WEBVTT - RAW After Wrestlemania/Top Heel Kevin Owens 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:13.560 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.440 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.919 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific Threeastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:22.960 sixth Eastern. It is Tuesday in this program. And you 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:26.079 know that means we've got last night's Raw. They're Raw 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:32.519 after WrestleMania, the legendary Raw after WrestleMania. It was an 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.000 al right show. We had a wait three hours for 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:36.760 Roman Reigns to tell us that he would tell us 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.360 what was going on on the next show. That was interesting, 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:43.720 and I always see what's going on? What's chat talking about? 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:46.879 A I asked myself as the show begins, what what 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.600 about Raw or any of the news. What's really what's 0:00:51.640 --> 0:01:00.200 really getting their conversation going? And of all things, it's Elias, 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.240 of all things, So I guess we got to talk 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.560 about Elias today. You guys know the story of this 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:10.520 Elias bloke. Remember Elias, Remember he played that guitar and 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.399 then uh and then he did those vignettes and he 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.840 said that Elias was dead. Long live Elias, and this 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.640 was like nine months ago or something crazy, and then 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.720 he just vanished off television forever. We never saw him again. 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:25.520 And then they cut a whole bunch of people, but 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:27.800 they didn't cut Alias, and I was like, where's this 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.880 Elias guy at there's nowhere to be seen. And then 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.480 last night on Raw, Kevin Owens is doing a promo 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.480 top hell Kevin Owens, I might add, and he's interrupted 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.720 by Elias, who has shaved his face and does not 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.440 have a guitar. And this this new Elias, he looks 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.000 like somebody like straight out of you know, w WF 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.800 like a job guy from Superstars of Wrestling about just 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:57.320 got you know, long hair, you know, big dude, totally 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:02.520 generic looking, generic trunks, everything it comes out and coming 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:07.760 out and says, uh, what are you doing here? Elias Lisase, 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:14.079 I'm not Alias. I mean Lias's brother Ezekiel. He's playing 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.360 his own brother. So anyway we can talk about this 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.760 compelling storyline and everything else that went down on rob 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.720 We got Wrestle media Weekend business notes. We got a 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.679 lot of news. We'll get into it after the break. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:44.200 Wrestling Observer Live back in the show. Brain Eva is 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.880 here Wrestling Observer Live Mike and for v B also 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:48.880 Wrestling Observer dot Com. I can't. I can't believe this 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.519 is the top story today. That's all everyone was talking about. Ezekiel. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.959 So listen. I got a text during the break from 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.799 producer Rob. If you guys are aware of Rob, Producer Rob, 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.360 but he's he's regularly wrong, and he goes here, you 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.600 don't like the Ezekiel storyline. I'm shocked. Shocked, I say, 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.160 I never said I didn't like the storyline. In fact, 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:12.880 I can't even say whether I like the storyline or 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.440 not because there is no storyline right now. We have 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.200 a guy who's claiming he's his own brother. Now, listen, 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.679 I once saw this storyline and of all places, t 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:27.920 n A where you had the monster Abyss, and then 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:33.280 one day his brother Joe Park showed up. Okay, dude, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.640 this storyline was awesome. But there's a big difference. Okay, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.720 there's a big difference. Yeah, Park Park and Park he 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.720 was he was an attorney, Joe Park. So the problem, 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.160 the problem here the guys don't seem to realize is 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.920 Abyss was a masked monster and he had a mask 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.360 with a long haired wig sewn into it. Okay, So 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.720 when he was gonna be Joe Park he took the 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.120 mask off and he combed his hair and he you know, 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.920 put his glasses spectacles on, and he was all goofy 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.320 and uh. He could play two characters. And it was 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.680 fun because you know, you were sitting there thinking, Okay, 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.400 am I supposed to believe that there actually are two 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.760 people here? Or am I supposed to believe that Joe 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.360 park is pretending to be his brother? But he's actually 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.400 Abyss without his mask on? And then you do a 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.400 bunch of storylines from there. Elias doesn't wear a mask. 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.560 His mask was he had a beard, So like, where 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.600 are we going here? Like, you know, Ezekiel is gonna 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.440 come out here and do some stuff and then he's 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.159 gonna put on a fake beard, like a Santa beard 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.760 with the thing, and then you know, play some guitar 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.640 or whatever, and you know he's gonna be Elias that 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.040 day and then he'll take it off. I mean, you know, 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.320 maybe they can make it so campy at work, but 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.320 you're already it's already not gonna work the same way 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:52.440 it did with Joe Park. An Abyss, but I mean 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:54.680 Abiss does work for w w E, So I mean, 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.760 you know, maybe he made this suggestion and uh and 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.680 way we go. But I mean maybe they have some 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.200 other grand plan. I mean, if you had had Caine member, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.200 when Caine had the mask and then they unmasked him, 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.120 like if they would have done it then before they 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.159 had masked him, like he had his mask on and 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.800 his long hair, and then one day Mayor Glenn showed 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.039 up and he wore a suit and he had a 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.360 shaved head or whatever, and he, you know, talk politics, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:21.720 and you really wanted to get rid of this big 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:23.960 red monster because it was like, you know, hurting his 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.400 political career that you know, his brother was like a 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.200 crazed arsonist or something like that. That'd be one thing. 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.920 But we got an unmasked guy who's now praining as 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.279 his own unmasked How do you make this work? What 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:36.599 do you mean? I don't know what they're gonna do. 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.760 Maybe I'll love it, but so far, I'm like, what 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:42.360 is this? You really could have pushed it with the 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.840 Kane storyline, because you could have had his brother him 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:50.320 join up his past as the unibomb and in O 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:52.400 v W could have been brought up. But this is 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.760 this is right out of a daytime folding the Beautiful, 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.719 Young and the Restless General hospital sort of thing. Character 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.560 Lee comes back. No that's not me. Well yeah, but 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.800 there's no one cares that he left. No one even 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.880 remembered he was gone. I mean, it'd be one thing 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.640 if you know, a sudden Randy Orton disappears and then 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.960 some long haired guy shows up and he says he's 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.560 his own brother or something like that, or Barry or 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.120 maybe he let it grow out and it got all 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.360 puffy and he claimed he with his own father. I'm 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.480 about Randy, I'm cowboy Bob. He could have showed them 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.200 with a cast on. I got ideas, but I'm not 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.560 sure about this one. Anyway. I gotta let it play 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:34.080 out right. We got a lot of other stuff that 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.359 we gotta get into it. Trust me. Is more important 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:42.960 than that name though, because it was Ezekiel Jackson was 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:48.039 the less Ezekiel. And ww's about that name. Yeah, you 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.800 know in the Bible, this Ezekiel fella. He saw this, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.560 this this vision that all the the UFO folks think 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:57.320 was a UFO. So maybe the story could be that 0:06:57.360 --> 0:07:01.240 Elias was abducted and they brought down his Eikiel. That's 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:05.200 where he's at. Anyway, I got a story to tell y'all. 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.680 It's not really a story, but so, uh, here's a 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.880 n x T tonight. This is the line of for 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:16.440 n x T. We got Raquel and Dakota against Toxic Attraction. 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.880 Toxic Attraction lost the belts, and they're getting an immediate 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.040 rematch because we got a lot of immediate rematches I've 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.160 noticed lately, even though anyway, we're gonna hear from the 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:31.880 North American Champion, Cameron Grimes, Nikita Lions versus Lash Legend 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:40.880 is tonight and the fallout from Standing Deliver. So on Saturday, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.600 we had the standard deliver and it was Ziggler versus 0:07:44.640 --> 0:07:50.720 braun Breaker, and braun Breaker was defeated by Dolph Ziggler. 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.960 And that afternoon I I heard from someone who's close 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.320 to folks and n x T and I know a 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.320 lot about what's going on there, and they said, you know, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.559 it looks like Ziggler is gonna be champion for a while. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:10.560 This was Saturday, Okay, So then Sunday or Monday, uh, 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:14.679 at about eleven thirty or so, I I heard actually 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.200 from several people that we're gonna have uh n x 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:21.320 T title change on the show tonight. One person said 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.480 n XT title changed tonight, and the other person specified 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:27.640 that it was gonna be uh braun Breaker beating Dolve 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.960 Ziggler to win the title back on Raw, which is 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:34.080 why I said everything that I the said yesterday. So, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.839 uh so I watched the show and they do braun 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.400 Breaker and Dolve Ziggler, and braun Breaker defeats Dolph Ziggler 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.920 and he wins the NXT Championship. He's a new champion, 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:47.000 He's won the belt. So I continue watching the show 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.120 and everything like that, and then about forty five minutes later, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.480 they have a commercial for an x T, and the 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:59.120 commercial for n x T, the whole commercial it's about 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.720 how dolves Bagler beat braun Breaker and we're gonna get 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.160 the fallout on n x T, which, oddly enough, they 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.760 said n x T tonight at nine o'clock, so not 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 only it was tomorrow's commercial that they aired on the 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:17.760 wrong day, and the commercial that they had had been 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.280 created with the idea that Ziggler was still the champion. 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.400 So anyway, it's the usual, you know, Oh, Brian and 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:31.400 navy chain plans change what a compount bro They changed 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:35.440 this plan, and we have all evidence. All evidence points 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:39.000 to on Saturday Dolphin was gonna be the champion for 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.000 a while, and by Monday he had already lost the 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:45.160 belt to braun Breaker on Rock. I think it is 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:49.520 my theory. I think that on Saturday the idea was 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:53.160 we are going to beat braun Breaker and then he's 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.079 gonna be called up to the main roster on the 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.560 Raw after WrestleMania, and then I don't know, you know 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:00.720 what happened over the next day or so. Maybe someone 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.120 was like, dude, can we have him for like six 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.320 more months? You know, maybe you know what it might 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.439 have been. Maybe they watched that Omas match and they 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.920 were like, we don't want to call anybody up to early, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.720 even braun Breaker, so let's leave him down there for 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.319 a while, and instead of calling him up, we'll give 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.880 him a big win on Raw. You know, hey, everyone, 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.160 here's his braun Breaker. Fella. Oh, he gets a big win, 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.559 wins a championship on Raw, y'all cheer and everything like that, 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.800 and then he he stays on n x T for 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.719 a while. So I don't know what the whole mindset 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.280 was of everything that happened, but clearly there was a 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:33.960 change of plans this weekend and Brun Breakers back as 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:37.040 the champion, and uh, he's gonna be I guess on 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.880 the show, which I think is actually tonight. Unlike what 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:45.640 they told me on Raw last night. It doesn't kill 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.200 my feelings that he's back in n x T at all. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:52.480 It doesn't, but I just don't. I don't know. In 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:56.520 another world in common sense, he's only been wrestling for 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.480 what officially six months, he's been in their program for 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.880 and so yeah, I mean, him staying down there for 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:05.440 another year in theory is going to make him a 0:11:05.480 --> 0:11:08.320 better wrestler, a better worker, but that also depends on 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.800 what they're teaching him, what they want him to do, 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:15.000 who he's working with. And it's like bron Breaker on 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.280 the main roster. I mean, there's all these things that 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.400 in theory could go bad, but it's like him on 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.640 the main roster makes a lot more sense than let's say, oh, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.959 I don't know Gable Stevenson debuting on the main roster, 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.480 as opposed to really now taking bron Breaker's place in 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:32.319 n x T and having Braun up on the main 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:37.240 roster there they finally debuted Vier. You have Cody showing up, 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.080 You've now re debuted alias as Ezekiel. There's obviously these 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:45.520 Postmania changes that get made. Bron Breaker now to me 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.520 would be a great time for him to be up there, 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.199 but they again, for whatever reason, he's back down in 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.280 n x D. I guess he's going to continue on 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.320 with Dolphin Bobby Rude, which you know that's helped them 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.120 as far as refreshing them. But again, it surprises me 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.559 that they would want on down there for really any 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.880 extended period of time. But yet they're still, as far 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.439 as I know, wanting to debut Gable Stevenson on the 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:40.720 main roster. Back in a moment, Bros. Observer Live back 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.160 in the show Bright now Vera is here, Wrestling Observer 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:47.400 Live Mix, sumbur Vid also Wrestling Observer dot Com. I'm 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.719 gonna do this raw report here real quick, then we'll 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.720 talk about it. There's a lot to talk about. So 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.320 it opened up with a Cody Rhodes promo and uh, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.560 he did a great promo, a w style promo, and 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.960 he acknowledged that he had been swear He said it 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.880 was an easy decision to come here send a multi 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.360 year deal vance chanted you deserve it. And then he 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.520 told a story about a photo that they had in 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.959 their house, Dusty had in his house of a match 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.880 at Madison Square Garden September ninete. Dusty's holding the belt 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:24.000 over his head, and Cody notes he held the belt, 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.160 but he never actually won it because he won the 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.520 match via count out, and the title cannot change hands 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.800 via count out, and so he said it was the 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.480 belt at Hogan Undertaker Michael's Triple h and many other 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.400 had had held. And he said his father was a 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.640 hero and he had vowed that someday he was going 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.720 to get that belt and he was going to hand 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:52.320 it to his father, but his father died, so he 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.920 can no longer hand of the belt to his father. 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.200 But he can win that belt and strap it around 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.920 his own waist for himself, for the fans, and for 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.679 his family. So that's the storyline. Cody's goal is to 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:10.280 win the w w E championship that his father never won, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.280 and there's a lot of ways that you can do this, right, 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.679 There's also a lot of ways you can I mean, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.320 he's gonna win the title eventually, but I feel like 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.000 there's a way they could do and it would be awesome, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.040 and there's a way the way they could just do it. 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:26.600 So we'll see which one they choose, but I know 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.400 which one I'm leading towards. I hope for the other. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:33.720 We had a non title match. This was absolutely positively 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:38.600 classic w w E. It is champions Sasha Banks and 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:43.000 Naomi versus Ria Ripley and Live Morrigan, but it is 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:49.040 a non title match. Sasha Banks and Naomi versus Rhea 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.480 and Live in a non title match ends when Live 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.240 Morrigan is pinned clean in the middle of the ring 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.280 by the champions. Ria has been with one geek partner 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:03.000 after another. She can take no more. She is upset 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:05.960 and she just storms to the back. Later, Live goes 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.160 up there. She says, what was that all about? It 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.600 seems pretty self explainatory to me. Marie says, you know what, 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.520 I'm sorry. I was frustrated, but I have spoken Adam 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.520 Pierce and Sony Deville and they have granted us a 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:26.680 championship match next week. So they lost a non title 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.880 match clean in the middle of the ring to lead 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:35.800 to a championship match a next week's show. When a 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.400 Kevin Owens segment this was the return or the debut 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:44.480 of Elias Slash Ezekiel, however you want to determine. It 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.400 appears they will be having a match or something from 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:52.880 Stone Cold Steve Austin in the main event of WrestleMania 0:15:53.240 --> 0:16:00.360 to Ezekiel, the Man Is defeated Dominic Mysterie You in 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.280 thirty one seconds clean with the skull crushing finale thirty 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:08.080 one seconds clean in the middle, and then Veer debuted 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.360 and he beat up Dominic and he beat up Ray 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:18.280 and next week he will kill the legendary Ray Mysterio Jr. 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.800 On Monday Night Raw you hatt a Bianca bell Air promo. 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:27.240 I thought Bianca was awesome, but you know what, Nobody 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:31.640 wants Becky Lynch to be a heel. They've never wanted 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:34.120 Becky Lynch to be a heel. They've always wanted her 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.520 to be a baby face. And so Bianca's here talking 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:42.040 about Becky and there are people booing her, there are 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:47.640 people chanting for Becky Lynch, and bro get these two 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:51.920 away from each other. Immediately, get them away from each other. 0:16:52.400 --> 0:16:56.320 Move Becky on to somebody else, and move be or yeah, 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.560 move Becky to somebody else and move Bianca onto some 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.560 heel that people aren't gonna so that you can actually 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.879 get over as the baby face, because the irony is 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.919 that everything that Becky complains about is a hell is 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:12.040 what's actually happening for real with Bianca Miller. So get 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.800 them away from each other the sooner the better. For 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.679 the love of God, braun Breaker beat delve Ziggler to 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.320 win the NXT title ten minutes, no heat, but they 0:17:20.320 --> 0:17:21.840 did pop big for the finish because they got to 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:26.000 see a championship change. You know, we've got an audience that, uh, 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:28.240 you know that they're not watching n x T two 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:32.760 point oh so, and who is except for me. We 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.320 had a Bobby lash Lee m v P segment. This 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.120 was also classic Deva viewee. You had a group called 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.200 the Hurt Business. They were the coolest group in all 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.480 of raw or SmackDown. You had m v P, you 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:48.560 had Bobby Lashly, you had Shelton, Benjamin, Cedric, Alexander. So 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:52.280 what do they do. They break off Sheldon Cedric, then 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.800 they reunite them and no one cares, and they break 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.280 them up again, and no one because no one even 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.960 knows what's going on. But you at least had Lashly 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:01.239 who's not a great pro momo and m v P, 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.879 who's an awesome promo. Well, they have a match in 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:08.800 Mania with Bobby lash Len Omas. It absolutely sucks. Omas 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.840 is incapable of having a good match. All people can 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.040 talk about is at the very least, I don't want 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:15.639 to see when get fired, But you gotta send the 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.199 guy back to developmental or something not w w E. No, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.439 Bobby Lashly comes out, he does a promo which is 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:27.840 not very good, and then Omas comes out and m 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:32.080 v P turns on Bobby Lashly and now m v 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:38.359 P is managing O Moss against Bobby Lashly. You know, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:43.159 there's an old saying accentuate the strengths and uh, you know, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:48.560 don't expose everyone's weaknesses. This is this is like, this 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.120 is idiot proof. W w either making so much money 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.280 it doesn't matter, but you have literally done everything wrong 0:18:55.320 --> 0:19:01.240 with everybody involved in this whole scenario. Great, now we've 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.080 got m v P and Omas. I'm also have bad matches, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:10.320 Lashly do bad promos. Then we had Zelene and Carmela. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.760 They're supposed to face Natty and Shana, but Carmela dances 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.440 all the way down to the ring. The good commercials. 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:19.000 She dances during the whole commercial break. Apparently they come 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.719 back and Selene is just sick of this dancing turns 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:25.320 on her. I hate you. It's all it's all about you. 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.720 Your husband's an idiot for marrying you. But boy, he's 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:33.199 a handon and I'm like, oh my god. Now Corey 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.000 Graves is a sex symbol all the women want. Carmela 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:41.000 gets mad. I'm so like, I cannot wait for them 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.800 to get married. I cannot wait. He's leaving. Thank god, 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:48.640 she's leaving. Get off my television. This is the ultimate 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.200 go away. He did it. I tolerated it for long enough. 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:55.040 I can't take it anymore. Thankfully they're leaving, and Jerry 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:59.440 Lawler is replacing Corey Graves for a while. I yea 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.760 it is. I hope, like Carl Listen, Corey Grays, when 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.199 he's just a commentator, is better than Jerry Lawler. But 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:08.160 now he's not a commentator. He's a part of the storyline. 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.480 The women are fighting over him. He's got a pander 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.040 to his I'm over it. Get out of here for 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.520 a while. Like, honest to god, I wish them nothing 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:20.520 but the best, and I hope that they can pay 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:22.960 for like a six month honeymoon and then they can 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.359 come back and start over again, and like it's over, 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:27.200 this is over. I got it, you're married. I don't 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:31.959 care anymore. CALLI. I think you're handsome. Corey Jimminey Christmas. 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:38.440 Then we had Austin Theory USO's versus Finnbalor Ran Jordan Riddle. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:40.639 I don't know if they like think that Finnbaler is 0:20:40.720 --> 0:20:42.639 leaving or something, but I mean they're just beating him 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.159 like a drum. Austin Theory pins him for about the 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:48.120 eighth time, because you know Austin theory is and they 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.440 even said it on TV. He is Vince's new chosen 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:56.840 one because Vince always has to find a handsome guy 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.920 with a good physique who can work. But then he's 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:03.080 got to go beat everybody that works better than he does, 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.080 and everybody turns on him and hates the guy and 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.400 they think he's being shoved down there. This is classic, 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:11.560 classic w w E. That's what we're seeing here. Edge 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:16.240 and Damian Priest segment fans just mocking them throughout this segment. 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:20.600 Edge is now uh the old seth rawlins Messiah Gimmick. 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.960 I'm gonna be brooding and do uh, you know, very 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:29.280 generic monotone promos. Damian Priest is, uh, you know, it's 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:31.960 it's it's literally it's a Jericho appreciation society, but it's 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:37.240 Edge and Damian Priest is, I don't know, I want 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:41.600 a two point oh. But anyway, fans are chanting, you know, 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.040 we don't care, and then Edge goes, of course you 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:52.000 don't care, you're you're idiots, and they chant we are idiots. Whatever, 0:21:52.200 --> 0:21:54.639 it'll be better next week they won't have this crowd. 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.159 And then a Stiles comes out and they beat him 0:21:57.240 --> 0:21:59.840 up and they're gonna give him the concerto. But thank 0:22:00.080 --> 0:22:03.439 Lee for once in in anyone's life the guy has 0:22:03.440 --> 0:22:05.679 actually come out to save a j And then we 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:08.280 get a chant for Jamie Noble, who was the only 0:22:08.359 --> 0:22:11.560 over guy in the segment on this raw. After WrestleMania, 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.400 we had the Street Province versus Alpha Academy. I mean, 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.439 it was all right, but it's one of those matches 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:19.119 where they're all in the ring together as a Texas 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:22.000 Tornado match, so they're like falling on each other and 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.520 they're in everybody's way. This would have been a thousand 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.400 times better it's just a tag match, but after WrestleMania, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.840 we gotta do something wacky. And then uh Ford pinned 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:34.080 Gable splashed him through a table. It's a good finish, 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.240 and I mean, they worked hard, but I think this 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.480 could have been better. And then the main event of 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:41.040 the show is a Roman Reigins segment. Roman Rains comes out, 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:42.720 he goes, I know what you guys want to hear about, 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:44.800 but let's mix it up a little. Paul tell everyone 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.119 how great I am. Isn't that every Roman promo? So 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:50.359 Paul tells us how great he is and all of 0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:53.119 the business records that have been set under Roman reigns, 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:55.200 and then he gives them Mike to Roman Reigns, and 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:59.320 Roman says, you know, after what I did at WrestleMania 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:02.479 unified these idols be brock lesner some men. Some men 0:23:02.560 --> 0:23:06.760 would call it a career, but not me. I am 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:11.800 a progressive tribal chief. He says. Perhaps he's running for office. 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:14.520 And he says, I'm gonna tell you guys what's next 0:23:15.920 --> 0:23:19.040 on SmackDown. And then they all go like this, and 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:21.800 then the fans, I'll go like this. Roman was over 0:23:21.880 --> 0:23:24.280 his total baby face. They weren't even mad that he 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.800 wasn't gonna tell tonight. They were like cool SmackDown and 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.560 that's how the show ended. So there you go. I 0:23:30.600 --> 0:23:33.840 was not blown away by this raw. I just wasn't. 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.600