10/18 WWE: Crown Jewel criticism, SmackDown 1000, Batista's return
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
With the massive controversy surrounding WWE's upcoming return to Saudi Arabia, Brian Campbell and Adam Silverstein wonder whether there are any merits whatsoever to Crown Jewel and discuss what WWE should do with the event hanging over its head (13:50). In the second part of the Main Event, the guys run through the 1,000th's episode of SmackDown, including Batista's return, Becky Lynch's shining moment with Edge and more (30:10). BC explains why he is completely done with the Shield-Dogs of War rivalry, while The Silver King expresses his disappointment in the card for the all-women's Evolution pay-per-view. Elsewhere in Hero or Zero (48:48), the guys roundly praise the Ronda Rousey-Nikki Bella stand-off on Raw before closing the show with an extensive discussion about what's next for Bullet Club, The Elite and BC's "Revolution" (1:10:35). This episode is sponsored by ZipRecruiter.com
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| 0:00.0 | Five, four, three, two, two, one, two, ignition, the crown jewel of pro wrestling podcast is back in the building in this corner with Brian Campbell returns with the Rasselin edition as we hide that played beneath our tongues. |
| 0:37.5 | Hogan-style brother and prepare to preferate the skin with another lethal nose of that |
| 0:43.1 | performance enhancing audio, the bride Campbell, in fact, the damn voice that you hear. |
| 0:49.2 | And I'm back with another loaded show that looks back at the week that was in WW. |
| 0:55.1 | Hey, and maybe a bit beyond, you know, if you can hear Jimmy and you are all in, as they say, |
| 1:01.8 | on the future of pro wrestling. |
| 1:03.7 | I'm all in. |
| 1:04.7 | Are you all in, Brian? |
| 1:05.7 | Oh, come on. |
| 1:06.4 | Oh, come on, Randy. |
| 1:08.1 | Oh, come on, Brandy. |
| 1:10.0 | Seriously. |
| 1:11.1 | Wow. Mandy, Brandy. Seriously. Wow. |
| 1:11.9 | Mandy, Brandy, all the same. |
| 1:14.5 | We're back. |
| 1:15.9 | A little weird show for you this week. |
| 1:17.9 | No dirty bed sheets, but I am conducting this from a hotel room after a day in the New York |
| 1:23.8 | City following Canelo Alvarez. |
| 1:25.9 | But the Silver King is safe at home in South Florida, |
| 1:30.5 | ready for a loaded show again. |
| 1:32.8 | So let me just bring this guy in because he hates long intros. |
| 1:35.6 | He hates when I try to make jokes and play soundbites. |
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