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00:00WWE are making a change to SmackDown next year, plus we have an update on Survivor Series War Games, and you saw it in the title, Zack Ryder makes a WWE return. It's all in the Cultaholic Wrestling News right now.
00:18How long is too long, Fraser Porter? Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. It never stops. I'm like Galactus with Mr. Fantastic. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you're getting stretched completely just like SmackDown. It's getting stretched completely by an extra hour. An hour might be too long, actually. An extra hour might just be too long. This is something I think a lot of people were dreading.
00:47Yeah, so SmackDown's time frame has changed a little bit over the last year or so, but WrestleVotes are reporting that according to sources, WWE and USA Network have decided to move SmackDown back to three hours, beginning with the January 2nd show in Buffalo, New York. What a New Year gift. What a late Christmas present. Thanks, I hate it. Yeah, we're getting a whole extra hour. Now, obviously, we're being dicks here. I'm not. We're getting more wrestling. No, we're getting more entrances and ad breaks. It's not more wrestling.
01:17We're getting more adverts and that's the best part of going to the movies. Yeah, that's true. People love the adverts. You finish a pop car and you've still got time to buy a Coke. I think this is not a surprise. You're right in saying there are going to be more adverts. There's going to be more entrances. TKO want to maximize the profit that they're going to get.
01:35And doing this by chucking an extra hour on, we've heard for a while, like originally back when SmackDown moved to USA, it was like, well, it was three hours and then they went back to two and then they probably saw, well, we could do it for three and we'd get more money. And like, it makes sense for them as a company to do it.
01:54It does. But the thing is, and I'll say this, you know, just, you know, I don't want to rattle Jerry Wrestling's cage too much, but I really like SmackDown as just about a two hour prospect.
02:05I have really enjoyed it lately. Really enjoyed it. Like, I feel like it's been in the sense that the show has been a bit tighter.
02:12Okay. And it's moved a bit better than it has done. It's, it's felt quite bloated at other points in the year, but I feel like lately SmackDown has flowed better.
02:22I think, I think, I mean, I get what you're saying. I think you're right in the sense it feels tighter because it is, it's done in an hour and a half without adverts.
02:32If we're watching it the next day, like we do, it's done in 90 minutes watching it live.
02:37I think that's a whole different experience when what, like, for example, when it was in the UK recently and or in Australia and watching it a reasonable time for us, it does drag.
02:48And those two hours are going to drag even more when there's an extra hour.
02:51And I think it could be the fact that they're trying to, they're trying to cram in the adverts and trying to cram in all the stuff that they want to do in two hours.
02:59And it doesn't work for me personally at this current point in time, maybe stretching it to three.
03:04Well, I just don't know if, uh, if, if an extra hour is, is what I want.
03:08I, I, I mean, we watch a lot of wrestling, so maybe, maybe, maybe that's, that's part of the bias in it is, is going, Oh God, an extra hour.
03:16But I want to know what people think. Do you think an extra hour of SmackDown is going to help?
03:19Are you excited for an extra hour? You're going to get it in the new year.
03:22Tickle them keyboards down below, don't worry, don't you?
03:24Now on last night's regular edition lengthwise of SmackDown, we had an update regarding the men's and the women's war games matches.
03:31We'll start with the men's where it was apparent that the teams are getting bigger.
03:36Jimmy has joined with his brother, Jay and Cody Rose and CM Punk for the good guy team, which, these teams need names.
03:43The goodies.
03:44The goodies.
03:44The goodies.
03:45Yeah.
03:45Goodie, goodie, yum, yum.
03:46That is one thing I missed from the old Survivor Series.
03:48Yeah.
03:49It's like you had team names and they might have a team name.
03:52We've got the vision on one side.
03:54What's American Punk?
03:56Ooh, punk yeet.
03:58American, the American straight edge yeet.
04:02Ameri yeet society.
04:04Nice.
04:04Society yeet-y.
04:06Society yeet-y.
04:07American straight edge society yeet-y.
04:10There you go.
04:10You're very welcome.
04:12There we go.
04:12Rolls off the top.
04:13Nick Aldis said that Paul Heyman can add anyone to his team and he did that last night in the closing moments of SmackDown after Cody Rhodes put the title on the line against Bronson Reeves.
04:25Who could have seen this coming?
04:26Drew McIntyre was suspended.
04:28We talked about it.
04:30It was all over the headlines.
04:31It was all over the news.
04:32He's going to go film Highlander.
04:34Well, he's not.
04:35What's he doing here?
04:36What is he doing here?
04:36He's back.
04:37He's here for Survivor Series War Games.
04:39He's joined up with a vision.
04:41He came in last night disrupting the main event as he always does.
04:43He's liking disrupting these main event recently.
04:46He's really enjoying that.
04:47But he is back.
04:48He's joined the vision.
04:50Logan Paul, if you count him in the vision as well, is in there.
04:52So that's the heel team.
04:53The baddies.
04:54They're the baddies at this year's War Games.
04:58I have an idea for their names.
05:00So you've got Bronson Reed.
05:01You've got Brombreaker.
05:03You've got Logan Paul, who's a very fast wrestler.
05:06His moves are very quick.
05:08You've got Drew McIntyre, who hits a Claymore, which is a very quick move.
05:11So I think we call them Vision Express.
05:13Vision Express.
05:14There we go.
05:15Do it.
05:16And then the other team can be Spec Savers.
05:18Hey!
05:19You've got it.
05:19You've got it easy.
05:21So as it stands, it'll be Vision Express versus the American Straight Edge Society in the men's
05:26match.
05:27Not confirmed, but they might make it five on five still.
05:30They could do.
05:30I feel like if we're getting there, they're going to have to speed that process up.
05:34It's two weeks.
05:35Well, I guess it's two weeks out.
05:37So maybe they could do five on five.
05:39If Seth wasn't injured, I imagine it would be five on five.
05:43But obviously, that's not how things are going right now.
05:45So maybe it is four on four.
05:47Maybe.
05:48Meanwhile, on the women's war game side, Charlotte Flair said, nah, I ain't doing it, mate.
05:51She doesn't want to team up with Rhea Ripley due to their bad blood.
05:55So she said, no, I will not team with former rival Alexa Bliss and former rival Eosky because
06:01former rival Rhea Ripley's on that team.
06:03Literally, get over yourself.
06:04Get over yourself.
06:05It's, you know, like, it's absolutely daft.
06:09Charlotte Flair, just because Rhea is more popular than you right now.
06:14I mean, I'm intrigued to see where they're going with this.
06:16Who do they have replace her?
06:19Yeah, I was pondering this.
06:21Bianca?
06:22I mean, this could be a nice opportunity to bring back Bianca Belair.
06:25Yeah.
06:25In terms of people who are sort of, I mean, you could have Steffi Veccare step up if
06:30Steffi doesn't have anything on that night.
06:31AJ Lee.
06:32Just bring AJ Lee in.
06:34Yeah.
06:34Where has she been?
06:36You know, not what are you doing here?
06:38Where are you?
06:39Like, she's vanished into the ether.
06:41So maybe bring her back and put her in that match because the original reports a few weeks
06:45back was that AJ Lee was planned for the match.
06:48So maybe this is them going that route.
06:51We'll see.
06:52But Charlotte's not in it for now because she could go back in.
06:56Possibly.
06:56So what do we call Bliss Sky in Ripley?
07:00Oh, no, I'm on the spot.
07:01The Blissful Sky Rippers.
07:03The Blissful Sky Rippers.
07:05Yeah.
07:06God, that's terrible.
07:07Formerly, yeah, like the team that's inspired by the Jumping Bomb Angels.
07:11Yeah, yeah, exactly.
07:11The Blissful Sky Rippers.
07:12The Blissful Sky Rippers.
07:13They're taking on Nia Jax and Lash Legend and the Kabuki Warriors, who are also known
07:18as...
07:19Okay.
07:20Okay, I've got it right.
07:21So Nia Jax is obviously going to be the leader of this.
07:24She has specifically chosen Lash Legend.
07:28She has chosen her.
07:29Yeah.
07:30And the Kabuki Warriors.
07:31They are an international tag team in the sense that they're originally from Japan.
07:37The world is covered in oceans.
07:39One of the oceans is the Pacific Ocean.
07:40So they're called Jax Pacific.
07:44You're on fire.
07:47You're on fire.
07:48Ruining wrestling in one day.
07:49There you go.
07:50That's the two teams sorted for the women's war games.
07:54War games.
07:54War games.
07:55But what about a classic Survivor Series match?
07:57We're getting one.
07:59Not on Survivor Series.
08:00No.
08:00Not on Survivor Series.
08:01That'd be too easy to do with the namesake of the pay-per-view.
08:04No, we're getting it on SmackDown.
08:06This is a match that I feel has come out of nowhere because they were building the Wyatt
08:11Six versus the MFTs rather than this match.
08:14But last night, Sami Zayn was on SmackDown.
08:17And it's basically, it's going to be Sami Zayn and a bunch of face guys.
08:21Some good guys.
08:22Good guys.
08:23Good goodies.
08:24Versus MFT.
08:25The good guys consisting of the Morty Saint Machine Guns, Ray Phoenix, and Shinsuke Nakamura
08:30up against Solo's bunch of Samoans.
08:34The MFTs.
08:36The Mon Fungible Tokens.
08:38Yeah.
08:39So we need a name for Sami Zayn's team.
08:42The Zayn Gun Kimuras.
08:47That's it.
08:48Yeah.
08:49That's, it rolls off the tongue.
08:51Man.
08:52You've been, you've been doing this a while.
08:54You know what you're doing.
08:56Quick witties.
08:57Oh, I just, I'm running out of steam for me.
09:00We're getting a five on five tag team match on SmackDown.
09:03Yeah, we're getting an elimination match, which is nice.
09:03Elimination match.
09:04Not on Survivor Series, which is a shame.
09:06But it'll be fun to have that match type back this year.
09:09And maybe that's the testing the waters of like, hey, do people actually want to see
09:12this match again?
09:13Will it replace war games in the future?
09:16We know they like to build up those SmackDowns and Raws that are around a premium live event.
09:20So doing it, it makes sense.
09:22Yeah.
09:23I can see why they've done it in that way.
09:25But away from all the Survivor Series build last night, we also had the latest happenings
09:29in the last time is now tournament.
09:32L.A.
09:33Knight.
09:34Yeah.
09:34took on his mystery opponent and woo, woo, woo.
09:39Would you know it?
09:41It's only not Matt Cardona.
09:44No, no, no.
09:44Zack Ryder.
09:45Zack Ryder.
09:46L.I.
09:48Woo.
09:48He's back.
09:49He's back.
09:51I am a big Zack Ryder fan, Matt Cardona fan.
09:55I'm so buzzing to see him back.
09:57This is, I didn't expect him to win, obviously.
10:00And L.A. Knight, this feels like they went, right, we need to give L.A. Knight a win.
10:04And who have we got?
10:05Oh, we've got Hendry or we've got Matt Cardona.
10:07We'll go with Matt Cardona because it's a bigger pop for a surprise return.
10:12We know Hendry's in the WWE now.
10:15Very interesting.
10:16He was Zack Ryder and Matt Cardona.
10:17Yeah, I liked this because Matt Cardona killed off Zack Ryder about five years ago when he
10:23left WWE and he went on this incredible independent run, which Corey Graves referenced.
10:29He did.
10:30Which was nice to see.
10:31Shout out to a death match, which was surprising.
10:34He actually mentioned him off in GCW.
10:37It was really fun to see.
10:39The biggest thing that I was laughing at, there was a clip that was shared on social media
10:42not long ago where it was like, WrestleMania 27, people were asking John Cena and Triple
10:48H about Zack Ryder because this was when he was just getting, you know, popular and big
10:52and he was doing his own thing on YouTube.
10:54John Cena was like, this kid has got it.
10:56This is someone to keep an eye on.
10:57And Triple H is like, yeah, what, you and one other fan like him?
11:00And it was like, well, look at that photo now.
11:03Look at him.
11:04He's brought him in for a Smackdown live appearance on the show.
11:08Hopefully a sign of things to come.
11:09I hope so as well.
11:11If there was ever an example of what you can do when you've got the tenacity and the energy
11:16to swim against the tide.
11:17Yeah.
11:17That is an example of it.
11:19It's just that photo there.
11:20The only thing that I will put a little asterisk next to it.
11:23Those aren't stars.
11:24Yeah.
11:25They're asterisks.
11:26Raw is in New York on Monday.
11:28Indeed.
11:28It wasn't in New York last night.
11:31I would have liked to have seen in New York City, Madison Square Garden, Zack Ryder return
11:37there.
11:37That would have been Raw.
11:39Because he's a New York boy.
11:40Yeah.
11:41Long Island, I see.
11:42Unless they're keeping that spot open for someone else.
11:46Someone else.
11:46Maybe.
11:47Who's already in New York.
11:48We talked about it.
11:49We talked about it.
11:50Maybe Joe Hendry.
11:51We talked about it.
11:52Maybe Joe Hendry.
11:53Maybe.
11:54Maybe Joe Hendry.
11:55We'll find out another time.
11:57We certainly will.
11:58And for the very latest wrestling news at any time, woo woo woo, you can check out cultaholic.com.
12:03Stay safe.
12:04Love you.
12:05Bye.
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