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Our WWE Raw review as Simon Miller watches wrestling so you don't have to
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00:00So Paul Heyman did the thing at the start of this week's episode of Raw somewhere Far Cry Blood Dragon
00:03was super happy because Paul was in the ring going oh my gosh I'm about to hype a match doesn't
00:08need
00:08hyping and then he went on to hype it almost like a video game that says tutorials are so silly
00:13we're going to take the mick out of tutorials now on the download you still do have to do the
00:18tutorial also my friends and world of ups and downs and this is absolutely mad because now
00:21we've got four days in a row five days in a row 32 days in a row of professional wrestling
00:25being
00:26on our television screens but that's great because it means we can compare and contrast
00:29because that's what 2026 is all about but I am Simon Miller the bald idiot thank you so much for
00:33joining me and given that we did just have an episode of Raw which technically was the go home
00:37The Clash in Italy which is more sports entertainment let's up those doubts as soon as Paul Heyman was
00:42done we did cut to Brock Lesnar on the big screen so he wasn't even on the show and man
00:46not in my
00:47wildest dreams he pulled a Larry David right or a George Costanza if you want to follow that ladder
00:51down to the floor because he was like listen over FME I did quit after you whooped my eyes at
00:57Wrestlemania I couldn't believe it and I woke up one day and decided no I don't want to quit so
01:02I'm
01:02just going to sneak my way back onto TV the best line as well is when Brock said something on
01:06the
01:06lines of I'm going to rule over you as the retired Brock Lesnar like this is a contradiction in terms
01:11are you retired or are you not retired you can't be fake retired that just means you're still working
01:16that's like what a dad would say when he gets to a certain age and doesn't want to tell his
01:19wife
01:19that maybe he's still going to his job so it's like I'm just going to pretend I'm retired but I'm
01:25not
01:25retired stop playing pretend Heyman then told us it was a done deal when Oberfemi walked to the ring
01:29and this is the reason why it is so damn good but flub me sideways Oberfemi has to beat Brock
01:33Lesnar
01:34for a second time in Italy although I don't think he's going to because Oberfemi basically came to
01:38the ring and said oh man you think this woke something up in Brock Lesnar what do you think
01:42it did to me he hit me with a bunch of F5s so now I'm going to go crazy and
01:45listen if last time I
01:47was walking to the ring just to beat Brock Lesnar this time I'm looking to kill him it's like man
01:51thank
01:52goodness we let Oberfemi talk some people like to pretend he's a one-trick pony no he isn't this guy
01:56can do everything what a line and listen you can't just say that you have to mean that you have
02:01to
02:01have the physique and the presence and he totally pulled it off at the same time put a one on
02:05the
02:05crime counter there wasn't any kind of teasing with that he just looked at the camera and said die
02:09he then signed the contract on Paul Heyman's chest as well which somehow was just such a badass thing to
02:14do and yes if I was going to hazard a guess I guess we will have Brock Lesnar win this
02:18one and then do
02:18the rubber match but I think that is a stupid idea because I think if Brock Lesnar beats him twice
02:22sorry if Oberfemi beats Brock Lesnar twice that's just going to send him to the moon let's just break
02:26it down into John Cena words it's Oberfemi's time but we can wait and see I still don't believe this
02:32was the plan and WWE has pulled the pivot but I shall hold off my thoughts until Monday and as
02:36we have
02:37seen the pay-per-view but just for Oberfemi alone I am going to give it an up once again
02:41just belt this
02:42mother hub and up it's time. Bill Boyd was then back to give Roman Reigns his world title which really
02:46is a
02:47strange thing for Roman to have on his staff and given that it was Roman Reigns his birthday
02:50belt boy wanted to give him a present and Roman Reigns threw it away. Do not come in my house
02:56and
02:56tell me Roman Reigns isn't a heel he is. We then got Javon Evans versus Penta for the Intercontinental
03:00title too and even though actually I thought there should have been more build here it was such a good
03:04match it did feel fresh like bread and we had somewhat of a twist at the end I just had
03:08a rollicking
03:09good time and this Javon Evans man he did have a bee in his bonnet at one point they were
03:13like oh my gosh
03:14we're friends and he just kicked Penta right in the head because he wanted to win that damn IC title
03:18you're right. Javon also had most definitely set his meter to full before he walked to the ring because
03:22he was going for OG cut straight away but Penta must have secretly seen him done this on his control
03:26pad
03:27so he started doing it too and otherwise they just proved well it was like a generational thing
03:31because Javon is a younger generation and I guess Penta is this generation they just had such a good
03:36back and forth I tell you I had a lovely time and also there was not one shenanigan. So at
03:41one point
03:41Penta threw Javon into the announce table and that basically set Javon off he was so mad about this
03:45so he came back with fire in his belly which was a terrible idea because eventually he did go for
03:50the OG cutter and Penta super kicked him right in midair I was like man I would watch the best
03:55of
03:55seven between these two. We did make sure that Evans kicked out of the Penta driver and he also
03:58hit this awesome hurricanrana off the top rope shout out to 2014 but otherwise yes after a really cool
04:05exchange Penta was able to hit the Mexican destroyer he got the one two three and even though he
04:09wanted to shake Javon's hand afterwards that dude slapped it away honestly I liked every single part
04:14of it. I think that's a really smart thing to do as well because Javon Evans probably does need some
04:18edge not Adam Copeland he went to AEW and listen it does tie into something that was going to happen
04:23later on in fact there were multiple segments involving the Intercontinental Championship on the
04:27show which is also a great idea I am just giving it an up this is the kind of thing
04:31that WW needs
04:32right now give me new ship. I also did love the fact that Javon Evans just lost because in
04:36professional wrestling as we've talked about a thousand times losing can be part of your story
04:40arc but what are you going to go do now speaking of losers that doesn't really work so he won
04:44at Saturday night's main event but very sadly we did learn that Logan Paul actually tore his triceps
04:49during that tag team match so he's going to be out for ages I have seen some people on the
04:53internet
04:53celebrating this listen I get it you don't like Logan Paul I can understand that but you should never
04:58wish anyone to get injured I hope that he can recover they can be back on TV soon.
05:02Then turned out that Austin Theory was ready to give up his tag team titles he went to Paul Heyman
05:06going oh I'm so sad man I was so excited to defend it when we got yet more oh we
05:11have Paul Heyman
05:12let's use him as creative exposition because he just went haha don't be silly when I signed some
05:17magical contract who the flub knows what that is I wrote down the vision get to be the tag team
05:22champions not just Austin Theory and Logan Paul so if you want a team with Brom Breaker or maybe
05:26Montez Ford after he turns heel what I didn't say anything you can do that WWE has to stop doing
05:32it
05:32you go back to Brom Breaker being unsuspended when Paul Heyman had some magical man on the phone
05:36when it came to Adam Pearce and all that stuff with Gunther which Paul Heyman has now just ran away
05:40from we do so much stuff with Heyman that never gets explained why would this be allowed who signed
05:45it down and I understand it's the free bird rule but just say that when they win the titles and
05:50once
05:50again I understand WW quite clearly has a plan that I want the vision to lose the tag team titles
05:55but we can't just go every time let's go talk to Paul Heyman hey Paul what's going on do something
06:00different now it really did wind up Austin Theory something fierce though because he then vowed to
06:04take out everybody who may have even had an inkling of hurting Logan Paul so as Joe Hendricks in the
06:09ring singing this song yeah Austin went out there he destroyed this dude to the point doctors came out
06:14going oh my gosh Joe Hendricks could be dead so I think we just wrote him off tv the next
06:18cut as well
06:19was so damn funny because we did sell this like a big deal and then yes we went backstage and
06:23there
06:23was Seth Rollins and Angela Dawkins having a conversation I was like guys the vision are attacking
06:28somebody you're meant to be after them they didn't care now Rollins was trying to make his point to
06:32Angelo look what happened at Saturday night's main event we all have to come together to stop these
06:36goobers and yes Angelo agreed when of course Montez Ford walked in being like oh my gosh why are you
06:41talking to my friend I don't like you Seth Rollins you're a backstabber so Seth was like oh yeah well
06:45who's been world champion and who's main evented Wrestlemania as this did turn into an argument between 14
06:49year olds but it pissed Montez Ford off so much we are getting this match later again we'll talk about
06:55it in a few
06:55minutes but I am sticking by my Montez Ford prediction my favorite part of this too is at
06:59one point Montez even said well if you had helped us out at the weekend maybe we would have won
07:02the
07:02titles and what has Montez Ford been saying in the weeks prior to this Seth Rollins you better stay
07:07out of our business so we are giving some character here to Montez again I think you should watch this
07:11space John Evans then found Penta and said I'm so sorry I acted so unprofessional but I will be
07:15coming after that IC title and while on paper that sounds terrible like again you want Javon to have
07:20some attitude the way he did this I thought he came across great like half of them was like yeah
07:25I shouldn't have done that I was a bit of a dick but also the other 50% was like
07:29but yeah so we'll
07:29get my revenge I like what we're doing with Javon Evans I don't think we should turn in fully fledged
07:33heel that'd be a terrible idea but just giving him something different once again keep an eye on this
07:38guy Rey Mysterio then walked in and basically did a Jedi mind trick on Penta because he was like oh
07:42man
07:42Penta you're so great you're so successful and Penta was like well you know what would make me more
07:46successful if I had a match against you Rey was like well that's not why I stopped by maybe we
07:51should go talk to Adam Piz this Rey Mysterio man he's got the experience well it was indeed the
07:56judgment day taking on Bayley and Lyra Valkyria and listen I love all these guys I've talked about
08:00it since the cows come home but when they came to the ring I was just I feel like we're
08:04just greasing
08:04our wheels we're just going round and round doing the same stuff and WW should have done this match
08:09because of course they got into it last week but I just think we have to do something new with
08:13all of
08:13them giving it down now the good news is that even though Liv Morgan was trying to cause distraction
08:17here the referee saw her and said you have to leave and this makes all the sense in the world
08:21because there were so many shenanigans on Smackdown at least within the kayfabe world you could pretend
08:26the referees got together and said yes we need to be more vigilant and even when Dominic Mysterio
08:30tried to get involved he screwed the pooch too because basically he threw his AAA title in there
08:34and Bayley and it was Roxanne Perez right they started doing a tug of war and given that the force
08:39was then released like the Star Wars Roxanne went into Dominic Mysterio knocked him down
08:43and she couldn't believe it so Bayley hit the least devastating move no the most devastating move
08:47in all of sports entertainment the surprise roll up and she got the 1-2-3 and given that
08:52WW often treats that finish as well nobody properly won which is why we did it I think we have
08:57to do
08:57this again and listen yes I totally understand this because it is going to lead to the breakup of
09:01the judgment day one would suggest but I'm just going to tie into the down we talked about a second
09:05ago we just need to do something new here we do need to end the judgment day then come to
09:09the
09:09natural shelf life and it's mad to me that Liv Morgan has been the world champion at Wrestlemania
09:13which was ages ago we've had two pay-per-views if you count SNME as a pay-per-view too
09:18and she ain't
09:18got no challenges why isn't she fighting people I don't understand it very very weird Roman Reigns
09:23and Adam Pearce then had the best chat because Adam sat down with Roman and said listen Roman
09:26I don't think Jacob for two should be employed I was like well there it is as always though Roman
09:31feels
09:31like he has to show true power here although he doesn't want to go back to his old self when
09:35he
09:35actually said I don't know Jacob for two knew about the tribal combat rules that if he says
09:40that out loud I have to accept otherwise my honor is damaged I was like one where the fluff has
09:44this
09:44come from it doesn't make any sense and two of course he knew you've had tribal combat matches
09:49before do you think Jacob for two just he wasn't on WWE wasn't watching the television listen all of
09:54the stuff is so entertaining but my gosh they just say something new every single week which is what
09:58they did in the main event segment too also remember as well if you're ever in a bind just say
10:02Roman Reigns I challenge you to tribal combat and you'll be able to get out of it in some fashion
10:06when we did learn that in the contract is that if Jacob for two loses he has to serve Roman
10:11Reigns
10:11there is no way a lawyer would look at this and go yep I think that's totally fine I can't
10:16see any
10:16human rights issues at all of course the big old line was Roman saying but if Jacob for two wins
10:20we're all screwed and really he just sounds like he wants to provide for his family so I think it
10:24will
10:24be fine when LA Knight came to the ring to do a promo and even he said he hasn't really
10:28done one of
10:29these since Wrestlemania that is way too long I like LA Knight I can't explain it but he always
10:34feels a little bit unhinged so it kind of puts you on the edge of your seat and the worst
10:37part of this
10:37is that he just went you know what I hate Roman Reigns therefore I am entering the king of the
10:42ring
10:42tournament next week I was like what the king of the ring why couldn't we have built this up a
10:46bit
10:46more I mean think about king brett king steve king booker king shay was a bunch of these you could
10:51do
10:51video packages and just remind everyone why the king of the ring is so cool and look the winner does
10:56get a shot
10:56world title which I do like but I am going to give it a down you announced it by LA
11:00Knight talking
11:01about it as if this has been a thing for ages I mean I know we do it every single
11:04year but come on
11:05man a little video or two especially when it's WWE they do videos better than anyone of course
11:10as soon as he said bad words about Roman Reigns how came Jimmy Uso and he's like listen LA Knight
11:14man I'm really happy what we did do at Wrestlemania but you've got to keep Roman Reigns' name
11:18out of your mouth I don't really know why but family and cousins and brothers and again
11:22if Jay was here he would punch you and this is where LA Knight's gone what was I just talking
11:27about how you lot get together and you do annoy me because you treat things unfairly you have
11:31basically just said if your brother was here you would double team me what has that just
11:35doubled back round to you guys are a bunch of assholes and listen I like you Jimmy I like you
11:40Jay even though he's not here without Roman Reigns someone needs to slap his ear Jimmy then tried to
11:44explain the bloodline aren't like how they used to be which is the equivalent of listen babe I've
11:48changed I've come back in the house but then I once again made it clear that he is going after
11:51Roman Reigns as soon as he does win the king of the ring when Jimmy said something like family is
11:55our business and if you get in our business our business is with your business and you go out of
11:59business or something so really the idea here is that LA Knight could win the king of the ring which
12:03I would be all for but maybe the Usos are going to have to make some decisions it does kind
12:07of feel
12:07a bit wishy-washy at the moment because obviously WWE pivoted after deciding to move Gunther to
12:12Smackdown but at least LA Knight is involved in something and while I would like him to win the
12:16tournament it'd be kind of weird if he did go after Roman Reigns if he didn't beat Roman Reigns because
12:20that's what we did in
12:20Saudi Arabia a few years ago unless Jacob or two is going to win the title and then you do
12:24a mini
12:24feud between LA Knight and Roman I don't know but at least it's intriguing at least they are interacting
12:29we do need to move on quite fast because I have no idea what Jimmy and Jay are doing right
12:34now
12:34but I am going to give it an up mostly because at least LA Knight got some time on Dini
12:38and appears
12:38to Rey Mysterio then talking about just giving Rey an IC title match and actually quite rightfully
12:42Ethan Page and Rusev walked in going uh yeah no that doesn't seem fair so surprise surprise later on
12:48it is going to be Rusev versus Rey and Ethan Page didn't seem to mind this at all because Ethan
12:52Page is the best he didn't want to fight but we got to Seth Rollins versus Montez Ford and I
12:56absolutely love this and sure I would agree with you that maybe this wasn't of the level you would
13:00expect from them but it's just around one we can get to around two but it was just the finish
13:04and
13:04the way we did treat this again no stupid distractions that we did do last week instead I
13:09mean at one point Montez got the splash of the frogs onto Seth Rollins and Rollins kicked out
13:13and that did get me a little bit which makes me an idiot because everybody kicks out of finishes
13:17but when he went for the 450 he face planted and just when he was adjusting his neck Seth
13:21went ha ha he curb stomped him and he got the one two three that's the way you do it
13:26because
13:26yes if Montez Ford is going to turn heel just a guess on my end and maybe he does join
13:30the
13:30vision just a guess on my end this could be another moment he's like man I'm just so frustrated
13:35I can't handle it anymore and while he did get pinned it didn't feel like he totally screwed
13:39up I'm not now like Montez Ford he's such a loser he made one error and Seth Rollins a
13:45former world champion capitalized on it this is the kind of stuff we need to do more of it's also
13:48great for Angelo Dawkins though because of course he came out to help his friend let's talk to his
13:52friend afterwards and he got jumped by Austin Theory who gave him a concerto so if I was going
13:57to hazard a guess it feels like we just wrote Angelo out of the story because Logan Paul isn't here
14:01and we have to balance up the books I mean I get it but as always let's make sure we
14:05have something
14:06for Dawkins he's good we really did clarify this afterwards as well because Seth Rollins and Montez
14:10Ford are melting down with Montez being like oh my gosh my partner's going to be out for ages
14:13when he finally said all right Seth I get it we'll be on the same page the vision is bigger
14:18than
14:18whatever spat we've got going on so once more I guess it will be Brom Breaker and Logan Paul not
14:22Logan Paul Brom Breaker and Austin Theory taking on Seth Rollins and Montez Ford and I bet you Montez
14:28Ford screws him over but this is me going into massive fantasy booking mode and I am a massive nerd
14:33but
14:33I am giving it an up again when the flubber we ever seen Seth Rollins versus Montez Ford and we're
14:37doing something with Ford so I'm locked into this I do like it I actually only think it's going to
14:42get
14:42better and better and better Seth made it clear at the end too I won't Brom Breaker soon so maybe
14:47Adam Pearce goes fine in a tag team match Becky Lynch interview after this and apparently Sol Ruka
14:51got hurt after Satellite's main event so I hope she is okay and Becky was all like when I got
14:55hurt
14:56all those years ago I turned myself into the man where a soul can't even get to work and that's
15:00because you can flip and trickle around the place but you'll never be as good as me because her name
15:04is going to be etched in stone because her legacy is like nobody else's I thought Becky was very good
15:08here she came across so obnoxious which was the idea and listen if Sol Ruka is going to be okay
15:14for this weekend at Italy given how over the top she was I would imagine she will lose that icy
15:18title
15:18Rusev versus Rey after this for the number one contendership for the intercontinental title and
15:22we had Ethan Page on commentary just going back to what I said earlier this icy title scene right now
15:28well it fills me with glee I mean how Mysterio is still this good I will never know and I
15:31will stand
15:32on the hill that I think Rusev is massively undirected and once again there was no nonsense here
15:36because Rey went for the 619 Rusev grabbed him and said no when he went for the match to kick
15:40and Rey decided well I don't really want to be punched in the face so he turned into the most
15:44devastating move in all of sports and there was a prize roll we got the 123 it wasn't the match
15:49to
15:49kick it was the accolade I'm getting confused with his finishing moves and listen even though it's
15:53exactly what we did with Bayley earlier in the night if this is what WWE has to do to balance
15:57the
15:57books when it does come to interferences I've got no problem with it but also look at the end product
16:01fun match I had a good time good guy versus bad guy and of course Rey Mysterio and Penta is
16:06now on
16:07the cards who doesn't want that Rusev beat the flub out of Rey Mysterio after this and Ethan Page
16:11thought this was hilarious that he got in the ring which was a terrible mistake because Dragon Lee
16:15finally returned to Raw after being off injured he flew around he hit Operation Dragon he raised Rey
16:20Mysterio's hand so you can probably do this tag team match too and you can throw Dragon Lee into the
16:24IC title scene I am giving all of this an up sometimes this is all I need from professional
16:29wrestling keep it nice keep it simple and make me feel warm and fuzzy in my tum tum
16:33Adam Pearce then kicked Austin Theory out of the building even though he'd been running a muck for
16:36at least two hours by this point and that was very easy he did go with regard to the Alpha
16:40Academy for
16:41no reason other than to tell you you know those skits we have been doing on Raw when Austin Theory
16:46and
16:46Maxine Dupree have been hanging out well Maxine now likes him bless this Otis as well because he made me
16:50laugh out loud with one line he went something smells off to me when Maxine was indeed like I like
16:56Austin
16:56sorry fellas she walked off so we better explain what is going on here so the last time we saw
17:00Maxine she was getting killed by Natalia so maybe she just got sick and died of being put in the
17:05shops you don't also mean of course that maybe we're going to add a female member to the vision
17:08and be careful because the vision is absolutely cursed when we got to our contract signing which
17:13also made me laugh because we did a contract signing between Roman Reigns and Jacob Adu like three
17:17weeks ago they love signing bits of paper now of course Jacob Adu was out first and Adam Pearce was
17:21there
17:21with the useless wrestling security guards and when he had signed he started throwing all this
17:25furniture around and they just did nothing why did you even come out there to begin with Roman then
17:29arrived and told Pearce and his dweebs to leave and they kind of just did although Roman had to come
17:33up with such a whopper he was like no I have signed a blood oath or I've explained the blood
17:38oath which
17:38means before tribal combat I cannot touch Jacob Adu so what are you talking about all you and the
17:44bloodline have done for the last few weeks is break up Jacob but no oh now there's a blood oath
17:48now mostly Roman Reigns is just mad that Jacob Adu wouldn't acknowledge him because he's obsessed
17:51with that when Jacob was like listen dude we all understand what you did do for the family and we
17:55respect it but change always comes along and it is time for a change so I need to be the
18:00new tribal
18:00chief I've decided and that's that I won't hear any backsies given that it is anything goes in tribal
18:04combat 2 he's going to walk Roman Reigns's ass like a dog which is quite the line when Roman was
18:09like
18:09well that's great but I have a rebuttal for you also it's quite nice to be treated like a dog
18:13because
18:13somebody will give you treats and because that has become all tribalistic they end with a handshake
18:18and pushing their heads together I was like man we are making a lot of stuff up on the fly
18:22but it just works right because Jacob Adu is phenomenal and has established himself in the
18:26main event scene Roman Reigns is Roman Reigns which is totally fine and even though I cannot see a world
18:30where Jacob Adu is the world champion after the weekend I also kind of feel like he has to win
18:35otherwise what are we doing here WWE I'd imagine has something big planned so I am going to give it
18:39an up it feels like a massive deal even though we did only do it a few weeks ago so
18:44I tip my hat to them
18:45they've got me in even though once again they say a lot of nonsense so this is a good recipe
18:49especially because it is clash in Italy which isn't really considered a triple a pay-per-view
18:52which makes it even better and actually I thought this episode of Raw was all right it was nothing
18:56like groundbreaking there was no segment I was like oh my gosh I can't believe it but I enjoyed it
19:00it
19:00kind of zoomed on by and when you look at clash in Italy on paper well it's probably going to
19:04be a
19:04damn good show up now of course my friends please do leave me a comment below and let me know
19:08what you
19:08thought about last night's episode of Raw like the video share the video and subscribe
19:11my maps and downs for SNME are on the screen right now as well always sounds like a disease
19:15I'm not going to go stick my head in the fan because there's a heat wave in the UK and
19:18I'm slowly dying
19:19see you soon
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