Special Edition WWE Fastlane 2018

It is 7-0-1 on the east coast, it is 4-0-1 on the west coast, it is the 11th of March
in the year of our Lord 2018, it is also Selection Sunday, but we ain't talking about that tonight
homes. It is season 8, episode 31, 434 times this voice has welcomed you to the Clubhouse
Podcast live every Sunday night, 7 Eastern, 4 Pacific, but after tonight, not for three weeks.
Volkswagen Y in a minute, welcome. My name is Rob, and I am the executive producer of the Clubhouse
Podcast, and I have one question for everyone here tonight, and it's not who wants to walk with
Elias. My question is very simple. Why is it? It's 2018, and we still can't get
tow truck schedules right. I'll explain this story off air because it'll take too long for
the rest of the people in the studio. The last 24 hours of my life have been very very interesting,
and that's all I have to say about that. You realize you're not talking into a mic that's unmuted
as of yet. Okay, because nobody can hear you right now. I'm blaming you.
And see, I'm, I know what that reference is to, and own other people in the studio don't yet, so
let's go. Good God, this is how this is starting. Let's go around the day as my co-host and the co-host
chair. He is one teacher to weigh from having his nickname of sleeves return. He is Chad,
welcome sir. The very specific reason why there's a shirt underneath it. I wanted to let you know
real quick. Given one of your nicknames in high school, this week's Goldbergs was, was about Adam
doing his own remake of Raiders after he found the tape of the kids that did Raiders. And the way they
fed it was the kid that always wears a rush t-shirts. He's his bootleg VHS guy, and one of his bootlegs
is Pritian Pink and parentheses Ducky Wins. So I wanted to make sure you knew about that. I'll sleep
better knowing that. Hey, what's your, are you denying any of this? Of, of the, of the setup? Okay,
I'm just want to make sure. Oh, I can't. Next time is the official fact checker of this show,
and a man who tonight is not puff puff daddy. You may know him as fond don go, but his moment
even Don Ford, I'm going to call him Don Ford, welcome sir. She's actually making puff up for me
tonight. But not currently. You'll have right now. But it will be later. I will be puff puff daddy.
Don said, hey honey, it's paper tonight. Face win. I'm going to get my hair done.
I've got anything better to do. As we move around clockwise, is a man who's,
who's very excited that he's joined 2018 from a technology standpoint. LA is here. Welcome, sir.
And one billion at the box office. Hey, you know what? The movie's doing well.
That is unfortunate for you. I'm representing the ring. How does it sound?
Nice. Freeze a remember that the defensive paintings of guests in this show may not reflect
those are proper. The lady of the house is here and she has to stay next to LA, at least for the
next 45 minutes. It's a general. Very for me. Nice to see everyone. Sitting in the background.
Keeping a safe distance at the door in case everything breaks loose. My brother Steven is here.
I'm a Cleveland Browns fan now. The Jarvis Langer trade. Yeah, go Cleveland.
They're starting to stack the deck a little bit. And rounding out the days is the newest member of
the crew and a man that is played chauffeur for me today because I don't have a working car. How
long is this here? Anytime, Mr. Irvin. But we had Carl's Jr. talk it. What do you mean we?
I said I had Carl's Jr. today and I enjoyed it. I have a question to ask though real quick.
I almost said it and I was like he's not going to do that is he? Okay, so I don't have any
corrections last week because I still haven't gone through last week's show. The only thing I know
right now is that Alex did better than me on Oscar picks because I had his ballot in front of me.
That's the only reason I know I should have those results in our next show, which will be this
Saturday. We're going to be doing our show live from the Texas pinball festival this coming
Saturday on St. Patrick's Day. If you've never been to the Texas pinball festival and you're
here in the Dallas Fort Worth area, head up to the Frisco convention center. It's so much fun. They
run out the entire convention center. We're going to be there doing the show live from one in the
afternoon until three because we're going to play some pinball ourselves. Yes, we are absolutely.
It's a great deal. I believe Saturday you pay space the money to get in and it's pinball machines
from the early days into the brand new stuff and everything's open play. So everybody's real respectful.
You get to see some great vendors. Luforigno is going to be there as well. So what's up?
Steven just got a notification. The U is in. They are there part of the tournament.
Mazeltov. Now I'm going to make another announcement. I'm going to make another announcement.
After a serious deliberation amongst about three of us, there was at least four of us.
I know that Steven and Alex have been communicating quite a bit lately and Alex has been letting
Steven know that he really needs to be competitive this year in picks. We are going to tell you why
at WrestleMania. On the WrestleMania show, you will find out what all
Alex have been communicating a lot lately. Well, no, that sounds like jealousy to me. That's a whole
Kevin Costner JFK conspiracy. But yes, you're going to find out at our WrestleMania
pre show why it is so important that you be competitive this year. We were going to wait until
the end of the year and we were like, no, no, we're just going to do it at WrestleMania.
There was a discussion of doing it now, but you know, don't deserve it. No, no, no, I want to make
sure that everybody's here because this is a big deal. This is a very big deal. But I want to bring
one thing up on the points. We talked about this last week. No, I'll handle it. Okay.
We had a little bit of confusion during the last pay review. Once you have made your pick and we
have moved on, your pick is solid. You can't go back and go, hey, I want to put more on my pick.
Once you put it solid, it's solid. Everybody clear on that because they turned into a bit of a
train wreck at a elimination chamber. There's a shock. When you're going to the next person or
when you're going to the next match. No, when I go to the next person. We're not going backwards.
That's where the confusion was. Now I'm on the same page. So let me give you a speaking of which
scoring updates still in the seller is Doc at minus 22. He has a minus 3550 percentage. But he,
a bunch of people ran the table at the chamber and he was one of them. Gen Rome is minus three.
That's a minus 48 win percentage. You also went six and I went to chamber. Alex at negative two.
He went five and one. He has a negative zero three two in percentage. You went five and one at
the chamber. But you declared shenanigans in the man's chamber. That hurt. Which hurts you.
Let's see. I am dead even. I have broken even after going four and two in the chamber. But I
declared shenanigans at the Niajax Oscar match. And so I lost points there. All right, be above
board. L.A. you have positive three. So you have a point zero four eight win percentage. You went
four and two at the chamber. Andrew is at plus ten. He's got a one sixty one win percentage. He
ran the table at the chamber. Don you're at twenty six. You have a four nineteen win percentage.
You went four and two at the chamber. But you declared shenanigans in the women's chamber.
And by the way, Don. Yeah. In case you haven't been doing the math. Yeah. Right now you're at
the bronze medal position. Huh? You are six points behind Stephen. Stephen went five and one at
the chamber. He has a win percentage of three fifty five. Which means currently sole possession of
first place by two points is Chad. He ran the table at the chamber. He has a five forty eight win
percentage. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. Chad. How long has it been since that happened?
Oh, I remember I told you he had his own chance. That's it. That was invented by the Empire. We
didn't know that he just happened one day. It foxes an apple. And I was as shocked as anybody.
So I'm down eight. So I'm down to eight points is what you're saying. You are down eight. Yeah.
You're eight points from tying for the lead. Okay. All right. Nine points from the lead.
Uh, grades from elimination chamber. I said a D plus. I'm think I'm going to keep it there.
That was a rough pay for you to watch. Uh, Chad, you said D. Yeah. Don, you said D plus D.
LA, you said C. C. I'll say C minus. All right. Fair enough. Steven, you gave elimination chamber a C.
What do you say now? C said C plus. Uh, general, you said B minus. Yeah, it's going down to a C.
All right. And Alex, you said C minus D. All right. It's a rough deal. Uh, we've got Russ and
Greg are running for behind. Uh, Doc is not here tonight and Andrew's not here tonight, but I
have picks from all of them in text messaging. So they're good to go. So the week that was in our
sport, remember, we are going to be wrestling intensive tonight because it's WWE Fastlane Sunday,
the last pay-per-view before the showcase of the Immortals and the last pay-per-view for the
foreseeable future that is brand specific. Alex, a serious question. Yes, sir. Uh, I am,
I'm not ready to walk with Elias now. No, no, no. Okay. I just want to know what WWE stands for.
I really don't know. And by the way, by the way, he has the top two selling t-shirts in the
company right now. It's weird, but direct TV will not be, will not be carrying Mania again.
Really? So yeah. Uh, have you seen this Lesnar situation? Lesnar wants to resign,
but WWE doesn't want to resign into the same deal. Oh, no. The stickler, get this.
They want him to do four more dates a year, and he's saying no. Cut bait. See ya. Cut bait.
And apparently he has admitted to dealings with the controversial steroid dealer that named Roman
Reigns. Yeah. Cut. And uh, reportedly, as the conversation went, he called out H about it.
Oh, you're cuz I worked out for Steiner. Things got weird and it became Vince McMahon
voice of reason. What do you mean? Who called it? Who called that H? You're saying?
The Lesnar did. He called that scene. The H was in there. Really? Yeah, you're done. Yeah.
Pack. Your newest, uh, Hall of Fame member is one hill hillbilly gym. Am I the only one that
thought he was already in? Yeah. No. Wasn't he on Legend's House? I think he was on Legend's House.
I was so surprised to find out he was alive. Oh, no. I mean, he shows up every once again at like
event. He like, he does access every year. So I would, I thought, I thought for sure he was in.
So there's that. Uh, let's see what else you need to know from the week that was. Let's just talk
a little bit of Monday Night Raw. I've got some notes because I finally watched it. Um,
and anybody who did, they would like to apologize for Paul Heyman being Paul Heyman. Yeah,
but that, that moment was scripted because they caught it. I mean, they caught it perfectly.
You don't ever catch it that perfectly if it's if it's off the cut. Right. And he held the
bull for quite a while. Yeah. And he made sure that he got right to the camera so they were ready
to hit the dump button. Um, was it me or did Steph look very matronly Monday night? She's got the new
hair color. She, she just, she looked like she had the soccer mom thing. Oh, she looks more odd
trying to be sexy as the years go on. She still looks great though. And, um, did anybody notice that
we need to get help Ronda with her scripting because she, she called out. Yeah, like while the
crowd was still like, she didn't wait long enough for the crowd to die down, even though it's
the worst kept secret in wrestling right now is that was she was going to say. The editing was
just as poor because they tried to make something out of it, but yeah. Oh, yeah. And, you know,
I want to reference something that we talked about this probably two months ago during the Oscar
match. I'll tell you this. Cole knows it's an arm bar now because he couldn't, couldn't stop calling
it that after graves jumped him. Uh-huh. That was funny. Um, and apparently, and I didn't know this,
congratulations to the people that produced the sequel to the Stranger's Pray At Night did not
know that Bray Wyatt and the Undertaker and the Bloods and Brothers were in it. Who knew?
I should have gone to that tribe. I was like, really? But I had to chickplay. Can we find
footage of taker that's not a decade old if we're going to do that? No, that was, that was about
10 years ago. There was some of it was two. I did think it was funny that you had dominoes and
disjornos commercials back to back at one point. And what's the genre? How dare you?
And did you notice when they came back from break and they said tap out, now available at
Aeropostal. And I was like, wow, I know what I need to know. They're carrying tap out here.
And this, I may be the only one that that can reference this, but I'm going to say it anyway.
The intro music for each category at the Mizzis. Is that the same music they use as the intro
music for the awards at the annual Poppy Awards on highly questionable at the end of the year?
Because I think it is. I think it's like the generic award show. Yeah. The public domain.
It's literally the first thing when you Google award show. And I took one note especially for LA
who's not paying attention apparently. I noticed that when they were talking about Fastlane,
not sponsored by Rocket League. Whoa. I'm just saying. Now this is going in. It may still happen today.
Hey, the new day's wrestling tonight. Do you know Rocket League? We're going to talk about that here
in a minute because we'll get to it. Brand new belt and NXT. The NXT North American championship
will be decided in a six-way ladder match at NXT takeover New Orleans. Steven, do you have the
full list of who's in that? I know EC3's in it. What? Wait. It's ricochet, Lars Sullivan. Is he still
going by ricochet? Yeah. Killian Dane, EC3, Adam Cole, which might get pulled because of the tag
and Velveteen Dream. That's going to be heck of a match. Yes, it will. And as they did it Wednesday
at the takeover. Yeah, the regal announced it. And you know what? I think we're going to have another
great takeover night together as we always do because that's WrestleMania week. You guys were three
weeks away. God. Good mercy. Hey, make sure you remind us like the three pay-per-views in five
weeks. Well, we're not going to have that now because this is the last brand-specific pay-per-view.
Everything else is going co-brained after maintenance. But I have to continue to remind us how many weeks
away. Three weeks. We're three weeks from WrestleMania. So then after that we've got a nice little break.
So and they did announce that takeover Los Angeles Summerslam weekend will be the next war games.
Didn't they pull that back though? I think they announced it and then they said,
wait, wait, we're not sure about that. I haven't heard otherwise.
They announced it that we get after war games and it's such a success that we're doing it another year.
Right. No, no, no, they said that. But when they claimed it was going to be in LA,
they were reserving their right to announce it a later date. This was this was as of Wednesday.
So it may have changed. No, that's the same one I read. Bobby fish out with a knee injury
after the NXT House Show last Sunday at Indianapolis. Apparently they're having to clean up his ACL
and his MCL. But also not the only thing that happened at NXT's House Show last Sunday.
One of my favorite celebrities on planet earth got involved during NXT House Show in Indianapolis
as Adam Cole was about to hit somebody with a chair. Pat McAfee came out of the crowd,
did the Lesnar jump up onto the apron, grabbed the chair, threw it, jumped back down,
gave him a crotch chop and went away. They'd been going back and forth on Twitter and a lot of
people were upset because Pat's been training because that's one of his dreams is to be involved,
but they had a no physicality role for him that night. But they are still working with him. He
said it was an amazing experience. He was nothing but excited for everybody. He said it was a great
card. NXT's getting stuff done, brother. Let's see. We would talk about impact, but I didn't
record it this week because there was other stuff that blocked it. And when I went to my DVR,
I went, I've been spared. You didn't miss it. It was the championship matches, but
it's supposed to be like a pay-per-view card. Really? You got a new women's champ. Who's a new
women's champ? Is it Ali? That blonde girl. Yes, it was Ali. How are you doing?
Let's see. If you've been longing for episodes of WCW Thunder,
it hits the network next Monday. Oh yay! If you want to see one of the worst wrestling
entrance sets this side of the original SmackDown set, but no body real quick, LAX still
retain and so did uh what's the space? Austin area. Well, buddy, you should mention Austin Aries.
What's that? It's like Dell actually I think is conjoining the uh was it? The ex and the ex division
and triple crime and the grand champion. Okay fair enough. Uh the ROH 16th anniversary special
was Saturday nights or Friday night. I'm sorry the TV tapings were last night. Uh let's see.
Sumi Sakai defeated Hana Kimura in the first round of the Women of Honor championship tournament.
Also, Taneel Dashwood beats Brandy Rhodes in their quarter final match. There was an announcement
right after that that Brandy is the first person in stars tournament now. Oh really?
Japan, yes. And that's where uh Mendelian's doing a lot of work with them right now too. Uh here
Mowoo Takahashi, one of the Rome moved Takahashi, time bomb. He beats uh Flip Gordon. Yay.
Uh I'm we're going to skip this one and come back. Okay. Uh Kenny King is held onto his brand new
world television title as he beats Silas Young. I don't know where he got to take it. No, it's
where he got the title, isn't it? Yeah, got from Silas. Yeah. Silas one. I don't know. It was
another one. Silas. Oh, that was the rematch wasn't right. Yeah. Yeah. And the rematch in
then Boba Rae came out and said to beer beer. Get out and all that. And so he got the title back
and he defended against Silas. So Cal on censored is your new six man tag team championships in a
Las Vegas tree fight as they beat the young bucks and Adam Page with a big assist from Shane Taylor.
Cody defeats Matt Taven. Uh the briskos are now this besides being the second most protected
tag team in ROH. They're now your tag team champions once they beat uh the Motor City Machine
Guns and Dalton Castle successfully defended against Jay lethal. But who fights him next? Well
that's an excellent question and I have the answer to that because in a number one contender's
match. That would be weird. Punishment Martinez does the job to one Marty Skirl who is now your
number one contender for the ROH championship. But at the end of it, Austin Aries comes sauntering
out wearing all of his belts. And so there are a lot of questions now because Alex and I were
talking in pre show. Apparently the relationship with ROH and an impact is not what it used to be.
So maybe Austin's not working under a contract. No, no, his contract allows him to work whatever
date he chooses for a while. Oh, does he? Okay. But he came out to talk to Kenny King and the TV
title not with Skirl. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. I mean, the ROH is back on TV finally. It's on
channel 47 Wednesday nights at 11. Yeah. Okay. So it's plus I'm still getting it from Nesson. So
but at least I get it. Yeah. One of us. Yeah. And in the biggest announcement of the week, Saudi Arabia
get ready. April 27th, a 50 man royal rumble that will include H. The great colleague invitation.
Is that they're going to? No. Okay. They're calling it the greatest royal rumble.
Please don't. Is this something that's going to be aired on the network?
Okay. Tiger Ali Singh. We've got all the way around. No, I'd like to see the iron sheet.
They should call it the iron sheet. Honestly, we better start going to the ring now because it's
going to take him that long to get there. But still, they've got the medium class.
I mean, he's a hall of famer. But is this there's no announcements on whether or not it'll be on
the network? Or if it'll just be a sergeant slaughter defects. The 1990s. I rocky sympathizer. Oh,
God. I will ever remember that again. And apparently Vince.
Of promotions. May have to with that money. And with Vince. Well, apparently Vince had a meeting
with somebody this week. Uh-huh. That is auspicious given that we're three weeks away from Mania.
Yeah. Pages X. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, Megusta. Put them two back together.
A couple of Smackdown notes. Sammy Sam, when he was talking to Kevin Owens backstage,
he's like, I know how good I am. Like, he's really starting into a good heal. Oh, he's great.
He's good. Good. I'm not doing great. I think he's great in its infants. And note to Shinsuke,
I love the new t-shirt, but it doesn't help when you spend your entire promo with your arms crossed
and nobody can see it. How come he sings better than he speaks English? Well, I want to say,
well, did he lip sync that or was that really? No, he really sounded just like an English anyway.
It's called karaoke. That was hilarious. I was like, he's not Korean. Oh, dear.
And that moment where we have the exterior shot of the arena, and that dude slipped and busted his butt,
was that supposed to happen or did he just happen to catch that? Because the fact that they went
to replay so quickly. Personally, it's snowing like a beast, and this guy rolls up in short sleeves
on a hat and just whoop boom right on his butt. That's old fashioned white people, white people.
Can I just start calling you NatX and be done with it? I can have a top 10, but the man wouldn't let it happen.
We're about 15 seconds away from Owakanda forever. Yeah. All right, so let's run the card.
There's only six matches, five matches, six matches on this card. Yeah, well, they got it two
in like last three days. They realized how many they had. No pre-show match. Oh, that good.
This go round. So that's kind of weird. We're going to take these in the order that I feel they're
important because I can. So I need to bring up all my text message. She is that I have to go through.
Let's see. We're going to start with Shinsuke Nakamura versus Rusevde. Doc says Shinsuke Nakamura.
Andrew says Shinsuke Nakamura. Rusez Shinsuke Nakamura. Chad. Big shock. Shinsuke Nakamura.
Don, wait, is that you're just calling it that way? Yeah, okay. Don, Shinsuke Nakamura and I
get to see by pin. All right, LA. I'm going to go with Shinsuke Nakamura with a kick to
Aiden and a pin over Rusevde. Okay. So that's two points. Yeah, there's no extra points for the guy
outside the ring. Nakamura. All right. Steven Nakamura. Alex Nakamura pinfall. I'm going to say
Nakamura pinfall as well. There's going to be some, there's going to be, I can't call Shenanigans
because Aiden's always involved in the match, but it's going to be something where Aiden does
something in a backfires. Oh, that's an interesting call. So women's tag team match Naomi and
Becky Lynch versus Carmella and Natalia. Can we just make a rule that if you're going to have
any type of work done, Natty and the chemical peel, you need to do it enough days in advance
so it settles before TV because that just looked weird. Freak me out. Rusez Natalia and Carmella.
Andrew says Lynch and Naomi. Doc says Becky and Naomi. Don. You could do the same thing, Becky and Naomi.
Okay. L.A. I'll take the same because they're going to end up pushing Carmella soon here.
Okay. Let's go with a win for Becky over Natalia. Okay. General. I'm doing Natalia and Carmella.
Natalia. Pins Carmella. Oh, no. We're taking the heels. I'm sorry. Okay. Steven.
I'm going to go Becky Lynch and Naomi. Okay. I'm going to go with Becky and Naomi by submission.
Chat. Becky and Naomi. I am going to say Naomi Pins Natty. Just because of the whole
Maiigo is so big, I can't control it and then Naomi kind of just lays her out.
All right. United States Championship on the line. Bobby Roode versus Randall Keith Orton.
Let's see. Doc says Bobby Roode. Andrew says Roode retains the title even though he'll
Orton with the belt is best for Smackdown but that will not happen because gender mahal can
never be a face. You shut your dirty mouth. And Russ says Orton wins. L.A. I believe ready you.
This is a tough one though because I don't know what's going on. Yeah, it is. I'm going to say
Roode because I got to feeling that the current champions are going to all walk into WrestleMania with
their titles. So I'm going to root on this one. Okay. General. Roode. Steven.
And he's setting up for a triple threat at Mania. So I'm actually I don't want I don't like doing the gambling stuff.
Never mind. I'm just going to say I'm just going to say Bobby Roode. Alex.
Oh, everybody. You know what the last time I'm just going to go with Roode by Penn.
Okay. Chat. Roode but gender interferes somehow. So are you declaring should are you declaring
shenanigans? Yes, I am. Chat is declared shenanigans in this match done. So if gender gets involved
in that's because he's not normally involved. Yeah, they're not going to do Bobby Roode pin shenanigans.
Roode wins this because it'll set up because you've already got a triple threat for the
Intercontinental title at Mania. I think you're also going to have a triple threat for the US title.
I am not willing to declare shenanigans in this match because it's so obvious.
Yes. So Smackdown live tag team championships on the line. Usos new day 73.
And now that's what I was saying earlier. What I realized how bland Smackdown was without the new
day on it or the Usos. Right. It just was a very boring show. Russ says new day. So new tag
champs there. Andrew says. Nusos. Doc says. No, once you say on the show it becomes my intellectual
property contract. Doc also says new tag champs. General, where do you? Usos. Okay. Usos.
All right. Alex. I can see this going two different ways, but I'm going to choose the way it works.
Yeah. I'm going to say Usos pin. Chad Usos. Don. Usos. L.A. Yeah, we're going to go with the new
Soes. They're going to have their WrestleMania moment. I you know what? I agree with that because
that was such a big deal was made to Smackdown lives ago about them never. Yeah, never being
involved in WrestleMania in that one-on-one thing. I think they carry it to Mania, but I think
that's where they drop it. Honestly, that made me think more it was going to be new day.
Because then the whole thing would be them fighting for their WrestleMania. That's that logic
sound, but I'm standing by. I pick the opposite as well. Smackdown live women's championship on
the line Charlotte Flair versus Ruby Riot. Russ says Charlotte. Andrew says Charlotte. Doc says
Charlotte. I believe Steven were to you. Okay, can I just everyone raise your hand and I know
this is an audio medium, but are we all picking Charlotte? Show of hands. Yeah, we're done.
Anybody want to gamble any deeper than that? I'm claiming shenanigans. You can declare shenanigans
in this match. How so? What kind of shenanigans are you declaring? I think Riot's girls are going
to get in there and mess it up. But still Charlotte wins. Yes. Okay, LA, you had your hand up.
Yeah, I was going to specify mine with a figure eight. So you're saying by submission? Yes.
Okay, anybody else? So you want the submission as well? No question. You say no offense to
gin on this. If the riot squad is there already part of that group? Yeah, you can't declare
shenanigans on that because they're normally part of her deal anyway. Right. They're part of the
match. So it is you cannot do that. Yeah, partner. So you cannot declare shenanigans on them.
You'd have to declare shenanigans on something that's not normally involved with them. Like a
façade came down or something. Then it didn't be shenanigans. Okay, then I'll, but I'll
I think there's anybody in the ring. It's not just it's got to be something not normally involved
in the match. Okay. So and your main event is is a six pack challenge for the WWE Championship.
AJ Styles versus Kevin Owens versus Sammy Zayn versus Baron Corbin versus Dolph Ziegler versus
John Cena. Doc says John Cena and by the way, he said if there's any additions, he'll take the
opposite of whatever LA says Andrew says and we don't want none, but a styles victory on the
fast lane to Mania. See what he did there. And Russ says he says he's picking he's picking Ziegler.
He's picking Ziegler. He's picking Ziegler. Oh wow. So one two three one two three four five.
So Alex, I guess we're to you. Correct. I have a question regarding shenanigans in this regard.
Okay. If somebody does not show up, however, a certain lighting aspect and sound aspect
causes a change to the finish, does that count as shenanigans? No physical appearance.
I mean, what are you kind of saying? Let's just you know what? I'll put this one up to a vote.
LA and Stephen both say no, Jen. Okay. No. That's a three. That's that's a majority. So no one.
There you go. All right. Then I will say no shenanigans and say AJ Styles by pin.
Chad AJ by pin. Don. I'm just going to say straight up AJ pin LA
and Dolph Ziegler's retirement party. We're going with AJ style. Wow.
General AJ Styles with a pin. Stephen. I'm wearing pink. Is that the new shirt? Yes, that is.
I'm wearing pink. And it does say DZ all the way on it. And and I'm here to steal the show.
And he don't want that. And AJ Styles is winning. Oh, picked against his boy.
Well, you can't agree with Russ and expect to win.
That was very hurtful. That was me. That was me. Oh, she's okay. I don't see I don't see AJ not winning.
This will set up Zane versus Owens in Mania. You don't see Baron Corbin headlining WrestleMania.
Not at least until the next winner Olympics. Wow.
And I respect the Baron Corbin because he was a teammate with Pat McAfee. But I just
respect AJ. I mean, to say that Smackdown Live is the house that AJ Styles built. It kind of is right now.
Okay. Hey, hey, Smackdown Live is the house that UPN built. That's true. And it is the rock show.
And can't we just go ahead and say that Dolph is gone? No. No, I'm not saying that yet.
He's not one with shame, man. Because the the rumor is that the deal is all but signed.
Oh, no, he's signed. He's signed a two year deal like guaranteed. I was going to say he has like this crazy, crazy
conscious. I thought I thought that was pretty much a done deal. But I think AJ wins. I mean, I
meant to say retirement from championship matches. Oh, okay. All right. There's the LACYA. Okay, so Zegor did
shine a 1.5 million contract, didn't he? Yeah, nice. Guys got skills. Yeah. All right, so I don't
have grades from anybody else. So Chad grade the card as it stands. I think it's another D. Don,
C minus L.A. D plus general C Steven B. Now it's shock value. Straight C.
This being the last paper view before Mania, I would expect at least one more match to show up in
this thing. Kurt Hawkins. F is for friends who I can't in good conscience put this. I mean,
if I said D plus for the chamber, I can't say any higher than a D for this because it's just
I feel like they're just mailing it in to get to Mania. Yeah, there's gonna be no major shake-ups
on this. I don't see any big. And I have declared that if Alex is going to call the rumble
wrestling Christmas, Mania is wrestling New Year's Eve. Mostly because you're hungry over. Well,
there's that plus the fact that this is where everything ends and then everything begins again. So
oh boy. But again, we say this almost every paper view. A good chunk of the reason that we
watch these together is that we're watching them together. And it gives us an excuse to hang out
together. And that's really the best part of it. So that was so sweet. I think I got diabetes.
Well, I got to check from all your moms. So. Oh, that's why I didn't get my check from mind
this mom. Don't try to cash mine. So, but no, I mean, yes, I like all of you guys to silence
your cell phones. Sitch your mouths. That includes you. You are the king of nice quiet moment.
Oh, I got to go. Oh, okay. They were trying to switch down. Sorry. All right. So make sure you
tune into the network tune into the the big paper view that starts here in a boot 22 minutes.
So let's go over the schedule for the next couple of weeks. This Saturday at one o'clock
Eastern, we will be live from the Texas pinball festival up in Frisco. Come hang out with us.
We're going to be we're not going to be by ourselves this year. Last year we were out in the hallway
and there was nobody really around us this year. They're bringing the vendors inside
from the ones that were outside. So you're going to be able to see some of the vendors out there
that are selling parts and things like that. But if you've never been to the Texas pinball festival,
it's so awesome. We want to see everybody come out there. So next Sunday, we won't have a show
because we're going to have a show Saturday. Two weeks from tonight, we will not be on the air
because grace descending will be live at poor David's pub in uptown. So if you're in the Dallas
area, come out and see us. If you get your tickets before close a business tomorrow, being March
the 12th tickets are 10 bucks. We're going to go on between 730 and 8 o'clock. After tomorrow,
they go up to $12 or 15 to door. But get them in advance. Poor David's pub is right next to
Gilles in uptown. We're going to be hanging out having a good time. And then the week after that
is Easter Sunday. So we want everybody to enjoy that day with their family. And so the next time
we're in the studio on air live, we'll be WrestleMania. Wow. So we got that going for us,
which is nice. That being said, let's get ready and do a little thing I call the club.
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