Today on Not Sam Wrestling after an extremely eventful money in the bank pay per view so much to break down Roman reigns has been pinned the next Not Sam live event coming up and so much more this is not Sam wrestling.

This is not Sam wrestling.

Introducing your host from New York. Here is Sam Roberts.

Oh man. Can you believe it? It's a different world we're living in. Oh they got I'm still here.

Oh no. Is that a predict any of this anymore? Well it's just a well told story. Who would have thought in 2023 we'd be getting well told stories welcome to episode 454 I believe.

Welcome to Not Sam wrestling and we come to you at a different point in time we come to you with history having fully changed we come to you at a time in the wrestling world when Roman reigns has been pinned. Yes.

Money in the bank is behind us and in front of us a world in which Roman reigns cannot talk about a three year run that he's had without ever having his shoulders be pinned to the mat the story has been the same since Roman returned it at summer slam 2020 and as a matter of fact as much as the

pandemic era of WWE is kind of not highlighted I think just because a lot of people don't want to see Thunder dome and performance center era stuff which is wasn't the same.

But over the weekend after money in the bank WWE uploaded the full match of Braun Strowman defending the universal championship against the fiend that was the match that Roman reigns returned to the WWE he disappeared right before WrestleMania.

WrestleMania no return in sight no track.

And he showed up at summer slam 2020 after the fiend beat Braun Strowman for the universal title jumping both men at the end of that match a week later we only had a week between pay per

news in 2020 pay back was the pay per view that came a week after summer slam of 2020 and only a week later Roman reigns is on Smackdown leading to pay back the announcement is made that a triple threat match has been made the fiend will defend against both Braun Strowman and Roman reigns at the pay back pay per view and how did this all get done that iconic

wrestling world changing zoom out and reveal of Paul Heyman sitting on the couch next to Roman reigns and the bloodline saga not story saga officially begins and and what is becoming I think the greatest wrestling story ever told starts and it was

really amazing thinking about how far we've come you know you wonder why the announcement was made about pay back returning as a pay per view WWE has made it clear that when it comes to premium live events they're changing their strategy premium live events are either going to be centered around a specific destination and big event that being

back lash in Puerto Rico you know a night of champions in Saudi Arabia obviously money in the bank in the United Kingdom or it'll be storyline related you have to believe that the reason pay back of all pay per views has returned to the WWE lineup is because pay back is the pay per view where Roman reigns won the universal championship

you've got to imagine that coming off of summer slam whatever happens at summer slam that somebody will challenge Roman reigns and threaten to take the championship away from him at the same event that he wanted at three years earlier before we get there we've got to talk about when we saw over the weekend we've got to talk about money in the bank

and the fact that Jusso pinned Roman reigns now I believed that Roman and solo would win but the Uso's winning was certainly not unfathomable right it was a conversation to be had it either way made sense to me and there were different ways that you could do it but the idea of Roman getting pinned that was a that was a a hoop dream I think for a lot of people we've been teased with that so many times that I think is fans

we'd be fools to walk into a show fully believing this is the one where Roman reigns gets pinned this is the one where Jusso who was Roman reigns first foil after winning the universal championship three years ago was Jusso main event Jusso who is his first grudge that Jusso would now three years later be the one to get the fall and he did I mean I just

think that that civil war match was so important and you can compare the bloodline saga by the way to the Marvel cinematic universe and the fact that Marvel has gone through multiple phases the bloodline has also gone through multiple phases and while it may not be one of the main tier movies meaning superhero part one superhero Ironman part one Ironman part two cat the

America part one captain America part two civil war Ironman versus Captain America is not only one of the most beloved movies of the Marvel cinematic universe but when it comes to telling the story in that phase it's an essential part of the story the same could be said for the bloodline civil war

and that's not just because it's finally the come up and it's not just because it's finally the moment that the Uso's who we've all kind of come to this realization that are arguably the greatest WWE tag team to ever exist it's like it used to be one of those things where you would say that and somebody who goes slow down slow down slow down now when you say it even if somebody doesn't agree with you they don't really stop you they know exactly what you're doing

you're coming from so I found the civil war match so intriguing because it was everything that's good about this bloodline story the civil war match itself the tag match between the Uso's and Roman and solo it was this massive pay off it was about the entire arc it was about the entire last three years if you

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