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Speaker 1: means we have news coming out of Monday night. Raw.
Speaker 1: WrestleMania is now two weeks away, and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: over the lineup for the WrestleMania show as of last night.
Speaker 1: And for those of you keeping track, because how could
Speaker 1: you not seth Rawlins still does not have a path
Speaker 1: to WrestleMania, although they didn't exactly do the idea that
Speaker 1: I came up with yesterday, but they basically did the
Speaker 1: angle at the end of the show where he still
Speaker 1: couldn't get a path through WrestleMania, and he said that
Speaker 1: he Raw will not go on the air next week,
Speaker 1: will not take place until he has a path to
Speaker 1: wrestle Menia. So whatever they're doing, presumably Cody Rhodes, but
Speaker 1: nothing's official till it's official. Whatever they're doing It appears
Speaker 1: to be the tease for the very first segment of
Speaker 1: Raw next week, so we can talk about that here today,
Speaker 1: the entire Raw show. We have got d J, which
Speaker 1: is different from a kid a kid. He'll be performing
Speaker 1: in WrestleMania. With the line up for both nights. Thus far,
Speaker 1: we got the expected match for Omas, a pre show
Speaker 1: for WrestleMania airing on the w w E network, Braun
Speaker 1: Breaker versus Robert Rude tonight. Robert Rude was defeated in
Speaker 1: the middle of the ring clean last night, and we
Speaker 1: should still care. Apparently, we got SmackDown ratings, we got
Speaker 1: rampage ratings. We have the full Raw report from last
Speaker 1: night and much much more. If you'd like to Texas
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Speaker 1: don't know what the hell happened, but Mike was doing
Speaker 1: something and he banged up his knee and one of
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Speaker 1: the best to him. We'll get details later on, but
Speaker 1: that is the story about why Cmber of ev Is
Speaker 1: is not here today. It was not because he did
Speaker 1: not want to watch Raw last night, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's very happy will not be here for the Raw
Speaker 1: Report today, But you guys, you will get to the
Speaker 1: Raw Report here later on. But we have a lot
Speaker 1: of news coming out of the Raw show, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with that first. But also like to mention
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Speaker 1: I am for this show. So he's gonna be playing
Speaker 1: some music. It looks like the lineup for the show
Speaker 1: thus far, these are the official matches. There's more to come.
Speaker 1: We have Charlotte Flair versus ron Da Rousey for the
Speaker 1: SmackDown Women's title. Don't care they have done nothing. I
Speaker 1: mean they've done a lot, but I don't care about
Speaker 1: this match. Like whatever they've been doing in the build
Speaker 1: and whatever, I mean, it just to me is like
Speaker 1: it comes off as two people that don't want to
Speaker 1: be there. So I'm not saying they don't, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying that, like whoever is doing the coaching for ron
Speaker 1: Da Rousing and Charlotte Flair, I'm not feeling this one.
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch and Bianca bell Air, I'm feeling this one
Speaker 1: to a degree. I think Bianca is gonna get a
Speaker 1: big win at WrestleMania, celebrate with the championship. Everybody is
Speaker 1: gonna be happy. So I'm looking forward to that. But bro,
Speaker 1: if I see one more interview from Becky Lynch talking
Speaker 1: about how it's because of you fans, We're moving into
Speaker 1: Run to Rousing and Charlotte Territory of stuff. I'm just
Speaker 1: absolutely sick of seeing. We have the Ko Show with
Speaker 1: Stone Cold Steve Boston. Last night on Raw, Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: played at the role of Steve Austin. Clearly this guy
Speaker 1: was a big Steve Boston van since he needs a
Speaker 1: great job. And uh, I think it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: And I still like, I don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. And my, my my, if you were like
Speaker 1: to put a gun into my head, which don't, But
Speaker 1: if you were and you said, is this going to
Speaker 1: lead to a match on Sunday, my gut would say no.
Speaker 1: Do I think it's impossible. I do not think it's impossible.
Speaker 1: And I think it would be quite the deal if
Speaker 1: they if they ran the Angle on Saturday to shoot
Speaker 1: the Angle or Sunday, although that sure would make people
Speaker 1: who bought tickets for Saturday pretty angry if they weren't
Speaker 1: going on Sunday. But I don't think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that aren't going on Sunday. We have Ray
Speaker 1: and Dominic versus the MSS and Logan Paul, which I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm sure it'll be all right. Drew mc
Speaker 1: attire and Happy Corbin. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good match. I know people hate Corbin, but he's actually
Speaker 1: a pretty good worker and Drew. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: have a bad match with Drew mc attire, So I
Speaker 1: think people are gonna be surprised at the quality of
Speaker 1: that one. We've got the us O's against Shinsky, Nakamura
Speaker 1: and Rick Boogs. I don't know if Boogs and Nakamara
Speaker 1: gon me the two that beat the USOS after all
Speaker 1: of this time, but I'd be happy to see it.
Speaker 1: I guess his Usas are probably gonna win. I think
Speaker 1: the match is gonna be fun. People are super into Boogs.
Speaker 1: Boogs out there in front of you know, sixty thou
Speaker 1: people curling blokes and pressing him over his head. I
Speaker 1: think people will get into that night too, which is Sunday.
Speaker 1: We've got the Unification match Brock Lesner versus Roman Reigns.
Speaker 1: All of their angles I've enjoyed. I can't say that
Speaker 1: any of their angles when they're done with them, I'm
Speaker 1: like more excited for the match. I just like watching,
Speaker 1: you know, Brock break stuff, and they've done a lot
Speaker 1: of that, so I think the match is gonna be good.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be a very very good match actually,
Speaker 1: and I have no idea who's gonna win. And you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: it probably doesn't matter because I don't know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be immediately, but eventually we're gonna be going back to
Speaker 1: having two belts again. So Pat mcaviee versus Austin theory.
Speaker 1: I think they've done a good job building this matchup.
Speaker 1: Think Pat McAfee is great. Still no no Vince McMahon involvement,
Speaker 1: but at least adds of a while ago, Uh, there
Speaker 1: was gonna be some Vince McMahon involvement in this match.
Speaker 1: Maybe we need a track ticket sales and if they're
Speaker 1: still not, you know, through the roof, then we make
Speaker 1: our Vince mcman announcement. Sammy's a and versus Gjohnny Knoxville
Speaker 1: anything goes I mean it's Johnny Knoxville and anything goes match,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do some really stupid hopefully doesn't kill himself.
Speaker 1: And that's not even I'm not joking. Like sky Brain hemorrhage.
Speaker 1: You see him falling off that bowl, Well here he
Speaker 1: is doing anything goes match with Sammy Zaane at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: for the seventy thousand people, So we should all say
Speaker 1: a prayer. Aj Styles and Edge. I think the match
Speaker 1: will be good provided it's like, you know, eighteen minutes.
Speaker 1: If it's forty minutes, I ain't gonna be happy. Not
Speaker 1: a fan at all of the build. It's just not
Speaker 1: doing it for me. Edge was so much better as
Speaker 1: a baby face. I mean this heel Edge stuff droning
Speaker 1: on and on and not into it. Then we've got
Speaker 1: to the Tag Team Championship match, Zelena and Carmela against
Speaker 1: Sasha and Naomi against Rhea and Live against Nattie and Shana.
Speaker 1: You know how they do these builds, like everybody involved
Speaker 1: to lose a whole bunch of matches, like they're all losers.
Speaker 1: And then we go to the paper VW see you
Speaker 1: know who's the which, which ones are the least losers?
Speaker 1: Whatever that term would be the the would the term
Speaker 1: be the most over achieving losers? Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: So anyway, they've been doing this storyline that's leaning. Carmela
Speaker 1: can't get along. They gotta fight last night, and then
Speaker 1: it was a swerve and then we got r K
Speaker 1: Bro defending against the Street Profits and alph Academy in
Speaker 1: a triple threat match, which I'm sure is gonna be
Speaker 1: a great match, So you can look forward to that.
Speaker 1: Bobby Lashly versus Omas expected to take place at Manby
Speaker 1: a thirty eight Fightful Select reported Lashly and Omas was planned.
Speaker 1: Dave Meltzer noted it will depend on if Lashly is
Speaker 1: cleared in time. Omas is doing the thing where he's
Speaker 1: asking for a singles match, said Dave, He's going to
Speaker 1: have a singles match against somebody, but right now the
Speaker 1: guy is Lashly on the list, it could end up
Speaker 1: being somebody else. If Lashly is not cleared. Apparently, that
Speaker 1: would say that Lashly is not undergoing shoulder surgery, because
Speaker 1: if he was undergoing surgery or had surgery, he would
Speaker 1: not be at wrestle me. So I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the the status is of Lashly, but
Speaker 1: I do know that I was a wrestler and I
Speaker 1: once suffered a separated two separated shoulders one here, one here,
Speaker 1: And when I watched the Royal Rumble that match with
Speaker 1: brock bro I thought, for sure, as he's taken those bumps,
Speaker 1: this dude's gonna separate his shoulder. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that was the exact injury that he suffered, but
Speaker 1: I do know that when I separated my shoulders, I
Speaker 1: I could not even bench press the bar, which is
Speaker 1: forty five pounds. I must talking about the tag team
Speaker 1: of Sicoro and Shamus. I'm talking the metal for I
Speaker 1: couldn't even I couldn't even lift that thing. That's how
Speaker 1: bad my shoulders were. But I did not need surgery.
Speaker 1: And so uh, if he separated his shoulder and he's
Speaker 1: really not done anything since January and this will be April,
Speaker 1: it's possible that he will be okay to return in
Speaker 1: time for the Royal Rumble. It depends on what grade
Speaker 1: of shoulder separation he has or had, so we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. We'll find out soon and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: Cody after the break. Stick Around Observer Live back in
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Speaker 1: to start asking a bunch of silly questions. I need
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Speaker 1: I could do that, you know. Let's see what I
Speaker 1: got here? Mhm. I want to say thank you so
Speaker 1: much the cameo awesome. Words can't describe how on key
Speaker 1: you was. That's how you know that I ain't write it.
Speaker 1: Other people should take some notes on how to do
Speaker 1: cameos from you. I highly recommend you. Thank you well,
Speaker 1: You're welcome, Jason. There's more where that came from everybody.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Brian. This is exactly what I needed Frankly,
Speaker 1: this deserves as many stars as the Mocks versus Danielson match. Huh,
Speaker 1: how about this one? Brian is absolutely fantastic. Might low
Speaker 1: Ki be the best? Not? It's not. Low Ki, by
Speaker 1: the way, be the best rustling cameos out there? Delivered fast,
Speaker 1: over delivered on the request. Could easily be charging way
Speaker 1: way more than he is. Thanks a lot, Brian, you're
Speaker 1: the man. Where's Mike to tell me? I made these up?
Speaker 1: Come on, all right, let's get to the news. So
Speaker 1: last night on Raw they've been doing this storyline. Have
Speaker 1: you been paying attention? I know some of you haven't
Speaker 1: because you don't watch this show. But seth Rawlins, seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins can't get a match at WrestleMania. Should I just
Speaker 1: do the Raw report? I'm gonna save it. Let's just
Speaker 1: get to the point on Cody. We'll do the Raw
Speaker 1: report in the next segment. So he can't get a
Speaker 1: path to wrestle Medium and so, long story short, they
Speaker 1: do segment early where he has asked about not having
Speaker 1: a path to WrestleMania and uh and as he's uh
Speaker 1: talking about this, you hear the crowd and they're chanting
Speaker 1: Cody's name. W w et is not mute the chance
Speaker 1: for Cody. Okay, So then later he comes out and
Speaker 1: he's in the ring and he's trying to steal aj
Speaker 1: styles match from him, the match with Edge. Everyone seems
Speaker 1: to want to face Edge. I guess they want to
Speaker 1: put in time at Mania. So you know, obviously a
Speaker 1: J is not down with this, and there's another chance
Speaker 1: for Cody. And interestingly enough, seth rawlins and acknowledges it
Speaker 1: and he says, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, rumors. I
Speaker 1: never get the exact line that he used, but it
Speaker 1: was it was a little weird that he kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, in his interview, was like acknowledging that they
Speaker 1: were chanting that, and he was kind of blowing it off.
Speaker 1: So if you hear stuff today, like you know, people
Speaker 1: thinking that this Cody thing is is not gonna happen. Well,
Speaker 1: so anyway, that's what happened. Then they do the match
Speaker 1: in the main event. Yeah, rumors are fun, but they
Speaker 1: don't create great moments. That's what That's how he acknowledged
Speaker 1: these chants. So don't get me wrong, it was weird. Okay, Now,
Speaker 1: do I think that we're still gonna get Cody and
Speaker 1: Seth and wrestle men it. Yes, yes, I do. Do
Speaker 1: I think it's possible that there's you know, some wrench
Speaker 1: got thrown in the gears. It's possible. But do I
Speaker 1: still think that it's seven Cody? Yes, So they do
Speaker 1: the main event and uh, he loses, and he gets
Speaker 1: really mad. He pulls the hard deal research throwing things
Speaker 1: and Channing add words, it was actually exactly like after
Speaker 1: Brett hard last that cage match to Sin like six
Speaker 1: or seven or whatever it was. And he starts getting
Speaker 1: all angry and everything like that, and the fans start
Speaker 1: chanting for Cody again, and Seth Rawlins grabs the mic
Speaker 1: and this was not exactly what I said should be
Speaker 1: done yesterday, but it's pretty it's pretty damn close. He said,
Speaker 1: I deserve my WrestleMania moment, and Raw is not taking
Speaker 1: place next week until I get it. So he's telling
Speaker 1: you that if you tune into Raw next week, you're
Speaker 1: going to find out what Seth is doing at WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be in the opening segment of
Speaker 1: the show, and they aren't telling you exactly what it is.
Speaker 1: This is virtually exactly what I said that they should
Speaker 1: do yesterday now that they've worked themselves into this corner.
Speaker 1: So whatever whatever they're doing as of yesterday, you know
Speaker 1: how this company works. As of yesterday, whatever they're doing,
Speaker 1: it's opening up Monday Night Raw next week. So if
Speaker 1: that is the debut of Cody, it's opening up Raw
Speaker 1: next week, which if you look at the hourly ratings
Speaker 1: for Raw, I mean that is the best time to
Speaker 1: do it is at the open of the show because
Speaker 1: everyone's turned off the show by the end, and you
Speaker 1: know they it's gonna it's gonna get as biggest numbers
Speaker 1: opening up the show. So do I think it's Cody? Yes?
Speaker 1: Is it possible it's not? Yes? Do I think it is? Yes?
Speaker 1: Can we make that clear? Yes? All right? So next
Speaker 1: week on Raw. This is also the lineup for the
Speaker 1: show because they did announce a bunch of stuff. Brock
Speaker 1: Lesner and Roman Reigns are gonna be on Raw because
Speaker 1: it's the one time oh eight that was Survivor series.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they're gonna be on Raw because this this
Speaker 1: month's excuses. It's many a season because every month there's
Speaker 1: another excuse for why people go brand to brand. Even
Speaker 1: though we still have reindext Nation. But anyway, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be on the show next week, and uh, what else
Speaker 1: do we have? Where do my raw lineup go? There?
Speaker 1: It is the miss will face Ray, Mysterio. Queens Selena Carmela,
Speaker 1: Shana Basler and Natty will face Sasha Banks, Naomi, Ria
Speaker 1: Ripley and Live Morrigan. The Street Profits will be facing
Speaker 1: Alpha Academy because in every single one of these multi
Speaker 1: person matches, the only thing that they know how to
Speaker 1: book going back years is let's take turns beating everybody
Speaker 1: leading to the match. I don't know. I mean by
Speaker 1: the time they're done, I don't care about the matches
Speaker 1: at all. You know, maybe maybe those stand up for
Speaker 1: w W E blokes or they just can't wait to
Speaker 1: see it's a bunch of losers wrestling, so they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this one's right up my alley. SmackDown two point one
Speaker 1: seven million were the second lowest audience for the show
Speaker 1: so far in eighteen forty nine eight point five eight,
Speaker 1: which was up one ties the show's third highest rating
Speaker 1: of twenty two for the Walnut Brains Rampage thousand viewers
Speaker 1: down twenty four point three lowest audience in the history
Speaker 1: of the show point one three and eighteen to forty
Speaker 1: nine down forty nine lower than the lowest of all
Speaker 1: time for rampage. Shall I go on or would you
Speaker 1: all like to just freak out? Unnecessarily thinks some of you.
Speaker 1: Here's how we're gonna do it. Spoiler alert. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you why the number is so low. If you
Speaker 1: don't want this to be spoiled, go to the YouTube
Speaker 1: chat watch something else. So the show aired after the
Speaker 1: n C Double A men's basketball tournament and did not
Speaker 1: air until I believe eleven forty five PM, so a
Speaker 1: bunch of people tuned in saw basketball and I didn't
Speaker 1: watch the show. So you should throw this number out.
Speaker 1: It's like you used to throw those Westminster Dog Show
Speaker 1: numbers out. Can you imagine Twitter in the nineties when
Speaker 1: Raw and Nitro were going head to head and Raw
Speaker 1: was preempted for the Westminster Dog Show and then Nitro one?
Speaker 1: Can you mentioned Twitter? All of the w CW geeks
Speaker 1: throwing parties. You know, Raw was in the mud because
Speaker 1: they were preempted for a dog show when that had
Speaker 1: been fun. Thank god there was no Twitter back then.
Speaker 1: And of course we had the Undertaker interview. He believes
Speaker 1: that today's product lacks quote a level of grit. I
Speaker 1: think things have changed, and I can't just say it's
Speaker 1: changed in wrestling. I think in all sports it's a
Speaker 1: different generation. Call it evolution if you want. I don't
Speaker 1: think guys are leading the same lifestyles that guys in
Speaker 1: the past did. He said, today's wrestlers are under constant surveillance,
Speaker 1: surveillance which prevents them from doing neither same things previous
Speaker 1: generations did. Yeah, they're under surveillance from themselves and their
Speaker 1: selfies that they put on Instagram and Twitter. Oh, you're
Speaker 1: being spied on, he says. I didn't have to worry
Speaker 1: about that because there weren't cell phones. He said. When
Speaker 1: I came up the left you have used you have
Speaker 1: to say, uh, polaroid Cameron, point at yourself and go
Speaker 1: like that back in back in my day, and you
Speaker 1: have to shake the thing. When I came up, the
Speaker 1: locker room was a lot different. It was pretty crusty.
Speaker 1: You drove everywhere, right you have no one drives today
Speaker 1: from town to town wrestling. You didn't fly very often,
Speaker 1: so there were a few guys that had knives in
Speaker 1: their bags. Guns in their bags. It was a different
Speaker 1: group of men, not saying one's better one not saying
Speaker 1: one's better or one's worse. I think it's better when
Speaker 1: you don't have guns and knives in the locker room
Speaker 1: and a bunch of krusty guys weren't afraid to use them.
Speaker 1: I think that's actually better now than it was back
Speaker 1: in the old days. He said. The changes have led
Speaker 1: to a lack of grit. He says brock Listener is
Speaker 1: an example of someone who still has that grit. When
Speaker 1: you watch Brock Russell, you're interested because you know he's
Speaker 1: got this background. Not only is an amateur wrestler, professional wrestler,
Speaker 1: mixed martial artists. He does a new a bunch of
Speaker 1: crazy moves. Brock Man handles your ass. You get in
Speaker 1: there and you get thrown around and you get smashed.
Speaker 1: Roman has a little bit of that in him as
Speaker 1: well when he wants to. Randy Ortan has that in
Speaker 1: him as well. Younger w w E wrestlers, they are
Speaker 1: influenced more by superheroes and comic books, so you know
Speaker 1: he misses those days when guys had those amateur backgrounds,
Speaker 1: amateur wrestling, mixed martial arts in the case of the
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Speaker 1: raw report. Austin's music hits, the place goes crazy. Outcomes
Speaker 1: stone Cold Kevin Owens. He's got the bald thing on
Speaker 1: and three sixteen shirt which I'm sure they're selling a
Speaker 1: bunch of today, Jeane shorts, knee braces. He's got the
Speaker 1: bald cap on, so he looks bald. You did not
Speaker 1: shave a goat, which I don't know why, because it
Speaker 1: looks like a guy who can grow some facial hair
Speaker 1: pretty fast. But he comes out and he he pretends
Speaker 1: he's Steve Austin, and he he does the deal for wrestleman,
Speaker 1: and of course then he asks for you know, the
Speaker 1: bloke to uh to throw the beers at him, and
Speaker 1: they did do the deal where they hit Austin's music
Speaker 1: and everybody went crazy, thinking, ah, they went fool us twice. Well,
Speaker 1: of course I'll fool you twice. So the guys throwing
Speaker 1: beers and he's acting like he can't catch him, and
Speaker 1: so he calls the guy into the ring and of
Speaker 1: course he gives the guy the stunner who did not, take,
Speaker 1: by the way, as good a bump as that camera
Speaker 1: guy last week. It took like the greatest stunner bump
Speaker 1: at about twenty five years probably since they did that.
Speaker 1: Uh that one what I think was Survivor series or
Speaker 1: whatever where they were gonna unify the titles and Jericho
Speaker 1: ended up winning and Steve Boston. It was like Rock
Speaker 1: versus Jericho and Austin versus Angle, and then the winners
Speaker 1: faced off for the title in the main event. I
Speaker 1: can't remember what happened last night without notes, but I
Speaker 1: remember this anyway. Steve Auston gives Kurt Angle a stunner,
Speaker 1: and Kurt Angle took the greatest bump for a stunner
Speaker 1: you ever saw in your life. Just stood straight up
Speaker 1: and felt like a tree and he was dead. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. This guy didn't take a bump that good.
Speaker 1: Then we had seth Rawlins backstage asking about no path
Speaker 1: to Wrestlemany and we got the Cody chant and everything
Speaker 1: like that. Vengeance two thousand one, Yes, thank you Raymond
Speaker 1: Stereo and Dominic versus Ziggler and Rude that this is
Speaker 1: a classic example of this company. They have all these
Speaker 1: problems and then they come up with stupid solutions, and
Speaker 1: then when they come up with stupid solutions, they screw
Speaker 1: those up. Okay, so the problem is nobody watches an
Speaker 1: x T two point oh except really old dudes, the
Speaker 1: guys that you know took selfies with their polaroid. So
Speaker 1: they want some they want some new they want new viewers.
Speaker 1: They want people to watch this show. Well it's a
Speaker 1: it's a C show that nobody cares about. So what
Speaker 1: do you do. Well, let's get some raw talent on
Speaker 1: n x T that'll boost the numbers. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: who should we get, Well, you know it's a really
Speaker 1: good worker is Dolph Ziggler. So they send Ziggler and
Speaker 1: Rude down to uh down n x T. And the
Speaker 1: very first thing they do, like Rude gets uh but
Speaker 1: you know, the three people or whatever they're in the
Speaker 1: building and it maybe even the less than that, but
Speaker 1: they all cheer and everything like that. But Rude shows
Speaker 1: up at n x T and the first thing he
Speaker 1: does kind of promo about how, you know, I lose matches,
Speaker 1: but boy can I steal the show? I was like,
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe maybe promos like that appeal to the
Speaker 1: sixty three year old average viewer of n x T
Speaker 1: two point Oh but bro, when you say that you
Speaker 1: win one out of every twenty matches, dude, I don't
Speaker 1: care one bit about watching the stupid feud. So then, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys think I'm making this up. This is what happened.
Speaker 1: So then they announced that you know, Ziggler is going
Speaker 1: to be in line for an n x T Championship match.
Speaker 1: So the first thing they do is they put him
Speaker 1: in a match with Tomasso chump And and chump A
Speaker 1: pins him. So then they added it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a three way. So then what happens next, Well, there's
Speaker 1: another match and Dolph Ziggler gets pinned again, total loser.
Speaker 1: So somehow this supposed to make me want to watch
Speaker 1: n x team more. So. Then you know this guy
Speaker 1: that can't win to save his life. And by the way,
Speaker 1: their tag matches, so they could pin Bobby Rude, but
Speaker 1: they don't. They pin Ziggler repeatedly. So then Ziggler goes
Speaker 1: and he wins the n x T Championship, So he's
Speaker 1: the champion now and Broun Breaker is gonna face Ziggler
Speaker 1: over WrestleMania Weekend, and so here their new idea is.
Speaker 1: They announced tonight on n x T, braun Breaker is
Speaker 1: gonna face Bobby Rude, who, by the way, has not
Speaker 1: been beaten through any of this because they've only been
Speaker 1: pinning Dolf Ziggler. So so braun Breaker is gonna face
Speaker 1: Robert Rude, who's of course from the main roster coming
Speaker 1: down because their idea is, you know, we want more
Speaker 1: people to watch the show because it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: they show guys are coming to n X Team. I
Speaker 1: swear to god. They announced this match the number one
Speaker 1: contender for the n x T title is facing He's
Speaker 1: got to go through Ziggler's guy. They do Ray and
Speaker 1: Dominic versus Ziggler and Rude, and Dominic Mysterio rules up
Speaker 1: and then Frog splashes Bobby Rude and he pins him
Speaker 1: in the middle of the ring clean. There's like, there's
Speaker 1: no no interference, no Braun brand, nothing, He just out
Speaker 1: wrestled and pinned Robert Rude. Why would I want to
Speaker 1: see this match? How could I possibly care? Why would
Speaker 1: I tune in Tuesday to see Bobby Rude versus braun
Speaker 1: Breaker After he gets pinned in a nothing match, clean
Speaker 1: in the middle of the ring. These are there. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the overarching story here is have you
Speaker 1: watched the n x T ratings. This has meant nothing, zero, zilch.
Speaker 1: Nobody's tuning in because of these guys you've brought down
Speaker 1: from the main roster. And I'm sure that internally it's like,
Speaker 1: well it's Rudin Ziggler. Of course nobody's tuning in Bear Star.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. Maybe the problem is, uh, they haven't
Speaker 1: won a single either of them have not won one
Speaker 1: single solitary match, except when Ziggler actually beat braun Breaker
Speaker 1: to win the championship. I gotta get people to watch.
Speaker 1: We need young Anyway, that was a match, and then
Speaker 1: afterwards MS beat up Ray stole his mask and now
Speaker 1: he wants uh Logan Paul to wear it next week,
Speaker 1: which is part So you know, I've got an interview
Speaker 1: coming up with Phil Strum for USA today. It's a
Speaker 1: video interview. It's gonna be up next week. And uh,
Speaker 1: and we were talking about this and I won't spoil interview.
Speaker 1: You can watch interview, but we had a long talk
Speaker 1: about how in the old days, a celebrity was brought
Speaker 1: to the w WF w w E and ultimately was
Speaker 1: to get over a wrestler. You know. Uh, the idea
Speaker 1: was to get over Wendy Richter. The idea was to
Speaker 1: get over whole. The idea was to get over Steve Austin.
Speaker 1: You know, That's where the point was. You didn't bring
Speaker 1: a slip, so like, oh, you know, let's bring in
Speaker 1: Liberaci because we want to get over Liberaci. The idea
Speaker 1: was Mr T was the biggest television star in all
Speaker 1: of America, legitimately from the A team, and the idea
Speaker 1: was that he would come in and a bunch of
Speaker 1: people would watch wrestle men to see Mr T. But
Speaker 1: then Hogan was the one who was going to get
Speaker 1: the rub. It wasn't about making Mr T a bigger star.
Speaker 1: So this Logan Paul thing, this is not about giving
Speaker 1: the rub to Ray or Dominic or Miss. You can
Speaker 1: see from the moment this began, the point is to
Speaker 1: get over Logan Paul. So the the storyline is that
Speaker 1: Logan Paul was a huge fan of Ray. Mysterio well
Speaker 1: Ms is disrespected Ray and now Miss wants Logan Paul
Speaker 1: to disrespect Ray by wearing this match mask next week,
Speaker 1: just like they're both from Cleveland and MS buried Cleveland,
Speaker 1: and Logan Paul was like, why are you burying Cleveland?
Speaker 1: I like Cleveland. The idea is to get over Logan Paul.
Speaker 1: So then rawlins backstage and uh, you know he's upset
Speaker 1: about this whole WrestleMania thing and and he has been
Speaker 1: told so so what happened was in the ray match,
Speaker 1: he came out before the match started and he did
Speaker 1: a promo in the ramp as actually during the match.
Speaker 1: So uh, Pierre says, you know, interrupting a match is
Speaker 1: not how you you get on a WrestleMania card, even
Speaker 1: though literally on Friday, the way that Nattie and Shana
Speaker 1: got onto the WrestleMania card was by interfering in a match.
Speaker 1: So then Nigga side, you know what, we are going
Speaker 1: to give you an opportunity, so as we'll get to
Speaker 1: later a j and uh rawlins in the main event,
Speaker 1: winner gets edge, Omas beat Cruise and Commander Aziz bro
Speaker 1: If they're gonna do those Postmania cuts, Cruise and Auzis
Speaker 1: need to shut off them phones. They got stacked like
Speaker 1: cordwood and pinned together. In a minute forty nine stacked
Speaker 1: on top of each other and actually would have been quicker,
Speaker 1: but this ref was being all, oh, his shoulders not
Speaker 1: all the way down, so it was like everyone looks
Speaker 1: stupid for like ten seconds while they tried to figure
Speaker 1: out to get their shoulders down to get pin and
Speaker 1: then Omas could have promo he wants a singles match
Speaker 1: at to Menia, so no Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: We had the a J promo with styles that set
Speaker 1: up the main event. We had a Salina and Carmela's
Speaker 1: segment where Carmela is not paying attention, she's on her phones.
Speaker 1: Lena gets matt she breaks the phone. As Lena says
Speaker 1: she's ugly, carmelis as she's a hobbit. They get in
Speaker 1: a brawl. They beat each other up fast forward. It's
Speaker 1: a swerve. They did this just to fool everybody. But
Speaker 1: in order to the swerve, we broke a thousand dollar
Speaker 1: phone and we beat the crap out of each other.
Speaker 1: In a backstage segment where in storyline nobody was around,
Speaker 1: we had Nattie and Shana versus Rhea and Live Morrigan.
Speaker 1: When Live Morrigan got pinned after the heart attack, we
Speaker 1: gotta beat everybody, make sure they're all geeks, and we'll
Speaker 1: do the title match. And then Selina beats up Ria Ripley,
Speaker 1: and Carmela attacks Natty and Shana. She beat actually Nattie
Speaker 1: and Shana up by herself Carmela, and then they get
Speaker 1: in the ring and everyone wants him to fight, but
Speaker 1: they hug and they smile, which at the end of the
Speaker 1: the day, when you really think about the swerve, bro
Speaker 1: they broke u iPhone or whatever and beat the crap
Speaker 1: out of each other for a swerve that they didn't
Speaker 1: even need to do a swerve because they attacked everybody
Speaker 1: from behind. The whole thing is nonsense. Speaking of nonsense,
Speaker 1: Becky did a promo, you fans chose Bianca bell Air
Speaker 1: over me, Bro she was so over its SummerSlam, way
Speaker 1: more over than Bianca. Then she turns heel at all
Speaker 1: the house shows she's cheered way more than Bianca. But
Speaker 1: the storyline is you fans chose Bianca over Is that
Speaker 1: supposed to be the heat? Where like it's obvious this
Speaker 1: is all bs and and actually love her, but now
Speaker 1: the supposed to hate because they love her, and she
Speaker 1: thinks that is that the heat or what is this
Speaker 1: so this sucked. Sick of this fire? One more you
Speaker 1: fans promo. We had a segment with Austin theory. Is
Speaker 1: Finn balor in Austin Theory? Pat mcfee's on commentary. Of course,
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee does a distraction and Austin theory is pinned.
Speaker 1: McAfee is all excited about it. This is not nearly
Speaker 1: as good as what they did on SmackDown, but is
Speaker 1: it is fine, just something to do. Then we had Randy,
Speaker 1: Jordan and Riddle beating the Alpha Academy in a non
Speaker 1: titled match because in fact, everybody has to be beaten.
Speaker 1: We're all geek until we find out who was the
Speaker 1: most overachieving geek on the pay per view, Uh ended
Speaker 1: up with finish was awesome. Gable did the chaos theory superlex,
Speaker 1: Riddle flipped over bro Derek Cleanpin in the middle of
Speaker 1: the ring, and then Otis beats up Orton and Uh.
Speaker 1: Then Angelo Dockinson montez Ford beat up Riddle, So yes,
Speaker 1: it is a three way at Wrestle Media. We had
Speaker 1: Dana and Reggie beating Tomin in a cure Tozawa. You
Speaker 1: know how the feuds going. We've already got the kiss,
Speaker 1: but now we're building to the kiss that we already
Speaker 1: got because time goes backwards. And then of course a
Speaker 1: J beat SETH twenty. They had a great twenty two
Speaker 1: minute match, and then Edge just runs down wax AJ
Speaker 1: styles or h a J with a chair and so
Speaker 1: a J wins v a d Q set this angry
Speaker 1: fans boo, and we got our post match angling. I've
Speaker 1: seen better shows back in a moment, its over life, bro,
Speaker 1: god because and I love all my top tier YouTube subscribers,
Speaker 1: but some of the people in the free chat, like,
Speaker 1: what is going on with you people? I went in
Speaker 1: there for one second during the break and some blokes
Speaker 1: talking about how Adam Cole was better off in n
Speaker 1: x T. How how was Adam Cole better off in
Speaker 1: an x T because he was the champion there. Bro,
Speaker 1: He's being watched by significantly more people now in a
Speaker 1: w he just headlined to pay per view that's doing
Speaker 1: like eighty thousand buys or something like that. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be getting another championship match on television. He's making way
Speaker 1: more money, he gets to hang out with his girlfriend
Speaker 1: all day. In name one way that he was better
Speaker 1: off in an x t than in a one way.
Speaker 1: I can't even go look, I can't bear it. Holy smokes.
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