Section 8 Wrestling Podcast Presents: WrestleMania 42 Night 1 Recap (04/26/26)

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:05

He's not frozen. He's just playing around. Because we're back for another episode. It's the end of WrestleMania week, haters. Yes. Yes. There it is. That's what I was waiting on. Anyway, welcome back, haters, to your another of your favoriteest and greatest podcast, the Section 8 Wrestling Podcast. Boy, that was bad this week. I am Billy. I am Kills At Wheels. I do not do intros, clearly, but um, like I said earlier, it is WrestleMania week, the end of it. We are through SmackDown, we are through the Hall of Fame, we are through night one, we are through night two, and we are through Raw After Mania. Indeed. A lot has happened. But we are here in our little corner of the interwebs to talk about WrestleMania night one and night two. Facts. Facts, facts. Kills, overall thoughts. What did you think of the overall product that was delivered to us?

SPEAKER_03 1:16

Night one and two, just the overall 42. Yeah, just overall. Overall 42. I thought that night one was was the was the result of kind of a a some things that were just put together at the last minute, and it kind of showed when you don't have time to put video packages together, when you don't have time to have those people kind of go through some motion so they can have maybe some longer matches. So a lot of that showed night one. Night two felt like a a surprise for something that got put together where it was like, okay, this kind of flowed a little better. This, this, if this was this was kind of more what I was expecting. And like we said at the end of the day, we've seen better, we've seen a lot worse. So this will at the end of the day, I think that this WrestleMania will be will be known more for its rollout than its actual product. Because what we got was actually some good moments.

SPEAKER_02 2:12

So agreed. We got some good moments. Um, as far as wrestling goes, overall matches, there weren't a lot of like oh my god moments, minus the latter match, really. Um, I noticed that re-watching night one that like nothing really spectacular happened.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

It was just forward, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

It was just a lot, it was a lot of great wrestling, but nothing fan like, oh my god, I need to watch this over and over again happened at night one. Yes. So uh with that being said, um let's just jump into night one.

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Let's jump into night one.

SPEAKER_02 2:45

Let's do it. Uh so the first nights, uh, the first hour was on ESPN two. If I remember correctly. Uh, we watched it on the ESPN app. You can also watch it through the Disney Plus app if you have the ESPN, all that good stuff, whatever. Um, I don't know if anybody else had issues like we did, but every time a match ended, uh it rewound to about halfway through the last match. So then we had to fast forward and then sit through ads once again, which oh my god, the ads. Even re-watching, the ads were still there. Yep. What are we doing? What it was rough. So uh with that being said, the first uh WrestleMania night one kicks off. John Cena comes out uh all dappered up in his suits. Yeah, he talks to Stu and says, We are not running. Uh and he doesn't, you know, he kind of he walks down to the ring, he does a little jog towards the end, just kind of little thing.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

Can't help himself.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

Then he gets in the ring, does throws up his little woo, but like because he's wearing the suit and the jacket, he can only go up so high. I noticed that. Like D wearing the princess costume and always sunny. So they do a thing. Uh he's like, Welcome, Russell Manic, and all the pyro. Uh jumps into the first match of the evening, which is the Usos in LA Knight. Yeah. Taking on the vision with I Show Speed. Yeah. Yeah. Sure.

unknown 4:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Not a yeah, uh sure. Sure. Uh so first thing I said, and I said it numerous times, uh, LA Knight and the Usos matched with their fitters, the red, the orange, and the black, or the green, orange, and black. I said it more than once to you. I'm like, oh my god, these fitters are dope. Coordinate it, you got to coordinate. It was fantastic. They looked great. Uh so first things first, in I show Speed's debut match. Um, he likes to jump around. Clearly, he's he's a scrawny guy, so he's not going to be able to really pick up people and really do too much, but he can if he's willing to, he'll jump off the top rope, which he did a backflip off the top rope just because in the beginning. Uh, so that was fine. Um, but you know, like I said before, it was just a three on three, and that's what we got, nothing special. So in the end, uh I show speed and Austin Theory and a buddy heads running into each other. Austin Theory or uh yeah, Austin Theory gets hit with the BFT from LA Knight, LA Knight picks up the victory. Uh, which I was surprised by.

SPEAKER_01 5:23

I did not think that LA Knight uh was going to uh you are frozen.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

Um are you still there? Okay, because the video is frozen, so I don't know if that's a good thing or not. I guess oh oh you're back.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

Oh, there you are. Okay, sorry about that case. Anyway, long story short, uh they turn on I Show Speed and Logan Paul knocks him out. He goes to put him through a table, Usos and LA Knight interject, and instead I show speed does a leapfrog off the uh the post onto Logan Paul onto through the announce table.

SPEAKER_03 6:08

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

So that was the big pop of the night. I show speed did something.

SPEAKER_03 6:13

Whatever. There you go. Uh I like that LA Knight pulled up in the duck in like his own little truck. I thought that was cool. Yeah, totally. Um, and then Austin Theory had a nice little like his enter. We talked about his little entrance roll into a drop kick. It's like, oh, the the roll is kind of unnecessary, but it looks good when you kind of connect like that. Yeah. Um, and then I thought the vision had a cool thing going with their entrance where it was a front camera, then a side camera. Then it just became too many angles. It was like my big takeaways.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

You did, you mentioned that a lot, and one of them didn't even work. Like that camera's not working. That camera's not working. Anybody, everybody look at that.

SPEAKER_03 6:48

Yeah, other than that, I thought the match was okay. I thought the length, the length of the match was good for what it was, and I like I like they so squeeze got his little redeeming moment after the uh them boys tried to tried to pressure him and get on him.

SPEAKER_02 7:00

So yeah, yeah, but solid match, fun match. I mean, it's it it had the energy with the Usos doing yeet, and then they ran it back afterwards too. So then the crowd got their their amount of yeet. Uh next match is Jacob Fontu versus Drew McIntyre in the street fight. Yeah, the match is brutal, but like I said, like nothing really too too special kind of happened in the match, too, too extreme, to which Drew McIntyre would be out for a while because I think he might be pretty soon. Um But yeah, the the really cool moment that I remember was uh a catapult that Drew McIntyre did on Jacob Fat 2 into the bottom of the ring, where he hit the ring bar, like the support bar, like he threw up the apron and did a catapult into that. That was pretty gnarly. Uh, but there were tools he uh they used like wrenches and duck used that in the forehead, they pulled out toolbox. Drew McIntyre actually pulled out like used somebody's cell phone that was recording and then hit uh Fat 2 in the head with the I guess it was I guess it was his one of his siblings or something.

SPEAKER_03 8:01

So I guess I guess he knew the dude. So it was like makes sense. He was close by, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:06

Uh but yeah, in the end, uh tables were set up. Jacob Fatu hits his moonsaults with Drew McIntyre through the table and picks up the victory.

SPEAKER_03 8:15

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Fatou!

SPEAKER_03 8:17

Fatou.

SPEAKER_02 8:18

The entrances were dope.

SPEAKER_03 8:19

The entrances were great. I loved the fire dancers that Fatu had. Yeah. With his entrance, and but right before it looked like jail cell bars, and it looks like they were getting released almost as if like almost like a cage was coming up, and then he was getting released out. I thought that was cool. And then I need to watch CM Punk versus Drew McIntyre's Hell in the Cell, because I guess that's where Drew's toolbox PTSD comes from. So the whole oh not again, and then there they were kind of referencing that. So I was like, I don't, I don't know that reference.

SPEAKER_02 8:48

So oh yeah, because he after that was like the the last thing in their feud, and then something like that. Drew ended up being out for a while after that.

SPEAKER_03 8:55

So yeah, put like 12 staples in his head or something like that, is what they're talking about. So yeah, man. Uh yeah, I thought the match was good. I thought the match was exactly what it was supposed to be, honestly.

SPEAKER_02 9:05

Yeah, I was expecting more, but it's again, it's it's fine. Uh, they need to throw in more commercials, so I really liked your idea.

SPEAKER_03 9:13

They should have absolutely pre-taped something. I was thinking about that an awful lot after you said it. That would have been a really good idea.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

Yeah, where they just pre-tape some stuff running through the Vegas strip because they were there for almost a week and throw that in and make their way into the arena, but whatever.

SPEAKER_03 9:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 9:29

So, next match, we'll get the fatal four-way for the women's tag team championships between the defending champions, the irresistible forces. Favorite name over here. Uh, taking on Alexa and Charlotte versus Bailey and Lyra Valkyria versus the Bellas. Well, one half of the Bellas.

SPEAKER_03 9:49

Half of the Bellas.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

We figured something was up when the irresistible forces came out third. Or, like, okay, the Bellers coming out last because Nikki obviously is not going to be able to compete.

SPEAKER_03 9:59

In white demolition outfits, by the way. That was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

Very true. Those those outfits were dope. Actually, like, I feel like because they were in white, Trick Williams was all in white, Trick's parents were all in white. Like, they I think they coordinated all together. It was pretty cute. Yeah, yeah. Uh so yeah, so Nikki Bella comes out on a crutch, uh, still dressed in her outfit, which sure why not? Uh, saying that she can't compete, and she was actually pretty broken up about it. Her voice was breaking a few times, which I mean, again, just being at WrestleMania competing is a big enough moment in itself. So she's like, I don't want to take that away from Bree. So uh I called an old friend who just got re-signed a couple days before, and haters. Paige has made her journey home. Oh my goodness. She's back, y'all. Yeah, she looked fantastic. Uh, she got a huge pop. Um, yeah, so it's she joins Bree Bella to make up the four team, and this Fatal Four way match, they like to change it up with tag team Fatal Four Ways. Sometimes it's just a one-on-one where you can tag anybody from any team. Yeah, uh, this one was a legit four in the match at one time. You can only tag your partner, yeah. So which it makes lets a little more chaos ensue in the match. Um, so yeah, Lyra at one point ended up tripping the cameraman, and camera went down. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:27

We're watching that live, and we just saw like, oh Amanda, Amanda.

SPEAKER_02 11:34

Um, another one of those things where like it was a great match, everybody looked fantastic. Charlotte, Charlotte and Alexa's interests were pretty cool because Alexa was dressed like a black and white, like a moth.

unknown 11:46

Sure.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Even in the back, uh, shout out to my boy Trig. She was saying we were trying to figure out what it said on the says always connected, like a couple times, and I guess that's a reference back to when Bray Wyatt did a post-interview and he was saying, like, I think Alexa and I will always be connected no matter what. So it's it's uh the whole thing was a tribute to him, so pretty cool.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Cool. So she came out dressed like that, and Charlotte was in a full like butterfly, like colorful getup, and then they split the ramp and like the stage in half, which was pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

And they walked on the correct sides as opposed to Lyra and Bailey, who walked on the opposite side. That's okay, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 12:26

Yeah, so back to the match. Like I said, again, nothing great happened. It was a entertaining match, it was a fun match. Uh in the end, Nikki ended up using her crutch on Charlotte, which uh distracted Alexa, who was on the top up when it hit Twisted Bliss. She goes to hit it, Paige gets her knees up, hits her with Rampage, and new women's tag team champions, Paige and Bree Bella.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Yeah, I don't think they should have won. But that's alright. Uh yeah, I don't think it should be a Bree and Page thing. I think they should have pivoted, but it is what it is. Paige got her shot. Um, yeah, I thought the match was was, again, as good as it was going to be, seeing as how we've seen these women kind of brawl already for the past like month. So it was as good as it was gonna be. Um, I thought Lash actually stood out kind of the most. I really like to me. I really like Lash Legend. She got a lot of love from the crowd. Sometimes she was kind of stopping and doing her little in-ring pops. I noticed she got a lot of really good love. Uh, and then she just also got a good love from booking. She hit some really good spots, people sold really well for her. Uh Lash Legend, now that they are not champions anymore, I feel like I mean they're a good tag team, but Lash could have a really good little solo run.

SPEAKER_02 13:49

I agree. I agree. I'll look forward to seeing what they do with her in the future. Uh, but I think they'll probably, since they have a name too, they'll probably keep this tag team together a little longer.

SPEAKER_03 13:58

I think so.

SPEAKER_02 13:59

But yeah, Lash will definitely have her day.

SPEAKER_03 14:01

There's already merch, so keep the merch moving. Right. And then I'll I wonder if there's gonna be something to the moment when Nikki did hit Charlotte with the crutch where Alexa saw that and kind of watched Charlotte getting hit and then continue to kind of do whatever. I wonder if Charlotte's gonna kind of you didn't help me, so she's like, You saw it happen. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

So we will see. So until then, it's Paige and A Bella as tag team champions, which again, because I said the Bells were going to win if Nikki competed, and I guess they didn't know how to pivot out of that team winning.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

So that's like, all right, well, Paige is coming back anyway. We'll do it with the Hardy's and give them the tag belts.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

So yeah. Uh takes us to our next match. It is Becky Lynch going up against AJ Lee defending her women's intercontinental championship.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:55

Uh, so this was the first instance where I don't think any of the bands or anything were actually playing. Yeah, because the guy said the man comes around, yeah. Uh, but he wasn't even at the microphone yet. And then he kind of ran for it as he started as the voiceover started happening. It was like Ashley Simpson at SNL.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

So they just kind of caught up really quick and they just continued to play great.

SPEAKER_03 15:21

Yeah. It was, it was, it was pretty noticeable, pretty bad. I guess the scuttle butt, at least for the microphone, the rumor behind that is they just kind of didn't want anybody to say anything off kind of script, especially if you're not aligned with certain thought processes. So we don't want you going up there using your platform to say anything we can't censor or control. So best not to say anything.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

Well, in the 41 years before this, they've never had that issue before. So kind of weird that they think about it now.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Anyway, again, rumors. Rumors, right.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

Which again, we'll talk about because it's very blatant in the main event on night two, and we'll talk about that later. Uh, but let's just get back to the match. Becky is the best that she has ever been.

SPEAKER_03 16:09

Facts.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

She is playing the heel card to the T, even down to the referee where she has a gripe with this specific ref, and they actually get into a shoving match at some point in the match.

SPEAKER_03 16:21

The back and forth between her and Jessica Carr is um is so fantastic. And I I wanted to give props to Jessica Carr because even when like she's she's she moved removes the first turn buckle, and Jessica's tying it back, and Becky's in her face, and she's just like, I swear to God, I don't. This is why I'm trying not to deal with you because you're crazy. She's like, You're insane. And then the way Barrett's like, you can't call a competitor insane. And then, yeah, shout out to Wade Barrett who was giving Jessica Carr the business. That was so funny.

SPEAKER_02 16:50

Yeah, yeah, but Becky's just looking great. AJ doesn't look like she's missed a beat even on such a big stage as WrestleMania. It's like she hasn't been gone. And it's her first match in what, 11 years?

SPEAKER_03 17:02

So first singles match, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Yeah, so it was there was a lot of back and forth. Uh AJ Lee hit Becky with a man handle slam. Um, there were uh Black Widows left and right and reversals, and at one point she spawned AJ into the turnbuckle, which was a pretty cool way to break that uh break that submission. But in the end, Becky had some pretty cool counters to the black buckles, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:27

It was really good.

SPEAKER_02 17:27

Yeah, she she studied, she did her homework. But in the end, Becky exposed that turnbuckle again. Um AJ Lee standing in the or no, uh AJ Lee goes to run at her. She pulls Jessica Carr in between. So as Jessica Carr is kind of wobbly, Becky throws AJ into the exposed turnbuckle, hits the man handle slam, and and new women's intercontinental champion, the man, Becky Lynch.

SPEAKER_03 17:54

Oh, still on uh back on top. I look forward to this this kind of run run rain again and see who comes after the IC chat now.

SPEAKER_02 18:02

Soches carr holding her arm up. Had to do it, had to do it. It was great. That was that was probably one of the better matches on the card. Actually, that match and this next match uh between Goeth and Go Gunther left freaking Rollins for nothing, it was just I want to fight, I don't like what you're doing. Yep, let's fight. Yep. Uh so Gunther's entrance was uh just Gunther coming out to his ring, oh, to his music, which there are a lot of flutes when you get really deep into that song, it gets very pretty, very melodic.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

There's a lot of flutes, there's a lot of it's very light and airy, which is like wow that starts off trying to be this like badass March, and then it turns into like a nice scene from Fantasia.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

You're like, oh like Mickey's like cleaning the walls. It's like okay, cool. Uh meanwhile, Seth Rollins has uh you know his dope entrance, which everybody loves seeing along too. But he comes out with a smoking jacket and blacked-out eye contacts.

SPEAKER_03 19:07

Yeah, man. Everything is burning behind him. Gone are gone is the oh, I'm gonna color coordinate and wear this extra level model-esque revolutionary type of nah, it's just uh it's smoked out, it's black, burn it down, everything. He came to he came, he came to play. Yeah, he looked great. He looked phenomenal. Now, were those were those contacts or was that a screen effect?

SPEAKER_02 19:37

I don't know because because he pulled them out apparently real quick, like down the aisle. Because that's a good question. I don't know. Because he did, it was like a thing where he just kind of did this and they were gone before he got in the ring.

SPEAKER_03 19:51

Because I wonder if they were contacts or if there were just something kind of over his eyes, so they could do like a green screen effect of it then being black, and then he just pulled those off. But I'd have to look, I I didn't even think about that till later. I was like, Oh, yeah, I meant to look like that, but it looked good, whatever was going on. That looked great. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 20:09

Uh so it was classic brute versus tactician. Uh so Gunther was using all of his strength and just brute force while Seth is trying to be smart and kind of outsmart and outmaneuver him.

SPEAKER_03 20:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

Um, so it's pretty back and forth for a while, and then out of nowhere, Braun Breaker comes and just spears Seth Rollins. The return of Braun Breaker.

SPEAKER_03 20:30

Saw it coming a mile away. Um, I I thought he was gonna do a whole mass man thing. Glad to see we just turned turned around and he was there.

SPEAKER_02 20:40

Yeah, hit the spear, walked up to the ramp. Um, Gunther ended up putting Seth in the sleeper, and he passes out. Gunther is your winner.

SPEAKER_03 20:50

Bring Jenna Rao.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

Seth Rollins comes to, he's outside the ring, he sees Braun Breaker. He's kind of like, Oh man, that kind of sucks. And then kind of puts his guard down. Meanwhile, Braun Breaker sprints towards him again, full speed, 23 miles an hour down the ramp and spears him again.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:07

Yeah. So Braun Breaker and Seth Rollins is in our very new future haters. Uh, next up, we get Stephanie Vacara defending her women's world championship against Liv Morgan. Liv Morgan comes out, her entrance is her new song, and she does a little dance routine like her video. Liv Spears coming at y'all. Absolutely. Yeah. Uh Stephanie Vacara's entrance is nothing special.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

Her, I do want to say, I uh we were saying it there. I I I her entrance gave me Diablo 4 vibes because the main the main broad who's comes out, Lilith, who's got the horns and all that. So her whole thing is like blood-soaked rose petals. So seeing her come out with the red and the horns and like the she's coming back, I was like, yeah, it gives me Diablo 4 vibes. But yeah, other than that, yes, we're still. With that music, apparently, she they gave her a little extra fire, but yeah, just her usual, her usual speed. She looked great. She looked great. The costume was cool.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

Yeah, both look great. Uh Liv was probably as visceral as she has ever been. She's very in your face, very punchy and kicky. And uh Stephanie Vicare hit the devil's kiss early, in which you said, Well, she lost.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

You had like a big signature like that that early on, chances are she's not gonna have a great second half of the match.

SPEAKER_03 22:32

Usually the dead giveaway. Yeah, that's it's yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

In which case it's true because Roxanne and Raquel both make their presence felt looking fantastic. Yeah, yeah. Uh yeah, so that gets uh Stephanie Vacaire kind of confusal, trying to go after Roxanne Perez and misses, and Liv Morgan comes out of nowhere and hits her with oblivion, and new and new women's world champion, Liv Morgan.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

The Royal Rumble winner comes through. She's the greatest woman champion of all.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Uh but to make it a better thing, we get a surprise appearance from Bianca Balair, who announces that she is pregnant and she will be missing just a little bit more time. Which you were upset by, I'm sure a lot of people were. But a lot of people were also like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

Yeah, you can't you can't be you can't be like upset, right? Like, you having a baby, you live a life, oh screw you! Like, no, that's not but it but but just it's just one of those like ah, but we but we need you here a little bit longer. Congrats to Bianca and Montez Ford. Let's not leave him out of there.

SPEAKER_02 24:13

Congrats to the which brings us, kills, to the main event of night one.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

Let's go, baby! Let's get to the go!

SPEAKER_02 24:25

Cody Rhodes defends his WWE Undisputed Championship against Randy Orton with Pat McAfee in his corner.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Actually, it was I'm glad we got a good because one thing I I missed that I didn't realize until I started like paying attention was this match had a very good video package before it. It did. Yeah, that was one thing that in you know when we we get ads and we get other things, it's like, wait a minute, we used to get some really good video packages right before the match. A lot of these matches just started. So now it's it's just the main events, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 25:06

Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, I know. Video package, that's what WWE is known for. Like they do fantastic video packages, as we saw, the ones that we got. Yeah, so yeah, uh, so Pat McAfee has his own entrance with middle fingers flying.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

It sure does.

SPEAKER_02 25:24

Oh, he was flipping everybody off. Uh Cody Rhodes, Randy Orton has a cool, I mean, cool entrance, I guess. He has a uh giant CGI viper that didn't follow him down like a giant sperm a few years back. It was not uh stayed on the screen, yeah, and it looked that one actually looked really cool.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

It kind of moved left, moved right, and then kind of stayed in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

Now the champs was really cool. It was a cross of like Iron Man meet uh He-Man in the way that uh he had his four kind of personas in WWE displayed in little cases, like Iron Man with his suits.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

So he had his OG green trunks and gold boots that he was like tag team champs with hardcore Holly. He had the dashing or not dashing Cody Rhodes, the the Cody Rhodes with the mask.

SPEAKER_03 26:10

The broken Cody Rods.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

Broken Cody Rhodes, thank you. Uh they had two, much to our delight, they had the Stardust outfit, which we were very excited for, which is got a loud pop, got a loud pop for Stardust. Very underrated. Go back and watch that because for what it was, it was it was so much fun. And then we got his current era, American Nightwear. So he comes out in a full growth golden outfit, which apparently is tribute to He-Man, because he's a heat man character, so it looks like a billing from He-Man. Um, he comes out, he kisses his daughter. Uh, I noticed that somebody filmed Randy Orton at the same time. He's like, Hold on, and he goes over, grabs his daughter. He's like, Give me a kiss. So she kisses him, puts it back. He's like, I have a daughter too. So they're doing the entrances, and then Pat McAfee grabs the microphone and say something else, hits Cody with it, and they kind of attack Cody before the match. So the bell to do ring, charge before you start the match. Long story short, uh Cody ends up laying out uh Pat McAfee on the announce table. Jelly Roll comes out of nowhere and he splashes Pat McAfee through the table. He gets stretchered out, and Pat McAfee is gone. So Jelly Roll's like, give him the one-on-one match they won't.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

We got that too. Uh so Cody took Stephanie McMahon's words to heart, and he was as cutthroat and like lethal as he was supposed to. Like he was poking eyes, he was hitting Randy in the balls, like he was he was pulling out like stuff out of Randy Orton's book, and Randy Orton was actually on the defensive most of the match.

SPEAKER_03 27:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 27:56

Uh, but at one point it just all hell broke loose. Both superstars ended up bleeding at one point in time. Uh Charles Robinson got actually RKO'd because Randy was like blinded by his blood or something. He's like, I don't know who it was.

SPEAKER_03 28:11

Just like Charles Robinson, man. What the hell?

SPEAKER_02 28:14

I know, but he takes rate bumps. It's because he can take a fall really well.

SPEAKER_03 28:17

Does create take bumps? It's all that cardio.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Yeah. So, like I said, there's they're both bleeding. Uh refereed down. So Pat McAfee runs out in a neck brace and a referee shirt.

SPEAKER_03 28:30

Hey, shout out to Michael Cole. Uh uh McAfee's running down. Cole's like, You gotta be kidding me. Who gave him a ref shirt?

SPEAKER_01 28:39

Like, can he do this? Is this legal?

SPEAKER_02 28:43

Yeah, so there were RKOs and crossroads hit by both men on both men. They were doing each other's finishers left and right. Yep. Uh, but in the end, and still, WWE undisputed champion, the American nightmare, Cody Rhodes.

SPEAKER_03 28:58

Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

But he does not stand tall.

unknown 29:01

No.

SPEAKER_02 29:02

And as he's celebrating Randy, he snatches the belt away, hits him with it, and then we got we've been waiting for four months.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

Randy Orton finally punted Cody Rhodes.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

He does.

SPEAKER_02 29:13

And he messes his eye up pretty good.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

And he freaking kicked him for real.

SPEAKER_02 29:18

And then he just stands there over Cody Rhodes holding the belt.

SPEAKER_03 29:23

Credits. Uh, I knew that there was gonna be an RKO coming to Pat McAfee. Yep. Because that's we we also got that. I was like, man, because the Viper is a Viper. If things don't go his way, he's gonna RKO anybody that that feels like, oh, okay, uh, Pat didn't come in and give him the count quick enough. He's supposed to come in and give me the one, two, three. I'm supposed to be champ. So uh he had to go on and uh eat the three dangerous letters in the world. Uh a little RKO. But uh yeah, that's night one.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

Uh there we talked about so much on night one that we're gonna have to break this up into two parts. So you're gonna go ahead and click that link down below for part two, where kills at Wills over here is gonna walk us through what happened with night two.

SPEAKER_03 30:07

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SPEAKER_02 30:16

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SPEAKER_03 30:48

Heck yeah. Well, I have things to do, he has things to do, and y'all have things to do. Hey, Billyum, hit us with a cool outro. Hit us with an outro.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

Let's get it. Just this was part one. It's gonna be continued into part two. That's down below. Oh man, just put on the spot.

unknown 31:10

Yeah!

SPEAKER_01 31:11

That was dope.

SPEAKER_03 31:12

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