The Clubhouse Podcast

Special Edition WWE Survivor Series 2015

November 25, 2015 Season 6, Episode 18

Rob and Chat discuss WWE Survivor Series 2015, a special pre-show episode airing live on November 22, 2015 from an undisclosed location. The episode covers the card's five-on-five traditional elimination matches, the Undertaker's 25-year anniversary, security concerns following an ISIS threat to the Phillips Arena in Atlanta, and highlights from Raw and other wrestling programming. They predict Roman Reigns will win the World Heavyweight Championship tournament final, Charlotte retains the Divas title against Paige, and the Undertaker and Kane defeat Wyatt family members.

About this episode

Key takeaways

  • WWE implemented heightened security at Phillips Arena; no bags allowed due to ISIS threat intelligence uncovered by Anonymous hackers
  • Alberto Del Rio nearly removed Kalisto's mask during their Raw match; Del Rio quickly replaced it to avoid breaking Lucha Libre tradition
  • The Paige and Charlotte contract signing on Raw involved deceased Flair family members being mentioned; hosts believe it was a work
  • Impact Wrestling moves to Pop TV starting January 5, shifting from Thursday to Tuesday nights at 9 PM Eastern
  • Austin Aries was spotted at Full Sail University with luggage on Thursday; his WWE involvement is unconfirmed

Q&A

Why was security increased at Survivor Series 2015?

Anonymous hackers uncovered ISIS members coordinating alleged attacks on American soil, including one at Phillips Arena in Atlanta where Survivor Series took place.

What happened during the Kalisto and Del Rio match on Raw?

Del Rio accidentally ripped off Kalisto's mask, but quickly replaced it before Kalisto was photographed without it, preventing a permanent mask loss per Lucha Libre tradition.

Where is Impact Wrestling moving?

Impact moves to Pop TV starting January 5, shifting from Thursday to Tuesday nights at 9 PM Eastern, requiring Dish Network, Direct TV, or Fios access.

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The following is a sooner or later production. CROANN! There's a child you would weigh and wash for far away But you always knew that you'd be the bond of work while they all play You, you lay awake at that scheme of all the things that you would change but it was just a dream It is 702 on the East Coast It is 402 on the West Coast It is the 22nd of November in the year of our Lord 2015 Episode, season 6, Episode 18, chronologically 322 times you have heard me say welcome in the clubhouse's live and on the air We welcome you no matter how you listen, whether you're live on your stream as I see your rush is already in the chat room He is belated and ready to go, whether you're listening on our archive or whether you subscribe on iTunes, we're just glad you're here If you look at your calendar, you also realize it is the 22nd of November, which means this is the unofficial official WWE Survivor Series pre-show, live from an undisclosed location We have left the mother ship this evening But I am not alone, my name is Rob and I am ready for this paper view, I have been for a couple of weeks Joining me to my right is my co-host And a man who is very festive Given the nature of this evening's paper view, he is chat, welcome sir, I am in a very good place right now We are celebrating tonight, in case you've been living in a cave, 25 years of the Undertaker A quarter of a century ago at this very paper view, I don't think it's to the day though No, no, not day and day, was the debut of the Undertaker A very thick Undertaker Over half my life ago This man debuted, you can believe that I'm sure tonight there's going to be a lot of Things going on with him, you are listening in the background of the official theme song of summer I'm sorry sir, Survivor Series, it is a magic dragon's warriors From their album Smoking Mirrors That is the official theme for Survivor Series This is, geez, I forgot to do the math But this is a big, big year for Survivor Series And we're going to talk about that as well We are going to talk about the week in our sport Because we are wrestling intensive for shows like this One more paper view left this year after tonight sir Sloan bias, it's been a heck of a, but always we start with corrections We have a couple from last week, I believe both of them are on me A lumbness is actually the singular form Alumni is the plural form I looked it up And we talked about the match at 2007's night of champions And it was CM Punk that took on John Morrison for the ECW title You can quite remember that Oh, is it true?

The official fact checker of the show Donna is here He doesn't have a microphone because I didn't bring a third one But he says he is verifying it is to the day You can believe that Now is this when it was still on Thanksgiving night? Because I remember originally Survivor Series was on Thanksgiving day They called it the Thanksgiving day tradition I remember the return of the Undertaker versus the Undertaker Do you also remember the poster they had where it was all the superstars At a dining room table and Undertaker was carving the turkey Was it Undertaker carving? I thought it was carving, I thought it was gone by that point when they did that one I don't know how to look that out Yeah, well look at that So those are our corrections Let's get into the week that was in our sport Now remember, normally we are your one-stop shop for all-pink sports and entertainment But when it's paperview day, we got to talk wrestling Oh, so it was Thanksgiving night, Don says I don't know if you can hear him in the background from our unjust location or not But we'll be translating for you Russ actually puts something in the chat room His timing could not be more Okay, I don't know why I picked that one His timing could not be more impeccable because if you have not heard a group called anonymous Who is a hacker organization?

They have uncovered 5500 Twitter accounts that belongs to people that are ISIS members They published that information this past week One of the transmissions that they published was that they were that ISIS was allegedly Coordinating a number of attacks on American soil And around the world One of which was at the Phillips Arena in Atlanta where tonight's survivor series is being held And WWE is not taking this lightly They have titan security around the arena You cannot bring a back into the arena tonight So if you're listening to us on your mobile device or whatever live on your way to Atlanta's Phillips Arena Be advised you can't walk in with anything except yourself in your clothes Which means I guess any merch tables at the arena will be either clear bags or not taking it in your wallet of course But you're ID but I'm assuming that if you buy merch at the at the event you won't have there will be no bags there either So be aware of that also Interesting news coming from one stone cold sea of Austin this week He said on his podcast that there he had referenced three combate events for WrestleMania He then retracted it But that had to come from somewhere Tom said what do you think of him? I think he knows more than he's leading on Now I still don't believe that he's going to participate in WrestleMania Unless he's a special guest referee or something of it It's he'll be there not as he'll be on the show, but he won't be wrestling It should be sale if it's one thing that Austin talks a lot about on his podcast It's it took him like three years I think he said to get wrestling out of his system And once it was out of his system he just doesn't have the desire to Yeah, he talked about that in that legends special about the Undertaker with because this patch week was Undertaker week on the network It's it's really Austin It's really interesting to hear him when he actually gets to talk as Steve Williams on his podcast and not a stone cold And I still contend that Brock Lesnar interview is one of the best interviews I've heard him deliver You really do because you've been going on you actually get to hear Brock Lesnar as the human being Being interviewed for an hour and not Brock Lesnar the character the beast And it's really great to hear him talk about how you know he moved to LA for a while He got a career there and then he had to move back to Minnesota. He talks a little bit about his experience with the minutes of Vikings And how he almost made at least a practice squad But he said he didn't really disappoint him when they cut him because he did what he got that he said he was gonna do Just looking for him now I can move on That being said, let's talk a little bit about Raw You know you and I were watching we watched this together this past week, dude We did and some friends of the show were here Don's here, LA's here.

Is it just me One of two things is happening with K His trunks are either completely unflattering to him or he's starting to lose that upper body mass that he had there for a while Because with him wearing this singlet God was kind of dragging a little bit. It's a little weird for me Because I mean when you remember that first paper video saw where he actually went shirtless and they're like When the king get like a bill And that never match Good God what was that? It was like a reverse hurricane ronna I don't know what happened there But it was cool Now during that match my wife was actually watching with us Chad was there And I was like that's the coolest thing I've seen since the Canadian destroyer And my wife went the what did it what and I was like okay, let me pull up YouTube right now And show you what could be the coolest move in the history of professional wrestling And I just showed her the Canadian destroyer my wife was like What what what what just happened here I'm like there's like 90 of them in this YouTube clip just watch I miss PD Williams And I want to know what happened during the Del Rio Calisto match Because you and I both kind of had a way way way way way way When Del Rio ripped off Calisto's name And it was like it was almost like he was supposed to look like he was trying to do it and he pulled the mask clean off Yeah, and could not have quicker put it back on him Like I kind of had it a little bit of a panic moment If you know anything about Lucha Libre and Mexican wrestling When you wear the mask If you take the mask off and you are photographed without the mask You can never put the mask on which has always been my biggest beef with Rey Mysterio But and and props to Del Rio for realizing what happened and reacting quickly It just really put a huge speed bump around the middle of the match It was weird It was so weird But you know both guys knew what happened and reacted quickly thank goodness That we got that was crazy And If they re-show the ending of RAW tonight on the paper view For those of you that don't know what happened a page and Charlotte had their contract signing Things got a little personal Things got a little wheels off There were members of the flare family who are no longer on this moral coil mentioned If they if they show that tonight then it's a work Still don't make it right That's a my official opinion if they don't re-show it I still think there's about a 10% chance that it's not a work I honestly believe it's a work And you know, the flare is ex-wife and flare kind of got went nuts and Bertold day weren't told I just find it hard to believe that there wasn't a level of awareness on this deal It's just hard for me to believe Same here Like flare is ex-wife I can almost understand if she didn't know Yeah because she's really not in the loop on these kinds of things But I would have to think at least Charlotte knew Yeah And I would think Charlotte would have called her mom and said look this is fixing to happen I'm just letting you know Because I still believe this is a work It's not a work I approve of don't get me wrong But I still believe this is a work Alright, let's change gears just a little bit Even though Don doesn't want to we're going to talk a little bit of impact We have to Broke test marker has left a company I don't blame her No, I don't blame her at all She said she was going to be doing some Q&A later this past week I have not heard any results on because she said she was going to explain what's going on But she hasn't I don't know where she's won that if I'm Vince I'm running after But I'll tell you I don't know Don have you watched this week's ROH yet Somebody who's a member of the House of Truth that I was not aware of Taylor Hendrix Is now part of the House of Truth And what's the word I'm looking for?

Hello nurse She's got the even Marie red color hair now looks great I didn't know what's her until truth martini introduced her And I went that's Taylor Hendrix So at a good another great episode of ROH this week If you haven't watched it spoiler alert in three two don't say the one You have a new television champion in his name as Roderick Strong Very very good that they gave that match 25 minutes and it was worth every minute Jay Lee though actually said in an interview this week he'd go to WWE but he doesn't feel he needs it Okay If you put Jay Lee though in WWE you give him a couple three year run that guy's a Hall of Famer I do you haven't seen how he pitches himself have you no the greatest first generation wrestler in history No, we aren't talking about machismo here, right black machismo former boyfriend of AJ Lee the guy can market himself very well So impact Impact impact impact the good news the good news for impact fans is they have found a new television home starting on January the fifth just a couple of days before Smack down moves to USA The bad news Is that impact has moved to something called pop TV If you remember something called the TV guide channel That is what this has turned into So there's that but the other problem is when I read this I am a very proud uverse customer. I love my uverse I did a search for pop TV on AT&T universe and came up with boop kiss A big bag of nothing So I looked it up on the very always reliable Wikipedia and apparently if you were a dish network customer or an Direct TV customer or a files customer you will have access to pop TV This guy not so much. I don't even know anybody who has files.

I do fill and shouldn't do Okay, but they did it their old house or what they have to do house And it's going to be on Tuesday nights at nine Eastern. They're moving from Thursday to Tuesday And there was some rumor there were some rumors out there that they were actually having to pay to be on the station Those rumors have been quelled Okay, good because there was another smaller wrestling company that had a one hour show there for a while that they were actually paying for the time So I guess they've got enough sponsorship to carry the show Apparently they're going to do a two hour live special to start to deal So good luck with all that How many runs on this ladder are lower like really Local access It's going to be on the DIY network next summer That John that don says HG TV Oh my wife's a big fan of the home garden network So my wrestling programming now. Why not?

Some impact notes Josh Matthews Josh Matthews Josh Matthews Josh Matthews Let me help you with something Crimson versus Eli Drake As you put it a classic match does not make They were doing this deal where like EC3 was breaking into their coverage or whatever But I was just like he's just interrupting a classic match between crimson and Eli Drake I'm gonna go first of all how many takes did it go before you could say that without laughing Like I like crimson a lot. I'm a big fan of crimson I think Eli Drake that's how we refer to itself by the way has some work to do And this was a decent match I wouldn't call it savage steamboat WrestleMania free You don't have vintage crimson working And remember last week we talked about Mad Hardy Yes, with the fairy book ending Yes So this week we're interviewing EC3 and he says here are the facts F-A-X Do we not record this show? Can we not edit this?

Nobody wants to watch it but you appear Not a fact. Here's a facts Nothing shocked me with this Make sure you're talking to my friends Nothing shocked me anymore And remember a few weeks ago we talked about the Pope And how they were doing a swipe left swipe right bit Yes, and I was like this is a little unstable for me Now, well, of course, according to Josh Matthews, this is blowing up Twitter You taped this a month ago, how do you know? But now they're doing a thing called the bubble burst instead Which I'm wondering if they got a cease and desist from Tinder Because now instead of swipe swipe right they're putting both wrestlers in a bubble And one of them pops the bubble when he goes away And it starts at Josh Matthew goes, this bubble burst is just exploding on Twitter Can you spell Twitter?

Really If I didn't even have it on his phone It was just a little unstable for me Let's move on to some SmackDown highlights Somebody was spotted at full snow university with luggage signing autographs on Thursday Really, and his name is Austin Aries Yes sir, Don wasn't here when we were talking about this in pre-show Yes sir, Austin Aries who's been doing some work for ROH Showed up at full-cell university in this past Thursday He had a suitcase with him People saw him out there he was signing autographs Nobody's saying why he's there But LA and I were talking about this in pre-show as well You have to put at least put Joe in the rumble if not storm I don't know, I mean, could you have an NXT because we have not announced who this five on five's gonna be Yeah, could you do an NXT team? Well, or could you do it a lot like yeah storm Aries Joe I'm trying to think of who the other two would be or just take two other guys from NXT Finn Baller maybe Now I'm talking about if you're gonna do like an NXT roster versus the main roster Russ says he can see it now on pop TV tonight on pop TV after the love boat It's impact wrestling Well played sir, he did mention apparently the professional wrestling Hall of Fame that's in Iowa right now It's moving to which at all Really that's what Russ is saying in the chat room The love boat will get high guys Yep, hearty's this is the boat you pitched to just so you know Also, we did find out this way tribute to the troops is not gonna air on NBC only USA this year I wonder why well because with SmackDown getting ready to move to USA They're probably trying to prime it a little bit They're probably gonna do another one of those E-W-W-E week on USA things or they'll show like the rundown again I'm speaking of of things like that I do want to send a shout out to friend of the show Brian Bern who's one of my best friends since I was a kid He is a police officer in Davy Florida And I haven't told you this about this sir Thursday night He was a Thursday or Friday night He actually got to help with security on the filming of season two of the ballers Really? Yes Said everybody on set could not have been nicer said the cast and crew actually thanked them for the great job that they did So shout out to Brian Great proud of my boy And you're a huge fan of that show on top I do enjoy it.

I'm not a huge fan, but I enjoy that show I'll tell you what on my huge fan of right now And that's into the bad lands Yeah, I'm gonna have to check this thing Can I can AMC do wrong right now? Hit after hit after hit And we haven't even gotten the preacher yet Oh god No, no And you know, don't sit here. We do want to give you a little bit more in-depth on preacher preacher We talked about it a little bit, but I got to mind my wires crossed Preacher is actually the the child of an angel in a demon And so he has the powers of both I strongly encourage you to read some preachers sort of this out I have no SmackDown notes because I didn't get to watch SmackDown again this week Because I have too much stuff My wife has too much stuff pink They've I had heroes, but she had like the big bang theory And graze anatomy, and so it just killed my my thirds And although I did I did DVR and I had not watched yet The the lip sync battle The holiday edition aired this year Yeah, forgot about I got five words for you sir Joseph Gordon Levitt Oh my gosh Oh they're doing the five on five right now apparently during the free show That's crazy So let's go ahead and run the car to a little bit I know we're running away ahead of schedule, but that's not a bad thing This is not necessarily going to be order of the car This is just in the order that I find it important Ziegler versus Tyler Breeze This is a paper view match Oh Don says Ziegler I don't know Because you've already job Tyler Breeze in the world title tournament You can't build this guy if you keep jobbing him So I think Tyler I think this is a good feud for Breeze I'm just going to say Tyler reason Or do you or do you think maybe there's just a no decision because summer gets involved No, I think she gets involved but I think Ziegler Okay, so that your five on five right now was Miss Baudalis Alright world heavyweight title tournament final four Roman Reigns versus Alberto Del Rio Kevin Owens versus Dean Ambrose I've said it since the tournament started Your finals will be Reigns Ambrose Odds are Reigns But I would not be shocked if Dean walks out with this title just to swore everybody You and I are on the exact same promo on Raw I thought was hilarious Turned into a fish tank Yeah I think but I it's weird because I All I just said if he if Ambrose wins Reigns goes heal I just don't know what that does for you I can see it happening But I don't know if turning room Roman Reigns heal right now Is the way to go it's such a weird I still think Reigns wins but I wouldn't it wouldn't shock me if they if they swore Start us and the ascension Miss and Baudalis Wow Did they really can we do something with the ascension?

I like those guys a lot Deva's title on the line Charlotte versus Paige Don't say Charlotte I don't think you take this belt off her yet I like to see Charlotte carry this thing in WrestleMania As would I And maybe do a four corners match where it's Paige Charlotte's a member of team bad and that we'll return by the minickey Bellow that we'll be returning at that point Okay, so we have never as part of the face five on five In a tag team match I guess under taker and cane versus two members of the Wyatt family We don't know which to yet do we I don't think we do Don Okay, so Don said we're not gonna who it is If yeah, Don says brothers or districts Neville in the Dudley's And this is a heck of a match to shape an up destination Oh, very strong right there I just don't see undertaker and cane not winning this notch Not with it being his his moment in the sun I think we're gonna have a lot of vignettes tonight Ah The ginger ninja has arrived And we have the five on five traditional survivor series match Which we're waiting on the final two participants to be announced Don's monitoring this for us because that are Oh, the frying time players so frying time players the Dudley's and Neville Oh, just Titus just Titus Boy, do we just draw names out of our hand Or do we just like the first ten people that walk into the arena you're in the five on five I missed the days of the teams I do too. That's what survivor series was all about Russ has predicted Tyler Breeze He says Charlotte will style and profile The return of gold dust sir And we finally have our star dust versus gold dust The faces win this I Because we we can't do anything if we can't continue to job the ascension Now would it be cooler or Steven a melt walk down? Yes, God you would have you your face would have melted off Predictions are five on five Didn't we just say the faces were I said the face that in here, which yeah, yeah, yeah We were in a way ahead tonight This is probably the shortest pre show we've ever done when you don't have Smackdown to talk about and you really have nothing in impact Donna saying the Smackdown taping last week and that wasn't Indian I know Indianapolis is this week Yeah, he said last week apparently there were just sections taped off I can't take this show back live This is a and this is a Smackdown before a major and the arena wasn't full We are greeting the car to this point.

Don says a B but he's not real confident in that sir. See minus see minus you're going below average Because it just seems like it's like a light card. Yeah, now two weeks goes really excited about this and now I'm kind of You see plus I'll give it a C plus I'll go somewhere I'm going to go right straight down the middle and say a C.

I don't know Russell says tonight the dust settles. Yeah, see what he did there And next of course TLC we are we TLC's in three weeks. Gonna be at the TD Garden and managed to choose it and bash them I just I I've lost some steam with this paper view Well, I mean I've been losing steam with it annually because it's just so far away Russell with the hot opinion of an A minus Wow Wow He's got high hopes for this thing I I don't know how I feel about this.

It's it's got good potential but I really wish Neville was still in the hunt in the final four He really this tournament has been really weird But you know God bless him This doesn't that it I'm excited but it doesn't have the major feel but I want to have now. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah It doesn't feel like a major.

It just doesn't feel like a major. It sure is like an inflexive five or series And I feel like they've really wasted an opportunity, especially if you're gonna do the five on five in the pre show Yeah, why wouldn't you come up with an NXT team? I just don't do a radicals kind of thing why you would do a traditional survivor series match before the paper view actually started And much less only one.

Yeah, because haven't we had a divas one the last couple of years? Yes, we did as he might in most cases that was the only traditional two years ago I know it was I sure I think we had one of each but I don't know You know and rust we actually as rust says in the chat room. This is Thanksgiving week We hope everybody here in America that celebrates Thanksgiving.

We have a very happy and safe week By the way, we're going to be off next week. Yes, yes My in laws are going to be in town. We're going to do Thanksgiving next Sunday So the next time we talk to you will be sipped.

All right, I'm sorry. September could a lot of a while December the six that's been a long break. So that'll be the week before the next paper view That's right, and then the day after my working anniversary to creep it up on four years by the way And we are also me and also the day before Julie with birthday I personally am celebrating an anniversary today That's right of your wife who is a British descent made her move from from the UK.

Was that the trumpet conversation? No, that was the first time through. This is the second time Right, because the second time through me and Brandon went and picked her up And he got lost.

He's still walking the earth because why don't we have a scene. I guess so Remember when we were going to go back crystals and that's when we found out crystals was gone. Yes So guys five five six years ago five years ago five years ago today Julie decided she wanted to be in America forever And get ready to be married to you and And those two houses joined by me Indeed, it was.

That's a very first wedding. I appreciate it. No one Because I think if he's the first year's first her was Labor Day.

That's right. That's right So everybody have a great Thanksgiving week. We also want to remind everybody about all the bands coming up January the ninth Grace D is going to be involved and we actually locked down our playlist this week We've been doing this thing now for just over four years and I'm going and I'm not the only one that has said this This is the strongest set list.

Grace D has ever played That's a bold. This thing's going to be off the chains sir. You don't want to miss it pick up tickets from any band member That would be one of those would be me.

You can go to our website at www dot Grace descending dot com Where you can click on the front page to get to link to tickets if you want to get them online there are ten bucks a piece If you bring kids there are an extra three dollars a ticket there's going to be 11 bands on that card Wow, how many were at the at the last round? Seven really and this is the final. So this is all the winners from the pre-lims So we need as much support as we can get done.

What's up? They did that last time. They did that in the pre-show last month.

They did a commercial. All right anything else we want to cover before we get to the plugs Thank you to our host of our on disclosed location for having us And the bunker. Yeah.

Now this is the brother ship. He said it. I didn't.

Although funny. I we made demand in apology. Although comedically genius.

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