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Sean Ross Sapp, this is the SmackDown post show that will be hosted by Kate. You don't have to meet your mic when the ad is running though. No, that's how delayed the things get in my apartment. It's getting better. We're working on it. We're at least on the Fios brand now. We have brand supremacy here at my apartment. Thank God. Here's what you all don't know. Kate is streaming this show from the turntable in the background of her shot. I wish. It would probably go smoother. It would probably go smoother. It's been a lot better of late, so just tweaking some things, but we are here with your SmackDown post show. The first three hour SmackDown, kind of like the old days when we would do a rampage on the end of the starting in the 11 o'clock hour, but we are joined by Sean Ross Sapp. So if you have questions, get in those super chats, get in those humper chats at humperchats.com and please do leave a thumbs up on this video. I'm going to remind you all again when I see those numbers go up. You get another reminder at about 10 to 15 minutes, but we do have Sean here to talk about a few things and since he's here, I'm going to let him plug Fightful Select. I don't really give you guys the hard sell best $6 in the business now. My goodness Sean, what do you got for the good people? So it's so funny that Monday, I'd say, guys, I've really pushed and not raised this price and the next morning Jimmy hits me with the, well, we're going to raise the price. And I said, okay, and I said, okay, I'm willing to do $1. That's it. I'm willing to do $1 more. The other tiers are not going up. So $10 tier still has early access, all that. This price change goes into effect at the end of the month. So it will go up to $6 a month or $64 a year. You can lock in your annual price at $54 a year right now. So you'll be getting that for, gosh, like maybe 65, 70% of what other people would be paying. We have had nonstop New Japan contract news. I've seen a lot of people say, oh, well, you can just assume, I'm not allowed to assume of my line of work. So we go out, we ask, Dave Kidd wasn't happy that I had his contract news, but confirmed it during our live interview last night. We're going to have a lot more. We've got some visa news on a team that is looking to maybe make their impression felt or maybe make their presence felt in the States. We're going to have an awful lot. Hey, man, today we had so much WWE stuff and we're going to talk about it tonight. But we had, we confirmed that Drew was at SmackDown and provided some details on him. We'll go ahead and get into that. Drew McIntyre did appear, PWInsider reported he was backstage, Fightful Select reported that he is expected to be more regular on this show. So that was on Fightful Select today. We had Drilla Maloney's contract news. We had some potential return news as well that we'll be talking about shortly, details on the Cody Cena plans. So that popped up in and popped up elsewhere today and I'm like, we've been talking about this on the post-rosh show since Denise was still here, since Denise was still here. But make sure you guys check out that show. But new Japan contract news all week, we're going to have two or three TNA contracts on Monday, I believe it is, the Q&A show, all that good stuff, $6 a month starting at the end of the month, $64 a year, basically we want your six, is the deal. >> Six baby, we're talking about you and me or us, here at my phone. >> Talking about thousands of people, we're talking about you guys having six with thousands of people. >> Not all wrestling fans have six, and certainly not with thousands of people. So we would ask you guys to get on orbit as I'm seeing the numbers crawling up here to about 2,500 of you watching Live Across platforms. We do have Sean here, so get in those super chats and humper chats. We're giving you the Fightful Select cell as well, the best $6 in the biz, where some more Royal Rumble news for 2026 popped up, speaking of six, we're talking about 2026 over here. I'll give you a little bit more information on that. >> 2026, so PW Insider, great work on their behalf tonight, reporting that the Royal Rumble would be in Saudi Arabia. Right now, that is the plan, of course, anything can change, and we're going to have more details on the Saudi relationship. I have been told it's Riyadh. So this plays into another thing that I reported tonight, because there was the blue ring mat on SmackDown, and people said, okay, well, what's up with Raw? Well, possibly a black ring mat, based on what I saw. It had a bunch of logos on it, Netflix, Cricket, Snickers, Great American Beer Company, and in the two corners, it had Riyadh season with the prominent sponsor being Fortnite, right SmackDav in the middle, in the prime spot. But looks like, I will say this, I don't know for sure that it's going to be used on Mondays. However, what I will say is they had it rolled out, and yeah, yeah, they had it rolled out, and they tried it out today. >> You can confirm it exists. We don't know if it'll for sure be at Raw. But drinking at Mo's saying my newborn son was so excited about the show he peed on me as I was holding him well. There you go. Congratulations. >> Oh, yeah, brother. >> On the newborn. We're so happy for you here. We know that was a journey for you to get there, but I should say the hell yeah was for the newborn not. >> Hell yeah, dude, we love that for you. >> Yeah, brother. >> Ricardo, with a shocking upset not being at work, he always chats from work, which we appreciate. >> Super sour, love you both, super sour. We've got a whole other sour show going on behind the paywall, tons of content for you this weekend. By the way, there are going to be post shows for both Wrestle Dynasty and Wrestle Kingdom. We got some sickos on board for that. Rob Wilkins, SP3, I think Scott is joining, and also Lyric is going to be joining. So a full house there, in case one of them oversleeps, you got to have some backups involved there. But meet Norm is chiming in, he's always chiming in telling us to crank, which we certainly appreciate there. But what in the blue hell was that ring mat? A few of us sickos are staying up late for Wrestle Kingdom. What about y'all? I am covering a three hour Smackdown, so I'm going to actually catch it in the morning. But we appreciate- >> I'll be watching it in the morning as well. >> Yeah, I think we've got the late night crew coming in to review it for you guys. So I'm as he has Jay Sicko, so I would be staying up for his match. And Hibbin Shoda doesn't have me super grab, not to the point where I got to stay up to like 5 AM. But we do have coverage for you for both events, so excited about that. But keep those super chats coming. The big news of the night, of course, we had a title change with Tithy Time. Taking the title home, finally cashing in that money in the bank. It's wonderful to see a women's money in the bank cashing kind of with a full story behind it. Properly done here. I'm glad they didn't drag this out to Royal Rumble as well, but Sean, sleepy Sean over there. >> No, it's something in my eye. >> Something in your eye? Were you crying? Because you were so excited for Tiffany. Is that what's happening? >> Yeah, I am excited for Tiffany. I really like Tiffany. I've had great experiences doing media with her, but also, I've been kind of hinted about this like right before the show. I saw some people acting like it was a late decision. It was not a late decision. They had planned this ahead, but there were a lot of people that thought that because somebody had mentioned there was a title change in route. I had reported that Charlotte was expected back sooner than later. And naturally, a lot of people were like, oh, okay, so that's Charlotte coming back and winning the title. No, it's Tiffany. It's a great spot. I'm very happy for a great reaction as well and a nice swerve, which I thought played out really, really well. >> Yeah, I thought it was done pretty well as well. I'm very, very happy for her. She was someone that covering NXT was really rewarding to watch because we got to see her kind of put all the pieces together, not an extensive wrestling background coming into NXT. But you kind of saw the progression of she's got the moves dab now. She understands selling. Now she understands match pacing and she put it together really, really quickly, very excited for her to be showcasing all of that on the main roster and be so well received. But a bad robot saying, let's talk about six baby. What talent will leave or stay? I'll write more, but I broke this week. Congrats, Tiffany. We always appreciate your support. If she holds it until mania, who do you want to see her face? Good question. Good question. Next, I think you mentioned Charlotte coming back. That seems like it's a match made in heaven a little bit with Tiffany's character and who Charlotte has been historically. Wouldn't it hate seeing that? Would love to see Charlotte kind of mixed up with some more new talent. Sean, Alexis, what do you guys think? >> I think that Charlotte, listen, I don't want to see her win the Royal Rumble. I'll do respect to her. But if she did, and her whole thing was I'm here to cut the legs out from under another talent, and then she didn't win at WrestleMania, I think that could be cool. I mean, now we're getting a little bit more of a clear cut title picture heading into WrestleMania, whereas as of a week or two ago, I was like, I don't even know who's going to win the women's Royal Rumble. I was like, maybe a girl from NXT could win it and maybe they could always have that to hang their hat on. But I think that Charlotte and Tiffany would make a lot of sense. We're likely about to get Becky back as well. >> Sure, Cardo, is there any thoughts on that? >> Yeah, same thing, man, I don't know, and I would keep Charlotte as far away from TV until the Rumble. I don't know why. I just feel like it would just feel much more of that energy building and that explosiveness that having her come back and if she would have win it, man, I mean, she gets injected into these things right away, so yeah. >> She does, she does, and she gives a lot of women their best matches, so it's kind of hard to argue with it. But I think if they were to lean into that with her as a heel, that could be something very, very fun. But Rafael Garcia is saying, so if the rules still apply, so we'll lose his Monday, the new bloodline splits. If LA Knight loses next week, we're closer to reforming the rising TNA wins, well played, well played. I do feel like one thing that got, I don't want to say exposed because that carries such like a connotation with it of such strong language, but I do feel like we are starting to see some repeat stuff of Naomi constantly in the title picture, but never winning. Andrade and LA Knight seem to be just perpetually around the US title and nobody else is really stepping up into that mid card role there. So I do think we're going to have to have some maybe restocking, I'm sure once the Netflix Raw happens and maybe we'll get some NXT call ups coming in, we'll get a bit of a replenish there. >> I think you guys feel about the three hour pacing tonight, I felt like it was stretched a little thin, but I'm glad something of importance happened with the Tiffany Cashion. >> I've not missed the three hour shows whatsoever, but I'm glad people get to wrestle a little bit longer. >> Yeah, I felt like the women's match definitely went to the distance. They really set up, you know, for Tiffany to come out. Gosh, it did feel like Sean said a death three, death third hour, man, I feel like sports is one thing, but professional wrestling does not need death third hour. It's such a, especially a weekly show. If it's a pay per view or PLE, that's totally different. We want more, because that's what low off matches are going through there, but gosh. >> Look at the clock, I was like, oh boy. >> I saw wicked and it was two hours and 40 minutes. I don't need something longer than that every week on my TV. Three hour wrestling programs aren't for me, but I do agree. I like that we got two women's matches and I do like longer match times. That is certainly stuff that is for me. >> Well, I'll tell you what, isn't for me two hour review shows. So. >> Oh, no. >> I'm pretty good on this one. >> Hey. >> I pretty slim on this one. I keep it lean around here. I don't know with a three hour SmackDown, if I will, but. But there goes Sean riding off into the sunset. Guys, keep those super chats and humper chats coming. We've got some more coming in from Neo Detroit, who I think is a new super chatter around here. So thank you so much for the support saying the rock will be live at the Golden Globe Sunday, which is being held 26 minutes away from Intuit Dome. Surely he's got to show up. I think that would make a lot of sense. I think they're going to make a huge deal out of Netflix and the first show. But at the same time, if he's not going to be on that road to WrestleMania, if he's not going to be at WrestleMania, I don't know if it's wise to have him show up because this is kind of the season for that. Do you think we're getting the rock showing up on Monday, Alex? >> I mean, if he's that close, he's done it before when he was at that college football game, he just happened to show up if you remember. So I mean, it would be, it would be a big deal. I mean, last time we saw him on television, he was counting down or up to three. I don't know what that meant or down. I don't know what he was doing. I forgot. >> One, two, three. You hit the mat. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Yeah, that's what it is. Sorry. I don't know about this thing called professional wrestling. But yeah, I mean, it wouldn't surprise me. I know who's going to be there. I know a gentleman, I believe his name is Freddie Prince Jr. is going to be there on Monday. >> I got the drop on that one. I just hit up TMZ while we were talking. >> Alex is right over your right shoulder, right on the floor behind you. There's a name that you're going to want to pick up because you dropped it. You've been knees dropping over them. The clavicles have been loose as a lead, so please, norvis, you got, hey, no, I respect the side hustles, but be door missing. Forget solo acknowledged meets. My B-day for a few more minutes. Now let's crank. I'm 99% sure Charlotte is winning the women's rumble thoughts. Either that or elimination chamber. I would have her win elimination chamber, I think. I think you got to save maybe. We'll see what happens with Rhea, but I do think that I feel like whoever wins rumble should probably go after the Raw Women's Champion, just kind of feels like that. To me, the way to go, Charlotte's already had her royal rumble moment. Let's maybe freshen it up and give it to someone else, but guys, keep those super chats and hover chats coming in. We're going to dive into tonight's episode. Thank you so much for the support early. So many of you are watching now than we're at the beginning of the show over 4,500 of you across platforms, so we will remind you to subscribe to FightfulSelect.com. Sean gave you the hard sell earlier, but plenty of new Japan news or contract cycles. Some of them come up with the end of the year. So a lot of information coming out of there, including Gabe Kidd, Drilla Maloney, two talents that I'm a huge, huge fan of. We got the Royal Rumble confirmation from Sean earlier today as well that right now that is the plan for Saudi Arabia and tons of news on tonight's SmackDown. So check out FightfulSelect also. Voting has wrapped up, but the Fightful Awards were a subscriber voted privilege. So you can subscribe to get in there next year. The best $6 in the business. We are raising the entries here, a dollar, but the rest of your tiers stay the same. It's the first time since 2016 that those have been raised. So thank you guys so much for the support so far. All over 7,500 of you guys subscribed on the paid tier and way more of you on the free tier, which you can also check out and that will remain. There will be a free tier. Well, Chisholm saying I think EO should win Rumble. She has been the standout of 2024. I agree with that in WWE. I would love to see EO win, man. I really would. She's put on so many great, great matches here, that great match with Bailey this year at WrestleMania. She's a walking beggar is a great phrase. She has been just the workhorse of that division and she. We saw it with Lyra. Like I really feel like Lyra probably wins that I see title Becky comes for that would be my guest in like a respect driven feud, which I think will be great. I think Charlotte's probably going to go after Tiffany. So that leaves. I don't know. Does Ria beat Liv finally in the last woman's standing match, I think so. I think so. Bianca. Some things you wouldn't mind being stuck with, like a huge inheritance, but a phone that has to be plugged in just right so it charges is not one of those things. Switch to Verizon and we'll pay off your old phone up to $800 five prepaid MasterCard for a new one on us. 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Services and availability vary by location, age and other restrictions may apply for coverage consult your health insurance company visit the pharmacy or our site for details. It's still a tag champ. I would love to see EO versus Bianca in like a proper WrestleMania match. Some more love coming in from you guys. Thank you for all the support up front Taylor Cannon saying happy 2025 favorite post show happy for tiffy time wouldn't be opposed to her versus Charlotte at mania but Tiffany's got to win. I agree with that like Tiffany should have a substantive rain that doesn't just immediately get cut out by Charlotte's. I want to kind of shift into tonight's episode of Smackdown with that being the big news because I also want to give Nia her credit. She is someone who when she came back, I was like to be honest, I don't know. I don't know how this is going to go. She has improved mightily in the ring. Her character fits so much better and feels so much more accessible in this era right now. So I just feel like everything that she's improved upon, no injuries. That was the big criticism with her all the power submission work that she was doing. I feel like she's really, really thrived in this rain. It's been my favorite work of hers. We've been very vocal about that on this show. So I think a really successful rain for her as far as establishing her as a top of the card talent. I am so glad that this cash in finally happened. I was worried it was going to go till rumble. I'm glad that the women's money in the bank got a proper story. It wasn't cashed in within 48 hours or cashed in randomly a few months later. Like we haven't really gotten that from the women's money in the bank. This felt like, even though we kind of had this like consistent thwarting of it, that's a money in the bank story, right? So I like this. I like this a lot and I'm happy for Tiffany Stratton. There's been a lot of NXT call-ups that haven't been properly adjusted to the main roster. From breaker settling in nicely, Carmelo, it's like every time they push him, they cut his legs out from under him and that's a part of his story. But I don't like that as a story for a young talent quite frankly. And everybody else has just been kind of tossed around, like even pretty deadly who's doing some really fun work. They're not close to a championship. So I am so glad that we have a women's champion in Tiffany Stratton. It's been a pleasure to watch her grow from incoming talent on NXT who had been given this really weird gimmick initially that she translated beautifully and made her own and grew so much in NXT through up to this point. It's been an incredible trajectory for her. So congratulations to her. Fun way to do it. We got a little swerve ski around this. But overall, Alex, I just wanted to give you a moment here to talk about what you thought about Nia's reign and how that established her kind of in this world and what your thoughts are about this big moment for Miss Tiffany Stratton. >> First of all, let's dim the lights down to a little pink-ish purplish for Tiffy there and stuff on celebration. I think Nia had one of the best runs she's had before she got fired and after she came back or let go, whichever way you want to look at it. Super exciting to see that she was actually being built as a heavy character. And by heavy, I mean someone who was beating the crap out of everyone, right? She was the focal point of the women's division on SmackDown, which is great. The swears were getting a little old, so I'm glad it finally happened. Whatever they have planned for Tiff, I'm pretty sure it's going to be great. I'm hoping that it's not like she's holding the title for a short period of time or just someone as a transitional title holder. And if they give the title to live this long, and this is nothing against the character or the person live, it's just, there hasn't really been there a lot for live, right? I do believe that they should give Tiffy a chance, Tiffy, to just go wild and really start building her name and this woman's division. They give her the reins, like, why not give these younger kids that are hungry and willing to show off something to do, you know? You know, it's funny. I mentioned the Fightful Awards before, and we saw this kind of new crop of people winning because Charlotte was out with injury, because Rhea was out with injury, because Mercedes was out with injury the first half of the year, the hell of a second half of the year. FTR wasn't like, "I'm the best run," same on the men's side, MJF was making movies a lot of this year, right? So we saw this kind of new crop come up and it's been so cool to see kind of this next generation blossoming and to see Chelsea Green get her flowers and at AEW World, I don't think anybody expected what we were going to get from Harley Cameron and all the women that have progressed on that side, so I agree with you as far as, like, Rhea is now established as one of the top women's wrestlers in the world, right? So I think she probably beats Liv on Monday, but I think, wow, have Jordan Grace beat up Rhea after or whatever, like, make some moves for the next crop of women that are coming up. And Tiffany having a real title reign is super, super important. Her and Charlotte should get, like, 17 minutes at WrestleMania and Tiffany should win by the skin of her teeth. And that I think is awesome. The pace, too. Right? That'll set the tone for what WWE is doing and how they're treating this up-and-coming class that is now, you know, taking over, like, the Braun Breakers and so on and so on. I mean, Braun Breakers had an incredible run as... I see title stamp, yeah. You know, so I mean, why not her and anyone else who continues to come up, you know? I agree. I agree in that crop of women and coming up from NXT right now, like, you've got Roxanne probably on the way sooner rather than later, she's 23 years old. Yeah. And when I tell you, she could hang with the rest of them. It was an R-H champion when the promotion shut down, two-time NXT champion, Absolute Phenom in the ring, the character of the Prodigy is, like, not untrue about her. You've got Zarya, the former Delta in Australia who just arrived, who could be as monumental as Rhea Ripley. And I'm not just saying that because she's big strong in Australia. And I mean that she came up and was trained under the same people and is excellent and her own woman. You know, Steph Lacker, you have, back here, I think, I always say her name like eight different ways. I apologize. You have Julia who just came over. There's so many women that are next up. And I think you have Jordan Grace coming in, just put her on the main roster. You now have a three-hour SmackDown. I like that we got two women's matches, like, let's build up this women's roster. So it's not, babe, we saw like, Meachin and Piper Niven, and it's going to be Meachin and Chelsea Green again, like, if the point of these titles is to freshen up that midcard title picture, we got to get more women in the picture. I think that both companies right now are thriving with the young talent that they have been kind of like cultivating and bringing up. It's incredible. You talk like Julia Hart, she's like 23 as well, but these women are young and they're killing it out there. There are some, no, it's interesting because I was thinking about this the other day, like on both the men's and especially the women's side, a lot of women got signed. They got signed away, and you're going to hear about some TNA ones that got locked in again coming up this early next week, but like, I'm looking at the indies and I'm still seeing Maggie Lee, I'm still seeing Brittany Brooks, I'm still seeing Jayrod, I'm still seeing the fact that Becca hasn't been, W.A.D. blows my mind. That woman can walk into NXT tomorrow with the same character and take over the place. My world certainly, like there are so many women on the indies that are now there's space at the top of the independent scene again, right, and we're going to see that start to open up. So I'm excited, I'm excited, but yes, all of this to say, give Tiffany a real rain, establish this next group of talent because we saw what happens when the four horse women are mostly out of the picture, right? Mercedes is not in the company, Bailey was the backbone as usual, but you have Ria now, you have EO Sky, Liv, I think is a star, I think they did a really poor job in establishing what she can be. I think they did a really, really bad job of that. Cox C.G. saying, I hope they don't ruin this unpredictable rumble and good cash in by giving it to Nia for a Tiffany match. I prefer the winner go to Rob, but I don't know who. I love the idea of it being EO. I think it's very possible that Charlotte comes back at rumble and just wins it. I think if Charlotte does come back at rumble, she is winning it. I'm actually kind of surprised Netflix didn't, if that's the case, I'd be surprised that Netflix didn't request her because she is one of those brand names that you associate with WWE, a consistent draw, one of the best women's wrestlers in the world. But you got to leave, you got three hours on Smackdown, man, and her husband also is on the Smackdown side, so. But Steve Harten with the chat saying, "Happy 2025 to the best post show/restling info site, any word on a Raw Smackdown draft this year, or will rosters randomly switch around? Stay tuned for that, stay tuned for that. I haven't heard anything, nothing's been reported. This transfer portal, I think, was supposed to be the window for that, and they've just botched it. Like, Shawn was talking about that as a push on Monday, like it was a bad idea. It was, it seems cool in the beginning, it was dumb, it hasn't done anything. Like, we've seen people go through it, but not stay there, like, it's very, very odd. So I don't know, I would imagine there'll be something, though. I'd imagine there'll be something. And Will saying, I'm surprised that no one has gotten Meghan Bane yet, yeah, she's probably at the top of the list for Women's Free Agents. There were a lot of rumors with her in AWA, it even heard, like, creative plans that were conceptualized. I don't know if they were pitched, I don't know how far they got, but it felt like an inevitability that she was going to go there, but then that didn't happen. So, we'll see, she's killing it on the Indies, though. Absolutely killing it on the Indies. You guys have been killing it with the support tonight. So thank you so much for that. So more have 2025, thank you so much, and happy new year to everyone, man. I'm glad that you guys are here on our first Friday of the 2025 season, which means there'll be 53 Fridays this year. That's right. That's right. Yes. Where you get to see us 53 times. Sam. Right. Sam. Right. But let's dig in a little bit more to this match that led to the Tiffy Time win, which was so great to see. We get told that Tiffany is not there, which was well played from Candice and Nia. I liked that they were like, "Where is she?" And I liked that Nia still feels vulnerable when Tiffany is not around. I think that's really, really good. But they're both confused to the absence of Tiffany Stratton, and then Candice Loree ensures her that like, "I've got your back. We'll get whatever needs to be done done." And Nia jacks with Candice Loree at ringside and Tiffany Stratton defeating Naomi via pinfall, and then Tiffany Stratton fake catches in her money in the bank briefcase using it to strike Naomi in the head, which allows Nia to retain the title. And after the match, Tiffany Stratton attacks Nia with the briefcase, lays out Candice Loree. Bianca Belair used this to hit the KOD on Jax, but Stratton pulled Belair out of the ring to cash in her money in the bank briefcase. I thought the swerve was well done, because this has been going on for a while, right? So I like that we got the, "I'm here to protect Nia JK" moment. I thought that was really, really well done, and then you get a prettiest moonsault ever on Nia Jax, and Tiffany walks out your new women's champion, Corey Graves with the call saying that, "No matter what time you're, time zone you're in, it's tiffy time," which I thought was a cute way to ring in her celebration. Uh, thoughts about the, the match. This had some shenanigans. There was a lot of interference and distractions on tonight's show, but this one almost begged for it because it has money in the bank, right? You're never going to have a clean match when that, that briefcase is hanging around. It felt long, the match at some, there was a couple of points where they felt like, "What are we doing here?" Right? Like there was a lot of false finishes, um, you know, a bad set goes this length, you know, with two women that are extremely powerful and are using a ton of energy, because both women put it all out there in the ring tonight. Um, you know, there was a couple of moments when I was like, "Oh man, like, is it going to end now? Is someone going to come in? Like, Candice being there on the side, I was just like, she's kind of playing like that, uh, Alexa Bliss role, uh, when she was hanging out with Nia, she going to like try to attempt something, you know, and then it all went down. I'm excited. I'm excited for the future. I'm excited to see what's going to come. I'm excited for Nia. I'm excited to see what she's going to, you know, what she's going to come up with. How does she call herself out of this now, right? Yeah. Where, and where is she going to go? And where's the story going to take her? You know, is she pissed? Is she going to transfer portal herself to, to raw now, you know, uh, and then just keep, you keep TIFF there? I don't know. Like there's a lot of great opportunity here. And uh, only time will tell here. I mean, the year just started friends, I mean, it just literally started yesterday. So it did, I think, I think you could probably do a rematch at Royal Rumble, like between Tiffany and, and I, I think that would be a really good way to clear that out. And then Nia could enter the rumble after or that keeps her from there. And so you have to figure out where to go next. You can make Nia and Candice attack team after that. Let's put some women's tag teams in this division. Yes. I'm still waiting for our spooky Scottish witches to have something here. That was so creepy. I apologize. Everyone. That was, that was just very on top of the mic. Um, it was very like NPRish, but weird, I respect it. I respect it. Over 6,000 of you say it up late with us to watch our post show. Thank you so much for tuning in across platforms. We are talking about Tiffany's big win, but let's move on to kind of the next big news of the show, which is probably this OG bloodline versus new bloodline. We at least got this, right? So we do have, it was a big night for like, watch her back. That was like the theme of tonight's episode, but earlier in the episode, you have Cody Rhodes coming out, just with the Cody Rhodesiest promo in the world. He is like, you know what normally I ask you what you want to talk about, but tonight I know you want to talk about timing. And I was like, what a sexy opener to the show. I'm like, I'm like, um, he talks about raw, which is moving to Netflix. Have you heard about this? No, I saw last week, I made a mention that, you know, God, I just saw a commercial, but it was only one. And then this week, I turned around to get some water and kind of almost mixed it. I was like, oh, is that the Netflix logo next to where I was? I knew it was happening, but, you know, you're not going to believe this, but this Monday, Rob. That's like Cody talks about the three hours back down and in my head, all I can think was I can't believe CM Punk called Seth Rollins corporate last week with Cody Rhodes around to read this, but, um, before he can even really get going with this, uh, he gets interrupted by Drew. We start to talk about how he's not cleared because of what Kevin Owens did to him, talks about the ladder match that he's going to have at Royal Rumble, but Drew interrupts him here and says, Mac entire, uh, said that Rhodes was about to make the biggest mistake of his career and offered to help, but Rhodes didn't buy that and challenges Drew to a match tonight. And Mac entire said he was telling the truth and didn't want, uh, to hurt Rhodes, but Cody says that he needed to watch his back and who's by Tim, but Kevin Owens attacking him. We get a brawl before he gets broken up by nice to see Shane Holmes on screen. Uh, Shawn's a party, shaving noble and Nick, I'll just, thanks to, I think when we set our Smackdown coverage tonight. So thanks for listing those out for us and a bunch of security guards separating too. And then at the end of the show, we have the OG bloodline versus the new bloodline. And we have Drew being a distraction to Jey Uso in this as well. Solo winning with the Samoan spike, but in the middle of this, we also get Paul Heyman coming to the ring for a promo where he is really kind of, this was very long to say very little in my opinion, but says he's here to set the record straight on tribal combat between the Solasakoa and Roman Reigns, which of course is going to be on Monday, really focuses on the fact that, um, Solasakoa stole the Ulfala and, uh, he did it because he knew no one would accept him as tribal chief on their own and he really starts going after solo. And this got a little weird for me. He talks about recruiting Tom Batanga, Tonga Loa and Jacob Fatu, calling them animals and then saying like that they weren't welcome in the United States and it just, it felt very weird to me. I don't know. Maybe if I'm just like high percentage of the climate, but I'm like, Tom Batanga and Tonga Loa. I'm pretty sure are just fine to be in the United States, maybe just because there's so much about immigration in the news that I was like, this is very, it felt very, very weird to me. And then saying Jacob Fatu belonged in prison, it was just kind of that part took me way out of it. It's being edgy. You know what I'm saying? Eddy's cool. It didn't feel edgy. It felt like, like a grandpa parroting the news or something, but Solasakoa confronts Heyman and says, well, when I beat Roman Reigns on Monday, I'm taking you with me forever. You're going to be my wise man and also, you'll have no choice but to acknowledge me and you can shut up about the Ulfala because I learned it. So I like that Solasakoa is like I'm laying claim to you. I'm laying claim to the throne, basically here. And as far as Eddy's symbolic stuff, you're going to have to acknowledge me and Oliver and the Ulfala. This took a very, very long time for him to get out though. I feel like Solasakoa has grown so much on the mic and it's because they let him have a sense of humor in these serious ones. It still feels like a little much. But this felt like this was one thing. I was like, this is the symptom of a three hour smackdown because they could have done this in half the time. But overall, the through line, I think was successful. You have solo winning with the Samoan Spike. Does Roman win on Monday is the big question. What are your thoughts on this through line that we got tonight? Yeah, you know, I think with the whole like, you know, they're going to want to do a feel good story, specifically being there, you know, with the new Netflix deal and everything. I think there's going to be a lot of great things that are going to happen on Monday. That'll probably be one of them, you know, just because how long can you stretch this out? How long do you want Sola to keep this? And like, there's just a lot of a lot of stretching of storylines as of late. And if we're going to start talking about these new movements and new ways to go and you started off with with Cody, even that 18 and a half minute segment in the beginning was just crazy. It was like, everybody, so Kate, let me tell you about what happened. And he would just take these long pauses and he would sound a lot like his dad, like he was trying to imitate. Now, I'm going to tell you something, baby, why is he talking like his dad? He went from Cody to his dad back to Cody back to his dad back to Cody. And it was just weird, like, just say what you got to say, bro. I like it. I like it. I'm with you. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I hope that everything with with Monday, we get a new beginning. Even with a brand new mat. I hope so, too, it's just kind of interesting because I don't know where they fall in line on this. Like, the only thing that I feel like it's kind of cloudy about WrestleMania right now, I think it's very possible we get a Roman Cody punk triple threat. I think it's very possible you get with their versus Cina. If you don't get Cina versus Cody, but where does that leave Seth? Where does that leave Drew and like, what happens with this new bloodline versus old bloodline stuff? Like, is it going to be a combination of the guys that we saw tonight? I don't know. I don't know. So we will see, but well saying Drew KO and Seth are going to call their faction F the bloodline. It does kind of feel that way like Drew Drew seems kind of fixated on Jay, but he does seem kind of like mad at that whole side of things, but it seems like he's after Jay who so it seems like he's after Jay who so guys, thank you so much for sticking with us. There's so many of you still watching. We appreciate it. Keep those super chats and humperchets coming. We got a super chat from Cyclops is better than Wolverine saying, Hey, Alex, after seeing your shirt, I'm a paying customer and I demand to hear you rank the 1997 X-Men roster choose Wiley PS Tiffus champion rocks. I love it. I love it. Name your fighters, Cardos, the 1997 X-Men I'm sorry guys, but I'm a huge Wolverine fan and I saw his his screen name and we might fight, but it's always going to be Wolverine at the top followed by whomever, whether it's Cyclops, Beast, Gambit, Rogue, Jubilee. I mean, I can go down that entire list, you know, but those are my top fighters right now. I love my women strong. So I'll throw Jean Grey in there as well. So yeah, I'm a nerd. And I apologize for being a nerd. Not really. I like being a nerd. So you're on a wrestling podcast. That's cool. Yeah. This is cool. All right. Wrestling is cool. But so, so we're always as a matter of fact, right over here behind my right shoulder where I drop names, you guys can't see it, but this whole case is just filled with Wolverine figures from my childhood Wolverine on the top that is in a beat up 1993 box in perfect condition, might I add, all the way down. It's all Wolverine, baby. Well, there you go. There you go. We got nerd variety here on the SmackDown Polish Show. Guys, I love seeing the numbers climb up after Sean is on. It gives me something to brag about when he's gone. So thank you so much for hanging out with us late night to night. We appreciate it. Just a reminder. Again, we do have Wrestle Dynasty and Wrestle Kingdom post shows for you. That's going to be Lyric joining Scott and Rob Wilkins and SP3 over there. So they're doing the morning haul for you. They're watching late night through the night. It's the most wonderful time of the year. So many of us are so excited that January 4th is a weekend for Wrestle Kingdom this year. We're not trying to get up to go to work the next day and also some good stuff there. So stay tuned this weekend for your recaps there. Wrestle Dynasty shaping up to be a special event, really, really special event. It is. Let's keep moving through this episode of SmackDown. We had three hours tonight, but we had some good stuff happening here. We also had our tag team championship match. So I do like that we had two defenses on tonight show that's a very healthy sign. I like defenses on my television, on my free TV over here, but Gargano and Champa defeating the Motor City machine guns, but it ends in a no contest, of course, the Garza's and our favorite. Yes, boys who seem to be, I'm going to say it straight up in cahoots, okay, straight up in cahoots. You got Angel Garza and Berto brawling was pretty deadly on the outside and they bump into DIY and the Motor City machine guns in the ring and the referee throws them out of the match here, but I, I don't want them to get because it's three hours, shenanigans reliant. We've seen that happen before. I don't need to see that happen again. We had the distraction from Drew, the money in the bank ones I can kind of forgive a little bit because one, they made sense into like, you kind of expect that and need that from that story, but you know, with Chelsea being ringside with Piper, you knew there was going to be some stuff going on there. So there, there was just a lot of that tonight, but I don't want to see that become too much of a pattern. However, the match was excellent. This is what I expect from these two. We also had this really nice vignette earlier in the night from the Motor City machine gun saying, Hey, we were friends, man, I kind of liked it. It was very, very simple and very much like, we used to travel these roads together, Johnny Gargano. How dare you? Very quick, very simple, just nice to add these little flavors of the story to things. I appreciate stuff like that, but some, some good stuff there. I just feel like sometimes, I feel like AEW is not very good at interweaving stories that I feel like WWE over interweave stories sometimes as I think with the tag team division being so nodded up in itself, like building pretty deadly and legato like off of this a little bit. It feels like a little much like I feel like they don't need to do this off of the title picture. They should be building it outside of the title picture. You have three hours now squeezing another tag match, man. Cody down to seven minutes on his speech and throw in another tag match like, yeah, I agree. It's going to take time. It's going to take time for, for them to get that pacing right. But you did have earlier in the night Apollo crews on his phone being confronted by pretty deadly about being liars, essentially. They get interrupted by legato. So that kind of set all of this up kind of the blame for the attacks and you had Nick Aldis also scolding pretty deadly for lying about Los Garza and DIY appearing to try and make a case for pretty deadly, which I thought was well done. So another consistent through line, which I think is a good sign for the tag division because it's needed some love for a while. What did you think of what we got out of our tag picture tonight? Really liked the match, just felt like we got over reliant on the shenanigans. Yeah, it was a little bit over produced, right? I think sometimes things just get too over produced and I'll be the odd man out here. I am not a huge fan of the Motor City machine guns. I'm also not a not what the hell doesn't like the Motor City machine guns come and I'm also not really like in love with DIY. Well, it was fun having likes to sound quite full for the past few years, but he don't like Donnie Gargano and Tommaso Champa. We don't take kind Libby around here. I like them individually, they can kick each other into nuts and have fun and all that good stuff. I don't mind it. Like, you know, bring Goldie back like have fun with that stuff, you know, like the old NXT rivalry that they had was pretty cool. But the tag match really, listen, don't get me wrong. I love the in-ring action. I thought it was great, but I just, I'm not, I'm not like married to the, like, I don't know why I don't, I just don't, I don't know, maybe just the tag team division, unfortunately, it has not been really exciting and I feel like they're not doing anything to it. I, I even looked at the crowd, Kate, the crowd was sitting in their hands when, when DIY came out. Okay. Cause I look at that. I look at the crowd shots and I want to see, are they standing? What are they doing? Like, it helps me understand a little bit more of the psychology of how people are taking in the match and the wrestlers, right? So me as a fan, I'm sitting and that's the first thing I'm looking at. You're giving me a wide shot. Well, guess what I'm going to do? I'm looking at the wrestlers walk down the damn aisle because I'm going to stare at them for 10 minutes in the ring. I'm going to look at the crowd and how they're reacting in a lot of people. I bet you look at them when there's spooky Scottish witches. Let me tell you something girl. There's no need for wide shots when them ladies are. Hey, you want them front and center, close, center and beautiful. What do you do this? It reminded, it felt very MXM to me, which I appreciate almost in tip touching territory over there. Yeah. I don't mind touching your tip. Hold on. There it is. Guys, get on your super chats and helper chats. We're having fun tonight. I can't believe how many of you maniacs are staying up late with us. 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Look, they're a really, really quality service, but me Norma's saying this crowd looked like they were watching a church picnic pickleball match. Me? You better Arizona, also why I have two tag titles that they're both going to be booked poopy. Well, first of all, please don't use such strong language around here. Just because you're another year older and wiser doesn't mean you can get away with more. Okay. Great to meet Norma's who was so wonderful to us. Yeah, we got to celebrate with him a little bit on the ROH pusho yesterday into tonight. So thank you for spending your birthday with us, me, Norma's, even if I didn't try to make you vegan yesterday, but let's keep moving along this episode. Guys, keep those super chats and humper chats coming. We do have our U.S. title picture, and I said this a little bit earlier. I'm a little torn on this because we do have Shinsuke Nakamura retaining here with the Kinsasha, looks really, really good. I like that Andrade is kind of fixated on this title. It feels like a good place for him to be, but you have LA night attacking and we get night and Nakamura set up for next week. I should love him say he said something to the effect of like, he's going to slap you so hard, you're going to go back to factory settings, which I just thought was a great line in that promo. But I do just feel like we do have the same people in the midcar title picture and I feel like the point of having those titles defended with more frequency and being in the midcard, there should be more people mixed up in those like we have Meachin immediately run back for Chelsea Green. We have, um, Brom Breakers been defending against the same people and getting hunted by the same people in the IC title picture over and over again here. It just feels like the best of seven with Carmelo was so cool and then completely pointless for Andrade and Carmelo because they thwarted it with LA nights and it's just the same guys hunting around. And now that we're at a three hour program, I hope that's something we see expands because there should be people just having clean wins, building them up into the midcard title picture because now you got three hours. There's really no excuse to keep recycling the same things. I don't need three hours of rematches. I don't want to go back there. We did that in the Vincera, right? So I'm just hoping that there's more male singles matches leading to clean wins that lead to title shots. Like let's just get back to those fundamentals. That being said, I feel like LA night has cause for this rematch because Nakamura has won in cheating and kind of cagey ways. So I feel like he deserves that. I think it's possible he ends up on Ron. This is just like a goodbye to that. But what do you think about it? Do you feel like LA night has claimed to this? What did you think of the match with Andrade? I liked this. This was one that I actually thought could have gone longer tonight to be honest because I was throwing it so much. First of all, you know, it's nice to have a little gimmick, you know, a little gimmicky character like Nakamura come out there with his, you know, garb and all that stuff. It looks awesome. You know, the little tweet to his music gives it gives it a lot of flair. You know, growing up when we would go to not we, but if when they would go to states like a new Mexico or in Arizona, heavily Hispanic featured places, you would throw some Latino wrestlers in there, you know, like it would be a Rey Mysterio and stuff like that. But the running joke was always that you would lose, right? You would lose to your home crowd. And I couldn't help but to giggle as I knew, you know, oh boy wasn't going to beat Nakamura. You know, a lot of false finishes. A lot of good ones too where the rest of the game was just like literally a spit away from like hitting the ground and Nakamura just kicks out as well as he does. But he lost and I kind of giggled and I was like, God, man, can we get a little break? The more things that I don't know what's the name, let's go out. We saw him in the back trying to break up a fight that's, you know, then you saw, you know, Garza and an old boy just like trying to get into that. That's the slightest of our representation that we saw on tonight's seven hour Smackdown, you know, like. And like, I like the idea of Penta coming into team with Rey Mysterio. I think there's something really fun there. But like my kingdom for a Hispanic guy that can fight someone that is not Hispanic outside of Andrade with this mid-card title picture, like Sandra's Escobar is way too good to be this not featured, he's been off TV for weeks, he's been minimally used when he has, they exhausted him in the mid-card title picture, didn't have anything lined up for him. They exhausted the LWA angle and ran it into the ground until one of them had to go on to a different brand. And he is so damn good, so damn good. We talked about it week over week on this show, Alex, of, you know, of all the like Eddie Guerrero comparisons, he's like the only Hispanic wrestler that got away from that, because he felt like he was his own. And almost because of that, he had the same swag that Eddie did because he wasn't obsessed with being compared to Guerrero in any way, shape or form, like he kind of broke away from that. I really thought like King of the Ring might have done something for him, but it felt like that was the ending point for him instead of a catalyst for him. He's really, really, really good, he's fought for that U.S. title before and lost. Maybe with Shinsuke at the helm, he gets another shot, but like he's way too good. Maybe he goes over to Raw, I don't know, but he needs to be featured. And it's so crazy that, you know, when, I'm sorry, and I don't mean this in a bad way, but once early night broke out of that gimmick that he was in, you know, no matter as hard as he got, like what people, people love him for what he's doing. He's a great pro wrestler and entertainer. But him and the likes of the people that are right now surrounding this mid-card title, I'm sorry. I said this, I've said this in the past. I said this to Freddie and I've said this and I've written it in Freddie's show notes. Hey, these guys are marked for this mid run and this is it. I don't know, like I unfortunately will not see L.A. and I hold gold outside of that mid-card title picture. I really don't see it. And the same thing goes with the rest of the people that are surrounding that title right now. I don't know, it's just me, but I would figure you would get way more people involved into this now. Yeah. And it's just been the same over and over again. Been the same five or six guys for sure. I'm thinking with three hours, they're not going to have a choice but to expand that, right? I mean, we've assumed in the past and we've been left in the dust. So. That is true. I just like Katie looks like Amanda Blaze, I'm a lundra blaze or Medusa even the voice is the same. I'm going to take the fight full title and I'm just going to throw it in the trash. That's what I'm going to do. That's what I'm going to do. Keep those super chats and helper chats come in, please leave a thumbs up. 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It goes a little bit quicker as well, so thank you so much for the support. We've got some good feedback about it too. People are like in how we're switching stuff up over here. It does help us move along a little bit quicker, but all the more important now that we have a three hour show to review, we're going to try and keep it pithy for you guys, but let's talk about one symptom of a three hour show that I think is for the positive, which is that we got two women's matches. I think that's a very, very fair thing on a three hour show. We should probably be getting three women's matches, but we'll take two. We got two titles at minimum. That's what we should be having, but I do love that we got to see Piper Niven in action today. Meechin versus Piper Niven was a fine match. You knew which way this was going to go. Meechin picking up the W here. We have the eat defeat for the win here. We have Chelsea coming out and her all American gear, despite pink name him. God bless her. I think the joke was lost on some of the people in Arizona, but we knew which way this was going to go. You still have to have the matches because you have to feed the story, but we're getting back to Meechin and Chelsea. Nice to see Piper in action. I do wonder where we're going with this because it kind of begs for a stipulation. The first one, you have that dumpster match, right? That was a really important match. Kind of felt like it's what pushed this mid-card title to come into play was we were building these title-adjacent feuds that were successful and on the back of Meechin and Chelsea Green. You have the tournament match-ups, and now we're headed to this again, and I kind of feel like a stipulation is warranted. Do you feel the same way and what did you think of the match that we got tonight? Yeah, you know, it's fun to see Meechin on television again. She's been on a great run here. She's such a clever wrestler, man. Like every time I see her in the ring, she does something that I'm like, that was really, really smart, or I really haven't seen that very often. One or both of those things happen every time she's in the ring, no matter how much time she's given, I feel like. Yeah, and I'm still going to hold my ground on wanting to kind of see Piper Niven just go on her own soon and kind of really become what Nia Jax was given. You know, Nia Jax was a funny ha ha ha character, if you remember her whole situation. Sorry, I said that with a straight face, by the way. I'm impressed. Give me some points. I'm impressed. Okay, so if you remember the whole situation right before her letting go moment, then, you know, I want Piper Niven to kind of get away from Chelsea. Chelsea could hold her own, obviously, especially as being champion. It cheapens her run if she needs someone around like she should. I want her to be a strong, independent American woman holding an American title. You know, Merga. So and then I want, and I want Piper Niven to, you know, just beat the F out of her and just start going on a run and doing her thing, man, I need that. I need that out of Piper. I've said this for so long. When you have someone as intimidating as a Piper Niven, Nia Jax, Jade, Cargill, et cetera, et cetera, you need them to act like that. The men get it all the time. The freaking men get that treatment all the time, right? They get these, they get the squash matches and do it all the time. So why don't you give that to the women and let them cook? Wait, no, that sounds bad because people are going to be like, I'll just get them back in the kitchen. Oh God. Oh God. Fightful host. Alarmingly accurate impression of trolls. I will say, I love, so when Sean does his troll voice, it's like this, mm, mm, mm, voice. And Pulowski does like this, oh, oh, oh, boys, they're very, very different. They're very, very opposite. Like Alex, it sounds like a 90s dude in college on the same come kind of gave us Cody on step by step, but it's a little different and Sean is very like, amazingly, whenever and whatever, I just appreciate the diversity of troll impressions that we have here at Fightful. Alex is completely different. So, um, Herkalish and yeah, who do you guys, I would love to, if you guys in the chat have any, any thoughts about this too, like, who do you think is the next up for Chelsea? I think Piper is probably the long term game at some point, we're going to get a massive term where Chelsea just continues to take Piper for granted. We got a really strong face run, I think from Piper down the line, but like, who is next in this picture? There's some NXT names that I could definitely see. You could do a program with, with Bailey, like a proper one with Chelsea and Bailey could be really, really fun, uh, your thoughts on who is up next for, for Miss all American Chelsea green. Oh, you're talking to me, I thought you were talking to chat, uh, yeah, you know what? For me, I wouldn't, I wouldn't. The problem with bringing in someone from NXT to kind of face a Chelsea right now is that Chelsea is it. She's, she's hot. She's, you know, doing her thing as champion. And if you were to bring anyone up from NXT, you would immediately know that it is going to be, um, them losing that battle. And I don't want to see someone coming up from NXT and immediately losing, especially to a champion, right? You kind of, I kind of want to see them work themselves up a little bit, right? Though it would be cool, right? The surprise and just the event of it all would be cooler. Roxanne comes up and you kind of just, I'm the one who's coming because I had such a great run on NXT. I'm on a beach ass, right? But at the same token, like, I think the closest one would be Piper, 100% because you always look at the person who's next to you. And the great thing about WWE is the way that they have all this archived footage of how Chelsea Green has kind of like pushed around Piper and said things and kind of like made her way through that they can use to feed that level of a story. >> I don't appreciate that you said that the person who's next to you always turns on you because I'm sitting next to you, Carne, I was like, are you going to turn on me? The only thing I'm turning is these clavicles. >> Hey, hey, oh, I'm intrigued. There are some NXT columns that I think could be cool. I am team hot potato titles. I feel like we don't have enough of that going on in the midcard. If Roxanne came up, immediately won it and then lost it and then, Chelsea blames Piper for having lost it in the first place. And then Bailey kind of takes Roxanne under her wing or something like, there's some things that you could do in that regard. I need more potatoes that are hot around these parts. >> I do, I need a hot potato. >> Honestly, if we're being so for real, I think AEW needs it more than WWE does. We've seen shorter title names, right? >> They love their long term titles. Hey, in the chat before we get out of here, we talked about this. >> If Kate and I were to turn on each other, who would turn on who and who do you think is the heel and the baby face, right? Like with this one, put them up, put them up. >> Put them up, between me and Cardo is a. >> You know, with the new VOD villains. >> [LAUGH] >> We'll come out in black and white and everything. Yeah, so if you guys can just put it in the chat, I would love to know, and hit us up on social media as well, like let us know who would turn on who. >> Everyone saying I would turn on you. >> Wow, you see this, it'll be the Seth Rollins story, right? Like I'll just say, let me go pick up this name I dropped. And as I go down to pick it up, she's with a chair. >> [LAUGH] >> I'm the only Latina woman around here, okay? It's on the big hoops, the big earrings. >> I love how much you want to get us in trouble today. You're like women should get back into the kitchen and Kate is Latina. Thank you so much. >> Thank you so much. >> Luis with the real question, who has the package file driver under the two of us? So, bad robot also raised the point, I did take you off twice this episode, so. >> I met Kate in real life and I could honestly say she could hold her on. If she wants to package, pile drive me any time she wants. >> Dude, you're like seven foot eight, okay? >> I'm seven foot, I'm like, yeah, I'm pretty tall, but I can pretty much tell that she'll just knock me at the knees and then I'm gone, forget it. >> I am a ZSJ fan, I do know. >> Yes. >> Everybody's the same size when they are on the ground. But speaking of ZSJ, he's defending against Shoda, Shoda Umano this weekend, as well as Ricochet, stay tuned to those Wrestle Dynasty and Wrestle Kingdom post shows. If ZSJ doesn't win, I'm probably gonna quit. >> Sorry, I'm ready to comment and I almost spit on my water. I was not laughing at AB or say, the pile driver finished. And if you want your package, >> [LAUGH] >> You gotta save those, you gotta save those for my blue cheery. >> Literally almost just like spit everything out. >> [LAUGH] >> Not a ton else left to pick the bones dry a little bit here on SmackDown. But we did have Carmelo Hayes confronting Sami Zayn, but the Usos joining in and the Usos bumping into Kevin Owens who is just kind of with that S evening grin on his face being like, watch your back. So it seems like Carmelo and Sami are not done. I am intrigued to see where that goes. Any kind of final thoughts on this or anything else in that? So we pretty much covered everything we did. >> Yeah, no, everything's been said, everything's been said. >> There you go. There you go, guys, we have so much content for you coming up this weekend. It's time for us to get out of here, but there's 7,800 people watching. I feel like I don't want to cut the feet cuz so many of you are so little. >> Go on the clavicleconnection.com. >> There you go. >> I don't have that, I should buy it though, just make cool stuff first. >> Yes, we do have those two postures for you. Those are gonna be in the mornings after both Wrestle Dynasty and Wrestle Kingdom. I can't stress enough how great of a voice Lyric is in this space. She is not only so entrenched in New Japan and stardom, but also pro wrestling. Noah, I think she follows DDT as well. If there is a Japanese wrestling promotion that you are interested in or have questions about it, Lyric is who you want to follow. Scott also just some great work for us on the stardom beat and New Japan. So much New Japan news that came up on Fightful Select as far as those contracts go as well. God bless the next day, we're junior in TMTK. That's all I'll say on this, you guys know how I feel about ZSJ and TMTK. This is his time, this is his season, we're rooting for him here. Phil Lindsey also had an interview with ZSJ, as did Lyric who I previously mentioned. Phil Lindsey, one of the best voices in all of wrestling. We're so excited that we get to have him at Fightful. We've had absolute treasure, check out his interview, but some fun stuff. This is, if you're not as familiar, this is New Japan's Wrestle Kingdom is their version of WrestleMania. So stick around and get up to speed on things. Exciting things going on on the New Japan side. But before we get out of here, Cardoza, we'll let you plug away. The numbers keep going up. I hate to cut it off here, but it is time for us to get out. I'm not a vanity type of person. I literally deleted 10,000 people off of my Instagram, literally like I just said, I can't do this. But I am trying to build a nice community right back up. I deleted a lot of dead weight and just things to people that just didn't make sense. So I am trying to build that community back up. So if you would be so kind, if you don't follow me on the IG, please do. It's just my name together, Alexis Cardoza. And then if you want to see everything else that I'm doing and follow me on, if you want to follow me on Blue Sky or on Threads, you could just go to, I don't know if I'm Louise, if I'm allowed to put my link on the chat. But Alexis Cardoza.com, you can go there and you'll see like my link tree come up and just follow me on everything, man. We got a lot of great shows coming up. I got a 90s inspired show that I'm doing with, with Austin Romero. You guys know him as Mike Roman, NXT. So we're going to be coming together to do a show there and we got a lot of great stuff coming up for the rest of the year. So I'm really, really, really like interesting things that we're working on. And, and yeah, yeah, just IG, I'm trying to build it back up with the right people and the right community. I felt like for the last couple of years that I've used it. So if there is 32,000 of you right here right now and for 32,000 of you will go to my Instagram and hit follow. I promise, I won't disappoint. I'll even give you a free code so you can watch my Clavicles in action in 2025. What's up? If you, if everybody watching gave me 75 cents, you'd clear out my credit card debt. I just wanted to know that. So head over to Miss Cape Fave on social media pay up. No, I'm just kidding, but you can follow me at Miss Cape Fave on social media. You can subscribe to my YouTube channel. That's actually the best way that you can support me right now. This week, I did a video of five, 25 and under for 2025, five incredible wrestlers, 25 years and younger, Jordan Oliver, Roxanne Perez, Cosé Fujita. Who else did I include in this? Oh my gosh. Go over to my YouTube channel and find out. I forgot Billy Starks. And who was the other one? Guys, it's a good, it's, it's, she's doing some hot stuff. Oh, Roxanne. Roxanne Perez, what am I saying? So those five, I give you a rundown of head over to my YouTube channel at Miss Cape Fave and subscribe. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. We've got coverage for you all weekend. So stay tuned. We will see you next week. Happy 2025. Have a safe and wonderful wrestling weekend. Kenny Omega is back, baby. It's a good time to be a wrestling fan. We'll see you soon. Bye. At Verizon, anyone can trade in their old phone for a new one on us with unlimited ultimate, which means everyone in your family could get a new phone and stay on your family plan, keeping you close. 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