NXT New Years Evil Review

the the uh raw debut was amazing. And I don't know if you've noticed, but they did carry some things over from one to the other, which I'm going to talk about most important. Actually, i'll just talk about it now. The first thing I can say that I mentioned that they brought over was the use of drones in the arena. So Money Nay Raw used drones a lot, which and they were all four K drones and they looked the

picture on Raw was amazing. Part of it, it was because of the cameras, it's part of and obviously the other part is because on Netflix. And that's unfortunately one of the things that's going to be an issue with SmackDown and an XT is they're not going to be able to have the clarity of the Netflix unless you happen to be outside of the United States. And I know, so if you are having a conversation with Dino during you know, and everybody's Dino from Scotland. He's in the

Mailbag show every week, do you know. And I were having a conversation and a couple other people about how for Monday Night Raw they didn't have commercials in basically around the entire world except the United States. And they also get NXT, SmackDown and Raw and the ples all

on Netflix. So they should have a much better picture quality for the shows, the same one that we have for Raw for they for all of them, and you know, do you know, if you're listening, let me know if the picture quality for NXT and then for and then for SmackDown Tomorrow night is going to be the same amazing quality. But anyway, so they had the drones, which

was really cool. And I actually one of my friends and I were texting outside of the discord chat and he's the one that brought up to me like the drones and then you never could see the drone and any other camera angles, but you saw kind of flying the picture of flying through the arena, which was which was really cool. And so I say that to say that they also used drones. As matter of fact, it seemed that during the during New Year's Evil, they didn't

have a hard alpha cam. They didn't have you know, the camera that goes straight to the ring as the main non movable camera they only use from what I could tell, and if I'm wrong, please let me know.

But from what I could tell, they seem to only use the drones and handheld cameras that they didn't use any hard placement cameras for this event for New Year's Evil, which I thought was really fascinating and I noticed it because it's my job to notice it as a reviewer, But to be honest, I didn't think it really took away from the event itself. So yeah, it was it was, Uh,

it was a good experience. New Year's EVA was great, We had a we had an appearance by Triple H in the audience, which was fine, but then also with Nick kN next to him, which I only make this point because Nick con is very rarely, if at all, on TV, and he showed up at n XT with Triple H to to basically wave, which I thought was really fascinating. I wonder what that's about. I'm not sure, but this event, from top to bottom, there's five matches

five I think there was five, four or five. Every match was from very good to excellent in my in my mind probably maybe maybe like a somewhere between good and very good to excellent. I can tell you which one I think it was the least entertaining of the night for me for me, and which one was the most entertaining. But I'm gonna start off just by talking about I'm gonna start off by talking about the Rock. He comes out at the end, well, so the Rock,

you know. They show him pulling up in the beginning, they show the interaction with EVA, which I will talk about later, the ava Ethan Page Rock interaction, which was I thought was really cool, and then you have Yeah, there was I'm sorry, I think there was five matches. Uh, I know, I'm kind of going off on a tangent. But then you have the Rock come out at the end. Now, when he came out at the end, I'm gonna start

with this because this, to me is the most interesting. Uh. He comes out, and they basically tell him as soon as he comes out, they tell him, hey, dude, you only got ten minutes. And it's even in a in a smaller auditorium like that, a smaller venue like that, there are many times it takes to Rock ten minutes to come out and start talking. And and as I've said before on the CW, you have a hard stop

ten o'clock PM, you're done. The news is on like so like he didn't have any time to play with and you could tell at the end of what he was saying, he was kind of kind of spit up. I was just like, if you small, rock is gond And then we went off to the air. So, I mean, it wasn't that fast. I'm being I'm being facetious, but you get the point. So the Rock comes out and I want to read what he said, but dropped a

bunch of f bombs. I can't imagine the person who had to be in charge of listening, and from the first F bomb, from the first one to the last one, they they got everyone. They beaped out, or they dropped the sound on every single F bomb. I didn't hear one swear word, although there was a point where the rock apologizes for swearing but then continues to swear. And I'd hate to be the guy that just is listening and going, okay, well there's another one and pushes the button.

Oh there's another F bomb. He pushes the button. I do like somebody should have basically told him, dude, this isn't a p LA. You can't be swearing that much. He didn't swear that much on raw Netflix. I mean he swore, but not as much as he swore on on a Next, which is on network television, network broadcast television.

Like people see this show on analog, not analog anymore, but on the airwaves, like you don't even have to have the Internet or cable in order to be able to see the show if you live in a metropolitan area. And he's dropping F bombs like okay, so anyway, he says wow, and I love you, thank you. I got fing I'll say fing instead of the word. I got fing goosebumps all over my body. This is crazy. Okay, yeah, you mother efforts are this is all on the CW.

You mother effers are getting me emotional in here. All right, we got six minutes and thirty seconds left now. They gave him ten minutes from the beginning. He just kept going through so much crap, like just like put the mic up and then people started chanting. They put the mic back down, like, dude, you got only till ten o'clock? What are you doing? Sorry, I'm going I'm very intense about this because I had a lot of feelings while I was watching this, to be honest, not necessarily negative

or positive, just just like what is going on? All right? Okay, here we go. This is the best six This will be the best six minutes, all right. You know, the

Rock has got a lot of nicknames. I go by the People's Champ, the most electrified man in all of entertainment, the sexiest man alive, and most probably the Jabroni beaten pie eating, trailblazing, eyebrow raising, electronic electric icon owns all the stock, the final Boss, the People's Champ, the Rock all right, I need you guys to help me out. I mean you guys clearly feel it. I feel you. I need you guys to help me out with something.

So this time last year, the Rock the Final Boss, everywhere I went, every gym, every restaurant, every church, every strip club, the same thing I heard, the same thing. Oh why you're so mean to Cody. Don't be mean to Cody. Cody has to finish his story. Don't be mean to Cody. Oh my god. Okay, Then he says, one year later, last night, raw whoo, an amazing night. Yes, we had an historic night. Last night. The Rock wanted to give props to Cody roads give him his flowers.

He's been kicking butt, not butt, he has been kicking but carrying the company on his shoulders. And then what do you say? You say you can't be nice to Cody, don't be nice to Cody, don't treat tequila with Cody. Oh f s. You can figure out what that is. And at the end of the day lets hermind up. The Rock, the Final Boss is taking twenty steps ahead. So the best thing for them to do is know your role, shut your mouth, and enjoy the ride that The Rock is taking them on. So a couple things

we did that last year, Rock and everything changed. You said last year you were thinking twenty steps ahead. So last year, when you were thinking twenty steps ahead, did you think that the fans were gonna ask Cody to be in the main event and not you? Okay? And as far as there's I think there's certain podcasts and radio shows that are saying, why why do this you? Basically? So basically what happened was on Monday night. He's referencing

Monday night, so I'm gonna reference Monday night. Monday night, he kissed Cody's backside the entire night, except the fact that Cody was sitting in the front row and not being in the ring with him, which I don't really understand. He's the un disputed champion. He's sitting in sitting in the crowd. I don't get that. Although later on he magically came out from the from the back, but that

was neither here nor there. But you spent last year, last spring before WrestleMania be rating him all the things. Beat his butt. I'm trying so hard not to swear. Beat his butt outside in the rain next to his tour bus and put blood on his weight belt, which, by the way, where's the weight belt? Pen the de

side and fought him and pinned him at WrestleMania. Had the night after WrestleMania Money and the Raw that weird awkward interaction that they had together come out during Bad Blood do the cut sivil across your throat while looking at Cody and Roman. And then the next time we see you three months later, you're kissing his butt and you're upset that people are. Last year people were like, oh, don't be mean to Cody. And now now when we're when we're like, okay, cool rocks Me and a Cody.

He's gonna beat Cody's butt, great broth. And then all of a sudden, magically he comes on the first episode of Raw Netflix and he's his best friend. Why, Like, I understand, there's kfa there's not k fabe. Of course, the Rock was there on the first episode of Netflix Raw to basically as a commercial promoting everything. He was thanking the Netflix executives, thanking you know, the people that run WWE thanking whatever they he thanked. Everybody gave flowers

to people wonderfully. I just I don't understand where so Okay, Fine, Fine, Rock, Fine, you're thinking twenty steps ahead. Fine, I'll enjoy the ride, but guess what, the whole time, I'm gonna be sitting next to you in the car going why are we doing what we're doing? Why are we driving this way? That's our job and I know, listen, don't. I don't review raw. I don't know if you've smack down. But

you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna I'm every week that the Rock does something, I'm gonna take a couple of minutes and ask him where he's going with this and where he's going with that. That's what I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna take the whole time. I'm only talking about it tonight because because The Rock was on the x T. But you know what, Rock again, enjoy the ride. I'll enjoy the ride, but i'm gonna

ask you. I'm gonna be a backseat driver and I ask you why we're going this way, why we're going that way. You don't have to answer, obviously, but it's our job to question things because ultimately this is for us, because we're the one paying the bills, we're the one buying the tickets, buying the merch, buying Netflix so we can watch Monday Night Raw. Not that no, not that people didn't have it already, but you get my point. Moving on, Now we got this is the Rock again.

Now we have a rowdy crowd here. It says that we got about two minutes left. Look, look they say I got two minutes. I say, if all that, we're going all night. Oh their sweating, it's gonna be all right. I'm sorry for the language. I apologize. Here's the thing. The truth is, I knew I was coming to NXT a couple of weeks ago. I talked to Triple H and dit Com. I said, let me come to NXT. We were in the Into It Dome on Monday. Let me come to NXT on Tuesday. What do you think?

They said it'd be great. But the thing is, I didn't know what to say, right, so you think about it. I talked to Ava backstage. By the way, we'll talk about that later. She said, you're going to go out there and you're gonna feel the crowd. Let this crowd inform you and you know what, and then you'll know what you're gonna say. I love you back, and I appreciate that. But I want to tell you something that's

very important. The main thing I want to tell you is come out here, and I want to thank you. And I'll tell you why. Because going into the last night into a dome, Monday night ron Netflix, that's the sexy ticket. That's a ticket, right, like, Hey, go to the show. You'll see celebrities, You'll see all the stars at WWE, you'll see them all. That's the one that you have to go to. Next to shrine here in Los Angeles is the one that you want to go to. Let me tell you something. I got e f and chills.

I can't stop. You have to that, you have to go to that show. But you want to go to this show, Okay, it's easy to go to the place that has all the stars. You're effing right, there's lots of stars here as well. And that's what I want to tell you. I need to tell you. You know that every single one of you, every single one of you, how important you are, how critical you are to this

whole thing. Okay, because those guys back there are those girls and guys that are working there as off, they come out here in three years, who knows they could be the main event of WrestleMania, but as you know, in three years they could be out of business. But here's what it depends on. Whether you boo or whether you cheer, It all depends on how you how you react. I've been down this road. I've wrestled down in the

Memphis as Flex Cavana. Look it up, flex Cavana. I know it's the worst name in the history of professional wrestling. I know what it's like to depend on the depend on the crowd. I want you to know that you that you matter more than you think. I'm here. Look, look, my job takes me a lot of places. I will always come back home to you. WWE NXT, I love you. If you smell with the rock is cooking. So after we get through the crap of the Cody stuff, then we have him saying what he wants to say. And

here's the important thing to take out of that. The important thing to take out of that is and Ava said this earlier in the night. I don't really care for Ava, but but what she said was absolute one hundred percent. The fans of NXT are the most passionate fans. Okay, they're the ones that scream and holler more than any

other fans. They're the ones that sang Joe Hendry's song when he came out for that Battle Royal in twenty twenty four, and they knew it word for word, even though he's part of TNA and they're all in XT. The fans of NXT are the diehards. Yours truly included. Everybody that's listening. If you're listening to a podcast about EDXT right now, and from what from what Matt tells me, we've got a couple thousand downloads, you are the hardcore fan. You are not that people that just watch main roster

are not true fans. I'm not saying that. What I'm saying is is that the ones here, the ones that

we talked that that are hereless watching NXT. We know everything that's going on in the main roster, but we know everything that's coming up from to the main roster too, right, So I mean, we have two we had three title changes last night, three three title changes last night, and I bet I will bet that at least one of those three champions that lost their titles last night, at least one of them is going to the main roster. I'm not. I don't know for sure who it is.

And if you know what I'm talking about, then you know what I'm talking about. But anyway, that's my take on that, and I I decided to put that first because I know that that's the interesting part of the night. Well, everything is interesting, but that was the this cool, cool thing of the night, and I wanted to get that out first because it was let me tell you that, that whole thing with the fact, I don't know if you if you heard me just now, how many F

bombs did he drop? At least eight or nine on the CW, Like, what are you doing? Okay, Oh, I'm so exhausted, already, so exhausted, and we've already been doing this for I've only been doing this for nineteen minutes. I haven't even talked about a match yet. Okay, let's talk about a match. Let's talk about the first match of the night. First match of the night was the NXT Women's title match. This was a This was a

freaking awesome match. I mean, this was better. So Julia was Julia versus Roxanne Prize, but the match was This is the second time they met. They met at the first episode of nxtn the c W back in October. So this is the second time they met. This match was one hundred percent a million percent better than the first time they met. Uh it was it was so good. The ending, they were both outside the ring. Uh what's it original name? Julie gives a Northern Lights Northern Lights

bomb to Roxanne outside the ring. Referees counting. Referee was counting fast uh to ten while both both wrestlers are outside the ring. Cory j comes grabs Roxanne Perez tosses her back in the ring, but before the referee you get to ten, Julie ends up jumping back in the ring. Eventually,

Roxanne hits hits Julie with pop rocks. Julia kicks out because you know, well, one of the biggest complaints that Matt had about Monday Night Raw was that everybody was kicking out of everybody's finishers, and this was no different

on New Year's Evil. But anyway, Julie kicks out of the pop of pop rocks, eventually gives her another Northern like Northern Lights bomb in the in the ring and gets the win, and Julia is now your new NXT Women's Champion and I think I call this if you listen to older shows that I did, I definitely said Julia was gonna win. Julia is I honestly think they're setting up so so again, Stand and Deliver is coming. It's coming in uh A Wrestlemingia Weekend is usually when

they do. It's on Saturday morning of WrestleMania Weekend at ten am ten am Eastern, And uh, I think that they're setting up Julia versus and Eva Care, which they should. It's their two biggest, two best wrestlers, and the match will absolutely burn and they need to have They need to not wrestle at all between now and Stand and Deliver, and that will be a huge match, and it also should be a main event. Julia versus Stephanie mccare for Standing Deliver should be the main event of that show.

Male personal opinion. So anyway, Julia is your new your new u NXT women's Champion. So, by the way, that this night was interesting because you had the first half of the night, for the first hour was all the women's matches and then for the second half was the men's matches and the Rock, which I thought was an interesting decision to be honest, I'm not exactly sure why

they did that. But so the second match was so Before that, before the second match, you have Ava who catches Eddie Thorpe quote faking an injury in the backstage area. Eddie's like, no, I'm not faking this time, and Eva's just like, yeah, whatever you faked last time, why would you not be faking this time. Then you have a promo for Javon Evans and with his jaws shut, he says, Eat, I'm not gonna do the jaws shut thing. I'll just read it, Ethan Paige. My jaw is wired shut. I

can't sleep, I can't eat, I can't talk. But I'm going to find you for what you did to Cedric last week, for what you did to me, Ethan. I'm going to make you feel my pain. So interesting second match Coora j versus Stephanie Vecer versus Colonie Jordan versus Lola Weis and a fatal four way match where the winner becomes the number one contender for the NXT Women's

North American Championship currently held by Fallon Henley. Another freaking awesome match, and this was a This was a fatal four way match where all four women were constantly against each other, and it was so it wasn't two versus two two people outside, two people inside. It was all four of them going against each other the entire time. It was an awesome match. I'm not gonna get into

the minutia of the match. So at the end, at the end of the match, we have basically Stephanie uh drops Vice with with eat defeat and drives Jade Jade cord j Ad face first into the top turn buckle. Stephanie with repeated headbuts to the corner in the corner of the Care with the halluva kick to to Lola Ice, Jordan tugs on Vikara's hair. Kaer pulls Jordan back into the ring and with the leg and the dragon screw leg whip, stephan In has a shotgun Meteora for the

two count. Vice goes for the sleeper hole, but the care rolls her over for the two count, and we keep going on. It was just back and forth and back and forth, and then finally we get to the end where the Care with she uses the Japanese leg clutch hold for a two count. Lola dumps Stephanie out of the ring, and then Cora with a pump knee strike.

Then Klanie ducks the closed life from Jade Corey. Jade Jordan hits the Olympic Slam, which was interesting, it was doing the kurd angle Olympic Slam, goes for the four to fifty splash. Okay, Klanie Jordan went for a four to fifty splash. There was nobody there like she like, how could she not have known? I mean, obviously she was, It's all like kfe But but she jumped after the after Stephanie moved out of the way, and she hit the canvas doing a summersault face first so hard, Oh

my god, and you could hear it so loud. But Jade, I'm sorry, I was Cory j that she was trying to do it. She ducks out of the way, Vice delivers a spinning backfist and and the Corus super kicks Vice and then Stephanie connects with the SVB to pick up the victory. So the winner and the number one contender of the North American women's title is Stephanie Vekira. Which again, but it's the right call, It's the right decision. Maybe maybe you know, I'm still holding fast to the

to the UH Stephanie and Julia match. Maybe maybe a title for title of Stephanie ends up winning the North American Championship. Maybe that'd be kind of cool. Anyway. Next you have Ava informing UH the Holy Union that they'll be battling Metaphor next week for the and the winner will be the number one contenders for the Women's Tag Team champions currently held by Bianca bel Air and Naomi.

She also tells Sarah Schreiber that she's not buying Eddie's injury because the main and the main excuse and the main event will continue to be a triple threat match. Oba Femi admits that he is the one that attacked Eddie backstage because of what happened to him last week. Ava tells Oba that the match will remain the same regardless, and Oba says he has no doubt that he's going to walk out of Los Angeles the brand new NXT champion. And then we have a shot at Nick Connon Triple

h in the crowds waving their hands. They have a OTM vignette, and next week we have a tag team title match between OTM and Frexium. So that should be a good match. Third match of the night is Fatal Influence versus Gigi Dolan, shot Ci, Tatum Pasley and six women Tag team match. We uh this was this was a really good match. It so far of the three matches, it's my it's my third favorite, but it's it's definitely it's definitely better than other matches of the night. It was.

It was a fun match. Do you know that all the women like just rasing each other? And I love the combination of Stephanie. That's Stephanie. Oh my god, my ear, my brain is the combination of Tatum Pasley, Shatzi and uh, Gigi Doland to me is awesome. Like I love all

three of them. They're so cool. So we have we have Shati was does a flying cross body block, running neckbreaker, belly to backsuitplex combination for a two count gig Dollan and Pasi toss j C. Jane and as necks out of the ring and a double indziguri to Henley shots. He connects with the welcome to the ball pit to pick up the victory. So you're so you have Shatzi and Gigi Dolan and Tanum Pasley with the wind and Shatsi pins fallon Henley, which is going to be important

for later on. So after this then we have the interaction that this was really cool. Ava's backstage and she's scolding Ethan page about what he did to Javan Evans. Ethan talks about how how big tonight is and he's nowhere to be found on the card and Ava wants to make sure make something perfectly clear. This is her show, and she calls a shot and Ava says it's it's perfect timing and the Rock standing right behind Ethan. The Rock introduces himself to Ethan and he's heard a lot

of things about him, not all good things. By the way Ethan broke Javon evans jaw. The Rock says that payback is going to be a b you get it, but Ethan highly doubts it. Ethan brags about Cedric Alexander's fingers and the Rock had the pleasure of speaking to nxt Roster earlier today. If anybody needed anything from him, they should give him a call, including Ethan. Ethan like the sound of that, and one more thing. The Rock reminds Ethan that he's the final boss. But when it

comes to NXT Ava is the final boss. So if Ethan is going to be cool with the Rock, then he needs to be cool with Ava, who Obviously, for any of you that don't know at this point, you're all NXT viewers, so I can't imagine you don't. Ava is the Rock's daughter. If you don't know that by now, then I find that interesting. Uh. And The Rock says that he will soon see Ethan on the main roster one day, yes please. Ava can't wait for Ethan to go to the main roster either, which I thought was

really funny. Tonight is about moments. The Rock has no idea what he's gonna say. Does Ava have any advice for him? The Rock has never been in front of an XT craw before. Their passion is different. The Rock may not know what to say, but when he gets out there, he's going to feel the energy and speak

from the heart. And The Rock gives Ava fistmump. By the way, when when Ethan page left the Rock, the Rock slapped Ethan pages as and says it said, get your sweet ass out of here, and I was just like, what what? What? Don't understand? All right? Moving on, The fourth match of the night was Charlie Dempsey of the No Quarter Catch Crew versus Lexus King for the w

w A nix T Heritage Cup Championship. This match was okay, and this was probably the match that I can say I'm saying this as in, this was a good match, but it's probably my least favorite of all the matches. I don't particularly care for the whole Heritage Cup thing, even though this was. This was done in sudden death, which basically means it's a regular match and the winner gets the cup, which is yeah. So in the end, Lexus King ends up picking up the victory and becoming

the new Heritage Cup Champion. It's gonna be interesting to see where he goes with that. He's still he's still kind of playing the whole I'm trying to do the right thing spiel. So we'll see how that goes. But but yeah, I mean, listen, Lexus King, he deserves some flowers. I think he played a great heel and now he's playing a great heel that wants to be a babyface. So anyway, after that, we have Stephanie mccorr and Shatzi

who they bicker with Ava so shots. So Stephanie says, you know, obviously she gets the next shot at the North American Women's title. But then Shatzi comes in and says, hey, I should get a shot at the XTA North American Women's Title because I just pinned Fallon Henley. Here's my problem with that. Who cares that you pinned her? There was a match where four women four had a fatal four way match and Stephanie mkerr won. I know I'm biased,

but still Stephanie mccorr won. She's the number one contender. She has the next match. The same crap happened with Oba Femi wins the Island Survivor Challenge. I don't care how he got in. Whatever he wins the Island Survivor Challenge, he should have had the next shot by himself on Trick Williams. The whole Ednyethorpe thing getting in there was crap.

If Shatzi gets in and now now Stephanie has to go, then Shatzi for the number one contendership for the women's title next week, which, by the way, she already got that. I don't really understand what we're doing here, Like if if somebody wins a match to become a number one contender. Then they're the number one contender, and that's the end of the story. Like, I don't understand the problem. Maybe it's just me. If it's just me, let me know.

I don't think it is. Then we had the last match of the night, which was Trick Williams versus Oba Femi versus Eddie Thorpe in a triple threat match for the w w E NXT Championship. This match was awesome, Okay, then one of the I think one of the reasons why it was as awesome as it was was because Eddie Thorpe wasn't in the most most of the match. I didn't think any you as as most of you know, I didn't think Anythorpe should have been in the match

in the first place. And the fact of the matter is is that you know, Oba Femily took him out and did us all a favor because then we have Trick Williams versus basically Trick Williams or Oba Femi. It's a triple threat match, but Eddie Thorpe isn't there till the very end. But Eddie Thorpe does come in in the end. So when Eddie Thorpe comes in um. He pulls the referee out of the ring and then argues with the referee. Oba throws Storp back into the ring

and Femi drops Thorp with a big boot. Femmy with the backhand sends Storp into the corner. Fami hits the spine buster. Let me tell you this, all of his booms are just so bad ass, sorry but they are. Fami hits the belly of the back toss, which is basically him just lifting somebody and chucking him across the ring. Hits two running upper cuts, and then Williams delivers a trick shot for a two count so trick. Williams hits his finisher right theme of the ninth Theme of the week, Trick.

Williams hits his finisher, with which Obami kicks out of, but then Thorpe counters with a chair shot in midair and Femmi plants Williams with the fall from grace power bomb and picks up the victory and Oba Femi is now your new NXT champion, which, by the way, again I'm no prosticating prosticator prosticator, but I do call this one. Not surprised that Oba Femi won, so in my mind, either Trick Williams or Roxanne Perez are probably going to the main roster at some point. I don't know for sure.

I don't know if it's just happens to be right before the Royal Rumble and they're both going to be in their respective world rumbles. Maybe I don't know, but I think that one of the two of them will probably bump up. That's just my own opinion. They're both two time champions in their respective divisions, so I think it's about time. And obviously they both prove in their stuff, especially Roxanne Perez. I mean, Trick Williams has been a little bit less than a year, maybe a little bit

over a year. Roxan Prez has been doing this now for two and a half years. Bump her up. I mean she, yes, she's five foot and nothing, but you know what, so's Zelena Vegan and she's awesome too. At the very end of the night, well at the very end, before the rock comes out, which we've already talked about, I'm not gonna talk about that again. You have Oba Femi walks up the ramp and then he stands on

one side, Julia comes out stands on the other. They each trip lift their belts up and one side says and the new nor NXT Champion Opathemi and the new NXT Women's Champion Julia. So this was really cool and by the way, that should have ended the show. They have. They're both standing there, both respective champions winning their win, won their match, the new champions holding the bets belts up in the air in syncresy cut to black. That's

the That's a perfect spot to end the show. But obviously the Rock has to finish the show because it's the Rock again. We already talked about that. I want to I want to mention also before I before I hit the road, I want to mention that in five days, so Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, in five days we had three brand new women's champions. I think that's unprecedented. Somebody somebody looked that up. For me, somebody looked that up.

We had Tiffany Strott cashing the money in the bank on Friday, Saturday Sunday, then we had Monday we had Rhea Ripley win the title from Live Morgan, and then on Tuesday we had Julia beat Rox San Perez. That's pretty freaking cool. Nobody's talking about that. Three brand new w W Women's champions in the matter of five days. I think that's pretty cool. That's just me. Let me tell you. New Year's Evil was awesome. It was awesome. We had the next paper view coming up soon. Can't

wait for it. But in the meantime, I can't wait to see, Oh, they're gonna call up to be in the Royal Rumble. Last year we had Carmelo, we had bron Breaker, we had Tiffany Shutton. Both of them now are champions. Right last year we had bron Breaker, Tiffany Shutton come up in the in the Royal Rumble. And by the way, bron Breaker wasn't even supposed to be

in the roll Rumble. At one point it was supposed to be brock Lesner, and he took over brock Lesner's spot because of the whole scandal, and now we have him as this two time intercandill champion. Less than a year later, Tiffany Shutton comes into the Royal Rumble, gets such a pop they put on the elimination chamber. She kills in the elimination chamber. It doesn't have a matter of vessel Mania which I thought was weird, and she is now the WWE Women's Champion less than a year.

This could happen for anybody. Could happen for Roxanne, it could happen for Trick, It could happen for any of them. This is why we watch NXT. We want to see them develop, we want to see them get brought up, and we want to see them succeed. Iliot Dragonov would be succeeding right now if he hadn't hurt himself. Carmelo, he's kind of a comic relief, but he's doing great. As far as I'm concerned, he's doing great. Obviously, there's

them people that came up that fell through. Okay, fine, you're not gonna it's not gonna be perfect, but this we watch NXT so we can watch the heart and Soul and the next and that this way, when people come up, we know what's gonna happen moving forward. And if you think about it, it's a perfect scenario. They have us watching the people that are gonna be brought up to the main roster, and we're gonna be invested in them already and we're gonna continue to watch it.

It's it's a self. It's basically just keeps picking up steam. Anyway, I should be done talking. I've been talking for a while. How long have I've been talking? Forty one minutes since? Actually not as bad as I thought, but either way, tell me what you think. Listen to my podcast Patreon ad free on Apple podcasts, all the things go do it. I will talk to you next week, can't wait later.