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My friends, Simon from Whatculture here, and your first question is probably going to be Simon,

why you surrounded by Thunder Rosa paraphernalia, which is a perfectly understandable and reasonable

question, and here's the thing, right now I am out in Texas with Thunder Rosa ready to have my second

match with her and her mission pro wrestling, federation, promotion, company, industry thing,

whatever you want to call it, but of course the ups and downs don't stop.

It's very surreal for you and for me, we're in Thunder Rosa's office, we're about to take the

finger of power and give them good bits and up, and the bad bits and downs.

Smackdown this week kicked off with the Usos defending their unified tag team championships

for the second time in a week, and much like they had done on Raw, they were kind of defending

them against a random team. Flamers going on.

Thing is though, it wasn't a random team at all, but because it was meant to be Drew McIntyre

and Shamers taking on Jimmy and Jay Usos, everyone kept going all on now, it's going to be

butch team with Shamers. I was like, yes, we know this, butch and Shamers team all the time,

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