Special Edition WWE SummerSlam 2016

It is 601 on the East Coast.
It is 301 on the West Coast.
It is the 21st of August in the year of our Lord 2016.
If we're on this early, it must mean it's Summer Slam Sunday, season 7, episode 6, 3656 times.
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My name is Rob.
I'm the executive producer of the Clubhouse Podcast and kind of an interesting milestone
for us today.
We'll be having some people I'm sure joining us as the show goes on where an hour early
because the paper of you starts an hour earlier than normal.
Joining me across the desk, as he tends to do, is my co-host and a man who, if I'm not
mistaken in the pantheon of majors, this is his least favorite of the year.
He is Chad.
Am I correct on that?
No, not necessarily.
I don't know what.
I don't know if I really have a least favorite.
Well, I mean, there's only four.
So you got to have one that's number four and your favorites, the rumble, which I'm assuming
after that would be Mania, which I'm assuming after that would be Survivor Series and then
this one.
Not necessarily.
I think Survivor Series may be my least favorite big daily because it's gotten so far
away from the original formula.
It's a rare point.
If for no with a reason that.
And we do have the unofficial fifth major, which is now not even a major anymore because
next month, nine of champions is now Clash of Champions and it's a raw paper view.
And our next paper view is going to be a little bit different.
We're going to talk about that here in a little while.
This paper view six years ago was the very first special edition we ever did on the show.
Really.
We had to pre-tap it because I was actually going to be out of town, which is going to
happen next month because I'll be out of town for, uh, what is the one next month?
Back, is it back?
Is it back?
Is it the next one?
Is it December 11th?
I'll be flying back from Florida.
But yeah, we, we taped summer slam early and I was in Florida watching summer slam.
So we're actually going to be pre-taping, which I guess we'll go ahead and talk about it.
We'll be pre-taping for backlash.
We'll be watching the, the paper view on delay, but we wanted to make sure that the show went
out on time.
It is backlash.
It isn't deep back.
Great.
We open every show with corrections.
We have one technically from last week.
Apparently, I accurate the Hall of Fame three times after correcting myself in the beginning
of last week's episode.
Thank you, Barbara.
Wire for pointing that out.
You don't like it.
Very much.
You know.
The first three words are can.
Okay.
It's a ton of cans.
And I can't handle a ton of cans.
Normally, we are your one-stop shop for all things, pop culture.
But since this is paper view Sunday, we are wrestling intensive tonight.
We'll be back to abnormal next week.
So be counting on that.
We will be talking about the week that was in our sport, 100 of the Battle Cat has joined
us.
Because he keeps saying it's time for him to be fed, which it is not yet.
So if you hear meowing, well, Rob is talking, it's not me.
We will be running the card for you, Don, actually on the road himself right now.
He is on his way to Pittsburgh.
Actually, right now, is he, is he, is he on his way there?
Is he on his way back?
No, he's flying out today.
He's flying out.
He's flying out.
Friday.
So he actually texted me his picks today.
There's a lot of matches on this card.
Good Lord.
Yeah, see.
So he's going to be covered.
We're going to see if the usual suspect should be here in due time.
Andrew said he was on his way.
L.A said he would be here.
Docs having rehearsal right now as we're getting ready for the big Gobo show that's
coming Saturday at Rack Daddy's in Carrollton.
They'll be playing.
Get there about six thirty because I've played for seven to eight.
And it's a benefit for the Susan G. Comand Foundation, a one hour Gobo set.
We'll be mostly covers because it is a family show.
But you know, I'm going to be there.
I got to support my boys.
So check that out.
If you come hang out with us, I'll show you if we haven't met you.
Tell us you'll listen to the show and how much love the show or how much
you don't.
I'm not here to judge you outwardly.
Let's talk the week that was in our sport.
Oh, what a week it was last night was NXT take over Brooklyn two.
I just finished watching it right before we went on here.
I did not watch it last night.
I was actually out and about it was we were having brother sister movie tonight.
Sure, and I went saw war dogs.
You can catch my review of that probably within the next couple of days on our website.
But what a crowd.
Wow, Brooklyn packed that park place center to the Rackers.
I could I could not see any sections that were curtain off.
And from last night, that was a hot crowd.
That place was and it was just as hot as it was last year.
Although I thought last year, the opening was kind of cool because when Triple H did the whole
reveal thing that was kind of neat.
That was that crowd was borderline raw after WrestleMania.
What do I need to see W?
Yeah, I'm just a great crowd.
Austin Aries defeats no way Jose.
That's actually his name is shut up.
I mean, and there was, I'm telling you, there was not a match on this card that did not actually
wow me.
Well, I only saw a little piece of one of them.
Local girl done good.
If you're a PCW fan, they had used to have a female restaurant
Athena came up through Booker T school.
She made her debut last night with NXT as Ember Moon and she defeats Billy Kay.
What a finisher.
Let me say about this finisher, sir.
Okay.
Billy Kay is standing.
Ember Moon on the turn buckle.
Jump off the turn buckle to flip over her into what could be seen as an RKO or a stunner.
God, Lee, that takes, it was pretty.
That's a high level of acrobatics.
So congratulations to Ember Moon, very proud of her.
Bobby Roode, officially an NXT now.
Entrance was brilliant because he's he's now glorious.
Everything is glorious for Bobby Roode.
So his seems on like glorious.
I would have given up a ton of victorious.
And he's on this platform up like he's probably 20 feet in the air wearing a
flare style robe just with his arms outstretched.
It is so over the top.
It's brilliant.
Typical, typical, typical Bobby Roode.
Yeah.
And he defeats on on dry day, CN, almost.
Great match there.
A lot of, sometimes you think false finishes can kind of wear you out.
There were so many great false finishes in this
that I can't, I can't even tell you how great this thing was.
Also, uh, NXT tag team championships on the wine as the revival successfully defend the NXT
tag team championships versus Tomaslo Giampa and Johnny Gargano.
This match was amazing.
This thing went back and forth the whole time.
I have to send a quick test of my text messages.
We got a phone call.
We couldn't take here on the studio.
Yeah, now I'm getting it.
Yeah.
Um, Oscar defense the NXT Women's Championship successfully over Bailey.
What a match this was.
Uh, kind of wondering if Bailey's going to be called up full time to the main roster?
Because that thing really had an air of finality to it.
Let me look into that.
I mean, she, which she was the surprise tag team partner.
Uh, for, for Sasha Banks last month.
So, but it was a great, great match.
And then Shinsuke Nakamura defeats Samoa Joe to become NXT champion.
And I, I, one of the newsletters I get the wrestling online newsletter had a very
interesting article today.
And I didn't realize it until just now.
This is the first time an American promotions top two champions were both Japanese
wrestlers.
That is, that's interesting.
And both great.
You know, we've talked about Shinsuke Nakamura on this show before.
How he really is the Japanese Terry Funk.
He's insane.
And the stuff he does, I mean, Samoa Joe really put on a good match with him.
I was very impressed by this overall.
This card is one of the best complete shows I have seen in a very, very, very long time.
Triple H is killing it with NXT.
I, I hope that I hope it translates well when they bring them over.
It's been real hit or miss.
That's, and that's what's bothering me.
And I don't, I don't know what it is.
I mean, you look at somebody like the Vaude villains or the ascension.
What is it that works for them in NXT that doesn't send to work on the main roster?
Even America, Alpha American Alpha works to an extent, but not as well as it should.
And I don't get it.
But then you've got somebody like Finn Baller.
That's, that just took off.
That just took off like wildfire.
He's really getting over.
I mean, last week's raw loan.
But we're going to talk about that here in a minute.
Speaking of NXT, there are very, very strong rumors right now that Eric Young is signed.
And we'll be making his red debut on NXT very soon.
Now, that being said, something else happened.
And we're not sure if this is in Angle or not, the assumption is that it is.
But last week's TNA, James Storm cut a promo where he basically said,
maybe I need to go somewhere else where my best friend is.
A lot of people are saying that this is, it's, it's a work.
But TNA's got to do anything here right now.
Well, you feel something bad like that out there.
That's, the king of bowling is joined.
Just Andrew Beckham is here.
Oh, welcome. Thank you.
Well, no, you're, oh, no, no, you're.
Yeah, this is my, you're welcome.
Because he's own crib, that's all, that's a long weekend.
Very gracious of you, sir.
Yeah, right there with you.
Rumors tonight, somebody's still in New York City after promoting the video game.
That no one is either confirming nor denying may show up on the card.
Will there be fireworks on either side of said person?
Yes, will he possibly be blowing steam out of his nose?
Yes.
The cold beer, the cold beer, that guilt, not the guilt beer.
No, the real honest God, Bill Goldberg rumors are flying that he will be involved tonight.
And with him, like he's saying, you know, I don't know.
With this situation, I think he dot the protest too much.
That's all I'm saying.
Well, considering that you've kind of had the roster decimated a little bit.
Well, plus the fact of take the other hand of that.
Remember what happened the last time he was in a WWE ring with Lesnar?
Yeah.
That's not forget that.
As much as I do, I'm a huge fan of the Goldberg.
Let's not forget how that bit ended.
Can we try and forget up that bit ended?
You got to have at least faithfully personal make me a match.
It always has to do exist.
Gocker has announced they are going to shut down this week.
Gocker is done.
Did I mention, and he still has to pay Hogan.
Good.
I mean, I'm not the greatest Hogan fan in the world, but
he earned this.
Yeah, he more than earned this.
And bubble the love sponge, your next stun.
How you've evaded this whole bit, I will never understand.
That baffles me, because without him, this don't happen.
Yep.
He's the guy.
If I ever thought I could have negative respect, like below no respect for somebody,
this guy's on that list.
What?
As Tommy Lee Jones put it so well in mid and black, you got sucking internal
perisite, intestinal perisite, a couple of raw people suspended 30 days for wellness
party.
Actually, I don't think that either one of them are on the raw roster.
But Alberto Del Rio and Paige both suspended 30 days.
And something you mentioned to me the other day, true, sir, is absolutely true.
Alberto Del Rio's deal is up next month.
Yeah, and a lot of people are expecting.
He comes back from this suspension.
And that's the ballgame for Alberto Del Rio.
You realize that we're creeping up on a year since he came back.
It didn't even feel like it was that one.
Last year.
That's sinking in.
He got caught up in that European powers or whatever.
And the, what was it?
No, that was the European power.
Yeah, that's what I forget what it was.
The League of Nations.
League of Nations.
Yeah.
And then after that, he just,
written an interesting article this week,
your shameless was saying, I think it was shameless was saying that the original intent
for that thing was to help put over Roman Reigns.
That was like the original intent to the League of Nations.
How was that ever going to happen?
Were you watching Raw Monday night?
I didn't get to see it.
This bit with him and Rusev.
It's he's over right now.
He's very over.
Roman Reigns?
Yes.
Wow.
We've gone from 70, 30 against to 90, 10, 4.
Yeah.
Holy.
And I'm not exaggerating.
They've found the formula to finally get him over.
They have finally cracked the code.
Now, what, what, that carry over when he rest starts wrestling other people?
Or is it just a mess?
I mean, we're going to find out.
Interesting that there's some rumors of some heat on Dean Ambrose,
after his interview on the Stone Cold podcast.
And I've listened to it.
It gets a little testing in the beginning and it gets a little weird at the end.
But Austin asks him about the whole bit with with Lesnar.
And he says straight up, I wanted that match to be the greatest match on the card.
But Lesnar didn't want to do anything.
The rumor is Lesnar didn't want to take any chances because he knew even at WrestleMania.
That the UFC deal was on the table.
Hmm.
So he didn't want to do any high spots or anything like that.
That might endanger his UFC training.
I never really knew him to do any high spots anyway.
But.
But Dean's right, though.
Like if you go back and you watch that match, Dean was really trying to make something out of that match.
And Lesnar just want to do it.
Yeah.
Lesnar just.
But what do they expect?
Like Lesnar's ever been a great worker.
Yeah, that's not what I'm not going to be saying either.
Yeah, he's not exactly a team.
I'm not saying you don't have the talent because he probably could be.
But like you, yeah, you said,
not a team player.
His ego gets in the way of everything.
We are talking about the one guy that's a lot of where his endorsement on his trunks.
But it's true.
You know, that's my contract.
The first time.
Give me a break.
I mean, come on.
You just, you ego maniacal tool.
Interesting news coming out of the new day.
We have Boudhios, which Lesnar apparently did an interview this week.
We're apparently he was interviewed by Xavier Woods for something.
And he said, I'm upset.
I didn't give you Boudhios to take home.
Lesnar said that.
Yes.
He's got disabled to come home too.
I think he's going to be fine.
But they have a new candy.
Do you want to guess the name of the candy?
The new day has a new candy?
They have a new candy.
Is it a unicorn pop?
It is not a unicorn pop.
I want you to think about a certain type of candy.
That there was an urban legend in the 80s
that when it was combined with a soda,
we had with they have their own pop rocks now.
But what are they called?
God.
They are called New Day Rocks.
I don't know who did this.
This is genius.
I don't know who came up with this,
but they are not making enough money.
Just keep them away from Mikey from life cereal.
I feel like I saw this on the internet today.
And I about lost it.
Just take the Lucha Brotsie crown.
It's called Luna Brotsie.
Luna Brotsie is kind of in its own category right now.
But dear God, that's funny.
Dear God, that's funny.
Steffi, man, also reveals this week.
She, her autobiography, she's writing.
It's going to be called Unreal.
Oh, that's going to be called algorithm.
R-E-A-L is going to be all in caps.
We have people starting to file into hangout with us
and watch the show in the green room.
Also want to set a shout out to some members of the empire tonight.
Check it out, the paper view at the Henderson Tap House in downtown Dallas, Texas.
We want to think Henderson Tap House for carrying the paper view.
We want to think some front members of the empire that are getting together for it.
You know, maybe at some point, we may be back on the road.
Maybe so.
You never know.
I'm not closing that door.
I'm holding out hope and just saying.
Let's talk a little bit of raw first of all.
I love Fully's new shirt.
I don't know if you saw this Andrew.
I don't know if it's his have a nice day to my leaf face and it's all in red
plaid and it says have a nice raw.
Nice.
I want that shirt.
I'm a fan.
What if it's on shop so um did you watch did you do anything about the Owen's Jericho
promo one Monday night?
No.
Anything not anything.
Not anything to see wrong.
How they went back and forth saying Tom's name wrong.
You got that was the interview and it just kept making up days.
That's funny.
I do like that um somebody has now called them Jericho.
And somebody made a beefest and butt head parody of the two of them that Jericho himself reposted
because he's a fan of it.
I've got to see him.
Random fact.
He's later does have two children in a wife.
Marius he's been married for five years so we don't know if their daughters are not but we I
did look at that he does have two kids.
He's good.
He's snowballed some fortune.
And what about this deal during the Seth Rollins promo?
Do you not notice this?
I guess I've a fan hit the ring.
Oh yes yes yes yes yes yes.
Really?
You didn't see it on camera.
You could tell that it was happening though.
But the look on Seth Rollins is face you're like oh some's wrong.
You know you saw like the guys like like maybe a piece of his hand.
Yeah like his leg didn't actually get into the ring.
But somebody people were sending in camera footage to two to one of the websites that I look at.
And yeah but but he barely got to the ring before security got a hold of him.
So FYI yeah make fully have a nice raw GM t-shirt 24.99 on shop dot.
I'll do a right now 25 bucks.
Thank you see where else okay we're done.
That's really all I heard from raw.
You're out on that one.
Oh this past Friday night this past Friday night was death before dishonor.
Our OH's latest paper view.
Oh Russ says Athena was born in Garland.
We just keep coming back to to Dallas tonight.
Well we haven't interested in Garland's right next to where our studio is.
Adam Cole is your new ROH world champion.
Defeating Jay lethal this last Friday night at death before dishonor.
I know that makes you sad.
Yeah well it's it makes for good TV.
I'm not a big Adam Cole better fan but whatever.
Let's see what I'll Sean Michaels now will coach at the performance center.
Really good for him.
I don't know if he's moving there if he's just going to work there part time or what's going on.
I wouldn't think that he wouldn't leave the ranch but
strange are things have happened.
It does he still have that show that he was doing that hunting show that you know.
No I stopped recording it because I just got to the point where he just bored me to tears.
And I need I need better better memories of Sean than that.
Yeah um
Eva Marie also suspended 30 days for a wellness party.
Now Del Rio and Paige we still don't know what they got popped for.
Eva Marie from what I have read.
She has a prescription for Adderall which is what Roman Reigns got popped for.
Adderall of course a medication that helps you stay away can stay focused.
Well you're the champion you mean I I don't want to condone it but I get it.
But with Eva Marie apparently she has a prescription for it.
She did not submit the paperwork in enough time for it not to be a wellness part policy
of violation that is the statement she released yesterday.
Because my original thought was this is part of the of the angle of her showing up and then
not being able to wrestle right because she's on the card tonight.
And we're going to talk about the rumors of who's going to be taking her place here in just a moment.
So is she is she crap walking or is is her husband crap walking on that HSO that he threw out there.
Her husband's an idiot.
Yeah.
Basically said that this was a travesty and then when the truth comes out it's going to you.
Yeah I'd be like you stay out of the press.
Because she you want to be in the press you get your own career.
Yeah you leave me to hell.
Because she was she was completely apologetic about it like after he shot his mouth off.
She's like because he's got nothing to lose.
Yeah because I understand it respect their policy.
And she said it right this is what happened.
Yeah I violated policy by not trying to get portions of paperwork in the time frame.
I look forward to my return.
So she took a you know in a stand up.
So I wrote yeah I wrote.
Yeah she needs to get her boy and check a couple of Smackdown live moments.
Did you watch did you expect that line?
I never got around to it no.
In the opening he slater trying to do his bit where he's trying to get a contract.
He rolls into the office of Shane and Daniel Bryan with a big background.
Like big basket of fruit like an edible arrangement.
And they're like you know like a basket of fruit.
I even had some orange and Shane goes what does it say to Bob my condolences.
He's like no it's supposed to say to my boss.
Shoot.
So he takes an apple out and he throws it at a working because he wants to get this career.
So he doesn't take on a working actually.
He's he's he's just making notices.
He's going to take it.
Or he says I've got an idea takes a bite of the apple and we cut to the opening.
I'm like come on.
How do we not spit the apple?
I just said that's going to tick.
That's a lot.
You have prime opportunity here.
That that was the ultimate opportunity for him to have a damn moment with Carlito.
He spits the apple and he just looks at him and goes that's cool.
And yes, just give me the book in a chapel for a year.
That is a wasted squandered opportunity.
Maybe the book for a year.
Maybe they couldn't though.
Maybe Carlito actually has that trademarked.
There's no way.
No, there's no way.
No, if there's any trademarks owned by anything.
It's Vince owning everything.
Now he might be able to say Carlito because I think that's his actual name.
But Carlito Caribbean cool I guarantee you is owned by WW.
And I spit into faces of people that don't do not want to be cool.
I guarantee you they own that because that was probably put on a t-shirt.
But just he just I have an idea and then cut to the opening sequence.
Like you come on man and I can't be the only person screaming at him.
I tell a vision across America.
Well you scream at a lot more than most people like that.
Here's another random fact that you may not have known.
Fun dongo has been with the company three and a half years now.
What does it feel like he's been there for a decade?
Because because you know now when they're coming to the ring they have a little
factoids on the deal and it shows that he won his debut match at WrestleMania against
Jericho at WrestleMania 29.
So they're twenty nine sir so they're doing it.
We just had thirty two stop I can't I can't I can't I can't read my head around the
he's been but it did definitely seem like he's been her longer than that.
But remember he was part of the NXT contest when he was a was he?
Because he won the NXT that you wow I had no idea and there's you know because
in the head that bit was like I'm not going to cry over spilled milk and stuff like that.
He was close to Chase and then he became he was Johnny something I can't understand about that.
And then Naomi okay Russ for a 30 start with bad puns.
It talks about or he says he sounds rotten to the court him.
We're not going to have another moment like we had last week.
We're putting that behind us.
So so says you that's a fair point.
Let it happen.
Naomi's now a club kid.
What what's going on what she comes out and there's a
black light and she's wearing this outfit that's got all these real wheels off designs that show
up under the black light and she's and she's got like a backpack and she's throwing
glow sticks to the crowd. Come on man you don't need a bit with her go wrestle.
And wasn't that Adam Rose's bit kinder not not not to this extreme.
I mean she's she is black light all the way to the ring glowing.
But I'm just saying you know on a on a lesser level that was Adam Rose's bit and it didn't work for him.
Why do they think it's going to work for her?
She's got skills she doesn't need a bit.
Oh she doesn't that's my point.
And apparently Kurt Hawkins is coming back and apparently he's Chuck Norris.
What I don't know if they're they're doing vignettes for Kurt Hawkins.
And it's like Kurt Hawkins doesn't flush the toilet he kicks the crap out of it.
I'm not kidding you. Stop it happened unsmacked down.
It happened.
Side note here. Russ says Johnny Curtis was fun. Don't go to original and that's right.
I'm still on on shop.wew.com and I'm looking at their lunch pales.
No, no, no, no, no. You're going to want this lunch pales. And I don't have a very good relationship.
They have a lunch box that is the WWE money in the bank briefcase.
Oh yeah. You might have my attention at 43. You might have attention. It's it's 20 bucks.
You got to understand I was the kid that my mom bought me a lunch pal. Like up through like
almost high school. So there's some emotional scars that come with lunch boxes for me.
They've got a booty on lunch box.
That would be worse.
Interesting. Yeah, but this is the light blue is the light blue.
The booty is yeah, I mean it looks just like the box.
But the that money the bank was pretty darn cool.
Yeah, I went for the bulletproof bailer club too.
Don just texted me he does he is now at Pramani Brothers in Pittsburgh. He texted me the picture of his sandwich.
Lord, so be okay advised of that.
All right. Let's run the card gentlemen.
There's a lot going on tonight. There are three matches on the pre show. None of which we have seen.
So we can actually predict on these which have to figure it out later. So how much of these suspensions
this past week affected the paper if you did it affected it all just one match. Okay.
Because page was on the card del Rio wasn't on the card. Okay. Even Marie was.
Maybe she wouldn't get a rest of it. Okay. So pre show match match one in a best of seven series.
This is what we're doing with Cesaro and Sheamus now. Best of seven series.
Don actually did send me his predictions. He is saying Cesaro. Chad.
I agree Andrew. I agree as well. I'm going to go the other way. I think Sheamus wins the first one
because historically the heel does win the first match.
Because then it becomes now the heel is now or now the face is now behind the eight ball.
So I'm saying I'm saying Sheamus on this. Oh, apparently this is the second match. I think the the next match
the one that you're probably about to talk about the 12 man. Uh-huh. Apparently that's already happened.
I don't say don't look. Okay. Well, no, no. Did I haven't seen it? Yeah. Is that the one with Bubba ray in it?
No, no. Okay. This next one is pre show tag team match. Sammy Zane and Neville versus the Dudley Boyce.
Andrew. Sammy Zane and Neville. Chad. Yeah, I agree. I think that's going to be a clean sweep
because and Don says the same thing. I just it kills me what we have reduced the doubly Boyce too.
Yeah. Okay. But this will teach you to leave now. They get this. I'll teach you to get old.
And the pre show 12 tag team matches is the same exact lineup that we had on SmackDown.
The height bros, the usos, American alpha, and brisongo. I'm sorry.
High bros, usos, and American alpha versus brisongo, the ascension and the Vaude villains.
Chad. Oh, god.
I'll go with the faces. I guess, right? Andrew. The heels. Don says the faces. I'm also going to say the
faces. It's SmackDown. The faces. Yeah. It's pretty much it. Now it's going to the main card.
A lot of people saying this next match could headline the card. I hope not
because you have championship matches, but
Marky value. Brock Lesnar. Yeah. Randy Orton. Andrew. Randy Orton.
Dude. Easy killer. Chad. I can't hear so I can't tell. It's not loud. I am. I just
Rampy Orton. Don says Lesnar. I'm actually going to say Orton. Yeah.
Lesnar's got to lose at a paid proof you with some point clean. Although you might have
Cold beer intervention. Because if he's going to get involved, that's the map. Yeah.
John Cena versus AJ Styles. Chad.
Cena. Andrew. Styles. Clash. And one, two, three. Don says Styles. I'm saying
Cena because we will end. That's what I'm hoping for. We are squandering styles with this. And it's
not because of Cena. I don't think because I still have respect for Cena. I just think this angle is
stale. Yeah. You've got bigger and better things to do with Styles. And Cena.
I've got to put him in a pointless feud with Cena. There's nothing to gain. Okay. Six
divas tag team match. Carmella Becky Lynch and Naomi versus Natalia Alexa Bliss and
question mark because Eva Marie is out on suspension. However, something that
Russ who's sitting here in the studio that he and I discussed yesterday. That Russ. This is
Greg. You guys are stuck together so much. I get confused. The brush is in the chat room.
You got Russ on the brain. Yeah. I do sometimes. Nikki Bell was in town.
There are rumors that she is the surprise sixth diva. All right. I'm sorry. Dix, six, six,
lady. Because it not divas anymore. I apologize. The last three. She is the last three that you mentioned.
The heels. Yeah. The heels. All right. Chat. I'm going with the faces.
Don says the heels. I'm going with chat.
Because what'll happen is the heels will lose. Nikki won't get pinned and so she'll say it's all
there fault. And here we go. Because I don't think Nikki was working heel anymore.
Depends. I guess she'll just do it or they don't. Tag team match. Enzo Amore and big cast
versus Jericho. Chad. I'm sure it's going to be Enzo and Cass because they're so over right now. Andrew.
I seconded that. Don says Jericho. I agree with you guys. They're over with me. I love these guys.
A couple latest. I'll just wish you a latest. Enzo would learn when to show. No, you should not.
I love this bit. And that's why it were. I just wish Carmella was with them. Well,
anybody that they can take a take a fall. I heat it a couple of paper views back. You kind of earned my
respect all the past of me. Because that was terrifying. I thought that was going to paralyze that poor guy.
United States. Have you actually had me chip on the line? Rusev. Roman Reigns. Andrew.
Andrew. Thank you. Andrew's the winner in this match. Roman Reigns. Chad. Yeah, because I think it's
going to be because it's something that Lana does. Don says Rusev because he believes that Roman
still in the dog house. I agree with you gentlemen. I think that if we've realized this is how you're
going to get him over. But if you're going to keep him over, you have to have him win this match.
So you can have the rematch to continue the heat. Exactly. Yep. So Rusev saying the women's faces Jericho
and Reigns as well. WWE World. Hey, team championship on the line. The new day versus Anderson in
Gallows. Chad. This one actually kind of concerns me. Okay. Because I think that
there may be cracks in the armor of the new day. I hope not. I hope not, too. Because it
leave it to the WWE to get a great bit going and then completely screw it up. This is what they do.
But they just got no candy. Yeah. Yeah. But you hear about that, Andrew. Right. No. They have a new candy now.
The new day does. Yeah. I didn't hear what you said it was. Okay. Oh, you were out of the row.
So that's what he was. Yeah. Remember when we were kids, you had that certain candy that you put
in when you put in your mouth and it would crack a little bit. Oh my god. So you now have new
day rocks as a candy. This is brilliant. I don't care who you are. I don't care where you come from.
I don't care who you mom is. That's funny. Whoever in marketing thought that up should get
a 9,000% really. Yeah. And I can't wait to tell LA when he gets here. Let's use listening,
which I don't team might be. If he's not, then I get to be the one to tell him. Chad.
Yeah. This it scares me because it really seems like that Gallows and Anderson have somehow
gotten into Woods's head. Okay. Like he seems to be crazy. Yeah. You think we have a title change?
Possibly possibly. It's not. I'm not I'm not hoping for it. But I just don't think his
head is in the game because if somehow freaked him out a little bit and it's going to cost
him to which we started with the riots. Yeah. Yeah. Andrew.
The new day. Don says the titles change the line. Change the titles change hands.
I think we wait until Clash of Champions and that's where they drop it because they just hit a
year. Remember, it was last year, some were slightly when they won the titles.
Yeah. But I mean, it could go either way, but I wouldn't be surprised either way,
but I think new day. So we're saying it's 50 50. Yeah. I'm really split on that because I really
don't know how they want to push this angle with because I'm almost afraid that they're thinking
about turning Xavier Woods against a new day. I hope not either, but you never know with creative.
Yeah. It's just this one is this one is truly a wild card match for me. It could really go either way.
Intercontinental championship on the line. The Miz versus Apollo Crews not Apollo Creed,
as Miz called him over and over and over again, not Terry Crews. Andrew, please Apollo Crews.
Please, Chad. I'm praying for Apollo. It's a clean sweet. Don says Apollo Crews. I am
put the belt on this kid. Yeah. He's a great wrestler. He's got a lot. I think this will be a good
belt for him to have, and I think the Miz is a good angle for him if Miz stays around longer than
two on his other time. And I just, I have no issues with Maurice. I just don't like listening to
Maurice. The whole time you're talking, the whole time she's talking, you're just going,
shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up. All I keep hearing is nails on a short
cat's outside your window on a Monday night at 2 a.m. WWE World Heavyweight Championship on the line!
Dean Ambrose, Dolph Ziegler, Chad. Oh, boy.
This whole bitter angry Ziegler angle. His got me kind of bumfuzzled on this. That promo from SmackDown.
I see that. I did see that. Amazing. I just don't know how mad he is. They started getting
feet with each other and going back and forth and seeing this is just when you, you can't put
me down. And when you're digging deep and he's like real heated and he's bending over because
it's just when you think you might have that last bit super kick. It was a great promo.
And down Goodwin Fraser. There's so much intensity behind of that. I kind of want to
go on the assumption that maybe this is where it happens. Maybe this is where he's,
this is a return to glory. I don't know. I feel almost just torn on this one as I do with
the match with the new day because it's just it's such an unexpected turn with what they're doing
with it. No. So you're saying Ambrose has to win. Huh? You're saying Ambrose wins?
Oh god, it's so hard to call this one man. But you tell me, are you telling me, are you telling me
this one's 50, 50, too? Kind of. Well, so you're later. Yeah, Ambrose's got the belt.
Yeah, yeah, I think Ambrose wins, but it's not clean, which sets up another match for
backlash. Okay. Yeah, because I think Ambrose, I think this is the match that could steal the card
because these two are such insane styles that shouldn't work together, but they do
that I think this is going to be the match that everyone's going to be talking about tomorrow.
Well, there, there may be one other one. And for the very first WWE, Universal Champion
Championship, which is not on the line because it doesn't exist yet. Although they're saying
that both belts are going to look very, very similar. One's going to be blue and one's going to be
red. Oh, that's nice. Seth Rollins Finn Baller and Drew. Seth Rollins.
Finn. Don says Finn Baller. I am also saying Finn Baller. I feel like if we put the belt
on Rollins, it's the same old thing. Uh-huh. I like Seth Rollins. I am a huge Seth Rollins fan.
I've been a fan of Seth Rollins since he was actually Tyler Black in ROH and had one of the best
openings to a theme song ever because it was Willem Dafoe in the Boom Doc say. So he said,
there will be a firefight or there was a firefight. But I just feel and and Rust has the same thing.
I really think that you've got to get some of these NXT guys into that spotlight and you
talk about a guy. And I was over and I was surprised when Finn Baller got the shot.
I thought it was a ballsy move by creative. Let's finish it. Well, when he
because you could make this into an amazing pro because I think if if Rollins wins, it varies
if Rollins loses, it doesn't affect it, right? It just it just feels the fire. So you could make this
a great progress. Yeah, and this is a good few to have with these two. And really you could push this
feud to and do the finale of the feud at Hell in a Cell. You put these two in a Cell,
it's going to get crazy and it's going to get real. Yeah, especially when when Baller goes into
a demon mode, the demon king mode, geez, that was made for Hell in a Cell. That was made for
all in a Cell. All right. As the card stands, grade the car. We have 18 minutes.
Grade the card. You want me to go? Feel free. Be plus. Andrew, be minus.
This is the deepest, this is the deepest car they've had.
I'm worried because it's you have not heard me give a card above a sea in a long time. This is
a good idea. I'm going to make a very, very bold prediction right now because there's so much room
for shenanigans and awesome, especially right now. I'm still on a high after finished watching
NXT because I watched NXT take over today. Oh, okay. And it was amazing. But it's NXT. So it's
going to be better. A minus right now. I can't go there yet. I'm I'm breaking through that ceiling
and I'm saying right now. A minus. I think there's just too much time. They have too much time
to miss it. They're going to miss it up. Russa saying B minus, I just there's something about this
card. Now there's a lot of potential for the ball getting dropped. This is really wrong. But
there's a lot of room on this card for awesome. You know, I'm almost thinking that maybe we need to
give a card at the end of the of the of the pre show that we're talking about. And then at the next
pre show or just the next show. Well, we do wrestling talk either or because it's it seems like
this is what this is what looks good on paper. And then we can re-judge the card after we've seen it.
And see if it compared to our previous score. Great. I don't want it.
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