How Good Was WWE This Week? | The Still Real to Us Show | Episode #749 – 6/20/24

0:00 It's still welcome everybody. Welcome to this week's edition of the Still a Real Doest Show, episode number seven nine for June twenty, twenty twenty four. Even though we're recording this on June twenty second, twenty twenty four. I am one half the show. I am Jeff Peck, joined every single week from my co host Solon Wily, doctor Trey Franklin, Doctor Trey. I now join you as a father of my friend. Yeah. I think back last week's episode and we kind of talked about alf air with everything going on, that it was going to be the last show you did before Father's Day and you actually becoming a father. So I know I'm not the first to say this, but congratulations, thank you, thank you my friend. Yeah, it has been a world win couple of days, and we actually started talking about it pre show here and I was like, you know what, let me let me just kind of say this for the podcast here and just talk it out. So my son was born on Thursday at three twenty four pm, six pounds twelve ounces, twenty inches long. His name is Luke James Peck. He is doing great. Everything is great with my son.

1:30 Obviously, we could not have recorded the show on Thursday. Given everything that was going on, there was going to be a potential little glimmer of recording the podcast on Thursday night. Potentially was thinking Friday, but unfortunately my wife had some complications from the C section surgery and I could sit here and I could say everything is fine. Now she is on the road recovery. She is doing well. It was obviously a very scary situation for us as a as a family, but I'm obviously happy to say that she is doing well.

2:10 I'm able to sit here and do the podcast for an hour, have a little bit of window I'm recording that. We're recording this on Saturday morning. Hopefully goes right up rather quickly when we sent it over to our good friend Bauer, who always posted up at real Guy radio dot com. But yeah, that is that is the latest. That's why there was a little bit of delay. Energy level is lower than normal just given everything going on. It's been a wild wave of a roller coaster of emotions, not a lot of sleep so far. And this is actually coming from a guy who has not had an overnight with his son yet. Just given the circumstances of what's going on, and just trying to focus on getting my wife back up to road recovery what she is, and just trying to piece meal everything else in life because you know nowadays doctor Trey or what I'm going to be learning now going forward. More importantly, it is very difficult to get off the roller coaster of life in general, whether it comes to work, hobbies, podcasts like this. It's like, holy crap, I have a bunch of stuff that I need to get done. And I spent the night sleeping at the hospital on Thursday night into Friday, and the first time I got home was about Friday night at like ten ten pm Eastern, and I spent that

3:46 time getting caught up on a lot of stuff that we left here when we went to go deliver my son at the hospital and watched the SmackDown. Have not watched Rampage from Friday night yet, but I did get a chance to watch mac Down while I was filling the blanks. Went to bed super late because there was so much stuff that was to be done. But I figured this is like, you know, the way to get used to intermittent sleep for the time being. So happy to be here, happy to make this announcement, and I will be looking for obvious advice from doctor Trey Franklin, the two time Father. But I'm happy to join the stable of wrestling, stable of fathers. I guess what is it? The f WO? What are we doing? F degeneration? F what is the father? Horseman?

4:40 How does this? What is this table called? Noah? I've always led to like Father the Father world order because it's you know, it's a different world to be and when you jump into it. I can't believe that you didn't look at the Dodgers and the nurses Thursday and said, look, I have a podcas I have to do. Can we pump the brakes a little bit so I can get this thing done? I mean, we got priorities here. I know my wife's getting ready to have the C section everything else, Guys, I have a podcast I have to do. We have to prioritize this. So I'm a little I'm a little bummed out. Jeff. I thought you do it from the hospital. I mean, I've always been the one to do it from do the show from like weird locations, So I thought this was your chance to kind of jump into that world. Yeah, yeah, you know that would have been a really fun and interesting way to record the podcast. Do it that way. It was It's funny that you mentioned this, because going into the week just out like I'm wired sometimes and I know this. We were in the window. It was June twentieth to June twenty eighth they predicted my son would be delivered, so obviously June twentieth he landed on Earth and walk away we go. But I really debated going in this week, and doctor Trey and I always text with one another, like, Hey, how's your schedule this week? How's it's working out.

6:00 We've been on this swing lately of doing the show on Thursday afternoon. It gives us an opportunity to basically watch all of wrestling. It's the one day a week where there is no wrestling, unless you know, we randomly cover Impact wrestling or excuse me, t and A wrestling because I know they are on Thursdays now. And I debated. I was like, I wonder if I should do the show on Wednesday. I had off from work for the federal holiday, and I was like, you know what, she isn't showing any signs of labor. I think I could probably squeeze one out here on Thursday, and I figured by the next time we recorded, probably my son would be bored at that point, and boy, oh boy, was I wrong. It was I went to bed, what was it now?

6:47 Wednesday night? I was usually I could get so I watched Dynamite typically late, as it's like, once it starts going, I'll get in the DVR. I don't know. I guess I'm getting impatient with waiting for commercials nowadays, and they don't have many of them on Dynamite. So I think I got through the first hour on DVR late Wednesday night and it was about eleven o'clock and I was like, man, I am dead tired. I should just go to sleep. And I usually try to power through, and I didn't, and thank god I didn't, because I woke to about one thirty in the morning on Thursday and my bedroom was lit up like a Christmas tree.

7:30 Lights were on, doors were open, my wife's in the bathroom, and I'm like, what the hell is going on? And I rush up. And earlier in the week my wife had we actually went to the hospital on Tuesday because she had thought that potentially her water broke and it did not break, and it was like you're still you know, this could be three weeks so from now, it could be two days from now, it could be three weeks from now. Typical doctor speak, which has been a theme this entire time, doctor speak, And anybody who has experienced a doctor knows what I'm talking about. Doctor Trey with his foot, It's like, so is my foot going to be okay? Uh? It may it may be, you know, there's always the chance of It's like, you know, can you just give me some sort of positive reinforcement? But I digress.

8:13 So one thirday morning, I get up and there she is, and she's like, my water broke. Pretty sure, my water broke. I'm like, okay, so what do we do next? Because everybody I've talked to doctor Trey and maybe you can attest to this as well, has said when the water breaks, it's not like this drop down immediate oh you know, stuff that you see in the movies television shows, like oh shit, we got to get to the hospital right away. Like I did immediately think that. But thankfully she jumped in and she was like, when this happens, I'm supposed to call the hospital, speak to the on site doctor and get some advice from there, but it's always like the water breaks, we got a rush, you know, is that what you experienced in the past.

8:54 Yeah, I like now with my first with Carmen, my oldest, my ex wife, water never broke like we it's and if you remember me telling you this, like the first child, like you'll start the woman with especially if you have a date set in mind, like if you have a date set with the doctor's offs, like, hey, then we're going to deliver the baby on this date. Usually about a week to ten days before they start having like the Brax and Hicks contractions, and you know, it's kind of like the body's prepping itself because the body sets like a deadline in their head, like, hey, the baby's coming on this date. Let's go ahead and make sure every thing's working properly to you know, to do everything. So when my first kid was born, she had Brax and Hicks contractions a couple of times before the actual due date, but her water never broke until the day of the delivery, like the day of that we were scheduled to go in. And actually I think Sammy was the same way like her, Like Megan's water didn't break until we got to the hospital, so I never had that we weird you know, oh, oh crap, we have to go now kind of feeling come over me because we'd had the brax and Hicks issues, but we'd never had the water break until we were already at the hospital. Yeah, that's it, you know, it's funny. I was. I always was like telling everybody because everybody would give me the advice like, oh crap, you know, no, I'm good. We probably won't won't rush out there. I won't have like this freak out moment of Okay, well your water's broke, we don't have to immediately leave, blah

10:26 blah blah. And it was a complete opposite of that. I was like, all right, so should I be getting ready? And again she calmed me down, called the doctor. Funny enough, the doctor, you leave a message, and the doctor called her back, but my wife had her phone on do not disturb, so we were like in panic mode and it was like, oh shit, and she left the voicemail. I think my wife tried picking it up while the voicemail was being left on her iPhone and they had hung up the phone at that point, and it was like, how crap. So then she's going to go through this entire thing again and leave a message, and then of course the doctor doesn't get back to us until forty minutes later. Now, so this is like two am, and she said that she was delivering a baby. The doctor and she said, you know, you could labor at home for a little bit, watch your contractions, and once it gets elect the five to seven minute range, come on down the hospital. So my wife started having contractions. We were timing them. They started at twenty minutes, let's say, in like the two am hour, By the three am hour it was at eleven minutes, and by the four am hour it was about eight minutes. So I was like, we got to leave. And we got a dog, so I'm calling my mom who lives nearby to drop my dog off. And we left for the hospital at five am, got there about five point thirty and started the process of labor. So went through all that my life. My wife tried

11:56 to give a natural birth. Everything was going really, really smoothly, and the thought was that you know, we could have a baby out before noon time. At that point, she was pushing and it just got to the point where the doctor said, I think she went was in labor for about two and a half to three and a half hours, and doctor was like, listen, I think thing we have to do with sea section. So we did not go in there with the sea section. So went through that and I was in the room with my wife while they were doing that, which is did your ex wife wife did they do? Did they do see sections? Doctor Trey? No? No, everything was natural. Yeah, now natural the sense of always something that my favorite thing about the first my oldest being bored was my wife did not want to have an epidural and refused it. God bless her. Yeah, I'm literally like, you're in pain, you need this. And then they kept giving a little drug cocktail to kind of loosen things up and relax her. And then right like after like the fifth hour that she was in there, she was kind of groggy, and they went there like, you know, miss Dent, you know you're you're at you know, six centimeters eight cent or something like that, and they're like, this is your last chance for an epidurl. If you want ween, we can do it. If not, there's no turning back.

13:22 If she goes, and I went that was her saying yes, give her the girl. So my wife debated that. So, my wife had a back surgery when she was younger and was worried about all the the area, like literally the area that they'll hit it is where she had her back surgery. So it was concerned about that. Talked to the doctor and she eventually gave in when we were in the trioge portion of the pregnancy phase and like as it started coming on, she said to me at one point, I'm so happy I did this. So she was relieved that she did that. So did the c section. Which is anybody that's listening to this podcast, if your wife went through the C section. That is one of the oddest things I have ever been a part of because they are calling out loud body parts, internal organs that they are moving around and then like putting back and I even being in fire and EMSs and I've seen some stuff avoided completely seeing anything that was going on. Like the way that they brought me in doctor Trey. Her front was facing me. It wasn't like I was immediately walking in and I was gonna go sit behind her. It was facing me.

14:37 And thankfully I didn't look. I did not want to look, had my head down and then sat down with her and tried to keep her calm. And it's a tough situation. I mean, it's a very exciting situation, but it's a very tough situation because you don't she did not go in there thinking she was gonna have surgery. I mean, she did not mentally prepare herself for having surgery. My sister in law went into it and was having a C section, so she at least could mentally prepare for that. And anybody who's had a surgery in their life, whether big or small. And I'm sure you feel this way too, doctor Trey, is you know when you mentally, at least you can mentally prepare yourself for the situation. My wife did not get an opportunity to. And even though like a very joyus occasion, she was shaking, which is something that happens typically during the sea section process, and I could tell she was nervous. She was she was very very strong and a warrior, and I could just tell she was nervous.

15:35 And our son came out, spent some time with him, and then after about an hour or so after she had some complications that got, you know, pretty serious. But thankfully all the doctors and stuff, you know, got her stable, and it's just a blessing that that she's okay, and you know, we dealt with some stuff over night Thursday into Friday, and then you know, by Friday, I knew by Thursday night she was going to be okay and stable, and then as she progressed forward, everything improved wholeheartedly. And she was actually an ICU for this entire process and in debated, but she, you know, quickly came to by Friday morning and was by Friday night I could leave my wife. She was okay. Pain scale one to ten given the painkillers, was at a three, and she just wanted to sleep. Was very comfortable with me going home to get caught up on some stuff. And here we are on Saturday. So we have a big family. My mother in law, my sister in law are down there there helping my wife as we speak, as I try to get some stuff together for my personal life, my work life, my podcast, to get everything up and going here so that I am you know, we're not going to be home intermittently every couple of day. Das like as I sit here right now recording this, my dog is to the left of me, asleep on the floor. She made her first appearance on SRTU last week after

17:10 Doctor Trey said, man, I've never heard your dog bark before, and then she did. But very happy. My wife is on the road recovery. My son is doing great. It has been a world win forty eight hours. And it's probably the oddest segue that I will ever get into start to recap in reviewing Clash at the Castle. But here we are, Doctor Trey, and I'm thankful to be able to get this podcast in here and be able to take a little bit of an hour break and talk some professional wrestling for the week because it was a great week and I'm happy to be here and doing my first show as a father. I forgot to ask you this beforehand, So when Sammy Franklin was coming out, I had a little playlist prepared because I had got through this and I forgot to bring this up to you of theme music to play upon his entrance into the world. Now mind you. I started off with Paul Cogan's I'm a Real American and immediately the wife maybe turn it off, And then as it got a little closer in his head started to come out, I started playing Rick Flair's theme song, and it was immediately told by several people in the room to turn it off. And then the last one was Macho Man's theme song. So I forgot to ask, did you think about that at all? Like I gotta turn this up a little bit? Or was it just like I gotta be very very straight and narrow and focus on my wife and the baby and can't

18:40 do anything kind of silly and goofy. It was when we were doing the I was like super super focused on the first you know, the labor pushing part and just trying to keep her comfortable. We had put on music at some point and felt like the most objective, non objective one would be like just putting it on country music, something calming to keep her calm, which was an idea. I had never thought about doing a wrestling theme song at all, and when I got to obviously the C section portion, it was a little bit more serious than that and all that stuff. But I did not think of that, and I wish I I wish I did, because I don't know, I don't know which one. Maybe the Final Boss, the New Final Boss theme song I would have gone with, maybe DX like break it down, I will say for child number two, may I said, just whatever all time favorites American males. Ooh, American males. American males. I think it was a bower that cringed the first time? You really like was it? Like I remember you guys did it like a theme song show one time on one of the podcasts you guys did in the Wheelhouse.

19:52 Yeah, it might be the Wheelhouse, but is either you or I mean it was either a Bauer or cause that just like heard that song. It was just like no, no, that's awful, and then it just became a running joke for a while. But yeah, like that's always I've been a if. Unfortunately for me, I guess there's no more uh fatherhood events in my life. Uh all all that that that that little playground has been shut down, so it's closed permanently out of business. So I don't I won't get that option. Uh maybe when I become a grandfather at some point I can talk one of the kids into doing it. So uh, I have to live VI carefully through you when it comes to you know, oncoming shopbick. But my thing was like, well, he's making an entrance into the world and there's no better way to make an entrance there with theme music. Yeah, I like, I think Goldberg Themes song will be pretty good. Maybe do a little bit of Sparkler's Bitch may set off like a smoke alarm, let's uk the baby's headbutting things on the way out. True.

20:47 True, I wish I wish I had thought about that a little bit more now that you mentioned. Yeah, it's such a I don't know, frazzling situation as a man, because it's like, I'm very low key, uh not very like like because it's like the training I've always had as a fire you know, working in for as a first responder is not to be like, don't go too high, but don't go too low. Always take it pretty constant. And I've always been trained that way and not have tunnel vision. And I got like extreme tunnel vision. And when this was all going on, it's completely different when it's your own family members. Oh yeah, absolutely. And then the other thing I forgot to mention was, and I feel bad that I didn't, is because you almost walked into it by don't look down there when the baby's coming. And this is where any listen to the show like that hasn't had a kid yet. The doctors and the nurses will always kind of say, hey, do you want to see the baby coming. I will tell you, y'all don't do it. Because you heard them saying body parts that you know, in talking about like that, that's kind of jarring. But to actually see it is kind of Yeah.

21:55 It takes you a little while to get that image out of your head. Like I still I didn't see Sammy come into the world, Like I perfectly stayed just out of it. Like. And the other thing was they had a weird spotlight over her to see what they were doing. And that's also why I thought of the entrance stuff and like, well, he's got a spotlight, might as well set that up there. But I always something like when my daughter was born, it looked like a koala bear bursting out of a strawberry cheesecake. See, that's a very interesting analogy, doctory I've never heard that one before. Kawala bear going through a strawberry cheesecake. It was like a great hit. And then there's you know, all the other stuff going on down there, and I'm like that is just kind of yeah.

22:37 It took a while for me to, you know, feel comfortable with my wife, to like go back into the normal husband and wife routine, because that was the image I kept playing in my head down there, and I'm like, yeah, I just don't want to. I literally told my first wife, like, I will never ask you for a second kid just because of what you went through. If you want another kid, you have to ask for it. Yeah. No, I mean that's definitely gone through my mind. We're obviously not going to have that conversation yet, but yeah, I mean everything that they go through, I mean, once you experience, it's like a comple I mean, you obviously love and respect your wife, but when they go through that, it's like, holy crap, like this is you're my hero type stuff. Afterwards, I did not look at any point. We've talked about the C section side, but when she was pushing, I had they had me up by her shoulders and like helping hold her neck and any every time she was pushing, I would just look, you know, more towards like the back of her head, like my face.

23:33 Her face is going forward, mine is going the opposite way, looking at the wall. I did not want to look at any point, and I did not know that they were going to utilize me as much as they did during the labor process. I was like, I did not know this. You want me to hold this foot? Okay, you want me to do this, hold this pillow? Okay, did not know this? And where is my pay for this? You know how am I getting paid to do this? So yeah, it was it was an experience and looking forward to watching wrestling with my son soon enough. He when he was born, the Yankees were playing, and they were playing on a day that they lost seventeen to five to the Baltimore Orioles. That was not a good start for my Yankee fandom. And as I currently record this, they are zero and two since my son has been born. So my son has not seen a Yankee win and he may be bad luck. They may never win a game again, which I don't know what I'm going to do in that situation. But since he has been alive, Jacob Fatu has joined WWE. Yeah, it's been it's been wild. He has not seen the why at six or sick yet six six. I don't know what they're doing yet with that name, but yeah, everything is has been good. It's been a joyous occasion and I'm just happy everybody okay. That's even before all this other stuff. That was obviously my biggest concern, which I did not share with my wife,

25:07 is I just wanted everybody to be okay afterwards. I mean, that is that's a scary part and one of the things that I did forget. So one of the reasons why they did the c section is an umbilical cord was wrapped around my son's neck and obviously, when you hear that, you're like, holy crap, this is crazy. It's part around his body. And come to find out, I mean that happens about a third of kids nowadays when they're born. So I mean, doctors are very casual in telling you this type stuff, but when you hear that, it's very scary. So again, I'm just so thankful and blessed that everybody's okay, very thankful and blessed to be here recording the podcast today as well and being able to talk wrestling for everybody with everybody for about an hour. And again, yeah, I'm happy to be part of the New Dad order. I saw that shirt up on WWE shop dot com. May have to buy that, and yeah, I guess let's let's get into it. Doctor Trey. It's probably the weird again, the weirdest segue I've ever had in the history of this show, going from like, hey, I'm a dad, this is what's been going on to uh, let's talk about Clash of the Castle. Well, I mean there are a lot of second generation wrestlers in WWE, So there you go. That's its fatherhood and we just have Father's Day, so it all it all kind of ties together. Yep. The throne is now the torch can be passed at some point. At some point Young Sammy Franklin and Luke pak will be sitting here doing the still Reelta show after Doctor treye I retire, And as you could hear, you know, I've been battling allergies still, so that's always been fun. So forgive me for I always try

26:38 to turn my mic off but when I'm taking a swig of water, coffee and whatever. But I'm not gonna do that today. Okay, guys, I'm just gonna forget it, Like I have a little drink right now out of my eddie and power through here. So let's get into it. Clash of the Castle recap review this past that day from the Ovo Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland. First match here Cody Roads Defeast AJ Styles and an equit match retaining the nentisited of WE Championship. We both had. Cody Rhodes love the entring psychology and storytelling this match, love seeing blood being used during a WWE match again as well to nitpick a little bit, I just feel felt like there were some spots that could have grabbed more of an emotional investment from wrestling fans while watching this one, whether it be Mama Roads teasing, throwing in the towel, or a little bit more of a violent finish that caused AJ Styles to say I quit rather than being afraid of getting hit with steel tips steel steps. I also didn't love Cody Rhodes passing out during an I quit match, because there was a case I think he could have lost because of that. I know, Stone Cold c lost a completely different match for US many thirteen loses to Brett Hard his submission match, and he never gave up.

27:48 He never said I quit, he just passed out, and I was like, this is kind of reminded me of wrestlming A thirteen match and did not love that but Cody Rhods retains Doctor Trey. Your thoughts. Yeah, the match itself I thought was really good, Like I, like you said, the psychology, the storytelling. I love, you know, the temptation of somebody else throwing in the towel that's not in the wrestling business quote unquote, even though I mean, dear gosh, she's married to Dusty and she's the father the mother of Cody, so she's in the business. But you know, but yeah, like for me, the I hated the finish of this one because we see the steel steps get used all the time around matches.

28:33 All the time, guys are getting hit and AJ's been hit with steel steps probably a hundred times in his career, and for in that moment to go, you know what, this one I'm not really feeling, so let me just go and say I quit. Just I didn't like the inning. I did love the fact that in I quit match there's blood. It gives it a more realistic feel. I mean, your god, this is the Steel Real Twist podcast. So yeah, anything that gives us that that line we enjoy. But just for a guy like AJ to say I quit in that sentence, I don't think maybe it's a different Maybe it's a different take on his character. They're going in a different direction going forward, but just for a guy like AJ that we've seen go through so much stuff over his career, in that moment to say I quit, I didn't really like.

29:19 But overall, outside of that, outside the finish, a really solid equip match. Yeah. You got to wonder now everything that we know from SmackDown on Friday night that if they went with the violent direction based on his next few which is going to be solo Socoa, the belief is that match will be taking place at Money in the Bank. Obviously, Jacob Fattou, which we'll talk about here, getting involved, joining the Bloodline, He's got to force Cody Roach to get a little bit more violent, and the AJ style stuff. I think everybody's under the belief that him say and I Quit is going to lead him to return to TNA Wrestling at some point. It was chanted during the kickoff show on Friday in Glasgow that aired on Peacock ahead of the pay per view he will be taking He will be going to Pro Wrestling Noah on July thirteenth for in Japan there wrestling match. So where AJ styles goes from here will be intriguing as well. Next match is Alpha Fire and Ela Dawn defeating Bianca bel Air and Jade Cargill and Shannon Basler and Zoe Stark in a triple threat tag team match to win the WA Women's Tag Team Championship.

30:22 Doctor Trey and I both at Bianca and Jade getting the win. Shocking, surprising result, probably the most shocking result I have seen this year. I wonder if this was done to get the surprising home country pop or if we would see some cracks between Bianca and Jade, it would not shock me. A Fire and Dawn's title reign is short lived. It's nice to see the women's tag team division get a decent amount of TV time and focus lately, so hopefully that continues. Bianca lost her money the Bank qualifying match the same way they basically lost the tag team titles at Glasgow last weekend, so I wonder if the match on next Friday with Jade in the qualifying He's going to be a similar result, which may lead to some sort of deterioration between Bianca and Jade's partnership, which I thought was gonna last a lot longer.

31:06 Maybe carry us in in twenty twenty five rather than potentially something that may be a lot sooner, say SummerSlam time, which I could see happening at this point. Nonetheless, very happy for Alba Fire and Islad Dawn. Alba Fire went through a completely horrific personal tragedy with her mom passed away after getting hit by a car believe in Orlando, Florida last month, so I'm sure it was just a relief to get that moment and then the crowd had a great reaction to it. Nonetheless, we have new women Tag team Champions, Doctor Try. Yeah, I think if you had told me that before the show, that you know we have new tag team champions. I don't even think I would have picked Alba and Isla, Like I love their characters and I love the little pairing, like I've liked it ever since they got paired up in NXT after their feud. But you know, I might have picked Shana and Zoe because Shannon was coming off that you know, NXT Underground loss recently, so I was like, well, if they're gonna put the belts on somebod else, it might be Shane to kind of boost her back up a little bit so surprised. But if you remember last week, I literally kept saying, somebody from Scotland has to win one of these title matches. You have to have at least one, and this was actually the one that I didn't think would change at all. So really surprising the result, but I was. I was happy the women got a good amount of time. The match itself was kind of iffy at times, but you know, overall, good result. But yeah, I'm with you. I'm kind of surprised they went this route so quickly with Bianca and Jade losing the belts, because I kind of felt like this might be something that you could leave and build up

32:37 to and help really establish another tag team being you know, a strong adversary for them. So surprise the results, good time, but match yourself was a little bit off in moments. Next match, Sammy's Aye defeating Chad Gable to retain the w WI Interncoundal Old Championship. We both hat Chad Gable. This feels like table center. This is what I wroach this Field wrote. This is a feels like a table center match for something bigger as Chad Gable's Alpha Academy implosion and otis breaking free looms forward, which we saw play out on Monday. It didn't feel like they could hold Gable back from winning a singles title anymore. But the Chad can't win the Big One storyline seems to be gaining momentum for the eventual and hopeful conclusion, and as Gable deserves to win the Intercontinental Championship. He didn't mention on Raw that he's entering running the Bank aiming for the world title. He was involved in a qualifying match.

33:28 He was removed from a qualifying match because of a big angle that we will talk about later on in the show, and then I saw this morning he has been added back to the qualifying match on Monday's Raw. Nonetheless, Doctor Tray Samy's Ain retains the Intercontinental Championship. Yeah, this was another surprising result. Yeah, you can't say anything bad about sammy's Ay and Chad Gable wrestling each other because there are two of the best intering performers and in sellers of our generation probably and probably two of the most underrated interring performers of our generation. But yeah, I don't like it's weird. On one hand, you want Sammy to win because he's the babyface and the crowds into it. The flip side is though, like for a guy like Chad Gable you and I admire so much, you're like, come on, the guy deserves a win here. Uh, but yeah, it's setting up bigger stuff. I mean, we saw, like you saw playing on Raw with the with the you know, Alpha Academy implosion, the stuff, you know, towards the end of the show, like it feels like he's on a different trajectory. But usually if you're going on a big upward trajectory, usually grab the icy title on the way to that. So I don't know where the Chad Gable stuff is going. But anytime we get get more Gable on TV, I'm a fan of it. So it kind of sucks for him because I think the glass the Scotland crowd really did even though they're cheering for Sammy, I think almost everybody wanted Gable to get a win, just because we all kind of felt like he deserved it and then also what he could do with it.

34:58 But once again, you got Sammy's saying still on top, and that's arguably one of our top three performers of the SRTU era. So I can't really argue the result on that one. Yeah, and this loss may be something bigger for Chad Gable, and in the short term it appears that way with everything that he's currently involved with creatively, as it looks like the Alpha Academy implosion has happened and they will no longer be aligned with him. Next match is Bailey defeating Piper Niven to retain the WAE Women's Championship. We both had Bailey winning this one. I want to see Piper Niven given more opportunities like this in the future. I love that she got this opportunity, and I just let's get away from even the hometown stuff. I thought Bailey did a great job helping put Piper over and Niven show that she belonged in the spot again. You know, I just hope this wasn't growing Piper Niven a bone because she was the hometown girl again. I think she should be pushed more outside of this. Bailey's title run as a babyface hasn't connected with me like I hoped it would, which is a bit surprising. She's she's kind of been stale, which tells you that she is really really good as a heel.

36:02 The last couple of years in this incarnation, and if they're going to make her a babyface, which I think Doctor Trey is alluded to in a lot of the responses since she turned, they really need to consider getting her to that hugger character, which she may not want to do at this point in her career either, because that was one of the most over babyfaces I've ever seen in professional wrestling in the last entire time we've been recording this podcast. But I just feel like this current title run, this babyface has not connected well with at least me as a viewer. Doctor Try, Yeah, I would. I watched this match. The first thing I thought was I really liked this match, and a little bit, like you said with the first match, it was a little bit of the storytelling, a little bit of them kind of leaning into this was the omp favorite Bailey that kind of play I don't say a tweener, but she could kind of play at the graph because the crowd felt like they were really wanted Piper to win, so she could kind of play into her previous character. But it's similar to the feedback I get on about Cody Roadse on Top is it's a little stale and a lot is because they just haven't developed that next big challenger for it kind of feels like they're going through, you know, opponent of the month.

37:08 There's not a lot of depth in the storytelling to kind of help build up the baby face, Like she really hasn't felt like she's had an obstacle to overcome since winning the title at WrestleMania and damage Control going to Raw. So I think there's still the process. I think, you know, the Naya Tiffany alliance will be the thing that really makes her breaks Bailey's run here, But yeah, I feel like she feels like the same character, just instead of getting onto the crowd, she's encouraging the crowd. Like nothing really about the Bailey character is different from her run as a heel to a face other than just playing to the crowds. More so, she needs an adversary that gives her an obstacle that she feels like are that looks like she may not be able to overcome to really cement this run. And I see I think you can see the seeds being planted, you know, with the Nigha stuff, with the Tiffany stuff heading towards Summerslap. Yeah, I think the execution on turning her baby face now, it's very easy to say after the fact, just wasn't great. I mean, she was such a despised he oh, really really good heel well light heal, and the damage control stuff was really good in the separation from damage control. While there were points where it was like it took a little bit of time and there was some definitely some room that was breathing, I think the points of execution it didn't help make her sympathetic when the turn eventually happened, like when Sammy Zane eventually left the Bloodline or Jay Huso finally left the Bloodline. I wish they did a couple

38:44 more pages out of that book down granted both those guys more Sammy than Jay. When the turns was happening, Sammy was completely over the crowd. Jay wasn't yet. I think everybody saw the potential, but I would have liked to see that play out more than the way that they executed it. And I agree with you completely. I think the Niya Jacks, Tiffany Stratton stuff is going to lead to hopefully making Bailey a little bit more of a sympathetic babyface right now. And I think that will help hopefully help move things along. My only concern is, which I think is a very real possibility come Summer Slam, if Bailey is still champion, there's no cash in and obviously Nia gets her title shot. Is Nya winning the title. So we'll have to say again, it's so strange to say this. If you told me this seven years ago, I woult to believe you. But Bailey's run as a babyface has been very stale and it just doesn't seem like it's connecting well with the audience. And this was someone who was kind of fifty to fifty with Piper in Glasgow. They still loved her. They were still singing the songs that they typically do every time they go over to the European areas.

39:51 Is the Bailey song that was first sung at that NXT London takeover several years ago. So Bailey retains over the hometown girl Piper Knifven, who I just loved how sincere and happy she was that her hometown crowd loved her back. I really really love that and I've always enjoyed watching Piper Niven wrestle. Finally, the main event here, Damian Priest defeats Drew McIntyre to retain the World Have a Weight Championship. We both had Drew McIntyre getting the win. I love the hype intention between both guys going the week going into this match. I wish they capitalized that on that a little bit more over the last month going to this match, as it felt like both guys actually don't like one another, and that is cool and that's what you want to see. As for the match itself, I don't know what Drew McIntyre has to do to get his moment in the sun at some point. So many times he was booked to lose, and despite being upset with that, I'm always left to be more intrigued with his character. The top of the Raw brand card is very hard to predict right now, and that makes the main event picture for the Red Brand really fun as a fan, and it has a big fight feel to it as well. We saw on Monday's Raw Drew quit. He appeared on Friday SmackDown in a very cool camera angle where he bloodied up Sampunk who was on SmackDown. So two guys on Raw showing up on SmackDown in his hometown, Crown of Chicago, laid out Sam Punk and obviously the belief it is here. This is probably going to keep him off television until he's fully cleared, which I think the hope is for SummerSlam. I think he's due to get clear here, maybe in the next six weeks. I think

41:22 Meltzer may have had a report out there that it's possible he may not be ready for Summer Slam, which would push it out a little bit more. But this was a fun match, fun build going into the week. Really enjoyed it that the leg getting caught spot was extremely gnarly and thank god Damian Priestino get hurt, lose a leg, nothing of any substance or damage to him. And I don't know what Drew has to do Doctor Trey to win the Big One, but it makes his character more intriguing. I know it upsets. I know the fans in Glasgow were upset, and rightfully so.

42:02 But boyle boy, do I want to see more of Drew mccatyre every time he loses one of these matches. Yeah? Watching the match, especially like the match itself, like you get two athletic big men going at it. To me, that's the epitome of professional wrestling. It's just two guys that look like badasses just beating the hell out of each other. I love that stuff. It had for this to be. One of my notes was like for this to be the the B Heavyweight Championship. It had a big fight feel and like, you're right, like the way these guys have blurred the lines of like you wonder if they really dislike each other or they're just doing a good job of presenting it that way. Like it was really well done. And the matchesself, but I thought was really good. The Lake spot, oh my god, I freaked out. I was like, cause momentarily, like you saw the ref and Drew macizar book go crap, what do we do? And they played it off really well. But as soon as punk Rant came out, I went, oh my god, this is what would happen if John Cena had beat Rob Van Damit at one Night's stand, Like I literally thought we might have a riot crow just go nuts. But yeah, it's it's a weird situation where it's like you're absolutely right. Every time Drew loses in these spots, you get more intrigued about what he's going to do next, which is one of those things where it's like, well, crap, maybe he doesn't need the title, Maybe he doesn't need the win because he gets more over every time. It's like every time he has this weird obstacle, like he's he has more obstacles to overcome than most of the baby faces and he's kind of the heel. So it's a really interesting

43:35 dynamic they're playing out here because you get a guy that's it's it's a little bit of Breton Sean where in certain areas Drew's loved and Punk is hated, and then you flip, you go to another area and it's completely flipped. So, uh, we may you mentioned Brett and and soh call from ustlbody at thirteen. This is reminded me of Breton Shan when they'd be in the States and Brett's hated and they go to Canada and Brett's loved. So it kind of feels like that with Drew and Punk. So but overall, like really good match, decent finish, like it kind of did come out of It was a little bit surprising, like I honestly did not expect to see see a Punk in Scotland up until about a day before when Drew was making the comments about don't come here because this country will kill you. But yeah, it was just a really solid main event to close out Clashing the Castle with a somewhat disappointing result with Drew not getting to win. Yeah. I knew he was there punk because there was a couple social media posts that got leaked to him being like out and about in Glasgow, which was you know, it's like it's a bummer, like he had to figure he was going to potentially appear. I know the referee spot. I love that they did a camrangle far back so you just see somebody run into the ring and then when he slides in the back of it, which which was really well done.

44:50 I knew right away it was punk, and I'm hearing that there are people out there that were really surprised when they moved the camera, like the reaction from the live crowd. I would have thought everybody knew it was punk as well. But when they shift the camera angle because it's such a big arena, and then they show his face and stopping it too, and the reaction was really well done. You know, I thought that was a really nice surprise. Maybe people were like really super hyper focused at the count and thinking he was gonna win, which was which was cool. Yeah, everything was just played out really really well and was just a, you know, a very nice finish the show. It was funny because the crowd was chanting for CM Punk, Like all night long, they were chanting for CM Punk, which I found very funny because it's literally like the hometown boy, but Punk is so loved that they still want to cheer for him, and there was still a decent reaction. But then I saw the post show like farewell from Samantha Irvin and she got booed, which people were upset about. But it's like, what do you expect that crowd to do? I love Drew's postmatch reaction like that. It was it's it felt legitimate. He was cursing, they were bleeping him out, they were covering his mouth so that you didn't know he was saying fuck. It looked it looked really really and authentic, and I just thought it was a really nice finish. So all in all, it was a fun show. Doctor Trey and I went both two and three on the PAP Perview prediction record for this one. I'm sitting at sixty eight and sixteen. Doctor Trey is at sitting at sixty three and twenty one event rating and match the night. I gave it a three point seven

46:22 out of five. I didn't love the show. I it actually expected more from Glasgow and I thought the crowd compared to like the France crowd was not as good. So hopefully that doesn't lose any Glasgow listeners that tune in here. I thought the show was okay. I thought it was a fun show on a Saturday, but it didn't make me go man. I could watch that show again. And my match of the night was Cody Rose and aj Styles. I thought that was the best match. I don't feel like any matches particularly stood out very well, but I thought this was was my favorite match from the show. Doctor Trey. Yeah, I was slightly high point eight. I I gave it my match and I was samely in Chad, just because I'm like I can watch these guys wrestle and never be disappointed, and it was kind of a better finish to the match than the other two men's matches. My only this goes a couple of things though, Like for me, it goes back to what you and I have talked about before with the booking of the pay per views, like only having five matches, I kind of wish there was at least a one or two more, uh, to kind of give a little bit more meat on the bone when when we do really small shows, it does kind of feel like a b pay per view. But that was my take My big takeaway was just like, yeah, it was a solid show. But outside of Punk as a referee, which never really gets explained is how he's licensed to be a referee. But outside of Punk as the ref I'm like, Okay, I don't really think anything's going to like really stand out to me, you know, three, four or five years from now. So again, I gave it a three

47:52 point seven match that I was coached road JJ styles and again, doctor Trey, you're rating the match that I was three point eight, so slightly higher. And then match of the night was what again I went with Sammy and Chad, Sammy Zain and Chad Gable. So there you go. Feel free to chime in at s RTU podcast on x and hit us up on Facebook, Facebook dot com. Slashes to a Real Test show. Let's get into some of the other big happenings that happened this past week, Doctor Trey. Obviously, the big one on Monday's Raw was finally the execution of the Wyatt. I don't think we have I don't know the pronunciation of the of the name yet. Is it the Wyatt six, that's what they calling it, but they're spelling it six with a six at the end. It's it's six.

48:35 It's like S I C K S because that saw on the T shirt. Okay, so it's the S is like a like like the number six. Yeah, it's there. They they do a weird formation with it, but it's still six, like pluralizing sick illness. Oh. I didn't realize that that the It was like a weird way to spell the S. I don't have to take a look at that. So all right, yeah, so the execution finally happened. I'm trying to find the shirt right now on shop, which is great for you know, while we do that. Oh I see that? Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. All right, So it's the Wyat six finally arrived. Closing out Monday Night Raw, we see Nicky Cross as Sister Abigail, Eric Rowan as the Rambling Rabbit, the Dexter Loomis as Mercy the Buzzard, Joe Gacy as Huscus the Pig, and then obviously the return of Uncle Howdy. The reaction for Uncle Howdy was great. I'm sure they made Bo Dallas, who is under Uncle Howdy, feel phenomenal. And obviously this is the first time in like professional wrest in history that we're seeing a legacy carry forward with a legit passing of someone. I know there were some angles in the past that were tasteless in my opinion, when Eddie Garrell had passed away, like putting a low rider in the back of the SmackDown set and blowing it up I think, like weeks after he died and all that crap. I was not a big

50:07 fan of that, and I know they brought that up during the Ray angle and how Eddie was in hell and all that shit. Did not enjoy that. This, however, made me happy and smile and know that Bray Wyatt's influence is still on and professional wrestling and his story can continue forward by these five individuals and his brother, which was just really awesome. The angle itself was great. Maybe I don't know if they're ever going to have a name to it, but like this raw massacre. It was funny because a lot of people were joking online that everybody was murdered based on the really graphic bloodstains that they did, and they said, like Chad Gable got shot in the head, it looked like and blood being splattered up against the wall. It was something that we've never seen in w before. It was very horror esque, which I'm sure made Bray Wyatt smile from up above. And yeah, the execution of the angle was very memorable, Doctor Trey. The crowd loved it. I loved it at home. It was cinema and I know, Vince, you would always use the line that we make movies, and I never really felt like those words were really true for most of the time under Vince's creative rain. This was a time that when it was over and I watched it, and I was like, man, that felt like a movie.

51:24 They made a movie. We'll talk about the wrestling impact of it in just a moment. But the execution of the angle, Doctor Trey, your thoughts, my friend. For something that was so hyped and something we were all kind of looking forward to to see how they executed, this is one of those few instances in the wrestling where I thought they the execution met the expectation, Like I was expecting something, you know, really cool, something outside the box, something that would kind of make you go, holy cow, what did I just see here? And they nailed it, like they like from everything from you know, sister Abigail's entrance, the with the door and the whole thing, you know, kind of a throwback homage or whatever you want to do with that. So the smoke being all throughout the backstage area like that was really well done. The lighting was good, the camera angles were well done. It's I don't know about you, but it feels like even with the camera direction, it's it's so different from the Kevin Dunn era now that it's fresh and different, and this is one of those instances where you're like, wow, this is really too well done. You know, the body's laying everywhere was cool. Now once again, like I don't know if they're gonna make this like a dream sequence, because like, I'm pretty sure I saw Braun Stroman laid out backstage, but then I see Braun commenting that, no, that was I don't know what he's talking about.

52:45 Like it was like a weird like, I don't know if it's if it's a dream sequence, a nightmare sequence or what. But he said he was like still chasing the judgment day right, Yeah, Like, I don't know what you're talking about. I was still out chasing the judgment down of the building. I'm like, no, I'm pretty sure I saw you laid out. You're kind of stand out, you're a giant. It's just the and then the camerang is where you're leading into each different character, Like it's almost like it's kind of like doing a promo, you know, shoot for these characters live, like where it's leading into this giant guy with a sledgehammer in a rabbit mask, and then here the buzzer, like all these things. The way they weaved it in was really really well done. And the shot that they did of Uncle Howdy coming out, I love that shot because you feel like you're right there with Bot Dallas and not only presenting this character, presenting this new faction, but then feeling the love from the crowd. Like I loved that shot. It was really it was beautiful a lot of ways, and seeing all the fireflies laid out as he walked out just fantastic camera works to set all this up. Like you're absolutely right, like this was the most cinematic thing they have done since the cinematic era of the pandemic time, but just something so different in out of the Box is something we haven't seen done. Like, I loved it. It met all my expectations.

54:08 A couple of things there if you go back and watch it. Thank god this didn't happen. But I'm pretty sure Bo Dallas almost tripped going by as he was walking towards Joe Gacy that or he didn't know like the I think there's like a ramp that he didn't realize. Go back and watch that. There's like something where he kind of missteps a little bit. I'm like, holy crap. Would you imagine if he tripped or kind of got like sideways a little bit like during this angle? That would have been horrific. There's a couple of points there, what was it Chad Gable in the background later to come to find out the was it the rambling rabbit puppet was behind him. There was one with Huskus as well, right, you mentioned I don't remember who was in who was the cam wrangle, but Huskus you had mentioned was in the background, right, Yeah, And I'd have to go back and look because I think there's the little characters to kind of lead into stuff.

55:02 And I thought somebod else, I don't know if you saw this, somebody else said that they thought they thought they saw Gunther feed one of the ones laid out backstay. Yeah. I wanted to address that because you mentioned the bronze stroman thing. The last thing I'll mention real quick here with like the behind the scenes shot. I guess there was one on SmackDown last night with Cody Rhodes in the backstage area. The logo of like the circle and then it's like a like a like a cross with like a smiley face that's been airing. It almost looks like a gender. I guess it's the wyaed six logo. Now. It was on a door in the background, which is funny that they did that and then there was no execution. There's been stuff on the Pat McAfee show that they they were taking over the feed and then Adam Pierce's Twitter feed has been a while like taking over. When he was announcing that Chad Gables back in the match on Mondays for Mondays were on today on Saturday, and I think there's been a couple of times his social media account has been hacked. What have you? So you mentioned this dream sequence stuff, so people thought that they saw bron Stroman. There was like this list of victims during that angle, and it was like all these different faces and it was like Bruce Britchard, Triple Ah Gunther, Carmelo Hayes, Bronz Stroman, and there was a extra or if it was legit Gunther, that did look like Gunther laid out just as a pan from I think it was Ramblin Rabbit, Eric Rowan, and it looked like Carmelo Hayes as well, an extra who had some corn rows, and it looked like the same exact way that Carmelo Hayes wears his hair. So to that point, if

56:37 if this is a dream sequence where it eventually leads to those people getting laid out, Bravo, I love it. But if it is just something where wrestling fans are like being sluice online and thinking me, those are those people, then ww needs to learn from the situation and do extras that do not look anything like any of the wrestlers. Because I believe that this is just extras that happen and look like those wrestlers right now, because the only one that was the legit wrestler in there was Chad Gable, But I think Chad Gable being there led to more people being like, holy crap, I think that's Gunther. So they need to definitely address that situation, whether it be a little bit more poignant that this is a potential dream sequence foreshadowing, which is they've done and it is fantastic, But if it's just them having extras that look like wrestlers, then the restless on the roster, then they cannot have that because you can't have fans thinking this because this reminds me of the Alexa Bliss situation a couple weeks ago. I think Seamus was going to the backstage area and people were sure that he walked by Alexa Bliss, and I watched it multiple times today and I'm I'm pretty sure it's her as well, or it's someone who looks really like her. Even when you like slow it down, You're like, man, that looks like Alexa Blix Bliss, But I can see that it's potentially not Alexa Bliss. So I feel like they need to clean that up a little bit and and kind of give the viewer a little bit of a better foreshadowing conclusion to this entire thing, rather than us making up our own social media theories, which is honestly something WWE may

58:10 want us to do anyway. Yeah, So one of the things I was thinking about as you were mentioning the different people that whether it was Carmelo Hayes or an extra or somebody else, everybody that was kind of mentioned there is factored into money in the bank. So the internet sleuth in me is looking at going, well, we saw Carmelo Hayes in a qualifier on SmackDown and he was one of the people that was potentially laid out. Gable's been in and out this match, you know, ron Stroman Gunther, you know, maybe not in a match yet, but it should be announced. Maybe this leads to something big of money in the bank as well. And wouldn't it be weird to have Uncle Howdy or one of those guys with the money in the bank briefcase and the fact that they can be so secretive and mystical and whatever you want to call it, that would make a really interesting cashion If Uncle Howdy money in the bank, and then the lights go out at some point during a heavyweight title match and come back on and that's his cashion.

59:07 So uh, that's just fantasy fantasy fan like really fantasy bookings something. But it was weird that the people they showed there were ones some of the ones that were involved in the money that make qualifying matches. Yeah, yeah, it's that would be an interesting tie in. So the way that they do this, I don't want to jump to any conclusions yet, because you know, I'm like, it's again, it goes to one. If it's storyline, awesome, love it. But if it's like, holy crap, these extras really look like Carmelo Hayes gun through, then we need to change it up a little bit. So really fun execution of the angle. And then obviously the second part in this doctor training. I think everybody is kind of talking about this because I loved the Fiend bray Wyatt, but as an in ring performer and not the actual in ring skills of bray White by any means whatsoever, but as an in ring performer, the Fiend bray Wyatt was hard at times to love because he destroyed everybody was so menacing and violent that it really felt like nobody could or should ever be able to beat him, and he was so dominant. Whenever you do these supernatural type characters, whether it be the Fiend bray Wyatt or the Undertaker, it's hard to do flaws where it's hard to believe that these people could actually lose. And I had read going into the angle being executed that they were going to try to shy away from that and shy away from him having these supernatural powers per se, all

1:00:45 of the characters that make like however they're doing these costumes was going to give them the opportunity to really wrestle and not be hindered by wrestling, because if you actually go back to that Immortal documentary on Peacock of bray Wyatt, bray Wyatt mentions that he had a really tough time wrestling with the burned Fiend, and that's what actually creatively changed the whole moment at Wrestlmania thirty eight where or was the thirty thirty seven excuse me, where his he transformed back to the Fiend bray Wyatt from after being burned leading into the angle with Randy Orton. So it does seem like there's some apprehension right now on Okay, this angle was really good, creative, entertaining and fun, but how can this translate to professional wrestling? And as much as I love the angle and thought it was perfect executed amazingly a very memorable moment in w w EE raw wrestling history, there is a part of me that's like, Okay, how is this going to play out now? From the you know, squared circle perspective?

1:01:45 Yeah, one of the things I thought about it too, because one of the things it was really hard to book the Fiend because he's basically, you know, you're Michael Myers, you're Freddy Krueger, he's your you know, horror icon. But the crowd is cheering for, Like, the crowd loved it so much, it was hard to make him make it a heel type character. So it's hard to book monsters when the crowd loves them. It's just one of those things like good you know, I've said the show. Dear God knows how many times good guys need obstacles to overcome. You need a reason to cheer for the guy that you're you're following, and they have to have things that seem insurmountable at times, and the Fiend nothing seems insurmountable.

1:02:31 Typically, when you book monsters as heels, the monsters are dominant, but they make one mistake. They slip on the banana peel. They make that air in judgment and then the good guy can capitalize and get the wind. So when it came to this group, when they're laying it out, I was like, yeah, I really don't want them to go the supernatural oute like turn the lights on off. Cool, that's fine that I mean, you can have an inside guy in the you know, in the backstage, killing the power, so to speak. I kind of hope his group comes off as a cult and they're followers of Bray or their followers or the Fiend, because that you can do a cult and they're not supernatural, which gives them, you know, a human element than that they can be defeated at times, but then you have the group swarming and it seems insurmountable.

1:03:15 So I'm with you. I kind of hope they kind of stay away from the supernatural undertaker Caine Bray Wyatt type stuff and make it more of a humanized cult. That's one of the things I loved about listen to fully Ray this week was that, you know, somebody was asking him, like, who the sixth person is in the Wyat sixth and he said, it's Bray. Bray is in the lantern or whatever. But that's them following Bray and Bray is the leader of this whole group, and he's the sixth member even though he's not physically here with us. And I love that mindset of basically these people coming together to follow the mentality what the Bray Wyatt character was, and they're more of a human cult than supernatural characters. Yeah, it's going to be intriguing to see how this continues forward here over the next couple of weeks.

1:04:11 I'm really looking forward to Monday's Raw and seeing this play out. So the Wyat six have arrived and I'm excited. I'm really really excited for it. And then finally, the last thing I want to talk about here in regards the big moments, and then we'll talk about one last thing to wrap up the show. Jacoba two finally joins a bood Line on last night's edition of SmackDown Doctor Trey. I don't know much about Jacoba two. I do not watch MLW, but it seems that a lot of the hardcorees that are out there do watch MLW are very excited for him to get this opportunity to be on a bigger scale of WE and get this opportunity because he could be a menace, is hard hitting, his physical as violent, so there's a lot of people that have seen his work that are very excited. I did read going into this that there was concern from the creative team reportedly that he is so believable in his role that they think that he may be able to surpass Solo Solo Sokoa, who they're trying to push forward here obviously in a main event perspective. Moving along, what do you know about Jacobatuo if anything, Doctor Trey and this has been the long rumor. I think this was pre wrestle MANI even that the feeling was is that he had signed with w W. William was going to be joining the bloodline at some point. Yeah, he was Actually to me, I thought he would come in before Tomatonga because he's he's freakish, like, he's so athletic, like he's umaga with the ability to do moon salts, like he is one of the most believable characters of just being like a wild crazy if you go back, like I

1:05:44 don't know if how old you were when like the Samoan Swat Team or the head Shrinkers were around, but as a kid, those guys actually freaked me out, Like they were so believable in those roles that it blurred that line. I'm much older, and he blurs the line for me, Like there are times I'm like, this dude seems like he's out of control, but he's he's that believable. Like if you're looking for a big, bad Samoan enforcer, that's your guy. And some of the stuff he can do in the ring is incredible for a guy his size. I mean the guys like three hundred pounds three hundred and twenty pounds and can fly around the ring at times. Like That's why I said, Like the best comparison I've had to and we've used it with Solo is he's a bigger Solo, except that he seems more unhinged than what Solo was when he came up to the main roster, Like the Solo he saw on NXT was different than we saw Solo in the Bloodlined, which is different from the Solo E See now he's Jacob Fatu is legit. So I'm really excited to see this incarnation because there was the rumors that he may side whenever we do the Roman Rock Bloodline civil War, that he might side with the Roman site. Well you're not seeing that now, So it makes it interesting to see who they bring up to maybe pair with Roman and the USO's for that murmured match down the road. But right now, I mean when you put the grills of Destiny, Jacob Fatu and Solo Soakoa together like it's it's gonna be interesting to see how how well this all plays out. By the way, the Paul Hayman Them Puck stuff Us

1:07:15 SmackDown was so well done that I'm like, Paul looks like he's scared for his life, and I love it, like he is just terrified everything going on. It's a completely it's a complete departure from anything he's ever done, and it's once again just on the depth of the character of Paul Hayman. But we did get a Paul Hayman, see I'm punk hug out of this whole thing as well. I did love how the announcers put over Jacob Fatu, like he's the one that the family members don't want to be around. And again, I love character development, and you just point out some great stuff with Paul Hayman on On Friday SmackDown, which will bring up here momentarily as well. But if you go back at that closing segment, there's a couple of things I did, like Solo Soka like kind of directing Jacob Fatou, like you could hear him saying Jake, Jake, like go do some stuff on the on the top of the turnbuckle to get his attention. And then the close of SmackDown. So there's two parts here. The one part that I thought was funny is Jacob Fatwu did not hold the one for long, and you could see Solo say to him, like put the one back up. But look at Tongaloa from behind, Like Tamatunga has a really cool reaction where he doesn't really change character, but Tongaloa is like apprehensive, like holy crap, he's with us now, and then puts his finger up like I don't know if I'm even okay with this, And it feeds into what Corey Graves said, like this is the one that the family members don't want anything to do with because they're afraid of him or whatever. So I thought that was really well done. So yeah, I'm excited. I don't know

1:08:48 much about Jacobatoo, but I've heard so many great things about him and I'm excited to see the latest member of the Bloodline take place here. With that said, I just want to say, like, how good. This is the last thing I want to talk about. How good was WWE this week? You had the Wyat six drew in Punk. That segment on SmackDown was great. Paul Hayman Cempunk Bloodline that Doctor Trey talked about. I love the character developments of Paul Hayman and he's like take me with you, like he's afraid and then Solo Sokoa everything lost in all this saying I talked to the tribal chief he's not coming back, and Paul Hayman being devastated, which also makes me think Doctor Tray that maybe the Roman return is coming sooner than we think, maybe as early as SummerSlam, or maybe they prolonged a little bit more. It's definitely gonna be something like I would feel at a Big Four pay per view whether it be SummerSlam, survivor Series Royal Rommel, But I think the fans want to see Roman now and the iron is very hot.

1:09:49 Would not surprise me if we go Cody versus Solo at SummerSlam, Cody retains and you close out that show with the turn of the Tribal Chief. I mean that crowd is going to lose their ship. They are excited to see Roman reigns back, which is incredible, incredible stuff the creatives doing right now. Otis finally snapping on Gable, Joe Hendry and Frankie Kazarian of TNA joining NX or appearing on NX T Joe Hendry's segment is the most viewed and liked YouTube or TikTok so maybe both since WrestleMania, which is Wild seth Rawlins Return and now is a match with Damian Priest Money in the Bank. And I also want to say AW was very good as well. I love the Swerve Osprey face to face segment on Wednesday's dynam My MJF and Rouche was very fun as well. Great week for professional rat saying, but overall, no disrespect to AW. I mean, how good was w W This week Doctor Try.

1:10:47 They were, they were. It was weird, like the the pl E was the letdown of the last seven days as we re record the show, and it was still a solid you know p l E. But raw was so fantastic. I mean, Seth Rollins channeled his inner godfather with that outfit. Like I kept wait for the come down to you know, pimp and easy type stuff. But you're you're seeing the stuff with you know, that was a Babyface Damian Priest promo out there with with with Seth Rawlins, I'm like, oh, we did that? Does that tie into more so with the eventual split of the judgment day and then of course you like you mentioned the YA six and then SmackDown with Salt like the stuff even the stuff with like Logan Paul and Santos Escobar in La nine, like that was well done and that that's like the throwaway feud in all of this, you know, and that's gonna be those things and and I see, I don't know, did you did Joe Henry stuff like I've I've seen Joe Hendry And just for somebody tell me that that's the most viewed WWE video since WrestleMania Just shows, you like, what kind of pull the guys. His theme song was on the charts in England for Crying Out Loud, Like they're playing it on terrestrial radio as a song like it's crazy. See how well that song's over.

1:12:00 So maybe the most over song since Glorious And that's how catchy that thing is. I saw people say that they didn't know who Joe Henry was, but they can't get the theme song out of their heads since they watched NXT this week. So just a crazy, crazy week. The Frankie Gazeria thing like lost in Shoffle. I am so happy for Franki Kazerian to get a match, be involved in a match on WW television. I mean, you think about how long this guy's been wrestling, and he's been on TV as enhancement talent, but to actually be in a match after almost twenty years in the business in NXC like, I was so happy for him as well, and we still even then didn't get the weird aw thing with Kazan Kazarian lexis kid like we thrown that into the mix from the previous AC when Cody was there, that would be good too, so but just tremendous week of w W programming. So always lost in the Kazarian shuffle is that he was a WWE wrestler at one point. Do you remember that? Not in the sense of like I can remember his name in WWE, like I know he's been used at enhancement time. I remember I had seen him on Sunday Night eight a lot back in the late nineties early two thousands, but like, never in a featured role. He signed with the company back in five, was on Velocity for a little bit, and then left the company in August, so it was very, very short lived, and he was like working like cruiseweight matches at that point, so I don't think he ever made it to a raw on SmackDown, but it was working like Velocity on the like the

1:13:32 SmackDown brand, and then went back to TNA. It just wasn't working out for him. So it was a really fun and wild week. I was not I'm not privy enough to know much about Joe Hendry as well, but I can't get the theme song out of my head. I know he's very over with the fan bases out there, and you could just tell he's got a lot of chrisma and is a captivating character. So that was I'm sure a very fun moment for him as well. So great week of programming on we I also don't want to shy away from saying that I thought aw did a really good job as well. So this has been an action packed episode of s RTU. I think it's time to wrap up this week's edition of the show and head down to the hospital, go see my wife and son, and enjoy the rest of the day here. So with that said, let's get a couple plugs and sponsor out of the way. You can down the show typically every Thursday or Friday at raio dot com, Russell Chattnett on X in the still Rail the show iTunes feed, don't forget to rate, review and subscribe wherever you get your shows. You can follows individually on X for myself at SRTU, Jeff and Dot Tray Franklin at the Doctor Tray, and of course don't forget to follow the show on X at SRTU podcast.

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