Penta advances, Solo Sikoa ABDUCTED! | Raw Recap

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2:04We will get there. It is insane. What is going on on this show right now? What is going on on Monday night Raw? Every week we come in thinking we're going to get something, and we get something completely different. I will say this, even though it was not in the cards, the only thing we knew going into Monday night Raw was that Penta was going to have something to say. Yes, of course, after last week, he has a lot to say. It grew into so much more than that. Another two weeks in a row now. Incredibly important note worthy, earmarked episode of Monday Night Raw for Penta. Penta starts out tonight's Monday Night Raw in San Antonio by saying, hey, I respect Roman Reigns. Last week was one of the greatest nights of my life after the match that I had with Roman Reigns. And I'm sure a lot of that had to do with the feedback that so many fans had on that match.

3:05And the way that it felt not only like Penta had outperformed already high expectations, but the amount of people that left go, me and Penta, that should have been Penta's night. A lot of people. And I mean, there's a lot of wrestling on television these days. And Penta occupied the conversation for an entire week. And he's ready to occupy a lot more because he goes now and says, I'm not done. We will meet. I respect Roman Reigns. He says, but we will meet again because I will be the world heavyweight champion. And he said, this is only the beginning. That's right of this battle. And now I think I think that's the big difference after last week is that when Penta steps forward and says, I'm going to be the world heavyweight champion. Like before last week, it would have been like, man, that would be cool one day. What's good to have big goals? I mean, when Penta came into the studio not that long ago, a few months ago,

4:06I think that was before he became the intercontinental champion. He told us that that's why he came to WWE, right? To win world championships. And we had that reaction of that's great. That'd be cool. It'd be really cool one day. Right. Well, guess what? That date could be tomorrow. That day could be when he cashes in a money in the bank briefcase. Yeah. That date could be anytime after what we saw in Mexico City with Roman Reigns. And I think that that was the feeling going in that the question was, will Penta be in a different spot? Will Penta be elevated after that match? And I don't think there was any question after the reception that he got on Monday Night Raw to start the show. He gets interrupted by Dominic Mysterio and JD McDonough. Who by the way, I mean, listen, you go, well, of court, you just said it. When I said it was advertised that Penta was going to have something to say on Monday Night Raw, you said, of course, you got something to say after what happened. Why wouldn't JD McDonough and Dominic Mysterio have something to say after what happened last week on Monday Night Raw? JD McDonough and Dominic Mysterio went into Mexico City

5:12and they stood above absolute legends. JD McDonough, Dominic Mysterio and Liv Morgan stood over El Grande Americano Ray Mysterio, that deadbeat and Stephanie Vicar. And you were a lot of people would say that deadbeat and El Grande Americano and Stephanie Vicar are, you know, arguably just as big as the OTC in Latin America. Well, you have two out of three champions laid out on the ground. And these three are standing above them and you didn't say, well, of course, Dominic Mysterio and JD McDonough, and if something that's after last week, why do you know why not? I mean, they always have something to say is I just don't think that the people are clamoring to hear it all the time. Why is that? Why are we, why are only some get to clam be clamored for? Because it usually has to do with a lot of complaining, you know? Oh, I know. I do this show. I know all about complaining. But I think that they have,

6:12they have, they have just as much right to get a little mic time to do a little gloting. Why not take a victory lap after what they went through? And that's what they did. They came to the ring going like, all right, like enough of this goal setting. And I must have missed the time that Dominic Mysterio and or JD McDonough had a main event match on Monday night or all with Roman Reigns. I must have missed that. Well, I didn't have that specific. I didn't know that it was reserved for that specific match. Okay. But while Pente was vision boarding, Dominic Mysterio and JD McDonough were like, Hey, we'd like to have a moment to at least remind the audience how well we did last week in Mexico City. Now, unfortunately, you know, a lot of times you had a question, well, who's going to come out and help Penta? It didn't really see anybody. He took out both in that moment. I think he caught him off guard a little bit. He took out downing Mysterio and JD McDonough. But who would have thought that due to a series of somewhat say unfortunate events that somehow

7:12we start Monday night Raw with Penta saying one day I will be back in contention for the world heavyweight championship. And we somehow and Monday night Raw with Penta qualifying for the money in the bank ladder match. And by the way, completely turning that ladder match on its head because I've got to believe that as much as, you know, historically you want that money in the bank ladder match to be, Oh, who the absolute surprise, the guy that would never win it without the briefcase, the tool that elevates the superstar now with the amount of people that were like, man, I now that I've seen it, I want Penta to have it. I think Penta is walking into that ladder match. And it's a ladder match. It's Penta's specialty. I think Penta now all of a sudden walks into that ladder match. An absolute favorite. I mean, did you remember the ladder match at WrestleMania, right? Of course. People were talking about that forever. Of course I do.

8:16And Penta is a different superstar right now than he was at WrestleMania. Even at WrestleMania. That's a hundred percent right. And he said many, many ladder match before. Look, he's going to be in there with five other people. And we break our trick Williams. Javon. On Evans. You know, I mean, they got a qualifying match on Smackdown between Gunther, C.M. punk and Fin Baller like this. This is one of those years for the money in the bank ladder match that every time somebody wins a qualifier, we start going like, I don't know. I think they might be the favorite. But Penta, I don't recall somebody going in with this kind of momentum in the past. Like I think that that's what can't be understated, especially because you go, okay, he gave us this incredible match last week. What's he going to do this week? And we end up with an incredible triple threat match. Now the only reason he was in this match was because as we said, solos, Dakota is scheduled for this match. And honestly, I thought solos, Dakota was going to win the triple

9:19thread. I thought solos, Dakota was going to win the briefcase solos, Dakota was my money in the bank briefcase pick mine too, pew pew. Well, pew pew is right. Nine four six shows up. And they bruised the face of solos, Dakota. They beat him down. They shove him in the back of a car. And they drive off with him. And this was after solos earlier in the night was trying to meet with the bloodline to come up with a plan to come back. I got. We got to go through that whole scenario. And we will. But this was solo and you was in his gear. He was ready to go after that money in the bank ladder match and boom, the nine four six got him. And I don't know that there's ever been a group like the nine four six that just waits for those moments to seize them. I mean, the nine four six hasn't wrestled a match as a group, but they've let they've let a car on fire. They've let a car on fire. And anytime you're at Monday night raw or anywhere really, it's a nine four six. You don't have to be at raw. Gotta be on the lookout. Nobody's safe.

10:21And they weren't kidding. There is this thing that looms over Monday night raw going, who are they going after this week and what are they going to do? You know what I mean? And that's even as a viewer, as a watcher, you're sitting there going with something's going to happen here. Or could sometimes it doesn't last week. Oh, were I here? Yeah, but I still felt unsettled. Right. When I watched the video, they're like, oh, you guys thought that we would show up this week? Well, that's the other thing. Well, we're not. And then that made me feel like, oh, the nine four six is even more dangerous because they're not here. So wherever they are, what are they doing? And the videos themselves, like they're not shot like videos that you see on a wrestling TV show. You know what I mean? They're shot on cell phones. They're shot like there's this whole other sort of motivation going on over there that we still haven't been made crystal clear on we still haven't been made clear as to why Roy's keys truly decided to make

11:23this move. But dominating Mysterio sees all this is going on. This might have been my favorite part of Monday night rock. Well, you go to what that was one of the triple threat guys. That mean I just went automatically. Like why was dumb even there? It had nothing really to do with them. It was waiting to go out. It was business. Adam Pierce clearly is in distress because not only does he have to take care of the chaos that was caused by the nine four six. And the fact that Solos Akow was kidnapped, but he also has to worry about this match. And then he is Dominic Mysterio just asking Adam Pierce to hand him a dub. I think it's pretty smart. First of all, I think if you think Dominic Mysterio is showing up for a money in the bank qualifier and calling, uh, uh, hey, well, before I ask, I better make sure that Adam Pierce's schedule is free. That's not Dominic Mysterio's responsibility. Dominic is there to look out for Dominic because you know who else is? Well, everybody in the judgment day, but other than that, nobody. Okay. So he goes up and he goes, maybe all this chaos is going on. I could offer a solution, right? I'll win. Maybe I'll go

12:25offer a solution. Why don't I just win? And then that way it won't be on your plate anymore. Here Pierce, let me make this a whole lot easier. That's right. I'll just take the dog. I'll advance to the money in the bank ladder, Matt. Yeah. No worries. You could even give me the break case right now. No problem. We could do that too. But you know, let's just make me automatically win. You know, a lot of other superstars that are really focused on, you know, winning championships in WWE. They're really focused on like their match and their business, right? Yeah. But Dominic's over there lingering around. He's worried. What was he talking about? What do you mean lingering around? They were right by the entryway. That's where they got solo secoah. Was it a lingering around it? He was literally worried about his business. Yeah, maybe she worried about like his entrance. That was about to happen. There was no match. He was solo secoah was taken out. What does Dominic want to do? Go in there and go like, well, sure. I just felt like to use a word that you often use on this show. It seemed a little bit weaselly of Dominic the seretic to that. I'm just saying it felt like he was being a little bit of a weasel. That's called to get destiny into your own hands. No, I thought he was trying to

13:27weasel a win out of Adam Pierce. Wrestling is not a team sport unless your team is the judgment day. But it's not a team sport. It just seemed a little weaselly to me. That's all just a little you're coming across a passive aggressive. I don't even think you believe that. I think you're just trying to get you're trying to take a shot at me. I mean, the bloodline and they seem very distressed. I mean, in the use of since all of secoah, they certainly have their issues. Jacob and solace of co they've had their issues as well. But like this is a family member who was just kidnapped. Here's Dom was not in the bloodline last time I checked. He's just trying to weasel opportunities. He's trying to gain opportunities because he's there for his match. If anything, the bloodline didn't have real business there at the end of LA nights there. He lost a friend, you know, everybody there lost something. It's dominant. It should have been a whole to gain. LA night had no business there. He's like, hey, what happened to solo? He drove away. This friend. This friend. Well, we'll get there because Dominic did not get his wish. Dominic instead was told to go to the ring and his music played and he did and dragon Lee came out.

14:28And then somehow Adam Pierce, his schedule did free up. A minute ago, he was too busy to even deal with anything. But now his schedule did free up and he said, I promised you a triple threat. We're going to have a triple threat. Here comes Penta. And Penta is now in this match and the minute Penta comes out. It's like, oh my God. This is what it's all about. It was that moment when you go, oh, wow, Ross started this way with Dom and Penta. And now they're in the main event. Right. What a bookend to this thing. And we watch and we watch this. And you can't take anything away from dragon Lee either. This becomes a massive opportunity for dragon Lee. When he hit that style's clash. I mean, all over the match. It was like, it was like, it was such an incredible triple threat match from top to bottom. All three of those guys, the amount of time it went on for the amount of athleticism that was in that match was insane. All three people. And I know you don't like Dominic Mysterio for whatever reason, but Dominic Mysterio was incredible in this match as was dragon Lee as was Penta. There was a moment right in the match

15:33after Penta hit the Mexican destroyer on the apron. Right. Where I'm thinking of myself similarly to what I thought last week during the main event with Roman Reigns and Penta. How does this match end and Dominic Mysterio hit the 619 and I said, oh, Megan, it ends 619 frog splash. But Penta kicked out. It hits the frog splash and Penta kicks out and there was that that's the beauty of this match, right? Because you could go into this match thinking, oh, well, Penta is the hero. Penta had the Roman Reigns match last week. Like we've been wanting Penta to get another opportunity immediately. Penta obviously wins this match, but throughout points in this match, you're like, oh my God, dragon Lee's got a dragon's got a dragon's got it. No. And in that moment, oh my God, Dominic's got it. Dominic's got it. He's going to take advantage because they were they were completely utilizing those triple threat rules when they're like, okay, I'm going to grab this opportunity. Like you can't when a triple threat match is done at its best. You wouldn't

16:36really compare it to a one on one because there are just so many different opportunities and outcomes. So you're right. After that Mexican destroyer on the apron, Dominic hits the frog splash, Penta kicks out. Dominic gets frustrated. He rips the turnbuckle pad off the corner post. Not that workout for him. Well, unfortunately, in this instance, that time it took to rip the turnbuckle pad off the post was the exact amount of time that Penta needed to get up, swing him around. I tell you when Penta and I was talking about this with the Roman Reigns match, too, when Penta gets in that mode, he is a ghost that just haunts an opponent that you look into those eyes that are not human eyes. And you look at that face that there's no flesh on that face. It doesn't resemble a human face. And there is no like usually when you look into a luchador's mask and you see his eyes, you see the human that exists under the mask. But Penta, Penta doesn't

17:37exist under the mask and you start to go, oh my god, there is no, there's no killing this haunt. And Penta swings him around. Penta hits Dominic into the exposed buckle, springboard Mexican destroyer. One, two, three Penta qualifies for the money in the bank ladder match. And it's on. I loved the match. Everything about it. And I'm really excited to see Penta in the money in the bank ladder match. I think right now, stuff to say who the favorite is, but there's never been someone who's had this kind of momentum heading into the match. I do have a question for you. Hit me. Condomnic Mysterio legitimately call himself the king of the luchadors after losing to Penta. Well, he lost a triple threat. Yes, he can call himself the king of luchadors. You know what I mean? It was a triple threat. It was a qualifier. Penta wasn't announced in the match. He was a surprise entrant. Of course, he can call himself the king of the luchadors. Okay.

18:40Who's had a longer reign than him in recent memory with the AAA mega championship? You know, every king has an off night. It's not fair to treat these kings as if they're going to be perfect, even when you're stacking the deck against them. Stacking the deck against them. 100% I don't. I didn't see that. I mean, hey, you're in a triple threat match with solos, a Cohen dragon lean. Now that you're in the ring, JK JK here's Penta. That would be stacking the deck against him. I can't when you're a chicken, Tendi king. That would be stacking the deck against him. Because you prepare for an opponent. You would know that if you were an athlete, you prepare. Okay. You know what I'm saying? You prepare when you know what's in front of you. It would be like if they were like, oh, we're doing a 29 mile marathon. And you gotta prepare for 26. What the heck? Exactly. You'd be at mile 25. Now that you put it that way, think about that. You're a mile 25. They go four more miles, Meg. You're like, what? What? What? What? Four more miles. Yeah, I wouldn't. Okay. No, I'm on

19:41dom side. You know what I'm saying? And then you slow down. You're like, I don't understand. Yeah. Right. You always got to put it in a context of running. Yeah. There we go. Yeah. I still don't. I don't know if you can be king of the luchadors. If you got pinned by another luchador back. So you mean he's got to be undefeated and where you can't be the king? That's ridiculous. Usually kings do stay kings. I mean, yeah, but they could take a bad, they could have a bad evening. Okay. You know, you could have a bad evening. We had a good one last week. So there's great one last week. It was incredible. Meet the Red Bull Dragonberry Emergizer. It's one of the many new drinks out now. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire. Try them all only at McDonald's. Chatchy PT can do more than answer questions. It can help you get real work done. Chatchy PT work is built for bigger projects with multiple steps. You bring the goal along with the information it needs like briefs, notes, files, feedback, calendars, data sets, or project

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22:50complications with this group and the complications that this group has added to a highly dramatic situation between the bloodline between solo between LA night. Like it has become there was a moment right around the summer slam where the sides were pretty well. There was a hard line. Yes. And then when solos a co was brought to the tribal chief to say, okay, now you can acknowledge him. He said, no, there was a pretty hard line. But as soon as the 946 shows up, it has become more and more difficult to see where that line is anymore. I know I was so surprised to see solos a co a show up and address the Usos and Jacob, too. And even suggest that they should be potentially working together to go after the 946. Well, they have common enemies, right? And what did what did I mean, this is something. Listen, solos a co a cannot be getting along

23:53with the Usos and Jacob fat to right now. But these are the people that he grew up with. These are the people that he knows. Jacob is in there telling the Usos to lay low and keep it slow. The Usos and you say that every week and Jacob's like, yeah, I mean it every week. Don't make the first move. You can it feels like the Usos are really struggling to to comprehend what Jacob is telling them. And I'm not sure if that's because they're the captains or if it's because of just the power struggle within or their lack of understanding of what the 946 is really capable of. Well, I think that they're instinctive for sure. They want to get back their pound of flesh. And I do think that there is something to Jacob putting out orders like it like long term orders. It's one thing to be like just chill out for now. And they're like, okay, Jacob, we'll chill out for now. But what is the third week and you're like, hey, stay chill. Right. And it's like, no, Jacob, you're not in charge here. I think that has a lot to do with it. Yeah, I think that that

24:54has a lot to do with it, right? But they lit the car on fire. Where were the Usos when they lit the car on fire? They were in the ring, not listening to Jacob. Solo comes in the room and he's and he's waving a piece flag, by the way, he's waving a little white flag. Okay, that's how you know that everything's okay. Solo Sikou is waving a little white flag. Okay. So it's like, okay, cool, cool, cool, cool. Everybody's cool. Right. And he says that we should work together. This is a situation of maybe not the best of friends, but a common enemy. Solo has been attacked. The Usos have been attacked. And I was talking about this on the radio earlier today about the fact that LA night is going to have to deal with that because you remember LA night, a couple weeks ago said to Solo Sikou, let's just pick the bones after the Usos and Jacob are done with them. Just leave them alone for now and pick the bones later. But Solo's the one that's being attacked. Solo's been attacked multiple times now. Yeah, it's easy to say we'll pick the

25:54bones when you're not the one. Right, especially when your face kicked in. Right. This isn't your, you have an issue with Roman Reigns when we talk about LA night. That's where your focus is. You can't tell me LA night's focus is on the 946 and more specifically what Solo's problem with the 946 is. LA night just wants to focus on Roman Reigns and he should. He's got a world heavyweight championship matchup money in the bank. But with all that said, where does Solo Sikou go at that point? You know, Jacob has specifically put out there. Do not split up. Do not separate. If you separate, they will take us out one by one. Don't do it. So when Solo comes in, the Usos go, okay, yeah, we can work together. And this is a different demeanor out of Solo too. We don't know why flag. Yeah, we even don't like flag, but he's not really coming in like Swaggy Solo. I don't know. He's not a ex I mean, he had the swag. He had the swag with the iced out sunglasses.

26:55He was shining him the whole time. Yes, but he didn't he didn't necessarily have the like, I'm going to make fun of you. My brother's attitude. He was in a soul thing. Yes, we're as before. He was. He was still cocky though. He has to be. I mean, and when they said, yeah, no problem. All you have to do is acknowledge us as captains, Jay and Jimmy, and acknowledge Roman Reigns as the tribal chief. And what did Solo say? Don't tell me it's a different Solo. Because Solo went like this. That ain't happening. I just love when he said that. Right. And then and then Jimmy and Jay said, okay, well, then you can be on your way. And so I said, that's all right. Then I guess it's back to the drawing board. And he walked right out. And Jacob said, you made a mistake. That was a mistake that you guys just made. Now look, there is a part of that that goes, does Jacob really think it was a mistake? Or does Jacob have feelings when it's like, there's four people. There's Jimmy. There's Jay. There's

27:58Roman. There's Jacob. And what was asked for Solo was an acknowledgement for Jimmy Jay and Roman. Not Jacob. Ultimately, that is a thing. And goes back to what you were talking about with them, you know, taking advice, say, from Jacob fat to. And then it gets even more interesting because LA night shows up and he goes, what are we doing here? You know, he's not overly hostile at all. He's not saying he understands, I think, where Solo is coming from. But he said, we just got you out of the bloodline. You know, keep in mind that that Solo kind of had to win LA night's trust as far as that was concerned. Definitely did. The bloodline is a big deal to LA night. And the idea that he believes that Solo is on the outs with that family is important and foundational to their friendship. So the idea that Solo is now going like, we can all work together.

29:00That's where LA night's going to step on. Go, what is he needed some clarification? What is that? Yes. Definitely. Yes. Because his relationship with Solo has come a long way. And he needs to make sure he can figure out what Solo's mode of is. And whether he can trust him. Yeah. Especially heading into Matt. The Grom and Reen. Yes. Yes. Yeah. And I think, but he said, okay. He said he understood. And that's when the night goes on and 946 and jumping Solo, Sikoa at the entryway before that triple threat, dragging him to the car, picking up his head. So you could see the bruise on his face, throwing him in the back of their Cadillac and driving out of the arena. And now you, that's when you have the bloodline and Jacob and LA night and LA night is looking at the bloodline as if how could you let this happen to Solo? And Jacob is telling Jimmy and J. Uso, I told you so. But J. Uso is telling Jacob, I told you so. See, I think from LA night's perspective,

30:09the bloodline is just not holding up their end of the bargain. It's just not impressed with the way they're handling business. I think from Jacob's perspective, he's saying, I told you we needed to keep Solo in. This goes back to what he was saying before about not being separated, about traveling as a group staying together as a group. And preventing the 946 from picking him off one by one. One by one. But from J's perspective, I think J is sitting there looking at Jacob saying, if you would just let us take out this group from the beginning, if we had just made the first move, then they wouldn't have been able to take Solo like that. I felt like when Solo was kidnapped and we saw what happened to him, I was very upset with Jimmy and J. With Jimmy and J. Yes, very upset. Why? Because I held them responsible. I mean, here was Jacob telling him that was a bad idea. You guys should have taken Solo in. LA night is just kind of looking out, getting a bit of clarification on what Solo's relationship is with the bloodline. Right now, while I think

31:13LA night cares about Solo's well-being, because that's his friend, as it's been established, my sense from LA night is, I don't want anything really to do with this, because I have bigger fish to fry with the OTC. So I can't have this distracting, but I need Solo as my friend. So what from the Usos perspective, what would happen if the OTC gets back and he looks at his captains and he goes, you're working with Solo now? Last time I saw Solo, he had his thumb driven into the side of my neck. Last time I saw Solo, all I asked for was an acknowledgement and he said, no. And now you guys are protecting him. What are we doing? Then Jacob would have to stand up and explain how dangerous the nine four six and then Roman looks at Jacob and then he looks at Jimmy and J. Uso. And he goes, I thought, you guys were the captains. Why is Jacob explaining this to me?

32:13Jimmy and J have been through this before. You know, I'm playing devil's advocate for the Usos here, but Jimmy and J have been through this whole game before. They spent years under the thumb of the tribal chief. And while this seems to be a more benevolent tribal chief than we used to have, one would think that the tribal chief would agree with Jacob. It makes sense with Jacob saying, right? Sure. Unless the emotions are in play. When it goes, no, we want to help our own. We want this family to be together. But if that guy won't stand firm, if that guy won't acknowledge the tribal chief, if that guy won't acknowledge the tribal chief's captains, then that's a no go for me. And I think that that's a possible outcome from Roman reigns. And so if you got guys that were just made captain that are making the wrong decision because they're listening to Jacob, then that sounds to me like Jacob's the one that's the captain and they can't have that. Can they?

33:13No, because Jacob wasn't appointed the captain right by the OTC. So it's like then what's happened to our organization while Roman's gone. It's a mess. It's in shambles. So it's almost like then you got to trust your captains to make the call. That said, it might have been the wrong call because so it's the color left in the back of a Cadillac escalate. But Roman doesn't really care about that, right? I don't know because Roman is big on respecting the family. Roman feels as though if family members are being disrespected, they're all being disrespected. Yes. Yes. Not to the same level of captains, but he said it before, where the purpose of this is for that family to be the benchmark of WWE. Like Jacob when he looked at Royce keys in the face all those months ago and said, you're just one of the boys. I'm bloodline. It gets complicated when Solo won't acknowledge his tribal chief, but he does carry the lineage.

34:17Do you allow somebody who carries the lineage to be treated that way because he won't acknowledge the tribal chief? Maybe that's what the OTC is struggling with. Maybe that's what Jacob's struggling with because I don't have the answer. You know, all we're doing is speculating, right? I know. That's all we can do. And then you bring up a great point because I'm obviously a big fan of our Pew-Pew King, Solo Sikoa. You love him. So when Solo Sikoa gets kidnapped and gets his face kicked in by the 946, I need someone to blame. And so I want to blame the U-Sows for that. And you can't. But when you think of the tribal chief's perspective on all of it, maybe you can't. That's true too. You know, that's why Devil's Advocate is so. But then I think what you really have to work into the equation is we haven't seen where this is going with the 946, right? Yeah, we barely even seen how it started. Exactly. And so Jacob keeps saying they're going to, we need to stay together because if not, they're going to pick us off one by one. Right. We haven't

35:20seen that ripple effect yet. Well, we started. They got Solo. But it hasn't started to impact the current bloodline. Okay. But if the if the if the U-Sows and Jacob have a blow up, that's where this starts to happen. The numbers are dwindling now because Solo got scooped up. You know, I want to tell you about what's going on wardrobe wise. I don't know if you've heard about this, but dashing, dashing never goes out of style. And with that in mind, the Cody Rhodes retro T is available now at WWE shop and fanatics dashing Cody Rhodes. If you want to go and represent the American nightmare, back when he was dashing the dashing Cody Rhodes shirt retro T available now at WWE shop and fanatics. And I don't know if you've heard about this. But Penta, who we are talking about and Ray Phoenix, well, they've joined forces. Yes, celebrate the duo

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40:34He said that he questioned whether or not he could beat Roman Reigns. He said as much as everybody there wants him to be the world-heavyweight champion, most of them don't believe he can. And he doesn't blame him because he's had that question for himself. Because three years ago, he was in the ring with Roman Reigns and he couldn't get the job done. But this is a different Roman Reigns. LA Night goes on to say this is a Roman Reigns. He's trying to rewrite his legacy by doing things on his own by not having the bloodline involved. But you know what LA Night said about all of that? Well, yippy, skippy. He yippy, skippy, he did. And this is the first time one of Roman's opponents in this era has pointed out like they kept bringing up the bloodline getting involved, the bloodline getting involved, the bloodline getting involved. LA Night seems to be the first opponent that's sitting there going like, no, I'm paying attention to what's going on. And he's different. The bloodline is not getting involved. But I like that LA Night is not saying that in this sense of mystery. I wonder why

41:37the bloodline is not getting involved. I wonder what's going on here. He understands that Roman's choosing not to get the bloodline involved because the way he perceives it, Roman is, like you said, building out on that legacy that on some level and LA Night's the first to point it out, he believes that Roman to himself wants to prove that he can do it without the bloodline. And I think that LA Night sees that as Roman's one weakness that he is trying to do this without the bloodline to prove that he can do this. But from LA Night's perspective, Roman never beat LA Night one on one. So the fact that Roman isn't bringing out the bloodline becomes the Chinkin Roman's armor, becomes the one bit of weakness that Roman Reigns has that LA Night is planning to exploit. And I think that LA Night, if anything, has proven his ability to exploit any little moment that

42:44Roman Reigns leaves open. LA Night has driven Roman Reigns skull into the canvas twice now with BFTs because he's picked, picked his spot. He's gotten the timing just right. And he's delivered. I think LA Night is coming into this match, a studied man, a learned man, a learned. Yes, a learned man who has gone through and figured out Roman's motivations because he's not just picking up on what Roman is doing. He's got a Y for Roman Reigns. And it feels as though his plan is to exploit not just the what, but the why. It's wild. I think it was three years ago. Since LA Night in Roman Reigns had that match because obviously as LA Night points out Roman is a completely different person since then and the fact that he's doing it on his own. But LA Night, while he had the fan support three years ago, at that time, it seems like LA Night

43:46getting this Roman Reigns match feels like an LA Night moment. But what's happened in those three years for LA Night? That's just grown and grown and grown and grown. And I love when LA Night pointed out in this promo tonight that he's from his perspective, he is the most self-made SOB in the game because I think that's exactly what we've seen from LA Night over three years. Well, we've talked about that, right? The idea that like people have been realistically, there are people who have been waiting for this thing to run its course. They've been waiting for the audience to tire of him. They've been waiting for people to stop doing the catch phrases. They've been waiting for it not to work. And you're right, it hasn't happened and it's grown and it's grown and it grew tonight in San Antonio. They were screaming along with every word that LA Night said. I mean, there are a lot of people who couldn't pull off Yippee Skippy in a promo. LA Night pulled off Yippee Skippy to the point where you wrote it down. When he was talking about

44:47the tribal chief of all people. Well, Yippee Skippy. You know, and that's LA Night. That's the whole MO of LA Night is that there are no sacred cows when it comes to LA Night. There is nobody that LA Night looks at and goes like, well, gee, golly, I don't think I ever could. Well, gee, I just don't know if I'm as good as he is. You know, LA Night questioned whether or not he could beat Roman Reigns. But when he questioned that he did it in the context of the old Roman Reigns. LA Night has watched Roman Reigns have a classic with Penta have a classic with Seth Rollins have two classics with Jacob Fettu have a classic with CM Punk. And LA Night is saying that's the Roman that I can beat. That's the Roman that has a weakness because if Roman isn't cheating, I'm able to beat him. And all of a sudden, like, you know, it's so interesting to me. I feel like when Roman was champion before, when the bloodline was running its course, if you had a conversation about whether

45:52or not Roman might lose, it wasn't a serious conversation. It wasn't at all. It was an exercise at best. Except for like, there are a few exceptions. I would say Montreal again, Sammy's eight one of them. Yeah. Cody Rhodes at 39. Yes. Yeah. Sure. Sure. A few exceptions. For the most part. Yes. Yes. Now, because this story is evolving as quickly as it is, you have that question because because this becomes now a unique story in the Roman Reigns match, right? The CM Punk and Roman Reigns story was unique. The Jacob Fettu and Roman Reigns story was unique. The Seth Rollins and Roman story was unique. The Pantin Roman story was unique and they all had different reasons for being in different directions that they could go in. And I would argue that tonight, LA night created the uniqueness of what is going on between Roman and LA night. That this is the first time that somebody has pointed out Roman is trying to carve out a

46:55legacy. And listen, one could argue that when a champion is actively thinking about their legacy while they're champion, they're not thinking about what's right in front of them. It's very difficult to think about what's right in front of you as well as your larger body of work. The larger body of work doesn't really come to fruition until the end. Yeah, we can't name an arrow while we're in the air. I'm right. That's right. But LA night is sitting there saying not only is Roman playing this game, honestly, in the sense that he's not using the bloodline. The reason why he's not using the bloodline to interfere in these matches, he's building his legacy. And if he's worried about his legacy and he's not using outside interference, those are two things that LA night believes are in the corner of LA night. And that is a story that is to me compelling. I agree. That is where you get into the, oh, that's that's LA night's window that he can go through. And it makes you go, okay, now we, I want to see what happens in New Orleans.

47:58Now I want to see if LA night has LA night has identified the strategy. LA night has identified the weakness. LA night has identified his how. Now it's time to watch him execute on it. Will we see the LA night moment in New Orleans? We've been waiting for it. We have we've been waiting for it. It's possible, you know, more possible now than ever before. Well, I tell you to, speaking of championships, a lot of conversation this week between it started with the judgment day in the ring. So the judgment day, everybody had something to get off their chest, right? JD McDonough showed up and said, once and for all, his dad is not a fun copop. And it's very upsetting to his mom. Yeah, because Joe Henry was out there with a bunch of fans and got them all to sing about JD's dad being a fun copop. Yeah, I mean, this is like, and yeah, I don't know. I hope that that's not going to be a part of Joe Henry's album. Feels very Kendrick Drake to me. Just not the type of beef you want to, hmm, who's who?

49:05I haven't heard JD's stuff. Oh, okay, okay. I don't know yet. All right. I kind of feel like Joe Henry's probably Kendrick, but okay, but he says it's upsetting to his mom. JD said it doesn't bother him. I believe him. JD's not going to go on television in line. Okay. But he says it's upsetting to his mom because his mom did not marry a fun copop. That's not ridiculous. Then we're, we're cowgits the Mike. She's got something to get off her chest too. What could the Intercontinental champion have to get off her chest? Well, that's she's disappointed in Texas. She's from Texas. She's from Texas. She can't believe this. I the people are acting there. It's disgusting to her. And I get it. You know what I mean? I got it. She I would be dismayed too. I'm showing up in your hometown and this is this is the response you get. Right. As a champion too. It's a champion. And they've been on that journey with Raquel. Yeah. And then live Morgan steps up right there with Daddy Don by her side. And she says that the screw job of Santiago.

50:06Are people calling it that? They're calling it the Santiago screw job. Oh, yes. That's what they're calling it. The San Diego. Right up there with Montreal or is it up up up higher than I'll tell you this. It's more of an alliteration. So I think it could be higher. Wow. Yeah. It's a big deal. It's a big deal. And if documentaries about this and all, I mean, it wouldn't be a very long documentary because it's pretty clear what happened. You know, I don't think that you could argue that she lost the title in a very honest way. The double flipping of the bird. I don't know. I thought referee Rebecca was doing a really good job. Well, she was described by live Morgan as a crooked referee, which had distinct, which had distinct to see that mirror hitting you back. Becky Lynch described by live Morgan as crooked referee Becky Lynch. Lived Morgan. There's only one crooked referee in WWE. Oh, Becky. And that's Jessica. You still think she's crooked? I know she's crooked. Because of all the stuff from a long time. I don't forget it all counts. No, you're right.

51:09Everything counts. Everything counts. And San Diego loved Becky. People love Jessica Carr. I didn't get she didn't get that reaction. The reaction that Becky got. No, she's that's true. That's true. But that's mainly because Becky just had it not to count to flip off live Morgan instead. I thought she was doing a great job as a referee. Yeah. Or just as a human. Both. Oh, wow. Both. Both. Both. Yes. Well, apparently according to Becky who interrupted the judgment day's meeting, she was up in the audience. She said the man has come around in San Antonio. And then she called out JD by his full name, government name. Yes, she did. Yes, she did. Jordan Devlin McDonough. Yeah, which I didn't think we were doing that. I didn't think we were doing it. I, you know, anybody that's been watching long enough understands they remember the days. But Becky I think was was, I mean, using some of the Irish commonalities to her advantage. Well, she, she talked to Patricia. Who's that? That's JD's mom. Yeah, I know she mentioned her by name too. Patricia. Yeah, I mean, Patricia not only upset about the Funko

52:12pop. She's, she's very upset to see her son is Becky put it playing a towel boy for a bunch of dopes and wearing gang colors. She said too. Yeah. You know, and I didn't know it. First of all, he's not a towel boy. He's a full-fledged member. And second of all, no dopes. No dopes, you know, Becky said that not only was she not a crooked referee, she was actually a lot of people are saying the greatest referee of all time. And it's not, it's not just her. A lot of people are saying that, especially in Santiago. It's not just her saying it. And she says that live lost her match. And she needs to get to the back of the line is what she said about live morgan. What happens when you lose? Can't just demand all these rematches all the time. A lot of champions have rematches after losing their title when a special referee flips them off in the middle of a pinfall attempt. And here comes Stephanie Vaquere. Stephanie Vaquere comes out and she goes like, first of all, Becky, I respect you. But who gave you the jurisdiction to be declaring

53:14who gets title matches and who doesn't? Becky's not involved. You talk about people. Okay. All right. You don't go on people getting involved in business that's not theirs. Literally, it is hers. How live morgan comes out to challenge the champion. Becky is not that human. No, but live morgan lost the title to Stephanie. Yes. Live came out to challenge Stephanie to a rematch. And then Becky comes out. Explain to me why. Who she came out to call Jordan Devlin McDonough. That's why she initially came out. And then yes, she did. She got us full with Patricia. I know what she did. We went over this already. His whole life. I know that. I know that. But you want to get, I mean, you were about to say because she's the reason she's the reason that Stephanie Vaquere won the title. So that's a terrible referee. No, it's not there. I will not take if I told you if I told you that the reason somebody became a champion was Danilo. Wouldn't you go well, that doesn't make Danilo a very good referee.

54:17Well, the reason Becky lost her intercontinental championship was because of Jessica. Jessica Car. Oh, I didn't know we were doing raw recap from six months ago. I thought we were doing raw recap from tonight. I thought we were going to focus on tonight show. I thought that was, or did I not get the, are we doing raw recap six months ago? No, we're doing tonight. We're going to do tonight. Okay. So then Stephanie and I don't know. I mean, Stephanie's, Stephanie's honorable. I will say that. I did agree with Liv Morgan when Stephanie was like, look, I am the champion and it has nothing to do with Becky. And the Liv called her out and was like, you're just a liar. Yeah. And that's when I said, you know what? I think I am on team live in this situation. That there was it was at least something to do with Becky. Yeah, I feel like Stephanie needs to at least like tipper cap. I mean, like, okay, Becky. Yeah, you helped. So Becky is a great referee and also responsible for the result. Yeah, two things could be true. Okay. I didn't know those. I didn't know those two things could be true. Yes. Oh, okay. Well, she had to, you know,

55:20I didn't know. Okay. Also for Liv, she doesn't defend the title. So when you defend, I know, but when you defend your title, things tend to happen. She wasn't prepared for that. She literally defended her title against Stephanie. If a care days before that with a referee who wasn't Becky Lynch before that, how often did you defend the title? She defended against the EO Summer Slim before that. Not correct. You don't have to defend the title. Well, you can, but you don't have to. You know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, technically, you don't have to, but it's people generally like that. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize it was the popularist wrestler champion champ. I mean, they don't like it. You think that would really upset Liv Morgan? No, no, you know what Liv likes being the greatest women's champion of all time. Okay. Liv really wasn't worried about whether or not you liked how often she was defending the title.

56:22I wasn't really concerned. I don't think she made it pretty clear. Listen, Liv and Becky do have one thing in common. They know that Stephanie wouldn't have the title without Becky. And then Stephanie steps up and she goes, not only will I give Liv Morgan a rematch, but I will also defend it against Becky Lynch. And I'm like, Stephanie, that's a lie. I know you're confident, but like relax. Enjoy the title a little bit. I mean, I feel like if I were champion, I'd be more like Liv Morgan, where it's like, oh, you guys both want to want to get both want the title, huh? Figure it out amongst yourselves. Yeah, you definitely would. And that might be the smarter thing to do. Yeah, I probably joined the show with satellite. I'd be on the big screen. I'm at home. I'm in Westchester right now. I'm at home, but you guys figure out you guys, I don't know. Talk to Adam Pierce or something. You guys seem to have a handle on this. You guys feed this out amongst yourselves. Then give me a call when you're ready. Let me know how it goes. Yeah. I don't know anything about that. Yeah. You know that that's a great point though. For Stephanie. Is this why is of her? I mean, by your standards, she I think fits

57:24more by your standard. Uh, champions got to defend. Yeah, got to defend, but you're going to defend against the greatest female wrestler of all time and then also Becky Lynch. Well, right? Well, I was referring to Becky Lynch when I said the greatest female wrestler of all time. Well, I mean, technically the greatest women's world champion of all time. If you're the champion and you're going to defend against every, you should be yes, you should be defending your title against the person who that people are saying is the best because if you're the champion, you're supposed to be the best. So yes, you're not supposed to find like, you know, this should be like TLC. You're supposed to not want no scrubs. That's right. Supposed to. But if you can get away like if I were champion, I'd try to defend against scrubs. Cause you keep the title longer that way, you know. But don't you think maybe Stephanie should approach us like one at a time? I mean, I would think so. Yes, I do. Yes, I do. But that seems difficult too. Like I don't say each other. I also have a problem with Becky. Maybe I'll handle my

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1:00:30Javan Evans likes the fact that that's how people describe him I don't think that Javan Evans loves the idea of like isn't it fun that you're the youngest person that's ever been in a ladder match. Isn't it fun that you do these crazy moves right now electrify crowds. Yeah that that sounds like somebody that you talk to that is specializing in exhibition matches. And I think Javan Evans is getting to this point where he realizes that he's on the main roster. He's in shark infested waters and he's got to stand out. And I think there's an aggressive streak that has been forming in Javan Evans for the last several weeks that we really saw on display tonight. Yeah when you talk about Javan Evans in a ladder match everybody goes oh can you imagine the crazy things that Javan Evans is going to do but we haven't yet dove into can you imagine when Javan Evans climbs up to the top of the ladder grabs that briefcase and what he'll do next to become champion. When you say we haven't dove into it yet and you're talking about Javan Evans was that a pun? It wasn't a pun. I wish it was nice. I wish I could just lie to you and say yeah I plan that

1:01:34but no it wasn't lie next time. All right. So when you're right I lie all time. Yeah I know I mean okay I know I was lying just then I don't lie. So I got him in there. So Javan Evans counts these members of the judge of division. And instead of being like okay that's too many. He counts five and slaps Braun Breaker. I was John the floor when he did that. Across the face. Now we get to this match. Javan Evans versus Braun Breaker and I thought that it was it was a really sort of outstanding compelling match to see where Javan Evans is at right now. The fact that like Javan Evans did not have an answer for Braun Breaker's power. Braun Breaker was bullying Javan Evans at the beginning of this match but he went in completely confident. He went in unafraid of Javan Evans catching him and Javan Evans caught him. And when Javan starts going

1:02:37if you don't catch up to him and stop him he's not going to stop. And I think that that's what we saw in this match from from the dives to the flips the strikes the kicks. The fact that Javan would take out a Braun Breaker and then he take out theory and then he took out Braunston Reed and then get back in the ring. So he was ready for Braun Breaker and you're sitting there going like Braun the speed. When does this guy come up for air? Speed is usually Braun Breaker's weapon. Yeah. But Javan Evans. I mean he's a bolt of lightning. Truly. It's incredible to watch this guy go. We see and I think that that was the difference between what Braun and Javan Evans were doing. The that Braun Breaker was powerful and aggressive but it was ego driven. Whereas Javan Evans seemed to be coming from a place where he had a chip on his shoulder. Yeah. I felt that a lot from Javan Evans, especially the fact that he counted the vision members, slapped him in the face and immediately goes out to like he was not taken aback by the numbers game. He was just as confident

1:03:46and even you know when Braun Breaker brings his power towards him. Javan Evans matches them with the speed and agility and his ability to just not stop. Right. Yes. Yes. And it was really, really impressive to the point that the match didn't end until Javan was going for that OG cutter and theory got involved. The referee saw him ring the bell. DQ. No contest. Javan Evans. I guess we get the decision via disqualification. But the beat down was about to commence and then boom. Oba's music hits and you almost forgot for a second that this guy was looming. You almost forgot for a second that this guy had a score to settle based on what the vision did to him right after Bronson Reed returned to the WWE. And here he comes and I swear. He looks bigger. Megan. I swear he was bigger when he came out every time he looks bigger. Like I could not believe it. Oba coming out, making the save and taking out the entire vision

1:04:48including Bronson Reed. Logan Paul tries to dive in the ring with a chair. I mean, I feel like a day or so removed from spending 30 hours hunting Pokemon on a live stream. Logan Paul thinks he can go from hunting Pokemon to hunting Oba Femi. You can't hunt the ruler like Pokemon. No, didn't work out for him. No. Oba Femi stopped him in his tracks, took the chair and used that chair to completely dismantle the vision and then opened the gateway for Javan Evans picking up Javan Evans and using him as a weapon, throwing him into the entire vision. No, we knew how powerful he is throwing things and people. Yes. Right. This is a former shop putter. But when Oba Femi was just kicking Bronson Reed. Oh, did you see how high that boot got up? Oh my God. Unbelievable. And Oba Femi by the way came out in his gear. Yes. Oba Femi didn't come out in his style. This wasn't stylish, Oba. No.

1:05:48This was fighting Oba. That's exactly what he did. And I mean, it really was. I swear, and I said it out loud when it happened. Like you watch this guy and you listen to the reaction. And I'm just sitting there going Oba's the guy. It doesn't even matter if there's five, six, seven. If it's Oba Femi, you can overcome any numbers advantage. And that's what you want. And that's what you want to see. When you're in the audience, that's what you want to see. And he does the pose at the end and everything. It was just it was just remarkable. The look of intensity on this guy's face. And look at it. Look at there's Oba Femi signs behind him. I mean, this is it. That's that that that's the face of of nightmares. That is what is controlling destiny in the WWE. Not just for him, but for everybody. It's one of those where no matter what your goals are in WWE. That's what you've got to deal with. So get used to it. And this right here, this site of Oba Femi right here is why Paul Heyman has to keep reminding

1:06:50Bronbreaker that there's air and Oba Femi's lungs. Okay. Yeah, but I liked what Bronbreaker did. You did. Bronbreaker going right up to Paul Heyman because this whole, you know, trying to win over Paul Heyman's approval. For me, it's not a good look on Bronbreaker. No, Bronbreaker shouldn't be looking to win over anybody's approval. He's Bronbreaker. Okay. And Paul Heyman goes, hello, Mr. Breaker. We haven't heard him call him Mr. Breaker yet. I don't know. I don't know. Paul Heyman's always addressed him. He might have. I'm not 100% sure. But after hearing Mr. Breaker, Bronbreaker calls him, hello, Paul. And you're like, okay, we're setting the table already. And Paul Heyman looks at Bronbreaker. And he says there is air in Oba Femi's lungs. And that's bad news for you. And then Bronbreaker who has had about enough of hearing that from Paul Heyman looks at Paul Heyman. He goes, yep. But there's air in my

1:07:53lungs. And that's bad news for everybody. Paul Heyman looks at him and goes, everybody. And I mean, daggers in his eyes, Bronbreaker looks at Paul Heyman and says, everybody. Now, I don't know if Paul Heyman is enacting some kind of strategy to bring out that dog in Bronbreaker. But I'm telling you right now, there may be a Bronbreaker problem that's brewing. Everybody wants to look into what's going on in the future. You know, everybody's talking about that Cody Rhodes promo from, of course, how did you know? And looking for all the sort of long play clues in that there's so many things when you look across what's going on in the main event scene on raw, what's going on in the main event scene on Smackdown. But I'm telling you, right now, these interactions between Bronbreaker and Paul Heyman, they need to be studied because something is happening. There's a lot of stuff that goes on with Bronbreaker now where you go, what is happening? What is going on with Bronbreaker? And I'm telling you that that's a question

1:08:56worth asking because we're going to get to a somethings got to give point. And if Paul Heyman is pushing Bronbreaker to try to get the best Bronbreaker, by the time he does get the best Bron breakers, that somebody that Bronbreaker is going to want to be around Paul Heyman. Or is he going to push him too far and turn him into a monster that he can't control? You know, that may be what he's dealing with here. I'm, I'm fascinated by it. I'm in tree. I'm beyond it. Given that it's Paul Heyman, right now, both are on the table. That's right. That's right. By giving that it's Bronbreaker, Paul Heyman may not have as much control as he thinks he does. Oh, wow. It's Bronbreaker. Like we lose sight of that too much. That's Bronbreaker. Okay. Ova Femme is not the only guy who's the future. There's room. There's a lot of story to tell. And we're going to keep looking at that story, observing that story, maybe even recapping that story here on raw recap. Make sure you're

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