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Ups & Downs - WWE Raw Review (May 25th)

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🗓️ 26 May 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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0:00.0

So Paul Heyman did the thing at the start of this week's episode of Raw, somewhere

0:02.8

Far Cry Blood Dragon was super happy because Paul was in the ring going, oh my gosh, I'm about to hypermatch, doesn't need hyping, and then he went on to hype it, almost like a video game that says ha ha! tutorials are so silly, we're going to take the Mick out of tutorials. Now on the download, you still do have to do the tutorial. Also with my friends, and woe to ups and downs, and this is absolutely mad

0:21.5

because now we're up four days in a row,

0:22.9

five days in a row,

0:23.5

32 days in a row of professional wrestling being on our television screens, but that's great, because it means we can compare and contrast because that's what 2026 is all about, but I am Simon Miller, the bald idiot. Thank you so much for joining me and given that we did just have an episode of war,

0:36.6

which technically was the go home,

0:38.1

the Clash in Italy,

0:39.1

which is more sports entertainment.

0:40.8

Let's up those

0:41.3

doubts. And as soon as Paul Hamel was done, we did cut to Brock Lesz on the big screen, so he wasn't even on the show. And man, not in my wildest dreams. He pulled a Larry David, right, or a George Christaanza, if you want to follow that ladder down to the floor, because he was like, listen, Oma, Femi, I did quit. After you woke my ars up at WrestleMania, I couldn't believe it. And I woke up one day and decided, no, I don't want to quit. So I'm just going to sneak my way back onto TV. The best line as well is when Brock said something on the lines of, I'm going to rule over you as the retired Brock Lesnar. This is a contradiction in terms. Are you retired? Are you not retired?

1:27.9

You can't be fake retired. That just means you're still working. That's like what a dad would say when he gets to a certain age and he doesn't want to tell his wife that maybe he's still going to his job. So it's like, I'm just going to pretend I'm retired. But I'm not retired. Stop playing pretend. Haman then told us it was a done deal done deal when Oberfemi walked to the ring, and this is the reason why it is so damn good, but flood me sideways. Oberfemi has to meet Brock Lesnar for a second time in Italy, although I don't think he's going to. Because Oberfemi basically came to the ring and said, oh man, you think this woke something up and brought Lesnar? What do you think it did to me? He hit me with a bunch of F5s.

1:44.4

So now I'm going to go crazy. And listen, if last time I was walking to the ring just to beat Broke Lesnar, this time I'm looking to kill him. It's like, man, thank goodness with that Oberfemmy talk. Some people like to pretend he's a one-trick pony. No, he isn't. This guy can do everything. What a line. And listen, you can't just say that. You have to mean that you have to have

2:01.2

the physique and the presence and he totally pulled it off at the same time. Put a one on the crime counter. There wasn't any kind of teasing with that. He just looked at the camera and said die. He then signed the contract on Paul Hamer's chest as well, which somehow was just such a badass thing to do. And yes, if I was hazard i guess i guess we will have brot lesda

2:17.7

win this one and then do the rubber match but i think that is a stupid idea because i think if brot lesda beats him twice sorry if over penny beats brot lesda twice that's just going to send him to the moon let's just break it down into john siener words it's overfemmy's time but we can wait and see. I still don't believe this was the plan and WW has pulled the pivot,

2:34.7

but I shall hold off my thoughts until Monday and't believe this was the plan, and W.W. has pulled the pivot,

2:34.6

but I shall hold off my thoughts until Monday, and as we have seen the pay-per-view, but just for Oberfemmy alone, I am going to give it an up once again. Just belt this mother hubbing up, it's time. Belt Boy was then back to give Roman Reigns' world title, which really is a strange thing for Roman to have on his staff. And given it was Roman Raines' birthday, Belt Boy, then wanted to give him a present, and Roman Reins threw it away. Do not come in my house and tell me Roman Raines isn't a heel, he is. But then got Chavon Evans versus Penta for the Intercontinental Title II, and even though actually I thought there should have been more billed here, it was such a good match, it did feel fresh like bread. And we had somewhat of a twist at the end.

3:08.3

I just had a rollicking good time. And this Javon Evans man, he did have a B in his bonnet. At one point they were like, oh my gosh, we're friends. And he just kicked Penta right in the head because he wanted to win that damn icy title. You're right. Javon also had most definitely set his meter to full before he walked to the ring because he was going for OG cut straight away.

3:24.5

But Penta must have secretly seen him done this on his control pad so he started doing it too and otherwise they just proved well it was like a generational thing because Javon is a younger generation and I guess Pinter is this generation they just had such a good back and forth I tell you I had a, and also, there was not one shenanigan.

3:41.0

So at one point, Penta threw Javon into an announce table, and that basically set Javon off. He was so mad about this, so he came back with fire in his belly, which was a terrible idea, because eventually he did go for the OG cutter and Penta super kicked him right in midair. How is that man? I would watch the best of seven between these two. We do make sure that Evans kicked out of the Penta driver and he also hit this awesome Huracanana off the top rope. Shout out to 2014, but otherwise yes. After a really cool exchange, Penta was able to hit the Mexican Destroyer. He got the one, two, three. And even though he wanted to shake Javon's hand afterwards, that dude slapped it away. Honestly, I liked every single part of it. I think it's actually a really smart thing to do as well because Javon Evans probably does need some edge, not Adam Copeland. He went to AEW. And listen, it does tie it to something that was going to happen later on. In fact, there were multiple segments involving the Intercontinental Championship on the show, which is also a great idea. I am just giving it an up. This is the kind of thing that WW needs right now. Give me new ship. I also did love the fact that Jvonne Evans just lost because in professional wrestling, as we've talked about a thousand times, losing can be part of your story arc, well, what are you going to go do now? Speaking of losers, that doesn't really works. He won at Saturday's main event. But very sadly, we did learn that Logan Logan Paul actually tore his triceps during that tag team match, so he's going to be out for ages. I have seen some people on the internet celebrating this. Listen, I get it. You don't like Logan Paul. I can understand that, but you should never wish anyone to get injured. I hope that he can recover. They can be back on TV soon. TV soon. Now that Austin Theory was ready to give up his tag team titles, he went to Paul Heyman and said, I'm so sad, man. I was so excited to defend it. When we got yet more, oh, we have Paul Heyman, let's use him as creative exposition, because he just went, ha, ha, don't be silly. When I signed some magical contract with the Flavdose what that is, I wrote down the Vision,

5:55.3

yet to be the tag team champions, not just Austin Theory and Logan Paul, so if you want a team with Bronbreaker, or maybe one turns forward after he turns Hill, what, I didn't say anything, you can do that. WW has to stop doing it. You go back to Bronbreaker being unsuspended when Paul Hamer had some magical man on the phone when it came to Adam Pierce and all that stuff with Gunther, which Paul Hamon has now just ran away from, we do so much stuff with Heyman that never gets explained. Why would this be allowed? Who signed it down? And I understand it's the free bird rule, but just say that when they win the titles, and once again, I understand, WW quite clearly has a plan that I want the vision to lose the tag team titles,

5:57.1

but we can't just go every time let's go Dr. Paul Hammond.

5:58.8

Hey, Paul, what's going on?

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