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00:00So there are a cool few things right off the back that I liked about WWE Clash in Italy,
00:03as I was about to say Paris, that was an event from a different year.
00:06I mean, what? This crowd was fantastic, and they even sang Gunther to the ring,
00:10so I guess that was a bit like going to a classical performance, which makes no sense.
00:13And Cody Rhodes came out with his big skull mask, one of the eye, had damage to it,
00:17like he was a video game boss, but of course that was a wink, wink, nudge, nudge,
00:21back to what happened at WrestleMania.
00:23Let's not stand on ceremony, Mr. Wayne, that deserves it up.
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01:04So right, let's talk Gunther versus Cody Rhodes, WWE title.
01:08It was a very good match, because of course it was.
01:11And you know, Cody was playing the poor fool who would jump at Gunther,
01:14he would go, no, no, and he'd chop him out of mid-air.
01:16Then Cody would be on the floor going, oh my gosh, I'm in so much pain.
01:19It's everything you ever wanted it to be.
01:21I would say, though, if we are going to talk about this PLE overall,
01:24I just kind of think that WWE could have a bit more fun.
01:27Now, once again, I'm not talking about the matches,
01:29but maybe that is kind of the weird contradictory problem here.
01:32Everybody in the modern day can go out there and put on a,
01:35not a classic, so to speak, but put on good stuff between bell to bell.
01:39But that does mean when it comes to the booking and maybe some of the finishes,
01:41we could just try to do something a little bit different.
01:44We'll park it for now and I'll get there in a second.
01:47Of course, Cody Rhodes would freak out any time Gunther would go for the choke
01:50because that's the story that we've been telling.
01:52And Gunther took the pedigree at one point.
01:54And I was like, that is interesting that Cody and Seth Rollins
01:56both have now doubled down on that pedigree.
01:58When we got a power bomb from Gunther, he went from the splash,
02:01he went into Cody's knees.
02:02When Cody Rhodes hit the crossroads for the one-two-oo.
02:05And I was like, yeah, that always happens.
02:07It's like when Finn Balor goes to the Coupe de Grace the first time.
02:10The first time you may as well ignore because it never works.
02:12There's been kind of a tease for the finish as well
02:14because Gunther finally locked on the sleeper.
02:15And yes, Cody Rhodes had not got his eight hours
02:17because he was freaking out.
02:18But he escaped this by putting his foot on the ropes.
02:21When yeah, Gunther and old Codes had a bit of an exchange.
02:24Cody Rhodes hit the crossroads and he got the three.
02:27And even the fans who were rapturous all night were a bit like,
02:29well, I wasn't expecting that.
02:31It ended around 12 minutes and basically came out of nowhere.
02:34And that's because, my friends, we were doing shenanigans.
02:36Afterwards, Gunther was like a muppet going,
02:37no, no, I can't believe you did this to me.
02:40And that's because, yes, when you do look a little bit closer,
02:43can you believe it?
02:44Gunther's foot wasn't just under the bottom rope.
02:47It was in another district.
02:48And that Cody Rhodes, we'll have to wait and see what happens here.
02:51When he made the three count, around like 2.5,
02:54he pulled that foot away from the ropes.
02:56So maybe he knew what he was doing.
02:59And sure, of course, we're going to do this again,
03:01much like Britney Spears.
03:02And I bet then Gunther will become the WWE champion.
03:05But it also means after all those retirements,
03:07Goldberg, AJ Styles and John Cena,
03:09Gunther just did suffer his first loss for a while.
03:12Sometimes I do think you have to look off into the distance and question that.
03:15I mean, do we really need to do it here?
03:17Or could we have pulled the trigger and actually done the title change?
03:19And once again, the match was super fine.
03:21I had a great old time.
03:22They are excellent workers.
03:23I am going to give it an up.
03:24And come at SummerSlam, for example,
03:26I bet we do do Gunther versus Cody Rhodes, part 79.
03:29But that's what I mean.
03:30This will be moonwalk back to what I was just talking about.
03:33That's what WWE always does.
03:35We'll kind of plant the seed here on a quote-unquote B show.
03:38And we'll wait until one of our big four.
03:39And that's when we'll get into it.
03:41Just think, given where we are and the state of everything right now,
03:44sometimes you've got to take a bit of a risk.
03:46I mean, maybe you look back in six months' time and go,
03:48we shouldn't have done that.
03:49But it's also Gunther.
03:51And I checked my statistics.
03:52Gunther is pretty good.
03:53So like, why?
03:54Why can't Gunther be champion right now?
03:56I don't know what the argument is.
03:58Unless, of course, once again,
03:59maybe this is going to be the seed for Cody Rhodes' turning heel.
04:03Now, I'm going to park it for there.
04:04Because once again, this does play into later.
04:06But the match was fun.
04:07If you do go watch it, have a good time.
04:09I just think maybe at the moment,
04:11WWE is playing it a bit too safe.
04:13And that's kind of true.
04:14Because we go right into Rhea Ripley versus Jay Cargill,
04:16which has to get the down.
04:18And it's not even their fault.
04:19But towards the end of this, we're in the middle.
04:21Rhea Ripley had the match won after the rip time.
04:23And out came the baddies.
04:25I think it was B-Fab.
04:26Grabbed Jay Cargill's foot.
04:28And she put it on the ropes.
04:29So I was like, wait a minute.
04:30Why are we doing?
04:31I mean, it wasn't exactly the same finish.
04:32But it was just way too similar to the first match.
04:34And yes, I know.
04:36B-Fab had a bit of a struggle here trying to get that foot on the ropes.
04:39I do not care.
04:40She didn't do it on purpose, did she?
04:41It was a mistake.
04:42You've never made a mistake at work.
04:44You just pranced around being Mr. or Mrs. Perfect.
04:46It's just ridiculous.
04:47And I totally understand.
04:49It does take you out of the atmosphere and take you out of the environment.
04:51You're like, oh my gosh.
04:52I could not see that.
04:54But it's wrestling.
04:55It's the most important, the least important things.
04:57B-Fab probably right now is like, man, I'm really mad at myself.
05:00Just let it go.
05:01However, for all this nonsense with ropes, which also tied to the finish of this, I'm
05:06just giving it a down.
05:07I don't understand why we couldn't come up with something new.
05:08It was actually really good, though.
05:09And I tell you, Rhea Ripley and Jade Cargill have great chemistry together.
05:13And once again, that was kind of like WrestleMania.
05:15Jade just beat on Rhea and beat on Rhea.
05:17So Rhea Ripley was playing the babyface in peril.
05:20And again, Rhea Ripley is quite a badass.
05:22So the fact that she is able to pull this off, I say bravo all round.
05:27Every time Jade did something powerful as well, she just went down, did some Scott Steiner
05:31push-ups, which did make me laugh.
05:33And eventually, I think Ripley got mad at that.
05:34So she slapped Jade right around the face.
05:36And then, yes, they did just get into it.
05:38And really, the big shifteroo was when, well, the bandies came out because they were worried
05:42after Jade had hit the least devastating move in all of sports entertainment, the blue
05:46thunder bomb.
05:47Did it work?
05:47Of course it didn't work.
05:49So why B-Fab and Meechian were worried here, I do not know.
05:51But yes, that is when Rhea hit the riptide, which is not the name of my brand new music
05:55single.
05:55And yes, we put her foot on the ropes.
05:57And the referee, to be fair, did see the bandies do that and go, now you have to leave.
06:01So out came Alexa Bliss, out came Charlotte Flair.
06:03They had a big old fight when Jade Coggle hit Jade.
06:06And do you know what Charlotte Flair did?
06:08She grabbed Rhea Ripley's foot and she put it on the ropes because if a heel does something
06:12first, a baby face can do whatever you want.
06:14Personally, I wouldn't have done that due to what we've already talked about, but also
06:17Rhea Ripley didn't need it.
06:19But after this show, do you know what Jade did?
06:21She beat up Charlotte Flair.
06:23So you can't get mad at that.
06:24We're setting it up for a feud right after this.
06:26Soon after this as well, Rhea did hit the riptide to get the one, two, three.
06:29So that was the end of that.
06:30Yes, it was a good match.
06:32And it certainly was not the time to take the belt off Rhea Ripley.
06:35And knowing that you are going to do Jade versus Charlotte, which people have asked for
06:38for a while.
06:39Well, actually, I thought this one was kind of wrapped up in a nice, neat little package.
06:42And I presume somebody like JC Jane could win the Queen of the Ring to face Rhea Ripley
06:45at SummerSlam.
06:46Although, my gosh, we are going to talk about the King and the Queen of the Ring later.
06:50But I am giving this an up.
06:51Again, Rhea and Jade, when they get together, they do good work.
06:55When we get to another match where I am just going to be 50-50 and jump all over the
06:59place,
06:59because it was Oba Femi versus Brock Lesnar.
07:02And listen, if you wanted big men slapping man meat, do I have the match for you?
07:06I mean, this was damn men to tending because it was two bulls going to town.
07:09I also think it was Brock Lesnar's first match in Europe since 2002, which is ridiculous.
07:14The crowd was singing his theme and they went crazy for Oba, like he was Santa Claus.
07:18And yes, even before the bell had rung, Brock Lesnar attacked Oba Femi.
07:22And he went F5, F5, F5, F5, F5.
07:25I think it was five F5s.
07:26So that's a lot of fives.
07:27But what did this Oba Femi do?
07:28He went and kicked out.
07:30What a monster.
07:30Eventually, Lesnar locked in the Kimura too.
07:32And Oba Femi even powered out of that, which was sold like a big deal.
07:35But of course, it meant Oba's arm was all gammy, which was going to tie into the finish.
07:40Because when he went for his pop-up powerbomb, I think he was going, ow, ow, my arm.
07:44But even before he did get there, man, they tumbled to the outside.
07:47And even though Oba Femi wanted to throw Brock Lesnar through Alan the announce table,
07:50Brock went, no, I don't know whether you realize this, my boy.
07:53This is my night.
07:54And he F5ed it through Alan the announce table.
07:57And this was kind of good because Brock Lesnar acted like he would win by counter.
08:00Like, oh, he's so scary.
08:01And Oba Femi got back in the ring at 9.9999.
08:05Now, really what somebody should do as a post-mortem to all of this
08:08is ask Brock Lesnar if he activated finishers before he came to the ring.
08:11Because he most definitely did.
08:13Well, yeah, Oba Femi went for the pop-up powerbomb.
08:15Brock Lesnar said no.
08:16He slipped behind.
08:17He gave him a seventh F5, which was totally ridiculous.
08:21And he beat him for the 1-2-3.
08:22So once again, up.
08:23It was like two balls fighting.
08:25There's no way you couldn't have enjoyed this unless you hate that type of wrestling,
08:27which is fine.
08:28But I just do not understand the point of any of it.
08:31I don't mean that too negatively.
08:33But I imagine we're going to do the third match once against SummerSlam.
08:36So we are falling back into that pattern.
08:37If Oba Femi doesn't win, I'm going to take my head and dunk it into a toilet,
08:41which means we will be in the exact same position we were post-WrestleMania.
08:45And some people have been like, well, what else do you do with Oba Femi?
08:48Whatever the flop you want, it's pro wrestling.
08:50But the only thing that could pop into my brain is the equivalent of Steve Austin winning at WrestleMania 14
08:55and then Shawn Michaels came back six weeks later and he pinned him.
08:58Nobody would have accepted that.
09:00You can even argue with SummerSlam 2002.
09:02What did The Rock do?
09:03He lost to Brock Lesnar.
09:04Imagine if he had come back and lost to him again within a couple of months.
09:07People would have just been like, that's way confusing.
09:10And listen, Brock Lesnar is going to be fine regardless of what he does.
09:12So I think that Oba Femi should be the new Brock Lesnar.
09:15And we've done that by decimating him at WrestleMania.
09:18And now we've kind of null and voided that just to do a trilogy.
09:21You don't just need to continue doing the same things over and over and over again.
09:24It's not a big deal.
09:25It's not a big deal at all.
09:26Oba Femi is so good.
09:27It doesn't matter.
09:28They did suffer a loss.
09:29I just think there could have been something so exciting about him going all the way to a world championship
09:33without being defeated.
09:35And then you can pick somebody new.
09:36And do you know what happens to that new guy that beats Oba Femi?
09:39Then they've got all of Brock Lesnar's power.
09:41He goes Brock Lesnar to Oba Femi.
09:42Oba Femi to this guy.
09:44And because Oba Femi is so young, it's not going to hurt him then.
09:47So I just don't understand why we had to do this.
09:50Other than the fact you wanted to go,
09:52do we have a big match for you in Italy?
09:54It's Brock versus Oba too.
09:56I'm going to talk about this later as well,
09:57but I also saw the commentary absolutely ripped over Femi way too hard here.
10:02Michael Cole screamed,
10:03oh man, the ruler's become a beggar or something like that.
10:06I was like, calm down.
10:07Surely the commentary should have been,
10:08oh man, that Brock Lesnar,
10:10he just escaped one there.
10:11Because even though he did hit this dude with all these F5s,
10:14well, he's still wriggling and wiggling like a worm.
10:16So this is the first time we do go back to the intro.
10:18And I tell you, this is what I mean by WWE needs somewhat of a shakeup.
10:22It just kind of feels like we do this 50-50 booking all of the time.
10:25And when you have someone like Oba Femi,
10:27who got over so damn fast,
10:29I just think you should rip up the playbook
10:31and kind of go with your heart,
10:32go with your guts,
10:33go with your feelings,
10:33go with your instincts.
10:34So I do have to give it a down.
10:36Like, of course the third match will be good,
10:38but the third match is also going to be exactly like this.
10:40Finisher, finisher, finisher, finisher.
10:42And maybe that was the issue here as well.
10:44That's all Brock Lesnar's done for the last few years.
10:46I, to repeat myself,
10:48kind of just want something a bit different.
10:50Down.
10:51And yes, I got a down for Sol Ruka versus Becky Lynch too.
10:54Really fun match.
10:55I think Sol Ruka is great.
10:56And she did win the IC title here,
10:58which was the right decision.
10:59But it almost kind of felt like this was a,
11:02thank goodness we did that
11:03because the main roster run has been so confusing
11:05as opposed to, well, we built it
11:07and it's so exciting.
11:08And come on, Sol Ruka,
11:09you've got to take out that devious Becky Lynch.
11:12It's just, everything is so weird at the moment
11:13in terms of the road to get to these matches.
11:16And WWE rarely misses on PLE.
11:18But yeah, when she was the champion,
11:20I honestly had a feeling of relief.
11:22It shouldn't be relief.
11:23It should be dancing around your room
11:24like you're, I don't know, Rihanna.
11:26That's a stupid reference.
11:27Down.
11:28It is broken record time though,
11:29because of course the match was good.
11:31Becky Lynch clearly had her working boots on
11:33and sometimes was just shouting spots at Sol Ruka
11:35to make sure this did go down.
11:37And yes,
11:37we have now kind of turned the soul stack into a move
11:40that you can counter should you so wish.
11:42But if it does get you,
11:43you are got one, two, three.
11:45So that is good.
11:46It should be that way.
11:47It should come out of nowhere.
11:48It should catch people unawares.
11:49And then they're just dead.
11:50They don't get to roll away like Liv Morgan.
11:52Of course,
11:52we had more shenanigans with Jessica Carr too.
11:54At one point,
11:55Becky tried to shove Sol Ruka into Jess,
11:57who took a powder outside of the ring.
11:59Meaning when Becky got the most devastating move.
12:01In all of sports entertainment,
12:02there's a prize roll up.
12:03Maybe that would have been a three.
12:05But of course,
12:06Jessica Carr had to get back in the squared circle.
12:08So it was only a one, two, ooh.
12:09Happened again as well,
12:10when Becky basically used Carr as a weapon
12:12and crotch Sol Ruka.
12:13When she got the manhandle slam,
12:14but that only got a one, two, ooh.
12:16So this was good.
12:17At least we were giving Sol Ruka everything we did have.
12:19Let's sell her like a star.
12:22We also did that again when Sol went for that soul snatcher
12:24because Becky got another man to handle slam.
12:27But eventually as we jumped towards the end,
12:28Sol Ruka finally went,
12:29ha ha,
12:30Becky Lynch,
12:30I have your number.
12:32She hit the soul snatcher.
12:33It was clean as a whistle,
12:34much like she always did in NXT.
12:36She pinned her for the one,
12:37two,
12:37three,
12:37and she became the new Intercontinental Champion.
12:40Now my gosh,
12:41let's hope WWE has a good old plan.
12:44Because by the time we do get to SummerSlam,
12:45you really could have gotten Sol Ruka over somebody big.
12:48Clearly the fans like her.
12:49They went crazy for her in Italy.
12:51So I am going to give it an up.
12:52It was a good match.
12:53But yes,
12:54I just think the way we could have got there
12:56just should have been a bit more exciting.
12:58But sometimes the destination is more important than the journey up.
13:01I also think eventually as well,
13:02you're going to have to do this Becky Lynch, Jessica Carr match.
13:04Otherwise it does make no sense.
13:06When yes,
13:07we are going to talk about the King and the Queen of the ring brackets.
13:09For starters,
13:10there's four ways and they're not one-on-one matches.
13:13And it actually made me grow.
13:14I know Simon,
13:15you should get a better life.
13:17I totally understand that.
13:18But the whole reason four ways aren't the way to do the King of the ring
13:21is it's because somebody can lose,
13:23but they don't really lose.
13:24It just feels like a bit of a cop-out.
13:26I think sometimes WWE deliberately needs to force themselves into a corner
13:30so they can come up with something more original.
13:32Because now,
13:33sure,
13:33on paper,
13:34the matches look great,
13:35but you're going to have two people that can go,
13:37I didn't really lose.
13:38So you can guess my back.
13:39Also,
13:40Liv Morgan is in the Queen of the ring.
13:43Now,
13:43at first I was like,
13:44if she comes out and says,
13:45well,
13:45you know what?
13:46I am the best champion of all time.
13:47So now I'm going to use my world title shot.
13:49Obviously I would have gotten to go after the IC title.
13:52I'd be like,
13:52wow,
13:53that's interesting.
13:54That way she can lose two because once against the four way,
13:57but at least it would do something while she hasn't got a feud.
14:00But no,
14:00she came out and said,
14:01oh,
14:02you don't think I'm the best?
14:03Well,
14:03now I'll prove I'm the best by fighting queen of the ring or winning king of the ring,
14:07which means come SummerSlam,
14:08it could be Liv Morgan versus Liv Morgan.
14:11So she must've been playing a lot of Zelda.
14:13It's like fighting mirrored link.
14:14So that's just dumb.
14:15It's just,
14:16it's just a dumb,
14:17stupid thing to do.
14:18I'm the champion,
14:19but I want to be the champion.
14:21Let's just give it a down.
14:22It all gets one big down.
14:24I just don't think it was the way to do it.
14:26But it was our main event,
14:28tribal combat,
14:28Roman Reigns versus Jacob A2,
14:30just because Jacob A2 said these words out loud.
14:33And never forget,
14:34you could do that as well.
14:35I laughed as well,
14:36because the referee held up the Ula Fala,
14:37which made it feel like this was more important than the world champion.
14:40And it was the same old deal they've done before.
14:42They kick each other's ass.
14:43Jacob A2 continues to go for the Tongan death grip.
14:46Although here,
14:46Roman was like,
14:47well,
14:47I know what I'm going to do.
14:48I'm going to hurt your hand.
14:49And then not only will you not be able to write a postcard home after this,
14:53you're probably not going to get the death grip because I'll remove your grip.
14:56That's basically what happened.
14:57Later on,
14:57Jacob A2 tried again.
14:58He was like,
14:59ow,
14:59my hand.
14:59Roman was such a damn healer as well,
15:01because at one point Jacob A2 tries to use a table,
15:03but he basically removed it again.
15:06When Reigns picked up Simba,
15:07the still step and just held it into Jacob A2's face.
15:10He also used a drive-by to totally murk his head and hand into Rita the ring post,
15:14when Jacob just decided,
15:15well,
15:15the one thing that will never actually be wounded is my head,
15:17and hit Roman with around about 49,726 headbutts.
15:21He also stopped Roman Reigns' spear by doing that Tongan death grip.
15:24But yes,
15:25that is when Roman Reigns got the toolbox to again to go after the finger wingers.
15:29And this was just like,
15:30can we please leave the toolbox alone?
15:32It doesn't remind me of anything but the 2019 Hell in a Cell.
15:36And if you know,
15:36you know.
15:37And that's not our fault,
15:38by the way,
15:38WWE.
15:39You ruined it in 2019.
15:40We then got the spear through Barry Barricade,
15:42which could probably argue that WWE has overdone just a little bit recently,
15:46when,
15:46yes,
15:46we got the big spear in the ring,
15:48and Jacob Fatou kicked out.
15:49That's when I knew he wasn't going to be victorious,
15:52because we were giving him big things.
15:53One thing I wouldn't have done is when Jacob realized his hand was screwed,
15:56he did hit the PME,
15:57and Roman Reigns kicked out of that,
15:58and I just kind of thought,
16:00listen,
16:00if he's not going to win the Ula Fala in the world title,
16:03at least protect his finishing move.
16:05It's a classic WWE main event.
16:07They can't help themselves.
16:09He did,
16:09however,
16:10allow Roman Reigns to do his big kick out,
16:12and wham,
16:12Jacob Fatou right in the balls.
16:14So once again,
16:15he is not a good guy.
16:16And while it didn't directly lead into the finish,
16:18you could see it did hurt Jacob's scrotum.
16:20So yeah,
16:21now he's only at 50%.
16:22Because when he went for that last Tonga death grip,
16:23he wasn't able to do it,
16:25and given that Tina the Turnbuckle was exposed,
16:27Roman Reigns did a callback to backclash.
16:29But this time,
16:30he just kept going.
16:31He just kept going.
16:32And he must have done some damage to Jacob Fatou's brain.
16:34He then speared him through the table,
16:36he gave him the super spear,
16:37and he pinned him for the 1-2-3.
16:39And I was like,
16:40well,
16:40I guess that was always going to happen.
16:42But man,
16:42did it make me feel a bit,
16:44I don't know,
16:44down in the dumps.
16:45That's way too extreme.
16:46I just feel like,
16:47we just do it the same old humdrum.
16:49This is what I am going to throw my down in for commentary,
16:51as we bring back the Obafemi stuff.
16:53Because,
16:53oh my gosh,
16:54Michael Cole rinsed Jacob Fatou here.
16:57Like,
16:57man,
16:57what a loser.
16:58Now he's got to be Roman Reigns' lapdog.
17:00Ha ha ha.
17:01He's going to be stuck in the bloodline forever.
17:03I was like,
17:03shouldn't we be trying to put this guy over?
17:06So that gets her down.
17:07When from nowhere,
17:08do you know who was watching on?
17:10And Roman Reigns was like,
17:11man,
17:11we're going to whoop their ass too.
17:12It was the MFTs.
17:14So I looked around and tried to phone DeLorean,
17:16because we've gone back to 2023.
17:18I actually don't mind that at all,
17:19because as far as I'm concerned,
17:20this is a wild guess.
17:22Surely the only reason we are doing that is because,
17:24come WrestleMania 43,
17:25it is going to be Roman Reigns versus The Rock,
17:27because don't forget what Soda Sakawa was doing 18 months ago or so.
17:30He kept hinting Dwayne Johnson,
17:32Dwayne Johnson,
17:33Dwayne Johnson.
17:34And if we do do that,
17:35of course it's going to be massive.
17:36The Rock versus Roman Reigns is a huge match that we absolutely need to do.
17:40But the fact that we have to copy and paste this to get there,
17:44well,
17:44I just think it's going to be a bit trying.
17:46And also it may not be The Rock,
17:48because sometimes we don't see The Rock.
17:49So before we do go any further,
17:50I am going to give the match an up,
17:52because again,
17:52it's just so easy to watch.
17:53It's so much fun.
17:54And everybody just puts so much damn work in.
17:57But I do have one final down,
17:59because everything just kind of feels like it's blurring into one at the moment.
18:02I kind of felt like one of these matches,
18:04we should have done something massive.
18:05And you can say,
18:06but Simon,
18:07Sol Ruka won the IC title,
18:08but she had to.
18:09That's what I am talking about.
18:11She'd been booked so oddly on the main roster,
18:13not doing that would have been crazy.
18:14Which leaves Clash in Italy in such a weird position.
18:17It's a really good show,
18:18and I would tell you to go and watch it,
18:19because you'll have a rollicking good time.
18:21But at the end of it,
18:22I don't want to say you'll feel empty.
18:24That's way too extreme.
18:25But if you are like me,
18:26you'll just be like,
18:27I just needed something more,
18:28because it's wrestling,
18:29and we can do whatever we want.
18:30We have a bunch of creative minds.
18:32So sometimes I just think,
18:34here's my catchphrase again,
18:35you've got to take a risk.
18:36And right now,
18:37in June 2026,
18:39I kind of feel like WWE feels a little bit risk-averse.
18:42Damn.
18:42So it's the status quo,
18:43or by the numbers,
18:44but I'm still going to give Clash in Italy an up overall.
18:47This crowd was so damn great,
18:48and the atmosphere was electric.
18:50And yes,
18:50every single match delivered.
18:52I just don't always think we need to wait for a SummerSlam.
18:54I think you need to feel it in your Tootsie Toes.
18:57And right now,
18:57I'm feeling we do need something new.
18:59Instead,
19:00we're going to get Jacobin 2
19:02being absolutely waffled by Roman Reigns.
19:04Actually,
19:05it's probably going to be quite funny.
19:06Now,
19:06my friends,
19:07please do drop me a comment below,
19:08and let me know what you thought about Clash in Italy,
19:10because there's loads of opinions going around.
19:11Like the video,
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19:15And of course,
19:16one last thanks to Surfshack.
19:17Otherwise,
19:18have a terrific week.
19:19See you soon.
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