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00:49Can he do it?
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03:40Tonight's episode, thank you for joining.
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04:00Tonight's episode, we are diving into all things WWE, Friday Night Smackdown.
04:04This is the pre-Halloween Havoc episode, so to speak.
04:08The Dan Housen, very nice, very evil Smackdown.
04:12And look, right from the get-go, even the introduction by Dan Housen, I really enjoyed this.
04:17Very cinematic, very interesting.
04:19Recapped what you were going to see on the show.
04:21I actually thought that they didn't need to do the walkout that they normally do with Michael Cole
04:25to introduce everybody walking into the building if you were going to have the Dan Housen opening.
04:29But whatever.
04:30It was a nice little layer to add to the show.
04:32And I've got to be honest, before we go into every single thing that happened on the show,
04:34they really stacked this card up in terms of, you know, different segments, vignettes, matches, all that stuff.
04:40Now, there weren't quite as many matches as I probably would have liked,
04:42and certainly weren't a whole lot of consequential matches in terms of...
04:46There was two championship matches, I get that.
04:47But there was not a lot of other stuff.
04:51Actually, there was three championships.
04:52I'm going to take back everything I just said.
04:53When you have three championships on one show...
04:56We'll get into each thing as we go through it.
04:58But there's one thing I felt like was a glaring omission, a miss.
05:01And we'll get into that as we go.
05:03So, the first actual segment is Cody Rhodes coming out to open the show.
05:06He's talking about the last man standing match.
05:08And it's much the same stuff we've heard every week for the last several weeks.
05:11They keep focused...
05:12You know, their whole focus is on the punt kick.
05:14I don't know why.
05:15It's one thing.
05:16And let's be honest.
05:17Randy Orton used that for years and years and years.
05:20It wasn't the be-all, end-all then.
05:21It's not the be-all, end-all now.
05:22Why we're making it seem that way is absolutely ridiculous to me.
05:25However, the one little nugget that came out of Cody's promo that really stuck with me,
05:30he said, whoever comes out of this match will probably be the number one contender.
05:35That right there is why, for the first time, I have my prediction for this match.
05:39And if I'm being completely honest, it's not what I would have said a couple weeks ago.
05:42The question has been all along, will Cody Rhodes punt Randy Orton?
05:46I think he will.
05:47But I don't think he's going to win anymore.
05:49I actually think Randy Orton is going to win this match.
05:52Because I think Randy Orton is going to be the one who will dethrone Sammy Zane for that WWE Championship
05:57and get number 15.
05:58They've talked about it so much, they have to do it at some point.
06:02And I don't think there's a better setup time than right now.
06:05If Cody makes this statement, the winner gets number one contendership,
06:09and we can all agree we need to keep Cody out of the World Championship picture for this short term,
06:15then I think this is a great opportunity to get Randy in there,
06:18which makes me lean towards Randy winning the match.
06:20From there, we do get a recap of everything that went down on Raw with Chelsea Green coming out to
06:25save
06:28at the end of the Becky Lynch-Live Morgan match, I guess I should say.
06:31It's not really saving much.
06:32I mean, she came out because they were going to beat down Becky.
06:35They cost Becky the championship win.
06:37Then they recap all of it, everything from Becky Lynch, Io Sky, Tiffany Stratton coming out,
06:46teasing the cash-in, all of that stuff, all to lead into a backstage segment with Tiffany Stratton and Chelsea
06:53Green
06:53talking about her plans to cash-in on Liv when she's by herself, which to me is a really ridiculous
06:59line.
07:00Remember what I said earlier, there's certain things that I'm just going to complain about here and there.
07:03The show overall, not terrible, but certain things.
07:06You can't make a statement like that.
07:08I'm going to get Liv when she's by herself.
07:10Liv is never by herself.
07:12We all know this.
07:14Judgment Day has had multiple people in pretty much every single match for three years.
07:19That's never going to happen.
07:21So to make a statement like that makes her look really uneducated about what's been going on with Judgment Day
07:26for quite a long time.
07:27So I didn't love that line, but otherwise, it still makes it seem like that's going to be the direction
07:32they go.
07:32I don't know that they will.
07:33I actually wouldn't mind seeing that.
07:35I really wouldn't.
07:35I'd love to see a Tiff versus Liv match.
07:38I think that would be fantastic.
07:40But right now, they're going to move in a different direction.
07:43We've got Nikki Bella taking on Chelsea Green for the WWE Women's Championship.
07:47And the match itself, wow, wow, wow.
07:50We'll get into that in just a second.
07:51Before the match starts, they do have a promo where Zaria from NXT is at ringside with her Women's North
07:57American Championship.
07:57She'll be facing Izzy Dame at Halloween Havoc.
08:00I love that they cut that promo and put that in there.
08:02I think that's important because it keeps people thinking about, you know, other brands and their developmental territories and whatnot.
08:09When we get into the match itself, let's just go through the things that drove me crazy.
08:15There was a moment where Nikki Bella goes up on the second turnbuckle and she hits a kick to the
08:19face.
08:19It was clunky.
08:21It didn't look like she hit her in the face.
08:22It looked like she hit her in the chest because she couldn't get enough height on it.
08:26Right after that, you had Chelsea Green hit a Rough Rider.
08:29That was picture perfect.
08:30After that, we get a fearless lock.
08:33And it looked like her arm was bent in a manner that she wasn't putting any pressure on Chelsea at
08:37all.
08:38I understand.
08:39Look, I'm not trying to be mean to Nikki Bella, but when you put these moves on, you gotta make
08:43them look believable.
08:45This looked like something I would see at a much lower budget show.
08:48This was not the best work.
08:50And, you know, when there's people out there like Gunther, like Finn Balor, like Sami Zayn,
08:55people who are always trying to give it 1,000%, to see moves that aren't believable is really difficult.
09:01And again, I have nothing but appreciation for everything Nikki Bella's done in her career.
09:05I just think she really needs to work on making her moves more believable at this point.
09:12We do end up getting the win is a simple roll-up at the end of the match.
09:16Chelsea Green retains the championship.
09:17Liv Morgan is going to come out after the match.
09:20And actually cut a really interesting promo where she talks about how their journeys in WWE have been very similar
09:25in that they both were, you know, underestimated.
09:28They weren't appreciated and whatnot.
09:30She does say there's a distinction between the two of them.
09:33She's a real champion and Chelsea is a joke.
09:36The line that really kind of, I understand sometimes you have to tie in some real life here,
09:41but I think it's sometimes inappropriate when she said that it wasn't,
09:44when you get fired for the third time, why are you bringing up her past releases from the company?
09:51I feel like that's ignorant, not just to her, but to anybody who's been released from their contract.
09:56It's really messed up.
09:57She wasn't fired.
09:57Cost-cutting releases are not a firing.
10:00Yes, you lose your job.
10:01It is just what it says, though.
10:02It's a cost-cutting measure.
10:03It hits differently when you say it that way.
10:06After that, Judgment Day starts, Tiffany Stratton starts to make her way to the ring.
10:10Judgment Day attack her.
10:12When she is distracted, Tiffany is distracted, or I apologize, Tiffany is running out.
10:18Liv is distracted, and it leads to Chelsea Green hitting the unprettier.
10:22From there, Tiffany Stratton fights off.
10:25Roxanne and Raquel hits the ring, hits the prettiest moonsault ever,
10:28decides whether she's going to cash in, gets the referee in the ring.
10:31This takes a very long time.
10:32As a matter of fact, Corey Graves called it out on commentary that she took her time with the cash
10:37-in.
10:37So naturally, what happens, like, happens in everything associated with Judgment Day.
10:41Here comes the beatdown from Raquel and Roxanne.
10:45From that, I really had a problem with something Michael Cole said.
10:49He said that Tiffany Stratton didn't expect an ambush by Judgment Day.
10:53Is she brain dead?
10:55Because unless you're brain dead, you expect an ambush every time anybody who's a member of the Judgment Day is
10:59on the screen.
11:01It's just horrible writing.
11:03Don't say it.
11:05There's so many other things you could have said.
11:06You could have said, you know, she had to have thought that she had laid them out better,
11:10or they were still unconscious, or something.
11:13You don't say you don't expect an ambush, since that's their MO.
11:16That's every match they have.
11:18So, kind of a silly statement.
11:20EO Sky does come out to make the save.
11:22It's obvious this is heading towards a six-man tag team match on one of the brands.
11:25I don't know which one.
11:26And I'm fine with that.
11:27I guess it strings things along and drags things out.
11:32I'm starting to believe that Chelsea Green may actually win the Crown Jewel Championship.
11:36If she doesn't, and it's because of Judgment Day interference, I'm really going to start getting frustrated with WWE.
11:41And it's like, well, what do you do?
11:42Do you stop watching the show because you're irritated with how stupid their booking is?
11:46And look, I know they don't listen to my show.
11:48You do because you're awesome.
11:49They do not.
11:50They are idiots.
11:51Because they should listen to shows just like this, where we're being very honest with them.
11:55Stop with the obvious stuff, and stop with the repetitive nonsense.
12:00Give us something thoughtful, innovative.
12:02All week, we've been talking about changes to WWE's creative structure and who's going to be in charge of what.
12:07It doesn't matter if you're grooming the next person to be just like the old person,
12:11who all they were doing was coming up with the same boring storylines that haven't worked in years.
12:16Just saying.
12:17From there, there is a conversation in the back with Sami Zayn.
12:21He's preparing for his match later in the evening with Trick Williams defending WWE Championship.
12:26He's looking for recognition.
12:27He's not going to wait 20 years to get it.
12:29He wants to get it now for being one of the all-time greats.
12:32I like his passion.
12:33I like his fire.
12:34If you get a chance, check out the Chris Van Vliet interview with Sami Zayn.
12:36Very poignant stuff.
12:38Great retrospective on his career.
12:40Then we get another backstage segment.
12:42Blake Monroe.
12:43She's talking to Kathy Kelly and she gets interrupted by Paige.
12:48At first, Blake Monroe is very complimentary of her.
12:53Talks about how she's such a huge fan of hers a decade ago.
12:57Paige tells her not to get too big for her britches because she's only won one match.
13:02It goes some back and forth banter.
13:03Paige telling her to watch her mouth.
13:05It's obvious this is the direction they're heading.
13:08Here's the thing.
13:08I love and hate this.
13:10I love it because it's a match I can't wait to see, but I hate it because I still want
13:13to get back to that Paige, AJ Lee versus the Bellas thing at some point.
13:16I don't see how we get there if you start this feud and run this for several months.
13:20Think about how much money they're paying AJ Lee right now to sit at home and do nothing.
13:24All because they're waiting for one specific storyline.
13:26By now, you've got to come up with something different.
13:28Get her back to TV.
13:28She's too much of a draw and right now you're not drawing anything when she's not on the
13:31show.
13:33And I believe they said when she signed it, it was like a three-year deal.
13:36If that's the case, then where is she?
13:37Get her out there.
13:38We need her on the show because some of these shows can be problematic.
13:42Anyways, back to what we're doing.
13:44I do love that they had a commercial for Heroes and Immortality or a shout out and the advertisement
13:50in the corner promoting AAA on SmackDown.
13:53Great idea, which of course leads into the Ricky Saints versus Ray Phoenix AAA Cruiserweight
13:59Championship match.
14:00I love that Ray Phoenix is defending this title on all the different brands.
14:03I love that AAA is getting all that conversation.
14:05I don't know why we're doing a second Ricky Saints match just for Ricky Saints to lose again,
14:09which is exactly what happens.
14:11We hit a Mexican muscle buster for the win.
14:12Ray Phoenix retains.
14:14Ricky Saints has been made to look very weak since coming to the main roster.
14:17And if that's by design, then I guess so be it.
14:20If his age is a factor and why they don't want to push him, maybe I understand that.
14:24But I don't love that he never really gets any kind of winning streak going whatsoever.
14:29How are we ever supposed to think of him as a credible opponent for anybody if he never
14:32wins anything?
14:33And Ray Phoenix, they mentioned how long he's had the AAA Cruiserweight Championship.
14:36I love Ray Phoenix and I don't want him to lose the belt.
14:38Just don't put the belt on the line.
14:39So Ricky Saints can win something.
14:42That's where my head is at.
14:43You know, you got to give the guy some wins at some point.
14:45The match is great.
14:46It's probably match of the night.
14:47It's either that or the Sami Zayn trick match.
14:50But like, it's just, it really, it's becoming one of these things where it feels like Ray
14:56Phoenix is brought to every single show to have the best match.
14:59It's either him or Dragon Lee on Raw.
15:01They have the best match.
15:02They're probably not getting paid anywhere near what some of these other people are.
15:05And people would argue that those people are the draw.
15:06But they're drawing what?
15:08Drawing interview time?
15:09I want to see wrestling.
15:10These guys are the ones wrestling.
15:12You know, the Ray Phoenixes, the Dragon Lees, you know, oddly, all the Luchadors, the Pentas,
15:18the Chad Gables.
15:20I don't know if you saw, there was a video online of Chad Gable cleanly defeating CM Punk
15:25at a house show.
15:26Like, absolute clean victory.
15:28That's awesome.
15:29That was that.
15:30And we mentioned earlier that that match was taking place.
15:32I suspect maybe it'll be a WWE exclusive if they're trying to push Gable later.
15:37But we had mentioned that show on the 29th was coming and there was going to be that
15:40first time ever Raw versus SmackDown match between Punk and Gable.
15:43Chad Gable won the match.
15:45Anyways, back to SmackDown.
15:47From there, we get Jade Cargill and the baddies in the back.
15:50I got to tell you, the one that really blew my mind was B-Fab.
15:53Her promo skills here were on point.
15:55This was her best speaking moment in her entire career and really made her sound believable.
16:01They get interrupted by Fatal Influence.
16:03Talk about how they must have taken a page out of their playbook.
16:05Look, obviously, this is headed towards something at some point.
16:08But who's going to be the babyfaces in that feud?
16:10Who's going to be the heels?
16:11I don't know.
16:12I don't know if you...
16:12I don't think you could turn Jade and the baddies, hence the name baddies.
16:16But I really don't feel Fatal Influence going babyface either.
16:19Are we going to do a heel-on-heel feud?
16:21I'm okay with that.
16:22But it does add a layer of intrigue when we don't have a clear-cut babyface.
16:27We get Trick and Yachty in the back.
16:29They talk about how Trick has already beaten Sami Zayn twice.
16:33Which, whenever you start saying stuff like that,
16:35I feel like that's a guarantee that you're going to lose.
16:38He talks about how having that championship doesn't make you any different.
16:40You put a wig on a pig, you're still a pig in a wig.
16:43Which I thought was a hilarious line.
16:45What I really found interesting, though, is he made a comment about if he...
16:48When he beats Sami, he could go to Crown Jewel, or he could go to Raw.
16:52I think he actually said Raw.
16:53Where you could see two real action figures.
16:55He and Roman Reigns.
16:57And I thought, I have never once thought to myself,
17:00like, I really can't wait to see Roman Reigns versus Trick Williams.
17:03In that immediate moment, I finally felt it.
17:07I want to see Trick Williams versus Roman Reigns for the WWE and World Heavyweight Championship at some point.
17:13That would be awesome.
17:14That is a mania moment that I never thought I needed.
17:17And it turns out, I actually kind of do.
17:19There is a Dan Housen segment in the back where Yachty walks in on his, you know,
17:24top secret lounge and gets scared away by some crazy looking thing he had in there.
17:29Leading up to Tatum Paxley taking on Jade Cargill.
17:33We have Alexa Bliss at ringside.
17:34The baddies at ringside.
17:35The match is okay, I suppose.
17:37Here's what I take from it.
17:38Jade Cargill all this time in is still very green.
17:41Tatum Paxley was the star of the match.
17:44She is really, really solid.
17:46Her ring work is getting so much better.
17:48I don't know if that's from being around certain people or if it's in the way they're booking her,
17:52but she looked great in this match.
17:54Now, of course, you have outside interference the whole time.
17:56Alexa Bliss getting involved.
17:58The rest of the baddies getting involved.
18:00It leads to one of those moments where everybody's hitting everybody outside the ring.
18:04And then when Tatum Paxley goes back in the ring, she eats a pump kick to the face
18:07and then gets jaded and pinned.
18:09But it was believable because I don't think anybody should be beating Jade other than Charlotte in this feud.
18:15And I guess that's what we're working towards later.
18:17We get a Damien Priest vignette in the back where he's talking about how different he is.
18:22And basically, you know, he wasted his time.
18:25Now he's looking at Trick Williams.
18:27And I find that very interesting.
18:29That was a match that was on that other mystery card that we talked about earlier in the week.
18:33And obviously, that's the direction they're heading.
18:35Please keep that in mind when we get to the main event because that's one of the biggest misses of
18:39this show.
18:40Has to do with Damien Priest.
18:41He is interrupted by Fraxium, who obviously they're going to challenge him to a match.
18:45It looks like Fraxium has some dissension over that after Priest walks off stage.
18:48Priest says he did what he did to R-Truth and he likes him.
18:51Think about what he'll do to these two.
18:52And I thought that was a really important line.
18:54It delineates a difference between Damien Priest's character that he has to do for his wrestling aspirations
18:59and the way he feels about people separately.
19:02I thought that was really, really a deep layer to his character.
19:05He's doing this for him.
19:06And it's not about the fans.
19:08It's not about his friendships.
19:09It's because he needs this for his career.
19:11But he still likes R-Truth.
19:13That's crazy.
19:14And I like that.
19:15I really enjoyed that part.
19:17From there, Dan Housen.
19:18It's finally the big reveal of what he has brought out of his crazy, you know, top secret thing.
19:25He gets out to the stage and he gets attacked by Gunther.
19:28And Gunther ends up putting him through a table.
19:30And Gunther goes to the ring.
19:32And the cloning machine goes crazy.
19:34And when the door pops off, here come the Minnie Housens.
19:36And they attack Gunther.
19:37And he's kind of laying them all out until we get to the one that used to be El Torito.
19:40I don't know what his name would be for this.
19:41But he hits a few moves on him.
19:44It looks pretty solid.
19:45And then he ends up getting the better of them.
19:47And he ends up setting up a table.
19:48And he puts, I believe it's the El Torito one, on the table.
19:52Powerbombs another one through him through the table.
19:55Looks like he's going to do the same.
19:56He takes the other table, sets it up in the corner like he's going to, you know, take out another.
20:00He has Dan Housen, actually, is in the corner.
20:02He's going to take out Dan Housen.
20:03And as he grabs Dan Housen and puts him in the sleeper, Dan Housen hit a couple chops or whatever,
20:08puts him in the sleeper, Dan Housen shouts out, you are cursed.
20:12And when he curses him, the lights go red and the music starts and the place goes absolutely ballistic because
20:19we are going to see the emergence of the demon Finn Balor.
20:24Finn Balor gets off the table.
20:25He sits up like the Undertaker, crawls to the ring.
20:28The place is going ballistic for him.
20:30He gets in the ring.
20:31At first, Gunther is kind of selling it as being afraid.
20:35That quickly code switches to anger.
20:37They get physical.
20:38Balor gets the better of him.
20:40He ends up hitting a chop on Balor, which has no effect at all.
20:43At one point, he takes his belt off and whips him with the belt.
20:45And again, it has no effect at all.
20:47Kudos to Finn Balor for selling that without flinching.
20:50He ends up, you know, hitting his typical moves.
20:52The drop kick to the face, putting him through the table outside the ring.
20:55He pulls out a ladder.
20:58He slams the ladder into him, putting him onto the announce table.
21:02Sets up the ladder and hits the coup de grace off the top of the ladder through the table onto
21:07Gunther.
21:08It is obvious this is a match we all can't wait to see.
21:11This was as perfect as, again, at the end.
21:14We get a nice little Dan Housen pose with the demon Finn Balor.
21:19I thought it was absolutely phenomenal.
21:21Great segment.
21:23Balor, the only thing I didn't like about Balor's presentation is I wish he had the headgear on.
21:27That crazy, like, dreadlock-looking headgear.
21:29This was just his normal buzz-down hair.
21:31And I just thought that would have added a layer of, like, really, it just looks so much more incredible
21:36with that headgear on.
21:38Whatever.
21:38It is what it is.
21:39It's still an amazing segment.
21:41Then they get into the conversation.
21:43The Barclays Center.
21:44Next week, New York City.
21:45The CM Punk, Kevin Owens.
21:47They do a recap of everything that's happened with them before they finally announce that next week's match has been
21:52made.
21:52A no-holds-barred match.
21:53I don't know why we're using that match type for this.
21:59I'm also wondering why we're not seeing this in Saudi Arabia, if we're being honest.
22:03Because there's a report that came out this week that nobody has refused to go.
22:06Somebody else claimed that Kevin Owens refused to go.
22:08Then we have a different report that says nobody refused to go.
22:10But then we're putting a match like this on free television.
22:13That does not make a lot of sense to me.
22:15At all, really, if we're being completely honest.
22:17So, I don't know why they would do this.
22:19I don't love this.
22:20I love it for SmackDown.
22:21I just don't like it for the pay-per-view.
22:23Before the main event, we do get NXT champion Grayson Waller in the stands.
22:27Again, promoting their tertiary brands, which is really important.
22:31When they get all that done, we do have the match.
22:34Trick comes out with Lil Yachty.
22:35Sami Zayn is out.
22:37He has Candice LeRae and Johnny Gargano with him as they all come to the ring.
22:42This match, I'll be honest with you.
22:44Like I said earlier, it's either the Rey Fenix match or this were match of the night.
22:48This was great.
22:49Tons of near falls.
22:51And because of the way they set things up, I really thought that we may have seen a new champion.
22:58I shouldn't say that.
22:59I knew we were going to get a real champion because there's no better storyline than Sami and Roman at
23:02Saudi Arabia.
23:03But I actually wanted to believe that.
23:05I really wanted to believe that.
23:07A lot of near falls.
23:08It ends up at the end when Trick Williams ends up hitting the trick shot.
23:13He's going for the pin.
23:14Johnny Gargano pulls the referee out of the ring.
23:16By the way, Lil Yachty had taken Gargano out only a few minutes earlier, but Gargano pulls the referee out,
23:21causes the disqualification.
23:22The fans are losing their mind because Sami retains the title in shady business.
23:28Nick Aldis comes out and says, no, we're not ending the show that way.
23:31You three are banned from ring size.
23:32Yachty, Gargano, and LeRae.
23:34And we're restarting the match in a no disqualification match.
23:37And as that happens, Trick Williams is in the back.
23:39Yachty had dropped him the trick stick.
23:41And he crowns Sami Zayn over the head with the trick stick.
23:44And I actually was like, oh my god, are they going to do this?
23:47One, two, kick out by Sami Zayn.
23:49We get a lot of back and forth.
23:50And here's where I get a frustration, right?
23:53I'm okay with Sami retaining the championship.
23:56What I am not okay with is the same repetitive methodology.
24:00In the last six months, every match where a heel champion wins, with the exception of
24:05Roman Reigns, has been something like either a foot on the bottom rope situation or a low
24:11blow.
24:11This is another low blow.
24:13And then he hits him in the head with the championship belt and pins him to win.
24:16It's so ridiculous.
24:18You can't come up with something better.
24:21You can't.
24:21And I'm not talking about revolutionary stuff here.
24:24Basic 1980s mentality about how to book a heel to win.
24:28And Ric Flair did not hit low blows in every match.
24:32He picked up wins.
24:33Roman right now is not hitting low blows or feets on the bottom rope in every match.
24:39He's picking up wins.
24:40Now, some of them there are, let's be honest.
24:41But I'm just saying, like, it's kind of ridiculous that we can't come up with something better
24:45than low blows and feet on the bottom rope.
24:47It's too much.
24:49It's just too much.
24:51Come up with something original.
24:52Because this was a great match that got spoiled by the low blow finish.
24:56That's just my opinion.
24:57Now, again, most episodes I talk about, like, a scale of one to five stars.
25:01This show, there was a lot of great stuff on here.
25:04I liked the match.
25:05All the matches were pretty solid.
25:07I think Jade needs to work on some work.
25:08And Nikki was a little clunky.
25:09But beyond that, the matches were pretty solid.
25:12Ricky Saints is a great performer, even if he's not getting wins.
25:15So the matches were good.
25:17The storylines were solid.
25:18But to what I said earlier, the thing I feel like they missed the most in that world championship
25:22match, the minute you made it a no disqualification, it should not have been a low blow.
25:25I said they should have gotten something more creative.
25:27You set up the finish earlier in the night.
25:30The finish should have been, you three are barred from ringside.
25:34This is a no disqualification match.
25:37And when Trick has Sammy set up for the loss, because you said it earlier in the evening,
25:44Damian Priest should have come out and cost Trick Williams the match.
25:47He should have hit the ring, hit him in the head from behind when he was standing.
25:50He was leaning against the ropes, holding the WWE championship belt, Trick was.
25:54Damian Priest should have come out and clubbed him from behind, climb into the ring, hit
25:57South of Heaven, and then Sammy picks up the win.
25:59If you really wanted to put it over the top, you have him hit South of Heaven, and then
26:03you could have him stand Trick in the corner and hold his arms back while Sammy hits the
26:07Huluva kick.
26:08Like, we didn't even get to see a Huluva kick, really.
26:10Not to finish the match.
26:11So, like, that would have been a better ending.
26:13Because you instantly get Trick away from Sammy completely, with no question about it.
26:19You kick off that feud, you can still do the stupid Fraxium match, which means nothing
26:23to me.
26:23That's like Big Cass facing a B-level luchador.
26:26You still could have done all that, but you could have started this United States Championship
26:31feud in a powerful way.
26:33And we didn't do that.
26:34It's kind of ridiculous.
26:36So, missed opportunity after missed opportunity.
26:38I'm giving the show three stars, because that's not fair.
26:41The matches were great.
26:42Three and a half.
26:42I'll go three and a half stars, but man, missed opportunities when we really need, they could
26:47have hit an absolute home run out of the park if Damian Priest would have come out at the
26:51end.
26:51That is what I'm saying.
26:52That's my opinion.
26:53I'm sticking to it.
26:54That's all the time we have for this episode.
26:56Do me a favor.
26:56Give me your comments about the show in the comments down below.
26:58I would love to see what your thoughts are.
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