WWE Smackdown 4/18/25 Review | Cody Rhodes BOOED In Final Showdown With John Cena!

had John Cena back on TV one last time. He was on SmackDown tonight since they're already in Las Vegas, and it looks like he got a haircut too. John Cena was on SmackDown tonight for one final face to face with his opponent in the Night two main event, that of course, being Cody Rhoads, and the last time that we saw these two men in the ring together, it did not end well for John Cena. He got

laid out with a Crossroads. So I thought maybe this time it would be Cody Rhoads eating an attitude adjustment. Keep people wondering, okay, one for one who's gonna win? On Sunday but they went in a totally different direction here and they actually gave us another Crossroads and for the second time in as many appearances, John Cena was the one who was left laying at the end of this segment. But this segment here at the end of the show was very interesting for a lot of different reasons.

The main reason being that Cody Roads got booed. As soon as he went to begin speaking, he got booed, and John Cena, you know, he also got booze. I'm not, you know, implying that John Cena got wildly cheered here by this crowd. But this is the first time here in his entire title run, let alone this Road to WrestleMania, where Cody Roads has gotten this kind of treatment. He got the AW treatment. This is how the aw fans were treating Cody Rhads in the waning months of his

run in that company. And so that was very interesting that it took this long. But of course, you know, it's a WrestleMania crowd, and so with a wrestle media crowd, you don't really know what to expect. But in this promo here we had Cody Roads actually winning the crowd back of one of the ways he won the crowd back. We had a reference to pale Sting from Stark ninety seven. Oh if you know, you know we got a pale

Sting reference. We got a Haul and Oates reference for those of you who picked up on that, and what appeared to be Now I could be wrong here, maybe my viewpoint was not all that great, but from the camera shot they showed, it appeared as if we had a karate chop from John Cena as he karate chopped Cody and went to give him an attitude adjustment, only for Cody to slip out and deliver his second crossroads

in the last few weeks. If it wasn't obvious enough before coming into tonight, the Karate Kid is leaving WrestleMania a seventeen time world champion. That was my big takeaway here from the end of this segment. He is going to set the record. He is going to make history and look part of it. Also, as far as the booze for Cody is that there are people who are going to be at this WrestleMania who understand that this

is John Cena's final WrestleMania match. They are going to be there, whether he wins or loses to witness history. Because I take him at his word, he will never again have a match at WrestleMania, so they're coming to them. This feels special not only because it's his final WrestleMania match, but because he has the opportunity to go out there and make history by winning a seventeenth World Championship. This

was always a possibility. This was always a fear, which is that if you did this match, whether you turn sna heel, if he kept him babyface, you run the risk of turning at least a portion of the audience against Cody because maybe they like Cody. It's not that they hate the guy. It's not like he has dominic mysterio heat or Charlotte Flair heat. But John Cena is the one going out there for the final time. John Cena is the one going out there trying to set

the record, not Cody. There was always a risk to doing that. So I don't know if this is going to be the same reaction that we see on Sunday or not. I'm sure it'll be more of a mixed reaction, you know, for Cody when he comes out on Sunday. But that was how They went off the air tonight with John sena flat on his back for the second time, and Cody Roades with that smile on his face, standing there posing with the WWE Championship. Get Ready the Karate

Kid getting number seventeen on Sunday or WrestleMania. Now, John Cena is heading into his twentieth WrestleMania, That's what he told us tonight. You know who else is heading into his twentieth WrestleMania, his twentieth WrestleMania match on Sunday as well. Randy Orton. Casina at Orton, they got their start right

around the same time. Randy Orton at this moment does not have an opponent for WrestleMania, and we're not going to know who his opponent is for WrestleMania until Sunday, because we are getting a Randy Orton Open Challenge, and I have an idea as to who I think the opponent is going to be. It is pretty obvious after the show tonight that it will not be Solo Soca,

which by the way, deserves some applause. Thank God. The way the show went off the air last week, I was a little worried because we had Randy Orton and Solo Soca fighting off into the crowd. I said, oh my god, please, all due respect to Solo Soca, I don't need to see Randy Orton and Solo Soca as a WrestleMania match, So at least we could rest easy doing that is not going to be the match. But it also doesn't appear like it's going to be Nick

all this. It's going to be somebody else. And who that person is again, I have a theorist to who it may be, but we won't know for sure until Sunday. The other thing also, and this is really too bad if it works out this way, is that Raymisteria was in action tonight. There was a six man tag team match that was made during the show was Mystero, Dragon Lee, and Ray Phoenix taking on Chad Gable and the Creed Brothers. And it didn't take very long into the match didn't

look like anything out of the ordinary. Raymysterio got pulled out of the ring. He was chasing Chad Gable on the outside and was sliding into the ring and Julius Creed grabbed him by the leg and he yanked him hard. I mean no harder than normal, but he, you know, give him a hard yank and he hit the floor on the outside and we did not see raymysterio again after that. He was laying on the outside for the rest of the match. Never got back in the ring.

He was being tended to by a trainer. And then there was video of Ray being helped out of the ringside area to the back. He had to be carried to the back. He could not put any weight at all on his left knee, and so that is not good, especially because he's got a match tomorrow against Elgnandi Americano at WrestleMania, which now appears to be in grave jeopardy.

And so what a kick in the balls that would be for Ray, who didn't have to be in a match tonight, but you got three hours to fill and so he ended up in the ring on a show that he's not even on the SmackDown roster, but he ends up in a match and potentially now is out

of WrestleMania. We don't know that, but it's not looking good and I would feel doubly bad, not just for Ray, but for all jokes aside for Chad Gable, who was about to head into his very first singles match ever at WrestleMania, and what happens with him now if this match ends up being called off. So I'm gonna be checking periodically to see if there's any updates, you know, while I'm streaming as far as the ray is concerned. But it didn't look good, so we'll have to wait

and find out. We also had a tag team Championship match on the show tonight, boy to, I got some news on that. And we also had on this show the annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, which we have on SmackDown every single year, and we've had many luminaries win this Battle Royal. I remember when Baron Corbin

won the Battle Royal. And we've had we've had some big names too, you know, We've had big show We've had Braunz Stroman, We've had jay Usso last year it was Bronson Reid, right and look and look at the fall that he went on to have late last year. So who would walk away with the win tonight? And de Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, I'm going to talk about that just so you know. The WWE Hall

of Fame is taking place in about ninety minutes. It starts in ninety minutes because again they're out west, so East coast time, it's not starting until one o'clock in the morning, but it is taking place tonight at the Fountain Blue or whatever wherever it is that it's being held, So we have that coming up in a few hours. We also know that jay Uso is going to be challenging Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship in the opening match on Night one. That is the match that is

going to open the show tomorrow night. That match is going to set the tone for the rest of the show, so that'll be WrestleMania Saturday. And also we found out by commercial tonight that Cardi B is going to be hosting SummerSlam, which I believe is new information. I remember Cardi B was I think part of the announcement that Summer Slam was going to be two nights in MetLife Stadium, but I don't think they announced that she was going to be the host. So yeah, she will be hosting

SummerSlam in August. So a lot of different things going on tonight on a show that honestly it was a mix of It was a mix of good and meh again. This WrestleMania season, this road to WrestleMania has felt longer because this is the latest that WrestleMania has ever been. WrestleMania is usually it used to be in March sometimes, but typically WrestleMania is the first week of April, maybe

the very beginning of the second week. We've never had a WrestleMania on the nineteenth and the twentieth of April. We've never had a four to twenty. We've never had an Easter. I don't think Easter WrestleMania before. So this is different. And I think that hurt. It hurt a lot, and this WrestleMania road has been dragging. I like I said, I'm very happy that we're finally here. My attitude is, let's get the show on the road. Please, let's get

these shows over with. I'm ready for WrestleMania, and I'm also ready for the SmackDown review, which is why you were all here. This is your Friday Night SmackDown review. We are live on YouTube. It is April eighteenth, twenty

twenty five. I am the Solemn Monster. Thank you guys for hanging out with me on what is going to be a very busy weekend, and those of you who are with me tonight, I certainly hope that you are with me tomorrow and Sunday and Monday, because we got the raw after Mania two, which also should be a big show. Super chats are open. We have a goal for Bonus be the booker going on in the live

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me for each of the live reviews. So let's get into this here, because when this show started tonight, we had a shot outside of Solo Socoa and Tomatonga. They were arriving to the venue. Tama went to go grab his phone out of the backseat. He got attacked by La Night, the United States Champion, who slammed a car door on his left hand, and we were told later in the show that Tomatonga was taken to a local medical facility and we did not see him for the

rest of the night. This was the first step in the master plan of La Knight to take out a member of the Bloodline so that he wouldn't get involved in his business at WrestleMania. Now back inside the building, SmackDown technically opened with the man who is Actually he's the man who closed Raw on Monday night. He opened the show tonight and he is part of the big triple threatmin event. On Night one, Roman reigns CM Punk and this man Seth Rollins made his way out to

the ring and what did he do? He sat cross legged in the middle of the ring, just like CM Punk said. Punk returned to the ring after ten long years, but it wasn't a WWE ring Ooh Rollins asked if Punk return because the fans chanted his name for all these years or because somebody wrote him a big fat check. I'm gonna say maybe a little bit of both. He said. When Punk burned that bridge like he does all the others, he came back to WWE, and Rolin said it's because

they wrote him another big fat check. Tell me when I'm telling lies, he said. He said Punk didn't come back to WWE because of the fans. He called Punk a liar and a coward. Meanwhile, he said Roman Reigns doesn't even pretend to care about the fans or WWE. He said Rains is in the Roman Reigns business now. He called him mister private jet, mister limited schedule, mister handpicked opponent. Rolin said he knows everything about sacrifice, unlike

his WrestleMania opponents. He said the stuff with Punk actually started twelve years ago, and it started with Paul Hayman. Said. Hayman brought himself, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose into WWE to be a shield for Cmpunk, and every single night he sacrificed everything that he had in this ring to be that shield. And did he get any of the credit. Absolutely not, because everybody in the back wanted the spotlight

on Roman Reins. Actually, it was one man in particular who wanted the spotlight, come hell or high water, he wanted the spotlight on Roman Reins. Crab reactions be damned. But he who shall not be named, he says it was always about Roman Rains, the next John Cena, the next cash cow for WWE. And after Cmpunk took his ball and went home, he heard little echoes of cm

punk chants. Meanwhile, he was making every show, He was sacrificing everything that he had, and it all came to a head last year in the main event of WrestleMania, with his knee hanging by a thread and with his stepfather at home dying of cancer. But he made sure that he was there at the very end to be

a shield, to make sure that Roman Reigns lost. This story between them started twelve years ago when Paul Hayman brought Roman and himself into WWE, and it ends tomorrow night in the most important triple threat match in the history of their industry. This is the same thing that he said on Monday night, the most important triple threat match not only in the history of the company, but in the history of all the professional wrestling, and he promises that he will do exactly what he's done for

the past twelve years. He will lay it all on the line. He will sacrifice everything that he has to make sure that this business, this company, this industry moves forward in the right direction. And that's not a prediction, that's a spoiler. And then he did his Hyena laugh to close out the segment. As seth Rolin's promos go,

this was one of his better ones. He laid out all of the text behind this match tomorrow night, in the history between all three of these men, and he set himself up to basically be some kind of savior, right, I need to win this match because I'm going to be the savior of this company. I'm going to be the savior of this industry, which, of course is ridiculous when you speak in hyperbole like this, it just sounds so so just fucking ridiculous. But this is how they're

promoting this match tomorrow night. What they're really doing here is they're really without saying it, they're teasing this favor that rollin, says Hayman, now owes him for not stomping him into the matt last week, and in effect, they're teasing the idea that there may be some kind of association with Hayman and Rawlins. That's what they want you to think. Even the mention at the very end, though it's not a prediction, that's a spoiler. What was the

final scene that we had on Monday night? It was Paul Haman cowering in the corner and Seth Rollins standing there with a chair in his hands, staring at Hayman. Not the first time that one of these segments with them has ended with Rollins standing tall, looking down at Paul Hayman. This is what they want you to think. Whether it goes that way or not, this is what they want you to think. And so does he leave with Paul Hayman at the end of the night? Right?

This is certainly a possibility. I don't think that Paul Hayman and Seth Rollins run off together like Romeo and Juliet at the end of this match. But is that what we're gonna see? Are we going to see a situation where Paul Hayman, who has been stressed to the max and has been pulled again, like Gumby, like Stretch Armstrong, back and forth between Roman Reigns and Cempunk. You're my tribal cheap, but you're my best friend. Oh my god, I don't know what to do. And in the end

the pressure just gets to him. And does he leave with Seth Rollins? Does he just leave? And you know, I don't mean leave with Rollins, but just leave where I'm not going to help either one of you, you know. And Rollins ends up getting the win that way. Does he not align with Paul Hayman, but he gets the win and then he plays a role in the match on night two, the main event that is on Night two.

That's also a possibility here because there are people who think that Rollins is, you know, potentially going to end up as part of this heel crew. People talking about a third man, like fucking Mabel trying the nWo back in ninety six. I think Bischoff still rips it to Meltzer, saying that Meltzer claim Mabel is going to be the third man, but is there going to be a third man in that even though we've barely seen the second man. I've made that comment recently like people still talking about

the possibility of a third man. Look, I can't discount it. It's just hilarious to me that people would think like that because we haven't seen The Rock in a month and a half, barely seen Sena, and people are talking about third man. Where's the other one? Could it happen? It's possible. Could seth Rawlins end up aligned with them, Could seth Rollins win Night one, get involved in the main event on Night two and cost Cody Rhodes the WWE Championship? And if so, how do you make sense

of that? And then where does that go? So? I mean there are different possibilities here. Honestly, it all ends up in the execution. If the execution is great and the execution makes sense, then I'm intrigued. Then I would love to see where that goes. The idea of Rollins and Hayman becoming an on screen item, you know, manager and client. It's not something that Rollins needs. But I can't say that, Oh I would hate it. I don't think it's necessary, But that doesn't mean that if it happens,

I can't grow to like it. If there's a good reason for it. It's just not a pairing that I'm expecting. It's not a pairing that I think is necessary, but I do feel like there's something that's got to go down in that Night one main event, given that they're closing the show, and does what happens in Night one doesn't end up connecting Tonight two in some way. These are the questions that I don't have any answers to, but I'm curious to see if one does have something

to do with the other. We'll find out now. Up next was the annual Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, won last year by Bronson Reid, who they then didn't do a whole hell of a lot with, But there was an opportunity for him to really get over at the end of the summer, and he took full advantage of it, and Bronson Reid became one of those musty attractions on Monday Night Raw and the matches and the matches and the segments with him and braun Stroman and

you know, Godzilla and King Kong. There was a lot of good stuff that came out of that, and it's really unfortunate that he got her when he did, but he was the winner of last year's Battle Royal this year doing it on SmackDown, which they've done now for several years, it actually paid off for them because it was a good way for them to kill time because this is the first time that smack Down is three hours, so doing the Battle Royal on this show ended up

working to their advantage. So they were already wrestlers in the ring who came out as they were running down the matches for the WrestleMania card. They did that again at the very end of the show. It was a little odd that they were doing it here so early in the show, but then when they came back live, it made sense because most of the wrestlers were already in the ring. Ray Phoenix and Shinsky n Alkamora were

the only ones who got televised entrances. The other thing also is they said this first hour was commercial free, which for the most part it was, but not really. They didn't even make it fifty minutes in and we got our first commercial. But again because they were commercial free, we had to go through the WrestleMania car so they can get everybody down to the ring for the Battle Royal. So again Ray Phoenix, Knockamore, they get entrances and then

we kick things off here. Carlito was the first one eliminated. He had his apple with him and Our Truth took it away from him and took a bite out of his apple. Carlito got dumped out, then Our Truth got dumped out Los Garza. They tried to dump Ray Phoenix, who countered out of it and dumped Burdo. Then he dumped Angel, so they were both out of there. Theory and Waller they eliminated. Both members are pretty deadly. Ludwig

Kaiser was in the Battle Royal. He was eliminated by Tyler Bate or he, I should say he eliminated Tyler Bait. Santos Escobar, who has been showing a lot of respect recently. He has been very uh, I don't know, magnanimous. I guess towards Ray Phoenix. He was talking to Phoenix here in this Battle Royal, and he was trying to form an alliance with him, like, oh, let's work together, and he thought that they had an understanding, but then Phoenix

ended up eliminating him. So I guess that's gonna be what kind of turns Ascabar against Phoenix, I would imagine, and we'll end up getting a match out of that. Soon the Creeds they dumped out Tozawa. That pissed off Otis, who closedline Julius and Brutus out of the ring. But in doing so, all the momentum sent Otis himself out over the top rope, so all three of them went flying out of the ring. They were all eliminated. Andrade, hey, there he is. There's Androde I've been wondering where he is.

Androti was in the Battle Royal. He dumped out Grayson Waller, and then he dumped out Austin Theory, and then all the luchadors who were in the ring, Androde Dragon Le Ray Phoenix, they all surrounded Chad Gable. Oh and Joaquin Wilde was in there as well, Cruz del Toro the LWO. So they all kind of gang up on Chad Gable here and Ray Phoenix ends up being the one to do the deed. He dumps Gable out of the ring Gable's gun and Gable has obviously had some terrible luck

this year with the Lucha Bros. It has not worked out well for him. What a damn shame, by the way that Chad Gable didn't get a match at WrestleMania this year. He is relegated to the SmackDown before many. No Chad Gable match at wrestle Mania. I can't believe it. Nakamura shoved Joking Wilde off the ropes to the floor when he went climbing. Carrion Cross was in the Battle Royal and he took Cruz del Toro to the floor with a forearm shot as he was setting up for

some kind of springboard move. He got forearmed out to the floor and then he looked down at him and he shouted at him that Raymisterio was just using him. He's just using you, he said. Dragon Lee came back and dumped out, carrying Cross, and this actually got booze from the crowd. Remember the gimmick Battle Royal in wrestlemaniacts seven. If you don't, I don't blame you. I enjoyed it though.

But we had the gimmick Battle Royal in WrestleMania seventeen and Doink the clown comes out and he gets one of the biggest pops of anybody in the entire match, and when he got dumped, I want to say maybe

it was Kamala that dumped him. But whatever it was, Doink gets dumped and everybody booed like they were genuinely upset to see him go out of the Battle roy And the reason I'm bringing this up is because I was just watching it recently because they had uploaded it, I think, to the Vault channel on YouTube, and so I'm watching this and Cross. I'm not saying Cross is Doink, but you know, he gets eliminated from the Battle Royal and the people boo because they genuinely were upset that

he got dumped out of the ring. I was like, whoa, Like it was kind of nice. I'll talk about why in a second, but it was an unexpected reaction. Yeah. For the people to respond that way means that there are people out there who care. Are they listening? Were the people in the back listening and paying attention to that?

I hope? So. I know sometimes they're not too keen on the people voicing their opinions, but the fact that it wasn't online, hopefully they'll actually take that under consideration. So knock him or a dumb dragonly out of the ring. Pete Dunn pulled Kaiser out over the top rope to the floor. That kind of surprised me. Pete Dunn has

not been pushed lately. Kaiser, I mean, Kaiser hasn't really been pushed that hard either, but he's been pushed more than Pete Dunn, so him going out there surprised me. The Miz and Carmelo Hayes were also in this Battle Royal and they ended up on the apron together. They weren't fighting, but they just ended up out on the apron. Pete Dunn did the fingersnap move on Mellow. Miss then

saved him from falling backwards. He would have been eliminated, so the Miss saved him and Hayes kind of he pulled Mis and Mis went flying through the ropes back into the ring, so he was safe, uh, but then he ended up or or I'm sorry he did that with Mellow. Mellow ends up getting sling shotted back into the rings, so Miss was able to get him to safety, but then he took the bullet from Mello and Mis

ended up getting knocked to the floor. Mello was still in though, and he came back and eliminated Pete Donne, and then we were down to the final four, which was Ray Phoenix, Shinsky, Knackimoora Androtte and Carmelo Hayes. Knackamora got dropped out. Kevin done, Kevin dunk, Kevin Dune, Kevin done, Kevin done, Kevin dun, Kevin Dune, Kevin done. Fuck Kevin done. That's right, Fuck Kevin done. Thank you King Nator for the thirty eight dollars. Fuck Kevin done. Super chat never

gets old, never gets old. It's a message that needs to be communicated more off. We need to hear them more often. So knakamur goat droppkicked off the ropes and out to the floor by Androde, and so then there were three. We had Androde and Mellow. They were on the ropes. They were not in the corner, but they were kind of in the center. I think Melo went for a springboard move, but Androde met him there. So Phoenix came up behind them and shoved them both over

the top. Neither man's feet hit the floor. They're hanging there. But Ray Phoenix did the dumb baby face move where he just assumes they were eliminated. So now he turns where's back is turned, and he's on his knees like yes, yes, yes, So he's celebrating, not realizing that these two men are still in the match. Mello clubs him from behind. Phoenix, though, made a comeback and he was running wild on both men, and he went to walk the rope he has says goodbye, Amigo.

Kick right, So he's about to run the top rope when all of a sudden, who should show up on the apron to trip him up. It's El Grande Americano, who's not in the Battle Royal, but he did make a cameo appearance here tonight. So Phoenix gets crotched and El Grande Americano pulls him out to the floor. So Ray Phoenix is eliminated. He's out of the Battle Royal. See that's for Chad Gable. Gable got dumped by Phoenix, and so, I guess Americano didn't like that very much.

And then it was down to two. We were down to Androtte, we were down to Carmelo Hayes. Best of seven, let's make it eight. So they had this great back and forth that ended with Androte blasting him with that back elbow. I mean, it's one of those things where I don't even really want to watch it back and slow it down to like see how he does it. Every time he hits that move, even going back to when he was using it in aw It's just it's so vicious, you know, it makes that great noise he

does it. It's such like a rapid fire move, like if you're an inch off, like a split second difference, and you can break someone's fucking nose. But it just it's such a great move. And so he catches him with it, and so both men now are down. We have the double down in the ring, and the fans now give both men a standing ovation. They're loving this. So they made it back to their feet. Mello dropped him with a sup plex into a cutter. Melo went for the springboard Androtte met him on the ropes as

he did earlier. But Melo slipped down and he grabbed him and he dumped him out over the top rope and Androde hit the floor hard. And so Carmelo Hayes is the winner of the twenty twenty five Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. And look at that. Look at that he actually won something Carmelo doesn't do too many, you know, he doesn't do too much winning here on this show. Now they have him in this tag team with the Miz, but even before that, he wasn't exactly

a light in the world on fire with wins. But I got to give a shout out here to Zengetsu in the chat, who had a comment earlier that I thought was just dead on. He said, the only time Melow don't miss is when the game isn't on the line. And it's so true. It is just so true. You know, these Andre Battle Royals, they're usually throw away, you know, for me, the throwaway affairs. I enjoyed this one a little bit more. I wonder if maybe the lack of commercials.

I'm sure the lack of commercials helped because usually you have the commercial breaks. We didn't have that this time, so that was kind of nice, whether it leads to a sustained push or not. For Carmelo Hayes, look, I've been fooled with this stuff before. I'll believe it when I see it. He was the number one draft pick for this show last year. They went on to do very little with him, and want I say very little,

very little in the way of anything meaningful. They did not treat him like a first round draft pick, not saying he needs to go on a Goldberg undefeated streak, But you can't honestly look at what they ended up doing with Carmelo Hayes last year and said, oh, this is great for his career. It wasn't. It was terrible. Despite all the great matches that he and Androtte went out there and had, it was terrible. It was awful.

So I hope that this is the beginning of a turnaround for him, because he is very talented, and whatever you think his ceiling is, he should absolutely be doing more than what they have him doing right now for his sake, I hope. So I hope that this is the beginning of something special for him. Whether it's on SmackDown or Raw, it doesn't matter. I liked how they had Phoenix dump Gable and then they had Americano come out to get revenge for the time he was in there.

Phoenix looked good. You know, he was obviously one of the last ones in there there at the end, he got to eliminate a bunch of people. It also opens up the possibility of a Phoenix cameo at WrestleMania, is what I was thinking at this point, and we'll talk about the Americano match with Raymisterio a little bit later. But before all that happened, I'm watching this thinking, Okay, maybe Phoenix will get involved, or he'll be present in some way at WrestleMania, maybe he'll get on the show

in some way. But I don't want to ignore this. I want to go back to this here. Carrion Cross gets eliminated and there were loud boos. People were upset that he got dumped as early as he did, and maybe there were some people who thought he would actually win. I didn't because there's really no reason to think that

he was going to win anything. But the fact that the fans cared enough to actually boo and say, hey, we don't like the fact that you dump this man out of this match is a good sign for him.

And I talked about carrying Cross during my Raw review because he had a rare singles match on Raw against AJ Style, and so I was talking about him for a little bit, and you know, maybe maybe maybe they'll take notice of this and say, you know what, maybe there is something worth doing with this guy where we we give him not not just more consistent television time, but come up with a real story for him instead of having him go around and just get involved in

other people's business and make little cryptic comments. Let's come up with something a little bit more involved for him to do, like a dedicated story, and give him a push and see where it goes. You know, they've had him under contract for so long, and it just feels like for so long, you know, he's been on the back burner. They tried the Final Testament stuff. Obviously the

Final Testament is no more. Aop is gone, Paul Ellering is gone, but he remains with Scarlett because they must see something there and why they haven't tapped into it more. I don't know. Is it going to work or not? I don't know, but it feels like we're kind of reaching this critical now where it's like, okay, now he's either gonna get some kind of a push, like a mid level push and see where it goes or not.

And it was very interesting hearing the reaction tonight. I would like to see them try just try try something heel or babyface. I actually think he could probably get over as a babyface too. But that was very interesting

the reaction tonight. So then they aired a sit down interview, or more accurately, I should probably say a snippet of a sit down interview filmed a few days ago with the Waldorf for Astoria, with Wade Barrett speaking with Charlotte Flair, who of course, is challenging for the WWE Women's Championship this weekend tomorrow. He said things have gotten personal of

late with her and Tiffany Stratton. She sent Charlotte goes you don't say, he said, she was even sent away from the arena by management, and then Charlotte said, well, it's not the first time, so why have things gotten so ugly between the two of you? And Charlotte took a long pause before she spoke and said that she doesn't love it. They've moved past it. She has a chip on her shoulder and she thinks Tiffany does as well.

She doesn't love it, but now people are really invested in their WrestleMania match, and if there's one thing that matters to her, it's that people are tuned in to see Charlotte Flair and her match. This is how they got here. But people are invested and that's what this business is about. Sometimes it can be insensitive but that's

how you get tough skin. Certainly didn't seem like she had tough skin when she was faltering under the weight of the reaction that she got a few weeks ago in Chicago from that crowd where she got flustered and things kind of not even kind of I mean off the rails at that point. It was weird watching this.

This This almost felt like an interview that she would be giving if she was being interviewed at a radio station, if she was doing one of these PR interviews like people have been doing all week and the host just asked her, Hey, you know what happened in that segment with Tiffany a few weeks ago, Like that's the kind of answer that she gave here, Like they're trying to lean into the the realness of it. We didn't get

much here. That was literally the only snippet of this interview that they show, because apparently they're going to be showing the entire thing on one of the pre shows this weekend if they have enough time. Of course, because you know the pre show, the pre show on Saturday and the pre show on Sunday they were only three hours each. I don't know if there's going to be enough time two three hour I guest six hours of

pre shows this weekend. You think they have enough time to air the entire interview, Hey, Rectangle Galaxy, you rule too, Thank you, Rectangle Galaxy. Anyway, the entire interview will be airing this weekend if you are interested enough to watch me personally, I have so much going on anyway, I Am not going to be sitting here dedicating three hours each night to a pre show, especially with no matches on them. But if you would like to do so,

there it is. That's where you can find it. Speaking of women's championship matches, there is another women's championship match, this one on Sunday. I believe it's opening the show WrestleMania Sunday. That is Ria Ripley Eosky and Bianca bell Air. Rihea Ripley was out to the ring for a promo and she talked about this being the most important match of her career. She allowed herself to get distracted by Bianca bell Air and she lost her title before WrestleMania.

She said, that's her fault, that's her bad. She could come out here and moan and complain about it, but that's in the past. Say she gets back what she wants and does what she has to do. She is walking out of WrestleMania, she says, a three time women's world champion. Eo sky interrupted, Here comes the champion. The

champ is here. She makes her way out to the ring, and do you believe this bullshit, the disrespect that this woman has been shown multiple times here in this bill to WrestleMania continue tonight because she did not even get a word out before Bianca bell Air's music interrupted her, And so Bianca bell Air comes down to the ring. Bianca was immediately booed as soon as she started. She got the Cody treatment, or maybe I should say Cody got the Bianca treatment, because with Bianca it's been going

on now since Europe. So she immediately gets booed. As she begins speaking, she said, tonight may actually be her last night on SmackDown for a while because at WrestleMania she's walking out as the champion, and after what the two of them put her through, she doesn't plan on letting it go anytime soon. Then Naomi's music interrupts. She says, Beanca finally decided to show up on SmackDown, and she's not even going to talk to me. You're not even

going to talk to me. She's filled up her voicemail box. She's been calling Beanca like crazy and texting her, and she knows she got it because it says delivered, yes, but does it say red? Does she have read receipts on see? That's the real question, because if it says red and she didn't get back to you, I mean, that's fucked up. You know. If it's delivered, it's like, all right, she probably saw, but you really can't prove it, you know what I mean. She didn't specify anyway. She says,

does their friendship mean so little to Bianca? She didn't even want to do this and have everybody in their business. She wanted to keep this private, but since she wants to ignore her, And then Beanca interrupted her and got booed again, and she said, Naomi knows exactly why she's not responding. She says, I said what I said, So Naomi got into the ring and said, you care about

Jade that much? Huh. Jade wasn't there for Bianca like she was Tomorrow, She's gonna finish what she started with Jade, and after that, and then before she could say the next part, Jade's music hits, so Jade Cargill power walks her way down to the ring. Naomi slipped out of the ring and Bianca got in front of Jade, who was upset with Bianca for doing so. Ria then said, Jade, this isn't about you. But before she could say anything else, Naomi slipped into the ring behind Jade and shoved her

into Rhea. Rhea then got shoved into Bianca. Jade attacked Naomi, Bianca attacked Ria, and the world champion is standing there with nothing to do. She is a complete afterthoughs is. She's standing there and she's looking at this brawl, and she's looking at that brawl and EO is just standing there. So she climbs to the top rope and she hits

her over the moon salt to the floor. Because at that point Ria's out there, Beyanca's out there, a bunch of security geeks are out there trying to set right them. Eo hits her moon Salt wipes everybody out, including the security and everybody except Jade and Naomi. They're already elsewhere, but the rest of them fall down I'm loving this Naomi so far. I have said this last week. I've given her a lot of praise for these little vignettes

that they've done with her. She came out tonight. I'm loving this scorn friend that she is portraying on TV. I think that beating Jade tomorrow night and then costing Beianca the title on Sunday is the way to go. I think that's the play here. Now. You could have Jade beat Naomi and still Naomi could do the same thing and come out on Sunday cost Beyonca the championship. It still works. I'm just of the mindset that Naomi

just turned heel. She hasn't really had a major match yet and in her first major match after her heel turn. And I feel the same way about John Cena. He's going into his first WrestleMania as a heel. He's going into his first WrestleMania, his first match as a heel since the turn at Elimination Chamber, and unless it's a very short term thing with him, I feel the same way where it just doesn't make sense to send them out there and have them lose in their first real

big match. Is a heel. So I feel the same way for Naomi. It's not the kiss of death if she does lose, because I still think she would get involved in the match on Sunday. But I think that's the way to go. I just don't see Bianca winning the championship, if for no other reason, because I don't see her moving to Raw. She has this story on SmackDown that is unfinished. She has unfinished business with Naomi and Jade. They're not going to move her to Monday

Night Raw. It's a Raw title, So Naomi getting involved makes all the sense in the world. Now, Naomi's been trying to talk to her, I mean, this is the logic behind it, right. She came out tonight, I've been trying to talk to you and texting you and calling you. You're not responding to me and all of this stuff. And she says, you know, Yanka says, we're not doing this now. I'm not doing this. I'm not talking about

this now. I'm not addressing this now. So what better way for Naomi to get her attention than to show up on Sunday during her match and get her attention that way, and it ends up costing her potentially winning the Women's World Championship. Now there is another possibility here. They could go a totally different way with it and have Naomi come out to help Bianca if she wants to show Bianca that I'm still trying to be your friend.

Instead of her coming out and being nasty about it and trying to cost her the match, she could come out try to help. Maybe Beyanka dos a wander help, but Jade comes out if Naomi's there, and it works even better if Naomi beats Jade on Saturday, because if Naomi shows up on Sunday, here comes Jade. But then

Jade getting involved along with Naomi. All of this is what ends up costing Beyanca, distracts her whatever however you want to work it out, but the end result is the same, which is that she does not win the Women's World Championship. So that takes her out of that picture, plants her firmly back on SmackDown, and she is right in the middle of all of this drama because now these two women they cost her the title. Now she has beef with Jade, even though Jade didn't mean to

come out and do that. If that works out that way, now Bianca has a reason to be upset with her, So that's another way they could go with it. But the end result of this, no matter what, is that Bianca Belair is not walking out on Sunday with the Women's World Championship. But listen to the reaction that Bianca got on the show tonight, Listen to the reaction that Bianca has got every single week going back to the European tour. You could argue, and some people did that,

all it's just the European crowds. They're trying to be you know, contrarian or whatever their reasons were, they just don't like Bianca in this few They really love Ria, they really love Leo, and so Beyanca is kind of the odd person out. But it was like, oh, that's a European thing. The European crowds just don't like her. Well, they've been back from Europe now for what two and a half weeks, almost three weeks now, and she's been getting the same noticeable booze from the crowd every single

city that she's in. If they're listening to these crowds and if this becomes the norm, then maybe the way to go is to have Beanca go heal. Maybe she Maybe the story is that she was the mastermind behind the entire plot. Could that be why some of the fans are booing her. Are there fans who believe that she will be revealed to be the real mastermind behind what happened to Jade all those many months ago? Is

that part of what we're hearing with these reactions. But whether it is or it isn't, Maybe in the end, Bianca and Beyonca and Naomi end up on the same side in Jade's the baby face, but those two are the heel. I don't know. I mean, look, I I'm here for a heel Bianca. I would love to see it. I don't know if that's what they want to do, but I would love to see heel beyoncea. You saw a little bit of it tonight. You know, she had that attitude with the fans, like, I'm not here to

take your shit. These two were talking about me, I got a match coming up on Sunday. You're basically like screwall. Basically was kind of the attitude and the vibe I was getting tonight because she's not wrongly, She's done nothing wrong. That's the thing. Like they're booing her, but she's done nothing wrong. But sometimes the fans react the way they react, and you have to just listen to it and go with the flow, and sometimes you gotta pivot or change

directions if it makes sense. I think the fans are ready to embrace a heel Bianca. I don't know if WWI and Triple H are ready to embrace a heel Beyanca. If they are, I think it's great. I'm here for But there's a lot of different ways this could go, which I like. I like the fact that this could go three or four different ways and we're not quite sure which way they're gonna go. But if that's the direction,

I'm totally fine with that. And Ray Phoenix was shown in the back when Chad Gable and the Creeds walked up and made fun of him for losing the battle. Royal Dragon ly walked in and told Gable to shut up. Ray Masterio showed up and told El Goaddonde Gable that he's going to learn some real luta libre at WrestleMania, and Mysterio then challenge Gable and the Creeds to a six man tag later in the show. Unfortunately, See had

this match not been made. Had this match not been made, that we wouldn't be sitting here talking about a possible injury right now. But unfortunately, I mean the look, that's the nature of the beast Men. It just sucks that it had to work out the way that it did later in the show, which again we will get too. Actually you know it before I get to it. Let me check real quick and see if there is any update. Uh nothing yet. I'll keep check it on Rey Mysteria.

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WWE Tag Team Championships against the MotorCity machine Guns. So this was not saved for WrestleMania. They announced they were doing this tonight, so they send these two teams out there. The machine Guns they jumpstart the match right away as the Profits were posing during their entrance. They come back after a break, Alex Shelley tags and Chris Saban, who

fires up. He takes out both Street Profits. Saban missed the missile dropkick to montes Ford, Shelley tagged in and he worked a pair of double team moves, including a dropkickflatliner combo. Shelley goes to the top and Angela Dawkins breaks things up. Ford then hits a super kick on Saban and he landed the He says that running dive where he jumps over the ring post, so he takes

everybody out. Diy shows up at ringside. I think they came out of the crowd, and they interfere and the referee calls for the bell, so we end up with a no contest here. Garganto and Champa then grab the tag team titles and they steal them. They make off with them all the way to the back. As far as the match, the action was fine. The finish sucked. Okay,

the finish was really bad, really bad. But we weren't done yet because in the back later nick All just tells Di why give me the belts, and they don't want to give him up, and he's like, give the belts back, so they hand the belts over to him. Now the street profits come in. They're pissed off. The

machine guns come in. They're pissed off. They're all yelling and screaming at each other, and all this is in between them, and all this makes the announcement that they're going to have a TLC match for the tag team titles with the Street Profits and the Machine Guns and DIY next week. And as soon as he said next week, like you could hear the booze from inside the eriitise people were not happy. Why when he mentioned TLC they kind of gave it a little bit of a pop there.

But this match is taking place not at WrestleMania, not even on the pre show. And I know people would bitch that, oh it's on the pre show, but you know they would still be wrestling in front of I mean, people still might be entering the building, but you'll have fifty thousand plus each night in the building. You got six hours of pre show material on Saturday and Sunday. They're doing the match next Friday on SmackDown. And I

am absolutely baffled. I'm baffled by the decision to have the New Day and the War Raiders for the World Tag team titles on the WrestleMania card and keep this match on television after WrestleMania simply because the WWE tag team titles on SmackDown. Whatever you want to say about the division and the constant back and forth with the same teams. Cause has been going on now for months. But you have this back and forth now for several months with the Street Profits and the machine Guns and

DIY and pretty deadly. Okay, who wasn't even involved in any of this. They were in the Battle Royal, but they had their shot on TV a few weeks ago in London, I think it was. But they've actually been investing time in this story, involving these titles in these teams now for months on television. There's actual activity going on in the SmackDown Tag Team division. What has been going on with the raw tag team titles on Monday Night? Nothing?

It's a dead division. There's been nothing going on. They did a match with a New Day in the War Raiders on TV last week that went a few minutes. It had a shitty DQ finish and was cold as fuck because nobody cares because they've cooled off the New Day. I mean, look, I love the New Day, I love Heel New Day, but they fucked up. They dropped the ball with these guys. These guys had nuclear heat. They can melt an entire fucking city with the heat that

these guys had. After the Heel turn in November or December rather, and they fucked it up. Triple Eh fucked it all up. So now they feel like just another team and they're getting a tag team title match at WrestleMania. Okay, great, and I'm sure it'll be a good match, but you're sending a match cold into WrestleMania for those titles. But these guys don't get a spot on a TLC match,

no less. And this is on smacked. I just I don't understand that maybe the finish of the World title match between the New Day and the war Raiders, when we see it, will make sense, and then in the big picture, this will all make sense. But as I sit here right now and that matches on the WrestleMania card and this one isn't, that doesn't make any sense

to me whatsoever. Either have both one on one night, one on the other, or if you could only have one, this would be the one that would have made sense. So I don't understand that decision at all. And I don't understand. Also, the way they've cooled off the New Day, I really don't and I don't want to hear people defending it either. There is no defense for it. They had a hot act on that show and they fucked it up. Randy Orton, he was out to the ring next,

still has no opponent for WrestleMania. He reminded every one of this fact. When he came out. Orton said that he's been around town all week long, and he said that there is an excitement about WrestleMania like never before. That's a lie. Orton referenced his father being in the first WrestleMania. He said there's no way in hell that

he would sit out this year's show. Noting how this would be the dth time that he would be competing at WrestleMania, Orton said he will show up on Sunday boots tied baby oil on his skin, and he will be ready to deliver for the WWE universe. He said he will do it for the fans, he will do it for himself, and he will do it for the boys in the back. And speaking of the boys in the back, he said, if everyone or anyone I should say, wants to test their metal, he dares them to step up.

He looked out into the crowd and said, if there's anybody on the strip who owns a pair of wrestling Boots who wants to step up, go ahead and do so. He said, whoever it is will fall victim to the three most dangerous letters in all of pro wrestling. R k oh good fire from Orton here, who made it a point to mention that it will be Sunday. His match will be Sunday, which I figured it would be because we have seven matches tomorrow. We only have six on Sunday, so of course you want to have an

even seven and seven fourteen matches total. So whatever his match ends up being, that's going to be on WrestleMania Night too. They're doing the open challenge gimmick, which, honestly, at this point, I mean we're twenty four hours out from this show this weekend, forty eight hours from what would be his match, you may as well just wait. I mean seriously, you may as well just wait. It's like the Seth Rollins thing a few years ago with Cody Rhodes. He had no opponent. Now that wasn't an

open challenge. Vince McMahon had already had a hand picked opponent for him. He just wasn't willing to tell Seth who that was going to be until WrestleMania but it's the same basic concept here, and so as long as you have a name that you know is going to get a reaction, whoever that is probably somebody who's debuting or returning to the company. You may as well just wait and make it a surprise and make it some big mystery men announcement and just wait for the show.

But it's got to be someone good. It's got to be somebody good or somebody who's coming back and making a return to the company. Otherwise, if let's say Shamus walks out there, or anybody else who doesn't have a match of WrestleMania and could reasonably be viewed as an opponent for Randy Orton, you look at someone like that, it's like, yeah, I mean, I'm sure the two of them could go out there and have a kick ass match,

But like, you may as well just announce it. You know why even bother waiting and keeping it a mystery unless there's a reason you know that you're doing that. It's not going to be nick All this. If it was going to be nick All This, then they would have announced that already. It's not gonna be nick All This. There were no hints at all on this show tonight, that that would be the direction. Solo Soka was heavily

teased last week. Did not at all get the vibe that it's going to be him, thankfully, because that's just that's not the WrestleMania match I want to see. So it's not going to be solo Sokoa. I'm thinking it's going to be Russev. We know Russev is back. How do we know this big e the other day just whether he let it slip by accident or he did what he was doing the other day he said, yeah,

he's back. He announced it himself and we already knew this, but like that was the first time somebody publicly came out and actually set it. But yes, he was spotted at anyway WWE headquarters last week. He was taking part in a photo shoot for those of you who don't know. So, Russev, Miro, whatever you want to call him, he is back in WWI. It is just a matter of when does he return, when do we actually see him. Kevin Owens went down with this terrible injury. It sucks and I feel bad

for him right. Never a good time to get hurt with a major neck injury. No less but to miss what I know for him was going to be this huge WrestleMania match against Randy Orton. It's a shitty situation. Okay, well we need a plan B. Whoever the plan B is, it's not going to be some long term story. Randy Orton sat out for four months selling a neck injury to come back and have this payoff with Kevin Owens,

and now we're not getting it. There was months of story there, all thrown away nobody's fault, but it's gone. So whoever ends up in this match, there ain't gonna be a story. This is no longer about story. This is about what makes sense and who makes sense in this spot, and if it's me, I don't want someone like Alistair Black, who we also know is coming back. I don't want someone like Alistair Black out there in his return match to go out there and lose in

his first match back. Same thing with Russev. People might say, well, you want him to lose now. I don't want him to lose either, But honestly, he's gonna end up. I don't know if ultimately he'll be a face for a Heal. My guess would be he'll be a heel. Can't be sure, right russev Day was very popular. Maybe he'll be a babyface. But whatever he ends up being, he's not going to be a main event level guy, not out of the gate.

So if he goes in there and he loses in a competitive match to Randy Orton, I don't see that as being as big of a deal as someone like Alistair Black going out there, who I think absolutely could be a top guy on SmackDown, and him losing to Randy Orton. That I think is completely counterproductive in WWE right now. By the way, I should point out, they've had a lot of guys come in. Ray Phoenix has come in, Penta has come in, Ricky Starks is in NXT,

Alistair Black is coming back, Miro is coming back. It's like you have It's like this, this whole group. You can create a whole faction out of just these people that are coming in from aw to WWE. It's okay to take one of them. And if they go in there and lose a WrestleMania match to Randy Orton, believe me, they're not buried. It's not the end of their career. It's not the end of the fucking world. I'd much rather have him in this situation than throwing Alistair Black

out there. And by the way, they aired another vignette tonight that with the smoky They should have thrown the smoky background and everything. And this time we got a date. It says April twenty fifth, So now we know Alistair Black will be back on SmackDown next Friday. So it's not gonna be him. So who else is it going to be? People throwing out names like fucking Goldberg, dude, Kevin Owens got hurt. Whoever it's gonna be. They had to come up with a plan beyond like two weeks.

Notice Goldberg, he just had I think he went to Colombia to have stem cell injections. His shoulders all fucked up, he just started a training camp. He's fifty thousand years old. It's not gonna be Goldberg. Okay, Gouldberg will not be at WrestleMania in a match, so it's not gonna be him. People throwing at other names I see even in the chat here, Sammy's ain, Sammy's ain is not gonna be

at WrestleMania. What sense would that make for sammy' z ay to wrestle Randy Orton of all people at WrestleMania. Sammy's ain is not at WRESTLEMANI and some of the other names people have thrown at have also just made me shake my head. Russev is the one to be who makes sense, who I could actually see being in this spot. We want somebody out there that'll get a reaction.

People will be happy to see him back. He's been missing for all these years, and he can go in there and lose, and it's not the end of the world. Because Randy Orton should not be losing a WrestleMania. He's going to have a big match at Backlash next month. Why would he go in there at WrestleMania and lose. I think it's gonna be Russive. I think it's gonna be russe V Day on Sunday at WrestleMania. That's what I think. But you got to go with somebody the

audience knows, Jeff Cobb. Thank you. I'm glad you mentioned that nobody in WWE Land is going to know who Jeff Cobb is. The smart fans will know, and you do have smart fans who come in for WrestleMania. So I shouldn't say he would get crickets. But the WWE audience, by in large, they don't know who he is. Him coming out there in that spot, I just I don't see I don't see that getting such a major reaction that you're gonna get a return on that payoff. Right.

It's very important when you do a gimmick like this, the mystery Man Open Challenge gimmick, there has to be some familiarity with the I don't think their audience is going to be all that familiar with who he is. He's never been in WWE before Russev. They know he'll get a reaction when he come. Maybe he'll ride a fucking tank to the ring. But Jeff Cobb is wrestling his final match actually in about two hours three hours

against Hiroshi Tanahashi. He could technically make it in time for the show on Sunday, so it could be him. Do I think it's going to be him? No, And I honestly don't think that would be a great spot for him to go in And he's another one where him going in there and losing. I don't want to see him lose. I'd rather see Russev go in there and lose and he can take that loss. Jeff Cobb would be brand new. A lot of people wouldn't know who he is. I don't think sending someone like him

in there and losing is a great idea. So I'm gonna say no on that. Joe Hendry, well, I mean, look, the TNA World Heavyweight Champion getting a wrestle media match against Randy Orton would be a pretty big fucking deal, especially for him. Uh yeah, I mean, I can't rule it out. It's possible. I'm still gonna say. Russep though, Daddy Yugarte says Joe Henry is champion and can't live.

Joe Henry is championed and can't lose, he says. So you think, dude, they wanted him Supposedly, they wanted him to come into work a program with the mizz Give me a break. Come on, he can't lose. You don't think WWE would hesitate to bring him in and have him lose. You don't know who you're dealing with here. You think they give a shit, They don't give a shit. Be careful what you wish for. Isn't he injured? I thought that was a storyline injury in TNA for him anyway,

let's move on footage aired. There was a brawl earlier today at the WrestleMania kickoff with Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest who were having a Sin City street fight this weekend. So Byron Saxon interviewed Priest in the back and Priest cut Saxton off. He said, look, he wants to send a message to McIntyre. He said, McIntyre isn't a victim, not yet. Priest said Drew isn't ready for their fight this weekend. He's going to beat Drew so bad he'll

wish he was future endeavored again. Oh man, Yeah, there was no Drew McIntyre on this show. This was the only promo he got from either one of them. After last week's botched count out finish, they ran back the match between Chelsea Green and Zelina Vega. This was not for the United States Championship. The action spilled outside. Green sent Vega into the barricade and then she scolded Charles Robinson for counting her out the last time, even though

Charles Robinson was not the referee for that match. That was Ryan Tran. Green ran at Vega. Vega back dropped her over the barricade into the timekeeper's area, so they nearly missed the ten count again. They were playing off what happened last week. They rolled into the ring at the same time to break the count. Vega set up for a six to one to nine. Vega, though, ran into a kick instead and Chelsea plays Vega on the

top rope. Vega fought back, turned it into a super code red from the top rope, and she pinned the champion. Of course, it was non title, but that should now earn her a shot at the United States Championship. You know, at least Lyra Valkyria found her way onto the WrestleMania card. She's not defending her intercontinental title, but she is on the WrestleMania card. We cannot say the same for Chelsea Green. The best that Chelsea Green could hope for at this

point is a skit on the show. But right now she is not scheduled for WrestleMania at all. But the other United States champion is That would be La Night. He had a match on this show against Solo Socoa, but first he had a promo and he said the Jacob Fatu, Solo Soca and Tomatonga They like to use the numbers advantage, which is why he took out Tomatoga at the beginning of the show. And he's going to take out Solo so that when he gets in the ring with Jacob, it'll be one on one, no distractions,

no interference, It'll be a fair fight. He said, he knows that Fatu is a force, but Fatu has never seen anything like him. And he said, someday somewhere, Fatu will be a champion in WWE. But at WrestleMania, fa Tu will eat a BFT. I almost said BLT. He might eat a BLT a a BFT in that match

courtesy of the megastar. That would be kind of funny. Actually, if Jacob Fatwu is very first WrestleMania, he just comes to the ring and just he has like a a wrap sandwich and just starts eating a BLT in the middle of the ring, I think he would still get cheered. The people would still cheer for him. They like this guy who they don't like is Solo Socoa. He came out, Knight didn't even wait for him to get to the ring.

He left the ring. He met him in the isleway and the fight was on so they wrestle for a little bit. They went to commercial, the show came back, Solo was working overnight on the outside. Night came back with a DDT. He went to the second rope when all of a sudden, Jacob Fatu shows up out of nowhere and he trips him up on the second rope and the referee calls for the disqualification. Braun Stroman's music hits.

He's not gonna stand for this. He lumbers on down to the ring, takes out both Sokoa and Fatu with a running crossbody. Knight and Stroman clear the ring and then Nick all This walks out and ge I wonder why he here, and Nick Alda says, why don't we have a tag team match. It'll be La Knight and Braunz Stroman against Solo Socoa and Jacob Fatu. Lazy shit. So the match started during a picture in picture break, Fa Twu was working over Stroman as the show came back.

We did, by the way, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this. We did, in fact during this match get the Stroman Express. Yes, we got the Stroman Express mode down. Solo Socoa on one side of the ring mode down Fa Tu on the other and blessed that man. He took this great bump into the steel steps. Then later on Stroman disposed the fa tow. He went for another train ride, but this time Fa Tu side stepped him and he sent Stroman flying over the announced desk.

La Knight connected with a diving basement dropkick that sent Fa Tu on top of the announced desk. He was laying there on his belly on the desk. Night gets back into the ring. Solo missed a Simo and spike attempt, but he ate a BFT not a BLT, and he covered Solo for the one two three. Yeah, I think we could safely forget about Solo Socoa being a Randy Orton opponent at WrestleMania. I feel pretty content and confident, i should say, and saying that it will not be

Solo Soca wrestling Randy Orton in WrestleMania. As far as the match look, it was a way to get these guys on the show to tell the story about La Knight trying to take out each member of the Bloodline so that he can get a fair fight with Jacob Fatu at WrestleMania. But honestly, what this felt like. It just felt like time filler more than anything else, which honestly is what this was. I mean, they were trying to fill time, but that's really what it felt like.

Then we were treated to footage of Wade Barrett sit down interview with Tiffin and this was earlier today, so we got a snippet of his interview from earlier in the week with Charlotte Flair the Challenger. Now he was sitting down with the Champion and he asked her about the awkward in ring segment between the two of them in Chicago a few weeks ago, which he said went off the rails. I said it went off the rails that night, but he said it went off the rails.

I wanted to do some rails when that match was over. So Tiffany said, over the last few weeks she felt bullied and taken advantage of. So they made a choice here to have the WWE Women's Champion in this interview talk about how she was bullied by the Challenger. She was referring to the split screen interview several weeks ago where she really did not have a good night, and so here she's talking about how she was bullied and

taking advantage of. She had a moment during that split screen of insane discouragement that made her feel like she wasn't cut out for this, but she used it as motivation, and she did her research to make sure that the next time she would come prepared. And so when they had their face to face in the middle of the ring, she came at Charlotte with a kill shot, and she played Charlotte at her own game. She gave her a taste of her own medicine. Charlotte doesn't have to like her,

but she damn sure has to respect her. Now, Wade says, this feels like a must win match for both these women. But what happens if Tiffy Time ends at WrestleMania and she said that's not gonna happen. She knows it's going to be a fight. She's going to channel that discouragement that she felt and turn it into motivation. She's standing up to a bully. She's walking in as the champion, and she is walking out of WrestleMania as the champion. Neither of these sit downs, And again, I haven't seen

the full thing yet. I'm just going by the clips that they showed here. Neither of these sit downs did anything for me anyway to get more excited for this match of WrestleMania. I just want them to go out there and have a great match. That's it. All this awkward stuff, and you know, Charlotte's bullying me. It's just I don't know, you got the champion going out there, the defending champion going into WrestleMania, you know. And I know they're portraying her as the rookie, and she is

she is. I mean, Charlotte's been doing this now for over a decade. For Tiffany, this is her first big match. Does she even have a match of WrestleMania last year, I don't know if she did. This might be her first WrestleMania match, and she's going in as the champion if she's only twenty five years old. All of this is true, but it's just weird, you know, her sitting there going, oh, I was bullied. I was bullied, and I was taking advantage of Its just it's a weird

tact to take for this title match. I don't know that it really works for me. It might work for some people. I don't really I just don't care. About a lot of the stuff they've done with these two so far. I think, if anything, it's actually made me less interested in seeing the match. But I'm hopeful the match itself will end up being hopefully a very good match. That's all I can hope for at this point. I

just want them to go out there. I want them to not only have a very good match, but I want Tiffany Stratton to come out of this looking like someone who belongs. I want her to come out of this looking better than she did going into it, because she is someone who is still very new to this, especially on the main roster, and somebody who I'm sure they look at her the same way, who is going to be in the position that Charlotte Flair is in ten years from now. You know, that's where they want

her to be. She needs to go out there and have a great showing at WRESTLEMANI even if she loses. So that's all I'm hoping for. Despite all the awkwardness and all the drama and everything we've had and how much of it is a shoot and how much of it is a work, I don't give a shit at this point. I just want them to go out there and have a kick ass match. That's it. I have the best move set. Hey King Dad, thank you again.

You're awesome. Raymistereo, Dragon Lee, and Ray Phoenix. So Ray Phoenix pulling double duty tonight because he was in the Battle Royal as well, taking on Chad Gable and the Creed brother. I guess, I guess they're all playing playing double duty. Did not except Raymysterio because everybody in this match was also in the Battle Royal. But we had a six man tag team match, and this is where things went awry. So Mysterio gets in the ring with Gable,

and Gable bails outside. Ray goes after him. He's chasing him around the ring, and you know, it's not like I was. I went back and I watched this to see did he get hurt when he was running after him?

And he wasn't really running that hard. He chased him around like one side of the ring, and Ray looked and he went to go slide into the ring and Julius Kreed grabs him by the leg and he drags him out to the floor and Ray takes a bump and he you know, he lands a little hard on the floor, but honestly, it didn't look like anything out

of the ordinary. And I'm watching his knee and I'm watching his leg and when he lands, you could tell that he looks like he may have gotten hurt, but I can't really tell how or like what what did he hurt? Did he hurt his groin, did he hurt his leg? It wasn't really apparent to me. What I do know is that we didn't see him again for the rest of the match. He never got up again after that, or he did, but he ended up on

a different side of the ring. But he was down on the floor and the trainer was with him the entire time. So as the match goes on, we don't see Raymisterio again. It's basically a handicap match at that point. So when they came back from a break, Dragon Lee was taking punishment from the heels. Lee was perched up top all three heels, though ended up hanging by their legs, so all three of them are basically in a tree of woe in the corner, and Dragon Lee come off

with a double stomp on all three of them. Phoenix got the hot tag. He had a spinning kick on Julius. Things broke down Phoenix took out all of American made. So Ray Phoenix goes up top and he walks the top rope kicks Gable in the head with his Goodbye Amigo kick. Lee landed the Destino, which he calls Operation Dragon On Julius. Phoenix followed that with a mediora from

the top rope for the win. The mediora it gets spammed so many times these days that it was weird to see it used as a finish, Like, I'm fine with it. I don't want to see Phoenix out there doing all kinds of crazy shit and killing himself, but it's just weird, you know, when you have a move like that that's never used as a finish, and then it was it was like, oh, okay, I don't know if now, look, Ray Maisterio clearly was supposed to be a part of this match. He may have been a

part of the finish. That may have been the plant he couldn't get back into the match. For all we know, this was all called on the fly, and this was not going to be the original or the way the original finish went down. We don't know, but it was

weird seeing that, you know, you use for the finish. Now, as soon as the match was over, Phoenix and Dragon Lee, they get out of the rain and they go outside to go check on Raymysterio, and that's when I noticed, Oh shit, I didn't even notice the trainer was out there. At first. I'm like, have they been out there the entire time? And then I went back and watched, and you know, sure enough, he was laying out there the entire time, which is not good. I saw the video.

He was carried to the back. He could not put any weight on his left leg. I don't know if it's the ankle, I don't know, if it's the knee, I don't know. I don't know what it was. But obviously he was in a lot of pain and not able to put weight on that leg, and it would be a real kick in the balls if it's serious enough.

And look, it doesn't even have to be a super serious injury, like the match is less than twenty four hours away, right, because I'm pretty sure they're wrestling on night one, So it could be something kind of minor but still serious enough that he's not going to be able to wrestle on twenty four hours notice. So there's a very real possibility that Ray Masterio could be out of WrestleMania, and so what do you do then, you know, what do you do with Chad Gate? Well, I'm sorry,

el Ganandi Americana? What do you do with Americano? You still have him on the show? You've got Dragon Lee right there, like Dragon Lee would honestly make the most sense. Or you could put Ray Phoenix in that spot. I would like to see Phoenix get a WrestleMania match. I think that would be cool. You know, Penta and Phoenix each get their own WrestleMania matches in their first year. Because right now, Phoenix is not scheduled for the show, So it's not the end of the world if Mysterio

goes down, because you could do that. You could do Phoenix or Dragon Lee against Elganandai Americana. So I'm sure he'll still wrestle and beyond the show, but hopefully that won't be necessary. It would be nice to find out their Ray's going to be okay and he'll be on the show, But just based on what we saw tonight, not looking too good. Now. They aired a very cool video package for the Roman Reign Cmpunk seth Rolins Triple threat match tomorrow night. It was set to Sail into

the Black by machine Head and this was awesome. I saw this earlier today, but they aired it on the show tonight. This video package was awesome and I love the rock music. We need more of this. We need more rock music in these video packages. So this was very well done. And then we got the final face to face to close the show, the final hard sell for the Night two main event between Cody Rhodes and John Cena. Cody came out to the ring first and

he got a fine reaction. It wasn't until he had the microphone in his hand and went to go speak that he got booed and to the point where he had a stop and sort of take it all in. And then he went to go speak again and they boot him again. Before he could say a word, he was interrupted by John Cena's music and John Cena makes his way out, gets in the ring. He tells Cody, shut your mouth, kid, this is gonna be seen his twentieth WrestleMania. He says, his twelfth title match at WrestleMania.

He knows you can get lost in all the noise with all these voices, there's one voice Cody should listen to, and that's the man looking at him right now in the eye. Sunday is the last time that he will ever compete in a WrestleMania ring. No one has ever had the courage to end their career the way that he has, and there is nothing he can do to prepare to face a man who knows that he is going to die. What he's doing is so unprecedented. The fans don't think it's real. They think he's going to

come back, because that's what they all do, right. There's no such thing as a wrestling retirement. No wrestler ever truly retires. He says. The reason for that is because every other wrestler is a scared, insecure loser. I don't know if he was referring to Rick Flair when he said that, but said, they need these people to care about them, to post about them, to talk about them, because the second they're away from this, they're alone. He, on the other hand, has love, joy and worth in

his life. He doesn't need a single damn one of these people. The only reason he's here is to take the title away from Cody and the fans forever. Don't say I didn't warn you because he did. He says. Last year everyone was celebrating with Cody at the end of WrestleMania, but when Sina had his moment alone with Cody, he told him, every day you hold that it gets heavier, he said, Sunday, it finally becomes too heavy for Cody to He will lose because he cares about them. You

people do not write history. Winners do there. It is you people. He did it again. He did it again, you people. I love it. He says. He came out here tonight to share one more thing with Cody Before Sunday, when he won that elimination chamber, he knew that it would be impossible to beat Cody in a match at WrestleMania. Now, he didn't explain why he felt this way. I assume it would if you remember when he first came back

the promo on the first Netflix raw. He did address something that I had been talking about for a long time, which is his horrendous win loss record on television, at least in singles matches. He has not won a singles

match in something like seven or eight years. And he did address that and was kind of joking about it at the beginning of the year when he announced he was going to be in the Royal Rumble and then he lost that too, So I assume that's what he was getting at here, but he didn't really expand on that, like why does he think he couldn't beat Cody? But

that's what he said. He goes he thought it would be impossible to beat Cody at WrestleMania, and then Cody changed all of that with what he said to the Rock. The Rock gave him a choice, do you want to do what's right or do you want to win? And when Cody made his choice, Sina realize Cody doesn't stand a chance. And that night all that was left for him to do was the one thing that Cody couldn't

prove to the fans that they don't matter. When you stop caring about them, you can accomplish anything in life. But Cody is too weak to understand that. He says Sunday to beat him. To beat Sena, Cody has to choose. Does he do what they think is right or does he win? Does he want to win? Cody is scared, insecure, and naive. You wear this suit, you have your tattoo because you want to be somebody because he didn't need the tattoo, because Sunday he's going to make him somebody.

Cody will realize that he is not the captain or the quarterback. He's still just a kid in a man's world who doesn't have the balls of the last real champion. And then it was Cody's chance to speak. And before we even get into that, let me just say I thought this was delivered well and Cody, you know, he stood there and listened to everything Sina had to say, and Sina had some good lines in there. I liked one of the first lines in there about how he's

facing a man who's not afraid to die. Yeah, because he's already announced that he's done. It's not like he's putting his career on the line. It's not a career ending match, like he already made his piece with it. He's made the announcement, this is my final WrestleMania match, this is my last ride. I'm done at the end of this year. I've got nothing to lose, right, That was basically what he was saying, and I thought that

line went pretty hard. So again, this was good stuff from Sena, not radically different from what we've heard from him in the past. He did fall back a lot here on ragging on the fans. This feud has not really been between Cody and Sena. This has been John Sena against the fans. That's basically what this has been built on. And Cody is is a vessel of the fans. He relies on the fans. He likes the fans. He you know, he everything he does is for the fans,

and so ultimately that will be his downfall. That's the story of this match. It's really John Sena against you and me at WrestleMania. I'll be waiting for my wrestlemaniat pay Day, by the way, So they really leaned into that in this probo. But then it was Cody's turn to speak, and the fans started booing again and Sina said, this is who you fight for, and Cody said. Sena said that he doesn't or remember when Cody made the about him burying talent, and Seena's response was I don't

bury talent. I am talent. So he made reference to that line again here. He said, well, he knows a graveyard of talent that would disagree with that, but we're not talking about them. We're talking about WrestleMania. He asked Sena if he knows the name of the guy who handed him the mic. Do you know who that guy is? Beaues, I'll bet you don't. Or maybe that woman over there or that camera guy or this person or that person. He says, since the goat hasn't shown up since the

elimination chamber, let me offer you some perspective. And he calls Cody underwhelming. He says, right, you call me underwhelming. Well, Sena is overrated, overbearing, out of touch, out of time, with a face like melting wax in a stack of dimes for a neck. I wonder where he got that line from. And he's paler than sting At Stark ninety seven. That was great. If you know, you know, If you know the story, then you get the reference. If you don't,

then you won't. And Sena's sanctimonious comments about how he's an errand boy when the whole world watched him saunter out onto the Oscar stage butt ass naked for the people he runs errands for now and by god, John, it's twenty twenty five and you still can't wrestle. He won the crowd over with those comments. Whoever you thought

won the promo. What he was able to do was turn the crowd back in his favor because as he was really getting fired up and getting into these comments and the sting line, and like, by the end of this they were cheering for Cody. He had won them back. So Sina called them all idiots. They're just like Cody. They don't know what they want. And to beat Cody, he says, he doesn't have to wrestle. And then this is the part where it looked like he gave him a karate chop. It may have been a thumb to

the eye. Just the way they shot it, you couldn't tell because it was from the other like the other side of Cody's head. I thought maybe he kind of bopped him in the fucking ear and they were selling the fact that, you know, he had the busted ear drum after the elimination chamber. It may have been a thumb to the eye. It legitimately looked like he gave him a fucking karate chop. Okay, he looked like Daniel out there. Daniel. You know, I guess how old is

Ralph Macchio. Now he might be the same age just scene it for all I know, but that's what he looked like. Give a fucking karate chop and Cody sold it. And then he got him on his shoulders for an attitude adjustment. Cody slips out and he ends up giving him the crossroads and so yet again the second time now in the last few weeks. Well, I guess it would have been the thirty first, right, March thirty first was the last time we saw Sina and he got laid out at the end of that segment two with

an AA. So here he is yet again looking up at the lights and the show goes off the air. Cody goes back down the aisle posing with his title. That is how the Final SmackDown, the final show before WrestleMania, went off the air. I loved the little Hall of Oaths reference. Out of Touch, out of time thumbs up on that. The Sting being pale, I mean, that's just

a classic, just nonsensical. Eric Bischoff's story about him and Hogan and why they felt like why they felt like Sting did not deserve to win the World Championship at Stark ninety seven. He was very pale when he showed up that day. He was not in the best shape. Yes, because when I watched Stark ninety seven, I can remember Sting walking out there thinking, my god, he's in horrible shape. He looks terrible, he looks like he just had a fucking five day bender. Oh and he's pale. So let's

keep the title on Hogan, who's orange. I don't see how this show is over. You were left with any other impression than John Sena is going to win number seventeen on Sunday. John Sena turned heel an elimination chamber. He was the biggest thing in wrestling. It's all anybody was talking about. Everybody was excited, it was well done, It got people buzzing, and then he was gone for two weeks. We didn't see him. We didn't see him, we didn't see the rock. Then we saw Scena three

weeks in a row. He didn't have a whole lot to say those first two weeks about Cody. In fact, he didn't say anything about Cody. We got that one great segment in London between them that was actually great, and then again nothing for two weeks, and then we got what we got tonight, which was fine as sort of the closing salvo between these two. But the John ccena heel turn or He'll run so far has been underwhelming, and I don't know how long it's gonna go. I

don't know if it's done after WrestleMania. I don't know if they're gonna take it all the way to SummerSlam. I don't know if they're gonna take it to the end of the year. I don't know. Obviously he'll be he'll turn back before the end of the year. But what I was hoping to finally see from a heel John Cena, just selfishly as a fan, because we haven't seen John Cena as a heel in over two decades. What I was hoping we might be able to get out of this, we haven't gotten. And it's been very

It's been very underwhelming. It's been very underwhelming, very disappointing. There are times where it even feels forced. And I'm hoping that whatever they have planned for WrestleMania, maybe it'll breathe new life into it, because for me, I can't sit here and tell you, oh my god, it's been great. Now it could have been, it could have been, but it hasn't been. That's just the reality of it. It hasn't been, but now the match is here and that's

all that matters. What do they do at WrestleMania. If John Cena is going to continue to be a heel, which he should, he needs to win the WWE title of WRESTLEMANI he needs to be the one to go into St. Louis next month the Backlash and defend that championship against Randy Orton. So we get a Randy Orton John Cena match one last time. Roles are reversed this time. Seenea' is the heel, Orton's the face. What an atmosphere it'll be in Saint Louis. That'll be a huge match.

Sena and CM Punk same thing. It works so much better if Sena is the heel and Punk is the baby face, especially after the comments that Punk made about him after the Chamber. You can't turn him back before you do that match. You can't. It's booking malpractice if you do that. But Sena, I feel like he has to win this championship and then you get these big

title matches against all these people. If he doesn't win and he stays a heel, we're gonna get those matches anyway, and every single time John Cena goes out there to wrestle a CM Punk or a Randy Orton or an AJ Styles or anybody else that he might wrestle, it will completely overshadow everything else on the show. It will be the biggest thing on the show. And if Cody is WWE Champion, the WWE Championship is now number two

on the show. That's another reason why to me, it makes sense put the belt on Sena, even if just for a few months. Put the belt on Sena. That is the right outcome this Sunday. Everything they've done so far, laying him out twice at all points to that. What involvement, if any, will The Rock have in this I don't know. We haven't seen The Rock since Toronto. I cannot imagine he won't be there. Him and Travis Scott will probably be there. What involvement, if any, in the match will

they have? Is there a third man? Is the main event on Night one the finish of that match going to tie in to the main event of Night two? I don't know. Is there going to be another person revealed as being part of their little click? But if Cody goes in there and he retains the championship. Where does Sena go from here? That's my question. What's next for him? Where does that story go with him as a heel. There's some people who said they would like

to see a double turn. People were talking about a double turn in the chap before. I mean, the guy just turn heel. You gotta turn him back. But this is this is going to be very interesting to see whether Rock is involved and who shows their face during that main event, and also what kind of match is it going to be. The last few matches John Cena has had have not been good. The match with Austin

Theory was no good. The match with Solo Socoo where Solo gave him like sixteen Samo and Spikes was not good. There's no tag team situation here. It's not an elimination chamber, it's not a Royal rumble. Scene is in a one on one match, and it's a Wrestlemaniam main event match. He's going to be out there for a good fifteen twenty twenty five minutes. What kind of matches John Cena gonna have? Forty seven years old, it's been a while since Sceena has gone out there. And had a real

kick ass quality singles match. That's another thing. I'm curious to see. What does he look like in the ring with Cody? What kind of match does Cody have with Cina? This is not the John Cena of ten years ago or fifteen years ago. The last time these two had a match together, it was I believe it would have been their Elimination Chamber qualifying match. That was in twenty ten. They had a raw match. That's fifteen years ago. Cody's in a very different place now. John Cena is in

a very different place. Now. What kind of Wrestlemaniam main event are these two going to have? Find out Sunday. Take a look at the Twitter poll. What did you think of SmackDown before Maniu fifty seven point seven percent thumbs up, twenty seven point eight percent thumbs in the middle, and fourteen point five percent thumbs down For the go Home Show thirteen hundred plus votes in. You can vote at Sala Monster on x JP says better not phone it in. I hope not. This is this is go time, baby,

It's the WrestleMania main event. Ain't no bigger match other than I guess his retirement match when we get to the end of the year, but they made the choice for him to be in this WrestleMania made event. Now you've got to go out there and have a big WrestleMania main event caliber match, and he hasn't had one of those in many years. So what that looks like, I don't know, but I hope it looks a lot better than the match you had with fucking Theory a

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for the WrestleMania reviews. Holiday says, Hey Solo, I hope WrestleMania is a great pay per view and that you enjoy the show you as well. I saw the WrestleMania forty one stage reveal and it's an amazing setup, likely within the top three best WrestleMania stages with thirty three and thirty nine. WrestleMania is even better to watch with food and snacks. Yes, I have to have food when I watched these shows. Always got to have a good snack handy. I saw the stage reveal. It looks great.

It's up there. It's not the best stage they've ever done, but it's in that realm. We'll see what it looks like tomorrow night, once the stadium is filled in Lakers Pats Russo swerve Jimmy turns and costs j the World Heavyweight championship. That would be fucking terrible. We had Jimmy and Jay last year and I have no interest in seeing it again after that. Did you not learn your lesson after last year? Why would you want to see that again? Chris O'Neil Russev will return Sunday and Bianca

will turn heel helping Naomi. Bianca may turn heel, but she ain't helping Naomi. Not this weekend. Brother Fluff Salisbury. Well, thanks to Howard Finkel and you, I've been hearing pizza, pizza in my head for the past few days. You're welcome pizza. It's another great snack. Some people might want to have pizza during WrestleMania. I will not be one of those people. Randy Bobandy with a twenty dollars super Chat random question, did you ever see the shoot with

punkin Joe about twenty years ago? Where homicide almost peed on punk or where they were ribbed to go to a club on crossdresser night. No, this is the first I'm hearing of it. I do remember in one of their shoots, and I think it was a Ring of Honor shoot that they did. They were talking about a fan, I think a female fan who used to drive them around and kind of do stuff for them, and how they treated her like shit, and I just thought, man, it really made them, it really made them come across

not well at all. Like I remember that. But the one you're talking about, No, I don't remember seeing that. Herb Abrams, Oh my god, he is back from the dead. Herb Abrams is with us. Doesn't say if he brought the hookers and coke. He said that pale sting comment was something else. Loll Herb, you didn't bring the good stuff. Man, you disappoint me. Fire Panda with the I see the magenta, so I know it's big. Fire Panda is here and

look at this with a fifty dollars gunthar bomb. I think there is only one way, and the panda means one way to start Mania weekend Here at SoundOff Headquarters, point to the sign, well you can't really see it here, but yes, it is behind me. I will have to be pulling this sign down next week. The sign is over there. I am pointing to it right now. Enjoy it. You only got it for a few more days. Thank you, Fire Panda JDFVA. This weekend is full of solemn Monster content.

Sub now. Yes, if you are not subscribed, we might actually hit eighty six thousand subscribers this weekend. We're already very close. This weekend might put us over the top. Randy Bobandy with another twenty This is my be the Booker contribution in the hopes the legend himself greatest cruiserweight champion of all time. Billy Kidman makes an appearance. Well, you're gonna be very upset because Billy Kidman is not in Be the Booker. I'm sorry to disappoint you. Tony

Boloney McCall, thank you for the ten no message. Herbie Abrams again, the SmackDown tag titles not being on the line at Mania is a damn travesty. It's just again, it's just bizarre to me. It's just it really is. It's just bewildering to me that of the two tag team titles. The other ones would be the ones defended at Wrestlemaine. I don't understand that Tony Boloney says, wwe can't call Charlotte Flat a Grand Slam champion counting NXT and also say that she's a fourteen time champion and

not count NXT. She's going for winning number seventeen at WrestleMania forty one, not to them, and it's their record. So she's a fourteen time champion. That's the way they want it. That's the way it is. If she wins, she'll be fifteen Edwin and Garcia. I think La Knight might lose the title after Tonight's SmackDown. He could definitely lose. I have him winning, but that one's a little tougher to call than some of the other matches. I could

see him losing. I just think Solo getting involved in it. Backfiring would make more sense, and then it leads right into Jacob and Solo a backlash and it doesn't have to be for the US title. TK Banks. The ninety seven Stark line made me think Cody is losing then going away for a while, only to come back with black hair and be the savior. Unlike the shit Hogan Sting finish at starkad the good guy win, the good guy, the goods, he says, the good the goods guy win. Guys,

you fucked me up with that super chat TK. No, that's not gonna happen. Joseph Stewart says, have you seen the Street Fighter movie with Jean Claude Van dem Believe it or not? I have not. I have not, Honey, deep Fried Chick in WrestleMania forty one stage looks beautiful. It's Ai generated come to life, and we're not talking about practice. It is a beautiful set z Paul. Are the conquistadors listed in the in be the booker? You know what I think they are? I don't remember. Actually

I think they are. Mister Rod with the twenty hey, mister thank you, looks like a great weekend in the books. WrestleMania and the start of the NBA playoffs. Let's go. Yeah, there's a lot going on, GMB. Tiffany's voice is so damn grating, it's insane. Are you not a fan of Tippy time? Is that what you're saying? Oh? There we okay, Duffsvids, thank you. I didn't realize we had caught up. I'm scrolling.

I'm scrolling. I'm scrolling. For whatever reason, the really early super chats they don't appear, so I go through those first and then we catch up with what's on screen. So I guess we're all caught up there, Z Paul, thank you for renewing the channel membership as well. Appreciate that, brother, Justin HESSI look at this guy, forty eight months of channel membership. Honored to join the illustrious Blue Badge Club. Everyone, have a great weekend. You know, not too many people

have the Blue Badge. I mean, they might have blue balls, but they don't have the Blue Badge. So you are part of a very esteemed group, a very elite crew. Bace, Bears, Theory and Solo are next in line for Sina as the champion. My god, don't say that, Owen Curtis. Eight doves bids, can't miss duffs bids. What's the best part of having a twin spare parts? Ah, I see, Owen Curtis. If Sina wins on Sunday, wouldn't that make him an

eighteen time champion. Universal title has not been officially retired, even if it pretty much is at this point. The universal title, as far as I'm concerned, is a thing of the past. I don't even count it. Honey, deep Fried Chicken says, this Chicken tells you how John Cena can get more heat on himself during his match, Sena does a Hogan leg drop, uses Omega's one winged Angel, and steals Rick Flair's figure four. How about he does

none of those things. I don't even think Sena can do his top rope leg slice that he used to do. Like if he busts that out at WrestleMania, I'd be shocked. Kung Fu Joseph Solo, you said this show is met. Didn't you listen to Triple H. We have to shut up and just enjoy the show. I know, I know, just shut up and enjoy the show. That's what he

wants everybody to do. I'll bet he does. Spoken like somebody who's finally getting a lot of negative feedback on this road to wrestle Mania and isn't taking it very well. That's what it sounds like to me. Duffsvids, how many people died on the Titanic A boat load? Ah, that's awful. You suck that's awful, Timothy tell Us with the twenty dollars super chat. I hope everybody is having a great day. I worked all door dashing. Now I can get to

the show. Hey, Timothy, I got your emails earlier as well. Thank you very much. I appreciate the support more than you know we got, Anthony. The build to mid card Mania made me less interested. You're not the only one I've heard that from bays Beer Duff's VID says too soon? What was that nineteen twelve? I still think it's too soon, Nick Grosso. It seems like the Tessa Blanchard experiment is failing badly. Last night in Las Vegas. Throughout the match,

the crowd was channing f U Tessa. She's a racist and she's been getting the we coming for you, Oh my god, we coming for you. Chance mistake by TNA. Well, look, they knew what they signed up for when they brought her back. I don't think they give a shit. I don't know what would lead you to believe that they care. But as long as that keeps up, you ain't going to see her in WWA. King Nator with the thirty

eight dollars. Fuck Kevin Dunn super chat Hey solo. After watching the bill to the triple Threat match for the first time, I am pulling for Rollins to win. I think he deserves it. I've been calling for a Rollins win for weeks. That's why I'm saying he's gonna win. He's been my pick for a while. Honey, deep Fried Chicken with flavor. I predict Charlotte Flair will cheat to win against Tiffany Stratton. I could see that she struggles

against the rookie. You know, Tiffany ends up being a tougher challenge than she expected, but in the end, she does what any good veteran would do. She cheats to win. I think we're gonna have a fifteen time women's champion this weekend, and I think that these two are going to continue to feud until the Evolution pl in July, and that is where Tiffany will win the belt back. It's my prediction an Evolution show. They still haven't announced,

by the way, but it does sound like it's gonna happen. Honey, deep Fried Chicken, thank you again. Duff's VIDs with the nineteen ninety nine two blonds are standing on opposite sides of a river. The first blonde is asked, how do you get on the other side. The second blonde says, don't be stupid, You're already there. Get ready for jokes for WRESTLVANDIA forty one, Night one and two. Hope Sidrow and others help out. I don't know if I don't know where Psycho Cidrow is going to be this weekend,

but I'm sure you'll do your part to cover for him. Honey, deep Fried Chicken ww. We will be tempted to give Penta the Intercontinental title. They'll be tempted, and I'm gonna say that they don't. I think Dom's gonna win Nail with a ten dollars super chat. Excuse me, Hey, Solo got a chance to tune in live on a rare occasion. Just want to say thank you for all you do and keeping me company at work during the week Been a fan for about two years now and you are

the goat. Thank you, Nail. I'm glad I can keep you company during those boring hours at work. Sometimes people just need something to listen to. That's why I'm here a Rabi Knight. If Raymisterio is injured, which obviously looks like he heard his ankle badly. In my opinion, they should scrap the Gable match and put the SmackDown tag team titled TLC match. There no no, First of all, you don't fuck over Chad Gable like that. I don't

like that. That's number one. Number two. How long? How long was the mysterio Gable Man's gonna be ten to twelve minutes? Max? You do a TLC match, You got to give that at least fifteen to twenty. You know, they made their bed. You know, they said the TLC match has already been announced for SmackDown next week. It's not happening a WrestleMania. Hey, eighty six Mets fan, there should be if you're watching right now, there should be a subscribe button somewhere below. All you got to do

is hit it. That's it, and you'll be subscribed. It's just that simple. Yeah. I mean again, how long do you think Ray and Penta or whoever ray in Penter, Ray and Gable or anybody in Gable? If Ray has to be replaced by Phoenix or somebody, how long, honestly do you think that's gonna get I said ten to twelve. It might not even get that much, maybe eight to ten. There's no way it's going to go longer than that. You're not gonna do a TLC match in ten minutes,

King bling blah. Why do you think the referees put on gloves when a wrestler bleeds. The opponent doesn't put on gloves, So why is the referee And thoughts on the wrestle Mania forty one set. I already talked about the WrestleMania forty one set. As far as the gloves, again, it's a safety measure. The opponent can't put gloves on because they're in the middle of wrestling, and honestly, if your opponent is bleeding, especially if there's a significant amount

of blood, you're gonna get blood on yourself. Like there's nothing you could do about it. The referee, though they're instructed to put gloves on. It is just part of the safety protocol because they're in a position to be able to do so. You know, the other wrestler isn't once they're already wearing gloves. Some wrestlers wear gloves. If Sting was in the ring, he'd already have gloves on. Seth Rollins when he used to be part of the shield, right,

he had gloves on Undertai your head gloves on. But it's it's just a safety measure. Duff's viz. My uncle took my weed, so I took his wheelchair. If I'm not rolling, neither is he. That's kind of mean. I like it, Thank you, Duffs Viz. Prince Vegeta ninety five. What's your thoughts on WrestleMania in nineteen? My favorite WrestleMania. He says, it's got three great matches Y two JHBK Rock Austin and Angel Lesner and Vince Hogan was wild. The Booker Triple h match was also decent until the

infamous ending. I like WrestleMania in nineteen. It's very surprising that it got such a low by rate, Like if you look at WrestleMania by rates, you look at seventeen eight nineteen, you see the dip. But the show was loaded with big matches, so it always was very confusing to me. But they also built the show around Hogan and McMahon, Like if you saw the advertising for the show, you would never know that Angle and Lesner was the main event on that show. They weren't pushing that they

weren't pushing Rock Austin as like the biggest match. It was all about Hogan and McMahon, and so maybe people looked at that and were like, eh, you know what, you're building a show around these two old geezers wrestling each other. Maybe we don't want to see that. Maybe that had something to do with it, But there were a ton of big matches on that show. Bas Beer says, WHOA, oh yeah, of course. Wrestle Mania. I love the WrestleMania jingle.

The WrestleMania song is awesome. I wish they still used it. Bes Beer says, aka Linda McMahon's theme, no no, no, no, no, forget her. It was the WrestleMania theme long before Linda started using it. Nick Grosso says, also, did you see bron Breaker do his own version of Steiner Math? I heard about it, I did not see it. Arabian Night or Alistair Black debuts against Gable on Night one, an easy win. Now it doesn't work. It's gonna be el Gerande Americano. He has to wrestle. He has to wrestle

a luchador, otherwise it doesn't work. Alistair Black is not a luchador. Unless you know something I don't. He's the weirdest looking luchador I've ever seen. If he is, honey deep Fried Chickens says, just imagine Gunther and jay Usso's match ends with Gunther intentionally chopping the referee and causing a disqualification. Guntherer pulls an Orton versa two thousand and eight no way out finish. He chops the referee and then smiles as he calls for the DQ. You know

what would happen. I think the fans would cheer. I think the fans would cheer that. Of course, that just means we would end up with another Gunther jay Uso match at Backlash. I don't need to see that. It needs to end tomorrow. This will be the fourth match they have. How many matches do you want them to have? Jeremy Rose go bold cross money in the bank winner. That is bold because I don't see it happening, But I mean I wouldn't necessarily be against it. There's still

time between now and money in the bank, though. Let's see what they do with him. Also, it says crazy thought on Orton he loses to the mystery opponent, maybe russev. This makes him snap and complain how he was screwed for his twenty year WrestleMania Anniversary. He ends up going crazy and attacks Cody, setting up a feud at Backlash. Now I see that it's very disconnected, Like, I see what you're going for there, But what does one have

to do with the other. Like if he gets screwed in his twentieth anniversary, maatche, why would he attack Cody? And you're gonna You're gonna turn him heel before they go to Saint Louis. Come on, can't do that, oznglorious. So when Vince makes his return to the FED this weekend, will the crowd boo or cheer? And how will that shameless Phil Brooks justify it? I know the fans will bow. Wow, That's usually what they do, right they do the bow,

they'll bow. Bobby means what I think happens as Rio wins back the title, and I believe this is where Beanca turns heal and we get the build up with Rhea and Bianca. So that is Bobby's prediction. Lord Friza, my god, we haven't heard from Lord Friza in a while. My liver and myself are ready for WrestleMania. I hope all is well, Solemn Monster. Much love to you as well. It's good to hear from you. Eight nine Tech saw some old highlights of Raw from three Unmasked. Caine was

so over as a heal monster. How WWE didn't put the belt on him back then is beyond me. Well, let's see two thousand and three Raw who had the belt at the time. I wonder that might help tell the tale. Duffs VID's what do you get when you rub two oranges together? Pulp friction? My god, my goodness, where do you come up with these? Where do you come up with these? Groovy goose? I'm sure working with

Vince hurt most of them. But which WWE announcers released or left in the past decade would you like to see in the current era in the last decade? Mara Ronaldo? And when will Byron Saxton go into the Hall of Fame? Not until he's retired. King Nator b RB activated, he means bTB. It's be the booker, not be right back. But we can thank King Nator and he's he's worthy of another siren. He helped make it happen with a fifty dollars bomb and yes, we are doing two rounds tonight.

Be the Booker Power Spine Games. The only booking Goldberg may get this week is be the Booker. That's about it. Duffs VID's what pronouns? Does chocolate go by her? She? Thank God? Move on here. Justin g Hot take r KO against either Joe Hendry or Steve Austin. Steve Austin, well you must be on the good stuff. I need to take part whatever you've got going on over there. Justin King Nader, that last one I botched hard. Yeah, there we go, Yes, says Be the Booker. Activated. I

feel better now. He had to send another super chat to correct his mistake. I respect that Zachary Black with the twenty dollars super chat. Hey Solo, I'm stuck at work tonight, and I just want to say thank you for your review, because while I do want to watch smacketh Down, I cannot show up tired to the lunch with my sisters. Tired too, love to he means to lunch with my sister. Man, you guys are confusing me with some of these super chats. Much love, dude, peace.

Well that's the most important part. Much love to you as well, Zachary. I had to read that twice. I hope you enjoy the review. Uh Anthony says, is new day at Mania do to Biggie's surprise return? I mean, do I believe Biggie is returning WrestleMania to do? What? What's he gonna do? No? I don't think so. Justin says it's the it's the rot gut Bourbon. What the hell is that it'll rot your gut? That doesn't sound like a good time. Bass Beers is round three gives

no context. Yes, Steph Fox says it looks like Zach is. It looks like hold. I say, because it looks like Zach is already tired. You know what that's true? Zach? Based on your super chat, I think I think you're already very tired. Buddy Troe says, Hey, Solo, can't wait to attend my tenth WrestleMania. I'm thankful for the Facebook group. You are our tribal chief and we acknowledge you. Well, let me see the ones in the chat if you

acknowledge your tribal chief. SMG kobe Ilyya Dragonov surprise return for Randy. Possibly, it's an interesting one. I hadn't thought about that. I believe he is cleared to return. I believe I just assumed they were saving him for post WrestleMania. I don't think it's him, but I do think that would be a kick ass match. Zachary Black Alexa Bliss against Randy Orton. Well, she did blind him once with a fireball, so it's possible. It's not like she has

a WrestleMania match. Hallelujah said with a two dollars super chet, Thank you. Broley Cross Money is as a manager, in my opinion, like a callous type. Uh. You know, I think you can do more with him. You know, when I thought he was at his I want to say best, but I enjoyed it when he was sort of the bodyguard guy and he was all dressed up with the bald head in TNA Killer Cross. I think that's what I liked him the most. Base Beer is Summer Fest twenty twenty five theme Cardi B Wap by Cardi B

justin g Oh God, No, what if it's rock and Orton? No, you don't have to worry about that because it's not going to be. Also, he says, I was hoping as Cody built up. I was hoping as Cody built up and up, he was going to throw out a fine speech. But you didn't get all of it. Thanks solo Monster. Yeah, JP agrees with me. We need bald headed crossback. Base Beer's sting wore white face paint. Pale would have worked. Apparently he was too pale to win the World Championship

that night. Go figure, after eighteen months of build he didn't have a ten. Bas Beer is just like AJ criticizing Hogan for not promoting TNA. I thought Rock and Sena we're going to do a lot of media and promote the business in the mainstream. Boy were you wrong? Boy? Were you wrong? Yeah? No, we didn't get any of that, did we. We didn't even get the social media promos from Sena that we got with Rock last year. At least when Rock wasn't there, he would have a new

drop on Instagram every week. We have got nothing from Sena. The average grunt was the starkad reference a Jabbitts sting for not inducting Luger or am I looking too deep into it? You're looking way too deep into it. It was not a dig it sting. It was a dig and a dumb story and a dumb excuse as far as why Sting did not win the world title all those years ago. Nightmare knee with the ten dollars super chat.

I'm sorry, I can't stand seth rawlins. He reminds me of early two thousands triple H boring promos, but cool entrance he has, go to sleep heat with me. Great in the ring though, all speaking of go to sleep heat with me. Fuck that tree. The learning Tree has crashed the party. Thank you, Michael. Number one almost safe and Wild prediction. Paul Hayman forms a new dangerous alliance with Omas Hikuleo and Tangaloa after being bullied by punk

rains and rollins. That's pretty wild. That'll be the nicest thing I say about it. Dark Effect with the thirty Sena said after his match with Theory, what we saw was all he had in the tank. So if the match is going to be any good, it's due to Cody being a better wrestler than Sena ever was, or it is being very overbooked. Well, I'm sure there'll be some overbooking with the finish, I don't think it's going to be as overbooked. As last year's main event was.

It was overbooked on purpose and it was great. I think we may need some smoking bears for this match for sure. Ricky Cornflakes. Who's winning in the playoffs? New York or Detroit, New York? Of course, Alexander says, I need to see Travis get his ass whooped by Cody. He may have a receipt coming tomorrow or Sunday. I guess he's supposed to be there. I don't know if he's performing, but he's supposed to be there. His song is like the WrestleMania theme song this year, so he

might even perform it live. I mean, there's been talked that Slayer might perform Damien Pre's theme song alive, although that's not confirmed. Cultiv Personality is going to be performed by Living Color for CMPUNK, but I did see that there was talk that Slayer might possibly perform for a Damien presentrance. Tanga Loa super fan, Oh my god, somebody said his name and he appeared. Some argue that Tonga

Loa is the modern day Brett Hart. Both come from family dynasties one tag team titles with Family and are known as the best in ring wrestlers of their generation. Maybe he should be called Tanga the hitman loa. Now you just shut your mouth with that. Okay, you keep your mouth shut or I'm gonna throw you out of here. I will not stand any of that slander. Now you've crossed the line. EJ Slam. It won't be him, nor should it be him. But imagine if Orton's opponent was

Vegas native Matt Riddle. I think he's in town. What is the background song right now? That's what Nick wants to know. It's called a hard line. Hard line by Sandman retro Koh math is too hard. Fifteen plus fifteen equals thirty, but sixteen plus sixteen equals thirty two thirty Comma to yeah, okay, all right, my god, we got all these amateur comedians now hit man loa. Yeah you like that? Huh? We got the hitman emojis. In the chat for our channel members, Drew Johnson, Drew Johnson is

with us? Where is the Rock? Says this story doesn't work. The Rocks started all of this. Sina winning this match is week. HBK never chased being the champion. When he got clean, he just put everyone else over. He never chased being the champion when he got clean. It's true he only won the world title once and that was because they just wanted to give him that moment at Madison Square Garden, and he never held another world championship after that. He was a tag team champion. I think

he was a tag team champion twice. Wasn't he with Triple H and then with John Cena. Didn't they win the titles before WrestleMania twenty three? Actually, wasn't he the chap? Weren't they the tag team champions when they wrestled at WrestleMania twenty three? I thought they were Arabian night Matt Riddle returns against Randy rk Brow reunion, Timothy Tillis renewing his Channel membership. I'd love to see it, Ritchie. They made a Triple H bronze statue at the Hall of Fame.

Oh I saw it. Oh No, Maybe I'm thinking of something else. You're talking about a bronze statue. I saw a wax figure of Triple H. This is the thing of this is the stuff of nightmares. I didn't see the bronze statue though. Cecil Robinson attended my first smack down looking forward to both WrestleMania and Raw Vegas is pretty cool so far. Well enjoy it, brother. I've been to Vegas a couple of times and I enjoyed it both times. I'd love to go back and didn't make

it this year, but have fun, man that way. That wax figure was horrified. It's it, dude, it is you know what. I gotta find it now. Hold on a second. So, I'm sure some people didn't see it, and so why should I be the only one sharing in this? In this nightmare? This thing, this thing is just ah my god, this is just ridiculous. What is it even doing there? Like, why would they have a wax figure? God, it's doing the triple ah point? Hold on, people, people need to

see this. This is absolutely terrifying. I actually have two pictures of it. I think the second one is worse. Anyway, we'll bring that up here in a little bit. Let's keep going here. Michael Darcy, hey, solo, do you have any interest in catching any GCW or indie events this week? Have the indie shows at wrestle Media Weekend? That jumped the shark after watching Joey Janella versus Saboo, I think so uh oh, was that as bad as I thought it would be? No, not this week, because I'm just

so I'm so busy with everything else. Dude, I just haven't had I just haven't had the time to even think about any of the other ones at people reaching out to me about the Progress show the other night, I just haven't had time. It's not for lack of interest, but there's just so much going on in only so much time. Eight nine Tech Which wrestle media match did you have the least expectations for but over delivered? In which one you had high expectations for but under delivered?

I definitely had higher expectations for AJ and knakham Moora at thirty four. I don't know if that's like the only one, but that's the one I always think of, the one I went into with very low expectations. I don't know. I don't know what did I go into super low expectations that kind of blew me away? I have to think about that. I don't know. If the top of my head, I don't know. Plus Ultra Adrian, my sister went to New Orleans last week and loved it.

Since WrestleMania is going to be there next year. I may actually go and experience New Orleans. You should. New Orleans is great. That's another one. You're gonna have a lot of fun there. I'll probably be there next year again. I've been there twice. Both times were WrestleMania. Blue Jay says, who knows sells better, Gypsy Joe or Hogan? Probably Gypsy Joe. Tangolo a superfan. The world would be a better place if everyone had a little Tangaloa in their lives. You know,

I've said it before, Tangaloa. As he continues to rehab from his injury, he probably has a lot of downtime, and we found his burner account here. So everybody welcome Tangaloa. We wish you nothing but the best. Take all the time you need. Brandon Proctor with thirty five months of channel membership, hoping it's russev Day on Sunday. Also, Sina wins number seventeen and Rollins joins with Hayman calling it now very possible. Stal a monster scream going to outlast

the Hall of Fame tonight. How's that going? Somebody in the chat said, Michelle McCool is still talking? Has she been talking for a long time. Would you rather listen to Michelle McCool or me Doctor Scorpio. At the time, I honestly thought for some reason WrestleMania was last week until I realized it was this week. Shows how much I've been paying attention or invested in wrestling these days. Well. Also, WrestleMania usually doesn't happen this late, so, to be fair,

typically by now it would have been over. So if you haven't been paying attention, it's not that surprising. Michelle McCool is still talking. Hey eighty six Mets fan, you're already here, brother, I see you. You're already here. Just you being here is enough. I appreciate the support. He hasn't been able to figure out how to support or subscribe. He's an older fan. Somebody help him out. Help out. One of our fellow members in the chat, is Bronson

Reid ready for a return? Yet? He is not, Unfortunately, I don't think he will be until later this summer. I mean, it was a pretty gnarly injury at Survivor Series, so it's going to be a while yet before we see him. Justin g tangaloa superfan, thought things were glittering like gold but turns out it was just Micah or Camacho. All right, well I warned you. I'm going to show you this image of this wax figure. Don't say I didn't warn you, and I have no idea whose idea

this was? Me make this a little bit bigger. Here there he is, there's wax Triple H doing the finger point. And as bad as this, hey, Reekinson, what's going on man? And is as bad as that is, I'll give you one even worse. My god, this is just so much words. This looks like something out of total recall. Look at this, My god, look at the eyes. Oh my god, who's you remind me of? This is horrifying. That's terrible. I don't know whose idea this was, but yeah, this is

this is pretty fucking bad. So I want this to be your lasting image before your head hits the pillow tonight. This is your new Hall of Fame inductee. This is Triple H's evil Kojak. Well Kojak didn't have a beard like that? Is this awful? Oh man? Anyway, who signed off on this? Well, probably not Triple H, I'm guessing. All right, let's get him out of there. Uh, power spying Games. Eight year old me loved Michelle, but she's she's taking too long. Well, this is her moment, and

I guess she's going to enjoy every second. And ain't nobody gonna say anything to her because the Undertaker, I'm sure, is not going to be too happy if they give her the hook. Plus Ultra Adrian thanks Solo. Now I'm going to gouge out my eyes. Jeremy says, would you like to work for WWE after this week? No, Doctor Scorpio. That statue needs some well deserved criticism. Yes, yes it does. He may not like it, but you can absolutely go

ahead and criticize that statue. All right, Well, we hit our supercheck goal much earlier in the night, and the main goal is well six hundred and twenty two likes, which is great. We could do better, though, let's beef that up towards seven hundred. Richie says they did make a bronze statue of Triple h so that he gets a statue before Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin. He got a statue and a wax figure. Interesting. I guess it

pays to be the boss. Let's be the booker, ladies and gentlemen, it is now time to be the booker. It pays to be the boss man snow Dog. Is that true? We have some catching up to do, he says. The Hall of Fame on YouTube has twenty thousand likes. We're lagging a little behind that. I would love to have twenty thousand likes. Let's see if we can. Let's see if we can get those likes up. All right, be the booker time. This is round one of two.

Perhaps we will have many rounds this weekend. That's gonna depend on you guys. But here on a Friday night, early Saturday morning, let's kick off the first round here with William Regal and Tajiri where Steve Austin used to call him ty Jiri, former Raw tag team champions. Right there, Hey, Navy forty one eighty one, thank you for the super chat. That triple H statue needs a jet ski today, Yes, it does. I spied you earlier in Navy forty one

eighty one. I happened to click on a live stream that Conrad was doing with Eric Bischoff, and I saw you dropped a super chat there too, So you've been making the rounds today. It's good to hear from you, regal Into Jerry against the Holly Cousins Hardcore and Crash. I was a fan of the Holly Cousins and the whole super heavyweight gimmick that Crash Ali did. And I also liked the stuff that regal Into Jerry did. I thought it was very entertaining. So that gets a bell.

That gets a thumbs up from me. All right, women's match, Uh oh, Ronda Rousey wants a stipulation. She wants a stipulation added right now or else or else what you'll threaten to return? Okay, gotta pick a stip We're not even waiting for round two. We gotta pick a stip for this women's match. And it's going to be a Texas death match. Oh my god, a Texas death match with the ladies. This should be very interesting. Lida is going to be in this Texas Death match. Lda is

gonna go one on one with Medusa. Hey, you know what, that's a pretty big match right there, Lida and Medusa in a Texas death match. That's box office. That's money. I like it. And our main event tonight, Main Event number one has Bobby Rude, former T and a World Heavyweight champion. Good to see Bobby Rood. I'm sure Bobby Rude will be working at WrestleMania this weekend backstage, and his opponent will be Carmelo Hayes taking on Bobby Rude.

He's going to parlay his Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal win into a main event here in be the Booker. That's your Andre Battle Royal Winner right there. Maybe I'm just feeling extra generous tonight, but that's a clean sweet folks, that's a clean sweep for round one of be the Booker. And you know what we do here for round two? We pick stipulations. That's what we do. Not so not everybody is sold on that way. You know what, you're not the booker I am. So here we go. We're

gonna pick stipulations for these matches. Now, we're gonna start with the tag team match and it is going to be ooh, look at this solemn monster's choice? Is Michelle mccoole still talking? You're not serious? Uh? Sol a monster's choice? I get to pick the step huh hmm. What stipulation do I want? Well, I'll tell you what We'll do. Do something a little bit different here. We're gonna do

the women's match first. And the stipulation that I'm choosing is that the second woman that I land on here and be the booker sold Monster will date that second woman. It's the solemn Monster goes on a date match. How about that? That'll make things interesting? Here we go be the booker time. Remember it the second one. It's the second person I pick, not the first one. Hikarushida is in our women's match here in round number two. My god,

what is this? What is this going to be? I feel like we need a I feel like we need a drum roll for this one. Oh my god. Her opponent will be Chelsea Green. You know what? Hey? I like, Hey, I liked I liked the uh. I like the Canadians. I like their bacon too. I'm a big fan of Canadian bacon. You might have that in comedy. I might have to fight Matt Cardona for That's okay. I'm okay with that. All right? Now we pick our tag team match. Uh, we have got a hardcore match. Gonna be a hardcore

tag team match. Solo Monster likes ham con for I love him. I just had a ham sandwich the other day. Actually, actually I did something last week that was I did something last week that was kind of foolish. Actually I had a ham sand was with bacon, and then I realized after I'm like, wait, what, it's kind of redundant. All right, tag team match, here we go, tag team hardcore match. Sola Monster can be an honorary Canadian any day.

I would be more than happy to. I'll even sing the anthem all right, public enemy rock o'rock and Johnny Grunge very appropriate. They're going to be in a hardcore match against the faces of fear. I feel like that was a match in WCW Swine on swine sandwich. Yeah, I realized like after the fact, I go, man, this is not this is not the healthiest choice. All Right, we may be in for our first back to back clean sweep. I don't know that we've ever done this before.

I should have added por you know what, You're right, I should have added pork. I could have had a ham in pork sandwich with bacon, and it's a missed opportunity. All right, main event, our stipulation is going to be what is our stipulation going to be a stretcher match? Okay, well, it's going to be a stretcher match. That's it. Now we know it's going to be sting. Oh look he looks too pale. He's definitely too pale to be the champion. It's crow Sting from w CW and no, nope, nope,

I jumped the gun. Jump the gun. I hope I didn't just jinx it. Sting and one big s ob. Bran Stroman, dude, we're coming up aces tonight. It's appropriate this WRESTLEMANI is in Vegas. We're coming up aces. We got back to back clean sweeps. That's how you do it. That's how it's done. Now we just got to carry that momentum over into the weekend. Reacan Sunset, I thought his shirt said, oh man, reacansn is a you sure you got a little dyslexic there, he says. I thought

his shirt said one. I can't even say it one big slob. No, it said one big sob. It didn't say one big slob. That's a completely different shirt. That was me when I had my my bacon and ham sandwich. It's one big slob. Oh, the sonic sound I played it. I played the sonic sound. We had our double clean sweep. I love it. It's right six for six, unlike Juan Soto's double Sonic A first, I believe it is. I can't remember a time where we did that. There's no way.

Michelle mccol is still talking. Chris Manson says she's still yapping. He's still yapping. There's no way. There's no way. I mean, look, I know they're on the West Coast, but it's two o'clock in the morning and Triple H still hasn't come out on stage yet. Did I see Samantha Urban's music video? Of course I did. Somebody linked me to it and I watched it, and I enjoyed the tune power Blind. I bet that sandwich was Booker t voice good. It was good. Yep, it was. It was very good. I

enjoyed it. Soto tied the game, yes, did Yes, but he has not gone six for six now, has he? All right? Darryl says she's done. Okay, so her speech is over. This sounds like an epic speech. I have to go. I have to go listen to it. Thank you, guys. This was a very fun stream and we haven't even gotten into WrestleMania Night one. Yet that's coming up later today because already Saturday, so this is going to be the Night one review. Saturday night after WrestleMania, I will

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be a very busy day. Be well, stay safe, get some rest, and I will see you back here very soon for Night one of WrestleMania. Until then, take care, guys,