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00:00:00Hello, and welcome to the NXT Review.

00:00:03We are the Dudley Boys of WhatCulture.

00:00:05I'm Adam Wilborn, joined by Michael Halflott and Michael Sidgwick,

00:00:08here to review everything that happened on last night's episode of NXT.

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00:00:39As I said, though, joined by Halflott and Sidgwick's review last night's NXT,

00:00:41or should I say, NXT Gold Rush!

00:00:44There's gold in them there heels!

00:00:46Yeah!

00:00:47He's sort of jumping out of the moving car in the old collision scheme.

00:00:53Collision.

00:00:53Safely removed yourself from the vehicle long before the two collide.

00:01:00This was really good.

00:01:01Again?

00:01:02Yeah.

00:01:04It's not one of mine's my praise when you make it seem like it's all the time.

00:01:09It's for me.

00:01:10My favourite NXT since their homecoming show at Full Sail.

00:01:14Like, really, really enjoyed it.

00:01:18Reminded me of NXT.

00:01:21Just like you remember it.

00:01:23I remember.

00:01:25Turns out, actually, I'll give them some credit here.

00:01:27I didn't think I was invested in some of these characters

00:01:29until we had these matches, and I was.

00:01:32And there's characters.

00:01:34Imagine being invested in characters.

00:01:36It's the best.

00:01:37You can't imagine it.

00:01:39It's the best.

00:01:40It's the reason they're watching it.

00:01:41And NXT gave us a brand new one.

00:01:43Oh, no.

00:01:44I will be tracking this character intensely.

00:01:48The most inoffensive NXT I can recall in quite some time, and thus, by some distance,

00:01:59the best NXT I can recall in some time.

00:02:01Watching an actual collection of people, and not some brothered-in, overly enthusiastic Floridians,

00:02:09was a huge asset to the show.

00:02:13And, you know, not as much bollocks as usual.

00:02:17My mileage varies greatly on that.

00:02:21However, there is a new character who is being launched on NXT as of this week.

00:02:28And we'll get to know more about him next week, and hopefully in the weeks to come.

00:02:34And I have to tell you, when I saw this, I said, what the f*** is this?

00:02:42I've got no idea.

00:02:44I've got an idea because me and Hamfler are LFG experts.

00:02:52Yes.

00:02:52We watched one episode just to bury The Undertaker about a year ago.

00:02:56However, we know of this guy.

00:03:00We know of this particular thing that he does.

00:03:02It seems like he's going to do it.

00:03:04And you've been doing some research?

00:03:06Yes.

00:03:07He's been doing some research.

00:03:08He sure has.

00:03:09Yeah.

00:03:10I can't wait to talk.

00:03:11I can't wait to get to know this guy.

00:03:13Yeah.

00:03:13It is so weird.

00:03:15It's a gimmick.

00:03:16What is this dude?

00:03:17How's it going to work?

00:03:19Yeah.

00:03:19Like, even...

00:03:20It's one thing where it's, all right, you're a ballroom dancer who wrestles.

00:03:23Like, I do think, well, I wouldn't just be really good at one thing.

00:03:29And you think, well, how's that going to work?

00:03:31You still think, oh, how's that going to work?

00:03:33But you know what he is.

00:03:34He's a ballroom dancer.

00:03:35Who the f*** is this dude?

00:03:37Yeah, what's going on with him?

00:03:38Yeah, what is going on with him?

00:03:39But we'll, you know, we'll save that until we, you know, reach that point in the show.

00:03:43We'll have two point-out dust on him.

00:03:44Yeah, he does.

00:03:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:03:46He does, and, like, I'm wary of making this comparison because, ultimately, this character

00:03:53was so beloved that the second that another one came along that was remotely like it,

00:03:57everybody was like, yes, yes, yes.

00:03:58Well, where should I say this?

00:04:00Yeah, I'll say it until we get there, actually.

00:04:01Okay.

00:04:01There are echoes of a very beloved set of vignettes from many moons ago that, in some respects,

00:04:09this reminded me of, but with 2.0 dust on it, so it's going to completely warp it, and

00:04:13that can only be a good thing.

00:04:14So, just before we get started, speaking of good things, this was, like, a bit of a

00:04:18throwback, because this crowd.

00:04:20Well, as we always say, the theatre at the Garden will always be the theatre at the Garden.

00:04:24That's, yeah.

00:04:25Like, that goes back to senior.

00:04:26He used to say that.

00:04:27He used to say that to junior way back when.

00:04:31Proper, like, this reminded me of the old PLEs back when NXT was still hot, before it

00:04:35became this warped mess of counter-programming and fighter brand stuff with TNN, and, ah!

00:04:41Like, this was a crowd that was there for an NXT show, and it was like, what, you know,

00:04:47stand and deliver, and who'd wave, and all those used to be, before nobody cared no more.

00:04:54Yeah.

00:04:55Because they'd go up against AWP, or be back-to-back with a Saturday night's meeting, and Goldberg's

00:05:00retiring a summit.

00:05:02Like, they were really invested.

00:05:05Waving stuff around.

00:05:06What an inspired eye.

00:05:07My eyes have gone weird.

00:05:08Oh.

00:05:08Just bear with me.

00:05:09It's like an NXT gimmick.

00:05:10It's not.

00:05:11It's like an Apollo Crews.

00:05:12You're going to be able to see the future in a bit.

00:05:14Because that's what happened to him.

00:05:15I've been listening to his s*** crack for about several months now, so maybe it's infected

00:05:20my eyes at last.

00:05:21You don't even need to follow through.

00:05:22He just farts on your pillow, and all of a sudden.

00:05:26Yeah, that rallied.

00:05:28I've never seen excited wrestling fans spinning yellow towels around the head at a wrestling

00:05:33show as a way to build atmosphere.

00:05:36Remember that?

00:05:37Yeah, it was good.

00:05:39I did like the hype video as well at the start of this show.

00:05:41Like, got into it.

00:05:43Steaks and stuff, isn't it?

00:05:45It's a mecca.

00:05:46I'm going to say steaks and stories, baby.

00:05:48No, I like it.

00:05:49It's a gift of a building for them to use whenever they want.

00:05:51And they're back there next week.

00:05:53I mean, that card's dripping ass.

00:05:56Yeah.

00:05:56I sense there was a reason why they taped next week.

00:06:00I did see, I think it was Eboo, who was like, you know what?

00:06:02I enjoyed that NXT.

00:06:03I might go next.

00:06:03Oh, they've taped it.

00:06:04I'm like, look at that.

00:06:05They're no way.

00:06:06When you were looking at the rundown of the matches, the stuff that obviously is, we're not

00:06:09going to read the spoilers and we're not, you don't even need to.

00:06:13I don't even know.

00:06:13Nobody will know.

00:06:14You know, they're not going to get out or anything.

00:06:16Or if they do, you know, they're not going to come your way unless you weren't looking

00:06:20for them.

00:06:21But I think it means that next week's episode has got a lot of different potential because

00:06:24how much stuff's going to have to be like backstage nonsense to fill the time?

00:06:28Because those matches they're chucking out there, who could possibly care about at

00:06:32least two of them?

00:06:32Evolve.

00:06:33Two Evolve matches.

00:06:34There's two of them.

00:06:35Are you blind?

00:06:36Jesus!

00:06:38Final and Hell in the Speed match, great.

00:06:39But that is literally a maximum of five minutes of action.

00:06:43Yeah, I was going to say, I'll Google what the card is again.

00:06:46And I've just realized I can't do that.

00:06:47No, you'll get a result of that.

00:06:48Because it'll just tell me all the answers.

00:06:49I don't want to know that.

00:06:50I haven't even yet.

00:06:52Oh my God.

00:06:55Anyway, we could just not preview it next week.

00:07:01If the card's already out.

00:07:03I'll, no, I'll work around it.

00:07:04I'll get some.

00:07:05Do you know what?

00:07:07Can you?

00:07:07I'll get Ana Louise to look up the results.

00:07:10And they'll say, don't just tell me the results.

00:07:11We'll tell you what the matches are.

00:07:12It's funny you had a producer who didn't watch it and didn't care.

00:07:15Who could do that for you?

00:07:16You go through this experience with us.

00:07:19He doesn't, he just checks out.

00:07:20I think he's doing his like.

00:07:22Debatable.

00:07:22I think he does like his online shopping and stuff.

00:07:24He'd be doing me taxes for the last two years.

00:07:27He's our bucket team.

00:07:28That's it.

00:07:30Historically, me and Sid have made no secret of the fact that we can't pretend to know anything

00:07:34about Evolve compared to you.

00:07:36You've always dished out the highest praise on Evolve.

00:07:39You're very informed whenever one of us will ask you a question about the roster.

00:07:42You've got all this information.

00:07:43I mean, just right in front of your brain, why don't, for next week's preview, you give

00:07:47us, as long as you like, really, the history and the lore behind these two big title matches,

00:07:52how the wrestlers arrived at the theatre at the Garden.

00:07:55You know, these title shots, these title matches.

00:07:56I'd love to do that, but we're on a bit of a tight schedule next week because we have

00:07:58the WhatCulture town hall thing.

00:08:00It's just a shame that there's not many people in the space talking much about Evolve.

00:08:03We've got such a senior authority on the history of that brand.

00:08:07Favourite Evolve champion ever?

00:08:09Probably Jackson Drake.

00:08:10Like, can't wait to hear why next week in detail.

00:08:14I will say.

00:08:15Come on, there's some honourable mentions.

00:08:17No, I don't really want to, like, you know, just sort of give them the sort of backhand

00:08:20of comment.

00:08:20Oh, I'll mention them alongside Jackson Drake.

00:08:22So, I will say.

00:08:23What is it about Jackson Drake that makes him the very best?

00:08:26I was about to get to that.

00:08:27It's his face in that photo.

00:08:29What face is that?

00:08:31You know what I'm talking about when they're like, oh, next week, Sean, next week, it's

00:08:33Jackson Drake.

00:08:34And he's pulling a face.

00:08:34And I've seen him with our boys in the backstage segments and stuff.

00:08:38You don't look like that.

00:08:38You've seen him evolve as your favourite champion.

00:08:39Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:41What's your favourite thing, that singular detail in the still image you've ever seen

00:08:43of him?

00:08:43Oh, interesting.

00:08:45It's intangible, isn't it?

00:08:46That's what it is.

00:08:48It just works.

00:08:49Best get on.

00:08:51So, the show opens with the mixed tag team championship of Ethan Page and Chelsea Green

00:09:00versus...

00:09:00Can I explain what you just said?

00:09:02Sorry.

00:09:03What?

00:09:04The triple...

00:09:04Me and the three of us collectively came up with the idea that the dead man calls it...

00:09:09I need my guys for...

00:09:13He doesn't care enough to even learn what the name of the promotion is.

00:09:18No.

00:09:18The triple A mixed tag team champion.

00:09:20He knows as much about that as you do about Evolve, basically.

00:09:23Yeah.

00:09:23Fair.

00:09:24Ethan Page, Chelsea Green versus Joe Hendry and Thea Hale.

00:09:28Big pop for Hendry and Hale.

00:09:31And they dominate early on.

00:09:33I like the bit where Thea Hale hit a PK and then waved Chelsea's arms for her.

00:09:39That was nice.

00:09:41We have a bit with...

00:09:43Well, Hendry hits a stalling vertical suplex.

00:09:45Green makes a save.

00:09:47Hale wants a Kimura.

00:09:48Green gets...

00:09:49Get off me!

00:09:50So, Thea puts a Kimura on Ethan Page.

00:09:53And we get a bit of a double team from Joe Hendry and Thea Hale with a...

00:09:57Stereo pose to take us to a break.

00:10:01When we return, there's a comeback by Joe Hendry.

00:10:03Hurricane Rana, fallaway slam.

00:10:06Again, a pose from him.

00:10:08Hale hits this amazing...

00:10:09Like, she went to the top rope and she just jumped.

00:10:11Like, back first, like she was in a coffin.

00:10:13She just dropped like she was in a coffin.

00:10:14It was incredible.

00:10:16To Paige Green and Alba Fire at ringside.

00:10:19There's a PK in there.

00:10:21And a cover.

00:10:22Ethan Page comes in.

00:10:23Saves the match.

00:10:24Super kick from Thea.

00:10:25When's the spick and the end?

00:10:26Ethan Page is never over.

00:10:28Yeah, it should be.

00:10:29Green wants the unpretty hair.

00:10:31Hale reverses into Kimura.

00:10:32Should we do a pull?

00:10:33Looks like she might get her.

00:10:34How would you even narrow it down to the character limit for like what Wilborn should stop?

00:10:39Yeah.

00:10:39The Ray Phoenix.

00:10:40I've never seen this running soccer kick before.

00:10:42It's amazing, that move.

00:10:43Yeah.

00:10:45Yeah, Hale's got a Kimura on Shasta Green.

00:10:47Looks like they might win.

00:10:48Should Wilborn become sufferable?

00:10:51Yes.

00:10:51No.

00:10:52It's easy done.

00:10:55It's like an NXT stable of wrestlers that are no longer annoying called the Sufferables.

00:10:59Speaking of NXT stables, sorry, I know I'm stepping on your dick here.

00:11:02Sorry.

00:11:03Have you seen, bad news for our boy, our close personal friend, did you see the end of TNA

00:11:12turning point?

00:11:12Oh, God, no.

00:11:14Okay.

00:11:16There's a new NXT stable who invaded TNA in like sort of delayed retribution, if you like.

00:11:25Okay.

00:11:25For them, you know, oh, six who's coming in and taking the TV time and, you know, besmirching

00:11:31NXT.

00:11:32How do you like it, asshole?

00:11:35How about a taste of your own medicine?

00:11:37So, like, there's six of them or whatever.

00:11:40Jesus.

00:11:41Jesus.

00:11:42Who've, like, invaded TNA.

00:11:44Yeah.

00:11:44Now, here's what's actually happened.

00:11:47That is the thinnest premise imaginable, the thinnest pretext to do such a thing.

00:11:51And the irony being is that they don't actually have much TV time now, well, because of this

00:11:56evolved AAA, TNA nonsense.

00:11:59So, like, just a bunch of guys with nothing to do have banded together.

00:12:05Two of them are Lexus King and Starks.

00:12:08Ooh.

00:12:11You keep doing your rundown.

00:12:13I mean, they've gone for two Heritage Cup champions there.

00:12:16They're strong names.

00:12:17Okay.

00:12:18You finish your rundown of the match.

00:12:20You give your thoughts on the match.

00:12:22I'll do that.

00:12:22But in the meantime, I will find out the full identities of this stable and we can play a

00:12:28little game.

00:12:28Okay.

00:12:28All right.

00:12:29Yeah.

00:12:30Thea Hale's got Chelsea Green in a Camorra, but Ethan Page pushes Joe Hendry into the pile,

00:12:35breaks it up, and Green hits an unpretty up for the 1-2-3 to retain the titles.

00:12:39Loved it.

00:12:40Yeah.

00:12:42Thought at best I was going to like it, so loved it.

00:12:44Surpassed my fairly low expectations.

00:12:47The general preview yesterday was going to be fun.

00:12:48I do this thing inadvertently with Joe Hendry where I lower his ceiling unfairly, and I

00:12:54don't mean to.

00:12:54When he first got over in a big way, got some virality with the song, I thought, oh, this

00:13:05is probably a route into WWE.

00:13:08You might get a rumble spot and then slot into life in NXT, and I shouldn't have lowered the

00:13:14ceiling because then he suddenly gets it all the way to WrestleMania.

00:13:17And this, you know, this moment, capital M moment, but a good kind, with Randy Orton.

00:13:22I was like, after that, I was sort of past-tensed him.

00:13:26I was like, well, there it was.

00:13:27The peak of that was that.

00:13:30Yes.

00:13:30That moment at WrestleMania.

00:13:31You were never going to take this any further.

00:13:33Really cool that you did, and the job at NXT is probably still assured, and it was,

00:13:37but that is not going to get beaten right.

00:13:41And then in the aftermath of that, when he kind of still stuck around and was still about,

00:13:45I was like, you know, fair play to him because, you know, it's not going to get any better than that,

00:13:48but you can sell those WrestleMania 8x10s at the convention until you're old and great.

00:13:52Yes.

00:13:52And now, what I've realized in watching this match in particular with Thea Hill is that it's good practice on your roster.

00:14:01I know there's less house shows than there used to be, but it's good practice on your roster to have an Outlaws,

00:14:08an Enzo and Cass, a Santino act to just open the show, you know?

00:14:13And Joe Hendry is probably that, and I sound like I'm lowering it again, but I'm not because those are crucial members of your roster.

00:14:19Like, it's relatively lightweight, but it's very fun.

00:14:24Crowd engagement out the ass.

00:14:25Really good tone setter, especially for WWE.

00:14:28I think we sometimes talk about AEW tone setters, and it's about, like, this awesome match.

00:14:32Hope you're ready for some 22-minute matches, mate.

00:14:34Well, like, it's like...

00:14:36Because that's what you're going to get.

00:14:39I was thinking more...

00:14:39Every f***ing game.

00:14:42I was thinking hot and fast pace, but you're probably right with that.

00:14:44But with WWE, historically, it's been these just very, very...

00:14:47They're all hot and fast pace, they're all great, they're all 20 minutes.

00:14:50Every single match.

00:14:52Sing-along-type acts.

00:14:54And Thea Hill's a bit of a one, Joe Hendry's a massive one.

00:14:57The two of them together was kind of inspired, and Chelsea Green and Ethan Page are the heel equivalent of that as well.

00:15:03So, really, really strong matchmaking.

00:15:07I'm not saying it carried this one, but the work was incidental here.

00:15:10Like, the four acts were immensely over the match, was exactly what it needed to be without sort of overstretching itself and exposing any of the four of them.

00:15:18There was absolutely no need to make this any more complicated than they did.

00:15:21Give you one hot false finish, because the bounce are valueless as well.

00:15:24No offence to the dead men, but who cares, really?

00:15:27Like, it was just about creating a false finish that fooled the audience.

00:15:31And I think they gave a toss, and they did, and it worked.

00:15:33But, like, the matching gear on both, like, teams was great as well.

00:15:36Like, the old black and red TNA Team Canada stuff on the heels, and Thea Hill getting her own Joe Hendry game here, and, like, really looking the part in the Joe Hendry poses.

00:15:45Like, really locked into that as well.

00:15:47An astonishing success story, this one for me.

00:15:49All of it.

00:15:50Yeah, and just very refreshing.

00:15:52Like, there is this sort of American bullsh** will happen all of the time.

00:15:56American bullsh**!

00:15:58You need some more!

00:15:59Will be a perennial fixture, because it just works every single time.

00:16:06Like, the babyfaces were witty, just completely dominated proceedings, had a great deal of fun, just completely ridiculing their clown stooge heel opponents.

00:16:19Then it took cheating on the park of, on the park?

00:16:24On the part of, what's it called?

00:16:26Arbor Fire.

00:16:27That's it, yeah.

00:16:29Uh, I was thinking about, uh, Kaylee Ray, was that or was that?

00:16:31Yes.

00:16:32Yeah, Arbor Fire.

00:16:33I mean, I do watch SmackDown.

00:16:35Um, Tino, neutralizing the advantage.

00:16:38Wednesdays, though, and it's tonight you'll be watching.

00:16:40Indeed, eh?

00:16:40Yeah, yeah.

00:16:41Because you only debuted on Friday, of course.

00:16:45Well, I haven't learned a name yet.

00:16:46No, no, no, no.

00:16:48No, just, I mean, it's so shallow.

00:16:51It's not ambitious.

00:16:52It didn't have to be.

00:16:53This was incredibly breezy, well-performed, very over.

00:17:00When you have a crowd like that, interact with the crowd, unglue that crowd.

00:17:04It was quite, like, inspired as a strategic opening to a show.

00:17:07How about the old Golden Era NXT about it?

00:17:09Yeah.

00:17:09I was thinking Enzo and Cass and how easy it was to open your show with them, and it

00:17:12was just a hot, fun time.

00:17:14When you've got, like, you know, there's been more casual WWE fans that go to these NXT

00:17:20shows, like, infamously, your man, Tony D, they didn't realize he was from Chicago.

00:17:26They didn't realize he was a hometown hero.

00:17:28I can't remember.

00:17:28You remember that?

00:17:29Yeah.

00:17:29I can't remember the exact show, but I do remember that happening.

00:17:31So, when you've got, like, a bigger room to play in front of, play a hit that is going

00:17:36to get over and sound good in any building ever.

00:17:40This is really good.

00:17:41This is Joe Hendry's first official match, at least reported as a full-time WWE person.

00:17:48Because, you know, he's just got the early deal.

00:17:52And he's on main roster money, according to the news today.

00:17:55Oh.

00:17:56The T-shirt had, like, the Joe Hendry and NXT logos, one and the same on the back.

00:18:00Fair play to him on a start.

00:18:02Yeah.

00:18:02His kip-ups and everything, he looked like.

00:18:05Yeah, Ethan Page fell on his ass, didn't he?

00:18:06Yeah.

00:18:07It's just funny, breezy, light, very, very effective stuff.

00:18:14It's time to play the game!

00:18:19Time to play the game!

00:18:22Ha, ha, ha, ha!

00:18:27Who is in this useless NXT stable?

00:18:29Well, the very def, like, the very nature of which is like, oh, it's just they're not

00:18:33doing anything, so give them TNA at the end of the season.

00:18:37So you've got Stax and Lexis.

00:18:38Correct.

00:18:39So there are Stax and Lexis King.

00:18:48Dante Chen been a part of it?

00:18:50Leader of NXT?

00:18:51Nope.

00:18:52I think he's been...

00:18:53I was going to say, I can't remember if he's been released or not.

00:18:56Brooks Jensen.

00:18:57I've got a button for this.

00:19:00Yeah.

00:19:02Bingo!

00:19:04He's done out since getting kicked out of the column, isn't he?

00:19:05Oh, dear.

00:19:06Maybe, you know, maybe going to somewhere else makes you realise what you missed back home.

00:19:12Down in Henley.

00:19:12You were off last week, they're doing that Hank and Tank one, the Noah tag titles.

00:19:17What?

00:19:17Yeah.

00:19:19Just going to rule them out a bit.

00:19:20It's your favourite Japanese promotion, isn't it?

00:19:22Yeah, I bloody love that.

00:19:24You know what?

00:19:25No spoilers, I've not caught up on it yet.

00:19:28Who is your favourite?

00:19:30You love Noah so much.

00:19:32Who is your absolute favourite PTD champion?

00:19:37Who's PT what?

00:19:38That's the governing body.

00:19:40Oh.

00:19:40Yeah.

00:19:42Oh, most.

00:19:46That's no such thing.

00:19:47It's a GHC, Global Heavyweight Crown.

00:19:49Oh, that's what confused me.

00:19:52It's a PTD?

00:19:57Yeah.

00:19:57I don't really follow that part of it.

00:20:00More of a tag.

00:20:01Tag guy.

00:20:02Oh, most.

00:20:03He's got your...

00:20:03Hank and Tank.

00:20:04You know what his favourite Noah chant is?

00:20:05Hog, hog.

00:20:06He's always chanted that when Noah's on.

00:20:07Yeah.

00:20:08Well, sir.

00:20:10Sorry, we've got three now?

00:20:12Yeah.

00:20:12Brooks.

00:20:13Yeah.

00:20:13Brooks.

00:20:14What's my favourites?

00:20:15Brooks, Dex, and...

00:20:16Lexus King.

00:20:17When we talk about...

00:20:18Does Lexus King have the chair in TNA or no?

00:20:21Yeah.

00:20:22Again, it's your second favourite American promotion.

00:20:25Yeah.

00:20:25Throwing budget.

00:20:26You're the subject matter expert.

00:20:28Who else...

00:20:30You know when we're sort of...

00:20:31Not mocking them, but saying...

00:20:33It's been five years and you're sitting on this show.

00:20:35Who are those names?

00:20:37I'm trying to think, yeah, people who are like...

00:20:39Round one of such and such tournaments.

00:20:41Yeah.

00:20:45Um...

00:20:46Oh, is it Andre Chase?

00:20:49Nope.

00:20:51I know they've abandoned the name recently.

00:20:55The High Rise, in the absence of Wesley.

00:20:59Oh, um...

00:21:00Not...

00:21:01No.

00:21:02Bingo!

00:21:03High Rise.

00:21:04Are they still going by High Rise?

00:21:06Yeah.

00:21:06Apparently so.

00:21:07You've got two more to get.

00:21:10OTM?

00:21:11Nope.

00:21:17A lot of tag stuff, are they?

00:21:20Um...

00:21:21Not...

00:21:21No one in Chase Hughes.

00:21:22Not...

00:21:23Nope.

00:21:24Okay.

00:21:24Any women?

00:21:26Nope.

00:21:27Okay.

00:21:28Yeah, they're booked quite well on this show.

00:21:30Yeah.

00:21:30They don't need to be going down to TNA to get reps.

00:21:34Not Jasper Troy, the new speed champion?

00:21:37No.

00:21:37Okay.

00:21:38Too important.

00:21:39Yeah.

00:21:40They'd hear him coming as well if he was trying to infiltrate.

00:21:42That's it, yeah.

00:21:43Chains I can hear off in the distance.

00:21:45What, some bands outside?

00:21:47Are we still clapping for carers or something?

00:21:50No, it's just Jasper Troy.

00:21:52Shall I distribute some clues?

00:21:53Yes, please.

00:21:54Love your clue.

00:21:55Okay.

00:21:55Right, okay.

00:22:02Okay.

00:22:04Right.

00:22:04Your clue would be...

00:22:07Something is snort if you're a lad.

00:22:14Coke?

00:22:15Cane.

00:22:16Cane.

00:22:22Yep.

00:22:23That's true.

00:22:25If you are thinking, it's like a longer.

00:22:27Something like, you know, football hooligans love to partake in, even though it's illegal

00:22:33and naughty.

00:22:35We're on the right lines here.

00:22:36Sniff.

00:22:37What are you doing, like, okay?

00:22:40Yeah.

00:22:43Charlie Dempsey.

00:22:44Charlie Dempsey.

00:22:45I thought he was off in, uh...

00:22:47No.

00:22:48Your favourite promotion.

00:22:48Yeah.

00:22:51And the next clue...

00:22:54I wonder if...

00:22:54The last person is...

00:22:58God, how am I going to afford that?

00:23:00A bank?

00:23:01Rob.

00:23:05And then...

00:23:06What the bank?

00:23:07The DJ?

00:23:08Yeah.

00:23:09Is it Best of all?

00:23:10Yeah.

00:23:10Is that his?

00:23:11Yeah.

00:23:13Um...

00:23:13How...

00:23:14So you've got that part.

00:23:16How...

00:23:16No, no, stop.

00:23:17Stop it.

00:23:17So I've got a clue.

00:23:18I've got a clue.

00:23:19So that part, then the next syllable would be...

00:23:22Um...

00:23:23How...

00:23:24Dino Bravo would pronounce a certain big wrestler's name.

00:23:32Uh...

00:23:34The Earthquake.

00:23:35So...

00:23:36Put those two things together.

00:23:37Yeah, it is.

00:23:40Rob...

00:23:41Rob the...

00:23:42Oh, man.

00:23:43There's no Rob the Bank.

00:23:44Earthquake.

00:23:45No.

00:23:46Earth...

00:23:46Rob...

00:23:47Earth...

00:23:48Ah!

00:23:49Is it Sage?

00:23:50It's Rob...

00:23:52It's Robert Stone.

00:23:55Stone.

00:23:55Correct.

00:23:56What?

00:23:57That is a murderous row going into it.

00:23:58Does anyone know that he's gone?

00:24:01But has he not had problems?

00:24:02Maybe they did some, like...

00:24:05Authority figure stuff with him and Santino or whatever.

00:24:08Aye, maybe.

00:24:09Yeah.

00:24:10Maybe he got decked by one of the invading forces.

00:24:12Yeah.

00:24:13When they first stormed.

00:24:14They did, yeah.

00:24:15They beat him up, didn't they?

00:24:16Took him out, didn't they?

00:24:16Yeah.

00:24:18He's got a pass there as well.

00:24:20Mm-hmm.

00:24:21It's Jersey Shore, Pastors, Robbie E.

00:24:24It was me trying to muster any kind of interest in that.

00:24:28Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:24:29The foursies are coming.

00:24:31Sixers assemble.

00:24:33Well, that's what's going on.

00:24:34God.

00:24:35DNA.

00:24:36So they've got that going on and they've got...

00:24:38Who did they beat up?

00:24:40The Hardys.

00:24:41So best faction since the four horsemen.

00:24:44So jot that down for one scheme.

00:24:46The fours horsemen taking on the Sixers.

00:24:48So that's just the main event of Turning Point.

00:24:53Mike Santana and TNA International Champion Steve Macklin defeated Frankie Kazarian and Nick Nemeth.

00:24:59After the match, Nick Nemeth contemplates calling his shot on TNA World Champion Frankie Kazarian.

00:25:04But before he can, the NXT superstars return to assault all four TNA wrestlers.

00:25:11Sinner and Saint, the security team, and even director of authority Santino Marella are laid out by the aforementioned NXT names.

00:25:20The Hardys are armed with steel chairs, but they do fall victim to the numbers game.

00:25:27They even beat up Matt Hardy.

00:25:29Imagine that.

00:25:30Finished again, isn't it?

00:25:31I love it.

00:25:31But if Stax and his missus and her dad...

00:25:36Hostile takeover of TNA.

00:25:38Like...

00:25:40It's McMahon-Helmsley faction all over again, this stuff.

00:25:43Luckily, it's taken place on TNA and it's fine.

00:25:44No wonder NXT got good again.

00:25:46They've taken a lot of bollocks to TNA, where it belongs.

00:25:50Well, speaking of TNA, actually, we see Lola Weiss and Jordan Grace in the locker room having a chat.

00:25:56And then Kalani Jordan Grace joins the conversation, saying,

00:26:01Oh, look, two women are beaten, hanging out together.

00:26:05Yet again, they were talking about her and she is a metre away, walking in the shot.

00:26:10Kalani says, Lola, you shouldn't be playing the victim.

00:26:12You had no problem kicking me out of the locker room.

00:26:14I'm like, she says, I'm not playing the victim.

00:26:17You chose TNA over NXT, that's why...

00:26:20What?

00:26:22And Jordan's like, well, you're only acting like...

00:26:24Sorry.

00:26:25Jordan Grace, not Kalani Jordan Grace.

00:26:27Jordan says that Kalani Jordan Grace...

00:26:30Jordan Grace says that Kalani Jordan is only acting like this,

00:26:34because she knows it's her last with the TNA title.

00:26:37And Kalani Jordan Grace...

00:26:39Kalani Jordan says...

00:26:41Are you all right?

00:26:42He says, Jan, she doesn't look good on you, Jordan Grace, Kalani Jordan Grace.

00:26:49Because I'm not losing the title.

00:26:50Keep that look, though.

00:26:52Oh, no, work on that look, doesn't it?

00:26:55Because I'm not losing the title anytime soon.

00:26:57And Lola says, you've changed.

00:27:01Well, I mean, when it comes to that segment, need we say more?

00:27:03Well, we will.

00:27:12Kalani Jordan Grace.

00:27:13So, Kalani Jordan...

00:27:17Grace.

00:27:19Minor improvements.

00:27:21Oh, no, no, no.

00:27:22I'm not on that.

00:27:23No, okay, that's fair.

00:27:24I mean, she caught one of the worst promos you'll ever hear the other week,

00:27:26and this was...

00:27:28Yeah, I mean...

00:27:29Well, that's why the improvements are minor.

00:27:30At a technical level, you're correct, but let's not focus on the fact that I wasn't as bad.

00:27:34I'll tell you who sucks.

00:27:35You and your little bars.

00:27:36I'll tell you who quietly sucks is Jordan Grace.

00:27:39Those daidre glasses she's got.

00:27:41Not just because of that, but they've made her a...

00:27:44It's a terrible look for her, by the way.

00:27:45It is, yeah.

00:27:46They've made her a baby face.

00:27:47That's the thingy from Scooby-Doo, wasn't...

00:27:50I'm not complaining.

00:27:53I'm sorry.

00:27:53What are you doing?

00:27:53Dirty old bollocks.

00:27:55Like, it's the end of Scooby-Doo where you pull the Wilborn's mask off.

00:27:59Wait a minute, the gooner was Adam Wilborn still.

00:28:05So, she's Velma and you're shaggy, presumably.

00:28:09Feeling shaggy.

00:28:10He's Scooby, the dirty dog, isn't he?

00:28:14Say something pervy in a Scooby-Doo voice.

00:28:16I don't know.

00:28:17Do it.

00:28:18I bet you could.

00:28:19I bet you could.

00:28:21Read one of the gooner comments in the raw review.

00:28:23I'll find a gooner comment as you talk and you have to read it out in a...

00:28:30Scooby-Doo voice.

00:28:31Scooby-Doo voice, yeah.

00:28:31Jordan Grace.

00:28:32Yeah, that's okay.

00:28:33Jordan Grace is becoming a baby face that doesn't keep her promises.

00:28:36She just says stuff and loses matches.

00:28:37It's a big problem.

00:28:38Yeah.

00:28:38Right there, she was this massive star.

00:28:41Remember when we were talking about like, you know, Julia, Stephanie Vacker, even Zaria,

00:28:45all of these big names that were sort of being airlifted into NXT to help elevate the division.

00:28:51Think of a female wrestler who people would goon over.

00:28:56Stacey Keebler.

00:28:57Oh, yeah.

00:28:59Oh, my God.

00:29:02Button gooned before.

00:29:04We're after button gooned.

00:29:05Question.

00:29:09Does Lee Ying Lee have her electric powers when she's fighting in NXT again?

00:29:14Oh, good question.

00:29:16I mean, it's not, but it's something worth talking about.

00:29:18Because it was funny for a minute on SmackDown, wasn't it?

00:29:21Ah!

00:29:22You're the Undertaker.

00:29:24Zap!

00:29:24So I found...

00:29:25Is that a legacy, by the way?

00:29:26Anyone else have electric powers?

00:29:28Taker.

00:29:29Kane.

00:29:30Iron Lightning Bolts.

00:29:32Oh, yeah.

00:29:33I think it's just been the three.

00:29:34So I found on Babes of Wrestling...

00:29:36It's where he has had a vortex.

00:29:37...at WWE Babes 32, which suggests the existence of 31 other WWE Babes accounts,

00:29:45a picture of Stacey Keebler wearing some lingerie with her arse in the foreground,

00:29:52looking into a mirror.

00:29:53So as Wilborn would probably say, you get the best of both.

00:29:58I'm just looking for some comments.

00:30:00I'm just giving you some context.

00:30:01Keep talking about whatever you were talking about.

00:30:02Is that...

00:30:04Yeah, it made me reflect on how poor the booking of John and Grace.

00:30:10I just found it.

00:30:11Is it repeatable?

00:30:14Price did I get about to explode?

00:30:21Raggy.

00:30:22Yeah.

00:30:24So should I run through some ones that wouldn't work in a Scooby-Doo voice,

00:30:28so I might as well say them myself?

00:30:29Yeah.

00:30:29Go on, then.

00:30:30Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:30:30So someone says, Bishol says, are you single?

00:30:37Shoot your shot.

00:30:37Jeff Cook just says, happy birthday.

00:30:39Hope you have a great day and many more to come.

00:30:42How's he spelling come?

00:30:44No, no.

00:30:44C-O-M-E.

00:30:46It wasn't birthday.

00:30:47DJ Day says, the best set of legs on TV, not to mention that, eh?

00:30:54Two compliments.

00:30:56Brian says...

00:30:57Brian says...

00:31:02Brian says...

00:31:06Chow down time.

00:31:11Say what you see, Bergen Marshall.

00:31:13Your arse.

00:31:20No.

00:31:23That's me on a Tuesday morning.

00:31:24No.

00:31:25No.

00:31:25And build perfect.

00:31:27What a body, babe.

00:31:30Maybe the loveliest legs in the history of our species.

00:31:33I don't know what's going to get me out of this above all the rest.

00:31:42As she checks the comments of a Gooner account posting a 25-year-old picture of her.

00:31:48Let's check in with these.

00:31:49Michael Neal says, I would love to give Stacey 46 birthday spanks on her delightful bottom.

00:31:55I assume she was 46, otherwise that's a real random shout, innit?

00:32:0343, 69, that's lewd.

00:32:0546?

00:32:07I don't know, I don't know.

00:32:11Happy birthday to you.

00:32:13You look as beautiful as our 26.

00:32:16Oh.

00:32:16Not that bad.

00:32:20Happy birthday.

00:32:22Something looks a little tight.

00:32:24Jesus.

00:32:25Oh, my Christ.

00:32:27Got a little count of my kids.

00:32:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:32:31Father of four.

00:32:35Right, okay.

00:32:36It's all much more muchness now.

00:32:38Someone just...

00:32:40First wrestling vixen I had a crush on.

00:32:44Oh, the vixen.

00:32:45Gemberley, that, innit?

00:32:46I think it was the legs.

00:32:50Right, okay.

00:32:52Wilborn.

00:32:53Somebody's saying, I wish I was the mirror.

00:32:56I need you to read this comment out in Scooby-Doo's voice, please.

00:33:09I don't even know how we got here.

00:33:10Oh, you're Velma.

00:33:11Yeah.

00:33:12It's your fault.

00:33:12Dan writes...

00:33:13I don't really know how to do a Scooby-Doo.

00:33:27Well, do a Scooby-Doo first.

00:33:28Oh, oh, oh, raggy.

00:33:31Yeah, it's not bad.

00:33:32Like a turkey a little bit there.

00:33:34That was more turkey than dog.

00:33:36Like a house turkey.

00:33:36Yeah.

00:33:41Raggy, write the words.

00:33:45I'll say raggy again because I don't know how to do the voice.

00:33:47Oh, raggy.

00:33:48Hopefully she wiped good.

00:33:52Even I feel bad now.

00:33:56So, yeah.

00:33:57Improvement from Kalani Jordan.

00:33:59Yes.

00:34:00Yeah.

00:34:00But that's not saying anything.

00:34:02They're on the verge of booking the Jordan Grace character into oblivion.

00:34:06But that's in DNA.

00:34:08That's funny.

00:34:10Not for her.

00:34:10No.

00:34:11No.

00:34:12Terrible year.

00:34:12What a terrible year for that character.

00:34:13Yeah.

00:34:14What even is she anymore?

00:34:16Yeah.

00:34:17Dicks about backstage.

00:34:18Loses big matches.

00:34:19Probably the main roster.

00:34:20I chuck her in the rumble and pretend like the last year never happened.

00:34:22Perfect about it.

00:34:23It does seem to me like she doesn't know what she is anymore.

00:34:27Yeah.

00:34:28Like, if you were watching NXT for the first time.

00:34:32You lucky bastards.

00:34:34Imagine getting that first time.

00:34:35Shut mouth.

00:34:37If you're watching NXT for the first time, you'd have no idea who Jordan Grace is, what she's good at, how good is she.

00:34:44If you saw her appearance here, I've just got no idea who she is anymore.

00:34:48Crazy that.

00:34:49Like, megastar last year.

00:34:51Oh, the way she presented herself and carried herself at the rumble.

00:34:54You just get it.

00:34:55Like, oh, my God, the juxtaposition between, you know, how short she is, but how unbelievably powerful and hard-hitting she is.

00:35:01The TV stuff with Roxanne Perez.

00:35:03Yeah.

00:35:03You're like, oh, my, they've got in their hands one of the best matches in women's wrestling here in front of you.

00:35:07It's just this.

00:35:07What's this?

00:35:08Yeah.

00:35:08Well, it's been a bad year for her, but in the words of Ava, who's here to make an announcement, she says 2025 has been an excellent year for NXT.

00:35:182025 has been an excellent year for NXT.

00:35:22Memories the WWE universe will never forget.

00:35:24Memories the WWE universe will never forget.

00:35:27We're three weeks away from our final PLE of the year, NXT Deadline.

00:35:31We are five weeks away from our final, we are three weeks away from our final PLE of the year, WWE NXT Deadline.

00:35:40She plugs there where it is.

00:35:42With the return of Deadline.

00:35:44With the return of Deadline.

00:35:46Comes the return of one of WWE's most innovative matches.

00:35:50Comes the return of one of WWE's most innovative matches.

00:35:54The Iron Survivor Challenge.

00:35:56Second to Anarchy in the Arena as the best new gimmick match, the Iron Survivor Challenge.

00:36:01We did not say that.

00:36:02She does have the worst taste in wrestling stuff.

00:36:05That's a, I would believe.

00:36:05Good point.

00:36:06Good point.

00:36:06I might actually, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:36:07Yes.

00:36:09She talks about how the rules of it, blah, blah, blah.

00:36:12I'm not going to make you do all that, Ava, don't worry.

00:36:15Thanks.

00:36:16She says, previously, legends have selected the competitors.

00:36:19Previously, legends have selected the competitors.

00:36:22But this year, with a little smirk, but this year, I've decided we're going to do things a little bit differently.

00:36:31I've decided we're going to do things a little bit differently.

00:36:34One individual will select all the competitors.

00:36:37One individual will select all of the competitors.

00:36:41This person will make his announcement next week.

00:36:43And this person will make his announcement next week.

00:36:46And this person.

00:36:47And this person.

00:36:48Is the greatest of all time.

00:36:49Is the greatest of all time.

00:36:51John Cena.

00:36:53John Cena.

00:36:53Oh, my God.

00:36:55Oh!

00:36:56Fun this.

00:36:58Yes.

00:37:00Do you think?

00:37:00How?

00:37:01Yes.

00:37:01I do like this match.

00:37:02You do actually earnestly like this match.

00:37:04I'll grant you this.

00:37:06Do you think it's because she's, like, subletting his soul from her dad?

00:37:10Because he does own it.

00:37:11Good point.

00:37:12Let us not forget.

00:37:13And is she the final boss or the final final boss?

00:37:15She's just the final boss.

00:37:16Got it.

00:37:16But she's the daughter of the final final boss.

00:37:18So presumably access to his soul is pretty much on an open door basis.

00:37:22Why didn't he just say, in a well-meaning, self-deprecating way,

00:37:27about his own biological daughter,

00:37:29hey, you think I'm the final boss.

00:37:31I have to run everything past Dave first.

00:37:33It's insane, isn't it?

00:37:34It's insane he did that.

00:37:34Yeah, it's insane that he didn't say that.

00:37:36While turning up pissed and in a bad mood on a Tuesday.

00:37:38to shorten the title main event by 10 minutes.

00:37:43Because he had to go out there with nothing to say.

00:37:44Nothing to say.

00:37:45Like, just.

00:37:47I got to make me cry out here, mother f***er.

00:37:51Basically what he was saying.

00:37:52My ground was that title match.

00:37:53I'll f*** 90 seconds of it.

00:37:54Am I right?

00:37:56He's the best.

00:37:58You're going to make the right cry, mother f***er.

00:38:01That's basically what he was saying.

00:38:02Yeah, he had nothing.

00:38:04He rocked up, buried his daughter.

00:38:07Dried to kill her then, yeah.

00:38:08Killed the title match.

00:38:09Lied about his promo the night before.

00:38:11Made some other s*** up about how he was going to break John Cena's entire year.

00:38:14See you later, guys.

00:38:16Let me out before the crowd.

00:38:18Don't get stuck in traffic.

00:38:20Rock out.

00:38:22It's awesome, though.

00:38:23I love this.

00:38:24Genuinely, I do.

00:38:25John Cena doing a pre-tape.

00:38:27Like, the names coming out of John Cena's mouth next week will be entertaining.

00:38:31He's just.

00:38:32Yeah.

00:38:35Yeah.

00:38:36I've seen him.

00:38:37He went to the PC once, I read, the other day.

00:38:39It was a picture of him and Blake, wasn't there?

00:38:41It looked like they were taking a picture with a cardboard cutout because he was blatantly

00:38:43just stood in position and they'd rocked up.

00:38:45Get everyone cued.

00:38:46Another after another.

00:38:47Some fans at a convention.

00:38:49I've been a big fan of this man for several months now.

00:38:51John Josh Briggs.

00:38:53Ten of them for both matches.

00:38:55I cannot wait.

00:38:56It's fun as well.

00:38:57What if there's a twist?

00:38:58He was like, and in my penultimate match, the fifth man is going to be John Cena.

00:39:03And he enters the Iron Survivor because he wants a title shot in New Year's.

00:39:06It's before his main event.

00:39:08He did say, maybe this is.

00:39:11Maybe it's nothing.

00:39:12Hang on, though.

00:39:13He did say in a post that he was not going out on his own terms.

00:39:17If it was up to him, he'd wrestle an infinite number of matches for an infinite number of

00:39:20days, which is really kind of what the 2010s felt like at times.

00:39:23And that counter could just be main roster appearances.

00:39:26This would be fine, technically.

00:39:29John Cena in New Year's Evil.

00:39:31Maybe they might have to meet the little New Year's Evil baby of John Cena one.

00:39:35The one constant at New Year's Evil.

00:39:37Yeah, that stupid little guy.

00:39:39He's a little freak.

00:39:40Yeah, we were looking back at him the other week.

00:39:43He's like there for like five years.

00:39:45The one that everything changes.

00:39:46That goes from like Kyle O'Reilly and Finn Balor to 2.0.

00:39:50They're like, keep the baby.

00:39:51Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:39:52Baby's going nowhere.

00:39:53Keep the baby from the jawbreaker chrome skull era.

00:39:56People love that.

00:39:58You had to miss this for a bit, didn't you?

00:40:00There was like a.

00:40:01Yeah, there were two of them.

00:40:02Yeah, he's like New Year's Evil and New Year's Sheevil.

00:40:06Both of them are there.

00:40:08Screwing around.

00:40:09Screwing some strange.

00:40:12But yeah, very excited for this.

00:40:14Excited for what?

00:40:15John Cena, man.

00:40:16Of course.

00:40:16Great game next week.

00:40:18I see a lot of potential in Evan Miles Bourne.

00:40:23I think it's going to be a good.

00:40:24I think Miles Bourne's obviously going to be in it.

00:40:26I mean, the telegraph the field.

00:40:28The lineups would be great.

00:40:29Well, yeah, the telegraphed him.

00:40:30Tavian Heiss was there immediately afterwards saying,

00:40:32wouldn't mind to be in the Iron Survivor actually.

00:40:34Yeah, he kind of.

00:40:35That promo kind of sucked.

00:40:36I forgot all about that because Josh Briggs came in and fought with him for the rest of the episode.

00:40:40It was class.

00:40:41This was unbelievable.

00:40:42There was a big booty there.

00:40:43I'm thinking, yes.

00:40:44Yes.

00:40:47I got you halfway through, hoorah, and then you morphed into a just bleed, just made.

00:40:53Hoorah.

00:40:54Yeah, he sort of got a bit carried away because there was a crowd, a genuine crowd getting excited around.

00:41:02He's like, hey, yeah, New York or whatever.

00:41:04And then he was like, yeah, sorry about the no quarter, but whatever it is.

00:41:08Well, yeah, though.

00:41:10I'll be in the Survivor match.

00:41:12What is it?

00:41:13Josh Briggs, like, out of the way.

00:41:14He's ruining this.

00:41:16Wham!

00:41:17Continues today's Undertaker impression.

00:41:18He's like, if we're going to fight out there in front of the crowd, if we're going to kick the s*** out of Backpack Jones, you best make it look real.

00:41:24He's wearing that backpack.

00:41:24Yeah, he was.

00:41:25Yeah, it's weird.

00:41:26It was like a backpack coat, I think.

00:41:29It was like a backpack t-shirt.

00:41:30Yeah, definitely had the backpack straps, but then it turned into like a sneaker player's waistcoat on the back.

00:41:35It was like, where are you getting these from?

00:41:38Why?

00:41:38It felt like he was cutting this promo going, hell yeah, I'm excited about stuff.

00:41:48Everyone here is excited too, and it's great.

00:41:51It felt like Josh Briggs had, like, just gone for a piss or something.

00:41:57Yeah.

00:41:58Because this dude was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.

00:42:02Yeah!

00:42:04That guy said, sure would be a nightmare to get kicked in the face.

00:42:07It's...

00:42:08And then he got kicked in the face.

00:42:10I can't make this thing smoke on my shoulder yet.

00:42:16We see Sol Ruka preparing for her title match with Blake Monroe for the title she never lost, obviously.

00:42:22And Zaria's like, you sure you're okay?

00:42:24Sol's like, yep, I know you.

00:42:26Yep.

00:42:27Yep.

00:42:28We watched the...

00:42:29We didn't, we still haven't.

00:42:31You didn't keep talking about jumping Jeff Farmer.

00:42:34You came at me in a wrong way.

00:42:36And I'm coming at you full force.

00:42:42Yep.

00:42:43Yep.

00:42:45All right.

00:42:45She says...

00:42:46Turned the tables on me in a wrong way.

00:42:49I love him.

00:42:50I love that little guy.

00:42:55Jumping Jeff Farmer.

00:42:58Yep.

00:43:00Yep.

00:43:00You really want a fat jumping Jeff Farmer?

00:43:03I think I do.

00:43:05I'll give it a bash.

00:43:09I know you've got my best interests in mind, Zaria, says Sol.

00:43:12But I need my title, my North American Championship back.

00:43:15There's only one person who can do that, and that's me.

00:43:17Bit of a...

00:43:18Because she, obviously.

00:43:21And then...

00:43:23Sorry, I'm a bit...

00:43:23Oh, my eyes have gone a bit funny, because I got woken up really early this morning by

00:43:26Michael Sidgwick messaging me, saying,

00:43:29Oh my God, is that NASCAR driver Jesse Love in attendance?

00:43:34Yeah, it was.

00:43:35Yeah.

00:43:35I wasn't sure.

00:43:37Huh?

00:43:37He's the normal one that rocks up, bizarrely.

00:43:39Oh, the NASCAR guys.

00:43:40They always feature him.

00:43:41But there was a...

00:43:42It's got a funny name.

00:43:43Right, hang on.

00:43:43It's not Jesse Love.

00:43:44Why have I got...

00:43:45It's quite a funny name.

00:43:45There's Chud Gooch in my head.

00:43:46It's something like that.

00:43:47Chud Gooch is at every show now.

00:43:49Chud Gooch.

00:43:50Chud Gooch.

00:43:51Chud Gooch is like...

00:43:52Cold Custer.

00:43:53Cold Custer.

00:43:54That's the guy I was thinking of.

00:43:56Cold Custer.

00:43:57Cold Custer.

00:43:59You're a green shirt guy.

00:44:01Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:44:01Chud Gooch is just a Netflix celebrity him now, isn't it?

00:44:03Yeah.

00:44:04Sam Mayer was there previously as well.

00:44:07He's no Cold Custer.

00:44:09Hey, you want Custer?

00:44:10Work that out.

00:44:12Some of that on a track.

00:44:14It's about a car that's all slipping on the air.

00:44:15The 18th lap.

00:44:17He may be...

00:44:17And the 19th and the 20th and all 100 of them.

00:44:20Seems kind of pointless, John.

00:44:22I'm sure there's something about it.

00:44:25Can't seem to break in in the northern states.

00:44:30And then we got Blake Monroe versus...

00:44:32If I wanted to watch a car go around in a circle 20 times,

00:44:36I'd just watch my mother park.

00:44:39Devil I park it.

00:44:40Listen, I get my fear of driving from her.

00:44:52She's transmitted to me.

00:44:54She hated parking.

00:44:55I said, please, please park.

00:44:57It's kind of like an essential element of driving.

00:44:59It's the driving part and the parking part.

00:45:01It's too big.

00:45:02The two American sportscasters have gone a bit confrontational.

00:45:04She seemed fine when she was parking at my house, John.

00:45:09Don't go there, Paul.

00:45:11Don't go there.

00:45:13We're having a good time, but let's not take this too far.

00:45:16Yeah, let's not take the piss here.

00:45:19We're actually action.

00:45:20They're still going around the same bit of track.

00:45:25Honestly, I'm terrified of driving me.

00:45:27Can't we take the piss out of NASCAR drivers?

00:45:29If we got the chance to go to NASCAR as well, we'd definitely go.

00:45:33You never drove a lap in your life correct.

00:45:37Didn't.

00:45:40This lap full of crashes are sponsored by.

00:45:44Can't wait to see the next one.

00:45:50So, Blake Monroe, this is Saul Ruka for the North American Championship.

00:45:53Blake Monroe, I asked you not to speak on my mother.

00:46:13I don't even know why I watch this TV show.

00:46:20I'm so tired on a morning these days, man.

00:46:22It's got to go, as you know.

00:46:24Just for entertainment.

00:46:26It's still just laps and crashes.

00:46:32Team Weathered Shivani's at the NASCAR every week.

00:46:36Who knows what's going to occur this week.

00:46:38Oh, God.

00:46:39Do we ever think about changing the track?

00:46:46Oh, God.

00:46:47I'm kind of bored off my tits here, Jay.

00:46:52A lot of pileups at them corners again.

00:46:58I love the irony of this when how many episodes of Wrestling, you idiots have watched.

00:47:02I know.

00:47:03Well, it looks like an Irish whip.

00:47:08Why don't you stop running there?

00:47:11Here comes another promo train.

00:47:13Save us all a lot of silly bother.

00:47:17Want to join me in my glass house?

00:47:18I got plenty of stones.

00:47:20Yes.

00:47:21Yes.

00:47:22Yes.

00:47:23Yes.

00:47:25Falling off your high horse there.

00:47:28I'm sure I have.

00:47:28Yes.

00:47:29Absolutely.

00:47:33So Blake Monroe.

00:47:34Absolutely.

00:47:36So Blake Monroe.

00:47:38Target, Sol's injured.

00:47:40Knee, injured leg.

00:47:41Throughout this match, at one point, Sol fights back.

00:47:46But Monroe goes to the outside and smashes her bad knee against the ring post.

00:47:50A few times.

00:47:51But Ruka pulls her face first into the post.

00:47:53And they both larry each other for a double down as we go to the break.

00:47:58Ruka comes back, though, after that.

00:48:00Snap mare.

00:48:00Clothesline.

00:48:01Slice bread number two.

00:48:03She hits a missile drop kick from the second rope and then kips up on one leg.

00:48:07There's a shining wizard in there.

00:48:09But Blake Monroe kicks out at two.

00:48:11She tries for the Sol snatcher.

00:48:13But Monroe fights that off.

00:48:16Blake goes to the floor.

00:48:17Sol comes out the corner and hits a moonsault.

00:48:19But, as she looks like, she's building up her head of steam.

00:48:22So to win the match and win her title back, out of nowhere, Blake Monroe just shot blocks her leg.

00:48:27Gets a single leg crab.

00:48:32Just leaning back on it.

00:48:33There's Zaria.

00:48:35Zaria goes, ah, in pain.

00:48:39Blake goes after the knee brace and rips it off.

00:48:43Chucks it up the ramp.

00:48:44Ruka fights back, wants a super kick, but the leg gives out another submission from Blake Monroe.

00:48:52Zaria's desperate for a friend.

00:48:54She goes over to the timekeeper's area.

00:48:55She gets, who could have called this itch?

00:48:57She gets the towel crown.

00:49:01No, no, no, no.

00:49:02Even Sol's saying, no, no.

00:49:04But Zaria, for the good of her friend, throws it in and Blake Monroe retains the women's North American title.

00:49:11The finish was the sort of am-dram you've come to expect from NXT.

00:49:16It was the right finish all the same, but none of the way it was performed.

00:49:19I mean, it was that kind of like over-the-top silly stuff.

00:49:21Like staring at your hand adjacent stuff.

00:49:24The match I thought was legitimately brilliant.

00:49:26It was good!

00:49:27Blake Monroe's best match since the Hollywood ending and like obviously by miles her best performance in WWE,

00:49:35but I would put it up there in terms of a straight-up match as anything she did in AEW outside of like the gimmick stuff.

00:49:41They sat down and watched some tape and massively so picked up some spots, picked up the way to perform those spots.

00:49:49Never once did they betray the story.

00:49:52Not one time.

00:49:53But Blake Monroe, I'm going to use the loftiest praise here, Brett, they hit my heart like precision on that knee.

00:49:58Like a constant dog-with-the-bones stuff.

00:50:01Amazing.

00:50:02Sol Ruka never sold in a way that kind of took you out of it by being too over-the-top.

00:50:07Again, the finish was that performative element, but you've got to do it.

00:50:10You do have to.

00:50:10That's the story I was telling, so get there with it.

00:50:12You know, stick the line and all that.

00:50:13But the guts of this match, sensational, quite honestly, from both of them, never once oversold.

00:50:20Sol Ruka's entire stuff is based on how athletic she is and almost in a shocking fashion.

00:50:25And to try and think of the ones that made the most sense to do with one leg to the point where you get like the kip-up.

00:50:29Brilliant.

00:50:30That was good.

00:50:31The moonsault sort of dives to the floor.

00:50:33Like her constantly trying to keep that other leg raised.

00:50:35So she was showing her that she was bouncing on one leg.

00:50:38Like, so inspired because visually, like, it shouldn't really happen.

00:50:43But it's like, my God, what a freak super athlete she is to still be able to do this.

00:50:47And I can't say enough good things about Blake Monroe's ability to work a body part.

00:50:50I know that sounds patronizing, but millions of wrestlers have shown you how hard it is to make it convincing.

00:50:55They were brilliant.

00:50:56They were on Blake Monroe.

00:50:58Like, again, I've said this before.

00:51:00Her character, if nothing else, because I haven't rated what she's done in NXT, if nothing else,

00:51:04what she does do is she enters these feuds.

00:51:06She takes what she wants from it, and then she leaves the characters in a worse place than they were before.

00:51:10That's the one thing you can say about Jordan Grace.

00:51:12She looks like she's in recovery mode from suffering the consequences of Blake Monroe.

00:51:16So there is something there.

00:51:17They are, like, there's a bigger story that they're doing a good job of telling with a Blake Monroe.

00:51:20But this match is the one I'll remember when it comes to actually illustrating that belt of belt.

00:51:25Brilliant.

00:51:25I never thought I would use the words elegant and understated to praise an NXT match.

00:51:33This was genuinely so good for what it was and how, like, it just didn't feel like an NXT match at all.

00:51:41It felt like, like, sort of like an early 90s fed match, but done really, really well with a certain viciousness,

00:51:49wherein it is unmistakable that the babyface is the better wrestler, as, you know, is traditionalists of US pro wrestling will tell you is how it should be done.

00:52:02At no point, really, until that knee started to give her a load of bother, was Blake Monroe ever really in the match?

00:52:10She was completely overwhelmed by Saul Ruka, who was a cool babyface, fighting through the pain,

00:52:14and then it started to bother her, and then, that's it, that's my way in, I'm going to be the underhanded sneaky heel.

00:52:20Sorry, have you ever seen Rocker Sean versus Ric Flair from late 91, when he's still in his Rockers gear and his knee is so bad that Marty runs out through him in the ring,

00:52:28and he's, like, he's shaking, but Flair's just desperate, once he's realised, once he's, like, knackered him out a bit,

00:52:33Flair then just targets the knee, and Marty's throwing him back in, and the idea is, you've fed him with more punishment.

00:52:38So you think Sean's just showing them this?

00:52:40Well, maybe, but, again, you've still got to perform it, haven't you?

00:52:43Oh, yeah.

00:52:44And make it feel like it's yours.

00:52:45Sean's pulling that out of his arse from, like, 91.

00:52:49Oh, yeah.

00:52:50You know what I mean?

00:52:50Look, forget about the Shawn Michaels.

00:52:53This was, like, it was just, it was, like, an early 90s.

00:52:56Oh, the babyface is just winning, because that's what babyfaces do,

00:52:59and that's how I think I fell in love with babyfaces in the first place,

00:53:01because there's these arse kickers, like, oh, you dickhead heel.

00:53:03He's better than you, and you're cheating.

00:53:05Like, that was this match.

00:53:07Almost complete lack of that which I've grown to despise as too strong a word,

00:53:15just become completely disillusioned by a complete lack of utterly superfluous competitive back-and-forth exchanges

00:53:25that have just, they work in the main event for a reason.

00:53:27It's meant to be the best versus the best, and they're duking it out,

00:53:30and I'm the best sometimes, and you're the best sometimes.

00:53:32It works once per show, or at least it did in my head and my old ways.

00:53:37Like, this was just the stuff, wasn't it?

00:53:39It was really unpretentious, this, wasn't it?

00:53:41Like, a very believable, like, title fight.

00:53:44We're going to hypnotize you with the actual story.

00:53:47I thought this was a great bit of business, this.

00:53:50She, like, yeah, Blake Monroe's really, really raised the bar for herself here with her performance.

00:53:55Fantastic.

00:53:55Not before time.

00:53:57Yeah.

00:53:57We go to Fatal Influences' locker room.

00:54:00Fatal Influences, of course, if you're unaware, being formerly Jasmine Nix,

00:54:04now Lainey Reed, former, well, former Women's North American Champion,

00:54:09Fallon Henley, and, at least at this point in the show,

00:54:13former NXT Women's Champion, J.C. Jane.

00:54:16And they basically say, we've all got title matches.

00:54:21We're going to have all the gold by this time next week.

00:54:24And I thought, hmm.

00:54:26But, I think I need that.

00:54:28I think I need that.

00:54:29The old Fatal Influences prophecy, wasn't it?

00:54:33Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:54:34I need it.

00:54:37So, after this, we see footage of the Obafemi confrontation from last week

00:54:42and then one, like, a spot show that they did in Shigeggy.

00:54:46And then...

00:54:47It's a Shigeggy.

00:54:48Out comes the NXT Champion, Ricky Saints.

00:54:52He's got the title, poses with the title, but before he can speak,

00:54:54out comes Obafemi.

00:54:56Skip past that.

00:54:57Ricky says, incredible, welcome back.

00:55:00Look, we knew sooner or later you were going to show back up.

00:55:03It wasn't a surprise.

00:55:04That you showed up after I won Last Man Standing.

00:55:07Do you know what is a surprise, though?

00:55:09When I took the title from you.

00:55:11But it's not a shock to me, because I'm Ricky Saints, baby.

00:55:14Everyone thought...

00:55:15You should go to Smack Savings, Jeff, like I saw you the other week.

00:55:18Everyone thought you were going to steamroll me and defeat me.

00:55:20But I knew that title was grinding you down, and I took advantage and took the title.

00:55:25You went back to Nigeria, and I held the four here against TNA.

00:55:30A whoop trick.

00:55:31I'm glad you're back.

00:55:32The fans are happy.

00:55:33We don't get it twisted, baby.

00:55:35You aren't taking the title from me.

00:55:37And Femi says, Ricky, you haven't changed.

00:55:39You're still the same man.

00:55:40That beat me.

00:55:41Same man, same bravado.

00:55:44But I'm glad...

00:55:44You backed it up then, mate.

00:55:46I'm glad...

00:55:46This wrestler's just talking a little rubbish, don't they?

00:55:49I'm glad I took the time to...

00:55:51Before I came back.

00:55:52I've always had all that TNA trick nonsense.

00:55:54It's underneath the ruler.

00:55:58I went home to find myself.

00:55:59I've come back even better.

00:56:00Back to win my title back.

00:56:01The absolute era is over.

00:56:03I'm going to destroy you.

00:56:04I'm going to take the title.

00:56:05The destroyer is back.

00:56:06The ruler is back.

00:56:07Your daddy's back.

00:56:08And Ricky says, you want to rematch your NXT deadline?

00:56:12You got it.

00:56:13And then Trick Williams comes back, and I'm like, what are you doing here?

00:56:16I'm left.

00:56:17Nobody leaves anymore, do they?

00:56:18Well, it was all right, because he said, Ricky Saints, maybe you can't hear that good.

00:56:22I said, it isn't over until I get my NXT title back, and then...

00:56:26Wham!

00:56:27Crunch!

00:56:30Miles Bourne twats Trick Williams with a chair.

00:56:33He says, pay back some bitch!

00:56:36And he says, as for the U2 in the ring, I'll see you at New Year's Eve, you baby.

00:56:43Yeah.

00:56:44I mean, he's...

00:56:45Well, John Cena doesn't name him.

00:56:46He's going to feel pretty stupid, isn't he?

00:56:50Yeah, not for me, this.

00:56:51He says, proper, like, pro-wrestling real quiz off, where one of them says, gets their

00:56:57killer line in, and they say, well, actually, no, this is the real quiz.

00:57:00Ah, interesting take, because it turns out this is the real quiz.

00:57:03In a way, this is kind of a John Cena legacy promo, because he would do this with all of

00:57:07his rivals, and then win the match handily, or lose it and not care.

00:57:11So, there would never be what a true reveal of...

00:57:13Find speech over.

00:57:15Yeah.

00:57:15There would never be a true reveal of what the real quiz was.

00:57:17The real quiz was just whatever he decided it was that week, and then they changed the

00:57:20questions.

00:57:21Yeah.

00:57:21Body Pub said that was fine, so...

00:57:23Terrible.

00:57:24If I'm honest, like, the booking of this men's division, the top of it continues to be terrible.

00:57:28I don't like what the Ricky Saints character is, and I still can't put my finger on...

00:57:33Feels like he's turning heel, maybe.

00:57:34He's always had that essence.

00:57:37Mascot promos don't work for him.

00:57:40Arrogant promos make him feel like a heel.

00:57:43I don't necessarily think he belongs on the brand.

00:57:47I think his charisma is too big for NXT.

00:57:51Came on the main roster, probably.

00:57:52Yeah.

00:57:53If you want.

00:57:55You've got a queue of guys joining the vision, haven't you still?

00:57:57I could join the vision.

00:57:59Yeah.

00:58:00Don't want any of them on NXT anymore.

00:58:01They all feel...

00:58:03Like, the real cause for all of them is the main roster, so what are they all still doing

00:58:07here?

00:58:07It undermines everything they say by still kicking around NXT, and I include both of them in

00:58:11that.

00:58:12He lost a pretty boring match to Ricky Saints with a...

00:58:15Like a DDT?

00:58:16Yeah.

00:58:17I didn't believe any of it.

00:58:19I didn't like kicking this week.

00:58:21I hate the register of all this.

00:58:23I really just dislike it completely.

00:58:24Like, it gives an entertaining insult or something.

00:58:30If it must be face-to-face, face-to-face, no angles.

00:58:32What's the story here?

00:58:33There's no story from the apparent auteurs over at WWE.

00:58:38There's no story here.

00:58:39There's chat bollocks at each other, and as you say, it's like, well, you know, it's

00:58:42just...

00:58:43It's funny you say that.

00:58:44Kill a Lion.

00:58:44I've got to prepare one of my own, and it's just naff crap.

00:58:47A Lion Mars born, though.

00:58:48Killed you first before I was even born, so...

00:58:50Yeah, you know what I mean?

00:58:51I don't know if it's...

00:58:53Ricky Saints, Ricky Starks, used to be funny.

00:58:56He'd have a good withering put-down.

00:58:59He's very...

00:59:00I think for better or for worse, I remember when Ola's like, is he going to WWE?

00:59:06Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:59:06He's doing tricks on it.

00:59:07He hasn't even worked there yet.

00:59:08Of course he's going to WWE.

00:59:11No, he's going to the show.

00:59:12He's a fan.

00:59:14I think I've got an idea where he's going.

00:59:16But I have to, for some reason, I have to do this f***ing 18-month rigmarole to, you

00:59:21know, just have this confirmed.

00:59:24It's very obviously true.

00:59:26And I said during this 18 months of just total torture discourse, he's a phenomenally awkward

00:59:33guy.

00:59:35At times, Ricky Starks.

00:59:36There's at least three examples I can cite off the top of my head.

00:59:38He needs the direction.

00:59:43He needs those, like, awkward, janky, like, quips that he's guilty of.

00:59:49Sand them off.

00:59:49He won't be allowed to do it in the Fed.

00:59:51And you're now getting that version of Ricky Saints for better and for worse.

00:59:55I don't know what's better, to be honest.

00:59:57He's an enigma, isn't he?

00:59:58Yeah.

00:59:58He is the most charismatic of the enigmas.

01:00:03That's very good.

01:00:04But he is.

01:00:04He's very good.

01:00:05He's a Jeff Hardy.

01:00:06He was in an actual foo-ed with Ethan Page.

01:00:09They didn't like each other.

01:00:11And there was a competitive element to that over the North American title.

01:00:12They still did that fake screaming.

01:00:14He's not had a...

01:00:15They just kept screeching and screeching at each other.

01:00:20He's not...

01:00:21He fought Obafemi over the title.

01:00:23He's fought Trick Williams.

01:00:24And they tried to tell you it was this rivalry because they reached the point where they

01:00:27had to have last man stand-up matches and all that.

01:00:29It was mascot stuff.

01:00:31There was no sense of it.

01:00:33Like, Miles Bourne and Trick Williams is the best bit of this because you kind of sense

01:00:36Miles Bourne's getting pretty pissed off for Trick Williams and he had that coming.

01:00:39He's not done that sort of thing once with Ricky Saints as a world champion yet.

01:00:42He just sort of hangs around and goes like, NXT, yay!

01:00:47That's...

01:00:47I don't know.

01:00:48It doesn't feel cool.

01:00:49Yeah, it's not cool.

01:00:50I don't think it's working.

01:00:51Well, speaking of Miles Bourne, he's in Ava's office after the break.

01:00:55She's furious.

01:00:56She told him not to get involved in that segment.

01:00:59Then he hit Trick Williams with a steel chair.

01:01:01I told you not to get involved in that segment and then he hit him with a chair.

01:01:06Miles is like, well, he hit me with a chair first.

01:01:08What am I supposed to do?

01:01:09Not do anything because he's Trick Williams?

01:01:11Ava says, you don't listen.

01:01:12You do not listen.

01:01:14She gets a phone call.

01:01:15Ring ring.

01:01:17She says, you two have a match next week.

01:01:19We'll have a match next week or whatever.

01:01:20I'll go, f***.

01:01:21And then Tavia Nights and Josh Briggs have another fight.

01:01:29Still good.

01:01:30Choke slam through a table.

01:01:31Yeah.

01:01:32Winning.

01:01:33Good stuff.

01:01:34And then we get the NXT tag title match.

01:01:37It was Joke State versus Javon Evans and the TN8 XXX division champion, Leon Slater, Osiris Griffin, and Dion Lennox representing the state of dark.

01:01:49They tried to jump the challenges at the bell, but they avoid it.

01:01:54Big dive to the outside by Javon.

01:01:56Leon gets attacked, but Evans breaks up a cover with a double stomp from the top, jumps on the announce table, hits a standing PK to Griffin, hits a headscissors back in the ring for two.

01:02:08Slater gets the tag, uses his partner to springboard Rana Griffin, and they both hit double-team crossbody blocks to the floor on everyone in dark state.

01:02:18It takes to a break.

01:02:20Evans is in trouble when we come back, but he superkicks his way out of that.

01:02:23Hot tag to Slater.

01:02:24He runs wild.

01:02:25He gets a two after a high cross.

01:02:27Evans comes back in, bounces off the ropes, spinning wheel kick, utopia from Slater to Lennox.

01:02:34Slater runs corner to corner to leap over the turnbuckle to the outside with a corkscrew plancher.

01:02:42So Cornsugas tries to interfere, but Evans kicks him away, and he leaps off the top rope with a huge frog splash again for a near fall.

01:02:49But he gets shoved off the turnbuckles, following this by Lennox.

01:02:52Slater's all alone against dark state.

01:02:54He eats a double powerbomb.

01:02:55They go for a cover.

01:02:56Evans tries to break up the pin, but inadvertently lands on his own partner.

01:03:01He gets chucked out of there.

01:03:02Slater falls to the doomsday device.

01:03:04One, two, three.

01:03:05Dark state retain.

01:03:06Maybe it was just me, but I wasn't really in the mood for this match.

01:03:09I'd been quite impressed with it feeling a bit more like a wrestler, just like I remember it.

01:03:15Grounded.

01:03:16And then it was, ah, right.

01:03:17We're doing a tick all the boxes moves match.

01:03:20We're doing a tick all the boxes moves match.

01:03:22One by, it's a, in terms of NXT matches and like the various permutations.

01:03:29Sorry, I stepped on your dick.

01:03:30That's right.

01:03:31He's a good name.

01:03:32In terms of like, it's a, a, a single combination and dynamic of like least talented versus most talented in NXT.

01:03:42And they've found it and they've had the least talented wrestlers win.

01:03:45Yeah.

01:03:45Do you know what I mean?

01:03:46Other than some of the LFG people.

01:03:48In a match that reflects the golfing talent.

01:03:50And we also, but we also.

01:03:50Slater in particular, like Evans was as good as he always is, but Slater continues to do at least one thing in a match.

01:03:55He's awesome.

01:03:55Sign me.

01:03:56Yeah.

01:03:56Like that corner.

01:03:57We also debated this on the preview yesterday that we were like, I don't think I want Javon and Liam to win this match.

01:04:02Nah.

01:04:02Because I want Javon's first.

01:04:04We're getting better things.

01:04:04Yeah.

01:04:05I just felt like if I, if I was like properly invested late teens, early twenties, aspiring writer, wrestling fan who thinks he knows absolutely everything, I would be very, like he still gave a toss.

01:04:18I do.

01:04:19It's just harder to feel things on your 40, right?

01:04:21I would have been very, very upset about this result.

01:04:24This kind of thing.

01:04:25It's like Higginbottom and Levesque get away with this kind of like Vince put on a result like this.

01:04:32Pretty green cloggers.

01:04:35It's like WWE projects.

01:04:38Beating, you know, the really cool moves guys.

01:04:42Yeah.

01:04:43It'll be hell on.

01:04:44All right.

01:04:45Why do these idiots get a pass?

01:04:47More talents buried.

01:04:48Yeah.

01:04:48Why do they get a pass?

01:04:49They get such a pass.

01:04:52Well, Levesque, Higginbottom.

01:04:55Anyway, following this, Rens and Clara, Kendall Gray are there.

01:04:58They're harking up the Evolve match next week.

01:04:59I'm running through this because I want to get to what happened next because it's time for the NXT spotlight, guys.

01:05:05And this is winner of season two of LFG, Shiloh Hill.

01:05:10Who the hell's that guy?

01:05:12He, sorry, I'll do that.

01:05:13I'll, I'm not going to interrupt.

01:05:15I'm not going to interrupt.

01:05:15This is the beginning of the vignette.

01:05:21He's on his computer.

01:05:23Hi, guys.

01:05:24Shiloh Hill here.

01:05:26I'm like, what the hell's happening?

01:05:28I want to download you some information so you're up to speed on me.

01:05:32Yeah, played football.

01:05:33I went to Stanford.

01:05:34Who downloads information?

01:05:37Do you know what I mean?

01:05:38I stream everything.

01:05:40Oh, God, it's a character in 1999 internet.

01:05:42Yeah.

01:05:43Wait, wait, wait.

01:05:45Yeah, I played football.

01:05:46But I also went to Stanford.

01:05:48But I'm not a jock or a nerd.

01:05:50My, uh, apparently were on the, my family apparently were on the run and moved in the middle of the night.

01:05:55But I, uh, got into, let's see you, I got into, got into Stanford by completing online classes in a week.

01:06:07Learned so much there.

01:06:08But I really like playing football and I like it when I hit someone so hard the air escapes their lungs.

01:06:13Bye.

01:06:15Right, okay.

01:06:17I'm fascinated.

01:06:18Am I meant to like this dude, hate this dude, be intrigued by this dude, be scared of this dude?

01:06:27I have absolutely no idea.

01:06:29So his life story is, is he like an army brat?

01:06:33Why is he?

01:06:34He was at school for like 32 days for an entire year or something.

01:06:37The authorities wanted to get him.

01:06:39His family was on the run, yeah.

01:06:41Probably I publicly admit that for a start.

01:06:43Anyway, so the idea is he's some kind of super genius.

01:06:48Who isn't interested in learning, hence why I didn't want to go to school.

01:06:53But he's also at the same time super invested in learning because he wants to know about conspiracy theories in the dark web.

01:07:00Yep.

01:07:01It reminded me a bit of, remember when the family did the report on, was it dark state?

01:07:05And like everyone was like, yeah, it was incredible.

01:07:08Top of the class, but also street smart and bug smart.

01:07:10So it was even one of them.

01:07:12So Shiloh Hill doesn't, he was bored at school, didn't like school, by extension learning, because he didn't mention, you know, the kids were mean or whatever, which might have made sense if he's playing like a guy with a potential for El Snappo, right?

01:07:27But they don't mention that.

01:07:28They just kind of, I didn't like school.

01:07:31Did like learning though.

01:07:32Same thing.

01:07:32I'm into conspiracy theories in the dark web and stuff.

01:07:36Okay.

01:07:37Get that hard drive checked.

01:07:39Get that YouTube channel checked.

01:07:40I learned about gnoming today.

01:07:41Thanks to Shiloh Hill's YouTube channel.

01:07:43You can find anything on the dark web.

01:07:45I have no idea.

01:07:46Ask Shiloh Hill.

01:07:47Do have a look.

01:07:48On your work computer?

01:07:49Yeah.

01:07:49On the dark web.

01:07:50I'm going to make the comparison now.

01:07:53When in 2013, we saw the first Bray Wyatt vignette, and it's not that comparison, everybody of a certain age went, oh, there's a Whale on Mercy vibe to Bray Wyatt.

01:08:04And Whale on Mercy was the beloved car I'm talking about.

01:08:06Ultimately, Danny Spivey came in about five years too late.

01:08:08Beloved?

01:08:09The character was because it was a cult favorite because it never really got a chance to breathe.

01:08:12Yeah.

01:08:13Sort of like the proto-Hero.

01:08:16Shown hair.

01:08:16Oh, Haro.

01:08:17Yeah.

01:08:17The proto-Hero.

01:08:18I was trying to do some wordplay before.

01:08:19I didn't even establish what the thing was.

01:08:21Yeah.

01:08:21Proto-Hero was how we referred to at the time.

01:08:22Proto-Hero, yeah.

01:08:23Proto-Hero.

01:08:24We're not telling you anything.

01:08:25What is Proto-Hero?

01:08:27What is Proto-Hero?

01:08:28Proto-Hero.

01:08:29That was...

01:08:31Proto-Hero.

01:08:31It sounded just like that, yeah.

01:08:33That's why your joke worked.

01:08:34It was really amusing.

01:08:35The character was...

01:08:39Some of the sinisters going on here.

01:08:40And then he would shake the jobber's hand, and then he would absolutely destroy them.

01:08:43Basically, I've seen Cape Fear.

01:08:45Yeah.

01:08:45It was just that.

01:08:46Make the whole thing.

01:08:47But Vince hadn't.

01:08:48So, looking for Danny Spivey, he was like,

01:08:49I'll do that.

01:08:50Vince, well, right.

01:08:51Have you seen Scarface?

01:08:52No.

01:08:52Good.

01:08:54Do a film in front of him.

01:08:55Yeah.

01:08:55I think it's the best thing ever.

01:08:56Why didn't more people do that?

01:08:58So, that was Spivey's pitch.

01:08:59And the bit of the pitch he left out was,

01:09:01I'm horrifically injured and I can't do this.

01:09:02So, the run lasted three months.

01:09:04Right?

01:09:04That's how it happened.

01:09:06Right?

01:09:07Horrifically injured.

01:09:08Oh, shit.

01:09:09And then...

01:09:10And then 20 years passed, and Bray Wyatt's like, oh, I'll bet that.

01:09:16And everybody was like, oh, great.

01:09:17We wanted more of that.

01:09:17And now Bray Wyatt can do it.

01:09:19And then that character obviously got destroyed in the main roster.

01:09:21So, we're round three.

01:09:23Basically, he'll kill you.

01:09:26But I'll do it with a smile.

01:09:27Yeah.

01:09:27And the top of the college background, because he's learned some tricks.

01:09:29And he'll gnome you.

01:09:30He'll gnome you.

01:09:31He'll gnome your house.

01:09:32Gnome, man.

01:09:33He's wild.

01:09:33What's gnomon?

01:09:34So, I learned gnomon, thanks to him.

01:09:35Oh, that was fast.

01:09:36I'll just go and pick something up.

01:09:38Off from the dark web.

01:09:38I just arrived.

01:09:39All right.

01:09:39I'll be back in a sec.

01:09:40I'll tell you what gnomon is.

01:09:41All right, that's what that was.

01:09:42That's one of his better ones.

01:09:44And it throws us off the old affair scent.

01:09:47Gnome is this thing that you learn about the dark web, Shiloh Hill.

01:09:50And then he made a video about it.

01:09:52Where, in order to harass and bully one of your enemies in life,

01:09:56you order increasing numbers of gnomes to their house.

01:10:00Why would you need the dark web for this?

01:10:02Because, Sitch, I'm glad you asked.

01:10:04Because they're not just any old gnomes.

01:10:06No, no, gnome.

01:10:08They're gnomes filled with animal feces and other things that stink and are awful.

01:10:15So, you know the old sardines down the radiator prank?

01:10:19University.

01:10:20Is gnome someone's house?

01:10:22Gnome's full of s***.

01:10:23From the dark web?

01:10:24From the dark.

01:10:24And then God knows what they're putting on the old dark web ski.

01:10:27Could be worse than animal feces.

01:10:29I don't know.

01:10:29Like, but.

01:10:30No, no, hang on.

01:10:30Really dark stuff.

01:10:32Going inside the bodies of the gnomes.

01:10:34And then resealing the gnomes.

01:10:35And the people are, bloody gnomes.

01:10:36I have to put that in the garden.

01:10:37And then what's happening?

01:10:39Drawing animals and wildlife to your garden to wreck it and ruin it.

01:10:42And then your garden's full of corrupted gnomes.

01:10:44Does the dark web come into it because you have to order the feces from the dark web?

01:10:47Yeah.

01:10:48Right.

01:10:48There's websites that are specifically on the dark web where, like, gnomes just this known

01:10:52thing as a way to 4chan harass somebody.

01:10:54Ah, right.

01:10:55Okay.

01:10:55Because you've used the dark web, well, presumably to get their address as well.

01:10:59Is it the conspiracy theories in the dark?

01:11:02I mean, you probably won't be the only one.

01:11:03The performance centers into all that.

01:11:04Because we watched this.

01:11:05Yeah.

01:11:05They're all lied.

01:11:06It's libel.

01:11:13Satirically speaking, they're all lied.

01:11:14Yeah, yeah.

01:11:14So we've established that this podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

01:11:19So when I say something that's potentially, you know, that could get us in trouble, when

01:11:24I do the Darby Allin' hand movement from the Ariel Helwani interview, just to reiterate,

01:11:30it's this.

01:11:32Just to reiterate one more time.

01:11:35It's this.

01:11:36That means it's entertainment.

01:11:41Okay.

01:11:42But I think the idea is he is going to El Snapple because we watched the LFG promo where he's

01:11:48like, hey, I'm Shiloh Hill, and I got no toot in my mouth.

01:11:53And I'm here to say, I'll kill you if you cross me, that sort of thing.

01:11:58Was Bully Ray like?

01:12:00Holy.

01:12:01Store.

01:12:02Store.

01:12:03Store.

01:12:04This guy's got the Gaga.

01:12:08This guy gets it.

01:12:10Back in 95, I wanted to do more of Mercy, and I couldn't.

01:12:13I could do some stuff for him.

01:12:14Yeah.

01:12:15Now that means book him in.

01:12:17I know.

01:12:19And I could kick his ass in the shit for WrestleMania 12.

01:12:22Hey, Cain, if this was 97, you'd have lost your job because I just got myself a new brother.

01:12:28The dark web.

01:12:28The lord of dark web.

01:12:29Yeah.

01:12:34So let's see where this goes.

01:12:37Yeah, it's going to get a shallow hill.

01:12:38It's going to surf the web and kick your ass.

01:12:40And that's how that's going to go.

01:12:43Pretty much that, yeah.

01:12:44Got any more on this hamflat?

01:12:45Nah.

01:12:46I'm good.

01:12:48Yeah!

01:12:49Yeah!

01:12:50Yeah!

01:12:50Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:12:51Couldn't help it hear two different swears through the door that I need to note down now

01:12:56so we don't get in trouble with the old Sensorinos.

01:12:59Very conscientious.

01:13:01How's it going?

01:13:02Happy International Men's Day.

01:13:03We finally got him the day for us, huh, guys?

01:13:06Are you one of them now?

01:13:07That's good.

01:13:08I mean, what do we know?

01:13:09Yeah, he's kind of always been one, I suppose.

01:13:10Yeah.

01:13:11Yeah, I mean, I don't need a day.

01:13:13Don't need a day when you're in the patriarchy.

01:13:16It's every day, isn't it?

01:13:16Yeah, I mean, day of the weekend and why?

01:13:18I am incredibly privileged to be a white man in Britain.

01:13:25I don't need a day.

01:13:26It was a good Richard Herring.

01:13:27Can you imagine, like, earnestly going,

01:13:29Happy International Men's Day.

01:13:33Thank you, baby.

01:13:35Happy International Men's Day.

01:13:36No, he's taken seriously.

01:13:37Remember when Richard Herring would do the bit when there was International Women's Day

01:13:41and then he'd search for tweets.

01:13:43He'd be like, when's International Men's Day?

01:13:45He'd just reply, number 19.

01:13:46Every single one, yeah, yeah.

01:13:47Brilliant.

01:13:48It's good stuff.

01:13:48Brilliant.

01:13:49Oh, I'm glad, actually.

01:13:50That's why I asked where.

01:13:51I wasn't raging.

01:13:53I wasn't suppressing something.

01:13:54Everybody showed up.

01:13:54I got my answer.

01:13:55I don't need a day.

01:13:57See, what's the deal with, like, guys just being dudes?

01:14:00Huh?

01:14:00Eh, well, you know.

01:14:02Based beast.

01:14:04Battlestar Galactica.

01:14:06Eh, no, men, you know.

01:14:10Who are you laughing at, bro?

01:14:11We're a bro-cast now.

01:14:13Oh, fine-ass.

01:14:14On International Bros Day.

01:14:18Just, what are we?

01:14:20What does it mean to be a bloke, a lad, a legend?

01:14:23And, you know, I would say, I would say, just, you know, good banter.

01:14:35Don't take it too far.

01:14:39That's what it's all about.

01:14:40Yep.

01:14:41No way.

01:14:43The ladies out there are always saying, men only want one thing, and it's disgusting.

01:14:49And I always think, why don't you wash it, then?

01:14:51Three questions, three jokes for you.

01:14:53Question joke number one.

01:14:55Jesus Christ.

01:14:57Stitch, why are men like floor tiles, huh?

01:15:03Because women walk all over them.

01:15:06Half right.

01:15:07So goddamn close.

01:15:09I was trying to get in his head.

01:15:11Why are men like floor tiles?

01:15:13If you lay them right the first time, then you can walk all over them.

01:15:18One for the ladies out there.

01:15:20Question joke number two.

01:15:21How is my penis a gentleman?

01:15:23How is my penis a gentleman?

01:15:27Oh, man.

01:15:36Traits of a gentleman.

01:15:38Good manners.

01:15:39Chivalrous.

01:15:43Classy.

01:15:43Yeah.

01:15:44Your penis is classy and chivalrous, Dax.

01:15:50Good night, right?

01:15:51How is my penis a gentleman?

01:15:53It always stands up so women have a place to sit down.

01:15:58Question joke number three.

01:16:03Speaking of gentlemen, why do gentlemen give cold women their jackets?

01:16:09Because they give hot women their f***?

01:16:18Good night, right?

01:16:19Good night, right?

01:16:20Yeah.

01:16:20Why do gentlemen give cold women their jackets?

01:16:28What do you say?

01:16:28Hmm.

01:16:29Hmm.

01:16:32What do you say, Darby Allen?

01:16:33Like, uh, just a joke, guys?

01:16:37Why do, uh, gentlemen...

01:16:39He's not saying hello.

01:16:41It's Mr. Tumble.

01:16:42It's Darby Allen.

01:16:42Why do gentlemen give cold women their jackets?

01:16:49Because no one wants a blowjob with shattering teeth.

01:16:52See you later, guys.

01:16:57It's funny that you didn't want to commit to that.

01:16:59Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:16:59He stacks all pops at the weirdest ones, didn't he?

01:17:05Shattering teeth.

01:17:07I'm talking about...

01:17:09Oh, God, that is...

01:17:10Like, chat...

01:17:11There's something about that, Joe.

01:17:12It's the most 4chan-y one he's ever told of.

01:17:14Yeah.

01:17:17Maybe it's because he's been hanging out with TNA.

01:17:19Do you think it's made him worse?

01:17:21Aye.

01:17:22Some influences in there.

01:17:25Aye.

01:17:26Any more on what we're talking about?

01:17:27Shiloh Hill, isn't it?

01:17:28Yeah, no.

01:17:29Yeah.

01:17:30Bye, Starks.

01:17:31Bye, Starks, yeah.

01:17:33Hey, whoops.

01:17:33Yeah.

01:17:34No, not really.

01:17:35What's wrong?

01:17:35What did you order?

01:17:36I don't want to talk about what I ordered.

01:17:37It's private.

01:17:38But I got a gnome instead.

01:17:40I don't know what happened there.

01:17:42Anyway, back to...

01:17:45Let's just keep that one between us.

01:17:47Yeah.

01:17:49Cocaine.

01:17:50What?

01:17:51Gnome.

01:17:54Sol's arguing with Zaria.

01:17:56Why did you throw the towel in?

01:17:58Zaria was trying to protect her.

01:18:00So she, you know...

01:18:01Yes, you lost, but still walk.

01:18:03You'll be all right.

01:18:05Your legs barely healed.

01:18:07And now I'm a bad guy for caring about you.

01:18:09Sorry.

01:18:09Zaria says, now I'm a bad guy for caring about you.

01:18:12I'm a bad guy for caring about you.

01:18:15I don't know.

01:18:21Randy's having...

01:18:22Zaria says, you'll be a champion again, Sol, but you can't be if you're injured.

01:18:30Yeah.

01:18:31You'll be a champion again, but you can't do it if you're injured.

01:18:34No.

01:18:35The cream always rises to the top.

01:18:37Cream, my crap.

01:18:38Anyway, she said, tell Sol, put the issue to the side.

01:18:46Put the issue to the side, yeah.

01:18:50I've got to capture the Women's Speed Championship next week.

01:18:52I've got to capture the...

01:18:53Yeah, you heard it.

01:18:54And Sol gives Zaria the towel.

01:18:58Throw it in next week.

01:19:01I mean, if you're needing the towel thrown in after a speed match.

01:19:04Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:19:05You've got five minutes, hold on.

01:19:07Sorry, from Mad Max, Phil.

01:19:10Maybe she gets confused, and when the lights change, she thinks it's the end of that round.

01:19:16Is that anything?

01:19:17What?

01:19:18Then they come in and, like, towel down boxes after each round.

01:19:21Oh.

01:19:21She just throws the towel in, as they always do, you know.

01:19:24The towel goes in.

01:19:25Yeah, the towel goes in in boxing.

01:19:26That definitely doesn't mean the end of the fight.

01:19:27That's where they're taking it from.

01:19:28No, the bell rook is the end of the round.

01:19:29They put the chair in, the little stool, and the towel.

01:19:32And you throw the towel in, save time.

01:19:33So they're saying that Sol Rook is going to be a boxing corner woman for Zaria.

01:19:36Oh, it's a main event.

01:19:37Yeah, yeah.

01:19:37Main event time.

01:19:38It was Tatum Baxley defending her NXT Women's Championship again.

01:19:43Fatal influence.

01:19:44It's JC Jane.

01:19:49Calling's out there, obviously, including...

01:19:52Spizzy!

01:19:56Wild card.

01:19:57Dame over.

01:19:58She's called herself Izzy now.

01:20:00Goddamn right, I'm over.

01:20:05Even his merch was insecure.

01:20:07Tatum is...

01:20:09Tatum is a shoulder tackle in the corner.

01:20:12Goes for another one, but Fallon and Laney pull JC out of the ring.

01:20:16So Tatum Baxley moonsaults off the ring apron.

01:20:18You asking if I'm up?

01:20:19You're not seeing the back of my shirt?

01:20:21He's just turning around to everybody.

01:20:22With this lie?

01:20:26Is this cool?

01:20:28His arms need to be a bit wider.

01:20:29There you go.

01:20:30There you go.

01:20:32JC Jane cuts off.

01:20:33Take him after a break.

01:20:34Look at the back.

01:20:35The ones at the bottom.

01:20:41Jane hit a Rana off the top, but Paxley hit a super kick after they land and they both

01:20:45collapse.

01:20:48Jane climbs the ropes again.

01:20:50Paxley hits a step of Inseguri.

01:20:53Avalanche Fisherman's neckbreaker and the sky high for two.

01:20:56And at this point, Izzy Dane slides a chair in.

01:21:01Use it.

01:21:01Twatter with it.

01:21:02I think Spearzy was up on the apron taking the ref at this point.

01:21:06Tatum doesn't want it.

01:21:07She shoves it back to Izzy Dane.

01:21:08And you spotted this.

01:21:09I'll give you all the credit.

01:21:10Yeah, it was that point when Spearzy got down off the apron.

01:21:13He was looking at Izzy Dane and wondering, hang on, why is this match not over?

01:21:17What's gone on there?

01:21:19She didn't want to use it.

01:21:20Yeah.

01:21:21I'll give one more crack at it.

01:21:26Fatal Influence tried to get involved.

01:21:27Tatum fights them off, but turns around into a huge rolling encore.

01:21:32From JC Janus over.

01:21:34Couldn't you have thought of that?

01:21:35Yeah.

01:21:36Paxley kicks out at 2.9.

01:21:38Second rolling encore was class.

01:21:40Well, yeah.

01:21:42Lays it in.

01:21:43Yeah.

01:21:44Laney reads like, right.

01:21:45I'm with a BSK.

01:21:48Laney reads like, right.

01:21:49Well, if they're not going to use a weapon, we will.

01:21:51Grabs the title.

01:21:54Izzy Dane hits her with a huge right hand at ringside.

01:21:58In amongst all this, Fallon Henley gets the belt in there.

01:22:00No, sorry.

01:22:01I'll tell a lie.

01:22:01Izzy Dane gets the belt in there.

01:22:03Slides it for Paxley, but it's sort of in between them.

01:22:06And JC grabs it.

01:22:09Once the belt's shot, Tatum's getting up.

01:22:11Referee sees it.

01:22:12Stops her.

01:22:13There's an O'Connor roll in there by Paxley for a two count.

01:22:16They go to the outside.

01:22:18Tatum chucks her back in.

01:22:21Tatum's on the outside.

01:22:22So what's happening is JC Jane is kicked out from the O'Connor roll and it's kicked Tatum to the floor.

01:22:26That was it.

01:22:26Sorry, thank you.

01:22:27Yeah, so Tatum's on the outside and she's like, right, time to get back in and win this match.

01:22:31And all of a sudden, the wild card, Nico Vance and Spearzy, where do you think you're going?

01:22:37And Izzy Dane kicks Tatum's head off.

01:22:45Her two outside the ring attacks were unbelievable.

01:22:49Test big boot level stuff from Izzy Dane.

01:22:52I mean, the match is over.

01:22:53Just chuck her back in.

01:22:55That happens.

01:22:55But then she eats another awesome rolling encore from what became the two-time NXT Women's Champion,

01:23:02JC Jane.

01:23:03The twists in JC Jane's character arc.

01:23:05Beatable champion.

01:23:08No.

01:23:08What a year?

01:23:09I'll be the double champion.

01:23:10And then, all right, you lose that.

01:23:12No, no, I'll be the two-time champion.

01:23:13It's rules.

01:23:14For us, yeah.

01:23:16Love her.

01:23:17Love this.

01:23:17Love all of it.

01:23:18That's really good for WWE bollocks.

01:23:19This is well done.

01:23:20I was so pleased they followed through and just took the title off Tatum Paxley.

01:23:24I feel like all of it existed for this.

01:23:25I didn't want them.

01:23:26There was fun to be had with, to an extent.

01:23:28I think they could have went another month with this.

01:23:30Possibly.

01:23:30But as soon as, like, she won it and they set up the rematch, I sensed that she was going to lose.

01:23:35It was sort of the beauty of that that they had with JC Jane.

01:23:37JC Jane was always like, well, she probably could lose the title next week or next pay-per-view defense or whatever.

01:23:42With this, it was like, well, when's the turn coming?

01:23:43We all know it's coming.

01:23:44You and I said yesterday, well, it could be now or it could be stand and deliver.

01:23:48I worried that it wasn't going to stay.

01:23:50Oh, yeah, yeah, sorry.

01:23:51I worried that it wasn't going to stay hot and I feel like this was proof that it was the right time to do it because this was, like, really hot in the building.

01:23:58Like, fans were coming up for the near falls.

01:24:00The turn itself got that proper shock reaction you want in the building, not just because the attack was class, but the people in the building, like, you get that in a brilliant turn.

01:24:09You get that moment where you realise a split second for the character and it's when Spearzy and Nico Vance do that thing and there's something really sad about that.

01:24:16They look massive and Tatum looks really vulnerable at that moment and then showing her she is and she gets attacked.

01:24:21So it was really, really well executed.

01:24:24Fatal influence in JC Jane being the perfect recipient of and, you know, it's getting to benefit from all of this going on.

01:24:29Thank you very much and thank you very much.

01:24:31Yeah, nothing to do with him.

01:24:33The match was good.

01:24:35JC Jane has good matches.

01:24:36Yeah, she does.

01:24:37Quite often.

01:24:39I was thinking this, because of the way it works, she must have been pretty high ranking in the PWI because she just keeps winning.

01:24:44The strikes are so great.

01:24:47She does a good V-trigger, I remember.

01:24:48Yeah, she, it was at Lola Weiss's face, she almost broke.

01:24:52Oh, yeah.

01:24:54That's a big JC Jane fan over here.

01:24:57But where does Tatum go from here?

01:24:58Yeah, in a feud with Dizzy Dame, obviously.

01:25:02Yeah, makes sense.

01:25:02Yeah, that looks like a silly question, really.

01:25:04But anyway, that was the end of week one.

01:25:06We've got another week next week.

01:25:08Yeah, it looks like it sucks.

01:25:10All the NXT title matches in there next week.

01:25:13What else have you got down the back of the sofa?

01:25:17Evolve or whatever?

01:25:18I'm stinking Evolve.

01:25:19Well, now we've got the Speed Women's Championship match, so that's not all bad news.

01:25:23There'll be five good minutes and two hours, as it stands.

01:25:25And we'll preview it all next week.

01:25:28That is, of course, NXT Gold Rush.

01:25:32There's gold in their nails.

01:25:33Yeah!

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