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We've got Sean here at the top of the show. We've got Cardoza, as always with us. Sean's going to clarify some things that came up earlier this week. But before we talk about that, Cardoza, how you doing over there? I'm excellent. It's another beautiful Friday here with you gorgeous people on Fightful. Of course, I'm speaking about Sean Ross Sapp, being the most gorgeous one in the ring. Oh, look at Sean. But yeah, man. So happy to be here. Let's get this party rocking. Absolutely. Well, the internet was ablaze wanting to know about Topgolf, Sean. That is the question that I got in my replies. I'm not kidding. Four or five people asked and wanted to know, why are you so bad at Topgolf? I had never touched a real golf club in my life besides the putter before that show. What I would ask is to show the scores after round two, when I had literally learned how to hold a golf club, because here's the spoiler, post round two, you boy took control. Okay. Okay. Right there. Amazing. What swag golf covers will do for you. Did you happy? Gilmore it? Is that what you did? Happy Gilmore? No, so I started off going full swing and then I'm like, no, you got to work up to that. You got to just hold it back and then hit it a little bit plus there's no actual skill required in Topgolf. I've learned that, which I love because I mean, that means I have a chance, but especially considering that Timmy did anything resembling competent shows that you don't need any actual skill. Wow. So aggressive, especially considering we know she was under the sting mask in the AW that you would that you would come out here swinging like that. I'll say this. I am very thankful when I was younger, I went to the driving range with my dad because I know how to swing a golf club. It's the opposite of a baseball swing. So it was never a natural thing to me, but we may never know, we may never know the truth about what happened at Topgolf that take, but get in those super chats, get in those hover chats, leave a thumbs up on this video, subscribe to FightfulSelect.com. I'm going to let Sean tease whatever he wants to about that, but we did first want to clarify something quickly about on Wednesday, you had gotten asked a question via super chat about speculation on Jamie Hader's possible return. We'll see if she's able to come back. A lot of people speculating that she might come back into the Britt Baker Mercedes Monet feud because that's kind of where we left off. You had mentioned that maybe that that ship has sailed and I know you just wanted to clarify a little bit around that. Yeah, I did because like listen, I understand in the line of work that I'm in, our stuff is going to get clipped and stuff taken out of context. Sometimes people accuse us of that. I mean, listen, I understand that that will sometimes happen to us, but I even reached out to the person that posted the clip and I was like, man, you didn't post the question that was posed to us. You didn't post any follow up, anything like that. And I'll do respect to that person. I think that just saying, oh, alludes to issues and all that stuff. That's editorializing. I didn't allude to issues. Over a year ago, I had heard they weren't doing that story. They said as much on, I don't know if it was a wrestle pure space or a boo as well, but this isn't like a secret or anything, but I haven't heard of any massive beef or anything like that. And as I noted later in that show, maybe things have changed since then, but people always just love to make it seem, especially in AWS, I've realized they make it seem like, oh, the inmates are running the asylum and blah, blah, blah, and I get it. There are plenty of times when you can point the finger at that and all that. But that was like people acted like I just barked it out like, well, you know, there's another one for Brit. That is not what happened. Kate, you had heard this over a year ago as well. I was going to say, I heard months, if not years ago at this point. Let me tell you, I ain't in scoops, and I certainly don't seek out this information. And I heard it from multiple people. This was not a well kept secret. And I would say probably would have been more public earlier if there hadn't been so much else going on in this landscape over the last year. Well, not only that, Hater was gone for a year and a half, so like, and I had heard about it maybe like a month before, like maybe a month before or so. But like to say that ship sailed in a purse ledge because it's been a year and a half. And I just haven't heard that that's a plan. I don't know what the plans are for Jamie Hater right now. But the latest I had heard was, well, it's not to be involved with that. Now that could change. Maybe this would facilitate a change and anything like that could happen. But like listen, if you need clarification on something that I'm saying, and I feel comfortable giving you that, that's fine. You can reach out and I'll try to provide you clarification. But that like I woke up the next morning and that had blown up and I'm like, my God, like what are we doing here? People are acting like I said that Britain, Jamie were throwing down that absolutely didn't. And I see people saying rebish tweets though, rebish has been in the business for a decade. She knows how to work. I'm not saying that she was working, but it wouldn't surprise me if that were the thing because she's still under contract and like she ain't been at TV either. Yeah, of course. So like you're talking about two people who haven't been at TV for over a year. You're talking about another person, a third person who only returned to TV for the first time in like 10 months, fairly recently, I'm just saying reach out for clarification. There's a lot of avenues for that. And that one I was like, okay, I was trying to be careful with how I worded it anyway because I thought that people might act a little bit weird about it, but I can't just bark out every single thing that I've heard regarding stuff like that. But this was not like a new thing. This was an old thing. And I hadn't been told that it had changed or anything. There was one person near it that was like, yeah, I don't think it's that big of an issue anymore, but maybe we'll see. Cool. Yeah. And it would make sense that it came back up when potentially one of those talent might be returning. That would be awesome if she's able to make it back. So naturally kind of begs the question where she would return. But it would seem like sometimes people in wrestling have issues with each other backstage. Who knew ever if you lived through the attitude era, but I've told plenty, I won't survive it. Nonsense McGee says drunk, watches the end of SmackDown Roman rocks. As I said all seriousness, I appreciate your dedication to this gig and serving as an example of how to grind and build a team the right way y'all are awesome, but keep up the fine work. Well, thank you so much. Had a guy last night to pretend like it said, you're not a real journalist because you're not live tweeting TNA and I was like, brother, I delegated that one a while back. I did that for a decade, I did that in my replies today and asked me if we're called Fightful, why we don't cover MMA. Oh, I saw that. I screamed. I mean, cut out our menu from the site and it's just as wrestling MMA and such a fact. It was absolutely incredible guys getting those super chats and hopper chats for the brief moment. Sean's here. We're going to let him we're going to let him go earlier tonight, then maybe he normally sticks around. But since we got you here, Sean, is there anything you want to talk about select wise, we got to take a nice victory lap earlier in the week, some fantastic gifts and memes. Nobody knows how deep the folder goes. That's until the home run tour comes up. So I don't do that much anymore, but especially occasions, I'm going to break out the receipts world tour. But there was somebody that was like, Oh, man, Sean's such a tough talker. And I'm like, I'm posting reactions and and gifs and memes. Like, what are we doing? This isn't tough talking. It's me dunking on some really bad people, but but Randy Orton, we broke news of his contract this week. We got that confirmation directly from him, five year contract for Randy Orton over the next week, we are admittedly going to be AEW heavy. We still got a bunch of Smackdown raw scoops, all that stuff, but heading into all in naturally, we're going to have a lot of AEW news. Adam Cole was backstage at this week's AEW Dynamite. I'm told he's yeah, I'm told he's likely getting back in the ring to train next week. We're going to have some more AEW injury updates and the like this upcoming week. But just an awful lot going on there. There was one thing and I still see it popping up people are like, Oh, any update on Becky Lynch. She's confirmed directly. She has not retired or at least that was not intended to be a retirement post on Instagram. I saw some people still talking about that recently like, Oh, well, they can't bring her in because she's retired. Nope, she's she's still not technically retired. Anything like that. We did have a lot of extra details on AEW all in Texas. Janai Kai has signed officially with MLW. That is a really good signing for them. She is awesome. Very good. She was actually backstage at AEW recently. We had news on Michael Oku and Amira possibly heading to AEW, ain't not dry on that. We're not told that that's necessarily set. Lucha brothers, the damage control surrounding that. And now it's now it's becoming clear like one of the reasons Penta probably got online and said, Ah, no, I'm in AEW is because his brother is still under contract and doesn't want to make that messy. I had a lot of people not asking for additional news, but they're like, Oh, what are your thoughts on this? And I'm like, okay, I don't like somebody being forced to be somewhere they don't want to be, especially if they've fulfilled that contract time. If I were AEW, I would say, Hey, Penta, here's the deal. You come back, you put a couple people over, we won't extend this time on your brother. That way, you know, you do business the right way on the way out. I think that's a way that benefits everybody. And Tony did say, yeah, that we believe that WWE is contract tampering. Now, I don't have particularly strong feelings one way or another, but I really didn't think that I would have another like active, possibly contract tampering story to report on for quite some time because I didn't think that a talent or a company would be as brazen about it. But Penta, to people that he was talking to definitely was and, you know, I think WWE would be a good place for him. I think WWE would be a really good place. I've made my thoughts, felt on the What's Up You Guys podcast about the AEW merch situation. WWE and fanatics will be mass producing those masks so quick and they will make their money back on them. But we're going to have a lot more news this weekend, injury news, injury updates. But yeah, Randy Orton re-signing Adam Cole coming back, AEW all in and Texas, it's been a good week. >> Absolutely. And before you get out of here, we're going to give you an opportunity to do something that I'm sure that you're going to want to do because, kind of like Carson saying, Sean, I just want to say that after she interrupted, pretty deadly number, I get your beef with me, chin, deplorable human being and bad robot kind of saying the same thing here. Love favorite show, glad to see Mia Yim on TV, but interrupting pretty deadly sadness. So we know what the CEO dance is, what do you think the OTC dance would be? We'll answer that. But if you wanted to shoot on Mia Yim before you get out of here, I wouldn't blame you. >> The OTC dance would probably be a moving version of that meme when somebody was throwing something at Roman and he did the thing from years ago. It probably be something like that, but as far as Mia Yim goes, listen, I rib her plenty, but I'm glad she's getting the opportunities that she has worked very, very hard to get. Also that woman is jacked right now. >> She looks great. >> She's in incredible shape, she's been doing great work. I will criticize this from the WWE perspective. We've had her lose to Nia twice in back-to-back months. I'm glad they gave her a win over Tiffany, but I'm like, give her some more wins if you're going to give her this title shot, but sincerely I am happy that Mia Yim is in this spot because she has earned it, she's worked very hard, she was persistent outside of WWE as well, and it's something that she definitely has put in the work for, so deserve. And Nia as well, Nia looks as good as she's looked in her WWE run, and we left the Summer Slam Presser and my wife was like, man, Nia is so personable. Yeah, she's a very likable person, a very charismatic person when given that opportunity. So yeah, I really like what they're doing there. >> Man, I ruined Shawn's bit last week. I tried to set him up to shoot on Mia Yim and he just comes in. It does a bunch of nice things about her. She's fantastic, I'm also very glad to see that she's getting more screen time, more meaningful matches as well. But Shawn, anything else before you get out of here? >> That's all I got, subscribe to Fightful Select, a lot of good stuff coming. >> All right, well, this is the three year anniversary of my time at Fightful this week. This is the three year of SmackDown post shows that I got hired for, so thank you for hiring me to do this. Thank you for quitting on Friday night, so I get to host the show now, but very excited to be here, very excited to continue into year four. Thank you, Shawn, for all your hard work. We appreciate you around here and we're going to get in to the SmackDown review. We'll say goodbye, Shawn, and we will dive into SmackDown right here. We've got a lot to talk about. >> Pretty clean episode this week, I would say next week we've got the home, go home to Bash in Berlin. This one had some meat on the bone, love that we're getting longer times for these tag matches. But what did you think kind of overall, Alex? >> Not bad, I mean, kind of a lot of the repetitiveness of what's been happening for the last almost three weeks with SmackDown, a lot of the same faces. Because I get it, they have to build these stories and they got to make their way through Bash to Berlin, at Berlin. So it is what it is, not to say that the episode was bad, it was just, you know, when you kind of see the same, almost the same thing for a couple weeks in a row, it's just like, okay, cool, I like it. Yay. >> It is a little bit formulaic and that the structures I feel like have been the same. >> Exactly. >> Wow, you took the word, this is why you're a PhD in wrestling and I'm just- >> Thank you so much. >> An associate's degree in sitting here. >> Well, we actually did get this super chat saying, have any of you have any aims in the film biz come October? I might have some cool opportunities, y'all are salt of the earth people. So it would be cool to work with y'all, this guy is the guy for that actually. >> This sexy collarbone of a man. >> Very, very much interconnected in the film world. >> Yeah, just hit me up on the Twitch, on Instagram, sorry, I don't know why I said Twitch, but Instagram, I was supposed to say Twitter, but I'm just trying to stay away from Twitter as much as possible. But Instagram and on threads is the place to be, you could slide in my open DMs. >> There you go, there you go. >> I will say, I don't really have any film aspirations. I can't speak for Sean entirely, but I can tell you he has one giant notes app that he keeps all of his ideas in, some of them may or may not be well, he's under the influence. >> Certain influences of cannabis specific. >> It's 2024. >> The wacky tub back in the weird, I don't want people being weird about it. >> No, they're not weird, the internet's the place where people do it the most. >> It's greater than SRS, also RIP off. Yes, we will talk about the video package that they put together, beautifully done. It's so strangely poetic how that happens sometimes, right? Like these two passing back to back after we've gotten to see this culmination of their legacy play out on screen that's obviously incredibly sad, but kind of beautiful in a way that they got to witness playing out in one of the most successful wrestling booms that we've ever had, their legacy just right on screen for all of us to see, it's pretty special, pretty special. Ricardo saying hi, Kate and Cardoza, chat, see you later tonight. >> What do you do? >> Thank you for chiming in while you're at work. Tag match had one of the best matches this year. We're gonna talk about that for sure, three segments they gave that. But let's dive in crazy 101 saying Tony and Saraya except for next week, that should be fun cuz there's some former outcasts drama there. But let's finally dive in to this. >> Hey guys, I'm here to tell you about eBay Auto. eBay Motors is the leading online platform for automotive dealers to get their inventory in front of over 7 million ready to buy shoppers who are buying cars and trucks on eBay Motors every three minutes every single day. They make it easy to find parts for cars, trucks, SUVs, motorcycles, and more. They even offer a massive selection of new and pre-owned classics. Whether it's fixing, updating, or maintaining your existing vehicle. 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It had a lot of wrestlers talking about not only the on screen legacies, but I loved what Batista was saying and stuff, too, like how much the training school helped and how much just like the wild Samoan legacy and just their legacy to wrestling and general has meant, we get to see it from so much of a referential standpoint in today's current wrestling and we get to hear all about the Samoan Dynasty, but to hear the off-screen human amount of value that they added to the wrestling industry I thought was beautiful stuff that we got today. What did you think of the video packages? I feel like they always do such a great job with these. I'll be completely honest, it's, I love it, don't get me wrong, I think those packages always pull in the hard strings, but the only thing that I kind of got to say gets me is the fact that it's just time sucks, it's our biggest enemy, it's the biggest heal and above all else it proves that I am getting old and I don't like singing. I'm sexy as it is, like I don't think I'm aging, but to see what was our, for me growing up, our fandom withering away a little bit by a little bit, now mind you he was 81 years old, beautiful life, but just, I watch these guys, I watched them on Saturday nights and I watched them on the beginning of the Monday Night Raw, like it's just, it's crazy, it's just crazy, it kind of just, it sucks. It's wild too because there's that layer of it, right, we're losing these legends and then the next wave of it of Judd Cena's retiring and Stone Cold says it's a young man's game and all these things of like, we've seen some great uses of legends lately and wrestling, I think better than maybe ever, but it is, it is wild to see how much of that is weaving in and out and especially, so I mean I got into this in the era that everyone thinks sucked, right, I started watching in 2009, so I don't have the same attachment, but it is wild to see how many people watched, exited and then came back to wrestling, like I hear so much of that and so they're having these feelings and attachments to wrestling and in such a different way, such a different way, Tim McFowell sending in a super chat, thank you so much, saying just joining over the influence by Kate today with our post on Twitter, yeah, I guess I got to post some more beach pictures, my goodness, but you have to show a lot of cool to catch up as for SmackDown, I thought the pacing really ruined a good-to-great show, some weird pacing things but some good pacing things and we'll, I'll discuss, and Alex will discuss what I think was good and bad about today's show, but this makes me happier than anything in the whole wide world, Eddie Kingston was announced to provide an update on all in for tomorrow's collision, and he is gonna be set for tomorrow's collision, I'm gonna, I'm so happy, I'm gonna cry, I'm so excited. I know it's crazy. You know, I've, I said the past few, kind of like six to eight weeks, I feel like both products, the WWE product and the AEW product right now are all both in very good places, but AEW is missing that tackler on the mic and that is Eddie Kingston, your Will Ospreys are really great promos and phenomenal in ring and your MJF's are gonna do what your MJF's does, nobody does what Eddie does, the closest person is probably Mox and Mox has been out too, it's tough, it's tough when those guys are out because guys like Eddie Kingston can make anything adjacent to a title or with a title feel like it's life or death and they can do it like that and I feel like Kevin Owens is a WWE equivalent of just like it's logical and I want to see you fight immediately, we're gonna, we're gonna talk about that too. Well he talks, he talks real, like it's, you know, I grew up in in that era 90s Jersey, New York City era, you know, like when he talks to you like he's gonna step up to you and kick you in the nuts with his fucking, with his Tim, with his Tim, I got a little too excited, I see, there you go, that's a part of me. It is, I got into it too much, I apologize people, I almost slip, I almost slip there, you know, but yeah, just the tip, just the tip of the word. Jasmine Hawkins saying Happy Fightful Anniversary, Kate, oh my god, Jasmine, thank you so much, like a true white girl, I've been celebrating it all week, but I am so thankful to be here for three years and this was the first show I got hired for, I got hired just to co-host the SmackDown Show and now I get to do this most every night with you wonderful people, so I so appreciate not only getting to do this every Friday but all the shows I get to do at Fightful and doing it in an environment where I can genuinely say I love their co-hosts, I love our editorial team anytime I go to Sean and Jimmy Van for something, they're always there to listen, Sean's like the busiest dude on the planet, if I'm like hey I need something, he's there, like I feel very very blessed to be not only able to do this on the platform that I do it at and not only in an environment that's inclusive and safe for everybody but to be constantly valued and listened to is truly a gift because I don't, I love wrestling, I don't need to talk about it so bad that I work with a bunch of idiots, so very thankful to you, you brought me in here to be your co-host and you know I can't complain, I'm gonna have home of three years myself, I listen there's nothing wrong with a little collab on Friday night, you know what I'm saying, we've had a long week, chat am I right, come on now, thank you for all the support but let's get into this episode because we haven't even really touched the tip of the iceberg here, let's talk Nia's celebration that Tiffany so beautifully laid out with pink and white bloom pillars with unicorns on top of them and Nia comes out, we've talked about this before, her and kind of more traditional clothes, this looked like it was almost a hybrid of of streetwear and gear, it was an interesting look but when she came out in that chair I was like man she looks so extra beautiful, when she's allowed to kind of just dress when you're not in a wrestling match you don't need to be wearing wrestling gear, when she wears kind of more regular clothes she just she looks stunning, she looks absolutely stunning, but Nia kind of comes out and says hey thanks for the celebration but this isn't really my style, destruction is more my style than pink and pretty glitter and unicorns and stuff but Tiffany has done so much for her, she says that she's been so good to her and they continue with the celebration and eventually we get Nia asking Tiffany to bow down to the queen of the ring, pretty deadly is also there dressed like they're in a boy band but for their musical segment and Tiffany doesn't say no but she does say you know I thought pretty deadly could sing you this song they prepared and we would all bow down together because boys should bow down too which that I very much agree with, I'm with it, bow down to Nia, but they they start singing this beautiful song and then Mia Yim has the nerve to come interrupt that, with a kendo stick, she looks fantastic too, Sean alluded to it earlier, her conditioning is incredible, the past couple sets of gear that she's had on NXT and here on SmackDown have been excellent too, like I'm loving this presentation of Mia Yim, I do agree with what Sean said earlier that she lost twice to Nia the first time very handily so they need to do a little bit more creative work to get her back to feeling like a proper contender for Nia I think but she's been so underrated for so long I'm so excited to see her getting to shine not only with more TV time but in title matches and more important spots, excellent stuff, what did you think of our opening proper segment here? I love the fact that she immediately turned into like that heel Nia listen you're my pet, that's what you are you're not my friend you're my pet I'm gonna keep you around until it's ready to kick you out and like give you away to another family okay that's what I feel like she's keeping Tiffy around for I love the fact that she immediately like had no words Tiffy didn't like oh god you want me you want me to bow down oh by the way let me tell you something you know pretty deadly's here to sing a song for you I love me some pretty deadly I know you do I mean the mics the boy van mics the boy I mean I'm gonna find a picture and I'm a posted I used to be in a boy band I also used to do covers and all kinds of stuff so I'll show you guys the picture I used to wear the jersey with the backwards hat and the one glove I did all that stuff so I really enjoyed the fact that they went out there and tried and they were hit to me I don't know what else I'm getting in line at TKTS to go to pretty deadly the musical okay like I'm yeah I'm down for it I'll later we do get a segment to backstage with Mia Yim and Chelsea and Piper who is standing outside of they draw Jackie a little bit and Chelsea said you know we were we were gonna do that too we were gonna interrupt Nia - we were gonna we have the same thought we were gonna run into me and says well thank goodness it was mean because I got a title shot out of it and then just is they tried to barge into Nick Aldous as usual Nia is there to attack Mia Yim good stuff good continuation good talent rotation if you're not gonna do multiple matches for the women at least you're still getting a lot of faces on television here like you got Nia you got Tiffany you got Chelsea you've got Piper at least sniffing around the picture you got Mia Yim here so you're only doing one match at least we are still getting a lot of talent on television any any thoughts on the kind of addendum segment that we got here Alex first of all just we want maybe say thank you to Gregory Alvarado who just gifted a ton of memberships to people here on the chat thank you so much yeah so thank you so much just wanted to keep an eye on that that was a pretty cool fight for wrestling yeah thank you so much we appreciate that so much that was amazing thank you so much okay so the backstage segment Nicholas that was my favorite thing she'll see has become one of my favorite like people to kind of like you never know what she's gonna do or say she's always dressed to the nines she's kind of likes like always being sly and slithering yeah always up to yes always and I you just want to find out what it is that she's doing I like it I'm here for it I hope that for her she continues to move upward and they give her you know I like this stuff but I want to see a couple more serious things happening but other than that yeah the back I think the backstage thing was fine I just I love I she stands out the most out of the whole thing she anytime she's on screen is maximizing her minutes we say one over and over again but like I mean just to the umteenth degree it's really really incredible Gregory you were so generous if there's anything that you want to send in a chat about feel free to do so we'd be happy to read one for you yeah and I will send you ten clavicle pictures just for that what my goodness you know I say happy kid a verse or yet again this week thank you so much the most fantastic member of Fightful helps when some of your co-hosts don't have any hair at all but and 2.0 you're a badass as well we thank you so much we are so happy to have Alex on sometimes I need to first of all I wish I could find out the exact date that I started with you I can't I try to go back into the archives I wish our Friday and I show how to playlist because I can go back all the way maybe that's something I can do is you did your first I have the same thing my first appearance on Fightful was not the day I got hired correct think I even have your first appearance but I don't have the day that you started at Fightful because those are two different dates yeah but yeah I don't even know if we have an official date for you because Sean kind of just like Irish goodbye yeah he did he showed up one day while I was with you and said Alex it's a pleasure meeting you and he was basically like he kind of just fizzled out which I take as a side of trust so I'll I'll take it for sure but me never said sub bangs and collarbones gang let's crank I'm not saying it's a blinding tonight if beef ever comes out whoa actually go vegan okay so there's a wrestler who's been on our way choose the second cousin of Anthony Henry and his name is beef like that's his name it's awesome and he has so much personality he's so much fun but his name is beef I love him but my co-host on Thursday night's SP3 like loves him loves him and I thought who would be a a more who would he be loved more by than our very faithful me enormous I love the meat I love 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Felice it's his birthday today at Dude Felice on social media go wish mom a happy birthday happy birthday the very very best of us so let's rock and roll through more of this we get Carmelo Hayes versus Andrade and buddy I could watch them wrestle for the rest of my life Jay Stone saying I hope at some point Hunter books mellow like he was the third pick of the draft Andrade and mellow carrying the show at this point now I got to say I'm so excited to talk about this match because I felt like in the first one mellow really got to show out and in the second one on draw they got to show out a little bit more and tonight it felt like even Stevens like they both got to show out and shout out to Wade Barrett on commentary for putting over what I felt like was very well articulated him in the story here of Carmelo may have lost the first two times but he's never gonna lose the same way twice he's a young growing superstar who's not going to make that same mistake again we see him win by catching the Huracan Rana this time rolling those legs back for the three count really really good stuff that standing moons out from Andrade like absolutely blows my mind every single time or not the standing one but like him landing on his feet when he goes to do a moons all is absolutely insane to me these two just have incredible chemistry I'm glad somebody realized that I'm glad they capitalized on that with the story and my only complaint about those first two matches was why did Andrade win both of them right I felt like we're setting up Carmelo as a likely contender for the US title Carmelo gets a win here hopefully he continues to get some wins while LA Knight is preoccupied with Santos Escobar for this first title defense may Carmelo look strong going into what feels like it's probably gonna be a series of matches if not at least one match with LA Knight eventually but let's get him winning let's get him looking strong but man Andrade and Carmelo he's just showing out every time we've gotten to see them absolutely loved what we got from them tonight what did you think my dear co-host we are are having a plate a buffet full of deliciousness when it comes to these two they obviously understand that they've caught lightning in a lightning in a bottle when it comes to Andrade and Carmelo fighting it out in the ring let me tell you something I don't see anything wrong with them running it back to back to back to back because they're giving us different style matches you're not seeing the same spots you're definitely getting a lot of variety you're getting a yes many times these two guys have faced each other short amount of time you're getting they they injected a little bit of fuel into their into their rivalry at the end of the match where Carmelo kind of stepping up and be like bro not continue acknowledging like I'm good at this you know like obviously I would be full of piss and vinegar too if you beat me and you know like you're pissed and now I beat you I want you to like you know you kind of see that a lot in like Wayans and UFC fights sometimes well like one will start going after the other you know or even after a match to kind of like brag um this is what they were doing and it felt nice it felt great um maybe I would lessen the amount of times that they get in the ring together to like maybe every other week or maybe even every month yeah you spread them out so that it continues to feel special um but yeah I'm I'm all I'm all about it I am wondering if part of the pacing of this feud was because there wasn't supposed to be one but that first match was grabbed so many people's attention they were like well hold on let's lean into that because both of those guys had been lost in the shuffle booking wise sometimes this helps and I will say like to be a good match the win means something right a great match the win means something and the loss means something to both characters for them to go back to their respective feuds with or their respective character arcs with now it feels like we're getting into great matches because the the in-ring was always fantastic but the story is now elevated for both of them with the series of matches that we've had where in the beginning it felt lopsided to me it felt like this was only doing something for Andrade so yes big W here from Carmelo Hayes we did see him in a backstage a little bit earlier here with Aomie Jaden Bianca who say they're very mindful very demure I don't know what this little TikTok trend is but all the ladies are saying very mindful where Demure and I kind of love it and Carmelo Hayes invites them to the after party after this match which when that happened I said well he better win because an after party for a match that you lose sounds terrible it's like it's like if everybody's waiting for you at home and you failed your driver's test and then you walk in and they've all got balloons and all sorts of stuff but some more love and super chat form from you guys Jay Miller saying happy at three years Kate Wish some of these title matches could make it bash in Berlin man I long for the days when the mid card can feel important now I will say this I think if you consider that the new era under Triple H has only been from April till now there's been a tremendous amount of improvement in the product to me it felt like priority number one clean up the way we're going about some things not as many rematches as we were getting in the Vintera lean into the baby faces that are organically over I'm hoping what we're getting with Braun Breaker and what we're getting with LA night finally having titles is now that mid card's going to start to rise up and feel important again and then I hope the other piece that comes into the fold is that they give a shit about the tag titles at some point those are my hopes is that maybe there are some phases that are being rebuilt here because they obviously have said Braun Breaker the future is yours if you want it we're seeing you drag it off get mixed up over there with Sheamus right like we're seeing a lot more contenders in that mid card than we ever have before the thing is when they do these international pay-per-views they're five matches so it is kind of tough but I would say survivor series you'll probably see some serious movement but keep in mind in that mid card picture we have two very new champions at LA night and Braun Breaker let's give them a substantive reign and and hope we go places with it I agreed Ian R says Kate the queen of bangs and boners segue is what I can't what I don't mean to pat myself on the back or whatever but like did you ever think after years of studying and education and everything that you've put in all the hard work when I was a young girl that you would be the queen of bangs and boners segue bangs and boners like B&Bs I mean that's great I'm sure when my parents were raising me they were like my dad was like I'm gonna put in stop decades of work at IBM so that my daughter can be the queen of bangs and boners segue we love you mr. Kate Michael David saying here's my penance for being late because my caregiver is an a-hole well I hope you're okay yeah we will if you're a facilities manager at a warehouse and your hvac system goes down it can turn up the heat literally but don't sweat it granger has you covered granger offers over a million industrial grade products for all your operations including warehouse hvac maintenance and even better they offer access to experts and fast delivery so you and your warehouse can both keep your cool call 1-800-GRANGER click granger.com or just stop by granger for the ones who get it done I won't let it slide by the way shout out to dawn in the chat my co-host and my friend and my producer and many other ventures who found a date May 27th 2022 May 27th 2022 now you can put it in your phone so that we can I did I just put it on my telephone oh and uh and you can celebrate with an unintentional thirst trap as well you yeah you did that what's up I was not intended to be but Lord Almighty just wait my clavicles are getting really buff I started like lifting weights again like I look at myself I'm like damn it's about drive it's about power okay that's what I was told yeah we get Naomi versus Blair Davenport which is set up a little bit earlier and that varied to me or a very mindful segment that we had but man this is not working for Blair Davenport's she is a very skilled wrestler and her presentation in NXT was connecting the stall out and pushing her is biting them in the butt right now I would just no crowd reaction for them this was also just a little bit off of a match just felt like one of those chemistry things like nothing that Naomi did wrong or that Blair Davenport did wrong necessarily sometimes chemistry just isn't there that happens with the best wrestlers in the world all the time I remember that the example I always use is Rhea Ripley and Asuka it took them three times to get that match to work and they're they're two of the very best in the world and they even have similar enough ring styles that you would think immediately home run wasn't the case and the third time it was awesome this just didn't really click for me uh I will say jumping guillotines are always super fun I think maybe they just speak such different languages in wrestling terms that maybe it didn't it didn't really fit but uh nothing wrong here necessarily it just didn't feel like it ever got into the gear it needed to for me uh any thoughts on this and my goodness it feels like they've got to find something for Blair Davenport because she's she's ice cold and they get she's too talented to be this ill received by the audience yeah it was it was more or less like cool um you know hometown girl is here Naomi we're gonna give it up everyone's behind her I feel sorry for Davenport she comes out it's just like everyone sitting on their hands kind of and it's it sucks you know like she's such a talented woman's wrestler um I honestly thought that we would see a lot more coming out of her I don't know maybe they just don't it's hard it's hard like they have a lot of time being put it into so many other people yeah you know um that all I can think of right now is just like she's she's waiting in the wings you know and they're gonna put her on tv here and they're just to remind us that she's still there you know and you know you know how every day is eventually a story will pop up yeah it does feel like Naomi's return was huge and then they had that cool six woman program at mania but she was never the the focal point of it right correct right tag team yes eaten a lot of l she's another one here I would like for her to have some meaningful wins uh in the very near and by the way even last week that the the fact there's so many women's trios isn't an accident so we'll see where things are going even now like you still see her kind of just being injected a little bit into everything that Bianca and Jade are doing like yeah there's no there's it hasn't been a lot of separation which kind of sucks because Naomi could stay on her loan on her own like we saw that in tna you know and we've seen that in that we've seen that in the past and she's super over like yes yes presentation so yeah uh so we'll see this is actually very funny band twin blades saying why ain't Alexis's name in chap blue or green fix it are you not a moderator i'm not because i was told uh actually i wasn't told anything i was trying to make something up but no i know a girl i'll uh i'll make sure that you are i hope this girl is really good at bangs and but not just she happens to be and she happens to Friday nights this is literally i do a ton of shows by the way and i have the most fun here with you on Friday nights i used to have a lot of fun with dawn and chat as well when we used to do our powering to show uh into the morphing grid Friday nights as well but you know i'm having a ton of fun here and this is just great i am very glad and i love doing this show with you every Friday night we have the most fun and mostest i uh sorry this is give a like i'll do it i have the login for a fightful we will we will make that happen i promise but stop using caps in the chat louise or our mods will ban you how about that you're gonna get time added i can't do that i can't time out you that would be very bad for me but we get this segment with grace and waller and kevin Owens who is my favorite person in the whole wide world ever ever ever uh grace and waller is talking a bunch of s to austin theory talk about how ko hasn't done anything but lose the bloodline for the past four years and kevin Owens says checkmate my friend i know i have not earned this title match i said that last week i have not exactly been doing great i didn't even want this title match so i do i suck right let's go out there and prove it prove how much i suck at this a grace and waller had said that he wanted the old kevin Owens but i just love how ko is always in the same boat as whatever the truth is in his booking reflection and i loved that he was like yeah you know what i agree with you actually so good luck talking bunch of shit about a guy that agrees with you so good and then the match was super fun i loved the finish because my complaint with the rolling flat liner is that grace and waller has to leave the ring to come back into the ring to do it that is not a good finishing move you've been saying this for last forever i have here's the thing Alex Plasky opened my eyes to it way back when he was an nxt and it's one of those things i can't unsee it's like when people go to the top rope in a battle royal it was a gifted pet peeve to me from matt from the shiny wizard spot guest he pointed it out once and now i can never see that spot and be like why would you go to the top rope in a battle royal that makes no sense why would you finish it where you have to leave the ring to come back in that also makes no sense because someone like kevin no one's is going to have it scouted and you're going to run into a stunner when you try to do it we get a pop of power bomb for the three count at a little post-match action here kevin no one's getting the win that makes sense here austin theory not really doing a lot to help his tag team partner i'm assuming we're getting more dissension but god i loved a little promo into this this was so much fun uh what were your thoughts yeah i i truly enjoy you know like the fact that ko and everyone is just like you know beating the crap out of uh a town down on there like i i i need these guys to separate you know i i i've been saying this to for you to you for a long time and you kind of were like you you you were iffy about in the beginning because they kind of did make such a great team together in up front but gosh in the last couple months kate i've been a big supporter of just getting these two separated maybe seeing um you know you always said that you always said that waller might be the biggest start of the both of them um i'm starting to see that i do agree because the charisma is there by by a ton um and unfortunately theory kind of suffers from the i'm a body guy and i i'm just going to come out here and wrestle type of deal you know and that's about it and he's right in the ring yes they've never gotten a presentation that works for him right like since he was in the way yeah like the fact in the way that that he's been in the way yeah in the way yeah so i mean that's that's all that's honestly that's what i feel like right now like we just need to kind of like move on you know um and see obviously you know with Kevin Owens you know he's stuck in this Cody Rhodes loop of people that challenged Cody Rhodes but you know they're not gonna win the title loop and it just uh it just sucks my soul i don't want it to happen uh pieces with the most important to have the whole end world thing hi everyone coming in late because i went to Nigel's magic show but hope everyone is having a while were you let us know were you as surprised as i was about how emotionally like moving and how many heartstrings it pulled at uh because i was i was i was pleasantly caught off guard by how authentic insincere that was i am obsessed with how many people are touching tips in the chat tonight jesus christ being funny to me i love it so much someone touch tips with me please i just did someone's someone's gonna clip that at arnie i just did yeah tips over here hey you know what you know who's got some tips for creative alex flasky he's gonna come on here with the sour fower it's not just boner segues i have you guys okay alex not as much as alex's dog alex touch my tip hold on oh here we go we get oh god look at this interconnection of tips just touching everywhere god i am the connector between all of us but we need to come into frame like i'm example of just like a weird oh yeah yeah there you go what up alex how you doing um uh good um good top top flight somehow time travel to nxt 2.0 i don't understand it i don't know i don't know how or don't know why what they did it's the weekly post rampage srs raid it is like a twitch raid where our numbers go up once you finish on select yes um yeah uh we we decided that we need to formally make ruch and beast mortise into a tag team okay and the tag team name will be the hern's business yeah i'm in i'm hot i'm present in okay no no i hope those shirts come out next week that's phenomenal h-e-r-r-r-n-s-s-s-s-s okay do you think do you think do you think the creative doesn't think will notice or that they haven't noticed themselves that they are running nearly identical programs one for the men and one for the women on smacked out with blare davenport and nayomi and carmello and on trotte yeah i can't quite beat this guy i know i'm new here but i'll try and figure it out oh i did that's great it's the exact same thing i wouldn't notice except for they did them in back-to-back matches oh the hern's beast knees it's even better it's even better it's even better the hern's beast knees they are very similar programs the other thing is we were talking about it before you and i know how talented blare davenport is because we saw her on edick st but like the audience reaction is ice cold like they have got to figure it out with her for sure yes well putting her with some spooky scottish witches oh wait they used to be that is going to like rock at her to the top remains to be seen we'll see we'll see they're so good they're so good but their booking is is not supportive of of such a thing yeah um but yeah what else you got in your sauerkraut that's only one i know unless you're counting rampage if you don't like the top flight kind of i guess i mean think about smackdowns and i was it was like inoffensive like there wasn't like there wasn't bad anything bad on it like some of the stuff i wish they were it wasn't you know kind of as obvious you know or like oh cool so me me chin gets to be the first victim of nyajax's reign like we just we know what this is she i volunteer um you know this i volunteer is tribute at some point nyajax has to have a first feud where she beats the first person she wrestles and it'll be medium so that's fine it's just one of those things of like it's just stuff that you do and this is a good option as any so fine but there's no nobody's like doing brand new fun stuff it's just like all right cool yeah and she already lost tonight twice so they've got a they've got to get her more wins to this yeah feels like they're just stalling for the cash in for sure yeah like no please yes yes joseph we i came in hot with this they say what what is your occupation you know aside from being a professional wrestler um and i we realized that because darius has a legit pilot's license he is allowed to dress as a pilot the under two guys are okay i'm sorry that's just the rule that's the loop hole but other than that so that is that is fair that is fair i did not know he legitimately had a pilot's license yeah yeah that's pretty cool i also wondered if atongoloa had an ophthalmology appointment he's been wearing the eyepatch i don't know where he was tonight nobody mentioned that he was gone i feel like he's probably this is this is breaking news okay i don't have a scoop here but if you wear an eyepatch i think you're just in a w-down oh oh that's how that works between hangman and daniel sim are they said he did it as a rib rocky romero like if you have an eyepatch you wrestle in a w so i don't even i don't even know if that's a choice like i think you just our mocks had it for that brief period of time like so that's the way the cookie crumbles but mm-hmm yep uh oh oh hey they told us that the uh the good good hey um good news alexus yes we have about this um the alba and isla have already won their match on monday which is awesome because they have a triple threat tag team title match on monday and then they have a six-woman tag match on friday that doesn't make any sense if they're no longer the chance right so right you know it's kind of cool that we already know what's going to happen in that big six-woman three uh three-way tag team title match on monday so am i sour about it no not not i mean like it's like it's like a grapefruit like that's that's how sour i am you know you would think with all of that money and and everything that's going on you would have a legit continuity person letting you know hey that shouldn't go there yeah that's right it's hard to be sour about anything when we find out that Eddie Kingston is going to be on collision so yeah is he really i'm so happy via skype nice be like he says via skype no what he needs to do get out of here he what he needs to do is is he needs to do the Jacob Fatu he's got a he's got a super kick a guy wearing a walk-in boot that was yo i saw that yeah that was cold as hell that was super kick a guy wearing a walk-in boot because he broke everything in his leg so that'd be fun well you know the thing with Eddie is for a while he's been nowhere to be found okay which is not how you want to be except that's how you want your internet connection to people yeah if you want to be untraceable to the world like Eddie Kingston has been potna yeah Nord VPN i have long talked with you guys about the content that you can access with Nord VPN.com/fightful but it doesn't just stop at pro wrestling you can get MMA and boxing pay-per-views at a much more affordable price when you change your virtual location with just one click using Nord VPN.com/fightful it doesn't stop there either football games man if you want to check out those out-of-market football games you don't have to spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars you can get Nord VPN.com/fightful and just change your virtual location how about baseball games they make it harder than ever to actually watch baseball games it is a task not with Nord VPN.com/fightful they got everything you need in addition 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Pulaski anything else for Oh MXM has a new double team finisher that's the greatest thing I've ever seen but Dante kicked out of it and it's one of those things that it's so it's so good that it should never be kicked out of it's be protected for the next 10 years it is it's so good man sore has Dante up on his shoulders like in you know like for a doomsday device position but he just walks in the middle of the ring and mason reaches up and grabs him by the throat to do a choke slam like off the top of his shoulders but added to that man's man sewer hurts him up off to his shoulders grabs him around the waist so it is a choke slam German suplex combo with the bridge out of it bridging suplex out of it it's one of the damnedest things I've ever seen and they just had Dante kick out of it I said had Darius if they had Darius break it up I would have nothing to say about it but that is the kind of move that no one should ever kick out that was amazing oh that's so cool I can't wait to see it that's all in the tip toucher there you go I'm so happy those guys are off to such a well-received search I love them so much oh also uh abadon at the club that's like I saw this abadon is at the club there was a a segment in there that you're gonna want to keep your eyes peeled for abadon and uh she's always doing spooky stuff but in an unnatural setting so in the club actually outside the club outside outside the club in the VIP section for sure that's great uh I guess that's it oh hey my daughter's uh is little miss peanut now I don't I don't share other people the local information somehow my daughter had just won a pageant tonight in the middle of a driving rain, she was covered in the amphitheater the rest of us weren't so all of my video of the moment has me holding an umbrella with everybody having umbrellas in front of me so I got a tiny little sliver of the person going like oh there is and then like yeah that was that was that was it so she's very excited I love it I'm so excited for her yeah I'm here for that let's go my job as an influencer is already being threatened I just got hit with everybody's daughter's birdie taniel said that's true your daughter and so I'm going to teach her that I don't want when she's in the parade she gets to write in a convertible in the parade on sunday very nice um and uh and I'm going to teach her none of this none of this wave thing throw up the one throw up the one everybody's got to acknowledge you just throw up the one I want to see ones in the crowd for my daughter in the convertible the whole parade is supposed to be 45 minutes but her convertible entrance is like 20 with the music playing to that's it I can't I can't all that acknowledge Alex's daughter in the chat throw your ones up throw up the ones in the chat I want to see one in the chat we love it all right for Alex's kiddo all right we appreciate you stopping by with your sourfoul though a mixed bag today we always we always appreciate it but well my friend we shall touch tips later we shall get in those super chats get in those tip tip touching oh what well these he killer were in the chat he's just taking over the world right now I love I love this so much you know what I found a premier protein I don't know if you know if you like protein drinking protein but I do they're like these little protein shakes that you can drink pumpkin spice premier ESL protein my goodness I like my yes well here's something else I know that you'll like and that is a legato video package which I think was really good because we've been saying they kind of need a reset and they showed them at dinner saying weekend and we said which is good I like when I don't always love when booking gets called out but I like it when characters make sense of their own wins and losses right that is that is just inherently well done creative Santos always thrives in these we saw a bunch of these in NXT too just like these vignettes were there at dinner with the family and he's kind of in mob boss mode but I love when he says esco bar see see I love when he does the LA night cadence with his own name so so good and then after that we have alienate saying well that seemed like a fun dinner which I love he has that Kevin Owens thing where he just calls out wrestling tropes sometimes and he did that very well here and he says Santos Escobar might have not forgotten who he is but he might forget where he is after taking a blunt force trauma from LA night so I liked both sides of this if they weren't gonna come face to face because they don't need to yet I love when Santos is in this environment and LA night doing what he does best in front of a live crowd feels like a win to me of not having them interact but still having both of their presences felt on the show Alex you know we kind of lost a little bit of Escobar and they got there for a while and it felt like I was like fudge man like what are they doing now I you got to build them strong you got to build them strong and we know why you got to build them strong because they ain't nobody taking that title away from LA night yeah so unfortunately like that's the end game but if we are building this faction and we're gonna give them strength and and a rebuild status and and respect this match has to be hard hitting yeah he has to lose and if he does lose it has to come down to like him losing in the ring without needing his his people around them to like you know whatever that's the only way I feel that they're gonna continue staying strong it's like cool I messed up I lost that match that's on me but we as a family we're gonna continue moving forward I want that to be the story because right now I'm invested in them not only because he has one of the greatest second podcasts in the world outside of rest and we're fretting but he does you know lucha lever to behind the mask but you know like it's cheap like right there it's awesome but yeah like oh he's just it's so good to see him in in the position that he is right now I'm sorry I know that was long-winded but it's just it deserves the time it does and it was important that they did this segment because I think you and I both felt like this guy is it and he's just lost in the shuffle the fact that they are kind of saying like no we're having a renewed focus on him I think is good a lot of people saying Alexis you know that pumpkin spice is a white girl's crypt tonight whoa easy killers you want to know who's the biggest white girl on the stream and didn't me okay Alex loves his PSL he loves his hallmark movies he's just a white girl is any of us yeah I got my ugs and my like my tights right there on the other side of the room what's up I love feeling comfy my oversized sweatshirt just like cozy white girl style I love we are we'll say great to see Roxanne and trick Williams at the show I would be surprised if they weren't in the next round of call-ups especially Roxanne especially Roxanne yeah trick they haven't done a great job booking him but he continues to be extremely talented and very over his title trajectory just was not very well booked dancy digital saying happy fightful varsity Kate saluro somano how's that not bad right not bad so it seems evident they're trying to keep loa and roman separated to build something bigger huh I think they're trying to keep fock too and robin separated to build something bigger for sure tangeloa not so much there but we are going to talk about all of that very shortly but before we talk about that awesome bloodline segment this contenders match that went three segments between the street profits and diy we've been saying we want more importance put on this tag team division hopefully the system thematic of that because this match showed out the street profits winning with that doomsday block buster hell of a match here i'm nervous that alex flowski was right last of what week when he predicted a diy breakup because they have been losing losing losing so they've either got to get it together or they've got to go their separate ways how they end up doing that creatively is is up to them but it does kind of feel like that's the case i don't love that because i feel like this tag team division needs them right now but i would love to see as funny as pretty deadly was in the segment i would love to see them getting wins i would love to see three profits getting win i would love to see tag team wrestling feel important for being tag team wrestling and not a prop and bigger or single stories that is the case with both tag titles on both programs let's not do that let's make tag team wrestling important again uh lewie saying this was a certified hump or yeah they had excellent chemistry styles make match-ups kind of thing in this for sure montage for just unbelievable and what he can do uh i'm i'm glad to see that with lashley out of the picture that they didn't just put these guys aside because they are i mean two with a very very best in the world uh what did you think of this match here i love that we got time for it to develop and i'm i'm glad about the result even though diy lost like street profits need to get pushed forward here yeah street profits have kind of been you know in again in that weird line that i was talking about you know that we're on the on the under curve unfortunately because they got lost with the heart business 7.0 whatever was happening there and then you know like uh they seem to be starting to get heated back up there were one of those tag teams that you can always count on to put on a great performance they could be great champions again like you know why wouldn't you and then just have everyone chase them right um boy oh boy seeing the demise of diy now yeah why like it just it's all same i i too do it myself uh you know it's just like it's what are they doing what what are we are we gonna do this again is that the way we're going the the initial break of the oh my god it's about to happen it's almost gonna turn on on another like i feel like they just got back together we know that story from nxt they haven't told it on the main rock i know i know want to i get it it certainly felt that way with Wade Barrett on commentary being like they lost in in johnny gargondo's hometown etc etc uh but we will have to see we will have to see what is to come of it but that brings us to our main event segment last call for super chat and hummer chat last call please leave a thumbs up on this video a lot more of you watching now than we're at the beginning of the show which not only do we appreciate but Sean was on at the beginning of the show so now i can say that i'm the real draw because more people are watching now but yeah and by the way i too i'm celebrating my my phone first three just kidding i'm just i'm gonna say it every week i'm gonna say it every week mine passed mine was may 27th i've been here for two years uh in a couple months now holy crap yeah so it's so crazy because so much has happened in wrestling so much so much has happened we're gonna talk about this go home segment but we'll also remind you to subscribe to fightfulselect.com if you enjoy what we're doing tonight there's even more of it behind the pay wall than what's available just on this main channel there's all sorts of bonus shows us flasky and i do pay-per-view post shows for every aew and a wwe pay-per-view that we're not on the main channel for so you get that you also get the fightful select discord if you want to hang out with other subscribers in a moderated environment super super fun to be there the ask srs channel also always poppin always you're gonna Sean anything he'll get you an answer or at least tell you that he's tried to ask about it he is the very best at this but i'll tell you who's the very best at being a babyface right now that is roman reigns holy crap so us to go what comes out he's like acknowledge me and the crowd's like no we're not gonna the crowd this is the first time that i can remember we got like we want roman chants and we got booze and stuff this was the first time the crowd was actively like no like rejecting the notion of being the tribal chief because they knew roman was gonna come out which i absolutely love that crowd reaction people have been hard on solosicoa in this he's getting the reactions he needs to i know it feels like jacob patu came in and is the big star but if you look at the reaction solos getting he's getting the right one uh but roman comes out they get into it they um the ulefala i think is how that said right yes yes okay so that that's the centerpiece of this whole exchange which i loved earlier in the night we had solo talking to tomatanga about it uh they say that they still have it and that roman's gonna have to really fight to get it back at one point tomatanga is kind of like half wearing it half not uh but we in this main event segment have roman coming back and grabbing that ulefala jacob patu appears in a walking boots mm-hmm to take out roman rains and they eventually power bomb him through the table what a piece of business to go home on i figured because we got the beat down last week that roman was going to cut a promo here but just the symbolism of the ulefala i thought was so so well done i do think he should talk i think that should happen way sooner than later probably as soon as next week but i love that like they there's not a title involved in this this is for the throne to the family head of the table right like this is this is the tribal chief title online and it is all symbolized by that necklace by that ulefala so i loved that he temporarily regained it just to lose it back because one it's foreshadowing that he's going to need some backup probably in the form of the rock probably in the form of the usos as we get to survivor series but i also just love that like the idea that he could regain control of it and then have it slip away just feels like beautifully done storytelling and foreshadowing in this i loved this segment roman should talk soon just to to pop the live crowd and also say like what he needs to say from his time away clarifies relationship with cody road's like all of these things but what they gave us tonight i really really really liked what were your thoughts on our go-home segment here i think it was i think it was well played i i love the the the drama of it all which is is you can tell the crowd is i i always say it i i've told you know i've i'm not on friday show but as this producer i'm in his ear right so um and and i'm writing scripts and putting together all these rundowns and part of it is always saying just listen to the pop it's nuclear whenever he decides to show up and especially now it's insane how night and day if there was one thing outside of all the nasty crap that you know uh bkm did um was you know he was always trying to put that man over you know what i'm saying he did pack him as the future for better yes he did yes he did it took paul haman being the one to direct everything but but vk i'm definitely was like that's our guy for better for worse i'm stuck attached and he was the meta dethron you know uh what would be john cina's you know person to kind of come in and and do what he has to do and boy is he showing it is he showing it and from top to bottom him not saying anything the symbolism between picking up the necklace putting it on uh the the expression on his face of like i finally got it there's sometimes the art in doing something like that versus picking up a mic and be like i am here acknowledge me i got my necklace back there was it felt more it felt stronger with his with the visuals rather than with the words yeah um eventually yes he will talk yes fast and wrestling he will definitely be talking i believe that obviously before maybe before uh bash up berlin he'll finally pick up the mic and kind of um no pun intended acknowledge where he's been and what he's done or what you know what's been happening but once we get that one-on-one with roman because that's what we're getting it'll be 15 000 people in attendance but it'll be a one-on-one because we're there with him and we're gonna feel every word that he's saying to us um and then you know we know where this is going to be heading to you know he'll get through solo and then we'll we'll continue going through from there but the spot on the table was cool them putting him in the ring and kind of standing over his his lifeless course with their finger up in the air and little and and fun little thing is uh after the show uh jayusu came out they had a dark match he had the mic in his hand he said i ain't got nothing to do with that that's none of my business okay he literally just picked up the mic he's like uh uh nope so it was that's pretty funny what in the why it six things to when he's been there for the hands off to those segments what he's like piece out out of here i am not messing with these guys he his comedic timing is excellent excellent excellent stuff but some good developments on smackdown tonight a really strong go home segment i'm excited to see where this is heading into your point before like huge insane astronomical pops for roman rains it's so much better when people turn face organically because then you get this like it's it's so magical when you have that happen uh but it's been a magical time with all of you here on this friday night thank you so much for joining us before we get out of here alex where can the good people find you your beautiful souls can find me on the instagram alexus cardosa on threads alexus cardosa you can sometimes find me stirring up problems and troubles on twitter at underscore alexus cardosa i have hot takes i put them out there and people want to take my life from the things that i say so there's that i'm like wrestling is the people yeah i'm like i say stuff like wow there was a lot of people in that crowd and then um i'm shunned from from everyone's years and whatever but uh thank you to all of you obviously and then um follow me because uh in the next week or so i'm going to be dropping one of my newest projects that i've been working on um it's a fun little project that's going to start in the beginning of september and go all the way through christmas day so uh can't wait to bring that to you guys absolutely we have one final super chat here louise i know you said too but i actually caught that one earlier uh i think the very first super chat i called up but did not catch this one from will that said i think the rock is the higher power of the bad bloodline there are some fun conspiracy theories that i've seen i think they might just play it up the middle and then maybe in the survivor series match have the rock turn on roman i think that could be a really really really fun way to go but we'll see there's a lot of possibilities man there's a lot of possibilities my bigger thing right now is that i'm a little nervous about what cody's title reign looks like because it feels like there's not a bigger baby face on planet earth than roman reigns so how that co-exists with your champion they're gonna have to do some work around but we will see we will see what is to come but you can find me at miss kate fave on social media accidentally light on the internet today uh to Alex's point about people being funny i said you know wrestling is in such an amazing place right now a w announces the stadium show in america ww is expanding to two night events because the demand is there for their major pay-per-views like wrestling is hot right now and someone was like you don't understand business and i was like okay yeah yeah this multi-billion dollar industry is is ice cold i guess sure whatever you want to believe but can we just be happy let us touch tips damn it let us just let us just let us judge my god but catch me on social media at miss kate fave i'm on threads now as well it makes you so happy it's such a normal environment should have listened to elix a month ago but instagram twitter x whatever you want to call it as long as it's uh i'll i'll be there but catch me there and you can subscribe to my youtube channel which is going to have some content on the way as well at miss kate pape so thank you so much real of you so much have a safe and wonderful wrestling weekend we'll see you next week at your job do you ever have to deal with a nose roller how about a snub bully well if you're installing a new conveyor belt system dealing with the different components can sound like you're speaking a foreign language luckily you've got a team ready to help grangers technical product specialists are fluent in maintenance repair and operations so whenever you want to talk shop just reach out call clickgranger.com or just out by granger for the ones who get it done
