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00:00WWE Replace One Of Their Champions?

00:03To Shock WWE Returns?

00:05My review of Monday Night Raw, and more.

00:08I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:14July 4th isn't just the anniversary of that time Aliens blew up the White House.

00:18That fateful day is also remembered in history by another huge cultural milestone.

00:23SmackDown is finally going back to two hours.

00:26Thank God.

00:27Goodbye, 20 minute long in-ring promo segments.

00:30You achieve nothing!

00:31Ah, who am I kidding?

00:33These are Triple H shows.

00:34Every episode is going to open with a 20 minute long in-ring promo that achieves nothing.

00:37The first episode of the two hour era, however, won't be broadcast live.

00:43In fact, it's already taken place, following last night's episode of Monday Night Raw.

00:48This is why it had the earlier start time of 6pm Eastern, as the two hour SmackDown was

00:52recorded immediately following it.

00:54And that means we already know what happened on the show.

00:57Don't look away now if you want to avoid spoilers or keep your Mexican Geoblock intact.

01:02Because we're entering the Spoiler Room brawl in 3, 2…

01:06The new Superman movie's post-credits scene has Ben Affleck as the Joker.

01:12Just kidding.

01:14Hopefully.

01:15One.

01:16Showing!

01:17Drew McIntyre made his WWE return in the opening segment, where he tried to turn Cody Rhodes

01:22and Randy Orton against each other, stoking tensions from their King of the Ring final

01:26in Saudi Arabia, but Orton laid him out instead.

01:29Later on, Drew vs Randy was made official for Saturday Night's Main Event.

01:34McIntyre has reportedly had time off to recover from some lingering injuries.

01:37He hasn't been seen on WWE TV since the last Saturday Night's Main Event on the 24th

01:42of May, where he lost to Damian Priest in a steel cage match, where Priest just walked

01:47through the door like a coward.

01:48Never changed, Jesse.

01:49But McIntyre might not be the only WWE return over the next few weeks, as WWE Hall of Famer

01:56Trish Stratus is reportedly booked for a match at Evolution on the 13th of July.

02:02WWE Insider writes that Stratus was backstage at last night's Raw in Pittsburgh, and then

02:07during the SmackDown tapings, Tiffany Stratton said how she wants to defend her women's

02:11title against Stratus at Evolution.

02:14This brought Trish out to accept.

02:16The two had previously tagged together at Elimination Chamber in Toronto back in March, where they

02:20beat Nia Jax and Candice LeRae.

02:22This might be a late change, as Liv Morgan's injury appears to have thrown out their Evolution

02:27card.

02:28But an even more shocking WWE has been formally announced.

02:32One that considered unthinkable up until now.

02:35Roman Reigns is going to make another WWE appearance in 2025!

02:41Slow down, buddy!

02:42WWE has officially announced this year's Survivor Series, which is taking place on the

02:4629th of November, and it will again feature the War Game stipulation.

02:50And Roman Reigns is featured right at the top of the poster.

02:54Wonder if The Rock had to approve all that too.

02:56On the 29th of July, Netflix will premiere their latest wrestling series, WWE Unreal.

03:02It's promoted as a documentary look behind the scenes at how WWE programming is made,

03:08and Triple H promises in the trailer to lift the curtain.

03:12So 100% scripted them.

03:14Post Wrestling has published an article with what they've heard about the series, which

03:17is compared to HBO's popular Hard Knocks docuseries for the NFL from 2001.

03:22The first episode will follow Raw's premiere on Netflix, with spotlights on CM Punk, Cody

03:27Rhodes and Rhea Ripley.

03:29Episode 2 will detail the Royal Rumble match, Cody and KO's feud, and a spotlight on Jey

03:33Uso.

03:34Episode 3 is framed around the female wrestlers, including Charlotte Flair's return and

03:38the Women's Rumble.

03:40Episode 4 covers John Cena's heel turn at Elimination Chamber and the lengths they went

03:44to keep it a secret.

03:45It also weirdly covers the New Day's heel turn, which happened late 2024.

03:49We are told this is the only episode where Nick Khan will speak, as well as appearances

03:53by Dwayne Johnson and Brian Gewirtz for the portion covering Cena's heel turn.

03:57And Episode 5 is about WrestleMania 41, which apparently has no mention of The Rock not being

04:04featured in the main event between Cody and Cena, despite that being one of the biggest

04:09real life stories around that weekend.

04:11Which brings us to the modern phenomenon of documentaries made by the subjects of those

04:18documentaries.

04:19Back when I was a film student in the noughties, where documentaries were much more of a niche

04:22movie genre, the authenticity of the filmmaker was held very highly.

04:26From Michael Moore to Errol Morris, whether you agreed with them or not, you could respect

04:30that they were trying to reveal what they believed to be a form of truth.

04:34But over the last several years, many celebrities and companies have realised they can co-opt the

04:39docu-series form and pass off their version of events as authentic, even when they omit

04:44large, controversial parts of their stories.

04:47Like the David Beckham produced docu-series, about David Beckham for Netflix, and how they

04:52showed doctored newspaper headlines to suggest he didn't have an affair.

04:57When he did.

04:58At best, it's a PR exercise.

05:00At worst, it's trying to control the narrative and distort the truth.

05:04So while I'm very excited to watch WWE's Unreal, the clue is in the name.

05:09It's likely just as not real as the predetermined wrestling matches in the ring.

05:13And Post Wrestling's report has a very interesting line to support that.

05:17We were informed that The Rock's team did provide notes regarding the episodes in which

05:22he appears.

05:23Which means that just like the WrestleMania 40 documentary, which was heavily delayed reportedly

05:27because The Rock didn't like the way he came across, the subjects are getting to

05:32choose how they are presented.

05:33Post adds that Unreal will mostly follow the wrestlers and matches rather than the writers'

05:37meetings, and it started filming at last year's WrestleMania.

05:41Another five episodes are planned to be released in early 2026, which are being filmed right

05:45now.

05:46Before I get into my review of Monday Night Raw, here's a clip of our video game channel

05:49from Control Freaks, which you can watch right after.

05:54Stay calm.

05:55It's just a pool.

05:56Remember, if you go in the water, you don't die.

05:58It's not how pools work.

06:00You just get back out again.

06:02Well, you accidentally inhale a load of water at Center Parks, and the lifeguard is stood

06:06right next to you.

06:07And they put the wave machine on, and you're definitely drowning, but they don't care.

06:11They just smile down at you because they think you're having fun.

06:14You're a grown man.

06:15You're like 35 at this time.

06:18I'm going to drown.

06:21And you grab hold of the rope, but it just comes away.

06:23This wasn't a nightmare.

06:24This was real.

06:26It's my own fault for getting too excited about the wave machine.

06:38It's true.

06:40They didn't give a shit.

06:53Oh, no!

06:56While everyone tries to pull themselves together, I'm going to finish this level.

07:01Come on!

07:14It tickled everyone, didn't it?

07:16And I've done it!

07:23I finished pool game!

07:26Yes!

07:27I've finally won the victory over the swimming pool.

07:35It's 1-1, Center Parks.

07:381-1.

07:39In a fitting end to his run on Cultaholic, Adam Pacitti was featured in the opening video

07:45package recapping a Saudi Arabia show.

07:47It's what he would've wanted.

07:48Best of luck in whatever you do next, Pacitti.

07:50Wrestling YouTube won't be the same without you.

07:53Rhea Ripley opened the actual show, where she said that her beating Raquel Rodriguez is

07:56the end of that Judgement Day feud, super easy, barely an inconvenience, which activated

08:01Rhea's Women's Championship storyline.

08:03As WWE remembered, they've gotten Io Sky who they haven't booked in a match since

08:08the 12th of May.

08:09That match saw her team with Rhea to beat Roxanne Perez and Julia in the main event of

08:13Raw, after which Ripley glared at Io's Women's title.

08:16You would've thought that was the story, but instead Sky just chose Ripley as her Evolution

08:21opponent.

08:22This was a very lacklustre way to pick their feud back up, but at least Io's on TV.

08:26Dominic Mysterio showed AJ Styles his Doctor's note that said he can't touch him.

08:30The medical community!

08:31Then we got Dom's Judgement Day buddies Finn Balor and JD McDonagh challenging for the New

08:36Day's tag team titles.

08:38At first, I scoffed.

08:39A tag title match after Lil' Build just starting 20 minutes into the show not as a main event,

08:44with the New Day not even getting an entrance in the edited version, and the dynamic being

08:48the historically ineffective heel vs heel.

08:51It's proof that WWE doesn't really care about Raw's tag division, which is infuriating

08:56given how brilliant New Day's heel turn was back in December.

08:59But then the match was really really good.

09:01Finn and JD worked as the babyfaces incredibly well.

09:04And the near falls escalated the drama more and more.

09:07Coup de Gras, kick out, Midnight Hour, kick out.

09:09Woods using the title belt behind the referee's back, kick out.

09:13And ultimately, in a satisfying non-interference finish, JD's Moonsault and Balor's Coup

09:18de Gras on Woods made them the new tag team champions.

09:22It was a great match, and hopefully it means Raw might care about their tag division now.

09:27But this does have a sour note.

09:29Yes, I dare be sour, because the New Day's 2025 heel run has been possibly the biggest

09:35creative fumble of the year.

09:37And this was a limp end to an absolutely nothing reign.

09:41Later on backstage, Finn convinced Adam Pearce and Nick Aldis to let Raquel Rodriguez keep

09:45her women's tag titles with Roxanne Perez, even though they lost at Night of Champions.

09:50Then the Authority bros agreed to replace Liv Morgan, on the condition they'll defend

09:54them at Evolution against a team from SmackDown, Raw and NXT.

09:59Then Finn got a reluctant Raquel to vote in Roxanne as an official member of the Judgement

10:03Day, again replacing Liv Morgan for now.

10:06What?

10:07Is there anyone else we need to replace on the Judgement Day?

10:09Anyone?

10:10No?

10:11No, that's it.

10:12There's nobody else who recently went missing from the Judgement Day we need to replace.

10:16Chad Gable also needs replacing, as he's unfortunately also been written off with a very real injury.

10:21But to American Maid's surprise, after he left, El Grande Americano walked in, who seemed

10:28to have been on that fish oil, because he was a totally different body shape and height.

10:32This could be a really great comedy storyline.

10:34Hopefully they make it actually good with developments every week, as I'm starting to think Triple

10:38H can't book comedy wrestling outside of the same interference week after week after

10:44week.

10:45Sheamus and Rusev had a good big man match, which Rusev cheated to win, poking Sheamus in

10:49the eye and then yanking Sheamus' sternum into the exposed turnbuckle.

10:53They'll surely have another match.

10:54The Orfora Bros then announced that Evolution will have a battle royale, where the winner gets

10:58a title shot at Clash in Paris.

11:00Gunther said he could beat Goldberg in 3 minutes, but he's going to stretch it out and embarrass

11:04and bully him.

11:05But who is next for Gunther after Goldberg?

11:08This brought out Seth Rollins, who said he never wanted to cash in against John Cena.

11:12He only flew to Saudi Arabia to stop CM Punk from winning.

11:15This brought out Punk for a brawl, where Punk pushed Gunther to the ground too.

11:19And LA Knight awesomely jumped Seth when he was escaping through the stands.

11:23It'll be Knight vs Rollins at Saturday night's main event, and Knight told Punk to get to

11:27the back of the line.

11:28Yeah.

11:29Kairi Sane got a video package for WrestleMania 36.

11:32Piers booked Bayley vs Lyra Valkyria when they argued backstage earlier on to crown the

11:36number one contender for Becky Lynch's IC title.

11:39With it feeling like they'd been building a three way for the last month, it was unsurprising

11:43when they drew with a double pin.

11:44They continued to brawl into the crowd afterwards, and the main event was Sami Zayn and Penta vs

11:49The Big Brom Boys after Sami had been jumped by Karrion Kross earlier in the show.

11:53They had a really fun main event tag, with Sami perfectly playing the worked over underdog

11:58babyface.

11:59And The Bronze got over their reckless inexperience, which Paul Heyman might be starting to fear.

12:05As Breaker didn't care about Seth's plan B when they were talking backstage before the

12:09match.

12:10Sami got one plan, smash everything.

12:23It worked for him here, as he eventually caught Sami's injured midsection with a spear to

12:27win.

12:28Jey So then made the save to stop them flattening Zayn even further.

12:30I really appreciated the wrestling on this episode, and the lack of interference finishes.

12:35That's the bar.

12:36This week's Raw is 75%.

12:38Now go watch Sullivan and Dom play the worst video games out there in Control Freaks' Bargain

12:43Bin.

12:44Click the video on screen now.

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