and this is not the first
[12:33] Speaker 1: time he's done this, but Michael Cole has taken There's
[12:38] Speaker 1: been somebody strays that Wemby has taken, including another one
[12:43] Speaker 1: on commentary tonight during the main event from Michael Cole.
[12:48] Speaker 1: But we'll get into what happened in the main event
[12:51] Speaker 1: where things may go from here with Sammy, that was
[12:53] Speaker 1: obviously the big story coming out of this one thing.
[12:57] Speaker 1: I will say, I do wish and I supp there's
[13:00] Speaker 1: always a chance of it, but it seems unlikely given
[13:06] Speaker 1: that I think he had surgery less than a year ago.
[13:08] Speaker 1: It's a very serious injury. But man, now that sammy's
[13:12] Speaker 1: Ain is the WWE champion for however long he's going
[13:15] Speaker 1: to be the champion for. If ever there was a time,
[13:17] Speaker 1: a perfect time for Kevin Owens to reappear on television,
[13:20] Speaker 1: this would be it, right, whether they're on opposite sides,
[13:24] Speaker 1: whether they're on the same side, because despite what Cody
[13:29] Speaker 1: Rhades may have said on SmackDown last night, Kevin Owens
[13:32] Speaker 1: has never been WWE champion. Sammy's Ain actually won the
[13:37] Speaker 1: WWE title before Kevin Owens did. If ever there was
[13:41] Speaker 1: a good time for him to pop back up on TV,
[13:44] Speaker 1: this would be it. It might be wishful thinking, but who knows.
[13:48] Speaker 1: I guess it depends on how long Sammy holds that
[13:50] Speaker 1: championship for. But then the other thing outside of the
[13:53] Speaker 1: WWE title that this show was built around, right, let
[13:57] Speaker 1: me let me, let me prepare here, because you can't
[14:00] Speaker 1: talk about the King of the Ring without a crown.
[14:03] Speaker 1: So I only feel it's appropriate here that we placed
[14:07] Speaker 1: this on the royal head. Yeah. I think back on
[14:10] Speaker 1: these King of the Ring tournaments over the years, the
[14:12] Speaker 1: televised ones, they go all the way back to nineteen
[14:14] Speaker 1: ninety three, and we've gotten some really good finals over
[14:19] Speaker 1: the years. The first one, you know, Brett Hard and
[14:22] Speaker 1: Bam Bam Bigelow back in ninety three, the Rock and
[14:26] Speaker 1: Ken Shamrock in nineteen ninety eight, Kurt Angle and Edge
[14:29] Speaker 1: in two thousand and one. I'm gonna throw it in there.
[14:33] Speaker 1: Baron Corbin and Chad Gable on Raw in the finals
[14:36] Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, I thought, and that went like almost
[14:39] Speaker 1: twenty minutes. I thought they had a hell of a
[14:41] Speaker 1: match that year. Randy Orton and Gunther a couple of
[14:45] Speaker 1: years ago. So we've had some really good King of
[14:48] Speaker 1: the Ring finals. Unfortunately, we've had more bad ones than
[14:52] Speaker 1: good ones. I would even say the vast majority of
[14:56] Speaker 1: these King of the Ring finals have been very underwhelming,
[14:59] Speaker 1: very disappointing, or just flat out not good. And unfortunately,
[15:04] Speaker 1: I think that the one that we had here on
[15:06] Speaker 1: this show falls into that latter category, the unforgettable, right,
[15:11] Speaker 1: the unforgettable and the forgettable. It falls into the forgettable category.
[15:16] Speaker 1: There was nothing memorable about the King of the Ring
[15:18] Speaker 1: final or the Queen of the Ring final on this show.
[15:21] Speaker 1: In fact, you have these tournaments that build to these
[15:25] Speaker 1: big finales and it just feels like another match on
[15:28] Speaker 1: the show. And so that sucks because you would hope
[15:31] Speaker 1: at a tournament like it would really build to the big
[15:33] Speaker 1: climactic finale and there would be something about that match
[15:36] Speaker 1: that stands out, whether it's just a bangor wrestling match
[15:39] Speaker 1: or there's just great drama or something big, like there's
[15:43] Speaker 1: got to be something to it, and there really wasn't.
[15:48] Speaker 1: I will say I will say this though they went
[15:51] Speaker 1: the way of the Continental Classic, they took a page
[15:55] Speaker 1: out of aw with the way that they did these
[15:57] Speaker 1: tournaments this year, or at least it worked out that
[15:59] Speaker 1: way where it out with the Continental Title and the
[16:03] Speaker 1: Continental Classic stuff. There's no outside interference allowed, I thought
[16:07] Speaker 1: for sure, and at least one, if not both of
[16:09] Speaker 1: these matches we were going to get somebody getting involved.
[16:11] Speaker 1: There was going to be interference from the judgment day
[16:13] Speaker 1: trying to help live Morgan brock Lesnar was going to
[16:15] Speaker 1: show up and he was going to try to fuck
[16:16] Speaker 1: over Obafemi, and it was kind of refreshing. We didn't
[16:20] Speaker 1: get any of that. We had two matches here in
[16:22] Speaker 1: these finals where nobody got involved. It was just there
[16:26] Speaker 1: and maybe you thought that made it boring. I don't know,
[16:28] Speaker 1: but like it made for a clean finish in both
[16:31] Speaker 1: cases where it's like, oh okay, that was kind of
[16:35] Speaker 1: a pleasant surprise that I wasn't really expecting. But yes,
[16:40] Speaker 1: Brock Lesnar did not show up on this show the
[16:42] Speaker 1: judgment day outside of live did not show up here
[16:46] Speaker 1: on this show. There was no interference and they got
[16:49] Speaker 1: it right. Everybody was so worried, myself included that they
[16:54] Speaker 1: were going to go with King Yeat on this show.
[17:00] Speaker 1: We were gonna get jay Usso challenging for one of
[17:02] Speaker 1: the world championships at Summerslim. They were gonna get cute.
[17:04] Speaker 1: They were gonna have Brock interfear. We're gonna get Brock
[17:07] Speaker 1: and Oba SummerSlam and jay Uso is wrestling for a belt,
[17:10] Speaker 1: and that would have been fucking awful. That would have
[17:12] Speaker 1: been fucking terrible, and they didn't do that. They toyed
[17:17] Speaker 1: with us, They toyed with us. They wanted us to
[17:20] Speaker 1: sweat a little bit. But all that matters is that
[17:23] Speaker 1: in the end, it was the right call. It was
[17:24] Speaker 1: the obvious choice. He was very straightforward the way they
[17:28] Speaker 1: did it. And Oba Femi is the King of the
[17:30] Speaker 1: Ring He has had quite the year so far, beating
[17:34] Speaker 1: Bronckolesnu at WrestleMania, and now he's the King of the ring.
[17:37] Speaker 1: He is getting a push very similar to the one
[17:41] Speaker 1: that Brock himself got when he first debuted in two
[17:43] Speaker 1: thousand and two. He's getting the Brock push. I'm all
[17:46] Speaker 1: for the Brock push. You don't give the Brock push
[17:50] Speaker 1: very often. You save it if you're gonna do it.
[17:53] Speaker 1: It's a lot in a very short period of time
[17:56] Speaker 1: for someone new that could end up being a bad thing.
[17:59] Speaker 1: The pendulum can swing the other way. It's too much,
[18:01] Speaker 1: too soon, the fans rebel, or the pressure is too
[18:05] Speaker 1: much for the performer. Right. You never really know. But
[18:08] Speaker 1: every now and then there's a guy who comes along
[18:10] Speaker 1: and you just look at him and you know, okay,
[18:12] Speaker 1: this is going to be the guy. So let's just
[18:14] Speaker 1: go all the way with him. Let's not fuck around.
[18:16] Speaker 1: Obafemi wrestling for the Intercontinental title. Who needs to see that?
[18:20] Speaker 1: Opa Femi wrestling for the United States Championship. Who gives
[18:23] Speaker 1: a shit. He's bigger than that, literally the big guy
[18:30] Speaker 1: so here. He is now challenging for one of the
[18:32] Speaker 1: two world championships in his first Summer Slim, and the
[18:36] Speaker 1: only question is which title is it going to be?
[18:41] Speaker 1: And the Queen of the Ring Live Morgan, Eo Sky,
[18:46] Speaker 1: Queen Eo. We now have Queen EO and EO will
[18:51] Speaker 1: be challenging. We already know what championships she's challenging for.
[18:54] Speaker 1: She already told Live Morgan, I'll see you at Summer Slim.
[18:56] Speaker 1: So we had our first match made official for Summerslim
[18:59] Speaker 1: this year. Morgan will defend the Women's World Championship against
[19:02] Speaker 1: the Oh Sky and that's great. We actually had a
[19:05] Speaker 1: second Summer Slide match that we're going to get as well.
[19:07] Speaker 1: It's not official, but after what happened here on this show,
[19:10] Speaker 1: it's pretty clear what the other not for a title,
[19:14] Speaker 1: but what the other women's match on that show is
[19:16] Speaker 1: going to be. Now. As much as I can heat
[19:19] Speaker 1: praise upon them forgetting it right when it comes to
[19:22] Speaker 1: the outcomes of these matches, I can't help but sit
[19:24] Speaker 1: here and also say, as a fan of the King
[19:27] Speaker 1: of the Ring, I wish they as much as they
[19:30] Speaker 1: got the outcome right, I wish they would have gotten
[19:32] Speaker 1: the tournament right because Jay Usso never should have been
[19:36] Speaker 1: in the finals to begin with. All of the options
[19:39] Speaker 1: that were available to them, And again, you could have
[19:42] Speaker 1: had Obafemi in there with any number of people who
[19:45] Speaker 1: were in the tournament, people who were not even in
[19:47] Speaker 1: the tournament. But there were a lot of better options
[19:50] Speaker 1: for a finals match that would have given us a
[19:52] Speaker 1: better match, that would have given us, I think, a
[19:54] Speaker 1: more exciting conclusion, and they went with what I thought
[19:57] Speaker 1: was frankly the most boring of all the options available
[20:01] Speaker 1: to them. Liv Morgan had no business even being in
[20:04] Speaker 1: the Queen of the Ring tournament. She's the women's World champion.
[20:07] Speaker 1: She should not have been in there in the first place.
[20:11] Speaker 1: She took up a spot that could have gone to
[20:12] Speaker 1: somebody else and made no sense that she was even
[20:15] Speaker 1: in there to begin with. So I just I wish
[20:18] Speaker 1: they would have taken greater care in when they put
[20:22] Speaker 1: these tournaments together, figuring out, Okay, what are what are
[20:26] Speaker 1: the best possible options that we have here to make
[20:29] Speaker 1: for the most interesting, exciting tournament, great matches, to where
[20:33] Speaker 1: it really feels like every match is a battle and
[20:35] Speaker 1: this thing really matters, you know, in a major way.
[20:40] Speaker 1: And I thought they fell short of that, just with
[20:42] Speaker 1: you know, some of the choices they made along the
[20:45] Speaker 1: way as far as this stuff goes, we had a
[20:48] Speaker 1: steel cage match on this show only take my crown off? Now,
[20:53] Speaker 1: what do you think? Do you accept me as your king?
[20:59] Speaker 1: Will you bow down and send a super chat? Let's
[21:02] Speaker 1: talk about the cage match. We had a steel cage
[21:04] Speaker 1: match on this show with Seth Rollins and bron Breaker.
[21:07] Speaker 1: This was the blowoff finally, hallelujah between Seth Rollins and
[21:12] Speaker 1: the Vision. And we still don't know who's going to
[21:15] Speaker 1: be challenging for the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam, but
[21:18] Speaker 1: Seth Rollins is definitely got to be one of the top.
[21:21] Speaker 1: I'd say two options of who's going to get Roman
[21:24] Speaker 1: Reigns on that show, and if that's the case, then
[21:26] Speaker 1: he had to win tonight. But I understand people being
[21:29] Speaker 1: upset that bron Breaker did not win. Came into this match,
[21:33] Speaker 1: Seth Rollins was basically saying, let's see what you're made of, kid,
[21:36] Speaker 1: Let's see what you got. And then bron Breaker went
[21:40] Speaker 1: in there and he lost. He got beat by Seth Rollins.
[21:46] Speaker 1: Now I didn't look at how they did it as
[21:48] Speaker 1: any sort of burial, but I look at it and
[21:51] Speaker 1: I do question, Now, what's next for this guy, he
[21:54] Speaker 1: could end up being a burial depending on how they
[21:56] Speaker 1: follow up on this, he could very easily fall through
[21:59] Speaker 1: the cracks, and that would be a terrible thing. So
[22:03] Speaker 1: I think it's too early to judge exactly where he's
[22:05] Speaker 1: going to end up here in the second half of
[22:08] Speaker 1: the year. I don't see there being a lot of
[22:10] Speaker 1: great options though, heading into SummerSlam and beyond for bron Breaker.
[22:15] Speaker 1: But if Seth Rollins is going to challenge for the
[22:17] Speaker 1: World Heavyweight Championship, it only made sense for him to
[22:20] Speaker 1: win this match. If you're gonna build him up for
[22:23] Speaker 1: a championship match, that's the way it has to be done.
[22:26] Speaker 1: It's no different. I got a question the other night
[22:28] Speaker 1: here on one of these streams from somebody asking me
[22:30] Speaker 1: to I think it was I might have been SmackDown
[22:31] Speaker 1: last night, and somebody asked me, well, do you think
[22:34] Speaker 1: there's a chance that Zach Saber Junior might beat Kenny
[22:37] Speaker 1: Omega Forbidden Door tomorrow? And I'm like, oh, I sure
[22:40] Speaker 1: as fuck hope not. That would be fucking terrible. If
[22:44] Speaker 1: Kenny Omega is going to be challenging for the aw
[22:46] Speaker 1: World title next month, he needs to win. That's the
[22:49] Speaker 1: way it should work. But bron Breaker is in a
[22:55] Speaker 1: weird place now because I honestly look at bron Breaker
[22:57] Speaker 1: and think the best course of action here is to
[22:59] Speaker 1: turn baby face and get him away from the Vision,
[23:03] Speaker 1: because if he sticks with the Vision as it's currently constructed,
[23:06] Speaker 1: I don't really see a good place to go with him.
[23:09] Speaker 1: It's going to be very, very important how they decided
[23:11] Speaker 1: to follow up on this. There was another negative about
[23:15] Speaker 1: this show, which is that the fans and Riod did
[23:18] Speaker 1: not give a single shit about any of the women's
[23:21] Speaker 1: matches on this show. There were a few matches, I mean,
[23:24] Speaker 1: frankly even you know, a good chunk of the Cage match,
[23:27] Speaker 1: but the women's matches in particular, it was very noticeable.
[23:30] Speaker 1: The Queen of the Ring Final, the women's US title match,
[23:32] Speaker 1: they did not give a shit. They did not care.
[23:35] Speaker 1: But for like the fun spots that EO usually does,
[23:38] Speaker 1: they pop for EO winning at the finish, they did
[23:40] Speaker 1: pot for that. But a lot of stuff on the
[23:43] Speaker 1: undercar the women in particular the men's US title match,
[23:46] Speaker 1: that they didn't give a shit and it really brought
[23:49] Speaker 1: the show down. But again I can't put the full
[23:51] Speaker 1: blame on them because what they got wasn't really terribly exciting.
[23:55] Speaker 1: I said before, I didn't think overall this was really
[23:58] Speaker 1: that good of a show. I was fucking bored for
[24:00] Speaker 1: most of it, and the matches that we got were
[24:03] Speaker 1: not great. They were not great outside of the main event,
[24:07] Speaker 1: the main event, save that show. If you take that
[24:10] Speaker 1: main event away and you have a main event very
[24:12] Speaker 1: similar to the matches that we were getting on the undercard,
[24:15] Speaker 1: where it's like it's a solid match, this is an
[24:17] Speaker 1: automatic thumbs down show. I mean, there was somebody who
[24:21] Speaker 1: said to me, Solo Monster, Oba and Jay was so
[24:25] Speaker 1: much better than I thought it would be. Four stars.
[24:27] Speaker 1: I'm like, what are you talking about? Four stars? What
[24:31] Speaker 1: are you out of your mind? Outside of the main event.
[24:35] Speaker 1: There was nothing on this show. The cage match, I
[24:36] Speaker 1: will say, and I did not hate the cage match.
[24:39] Speaker 1: The cage match was very boring for the first half,
[24:42] Speaker 1: very slow, not a whole lot going on. Unacceptable for
[24:47] Speaker 1: a match that was supposed to be this big blowoff
[24:49] Speaker 1: to like a grudge feud. And then in the final,
[24:53] Speaker 1: you know, like I don't know, five six, seven, eight
[24:55] Speaker 1: minutes or whatever, it really picked up and I liked
[24:57] Speaker 1: what they did there at the end, but were it
[25:01] Speaker 1: not for that main event, boy, this would have been terrible.
[25:05] Speaker 1: The main event really did make this show very much,
[25:08] Speaker 1: so we're going to talk about all of it though.
[25:10] Speaker 1: This is your Night of Champions twenty twenty six review.
[25:16] Speaker 1: I am the Solomn Monster. I am King solom Monster.
[25:19] Speaker 1: Very happy that you can join me here on a
[25:21] Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon a lot earlier than usual, but such is
[25:24] Speaker 1: the case with these Saudi shows which air early. It's
[25:27] Speaker 1: gonna be very very much the same with WrestleMania. Next year,
[25:30] Speaker 1: you're gonna get WrestleMania one o'clock in the afternoon, So
[25:33] Speaker 1: get used to it. Like and subscribe. Super chats are
[25:37] Speaker 1: open and they are the lifeblood of the channel. I
[25:41] Speaker 1: do appreciate all of the support that you throw my way.
[25:45] Speaker 1: You guys are awesome. I appreciate all of the support.
[25:48] Speaker 1: I will say I did see something on social media
[25:51] Speaker 1: before about an outage with stream labs, which if that's
[25:57] Speaker 1: the case, it sounds like it might be a widespread outage.
[26:00] Speaker 1: That means nothing is going to pop up on screen.
[26:02] Speaker 1: So I'm going to see all of your messages and
[26:04] Speaker 1: I will read them, but they may not be popping
[26:07] Speaker 1: up on the screen unfortunately, but that's it seems to
[26:10] Speaker 1: be a widespread stream labs things to just be aware
[26:14] Speaker 1: of that. If you don't see them and you're wondering
[26:18] Speaker 1: where they are, don't blame me, but they are coming through.
[26:23] Speaker 1: Let's bring up the wheel and take it for a spin.
[26:26] Speaker 1: Let's see how many likes we need. We do have
[26:28] Speaker 1: a bonus goal in the chat, by the way, a
[26:30] Speaker 1: bonus super check goal. We're already halfway there. If we
[26:32] Speaker 1: hit that goal, we'll do bonus. Be the booker. But
[26:34] Speaker 1: let's find out how many likes we need to do
[26:37] Speaker 1: B to B, which is a fun little thing we
[26:39] Speaker 1: do here on these streams. If we hit our goal,
[26:43] Speaker 1: let's find out four fifty a modest goal. I have
[26:50] Speaker 1: a feeling we're not going to have an issue with that.
[26:55] Speaker 1: I have a feeling that that's not going to be
[26:56] Speaker 1: a problem. We are already up to three eighty five,
[27:00] Speaker 1: so four fifty is the goal. You guys know what
[27:03] Speaker 1: to do. Go ahead and hit that thumbs up. I
[27:07] Speaker 1: do want to acknowledge I know we got a I believe.
[27:11] Speaker 1: Let me see here if it's who it was from,
[27:16] Speaker 1: but I believe we got a gunhar bomb. We did,
[27:20] Speaker 1: we did, we did, we did, we did. We got
[27:25] Speaker 1: a gun thar bomb here from Eric the Sean who
[27:30] Speaker 1: dropped a fifty dollars super Chell. Let me bring it
[27:32] Speaker 1: up in a separate window. So I'm going to read
[27:34] Speaker 1: his now, because that is a that is a big one.
[27:38] Speaker 1: That's what she said. Congratulations to Sammy for finally winning
[27:43] Speaker 1: the big one. Honestly, wish it would have happened a
[27:45] Speaker 1: little bit sooner, but I guess it's better than never.
[27:48] Speaker 1: Does this pave the way for a Kevin Owens return
[27:50] Speaker 1: to either congratulate Sammy or attack him? See great, great
[27:54] Speaker 1: minds think alike. Here these two men will forever be linked.
[27:58] Speaker 1: If one has success, yes, you know, automatically, you got
[28:02] Speaker 1: to think about the other one, right, is the other
[28:03] Speaker 1: one going to turn on them? Is the other one
[28:05] Speaker 1: gonna you know, be happy for them? And they've gotta
[28:07] Speaker 1: be partners again. I just don't know where he is
[28:10] Speaker 1: in terms of his recovery and getting cleared. That was
[28:14] Speaker 1: my first thought. Honestly, It's like, how can they weave
[28:16] Speaker 1: Kevin Owens into this because he's a SmackDown guy too,
[28:19] Speaker 1: But I just don't know if he's I don't know
[28:21] Speaker 1: that he's medically clear, but that doesn't necessarily mean he
[28:24] Speaker 1: can't show up on TV. You know, he may not
[28:28] Speaker 1: be able to wrestle, but if they can figure out
[28:30] Speaker 1: a way to kind of work him into a story
[28:32] Speaker 1: on TV, then who knows, you know, we may see him.
[28:37] Speaker 1: But Eric, thank you, brother. I appreciate that. Michael Cole
[28:41] Speaker 1: and Corey Graves, they were on the call here for
[28:44] Speaker 1: this show. Michael Cole's audio at the beginning of the
[28:48] Speaker 1: show was noticeably clipping anytime he yelled. He sounded like
[28:53] Speaker 1: a YouTuber, so anytime he yelled, he was clipping, and
[28:57] Speaker 1: Corey graves audio also was kind of cutting in and out.
[29:00] Speaker 1: It was very low. At one point. There was a
[29:02] Speaker 1: lot of weird stuff going on with the audio. I
[29:04] Speaker 1: think they fixed Cohle's problem about halfway through, but then
[29:08] Speaker 1: we had more audio problems at the end during the
[29:10] Speaker 1: main event because the announced desk got taken out, which
[29:13] Speaker 1: we'll get to. But they opened this show first hour
[29:16] Speaker 1: on ESPN with the King of the Ring final between
[29:21] Speaker 1: Oba Femi and Jay Usso. So Jay came out first,
[29:27] Speaker 1: he yeaded his way down to the ring and then
[29:30] Speaker 1: it was Oba there was a random burst of pyro
[29:34] Speaker 1: off camera for some reason, or a concussion, I guess
[29:36] Speaker 1: is what they called them. I don't know what that
[29:38] Speaker 1: was about. Sounded like a cannon went off, and nobody
[29:41] Speaker 1: really acknowledged it. And then we were underway and the
[29:44] Speaker 1: match began. We got a right hand from Jay that
[29:47] Speaker 1: only stunned Oba, who mowed him down with a shoulder block.
[29:51] Speaker 1: Jay ducked outside. Oba went out after him, and so
[29:54] Speaker 1: Jay sent him into the ring post. Then he got
[29:56] Speaker 1: back inside. He hit Oba with a suicide dive, and
[30:00] Speaker 1: then another one. A third one got cut off. Oba
[30:03] Speaker 1: hoisted him up. He was going to give him a
[30:04] Speaker 1: shoulder breaker, and he did. And on commentary, I noticed
[30:09] Speaker 1: at this point we were already up to about three
[30:13] Speaker 1: or four mentions, three or four name drops of brock
[30:16] Speaker 1: Lesner on comment his various references to brock Lesner and
[30:20] Speaker 1: Oba's previous battles with him, and I was like, hmm,
[30:25] Speaker 1: they're sure mentioning his name an awful lot, which takes
[30:28] Speaker 1: away if he's going to show up as a surprise,
[30:30] Speaker 1: you wouldn't want to mention his name. You wouldn't even
[30:32] Speaker 1: want people to have brock Lesnar on the brain. So
[30:35] Speaker 1: the fact that they mentioned him several times during this
[30:38] Speaker 1: match was very noticeable to me that maybe we're not
[30:41] Speaker 1: going to see him here. So Oba got him up
[30:45] Speaker 1: for a fall from grace and he fell down on
[30:48] Speaker 1: his butt like he normally would. But before he fell
[30:50] Speaker 1: down on his ass, Jay had slipped out. He slipped
[30:53] Speaker 1: out behind him and so he gave him a super
[30:55] Speaker 1: kick to the back of the head. He went up top,
[30:57] Speaker 1: he hit an USO splash, not even a one count
[31:00] Speaker 1: because Ober reached up and he goozled him. He grabbed
[31:02] Speaker 1: him by the throat. Oba planted him. Then after this
[31:06] Speaker 1: with a choke slam for a two count. There were
[31:09] Speaker 1: multiple super kicks by Jay as he fought back, and
[31:13] Speaker 1: then there was a spear that took down Oba. Jay
[31:17] Speaker 1: go's up top. He lands another USO splash, but he
[31:19] Speaker 1: didn't go for the pin. He didn't follow up with
[31:22] Speaker 1: the pin, which was very strange, and the announcers pointed
[31:24] Speaker 1: out that, well, he may have hurt his ribs on
[31:27] Speaker 1: the way down. I'm like, well, he never hurts his
[31:28] Speaker 1: ribs before when he does the splash, And then they
[31:32] Speaker 1: also floated the possibility that he may be exhausted and
[31:35] Speaker 1: that's a little more believable. I don't think anybody would.
[31:38] Speaker 1: Would you be too shocked to find out if jay
[31:42] Speaker 1: Uso was, you know, exhausted by this point in the match.
[31:45] Speaker 1: So anyway, he didn't follow up with a pin. Both
[31:47] Speaker 1: men were down, so he went up top. He had
[31:50] Speaker 1: a second Uso splash, this time he covered. Oba kicked
[31:53] Speaker 1: out it too. Jay got a sleeper hole applied on
[31:58] Speaker 1: the mat, and they pointed out on comment it's the
[32:00] Speaker 1: same move that he used to beat Gunther to win
[32:03] Speaker 1: the World championship. Yeah, you don't have to remind us.
[32:05] Speaker 1: We remember that. We're never gonna forget the ending of
[32:08] Speaker 1: that match and the way that went down. Oba them
[32:11] Speaker 1: made it back up to his feet very easily. He
[32:13] Speaker 1: broke free a pair of running uppercuts, then dropped Jay.
[32:17] Speaker 1: He hoisted him up, he bealed him and now it's
[32:22] Speaker 1: time for the fall from grace. And I'm waiting. I'm
[32:26] Speaker 1: just waiting for the fuckery. I'm like, Okay, something's about
[32:28] Speaker 1: to happen here. Someone's coming out, Rock showing up. Something's
[32:31] Speaker 1: gonna happen here. Gets him up for the fall from grace.
[32:35] Speaker 1: Down goes jay Uso and Oba Femi pins jay Uso
[32:41] Speaker 1: clean as a sheet one two three in the middle
[32:44] Speaker 1: of the ring about eight minutes in to become the
[32:47] Speaker 1: King of the Ring. Nick Aldis was there to present
[32:51] Speaker 1: the crown to Oba. Not as nice as not as
[32:54] Speaker 1: nice as this one right here. He presented the crown. Honestly,
[32:57] Speaker 1: it was probably it's probably made of the same plastic
[32:59] Speaker 1: as it one is. You know, you know, those fucking
[33:04] Speaker 1: crowns are just cheap, cheap as fuck. So Adam Pierce
[33:09] Speaker 1: wasn't there for whatever reason, but Nick all this was.
[33:12] Speaker 1: And so he presents the crown to Oba, who never
[33:15] Speaker 1: put it on his head. Neither's a gunther now that
[33:18] Speaker 1: I think about it. They probably didn't want them to
[33:21] Speaker 1: look ridiculous with it on their head. Interestingly, Cody had
[33:24] Speaker 1: no problem putting the crown on his head and looking silly,
[33:28] Speaker 1: but I don't think Oba ever actually put the crown
[33:30] Speaker 1: on his head. Byron Saxton got in the ring to
[33:32] Speaker 1: interview him. Oba said, it feels good to go from
[33:34] Speaker 1: being the ruler to being the king. He said, you
[33:38] Speaker 1: can't beat Destiny, and most importantly, you can't beat him.
[33:43] Speaker 1: He is the mountain that you cannot conquer. He is
[33:45] Speaker 1: the beast slayer. He is the king of the ring,
[33:48] Speaker 1: Oba Bemi, And I'm just sitting here and I'm thinking
[33:53] Speaker 1: to myself, thank god, common sense prevailed. At the end
[33:58] Speaker 1: of the day, they made the right move. There really
[34:02] Speaker 1: only should have been one outcome to this. It was
[34:05] Speaker 1: the obvious one. But they got a lot of people
[34:07] Speaker 1: very worried because the blood line, right is the end
[34:11] Speaker 1: all be all in this company. And Jay had gotten
[34:13] Speaker 1: this renewed singles push lately, and he made it all
[34:15] Speaker 1: the way to the finals, and we knew Brock was lurking.
[34:17] Speaker 1: We didn't know if he was going to show up
[34:19] Speaker 1: or not. This match was only going to go one
[34:22] Speaker 1: of two ways, right, Either Oba wins or Jay wins. Duh, obviously,
[34:26] Speaker 1: but as far as how Jay only wins if Brock interferes.
[34:31] Speaker 1: If Brock Lesner shows up, that's how Jay Uso wins.
[34:34] Speaker 1: So either Brock shows up or he doesn't, and if
[34:37] Speaker 1: he doesn't, then Oba wins. And that's what they did.
[34:41] Speaker 1: No interference, no Shenanigan's no fuckery here. And again them
[34:47] Speaker 1: name dropping Brock all those times, to me was kind
[34:49] Speaker 1: of a giveaway that he probably wasn't going to shot.
[34:51] Speaker 1: I mean I wasn't one hundred percent sure, but by
[34:55] Speaker 1: the third or fourth mention of brock Lesnar, I was
[34:57] Speaker 1: pretty sure that he wasn't showing up here in this match. Now, look,
[35:01] Speaker 1: some people are gonna quibble, I'm sure over how much
[35:04] Speaker 1: offense Jay got. It went eight minutes, he got. They
[35:07] Speaker 1: gave him a lot in this match, and he got
[35:09] Speaker 1: a bunch of neer falls. That doesn't bother me, because
[35:13] Speaker 1: of course they're gonna give him offense here. I know
[35:15] Speaker 1: that there are a lot of people out there who
[35:17] Speaker 1: don't either like jay Uso or who just don't feel
[35:20] Speaker 1: like he is someone who should be in the position
[35:23] Speaker 1: that he's in where he's you know, main eventing stuff
[35:26] Speaker 1: on his own right, Been there, done that, And I'm
[35:29] Speaker 1: kind of in the same camp. I'm over it. I
[35:31] Speaker 1: don't hate jay Uso, but he had no business being
[35:33] Speaker 1: in this match. He certainly had no business beating Obafemi
[35:37] Speaker 1: and going on to the main event a summerslim. But
[35:40] Speaker 1: at the same time, I also understand like he's still
[35:42] Speaker 1: super over. He comes out, the people yeat, the kids yeat,
[35:45] Speaker 1: he moves a lot of merch. I get it. He's
[35:47] Speaker 1: part of the bloodline, of course, he's always going to
[35:49] Speaker 1: be in that top mix. You have to expect that
[35:52] Speaker 1: they're gonna give him something here, especially if they're gonna
[35:55] Speaker 1: beat him clean. They're at least going to make him
[35:57] Speaker 1: look strong before then. So it's not the end of
[36:00] Speaker 1: the world. It's not a big deal. The only thing
[36:03] Speaker 1: that matters here is that Oba one. I don't give
[36:08] Speaker 1: a shit that jay Usso. I mean, he could have
[36:10] Speaker 1: had ninety five percent of the match, as stupid as
[36:12] Speaker 1: that would have been the only thing that mattered here.
[36:15] Speaker 1: Who goes over? And at the end, the right man
[36:18] Speaker 1: went over. So that's the thing. Now again my main
[36:22] Speaker 1: issue I mentioned at the top. You could have done
[36:25] Speaker 1: Obafemi and bron Breaker. You could have done Obafemi and
[36:29] Speaker 1: Seth rollins. We know why they didn't because they wanted
[36:31] Speaker 1: to have rollins and break or wrestle each other on
[36:33] Speaker 1: this show. You could have done Obafemi and Royce Keys.
[36:36] Speaker 1: You could have done Obafemi and Javon Evans and you
[36:39] Speaker 1: would have gotten a much better match out of it.
[36:41] Speaker 1: I think that would have been more interesting. I think
[36:44] Speaker 1: we would have gotten a better wrestling match out of it. It
[36:47] Speaker 1: would have been maybe a little more exciting in that way.
[36:50] Speaker 1: So I just think as King of the Ring finals go,
[36:54] Speaker 1: this one was very unremarkable. This one was very underwhelming.
[36:58] Speaker 1: It was a perfectly fine television match that you would
[37:02] Speaker 1: see on any given episode of Raw or SmackDown. But
[37:06] Speaker 1: I would expect a little bit more out of a
[37:08] Speaker 1: pl match. I would expect a little bit more out
[37:10] Speaker 1: of a King of the Ring final, any tournament final.
[37:13] Speaker 1: So that that was my other issue with this. Now,
[37:16] Speaker 1: the announcers, we're wondering which champion is Oba going to
[37:20] Speaker 1: choose for SummerSlam, because you have the choice now, I
[37:24] Speaker 1: don't think they've really done it that way before. We
[37:28] Speaker 1: didn't get our answer. They're gonna make us wait at
[37:30] Speaker 1: least until Monday, if not longer. I would think Monday.
[37:34] Speaker 1: We may well get our answer. On Monday. Roman Rains
[37:36] Speaker 1: is back on the show in Atlantic City on Monday.
[37:39] Speaker 1: Early start time, by the way, six pm to be
[37:42] Speaker 1: er work because they're taping Raw and SmackDown on Monday
[37:46] Speaker 1: to give all the wrestlers off later in the week
[37:48] Speaker 1: for July fourth, So six pm Raw on Netflix. Just
[37:52] Speaker 1: so you're aware, Roman is back on the show. We
[37:55] Speaker 1: may got our answer. Then we may got our first
[37:57] Speaker 1: face to face in the ring between Roman and Noble, which, honestly,
[38:00] Speaker 1: what else is Oba gonna do? You know what I mean?
[38:03] Speaker 1: Like you would think he would show up and confront
[38:05] Speaker 1: Roman reigns, but like to me, there's no mystery to it.
[38:09] Speaker 1: We had Oba in the ring on Raw last week,
[38:11] Speaker 1: pulling the audience. He put both options out there, which
[38:16] Speaker 1: champion should I challenge for SummerSlam after I become king?
[38:19] Speaker 1: And he mentioned should I go after the WWE Championship?
[38:22] Speaker 1: And the reaction was kind of lukewarm, and he said
[38:26] Speaker 1: or and he saved it for last, should I go
[38:29] Speaker 1: after the World Heavyweight Championship? And everybody cheered wildly. So
[38:34] Speaker 1: we know what the fans would like to see him do, right,
[38:37] Speaker 1: We know which champion we we as the fans by
[38:40] Speaker 1: and large, would like to see him go after. But
[38:43] Speaker 1: I also feel like in his promo that he had
[38:44] Speaker 1: with Jay Uso, he made it pretty clear. You know,
[38:47] Speaker 1: he told Jay basically tell your cousin. Right he was,
[38:49] Speaker 1: he was telling us basically who he's going after. So
[38:52] Speaker 1: I think we all know what the answer is. It's
[38:54] Speaker 1: going to be Roman and Oba hopefully at SummerSlam, if
[38:59] Speaker 1: by chance, So he doesn't go after Roman, I would
[39:03] Speaker 1: think Seth Rollins would be the most likely option, because honestly,
[39:07] Speaker 1: if Oba picks Roman, I don't know what Rollin we're
[39:10] Speaker 1: talking about, bron Breaker, I don't know what Rollins does
[39:14] Speaker 1: at SummerSlam. If it's not Rollins and Roman plus Bronson,
[39:18] Speaker 1: Reed is going to be back in the next month,
[39:20] Speaker 1: and they want to do Rollins and Red, which I
[39:22] Speaker 1: feel like we've already done. If he's not wrestling for
[39:25] Speaker 1: the for the World Championship, I don't even know what
[39:28] Speaker 1: he would be doing. It seems to me like there
[39:32] Speaker 1: are a couple of options that seem very likely now
[39:36] Speaker 1: that we know who the King of the Ring is.
[39:40] Speaker 1: This idea has been discussed, and I know we've talked
[39:43] Speaker 1: about it on TNT. I've talked about it on my
[39:45] Speaker 1: end of having Oba wrestle twice, right, having Oba wrestle twice,
[39:51] Speaker 1: And actually, that's a great point in the Chad Zora
[39:53] Speaker 1: makes a very good point. I forgot about that. Seth
[39:58] Speaker 1: and Jacobs a great point I mentioned on Raw and
[40:02] Speaker 1: not this past Monday, but the week before the last
[40:05] Speaker 1: time Roman was on the show. If you remember that
[40:07] Speaker 1: last segment in the back because Jacob had gone out there.
[40:12] Speaker 1: I think he gave La Knight the spike and he
[40:14] Speaker 1: beat up eric Andre and everything, and Roman told him
[40:18] Speaker 1: this one thing left I need you to do. I
[40:21] Speaker 1: remember he whispered something in his ear, and the only
[40:25] Speaker 1: words I could really make out if you're a lip reader,
[40:27] Speaker 1: was kill him. Right, he was talking about someone whoever
[40:30] Speaker 1: it was, kill him? But I thought that I had heard,
[40:34] Speaker 1: like I kind of. I rewatched it and I leaned in,
[40:37] Speaker 1: and I thought before that I heard Roman say the
[40:39] Speaker 1: name Seth Rawlins. It sounded to me like he had
[40:43] Speaker 1: mentioned Seth's name, which I was thinking about, like, all right,
[40:46] Speaker 1: well they're not really actively feuding. Does that even make sense?
[40:50] Speaker 1: But boy, it sure sounded to me like he mentioned
[40:52] Speaker 1: Seth Rollins. So you may be onto something there. If
[40:57] Speaker 1: I was right about that and he was talking about Seth,
[41:00] Speaker 1: then we may see Jacob attacks Seth as early as
[41:02] Speaker 1: Raw on Monday. So that's a good point. Seth and
[41:07] Speaker 1: Jacob could be the match. Are we looking at Oba
[41:10] Speaker 1: wrestling twice at SummerSlam? You got two nights of SummerSlam.
[41:14] Speaker 1: We know Brock and Oba are going to wrestle again
[41:16] Speaker 1: at some point if they want Brock in a match
[41:21] Speaker 1: in Minneapolis, an actual match. The only matches against Oba, Like,
[41:26] Speaker 1: that's it. He's not wrestling Gunther, He's not wrestling anybody
[41:29] Speaker 1: but Oba Femi. If Brocklesna wrestles on that show, do
[41:33] Speaker 1: we get that on one night and do we get
[41:35] Speaker 1: Oba challenging Roman on the other night? Right, seems like
[41:38] Speaker 1: a very realistic possibility. There's another possibility, which is that
[41:45] Speaker 1: we get Oba and Roman and they're not quite ready
[41:48] Speaker 1: to put the championship on Oba yet or take it
[41:50] Speaker 1: off Roman, and they do a finish where Brock doesn't wrestle,
[41:55] Speaker 1: but he shows up at Summer Slam and he costs
[41:59] Speaker 1: Oba Femi the World Heavyweight Championship. We all thought that
[42:02] Speaker 1: he was going to cost him the King of the Ring.
[42:05] Speaker 1: He cost him something even bigger than that. He cost
[42:08] Speaker 1: him the world title, which then allows Oba and Brock
[42:13] Speaker 1: to go off to have their rematch and finish their feud,
[42:16] Speaker 1: and you put off the coronation of Obafemi until Saudi
[42:20] Speaker 1: Mania next year, WrestleMania forty three. That to me, honestly,
[42:23] Speaker 1: that seems like the likeliest scenario as I sit here
[42:27] Speaker 1: right now and I mull all of this over. I
[42:30] Speaker 1: think that there's a very very good possibility of that happening,
[42:34] Speaker 1: which again it's not like we haven't seen that in
[42:36] Speaker 1: years past, where they don't want to crown somebody at SummerSlam,
[42:40] Speaker 1: so they want to hold it off until wrestling. That
[42:42] Speaker 1: was the idea with Luger back in ninety three. He
[42:44] Speaker 1: won in this whole bus tour, the whole summer. Everything
[42:47] Speaker 1: was building to him winning the World Championship from Yokozuna
[42:50] Speaker 1: and he didn't, and he didn't, and then we found
[42:53] Speaker 1: out the stipulation was that you can't challenge for the
[42:56] Speaker 1: title again. He won the rumble to get around that.
[42:59] Speaker 1: But the idea was that Vince didn't want a crown
[43:01] Speaker 1: him at Summer Slim, he wanted to hold off on
[43:03] Speaker 1: it until WrestleMania ten. But shit happened in the meantime
[43:07] Speaker 1: and plans change. Look at Daniel Brian back in twenty thirteen,
[43:10] Speaker 1: he actually did win the belt, lost it the same night,
[43:14] Speaker 1: and as things turned out, he won the championship of WrestleMania.
[43:17] Speaker 1: So it's not like we haven't seen this sort of
[43:19] Speaker 1: thing before. So I think those are the options that
[43:23] Speaker 1: we're looking at right now. But I can't see Oba.
[43:27] Speaker 1: I can't see Oba picking anybody, but Roman reigns. Just
[43:30] Speaker 1: based on what we saw and heard from him on
[43:33] Speaker 1: Monday night, that would seem to be the direction here.
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[44:57] Speaker 1: after a four minute break, we were to have the
[45:00] Speaker 1: finals of the Queen of the Ring with the Women's
[45:03] Speaker 1: World Champion, Live Morgan taking on EO sky Boy. They
[45:07] Speaker 1: were really running through these finals, weren't they. They wanted
[45:10] Speaker 1: to fit everything in that first hour on ESPN and
[45:12] Speaker 1: just be done with this stuff, which I guess I
[45:15] Speaker 1: can understand. You know, you kind of do this. You
[45:17] Speaker 1: front load it with the King and Queen of the
[45:20] Speaker 1: Ring stuff, pad it in the middle, and then you
[45:24] Speaker 1: close with the WWE Championship, So I guess that kind
[45:27] Speaker 1: of makes sense. But instead, before any of the women
[45:31] Speaker 1: can come out, we had Dan Housen, who is not
[45:34] Speaker 1: a woman, at least not to my knowledge. But he
[45:36] Speaker 1: came out on stage and he said hello to rehot Housen. Right,
[45:41] Speaker 1: is that what he said, reh hot Housen, Rehothausen. I
[45:44] Speaker 1: don't know what he's said. He said, he's recently come
[45:47] Speaker 1: into a large amount of human monies. But before he
[45:52] Speaker 1: could continue, Live Morgan made her entrance for the next match,
[45:56] Speaker 1: and she stopped on stage and she confronted Dan and said,
[46:00] Speaker 1: speaking of money, you owe the judgment day a whole
[46:03] Speaker 1: lot of money, and if you don't give it back,
[46:05] Speaker 1: a lot of bad things are going to happen to you.
[46:08] Speaker 1: So Dan Housen said, I I have no idea what
[46:10] Speaker 1: you're talking about, and then he placed a curse, placed
[46:16] Speaker 1: a curse on liv Morgan, and so Live smacked the
[46:20] Speaker 1: shit out of him and then continued on with her entrance.
[46:22] Speaker 1: So before EO Sky even came out, before EO Sky
[46:26] Speaker 1: even made her way to the ring, she already won
[46:29] Speaker 1: Queen of the Ring. We already knew how this was
[46:32] Speaker 1: going to end. They gave away the finish. EO tried
[46:39] Speaker 1: for a sunset flip power bomb to the floor early
[46:42] Speaker 1: on Live blocked it and on the floor EO came
[46:45] Speaker 1: off the barricade with a crossbody and she was celebrating,
[46:48] Speaker 1: but Live sent her headfirst into the ring post. Morgan
[46:53] Speaker 1: went for a Boston craw. Actually before that, Live she
[46:56] Speaker 1: hit the three Amigos and then uh An inzugary to
[46:59] Speaker 1: the back of the ahead. When EO was trying to
[47:02] Speaker 1: get up, got to get that three Amigo's reference in there,
[47:06] Speaker 1: Morgan went for a Boston crab. She leaned too far back, though,
[47:09] Speaker 1: and EO rolled through and she jumped up gave her
[47:12] Speaker 1: a standing double stump. EO came off the top rope
[47:16] Speaker 1: with a missile dropkick. Live was able to escape a
[47:19] Speaker 1: double underhook into a backstabber EO. They'll rolled out to
[47:23] Speaker 1: the floor, so Live went for a dive. EO cut
[47:25] Speaker 1: her off with a forearm and EO hit a springboard
[47:27] Speaker 1: moon salt to the floor. Back inside, eodroped Lived with
[47:30] Speaker 1: a double underhook into a backbreaker for a near fall.
[47:34] Speaker 1: She went to the top. She was setting up with
[47:36] Speaker 1: a big moon salt, but she had her back turned
[47:40] Speaker 1: to Live and so Liv was able to shove her
[47:42] Speaker 1: off and EO landed on the steps. Now she landed
[47:45] Speaker 1: perfectly on the steps right. She didn't land in her leg,
[47:48] Speaker 1: bend or anything right, but she was supposed to sell that.
[47:51] Speaker 1: She tweaked her knee. It didn't look like anything at all,
[47:54] Speaker 1: but she had to sell it that way. So she's
[47:56] Speaker 1: laying on the floor outside and she's writhing around now
[48:00] Speaker 1: in pain, and Live of course hones in on that
[48:07] Speaker 1: like a shark tasting blood, and she goes in and
[48:11] Speaker 1: she starts to work over the knee. She locked in
[48:13] Speaker 1: a half crab, same way that she did when she
[48:16] Speaker 1: beat Charlotte Flair to advance in the Queen of the Ring.
[48:20] Speaker 1: Eo tried to get to the ropes. Live, though dragged
[48:22] Speaker 1: her back to the center of the ring. Eo escaped
[48:24] Speaker 1: Live hit a codebreaker out of what at first looked
[48:28] Speaker 1: like an attempt at an Oblivion Morgan, though did go
[48:31] Speaker 1: for oblivion. Eo avoided it. The liv got caught up
[48:34] Speaker 1: in the ropes. Eo went for a dive off the
[48:37] Speaker 1: middle rope. She missed again. She jammed her knee Live
[48:42] Speaker 1: in an Eo. They were fighting up top. Eo landed
[48:46] Speaker 1: a top rope Spanish fly before racing back up to
[48:49] Speaker 1: the top to hit her over the moon salt to
[48:51] Speaker 1: win the match and the crown, and after Nick All
[48:55] Speaker 1: this presented EO with her crown Byron Saxton got in
[48:58] Speaker 1: the ring and asked her, how does it feel it'll
[49:00] Speaker 1: be the twenty twenty six Queen of the Ring and
[49:04] Speaker 1: she said, yes, I am the Queen. And then she
[49:09] Speaker 1: said live. Who is sitting in the aisle licking her wound?
[49:12] Speaker 1: She goes, live, I'll see you at SummerSlam. She didn't
[49:18] Speaker 1: need She was like, I ain't going to SmackDown. I
[49:20] Speaker 1: don't want to have anything to do with SmackDown. I'm
[49:22] Speaker 1: perfectly content where I am on Raw. Don't send me
[49:25] Speaker 1: over there. I'm staying put. She didn't need any time
[49:28] Speaker 1: to make her decision. I don't blame her. She wanted
[49:29] Speaker 1: nothing to do with SmackDown. She said, the hell with that.
[49:34] Speaker 1: I thought the match itself, I thought the match itself
[49:37] Speaker 1: was solid. I thought this was a better match than
[49:39] Speaker 1: Oba and Jay easily, and not just because it was
[49:42] Speaker 1: twice as long. I actually think it didn't need to
[49:44] Speaker 1: go as long as it did. It was kind of
[49:45] Speaker 1: dragging a little bit, but they had the better match.
[49:48] Speaker 1: This was a better match than Oba and Jay had.
[49:51] Speaker 1: But neither of these finals. Again, that's My issue with it.
[49:54] Speaker 1: Neither of these finals rose to the level of anything
[49:58] Speaker 1: truly memorable or that you would look back on and go, man,
[50:01] Speaker 1: that was a great like, what a great match to
[50:04] Speaker 1: pay off this tournament. Unfortunately this year we didn't get that.
[50:07] Speaker 1: We got that with Gunther and Randy a few years ago,
[50:11] Speaker 1: we didn't get that this year with either one. And
[50:13] Speaker 1: the crowd was very flat again outside for some of
[50:16] Speaker 1: the stuff that EO was doing in the finish, they
[50:18] Speaker 1: were very flat for this. Doing the Dan Housen bit
[50:22] Speaker 1: right before this. I know they think that that's cute
[50:24] Speaker 1: and everything. It does give the finish away, though. I mean, look,
[50:28] Speaker 1: anybody with a brain who's been following this week to week,
[50:33] Speaker 1: you had no reason to believe that liv Morgan was
[50:35] Speaker 1: going to win this tournament. Okay, there was a very
[50:37] Speaker 1: low probability to begin with that Live was gonna win.
[50:40] Speaker 1: I think EO was the safe choice. But once they
[50:43] Speaker 1: did that bit you know before the match, that just,
[50:46] Speaker 1: you know, kind of gave the store away right there.
[50:48] Speaker 1: The other thing also that I thought was weird and
[50:50] Speaker 1: I didn't like they spent the latter part of the
[50:54] Speaker 1: match after she tweaked her knee EO is screaming and selling,
[50:58] Speaker 1: and Live is working it over, and she's got the
[51:00] Speaker 1: half crab like she's fucking landstorm and she's trying to
[51:06] Speaker 1: sell this knee injury. But then she hits the top rope,
[51:08] Speaker 1: you know, she hits this avalanche Spanish fly, lands on
[51:12] Speaker 1: her knees, by the way flat. When she does, immediately
[51:15] Speaker 1: gets back up, races back to the top rope and
[51:17] Speaker 1: hits her moonsaw again, landing on her knees, And I'm like, Okay,
[51:22] Speaker 1: well that was kind of dumb. I mean, if you're
[51:24] Speaker 1: gonna have her all of a sudden start selling the
[51:26] Speaker 1: leg and then the last two big spots of the
[51:29] Speaker 1: match just totally no sells it. So that's my little
[51:33] Speaker 1: minor nitpick of that. But EO choosing Lived, to me,
[51:36] Speaker 1: that was the expected decision. I'm surprised that there were people.
[51:40] Speaker 1: I got some replies and mentions about this from people.
[51:44] Speaker 1: Do you wish that she would have picked Rhea? And
[51:45] Speaker 1: I just kind of look at it and I go,
[51:48] Speaker 1: you can make sense of it by saying that Ria
[51:51] Speaker 1: has never been able to be EO. They still have
[51:54] Speaker 1: that story at some point they have to explore. At
[51:56] Speaker 1: some point Rhea has to get her win over Eo,
[52:00] Speaker 1: maybe at WrestleMania one day. So if you want to
[52:04] Speaker 1: look at it from that perspective, EO could go, Rhea,
[52:07] Speaker 1: I love you, but I want a challenge for your
[52:10] Speaker 1: championship because you've never beaten me. I guess you can
[52:15] Speaker 1: make sense of it that way, but I just look
[52:16] Speaker 1: at it and go. These two have been portrayed as
[52:18] Speaker 1: like the best of friends right on television, what a
[52:23] Speaker 1: shitty friend. If Leo was to pick Ria, Like why
[52:26] Speaker 1: would she pick Ria? That just never made any sense
[52:30] Speaker 1: to me. And also I just figured they don't want
[52:32] Speaker 1: them back on the same show. So it always felt
[52:35] Speaker 1: to me like, if Leo actually pulls this out, she's
[52:38] Speaker 1: just gonna have a rematch with Live. If she beat
[52:40] Speaker 1: her once, I could beat you again, right, and then
[52:41] Speaker 1: she'll she'll challenge for the World Championship at Summer Slim.
[52:45] Speaker 1: So I think that's the right move. We don't even
[52:47] Speaker 1: know what Rihea's status is going to be. They're talking
[52:49] Speaker 1: about her on television like she's going to be there
[52:51] Speaker 1: at Summer Slim. I don't even know if they know.
[52:54] Speaker 1: Last we heard a couple of weeks ago on TV
[52:56] Speaker 1: they said that she was undergoing treatment and they were
[52:58] Speaker 1: waiting to see if the treatment worked. We don't even
[53:01] Speaker 1: know what the injury is. It's fifty to fifty right now,
[53:04] Speaker 1: right down the middle. Nobody knows. Rhea Ripley may wrestle
[53:07] Speaker 1: at SummerSlam. She may not wrestle at SummerSlam, but I
[53:10] Speaker 1: don't think that even factored into this. Even if she's
[53:13] Speaker 1: one hundred percent healthy, I never really felt like that
[53:16] Speaker 1: was going to be the match to do. What does
[53:19] Speaker 1: this mean for Live in the judgment day? Is she
[53:22] Speaker 1: going to be upset that Raquel and Roxanne weren't there
[53:26] Speaker 1: to help her and support her. I think that's very likely.
[53:31] Speaker 1: Is she actually going to defend her championship at SummerSlam?
[53:36] Speaker 1: Is she going to defend her championship before SummerSlam? I mean,
[53:40] Speaker 1: we have to expect that Live will still be championed
[53:42] Speaker 1: by SummerSlam. I mean that seems pretty likely. But is
[53:45] Speaker 1: she going to defend her title a little all before SummerSlam?
[53:48] Speaker 1: Live Morgan has been the champion since WrestleMania. We are
[53:51] Speaker 1: looking at a situation where it is entirely possible that
[53:54] Speaker 1: by the time we get to SummerSlam, liv Morgan will
[53:57] Speaker 1: have been champions since WrestleMania without a single title defense,
[54:02] Speaker 1: which is completely preposterous. Like that is so unbelievably stupid.
[54:08] Speaker 1: I don't even know where to begin. Stephanie Vicaire gets hurt,
[54:12] Speaker 1: she disappears, everything falls apart. Oh my god, we have
[54:16] Speaker 1: we have nobody for Live Morgan to wrestle. We'll just
[54:18] Speaker 1: have her keep the belt warm for a few months.
[54:20] Speaker 1: What is that stretch? April to August? Right one? Two?
[54:23] Speaker 1: Four months of no title defense is good job. She
[54:26] Speaker 1: may well end up beating the Jade Cargill record. I
[54:29] Speaker 1: think Jade went a little over one hundred days without
[54:33] Speaker 1: defending her championship. Exciting stuff. Let me tell you, boy,
[54:37] Speaker 1: that sure is riveting stuff. You know, for a company
[54:41] Speaker 1: that has all these plees and they have hours of
[54:43] Speaker 1: weekly television every single week, and you have a champion
[54:47] Speaker 1: who's probably going to go four months without a single
[54:49] Speaker 1: title defense, that's really exciting stuff. Good job. And then
[54:55] Speaker 1: Stephanie Vicaire, I don't know how she may factor into things.
[54:59] Speaker 1: We may get staf Deephanie back on television very soon.
[55:01] Speaker 1: Maybe Stephanie is going to be added to this. You know,
[55:04] Speaker 1: I mentioned last week the possibility that maybe they can
[55:07] Speaker 1: somehow work themselves into a situation where it's not one
[55:10] Speaker 1: on one. Maybe it's a triple threat match at Summer
[55:13] Speaker 1: Slim if they can get Stephanie back. I don't know
[55:15] Speaker 1: what's going on with Stephanie. I know she was hurt.
[55:17] Speaker 1: She's got to be okay by now. I mean, is
[55:19] Speaker 1: she the victim of visa issues? We've heard rumors of
[55:22] Speaker 1: certain talents being affected by visa issues. We don't know,
[55:27] Speaker 1: we don't know. It's like the Ilia Dragon off thing,
[55:29] Speaker 1: Like he just completely vanished from television, vanished. I have
[55:37] Speaker 1: to assume there's a reason for that, and I don't
[55:39] Speaker 1: believe it's injury related. Again, maybe he's the victim of
[55:43] Speaker 1: visa issues as well. The way some people just kind
[55:46] Speaker 1: of dropped off the face of the earth and they
[55:48] Speaker 1: haven't even been mentioned or used in any capacity on television,
[55:54] Speaker 1: there's clearly something else going on here. And so ended
[56:00] Speaker 1: the ESPN portion of this of this broadcast, and after
[56:06] Speaker 1: several minutes of commercials and bullshit, it was finally time
[56:10] Speaker 1: for another wrestling match, a steel cage match between Seth
[56:14] Speaker 1: Rollins and bron Breaker, and what we were told was
[56:16] Speaker 1: only bron Breaker's second cage match, the second steel cage
[56:20] Speaker 1: match that bron Breaker has ever been in. What happened
[56:25] Speaker 1: to Jordan Well, Jordan Grace, that's that. I don't think
[56:29] Speaker 1: that's a visa issue. Was she was she Canadian? I
[56:34] Speaker 1: don't know. Is Jordan Grace Canadian? Who knows? Maybe there
[56:40] Speaker 1: is a visa issue with her. I don't know. I
[56:43] Speaker 1: know she's been trying to get her pilot's license and
[56:45] Speaker 1: she just got she just got informed that she's not
[56:48] Speaker 1: going to be able to get it because they found
[56:50] Speaker 1: out she has ADHD. So now she has to jump
[56:53] Speaker 1: through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops and she has to
[56:58] Speaker 1: pay out of her own pocket thousands of dolls, like
[57:01] Speaker 1: at least five thousand dollars or more for some sort
[57:04] Speaker 1: of test and it's a whole thing. But I'm like,
[57:08] Speaker 1: she's really like seriously into all that. I'm like, is
[57:12] Speaker 1: she gonna be wrestling anymore? She'd been wrestling on main event,
[57:15] Speaker 1: they just haven't been using her on TV. So yeah,
[57:20] Speaker 1: I imagine there's no visa issue with Jordan Grace if
[57:24] Speaker 1: she's wrestling on main event. That one. I can't explain
[57:27] Speaker 1: why she hasn't been on television like on SmackDown. I
[57:29] Speaker 1: have no fucking idea. I have no good answer for you,
[57:33] Speaker 1: none whatsoever. Shift her over to Raw. At least that'll
[57:37] Speaker 1: give liv Morgan somebody to work with. It's too late now.
[57:42] Speaker 1: So the first thing that Rollins did when he came
[57:44] Speaker 1: down was he tossed a bunch of kendo sticks and
[57:47] Speaker 1: assorted weapons into the cage. You know what the biggest
[57:50] Speaker 1: shock to me was this might have been the biggest
[57:53] Speaker 1: shock on the entire show. The tables, the tables that
[57:58] Speaker 1: were in the ring in the cage. No slim Gym logo.
[58:03] Speaker 1: I was amazed by this. No slim Gem tables on
[58:08] Speaker 1: this show. It makes me wonder maybe Slimjym paused their
[58:13] Speaker 1: sponsorship again with all these rumors that have been going
[58:16] Speaker 1: around about Vince McMahon and maybe he'll come back to WWE,
[58:19] Speaker 1: they're preemptively pausing their sponsorship to make sure that doesn't happen.
[58:23] Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know, but there were no
[58:24] Speaker 1: slim Gym tables. So Breaker came out. He did the
[58:27] Speaker 1: same thing when he entered. He went under the ring
[58:29] Speaker 1: for all the toys, the chairs, and the cando sticks
[58:32] Speaker 1: and a garbage can, and he brought it in the
[58:34] Speaker 1: ring with him. They started the match. They were each
[58:37] Speaker 1: sitting down facing each other from across the ring in
[58:40] Speaker 1: a chair and Rollins was talking all kinds of shit.
[58:44] Speaker 1: Then they rose to their feet and they started throwing hands.
[58:47] Speaker 1: I thought the first half of this match was very boring.
[58:51] Speaker 1: It was slow, it was plotting, There wasn't a whole
[58:53] Speaker 1: lot going on. My issue with it was that sense
[58:56] Speaker 1: of urgency and anger. This is supposed to be a
[59:00] Speaker 1: grudge match. These men have been feuding for months. It
[59:03] Speaker 1: all goes back to last year when Rollins got kicked
[59:06] Speaker 1: out of the Vision and then recently Seth. Rollins bounced
[59:12] Speaker 1: out of the King of the Ring tournament, loses his
[59:14] Speaker 1: opportunity potentially to challenge for a world championship at Summer
[59:17] Speaker 1: Slim because a bron Breaker. Seth turns around he cost
[59:22] Speaker 1: bron Breaker the tag team titles with Austin theory, there's
[59:25] Speaker 1: a lot of bad blood between these two men and
[59:28] Speaker 1: they're just having a boring wrestling match with a bunch
[59:31] Speaker 1: of random weapons inside the cage, and I'm like, well,
[59:33] Speaker 1: this is fucking boring. So to me, that was the
[59:37] Speaker 1: story of the first half of this match. I didn't
[59:39] Speaker 1: get the sense that these two men were in some
[59:41] Speaker 1: sort of blood feud with each other. Rollins tried to
[59:44] Speaker 1: bury Breaker's funny. I wrote that subconsciously, maybe he tried
[59:51] Speaker 1: to bury Breaker in a pile of chairs and he
[59:53] Speaker 1: went to the top. Breaker though, cut Rollins off, and
[59:57] Speaker 1: Rollin shoved him down. Breaker though, he ran right back
[1:00:00] Speaker 1: up the ropes and he hit a Brakensteiner. Picture perfect too,
[1:00:05] Speaker 1: because Rolins went flying and he landed perfectly right on
[1:00:08] Speaker 1: the pile of chairs. I thought that looked good. This
[1:00:11] Speaker 1: is where the match finally started to really pick up.
[1:00:15] Speaker 1: Breaker told Rollins, you're gonna die. He yelled at him
[1:00:18] Speaker 1: multiple times. You're gonna die. Tell me what song that's from.
[1:00:28] Speaker 1: Welcome to the Jungle, Baby, Welcome to the Jungle. You're
[1:00:32] Speaker 1: gonna die. So, in fact, seth Rollins did not die,
[1:00:38] Speaker 1: although bron Breaker's career may have died depending on where
[1:00:40] Speaker 1: they go with him coming out of the show. So
[1:00:43] Speaker 1: Breaker he tells him this. He wedges Rollin's head between
[1:00:48] Speaker 1: a chair and he took a golf swing with another chair,
[1:00:52] Speaker 1: but Rollins had gotten out of the way in time.
[1:00:54] Speaker 1: Rolin super kicked the chair into Breaker's head. Then he
[1:00:57] Speaker 1: charged at and Breaker just mauled him though with spear
[1:01:01] Speaker 1: for a near fall. If I mentioned it before, the
[1:01:03] Speaker 1: rules for this match pinfall, submission, and escape the cage.
[1:01:07] Speaker 1: You can win by any of those methods. So Breaker
[1:01:10] Speaker 1: set Rollins up on a table. He climbed to the
[1:01:12] Speaker 1: top rope. He looked down, then he looks up and
[1:01:15] Speaker 1: he says, eh, I'm going to go to the top here.
[1:01:17] Speaker 1: So he climbs to the very top of his cage.
[1:01:21] Speaker 1: Rollins follows him up there. They're both sitting up there,
[1:01:23] Speaker 1: yay boo, back and forth. Rollins rakes his eyes and
[1:01:27] Speaker 1: then he superplexes Breaker from the top of the cage.
[1:01:31] Speaker 1: Now he wasn't standing on top of the cage. I
[1:01:36] Speaker 1: have to just clarify that, because that would be insane.
[1:01:39] Speaker 1: Rollins was standing on the ropes. Breaker was kind of
[1:01:42] Speaker 1: draped over the cage. And it's still very impressive and
[1:01:45] Speaker 1: still very dangerous, but he superplexed him off the top
[1:01:49] Speaker 1: of the cage down through the table. Somewhere in all
[1:01:52] Speaker 1: of this, and I did not see how it happened.
[1:01:54] Speaker 1: It may have been as simple as him getting because
[1:01:56] Speaker 1: I think Rollins had a cut on his unless that
[1:01:59] Speaker 1: was bronze blood may have been. He had a little
[1:02:01] Speaker 1: bit of blood on his back, like over his shoulder blade.
[1:02:04] Speaker 1: But Breaker, somehow in all of this, and I don't
[1:02:08] Speaker 1: know if it was again on the spot or right
[1:02:10] Speaker 1: before the spot, he got busted open by his eye
[1:02:16] Speaker 1: and was bleeding quite a bit. And so he was
[1:02:19] Speaker 1: wearing I would say, half of a Crimson mask. He
[1:02:22] Speaker 1: looked two faced. One half of his face was fine,
[1:02:26] Speaker 1: the other half of his face was drenched in blood.
[1:02:30] Speaker 1: Rollins went for a stomp, but he charged right into
[1:02:33] Speaker 1: a hard lariat instead. Breaker then hit the ropes a
[1:02:35] Speaker 1: few times. He cut Rollin's down with a spear. Even still,
[1:02:38] Speaker 1: Rollins kicked out it too. So Breaker headed for the door,
[1:02:42] Speaker 1: and I just thought, boy, somewhere Jesse Ventura, who I
[1:02:44] Speaker 1: would bet my life, was not watching this show. But
[1:02:47] Speaker 1: all of a sudden, his ears started ringing. Somebody's trying
[1:02:50] Speaker 1: to escape through the door. He was trying to get out,
[1:02:53] Speaker 1: Rollins grabbed his foot to prevent him from exiting. Rollin's
[1:02:56] Speaker 1: drag Breaker back. He kind of had him in the rope.
[1:03:00] Speaker 1: He was pulling back on his head in such a
[1:03:01] Speaker 1: way where he was using the ropes to basically kind
[1:03:04] Speaker 1: of choke him, and he was talking all kinds of shit,
[1:03:07] Speaker 1: and Breaker just reaches out and grabs the door, the
[1:03:10] Speaker 1: Messha door, and just pulls it forward and rams Rollins
[1:03:13] Speaker 1: right in the head with the cage door. So Breaker
[1:03:17] Speaker 1: sets up for a spear in the corner. Rollins moves
[1:03:20] Speaker 1: out of the way at the last minute, and Breaker
[1:03:23] Speaker 1: crashes through a table that was set up in the corner.
[1:03:27] Speaker 1: Then Rollins had a pedigree and then a stomp, and
[1:03:31] Speaker 1: they had me. I thought that was it. I thought
[1:03:34] Speaker 1: that that was the end of the match. Breaker kicked out,
[1:03:38] Speaker 1: and this is what I mean when I mentioned earlier
[1:03:40] Speaker 1: that even though he lost, they did certain things in
[1:03:44] Speaker 1: this match to keep him strong, to portray him in
[1:03:48] Speaker 1: a very strong way. I thought the match was over
[1:03:50] Speaker 1: at that point, and he kicked out. Rollin set up
[1:03:54] Speaker 1: for another stomp Breaker though, who was on his knees.
[1:03:56] Speaker 1: He put his hand up and Rollin's stopped in his tracks.
[1:04:03] Speaker 1: And this was a little awkward. I'm like, why is
[1:04:06] Speaker 1: Rollin's waiting to see what he's going to do. Just
[1:04:09] Speaker 1: fucking kill this man. Just end this and Breaker is
[1:04:12] Speaker 1: I thought Breaker was gonna do one of those things
[1:04:14] Speaker 1: where it's like he kind of accepts his fate, kind
[1:04:18] Speaker 1: of like the the Malachi Black thing in his last
[1:04:20] Speaker 1: match in ab or what I think was his last
[1:04:22] Speaker 1: match in aw with was it Coal? Was it Adam Cole?
[1:04:26] Speaker 1: Might have been Adam Cole where it's sort of like
[1:04:28] Speaker 1: you accept your fate, do what you gotta do, But
[1:04:30] Speaker 1: that's not really what it was. Instead, he was taking
[1:04:33] Speaker 1: a moment and then all of a sudden, he starts
[1:04:35] Speaker 1: psyching himself up and he's getting back to his feet.
[1:04:39] Speaker 1: He gets back to his feet, he's kind of hunched over.
[1:04:41] Speaker 1: It's pretty clear what they're setting up for here. Rollins
[1:04:44] Speaker 1: comes off the middle rope with like kind of a
[1:04:46] Speaker 1: super stomp. I guess a super stomp would be from
[1:04:48] Speaker 1: the top rope. This was kind of sort of a
[1:04:51] Speaker 1: super stomp, but he he stomped him out and that
[1:04:55] Speaker 1: got him the three count. It started off slow, picked
[1:05:00] Speaker 1: up very well there towards the end. The blood added
[1:05:02] Speaker 1: a lot to this, it really did. Blood in a
[1:05:06] Speaker 1: cage match is always welcome, Like blood in a cage match.
[1:05:09] Speaker 1: There should be blood in a cage match, whether it's
[1:05:12] Speaker 1: steel cage. Helling to sell war games blood and guts.
[1:05:16] Speaker 1: The word blood is literally in the name. Blood is
[1:05:19] Speaker 1: appropriate in matches like that, right within reason. Obviously, we're
[1:05:23] Speaker 1: gonna get buckets of it tomorrow night. You're gonna have
[1:05:26] Speaker 1: twelve men in one cage. I can only imagine it's
[1:05:29] Speaker 1: gonna be a fucking blood bath tomorrow night. It worked here, though,
[1:05:33] Speaker 1: It was effective here because we don't get to see
[1:05:35] Speaker 1: it very often in WWE. And I don't mean like
[1:05:37] Speaker 1: a trickle of blood. Like again, half his face was
[1:05:40] Speaker 1: like caked in blood here, and it just added to it.
[1:05:43] Speaker 1: It added so much more. Even if it was incidental
[1:05:46] Speaker 1: and it was not intentional, the blood, I think really
[1:05:49] Speaker 1: added something that it would not have had without it.
[1:05:52] Speaker 1: Rollin's winning a questionable decision, not an unexpected one, questionable,
[1:05:59] Speaker 1: and that he came into this saying that this is
[1:06:01] Speaker 1: the match that would test what bron Breaker can really do.
[1:06:07] Speaker 1: And then Breaker goes in there and he loses. Now
[1:06:10] Speaker 1: you could say that he looks strong in defeat, and
[1:06:12] Speaker 1: it took a lot to put him down, right, It
[1:06:14] Speaker 1: took a superstomp at the end, but still he lost.
[1:06:17] Speaker 1: He came in talking a lot of shit, just like Rollins,
[1:06:19] Speaker 1: and he wasn't able to back it up, and that's
[1:06:21] Speaker 1: gonna hurt It's not gonna bury him, but it's gonna
[1:06:24] Speaker 1: it's gonna hurt him. The key is in the follow up.
[1:06:27] Speaker 1: If he shows up on rawn Monday night, he's a
[1:06:30] Speaker 1: man possessed, or maybe they begin some sort of angle
[1:06:32] Speaker 1: where he's he's having a falling out with the Vision.
[1:06:35] Speaker 1: He can't be controlled. Hayman hasn't been there. Hayman, you know,
[1:06:39] Speaker 1: is not there to control him. Like there are ways
[1:06:42] Speaker 1: that they could coming out of this kind of build
[1:06:46] Speaker 1: him up as this unstoppable force who you know. This
[1:06:51] Speaker 1: loss just sets something off within him. But I feel
[1:06:54] Speaker 1: like I have deja vu as I sit here and
[1:06:56] Speaker 1: I say this, I'm trying to think what I feel
[1:07:00] Speaker 1: like I had said something similar. Maybe it was after
[1:07:04] Speaker 1: he lost the Punk at the beginning of the year
[1:07:07] Speaker 1: and they didn't do what I was hoping they would do.
[1:07:10] Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of faith they're gonna do
[1:07:12] Speaker 1: it now either, But I think it's something that they
[1:07:14] Speaker 1: need to because otherwise, if he just kind of goes
[1:07:16] Speaker 1: back and falls in line with the other remaining members
[1:07:19] Speaker 1: of the Vision, whoever's left, what does he do? You
[1:07:23] Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like, he only ended up as
[1:07:24] Speaker 1: one half of the Tag Team champions because Logan Paul
[1:07:26] Speaker 1: got hurt and he didn't need the tag team titles,
[1:07:30] Speaker 1: which he doesn't have now anyway, you know, I mean,
[1:07:34] Speaker 1: do you want to build something with him in Penta
[1:07:38] Speaker 1: for the Intercontinental title? You could, but I don't like
[1:07:41] Speaker 1: that idea because Chad Gable should be the one challenging
[1:07:44] Speaker 1: Penta for the Intercontinental Championship at Summerslim, not bron Breaker.
[1:07:50] Speaker 1: If it's a matter of you can only pick one
[1:07:52] Speaker 1: or the other, I'm going with Chad Gable. So if
[1:07:54] Speaker 1: he's not wrestling for the world title, he's not wrestling
[1:07:56] Speaker 1: for the Intercontinental title. Half the fucking group that he's
[1:08:00] Speaker 1: a part of is injured. He just lost the feud
[1:08:04] Speaker 1: to Rollins. I don't know where you go with bron
[1:08:07] Speaker 1: Breaker other than just again, let him just fucking snap
[1:08:11] Speaker 1: and just start wrecking shit and you can figure it out,
[1:08:15] Speaker 1: like what that next move is going to be. I
[1:08:17] Speaker 1: look at this and my feeling is that a baby
[1:08:20] Speaker 1: face turn and a split from the Vision is what
[1:08:23] Speaker 1: this guy needs. The Vision is a dead faction. I mean,
[1:08:25] Speaker 1: I don't care if Paul Hayman is with them or not,
[1:08:27] Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. The Vision sucks. The Vision
[1:08:30] Speaker 1: is a terrible group. The Vision is a dead end
[1:08:33] Speaker 1: for bron Breaker. Bron Breaker I feel like is actually
[1:08:35] Speaker 1: less over now than he was at the beginning of
[1:08:38] Speaker 1: the year. I don't really see how it's benefited him.
[1:08:40] Speaker 1: So I think transitioning him into a babyface turn tweeener,
[1:08:46] Speaker 1: you know whatever you want to call it, that to me,
[1:08:48] Speaker 1: that's the only way to go. How they go about
[1:08:51] Speaker 1: doing it, I don't know, but I think that's what
[1:08:54] Speaker 1: he's gonna need. That'll take the sting away from him
[1:08:58] Speaker 1: losing this feud. I say that a lot about like
[1:09:01] Speaker 1: any turn. If there's somebody who's about to turn turn,
[1:09:05] Speaker 1: he'l let's say, turn babyface. If they just lost a
[1:09:10] Speaker 1: big match, but you know you're gonna turn them, the
[1:09:12] Speaker 1: loss doesn't matter, right, Turning can cure all ills in
[1:09:17] Speaker 1: that regard. He just lost the blowoff to seth rollins.
[1:09:20] Speaker 1: If he's gonna turn or have some sort of fallout
[1:09:23] Speaker 1: with the Vision, and then who knows, maybe he can
[1:09:26] Speaker 1: fude with Bronton Reid. When Reid comes back, then this
[1:09:30] Speaker 1: will be forgotten and he'll be better off for it.
[1:09:35] Speaker 1: But we look at Summer Slim in Minneapolis. I don't
[1:09:38] Speaker 1: know what he would be doing on that show. I
[1:09:40] Speaker 1: honestly don't know. I don't know. But if Rollins is
[1:09:44] Speaker 1: gonna be challenging Roman Reigns for the World Championship, then
[1:09:47] Speaker 1: this was the right decision to make. If Rollins is
[1:09:49] Speaker 1: not challenging for the World Heavyweight Championship at Summerslim, then
[1:09:53] Speaker 1: I think this was a very dumb decision and bron
[1:09:55] Speaker 1: Breaker should have won this match. I can't answer that
[1:09:59] Speaker 1: question though, hundred percent, until I know what the direction
[1:10:01] Speaker 1: is going to be with Rollins. But he finally puts
[1:10:06] Speaker 1: the Vision in the rear view. Thank god, thank god,
[1:10:09] Speaker 1: We're done. We're done. We're done with Rollins and the Vision.
[1:10:15] Speaker 1: The MFTs just broke up. It feels to me like
[1:10:17] Speaker 1: the world is healing, right, don't you get that feeling?
[1:10:20] Speaker 1: The world is healing? Bit by bit, Trick Williams with
[1:10:26] Speaker 1: Lil Yachti defending the United States Championship against Ricky Saints.
[1:10:32] Speaker 1: Saints jumped Trick before the bell on the floor. He
[1:10:36] Speaker 1: went over to Lil Yachti. He grabbed his kendo stick,
[1:10:39] Speaker 1: grabbed it away from him. The referee's back was turned
[1:10:43] Speaker 1: and Saints smacked the ring steps with the kendo stick
[1:10:47] Speaker 1: and then he dropped to the ground. So when the
[1:10:50] Speaker 1: referee turned around, right the old Eddy Guerrero spot. So
[1:10:53] Speaker 1: when the referee turned around, he thought that it was
[1:10:56] Speaker 1: Lil Yachti who had attacked Ricky with kendo stick, and
[1:10:59] Speaker 1: he ejected, Lil YACHTI, see this is the smart man,
[1:11:03] Speaker 1: is Ricky Saints? Tricky Ricky a smart heel and then
[1:11:10] Speaker 1: Ricky spent the majority of the match on offense, which
[1:11:13] Speaker 1: was a big mistake. He spent the majority of the
[1:11:16] Speaker 1: match in control. Trick was selling. This was not very exciting.
[1:11:20] Speaker 1: The crowd was dead. They were dead dead for the
[1:11:26] Speaker 1: majority of this match. Later on, Saints avoided a trick
[1:11:30] Speaker 1: shot knee He caught Williams with a tornado DDT. Saints
[1:11:33] Speaker 1: came off the top with an elbow for a near fall.
[1:11:36] Speaker 1: He countered out of a book end. He hit a
[1:11:38] Speaker 1: knee strike Trick, then ducked a clothesline finally hit the
[1:11:42] Speaker 1: trick shot out of nowhere for the pin to retain
[1:11:45] Speaker 1: the title. After the match, Ricky tried to attack Trick
[1:11:49] Speaker 1: from behind. Lil Yachti though, suddenly reappeared in the ring
[1:11:51] Speaker 1: and he had his kendo stick with him and Williams
[1:11:54] Speaker 1: ended up dropping Ricky with a backhand, and then he
[1:11:58] Speaker 1: had YACHTI hit this great value version of a people's elbow.
[1:12:05] Speaker 1: It's no Snoop Dogg. I'll say that the match was mid.
[1:12:11] Speaker 1: The match was mid. I thought the work here from
[1:12:14] Speaker 1: Ricky was solid. I just don't understand the decision to
[1:12:17] Speaker 1: have him take eighty percent of the match like that.
[1:12:21] Speaker 1: You know, he was the heel who was talking a
[1:12:23] Speaker 1: lot of smack and doing all this stuff heading into
[1:12:25] Speaker 1: this match. It should have been a little more even,
[1:12:27] Speaker 1: and they just opted to go like all Ricky have
[1:12:30] Speaker 1: tricks selling and then Boom hit his finish out of nowhere,
[1:12:34] Speaker 1: and that didn't help get It made for a very
[1:12:37] Speaker 1: boring match. I felt bad for these guys watching this,
[1:12:39] Speaker 1: though they weren't doing anything wrong. Trick didn't really do
[1:12:43] Speaker 1: much in this match. Again, he was mostly selling. He
[1:12:45] Speaker 1: did his usual stuff. He didn't do anything to really
[1:12:48] Speaker 1: impress me here. Ricky, I thought, again his work was solid,
[1:12:53] Speaker 1: But I felt bad for them watching this because you've
[1:12:56] Speaker 1: heard me mention the crowd a few times here in
[1:12:57] Speaker 1: this review. This was not just the problem in there.
[1:13:00] Speaker 1: It was a problem and a lot of other matches
[1:13:02] Speaker 1: on the show as well where the crowd was just
[1:13:04] Speaker 1: not reacting to anything. But this is the point in
[1:13:08] Speaker 1: the show where they were as quiet as they were
[1:13:13] Speaker 1: all night. It felt like I was watching those pandemic
[1:13:17] Speaker 1: error shows in the empty performance center, like that's how
[1:13:21] Speaker 1: quiet it was, And I just felt bad for them.
[1:13:24] Speaker 1: They're out there working and they're trying to get a
[1:13:26] Speaker 1: reaction and they're just they're not reciprocating. They're not getting
[1:13:30] Speaker 1: anything in return. And it didn't get much better in
[1:13:34] Speaker 1: the next match, because we had Tiffany Stratton defending the
[1:13:36] Speaker 1: Women's United States Championship against Jade Cargill, a match that
[1:13:40] Speaker 1: I'm sure was never going to be on this show
[1:13:43] Speaker 1: if Ria Ripley was healthy. Once Rhea got pulled from
[1:13:47] Speaker 1: the advertising, Tiffany took her place. We've seen this match
[1:13:51] Speaker 1: four or five times before, the biggest ones being at
[1:13:53] Speaker 1: Summer Slam last year and then the rematch on Saturday
[1:13:56] Speaker 1: Night's main event in November, same show where cmpunk b
[1:13:59] Speaker 1: j Us to win the world title, and none of
[1:14:02] Speaker 1: the matches that they've ever had are particularly good. Right,
[1:14:07] Speaker 1: some of them, maybe you're better than others. They're okay,
[1:14:09] Speaker 1: they're solid enough. But I'm not going to look back
[1:14:13] Speaker 1: and go, hey, remember that great Tiffany Stratton Jade Cargill
[1:14:16] Speaker 1: match we had last year. I can't do that because
[1:14:18] Speaker 1: it doesn't exist. So I wasn't terribly excited to see
[1:14:22] Speaker 1: it again, but I could see where it was going
[1:14:26] Speaker 1: clear as fucking day, what the finish of this match
[1:14:29] Speaker 1: was going to be. Even more so than like brack
[1:14:30] Speaker 1: Lesner potentially getting involved in the Obafemi match, I knew
[1:14:33] Speaker 1: exactly who was going to show up and get involved
[1:14:35] Speaker 1: here in this match, because it was the only thing
[1:14:37] Speaker 1: that made sense. Stratton tried for a dive early on,
[1:14:40] Speaker 1: Jade caught her, bounced her off the ropes and into
[1:14:43] Speaker 1: a knee strike. Back inside, Jade caught Tiffany with a
[1:14:46] Speaker 1: sitout power bomb for a near fall. Jade started doing
[1:14:49] Speaker 1: push ups in the ring, and it was so quiet
[1:14:51] Speaker 1: in the building you could, I mean very loudly, you
[1:14:54] Speaker 1: can hear her counting along to every push up that
[1:14:57] Speaker 1: she was doing. Stratton caught Jade with a role sent
[1:15:00] Speaker 1: on later, she went for the prettiest moon Salt ever
[1:15:03] Speaker 1: but Jade got her knees up on the landing. Jade
[1:15:06] Speaker 1: set up for Jaded. Tiffany, though countered with a stunner.
[1:15:09] Speaker 1: Stratton went up top when bee Fab ran out, and
[1:15:13] Speaker 1: she distracted the referee so that Mechen could then show
[1:15:16] Speaker 1: up and shove Stratton off the top, and then Jade
[1:15:19] Speaker 1: gave her a choke slamb but she only got a
[1:15:21] Speaker 1: two count out of it. Chelsea Green all of a
[1:15:24] Speaker 1: sudden emerged. She crawled out from under the ring again
[1:15:27] Speaker 1: to no reaction, and she took out be Fab in mechin.
[1:15:30] Speaker 1: Then she picked up the US title because when she
[1:15:32] Speaker 1: beat them up, she knocked over the pedestal that had
[1:15:34] Speaker 1: the belt on it, and I think it was in
[1:15:37] Speaker 1: a bag, so she reached into the bag she pulled
[1:15:39] Speaker 1: out the women's US title. She's smiling at it, she's staring,
[1:15:43] Speaker 1: she's gazing at this belt, and Jade is in the ring.
[1:15:46] Speaker 1: She reaches out and she grabs Chelsea from behind. Chelsea
[1:15:50] Speaker 1: ends up dropping the belt or laying it on the mat,
[1:15:53] Speaker 1: so now it's in the ring and Stratton rolled up Jade.
[1:15:57] Speaker 1: She snuck up behind her, rolled her up for a
[1:15:59] Speaker 1: two count. Jade then put her down with a pump kick.
[1:16:02] Speaker 1: Jade spots the belt sitting on the mat. I think
[1:16:05] Speaker 1: the referee was over tending to Tiffany. Why I don't
[1:16:10] Speaker 1: really know, but the referee was over with Tiffany, and
[1:16:15] Speaker 1: so before Jade can go over and grab the US title,
[1:16:20] Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair magically appears at ringside. She's standing outside the ring,
[1:16:27] Speaker 1: and so she and it wasn't like she was trying
[1:16:29] Speaker 1: to be inconspicuous either, I mean with the outfit she
[1:16:32] Speaker 1: was wearing colorful, I mean you could see her from
[1:16:34] Speaker 1: outer space. How she just magically appeared and we didn't
[1:16:37] Speaker 1: again hear the crowd reacting to her showing up. I
[1:16:40] Speaker 1: have no idea, but there she was. She was at ringside.
[1:16:43] Speaker 1: She took the belt instead, and then when Jade stuck
[1:16:47] Speaker 1: her head out, she got whacked right in the head
[1:16:49] Speaker 1: with the title belt knocked her backwards. Jade was knocked
[1:16:52] Speaker 1: out cold. Tiffany went up top, she hit the prettiest
[1:16:55] Speaker 1: moon Salt ever and she got the pin to retain
[1:16:57] Speaker 1: the title. I gotta tell you, guys, I gotta admit
[1:17:00] Speaker 1: something here. I was kind of hoping that we would
[1:17:02] Speaker 1: get a cameo appearance here from Sgt. Slaughter. I thought
[1:17:07] Speaker 1: that Sgt. Slaughter was going to show up and maybe
[1:17:10] Speaker 1: put Tiffy in the in the camel clutch, the Cobra
[1:17:14] Speaker 1: c the Cobra clutch, But we had no such luck here.
[1:17:18] Speaker 1: I wonder though, if he would have hit the scene,
[1:17:20] Speaker 1: do you think she would have recognized them? Probably not right.
[1:17:24] Speaker 1: She would have been like, who is this strange man
[1:17:26] Speaker 1: wearing army fatigues? Very much like their previous matches. Not
[1:17:32] Speaker 1: the worst thing I've seen, but not good either. It
[1:17:35] Speaker 1: was a match that happened. That's the way I would
[1:17:37] Speaker 1: describe this. It was a match that took place in
[1:17:41] Speaker 1: the history of matches. It was a means to an end.
[1:17:45] Speaker 1: The end was Charlotte Flair showing up and fucking Jade
[1:17:49] Speaker 1: Cargill out of the US title because because why Because
[1:17:56] Speaker 1: Jade Cargill beat her up backstage before her match would live.
[1:17:59] Speaker 1: Morgan last week injured her knee, cost her the opportunity
[1:18:03] Speaker 1: to go on to become Queen of the Ring, and
[1:18:05] Speaker 1: so why wouldn't Charlotte Flair show up and pay it
[1:18:08] Speaker 1: right back to her? Right, one good turn deserves another.
[1:18:11] Speaker 1: Of course, she was going to show up and cost
[1:18:14] Speaker 1: her the championship. Now they've each cost each other something
[1:18:16] Speaker 1: very important, and now they can build to Summer Slim
[1:18:20] Speaker 1: in Minneapolis and we will get the match between Charlotte
[1:18:23] Speaker 1: Flair and Jade Cargill. That's why, That's why this match existed.
[1:18:31] Speaker 1: It's the whole reason this match was even taking place
[1:18:33] Speaker 1: on this show was for them to be able to
[1:18:36] Speaker 1: do that finish so that they could set up a
[1:18:38] Speaker 1: big Summer Slim match. So it accomplished what they set
[1:18:41] Speaker 1: out to do. I just didn't think the match was
[1:18:42] Speaker 1: anything special, as was the case with a lot of
[1:18:46] Speaker 1: stuff on this show, but not the main event. The
[1:18:50] Speaker 1: main event is what really saved it for me. The
[1:18:53] Speaker 1: main event was a triple threat match for the WWE Championship.
[1:18:56] Speaker 1: It was Cody Rhoades defending his title against Gunther and
[1:19:00] Speaker 1: sammy's Ain. This was Sammy z Ain's tenth opportunity at
[1:19:05] Speaker 1: a world championship. That means that he failed nine times
[1:19:09] Speaker 1: coming into this. Zizo says, Sgt. Slaughter would get Megaheat
[1:19:17] Speaker 1: in Saudi. It's a good point. He would get Megaheat
[1:19:24] Speaker 1: in Saudi. They totally should have done that. Maybe they'll
[1:19:27] Speaker 1: have him a manager. Tiffany Stratton managed by Sgt. Slaughter. Well,
[1:19:35] Speaker 1: if they didn't bring him in to manage Lacy Evans,
[1:19:38] Speaker 1: I don't think they're gonna do it with Tiffany Stratton.
[1:19:41] Speaker 1: So Sammy was of course the clear favorite coming into
[1:19:46] Speaker 1: this match, as he always is here on these Saudi shows.
[1:19:49] Speaker 1: They love Sammy's ain and he was right at home
[1:19:53] Speaker 1: with all of his rider die fans. Cody got a
[1:19:56] Speaker 1: good reaction to I was just happy that people were
[1:19:59] Speaker 1: getting any reaction at this point, you know, signs of
[1:20:03] Speaker 1: actual life on this show. I was very happy about that. Hey,
[1:20:08] Speaker 1: easy fifty three fifty three, nineteen months of channel membership.
[1:20:13] Speaker 1: He's a sound off superstar, says I'm glad Sammy got
[1:20:17] Speaker 1: the title. Cody is stale, he needs to take off
[1:20:20] Speaker 1: for a while. Oba winning was the only right decision,
[1:20:23] Speaker 1: and Solo is the true king of the ring. Well,
[1:20:24] Speaker 1: thank you very much. I will happily accept this crown
[1:20:30] Speaker 1: on your behalf. I will be your king. I hope
[1:20:34] Speaker 1: I can serve you well. So there was an early
[1:20:39] Speaker 1: Cody cutter to Gunther, and then Gunther just got right
[1:20:42] Speaker 1: back up to his feet and they just kept wrestling.
[1:20:44] Speaker 1: I'm like that was weird. The hell was that about now,
[1:20:50] Speaker 1: we're just turning the Cody Cutter into just another move.
[1:20:53] Speaker 1: Cody also had a springboard double Cody Cutter on both
[1:20:57] Speaker 1: men and then he hit Sammy with a suicide dive.
[1:20:59] Speaker 1: Cody got back in the he was setting up for Crossroads. Gunther,
[1:21:02] Speaker 1: though countered out into a power bomb with the stack.
[1:21:05] Speaker 1: Sammy was able to save the match, though at the
[1:21:07] Speaker 1: last minute. Outside the ring, Sammy very aggressively launched Gunther
[1:21:12] Speaker 1: into the steel steps. Michael Cole then compared this is
[1:21:15] Speaker 1: the point in the match where Michael Cole compared Sammy
[1:21:17] Speaker 1: z Ain to Wemby of the San Antonio Spurs and
[1:21:23] Speaker 1: how entitled he is. I just I love it all
[1:21:27] Speaker 1: these petty shots that Cole because I know this is
[1:21:31] Speaker 1: not the first time he's done this, All these petty
[1:21:33] Speaker 1: shots that he keeps taking a Wemby. These San Antonio
[1:21:38] Speaker 1: fans are not going to be happy with Michael Cole.
[1:21:41] Speaker 1: It's a big Knicks fan. Funny enough, I think he
[1:21:44] Speaker 1: lives in Texas, but he's a big Knicks fan, a
[1:21:47] Speaker 1: big Mets fan too. You'll have to excuse Michael Cole
[1:21:50] Speaker 1: for you know, when you're a Mets fan, you're a
[1:21:52] Speaker 1: little You're probably a little launry, especially lately. So back inside,
[1:22:00] Speaker 1: Sammy hit a beautiful blue thunderbomb to Cody for a
[1:22:03] Speaker 1: near fall. It looked like he may be setting up
[1:22:06] Speaker 1: for the halluva kick, but Gunther from the floor reaches in,
[1:22:09] Speaker 1: he yanks his legs out from under him, and he
[1:22:11] Speaker 1: crotches him on the ring post. So we were back
[1:22:15] Speaker 1: to Cody and Gunther for a little bit. Cody hit
[1:22:17] Speaker 1: crossroads on Gunther, he covered him. Sammy pulled the referee
[1:22:21] Speaker 1: out of the ring to prevent the three counts, which
[1:22:26] Speaker 1: is perfectly legal in a triple threat match. There is
[1:22:31] Speaker 1: nothing wrong with it, perfectly legal. Sammy shook his head like,
[1:22:35] Speaker 1: no hit Cody. It's it's not ending like that. So
[1:22:40] Speaker 1: Cody missed a disaster kick when Sammy moved and Sammy
[1:22:43] Speaker 1: dropped him with a brainbuster. He covered him. Gunther, though,
[1:22:46] Speaker 1: broke it up with a splash off the top rope.
[1:22:48] Speaker 1: Gunther with a power bomb to Sammy. Then he power
[1:22:51] Speaker 1: bombed Cody onto Sammy. Then he picked up Sammy to
[1:22:55] Speaker 1: deliver another power bomb, and Sammy countered that into this
[1:22:58] Speaker 1: great code red for a near fall as a great spot.
[1:23:03] Speaker 1: So now we're cooking here. In this match, Gunther got
[1:23:06] Speaker 1: hung up in the corner on a miss telubakick and
[1:23:08] Speaker 1: Sammy hit one of his own to Gunther, and he
[1:23:10] Speaker 1: had the match one. He had the title one. But
[1:23:12] Speaker 1: this time it was Cody who pulled the referee out
[1:23:15] Speaker 1: to the floor to save his championship. And so Sammy
[1:23:19] Speaker 1: goes outside. Two of them start going at it. Cody
[1:23:22] Speaker 1: clears off the announced desk, Sammy clears off the Arabic
[1:23:26] Speaker 1: announced desk. They wound up on top of that one
[1:23:29] Speaker 1: and Sammy was setting up for a Kevin Owens esque
[1:23:32] Speaker 1: package pile driver. Cody fought out of it, though, and
[1:23:36] Speaker 1: he hit a big back body drop, I mean he
[1:23:40] Speaker 1: got some height on that, and as Samby came down,
[1:23:43] Speaker 1: he crashed through the announced table. I was sad here
[1:23:49] Speaker 1: the English announced desk, and I was sad here because
[1:23:52] Speaker 1: that deserved way more of a reaction than it got.
[1:23:57] Speaker 1: I popped big for it, even if the didn't. So
[1:24:01] Speaker 1: that also, though, took out Michael Cole's audio, as we
[1:24:04] Speaker 1: were told by Corey Graves, so he took over basically
[1:24:07] Speaker 1: doing commentary on the match. Gun through powerbomb Cody onto
[1:24:11] Speaker 1: the Arabic announced desk, which did not break, so he said,
[1:24:14] Speaker 1: fuck it, we're gonna do it again, and he power
[1:24:17] Speaker 1: bombed him a second time, and this time the table
[1:24:20] Speaker 1: collapsed and he quickly got Cody back in the ring,
[1:24:23] Speaker 1: because you can't win the championship outside, so he got
[1:24:26] Speaker 1: him back in the ring. He got the sleeper hole
[1:24:27] Speaker 1: applied with the body scissors down on the mat, He's
[1:24:30] Speaker 1: squeezing the air out of Cody's lungs. Michael Cole got
[1:24:34] Speaker 1: his audio back, but it sounded like absolute dog shit.
[1:24:37] Speaker 1: He sounded like he was doing commentary underwater. It was
[1:24:41] Speaker 1: very low and very muddled. Cody got up to his feet.
[1:24:45] Speaker 1: He fell backwards to break the hold, but Gun there
[1:24:48] Speaker 1: quickly reapplied the sleeper. Cody began to fade, he was
[1:24:52] Speaker 1: going out here, and the referee lifted Cody's arm. This
[1:24:55] Speaker 1: was the one thing about this match that I just
[1:24:57] Speaker 1: kind of laughed at it, like it didn't upset me.
[1:25:01] Speaker 1: But I just I'm watching this and the idea is
[1:25:05] Speaker 1: that the way they do things now typically in WWE,
[1:25:08] Speaker 1: they don't do the drop the arm three times I
[1:25:12] Speaker 1: think they did with John Cena. They do it when
[1:25:14] Speaker 1: they feel like doing it, but by and large. They
[1:25:16] Speaker 1: don't do that anymore. That's like an old school thing.
[1:25:19] Speaker 1: They drop the arm once. If somebody looks like they're unconscious,
[1:25:21] Speaker 1: they'll drop the arm once, and if you're out, they
[1:25:23] Speaker 1: call for the bell. And that's how it would be
[1:25:25] Speaker 1: done in like a real fight, right, You wouldn't be like,
[1:25:28] Speaker 1: okay once twice. Meanwhile, this person's unconscious, So the referee
[1:25:33] Speaker 1: is picking up Cody's arm and clearly he's he's out, right,
[1:25:38] Speaker 1: Sammy jumps into the ring and he grabs the arm
[1:25:43] Speaker 1: right at the very last minute before the arm can
[1:25:45] Speaker 1: can drop to the mat to save the match. But
[1:25:50] Speaker 1: I'm looking at this and I'm like, okay, if if
[1:25:55] Speaker 1: you want to call it kind of like a shoot, right,
[1:25:58] Speaker 1: if the referees can concerned that one of the participants
[1:26:01] Speaker 1: may be unconscious, that shouldn't matter, like you know what
[1:26:05] Speaker 1: I mean, Like you should you should still call the
[1:26:07] Speaker 1: match or get in there and see and if the
[1:26:09] Speaker 1: person's out, you call for the bell. But it's like, no,
[1:26:11] Speaker 1: Sammy's ain't held the arm, so therefore we gotta let
[1:26:13] Speaker 1: the match continue even if this man is completely unconscious.
[1:26:16] Speaker 1: I just laughed. It's one of those silly stupid wrestling things.
[1:26:20] Speaker 1: It's like, all right, so he's just gonna let the
[1:26:23] Speaker 1: match continue. Huh, poor Cody. Fuck Cody, I guess, but
[1:26:27] Speaker 1: Sammy saved it. So at this point, Corey Graves gave
[1:26:31] Speaker 1: Michael Cole his headset. I don't know if he was
[1:26:34] Speaker 1: told in his ear to do that or if he
[1:26:36] Speaker 1: did that just as a friend, like, here, you're the
[1:26:39] Speaker 1: main announcer, We're heading to the finish of this match.
[1:26:43] Speaker 1: Take my headset. So we didn't have Corey on commentary
[1:26:46] Speaker 1: for a little bit. Cole took his headset. Gunther started
[1:26:50] Speaker 1: shopping the shit out of Sammy. Sammy hit an exploder
[1:26:53] Speaker 1: into the corner and then he hit a halluva kick
[1:26:56] Speaker 1: and he covered and Gunther kicked out. And to me,
[1:27:00] Speaker 1: that was the moment in the match where I was like,
[1:27:02] Speaker 1: well that's it. You know. I was pulling for Sammy
[1:27:05] Speaker 1: and that near fall told me all right, it's not happening.
[1:27:12] Speaker 1: He's not winning the belt. They got me on that one,
[1:27:17] Speaker 1: like it felt to me like his chances of winning
[1:27:19] Speaker 1: just flew out the window. Gunther was setting Sammy up
[1:27:23] Speaker 1: for something, Cody got back in he dropped him with
[1:27:25] Speaker 1: a super Cody cutter, and then he had a crossroads
[1:27:29] Speaker 1: to Sammy, but no he didn't because Sammy was able
[1:27:32] Speaker 1: to reverse out of it into one of his own.
[1:27:34] Speaker 1: And he drops Cody with the crossroads, and now he's
[1:27:37] Speaker 1: lining up with the halluva kick, and as he comes
[1:27:40] Speaker 1: charging in, Gunther swoops in from out of nowhere and
[1:27:44] Speaker 1: just catches him in a sleeper hole, but overcomes Cody,
[1:27:48] Speaker 1: and Cody delivers a double crossroads to both men. Was
[1:27:54] Speaker 1: it a double crossroads or a double Cody cutter? Might
[1:27:58] Speaker 1: have been a double crossroads. Whichever one it was, he
[1:28:02] Speaker 1: executed it on both of them at the same time.
[1:28:05] Speaker 1: Gunther at that point rolled out of the ring. His
[1:28:07] Speaker 1: night is over. So we're down to Cody and Sammy.
[1:28:09] Speaker 1: Cody is setting up for a Cody cutter, and or
[1:28:13] Speaker 1: again maybe it was a crossrow. Why am I getting
[1:28:15] Speaker 1: those two moves confused? He was setting up for a crossroads.
[1:28:19] Speaker 1: Sammy drops down, He rolls Cody up, has the legs
[1:28:24] Speaker 1: almost like if he had given him a victory role.
[1:28:28] Speaker 1: He's holding the legs and he pins Cody right in
[1:28:32] Speaker 1: the middle of the ring. One two three, and he
[1:28:35] Speaker 1: wins the WWE Championship. And I was like, I was stunned,
[1:28:41] Speaker 1: only because I didn't know if they would have the
[1:28:43] Speaker 1: balls to do it. I was hoping they would. I've
[1:28:47] Speaker 1: learned not to give these people the benefit of the doubt,
[1:28:49] Speaker 1: given the way the booking has been over much of
[1:28:52] Speaker 1: the past year plus. And I was like, Wow, they
[1:28:57] Speaker 1: actually did it. And Sammy, of course, was playing it
[1:28:59] Speaker 1: up like he was stunned and just shocked and he
[1:29:03] Speaker 1: just couldn't believe it. He dove into the crowd, he
[1:29:07] Speaker 1: was mobbed by fans, showered with love, and as the
[1:29:13] Speaker 1: camera is following him out and up the ramp, he
[1:29:16] Speaker 1: looked into the camera and he said, it's been ten years,
[1:29:19] Speaker 1: ten years of Sammy's ain in WWE. People said he
[1:29:23] Speaker 1: would never do it, he would never win a world championship. Well,
[1:29:26] Speaker 1: here it is, and they shot off Piro on the
[1:29:29] Speaker 1: stage behind him, the big celebration, and that is how
[1:29:32] Speaker 1: they went off the air. They did the damn thing.
[1:29:38] Speaker 1: They did the damn thing ten years and ten chances later,
[1:29:43] Speaker 1: because if he would have lost here, to have ten
[1:29:46] Speaker 1: opportunities and to fail ten times, how do you recover
[1:29:50] Speaker 1: from that? How do you recover from that? But on
[1:29:55] Speaker 1: his tenth try, Sammy's Ain finally wins the big One.
[1:29:57] Speaker 1: He is a world champion. Not even Kevin Owen was
[1:30:01] Speaker 1: WWE champion. Despite what Cody Road said on SmackDown Friday Night,
[1:30:04] Speaker 1: Kevin Owens never even won the w W Championship. Sammy's
[1:30:08] Speaker 1: Ain't did easily the best thing on the entire show.
[1:30:11] Speaker 1: This was I thought an excellent main event, a very
[1:30:14] Speaker 1: exciting and I thought, well well executed finish. It was
[1:30:18] Speaker 1: a shame the audio issues that they were having. It
[1:30:21] Speaker 1: kind of you know, I want to say it ruined it,
[1:30:25] Speaker 1: but you know, it kind of put a damper on
[1:30:28] Speaker 1: it there a little bit with Cole's audio anyway. But
[1:30:32] Speaker 1: just an excellent finish down the stretch, lots of great
[1:30:35] Speaker 1: near falls, lots of drama. They had me convinced at
[1:30:38] Speaker 1: one point that they weren't going with Sammy, and then
[1:30:40] Speaker 1: they went with Sammy. And that was probably also why
[1:30:43] Speaker 1: I was sitting here a little stunned because I was like, Wow,
[1:30:45] Speaker 1: they actually ended up doing it. How about that. Here's
[1:30:50] Speaker 1: the other thing I liked. I liked that they had
[1:30:53] Speaker 1: him pin Cody. He pinned the champion. It would have
[1:30:57] Speaker 1: been worse, I think if he pined Gun It would
[1:30:59] Speaker 1: have been worse for gun Through if he would have
[1:31:00] Speaker 1: been Gunther, but I'm glad they didn't do that. They
[1:31:03] Speaker 1: had him pin Cody. Cody is the WWE champion. He
[1:31:05] Speaker 1: got beat so I like that. This to me was
[1:31:09] Speaker 1: a much needed shake up for the title picture on
[1:31:13] Speaker 1: SmackDown heading into Summer Slim. And now it presents a
[1:31:17] Speaker 1: lot of questions. Does Obafemi challenge Sammy's A? I cannot
[1:31:23] Speaker 1: see that being the Summer Slam match? To me, like,
[1:31:26] Speaker 1: if you wanted to make a chart of all of
[1:31:28] Speaker 1: the potential options right for Summer, that's at the bottom,
[1:31:32] Speaker 1: that's like the bottom three. Obafemi against Sammy's A at SummerSlam.
[1:31:37] Speaker 1: I can't see that. But there's no way that Cody
[1:31:41] Speaker 1: Roads is not going to be involved to me, in
[1:31:43] Speaker 1: the WWE Championship match at Summer Slim. So I feel
[1:31:47] Speaker 1: like Cody versus Sammy in a singles rematch is one
[1:31:51] Speaker 1: of the more likely, if not the likeliest, I feel like,
[1:31:55] Speaker 1: of all of the possibilities here. But that's assuming Sammy
[1:31:59] Speaker 1: even makes it to Summer Slim. I don't know that
[1:32:02] Speaker 1: Sammy's gonna get a very long run. I don't expect
[1:32:04] Speaker 1: Sammy's run to be very long, right, but that can
[1:32:07] Speaker 1: mean a lot of things. Is he gonna be champion
[1:32:08] Speaker 1: for a week? Is he gonna be champion until Saturday
[1:32:11] Speaker 1: Night's main event. Is he gonna drop it at SummerSlam?
[1:32:14] Speaker 1: Are they gonna let him run with it a little
[1:32:15] Speaker 1: bit longer? What would be the harm in letting him
[1:32:18] Speaker 1: run a little bit longer with it? To me, you
[1:32:20] Speaker 1: read the room. You got a good thing going with
[1:32:23] Speaker 1: him in this character right now. And I don't know
[1:32:25] Speaker 1: what effect it's gonna have on business in terms of tickets.
[1:32:28] Speaker 1: I don't know what effect it's going to have in
[1:32:30] Speaker 1: terms of television ratings or whatever metrics that they're gonna
[1:32:33] Speaker 1: look at, social whatever is important to them. If they
[1:32:37] Speaker 1: notice that there's a drop off, they may panic. I
[1:32:40] Speaker 1: can't speak to any of that. Sammy'szany has never been
[1:32:42] Speaker 1: world champion before. We don't know. We don't know right
[1:32:45] Speaker 1: how he's going to do in that role. But to me,
[1:32:49] Speaker 1: like you're heading into a part of the year that
[1:32:50] Speaker 1: typically is pretty like I mean, coming out of Summer Slam.
[1:32:54] Speaker 1: I'm talking about right, Summer Slim's their second biggest of
[1:32:56] Speaker 1: end of the year, coming out of summer slim, you
[1:32:58] Speaker 1: go into the fall and generally there's not a whole
[1:33:01] Speaker 1: lot going on, Like, what would be the harm in
[1:33:04] Speaker 1: keeping the belt on Sammy beyond SummerSlam and giving him
[1:33:07] Speaker 1: a few months, you know, to run with it, especially
[1:33:10] Speaker 1: if what he's doing is working. That's why I mean
[1:33:13] Speaker 1: when I say you got to read the room. If
[1:33:15] Speaker 1: if what they're doing with him seems to be resonating
[1:33:17] Speaker 1: and it's working, and with him as a heel in
[1:33:20] Speaker 1: that spot, maybe he'll have more babyfaces to work with.
[1:33:25] Speaker 1: Then maybe you keep it on him for a little
[1:33:26] Speaker 1: bit longer. Again, we don't know what the status of
[1:33:29] Speaker 1: Kevin Owens is. He had surgery I think about eleven
[1:33:32] Speaker 1: months ago. How close is he potentially to being cleared
[1:33:35] Speaker 1: for a comeback, right? And how might he factor into
[1:33:38] Speaker 1: things when it comes to Sammy is the champion? You know?
[1:33:41] Speaker 1: Would they even bring him back maybe to television even
[1:33:44] Speaker 1: if he's not ready to wrestle, but maybe he could be,
[1:33:47] Speaker 1: you know, kind of part of this in some way.
[1:33:50] Speaker 1: I don't know, right, I just again I put that
[1:33:51] Speaker 1: out there as a possibility. CM Punk is the other
[1:33:55] Speaker 1: wild card here. CM Punk is coming back very soon.
[1:33:58] Speaker 1: He'll probably be on Raw when they in Chicago on
[1:34:00] Speaker 1: July six, but he is probably going to be a
[1:34:03] Speaker 1: SmackDown star. The report is that not only is he
[1:34:06] Speaker 1: going to SmackDown, but they got a big match lined
[1:34:08] Speaker 1: up for him. Now. The biggest match would be Cody
[1:34:12] Speaker 1: Rhodes against Cmpunk for the WWE Championship. That doesn't look
[1:34:16] Speaker 1: like that's gonna be happening anytime soon. My thought was
[1:34:20] Speaker 1: that if Sammy doesn't win the title, the Summer Slam
[1:34:24] Speaker 1: match for him could be against Punk. You could do
[1:34:26] Speaker 1: that as like a big undercard match at Summer Slim.
[1:34:28] Speaker 1: But now Sammy is the champion. If Punk goes to SmackDown,
[1:34:33] Speaker 1: how does he fit into this? Does he fit into
[1:34:37] Speaker 1: the title picture right away? Would they do punkin Sammy? Like?
[1:34:39] Speaker 1: I don't know right It's it's interesting. It's another kind
[1:34:44] Speaker 1: of wrinkle in all this. Where does Gunther go from here? Gunther,
[1:34:49] Speaker 1: I feel like, is in a similar boat to bron
[1:34:52] Speaker 1: Breaker on Raw in that he took this loss and
[1:34:57] Speaker 1: on its own, it's not going to bury him. But
[1:34:59] Speaker 1: he's in a very precarious position right now where a
[1:35:03] Speaker 1: lot of it is going to hinge on what this
[1:35:05] Speaker 1: next step is for him. He just lost to Cody
[1:35:09] Speaker 1: Rhoades three times, right technically now again, I'm not even
[1:35:14] Speaker 1: Let's not even go back to Crown Jewel two years ago.
[1:35:16] Speaker 1: Let's just look at Clash in Italy, SmackDown and this
[1:35:19] Speaker 1: match here on this show. He just went oh for
[1:35:22] Speaker 1: three back to back to back in WWE title matches. Well,
[1:35:28] Speaker 1: I guess technically four technically four times because they restarted
[1:35:32] Speaker 1: the match on SmackDown last week, oh for four. Since
[1:35:35] Speaker 1: the end of May, in the span of a month,
[1:35:39] Speaker 1: Gunther has now gone oh for four in his quest
[1:35:43] Speaker 1: to become WWE champion. That's pretty fucking terrible and I
[1:35:49] Speaker 1: now have no interest in seeing him pursuing the championship.
[1:35:53] Speaker 1: He's got to move on to something else. Him him
[1:35:55] Speaker 1: going after Sammy's aying at Summer, I don't want to
[1:35:57] Speaker 1: see that. I have no interest in that. It soured
[1:36:00] Speaker 1: me on that. But I don't know where he goes
[1:36:03] Speaker 1: from here. It's funny because many months ago, I don't
[1:36:07] Speaker 1: know if it was on the Prediction Show, but many
[1:36:09] Speaker 1: months ago I said, you know, Iliya Dragonov being on SmackDown,
[1:36:13] Speaker 1: we need to get Gunther unsmacked down. Actually, probably coming
[1:36:16] Speaker 1: out of WrestleMania. When I was talking about moving Gunther over,
[1:36:19] Speaker 1: I think I floated that as a possibility, Like, man,
[1:36:21] Speaker 1: how great would it be if they end up on
[1:36:24] Speaker 1: the same brand. We could build to like a program
[1:36:26] Speaker 1: between Gunther and Dragonov, you know, and it doesn't even
[1:36:29] Speaker 1: need to have a belt on the line necessarily. But
[1:36:32] Speaker 1: then Dragonov fell off the face of the fucking earth,
[1:36:34] Speaker 1: and I don't know when we're going to see him again.
[1:36:36] Speaker 1: I honestly don't know what would be next. If Punk
[1:36:39] Speaker 1: is going to SmackDown Punk and Gunther. We've seen it though.
[1:36:43] Speaker 1: That was the Summer Slam match last year, and at
[1:36:46] Speaker 1: least there there was a championship on the line. I
[1:36:49] Speaker 1: don't want to go back to that, So I don't know.
[1:36:52] Speaker 1: Just like bron Breaker Unraw, I don't know. I don't
[1:36:55] Speaker 1: know what's next. I can tell you one thing, I
[1:36:59] Speaker 1: mean him, him and Brock Lesnar, which at one point
[1:37:02] Speaker 1: was before all the Oba Femi stuff came about, there
[1:37:06] Speaker 1: was the possibility of a big Brock and Gunther match.
[1:37:09] Speaker 1: And it's like Gunther is coming off all of these losses,
[1:37:13] Speaker 1: so much of that aura that he had at the
[1:37:15] Speaker 1: beginning of the year has been wiped away. He just
[1:37:17] Speaker 1: feels like another guy now that I feel like, even
[1:37:19] Speaker 1: if they wanted to do him and Brock, Like, the
[1:37:23] Speaker 1: only way that works is if they're really not gonna
[1:37:26] Speaker 1: do Oba and Brock again. I can't imagine they don't
[1:37:30] Speaker 1: do it again, but like, if they're not gonna do
[1:37:33] Speaker 1: that again, and Brock really is gonna hang it up
[1:37:35] Speaker 1: in Minneapolis at SummerSlam, and I don't know how likely
[1:37:40] Speaker 1: that even is, and then maybe they make guntherro his
[1:37:43] Speaker 1: last opponent. I mean, you could do that, h Does
[1:37:48] Speaker 1: that really excite you? Is that something that you would
[1:37:51] Speaker 1: really be interested in seeing? Maybe? Like I'm not opposed
[1:37:55] Speaker 1: to a Brock and Gunther match. I think we're in
[1:37:58] Speaker 1: a situation now where they may have waited too long.
[1:38:03] Speaker 1: We may not even get the chance to see it.
[1:38:05] Speaker 1: And maybe now time wise, it doesn't make sense. This
[1:38:09] Speaker 1: is not the same Gunther that was present at the
[1:38:11] Speaker 1: beginning of the year. It's just not that it wouldn't
[1:38:13] Speaker 1: feel the same. He's taken too many losses recently. That's
[1:38:17] Speaker 1: what I mean when I say he just feels like
[1:38:18] Speaker 1: another guy. So I don't know what's next for him.
[1:38:23] Speaker 1: Will Johnny Gargano finally stop stop planking, and is he
[1:38:27] Speaker 1: going to factor into this in some way where maybe
[1:38:29] Speaker 1: maybe he becomes Sammy stooge. Sammy is usually the one
[1:38:33] Speaker 1: that's in the role of stooge, right, Traditionally he's been
[1:38:36] Speaker 1: the stooge in the past. But this whole association on
[1:38:41] Speaker 1: TV with him and Gargano, you would think maybe that's
[1:38:43] Speaker 1: leading somewhere. If Gargano finally gets up off the crate,
[1:38:47] Speaker 1: he ain't gonna be wrestling for the WWE Championship, but
[1:38:49] Speaker 1: maybe he can. It be his lackey or something. I
[1:38:53] Speaker 1: don't know, so there's a lot of questions now where
[1:38:55] Speaker 1: the peace is going to fall. This is good though,
[1:38:57] Speaker 1: This is a good conversation to have. SmackDown's going back
[1:39:01] Speaker 1: to two hours starting next week, which is great. Sorry
[1:39:05] Speaker 1: to all the people who are going to probably end
[1:39:07] Speaker 1: up being left off the show, but the show is
[1:39:08] Speaker 1: fucking awful, and if they refuse to improve the show,
[1:39:12] Speaker 1: then it's better at two hours than three. But at
[1:39:14] Speaker 1: least now coming out of this show where the main
[1:39:17] Speaker 1: title pictures concerned, I'm interested to see where they're going
[1:39:21] Speaker 1: to go with all these people, right, they have my attention.
[1:39:24] Speaker 1: Now I want to see where they're going to take this.
[1:39:26] Speaker 1: It's not totally predictable anymore in the way that it
[1:39:29] Speaker 1: was when Cody had the belt. So I see that
[1:39:32] Speaker 1: as a good thing. But that main event was fucking great.
[1:39:34] Speaker 1: The only thing on this show I would say that
[1:39:36] Speaker 1: about because of the rest of the show I thought
[1:39:39] Speaker 1: was very mid but that main event was fantastic. So
[1:39:43] Speaker 1: that was Night of Champions. The next big show is
[1:39:46] Speaker 1: going to be Saturday Night's made event for them, July eighteenth,
[1:39:49] Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. Hey, maybe they do brock and Oba
[1:39:55] Speaker 1: at MSG, the world's most famous arena, home of the
[1:40:01] Speaker 1: world champion New York Knicks. It's possible be the Booker goal. Yeah,
[1:40:09] Speaker 1: somebody asked about that. The wheel said four hundred and
[1:40:12] Speaker 1: fifty likes was the goal. We are currently at six
[1:40:15] Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three, so yes, we did hit the goal.
[1:40:18] Speaker 1: We're seven out of ten on the bonus goal, so
[1:40:20] Speaker 1: we'll see if we end up getting over there. But
[1:40:23] Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and take your questions because I
[1:40:26] Speaker 1: know there's a whole bunch of them here. Again, they
[1:40:30] Speaker 1: haven't been popping up on screen because there's an outage
[1:40:33] Speaker 1: with stream Labs, which triggers them on screen. Apparently this
[1:40:37] Speaker 1: is a widespread outage that started earlier today. So I'm
[1:40:41] Speaker 1: getting them. They're just not showing up, So I will
[1:40:43] Speaker 1: read them fear not. I will go through all of them.
[1:40:49] Speaker 1: If Falcon Star says, I hope we don't get brockingto
[1:40:51] Speaker 1: on Saturday nights made event I canceled my Peacock subscription,
[1:40:56] Speaker 1: they may have to. They may get you to re subscribe.
[1:41:00] Speaker 1: Then that's their goal. They want you to resubscribe. They
[1:41:06] Speaker 1: want to pick up as many subscribers as possible. Could
[1:41:13] Speaker 1: they do two and a half hours for SmackDown? Not
[1:41:18] Speaker 1: until they could put together a string of really good
[1:41:21] Speaker 1: SmackDown shows, But could they do it? Sure, it's just
[1:41:25] Speaker 1: a matter of does USA Network want to have a
[1:41:27] Speaker 1: two and a half hour show? And then how do
[1:41:29] Speaker 1: they fill that thirty minutes? I think most of their
[1:41:31] Speaker 1: shows are an hour long, so what would they do
[1:41:33] Speaker 1: for those thirty minutes? They may not want to do that.
[1:41:40] Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know where the where their
[1:41:42] Speaker 1: head is at on that. Hey Joseph Stewart, Happy Saturday
[1:41:48] Speaker 1: to you brother. He was ever present on the stream yesterday,
[1:41:53] Speaker 1: very supportive. What was a very quiet night, so I
[1:41:59] Speaker 1: appreciate it. Favorite moment from Wolfpack Sting showing more of
[1:42:09] Speaker 1: his personality, Yeah, yeah, I mean Sting was showing more
[1:42:12] Speaker 1: personality when he was in the Wolfpack. I just think
[1:42:16] Speaker 1: I don't have a favorite wolf Pack Sting moment, but
[1:42:18] Speaker 1: like him having any sort of association with the nWo
[1:42:22] Speaker 1: is just wrong to me. It's kind of like WWE
[1:42:24] Speaker 1: sending the nWo guys out there Hogan, Paul Nash and
[1:42:28] Speaker 1: wrestlemaniad to Helpsting like they gave no shits about like
[1:42:33] Speaker 1: the history of WCW by doing that. Yeah, we'll just
[1:42:37] Speaker 1: have the nWo guys go out there and help Sting. Sure, sure,
[1:42:42] Speaker 1: why not? How different would ddp's career have been if
[1:42:50] Speaker 1: he had been the one to end Goldberg Streak. I
[1:42:53] Speaker 1: pitch for that very thing, like he would have been
[1:42:58] Speaker 1: an even bigger star out of it. The Raven character. Yeah,
[1:43:05] Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really know what the backstory
[1:43:07] Speaker 1: would be. Probably a somebody who had suffered some sort
[1:43:12] Speaker 1: of great loss in life and you can kind of
[1:43:14] Speaker 1: build on like a tortured soul kind of thing. Maybe
[1:43:16] Speaker 1: that would be the backstory, like the origin story or Raven.
[1:43:22] Speaker 1: Do I think Sting was Hogan's greatest rival in WCW
[1:43:26] Speaker 1: in WCW. Yes, And do I think Keanna James is
[1:43:30] Speaker 1: going to be a big star in WWE. I think
[1:43:33] Speaker 1: that I'm so hesitant with with like the booking, it's
[1:43:42] Speaker 1: I think I'd like to say yes, but you know,
[1:43:45] Speaker 1: with this crew, it's just who knows. I'm gonna say
[1:43:48] Speaker 1: that she will be a future world champion in the
[1:43:52] Speaker 1: women's division. Yes. What about Harley Cameron in AW she
[1:44:00] Speaker 1: does a lot of media stuff for them and is
[1:44:01] Speaker 1: it movie premieres. Yeah, Harley, Harley's a star for them.
[1:44:05] Speaker 1: She's never going to be a megastar though you know
[1:44:08] Speaker 1: she's super talented, though she's very multitalented. I did not
[1:44:18] Speaker 1: know that about Arnold anyway. Joseph, I appreciate that the
[1:44:25] Speaker 1: pair of nine ninety nine from Joseph. Joseph, I'm going
[1:44:28] Speaker 1: to give you a yes chance. Always showing love man,
[1:44:33] Speaker 1: even in slow times, even in slow times lately it's
[1:44:37] Speaker 1: been very slow. I appreciate it. Olivia Rare pay per
[1:44:42] Speaker 1: view live watch from Bulgaria. Much love Solo, shout out
[1:44:47] Speaker 1: to all my peeps in Bulgaria. I don't know how
[1:44:50] Speaker 1: many of them I have over there. I have at
[1:44:52] Speaker 1: least one, at least I know I have at least
[1:44:55] Speaker 1: one g be Oba Brock at Madison Square, Garden Oba
[1:45:03] Speaker 1: Roman and Brock Gunther at SummerSlam. Any of those are possible.
[1:45:10] Speaker 1: I think the latter part of your message is probably
[1:45:14] Speaker 1: more likely than the first part. But I could see
[1:45:18] Speaker 1: I could see any of that. I could see any
[1:45:20] Speaker 1: of that being the case. It's always Russev Day in Bulgaria,
[1:45:26] Speaker 1: certainly not Rusev Day in WWA, super Pony. I haven't
[1:45:30] Speaker 1: marked out like that in fucking years. Holy shits so
[1:45:33] Speaker 1: happy for Sammy. He deserves it so much. Match was
[1:45:36] Speaker 1: amazing too. Yeah, it was a great match. It was
[1:45:40] Speaker 1: a great match. I mean, I'm sure there's gonna be
[1:45:42] Speaker 1: a lot of hate. I know there's a lot of
[1:45:44] Speaker 1: people who are not gonna be happy about sammy' zan
[1:45:49] Speaker 1: being the champion. They don't see him as championship material.
[1:45:52] Speaker 1: But I thought it was a great moment. Mark you
[1:45:58] Speaker 1: the mark. Let's fucking go Oba one, Sammy one and
[1:46:02] Speaker 1: EO one. I said, men, they got it right with
[1:46:05] Speaker 1: all three key matches on this show, the big matches,
[1:46:08] Speaker 1: the finals, the title match, they batted a thousand As
[1:46:13] Speaker 1: far as the outcomes, the Shawnathan Finally Triple H doesn't
[1:46:19] Speaker 1: play it safe and Sammy wins. I don't know for
[1:46:22] Speaker 1: how long, but Cody and Roman his World Champions is
[1:46:24] Speaker 1: boring right now. This is the right move in my opinion. Well,
[1:46:32] Speaker 1: remember the beginning of the year, they did that with
[1:46:34] Speaker 1: Drew and they put the belt on Drew, and I
[1:46:37] Speaker 1: was an advocate for that, and then two months later
[1:46:41] Speaker 1: he lost it back to Sammy so or to Cody.
[1:46:45] Speaker 1: In fact, I think the only title defense successful title
[1:46:48] Speaker 1: defense he had was against Sammy, which was at the Rumble.
[1:46:53] Speaker 1: Andre Jefferson Hey Solo says, I had a thought. Oba
[1:46:59] Speaker 1: challenges Sammy at Summer Slam, beats him. Then Brock challenges
[1:47:03] Speaker 1: Oba for Wressell Palooza. They do love their Wrestle Palooza,
[1:47:11] Speaker 1: don't they. They're probably gonna bring that back now. I
[1:47:18] Speaker 1: don't see Oba and Sammy though, that's I don't see that.
[1:47:21] Speaker 1: I don't see that as a Summer Slam main event,
[1:47:26] Speaker 1: Mark you says, and let's not have him drop it
[1:47:29] Speaker 1: back to Cody. That title doesn't have to be affiliated
[1:47:31] Speaker 1: with Kingdom all the damn time. Oh, you're gonna get
[1:47:34] Speaker 1: Kingdom and you're gonna like it. Kingdom ain't going nowhere,
[1:47:39] Speaker 1: Tommy Kolela. So from now on we can call Sammy's
[1:47:42] Speaker 1: a Grand Slam sam to bet Kevin Owens couldn't be
[1:47:47] Speaker 1: there and celebrate like Shampa did with Gargano back in
[1:47:49] Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. Oh, I'm sure there'll there'll be a phone
[1:47:53] Speaker 1: call or a text message. Then. I'm sure Super Pony
[1:47:56] Speaker 1: praying that they let Sammy hold it till summer Slim
[1:47:59] Speaker 1: and we get Cody against Sammy. That's the best WWE
[1:48:02] Speaker 1: title match they can do on that show. Well, I
[1:48:08] Speaker 1: mean now would be before I would have said Cody
[1:48:10] Speaker 1: and Punk, but I don't know how realistic that ever
[1:48:14] Speaker 1: was going to be. Hey, super Pony, they'll thank you
[1:48:17] Speaker 1: for the four ninety nine men, and Tommy, thank you
[1:48:19] Speaker 1: for the five. You guys are awesome, says Lucas. Bloodlines.
[1:48:28] Speaker 1: Feeling usy after Sammy's win, Well, they're feeling somewhat oosy.
[1:48:34] Speaker 1: Jay Usso did not win, which is fine with me.
[1:48:39] Speaker 1: Misfit Wrestling Podcast with the ten spot going on Misfitch,
[1:48:45] Speaker 1: They're gonna have Brock beat Sammy for the title of
[1:48:48] Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden and then do Brock versus Oba for
[1:48:52] Speaker 1: the title at SummerSlam, aren't they? Because Oba is not
[1:48:56] Speaker 1: pulling double duty yet. Some you know what, mmm mmm,
[1:49:05] Speaker 1: Brock against Sammy at Madison Square Garden. It's an interesting idea.
[1:49:18] Speaker 1: It is an interesting idea. You have Brock beat Sammy
[1:49:26] Speaker 1: like Oba will well. I guess there's no time limit right,
[1:49:29] Speaker 1: Oba can make his I mean, if Oba wants to
[1:49:31] Speaker 1: wait a few weeks to make his choice, how about this.
[1:49:35] Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. If Oba Femi, like in the
[1:49:39] Speaker 1: next week or two, if Oba Femi chooses the WWE
[1:49:43] Speaker 1: championship to go after at Summer Slim, to me, that's
[1:49:46] Speaker 1: a huge red flag. If he picks Sammy Zaying to
[1:49:50] Speaker 1: go after, then I think you're right, because I do
[1:49:53] Speaker 1: not see Sammy going into Summer Slim to be the
[1:49:55] Speaker 1: one to defend that belt against Oba. If that's the
[1:49:58] Speaker 1: choice that Oba makes. If Oba picks Sammy, then I
[1:50:02] Speaker 1: think you're right. I think somehow they get to Sammy
[1:50:05] Speaker 1: and Brock for the title. On that show, Brock wins
[1:50:08] Speaker 1: and he's already made his choice, and that's how we
[1:50:12] Speaker 1: get Oba and Brock with Oba going over and winning
[1:50:15] Speaker 1: the championship and then Sammy would just have the mother
[1:50:19] Speaker 1: of all meltdowns. And maybe that's how we know Punk
[1:50:24] Speaker 1: debuts on SmackDown. We get Sammy and Punk as an
[1:50:27] Speaker 1: undercard match. The only thing is, again, where does Cody
[1:50:30] Speaker 1: fit in? How is Cody not going to be involved
[1:50:33] Speaker 1: in like one of the top matches on the shows.
[1:50:35] Speaker 1: I just don't see how he's not involved. So what
[1:50:39] Speaker 1: is Cody doing on that show? That's the only problem
[1:50:42] Speaker 1: with that idea. But it does sound like something WWE
[1:50:48] Speaker 1: would do. I feel bad for Sammy though it'd be
[1:50:51] Speaker 1: almost be as bad as what they did with Kofy
[1:50:53] Speaker 1: and Brock. I don't think anything will be as bad
[1:50:55] Speaker 1: as that, but that would be almost as bad as that.
[1:51:02] Speaker 1: But that does sound like very much a WWE type
[1:51:05] Speaker 1: of thing that they would do. So thanks, I hope
[1:51:09] Speaker 1: you're wrong. Thanks, I hate it. We've got timb toes.
[1:51:19] Speaker 1: Been loving the show since twenty ten. Glad to see
[1:51:21] Speaker 1: you're still going strong. Be well, my friend, Hey brother,
[1:51:24] Speaker 1: I appreciate that Timby the timb or Thimby me Thimby,
[1:51:32] Speaker 1: unlike Wemby, get ship on by Michael Cole every week, Speedy,
[1:51:39] Speaker 1: what are the odds now of a Cody heel turn.
[1:51:44] Speaker 1: I think they're still very low. I smoked a lot
[1:51:50] Speaker 1: of weed. Is Cody a bigger star than Randy in
[1:51:54] Speaker 1: his career? Yes, Aaron, Gunther and all this got in
[1:52:07] Speaker 1: a fight on the post show. Oh my god, don't
[1:52:13] Speaker 1: tell me. Don't tell me that that's gonna be their
[1:52:15] Speaker 1: idea for Gunther wrestle the GM. Let me tell you something.
[1:52:25] Speaker 1: If that ends up being the match, considering where Gunther
[1:52:31] Speaker 1: was six months ago and they picked him to be
[1:52:34] Speaker 1: in that spot to retire John Cena. If six months
[1:52:36] Speaker 1: later he's wrestling the general manager at SummerSlam, that's just
[1:52:40] Speaker 1: that's an epic failure of WWE creative. Just an epic failure.
[1:52:51] Speaker 1: Hey gamer dude, thank you brother, listening to the sound
[1:52:54] Speaker 1: of while I'm on the grind listening for over a decade.
[1:53:00] Speaker 1: Now keep doing your thing. I'm trying, man, I'm trying.
[1:53:05] Speaker 1: I'm here every week. Eric the Shawn. I read his
[1:53:09] Speaker 1: super chat earlier, but I gotta say thank you again
[1:53:13] Speaker 1: for that fifty dollars Gunhar. But I only wish Gunhar
[1:53:15] Speaker 1: was working tonight and he can pop up. But I
[1:53:19] Speaker 1: appreciate it, brother, Thank you for the fifty. It's the
[1:53:22] Speaker 1: biggest one all night. Chris Bars with a ten says yes,
[1:53:27] Speaker 1: oh solo Monster, I acknowledge you as our king. Here
[1:53:32] Speaker 1: we go s yeah, that's what I like. What I
[1:53:34] Speaker 1: like hearing let me put my crown back on. I'm
[1:53:41] Speaker 1: proud to serve. Jeremy says, why does Jay still at
[1:53:45] Speaker 1: the baby face entrance? He's a fucking heel? Twenty twenty
[1:53:48] Speaker 1: six Wrestling fans popping for his entrance annoy me and
[1:53:51] Speaker 1: I'm a j fan. Why does Roman still get cheered
[1:53:57] Speaker 1: even though he's a heel? La Knight is not wrong
[1:54:00] Speaker 1: in anything that he says when he's on TV every
[1:54:02] Speaker 1: single week. Roman Like. The only time that La Night
[1:54:04] Speaker 1: gets booed is whenever he says something negative about Roman,
[1:54:07] Speaker 1: and then the fans chang oh tc, oh TC. Sean
[1:54:16] Speaker 1: Sanders says obi Oba tapped Jay rematch on Raw. Here
[1:54:23] Speaker 1: comes the paint. That wasn't a tap. I know what
[1:54:26] Speaker 1: part of the match you're talking about that was not
[1:54:27] Speaker 1: a tap? Are you trying to will something into existence
[1:54:37] Speaker 1: with Jay Usa? Because I will not allow it. T
[1:54:40] Speaker 1: Max says, Bruh, I thought bron versus Rollins cooked. I
[1:54:46] Speaker 1: mean the latter part of the match. Did The first
[1:54:48] Speaker 1: half of the match was fucking boring. I thought it
[1:54:52] Speaker 1: turned into a pretty good match by the end. As
[1:54:56] Speaker 1: far as the show itself, he says three and a
[1:54:59] Speaker 1: half out of five because of that main event, I
[1:55:06] Speaker 1: might go three out of five. It was not better
[1:55:10] Speaker 1: than that. This was a very mid show outside of
[1:55:14] Speaker 1: that main event. I'm sorry, Jeremy Rose Drew seeing Sammy
[1:55:18] Speaker 1: Winn got him licking his chops. Oh yeah, you know what,
[1:55:22] Speaker 1: that's a great point. That is a great point. Sammy's like,
[1:55:26] Speaker 1: oh for eleven against Drew McIntyre and Drew McIntyre. He's
[1:55:30] Speaker 1: he's rubbing his hands together. Are you kidding me? That
[1:55:33] Speaker 1: championship's coming home? Jeremy says, is Cody gonna do the
[1:55:42] Speaker 1: babyface thing and congratulate Sammy or are we gonna lean
[1:55:45] Speaker 1: into heal Cody? And he gives him no credit for
[1:55:48] Speaker 1: a fluke win. I think for for Cody's character, he'll
[1:55:53] Speaker 1: give you know, he'll give credit to Sammy words due,
[1:55:56] Speaker 1: those are the rules of a triple threat match. He
[1:55:58] Speaker 1: knew the risks coming in. There's nothing that Sammy did
[1:56:03] Speaker 1: in the match that was really out of bounds and
[1:56:09] Speaker 1: I think he'll give him credit. Johnny Burny watched Sammy
[1:56:18] Speaker 1: drop the belt to Brock in eighteen seconds. It's Saturday
[1:56:21] Speaker 1: Nights made Events. Oh good. Alexander says, Eo is now
[1:56:26] Speaker 1: Queen of the Sky. Yes she is. Jeremy says, do
[1:56:30] Speaker 1: you see Bloodline beating down Oba and Roman wearing the
[1:56:33] Speaker 1: crown on raw like he did with Xavier Woods. Probably not.
[1:56:40] Speaker 1: It's one thing to beat down Xavier Woods. Plus they
[1:56:47] Speaker 1: would just be recycling the same angle. Aaron says, Triple
[1:56:55] Speaker 1: H is so afraid of booze that he didn't go
[1:56:58] Speaker 1: to give the crowns up. You were talking about liquor.
[1:57:02] Speaker 1: He's a teetotaler. He's afraid of the booze. Bader Mohammed.
[1:57:09] Speaker 1: I was at the show and I was desperate for
[1:57:11] Speaker 1: Sammy to win the title, he says. I didn't think
[1:57:14] Speaker 1: that they were going to pull the trigger, especially at
[1:57:19] Speaker 1: this show, but they did. Hats off to you. You
[1:57:23] Speaker 1: called it on TNT. I was just hoping, man, I
[1:57:26] Speaker 1: was hoping. I said, show some balls and put the
[1:57:31] Speaker 1: belt on Sammy, and that's what they did. I'm very happy,
[1:57:35] Speaker 1: but I hope you enjoyed the show. Baterer, so you
[1:57:37] Speaker 1: got to be there for history. History was made with
[1:57:41] Speaker 1: Sammy's big win. Asu Amy Jade Cargill wrestles like she
[1:57:45] Speaker 1: is going through the match with her opponent before the show.
[1:57:49] Speaker 1: That's because she probably is. I said that match that
[1:57:53] Speaker 1: she had it was the King of the Ring qualifying
[1:57:58] Speaker 1: match that she had with the four way with Charlotte
[1:58:03] Speaker 1: Soul and Lyra unsmacked down a few weeks ago. Especially
[1:58:08] Speaker 1: when she was in there with Charlotte, it looked like
[1:58:09] Speaker 1: it was her first day at wrestling school, or not
[1:58:13] Speaker 1: her first day of wrestling school. It looked like her
[1:58:15] Speaker 1: first day at school, finally being ready to have a match.
[1:58:19] Speaker 1: That's what it looked like. Alexander, we need Gunhar against
[1:58:25] Speaker 1: Dragonov three, but it won't happen. Yeah, it's too bad.
[1:58:33] Speaker 1: It really sucks. Nick Grosso with a nine ninety nine,
[1:58:37] Speaker 1: I think Oba picks Roman and they do Brocko but three.
[1:58:40] Speaker 1: It's Saturday Night's made event in Madison Square Garden. And
[1:58:45] Speaker 1: I also still think there's a chance they do Gunther
[1:58:47] Speaker 1: against Brock at Summerslime, because what else do you do
[1:58:51] Speaker 1: with Gunther at Summer Slime. Well, evidently it might be
[1:58:56] Speaker 1: Nick Aldos I don't know. Also another idea for Brock
[1:59:03] Speaker 1: at SummerSlam, Breaker leaves the Vision and Hayman sends the
[1:59:07] Speaker 1: Beast after him and we get Lesnar against Breaker. That
[1:59:11] Speaker 1: could work as long as Breaker wins. Bron has to win.
[1:59:18] Speaker 1: He lost the cage match. If you are going to
[1:59:21] Speaker 1: do him and Brock, he must win that match. Otherwise,
[1:59:26] Speaker 1: don't do the match. He would have to win. Aaron says,
[1:59:30] Speaker 1: will Saudi top Vegas for worst WrestleMania crowd? Eh? I
[1:59:36] Speaker 1: don't know if tonight was any indication. I'm not terribly
[1:59:40] Speaker 1: optimistic about it, Alex despiteful rache. First, the Knicks winning
[1:59:46] Speaker 1: a chip, Now Sammy's Ain winning a WWE championship. So
[1:59:51] Speaker 1: many underdog wild cards this year. Congrats to him. Well
[1:59:55] Speaker 1: then you know. On that note, I'll put this question
[1:59:57] Speaker 1: to you guys, because some of you may know more
[1:59:59] Speaker 1: about it than I would. If this is the year
[2:00:02] Speaker 1: of the underdog, who would you say would be considered
[2:00:07] Speaker 1: the underdog team right now in the World Cup. Maybe
[2:00:12] Speaker 1: it's their year. I don't know. I don't know who
[2:00:17] Speaker 1: the underdog would be m v K. It was another
[2:00:22] Speaker 1: scuffle solo between Gunther and Nick all this and it
[2:00:25] Speaker 1: got physical. Yes, I know. They just mentioned that to me.
[2:00:30] Speaker 1: So either what they're gonna wrestle or all this is
[2:00:32] Speaker 1: gonna suspend him and they're just they don't have anything
[2:00:35] Speaker 1: for Gunther, so they'll just take them off TV for
[2:00:37] Speaker 1: a while. Good morning, Cheza, Good morning to you. Toya.
[2:00:45] Speaker 1: Ain't nice. They had a backstage segment with gun Through
[2:00:48] Speaker 1: and Nick nick Aldis could have a match there, Thank you, Toya.
[2:01:00] Speaker 1: Alexander says Gunhar needs to drop the career killer gimmick. Now,
[2:01:05] Speaker 1: he's not fooling anyone with this amount of losses that
[2:01:07] Speaker 1: he has. Now it still says career killer on his
[2:01:11] Speaker 1: tron when he comes out, But they really haven't been
[2:01:14] Speaker 1: focusing on it too much on commentary because it's a
[2:01:16] Speaker 1: stupid gimmick. So I agree and Fox with a nine
[2:01:21] Speaker 1: ninety nine. I saw Obsession a couple of days ago,
[2:01:23] Speaker 1: and Wow, it was good. The actress was amazing. I
[2:01:26] Speaker 1: felt bad for her character the whole movie says, but man,
[2:01:30] Speaker 1: I hate the ending. That is not exactly a happy ending.
[2:01:33] Speaker 1: There's nothing really happy about the movie. But to me,
[2:01:38] Speaker 1: it's the best movie all year so far. I loved it.
[2:01:44] Speaker 1: I thought it was great, but it's not exactly what
[2:01:46] Speaker 1: you would call a feel good tale. Link Master says
[2:01:53] Speaker 1: Kofi had at least two more world title reigns in him.
[2:01:57] Speaker 1: No he didn't. I mean, look, we're being honest here.
[2:02:04] Speaker 1: No he didn't. Uh, super Pony. Do you think Ko
[2:02:09] Speaker 1: will get his moment like Sammy did today when he
[2:02:11] Speaker 1: comes back? It's a crime that he's never been WWE champion.
[2:02:15] Speaker 1: I think the fact that Sammy just won the belt
[2:02:17] Speaker 1: makes it more likely. I'd like to think the answer
[2:02:20] Speaker 1: is yes, Tyler Hansen, punk versus Roads at Summer Slim,
[2:02:28] Speaker 1: if not, then at Wrestlemany of forty three? Yeah, but
[2:02:33] Speaker 1: are you saying Punk versus Roads at Summer Slim non title?
[2:02:38] Speaker 1: That would be bold if they did it on the
[2:02:40] Speaker 1: undercard and not as a main event, because to me,
[2:02:43] Speaker 1: that's a main event, and if it's going to be
[2:02:46] Speaker 1: in the main event, then it has to be for
[2:02:47] Speaker 1: the title. And Toya says Brock's last match should be
[2:02:54] Speaker 1: at Summer slam O, but can work two nights if
[2:02:57] Speaker 1: need be, And those I think I'm all caught up. Oh, Buffman,
[2:03:05] Speaker 1: forty two months of membership, No. Sixty two? Where'd I
[2:03:10] Speaker 1: get forty two from sixty two months, says America, though
[2:03:16] Speaker 1: Hosting is considered an underdog in this tournament. Interesting, who
[2:03:26] Speaker 1: did somebody say before Cabo Cabo Verde? Hunter hates Owens,
[2:03:36] Speaker 1: He'll never win the best? Wait, mean he hates Owens.
[2:03:40] Speaker 1: Owens was like his boy in na I mean, he
[2:03:43] Speaker 1: wasn't in NXT for very long. I never got the
[2:03:49] Speaker 1: impression he hated him. The old Triple H would have
[2:03:52] Speaker 1: hated the old Triple H like when he was still
[2:03:55] Speaker 1: wrestling many many years ago, like way pre NXT. The
[2:04:00] Speaker 1: kind of person that he would have like in production
[2:04:03] Speaker 1: meetings or meetings with Vince booking meetings, he would have
[2:04:05] Speaker 1: completely shit on somebody who looked like Kevin Owens. And
[2:04:10] Speaker 1: he probably still feels the same way as he felt
[2:04:13] Speaker 1: back then. Right, Leopard never really changes his spots, but
[2:04:16] Speaker 1: now that he's in a position of power, he understands
[2:04:18] Speaker 1: that he needs people like that on the roster. But
[2:04:22] Speaker 1: he would completely bury this shit out of somebody who
[2:04:26] Speaker 1: dressed like Owens, look like Owens, because Triple HS is
[2:04:29] Speaker 1: a body guy. If you know, look the part, you're
[2:04:32] Speaker 1: not a champion, right, But then again, Sammy's ain is
[2:04:36] Speaker 1: now WWE champions, so maybe he's changed his views. All right,
[2:04:41] Speaker 1: you guys are getting a round to be the booker.
[2:04:44] Speaker 1: You guys unlocked it, and so let's go ahead and
[2:04:47] Speaker 1: do it. Be the booker time. Ladies are gentlemen. It
[2:04:50] Speaker 1: is now time to be the booker. Cape Verde are
[2:04:58] Speaker 1: technically the lowest team to make it to round of
[2:05:01] Speaker 1: thirty two. Sounds like an underdog to me. Allright, we go,
[2:05:12] Speaker 1: oh my god, fucking low down on a night where
[2:05:20] Speaker 1: Sammy Zaine won the big one, we needed a big
[2:05:22] Speaker 1: night to be the booker. And we start with Lowdown, Dlo,
[2:05:27] Speaker 1: Brown and Mash from the Headbangers. Chaz, look at this.
[2:05:36] Speaker 1: This was the thing. This was a real thing. By
[2:05:38] Speaker 1: the way, I have no idea why. Oh man, you know,
[2:05:47] Speaker 1: I uh, I was gonna give this the easy buzz,
[2:05:50] Speaker 1: but you know what, just the fact that we have
[2:05:55] Speaker 1: the brainbusters in here. You got Ron, you got Tully,
[2:05:58] Speaker 1: Dlo is great. I think they can make something out
[2:06:04] Speaker 1: of this. I'm surprised in myself that I gave that
[2:06:12] Speaker 1: the bell. But once I saw Arn and Tully and Bobby,
[2:06:17] Speaker 1: I said, I had to uh choose four women and
[2:06:21] Speaker 1: book a tag team and then we just do this
[2:06:23] Speaker 1: last night, choose four women and book a tag team match.
[2:06:30] Speaker 1: I guess we're booking a women's tag team title match,
[2:06:34] Speaker 1: so you get two tag team matches tonight. Oscar, Yes,
[2:06:39] Speaker 1: all right, who's gonna be teaming up with Oscar? It's
[2:06:43] Speaker 1: gonna be Oscar and it's going to be Corrigeade. That's
[2:06:48] Speaker 1: not the team I was expecting. Oscar and Coorage Aide
[2:06:53] Speaker 1: against Victoria. Ooh, Oscar and Victoria on opposing teams, and
[2:07:01] Speaker 1: Victoria's partner Kyrie saying, well, now I'll talk about being
[2:07:10] Speaker 1: on opposing sides. Kyrie will finally get her revenge that
[2:07:14] Speaker 1: WWE did not give her. She's gonna fuck up Oscar
[2:07:17] Speaker 1: in this match. Victoria and Kyrie against Osca and Corey
[2:07:23] Speaker 1: j Ag. I wonder who's taken the pin in this match.
[2:07:27] Speaker 1: It's the only reason Kora j eight is in there.
[2:07:31] Speaker 1: I love that. I love it. Oscar and Kyrie on
[2:07:33] Speaker 1: opposing teams. Seeing if Triple H isn't gonna give you
[2:07:37] Speaker 1: the payoff, I will at least you'll get it here.
[2:07:45] Speaker 1: Kyrie's revenge. That's right, that's right. Atmax says we USA
[2:07:53] Speaker 1: definitely the underdogs to win the Cup. Well, I guess
[2:07:57] Speaker 1: if the USA wins, it'll be officially the year of
[2:07:59] Speaker 1: the Underdog. And in the main event we have William Regal.
[2:08:10] Speaker 1: He's a former King of the Ring. Oh boy, William Regal,
[2:08:20] Speaker 1: who has an awful lot of metal in his neck,
[2:08:24] Speaker 1: is going into battle with brock Leisure and that seems
[2:08:30] Speaker 1: like a very bad idea because he's going to be
[2:08:33] Speaker 1: dumped on his head a whole bunch of times. He's
[2:08:35] Speaker 1: going to be taken to Supplex City, and I don't
[2:08:39] Speaker 1: think that would be very good for William Regal, but
[2:08:43] Speaker 1: I will give it the bell and that is a
[2:08:45] Speaker 1: clean sweep. There you go. Some very interesting matches there
[2:08:53] Speaker 1: that we were able to book. Even though I was
[2:08:57] Speaker 1: not enamored with this card, I still think that this
[2:09:00] Speaker 1: card was better than what we just booked. Although the
[2:09:06] Speaker 1: women's tag match intrigues me, but that was not our
[2:09:09] Speaker 1: strongest be the booker. Pray pray for Regal. Regal isn't cleared.
[2:09:18] Speaker 1: Oba gets Brock. Oba is the replacement. Regal is not
[2:09:23] Speaker 1: medically cleared. Hey, sweet, A sweep is a sweet man.
[2:09:28] Speaker 1: There you go. Anyway, thank you guys for hanging out
[2:09:31] Speaker 1: with me on a Saturday afternoon Slash evening and coming
[2:09:35] Speaker 1: off the SmackDown stream last night. Tomorrow, brand new episode
[2:09:39] Speaker 1: of The sound Off, episode nine sixty nine will be
[2:09:41] Speaker 1: dropping at some point in the afternoon, hopefully not too
[2:09:44] Speaker 1: late because there are a lot of wrestling shows tomorrow
[2:09:48] Speaker 1: and I will not be live after Forbidden Door. I'm
[2:09:53] Speaker 1: gonna watch the show, but I ain't staying up that
[2:09:54] Speaker 1: late to review that show, so we'll save that review
[2:09:58] Speaker 1: for Tuesday. But if you are checking out whatever wrestling
[2:10:01] Speaker 1: shows you were checking out tomorrow, enjoy I'm sure there'll
[2:10:04] Speaker 1: be much to discuss coming out of them all. But yes,
[2:10:07] Speaker 1: the SoundOff will drop tomorrow. Keep your eyes out for it.
[2:10:10] Speaker 1: And if you are not already subscribe here to the channel,
[2:10:12] Speaker 1: or if you're new to the channel, I hope you
[2:10:14] Speaker 1: enjoy your stay. We got a lot of content. We're
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[2:10:19] Speaker 1: will stay safe. Avisl's a great rest of your nights,
[2:10:23] Speaker 1: and just be happy that, if nothing else, that image
[2:10:26] Speaker 1: that you see on your screen, King jay Uso did
[2:10:30] Speaker 1: not come true. We have King Obafemi and for the
[2:10:34] Speaker 1: first time, Sammy Zain is WWE Champion. May sell It's
[2:10:39] Speaker 1: a good night. I'll see tomorrow

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