WWE Smackdown 1/23/26 Review | THIS FELT LIKE THREE HOURS, AJ Styles Meets An OLD RIVAL

get excited about. You know, we are heading into the Royal Rumble, which is not tomorrow, but it is a week from tomorrow. This is and I can sit here and say this, I mean, I go back in my brain and try to figure out a different answer to this. This is the worst and weakest build to a Royal Rumble since the early ones, really since the first two.

I would say this is the worst Royal Rumble build in decades and the Royal and it pains me to say that because the Royal Rumble is my favorite show of the year, more than WrestleMania, more than SummerSlam, more than any of the other ones. So the build to the Royal Rumble has not been good. Before we get to the Royal Rumble, though, we have Saturday Nights Made Event, we have four matches. We had three, now we have four on the card for tomorrow, and that will be

on Peacock. Outside the US, I guess it would be on Netflix, I believe, but here in the States it'll be on the Cock. And so tonight that really is what the show was primarily geared towards, you know, keying up the key matches for Saturday Nights Made Event tomorrow. But I've been very complimentary of SmackDown over the last few weeks. In fact, since they moved back to three hours, I would say that for the last few weeks it

has not felt like three hours. They've done a pretty good job of diversifying the segments and getting new faces on the show and keeping the show interesting enough to where you don't really feel like, oh man, this show is a slog. Oh man, this show feels like it's just never gonna end. Right, Well, the streak is over. The streak is over. I cannot sit here and say that about tonight show. Tonight's shows felt like it was four hours long. That's what this show felt like. This

show felt every bit of those three hours. It really hit me when they send Drew McIntyre out there to do that promo, and I'm like, well, it was a way to eat up some time here on a three hour shows as pointless as Drew McIntyre promo as you will ever say. And I like seeing Drew McIntyre on the show generally when he has something of substance to do. Tonight was not one of those nights, at least not

in that particular segment. I will also point out to you that four of the six matches that we had on the show tonight ended with some sort of interference, someone getting involved, someone causing it to squalify k or whatever it was. Four of the six matches tonight. We do have a new match added to Saturday Night's made event. The reason that Aj Styles was invited to the show tonight by Nick Aldis had to do with a match that aj will now have tomorrow against Shinsky Nakamore, an

old rival of his even pre WWE. But in WWE they had many matches. They had a WrestleMania match was a very disappointing WrestleMania match, but they had a WrestleMania match, which is hard to believe it was eight years ago, but it was. And so now aj and Nakamura will have what I presume will end up being their final match together, and that will take place tomorrow, and I think that's cool. You know, one more time at least

on TV, one more time in the ring together. Right, These two guys in the past have had some and they had at least that one classic match. I wouldn't call any of their WWE matches classic, but certainly the match they had in New Japan that was a classic match. So that brings the card tomorrow up from three matches to four. We also had a segment. This was the best thing on the entire show. It was not a match, It did not even happen in front of the live audience.

It was to sit down interview that Michael Cole was to have conducted with Cody Rhads and it was hijacked very early on by Jacob Fatu. So we had a face to face between Cody and Fa Twu stemming from their recent issues. Of course, it goes back to the cage match at the end of three stages of hell when Jacob returned and he ended up costing Cody the WWE Championship, and then last week they were just going after each other. They had to be pulled apart, so

they're going to have a match tomorrow. The face to face between them on this show. That more than anything else that they did, sold me on that match on that show and me wanting to tune in to see that tomorrow. It was the best Jacob Fatu promo that he's been involved in since he joined the company. And the thing that stands out to me and the thing I love about Fatu when you are able to get him in a situation like this, there is an authenticity

there that not very many people have. There are people who have it. Ceampunk is one of those people. But there's just an authenticity to the way that he carries himself and he speaks, and he cuts a promo where it doesn't feel like he's on television playing a character. It doesn't feel like he's on the show playing a part. It doesn't feel like he's on the show trying to remember his lines. It really feels like what you see

is what you get. This is the real authentic hymn and are we going to get the menace Jacob Fatu who's just raging out of control tomorrow or are we going to get the more sort of measured, calculated Fatu that he teased at the end of his promo. So I was a big fan of what they did with the two of them. I'm looking forward to that match.

That was the highlight of the show for me, outside of the US Title Open Challenge, because we had yet another match between Carmelo Hayes and Ilyya Draganov which ended with the Miz getting it. We got a winner, but it ended with the Miz sticking his nose in and getting involved in the match. And oh yeah, by the way, I haven't even mentioned the fact that we have new WWE Tag Team champions and I could not give a single solitary shit. That was the worst thing on the

entire show. We'll talk about that. Why this is your Friday Night SmackDown review. It is January twenty third, twenty twenty six. I am the solea Monster Like and subscribe. Super chats are open. We have a goal. I see we're already ticking up on the goal. That's good to see. We're gonna hang out and entertain ourselves, I think more than we did being entertained by WWE ten. Because this was not a great show. And since we were talking about Saturday Night's main event, I should point out that

I will be live tomorrow night. You get another podcast out of me this weekend, because as soon as Saturday Night's main event is over, you can come back to the channel. Here. We'll talk about all four matches on this very stacked card tomorrow night. But that one right there, Cody and Fatu, that is the one that I am

looking forward to the most. So it's an eight pm Saturday Night's main event, so I'll probably be live but around the same time I am tonight, probably a little bit earlier, maybe eleven ish, So hopefully I will see you guys there. And now let's get into this show. Three fucking hours of this, let's not waste any more time. Here. They were in Montreal and Sam bey'z aan was the hometown boy, so of course he got a Heroes welcome

coming out to open the show. He addressed the crowd in French before he said that he felt like he had all the momentum heading into tomorrow night because he had a chance to become the number one contender for the WWE Championship. Isaac, Yes, you know, I did want to mention that we actually do. We have a hell of a storm. That's I'm not talking about Jade Cargill. A storm is coming, like a real storm is coming.

And you guys, wherever you may be, you may well have one coming your way too, because this thing is just a freaking his weather is a monster right now. It's affecting so many different states, so many different parts of the country. Texas is affected, So wherever you may be, And I did forget the wheel, thank you for reminding me. We're going to spin the wheel as well, because I forgot to mention the likes. But I just wanted to say, stay stafe wherever you may be. I always say that

the end of every podcast I do on Sunday. You know, be well, stay safe, but definitely, wherever you are, don't go out if you don't have to. It's also fucking cold. There's some places where it's like twenty below, which is terrible. By the way, like here in New York, we're gonna get pounded by the snow and then the temperatures are in like the teens, so that's not gonna help matters.

It'd be one thing if it was going to be like in the upper thirties forties, you know that shit starts to melt, But that's not going to happen here. So anyway, stay safe wherever you may be. Now, yes, let's bring up the wheel o fun. I almost forgot it because there was not a lot of fun to be had watching SmackDown tonight. But let's go ahead and take the wheel for a spin and find out what the likeskull is it be the Booker tonight. We leave it up to the wheel. Whatever it says goes here.

It is four hundred minimum, four hundred likes, and you guys will get your be the Booker later on here in the stream. Thank you for reminding me, by the way, So anyway, he was quickly interrupted samby Zane was by Trick Williams and william He said that he and Sammy were not on the same level. Now. He called Zaane mister too many chances, said that he knew how to get the job done, unlike Sammy. Reminding Sammy of his loss to Roman Reigns right here in Montreal for the

WWE Championship of the Elimination Chamber three years ago. So Sammy acknowledged that Trick was right about his loss, and he admitted that Trick might be a future star. Might be Zayne said that he and Williams were nothing alike and that Williams would be lucky to be half as good as he was five years down the line, and if Trick didn't like that, he could do something about it right now. So Williams refused that challenge. He had

a lot of things on his mind. He has the Damian Priest coming up, in fact, in the main event tonight on this show. He told Sammy that they could take care of business tomorrow night, and that brought out Damian Priest, who joined the other two in the ring, and Priest said that Williams was afraid of him because of the way that he didn't talk to his face last week, because of what he would do to him, and Priest said that if Williams didn't want to say something,

he could always do something. So Trick responded by asking if Priest thought that he was afraid to pop off, and he told Priest watch this, and then he hit Sammy in the head with the microphone. He threw a punch of Priest, who blocked it and fired back in the corner. Sammy then approached and he went after Williams himself, much to Damien's dismay, and in all the chaos, Williams shoved Priest into Sammy and then got the hell out of Dodge. So Trick Williams continues to shine in these

types of segments. They're sending him out there live in the ring with some big names, whether it be Randy Orton, whether it be Sammy's aying Damian Priest not as big as the other two, not as he doesn't have as much equity on the main roster yet as the other two do. But these are all the big names on SmackDown now. It's not like he's hanging out every week

with Johnny Gargano and Ray Phoenix. I mean, they have him in there with the heavy hitter and he just fits, you know, he just feels like he belongs and that's a good thing, and they're trusting him to put him in a you know, in these types of situations. Obviously, he's in what I figure will be the main event of the show. Tomorrow. He was in the main event of the show tonight against Damian Priest, so they're putting

him in these situations. It's to test him, but also because they think, hey, we really got something here and let's see we need stars. They know we need heels. I just talked about this on the sounduff last week when I was talking about the roster. Right the way the roster looks on Smackden, what do you do at Powerhouse Hobbs who is officially signed now to WWE. Do you send him to NXT first? Because NXT just got rated right, they could use someone like him in NXT.

He would do well in NXT, but fuck that, they need him on SmackDown. SmackDown needs heels because out side of Drew McIntyre and Trick Williams and maybe Alistair Black, they ain't got none. I'm sorry we have solo Socoa forgot about him. It's pretty dire on the heel side right now. So that's that's a move I would love

to see. But Trick, they need Trick to step up because they need guys, and I think so far he's doing very well and he's going to eat the pin from Sammy's Ain tomorrow night, Randy Orton was shown watching what just transpired and he was interviewed by Kathy Kelly. So Orton said that this year was the Year of the Viper and he would win his fifteenth World championship tomorrow at Saturday Night's main event. He's going to beat

Sammy's Ain, He's going to beat Damian Priest. He's gonna whoop that trick and then he's gonna fly halfway across the world to Saudi Arabia to fight Drew McIntyre for the title. And as he was cutting this probo, he was he was so intense and the delivery of this promo like his veins were bulging out of their neck, out of their neck, out of his neck, like he had two snakes on each side, but his veins were bulging out of his neck. It's all fired up. We

got footage from earlier today. I sound like big show now in two thousand, after the Royal rumble. I've got footage. I've got footage. We got footage of Carmelo Hayes running into Ilia Dragonov backstage earlier in the day, and Dragonov was sporting a nasty shiner after his very brutal battle with Samu's ain say. He said, yeah, he was all beat up, and he kind of feigned that he wouldn't be able to accept the invitation if he was extending the invitation to him for the open challenge tonight, But

it was just a put on. He smiled, and he said, I'll see out there. So Dragonov left and the Mizz show up. So he was complaining about this generation of wrestlers being all soft and nice to each other. I can't wait to go out there and have a great match with you. I look forward to meeting you in the ring. And he said that the problem with this generation is that nobody hates each other anymore. And you know what I agree with that I agree with them

is one hundred percent. That is one of the things that is missing from wrestling and missing from WWE these days as compared to certain other eras that we have had, where either a you have legitimately had top level guys that clearly do not like each other and sometimes that kind of spills over onto the screen, or at least they do such a good job of making you believe

that they don't like each other. And there really is a lot of real like it comes across as like real hatred and friction between the top four or five guys on the show. We don't have that anymore, We really don't. We kind of had that with CM Punk and Drew McIntyre last year, but we really don't have enough of that anymore. And it really is more like, hey, you know, let's go out there and steal the show and have a banger match when you know, give me both,

give me banger matches and give me hatred. What's so wrong about giving both to the audience. Give me some banging hatred. So Miz asked, Hey, what dragonov Ever did for him? Hayes said the dragonov gave him more of an opportunity than Miz Ever did. Lucky Dog says, I refuse to agree with the Miz and anything I'm doing. I'm telling you he's right on this. He's right on this. You know. The problem is, though, we live in an age where we have things like wwe unreal, So you're

never going to be able to have that. It's just it's gone. It's gone. It's it's gone. Every now and then you'll get the odd feud that will come along, like a punkin MacIntyre. That does really make you believe. So it's not impossible to pull it off, but they just make it so. They just make it so much more difficult with each passing year. So he had Carmelo Hayes against Ilia Dragonoff for the United States Championship and the Open Challenge. Within the first I would say three

minutes of this match, dragon Off was already bleeding. Looked like he was bleeding like above the eye over here somewhere, and I'm just like, I swear this man has thinner skin than Rick Fly, like literally thinner skin, because that's why Flair bleeds so easily. His skin on his forehead is so thin. He's got thinner skin than Flair does.

Because every match, you could if there's one thing you could count on, and it's not quite the same as like John Moxley in aw where he's either on camera sometimes just slicing himself open, or he's throwing himself onto a board with barbed wire and broken glass, right, that's a little bit different. But in this case, like he just he lays his shit in. He expects his opponent

to do the same. He's very intense and you can set your watch to it that pretty much nine times, if not ten times out of ten, in an Ilia Dragonov match, he will be bleeding. He will be bleeding from somewhere, usually his face somewhere, and this match was no different. So he got an early first forty eight attempt from Hayes. Mellow avoided a Constantine's Special before trying for the springboard clothesline, but that got dodged. Both men

were on the apron. Dragonov battered him against the ring post and he went into the ring, and then he suplexed him back from the apron all the way into the ring. Later on, Dragonov blocked a suplex attempt and then hit Hayes in the back of the head with a hard actually multiple hard elbows. Hayes tried for an answer in response, but he got blasted by the Constantine Special. The champion somehow kicked out. Hayes was trapped in the corner and Dragonov was looking to go coast to coast. Hayes,

though tried to block it with the first forty eight. Dragonov, though he was on top of that and he caught Hayes, muscled him up, power bombed him, and then they went to their second commercial break. Here in this match. So after the break, Dragonov hit a dead lift superplex. He covered Hayes only for two. Both men now ended up on the apron. Dragonov encouraged Hayes to hit him. He wanted him to hit him, and then you just hear Hayes go, what's wrong with you? Which is a valid question.

So they trade strikes. Hayes turned to supplex into a cutter on the apron, and then both men tumbled to the floor. Back inside, Dragonov cut Hayes off on the ropes. He pulled him onto his shoulders before hitting a death valley driver right into the turnbuckles. Dragonov went up top when the Miz showed up, which I guess they sort of teased before this match that this might happen. So the Mis shows up at ringside. He shoves Dragonov off

the ropes. While the referees attention he was occupied with Carmelo Hayes and neither of them were aware of what was going on here, and as he fell off the ropes, Dragonov got clotheslined over the top rope on his way down. Hayes then hit the first forty eight and he scored the pin while the Miz applauded from the floor. I do have to say that first forty eight cell by Dragonov was a fucking work of art, just an absolute I got to applaud, just an absolute work of art.

This dude bounced up so high. He basically power bombed himself, is what he did. And I was so happy that that was the finish. And they didn't just have mellow then go up to do the nothing, but net like that right there, you don't need to do anything else. That's it. That should be the finish, and it was, and it was really the perfect way to end the match. Cheap interference from the Miz notwithstanding. But another great match here from these two. You know, they just they bring

out the best in each other. Some guys they do that, you know. And you could just see them work every single night and they'll deliver each and every single time. These two have that kind of chemistry together. It was hard hitting, but every Ilia Dragonov match is hard hitting. That's why he fucking bleeds. But for the lame run in by the Miz, I gotta take a point off. I gotta do it now. Dragonov feels like he's kind of stuck now where he's not going to be wrestling for,

you know, the World Heavyweight Championship anytime soon. He could have been in that mix had he qualified for the four way tomorrow, but he got beat by Sammy's Aine. So now we're heading into WrestleMania season and I certainly don't see a spot for him, you know, up in that play, which is fine that hopefully that will come later on, but then it's like, all right, well, then where does he end up? Because I don't think they're just going to put the US title back on him.

But he's still kind of in that mix. But he can't just keep wrestling. He can't keep doing open challenges with him every few weeks, right, you got to move on to something else, whatever it is that they move on to with him. I hope that they have something good for him to do going into WrestleMania season. With any luck, maybe he'll end up with a spot on the card. I think it's it's probably now looking too

good unless it's some sort of multiman match. They do some sort of multiman ladder match that I could see him being involved in. My fear is that they'll do the Andre Battle Royal the night before and he'll end up in that uh. But to me, he's too good not to be in the mix somewhere on that undercard heading into that show. So that's my hope for him.

We got a recap of the Cody Rhodes promo last week with him declaring for the Royal Rumble and calling out Jacob Fotu, then fought two later in the show, calling out Cody, and then the big pull apart brawl between the two of them. So then after a commercial break, we pitched it to a sit down interview from earlier today with Michael Cole and Cody Rhodes that Cole says turned explosive. So let's find out. And here Cody is

quite affable, as he usually is. To start things off, Cole asks him for his feelings on losing the WWE Championship and Cody would rather not talk about losing it. He did his best Tony conn impression he didn't want to answer the question here. He said, what he would rather do is talk about winning the Royal Rumble for a third time and you know, getting back to the WWEE Championship in the future. And to his credit, Michael

Cole cut him off and said tomorrow Night. At Saturday Night's main event, wrestles the man who cost him the WWE title, Tell me your feelings on Jacob Fatu, And before Cody could answer, Jacob Fatu shows up, not alone because Nick Aldis is there, and there's a couple of security geeks as if they're gonna do anything, and they're trying to you know, uh uh don't, don't, let's not, let's not get physical here. But Fatuo shows up and he's got white pants on, he's wearing a white jacket,

he's got a red bandana around his head. And Cody said, no, no, it's fine, it's fine. Let him sit. So Michael Cole disappeared. His job was done. Hell of a sit down interview here. Cole disappeared and in his seat was Jacob Fatu. So now they're directly across from each other here, and fa Tuo laid it out for him. He said his concern was Drew mackintt when he came back, his concern was Drew McIntyre because McIntyre is the one who kicked his

teeth down his throat. He was locked in on Drew, only he doesn't give a damn how Cody feels about it, but he had to put his hands on Fatu and it got him thinking. Cody said, oh, you were thinking, it looked like you were acting in three stages of hell, you were doing a little more than just thinking. He's going to tell Fa Tou, though, what nobody else in this room here has the balls to tell him him acting is what got him locked up in the first place. Him acting is what got him put in prison in

the first place. And fat Tu got a little animated. He goes, you want to go there? He goes, it ain't nothing new that nobody doesn't already know about him. Sixteen lockdown, eighteen lockdown, seven kids, no job, one mattress. A month before he got here, he didn't even know if he had a damn job here. Hell, he almost got fired before he even got hired. But now he's not plaining about none of that. Those choices made him a better man. They got him standing right here in

front of Cody. So Cody said that that's the problem. I'm not the WWE champion, and that's your fault. Saturday Night's made event. It should be for the WWE Championship, You and me and Fa Tou cut him off, and he said, a title match, he goes hell Na from where he sits. Drew was already out before he stepped in front of him in that cage match. Cody said, it's crazy that Fatu thinks he's got it all figured out because he's never been in a title match, and

things got very tense at that point. They were already tense, they got even more tense. Fa Tu said, that's what you think this is. He thinks Fa Tou is like every other samoan he's gone up against. They don't make him like him anymore. They never made him like him. Everyone thinks that he's unhinged. Everyone no one thinks he's out of control. Nah bro, trust me, I'm very in control.

So think about that. And off he went. And when they came back to the announcers and Michael Cole at ringside, he pointed out that Nick All just made sure that Cody and Fatu both left the building after that so as not to get into any kind of trouble and not to jeopardize the match tomorrow night, So we didn't see them. Actually that's not true. We saw Cody later. It's actually that's that's actually not true because Cody. Cody

was still there. Interesting but anyway, Cody was kind of a dick here in this segment by going you know, going there and bringing up, you know, Jacob's past and kind of throwing it into his face like that. But this was the best promo that Jacob Fat has had the chance to cut since he came to WWE, you know, where he's just face to face with somebody in what feels like this real life situation. He's not just out

in the ring talking to the camera. He's not just you know, doing what he used to do when he was still you know, with solo in his crew. He would cut these little promos sometimes, you know, as they were coming out to the ring. This was the first, I feel like this was the first time he really even addressed his past, you know, in any sort of meaningful way on the actual television show. But again, there's just there's an authenticity to him that you can't fake it,

you know, you can't manufacture it. Kevin Owens is another one. I think I've said that before about Kevin Owens, and one of the things that makes him work so well as a promo guy is that when he's out there and again he could do comedy, he could be more serious, he could be a baby face, he could be a heel.

Kevin Owens is Kevin Owens, you know, and there's just it's unmistakable, like a Kevin Owens promo, and just the way he speaks and the way he tries to bring logic to certain things, Like there's just like an authenticity to him. And there's a hand of people like that.

And I put Fat two in that category. And hopefully we get to hear him speak even more as he kind of levels up here on this show, because he's another one where in this new three hour era of SmackDown that we have and as we approach WrestleMania and beyond, he needs to be in that top mix. There's no place for him, you know, back in the US titles seat, Like he's beyond that. It's not about it's not even

about titles right now for him. But he should be in the mix with people that are competing for the WWE Championships. So it's good to see him with Cody and with Drew and people like that because that's where he belongs and that's where they have to hope they can elevate him enough where he takes as a main eventor and he becomes, you know, one of those top guys that can stick it eventually can be the champion, you know, on the brand, and he is very popular.

And if you've ever seen you know, Jacob Fott two in the ring, whether it's MLW, whether it's on the Independent seeing, you know, even in WWE. But I still feel like in WWE, we still haven't seen like the real Jacob Fatu. He hasn't really had the chance yet, and maybe he will tomorrow with Cody to truly show what he can do, you know, one on one in like a meaningful match. So I'm glad that you know,

he's finally in that in that position. But also he confirmed here that the reason and we all kind of figured this, but he confirmed here that the reason that he went after Drew was because he believes that Drew McIntyre was the one who kicked his teeth down his throat and injured him a couple months ago, and that's why he went after Drew. Because I wasn't sure if

they were going to just drop that whole thing. I was hoping that they would kind of circle back around to it, and so they did here, but Drew still denies it. In fact, Drew denied it again later in the show when he came out for his promo. He's like, look, I know I'm skipping ahead to the Drew promo, but it was like, I didn't kick your teeth down your throat. If I did it, I would be out here gloating about it. Drew McIntyre. The one thing Drew McIntyre doesn't do,

Drew McIntyre doesn't lie. So now the question is what does that mean as far as who attacked Jacob FA two Because Drew McIntyre was always the obvious choice, right, it would be too obvious to the point where it would be massively disappointing if it ended up being oh well, Drew McIntyre was the one who attacked him. I look ahead to tomorrow, you know, it's Saturday Night's main event, and when I did my predictions, I said, I have no winner for this match. I don't think we're getting

a clean cut winner. I think we're going to get some sort of no contest. If somebody's going to get involved, I don't think they want to beat Cody Rhodes, especially back to back. He just lost three stages of hell, and I think beating Jacob fat two would be the wrong move. Wouldn't be a killer, but I wouldn't be being Jacob fought too, because this is going to be

his first match back tomorrow. We haven't seen him wrestle in months, so the question is like, how do they do the finish and you know, does somebody get involved in so who would that person be. What's the crowd reaction going to be? That's the other question because I feel like it's going to be very mixed for Cody in Montreal, and it may be somewhat mixed for Jacob, But I'm guessing Jacob is going to get the lion's share of the cheers even more than Cody. And Jacob

right now is kind of in that tweener role. I can't really call him a heel, but I can't really call him a babyface. He's kind of in the middle. But if I had to venture a guess, I would say he's probably going to get a more positive reception

tomorrow than Cody will now. In the back, Chelsea Green was walking along with Alba Fire and they find Jordan Grace and Chelsea tries to butter her up and offers her a spot in her secret hervis next week at the Royal Rumble, maybe even tonight when Chelsea has to face Jade Cargill and Jordan says she'll be there. Then, Oh, you're gonna love this. We got a video package for

Roman Reigns. Haven't seen Roman Reigns since War Games, so we got a video package, and the video package led to a graphic, and in the graphic we found out that breaking news, Roman Reigns has officially declared for the Royal Rumble. Could not even be bothered to record a video, even just something he would have posted on social media that they could have run here on the show, him on his you know, freaking staremaster or something. Nothing, We get a graphic. We get a graphic telling us take

our word for it. Roman Reigns has declared for the Royal Rumble. Oh man, yeah, I've lost track of how many Roman Reigns returns we have had. He has to be approaching Undertaker territory at this point, because over the years Undertaker had many, many, many returns. Right, He would disappear for months on end, and then he would return and it would be like, oh, the Undertaker's back, right. They did that twenty times over the years, and we're

getting close. Roman Reigns gets a return. Every few months, he's back, Oh okay, then he'll disappear again. Roman Reigns is back. Okay. We go through this multiple times a year, so now we know when officially when he'll be making his return, and of course he's automatically the favorite to win the Royal Rembel. We had Chelsea Green against the WWE Women's Champion, Jade Cargill. This was a non title match,

as all of Jade's matches are. In fact, she has been champions since November one and has had exactly zero defenses of the WWE Women's Championship. The title has been on ice ever since she won that, which, funny enough, was on Saturday Night's made event, not the last one,

but the one before that. So as Jade walked to the ring, she spotted Jordan Grace because Jordan Grace had come down to the ring with Chelsea Green in albu Fire, so she noticed Jordan was standing at ringside, and as she's looking at Jordan and jawing at her, Chelsea comes diving through the ropes and she tackles Jade to the ground. I should point out that they were in Canada, so of course, you know Chelsea Green being Canadian, she had her her fans were very happy to see her. So

then it was Jade's turn to go on offense. Got a couple of fallaway slams and kip ups. On that last one, Chelsea rolled out of the ring, so Jade went to go get her and put her back inside. As she was getting back into the ring, though, she was preoccupied looking at Jordan Grace, who was standing right in front of the announcers, and sure enough, when she turned around, Chelsea caught her with a missile dropkick. Chelsea tried for the unpretty her that got reversed. She went

for a rope assisted pin. Jade still kicked out, so Jade recovered. She dropped Chelsea with a power bomb, and after she warded off alba fire from the apron, Jade told Grace watch this and she finished off Chelsea with the Jaded. Now, after the match, Jordan Grace got on the microphone and she said that Jade's match had no point. Ye had no shit other than showing her strength in a non title match. So then Jordan Grace declared for the Royal Rumble and said she was going to win

the Women's Royal Rumble. She'll be in there and that she would see Jade on the other side. Unless you know, you just had your little warm up match. We could do this right here, right now, and Jade back down, of course, back down from that challenge. This was strictly a way just to put more heat on the Jade and Jordan's stuff. They've been teasing now for several weeks. I thought maybe they were going to add that as a match to Saturday Night's Made Event tomorrow. I'm actually

happier with the match they ended up adding. So they did add a match, it just wasn't this one. But I did want to mention one thing here, and I've gotten some comments and I think maybe even a couple of super chats from people asking me if I've watched WWE Unreal yet, and I have most of it. I'm not done with it yet, in the middle of the final episode, so I don't know if I'm going to talk about it on Sunday. I might, if not, at

some point I will. I'm not going to review each episode, but I'll give sort of my thoughts in an overview and there's certain things that you know, I'll chime in on one of the things that actually really annoyed me. I think it was episode three. There were comments that Michael Hayes made about Chelsea Green that really bug the shit out of me. And I kind of understood what he was saying, but the way he said it, it

just it felt wrong to me. He was talking about how great Chelsea is in the role that she's in, you know, and she can play whatever part you need her to play, and basically she's a great utility player. But the way he described Chelsea Green is that Chelsea is the person that they use to help make other people look good and to help elevate other people because the position that they want those other people to get to is not the position that Chelsea Green is in

or should be in. She's the woman who is there to help other people ascend to that spot. I just thought to myself, what a shitty thing to say, So, like, sure, right now, that is the position that she's in, is to help make other people look good, right, and Chelsea plays this very comedic character, so you know, he's not wrong in that regard. Like that is her role on

the show right now. But the idea that Chelsea Green cannot at any point be that person who is challenging for the world championship, or at some point they can't push her in a more serious way where she's the one working with a Charlotte Flair or she's the one working with a Bianca bell Air. She absolutely could, and I think at some point she should get a run at it. She doesn't have to spend the rest of

her career as the woman who makes other people. She doesn't have to be relegated to the Dolf Ziggler role for the rest of her career because that's what people like Michael Hayes think. Her value sort of ends there. She's got a and she's hit that ceiling and this is what we you know, this is what what her role is going to be. Yeah, for now. But the idea that you know, they won't they won't or they can't you know, use her in a role higher up

on the cart is fucking nonsense. Because Chelsea's great. Chelsea's great at what she does. That roster is a lot better off having her on it, both not just in terms of what she brings on on screen but behind the scenes as well, you know, And and it was the same thing with her. I feel like last season too, where you see her on that unreal show and she's very likable, but you also see the value that she brings. Evidently there may be certain people who don't see the

full value that she brings. But just the way he said it just annoyed me, and I disagree with it wholeheartedly. Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair they were talking backstage. Flair said that Bliss seemed a little distracted, and Bliss said that she thought they worked it out last week. She said that we can focus on other titles and the tag team. She brought up the Royal Rumble and said that it would be hard to top last year's Rumble, right, which Charlotte won and Alexa made her big return on

that show. Charlotte pointed out, yeah, I know, because I won, but oh yeah, you made a big return too. So Flare said that they should worry about WrestleMania, or they would worry about WrestleMania next week. Tonight, though it's all about their team because they were in a Number one Contenders match. But before that, we had other tag team titles to worry about, and that is what came next.

This was the worst thing on the entire show. It was Dexter Loomis and Joe Gacy representing the Wyatt Six defending their WWE tag team titles against Solo Sucoa and Toma Tonga representing the MFTs. Reclusa is better than most to the roster. I tell you what, I was stunned watching Unreal and they actually have Chelsea talking about the match that she had with Penta and then showing footage. They had the footage from Luke Cha Underground I'm here

and Matt Striker on commentary. They're showing Chelsea Green against Penta. I'm like, oh my god. I didn't expect to tune in too Unreal and find this. That was a pleasant surprise. But yes, we had the Wyatt Six against the MFTs. Solo Socoa came to the ring holding the lantern that he stole from Uncle Howdie and before the match he sent Talatanga to the back with the lantern. I guess to protect the lantern. This match was very boring. This was a very boring match. Tongo Loo had tried to

get involved. Eric Rowan took him out him and jac Matteo actually with a running crossbody block on the floor outside. Talatanga returned from the back with the lantern and Rowan went after him, just as J. C. Matteo provided a distraction that allowed Talatanga to wipe out Rowan with a big boot and then he threw him over the barricade. So Uncle Howdy is a ringside he locks the mandible claw on Talatonga to next to no reaction. By the way,

this got virtually no reaction. Solo Seca comes over. He gives Uncle Howdy a simo and Spike down goes Uncle Howdy and with the referees back turned, Solo so CooA blast Dexter loomis in the head with the lantern and that allowed Tomatonga to hit his hidden blah, I mean the Cutthroat to win the match and to win the tag team titles for the MFTs. Big surprise there. This sucked. This sucked, and it's not working. You know, this entire

feud just drags the entire show down. You know, whatever they're doing when they're on screen together, I think I

feel like it's actively driving people away. That's the feeling that I get, you know, when I watch it, because and it actually pisses me off because I look at this I look at this match for really any of these segments, but this match in particular, which was stone cold all right, And I'm not talking about Steve Austin watching this match, and it just makes me think, man, like a year ago, think about the state of the SmackDown Tag Team Division a year ago, all the teams

that were going after those tag team titles and some of the matches that we were seeing every week. And of course it built to that TLC match on that SmackDown after WrestleMania and we had another TLC match. It's summerslim as well. So for a good portion, I would say a good I don't know, sixty five seventy percent of twenty twenty five, the SmackDown Tag Team Division was cooking with oil. You know. They were just on fire. They were one of the highlights, true highlights of the show.

And here we are now a year later, and so where is everybody? Right? I know, DIY is done, I know pretty deadly is done, but like, where'd everybody else go? Where are the street profits? Where are the Motor City machine gun? Where are the other? Like? Where how did we get to this point where the tag team division went from being the best thing on the show at one time to the worst thing on the show. How did that happen? Because the fall has been something else.

Let me tell you, these tag team titles have never felt as just useless and cold and dead as they feel right now. The women's tag team titles feel more important than the WWE tag team titles. Fuck did that happen? I don't know, but that's where we are now. But these two groups working together, it's just it's poison, absolute poison. You gotta you gotta get them away from each other. This is not working. And this whole thing over a

fucking lantern that this this is not working. Backstage, our Truth wanted Nick Alldis to take his balls, remember the tumblers from a couple months ago with the John Cena stuff. He had the balls because he wanted to declare for the Royal Rumble. Yeah. So then aj Styles showed up because Nick Aldis had invited aj Styles, who is a member of the Monday Night Raw roster, to show up here on SmackDown for reasons that were unexplained. Why does

he want him on this show? Now you figure it's tied into the announcement that Aj made on Monday, which is that he is going to put his career on the line at the Royal Rumble against Gunther. So Nick all This, who funny enough as Magnus, beat Aj in the last TNA match back in twenty thirteen that Aj ever had. It was Nick all This who beat him. Of course they made no mention of that here, not

that they would. But there's Aj Styles and all This said that he saw Ron Monday and he couldn't believe that Aj would do that, and he goes, are you sure? Are you sure you want to do that? And I'm thinking to myself, this is what he had Styles fly all the way to Montreal for. There better be more to it than this. This is what he had this man fly all the way to Canada for. Does he not have his phone number? This could have been a

phone call, This could have been a text message. Aj Styles went from Germany, right he was in Dusseldorf to Texas for the TNA show, the Big AMC Debut, and then from there he went to Belfast and now to Montreal. So I'm like, there has to be more to it than this. I'd be pissed if I was Aj Styles. Styles said, yeah, I'm sure says that. Gunther says he retired John Cena. Fine, that's that's business. It's the disrespect that he showed after the fact that pissed him off.

So if he thinks that he's gonna let Gunther dictate the end of his career, he's mistake. He's already dictated the end of his career. Is he talking about Gunther dictated the terms that Aj agreed to. This was Gunther's idea, he agreed to it. He's already agreed to the terms. But he is sured that is not the reason. He says that all this invited him all the way here tonight. I was sure, fucking hope not all this said. Look, I respect your position, and no, that's not the only

reason I invited you here to Montreal. And he stepped aside and into the camera view walked Shinsky, Knockamore, old rival of his. He asked, AJ, you're smart, You're calculated, So tell me why are you willing to lose everything? And AJ said that if he doesn't step up to Gunther now he's already lost, So Knakamura told him before AJ steps into the ring with Gunther, prove that you are still phenomenal Tomorrow Night, Saturday Night's main event, Knakamura

versus AJ Styles. AJ turns to Nick all this and he says, you still got room on the card. All this says, yep, and so it's official. We will get one more match before it's all said and done between AJ Styles and Shinsky Nakamura. And look, it's not like they've really been doing a whole hell of a lot lately with Knakamura other than not letting him go to the Tokyo Dome to honor the retirement of Hiroshi Tanahashi.

The only thing he's been doing lately is really kind of cutting promos back and forth in the back with Tomatonga. So I assume we'll get that match soon. That's about it. And Nakamora really hasn't done anything of any note at all in years. He really hasn't. I mean, I know the US title stuff with La Night, but give me a break. The matches that he had with AJ Styles, they actually got progressively better. If you think back to twenty eighteen, they had that match of WrestleMania thirty four.

It was disappointing, right, I wouldn't call it a bad match, it was just it was disappointing. And the expectations were very high based on their previous match together outside the company. As I recall, they had I think two more I want to sit maybe three, but two more pay per view matches PL matches, and I think the last one they had in that series was actually the best of the bunch. I felt like it got progressively better, but they never really had the chance to go out there

and have that real classic match. And I see what Styles was able to go out there and do with John Cena at Crown Jewel a few months ago, and I'm not expecting that, but I'm really hoping that, you know, if they get a little bit of time, and these matches on Saturday Night's main event, they don't get a lot of time, Like, I'm not expecting these two to get more than probably what Aj got in the tag match on the last show where it was him and Dragon Lee against Leon Slater and Javon Evans ten or

twelve minutes. Maybe he'll get. But for the time they get tomorrow, I hope that they can go out there and actually have a kick ass match, because this may well be in This may be the last time we ever see these two in the ring together, you know, unless they're both in the Royal Rumble, and I'm looking forward to it. It's been a while since we've seen styles in Knockamor, so I'm looking forward to it. We

had Johnny Gargano against Nathan Fraser. Johnny Gargano Candae Loray in his corner, Nathan Fraser had Axiom in his corner. This went through a commercial break, so they got some time. Fraser began to build some momentum with a springboard axe handle and then a running sling blade off the top rope. Fraser came down on Gargana with a frog splash, only for two. As Gargano rolled out of the ring, Fraser launched himself over the top rope with a dive and then he scurried up top and he tried for a

phoenix splash. Gargano, though, moved out of the way and then he blocked a springboard moonsaal with a kick as he hit a modified fishermange driver to Fraser, only for a near fall. So Gargano headed up top. He gave Fraser enough time though to hit a superplex followed by a swinging neck breaker, and as Fraser headed up top, Candace Loray gets up on the apron and she provided enough of a distraction for him to miss the splash. Now, outside the ring, Axiom finds the mask, his mask that

they stole from him weeks ago. He's been trying to get this mask back, and he sees the mask and he goes over and he grabs it, and then he places the stolen mask on Candace's head backwards so she can't see. Now she's got the mask gun, and so this causes her to blindly attack Gargano rather than Fraser. So there was a roll up and that was the end of that, and Fraser picks up the win. After the match, Candace got the stolen mask back and ran off.

This is almost as bad as the lantern stuff. They look. Here's what happened here, I'm gonna tell you right now what happens pretty obvious what happened. What happened is they were angling for a diy phraxium feud. Tamaso Champa told them I'm not renewing, I'm leaving when my contract is up, which is imminently, and so that put the kibosh on that, and then they were left to figure out, oh shit, what are we gonna do here because we have Nathan Fraser and Axiom and now we only have Johnny Gargano.

So they came up with his dumb story with the mask. We got a match at look, the match itself was solid enough. It was a solid match, but that's that's what this was born out of, you know, and they're trying to figure I don't even know if they're trying to figure out what the plan be is. I don't know if they're gonna pair Gargano off with somebody else, sticking with Kit Wilson. I don't know what they're gonna do.

But clearly we were gonna get DIY and phraxium and then Champa not renewing kind of threw things into a state of flux, and you know, it put Gargano in a tough spot now where at least he's being featured. But obviously, you know, whatever plans they had, they got to blow up those plans and try to come up with something different. We had the WWE Champion Drew McIntyre. He was out to the ring next to address the crowd.

He started off by saying bonjour boneur to the Montreal crowd, and that pretty much exhausted all of his French for the and mine. He talked about how it's been a tough time for Montreal since it's been thirty years since the Canadians have won the Stanley Cup, but now they had a champion that they could be proud of. McIntyre said he saw Cody Rhodes and Jacob Foughtu's little therapy session as he again insisted he did not kick Fat

two's teeth down his throat. I didn't do it. If I did it, I would be out here gloating about it, and you would know about it. He goes, Drew McIntyre never lies to you. He said that if Cody survived Fat two tomorrow, he would still have to go to the back of the line because there's no rematch for the title, which we already knew, right, He's already said this before. So then he teed up all four men in the fatal four way tomorrow. Randy Orton got the

biggest reaction out of anybody whose name he mentioned. Here, and he was about to mention Sammy z Ain's name and the crowd. I wouldn't even let him do it because the crowd started an RKO chant, so they start channing RKO. Then he talked about Sammy Zay, who actually got He got a pop, but he got a lesser pop than even Randy Orton did here, at least initially. Drew said he knows that Sammy can hear the fans

sing for him. He was trying to prompt them to sing, and then they did the Olola stuff, but he was trying to egg them on. Drew says that Sammy's focus on disappointing his son will cost him, and his son has been disappointed in Sammy his entire life. He doesn't care who faces him at the Royal Rumble. He'll do whatever it takes to keep the title. Well, that was certainly one way to eat up some time here on this three hour show. As I said at the beginning

of the review, that's what this promo was. When it was over, I'm like, that's the only reason this promo even existed. Let's just get the champion on the show, but not really have him say much of anything. So mission accomplished. They killed some time here in this that very generic stuff here from MacIntyre, But again he mentions, he goes out of his way to mention the fact. So again, saying it didn't serve any purpose is not entirely accurate. I'm saying the substance of the promo by

and large very generic. But what it did do? Was it? Yet again reinforce the idea that McIntyre did not do what Jacob fought two thinks he did. Now McIntyre's a heel, but he didn't do it. It's clear as day now like there's gonna be somebody else that's going to be revealed. They have to do a reveal, Right, why keep bringing this up If there's not going to be some kind of shocking reveal. There has to be a reveal, and it has to be one that's going to knock people

back on their heels. So the question now becomes, you know, who is it who attacked him? Was it Cody? Was it Randy Orton? Or does the real culprit if it's not either one of them interfere in the Cody and Fatu match tomorrow Because I am convinced we're not getting a legitimate winner in that match, So there's any number

of ways you can do that finish. One of the ways you could do that finish is if somebody runs in and gets involved and causes a no contest and that person ends up being the person who attacked Jacob Fatu. Then coming out of this, if we assume Fatu is not wrestling for the title of WrestleMania, Fatu could go off coming out of the show tomorrow to feud with the actual person who attacked him. So the only question

is who would that be? And if we're not talking Cody Roads or Randy Orton, and I don't believe they're turning Cody Roads heel, then who would it be? Is it someone that we're not thinking of? Is it someone maybe that you know? Again, we Obafemi is going to It's not Obafemi, but Obafemi is reportedly going to raw anyway. Could it be someone new though, I don't know. I don't know, but we're gonna have to get someone that is going to be out of left field because at

this point anything else would be disappointing. Now, in the back Trick, Williams was talking with Ray Phoenix, who says that he remembers how Trick won their recent match. Trick says that he plans on becoming WWE champion and then Phoenix get a title shutting, Yeah, right, have any appearances has Ray Phoenix made on television in the last six months? He's going to be getting a WWE championship match. I mean, look, I'm all for giving Phoenix something to do, but let's

not get carried away here. We'll see where this goes. Acetaliano's as Randy Orgon. Look, if it's going to be one of those too, it's not going to be Cody, It's going to be Randy Orton. I think there's there's still a better chance it's Orton that goes heal and not Cody. Owens is from Montreal. I look, things have gone radio silent on the KO front, but unless they were working us on the severity of the neck injury, he only had surgery in July. Next surgery because remember

he didn't have the surgery right away. There was swelling that had to go down, and supposedly he didn't have the surgery until the middle of the summer. That would be awfully quick for him to make a return. So I do not believe it is Kevin. I would get a huge reaction if it was. But and that's a match i'd love to see. But no, I don't believe

it's Kevin Owens. What about Brock? That's interesting. I'm more intrigued that the idea that Brock Lesner would fly in on a random SmackDown to beat up Jacob Fatu in the back and would be so concerned about not revealing his identity that nobody saw him. I know we're spitballing names here, but I mean, come on, I don't think Brock would give a shit if people knew that it was him who attacked Jacob Fatu. Hobbes, Okay, Cease, Now

now we're making some more sense here. That goes to what I said earlier about SmackDown needing heels, and I would put Hobbs on SmackDown. Why not make Hobbs the attacker? Why not make or Royce Keys. That's going to be his new name, Royce Key Royce, by the way, for those who don't know, is the name of his young son.

I don't know where the Keys comes from, but I'd be down for that if that's how they want to debut Hobbs if that's the position they wanted to debut him in on SmackDown, and we get a Hobbs and fa Too feud out of it. Sign me up elsewhere. Kit Wilson Kit will soon was being interviewed by Kathy Kelly about his attack on Matt Cardona last week. He said that someone had to clean up the toxic masculinity that was permeating the locker room, and Cardona was the

head of it. So Cardona comes over to ask, what's your problem, and Wilson says he doesn't like his beard, he doesn't like his jawline, he doesn't like his beefy shoulders. He says Cardona doesn't have accountability, He's just got toxic masculinity. Cardona, like most people watching this show, doesn't care. He says that if Kit Wilson has a problem, they can settle it in the ring. So we never did get to hear the music this week. That's very disappointing to many

of you. Yes, that is that is reportedly going to be his name, Royce Keys, No more Powerhouse Hobbs, no more Will Hobbs. I think Royce Hobbes could have worked, but apparently that's not what it's going to be. So then we had Now I should point out it was nearly thirty minutes since the last match. We finally had a three way here, number one contenders fighting over a shot for the women's tag team titles. Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss, Nya Jackson, lash Legend, Julia and Keana James.

This was This was rough in some spots, like some of these women just were not gelling well together. Keana tried to suplex Charlotte couldn't lift her, so lash Legend came in for the attempt double soup plex. Charlotte, though, countered that into a double DDT instead, and just as Charlotte looked like she would have a tag to Bliss, Julia pulled Alexa down from the apron and threw her into the barricade in the ring, Nia was on the Actually Nya was the legal woman here for her team.

As she lifted Flair up on her shoulders, Keana got below. Nya turned the attempt at avalanche Samoe and drop into a double power bomb instead, so Keana started getting into Flaire's face. She got sent into the corner though by Bliss which allowed Julia to blind tag. Bliss entered with the hot tag Simoe and dropped by Nya got turned

into a DDT by Bliss. Off the top, Julia hit Naya with the missile dropkick as Bliss caught her in position for the Sister Abigail DDT, but before she could do anything, Legend broke it up with a pump kick to Alexa. Legend sent Julia out of the ring as she caught Bliss, and she hit her lash extension finish. Legend, though speared before she could attempt to pin. She got speared by Charlotte. But then Keana snuck into the ring and pin Bliss to secure the number one contendership. And

so that was a surprise. I didn't see that one coming. Julia and Keanna James are going to be challenging soon. They didn't say when, but soon for the women's tag team titles. The only question is will they be challenging Rhea Ripley and Eosky or will they be challenging Live Morgan in Roxane Perez. They will be challenging Rhea, Ripley and eo Sky. That is who they will be challenging. Look, it was a surprising outcome that I didn't see coming.

But if it gets us Julia and Keana against Rhea and EO, with EO and Julia in the ring together, then I'm okay with that. Eo Sky is one of the most popular performers in the entire company. People love her. She always gets a reaction, which is the exact opposite of every single match that Julia is in on Smack Them. It is just ice cold when she is out there in terms of reactions. Nobody cares. Even though she's the United States champion. The people are not buying what she's

selling and it's sad. And if it takes her getting into the ring and working with people like Ria and EO who are over to you know, put her in there with people that I think I think she would work well with, and she could kind of, you know, show what she can really do and maybe actually get a reaction doing it, then fucking do it. Because every time they go out there, I mean, it's just it's it's very noticeable, you know. Or in this case, she'll

tag in and do some moves and nobody cares. So let's let's uh, let's move along here to Ria and EO against Julian and Keana. I'd like to see that. I do have to say this though, I have to, I have to point this out. I saw I saw enough of NXT this week, not the whole show, but I did see that there was a main event, a three way match. Funny enough, we had another women three way match to decide number one contenders, only the one on Tuesday was to decide the number one contenders for

the TNA Knockouts tag team titles. And in that match, sol Ruka and Zaria picked up the win, and fatal influence was in there, but sol Ruka and Zaria picked up the win and that match was really good, and it was it was jarring like watching this match here just how dull and sloppy in parts, but like just dull and lifeless and kind of slow in parts that this match was compared to the match from NXT. This is the main roster. This is supposed to be the elite of WWE. I don't know how to explain the

difference between the two. I don't know what to attribute that to, but it was very noticeable. In the back, Sammy Zay was walking, he found Damian Priest Sammy said that he had no problem with Priest, but Trick Williams was the one that he had a problem with, and he volunteered to watch Priest back tonight in the main event, and his offer was rejected. Priest said that you have a bad habit of getting involved in other people's business. He told him, in no uncertain terms, do not get

involved in my match. This is my fight. Stay out of it, Sammy says. Or what so? Sammy says that a priest doesn't get to tell him what to do this week or any other week. But then he spotted somebody off camera and he said he had something else to go do, so he walks over and it's Drew McIntyre. And he just walks up to Drew McIntyre and he slaps the piss out of him and then he walks away. See that's what happens when you talk about someone's kids. You know, Drew talked in his promo about how much

Sammy has disappointed his son. So you get slapped. That's how it works. Kendall Gray stocks Stock continues the story. Yeah, she was in that match too. I think it was God. It was her and Ren Sinclair. I believe Kendall. Kendall is going to be a big, big star on the main roster one day. She's a lot of fun to watch.

She's like a dynamo in the ring, so that probably had little something to do with it, But ye know, sul Ruk is also fun to watch, and I'm surprised coming out of Saturday Nights Made event last month that she's not already you know, getting vignettes on TV teasing a call up like they are doing for Oba, Like Oba's coming up. Javon's already up. So I'm the only reason Leon Slater's not up is because he's not under contract to them. But there's been no talking about soul Ruka.

You know who got to win over Bailey in that match. So I don't know, but Kendall Gray is going to be a big deal one day. Again, it was just very jarring watching that match and just how much better it was and just just more fun. And again I watched matches like this and everyone's moving like they're in fucking quicksand like they're moving in slow motion and they're just like, what is going on here? Am I watching

the main roster? Or is this the developmental show's how I feel sometimes watching some of these matches doesn't make sense. Backstage in the parking garage, actually, Cody Rhodes caught up with AJ Styles. Styles tell Cody, are you gonna tell me that you know I should be questioning my my match with Gunther? You're gonna question that decision too? And Cody said no. He said AJ is at his best when everything is on the line, and he wished him

good luck against Gunther. So Cody then spotted something that annoyed him greatly as he walked towards his bus. Somebody, gee, I wonder who put a photograph of Drew McIntyre in the window of the door to his bus. It was a like an eight x ten of Drew McIntyre with the WWE championship autographed by Drew McIntyre. It said the real American Dream. And Cody got on the bus. He closed the door and that was the last we saw of Cody Roads. Kathy Kelly hey lost in what's going up?

Lost In just subscribed to the channel in the week where we hit ninety K That's awesome. Yeah, Cody should lock his bus. How come his bus is not locked? Especially after Drew's already broken into his bus, but he probably didn't have to break in. He probably just walked on because Cody and lock his door. It's his own fault. He's got nobody to blame but himself. So Kathy Kelly interviewed Julia and Keana James on earning a tag team title shot. She asked Julia about the possibility of becoming

a double champion, and Julia spoke in Japanese. Keana then explained that they will become tag team champions, while Julia will win the Royal Rumble and become a triple champion. Yeah yeah, and I used to run across the living room as a kid with my sword pretending that I was he man. So they close the show Thank God with Damian Priest against Trick Williams, which is another good

sign for Trick getting the main events spot. Here on the show, Williams connected with a leaping neckbreaker early on in this match, you know where he just he's standing behind Dami and just jumps up grabs a neck hence a leaping neck breaker. It looked fine, it looked good, but it wasn't like some spectacular move. But my god, the announcers reacted to this like he did a triple jump Moon Salt. It was a leaping neck breaker. It

wasn't that big of a deal. Meanwhile, Sammy's a and emerged from the back and he stared down Trick Williams, doing exactly the opposite of what Damian Priest asked him to do. What could go wrong? Priest tried to go old school. Williams though, tripped him up on the ropes and then sent him out to the floor, tricked them, threw Priest into the steel steps and the barricade back and forth, and we took our final commercial break here

of this match. Later on, Priest looked like he had South of Heaven all set up, but Williams escaped and then they each connected with simultaneous pump kicks. Outside the ring, Williams dropped Priest with a uh again, it kind of looked like it was in slow motion, but he dropped him with a flapjack on top of the announced desk, and then he threw Priest into Sammy Zain and they

both went down. As the action returned to the ring, Sammy also got into the ring and he attacked Trick Williams and the referee threw the match away and called for the disqualification. And this was the fourth time out of six matches on this show that we had outside interference of some kind play a role in the finish of this match. So Zay attacked Williams. He left him stunned in the corner. Priest then stepped up to Sammy, very upset that he cost him the match. Sammy Do

attacked him. Priest knocked Zayne down with a kick as Williams took out Priest with the Trick shot knee, and it looked like Trick was going to stand tall at the end of the show. He's standing there. They got that tight camera shot from from the hard cam, and I'm like, where is he? Because you know he's slithering into the ring at any moment. Right, we already have Sammy Zain's out there, Trick Williams is out there, Damian pri out there. Who's missing? Sure enough, Randy Orton appears

behind Trick Williams. He doesn't know yet, but then Trick turns around and he eats an RKO and everybody cheers. Orton poses, Sammy recovers and the two of them start exchanging words and then Orton drops Sammy with an RKO and that is how the show and what a geek by the way Sammy's Ain looked like here at the end of the I mean he got to slap Drew McIntyre in the face at least, but he was specifically told by Damian Priest, this is my fight, it's not yours.

It has nothing to do with you, So I don't want you to have my back. I want you to stay in the back. So what did Sammy do. He ignored him and came out anyway like a dick, which ended up costing Damian Priest his match when he ran into the ring to attack Trick Williams. So he cost Damian Priest to match like an asshole, and then when Priests came over to confront him about it, Sammy attacked him and then Sammy ends up eating an RKO and getting laid out at the end of the show. So

this was not a good night for Sammy's Ain. Tomorrow night will be a much better night for him when he becomes number one contender because it will be Sammy's ay and Drew McIntyre at the Royal Rumble for the WWE Championship. But then mercifully they ran the closing credits here to finally end this show. Just brutal, just brutal, especially that last hour, Like just sitting through that last hour, Oh my god, I felt every bit of those three hours this week, And again I would not have said

that last week or the week before. I think I've been a lot more complimentary of this show, but not this week. Not that everything on the show was bad or anything like that, but just you sit here and you watch this show and you hope that they format it in such a way they keep the action going. There's some exciting stuff, and it kind of makes you forget about like what time it is and how much time you know, how much time you got left? I

was just counting down the minutes here. Remember that old SoundBite I used to have at the beginning of the sound off and the intro was John Moxley, I think it was from his audio book and he's talking about raw It's like, oh my god, what do you say in the clip? Like, oh my god, we're only an hour and we have two more hours of this. That was me. I was Moxley minus the blood, watching SmackDown tonight.

It's fucking brutal. They did the bare minimum though, of what they had to do to hype up that four way tomorrow night. The Cody in Fat two segment, though for me, stole the show. To me, that was the highlight of the show tonight. The end ring was not great outside of the US title match. The US title match was very good and there's no surprise there, but in terms of the inn ring, nothing else stood out, just absolutely not a single thing. That tag team title

match was just a waste. And again, this was as quiet and tame a Canadian crowd as I can remember for a WWE or any wrestling show really that I've seen on TV. I can't say they had a whole lot to get excited about, so I don't blame them. But look, they get Saturday Nights Made Event. Tomorrow, they get another show, they get another bite at the Apple, and there are some good matches on there to look forward to, so let's hope that we get a livelier

bunch tomorrow. I wonder if Jesse Ventura is flying into the show tomorrow. I wonder if he's coming across the border. Is he going to leave the Baja and make his way to Montreal. I don't know is he going to make his way there? We'll find out. What did you think of SmackDown though from Montreal? Thirty nine percent thumbs up, twenty nine point five percent thumbs in the middle, and thirty one percent thumbs down. Not a great score, not even forty percent thumbs up for this show tonight, Jesse

is banished. He's banished from the Baja. Is that what you're saying? It's gonna be like that some weeks, isn't it with the SmackDown Show? Oh my god, it's painful. Let's get into your super chats here. I'll banish from w W A dude, he was at the last show. He was literally on the last well I guess he wasn't actually on the show itself, but he was there for the John Cena show. So what are you talking about. He's banished, contractually obligated to there. We are three hundred

and eighty one likes. By the way, we are about twenty off of the goal. But I also noticed for the bonus be the booker, we're eight out of ten. I don't know how much time, though, is left on that goal. So two more and we'll get bonus be the booker we got Devin from NJ two thousand. My dad thinks Evans Javan Evans will have the ceiling of a pre New Day kofee in wwe do solo agree, No, No, he does not rock. Cooking Hogan via satellite is an all timer, says GMB. I agree. I especially like it.

I know he dozed off during the promo. I believe he was eating pork rindes or potato chips during the promo as Hogan was trying to cut his promo. Remember then he pointed at Hogan. He goes, all right, Hogan, I'm gonna point at you. When I point at you, then you start speaking. That was great, dried ribs and chicken. I would love to move Ilia, Dragon of Carmelo, Hayes, Solo, Socoa, MotorCity machine Guns, and Julia to Monday Nights Raw on Netflix.

So basically turn Raw into SmackDown is what you're saying. You want to move the MotorCity machine Guns over to Raw. You want to just completely kill the tag Team division on SmackDown. Broley, what's going on? Broley says, regardless, if you care about Melzer ratings, Kendall Gray has had four four star plus matches in the past three months. Then the whole SmackDown women's roster combined in twenty twenty five.

You know, with Kendall Gray, I've already seen enough up and let her beat Jade Cargill and win the championship. At least we know she'll defend it. JDFVA thank you. Broli says, compare this three way women's tag to the one from NXT last Tuesday. It's worrying how bad the main roster women are produced. Zero creativity. I mean, you know, the way they're produced is but one part of it. It's definitely a part of it, but it's it's only part of it. You can't just put it all on

the producers. Prince Vegeta says we need a Punk and Drew interaction before any of them lose their belts. Well, they'll be under the same roof on Saturday in Riod next week. Paul Van Summer and good god, the commercial breaks and I use the VPN, Yeah, I know, seeah, I use a VPN and I don't get the commercials. I get them. You know, for a lot of the matches it'll go dark and then it'll come back and I'll see the match that people who were watching with

the commercials don't see. But then at other times, and you guys know, if you watch it internationally or with a VPN, you know what I'm talking about. I get that screen with that music, Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do. I'd rather listen to that for five minutes than watch some of those commercials. Alexander says, I know Keana and Julia aren't winning the tag Belts, but if it leads to a feud with Rio, I'm all for it. Julia versus Rhea or EO would slap so hard. I'm all for Julia and EO. Give it

to me. Gimme, gimme, gimme Chicago for MBK says off topic, if you watch the latest Unreal, what are your thoughts on female talent being very touchy with Triple H like EO jumping on him. I don't give a shit. I saw some people making a big deal about it. I think they have a lot of free time on their hands. That's what I think. Bobert reviews, Hey, Solemn Monster, I was going to ask you a question, but Joseph took them all well, you gotta be quicker, Bobert, you gotta

be quicker. Joseph gets them all in basically before I even go live. He's ready, man, He's on the ball. Shameful. He was the only one pre stream, the only one. So I'm grateful for Joseph, but also for Bobert. Fifteen bucks, Thank you, Bobert. Emperor comment angry video game nerds voice this show was as This show was fucking boring, is what it was. Venom Ktetsu Shinske and AJ segment felt so forced, even for wrestling. I say this as a

Knackamoor fan. He should be booked better and fingers crossed for be the booker. Well, I mean it felt forced because you know, now, I don't know if AJ's going the full year, believe. I think on the podcast he did with The Undertaker, he said he was signed through the remainder of the year. I didn't see the podcast. I had read that with something he said, but you know, he could say whatever he wants. I mean, you know,

doesn't mean he is. They may want you to think he is, and then when he loses, it's like, holy shit. I thought we had him for the rest of the year. Right, It could be one of those things. But you know, if his window is limited, then they have a limited amount of time to get these matches in. Bobert says, also, congrats on ninety thousand subscribers. Hope you get to one hundred k so you can get that YouTube plaque. Ah

silver play butt. You know what they would do to me though, like by the time I get there, it'll be like discontinued. We don't do that anymore. Now you got to get one hundred and fifty thousand to get the silver play button. Thank you, brother, Alexander says Roman Reigns declared for the rumble and couldn't bother to show up on the show. The jokes just continue to right themselves.

You didn't honestly think Roman Reigns was gonna show up on a random SmackDown, now did you on the eve of a Saturday Night's made event show that he's not even on. That's why I said, just like a video, Send it a fucking video. He could be sitting on the crap or take it as shit. You could record a video with your phone. Nope, gotta do a graphic. Hey, Falcon Star, Thank you, brother. I hope you're having a good night, the new one, the nine ninety nine a

solo monster. Do you remember when Rock rapped on SmackDown with y clev Jean back in two thousand, I do, actually well. I mean the song that was on the Volume five CD, the Pie Song, Wasn't that him and y Cleve Jean said it was cool to see as a rock fan back then. It's funny as hell now seeing him in rock mode apping. Yeah, that was a weird just a weird time. Yeah, Steve says. YouTube says, congrats on one hundred K. Here's a toaster. Yeah right.

They'll probably say they'll they'll send me what they sent me a few months ago. They gave me a five dollars dunkin Donuts gift card. Oh gee, thanks, That's just what I need. I don't drink coffee. I'll just stuff my face with donuts and trying to fatten me up. I did. They did send me a Chipotle a gift card though. Once I did use that, I got lunch. I got one day. I got lunch with that Chipotle

gift card. Thanks YouTube, I appreciate it. The Shawnathan says this week, build to the rumble in Saudi doesn't give me a lot of confidence in the bill to wrestle Mania next year in Saudi. You know what, I I guess they got their money, They got their guaranteed money. There isn't a single person from the States that's flying over there to go to the Royal Rumble this year, and they don't give a shit. This is the worst build up to a Royal Rumble in decades. Fucking terrible.

Ohm too cool, brother, Solo. Do you think Julia could be rehabilitated by giving her an Iron Woman performance in some elimination? Is it the Royal Rumble? Or is it too late? It's never too late for her to be rehabilitated. But that's not the way to do it. That's like the diesel spot, and I think that's gonna go to Obafemi. Maybe you could go to bron Breaker this year. I think it's gonna go to Obafemi. I wouldn't. You don't give that to Julia. It's just that's not gonna work.

It's not gonna work, and I don't think for her it's gonna make a difference anyway. Holiday one ninety seven, Hey, Solo, I missed tonight's SmackDown episode. After reading the results, it seems I did not miss my You didn't miss anything. You didn't miss a thing. Arabian Night. Gargano counting the days that he can join Shampa in AEW with their fellow Black and Gold Stars, as well as a better tag division. Odd that we never got DIY against the USO's a new day. Yeah, I don't think. I don't

think AAW is a good place for Champa. I think TNA is a much better place. I think TNA would be the better option for him, and supposedly he has interest in getting into New Japan, so I would actually I would say TNA over AW for Champa. In AW, he's just gonna be another face, just another face in the crowd. TNA could use somebody like him. TNA needs some more people on that roster. And they have this new show on AMC big Fish and a smaller or bigger fish in a smaller pond. He could be wrestling

for the fucking world title. He could be having matches with Mike Santana and DNA. Alexander says there's small parallels to Jacob Fatu and New Jack. I mean, yeah, small parallels. I guess I could see that. One thing he can't say about New Jack is that he wasn't authentic. He was about as for better or worse. He was about as authentic as it gets. And I was not a New Jack fan. Arabian Knights says, we need the youth standing tall at WrestleMania forty two. Enough with the forty

plus year olds. Hey, now easy there, do the wrestle Maydia. It's twenty one ending where Sena and Batista were anointed. Do it with Breaker and Fatu. You'll get Roman reigns and Riear Ripley and you'll enjoy it. Sarah the Songbird. Oh, they were in Montreal tonight, so it's only appropriate that we have a Canadian writing in here to the show. I'm Canadian, I have a wrestling fan. Montreal is usually a stacked crab. But my Quebec, hm, my Quebec. How

do you pronounce that Quebeca? We'll say, We'll say Quebec Quebec. Brothers and sisters need more to sink their French teeth into stay warm in this impending storm. So you really stumped me on that word, Like I'm looking at I go, fuck, how do I pronounce that, but thank you, Sarah. Yeah, the snows come in on Sunday. I'll be recording the sound off, so at least I'll be keeping busy. Let's just start moving in on Sunday morning. And I don't know the last update I saw. It's not gonna stop

until maybe midday on Monday. I just love the range they've given for it. It could be anywhere from five inches to like sixteen inches. It's a pretty big range. Until it hits we don't know how bad it's going to be, but it looks like it's gonna be bad. You know, Steve, Steve in the chat, you're Canadian. Why don't you help me out here? How do you pronounce

that word quebec coy? I need to know the answer to this, lost Dil congrats on ninety K, Proud to be a member and Supper keep kicking ass, brother, Thank you, Thank you law Still Toya ain't nice? Hi Solo, I hope you're doing well. I'm doing okay Duff's VIDs. What's the difference between Disney Plus and porn Hub. Disney Plus wants you to hate your step mom. We've seen that

one too, h Prince Vegeta ninety five. Even in this new WWE run, Matt Cardona still won't have the makings of a varsity athlete, not as long as he's hanging out with Kit will soon. What are the chances they end up as a tag team? Alexander says, Jacob's teeth mystery is WWE's MJF Devil's storyline. I would hope it has a better ending. Eminem says, we're expecting snow here

in Alabama tomorrow evening. I tell you, man, this thing like I saw, I saw a map and it's like the purple shade is where, like the storms are coming, and it's like this just giant blob of purple on the map that's like covering sixty five percent of the country. Devin actually next, Nick Grosso nine ninety nine. What are your thoughts on tomasop excuse me, Tomaso Champa possibly going to New Japan. Do you think his body can work the strong style? I don't. It's not like he's gonna

be there full time. I think he could do some New Japan matches and he can go back and forth. He could do New Japan, he could do TNA, he could work Independence. Definitely Independence, So yeah, not not anything full time. But there's a bunch of people that are leaving New Japan. You know, Evil is supposedly on his way to WWA. Sonata is on an indefinite leave. There's rumors of Haromu Takahashi possibly leaving New Japan. We don't know yet what's going on with David Finley and Clark

Conners and Gabe kids. So I'm sure they'd love to have someone like Shampa. Devin says, when did WWE stop caring as much about the build for major shows? Was it with a network era or does it go back earlier? It's the guaranteed money era, you know, when they get their guaranteed money, especially for a show like any of these Saudi shows, and it's like like the incentive isn't there. It's sad, but that's just the way it is. So Duff's vid says, what does an escalator say when it

stops working? Nothing? It just stares. What kind of key opens a banana? A monkey? What do you call a twitching cow? Beef? Jerky? Dustin Sasolo? Do you enjoy going to a live WWE show? I mean I generally have in the past when I've gone. I have not been to a live WWE show in quite some time. I mean the last one would have been the Royal Rumble in two years ago. I was at the Rumble actually in Tampa two years ago. Prior to that one, pretty sure before that, I had not been to one since

wrestle Mania thirty five. So yeah, I don't I don't go. I don't go to too many of them now, mostly because I have to be here, you know, to do the live streams when the show is over. But there's just no especially at the prices they're charging people. They're gouging people, you know, and I'm not, like, I'm not doing that. What do you call a coffin that's underground

during an earthquake? A morocca? I bought one of those from my cat when I had a cat, and I would hear that fucking thing in the middle of the night. She's got the morocca. Jamie Dorsh, what is the best and worst Rock versus Undertaker match? I can't think of what the best one would be. I don't think there ever was a best one, unless you count the triple threat that kurd Angle was a part of that would

be the best one. That was from Vengeance in two thousand and two, So if that counts, then one hundred percent that's the best one. The worst one I don't know, but I could tell you the worst Undertaker Triple H match. They've had some fucking bad matches. Their King of the Ring match in two thousand and two is one of is probably the worst match I've ever seen the map. But then they also had a match in Australia was it Super Showdown or something a number of years ago

that went like twenty seven minutes. Oh my god, it's about that was about twenty two minutes too long. Yeah, that King of the Ring two thousand and two match was fucking terrible. Matt Scale, Hey, Solo, congrats on nine dy k all I asked WWE please keep Chris Jericho away from Jacob Fatu. Oh man, what if Jericho is the one who attacked fa Tu? We didn't mention that possibility. Brandon Proctor contributing to Bonus be the Booker, and guess

what we did hit that goal. We got a double dose of be the Booker coming up here in a moment. That's awesome. Duffs VIDs can one bird make a joke? No, but two can suck duffs. I gonna do with you, Prince vegeta rank these four from likely to least likely to win another world title in their career. Kevin Owens, Damian Priest, Fin Balor, jay Uso. Okay, I'm putting I'm putting jay Uso at the bottom. No more world titles

for jay Uso, so he goes at the bottom. I'm going to say, honestly, I have hope that Kevin Owens will be able to make a return and that Kevin Owens will get one run with the WWE Championship. I'm gonna put Kevin Owens first, and then Damian Priest, and then Balor and then jay Uso at the bottom. Venom Catetsu Chipotle has the best taco shells. Yeah, I get like a I don't know, Chicken Bowl or whatever whatever it is. I don't eat there very often, but you know I have one not too far from where I am,

so it's like, Okay, they're free Chipotle. Broli says, hope they never split up. Fatal influence that attached to them as a unit that you just cannot bear the thought of them being a part, and Eminem says I heard a cabinet installer was arrested earlier today. He was charged with counterfitting. You deserve that one. You know you earn

that one. A tuxedo. Just stopping in to say hey for the extreme cold that is effing up my internet connection takes me offline and go, well, I hope it doesn't f up my internet connection because I got a bunch of shows to do. I got a show to do on Sunday. Let's hope that doesn't happen. All right, it is time because you guys again four hundred they you see on the wheel. That was the goal. See you guys hit the goal. You guys also activated the bonus,

which means we get to end the week. Well technically not because we're going to be live again tomorrow night, but it is technically the end of the week. We get to end the week the right way. Let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen. It is now time to be the booker. We are coming back tomorrow night though after Saturday night's main event. All right, here we go tag team that we got a lot more tag teams in here than wwe has not all of them good,

but this one's pretty good. Stone Cold, Steve Austin and Triple H, the Two Man Power Trip and Draped in Gold. I don't have a good feeling about the team they're gonna be wrestling. I don't have a good feeling about their chances. Oh my, Triple H and Stone Cold Steve Austin against the Rock and Roll Express Ricky and Robert. Oh, Austin's gotta be geeking out. I'm sure he would love to work with Ricky Morton. Hell yeah, that's a tag match. We can main event the show with that. That could

actually be the main event of the show. I don't think we're actually going to top that match in terms of star power. He you want some tag team wrestling, There is some tag team wrestling. Uh. We got Mako Satamora. It's retired last year after a thirty year career, and it's gonna be Maco against sky Blue. I better give that the bell or else all the sky Blue fans they will come at me with their pitchforks and then

we have a lot of sky Blue fans. All right, we need a main event here for night one of a two night extravaganza. Here we go. It is the American Nightmare. Cody Rhodes is in the main event as I'm sure sure he will be at WrestleMania this year. Cody Rhodes is the face of the franchise. But Roman Reigns has uh interfered here, The Tribal chief says, pick a damn stipulation. So we don't yet know who Cody is wrestling, but we're gonna pick a step first, then

we'll pick the opponent. Uh. Oh, he ain't gonna be the face of the the face of the franchise after this, you can't look you get it? Fuck up the pretty face and everything. I mean. I put Cody Roads in a brawl for all match. That's the worst match you could put Cody Roads. And he's the face of the company. You're gonna fuck up his face. Cody Rhodes, Well, this all comes down now to like who his opponent is.

This could be very bad masked Cody. He may need that mask again when this is over, depending on who his opponent is. Devil's choice. Oh, it's getting interesting now, it's getting interesting now, Devil's choice, keep or replace the man that you just picked. So do we take Cody out of the Brawl for All. So this is the question. We can spare Cody's face if we take him out of the match, but we may not have as big of a name though. I don't know. I don't know

what we should do, keep him or replace him. Solo wants a blood sport, all right, you know what, We're gonna keep him. Fuck it, We're gonna keep him in there. Take your lumps, be a man, not up. Cody Roads in a Brawl for All against Brian Pillman. There's a match pre broken ankle, Brian Pillman against Cody Rhoades. I don't know about the Brawl for All stipulation, but as a match, I'm okay with it. Cody is dead, says Dustin. Oh yeah, well, I mean, if I had to make

a choice here, absolutely, Brian Pillman. I'm definitely going Brian Pillman in this match for sure. But that gave us a clean sweet Always good to hear that sonic chime. That's how you know you had a good night. All right, So now we go all stipulations for round number two. Didn't Cody have a high school wrestling background, Yes, but this is not a wrestling match. This is a brawl for all match. There's gonna be no takedowns in this

Matchtually were takedowns allowed. I think they were actually allowed. That's a good point. I thought for some reason I thought takedowns were not allowed. I think you got points for a takedown. That might work to Cody's advantage. Though. Oh we got my favorite, we got my favorite, the Big Blue Cage. Yes, yes, yes, yes, I always loved the Big Blue Cage, Big Blue Cage tag team style. We're gonna do a tag team cage match. Los Guerreros

Eddie and Chavo gar. I love those belts, by the way, those SmackDown Tag Team titles two thousand and two, two thousand and three. I always love those belts way more than those raw belts, the world tag team titles. I think it's the Blue Eddie and Chavo tag team cage match against the New Day. And we're coming up with some pretty damn banging matches tonight. We're four for four so far. I like where this is going. I love Big Blue. Now h we have a firefly funhouse match,

but this was going to be the women's match. A women's firefly funhouse match, all right, Well, let's see, let's see what Let's see where this ends up. Gail Kim. Gail Kim, and she'll be stepping into the Firefly Funhouse with with Beth Phoenix, but not just any Beth Phoenix. It is angry Beth Phoenix. So what would that look like? Because from the the original Firefly Funhouse match, it was almost like they were dipping into like their their past, right,

So what would we have flashbacks to? I wonder it'd be a a real mind fuck. It'd be like an acid trip. All right, we got one more, We got one more to go. This could be the rare double sweep. We have a hair match. Someone is going bald at the end of this match. The only question is who's it going to be? Find out someone is going cubeball here, and it is possibly going to be Rick Flair. There he is with the Winged Eagle. I mean, if ever there was an image that screamed nineteen ninety two, it

is this one right here. Rick Flair in the main event defending the Winged Eagle in a hair match. Oh, this is not fair, This is not fair. No, no, this doesn't work. Hold on a second. Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. This is no, no, no, no, no, you can't do that. You can't have a hair match with someone who's already bald. Moose, Moose and Rick Flair in a hair match. This is this is unfair. I cannot allow this. I cannot. I don't know what to

do here. I cannot allow this to happen. Oh, Man Flair going bald. Now, I feel like we have to pick somebody else. We have to pick that. We have to pick a different person, either a different person or a different stipulation. You gotta pick a different person. We can't. We cannot allow this. That's right. Oh I forgot, Thank you, Steve, I forgot. I really I'm not allowed to complain. I'm not allowed to complain because I'm not a wrestler of the highest caliber. I am but a podcaster. I am

but a YouTuber. I am not allowed to complain. Moose told me so well, fuck that we're picking someone new. Can't criticize the that the Moose match here. Oh but I think we ended up with a much better solution here, the phenomenal a J styles. We did it. We did it. We pulled it off. The rare double sweep. You know, though it would almost be a shame for AJ to lose that those flowing locks. Remember wrestle man, you have thirty three? That shot that like zoomed in hardcam shot

with his hair blowing in the wind. He looked like he could be a freaking shampoo spokesperson. Someone's going bald here. It's either going to be bald AJ or Baldrick Flair, take your pick. But that'd be a hell of a match Flair in his prime against AJ stans hair versus career. Hey, I like it, And that is how you do be the booker, Toya says, solo booking better matches than smack that. Well, that's not really hard to do, now, is it. I

do have a better roster at my disposal. I mean I've got like one hundred and sixty eames and the men's one alone. We got a lot of legends in there. And Moose he's in there too. Soccer mom here, what is AJ forty eight? He's lucky he has his hair bald Rick for Oh yeah, Flair's going bald for sure. Flair's losing that. Flair's going bald. It's all good. AJ uses hymns anyway, needs more mad. Don't worry. There's gonna be there's gonna be changes coming to be the booker,

don't you worry. But anyway, Uh, I'm glad we got that double sweep tonight. We needed that after this SmackDown. We needed that perfect perfection, perfection. Now can we replicate that tomorrow? That's gonna be up to you, guys. You bring the heat and you bring the likes. Maybe we get to do this again because I will be live after Saturday night's main events. I hope you're ready to rumble, Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu, it'd be talking about all of it as soon as the show is over tomorrow night.

Come back here live on the channel and I will have the full review for you. And then on Sunday, we have episode nine eight of the podcast coming up on Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, weather and internet connection permitting. That'll be on Sunday afternoon. Heyj will put Nair on Flair's head, and then Flair pulls what he did in ninety one and leaves be the booker territory. Rather than say, shave his head off, we'll do what Jim Hurd tried to do. Jim Hurd actually had him cut his hair.

He wanted him to put an earring in too. He's gonna be Spartacus. We'll just have Flairvie Spartacus, oh Man, Zachary shout out to Zachary Torres. Austin Tucker will not be able to watch, but he'll be here for the review. Well, that's all you need. All you need to do is be here for the review. I got you covered. Be well, stay safe, have yourself as a great rest of your night. It's late. I'm gonna get out of here and I will see you in less than twenty four hours for

the Saturday Night's Made Event review. Thank you for making this a fun night. I'll see you guys tomorrow. I'll take care