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00:30Just when they think they got the answers, I change the question.
00:35Breath through breath.
00:38Yeah!
00:39Woo!
00:41UDL! UDL!
00:45Who am you to doubt Elton?
00:48This guy's a serious professional.
00:50Can he do it?
00:51Oh!
00:52Oh, and a kick out!
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02:43First off, we're going to kick off the show with news that just drives me insane.
02:47It was reported last week that Alberto El Patron, Alberto Del Rio, former WWE superstar,
02:52former WWE heavyweight champion, was arrested for another domestic dispute, a domestic issue.
02:58This one sounded very graphic, cleared impact on his fiancee, and he has gone to court and
03:06all this stuff and crashed Lucha Libre, announced that he was being suspended and removed from
03:10their shows, and his brand new Lucha Libre company he was starting was like freezing and
03:15not doing anything, and it's only a week later, and now the word is, is that now that he has
03:20been, so he was arrested on April 6th, and there was a report of domestic violence, there
03:26was some physical injuries to the arm and face of his, they call it, in the one article
03:32I was on, they called it his wife, I don't know if it's his fiancee or his wife, one or
03:35the other, then he was charged by the state attorney general's office in that location,
03:41and then after that, with all those, all that, all of his legal entanglements being resolved,
03:50so to speak, you know, he's been, you know, uh, what they've done now is, is that now that
03:56there is a preliminary hearings taking place, and he's out, he's released, he's allowed to
04:01be free while they're deciding what's going to happen with him, it's already taken that
04:06little amount of time for Crash Lucha Libre to soften their stance, he is already booked
04:10for a show on May 1st, his first appearance publicly since being arrested, um, he's going to
04:16be wrestling in Monterey, then his other kid, the company he's starting up, they are going
04:20right back, his own promotion, LM52, has announced that it's going to reveal details about its
04:25reactivation on Tuesday, um, they're hoping that his, his arrest and legal situation is
04:31going to be addressed and taken care of, and their first show is announced for May 7th,
04:35with tickets available for purchase, advertising him on the show, I almost think it's an indictment
04:40on our legal system that someone with this kind of a situation could that easily get
04:44to find their way back into the wrestling world, this is a guy who, if the things that
04:49are being said about him, let's be clear, innocent until proven guilty, but if the, this is true
04:53what's going on, this isn't the first time, this is a repeat offender, the guy needs to
04:58do some serious jail time if this really did happen again, I don't care what the epitome
05:02of the situation was, so we're going to have to wait and see how this plays out, but for
05:06me personally, were I a fan attending wrestling shows, this, booking him this soon after domestic
05:11violence this many times, would be a deterrent for me wanting to see that show, from here
05:17on out, let's jump into Smackdown, because some important things happened on Smackdown,
05:20first off, they kicked off the show with Randy Orton, uh, responding to Cody Rhodes, talking
05:24about how they took the, you know, he was supposed to wrestle Drew McIntyre, and when Cody got
05:29his rematch and took the championship, it threw things off, and then it was the first time that
05:33he really phrased it like this, he said that he talked basically about Cody gave him permission
05:37to be himself, and he was almost offended that Cody would give him permission to do
05:42anything, he felt that it was disrespectful, he kept referencing how Cody just takes and
05:46takes and takes, and a friendship's supposed to be give and take, and Cody doesn't give
05:49anything, he just takes, and I almost felt like it was a CM Punk promo where he should
05:54have been saying, tell me when I'm, not, tell me when I'm lying, or tell me when I'm
05:57telling the truth, um, a lot of what he said is very accurate, to be perfectly honest
06:02with you, and I could see why, if this was real life and not a storyline, you know,
06:06professional wrestling show, I could see how somebody could see some of this going
06:09this way, um, so, he is going to be himself, Pat McAfee, he says he wants him in his corner,
06:15he did kind of flirt with the idea that maybe Pat wasn't the person on the phone, I don't
06:19know why they threw that little tidbit in there this late into the process, but whatever,
06:24we'll see, um, but it was a good promo, and he promises to win number 15, 15th world
06:29championship, so we'll have to wait and see how that plays out, first match of the night,
06:32we get the MFTs versus the Wyatt Six, and if this feud doesn't end now, I give up, and
06:36I really don't know what you do, at this point, MFTs win the match, uh, the cool part at the
06:41end of the match is where Tama Tonga is doing all the work, and he basically is set up for
06:45the win over Uncle Howdy, and Solo slides in the ring, hits the spike, and kind of steals
06:49the win, and you can just see the look on Tama Tonga's face, and perfectly honest with
06:52you, I've always thought Tama Tonga's an incredible performer, but they are really positioning
06:56him to possibly be a huge baby face, which I have no problem with, he would be a great
07:02upper mid-card baby face turn, if they can make that happen, I don't know what you do
07:06with the rest of the MFTs, they're all talented, but he is especially talented, in my opinion,
07:10and I would love to see him get a more sustained push, but it looks like it's obviously going
07:14to be he and, uh, Solo at some point, now, what do you do with the Wyatt Six, like, they've
07:19basically, they, they lost their tag team championship to these guys, they lost the feud
07:23to these guys, where do they go from here, do they stay at the top of the card, do they
07:26drop all the way to the bottom of the card, do they split them up, do they inject some
07:29new life with maybe Alexa Bliss joining the clique, or something, I don't know, I don't
07:34love how they've been booked since they've been back, but I'm glad they are back, because
07:37all of them are talented wrestlers, I'm just waiting to see what the heck happens, after
07:41that, they have a police car arrive, Jacob Fatu gets out, and he cuts just a scathing promo,
07:47that guy is super talented, and you get, even though I'm sure some of it's scripted, he sounds
07:52like it's authentic, and I love that, and I love that the fans are so behind him, really,
07:57really on, on their own, they've chosen to, to bring Jacob Fatu into their fandom, and
08:01he, they, they are not, they are being paid in spades, Jacob Fatu is a very special thing
08:05in the wrestling industry, love seeing him get his flowers, we go to the tag team match,
08:10Damian Preece and R-Truth against Kofi Kingston and Grayson Waller for the tag team championship,
08:14and let's be honest, I don't expect to ever see these titles change hands the night before
08:18Mania, unless there's, you know, nothing substantial for them to do, I actually thought all
08:22these people were going to be in the battle royal later, but this tag team championship
08:25match, I guess R-Truth got confused when he was setting up their opponents, but they
08:29have the match, it's a solid match, there's nothing spectacular about it, at the end of
08:33the match, you get, you end up getting, you know, the typical thing where you get the
08:38double five knuckle shuffle, the Priest and Truth land the shatter machine on Waller, and
08:44they pick up the win, they retain their tag team championship, I would love to see those
08:47belts defended at Mania, but I don't think we're going to get that, neither of the tag team
08:51championships being defended at Mania, that's insane if you ask me, we do get the in-ring
08:55segment, Jade Cargo, B-Fab, Meachin, where they get interrupted by Rhea Ripley, and this
08:59is just more building, more building of the storyline, I think everybody at this point
09:03just wants to see this match get over with, to be perfectly honest with you, I don't think
09:06they've done a very good job, the addition of the B-Fab and the Meachin have not helped
09:12this at all, it makes it almost in a lot of ways less interesting, so we'll have to wait and
09:16see how it plays out, tune in, check out my spoiler episode, or I shouldn't say spoilers,
09:19my prediction episode, if you want to see how that's going to go down, then one of
09:23the shocks for me of the night, you get Tiffany Stratton vs. Jordan Grace, number one contenders
09:27match for the Women's Championship, United States Championship, this should have been
09:30done three weeks ago, and Tiffany Stratton should be on the main WrestleMania card, challenging
09:35for the United States Championship, instead, I suspect we'll see this at a future SmackDown
09:40episode, not at WrestleMania where it belongs, which I think is a travesty, so we've got neither
09:45tag team championship, the United States Women's Championship not being defended, that's
09:49too much, the champions either mean something or they don't, if they mean something, they
09:52should be on the biggest card of the year, add more matches to the card, or, you know,
09:56something, but this wasn't, this was just not a good sense for me, but I was thrilled that
10:02Stratton picks up the win, I think she is absolutely on the right trajectory right now, putting her
10:07back in the world championship picture right now would be a bad idea, she was there for a
10:10long, long time, give somebody else an opportunity to run with it for a while, you could always run
10:14it back later, I think this was a good decision, Trick Williams comes out, we hear from him
10:18and Sami Zayn, it's amazing how quickly everybody's turned on Sami Zayn, who used to be everybody's
10:22favorite professional wrestler we were hoping was going to dethrone Roman Reigns a couple
10:26years ago, now he's getting booed out of the building as US Champion, because everybody
10:29wanted to see Carmelo keep his championship, and now that he hasn't, I believe that, like
10:34the rumors say, we're going to see the double switch at Mania, but in this situation, we
10:38get to see that there's like a gingerbread man out there, there's a halluva kick on the
10:43gingerbread man, Trick Williams lands a trick shot on Sami Zayn, stands tall over him, holds
10:49up the championship belt, and it is definitely a great way to heat things up right before
10:54the WrestleMania match, we get Bayley and Lyra Valkyria vs. Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss,
10:58but we don't actually really get that, as soon as they start fighting, here comes Lash
11:02Legend and Nia Jax to just cause the double disqualification, the match never gets going, we get all sorts
11:08of physicality from all the women participating, I did notice that we did not see the Bellas
11:13anywhere in this segment, so the word is, is that we have Paige coming back to replace
11:18Nikki Bella, but Nikki Bella insists that's not the case, I think they're going to make
11:21us wait until the last minute to find out what the truth is, but I'm actually hoping that
11:25Nikki Bella is back so that Paige can do other things at Mania, again, tune into my prediction
11:29episodes if you want to see how I feel about that, and then we get to the real main event
11:33of the night, the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal, and I'm just going to go with
11:36this, let's talk about who was in it, in the order they were eliminated, Kit Wilson,
11:41I think underappreciated, has things he can do in the mid card that could be pretty powerful,
11:45Kit Wilson eliminated first, after that, Nathan Frazier and Chris Saban, solid wrestlers,
11:51always featured on SmackDown television, love seeing them there, both El Grande Americanos
11:56get knocked out next, followed by NXT standout Shiloh Hill, which if you never watched LFG,
12:02you would be an uber fan of Shiloh Hill, and he's been doing great stuff since getting
12:05to NXT as well, but I've been a fan since the minute I saw him on LFG, Shiloh Hill gets
12:10eliminated, then after that, La Parca and Berto get eliminated, La Parca coming in from
12:14AAA, love seeing some AAA influx, including Psycho Clown, Axiom, Alex Shelley, and Johnny
12:21Gargano all going out next, a sequence, a flurry of eliminations, after that, Apollo
12:27Cruz gets knocked out, and then we get to an interesting situation where Joe Hendry gets
12:32eliminated by Aleister Black, what a great feud that would be, I hope we see that on
12:36the main roster, there is word that Joe Hendry may be in line for a main roster call-up
12:41post-WrestleMania, what a great way to start his tour of the main roster, than with a feud
12:47with Aleister Black, then we get Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde get eliminated next, after
12:52followed by Ray Phoenix, and then Shinsuke Nakamura, we get down to where we, I mean the numbers
12:57start to dwindle, and we get down to the next elimination would be Ilya Dragunov, eliminated
13:02by Aleister Black, Akira Tozawa somehow is still out there, he gets a black mass and gets
13:07eliminated, Johnny Gargano, who's been in very strange storylines lately, especially in
13:12the NXT world, he gets eliminated next, followed by Matt Cardona, and we are down to four, Aleister
13:18Black, Otis Talatanga, and Royce Keys, so we go from there, we get Aleister Black gets
13:24eliminated by Royce Keys, after that we see Otis get eliminated by Talatanga, leaving
13:31Talatanga and Royce Keys in the ring, and I'll be honest with you, I actually would have
13:35preferred to see Talatanga win this, because I think he needs to do something beyond just
13:39being like the muscle for all these other guys in the MFTs, but we didn't see that, this
13:43was the way they introduced Royce Keys to the world basically, Royce Keys ends up winning
13:48the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal in grand fashion, and it was a phenomenal, phenomenal
13:54Battle Royal, it's really one of the better ones I've seen in recent years, and I'm thrilled
13:57to see Royce Keys get his flowers ahead of WrestleMania, even though he's not going to
14:01be on the main card, it still almost feels that way, from there we get Cody Rhodes and
14:05CM Punk offering each other advice, really perking each other up, supporting each other,
14:10this was a great way to see both of the champions in the ring together doing some really great
14:14things, I actually suspect that both of them will walk out without their championships
14:18at WrestleMania, that's what I've predicted in previous episodes, I don't know if I'm going
14:22to go with those predictions on my actual prediction episode, you'll have to tune in to find out
14:26because there's some new information about Roman's contract, there's some other conversations
14:31about what's going on with Pat McAfee, it could change my opinion by the time I do the prediction
14:36episode, but you'll have to check those out, but for now, that's all the time we have for
14:40this episode, check back with us next time when we run down the latest wrestling news and
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