September 24, 2025

01:19:12

Episode 21: Wrestlepoolza Debut on ESPN is Not All That Wonderful, AEW All Out: Jungle Jack is Back, Styles Cena 4 in Perth, Raw Fallout

Episode 21: Wrestlepoolza Debut on ESPN is Not All That Wonderful, AEW All Out: Jungle Jack is Back, Styles Cena 4 in Perth, Raw Fallout
The Rawking Review Podcast
Episode 21: Wrestlepoolza Debut on ESPN is Not All That Wonderful, AEW All Out: Jungle Jack is Back, Styles Cena 4 in Perth, Raw Fallout

Sep 24 2025 | 01:19:12

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It’s Episode 21 of the Rawking Review, and what a weekend of highs and lows it was in pro wrestling. AEW presented All Out live from Toronto, which featured the (less surprising) return of Eddie Kingston and a brutal tables-and-tacks war between Mark Briscoe and MJF that left fans buzzing. Over in WWE, WrestlePalooza made its ESPN debut in Indianapolis, where Brock Lesnar absolutely demolished John Cena in under ten minutes in one of the most questionable decisions for a match that felt like it went nowhere. We’ll also dive into reports of a top superstar walking away from the company after declining a new contract offer, plus all the fallout from Monday Night Raw following WrestlePalooza as the road forward begins toward the land down under—where we just might see one more PHENOMENAL showcase between Cena and AJ Styles. It’s happening here, because it’s spelled R-A-W-K cuz’ we talk about the W’s in pro wrestling!

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[00:00:06] The Rocking Review Podcast hosted by J Rock Rude. [00:00:29] Welcome everyone to another exciting edition of the Rocking Review Podcast. Hello everybody, my name is J. Rock Rude. I'm the host and this is episode 21 of the Rocking Review. I want to thank you so much for listening in. [00:00:50] This last weekend was quite literally a the most impactful weekend of pro wrestling we have gotten in a very long time. I would dare say this equals up and measures up to WrestleMania because for the first time ever we had two promotions. [00:01:11] Well, I mean not first time ever, but the first time in the modern age. [00:01:16] Two mega promotions premiered their pay per views on the exact same date on the exact same day, but they were off by four hours. [00:01:31] Of course we are talking about all out from all elite wrestling that happened in Toronto, Canada. [00:01:39] And then we're talking about the first ever ESPN PLE event, Wrestle Palooza, which took place in Indianapolis, Indiana. [00:01:50] Definitely a black and white night and day show for both of them because one of them showed you what happens when you market something so extremely to the point where it all comes crashing down. And in the words of the real American, Hulk Hogan, it hurts inside that you just put on that pathetic show that you were promising big things to come. [00:02:25] The other one basically was to show you that there are sickos out there that like work rate, that like a match to go on and on and on. And some matches will carry stories that even you don't understand. [00:02:44] But we will talk about that. We also will talk about the raw fallout that happened from Russell Palooza. We'll sprinkle that in the middle of the review of Wrestle Palooza. Also we have some incoming reports that came from this morning involving two women in both WWE and tna. And speaking of tna, they did the first ever TNA invasion on NXT last night. It was a quote unquote winner take all match between Obfemi the NXT champion and Trick Williams the TNA champion. And of course there is a couple of TNA guys that showed up to the party and completely disrupted everything. We'll go into that and I'll give you my opinion on that. But but first we will talk about All Out. [00:03:46] So all out did not start exactly at 3 o'. Clock. It actually started about two hours before, so 1 o' clock at the scatterbank arena in Toronto, Ontario, Canada where they did a special Saturday afternoon edition of Collision. [00:04:08] Basically this was the buy in to the pay per view and they presented four matches. [00:04:22] They got the ops of Powerhouse Hobbs, Ansimo Joe. They beat the workhorsemen of Anthony Henry and J.D. drake in five minutes. [00:04:32] Then we got to one of the first singles bouts of the newly formed Death Rider. Daniel Garcia and Daddy Magic was on commentary for this one. He beat Kashiori Shabata in 14 minutes using a bunch of pile drivers and some curb snaps. [00:04:57] We had a six man tag team hologram and the Paragon of Kylo Reilly and Roderick Strong. [00:05:07] They beat this group called the Frat House of Cole Crater, Griff Garrison and Preston Vance. [00:05:19] Roh, folks, what can I say? [00:05:22] And then your main event for that collision was of course just a spot fest. [00:05:27] An eight women tag team Tornado tailgate brawl match. [00:05:33] Harley Cameron, Mina Shirakawa, Queen Aminata and Willow Nightingale beat Megan Bain, Penelope Ford and the Sisters of Sin. [00:05:42] So the Sisters of Sin, not the Triangle of Madness. [00:05:46] That was Julia Hart and Sky Blue. Just a nice little fun fest of a bunch of spots that involve, you know, cooking equipment, tailgating because, you know, Sundays and also because Tony Khan is part of the Jaguars organization. [00:06:04] Anyhow, let's talk about all out itself. [00:06:09] The first match we had was Copeland and Christian Cage versus FTR with Stokely Hathaway. [00:06:20] I had said when Cope and Christian made a reunion about a few weeks before Forbidden Door in London, I said that they should have waited for this build up. They should have waited until after Forbidden Door and then build up and then this was their first match. [00:06:43] But instead we've been treated to promo after promo after promo where FTR is now trying to become the new Dudley Boys and trying to talk trash to the attending patrons. Who, by the way, a big report coming out of all out was they were super stinky. Okay, no hygiene from any of these quote unquote sickos that watch AEW and go to an AEW show. [00:07:12] But yes, there was reports that people were asked to leave because of bodily odor. [00:07:17] That is how bad it was. [00:07:21] But it started out with some little funny bits. They met, they went into Wendell Clark, famous Toronto Maple Leaf. Bubbles, of course, from Trailer Park Boys and the Green Bastard, who of course is Bubbles as a wrestling Persona. [00:07:41] Which again, Bubbles, for those who do not know about Trail Park Boys, that is played by Mike Smith. [00:07:57] I honestly don't know whether or not Mike Smith is. This actually got like. I don't know if he just does this by himself. This is how he looks. I think this is how he looks. There's a regular picture of him, but man, he goes into the glasses and I swear he goes completely into another stage. Like in, quite honestly, like, Bubbles is great, but you know, he's not one of the top characters in Trailer Park Boys Toronto sing along with Copeland's theme. And then after some chance for Christian Cage as chance of he's our asshole, apparently now they can drop F bombs while on HBO Max. So that was the thing that they got to do. [00:08:43] FDR entered the ring with amazing amounts of boosts and Dax Hardwood actually had his nose taped up because apparently he had a serious broken nose at the hands of Christian Cage from the Dynamite beforehand in London, Ontario. [00:09:01] The early story was Cage area on the nose, cracking him into the post and nearly stealing the wind with the reverse ddt. [00:09:08] Copeland and Cage chemistry clicked instantly with some double hip tosses, some tag team offense, and Copeland breaking out a full John Cena tribute with a five knuckle shuffle and an AA for a near fall. [00:09:23] Cage was then isolated for long stretches of the match, was crushed by a back breaker elbow combo. [00:09:29] And as he reached for the tag, there was no cigar. [00:09:35] Copeland finally got in. Everybody came unglued, ran through both members of ftr, locking Harwood into the sharpshooter along Cage. [00:09:46] Bunch of false finishes happen. Power and glory, spike pile drivers and multiple Shatter Machine attempts. [00:09:53] Just when FTR seemed poised, still with Stokely's distraction, some music hit halfway during the match and sure enough, I was only wondering when she was gonna come. [00:10:06] Beth Phoenix. Beth Copeland has now arrived to the scene in all elite wrestling. She came out, she speared Stokely and carried her or carry him back. [00:10:19] And then immediately Cope and Cage hit the pop up spear and that got the 1, 2, 3. [00:10:30] Beth came back out, raised her hand, but all of a sudden Nick Wayne appeared on the ramp with Mother Wayne accompanying him and with the distraction Kip Sabian and FTR but attacked Cope and Cage from behind. [00:10:51] Cope was then handcuffed to the ropes and saw Cage get pile driven. And so did Beth Phoenix or Beth Copeland. So that is the whole story of the match that that now FTR and Cope and Cage are not finished and now Beth Phoenix is involved with it. So could we see something where it's patriarchy and FTR tagging along with Copen, Cage and maybe some other tag team or something. [00:11:28] But we then got into the second match and I shared my frustrations about this match and the build up to this match. Considering Eddie Kingston has been gone for about a year and a half, I did not like how this was presented as his return match. [00:11:45] So Big Bill came in with Brian Keith along his side and then finally Kingston comes out. He wore a Claudio sucks eggs and he came out looking like he hasn't missed a beat. [00:12:04] Immediately massive big boot from big Bill. [00:12:08] Bill then lean hard on Kingston, grinding him down and mocking the crowd. [00:12:14] He refused. Kingston refused to stay down and Bill leveled him with a huge clothesline and back to back sidewalk slams. Eddie then fired up with trademark chops before delivering a exploder suplex. [00:12:31] Bill then answered back but got Kingston into a ddt. [00:12:39] The finish came when Kingston dug deep and went for a spring back fist. On the first attempt it was block, but when Eddie finally connected, the shot barely grazed his lower jaw. So he basically did one back fist kicked out of one power move. Big Bill comes up and Eddie went for the second one and completely whiffed it. And then that was the three. [00:13:03] After the bell, Brian Keith jumped Kingston and then the lights went out and Hook came down to the ring, locked in red room on Keith. And now the new alliance is Eddie Kingston and Hook. [00:13:18] So literally Hook was going off about. [00:13:24] Hook was going off about a whole thing of like maybe I gotta find my own path and I gotta, you know, do something other than be with the ops. [00:13:34] So then he immediately goes and tag teams with Eddie Kingston and probably is gonna be his backup from now until whenever he wants to. [00:13:43] Like. I don't understand Hook, man. [00:13:45] They, they just like it because it's Tas. [00:13:48] Because I, I think, I think Tony is just a big mark for tags. [00:13:53] Not for tags for Taz with a Z. [00:13:56] He's a big mark for Taz and I think that he's allowed Hook to be in his company for this long because you know, that's just what they can do. But I, honestly I haven't, you know, Hook was, he's entertaining but, but you listen to his promos, you, you watch his in ring work, you know, I don't see that much from him. [00:14:20] We then went to Tables intacts with Mark Briscoe and mjf. [00:14:29] And again, this is quite interesting. [00:14:32] Less than a day removed from losing his CMLL World championship to Mystico, which by the way, while we're on that topic, the PWI 500 had released yesterday. [00:14:53] And in the PWI 500 your top 10 was Cody Rhodes, Jon Moxley, Gunther Hangman, Adam Page, Haruki Goto, Jay uso, Swerve Strickland, Seth Rollins, Mystico and Will Ospreay. And then I'll go into the 2011 Kazuchiko Okada, 12 Joe Hendry, 13 Zack Sabre Jr. 14 Obafemi, 15cm Punk, 16 Bandito, 17 Konosuke Takeshna, 18 Damian Priest, 19 Trick Williams and 20 Jacob Fatu. [00:15:44] Interestingly enough, the two times that Okada has been in the top 500, he was at 21 both years. [00:15:58] And I don't know if this is true. [00:16:04] There is a 3 and 5 or a 3 and 53 opa femi I don't know if that's true. [00:16:13] I don't know where Obafemi was number three in the top 500, but then again, not entirely sure. [00:16:26] So moving on, we got into MJF and Mark Briscoe. MJF was dressed in all white with a white collar wins across his chest and he had his arms taped up and his arms and his hands and everything else. [00:16:47] The minute the bell rang, immediately Briscoe poured all the tax into the ring. [00:16:54] The action then spilled to the floor and on the apron where Briscoe nearly hit a J driller on MJF before he escaped back inside, MJF repeatedly slammed Briscoe into the tax and smeared his face across them. [00:17:11] Blood poured from Risco's forehead as MJF hit an Alabama slam into the tax and then stuffed them into Briscoe's mat and cracked with a right hand. [00:17:24] Briscoe then reversed a backdrop sending MJF into the tax and fought back when an exploder, some iniris and a spine buster VI escalated when Brisco hit a chair while he leaped off a chair into a flip dive shattering a table on mjf. [00:17:48] There is a big elbow through another table on the outside as well. [00:17:55] Briscoe and MJF kept pushing forward and eventually MJF threw thumbtacks into the eyes and then hit a tombstone pile driver on a tap cover chair. [00:18:10] Then MJF put down a table and put some tax on it and Briscoe hit the froggy bow twice, once through one of the tables and then planted a J driller on the tacks for the 1, 2, 3. So Briscoe wins. What does this mean for MJF? [00:18:30] I mean he was reported, he's shooting violent night two, so probably to write him off for another big Hollywood paycheck and God only knows. I. I don't even know if does he have the contract? [00:18:47] That's what I'm wondering. Where's this contract by the way? Does he still have it? Did he already use it on Hangman on a page? [00:18:57] Remember that whole debacle that they had last year? [00:19:01] Or not last year. Last month. [00:19:04] We then had a six man tag between the Hurt Syndicate MVP Sheldon Benjamin and Bobby Lashley taking on the newly formed trio of the Demand. That being Ricochet and then Gates of Agony, Bishop Kong and to Leona. [00:19:22] I thought that they were going to get a replacement for mvp, but I guess they did not. [00:19:28] MVP actually started things off, but instead he started things off with Bishop Khan. MVP shows some flashes of his old self, dropping Khan with a front slam and then tagging in Shelton, who walked through Chops and hammered Khan before bringing Bobby Lashley in. [00:19:47] Ricochet finally got tagged in against Lashley and was launched sky high, slamming down to the vertical, delayed suplex and then dropped again by a bowling elbow from mvp. [00:20:02] Then they started targeting his knee and getting some quick tags to keep the pressure up. [00:20:09] A big clothesline from MVP opened up the door for Lashley, who nearly ended the match with a dominator before Totaliona broke things up. [00:20:18] Benjamin then exploded into the match, countering a Hurricane Rana and tossing him out, throwing around some suplexes. [00:20:28] Lashley then followed up with a big spear to Leona, but ricochet landed with a 450 splash on top of the pin. [00:20:38] Benjamin Khan Leona traded some heavy strikes while Ricochet scored a dive over the corner post to the floor after they swarmed, sending Benjamin and Lashley through the timekeepers area. Back in the ring, MVP was all alone trying to fight off Bishop Kong and Ricochet, but eventually Ricochet blasted him with a spirit gun to get the 1, 2, 3. [00:21:04] So ricochet now getting some wins and Trios action so they could end up going for the Trios titles. [00:21:14] I don't mind that. Get the get the belts off of get the belts off the Ops. [00:21:21] Do something with Joe, do something with Powerhouse Hobbs. Do something with Cheval. [00:21:26] Just something else. Man. That Ops group, it just needs to go away. [00:21:31] Speaking of things that need to go away, we had Mercedes Monet versus Riho for the TBS championship again before this. Riho's last match before returning wasn't until July 6th of 2024. She had been gone for a very long time and more importantly, if you look at her 2024 AEW Career 1 match on Rampage for 7 minutes against a girl named Trisha Dora on February 24th. Riho beats Kris Statlander in 9 minutes and 51 seconds. [00:22:17] March 6, 2024 Willow Nightingale beats Riho on the Big business show on March 13, 2024. [00:22:27] We then skip almost four months later she beats Lady Frost in 8 minutes 44 seconds on a collision and then pretty much is gone for an entire year. [00:22:41] Comes back, has a match with Alex Windsor. You know the one person that they have been trying to push but nobody cares about and then a random collision victory over a girl named Robin Renegade in under five minutes. And then you gave this her longest match since. Let me take a look here. [00:23:04] They gave her a 15 minute match, almost a 16 minute match, I honestly believe. [00:23:12] Okay, so she's had a couple 14 minute bouts. [00:23:16] Says here that there was a 17 minute bout that happened with Momo Wannabe and a couple of people down in stardom in 2020, so I don't know. [00:23:30] But anywho, Riho catched the CEO off guard, nearly stealing the win in the opening seconds of the roll up. Some finicky, some pin attempts came in flurries, half crab followed and then Mercedes answered back with some strikes and stomps, including one off the announced desk. [00:23:57] Monet then turned the tide with a brutal meteora from the desk, a pendulum face buster surfboard, some mocking of each other, but Ryo kept on pushing through. She countered a half crab twisting Monet into her own statement maker and kept on hammering down as the match wore on. The two exchange suplexes and heavy strikes with Riho rattling Monet with several dragon suplexes and stomps in the corner. [00:24:33] Monet then strung together a sunset powerbomb into the corner and then followed with some Meteoras and an Iraq behind the referee's back. [00:24:43] And then after narrowly escaping Riho, suplexes and leg locks, she finally caught her with the lungblower and then hit the Monet maker for the 1, 2, 3. I honestly don't care. The only good thing about this is Monet did not win with a roll up. [00:24:58] So what are you gonna do with Riho? [00:25:01] Quite honestly, if you're realizing a little pattern of why I'm not fully going in depth, play by play by play, it's just because, you know, especially I'll just say this. I should have said this at the start. If you think I paid $40 for one weekend to watch, what was it, eight hours of pro wrestling, I think you're wrong. [00:25:24] I would not spend that much money just to watch some pro wrestling for no good reason. [00:25:32] We then shifted to the Unified Title three way between Kazuchiko Okada, Konosuke Takeshna and again, Mascaria Dorada. I believe that's what his his name is. [00:25:50] So again, I don't know exactly what to think of this match. I don't know what to think about Okada and his reign as the Unified Title holder. The Unified Champion. I don't know, it sounds so awkward saying the Unified Champion. Well, he's got the other two Belts the Continental and the International around his way. I'm like what are you doing? [00:26:20] Immediately, Takeshita powered back with some heavy strikes, trying to slow down Dorada with some corner whips, but Okada broke things up with his drop kick on the outside. Okada and Takesh not caught Dorada on a dive, but only Dorada countered for a slick arm drag to escape Okada. [00:26:41] Takeshita then rejoined into the match and him and Okada briefly clashed before Okada raked the eyes to regain control. [00:26:48] Dorada then hit a pair of Torrentillos outside to Okada and Takesha and then hit a innovative neck breaker on Okada for a two. [00:27:04] Takeshna then planted Okada with a massive blue thunderbomb near the still in the wind and then Dorada ended up hitting a Canadian Destroyer into a 450 splash, only for Okada to pull him out at the last second. [00:27:18] Dorada then hit a double hurricane Rana on both Okada and Takeshna, and Bryan Danielson was oh man, that Brian Danielson was a mark on commentary. Man, he, he was going nuts on commentary. He's also super honest. [00:27:39] Takesha then blasted Dorado with a knee, but Okada cut him off with a picture perfect drop kick. Takeshna then delivered a superplex and a raging fire, but Okada barely managed to break it up. [00:27:54] Dorada then came close with a DDT and Okada on the apron, but Takeshna's power kept him alive. [00:28:03] In the closing stretch, Okada weathered Takeshna strikes drop, kicking him out of the ring and then levering Dorada with the Rainmaker to retain the Unified Championship. And then post match, Okada and Takesha were nose to nose frustrated. And meanwhile Don Callis was on commentary and the implosion of the Don Callis family is more or less coming soon. [00:28:29] Say what you want about Mascarias, Dorada, I again, I'm trying really hard to pronounce all of these names exactly, but again I don't really know like what's the best way quite honestly. [00:28:54] But like you know they're going to put on these triple threat matches over and over and over again and basically just try to get everybody on the card. So we then had Jon Moxley vs Darby Allen in a interesting coffee coffin match. I almost said coffee match. I need some coffee. [00:29:16] Darby immediately launched himself at John Moxley in the middle of his entrance. [00:29:21] The two rolled up the steps and around the arena with Alan throwing his body including a drop kick onto concrete. [00:29:28] Moxie responded by crotching Allen on the railing, only for Darby to blind him with a splash of water. And they basically went towards ringside. From there, Moxley cut open Allen's ear and smashed his fingers up in the coffin. [00:29:47] Alan then answered by pulling out a fork from the ring and gouging into Moxley's ear. [00:29:55] And of course, Moxie started bleeding. Alan followed up with another coffin drop, crushing Moxley on the casket. [00:30:02] Moxley then turned, tied with a cutter and a elevated DDT onto the coffin. So a lot of work is done around the coffin. [00:30:10] But Darby stuck his arm out with a steel pipe, began to attack Alan. [00:30:18] Brian then slid a duffel bag into the ring that contained a plastic bag. [00:30:26] So they legit wanted to kill Jon Moxley. [00:30:30] That was the promise that Bryan Danielson had made. You know, very nice vegan Bryan Danielson wanted to straight up end the life of Jon Moxley. [00:30:44] Alan then tried to suffocate Moxley while also stomping his head through it. [00:30:49] And then when he looked like he had the match won, all of a sudden, out of all the members, not Claudio, not Yuta, not Shafir, but the bastard is back. Pac is back from injury. [00:31:07] If you guys do not remember Pac or Pack, again, I tried really, really hard to. To do it's justice of like calling his actual thing, like if it's Pack or poc or. Again, I really do try. I try a lot. But anywho, if you guys remember, they basically had an injury that happened in a match where Pac ended up injuring himself. Where it was. It was a match that was with Will Ospreay. No, it was not with Will Ospreay. Uh, he had a match with Swerve Strickland back in April. So he had to go away and he came back here, he cut his hair off, and he immediately got Alan into a power bomb and basically power bombed him outside onto the coffin and then stuffed him into the body bag and shoved the bag inside the casket. [00:32:18] And Moxley wins. [00:32:22] Later in the show, though, Marina Shafir grabbed a cameraman to film the end of Alan, and the deathrider surrounded his coffin as Moxley started delivering a eulogy about Alan. And Moxley then got the crew away, but all of a sudden, out of the coffin, started attacking Moxley with the pipe, and then stuffed Mox inside the body bag, doused it in flammable spray, and set it on fire. [00:32:59] So the bag was set on fire with Moxley in it while Moxley rolled around. [00:33:05] And basically we cut from there and we went into the next match, or this was the match that happened in between those two segments because this match happened after or this much happened before that they showed them in the back with the body bag. [00:33:29] Hey everyone, did you know that the Rocking Review podcast is on both X and Instagram? That's right. For every single episode we end up doing a prelude to that episode on on our socials. We are on Twitter nxing Review that's R a W k review. [00:33:51] And of course there you can be able to look at all of our previous posts and upcoming posts. Thank you very much. And now back to the episode AW Women's Fatal four Way Match Toni Storm, thecla, Chris Statlander and Jamie Hayter. They all faced off against each other. [00:34:21] As soon as Toni Storm finished her entrance, Yuta appeared to try to give encouragement to Statlander. So they've been trying to recruit Chris Statlander to the Death Riders. [00:34:33] Statlander briefly had the upper hand on Hater, but Thecna cut her off with a stiff kick. Storm then followed up with her hip attack and a tornado ddt only for Thecna to take control on the floor. [00:34:46] Thaekna then pulled off a spider suplex on all three opponents one by one by one, but Storm holded her momentum with another hip attack. [00:34:55] Hater then powered her way through the field and dropped a brutal clothesline that got her and Statlander. [00:35:05] All four women were trading strikes. Storm and Hater briefly reunited for some tandem offense and a clothesline on Statlander. Fecna nearly stole it with her web trap in the ropes, but Statlander powered out of it with Sunday Night Fever. Storm then immediately answered with Storm zero, but Hater broke it up. [00:35:27] Hater then drilled Storm with a Hater raid which seemed to have the match won until Thecna dove in with a stomp to save the pen on the apron. Thecna spirit both herself and Hater to the floor, leaving Storm and Statlander in the ring alone. From there, Statlander landed in the seatbelt pin on storm and 1, 2, 3. Kris Statlander is your new AEW Women's champion. [00:35:59] And more importantly, she pinned the champion, Toni Storm. [00:36:05] And man, you know I I felt great seeing that Kris Statlander actually won and you could tell from the crowd that everybody was super in to having Kris Statlander finally win. She's the first person to ever win the TBS and the women's champion. [00:36:28] You know I absolutely love it. [00:36:31] I am ah, I'm very glad. [00:36:35] I'm glad that she was able to, she was able to finally get this win. I don't know what this means because you just had four women, four of the biggest women I feel that you could have put against Toni Storm because you've already had her beat everybody else including Mercedes Monet who is still the TBS champion. [00:37:00] So the only other way that I see it is that are they just going to do title for title at full gear? [00:37:10] Is that what we are insinuating right now is that at full Gear or even before then I would even say title Tuesday because remember that title Tuesday for those who do not know that will be on October 7th and that is going to be happening at Daly's place. There's also the six year anniversary show that will be happening on October 1st so that'll be happening next week actually. [00:37:46] So there's a good chance Sorry, not full gear. Russell Dream My apologies Russell Dream will happen in St. Louis and on the 18th. So I don't know whether or not they basically have that's the way that they wanted it were neither Toni Storm or Monet wanted the other to get pinned. So Storm just took the win and then now Storm didn't want to lose to Mercedes and now Mercedes is going to beat Statlander to get the 10th belt and finally going to be in control of the women's division only for I I don't know who else to save. It still got Brit Baker on the phone. [00:38:30] Who knows. [00:38:33] We then had our semi main event and it was the tag team Fatal four way. [00:38:43] Josh Alexander and Hitchicero of the Donald Cast family against Jet Speed Bro Dido and the young Bucks. [00:38:55] Josh Alexander and Hichicero immediately came out with the offense, but Jet Speed cut them off quickly, isolating Alexander until Rodito stepped in. [00:39:10] Standoff ended with Jet Speeds drop kicks. [00:39:16] The Bucks then entered late, zeroing in on Bandido until Brody King hit a triple German superplex. [00:39:24] Kingland Bodols through ladders, Nick Jackson crashed through him with a senton and Kevin Knight launched himself into the air and Bandido answered with some dives of his own. [00:39:40] And then all of a sudden Bucks tried to align themselves with Alexander and Hichicero. They smashed King across a bridged ladder and hammered Rodito and Mike Bailey. [00:39:54] Hichero then locked Bailey into a surfboard across a ladder with Bayern Dito hitting a destroyer off the tops and the Bucks driving Alexander and Hitch zero through some tables. Kevin Knight that splash Bandito through another table and King Tombstone Bailey off the apron into yet another ladder in a closing stretch. Kevin Knight looked like he was close, but the Bucks and the family threw everything at him to deny him from doing that. At last, Brody King created an opening and Bandido climbed high to retrieve the belts. [00:40:35] And Rodido retains the tag titles. [00:40:39] But the real story was not until after the match. Well, the Bucks were frustrated about their missed opportunity. All of a sudden, somebody walked into the ring and it was Jack Perry. That's right. The scapegoat is back, still with that hideous looking beard. [00:40:59] And he immediately got a pop from the crowd. And immediately Rocky Romero got involved and some super kicks happened and they went to hit the EVP or the Rich Trigger, the Money Trigger, whatever. But all of a sudden, as Jack Perry was about to be kneed into a buck sandwich, he looks up, smiles, and the lights go out. And it shows on the Tron of where Jack Perry has been all this time. And he in fact was digging up a grave. [00:41:37] He was grave robbing. Whose grave was he robbing? [00:41:41] It was Kill Switch. [00:41:45] And all of a sudden the lights then came back on and Luchasaurus was in the ring. Double choke slam onto the books. [00:42:00] He got rid of the belt, tossed at the crowd. And the Jurassic Express is back. [00:42:08] So quite crazy how Luchasaurus turns. [00:42:15] Jack Perry turns. [00:42:17] And then they are back again. They're back together once again. [00:42:24] And quite literally. I would love to see if Jurassic Express can become two time tag Team champions. [00:42:33] I. I think that would be very entertaining to see that happen, especially with this, you know, now I. Luchasaurus, you know, his story has been great. [00:42:44] Jack Perry, you can definitely get his story back on track if you give him Luchasaurus. [00:42:50] So I'm sure that'll be great. [00:42:54] We then had our main event, which at this point was the start of Russell Palooza. [00:43:02] And it was Kyle Fletcher versus Hangman Adam Page for the AEW World Heavyweight Championship. [00:43:13] And of course, one of the rules were that if the Don Callis family interfered, not only would Kyle Fletcher be disqualified, but he would also end up being stripped of the TNT title. [00:43:36] So that is, you know, quite nice. At least now you can have a strict one on one match. [00:43:46] But I knew that this match was gonna go quite literally insane. [00:43:53] For those wondering, this match went 40 minutes almost. [00:43:59] This was the longest match by far on the entire card. [00:44:07] There's always one match where he wants it to go over 30 minutes to get a bunch of spots in. I don't understand. [00:44:18] From the opening bell, Fletcher and Hangman felt each other out, trading burst of offense until Fletcher baited Paige out into a chop exchange and cracked him with a thrust kick. He immediately went to Page's weakened neck and wrenched him on the ropes, connecting with a Running kicker on the apron. Page then fired back with a springboard clothesline and tried to follow up with a plancha, but Fletcher sidestepped and hammered him down with another stiff strike. [00:44:46] Challenger kept pressing even, tossing Paige into the crowd and setting up a chair for a dive, only for Paige to reverse it and slam Fletcher onto the concrete. [00:44:55] Still, Fletcher turned the tide again with a power bomb on the apron, ripping at the tape on Paige's neck. [00:45:02] Of course, the neck tape being from the multiple brain buster that Fletcher has delivered to Paige and he delivered to Omega that wrote him off of TV again. [00:45:20] He then ended it with. [00:45:23] He almost ended it with a drapey DDT and a spinning Michinoku driver, but Paige kicked out. [00:45:29] Fletcher then hit an elbow drop from the top and Paige came back with some fallaway slams, including a moonsault on floor and a pop up power bomb. [00:45:39] Paige then hit a tombstone on the floor, but Fletcher answered with a brain buster into the timekeeper's table. [00:45:48] They then went back to the ring and Paige reversed a brain buster on the apron into a dead eyes through another table and then hit a V trigger and then tried to hit one wing angel and then went for big pressure, but Fletcher kicked out. [00:46:07] Fletcher then went into another brain buster and a short arm lariat. [00:46:15] But when he exposed a turnbuckle to try to finish the job, Page then smashed his head into this exposed turnbuckle, hit the dead eye on the top rope, and then landed the buckshot lariat to retain the world championship. So pretty all right match. I mean, for Kyle Fletcher to have his first Pay Per View main event, especially in this capacity, and him going against the world champion, I think that was, that was very, very good. [00:46:49] I don't know where Fletcher goes from here. He's back to the TNT title. [00:46:54] I honestly don't know who takes it from him. You know, there's a lot of people that you could suggest, but quite literally, I don't know anybody that's. [00:47:05] I don't know anybody that's quite literally close to what no, Kyle Fletcher really does bring because he really is the proto star. He, he is a star in the making. And you know, with Osprey out, swerve out and trying to deal with everything else, it's, it's pretty hard to, well, then shift into Wrestle Palooza. [00:47:37] Oh boy. [00:47:39] This show, we'll get into it towards the end, but you want to talk about a show in which. [00:47:53] Man, some. It was underwhelming. [00:47:57] This was it. And for the first show on ESPN, no less. [00:48:04] For 29.99 people paid for this show and got a five match card. [00:48:13] And the first match that they got was Brock Lesnar and John Cena for the first time since 2014, them being in the ring together, this is brought Brock Lesnar's first match since SummerSlam of 2023, since he faced Cody. [00:48:31] And when he came out here, when Brock came out here, I'll just say this, that entrance right there just showed you how much they still like Brock. And this match showed you even more how much they still like Brock. [00:48:46] I don't know what it is because as far as I know when it comes to wwe, nobody was talking about Brock Lesnar, they were talking about Cena, they were talking about Roman Reigns, and they were talking about Seth Rollins, Cody Rhodes. Brock Lesnar is nowhere up to that star level, but ESPN likes it because that's what they dislike. [00:49:11] Cena, on the other hand, he came out funny because he just looked like he was part of like the Savannah Bananas. But they're nowhere close to Savannah. They're in Indianapolis. It was Pacers colors. [00:49:23] So he immediately came in with a bunch of kids. [00:49:30] And man, if you did not know that meant that he was gonna get destroyed, then, well, they happened. [00:49:40] So as the introductions are going, you hear Paul Heyman's voice. So Paul Heyman comes out and said he will beat the 17, ending goat slaying. [00:49:54] Brock Lesnar. [00:49:56] So old time Paul Heyman introduction for Brock Lesnar's return here. [00:50:01] Once the bell rang, Lesnar dominated early with strikes and power slams and a barrage of German suplexes. [00:50:07] Cena riled back with some shoulder blocks and hit three attitude adjustments, but Lesnar shrugged them off. [00:50:16] The turning point came when Lesnar hit six consecutive F5s, one after another and pinned Cena clean. [00:50:28] That's right, he pinned John Cena in the opening match of the big pay per view. The big start. [00:50:44] You know, of something that is going to be seen for ages as the first ever met. He beat him in under 10 minutes. 8 minutes. [00:50:52] It took him 8 minutes to beat John Cena. [00:50:59] And then he didn't end it there because he then attacked the referee and then hit him with even more F5s, seven F5s total. [00:51:11] And then of course, the crowd showed. [00:51:14] Kids in the audience, they were crying, they were sobbing, their hero was destroyed. And then immediately Cena just walks up the ramp and nothing happens. [00:51:29] So some more news on this. It just shows you. [00:51:33] I'll get into the rant when we're done with Russell Palooza, but this Just shows you the creative gap that is happening right now. According to the Wrestling observer, the Lesnar Cena match Russell Palooza was a one and done. [00:51:46] There are no plans for a rematch going forward. [00:51:50] Lesnar of course working such a limited schedule and Cena only having a handful of dates left before his retirement. Some fell that the booking did not accomplish much, but there has been a report and since then it has been confirmed that out of one of the remaining dates, one of them being Crown Jewel in Perth, Australia that John Cena texted a or he tweeted out about having a match with AJ Styles and then he also linked Triple H to that and of course Triple H because he can't back out now, especially after the criticism that he's got on this entire pay per view alone. He has given us that match. So we now officially will have for the fourth and final time, John Cena versus AJ Styles. With John Cena by the way not making any appearances. [00:52:49] There is no appearance from now until Jewel or yeah, Crown Jewel in Perth where John Cena will be able to come out and have a promo segment with AJ Styles. This match will be solely on the story of the three matches from 2016 to 2017 between John Cena, AJ Styles and AJ Styles is gonna have to come out and sell this match by himself. [00:53:10] Cena, of course he wants to sell this match, but he already used up most of his dates. [00:53:16] So honestly I feel like we could have left out some dates where he worked with R. Truth or Ron Killings because that clearly didn't do nothing because of course his reigning schedule was still two Raws like I had mentioned last week. One in New York City, one in Boston, then Survivor Series in San Diego, and then his final farewell match at Saturday night's main event on December 13th in Washington D.C. and before that I believe in October they will be having a Saturday night's main event at Salt Lake City. [00:53:49] So we then after the Brock match got into the USO's versus division. [00:53:58] Now of course before the match had started during the pre show, apparently all of out of nowhere Adam Pierce came out and said that LA Knight will now be the special guest referee. [00:54:15] Things got started off pretty hot. USO's back together again. [00:54:21] Jimmy got isolated with Bronson threatening to use a chair but being warm by night. [00:54:27] But then of course for some reason Knight turn a blind eye when Jimmy used the chair. So it was ref's discretion. So it's one of those matches. [00:54:40] Jimmy then used the chair on Bronson. The match developed into insane sequences with Jay Diving to the outside, Breaker tossing him into the steps and them nearly stealing the win. The Vision with a Steiner style Doomsday Bulldog. [00:55:00] The memento shifted with Jay got the hot tag, hitting a 1D with Jimmy but failing to score the pin. Tensions then flare between Jay and Knight after a dive nearly collided with the ref but Jay nearly struck him with a chair. [00:55:13] And then during that they set up this table in the corner and Jay has the steel chair and he is beating Bronson Reed and Bron Breaker and when he goes to hit Breaker with the with the chair after he gave him a stomach shot, he goes to hit him in the back and as he comes down the bottom like rung of the chair and how I can describe it is if you remember Edge when he would kick the leg, he would kick that little kickstand of the chair out from the bottom of it and use it as a weapon against somebody doing a cross face. [00:56:00] Basically that part of the chair connected with Jay and Jay got busted open hard way and he immediately cut himself open and automatically breaker speared both Usos through the table for Reed hit the tsunami on Jimmy or Jay and got the 1, 2, 3. [00:56:29] So the vision victorious. [00:56:34] And I'll just say this now so on Raw the next night, basically Jay did not come out with a yeet shirt on. He came out in a black top, black pants. [00:56:50] He faced off against LA Knight. [00:56:53] Reed and Breaker came out distracted. Knight Jay with no hesitation, super kick. USO splash wins the match Division starts attacking on night. Jimmy comes out, says we gotta go save him. Jay leaves, does nothing. [00:57:11] Now Lance Storm and he's talking about this. Yesterday Lance Storm suggested that there is a way of how he was looking at Cody Rhodes. We'll talk about him later. In the main event, he was on the show and he was looking at Cody's title. Jay was. [00:57:33] And after failing to beat the Vision at Wrestle Palooza, he's now frustrated. He wants to get back into the title picture. So what's the only other way to do that? [00:57:43] If you can't beat him, join him. [00:57:46] The reason that strikes me is because this is exactly how you build up a match where eventually you want one on one for the World Heavyweight Championships. [00:57:58] Seth versus Roman Reigns because and this also sets up War Games because now you're freeing up a spot where you can include Brock to make it five on five and you don't need to go get somebody random like a Drew McIntyre which has been rumored. [00:58:15] So what I could see happening is that if you remember when you think about it. Everybody in the bloodline was blood, right? Samoan Dynasty. [00:58:28] But there was one honorary OO that came into that group had nothing to do with the Samoan bloodline, had nothing to do with anything. That was Sami Zayn. [00:58:40] If you're trying to cross where, you know Bronson Reed is kind of like the powerhouse, like a solo koa, and then you got Jey USO in Bron Breakker, who's the young upstart, the right hand man for Seth, and you technically have a funny little comedy character in the man, I guess. [00:59:07] Then who becomes your honorary uce? Who becomes your honorary Vision member? [00:59:13] It's quite simple. [00:59:17] If Jay turns and says, now I want to be part of the actual vision because my new vision is to get that title away from Cody, then the similarities are right there between the bloodline and the vision that Seth basically made this entire group based off of people that were willing to be behind him but don't understand that he is the overbearing leader. [00:59:47] He will stop at nothing to make sure he stays on top just like Roman did. [00:59:52] And then that eventually leads to Bron Breakker being out and possibly even beating Seth for the title. [01:00:03] There you go then. One of the best matches of the night, it was the vacant Women's World Championship between Stephanie Vicure and IO Sky. [01:00:25] And also during this match, Tiffany Stratton was looking on at ringside because of course, in Crown Jewel, because they're gonna continue this, I'll just say this, that the world champions from both Raw and smackdown will face each other to basically determine who is the number one champion on each brand or who has the number one title from each brand. [01:00:56] In the early going, things were technical with some exchanges and counters into a flurry of pinfall attempts. Sky built momentum with some strikes, a back breaker and a missile drop kick, while Vicara fought back with a tarantula armbar leg drop and a big dive to the outside. [01:01:10] Both women traded suplexes and heavy strikes with Skye pushing through a knee injury. After Vikira wrenched on her leg with a Dragon screw in the corner. Despite the pain, sky nearly stole it with a Spanish fly and with some running knees. [01:01:25] But then when it came to the over the moonsault, Fakira got her knees up and basically hurt IO in the process for care. They capitalized with some more Dragon screws, the Devil's Kiss, and then finally the spiral tap for the three count and win her first women's championship on the main roster. [01:01:52] After the bell, sky showed respect and they both basically kneeled and acknowledged each other. So very great. A very good match. [01:02:03] You know, one of the best matches on the entire night. [01:02:06] I definitely loved the synergy that happened in that match. The chemistry between the Cure and IO and man, you know, it's the same thing with the Cure and Cody. It's really like pushing it in the face of Tony Khan. [01:02:25] That Tony Khan legit fumbled so many of his talents and he could have had Stephanie Vicier, but he didn't. [01:02:35] And since then, since she's debuted for wwe, she's won the North American title, she won the NXT title, and she won the women's title all within the year. [01:02:49] So this shows you how much Stephanie Viira means to Triple H and the rest of the booking and creative committee on wwe. [01:03:04] We then got in your semi main event. Only the biggest event or the biggest match that happened the entire night. [01:03:12] It was mixed tag match Seth Rollins and Becky lynch against CM Punk and a returning AJ Lee. [01:03:23] Punk and Rollins began brawling through the crowd while Becky and AJ fought inside the ring. [01:03:30] Punk endured a long beatdown until she finally tagged in aj, who exploded with some fez presses. Hurricane Rana and a tornado. DDT and a springboard assisted slice bread with everyone chanting, you still got it. [01:03:43] The chaos escalated with some double team maneuvers and some near falls with stereo pedigrees and even Rollins mocking Lee's dance before eating a GTS the action and spill to the announce table where Punk nearly finished rounds with a gts. But Becky shoved AJ into her husband, sending both Punk and Lee crashing through the table seasonally. Advantage. Becky tried to put AJ away with a manhandle slam only for Lee to counter into a Black Widow with Becky forced to tap out. [01:04:17] So AJ Lee gets her return match and AJ Lee wins alongside alongside CM Punk. Now the real question is, where does this go for both CM Punk and AJ Lee coming out of this? [01:04:35] Honestly, for Punk, there is several ways that this could be great for him because now he could start looking towards Survivor Series and being a part of, you know, maybe War Games I could see happening. But. [01:04:52] But I wonder, you know, I definitely wonder, you know, what was AJ Lee gonna do? Is they do Lee gonna go for the Intercontinental Championship? [01:05:01] I. I believe that's the only other option. [01:05:04] You know, her and Becky at Crown Jewel I think would be a very good match. [01:05:09] But in between this and the main event, it was a surprise announcement. Undertaker and Stephanie McMahon were ringside and he was sitting next to Stephanie and he had surprised Stephanie by telling her that she is the first inductee into the 2026 WWE hall of Fame. [01:05:34] So you're telling me that the year after Triple H gets inducted, his wife gets inducted, there's some shady stuff going on? Are you telling me Shane's gonna get inducted in Saudi? [01:05:52] Actually, better yet, I know exactly who's gonna be inducted in Saudi. And they're gonna find a way to bring him back so that way there's no bad blood going on. And that's gonna be the boss, the real boss, the father in law, Vinny Mac. I think Vince McMahon is gonna be worked into this so he can come back. Because quite honestly, I think Triple H knows he probably should be back because this is his home until the day that he dies. He knows that he can't fully take it away from him. [01:06:24] So he's gonna get his daughter the middle of it for the first time since Vincent J. [01:06:32] McMahon. Or Vincent. [01:06:34] Yeah, Vincent J. McMahon, which was Vince McMahon Senior. [01:06:40] A McMahon will go into the hall of Fame. [01:06:44] We then got into our main event. [01:06:46] Cody Rhodes back from Street Fighter. [01:06:51] He challenged Drew McIntyre and Cody defended his undisputed WWE Championship. [01:06:58] Tone immediately was set as Cody slapped Drew across the face before the opening lockup. [01:07:04] Early on, Cody showed gas to head trouble, possibly from the attacks he had sustained over the last couple weeks. [01:07:13] He fought through it with dives and a superplex and a Cody cutter. Drew then brutalized champion. The superplex and Alabama slam onto the steel steps and even an avalanche white noise. [01:07:24] But Cody still kicked out. The match built to McIntyre tearing off a turnbuckle pad leading to a near fall off a crossroads. And then later Claymore into a somersault plancha. [01:07:39] Drew aimed for another Claymore into the announce table, only to shatter his leg through it when Cody moved out of the way, barely able to stand. Drew managed one more Glasgow kiss before collapsing. After another Claymore, Cody sees the opening by hitting a super Cody Cutter off the top and then landed another crossroads to retain the title. And nothing else. No Randy turn, nothing. [01:08:09] I believe that there was a lot of reports that came out of that that it was Cody's decision, although that there was a rumor about Randy coming out and costing Cody the match to set up a match with them. But I think that, you know, depending on what his schedule is, if they're, if they're planning on doing it for either Crown Jewel or they're saving it for Survivor Series or something, you know, I'd like to see that, like to have it in a type of bigger environment, but that was Russell Palooza. But here comes the real news because apparently Andradis Hall, Adrius hall, he apparently had wrote a a grading thing for Russell Palooza and for some reason they had throwed shade at Russell Palooza. [01:09:15] The report from ESPN is that Adrian hall, who is a reporter that covers mma, ufc, boxing and wwe, he gave the show a C grading saying that he was not impressed at all. He called the match of the night being EO versus Stephanie and the main event of Cody Rhodes Andrew McIntyre being as unwhelming. [01:09:56] He also added that the Lesnar Cena match had seemed more like he set up for a future match than a proper ending. [01:10:05] But he said in quote in his review for the show for a card that promised epic moments, it fell a little short of expectations. [01:10:19] Like I don't know exactly what they were thinking about when they gave their own review on it. [01:10:30] Again, this is the official article. [01:10:40] It says that the seventh singles mating between John Cena and Brock Lesnar started off the night and it would be the Beast Incarnate who would dominate and pin his rival in stunning fashion. [01:10:53] An excellent showdown. He talks about it and then he gave Stephanie Vacuur and sky a B plus. He gave the USO's and the vision C. He gave the mixed tag match C and then he gave everything else basically a C and then a C minus for John Cena and Brock. [01:11:19] And yes, his his full opinion was the excellent Vikira vs sky match saved the show from truly being average. It was a phenomenal display inside Square circle. Everything else was either underwhelming the short Rhodes and McIntyre match or a setup for a future match. Lesnar Dominic Cena for a card that promised for epic moments, it fell short of expectations. I just wanted to really quickly go back into that just to see exactly what he had said. Apparently Ricochet Hit also said stuff about that saying that their show was not a C. That is quite correct because here is the whole thing and this is a little bit of rant is that for a card that was supposed to be this big and for everything that you promised us, you gave us a very average show with a disappointing start of the show that will lead to nothing and then a disappointing end of the show that basically was just super bland. There was nothing super big about the show itself. [01:12:29] There didn't seem to be any type of added measurement to it. It didn't seem that much enthralling than what we thought it was going to be. And if you look at which had the better show all out, had the better show all out even though it had over a bajillion matches, definitely had a lot more storytelling, it was a lot more entertaining and I think that it was just very, very fun. [01:12:53] But overall I feel like they are not completely wrong. I think that Wrestle Palooza was very underwhelming. [01:13:01] Now to wrap up the show, we will go into some reports that have been made exclusive as of this morning. But first I do want to talk about, I do want to talk about the the invasion angle that happened last night with TNA and nxt. [01:13:23] As I said in the beginning, it's a match between Obafemi and Trick Williams for a winner take all for the TNA and the NXT World Championships. [01:13:32] I do think that everything that they were trying to do, I don't think that they did very well. And for the fact that it was just random TNA and other people popping up during the show and then finally one brawl only to center it around Ricky Saints and Obafemi having the NXT Championship match at no mercy this Saturday. [01:13:55] You know, we could end up seeing a match happen this Saturday and then maybe building towards the Halloween havoc pay per view in October that they're planning on doing. But again, it, it was pretty good. [01:14:10] But the thing I want to talk about that is because there was a storyline in which WWE WWE star Jasmine Nicks, of course part of Fatal Influence with Fallon Henley and the current NXT women's champion JC Jane. [01:14:29] She was written out of the company as part of a storyline last night after she had turned down an offer to sign a new deal with the company. Multiple sources have confirmed that she declined what WB offered her when her existing contract expires. She would be a free agent and cleared to Russell anywhere that she chooses if she wishes. That was from Mike Johnson of PW Insider Elite. [01:14:55] Another big thing from from last week's Monday Night Raw. [01:15:01] This is a crazy figure from Tadum by Netflix. Raw averaged almost 2.6 million viewers with nearly 5.3 million hours watched over a two hour run time. [01:15:17] But, but no man, I mean like the whole Jasmine Nick situation. [01:15:23] Jasmine Nicks, you know, based off of just her, her body of work, I, I don't think she's going back wrestling. I, I think she's going to be starting in of. [01:15:31] You know not to criticize her or chastise her in any ways but I mean come on now. I mean like Manny Rose did it. Every single one of the people who have gotten fired and released from WWE have done it. It's just only a matter of time. But some two big things coming out of different types of storylines, one being WWE, one being TNA. Of all things from body slam.net there has been a lot of talks internally recently regarding a Braun Breaker and Brock Lesnar match taking place in the future, with one source noting that it very well could end up being at WrestleMania 42 in Las Vegas. I am all for that. If it's not Gunther vs Brock at Mania in Vegas, give me Breakker vs Brock. Give me where Brock completely, completely goes off the rails. He does not want to be buddy, buddy, team up and he attacks Rollins. He basically threatens that he's going to take Rollins's title, but Braun Breaker comes out and says I'm the new dog, I'm the new next big thing. And then boom, you get that match at Mania. Now as far as the TNA stuff goes, this is big. As far as the TNA stuff goes, okay, this is again things that are just going on right now. [01:16:54] But apparently Masha Slamovich, the former TNA Knockouts Women's Champion as of this morning from the takedown on Sports Illustrated, TNA has launched an internal investigations into the allegations of abuse against Masha Slamovich. [01:17:18] We take any allegations like this very seriously and have been in a internal investigation, said TNA spokesperson to the Takedown of Sports Illustrated at the time of the writing. [01:17:34] Slamovich is set to challenge for the TNA Knockouts Championship this Friday at TNA Victory Road, which currently, by the way, the ash by elegance vs. Masha Slamovich match for the TNA Knockouts World Championship is a no longer being advertised match and attempting to access the link promoting results in an error page. [01:18:00] So there is nothing that is being said about these investigations and what these investigations are all about. But now it makes you think of why did they put the title on Dana Brooke AKA Ash by Elegance and not Masha Slimovich at Heatwave. This probably being one of the many things that they were still investigating about. So that just, you know, just gives you a heads up on how TNA and how smart WWE is of managing a situation. But a little bit longer today, but thank you very much for listening. Again, you can be able to access this on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Wherever you are listening, make sure you subscribe. Leave a review and as always it's Bell R A W K because we talk about the W's in pro wrestling. [01:18:57] Thank you everybody. [01:19:02] It.

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