WWE Elimination Chamber and Fastlane 2018 Review

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the podcast

arena. Coming to the ring at this time... Oh,

you didn't know? You know I better call somebody!

First, representing this week at Geek, and from

hearts unknown, he is... Mike, the Birdman, Don!

I am one hardcore Dio! TFG1 Blanchard! I got

four words for ya! Check out my ass! And from

the Great White North, here is your special guest

referee, Ryan... Hello and welcome to mayhem

Mike's this is episode 32 here on the geek cast

radio network and this week in geek I'm of course

tfg on Mike and joining me from all the way around

the world is Ryan the unevenful Merkley where

the hell are you? Auckland, New Zealand awesome

It's lovely. It's like 24 degrees today and sunny

and I'm recording a podcast on my phone Technology

has come so far in 10 years that actually phone

recorded podcasts are fairly decent at this point

We are here to talk about the elimination of

fast lane elimination chamber 2018 and fast lane

2018 on the road to WrestleMania After this we'll

do WWE 24 or 24 WWE whatever yet yet WWE 24 WrestleMania

and then it'll be WrestleMania itself with we're

on special guests with that Mike the Birdman

dot is gonna return and we may even have another

special guest in Alex Ricci aka Turd or treasure

on Twitter. I don't know why he chose that name

gravy moose was so much better anyway inside

tonight. Elimination chamber. Oh boy. I Don't

ever watch the pre -show. So the pre -show was

gallows and Anderson defeating the Miztourage

Yeah, yeah We started off with the Women's Elimination

Chamber match for the Raw Women's Championship.

Alexa Bliss, the champion, defeated Bayley, Mandy

Rose, Mickey James, Sasha Banks, and Sonya Deville.

This match was cool as hell. First ever Women's

Elimination Chamber, and it was a good match.

Yeah, it was. I think I said this before during

the Royal Rumble, that when you've never... done

any of these as they have clearly not because

it's the first one ever yes it's nuts to me that

it can actually be good and the women's rumble

you know it wasn't perfect and this one wasn't

perfect either but for the first one ever pretty

damn good I mean yeah I know I was fairly impressed

with everything and I wasn't surprised by the

outcome I figured they were gonna have Alexa

win yeah i think that they were job of everybody

looking good at least two absolutely yeah i think

they were going to have most of it's not all

of the champions retained through mania at least

and then maybe mix it up at mania and figure

out stuff obviously that didn't happen with the

u .s. championship but we'll talk about that

later uh... but no alexa bailey mandy mickey

sasha and and sonia absolutely love watching

all of these women in this match Each one of

them obviously has their own moveset and whatever

else, but they brought something so different

to the Elimination Chamber atmosphere, and it

was just so fun. The only thing I'm kind of sick

of, and hopefully we can get an interview with

him one of these days, but I'm really sick of

Cory's whole anti -Sasha thing, like, oh, she's

gonna destroy her best friend, she's gonna do

this to Bailey, she's gonna do that, like, I'm

kind of sick of that already. Yeah, that's been

going on for a while now. It looks like it'll

come to a head finally, but yeah Yeah, also should

would retain as well Just because this is the

last raw and smackdown pay -per -views before

many after this But I mean after mania they're

merged remember the oh, that's right the single

pay -per -views again. That's right. Yeah We're

going back to everybody on the same one. That

means we're going to have like ten announcers,

not including the German announce team, the Spanish

announce team, the Russian announce team, and

the whatever, Japanese announce team. Don't forget

the fact the pre -shows will be an extra two

hours. Get everybody on the card. Not that we

talk about the most of the time anyway, you know,

I'll talk about the pre -show for something notable

like WrestleMania There's probably gonna be a

match or two that's fairly important on the pre

-show that always happens But yeah for the most

part they're kind of throwaway ways to get people

on the card Yeah, I'm basically saying this right

now For as long as this podcast goes on and as

long as we're covering the pay -per -views the

only show that i will actually watch pre -show

stuff for is wrestlemania because as we've already

said in the last three years these pay -per -views

are too damn long like way too damn long like

two hours three hours fine when it gets to four

it's kind of teetering the fact that as we said

last year that wrestlemania 33 was seven hours

two damn long and i've already said i think it

was either an episode thirty or thirty one or

might have been twenty nine i don't know we're

doing the may young classic for all i'd i'd all

of them probably i'd beds wrestlemania this year

is going to be seven seven and a half eight hours

all that money on it because it probably will

be because look at everything they're doing they've

got Stephanie, Triple H, Kurt, Ronda. Whoa, whoa,

whoa. Save it for our WrestleMania podcast. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. We'll go through the card then. Speaking

of Stephanie and Ronda, but that's later. Yeah.

So Zara and Sheamus defeating Titus Worldwide,

Apollo and Titus O 'Neil with Dana Brooke. How

do you feel about them using Dana in a different

capacity than being Charlotte's bitch? They haven't

had a lot to afford to do so yeah the role it's

interesting to me like I remember especially

the raw reunion raw 25th anniversary where she

was clearly giving it her all and she clearly

gives it her all with all of these roles and

most of the really good wrestlers will tell you

that Whether you like something or not you got

to try to get behind it to make the most of all

your opportunities When you're on screen, and

I feel like she's doing that right, but yeah

the whole Titus thing is kind of I mean they

built them up just for This match and since then

their push is clearly over they've lost a few

matches since then so I mean, the problem is

just that the bar has nobody to face. There's

nobody left on Raw. They really haven't built

up the revival who I'm really high on. I really

like because I watched them in NXT. But aside

from them, there's not a lot left for them to

face. They've kind of run through everybody.

Now, we'll see about WrestleMania because of

course, Well, like I said, we'll save it for

the WrestleMania podcast, but yeah, she could

end up facing Braun which is an interesting idea

But yeah, they've kind of run through everybody.

This was just another it was kind of a throwaway

I don't think anybody really expected that Titus

Worldwide was gonna win the belts here. No It

was still a solid match. Oh, yeah, absolutely

rap on it or anything It's just I was fairly

certain of the outcome and yeah yeah absolutely

we then have Asuka defeating Nia Jax man you're

right like I'm gonna have to eventually go back

and watch some of her NXT stuff cuz damn what's

weird is she hasn't had a match of the same sort

of caliber as her NXT stuff too they've been

good matches but she hasn't necessarily pulled

off a great one part of that too is They haven't

let her look dominant. She didn't get beat up

a lot in her matches. Yeah Which I mean is intentional.

They've had her face Naya a bunch of times including

right after this they had another Match as well,

which Asuka won, but yeah, very good match Naya's

gotten way better. Oh, yeah she has she debuted

on Raw and much much better than when she debuted

in NXT and Oscar's just really been great from

the outset yeah and yeah they put on a solid

match this was another one that i was pretty

sure they were gonna have osco win but again

like the previous one they still put on an entertaining

match this one was a little better than most

this was one of the better matches on the whole

card i'd probably put the two elimination chambers

just ahead of it but especially the men's which

we'll get to but anyway yeah i like this match

What I cannot wait for is when Kairi Sane eventually

comes up to main card and somehow she and Asuka

have some sort of feud and I think the reason

why Asuka tends to get beaten up during the matches

is because she has the whole attitude of no one

is ready for Oscar and she ends up doing her

final moves and finishers and all of that and

they want her to win. I love Naya but I just

don't see Naya having some sort of winning streak

run on anything. I see Oscar doing that more

than Naya. booked to do that for a lot longer,

yeah. But I think keeping them apart now is smart,

because it looks like Asuka's moved over to SmackDown.

And Nia is going to get Alexa for WrestleMania,

presumably. And I think they'll let her kind

of rule the roost for a bit. But we'll see. Yeah,

that's good. It also depends on when Rousey's

ready. But anyway, we'll get to that momentarily.

yeah then we had woken Matt Hardy defeating Bray

Wyatt so I just talk about this a whole lot I

just can't I just I like though I like the broken

woken whatever whatever it is yeah broken Matt

Hardy my issue with it is if it doesn't lead

to some sort of repackaging of Bray it's kind

of pointless because I mean Bray has just been

Jobbing it out for so long and hasn't won in

forever. So if this doesn't lead to something

for him It's kind of pointless. It's just another

feud. He's probably gonna lose. Yeah To the girl

who hates those hot dog leg selfies and just

wants to snap up a hot deal Hashtag rest assured

at summer girl 38 message received Enter the

working men who hasn't had a vacay at what feels

like forever. It's just been so busy the rest

assured busy be I got you Please don't call me

that whatever your plan in this summer for a

better rate make it maudrin Join now and save

ten euro at maudrin hotels .com terms and conditions

apply It's just sad Like I get it Jeff went away

or something happened to Jeff and Matt's just

there doing his singles thing and whatever but

like Jeff had a Jeff underwent a pretty serious

like shoulder right right and he was injured

for quite some time and I understand that and

I understand them needing to find something for

Matt to do but I Don't think this was the right

for me personally watching Matt Hardy. This was

not the direction I Had well, I don't know if

you saw the final deletion They did on raw No,

I have not watched it yet. I've seen the TNA

impact one I need to go and watch that but I

like the idea that wrestling can still be Over

-the -top and sometimes unrealistic. I think

it's fine to have a sort of a mix of Those things

because if you do one for too long it just loses

its meaning and so it's nice to mix it up with

the other so i think it works out the issues

just yet and to me it just depends on where they

go with this if there's a reason for it yes they

go anywhere with it that's the thing uh... i

don't have any clue like ever since it was a

great yeah actually really like him i like this

character he's been so misused that yes they're

gonna have to do something with them it's so

funny and i i i don't want to get Heat for this

I can think of is repackage him as the next American

badass I know I know that's kind of bronze thing

At this point. Yeah, speaking of Braun Strowman.

I just got his funko pop tonight as we've recorded

this episode Yes, the men's elimination chamber

match for the WWE Universal Championship had

Roman Reigns def We should probably mention the

segment segment. Oh match at signing. Oh, yes

All right. So, I mean we had Stephanie Hunter

Kurtz and Ronda Rosie out for the contract signing

Surprise surprise the table gets broken at a

contract signing never would have seen that coming

but I I like the idea of Rousey not being added

to the card immediately for WrestleMania and

having her, say, beat Alexa or Charlotte or somebody

for the title. Right. I'm not okay with another

year of Hunter kind of inserting himself into

the main event or a main event of WrestleMania.

Yeah. Because it seems like it just keeps happening.

and same with Stephanie really and as for Rhonda

I mean her I'm saying I mean way too much again

but anyway she oh she needs some work on the

mic she does yeah she's got a lot of personality

and when they have her do this sort of silent

badass thing it definitely works well but her

kind of enthusiasm is shining through maybe a

little too much because she's a little too smiley

and yes I don't blame her for being happy to

be there if you've ever heard interviews with

her she's obviously a fan and it's something

she's obviously always wanted to do so I don't

want to criticize her too much because I'd probably

feel the same way if I were in her shoes and

I mean people have heard me talk on this podcast

and god knows I can't do interviews but she yeah

yeah she'll get she'll get a lot of work in at

the performance center before having to do it

again. The important thing is that her in -ring

stuff looks good. And I think she'll be fine

at that. So the segment overall did what it needed

to do, but oof, there's some not great acting

there going on. yes just for her i don't know

kirk was like one of these big -time i don't

think it's for me and i think he's just i don't

know if he's having issues getting he back into

the swing of things because he used to be so

great on the mic and always just sort of himself

okay so this is a shadow of that since then he

flubs a lot of words and i know it's tough but

yet he Just don't know what it is. He used to

be nearly flawless Yeah, and the thing of it

is is I recently went back because you know Facebook

and their memories thing and what on this day

yada yada yada It was like last year this this

past well by the time this airs this past week

of the week before two weeks before one of the

days popped up where I liked the The first meeting

of Angle and Cena the whole ruthless aggression

thing Yeah, I'm like damn Kurt in your prime.

You actually did great on the mic Absolutely,

and I wonder if a lot of that is just the scripting

though because back then they just made it up

as they went now It's pretty much written for

them. I wonder how do you? Is it the scripting

or is it him when he says WrestleMania 21? Oh,

I mean 31 like seriously he said wrestlemania

twenty one and then he corrected himself if you've

got to keep all these lines and things in your

head and you're not a actor normally it's probably

not easy no and i'm not trying to give him too

much crap but holy crap and also is overall i

thought it couldn't be happier to see him back

on oh absolutely wb tv and back on good terms

and everything else absolutely a Yeah, be interested

to just hear him if they let him kind of go off

because I bet you probably be It would sound

a lot more like his old stuff was it? Yeah, instead

of it seems like I Think when you get used to

being able to just be yourself on the mic. Yeah,

we really hard beat somebody else's words for

you Yeah and part of that skit or yeah was it

that skit or was it the not I forget part of

it recently where Stephanie's like oh Kurt but

your kids you're this you're that and I'm like

no please do not start doing the Big Show shame

storyline like I hated that storyline when they

did that shit to Big Show I don't want that shit

happening to Kurt Angle like come on Like, drop

that! No. Big show's been involved, man, I feel

like there's a show there somewhere. Big show's

been involved in so many face -heel turns, A.

And then B, so many bad storylines. Everything

from the boss man digging up his father's grave

to... oof. Anyway. So the men's elimination chamber

match, this is for a match at WrestleMania championship

match at WrestleMania Roman Reigns, Braun Strowman,

Elias, Finn Balor, John Cena, Seth Rollins, and

The Miz. Okay, way too many guys. Too many guys,

but man, I thought they pulled it off really

well. They did. I really liked this match and

as somebody, I criticized the earlier ones because

I felt like I knew the outcome. Think I like

most other people knew Roman was gonna win this

but man they made it entertaining as hell and

they sure They sure made a lot of guys look good

doing it. I mean Finn had Roman pinned for example

at one point. Yep easily, but got stopped Strowman

just looked like a monster the entire time The

only one they didn't necessarily let look good

for a period of time Was the Miz and that's okay

because it's part of his character. Yeah, you

know, he's supposed to be the dastardly heel

that Doesn't win in a stand -up fight a lot.

He you know cheats and disease. So I don't know

I thought Overall, I mean obviously Roman looks

good because he won Yeah, they did a great job

of making Stroman look just like a monster and

I thought Finn came off really well, too They

let him look really good. Seth and John just

were there like Seth was doing his best he really

really was. John I felt like he was just like

if this is your supposed quote unquote and we'll

talk about this later about the one chance for

your road to WrestleMania or your last or second

to last or third to last chance to get to WrestleMania

you were and i know johnson works his ass off

i'm not trying to sit here and say the guy doesn't

i'm just saying in this match the way that it

was written so roman would the way that it was

predetermined so roman would win john look like

crap but i think that's the idea they let him

uh... a so we'll get to fast lane briefly but

i mean yeah he redeemed himself redeemed himself

at fast lane i think this was just a storyline

thing and same With Rollins it was because I

mean they let them have the over an hour. Yeah

on raw. So I think they let that was the idea.

They knew there were so many guys in this so

they let some guys look good who didn't get the

chance to. And then yes some of the other ones

went by the wayside but would get a chance either

later on or in a different place because I thought.

yes i agree completely i think i think seen it

was just there in this match yeah but he definitely

wasn't just there in the fast lane match i mean

he got to open it by yeah dropping everybody

yeah yeah so we'll get to that in a minute here

but um roman winning really like like i get it

roman has uh i knew it was gonna happen but like

okay but like seriously i know brawn hasn't really

maybe made his He's made his presence known obviously,

but maybe he hasn't earned enough chops yet to

get a universal championship run but seriously

Roman and and Brock again come on and And that's

the only criticism. I think that's fair is that?

Strowman has not and again we would have had

a Strowman Brock match for a second time too

and the first one for them was not great It was

not great, but I would rather watch and to see

if Braun could beat Brock to get that I would

rather watch that then rewatch Roman try to take

it again I think a few years on I really think

Reigns has improved so he has absolutely he has

it's not about My disdain of this outcome is

not it has nothing to do with actually him it's

not his fault it's remember that the people just

randomly booing Reigns all the time yeah no I

know I like Roman I do I'm one of the probably

very few people that like Roman Reigns because

obviously the shield and all that but yeah I

flipped on him as well too though I think yeah

I don't know it's just he's improved so much

and yes he does deserve it but if there was any

other person other than Lesnar with like like

if this was like Roman and Finn or Roman and

Owens or Roman and anybody else as the Universal

Championship that we had not seen when was that

WrestleMania 31 33 I don't even remember when

the hell that was with with Brock and Braun or

not Brock Brock and Roman but like To me, the

more interesting storyline match would be Brock

and Braun because, hello, Monster Among Men vs.

The Beast Incarnate? Come on, that's a more marketable

match. I think, I don't know. The hell do I know?

I'm just a guy that insults Jeopardy contestants.

but I mean Braun has gotten himself over huge

I guess they just think he has more work to do

or maybe they just I don't know maybe they just

wanted something for the tag teams to do because

it seems like he's getting involved there I don't

know we'll see but I just I didn't have a problem

with the match overall for elimination chamber

my only issue with it is and this is a stupid

issue so if you took out the elimination chamber

matches it wasn't a great pay -per -view but

since the name of the thing is elimination chamber

it would be stupid to take out those matches

so that's a pretty dumb complaint especially

considering i whined about the what was it oh

the tlc or whatever not using tables letters

and chairs yet where they didn't use any yeah

so no uh... i think now this was a spree solid

pay -per -view it was the only fools yeah i kind

of wish there could have been more movements

or title change or something really unexpected

happening but yeah not gonna not gonna shoot

them down for kind of going to see fruits especially

with wrestlemania coming up yeah return uh...

uh... elimination chamber i'll probably give

it a four out of five i guess it's exactly where

i was going to go just a solid four out of five

is enjoyable i mean i didn't yet have any complaints

i didn't want to wander off at anything so uh...

alright so fast lane uh... very slowly as as

yeah as monsoon season breaks here so fast lane

i just want to preface this this was the best

fast lane of the three that have happened yep

but that's because the other ones were god -awful

exactly so alright anyway go ahead the pre -show

we started with fandango and tyler breeze versus

ty dillinger and mojo raleigh chad gable and

sheldon benjamin Uh, oh no, uh, Fandango, Tyler

Breeze, and Ty Dillinger defeated Mojo Raleigh,

Chad Gable, and Sheldon Benjamin. Supposedly

Gable is gonna be, supposedly Gable and Benjamin

are probably gonna split up and Gable's gonna

get another push. Um, supposedly. Gable's got

talent. And obviously Sheldon has talent, so

don't mind that. It's funny that we didn't mention

this, but I mean, Jason Jordan, the injury kinda

kiboshed. It seemed like they were finally starting

to go somewhere with him as a bad guy. Yeah,

but the injury really oof They've had bad luck

with injuries big cast has finally just been

cleared But they were getting behind him and

then he got injured. Let's see on the bright

side for him though Man, he's completely separate

from Enzo now for sure. That's well, yeah uh...

let's see i don't think that's a name they'll

mention anytime soon no uh... let's see here's

the thing did casket injured before or after

money in the bank after he got injured on the

raw remember he went for a big that's that's

right for his knee on the wall that's right to

have it like order if that hadn't happened and

Cass was the one to win money in the bank. Like

if he was the one to win money in the bank and

he had that contract, even if he got injured

and he made like his comeback at WrestleMania,

that would have been epic. But because they did

that whole shit with Corbin losing the damn thing.

Still, well we'll get to him momentarily. Yeah,

momentarily. Opening match, Shinsuke Nakamura

defeating Rusev with aid in English. I'm sick

of Rusev Day. Really? I like the thing, I'm more

sick of Aiden English talking about Rusev Day.

I should note that as of recording this right

now, here in New Zealand, it is in fact Rusev

Day. But yeah, this was a good match. Very good

match. I would not have expected these two to

have that solid of a match together because they've

got completely different styles and everything

else. But no, it was quite good. It was a good

opening match. But having said that, at some

point they have to get behind Rusev. I mean,

letting him... joke around and kind of be himself

more the fans are really getting behind him i

don't think it's just the rusev day thing i think

it's the fact that you can tell he's kind of

having fun and he's a guy you want to cheer for

right now and they should give the fans a reason

to cheer for him instead of making him lose every

week yep at least let him win a couple times

and see where he's going. Maybe put him into

the US title picture or something like that.

Yeah, again, that would be kind of cool. No,

sadly not. Speaking of the US title, Randy Orton

defeats Bobby Rude. I liked Bobby as the champion.

I thought that was cool. I like Bobby overall

anyways. Having Randy win it for the first time

ever is kind of cool, I guess. i'm just glad

that that what's his name good old what's his

name gender is nowhere like he's there but he's

nowhere near an actual match in this pay -per

-view uh... well actually he has set it up now

for wrestlemania I will get to it in the WrestleMania

thing. The setup for that match has been not

good or enjoyable with everybody just doing the

same thing every single week. And Jinder just

being Jinder, Randy being, to be blunt, unmotivated

Randy. And Ruud's the only guy who's really given

it in that feud. But yeah, it was nice to see

Randy win. uh... they put on a good match it's

neat to see the two of them in the same ring

because yes forever it seems like i would never

happen but yeah it was a very good match both

of them were amazing on the moves that they did

and everything else and they worked well together

so that's a good matches but no great ones which

tends to be the fast lane problem and then well

they have other issues Natalia and Carmella defeating

Becky and Naomi so I feel bad but the there were

a lot of sloppy spots in this match yes there

were and it's weird because you forget sometimes

that Carmella is actually pretty good wrestler

and she's got a good handle on her character

and I like how they scripted the ending but this

was not a great match and it was just kind of

a throw away it was there's no aside from getting

them on the card which again i have no issues

with you know i'm fine with all of them they

all deserve to be on pay -per -view cards and

that kind of thing but you need some sort of

setup or you need a reason for me to care yeah

and i i feel like Feel like Becky is like They've

forgotten about her like they they're doing this

whole thing with Ruby riot and the riot squad

and and all of that and And it's weird and it's

weird because on the other side you have the

Naya Alexa feud But they've devoted a good amount

of time and story to Sasha Bailey as well Yeah,

like they can't pull off to store Worry lines,

they just haven't done a great job of it exactly

And then we had the Usos versus the New Day Which

ended in no contest this was for? the Smackdown

tag team championship I Love watching these two

teams work, but what the hell was the point of

this? Well the set of the blood brothers. Oh,

that's true. Yeah, it was and I mean it was a

good set up it established it it just didn't

result in a great match or anything, but it definitely

pushed the storyline forward, so I'm okay with

that. It's good that they're finally allowing

the Bludgeon Brothers to get involved in something

meaningful instead of just beating up nobodies

every week. But I'm curious how that's gonna

go at the pay -per -view. Like I said, we'll

talk WrestleMania another time. Yeah, I don't

know how that's gonna go. I'm glad that they're

doing... that they've let them out of the cage,

so to speak. Because the Usos, the New Day, and

the Bludgeon Brothers are probably the three

best tag teams on SmackDown, I guess? I'd say

so. It should be fun, at the very least, because...

there's Somebody new in the mix because I mean

you've seen who so is new day a bunch of times

and well It's been great. I have no issue with

that It's nice to get some new blood in there.

Absolutely Then we had the women's Smackdown

Championship match Charlotte versus Ruby riot

This was fun Was way better than I thought it

would be because they never really presented

Ruby as a Great threat, but they did a good job

in the match of storytelling and I think it was

definitely Ruby's best match since she came up.

Oh, yeah, absolutely it was and both women looked

good. There was a couple of The spots that seemed

a bit off but overall it's one of the better

matches on the whole card Yeah, it was and I

really love the back -and -forth between Charlotte

and Ruby leading up to it and before the match

and things like that like that was really cool

Like really dug that And then we end with the

six -pack challenge for the WWE Championship

AJ Styles versus Cena Owens Zayn Ziggler and

Baron Corbin So too many guys, but they basically

took Corbin and Ziggler out of it early and often

Yeah, at one point they randomly started fighting

in the crowd, which doesn't make any sense But

hey, it was a way to get them Out of the way

for the finale Yeah, which would see Shane screwing

first Owens who had powerbombed Cena and then

Zane who hits Owens and then of course We had

our winner AJ Styles who came in after getting

Didn't you get a aid through a table? Yeah, which

put him out for a good portion of the match It

was a good match for the number of people, but

it did very little. All it really did was try

to move the Owen Zane storyline forward a bit,

which it didn't necessarily do until the next

Tuesday night either. Yeah. Enter the working

men who hasn't had a vacay at what feels like

forever. It's just be so busy. Rest assured busy

B. I gotcha. Please don't call me that. Whatever

you're planning this summer for a better rate

make it Maldrin. Join now and save 10 euro at

MaldrinHotels .com. Terms and conditions apply.

I don't know it was an odd it's just an odd match.

And we've seen the Shane versus Owen Zane stuff

time and time before. So at the time, it was

kind of annoying because I kind of wondered where

they were going to go with it because it just

seemed to be a retelling of the same story. Now,

obviously, we know things changed significantly.

Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even know where they were

going to go with this whole Owen Zane Shane thing

at the time. They're fired. I like that Owens

changed his Twitter handle back to his old Indy

slash real name. Oh Did he I know yeah like trying

to trying to trying to sell that, you know, he's

unemployed Also, they've also they've been taken

off of WWE calm Hmm Well, damn yeah cuz as a

recording I don't things like that yeah as of

this recording i have not finished this past

weeks uh... ron smith i have not finished the

uh... nineteenth and twentieth uh... episodes

of her on smackdown yet i have not had time i

haven't for obvious reasons obviously here but

just now uh... but the a .j. seen a own zane

ziegler baron match i like that i thought it

was cool i was kinda hoping john would win but

I get it you know cuz furthering this storyline

of well and looking for a match yeah they're

furthering that storyline and how he's doing

it is simply amazing you can tell that you go

through failure alone trust me I know where I'm

at I've said it before a person's character is

not judged when they ride the wave of success

When everyone chants their name and you want

to be their friend No, your character is put

to the test when your back is against the wall

And for me that time is now I Spent five five

feeling sorry for myself and then right after

that I began to move forward. My last words last

night where I will figure it out and that is

my road to WrestleMania. I thought it would be

the Royal Rumble. I failed. I didn't give up.

I thought it would be the elimination chamber.

I failed. And for five minutes I thought it was

over. And every single one of you can relate

to this because this is what's difficult about

failure. And this is why no other WWE superstar

will step in this ring in front of all of you

and the world watching. and say out loud for

everyone to hear that I failed because when And

you can hear it at home because when you say

you fail the disappointment is on you It is your

fault and you go through failure alone But failure

has made me who I am today failure gives you

two choices you stay down or you get up Well,

I'm up and I am fired up because I am and just

plain old do something that i should have done

a long time ago and that is put out a wrestlemania

challenge to the undertaker after this happened

he's like okay well guess I have no other option

and They told me not to do this, but I'm gonna

see him punk it and do it anyway He didn't say

that obviously but like stage of them all. You

want WrestleMania, that is WrestleMania. And

that match is not happening. Between John and

now Roman, because I've seen part of this past

Monday night's episode. March 19th, we're off

and the whole Roman thing coming out and the

suspension and blah blah blah blah like I'm like

hey They're taking a page out of CM Punk's book

and having wrestlers actually, you know Be the

the rebels kind of a thing Not to mention the

Stone Cold book as well. But yeah, it's just

yeah a good job setting up the stuff for WrestleMania

It's just these two especially fast lane. It's

a lot hurt because it was mostly set up. Yeah

So we'll get into our WrestleMania predictions

and stuff next time but yeah, they let's even

look good at least I mean in all the a's off

the start they Anytime he gets to fight styles

one -on -one. It's gonna be good. Oh, yeah They

have great chemistry and they're great workers

together Yeah So yeah, I don't know it it was

a solid match just I don't know I Was disappointed

with you know more Shane interference. I mean

why was he even out there? There's no reason

for the GM to just sit ringside in a chair For

a match that there's already six guys in yeah,

really? That's just not even So I mean yeah just

I realize it was for the storyline that kind

of thing, but just we've seen it all before I

and again I now understand why they wanted to

do it there because the big news of the week

of course is Bryan Danielson aka Daniel Bryan

Is cleared and seemingly healthy again, which

is really nice to see That's right. Yeah, it

was her It was heartbreaking when he retired.

I mean, he could tell he was. It was, yeah. And

he's a hard guy to not want to get behind. So,

yeah, they've done a... Well, like I said, we'll

get into it, the WrestleMania stuff, but yeah,

they've done a good job of... Hoof, man, did

the crowd ever hate Owens and Zayn on SmackDown

for mercilessly pummeling him. Yep. Also, man,

if you're gonna bring a guy back from serious

injury that kind of thing Maybe don't give him

the apron power bomb and a severe beating. Oh,

I know, right? Also not to mention the power

bomb he gave Shane onto that equipment looked

Insanely painful. I don't know if Shane just

sold it really well or man I'm hoping he sold

that really well, because damn, if that didn't

look like he was gonna die. Yeah, it looked like

he was coughing from the pain. Yeah, he was.

It did, yeah. Um... Yeah. God, fast lane. I was

gonna say two and a half out of five, but I'll

give it a three, I guess. Yeah, I'm gonna say

I'm gonna generously give it a three. Yeah. It

wasn't great, but it wasn't good either. It wasn't

so hard. I don't know It was way better than

the others, but it still wasn't great. Yeah,

exactly So far according to my info here There

is no and This is only updated. I don't know

when it was updated, but um We've got 11 things

for WrestleMania, okay, we've got brock and reigns

we've got a jane shinsuke we've got the miz seth

and finn for the intercontinental we've got randy

and bobby and gender versus for the u .s. alexa

and naya for the raw women's charlotte and oscar

for the smacked out women's is our own shameless

versus braun stroman and to be determined for

the tag team raw belt uh... they're doing the

cruiser final vacant cruiserweight championship

thing uh... Angle Rousey way for the smackdown

Which three way for smackdown three way for the

smackdown tag titles. Oh Yeah, the tag titles.

It's not listed here yet. I don't know. Yeah.

Yeah, it's not We're good. Yeah, I was the angle

and Hunter stuff Yeah, and then the women's battle

royal WrestleMania and then Andre the giant memorial

battle royal those two will definitely be free

show probably yeah uh... and i i really want

to watch those for that like i want to watch

the under the giant battle uh... more about a

while what things that listed here yet because

it has happened yet seen a taker like i'm really

surprised that that's a little like the other

one that's not listed is the oen scene she and

shane thing chain brian which i think is possible

now so Yeah, and so just according to my information,

like you said, the tag thing isn't listed here

and the Shane thing isn't listed here and neither

is the Taker. That would put it at 14 matches.

I mean, obviously some of it's going to be on

the pre -show, but let's just say 14 matches

for WrestleMania overall, including pre -show

stuff. Like, WrestleMania is going to be eight

and a half, not, yeah. If each one is half an

hour, that's seven hours. That's pretty good.

Also, you gotta assume they're gonna have somebody

come back and host it or appear, like The Rock

or Austin or whoever. They always do something

like that. Oh, we forgot if they do anything

with Bray and Matt. So that's another thing to

add in. Oh, Bailey Sasha. Figure that'll happen.

Yeah. So by my estimation, I believe the event

will be at least 38 hours long. Yeah, probably.

I'd say 40, but yeah. I don't have time for WrestleMania

anymore. like your last one arson basically well

the the last one took me two days to watch and

i wasn't even like care about what you're together

at that point and now you know it's like what

the hell people like seriously uh... way i'm

gonna make my cat watch it and give me the gist

of it uh... we'll see how that goes So next week,

I guess we'll return for a WrestleMania predictions

Yeah, next will be we're gonna talk WrestleMania

WWE 24 WrestleMania the network special and we'll

do predictions in that episode and then it'll

be episode 34 will be WrestleMania 34. I didn't

plan that at all folks sure you did I don't know

I don't know so if you did or didn't probably

not Knowing me probably I did So yeah, that's

what's going on here in Mayhem Mikes. We may

have special guests for WrestleMania, as I said.

I won't be on the phone. Yeah, that's true. Where

are the people who find you online, sir? At Nightbeats,

on Twitter. Hey, you remembered. The only time

I'll get it right is on my phone. That's funny.

Am at TF2 and Mike on Twitter you can follow

at geek cast radio and at this week geek for

each networks perspective things They're doing

a whole bunch of stuff over at this week geek

so check them out as well I Don't know it Trying

to think what do I want to close with I think

I'll close with John's challenge, so that's when

you'll you guys will hear the audio so we're

closing with John Cena's challenge to The Undertaker!

See you next time, folks. You just made the list!