Kate (@MissKatefabe), Alex Pawlowski (@AlexSourGraps), and Alexis Cardoza (@_AlexisCardoza) discuss tonight’s episodes of AEW Rampage and WWE Smackdown, including:
AEW:
-FTR vs. Top Flight for the ROH Tag Titles
-Darby Allin vs. Anthony Henry
-Hikaru Shida vs. Queen Aminata
-The Dark Order vs. Rush, Butcher and Blade
Smackdown:
-Becky Lynch returns
-Escobar vs. Butch
-Ricochet vs. Braun Strowman
-Viking Raiders vs. Hit Row
-Drew McIntyre and Sheamus vs. The Usos
-Raquel Rodriguez and Shotzi Blackheart vs. Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey
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Timestamps:
0:04 Show Starts
0:22 It's the Holiday Season!
6:36 FTR vs Top Flight
11:52 Powerhouse Hobbs Vignette
17:42 Dax Harwood vs Bryan Danielson is Confirmed
17:52 Chris Jericho & Claudio Castagnoli Promo
19:49 Alex Pawlowski’s Rant
30:09 Toni Storm backstage interview
34:17 Darby Allin vs Anthony Henry
36:37 Athena backstage interview
39:57 Hikaru Shida vs Queen Aminata
43:43 Dark Order vs Rush, The Butcher & The Blade; Preston Vance’s Heel Turn
58:15 Becky Lynch is BACK!!!
1:06:48 Butch vs Santos Escobar
1:13:49 Bray Wyatt & LA Knight Promo
1:19:56 Viking Raiders vs Hit Row
1:28:15 Dominik Mysterio & Rhea Ripley crash Rey Mysterio’s Thanksgiving
1:32:53 Ricochet vs Braun Strowman
1:42:51 Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn & Jey Uso backstage
1:48:55 Ronda Rousey & Shayna Baszler vs Shotzi & Raquel Rodriguez
1:59:07 Drew McIntyre & Sheamus vs Usos
2:05:28 Which old star would be a major star today?
2:10:49 Jukebox Time
BCC has been a loud, glaring disappointment. There is no story or character or interpersonal relationships shown between the guys. Bryan Danielson has barely been involved with the others, Claudio and Mox have had barely anything together, and it has entirely been against JAS where Eddie Kingston and Danielson are LESSER post-Jericho and crew. Awful.
When it comes to the discussion of what old school guy would be major stars today?
The people I've always said were ahead of thier time were guys like Dean Malenko and Sean Waltman. Guys like punk, Danielson, ZSJ, Ospreay, Omega, Gresham all owe a debt to those guys. Malenko and Waltman would have at the very least been ROH World Champion
Even someone like bam bam Bigelow. Bam bam Bigelow in this Era would be a headliner in any promotion . He's basically white Keith Lee with a frightening look. Even though he wrestled I'm njpw back when Vader was there……in this Era bam bam would be easily headlining wrestle kingdom with Tanahashi or Okada
Also I feel Dan Severn who was severely misused in the attitude Era would be a major crossover star. He would be the American equivalent of Shibata in this Era imo especially with his pedigree,…. Legit in every way possible. Dan Severn would be IWGP World Heavyweight Champion in a heartbeat.
Dan Severn vs WALTER, Sheamus, Bryan Danielson , Sampa Joe, Moxley, or Minoru Suzuki or even EddieKingston…..hose me tf down.
Put the iwgp, roh and
Curt Henning as well. version Kurt Angle as Mr. Perfect. He could talk he could go. Curt henning in this Era would be if you'd cross Bret hart with Tanahashi
Steve "muhfuggin" Blackman would be my honorable mention for the same reason I had for Dan Severn.
Kate is fast becoming my favourite YouTube host. The rockband in college analogy was bang on 😂
Ken shamrock
Sounds to me after listening to this episode that the WWE is starting to slip something serious when it comes to some of the writing and storylines. Some things are good, the bloodline story is great, but there’s much more bad than good right now.
I know you want Roman to have the last entrance but I can't understand the logic of the first war games giving the face team the advantage. It ruins the whole match psychology
Shida makes everything better, give her all the belts. Shida vs everyone and lead to a title match against Hayter
AEW can't get rid of the JAS because they need a heel faction each year for War Games. The only reason they got rid of pinnacle is because JAS can be the heel team and the Elite can be the face team now. Which is why they are breaking up BCC. Now that the Elite is around they don't need them for that match anymore. The booking can be fairly boring and predictable at times
Becky 😍😍
I want Silver/Reynolds to join Adam Cole (and maybe KOR). It was already built up in BTE and Cole can help carry them to be bigger players. He also would fit wonderfully match wise with them, especially if you want them to be faces soon
Great show guys I absolutely loved it ☺️ very grateful ❤️ for all of you
You guys are the best. I didn’t watch either TV show but hung on every word of your review—once drunk and again this afternoon. Thank you for the entertainment!
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