It's time for your weekly fis of wrestling Nostilgia. When we look at wrestling's past eras from the Attitude era through the Reality era, I'd like to think that maybe this company will be better after Vince McMahon's dead, but the fact is it's it's gonna get taken over by his idiotic daughter and his dupest son in law and the rest of his stupid family. Here's a dad here on
the WWE podcast. Welcome to the WWE Podcast. Today's Monday, July eighth, twenty nineteen, and I'm excited about today because it's one of my favorite memories as a wrestling fan, and that is Cain versus the Undertaker WrestleMania fourteen. They're very first encounter, so a lot of thoughts on that, and it's time to get nostalgic. So I will do that in just a moment. But I just want to let you guys know. I know that normally my shows are done on Sunday. With the holiday weekend, and I was
traveling, just a lot of different things going on. I wasn't able to do Sunday, but I just moved it to Monday. So that's what I'm doing today and you have me now the next three days straight. So Tuesday tomorrow will be the Rob Review, Wednesday SmackDown, and then Thursday I will
be back with my co host for the week in Anthony DeMarco. So full week of wrestling ahead of you to get you ready for Extreme Rules six days away, and so that should be very a very interesting show and a lot of levels of where and how much influenced Paul Hayman and Eric Bischoff, you know, kind of show their their their fingerprints on the show. Maybe they
don't, maybe it's more reserved, maybe it's more of the same. We will have to take a wait and see approach and we'll be reviewing and previewing the pay per view as we come closer to it and giving predictions as always on the Thursday show with my co host, we'll be running down the entire card for Extreme Rules. So it's going to be a fun week of wrestling. Midsummer. It is boy, it's hot, and I don't know why you guys are living, but it is. It's toasty up here in upstate
New York. Very toasty. But I'm not complaining because before you know it, the leaves will be turning in a month and a half, two months, and we going the other way. So all right, now, as I get into this, I want you guys to take yourself in the wayback machine and take yourself back to when Cain first debuted in and we all remember, and I did an entire show on the Hell and a Cell pay per
view. Well it's actually called Bad Blood. In October of nineteen ninety seven, Caine debuted, ripped the door off of the Cell and it genuinely scared me. I mean, I remember I was I think I was twelve years old, right, And Kane ripped the door off, ends up tombstoning the Undertaker, allows Sean Michaels to crawl out of a pool of his own blood to cover the Undertaker for the three count, and for weeks and weeks and weeks, Undertaker would not fight back against his brother. It was one of
the best storylines ever written in WWE. And the reason for that it just made you feel emotional. You know, a lot of us have brothers and or sisters. We can relate to not wanting to retaliate against a sibling that does may not be physical harm, but it could be a verbal altercation.
You're just trying to keep the peace. And Undertaker took the high road in this program as the face and tried to not fight back against Kane, and Undertaker would continually get beat down by Undertaker, continually beat down by Caine, and there was a moment on Raw where Undertaker, instead of just covering up and letting Cain go to town on him, there was a moment I remember very vividly where he finally just he stopped Kane after he was about he you
know, came was about to punch him again, and Undertaker blocked it. And then the crowd went crazy thinking, oh, Undertaker's finally going to fight back, and then what happened was he just continued to get beat down by Caine. But it just told the story so well. After the Royal Rumble that year, so October he debuted Royal Rumble is when Undertaker was put in a casket and then set on by Kin after Cain allegedly had just said,
Okay, you know, I'm going to form an alliance with you. They extended hands and I remember JR. Saying, Ah, what a moment.
And so there was a full alliance there and then Kane turns his back on Undertaker again at Royal Rumble and ends up getting put in the casket and then set on fire, and we don't see Undertaker for weeks and weeks and weeks leading up to WrestleMania fourteen, and when Undertaker finally returned to face the Undertaker and tell when Ida finally returned to face Kane and tell Cain, hey, I'm done with this. I'm gonna whoop your ass. That was a hell
of a return. So instead of me just telling you about it, why don't you guys just listen to a little bit of it. I'd like you to get immersed in the actual audio. Take yourself back and if you haven't seen this program again, anytime I do wrestling the Styles, it's for your benefit to listen to it because it will make you a fan all over again. So here's a little bit of audio from when Undertaker returned after getting the casket set on fire from a double cross again from Kine an Undertaker had had
enough, So take a listen. That's tough. Is it couldn't big him? Is it him? It will lead you into a turtle, damn base King. You disappointed me? Is that the best effort that you could put together at the Royal Rungold. Did you think that could destroy me? Don't you know that you cannot destroy that that does not wish to perish? And you paul the audacity to come out here week after week. It is a claim responsibility for my disappearance. The fact of the matter is on those times
while return to the world of dark this it's of my own accord. It's a time for spiritual ealing. It's a time for the truth, and I know the truth. And this trip what I was doing was soothing the souls of my parents because I had to explain to them why I would have to do the one thing I promised never to do. Okay, you no staying. I'm standing next to the real thing. Oh what's it gonna do? Now? Get and that attacker you lost through the bars of hell to face
who came. And when you look in through the eyes of your older brother, you will understand why I am the most feared entity in the World Wrestling Federation. You will understand why I am the reaper of wayward souls, and you will understand why I am the Lord of darkness. All right, So in that moment. You guys are a little bit long, I know, but worth hearing every word because it told such an amazing story. Paul Bearer,
who is one of my favorite managers of all times. I know that he's in the Hall of Fame, but I really believe is one of the most underrated just amazingly talented mouthpieces for Cain and for Undertaker. Although Undertaker didn't really need a mouthpiece, he was a great addition to the character. And there were times where Paul Behar would flip back and forth, but this is the first time that he had turned against the un Undertaker and sided with Cain.
And for week after week after week, Paul Bearer was coming out there and saying, you know that he's responsible for the Undertaker's disappearance. Undertaker's gone. Basically, they've killed him again. Remember this is the Attitude era, so there's really no limits. But it was just af week after week. You were tired of hearing Paul Barr, you were tired of seeing Cain come out and basically glowed about the fact that he destroyed his brother. And then
we all knew who Undertaker was coming back. It was just a matter of when, and this happened on March second, two thousand, or excuse me, March second, nineteen ninety eight is when this particular raw had aired, and then WrestleMania was just to believe three weeks later after that, and so they timed it perfectly to reach the peak of this rivalry at WrestleMania. An
amazing story. There's a family tie there, believable spack story, believable characters, Undertaker standing there, walking through the fire that Caine put up on the stage. Just so much symbolism I guess is the right word, and so much emotion in that storyline, and it was just awesome to see. And then so that's the build to the match, and then we get to the actual match, which took place on March twenty ninth, nineteen ninety eight,
in Boston. And that was before remember this is before WWE went stadium happy with their WrestleManias, which I believe happened starting at WrestleMania twenty one, twenty two something like that, I think somewhere around there. And if you also recall him a side note, this is also the WrestleMania where Stone Cold Steve Boston won his first w W Championship against Shawn Michaels, so maybe I'll review that sometime too, but also extremely significant, probably the biggest note of the
show. However, this story building into this match is one of the most one of the best built stories. For some of the reasons. I just gave you brother versus brother, the backstory of Cain blaming the Undertaker for his parents death, Paul Hayman or excuse me, Paul Bearer, who ended up flipping from the Undertaker for the very first time to Cain, and so the build the anticipation was damn near perfect. Now, was this a five star
classic? No, I don't think it was. I don't think it was, certainly not by today's standards of seven to twenty splashes and who can do the most flips in the air and all that kind of stuff, which is really cool to see. But when you tell a hell of a backstory and the creative is right the match itself almost it doesn't matter as much if it ends up not being the classic that it could have been. And this is a perfect example. These two are both huge men, both of them in
their prime. So this was a very slow and methodical at times match, but it was meant to be that way for the pacing to allow the audience to absorb what was going on and take in the moves instead of just what's next, what's next? Show me the coolest move, show me the next cool move. What's the next cool move? What's the next cool move? It's okay, this makes sense. They start out punching each other, kicking
each other. It gradually builds to power move versus power move, and then you get to the finish, right, that's the typical pacing of a match, but they did it in a way that was it gave you time to understand what was going on and feel what the wrestlers were feeling at the time. And with the commentary from Jim Ross, that never hurts. Jim Ross can make you, you know, as the old saying goes in one of his sayings, actually I'm stealing it would bring a tear to a glass eye.
Sometimes sometimes he can make you feel And Jim Ross just knows how to make and sell almost anything. So having him on commentary certainly certainly helped. And I mean Jerry the King Waler too. I mean, I'm not going to discredit him, but Jim Ross is really the one steering the ship here, and so let me give you guys a little bit of audio from the
finish of the match, and then I'll fill in the holes. I'm not gonna let you guys sit for a fifteen minute audio clip, but I want to give you the finish of the match and then fill in the blanks of what you didn't hear. I'm gonna right up. I'm telling you it's amazing. Look at the Undertaker's shot would be the third too, Yeah? And will this be enough? My god? What would it take him is done? Yes? So Undertaker comes out victorious. I don't think any surprise there.
I mean, if you have watched anything in the Attitude era, that's not a surprise. I don't think I'm spoiling anything. What twenty one years later, But that match, when you look at how it was laid out, was so well laid out because Undertaker or excuse me, Kine was a complete monster. The best part of his career was the beginning of his career and having him having Kane be built as this complete crazy monster that is, he just takes finishers and kicks out. He takes chair shots and they don't
affect him. He has beaten what eight man on. It was like a, I don't know, He's done some crazy handicap matches and Kane has squashed them all. I remember him involved with the Headbangers. Just just so many different men that were demolished by Cain when he first debuted, and so having Undertaker be able to take down Caine was huge to reestablish that Undertaker is still
the big dog in the yard. Again, that phrase meant a lot, was something much different in nineteen ninety eight than it does in twenty nineteen. But Cain kicked out of not one but two Tombstones and it took three to put him down, and even then he almost kicked out. That's a big deal because back in the nineties, kicking out of finishers was not very common, particularly the Tombstone. That was a case closed money finish that just you
knew an Undertaker hit it was game over. It was a very protected finish, and so having Kane kick out of not one but two of them, even though Kane lost the match, really gave a great rub to Kane and didn't damage him at all. I don't believe he almost kicked out of three. So I mean, when you look at it Kane. I mean on the third one, it was one two and the referee counted three, but Kane got his shoulder up at three and you know, three and a quarter.
So it was just so well laid out, and the kickouts of the tombstones were not even like real true kickouts. It was almost like a body twitch. I mean, go watch, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. An Undertaker accidentally it looked like dropped him on his head for the first tombstone. It looked yikes, I mean yikes. But it was just such a good match, and clearly the the fans were waiting for Stone Cold Sea Boston. I mean, he was the up and coming biggest star and still
is the biggest star ever in professional wrestling history. I don't care what brand, year, or era you're looking at or company, stone Cold Sea Boston was the biggest ever in terms of draw in terms of money, in terms of T shirts sold, in terms of pay per view buys, in terms of house attendance, pay per view attendants, payper I mean, like you
name it. He burned the hottest, He managed to burn the longest be he burn the hottest, and so the crowd that night was looking for Stone Cold, who was the main event, and it was just it was very uncommon to see finishers being kicked out, which is why it was so awesome. I mean, when you look at it, stone Cold won the WA Championship with one stone Cold stunner on Seawn Michaels, think about that. Think about that in the main event of WrestleMania, stone Cold one with a single
stunner. So it's just times have changed, and I would love for WWE to kind of go backwards in terms of the what finishers should be, and they're exactly what they sound like they should be. The finish of a match. Today you don't only you don't only have wrestlers kicking out of multiple finishers on probably house shows as well, but TV pay per views for sure.
It's just it's very uncommon to see one finishing maneuver and a match. And what it does is it doesn't it does a disservice to the maneuver itself. It adds predictability rather than unpredictability, uh, and it waters down the word finisher. And furthermore, you you have guys who are using finishers that are now just using it as common maneuvers meaning what I like. Think about this. The DDT used to be a finishing maneuver. It's now just a common
move that no one ever ever gets pinned with. Other than John Moxley, who was uses dirty Deeds and Andrade who has the hammer lock DDT, you have guys using DDT's left and right. Even Randy Yorton, who has made it just a signature move that has never ever won a match with, uses the DDT. Jake the Snake Roberts use the DDT as a finish, and it's rightfully should be a finish. Think about what you're doing. You're driving a man's skull straight into the mat, spiking his skull into the mat that
is made of very thin layer of foam and mostly plywood. Think about that. Just think about it. So I see why it should have been a finish, but it's just been defined down to a common maneuver. Furthermore, superkick, probably the most violated finishing maneuver by Sean Michaels, who made it the most famous, is now being used by one out of every one out of every two wrestlers in a match. This, I mean. The usos are probably an exhibit a Dolf Ziegler, although he does occasionally get a pin
off of it, is also a huge violator of it. Seth Rollins, Finn Balor. I mean, the list goes on. Everyone uses the superkick, and it very rarely ever ends a match. That's a damn shame because it's not as if they are even presenting it in a way that's different from sweets to music other than stomping in the corner, tuning up the band. The maneuver, the physics of it are the exact same as Sean Michaels so in that rightfully too should be a finish. You are hitting a knockout shot.
Underneath the chin is a known placed on the human body that can cause unconsciousness if hit in the right location under the chin. So when you have multiple stars using it and it's just used as a just kind of a transition move or oh what a kick, I mean, but you know it's never gonna end the match, even though some of them are planted very nicely, they're very well done. You look at it and go, oh, he's knocked out, he's done, and it's just transitioned into Okay, I'm gonna
beat up on you. But oh I hit my kick now I'm gonna beat up on you. I mean, that's what it feels like now. And I would like for people to people stars wrestlers to go back to using moves that makes sense as finishing maneuvers and leave known finishers in the past as finishers and not as common maneuvers. So it's superkick is probably again the most violated. Even the choke slam now is being used by Baron Corbin and has he
ever gotten a pinoff of it? Nope? Nope. I mean so, I guess my point is, if finishers are finishers, let them be exactly that. Let them be finishing maneuvers. I don't want to see a finishing maneuver done to a star and go, yeah, that's okay, well he hit the finish, but he's gonna kick out like. I don't want to feel like that. I don't want to feel like the finish. I mean, why don't they just call it the semi finish, because that's ultimately what
it is. Or that may be finishing maneuver, it's not a finish if you have stars kicking out left and right. I understand. Signature moves are different, like Shawn Michael's elbow off the top very rarely, if maybe ever
ended up winning a match, but the Sweet Chin music did. And today it's just it doesn't create any drama for me when I see somebody kick out of a finish, and that's a shame because that is such a it's such a huge way, major way to be able to get people's reactions and get people going, oh my god, I can't believe he kicked out and I don't feel that way, and I want to. I want to feel that way, and I just don't. But I'm sure that's not gonna go away.
If it were a perfect world, I would only have guys kick out of finishing maneuvers at major pay per views, and it wouldn't be you know, six or seven. I mean, look at how many times and by all means it was an amazing match. But John Cena's AA on AJ styles how many times at SummerSlam. I believe it was two three years ago when they had I mean it was it was just a great match with those two amazing I hope they have a program again, and I think there's a possibility
considering that AJ just turn heel now. But think about how many times people kicked out of the AA. It almost became a running joke. Johnson had had a better chance at this At that point, it really really even now of you know, hitting a clothesline and getting a pin versus hitting his AA formerly the f you than getting I mean just but my point with the AJ Styles match was that how many finishing maneuvers did John Cena hit before AJ Styles
eventually won? I mean, AJ kicked out of an AA off the second rope, which admittedly actually made me go, oh my god. You know, anytime John Cena has hit a finishing maneuver his AA off the second rope, it usually puts the guy down. I know, I'm going back to SummerSlam now, but I just in general would like to see the business move towards a more realistic type of physical just reactions from stars and believability in terms of okay, hey, I mean, even if you look at the basics,
why are closed fists legal? Nobody ever uses open fists anymore, and neither does the referee enforce it. You don't see referees going around saying hey, open your fist, no closed fists, no closed fists. It doesn't happen. Everybody's got a closed fist, and if that were true, don't you think there'd be a lot more blood, bruising and broken bones. I mean, that's just a basic but everyone does it. Everyone has a closed
fist. And I understand that this is professional wrestling, but I don't want to be reminded on a minute by minute basis of what I'm seeing is nonsensical and is clearly not real. Just take a step back from the finishers and let them be finishers, and it'll be You can re educate the audience. It's not too late. It's never too late to go back on that, because you could just have okay, guys, listen in a staff meeting, production meeting. From here on out, I don't know, for however many
months, weeks, even, I don't know. How are you however you wanted to do it, in the timeframe you wanted to do it, you could say nobody kicks out of it, finish or escapes a submission maneuver. You could do that. You could do that and re educate the audience. I would do it for a long period of time so that fans get acclimated to oh wow, okay, finishers are putting people, and they're putting them down quickly and decisively, and nobody's kicking out great now when it happens,
guess what you think. Guess what the fans do, go, oh my god. But it's gonna take time. It's gonna take repetition, and it's gonna take stars and creative to commit to that that. Hey, okay, we're not doing that. We're not gonna rely on kickouts of finishers as drama every single time. So just a little bit of a mini side note on that. But overall, guys, I know, I'm trying to focus back
to Undertaker and Kane and they went on to have many more matches. I was even there at the WrestleMania twenty in Madison Square Garden when Undertaker returned as the dead Man after being the American badass for years and years, and he returned to face Kane and people going crazy because he finally grew his hair back out and they were clamoring for the dead Man. I was too, and it ended up being Undertaker victorious once again, and that was fine with me.
I you know, I didn't think it was as special as their first one. But Paul Bearer was there, which made it really cool. And just anytime these two are in the ring together, there's a chemistry there. I mean, even as the Brothers of Destruction. After they you know, they had their alliance and they were just dominant as the brothers Brothers of Destruction.
They were even perfect opponents for the two man Power Trip when Stone Cold turned heel and aligned himself with Triple H. Cain and the Undertaker were there to foil the plans of those two evil sobs, and so they were successful together. They were successful apart when they did the tribute to Paul Bearer. That was pretty emotional. When I believe it was in twenty thirteen when Paul Bearer passed away and Caine was I don't know, he was in a match.
An Undertaker came out and helped him to his feet, and then they stood on the top of the stage and were just put their hands up in the air as kind of an old tribute to Paul Bear in the career that he had. And there's just so much, I mean, I probably could do an entire show just on Paul Bearer, who was such a brilliant, brilliant promo guy. He was easily dislikable and was a perfect fit in addition to Undertaker and Kin in their whole storyline. And so I was a big,
big fan of Paul Behar. But again, this was about the match at WrestleMania fourteen, and what did you guys think. I'm giving you guys my opinion, but were you around during that time? Do you remember the WrestleMania team match with Canaan Undertaker for the very first time? Let me know your thoughts at the WWE podcast on Twitter and also on wwepodcast dot com, which just so you guys know, you can put comments in the every post that I put up, and so check that out. You're more than welcome
to do that. I of course moderate the comments because anybody could put anything up so but by all means like I'm encouraging discussion on the comments board of every post that I put up, So feel free to comment as you will. All right, So, as we move on the line down the line here, I have a couple of news items and I want to discuss, and that is Randy Orton, who has been off TV since June early June. He's been out due to a neck injury and he's out just basically mending
that injury. So I'm assuming that it's probably not anything too serious, but anything to any time you're dealing with the neck, it's serious by default. But I expect Randy Orton back, probably in the very near future. Again. I picked him as the Alistair Black opponent at the Extreme Rules pay per view, which is when we will find out. There are rumors and there's a news links all over of who Alistair Black's opponent could be. I really
don't want to click on it because I want to be surprised. You know, it's easy to click on a spoiler. I don't want to do that. But my thoughts are that it's Randy Orton who is coming to pick a fight with Alistair Black, who I believe is being cast as a heel as he should be. So that is one of the news items coming out this week, and Raw is actually going to be going on the air in just a few minutes as I record this, So hopefully you guys are are watching
the show and you know you are maybe keeping me in the background. Another item that was coming through the line tonight is Raymisterio is appearing on Monday Night. The WW is advertising Raymisterio as a return and what does he do? You know, what do you do with Samojo who is in a program with Kovie Kingston. But Ray Asterio's returning and inexplicably gave away his United States Championship, just handed it to Smojo Because I'm I mean, I just, I
honestly don't even know how to explain that. Were you directed by management, I could see a heel manager or a heel general manager forcing the babyface to give the championship to the heel, thereby the heel never earning anything, making you dislike them maybe more. But it looked like it was presented as Raymisterio just on a whim or on his own accord, giving Samojo that you know, United States Championship. Just what after Simojo has berated and gone after his
family and in his kid. I mean, I I don't know. I'm just before I get myself in a tizzy and going around, I'm just gonna stop there. But Raymisterio is coming back. He is advertised to return. I don't know who he will be returning against again, you think Somemojo. But with Somemojo in a major program, I don't think that's going to be the case. So it's always good to see Mysterio back in the ring. He looks like again he hasn't lost the steps since he came back, which
is absolutely mind blowing, so credit to him. Another item that they're advertising for Mondaet Raw is that Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre will be in action against Roman reigns and a partner of Shane's choosing. So you can imagine who that partner is probably going to be. Could it be Elias? I mean, it's probably somebody that Roman doesn't get along with very well. I'm going to
guess that it's not Seth Rollins, right. So that is something that is on the table for Mondon eight Raw and will likely either close the show or will be in a semi main event spot on Monday Night Raw as we build the heat for Roman against Drew and Shane McMahon against the Undertaker. I know that they're inn a tag team, but that seems to be the pairing off of the individuals. So does Undertaker make an unannounced, unadvertised appearance. Maybe
I like that. I like when they do that. I don't always need an advertised a full advertisement and rundown of who's going to be on the show. I like to be surprised. So do we get the gong? I'm thinking Shane is Since Shane is choosing Roman's opponent, it's not going to farewell for Roman, and Roman could get beat up again, maybe in a very precarious position which will allow the Gong to go off. Maybe Undertaker doesn't actually appear, but the Gong goes off more mind games. Maybe he you know,
has lightning strike the posts of the ring. I don't know, Maybe some hocus pocus happens, but I think Undertaker's appearance could be very well warranted here. Given that the match is this Sunday, I would expect the Undertaker would be there in some form or fashion to build this match, and and
that'll be cool. It's always good to see Undertaker, regardless of how what your opinion of him may be. And I believe, you know, I think the majority of the opinion out there is Undertaker please retire, you know, And I'm you know, I'm on that boat. I want to I want to see him go out on his own terms, not just kind of hang on for the sake of hanging on to get to that round thirty number of hanging in WW. But I believe he will get to the thirty number.
But I am taking the Undertaker's presences and appearances at a premium and I'm enjoying them. Even though I know that he's not the man that he was. I've accepted that, but I am also appreciative of him being able to be there and WW bringing him on screen as part of a storyline. And I'm just taking in and soaking in the moments that Undertaker's there because it's not
going to be lasting much longer. So that is that's my thought on the Undertaker and the pylon that people seem to be doing of just how terrible he is nowadays, we need to appreciate the legend that is the Undertaker in whatever form that he's in right now, because these are very fleeting days. These are fleeting days of the Undertaker being in a wrestling ring. Additionally, on Monday Night Raw, we get to look forward to the awkwardness of Becky and
Seth. Now I'm sure that some of you may disagree with me. That's fine. I think these two need to get the hell away from each other. On camera. I alluded this to this with my co host last week, and we said in tandem that these two need to get the hell away
from each other asap. After this tag team match for Winner take All is gone and Seth and Becky retain their respective championships, it is time for them to pretend that they do not exist on WWE television because it not only is it awkward, and it's destroying Becky's character with all of her trying to be cute and weird whims and just stuff that don't I don't know if they know if they should bring it on camera or if creative is coming up for cute
things for them to say or do, or just show their humility and humanity and humanize them as they're just like every other couple, aren't They just so cute together, Look how cool they are, and they just get each other. It's very overdone, and I think that it's just time. Hopefully, pray cross your fingers that after this Sunday, we never have to see these two interact in any kind of awkward position again. Now, am I saying
that they'll they will do this? No, They'll probably continue to off and on bring these two together to again, Oh they're so relatable, aren't they so cute? Oh that's such a cute couple. That's not what I'm thinking. And furthermore, I don't want to think that for these two. I don't want to think, Ah, what a cute couple. They're so cute together. They you know, they have situate chemistry. Aren't they just great together? No? No, no, I'm not watching The Young and the
Restless. I'm watching Monday Night Raw and Tuesday Night SmackDown Live. That's the shows that I'm watching. And when I watch wrestling, I want to see wrestling, and when I get this other side show stuff. Even if that's the goal and they accomplish the goal, if they had great on screen chemistry,
that still detracts from what they have accomplished in what they are. I really believe that it's very difficult to separate the relationship and the professional I understand that, but right now these two are on separate journeys and we need to keep it that way. So again, this is wrestling. I don't need the sideshow stuff. So also, it's going to be interesting to see how they follow up with aj styles freshly turned heel with the Club and how that
manifests itself into AJ's explanation, how he treats the audience. It's going to be fun to hear again all of that. And who is going to oppose them? Right? What team of babyfaces is going to stand up to these three? That is the question. So it's going to be an interesting week of Raw, interesting week of SmackDown, and should be an excellent Extreme Rules. I'm gonna say, I'm very optimistic about it because they're new executive directors
underneath the creative helms for both shows. Not that everything's gonna change over night, but we'll see gradual steps and that's what I'm looking for. And also the seeds for Summer Slam are now being planted, so that we need to look for that. I mean, they were probably planned weeks ago, months ago. But we will see the Summer Slam card come into full focus after the pay per view Monday Night Raw next week. So a week from now we should see the full Summer Slam card, at least in a major,
major match way. The big matches who that's going to be come into play, because clearly Baron Corbyn and Lacy Evans are moving on as they should different avenues and different opponents and should Seth and Becky and so whoever they get involved with on Monday Night is going to be a big telltale sign as to who they will be facing at Summer Slam. And really that goes for the rest of the roster, that really does. So I'm gonna be interested to see
it. Does our Truth get his championship back? Maybe? So that's also true. What about Bronze Strowman, what's next for him? Who knows? Is Bronze Stroman going to be speaking about what happened last week? The follow up to that got me very interested. I know I saw Bobby Lashley's take, but I'm looking for what Braunz Stroman has to say and how they're going to follow that up. In what they say, I'm assuming that it's going
to lead to a match at Extreme Rules. Even though they said that Braunz Stroman has multiple fractures or a spleen that's I don't know, ruptured spleen, whatever they said, I still believe that bron Stroman will make it to Extreme Rules to follow up on this match with Bobby Lashley. So it's an interesting week and WW has me interested as I said last Monday Night Row was the best role I've seen in probably over a year, so let's see if they
can continue that. But all right, well guys, that's all I have for today. I hope you enjoyed the wrestling nostalgia and a little bit of a preview for Raw. Even by the time you listen to this role is probably over. That's cool, but I just want to give my thoughts in
real time, So thank you so much for joining me again. Tomorrow I'll be back with the Monday Night Raw review, Tuesday night will be that, Wednesday night will be Smacked Down Live review, and then Thursday as a co host with Anthony DeMarco and will be covering everything in ww this week and including the full preview and prediction show for Extreme Rules this Sunday, July fourteenth, So big packed week of wrestling audio for you, and I hope you enjoy it. Until then, I'll talk to you next time.