Alex (@AlexSourGraps) and Kate (@MissKatefabe) review tonight’s episode of NXT, including:
-NXT Women’s North American Championship Ladder Match: Kelani Jordan, Sol Ruca, Lash Legend, Jaida Parker, Fallon Henley & “Michin” Mia Yim.
-WWE NXT Tag Team Championship Match: Super Sonic Duo (Nathan Frazer & Axiom) (c) vs. The Good Brothers (“The Big LG” Luke Gallows & “The Machine Gun” Karl Anderson).
-NXT North American Championship Match: Oba Femi (c) vs. Joe Coffey vs. Wes Lee
-NXT Underground Match: Shayna Baszler vs. Lola Vice
-WWE NXT Women’s Championship Match: Roxanne Perez (c) vs. Jordynne Grace
-NXT Championship Match: Trick Williams (c) vs. Ethan Page
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hello fightful faithful welcome to another episode of sour graps I’m your host Alex palowski and everything sucks Battleground Edition it’s our NXT post show thing we do for for the pleas I have a conspiracy theory that I will venture forth about how most of the players are going to feel like this and oh boy I don’t like feeling like this ch Kate’s here hi Kate I am here get in your super chats get in your hper chats leave a thumbs up on this video to help people find us in the algorithm um Alex this was one of the weirder viewing experiences I’ve ever had because I don’t think I’ve seen a product so diminished by the production yeah and like a lot of the in ring being really good or fine with some weird booking but we’re so used to that but but the experience of watching it from beginning to end was so disjointed and so confusing yeah um that it was very uh it it was UN it was unpleasant for for that uh but uh but yeah we’re gonna talk all about it so get into those super chats and Humper chats we got a lot to get through yeah um it’s uh we there we’ll talk more about it but like the way I described it was unpleasant just the experience of watching the whole thing was unpleasant for for me uh bad finishes and bad booking ruins an otherwise great match so I’m sitting there watching a a great match like an all like an all-timer honestly between roxan and and Jordan Grace which also with the added history making quality of it uh and then and then the end is so Bonkers off-the-wall Nut Job shitty that I just that I just then now every now I’m angry about having watched all of the good stuff up Stu yeah like that that makes me angry at having done it and then immediately after that I got to watch 10 minutes of commercials and also like promos viets that they ran on Tuesday that I’ve already seen and like I don’t I don’t know part of a documentary about brookover Brooklyn takeover brookover I’m G to call it that now over oh brover is one of my favorites I I don’t know why the like the peacock viewing experiences is awful across the board but tonight because I was like oh man that finish sucked and the match was so good leading up to it and I’m like hopefully the next match will make me happy but before we get there I got to watch a whole bunch of stuff I don’t like for 10 minutes here’s a top 10 list and some and Kevin Owens talking about that time he beat fin Balor it felt so much to me like they felt like tons of casual viewers were going to be pouring in and I just don’t think that’s the case but they were like they they wanted to give you too much because of that they were like you’re gonna get NXT history and sexy red and all these UFC fighters and I was like this is so um I’m sure the CES are in the chat but Emily says all the time like it is an overstimulating product tonight was that like to the maximum and it was very frustrating because there was some there was some good wrestling there were some really dumb finishes uh but that part I’m so used to that the setting that it was all enveloped in yeah um really like it it actually like you said it was unpleasant like it it bummed me out because yeah I do try to root for it like I I do I’m like all right next match and then to your point we’re like I’m like the talent did their jobs the talent did their jobs tonight and and standing in the way of the talent putting together a bell-to-bell great match is always HBK the horrible booking kid standing in their way at the end of almost every match and and that’s that’s what they do that is that is this is basically what modern day NXT is great wrestling for every match for the first seven8 of it and then a terrible finish and then they’ll just do that again and so I it’s really hard for me to get invested in the overall product when the finishes are booked so they’re just like a they’re just a nut like an absolute nut escaped from a mental Asylum like he’s still wearing the straight jacket like like Joe gase’s gimmick before he disappeared from NXT booked the finish of every freaking match John Mich not every match there were there were two matches that that I thought had uh a a good finish like non crazy or the right person what because you know how I am about yes my thing so like yeah I we’ll we’ll talk about it I wanted I I looked at the car and I going into this I was like this is going to be really great and then I forgot about how much HBK sucks like as a Booker so say his n he appears we believe in Joel gasy but yeah it it was when you look at this from top to bottom this is this is what’s perplexing to me yeah you look at the card and you’re like this is stacked right like new North American champion Jordan Grace versus roxan trick versus Al ego uh Shaina and Lola Vice in an underground match like sign me up for so much of what is on this card and then you look at how great the actual wrestling is and you’re like hell yeah and then you’re like and it still wasn’t fun to watch for a lot of it because of what it was nothing built momentum to me like there was no like okay that match is over can’t wait for the next one because you got to wait 10 minutes for wheatly so good I drink I told people by the way I tweeted I was like if you want to Super Chat Alex to sing the wheatle song you have it has to be the $10 I’m I’m doing it for free because it’s in my head now for the rest of time wheatly so good don’t let them win you can’t let them win no it’s they did it they ear wormed me that’s that’s that’s gonna be in my head forever um yeah so um C Elgato says it’s a casual NXT person nothing made me want to watch the product on Tuesday not bad just meh and like I want to watch the product because I I I hope against hope that eventually they’ll stop doing this with all the finishes and just let people have you know things that aren’t over booked but you know what I mean there are things man what you when you put it like that I think with ples I expect there to be blow offs and then like openings of new stories but I really don’t know who chases colani Jordan I really don’t know what to expect from yeah from Lola and Shaina whatever happened there I don’t know um I’m sure we’re getting Julia at some point but what does roxan do until then I think it’s I’m very excited about the men’s title picture Oba is the greatest wrestler in the history of the universe so that rolles um so some more momentum on the men’s side and again excited for Roan I think Kanani is great but I have no idea like well let’s let’s let’s talk about it because that’s what kicked off the show yeah first of all Louise says poop puns for how [ __ ] the finishes tonight were I don’t know if you can get poop puns but uh but he says battle puns I’m like I don’t know yeah I don’t know like what about General bathroom puns I mean I don’t know that’s gonna get any better uh did we do Vegas puns recently I don’t know did we’ve done that V we did for double or nothing we did didn’t we we did it’s been too recent I don’t know like I don’t know yeah whatever you know what we’ll do let’s do wild west puns because the booking is like the wild west sure fine so like western themed puns sure um sexy red is your host sexy YY uh sex y y is your um sex sex [Music] y there’s there’s two y’s if there were two x’s I’d let it go but there are two y’s and I don’t understand why there are two y’s and she showed up she showed up said hey y’all welcome to to Battleground and then she and then Jeremy Lambert’s headline for this segment which is not untrue says uh sexy red pops ass at nxd Battleground and that’s basically all she did she didn’t host the show she introduced the show to start and then had some backstage segments where she popped her ass that’s it and invited other people to pop their ass including backstage interviewers which felt very weird to me but you couldn’t let her host it might cut into the footage of the video promos that we saw on Tuesday yeah you’re right no true true or about Brooklyn takeover I don’t know yeah brookover yeah yeah it’s good but sex sex y why sex y y um it’s not just it’s sex y y it’s the way you just said it of like sex y y opens the show she did oh man we started off with the women’s North American NXT Women’s North American Championship Ladder Match I swear they’ve said that differently several times I’m just gonna go ahead and say what the what NXT Women’s North America I think that’s correct but I know I’ve heard women’s NXT North American Championship one once I even heard women’s North American NXT Championship so like I am a nor americ fight for the rights of that specific title there’s so many words in there Alex I’m dyslexic okay you’re not Continental Championship it’s it’s a long first word but they’re only towards NXT Women’s North American Championship Okay so um it’s what is it on the office the like the diabetes fund run or the rabies fund run yes NXT Women’s North American championship for the Cure yeah um so uh I if you asked me who’s going to win this and rank them in order I would have had colani Jordan last who’s going to win it not who should who’s going to yeah um simply because I do not think they have put in the work on her character to be a first ever champion of anything they just haven’t put in the work on her character not that she couldn’t do it I think she’s perfectly capable like they haven’t done anything to like make her she she calls herself the standout which like she is when you watch a wrestle but as far as like presentation on television that’s not true they just haven’t done what they need to do to make her stand out and you know like I I I I so anyway the match is very very good and Kanani Jordan wins and I was like oh we’ll we’ll talk more about the implications of going Beyond tonight after we talk about the match which did feel like a lot of people who are wrestling their first Ladder Match yes it did it I looked at it this way priority number one nobody dies priority number two nobody gets injured priority number three some outstanding spots right and uh a correct winner they nailed one and two nobody got hurt nobody died uh I am confused similarly I think is fantastic I she’s been an incredible Talent um I can’t remember a story she’s been in that wasn’t like a multiwan story in a very long time yeah and because of that I don’t feel like I I’m invested in her ability to wrestle and she has this unbelievable um magnetic Charisma about her uh but yeah I I have no idea who chases her I I guess Fallon Henley probably yeah well yeah we’ll talk about that but but but it did feel a little like I don’t want to say lackluster because that feels mean but it like it felt safe and it probably should have been this was the first ladder match for probably everybody but meim and that so yeah I feel like s Ruka was the standout of what we got from a lot of what she did I feel like Mia Yim did an incredible job as far as um keeping some some order and keeping the spots that she was involved in I I feel like her greatest in ring strength is being logical under regular circumstances never mind what she brought to this um so that was good but I feel like everybody kind of went oh okay like even I feel like everyone’s really excited for her and her abilities but I think everyone was kind of like well that came out of nowhere it almost felt like when Indie hartw won you were like I’m so happy for the person and I know they’re capable but uh what right yeah yeah um I I was watching this going like I’m glad none of you are going to kill yourselves yes that that does take some of the viewing away fun away from the latter match some of the fun of a ladder matches some of the fun of lad matches oh my God they’re going to kill themselves some of the some of the fun of a ladder match is watching it between your fingers wondering which guy’s gonna kill himself or girl because I’ve seen some really great multi so for real on the show part of the fun is oh my God that guy’s gonna die or that you hope they don’t you hope they don’t but I mean like honestly I don’t know I’m not I’m not a NASCAR guy but like part of I guess part of the fun of watching that is wondering if there’s going to be some crazy wreck not hoping for it but wondering if there might be you know what I mean well yeah because otherwise it’s like oh look at those cars go so I’m I’m I I just felt like I was watching all these women going none of us are gonna die tonight right and which is which is the way you should do this with these women who having this level of experience in the business however maybe just don’t do it as a ladder match I don’t know like a uh you could do we’re GNA they were gonna do a tournament and they said no we don’t have enough to do a tournament and I was like well if you put in there qualifiers like if like just just like if you had picked two like like a few more you could have done like an eight woman Tag Tournament you know what I mean and then you Crown it just the way these women know how to wrestle and it wouldn’t have come like this was just it just it didn’t anyway I don’t know so it it felt like I was like watching these these women go all right you’re now you climb the ladder and then I will walk over to you and I will grab your boot like it just it didn’t it felt like it was doing a dress rehearsal I’m sorry that it felt that way but to me it felt that way um and then like the big bump which was admittedly never seen it before everyone takes slash off the ladder walks over to her and they all gorilla press her onto a ladder that is uh spans between the and the announce table but she lands straight she lands sitting up on her butt and then she falls over and she’s unconscious and I mean like that’s a way safer way to take that bump certainly but that took lash out for the rest of the match which was several minutes and it just didn’t it’s so it’s so hard to talk this way because I mean like I’m I’m trying to be honest about how I felt in the moment I was like that’s a cool spot that was the safest way possible to take that bump that’s not a thing you can do to like take a person out of a ladder match and I saw that it was the safest way for you to take that bump right like that’s that’s my thing is if I can tell it was the safest way for you to do something that’s not the best but these women got to have their first letter match at sometime right I think ideally you probably have a better balance of um in experien to more experience just to just to help that along a little bit but there was nothing wrong with it but nothing wrong in a ladder match is just not the point right now the the the double Soul Ruka um back-to-back Soul snatchers were great and um and I was like okay this is her time and then she climbs to the top of the ladder and then both she like they both women her and Kenny Jordan on the opposite end of the ladder and then one of them they kick each other they they they they kick each other in the head and Sol Ruka and colani Jordan both fall down and then Sol Ruka like rolls out of the ring we don’t see her again but colani Jordan wins yeah they they took the exact same bump one of them was done for the rest of the match and the other one like won one yeah it just felt like it was that did that’s a weird one to do um but colani Jordan hits her um little Starship Pain type of deal on um split leg moonsault on M Mia Yim who was again there to make sure none of the girls killed themselves yes and she did her job job um and uh and then uh Kine Jordan just climbs up and wins and I was waiting for like Fallon Henley to run in and push her over or J Parker to run over pushing over because like here’s the especially with the women um they do not know how to book a baby face Champion just don’t they can’t like HBK and his boys have no earthly idea how to like make a Babyface Championship run interesting without throwing every Bell and whistle at the bell and whistle store at the whole thing going they they went to the bell and whistle Emporium and they bought everything on the shelves and they’re just checking it checking all the bells and whistles and everything they giving these bells and whistles away that’s the thing is I don’t I don’t um I it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me to have a Babyface champion at all because they don’t know really how to book that you you you bu book Fallon or uh Jada to win I’m not saying they’re I’m not saying they’re better wrestlers than colani Jordan because I don’t think they are not that they’re bad but like whatever I’m just saying if you book them to win and they’re the champion I know exactly who’s chasing them and you book them as the top heel champ in their division and all the women chase them columb Jordan probably chases them and maybe she wins it off of them maybe as early as Heatwave I don’t know but like with a Babyface Champion they’re like I’m just this is the I think if you do a Babyface champion of the two in the match who aren’t on the main roster s Ruka you take Sol Ruka over over Kilani 10 times out of 10 not that again not that she’s better but that she is has a more defined character that we’ve seen over and over again I feel like even though she’s a surfer like there’s way more to her than that where where Kanani Jordan I don’t know what Kanani Jordan is that’s not her fault that’s the way that they’ve presented her on screen and I I I think that you can use her Championship Reign to further Define her I just question whether or not HBK will or isn’t is even capable of doing so with his booking well you have a lot of evidence to indicate that he’s not great at that aspect of [Applause] this yeah speaking of not great Sean rosap is here oh what a sick bur hi Sean hey guys how are you all hi we’re good how are you I’m good got some uh Scoops to drop or at least some Scoops contingent stuff so I mean I I think they ended up doing really good with configuring the Apex and all that I’m still confused as to why it was they ran that venue I mean I I mean it’s don’t they own it they get the entire gate don’t have to split it with anybody or sure but the gate with for 700 people compared to several thousand sure I I don’t know I I don’t I don’t quite understand it I will say like most UFC I don’t want to say most UFC fans a lot of UFC fans just don’t watch the Apex shows I’m among them because they’re very lifeless this didn’t feel like that this this was a good venue at least for wrestling and the like and NXT is is better at configuring venues like that anyway because of full sale and the performance center and all that stuff so uh I’ll say at least it was significantly less lifeless than the UFC shows that are there that will uh put you into a deep depression I think every every saw that Gail Kim was there Jonathan gresen was there Anthony Kiton and Ariel scherner were there so a lot of the top people at TNA were at this show Gail Kim being there is I I feel like it’s pretty significant because she ain’t been there for a long long time and um she’s a pretty good moral compass as it relates to all that stuff um we had reported myself and Corey Brennan on fightful select.com today GG has been in fact sidelined with a knee injury they dropped the Ariana Grace stuff but uh she’s going to be out for quite a while with a knee injury which which sucks um but yeah I mean that that’s one of those things where it seems to be happening a lot at the performance center don’t and a lot of people are like oh what’s the conspiracy there [ __ ] happens I remember once upon a time it felt like everybody was getting shoulder injuries there was a time 20 years ago it felt like everybody was getting neck injuries and neck fusions and stuff like that it just seems to happen that way um man the the the stuff at the end of the show uh or or near the end of the show with Wes Lee that seems to be pretty indicative of a possible integration of the Rascals so I had been told a little over a year ago that um they had really softened their stance on the possibility of Zack Wentz coming back and doing something anything um you know dude’s been on great Behavior he’s not been trouble anywhere he’s done really great work elsewhere and it’s a question that naturally gets brought up with those guys all the time and there’s a real possibility that that happens uh in the future so that’s something I would keep my eye on I don’t expect this partnership to end anytime soon I know a lot of people are like oh WWE is buying TNA and I just ask you when was the last time WWE was in either tape Library acquisition mode or company acquisition mode because they haven’t been for years they did that to make documentaries and increase their home video and to eventually launch the network and now they don’t have to do that and further beyond that endeavor who owns WWE they’ve never been in that type of mode they buy WWE and UFC they’re not usually in the business of buying like TNA or uh gosh what would be like an LFA and MMA or anything like that but beforehand you saw WWE buying a bunch of properties and companies and the like and before UFC got bought out by Endeavor you would see them buy Strike Force Pride WFA a lot of places like that to build up their Library so there’s nothing that has indicated to me that like like a sale is imminent or anything else because uh if WWE really wanted to they could just pick off every single one of those contracts one by one and there isn’t there’s not there’s not many that would you know they they wouldn’t be able to get but um there were people asking like well why doesn’t TNA have shows announced past early August they got some coming in late August um after that I wouldn’t be surprised to see them moving to a more stationary venue where they can run more often so um I don’t know how that’ll affect their Live Events business because they did lay off two of their Live Events people which I’m told they’re replacing but um if you’re going to go to a stationary venue you don’t need as many Live Events people but uh I guess we’ll see how all that works also I I can confirm based on Jeremy Lambert reporting sexy red did pop pop ass at uh she did that and not much more yeah well I mean she’s good at that at least that’s yeah that’s that’s her wheelhouse I I I won’t take that from her that’s her wheelhouse for sure yeah also um because it it it also made uh got some attention uh the former uh well I guess she’s still Abby Arthur the old cancer scammer popped back up today did you see that Alex uh I I didn’t because blessedly I st away from that the first time and then just it just left my thing forever so I’m glad who scammed many wrestling fans into thinking she had cancer and at one time stuck bubble gum in in a wound to make it look like it was real uh did some jail time some probation reemerged tried to do another scam got caught uh probably going back to jail go figure so uh guys always check on stuff like that uh obviously there’s a lot of people that do need help out there but uh we encourage our audience to always uh check on that type of stuff but yeah Kate Sean how are you I’m good how are you who who set you up the hotel accommodations exit wrestling baby let’s go well I just want to say take the router with you from there take take the modem take it all it’s a great connection the the internet is better where you are now than it is at at your house is what he’s saying it’s being glitchy on mine so it it is it is being glitchy yeah listen there we go I’m back I’m back for me at least disrupts that all my it’s like having an 0 for five game and striking out five times and then going one for five with an infield hit the next day yeah yeah we’ll take it Me by bye am I back to normal now I swear to God as soon as sea leaves yeah you’re fine right now I mean you won’t be for long but um Ricardo says hi Alex hi this was a 10 pound bag of ass well like parts of it were um we’ll talk more about the things that are I don’t think we have to assign how many pounds sexy Reds oh you were talking about sorry never mind um I think you’re drastically underselling how many pounds uh but okay um so so anyway my my thought was that if they were going to have a baby face wi the letter match would going to be Sol Ruka and now with colani Jordan winning it I just hope they don’t fall into the same uh pattern of not knowing exactly what to do with her as the champion I I I expect her to be pinned in a uh a tag match by Jada Parker within the month you know what I mean they just don’t you know they don’t know what they’re do like they don’t know how to book a baby face champ well so probably in the parking lot she’ll get attacked somewhere um so uh Ryan Lambert sends $2 for the Alex y y popping ass fun to to Wheatley I’ll sing it but I won’t pop ass to it sorry um that’s disappointing I’m gonna leave that to the professionals so that’s fair you could hurt yourself we don’t want that yeah um uh Tony P says this plle was mid and I was excited on high had high hopes for it the latter match just ended like nothing special ended I get they are green for the match but if so pick a different match I feel like that is a sentiment that people are espousing I also feel as though like we had a qualify we had a combine and the qualifiers for this like yeah you could have thrown Legends of the Hidden Temple in the middle of this you know what I mean like it was a lot no yeah not enough yeah not enough yeah yeah um yeah um so uh we we got our NXT Tag Team Championship Match uh the blurry boys defeated the good Brothers um and uh this this was uh this was very good uh if you told me this was your favorite match on the card uh I would uh I I wouldn’t say anything about it this was a very good tag match um the good brothers are now uh on Smackdown acting as um AJ styles’ backup uh for his Feud with uh Cody rhods so now that they’ve lost this title match I don’t want to see them on NXT anymore like they’re involved in a very prominent Main Event level story on Smackdown they shouldn’t just be floating to NXT this was a very good match they did their job put over the kids bye-bye now like I I don’t like NXT being this like this pit stop for for the people on the main roster where they’re not actually doing anything but like taking a Pity like you know what I mean like it’s just it’s weird the match was excellent like fraking Luke Gallows put his working boots on for the first time since 2016 like this was good good great even fantastic like Carl Anderson’s always excellent and the blurry boys running back and forth at Breakneck speeds which is why they’re blurry this is wonderful and and and now the good Brothers can leave now they could leave now I’m sorry they get to leave now well what’s hard about that is on the smackdown main roster too like they split with AJ Styles and then are just back because AJ’s mean so there is that also makes no sense uh yeah machine gun looking pretty shredded by the way gotta say yeah uh looked great this match was awesome this was a ton of fun the Styles meshed really really really well uh it’s still so weird to me that like it got real personal with the wolf never yep did Squad about it so they were like well now it’s yeah now instead we blame you um but I agree like if they didn’t win they should just go back up to the main roster yeah I don’t know why they was like they did their job man they they had a they turned in a great match one of the best they’ve had in a while um and you know I I I up until they were like now they’re part of the AJ thing again I thought the I thought they might win this match and then stick around in NXT and now that they’re like I I didn’t want them wearing the NXT titles to the ring to stand around while AJ Styles fought uh Cody rhods in an I Quit match you know what I mean so I’m very happy that they lost even though they turned into a great match tonight agreed also tmdk won their T oh no oh no k [Music] bye Kate Kate Kate had to leave that’s too bad um that’s really too bad um so I don’t know if she’ll come back I hope she does um she’s probably just restarting a little [Laughter] bit H that’s fun you know what here’s what I here’s what I like the apparently the blurry boys Nathan Frasier says we’ll face anyone from anywhere and I’m like TNA’s got some good tag teams TNA’s got some good tag teams I wouldn’t like I would not I would not uh mind that at all if like some some tag teams from from TNA showed up for them to fight while they do the work to build up some people who are currently in NXT I mean we already saw an amazing match between the blurry boys and Malik blade and Eden like so you could you could build those guys up but oh no you can’t because they’re in some weird bad luck like storyline so yeah I don’t know I’m not sure [Music] um is he coming back she’s coming back she’s coming back now she she’ll be back here here here oh is she here hold on is she coming back no yes oh she’s struggling she’s strug there she is there she is she’s she’s definitely robotic but she’s she’s here there we go now I can see you can you hear me oh no she went away again it’s too bad [Music] um yeah no uh Louise says AB versus blurry boys is the move uh I I also agree I think they should do that I think they should do that for sure Tim McFall also agrees blurry of boys versus ABC please and thank you yes for sure um now see I really want Kate to be here so so she can hear me rant about this Kate are you okay can you at least listen um I hope you can listen uh um uh let’s see here let’s see now hold on hey can you hear me are you here can you hear me now I just wanted to talk nice things that’s all I wanted to do was talk about nice things I happen tag wrestling yeah you’re not allowed no but now you’re back so we we were talking about how the blurry boys the blurry boys say that they’re going can you hear me can you can you hear me I can hear you all choppy can you send the link to my phone I’ll just get on my phone I send you L to your phone mad I don’t know what’s wrong I can see you fine I can actually see you clearer now than I’ve been able to see you all night I don’t know why that I now I’m choppy that’s bad hold on I can do it Dusty apparently you could do it is Dusty or we could we could also change what me uh hold on uh no I can’t do that can I do this yeah nope no I can’t do that that’s weird I was GNA change change the the thing for you so you’re not dusty but um dust Dusty ghosty Roos Dusty you can only be Dusty apparently you can’t be anything else so so so dusty I wanted to talk about this uh NXT underground match um they just brought out a whole bunch of people clapping for no reason wearing security uniforms even though they weren’t security guards or were they I’m not sure [Music] um I they they just stand I know there has to be a lumberjack match but they don’t Lumberjack they don’t jack Lumber they don’t Lumberjack they don’t do they don’t do anything like they’re just stand stand in there cheering and pounding on the on the on the on the mat but they don’t do anything they they’re there to I get catch them if they fall but they’re not actually they don’t they don’t serve a purpose until HBK decides to book them as the finish of the match now Shaya Basler and Lola Vice are in here like um oh she’s gone she’s gone I don’t think she’s she’s gone entirely she she says I’m sending myself the link I hate it here that’s fantastic oh wow oh boy Shaya Basler um Shaya Basler and Lola Vice are putting on a very good little MMA match they’re both former MMA cage fighters of course they’re good at this um so like this is all well and good all of it is good like at one point they end up on the outside and Shaina Basler like Lola is sitting with her back up against the front of the announce table and Shaya Basler takes a few steps and like tries to do a running knee to put the back of her head through the front of the announce table but Lola moves and Shaya bangs her own knee you know what I mean and so then shaina’s knee hurts for the rest of the match and Lola attacks it works the knee and works the ankle works the leg the whole time meanwhile shaya’s just trying to get get behind her to get the Kira Fooda clutch in uh the the Finish falls apart the fin the match falls apart entirely um near the end when um uh hold on Jacob I’m not splitting the middle because this is I I Hold On I can’t put a photo of Kate there I wish I could but I can’t she’s not around I don’t know where she is but I’ll just I’ll just go ahead and do one of these there you go how’s that better or worse um uh Shaya Basler gets hit by a back fist clocks are pretty good she falls off the ring to the outside cuz you know there are no ropes for these things and um and she falls and lands on some big guys on the outside um and uh and they break her fall and she falls onto them uh Kate’s here on her phone there we go sometimes the best internet is no internet at all Alex wonderful um okay so all I wanted to do was talk about the nice things in my life and everything was fine and then Shawn showed up and then when Shawn showed up everything went haywire and I never recovered just like is my whole life yeah no I get it yeah um okay um I was about to talk about the finish of this uh Shaya Basler and Lola Vice match hey may me so mad this match made me so mad for so many reasons and I wasn’t even here to be sour about it real time with you we’re chasing more sour now yeah yeah uh Shaya baser takes a back Fist and falls off the off the ring onto some people then um then Lola Vice come like Lola Vice is like hey counter out like she’s obviously knocked out not she’s knocked out like but it has to finish in the ring I guess I didn’t realize that about n underground matches but the Finish has to happen in the ring she could be knocked out on the outside she could be she could be in a coach and the match has to continue so um and so the the Lola goes out and Shaya eventually wakes up and gets the better of her kicks her in the ribs and then Shaya inexplicably incomprehensibly starts punching all the dudes standing at ringside not jacking Lumber they’re like I like they’re not doing anything they don’t serve a purpose whatsoever Shaina Basler loses her damn mind for no reason it wasn’t like they were getting in her way it wasn’t like they were like big fans of LOL la visce she just starts punching them and she then she she does like a gutwrench little slam to one of the ladies for no reason and then Lola Vice kicks her right and then they’re fighting more and then she’s about to throw looked like she was going to run and throw Lola visce into the steps but she tripped over one of the giant dudes that she punched once who is still writhing around on the floor in agony two minutes after he was punched she trips over that guy the only reason he’s still there the other guys who got punched they all got up and moved the the the lady who took a gutr slam she’s moved but that one dude took took a punch to the Noggin he’s out cold writhing around and she trips over him and bashes her own head into the real real St sting real steps sting real steps not real s real sting steps whatever they are steel steel ring steps and then Lola rolls her into the ring and back fists her and wins she she lost via tripping over a man that she had knocked out for no reason two minutes prior this is the most nutty booking to a finish I have ever seen like this like people frothing at the mouth you would have to be literally doing this to be crazy enough to book a finish like this what are we doing uh we’ll call HBK The Nutty Professor then Scott he’s not a professor of anything that Dam did not attain his Doctorate at any school not even chase you would give that Mana doct chase you not even chase you would grant that man a doctorate not even a nominal diploma unless unless unless he studied terrible booking in which case he is the greatest scholar of our times a doctrate uh I it is weird that the underground mat on NXT the show yeah works better than this I have a couple of issues off the bat with this so the first is if you go into a venue and you take out an octagon to put up a ring I know and no ropes it doesn’t make it feel like more of a fight yeah because I don’t know if you know Alex they mentioned it about 900 million times that this was at the UFC Apex y they sure did um so it it made it not cool they also changed the lighting for this and I’m not normally on the Sha train of like it needs to be well lit and we should see everybody’s niece like I’m not as extreme with Sean on that it’s an NXT underground match so they actually lit it like it was in like a root cellar somewhere that was the thing it was like this just looks like it’s on a black carpet this does not look good it just looks like and it also made it look really big because you couldn’t really fully tell where it started started and ended so it just looks like they were like I expected The Fresh Prince meme where he’s just looking around there’s nothing there it looked so empty and weird also we we flew too close to the control your narrative son because when when EC thei was doing his control your narrative thing early in the Cinematic days they had guys like in their control your Nar the shirts come and do this on the side of the Ring it was a very very similar thing and I’m like why are there Lumberjacks that aren’t Lumber Jacks this makes no sense to me whatsoever this is so we not a single piece of lumber was jacked once and none of them were in flannel they all were dressed the same way which is so weird um it totally took me out of it and then when it’s such a bummer because these women were taking each other’s chick they were doing such a great job too they really were such such good stuff except for when they did stuff like um leave the ring to go punch each other standing on an announce table like that [ __ ] makes no sense if if indeed the finish of the match must happen in the mat in the Ring The Ring On The Mat the raised platform whatever they call it the black carpet yeah um if indeed that must happen then and no one should ever go outside no one should also like all these all these fools out there not jacking lumber jack some fraking Lumber put them back in the ring if it’s got to end in the ring Alex I no longer s into the desktop version so you’re gonna have to [Music] be my rightand man and you know where this is going because we’ve been talking about I know I was I’ve been I’ve been queuing you up now for I don’t know how long look I mean we’re we’re talking about wood here all right and if you need to jack your wood up yeah there’s only one way to do it yeah that’s with blue.com code fightful hello do you have a limp penis a difficulty getting it wrecked boy do I have a product for you bluechew.com and the code 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it’s time for him to stop stop recording and he does one of these there is there is a yeah rules yeah it’s good um anyway uh speaking of things that are not good the end the end of this match um like I understand you wanted to protect Shaya Basler I guess because she’s one half of one sixth of a of a uh three-way tag team match for the championship in Scotland uh at the end of the week so but this does not she just she went fraking Tasmanian Devil for like no reason whatsoever I don’t understand why she like did it it wasn’t like she wanted to get to LOL la Vice and there were some guys checking on LOL la Vice you know what I mean and was like get the hell out of my way weren in the way yes nothing yeah all the sounds that tatanga makes when he’s grunting on the main roster are the sounds she should have [Laughter] been em she stole your G did better she did it better than you I’m sorry she’s better than me godamn it yeah anyway Lola Vice wins which I figured she would but not via this you know what I mean not not like this no and Alex they get real picky Choy about what matters uh on the M roster what does it at a next that’s true that’s true um uh Luis asks correct me if I’m wrong and I can’t because I don’t know if you’re wrong but didn’t the finish of the match between Eddie Thorp and djack happen on the outside of the of the underground match like I don’t I don’t remember I don’t know I remember really liking that match and I feel like if it had a shitty finish you would have we would have I mean like but not NE like if a fat I like the match too but just because the Finish happens on the outside doesn’t mean it’s a shitty finish so I don’t know you know what I mean I’m not not sure um anyway like Lola Vice I maybe Lola Vice this is what I’m thinking here like Lola Vice is done with Natty she’s done with Shaina she’s hopefully done with Carmen petrovich she’s coming for Kanani she’s coming for Kanani like that feels like a thing that like she wasn’t in this ladder match for some reason I guess she wasn’t in the combine but I don’t know why so maybe had to be because iy n was you know what I mean yeah anyway oh listen Lola you could you could interest me in a Lola Vice versus Kanani thing where Lola Vice gets the title from her you know what I mean like I want that’s the thing I want I want Lola Vice to win it is the issue well that’s here’s I I I look at how they they did the inaugural uh UK uh championship tournament they had Tyler bate win it and then he help it for a little while not not super short but he lost it to Pete Dunn who held it for 700 days yeah and then he lost and then then he lost it to to Gunther who held it for 900 days you know what I mean so like Tyler bate was your inaugural Championship yay we love inaugural champions We want to root for the person who won it baby face baby face baby face but they had full plans of putting it on Pete D at their earliest convenience they in the tournament you know what I mean we used to be a proper promotion I listen I you’re right I’m I’m I just wonder if maybe they’re doing it they don’t have to do it honestly though the other thing I was thinking about um is that ladder match with like a a person who won it that we were like I mean good for her I like her but I don’t see her like I don’t know what I don’t I don’t know why we chose her to win feels exactly like our re action to Indie Harwell winning that lad match a year ago two years ago whatever it was uh I actually said that and I don’t understand why I didn’t hear me perfectly when my internet was so wonderful and clear no I’m sorry I I I I’m I’m I do apologize for not being able to hear you through your weird uh only spe and like IND the well yeah so look Louise saying I did not remember incorrectly it did end up it end on the outside where so none of this makes any sense even more even less of it makes no sense even less of it makes no sense that’s some Steiner math but somehow made more sense than the ending of this match um okay it ended with a DD through the DDT through the broadcast table oh I remember that now and that that knocked out um daack well thank God because he’s gone on to the main roster to do yeah it’s true uh so we got our um we got our North American championship match um the triple threat which which is great because Goa femi is in it and he is the greatest wrestler Al life to me he’s perfect Alex I love him so much uh uh he completes me yeah um uh I’ve been looking for him my whole life listen Okay so they they’re doing this thing now and I don’t know how much longer they can do it honestly um without like making it a thing where like Oba requests to defend his all his title in only Triple Threat matches because that makes it fair otherwise it wouldn’t be sporting but like this is the second time in a row on a on a that you’ve that you’ve decided he has to do this versus two other guys um I don’t know if they think that it wouldn’t be believable if he has to face a super heavyweight like Ivar or he has to face two guys otherwise honestly we have no idea how to lay out this match without him just squashing a dude you know what I mean and that’s a weird thing maybe they’re saving that one-on-one match where he almost loses almost because he will never lose a match he will just he will relink relinquish this in favor of the NXT title which he will relinquish in favor of a main roster midcard title which he will relinquish in favor of the top title which he will never lose until he retires so um anyway he’ll almost lose to Wesley who’s a little guy who’s not like maybe that’s what they’re waiting for but anyway Joe coffee did a lot of stuff he was like the the middle dude in this match where like he’s so used to wrestling as the big guy against UK kids you know what I mean um who were all smaller than him and uh he did like a tornado DDT followed by like a gorilla breast slam or something like he did he just did like a a Luchador move followed by a power move to to weslee which is a lot of fun obafemi just kept getting double teamed until he was like B effectively quadruple teamed when finally Wolf Gang and Mark coffee came out to attack him on the outside um but like he would he would whenever he got in into the ring he would just do something that I like like okay fine I’m gonna pick up one guy and do and do a vertical suplex no I’m gonna pick you up too he picked up two men and did full vertical suplexes to them at the same time and the like picking up Joe coffee effectively with one arm arm like and doing a full vertical suplex to Joe coffee who’s not a small guy like that’s crazy while doing it to another full grown man is insane then he there was that time where he he like did a full vertical suplex a stalling one to weslee while Joe coffee was just working the B like George Foreman like that was that was crazy um uh i l that might have been my favorite spot in the match because Oba Fe was completely unaffected and Joe coffee was like laying in shots it was so good yeah the Meteora spot into the Power Bomb was insane that that that the the finish of the match defies all reason the other thing that that happened before the Finish was the one where like Wesley’s on the top rope and he literally shot put him up just straight up frame like he was like he T he he scraped the ceiling of the of the Apex Center um wle see Apex has never been graced by the hands of Wesley but it has now because Wesley flew he flew like a bird did it was it was amazing um uh he caught he also caught him like on a on a to to uh Tope K cono that’s what it is yeah whatever um the one where he flips over the a top rope he caught Wesley into another Power Bomb and Power Bomb bed him on to Joe coffee on the outside the top over the top rope the topon Hilo or Hilo or hero I don’t know what it is I’m not really sure but not the Tope suicida that’s through that’s through the ropes the one that’s over the ropes whatever so um the thing at the end I’ve never seen a man get caught while doing a Meteora even somebody as small as Wesley doing it to a man the side of Obi I’ve seen people get caught when they’re like trying to do like something where they their legs land over the shoulders of the guy I’ve seen people get caught when they’re doing cross bodies that’s everybody does that I’ve never seen a man be caught mid Meteora and certainly not just immediately from Meteora like one half Rock step back Power Bomb like I’ve never seen a man powerbombed with that kind of force at all ever um and uh certainly not immediately after doing a meteor to a man who then power bombs you and then the the popup Power Bomb to Joe coffee and this thing I love about this the little detail here is that he power he did that Meteora counter into a power bomb to weslee and normally to like make the finish of the match uh I don’t know like feel like there’s no loopholes there the guy who gets powerbombed who doesn’t take the pinfall in that that first Power Bomb Will Roll to the outside Wesley was just there he had he had no wind he he did not know if his spine had been shattered um and he was just writhing and he could not move six inches to break up the pinfall on Joe coffee like that was a detail like I power bomb that dude so hard there’s no way he I’m in danger of him breaking up this pinfall like Oba is amazing like already he’s amazing um he’s going to get better and better and better if if this dude is not a like 500 day champion at some point on the main roster it’s crazy a multi-time WrestleMania main aventer obafemi I do not think it’s at all hyperbole to say that at this stage of his development which is crazy without the context of having watched him do matches I don’t think like it’s at all crazy to say he will Main Event M multiple wrestlemanias in his life he’s so good man we’ve talked about this before but it reiterates today that like he should be on the gther track of extremely protected extremely dominant extreme Fighting Champion like as far as defenses goes will fight anybody kind of thing um with his own unique footprint of course but like that same type of um dominance and energy that Gunther has had should be maintained here yeah and also I’m G say something controversial not to us but to the world I think after what obafemi did to Wesley Jay Uso has to retire the word yeet that he he yeed him he yeed him out of the pH of the replay he did yeah yeah he did he did he he did do that I thinko has to I’m sorry I know they’re all hyped on the entrance and whatever he owns Yeet now um it’s true he does you should copyright it yeah he should um Tony P says uh three-way showcased Oba again um I’ll talk I I will come back that one don’t don’t delete that uh I’m going to talk about that in a second Tim Tim McFall says obafemi committed attempted murder multiple times also he needs to go to the main roster and win a title on his first night book at you cowards he’s the type of guy who should just show up and like shock win win a title like um I mean there are there are some really fun shock title losses that WWE has done um uh and I say fun unexpected because they’re shocking but I you get what I’m saying but some but oftentimes they use the wrong person like I will never forget John Cena’s um you want some come get some US Open challenge fa thing of his career favor thing of his career it’s the best like the matches he had with so many people like brought Sami Zayn from from NXT to have a match unfortunately he got injured in it so he couldn’t like capitalize on it but like had some amazing amazing fraking matches with that and they ended it by having Alberto Del Rio come back and beat him and like why like there was certainly shocking but like one of those where a guy has an awesome mid-card Title reign and is like I’ve beaten everybody there’s nobody else who could beat and obafemi shows up and beats that dude down I mean I don’t know there’s a guy who’s had a way too long us Title reign right now I don’t know if you have any plan if you’re not going to put the title on La KN yeah OB obafemi just murdering Logan Paul would not be not be only fun for me but fun for everybody watching Alex it would be fun for families everywhere kids and grown-ups alike yeah yeah yeah [Music] um Tom the valley says that the past tense of Yeet is not yeated it is yot and then says please tell Kate and I I did that just now I I believe you I I don’t know my ye Louise also says that it’s actually uh Tope con hero because hero g o is spin in Spanish so it’s like Tope with a spin oh okay though a lot of people say Tope kilo which makes no [ __ ] sense because that translates as dive with rope for a mov where you leap over the Rope rather than leaping from the Rope so see Lis is there to tell me um he’s the best yeah um he got to see his guys in tag action and I was gonna say I got to see my guys win tag team gold and then the internet hates TMK and booted me right there you go Tony P says three-way showcased Oba Oba again underground and Grace Perez were a great were great until the endings I didn’t like how sha lost and having Jordan lose clean after the interference was weird as hell to me just don’t do the interference spot I was I was through by the main okay so we’re gonna talk about this too Tim McFall says good great effort by the talent but horrible booking I didn’t like the weird stuff in the grace Perez match but at least it didn’t ENT impact the Finish production was bad and Booker was worse Booker T is actively awful the pits so Jordan Grace and roxan Perez were wrestling the kind of match where I was transfixed and like thinking of all the ways to like analyze the ring psychology of the match was one of those there are many times where I’ll just speed through it because like this is good the M here’s were some here were some good spots or whatever but like sometimes I will like get the urge like so this person coming into the match has obviously scouted this and then that’s taken away from them blah blah blah and then you talk about it like for example like roxan because she is uh cocky and delusional has decided I’m gonna try and outow Jordan Grace and quickly realizes that ain’t gonna work well no so so the first real big offense she gets in is trying to dig out one of her eyes with a thumbnail that’s the first major offense she gets in in the whole match and spends the rest of the match trying to injure joints and and and like everything she can to like make sure this woman who is faster than I thought she’d be and way stronger than I am so what do what do I have in my Arsenal that can possibly give me a victory over this woman I’m gonna have to cheat like I’m gonna have to like use every cheesy move in the book to try and figure out a way to like like hurt her tendons like if I take away the use of one of her arms can she still scoop slam me turns out she can and like at that point when that actually hasn’t done enough to to put her out of it you could tell Rock Stan was kind of panicking because she wasn’t able to get in her big pop rocks move it was amazingly countered into a gory bomb such amazing stuff Jordan Grace is excellent Jordan Grace is if you’re unfamiliar with her work um she a top 10 women’s wrestler on the planet for sure may maybe top five if you told me that I wouldn’t disagree with you she’s amazing so she she knows everything she’s doing she’s got a long career behind her a long career ahead of her great stuff roxan like they present her as though she’s a cherub turned bad but like she’s got a lot of experience as as well so like this is but the story is that like she maybe got a little out over her skis and doesn’t know what who’s in she’s in the ring with and the whole match is her trying to figure out a way to take an advantage over her and everything that I am doing everything that I’m talking about all the joy that I have in psychoanalyzing all of the tactics used by both wrestlers is gone by the end of this match because Tatum paxley comes out and like ogles the NXT title and then she steals the impact Knockouts Championship from the timekeeper and he just looked like the nerdiest guy in the world like you pick a dude who could who got some grip at least because that D just ah I’m Sor I’m gonna need that back like it just it was just so sad to watch thaty anyway she starts to leave with it and who is there to stop her from walking up the ramp with the TNA knock knockout Championship it’s day Ash by Elegance if you don’t know Dana Brooke after she left was released by NX NX WWE NXT she went to TNA and she started calling herself Ash by Elegance which is not a wrestler’s name it’s a it’s the name of a fragrance like if you go to the perfume counter you could pick up a bottle of Ash by Elegance on the cheap yeah like like at a Marshalls or like a TJ Maxx just like sitting on the discount shelf it is so funny that they picked her because of the weird thing because of the weird like this was obviously like this isn’t like um Vic Joseph like oh I don’t know how to what what should I call her they knew this was going to happen he was briefed by this so he’s like this will be funny if we have him almost say Dana Brooke but that’s not her name anymore you know what I mean you could have I don’t know I honestly I don’t follow impact well enough to like know is is she actively in a feud with Jordan Grace right now because I don’t understand why you pick her and not literally anybody else that is on the the TNA roster for this spot but I believe she is if Jo Pearl’s in the chat he can better advis but I think okay they’re they’re working toward that then at least they’re working towards that yeah so she stops Tatum from leaving with it Grace gets out clocks Tatum with the belt and then clocks Dana Ash by Elegance with the belt um and then she gets back into the ring and they have more of the match not a lot but a good 25 seconds it wasn’t like she walked back into the ring and immediately lost so she was protected by the weird interference distraction spot like it just allowed her to lose different like like there are degrees of protecting people she was protected 5% you know what I mean like five like you know like like like with sunscreen there’s like spf30 SPF 50 this was SPF 2 and a half like I don’t know what we’re doing spraying that on our body like you’re I’m putting on sun block no you’re really not you’re really not though you just ran into and it all got washed off also commentary couldn’t decide what this was because Vic Joseph made it sound like the distraction was what cost her but what happened didn’t seem that um I hated that it undid all of the great work I don’t want to say it undid it but it was just like we were on a really clear road to the destination and they were like instead let’s take a hard left and go to the park like I don’t know I I’m assuming it’s to amplify the crossover for the impact title like that it’s come into play I don’t know if our deer Tatum is showing up on Impact TNA or what the deal is but or t impact I think it is but it really knocked the wind out of my sales especially because there’s so much other interference like before the show starts we saw that Ethan got taken out by orena at the airport we’re going to talk all about that in a second like it’s just too much of not just allowing the matches to be the matches which is always frustrating but damn what a match what chemistry between the two of them what Pros um what a fun story that got laid out to this point what a a great job roxan has done in ring of adapting her skill set to be that of a heel and to be an underdog heel is like a unique kind of thing because she’s so much smaller yeah um but we’re not supposed to root for her so it’s it’s a a difficult thing right um the the way she went after her arm and wrist and like just really really really great stuff really really great stuff from both of them the muscle Buster from Jordan was insane like um I really liked it and I’m also bummed because I really liked what we were getting from Tatum when we got that vignette and now it just kind of feels like so hokey again and I know it’s kind of a hokey gimmick but it it’s that thing of like unhinged people acknowledging that they’re unhinged versus just acting unhinged right and that that sucks like that’s a bummer so she’s she’s obviously going to TNA for while I think there a lot of the stuff that she could they they really let you lean into the characters there that should be good yes you know so like her going there is a good thing for her I think it’ll be good for uh scapegoat Brooks Jensen I think the scapegoat the scap Beach will will have a fantastic time the the this scap Beach will have a fantastic time over there where he can do all of his weird uh skate Beijing um and uh and he he’ll he’ll do he’ll do do well there as well I think they’re they’re selecting good people to do for this little you know foreign exchange student Pro program that they’ve got going on but like I didn’t think you call it Excursion Alex educated uh so uh it’s it is you know like it’s it’s I I just didn’t think that this match had to end this way I I think you could have easily done a and again I’m the guy who always asks for clean finishes I know but sometimes the matches that you book demand something else okay this match was right for a non-f finish I like rockan can’t put she can’t put Jordan Grace away she hits the pop rocks but Jordan Grace gets her foot on the ropes like she is losing it and finally she takes herself she does this she takes the TNA title and clocks her with it in front of the ref which just pisses off Jordan like she’s she’s like knocked she’s disqualified but she like she gets it or she’s going to go get it back where where roxan dropped it after the match is over right but that’s when Tatum has taken it Tatum’s got it you know what I mean I got it now and then like let her run away don’t don’t bring in day Anna Ash by Ash by El danis whatever denans Ash by denans Brook Brook denans I’m gonna denans I’m saying elain elain I’m not sure Dan I like denans so just don’t bring her in at all just let let it be the Tatum paxley thing and let that be the that because this like I don’t know it just felt really weird um uh and also this doesn’t put a bow on this because you get the sense that we’re gonna get roxan versus Jordan Grace again down the line at some point maybe um I think Jordan Grace is coming to WWE winter contract is up so like you’re gonna get this again down the line so like let it be that reason for the Cliffhanger as opposed to some weird stupid stuff happened on the outside of the ring that I was powerless to stop myself from getting involved in oops I lost a match like make it be something that’s also just not how titles work like if someone runs away with it that doesn’t make them the champion I always hate that and aw did that too with like Nyla and somebody and Jade maybe where I’m like just because you carry the title away doesn’t mean like they’re the champion now like you’re not you shouldn’t be so dumb as to fall for them for like I believe Tatum paxley believes that possession is 1010 of the law you know what I mean like Tatum yes but Jordan Grace shouldn’t give a [ __ ] yeah yeah I mean like so like apparently Jordan Grace has an open Challenge on PL Friday so like maybe that’s they have a PL every 10 minutes on their I swear to [Music] God um yeah Alex here’s the thing about finishes like that is they think it makes things more exciting but in fact kind of puts me to sleep oh really and I don’t want to fall asleep in a weird position it would be very uncomfortable uhhuh and I definitely don’t want to fall asleep in a weird position on my crummy Hotel mattress if I was right just snooze away uhuh I know exactly what type of mattress I would want it to be on and I think 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Jordan’s ear and it was bleeding such a heel apparently like Jordan’s earring got stuck in Rox Sand’s thigh and then ripped out part of Jordan’s ear is in the process so that’s unintentional Tyson in that is rough yeah um uh Lis explaining that they are not feuding yet but Ash is being built up to a title match against Grace possibly for slam adversary basically she is Daniel Garcia to the aw international title that’s kind of like momentum was what I had kind of last notice yeah I guess um so I guess this the second time Grace’s earring got ripped out during a match um happen against Marty Bell so like this maybe the earrings are a noo yeah just like a cute like little ones yeah look clipons just in case in case they get get caught on something they’ll just yeah um hey so sexy red uh didn’t really host uh she she said five words popped her ass uh in the ring and then stayed backstage where she popped her ass with other people later Kanani Jordan um who was like doesn’t doesn’t feel like she’s like the same feel so much like an ass popper yeah not not really um but then um but we know Lola Vice is so Lola Vice walks up to sexy red who’s being being interviewed by Sarah shriber and um promoting her tour who her uh sexy sex sex YY for for president Tour by the way please do not vote sex YY for president um she be great president I’m looking at the other options and I don’t know man it’s Ro out there I’m just I’m just saying I feel like there’s I feel it’s a little late in the game to get into the race and perhaps that might be that right in vote might be a wasted vote um again pretty she’s she’s no no worse than the second best option for president right now yeah and I’m like kind of a tossup with the first to be honest I don’t know yeah so there you go um anyway uh L working on stream Lola Vice walks up and she’s still wearing her her uh mouthpiece From The Underground match I’m pretty sure this was taped right after the NXT underground match but it aired an hour after it so I don’t know why she’s still walking around with her mouthpiece in in her defense sha was pretty unhinged she might have just been like if I run into gonna shepping random people over out there probably be on guard if you will yeah uh so um but they they twerk together and then uh sexyy um forces Shar Sarah shriper to do it too yeah that was weird you don’t you don’t have to do that if you’re somebody who doesn’t who doesn’t like twerking or popping ass as the kids say you don’t have to do that do the kids say that or does just Jeremy say that I don’t know I think the kids do say popping ass okay I’m I wouldn’t know I’m not a kid yeah um but you know what they say the the couples that work together twer together they say that all the time is that what they say yeah but you won’t Tor so I guess we’re not friends which makes sense because you hate friendship so I I mean okay um uh Wes Lee is walking back talk about the main event and be done yeah sure I am um uh gas um attacks Wesley back backstage I guess Joe cof is choosing to blame Wesley um and they attack him three-on-one because they’re bullies and Bullies usually don’t pick fights with guys bigger than them so there’s no reason for them to pick a fight the try beat up Oba feem backstage so they beat up the small guy and again Sean being like I wonder who could come and help Wesley out you know I mean I guess that’d be kind of cool um the thing with that Sean rosp is sometimes I feel like he might know a little bit more than than than the average bear he might uh Ethan Paige has been de rebeled it’s a it’s uh it’s a it’s a def con 2 we’re at Defcon 2 de Rebel con 2 it’s it is an emergency [Music] um I love Ethan paig so much why do it give him a midi file as a theme it sounded like it was from 1994 and I downloaded it like it’s the background of a greeting card I would make for my dad what was this theme it’s Def and Def Rebel years the songs they produced it’s terrible I’m sorry I’ve tried to be so like well I don’t want to call for anyone’s jobs but they need to adjust the process so that these themes get better I can’t do it anymore I can’t be cute about it they’re so bad and they did this to like one of my fa and I love Ethan page so much and I just want him to get pushed appropriately and have good music and I don’t think that’s a lot to ask um I did I did like that they say ego a lot in the song so that you know that that’s his nickname get it CUA all ego is he says ego something like that they just if you know even a little bit about music production you you know that the softwares have these stock sounds and real engineers and musicians will at least tweak those yeah so that they sound organic or so that you can’t recognize that it’s a fing stock sound I know uh and they never do I can tell you like drum sample number nine gets called up in Pro Tools to create the Creeds theme it was bad yeah it was really bad and I just love Ethan paage so much and this sounded like it was like on the very first Angel Fire website he deserves better we deserve better my fellow Americans deserve better by International citizens of the world deserve better this was so why are they so bad I don’t know anyway um they um this is Ethan pagee was attacked at the end of Tuesday show not on camera were attacked by this orom Mena um and uh and then they did this whole thing where they showed us that oroma also came in and attacked him when he got to his hotel and um and welcome to NXT Ethan and then get attacked in underhanded ways he was also attacked by orom Mena tonight though not when he should have been so um Ethan pagee is uh coming over from ew and immediately made prior to the night to feel like a big big deal like um you you have um you um you um you have him you know get signed make all these demands um and he takes out the champion he makes all these demands the demands are agreed to including his first ever match is a match for the title um at Battleground um and he he’s presented as a as a big deal that he has chosen to come here uh after you know his career quote unquote elsewhere um and the match never felt like it was in third gear like it just didn’t didn’t really go anywhere um uh are you still there or I am okay sorry cool uh I just wanted to make sure we didn’t lose you again no put my battery on the low battery thing oh okay but I’m here okay um so uh he actually didn’t feel it felt like maybe they they knew nobody would like the finish of the women’s match that they had booked so it couldn’t go on last but Jordan Grace and and Rock San should have gone on last over this just considering the match quality of the way they put it together I’m not surprised that Ethan Paige and trick Williams having met each other for the first time like 10 days ago like didn’t like immediately throw it together an Aller you know in their first match together cuz cuz you know chemistry is a thing and like it was not like trick Williams has been doing this for 10 years you know Ethan page has a lot of experience but like it’s it’s it just didn’t feel like it really went anywhere because I thought the reason they were doing that is because we’re definitely getting a rematch of this at Heatwave because the Finish is going to be some weird wonky finish that’s going to allow for this to for this chapter to not be closed and obviously we will get the rematch whether or not that was Ethan pige obviously cheated to win and trick Williams is going to get a rematch I thought maybe that was it or the obvious thing because it’s how WWWE does business well the ref’s back is turned or after ref bump Oram Mena is going to come in and attack Ethan pagee again costing him the match what I did not see happening and what they decided to do was for Ethan pige to hit his finisher for the first time in WWE and for it to be kicked out of and then him to be then after that punching trick Williams so much that the referee had to get involved which is always dumb don’t ever do that like ever do that and then trick Williams to then run out of the corner hit him with a knee and pin him one two three clean because the ref decided to like get in his face about punching trick Williams too much um and I don’t think this buries Ethan pagee he’s too talented he’ll get out of it but after everything went off the air after trick Williams celebrated with sex YY after the whole thing went off the air then they had orena come out and attack Ethan pige just have him come out and attack Ethan Paige and then Ethan Paige can be like once I deal with you and your little Scottish friend then I’m coming back for you trick Williams that’s an easy thing to do here but now I don’t know ex I don’t know where a good good Booker takes not Booker T but a good Booker of wrestling takes Ethan pagee immediately after losing clean having his finisher kicked out of in his first match which he expertly negotiated to get a a title match in his first and then came up it’s the guy who talks all the trash in the world and then doesn’t back it up now that guy like in real life when you see a when you see a um a defensive back who says nobody can catch anything on me and then gives up the winning touchdown you’re like that guy look at that everyone points and laughs at that guy and Ethan Paige talking all this tough about himself and then he loses clean while having his finisher kicked out of you you’re gonna have to do a lot to rebuild him after that and I might trust a good Booker of wrestling to do this but verus HBK we’re talking about here and I don’t trust him at all because of the everything um doing this after the celebration was sexy YY red or sex why I read uh is foolish I because this begs for a rematch anyway I’m confused why this was the clean one I’m confused um I’ll say there were there were parts of this that when it got going it really got going and I kept waiting and it didn’t like it um God and they’re both really good and I don’t know if like was this initially supposed to be no Amar in a triple threat like did the did the script switch a couple times or yeah it just didn’t feel like and there was a large part of me that thought maybe I was alone in that because the viewing experience was so stilted of like I’m sure I watched some NXT takeover Brooklyn documentary aspect of right before this match so um like one of my favorites in such a great Storyteller and then when the the match ending and a lot of the sequences and it don’t line up with the story being told of Ethan Paige coming in um that means he’s telling a different story than is happening yeah so it just it felt a little disconnected for me um but they’re both great so I hope that we do get a remix and I hope it does get on the same page page um I maybe Ethan Paige does uh not going to be as easy as I thought kind of thing and does have to get some wins to get back to that that rematch at Heatwave but um as great as Ethan Works heel and as obnoxiously over the top and protective as this brand normally is uh I’m surprised that this is what we got um um and if you were gonna like Ethan P didn’t even go ballistic at the end for having or whatever like it wasn’t like trick one and then got super cocky about it and need to him after him like this just didn’t um it didn’t fit my expectations of what I thought we were going to get because it feels like the obvious thing is for him to win the title and sent trick up after Heatwave um I mean here’s the thing that I suggested is that I mean I there’s no there’s nothing for trick to do on the main roster they can’t put on drade in a match on television okay Andrade like trick is over sure but Andrade is this otherw worldly talent and they can’t find a a place for him on TV there’s nothing for trick to do he’s just gonna be he like car Carmelo is like doing a kind of a thing with LA Knight it’s not like they have like oh we got an opening for a guy like you right now they so my thing is let’s start a real rivalry between e between all you go Ethan Pig and trick Williams and make that the defining thing of a new era of NXT leading into the CW thing like have have Ethan I would argue win the title tonight he’ll do it obviously cheating and then have trick chase him because Trick’s better chasing obviously they have no idea what they’re doing with booking him right now with the no am stuff and this all this stuff so having him Chase Ethan paage and then getting the title back at like Halloween Havoc or something and then they could H they you could have that lead into the CW era and you could have them trade the belt like a coup like couple times not over and over again but like a maximum of three times they haven’t done a really good like back and forth like we’re obviously the top two guys here and either one of us could beat the other guy in any given night they haven’t done that since like Samoa Joe and shinsuke Nakamura like that’s been a long time make this rivalry a part of NXT that everyone Tunes in because of these two guys and and at that point then trick Williams maybe you’ve hopefully because you’re hopefully you’re good at this you’ve opened a hole for him to immediately slot into when he gets called up and then Ethan it’s now Ethan PA’s NXT like there some really good stuff they could do but I don’t think they’re going to do any of that I also feel like if you let Ethan Paige be the guy he can do some really really productive work like I know I’m an Ethan pige fan but part of the reason I’m a fan is because he’s really [ __ ] good at this and um I just feel like if you belt him up he’s going to be able to give a lot of people their best matches and it’s probably a wise decision to do that um and I feel like you can book him he’s so versatile in a way that I don’t know if trick has that versatility yet of like Ean Paige is like need me to make anything make sense I can do it like he’s he really I saw him try and work Ring of Honor man he really does have that in him um that’s the only product more lost than NXT tends to be um so I I hope that they kind of course correct it because it did feel like him kicking out of the ego’s edge and I wouldn’t I certainly wouldn’t have done that I mean I I don’t maybe maybe the story is he needs a new finisher in in NXT and the next time he he comes up with one it it’ll be better but like I don’t he ego The ego’s Edge is great like it’s it’s a it’s a it’s a Razor’s Edge but he literally throws them across the ring it’s a really cool finisher and it looks great tonight I if you heard his theme but like egoo you know what I mean yeah e it’s true so yeah um so so yeah I don’t know why if you’re going to have oroma attack him off off camera just do that I mean I feel like that’s what we’re gonna keep Ethan pige busy with is the metaphor for a while while trick Williams faces I don’t know because Heatwave is in less than a month oh my God it is isn’t it it’s like it’s like four it’s four weekends from now but it’s the 8th of July so like it’s we’re we are coming up really quick on on Heatwave so if if they’re gonna unless they’re going to do a triple threat but like Oro men is not in the triple threat he’s just not like they’re not they haven’t done that with him yet so know Dar but we haven’t seen him we haven’t seen hide Nora that guy I don’t know if he’s hurt or what but he we have not been around at all I thought Noam Dar and orom Mena were gonna come in and attack Ethan Paige as like a big like this is your come upin for attacking us you know like but no I I don’t think you know but Alex do you think for Heatwave there’ll also be a sex YY white and a sex YY blue because it’s Fourth of July weekend perhaps what no my hilarious joke I mean but because because I I had to do I had to do the math I thought you were like if it was the Great American bash I’d be like right there with you but I had to figure out why would there be patriotic stuff Heatwave oh because of the date of Heatwave and that’s that’s why I I I they did day one on like March 3rd you should be very no they did they did New Year’s evil on January 10th they did New Year’s evil on January 10th so yes Halloween havoc on Thanksgiving Day yeah yeah um so uh here’s another thing we got apparently there’s a digital clip with CM Punk and roxan CM Punk was in attendance but didn’t make his presence known CM Punk met with roxan at a digital interview telling her she was Head and Shoulders above the NXT women and the TNA Knockouts but she got lucky tonight and he told her to focus on her title and be The Prodigy because she did not need anything else then Rock responded by saying this thanks for the advice what a hypocrite huh so I guess that’s a thing now all right yeah I don’t think Punk is working NXT anytime soon no I don’t think so either so um will Chisum says of my pitched idea for Oba femi seeing Oba beat up Logan Paul will make Alex’s heart grow three sizes that day yes one 10 sizes a million here’s the I will die of an enlarged heart I know it’s gonna be it it won’t be a heart attack because I’m be angry it’ll be because my heart has grown so big um we got some puns let’s go wild west puns JW Pringle says Willie half Nelson apparently this Louis has said this is the winner so I don’t know we’ll have to see um Chris Pereira says Dude Love Ranch Robert Lyle says Bray Wyer I don’t um my D Bray Wyatt her Wyatt her do you know who Wyatt her is he’s the most famous law man of the old west I know nothing you don’t know Wyatt her I don’t think so no oh he’s the he’s the he’s Kurt Russell and Tombstone you ever SE his Tombstone did you ever see Wyatt her starring Kevin cner as w it’s Wyatt her yeah okay um Louisville says what in tarnation of domination um Chris Pereira says Billy the Kidman and the suance one two3 kid um uh Cado says uh Cody dirt roads very nice uh and inaugural uh the inaugural aw Women’s Champion Reno DNC digital says here’s my puno and like the wild west yeah DNC digital says here’s my pun Tombstone well that was easy you don’t need to brag but very good bar says Davey Crockett promotions um Chris perz says freshly squeezed orange Butch cast uh Robert ly says six shooter but he spells it s yxx very nice very well done Ricardo says Billy the Kidman Robert Lyle says West World Order um Josh tulman says Buffalo Billy Kidman Jesse Ozog says wagon wheeler UDA Chris Pereira says licky split lied moons Sal lick we don’t say things licky split enough anymore we don’t we used to be a proper country we used we used to say things were licky split now they’re not lick like you know like that guy jacked all that Lumber lick he split um Chris Pereira says um that dog won’t Hunter Hurst Helmsley DNC digital says From Dusk Till Dawn Marie oh very nice Chris Pereira says 310 to UDA Chris Pereira says hell or high Walter that’s my favorite that’s that’s my in the club house too Chris Pereira says free state of yamag Jones this is your favorite ianr says tumble weed team 2000 Chris fera says they were really in the Tag Division just tumble weed yeah this is my fa Chris Pereira says legend of the Falls Count [Laughter] Anywhere that’s actually ianr says Zack stable Jr leader of did I my God I lost my uh you got you can am I back now okay cool I lost my monitor because I I pounded the table too hard in laughter now it’s back um this is my favorite now ianr says bam bam big alone Ranger you love Bam Bam bigo pun I like to Chris Pereira says killers of the flower Moon Sal uh n theh says Buckshot Lariat and the preacher larat and the preacher I don’t know what that is larat in the preacher I’m not sure about that one uh ianr says Loba FEI lasso Bui lasso Bui lasso Bui uh Tom Valley says orange Cassidy and the one two3 kid very nice um n of the H says the Magnificent Trent 7 um Robert Lyle says alundra Blazing Saddles that’s really good Ian R says it’s canteen little bit of a stretch but we’ll take that um DNC digital says wild wild Wesley very nice um Robert Lyle says dances with Wolfpack and insert clever tan Knox pun says un foran Knox that’s it that’s all of them that was really I love the commitment to that bit so much uh uh there so today um went to the pride parade um to support because obviously um and uh Ricky rainbow uh uh made an appearance wore the wig got a lot of comments Ricky Ricky was very happy about it I realized I realized too late that I should have uh should have responded to every I love the hair comment with thank you but I didn’t want to confuse people world no yeah I should have yeah so um listen I can figure out a way to upload it Ally I will put the photo for on Tuesday so there you’ll be thing there you go um that’s it that’s it cool we did it we made it we made it through Battleground we did we battled the ground yeah uh we battled all the way to the the ground underground in some cases yeah we did we did all the way underground too um and now we’ll we will battle all the way till Tuesday when we figure out what they’re going to do with all this stuff now let’s hope that they know what to do with this stuff what you’re gonna do with all that junk all that junk inside that trunk I know if your sex YY red yeah I know yep yeah um cool uh that’s it we’ll see you finish yeah and on on five for select come watch us be mad about raw whatever’s happening on Raw I’m sure we’ll be mad about it yeah J Mia Mia is versus Jada on Tuesday they’re doing that so that’ll be fun nice oh yeah dra dragon chew you got hey we gotta talk about you you saw the dragon chew thing you weren’t here on Tuesday when they first showed it what what were your what was your reaction we won and you lost my reaction was Alex in the sgs1 and I lost because I just want Ken Q to be a normal person and regular like a human and wrestle like a regular human or to be Wendy Chu if if she must but dragon two was something you thought of like two years ago at this point HBK finally got around to to listening to the episodes from 2022 and he was like you know what I think this might work they get Oba fi and they get dragon Shu that’s yeah that’s good well she she did she did put on eye makeup black eye makeup so you know she’s turning heel GNA be heal she’s gonna find the darkness within there you go there you go cool all right all right that’s it now now that’s it now that’s it okay cool keep keep cool gppa gouls toles
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Agreed The F'd Up Finish really screwed up A Fantastic Match between Jordynne vs Roxanne 😢
Fairly good show overall imo
So Jordynne never won the nxt title, wow shocker! 😂
Let’s have a MMA match at the home of MMA but not use the Octagon. Shane could have booked the finish better
As someone who doesn't watch NXT a lot. Actually almost never, I enjoyed what little I saw of NXT battleground. Jordynne Grace and Roxanne Perez had a good match. The ending was really wonky though, and unbelievable. Grace looked like she could easily win the match, only to then succumb to quick offense after a very silly distraction.
alex could book something himself and still be un-happy with it
They need to get rid of Def Rebel cuz most of their music is trash
Glad im not the only pissed about the Grace finish and the ADs and Half shows and the location. 2 times i thought something messed up or it ended and it started playing another show.
After last night, Anthem Sports and Entertainmentb(parent company of TNA Wrestling) looks like a company full of WWE marks, begging Endeavor TKO for an autograph from WWE talent.
I am hoping that DELTA debuts as a heel similar to Jazz-type Powerhouse to help put over Kelani as a babyface underdog. Trish had Jazz and Candice had Beth.
They could have literally had tatum take the belt.. grace stop her and retrieve tna belt. Hand it back to ref. Meanwhile roxanne grabs nxt belt and as ref handing tna belt back to staff. Roxanne use belt and win.. instead of that
Also what the f with the replays at the start. No replay end of match instead of staring at wrestlers waiting for cue. Also underground match was soooo dark