WEEK #841 or RAW ON NETFLIX (Wrestling Soup 5.12.26)

WRESTLING SOUP

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4.3 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Anthony and Joe kick off the show where they praise Iyo Sky's ring generalship and pacing, while tearing into Seth Rollins' exhausting television presence following his match with Bron Breakker. The guys vent about WWE's creative drought, noting Bill Apter's visible disappointment, the deeply confusing babyface booking of Roman Reigns, and the lack of a proper televised send-off for Asuka. The episode rounds out with a sharp critique of TKO's pricey ESPN streaming model, Backlash booking blunders involving Danhausen and Oba Femi, and a quick check-in on the cast of Jersey Shore.

Timestamps:

0:00 – Intro
11:15 – AEW’s business woes and WWE’s current creative slump
18:40 – Iyo Sky’s brilliant in-ring storytelling vs. Sol Ruca
27:30 – The Seth Rollins problem & his match with Bron Breakker
39:20 – Gunther missing from TV & Bill Apter's disappointment
46:10 – The Backlash ESPN deal: TKO squeezing fans for money
54:45 – Roman Reigns' "prima donna" booking & the confusing Bloodline dynamics
1:03:20 – Asuka's indefinite leave and WWE failing to give her a proper send-off
1:11:50 – Danhausen's Backlash mystery partner flop & Oba Femi's squash match
1:16:15 – Wrap-up & Jersey Shore kayfabe

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0:26.2	Wrestling sued for a mature audience.
0:29.9	Wagam off.
0:34.7	WWE is at their lowest point and people would rather just not watch fucking wrestling than watch AEW.
0:41.7	Like how, yeah, how awful.
0:47.0	Right.
0:47.7	At this point, it's like, I'm the loneliest man in the world.
0:52.0	And some women's like, well, I would.
0:54.0	No, not you, though. No, thank you.
0:55.9	No. No. Yucky. Iwi. Here we go away. Yuck. But this is, this is where you end up in a space
1:03.0	though. You know, there's something for everybody. There's somebody for everybody. You know,
1:08.2	sure. There's a, there's a love. There's a love of somebody's life.
1:13.2	And you know what?
1:14.4	I'm now thoroughly convinced at this point, too, via Monday Night Raw and how I pointed out a couple weeks ago.
1:20.5	And now it's just steadily becoming the thing where E.O.
1:24.9	Sky is the only really good wrestler on this show anymore.
1:30.5	It's like every week she's on there.
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