00:00For Raw this week, I thought, like, the main thing is Braun Strowman against Bronson Reed.
00:05And that is probably, when we do the year-end review, that is probably going to be my feud
00:09of the year.
00:10That was so much fun.
00:13And it's just, it's dumb, but it's, you just, you don't see stuff like that anymore.
00:19And the difference is, when you did see it in the past, in WWE, it was, like, goofy comedy
00:25things, whatever.
00:26But this was, like, it's as serious as you can be when you're splashing someone through
00:30a car and doing all of those things that they were doing, right?
00:34But it was taken as, these are two monster ass-kickers who are gonna go out and monstrously
00:41kick some ass.
00:43And that was the real, um, the real high point, I thought, of the last little bit.
00:50In what was kind of supposed to be just, like, a blow-off, like, just a couple big guys have
00:53a match.
00:54This, I think, turned into feud of the year.
00:55I think has SO elevated Bronson Reed.
00:59I worry a little bit of what is next with Braun Strowman, given that he was kind of
01:03in it with The Miz a little bit.
01:04I think that's not the turn we need there.
01:08I think that there needs to be maybe something a little bit more elevated from a Braun Strowman
01:13standpoint.
01:14But Bronson Reed, it's obvious what's next.
01:15It's a feud with Seth Rollins.
01:16And being in that sort of a thing, talk about elevation.
01:19Holy shit.
01:20Do you get that?
01:21The semi-Zayn-Gunther stuff, I thought was quite fun.
01:24And I think they did a good job of getting you back to, of getting this match set up.
01:30And, like, all of the Gunther being, um, oh, well, you got, uh, I just, I don't buy it
01:37from you.
01:38I don't buy it from you.
01:39I don't get it.
01:40I don't, whatever.
01:41The one thing I wish they would have done in the last little while is have Sami Zayn
01:44come out and win a bunch of these matches.
01:46That's kind of what I wish a little bit more.
01:48His promos have been amazing.
01:49And I think the way they tied it all together on Monday was actually kind of perfect and
01:55really fun.
01:56In, like, the, I, my, my family, I'm the golden goose.
02:02Golden goose Gunther.
02:03I'm the golden goose.
02:04I'm the one who provides for my family.
02:06Your family is used to you losing.
02:07And it's like, oh, okay, well, let me just embarrass you in front of your family again.
02:10Like, I thought in the past, like, again, just to compare this to WWE five years ago,
02:16that would have been, like, people would be chanting Gunther no balls.
02:20And they would have been, oh, you gotta get your balls out of Ludwig Geyser's purse.
02:25It would have been that sort of shit.
02:27But to, to have it be, again, kind of a goofy thing in a more serious way, I think it was
02:34done perfectly.
02:35So, I, I really enjoyed that.
02:37Like I said, the one thing I wish they would have done is Sami Zayn go out and, like, cut
02:41some of these promos after winning matches.
02:45And, like, oh, wow, he just, like, he beats Kaiser.
02:49But aside from, like, he's not beating anyone.
02:51And the last big match we saw, he lost.
02:53So, I think that there needs to be a little bit more, instead of just, like, I have decided
02:58I'm going to be the one going for the championship now.
03:00Like, at any point, Gunther could have said, well, you gotta beat this guy.
03:04Ah, well, now you gotta beat this guy.
03:05Oh, and you gotta beat him.
03:06Oh, and you gotta do this.
03:07And you gotta do that.
03:08Right?
03:09Like, you have a big enough roster.
03:10Few of them can afford to lose a match or two.
03:12Right?
03:13So, have him go out and beat whoever.
03:15You can't do it now, because he's hurt.
03:16But Ilya Dragunov, a couple of weeks ago.
03:18Or someone along those lines.
03:19Like, just go out and win some matches.
03:22And I think that would have driven home the case more and more and more.
03:24It's like, I've already beat you.
03:26I'm beating all of these guys.
03:28Each and every week.
03:29Why am I not getting this opportunity?
03:30Instead of, I already beat you, and I lost the Intercontinental title.
03:34But aside from that, what else do I have to do?
03:36I think that could have been just done a little bit better, in my opinion.
03:40But overall, I think it's good.
03:42Bron Breaker gets a bit of a run-in with Gunther.
03:44I think that'd be too quick.
03:45I would like to see him have an actual main card feud before, like, post-IC title, before
03:50we just throw him in off an Intercontinental title loss.
03:54Dragunov's injury, bit of a bummer.
03:56And that kind of sucks.
03:58I'm still not all the way there on Judgment Day vs. Terror Twins.
04:04There's just...
04:06I don't know what it is about some of it, where it's...
04:10More specifically, the Damien Priest side.
04:13Against Finn Balor, more so than, like, the Liv and Rhea stuff I actually think has been
04:17built up pretty good.
04:20I know his dirty secret!
04:21He's claustrophobic!
04:23Was kinda dumb, and not something that I was overly entertained by, and it just, it felt
04:28a little bit forced to, like, explaining after the fact why we're doing it.
04:31So that was a little annoying.
04:33But that part has been good.
04:34But I'm just, I'm not clicking with this new Damien Priest character.
04:38And something we talked about a while ago, where they have these badass heels, and it's
04:42something the whole wrestling industry has struggled with, right?
04:43It's something that Swerve struggled with for a bit.
04:45Like, you have this badass, big-ass kicker as a heel, and now we're turning him babyface,
04:50and he, his lingo is just, has to be a little bit more relatable, and he has to be a little
04:55bit more funny, and just kinda like, the cool kid in school.
04:57I was like, no, the reason we liked him before, because he was kicking dudes' heads off!
05:00So just keep doing that!
05:01Just keep, like, basically, do everything that you were doing before, just for good,
05:08now instead for evil, and we'll love you for it.
05:10But I think there's too many times they try to make it a bit too cute, and so that
05:13doesn't really work.
05:14But, now, to Bad Blood.
05:16Um, I guess quickly here, before we get into the full breakdown, Conrad saying, Crazy Steve
05:21for Halloween Havoc.
05:22Oh, yeah.
05:23Um, like, the whole Decay, and former Decay, and whatever, um, like, Crazy Steve and Rosemary
05:31and all of them, for Halloween Havoc, 100%.
05:33Yeah.
05:34Totally.
05:35Um, and I think a big spot you'll see it is, like, the, like, the WrestleMania weekend
05:39stuff, when there's all those people around.
05:41I think that you can have something with that.
05:43I would like to see them expand it a little bit more.
05:45Um, like, we've seen them kinda, uh, someone was off in the N1, in Noah, um, and those
05:50sorts of things.
05:51I would like to see more talent come into WWE from those particular brands, um, and
05:56do some stuff with them as well, and just kind of keep that forbidden door kind of open.
06:01Um, but I think there's a few, few different, um, options you can go, and a few different
06:06ways you can go, but 100%.
06:08For Halloween Havoc, I think that the dark stuff has kind of been overdone in pro wrestling,
06:12but Halloween Havoc is Halloween Havoc.
06:13Come on.
06:14We gotta do that, right?
06:15Like, so you gotta have Crazy Steve coming in and, uh, doing some stuff there.
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