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SAMI ZAYN DEFEATS CM PUNK & WINS BACK WWE CHAMPIONSHIP!

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Highlights of the show include: Sami Zayn defeating CM Punk for the WWE Championship, Chelsea Green successfully defending her championship against Nia Jax, Randy Orton saying he's going after the WWE Championship, Damian Priest turning on R-Truth and more. Plus, they also briefly cover some of the top moments from Triplemania 34 night one that included Omos defeating Rey Mysterio, Dominik Mysterio and El Grande Americano getting involved. If you are a WWE fan who wants to stay up-to-date with all the WWE news and WWE highlights than this is the perfect WWE Smackdown review to watch! #wwe #wwehighlights #smackdown #wwenews #wrestling
 


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I am, it's kind of cool to see like two different styles of wrestling, but I'm still shocked what happened at 3-Plamania with Omos recreating the Big Show spot with Ray. That was great. That was nasty. That was a filthy joke slam from the, was it the stretcher board or the call up and the board on top of the commentary table. That was a sickening dud. It was gross. It was fun though. I actually thought that he was going to get him on the new post. And I was scared. I'm like, he's 50 something years old. You're going to kill Ray Mysterio. I mean, let's be real. Ray Mysterio is still the shed. He's fucking awesome, right? He feels like he got a whole other life, but at the end of the day, yo, that's a scary ass spot to have to take, but they did it on the commentary table. And I thought that it was much better than you did on the post, right? Still impactful. Yeah, still got the point across, but I don't know. I think because it's it's too difficult to swing a grown ass man on a ring post and not get dropped on his head, like Big Show did, but I feel like it's interesting when you think about Omos and his journey on

the main roster. I mean, the last time I saw him in person was wrestling in 39 against Brock Lesnar. And I was like, yeah, I mean, he is an attraction that's spectacle, but it's interesting. His value is so much higher down there in South of the border. You know, he's booked like a monster. Dude, I was okay. So when I was watching this match, immediately I thought to myself, dude, this is the best Omos match I've ever seen. Now granted, I feel like I haven't seen him that often because I don't get to watch as regularly as everybody else, but I'm just like, wow, he looks like suddenly I feel like after this match, I'm taking him much more seriously. For sure. I feel like he's scary. I feel like, wow, like Rey Mysterio today really made Omos look like a real threat, a real badass in a terrible way, because he killed a guy that was half the half of his size, but it was so entertaining. I feel like it's funny because when we're going from watching SmackDown to watching 3-blit money, the biggest difference was the location.

And the Mexico City crowd was fantastic when we were watching SmackDown and then going into the Las Vegas crowd, they kind of had their moments, their ooze and their aes, but I didn't really feel like they were lit the whole entire time, but damn it, they were lit for that main event. That main event really, really, them in because there was just so much more, there was so much fun stuff with Dominic getting involved, Algrondia, Maricano, Rey Mysterio trying to beat down Omos, and thinking that you were going to get there when he got stuck into the robes and he's hitting them in the nuts and he's trying to beat them down, that was so freaking fun. Hitting the 619, I mean, Rey and Giants, come on, always money right there. Is it interesting that the WWE seems to be like always having something happen? Like they're in multiple cities, I think they're going to be in what Central America tomorrow is well and Chile or South America? Yeah, that's what I was told that Chile, that they're going to be there. Yeah, I'm trying to remember the map, yes, that is South America. Like Sancho Cluj, we're tired guys, it's been a long day and I'm starving Sancho. I was going to

message you, I was like, do we got to do a quick post show? I get starving for the last two hours. I'm down, I'm down. But you know what, do you want to talk about the biggest, biggest, biggest, biggest news of the day? What's the biggest news of the day? We have a new Undisputed Champion. Oh yeah, sorry. I don't know, we were going there already. That's why I wasn't sure. But yeah, that's really the reason why I feel like if we didn't really have, for example, I mean, the side for the three-blade money and stuff, right? And the big match that happened with Omos and how cool he looked at feeding Rey Mysterio, all of that. The big talking point of today is that Sami Zayn actually defeated CM Punk today for the WWE Champion, now it's Championship. Now of course there were shenanigans that does not happen cleanly whatsoever. But I got to tell you, I was kind of surprised Sancho. I was surprised because I had, you know what, and I feel like I was wrong in being surprised because I felt like, oh okay, I'm liking what CM Punk's been doing as Champion. I want to see that continue.

But at the end of the day, Sami has been forcing this to happen. He has been doing everything possible. So at some point it was bound to happen. And now it did. And my whole thing, though, is that the first time that he won Sancho, I felt this happiness because I felt so happy for Sami. The second time, I didn't really feel that way anymore, but I will say this, though, please give him a nicer, lengthier reign than nine days. That's all I need. Seven days. Seven days. He's going to lose the title next week. Imagine if he does lose the Gorgano. I think it's a new era. Not in no way. If you really think about the journey of the Undisputed title, went from being stuck on Roman for like three like what? Thousand plus days. It goes to Cody, then stuck on Cody for about a year or so. And then it hopped potatoes down to Drew, then it goes to Sami, and then it goes to John Cena for a bit, right? Dernish retirement. Well, before all that, John Cena retirement toward then Drew, then Sami.

And now it wants to see him punk. And now you're like, okay, back to Sami, I feel like this is a good spot for the Undisputed title, especially for a Smackdown two hour show. Because it's like what else can go wrong? You know, you have so many like seven, six people going after this title. And the biggest point of thing that I pointed out before is Sami's beatable. It's a good place to be for your champion to be beatable. See him punk. Cody Rhodes. Roman Reigns. They felt too untouchable. It felt like you needed to create another Titan to take out the other Titan. But here you have someone as beatable. And that's what makes me so it's so exciting to see the possibilities. This opens up the door for maybe a Drew McIntyre return. So many people that could even go after Sami's aim because he's created so many enemies at the same time. And even Gorgano next week has a solid chance considering that you could see that the WWE is willing to throw everything at it because I don't know why. I don't know is it because they feel like they're they have house money or does it feel like they're in the shadows right now until

I don't know. I think there's a bigger plan and store what that is. I'm not entirely too sure. But let's not forget who said that they were going for the championship regardless of who the winner was. Randy. Randy can stop the show. We did. Saying that. So maybe this is all leading to that. Like Randy actually winning the championship again. And I think he should, man. I feel like we've been wanting that for a while. And this feels like the time to do it. Like I don't feel like if we give Sami a little bit of time, again, anything more than nine days, I'm good with that. I'm good with that. At least that I'm defend the title once or twice. But at some point, I think the thing we want more so is Randy because Randy's been saying this for a while now to multiple champions to Cody to see him punk saying, I'm going to come for this championship. And it's got to finally happen. Arousey's just going to be all talk at this point. And the people love Randy. I think there's still so many stories to do with Randy, especially as the champion because we love the way that CM Punk had goon through and

they're thin and KO and all of that. That was great. And I'm curious to see what they do with Sammy in terms of like, will he have a match with Finn? Will he have a match with Boomther? Will he actually wrestle Kevin O'Han, especially with their whole drama that we've been continuing to see? Do we do any of that before he drops the title? And who should he drop the title to? I almost think that Randy is honestly would be the best option. Well, and I don't want to say like I don't want anybody else, but I think Randy would be a really great option. It's funny that you say that because I 100% agree with you because after seeing his reaction to Mexico City, I kind of have this question like, why isn't Randy not pushed as the guy in WWE? The longest tenured guy it feels like for the main eventer for a long time. Didn't leave like Cody, didn't leave like CM Punk. Why not Randy Orton to be the guy that's your the face of the company? Yes, he's older, sure, but he is beloved everywhere. And like that entrance tonight in Mexico City, you wouldn't think he's a hero.

Like you wouldn't think he's the bad guy at all. Is he at this point? I don't even know. The dude, the he got cheers and Cody got booze, but I like the idea of Randy not trying to change Cody, Randy not trying to make sure that Cody's doing it for the right reasons. Like this whole kind of morality thing that Cody matches always have. It's just Randy saying I want 15 and I'm going to get there. And so this is why Sammy is perfect because if it was Cody on the other side, John Cena on the other side, you'd be like, I don't know if Randy has a shot. But I think Randy is a legitimate candidate to be able to be the undisputed title and he'd be a great face of the company. And some people were just like pushing back on it. Like they rather have some younger people be the face of the company. But I think it was you got to work your way up to that. You got to work your way up to that. But at the same time, like Randy has put in a lot of work. Of course, that's a given. But what I'm saying is lately, it feels like the WWE hasn't been utilizing Randy to his maximum

ability. It'd be like as if lack of a better name or like it's as if you had Hogan and he was the guy and you just stop using Hogan and started focusing on younger people which I know in historically speaking eventually that's why Hogan went to WCW because they started bringing in the new generation. But the point I want to make is why not Randy? I don't think anyone could give me a legit argument that against Randy without bringing up age. He looks fucking great too, man. I mean, I can't sit here and talk about age when I just saw a match with Ray Mysterio after how many knee surgeries that he's had in his whole career and yet he still went out there. And five, there you go, five knee injuries, five surgeries. And for him to still be going out there and having like the most entertaining match I saw all day today. Yeah, man, like I feel at the end of the day if you can still go and you're entertaining and the fans love you. I mean, who else has that besides Randy? The fans love him. He gets insane reactions and he hasn't been at the very

top like that in a very long time. So it would feel fresh. It would feel different. And I feel like this is now the time to utilize Randy in that manner. And I don't feel like you lose anything out of it. Like I want to see Randy and Finn, KO, Goonther, all of that. We've seen that with we've seen that with punk. We've seen it with Sammy for the most part. Maybe a couple more still need to be happen. But with Randy, it would feel I don't know. It'd be like good quality. It'd be different because he has face Goonther. He's has face all these people. But it Randy has a champion just feels different. Like it just feels like he gets that buff that's going to make him pretty tough to beat. And if it's a heel Randy on top of it where he's still beloved, but he's going to do like the pun kick he's going to cheat on his way a little bit here and there. Ben the rules. I'm all for it because he is very charismatic and he delivers a solid promo still. And like I said, you cannot deny the star power of Randy Orton. I think that's what's happening when they try to

like let's make him a heel. Let's make him do really dastardly things. Let me let him say that his opponents wife is trash. Let me talk about a dog that who supports the has recently passed. Like they scrapped all that and to let's just focus on Randy Orton being a 15 time champion. Keep it simple. And now that Sammy is that guy. Now he has that target on his back. Add Randy Orton to the pool. It's interesting that WWE could do a great job of making this entire SmackDown main event stretch out all the way to survivor series. They can even have a survivor series match with all these characters in terms of not for the title just a exhibition. They can even stretch all this out until WrestleMania because it's all the ones swirling around. And if that means everybody gets a go, that's great. But it's hard for me to see a Johnny Gargano, Finn Balor. It's easy. I possibly I could see Gunther Retainee getting the title back again. But I see better names like going back to punk,

going back to Randy, going to Randy, maybe going to Drew. A lot more plausible than a Finn Balor and a good old Finn Balor or a Gargano champion. I feel like with Finn Balor, I feel like there's a chance, but you got to remind the crowd who the hell Finn Balor is. And that's not there. We don't know who he is, but you know what I mean? He was there. Be that person. And then he can be champion. Remind who came back to take away Finn Balor's thunder. Randy Orton, it's like, what are you going to do? We got Hetty Hetty here. It says, Auntie East Coaster tapped out. That was great. Thank you, Hetty Hetty. We got Hetty Hetty here who says shout shout out to Chamber Pappy and DWL. All matches were in my opinion. It was a good night of wrestling today. I got to tell you, I had fun with everything. I was shocked what happened in the six men entered the six men into the mix tag that happened. It was a kind of a bummer to see what's what happened to her. Oh, Lady Shawnee. Yeah. Yeah, I couldn't tell exactly. You got a moment. She got rocked. No, she got kicked right in the eye.

Oh, okay. Like at the very beginning, like it was like a heeled spotter. Either it scratched her eye or yeah, she couldn't really do much after that. But it was still a fun match, man. It went by really fast, but I think that was part of the reason why. Yeah, yeah, for sure. We got to underscore 182 here. It says, do you guys think Johnny Gargando beat Sammy's nine days and then lose this to punk and Randy? No, I just think it would be much better to I rather see Sammy lose to Randy instead of losing to Johnny Gargando. And I would if Gargando wins and then he just gets squashed by Randy. Well, I mean, that's what underscore basically just pitched right now. I would love it. But what we can say in the third part, I just think the better match is Sammy and Randy. For sure, but we could get that too. I mean, sure, we could get it all. We could take it all. Can we though? Can we? Yes, we can. I think that WWE realizing that maybe it is a Randy that needs to be the flagship face of the SmackDown to get them like to get older, like most of our laps fans back into it. Maybe he could take Randy Orton. And at the same time,

when Randy would go ESPN, people would eat up Randy Orton. That's what I mean. He's like, oh, man, I remember, or they'll be all about it. So it's interesting. It's fascinating. I think you and I have the same epiphany. Like, oh, damn, we had Randy this whole time. Why not, Randy? Right, right. Exactly. We got a head he had here. It says, super lining up the triple out opener was watching. Masca Ritesa, that call the whole match with five young wrestlers after an unfortunate injury. Yeah, dude. Oh, and he was going to town that little interaction that he had with Jack Cartwheel. Oh, that was so good. And Jack Cartwheel, man. I've seen this guy wrestles and like back in his GCW days and Zoncho. No matter what, I still feel like it's the first time I've ever seen them because he's so fun. Like, you see him do you shan't he? You're like, I'll put you in front of that. I remember I posted one of his reactions when I watched I think last year's a triple out mania. And I was like, it got like over a million views. It was like Zane. Like, that's the that's the pool that he does. And I think he followed me. I don't remember,

but you know, reactions are old time or thing anymore. Wow. Like, it's on Chal, Sanchez. Like, I don't do that kind of content. I miss the days though, but it is makes the watch parties more relaxing. I don't have to edit up right a freaking way to combat with those. Southeast Lambert out there. You know, I mean, I'm posting all that, you know, thank you, headie head. All right. Let's go ahead and press on with smack down. I want to go ahead and get into one of the other things that we saw that was pretty big actually. And that was that Damien Prius finally, finally broke out of his tag team with our true if they took a loss to the war Raiders and Damien Prius turned on his partner our truth. And I'm going to be honest with you. I could not be happier about this. This tag team was holding him back. I did not care about them. As tag team champions, I'm so sorry, but I just wasn't feeling it. And I think Damien Prius could do so much more. He should be in that pool of, you know, guys. Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down now. Whoa, don't get. Oh, no, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, pump the brakes there. Did he talk about

wrestler? Why can't you talk about the Johnny Gargano? The weapon king. Whoa, whoa, whoa, do you not see it? Are you not a decreased? No, I love Damien Prius the red hood. I slow down the hood. I come down now, now, come down now. So respect to the hood. Okay. Um, what's the problem? Okay, just to crowd it. I'm sorry. We can't add another freaking person to the beta. Just me. There's just too many people. No, there's not, but you there is way too many people with Damien. I have no problem with Damien Prius trying to work his way up. I think Damien, because eventually, guys are going to move on to other things and you're going to need new challengers up in the game. I get it. Look, but I think Damien would actually be a great opponent for trick Willie. Like that. Be a solid. I would love that too. I mean, you'd install it like that. You work like I said, work your way up to that. Like you would want people who are like, Oh, Baron Corbin could help trick, but at the end of the day at Damien Prius could

help trick a thousand times more. I'm going to clip this and tag Damien Prius. No, don't do it. Do you like San Cholas? No, stop it. I don't know. And he's like 20 inches taller than you. Oh my God. I've met him. I met him in Nashville at SummerSlam before. And if you I press and he's a nice man. He's a nice smells amazing. So then why are you being a hater, San Cholas? I'm not being a hater. I'm not being a hater. I'd rather see him join Beatherals than Maul because they they're they need who the fuck is Pedro's I said Pedro's that Maul he needs the need to be there. Beatherals. He needs to be there. I'm like, I'm you're scaring me because you said Pedro. No, you have you have you have pull. You have pull. And I need to like chill out. Okay, with my heart. I'll round you. Don't worry. You're lucky. I'm not going to snitch on you. He needs to join perros. They're all okay. He needs to join those babbles. He needs to join them bad boys. You know what I'm saying? Because they don't have a bite anymore without Bronco. Without Bronco, they're not scary in my opinion. I wasn't I wasn't even big

on them winning today. I know everybody's excited about them. Yeah, I mean, they're the new field champion. Yeah, but they don't they just feels like the most goddess us again. You know, without yeah, exactly without them feel like they don't have that grit. I'm sorry. I know. Bronco did with Bronco then they felt scary. They felt raw, but now he's on 946. I'll let you have that one. But Damien Priests on that. Come on. What in that help? I just think that look, I wouldn't mind him doing stuff on Triple A. I think it could be a fantastic market for him to get some popularity there. But I do always feel like, for example, God, when was it? There was a show. I forget. Just go it up. Yeah, he just remembered. Remember the one where they fuck what episode was it where they closed off with Damien Priests? It was like the first episode of something and we it was like a really big deal that day that Damien Priests closed out the episode. Do you remember that? I remember he showed up in Triple A once. No, I'm talking about Smackdown. I'm sorry. I'm talking about Smackdown. It was a really big Smackdown and I forget which one in front of reason. I don't

remember, but it was basically like I remember we closed off that show with Damien Priests. And I remember it was a big deal that day. Can't remember why, but it was something that made you feel like, huh, are they going to do? No, not you, but like overall, it gave the impression that they're going to do for me. Be royal me. No, I do. We're talking about Sancho. I'm just trying to tell you there was a moment when they closed out with Damien Priests and it felt like they were trying to it felt like they were trying to do more with him. Like they were trying to let you know, like, okay, here's the future. We're going to do something with him there. And then it didn't thank you, Carol. Oh my gosh, thank you. The Elastor Black ambulance match. That's the one. Thank you so much. I could not remember what it was. Yes, it was that. And I remember that night, like we closed out with him. It was a big victory. And we gave you the feeling that they were going to do something more with him that they were going to take them seriously. And then he did have that, he did have that awesome few a Drew McIntyre. I love that. But then after all of that, we didn't really see much of anything else other than the art troupe stuff. What happens when you shaved off all the

tag teams, you put single stars together to represent your tag team division and it cost you your spot. Well, it's going to happen our truth. Our truth can our truth can be the now they're going to have to be there being our truth at this point. Damien versus our truth for a bit, right? That's going to happen. Like I hope two weeks and then we can move on. You think the WW wants to move on. Did you see who's challenging trick Williams again? Move on. Oh my gosh. By the way, I was so mad. I saw Baron Corbin go out there again with trick Williams a little yoddy. I thought we were moving on from that. That's not the triple H era. That's Vince's era. Vince would move on after a PLE cycle. We're a big few. You move on to the next thing. But triple H likes to have long vortex stinky feuds and that gets stale. And that's the issue is like we were ready to move on from trick, but you can't blame Baron Corbin. You did it. You beat trick twice. So I think but at the same time what annoys me is like Baron Corbin, you did it to yourself. You could have

beat yoddy. You had it right there and you decided not to beat point I want to make is yes, I agree. I love the meat master Baron Corbin. You can smoke a meat all you want. But I just want to see trick Williams face some new like he's new blood. Give him some fresh faces now. I do agree with that. Yes, we got razor remote 96. A yo. All right. That was my that was my crush back in the day. So, you know, razor remote 96 here says punk bin W a thrustler of the year face champ. I've been I love a lot of his I mean, there was probably only one match I didn't like and that was the match with Cody. But everything else I've loved every match that he's had this stuff that he did on raw and brown breaker then Bauer all the stuff we've seen as a blade. I feel like he's had some really good like there's been a handful of matches that I've thoroughly really enjoyed. I wonder if his new physics and give him a new wrestling style because he's bigger. He's a big boy. Yeah, he's been kind of being he's tried out like a couple little things here and there. But for the most parts the same. We got

Ruder Cung here says. Pedros del Mar is crazy work Latino card revolt. I was dying when you said that. You're scary me. You're you're you're threatening me with your wrestler catalog. I'm not I'm not. You are you're like I'm telling I'm telling you I'm telling Damien. I have no snitch on I will not tell no how can I be free. But if I post your video that's you snitchy easy. That's you snitching. That's what you know, I can't promote our podcast. I got to promote our podcast. Yeah, I got to put our video out there. I don't like my editor on our side wrestling is cool who purposely leaves out like the compliment saying what you know, no, you know, you know, you never let me go like you didn't you didn't say but Royce Keys. I appreciate you. But please leave a never said that. I did never in the video. No, you don't lie. So going back to Damien Priests. I wish they let you be street king. Thank you for much. Please add it to the clip.

Damien Priests. They should let you be street king because it was so cool when you thought you may be the ring general, but I'm the king of the streets. That was awesome. I'm going to check in. So you're going to give your thoughts man. Give your thoughts without being afraid of what they're going to do. That is my thought. Damien Priests should be the street king. Not the we're talking. All right. We got raised a remote 96. It says give flowers to Big Phil. Finn Baller talking about how punk went to the office to get him a better push this year was lit. Man had lit matches at 47 loved and he's hey, I haven't seen that. I didn't see that in Bella said that. That's freaking incredible. Did you see this? How did you you read that as lit? That's fire matches. Come on now. Oh my gosh. Lit fire same thing. Okay. Let's do it. If it was lit and it was fire same exact thing. Okay. I am not going to get into this. I'm going to look this up. Or lit. It's the same thing. Hold on. Or lit. If you said. Oh, fire. Your interview was lit. Awesome. That's different. That's different. Same sentiment.

No, this is the same. No, no, they did the same thing. There's a little bit of a difference. There's a little bit of difference. That's why they're so. Walk me through the difference then. I just look. I'm going to say this. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. If I tell you your shirt is lit, you're going to feel the exact same thing. If I told you, hey, so I'm sure your shirt is fire. No, it's different. You're going to feel the exact same thing. It's a little different. Just chat. Okay. Find. And for the emoji, the emoji. No, it could also mean lit because a fire is lit. Contextual clues when let me say that's fire. Man, the men's had fire matches. The man's had fire match. Not the men's had lit matches. Well, you know what? He's matches have been lit. Okay. Anyway, stop being a hater, Sancho. It's the same sentiment. That's what matters. Okay. There's a little nuance to it. Lit fire are different. Ask Fraser what he had to mean. Do you mean lit or fire, doc? Be real. It's the same sentiment. Okay. He is saying CM Punk's matches are awesome.

Regardless of lit or fire. Okay. Anyway, but I didn't see the Finn Balor stuff about him saying that CM Punk went to the office for him. So I got to look at it. Denise lit up or fired up right now. You know what I'm lit up? They all right. Let's go. All that. You saw that in the eye right here. So it's seen that eye before the eye. Thank you, razor remote 96. We got infamous radio local Frank. He says next up, my raiders win this Sunday against the dolphins and dolphins and three put money at time. Nah, lit means highest fuck. There you go. All of out, but also it can work as fire as fuck. Both right. Let's fucking go. You see fire. AF don't make sense. You see you need you need to cut it out. No, he's right. I never heard fire. AF. Come on now. Come on now. Oh, gosh. Thank you, Frank. Enjoy yourself. It's going to be fire AF. It's going to be lit AF. There you go. That's you. That's that flow. That's you can lose lit. That is why you use the bros emoji. That's why they're different. All right. All right. All right.

Chelsea Green finally defended her title again. So Nia Jack. Isn't it crazy that the WWE would have America lose on 9-11? Isn't that crazy? Jack's wearing American colors. Come on. Here was really nice. Like I want to see her because we usually see her in black. We don't really see her in color. I love seeing her with glitters and sparkles and bright colors. I hope maybe we see a little bit more of that. I remember when she first came back, she had those. She had the white gear too. She had some. Yeah. She did the white. She's done green. She's done purple. She's done blue. But it's always with black, though. It's never just like right the whole way through. It was interesting to see Chelsea win. I you know, the Mexican crowd absolutely like Chelsea. I think it was important for Chelsea to win her first singles match as a champion because for the longest time she would take pins as tag champions. And more importantly, she's listed as a WWE champion now and not the interim champion. So I don't know if that was oversight on their end. But I think they've been doing that actually for a while. Yeah. I think like what's interesting about Chelsea, it's clear they're setting up

Tiffy to be the one that beats her though, right? Yeah, I feel like they have to though, given the story that they've been telling there. All right. Is there anything we haven't touched on on SmackDown? I mean, you can say about Nikki Bella and Paige or Ray Phoenix and Ray Phoenix and Ricky Sains. They think they're that don't don't run over Nikki Bella and Paige. You got to talk about I'm giving you the opportunity. So I'm just saying like a lot of people are dismissing that match online because it was short, right? It was short, but it got straight to the point. And I'm trying to tell people that you could have a five minute match and tell a lot within it. They did a lot of the work on socials though. You saw what happened on socials, right? They've been going back and forth for a while. Yeah, but did you see what Nikki Bella posted right today? What part? That she posted a picture of the new day? Come on and see that. Yeah. Oh, what is she? Oh! Yes, easy, easy, easy. Oh, it's like wait, wait, wait. Yeah, see? Yeah. Last week when she brought that John Cena line up, one of the things that I said during my watch

along was, um, Nikki, if you wanted to throw some shots at page, you have some things that you can throw, but I never imagined that she would mention something about that. No, and she put it on Instagram and says all week, I tried to, I tried hard to get over the thing. Page said to me last Friday on SmackDown, you know what? This morning I thought to myself, it's a new day. Yes, it is. And that made me feel a lot better. What a jerk. That's hilarious. It is hilarious, but, but I got a cr... I got to get credit to Page and Nikki, right? Yeah. They are being professional and they're being, they trust each other and they're bringing like a Diva attitude, like a WWE Diva's vibe back. But a Caddy vibe. Yeah, yeah, back to it, but I liked the fire that Page had right after Gate, and she was, you know, yelling expletives at her and I was like, okay, this is cool. This is different, right? This is not your typical women's match. We have this is leaning more on the motion, which drove it to the point where the baby face kind of got so fired up. So it got fired up that she got, you know, tricked by the heal at the end.

And I liked that and the heal ran away like all that stuff worked for me. So I don't know what people... I think sometimes people think more is better, which I disagreed. Like that match should not go like two segments at all. It was perfectly pace and I enjoyed it and I can't wait to see what's going. I know for me, I've been saying for a long time, Page needs to be in the world title picture because she's still 30 years old. She still has a lot in the tank and she could really like benefit from having the title again with the current roster. I want that, but I don't mind taking this little slide detour, Nikki Bella, if they're willing to trust each other to go even further into whatever they're willing to do because it's working for me. I would definitely be surprised if we saw Page back as a champion. Never say never, of course, but I would be surprised. And the one thing I did like about Nikki and Page today was honestly, we just got to it. It started off hot. I was like, oh, they got really aggressive with each other very fast, but on the outside a little bit.

That part was a little bit, but I think what it is is that people are just not... I think that people are seeing it as a story of the past. It feels like this is the past that we're watching right now. It doesn't feel new because the style of wrestling is not really what you're used to seeing anymore these days with the women. I think it's because the WWE kind of... Kind of like they had to deal with this because of Breeze Injury. And so they had Nikki Bella get replaced with Page and Nikki gave the blessings. And then she takes it back and then she's a upset that her sister got hurt. So the beginning is so complicated and so nodded. That right now it's like, oh, for me, it's just like, oh, wait, now this is developing. This is much more interesting. Let's latch on this for a while. And they just ignored the way it started and just let's focus on this because I'm really shocked. I'm taking it back that you don't think Page could be a world champion together.

I'm not saying she can't. I'm just saying that it would be a little bit of a... How's it stretch? But I'm not saying I didn't use that stretch. I didn't say stretch. You are... I just said I'm not there yet. You have the attitude of a cat about this. I'm trying to call you over to the page as champion. Right, I'm calling you as... I'm adding words that I'm not even saying. Chat, chat. She's acting like a cat. She's acting like a cat right now. I'm just saying... You haven't even let me say anything. I haven't even said anything yet. Every time I try to say those things, you cut me off. The subtext is deep, Denise, but go ahead. Why are you reading subtext? Why? I'm trying to tell you how I feel, but you're still getting the things that I'm not saying. Go ahead. How do you feel? I am just saying that I saw the AW World Championship rain. Okay, I saw what that was. And because of that, I still got to see her work her way back up to that.

I do like a certain style of wrestling. And I like a certain style of like different champions that we're seeing. Like, I love what we see with Tiffany Stratton. I like what we see with Blakeman Rowell from what I saw of her in A.W. because we haven't really seen that here. But the point is that I feel like we got to... She's got to work a little bit of a different style where it's a little bit more believable right now. I'm still getting like Deva's era. And that's why I can't really be there right now until I see something a little bit differently than sure. Oh my god. Do you think that's... No, she's not Deva's era. I mean, she was so modern when she was in the Deva's era. But it's different now, Sanchez. It's different with the Bianca Ballet layers of the world. And all of these other competitors, it's different. The level of competition is different. And that's not like... It's a good thing, by the way, because we have to move forward. It has to continue to grow. And evolution is...

Evolution is me stirring. But no, seriously, we have to grow. So it's a good sign. But if she can keep gun going with what she's doing, you never know. It can go somewhere. I don't know. I feel like her match with JCJing was good. I like her movesets still works. The page turn, the rampage, the PTO. All that works. Maybe if we see her work with different people, then I'll maybe circle back on this. We got Hedgehead here who says, a candle gets lit. Wood gets lit on fire. Thank you, Hedgehead. We got infamous for her local here. Says bring that lit fire over here and spark it. See? We got say you've done here. Says the moths house Dom win the money in the bank. Imagine he like helps. He like puts him on his shoulders. Like a baby and starts climbing up the ladder with him. He'd be like two steps. He'd be right there. I am worried for Dom, though, for Sunday's match. I don't know if he's going to win against a Grande.

And I don't know where he goes. Because it feels like his book is so bad on main roster. Oh, yeah. And I feel like I'll Grande. Americano has to win. Well, I don't not say he has to win, but he kind of has to. I think he has. Yeah, you got to continue the momentum. But he needs to have an opponent. And I don't think Dom would be like that repeatable opponent. There needs to be a new challenger. I'm hoping that I think what's so good about the Undertaker's book, and maybe that he he's already created a great baby face in Grande. Maybe Chad help him help some Sunday. That'd be cool. All right, that's fair. All right, thank you, Syeeve. All right, guys, with that being said, that is our show for today. Oh, you hungry. I'm hungry. I'm so hungry, guys. Like, oh, man, I'm ready to go eat. Okay, because it's going to be lit when I go into my kitchen right now and get my snacks. All right, so I'll tell the people where they can find you. You can find me at San Jose Wrestling on YouTube. Find me an IG at San Joe West for fraud.

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