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00:00 Welcome to the WrestleTalk News, I'm Pete Quinnell.

00:08 Since CM Punk's firing from AEW a few days ago, chatter in the wrestling world has been

00:12 focused mainly in his direction.

00:15 Speculation on what he might say, where he might go and what he might do next, including

00:18 of course, a potential return to WWE.

00:21 There's a lot of factors that would need to be worked out before that can happen of

00:25 course, but this wouldn't be the first time a WWE return could be on the cards for Pepsi

00:30 Phil.

00:31 After Brawl Out last year, while Punk was at home recovering from an injury and things

00:34 were still a little dicey between him and TK, Punk reportedly wanted to return to WWE.

00:40 This comes from Fightful Select who mentioned that around December 2022, according to those

00:44 close to Punk, he was open to the idea of leaving AEW, heading back to WWE and specifically

00:50 coming back in the Royal Rumble match of this year.

00:54 One of the rumoured ideas for Punk, and take note of that, rumoured?

00:58 None of this is confirmed with Punk or anyone close to him.

01:01 Regardless, one of the rumoured ideas that WWE talent had heard about was that Punk would

01:05 return in the Rumble match and face the person who eventually eliminated him at WrestleMania.

01:11 That person being...

01:12 Kevin Owens.

01:14 Considering that Owens faced Roman Reigns on that show and went on to main event night

01:18 one of WrestleMania 39 anyway, I think he did alright.

01:20 It's worth noting though that Fightful Select also says that they've not heard of any

01:24 traction to WWE being interested in this return, or if AEW were considering letting him go

01:29 either.

01:30 But now of course, they have.

01:31 And while public opinion has fallen down on multiple sides, various people continue to

01:36 have their own take on the situation.

01:38 For example, AEW's own Mark Henry, who mentioned on Busted Open Radio that...

01:44 The problem is solved now that Punk is gone.

01:47 This came as a response to Henry being asked if he thinks AEW will be better off without

01:51 Punk, to which he first said...

01:54 Yes.

01:57 On Raw last night, which Luke will have a review of here shortly, Gunther defended his

02:00 Intercontinental Championship once again against Chad Gable, and it was...

02:05 Good.

02:06 Shocking news.

02:07 Many people, me included, expected the match to be in a featured spot on the Payback Premium

02:11 Live event, but instead it was on Raw.

02:13 Now the reason for this has been revealed.

02:15 According to Fightful Select, the primary reasons why the Intercontinental match wasn't

02:19 on Payback was to keep the running time for Payback in check.

02:22 WWE have had an increased focus on making sure their big shows don't overstay their

02:26 welcome, and to get Gunther closer to breaking the record.

02:29 He's now sitting on a 452 day reign, with Honky Tonk Man's record being at 454.

02:33 So instead of him retaining at Payback and there being question marks over whether something

02:37 could happen on Raw to have him lose it, they decided to have the decisive win on Raw to

02:41 remove all doubt.

02:43 Which I guess makes sense.

02:44 I just wanted the match without ad breaks.

02:47 Selfish old me.

02:48 Now over to Luke.

02:50 Thank you very much, but now it's time to hear about another potential match of the

02:52 year candidate from British man Mark Markerson.

02:59 It's been an incredible few weeks for wrestling, hasn't it?

03:03 Oh my gosh Luke, what an exciting few weeks it's been all over the wrestling world.

03:07 Hasn't it just?

03:08 I had such a good time.

03:09 Of course you have.

03:10 Oh, the American Carpetbaggers finally came over and did a big show at Wembley.

03:13 If you were paying attention, you'd have seen the real outstanding contest of the weekend

03:17 was between Luke Jacobs and Tomohiro Ishii at the Copperbox Arena for RevPro's 11th

03:22 anniversary.

03:23 I'm so glad that's here because that was amazing, wasn't it?

03:26 Like it was so, so good.

03:28 It was an incredible match.

03:29 I loved it.

03:30 You were there.

03:31 I didn't see you.

03:32 Yeah, no, of course I was there.

03:33 Like it was, the crowd was electric.

03:34 We were sat in the upper bowl.

03:37 The upper bowl.

03:38 So you weren't really there.

03:40 Real fans buy floor seats.

03:42 The match was a masterclass in strong style.

03:44 Just two behemoths built in the traditional British and Japanese styles, absolutely beating

03:49 the tar out of each other.

03:50 Strikes, chops, suplexes, forearms, headbutts, and neither man was willing to back down.

03:55 They just wanted to get the win and they were going to do anything that they could to make

03:59 it happen, throwing everything they had at each other.

04:01 And I want to single out Luke Jacobs for praise here because since Ishii has shown up a few

04:05 times for that company, people claim to know his stuff.

04:10 But Jacobs deserves equal credit for selling this match to a crowd who were ready and willing

04:15 to eat it up.

04:16 Multiple times we rose in our feet in appreciation for the brutal spectacle.

04:20 I'm sure you saw us.

04:21 But in the end, it was an Ishii brainbuster that made the difference and finally put away

04:25 the Manchester lad for the one, two, three.

04:28 Luke, what can I say?

04:29 I love British wrestling and this whole show was such a celebration of it.

04:33 And with my reverence for the icons of both Britain and Japan, how could I possibly give

04:38 this match anything other than 15 stars?

04:41 15!

04:42 15.

04:43 All right, I'm curious.

04:47 Curious Mark.

04:48 You know.

04:49 Do the maths.

04:50 I insist, do the maths on that one.

04:53 Well, I mean, the work got four stars, the match itself, and then, you know, RevPro's

04:58 going strong.

04:59 11 years, I think each year of that deserves a star.

05:03 15 stars.

05:05 Right?

05:06 You know, I hate that, but it does make sense.

05:10 There you go.

05:11 That's what I'm saying.

05:12 I've been saying.

05:13 Thank you, Mark.

05:14 Maybe it does make sense.

05:16 But that's enough from Mark because it's now time for my review of Monday Night Raw,

05:20 aka the "See, this is funny because you can't see me."

05:24 You get it?

05:25 You can't see me edition of Monday Night Raw in about five minutes.

05:29 Don't worry though, guys.

05:31 I actually am still here.

05:32 The show opened with a big video recap of Payback highlighting The Judgment Day winning

05:36 all sorts of titles, and main event Jey Uso being drafted to Monday Night Raw.

05:41 And Jey opened the live show itself by announcing that Cody Rhodes is the man that brought him

05:45 back to WWE after being away for, check notes, just three weeks.

05:50 Although given how much happened between All In and All Out, maybe three weeks does feel

05:54 like a lifetime at this point.

05:55 He was interrupted by Sami Zayn who wanted to let him know that because of the Bloodline's

05:59 actions Jey Uso is not a popular guy backstage and there are a lot of dudes who won't be

06:05 happy to see him there.

06:07 It's okay, Jey, Punk will be here soon and that should take some of the heat off of you.

06:10 Sami isn't sad to see him here though and he offered his hand for a shake, but Jey didn't

06:15 shake it.

06:16 And when Sami went to leave, Jey revealed that wasn't very Usi and he did want to

06:20 shake his hand.

06:22 Sami hugged him instead and this was all lovely.

06:24 I've really gone off the boil with the Bloodline story in recent weeks, but hopefully Jey being

06:29 far away from Jimmy, Roman and Solo should help keep some interest in seeing them face

06:33 each other down the line.

06:35 WWE want to hold off on Jey vs. Jimmy until WrestleMania, so moving Jey to Raw and keeping

06:41 Jimmy on Smackers should aid that delay.

06:45 And to show just how upset some people are with Jey being on Raw, he passed an angry

06:49 Drew McIntyre and an angry Matt Riddle making their entrances for their tag match against

06:53 the Viking Raiders - with Sami playing peacekeeping.

06:55 It was a great bit of visual storytelling and staging.

06:59 The Viking Raiders beat the Glasbros at a name I hate as neither man is from Glasgow

07:04 - Airheads is right there - when Kofi Kingston ran down to help Riddle but accidentally hit

07:08 him with the Trouble in Paradise.

07:10 Raiders beat them all up and put Riddle through a table to score the win.

07:13 A fun and chaotic tag match with a creative finish to further the feud between the Airheads

07:18 - I'll use that name even if they won't - and the New Day.

07:21 Later in the show Drew argued with Kofi about "accident" and said that if Jey steps

07:24 out of line, he's going to go after Cody Rhodes, the man who brought Jey to this show.

07:29 So let's talk about that then, because also later in the show Adam Pearce revealed that

07:35 Jey being drafted to Raw comes with a price, and that price is someone from Raw being sent

07:40 to Smackdown.

07:41 Not only that, but the person who's going to get drafted is going to upset the Raw locker

07:46 room.

07:47 I know Drew's just set himself up for a feud with Cody Rhodes, but Rhodes going to

07:51 Smackdown is the choice that makes the most sense.

07:54 It would, in kayfabe, upset a lot of people in the Raw locker room.

07:57 It is an equal trade of main event talent, and it would put Cody back on the same show

08:02 as Roman so he can finish a certain story that he would like to finish.

08:06 Or you know, it'll just be a Kira Tozawa or some s***.

08:09 Who do you think it will be?

08:10 Let me know in the comments down below.

08:12 Let's at least hope it makes sense.

08:14 Speaking of not making sense, Seth Rollins called out Shinsuke Nakamura for a title match

08:20 right here, right now.

08:22 With Adam Pearce telling Rollins that he can't have a match because of his sad back.

08:26 And Nakamura, who wants a rematch for the World Heavyweight Championship and can see

08:29 that Seth Rollins is in a very vulnerable state, said no.

08:33 Okay then, fair enough, and instead got himself DQ'd against Ricochet and Brawled with Seth

08:38 afterwards.

08:39 I don't know either.

08:41 Judgment Day bragged about their titles, and J.D. McDonough, trying to appeal to Damien

08:45 Priest, got him a new bit of hardware.

08:47 No sadly it wasn't new tag titles to replace those ghastly and ugly rubbish penny belts

08:53 with their gaudy straps, but instead a new Money in the Bank briefcase.

08:56 Which is purple.

08:57 Sami came out to banter with them for a bit, and J.D. made a match with him for later on.

09:02 Shayna Baszler beat Zoey Stark in a hard-hitting match and showed respect to her afterwards,

09:05 so a potential new tag partnership on the cards there, and Raquel Rodriguez quickly

09:09 beat Chelsea Green to give her some momentum for a title rematch with Ripley next week.

09:13 Green also announced backstage that Piper Niven currently isn't cleared to wrestle

09:16 because those tag belts are f***ing cursed.

09:19 Turns out though that Piper Niven has actually only been out for a few weeks.

09:23 Ok right.

09:25 Let's talk about the next segment.

09:28 Miz came out for a Miz TV with a special guest.

09:31 It was John Cena.

09:33 But you see, you can't see him.

09:37 So Miz interviewed an empty chair and then had a brawl with him and stood tall with a

09:40 skull crushing finale.

09:42 I don't think I have the words to describe this.

09:44 So I'm going to throw it to comedy expert Galvatron to give his verdict.

09:51 You are not wrong there Galvatron.

09:53 Look I get it, I am nearly 40 years old, you can probably tell that, I just used a pop

09:57 culture reference from a movie that came out nearly 40 years ago.

10:00 But this.

10:01 Oh this was beyond cringe.

10:04 It was so painfully unfunny.

10:07 It wasn't funny, it wasn't big, and it wasn't clever.

10:10 And then Miz did his usual "I'm no serious Miz" promo to cut a promo on LA Night and

10:15 it was f***ing garbage.

10:16 J.D. McDonough picked up a win over Sami Zayn thanks to distraction and interference from

10:21 Dominik Mysterio, who then offered Jey Uso a spot in Judgment Day as he understands what

10:25 it's like to come from a broken family with a deadbeat Hall of Fame dad.

10:29 Jey's first Raw feud being with Judgment Day is a good idea.

10:32 And the main event saw Gunther retain his Intercontinental Championship over Chad Gable

10:37 in an excellent, excellent historic match.

10:41 It's a shame that so much of it was spent in ad breaks.

10:45 They wrestled for two minutes, and then we got a three minute ad break, and then they

10:48 wrestled for another three minutes, and we got another three minute ad break.

10:52 WWE are lucky that Gunther and Gable are so good to overcome this because the final few

10:57 minutes were so great, but honestly the ad breaks ruined the first two thirds of this

11:03 match.

11:04 But it was also a match that saved what was a pretty average episode of Raw.

11:07 It was a fine episode with a handful of newsworthy bits, but also a lot of things we've seen

11:12 before.

11:13 Rollins continuing his feud with Nakamura, Miz continuing his feud with Eleonora, Raquel

11:17 Rodriguez continuing her feud with Rhea Ripley, and Sami Zayn continuing to feud with Judgment

11:21 Day really made it feel like a lot of payback didn't matter at all.

11:26 But still I'm going to score this episode 3 out of 5.

11:35 (upbeat music)

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