From My Perspective
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From My Perspective
John Cena and CM Punk reunite in Saudi Arabia while Cody Rhodes claims the crown
We break down WWE's Afternoon of Rivals/ Night of Champions event from Saudi Arabia, evaluating the key matches and storyline developments that will impact the road to SummerSlam.
• Solo Sikoa defeats Jacob Fatu with interference from multiple Bloodline members, including the newly renamed Tala Tonga
• Rhea Ripley overcomes Raquel Rodriguez in our match of the night despite Roxanne's interference
• Sami Zayn gets the win over Karrion Kross who notably took multiple back bumps throughout the match
• Jade Cargill becomes Queen of the Ring by defeating Asuka in a somewhat clunky match that could have been better
• Cody Rhodes survives three RKOs to win King of the Ring, setting up a match with John Cena at SummerSlam
• John Cena defeats CM Punk in a chaotic main event filled with interference from Seth Rollins and his faction
• We question WWE's booking decisions regarding Bron Breakker, who has taken "ten steps back" since joining Rollins' crew
Join us next week as we review WWE Evolution and Saturday Night's Main Event, with predictions for Gunther vs. Goldberg!
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of. From my Perspective, I'm your boy Deion, coming to you with these perspectives. You know we got to talk about Night of Champions. Actually, I mean Afternoon of Rivals, because it happened at 1 o'clock and it wasn't even Night of Champions and, if you want to ask me, it was morning, morning arrival, because I watched it sunday morning. But I'm joined in by my man and the myth, the legend himself, captain hater q. How you doing?
Speaker 2:hey, you aren't, otherwise, it's your poet, mr bell aka say your name upon his pie might not put you to my it's on DR.
Speaker 1:It's going good. Man, I'm assuming you watched it live.
Speaker 2:I did, I did, I did. I had a shout out to Chris, me and him, me and him liking each other's stuff on Twitter. I'm sorry, my bad.
Speaker 1:I got to ask you your thoughts of the show as a whole of Afternoons of Rivals.
Speaker 2:I thought the show was good. There was some matches that was well. One match that kind of was a little sloppy, but other than that I feel like it was real good. I know we're going to get to the main event, but I felt like it was a little sporadic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll get there, but let's go ahead and start it out. I honestly don't really quite remember how the order went, but we're just going to go and order this on my sheet.
Speaker 2:That's all I'm going to say. Yeah, because I really don't really quite remember how the order went, but we're just going to go and order this on my sheet. That's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I really don't remember how the accident went. But we're going to start out with Solo versus Jacob and I'm just going to go ahead and give myself a nice little pat on the back because I was right. It happened just like I said it was going to happen. Solo got the victory with interference from not only JC Mateo, the returning Tama Taga and his name is Hikuleu, but it looks like they've changed his name to Tala Taga. So I was right. I just want to give myself a nice little pat on the back for that pretty good match. I know one of the stories that I'm interested in. They're obviously probably going to run this back at SummerSlam in some way, shape or form, or they might just put them in a tag team match, six-man or something. If Jacob can find some partners, who knows? But what was your thoughts on the match and how it went?
Speaker 2:Okay, real quick. Who won the overall?
Speaker 1:Oh, I won the overall. I'm just saying I won it by three, See.
Speaker 2:I was sitting there watching. I'm like I was wondering who won, because, honestly, I don't remember who I picked. I ain't gonna lie. I was sitting there watching. I was like, damn, who did I pick? Because I know I didn't pick Solo.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I picked. That's actually what helped me. You had five on Jacob, I had three on Solo.
Speaker 2:Ah, okay, okay, Cool, cool, cool. So you won over. I was sitting there wondering like, damn, this is when I won Deion the last week. So I, jacob, I was surprised Jimmy didn't come out. I was waiting on Jimmy to come out. It didn't Went, no Jimmy. And I was like, oh damn, they really just let Jacob lose. I wasn't expecting Jacob to lose. But I'm also happy that Solo won, because Solo has been doing his thing. He's been doing his thing on the mic in the ring. He's been taking L after L after L. What I always say that man lost to John Cena and ain't won a match since.
Speaker 1:It feels like it.
Speaker 2:I'm glad Solo won. The match was good. The interferences I was expecting Hikaleu or Tala Tonga, whatever they gonna call that man. Wasn't. I was expecting Hikaleu or Tyler Tonga, whatever they gonna call that man. Now I was expecting him to come. I wasn't. I wasn't expecting, I didn't think he was gonna do nothing. I thought Jacob still was gonna win, but I wasn't expecting the other Tonga to come out. Yeah, so I think I think that was dope. That was a welcome surprise. Yeah, at.
Speaker 1:I think that was dope. That was a welcome surprise. Yeah, hey, welcome surprise. But I ain't gonna lie, I knew it was coming because I saw it from a mile away. But the one I didn't see coming, which, you know, maybe hindsight's 20-20. I knew Rhea Ripley it's. You know she wins a lot. But next match, rhea Ripley versus Raquel Rodriguez, and personally this is my match of the night. It was one hell of a match.
Speaker 1:Little disappointed, I felt like Raquel should have won, especially when Roxanne came out. You get Rhea just going to overcome Roxanne, like that. I felt like it would have helped the Roxanne-Raquel storyline because obviously Roxanne is going to carry the other. Like that I feel like it would have helped the Roxanne Raquel storyline because obviously Roxanne, she's going to carry the other half of the tag team titles. But considering what happened on Monday Rhea's challenging Io Sky for the Women's World title I guess I understood why she didn't take the LHR. They got to keep her strong if she's going to get a title match, understandable. But the story would have made a little bit more sense if Raquel would have won. But it's been a hurdle there. It didn't affect Raquel that much, it just boasted Aria, which I mean she didn't need it. But hey, give her a little bit more power level strength up a little bit more. Give me your thoughts, man.
Speaker 2:I thought it was. I thought it like you. I thought it was an excellent match. I thought it definitely was the match of the night which I felt like going in. We thought that was a possibility. Yeah, we thought that was a possibility for Rykel and Rhea to put on an excellent match, because they're not because of their talent, but also they have a history of fighting big matches together. So we thought that was a possibility of them having a match tonight and they definitely deliver some spots. I knew Rhea wasn't going to lose now. Should Raquel win? Yeah, but I knew she wasn't going to now. I am excited to see we we're talking about more in depth next week with Evolution.
Speaker 2:I wonder will this, the way Rykel performed? Keep her with the Titans? I wonder, will this performance make them look and be like? You know what she should keep the belt and you know put her in more. Put the titles up more, put them in more matches. You know what she should keep the belt and you know put the titles up more, put them in more matches. You know actually use the women's division besides the upper core and you know bouncing mid-core title. So, yeah, no, I think the match was excellent. Rhea and Io. It makes sense for them to book that as the title match, because you got to sell tickets, man. You got to sell tickets, you got to get eyes on the prize.
Speaker 1:My hope is we'll talk about her a little bit later, but I hope Asuka still gets that match against Io at SummerSlam, like we talked about just a second ago. Rhea always winning who who knows. She's going to be on that summer sim card. It's two nights. She's going to be on there somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, for sure, Without question.
Speaker 1:Next match, though, sami Zayn versus Karrion Kross, sami Zayn did get the victory, I feel like. To me, though, the highlight of the match was just Karrion Kross just going overboard with those back bumps, because the report came out maybe a couple days before the show that he didn't like to take back bumps and, frankly, who does like to take back bumps? But he's a professional wrestler, so he just went overboard. Hey, I can take back bumps. I may not like to take them, but I take back bumps. So cool little match. Really didn't advance the storyline of Karrion Kross. I can take back bumps. I may not like to take them, but I take back bumps. Cool little match. Really didn't advance the storyline of Karrion Kross trying to turn Sami Zayn evil, but cool little match. Karrion Kross is a good enough wrestler. Sami Zayn is an excellent wrestler. You put it together, they're going to make something out of nothing. I wasn't too upset, but Kross.
Speaker 2:I saw them back bumps. You took like 20 of them. It seemed like he had a proof of point. That's what he was doing. Kross was trying to prove a point. That's what that man was doing. I think this was a good match. I was I don't know. I was expecting something else to happen. I don't know what that something else was. Don't ask me what that something else was. Don't ask me what the something else was. But I was expecting something else to happen in the match and that happened. It was not saying that the match was bad, but no shade or nothing like that. I'm not saying that the match was bad. I was just expecting something else to happen.
Speaker 1:I think that something else was like Kross trying to get Sami Zayn to hit him with a chair and do something illegal. That was something I was expecting. They never even teased anything. The only thing that happened was Kross was yelling at Sami to say he was a liar. That was it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I did like that point, though Put the audio next to the match. Let us hear what they're talking about just a little bit. They might be actually calling out next move, so we don't want to hear too much. Give us a little, something like that.
Speaker 1:Shout out to them too. Let's go ahead and get to the Queen of the Ring match Asuka versus Jade. The match could have been a lot better. I thought it was going to be a lot better. A little clunky. One of the matches was a little clunky, but hey, it happened. Jade Cargill is now your Queen of the Ring and she will be facing either Tiffany Stratton or Trish Stratus at SummerSlam. But we all know Naomi's going to play a some part in there. But clunky match, but we all know Naomi's going to play some part in there. Clucky match, but they got the job done. Shout out to J Cargill for being queen of the ring.
Speaker 2:But I said that that's what I started this off with was hey, man, that match was a little sloppy and I hated it. I hated it Because you get on line and there's so much hate for Jay Cargill they're not going to blame Oscar.
Speaker 2:Yo, it was so much hate for Jay Cargill and Jay, it didn't depend, the pen was Oscar was all the way up. You know what I mean? She rode her all the way up. She didn't have to do that. She should have probably just grabbed one leg, or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2:But I'm going to say something that I really don't want to say, but this is going to be Captain Hater coming out. I love the Black Queen. Just let me say that first. Let me start. You know, I love the Black Queen, just let me say that first. Let me start out with that. I love the Black Queen. Bruh. She shouldn't have won this match because I don't think she's ready for the main. She ain't ready to be top, top villain type situation. Now I do think her matching with person Tiffany Stratton might be better. Yeah, because I think they styles might work together a little bit better.
Speaker 1:Only issue with that one is Tiffany. She's still pretty new to the game. She's not a ring general like someone like if it was a Becky Lynch or Charlotte Flair that could help out Jade a little bit more. We will see.
Speaker 2:She wouldn't get. I don't know it don't get too much better ring general than Oscar, though.
Speaker 1:You're right, you're right, you're right. So I don't know, we'll see. I just know Naomi's going to play a part in that and probably Bianca's going to play a part in that. I'll be surprised if it's going to be Trish, but we'll talk about that next week.
Speaker 2:The other thing that I want to discuss as well and I'm interested in your thoughts on this the after the match promo that Jay gave and she talked about the booze and all of that. I thought it was good, right, I think it's. Jay needs to be a heel.
Speaker 1:Oh she did the best work as a heel. I mean I didn't watch a lot of AEW. I did watch some clips, kept up with it on social media. But from the little that I've seen of Jay from social media and the clips and the times I did turn on AEW, she made her best money when she was a heel.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think the heel tactics would work better with Shay and her being a babyface. Shay doesn't need a babyface, they need they like let this play out and then we need to go on and turn her heel and then let her consistently be a heel. She ain't not that it's saying she can't play babyface, but you fit better as a heel.
Speaker 1:Some people just fit better. Man Like Kevin Owens, he a cool babyface, that man a heel and he's the nicest person in the world.
Speaker 2:People say yeah, but you can see it with him too. He do give off like man I'm the coolest dude in the room, like the most laid-back dude in the room. Kevin Owens does give that off when you just watch him and you see him walk through Like. I've seen clips of him walking through the airport Like bro, it seems like the coolest dude in the room, like the most laid-back, chill dude in the room. But yeah, no, I think Jade, jade. I also don't like them overseas crowd.
Speaker 1:Cheat the melody right for some reason.
Speaker 2:I don't really know how I feel about that, but I'm trying. I don't like to be the dude that races everything, because sometimes stuff ain't racist, it's just how it is. It feels different with them three, them three black ones. I ain't going to lie to you, they do. I hope I'm wrong. That's all I can say. I hope I'm wrong, but it's just 100%. It feels different.
Speaker 1:All right. So next up, we just talked about who was crowned the queen of the ring. Then we got to talk about who was crowned the king of the ring and that was between Cody Rhodes and Randy Orton, and Cody Rhodes ends up with the crown and he now will face John Cena at SummerSlam in a rematch. I mean it was a cool match. I mean I was excited because this is one of the matches you've been waiting for for, like I said, three years. Cool is exciting. Uh, cody's power level is pretty high. That man kicked out of three RKOs. I understand it's Cody Rhodes, but kicking out of three RKOs is a little excessive. When it took, I think, one crossroads to beat Randy, it's a little excessive. Cody, I understand you, him, you the quarterback Three RKOs is a little excessive.
Speaker 2:People kick out of finishes way too easily. Yeah, a finisher is supposed to be a finisher for a reason. That's why it's called a finisher. There's no way a person should kick out of three finishers.
Speaker 1:Especially not a powered up move like the RKO. Maybe if it was a weaker move sure, RKO has been known as a one. And the RKO Maybe if it was a weaker move. Sure, RKO has been known as a one-and-donner, Bro.
Speaker 2:RKO is a historic finisher. Cody kicked out of three of them Come on man what we doing. Tell me what you think. Tell me if I'm wrong. Tell me if I'm wrong. Dan, these two last matches were Randy Orton. These were special matches Him versus John Cena and him versus Cody Rhodes. These are matches that have history in them. This is long story. You know storytelling. Do you feel like they underwhelmed?
Speaker 1:I enjoyed the John Cena one.
Speaker 2:Not the matches, but the build to the match.
Speaker 1:They put them in microwaves. They put both of them in microwaves. I understand why they put the John Cena one in the microwave because, hey, we got a year, we try to get this match in. Backlash is in St Louis, we got to put this in the microwave quick and we know John Cena, he got limited appearance. Backlash is in St Louis, we got to put this in the microwave quick and we know John Cena, he got limited appearance. He ain't going to be here every week. So, hey, throw it in the microwave, put it on one minute, let's get it cooking. Cody Rhodes they could have they been teasing it, but then it's all nil. They got a match Because back when Cody had the title, randy was no hop on the title, randy was no hop on the title. They've been teasing it a little bit, but then it just hey, we got the match happening. It was another. It was a organic way of getting there, but it wasn't an organic way of getting there, if that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it also didn't feel realistic because in fact, they already booked Randy Orton and John Cena as one last time. So, yeah, you knew, you knew Randy wasn't winning that match, so it was just a yeah, I don't put that together, cody and Randy, we'll give y'all something special over there. We'll give y'all something special over there. But it's really special if you know the winner, if you know what the outcome is going to be. I feel like, like I said, I wish they could have let it be a sandwich.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it would have been a little bit more exciting. It's going to make the time whenever Randy does face Cody for the WWE title. If it is, it's going to make it a little bit less special than it would have been the first time.
Speaker 2:And then what we got to talk about Randy Orton with the chair situation. He played hey, old school Randy came out, I'm going to sneak you with the chair. It really ain't the chair. I'm going to go do this turnbuckle, but then it backfired on him. That means heel Randy Orton's coming all right and he teased the punt.
Speaker 1:At this stage I'd be shocked if we get a heel, a full-on heel. Randy Orton, I think he's too much of a legend to really go heel. I mean he did say he's playing on wrestling until he's 50, so we still probably got seven, eight years of him. But I'd be at this point of his career. He's just, he's not a nostalgic guy, but he's a nostalgic guy. He's Randy Orton. Like he don't people go, even if he goes here, people going to cheer him. Because he's just, he's Randy Orton.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, I don't know about that. I think I feel like that's the sign of it might not come, because you know, sometimes Triple H, slow books, some stuff, it might not come this week, it might not come next week, but by next year Randy Orton going to be a heel.
Speaker 1:I think Cody will be the heel next year. I think it's about time for that. I'm a little bit tired of the babyface Cody At least me personally, From my perspective. I'm tired. I'm ready for them to shake it up a little bit.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I don't know if I'm really ready for Hill coming, because then it's like y'all already built him up as this babyface dude who's kicking out of three RKOs like you said.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, I don't know if I'm going to go crazy as a Hill.
Speaker 2:Who's going to beat Duke, I don't know, but I think he or Randy Orton's coming. I feel underwhelmed. I honestly feel like we got robbed of great buildup here. Randy Orton's coming, I feel underwhelmed. I honestly feel like we got robbed of great build-up for Randy Orton matches Two of them back-to-back. I feel like we got robbed.
Speaker 1:Put them both in my clothes and said here we eating it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then you really didn't think Randy Orton was going to beat John Cena and you knew he wasn't beating Cody, so it was kind of like, all right man, you have to put Randy Orton in matches at this point. And then the rumors is he's going to face Nick Aldis at some slam.
Speaker 1:They've been building that up for a minute. That's a match he need to win that one shoot.
Speaker 2:I mean he can go win it, but at the same time, what does that do? It just gives Randy Orton something to do.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's the point. Randy Orton has done it, pretty much done it all. That's the challenging part for those writers when they got somebody that's done it all, they in that writing room like dang, what can we do for him this time?
Speaker 2:It's got to be better than this.
Speaker 1:I don't disagree with you, you're right. You're right, I'm with you, you're right.
Speaker 2:I'm with you when you're right. It is All right, my man Go ahead.
Speaker 1:I know I went on there. I'm sorry. I'm just saying it is crazy. It does got to be better than this.
Speaker 2:My man go ahead Sorry.
Speaker 1:Speaking of people that's done it all. The main event, john Cena versus CM Punk, a tale of two halves, pretty much. The first half, john Cena, seeing Punk, is old, I mean you can see it. They clearly in their 40s, they not in their early 30s like they was when they first was feuding. It's not the same. But you know they still veterans, they still did what they needed to be done. And then the second half happened. You know a ref bump. Here comes Seth Rollins with the Money in the Bank briefcase. Apparently he had no intentions of cashing in, he just wanted to screw over CM Punk. Brian and Brian was out there. Penta came out there because I guess Penta got a little bit of beef with Brian. I was going to say he got beef out there because I guess Penta got a little bit of beef with Braun, I was going to say he got beef with the whole.
Speaker 2:whatever Seth Rollins Cruz's name is, they still don't have a name.
Speaker 1:by the way they need to get one. Then Sammy came out to help out Penta, Knocked out Braun, Braun, Breaker, CM Punk. They worked together to get rid of Bronson Reed. A little bit more back and forth. You know John Cena and CM Punk, you know they hugged. They did a little flashback to when John Cena went to heel, CM Punk was ready for Seth Rollins came in and tried to mess things up. He kind of got CM Punk's way. Cm Punk ate an AA. One, two, three, that was it. Tell us, tell us who has. Wasn't very exciting. But no, Seth Rollins came out and I'm like, ah, okay, I just want Seth Rollins to go ahead and catch that thing and get the title already. Man, Get one of them, because obviously that's the next step.
Speaker 2:I don't even know At this point. I know we'd have said it every WWE podcast we talk about, but they're self-proven man.
Speaker 1:I had so much high hopes for it. Now it's just Ron.
Speaker 2:Breaker feels like a crew. I had so much high hopes for it. Bron Breaker feels like a henchman now, like you said, yeah, don't feel he is. Bron Breaker was on a whole trajectory before he got in his crew and it just is gross. Yo look, either give them Braun and Bronson.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I was about to say Braun and Barker, even though that's Braun's name. Braun and Bronson. Either give them the tag team titles or let one of them go after the United States title, or whatever the case is, but put them two in their own storylines and not be Seth Rollins' henchmen.
Speaker 1:That's all they are right now. It's just sickening Because, like you said, brian Brecker, he was on a nice lecture that day. If you know, Intercontinental title usually is the title you get before you get to the big boy. He can take about 10 steps back since he lost the intercontinental title. He don't look like he's world championship material at this point, even though we know he got what it takes.
Speaker 2:He just ain't got it, I'm about to cut you off. Him and Seth Rollins was beefing, you remember that? And then he got hurt. Then, all of a sudden, he parted up with Seth Rollins and ain't nobody gonna explain why.
Speaker 1:They cool now he said it with Bronson he says oh, I like what you did to me, now I want you on my side. The thing with Bronson he went from being a henchman to a solo to a henchman to Seth, which he took him nice little lateral movement, so it doesn't feel as crazy with Bronson. With Brian Brecker, though, man, he was on the trajectory he had Took 10 steps back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now you worry, Brian Brecker really did take 10 steps back Bronson. Really I feel like he at least did take like four or five.
Speaker 1:What Brian Brecker is doing right now is basically what he should have been doing the second. He was called up yeah, because you knew he had. What Bron Breaker is doing right now is basically what he should have been doing the second.
Speaker 2:He was called up, yeah, because you knew he had it, he just needed to. He had the skills, he just needed to, you know, form the skills and develop his talents. But he could have did that. I know he did it in NXT, but he could have did that on man of the Rocks, like you said at somebody's entrance. But, man, if you don't give that man a tag team title or something because, let's be real, raw's tag team division well, what are we doing?
Speaker 1:We'll get there in a second.
Speaker 2:What are we doing? Go ahead.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll get there, but yeah, so outside of you know, brian, what's your thoughts on John Cena? Obviously he retained. And then John Cena versus Cody at SummerSlam you excited, because I'm not excited for it, not even a little bit. Not even a little bit, it's probably going to be night two too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you're right, it's going to be night two. I'm going to watch it because I mean it's SummerSlam. That's what I do. You know what I mean. But am I excited now? To be honest with you guys? Not even a little bit, I feel like the match is horrible too.
Speaker 1:At WrestleMania they got a little boy to clear. If that's all, I'm.
Speaker 2:It need to be in a cage or something. It need to be some type of. As far as John Cena and CM Punk, I feel like the match was good. Until we got to the second half, spencer came out with a walk. Even though I don't know, a lot of people were staring him up with a walk. I ain't gonna lie bro, I love the walk.
Speaker 1:I love the walk. I love the walk. But you gonna have to see me, dog. You gonna do the walk while I'm getting beat up. He gonna have to see me. That's his moment. You saw me get stomped out. You going to waste that 10 seconds doing that walk. He would have to see me.
Speaker 2:And then I did. My favorite part of the match, though, was the referee running down to John Cena. That was my favorite. That was my favorite part of the match. John Cena came out. John Cena gave him a brown burger. You know what I mean. John Cena gave the referee a brown burger.
Speaker 1:Didn't even see it coming.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, that was my favorite part of the match.
Speaker 1:Nope, nope. So that was Afternoon Arrivals, aka Night of Champions Okay show. If I had to give it a grade, I'd give it a C+. That was Afternoon Arrivals, aka Night of Champions Okay show. If I had to give it a grade, I'd give it a C+. It was cool. C plus, b minus somewhere in that range. It was cool. I did watch it Sunday morning so maybe that might affect my full feelings of it because I was a little woke up. First thing I did when I woke up no, because I watched it live.
Speaker 2:I feel like it was a B-B-minus. That being said, though, I posted this on Twitter and this is one of the things Chris was reacting to was, I feel like, because that was in the afternoon, they should have had like a build-up of AAA event that night. It's summertime, ain't no other competition. A lot of these people was complaining on Twitter about all these WWE events in the summertime and it's too many of them.
Speaker 2:I'm like, no, it's not, it's the time you get your bread, because there's no football going on. You get your money, bro, we live in America. Get your money when the football season's over. Bro, we live in America. Get your money when the football season's up. You ain't got no car. No offense to baseball, it's the dog, what they call them, the dog days of summer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:People get excited about baseball in the beginning and the end. You in the middle of baseball right now. You know it didn't help WNBA Me and you watching that, but I think they ain't really watching that.
Speaker 1:Even though they have been getting a little love, they not getting NBA, they definitely not getting NFL love.
Speaker 2:Exactly so. This is when wrestling should put on as many shows as they can. I like the fact that there's a Saturday night's main event and then an evolution the next night.
Speaker 1:And you got an AEW show in the afternoon on Saturday too. So this week is full of wrestling.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I like the fact I would have. I think it would have been dope if there was a AAA event marketing that night, or even a NXT, you know what I mean. I think it would have been dope.
Speaker 1:Before we get out of here, though, we do got to talk about. We're not going to talk too much about Evolution, but we are going to talk about Monday Night Raw and, specifically, man. We talked about a little bit of that tag team division. Yeah, I knew they had attacking titles. They had probably one of the best heel turns outside of John Cena in the last 12 months, and they absolutely did nothing. Best thing they was doing is their gear on them.
Speaker 1:They were showing their best thing they were doing and they was tweeting funny tweets. They had their funny moments, Really didn't do nothing with the titles, but they ended up losing it to Judgment Day. Finn Balor, then JD McDonough you know Triple X he loves his fractions and now Judgment Day, they have not all to go, but women's tag titles, men's tag titles and Dom Mysterio has their kind of titles. So I feel like that's part of the reason why he did it. Fraction has all to go part of it. But New, he did it. Fraction has all to go part of it. But New Day didn't do nothing with Tyler, this tag ring. They had so much potential, but I know you got some thoughts on it.
Speaker 2:See, and I wanted to ask you this Do you think that let's be real, kofi and Xavier? They killed the heel turn, but the execution of them being the tag team champions was bad. Do you think that was because of them or because of the lack of actual, credible tag teams on Raw?
Speaker 1:I think it's a little bit of both. I think the biggest thing that hurt them I felt like they should have got the titles immediately as soon as they did the heel turn, unless you was paying for the no commercials on Netflix. You didn't even know they was on the show because they was doing commercial promos. It was like, okay, what's going on with the New Day? It took them a while to get the titles. They finally got it at WrestleMania. I feel like they should have got it pretty much the next couple weeks after that heel turn to get them going. To keep the momentum high, they had them cool off. Then they got it and once they got it they didn't really do nothing with it. It took them a couple tries to beat the War Raiders to get the titles too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, didn't the War Raiders feel like? Now I don't even see them on TV. No, they ain't been on TV. Smackdown actually, for most they tag team doesn't where Raw doesn't. And I wanted to talk about this because I had an idea that came to me. You can tell me if I'm crazy. What if the New Day, when all of this, like Seth Rollins stuff was happening at the end of that match, what if the New Day came out and helped John Cena? Because you know they had a history with John Cena when they first was formed? What if they came out? If they still had the tag team fighters? Man, well, I think that's what they did Come out and help John Cena and maybe have a little not a fraction with John Cena, but we got your back type situation. You're not crazy. First off, only John.
Speaker 1:Cena, but we got your back type situation. You're not crazy. First off, the only John Cena proxy we got two technically John Cena proxies is the Rock and Travis Scott. They never there. They're not going to be there a lot. John Cena has a limited amount of dates. If you go back to what Roman Reigns and he got his limited amount of dates, he had Paul Heyman, he had the Usos. Even though he wasn't there, it felt like he was there. I think it would benefit them a lot to give John Cena some type of proxy, for even though when he's not there it feels like he's there, it's probably a little too late to get him an actual proxy and get them connected to where it feels like, okay, they connected to him. The man got 15 dates left. That's the craziest thing about it. 15 dates left and we ain't going to see him in them jorts again. Damn bro, that is that's, and it's July.
Speaker 2:It's July. You said he only got 15 left Because he ain't going to be there for next year. He ain't going to be there until, I think, like two weeks before SummerSlam.
Speaker 1:SummerSlam.
Speaker 2:Because he's not going to be there.
Speaker 1:He's not going to be there until like two weeks before SummerSlam. So we know he's going to do the PLEs, which I think there's maybe nine left PLEs and Saturday Night Men events. There's none of those left, so that leaves another six appearances where he's just going to show up and talk and leave, like we said, the Mockway Fuse. He's going to get the Mockway Fuse going. Hey, dude, show up, I want that title match. John Cena says yep, alright, I'll see you in a couple weeks. I ain't coming back.
Speaker 2:Is it now?
Speaker 1:Off the Coming back. Is it now? Sure, I'm just thinking off the top of my head. I know for sure there is a Saturday Night Event in Boston he's doing in December. Yeah, he's definitely doing some firework series. That is guaranteed Summer Slam, summer Slam, that's three. Whatever they're going to do in October, it's not going to be held in a sale, because that's what he's three. Whatever they're going to do in October, it's not going to be hell in a cell, because that's what it's usually it used to be back in the Vince days. It's going to be probably like Armageddon or some crap like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now they got rid of it too, but is that the one in Paris in October?
Speaker 1:There is something in Paris. Yeah, I don't know if that's the one in Paris, though, but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, I don't know if that's the one in Paris, though. Yeah, okay, then there's another Saturday. He ain't scheduled for this Saturday night's main event. It makes sense.
Speaker 1:He's probably going to do a couple. So I think it's probably somewhere between six to nine PLEs left. He's probably going to do those and then the rest, like I said, he's just going to show up. Whoever he's going to face is going to show up. He's like, hey, I want that. He's going to be. All right, let's go. That's what it's going to be, Unless he loses it at SummerSlam. Do you think there's a chance he loses the title at SummerSlam?
Speaker 2:I mean, at this point I really don't care, but as I'm dead, I think it's a possibility.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, I don't know. I really don't want to see John. I don't want to see Cody with the title again. Not that I don't want to see Cody with him. I would rather somebody else get the rub for beating John Cena for the title, because Cody don't need it. Like I said, he didn't kick down to three RKOs. His power level is high as it needs to be. He good. You, his power level is high as it needs to be he good. You're right. You're right, give that rub to somebody else. So I don't know, but it would have been nice to have New Dance's proxy. They would have made some great content in that ring with the mic in their hands, running down CM Punk, running down Randy Orton, running down Cody Rose, whoever. And if you don't know, xavier Woods and Cody got low-key real-life beef because they went to rival high schools Like that. But yeah, that'll do it for this episode of From Our Perspective.
Speaker 1:Glad you could join us in our review of Afternoon of Champions. I mean Night of Champions, these PLEs is coming. I mean Night of Champions, these PLEs are coming. We're getting your wish queue. Next week We'll talk about evolution. We'll predict and review evolution too. We'll talk about the Saturday Night Mining event. Gunther, just go ahead and do your thing. Go ahead and take Goldberg out. That's all I'm going to say. Get on with your boy, dion. Thank you for joining us. Please like, please subscribe. Leave a comment. Give us your grade of Knight of Champions. I said it'd be plus, q said it'd be minus. Give us what you thought about it and give us if you think Cody Rhodes is going to beat John Cena at some slim or not. Q go ahead and take us home.
Speaker 2:Man, you already know the vibes. It's your boy, mr Bell, aka Say your Name. Bonus Pod Might not put you to mob, and I want the PLEs because it's summertime. What else we got in the Zungle Bell? We got to feel this time somewhere. Shout out to WWE and we'll catch y'all on the next one.