WEBVTT - RAW Go Home Show 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. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:16.080 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.920 here on or Wrestling of Serper Live. We are here 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.000 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern, Sundays 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:26.040 three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well Tuesday, you're on this show. 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:31.200 You know that means last night, Monday Night Raw, which 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:37.240 was the go home episode for the Money in the 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.080 Bank pay per view just Saturday. I keep getting caught 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.200 off guard by the Saturday pay per views. I don't 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.360 like Saturday pay per views, but it's Saturday, and so 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.720 such as life. So we'll go over the Raw show 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:53.360 from last night, line up for Saturday, and so much more. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.320 N x T two point oh is tonight. Gotta line 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:57.640 up for that show. A lot of segments announced for 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.720 that show. Seven segments announced. We have got Blood Guts 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:06.199 coming up on Wednesday. We have got a w Rampage 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:12.280 SmackDown viewership. And also this the domestic violence case against 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.400 former w w E n x T and a w 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:19.720 wrestler Jake Atlas has been dropped. T M zero Tuesday, 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.720 Orange County officials canceled a Tuesday hearing following an investigation, 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.440 which quote, it is the opinion of the writer that 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:32.160 this case is not suitable for prosecution. The aforementioned documents 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:36.160 were filed last week. The matter is closed. Twenty seven 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:40.880 year old Atlas arrested May domestic violence charges after attacking 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.000 his boyfriend in an incident that began at an Orlando, 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.560 Florida bar and continued at a friend's house. Released by 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.800 police that day, Tuesday was said to be his arraignment. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.880 He is recovering from surgery to repair a torn a 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.279 c L suffered in an early January rampage match against 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.480 Adam Cole. Reported earlier this month, he has not expected 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.920 back in a w where he had just signed before 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.600 getting hurt. He was not under contract with them, was 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:09.799 working on a per appearance schedule, as reported here on 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:13.280 Wrestling Observer Live. I might add, so anyway, we've got 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.480 more news coming up. I love a lot of time 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.959 for feedback. I think here today, So text us four 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.639 to five seven eight zero seven five six six. That 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.320 is four to five seven eight zero seven five six six, 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.240 what's on your mind? Back in a moment Observer Live. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:40.960 We saw the boys strike Nobody and the competing it 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.720 back in the show. Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:54.000 Mike's umber Bev, also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. Well, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.440 we're back on the show. I'm gonna wait till the 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.840 next segment go over raw because I like a lot 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:04.280 of time to really go into detail on these raw shows. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.919 It was fine John Cena twent anniversary show. We'll get 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:12.000 into that here in a moment. Well, we got a 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.640 lot of big shows coming up, including everybody's favorite show, 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:21.519 n x T two point oh, which this is interesting everybody. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.360 I know you guys don't like talk about it, but 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:26.800 I'll tell you why. It's interesting because I think most 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.200 of us who actually watched this show would agree that 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:36.040 the last three episodes of n x T we're much 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:38.360 better than usual. I think we can all agree on that. 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.800 You don't have to say they were great, but they 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.760 were much better than usual. The last last three weeks. 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.360 Were they all timers? No? Oh? You know it's funny, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.480 as I could have sworn on Observer Radio last night, Dave, 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.360 he said it was an all time great show. That 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:59.440 get you said that they didn't they want to text 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.040 him and yell him about it. I can't believe it. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:07.120 But anyway, so yes, uh, they were better than usual, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.760 which is not an all timer, because I would say 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:14.000 that Forbidden Door was closer to an all timer than 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:20.680 better than usual. But anyway, the question is is the 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.320 show gonna be a better than usual tonight because it's 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.120 back to being live the last three weeks the show 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.159 was taped. Is better than usual? Was that because it's 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.119 been better than usual or because it was taped and 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.799 they did what they had to do? This show was live. 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:38.480 We have got Roxanne Perez and Cora Jade versus Cayden 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:43.520 Carter and cut a chance. Oh god, I hope there's 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:49.440 no promos for this. Oh God, Indie Heartwell versus Kana James. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.000 Can you see how excited I am for the show tonight? 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:58.279 Song will be fair. I gotta review it tomorrow and 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:01.280 with video, I gotta review it twice. Bro There Sanga 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:07.760 will face Zion Quinn, Giovanni, Vinci will face Ickaman Gio 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:12.560 t Keita, Lions returns. Braun Breaker will go face to 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:19.200 face with Cameron Grimes and uh Josh Briggs and l 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.200 Vergino will be addressing their n x T U K 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.880 Tag Team title win. So that's coming up tonight on 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.640 n x T two point oh. And then tomorrow we 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.120 have got a w Blood and Guts with Chris Jericho, 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:41.039 Sammy Gavara, Matt and Angelo, Daniel Garcia and Jake Hager 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:45.640 facing John Maxley, Claudio Castanioli, Wheeler Universe, I like call 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:51.599 him Claudio Casanioli, Santana Ortiz, and Eddie Kingston. Plus we 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.520 will have another promo if you didn't get enough last week, everybody, 0:05:55.560 --> 0:06:01.440 another promo from Christian Cage. There's a lot of fun 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.479 stuff coming up. Wrestling has been sure fun lately, hasn't 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.560 it been, Mike, It has been. Actually, there is enough 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:12.360 fun out there. Yeah. I mean, look, regardless of any 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.880 of the fights and the tribalism and the flag planting 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.000 and all that sort of thing, if you look hard 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.680 enough and for right now, you don't have to search 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.120 high and low. It's pretty much delivered right to your 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.440 computer screen with a few clicks. No matter where you 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:28.960 want it, there's something out there for you, whether that 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:32.599 be w w E, whether that be New Japan and 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.080 New Japan World, whether that be Wrestle Universe because you 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.280 really like Makido, so you gotta watch Tokyo Joshi Pro 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:43.279 and D D T and Noah, everybody's got a streaming service. 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.480 Everybody's got something going on right now. It's a summertime 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:52.360 for Heaven's sakes. Warrior Wrestling a w g c W 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.520 defy the I mean the groups in California that are 0:06:56.680 --> 0:07:00.120 are hot right now. I mean there's something out or 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.000 if you want it. You can spend every day online 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.680 fighting and and bashing people and looking to be offended 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.159 about things, but when it comes to the end of 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.760 the day, you can turn this show off. You can 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.960 turn a lot of things off and just turn your 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.280 social media off and enjoy the wrestling that you want 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.600 to enjoy. Why are you telling people to turn our 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:23.280 show off? Like sometime the worst promoter. Sometimes you need 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.760 to as long as they turn it back on again, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.480 and I know you have the ability to turn people 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:32.320 back on again. You know it's not doing well right 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:37.680 now as a Rampage well Forbidden Door Go Home show 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:42.280 thousand viewers and a point one to man this matches 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.840 Rampages series low in its regular time slot, so this 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.960 show is still suffering those preemptions. Dude, you guys realize 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:57.920 that a W was moved because the pre Emptions killed 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.400 them last year, and the same thing is happening here. 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.520 I think that, uh, you know, Rampages the B Show 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.160 I love, I love the Matches. I watch it every week. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.520 I devote a show to it on Sunday. I like Rampage, 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.840 but it's absolutely the B Show. And when you have 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.160 a B show and then the thing gets preempted over 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.040 and over and over again, what happens is people get 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.440 out listen to me, Mike, they get out of the habit, 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.120 and once you get out of the habit, it's hard 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.960 to come back. That's why I don't recommend people stop 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:34.000 listening to this show ever. Get it into a habit 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.440 where every day, no matter what, you listen to this 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.160 show on Sports Byline on the Mighty or ten ninety 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:44.959 on Twitch, on YouTube, on the American Forces Network, on 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.400 the Cable Radio Network. If that still exists, wherever you're 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:56.600 listening to this show, wherever you're listening Apple music sometimes 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.800 never never, never, no. And if you're a commentator, never 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:06.080 take a week off. You will be replaced. You understand, everybody, now, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:12.160 SmackDown smack Wally. Who you know that is? I know 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:13.320 who it is, But what does that have to do 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:16.240 with my show? Well, you know, you never a guest 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.959 today or something. You decide to step out for a minute, 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.480 and you know, if somebody becomes Lou Garrick and please 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.760 in two thousand one d thirty consecutive games and takes 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.320 over your spot, there's another reason not to take off 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:32.440 when you don't need to. Friday Night SmackDown did two 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.640 point to three one million viewers, which is up six 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:41.120 point six percent from the previous week, the second best 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:45.720 audience for smack instance April one, although the show did 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.840 finish second to last among the major networks in terms 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.280 of total viewers. So you know those people that go, 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.760 why do you guys talk about the demo all the time? 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:56.880 Why you talk about a WS demo and just talk 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.280 about the viewership. Well, if you want to the showed 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.400 it horrible. If you want to talk about the demo, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:04.920 it did great, So maybe we should talk about both, right, 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.120 it seems like that'd be fair. So anyway, that's the deal, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.120 and uh up year over year. So we say this 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.959 every single time there's there's a renewal coming up if 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.199 you blow think that this thing ain't gonna make mountains 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.280 of money on the next television renewal deal. Think again, kids, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.000 Think again. I like all the people saying, who are 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.000 maybe I guess on Vince's side, where it's like there's 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:35.480 a knee jerk reaction. You know, wrestling will never work, 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.200 you know, publicly owned and even though it's been working 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.520 for a long time in its own way, in WWS way, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:46.559 and they should really take the company back private again. Yeah, 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.120 like those billion dollar deals just fall out of the sky, 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:52.040 like you know, I mean that sort of stuff. You 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.520 can not like the product that w w E produces, 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.640 but them as a machine, as a company. Sure, if 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:01.560 you don't like big business, you can point out all 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.720 of the flaws that are inside of it, including how 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:11.280 they decide to regulate and view their independent contractors as 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:15.160 opposed to employees. But it's such a machine, and and 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.120 any of the hand waving and all that stuff that 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.959 goes on, it's silly, and it's the a w is 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:23.040 never going to be able to catch up. I shouldn't 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.360 say never, but it is going to take them a 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.680 ridiculous amount of time to get the footing to even 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.520 get remotely close to the level of where WWS at. 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.520 And it's just one of those things. It's gonna take time. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.160 But the monster that ww E is this New New 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:40.640 Yorker story from the guy that's writing his autobiography, you know, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.960 drudging back up the readA Chatterton story, you know, the 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.080 same way. It doesn't look like it's making a move 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:51.760 on anything right now, so strong w w E. Well, 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.320 we also have to UH find out what's going on 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:59.000 with old Triple H who uh last week at a 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.400 meeting at the uh AN n x T and and 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.160 used the term I'm back, but no one knew what 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.520 that meant. And Uh, I can tell you by the 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:10.920 way that what happened actually last week was he was 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.960 in he was in town for a birthday party and 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.319 stopped by. So it was never like I don't think 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:17.920 it was like a plan meeting for him to be 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.040 there and make an announcement. I think he was there 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.920 for a birthday, gave the speech and then made the 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.520 line about I'm back, and then he said he couldn't 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.600 tell anybody what that meant. So I guess we'll see 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:35.160 what happens back at the moment with more observer lives. 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.079 You geeks telling me you can't hear me over the music, 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:43.080 tell me you're complaining about all right. So what I 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.640 was trying to say these people say they couldn't hear 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:49.400 me because the music was playing. I find cut the 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:54.800 music down, thank you. So what I was saying was 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.560 last week, that Triple Ate story, It's possible it was 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:03.679 much a do about nothing because it wasn't a scheduled meeting, 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.760 like Triple H was in town for a birthday or 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.680 something like that. He stopped by and talked everybody. He 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.280 dropped the line about how he was back, and then 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.520 when he was like I guess, he said he couldn't 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.160 say why he was back or win or any details. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:21.320 So that was it. And apparently he's done similar speeches 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.040 to this in the past, and uh, you know, everything 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.680 is just pretty much like it's like Moxy's concussion line. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.880 I guess kind of. But I mean, who knows, Maybe 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.760 he'll be there running the show tonight. But the impression 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.320 I was given was, you know, he said something and 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.480 nothing has changed, so I guess we'll like he literally 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.440 popped in the door like at the place he used 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:44.840 to work, like, hey, guys, I'm back, and then somebody, yeah, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.959 somebody ran that he didn't show up with a cake. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:48.680 If you report, then he shot up with a cake. 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.920 You know what you should report. Actually what you should 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.080 report is he went walking in and he busted open 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.880 the doors. And much like Ted Dbasi at that jeweler 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.200 when he was looking for his million dollar belt, that's 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.079 how he said I'm back. He came in and busted in. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.960 Instead of saying I'm here, he said I'm back. He 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.440 had a folk, he had a cape on, and he 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.960 had Virgil behind him and everything. It was crazy. All right, brother, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:15.040 let me get through this raw report time for that 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:18.960 and uh shout up with John Cena showing up and 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.920 he said, hid everybody in the back, including Drake Maverick, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.560 who I believe is now on the creative team for 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.200 those of you asking. And then we had a qualifying 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:30.400 money in the bank qualifying Battle Royal for the last 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.520 spot called last chance, and so like after all of 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.160 these losses, you get one more chance at the end, 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:41.600 and after failing, Riddle ended up winning the Battle Royal. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.040 So he is in money in the bank. And most 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.760 of it was your usual nothing happening, boring Battle Royal, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.720 but the last few minutes with a j and riddle, 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.200 and uh, even even the miss and riddle at the 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.600 end had a decent little segment. And then finally miss 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:02.400 eliminated or got eliminated, and Little is going to money 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.640 in the bank to potentially win the briefcase, and then 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.640 he could get another shot at Roman reigns, and given 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.560 how many people are injured and how few main inventors 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:14.520 they have, the probably should win money in the bank. 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.840 They announced just out of the blue, Kevin Owens Ezekiel 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:21.160 not taking place here tonight. Ezekiel was on the show, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.040 and uh, talk to John Cena. So whatever it was, 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:27.560 it was something involving Kevin Owens, and apparently he's fine 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:31.480 and we'll be back very soon, maybe even by SmackDown Friday. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.680 I guess we shall find out. We had a single 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:39.960 Sina and the street profits and then uh, the strangest 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.560 thing we should talk about the next segment. There were 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:48.560 videos from a number of individuals, including The Big Show, 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:53.880 Chris Jericho and Brian Danielson, all on raw and these 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.920 were not archive interviews, were new putting over John Cena's 0:15:57.920 --> 0:15:59.680 twenty years So we can talk more about that after 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:05.640 the break. Montez Ford beat Jay Usso so literally we 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.560 talked about this weeks ago. They have a tag match. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.800 Can you just beat the USOS to set up a 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.720 tag title match? No, they gotta eke out count out victory. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.440 Then they gotta do a singles match and lose, like 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.720 nobody believes the Street Profits can win. Well, now all 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:22.720 of a sudden they figured out that no one believes 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.200 the Street Profits can win, and now it's a storyline. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.720 The Three Profits are all sad with John Cena, we 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:31.520 just can't get any wins over these guys. I'm like, oh, 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.080 you finally threw this out, you idiots. So anyway, they 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:37.680 finally got a singles match, and now Montez has gotten 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.720 to win, and last week Dawkins got to win, so 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:45.320 they gave him something and route to them losing had 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.360 money in the bank. We had a Finnbalor Damian Priest 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:52.360 segment with Ray and Dominic where they belittle Ray for 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.760 being a legend, but his son is a geek and 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:57.960 Ray got mad and now we're gonna have a tag 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.920 match in San Diego next week, and I just have 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:07.200 this feeling just like Christian Cagen Jungle Boy, Old Dom's 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:12.040 jumping ship. He's gonna join whatever their group is called. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:17.119 What are they called the Evolution? What's the name of 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.320 the judgment? I remember it like it's a pay per view, 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:27.440 so basically in this case, is dominic there Julia Hart. Yeah, 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.600 I mean at some point they got to pull the 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.240 trigger on this bloke. We had a missinterview in the ring, 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.840 and uh, he said he was gonna team with Logan 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.840 Paul and actually acknowledge other They're gonna drop it, but 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:45.600 they acknowledged Miss laying him out at WrestleMania, and Mrs excuses, Well, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.560 you know, I just teach him a lesson. We're gonna 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:49.800 win the tag team titles. We're gonna be a team, 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:52.360 which may very well happen, which tells you how much 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.480 you know. I don't know why they laid out Logan 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.680 Paul at WrestleMania. Was stupid at the time and it's 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:01.600 stupid now. Then we had a j Styles versus the Miss. Oh, 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.920 what a fun time. We had an Observer radio talking 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:07.520 about this one last night. I thought this match was 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.639 boring as all hell for about ten minutes, but I 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:14.720 thought the last three minutes was pretty good. They thought 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.280 it was horrible. Like from start to finish, but anyway, 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:20.920 it doesn't matter. They had a match and uh a 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:24.560 j hits Miss. I'm not even making this up with 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.719 a high angle brain buster. He lifted this bloke up 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.119 and dropped the Miss on his head and at that 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.359 point MS was like, bro, I'm out of here, and 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:37.120 he walked to the back and got counted out. Styles 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.640 bleeding all over. Apparently I have another match, I guess, 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:42.639 but I thought the last few minutes were okay. J 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.840 was great and what we're all surprised at. Miss wasn't 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:50.080 very good in the match. That's news now, and we 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:53.679 had It's funny. There was some guy on the board 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.960 and uh and he goes, man, I watched Raw and 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.640 when that show was over, to me, there's no way 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:07.320 it's John Cena and Theory at SummerSlam. It's like, wait 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:10.560 a second, you watched the show and that's the conclusion 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:14.080 you came to. Dude. They had a Theory John Cena confrontation. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:19.679 The crowd actually popped for it. Theory runs down John Cena. 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.040 John Cena just sits there and listens to him and 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:25.960 does these funny facial expressions, and then Theory goes for uh, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.840 selfie and seen it disappears and then theories furious about it. 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:34.119 How does that not lead to a match? Now, I 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.560 will say that it was weird because John Cena later 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.320 comes out for his big speech and literally a speech 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:45.199 is well, I you fans are all awesome. Someday I'm 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:48.919 gonna be back. I don't know when, but when I 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.920 do come back, it will be for more than one match. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:56.280 That was his entire comeback speech that he stretched out 0:19:56.280 --> 0:20:02.000 over ten minutes. That was weird. We had a segment 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.720 with Bianca and and Carmela. Hold on, I'll get to 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:06.840 you in a middle. Let me get through this. Bianca 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:11.160 and Carmela have a segment and Bianca's DNA promo. Carmela 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:15.080 comes down to the ring. She has zero credibility as 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.840 a challenger. She tries to jump Bianca. Bianca sensor packing 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:24.560 that's your go home angle. I was just whatever. I mean, 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:26.720 she was never supposed to be in the match, but 0:20:26.800 --> 0:20:29.120 I mean, this is this is worse than the street profits. 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:34.359 We had Alexa Bliss promo with Live Morrigan. The dialogue was, 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:37.280 I mean, literally, you can't even say the bottom of 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:39.120 the barrel's like the barrel had no bottom, and then 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.600 then they dug a hole and they dropped the dialogue 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.520 down there. Essentially, Alexa said that she's gonna beat Live tonight, 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.840 and or No Lives said she'd beat Alexa. Alexa didn't believer, 0:20:49.280 --> 0:20:52.080 and then Live beat her. Live Morgan beat Alexa Bliss 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:56.760 with a cradle and just, oh my god, this whole segment, 0:20:57.400 --> 0:20:59.520 and it was not Live Morrigan's fault, and I wasn't 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.160 really all his fault. They just give Alexa the worst 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:06.440 dialogue imaginable and she tries to deliver it, but it's 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:08.959 just it's just horrible. Do you have to hear from 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.359 the Alexa geeks? Now, get out of here, go listen 0:21:12.359 --> 0:21:13.879 to another show. I don't want to hear from you. 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.359 We have the John Cena promo. Then we had a 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.320 two on one handicap match Bobby Lashly versus both of 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:25.680 Alpha Academy with Theory as the as a special enforcer. 0:21:26.280 --> 0:21:30.440 Bobby beat him both submitted. Uh, I guess it was 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:33.080 Gable with a hurt lock, and then Theory tried to 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.640 attack him afterwards and lastly beat him up three and one. 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:37.880 So they're doing a hell of a job with Lashly 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:41.120 and quite frankly. I mean, I wouldn't be the least 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:46.520 bit surprised if if Lashly one. Because John Cena is 0:21:46.560 --> 0:21:48.840 not gonna win the US title. I guess it's possible 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:52.080 that their idea is that Theory beats John Cena, which 0:21:52.080 --> 0:21:53.800 if that's the case, you may as well leave the 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:56.800 title on Austin Theory. And I honestly wouldn't be surprised 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:59.680 if that was the idea, that Theory is gonna beat Sena. 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.320 But there's also you know, it's w W E, so 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:09.080 you know Theory can get the rub losing to John Cena. 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:15.879 But anyway, Cody Rhodes interview in the gym, he's board senseless, 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.520 having to do all this rehab, but he talked about 0:22:18.600 --> 0:22:20.480 money in the bank. He talked about all the wrestlers, 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:23.760 and he said, you know what if U if Seth 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:27.359 wins that money in the bank briefcase and wins the title, 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.679 I'll be the first to congratulate him. The story is 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:32.760 that he might have been able to do money in 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:35.280 the bank with a torn pack, but because Seth rollings 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.080 hit him with a crowbar or a sledgehammer, now he's 0:22:38.080 --> 0:22:40.000 out nine months. So they're putting all the heat on 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:43.760 seth Rawlins for for that injury, and then the main 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:45.840 of it. It was a money the Bank qualifying elimination 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:50.200 match Becky Lynch, Anziale, Nikki, Shana Tomina and do Drop. 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:56.200 This is the main event a Raw. Becky's eliminating blowcats 0:22:56.359 --> 0:22:59.200 right and left and just getting the biggest baby face 0:22:59.320 --> 0:23:02.200 reaction because you know she should be a baby face, 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:04.560 but like they just have to have her be a 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.080 heel and they have to have seth Rawlins and his 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:10.080 stupid laugh be a heel. But man, she's just beating 0:23:10.119 --> 0:23:13.879 all of them, crowds going nuts. She finally wins the match, 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.719 the crowd goes nuts cheering. They're just cheering like crazy, 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:20.080 Rebecky Lynch. So I guess next week we'll have to 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:23.000 have that healed promo where she says, you fans turned 0:23:23.040 --> 0:23:27.080 on me and so I don't like you in anyway. 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.680 Show was fine. I mean, it was nothing. There's nothing 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.600 wrong with the show. Certainly was nothing like blow Away 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:36.000 about it. It was like your average edition of Raw. 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:38.000 But we could talk about whatever Mike wants to talk 0:23:38.000 --> 0:23:41.520 about after the break, as well as the a W 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:45.720