Who Makes It To The King & Queen Of The Ring Finals? | WWE Raw Preview (May 20 2024)

The Dadley Boyz are back to preview Monday Night Raw as the King & Queen of the Ring semi-finals get under way… and it’s LIVE!

e e hello and welcome to the raw preview Live on YouTube We Are The dadly Boys of what culture I’m Adam wilborne joined by Michael Michael srick here’s a look at to tonight’s episode I said I was going to screw up of Monday Night Raw it’s hard having a kid get enough sleep um but before we get into it if you’re a fan of this sort of thing make sure you subscribe to what cult wrestling on Apple podcast Spotify Amazon music and YouTube where we do daily wrestling podcast where we not only review but also show for known as NXT 2. aw Collision pay-per-views premium Live Events we have interviews Round Table discussions and a round of of the week complete quiz of course on Wrestle culture as I said though joined by HL and sidek to look ahead to Raw tonight thank you to everyone who’s joining us live on YouTube as I said we will get to your questions in due course but it’s the go home show ahead of King and Queen of the Ring tonight I don’t mind asking the big questions can the FED bounce back that’s what I want to know after a difficult Smackdown can the King of the Ring I found it easy the tournament of the year can it recover the form it had before Friday night’s disaster that’s what I want to know this Gunther J Uso match does Gunther work a miracle or does J Uso drag gun through into the sewer with the rest of his singles opponents I cannot wait to see great M last time uh I think it was overrated but uh I think it was one of Gunther’s week of matches he hasn’t I don’t care I don’t care one bit but I don’t think it was one of his stronger matches um so I think the pressure is on a little bit with gun here to have that like middle of the IC run shamess adjacent magic with J Uso can can he do it that’s the I think he’ll win but more importantly the test of like how good this match can be that I I’m glued like I cannot wait to see how this turns out um length that’s why you’ve got to treat WWE to do this I was I dead dead put WWE over at the expense of aw’s TV booking at some point last week I think whenever and he got to keep WWE at arms length at all times I’m sorry because I was talking about how kind of bold it was to have Jay Uso who’s incredibly over to the vast majority of WWE fans who are actually in the buildings and parting money with their cash vastly more over right now than Ilia dragonov there was that weird fake feror this bad faith madeup thing about how dragov shouldn’t have done the job and I said it’s good that a WWE booed this TV match because every now and then on TV you need something unpredictable and dare I say it bold and that weekend way it felt like you know what WWE deserves credit for just going out there clean finish someone lost someone Advanced whatever then what happens on Smackdown which does have a point because it informs my cynicism which I should never have let go of ahead of Monday Night Raw tonight of well there’s always another option you can either and WWE and aw went to these extremes across the weekend you can either just do well this guy’s goingon to lose so why we watching it or Well’s going to do a really cowardly terrible finish that makes one or both of the wrestlers involved in the singles wrestling match look like morons La Knight succumb to a distraction finish GH terrible looks like an idiot his stock isn’t where it was last year this sort of finish will not help and then Nia Jax looks like an idiot for introducing a weapon and missing because she would have got herself disqualified or she should have got herself disqualified on Smackdown and then Jade car looks like an idiot for using the weapon and just losing even if she was you know um what’s the word I’m looking for here felt like she was 14 years provoked that’s the word cowardly booking on one channel just predictable booking on the other I did not not have a good time with the grabs uh this weekend and unfortunately this tains my anticipation I wouldn’t have had much anyway ahead of Jay Uso versus Gunther because now I’m thinking bad Finish class on bad finish clock s is blaring in my heed I like that you so you’ve had the go W I’ll give you a go and then you feel let down by it that’s the reverse of that a guys are feelings back I should have learned this lesson decades ago every now and then I forget and I just get oh other can just do crap finishes sorry WWE I expected more and more fool me now bars higher like expectations are rising like the tide of the business like it’s if anything it’s getting a little bit flat isn’t it turn out there’s a WWE boom everything Sur they like it they like it that way historically actually we still talking about J yeah who do you think wins well bad finish or otherwise I am going to watch usually like with a lot of pro wrestling on TV these days should be a monthly product in my opinion that’s where I’ve shifted I’ll just watch it like Bley eyed if my eyes are open somewhat like pistol in the snow I watch it like a rodent it’s early hours of the morning like that and then punk red the tiny bit to my eyes that are open I glazed over because I know who’s going to win and quite frankly the matches are better on pay-per-view and I’m haven’t been given enough to emotionally invest in this match on TV roden’s eyes glazed over barely awake this one I’ll be like they’re a little bit more open yeah because I don’t know who’s going to win and there’s a you know a business case for either result either Gunther can be the King of the Ring ultimately um win the tournament outright and it reinforces this dude still awesome he’s a future world heavyweight champion it’s inevitable it’s just a case of when not if or they could go full ball with this new bloodline and king of tamatanga right Dad Dr dad has got that royalty and that’s a nice touch the problem with that is the new bloodline stink and I want to talk about that briefly because this is going to be a three star match with probably a bad finish there that goes my preview this new bloodline is uh rapidly approaching joke territory for me the idea and it got Meed to death because tamatanga sounded like an [ __ ] doing his H well do you want to do an impression we did it on their Smackdown review as well like I just described it as um Joe pesi in Home Alone not being able to swear [Music] yes the idea and it is laughable to me is that tamat Tonga is meant to be this unhinged Aura of violence is imminent be scared he’s going to get his M to distract you that is how unhinged this guy is I think you are are meant to receive this new bloodline in much the same way as you would have received Terry Funk Prime as a heel yeah Mick Foley you don’t know what you’re getting like you don’t what you’re dealing with when he’s on the loose you’re meant to think these guys are scary abroad he stiffed on a payout yeah like you’re meant to fear these people you’re meant to worry about that which they’re capable they’re they’re crap and they’re not intense and they’re not scary and it’s comedic and that’s your big soer on Smackdown really not into it at all I thought this week was terrible I backed it for the most part really like the developments most important thing was even if you don’t feel it it wasn’t like the booking wasn’t doing a good job of obscuring that these can kind of be goons and Geeks and then in one week I just saw so much of it in one go the backstage segment was cringe worthy just found the whole thing embarrassing not just the Tonga noise the the interaction between solo and Paul Heyman I thought was really weak as well Paul Heyman is really abusing his scared of Roman Reigns face badly with this new bloodline I don’t even mind the story and I think the fans I think the story is we Roman chance there every week solo Lon we assume the they are opening the door for all performance this like the really cool baby face pop that people anticipating for Roman for the reunification of the Usos for Usos there’s so many versions of these pops it’s like all this cool stuff again one after another after another you’ve seen the way that Triple H books to suggest that you’re going to get them like Bit by Bit by Bit there’s loads of cool weeks of Stories the story is not bad establish them but this for me was a major misfire of a week that I was 100% don’t disagree with anything you said about La night as well like uh it’s all there on the smackdown preview any you want to listen to it like a really terrible week all the way around for them um especially because the tamat Tonga deal was well if you’re going to do smoke and mirrors every time like the backlash match we might have something here like don’t do a god tag match that’ll that’ll immediately reveal the reality of these wrestlers the Jacob Fatu debut already feels like it’s got more pressure on it like those happening well those that know know that if and when he comes in he’s going to kick ass from the off the whole story that went round around solo seoa having to be primed in such a way as if so that fans don’t go out of the way you as soon as they they going to anyway and they’re going to anyway yeah um but this was like the weirdest pivot this week for them to become I like Bor Line Comedy goon heel stable and it kind of inadvertently they I thought it was a really nice detail at the end of this Smackdown but it wasn’t it isn’t worth it if you don’t keep them violent Randy Orton basically was saying I’m not afraid of this bloodline as if to imply you’re nothing compared to Roman and The Usos those were guys that you had to worry about these are not you are not those people so now I guess what he’s doing is daring them and there’s clearly multimatch coming down the line probably featuring La Knight um and a few others you were suggesting for like a four on four or five on five at some point that is your opportunity to put them across as an actual threat but you have to be really careful in the in room that you don’t reduce them to Comedy running buddies of tamama or Solo or whatever inadvertently they want you to take them seriously impossible really really bad week for them I think to to fold it back to the raw preview I think there is a chance they run in tonight cu the but there’s a draft sadly sadly there’s a you know where that’s coming from s the door being left open for the bloodline to walk right through right Jimmy was there to interfere on gun’s behalf last time we already know that J Uso can come this close to beating Gunter and just can’t get it done so I think they might lay that on quite thick and say well Jimmy we know Jimmy’s not around j’s got nothing nothing to worry about this time like Ludi Kaiser has been taken care of or whatever and the bloodline could interfere to allow Gunther through and then you tell the story in the background it’s not about just screwing Jimmy for screwing Jimmy’s sake they think they they doubt themselves against him and I think that might be like what they’re trying to do with having them as like like Randy Orton being able to stand them off it’s like what is the threat of this bloodline like I think at the moment Tonga makes mad noises I think they’re trying to tell the story but they got that all wrong this week for me it’s one of those the opposite of the problem I usually have with wrestling I can never be happy I don’t mind the story yeah in fact I think it could be quite good this bloodline Civil War deal the the performances are so bad like wretched yeah I didn’t I didn’t like the Tonga no well I did it funny but uh I I did argue that I’m going to let it play out on this week’s Smackdown because I think Gunther wins tonight I think you’re getting Gunther Randy Orton uh King of the Ring final uh in Saudi love that by the way that’s a good that’s a final that’s a match we booked for the IC title for a period at WrestleMania yeah if you’re not getting Brock the only way that people will buy gun B you be losing his an RKO out of nowhere by the way Sports Wass worked yeah um correct it does but I think I think uh yeah so I think Gunther wins tonight Randy Orton and they they’ve established as throughout this tournament Tonga only wins his matches not for me I won’t be watching will be Tong has interference in every single one of his matches think of big Keith in the office there that’s um Angelo Dawkins lost because they Simone spiked uh TZ on the outside La Knight was distracted by that I think they’re going to try and run it again in the semi-finals and this is where Kevin Owens La Knight people they’ve wronged in the past maybe even the street profits get involved to draft cost tamatanga they’re all in SmackDown yeah they’re all Smackdown all Smackdown um cost T not tonight next this is so you’re talking about as well um and uh and then Randy ought in advance as a result of it and you can set up some multi man match maybe for clash at the castle or something which they have to win yeah that might be where you debut Jacob Fatu arguably um in the Queen of the Ring semi-final it is lra valky versus EO Sky uh with the Spectre of damage control and obviously Becky Lynch ly’s mate potentially getting involved we assumed off the back of some uh decent Eagle eyed reporting that it was going to be L valky versus tiffan Str um in the final that’s not the case Nia is going to be the queen but who’s going to lose to her in Saudi so who wins this match still L yeah yeah um yeah the the Tiffany Stratton thing all speculation feels like a punishment and they’ve gone with the next best thing and like n Jax is a you want to slot heal in that spot she gets she’ll my God probably beat Bianca B because this injured KNE yes she’s Adam willne’s favorite wrestler on and they’ve already made the render of L valkiria in a Saudi Arabia gear and didn’t free o Sky yeah so it feel and like look all that aside cuz it did feel like accidentally revealed that this SL valkia push has gone better than we probably all SL like sloppy photo shop good nice like bird persons had a good run on Raw who saw that coming like like they’ve had a tied to Becky Lynch as a way to get a little bit of the rub from a star by mentioning that she’s beaten her in the past she’s just like fans back winners we’ve always said this stars are ready for the big time she’s arrived looking and feeling like a winner nice brogress trying to do my bit on the camera the the office bit Jim look this [ __ ] got to work with all time like perception dog over perceptions reality and hard dog more like all get to it uh I reckon obviously Li of alier relatively new to the main roster having been in and around WWE fans so many nice ones in Philadelphia take me back they do what’s wrong with the ones here that’s him you just talking all the time about Smackdown how great it is it’s crap affecting the Integrity of this podcast and the good taste havs on it um they tend to go right impresses yeah it’s a it’s a that’s a difference between a WWE Fan and aw fans I’ve heard of you and I’ve watched you welcome to Dynamite’s class that you here the main Rossell was very much like who are you wait till the end and he might impress us draging off perfect example of that where’s my mafia guy valkiria will have a little while yet before she gets fully embraced and over there’s just no such thing as like oh God I love you you really impressed me in that match it just it will take a while it’s how WWE wrestlers historically get over but what I’m getting at is that we she was really impressive against Zoe stock the most you can hope for if you are a live your type at the stage in your WWE run it’s that you can hear a red piss and C for the first seven minutes of your match and then the last five it’s like I’m going to get up for this um this will not be a star making performance such a thing does not exist with the way that these NXT wrestlers are presented in WWE pretty half hardly quite frankly uh it’s a weird Triple H one um the best you can hope for is a hot 5 minutes and I think the talent is there for this to actually happen and I just love watching EOS Sky wrestle so great uh I think they’re going to try and kill two birds with one stone here although they’re not going to kill her because she’s going to win lra valky is going to win but there will also be damage control involvement SL Shenanigans which will be counteracted by Lara vy’s best mate Becky Lynch who’s going to get chinned by Liv Morgan because they’re also F wait a second you’ve promoted two big matches for the pay-per-view of using that M Dove tail him with a bird character as the crow flies watch it watch it that’s why you have to watch NXT am I right wilborne exactly because if you watched NXT you would see the Friendship form between uh Becky Lynch and Li valkiria and you get the funny moment of Li valkiria going look at me Becky am I doing great in the ring and Becky on commentary was just like yeah yeah doing great really cringe it was really awkward was it yeah you would have never imagined the whole plan was she’s going to beat her for the title when they were setting up that way would you yeah um the other match advertised for tonight is Sami Zayn versus Chad Gable ahead of uh the triple threat obviously for the uh IC title but my question to you guys is Will alfha Academy embrace the dark side why is 2012 Kane The Velvet Underground of pro wrestling it’s very true I no but they’re not going to obviously but that’s in service of a better thing we reckon s what the AL Academy creep oh oh oh my God here’s something when you podcast every week every day in fact Monday or Friday is that you realize how Bloody slow the WWE booking is when you realize how many times I get asked the same question and give the same answer yes it’s some point chard Gable is going to um align with the Creed Brothers what you reckon Rock s prz are going to do on the main roster though that’s the big question it’s like Christmas is it you know when like you’re a kid and you’re just really excited about your favorite present so you kind of keep bringing up in conversation every day like that’s w be all it’s awesome that man like honestly my youngest getting her a foot spot I got her a foot spot for the birthday for the month it was like still getting a foot Spar yeah I know that’s like we see how good you are like talking about the Creeds joining Gable or whatever cool WWE stories taking place that week it’s one of the few you know when you get like a physical object for your children you’re like batteries oh you have to get up from downstairs and do it YouTube’s right there YouTube’s always there the foot spot every single weekend morning boom let’s have a relax finally get your bloody money worth out of that freaking Foot Spa going to make an effort you know I told you my youngest is still plowing through those diary with Wimpy Kid books I just like keep those books coming cuz like’s like oh great reading like he’s finally found that like one series of books he loves also means quite time for us so uh just a bunch of Dubs keep at it dubs dubs dubs yeah how do you see this match going what match is this well it’s going to be awesome but I hate it yeah it’s it’s going to be what match is this Zan Gable Chad Gable versus Sami z a Tade a Tade but again finish this is it because back out of a good finish for a worse match like who cares about that triple who cares about who cares about Bronson Reed like a do I yeah I like him like a tsunami every now and again I went to the raw after WrestleMania and I know the answer zero he’s harsh that is Harsh I I mean I heard it he’s been pushed loads he’s had he’s never connected he has every Big Man match he has every secondary title match he does all these things I’m not saying there isn’t a role for Bronson R there the roster is not so stacked that you can’t yet find that just clicks like wrestling’s weird stuff just clicks he can be good and not click yeah and that’s probably where re is set at and as a third man in this for he’s got offline ah yeah he said about this I haven’t seen those tweets awward online like the just very gotten to wasn’t this match the thing that you were preserving by including Bronson Reed in it this singles match is kind of what you were able to save by having Bronson Reed in the middle and if he wasn’t looking like the most powerful of the of the three so that when Sami Zayn beats him Gable like Gable’s got Brunson beat with a suplex whatever and then Sami Zayn mops up and he T G’s like sh have been me like was it not in the preservation of this specific singles match that why hang on why talking about Bron is it Sami Zayn versus CH Gable tonight yeah and the triple threat existed to delay this didn’t it that’s all we thought why why we talking about Bronson re I’m confused cuz that’s happening at King of the Ring yeah so you got the threee King of the Ring but in the meantime you’ve got the single Watch which what this is it it’s I don’t get it Chad G was going to kick the crap out of Sami Zayn tonight and try and get the alfha academy to help him to weaken him ahead of the pay-per-view well own go I and I think that’s the whole point is tonight this is that’s that’s po booking that does he care about this he should I think it’s no booking he should care about this S I was thinking on own go of Le was thinking like because he’s an OG DX yeah I think maybe tonight’s the night that the AL Academy say we’re not doing this anymore he’s say you need to kill him and he then o is going to get upset and he’s going to slap him because they got such sympathy for o last week yeah that was one of the few good things about raw and then hang on and let’s not say things we don’t mean uh and then I so they’re not there at the pay-per-view and then Gable loses so he has to get the Creeds and then things he says all right off the back of that we’re having a meeting on Raw CU you not being there is probably the reason why I didn’t win because you could have stopped Sami Zayn from getting back in whatever it may be uh and it’s a swerve so he can kick him out of the group I love it we’re back stick with me you’ll do well speaking of embracing the do side though uh as we continue to all the time the final Testament they’re going have the questions they’re going have a Kofi questions now I’m talking about carrying cross they any questions about caring cross I don’t think so he did a video um a little while back then it was just after WrestleMania so he’s like he’s sitting in his dark room and H how did WrestleMania go we lost how did that other big match we had we lost and he’s just like recounting all these losses but he says let’s take a look at the clues and it’s like what happened to Drew McIntyre what happened to ro any wrestler he’s ever shared any screen time with he’s basically tied like their losses to at one time we brushed up against him that one time he saw my leather jacket from a distance and now look at him so he’s like claiming all of these scalps he just working his own bit lame I mean Kofi won’t turn heel will he well but you know what I think we’re going to be left asking that very question tonight after an interaction with a one Mr Cross [Music] final question about raw and then we’ll get to the the wonderful questions in the YouTube Community are we going to get Braun breaker just killing someone tonight feels like he’s going to snap any time because it keeps getting overlooked and Postman Pi keeps patting him on the head and be like you w ready for it but you’ll be fine this is weird isn’t it it is weird it is weird I don’t love it um he was decimating guys on Smackdown was taken from that from like that run of squashes where like people were measuring his speed the clips of the Ring moving when he hit the ropes and stuff like that and Postman P has gone I’ll draft him it’s like now I’ve got him I’m going to bench him he like in KF all over the place this one um so he rolls him out for a squash tonight like so what why not do that a few weeks ago it feels like there’s a a story incoming but I can’t work out what it is it’s not uh psco and you know what I realized was best for you was tag wrestling so here’s Baron Corbin cuz he went to SmackDown they would have had him on the quiet beond like the you know that non-drafted wrestler list that randomly exists on ww.com they at least had him there but it’s not going to be a wolf dogs thing as he found him a new tag partner does he think does he want to put him into the Tag Division like is he preserving him for for what for money I don’t know like I be good money in the bank challenge he would be but that’s like another sort of month yeah two months away whatever it is it’s feeling illogical and I’d like that I’d like the reveal this is the thing we review every week then sometimes there’s a a plot Point like oh yeah that makes total sense now I’d like it if whatever the point was tonight made sense of this last two three weeks cuz it it just doesn’t you’ve drafted like a top tier guy and in the KFA rules at the moment over on Smackdown yeah he’s lost to Randy Orton but he’s like Carmelo here is putting in pretty credible Shi in this new version of this character he’s a total [ __ ] like an obnoxious [ __ ] it doesn’t matter that he has these mid like two and a quarter star matches anymore because that’s his like his gimmick is that he believes himself to be the best he can buy it way more than this Brun breaker who’s like how was Postman pce and an office door stopping that Bron breaker I need a reason I need like something to make a bit more sense here yeah it’s a weird weird push not a push at all well let’s get to the questions thank you to everyone who’s joined us live on YouTube and uh thank you for your donations of course uh hi to Matt Reigns who says good afternoon Brothers hope you all had a great weekend man city of scum Collision was goated well part of it anyways check out the Collision review for all Breaking the world transfer record on a goalkeeper and Defender like that sorry I cried cried way more I cried way more than a grown man should at Klo send off enjoy the rest of your gl’s gone I’m sorry Matt I just do like ygen klopp he’s a rank hypocrite and a bully and a thin skinned man if he was in charge of I would I would adore him so I understand where you’re coming from is he sticking around the Premier League or not now apparently he says he will never take another job in the Premier League wow cuz he says he might he can’t say that he’ll never go back to management but he’ll he’s saying for now with some certainty never again in England he’s developed too much of an affinity uh with Liverpool Football Club because it means more am I the principle of that specific statement until he goes back he goes back right fine man united till like the second half of the Season then I’ll definely yeah uh Cass says Hey guys if gun wins King in the ring and gets a title shot do you think that’s him out of the running for money in the bank and the Royal Rumble money in the bank yes I think we’ll already know before the Royal Rumble like I would make gun to the world champion by the end of this year heels having belts around Christmas is good because then you can start lining up your baby faces you want to see challenge at WrestleMania and what potential bit of fantasy booking you get to do around Rumble season if gun’s got a title that’s an instant potential night one headliner if gun’s got a belt and the way to be fair the way Triple H has lined up baby faces the last couple years they’ll probably be a handful of them we talked a little bit about this on the the smackdown review I said Queen n should uh immediately challenge bayy because then you’ve got bayy versus n Jax in Glasgow good stuff United Kingdom sort of cheating but it gets there eventually yeah I’d just have Gunther winking in the ring and say I’m not going to call my shot clash of the castle or money in the bank or any of that we’re in Berlin in a few months time that’s where I want my title show whoever’s the champion who was that Matt Reign’s question that was kaz’s question what did Matt Reigns just say hello he just was upset about Klo leaving oh I’m sorry thank you for your continued support you’re a legend what was the question the next question uh if gun WIS King in the ring is he out of the running for money in the bank in the rumble you’d hope so it’s weird right because you shouldn’t say necessarily that Gunther is above money in the bank because the person who wins money in the bank should be someone who can go win that title so no one should be a above it do you know what I mean it just feels like not the way for Gunther um I’m in agreement if it wasn’t so well foreshadowed and all but reported that it’s going to be Cody rhods versus the rocket WrestleMania 41 out a million per pull that goddamn trigger on Cody rhods versus CM Punk it’s the big thing to build towards for the remainder of the Year obviously that’s not happening and it feels WrestleMania sized don’t waste it CM Punk versus world champion G oh my God is your night one to that night two my God in Vegas oh my God guys [ __ ] off just yeah I wouldn’t come home uh sorry before we do the next question cyric’s reminding me it feels like an opportune time for us to speak about it because we haven’t even discuss the desk we haven’t even done the RO riddle either oh thank you can we just talk for a second on the latest in The Adventures of Brian oh my God what an idiot you see Brian gor at his latest comments you know every time they speak they contradict themselves now or like let’s say for example I know like uh love love Dave love Dave melts we say this all the time but let’s say he just gets some information of somebody don’t know Dwayne J that’s too obvious D Johnson no we need one them for Mr DJ one them like for nicknames let’s just go the great one um but yeah like every time a new story comes out where they think this will get AC this will clean the best it gets worse for them like Brian G wors his latest deal was uh yeah con kind of messed it up guys Cody was supposed to say yeah I had a buy rock you go get him when he was taking away the opportunity he’ work two years to claim I’ll say your words does not he couldn’t pick a baby face out of a lineup right even if fans were cheering for them which often happened for his tenure as lead writer of that of Ruthless aggression ran right he’s still got a knack of like a turn of phrase or a bit of dialogue can’t push a guy can write a good line for them yeah Cody you know he was meant to be like yeah go get him Rock go get him instead he looked like someone taking his dog out in the parking lot and shot in the face like that is I mean it’s a good turn of phrase he had to cover himself didn’t he and like it was just could have been real I’ve met him he’s a real guy a real guy no [ __ ] Brian what an idiotic thing to say yeah like the whole idea is that was no way of making Cody look good in that segment it was only this completely me we like him in real life doesn’t matter how he performed in that segment that was the only way Cody got away with this rule that you couldn’t right perfectly if like that’s even if this was the story surely if Cody RS the character was like it’s probably for the greater good this if we can get rid of the bloodline and get rid of the tribal Chief thing and Roman becomes a bit more Mortal or whatever then it you know what I mean I’m talking I’m too weak to do it but I you know the guy I’m talking in circles about how bad it is but maybe it’s like right it is with a heavy heart that I agree that The Rock should be the the one to claim the island of relevancy I mean stupid but I’m talking about it that maybe would have a bit more worked than get out go go on Rock you’re better than me and you can do it I believe in you rock I’m your mascot can you imagine if he done that can you imagine if he’ done that can you imagine pitching that it’s a good idea can and can you also Imagine I can imagine Rock pitching it as a goody idea yeah cool idea for you sorry the rumble fantastic teas going to be my biggest fan yeah let’s go out there and give him hell can you um like this is why under his penmanship obviously Vince was a bigger deal we couldn’t write a baby face to save his [ __ ] life Brian the words and I watched it unfold for years every time one of them speaks it’s like this will fix the mess looking forward to the documentary Dro in this will clear it all up for the guys out there in the IWC that feel like they need a bit more we’ll give them a bit more information go on go on get him Rock kick Roman’s ass can you imagine him doing this uh imagine the arrogance of are you going to be the are you going to cheer The Rock on kid cody pulls out I’ve got something in my pocket seven bucks oh my God what if he handed in seven bucks yeah on the raw after WrestleMania that’s his money that’s the amount of money he had Steve Nicola kouis oh lovely okay Edward Edward shazan in the chat couple of questions for us he says good day um who is your wrestling doubleganger Hamlet is obvious he looks like WWE’s Bret Hart thank you Steve Edward Shar hands we we saw this just as we were wrapping the Collision review s have you settled on any yet I mean the Larger than Life telegenic athlete don’t really have a doler gang with one of them I mean Spike Dudley maybe you would have had straightened hair yeah I could a bit straw like featless under glass is just the way I like it just the way you remember maybe a bit maybe a bit of Spike Dudley I know sa Rios for me I think thoughts orange hair on the game once and I was like who’s this uh Sheamus if you crossed him with Colin Delaney yes there you go uh also Steve says also congrats to Ruby Soho and Coan an y congrats to them they got married over the weekend of course what is your favorite wedding tradition every Australian is the Eagle Rock dance which is sacred what is that no idea I’ll Google that what your H that’s drink is not for everyone but it’s a really good piss up like I I love a wedding and absolutely great night do of a wedding loveely Just A really lovely time done like done well and most of them are like my wedding like night do where like you can’t have everybody there in the day it can be quite an expensive deal so it’s people you haven’t necessarily seen for a while people come together those I don’t necessarily love always bringing groups together but weddings are an exception I think there’s a magic in the air on those nights and I like a night do even even if like you’re not drinking or it doesn’t booze enough to be part of it but there’s something about the vibe of a wedding night do that I just think is always right yeah we don’t we don’t really it’s just get pissed off some food MH that’s it I love it though to go my wedding year is over like it happens in your 30s really I’m still in my 30s still in my 30s we’re our 30s we’re all in our 30s um 17 mates I expect to get married by now have got married yeah then you get into the 40s and 50s and there like round twos and stuff like oh about the first ones uh the eagle Eagle Rock dance is um a famous song apparently everyone stands around in a big circle starts chanting it oh sorry I should should also say that the men have their pant around their ankles whilst they do it this there was like a viral video to do with this Eagle Rock dance a little while ago and I can’t remember I feel like it might have come up on this podcast but I can’t remember why I feel like it might have featured Smackdown podcast I can’t remember talking about this I uh I always like to organize some games on whatever table I’m on at a wedding the best it’s made about you get pops I’m picturing world the day the day that I get pops that’s what a wedding is that’s what somebody else’s wedding is it’s it’s gambling mainly on the best man speech the length of the best man speech I thought you were like you up on like the kidy table like right okay I’m going to put my fingers like this and you’ve got a flick that napkin over the top we’re going to Rubble it into a ball hey he loves Uncle Adam that’s happened isn’t it you’ve had those weddings who wants to dance on Uncle Adam shoes I put my shoes on my knees a quiz in your pocket right 10 questions on your mom and dad I did do a quiz at the last wedding I was at but that was because there was just like loads of those like it’s was like a movie everyone had to put like their favorite movie as a thing and then Mo there was a movie questions thing and they said Adam you’re in a boat are you host right okay fine off comes a jacket it’s a sparkling jacket give me a mic far the bright give it here uh right before we go any further I should do a bit of uh admin because obviously this is the raw preview podcast tomorrow we will reveal the answer but for now let’s let’s play the Jingle the raw riddle doing well with this recently but gents what has many keys but can’t open a single lock yeah I know it yeah well if you think about it leave it with you work it over in the old Noggin and uh we’ll reveal the answer on the raw review podcast tomorrow nog in some exercise kic says Cody not wanting it devalues the US belt but the segment was strong between that King the ring with nice subplots heal Gable and live Dom good build to a PL all right I it’s it’s been all right um the Cody Logan thing did not sit well with me at all clearly there’s been a change in Direction a change in plans there spent a week like promoting it and getting your hype for it and it was a better match for it it really was like title for title no chance Cody was losing these things never work though no it’s always like well I wanted that belt last week this week n don’t care I can’t be asked actually he has a tournament see you later guys C his motivation was regle did that with Kei great choice Keith you want to fight for both belts great choice you want to drop one of those belts had no idea what was going on desperation like Cody’s motivation was proper ultimately like I know I know I said to finish the story turns out it’s the second story it’s a Twist I want to be a grand slam Champion I haven’t done that and this is a great way to do it uh and then this week seen as they had to come up with a reason why so like Logan Paul just tears a contract and all that Cod he’s like now I don’t like you because you’re not a wrestling fan did you even know that war games 92 took place here Yeah it’s you’re just a gatekeeper that’s why you want to beat Logan Paul it was better when Cody wanted to fight for a title like’s he’s good at that really good don’t they all say the same thing to Logan Paul ultimately and he literally said that I’ve heard that I’ve heard this before and then he kicks ass and then he kind of belongs more even if he was outclassing people in certain respects the most important respects from day one yes the first time his eyes CL like caught the hard camera at WrestleMania like oh okay you’re better than 40 guys yeah I did like it though because that made me think okay he’s probably holding that us title till SummerSlam which means he’s not unfortunately going to be missing money in the bank however Sami Zayn’s probably going to drop the IC title before money in the bank ifo facto money in the bank I love that he still shooting for that it’s so [ __ ] he’s just beating gun through at WrestleMania it’s like I think it’s time for the Money in the Bank Step Up Guys and he’s like been saying oh yeah Triple H doesn’t really see me as world champion I see what you’re doing s trying car also says with overlapping arcs fleshed out characters and good foreshadowing a device wrestling often messes up the FED storytelling has graduated past basic and trumped aw over the last 18 months in my opinion I agree but I think it’s less of a bad faith argument than it might once have been with those end the year review podcast last year I said it then I felt it I still believe it now like I think the last 18 months have been strong I think there was a period of it’s why I was a bit like earnestly it’s why I was disappointed with Smackdown like my expectations have got higher this whole King of the Ring Queen of the Ring We were talking about them as people are winning people are losing it’s not killing careers um it’s not for everybody this is the thing as well the Triple H booking patterns are not for everybody does make you wait but the more Pops that have been revealed from some of these massive the the bloodline thing sums it up it really does the stuff that people are expecting to happen that almost definitely will because that’s how that’s Triple H is pretty predictable but you look forward to it nonetheless like these Pops that were speculating on are the reason to get this bloodline heal group hot and nobody thinks like that unless you for me nobody thinks like that unless you’ve had the last year plus of like good to like Great Moments similar to it I don’t know if I’ll feel as hot on the FED as I did for like the summer of 2023 on those RWS couldn’t wait for them to come around haven’t had that as much this year but it’s it is still good let see how long it lasts it’s funny you said it was going to be the season finale at Wrestlemania 40 but well I mean it wasn’t the evidence of SmackDown I don’t disagree broadly that WWE has done a fantastic job of energizing and growing its base nor I disagree that AWS left me personally quite flat I however would struggle to find a better example across both companies of the use of force shadowing then what the books wore to come out for the entrance at Revolution the business cards falling from the rafters no one was saying I definitely aarda then a few people started to make the connections and they used to fall shadowing with the idea that they would be the EVPs and oh you can’t go on like that you cannot behave like that we’re going to find you we’re going to find you we’re going to find you then Eddie Kingston being the guy who is in fact in anak in the arena coming out being the exact kind of character would hold on to that have the money in his hand go I’ll pay my f in advance for kicking your ass right now that money going onto the canvas and then Matthew Jackson picking it up and making it literally rain all over the rain maker Kuchar rard as he’s revealed to be the newest member of the new Elite aw still do foreshadowing better than a WWE You could argue that it’s more important that WWE do do the more emotional stuff with the success of the Zay Gable Gunther Intercontinental title division but foreshadowing aw still does a better everyday the godamn week for me it’s more elegant in aw like I like the foreshadowing in WWE but the idea like we’ll have something probably every week on Raw that we’ll be able to say oh that’s it’s usually just some [ __ ] talked in the background we that’s a good example of the bad kind like we think that is happening because oh they’ve kind of revealed this with this idiot in the background I would use live Morgan do example good one at the moment but it’s still not like if it had only been the bandana in the pocket but then it was like are they’re coming out the same locker room and it’s that that’s not foreshadowing that’s just telling of a story you seeing that story that’s fine that’s fine too but yeah like aw do it on a more elegant level but WWE do do it at least now and it’s not like remember the old foreshadowing and it wasn’t foreshadowing it was just Vince likes this thing this week that was good oh maybe that’s going to lead to that doesn’t like it anymore so got it he got it yeah yeah so like they they’re doing it but I like when you get it in aw I think it’s still the peak of it and that’s like one of the things to enjoy most in wrestling as well the elite especially they’re the best of it they’re the best of it uh Mimi buris it’s her birthday today 26 today happy birthday for all us here at says hi guys I turned the dreaded 26 today come on Mimi pretty good apparently I share a birthday with human scum Road dog oh sorry so sorry to hear that H do you guys share your birthdays with wrestlers well I think that means it’s it’s time to play the game time to play time to play a [Music] game which wrestler do you share your birthday with I I know mine and I’ll give you a clue if you like I know mine and I know I’ll give you a clue if you like I know not sure I know mine why Google it while we do this I’ve got it here I can I can I don’t you know his birthday no no no I’ve got the dates so it’s it’s 10 days after April 30th correct because he said it was 10 days after WrestleMania WrestleMania This Year’s or next year’s on 420 so I think I’ve just remembered mine as well right give us a clue then wilborne for yours start us off um this person did rather well at the elimination chamber 2020 pay-per-view shut up man are you joking just double checko after all these years I have to dread and run from your birthday because of chaina Basler indeed that’s nice also you know on April 7th I always think oh it’s going to be my birthday soon Gibson birthday I think on my birthday sorry I know you love to talk about this but I just love dance do a bit for the listeners for the viewers that was the other one for my birthday no you were talking [ __ ] yourselves uh Nicholas yes what about me uh what who you oh you give us a clue for yours I can the person I share birday with you would associate with a weapon and Steve Blackman Steve black if you couldn’t hear that he said he had he uh the person associating themselves with a weapon that’s lethal by the way in case people can pick that up so mind don’t remember Hamlet okay it’s audio think of this person is a lot more tough than I am and when in fact if you knew anything about me hey the comparison a great deal knowing who I am and what I’m about orary cynical miserable who is my wrestling doppelganger in terms of demeanor and we happen to share the same birthday C again so ordinary completely miserable prick to the point where have you ever been happy about anything see I’m Punk no someone better than him better heel uh well well so nobody then you sure you about there with nobody in wrestling oay Anderson oh that’s a good one uh oh if you were born a day early what’s uh his catchphrase I believe it’s uh Titus world still loves it he still loves it here uh pay Roy said she might come back for the rumble next year hear about that for the next is until the rumble the business is back I fear how would you describe um I think her and Billy K tagb i’ probably describe as got it uh used to hang around with Kurt Angle Eric angle no later yeah now you say it I know who this is diari correct oh no uh and uh took a really ill advised brutal chair shot in TNA oh Rob Terry Rob Terry [Applause] yeah it’s oie on there definitely yeah oh my God s um I just want to run through um just just just simple uh tell me if you’ve you’ve eaten these food items previously okay um I’ll go uh actually we’ll both do it uh I’ll go carrots yeah I’ve had them I’ve eaten carrots birthday cake I’ve had birthday cake vegetable but okay potatoes I have potatoes in multiple different variations probably four times week broccoli not my favorite but I will Scrat out on a Sunday dinner to get the health benefits one we’ll give one more um I’m thinking of bipa maybe yeah uh peace yeah I’ve had peace before L the rigns yes oh yeah oh yeah thank you for that M and happy birthday again happy birthday I’m sorry you share it with that guy the worst did he yeah he sucks ass anybody else in that actually I was going to say should we look up uh if it can get better for Mei assum they just seen a lot of celled wrestlers on your web page there [Laughter] sir yeah when Ro dog’s like f just Ro dog yeah just Ro dog Mr Fenix says since I can totally admit when WWE is wrong solo took over the bloodline after Roman failed against Cody so why isn’t the new goated bloodline targeting Cody from a kayf point of view uh getting the ducks in a row yeah he can of do I’m not answering that guy’s question actually you can answer it uh but that’s that’s the reality like trying to take out everybody else what they’ve learned from their experience with Cody eventually at WrestleMania 4 is that he’s got other people that will back him if they went for him now it’d be bit obvious bit petly they’d uh get taken down by the other baby faces they need to take those baby faces out first to clear the way it could uh Mr Phoenix also says if you want some more contra takes the latest state of wrestling with me and legendary IWC Voice Jake Demarco is available now where you vidden pod cheers from the forklift also says if you let it play out if you let it play out and it’s bad is that lipo suction uh let it play out oh yeah that’s right um also pictures next year’s Manor in Vegas night one rock Roman night two is a chamber match Drew Cody Punk J Seth and mjf I don’t think mjf’s going to be in the fed by next have elimination chamber at WrestleMania no say that for elimination chamber uh and also some Funday Monday stuff if you could move a wrestler to a new company what show would you do it and with what music for me abadon NXT debut in the rumble using Freak Like Me by hail storm so take a wrestler put them on a new show and give them new music who do I want to leave aw for the FED right now that question comes up quite a bit and I can’t uh Ricky Starks okay the spiritual horm of the WWE debut is of course the pay-per-view WrestleMania Survivor Series so Ricky Starks debut said Survivor Series which is the site of the debut we’ve had you know the shield The Undertaker sting many more Rocky Maya the great one mhm so Ricky Starks can continue in that lineage and of course because WWE are cheaper bastards de Chef Rebel would pen his theme and it would go a little something like this hey I’m absolute brackets Ricky star absolute Ricky I’m going to sorry s take another aw star hey no no you’re not going to like this at all because it’s our new favorite the Beast mors get him in NXT and the automatic monster probably play as his theme uh having beaten Gunther for the world title at WrestleMania and stands Victorious at the end of the raw after WrestleMania CM Punk is confronted by Kenny Omega with uh him with sha Bas he’s tith to a long-term deal it doesn’t matter how much you individually Michael Hamlet want it Kenny Omega is all lead for the foreseeable future good for him I didn’t say I did say next year’s ra WrestleMania in several years times ra WrestleMania and he comes out to battlecry okay can Omega see music because it’s class and everyone hear that stupid [ __ ] Elite song when you hate that as bad as it got if you ask me for our three friends the elite uh tactical penguin thank you for your question afternoon L hypothetically what would it look like if Booker stacks and The Undertaker played a game of Bones I was going to ask on an NXT pod well I don’t take car to trying to order your food while playing bones book A B of te Stacks in the under yes I I was convinced I was convinced Regal was going to be in there as well is that some of it would sound it would hey guys The Undertaker sleep apne watching one of his own matches B will probably just say something anain are you sure and stacks would probably sound like say yeah what’s the deal with games of bones bones does Stacks play any kind of games involving bones maybe maybe if you can’t see them Buck hey hey guys what’s the difference between bone bone and Marrow I didn’t marrow you m last night that’s probably what he say BR for pretty good from STS book he’s like uh well I’m going to go all in what the hell you talking about that company for a book you disrespecting a business disrespecting a business with old piss and flip up book doesn’t understand all in so he’s just throwing in three chips that’s not even all in book Dre C says jents is TK’s predictable booking straying into bad booking and turning hardcore audience into casuals oh wait you cover that on the Collision preview wherever you get your podcast Stay classy dad Le we did thank you very much yeah listen to it it’s so patented the way I said it like Nick Wayne don’t do anything with them for like two months oh God we need have a match of swerve oh I can win on collision because that they might think therefore he’s going to beat swerve on Dynamite pretty insulting if anything and the idea I equated to like being impressed by that bookan and all the rest of it is like being impressed with like some literal last minute homework and a teacher a teacher be like oh you just done that the last minute and I don’t care about it nor do I think you care about it very much they’re doing last minute homework booking with these oh Christ we need to give them a win on rampage or Collision otherwise people might think that they’re not going to win on Dynamite Just less stars on the show as well few that’s the reality of it like there’s just not as many people you want to root for as a result of that type of booking you know I there was a point where you know a different but ultimately quite similar sort of highs fre aw where every time another entrance music hit you couldn’t wait to see this person come out there was so many people you were invested in the pay-per-views we weren’t speaking of them match by match on a level of quality we are these days but like Christ I might you felt for all of them okay and that’s the difference where that’s where this booking got you now he like well that match has been obvious from a month ago when I started setting it up but now you’ve got to kind of you always pick on it with WWE and it’s a good point it’s like huh if uh I mean if it’s gone that way in the tag match surely it’s going to go that way on Sunday thinks that for real but like wrestling just does it and wrestling just does things a lot and I’m bored Marcel lavet thank you for joining us as always Marcel hi to the three man Power Trip what would be the main event for wcpw only one night mine is Wilborn versus Chris cyborg i’ I’d pay money to watch you get destroyed in a fight pit oh God I’d like to see him try and run the ropes some get some ropes in there do that when you doing like stunners after the show and that did you ever run I didn’t take part any that um I play to you actually think I got arrived too late it would have been like oh here comes all the old guys who’s that like Ginger to coming out why is he bigger than all the wrestlers because it’s the UK uh I never and I never I was always tempted you know and they’re just like right we set the ring up and the rest is going to start arriving I was like yeah the moment I slide in to be like what’s it like to run around in a wrestling ring would be the moment you know someone was going to show up and be like get the hell out of that ring you earned the right and I’d be like absolutely sir I do apologize look I’m not under any Illusions I know that will Osprey realistically got the cachier he has who was run with new fan and not wcpw wasn’t unimportant and to be honest Drew Galloway I mean I’m thinking wcpw did more for him than evolve realistically a rematch of Exit Wounds Galloway Osprey just to underscore that wcpw did some really cool stuff at times they really really did who was the biggest physically like the most monstrous guy wcpw ever booked big damos big D Drew is a unit probably actually Gunther Drew all of the I’m looking for somebody to B Joe coffee like I had to watch gun versus Joe coffee is like WWE D to promote that as a main event I would want to see rer joke off it you think they’re going to let him work WC yeah I’d have one more go of that yeah that’s happening isn’t it g coming to the main roster I saw shooting on Dave Meltzer over the weekend Oh God nice one guys when you observe this it’s why Don’t You observe this da I’d I’d run put putting the title on Miller if you’re GNA have one night might as well put the title on Miller oh yeah Miller work didn’t he did battle Roy like the yeah yeah know who he’d face winner of Me versus so me probably Miller beats you you’ve already wrestled so Miller is basically cashing in on you yeah cybor keeps ducking me she does if only criteria that they have to have worked in wcpw Simon Miller versus mjf yes saying that God that’d be class uh Cory Mills says why did what culture creative abandon the S push after Mania it seemed for a few episodes they were going to turn in face your thoughts you said that didn’t it sometimes WWE you’re like you literally watch it and you say hey hey hey hey you are right and then they fall into their old pattern indeed it’s been pretty boring SL bad for me unfortunately the television and uh bad news guys uh junior Dr fed had his license revoke maybe he was prescribing things that shouldn’t be prescribed for himself Uh Kevin it used to be that back in aw was like the ultimate baby face move wasn’t it in any online Circle yeah that was that was definitely where we were at yeah you dare come for this company I will fight it with my shield and sword and now only the losers do that they’re the last ones left come on I can say that you’d have to agree I think there’s some [ __ ] Geeks out there that talk about that company in a way that is disruptive to the normal normal sa the conversation some of them some of them but let’s not be dicks to everyone no just some trying not everyone uh f a few questions a quick one from Josh K he says s have you seen when evil lurks yet no who’s that I don’t know let me ever I’ve just watched uh Prince of Darkness a sort of a deep John carpet C and it was really really fun with one floor the lead is kind of like I’m thinking you’re a creepy guy you’re a creepy guy and there’s a substance that is said to be the uh you know the DNA of the Devil Himself you’re a prime candidate for demonic possession because you are This creepy and your motives are look this he’s just the lead who shs the girl and you meant to feel sorry for him no it’s like ah you’re the guy me me ultimately sympathize with at the end of all this great premise great practical effects really good performances of how you would react in the face of this unknowable inconceivable horror great action sent pieces in the final third this one guy is too weird you’re waiting for him to reveal to like draw some goo something I thought he would be the one who’s corrupted but no he just he meant to like [Music] him uh when evil looks is a Spanish film I believe great little blur up here in a remote Village two brothers find a demon infected man just about to give birth to evil itself they decide to get rid of the body only to end up unintentionally spreading chaos well watch it in fact you know what I’ll ask no offense but I know you taste more than yours so I’ll ask you yeah Yan’s like my should I watch this movie guy at the minute knows his stuff what culture main Uh Kevin flry on the the Cody Rock thing says just revealed he was told the possibility of Rock versus Roman on the day of the Royal Rumble so I guess he knew what he was doing pointing at Roman myart I love that yeah me too did in the presser didn’t he say as well didn’t he say I’m not going for the world heavy way I’m undeniable I’m going for that I mind that I he’s the most bold guy you need that got stuff back yourself yeah all like it would have felt weird if he was like finally I can fath Seth Rollins you all of this again all of this and you still get to sit on your see tweet let it play out guys that’s what I always say and on that note we’re going to wrap up thank you to everyone who’s joined us uh thank you as always for your questions uh and we’ll do this again very 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