Special Edition WWE Backlash 2018

It is 7-01 on the East Coast.
It is 401 on the West Coast.
It is the 6th of May in the year of our Lord 2018.
This is an 8 episode 37, 440 times this voice has welcomed you to the clubhouse podcast.
Our second show in 2 days, 3rd pay-per-view in 5 weeks, see what I did there.
Welc.
Ugh.
Then a heck of a weekend.
My name is Rob, I'm the executive producer of the clubhouse podcast.
And didn't we just do this?
I am still a little bit under the weather, I apologize ahead of time.
We got a lot to get to and not a whole lot of time to do it in, so let's go around the room.
Sitting in the co-host chair is my co-host and a man who clued himself into something that I clued him into because he is adorning it this evening.
He is Chad, welcome sir.
Yes, thank you, it took a while to track it down, but I did track it.
Talk right into the microphone please, not to the side.
There, there, much better.
Okay.
Shut up.
If you're over here, it fades out real bad.
You got to be right, right?
Going around clockwise.
Is the lady of the house?
Boy, it's gonna be one of those days.
Yes it is.
We just just get to it.
General Monsieur, thank you, my friend.
How are you?
I'm good, hello everyone.
Next to her is the man who has claimed he will make history twice at the end of this year.
We'll see.
LAs here, how you doing brother?
Working around the room.
Like he needs a mic.
A man with a great T-shirt on, he is here, Russ is here, what's going on brother?
Yeah, what's going on?
Oh, like a turn of the mic, that would help me.
As we continue to move on, the man that's in front of said, Mike.
And a man who's probably got a more recent haircut than anybody else in the room.
The Raining Defending Undisputed Champion of this room.
And none of you touch my mic today.
I was with you until undisputed.
Behind him.
Greg is here as well with his RKO shirt and matching hats.
Welcome.
As we continue on around the room.
A man that we were talking earlier today.
And as we were watching some WWE networks, we realized that the very first episode of Nitro
was still six months before he and I would meet for the first time.
Doc is here.
And all of my leachins, Alice Claw.
Rounding out the dais is the newest member of the cast.
And a man who, I actually stopped watching Gotham because he came over to hang out.
Alex is here.
Welcome, sir.
How are you all doing?
I want to give a quick shout out to Lenore and Jason Phillips, two new subscribers.
Welcome aboard.
Welcome to the show, guys.
We appreciate you.
Each and every one member of the Empire, we do appreciate it.
We did all of our corrections and updates last night.
But we do want to say thank you to everybody at the Dallas International Film Festival for having us out at the Magnolia.
We had a great time last night.
Our fifth show year in a row at the Dallas International Film Festival.
We had a great time.
Had Brian head Welch from Corn on the show.
Great interview.
Go back and check that out.
And Don's not with us tonight.
He's actually at the Dallas International Film Festival taking in some films today.
But thanks Don for another great job.
He did a really, really good job.
Andrew also not with us tonight, but I've got picks from both of them.
So we're good to go.
It is backlash day.
So we're going to be wrestling intensive on this show.
So if you're not a wrestling fan, become one.
We're not even going to excuse you.
You got to stick with us.
So let's start with score updates.
Oh boy.
WrestleMania was a tough deal.
There was, but I'm just going to give a little warning now.
Uh huh.
That this show better go smoothly because I don't want any of the jobs squad behind me here interrupting us.
Thank you, LA.
There is no mic for you.
I don't know who the jobs squad is.
Run on the first black hand first.
I'm just muted.
The clubhouse champion to me at December.
Dude.
Apparently he has the time jam and we didn't realize it.
All right.
So here's your updates.
Doc, you were 500 to WrestleMania.
You went seven and seven.
However, you're still in the cellar at negative 41.
Seven.
Seven.
Seven.
Seven.
Gen Rome ahead of him.
So it's okay if it's in another language.
Gen went six and eight at WrestleMania, but she's at minus 17.
I also went 500 at WrestleMania and I am at negative 11.
Alex is one point ahead of me.
He went nine and five at WrestleMania.
I believe that's tied for the best record of WrestleMania picks.
LA, you are three points ahead of Alex.
You were eight and six at WrestleMania.
Andrew at negative three.
He went nine and five as well.
Don is the first person in positive numbers with a point 013 winning percentage.
He has two points.
He lost six on the Smackdown Live Women's Championship match.
So that kind of crushed him.
But he was seven and seven.
Chad, you have 14 points.
You have a 0-9-3 win percentage.
You also went 500 at WrestleMania.
But you're not in first place because there's one person we haven't mentioned.
With a grand total of a whopping huge immense after three pay-per-view 17 points.
Actually, four pay-per-views if I'm not mistaken.
Stevens in first place went eight and six at WrestleMania.
You have a 113 winning percentage.
Yes, Doc has a stand-up.
No, I have a quick question.
I picked Matt Hardy.
The answer is no.
The answer is no.
I just want to know where I would be.
Hold on, wait a minute.
I'm getting something from the head office.
Yes, you are interrupting the reigning defending undisputed pick champion of the month.
But this was actually Doc's first opportunity to see the belt as well because he missed WrestleMania.
So where would he be plus 20?
So he'd still be negative 21.
Okay.
Math!
Alright, so let's go over some greats from WrestleMania.
I said it was a B plus.
I'm going to downgrade it to a C minus.
This show just went too damn long.
When we got to hour five, I was just like, oh my god, this is never going to end.
Chad, you had it at a B plus as well.
Oh, yeah, it falls to a very low C minus.
Okay.
You've got to hold WrestleMania to a higher standard.
You just have to.
It started out so strong.
And then just, yeah, I believe somebody said the door somebody will come grab that please.
Job squad, someone get the door.
Don said a C plus.
I didn't get an update from him.
Andrew said a B plus as well.
LA, you gave it a B minus.
How does it right for you now?
I'll give it a C plus.
You can talk into a microphone.
You can share it with General.
It's fine.
Oh, okay, fair enough.
He does project well.
Steven, you said A minus.
I had high hopes because then X2 was a A plus, like always.
And X2 was a great show.
I'll give it a D plus.
Oh, wow.
General, you gave it a solid C.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That is the kind of in-depth analysis you can expect from this show each and every week.
Back to you, Rob.
Fair enough?
Alex, you said a B minus.
I had really high hopes and I'm going to drop it all the way to a straight D.
Wow.
All right, Nicholas sucks.
Well, he gave up the title.
And he got his own t-shirt.
So you got that going for you, which is nice.
Which circle of hell is this?
12.
That could be the biggest drop the ball of the entire paper view.
There's so many different ways you could have gone with that bid.
And we all know that that wasn't the plan.
Right.
But there's so many other ways you could have gone with that and that's what you did.
I was hoping for McAfee if nothing else.
If nothing else.
Now, McAfee said he was a little too drunk by that point and he's glad it wasn't him.
Well, that's because the show was so damn long.
Oh, glory.
Yeah, I got blasted after Oscar lost.
I had to grieve for that.
That had, I mean, the betting odds in Vegas on that had to be really huge
for Oscar to lose that match.
I don't think Vegas takes up to that.
That was the match to the night.
No, but I'm sorry.
Maybe it takes less than a Marcel Mania, I thought.
Not on the prescripted.
You get to have to find places.
All right.
Let's talk about the weeks it was.
Tonight's show is scheduled for three hours.
So take that for what you're paying for it.
Which is $10 a month.
So we did have the greatest royal rumble since the last time we all assembled.
Unfortunately, it was in the middle of the day on a Friday.
I was working.
So Alex was giving me real time updates.
I mean, it didn't look like a terrible show.
I liked it.
It looked like it was at least a fun show.
I mean, we all knew no belts were going to move.
It was fun to have on at work, but the show sucked.
Really?
I mean, I don't know.
I just looked like it's part about it was that that like the whole setup was great.
Like it was a beautiful venue.
Oh, it's a great.
I mean, it was awesome.
It looks amazing.
I saw some of the pictures.
The real problem is is you could tell everybody was jet lagged as well.
Like nobody could pull off anything too remarkable.
Everybody was just going through the.
Yeah, let's go from the mountain time zone to Saudi Arabia time.
And then go to Montreal time for that.
Yeah.
I disagree.
Rollins and.
And.
That's fair.
And there was an apology issued by the people running the show.
Because they showed that promo that was about the co branded paper views.
And it had the women in it.
And there was a reason that the women didn't travel to Saudi Arabia.
Because they they their culture.
They wouldn't have been a lot of be featured.
But having them in that video apparently was a big deal.
So they had to issue an apology for showing that video.
Good Lord.
The whole idea was that if they were dressed quote unquote modestly,
it would have been acceptable.
Kind of like if you saw the ring gear for Sasha.
And who did she wrestle when they were over their last?
Was that Alexa?
It might have been.
I think it was Sasha Alexa where they were covered wrist everywhere.
We want to say congratulations to Kane.
He won the Democratic primary.
I'm sorry Republican primary for Knox County mayor by 17 votes.
He now goes to the general election in the fall against Democrat Linda Haney.
However, Knox County is supremely Republican.
And he is favored.
And he is favored.
He is favored.
So you may now you may be calling him mayor.
County mayor.
The big red mayor.
The big red mayor.
So congratulations to Kane and then we wish him the best.
Talk a little bit about raw as we move on.
You know, I don't care how many times it happens.
Roman's heat is never not jarring to me.
Really?
This level of heat.
He is hated in Canada for years.
But even in general.
I mean, no matter where he goes, the heat is just bad.
And I don't I know why people are doing it at this point,
but it still doesn't make sense to me.
You've been having jobs seem to get the same thing.
But I've been saying the same thing about John Cena for 10 years.
The scene is also more.
It's not earned heat.
But it's still it will.
It will never.
I'm like until you are a heel and that level of heel heat is justified.
It will always perplex me.
You got to give Canada a break because it's Canada.
That's bizarre.
No, it's just in general.
No, it's everywhere.
Well, they have to give more heat.
They have to give more heat to even out to American heat.
It is a conversion.
It's a good thing.
It's like the people that are upset about the way last Jedi turned out.
Yeah, because they didn't live up to the expectations in your head.
It's like the whole of Cena wins.
We complain online.
Yeah.
I'm officially done with the you deserve it.
I feel it's now officially overused.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's see what else do we have here?
And the gender.
This is a bit from the gender thing I have to talk about.
It's the Canadian crowd.
Remember, we were in Montreal.
I think they seem confused when gender said he spoke his native language.
Because you got to think they were all like, hey, isn't he one of us?
What's really funny about that?
He's from Canada.
No, the biggest pop is for the guy who moved to Canada.
The guy from Canada got booed.
Right.
I did like KO shirts, though.
They had the flotally inside the O that was dope.
That was very sick.
Doc has his hand up.
Montreal is not Canada.
Montreal is Paris.
Toronto is Canada.
That's fair.
You're looking at a French crowd.
Have you watched?
Because Doc spends a lot of time in Canada.
Yeah.
I haven't seen super troopers, too, yet.
We're going tomorrow.
Okay, I was going to say I have a very disappointed if you have.
It's wonderful.
It's wonderful.
I loved it.
Did the ramp seem shorter?
A little shorter.
Maybe there was a weird Canadian conversion we didn't know about.
They made Titus O'Neill probably.
And you know what?
He didn't say it.
I was going to do it.
Mentioning the Titus O'Neill thing from British Railroad.
If you don't know, Titus was coming to the ring, tripped, and slid under the ring.
There is now plenty of debate whether to whether that was inscript or not.
No.
No.
I don't care if it isn't.
I thought it was brilliant.
And the screen there at Thrall, you know, he wouldn't have been able to slide in there.
That would have been a fatality of something.
The best?
And he has totally taken that in stride, which is my favorite part.
Oh, no.
If you actually watched the greatest Royal Rumble or you go back and watch it on the network,
Graves almost dies from laughter.
Like legit.
You can hear him.
He was so laughin' on raw when they reshowed it.
Yeah.
It was great that watched him go.
It was like...
But have you seen...
Have you?
But have you seen Fit Finley went after him on Twitter?
Titus will slide.
Titus will slide.
And he also...
He's now called Titus the new shock master.
Oh, yeah.
No, that's what I said.
So the artwork I've seen is shock master handing a torch.
Yes.
Yes.
Titus will slide over the next one they use.
So Titus comes with a ring wearing a glittery stormtrooper mask.
Everybody's gonna know that.
But you know, and I guess that he's totally taking this and stride.
And you know, I have no hate for Titus so Neil, the size is the fact that he's a gayer.
If anybody was gonna be able to let it roll off, it's Titus.
Yeah.
He's aren't gonna start talking for him.
This guy is a true ambassador of the company.
He just is.
I have nothing to respect for him.
Besides the fact he's a gayer.
Yeah.
The dude did not expect to be here at this day.
And he's great.
Yeah.
He's great on the mic.
He's a lot of fun to watch.
So I understand that sometimes when we have new people coming to the company, that there
is a level of pandering that has to happen when you're trying to push somebody to the moon
out of a gate.
But can we please give AOP somebody?
They did.
John Paul in Francois.
And they are over.
So give them somebody.
Give them somebody that's gonna make me watch.
Oh, sorry.
I'll press one.
Maybe give the bullet club anything we got them.
I just...
I just bury all the greatness that...
Do that on main events if you're gonna do it anywhere.
This is Monday Night Raw.
Give me something to work with.
Did they have visa issues?
I don't know.
They were there though.
Let's see.
And...
The O.A. chant for Rollins?
Yeah.
I don't know.
That was a little weird for me.
You guys know that this...
You guys know this Alexa Bliss PSA thing is whipping me into submission.
I did giggle at the teacup bit.
That was funny.
Yeah, I'll give her that.
The company's loving how it's coming off.
So it's doing what they want.
You start.
We need to redo Lashley's theme badly.
That theme is terrible.
Just call TNA.
Give them a certificate for...
Red Lobster.
But Red Lobster and get his theme from TNA.
Give the toys a rest gift card.
Oh dear.
I will say, and Steven, I thought about you during the I.C. title match.
No, it's better than the one they're using now.
It's true, but it is a good either.
The superplex into the Falcon Arrow.
Oh yeah.
That spot was really awesome.
I enjoyed that very much.
I liked it because it didn't go over sloppy.
There was a fluidity to it.
It seemed organic too.
It didn't look like a spot that they had on the...
It was one on the fly.
It didn't look like...
And those two work really, really well together.
LA has his hand up.
We ran through Lashley too quickly because I had a question.
Okay.
What's the deal with the headband?
I don't know what he said.
The question is, what's...
He likes LeBron James.
I didn't know what he made with the problem was.
Because he asked to have the handle.
Well, he gets sweat in his eyes.
Because he's bald.
No.
Of course.
I just thought he was a LeBron fan.
I don't know.
But I will say that that...
That curb stomp in that icy match...
He, that was way higher than it should have been.
Yeah.
That got a little concerning for me.
But that still...
That match was still better than it had to be.
Well, Finn's...
No, that's the curb stomp better than anybody.
Finn's great.
Yeah.
I think the two of them work really well together.
And I'd like to see more from that, personally.
Well, they've got more chasing.
Not yet.
I want to see them work together for a while.
And so you...
I think they need to have their own shine really now.
They need to have a real run at their own shine.
Yeah.
For those of you that don't know,
and I'm actually interested...
And you know this guy whips me into submission,
but I'm really, really interested in this.
May 25th.
Showtime is doing a documentary on Moro Ronaldo.
Yeah!
And it's going to deal with his struggles with bipolar disorder.
Chats...
Alex, you had said you saw the trailer for this.
Yes.
For bipolar rock and roller.
Is that what they're calling it?
Yes.
Because it's...
It's not a great title, but...
No, that's what...
That's what H called it.
Yeah.
At one point.
It does make sense.
So, that'll debut on May 25th on Showtime.
Uh-huh.
Did you guys hear about Impact's weekly Twitter show?
Yeah, they're number one star.
The leader of the job squad.
It was the...
The host of it.
Does the name Anthony Carelli mean anything to you?
I bet it should.
Because he invented a little thing called...
The Honkini Tanner.
Oh!
Santino Morella.
We'll be hosting Impact's weekly Twitter show.
I'm sure he'll be going by his actual name Anthony Carelli.
But he's hosting the Twitter show.
The...
Let me say the Twitch show.
They have a show on Twitch now.
Okay, so...
Please have a round of...
Yes.
It makes nothing to me if he's not going to be Santino.
I don't know what he's going to do.
Hogan this past week was inducted into the Boys and Girls Club Hall of Fame.
So, congratulations to Hogan.
And the rumors are the deal is done.
He is coming home.
It's just a boys and girls club.
It's generic and girls club.
No, that's the scouts.
That's the scouts.
That's the scouts.
That's the scouts.
No, boys and girls club has always been the boys and girls club.
But it's the scouts that have gone gender neutral.
WWE.
I'm hearing the deal is all but done.
So...
Uh...
If you're a big fan of Sunday Night Heat.
Uh-oh.
Those episodes hit the network tomorrow.
Calm down, Stephen.
Calm down.
Sit him back down.
Sit it down.
Sit it down.
Sit it down.
Because we're getting to the headline you've been waiting the entire show to talk about.
No, I mean that in a good way.
Oh, wait.
I was worried now.
I was worried.
Because...
Stephen is a very proud friend today.
Because one of his friends has signed with the company.
Fantastic.
Welcome to WWE Keith Lee.
He has signed with the company.
Wow.
You know him from ROH and he's a local guy.
And so another local Dallas talent has made its way to the show.
So congratulations to Keith Lee.
I just hope he doesn't become like Funkosaurus 2.0.
Now are they?
But are they gonna NXT him for a while?
Yeah.
What's the plan?
Are they keeping the name?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They've gotten past the whole.
We're gonna give you a gimmick name.
Like...
Because I think we've gotten to that point that you just can't anymore.
Now you have to make as much money as you can off of every talent.
And so what was the thing that made them money elsewhere?
Even if you don't like it and you want to make it your own thing.
You're not gonna get money off of it.
Right.
You have to use what you have.
You need to carry over.
Yeah.
Because if they changed Adam Cole to something.
And then they couldn't do the Adam Cole baby thing.
Like, would you ever want to wear it?
And people would still do it.
Yeah, they would do it.
They would just get awkward.
Kind of like that.
But we've also reached a point though.
Like in the days of Seth Rollins, Tyler Black, Daniel Bryan, Bryan Danielson.
Groups like ROH weren't getting the exposure they're getting now.
And I think that's part of it too.
These gimmicks are getting bigger than they should.
So by the time they signed with WWE.
They kind of don't have a choice.
You have to roll with this.
You know, so.
Smackdown live notes.
I kind of dig non shawant Randy.
He's not exactly tweening, but he's not exactly not.
He's just kind of like, hey, we're cool.
I kind of like this version of him a lot.
And when Miz was interviewing Randy.
And they brought up the horrid Smackdown top 10.
And Miz said that doesn't even get you a medal.
I don't think that was improved.
Because I think Randy kind of broke character.
If you go back and watch that moment.
Randy almost just starts laughing.
Which I thought that was kind of a nice moment.
Because we were talking about Miz.
Alex and I were talking about Miz a few hours ago in pre-show.
And I've realized that Miz is the first guy for me.
And at least the last 10 years.
That I can see out of K-Fabe.
And then see in K-Fabe and still hate him as a heal.
Which is, and that's hard to do.
Because when you're trying to show yourself
for who you really are.
And then you have to play this character.
It's a really hard line to draw.
But I can see Miz.
Because they showed a bit for him and Asuka being at the charity
that they won the money for in the mix tag match tournament.
And he was out of character.
And he was just there.
Like I was like, you know what?
I have a lot of respect for this guy.
I like this guy.
And then I watch him on WWE program.
And I'm like, I want to punch you in the face.
But he's got that.
That means he's doing his job.
Yeah, he's got that very clear line.
And you can see it no matter where he pops up.
If they introduce him as Mike Misanin,
you're going to get the real guy.
If they introduce him as the Miz,
you're going to get somebody doing heal work.
It's just, he's the only guy that I can say at least in the last 10 years
that I can honestly say that about.
And I want to say,
Steph's pretty good at it.
Yeah, but I think her husband's even better at it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like H will probably go down in my lifetime
as one of the top five heals in the history of ever.
He'll never, he'll, and he doesn't want to surpass Flare.
He never will.
Well, there's one of the greatest heals ever, ever, ever, ever, ever.
Well, but he's also done more than his fair share of FaceTime, too.
Yeah.
But Steph, I don't know if Steph's ever really been like a bull.
Like a bull.
She was the first introduced.
Yeah, right.
That didn't last very long.
No.
Can we stop talking about all these records at the greatest Royal Rumble
because given that there were 50 people in that match,
does that record mean anything?
Because you've never done 50 people in a match.
The closest she had was World War Three.
And that was WCW.
You guys know my affinity for that pay-per-view.
And we were watching,
we were watching, what were we watching?
And they showed those rings.
Fish off.
Was it the fish off thing?
And they showed the three rings.
And I was like, oh, World War Three.
That was such an amazing match.
When Ray got thrown into the third row by Frenchy.
But I mean, all of them really should be records
since there's never been a greatest Royal Rumble.
So there's that.
And can somebody please enlighten me?
Mr. Bootyworth?
Mrs. Butterworth?
I know what they're doing there.
I thought you didn't know the origin.
Did you not see this?
It was when the bar met the new day.
And they brought this guy out
who was wearing a tux in their ghost demon.
They brought a guy out wearing a tuxedo t-shirt
carrying a tray of pancakes.
And they called him Mr. Bootyworth.
Oh my God.
White guy.
Let's be clear.
Yes.
Before LA gets crazy.
It's a white guy.
Before he gets.
It's very strange.
And I did enjoy how the new day brings their geek references
when Xavier was gotten in Cesaro's face
and he said, your soul is mine.
And I was like, God bless them.
I'll tell you what, that Atlanta pop was huge.
And did you notice the accents are both fading?
Her accent was not nearly as thick as it's been.
And his is starting to mellow a bit too.
Because it's Ruse of Day.
And is it, am I the only one that especially on Smackdown?
I couldn't make out about 70% of the Canadian chance.
Well, it's because they were in French.
Was that what it was?
Yes.
I was like, I don't know what you're saying right now.
Okay.
What did they say instead of the yes chant?
They did say we.
Yeah.
That was pretty powerful.
I just thought they all had to go to the bathroom.
And you're welcome.
And cast, cast, cast, cast, cast, cast, cast, cast.
Don't you love it?
Don't you love it?
Mike makes right?
Don't you love it?
No.
Swing it a bit.
So I'm sorry.
The charismatic superstar sends Christian
with the gold, the gold fireworks coming down.
I'm sorry, I blocked out.
What just happened?
I don't know.
What does cast have besides being a seven-feetal?
Literally.
And I want to say God bless that Montreal crowd
for selling the yes chant for Minnie Daniel Bryan.
Yeah.
God bless them for that.
Earlier, I said I'm a fish.
I'm sorry.
Go ahead, Jen.
Steven's about to hurt somebody over here.
He's just, he's going Steven.
Yeah, but I'm kind of close to LA who is aiming for it.
Steven.
And earlier, I said I'm over the, you deserve a chant.
I'm also now officially over the low blow.
Let's move on.
So I speak no English.
Shit.
God.
What was that about multi-cultural?
Alex was telling me earlier this week that apparently,
they were, when they changed up Shinsuke's theme,
they were going to open that.
No speaking English was how that theme was going to start.
Road dog head that all lined up.
H-nixed it.
Good.
That would have been awesome though.
Can you imagine all of the question marks
over people's heads in the arena the minute they hit that?
I'd have been like, I'll be over here.
Dude, that would have been awesome.
Oh my god.
I have a question.
Yeah, oh no.
Doc would have had all the answers at that point.
And I guess we're doing a reverse authority thing with absolution.
But because they came to, they came to page.
Yeah.
And they thought page was their girl.
And page was like, no, guys, absolution's dead.
But I have a theory.
Go on.
This is how you turn Becky Lynch heal.
She becomes the leader of absolution.
No, they're going to book Mandy Rose as a new face.
She has to look.
She's, no, she's pretty good.
She's got the look.
And these are gentlemen, L.A. with the Rockset reference.
The 80s answer to Abba.
Hey, Steven just popped it up, man.
I knew it was spiking down.
He gave you credit for that, sir.
Just so you know, he did.
Wait a minute.
You know I'm holding the rope on the tag.
You get your hand out of here, ugly boy.
He just jumped off the apron on you for the tag.
And I just want to know if you think of an idea real quick.
With Oscar being the Empress of tomorrow,
when is tomorrow going to get here?
Is this like a dip in dots thing?
Like, let's just get her as an Empress or just stop.
Because tomorrow is never going to get here.
Tell them saying.
And boy, if you watch that six divas tag match.
For the record, I picked up that dip in dots thing.
Good on you.
You're welcome.
They had the wrong angle for Charlotte
when she came down off that top turnbuckle
because you could see her slap the top of that ring post bigger than day.
So bad idea, bad job production.
All right, let's get to the running the card real quick.
I have Don and Andrew's picks.
Your pre-show match is Bailey versus Ruby Riot.
Andrew has picked Ruby Riot.
I'm going to have to double check Don's email
because he picked Ruby Riot as well.
There it is.
Chat.
Ruby Riot.
General.
Ruby Riot.
All right.
Bailey.
All right.
With pitiful over.
Oh, so Ella.
Wait, we've already got the next pick.
You can't do it now.
The next pick's already been given.
You know the rules.
That's because you're rushing through things.
Because it's 6.30.
God.
It's all right.
It's all right.
Ruby.
Ruby Riot.
Doc.
Ruby Riot.
I'll be different.
I'll go Bailey.
I'm saying Ruby Riot because we've got to push this Bailey descent into madness somehow.
Yeah.
And this is the way you do it.
Because nobody's going to come to her aid when the Riot squad starts to beat her down.
Done.
Again, this is not necessary with the order of the show.
This is my order of importance.
Daniel Bryan versus Big Cass.
Don has Daniel Bryan.
And Andrew has Big Cass.
General.
Big Cass.
L.A.
Debride back.
Gotta give it to Debride.
I'm going to go with submission too.
Okay.
Fair enough.
Bryan.
Greg.
Bryan.
All right.
What's the point thing if I call like a like a like a one point or whatever if I call how it ends?
You get a point just for the straight up win.
Okay.
And let me double.
I want to double it because I don't want to screw this up.
I'm listening to the rules first before I made the.
No, that's fine.
I totally get that.
I just want to make sure I get.
I don't screw up the the deal here.
That's what we're talking about.
Um.
That's here.
I wouldn't have championed.
You want to call me a coward.
I'm in.
I just ate, bro.
Toronto was beating Cleveland last night too.
Aren't they?
What happened?
I did that.
Toronto wasn't beating Cleveland.
Cleveland was winning the whole time.
No, Cleveland was not winning.
I watched again.
Cleveland was winning the whole time.
I know LeBron James is the studio.
I watched again.
Cleveland was ahead the whole time.
Okay.
Stay with me since you're NBA talking tonight.
Predicting the winner straight up one point.
If you predict how the victory happens, it's an additional three.
Oh, that's too much risk reward.
I'm just going to say Daniel Bryan.
Okay, fair enough.
But I appreciate you asking because it clarifies for everyone else.
Doc.
Uh, big cast.
Alright.
Daniel Bryan.
Chad.
Daniel Bryan.
I'm going to say big cast two because a loss for.
For Daniel Bryan means less than a loss for big cast.
And if you're trying to push him heal this hard, he's got to win.
Okay.
Since my pick is in, I was actually going to have D-Bry win
because big cast got disqualified for beating him down.
That's actually a good point.
Keep him strong.
But we've already moved on.
Yeah.
No, I don't want to lose points.
Alright.
Next up.
Roman Reigns.
Samoa Joe.
Uh, Andrew says Samoa Joe.
Don says.
Uh, he says.
Where is it?
He picked Roman.
There it is.
Uh, L.A.
They were to you.
This one confused, really, because surface.
Yeah, Roman actually won the last one.
0 da hil...
The last one.
So easy on the winning streak.
Ah, let's go.
Well casted.
Roman, please tell us.
кноп medicines.
He's not at the match.
Roman Plant's getting on the match.
He's been expelled from the academy by.
Yeah.
D-X the rivalry zone.
Let's go, um, er, Roman.
Roman Reigns.
Alright?
Samoa Joe.
Samoa Joe.
Von Samoa Joe.
Roman Reigns is what Stephen says.
He even says either that he said Samoa Joe.
He ladder he's giving me a very obscene gesture that I don't want to deal with.
No, he said so much. Okay, Doc.
I'm going with Samoa Joe on this one.
All right.
My favorite Samoa named Joe.
Is there a lot of Samoa?
Samoa named Joe.
Yes.
No, no, no.
Roman's number two.
So Samoa Joe.
Ted.
Roman.
General.
Roman Reigns.
I'm going Joe on this.
I think and I think Joe wins it clean.
By pinfall.
Actually, no, I'm sorry Joe wins by submission because Joe has the submission finisher.
It's going to be Roman's going to think he's got it and Joe's going to roll him into the submission.
So it's my official prediction.
Yeah, and the real way to save Roman on that is to just have him pass out.
Tag team match because as Alex would say reasons.
Braun Strowman and Bobby Lashley versus Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane.
Now Andrew says Strowman and Lashley.
Don says Strowman Lashley by pinfall.
L.A. I believe we're to you.
No, we're not me.
Oh, we are.
I'm sorry.
Russ, you're correct.
Strowman and Lashley pinfall.
All right.
Bobby Lashley and Strowman.
Okay.
Bobby Lashley and Strowman.
Okay.
Yeah.
It's a Strowman and Lashley.
Okay.
Owens.
As much as I can't be happy about this.
Chad.
Strowly.
Strowly.
Very nice.
Strashly.
They do want to get some trash.
That seems better.
That works better.
I think hers is better.
L.A.
At the pay-per-view back, Lashley.
We're going to go with Strowman with the pin.
Is today National Bad Punday?
Blacklock.
Blacklock.
I didn't say that.
Yeah.
I am actually going.
I'm going the other way.
I'm saying the heels win this.
I think that Sammy, Zane, and Kevin Owens win this.
And I'm surprised, sir, that you would go against Kevin Owens.
I have to because Sammy Zane is just too obnoxious at times.
They lose.
United States title on the line.
Jeff Hardy.
Randy Orton.
Andrew Sands.
Six surprise there.
Trying to find the...
He says Jeff Hardy.
What?
That is true.
The text message.
Don has picked...
Jeff Hardy as well.
Greg, I believe we're to you.
Are you going against your boy?
Yeah.
Wow.
That's two left turns on this show in a weekend.
Steven.
The greatest champion in TNA history, Jeff Hardy.
Worst belt.
Best champion.
Worst belt.
Doc.
Given his outside stuff and they're still pushing him, I'll go with Jeff Hardy.
All right.
I'm going to have to go with the group and say Jeff Hardy by pin.
Same job.
General.
Hardy.
L.A.
I'm bombing this pay review.
Because I'm going shenanigans on this match.
You are caught.
Are you declaring shenanigans on this match?
Uh-oh.
Sheldon Bench.
Five point risk.
In this man.
Okay.
You will see.
The gold standard.
Make his appearance.
Sheldon Benjamin interferes.
Jack up this match on both of those guys.
I'm going to ball with you.
So are you saying.
Are you saying DQ shenanigans by Sheldon Benjamin?
Double DQ.
Double DQ.
Well, no, because it'll be whoever he hits first.
No contest.
It'll be a no contest.
Exactly.
All right.
That's a ball move, sir.
That's a boss.
That's sir.
I'm going to give it an official.
That's a baller move.
All right.
Absolutely.
Rust.
That's a ball on our budget.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Ball and dead.
Ready to run.
All right.
Intercontinental title on the line.
Seth Rollins versus the Miz.
Are we going to do a hand reason?
Andrew says.
Can we all just raise our hands for Seth Rollins?
Hold on.
Let me read these two first.
Rollins.
And Don says Rollins by pinfall.
Oh, wait.
There's that reason.
Does anybody want to pick other than straight up Rollins?
I want to add the pin.
Ooh.
Okay.
I'll add the pin on this one too.
Might as well add the pin.
With the double balls he moves.
Okay.
All the possible shenanigans.
No, you can only have to call shenanigans once per pay for you.
Only once.
I thought the baller club was going to interrupt things.
But since I can't call it.
Yeah.
I just don't see.
You're not going to move the Miz back to Roll.
I need him on Smackdown right now.
So Rollins will retain.
And then we can move on to Rollins' baller.
Roll women's title on the line.
Nia Jax Alexa Bliss.
Andrew says.
Nia Jax.
Don says Nia Jax as well.
And I believe that puts us to Doc.
Doc, you going with your girl?
You going the other way?
You know who I want to win.
But you have to vocal it.
Nia hasn't had the belt long enough.
So I'm going to have to go with that.
That's what the head says.
Okay.
The heart wants Alexa.
But your, but your, even though her name is Alexa.
Alexa, yeah.
I just got really uncomfortable because he's behind me.
I will agree Nia's hasn't had it long enough.
Okay.
Chat.
Yeah.
Same thing.
General.
Yeah.
Nia is going to get to keep it a little longer.
I'm going to go Nia because I think Alexa has.
All right.
Alexa.
Great.
Stephen.
Nia.
All right.
So.
I agree that Nia retains.
I think.
And I'm not calling shenanigans here because I can't because it's Mickey James.
Mickey tries to interfere.
It backfires.
That leads to an Alexa.
Back to the Alexa Mickey thing.
I think Nia moves on from this point.
That's good.
Cool.
It's time to get some fresh blood in around that title.
I think she gets some fresh blood.
I think she does.
Smackdown live women's title on the line.
And I'm actually saying these words together.
Smackdown live women's champion Carmella versus Charlotte Flair.
Now, if I'm not mistaken, I heard a stat this past week that said,
if Charlotte wins this match, she ties Trish Stratis for the most,
the largest number of women's title runs in WWE history.
Yeah.
That's her and Sasha switched it back and forth.
Now, Don did have some questions about the the Oscar streak.
And he and I were talking earlier today because you had like people back in the
day that would have carried belts for years and years and years.
But I think it's number of matches, especially in the women's division because
back in the day, women wouldn't wrestle very much every year.
So Oscar wrestling the number of matches she has versus the amount of time she held
the title.
It's completely different.
But he does carry some interesting points.
You know, you look at the industry to string of Andre.
You know, 10 years.
Absolutely.
So, Alex, I believe we're to you.
Smackdown live.
All right.
This is good.
Oh, I can get a two first.
Hold on.
Andrew says Charlotte wins the title back to make his
history.
Don says Carmella and he is declaring shenanigans in this match.
He doesn't say how, but he's just declaring shenanigans.
Okay.
Yeah, I can.
Once per paper.
No, but he has to explain how shenanigans.
No, you can call shenanigans because it doesn't have you don't have to call who it is.
You just claim to say no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
You know, it's right now.
No, no, let me clarify because the rules are the rules.
You can go that deep, but it's still five points regardless of what happens.
If it's not Shelton Benjamin, if somebody else interferes, I'm not going to take the five
from you.
Okay.
But you've heard the rules.
Right.
You said if there's already been warm overheat with these people, then if you interfere with
the rules, if they're a normal part of the match, that's why I can't call shenanigans
with Mickey James because Mickey James is always part, she's always with Alexa.
She's always the valet.
Right.
No, you don't think the Iconics having beef with Charlotte are...
No, because they're not part of her deal.
No, that qualifies because the Iconics are hooked to each other.
They're not hooked to anybody else.
But that's part of the deal.
No, no, it's a fair question.
And thank you for asking because it helped me clarify.
But no, no, the Iconics would that would qualify shenanigans.
Yeah, but he's beefing with both of them right now because he wants that title.
It's the same thing.
How much time have we wasted on this now?
Seven hours.
But he was on the show, he was on SmackDown to say in both of their faces.
No, but what I'm saying is, no, but what I'm saying is, if it's not Shelton Benjamin,
let's just say some rando in the locker room gets involved.
I'm not going to take the five from you because shenanigans are shenanigans are shenanigans.
I apologize if you didn't get it correctly.
Okay.
Now that everything has been sucked out of it, I was going to call Carmella keeping the title with a win
by shenanigans with the Iconics getting involved.
Okay.
To then start Iconics V Becky Lynch and Charlotte.
Interesting.
Doc, wait, we have to come back around.
Doc, I have one word.
Barkley.
Oh, did you show him?
Well, he was too busy talking the whole damn time he didn't listen.
No.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
You're supposed to look at his shirt.
Screw him in shirt.
For those of you that this is an audio medium of Alex Alex was at the draft and he got his
Barkley t-shirt.
Hold on, we got more matches.
Just give him a negative on the rest.
Fair enough.
Chad.
Carmella?
Always?
I'm afraid to say anything else.
General.
Carmella?
Quite again.
Did Ellie make this pick for this match?
No.
Well, Carmella.
This is out of here.
All right.
But I'm going to go with Stan Carmella already.
Okay, but there's another match you have to pick, Goofis.
All right.
How is he the champ when he's in there?
I'm going to go with Charles.
Because he doesn't let the facts get the way of the good Huff and Puff.
Steven.
Uh, Carmella.
Okay.
Stop.
You see my feet?
Easy.
I'll say it.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
We're not going to start that tonight.
Oh, they're lemon.
So this is not a major.
This is the paper view after a major.
Yeah.
I think.
See, I have two different opinions on this because Carmella hasn't held the belt long enough
yet.
Didn't Charlotte just lose this thing?
Right after WrestleMania.
Right.
But by the same token, can a Carmella Charlotte Flair feud go that long?
Uh, the other side of that, that I said, I believe it's going to be Asuka Carmella.
Yeah, you know what?
You convinced me.
Carmella wins.
WWE Championship in a no disqualification match.
AJ Styles, Shinsuke Nakamura, Andrew says, ain't no breaking the redneck AJ Styles.
That's his words.
And Don says AJ.
Chad, I believe we're back around you.
Shinsuke.
All right.
General.
Uh, Shinsuke.
All right.
All right.
AJ.
All right.
No speaking English.
I'm assuming that's a pick for Shinsuke Nakamura.
You can't win the title if you don't make the picks.
All right, Doc.
Uh, AJ.
All right.
Sticking with my theory from before, I'll take Shinsuke.
All right.
I am picking Shinsuke and here's why.
Shinsuke wins the title tonight.
AJ wins money in the bank.
That is my official prediction.
And then, and then we'll find out that AJ's not in that match and then that will all mean nothing.
But, but I really think that you're going to, you're going to line up.
You're going to have Shinsuke Joe.
And then you're going to have Joe AJ at the major.
Whether it's, whether it's Summer Slam or Survivor Series.
It's going to happen before the end of the year.
All right.
So, assuming Survivor Series isn't like it was last year.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
Grading the card.
Don says C minus Andrew did not grade the card.
General.
I'm going to go with a C.
I'm going to go with the B minus C.
All right.
C.
Stephen.
Um.
I'm going to be generous again.
I'm going to say C plus.
All right.
C minus for LA.
C unless they bring back the pancake midgets.
And I'll give it.
That hurt.
Alex.
I will give it a C.
Chad D.
I'm going to say D plus because I'm setting the bar really,
really low for this pay-per-view.
Like this doesn't even look interesting.
This is.
Alex and I talked last week about some theories.
How since we're going to co-brand these pay-per-views.
Oh, wait to make them better, but we're not going to talk about it tonight
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Uh, we'll talk about it probably week after next when we're back in the studio because.
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