WWE Smackdown 11/7/25 Review | THIS SHOW IS UNWATCHABLE AND NEEDS AN INTERVENTION

watch these shows. You know, I cover them here, but I cannot tell you how many people I've heard from, and this has been you know, over a period of many months, but especially lately when it comes to the weekly shows, and SmackDown is usually cheap among them, more so than Raw who say I don't even watch the show. I just you know, tune into the review to find out what happened, and if there was anything good that happened on the show, then I'll check out the clips.

But I cannot stomach sitting through the weekly shows anymore. It has gotten just that bad. SmackDown is an empty show. There is no life to this show. There is no soul, There is nothing of any real redeeming value. They have the talent. I mean, the talent is there, but of course it's always how you utilize the talent that you have.

You can have the greatest roster in the world, and it doesn't make a difference if you're not fitting the pieces where they belong and actually putting together compelling stories and compelling matches week to week. So the talent being

there really doesn't mean anything. They don't give you any compelling reason to really care week to week to tune into these shows, to want to tune in the following week to find out what's going to happen next week or see some big match that maybe they announce in advance. SmackDown has become the worst type of television, boring television, because when the television is really great, it's great, right.

I Mean there's been times where we've gone through periods where and I go back to the pre WrestleMania television heading into last year's WRESTLEMANI in Philadelphia, When the television is exciting or interesting or really good, things are great. Right. No nobody's ever gonna like everything one hundred percent of the time, but you know when the show is good,

and you know when the show is bad. And I think there's this, I don't know, misguided belief that when the shows are good, you know, people like to complain and rant and rave, and so they don't like the good show. Like that's complete bullshit. Anybody who tries to tell you that as a fucking idiot, Okay, they don't know what they're talking about. When the shows are good, they're great. When the shows are really really bad, but like bad in a way where it's so bad it's

good or it's like hilariously bad. For someone like me who comes on here and talks about this stuff, it could be very entertaining when you're talking about bad television that's so bad it's good. That's not what this is. This is in the middle. This is in like this this purgatory. I just got done watching a show on Netflix, the season three Alice in Borderland. This is like borderland

is what this is. This is like the in between between, like life and death, and you're kind of stuck in the middle where it's really not good and it's bad but in a way that's just boring and doesn't really make you feel anything. That is the worst kind of television that you could produce. It's just like, Okay, we have a show to do this week. We have our format that we're gonna stick to. We're gonna do the bare minimum that we need to do, and we're gonna

slow burn this and we're gonna slow cook that. And that'd be one thing if you actually had stories that were kind of interesting. But when you don't and you slow burn and slow cook it, that's even worse. But that's what SmackDown has become every single week. The supposed creative help that we read about weeks ago that was going to be given to road Dog because road Dog is like the uh, the head writer or whatever his fucking position is one of the lead writer's lead creative

voices on SmackDown. I mean, we all know where it starts at the top. Not to excuse him from any of this, but there were reports that, you know, they were going to be providing road Dog with help because they recognize that the shows can be more enjoyable than

that they have issues on SmackDown. Yeah, no shit. The cracks have been showing for many months and there were some little minor changes they made that gave me hope, like, oh, okay, they recognized the issues with this show, and maybe we will incrementally begin to see some real changes on this show that will make the show more exciting to watch. And that was just a few weeks ago. But I can tell you from watching this show so far, it

hasn't made a difference. It hasn't made a difference. It is very clear to me right now that if any change is to be made, that change will have to come from the top. Make of that what you will, but until that changes, the show itself will continue to exist in its current form. It doesn't matter. Oh, we're going to add this person in that person and try to help out the people who are already writing the show. It doesn't matter. It's an issue with the vision. No

pun intended to our friends on Monday Night. It's the overall vision of this show. It's just not good. It's not working. And I'm not even gonna be one of these people who throws out there, Oh, no, MILLI last week, right, they dropped under a million viewers for SmackDown last week. Yes, it was Halloween, you had a World series game. Whatever,

take that number throw to I don't even give a shit. Right, people will point to that, but again, it comes down to creative for a company that constantly batters the idea into your brain that they tell stories. And Triple H was just at a conference this past week and was talking about we don't book matches for the sake of finding out what are the best matches to book. We don't do that here. We come up with matches that are going to tell the best stories. Well, what he's

doing right now is he's failing miserably. Now. They don't see it that way because to them, everything they touch turns to gold. Look at all the money been making. But I don't know how you can sit here honestly week to week and tell me with a straight face that they are putting their best foot forward with the talent that they have at their disposal. It's just an out and out lie. You say that to my face. I call you a liar to you right back to

your face. I don't understand how people can put shows like these together and say, you know what, this is our best effort. I'm proud of what I put down here. I would be ashamed. I wouldn't want my name on this. We have Drew McIntyre, who lost to Cody Rhodes again at Saturday Night's main event. Right second time, we had Drew McIntyre come out at the very end of the

show tonight and he interfered in the main event. The main event was a match between Cody Rhodes and Alistair Black, which was good in that at least that was a fresh match that we had in the main event. Of course, it went to a non finish. Drew McIntyre runs in, Drew McIntyre reeks havocy, attacks a referee, causes a no contest. Nick All just comes out at the very end and says, I've had enough. I give you an inch, you take a mile. Therefore, Drew McIntyre, you are suspended. And I said, boy,

that sounds awfully familiar. And then I remember that it was last year, a little over a year ago, that Drew McIntyre was suspended by Adam Pierce. So now he has a matching suspension to go with the one from Raw last year. He's got one now on SmackDown from the other general manager. And what that means for his future, his immediate future anyway, is in doubt. I know he's got a movie he's going to be filming soon, although I think that might have been pushed back to the

beginning of next year at Highlander movie. I don't expect this suspension to last very long. It still feels to me like they're going to go to a third match I guess technically a fourth match between McIntyre and Cody at Survivor Series. I still think that this ends up extending out to Survivor Series and maybe at that point Drew McIntyre will actually win the WWEE Championship. But at

this point, who cares? Seriously, who cares? We've seen the match twice, We've seen what they've done here with these matches. They are telling the story the McIntyre is constantly getting screwed. He said it at the end of the show tonight. My back's against the wall, My backs against the wall. So let's say he goes in there at Survivor Series and wins the championship. Fine, doesn't change the fact that they still have much bigger issues here to deal with

on this show. But at this point, I mean, can you honestly sit here and say that if that was something you were hoping to see that if it does finally happen in San Diego in a few weeks, not that you wouldn't be happy for Drew that he finally has the belt after all this time, but like the excitement for it. Yeah, it's like a flame that's been extinguished. You know. Sometimes you wait a little too long and it just doesn't hit the same way. That is, of course,

if he even gets a show. God it's Survivor series. We don't know exactly when that's going to happen, but obviously that story is continuing. We have a new women's champion, Jade car Gill. She won the belt, which was the right call Saturday Night's main event last weekend. She came out tonight cut the shortest promo in the history of mankind cool, didn't have a whole lot to say. What else is there to say? Right, She's the baddest bitch and they tease the future match with her and Charlotte Flair,

which is something they've done before. Of course, they have to go to Jade and Charlotte at some point, and Jade and Alexa, because who else do they have on SmackDown. For all the bad things I could say about SmackDown right now, of which there are many, the biggest mark against this creative team, right now is their inability to

do anything with their women's division on Friday nights. It is their lack of effort to actually take what should be a strong, healthy, like what they have on Monday Night or what they have an NXT at the moment, and they refuse to do so. They refuse. Now. Tonight was the first sign that maybe we're actually going to get some new life injected into this division because we saw lash Legend made her debut on SmackDown tonight, which

is good. Whether you think it should have been her or soul Ruka or Jordan Grace or Zari or whoever, doesn't matter. That's at least a step in the right direction.

But the way they have neglected this division for so long. Again, I said this before last weekend, whether Tiffany retained, whether Jade won the championship, they have a major, major, major issue with this division where Jay doesn't have any credible challengers unless you take people in the tag division like Charlotte and like Alexa and have them work with Jade until Bianca is ready to come back, And that sounds like that's being pushed off now until early next year.

So what do they do in the meantime, of course they have to go to a Jaid Cargill Charlotte Flair match. We'll probably get that by next month. In the meantime, Jade will be wrestling Beefab on TV next week. Set your stopwatch. I don't expect that to go very long. But speaking of stopwatches, we had another women's championship match on this show tonight. As you know, Julia is the Women's United States Champion. She has had a horrendous run.

She has been the champion since June. This to me is the biggest indictment of this creative team because I think back to win Julia and then Stephanie Vicaire almost at the same time showed up in NXT and there was a lot of excitement around it, and they were having some great matches even against each other, even as

recently as earlier this year. Remember Roadblock right, Madison Square Garden, the theater at Madison Square Garden, right, I think that was the night that if I remember Oba defended against Moose and I think that was then they had Julia against Stephanie, and I think back to that and I say, how is it possible that that Julia is the same Julia that we have seen here on the main roster in the months since then. How is it possible that

these are the same person? How? I mean? Is it really just a case of the booking being so much better in NXT with the women as compared to the booking under Paul Avec on the main roster at least on this show. Is Shawn Michael some kind of genius or wizard as compared to Triple H. Has he unlocked some special codes? Could crack some kind of code that Triple H has been unable to do. I mean, I

don't understand it. This run that Julia was on as the United States Champion was absolute garbage, and in her third title defense tonight, she lost the championship to the former champion, Chelsea Agree. I love Chelsea. I don't have any issue with Chelsea. But I'm watching this show tonight and I see Julia the jobber in the ring losing the title in ninety seconds, and I say, how could this be? How is that possible? How do you fumble in that way? Because that's exactly what they've done. No

good answer. Thank god, we have Dragonov in the US Title Open Challenge. That's all I'm going to say the only redeeming part of this show each in every single week. Where there may be glimmers of hope here and there, Oh hey, that was a good segment, they are few and far between these days. And considering that this is the biggest wrestling company in the world and we have this gigantic roster of people and people in the developmental that are waiting to be there is no excuse for

these shows to be as lackluster as they are. People are giving you two hours of their time on Friday Night. This is what you give them. This is the best you can do. And we're getting the mis against jay Usso next week in the John Scene of Retirement tournament. That says it all. The Miz against jay Usso next week. Great. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review. It is Friday Night, hence Friday Night SmackDown. It is November seventh, twenty twenty five.

I am a very frustrated, defeated Solemn Monster. Remember last Friday Halloween, the Macho Monster was here. We had more time on that stream than we did with the show last week. Macho Monster, he's back in the box. We ain't going to see him again for another year. I wish he was here right now. That'd be more entertaining than this show. Start from the top of this show. They opened with the WWE champion, Cody Roads, fresh off yet another win over Drew McIntyre, coming to the ring Greenville,

South Carolina. What do you want to talk about? How about how bad this show is? Can we talk about that? He said that we could talk about what happened on Saturday Night's main event last weekend, saying Drew McIntyre was the one who introduced the WWE Championship into the ring as a weapon. He said that his reluctance to pull the trigger has cost him dearly from time to time,

something that McIntyre obviously had no issue with. That being said, he called Drew the most self sabotaging athlete in this business, which meant the Scotsman was now behind him. He's in the rear view, which of course means the exact opposite. And wrestling speak, Cody said that he wanted to do something a little bit different tonight. What he wanted to do was he wanted to go sit in the crowd amongst the fans, like John Cena, WRESTLEMANI at thirty four.

He was going to go sit in the crowd and get a feel for who they might want to see him go up against next for the WWE Championship. And at that point the lights went out and Alistair Black's music interrupted. He walked out with Zelena Vega said that he's been ready for something new ever since he set Damian Priest on fire. He got in the ring. He said that he had a chip on his shoulder that's about the size of the WWE Championship. Cody started to

remove his tie. He turned around. He was loosening his tie. When he turned back around, Zelena was standing right in front of him, between him and Black, and she told Cody that his nightmare begins now. And then she hauled off and she smacked the shit out of him, him a good slap across the face. Nick all This walked out and said he could see where things were headed, so he made it official for tonight's main event it would be Cody Rhades one on one against Alistair Black.

And at that point, I said, you know what, I like that at least because it is something fresh. There's a match that we haven't seen yet. In WW now we've seen him multiple times in ADW. There is history here between these two men. In fact, the biggest win of Alistair Black's AW run as Malachi Black was probably when he first debuted in the company and he beat Cody, one of the EVPs right one of the biggest stars

in the entire AW roster. It was a hell of a way for his run there to begin, and the two of them ended up having three matches, two of which were won by Black. Unfortunately, the peak of his run was that early win over Cody. It was sort of like grand opening, grand closing in many ways. Not that he didn't have some success Trios, champions and all that, but he never quite got back to that peak that he was at at the very beginning of his run there.

But it was also very clear based on what Cody said that he was lying to us and the issues with him and Drew McIntyre were going to continue and extend,

likely into Survivor Series. Now after this was the highlight of the night because Iliya Dragonov was on his way out to the ring for the next defense of the United States Championship in the Open Challenge, not before a quick run in backstage with Tomatonga on his way to the ring, but Dragonov came out and he asked who the challenger was going to be, and it wasn't Tomatonga. Tomatonga keeps confronting this man and grunting at him and

staring at him. But evidently he's not all that interested in challenging yet for the championship because he didn't come out, and I'm okay with that. Did instead we got Tomaso Champa. He entered with Gargano and Candice Lay. Champa recalled wanting a title shot last week and Dragonov calling him a jackass, so Champa called the fans jackasses and said the title

would be his. Dragonov said that he accepts the challenge from that guy, and he pointed over to Johnny Gargano, and Champa said the Dragonov was ducking him and he could only do that for so long, so we were gonna get Dragonov and Gargano for the US title. After a break, Dragonov blasted Gargano with an uppercut, and the challenger he matched the effort with an uppercut of his own. We got the Constantine special by Dragonov that connects and with Gargano stunned in the corner, he was opened for

a big boot. Gargano, though used the ropes to assist himself back to his feet. He stopped Dragonovs dive off the top with a kick right to the gut that was followed by a poison RNA for a near fall. Gargano lifted dragon off to the top. Champion, though lit him up with chops followed by a headbutt. Dragonov left off the top rope with a diving sent on that was not enough though to put Gargano away, and with Gargano days, Dragonov went for the h bomb that got

counter though with an upkick right to the face. Gargano could not escape Dragonov standing urinagi, though there was another attempt at a Constantine's special that got foiled by Candice Lay outside. The ring referee was distracted, so this opened Dragonov up for a Tornado DDT out on the floor by Gargano and then back inside the one final beat DDT and Dragonov kicked out at two. Gargano tried for a dive from the apron that got stopped by a kick,

and the champion lifted him up in the middle. On the middle rope for a super plex and then one final h bomb to put things away, and in his third defense, unlike Julia and the other US title, Dragonov is successful. He retains the championship. You know, we don't often get to see the black and Gold Johnny Gargano very often, the guy that went out there and headlined so many of those takeover shows and had just great matches with people like Champa and Adam Cole and Andrade

and countless others. Right there was that core group of guys, and Gargano and Shampa were really right there. They were the nucleus of that show for a few years. There. We got to see a little bit of that Gargano here in this match. It was very good, not one of the better ones, if only because there was really no drama, you know, as to the outcome, and we know that Shampa's going to get his shot maybe next week.

We know Toma Tonga is waiting in the wings. But again, the Open Challenge continues to be the highlight of an otherwise dreadful show every single week. I hope they keep this gimmick going forever, or at least until they pull their heads out of their asses, because right now. This is all they got. Just keep it going now. Eventually they're going to run out of people. That's the problem.

So this is going to end soon. We just don't know what, you know, exactly which week it's gonna be, but they're going to run out of people at some point. Unless the idea is to debut somebody new from NXT. I mean, I've mentioned you know, Oba Femi in the past. I don't know if they have any plans to involve Oba and the John Cena stuff, but if not, I still think this would be a great place at the end of all this for him to debut and go in there and be the man to strike down the

mad Dragon, you know, and win the championship. But hopefully not for a while now, nick All, this was backstage. He was talking to a referee. We could see the tumbler in the background that they are using to select names for this John Cena tournament. Sammy Zain walks in and he tells all this, you saw what happened last week with the MFTs. It's a numbers game. He goes, I know, I know, I'm not cleared, but please let me out there tonight for the match between Ray, Phoenix

and Taalatanga. All this said that Sammy is not medically cleared, which means if he's at ringside, he's a huge liability for him. All due respect, I'm not asking you, Sammy said, okay, but I'm not going to stand by for much longer. Sammy leaves and in walks our Truth and he is all dressed up as John Cena, his idol. He told all this he wants in this last Time is Now tournament. He said he came in here to put his balls in Nick's hand and he hands him two Tumblr balls.

All just said, you don't understand your name's already in there. You're in like you're you're in the Tumblr. So Truth grabbed his balls back and said, I don't want my balls touching your balls. Anyway. He left SmackDown everybody. I'm sure they all had a good laugh in the writer's room when they came up with that one good job. After a break, Johnny Gargana was trying to cheer up Tomasso Champa in the back even though Gargana was the

one who wrestled and lost. He was trying to cheer up Tomasso, Nathan Fraser and Axiom walked up and they made fun of them. They called Champa a jackass and they left. This is what they're trying to get over now, trying to get the fans to chant jackass at Champion each week. After that, it was out to the arena for the arrival of the new WWE Women's Champion, Jade Cargill. She had long metal spikes coming out of her top.

She said, we all saw what she did to Tiffany Stratton, and that goes for every woman in that locker room. Make no mistake about it. That bitch Mike Drop played her music. That was the end of that, and as she was heading to the back, they played Charlotte Flair's music. The next match, and Charlotte walks out with Alexa Bliss and this is not the first time that this has happened, but they encountered one another like two passing ships in

the night. As Jade was leaving and Charlotte was walking in, Jade held her title up in front of Charlotte and told her, whenever you're ready, and Charlotte and Alexa they took a few steps forward and they pose for the pyro. Then Charlotte turned around and noticed that Jade was still standing there mouthing off and holding up her belt, so she took her robe off and she went to go make a B line for Jade. Alexa, though grabbed her

stopped her from doing so. Again. This is not the first time that they've done this little tease between Charlotte and Jay. I want to say this is the third time, at least a second time, but probably the third time in the last several months that they've done this. And it's a match that I could see happening as soon as Saturday Night's main event next month, you know, assuming they're gonna have more than just John Cena's final match

on that show. I could see them doing the match there because after Survivor Series, there's no more plees until the Royal Rumble, which is at the very end of January, and I'm looking at Survivor Series and thinking, well, maybe they would do the match there. It's very clear after some of the things we saw on this show tonight, Charlotte is going to be in the war Games match, and I'm not so sure that there's really room for

Jade on the heel side in that match. I don't expect her to be in there, so I'm thinking maybe December thirteenth we might possibly get that match. I actually think they probably would do Jade and Alexa first, you know, and build to Jade against Charlotte, because that is the bigger match. Jade Cargill against Charlotte Flair is the bigger match of those two. But Charlotte and Alexa are absolutely going to be primed to wrestle Jade because they do not have anybody else at that level for her to

work with. She can go ahead and bury BFAB next week in two minutes, she could work Mechin. I'm sure she's gonna wrestle all of them and nobody's gonna care about any of it. You know. The matches to do

is Jade, Alexa, Jade, Charlotte, eventually Jade Bianca. We're probably gonna get a rematch with Jade and Tiffany, But truly, like who else is there right now on the SmackDown side of things right there aren't a lot of great options and it would have to be a babyface, So they're very limited in who they could throw out there in front of her, especially if they want her to be as dominant right now as she is, you know, b Fab and Mechin. These are people. They don't give

a shit. These are people. They will put in the ring with Jade and have her squash in two minutes, three minutes. You know, the Alexas and the Charlottes of the world. That's where it gets more competitive. But you got to build to it first. But I think Alexa comes first and then Charlotte. Now after the break, Chelsea Green was backstage. She was with Alba Fire. She also had her Triple A Mixed Tag Team title over her

shoulder that she just won with Ethan Page. She was talking about her match tonight with Julia when Meechen and Beefab walked in. They already know how this match is gonna go tonight with Julia. Chelsea said, Yeah, I'm gonna win and become the first and the fourth United States Champion, and I'm gonna have two belts and I'll become the greatest champion on SmackDown. Of course. She said this as they panned out to show Jade Cargill standing behind her.

She had no idea. Jade said, oh no, no, keep going. Chelsea high tailed out of there with Alba. Jade went to go walk into the women's locker room. And I know it's the women's locker room because there's a sign on the door that said women's locker room. So she went to go walk in there and barked at BFAB to move out of the way. And then BFAB turns to Mechen and she starts, you know, talking about Ja. So Jade stops because she hears this. She's complaining to

Meechin about Jade. Hey, I can't believe she talked to me like that. Jade turned back around and said, did you say something? Said if BFAB had a problem with it, she can step up and get stepped on next week on SmackDown. So BFAB said bet. So that made it official. BFAB gets to walk to the gallows next week against Jade Cargill. That's gonna be Jade's first meal next week. See, every champion needs a quick appetizer before the main entree. So that is what BEFAB will be to Jade on

the show next week. Jade's gonna have herself some ordures next week, at least it'll be quick. Then we had Charlotte Flair against Nya Jacks. Oh boy, Charlotte, I don't know what was going on here. It looked like Charlotte was busting out of her top multiple times here in this match, because multiple times when she was on screen inside the ring and outside the ring, the screen suddenly went black. Could hear the audio, but they blacked out

the screen. Michael Cole talked about NYA working methodically in her matches and slowing down the pace, so you can imagine how the first half of this match went. After a commercial, Charlotte went up top for the diving crossbody. After that, she fired away with chops and then a running clothesline. She grounded Naya Flare, headed to the top again and connected with the Moon Salt, but only for a near fall. Charlotte attempted to lock in the figure eight.

NYA responded with a sit down power bomb. She dragged Charlotte near the corners. She was looking for the annihilator, which missed. Naya's attempted a Simoan drop was countered into a Tornado DDT for a near fall. All of a sudden, outside the ring lash legend from NXT, the Bougie Bully sneaks up behind Alexa Bliss and she's choking her out. She's rag dolling her. This was like China with Marlena back in the day when China made her debut, she

was rag dolling this little woman around. So that was enough of a distraction for Charlotte that it led to Naya hitting the annihilator and pinning her. This did not need ten minutes of airtime, but that is what they got, and I didn't think much of it. I don't know what was going on with Charlotte's top in this match, but the sensors were working overtime tonight. They were earning their keyp they were earning their money here on this show.

I didn't care for the match, but thank god they're calling new faces up from NX time, at least one. Hopefully this is the first of several. It's going to take more than just lash Legend, but lash Legend at least is a step in the right direction. She's super athletic, She's made great improvements from when she first showed up in NXT. I think she'll do well. If all things being equal, I think she'll do well. Ultimately, it's not up to her. It really does come down to the

creative for her and the people. Whether or not she has people in her corner who actually have something worthwhile for her to do. Case in point Julia, who I'm going to get to in a second. So she has the tools to do well. Whether or not she actually does do well, that'll be in large part up to the creative team. But they so desperately need some new

blood injected into this show. I was at least, whatever you think of the pairing, you may not care for Naya Jacks and lash Legend being a pairing or a tag team whatever they're going to be, at least it is someone new. This is what was needed, and there's a lot of work to be done, but it's at least a step in the right direction now. It also adds a new tag team that could challenge for the

women's tag team titles. And it's another Dave Meltzer report that turned out to be accurate, because if you remember, Meltzer wasn't just the first person to mention that they were going to be doing a tournament to crown Johnsen his final opponent, which they did. He was the one when he listed out the planned teams for men's and women's wargames. You know, he mentioned Austin theory on the men's side, and we'll see what happens on Monday, because

there's still time. Austin Theory could show up on TV, but we haven't seen him yet, but he had Lash Legend on the women's side. In fact, I went to go look it up. This is what Meltzer had in The Observer a few weeks ago as the original proposed Wargames match on the ladies side, aj Lee, And it doesn't really feel like aj is going to be back for Survivor series. But aj Lee, Rhea, Ripley, Eo Sky, Charlotte Flair, and Alexa Bliss against Nya Jacks, Lash Legend,

Becky lynch Osca and Kyrie Saint. And that looks mostly plausible right now. Right Lash Legend just debuted. She's with Naya Jacks. They're beefing with Charlotte and Alexa. Charlotte and Alexa have issues with Oscar and Kyrie. They're going to be wrestling them on Monday. So it sounds like all of these women are ultimately going to end up in the war Games match. Now. Later in the show, Kathy Kelly interviewed Nya and Lash in the back. She wanted

to know how this pairing came about. Naya said that Alexa and Charlotte said that she needed to find a friend. Well, she found one. She faced Lash in NXT one and she knows that she's a badass. She's also a former NCAA record holder. Lash then spoke said that she's the bougie bully best believe the two of them are going straight to the top and tonight was just the beginning. So there you go. Some new talent in the women's division. Good.

We got the John c and a video package that originally aired on Saturday Night's main event announcing the last time is now Tornament to decide who his final opponent will be on December thirteenth in Washington, DC. On Monday, we learned that the first two matches that are going to be taking place on Raw this coming week RUSSEV against Damian Priest and Seamus is going to be wrestling the Shinsky Nackimore. So now it was time to learn from Nick All this what the next two matches would be.

These two matches will take place on SmackDown next Friday. These are the names that were chosen at random. In one match, it will be the Mizz taking on main event, jay Usso yeats boy. That's an exciting pairing right there. Now. The miss obviously has history with John Cena. I expected him to be in this tournament. I actually thought they would do Mizz and Carmelo Hayes in the fucking first round. But I guess it's supposed to be random, so that

would be a little weird. But yes, the Miz against jay Usso does not excite me in the least, not at all, not even in the slightest. So I was looking to see what the other match was going to be. The other match is going to have La Knight against we don't know who, because Nick all this reached in to grab one of his balls, and he pulled out a ball, read the name, had a surprise look on his face and smirked and said, you know what, I'm going to save this one as a surprise for next week.

Fuck you, So now we have to wait an entire week to find out who it's going to be. Now, they don't make you wait an entire week to find out that it's gonna be Carmelo Hayes or j C. Matteo. So, although with these people, who the fuck knows? So obviously it's gonna be either someone from NXT or it's gonna be one of these people they tease from outside the company. It could be a Matt Cardona, it could be a

Joe Hendry. Uh, it could be a Randy Orton, I suppose, But like, it's probably going to be somebody like that. Could be a big nx T name like an Oba if Obafemi is in the tournament. But if they're gonna make you wait an entire week and save it as a surprise, then they better deliver on that surprise. My guess is it's one of these people from outside the company, probably a TNA name. And if it is, I mean,

it depends on who it is really. I actually hope it isn't someone like Obafemi, because if it is, that does not bode well for La Night. You imagine La Night bounced out of the opening round of as if his luck has not been bad enough, this fucking guy gets bounced out of the opening round of this tournament.

I hope whoever it is, it's a decent name. But man, I mean, La and I could use He's not gonna win the tournament, but he could at least use a win in the opening round for crying out loud, So I hope it is in someone like Oba, but that's my guess as far as who it's gonna be. The miss against jay Uso is just it's fucking awful. I mean to pick a match like that for this tournament. This has all been very underwhelming so far. We don't

know what the other pairings are gonna be. I sure hope it gets better from here because what we've been given so far as far as what's coming up next week, very underwhelming. Now after a break, speaking of underwhelming, we come to the worst part of the entire show, we come to the other United States Championship match, this one on the women's side, with Julia, who has been the champion since the end of June, out to the ring

with Keana James. She is going to defend her title one on one against the original the og United States Champion, Chelsea Green, who made her way out to the ring with her triple A mixed tag team title more titles on this show. She immediately went over to greet her tag team partner Ethan Page in the front row, who had his NXT North American Championship with him. As well as his Triple A Mix tag team title, and he congratulated her. He was rooting her on. Hopefully we'll see

him on SmackDown soon too. Chelsea starts off with a hard slap. She got a head butt in response, followed by a sup plex, and then Julia caught her with the Arrivaderchi knee, which is one of her signature moves, right to the kisser. That was not enough for the win. Chelsea got thrown into the corner. She found herself trapped across the ropes. She ate a knee of the face. Now, at this point, Keana James got involved. She slaps Chelsea from the floor. That got her a superkick from albe Fire,

who was outside in Chelsea's corner. Now, in the midst of all of this chaos here in the opening minute or so of this match, Chelsea then sneaks in a roll up, gets her feet on the ropes, which the referee does not see, and Chelsea Green pins Julia to

win back the Women's United States Championship. Yes, really, if you were frozen in a block of ice, or you were frozen in carbonite, okay, whatever, and you've been frozen for the last fifteen years and they just now thawed you out, and this was the first show that they sat you down in front of the wrestling show. They statue down in the television to watch. First of all,

my condolences Number one. Number two, you would watch this show and you would think nothing of it, because you would think we were still in the midst of the Divas era. With ninety second matches. These women got the sign the signal to go home before or the bell even rang. Chelsea Green once again the United States champion. This was a disgrace. This was an absolute disgrace. I'm not even mad about Chelsea being the champion again because

I think Chelsea Green is great. Chelsea Green just re signed, i think a new five year deal with WWE. She's very entertaining. She's a credit to the roster. I have nothing against Chelsea Green, and I'm happy for all of her success. She has two championships now. I actually think her and Ethan Page make a great pairing. I'd love to see them bring that to the main roster. So I'm not mad about Chelsea having a belt again, another belt. The match itself was a disgrace. Julia's run as the

United States Champion. Is among the worst in the history of this company. It is among the worst that you will ever see. It is a complete and utter disgrace. Julia the jobber out there being beaten in ninety seconds. This is not the same woman that I saw on the CW network at the beginning of this year wrestling Stephanie the care It can't be. It's impossible. And where did it all go wrong? It went wrong from the moment that they brought her up to television. I cannot

sit here and blame it on Julia. I cannot sit here and tell you that Julia regressed. How can I blame Julia? Did it feel to you as if they gave Julia every opportunity to be booked in the way

that Julia should be booked. You mean to tell me that you can't take this woman and find a way to really build her at like you see what they're doing with Stephanie right now on raw right, and Stephanie's she's very good and she's over because she does the Devil's Kiss and everybody goes wild for the Devil's Kiss and great right, She's got certain things, certain signatures, and she's having great success right now, right on the main

roster on Monday nights. I'm not even saying that Julia needs to be at the exact same level, but how do you have such a gap between the two of them when you look at It's like night and day when you compare the two. The pairing with Keana James. I gave it a chance when it first happened because I thought, Okay, maybe the idea here is that Julia is English. They want her to get a little bit better at it. Me she can speak it's obviously it's gonna be broken English. But maybe the idea is that

promos are not going to be her strong suit. So let's take another talent who you know we're hoping to push out of this, and will allow her to be the mouthpiece and Julia will do her talking in the ring right because Julia comes out, she's got this great presence about her and a great look, and just let her go out there and do her thing right and just be dominant. And I said, if that's the idea,

then maybe this could work. Obviously I was wrong, because because as the weeks went on, it became very clear to me what the goal here was. The goal was not to get Julia over so much as it was to use this as a vehicle to get Keana James over, because she was the one getting most of the television time. So that was mistake number one. Mistake number two. This was her third title defense and she already lost the championship. Do you know why? Because they have no fucking division.

Because they had very few people for her to work with, and even the people they did have for her to work with, she was barely visible on television, and the weeks that she would show up on television, she was reduced to a backstage role, with Keana doing all the talking for her. She didn't do shit. I'm not going to sit here and point the finger of blame it Julia Boy, you drop the ball. Julia, you can't hang on the main roster. I'm not going to do that.

This woman was booked like shit from the moment she walked into this show. Could put every championship in the world on her. It doesn't matter. The belt doesn't matter if the person holding the belt is booked weak. If people watching the show are not given a reason to care about the person holding the championship, you can wipe your ass with it. It doesn't matter that Chelsea Green is the champion. Chelsea Green gets a lot of television time.

Maybe the Belt is better off on Chelsea. To be honest with you, the Belt is probably better off on Chelsea anyway. I'm not even saying that was the wrong move. They already destroyed Julie. She's gonna need a massive reset now. The best thing to do with her is to get her off television for a while and make people forget this ever happened. And when you are ready to seriously push this woman and you have an idea in mind

for her, then you bring her back. But if not, you know what, Send her back to NXT, because I can guarantee you Sean Michaels will know what to do with her. You want to rehab this woman, send her back down to NXT. Let her work with Jordan Grace, Let her work with blakeman Rowe, Let her work with sol Ruka and Zaria and Tatum Pasley and all these different women. But this entire run, both as the champion, even just in the moment she debuted on the main roster,

has been in absolute disgrace. The MFTs were backstage solo Socoa told Tomatonga that they were going to bring the US title back into the family. He told Tala Tonga to go crush Ray Phoenix in their match tonight, and as the MFTs left, we saw the Wyat six emerged from the shadows, all but Bo Dallas. They were keeping

a watchful eye on Solo's crew elsewhere. As Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss were recovering in the trainer's room, one of the trainers ran off to go grab some ice for Alexa's neck, and then we saw an arm reach into the camera shot with a bag of ice and they hand the bag of ice to Charlotte, who's using it on Alexa. Alexa looks up and she looks like

she's seen a ghost. We can't see who the person is that she's staring at, but the camera pans back and we see it is Osca in her clown makeup, in her Kanna Murder clown makeup, dressed as a doctor, and she pulls down her face mask and she spews blue mist right in Charlotte's face, in Alexa's face, and then camera pans out we see Kyrie is with Osca, also dressed is like a nurse and they do a little dance and then they make their escape like a

couple of anime villains. Now they're gonna be wrestling for the women's tag team titles on Raw this Monday, So that is what this was all about. And also I'm sure they're going to find themselves on opposite ends of the spectrum in wargames, right, they're gonna be in the match, They're going to be on opposing sides. I'm sure, Yes, Doctor Osca, this was not exactly Doctor Austin, but seeing Oscar on the show, I'll take it. It was brief,

but I'll take it. We had Ray Phoenix against Talatonga, the MotorCity machine Guns and Shinsky Nakamore or they snuck up behind the MFTs and attacked them, so that even the odds for Phoenix, even the odds, I mean, as if he stood a chance. This was the David and Goliath match, and not a particularly good one Phoenix. When they left the room, that's what Oscar should have said. See, Kyrie should have been the last one out. It was a missed opportunity there for Oscar to yell Kyrie's name

so that she follows her out of the room. I don't know why they didn't do that. Like I said, this was the David versus Goliath match, not very good. Phoenix did what he could. Phoenix's attempt at a sunset flip was halted by a huge uppercut. Phoenix avoided a big boot, He hit the Goodbye Amigo kick, and then he took Flight off the top with a crossbody for a near fall. Phoenix tried to go for a dive, Talatoga caught him for a choke slam and he got

the win. After the match was over, Solo Sakoa tried to get Talatanga to choke slam Phoenix again. Sammy's ain ran down with a chair even though nick All just told him not to, and the two of them backed off. Kathy Kelly interviewed the Miz backstage and asked him about I don't know where Carmelo Hayes was this week, but evidently he wasn't there. So he asked him about Carmelo Hayes and you know, attacking him to get payback. Said

it wasn't payback. He said he made Carmelo relevant, and he boasted that he beat John Cena in the main event of WrestleMania. He took offense to there even being a tournament. He said that Sena is fine, opponent was staring him right in the face. Mis said that everything Jay Usso does is a highlight, but highlights fade while legacies don't. Mis said that he would beat Jay and

win the tournament. He said, the critics will cry and the Internet will whine, but the headline will read that he beat John Cena at WrestleMania and then ended his career. You know, I put nothing past these people. Would you be that shocked if they did John Cena versus the miz one final time? At this point, I don't know that it would even shock me. The main event was Cody Rhodes's non title against Alister Black. Cody went for

a disaster kick early. He was met by a kick instead, which took us to the final break of the evening. This I don't even think this was two minutes into the match. They went right back to a break in the corner. Later, Black attacked Cody with chops and a kick to the chest. Cody fought back with a running clothes line followed by a disaster kick for an earfall.

Cody sized up Black for a crossroads, but he countered with a kick to the face, and then Black attempted a back suit plex, Cody avoided it, answered with a Cody cutter for another near fall. Cody set up for a bionic elbow. Black caught him with a kick and got a German suit plex into a bridge for a two count. Black showed frustration over not getting the pin. Both men then threw simultaneous kicks that left them both down.

So at this point, now Drew McIntyre flies into the ring from out of nowhere and he wipes out the referee Dan Angler with a Claymore kick, and he's wearing all white. It's wearing like a white tank top. And obviously this ends the match, even though the referee is not conscious, so he is not able to call for the bell. He is not able to render his decision. But obviously this is a no content now and McIntyre is accosting the referee. He's out laying on the map,

but he's like shaking him back and forth. He's saying, oh, you're Cody's friend. This is what happens when you're Cody's friend. Cody tackles McIntyre and Black ends up getting involved. He and McIntyre put the boots to Cody, so then Damian Priest music hits It's Wet by time. He even had his It's Wet by Time shirt on, except the sleeve was cut off. You go on wwe shop dot com though the shirt he wore tonight, it's on there. It's wet by time. So mister Waipa makes his way down

to the ring. I guess he was just in the back all night long, just waiting for the right time, waiting for the right moment to come out and interject himself into this. But then Damian Priest fucked it all up, I guess, but he came out now went after the heels. Black eventually gouged at his eye, the burned eye. The priest was writhing around on the ground outside in pain. As Black and as Zelena van they fled through the timekeeper's area into the crowd in the ring. Cody hit

McIntyre with a Cody cutter. Drew rolled out to the floor. So Nick all this comes out and he says, I've had it. Oh, I've had it too. But he says he's had it with McIntyre. He said he gives McIntyre an inch and he takes a mile. He then announced that, effective immediately, Drew McIntyre is suspended. McIntyre got up in his face and he's yelling over and over. Then my back is against the wall. My back is against the wall. Well, at least they did the no contest and they spared

Alistair Black from taking the loss. They could have had Cody just straight up beat him, but instead they did the non decision. I wasn't expecting a clean finish anyhow. This was really just a matter of who was going to get involved first. Was it going to be Drew or was it going to be Damian Priest. You knew it was going to be one of the other or both. So it pretty much went the way that I expected it to. Drew is gonna end up getting reinstated, I think in short order. He still got a few weeks

left to go until Survivor Series. My guess is that Drew is gonna get reinstated just in time for Survivor Series, and he's gonna get one more shot at the WWE Championship because of Cody, not because Nick All this thinks he deserves it, but Cody is gonna, of course, Oh Nick, make it happen, Nick, right, So he's gonna get reinstated, He's gonna get his championship match one last time. That might even be the stipulation. You don't win now, you

never get a shot so long as I'm champion. But you notice that in the main event, Drew laid out the referee and he's yelling at the referee. You're friends with Cody, friends with Cody, so he's had such a big issue with these referees. I could envision a scenario where Nick All disappoints a special guest referee, and that special guest referee ends up being Randy Orton, who of course is friends with Cody, which would not make McIntyre

very happy. But sometimes, you know, Doth protests too loudly, and maybe it comes back to bite him on the ass. Because I'm still in my head trying to figure out how you get you know, Randy Orton involved here. I don't know what I mean. Look, maybe maybe we're going about this all wrong. I don't know why. Maybe maybe he's on an extended vacation, maybe he got deported. I don't know where the fuck this guy is but let's assume that he's going to have some kind of involvement

in this. Maybe he's not wrestling, Maybe he's not wrestling, maybe he's officiating the match. But that was a thought that occurred to me when I saw what Drew did to Dan Engler at the end of that match. I

mentioned it earlier. McIntyre has a pretty important role in this Highlander reboot that they're going to be filming, and they were supposed to begin filming in the fall, like right around now, and Henry Cavill, who I think is the main character in the movie, he got injured, so they pushed the filming back to early twenty twenty six. I don't know if that's January. I don't know if that's March. I don't know what early twenty twenty six means. McIntyre,

I think plays his brother in the movie. So I don't even know if Drew's going to be around. I don't know what his schedule is going to be, like, I don't know when he flies off to go do filming and how that might impact things. I have no idea, but that is something to keep in mind because he does have that movie coming up soon. But again, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter. This show is completely devoid of any emotion. It is a soulless, empty husk that is in need

of just a dire, dire makeover. I don't understand why they haven't done the transfer portal like they did last year, because this show, more than raw, is in dire need of a shakeup, really just all around, not even just the women, just in general. And you don't have to do a draft show. You just open up the transfer window for two or three months and you can move people around as you see fit. The fact that they haven't done that tells me that they don't think that

there's really anything all that wrong with SmackDown. They may think that the women's division can use a little more depth, and so now we're getting lash legend. But those reports that came out a few weeks ago, I'm not even sure that they think SmackDown really does need that much help. I mean, they live in fantasy land, these people, where they can do no wrong and everything's great because business is booming, right. They don't need people to tell them

how to run their show. They know everything right. They're the storytellers here, they're the puppet masters. Everything's great. I don't understand how the people who are writing this show and formatting this show and putting this show together every single week can honestly look at it and think, you know what, this is a great show. I'm proud of what I've put down on paper here for this show. This is awful. This is awful, boring, dull, lifeless television.

And it does a disservice to every man and woman on that roster who goes out there every week. They fly to whatever city they're in. They just they do their job. They show up and they do what they're told, and it does a great disservice to them because they take it on the chin too. You know, when you have these bad shows, they get lumped in with everybody else and the stink ends up washing off on them.

It's not even their fault. But this show is in Like, if this show is a human being, the family members and friends would be you know, kind of coming together to figure out, like, we need to do some sort of intervention here. Think of Christopher on the Sopranos. Okay, this show needs an intervention. That's what's smacked down needs. But in order to have an intervention, there has to be a recognition from the people in charge that this show has a problem in the first place, and I'm

not convinced that they believe there is one. And until such time, this show is going to continue to exist. It's one thing to exist. I want this show to do more than just exist. I want this show to excite and inspire, inspire me to want to tune in the following Friday to see what's going to happen. That's what I'm waiting for as a viewer. I don't think that's too much to ask, but this show is awful. What did you think of SmackDown from Greenville? Thirty percent

thumbs up, seventy percent thumbs down. You know it's bad when even the folks on Twitter are giving the WWE show thirty percent thumbs up. Like, if that doesn't tell you everything you need to know, I don't know what does. They generally tend to be a little kinder to these shows. Not so much tonight. I never thought I would sit here and say that we're back in the bad old days, but it feels like that every single week that goes by twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen. Here we are again. Scum

Dog is gonna kick us off. We hit the bonus goal, by the way, ten out of ten on the bonus goal, we're still twenty five away from the main goal, where three hundred and seventy five likes. Let's shoot for at least four hundred. Then we could do double b the booker. That alone will make this stream better than SmackDown tonight.

Scumdug four twenty wants to know worst Match and feud of twenty twenty five John Cena and Cody Roads WrestleMania forty one, especially when you consider how big of a match it was that gets my vote for worst match. Holiday one ninety seven says Hi Solo. They need to split the judgment day and give Finn a babyface singles run. He should be traded to smack Down next year. But before that, a Punk versus Balor match would be good. They've never had a match before, Well, now's the time

to do it. You could set Valor up for a championship match, even if it was just the TV match. You know sometime between now and early next year. Death Side WWE nine ninety nine has not aimed well, also liked your idea for the men's war games. So here's my pitch. The Vision, along with brock Lesner, Logan Paul, and a returning Austin Theory, take out the three guys who were supposed to join Punk and Roman once we

get to Survivor series. After Punk and Roman come out, they are followed by Sena and the returning Hardy Boys since their TNA contracts expire this month. Yeah. I mean, look, it would get a big pot, but the Hardies don't need to be in war games. It doesn't fit. I mean it just it would be so random. Sena at least, like he's never been in wargames. You want him to wrestle at Survivor series because it would be so fucking

lame for him to show up and not wrestle. But again, you know, my idea was, if you want to get Seena in wargames, the best way to do it is a week or two before the pay per view. You know, you have the vision, takeout one of the babyfaces that's already been announced. They're down a man, and then you know Booms seen his music hits or I mean, I

guess he's not going to be on TV. So however they make the announcement, John Cena gets that spot, and maybe maybe they do save that as a surprise announcement for the show. You know, last year or two years ago, they decided to let everybody know in advance that Randy Orton was going to be on the Babyface Squad? Would he show up? I think with Sina you could. You could save that as a surprise where they show up that night they're down a man. Right, scene has already

been advertised for the show. People can sort of figure out, like who it's probably going to be, but it'll get a big pop when they hit his music and he comes out. You may as well save it as a surprise, because if you don't have Sena on TV before Survivor series, I mean you do on the tenth and the seventeenth, but like the week before, he's not going to be there.

You could do that. You could do that either way though, whether you announced in advance or you save it as a surprise, it would be fairly easy to work him into that match. Dev to Dust. Tim Duncan was the Bret Hart of basketball. His nickname was the Big Fundamental. It's kind of similar to the excellence of execution. Both

guys styles weren't flashy, but they got the job done. Yes, but it is Tim Duncan, the goat, and you know who gave him that nickname, the excellence of execution guerrilla Monson. Holliday says, I fear they've ruined Julia's push. What push, Holliday? What push are you referring to? There was never a push. Don't let the belt fool you. There was never a push. There was a push right into the abyss. You know, at the beginning of the stream you see green Man

struggling not to fall into the hole. They gave her a push right into the hole. He says. She should never have been strapped with the US belts so quickly, without a plan or any feuds. Also, I'm hoping Drew wins its Survivor series. Why else continued the Cody and Drew program. Sure, they do the match. It would be nice to see him win, but at this point, I don't even give a shit. Brole seven says, so far eight participants and seven of them are in their forties.

Are you talking about the John Cena tournament? Well, priest is forty. Seamus is what forty six, Knakamora has got to be in his forties, Misses in his forties. Jay Usso is probably forty ish, like Day one Ish La Night is forty two. It's about right, though, I mean for a tournament to wrestle John Cena, who's forty eight. So yeah, they'll they'll have to get some young'ins in there, though, can't all be the old dudes dev to Does Vince

McMahon hate New Jersey? It feels like every time they go there he brands it as the shadow of New York or the New York New Jersey area, Yes, because everything is just it's in the frame of New York. New York is bright lights and big time. New York was always like their home based, even though they're based out of Connecticut, so New Jersey was always viewed as less than death Side looks like we're getting Cody Drew

Black Priest in a fatal four way at Survivor Series. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of running back Cody and Drew and Black and Priest? Well, because Black and Priests are going to have another match, even though they already had a last man standing match, They're going to continue to work together, and right now Drew is suspended, so we don't know, we don't know when he'll be reinstated,

know when we're going to see him again. Back on TV we got Brolly seven who thought having Julia work with fucking befabs Zelina and Meetchen would make her get over. It's going to be the same for Soul and Jordan.

Being sent to SmackDown is death right now. It is. Yes, there's no reason to believe it'll be any different, but I do think that it will be a little bit easier because their promo ability is going to just it's going to be better than Julia because for Julia, this is not her first language, and it's going to be more of a struggle for her than it would be for them. So that's the only real big difference I would say between them, because they're all great wrestlers, like

in ring is not the issue, super Pony. Did you see Kevin Owen's post on X of him training at the PC. Does this mean he's coming back? This show desperately needs something. I hope he's eventually able to come back, but no, that does not mean he is on his way back. He had next surgery. He is not on his way back. I think the earliest that we might possibly see him back is around WrestleMania time, and I

doubt he would even be ready for WrestleMania. But I mean, what am I saying if he had surgery in July unless it ended up being not as serious as we were led to believe. I mean, with WW, you never know. But he had surgery in July. Remember, they had to put the surgery off for months because of swelling. They were waiting and waiting and waiting. So that's usually a year. So yeah, he's not coming back anytime soon, dude. Just because he posted that clip does not mean that his

return is imminent. Unfortunately, I wish it was, but we're not going to see him for a very long time. Doctor Scorpio looking forward to the new HG National title. I'm still pissed they stole our Crown Jewel Championship idea. We had the Crown Jewel title long before they did Misfit Wrestling podcast. Hey Solo, what do you think about Drew against all this at WrestleMania in Vegas? Feels like they are building towards that. Yeah, it doesn't really do much for me. I mean, it would be a huge

downgrade for Drew. I mean, look, I felt the same way about Randy Orton, where I was convinced it was building to a match maybe with Borton and all this, and it never happened. I don't think they want to see all this in the ring. I'm not saying it'll never happen. I'm sure at some point he'll have a match, but they I don't think they want to see. They didn't hire Nick Alldis as a wrestler. They hired him to do something other than that. Nick All this was

someone they could have signed years ago. They had no interest. If they had interest, they would have brought him in. So he does a great job as the GM. I'm sure if he wanted to get back in the ring, he can get back in the ring and he would look just fine. But I don't get the impression WWE is interested in him for that reason, because if they were, we would have seen him wrestling a long time ago.

Scum Doug, which town would you hate to get a flat tire in Raccoon City from Resident Evil or Silent Hill? I wouldn't want to get a flat tire in either one of them a xsc shoutout, brother, good to have you with us, but scum Doug. If I had to choose, I'd probably I'd probably choose Raccoon City is the one I would not want to get a flat tyrant, Alex says brother solo. It's gotten to the point where you need to start looking after your mental health because we

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worked for Brock. That's another issue right now in WWE, they have a lot of people who are very, very part time, and so you feel the pain on these shows, especially on SmackDown, because they have done a very poor job of building up other people to get to that same level. So when those people are out of the picture, when Roman Reign isn't around, Randy Orton isn't around, Brock, I mean, Brock wasn't around for two years, so it

doesn't matter. But even Brock. You know, they bring Brock back at SummerSlam, we don't see him again for weeks and weeks and weeks. He wrestles one match and then he disappears, and so then you end up with these shows where you have this hole at the very top where your main eventers. It's very even Cody, Cody. You had a movie, right, so Cody vanished for like a month. Drew has a movie coming up. He's going to disappear

also for many, many weeks. Great for them, I'm glad they have all these opportunities, But as a viewer when it comes to these weekly shows, because they have done such a poor job of building up other people on the show, you feel their absence that much more. Arabian Night two thousand, Julia should have gone to a w with her bestie Tekla. Her strength is her in ring to objectively. AW would showcase her strong style more. She had so much hype fuck Triple H. I think Julia

would have done well in AW. I'm trying to, like in my head figure out where she would be right now in the pecking order there. I still feel like she would be in a spot that would be very unsatisfying to a lot of people because they do have a lot of very talented women on that roster, but they probably would have done a better job with her than Triple H is doing right now. I think you're right about that. Boots does all this add himself in the tournament? Or is that what we're gonna find out?

Can you imagine La Night comes out next week, he's waiting for his opponent, Nicko All this comes out and your opponent is and that he takes jacket off and he's got his fucking gear on underneath, and it's nick Aldus and then nick All this beats La Night like everybody else does. Nick All, this beats La Night. Yeah, I could totally see that, GMB. Why is Triple H afraid of Priest losing a feud? I don't know, But you know, Damian Priest on SmackDown is a different person

than the one we saw on Raw. When he was in the judgment day and even in the immediate aftermath of him leaving the Judgment day, he was super over and ever since they moved him over to SmackDown then he has been pretty cold. I don't want to say ice cold, but he's been pretty cold, and they still after all these months, they have yet to really get him going on this show. I don't know. I mean

the crowd just feels indifferent towards him. They really need a guy like him him to be in that position where he could be one of the top players on SmackDown. I don't think people see him as that yet. I don't think they've taken to him in that way. But if you remember, like after he left the Judgment day and he was kind of still feuding with them, and Rhea had also left, so it was like Priest and Rhea like the reactions they were getting from those live crowds,

they were super over. I mean, Rhea is still super over, but he's not getting those reactions on SmackDown. Yeah. No, it's not wet by time for Damian Priest. His star has fallen. Lakers Pat says sceneas should wear his debut gear for his last match. No, he should. He has said that this is going to be the last time you will never see him again ever. In the jorts, you know, the hat, the T shirt coming out to the ring. You can't deprive people of that one last time.

There's a certain image of John scene that they have, and in his final match, you owe it to the fans to give them that image of John scene, the people who would remember even what he looked like in his debut twenty three years ago, like most people aren't even gonna remember. Most people probably weren't even watching at that time that are watching right now, Fried Chicken. The entire WWE creative should be arrested tonight for how they

handled Julia. The word boring should not be near Julia whatsoever. Now disagree, bas beers, Macho Monster needs to hold the winged eagle next time. We will try to remember that for next time. You'll have to remind me. I have a winged eagle, not even the one on the wall. I have a white one. But it's like twelve poundses, so can't I can't hold that for the entire stream. We got Phil my first ever super chat here on the channel. Look at that, and it's a nineteen ninety

nine drop. Look at that he's dropping in in style. SmackDown sucks. Thank god for your reviews, yeah, you know, and then I'll get comments from people. Well, and you'll see there'll be some WWE like diehards who were like well, if you don't like it, then don't watch SmackDown's great.

You're just a hater. And what these people don't understand is that all that does is it just it makes me want to watch it even more, just to piss them off, Like they don't understand, Like my job here, part of my job is to watch the show and come on here and hang out with you and talk about the show. It doesn't matter if the show is great. It doesn't matter if the show's garbage, right, I's it could be, it could be anything. But it's like, Oh,

if you don't like the show, why are you watching? Oh? I don't know. Why would I be watching this show? Gee? I wonder what could the reason be? I could think of two reasons, you know. Number one, I'm a fan who wants to see the show get better and is hoping week to week that maybe by chance I'll tune in and it'll actually be a good episode. And also, oh, I don't know, I have a fucking show that I do. But thank you, Phil dry Chicken says, turn Julia babyface

they killed the heel run. Lol, dude, it doesn't matter. They could turn her baby face. They can keep her heel. If they don't have any kind of serious plans for her, send her back to NXT. Send her back to NXT before it's too late, because the longer she stays on SmackDown and she's just sort of a background player, that's how people are gonna see her, and it's gonna be very,

very hard for her to break out of that. You know, Either, you see Brie still has the flu, So either pull your head out of your fucking ass and figure out what you're gonna do with this woman fast and come up with a battle plan for her, or give her back to Shawn Michaels and let Shawn Michaels take take the reins from here before it's too late. Boots says, have you checked out Powerwash Simulator two? Very relaxing game? Uh? Well, where would one play this game? I've never even heard

of that Powerwash Simulator two. I'll look into it. I could use something relaxing. After the show tonight, Dry Chicken says, AEW cannot beat WWE, WWE cannot kill a W So both companies actually really need each other. Don't tell that to the Sikos on both sides. I think their heads might explode bass beers. Would they have Jade squash Charlotte, no doctor Scorpio truth All This segment sounds worse with just audio. Yeah, it was, uh their version of comedy.

What can I say? Their version of comedy? What great writing they have bass beers. The RTC censored Charlotte's wardrobe malfunction. Seriously, they blacked out the screen like at least three times she was busting. Was busting tonight, Phil, Yeah, I'm gonna have to check out that brimde thing. Man. She she's been sick all week. She sounded awful on Monday too when she popped up. You know, you know what brimode is. When she gets into bre mode, she's you know, like

blackout drunk. So she's been Yeah, she's been puking in the corner. She's been puking in the bathroom. It's been awful. I told her to drink water, but she just doesn't listen. Phil, with another nine ninety nine, says buy sell or rent Julia Live Morgan or Stephanie Viquer Julia right now, sell. We're going by them right now at the moment, we're gonna have to sell Julia. Unfortunately, I'm gonna buy on Uh, that's a tough one. I'll buy on Stephanie, but like

character wise, I would have to go and live. But if we're talking about kind of everything together, I'll go Stephanie live and then Julia. We got Hank Hank shanasky? Will you review Juggalo Championship Wrestling on November twenty seven? Will I review JCW on Thanksgiving night? I'll be busy on Thanksgiving night? Will I review it on the sound

off that weekend? Possibly? I know that's the first episode of JCW where Vince Russo pops up as an on screen character, or maybe not a character, he just pops up on screen. Can it be any worse than SmackDown? At what point do we replace smacked Down with the JCW reviews? That's how bad it's getting. I'm entertaining the idea. Braley seven says, Remember EO didn't wrestle for two months while champion. Oh I remember, I haven't forgotten. I remember,

and remember Stephanie disappeared from television. Also, I know she had an illness later on, but that didn't account for why she vanished for like a month after she won that battle Royal at Evolution, Dried Chicken says, I said it before and I'll say it again. Bruce Pritchard, Michael Hayes and Rode Doug goodbye. After wrestle Mania forty two, send Triple H on a six month paid vacation, not fired, Send him away, Let Cody run creative. So let's give

the world champion even more work to do. That doesn't seem like a very wise idea red emissary of darkness for fuck's sake, I don't want to watch a match between MS and jizz Uso. Yeah, I don't want to watch jiz Uso either. I don't know why anybody would And gives a whole other meaning to the word yeat Phil Tony Kahan poops standing up and Triple HP sitting down right. Thank you, Phil bes beers three years today, since Theory had the worst money in the bank cashing,

I was definite the US title. Yeah Theory another one, another one ruined by the creative team. Boots with a ten showing some love, Thank you, Boots, Jeremy rose Man. They carrying crossed, Julia, how do you look so dominant in NXT? And then book them like a joke man, Rebuilding her is gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard, but it's not impossible. I just don't trust them to do the right thing. If they knew what they were doing with her, they would have done it by now.

Leopoldo can Road Doug and Shawn Michael's switch spots seriously asking I don't think Shawn Michaels wants that spot. I think he's very content to be, you know, the kind of the grandfather of NXT. Those are his kids. He sends them out into the world. As we're finding out, the world can be a very nasty place. But I genuinely think he's very happy and content where he is. Hey, I wouldn't mind the switch. I watch more of SmackDown than I watch NXT. It might not be good for NXT.

I would take Seawn Michaels on SmackDown. Sure, Phil says road Dog eats corn the long way. He used to have corn rows in his hair. Now he has no hair. The sheltered kid. This episode ruined my birthday today. Oh man, Well, hopefully this stream helped pep you up a little bit. Hopefully we helped restore some of that good birthday feeling, Jeremy says prediction WrestleMania Talatanga versus Omas. Omas is a

good dude. I saw Omas started a one thousand dollars monthly recurring donation to Ridge Hollands Go fundme, as did Chelsea Green Boots with the fifty dollars Happy Birthday to the sheltered Kit. You see that, You see sheltered kid. You got everybody rallying behind you here in the chat. We're all here to celebrate your birthday with you. We got your back even when WWE doesn't. Holiday one ninety seven thoughts on reports that WWE are or will be

using AI to write storylines. That is a fake report. They are not using AI to write storylines. They use AI for other reasons, but not to actually storyline. Doesn't mean they won't in the future, but that is not true. Although I'll tell you all watching this show every week, maybe that wouldn't be such a terrible idea. We got

sick Mundis five dollars. Super Chat says Solo. If Phil drops the World Heavyweight Championship before wrestle Mania, do you see him winning the elimination Chamber some redemption for how he lost at the last one, and do you see him facing a heel Cody. I don't. I would love the punk Cody program. I think the promos would be good.

The match we haven't gotten if he drops the championship before Mania, though, I could definitely see him winning the Chamber because it is in Chicago at the end of February. But like him wrestling a heel Cody, I don't see Cody going heel before WrestleMania. Base Bearris Vato solo. I already forgot what the pronunciation of that second half is. I know you guys told me, and I already forgot it, So I'm not even gonna attempt to say it because

I know I'm gonna say it the wrong way. Paul Carpenter Sena versus Miss twenty twenty five book it won last time? No, nope, uh sick mundus. How hilarious and sad would it be if all this is surprised is just Walter's return in the La Night losing train continues, Well, that's right. I mean, at some point Gunther is gonna have to be announced in this tournament. Well, I mean, look, we all know who's winning the match if it ends up being him, so would you be shocked if they

bounced La Night out of the opening room. Bobby means, I like the fact that lash Legend is on SmackDown. She is a new face in that division. If I'm booking Julia, I would send her to Raw and Rhea to SmackDown. I don't care, you know, at this point, I don't care where you send Julia, but she's got to get off SmackDown. I mean, I say, NXT just because you move her to Raw, it's the same generally speaking,

it's the same fucking people writing for these shows. I know the women's division is in a better position on Monday nights. You know, she had a little bit of a partnership going on with her in Roxanne when she first showed up on the main roster. That was, you know, doing okay, and then they split them up. Sick Munda says, he stole Walter. To me, damn it, he is whatever you want him to be. See, he's not really anymore than because when I think of Walter, I associate him

with like fat Walter. And now of course he's you know, slimmed down and he's lean, and he changed his whole physique. That's Gunther Walter was the big boy who would go in there and chop the shit out of people. He was a little more intimidating in the Walter days. Leopoldo says, ouch, maybe WWE should let Ai write stories. Well, like I said, maybe that wouldn't be such a terrible idea. We keep

getting shows like this. Maybe not see we got here, do a little refresh here we go misstic j forty four. Maybe Julia was better off staying in Marigold. Now, I mean in Marigold, you know, where does she go from there? You know? I mean I was excited to see her eventually come to the States and come to WWE, because I always felt like, man, this this woman could really be marketable here, like she's gonna be a star. But in Marigold it's like whatever, She's kind of like a

big fish in a small pond over there. Oh my god, it's Winkie with a two dollars super chair. Ruthless Depression era of SmackDown has begun. I like, you know what, I like that. I like that we may have to start calling it the ruthless Depression era. I think you're onto something here. Arabian Night two thousand. Now would be a good time to split the profits. Yeah, I forgot all about them. They haven't even been on the show.

I completely forgot about the street robits Eli. Yesterday marks twenty five years of Jr's iconic quote, why Triple H? Tell me why? When Triple H reveals as the mastermind behind Rakishi's or RAKESHI running over Stone Cold. Yeah, but that's not as good as his rant on Triple H after he hit Seawn Michaels with the sledgehammer at SummerSlam in two thousand and two. He really goes in on him after that, calls him a son of a bitch.

Leopoldo love you, dev but Brett's excellence never put me to sleep, unliked Tim Duncan mac tub If you had a guess, why do you think Triple H hates La Knight? I don't know. Maybe he just said something backstage that rubbed him the wrong way. I mean, it could be any number of things. It could be any number of things. I can't get in the man's head. Arabian Night La about to lose again next week? What the fuck is going on Triple H? Maybe he uh, I don't know.

Maybe he pissed in his corn flakes or something. Duffs it is, why can't crabs cross the road? It can only use the sidewalk? And what do you call cow's knees? Burger joints Duffs with the jokes Matt Fisher with a twelve dollars learn supporting the channel. I love to see it actually, and then at twenty five dollars re mode, look at this guy showing all the love tonight we are celebrating eighteen years of the sound of All November Long. I appreciate that man Duffs VIDs A horse walks into

the bar. The bartender says hey, the horse replies, yes please. I thought the joke was going to be a horse walks into the bar. The bartender says, hey, are you okay? But I guess yours is better. Mactub. How highly do you rate Kurt overall? I think he's insanely complete, but lacks the star power to be top five ever Kurt or Triple H Kurt or HBK Kurt or Taker. I rank Kurt above them all except Sean. I think Kurt is great. I think Kurt is is like the total

package as far as a professional wrestler. He didn't have the size that some guys have, but neither did Brett, neither did Sean, neither did Flair. Flair wasn't a terribly large guy. Yeah, but I mean what was Kurt? Though Kurt was probably was he even six feet I mean that might be the only mark against him, honestly. I mean he could do it all. He could work, He could switch between babyface and heel, serious and comedic. I mean the comedic shit. He had that down from day one.

He was entertaining as all hell. I rate Kurt very, very highly. I don't have Kurt, you know, at the level of peak Austin or peak Hogan as far as like star power, but he as far as I'm concerned, he's right up there with the names like Brett Hart and Shawn Michaels. The only other thing about Kurt you could say, like in WWE, his run, he didn't have the longevity that some of the bigger stars had. He believe it or not, it's still it just boggles my mind that his run in TNA was longer than his

run at least his original run in WWE. That is just that will never not be wild to me, kurt is six foot even okay, Jake Hey Solo will catch up later. Rarely awake to donate, but forgot to turn my alarm clock off and was awoken at five am. Happy eighteenth anniversary to the soundof thank you, Jake, I appreciate you, Jeremy rose Thing. Vince tells Triple Ah to the products. I don't know how much they speak. I'm

sure they speak. I don't think Vince McMahon, of all people, is anybody to tell anybody else that the show sucks, because for the most part the last oh, I don't know, decade of his run there, the show is pretty fucking bad. Vince lost the magic touch a long time ago. He's not really in a position to be telling anybody that creatively the show sucks. It's like pot meat kettle Retro says bre Mode has been hanging out with Adam Pears. Oh yeah, they're drinking buddies. At least Adam can hold

his liquor. Brad Hard, haven't you thought about live streaming gaming content and just chill with us one day, at least with the channels members only. I've thought about it. It's just a matter of finding time to do it. I'm working on other stuff right now that you guys haven't even seen yet, but we should do something like that one day. Phil with the nine ninety nine did you know Jackie Chan was off for the role of Simon Phoenix Wesley Snipes part, but he turned it down because

he didn't want to play a villain in Demolition Man? Interesting? When did Demolition Man come out? Wasn't that like ninety three or something that was pretty early on in the nineties. Giro Sanchez, Hi, Roe, and I need to change my photo. That's a teen I'm twenty seven now. I've been listening since twenty thirteen on TV tracks. Always watched now, but lately been watching live. That's the best time to watch.

That way you can get in on the action. Thank you, bro. Yeah, I couldn't even notice, Like in the screen I'm looking at, the avatar is very very small. So Devin from New Jersey buyer cell metalingis or cult of personality? Cult of personality? Phil with a nine, I mean Phil is running wild tonight Man says Solo Monster. I used your express VPN link you have on the podcast, and I got four months free on top of the twelve. Yes, that is the offer. You get four extra months, which is well

worth it. One of the services I pay for. I use it every single week. I used it tonight. I watched SmackDown tonight on Netflix. That way I could see the matches during the commercials, so I got to see the US Open Challenge stuff and everything. Because yeah, sometimes in these matches go to break like a minute in and it interrupts the flow of the match. But you know, with the VPN, I'm able to keep up with it.

So make sure you take advantage of that ExpressVPN dot Com slash Solomon so you get four extra months when you sign up for the year. Bass Bears says, La Knight and Drew need to channel Brett ninety seven. Dude, have you been watching the shows? Like That's all Drew has been doing. He's been talking about how much he's been screwed. He's like a Lady of the Night. He's been screwed so often and he gets paid for it.

Broley says, imagine if Triple H booked the Attitude era. Oh, we know who the champion, we know who all the champions would be back in that. You want to talk about the Triple H of the attitude era and the ruthless aggression era. Oh boy, you think they are bad? Now, I can tell you who all the champions would be.

I love how everybody is like being. There are people who are being very like, oh, it's okay, Like GTA six, we just want them to make sure they put a good game at as long as they work at all the kinks, and it's all about making sure the game is good, So I'm okay with it. Like, there are people who played GTA five and in the time since the last game came out, like, they've gotten married, they've had kids. You know, they had some terrible illness, they

beat it, they're in remission. They got there starting a whole new life. Now they got divorced, their kids graduated college. These people will die of natural causes before GTA six comes out. How is that a good thing? You people are very patient. I personally don't give a shit, but I don't have any of those current modern consoles, so I won't be buying it. You're a hell of a lot more patient than I would be. Joseph Brooks with the nine ninety nine. I know, those Wrestling Observer Newsletter

awards are just one's opinion. But I saw that the winner of nineteen ninety five's Worst Gimmick was gold dust. You mean to tell me that gold dust was worse than a fucking hockey player, garbage men, and man tar Well. I think what he was talking about or going for at the time was in the early days of the gold dust gimmick, you know, there were a lot of homosexual overtones to it, to the point where it felt exploitative.

That's why it won for Worst Gimmick. It's like years later when Goldust was doing the silly comedy gimmick where he had Tourette syndrome, but he would never say it was turets. He was on the Howard Stern Show once and they're like, you have Tourett's and they're laughing about it, and he's like, no, no, no, I don't have tourets. It's a neurological condition. Like okay, sure. The Sheriff of Patties hearing that you're giving us some new content soon

has me excited. Sound of Gamer and rspw rewind are my favorites. See with the Hog Show in Chicago, I will be there as long as my flight doesn't get canceled. I'm starting to get very worried if things don't kind of get back to normal in the next like seven to ten days. Still got two weeks left. I fly out on November twenty first, the week before Thanksgiving. But every day that goes by, they're canceling more and more flights. I'm starting to get a little worried. But otherwise I'll

be there. I'll see you there. Yeah, you know what rspw re want. I'm gonna I'm gonna set a good super check goal, probably on the show next week, maybe on Monday. If we hit that goal, we may have to bring back rspwe one. You may have to do a new installment. It's been three years. It's been too long. Because I got some posts, I got some links, I just haven't gotten around to it. I think we're gonna have to set a goal next week, and then it's gonna be up to you guys. We hit that goal,

you'll get it. Fill with the nine to ninety nine Solomn Monster. You ever use a wrestling T shirt at the gym and ever get complimented? I have, actually funny enough a few different times. I actually wore a sound off shirt to the gym once and somebody recognized me. That is a few people at the gym that I go to who are fans of the show that have come over, So that's cool. But yeah, I've worn I've worn some wrestling shirts of old ones too, like Austin shirts.

The newer shirts don't get much of a reaction because wrestling now is not nearly as cool as he used to be back then. But I've gotten some reactions. Joseph Cheris cheris cherish, keep, borrow sell on these versions of DX OG ninety seven to ninety eight, ninety eight to ninety nine, which is the DX Army ninety nine to two thousand, the Mcmahonhelmsley regime, and the Reunion No. Six. I hated the reunion of No. Six, so that goes

way at the bottom of the list. My favorite version, the best incarnation of DX was that ninety eight version ninety eight to ninety nine, funny enough, the one that Triple H took over the night after WRESTLEMANI at fourteen. That one is cherish. That one is the best version. Number two would be the original, so that'll be the keep and then the borrow would be the Mcmahnhelmsley version, but six. To me, it was just such a watered down version of what the original was. I just didn't

like it. Then the glow sticks. They had to market the glow sticks right, sell glow sticks, so we had the glow sticks all the time. Whatever. Devin from New Jersey. Earlier this decade, Solo had Brock Lesner in his top ten all time goat list. Is this still the case? Or has Brock damage goods? No? I mean, I'm not going to sit here and put a whole list together right now, but if I had him in the top ten, I had him there for a reason that hasn't changed.

Believe me. There are a lot of wrestlers who have damaged their reputations and are damaged goods for one reason or another over the years. It doesn't mean they fall out of the top five for the top ten necessarily shout out to Paul, He's got the gold skull next to his name. Lakers, Pats, did you cry during Shawn Michaels tell me a live video. I didn't, But you

want to know what I don't want to say. It's a little embarrassing, but I didn't cry during that video, but I did cry a little bit during the Oh God, what was the name of the song? The Macho Man and Elizabeth wedding song Forever Wait Together Together Forever. Yes, that brought a tear to my eye. That whole reunion to Wrestle Many the seven was very emotional and g Barry Free. Sorry. I don't know if it's been asked, but did you see j versus Punk was four stars? Oh?

I saw that. Yeah, Dave gave Jay Usso and ciam Punk four stars from Saturday Night's main event, and that right there is just a perfect example of why you should not allow the star ratings to bother you, because it really, truly is just one man's opinion, a very bad opinion, but an opinion. Nonetheless, Sure, I give the match four stars also, and then deduct two four stars minus two. All right, Well, we hit pay dirt tonight because we had the like skull and the bonus goal.

So my job tonight is very simple. I have one job, that's it. My one job is to book a better show than SmackDown tonight, and then we'll get back to your final super chats. Alex, I see your message. I'm gonna get to you here in a second. Well, it's time to be the booker. Ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker. That's my only job here. We have got to book ourselves a better show than SmackDown tonight. This shouldn't be too hard. We've got two

chances here. We're off to a great start because we're kicking things off with Booker T and Stevie Ray. We got Harlem Heat in b the Booker or they ten time or eleven time tag team champions in w CW. They held those titles a lot. Here we go, baby Harlem Heat. Oh no. I was like, how could it possibly be a buzzer for a Harlem Heat match? Harlem Heat against the Bushwhackers. Now, this is not the Sheepherders. If it was the Sheepherders, I would have given that

the bell. But this is the Bushwhackers. The Bushwhackers in Harlem Heat. That's not a good pairing. There, doesn't work. I'm sorry. They go around licking people. I remember I went to the fan the first time they ever did a fan festival. Now they call it fan Access, but that's how old this was. It was their first fan festival. For WrestleMania WrestleMania ten weekend, and it was a lot more scaled down than the one you would see today. You could just walk around, you would be bumping in guys. O,

can I get your autograph? Right? I mean, they had people sitting at tables with some lines, but it wasn't anything, you know, terrible. I waited in the line for Sean Michaels with my dad, and you know, we waited in the line for like what, not even five minutes probably, But the bushwhackers we were walking around and my brother, who's a little younger than me, he was scared to death of the bushwhackers because he did not want to

be licked by the bushwhackers. Now, of course, today if you were to walk up to somebody and lick them, you would be arrested. But they were just licking people. Man. They were walking up to people, men, women, kids, it didn't matter, and they were licking them. And I'm like, I'm keeping my distance, and my brother is just in tears. I think he was scarred by the whole experience. It's kind of funny. Actually, yeah, don't go around licking people.

You don't know what kind of disease you might pick up. We have a Lita kick us off here and women's be the book. Jean Snitzky is very pleased with this and it will be Lyda against the Queen of Spades, one of the most dominant NXT women's champions of all time, Shana Basler. Let's get that Shana Basler in the ring with Lita. Yeah. I'm very proud of myself and my role in helping to book the upcoming match at the House of Glory show. Not this weekend, but next Saturday,

Super Clash. We have a match that we have booked Shana Basler for the first time ever one on one with machi Ito. This is going to be quite the styles clash. I am looking forward to this match. Okay, our first main event, we got two of them, so this is number one. You gotta make it a good one. Here we have Darby Allen. I heard a horrific story today involving Darby Allen and Brodie King that I will

share on the podcast. This guy is He's a fucking weird of this guy, but he is a big name in AW so let's see who he will be wrestling. Uh Be the booker has been repossessed. Oh, no, game over. The Repo Man has repossessed be the booker. There will be no main event. I I'll tell you this though. If we were gonna land on this, this was the time to do it. You imagine if we landed on this at the beginning, that would have been it. That would have been the end of the round. So there's

a no contest because Darbi Allen has no opponent. However, this does not affect the bonus round, so we're not done yet. There is another round. I'm not gonna cheat you out of that. You guys earned that, all right, So we got the bonus round, we get to pick steps now. Tons of stipulations are in here. So let's see what we're gonna be doing. We're gonna be doing a TLC match, all right, a TLC tag team match

that works tables, ladders, and shares. Folks, here we go, Oh my god, Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man Randy Savage, the Mega Powers are going to be in a tables, ladders and chairs match. You know who's taking all the bumps in this match? Poor Macho Macho Man is taking all of the bump There's no way Hogan is climbing that ladder. Ain't no way that Hogan is climbing that ladder.

Poor match. Who are their opponents gonna be? Though? This will be interesting whole Cogan in a TLC match against Jimmy and Jay the USOS, We'll be yeating all night long. The mega powers in the USSOS. Actually, in terms of like marquee matches, is a pretty good one. Actually, that's that's one we have never seen before. Hearing be the booker. Yeah, Macho used to take all kinds of dude. Macho Man took one of the most insane bumps I've ever seen

for someone his age, really somewhat of any age. Remember that rickety cage they used that one year at Halloween Havoc in WCW. This tall ass freaking rickety cage. It was like Hogan against Piper. I think age in the cage and Savage climbed to the very top and he came diving off with a double axe handle and I think he missed, but he fucking destroyed his knees on the landing. I'm like, what is this? This guy's out of his mind, and I truly, I mean I think

he still wrestled for several months. He had to have knee surgery the following year. But I don't I don't think he was ever the same after that. I really don't. His knees were already bad to begin with, but after that, I don't know what he was thinking. All right, we got to pick a women's match. Now it is loser Leaves Town. Okay, all right, this is this is like a John Cena retirement match. Here. The loser is out

of here. They're out of a job. Loser leaves town on the lady's side, and it will be oh my, Mercedes Monet also at the House of Glory show next weekend, possibly collecting her thirteenth championship. Maybe she'll lose. I don't know, we'll see, but she might lose here. This could be the end of her run here the TBS champion. Her run is in jeopardy. Here, this is loser Leaves Town Mercedes Monette putting her title and her career on the line against Rhea fucking Ripley. Now that right, there is

a marquee match. That right. I don't think we're topping that one. Hogan and Savage against the USOS was pretty good. This is actually shaping up to be an incredible round. I have to say, I'll be the booker here. We got a fucking TLC match with the Mega Power, and we have a loser leaves Town match between Rear Ripley and Mercedes Monet. I guess it's by bye Rhea. That might be the end of Ria Ripley right there. But this is shaping up to be one of the strongest

rounds of be the booker that we've ever had. Let's not fuck it up, all right. We got ourselves a last man's standing match. That is what we're going for here, last man standing in the main event. Yeah, that is That's a wrestle media match. You bet your asset's a wrestle media match. The loose Cannon Brian Pillman. If only this were the loose canon pre nineteen ninety six hum v wreck. I'm gonna I'm gonna pretend that it is. Brian Pillman was very talented in a last man's match

against Adam Copeland. We have old edge against Brian Pillman in a last man's standing even old edge though against Brian Pillman. Pretty damn good match, right there. What do you think about that round? Mega Powers and USO's tlc Ria Ripley and Mercedes Monet, Loser Leaves Town, Adam Copeland and Brian Pillman, last man standing. You're gonna tell me SmackDown was better than that fucking card tonight, I don't think so. That's how you book a card right there,

and Alex with a five dollars super chat. Do you know what event ruined Dave's reputation as a journalist? How important was he during the nineties. I don't think any event ruined his reputation, and he still, you know, is well regarded by many people. But I think he's lost sources over the years, and I think that the arrival founding of AW and his coverage of AW and perceived biases in the eyes of a lot of people like that's what sort of compromised him and ruined and ruined

him for a lot of people. That's where it really began being talked about by people on social media who would rip on him and say all kinds of stuff. But I mean, he was very important. He's still an important figure, but he was very important during the nineties because there were a lot of people in the wrestling bubble who would get their news from the Observer. You know, it was the Observer in the Torch, and then in

the nineties you had wrestling hotlines. I mean, there were other sources of news, but Meltzer in the Observer was still number one. And not just with fans, you know, diehard fans who were in the know, but wrestlers and people in the industry. Yeah, you got to remember, like at the beginning of all this, it were it was wrestlers contacting Dave and Wade Keller, but it was wrestlers contacting Dave probably more than anything to find out like

what other people were making and stuff like that. They would get like inside information about that, like contracts and you know, to try to maybe get a better deal for themselves. Everyone had their own, I'm sure their own reasons for leaking news to Dave or being a source for Dave. But Dave had a lot of sources and he was very plugged in. Not everything he reported was

necessarily accurate. Same thing today, but like even today, you know, for all the stuff he might get wrong, and he gets a lot wrong, he'll report something like the John Cena tournament or lash legend is going to be up on the main roster by the time we get the Survivor series and then boom, look at this slash legend is on TV. We have a John Cena tournament. So he was a very important figure during that period. That's really where he rose to prominence, you know, the eighties

and the nineties. And here we are in twenty twenty five, almost twenty twenty six, and people are still talking about Dave Meltzer for better or worse right, Dave is still that guy. Must have done something right. Anyway, Thank you guys. This has been a fun stream, a hell of a lot more fun than SmackDown Tonight, which was an abomination outside of the Open Challenge, just a terror. It's just a terrible television show and as a fan, I hope

it gets better. But it's like I used to say, man, people would ask me when times were really bleak, and like everything was just awful with WWE. There wasn't even an aw at the time. Why do you still watch? Like I know you do the show, but like, don't you ever want to just give up? And I'm like I always used to say this and I still believe in it. It's what I called the two h's. You know, why do I watch out of Habit and hope, Right, I watch out of Habit and I hope it's gonna

get better. Right, You can't ever lose hope for all the money they make and as much as their business might be booming, and you could see where there's cracks in it and things are softening, that they're not at the peak anymore despite all of that, Like, the product is just creatively bankrupt in many respects, and there's no

reason for it. You have all of these resources at your disposal in terms of talent, I don't just mean in ring talent, and this is the product that you put out, Like, put a little pride in your work. Next time I'm live will be Monday night for the Raw post show. Raw will undoubtedly be better than Smack Them. Of the two shows right now, Raw is definitely the better show. So I will be live on Monday night.

Before that will be episode nine thirty seven that'll be dropping in the afternoon on Sunday, and we've got some fun stuff to cover on that show as well. So thank you for all the support here tonight. You guys crushed it, hit all the goals. We'll do it all over again on Monday. Bring the heat, I'll bring the booker, and we'll have some fun. So be well, stay safe, have your sales, a great weekend, and I will see you back here next time live on YouTube for more

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