Hello, my friends, welcome to ups and downs. A little bit of a different intro today, because, of course, we do have to talk about the releases that happened around about 12 hours ago.

Now, as always, this sucks. It's never fun. You should never want anyone to lose their job.

You see some crazy things on the internet, so for the love of everything, let's remind ourselves,

these are real human beings, but also they made it to the tippity top,

like WWE is the biggest wrestling company in the world.

And I think we all forget about this too. The first time you go to training, that's many people's goals that even if you've got there for just one day, you deserve a massive pat on the back. I hope I haven't missed anybody because I think it's only respectful to make sure that we do get everyone in the list, but it was Nikki Cross,, Zoe Stark, Alba Fire, Joe Gacy, Boddall, his Andre Chase.

Eric Rowan, Dexter Loomis, Dante Chen, Kyrie Seine, which was very, very surprising. And now we're never going to get the end of that Oscar story, so who the hell knows? Alice the Blackens, Lena Vega, the Motor City Machine Guns, Apollo Cruz, Samos Escobar, Lusa Crucifino, Malick Blade, Trill London, Linton, Tyre Mae Steele, Chris Island, Tyreek Iguet and Tyson DuPont. So yes, I just think it's the right thing to do to give them all a shout to and listen, they're all talented folk. They wouldn't have been in that position to begin with. So on a selfish level, I am pumped to see what they do next and given I am on the indie scene and again he has no interest in wrestling

me and why would he but if somebody wants to book me against Andre Chase I will be the happiest man

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So thank you, Norton. We appreciate you, and you should take advantage of this offer right now. Now, after our usual, oh hi, look who's turned up to Smackdown, including Dan Hals and his wacky racers tank. WWE accidentally made the whole Rea Ripley-EO.S. Sky breakup last week looked super-duper silly. Was it on Monday actually, wherever the hell it was? Because Jake in for two just enough to Smack smack down and he was on Raw, so why Ria and Eo have to have these breakups every single day? I do not know. Just turn up. The good news is Jacob 2 is now getting a mega push, which is the right decision. And he talks about the fact that Roman Reigns and said, oh, you're not ready, Jacob 2, which is when he invited Matt Cardona to the ring, because Matt Cardona is always ready and he thought he could help. That bid didn't happen. The whole point, though, is that everybody has been saying this to Fatu since the day he was born. So, hi, Roman Reigns, why don't you accept my challenge? And in the ring, we can find it if you're right or we can find it if you're wrong with the Uso's came out and basically went oh man you should just join us man you should go with cody roads because we love roman reins there is this fancy booking idea that maybe jacob and two and the usos are in on it together and i think that probably is true but my gosh in hindsight this part ain't going to make any sense j us so then told jacob he should prepare war when the MFTs walked out. And I was like, it's actually 2003 again. One of the things that Sosa-Co actually said was, uh, excuse me, who was the guy that brought you into the company two years ago? And I was like, yes. And ever since then he left your group and you feuded it over the US title. And all of a sudden one day we forgot about it. So why the flood would you be coming out here? He even offered Jacob for to his help.

He's like, oh, man. and you feud over the US title, and all of a sudden one day we forgot about it. So why the flood would you be coming out here?

He even offered Jacob to his help. He's like, oh man, you want to beat Roman, huh? You'll become the world champion. Where you're going to need an army? And look, I have one right here. And of course, Jacob looked to him and said, no, thank you, sir. I'm not interested. Tappetong and then actually said this out loud.

Why are we messing with this guy or dealing with this guy?

He's a lost cause.

That's when Jacob Vitu basically booted him. not interested. Tam-a-Tong and then actually said this out loud, why are we messing with this guy or dealing

with this guy? He's a lost cause. That's when Jacob II basically booted him right in the face, where we learned that it's going to be Solenton-Coverts with Jacob II in our main event, because General Manager Nick Aldous just never books a full show. Number four of that as well, Jacob II made it very clear that he shouldn't be wasting his time with this because he does want Roman reigns. And listen, pushing Jacob for two at the other end of

WrestleMania. Now before all that as well, Jacob II made it very clear that he shouldn't be wasting his time with this because he does want Roman Reigns. And listen, pushing Jacob for two at the other end of WrestleMania is the right thing to do. He should come a tibbony top guy. I didn't think this was very interesting at all, which is a terrible thing to say, but once again it kind of feels like back to the future for, we've done this. I do not understand why we have to go back to

the bloodline stuff when there are new stories to be told. Listen, if business, metrics and all that kind of stuff goes up, then WW is right. And I'm totally wrong. And I mostly am. When I review shows, I want to go from an entertainment point in my tum-tum. And I watched it. It's perfectly fine, and Jacob for two is brilliant, and he's so over, but the story is just a bit drab. It actually is a smaller side. If you were going to ask for one word to describe this episode of Smackdown, like we were on Sesame Street, I used the word drab. I am going to give it a down. And listen, I love Jayuso, I love Sosa Kawa, who can be controversial,

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