So I like the opening to Raw this week. It was essentially a cold open. I don't know why I did Scott Hall's scary fingers there, but Bron breaker was walking around when he went totally crazy. So I think somebody had gone, Bron, the show has officially started and he started destroying the place, including Alan the Announce table. And do you know how Michael corresponded? He went, uh-oh, which of course means this is serious stuff. Also, all my friends, and welcome

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terrible things. So thank you very much for Norton. We appreciate you. Now let's up those downs for Muntag Night Raw. The best part about this Bronbreaker thing too is that at one point he shouted, give me a mic and don't forget he is a Steiner. And once upon a time, somebody knows Scott Steiner also asked for a microphone, and believe you, me, that didn't go well at all.

But Bronbroker was so mad, he was like, Adam Pearce, I know you were to blame, you ruined my raw rumble, and essentially it was my birthday, and you took my cake, you threw it out the window, and my girlfriend broke up with me, I'm having a terrible time. The vision then ran down like parents that had lost their son. I was like, what's taking you so long?

You must have been the backstage area going, wait a minute, we can't find Mr. Breaker. And it really did make me laugh that Bron blamed Adam Pearce as well. I was like, dude, it was definitely the masked man. It's 100% the mass man. And also the last time there was a mass man, it turned out the vision were to blame. So maybe you better start looking from within. Paul Heyman then grabbed the microphone two and said, I also blame you, Adam Pierce, because one, you made Brombreaker the number two entrance, which is not true. You have to pull a ball out of machine. And three, I know you're the person that starts visas for Saudi Arabia, so you must have snuck this guy in, which would mean that one, any of you're a Smackdown guy, for some reason you have to bring up Adam Pearce, but also two, if you're anything to do with professional wrestling and you wanted to visit Saudi Arabia this cold weekend, apparently we had to go through Adam Pierce. That's one busy guy. No wonder he lost his hair. Brom Breaker then started counting down from 10 like he was Elmo from Sesame Street when Adam Pierceabyss did appear, and blessed this man,

because he addressed all of it, especially the number two thing. He was like, dude, you pulled number two. Number two has done to do with me. It's not my fault you suck. This also mentioned the fact that maybe you should start looking for the mask man because you always seem to be responsible. When he said to Brombreaker, this was great, don't blame me for your piss poor performance at the Royal Rumble,

when of course Ellen Knight's music hit, and he snuck up and behind the vision and he attacked them with a chair, so there's no two ways. Ellie Knight and Ann & Pierce must have been in cahoots here. Otherwise, why would Anna Pierce have been causing the distraction? And yes, it does feel like we have moved Brombreaker away from the world title picture, but I don't mind that because I convinced myself, and of course I'll let myself down, that Seth Rollins probably is going to be okay for WrestleMania. So now WWE has done, especially given what we did do in the main event. We can have Roman versus Punk, we can have Drew versus Cody and maybe versus Jacob for two, and we can do Seth Rollins versus Brumbreaker, and actually when you look at the story, that does make all the sense in the world. I mean, just let him win running the bank and ensure he does get belted up

before the end of the year. That's the most important thing in 2006. But I enjoyed this. It caught me off guard, which is what you want when you have a weekly episodic TV program, which sometimes can be exactly the same. I am giving it an up, and I'm still pumped for Bronn, which is not a euphemism. When we essentially redid

El Grande Americano versus Javon Evans, because of course that went a bit wibbly wobbly a couple of weeks ago, or where was it last week, and given that Javon Evans had been the Royal Rumble for a long amount of time and we did have a video before this, he had been told by an experienced veteran, do not worry, Just wrap this cotton around your tum-tum and you'll be perfectly fine. I don't want to mean the bearer bad news, but this did absolutely nothing and he was not fine. And of course, as always, El Grande Americano No. 2 and El Granica number 3, who was just running in and causing distraction. And at one point, Numero Uno D'Tres, pushed him off the top rope, when out came the original El Grande Americano, and listen, I understand why WW has to do this. This was the story they were telling, but it also doesn't mean I have to like it. I just think it's such a waste of Chad Gable, especially because he was a surprise in the Royal Rumble. I don't mind him walking out as El Grande, but I just think he should have unmasked at the weekend and then going back to being Chad Gable. This is just so confusing, especially down in AAA, where they have gone with the Ludwig Kaiser version of El Grande Americano, not to give you spoilers, and they like him, which begs the question, is Chad Gable a heel, or is he a face? I mean, here he got cheered. The distraction worked the other way this time, so Jvon hit the OG cutter and he got the one, two, three, so at least he is winning matches. And I would guess that he would be done with the El Grande Americanos, but I also figure he is going to team up with now the OG El Grande Americano, and I'm just not 100% sure how I feel about this. The chat gable thing I'm going to give it down. I actually think this is the one time WW should have gone.

We're just going to forget about that or get it done in 24 hours. But Javon Evans winning and Javon Evans getting over every single time he is in that ring. I'm giving it an up. If you didn't see my Rule Rumble review, please do check it out. but also, I watched this year's rule rumble with people that aren't even casual fans.

They were non- Wrestling fans, and do you know who they like the most?

Over Femi and Javon Evans, push them. I do have another down during this as well, because I don't know what happened, but the crowd went totally silent for large portions of it. Now, listen, if you paid your hard-earned cash, you can do whatever you want, but for some michael cole and corey graves also went silent

to the point it kind of created a very odd atmosphere i watched it like is this a horror movie

i don't feel comfortable at all something may have happened right as i forget my words so we're

going to give it a down and maybe we'll learn more but honestly just are super duper weird

i'm also done with these nothing uso segments, which sounds horrible. And listen, I really like Jimmy and J. Uso. But I kind of understood the last few weeks when Jimbo wasn't on the show. But here, he was back. They walked out and they were like, oh, hi, we are going to be taken on American Alpha next week, which is not their name. they call them the Afro Academy, which is the correct pronunciation of it. And we can't wait to fight because we're the tag team champions, and then they walked off. Poor raw tag team division is just drowning in the sea. Even though the Uso's are one of the best, if not the best tag team, WW has ever heard, I'm just giving it a down. Like, it needs all the help it can get. This just kind of comes across like nothing. I don't like nothing unless I want nothing. What? I think it's laugh out loud, though, because we did the classic, oh, we need to boo a hill gimmick because AJ Stiles his music playing, but A.J. Starr's didn't come to the ring because instead it was his retiree, retire, one of the two, goodter.

I still no idea what is next for AJ Starr, so I'm going to hold off my big retirement speech just in case he does go to a New Japan or an AW or somewhere like that, even back to TNA. And listen, there is so much discourse about this. If AJ Stiles is properly done, I just hope we do give him a segment on Raw, so we can go, AJ, your staff, you are one of the best wrestlers ever. And if he is going to go elsewhere, he's perfectly allowed. You only get one life, you only get one career, and if he is about to come to the end of all the people, AJ Stiles deserves to go out the way that he wants to go out, it's perfectly fine, and yes, just go back to what I did just say. I've been doing a lot of AJ styles thinking the last 24 hours, which makes me sound like a creep,

but he genuinely is one of the best professional. And yes, just go back to what I did just say. I've been doing a lot of AJ Stiles thinking the last 24 hours, which makes me sound like a creep.

But he genuinely is one of the best professional wrestlers ever to walk this earth. The man is flipping go with it. I could have gone to go on the microphone straight away and called himself a career killer because, of course, John Sina's gone. Goldberg's gone. Now, AJ Stiles is gone. I just want to shout out Lance Storm here, who made the very good point that actually, when it comes to Goldberg and John Cena, nobody's career was killed because they already told them that was going to be their last match, and it was just Gunther that set them off to the side. I really enjoy Lance Storm and how he sees wrestling. It's totally different from me, but in terms from a sensible point of view, he's always right. Of all the people, Dragon Lee then ran into attack Gunther, because of course, as we had been told on the story, Dragon Lee looked up to AJ Stiles and they were the tag team champions for a while, and this was one of the worst planned attacks ever. You know how it ended? With Dragon Lee getting taken out on the floor with the SEPA when the ring general took him into the ring and he quite literally hanged him over the frozen and he continued to choke him until he realized wait a minute he's not breathing I don't want to murder him so I want to go to jail drag a limb just fell on the floor I was like drag him you really should have thought about this now you look like a mug I do quite like this though because look we have yonks before WrestleMania as we do decide what Gunther is going to do there. So he needs something to fill the time. This is a great way to fill the time because from now until you want to be Gunter properly, he should be winning and beating people and smashing them into the floor. It's one of the reasons I actually think we should have kept him out of the Royal Rumble because He has all this power in his hands right now because he has got rid of Siena Goldberg and AJ Stiles.

So we just need to put a protective bubble around him, much like we did with Brot Lesner when he defeated the undertaker at WrestleMania 30. So I am going to give this an up. And actually, if they play it the right way, and WW doesn't have Dragon League get squashed, I think it will be a really good match. it's nice that Dragon Lee is doing something given that his best friend is now gone, giving it an up. Bigel reminded that the reason LA Light had been gone so long is because the vision crushed him on a car when Paul Hamer felt Adam Pearce and said, listen, I would like to book Brom Broker versus LA Knight tonight. And Adam Pierce said no.

Instead, it's going to be Bronson Reed versus Penter.

Well, that's a complete one, mate. Where did that come from? He also told Bronbreaker he has to leave the building when Paul Hayme was like, Do you know where we are? And it was Philadelphia, and that's ECW territory. And Adam Pierce was like, I don't give a damn because F-A-F-O.

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