WWE Raw 6/30/25 Review | An UNEXPECTED Title Change And Some BIG Evolution Announcements!

aware of that. So here we are. We are here for the final Raw review here for the month of June. This was the fallout from Night of Champions. They were in Rhea this weekend and the interference that we saw in the main event between John Cena and cmpunk. We saw a lot of people get involved in that main event. As it turned out, it led into the main event on the show tonight, which was samby Zan and Penta as tag team partners against bron Breaker and Bronson Reid.

So at least that made sense that we got a match out of what we saw on Saturday. And we also had some follow up with CM punk and seth Rawlins. CM Punk was screwed out of the WWE Championship by Seth Rollins. This is the few that will never die here between these two men, their rivalry continues. They were going at it again here on this show tonight. But we also had and I wasn't actually expecting him to

be back this soon. We had an appearance by La Knight and actually we now know a new match that has been made official for Saturday Night's made event, which we will talk about. We have new tag team champions Finn Balor and JD McDonough have brought the gold back into the Judgment Day actually ended up being a hell of a match. Seamus and Russev had a hell of a match as well here on this show started slow,

but it turned into a good battle. I would say in ring wise, this was a good show if nothing else, purely from an inn ring perspective, because the main event was actually very good match. Seamus and Russev turned into a battle that turned into a really good match and the tag team title match actually that in the main event. But the tag team title match probably had more heat than anything else on the show. This Pittsburgh crowd was

big time into Finn Balor. I have not heard it was a little weird because I've not heard Finn Baalor get a baby face reaction like he was getting in Pittsburgh tonight. And there were some segments on the show where it was like pulling teeth to get a reaction out of these people, but not everything on the show. They were big into Finn Balor, so a newsworthy show in that regard. Also because we had our first batch of Evolution announcements, which we needed because Evolution is coming

up in less than two weeks. It's gonna be a big wrestling weekend. We got a lot of wrestling the weekend of July twelve and July thirteen, so we now know some of the matches at Evolution. We now know what the Women's World Championship match is going to be that likely will be your main event at Evolution, that

was made official. We know that there will be a triple threat match for the women's tag team titles on that show, and we know that there will be a Battle Royal and there are some stakes as well in that Battle Royal. So we're going to talk about all of that and also the return of El Grande Americano. You know, poor Chad Gable is going to be out for a while. He had either had or is about to have shoulder surgery. But there he was tonight, El Grande.

Is it the same person though, that's the question. Looked a little bit different to me underneath the mask. So the N ring is really what carried this show. This was not the most exciting episode of RAW. I don't want to say that it was mailed in. We've had more exciting episodes of the show. But the N ring is really what carry the day for me. We'll talk about the entire thing. Is or WWEE RAW review. As I mentioned, it is June thirtieth. I am the solo monster.

Thank you for hanging out with me one last time here live in the month of June. This is it. I love it. Corey Graves loves it because he was back in the seat next to Michael Cole tonight. He was in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Doles. This is a homecoming for Corey Graves, filling in yet again for Pat McAfee, who has been feeling burned out lately. Yeah, I would too if I had three or four different gigs. No shit, this was bound to happen, So he's going to be

out for a while. I think it's gonna be a while because this is the first week since McAfee has disappeared. I don't think Michael Cole mentioned him by name at all. It was just Michael Cole and Corey Graves unless I missed it. So we're gonna be getting these two, I think for a little bit. I certainly have no issue with that. Rhea Ripley, she got a big win over Raquel Rodriguez in a street fight on Saturday in riaz so she was out to open the show. She had

a mess for the audience. One would assume that this would be tied into Evolution, and she said that she hoped to be done with Raquel Rodriguez and the judgment they once and for all, you and me, both, you and me both, Yes, that would be nice. Then she questioned what was next for her. She says she needed to get her priorities straight. Enter Eosky, the Women's World Change in case you forgot, because it's not as if

she's been getting a whole lot of television time. So Eosky comes to the ring and she says, you can't have Evolution without her, And I just thought, oh, no, really, I think you can. You take a look at some of the recent pls. There have been plenty of them without her on them. She said, Ria Ripley was wrong about one thing. Rio was not on top. Mommy is not on top, she said, not without the title. Adam

Pierce told Leo. She said that she could defend her championship against the opponent of her choosing at Evolution, and she wants to defend against the very best, and that meant defending against Rho Ripley. And Rhea said that she had nothing but respect for EO, but she warned her that she would stop at nothing to get that title back, and she accepted the match at Evolution and that was it. So this was a very basic, very straightforward way of

making it official and making the announcement. But that is the first big match set now for that Evolution card. You know, I've been asking the question on some of the recent shows. I've been saying, you know, what's up with Rheo Ripley for SummerSlam, Like, what is she going to be doing on that card? Because obviously she's going to be in a major match on that show, But what do you do at Rhea Ripley at SummerSlam. Well, I think we have our answer. Now you have Rheo

Ripley likely going into SummerSlam defending the world championship. That's probably what we have against two. I don't know, maybe a rematch with Eo, maybe Osca. I think the chances of Rio Ripley walking out of evolution and as the champion though, are pretty damn high. And there is a very real problem right now in the women's division on this show, and it actually has nothing to do with the women themselves. It actually centers primarily around one person,

and that person is EO Sky. EO Sky is the women's World Champion. She has been now for several months. It has to be said, Eosky has had an absolutely horrendous, horrendous run as the women's world champion. That's not a reflection on the quality of her work. It's not a reflection on her at all. Actually, EO is still one of the more popular stars on the roster. EO is awesome. Eo is one of the best wrestlers in the entire company.

I have absolutely nothing against Eosky. Triple H has done a piss poor job with her, and it reminds me actually of the title run that Mariah May had in aaw Maria May had such a great story and build up to the match where she won the championship at Wembley, and then the actual period of time where she was the champion was terrible. It was awful, and yet it was still better than the run that EO Sky has had. It was better, and it was more competitive, and she

was actually more active than EO has been. So think about that. Okay, as awful as the Mariah May run his champion was until she got back in the ring with Tony Storm, it's still better than what Triple H has done with the EO Sky over the last few months. EO has been champion for four months now. In those four months, she has defended her title twice twice, and the last time she defended her title was WrestleMania, and WrestleMania the match of the weekend was her match. Her

match with Rha and Bianca stole the show. That was the best match at WrestleMania this year. You can fight me on that. I don't think I'm gonna have too many takers. I think most people would agree with that.

And even still, that was the last time that we saw her defending a championship on a pl If you wanted to go back, and this is a larger reflection of a world championship itself, you would have to go back all the way to Bad Blood in October to find another ple where the Women's world title was defended. I'm not talking about the Intercontinental title. I'm not talking about the United States Championship. We're talking about one of the world titles here. Forget WrestleMania for a second. You

have to go all the way back to October. What are we doing here. I understand if it's not defended on every show, but certainly you've heard of switching off, You've heard of rotating, you've heard of skip one one, skip one do like, apparently that doesn't apply to the Women's World Championship. It's pathetic. It is absolutely pathetic, and you know EO has First of all, EO has not even had a match since May twelfth on Raw that was a tag team match, and it's not like she's

been hurt. So this is a problem with the title, but it's also a problem with the way that EO herself has been utilized. And if she goes into evolution, right, she goes into evolution and just loses to Rhea Ripley. I mean, it would almost just be the cherry on the shit Sunday for her run to end that way, after not even really being utilized, to just go in there and lose to Rehea. But as I sit here right now, it just feels to me like that's probably what we're going to see on that show in Atlanta,

probably going to see Rhea Ripley win the championship. I would love it if EO could at least take it to Summer Slim, because you know, they teased in a backstage segment last week during commercial they actually tease the possibility of EO against Oscar. Even if we don't get EO against Oscar one on one, maybe we end up with a triple from it. Maybe they could work Oscar

into this in some way. I would love to see that Oscar had her work and shoes on on Saturday, because she, again, she took ninety five percent of that match with Jade. I mean, it was basically all all Oscar virtually on Saturday. She did what she could. Oscar has looked good since she came back. I would like to see her back in the Hunt as well. But I reflect back on this run, which feels like it's coming to an end very soon for EO Sky, and

I just shake my head. I just shake my head that they have been unable to come up with a way to, even if she's not active in the ring, let's say she had a minor injury, you know, to factor her into things in some way. She's been such a non entity on the show. It's just sad. But again, I've heard and read nothing about her having an injury. She's been on the show and little backstage segments here and there, so it's not like she hasn't been at

the buildings. You know, she's there. But I don't see how anybody could look back and reflect back on this run so far and see, you know, anything in it to praise or look back on and go, man, you know, that's gonna really be a memorable run that she had there. Even if she loses it, at least she had this incredible spade of matches. It's unfortunate, But the answer is no. It all really just goes back to the WrestleMania match.

That WrestleMania match was excellent, and she'll have you know, she'll have that match at least to hang her hat on. But it's just been really, really sad the way that she has just been completely overlooked in all this and now at least, you know, Evolution, she has a big match on that show, but feels like that's probably coming

to an end now. Backstage, Dominic Mysterio wished good luck to Finn Valor and Jad McDonough ahead of their tag team title match tonight because they were challenging the New Day after they left, Dom was confronted by AJ Styles. Now they were supposed to wrestle yet Night of Champions. It didn't happen. They claimed Dom has a rib injury. Again I'm not sure I buy that, But the match didn't happen, and so Dom here produces a doctor's note,

or what he claims is a doctor's note. It looked like a letter, and he presented it proving that he is still not medically cleared, and in fact, he said that he's had a stepback, So it's going to be a little bit, he says, before AJ can get his title match. So he wondered if AJ needed glasses before he read the note, and In fact, aj did pull out his glasses. He had these black frame eyeglasses that he pulled out. Looked like doctor AJ or a Grandpa AJ.

And he put the glasses on and read the note and he said, yeah, this note says that you're a punk ass. Styles warned Dom that he would do a lot worse to him once he got his hands on him. So we'll have to wait a little bit longer to get our championship match the New Day against Finn Balor

and JD McDonough for the World Tag Team titles. You know, as bad as EO's title run has been, the New Day says, Hi, Wow, you talk about a tag team championship run for the ages, Look at the New Day, Look at the competition that they have thrown their way since they won those titles of WrestleMania. This was only their second title defense since WrestleMania. And this was a weird one because, as I mentioned earlier, Finn Balor was super over with this crowd in Pittsburgh the Judgment day.

They worked the match basically like Babyfaces, and so JD McDonough also was getting cheered, but not quite like Finn Balor. He was very much the crowd favored here, and the match started with Kofi Kingston offering Balor a piece of bread. He offered him a piece of bread so that he could get some car herbs in his body. This man thought he was in church. Balor shoved it away. New Day worked over McDonough through a commercial break. Balor made a hot tag which got a nice pop, and he

ran wild on the New Day. Balor hit a sling blade. He went for a dropkick. Kofe cut him off with a leaping double foot stomp. They tagged out and McDonough hit Woods with an Assagai moon salt, thankfully not on the side of the ring by the announcers. Woods though, got his his boots up as mcdonoughh came down because again this moon salt was in the ring. Every time I say a Saii moon salt, I think of the moon salt on the outside, but this one was thankfully

far away from where Cole and Corey were. Balor made a blind tag. He went for a coup of grass on Woods, but Woods moved and Balor hit McDonough by accident, and Woods rolled up. Balor only for a near fall, so that was a good near fall actually because you think, okay, that might be the finish, stirring up some more tension than the judgment day, but the match goes on new day hit Ballor with their midnight hour finish, also for

a close near fall. Each team took turns cheating behind the referees back, which led to Woods hitting Balor with one of the tag title belts from behind. Balor kicked out yet again. Big cheer McDonough got back in hit Woods with an avalanche Spanish fly off the top. Kofe broke up the pin, Balor gave Kingston a sling blade on the floor outside the ring. McDonough hit Woods with a moon salt on the inside, and then Balor went up top and hit the Couda grass to win the

tag team titles. This got a huge baby fit, Like, if you don't watch this show week to week, you would watch this and you would think that these two guys were total babyfaces, and so when they won, the Crab was very happy to see them win. Or either that or they were just very happy to get a title change on the show. But anyway, they shot Pyro off in the back. When they went to the aisle, Dom joined them, and they all held up their titles.

So now they have all the gold. They have the men's tag team titles, they have the women's tag team titles, although the women were not out there with them. But Dom has the Intercontinental title. And again big Pyro celebration in the background, So the Judgment Day is draped in gold. You know, you think the bloodline will never die. Take a look at the Judgment Day here. Every time I feel like this thing is winding down, they add another

chapter to the story. And it's hardly the best book that I've ever read, but they just keep adding to it. This is an example. This match is an example, though, of how great tag team wrestling can be. This was a fun match, and it helps when you have the crowd invested, you know, in the way that they were here.

But y'all said, four guys in the ring who work their asses off, like these are four great wrestlers, and they were out there and they were working a great match, and so the crowd loved it and they were hanging out to every near fall. The New Day's run is over. It was every bit as bad as EO Sky's run has been. But there isn't much. Look I say there isn't much of a division on Raw. Right. I was thinking about this. It's not even a fair statement to make.

If I sit here and I tell you, well, you know, it's not really much of a division. Right on SmackDown. I can name off the top of my head four or five teams on SmackDown. Right, you got the Street Profits, you got Phraxium, you got Dy, you got the Wyatts, you got the MotorCity machine Gun. Right, like I can name a bunch of teams off the top of my head,

Los Garza pretty deadly. And then you look at Monday Night Raw New Day were the tag team champions, right, they beat the war Raiders at wrestlemania'll win the belts. Who else is there? There actually are teams on this show, Finn Balor and JD McDonough right, as one of example, the Creed Brothers Alpha Academy, although Otis is out injured apparently, so right now there is no Alpha Academy. Uh, but you've got those teams. You've got Grayson Waller in Austin Theory,

You've got the LWO. You can't say that there aren't teams. The teams are there. The difference is that the majority of these teams are not pushed, they're not doing anything, they're not featured. There is no there is no I mean, they don't do like a top five rankings or anything like that. So it's kind of hard to hard to see it, but there are teams there. So it's not even really accurate to say, well, there's no teams on

Row they have no competition. There's plenty of competition to Triple H cared enough about tag team wrestling to really build it up. Now on SmackDown, they have been you know, at times, they've been firing on all cylinders with their tag teams. Now it's starting to feel like, Okay, we're kind of running the same teams over and over again. It could use maybe another team grown in there, but like, how do you have what we see on Friday and

then you see what we have on Monday. And despite what we see on Friday, it still feels to me, in terms of tag team wrestling, for the tag team titles, there's no real premium put on it by Triple H that really is all that different than what we got with Vince McMahon, and it's kind of sad. I like tag team wrestling I think tag team wrestling, what it's done right, is a lot of fun. There are some

people that don't think it sells. They don't think you can headline with it that you know, it's it's all about the singles feuds, and I kind of understand that, but like, I love really good tag team wrestling when we get it, and I just don't feel that there's enough attention paid to it. And it's not all that different under Triple H than it was under Vince McMahon, and so that makes me a little sad. But when I see like Waller in Theory, like come on, you know,

like there's nothing there. They don't do anything with them. Pete Dunn and Tyler Bait, I think one or both of them are injured. I don't know exactly what is going on with those two or why they vanished. Because Tyler Bate came back, remember he came back. He had one match. We haven't seen them since, So that's another example of I don't know what's going on with them. They would be a nice, you know, a little addition there to the division, but it's kind of a mess

right now. The new day, My god, what can I say? Imagine just imagine thinking back to the level of heat that those two men had six months ago, right six and a half months ago, and where we are now, and it's not and I can't even say where we are now, where we were two months later, like it was already gone after two months. Like I understand if Biggie was not cleared, so Biggie couldn't come back and

get his revenge. But there was something there that you could have capitalized on to really milk that heat that these two guys had, and they squandered it. They just let it go and New Day is just two guys on the show. Now. You know, it's a shame, But I will remember that brief period of time where they were coming out every single week and those two guys were getting nuclear heat on these shows. It didn't last very long. It didn't last long. It was squandered, But

I'll remember Pepperidge Farm will remember. I don't think the Triple H and wwe will, but we'll always have that now. Jackie Redman was in the back interviewing Bailey. Asked if she was still focused on the Intercontinental Championship. Bailey said that she is, and she said that she would be the champion right now? Had it now been for Lyra Valkyria because Lyra got involved in her business, she said, So Lyra showed up right on cue. She took offense

to those comments. Valcyrious that it's personal between her and Becky Lynch and Bailey talked about how things between her and Becky are also personal. So then Bailey and Lyra they began to bicker and shout loudly over each other. They were talking over each other and yelling and very annoying, like they would not shut up. And then Adam Pierce showed up and he finally got them to pipe down, and he booked Bailey against Lyra tonight so the winner

would get a shot at Becky in her title. So that came later on in the show, during a commercial break, Byron Saxton interviewed Grason Waller up on the concourse somewhere. Waller said that he was inspired by The New Day cutting dead Weight and turning on Biggie. I thought for a second that maybe they took I say the tape, boy, I'm dating myself now, that they took a segment that they filmed six months ago and accidentally spliced it into

the show. Here during this commercial break. He's out here talking about the dead weight and respecting New Day for the dead weight that they cut in Biggie. Yes, that was six months ago. What relevance does that have right now? None said he thought he could learn something. I have no idea what the point of any of these segments are. Okay, I really I don't. I don't know what the point of any of these segments are that they do with Waller and theory or theory without Waller. Waller without theory.

It is the very definition of time filler. Doesn't It does not forward any kind of story. It does not help get anybody over. They are not interesting. They are a waste of everybody's time, including Grayson Wallers. Like legitimately, it's like, Okay, we got two and a half minutes to pad before we come back from this commercial break, so let's have Jackie or let's have Byron interview Waller

about the most inane bullshit that doesn't matter. Just kill time and then we'll come back and we'll move on with the important parts of the show. Just irritates the shit out of me, and it irritates the shit out of me. For him, what must he be thinking. If you're Grayson Waller and you show up to these shows every week, you're flying all around the fucking country. You

show up, Okay, what am I doing tonight on the show? Oh? Well, first of all, you're not even really technically on the show, but you'll be during one of the break segments and we're just gonna have you talk about some random bullshit that happened six months ago. Oh great. I mean, I guess the check is the same, right, I mean, it's not like his pay is any different. Right, He's got his downside guarantee, he's got whatever he makes, so you know,

he makes his money, he goes home. But it's gotta be frustrating, right, It's got to be frustrating to just be wasting away doing absolutely nothing, Like do you look at yourself in the mirror and say, what am I doing with my life? I just I don't understand it. It would drive me nuts if that was me, drive me nuts. You know, these are professionals who want to advance in their career. They see everybody around them getting pushed, getting pl matches, getting merch. You can't tell me that it

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the last few years, they know who he is. For the ones who don't, this is even better because they haven't seen him in his natural habitat, which was twenty seven years ago in WCW when he was at his peak. But they had a video package here set to Dominate, which is a song by Three Days Grace with highlights from his white hot run in WCW and then his not so white hot run in WWE. But they had

a mix of clips, so it's good. This is the sort of thing they should be doing to try to get people invested in what is supposed to be his final ever match. So I enjoyed this video. I thought it was well done. Footage aared from earlier in the day of Chad Gable with his arm in a sling telling Julius Creed, Brutus Creed an Ivy Nile that they would need to hold down the fort while he's gone. For those who don't know. Again, Gable, if he has

not already had it, needs surgery on his shoulder. Last time he wrestled it was at a speed taping on June seventeenth, So I don't know if the injury happened during the World's Collide match with the Kingo and maybe he didn't know how bad it was or it got worse, or if the injury happened on June seventeenth, I'm not sure, but it happens sometime during that period. I'm not sure how bad the injury is. Could be out for six months,

he could be out for half that. It sucks that he's going to be out at all, because you know, he was wrestling as Chad Gable. Some people think he was wrestling as someone else. He was getting a lot of television exposure. My guess is they were building to a mask versus mask match against Pent at SummerSlam, and that's off the table now. I don't know what pent is going to do now, and again that's just my guess, but it just seemed like this Americano thing only has

legs to it for so long. Clearly, you have to build to a mask match, and a mask match against pented SummerSlam would have made total sense, so unfortunately it doesn't look like that's going to happen now. So anyway, as the members of American Major talking here in the back, Ludwig Kaiser could be seen creeping around, lurking in the shadows behind them. Adam Pierce showed up. He wished Gable the best of luck with his surgery. Gable said he's

an Olympian, said that he makes his own luck. Pierce assumed that this would also mean the end of El Grande Americano for a while. Gable said Americano was the world's greatest lutrador. He keeps a very busy schedule, but you never know. Elsewhere in the back, we had a very jubilant Finn Balor and Jad mcdonoughh approaching Adam Pearce

and Nick Alldis, who were talking. Balor said he imagined that they were discussing what to do with the women's tag team titles, and he said, Riquel Rodriguez has worked very hard to be the champion and it would be very mean to strip her of the titles because of Live Morgan's injury. So Baalor suggested that they give her a new partner, just let her pick somebody else to defend the titles with. And they said, well, do you

have anybody in mind? And he said, well, as a matter of fact, Roxane Perez, right, who's been his new buddy over the last several weeks. So Pierce and all this, they said, let's just give us a second, and they huddled over the idea and they agreed. They said, okay, we will allow Roxane Perez to step in for Live Morgan and be one half of the Women's Tag Team Champions. However,

there's a there's a catch. Said that they wanted Rodriguez and Perez to prove themselves as a team, so they would have to defend the belt at Evolution in a triple threat match, and well, actually no, I guess it would be a fatal four way because he said that they're going to have to defend against a team from Raw, a team from SmackDown, and a team from NXT, so that would be a four way. I don't know why I thought. I don't know why I thought. He said

it was gonna be a triple threat match. NXT is involved, so I guess it'll be a fatal four way. So a team from each brand is who they're going to have to defend those titles against. And Balora McDonough initially were caught off guard by this, but then they agreed and they said that's fine. I will say I am surprised that we are not getting the Bells involved here.

I'm not heartbroken, I'm not devastated by but it just felt like the destination here may have been putting the tag team titles on Nicki and Brie, because they've talked for years about how man we wish we want to hold those tag team titles, you know, just one time, and we saw Nicki come back. Brie has said that she hasn't been contacted at all by WW if you

believe her. I still wonder if you know we were not actually going to get Live Morgan against Nicki, but we were gonna get Nicki and Brie wrestling live in Raquel. We'll never know now, but I am surprised though that they didn't go in that direction, because you know, when you think about it, like you could have had Raquel and Roxanne defending the titles against the Bella Twins at Evolution. You can even have the Bellat Twins win the titles at Evolution, just so they can say that they were

Tag team champions one time. A few weeks later as Summer Slim, they turn right around and they lose the titles at Summer Slim. You can have them drop the belts to Charlotte, Alexa, Charlotte Flair, Alexa Bliss. I've been saying this for what a month, month and a half now, right, they're going to be Tag team Champions. I do believe at some point very soon you could have done that. You could have had Charlotte and Alexa win the titles

off Nicki and Brie. Charlotte and Alexa, though in this four way match that we're gonna have an Evolution, they may well be the team from SmackDown, so they may they may end up winning the tag titles there for all we know. Because I was thinking, like, who are these teams going to be on SmackDown? You have a

few different options. You've got the Secret Herbsts, You've got Meechen and BFAB, so okay, doesn't really doesn't really get me excited, right, but Charlotte and Alexa, like Charlotte's been telling Alexa to want to be your friend. I don't need I don't need friends, and yeah, very standoffish, but is there enough time for them to come together and agree to be a team because Evolution is less than two weeks away. Charlotte has given no indication that she

wants anything to do with Alexa Bliss. All it would take, though, was one backstage segment where Alexa approaches her and says, look, I know what you said. I know you don't need a friend, but the women's tag team titles are going to be defended at Evolution, and I think that you and I should be in that match. We could represent SmackDown, bring tag Team gold Over to SmackDown, and then boom,

You've got yourself a tag team from SmackDown. To me, that would be more interesting than just sticking any of those other teams in there. So like, I would envision this as Raquel and Roxane, Charlotte and Alexa from Raw. You could have Oscar and Kyrie, right, I mean, I know Natty and Maxine, we haven't really seen them in action. They have put together their own team. I think they're calling themselves the Dungeon Dolls. They haven't really been doing anything.

I would think Oscar and Kyrie would make sense as far as NXT I don't know. I mean NXT, I know Lash Legends and Jakara Jackson are no more because Jakara Jackson is no longer there. Uh, you could do fatal Influence, you could you could do soul. Ruka and Zaria could do that. Make them a team they could represent an next day. Seamus and Russev one on one, both victims of the Deaf Rebel curse. By the way,

really hit me watching Russev come out. His music now is just so inferior to his old theme Seamus's music. I mean, don't even get me started. We've talked about this before, so fucking Terri. It's just so awful. God, you would think someone with that level of tenure that he has had in this company like he would at least have some say in his music. How is it possible that his music is so bad? It's just so bad. Anyway, from the time Russev made his entrance to the time

this match began, ten minutes had gone by. They sent this guy out to the ring to stand there through commercial breaks and videos, so finally the bell rings. This was their first singles match since twenty fourteen. They clabbered each other until Seam has caught Russev diving off the apron turned it into a power slam on the floor. Russev took over during a break after Seamus went shoulder first into the ring post. Seamus started no selling Russev's

kicks and inviting him, you know, bring it. You know we've seen him do that in matches and usually that fires up the crowd, and it didn't really work here on this crowd here in Pittsburgh, but they did eventually win them over. Seamus got to his feet, he fired up. He had a backbreaker followed by a diving knee drop. Russev, though kicked out at one, Russev came back with a spinning heel kick at a fallaway slam for a two

count a superplex ahead of yet another commercial break. Brucev maintained control during the break until shame has hit a white noise just in time for them to return. This

is this is their formula. You know, if you watch during the commercial breaks, if you are using a VPN or maybe you're international, like to a t, virtually every single match, the heel will get heat on the babyface and there's a little countdown clock in the corner of the screen, so you know when the break is about to fade out, and then they're back live, and they come back live, and you know it's like the referee says, all right, it's time, and the babyface goes and makes

us come back every fucking time. It never fails. Just change it up a little bit, I mean, that'd be nice. Well, shame has hit a white noise. Then he hit fifteen beats of the bod. When he went for a bro kick, Rusev avoided it. Russev landed a urinagi and then a leaping kick he applied the accolade. Seamus, though, managed to get to his feet with Rusev on his back, and that got a nice reaction from the crowd. They spelled

out of the ring. Seamus hit a broad kick on the outside and it took nine and a half seconds

for Russev to get back in the ring. He almost got counted out, so they battled on the apron until Russev thumbed Shamus right in the eye, right in front of the referee, and the referee even admonished him for it, which is why it was very strange when after the match was over, Corey Graves made the comment that the referee didn't see it, his view was obstructed, when clearly not only did he see it, but he acknowledged that he saw it, and he yelled at Russev for it.

Maybe Corey got thumbed in the eye during all of this, I don't know. Russev then exposed the top turnbuckle strut that connects the ring posts to the ring to the rope, and also did that right in front of the referee, and then he reached underneath. He grabbed Seamus by the arms and he yanked him forward, so he went chest first into the steel strut, and then he followed in the ring with a Machka kick and he pinned Shamus to win the match. The match definitely dragged at times,

but it did pick up in the second half. It got real good. This turned into a hell of a battle. You know. There's one thing, though, I will say, there is one thing that I don't quite understand, so maybe you can help you with this. I'm aware that throwing someone into the steel steps is not technically a disqualification because they have said it's part of the ring, so

you can't be disqualified for that. Now, if you would pick up the ring steps and throw them at somebody or use them as a weapon in that way, then you can be disqualified. So I get that, Like I understand that now here with steel strut like the beam write in full view of the referee, he pulls Shamus into it, and that's not a disqualification. So then let

me ask you this. Why is it that in most wrestling matches, for years and years and years, whenever somebody goes to expose the top turn buckle pad, which is very much a part of the ring right like the steel underneath, why is it that they always have to hide it from the referee. Well, they wait until the referee gets bumped or or the referee's back is turned,

and they go and they cover up. And they gotta like, if it's if it's perfectly illegal, why do they give a shit If they're worried about the referee seeing it and putting the pad back on, Just take the pad off and stick it down your trunks or throw it into the crowd like it's just weird. Why do they care if that's technically illegal? Who cares? I would grab the referee and say, hey, come here for a second.

I want you to watch me, and then I would do it right in front one of those wacky wrestling rules. I guess in any event, this turned into a good match. Given the finish, they're going to run it back. I say, run it back, Let's do it again. I'm ready for round two. We got another Evolution announcement pre taped announcement here from the two gms. They announced a Battle Royal, with the winner going on to a championship match at Clash in Paris on August thirty first. So I guess

there you go. That's how they're going to get some of these legends into this match. Tristratus, I'm sure we'll be in there. Remember she is in her twenty fifth year. This is still her twenty five year anniversary. This year, all year is her twenty fifth anniversary, so I would expect her to be in there and probably throw Nicki Bella in there, since apparently she has no match now, Nicki Andorbrie probably in that Battle Royal. I'll tell you somebody else who's going to be in the Battle Royal.

Stephanie Vecer. She was not on the actual show tonight, but she was there. During one of the commercial breaks, she was interviewed up on the concourse by Byron Saxton and he was asking her about the Battle Royal, and she talked about, you know how important it is, so she's going to be in it. They're sticking her in a Battle Royal. I wish there was something better for her to do on that show, but at least there's a future World Championship match on the line, Like there

is something tangible at stake, something kind of important. So at least there's something in there for her to fight for. Hopefully she wins and then she can challenge whoever the champion is in Paris. How about ariar Ripley Stephanie the care match at Clash in Paris. I mean, I know that could be a WrestleMania match one day, but I'd love to see it could happen. Backstage, Jackie Redman interviewed American maid Ivy Nile talked about winning the Battle Royal

at Evolution. That's kind of funny, Yeah, she's gonna win the Battle Royal, she said that Evolution. Yeah, I'm sure, so all of a sudden as she's speaking, who shows up. But El Grande Americano. And he looks a little bit different. He looks a little bit leaner, a little taller, and Brutus Creed is just I mean, all the members of American Maid and Jackie, they're all blown away by this.

And Brutus went to go make a comment and Ivy stopped him and said, you know, don't basically, don't say anything, but yeah. He walked off after that, and it was very clearly Ludwig Kaiser. So now we have a German luchador. This is gonna be Ludwig Kaiser's new gimmick now, at least until Chad Gable gets back. He is now playing the role of El Grande Americano. And on the one hand, I thin it's kind of hilarious that they took of all people, the German guy on the roster and are

going to make him a Mexican luchador. Okay, that's kind of amusing. On the other hand, it's also an indictment that this is what they have come up with for him to do, because he has no role on the show whatsoever. He was getting pushed to the extent that he was at least getting TV time, and he was

working matches, and then one day it just ended. No rhyme or reason, no explanation, no reports of him being injured or punished or any As a matter of fact, you can trace it all the way back to when Charlotte Flair mentioned Kaiser that awful segment with Tiffany Stratton and their lead up to WrestleMania. I don't think he has really been on television up until last week when he was creeping in the background. I don't think he

had been on television since then. It's kind of like when Tiffany Stratton threw out the first pitch for the Mets and they've sucked ever since. They've won like two games. They have been on a horrendous losing streak. I blame her. She threw that first pitch. She overthrew the pitch. I don't know. It's like she put a friggin voodoo curse on this team. Ridiculous. So anyway, it's like, yeah, it's amusing and it could be entertaining, but it's also pretty

fucking sad. When this guy could be competing for the Intercontinental Championship with the US Championship on the other he could be doing something you know, meaningful as like a serious star, and it's like, well, we're not doing anything with him, so why don't we put him in the mask? It'll be funny. He could be a comedy guy in the show, all right. At least they found a way

to keep the gimmick alive. Like I was wondering after the initial segment with Gable, which I'm sure was tape last week, that initial segment in the back with Gable, I actually was thinking, like, how can they keep this going? Is there somebody else on the roster, maybe at the PC or from NXT that kind of has a similar build to Gable? And then this guy showed up and I said, Okay, well I guess that idea is out the window. Okay, well we'll see you. Forgot about that

whack ass promo? Oh I haven't, I haven't. I remember all the Tiffany Charlotte stuff in the build up to WrestleMania. I'm not sure Tiffany is to blame for your bullpen collapse. She's to blame for all of it. I'm putting it all on her. This is all her fault, and so her punishment is that she has to lose her Championship. That's her punishment. No later than SummerSlam, Tiffany Stratton will no longer be the women's champion. I'm putting a curse

on her right now, remember my little voodoo doll. I'm gonna pull it out after. I'm gonna put a curse on Tiffany Stratton that she loses her title. No later than SummerSlam Evolution or Summer Slam. She's done. She's finished until this team starts winning again. Ridiculous. So then Jackie, after all this Americano stuff, she spots Sammy's Ain off in the distance, so she goes over to talk to Sammy.

He's getting his fists all taped up in preparation for the main event later and before he could say anything, he gets attacked by Carrying Cross, who of course lost to Sammy's Ain at Night of champions so Cross was still wanting him to say it. He's yelling at him say it. Sam I was right, and he picked up a pipe that was laying on the floor nearby, hit Sammy in the midsection with it, and then officials came

over to separate them. So it's like, all right, then, at least we know this is not a one and done. This feud is going to continue, and there's a very good chance Sammy is going to beat him for a second time. But right, hey, there's always hope. If there's going to be a second match, maybe he wins one. Probably not, but maybe. But I was thinking, Okay, it might be one and done, and I just hope that

they have something else in mind for Cross. And then I saw him attack Sammy and I said, this is good. This is good because that means this is going to continue. Maybe he'll get a maybe he'll get a Summer Slam match or a Saturday Night's main event match out of it. It may not have a happy ending for Cross, but at least it's going to continue for a few weeks longer.

After this, we had the World Heavyweight Champion Gunther out to the ring to address his Saturday Night's main event match against Goulberg, and he has to say he's very impressed. We all saw the video highlighting Goldberg's greatest career moments.

This is my favorite part. He said. It was violent, it was brutal, destructive, but like his matches, all summed up for you in three minutes, look at this gun through with the jokes gun through with the jokes on this show, he has very like low Key, turned into one of my favorite promo guys on either show. Like obviously he's not in the category with the rock or

you know, some of the great promo. He's not fucking Paul Hayman out there, But just like low Key, very like, very subtle, he has turned into a very entertaining promo, very sarcastic, very dry wit. Right that fucking grin on his face, I love it, says Bill Goldberg has every right to claim that he's the most feared man of his generation, but he is not afraid of what's left of Bill Goldberg. He's a fifty eight year old man who wants to ride out his career on his coattails,

one last hurrah at his expense. Says that is definitely not going to happen. Oh, Goldberg is not capable of winning the world title from him, and he knows that he's very capable of beating Goldberg in under three minutes, But beating him in under three minutes is not his goal. His goal is to take his time and blow him up, outclass him, and embarrass him in front of everybody that is near and dear to him. So he heard Goldberg

say that he doesn't like bullies. So Bill, too bad, you bumped into the biggest bully around here at Saturday Night's main event. I'm going to bully you. I'm going to push you around and treat you like a piece of crap and there's nothing you can do about it. And for anybody wondering if Goldberg still has it, he's going to expose that he never had it, and it'll

be on Gunther to ask the question, who's next. And at that point we heard burn it down outwalk mister Money in the Bank seth Rawlins definitely not one of my favorite promos on this show. He walked out with his oracle, Paul Haim and they have a brand new Money in the Bank briefcase. By the way, they've given it a makeover. It is now black and gold. It looks much better. Black and gold my favorite era of NXT.

Gunther made fun of Rollins for traveling so far, all the way to Saudi Arabia to accomplish nothing, and Rollins laughed and said that we didn't go to Night of Champions to cash in Money in the Bank. On John Cena. So for the last two years I have said that if there is breath in my lungs, CM Punk will not be a world champion in this company. And they flew all the way across the world to stand on

that business. But when they won the money in the bank contract, he told the world that it was going to be an all out assault on both world titles. So let me repeat, congratulations, Champ. And he looked down at the title around Gunther's waist. Then we heard Cult of Personality. Out came CM Punk. He ran down to the ring. Gunther backed into the corner just to take it all in and watch as Punk and Rolin started slugging it out. He knock Seth down. Rollins retreated into

the crowd. Punk stood on the ropes and watched him and called him a coward. And then Punk climbed down and he went to go leave the ring, and in doing so, because Gunh had moved to the middle of the ring, he walked right past guntherro but Gunther grabbed him by the arm to kind of spin him around, and Punk shoved him down to the mat, and then he looked down at gun Through and he told him

to stay out of his business. Now, Rollins was amused by all this because he's watching from the stands and all of a sudden you can see behind him and he is completely oblivious to this, and unaware of this is La Knight, La Night. He's eating some popcorns, so when Rollins turns around, he throws the popcorn in his face and they start fighting, and Rollins is trying to get away, so they fought over. We were into the concourse area outside where all the concessions are, and conveniently

both sides blocked off. You see rows of fans, but it's blocked off so they can fight. And Rollins grabbed a drink from one of the concessions. I don't know if it was a beer, if it was a soda, whatever it was, he threw it in Knight's face and then he ran away. And they did announce later in the show, they made it official that a week from Saturday, Saturday Night's main event. Yes, it's coming up pretty quick. It will be La Night one on one against Seth Rowlins.

But let me go back to what we saw here in this segment. Right. Other than Gunther's very entertaining promo, this feels to me. The other question I was asking, other than what does Rhea Ripley do at SummerSlam, I've been wondering what does Gunther do at SummerSlam? God forbid he loses to Goldberg at Saturday Night's main event, because that would be about the worst thing they could do. So let's hope and assume that he's going to walk

into SummerSlam as the defending champion. Who does he defend against? And then they might kept coming back to with Cmpunk because nobody else seemed to really make sense. This feels to me like we may be heading for a triple threat match. Now you look at that and go, well, you could do that, but Rollins has the money in the bank briefcase. Yeah, but so what like My response to that is, so, what triple threat match makes all the sense in the world After what we saw here

in this segment. Rollins has interrupted Gunther now multiple times, and we all know Punk wants his hands on Seth. Seth wants his hands on Punk, and now for the first time, we had an interaction between Punk and Gunther. So all three are now connected. There's connective tissue now between all three of these men. Rollins may have the briefcase,

But so what, that's his insurance policy. Just because he won money in the bank doesn't mean that he can't work his way into the world title picture for the rest of the year. He still has the briefcase. He could lose at Summer Slam and still cash in money in the bank at some point to win the world title, or if he wants to, he could try to win both belts. He could win the world title at Summer Slim and then cash in for the WWE title if

you wanted to. So him having the briefcase I don't think precludes him from being included in a triple threat match at SummerSlam without cashing in. That's the match. That is the match as I look at it now, that makes sense as your raw main event for Summerslim this year. What they do with the money in the bank briefcase is it's almost inconsequential. It almost doesn't even matter. I'm sure it'll factor into things, but that shouldn't stop them

from including Seth in this. I am more interested in that than just doing another punkin rollin singles match, Like, how do you even end it? Helena Sell? We already did that less than a year ago with punkin MacIntyre. That was an incredible match. I find it hard to believe that these two are going to be able to top what we got with punkin McIntire. You throw Gunther in the mix. I find them more appealing than just

doing the singles match between Seth and Punk. You could do punkin gun through one on one, but Rollins is clearly, you know, going to be involved here in some way. Had they not announced him in La Night for Saturday Nights Made Event, I might have said, well, okay, maybe you do punkin Gunther and do Rollins against Night at SummerSlam, and then Punk will probably cash in during punkin Gunther. But you know they're doing the matches Saturday Nights Made Event,

so I don't think that's going to happen. Backstage, the judgment day was celebrating. They were in a celebratory mood. Roxane Perez happily held up her new women's tag team title belt. Raquel was very upset that they were replacing liv Morgan so quickly. She just went down. See this is why Hook has issues with the Ops, because he got hurt and they replaced him so quickly with Powerhouse Hobbs and they won the trios titles, and he feels like the odd man out here. So Raquel was very upset.

She says, Lives is already rehabbing, very hard, trying to come back. Baler said, look, I know from experience how hard it is to recover from a shoulder injury. She's going to be out for a while. He said, I was just concerned that you stay champion. I thought it was very unfair for them to try to strip the title from you. And so she reluctantly agreed. She understood where he was coming from. Balor called for a vote, So let's take a vote to declare Roxane Perez an

official member of the Judgment tee. Which is rich coming from someone who, for weeks and weeks and weeks on television many months ago, was telling Dominic Bisterio no new members. Finn Balor was all too eager to add a new member here. And they voted, and they all voted yes. Dominic and Raquel very reluctantly did but they did vote yes,

and Balor was very happy about this. Roxanne Perez is now an official member of the Judgment Day See the Ground Hug saw his shadow and so that means at least six more months of the Judgment Day, because there's no way the Judgment Day can end now until liv Morgan comes back. They're guaranteed to exist at least until she comes back. So if you're sick of the Judgment Day, too bad, because they're not going anywhere. We had Bailey

one on one with Lyra Valkyria. Bailey targeted Lyra's back apply to Boston Crab until Lyra got a rope break. They collided with dueling crossbody attempts ahead of a commercial. Lyra took over, but if you weren't watching this with your VPN, you missed all of it because her offense was contained exclusively to the commercial break. As soon as they came back, Bailey hit a superplex. Lyra spilled outside the ring after a backsuplex by Bailey, and Bailey followed

with a leaping elbow drop off the ring steps. Valkyria responded with a swinging neck breaker, but Bailey hit a sunset flip power bomb out of the corner or into the corner for a two count. Valkyria hit a gut wrench set out power bomb that looked cool for a two They traded cradles that led to a double pin spot with both women shoulders down on the mat. Referee Jessica Carr called the match a draw. Bailey grabbed Valkyria

after the match. Lyra, though, turned around and hit a clothes line, and they wound up brawling into the crowd until officials intervened. As soon as Adam Pierce made the announcement and said that the winner of this match would get Becky Lynch next, you had to know that this was going to be the outcome here. It was going to be some kind of a draw or a no contest, so that the finish was very predictable. The match was okay. The finish though, fell very flat, but it's very clear

where heading for a triple threat match at Evolution. Jackie Redman caught up with see On Punk backstage. Punk said that he had receipts for Rollin's, Hayman, bron Braun, Gunther, and anyone else who got in his way. Punk then confronted La Night nearby. He told Knight that Rollins belonged to him and to get to the back of the line, and Knight said that Punk could have him six out of the seven days of the week, but it's Saturday

night's main event. Rollins is his He is the line, he says, and then he yells yeah, right in Punk's face and he walked off. And the main event Sammy Zain and Penta against bron Breaker and Bronson Reed. Penta checked in with Sammy in the back before the match to make sure that he was still okay to wrestle. Zay, who had his ribs all taped up, indicated that he was ready to go. Hell of a medical staff they have there, but off he went out to the ring,

so they entered first. Then backstage at the Gorilla position, Paul Hayman was on the phone with Seth, Rollins and Bronson. Reid asked him, where's the visionary, which is a totally normal thing that a normal human being would say in the course of a conversation, Where's the Visionary? I don't know. Why don't you ask the oracle? This is the reality era,

this is now real people talk. Where's the visionary? Well, Hayman said that Rollins was already on a jet perfecting Plan B, and when Reid wanted to know what Plan B was. Before Hayman could answer, bron Breaker walked in said the plan is for him to smash whoever got in their way. Hayman wasn't sure that was the plan, but Breaker didn't care. He told some guy hit my music, and now they have a mashup of a bron Breaker's

theme in Bronson Reid's theme. So early in the match, Penta and sam they did the Penta Dance before wiping out both opponents with stereo dives. Later on, Zane wiped out both men with an Arabian press out to the floor. There was a battle in the corner a few minutes later that led to Sammy hitting Bronson Reed with a Sunset flip power bomb for a near fall. Reid came right back with a death valley driver for a two count.

Breaker knocked Zane over the announced desk with that usual leaping clothesline off the apron that wipes both of them out went to another commercial. Sammy fought back the moment they returned from the break. Who would have predicted such a thing, but there it is. The baby Face makes his come back and made a hot tag to Penta. Hit bron with a flying crossbody, kicked his leg out of his leg, hit a sling blade, Penta hit a drop kick in the corner and did the arm snap

to bron Breaker. You know, it's so weird, isn't it. How Penta does the arm snap to check a Gable in the back last week, and Chad Gable shows up this week with his arm in a sling in need of surgery, and we're not going to see him for a while. And yet here in this match, and basically every single match that he's in, he does the arm snap and it has no effect on the other person. The other person is fine. In fact, not only was

the other person fine here. Immediately following the arm snap, bron Breaker got this man up with a military press that got turned into a DDT by Penta, but he got him up in a military press after the arm snap. So anyway, after the DDT, Paul Hayman sees that things are not going their way, so he distracts the referee that allowed Bronson Reid to knock Penta down because he was up on the top rope. Breaker then followed with the Frankensteiner, and Reid followed with the stout power bomb.

Sammy though broke up the cover Penta of he did a tsunami splash, and then he tagged in Sammy's Ain, who hit Bron with an exploder into the corner. Zay went for a halluvakick Bron though clotheslined him. Instead, Breaker went for a spear. Sammy booted him in the face, though. As he came off the ropes, Zay tried a vertical suplex on Bronzon Read, which seems like a very stupid thing for someone with bad ribs to do. His ribs are all taped up. I know what I'll do. I'll

try to supplex the three hundred pound man. And that wasn't working out too well for him. Penta, though attacked Red from the apron. He gave him a hangman basically across the top rope, and then Zain managed to lift up Reed and he delivered a sup plex and he got a big reaction. There he is. Look how happy he is, Sammy Zay popping up on screen. Look at that. That's the look he had on his face after he suplex is three hundred pound men. Actually he should I

mentioned this the other day. He's trimmed down, you know, Bronson Reid, He's slimmed out a little bit. Yeah, he's a cool two ninety four now, so anyway big for that spot, but it didn't matter because bron Breaker the Legal Man, followed that with a spear and then he pinned Sammy to win the match, so it didn't matter in the end. After the match, Penta went to go check on Sammy, so bron speared him as well. Reid went up for a tsunami, but the yeat Man's music hit.

I forgot all about this guy. I forgot all about this man. But he got a huge reaction and he walked out and he had a steel chair in his hand and he hit bron Breaker with the chair in

the aisle. He used the chair as a weapon on Bronson Reid in the ring, including chucking it at his face, and Reid ended up falling out of the ring through the ropes to the floor, and Jay stood tall to close out the show with Sammy's ain and with Penta, and they kind of gave you the impression that maybe we were going to get a six man tag soon, but I don't know if that's the case or not. In ring, there was some good stuff on this show that really is what carried this show. They moved certain

stories along. It was not a very interesting show to me. It was kind of dull in parts, but the main event the tag team title change, which was really fun and the best thing on the entire show, and the russev. Seamus match, what that turned into. That really was the highlight of the show. Those three matches were the highlight for me. We got some evolution announcements, but we had to because again the show is less than two weeks away. It's all built around the women. You got to let

people know what's going on here, Rhea, Ripley and EO. Sky. That should close the show, That should be the main event of the show. It sure feels like that Belt's going back to Rhea. Maybe not right, Maybe something happens that carries over and bleeds over into SummerSlam. But we got those announcements, and again, as I speak, they are taping SmackDown, which is why Raw aired two hours earlier tonight, so beware of spoilers. SmackDown is also two hours this Friday.

I'm got check and see airing earlier on Netflix in other countries. I'll probably stream in my normal time since I'll be streaming an hour earlier anyway, since it's two hours, but maybe I can watch it earlier in the day. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it's airing in its normal time. I don't know. If the check and see, let's take a look at the twitter, Paul, why don't

we check that? What did you think of Raw coming off night of Champions Seventy one percent thumbs up and twenty nine percent thumbs down for tonight's show, the final Raw for the month of June. As we blow into July now and another kind of mini heat wave we're getting here in New York. But go vote at Solo Monster on X. That is the place to go. This is the place right now. I'm going to read your messages and your questions. Kevin says SmackDown will be phoned in. Well,

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He's getting us started here on the super Chest. Thank you guys so much for hanging out with me here on this final Monday night here for the month of June, he says. With Survivor series retaining the wargames concept, what do you think WWE should do this year to keep it fresh? Not do wargames. It's okay to skip a year, bring it back next year. But since they're doing it, put a top on the cage. I don't need high spots in a Wargames match. Put a fucking top on

the cage. Death Scythe says, once John Cena drops the WWE title and turns babyface, he should try to win the one title that he has never held, the Intercontinental title, and check that off his bucket list and he can drop it to someone like Seamus or La Night. No, John Sena is not holding the Intercontinental time, I mean, I have no interest in seeing it, and I absolutely do not believe that that is something they have any

interest in doing. He will go down as Hogan did, as someone who held all of these championships but not the intercontinental titles. I don't think hul Cogan pined to hold the IC title, and I don't think John Cena cares either. Shamus cares. I'd like to see Shamus get that title at some point, I don't think Scena cares. Dry Chicken says, can we please have the WWE draft. I'm ready for a huge shakeup for the Raw and SmackDown rosters. I am not hoping for a draft, but

I am hoping for a transfer window. What does it matter? Honestly, like we had La Night Show up on Raw tonight, doesn't matter. They can move people around whenever they want to. I agree there is some shaking up that needs to be done, but not with a draft, at least not with a draft the way they do them. Daniel Carlos, though, could you explain to me why it would be a bad idea to have a three man booth with Corey, Pat and Cole. Corey adds so much to the show.

I know you dis like three men boots just want to hear why. I mean, there are some three man boots that have been good over the years. I just think it's unnecessary. You don't need three people in the booth. You can do it, but I don't think that. I don't think Graves and McAfee are that different enough that we need both of them on commentary at the same time. Like when WCW had a three men booth. I'm thinking

back to the Nitro days, right. If you go back to those days, you had Tony Shavanni, you had I mean, and they had different teams, so it could be Larry's Abisco, it could be you know, different people. But let's say you had Shavanni, you had Bobby Heenan, and you had Mike Tenay. Shavanni was the play by play guy. He was like the host Bobby Heenan, who did sometimes go back and forth between heel and babyface in w CW, especially during the nWo stuff. But you know, he would

have some comedic relief or he would play the heel role. Today. Was there specifically because of his knowledge of Lucha libre. That's what they brought him in, you know, when they started using the cruiser weight. So they all had a very distinct role to play on the announced team, and that made sense. Vince McMahon, Jerry Lawler and Jim Ross

similar thing. Vince McMahon and Jr. They overlapped. Not necessary per se to have them both on there, but like Vince was the straight man, Jr. Was the guy who would share more kind of details about people's backgrounds, and Lawler was there for comic relief and to be the heel and to you know, yell puppies, and that was his role. Tell me why we need to see Michael Cole, Pat McAfee and Corey Graves on commentary? Does that really sound like a necessary trio? Are they really that different?

I don't think so. But they got three guys in NXT right. They have Vic Joseph, they have Corey Graves, and they have Booker T. Would I do that? Probably not. But we got to put Corey somewhere because Corey got taken off the main roster. So he's too good to not be doing you know something on these shows, so I get it they had to put him somewhere. As a general rule, I don't think that these three man boots are necessary, but sometimes they make sense in this case.

I just don't see the point in doing it. I don't think it's needed. Zachary says when WCW brought Mark Madden in, that was bat well. Mark Madden was just terrible. TNA is bringing back Mark Madden for a show. I don't know why. I certainly won't be watching it. Dry Chicken says the New Day heel turn on RAW has been a bust. It's time for a change of scenery.

Send them to TNA, Triple A or Pro Wrestling. Noah, The New Day in TNA would be kind of interesting when you consider some of the teams there, including the Hardys New Days against the Hardys. Say New Days, New Day, New Day, New Day against Hardy's. It's a Slammiversary. Oh that reminds me there has been a change. There has been an update to the Slammiversary main event. It is no longer Joe Hendry against Trick Williams for the TNA

World Heavyweight Championship. Shockingly, I know it is now a triple threat match with Mike Santana against Joe Hendry against Trick Williams. So Santino Morella made that official on Twitter earlier for those of you who may have missed it. Dried Chicken says, let me tell you how seth rollins can get more heat bro us. He breaks into CM Punk's house, steals Larry for ransom and burns it down,

says Rhea. Ripley defeats the O sky via DQ due to Oscar's interference and sets up a triple threat at SummerSlam. Why would Oscar get involved? Why would Oscar interfere? I don't I need a reason? Death's I shame we never got a feud between Rick Rude and Randy Savage. Yeah, that would have been awesome. I can imagine Miss Elizabeth's face on Rude's tights. Oh, that would have sent Savage over the edge. Are you kidding me? He would have been He would have lost his mind, he says. At

the time, would have been Royal Rumble eighty nine. Savage could have still been in the rum and Rude Warrior could have had their pose down on the second main event show. I think I want to say, maybe they had some house show matches, but yeah, I think that would have been great. Stupid we never got it, Avili with the two hundred dollars bomb? What's up? Solo Monster. It is officially Tuesday, July first shout out from Brisbane, Australia. When you consider the first time the fans started booing

John Cena in two thousand and five, was that the question? When? When? When do you consider the first time the fans started booing John Cena? I think that I think he's asking me when they started booing him. Well, I want to say it was weren't they already bo him when he wrestled Chris Jericho at SummerSlam that year? Right? Those were Jericho's final matches before he left for two years. Right, he wrestled Seeing at SummerSlam, and then I think they

had a raw match right where Bischoff fired him. I think it was right around that time that the booze started. Favorite pizza place he says, Well, it's a local place here in New York called Original Original Pizza. They have great pizza. But when I was younger, I did have I did have a thing for pizza Hut in their personal pan pizza, a little small pizza. I used to like that when I used to have pizza. In your opinion on why WWE doesn't mention Tamna Snooka as part

of the Samoan dynasty. Why would they I mean, did they do like a Samoan roll call every week? I mean what context? Would they have a real need to even mention her. I don't know when her name would even come up. But thank you Havili. I know he's got some more questions coming up here. Death Sithe gifted membership to Slasher. Yeah, I see YouTube still hasn't uh oh wait, maybe they have. They have fixed the names. Have they fixed the names? You know? That's funny because

earlier the names were still fucked up. It still had the AT symbol. But I think the names are fixed now I'm seeing everybody's names. Let me know. If you're seeing your names back to normal, that's great. I thought they were going to keep them that way permanently. But I'm seeing everybody's names normal now. What a stupid change, Unless that was a glitch uh Uffman Entertainment. I know in the list, in the super chat list, it's still it's not fixed, but in the actual live chat it

looks like it's fixed. What are the odds that both Chad Gable and El Grande Americano are both injured at the same time? What are the odds, you know it is. It is kind of strange, But then again, we've been hearing about so many injuries in wrestling. Is it really that surprising. I don't know. It just feels like everybody's getting hurt. WWE and AW Alexander Siraya's run with the belt was horrible compared to Mariah May's AW title run. Yeah, that was that was atrocious too. I can't remember a

single thing that she did. They literally just I mean, they gave her the belt because it was it was Wembley. That's the only reason she got the belt. I can't remember a single thing she did during her run. Dried Chicken says Triple H is playing too safe when it comes to booking Eo Sky. No, he's not playing at all. There's playing it safe and then there's not even playing the game, which is funny because his nickname is the game. They haven't been doing anything with yo, So I disagree

with that statement. Alexander finn Balor shall now be christened winn Balor. Well, this week he was Yes, this week he was winn Balor. Very soon he will return to pinn Balor, scum Dog. I acknowledge you solo. Thank you for the stream and podcast. They have really helped me during this difficult time. Scum Dog, I'm thinking about your brother. I hope things are going okay and we are here for you, brother. We're always here. You know how to find us. Tad in the chat wants the VPN info.

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Vegeta says. I know everyone is saying how one day braun Breaker is going to be Man of NY twenty WrestleManias, But to be honest, I'm not feeling it. Barely any character and not a good promo. Well, it's a little hard to tell when he's, you know, part of a faction where his his primary role is to stand in the background as an enforcer and not really speak and just bark and go Wolf. Eventually there will be a break breaker, will break free from Seth Rollins and his crew.

I think he's in the Batista spot, and I think we'll get to see more of his personality at that point. He is going to be very limited right now in how much talking they allow him to do because he's with Hayman. I think this will be good for him in the end. But yeah, I mean the role he's in right now, he's not really going to be able to show off too much of his personality because that's not the role they have him in. He's the enforcer, He's the ass kicker, He's the silent ass kicker. He

did a little bit of talking tonight though. In the back before the main event, Alexander called me crazy. But if Maxine is still training, I think she might be an okay heel. She finally snaps because no one takes her seriously. I you know, do the tag thing with Natty. It's probably the best thing for her right now. Focus on that. I wouldn't be turning her heel almost Sapien says, why are vampires so easy to fool? Because they are suckers? That is true. Alexander plot twist? What a Vinci is

al Grande Americano when Kaiser wrestles. I don't know if those rumors are true. I don't think I don't think Kaiser is gonna won Vinci around, So I don't know what happened to Vinci. I think Vinci Vinci got let go. I don't think he's wrestled a single match since then that I'm aware of. Nick Grossol. My prediction for Tiffany at Evolution is a match with Trish. Also, does Julia defend her title at Evolution? She should. Every women's champion and ship should be on the line on that show.

Duff's VIDs. What do you get when you mix ducks with fireworks? You get fire quackers, not a brutal Nick Grosso. Where is Blake Monroe? She hasn't been on TV since Toxic Attraction two point zero put her through a table? Is she even going to be at Evolution? Well, isn't JC Jane defending her title on that show? She may come back on that show. That might be where she shows up. Noel Mulligan, thank you for the two bucks. Duff's VIDs. What do you call a parrot that flew

away a polygon. A polygon Yes, terrible dried chicken oscar causes a DQ during Ria and EO. So she can be the one to take EO's world title belt. Well, who cares? I mean, she could get the winner of the match, regardless of who wins. What does it matter if it's EO or Rhea. I just I don't see her just randomly interfering in the match. I just think that would be dumb. Bobby means, what is your favorite fall brawl of all time? I don't have a favorite

fall brawl of all time. That was not one of my favorite events, So I can't say that one really stands out to me. I mean, I know, I mean I know of the nWo ones that they did in like ninety seven and ninety eight, I don't remember them being anything really great. I don't think I have one.

Joseph Brooks Cherish keep borrow Sell on the fantasy WCW versus WWE matches that we should have gotten Stone Cold Steve Austin against Bill Goldberg, Undertaker against Sting DX against the nWo and the Rock against DDP DX against the nWo Undertaker and Sting. Actually, you know what I would I would I would cherish Undertaker in sting keep nWo against d X, I would borrow Rock and DDP, and

I would sell on Austin Goldberg too. Similar Arabian Night two thousand triple h ruined two great heel turns Sena and New Day. It's a crime with how he's booked New Day. What a wasted opportunity. I would be pissed if I were them two. I can't imagine they're terribly thrilled. I don't know if they're pissed, but I don't see how they could be totally happy with how things have done. Leopard Toes, the backshots Braun could give me would be ungodly.

Oh my god, Leopard Toes blatch that one. And Jeremy Rose sad that Seamus is hanging out with bums of raw, calling Russev a bum. One of his best friends Guy was probably at his wedding calling him a bum. Well, we are currently sitting at four hundred and thirty one likes, so you get one round to be the booker. We gotta make it count, That's what we gotta do. So it is time. Let's do it, ladies and gentlemen, it

is now time to be the booker. We gotta make it count because it is indeed time to be the booker. Oh yes, you know who likes tag team wrestling, even if Triple H doesn't love it? This guy right here. So that's why we always start with tag teams here and be the booker. That's what we're gonna do. Let's see what tag team match we could come up with. Hey, look at this. We got the Hollywood Blondes. It's so weird. Never will not be weird. To look at Austin with hair.

It's just wrong. It's just wrong. Austin and Brian Pelman the Hollywood Blondes. And we've landed on a stipulation choose two single stars to form a makeshift team. So we have to pick a makeshift team. Is that what we have to do? I guess, so that's what the rule says. Okay, what tag team? This will be very interesting. We are basically creating a tag team here that has not existed. Most likely we have Ron Killings, Ron Killings and who Ron Killings and Diamond Dallas Page as a tag team

against the Hollywood Blondes. I will give them the best yes, it is a can they co exist? Team? You know what? I think DDP and Ron Killings would probably make a pretty good tag team, especially if it was like young ar Truth, like NWA champion Ar Truth. I think the potential there is quite good for that to be a worthwhile match. Talk about a random team, all right, Well, Triple H might not, but maybe we could book e Yo Sky. I know she's in there. Let's see women's time. No,

not a Yo Sky, this is very different. We're booking Tessa Blanchard. Here in be the booker. We have booked Tessa. I know that'll stir some emotion here. Let's see who she's getting in the ring with. It's gonna be Tessa Blanchard against Britt Baker. Two people, two figures in women's wrestling that I would say have been controversial at different times, Britt Baker and Tessa Blanchard. It's a first time ever match, never done before. To be the booker exclusive now our

main event Sammy Gavara. Sammy Gavara in the main event. Here in be the booker. Former TNT champion, three time TNT champion. I believe uh oh, breaking news, we got some breaking news. Everybody alert the authorities. Nails has escaped prison. He is armed, he is dangerous. Lock the doors, keep the kids inside. You don't want to mess with this guy. He's bad news. He tried to kill his boss. Oh my god, Nails has escaped prison. I just wanted to

bring you that very important update. A Vince's sweating as we speak. We got breaking news now here and be the booker. Sammy Gavara will take on the Rock and that gets us to a clean sweep. Not just the Rock, but this is the Rock right here. This is Attitude Error Rock from the early days of SmackDown. That's his show. So we had the Rock against Sammy Gavara, we had Britt Baker, Pritt Baker against Tessa Blanchard, and we had the Hollywood Blondes against Ron Killings and Diamond Dallas Page.

That is our card. Yeah, Vince, Vince better be careful, man, better, he better hire some security here. Nails is coming for him. He's going to finish the job. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Well, anyway, we'll all be on the lookout. Wrap up with these final super chats here Hulkling ninety three, I don't agree with the DQ finish. I could see WWE having Oscar take issue with EO not choosing her for Evolution. Leo didn't hesitate with her choice. All right,

we'll see that that makes sense. But see when they had their I'm trying to remember now when Oscar and EO had that little backstage not really confrontation, but they had the little backstage run in last week. Didn't SummerSlam come up right? Because Oscar, if she had one Queen of the Ring, she would have gotten a title match at Summer Slam. So I don't remember if the focus was really on Summer Slam because Oscar could still potentially

get a championship match at SummerSlam. Uh Leopoldo coming in with a forty dollars drop. The idea of John Cena becoming Intercontinental Champion got me thinking about all or nothing champions like Brock, Lesnar other than him, anybody else you can think of, Hulk, Flair, Taker, They've all won tag titles, at least Goldberg as well. It may just be Brock Brock was WWE champion, he was universal champion. He was never ic, he was never a tag champ, he was

never universal he was King of the Ring. Does that count he won a royal rumble, he won King of the Ring. Otherwise, yeah, no other, no other titles for other than the UFC title. Of course. That's a good question. So were there any other Yoko? Well, no, Yoko's in it as a tag team champion. Hmm. I'm sure there must have been. I just I don't know. I'd find it hard to believe if he was the only one, though, that can't be. I mean, you can count Bruno. What

about Bruno? Did Bruno hold any other titles in the WWWF I don't recall him ever being a tag team champion? Maybe Bruno? Rick Flair and no, Rick Flair was a tag team champion in two thousand and six with Roddy Piper. Actually that that's what saved Piper's life was around that time. I think he had his bloodsheck the found out that he had Oh god, was it lymphoma? That tag team title run saved his life. Bob Backlan I think Bob Becklan was a tag champion as well. Duff's VIDs. What

planet isn't single Saturn? It already got a ring on it. Angel O Laga seven months of membership, so happy SmackDown will be two hours again, three hours is way too long, especially for that show hasn't been very exciting for most of the last several months, has it? And Paul Carpenter, Savage versus Rude happened in Memphis, just checked again. I wouldn't be surprised if it did happen on some house shows,

but maybe Memphis was it. Yeah, the think about the WWF back then, there were, especially in the early nineties, there were so many feuds that were started like on TV, and we never got payoffs or like a like a pay per view match or even doing a big match like on Superstars. Like there were a lot of feuds like that. Actually Nails in the Undertaker is one example, but he something happened and he was no longer in

the company, so that's why that didn't happen. But yeah, like Undertaker in Berserker Berserker, he tried to murder him with a sword once, and I can't remember them ever having any kind of a big match together other than probably howse shows. But there were a lot of examples of that, you know, and like back then there weren't

as many pay per views. He had like three of them the whole year, maybe four, But because they'll show stuff on the vault or they'll have like old episodes of Superstars, and I see some of this stuff and I'm like, yeah, they really built this thing up, but there was never any payoff to it. Yeah, but back then, you know, it was the house show business was so

important back then. That's why they were running an A crew, a B crew, a C crew, sometimes a D crew, all on the same night, fanned out all over the country. Like in many ways, you still lived and died at the Gate. And today's just a very different wrestling business. Today. It's all about media rights. WWE and AW can get you know, high off the hog just from the money they make from those media rights deals. And it almost doesn't even matter what kind of product they put out

on TV. It's like they're absolved because they have guaranteed money coming. And back then you didn't have that, So it was very important to save your best stuff for those live events to get people to pay for a ticket to come out. It's a very different business now, unless you know you're an independent promotion, it's a very different business now. Blue Jay says, if Cornett invited you to his pah, would you I thought they said pad like the Castle. I'm not going to Kentucky. But if

Cornette invited you to his pod, would you accept. I don't know why he would. He's not going to but sure, terrible dry Chicken. This dried Chicken has a prediction. Tiffany Stratton and Blake Monroe will be a tag team act in two years. All right, you heard it here first with Sergeants, Slaughter and all or Nothing. He probably was. I don't remember him being a tag team champion, so he probably was. Did he hold the hardcore title at some point? I feel like everybody held that fucking title

during that period. I don't. I don't think so, though you know Patterson and Brisco did. I don't. I don't think he did. So. Slaughter probably would qualify Velvet Floor. Thank you for the ten dollars. It's getting close to ten years since Finn Balor has won a world title. Do you think Finn Balor is completely out of the world title picture. I can't tell you he's out of the world title picture, as in, he will never get a title shot. Do I think he will ever be

a world champion again? I don't. I think his time has come and gone, and the oracle not the visionary. We have the oracle with the dollar ninety ninety. You know if wrestlers listen to your podcast, yes, I know of several. I'm not going to tell you who they are, but do I know that some listen and pay attention to certain things? Yes, yes, some have reached out. Some have reached out. We've had some very spicy discussions because they occasionally hear things that they don't like. But that's

okay and we can talk it out. In fact, there was somebody on the show tonight who would qualify anyway, Oracle, thank you. The next time I am live with you will be on Wednesday. That will be for the Dynamite post show, and then I will be here on Friday, probably normal time, normal being when SmackDown is over, which if it's eight to ten, which that's when it will be airing. I did say I would try to watch

it earlier if I could. I don't know if it's airing earlier elsewhere, but even if it is eight to ten on Friday, I will be live around ten thirty. So that's the way it'll be from now on. Now that SmackDown is two hours instead of three, which is awesome. I will be live on JD's channel tomorrow. That'll be episode one oh one of Tuesday Night Titans, so you can join us there. We had a hell of a show last week, so I'm sure it'll be no different tomorrow.

So full week of content coming up. Going to be a very busy month of July. I hope you will join me for it. I hope you will also go back and check out episode nine to eighteen of The SoundOff, which dropped yesterday on all the usual podcast platforms. That is up for your listening pleasure. Be well, stay safe. I will see you back here right on this channel, this very channel on Wednesday or the aaw Dynamite post show. Is we inch closer to all in Texas. This Wednesday

is Dynamite three hundred. We've got Kazuchka Okada against Kota Ibushi and I am sure the return of Kenny Omega on that show as well, so it should be a good time. I'll see you guys there. Take care,