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Section 8 Wrestling Podcast Ep. 39 - Cody Rhodes is Going to Elimination Chamber (02/23/26)

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Welcome back #H8ers, to another fantastic episode of #YourFavoriteWrestlingPodcast, the #Section8WrestlingPodcast! #KillzAtwillz and #Billiam discuss the goings on this last week from #Raw and #Smackdown. We have more qualifiers for the Chamber! Drew McIntyre just can't stay out of Cody Rhodes and Jacob Fatu's way! We discuss all this.... and MORE!! Comment, like, and subscribe below! Find us on Spotify and Apple Music!

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SPEAKER_01

So many notes. Smackdown's so long. Hi guys. Haters, we're back for another episode. It's kills and bills. We're here to run the world.

SPEAKER_00

Let's go, haters. We are back. Like he said, we back. He told you who we are. It's Kills. It's Billy. Who are we? Only your latest and greatest, and hopefully your favorites, Wrestling Podcast in the land. That's the section eighth wrestling podcasts. And today, tonight, whenever it is you're deciding to stop by our wonderful little corner of the internet, we're going to do what we always do, and we're going to give you that weekly recap of WWE Wrestling. That's Monday night raw. But first, I'm going to pass it over to my man Billy. He is going to give us the Friday night SmackDown rundown.

SPEAKER_01

Let's go, Billy. Ooh, we're off and running. Smackdown rolls through Dallas, Texas this week. And it kicks off with my opinion, the Superstar of the Year 2025, Miss Tiffany Stratton.

unknown

Huh.

SPEAKER_01

Um, I mean, for for think about it, she she ran 2025.

SPEAKER_00

No, sure.

SPEAKER_01

That's that's not that she beat a scope. That's just like beat the Queen at WrestleMania to retain the championship. She was the only one undefeated until like September. And then she got hurt.

SPEAKER_00

So yeah, I think she only lost her title because she got hurt. And then yeah.

SPEAKER_01

So anyway, she just mentioned she's out there just saying it's glad to be back. Uh the title misses her. If you miss the title, the title misses her. Uh, but then Naya Jax's music hits and Naya doesn't agree. And Tiffy's like, just don't worry about it because I beat you. So what are you gonna do about it? Anyway, whatever. Uh so that leads to our first match, um, which is why Naya and Lash Legend were out there. It is uh Naya Lash going up against the WWE women's tag team champions, Rhea Ripley and E of Sky for said women's tag team championships.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, we should say I think this happened on Valentine's Day, so I did notice there was there was the first trend of Valentine's Heart themed.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, with Naya, Naya, Jade, and Lash all had kind of Valentine's Day kind of themed. Um lashes look fantastic, as did Jates. Naya's wasn't great, but you know, she she still had fun with it. So anyway, I I have the hardest time. I just want to call them Rio the entire time. Call them Rio the entire time. I I should just because they have a shirt that says Rio, so I guess that's technically their name.

SPEAKER_00

Technically their name.

SPEAKER_01

Uh, but anyway, uh Rio was working real hard this week. Okay. They've had tag team title defenses like once a week for the past couple weeks, or like number one contenders. Like they're they're hard-working ladies out there. They need SmackDown, like they need two different tag belts, like they do with the men, because I mean the women are they're working hard, but there's they're putting so many tag teams together now that it's kind of hard that to have one number one contender. So I I think they should have a second set of belts if they keep adding like putting women together, which is great, but give them more to go after than just uh so anyway, uh it gets out of hand after a while. Uh so the ref rings the bell. Uh so Naya attended on putting like they pulled out a table. Uh, they're just going at each other on the outside. The ref was like just this getting ridiculous. Lash pulls out a table and Naya goes or and puts Rhea on it outside. Naya tends to jump off the I think the top rope to put her through the table. EO stops her. Uh Rhea takes like moves Lash out of the way. Uh EO does like a suicide dive, and her and Naya go through the table on the outside. And then Lash spears Rhea through the barricade. So uh no contest. I'm assuming they're gonna want another shot, so on and so forth, but that match was nuts. Yeah. Uh great way to kick off the show. Hey, it looks like it. Yeah. So, long story short, and still women's tag team champions, Rio. All right. I said at that time. You did, you nailed it. Next up, Carmelo talks to Matt Cardona and a returning Apollo Cruz. It was Apollo Cruz. I don't know. He was just who Apollo Cruz is back. Right. That's what that's why I wrote returning question mark. Like, I didn't know if he was still employed or always been there, or just came back. Anyway, he's talking to Matt Cardona. They're both Apollo Cruz signing. Yeah. Yeah. Uh so they're talking about, you know, it's great that you have the open challenge, it's really cool, so on and so forth. And he's like, but I want to go after it. And Matt Cardona's like, I'm also a former US champ, and I'm here for gold, doesn't matter what gold, kind of thing. So uh Carmelo says, That's great. Uh he's the in uh but but sorry, I was mixed up two things. Uh he's like, cool, but the open challenge is actually closed tonight. Yes, so no open challenge. So he proceeds to go out to the ring. He gets on the mic, which doesn't happen too often. You don't really see Carmelo talk because he's just working and putting on a show every week. Uh so basically says that he's in one of the elimination chamber qualifier matches next week, uh, because he wants bigger and better. Uh, and he calls out his next opponent for the his next match. Uh so he calls out Iliad Dragonov. So he's like, Come on out, man, like you deserve your shot. Mid screwed you over last time, let's do this for real. So he he proceeds to come out um until Solo Sokoa and the MFTs interrupt, and Solo's like, Why can't I have a match? That's kind of I was like, Okay, whatever. Uh so the MFT surround the ring and they start to brawl with those two, uh, which afterwards uh Matt Cardona and Apollo Crews come out as well. So they try to help, which four against five. That doesn't work. So then Shinsuke's music hits, and here comes the fifth.

SPEAKER_00

Mm-hmm. Now now it's now it's the numbers game.

SPEAKER_01

Now Nick Aldo is like, all right, we're gonna have a five-on-five match time. I was like, saw that coming. Uh, so those five guys, which again it's Shinsuke Nakamura, Matt Cardona, Apollo Cruz, Ilya Dragonoff, and US champion Carmelo Hayes taking on all five members of the MFTs. Uh let's just say Cardona and Dragonoff are the best workers on SmackDown currently. Uh, those two guys can just they can carry a match, and I can watch them both fight all day. There you go. Um, it's one of those everybody's in the match, so everybody's gonna hit their finisher at one point in time, so it does a whole back and forth finisher, finisher, finisher. Uh Tomatonga is the legal man. He hits his cutthroat uh clothesline like forearm thing, which is dope. I actually am really starting to like that too. And he gets the win. He actually pins Carmelo Hayes. He does. He does.

SPEAKER_00

So pay attention to that, everybody. Yep. Pay attention to that.

SPEAKER_01

So after that, the MFTs standing tall in the ring, solos holding the lantern, all the lights go out, lights come back on to the ring, and they come back on a little higher up in the arena, and there you see the white six, reminding them that we didn't forget about you, and we're coming for what's ours. After the match, we see Charlotte talking to Alexa in the back, uh, and she asks Alexa to be her Galantine. Uh, and says she'll be ringside to woo her during her match tonight. And I'm like, uh.

SPEAKER_00

No, Charlotte was in her bag. Yeah. I did like this. Here, I got you a picture of me. Of me.

SPEAKER_01

She's like, but it's a picture of you, but it's to you. I signed it to you. I signed it to you. Yeah, that was a great little segment. Uh so that little back and forth leads to our next match, which is the women's elimination chamber qualifier. Oh boy, everybody. Alexa with Charlotte Flair, uh, versus US champ Julia with Kiana James, versus Zelina by herself.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But they uh but with with with uh she she came out to Alistair's music black music, and she instead of like kind of rising out of the thing, she was on her, she was like laying back and kind of had her own little version of it.

SPEAKER_01

So I was like, Yeah, she does what she does with him coming out too. She does all the same stuff, uh, but he just wasn't there this time. But yeah, she does all that same stuff and the fog and the ring and the dropping back. And so it's cool. I like this darker version of Selena. So uh the match was really cool. It started with a lot of reversals, a lot of going for their finishers early on and kind of getting out of the way and kind of going back and forth. So that was that was a lot of fun to watch. Um Alexa actually intercepts at the end of the match. She intercepts Selena and hits her with Sister Abigail and picks, gets the one, two, three, and advances in the elimination chamber, uh joining Rhea Ripley and Tiffany Stratton.

SPEAKER_00

Oh boy, it's getting stacked. Congrats to Miss Bliss.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, sir. Next up we see Tiffany uh Stratton. She runs into apparently Chelsea Green is injured, injured her foot somehow.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Uh so Tiffany ran into her in the back in a wheelchair, but it was like uh all dolled out and everything, so it looked like a comfy wheelchair that Island or Alba Fires pushed her in. So she's like, Oh, I wish you would said something stand up and said something about it, but you couldn't. And then she ran off, and then she's like, Go get her, and then she's like, No, don't go after. The other way. Uh, which takes us to our next match, uh, which is once again Ray Phoenix versus Trick Williams. Um it's another great match. I mean, you know what these guys can do, but we've seen it before. It's like we just saw this. Yeah, there's so many other superstars that can be showcased on a three-hour show, and we're seeing a match that we just saw that has no like storyline. If they were doing some subtle rivalry, like in the backs, like them talking to each other, but they're not, they just threw them together again. Yeah, another solid match. Trick Williams picks up the victory with a fantastic, like runny knee, like his trick shot, but like Ray Phoenix was like Irish whipped off the rope, so he was running at him too. It was a hell of a hit.

SPEAKER_00

Very clean, yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, but give some new opponents between the two, because they're both great, but leave it out.

SPEAKER_00

Unless you give us a rivalry, something. I don't know, give us something with it. We need some sustenance behind the constant just yeah. You're fighting again, like, oh great. Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, they're actually hitting us pretty quick with matches uh this week. So uh next match, we go right into Jay Cargill defending her WWE Women's Championship against Jordan Grace.

SPEAKER_00

100 days as the queen, and she defends it for the first time. Let's go, Jade. I was excited.

SPEAKER_01

But before the match can happen, uh we hear Liv's music hit, and her and Dom and Raquel head down to the ring. Dom decided to set up a date night so Liv can see a potential uh opponent uh for WrestleMania, being that she won the Royal Rumble this year. She still hasn't yet to decide between currently Jay Cargill or Stephanie Pacer. So Dom set this up. There's a table with chicken nuggies down there, and he pulls out a bottle of quote Dom. It's just it's a bottle of champagne with his head on it. That's like brilliant. So good. Um so back to the match. Uh Jordan Grace looked fantastic. Uh she looked really good. She uh she injured uh Jade's arm early on, so Jay was a little incapacitated for a lot of it, but she let Jade or she let Jordan just kind of run away with it. And the fact that she was putting on a clinic showing us what she can do, especially in like uh title picture. Uh but in the end, Jade Cargill somehow hit her finisher with one arm. That was that was no pun intended phenomenal. Uh but yeah, so and still your champion, Jade Cargill. Alright. But Jordan Grace isn't done with her. We'll see her again because then she she won me over that match. Let's put it that way. Uh-da. Oh, so after the match, uh Jade, who's still champion, walks right up to Liv and says, pick me. I don't care. Just do it or not. But it's just like bring it on.

SPEAKER_00

That's gonna be you.

SPEAKER_01

Basically. Yeah. Uh after that match, which, like I said, boom, boom, boom. They've been doing promos all night between the three uh men in the elimination chamber qualifier with Sammy Zayn, Cody Rhodes, and JKFA2.

unknown

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

So each one is kind of uh throughout the night, almost almost on the hour. Uh talking about how it's my shot. I'm gonna get my title back. Sammy's like, I'm gonna finally get my chance for the 80th time. Jake F2 is like, check out my new grill, even though I'm not talking about it. Uh so yeah, which leads us to our main event of the evening. It is another elimination chamber qualifier between Cody Rhodes, Jacob Fatu, and Sami Zayn. Uh, it is a fantastic main event. Um, it's obviously it's gonna go back and forth. It's one of those matches I've talked about a few weeks ago where uh any one of the three is viable to win. You can see Sami Zayn winning and then having Cody Rhodes and Jake of Fattoo go against each other in WrestleMania. You can see Cody Rhodes go ending up against Drew McIntyre because of their thing. You can see Jacob 2 for the same reason. So uh with that being said, uh Jacob 2 basically had the match won until Drew McIntyre comes out and claymores him as he's going for the pin.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Starts beating up on Jacob 2, puts him through the announce table.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Turns around, goes to Cody Rhodes. Of course he does. Yep, so he starts beating up on Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes is kind of down. Uh Drew McIntyre turns around, boom, gets hit with the Huluva kick. Which Drew McIntyre is like, yeah, and then Cody Rhodes turns around, hits Sammy Zaym at Crossroads, hits the one, two, three, and Cody Rhodes qualifies for the elimination chamber alongside Randy Orton and LA Knight.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Credits. Boom. Man. Quite a sounds like an action pack SmackDown. They sound like they gave us some matches this time. Did we have there? That's good, man.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, it was actually a really good balance this week of segments. Because I'm pretty sure you watched this week too. So it was I did actually. I did watch this week. So it was it was a good balance of segments and kind of recaps and all that kind of and matches. So it was it was good. Well done.

SPEAKER_00

It was well done. Uh uh, you know, not not great, but not, you know, not realistic, like ah, you know.

SPEAKER_01

But please, please tell us about Monday Night Raw.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, brings us to Monday Night Raw. Monday Night Raw comes to you from Memphis. We're in Memphis, Tennessee. Good old Memphis.

SPEAKER_01

And they referenced uh Jerry the King Lawler's uh barbecue or bar that he has down there. It's like good, he's the king of Memphis, gotta reference him. Indeed, have to.

SPEAKER_00

All right, we start off with a Jay and Jimmy uh promo, or at least we we we want to because in the middle of this, we get my my name is I'm talking here. We get Paul Heyman. Paul Heyman interrupts the yeet. Paul Heyman says, No yeeting tonight, no yeeting. Yeah, no yeeting.

SPEAKER_01

They stayed in the crowd, didn't even let him get to the ring.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah, yeah. In fact, in fact, I I have a little mark. I'll I'll I'll tell you when I get there. Um, so Paul Heyman, they're coming out. Eventually, Logan Paul takes the my he hits them with the my name is Logan Paul, and I made $16 million by selling a card. That's not KF, everybody. That's real life. Logan Paul, the card that he has, it's you probably know better than I do. It's a very rare Pokemon card.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I forget which one it is.

SPEAKER_00

Something got made, and Logan Paul ended up selling it for in real life, sell ended up selling it for like 16 point something million dollars. Yeah. Little bit of a little bit of a flex there. A little bit of a flex.

SPEAKER_01

But good for him.

SPEAKER_00

He's Logan Paul, it's what he does. Um Paul Heyman shows footage of the masked man attack, and Austin Theory says it was his match to win before that happened. And once again, they demand answers from Adam Pierce. Adam Pierce tells the vision they look, why don't you all come back to the office? We'll talk about this like grown men. Uh, Theory starts, you know, you're blaming Adam Pierce. Like, hey, you know, uh the masked man was my thing. Somebody took my thing, it wasn't me. He cost me the thing, and Heyman wants Bronson Reed in the qualifying match for the chamber. And Pierce is like, yo, like, let's just go back and talk. I know you want Bronson Reed in the match because you've been, I've been getting phone calls, which is a throwback to somebody. Adam Pierce has got somebody on a cell phone and that Heyman knows about, like, hey, make something happen. So we still don't know who, who, who, who, who, who we don't know who could be on the other end of that phone. People speculate Vince, people speculate The Rock, people speculate a lot of things. We're not gonna find out tonight. So um then we get LA Knight. When music comes on, LA Knight comes on out, and of course, he wants revenge for Bronson Reed jumping on him while he was laying on the store, yeah, putting him out. And so Pierce is like, hey, you know what? I didn't know what I was gonna do at the start of the match. I didn't have anything planned. Since you all are out here, six-man tag team match. It's official and it starts right now. So our first match, six-man tag match, is the Usos. At one point, when Adam Pierce is like, I'll tell you what I'm gonna do, and they pointed to the Usos, I forgot they were out there. Yeah. And I was like, oh yeah, they're just they're just standing there. So when they announce that, they go to commercial, and that gives the Usos a chance to yeet. So it's it's they run it back and they just go down the crowd. So the first match is it is the Usos and LA Knight Hurl versus the Vision in Bronson Reed, Austin Theory, and Logan Paul. That commercial, when they go into the yeeting, when they come back, the match has already started. You don't get to hear the bell ring or anything, which was like, oh, not even the start of the match. So uh there's another commercial break. There's two commercial breaks during this match. Uh, the vision is pretty much running kind of things uh in between both commercial matches. I mean, the the the Usos and LA Knight, not a traditional tag team, so they're trying their best, but Vision working very well together. Bronson Reed does a suicide dive, which I thought was mad impressive. Yeah. Um, they Bronson Reed really showcased because he's you know trying to push him right now because it's like, hey, he, you know, if we just he just said he wanted a qualifying match, he's serious. So, and with Braun Breaker out, Vision needs a guy, right? So everybody's fighting to be that guy. He hits the tsunami on Jimmy, gets the one, two, three, and the winners are the vision of the night. Logan Paul then grabs Michael Cole's headset, goes over to the announce table, he starts talking crap. I'm Logan Paul, I'm blah, blah, blah. Guess what, Billy? What? Mass man attacks.

SPEAKER_01

Sure does.

SPEAKER_00

Yay! He he runs away, goes up to the steps, and maybe you're thinking, oh, here it comes. Nope. Still a masked man out there, just doing that. There they are, just yelling at him again. Then we get to the most interesting segment of the entire evening. Uh, Adam Pierce goes backstage and there's a box, Billy. There's a box, big, maybe person-sized box that says, do not open until 02-28-26, which is the date of the elimination chamber match. There's a young man works in the back named Eli. He says, Hey, this is here. Adam Pierce says, You know what? I don't want to deal with this. Make that Nick Aldis' problem. Go ahead and send the SmackDown. So now we have a whole bunch of special speculation about who's in the box.

SPEAKER_01

See, see, see. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Uh what? In the box, seven for all you younger people who don't get that reference. Seven. Just at Astro folks, Google it. Seven. What's in the box? So now the WWE has created nice little buzz. Who's in the box? Who's gonna be? Blah blah blah. I personally have given up on it being Chris Jericho. I don't even care. It'll be Jericho. He's actually out there.

SPEAKER_01

Um it's the gobble D cooker. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Years ago, everybody. That's the first thing I thought of. I was like, is this another like Survivor Series egg thing? Like, who's in a box for two weeks? Like, the scuttle butt around the water cooler is that I don't know if you know who Dan Housen is. Yeah. But it might be Dan Housen, which I think I think would be like which I went instantly went, yeah, I can see him in a box. In a box, yeah. I can see him in a box for two weeks. That makes sense. That but yes. But anybody else, I don't know. I don't, I didn't, I think it's just it's it feels like a forced way to generate some buzz. Like, oh, it's like, don't you have enough mysteries? You got the dude in the box, you got the masked man, you got the person on the phone. Like, right.

SPEAKER_01

Um, we got enough going on in that chamber.

SPEAKER_00

There's enough going on.

SPEAKER_01

Give me point Finn Ballet, that's all I want.

SPEAKER_00

This brings us to our next match. It's gonna be uh the qualifying match, a women's qualifying uh women's match to see who qualifies for the elimination chamber. It is Natty, Naughty Natty, as I'm calling her, versus the Empress of Tomorrow, Asuka, versus the role model, Bailey. It was a good, it was a pretty good match. Natty showed out first, then Bailey showed out, then Asuka showed out. Coming into this, I no offense to Naughty, Natty, but I instantly ruled her out. I was like, it's gonna be between Asuka and Bailey.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

I my heart wanted Bailey to win. My brain was like, I think they're gonna throw Asuka in there. Something just tells me that that's that I'm I'm feeling that energy. And sometimes the brain wins, everybody. Sometimes the heart loses, sometimes the heart wins, but this time it's a brain thing because the winner is Asuka. She actually taps out Bailey to win. So the Empress of tomorrow is in the elimination chamber with Tiffany Stratton, Rhea Ripley, is it just a boom, got it.

SPEAKER_01

And then it's basically gonna be one lady from each of the tag teams that have been around around the tag team division and the championships lately. So great. They're all great. So I want to.

SPEAKER_00

And then hey, guess what, then Maxine Depreck Maxine Dupree comes out and attacks Natin.

SPEAKER_01

Hey, they're gonna fight at WrestleMania.

SPEAKER_00

You have to keep doing this whole thing.

SPEAKER_01

How much you how much you want to bet it's gonna be a submission match at WrestleMania?

SPEAKER_00

Probably. Probably just be the smart route at this point. Like be the smart route. Dumb, uninteresting. The sharpshooter against the ankle lock. Uh Adam Pierce uh is backstage trying to convince the ruler. Over Femi! We got an Oberfemi signing. We got an Oba Femi sighting. Uh he uh we have Adam Pierce handing him a contract, just going like, hey, I know you have a big decision to make right now. You're free agent. I can offer you whatever Nick Aldous is offering you, I can do better. You don't have to think about it right now. Go ahead and take this contract, big guy. Go ahead and think about it. Oba, oba. Yes, I got you. Turns around, comes face to face with Rusev. Rusev getting a little stare down. Hey, fun little fact Rusev's wearing a Rusev day shirt. I noticed that. Which made me so happy.

SPEAKER_01

Which is so funny because if I remember he was on uh podcast a few months ago and he somebody brought up Ruse of Days like, I hate Rusev Day, it's the stupidest thing ever, blah, blah, blah. And I noticed, I was like, I think a dude wearing a ruse of day shirt now.

SPEAKER_00

I haven't heard his new uh, I guess CVV, the homie dude, just interviewed him. I want to go and listen to it. Yeah, I do too. But uh, and I just finished kind of like a couple weeks ago. Oh, because of our we uh we're going through the Royal Rumbles. Uh, it's Rusev Day. Aiden English. Bring Rusev Day back, man. That's funny, man. Yeah. So we uh we we saw a little snippet beforehand when they were introducing the show. Michael Cole was letting us know that he had a sit-down interview with Liv Morgan that he was going to be doing. So we come to that point. Um, we're we are in a nice little, fun, little backspace, little office-looking kind of lounge area. It's Michael Cole's Liv Morgan. Dom comes on in because of course he would. He's Souscio, he does what he wants around here. He's during Dom Two Belt, he's greatest, greatest luchador of all time, greatest mysterious of all time, greatest intercontinental champion of all time, greatest triple eye champion of all times, Socio. You can tell we're fans around here, god damn it. But he's back there, and Michael Cole is like, yo, so uh who you're gonna pick for WrestleMania? And she goes, I've decided not to tell you guys. Doing live Morgan stuff, but hey, Stephanie Vakir comes in, everybody. Let me tell y'all. Do y'all remember how excited we got for the CM Punk Roman Reigns promo? That was just lights out. I tell you what, I am happy that our boy Chava, shout out our boy Chava, was in the room. He was able to translate kind of kind of a little bit in real time and after because she delivers this thing all in Spanish. And I I promise you, if you just look, you don't need to really understand to to to know that she's given her the business. Okay. But for those in the room that needed the help, you do have Dom there whispering, uh, a little whispering. What thank you, CCO. Appreciate that. And WWE did come out with a whole thing, so you can see what she said. But let me just tell you the basics. She basically hits her with, you know, oh, you you you talking about you put in 10 years of work because that's what Liv was talking about. And 10 years, blah blah. Oh, you got you got the best gems. WWE hooked you up. I was wrestling in Chile when when there when there was where there wasn't wrestling, where she had to apologize about that, but I'm just I'm just repeating what she said in the moment. Uh, you know, I I was wrestling chili, I had to go all over and do this and this, and I had to prove myself. And you you you you're hiding behind a man, and you should be embarrassed to be a champion and just giving her receipts and basically kind of calling her out for her privilege.

SPEAKER_01

It was great.

SPEAKER_00

Sometimes, sometimes when you get called out on privilege, you can make some of them cry. Liv Morgan got a little boo-hoo-y, uh uh and yeah, and Stephanie basically says, Come, WrestleMania, if you choose me, uh I'm gonna embarrass you. Yeah, I'm gonna show you what a real champion, I'm gonna show you what a real champion is gonna be like.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so so like this punk and the punk and reigns promo was back and forth. This was all Stephanie Vacare, yeah. All of it. Yeah, you're here to listen. Liv didn't say a word. Nope. She didn't have to.

SPEAKER_00

Nope.

SPEAKER_01

Didn't have to.

SPEAKER_00

Nope. Uh it's a it's it's a great promo. It's a super great promo. Y'all should go ahead and check it out. Like I said, they went on ahead and posted everything that she said. She gave Liv the business. It was fierce, super fierce. I loved it. Uh, this brings us to CM Punk. He comes on out and he oh, oh, real quick, Stephanie had a real great line where she said, I walked through hell and made it mine. It's a bar. Uh, speaking of bars, CM Punk comes out and he's got a little message for Roman Reigns. His uh singers how we're kind of sports people. He throws a little thing that said, Just because you made the playoffs doesn't mean you quit the regular season. I just thought that was a fun little line that he threw out there. Uh says, Finn deserves what's coming. On that note, Finn comes out with Dom and a little show of brotherhood, and JD McDonough. JD McDonough. JD McDonough. So they come on out and Finn starts hitting punts with some receipts, and he kind of goes like, Look, man, you call yourself the best in the world. But in order to be the best in the world, you gotta be world-traveled, you got to get down with them people in Europe, you gotta wrestle with those people in Japan, you gotta beat Roman Reigns on the first on his first night around. So if you're looking for the best of the world, look no further. You're staring at him. It's a nice little thing. Uh, and then punk basically throws the things like look, man, I respect who you were. This Finn Balor. This is a judgment day, Finn Balor, held back by some dude back there who has two belts but never defends him, and some dude back there who needs help getting in the ring because his head's too big. To which the crowd started chanting bobblehead at JD McDonough.

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So good.

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Oh, oh, and you knew Phil was gonna take a shot. I I saw Phil calculating the shots at one point. He's just like, I'm like, I'm like, oh, Phil's thinking of something to say, bro. He's he's cooking, man. He's cooking. Punk goes ahead and turns his back. Now I did find it funny that earlier we did have a thing where Stephanie was calling out Liv and bringing up receipts, and then we then had another promo where Finn was calling out receipts, and I was like, Oh, I feel like Stephanie just did that. I feel like we just saw that, but that's neither here nor there. Punk turns around, he's like, hey, if you want to take a uh a shot, go on ahead. Uh JD Madonna's all mad and Dom's all mad, and Finn keeps holding him back. And he's like, No, we're not gonna do that. And uh Punk walks away, and Finn's just, you know, that's how that stands. You talked about Rio putting in the work. Guess who stopped by Raw? Brian Saxton's backstage, he's talking to Rio. It is the tag team champions, Rue Ripley and Eosky. And the Buki co the book the Kabuki warriors come up, as they've kind of been doing to everybody that's getting interviewed. Uh, Kyrie says that Asuka is going to win the chamber, and Asuka tells them they're not ready for what's gonna happen at the chamber. That's it. They just you know, just a chance for just any chance for Asuka to go Kyrie at this point. So there it is. Which brings us to our map. Wait, before that, uh, we do have a moment where uh Pinta did come up to Adam Pierce. Uh, this was right, after they found the box, Pinta came up to Adam Pierce and like, hey, remember, remember a long time ago when I first came in and you asked me what I wanted, and I said I wanted a shot at the Intercontinental Championship? Like, that hasn't changed. I'd like a shot at the Intercontinental, I'd like to fight Dom for the Intercontinental Championship's like, well, you know, I like you have to go out there and earn it first. So he puts him in a match. It is now for the number one contender match for the Intercontinental Championship. It is El Grande Americano versus Pinta. Bravo and Rayo are with uh El Grande as they come out. Pinta gets uh a new ring post pop. Now he when he's in the ring, he does a thing. Now we get fireworks from the the the side, so that's great. Um everything was going well. OG Grande comes out and snatches Bravo from under the ring. It's a whole little fun thing. Uh uh uh fake El Grande gets uh distracted. So the winner is Penta. So Penta is now the number one contender for the Intercontinental Championship and the Boat Grande's fight. It's a whole thing. Mask me mask. It's gonna happen. Mask me mask. Bring it. This brings us to judgment day. Um Finn basically is telling him, Look, I gotta do this on my own. Like, why didn't you let us beat him up and blah blah blah? Like, I'm gonna do it on my own. Uh I tired of being an aftertaught. I think, yeah. I dig it. I'm tired of being aftertaught. Yeah. So then uh AJ Lee comes on out. We get to see some AJ Lee. She comes out, she's like, Look, I'm not modest, I know who I am. She's bringing up the Divas belt. She's like, I'm the bridge between like there was a time there, there was a time here, there's a time there. So I'm the bridge between Eric's. And we had a little belt with a little butterfly on it. But I made that, but I love that little belt.

SPEAKER_01

It was a great promo.

SPEAKER_00

It was nice to hear her talk about the divas championship. It's like I gave Becky a 10-year head start, and she's not caught up to me yet. She's gonna beat Becky WrestleMania. I'm gonna beat Becky WrestleMania, but I'd like her to come on out and get some hands right now. Uh Becky comes out and she's like, Well, for 10 years I was making history, and I go, Wait, didn't we see this already? I was like, Wait, isn't that what Stephanie and CM Punk just did? It's the same kind of keeping receipts promo. And then to double down on that, AJ's like, go ahead, hit me. I'm like, didn't your husband just do? Didn't we just like yeah? I'm like, it's good, but we we just saw this. So uh, you know, uh, you go ahead and uh try to hit me, doesn't happen. You know, I don't fight in Memphis, and she walks out. I thought it was just funny. I don't fight in Memphis. Like, what does that have to do with anything? Um Division is waiting for Adam Pierce. They said come and talk to you uh by my office. And Bronson Reed basically goes, Look, man, uh here it seems like you have some problems. Well, I'm a problem solver. Let me know. So he'll let him know. Uh that's gonna bring us to our man event of the evening. It is the men's qualifying match for the elimination chamber. It is the young OG, the young blood, that boy, bad Camon Evans versus Susio, two belts, dirty dumb versus the career ender, Gunther himself. Man, we're up a little bit against it, but let me just tell y'all, coming into this match, I had just one thought. I was like, well, this is gonna be a Gunther walk-off. Yeah. But uh, guess what, everybody? Nope. You know who's gonna be in the elimination chamber? That boy Bouncy. He survives uh power bombs and all this. Dragon League comes out, hits Gunther with the ring bell. Javon takes advantage, and Javon Evans, everybody, is gonna be in the elimination chamber match. He did it, they let him do it. Yes, yes, that is a great way to end the show. I was so juiced because I did not see that coming. No, wonderful. Hey billium, let the people know how they can help us out before we wrap it all up.

SPEAKER_01

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