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00:00So Roman Reigns kicked off this week's episode of Raw, and it was kind of proof that absence
00:03does make the heart grow fonder, or that less is more, because we rarely see him do this.
00:07It's like, oh my gosh, it is Roman Reigns, though it's still very funny that CM Punk
00:13just didn't bother to turn up to SmackDown, because when it comes to war games, they only
00:17care about it on Raw. On Friday night, they have better things to do. Probably true, more power to
00:22them. Also, hello, my friends. Welcome to Ups and Downs for Monday Night Raw, the only wrestling
00:26review show you need. If there are other wrestling review shows, I've just told you, you may
00:30want them, but you don't need them. I am Simon of the Balls A-Hole, and I have the finger of
00:34power. We are going to go through what is essentially the go-home show for war games. Good bits are
00:39getting up, bad bits are getting it down. We then argue in the comments when we meet up
00:43and have a lovely hug. Sound good? Let's go.
00:46Now, just as a little bit of a tease, I will tell you if you are into WWE from 2019 or big
00:51men falling on their asses, you are in for a right treat. But yes, out came Roman. He
00:56grabbed a microphone after standing there for about 45 years, just letting people make
01:00some noise. When he went, Oklahoma, you should acknowledge me. And Cody Rhodes' music played
01:05and he interrupted him instantly, because that's just what people do.
01:10Now, this was funny as well, because remember, there were all those rumors recently, and I
01:13suppose they could have been true. The WWE was terrified about having Cody and Roman in
01:17the same ring, because one, who knows what the reaction is going to be? And two, we don't
01:21want to tease a match that we may not do. That is not professional wrestling to me.
01:26Throw them both in the ring, and let's just see what happens. If Cody gets booed, okay.
01:29If Roman gets booed, okay. And maybe we're going to get another match, but given that they
01:34are all sharing the ring at war games, well, if you took this to mean they are going to
01:38do a round three, well, dare I say it, that's on you.
01:41Now, Rhodes was kind of happy that Roman was on his team, but was like, I took you at your
01:44word before, but now your word is war games. He didn't say the games part.
01:49But essentially, he wanted to know, why do you want to be in this match, Roman Reigns?
01:53Fair play to Roman. He was like, don't you come in here talking to me, Cody Rhodes, with
01:57your blonde hair. I've been involved in this war for the entire year. You literally turned
02:01up two weeks ago. I was like, Cody, I like you. I think you're great, but he's absolutely
02:05correct. Roman then took the funniest shot, because he was all like, we're never going
02:08to understand each other, but we do understand the importance of family, and my family is in
02:12this match, hence why I want to be there for my family. And I started to look around
02:15for Vin Diesel, when Cody was like, that sounds great. Welcome to my team. It's like, you're
02:2012 years old, Cody. You're 12 years old. You can't say my team. You know what you're
02:24doing. CM Punk agreed. He then walked out and interrupted too. This was after Cody Rhodes
02:30had tried to shake Roman Reigns' hand as well, and Roman looked at his fist like it was a
02:33dead fish or something. And CM Punk also wound up our tribal chief, because he was like, acknowledge
02:38us. Like he was at some, I don't know, happy camp, where you just go around and dance
02:42around the fire. But the point is, what a strong unit they will be. When he turned to
02:47Roman, he was like, I don't need to take your word, because I know you will have your family's
02:51backs. It's not like you would screw them around and put them between a rock and a hard
02:56place. I was like, that's exactly what he did do when he was in the bloodline. He was
03:01an emotional manipulator. Cody then tried to play captain again, and of course CM Punk didn't
03:05like that. Twin, I'm just going to call it as it was. Roman Reigns essentially said, why
03:09don't you get your penises out, and let's see who's got the larger one. He was
03:12talking figuratively here, of course, saying, nobody cares who's in charge, let's just beat
03:17some people up. Ultimately, Roman just hates the vision, and he hates Paul Heyman even more
03:21than he hates CM Punk and Cody Rhodes. So let's see what's going to happen. And if you
03:25need this segment wrapped up in a nice, neat little package, you can just imagine, can
03:30these people coexist at the Survivor Series? The answer is likely no. Reigns had stirred the
03:35pot one last time, because he was like, man, that championship would look better on my
03:38shoulder, and he left the ring. When CM Punk took the bait, like he was on Twitter, he
03:43was like, who are you talking about? And Roman Reigns said, that's for you to figure out.
03:48So once again, we are teasing that when the time is right, he is going after a world championship.
03:54I still think Cody vs. Punk is way more interesting as a WrestleMania main event, but we will wait
03:57and see. And oddly, even though of course CM Punk is great and Cody Rhodes is great as Roman
04:01Reigns is great, this was like mostly okay. Like it wasn't bad, but it didn't leave me
04:06going, oh my gosh, I'm so excited for the war games. And actually, this kind of felt
04:11like they were headed towards a triple threat match, which we should not do at WrestleMania,
04:15because it's too similar to WrestleMania 41, but it's still going to get an up, right?
04:19We planted the seeds for what was going to happen at the end of the show, and sometimes
04:22just having Roman, Cody and Punk in the ring is enough. That's why stardom and wrestling
04:27is such a crazy thing. We then continue to make the brand sprint completely irrelevant,
04:30because Paul Heyman was like, listen to me, Drew McIntyre, the only reason you're on Raw
04:34is because I need you in a tag team match, because the winner of said tag team match is going
04:39to have the advantage in the war game. I was like, isn't Drew only suspended on SmackDown,
04:43so what difference does it make anyway? When Logan Paul was being a dickhead in the corner,
04:47because he was like, I think Brock Lesnar should team with Drew. Apparently, Brock Lesnar is
04:52now Betelgeuse, because Paul Heyman was like, you can't say his name, when Logan Paul turned
04:57into a toddler, and of course he kept saying his name. Heyman then made it clear that Brock
05:00Lesnar is heading to Raw to find Roman Reigns, and probably get better grips for his shoes,
05:05when surprise, surprise, Logan was like, well, Bron Breaker will be the tag team partner,
05:09Bron Serica will be the tag team partner, and Paul Heyman was like, no, Drew McIntyre,
05:13you will be teaming with Logan Paul. Don't know why I played golf there,
05:17but you could see it coming a mile away.
05:20Well, I think we got the highlight of the night, because it was Gunther taking on Carmella Hayes
05:24in the John Cena, the last time is now tournament, and I just thought this was a fantastic match,
05:28and looking at 2026, of course you want to keep pushing Gunther, because it is Gunther,
05:33but it has to be a 12-month period for Carmelo. Anything you throw at him, he's like, I can
05:38handle this, because I'm a very good professional wrestler, and when you allow him to be the baby
05:42face, the dude just gets it. They even did the whole Gunther was going to chop him, but Hayes
05:46got out of the way, meaning Gunther whacked Breaker the ring post instead, and they were throwing
05:50each other outside of the ring to Timmy the timekeeper's table, and we even pretend that Carmella Hayes
05:54was going to win via countout. Now, admittedly, WWE has been assessed with this in the last part
05:59of the year, but that is how Hayes got through the last round of the tournament, so he pretended
06:04here, and of course, Gunther got back in the ring at 9.999. That came after this awesome DDT
06:09off Barry Barricade as well, and even when Gunther tried to powerbomb this guy, he was like,
06:13nope, I've got a barrel of offensive moves I am going to use, when he went for nothing but net,
06:18which he also missed on Friday, he missed again, and Gunther essentially hit him with every single
06:23thing he did have, but even then, Hayes was wiggling and jiggling, and he did get totally
06:27wrecked by a last bomb of power, 1-2-3. Gunther goes through to the next round, and I would
06:32imagine he's going to win this whole thing. What we have to talk about here as well is
06:36that there was a clear size difference here, but I don't think anybody, apart from one guy,
06:41there's always one guy, was like, oh, this is absolutely ridiculous, because Carmella
06:44Knight Hayes knows what he's doing, and he understands how to work in these situations, so we now have
06:49to do wait and see, I can't imagine he will do much in December, although I would like it if we
06:53got to like Elia versus Carmella Hayes in a proper US title feud, that is how we should be using that
06:59championship, but I'm giving it up, Carmella Hayes did great, and yeah, Gunther, he is back with a
07:04vengeance. I want to point out as well that if Gunther is able to retire John Cena, even though I think
07:08John Cena should win, we have to use 2026 that he can walk around and say, I retired Goldberg,
07:15and John Cena in a single year, because that is massive, and it could be like a Brock Lesnar
07:20defeating The Undertaker at WrestleMania 30. If you lean into it correctly, you can turn Gunther
07:25into the new final boss. Jimmy and Jey Uso then found Cody Rhodes, CM Punk, and Roman Reigns
07:30hanging out backstage. One, because they probably felt left out given the opening segment, but also
07:35two, as the Usos put it out here, you're all acting like kids, right? Nobody can trust you,
07:41but you can trust the Usos, so we shall enter ourselves into the advantage match, and damn
07:46it, we are going to win. Watch us. But then we're now lost. Still kind of feels to me like one of
07:51these guys may turn on the other, but I hope I'm wrong, so I think it's the right time, when once
07:55again, Roman, Cody, and Punk fell out about who the leader was going to be. This time it was CM Punk,
08:02and at first I thought he was trying to wind them up, but I watched it again, he sounded sincere. He was
08:07like, I really need to know who is leading this team, and maybe he just gets it. You do need a
08:12captain. When? Oh boy, this one's going to make some noise. But Dominic Mysterio was out here,
08:20and he was ticking all the usual boxes. He is going to win the IC title back at the Survivor Series.
08:24He is the greatest Rey Mysterio of all time, and he is very excited about beating John Cena,
08:28and let's not forget, we all know John Cena's calendar. He's not here this evening,
08:33because that mother Hubbard is about to retire. However, John Cena's music then hit,
08:37and this place went absolutely crazy, as you would expect, but it turns out we were going
08:42back to Vince McMahon WWE, because a little person came out dressed as John Cena, doing all of his
08:47mannerisms, and we even had a little cameraman that was meant to be Stu the cameraman, who of course
08:53John Cena talks to during each and every one of his entrances. Once again, I made sure I wasn't in
08:58Back to the Future 4, and I'd accidentally gone back 10 years. Because he was so small,
09:01he couldn't get in the ring either, which was the joke, and Dominic Mysterio spoke to him like he
09:05was the real John Cena. I did appreciate what happened next, at least from a kayfabe perspective,
09:10because all of a sudden, little John Cena acted like he was the real John Cena, said Dominic Mysterio
09:15absolutely sucks, and he'll beat him out of the Survivor Series. When Don even whispered into his
09:19ear, I guess he said, dude, I paid you not to do this. But because he wasn't listening to him,
09:25Dominic took his foot, and good grief, he booted this guy halfway across the ring. He also hit the
09:30splash of the frogs before finally Rey Mysterio came running out to make the save. So imagine this,
09:35if the backstage environment was real, Rey was just hanging out playing Nintendo when someone
09:39came running in saying, oh my gosh, Dominic Mysterio is beating up a John Cena impersonator,
09:45when Rey decided, well, I guess he is my son. I'll go sort it out. Dominic then found the judgment day,
09:50and they all had a good laugh about this. And listen, if you watched any of my content for like a decade,
09:54you know that I love goofy wrestling for life. I don't think wrestling should be serious all the
09:58time. I think that would be a terrible idea, and actually less people would watch wrestling if we
10:02did do that. But I'm always going to be honest with you, I thought this was terrible.
10:08Now, as ever, if you enjoyed it, that's the best thing ever, because it's your entertainment hours,
10:12but it just felt so old, WWE, and it wasn't funny then either. It wasn't funny when we did it with
10:18Bret Hart, it wasn't funny when we did it with Booker T, and it wasn't funny the other 14 to 15 times we did it
10:23then either. Like, what is the joke here? I don't understand it. It goes over my bald head,
10:28which to be fair, isn't hard, but a little person dressed up as John Cena. All right, great. It'd
10:33have been way better if we had done like what we did in Montreal in 2005, when Shawn Michaels was
10:38like, man, if Bret Hart came up right here, I would whip his ass. And you got the music, you get the pop,
10:43and then Shawn Michaels laughed at the fans. They don't understand the punchline. It's the audience.
10:48I got one over you. Whereas here, it's like, Dom, did you waste your money paying this guy
10:54some cash? Because also, he didn't listen to you, and then you had to whip his butt. I just think it
10:59makes wrestling feel really lame. And he did show it to someone that didn't watch wrestling. They'd be
11:03like, yeah, this is why I don't watch to begin with. And actually, I think that wrestling can do
11:07better. I think it could be funnier than this. And I also didn't think it was a very good build to
11:11John Cena versus Dominant Mysterio round two. I thought this was the perfect time for Dom to do the
11:16180 of what he usually does, and get all serious, be like, man, John Cena, I am going to be one of
11:21the last people to beat you. And let's not forget, if you do win your last match, I will be the last
11:25person to ever get an L or a W over you, Mr. Cena. And I'm going to do that. I'm going to win the
11:30IC title back, and I'm going to go on to become the greatest wrestler ever. That would have stood out
11:35way more for me, but we didn't do that. I am giving it a down. I want to make it very clear,
11:40because sometimes people say, oh, Simon, you're so wishy-washy with your words,
11:43because you're trying to get a job in WWAW. I've been doing this many a year,
11:48and so far, I have received no job offers. I thought this was downright bad. I didn't like
11:53it, and it's getting it down. I would just leave that stuff in the past,
11:57which I think I've made abundantly clear. And given that Rey Mysterio was in the ring,
12:01I think he went, hey, JD McDonough, shall we just have a match? And we did. Look, JD has had a great
12:06in-ring 2025. He has just got better and better, and had a great match with everyone. And I think
12:12Rey Mysterio may be the best wrestler of all time. He's 51 years' age, and he still moves like it's
12:17the easiest thing in the world. And trust me, it's not. He could very well be the GOAT.
12:21I also like the fact we did do this, because I'm now imagining that Rey Mysterio does fight
12:24through the Judgment Day before he goes back into his feud with Dominic, because of course,
12:28Finn Balor was out there casting distraction, so put a one on the dickboard. He even tripped
12:33Rey Mysterio at one point, where he was going for the 619, when JD McDonough hit a Spanish fly
12:38on Rey Mysterio. I don't know why this surprised me so much, but Rey can do everything. I guess
12:43it's because he's been through all of these generations, all of these decades, and he'll
12:47just take and give any move you can come up with. Once again, he is the best. Eventually,
12:51Rey realized he could just throw Finn Balor into JD McDonough, which he did do. When he got
12:55the 619, he got the big splash, and he won. That's another reason I love Rey Mysterio. He
13:00didn't let the heels be dickheads. He was able to do this, and now, yes, he'll probably
13:04have a match with Finn Balor next week or the week after. Then he will be like, Dommy
13:08boy, I'm coming after you. I thought this was a good palate cleanser. After I had come
13:12beforehand, give it a nap. Raquel Rodriguez then made a great point to Adam Pearce backstage.
13:16She was like, wait a minute, let me get this straight. Nikki Bella cost me my championship
13:21match when I was going after Stephanie Vaquer, and now she's getting a title shot. That's
13:25a bunch of baloney. Adam Pearce is like, that is a good point. After the Survivor Series, you
13:30can go back into the title picture. Then I was like, no, Adam, the correct response should have
13:34been, yeah, that does make sense. But also, Roxanne Perez was helping you too, so maybe we need to
13:39reset the deck. The New Day then walked in, so they're finally back on TV, which is a good thing.
13:44They made me laugh out loud right away, because they're such goons. But after yelling at Pearce
13:48saying, we demand a tag team title match, they actually got one, because AJ Styles and Dragon Lee
13:53want to take them on next week. Now, Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston couldn't believe this.
13:57And then to celebrate, Grace and Waller put a wig on Adam Pearce's head. Adam Pearce made this
14:04noise. I think he said, get out. But listen, I do have to give it a down, which kills me inside,
14:10because again, the New Day are very entertaining here, but the Raw Tag Team division is just
14:14nothing. Now, random people stroll into Adam Pearce's offices, and we just get out of nowhere
14:20tag team matches. Again, the New Day haven't been on television in weeks, and I genuinely hope they
14:25enjoyed their time off, but we can just do so much more with it. So I want to make it very clear,
14:29it's not the talent, it's not the depth, it's the stories, and it's the angles, and it's just
14:33things happening for no reason. I don't get it. But I do think we need to start praising the New Day
14:38more. They are quite clearly one of the best tag teams of all time now. They are still making me
14:43giggle like a child. It's 2025, and they've been doing this shtick for 11 years. So look, that part
14:49gets it down. But just the New Day, I'm giving them an up. I love it. I genuinely felt like I'd
14:54done drugs after this as well, because we cut to Brock Lesnar, who just walked into a room with
14:59Paul Heyman. I was like, it's happening again. This is WWE from 2015. Have I accidentally gotten
15:05into a DeLorean? When we got to the build for our Women's War Games match, because out came Becky
15:09Lynch, the Kabuki Warriors, Lashley Zan Nia Jax. Let's sum it up like this. Eventually, we will do our
15:1310 best wrestlers of the year. When we get to that list, I think Becky Lynch is absolutely going
15:18to be in mind. This is her best heel work ever. Bar none, I think she rules. Now, she got into what
15:24happened last week with Becky Lynch and referee Jessica Carr and said, listen, I got my lawyers
15:28on the case. So you damn well know this decision is going to be overturned. And as for you, AJ Lee,
15:33well, I am sick and tired of sticking your nose into my business. Such a huge error, because now she is
15:38going to enter the War Games. When she isn't there, Becky's going to break her in two. And also,
15:42look at this amazing team she has, such as Asuka. Then she said something along the lines of,
15:46I mean, I beat you nine times out of 10, but you did make me work for it. When she told Asuka,
15:51she had to shout at Kairi Sane. So she did go, Kairi? And Kairi's like, oh no, please don't kill me.
15:57When Becky Lynch was like, do you remember how I saved your life last week? That's right. Now you
16:01have to be on my team. She went to Nia Jax after this tour and was like, oh my gosh, you're so powerful,
16:05but not as powerful as me. And she even referenced the time that Nia smacked her in the nose back in
16:102018, whatever the flub it was, and said, but you never saw me wearing a mask, unlike that idiot
16:16Rhea Ripley. Becky, you're the best. Tim promised she was going to make Last Legend of Star. I guess
16:22that was too much of the babyface team, because out came AJ Lee, Rhea Ripley, EO Sky, Charlotte Flair,
16:26and Alexa Bliss. And AJ was all like, oh man, you bark a lot like a chihuahua, but I'm going to bite
16:31you. Listen, I like AJ Lee. I think she's great. I think some of the messages she put out into the world
16:35are brilliant. Just was a little bit of a weird promo. AJ basically ran down Becky a little bit
16:40more when she passed the microphone to Rhea and said, Rhea, what do you think about this?
16:44And Ripley took the microphone and punched Nia Jax right in the face. Made me laugh out loud.
16:49That's basically assault. They got this massive brawl. Of course, EO Sky got her moonsault in there,
16:53which you'll likely do on Saturday, off the cage, wearing a trash can. And given that the babyfaces were
16:58standing tall at the end of this, well, if we do lead into wrestling tropes, it doesn't bode well for
17:03them. So listen, I'm going to give this an up. Like once again, it was a very stereotypical WWE
17:07segment. The issue that I have with it is I really do think this was the year where you either had a
17:12men's war games or a women's war games, when you look at the story and decided which one would
17:16benefit it more. At the moment, the kind of feuds of both of them, they're sort of there,
17:20but they're kind of crossing over like the Ghostbusters. Like it's not bad. It's perfectly
17:24watchable. Like I say, you have to give it up for what Becky Lynch did, but it's lacking the oomph,
17:29as I do this weird chef hand thing here, that you would have expected from other war
17:33games, but they'll probably still go in there and totally smash it. We'll wait and see.
17:39When we got to the worst part of the night, because it was the John Cena tournament,
17:42so does the co-versus Penta. At one point, Penta jumped off Barry Barricade. He went for a
17:46hurricanrana and he just landed right on his face. I did do a little bit of researching here. It sounds
17:52like his shoulder popped out and given that he was going to lose the match anyway, WWE officials just
17:56went, we'll call it now. The ref will say that it's done and we'll just award it to Solo. And this is a
18:02good thing. Like none of it is positive because you don't want anyone getting injured, but it is
18:05sports entertainment. We all know the real deal. Nothing is more important than people's health
18:10and happiness. So if you can just draw a line under it, we can all go, we understand and move
18:14on to the next thing. It's what we should have done. I hope he's okay. I hope he's not out for a long
18:18time. But yeah, Solo Sokoa now taking on Gunther. And to be fair, I didn't see that much coming,
18:23but no ups, no downs. None of that is important. That's a stupid gimmick I have. I really just hope
18:28Penta is all right. But I like that WWE did do this and we should do it across all promotions.
18:33When we had yet more bizarre backstage segments, because Maxine Dupree and Adam Pearce met up
18:37and Adam decided to share the information that his phone had been ringing off the hook
18:41with women that want to compete with Maxine for that championship. And Dupree was like,
18:45oh man, I knew it was going to be difficult. Let me go and call Natalya. Now listen,
18:49I understand that her and Natalya have been friends on screen. I'm sure off screen for ages,
18:53but you literally told me last week that her new coach was AJ Lee. What the flab is going on?
18:58We always had no official challenger at this point. I was like, Adam, surely if your phone
19:01is overwhelmed, you could pick someone. When Ivy Nile returned to Raw, she just got right in
19:06Maxine's face and said, I want that title. When she walked off, because why wouldn't you do that?
19:11When Maxine then bumped into Raquel and Roxanne and Roxanne said, well, that looks like some
19:15wonderful gold. I would like that too. Adam then walked in and he, rather than make an official
19:21match, decided to quip. Maybe you should call Natalya after all. This really was the epitome of
19:27Geese title shot 9000. People just walk around going, oh man, I want an IC title shot. And where
19:32was Larry Valkyria? Larry Valkyria should have been here going, well, Maxine, well, I do like you.
19:37I wasn't allowed to challenge the IC title when it was around the waist of Becky Lynch. So now I'm
19:42coming back for the belt that I mustn't have lost. So none of this felt thought out at all. And given
19:46the right after it, we cut to a video packaging with Stephanie Veccare, which was very good. It just
19:51told us that Stephanie was not going to cut a big promo in the ring. So I'm just going to give it a
19:56down. It just felt so directionless. And this IC title had a great 2025 to all of a sudden just
20:03randomize it. We need proper feuds. Maybe I'm being a nerd. Maybe I'm being a geek. And I love the fact
20:08that Ivy Nile could challenge with it. But why can't Ivy come back, destroy some person, then win another
20:13match, get like four or five wins, then say Maxine Dupree, I'm coming for you. Nope. She just walks in and
20:19goes, get me. I want it now, which is the problem with the TikTok generation. The audience retention,
20:24I'm joking now, we're going too far off piece, giving it a down. However, with this Stephanie
20:29Veccare video, although we should have had a big promo in the ring, it was really good because
20:33Stephanie, even though she has limited English, just knows how to be endearing and she knows how
20:37to get herself across. She even said here, Nikki Bella, I understand your past and I respect it,
20:42but it sounds like you haven't done your due diligence on me. So come Survivor Series,
20:46I'm going to whip your ass. And I'm going to give it an up. Same time, women's champion,
20:51she cut promos in the ring.
20:53It was our main event after this to decide who was going to have the advantage in the
20:57men's war games. It was Drew McIntyre and Logan Paul taking on the Usos. It was totally fine.
21:01It went exactly how you would presume it was going to go. So put on one of them, Dick Boyd,
21:05but Bronson Reed was out there, Bronson Breaker was out there. Out came CM Punk and Cody Rhodes,
21:09they all started to fight. Roman Reigns was nowhere to be seen because he couldn't be bothered.
21:14He had to have his entrance music first, which he'd get to in just one second. And when Jey Uso did a
21:18dive, put one on the dive counter, Jimmy was so impressed. He went, yeah, when Logan Paul snuck up
21:25behind him and gave him the most devastating move. In all of sports and attempts, surprise roll-up,
21:30he got the one, two, three, and the heels had the advantage. And yes, halfway through this match,
21:34Logan Paul and Jey Uso went to do a move and they both fell on the floor. I don't care who is involved,
21:39I will die on this heel. Wrestlers make mistakes. Doesn't make them a good wrestler,
21:43doesn't make them a bad wrestler. Things happen in the moment and believe you me,
21:46when they get backstage, nobody is going to feel worse than them. People just react so badly to
21:52botches. And also, I hate that word. And also, also, if we are going to talk about mistakes,
21:57that's only what I want to talk about. CM Punk ran in the ring instantly and punched Logan Paul
22:01when we did get a big old pull, which is where Roman had to have his whole entrance,
22:05which made me laugh out loud because we've already seen it once. And he basically Superman
22:09punched everyone because I presume he wants to be Superman. For some reason,
22:13WWE then pretended we were going to go off air because we got the credits, even though we'd done
22:16that tease recently with Brock Lesnar. But yes, Brock came out instead when he was doing his
22:21entrance. As the pyros were coming off too, he slipped and he fell on his ass. Now, listen,
22:26I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy because you are on live TV. He just laughed it off and then
22:31he put a hat on Brom Breaker's head. So more power to him. At the same time, well, you know,
22:36he ripped his pants. Now he's falling on his bum. I'm just going to end that sentence there and I'll
22:41allow you to finish it. It was just so unexpected because he is Brock Lesnar and he's this massive
22:45beast. And because we had all the pageantry, well, it just couldn't have happened at a sillier time.
22:51But then yes, all the teams started to brawl as Joe Tessitore shouted, oh, well, we've got to go off air.
22:56We'll see you on Saturday for War Games or we already taped SmackDown and not a lot is going
23:01to happen. You can probably ignore it. So once again, I would say this was totally fine. Although
23:05I did think the match was kind of just there, which was a bit interesting. Although at least we did make
23:08sure the heels got the advantage, which always makes for a better War Games match. But this is
23:12kind of like the women. We've already talked about it. When we do get to Saturday, you just know
23:16they're going to pull it out and do some crazy stuff that makes you go, oh my gosh, I love the War Games
23:22so much. Kind of feel like the heels are going to win as well because again, the baby faces can't
23:26get on. It's not the best go home angle you will ever see. And once again, it did kind
23:29of feel like stereotypical WWE, which does rhyme. So it must be true. Still going to get it
23:34up.
23:34Which brought us to the end of the WWE go home show for War Games. And yes, it was perfectly
23:38fine. I think we may have built angles here for deeper down the line. I think I said this
23:43last year as well, and I was totally wrong, but it almost feels like we have to get through
23:46Survivor Series when all of a sudden things are going to ramp up again. And of course, the
23:50focus will be on John Cena. But I laughed out loud at least 10 times on this show, sometimes
23:55because I was meant to and sometimes because I was embarrassed. I kind of want to give it a
24:00down just for that Dominic Mysterio segment. That's how bad I thought it was. But I'm going
24:04to give it an up for Becky Lynch. Now, of course, please do leave me a comment below because I'm
24:07sure some of you are so mad at me. How did you not like that Dominic segment? You can like it.
24:11I'm just saying it wasn't to my taste. Like the video, share the video and subscribe.
24:15Click the video on the screen, which is ups and downs for Smackdown. Otherwise, have a terrific
24:19week, my friends, and I will see you through it.