Section 8 Wrestling Podcast Ep. 40 - Tempers Flare as Elimination Chamber Looms (03/02/26)

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. Elimination Chamber matches are set. The Road to Wrestlemania is coming to it's last PLE stop before the Grandest Stage of them all. Brock Lesnar issues an open challenge for Mania! AJ Styles has his well deserved appreciation night. We discuss all this.... and MORE!! Comment, like, and subscribe below! Find us on Spotify and Apple Music!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:10

Hey news, what's up, y'all? Hi, everybody. Welcome back. Welcome back. We are here again. We are here again. Who are we? Well, we're just your latest and greatest and hopefully your favorites wrestling podcast in the land. It's the Section 8 Wrestling Podcast. I am Kills At Wills.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

I am Billyum.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

And today, tonight, whenever it is you're deciding to join our nice little corner of the internet, we're going to do what we always do. And that's give you the weekly recap of some WWE wrestling. That's Monday Night Raw. But first, like we always do, gonna pass it over to my man Bliam, and he's gonna give us the Friday night SmackDown rundown. Let's go, Billy. SmackDown.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

Motion out, watch out for Florida man. Kicks off with Cody Rhodes. He's pumped after qualifying for the Elimination Chamber. He's gonna hopefully win that one more, get that one more win and advance himself to get his hands officially on Drew McIntyre. Yeah. Right. Uh so he says, all amped up, what do you want to talk about? Jacob Fattu has that answer for us as his music ends and he comes down to the ring. Uh he calls out Drew basically. Uh and they all just said, call him out, but I gave him the night off. Yeah. Drew McIntyre, being champ and being who he is, says that's fine and all. He has a microphone, uh, pans up, there's a spotlight. He's like, I love SmackDown too much. He's like, first of all, I'm the champ. I can do whatever I want. And second of all, I love SmackDown so much that even in my night off, I bought this suite. So I'm gonna enjoy the show from up here. So he has a suite for the evening, and he is very good at uh what the kids are saying, rage baiting, because boy, uh Jacob 2 tried to go at him, and Nick all just knew that was coming, so their security was set up to kind of calm him down as much as you can calm that man down.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Uh so yeah, yeah, I believe the comment was you you say you're all gas, no breaks, but you look like it's it's all bark, no bike. What are you gonna do?

SPEAKER_00 2:35

Right, right, stuff like that. Uh so niggall this insecurity kind of calmed the situation down, it actually de-escalates pretty quickly. Uh, which takes us to our first match of the evening. Uh, it's Ilya Dragonoff versus Tomatonga of the MFT. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is actually quickly becoming my favorite member and standout of MFT. Uh for good reasons. Dude is he's actually very fun to watch. He's very creative in the ring. Uh, he's very hard-hitting, which is why this match was between these two guys are very they don't pull the punches, it seems like. Uh Ilya started bleeding from his nose once again, as he tends to do at this point. It seems like almost every match he bleeds. Uh, but Tonga, JC, and Tala all got involved at some point in time, as the numbers games will, and Tama hits the cutthroat. One, two, three, picks up the victory.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Yeah, I I've come to understand Tama Tonga was a beast in Japan.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

Yeah, that's what you were telling me. So I think that's where they're going because he keeps having a lot of back and forth with Shinsuke. Well, he talks to him later on in the episode. So I'm a feeling that they kind of have maybe a little bit of history going back, but I don't know. Uh, but it always seems to go back with Shinsuke and Tama conversing with each other. Uh so after the match, a brawl ensues and it stops when the lights go out and a video of Uncle Howdy comes up on the screen, basically proposing uh we've had enough of this. I'm gonna be at SmackDown next week, solo, no pun intended. Uh basically calling out solo uh for a one-on-one match next week, which will happen. So next week we will have Solo Sokoa versus Uncle Howdy.

SPEAKER_01 4:24

On SmackDown, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

Alright, all right. Cool, cool, cool.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

So we'll see. Uh, I don't know if there's any other stipulation stakes will happen, but it'll escalate. I think it'll go to mania, and we'll see something big between the 10 of Yeah, they've gotta, they've gotta not necessarily wrap it up, but it's like they've it's it's you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 4:46

It's it's it's similar, it's bubbling, it's starting to boil over, you know. It's time to boom, drive it home. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:52

Yeah, so we'll see where it goes from there. Uh next up, we see Nick Aldous in the back, and he basically threatens through uh Drew uh for staying and stirring the pie. So Drew leaves. He's like, okay, I'm out of here. So uh Drew leaves the building. Next up, Randy's being Randy Orton is being interviewed when Zelina Black and Alistair, Zelina Black, Zelina Vega and Alistair Black. I mean, they're married, whatever. They want Alistair Black actually cuts a pretty cool promo on Randy asking basically where is the sadistic Randy Orton? It's like there was a move that people were more afraid of than the RKO, and we haven't seen that in a while. Uh, so basically Randy doesn't really like how that sounds, and he challenges Alistair Black to a match, which will be tonight's main event. Woohoohoo! Uh next up, Jade Cargill, WWE Women's Champion, makes her way to the ring, basically to say she'll be on Raw to because Liv Morgan apparently makes or will be making her decision on Monday Night Raw, which I'm sure you will be talking about pretty soon. Uh, which takes us to our next match. So as uh Jade is leaving, Charlotte's Charlotte Flair's music hits. Uh so the Queen and the Champ are face to face. Uh Charlotte just kind of brushes off and walks away, and Jade isn't happy with that. So she follows her back down the aisle uh and like puts in her face. Did you hear me? She's like, get out of my way, and just moves her out of the way. Uh Rev comes and pulls her out of the way, and then so Charlotte's uh Pyro can head to finish her entrance because she is involved in the next match, which is a uh the next in the women's elimination chamber qualifier between Charlotte Flair, Naya Jax, Kiana James. All right. Uh Naya's actually she's actually pretty funny in the ring because she's very vocal as well. So at one point, Charlotte threw her into the ring post, and as she went out of the ring, they're going to commercial break, and she just holds your shoulder and she went, ow, as she's walking around the ring. Um Kiana James uh hits a Samoan drop on Naya Jax. Now they're let me say that again. Kiana James hit Naya Jax with a Samoan drop with ease. Like it was impressive. This girl, I'm telling you, she is so underrated. She's she's I don't think she's flying under the radar as much as she used to anymore because people are starting to notice. Okay, yeah. Uh so towards the end, Charlotte puts Naya in the figure eight. Uh Kiana sees that, slides under the bridge, uh, and then goes and pins Charlotte for the one, two, three. And Kiana James actually is your winner and advances to the elimination chamber to join Tiffany Stratton, Rhea Ripley, Asuka, and Alexa Bliss. So there's one spot available, and that's that's that's a match right there.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Some some some good names. And shout out to Kiana James trending upward. We've been we've been singing her praises here, and it just kind of continues to shine. So I don't think she'll win, but just the fact that she's in, I think is yeah. It's a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

She's gonna get in, and we'll we'll see how it's it's kind of a test for her too to see how creative she can get in a match like that because she did so well in the rumble. So I think she'll perform really well. So I'm excited to see how she how well she'll do this weekend.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

Myself as well. I think she'll be great.

SPEAKER_00 8:37

Uh, which goes right into our next match. Uh for some reason, Kit Wilson last week challenged Oba Femi to a rematch. So we get Kit Wilson versus the ruler Oba Femi.

unknown 8:53

Oh god.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Just love it so much. Uh so Kit finishes a poem as he does, and Oba actually asks him to read another one. So he finds another poem, says nine reasons why I hate men. And he goes through each reason, and Oba's like, okay, I can see that. He's like, Yeah, that makes sense. And then he kind of wants to stop, he says, No, finish, and then he yells at him to finish. And as he goes to finish, the match begins. Squash match, but it's a beautiful squash match. Oba Fami is your winner. And yet the no pun intended hot talk of that match is not actually the match itself, but the referee of said match. Apparently, she is some hot wrestling girly who's been uh coming up in through NXT and whatnot, so she's been all the rage. I don't even remember her name. Uh, but we'll be seeing more of her. Okay. Uh, but I noticed during the ringtam, I'm like, oh, that's a new lady ref. Okay, cool. But I was more intrigued to see Oba Femi destroy Kit Wilson because I'm a wrestling nerd, that's what I am. So uh just be on the lookout. New Lady Ref has been seen. Uh so next up we see Nick Aldis. Uh, and he tells the I forget the guy's name, but he tells him to send the crate, the mysterious crate, back to Adam Pierce. Duh. Spoiler, Adam Pierce probably sends it back on Raw. Anyway, so they're going back and forth. It's kind of old school with something like this. Um we'll see what's in the crate. Come elimination chamber.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

What's in the box?

SPEAKER_00 10:34

Next match? They go right into matches, real quick. So next match, uh Tiffany Stratton takes on Alba Fire because Chelsea Green is injured and cannot. So Alba Fire fights in her place because they think Tiffany Stratton is the reason Chelsea Green is hurt. Uh Chelsea still look gets cheers, even though she's not in the match. She came out and she had like one of those old school newspaper bags, and she was throwing out I don't know what was in the newspaper, but she was throwing out like extra, extra Chelsea Chronicle is what it said on the bag. So who knows what says in that newspaper? Uh but everybody is fine. Uh Tiffy looked great physically, but she was kind of sloppy during the match. Okay. Um I don't I don't know what it was, but it wasn't her best outing.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

Just an off-night, maybe just an off night.

SPEAKER_00 11:24

Uh, but her moon stall, her moonsault is still the prettiest moonsault ever. And she picks up the victory with the one, two, three.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

I did see the clip of her winning, so I did see the the the moonsault. The moonsault did look good, and then I like the clip of they you can see Chelsea.

SPEAKER_02 11:41

Chelsea's like, I hate you!

SPEAKER_00 11:45

Like holding her shoot.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

I hate you.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

Yeah, yeah. The recover moves that Tiffy hit where they were kind of awkward landing, where even Wade Barrett was like, that was some sort of move. Like it looked like a falcon arrow, but it was like very like an awkward landing. So he's like, Some sort of slam where she landed awkwardly, blah blah blah. It's like, yeah, but it's okay.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

Okay, off night, off night, sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Uh next up, we see Sammy Zayn. He's upset with Cody, who took advantage of Drew's interference last week. Um, so this was actually a really good promo. If you haven't seen it, I saw this.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

I saw this interaction, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Uh so Cody says it's Sammy's fault that he's not champed for not taking advantage of such things. Uh, and Sammy basically says, I have morals, I'm not gonna do stuff like that. And Cody says Sammy is getting in Sammy's own way, basically. So, uh, which all the statements are true between both. Sammy kind of flips out, uh like throws some water bottles around, huge pop for Trick Williams, who turns around, uh, says some stuff, how he's great, Sammy's washed up, blah blah blah, which trumped Sammy to walk down to catch up with Cody and apologize, which got people to boo. I don't know if you heard that, but people legit boo that he apologized right away. It's like, come on, Sammy. Like, do do something, like you have to do something.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Carrion Cross was right.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

Right, he should he should have gone that way. I think that's what I think that would have been the call, but that's not us. Uh, next up, uh, next match.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

I like the trick, trick basically, I didn't mean to catch but uh trick trick trick hits him with the I'ma he says, like, I'ma do what you don't do. That's get the job done.

SPEAKER_00 13:30

And then he turns he is great. Yes, that's cool. We'll see big things from Trick Willie in the future. Absolutely. Uh, but takes us to our next match, which is speaking of Trick Williams, uh, it's the next men's elimination chamber qualifier between Trick Williams, Damian Priest, and Carmelo Hayes, United States champ Carmelo Hayes. Boy. Um, Melo continues to steal the show. He just keeps looking better and better. Uh, both of these guys are clearly bigger than he is, which even Trick Williams does a thing as uh be quiet when Crowman are talking kind of thing. But uh despite the size difference, I think because Melo is champion as well, they kind of give him an extra boost in what he can do to these bigger guys, because there were things that he was like he was standing tall for a lot of the match, he ran that match for a lot. So Carmelo Hayes looked fantastic. Um but in the end, Trick Williams hits the trick shot twice on Damien Priest, once when he has Carmelo up to do uh the Razor's Edge. So he hits him once with trick shot, he drops Melo outside, and then he hits Priest again and picks up the one, two, three. So Trick Williams advances now also to the end's elimination chamber. I think that's also the biggest like entrance music that people like to run with because that pop and peep everybody in that arena is saying, Whoop that trick.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

It goes off, it goes down.

SPEAKER_00 15:04

So that is the hot new theme of the week, the month, the time. Uh so Trick Williams advances to move on with Cody Rhodes, LA Knight, Randy Orton, and Javon Evans. Bounce it. Uh next up, uh Meetin is back. Sure. Uh basically her and B Fab were talking to Jade Cargill. Meetin thinks she can still hang with Jade Cargill. She has a candlestick. Sure. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

Cool. Cool story, my lady. Cool story.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Cool. Great.

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Cool story.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

Next match. Uh tag team champion Rhea Ripley. Oh. Takes on US champion Julia. Really? Sir. Uh one-on-one match. Uh, it's a decent match between two current champs. Yes. Uh, we got Rhea Ripley, we got Julia. They did some cool stuff. Uh, Julia does hit, I'm sure you've seen this going around. Julie does hit Rhea Ripley, Rhea Ripley with a crazy like curb stomp. Like full on, like Rhea took it, like full on face of the map. Like it was it was crazy.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

Gave her a black eye, I believe, something like that. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Julie did it, but Rhea's like, alright, so she did it too. But you know, uh, but in the end, Lash and Naya actually get involved and cause a disqualification ahead of next Friday's match. So last Friday and the tag magic kind of ended in uh double count out, whatever, everybody was down. So next week they're gonna have a rematch. So to get ahead of it, Lash and Naya went and kind of took out both ladies.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

So that's how they're heels roll.

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Yep, which brings us, kids, haters, to our main event of the evening. Let's go, baby! Yeah. It is Alistair Black with Selena versus Randy Horton. Uh it's a great match between two juggernauts. Um, great main event. Uh Randy at one point did his whole uh he did what was it? Oh, like a backbody job. Alistair Black did a flip out of it, didn't see it. Randy kind of did his flip and turn, he like did the map pound as Alistair Black kind of sit cross-legged and they kind of stared each other down. It's just it was a pretty cool little spot that they did. Uh Drew ends up returning after all. Look, he didn't leave after all. Hits Randy with the title. Cody Rhodes sees it, runs out, chases Drew McIntyre off. Um, Brandy Orton's all loopy. Alistair Black hits Black Mass on Randy Orton, gets the one, two, three. Alistair Black wins. Critic Alistair Black. That goes. So that is Friday night. SmackDown.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Woo! Heck no, Drew's not leaving. Spend money on them sweets to just leave. Hell no. Again, champ. He can do whatever he wants. I think my money's worth.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Okay. Sucker. And he did. Boom. Off we go. Boom. Real quick, if Jake R2 is not in the main event or the title picture at WrestleMania, they are screwing up. Like if if I see it again, we could be surprised. It's I think it'll be a triple threat with Drew, Cody, and Jake of R2.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Sounds like it.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

It really needs to be.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

There we go.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

First prediction for Mania. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

There it is.

SPEAKER_00 18:47

Hey all. Please, please, please. I didn't get a chance. Tell me about Monday Night Raw.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Monday Night Raw is coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia. Right down the way from Gainesville, Georgia, where one phenomenal AJ Styles is from this. Monday Night Raw was advertised as a tribute to AJ Styles. So I was expecting some some some AJ Styles right off the bat. As uh I think everybody else was. We start off with uh uh Cole and Graves in the ring. They're here to hype up uh AJ Styles, but Gunther has other plans. He comes out, uh he interrupts everything. He basically tells Michael Cole and Corey Graves to get back get back to your get back to your table and announce and tell these people how great I am. Tells the crowd, I don't understand why we're here to celebrate a loser. What is this? What are we doing here? Everybody should be celebrating me. And Adam Pierce comes out and says, That is enough, keeps saying it, that that is enough. Um he tells Gunther to leave. Gunther's like, all right, I'm gonna leave, but not because you told me to, leaving him my own free will. So he as he's trying to leave, Dragon Lee comes out, he's attacking, they get separated. Uh Dragon Lee keeps uh attacking him in the back, and they pull uh Lee off Gunther, and as they pull Gunther off, uh Cody Rhodes, uh uh who's another uh Georgia native Georgia, right? He's from that's he's another Georgia native. Cody Rhodes is in the house, everybody. AJ Styles uh tribute. We had a lot of people showed up. So Cody Rhodes is looking at Gunther, just kind of like, hmm, nah, he's gonna step through Gorilla. He wants to go address the crowd. So he comes on out. He wants to talk. We all know what we want to talk about. He wants to talk about AJ Styles, but nah, because the vision comes out. Well, you know, the vision comes out, and um, you know, Austin Thury lets us know he doesn't like Atlanta very much. Uh Logan Paul tries to hype up Bronson. We read, you know, you know, Bronson's gonna win. Uh and Cody's like, well, I know somebody who might disagree with that. And here comes uh uh Yeet Man Jay. Uh we go to a uh commercial during his entrance because we come back and we have the first match of the night. It's the elimination qualifier match. It is Yeet J Uso against Big Bronson Reed against OG El Grande Americano. Uh it goes to a commercial uh with uh OG El Grande doing some dope stuff. Uh there it goes to another commercial, there's like three different uh commercials during this match. Um shows out at one point he uh does. I think it's either a Simone drop or it's uh it's it's it's something I forget the move, but he basically picks up Bronson, uh, just you know, muscles him up because Chad Gable, who I believe that is, Chad Gable's that dude, just lifts him up. So that's pretty cool. Now that third commercial, when we come back from the third commercial, we are told that Bronson Reed, and we see replay that he might have hurt his bicep. So he is over on ringside nursing the bicep. So Jey Uso and OG O'Grande have to finish this match on their own. They do it, they make it look pretty good. The winner and advancing, much to most people's chagrin, I'm sure at this point, is main event, Jey Uso. He's going to elimination chamber. There we go.

unknown 22:19

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 22:20

That's it. So he is the last slide, which it was from what I read, it was actually supposed to be Bronson Reed until he got injured.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

We will get yeah, we will get to the the the final, the big uh eliminations matches. We'll we'll give y'all let y'all know who's in them. But yes, the big the big word on the street was yes, Bronson Reed was supposed to win the the injury is genuine. Uh a spoiler alert, they do let us know later that he is out indefinitely. Sucks for Bronson Reed. He might have to miss his second WrestleMania in a row after he's getting just some some heat momentum. So just just just bad luck for the big guy and bad luck for the vision. I don't really know if it was blurry, like you said, it's pretty blind now.

SPEAKER_00 23:06

We're talking about today, they need some of that by team because man, the division is not clear anymore. Right. There's two guys left. Logan Paul doesn't need it. Uh Austin There is just kind of the odd man out at this point. I mean, granted they have Paul Heyman, but he can only do so much. So actually happens with the vision.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

I mean, do they? We'll get to Paul Heyman in a minute. Uh then they show us backstage. CM Punk is uh the there's the NASCAR, the homie dude that won. Tyler Reddick who won. He's comes in, does some burnout. CM Punk's in the car. Cool. Uh Liv Morgan comes out, and it's finally that time, everybody. Stephanie Vicare comes out, Jay Cargo comes out. Liv is ready to make her decision. But first, she addresses Stephanie and she apologizes to her. Says, you know, she made Stephanie made her realize that she was coming from that like she didn't realize her privilege. And it kind of seemed like this promo where you know Liv is you kind of tell Liv maybe she means it, maybe she doesn't. People in the crowd started to boo her kind of in the middle of this uh monologue a little bit. So it was a little it's a little odd. I think it's because I think everybody kind of knew what was coming. So it was it felt it had this feeling of like, okay, like just make the decision, let's go. So eventually Liv's like, I but I've but I've Stephanie, I've made my decision. Then she turns, looks at Jade, gives her kind of a nice little long beat, and then boom, turns around, hits Stephanie, stands over, holds up the belt. So go on ahead and put it in the books, kids. We officially have our second match for WrestleMania. Second confirmed, it will be the Royal Rumble winner, live Morgan versus La Primera, Stephanie Vicere for Women's World.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

That's me and Gray Match.

SPEAKER_01 25:03

Byron is backstage, he's interviewing uh Javon Evans, and offset shows up. For those who don't know, Offset is uh rapper, he used to be in the Migos, I believe, and then he's you know, just he's he's offset. Um and uh New Day shows up, there's a little banter back and forth. Kofi challenges Javon Evans, to which I instantly went, man. I and as I'll get to later, it's like, man, I wish this was uh babyface Kofi. Because I I kind of knew what was coming, and we'll get to that match later because it it's official. Kofi and Javon are gonna gonna square up a little later. Yeah, excellent. That brings us to our next match, billion. So it's Maxine Dupree. Oh, I'm okay. She has her own music. Oh yeah. Uh they go to commercial during her entrance. Um and then they come back and she's gone. They come back and she's fighting Natty. And so last week there they had a match where Natty put her on the table and it was like, okay, we're done here. This time they're fighting. Natty throws her into the ring post and she goes, falls unconscious, and then Natty like doesn't care and beats her up and okay. Yeah, I really do did not care. Be very honest. Uh the whole Maxine Dupree Natty thing is just yeah. Anyway, judgment days backstage, JD's apologizing to Finn. Um, you know, letting them know, like, hey, you know, I just just I I sorry for getting at you, I just want the best for you. Finn's like, look, I have to do this on my own. But Don comes up and he's like, you know, I don't want to do this on my own. I need your guys' help. And Finn basically says, Hey, Dom, you need to take some responsibility, you need to be a man, grow up, grow up, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Yeah, you look great, and it's like suit and everything. So we might be gearing out at WrestleMania.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

Yeah, right. That judgment day breakup, William.

SPEAKER_00 27:08

Coming any day, it's coming, and it's Finn who's leaving, not Dom. Correct.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

So we have an Oba Femi spot, a little video spot. It's kind of the same spot they've been shown, but now they just have a little more matches to throw in the little montage, uh, which brings us to Adam Pierce, and Adam Pierce is standing next to the box. Hey everybody, the crate's back, it's the mystery crate, and he says, you know what? I'll just have Nick Aldous and I open it together at Elimination Chamber.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

With the date that's been on there the whole time, yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:46

Oh that's it's it's the box mystery, everybody. What's what's in the box? What's in the box? Who do you care what's in the box? No. Uh Rusef comes out. Rusev and Oba, they they they have another another little staring down, stare down thing, and and Adam Pierce, and they basically just kind of agree, you know what? Not tonight, not now. Oba's a free agent. Let's see if we can get him signed. And one day. Uh Oba and Rusef. Yes, please.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

On the table at some point. I want to see Seamus at Oba too. When Seamus gets back from the show.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

I want to see Oba against the world. He needs to fight everyone.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

I want to see the ruler against the world.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Then Brock Lesnar comes out with Paul Heyman. Paul Heyman basically says Brock Lesnar broke the streak. Uh, they show Brock Lesnar's schedule. He's gonna do all the like the raws until WrestleMania, and basically he's like, I have an open challenge. Uh uh, he says Brock Lesnar like 15 times. It's kind of a pointless promo. It's just for him to come out and say, like, I have an open challenge for WrestleMania. Somebody's gonna fight me, but until then, I'm gonna run through it. It's Brock Lesnar looking for an opponent, everybody. That's I wonder who it'll be. Yeah. Uh put it up to Becky Lynch cutting a little uh video spot against AJ. Basically, you had a butterfly belt. I made a real belt. That's a nice little little little thing. Yeah, they're gonna they're great together. This brings us to the next match. It is Javon Evans versus Kofi Kingston. Offsets in Javon's corner. Of course, Grace and Xavier are in Kofi's corner. Um, Kofi gets a big kick into Javon before commercial break. Javon does this real great spin kick off the rope. He kind of bounces off the bottom rope, does like a little spin and just does a kick. Big moves for Javon Evans. He shows out. I think this match and all would have been better uh in Kofi with Kofi being a babyface because we see like this this Kofi heel kind of like eh, you know, kind of resulting to some tactics. And it's like if they were just able to just like mix it up, mix it up. We just saw some. I think we'd have seen some great stuff. But the winner still on the rise, bouncing himself, Javon Evans still hot, going into elimination chamber.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

Young OG. Bouncing over that competition. Let's go, Javon.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

CM Punk comes out and basically cuts uh a CM Punk promo. Uh yeah. I'm best in the world. I saw a shirt.

SPEAKER_02 30:14

It looks like it's an old shirt, but it's a new shirt.

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I don't deal in what ifs, you know, blah blah blah. Which is funny. He says I don't deal in what ifs, but the whole like one of the big like uh selling points for the video game is in my I put together a what if if I could who if I could wrestle if I hadn't left, right? It's uh it's just punk being punk, and it's him hyping up a match, you know. Oh, I'm here, Roman's not, you know, doing what he can do because Roman is not here. Yeah, this brings us to the main event of the evening. This is the final women's elimination qualifying match for the elimination chamber. It is Kyrie Kyrie saying versus the genius of the sky, EO Sky versus Judgment Day's own Raquel Rodriguez. Oh, okay. This match, unfortunately, I say unfortunate, it was an okay match. Um, Eo Sky got to show out, but it was EO versus Kyrie, and it was they like kept Raquel out, and it was a lot of showcasing EO, and so Raquel comes back in, gets the big move, and then wins. So Raquel's your winner, okay. But I would have just liked to see her mix it up a little bit more. But it was it was EO. Eo got to show out. EO kind of showing why she can still be top women's champion because she's really great in the ring. Excellent. Uh so really quickly, now everything is set for elimination chamber. So in our women's elimination chamber match, it is Tiffany Stratton, Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss, Asuka, Kiana James, and Raquel Rodriguez, and for the men, it is Randy Orton, LA Knight, Rara, Rhodes, Javon Evans, Trick Williams, and Main Event, Jay Uso. And then you'll have Punk against Balor for his belt.

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I'm so excited for that match. Becky Lynch against AJ Lee and that match for her belt. The first time that Punk and AJ are going for belts on the same night. They're like, okay.

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Oh, right, right. I mean, we knew this was this was, you know, as soon as AJ Lee comes comes back, you figure, you know, you figure, barring any kind of injury, this is how these things are gonna go. You know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna go ahead and toss it. We are against it, but basically, the end of the show. We get they give AJ Styles a good 15 some odd minutes for 20 minutes to come out. Say it's he says some really great things, great things about his wife. Uh his kids are there. Now he thanks everybody, but the biggest surprise, everybody, we we hear it, we hear a gong. American Badass Rides on up, it's Undertaker, y'all. And he's letting AJ Styles know he's in the Hall of Fame. That's to AJ Styles going into the Hall of Fame this year, 2026. Well deserved, phenomenal indeed. Thank you for all the uh memories, AJ Styles. Are indeed phenomenal. You are one of one, and uh uh hey, go back and watch some TNA, y'all. If if you only know him from WWE, you've only had them 10 years, go back and watch a young AJ Styles with some fire, clean shaven, short hair styles, and out there and doing it, man. Doing it. So that's it, everybody. That's going on. We got one more SmackDown before Elimination Chamber, but Elimination Chamber is Saturday, baby. Y'all go ahead and watch. We'll be watching, we won't be watching together, but uh we'll definitely gonna be checking it out, and we will definitely do a recap of that. So that's gonna be it. That's our night. I have things to do, he has things to do, y'all have things to do, but before we let y'all go, hey billion, yes, could you please let the people know how they can help us out on our little show?

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