Section 8 Wrestling Podcast Ep. 55 - CM Punk Will Face Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam! (7/18/26)

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. Punk and Cody is set for Summerslam! Gunther chokes out Nick Aldis! Brock and Oba get even more heated! We get a 14 part mini series between Seth Rollins & Roman Reigns! Is Billiam wearing a Hilary Duff shirt?!? 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 0:00

What's up y'all? I'm Kills At Wills.

SPEAKER_05 0:02

I'm Billy.

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You're listening to the Section 8 Wrestling Podcast.

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Your favorite and your friend's soon-to-be favorite wrestling podcast. Yeah, yeah. I'm rocking a Hillary Duff shirt.

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What do you know about Hillary Duff? Hey, I know that I know that you went to a you went to a certain concert. No hates care.

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Hey haters, we're back.

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Hey, we are so happy to see you. And who are we? Well, we're none other than your latest and your greatest, and hopefully your favorite wrestling podcast in the entire land. That's right! We are the Section 8 Wrestling Podcast. I am Kills At Wills. I am Billiam. And today, tonight, whenever it is you're drawing our wonderful little corner of the internet, uh, we're gonna do what we always do. And let's give you the WWE Weekly recap. That's Monday night run but first.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

We're gonna wheo! I'll pass it over to my man, Billy. He's gonna give us the Friday night SmackDown Run Down. Let's go, Billy.

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Woo! Smackdown this week emanated from OKC. That's Oklahoma City.

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Boys and girls.

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Home of the Oklahoma City Thunder.

SPEAKER_05 1:34

Yes, sir. And it kicks off with General Manager Nick Aldous explaining that he has been officially reinstated. So he is no longer on leave, administrative leave. Um and then it was just as long as Sammy Zayn's title title reign. Uh and then he introduced us Ah, speaking of title reign to the new undisputed WWE champion, one CM Punk. LC a bug, he said he took off the he's been gone for two and a half months, and for those two and a half months, he's been trying to work out a deal with NBC Universal and USA Network to get on SmackDown. So that's why he's been gone.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

That's what I'm sure because if you just want to go to the other show, just saying punk. I mean, I'm pretty sure they'll just let you go.

SPEAKER_05 2:35

So basically he's he's he's talking, he's pointing at the belly, says he thinks everybody thinks that this is theirs. But it's not. It's his. It's like he's uh he's like, who wants to come get it? I know Sami Zayn wants to come and get it, uh, but I've been called worse on the internet. Um and then he was like, uh Gunther wants it, obviously Gunther wants it. I beat him once, I'll beat him again. Why not? And then he's like, or what about the newcomers? Like Finn Balor, and it's like, yay, Finn Balor. So he he's mentioned all these names, Royce Keys, Damien Priest, and then the only name he doesn't mention, wrestling has more than one royal family, out comes Cody Rhodes himself. Get all the pyro, signing kids' belt instead of walking out. Uh, and he recreates what him and Punk did, but the roles were reversed, where the last time they met, Cody was champ, and Cody had the black eye. So, uh, but this time Punk did, so Cody grabbed kind of Punk's chin, kind of looked at the black eye like they did before. That was really cute. And uh basically says uh he's talking about role reversals, and Punk basically cuts him off, and he's like, When do you want to do this? Just flat out. It's like just I got one word, when obviously it's going to be SummerSlam. Nick Aldis is right there, so right in front of us, Nick Aldous is like, and it's official after they shake hands. Apparently, that's all you need. Cody Rhodes is like, I want it. Punk's like, okay, that's how you get a title match of SummerSlam. So SummerSlam will be Punk versus uh Cody Rhodes for the championship. In the back, we get Kathy Kelly. She's talking to Jade Cargill and the baddies. Uh Jade has requested a match with Alexa Bliss uh later on in the evening just because she wants to do to Alexa what uh they've been trying to do to Charlotte and basically break her in half. It's like a twig that she is.

unknown 4:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 4:36

Basically, they have no respect on Alexa Bliss's name, and they should, but we will get to that match later. Uh the first match of the evening is Finn Balor finally is on TV and he's wrestling against Tama Tonga. They found him. Absolutely. So after last week, when Tala uh and Tama attacked him in the back, he's like, I have a chapter of my book I want to finish, and he's the next one. Shinscape was the first. So we get Finn Balor versus Tama Tonga. It's a solid opening match. They hit all their all their big beats. Uh Tala tries to get involved, uh, but Finn Balor is just too quick for both of them, and Finn ends up picking up the victory.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Well, hey, there we go. Finn Balor getting a win. Maybe it's the beginning of that year of Finn Balor. I hope so.

SPEAKER_05 5:25

Halfway through July, and it's half year of Finn Balor.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Let's go, Finn.

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Next up, we see Carmelo Hayes. He's now talking in the back with Kathy Kelly, and he is looking forward to his match against Trick Williams. Not for the title, but for a chance for the title. Uh, I wrote down he had a great line. He's like, uh, what's up with Yachty? His best tracks are his features. And then he's like, let's talk about that. It's like, ah, it's a good line. That's a great line.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

Good bar. That made some that made some people mad. Especially Yachty.

SPEAKER_05 6:00

So we're gonna talk about that later. Uh so after that, we cut to we cut to R Truth. He's hanging out with Fraxium, and he seems to have made a bet with them about Spain and USA, and USA got eliminated, so he's paying out Axiom, being the Spanish born that he is.

SPEAKER_03 6:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:17

Uh and then the War Raiders talk come up and they want their match. He's like, Nick, all this is back. We want our match. And he's like, eh, you know, we'll take care of that, whatever. They just kind of blow him off. And then we see Big Jimmy Uso and uh Jacob Hatu, and they go up to R Truth and they're looking for solo. It's like, oh, you mean the guy that looks like Rikishi? Yeah, I haven't seen him. And then Damian Priest comes up and he or no, and then they ask about Royce Keys, and he's like, I haven't seen him either. So they're looking for Royce, they're looking for solo. Damian Priest comes up and he's like, I forget. He's like, Yeah, we're just we're we're here. He's like, just go off, do your own thing, just leave us alone. Like, we don't want to be in this bloodline business kind of thing. So they're like, alright, so they wander off. Uh next up, there's a lot of there's a lot of segments. Uh next up, we cut up to cut to Nick Aldous on the phone with Sami Zayn, explain and you know how he's on the phone with him because he's like, Alright, yeah, you asked for your time off to get your mental wellness, blah blah blah. So we granted that to you. I know you want your title, blah blah blah, all that kind of thing, so sure, why not? Um Gunther walks in and he basically gives Nick's all Nick Aldis an ultimatum. He's like, You need to fix my title problem, or I will do something about it. So basically it's up to Nick Aldis to put Gunther's like, I don't care if I face Punk, I don't care if I face Cody Rhodes, I don't care if I face them both, you just need to fix this and put me in a title match. So he's like, I'll give you to the end of the night. Okay. All these wrestlers just calling out general managers and giving them ultimatums, like it's it's it's it's a weird time.

SPEAKER_03 7:57

It's it's yeah.

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In the ring, we cut to Jimmy Uso and Jake Far too, and basically he calls out Solo Sokoa right away. But instead of Solo's music hits, Royce Keys comes on out.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

And he's like, I know I'm not Solo. Have you noticed have you noticed that they've dropped the the all of a sudden the I thing is just gone? It's not on his it's not on his his thing.

SPEAKER_05 8:24

No, it's just gone. He's just Royce Keys. That's all he got. So Royce is saying, uh, I'm not trying to get in this bloodline business, but you called my you said my name last week. You said my name this week. Here's a line right here, and I'm gonna cross it. What are you gonna do about it? Big Big Jim he hits Jacob and he's like, What do you think? We we' we'll we'll take you on, and Jacob's like, What do you mean, we? This is all you, and he just leaves. So Jim calls out a referee. Right. So Jim calls out a referee, and the next match is Big Jimmy Uso versus Royce Keys. Okay. Uh so uh the only thing, really cool thing that I saw, like it was it was a fine match. Uh the only cool thing I saw was Jimmy was flat on his back. Uh Royce Keys grabs him by the hands and kind of lifts him up and then throws him instantly in like a power slam, which I was like, that's because Jimmy is I mean, big Jim. Like he's he's a solid dude. And Royce Keys just kind of pick him up and power slam him. Like he he felt a little awkward, but it was it was something, it was like, wow, that's that was something cool to see. Alright. Uh but that was really the big spots. Uh Jimmy he goes out uh by the timekeeper's area and leans against the barricade and he's like, hold on, time out. And then it's like, alright, pans back a little bit, and solo's standing right behind him, and he's like, Time out, okay, and he taps him on the shoulder, and then he goes and tries to put the Sumo and Spike on him, but before he can do that, Jacob Fatou's music hits, he runs out, they start brawling outside. Uh Jimmy Uso gets back in the ring. Royce Keys is kind of distracted by this whole thing. He turns around. Apparently, the entire bloodline has adopted the spear. So Big James Uso hits him with the spear and picks up the victory.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_05 10:12

Alright. Yep, yep. The day ones. That's your warning shot. Bow! Oh. Uh, next up, we cut to another thing in the back. Uh Kathy Kelly's talking to CM Punk. Uh, basically, how you feel about Gunther trying to insert him. He's like, that's great. Everybody just know there's a line, get in it. Everybody's welcome to come up. Uh then just out of nowhere, Johnny Gargano apparently got rolled up behind him. So he's planking Candace Lorray standing there, and she's like, What are you doing? Like, you took out Sammy Zayn. Sammy was the actual only one. We still had hope, like, for all this. He was kind of watching our back. And Punk's like, What are you doing, Johnny? I know Johnny wrestling. This is not Johnny. He's like, You, and then he points to Candice, like, you, you guys need to get back in the ring because that's where you belong. This is getting ridiculous. He's like, Is Johnny cursed? Like, what's going on? So it's like, Punk finally said what you and I have been saying for months. What are they doing with Johnny and Candlestar Ray? Because they are better than just planking and hanging out in the back on their phone for the entire show. Like, what's going on?

SPEAKER_01 11:19

CM Punk became the comment section for a little bit. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:22

Right. Which which he again, voice of the voiceless. Here we go.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

What are we doing?

unknown 11:27

Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:28

So that would that was a fun little thing. It was, it was, it was cool for them to actually bring that up and it's like, yeah, let's have Johnny Gargano actually wrestle again.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Yeah, get him, get him, have him be Lyndon McMahon standing up. It's time for him to get out of it.

SPEAKER_05 11:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

Been too long. We've wasted so many weeks.

SPEAKER_05 11:43

Absolutely. Uh so we'll get to the next match, which is here we go, the aforementioned Alexa Bliss with Charlotte Flair taking on Jade Cargill and the baddies. Now, earlier when Jade was being interviewed, she was in like some full-on, like kind of denim outfit, and then she came out and wrestled, and I'm like, oh, she's wrestling in jeans tonight. Cool. Like it wasn't like pants and all that, but it was just outfit looked like made of denim. Maybe it wasn't, I don't know, but it looked like it was.

SPEAKER_01 12:07

Maybe it made okay, cool.

SPEAKER_05 12:10

Yeah. So pretty much for the first half of the match, Jade was just completely ignoring Alexa Bliss. Like she's like, just go on. She turned around and kind of talked to Charlotte, and Alexa just jumped right on her back like a spider monkey. She threw her off, turned back around, was focusing on Charlotte again. Alexa went for her knee and then just kind of trying to beat up on her, but Jade is just overall too strong for Alexa Bliss. Um, and Alexa and Jade picks up a quick victory, but they're not done yet. Uh B or Meechin goes and hits Charlotte. Charlotte then gets attacked by B Fab, so she's laid out. They throw Charlotte's trying to hold off both of the baddies, and it's just the numbers game is too much. They kind of beat her down in the corner and hold her in the corner. Jade gets a chair, puts Alexa Bliss's arm in a chair, and forgetting that Alexa Bliss is actually double-jointed, quote, snapped her arm back and like it's like limping. They're like, oh my god, look at the angle of that arm. It's like this has happened a few times before, but it still looks gnarly. Correct. So we'll see how long double-jointed Alexa Bliss will be out. But uh Jade looks like took out Charlotte's bestie.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Apparently she was supporting like a big old like bruise from that, too. Like she actually got kind of kind of dinged from that or something.

SPEAKER_05 13:28

Yeah. I mean, she stuck her arm in the chair and then kind of whailed it around. So there's a very big chance that a little bruise there, but she'll be fine, kids. We'll see her.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

We will. We will. We absolutely will.

SPEAKER_05 13:40

Yeah. Uh next up we see uh Trick Williams. He can't find his U.S. title. He's like, he's looking around, he's like, where is it? And he's like, I bet you Ricky Saint stole it. That little guy would do something, and Lil Yachty walks in, he's like, nah, man, don't worry about it. I had you, I had created a custom legacy. Apparently they're called if you have your own belt, they're legacy belts. So it's like, I got a custom legacy white furry belt for you. And he debuts Trick Williams' furry, white interc or U.S. championship belt. Like, that's dope.

SPEAKER_01 14:09

It is the United States belt, everybody would just, yeah, white fur as Trick Williams is worn to wear around it. And he has uh white side plates, which is which is unique. I hadn't seen that. Yeah, it looks great. I'm $699 or something like that on WWE shop. You can get that, right now.

SPEAKER_05 14:25

Oh, you can buy it now. Okay, you haven't seen that yet. So if you want a furry belt, go get a furry belt. Which takes us to our next match, which is Carmelo Hayes versus Trick Williams. And this is the match I've been looking forward to for the last week.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

This is yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:42

Um, it was a great match. Uh B. Um Trick being taller than Melo it instantly pushes him off, and then he does a little like waxing thing, and then Mello comes back at him, and he like throws him to the corner and shoulder checks him, and then he does it again, and then he hits him with the with the whoop-tack trick boot in the corner, where he's just woo-that trick, woo, damn! It's like that's great. I those those trick stomps are great. Uh, but mellow answers right back. He follows up with him and he's he's sticking with him the whole time. So Lil Yachty gets knocked out by Trick Williams inadvertently. They kind of bump into each other and he flies into the post. Um Melo goes up for nothing but net off the top rope, and out of nowhere, the returning Baron Corbin comes out. He hits the bell rings, Baron Corbin hits the end of days on Melo, and then he goes after Trick and hits the end of days on him, and then he gets the belt and he lays it across Trick Williams. So it looks like Baron Corbin is back.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

The Lone Wolf is back, everybody.

SPEAKER_05 15:48

Oh, but I'm looking forward to because I I saw him as the lone wolf. I didn't really see his run where he was King Corbin and he was like bad luck and like all three.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Happy Corbin and then bad luck Corbin.

SPEAKER_05 16:01

Yeah, apparently it was a really good run for him. Apparently. So I'm excited to see what they're gonna do with him now. Uh so Baron Corbin is back, kids. He's back, everybody. Go and look him up. He was one of the OG NXT back today.

SPEAKER_01 16:14

Kern ships. He's back, son.

SPEAKER_05 16:17

Yes, sir. Uh which brings us to finally our main event segment of the evening.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Woo! We got it!

SPEAKER_05 16:40

It is a segment uh Gunther makes his way out. Ring John comes out and he's like, Alright, Nick all this I gave you your time to think about it. Come on out and tell me how you're gonna fix this. Nick all this comes out and he's like, Alright, you know what? He's like, fine, I was thinking about it. You get what you want. You will face Cody Rhodes. Alright. You will face CM Punk at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden, with your tag partner, Sammy Zane. Alright. Gunther's like, uh, uh, no, uh, nah. So basically, Gunther just doesn't have that, and he beats the living hell out of Nick Aldous. Yeah. He chokes him out. He's hitting him with the elbows, chokes him out again. Uh producers, everybody trying to get him off, get him off, come on, Gunther. Uh, and then he leaves, he comes back, puts him in another sleeper hold, like just wailing on him with the elbows, elbows, sleeper hold. Uh, credits are rolling, does it again, make all this finally is out. Cody Rhodes' music hits, he makes his way halfway up the ramp, taking off his jacket, fades to black. That was it. Because remember, we're on USA here, so they have a time constraint. So we don't see the aftermath of that.

SPEAKER_01 18:00

So somebody hasn't figured out their two-hour format yet.

SPEAKER_05 18:04

Correct. That's how SmackDown ends, with Cody Rhodes taking off his jacket.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Well, dang. That's SmackDown. Let's go on and jump over to my oh, first of all, thank you, Ben, for the absolutely pleasure. All right. Let's get on into some Monday night raw, which takes place in Dallas, Texas. The stars at night, a big embracing, down in the hall of Texas. Um, um, we have uh the vision and all of them coming up as they do a little pre-walk-ins. And I wrote down Maxine and Marina Shafir. Very quickly. There's a way to do a woman, there's a way to introduce a woman into a like tough faction, what you should be a tough faction. I feel like this is the Maxine Dupree thing, is not it. And I was also talking with Chava. I feel like when people when they say things like, we don't know what to do with Jordan Grace, you could absolutely put her in the vision. She would be, you don't have to put a romantic angle on her. She's just a tough broad that people can't beat. That's supposed to be what the vision are is the future of this.

SPEAKER_05 19:13

I completely forgot about Jordan Grace.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

So has the WWE for a little bit. Like it's yeah, it's it's it's a sad thing. Uh oh, and we just had another SmackDown. I would I I wouldn't be doing my due diligence when I'd go, where is Eli Dragonoff? Apparently he's still training.

SPEAKER_05 19:30

I don't know why he was great to begin with, but cool story, bro. He'll show up on the EEW soon enough, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

Yeah. He'll keep doing like main events on Thursdays and nobody will see him. Um we cut to our first big promo. Uh Brock Lesnar pulls what I laughed in the room uh because I said it's the equivalent of a Karen move. I was like, wait, did Brock Lesnar attack a black man and then call the police because he's worried about his safety? Is that what happened?

SPEAKER_05 20:00

Yeah, yeah, I think he kind of did.

SPEAKER_01 20:03

I didn't know his middle name was Karen.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:06

Man, so Brock Lesnar comes out and he's in full cowboy mode again, because I think he's in Texas, so he wanted to cowboy it up.

SPEAKER_05 20:12

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

Um so he comes out, Paul Heyman comes out, he's saying that he got a restraining order. Uh he's saying he's worried because uh oh no, that's that comes in a little bit. What I'll say, oh no, that that's now. So basically a big oba chance, of course. Paul Heyman calls Oba a Nigerian dummy for turning down a title shot just to face Brock Lesnar. Doesn't understand why he's so uh you know obsessed, why he's so obsessed with with with uh uh with with with Brock, that's stalker uh behavior, this, that, and the third. And then he's like, but I'm worried because Brock is also uh obsessed with you, Oba, and I don't understand, and uh I don't get this, and great, cool. Uh let's just go and cut to it. The ruler comes out in a really, really uh dope sh new shirt. Uh oh, you you can't run from the ruler or something like that. It's silver uh and black, and it's it's probably gonna be in the next uh collection. And he comes out and hey, you might as well have just called the uh useless wrestling police because Obafemi just runs through all them, knocks everybody down. Uh once again, uh there's a running situation. Brock runs out and he's like, you know, every time I come every time I come out here, you're always running from me. But guess what? At SummerSlam, you can't run. Because they're gonna be in a hell and a cell. So yeah, you can't go anywhere. He's gonna be locked in there.

SPEAKER_05 21:36

They better get out somehow.

SPEAKER_01 21:38

Yeah. Yeah. They're gonna run through. By the way, everybody, my favorite part of uh the show when it comes to Oba Femi, I have to tell you that it has been a hundred and ninety one days since Oba vacated a title. He is not a champion again. Woo! We, we, we that that number's getting. He's got that imaginary money in the bank, but I mean. Not a champion. We have uh apparently they're gonna be doing these little 14-part series between Roman and Seth so they can show you the history and all this. It's a little weird to see them doing the history of the shield without showing Dean Ambrose because it makes it look like it was just them two, and like no whole big thing. 14 parts? Yeah, because it's a 14-week series, and so it I'm guess-I'm guessing it's it's 14 parts because we have like 14 weeks until SummerSlam. So I thought it was like, oh, maybe they're gonna do a thing a week, but we got two. There's a chapter one was the shield, and we got like we got two chapters, but it's 14, it's 14.

SPEAKER_05 22:37

I was like, it's a whole like SummerSlam's in like three weeks. It's August 1st and 2nd, so oh well, true, yeah. We'll get to it, two, two raw, two smack down, two raw, two smack down. I don't know. We'll see.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

14 part series, not a 14-week series.

SPEAKER_05 22:53

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

That makes more sense. Okay. All right, brings us to our first match. Uh it's EO Sky versus Roxanne Perez. No entrance for Roxy. Sad face. Um, you know, very sad. Uh Roxy messes up her Roxy starts messing up Eo's left knee. Uh left knee. Um it's a good match. Your winner was EO Sky. She overcomes uh Judgment Day. You know, she's still the queen of the mid-card. It's so funny. Roxy's the queen of the mid-card who doesn't win, and Eo's the queen of the mid-card who always wins. Uh, that's what I feel like anyway. But judgment day goes on an attack. We get a little Soul Ruka. She comes on out to help Eo. Uh, but Raquel catches Soul, whips her into the barricade, then whips her into the ring post. It was a really dope move. Uh Liv hits Eo with the belt and stands tall because she's the greatest women's champion of all time.

SPEAKER_02 23:57

Defend your belt.

SPEAKER_05 23:59

Yeah, Eo took that shot too. She got a shiner above above her eye.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

She dig it almost. I guess she posted a little thing, was like, seriously? She had a hole. She had a little unicorn horn up there. Just you know, I guess if it happens to live, she wants everybody to have a little knot up there. That's the whole thing. That's all that is. Uh, we're on a promo. The vision come out, and uh, you know, give it up for Queen Maxine. You know, she's doing her thing, you know, she's she's there now. And uh Otis and Tizawa come out and they're sad. Tizawa wants to understand. I don't I don't understand, you know, why why him? He's a bad guy, and Otis grabs a mic, and Otis is is so good. Otis just like, I told you he's bad news. I told you about him. I know you, and I'm I'm gonna express my feelings. And Austin Theory starts making fun of him, like, oh, you're about to are you about to confess your love? And Maxine's like, oh, if I'd have known, and you you guys made me choose, and I'll be but it's all a big ruse. They go on ahead and they they kick Otis and uh they hit him with the brass knuckles and they super spear him and they beat him and Tizawa up, and it's a whole big thing, and the vision stands tall, and the vision have gone from from from running, trying to run things from feuding with Seth Rollins to now feuding with Tizawa and Otis. But hey, we're getting Tezawa and Otis on TV, so I'm cool with Seth Ross. Where we are. I'm cool with that. Uh yeah, let me get like little individual promos for the people that think they're gonna win the Intercontinental Gauntlet match. That's coming up a little bit later. That is our main event, but I have a little twist on how we're gonna do the main event this time. Uh I think I think you'll kind of like this one. Uh then so there's a commercial. We come back for a commercial. Jimmy Uso and Royce Keys are fighting. Just there was a match happening. Okay. They're just in the ring, they're fighting. It's it's an official match, and what we're what we're showing is that Jimmy's come out and it feels like it's groundhog day, because guess what he's doing, Billy? He's looking for solo. That's what he's doing. Oh, is it? Yeah. He's he's looking for solo, and Royce Keyes came out and attacked him. So it's it's Royce Keyes and Jimmy Uso again. And the setup was just was just bad. Uh there's another commercial in between this match for a commercial that you know we came back in the Jacob Fatu comes out, attacks Royce, uh, says, I didn't want to do this, but you know, keeps Royce in the corner. Solo comes out, stops Jacob, and you know, huh? I understand now. It's all about family, and he puts up the ones, and everybody puts up the ones and turns out to be a big old ruse, and solo turns on Jimmy, there's a whole bunch of chaos. LA Knight. Yeah. He comes on out with a steel chair, and he's like, hey, hey, how's about this? How's about oh, how's about y'all, oh, the three of us against against y'all and bring bring jail out here. So yeah, it's gonna be uh Boyce Keys and Solo and LA Knight and Solo against the Jacob Patu.

SPEAKER_05 27:13

Which LA Knight's getting a match, that's fine. Yeah, match and okay with that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Uh Paul Heyman compliments the vision and then leaves the vision. Oh, so you guys uh you guys did good. Yeah. You guys got Maxine Depree. Good on you. You don't need me anymore. And he walks away. Yep. It's as simple as that. Okay. He's gone. So you know the whole like Paul Heyman calling the cops and the cops came out and restraining order and all that. Yeah, uh according to according to Adam Pierce, that was all that was all the ruse that none of that was true. That was all just a whole thing. And Oba goes, yeah, I know, because he's scared, and I'm gonna beat him at SummerSlam. That's the whole thing. They just need to fight so we can be dealt with this. Just let him fight Brox. We got three more weeks of this, so yeah. Bailey comes on out and uh she finally wants to talk to Lyra. And you know how you know Lyra's email now? Because she just looks all tasting.

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She's like she's rolled out of bed.

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Yeah, it's a whole thing. No more wooing, you know, and all that. She actually cuts a pretty decent promo on Bailey, just going like, oh, you always love to play the victim. Oh, but you know what? You know what people say about you? They say you, you know, all the things all the things I made you feel good about or not true, I lied about. You are a doormat. You're not a locker room leader. You are the worst of the four horse women. But Bailey goes ahead and lists her acts accolades. I've done this and I've done this. And you know what? Pretty much uh they're they're gonna fight, and they're gonna they're basically gonna fight it at Saturday Night Main Event. Not some slam, not a whole build-up. We're gonna we're gonna do this right away. Yep. Might be a build-up toward future things, but we're gonna get the first full heel. Uh Lyra. I wonder if she has a new theme. I wonder if it's gonna be like, you know, I I just I'm curious as to how she's going to show you.

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Is she gonna wrestle in sweatpants? Uh uh we'll find out.

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She does hit Bailey with the Bailey to Belly, which is a little fierce. So that's good. Yeah. Uh but they do show uh, oh, Unreal season two starts July 21st, and they do the chapter two for Roman and uh Seth. Uh boom. We do have a promo, but listen, this is what's gonna happen. Right now we're about to have the intercominal gauntlet match, okay? So I'm gonna burn through a couple of these, but one of these is super special, so this is what we're gonna get to. Right. Okay? So the first one, uh, we have Dirty Dom versus Joe Hendry. Uh by the way, after each of these little matches, there was a commercial. That was a tidbit annoying. It was it was that's too much. Yeah, it was it was it messed up the groove. Like things were grooving, and it just it was like win. And it was like a commercial, win, commercial.

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It's like they gotta just go, just go.

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Yeah, yeah. Anyway, we had like like we're about to do, watch us roll through it. Look how it's done. Take notes, trips. It was Dirty Dom with J.D. McDonough versus Joe Hendry. The winner of that little matchup was Dirty Dom. So Joe Hendry is eliminated. He beats Joe Hendry. Uh-oh. So they said JD interfered. I didn't see it the first time. The second time he kind of got up there, maybe distracted the ref, but it was it was it wasn't like as a dirty of a Dom match as you would think. He kind of beat Joe Hendry clean-ish. Like cleaner than you would think. Dirty Dom did Joe Hendry. So that's what I think. By the way, Billy, we now have KFC logos on the on the announce tables. There's now logos on the announce tables. Oh, that's new. Yeah. Advertisements. Yeah. Uh brings us to our next match. Uh uh, that boy's bouncy. So it is Dirty Dom against Javon Evans. Um comes very close to winning. Uh Danhausen comes on out. He Danhausen! He pulls up in the little thing. You are cursed. And Dirty Dom is standing there, and on the other turnbuckle goes, so it misses. And you see Danhausen go, ah shit. JD runs after Danhausen to get in his face. Uh Danhausen threatens him with the t-shirt gun, just points it at JD. So good. So as Dom's like, hey, hey, what are you doing? Javon Evans hits the OG cutter. Your winner, that boy bouncy. It is Javon Evans. This brings us to our next match.

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Now, believe me when I say this match here is your main event of the evening. In the middle.

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In the sense that I believe your main event should be like your best match. And yes, there was a promo to end the show, but believe me, this was the most exciting part of the night. Javon Evans versus Dragon Lee. Man, these two tore the house down. It was it was so good. They need to figure out something to do with these two dudes sooner than later. Okay? But the winner is Javon Evans. There's a show of respect after it. That brings Rusev out. And because Javon is already super tired, Rusev basically attacks, doesn't even come from the entrance, comes from behind, beats up Javon. Javon, it takes three accolade attempts to get Javon down. This is like Javon is so dope. They're hiring him up so great. Javon doesn't tap. He passes out. Your winner is Rusev. That brings Rusev and that brings Rusev and Gable. America Gable! So your winner is Chad Gable. Rusev trying tries to drain Gable's energy for the last man. Eagle. Ethan Page. So it's Chad Gable versus Ethan Page. Ethan Page, again, I I can't say enough. He's gonna be uh he's gonna be a star, hopefully, if they move in the right direction. Uh Chad's making uh Ethan's making some fun because he was like, Why are you making me work hard, Chad? I didn't come to work today. I'm trying to win. But your winner is Chad Gable by submission, so he is the number one contender. Steve is Pinta at SummerSlam in his hometown of Minnesota. That's gonna be a great match. That is gonna be a great match. Penta and Cable come, have a nice little face-off. Pinta holds up uh Pinta holds that belt up. So that brings us to our final segment of the night. It is the contract signing between Acknowledge Me, Roman Reigns, the OTC, and the revolutionary, the architect, the visionary, uh Seth Freaking Rollins, or I'm calling him these days Seth Wick, because he's got a whole John Wick thing going on. Totally does. Tight and everything, yeah. He talks about how, oh, it's crazy how my song or beating out the OTC chants. Look, Roman, there's three things that are certain in life death, taxes, and Seth Rollins beats Roman Reigns every single time. And Roman's like, you know, this here, you know, you're my number one hater. And you know, Seth tries to laugh, oh great, okay, I'll see you at Summer, I'll see you at SummerSlam, and I'll see you when you decide to show up to work. And Roman hits him, oh, okay, you know what? Let's go down the rabbit hole. What if you win? What are you gonna do? You're gonna get hurt for three months and go, I can go away. Is that what's gonna happen? Comes back in the ring and he's like, look, man, let's just keep it 100. You need you needed money in the bank to win your championship. Like, you know, oh, and the only reason you're really getting put over is because Triple H is your work daddy and blah, blah, blah, which is a crazy thing for Roman to say. And I'm shocked. I'm shocked Seth didn't rebuttal any of that. But it is what it is. He basically just goes the eight-mile uh B-Rabbit route where he's like, everything that you say about me, I've already said about myself. You know what I mean? I can make fun of my own self, but at the end of the day, I wanted to look at myself for pride, and I'm glad I'm not you. Attacks the OTC. Roman hits him with the pedigree, curb stop, he stands tall. That's raw. Billy! Yes!

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