11/07 WWE: Brock Lesnar's value, Becky Lynch's rise, Shawn Michaels' tarnished legacy
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
With so much to talk about in the world of WWE, Brian Campbell and Adam Silverstein decided to freestyle on this week's show. The guys start by looking at the fallout from the disaster that was Crown Jewel, including the washed main event featuring a returning Shawn Michaels (4:14) and whether putting the universal title back on a newly re-signed Brock Lesnar was the best move for Vince McMahon (22:05). BC and The Silver King also discuss Becky Lynch's incredible rise as the top character in the company, what's wrong with Ronda Rousey's promos and where the women's division appears to be headed (52:40). Other topics covered throughout the show include Shane McMahon winning the World Cup (42:35), the early build for Survivor Series, Drew McIntyre's big main event spot, a tremendous wire-to-wire edition of SmackDown (1:05:40), whether the current NXT storylines are hitting home (1:22:15) and plenty more nuggets from the week that was in WWE.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, five, four, three, two, one, zero, ignition, lift off. |
| 0:19.1 | Oh, yeah, we back. |
| 0:25.1 | Tell your friends, like the sands through the money grubbing hands of Mr. McMahon in Saudi. |
| 0:30.2 | So are the days of our lives as CBS sports pro wrestling podcast returns. |
| 0:35.7 | And as always packed, Jack, underwritten and sponsored by that |
| 0:39.7 | Wonder drug that keeps working wonders, the performance enhancing audio, the Brian Campbell, |
| 0:45.4 | you know, the man whose name is on the damn marquee in this Campbell podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | Unquestionably is the voice that you hear and ready to unleash a friggin' loaded power hour or so of pro wrestling talk following a seven-day stretch of, let's call it, insanity folks across W, W, WE and Beyond. |
| 1:04.8 | Good Lord, we may have seen it all this week from Lesner regaining gold to Shane O'Mac finally proving pushing 50 that he's the best in the world. |
| 1:15.9 | Heck, even Hulk friggin' Hogan made an ill-fated and unnecessary WWE return in that country that we aren't supposed to say. |
| 1:26.3 | You know that one that saw, saw, saw. |
| 1:31.7 | Why don't you just spit it out? |
| 1:34.1 | Why don't you just talk straight to me and quit beating around the bush? |
| 1:38.7 | What are you trying to say? |
| 1:40.7 | Saudi Arabia, buddy. |
| 1:41.8 | That's what I'm trying to say. |
| 1:42.7 | Blood money in the sand, part two. |
| 1:44.7 | Remember Rydia? |
| 1:46.0 | Let's get Rydia. |
| 1:46.8 | Let's get out of here. |
| 1:47.7 | We also saw a rough, raw from England, a friggin' fantastic Smackdown Live, and some |
| 1:53.6 | NJPW on the timeline, headlined by Chris Jericho, no less. |
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