WWE Raw 12/30/24 Review | HEATED Segment With CM Punk And Seth Rollins Before Netflix Debut!

pour one out for two hour raws. It's too bad because I really felt like they were getting into the groove of the two hour format recently, and now they're going back to three or whatever it ends up being. I mean, next week's show may well be more than three hours. I wouldn't be shocked if next week's show

was three and a half hours. We don't exactly know how long the show is going to be next week, but going forward, Smack is going to be three hours starting this Friday, and Raw will be comparable every Monday Night. Tonight was one giant infomercial basically for the move to Netflix, which it had to be. Raw is moving homes. You want to let the audience know even though they were constantly for weeks now driving Home, Raw is moving to Netflix on January sixth. Raw is moving to Netflix on

January sixth. You're still gonna have people who are gonna flip on USA next week and be like, where's Raw. But you want to try to minimize that as much as possible, and to that end, they did what they had to do. But this was a lame duck show, as many of the shows the last couple of weeks have felt like, really ever since Saturday Night's Made Event, all of these shows feel like lame duck shows, even SmackDown.

But even though it was a lame duck show and there wasn't a whole lot that happened, it was not a show completely devoid of anything good, because we actually had two excellent segments on the show tonight, but it closed with one of the best segments of the night, if not the best segment of the night, involving CM Punk and seth Rawlins. Now we are getting a lot of big matches on the show next week. It's loaded up. It feels like a pay per view, right we got

Roman rains is Wrestling on Raw. Okay, when was the last time that happened. If Roman Rains is wrestling on Raw, then you know it's a big show, so he'll be wrestling Solo Socoa next week. We know Rhea Ripley is going to be challenging Live Morgan for the Women's World Championship. But the big match that was made many weeks ago was a match that we were supposed to have gotten to WrestleMania this year, and we didn't because Punk got hurt.

Seem Punk against seth Rawlins, And instead of waiting until WrestleMania to do the first match, they're doing it next week on TV. My expectation is that even with Roman on the show, depending on what I guess, the outcome of his match is going to be. This match is the real main event. This is the match that should close the show. Seem Punk against seth Rawlins. They're either opening the show or they're closing show. But this this

feels like the real main event of the show. Ever since Punk came back to the company at Survivor Series last year, the issue is CM punkin seth Rawlins. Seth Rollins was beside himself right the night he came back. He was cussing and he was trying to get it punk and they had to hold him back. Nobody was more upset to see CM punk back in w w WE than seth Rawlins, and they were going to ride

that all the way into WrestleMania. Then they got away from it for a while, but then around summertime they got back to it, and we've gotten it in drips and drabs since then. But in the last few weeks, ever since Survivor series, ever since War Games, they've really ratcheted things up and they've traded barbes on the microphone back and forth. They had a pull apar brawl on raw was it last week? Last week of the week before.

Two weeks ago they had a pullup bar brawl and it all culminated tonight in one final face off in the ring between these two. No physicality because they're didn't have to be. We already saw a pullupar bro What more can you do. You're gonna do some lame injury angle. There's nothing left to do except have the match, so

there was no physicality. You put a microphone in each of their hands, you let them go out there, and you let them fire away one last time to really draw people in and make them want to see this match next week. And to that end, I thought they did a very good job. It was a tense, heated confrontation. At the end of the show. CM punk got to say his piece, Seth Rolins got to say his piece.

Each of them got some shots in, some good digs in on the other there were a couple of things that Seth Rollins said in particular that just made me cringe. You might be able to figure out what it was if you saw the segment, but it did involve a reference to AW without actually saying a We had all kinds of things in this promo. We had references to AW, We had references to Vince McMahon more than one without

naming him, so they were going back and forth. But there were a couple of things that Seth said in this promo about winning the war, and I was like, oh, oh my god. But aside from that, it was an excellent segment and now it leads into a match next week that's going to be very interesting to see what the end result of that is because that will tell the tale of whether or not we are still going

to get CM Punkin, Seth Rawlins or WrestleMania. The belief, the chatter that we have been hearing of late has nothing to do with CM punkin SETH Rollins, and it has everything to do with CM punk and Roman Reigns potentially being a match of WrestleMania forty one that would be an even bigger match, and the last that we

heard the reports that were going around. Even Mike Johnson, a PW insider who I consider to be a reputable source, says that there are discussions internally focusing on that match. Doesn't mean that it's going to happen, but that's where their head is at right now. If that's the case and we're not going to get Punk and Rollins of WrestleMania, I still feel like it's not a one and done.

This can't be a one and done thing. So do we get it next week and then they run it back an elimination chamber or the Royal Rumble, We don't know. Next week will be a very important night for a lot of reasons as far as where we are headed for WrestleMania, because not only is it the first raw of the year, but you look at some of the big matches on this show involving Roman, involving Punk, involving Rhea.

This is going to give us at least some insight into some of the directions that we are headed in for Las Vegas next year. We're heading into a Women's World Championship match where Ria Ripley I think, absolutely needs to walk out of Los Angeles next week with that championship because this needs to be the end of that few.

I feel the same way about that that I do in many ways MJF and Adam Cole, which I talked about in my World's End review on Saturday night, I sat here and we talked about how thank god it's over. Hopefully it's over. It needs to be over. There are just certain programs, there are certain feuds. You get to a point where it just feels like, okay, we've jumped the shark here and it's time to move on. Two very different situations and sets of circumstances. But I feel

the same way about this. They have squeezed every ounce out of that feud that they can, and it's time for Ria to move on to something else and live. Morgan is gonna move down the card because of it. She's not gonna be the beneficiary of losing, but it's time to move on, and I think we do next week. I think next week we're gonna get Becky Lynch back on the show. I'd be shocked if she wasn't there. John Cena. They're advertising that John Cena's retirement tour kicks

off next week. Is it going to be a case where John Cena comes out next week and he becomes the first man to announce formally for the Royal Rumble match. I think he will, cause you know he's gonna be in the Rumble. Why shouldn't he be the first man to Claire. Next week we'll find out got to be doing something. We have the New Day and Raymistereo and

there's a tag team match. I don't think they specifically said it would take place next week, but it looks like Pente is going to be tied into that, which I talked about last week. I think that's a good spot for him to debut. So there's a lot to look forward to next week. But the punk in the

rollin stuff was one highlight. The other highlight of the night tonight was one of the semi final matches we got in the women's tournament to crown an Intercontinental Champion EO Sky Lyra Valkyria probably the most unpredictable match in the entire tournament. I was sticking to my guns, if you watch the review last week, sticking to my guns

about Lyra going all the way. But there were a lot of people who thought, well, with EO Sky now being in the tournament, surely she's going to at least go to the finals, and we're going to get an all damage control final. And boy, did ww we want you to believe that we were going to get an all damage control final tonight. The point where they leaned in on it a little too hard, And if I wasn't convinced that Lyra was winning going into this, it was clear as day as the match progressed, who was

going over in that match. They tipped their hat a little too much. But Lyra and Eo went out there and they had an excellent match, one of the better women's matches on WWE television that they have had in a while. These two went out there and I thought

they killed it tonight. And it's all good news because even though EO Sky is not going to the finals for the Intercontinental Championship, this is a good thing if you're a fan of vo Sky, because I think that this greatly enhances her chances of doing something much more significant as we head into Wrestle Media. That match, by the way, the finals with Lyra and with Dakota Kai

not taking place next week. They're holding off on that for two weeks, and so January thirteenth is when we are going to get the finals of that tournament, which I guess I understand because it is going to be completely overshadowed by everything else that's going on next week. Not that they couldn't fit it on the show, but I get it, you know, I get wanting to save something special for the week after. Right, You blow your load next week and you got nothing left over for

the following Monday. So we'll have to wait two weeks to find out who the first Intercontinental Champion is going to be. But we have an entire show here to talk about the final Raw on USA Network. This is your Monday Night Raw Review. It is December thirtieth, two thousand and twenty four. I am the Solo Monster, Like and subscribe. Thank you for joining me here on a Monday night. Superchats are open as they come in. You will see them popping up on your screen. I do

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got no New Year's plans, now you do. And not only are we going to be hanging out, I'll be taking your questions, but we're gonna be counting down the best matches, ranking the best matches of twenty twenty four. So that should be a good time and hopefully you guys can join me on the stream tomorrow night. That will be our final stream of the year. After this our biggest year to date on YouTube. So I thank you all for that. The show open tonight with Joe

Tessitur and Wade Barrett. They were standing ringside promoting the fact that this is the final raw on you, I say, and that it would have limited commercial interruptions, so we had no commercials for the first They said the first thirty minutes, it really was like forty minutes of the show. And you know what that means. Whenever you get a commercial free anything, you're gonna pay for it later in

the second hour, and that's exactly what happened. So they were about to introduce jay us out to the ring when the New Day's music hit Kofi Kingston Xavier Woods. They came out. Houston, Texas was not very happy to see them. They would not let them speak. They were trying to speak as they were coming to the ring, they got drowned out. And then clearly they're leaning into it. They're really trying to, you know, get the dominic mysteria

thing going in every city that they go to. I mean, they had that megaheat a few weeks ago, but now they're like really leaning into it where you know, they could speak, but then they stop like they can't and it's like their cue like boo us more, and the crowd was more than happy to oblige, so they start channing New Day sucks. The continued to try to talk, kept getting booed, and then finally jay Usso's music hit and he entered it through the crowd. Once he made

his way to the ring. Xavier Woods said, look, they go way back with Jay. We've seen a lot of battles between the New Day and the ussos. Who is this who just gifted five memberships? Brian, Brian Musha gifting five channel memberships. Thank you, Brian big G. No, it was not an hour commercial free. There were a lot of people who seemingly thought it was ninety minutes the first ninety minutes of the show, which on a two

hour show is the majority of the fucking show. And I saw all these comments about it, oh, the first ninety minutes, and it wasn't ninety minutes, it was thirty minutes. It's just Wade Barrett's he's got that heavy accent. So I went back and I listened to it again. I thought maybe I was it's crazy, And apparently he definitely did not say ninety He said thirty minutes. But again, it was like a forty two or whatever before they took their first commercial break. But everybody thought Wade said

ninety not the case. See, I can understand ninety minutes the first ninety minutes on a three hour show. You're gonna be commercial free for the first ninety minutes on a two hour show, you may as well just go commercial free for the whole two hours, and that's never gonna happen. It's still not gonna happen on Netflix either, by the way. So they were again try to tell Jay, hey, we go way back. Jay told the fans quiet down so that we could hear what this chump has to say,

and they ignored him. They ignored Jay Uso and they continued to boo anyway. So Jay said that he and the New Day they do go way back. But he only had one thing to say to the two of them. New Day sucks. It would stepped up to him. Kofe got him to back down. As the New Day left, Jay stayed in the ring. He said he's got other problems to address, namely the New Bloodline and Drew McIntyre. He said, Roman Rains is gonna handle Solo Socoa next week,

and he's gonna handle Drew McIntyre. He called out McIntyre, but then Solo Socoa and the other members of the blood Line they pumped up on the Titan Tron. Solo said that Sammy's ay and he got a little too close to the sun. On SmackDown last Friday. You see what happened to him. He said, the Ula fallow will

stay on his neck forever. He will destroy Roman Reigns next week in their tribal combat match, and then Jay and everybody else will acknowledge him, so clearly a message that they were sure to tape I'm sure backstage on Friday night. And that was the last we saw of or heard from Solo Socoa for the rest of the show. So after Solo's mess it was done. Playing Drew McIntyre. You could see him in the background and he comes

out of the crowd. Jade doesn't see him, sneaks into the ring and he ambushes Jay Uso and laid a beat down on him, and then he set up for a Claymore kick, but he ate a superkick as he came in. McIntyre dropped him though with a Glasgow kiss and tried again for a Claymore, but officials hit the ring to prevent him from doing so, so they got Drew out of the ring, but then he broke free, ran back down to the ring, slid in and finally he connected on a Claymore kick and he yelled that

Jay was next. You know, it's an amazing thing because almost nothing really happened here. And yet I looked at the clock and it was already eight to fifteen. Fifteen minutes of this show had already gone by and nothing happened. I mean, it really was mostly the New Day, you know, milking those booze and the reactions and the crowd just shitting all over them. They really took their time with that, so fifteen minutes went by, crowd was loud, though they

were very animated for all of this. I still say there is a very good chance that Drew gets involved in Roman's match next week, even though they're telegraphing it. I mean I said this a couple of weeks ago after Saturday Night's main event. Remember when Drew beats Sammy and he was walking to the back and they got a shot of him. I think he posted the video on his social media. He had somebody film it with his phone and it was him walking to the back

and he just was like one down, four to go. Remember, and I was having this discussion about, well, who are the other four people he's referring to, right, Jimmy and Jay obviously are two. Who are the other two Is it Roman and Solo? Is it Roman and Punk? Right? He made he was very clear four more to go after Sammy's a and so I was talking about that and I said, he's going to attack Roman Reigns on January sixth. He may even call him the match. I

don't know if he's gonna cost him the match. A lot of it depends on what the outcome of tribal combat is going to be. If Roman Reigns is going to beat Solo Socoa next week and take back the ULA follow I don't see the point and Drew McIntyre getting involved in the match if Roman is just gonna win the ULA follow back anyway. If Drew's gonna get involved though, and costs Roman, that would make sense. Of course, it would prolong things with Solo. He'd still walk around

as the tribal chief. But we could be in for a situation where Roman wins and then McIntyre shows up and jumps him. So I'm not sure what they're gonna do, but I do think that Drew will be involved in some way, either during the match or after the match, because Roman is on his hit list. Why wouldn't he be, I mean, I know he said jay Uso is next. McIntire's wrestling jay next week, So there is that he's gonna be He's gonna be occupied with jay Uso, but

they're gonna be under the same rum. And we know Roman is on his list. Roman is his number one target and all this. How does he factor into this? A lot of it depends on who goes over in that match. I just don't see the point and Drew getting involved. If Roman is gonna win, maybe Roman's not gonna win, I don't know. We'll see. We had Chad Gable one on one against Otis. This is a match that should have happened months ago when the story had reached its peak, because they had a good thing going

there for a while. It was getting great heat every week. Gable was such a dick to him and too Tozawa and Maxine and the way he would bully them and berate them, and it was building to Otis, you know, finally getting that match and getting revenge on you know, master Gable, and we never got it. We never got a singles match between them. It's like they just blew it off. Gable kept losing, but he moved on to do other things, even showed up on SmackDown and wrestled

Cody Rhodes lost to him too. Now, all of a sudden, they circle back around to this match. Gable started off by clubbing him with chops, had no effect. Otis responded with a shoulder block that left Gable all rattled in the corner. He lifted Gable over his head for the gorilla press drop, and then after he dropped him, Gable rolled out to the floor. So Gable created an opening for himself by avoiding a shoulder charge, and Otis went

into the ring post. Gable targeted the left knee after that misfire, and later on Gable missed a diving headbutt off the top rope. When Otis rolled out of the way, Otis hit the caterpillar elbow drop well. When he tried for the pin, Gable was able to get his foot on the bottom rope. Creed brothers they were out there. They attacked tozawe ring side. That prompted Otis to get involved, and Maxine tackled Ivy Nile to the ground that got

a pop. She was raining blows down on her. As Otis re entered the ring, Gable locked on the ankle lock, and after a struggle, Otis managed to power his way out of it, sent Gable out of the ring. Creeds entered and they got taken out by Otis. They got tossed into Gable. Otis was using them as a target practice, so then Otis locked on an ankle lock of his own. Gable escaped. He nailed a a very impressive deadlift German souplungs. You do a deadlift to someone the size of Otis,

it's going to be impressive no matter what. But Gable obviously is the smaller of the two, but he's very strong, so that was impressive. Gable went up top, but he got met by a close line from Otis as he jumped off, and then Ivy Nile tried to grab at Otis from the outside. That created a momentary distraction that led to another ankle lock by check Gable, and this time the grapevine was applied and after a while, with nowhere to go and the pain intensifying, Otis had no

choice but to tap out. If Gable would have lost this match, I would have personally gotten my golden shovel and I would have shoveled dirt on top of his Grave myself. He could not afford a loss in this match. I know, in the grand scheme of things, who gives a shit, right, he's in the mid card anyway, nobody cares. But he couldn't go in there and lose. He had to win this match. If you are going to do something of any real meaning or note, it's gonna be

with Gable. It's not gonna be with Otis. There's just so much more upside with Gable if you use him the right way, and you could very easily call a clean slate new year, get him off this show, move him into something else. I don't see that being the case with us Otis. I'm not saying you can't do anything with Otis, and clearly Otis is beloved by the fans,

but there is more to do with Chad Gable. There is more potential, there's more money potentially in Chad Gable if he is correctly used either as a heel or a babyface, than with Otis. He had to win this match. He's the one leading the charge with American Maid. He cannot keep losing. He needed to win, so it was necessary when I must win for him and a rare singles win for Chad Gable and it was a really good match to boot, probably the best singles match of

Otis's career. I was racking my brain trying to think of a better match I've seen him in, at least singles wise, I can't think of one. So probably the best match he's ever had. But like I said before, you know, this match should have happened months ago. It was still fun to watch, you know, it was a fun match. Hopefully American made though get to one way ticket to smack Down and a fresh start in twenty twenty five because they needed We got a lengthy video

promo with comments from Rhea Ripley and Live Morgan. This was ahead of their Women's World title match on the Netflix premiere, which is coming up next week. For those who may have missed it, this is now a last woman's standing match. They added that stipulation in late last week. It was just randomly announced on the broadcast of Main Event. I don't know I was watching Main Event, but evidently it was either mentioned by the announcers where there was

a commercial that advertised it. So yes, it's now a last woman's standing match. In the video here, Rhea Ripley said that after a year long reign is Champion, she walked into and out of WrestleMania with her title. She said that she took her eyes off the ball and she paid the price, or has paid the price for it ever since. She said that after all the backstabbing and all the games that Live Morgan, this has to end. Yeah, you're telling me, I would say so, Yes, this has

to end. Morgan talked about taking the women's title the Judgment Day and Dominic all away from Riha. She said that she's been having so much fun that she is sad that it has to end. And Ripley said that Live cleared her of all the dead weight that was holding her down. She said that it's time to return the favor by unburdening Live of the women's world title. Live said that she's always been one step ahead of

Rhea and this time will be no different. And Rhea said that Live is all out of moods, and Raquel and Dominic they can't save her from the beating that she has coming. And both women separately to close this out, said that this has to end. Truer words have never been spoken. This has to end, and I believe it

will finally end next week. That's why we have ourselves a last woman's standing match, although a last woman's standing match could also be an invitation to bullshit because there's no disqualifications, there's nothing stopping Raquel, Dominic and anybody else from being involved. But I have to believe that this will finally be the end. Next week. We went backstage to the judgment day. They were all there, all but Live Morgan. She was not there, dom was there, JD McDonough, Carlito,

they were all talking. Dominic told them that Liv has to have something up her sleep. Camra pulled back it showed Raquel and Finn Balor. Raquel said that Liv has been so busy preparing for her match with Rhea that she hasn't even spoken with her. Balor sarcastically said, well, lady Liv knows exactly how to handle Rhea Ripley because

she has a plan for everything. Baler said that they have to take care of Damian Priest, and then as everybody else left, he held Raquel back and very insincerely told Raquel to tell Liv that he wishes her the very best of luck in her match next week. He may get involved in the match last woman standing. There's no rules. Ben Balor might come out there and try to help live and then it backfires and it blows up in her face. Could happen? We were supposed to

get a match between Our Truth and Pete Dunn. Our Truth comes out, he is singing his song to the ring. He doesn't even make it to the ring. He's barely halfway down the aisleway and Pete Dunn attacks him from behind, beats the shit out of this guy, and producers run out, Referees run out and pull him off. Of Truth and Done says I'm nobody's butcher. He said that a few times, and that was it. We moved on. This was so insignificant that it wasn't even worth waiting to see if

Our Truth was okay. It wasn't like he beat him with a fucking club or a chair, but that was it. Apparently Our Truth was unable to compete, and so we moved on to the next set, which is okay with me. I can't say that I'm sad about it. Kathy Kelly interviewed Eosky and Dakota Kai in the back about the possibility of the two of them meeting in the finals

of the Intercontinental Title Tournament. Dakota talked about taking out Zoe Stark tonight and then said that it would be an honor to face EO if it comes to that. She said, the thing that matters is that a member of Damage Control walks away with the championship, and then she left and EO said that the knight belongs to Damage Control. That led into our first of two semifinal round matches in the tournament to crown and icy champion Dakota Kai against Zoe Stark. Zoe was in control until

Dakota caught her with a rolling backcracker. Then across the ring, Dakota cracked her with a boot to the head that led to a near fall. Zoe answered with an exploder suplex and a need of the head. There was an attempted springboard attack by Zoe, but she caught a super kick to the face, and then Dakota finished things off with the fireman's carry into the Pelle kick, which was supposed to land flush and the announcers called it as

if it landed flush right in the head. Actually it didn't, and it caught Zoe under the armpit an unfortunate botch at the finish, which is the worst possible time for there to be one, but it was minor. Nobody seemed to either notice or carer her Wing got a good reaction from the crowd, and Dakota Kai now advances to the finals. And so this was a solid match. I

thought it was. It was fine, and Dakota now moves on to the finals, and that paves the way now at this point in the show, right, it paves the way potentially for an all damage control final in two weeks. Because they were really pushing this hard as a possibility. I just never bought into it actually happening. And that's one of the reasons why, because they drew so much

attention to it. It's like somebody walking around with the money in the bank briefcase and the announcers won't shut up about, Oh, they might cash in tonight, they might cash in tonight. It's like that thing that the announcers do, and they do this in both companies, and it just

drives me nuts. When you're watching a championship match, main event match, right, and it's building and it's building and it's building, and the announcers or one of them anyway, will say he's gonna win the title, and then you're like, fuck you, no, he's not. Thanks thanks for telling me

he's not. I just I never understand why they do that, Like there might be certain situations where Okay, you want to have your announcers kind of throw that out there as a possibility, but they kind of just it's like as a nervous reflex or something. They do it so often and it's just a complete spoiler to what's coming,

and it always just drove me nuts. The fact that they were pushing this so hard tonight should have been a tell to people that it wasn't going to happen, but there were still people who were shocked we got the result of that match. I don't know. I don't know why people are so surprised. So they showed Jude

Testatur and Wade Barrett they were speaking at ringside. Testitaur said that Raw has aired on cable television since the very first episode, which aired on January eleventh, nineteen ninety three, and the other thing they did tonight many many times, even right at the very end of the show, every time they mentioned that Ra's moving to Netflix next week, they were sure to follow it up by letting everybody know, but SmackDown is still on USA, Like Ra's moving to Netflix,

but SmackDown's going to be on USA, so don't worry about it, which again is smart because you will have people who don't really pay attention, and when they realized that Raw moved to Netflix, they'll wonder where's back Down, So you have to let people know. But yes, they were talking about Raw being on USA for many, many years. Obviously there was a break in between when they went to TNN for those five years, but otherwise it's been all USA Network over all these years. Over twelve hundred

episodes of Raw on USA alone. And then they aired a video package showcasing Raw's run on USA Network and it was filled with highlights from ninety three right on until the present day. So you got highlights of a lot of the big Raw moments from over the years and from the Attitude era and John Cena era and the shield and one two three kid pinning razor remote

and just everything everything in between. And the final shot of that video was stone cold Steve Austin in his Camo hat and his camo was he wearing a camo jacket during the beer truck. I think he was right, but it was him standing on top of the beer truck, which is one of the all time great moments in

Raw history. And it was a very appropriate thing to end on because when you think of Monday Night Pral, unless you are a fan who only started watching Raw, you are a fan that started watching this show in the last five years. If you think of Monday Night Raw, you immediately think of stone Cold Steve Austin. Like when you think of all the major names, okay, and there have been a lot of them that have appeared on

this show over the years. You could pick out different eras, right, the PG era, the Sena era, the Roman era, whatever you want to call it. Stone Cold Steve Austin is the name that you associate with Monday Night Brawl. If you are a longtime fan of this show, it's Austin and everybody else is fighting for second place, including Rock

Rock Sena, you can name them all. This show will forever be associated with Stone Cold Steve baw and the greatest moments and most memorable moments and segments in the history of this show all involved Steve Austin, usually with some sort of a piece of machinery or some vehicle. But I think of Raw, I think of Austin, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. We had some six man tag team action with Damian Priest and the war Raiders the new Raw Tag Team Champions against Finn Balor,

JD McDonough and Dominic Mysterio. We are still getting Damian Priest feuding with the Judgment Day. Oh I should I have to start with this. I can't forget this. The Judgment Day. We got breaking news here. The Judgment Day have new music. Alter Bridges no more. They have new music. They have been given the Deaf Rebel Special. I don't even know Deaf Rebel necessarily composed this theme. I assume

they did. But when I say the Deaf Rebel Special, what I mean is you have a theme and it's actually pretty good, and then you get a downgrade because you are not allowed, apparently to continue to have an awesome theme song. So like Seamus who got his old theme back and then he had it taken away from him for some shitty generic Irish music, the same has

now happened to the Judgment Day. We went from alter Bridge to what is now Honestly, the song itself, my first time hearing it, I'm not even gonna say it's bad. It's just a bad fit for this group. It doesn't fit the Judgment Day at all. Like that song was associated with this group from day one. Like you hear that music, you think of the Judgment Day, and now they have some sort of generic, you know, hip hop song or whatever it is. It's not a good fit.

I don't know why the music had to change. Frankly, this group feels like it's on its last legs anyway, So in the end it might not even matter, although the fact that they got new music probably tells me that they're not splitting up any time soon. Otherwise, why even bother giving them new music. So now we're going to be in for another two years of the Judgment

Day with Dominic mysterio perhaps as the leader. Balor saved McDonough from a war Raiders double team, but he and mcdonoughh got sent flying onto the announced desk by a double charge from Eric and Ivar. They returned from the commercial break to Eric attempting to fight his way out of the Judgment Day corner. Ivar got in, he missed, then the Bronco buster. As Balor got out of the way, I leaped to his corner. He made the tag to Damian Priest, who proceeded to clean house. He had Dominic

in his sights. South of Heaven. Attempt was interrupted by Carlito, who provided a distraction long enough, which is basically all Carlito is good for these days. It's for that momentary distraction and then getting his ass kicked. But that was just long enough for dom to clip the leg of Damian Priest. Action outside saw Balor and McDonagh get taken

out of the equation by the war Raiders. In the ring, Priest put an end to things with a swinging It was kind of like a swinging South of Heaven chokes, almost like he caught him for like a boss Man slam, but we'll call it a swinging South of Heaven on Dominic and he got the pinned. After the match, Balor got the jump on Priest and attack the knee. Eric and Ivar. They stepped in before Balor could do any damage, and Balor vowed as he left, this isn't over. He said,

this is over. What I say it's over, and I wept when he said this isn't over. I wept. I wept for the end of two hour raws, and I wept when he reminded me that this feud is not over. It's the only question is when do you do the match? When? When is a good time for them? Because clearly they're not wrestling next week or they would have announced the Balor or Priest match. So when is a good time to finally blow this thing off once and for all.

Do we do it as a TV main event in a few weeks, do we do it on Saturday Nights main event? Do we do it at the Royal Rumble? Just don't tell me Wrestle Madia anything but that it's like live in real like. I can't wait for wrestlemedia for this. This has to this has to be over before. So when do they do the match? I feel like Saturday Night's main event or the Rumble would be a good place to put some finality to this. In the back, Adam Pearson formed a very upset jay usso that he

knows he's very angry right now. But Drew McIntyre was already scored it out of the arena. But next week he's gonna give him what he wants, He's gonna give him a match one on one with Drew McIntyre. So that match has now been added to Raw. On Netflix's debut next week, it will be Drew McIntyre one on one with Jay Usso then we had a teaser video for the newest addition to Monday Night Raw. And I gotta tell you, guys, and I'm gonna show you this right here on your screen right now, was the latest

tease for a new star debuting on RAW. And I don't know, guys, I'm gonna need your help here because I'm drawing a blank. I mean, I just can't figure out who this is. Who could this be? I don't know, but apparently he or she is coming to Monday Night Raw very soon. Let me know in the chat wrong answers only for who this is coming to Monday Night Row come back. And in the ring is Ludwig Kaiser. He's standing in the middle of the ring and he

referred to himself as European Elegance. No relation. I'm sure to ash by Elegance. In TNA, he wanted bron Breaker to come out. I got a funny note on bron Breaker. I'll get to in a minute, but he wanted bron Breaker to come out. He didn't get bron Breaker, he got Seamus instead. We haven't seen Seamus since Survivor Series. He came out in street clothes. He looked pissed off. He stormed down to the ring and he immediately drilled Kaiser with a knee strike. They talked about how Kaiser

had broken Seamus's ribs at Survivor Series. This was his big return. Fans didn't really react to it like a big return, but I guess that's kind of how they wanted to portray it. Kaiser briefly put up a fight, but he got felled by a Brogue kick and then he rolled out to safety and that was the end of that. So welcome back Seamus. I guess we'll be getting a TV match in the next couple of weeks, probably with him and Ludwig Kaiser. We go to the back.

Raymysterio is hanging out just in the back with the LWO and they are with the Alpha Academy and Ray is trying to perk up Otis. Obviously he's very upset after losing to Chad Gable earlier in the night and He's telling him to keep his head high. You're going to have another shot to kick that guy's ass. Otis got all fired up and off he went. Now, the whole point of this was to show that Raymisterio is a locker room leader, so that when the New Day walked up to him, they can mock him for it.

And that's exactly what happened. Kofeie Kingston and Xavier Woods. They walk up to him and they are making fun of Ray, calling him a locker room leader. This all resulted in Ray issuing a challenge to the two of them for a tag team match, and they accepted. And then Xavier Woods was wondering, which one of your loyal followers here is going to be your tag team partner? And he went down the line of all the LWE members.

He said, this guy in a mask talking about Dragonly, this guy in a hat talking about Joking Wilde, this guy with no hat talking about Cruz del Toro. He said, maybe her, maybe he's Alena Vegel, will be your tag team partner. And that's how they left it. How about none of the above. I know who his partner is gonna be. This is how we get the debut of Penta.

I assume this is taking place next week. I don't know if they officially announced this tag match or not, but next week is where we're gonna get Penta on this show. And it's the perfect way to introduce him to the show, because right off the bat, you've got this guy. If he's gonna be Rimsterio's tag team partner, you've got him rubbing elbows with someone who is still you know, he's not the most prominently featured anymore, but he's still one of the biggest baby faces on the show.

He's a legend, right, He's a Hall of Fame, big deal if you are debuting and you are immediately going to be associated or partnered with someone like Raymysterio. So I think that's a great spot to debut him in. And as I talked about last week when I talked about this very idea, I then would like to see Penta turn on Raymas Stereo and beat the crap out of it. And it doesn't even necessarily have to be next week. It could be the week after, but next week would be a fine time to do it as well,

because you really want to make an impact. That's the way you do it, you show up, you're in that spot. I think he's gonna get a great reaction. I think there's gonna be enough people who know who this fucking guy is that when they hit his music or they show his face or he walks out or whatever it is, he's probably gonna have this great entrance to He's gonna

get a great reaction. He's gonna be super over. And then at the end of all of this, I would like to see him attack Raymysterio and set up a program between Penta and RAYMS Stereo as we head into

the rumble, we head into WrestleMania. I think that would be a great way to start his run off, but as a heel, because the one thing I don't want to see is pent the debuting and then all the memes, right, what are all the memes and the jokes about Oh, I can't wait to see him in the LWO or in Legato, and then you're gonna put the fucking guy in the LWO. I don't want to see him in the LWO. I want to see him try to, if anything, take down the LWO. I want to see him in

the ring against Dragonly. I want to see him in the ring against raymys Stereo. That's where I would like to see this go, but as a way to introduce him to the WWE audience and to introduce him on what is honestly shaping up to be the biggest, most highly promoted episode of RAW in the thirty plus year history of this show. What a spot for Penta to make his debut. And I can only imagine what is

going through the mind of Ray Phoenix. I'm sure he's very happy for his brother, but you know, there's a piece of him that's just sitting at home, not doing anything, not working or anything, sitting on his ass at home, who's just dying on the inside, like it should have been us, not just him. It should have been me. It should have been us, and it's not, and it's not going to be for a long time yet. And

I'm sure that's very frustrating for him. But I'm happy for Penta because this, this I think is gonna be a lot of fun to see how he a similates into WWE. We have seen other luchador's debut and we have seen what's happened with them. Dragon Lee is a

great example of this. Dragon Lee actually had a nice run in NXT, and then he got called up to the main roster and it looked like Triple H was a fan of his, and he was being pushed pretty well actually initially when he debuted on SmackDown and he disappeared, weeks and weeks went by no Dragonly, and I don't remember if it was an injury issue or a visa issue, or what the issue was. When he came back, he was never pushed at the same level that he was

when he was on SmackDown. The move to Monday Night Raw basically ruined whatever momentum he had built up to that point. And Dragonly is a tremendous talent. It sucks to see him just sort of withering away in the background. And we've seen this with other people who have debut, other other international stars and Lucador's as well. I don't want to see the same thing happen to Penta. Penta is someone who not only is he a good wrestler, but he just has this charisma about him that not

a lot of people have. Now mean, he may not be going out there every week and cutting these long promos in English. That may not be his strong suit. I think it would be best to have somebody with him. You know. Even in Luca Underground we found out that his master was vamp right, he had Penta and Van Piro, and then in aw they put Alex Abrahontes with him. In Phoenix, I do think it would be best to have somebody with him, But he is someone who can get over. He doesn't have to go out there and

cut promos. He just has to go out there and say Sarah Miato. He just has to go out there and give a hand gesture. They can make those Penta gloves. My god, they'll make a killing off those gloves if they sell them on Wwe' shop. Like, he can get over and be a big star for them if they give him the opportunity to be a big star, and I hope, I hope that he's able to do that. And then eventually, when Ray Phoenix is free and he comes in, you could have the Lucha Bros As a

tag team. Right, that will happen at some point. It's just going to be a very long time before we see that. But you just know, you just know that Phoenix has watched and this is just it's eating them up on the inside like, motherfucker, I should be there too. It sucks, but what are you gonna do? So we had the final semifinal match in the women's tournament to crown the first ever intercontinental champion, with Lyra Valkyria taking on EO Sky. This one, here was a lot of fun.

This and the closing segment were the two best things of the entire show as matches go, easily the best match of the night, but this was a lot of fun. Dakota Kai. They showed her up. She was sitting in one of the suits watching on, and they again tease the idea though we might get an old damage control final like okay, so very fast paced here at the beginning, a lot of dodges and roll up attempts from both women. Valkyria she gained control with a dropkick to EO's knee. EO,

though was able to fight back. She went up top. She got slammed though knee first by Lyra and that took us to a commercial break. EO made a comeback. She soared off the top with a missile drop kick that got her a close to count. There was an O'Connor roll by EO that turned into a bridging German sup plex on Lyra and Lyra kicked out spinning heel kicked from. Valkyria could not get the job done either, and so she headed up to the top rope again.

Eo met her there on the ropes and began to batter her with strikes before she hit this fantastic rolling avalanche power bomb basically off the top rope for the nearest of near falls, and the crowd was with them too. Crowd was with them, which was impressive because Lyra Valkyria has not been featured prominently at all on television in quite some time. You know, to the point that I was just making a moment ago about Dragon Lee right

Lyra Valkyria. At first. First, you know, they had her and Becky Lynch sharing television time together right before Becky left, and that was kind of done as a way. I'm sure Becky wanted to work with her. That was done as a way to try to get her off the ground and like, oh okay, she's got the Becky Lynch endorsement,

so she was also getting some television time. She went all the way to the finals of the Queen of the Ring tournament before she got squashed literally by Nya Jacks, and then after that it again, it's like hard for her to even buy time on TV. You know how they have these infomercials, these time buys. She was calling Titan Tower trying to buy time on this show and they said nope, that happened, and they cooled her off

a lot. So it's understandable if she were to go out there and the crowd would just be sort of indifferent to her. They were mostly reacting to EO. They were cheering for EO. EO is just she's super over right now, but they were reacting to Lyra too. I don't want to say it was all Leo because that wouldn't be fair. So EO went up to the top rope. She hit a standing moon salt from the top onto a standing Lyra that is on the floor outside, and so at Lyra's stunned, she put her back in the ring.

And now EO goes back up to the top rope once more, and EO Sky is setting up for her over the moonsalt. Lyra rolls out of the way and EO lands on her feet. There was another O'Connor roll by EO that this time was reversed into a bridging pin by Lyra Valkyria. Four. What wasn't for me, but seemingly for most other people, was the shock win. Lyra Valkyria beats e O Sky and she punches her ticket to the finals of the tournament. In two weeks, it's

gonna be her one on one with Dakota Kai. One of those two women will be the first ever intercontinental champion. Eo is so fucking good. She's just so good at what she does. And Lyra's very good too. I take nothing away from her. They were both very good in this match. Eo, though, is just as the women go. She's just on another level from most everybody else they have on that roster. They tipped their hand, though a

little too hard. They went in a little too deep on all of the damage control final We might get a damage all damage control in the finals of the tournament. And they said it so many times that they managed to convince most people. I would have thought that it's not actually going to happen, and it didn't. And I wasn't surprised, because you know, EO Sky was obviously always going to go to the semifinals of this tournament. Because

they did a storyline injury angle with Kyrie Sing. I don't believe Kyrie is hert so she was always going to go to the semi finals. But Eo is in a position where she should be doing so much more. And the best part about this is that it frees up EO Sky now to do something bigger as we go into WrestleMania. They had that tease several weeks ago on Raw that ended with Rhea Ripley and EO Sky. They were each tugging at the Women's Championship. We had that parting shot of the two of them having a

face off. They were having a standown right at the end of the show, and that's when I had this Eureka moment in my head and I'm like, well, wait a minute, all right, I change your plans here, right, Maybe have EO Sky beat liv Morgan to win the championship and then you can blow off the feud with Riha and live and have Eo go into WrestleMania as the defending champion and have Ria beat her for the belt. Because the whole thing is like Rihea is going to

get the belt back next week. Do you honestly believe that Rhea Ripley is going to win the Women's World Championship on January sixth, and that they're going to take the belt off for her at WrestleMania. I don't think they're going to take the belt off of her that quickly. So it just felt to me like if Eo at least is champion now, she could be the defending champion like she was this year going into WrestleMania, and then she could drop the belt to Rea, the roles being reversed.

I wouldn't feel that EO's chances of becoming champion are very good, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to see the match I do. I do, And if they're not going to do Ria Ripley against Bianca bel Air, which is probably the only other Rio Ripley match that I would say I would rather see at WrestleMania next year, if there's a path to do Rhea and Bianca, I would take it because I think that match could be that fucking good. But if not, then I would like

to see Eo Sky be the one. So now she's free, she's not the Intercontinental champion, she's not going to be. She could win the Royal Rumble. She doesn't even have to win the Rumble. She could win the elimination Chamber right either one, and then she can become number one contender. We can get Ria Ripley and Eosky at WRESTLEMANI she's just too good and too popular right now not to be involved in some kind of big match of WrestleMania. She has to be on the card, and I just

don't know what else she would be doing. It always just felt to me like that title, that ICEE title was Lira's for the taking. So Lyra Valcarria winning the Intercown Metal Championship. She was my original pick to win the entire thing, so I just stuck with her the entire time, and I feel the same way now that I did then. Not only do I think she's gonna win, but I think that they will likely end up doing

Lyra defending against Becky Lynch at Wrestle Maani. But again, that frees up Eo Sky now to do something with the women's world title. So even though she lost here, I think that it's gonna end up, I hope, being a very good thing for her. Or if you're an Eo Sky Finn Believe me, there's bigger and better things that she could be doing at WRESTLEMANI now I mentioned a little while ago I was gonna say something about

bron Breaker. Bron Breaker was, I guess not supposed to be on the show tonight, But something very odd happened in the final commercial break of the show. They cut back to raw literally for two seconds, that's about how long it lasted, and we very briefly got a shot a bron Breaker being interviewed. It looked like he was being interviewed by Adam Pierce, of all people, he was

talking to Adam Pierce. It looked like he was up in one of the suites with his back turned to the crowd because you can see the crowd behind him, and the only thing we heard out of his mouth was Seamus. And they quickly cut away and went right back to commercial. Then by the time they came back seth Rollins was in the ring because he had made his entrance before the break. Rollins is in the ring for the closing segment. So that was it. That was the last we saw bron Breaker. I don't know what

the fuck happened there. I'm assuming that was never meant to air. It wasn't that it got cut. It was probably they'll probably put it up on YouTube or something. I'm curious what he was talking about, but we'll never know because we didn't see him again after that. So that was very strange. So he went to the ring for the closing segment and it was Seth Rollins in the ring, who actually, compared to how he usually a dresses, he looked as normal as we've seen him on this

show in a very long time. And he bored all of us by rambling on and on about next week. You know, after next week, I'm still gonna be here. I'll be here the following week and the week after that, and CM Punk he's gonna take his ball and go home again. So that brought out CM Punk. Punk gets into the ring and he calls him. He calls Rollins out for his line about taking his ball and going home. First time I have heard that on a wrestling show, but probably the first time I ever heard it anywhere

was Vince McMahon, Right, Vince McMahon and The Rock. He brought The Rock back in a panic after Austin walked out in two thousand and two, Right, Oh, stone Cold took his ball and he went home. So Punk calls him out for using what he calls one of the most cliched boot liquor lines that he's ever heard. What

paragon of virtue? Did you get that from? Right? The same line that he used in that promo segment earlier in the year when it was him and Seth and Drew McIntyre, which is one of the best television segments all year. We had that three way promo and Drew was sitting cross legged on top of the announced desk, and he said it to He said it to Drew right. He was talking about how somebody called you the chosen won many years ago. Oh, what paragon of virtue was it?

So he reused the line here he said, what paragon of virtue did you get that from? Who originally said that? Who wanted to turn the people again to the boys? Whenever he got told no, Yeah, whatever happened to that guy? Fuck that guy? He said, did stone cold Steve Austin take his ball and go home? You know, I haven't seen the man around these parts in a long time?

Did she take her ball and go home? Too? And that got a rise out of the crowd goes, you want to tell fifteen thousand strong in Houston that I abandoned them? Or do you just want to cry because I abandon you? Punk said that he has no regrets. He doesn't want to talk about the last ten years. He wants to talk about the last ten months. How's your neck? And Seth said that my neck is fine. He starts moving his neck around. Then he goes, how's your knee? And Seth starts to jump up and down

on one leg. Punk, how's your insights because I watched Bronson Reid hit you with six tsunamis, how's your pride because you didn't get revenge on him? And you saw me break his ankle in war Games? And I'm sitting here and I'm like, I'm like going crazy because I'm listening to see I'm punks say all of these things, and I'm just I'm thinking to myself, like he asked him about every part of his body except the one part that he cried about for half the year. What

about the back? Didn't this guy he was selling a broken back on television. You ask him about the neck, You ask him about the knee, You ask him about the guts, you don't ask him about the back. That was part of his story for MUDs, that he was wrestling with a broken back. Ah drove me nuts. So Punk said he came back. He didn't want to make friends. He told us in that first promo on Raw, I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to make money.

He goes, next week, I get to make a boatload of cash, making Seth the victim that he so badly wants to be. And he called him little brother, So Rollins told him, cut that little brother crap. You know the difference between Punk and everybody else who left, He said that they actually left. He said his wife, she left to go raise a kid, something that he knows. Punk knows nothing about. He said, you don't know what that's like. Stone Cold he said it was the biggest

mistake he ever made. He understands about change. I'm not even sure what he really meant by that. By the way, Stone cold'sm been getting a lot of mentions lately, even in that New Day promo, and they turn heel on big e right stone Cold. Steve Austin broke his neck and he came back. So we got two stone Cold name drops here in this segment. What's he going to be doing at WrestleMania. He's already said he's gonna be there. He doesn't he doesn't like to leave his home state.

He doesn't live in Texas anymore. He's he's lived in Nevada for many years. WrestleMania is coming to his home state. So, unlike this year, he will be at WrestleMania next year. What would you have Stone Cold Steve Austin doing. I just remembered that I haven't even given any thought to what Austin could be doing on that show. He's not going to be wrestling, but like, what could he be involved at? What match would make sense for for Stone Cold to be involved? I don't know, wouldn't a Stone

Cold John Cena match? Right? We never did get that match. I'm just saying I'm not I'm not pitching for it. I'm just saying it's interesting, it's interesting to think about. But he said Punk wanted this place to die with the echoes of those CM punk chants. He went on his buddy's podcast and he tried to tear this place down, and when that didn't work, he took every shot that he could to try to kill this place, and he still couldn't do it, and then he took a big

chunk of change to go join the competition. How'd that work out for you? Seth said, He stayed and he fought. That's how revolutions are made. Oh my god, this revolution's crap again, I said. The biggest thing, one of the biggest annoyances about the Seth Rolins gimmick to me is when he comes out and he's cackling like a frickin' jackal, and he goes, I am a visionary, I am a revolutionary. And I said, what did you revolution at? Fashioned? Like

fucking hell you did? What is he ever revolutionized? I still haven't gotten a straight answer to this question, but he says it in every promo when he comes out. So he's talking about revolutions, and this is how revolutions are made. You stay in the trenches and you fight, not by cowards who abandon their families. That's how we win the war. That's how we won the war. And now you want to come back in here and wave the flag with us, No way. You can't big brother

me anymore, because I am the damn big brother. So you will take another ten years off after January sixth. But it's not going to be Punk's decision. It's going to be a decision that I make for you. So now it was Punk's chance to respond. He said, Seth wouldn't be here if it wasn't for him. He loved the place that he worked, he just hated the guy in charge. And I misunderstood this at first because I

thought he was talking about Tony Khan. My initial thought when he said that was because the last place he worked was not WWA, so I thought he was referring to aw still and I was like, oh boy, he's just coming out guns blazing here at Tony. And then I realized, oh wait, he's not talking about Tony. He's talking about loving this place and just hating the guy

in charge who's no longer there. So he said he just hated the guy in charge, and that guy love Seth, and in situations where he should have had his back, all Seth did his shoot arrows in it. And then he leaves and lo and behold, he shows his true colors and he stabs Roman Reigns in the back. And now he's dressed like an idiot trying to play victim in a situation that he created. He said, those arrows kill weak people. The greats find a way to march forward.

And he left because he had to until he got far enough way that those arrows couldn't reach him anymore. And he came back because for seven years, mostly during Seth's television segments, they chanted his name. He should be dead, but he's not. And oh the arrow throwers are mad. Next week he's walking into La on Netflix with a fistful of arrows, and he's gonna jam him down, Seth's corporate throat. Seth said that he's never said this to Punk's face before, but once upon a time he may

have been a pioneer. What he's become is a cancer, a cancer to this business, and cancer does not cure itself. The only way to defeat it is to cut it out. So in one week, you bring your fistfull of arrows, and he'll bring his eyes of fire and his heart full of hate and rage, and he will burn Punk to the ground. And the final parting image of Monday Night Raw on k Television ended with a tense stare

down between Seth, Rollins and cmpun. You know that there's gonna be a bunch of WWE fans that are going to be very hot at what Seth said when he called that, He called them the competition even because they won't even look at AW as competition, and and they are in there, they are, and they aren't in many ways, they're not competition anymore, but they are competition because they're

all competing from the same pool of talent. But there are just some fans out there that if you even insinuate that AW is a competitor, like, oh, they're the competition, they get very upset. So I'm sure that'll, uh, that'll get some people hot and bothered. They both got off some good shots, I thought here in this segment. Punk

easily won this round tonight. Okay, if you have to declare a winner here tonight, the winner is CMPUN and Punk brought an intensity to this segment that now I'm trying to think back to when we had that last

segment with him and Drew McIntyre. Remember they had Helen a Cell on RAW and they kept them apart, but they just cut promos on each other, probably the go home promo right before the pl I don't even know that Seth or Punk rather was necessarily as intense during that segment as he was, you know, delivering these lines to Seth rollins here in this segment, so you know, he did it with an intensity I thought that was needed for this final hard sell for their match next week, Seth.

You know Seth with them I'm gonna burn you down, burn you down because this is my theme song. Like that was I mean, come on, that was a little It hit a little close to home when Punk called him corporate, because you know who came up with the whole burning down thing. It was Vince McMahon. He's the one who came up with it in the first place. Wasn't something that Seth was doing. It was a Vince idea, or at least it was to add it to the theme music. Yeah, when he said that, I just I

just you know what, Actually, I winced. I cringed when Seth talked about how we won the war, and I'm sitting here thinking to myself, what war did you win? When was war really even waged? Are we still talking NXT and Dynamite? Is that the war that we're talking? Like?

What war are we talking about here? The War of eighteen twelve The Spanish American War, but like for Rollins of all people to be standing in the ring and he's like, we won the war and the stuff about winning the war and basically insinuating like and then you came back right that, Like that's why cim Punk came back. We won the war, and now you come back and you wave the flag and I'm like, come on. That

was just cringe to me. So that that that alone, I felt but disqualified him from the competition tonight, and see I'm Punk automatically won. But I thought overall, this was an excellent segment. It was very heated. We didn't have any physicality because there was no physicality needed. We already had physicality between these two a couple of weeks ago. You want to save that physicality for next week, and that is gonna be a huge match. They've done everything

they could. They've done all that they can to build this up as a major, big time match, and now we've come to the debut next week and we'll get to see Rhea and Live and Seth and Punk and Roman and Solo and the debut of Pent. That's gonna be big night next week. It's gonna be basically a pl I mean, that's what it is, that's what it feels like. And I'm sure that there might be a surprise or two on the show as well, so I'm looking forward to it. But I'm also very sad being

on USA anymore. I'm not sad about that because I mean, who gives it shit? Like I don't have any loyalty to the USA network, But it is the end of an era, you know, RAW no longer being on just

regular broadcast television. But I'm more upset about RAW going back to three hours because I really did feel like they were they were finding their groove at two hours and proving that, yes, you can actually put on excellent shows at two hours when when the effort is there and you have the right ideas and the right creative and the right people. So we had a show a few weeks ago. It might have been the New Day

Anniversary show, but there was. There was a show where they opened the show and it was all talking for like twenty five minutes and then we had the New Day segment and everything, and it was only two hours long. But I thought this was one of the better raws they've done all year. So it's not a matter of like, oh, there has to be this much wrestling, and they're like, you can just watch the show, and you know when you have an excellent show, and you know when the

show is shit. And they found that they were finding their groove again after so many years of three hours on Mondays, and now all of a sudden, it's right back to three hours or three hours plus whatever it's going to be. So I'm sad about that. I'm sad about SmackDown going to three hours. I don't believe that, you know, Bigger is always better. I do believe less

is more. But this is how it's going to be now going forward, and if nothing else, it should give opportunities to some people who have not been featured on the show, and it's going to give them a reason to call up some new faces I think from NXT, especially on the women's side, and I do think we're gonna get that. We still, you know, I don't know that there was any mention tonight of the transfer window. They told us previously that it was going at least

until the beginning of the year. I don't remember there being a single mention of it tonight, So we still don't know who may be moving from Raw to SmackDown and from SmackDown to Raw NXT. Who's going to be called up from NXT? Sam Perez is defending her Women's championship against Julia on New Year's Evil next week. Almost certainly I would think is going to drop the title, and then I think Roxanne is a shoe in to

end up on Raw SmackDown. So she's won. Olba Femi, I mean, he won the Iron Survivor Challenge, so it doesn't feel like he's going to get called up imminently, but he's one I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do on the main roster. So it'll give people a chance because they'll have that extra TV time to be featured on the show. But as a viewer, it's a lot but the talent though hopefully it'll work out

for them. But that was Raw tonight. Those are the two highlights, the EO Sky match and the closing segment. Those were easily the best parts of the show. Take a look at the Twitter poll. What did you think of the Final Raw on USA eighty nine percent thumbs up, eleven percent thumbs down. The Final Raw on USA Pole at Sola Monster on x GO follow me there. You can vote too. You don't even have to be eighteen years old to go vote. How about that you could be a fetus. We have a rule where we allow

fetuses to vote if they want to. All right, let's get to your superchats. Thank you guys for all of your support tonight. Start with the early birds here told you I read your messages. The Real CS two kicking us off with an early message, it says, and Samoa bro joining us as well. A pet peeve of mine. When the IWC's favorite wrestler loses whoever they lose to, they add Hogan to their name. Example of this is Becky Hogan. I'm sure there is a Becky Hogan out

there somewhere. I'm sure she's a lovely woman. Yeah, I mean you could add Hogan onto the end of anyone. Who would you say is the biggest the politician in wrestling? I don't call him Rock Hogan. What do you want? What do you what do you want to do? Who do you want to pick? Who's in the Hogan spot? And the Real CS says in seven days Serro Miado, Yes, indeed, Henta Oscuro is on his way in. I can't wait, it's gonna be fun. Venom Caitetsu my last two bucks

of twenty twenty four. Cheers, he said. Cheers to you as well, my friend. Wishing you a very happy New year. Charlotte Hogan says someone Charlotte Hogan. Huh, Charlotte's She's coming back any week now. Jerome Jennio, I think all these teasers are for the second coming of Veer. M so Veer is still coming. WWE Wrestling and gaming. Predictions for next year's King of the Ring and Money in the Bank winners, I don't know. Ask me in a few months about King of the Ring and Money in the Bank.

I'll give you a King of the Ring one Drew McIntyre King McIntyre and then he goes on to win the championship Money in the Bank. It's December, guys, Okay, I have no fucking idea. I don't have a clue. Brian Moosh, thank you for the five gifted memberships, mister Rod with the twenty bucks. Mister Rod, happy to hear average Joe average show. You know why? I thought that's that average average Joe average show at best EO versus Lyra was excellent. But if EO doesn't have a title

on her in twenty twenty five. There is a problem. I agree, Mercedes Mohogan. You just call her Mercedes Hogan. Mohogan is stupid. Just call her in Mercedes Hogan if that's how you feel. Uh, Demetrius, thank you for the membership, Alfonso for the nine ninety nine I was at the show tonight. That jay Uso entrance is truly something special. Just a shot of adrenaline in your soul. Happy New Year. Solo made the channel grow even bigger. Thank you, sir.

We are very close to eighty three thousand, so we should be there in no time. That don't work for me, sister, A dark effect with the fifty dollars bomb. Hey Solo, just wondering your opinion on Zillapha two with the bloodline being so hot here his name brought up a lot. As someone who has seen his work, do you see things that he could still improve on or is he

a total natural like Jacob Faughtu. He's not Jacob Fattu, but he has certain natural abilities that I just think I'm convinced that like all members of that family, of that blood line, it's just something that innately they're born with. He's picking up on things very quickly. You got to remember he is barely forty matches if that into his career, you know, and I've had the chance to call many of his matches and get to see him up close and see what he can do. He brings an intensity

to him that's fun. But he's still very raw in many ways because he's got little over a year in the business. So you give it time and I think he'll get even better. He's not where he will be, but he's got all the tools to be something special. It's just very very early in his career. Demetrius, thank you for the five no message, just the show and some love. I appreciate that. Prince Bagitta ninety five last super Chat of twenty twenty four. I understand that it's

time to take the title off of Live. But last time Ria was champion, she barely wrestled, so this time it's the same. But just as a baby fan, well you don't know that her reign last time was very underwhelming, but you don't know that it's going to be more of the same. I'm hoping the fact that she is a babyface now will mean that she will be more active in the ring and more competitive, and she'll have

at least the occasional title defense on team. So you can't say that it's going to be exactly the same thing until we see how it plays out. But I agree that first run was very underwhelming. She spent most of her time outside the ring in the fucking clubhouse in the back. Jeremy Rose, which of his many names will Penta go by in WWE? You know what, just keep it at Penta. That's probably just gonna be easiest, honestly,

but I would love to start calling him Pentagon Junior. Again, I don't think he's going to be Pentagon Junior, but just call him Penta. Also, what do you think Becky does when she comes back? Rhea feud or something like EO or Valkyria or Live. Well, she might go after Live first. I could see Becky and Live first, but I think the play is going to be Becky and Lyra for the Intercontinental title. That's what I think. Arabian Night.

Arabian Knight says, could you see WWE bringing back Trent seven and reuniting him with Tyler Bate and Pete Dunn in a stable no, I don't. Also, where do you think Josh Alexander signs next month? I think if I had to take a guess that Josh Alexander is gonna be wwe bound, probably for our next thing. Jeremy says, Brock versus Pinta, we need it. You're not getting Brock versus Beth. You're not getting Brock at all. Bace Beer says, what's Stone Cold doing on January sixth? Oh? I don't know.

You know what, They're gonna be in La La is not that far from Las Vegas. It's not that far from Nevada and where Austin lives. So you know what, I could see Stone Cold making an appearance on that show. Yeah, he's not going to be too far from home base. But you know what, he might not want to pull himself away from Poncho and Mancho. It's two cats, two solid ass cats. It's amazing how these cats have grown. I remember when he was first talking about Macho on Instagram.

Macho is It's funny. He says, Pancho is his world heavyweight champion and Macho is his intercontinental champion. And when he got Macho, he was so tiny, he was so small. Now he's gigantic. That's a solid ass cat. Nick Grosso says, as one of the biggest Eosky fans, I realistically don't see her winning the Royal Rumble or the Elimination Chamber, especially with Charlotte and Becky coming back, also Jordan Grace coming in. Even if she did, she's just gonna job

to re it well. Yes, if she does manage to win, she is going to lose to Rea rip I do not see eo Sky winning the championship or wrestle me, but that doesn't mean that I do. I wouldn't want to see the match and that I don't think that she should be in that spot. Bace beers, so is

this the last raw on TV forever? It is the last raw on TV for at least the next five years, because I think there's an out clause after five years in the Netflix deal, So if things are not well in Paradise, technically the deal could end, but for at least the next five, if not ten years. Yes, that was the final raw on TV. Bass Beers with the Seven says need that winged eagle. That white winged eagle in the background reminds me of hbk's WrestleMania twelve attire

White and gold. Thought he had that belt, but it was his tights now. Shawn Michaels never had the The only person who ever had the white winged Eagle was the Ultimate Warrior. He had whites, he had powdered blue. Shawn never had it. It's a beautiful bell. It's just again, there's no space behind me, and it's so frickin' heavy. I wish I could, I wish I could, but right now you're gonna have to settle for the original over my shoulder right there. But I have been admiring it

all weekend. I look over and there it is, and it's just it's gorgeous. Tonga Loa Superfan is with us tonight the two cat power Trip. I love it. Poncho and Macho. It's pretty much all I use Instagram for at this point is just to follow other people's cats. Toga Loa Superfan just saw you were pick for Best Wrestler of the Year twenty twenty four on the podcast, and I completely understand that you had to disqualify Tongala

for the time he missed due to injury. I was hoping you would understand he was definitely in the running, but once he got hurt, I just couldn't do it. Thank you for understanding, Matt Fisher. If Dave Meltzer hears about all being at WrestleMania, I guarantee he's going to assume he's wrestling Triple h. Why do we still listen to Dave at all? You don't have to. No one says you have to listen to Dave Face Bears. Mortos is coming zero Puntos, the Beast Mortos. Huh, I said, man.

If Vince was still there and the Beast Mortos was coming in, he would be Morty. He would call him Morty and give him a comedy gimmick on TV. Matt Fisher, Oh God, that poor guy in the intro is going to be running from the black hole again. Oh man, we may have to bring back green Man or green Man might fall into the hole stadium, Jay, how will WWE keep us coming back after they've given us everything on the first episode? Well, you're gonna have to tune

in to find out. They're gonna have to have a couple of aces up their sleeve and a couple of surprises, and hopefully it'll be a great show, and it'll keep you interested in wanting to tune in the following week. Right, That's their job. Their job is to put out a product on TV that will hopefully keep you hooked and want to come back for a second time, and a third time, and a fourth time and a tenth time. Called episodic television used to be really bad at that.

They've gotten better, though. Happy New Year's Stadium Jay George Freakin segment. I can't wait for Hexagon Senior to debut and join the LWO and then turn and join Legato del Fantasmo. He says, you know, we have El fantas in New Japan. It'd be kind of funny if WWE one day just they wanted to use the name, and they're like, we'll just add a D, so we'll make it dell Fantasmo. That way we could trademark it. Dimitrius Hodge.

Do you think they if they continue the blood Line story, will we see the Usos against the Gorillas of Destiny at wrestle Maane? No, No. First of all, I think they're gonna wan Jay Uso doing something more than that. And number two, I don't know that Tongalow is going to be back in time for Wrestle Mate, so I'm gonna say no on that. It's possible, but I'm gonna say no. Trill Mexican three oh five, No Ultra Boss

back to Love tonight? Nope, not tonight. Still listen to the review, but I can't get Jiggy to the intro. Not playing back to Love don't work for b Brother. Yeah, a lot of people like that song. We'll have to work that into the rotation a little more often. I got another song, by the way, I'm going to be using this week. It's hard to find ones that are are safe to use, but there's some good ones out there.

You just gotta know where to look and get some recommendations from the mount Burning Kid Christopher Bennett glad we're on the same wavelength. I think he meant wavelength. I don't know what that is. Every time Seth says I'm a revolutionary, I always say, what way that? Okay? So clearly Chris wrote this message out on his phone and does not use auto correct. I think you glitched out there during the super chat, but he says, I always say,

what the hell did you revolutionize? Dude? Yeah, he didn't revolutionize a damn thing. It's just stupid. It's just stupid, gobbleding goop nonsense sense doesn't make any sense at all. Toga Loa superfan, how much time can Tanga Loa miss in twenty twenty five before you would disqualify him from your end of the year awards one week? If he misses even one week, I'm disqualifying him. And Bace Beers got a seduction psa new Samantha Irvin Instagram post tonight.

Oh boy, I will have to check that out. I'll check that out later. I can only imagine, Hey, Richie, thank you for the five. If Sean had went to WCW in ninety seven ninety eight, would he be a member of the nWo. Absolutely he would have been right there with Hall and Nash. And I don't know that Sean is alive today, frankly. I mean, he was that fucked up at the time that it's one of those things where in life you kind of get to a fork in the road and you go left or you

go right. He went right, and that turned out to be the best move he could have made for himself. Had he gone left, I don't know I don't know how that would have turned out, but I think with the politics and the clash of personalities and Hogan and everything behind the scenes in w CW, that would have been an awful situation for Sean Michaels to be in, and it would have been awful for the people around him too, unless they were his close friends. I think

it was for the better that he didn't go. Bace Beers used Prince nineteen ninety nine. Oh sure, yeah, sure, he demonetizing five seconds Tonga loas super fan. I don't believe bigger is always better what Solo says on every first date. It's true, It's true. You know me so well. Thank you Tongolo a super fan. Now I won't feel so bad the next time I shit all over Togoloa. Know, I'll feel a little bit better about myself now. HBK

as a Hogan crony in the nWo. Yeah, I'm sure he would have loved to play second Feddle the Hull Cogan in the nWo. Can you imagine at that time, ninety seven ninety eight, Hogan and Sean Michaels trying to just politic their way into the top spot, holding onto that top spot, having to fight each other, toot the nail, all the bullshit, all the games, all the all the

little clicks forming. Oh my god, you could have probably wrote an entire book about it would have been more entertaining, frankly, to watch what was going on behind the scenes and what was going on on TV sometimes. All Right, the goal tonight, as it usually is, was four hundred likes. We're four twenty three, So thank you guys for that. You know what that means. We're gonna go ahead and be the booker. That's what we're gonna do. Ladies and gentlemen, It is now time to be the booker. That's what

we're gonna do. Well, Brett did it? Yes, But Brett Hart, are you Are you mistaking Brett Hart with Shawn Michaels As far as politicking and being an ass, being impossible to deal with, going around telling people I don't lay down for anybody, When did Brett Hart ever say that? He said it one time, he said at one time, and it was about Shawn Michaels, And it was because Vince McMahon was stupid enough to allow him to have creative control over his finishes in the way that he

left in the last sixty days of his contract. You want to blame anybody for it, Don't blame Brett, Go blame Vince. I don't blame Hogan. I don't blame Hogan for having creative control in his contract. Eric Bischoff is the dipshit who was dumb enough to give it to him in the first place. Hey, if somebody would be willing to give me creative control, am I going to tell my lawyer? No blame him for that? All right? We begin with the fabulous free Birds kicking us off

here and be the booker. I feel like we land on them quite a bit, don't we. The fabulous free Birds are going to be taking on Anderson and Gallows. Well, we always have the women's match. There's always the ladies match. We begin with Meechin and it will be me Chin still trying to win that US title from Chelsea Green. Meechin against Sonya Deville. Boy. We are we are really ripping through be the booker here, aren't we. We're We're going out with a whimper. Come on, man, the final

rush stream of the year. This is horrible, This is this is horrendous, all right? Men's be the booker. We have me. Oh my, by god, look who showed up to work. It's Miro. Everybody? Does he even wrestle anymore? But does he door dash? What does he do these days? I don't know what he does. Miro is back, but not for Tony Kahan. Miro is back for me. Here and be the booker. Miro is going to be in our main event. That's right. It's russev Day and it

will be Miro against Mark Brisco. Now I like Mark Brisco, But how are we feeling about this as a main event? Because I'm feeling a buzz coming on. I'm giving you guys ten seconds to chime in with what you think in the chat. Bell bell, buzzer, buzzer, bell buzzer. Boy, you guys are not helpful at all. You guys are not helpful at all. It's fifty to fifty in the chat. I really didn't I didn't know what I wanted to do there, so I had to outsource the decision. But

I'll give it a bell. It's not really it's not really a main event, but I'll give it the bell. We have to at least have one bell tonight. I can't. I can't have all buzzes. It's a rampage match. There is no rampage anymore. You can't use that joke anymore. So now what's the new joke. You can't say it's a rampage match. So what is it now? Is it a main event? Is it a main event match? Actually no, it's not a main eventment. It's a collision match. I don't know. I know we had we just had the

Mark Brisco the other night. You know what, it's the end of the year. I'm adding a fourth match to this card. We can't go out like this. We can't go out like this. I'm expanding. I'm pulling a Tony Kahan. I'm adding even more matches to this card. This will be our main event. I don't care what it is. It doesn't matter what we land on for better or worse. This is going to be our main event. Okay, this is more like it. We got staying. What the hell happened?

In what an image? Look at this? We have Sting who is apparently in great distress as the blood pours from his mouth. Either that or he dove into the best jelly donut ever, I don't know. But Sting looks in rough shape here. I don't know if he should be medically cleared for this match. Actually, I know exactly what that's from. It's when Sting jumped off the ladder on dynamite. He hit the fucking table. Sting against Kevin Nash. That's a wolf Pack match right there. That is a

battle of the wolf Pack members. Sting against big sexy Kevin Nash. Biggest stipulation for it. We're gonna do. We gotta go all the way. Sting and Kevin Nash are going to have themselves. Oh no, on a poll bro It's a poll match with baby Russo on the pole between Sting and Kevin Nash. Well, he would have been booking probably at the time, right, so that kind of makes sense. Oh man, Well, we ruined it with that stipulation. We ruined it. We ruined it. I had I had

to pick one. I had a pick of stipulation. I was I was curious. I was curious who went full Russo? You never go full Russo. I ruined it. I know, I know I ruined it. We have Nick Grosso says on Raw Talk, I think they announced the final testament against the Wyatt six next week. Well, how nice of them to announce it on the post show and not on the actual show. The Mount Vernon Kid Christopher Bennett, Sorry about that. I was typing on my phone auto

correct was turned off. One more question for the year. How would you feel if Dakota won the IC Belt. I'd be happy for her. I don't really have a dog in this hunt. I predicted that Lyra will win, but I'm fine with either woman winning. Dakota wins, I don't have an issue with that. Eric g. The last Punk versus Cena match should be at Money in the Bank next year. That would be appropriate. It's one of the best title matches in WWE history. Money in the

Bank twenty eleven. Huge g Direction is back with us twenty five years ago. What would you say would be the least likely stone Cold being a crazy car? I get the reference a crazy car, Mom Cain being a politician, or Taking Taking Take Taker being a podcast gobshit or gob gob Shite says gob shite. I don't even know what that means. Honestly, I think Stone Cold being a cat dad. I'm gonna go with that. And Prince Zuko ninety seven just watched the Punk and rollin segment back.

Would have been funny if Punk said you're a visionary, a revolutionary and once you were my mercenary. That's true. I mean that was the whole genesis of the Shield, right, their whole association with Paul Hayman and CM Punk. So that would have been it would have been clever. Bace beerus, what's your favorite kind of cheese? It's the kind that

I don't eat. Yeah, the Juliette. I know it's a British term, but like you don't pronounce it gob shit, right, I assume it's gob shite, right, Like if Ross socks next week, I may come on like I should probably just like one of these weeks, I gotta come on here and just do like an entire show and nothing but like British slang. I'll just come on here like and be like, man, this show is total shite and just go through every different term that I could possibly learn.

I feel I feel like my uh my European fans would appreciate that this show was shite. I'm not gonna do that, U, bas Beer says Rico. Shit. Okay, very good, Hey, Jonathan, thank you for the membership. He says Penta applied for three trademarks in August, Zero, Miato, Sero, mieto, and Animo. Well, Animo is is for Ray Phoenix. Hopefully he brings back Pentagon Junior, but we will see. He had to stop using Pentagon Junior. I thought it had something to do with either CMLL or Triple A, so I don't know

that he would be able to use it. If he can, though, that'd be great. Or even just Pentagon. Yeah, that's marketable. Elias went for a walk and didn't come back. That's right. He said, walk with Elias, and then we just let him. We let him walk. He thinks we're all still walking behind him, but he just hasn't turned around yet. Triple A owns the name Pentagon Junior. I thought it was something involving one of the two promotions, and that's why

he can't use it anymore. Is there a difference between bollocks and dog bollocks? Is one good and the other is bad? I would assume dog bollocks is pretty bad if I had adventure, I guess. Happy New Year to Patricia, says Charlotte in the bank, Yes, wherever she may be. Happy New Year to Patricia. I wonder what Elias is up to. I haven't even seen him on the Independence recently. I haven't heard his name mentioned, just kind of dropped off the face of the earth. Dog's bollocks is slang

for something being great. What is that true? Dog's bollocks is actually a positive reference. Timeless British solo. Yes, I'm gonna be timeless, solemn monster you get next time you come on the stream. The screen is gonna be black and white, or not even the whole screen, just the window in the middle. It's gonna be black and white. He wrestled Enzo in a high school gym thirty minutes for me this weekend. Well, it's good to see that.

Elias says he's he's really doing well. Then it sounds like wait until you hear the Australian slang waiting for you.

Oh boy. I'll tell you what. Every video that I see on social media from some of the accounts i'll follow sometimes like on ig it's like funny accounts, but they'll have clips from Australia and it's like if it's a clip of some sort of creature or a spider, I know immediately it's from Australia, and it makes me just wish I never end up in Australia, Like, holy shit, some of the things that the Aussies have down there, I would die, like I would just I would just die.

Like if I saw some of that stuff crawling towards me, I would run the other way. I would burn the house down and I would never return. Like, there are some scary things down there. It's to the point where I could just see a video and not look at the description and I'll be like, that's Australia, And more often than not, I'm right. It is. Australia got nice people,

though they are very nice. Jake Hager against Heath Slater against Gender Mahal was the main event on that show was that the one of the high school Jim kangaroos are potential program kangaroos. Hey, they don't mess around. Man. You piss off a kangaroo, he will fuck you up. You do not want to mess with them. They'll mess you up and put you in their pouch. One day Hogg should visit Australia. Well, I'll be recording my commentary

in post from home enjoy. I'll make sure we put together a great card for you, but I probably will not be there. What company did I get the White Winged Eagle? No company? No company? I want, I want an auction. You can't get this anywhere. You can't go to WWE shop and buy this, especially with the with the WWF plates. Yeah, you're you're not gonna find this. I got. I got very lucky Maye the Great. What's the funniest wrestling segment you ever saw? Like? Had you

dying on the floor? Not that anything had me dying on the floor, but there's been a lot of so bad it's just ridiculous segment. Honestly, you know what, There is one, the shock Master. It's got to be the shock Master. Especially the first few times I suck because I kept watching it over and over and over again. It was just I couldn't believe what I saw. And then you hear the wrestlers in the background reacting like, oh, I told you he fell out his face, he fell

out his fucking ass, Like that had me dying. That had me dying. Actually, there was a show, God, what was it. There was a podcast of some kind. I'm not even sure it was a wrestling podcast. It might have been a radio show and they were reacting to it. They were reacting to the shock Master clip, and that had me in tears and I wish I could remember what it was. It's just one of those it's one of those timeless segments that will never not be funny.

Oh yeah, the Giant the giant Huntsmen, that's what they that's what they are. I think in Australia they're like these giant Huntsman. Spider doesn't even look like a spider. It looks like something out of the movie Alien. And they're like, oh, they're harmless. I'm like, oh yeah, that they're harmless except for the heart attack that it will give me, the the massive carinara that I'll have. Other than that, they're harmless. Was it Opian Anthony? Okay, maybe

it was Opie and Anthony. I think it was. Yeah, go find that clip. It was from Opi and Anthony many years ago. They were reacting to the Shockmaster and they were just they were losing their shit. The promo with Ken Peterra the Red Headed Steps, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always fun when you see mean Jean break and he always had he turns his head away to like like he's admiring something in the background, right, like, what

is he looking at? Because he's just trying so hard not to laugh and he fails and he doesn't want people to see. Those are always the best bred. Hart says, I'm okay with spiders as long as they are not venomous. Yeah, would you say that if the spider was bigger than your fist and you were laying in your bed one night and you looked up and you saw that it was crawling on the ceiling above your head, would you feel the same way given that you live in New York.

I guess the rats don't scare you. I don't have rats where I am. I have rats when I tore the country. No, I mean, look, the rats are mostly like in Manhattan and stuff. I don't have rats that have mice. Unfortunately that's become an issue in the last couple of years. But no, no rat, No rat. Although I did have a friend who looked under there was this weird smell and he looked under the sink one day and I don't even know how it happened, but there was a giant dead rat stuck in the pipe

that went up to the sink. I guess it's ass was sticking out. I have no idea how it happened. I'm like, hey, better you than me, But no, I don't. I don't have that issue. Thankfully, Spider that big, the chamber would be empty. Yeah, I'm emptying the clip. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. If that's me and I have the means, I'm emptying the fucking clip. That's how that's going down. Retro says Vietnam has lots of snakes. I almost got jumped by one outside my house a few years out,

a few years ago. Scary stuff. Venomous red millipedes too. Okay, I'm need to check that off the list as well. We can remove that from the list. Thank you for the heads up. The only Spider I'll deal with is Spider Man. That's right. I can live with Spider Man. That I could deal with. Anything else not so much. How are you not scared of rodents? Because I grew up watching Master Splinter on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They're

very wise. Thank you guys for the fun stream. I will be covering the New Year's Day edition of Dynamite, the first simulcast episode of Dynamite on Max. That'll be on Wednesday night and then smack Down the first three hour show. Oh god, the first three hour show on Friday. It's already upon us. That'll be SmackDown on Friday night. But before then, before Dynamite and before SmackDown, I will be live tomorrow night because Tomorrow night is the final night of the year, and I will be live on

YouTube make it till midnight. We do this every year, counting down to twenty twenty five. I hope you guys will join me be covering the top matches of twenty twenty four, my ranking of those matches, and we will hang out as we ring in the new year together. I think I'm gonna have to bust out the jack too. I got the good stuff too. I'm gonna have to bust it out. We're gonna have to do some drinking

tomorrow night. We gotta celebrate the brand new year. So I'm probably gonna go live around ten ten, ten point fifteen, That's when I'll be here. So hopefully you guys will join me for that. We always have a good time, and I will see you back here very soon. For more sound though, go back and check out episode eight ninety four of the podcast as well if you missed it, A brand new two hour show that went up yesterday until tonight. I'll see you guys there. Take care.