WWE 2K23 MyGM Mode: The Penultimate Battle! Wednesday Night War Season 3.5 Weeks 16-20!

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Send in your Ultrachats here: https://wrestletalk.com/pfk The Wednesday Night War continues as Dan Layton and Laurie Blake continue their journey through WWE 2K23 as they build to the next PPV! Hosted by Luke Owen.  Monday Night War Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zVOrSAX0pYyORyhXGxhvX?si=28431d78883f4bf1  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:02:07 - Welcome to the Wednesday Night War.

00:02:11 I am Luke Owen, DAD,

00:02:12 not representing Monday Night Raw for a change

00:02:16 because this is episode four of five

00:02:19 of the Wednesday Night War,

00:02:21 season 3.5 as we've been calling it,

00:02:23 which is pitting Dan "The Truth" Layton

00:02:26 representing Wednesday Night NXT 2.0

00:02:29 against Laurie Blake representing Wednesday Night NXT.

00:02:34 This is episode four or five.

00:02:35 It's the penultimate battle we are doing weeks

00:02:38 16 through 20.

00:02:40 - Yeah, yeah, that's all right.

00:02:41 - 16 through 20, we are on the road to the Royal Rumble.

00:02:44 We are on the road to TLC.

00:02:47 We'll find out which pay-per-view

00:02:48 we are heading towards momentarily

00:02:50 before we head on across to our players.

00:02:51 The winner of this season 3.5

00:02:54 will be joining the cast of Monday Night War

00:02:57 when WWE 2K24 is released next year,

00:03:02 assuming that will also happen my GM mode.

00:03:04 If not, in which case we'll just play 2K23 again.

00:03:06 But with the Monday Night War, we'll be back next year.

00:03:07 That's the main thing.

00:03:08 And it will be a three-man booth

00:03:09 with the winner of this season joining myself and Pete

00:03:13 because I need some competition.

00:03:16 It's about time someone stepped up

00:03:19 and actually gave me a challenge on this game.

00:03:22 It's all I've been asking for.

00:03:23 We're gonna be heading across to our players momentarily,

00:03:25 but as a slight recap from last month's episode,

00:03:29 Laurie Blake lost the lead that he had

00:03:32 in episodes one and two

00:03:34 as his roster fell apart at all of their limbs.

00:03:38 And Dan was just able to sneak over the edge

00:03:41 and get a victory.

00:03:42 He is now currently in the lead

00:03:45 as we're heading into section four of the five sections

00:03:48 before we get into the game.

00:03:49 So right, so we're gonna head across

00:03:51 to our players in a moment,

00:03:52 but if you'd like to have your statement read on me,

00:03:53 if you'd like to get your thoughts in about the game,

00:03:55 it is resttalk.com/pfk

00:03:58 and Dr. Joss has already got in touch to say,

00:04:02 did we ever get that Spotify playlist

00:04:04 with all the songs listened to during these playthroughs?

00:04:06 Also a friend of mine recently released a song

00:04:08 I would love for either of you to listen to it,

00:04:10 All Time Low by Another Ghost.

00:04:14 And the O's in ghost are zeros

00:04:16 and the E is a three in another.

00:04:19 - O's multiple.

00:04:21 - Yeah, both the--

00:04:22 - Ghost. - Yeah, both the--

00:04:23 - It's a ghost. - It's a ghost.

00:04:24 - The ghost.

00:04:25 - It's a ghost.

00:04:27 - But yet the Spotify playlist, it exists.

00:04:28 It's linked to in the video description down below.

00:04:30 It's been there for ages.

00:04:31 It's been there since the end of series two.

00:04:33 It's got series three stuff in there.

00:04:35 That playlist was created a long, long time ago.

00:04:37 You're well behind the times, mate.

00:04:39 Click the link in the video description down below

00:04:40 and you can get all the songs

00:04:41 that myself and Pete have listened to

00:04:43 during our playthroughs of My GM Mode on WWE 2K23.

00:04:48 But without further ado,

00:04:49 let's head on over to our players.

00:04:52 Let's send it across to Dan and Laurie.

00:04:56 - Now. - Yeah.

00:04:57 - Which one of my little men

00:05:00 will let me down first this week?

00:05:02 Who first shall go to the knackers yard?

00:05:08 (Dan laughing)

00:05:09 Which of them will be mulched and repurposed

00:05:12 to buy a new man, a better man, a man I can trust?

00:05:16 - You're all about recycling, aren't you?

00:05:17 - I'm all about recycling.

00:05:19 - You know, reusing--

00:05:19 - Why do the men just fall apart, Dan?

00:05:22 (Dan laughing)

00:05:23 Why can't I move?

00:05:25 - You need to work on your physio team.

00:05:27 - Oh, I've been trying to buy the physio stuff as well.

00:05:32 I hate this game.

00:05:33 - It's okay.

00:05:34 Maybe everything will be fine for you.

00:05:37 - Yeah. - This time around.

00:05:37 - What's going on here?

00:05:38 - Yeah, so what happened was,

00:05:40 I left this morning and I was like,

00:05:41 "Oh, I don't need my bag."

00:05:42 You know, we're just doing the stream,

00:05:43 that's gonna be fun.

00:05:44 And it was only when I got halfway to the office

00:05:46 that I was like,

00:05:47 "Oh, I don't have anything to make notes for."

00:05:50 And now that I'm in the lead up to the match,

00:05:51 I'm like, "Oh, I don't need my bag."

00:05:52 And now that I'm in the lead,

00:05:53 I feel like maybe I should make some notes.

00:05:56 - I think you got time.

00:05:57 (laughing)

00:05:58 I would argue that you maybe have time.

00:06:00 I don't think I'm gonna make up the,

00:06:01 what is it, 40?

00:06:03 Just over 40,000 pounds.

00:06:05 - Yeah, 40,000 odd.

00:06:06 I also- - 43?

00:06:07 43, yeah. - 43 bit, 42.

00:06:09 I also don't have my little puzzle book.

00:06:13 I don't have my laptop to play a game.

00:06:15 But I was like, "I should take some notes."

00:06:17 So what I did was,

00:06:18 I hunted around the office for a paper and pen.

00:06:20 I couldn't find any paper,

00:06:20 but I did find this Krispy Kreme-

00:06:22 - Oh, very good. - Box.

00:06:24 And I've just repurposed it.

00:06:25 Not unlike yourself, recycle.

00:06:27 And I could just write,

00:06:28 I robbed a pen from Andy Datson's desk.

00:06:30 Just gonna write some notes on myself.

00:06:32 - Little wand pen, is it?

00:06:33 - Yeah, it's a little wand pen.

00:06:35 - Yeah, there's paper in the printer, right?

00:06:37 - Yeah.

00:06:38 - There's a printer?

00:06:39 - Yeah, we've had a printer for ages.

00:06:41 There's paper in the printer.

00:06:42 - Where's the printer?

00:06:43 - We didn't have to deface- - It's in the office.

00:06:44 - The donut box.

00:06:45 It's next to the Big Mac.

00:06:47 - The donut box was empty, I will say.

00:06:49 - I'm assuming there's a lot of stale donuts

00:06:51 going around.

00:06:52 (laughing)

00:06:52 But it's important for my lead, you see.

00:06:55 Right, I'm gonna load up the game.

00:06:56 Would you like to load the save data?

00:06:58 Yes. - Yes, and you're...

00:06:59 Don't look. - Okay.

00:07:00 - Don't read. - Not looking, not looking.

00:07:02 - No reading, the blinkers are on.

00:07:03 I'll look for you.

00:07:04 - Oh, does it seem good? - Oh!

00:07:06 I mean, there's a lot of people, aren't you?

00:07:08 - Lot of emails, isn't there?

00:07:09 - A lot of emails. - Oh, God, okay.

00:07:11 Right, let me whack on a seven minute timer then.

00:07:13 - Okay, let me put some on.

00:07:16 - What are you gonna have?

00:07:17 - I thought I was just gonna,

00:07:18 I might just watch the Hbomberguy video.

00:07:19 - Oh, yeah, I mean-- - I know it's pretty good.

00:07:21 - It's long, so you've gotta find the time

00:07:22 wherever you can, really. - Yeah, but this is it.

00:07:23 I'm just gonna watch that and see how we go.

00:07:25 - Fair enough, fair enough.

00:07:27 Don't copy anyone's work now.

00:07:28 - I'll try not to.

00:07:29 - Neither was all so.

00:07:31 Maybe I'll bring this up after we've had this first week.

00:07:35 I'm ready, are you ready, Producer Al?

00:07:38 Yeah, big thumbs up from the corner.

00:07:41 So a seven minute time limit.

00:07:43 I'm gonna unplug this so that I'm not leaning.

00:07:46 There we go.

00:07:47 And in three, two, one, let's win!

00:07:51 Right then.

00:07:53 Mustafa Ali, hey, my contract is up at the end of the week.

00:07:55 Uh-oh.

00:07:57 - No way.

00:07:58 - What is it?

00:08:00 It's not in a rivalry.

00:08:01 How much do you want?

00:08:03 26K.

00:08:04 God, I really should have written down

00:08:08 what I do and don't have, shouldn't I?

00:08:10 I've got a lot of money.

00:08:11 He's optimistic, I'll try and lowball him.

00:08:13 - I think Jyn would have known this.

00:08:15 - I'm gonna kill him.

00:08:17 Hey, my contract is up at the end of the week.

00:08:18 Oh my God, Seth Rollins, 91K.

00:08:20 How happy are you, satisfied?

00:08:22 Oh, I can just extend your contract.

00:08:23 - It's just using what they wrote.

00:08:24 - I swear to God.

00:08:26 - You absolute troll.

00:08:30 Listen, I can't stand teaming with Paul.

00:08:31 He's a reason we can't.

00:08:32 Sure, Bobby, you can have a singles match probably.

00:08:36 Randy cheated me in the last match.

00:08:37 I want, can I do that?

00:08:38 I'll make it happen, I guess.

00:08:40 I don't know.

00:08:41 Oh God, I keep getting the worst shakeups.

00:08:46 These are awful.

00:08:49 Table matches are free,

00:08:50 but participating superstars lose stamina.

00:08:53 Who would want that?

00:08:54 Too good to be forgotten,

00:08:55 they don't lose popularity while injured.

00:08:56 I don't want to injure anybody.

00:08:57 It's likely a superstar to gain 10K

00:08:58 whenever they're using a match,

00:09:00 but they and other superstars

00:09:00 have an increased risk of injury.

00:09:02 I guess I'll just do that one

00:09:02 'cause that's the one that's the least bad.

00:09:05 Those were awful.

00:09:06 Why am I getting such bad?

00:09:08 Okay, Bobby Lashley.

00:09:10 Right, manage roster.

00:09:11 Let's see what we've got going on.

00:09:12 So we've got Charlotte and Austin are my champs.

00:09:17 Charlotte is a villainous specialist.

00:09:22 Austin is a good guy fighter.

00:09:25 All right, well that is immediately seven stamina

00:09:30 for Stone Cold Steve Austin, the poor guy's neck.

00:09:32 What can I play with here?

00:09:34 Oh my God.

00:09:37 Oh no, everything's wrong.

00:09:42 How many bad guys do I have?

00:09:44 This is awful.

00:09:46 Oh my God, my entire roster is baddies.

00:09:51 Save for, oh no, wait.

00:09:52 I just hadn't gone off.

00:09:53 Okay.

00:09:54 Let's start.

00:09:57 How, let's start by booking a show.

00:10:00 We're gonna book the women's tag champs.

00:10:02 Are they in a feud?

00:10:04 Zelina and Candice LeRae.

00:10:06 We'll book them in a tag team tables match.

00:10:12 We'll do the logistics

00:10:14 'cause I forgot those last minute, last time.

00:10:17 And we will, what power cards have we got?

00:10:21 No, no.

00:10:24 Rest my male tag team champs.

00:10:26 House bar three, that will really help Steve Austin.

00:10:29 Okay.

00:10:30 Robert Rude to call out Stone Cold Steve Austin.

00:10:34 That's a specialist and a fighter.

00:10:36 But I've only got three weeks left on his, now.

00:10:40 Okay.

00:10:41 Don't wanna quit the game.

00:10:42 God, one thinking is,

00:10:44 can I release Stone Cold, free up the championship?

00:10:49 19,000, that's not very much, is it?

00:10:53 - This is nuts.

00:10:54 - Can I release Steve Austin, bring in someone else?

00:10:58 R-Truth's a good guy fighter with a 55 popularity.

00:11:01 Hmm, good guy cruiser, good guy specialist, good guy.

00:11:06 They're so expensive.

00:11:08 Ugh.

00:11:10 Um, how popular is Steve Austin?

00:11:12 Very, yep, no, all right.

00:11:15 Fine, fine, we'll do that.

00:11:20 Bob, Bobby Lashley wants a fight,

00:11:22 so I'll give him a fight against.

00:11:25 - Oh, adverts.

00:11:27 - Can I give him a triple threat match and make.

00:11:32 - Well, actually the new Chromebook looks quite good though.

00:11:35 - Who's a fighter?

00:11:36 Oh yeah, I've got the Owens.

00:11:38 Uh, the Owens Derby, haven't I?

00:11:41 How stamina wise are they?

00:11:44 They tables, we can do tables in that.

00:11:46 And, oh my God, I don't, I had, this is the first week.

00:11:51 Stop talking, you simply must stop talking.

00:11:54 Let's see then, we've got, uh, uh, uh, uh, Bobbles,

00:12:05 Seth and LA Knight, oh my God,

00:12:09 they had their own cool down, what, a little swap.

00:12:13 There we go, that'll do ya.

00:12:15 That seems decent.

00:12:17 And then I want to start, what time am I on?

00:12:20 Two minutes and 31 seconds, that's okay.

00:12:22 Calm down, Daniel.

00:12:23 Who is going to challenge Charlotte Flair

00:12:26 for the championship?

00:12:28 I need a good guy lady.

00:12:30 It looks like it's only gonna be Dewdrop.

00:12:32 Well, yeah, Dewdrop will work, 'cause she's quite popular.

00:12:35 Um, okay, we'll do that.

00:12:37 Seth's got good stamina, Mustafa Ali hasn't,

00:12:47 but Wesley has.

00:12:48 We'll just book you in a throwaway match.

00:12:51 Can you take an extreme rules, can you handle it?

00:12:56 What do you mean, what do you mean, what do you mean?

00:12:59 Rest my male tag team champs, oh God, yeah.

00:13:01 'Cause Wesley's a tag champ.

00:13:03 Okay, okay, manage roster.

00:13:12 Let's see, is there anyone of note that I can pick

00:13:14 who is a good guy, who is reasonably priced?

00:13:17 Truth has good stamina, 38,000, sod it.

00:13:22 Do I need, I don't know what I need.

00:13:27 Right, we're gonna spend the rest of the time that I've got,

00:13:30 which is a minute and 20 seconds,

00:13:32 writing down what I would need.

00:13:34 So Jinder is a, I should have done this yesterday

00:13:41 and brought my notes in, what am I doing?

00:13:42 Is a good, a villainous bruiser.

00:13:46 Oh my God, I can't believe I'm doing this.

00:13:49 I can't believe that I've fallen into the trap

00:13:50 that I always bully people for.

00:13:51 I flail with the first one every time.

00:13:53 I could get rid of Beth Phoenix.

00:13:59 I'm not gonna use Beth Phoenix for a while.

00:14:01 28 grand, sorry Beth, off you go, nice to see you.

00:14:06 Thanks for coming.

00:14:06 Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.

00:14:14 That feels like a big time feud.

00:14:21 And she's got more stamina.

00:14:24 I think I can do that.

00:14:30 Rhea can do an advertising promo.

00:14:33 They've got a feud.

00:14:36 That's to make Bobby Lashley happy.

00:14:40 All of this feels fine.

00:14:41 Am I missing something?

00:14:42 Oh no, oh Daniel.

00:14:46 Oh, we'll just do it.

00:14:58 That's a good bit.

00:14:58 I didn't do anything of the sort.

00:15:08 Now what Hbomberguy doesn't know

00:15:11 is that I'm plagiarizing his video

00:15:13 because you can watch it in my glasses

00:15:14 for free on this stream.

00:15:17 Absolute scandal.

00:15:18 That wasn't flipping annoying, was it?

00:15:23 What happened?

00:15:25 I don't know, I'm trying to book a show

00:15:26 and figure out what I've got going

00:15:27 and try and make notes at the same time

00:15:28 when I should have done it yesterday.

00:15:29 Meanwhile, I've got you live reacting in the corner.

00:15:33 - Doing a full piece of journalism.

00:15:35 - Okay, I guess I'll just read out something

00:15:37 in the Guardian then, shall I?

00:15:39 - All right. - Important journalism.

00:15:40 I'm not going to, I'm not going to.

00:15:42 I'm gonna try and make a table of--

00:15:44 - Try and make a table, are you?

00:15:46 - I did this for week one and I think the thing was

00:15:48 the notes that I took in week one

00:15:49 didn't help me whatsoever.

00:15:51 - No.

00:15:51 - So I was like, well, I'll just make A notes then.

00:15:53 And that feels like a mistake.

00:15:56 - Right, I'm gonna listen to--

00:15:58 - What are you gonna listen to?

00:16:00 - Christmas song.

00:16:01 - What Christmas song are you gonna listen to?

00:16:03 - RuPaul's Haste's It's Christmas.

00:16:04 - Okay.

00:16:05 - Bye then.

00:16:07 - Bye.

00:16:08 - I wonder what my headphone doesn't connect to.

00:16:12 - Let's get this to where I need to be.

00:16:14 Close to me, thank you.

00:16:15 ♪ Let me ask you for your wish list ♪

00:16:18 Make sure it's plugged in,

00:16:19 'cause that would be disastrous, wouldn't it?

00:16:22 All right, here we go.

00:16:25 God, Ellis, are you ready?

00:16:27 In three, two, can you calm down, please?

00:16:32 Can you calm down, please?

00:16:34 Being very salty.

00:16:36 Three, two, one, off we go.

00:16:41 What do you want, Razor Ramon?

00:16:42 Up at the end of the next week, is it?

00:16:44 Type faster.

00:16:45 Yeah, no, you're injured, aren't you?

00:16:49 So thanks for your work.

00:16:50 I won't be renewing that contract.

00:16:52 You can leave.

00:16:53 You are free to go.

00:16:55 T-Bar, what happened to,

00:16:58 Finn got injured, you prick.

00:17:00 Wait weeks to get word for your disappointment,

00:17:03 doesn't begin to describe it.

00:17:04 You asked to be in a tag team with a baby face.

00:17:08 I hate you, I hate you so much.

00:17:11 Put in a lot of work and I earned a shot

00:17:13 of the world title, how about it?

00:17:15 I mean, gets a shot within three weeks.

00:17:21 I could do him against Big E,

00:17:22 but I don't, I could do that while Balor's on the bench,

00:17:25 actually, 'cause he wouldn't start a rivalry

00:17:26 and I could hopefully then start a rivalry later.

00:17:28 You're right, Carmelo, you can have that.

00:17:30 Problem is, if Carmelo wins, he wins the belt.

00:17:32 So I'm gonna book that, because why not?

00:17:34 Let's have a look.

00:17:36 Share the glory, select a superstar

00:17:38 with more than 65 popularity to lose 35 popularity.

00:17:41 The rest of them get five.

00:17:42 Triple threat matches cost superstars less stamina.

00:17:47 Fail four way matches reduce the match type cost by 50%.

00:17:52 Ay-yah, none of these are useful for what I want.

00:17:57 Where's the one where I just get a win?

00:17:59 I wanna win.

00:18:01 I'm gonna do this and then maybe I'll just do

00:18:04 a triple threat for the title.

00:18:05 There we go, fine.

00:18:07 Is Big E back?

00:18:08 I think Big E is back this week.

00:18:10 You want a false count anywhere match

00:18:12 on the week after the pay-per-view?

00:18:14 You are a prick.

00:18:17 I think I've done that, yeah, good.

00:18:19 All right, here we go.

00:18:21 Let's get rid of people.

00:18:23 Ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba.

00:18:27 You, you're getting released,

00:18:30 'cause I want the money now, thank you.

00:18:31 Okay, here we go, book show, what have we got?

00:18:35 Who do we have, who's alive, who's got health?

00:18:38 You've got no stamina, no stamina.

00:18:41 Flipping, flipping, brilliant.

00:18:45 Oh, all right, you're alive.

00:18:48 Hey, they're alive.

00:18:50 We've got a match, there's a match this week, guys.

00:18:53 Don't worry, there's a match.

00:18:55 We've got a match, okay.

00:18:57 What else are we doing?

00:18:59 Who else have we got?

00:19:00 Now, I want something for Ilya to do,

00:19:03 'cause Ilya's still got stamina

00:19:06 and also he can just take people on.

00:19:08 I kinda want, I wanted to set him up with Drew.

00:19:12 I've got Riddle and Thingy, yeah, Riddle and Julius.

00:19:17 - Oh, I'll just make a random noise out loud

00:19:18 because it's not distracting at all.

00:19:19 - Really, it's really not, Dan, get a hold of yourself.

00:19:22 Right, here we go, Big E, he's back, baby.

00:19:26 Big E's back.

00:19:27 Who did I promise the title shot to?

00:19:29 No, I've got T-Bar.

00:19:31 What's T-Bar's health like?

00:19:32 Fuck, fuck.

00:19:33 Okay, right, fine.

00:19:38 Mello, you've got health, Big E, you've got health.

00:19:41 We will do this and we will see where we land.

00:19:44 That doesn't have a rivalry.

00:19:47 That does have a rivalry,

00:19:48 so we would hope that that would do better.

00:19:51 I need someone to go against Ilya.

00:19:53 I originally wanted that to be Bala, I think,

00:19:57 after the Big E thing,

00:19:58 but I also now need somebody to go against,

00:20:00 I kinda want Ilya to be able to go against Big E,

00:20:05 so maybe I'll just,

00:20:08 maybe Hayes winning isn't so bad.

00:20:11 Oh, it's tricky, it's tricky, I don't know.

00:20:17 I've got a level one rivalry of Shotzi and Katana,

00:20:21 sorry, with Raquel and Shotzi.

00:20:24 Shotzi's got a lot of stamina.

00:20:26 Maybe I'll just put EO and Katana against each other, though.

00:20:29 I've also got, yeah,

00:20:31 'cause their tag rivalry is now burnt out, apparently,

00:20:34 so we'll just do, no, you're not doing a promo.

00:20:38 Get lost.

00:20:39 I think we're gonna do,

00:20:40 we're gonna do this for this week,

00:20:45 because I think I need to rest.

00:20:48 Right, we'll come back to the rest of the logistics.

00:20:51 We're gonna look at the power cards.

00:20:53 Health Spar.

00:20:56 Who could I Health Spar?

00:21:00 Oh, hello.

00:21:02 You're getting Health Sparred, bud.

00:21:03 Enjoy.

00:21:05 You earn that by being the only person.

00:21:07 Hang on.

00:21:08 Yes, and then we can get Finn Bala back quicker,

00:21:13 and we can finish the Hayes thing.

00:21:15 Fabulous.

00:21:16 I don't want any of these.

00:21:20 Let's have a little look.

00:21:22 Logistics.

00:21:23 People always have a go at me about the logistics bit,

00:21:25 'cause I don't understand it.

00:21:26 So I should book the biggest one, yeah?

00:21:31 I don't know.

00:21:33 Ultra Chat In.

00:21:34 Do I need lights?

00:21:35 Do I still have lights?

00:21:36 I should have light.

00:21:37 No, Road Crew, yeah, let's have some Road Crew.

00:21:39 I don't wanna spend the money.

00:21:41 I don't like, I like to keep my money in my pockets.

00:21:45 Um, right.

00:21:46 Riddle and Creed have a level three rivalry.

00:21:48 I could also blow off the rivalry immediately.

00:21:51 Oh, that would be a silly first week, wouldn't it?

00:21:56 Could blow off this rivalry almost immediately.

00:22:00 Do I wanna do that?

00:22:02 Maybe I do.

00:22:06 Let's do it.

00:22:11 That'd be fun.

00:22:14 Right, let's book some stuff.

00:22:16 Who do I want?

00:22:17 I'm gonna have you call out Bailey.

00:22:23 Lovely.

00:22:27 I want some advertising.

00:22:28 Let's have, who's got some popularity to spare?

00:22:35 You've got popularity to spare.

00:22:36 Advertising.

00:22:42 And then I've got 50 seconds left.

00:22:44 I kinda need to have someone for Big E to go against.

00:22:51 So maybe I'll just, I've got Drew.

00:22:53 So I could actually have Drew come in later.

00:22:56 Or I could turn Drew.

00:22:59 That's what I do.

00:23:00 I'm gonna role change Drew.

00:23:02 And then Drew can go against Big E.

00:23:07 That makes some sort of sense.

00:23:11 I've not got a good matchup necessarily,

00:23:13 but I'm not gonna get anywhere with Carmelo Hayes

00:23:16 and Big E until Bala comes back.

00:23:17 I kinda want Bala to come back for my pay-per-view.

00:23:20 So I think ultimately, I'm pretty happy with that.

00:23:25 I don't know why I'm paying off this rivalry.

00:23:28 I just am.

00:23:29 I panicked.

00:23:29 I'm sorry.

00:23:30 Let's have a quick look at free agents.

00:23:32 We've got eight seconds.

00:23:33 I don't care.

00:23:35 Let's get the power cards.

00:23:37 Don't want any of these.

00:23:40 I think I'm quite happy.

00:23:41 There we go.

00:23:42 Lock that in.

00:23:43 That was ultimately, I think,

00:23:51 lower stress than I was imagining.

00:23:53 - That's good.

00:23:54 - Yeah. - That's good.

00:23:55 I decided to do essentially homework.

00:23:58 You know when you get late to school

00:23:59 and you do the homework for the day,

00:24:01 on the morning of the day you hand it in?

00:24:02 - Yeah.

00:24:03 - That's what I was watching the last stream

00:24:05 and trying to pass who was where in my little grid.

00:24:08 I don't think my grid is in any way helpful,

00:24:10 but you booked a show?

00:24:11 - I booked a show.

00:24:12 - You booked every match?

00:24:13 - Human beings are on that show.

00:24:14 - Did you sign anyone new?

00:24:15 Will I find out?

00:24:16 - I didn't sign anyone new.

00:24:16 - You didn't sign anyone new?

00:24:17 - No, I just got rid of Razor Ramon,

00:24:18 who was injured at the end of his contract.

00:24:20 So he was like, "Hey."

00:24:22 He opened it by being like,

00:24:23 "My contract's up next week.

00:24:24 "Do you want to re-sign me?"

00:24:25 And I was like, "No, I'm going to release you this week

00:24:27 "and get 12 grand back."

00:24:28 - 12 grand for one week?

00:24:29 - It was more like two grand or something.

00:24:30 It was quite, it was like a bit of money.

00:24:32 - Well, that's nice.

00:24:33 - A little bit of cheddar.

00:24:34 - A little bit of change.

00:24:35 - A little bit of something.

00:24:35 - A little bit of that guy.

00:24:36 - Lovely, love that.

00:24:37 For a little bit of gold.

00:24:39 For blaking gold, you might say.

00:24:41 You could say.

00:24:42 - Could say.

00:24:43 I wouldn't say that.

00:24:43 That wouldn't be so cheesy.

00:24:44 - I flailed.

00:24:46 - Oh yeah?

00:24:47 - Because I always flail in the first week.

00:24:49 Seeing how injured most people are.

00:24:52 Steve Austin's neck is hanging by a thread.

00:24:54 Seven stamina, my boy was on.

00:24:57 - T-Bar was on seven stamina as well.

00:24:59 - Not pleasant.

00:25:00 So I have just thrown together a show.

00:25:02 We of course have the Owens Derby,

00:25:03 if you'll remember from-

00:25:04 - Yes, of course I remember the Owens Derby.

00:25:05 - The Owens Derby.

00:25:06 - The great Owens Cup.

00:25:07 - They're having a one-on-one extreme rules match

00:25:09 to kick off this brand new episode of NXT Truth 0.

00:25:13 And of course, Kevin does win, but nothing comes of it.

00:25:15 - No.

00:25:16 - Because why would it?

00:25:17 Bobby Roode is a bad guy specialist

00:25:22 who was just right there for me to call out Stone Cold Steve.

00:25:26 I needed someone to do it.

00:25:26 I needed someone to start a little rivalry.

00:25:29 Bobby Lashley wanted a singles match

00:25:32 to prove Logan Paul wrong.

00:25:34 So I've just seen that I've actually,

00:25:36 I've royally blown this out

00:25:38 because it's supposed to be two good guys and a bad guy.

00:25:42 But at the very least,

00:25:43 I put them in a singles match against each other.

00:25:44 - Yeah.

00:25:45 - So I guess it's narratively satisfying,

00:25:47 if you can imagine the viewers of this fictional program.

00:25:50 - Sure.

00:25:51 - And I put the title on the line because why not?

00:25:54 LA Knight retains and no feud comes of it.

00:25:59 But at least it wasn't better than the opener.

00:26:01 So that's fine.

00:26:02 I'm happy he's gonna do a little advert.

00:26:03 She's gonna shill.

00:26:04 She's gonna make me a bit of money.

00:26:05 - Shill, shill, shill.

00:26:05 - Thank you very much.

00:26:06 This was a match for the sake of a match.

00:26:08 Seth versus Mustafa Ali.

00:26:11 Ali is not good on the stamina,

00:26:12 but I also sort of don't care.

00:26:15 - Or a rivalry.

00:26:16 - Okay, well, we'll write that down.

00:26:17 - A disappointing rivalry.

00:26:19 - Seth plus Ali.

00:26:22 - I like your handwriting.

00:26:24 - I tried to, thank you very much.

00:26:25 Tried to make a little grid.

00:26:26 This is a weighty pen,

00:26:27 which helps with the writing.

00:26:29 And it's very satisfying to write on.

00:26:30 I highly recommend you all go and get yourself

00:26:32 a donut box lid.

00:26:33 - Crispy greens, yeah.

00:26:34 - Other donuts are available.

00:26:35 I've signed Bianca Belair.

00:26:37 - Oh, and Bianca Belair has immediately started a rivalry

00:26:39 with Charlotte Flair.

00:26:40 - Because it's worked every other time.

00:26:41 Why not try it again?

00:26:43 But look, hey, we have a rivalry.

00:26:47 We're off the ground.

00:26:48 And again, Charlotte had no stamina whatsoever left.

00:26:50 So.

00:26:51 - Chaz gets to sleep.

00:26:53 - Yeah, Bianca.

00:26:54 - Bianca does all the work.

00:26:55 - And Charlie.

00:26:56 Lovely.

00:27:00 And then our main event is a tag team tables match

00:27:02 for the women's championships.

00:27:05 Cora and Candice.

00:27:06 But that's one who needs to go in the good category.

00:27:09 Candice.

00:27:11 - Look at this.

00:27:12 This is very involved.

00:27:13 - And it's what it shows me where my weaknesses are.

00:27:16 Candice and Cora.

00:27:17 And Sammy George is a specialist.

00:27:20 I have no good specialists.

00:27:22 That's a shame.

00:27:23 But it's a tag team tables match.

00:27:25 I figured my weakest person was Candice.

00:27:28 She could probably hack it.

00:27:29 And I'd like this to do well and grow the rivalry.

00:27:33 And it does.

00:27:34 - Oh, to a level three.

00:27:35 - Oh, it's only good, but that's better than the last match.

00:27:38 And it grew the rivalry times two.

00:27:40 So women's tag L3.

00:27:45 I think a successful episode of 2.0.

00:27:48 - Very good.

00:27:49 - Your turn.

00:27:50 - Here's what we did.

00:27:51 - Oh, okay.

00:27:51 They were fit.

00:27:52 - We come in, Aska's got health.

00:27:54 Basil is doing all right.

00:27:56 Basil can have a rest next week.

00:27:58 Aska, obviously the returning champion.

00:28:00 We've not seen the two top titles on NXT

00:28:02 for quite a while now.

00:28:04 So we're gonna do this.

00:28:05 - New champ.

00:28:09 - New champ.

00:28:10 - But it was ineffective.

00:28:12 - And it didn't grow the rivalry.

00:28:13 But then this rivalry does grow.

00:28:15 So we've got Bailey versus Trish.

00:28:17 - An Iron Woman match doesn't do it,

00:28:19 but a little promo from Trish all the way across the sky.

00:28:23 - We're gonna go over here.

00:28:25 Now I did put the title on the line.

00:28:26 I thought I did.

00:28:27 - Are they in a rivalry?

00:28:28 This is just a match?

00:28:29 - No, this is just a match.

00:28:30 Carmella Hayes is actually in a rivalry with Finn Balor,

00:28:31 who is injured currently.

00:28:33 So I was like, well, this can't start a rivalry.

00:28:36 And it could.

00:28:37 To be fair, if the title moves here,

00:28:38 it moves onto a three-star rivalry.

00:28:40 - That's quite helpful.

00:28:41 - So this could be quite useful.

00:28:42 - Yeah.

00:28:43 (dramatic music)

00:28:44 - Yeah, oh my God!

00:28:46 And in mediocre, but the title's moved to the good rivalry.

00:28:49 - Now that could be massive.

00:28:51 - Ilja Dragunov earns us some cash, which is good.

00:28:56 Mid-card, we've just got this going on,

00:28:58 'cause these guys don't have anything

00:28:59 actually happening at the moment.

00:29:01 - Yeah, yeah.

00:29:02 Cruiser versus cruiser.

00:29:03 It'll certainly...

00:29:05 - There we go.

00:29:05 There you go.

00:29:07 - A mediocre rivalry.

00:29:08 - But look, you know, couple of cruisers having a good match.

00:29:11 Heatless bangers.

00:29:11 - We've got chance versus Sky.

00:29:13 Level one.

00:29:16 - I just spotted you doing something.

00:29:19 - What, this?

00:29:20 - Yeah.

00:29:21 I flipped Drew as well.

00:29:23 'Cause now Drew can go against Big E.

00:29:25 - Oh, brilliant idea.

00:29:27 - And then I'm gonna stimulate this,

00:29:31 but I've done a submission to blow off this rivalry.

00:29:34 - Oh, great, yeah, good idea.

00:29:35 What level were they at?

00:29:36 - They were at three.

00:29:37 - Okay, good.

00:29:38 - So I just wanted to pop the first show.

00:29:41 - You did a really good show here.

00:29:42 What were you talking about?

00:29:44 - Boom, there we go.

00:29:45 - Job done.

00:29:46 - How did Creed win that?

00:29:47 That's madness.

00:29:49 - Your boy is good at jumping.

00:29:51 - Here we go.

00:29:53 Okay, now I want to know why this was so bad.

00:29:57 They just did, they phoned in.

00:30:00 They phoned in.

00:30:01 All right.

00:30:02 - You rolled low on the performance.

00:30:03 - Yeah.

00:30:04 - Fine.

00:30:06 - I think they just don't perform well

00:30:07 when the rivalry's not started.

00:30:08 I feel like those numbers must come through better as well.

00:30:11 Like as the rivalry goes on.

00:30:14 - Oh, they absolutely do.

00:30:15 But I would like for them to try, you know,

00:30:17 at the very least.

00:30:18 Anything you wanna see from your side?

00:30:20 - Nah, I'm all good.

00:30:21 - Nah, he's eight.

00:30:22 He doesn't care.

00:30:23 - He doesn't care less.

00:30:24 Let's go and see where we're at then.

00:30:25 Okay, nice healthy growth of fans.

00:30:29 That was nice.

00:30:30 That was good.

00:30:30 Show quality D and match card quality C

00:30:32 after my little A show last week.

00:30:34 Yeah, let go Beth Phoenix.

00:30:36 - Why did you let go of Beth Phoenix?

00:30:37 - Well, because there was nowhere I could sort of slot her in

00:30:39 and I needed to start a feud with someone

00:30:42 who I thought would, you know, deliver the money.

00:30:44 And for me, that was Bianca Belair.

00:30:47 So I let Beth Phoenix go

00:30:49 and it was kind of like for like.

00:30:51 Another successful title defense, Mustafa Ali,

00:30:54 blah, blah, blah.

00:30:56 I think the perfect triple threat match

00:30:58 has fan favorites outnumbering rule breakers.

00:30:59 Yes, I know that.

00:31:00 Macho veteran mania.

00:31:02 I just didn't do it this time, okay?

00:31:04 All right, so there you go.

00:31:08 2,000, 2,088,000 fans.

00:31:12 I'll take it.

00:31:13 Where are you at?

00:31:14 Okay.

00:31:17 - Ooh, okay.

00:31:18 - Okay.

00:31:19 - Kept pace.

00:31:20 But I made good money.

00:31:22 - You did, you did.

00:31:22 - Finally made some money.

00:31:24 - Yeah, it was loads of logistics, eh?

00:31:25 - I did the logistics that I was told to do.

00:31:27 - There you go, they work out, don't you?

00:31:28 - It's only taken four streams.

00:31:30 Cheers to you, chat.

00:31:32 - Let's see what we got going on.

00:31:33 Oh, Scott Hall, NWO, sad to be leaving NXT.

00:31:36 Not happy.

00:31:37 Anything of note?

00:31:40 Julius Creed sells a score.

00:31:43 Bailey's happy to fight Trish any time.

00:31:44 - We could hot shot Creed in against Ilya now.

00:31:48 That might be interesting.

00:31:50 - Bit of fun there.

00:31:50 - We could buy someone else in for Ilya, I think.

00:31:52 - I mean, you got the money now, you might as well use him.

00:31:54 - Got the money, spend it.

00:31:56 So there we go.

00:31:56 Let's see how we're doing after that.

00:31:58 I completed my commissioner goal.

00:31:59 So I got a little health spa card.

00:32:01 Thank goodness for that.

00:32:03 And I completed the medically minded challenge.

00:32:07 So I got an injury rehab, which I don't need,

00:32:08 but that'll do.

00:32:09 - Very good.

00:32:10 - Oh, and you've got yourself a little Hall of Fame trophy.

00:32:12 - I got into the revenue tier one.

00:32:13 - Yeah.

00:32:15 That's a game changer

00:32:16 'cause that's popped you right back up top.

00:32:18 (screams)

00:32:20 I love this game.

00:32:22 - My goals are so difficult,

00:32:28 but I'm gonna have to find a way.

00:32:30 All right, life finds a way.

00:32:31 - I've not even checked them.

00:32:32 I've not even checked them.

00:32:33 I've no idea what they are.

00:32:35 I'm just naturally talented.

00:32:38 I'm so gifted.

00:32:39 - I've always thought so.

00:32:40 - Oh yeah.

00:32:41 - Yeah.

00:32:42 Luke.

00:32:45 Well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well, well,

00:32:47 Laurie Blake finds himself back at the top

00:32:50 of the league table as he leapfrogs above Dan Leighton,

00:32:55 who, I mean, we all just say as well,

00:32:58 very cheap tactics by Dan during his round there

00:33:02 by just shouting out things.

00:33:03 He shouted out a single thing.

00:33:05 - It was pathetic.

00:33:06 How dare you?

00:33:07 - It is pathetic, actually.

00:33:08 I agree, Laurie.

00:33:09 I thought it was a really, really low

00:33:10 and classless move by a classless individual.

00:33:14 - Oh my God.

00:33:16 He is at least taking notes.

00:33:17 So, you know, he is listening to some of the veterans

00:33:20 in the room like myself.

00:33:22 Thank you all so much for watching today.

00:33:24 You have been getting in touch via resttalk.com/pfk

00:33:27 and Cliff is kicking things off to say,

00:33:29 "Can I have a donut?"

00:33:31 Come on, Laurie.

00:33:32 Recycle to the max.

00:33:33 Have an awesome Christmas, you lovely lot.

00:33:37 Thank you very much, Cliff,

00:33:38 and a Merry Christmas to you as well.

00:33:39 And Terence here says, "This is for Laurie.

00:33:43 To make money, you have to spend money, but wisely.

00:33:47 My trick is to pay for advertising and pay for the arena.

00:33:51 The rest is optional.

00:33:53 Also, rest your title feuds,

00:33:55 use promos to your advantage,

00:33:56 and stop releasing injured wrestlers."

00:33:59 - Stop?

00:34:00 Why would I stop?

00:34:01 - Well, you know, that's the advice coming from Terence.

00:34:03 - They're useless.

00:34:04 - Yeah, I mean, they've got nothing to offer.

00:34:05 - They've got nothing to offer.

00:34:06 They're just sitting on a bench, warming it, taking money.

00:34:10 - Yeah, taking money.

00:34:11 - They do cost money.

00:34:12 - Taking money. - Do cost money.

00:34:13 - I mean, Scott Hall was gonna be gone next week anyway.

00:34:17 - Yeah, and I wanted the little bit of cash from him

00:34:20 on the way out.

00:34:20 - Thank you all so much for your odds.

00:34:23 Rusttalk.com/PFK.

00:34:26 Are our players ready for the next round?

00:34:29 - Sure. - Yes.

00:34:30 - Also, before we get into it, actually,

00:34:32 very bad seasonal bonuses for both players this time around.

00:34:37 - Triple threats cost no stamina or something.

00:34:39 Yeah.

00:34:40 - Mine were all like, do you want a person to get injured?

00:34:43 'Cause you get like a little bit of cash,

00:34:45 but they'll get injured.

00:34:47 - Well, guess what my second week's gonna be?

00:34:48 - What?

00:34:49 - All triple threats, baby.

00:34:50 (laughing)

00:34:52 - They say the variety is the spice of life,

00:34:54 unless of course you're making three-way pornos,

00:34:56 in which case three-ways are the way forward.

00:34:58 Let's head on over to our players.

00:35:00 Dan, the Truth Layton, representing Wednesday Night NXT 2.0,

00:35:03 and Laurie Blake, representing Wednesday Night NXT.

00:35:06 - I'm on top, baby.

00:35:09 Everything's gonna be fine.

00:35:11 - Everything's fine.

00:35:11 - This is temporary.

00:35:12 I still have considerably more fans.

00:35:14 I still have at least 40,000 more fans.

00:35:17 So that's fine.

00:35:18 - That's fine, but that gap is shrinking.

00:35:21 - Shrinking by like six people.

00:35:22 - No, that's shrunk by like 3,000 there.

00:35:25 - I've got a grid now.

00:35:26 - You got a grid?

00:35:27 - And I'm sure it'll help.

00:35:28 - We love a grid.

00:35:29 - I've got no bad guy fighters to speak of,

00:35:31 so maybe I should fix that.

00:35:32 - Yeah, I think the issue I'm struggling under

00:35:34 is match-ups now.

00:35:35 - Yeah.

00:35:36 - I don't have good match-ups,

00:35:38 but I'm just gonna stick to my guns.

00:35:41 I'm gonna stick to my guns.

00:35:42 I'm gonna keep banging my action figures together

00:35:45 until they decide to have a rivalry.

00:35:46 And then people, you're gonna bloody enjoy it, audience.

00:35:49 You're gonna enjoy what I tell you to enjoy.

00:35:52 Don't think just because the match-up is bad

00:35:54 that you're not gonna enjoy it,

00:35:55 because you are gonna enjoy it,

00:35:56 'cause I'm gonna tell you you're gonna enjoy it.

00:35:58 All right?

00:35:59 Anyway, enjoy this ex-Bomberguy video in my glasses.

00:36:02 - I am also just gonna bring up the fact

00:36:03 that last stream he went over time,

00:36:05 so technically I am owed a power card of some form.

00:36:08 But I'll leave that for Luke to decide.

00:36:11 - What have I done now?

00:36:12 - No, you did not do anything.

00:36:14 Last time we did the stream,

00:36:16 Laurie went over time.

00:36:17 - Yeah.

00:36:18 - Hbomberguy's video should be on DAMN.

00:36:20 - And so I should be allowed.

00:36:23 - Yeah, you get a power card for that.

00:36:24 - Yeah, but I don't know what it is.

00:36:25 So I'm gonna let you decide that.

00:36:26 - You get a one minute time penalty.

00:36:29 - Good to know.

00:36:30 Good to know.

00:36:31 Okay.

00:36:32 We'll bank it.

00:36:34 All right.

00:36:36 Get up my little timer here.

00:36:38 Are you ready, Ellis?

00:36:41 That's a little thumbs up from the corner.

00:36:42 Oh, it's SummerSlam we're doing,

00:36:44 you know, in November.

00:36:45 Why not?

00:36:46 Okay.

00:36:47 Three, two, one.

00:36:48 Let's go.

00:36:49 Logan Paul just was whinging.

00:36:51 Oh, he's happy.

00:36:52 Happy.

00:36:53 What the hell?

00:36:54 I thought we wouldn't fight Candice next.

00:36:55 Oh, Sammy, I don't care.

00:36:55 Oh, she's angry.

00:36:58 Oh dear.

00:36:59 Let's see.

00:37:00 What else have I got to...

00:37:01 Got contracts expiring.

00:37:03 No other promises to keep.

00:37:05 Oh, Logan Paul wants a match with Randy Orton.

00:37:07 Fine.

00:37:07 And a tables match to give me free advertising booking.

00:37:12 That's not the worst.

00:37:13 Should I immediately give my power card to Steve Austin?

00:37:17 Where is he at?

00:37:18 Let's have a look.

00:37:19 Manage roster.

00:37:21 Yes, I think I need to, don't I?

00:37:22 Two weeks left on his contract.

00:37:25 What have we got here?

00:37:27 I'm gonna buy the real steel

00:37:32 'cause I need to try and build up

00:37:33 those match type power cards

00:37:36 so that when we get to the pay-per-view,

00:37:37 I can just put on a show of five stars.

00:37:40 And I am going to...

00:37:42 The question is,

00:37:50 I'll say 13 grand is not a lot of money,

00:37:53 but I suppose...

00:37:56 I'll say it's 20.

00:38:02 The problem is, there's Razor.

00:38:05 The problem is his popularity is so high

00:38:07 that he's gonna charge me through the nose,

00:38:09 but is it worth me?

00:38:10 Yeah, it's probably financially more sensible

00:38:14 for me to just send Austin to the health spa this week

00:38:16 so that we can kick off a nice little...

00:38:20 God, why do we all do that?

00:38:21 Kick off a nice little rivalry next week.

00:38:24 And we'll do another call-out promo.

00:38:30 I'll book a charity promo

00:38:31 'cause that's one of my thingies,

00:38:33 GM goals.

00:38:40 She's good at promos.

00:38:42 She can do a charity promo.

00:38:43 So here, yeah, here's where I am.

00:38:46 I need to complete five.

00:38:47 So I've done one, two, three, four.

00:38:49 I need to book eight shows with a charity promo.

00:38:51 - Stop being Wikipedia.

00:38:52 - And I need to book five shows with a GM interference.

00:38:55 Those are probably my easiest ones.

00:38:56 So let's get into business.

00:39:01 A bad guy fighter would be helpful

00:39:09 'cause I've got, yeah, all I've got is Logan Paul.

00:39:11 Do we have any bad guy fighters over here

00:39:13 that I can bring in to?

00:39:16 No.

00:39:18 What about a legend?

00:39:19 Razor who's already injured.

00:39:24 That's not happening for Dan Layton.

00:39:25 Bad buddy.

00:39:27 Where are all the fighters?

00:39:29 Okay, well, I guess first things first,

00:39:35 we're gonna have Logan versus Randy

00:39:38 and I will do a GM interference on behalf of Randy Orton.

00:39:42 No, I'll do a GM interference on behalf of Logan Paul

00:39:48 because he seems happier.

00:39:52 Oh my God, everyone's so bloody Paul-y.

00:39:55 We'll get in, to boost her popularity a little bit,

00:40:00 I'll put on a triple threat match

00:40:01 between Bianca and Maria in there as well, maybe.

00:40:07 What was my commissioner goal?

00:40:14 Have at least one tables match.

00:40:18 Oh, I can't put them in the tables match.

00:40:22 Where's Charlotte?

00:40:23 36 stamina, she can do a promo

00:40:25 to make sure that they're not gonna lose out on that.

00:40:29 And then Logan Paul can take on Jinder Mahal,

00:40:31 nope, 'cause Jinder's fucking, excuse me,

00:40:33 that's all bad Dan.

00:40:35 Jinder's Paul-y as well.

00:40:37 We'll make that a tables match 'cause they can handle it.

00:40:42 And that maybe, if I'm lucky, can put the title on Kevin

00:40:51 and then I've got a title kind of to use the logic

00:40:53 of my learned colleague over there.

00:40:56 And we'll do a, can I whack in a fatal four-way

00:41:00 just for a bit of variety?

00:41:02 Who else has got stamina to speak of?

00:41:06 Oh yeah.

00:41:10 Is that gonna be bad?

00:41:21 Oh God, two minutes left.

00:41:22 All right.

00:41:23 Is it gonna be, is Mustafa Ali gonna get injured

00:41:25 and then I'm not gonna be able to blow off the rivalry?

00:41:27 Probably, so we'll just put,

00:41:28 where's him?

00:41:31 Oh God, I hate putting on bad shows.

00:41:34 I hate the fact that so many of these people are poorly

00:41:37 and I hate that none of the power cards I'm getting

00:41:39 are helpful in any way, shape or form.

00:41:42 All right, I've got a couple of minutes

00:41:43 to look at some free agents.

00:41:44 Did I do my logistics already?

00:41:46 Yes, I did.

00:41:46 So let's have a look.

00:41:49 I've got no good guy giants.

00:41:54 So I could always bring in a Braun Strowman.

00:41:57 I've got several good guy bruises

00:41:59 and no bad guy fighters.

00:42:00 So there's no value in that.

00:42:03 Although I could, yeah,

00:42:04 a villainous bruiser would be not a bad suggestion.

00:42:07 There's Seamus, nine weeks.

00:42:08 Let's sign Seamus.

00:42:10 Flesh out the roster, why not?

00:42:12 And actually maybe,

00:42:19 in that case,

00:42:20 I'll put in Seamus in Seth's spot.

00:42:28 Oh God, there's so many villains.

00:42:29 I need a good guy.

00:42:33 I need a good guy specialist is what I really need.

00:42:36 Good guy specialist anywhere down here.

00:42:40 Why do you all suck so hard?

00:42:43 Not only good guy giants.

00:42:48 Oh, Braun, do you wanna play a game?

00:42:50 Cause Shawn Michaels for a load of money,

00:42:55 bad bunny for a load of money.

00:42:57 I bet it is.

00:42:58 Kane for 51,000 is a good guy.

00:43:03 But I've got no bad guy cruises.

00:43:05 Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine.

00:43:11 We'll just sign Kane.

00:43:12 We'll just sign Kane.

00:43:13 If in doubt, sign Kane.

00:43:15 And Seth, you can be Kane instead.

00:43:18 And then that's probably fine.

00:43:20 And then I've got 30 seconds left.

00:43:21 Then I hate this game.

00:43:22 I hate the game.

00:43:23 I hate everyone playing it.

00:43:24 I hate you.

00:43:25 I hate, nobody wants to give me a power card.

00:43:30 Everything falls for Blake and gold.

00:43:32 I'm just losing everything.

00:43:34 Yeah, why not play that?

00:43:36 Sod you.

00:43:37 You can't buy any power cards.

00:43:39 And then that's fine.

00:43:41 That's fine.

00:43:42 (soft music)

00:43:44 It's actually a bit long.

00:43:51 How are you?

00:43:57 - So is my life when I play this game.

00:43:58 - Yeah, what's going on?

00:44:00 - What's up honey bear?

00:44:02 - Everyone's poorly and I can't do what I like to do.

00:44:04 - Oh no, everyone's poorly are they?

00:44:06 - And I can't do what I like to do at home.

00:44:08 - Oh no, poor Dan.

00:44:11 Four streams in and someone's injured.

00:44:13 Fuck you Dan Layton.

00:44:15 - No one's injured.

00:44:16 It's just if I'm not careful, they might be.

00:44:17 - Right, okay.

00:44:18 So they're not even injured.

00:44:19 - Not yet.

00:44:20 - So they're just, oh, they've got no stamina.

00:44:22 - Low stamina, yeah.

00:44:23 I don't like it.

00:44:25 - That's such a shame.

00:44:26 It must be so hard.

00:44:28 Must be.

00:44:29 - It's really difficult for me.

00:44:30 - Put your little headphones on.

00:44:31 Let me have my go.

00:44:32 Here we bloody go.

00:44:36 (silence)

00:44:38 - What are you gonna listen to?

00:44:43 - Dunno.

00:44:43 - Dunno?

00:44:44 - Dunno.

00:44:45 - Well calm you down.

00:44:46 - Well, first of all, if my headphones were to plug in,

00:44:50 that would be helpful.

00:44:51 - Do you wanna watch the next bit of my video?

00:44:53 - No, no, no, no, no.

00:44:54 No, we could do it in shift work.

00:44:56 - We could do it.

00:44:57 Tell me what happened.

00:44:58 - Perhaps I will.

00:44:58 - At the moment it's going on about a guy from IGN.

00:45:00 - Kelly Clarkson and Ariana Grande's

00:45:02 Santa Can't You Hear Me?

00:45:03 - Santa Can't You Hear Me?

00:45:05 How about that?

00:45:05 - Santa Can't You Hear Me?

00:45:07 - Basically it sounds like that.

00:45:09 - Bye.

00:45:10 Right, we need this.

00:45:12 We're powering up.

00:45:17 Let's do this.

00:45:18 Ellis in three, two, one, go.

00:45:21 Come here controller.

00:45:22 You're welcome Carmelo Hayes.

00:45:24 You are welcome my son.

00:45:25 Feels great to be the champion.

00:45:28 I guess this makes me the face of NXT.

00:45:30 That's great, yep.

00:45:31 I'm not happy.

00:45:34 Nobody better get another shot at the women's title.

00:45:36 That's absolutely fine because you are in a rivalry

00:45:39 with the champion, you numb nuts.

00:45:42 Here we go.

00:45:43 Right, have your most popular available female

00:45:45 and face and heel fight each other this week.

00:45:49 What do I get?

00:45:50 Health spa though.

00:45:51 Health spa though.

00:45:53 Put a health spa though.

00:45:55 Let's have a little look.

00:45:56 Gender.

00:46:00 All right, who we got?

00:46:01 So 76, 76, 68, 68.

00:46:04 So it's Trish versus Baszler.

00:46:07 This is bad stamina wise.

00:46:08 It's bad stamina wise, but I don't care.

00:46:13 I just want the thing.

00:46:16 You're going there though, obviously.

00:46:17 What are we gonna try and do this week though?

00:46:19 We're gonna try and achieve some things with our roster

00:46:23 by putting people together.

00:46:24 We've obviously got, we're waiting for Balor to come back.

00:46:27 Like he's back next week, I think now.

00:46:29 Or the week after, so that's good.

00:46:32 So he's gonna be out before the pay-per-view.

00:46:34 I need Ilya to start doing something

00:46:36 'cause he is the North American champion.

00:46:39 He has just finished up.

00:46:40 So we could, we can basically put Ilya against anyone

00:46:43 except T-Bar here.

00:46:44 Low stamina here though, which does annoy me.

00:46:49 So I think we'll put Ilya versus Drew.

00:46:51 We'll put the title on the line

00:46:53 and we'll open the show with that.

00:46:56 I wanna get something going with Riddle.

00:46:57 T-Bar, like Riddle's a specialist as well.

00:47:01 So Riddle could go against pretty much anyone here.

00:47:04 I think Riddle and T-Bar working together might be good.

00:47:08 So I'm gonna book that too.

00:47:09 And then we rest T-Bar next week.

00:47:12 Then we've got this sort of final,

00:47:14 this final bit of the show

00:47:17 that I don't really know what to do with.

00:47:20 I'm kind of looking for something for Big E to do.

00:47:22 The problem is it's Bruiser versus Bruiser down here, right?

00:47:26 So we could go looking for a fighter.

00:47:28 We want a heal fighter.

00:47:31 So let's go into the roster, sign for agents.

00:47:33 Bruiser, Bruiser, fighter, fighter, Bruiser, fighter.

00:47:38 I don't like any of these.

00:47:42 Send them back.

00:47:44 Right, yeah, this is not useful.

00:47:46 Let's go into legends.

00:47:48 Oh, look.

00:47:51 Look who it is.

00:47:53 We could get Piper and we could flip him.

00:48:00 But then that's like another week

00:48:02 of not really achieving anything with that part of the roster.

00:48:04 I'll have a little bit more of a think about that.

00:48:08 I'm gonna put something else in here for now

00:48:11 so that if we have to panic, book a show, we can do that.

00:48:14 We've got Bayley and Stratus.

00:48:16 I don't think we wanna go,

00:48:18 we could have Bayley call her out,

00:48:20 but I don't think that's worth doing.

00:48:21 I don't wanna end up on the floor

00:48:22 and it getting a bit stale before the thing.

00:48:24 We could do Shotzi.

00:48:26 Stamina's good across the board in this rivalry.

00:48:28 So I think we can do that.

00:48:30 We've met the commissioner goal.

00:48:32 I'm quite happy with that.

00:48:34 Let's go into promo town.

00:48:36 Hayes, you can do a self promo.

00:48:38 Let's do,

00:48:41 could just have Creed call out Big E

00:48:46 'cause they're both quite low stamina.

00:48:47 So I could have Big E call out Creed,

00:48:51 but I'm not like mad into that.

00:48:53 I'm gonna do some advertising, definitely.

00:48:55 Who do I wanna rest?

00:48:57 I wanna rest Bayley.

00:48:59 So I guess, yeah, we'll have Aska do that for us.

00:49:04 Let's go logistics.

00:49:07 We're gonna go, we'll do the thing we're told to do.

00:49:10 We'll book big, these ones.

00:49:12 So should I book advertising?

00:49:17 I mean, I've got money to spend,

00:49:18 so I'm gonna spend this now.

00:49:19 That's 15K.

00:49:26 That's fine with me.

00:49:28 Book crew, booked all of this stuff.

00:49:30 That's good.

00:49:31 I don't wanna confirm it.

00:49:32 Don't fuck it.

00:49:33 Don't confirm that, Jesus Christ.

00:49:35 All right, here we go.

00:49:35 What are we gonna buy?

00:49:36 So I could,

00:49:38 can you do that on the pay-per-view week?

00:49:43 I assume you can.

00:49:46 Injury rehab.

00:49:48 I don't need to buy it right now.

00:49:49 I'm quite happy.

00:49:50 Let's have a look at the agents again.

00:49:52 So we just really need a fighter is what we need.

00:49:56 So I could buy Adrian Buck, but he's a bit crap.

00:49:59 I don't like that.

00:50:00 I could also just buy,

00:50:01 I could also get in Roddy Piper.

00:50:04 Is that five weeks?

00:50:05 That's quite a lot of money, isn't it?

00:50:08 Is that five weeks?

00:50:09 I can't see it.

00:50:10 Is it nine weeks?

00:50:10 My eyes aren't good enough to see it.

00:50:14 I don't have my glasses.

00:50:16 I'm gonna actually have to get up like an old man and look.

00:50:19 Nine weeks.

00:50:25 It is nine weeks.

00:50:27 Could, I could turn him,

00:50:30 or I could just put him again.

00:50:31 I could just put Big E against Creed,

00:50:32 which I'm kind of happy to do as well, I think.

00:50:35 So could just do Big E versus Creed instead of one of these.

00:50:40 But I feel like this kind of works out better.

00:50:43 Could save his stamina as well,

00:50:45 but I think everyone's a bit low.

00:50:47 I'll do this this week and I can do Creed and Big E

00:50:49 next week if someone else better turns up.

00:50:53 And that gives me a chance to, yeah.

00:50:55 I don't know, man.

00:50:59 I feel really like Torn.

00:51:01 I feel very, very Torn.

00:51:02 I'm like Natalie Imbruglia.

00:51:04 Yeah, I just want a fighter.

00:51:08 I just want a fighter.

00:51:10 None of these people are good.

00:51:14 They've got good stamina, but they're not popular enough.

00:51:16 It's gonna take too much work, I think,

00:51:17 to get them up to the level I need them.

00:51:20 Could just do Roddy.

00:51:23 (sighs)

00:51:25 I've got the money, I could get him, I could flip him,

00:51:28 and then I could have him start with Big E next week.

00:51:31 I've got nine weeks of that.

00:51:32 So I could just do Piper.

00:51:34 How do I feel about that?

00:51:36 No, you know what?

00:51:37 I don't want to spend the whole game chasing money.

00:51:40 I'm not gonna do that.

00:51:41 So we're gonna do some more self-promos.

00:51:45 Or we might do charity promo, I guess, actually.

00:51:47 Let's do charity.

00:51:49 Who's gonna be good at charity?

00:51:52 (hums)

00:51:54 I want Bailey to rest properly.

00:51:56 Big E's stamina's quite low.

00:51:58 Go on, Joel Wheeler, you can have a go.

00:52:03 Why not?

00:52:04 His morale is mid.

00:52:05 Cool.

00:52:07 I feel like I'm happy with that.

00:52:08 I've achieved my thing.

00:52:09 I'm gonna get my rehab.

00:52:11 I've got this showbook this way.

00:52:12 It's got a rivalry.

00:52:16 This is just random.

00:52:18 That could start a rivalry.

00:52:19 That could start a rivalry.

00:52:21 (swooshing)

00:52:24 Boom!

00:52:25 Mate, I'm having such a chill time.

00:52:29 I'm having such a chill time.

00:52:30 It's like, it's so good.

00:52:33 I've had two, no, I had two months

00:52:35 of just everyone being a sack of shit and falling apart.

00:52:38 And now, now it's great.

00:52:41 Got rid of Razor Ramon.

00:52:42 I think he was like my albatross.

00:52:43 - Or dragging you down.

00:52:44 - Yeah, he was dragging me down.

00:52:45 Following me around.

00:52:46 Flinging toothpicks at me.

00:52:48 I was so confident going into this stream.

00:52:52 And so I would argue braggadocious.

00:52:56 - Yeah.

00:52:57 - I would argue overconfident in not bringing any materials.

00:53:00 Not doing the prep that I should have.

00:53:02 I slept in instead.

00:53:03 Haven't had enough coffee.

00:53:05 It's coming back to bite me.

00:53:07 - So let's talk about your show then.

00:53:10 - Yeah, fine.

00:53:11 - What have we got going on?

00:53:12 - Well, game face on.

00:53:14 We've got LA Knight and Kevin Owens.

00:53:16 I basically was just trying to make a show

00:53:18 because everyone is still not like stamina wise.

00:53:20 I don't want to run the risk of it.

00:53:21 Because if I have injuries,

00:53:22 I can't finish things off at the pay-per-view.

00:53:24 Nightmarish.

00:53:26 So I've put LA Knight and Kevin Owens

00:53:28 in a title tables match because stamina wise,

00:53:31 they're both okay.

00:53:32 And if I can have a title change here,

00:53:33 I thought I'd pull,

00:53:34 I thought I'd steal one from Old Blake and Gold.

00:53:37 - Yeah.

00:53:37 - And make the Owens Derby worth more.

00:53:40 I don't know if it will work.

00:53:42 It didn't.

00:53:43 - Thank God.

00:53:44 - Fine.

00:53:46 (laughing)

00:53:48 - Bobby Roode and Steve Austin, no.

00:53:50 In absentia.

00:53:50 - Bobby Roode's just coming out

00:53:51 and being like that guy's neck, man.

00:53:53 - They're in that guy's neck.

00:53:54 He's talking about how he's going to break it.

00:53:55 - He's a coward.

00:53:56 He's a coward.

00:53:57 - But look.

00:53:58 - Pretending he's got a bad neck.

00:53:59 - This promo was excellent and the rivalry has grown.

00:54:01 So it works for me.

00:54:03 Logan wanted a match with Randy Orton.

00:54:04 - Sure.

00:54:05 - So I thought I would give it to him.

00:54:06 - Sure.

00:54:07 - And in the meantime, I'm interfering on his behalf.

00:54:10 - Oh.

00:54:11 - Because he needs cheering up and Randy's fine.

00:54:13 And I need to book a GM interference.

00:54:15 - I see.

00:54:16 - So sod it.

00:54:17 - Is that your commissioner goal?

00:54:18 - No, that is a separate thing.

00:54:20 It helps him out and they've got a rivalry, I guess.

00:54:24 - Wow.

00:54:25 - Logan versus Randy.

00:54:29 Fine.

00:54:31 Little charity promo from Queenslander,

00:54:34 because again, that was another one that I needed to do.

00:54:36 A match for the sake of a match, I've signed Kane.

00:54:41 - You've signed Kane.

00:54:42 You have a new person every week.

00:54:43 - I went a bit nuts.

00:54:44 I have two this week.

00:54:45 One of them's not even on the show.

00:54:46 I booked, I bought Seamus as well.

00:54:48 - Oh, bloody hell.

00:54:49 - Well, I just was panicking.

00:54:50 - Was he a fighter or a bruiser?

00:54:51 - Honestly, Laurie.

00:54:52 - Did you take him from me?

00:54:53 - I can't tell you who he is.

00:54:54 - I need a fighter and you've stolen my fighter.

00:54:55 - I need a fighter.

00:54:56 There were no fighters.

00:54:57 - No, there were no fighters.

00:54:58 - There were no fighters.

00:54:58 - Where are the fighters?

00:54:59 - No, I have no idea.

00:55:00 But I signed Seamus because I was panicking.

00:55:02 I thought I'd flesh out the roster.

00:55:03 So at the very least I could put on shows.

00:55:05 We've got a giant and a cruiser in this,

00:55:07 a giant and a bruiser.

00:55:08 You know, in theory, this is going to be fine.

00:55:11 Kane wins it.

00:55:12 Good for you, Kane.

00:55:13 Get you a little bonus.

00:55:14 Bobby Lashley and Kane have a rivalry.

00:55:15 That's something that I didn't need or want.

00:55:17 (laughing)

00:55:19 - Kane comes in and he makes a scene.

00:55:21 - You know, he just loves to do it.

00:55:23 - Making a splash.

00:55:24 - You're a one and you're a one.

00:55:26 Charlotte, meanwhile, is calling out Bianca.

00:55:31 - That's good though.

00:55:32 I think like your promo stuff has worked out really well.

00:55:33 - Yeah, it's fine.

00:55:34 It's just, again, it's like,

00:55:35 I'm not putting on a great show

00:55:36 because I'm just whacking people into matches.

00:55:38 Here's a women's triple threat because I needed a match

00:55:40 because, and these are the only ones who had stamina

00:55:42 that was over 40.

00:55:43 And I thought by having a match,

00:55:45 Bianca could, you know,

00:55:46 either win it and maybe grow in popularity,

00:55:47 but she didn't even do that.

00:55:48 It's mediocre.

00:55:49 - Oh, sad times.

00:55:52 NXT, baby, the show you all waited for.

00:55:57 Here we go.

00:55:58 Right, well, we are trying to force

00:56:01 these two heathens together.

00:56:03 We've obviously got our specialist champ

00:56:06 who's pretty bloody popular, actually.

00:56:08 - I think Ilya is the most popular person on the roster.

00:56:11 - And Drew obviously newly turned heel.

00:56:14 So let's see if this goes anywhere.

00:56:16 Winner, Drew.

00:56:20 Amazing.

00:56:21 No rivalry.

00:56:22 Thank you.

00:56:23 - But you know, at least you got champ now.

00:56:24 - At least you win options, yeah.

00:56:25 So Drew's champ.

00:56:26 - And hey, Ilya's not the most popular person

00:56:28 on the roster anymore.

00:56:29 - That's true.

00:56:30 - He's lost 10.

00:56:31 - He's lost 10.

00:56:31 I think he still might be, you know.

00:56:33 Carmelo's done a self promo.

00:56:34 He gained no popularity.

00:56:36 - Nothing happened there.

00:56:37 - Why does he look so shy there?

00:56:38 Why does this?

00:56:39 - Oh, me.

00:56:40 - Do you want me to do a promo?

00:56:41 - Oh, me.

00:56:42 - It's not shy, it's kickass.

00:56:44 - I am him.

00:56:45 - I'm Carmelo Haynes.

00:56:48 - Whatever it is, it's not worth it.

00:56:48 - Here we go.

00:56:49 I was asked to put my most popular female heel

00:56:54 and face together in a match.

00:56:55 So that's why we have the base of Stratus intervention,

00:57:00 which is annoying because they're both bad stamina,

00:57:02 but you know, oh well.

00:57:03 - Are you going to get a good card for it?

00:57:06 - Yeah, it's a good card.

00:57:07 - All right, fine.

00:57:08 - So that's a good match, it's fine.

00:57:11 Asuka does have some advertising.

00:57:12 She gains us some money.

00:57:14 - Yeah, that's a low popularity score.

00:57:15 - Yeah, that is bad popularity, but that's fine.

00:57:17 Riddle versus T-Bar.

00:57:18 - Yeah.

00:57:19 - T-Bar's recovered.

00:57:20 I used health spar on him to boost him back up to 37.

00:57:23 Specialist versus giant.

00:57:25 This could work out.

00:57:28 We don't know.

00:57:29 We'll see.

00:57:30 Yeah, that's fine.

00:57:33 - He's got a little feud out of it.

00:57:34 - Yeah, I mean, that's all I really wanted

00:57:36 from the situation.

00:57:37 - I mean, the people are booing.

00:57:39 - Yeah, but do you know what?

00:57:41 They boo T-Bar at the beginning of every feud

00:57:43 he's been in so far.

00:57:44 And then by the end of it, they're like, wow, that was--

00:57:48 - It's 'cause he's a bionic man, he never gets injured.

00:57:50 - He's amazing.

00:57:51 Then we've got Joel Wheeler doing a charity promo

00:57:54 because had a spot, had some cash, I suppose.

00:57:57 And then we just got this match to

00:57:59 potentially grow this rivalry.

00:58:02 It was just a match.

00:58:03 - Oh.

00:58:08 - And that grows.

00:58:09 - You had a good show.

00:58:10 - That was absolutely fine.

00:58:11 - I'm sure that's gonna go well.

00:58:12 - Fine.

00:58:14 - Let's see.

00:58:16 Good booking.

00:58:18 Oh, I suppose--

00:58:18 - My drama curve was not good.

00:58:20 - No, it was.

00:58:21 - I know, it's 'cause they're connected.

00:58:22 The two are connected, aren't they?

00:58:23 I forget that every time.

00:58:24 - At least all three of my matches were mediocre.

00:58:29 So I guess consistency is a boon.

00:58:33 Let's have a look.

00:58:36 DNC again, same as last week, plus 32.

00:58:38 That's not very good.

00:58:39 That's not gonna help me out.

00:58:41 Oh dear, never expect to see Kane wrestling again.

00:58:45 He's still got it, clearly.

00:58:46 Didn't expect that.

00:58:47 Daniel J. Layton making life hard for Randy Orton

00:58:49 to help out Logan Paul.

00:58:51 Yeah, I didn't expect that either for my life.

00:58:53 That was a sentence that I never thought

00:58:54 was gonna come true, but here we are.

00:58:56 Kind of average match, but there was no love lost.

00:58:59 I heard rumors that they'd sign Kane.

00:59:00 - Clearly they were true.

00:59:01 - Yeah.

00:59:02 I mean, I'm getting pushed a lot.

00:59:05 Queensland are promising a good cause.

00:59:07 Oh dear, what a capitulation.

00:59:10 Let's see what you've done.

00:59:13 - Now the show you've all been waiting for.

00:59:15 Boom, baby!

00:59:15 We're getting back into this, aren't we, mate?

00:59:19 Some sweet greens.

00:59:22 - Sweet, sweet greens.

00:59:24 - It's like he can learn.

00:59:26 Oh my God.

00:59:27 It's like he learns.

00:59:30 He learns!

00:59:32 Eventually.

00:59:33 After many comments.

00:59:36 All right, so someone says,

00:59:37 "I like tonight's NXT, keep it coming."

00:59:40 Crowd sounds like they hate McIntyre being a bad guy.

00:59:42 Shut up, fucker.

00:59:43 What do you know?

00:59:44 You'll like what I tell you to like.

00:59:46 I liked what Joe Wheeler did in that promo.

00:59:48 Good, yeah.

00:59:49 There's nothing majorly interesting.

00:59:53 Carmelo getting pushed a lot lately on NXT.

00:59:55 He's the champion.

00:59:57 You dopes.

00:59:58 Right, yeah, well, a pretty good show for me though.

01:00:01 Quite happy with that.

01:00:02 Let's see what happens next.

01:00:04 Ooh.

01:00:05 - Okay, okay, I've done my five challenges.

01:00:08 Good, good.

01:00:09 Tell me what they were.

01:00:10 Let's go.

01:00:11 Commissioner's goal this week.

01:00:12 Good advertising booking.

01:00:13 We should get some cards.

01:00:14 Fixed match, that one's fine.

01:00:15 That's it, is it?

01:00:17 - Yeah, and I got health spa, baby.

01:00:19 - What am I doing wrong?

01:00:21 - You're back on top though.

01:00:22 You are back on top.

01:00:24 - So that number there is...

01:00:26 - Look at the fans gap.

01:00:27 Look at that fans gap.

01:00:28 - It's come right down.

01:00:29 - It's closing.

01:00:30 - It's closed a lot.

01:00:31 - The noose is closing around your neck, Leighton.

01:00:33 I'm coming for you.

01:00:34 - I hate it.

01:00:35 - That's a weird mood today.

01:00:37 - You are and it's working for you and I don't like it.

01:00:40 Go back to being passive and not interested.

01:00:42 - No, no.

01:00:43 I tasted shame last week, Leighton,

01:00:50 when you rocketed into the lead.

01:00:52 I won't be sullied again.

01:00:56 (Leighton screams)

01:00:57 - Right, back to you, Luke.

01:00:59 - Well, it is switched again, everyone.

01:01:04 Dan Leighton back on top of the leaderboard,

01:01:07 but for how long?

01:01:09 He has got his two Hall of Fame trophies, as does Laurie,

01:01:13 but he's got about, what is it, like 30 odd thousand fans more?

01:01:17 - It's only 25 now.

01:01:18 - 25,000 fans more.

01:01:20 That can spin on its own once we get to pay-per-view week.

01:01:25 Lots of things gonna be going down.

01:01:28 Laurie obviously got his seasonal bonus

01:01:30 of being able to book multiple person matches

01:01:33 and yet to do one.

01:01:35 He did say as well,

01:01:37 we were gonna get up to three ways this week

01:01:38 and didn't get a single one.

01:01:40 So, you know, lies being told by the Blake and Gold brand.

01:01:44 And Jesse Vettel here says, "Hey, Dan."

01:01:47 Well, maybe I'll wait for Dan to get back

01:01:49 because he's just nipped for a poo.

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01:02:27 It was a hell of a week.

01:02:29 I thought there were some interesting choices made,

01:02:31 not a lot of fighters going around,

01:02:33 and that caused some frustrations,

01:02:35 and some of the biggest unraveling I've seen of Dan Layton

01:02:39 in this series so far.

01:02:41 He came in here with a lot of hype, pyro, and ballyhoo

01:02:45 about knowing this game inside and out,

01:02:47 but the time limit's getting to him, ladies and gentlemen.

01:02:49 But there is an old chat in here for you, Dan.

01:02:53 It says, "Hey, Dan, check out songs by NF.

01:02:56 "Got to watch him and Corayda live here in Arkansas.

01:03:00 "I've been following WrestleTalk since 2016.

01:03:02 "Big fan.

01:03:03 "Laurie, how is housemate Simon?

01:03:05 "Also, Dan, as for a specific song,

01:03:07 "listen to 'Hope' by NF.

01:03:09 "Plus, I cannot wait for the next Survival Series."

01:03:12 Well, I hope you're one of our patrons.

01:03:13 You can get an episode right now.

01:03:14 But Laurie, how is housemate Simon?

01:03:15 - Yeah, he's good.

01:03:16 I saw him on Sunday.

01:03:18 He's doing really well.

01:03:19 He's getting married next year.

01:03:20 - He is?

01:03:21 I saw him at the Christmas party,

01:03:23 and he's still looking like Captain America

01:03:25 in Infinity War.

01:03:26 - Yeah.

01:03:27 - And he's doing very well for himself.

01:03:28 Lovely bloke.

01:03:29 I like Simon a lot.

01:03:30 Get in your chats to WrestleTalk.com/PFK,

01:03:34 and we'll read out all of them before the end of the show.

01:03:37 Are our players ready?

01:03:38 - Bloody yes.

01:03:40 - Well, I think Laurie is definitely,

01:03:41 Laurie is like chomping at the bits to get back into this.

01:03:44 Now he is feeling it, ladies and gentlemen,

01:03:46 as we head into week three of this series run.

01:03:51 Take it away, boys.

01:03:52 - Take 'em away, toys.

01:03:54 - It's gonna be funny.

01:03:57 - Difficult poo, is it?

01:03:58 - I don't need that.

01:04:02 (laughing)

01:04:03 I don't need that right now.

01:04:04 I don't need fecal humor.

01:04:06 - You don't?

01:04:06 - No.

01:04:07 - Do you know it's my least favorite thing in the world?

01:04:08 - I remember quite a bit of it when you were out of the room.

01:04:09 - Did you?

01:04:10 (laughing)

01:04:11 - It should be fun for you to watch back.

01:04:12 - Oh, great.

01:04:13 - I'm thrilled about it.

01:04:15 - Ah!

01:04:16 Okay, everything's gonna be fine.

01:04:19 Okay, we're just gonna book a show.

01:04:21 We're just, people should be healed now.

01:04:23 I should be able to get my star power back.

01:04:26 I think I'm gonna be able to do two titles matches.

01:04:27 Oh God, Austin's contract's gonna be up.

01:04:30 Spend some money.

01:04:31 - Right, here we go.

01:04:31 What am I gonna listen to?

01:04:33 I've had enough of the Hbomberguy video.

01:04:34 - Have you?

01:04:35 - I'm not, no.

01:04:36 - You're not learning anything new?

01:04:37 - I'll see if someone's written it off in my article

01:04:39 or something.

01:04:40 - Give me the bullet points.

01:04:41 - Yeah, all right, we're gonna listen to

01:04:43 Four Year Strong.

01:04:44 - Lovely, bye.

01:04:46 Okay, let's get through to the email screen.

01:04:48 Just a couple of weeks away from Summer Slam.

01:04:51 And I am seven minutes on the clock

01:04:56 and I'm ready to go whenever you are.

01:04:58 Three, two, one, let's hit it.

01:05:02 Yep, I knew it would be.

01:05:03 Oh my God, 119,000.

01:05:05 How happy are you, optimistic?

01:05:07 Will you take a low ball offer?

01:05:08 Thank you.

01:05:11 Your contract is up.

01:05:12 I have no interest in you.

01:05:14 Off you go, Seth.

01:05:16 I guess I see where we stand now

01:05:18 to that St. Nepal-Germany match.

01:05:19 Yeah, sorry about that.

01:05:20 And Logan's happy.

01:05:22 Okay, fine, good.

01:05:23 Ensure that your least popular available specialist

01:05:25 is in a match this week.

01:05:26 That is specialist, specialist, specialist.

01:05:30 Sammy George, who is angry with me.

01:05:32 Okay, but she's got 100 stamina,

01:05:34 so let's book a title match.

01:05:35 Tag team titles.

01:05:37 Sammy George.

01:05:40 And Queen Zelina against these guys.

01:05:44 Stamina are 155, 56, 45.

01:05:46 They can take an extreme rules tag team titles match

01:05:48 because they're gonna get next week off.

01:05:50 And we are going to book a women's championship match

01:05:55 between these two.

01:05:56 It will be a tables match.

01:05:58 Strong Call Steve Austin's gonna do a call out promo

01:06:02 as well.

01:06:03 Actually, in terms of stamina,

01:06:06 it might be better for me to put those guys

01:06:10 in the title match.

01:06:11 What about Star Power?

01:06:12 Let's see, Star Power 5, Star Power Legend.

01:06:18 Yeah, we'll do that.

01:06:20 Okay, just to make sure I've got my...

01:06:22 We'll do it as a normal match,

01:06:26 but I will make it...

01:06:27 Ooh, going.

01:06:28 Triple Threat.

01:06:31 And I will pop in Dewdrop as well,

01:06:35 just for the attainment value.

01:06:40 And what do I need to do here?

01:06:42 Can I make that a triple threat?

01:06:46 I think I might.

01:06:47 A repeat of last week.

01:06:52 Oh, Shameless is a Bruiser, good.

01:06:54 Why did I do that?

01:06:56 And we're going to do a Triple Threat Normals match

01:07:00 for the North American championship

01:07:02 and hope that someone, one of those two...

01:07:05 In fact, maybe...

01:07:06 Should I fix match it?

01:07:10 No.

01:07:11 Oh!

01:07:12 I can't afford to buy another one.

01:07:19 'Cause I went mad and bought Shameless.

01:07:22 I went mad.

01:07:23 Right, let's get an advertising promo in then

01:07:28 from someone who's got Kane, we'll do.

01:07:31 Which one have I completed?

01:07:34 Completed five challenges this season.

01:07:35 So we've got five shows with Geo Interference,

01:07:38 eight shows with the charity promo.

01:07:40 So I can book another one of those.

01:07:41 Rhea Ripley can do a charity promo.

01:07:47 And what other call outs can I do?

01:07:49 Since I'm not renewing his contract,

01:07:56 I'll book those guys in a submission match

01:08:02 to blow off that rivalry

01:08:04 and have Bianca call out Charlotte again.

01:08:07 So that way, that feud should grow.

01:08:11 I put them early up.

01:08:13 That rivalry should grow.

01:08:17 That should, in theory, further that rivalry,

01:08:23 especially if one of them can suck it up and win the belt.

01:08:26 That rivalry should complete

01:08:28 and then this rivalry should grow.

01:08:30 Might swap that round.

01:08:36 (computer beeping)

01:08:39 Any other things I need to do?

01:08:40 Contract expiring, contract expiring.

01:08:42 Everyone else is happy.

01:08:44 Done all the logistics, got bonuses on that.

01:08:48 I think this is a decent looking show, everybody.

01:08:50 Let's have a look at the roster.

01:08:57 Seamus is here, just in case I need him for after the fact.

01:09:06 In fact...

01:09:07 Yeah, no, fine.

01:09:12 I'm feeling a lot more calm now, everybody.

01:09:20 I don't need three injury rehabs, I need more of those.

01:09:22 I beg you.

01:09:23 Maybe I'll fix that match.

01:09:27 Save that in case I need it.

01:09:32 Um...

01:09:33 Running the biggest arena possible.

01:09:42 Yeah, I need to save some money

01:09:44 because I need to be able to buy and book this one.

01:09:48 200,000.

01:09:50 What am I, what, yeah.

01:09:54 I'm gonna have to let, what?

01:09:55 That was such a stupid thing I did.

01:10:00 That was such a stupid thing I did.

01:10:02 But it's gonna help me, I'm gonna have to do it.

01:10:08 One idiot, one idiot.

01:10:10 This is the lesson, all right?

01:10:13 Don't panic, make better financial choices.

01:10:15 Learn from my mistakes.

01:10:16 (groans)

01:10:20 All right, I think that's got good coverage on the show.

01:10:24 Got a minute 35 to confirm.

01:10:27 So I've got a title match there

01:10:29 between Bobby Roode and Stolko, Steve Austin.

01:10:33 Hopefully that will further their rivalry.

01:10:35 We've got Bianca Belair calling out Charlotte Flair

01:10:37 to hopefully further their rivalry.

01:10:39 We've got a mid-card title match

01:10:44 that will hopefully end with one of these guys winning it.

01:10:46 We've got Seth and Mustafa Ali

01:10:49 to close that rivalry out in a submission match.

01:10:51 And then this level three rivalry

01:10:52 to hopefully go up an extra one

01:10:53 by having a title match in an extreme rules situation.

01:10:57 I think, wait, what was that?

01:10:59 What was the superstar shakeup card I got?

01:11:04 Was it of any value?

01:11:06 Anything else I can do in here?

01:11:09 A five-card, a four-card anywhere match?

01:11:11 I don't think so.

01:11:14 Eight shows with interference, whoa.

01:11:19 Could do another health card, health bar.

01:11:23 Um.

01:11:24 I could do that as a one-on-one

01:11:32 and have Kevin Owens run in on Jive Owens.

01:11:39 Maybe I'll do that.

01:11:50 No, I think the original plan was better.

01:11:52 Oh!

01:11:56 Uh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

01:12:04 title match, title match, done!

01:12:05 Stop.

01:12:06 (gags)

01:12:10 - Getting quite close to the line every time.

01:12:13 - Yeah, I panicked again at the end.

01:12:14 I was doing so well for most of it

01:12:15 that I started tinkering and that was my mistake.

01:12:16 - Never tinker. - Never tinker.

01:12:19 I barely sold your orange, it's buying.

01:12:21 - I can't see it. - Oh, yeah.

01:12:22 - Spoilers.

01:12:23 - Oh, I did a power card on you.

01:12:29 Select an opposing brand, double the price

01:12:30 of their power cards in the shop next week.

01:12:32 - 'Cause I was cross.

01:12:33 - So mean! - Yeah.

01:12:34 - What have I done to you?

01:12:35 - Been good at the game.

01:12:38 This was supposed to be so simple for me.

01:12:39 - Yeah, it should have been.

01:12:41 Absolute cakewalk and I've been making it tricky.

01:12:43 - You have, you really have.

01:12:44 - By being an idiot savant the entire time.

01:12:47 - God.

01:12:48 - Right! - What are you gonna listen to?

01:12:50 - Well, I'm-

01:12:51 - You don't need to cut across the image.

01:12:52 - Gimmick.

01:12:54 I'm gonna come feed cardigan currently.

01:12:56 But obviously we have got song suggestions, Dan.

01:12:59 - Yeah, no, I've got them queued up.

01:13:00 Hope by NF.

01:13:01 - That's correct, yeah.

01:13:02 Can I also add one to your queue, please?

01:13:04 So once that's finished,

01:13:05 can you listen to MILF by Scene Queen, please?

01:13:09 - Didn't we do this already?

01:13:11 - No, we haven't done that. - We did some Scene Queen.

01:13:12 - We haven't done that one.

01:13:13 - Fine. - Thank you.

01:13:14 - Right, clarify, this is week three.

01:13:17 - It is, it's week 18, and the pay-per-view

01:13:20 will be on week 20.

01:13:21 - Cool.

01:13:23 Can never remember how many weeks it is.

01:13:24 Five's tricky, man, it's five weeks.

01:13:26 Hard to remember. - Counting to five is hard.

01:13:28 - It's a difficult game.

01:13:29 It's a tricky game, but some of us are just really good at it.

01:13:33 - Bye-bye now.

01:13:34 - All of us are whiny little bitch boys.

01:13:38 Can't hear that bit.

01:13:39 Here we go in three, two, one, boom!

01:13:45 Okay, hey, hey Drew, how you doing, bud?

01:13:50 I did pay money for you.

01:13:51 Yeah, you can, he wants 58.

01:13:57 Yeah, you can have that, fine.

01:13:58 Stick around, bud.

01:13:59 Hey, Julius Creed.

01:14:05 Ooh, Julius, what are you doing currently, baby?

01:14:08 My little man.

01:14:11 Julius, you're actually sort of over.

01:14:13 You don't really do anything,

01:14:14 so I don't really know what to do with you.

01:14:17 I might low ball him.

01:14:18 What's he want?

01:14:20 46, he's quite popular, though.

01:14:23 I think it's one of those things

01:14:23 that it depends if I'm gonna put him in the thing with...

01:14:27 Yeah, hmm.

01:14:31 Let's do...

01:14:34 Let's low ball him and see where we land.

01:14:38 Ugh.

01:14:41 Yeah, fine.

01:14:44 We'll make the money back.

01:14:45 That's fine.

01:14:47 Hey, oh my God, everyone wants to leave.

01:14:50 72.

01:14:53 Pardon?

01:14:56 Top one gets it for free, yeah.

01:14:59 But I have a two-week extension,

01:15:03 which I've already used on Drew,

01:15:04 so actually I guess I'll just pay Riddle.

01:15:07 That's fine.

01:15:09 Yeah, that's fine, thank you.

01:15:12 I mean, if anyone could stop emailing me,

01:15:13 you've eaten a minute and a half of my time.

01:15:16 Hey, Trish just emailed me to say

01:15:19 she was excited for the pay-per-view.

01:15:20 Fuck off, I don't have time for this admin.

01:15:22 I'm ready to run a main event match.

01:15:26 My fans will be excited.

01:15:27 Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

01:15:31 You're the fucking champion, dude.

01:15:34 Does that have to be this week?

01:15:35 This week, you prick.

01:15:38 All right.

01:15:39 Mello versus Bala.

01:15:42 (laughing)

01:15:44 He's back.

01:15:45 Right, okay, what are we doing now?

01:15:47 We are gonna do,

01:15:48 we're gonna continue to smash Ilya and Drew at each other

01:15:53 and see if something happens.

01:15:56 We are finally going to bully

01:16:01 the triple threat thing into the ground.

01:16:03 We're gonna do Asuka, Baszler,

01:16:06 and we're gonna do a baby face like Trish Stratus,

01:16:11 'cause they're gonna get,

01:16:12 well, actually, maybe the stamina thing's bad here.

01:16:15 What we're gonna do, we go back to the drawing board.

01:16:17 We're gonna do that.

01:16:19 We're gonna do that.

01:16:22 We're gonna do that.

01:16:25 And that's gonna be the match.

01:16:27 Yeah.

01:16:28 All right, we're gonna go,

01:16:29 let's do our logistics really quickly.

01:16:31 We've got that much money.

01:16:33 We're gonna do that, we're gonna do that.

01:16:35 The advertising's the thing I'm more worried about.

01:16:41 We're gonna do that.

01:16:42 What's the optional bonus?

01:16:44 Backstage crew, done, done all that, blah, blah, blah, blah.

01:16:49 What we're looking for is a fighter.

01:16:50 Hello.

01:16:56 He's quite cheap as well, actually.

01:16:58 Problem is he comes in and he's not gonna be,

01:17:00 I'm not immediately gonna be able to use him.

01:17:02 What I really need is just like

01:17:04 an out of the gate heel fighter.

01:17:06 That would be the dream.

01:17:10 Jake the Snake.

01:17:11 Bloody yeah.

01:17:14 Flippin', flippin' Nora.

01:17:17 Sign that talent.

01:17:18 And then we're gonna do him versus Big E.

01:17:23 Big E versus Jake.

01:17:29 Cool.

01:17:30 Right, well that's a show.

01:17:31 Tag champ's going at it as well on the same card.

01:17:38 Right, what are we gonna do?

01:17:39 We're gonna book some little call outs here.

01:17:41 We're gonna have Riddle call out T-Bar.

01:17:44 We are, who else do we want to boost?

01:17:48 We kinda wanna boost Aska and Baszler here.

01:17:50 So I might have Aska call out Baszler.

01:17:53 Gonna space this out for my own mind.

01:17:55 This is, I think this might,

01:18:01 this has a rivalry in it, so this should open, I think.

01:18:04 And then we'll do...

01:18:08 Show cost 66, advertising.

01:18:10 We could just do an advertising promo.

01:18:14 I want Baszler to rest, I want Stratus to rest.

01:18:17 I could actually just do another call out

01:18:21 and have Bailey call out Stratus here instead.

01:18:24 'Cause what I really need to be doing

01:18:26 is getting to like four star rivalries

01:18:28 by next week on a few things.

01:18:31 Specifically this.

01:18:32 But I want Baszler, I want Baszler to be in the top five.

01:18:36 I want Bailey and Stratus to be at four stars

01:18:39 as well for the pay-per-view.

01:18:41 So I might just do that now.

01:18:43 And if the rivalry grows, then great.

01:18:45 If it doesn't, then we can just come back to it.

01:18:48 We can revisit that next week.

01:18:50 That's fine for me though.

01:18:52 And then I've accidentally achieved a commissioner goal

01:18:56 that I didn't even look at,

01:18:56 which is the limited stock thing.

01:18:58 So I'll have the same thing that Dan had.

01:19:00 No point really buying power cards for me this week.

01:19:04 I could double the cost of everything,

01:19:05 but I'm gonna do that for the pay-per-view obviously.

01:19:08 Shut up!

01:19:12 You're just constantly talking.

01:19:16 Yes, we bought Jake the Snake, we've done this.

01:19:21 We've got that.

01:19:22 Let's have a, I've got a minute.

01:19:23 Let's have a little perusal of the roster, shall we?

01:19:26 So we've got them calling each other out.

01:19:29 I don't know, I think like things are building.

01:19:31 Things are happening.

01:19:33 Things are, things are, things are, things are, things.

01:19:35 Things are things and things.

01:19:37 This is interesting.

01:19:38 Valor's on low stamina.

01:19:39 He gets a rest week next week though, I think.

01:19:41 So that'll be quite good.

01:19:42 You wanna switch my triple threat?

01:19:46 To what?

01:19:47 You think put Elia, but they don't have any,

01:19:51 they have no rivalry.

01:19:52 Pardon?

01:19:54 Massively popular, but they have a rivalry.

01:19:57 I can't, what, this a title match?

01:20:02 Oh, I could make that a title match, that is true.

01:20:05 Do you know, I forget about the title sometimes.

01:20:07 Thank you, Luke.

01:20:08 Yeah, well you did and they saw it.

01:20:11 So, you know, I'll never live it down,

01:20:13 but I've got 30 seconds left.

01:20:15 So who cares?

01:20:17 Boom.

01:20:18 Daniel, I'm finished.

01:20:20 Time to spare.

01:20:21 Confirm my booking.

01:20:22 - Well done.

01:20:23 - Oh my God, it's finally happening.

01:20:28 - He's- - It's finally happening.

01:20:29 - He's back. - He's well.

01:20:30 - He's well.

01:20:32 And he just had three weeks at home doing nothing

01:20:35 and then asked me for $83,000.

01:20:37 - Did he?

01:20:38 Yeah, I had to pay some money this week.

01:20:40 - He asked me for 113 or something like that.

01:20:42 I was like, no, what about this?

01:20:43 And he was like, yeah, all right.

01:20:45 So, you know, low balling works.

01:20:47 - Sad, sad Austin.

01:20:48 - Sad Austin.

01:20:48 - Well, I tried to low ball Julius Creed

01:20:49 and he wasn't happy about it.

01:20:50 - Some of them don't take it and it's a nightmare.

01:20:52 - I had to pay him.

01:20:54 - But fortunately Stone Cold was willing to take it

01:20:56 and I've whacked him straight into this normal title match

01:20:59 against Bobby Roode to see where we're gonna go.

01:21:02 Oh, and there's a new champ in the town.

01:21:05 And, oh, okay, that works for me.

01:21:07 That works for me.

01:21:09 - They've just been building a rivalry out of nothing.

01:21:11 - Literally, Bobby's just been calling him out.

01:21:14 Austin's finally come back

01:21:15 and he's been able to take the title off him

01:21:17 and there's been no injuries.

01:21:19 I've given Charlotte one final week off

01:21:23 because these promos have been working well for me.

01:21:25 We're in a level three rivalry for the women's title.

01:21:27 - That's insane.

01:21:28 - Yeah, it's worked.

01:21:30 I mean, look, this is what happens

01:21:31 when you put Bianca Belair and Charlotte in a feud.

01:21:33 It just happens, it just works.

01:21:34 - It just happens.

01:21:34 - That's why they keep doing it.

01:21:36 The Owens-Derby, I decided I was gonna give them both

01:21:40 a chance at the North American championship.

01:21:43 This is what I went back and forth on

01:21:44 'cause I was like, I could book an interference.

01:21:46 I could maybe, in the end, I just went, sod it.

01:21:48 We'll see if one of them can pluck it out.

01:21:51 It might continue the rivalry.

01:21:53 It didn't do anything to the rivalry.

01:21:58 - But it has got the belt in the right way.

01:22:00 - Okay, that works for me.

01:22:01 That's helpful.

01:22:01 Rhea doing a little charity promo,

01:22:04 getting more charity promos.

01:22:05 She has, she's got me a number of fans there.

01:22:07 I really appreciate that.

01:22:09 Seth Rollins wanted his contract renewed

01:22:11 and I just was like, do you know what?

01:22:12 I'm not gonna buy that.

01:22:14 So I've done a submission match for this feud

01:22:15 that they started the other week.

01:22:17 - Just to, ooh.

01:22:18 - Just to say, well, I've just got so many

01:22:20 specialist bad guys, I don't need him.

01:22:22 Don't need him.

01:22:23 So let's see how they do.

01:22:27 Ali gets the win.

01:22:28 No, Seth do the job on the way out.

01:22:29 - Yeah. - I think that's respectable.

01:22:30 - That's really respectable. - I think that's respectable.

01:22:33 And it was good. - He's taking Ali with him.

01:22:34 - Yeah, oh yeah, maybe that.

01:22:35 - Taking him to WCW.

01:22:37 - Kane's popularity's taken a hit in the polls.

01:22:39 He's announced some anti-climate change agenda.

01:22:43 So, but he has got me 11 grand.

01:22:45 - But he has been elected.

01:22:47 - And in the main event, I needed--

01:22:49 - Ooh, the winning tags.

01:22:50 - Yeah, I needed my least popular specialist in a match

01:22:53 and that was Sammy George.

01:22:55 So given that they've all got a decent amount

01:22:57 of specialist about stamina, I thought I'd whack him

01:22:59 in an extreme rules match for the titles.

01:23:00 - Sammy is so fresh.

01:23:02 - She has, she's done basically--

01:23:03 - You know what, Sammy, she's been at Croydon the whole time.

01:23:05 - Just chilling out, been to the box park.

01:23:07 - Oh yeah. - She's got into--

01:23:08 - She's been riding the tram up and down.

01:23:09 - She's just, it's nice to see, you know?

01:23:11 It's nice to see, you've been to Ikea.

01:23:13 - I see a Croydon girl done good.

01:23:15 - Can't win a battle to save her life.

01:23:19 But an amazing match that takes me to level four rivalry.

01:23:22 So that is something that we love to see

01:23:25 heading into SummerSlam.

01:23:26 It was a good week.

01:23:29 I am concerned that Sammy George is gonna turn around

01:23:31 and be like, "Give me a hundred grand or I'll go away."

01:23:33 But that's something I'm gonna have to look at.

01:23:35 - Right, here we go.

01:23:36 So we're gonna stimulate these guys for the title.

01:23:40 - They're not still on a rivalry, but you know, never know.

01:23:42 - Ilya wins it back.

01:23:46 - It's hot potato season.

01:23:47 - And the rivalry does not happen.

01:23:48 They're just gonna hot shot that belt round and round

01:23:51 for no reason. - For no glee.

01:23:53 Rivalry grows.

01:23:54 T-Bar versus Riddle.

01:23:56 We've got one more week to get that cooking.

01:23:58 - Just seeing who's back.

01:24:00 - Guess who's back?

01:24:01 Do you know what?

01:24:02 First triple threat match while we've got the stamina.

01:24:05 They'll have a decrease in stamina drop from this.

01:24:08 And also there's a rivalry involved in the mix of it.

01:24:10 So maybe that grows.

01:24:11 - Strong, smart.

01:24:12 You got your two good and a bad.

01:24:15 - And Katana Chance wins.

01:24:16 He's not even in the rivalry.

01:24:17 Rivalry doesn't grow.

01:24:19 What was the point in that power-up card

01:24:20 that I got given?

01:24:21 That rivalry's gone.

01:24:23 - Hey, finally.

01:24:24 - There we go.

01:24:25 - Happy days.

01:24:26 - Bailey versus Stratus.

01:24:27 That's what we wanted.

01:24:28 Then we got Beej versus Jake the Snake,

01:24:32 who's joined the roster.

01:24:33 - Oh, lovely.

01:24:34 You managed to find a fighter.

01:24:34 - Yeah, I finally found a fighter.

01:24:36 So we're gonna stimulate this.

01:24:38 (bell dinging)

01:24:41 Mediocre, but we've got a rivalry.

01:24:44 We have a rivalry.

01:24:44 - Big E has something to do for a change.

01:24:46 - Big E versus Jake.

01:24:48 Yeah, Big E is...

01:24:50 Already, though,

01:24:52 dipping below the stamina.

01:24:55 So there's a lot of people who need a week off next week.

01:24:58 A level two rivalry for Asuka and Baszler.

01:25:01 If I can just get some of these things

01:25:03 into the level three zone next week,

01:25:06 it's gonna be a hell of a pay-per-view.

01:25:09 Combat at Hayes versus Bala for title.

01:25:11 Stamina's like okay.

01:25:12 I think they can rest next week.

01:25:14 - Yeah.

01:25:15 - So.

01:25:15 Hayes retains.

01:25:19 - Whoa.

01:25:20 - We are going into the pay-per-view

01:25:23 with two four-star right wings.

01:25:25 - Yeah, I love that for you.

01:25:25 - That is very good.

01:25:27 - That's good for you.

01:25:28 - And that curve.

01:25:30 - We've done both done quite good shows there.

01:25:32 - Yes.

01:25:33 - Happy, happy.

01:25:36 All right.

01:25:37 Let's see how it goes down.

01:25:39 That is a match card quality up to be 58,000.

01:25:43 Oh, I am happy with that.

01:25:45 We've clawed some back from last week.

01:25:47 We're nothing.

01:25:48 Oh yeah, let Seamus go.

01:25:49 You let Seamus go.

01:25:49 - I panic bought Seamus and then decided I was.

01:25:51 - You've got so much money that you're able

01:25:53 to just buy people and let them go.

01:25:55 I'm like, I'm literally,

01:25:56 I've been saving up for Jake Roberts.

01:25:58 - It was a bad financial choice I made.

01:26:00 I'll be honest with you.

01:26:01 But you know, I sort of just did it.

01:26:04 I love that also, like no one was excited

01:26:07 that Seamus got signed, but they are sad that he's gone

01:26:09 despite having in no way contributed to the show.

01:26:11 - Yeah, he's not even been on a show.

01:26:13 - Would love to see Stone Cold get a rematch.

01:26:15 Well, you just wait.

01:26:17 - Let me tell you.

01:26:18 Sammy George looks so angry.

01:26:20 Wonder if something happened in the back.

01:26:22 Stay clear of Sammy.

01:26:23 She's got that Croydon.

01:26:25 - Energy.

01:26:25 - Yeah.

01:26:27 All right.

01:26:28 - That's very good.

01:26:29 - Fine, yeah, I'm quite happy with that.

01:26:31 The budget is lower than it needs to be at this point,

01:26:33 but you know.

01:26:34 - Your total budget, oh yeah, yeah.

01:26:35 You're making a huge profit there.

01:26:37 - Not making a massive profit,

01:26:37 but you know, I've got plans.

01:26:40 - Yeah.

01:26:41 - We'll put it that way.

01:26:42 Okay.

01:26:43 Your turn, darling.

01:26:46 That's a pretty strong week for you as well.

01:26:48 - Not too far behind.

01:26:49 - No.

01:26:50 - And I made money.

01:26:51 - You did.

01:26:52 - Yeah.

01:26:52 - You made, you made back.

01:26:53 - Now I've got the most money.

01:26:54 - Did I forget logistics?

01:26:56 - No, you had the same logistics, I think.

01:26:58 - Maybe I just spent more on the show.

01:27:00 Um, interesting, interesting.

01:27:02 - You had like a charity, you had a charity promo.

01:27:05 - Oh yeah, I spent on the charity promo.

01:27:06 - Cost you more.

01:27:07 - Yeah.

01:27:08 But those fans I got.

01:27:09 - I just did call outs.

01:27:10 Call outs all week.

01:27:10 - That'll do ya.

01:27:12 Can't wait for Raquel Rodriguez to get a shot

01:27:14 at the NXT Women's Championship.

01:27:15 My favorite superstar on NXT.

01:27:16 - She's gonna be waiting a while.

01:27:18 She's back of the queue.

01:27:20 - Who's front of the queue?

01:27:21 - Current, the front of the queue is Asuka and Baszler.

01:27:23 Just gonna keep having that match.

01:27:25 - Gonna force them together at some point.

01:27:26 I'm a simple man.

01:27:27 I see Roberts in the ring.

01:27:28 I cheer.

01:27:29 Great to see him in the ring again.

01:27:31 Uh, all right, good.

01:27:32 So let's see what that takes us to on the next screen.

01:27:35 Lovely healthy budget for you there.

01:27:38 I complete the ambitious goals.

01:27:39 So I get free special effects booking.

01:27:41 Oh, I got free arena booking.

01:27:42 - Oh, that's.

01:27:43 - Oh, come on.

01:27:45 'Cause I completed the generous GM.

01:27:47 I think it's probably my charity one.

01:27:50 Good.

01:27:51 Okay, that's huge.

01:27:52 That's huge.

01:27:53 - Sold out.

01:27:57 - You got that?

01:27:57 You got a little sold out limited stock promo

01:27:58 for your commissioner goal?

01:28:00 You got two power cards.

01:28:03 - Yeah, I've got this special promotion.

01:28:04 - Why do you get two power cards for the commissioner goal?

01:28:06 - No idea.

01:28:07 I can't remember.

01:28:07 No idea.

01:28:08 Stuff just happens to me.

01:28:11 - It does.

01:28:12 - Yeah.

01:28:13 - Did you have a super shake up

01:28:14 or additional chance for an extra?

01:28:16 - But I'm in the lead and that's what counts.

01:28:20 - Well, back to you, Luke.

01:28:23 - That is a big power card to get.

01:28:28 The fan retention card is an insane one.

01:28:32 That's a very, very powerful

01:28:34 to be played towards the end of this.

01:28:36 Well, I mean, we're heading up for a hell of an end

01:28:39 to this week's stream.

01:28:40 It's still quite close.

01:28:42 Excellent weeks from both teams there.

01:28:44 50,000 fan increase for Laurie,

01:28:46 58,000 fan increase for Dan Layton.

01:28:49 Though I'm pretty sure when Dan was doing

01:28:51 the hosting duties for our streams,

01:28:53 he said, "At this point,

01:28:54 "I had about a million dollars in the bank."

01:28:57 Doesn't have that at the moment though, does he?

01:28:59 So I think you might've been lying.

01:29:01 Also, Dan, can I clarify something?

01:29:03 - Yeah.

01:29:04 - I was out of the room making a cup of tea,

01:29:06 but the live chat told me that you went over time.

01:29:09 - My alarm did go off as I pressed to finish the match.

01:29:14 So arguably I went about three seconds over, yeah.

01:29:18 So we might wanna balance out that.

01:29:20 - I'll have a power card, thank you.

01:29:23 - Either we remove the one I had,

01:29:25 or we have one each.

01:29:26 For three seconds though, to be clear,

01:29:28 it's not like I went over time

01:29:30 for an extended period of time

01:29:31 like my learned colleague here.

01:29:32 - So what we're saying is we can either have

01:29:35 both of you go for six minutes on one week,

01:29:38 or you give up your previous power card.

01:29:41 - Yeah.

01:29:42 - Well, I've used less time on every week so far.

01:29:44 There's been 30 seconds of spare time

01:29:48 on the clock every week when I've pressed go.

01:29:49 So there you go.

01:29:50 - I will say though, chat, it was only like three seconds,

01:29:56 but fair enough, I'll cop to that.

01:29:58 That happened.

01:29:59 - Maybe we should just get a blanket amount of time

01:30:02 for the whole series, so we can use it how we like.

01:30:04 - I'll tell you what I'm gonna do.

01:30:05 I'm gonna leave this up to the live chat.

01:30:07 We're gonna get a poll up,

01:30:08 and we're gonna let the chat decide

01:30:09 what happens with the power card situation.

01:30:11 - Fair enough.

01:30:12 - We'll let the chat decide.

01:30:13 We'll let the people decide.

01:30:14 Speaking of the people,

01:30:16 Dan, you had some music to listen to during that stream.

01:30:19 What did you make of "Hope by NF"?

01:30:22 - "Hope by NF" was something that I think

01:30:24 would be very effective in the building of a feud video

01:30:28 at the start of a pay-per-view.

01:30:30 - And what did you make of my reselection?

01:30:32 - It certainly happened to me.

01:30:34 - It's awesome.

01:30:35 - It was good, it was very good.

01:30:36 Is it my taste?

01:30:37 - No, but it was very entertaining.

01:30:40 - Neil here says, "Hey, lads, love the streams,

01:30:42 but I like the pre-taped episodes too,

01:30:43 for series three could run four weeks as one episode,

01:30:46 then a pay-per-view episode,

01:30:47 have the draft day as episode zero,

01:30:49 and then it'll be back to 10 week seasons.

01:30:50 If the weekly episodes need more editing for time."

01:30:53 We will be going back to those episodes.

01:30:55 We're doing these live stream formats just for series 3.5,

01:30:58 but the plan is for us to go back

01:30:59 to the way that it was previously.

01:31:02 We'll give more details of that when we get to series four,

01:31:04 but this is just a temporary measure.

01:31:06 We're not doing this as it for now,

01:31:08 but we might do a hybrid.

01:31:09 We will find out soon enough.

01:31:11 Terrence here says, "Laurie, stop booking crew,

01:31:14 stop doing advertising promos.

01:31:17 You'll make more money and gain fans quicker.

01:31:20 Also, both of you to save money,

01:31:23 book the second largest arena for TV

01:31:25 and the largest for the pay-per-views.

01:31:27 Advertising promos take popularity.

01:31:30 It's not worth it.

01:31:31 I'm now done."

01:31:32 - I don't agree.

01:31:37 - In my experience playing the game.

01:31:40 - But maybe I'll try it at home.

01:31:41 - You're not willing to try it here though.

01:31:44 - Well, I've got a system and I want to stick to it.

01:31:47 - And Red Claw here says,

01:31:48 and Red Claw here with an absolute classic suggestion,

01:31:55 "Check out some Babymetal,

01:31:57 either Papaya or Gimme Chocolate, Headbanger.

01:32:01 Those are some of my favorites.

01:32:02 Honest opinion appreciated, even if you don't like it."

01:32:05 I haven't listened to Babymetal,

01:32:07 crikey, 10 plus years maybe,

01:32:10 but I did see them at download once

01:32:12 and they were very entertaining.

01:32:14 So yeah, maybe give them a go.

01:32:16 You might have a bit of fun.

01:32:18 Thank you all so much for your roll charts.

01:32:19 You can get them into rustog.com/pfk.

01:32:22 We'll be reading out all of them

01:32:23 before the end of the stream.

01:32:24 Head on over to patreon.com/rustog as well

01:32:27 for bonus content,

01:32:28 including a patron exclusive episode of survival series,

01:32:33 the Thunderdome edition with some special guests.

01:32:35 And next week, myself and Oliver Davis

01:32:37 will be reviewing Starcade 1997.

01:32:41 I finished the edit of the episode yesterday.

01:32:43 It's about three and a half hours long,

01:32:45 which is longer than the pay-per-view itself.

01:32:47 So go ahead to patreon.com to check that out.

01:32:50 Are our players ready?

01:32:52 - Yes. - Yes, sir.

01:32:54 - In which case, over to you.

01:32:57 - Now, I don't know how I feel about the idea

01:33:02 of not booking a crew because it's show quality

01:33:04 and you get your optional bonuses.

01:33:05 And I think those things do help,

01:33:07 but maybe you want to try it.

01:33:10 - I haven't been reading what it says.

01:33:11 I've just been pushing it.

01:33:12 (laughing)

01:33:13 - All right, all right.

01:33:15 Seven minutes on my little clock here.

01:33:19 I'm gonna wait for my colleague to-

01:33:22 - Choose. - Pop off into slumber town.

01:33:25 - All right, we're gonna listen to the Bouncing Souls.

01:33:28 - The Bouncing Souls.

01:33:31 - Okay, are you ready?

01:33:33 In three, wait, wait, wait, two, wait, one, go.

01:33:38 Right, okay.

01:33:41 Jive Owens, things aren't working out.

01:33:42 Why?

01:33:44 Sorry, Jive, not gonna happen.

01:33:46 Bye then.

01:33:46 Oh, for God's sake, Jive Owens.

01:33:49 If your rivalry's not gonna grow

01:33:50 and I'm giving you title shots, that's on you.

01:33:53 I'm really psyched for the PLA.

01:33:54 See, model citizen Bianca Belair.

01:33:57 Much appreciated.

01:33:58 Right, Jive Owens, off he goes.

01:34:00 Didn't like him anyway.

01:34:01 He always lets us down, does Jive.

01:34:03 Off to do a charity show, perhaps.

01:34:05 Devastating.

01:34:06 I'm sure that Cora Jade fights this week.

01:34:08 Okay, what I'm gonna do then in that case

01:34:11 is put Cora Jade in a match with Charlotte Flair

01:34:15 and I'm gonna have Bianca interfere

01:34:19 and hope that that, 'cause I have a season goal, don't I?

01:34:25 Yeah, interference here, I could get health bar.

01:34:28 I don't know that that's gonna come true this time,

01:34:31 but it will help us along the way.

01:34:33 Manage roster.

01:34:37 That's helpful.

01:34:38 Oh, wait.

01:34:39 Tee hee.

01:34:45 That is a random star, the most popular star

01:34:47 off Laurie's show.

01:34:50 Sorry about it.

01:34:55 Our main event of the day will be,

01:34:59 well, actually Austin's still fairly poorly,

01:35:01 so I'll do a call out promo of Bobby Roode onto Austin

01:35:06 to take them up to level three

01:35:08 and our main event of the show.

01:35:10 Yeah.

01:35:18 Yeah, we'll do a fatal four way.

01:35:23 This isn't gonna be a great pay-per-view.

01:35:25 (upbeat music)

01:35:28 Let's see, Bobby Lashley and Kane.

01:35:32 That'll be a main event, or that'll be a...

01:35:38 'Cause that way we can try and boost two rivalries at once.

01:35:41 What else have we got here?

01:35:42 Bruiser, bad guy Bruiser.

01:35:44 We've got a good guy fighter anywhere.

01:35:46 Austin's a good guy fighter.

01:35:48 Take what?

01:35:54 (upbeat music)

01:35:56 See, if I can wrangle it, I would like my next feuds

01:36:00 to be Bobby Roode for the...

01:36:05 Well, Austin and Kevin for the title.

01:36:08 Oh no.

01:36:09 Chive Homes has really done me in there.

01:36:12 Um.

01:36:13 Oh, he's poorly.

01:36:21 (upbeat music)

01:36:24 They're at level four.

01:36:25 Oh my God, what a nightmare.

01:36:27 Right, maybe I'm not gonna do that as a...

01:36:30 Uh, ah, falls count anywhere.

01:36:37 Right, okay.

01:36:39 And then we will take them

01:36:41 and they can have a tables match.

01:36:43 And then here, I'll just book a rando triple threat

01:36:47 for everybody to be happy.

01:36:51 I will have a giant in there and we'll have...

01:36:55 See if LA Knight can get, well, no.

01:36:58 I don't wanna book another...

01:37:06 I don't wanna book another singles match is my problem.

01:37:14 (upbeat music)

01:37:16 Where are we time wise?

01:37:24 Okay, so the reason is I'm trying to be cautious

01:37:26 with the money I'm spending

01:37:27 because I want to be able to buy that next week.

01:37:29 So I don't wanna spend too much on the show

01:37:31 but I want the show to be good.

01:37:33 Backstage crew.

01:37:35 So you're saying I shouldn't bother doing that

01:37:38 because that adds 5% to my show quality.

01:37:41 I suppose that adds 5% to my show quality

01:37:42 but I get an extra boost to that.

01:37:47 The show quality goes up 9%.

01:37:49 Superstars gain morale.

01:37:50 Yeah, I don't think it's worth that.

01:37:53 What can I do to make her happy?

01:37:59 Is it worth, see that's really expensive

01:38:00 but I could raise Sammy George's morale.

01:38:02 I'm really nervous about her leaving me.

01:38:04 No, I can't afford that, can I?

01:38:07 (upbeat music)

01:38:09 And I've got free advertising booking, free spi-

01:38:14 So I can make my show free next week

01:38:16 which will really help me going into the final week.

01:38:19 Okay, maybe then.

01:38:21 That's not too expensive.

01:38:26 That's way more expensive.

01:38:27 No, I didn't wanna do that.

01:38:31 I wanted to do that.

01:38:32 Right, two minutes left.

01:38:36 Will a charity promo make Sammy George happy?

01:38:40 Maybe, she's on the show.

01:38:42 Is that worth it for what I'm gonna get back?

01:38:57 No, I'm trying to save money.

01:38:59 She can have a self promo.

01:39:01 Oh, I don't like it.

01:39:05 Maybe I'll just leave that one blank.

01:39:07 Okay, I wanna make as much money as I can this week

01:39:13 in case I need it for both,

01:39:14 helping Sammy George stay with me.

01:39:17 Everything else there is fine.

01:39:26 She's so angry.

01:39:28 Yeah, okay, that's good.

01:39:29 I get that back against him.

01:39:31 Where are we at?

01:39:32 A minute left, right?

01:39:33 Everybody calm down.

01:39:35 That's gonna grow the rivalry.

01:39:36 That's gonna grow the rivalry.

01:39:37 In theory, this should grow the rivalry,

01:39:39 but it doesn't matter.

01:39:40 It doesn't because they're already at level three.

01:39:41 I can still buy that off the pay-per-view.

01:39:42 There is no rivalry to be had here.

01:39:44 LA Knight might get a bit poorly.

01:39:45 We can deal with that if we need to.

01:39:47 Might that make her happy?

01:39:48 I don't know.

01:39:49 And the main event is a legend.

01:39:55 So we've got that star power.

01:39:56 There's a rivalry going on.

01:39:57 It's against Bobby Lashley.

01:39:58 It's in a "False Count Anywhere" match,

01:39:59 which is one of my seasonal goals.

01:40:04 I think I'm happy with that.

01:40:06 The Owens derby is no longer a factor.

01:40:08 Bam, non-factor.

01:40:09 All right, I'm gonna,

01:40:12 do you know what?

01:40:13 He's been a real dick to me about this.

01:40:15 So I'm gonna finish with time to spare.

01:40:17 How about that?

01:40:18 Confirmed booking.

01:40:20 Why not?

01:40:21 Oh, with time to spare.

01:40:25 Confirmed with time to spare.

01:40:28 - Was it? - Yeah.

01:40:29 - How many seconds?

01:40:30 One? - 27.

01:40:32 - 27 seconds.

01:40:33 At the time, maybe it was 22.

01:40:34 I can't quite remember.

01:40:35 - It's almost like you're getting good at this game.

01:40:37 - Well, it's almost like he's trying harder.

01:40:38 - I've taken you a while.

01:40:40 I will destroy you.

01:40:42 What are you gonna listen to this time, Daniel?

01:40:47 - Dan, may I remind you?

01:40:48 There was actually a recommendation for you

01:40:49 to listen at the start of this episode.

01:40:51 - What is it?

01:40:52 - It was "Another Ghost."

01:40:53 - "Another Ghost?"

01:40:54 - Yes.

01:40:55 - Why can't I not?

01:40:55 Why no one recommended anything to Laurie?

01:40:58 Why can't I just listen to what I want to listen to?

01:40:59 - Well, Laurie can listen to it as well if he wants.

01:41:01 Nah.

01:41:02 - There you go.

01:41:03 - "Another Ghost."

01:41:03 - They know that they can't make me do anything.

01:41:05 - "Another Ghost," it's with zeros for the O's.

01:41:07 - I've spent years crafting this.

01:41:08 - What's the song called?

01:41:09 - As recently, it just says I've recently released it.

01:41:14 A friend of mine recently released a song.

01:41:17 So maybe they've only got the one track on there.

01:41:20 - What's the song called?

01:41:21 - Hold on, I'll get it.

01:41:22 - "All Time Low."

01:41:23 I've got it. - You got it?

01:41:24 - All right.

01:41:25 - Yep, there you go.

01:41:27 - Toodle-oo.

01:41:27 - We're gonna go in three, two, one.

01:41:33 Joel Wheeler.

01:41:34 My contract's up at the end of the week.

01:41:36 In staying, the cost would be 11,000.

01:41:39 Yeah, fine, whatever, man.

01:41:43 It's like you don't cost anything.

01:41:44 Stick around, we might need you.

01:41:46 Hand me a butt.

01:41:47 Finn, do I have to do it immediately?

01:41:54 That's not fair, saying there's no one else on the roster.

01:41:57 You're in a fucking level four feud

01:41:59 with Carmelo Hayes, you prick.

01:42:02 You endless prick.

01:42:03 You've been injured for weeks.

01:42:05 You've only just come back.

01:42:06 You've only, this is week four of TV.

01:42:08 You are.

01:42:10 Oh, you're just gonna have to.

01:42:17 All right, fine, you got ink decrease.

01:42:23 How many matches in a while?

01:42:24 Fans are gonna forget about me.

01:42:25 It's time you woke up and put your back rubber on.

01:42:26 I want a match in the next show.

01:42:28 Does that have to be this week or does it be,

01:42:29 is it the, oh, it doesn't matter, we'll do that.

01:42:34 That's absolutely fine.

01:42:35 The reason you, yeah, you've been ill.

01:42:38 Reduces injury time, hello.

01:42:41 Schedule a run in on one of your,

01:42:43 on your most popular staff.

01:42:45 Oh, God.

01:42:46 Oy, oy vey.

01:42:48 Right, so I have to do a run in on Carmelo Hayes,

01:42:51 who was gonna take the week off

01:42:52 because of Finn Balor being pretty injured.

01:42:55 So it'd have to be a run in on Carmelo Hayes

01:42:57 to get another injury rehab.

01:42:59 I already have, was it injury rehab or health spa?

01:43:03 Oh, that's really good.

01:43:07 That's so annoying, that's so dang annoying.

01:43:10 Right, power cards, anyway.

01:43:11 Yeah, enjoy that, Daniel.

01:43:16 Now, is that worth using in like a duff week or a good week?

01:43:24 Next week is good, cool.

01:43:28 Pre-match physio.

01:43:29 Hey, babe, we'll have that next week as well, that's great.

01:43:34 Okay, here we go, logistics.

01:43:37 Skadoosh, skadoosh.

01:43:40 This guy.

01:43:42 I don't care about, I don't know if I,

01:43:46 book superstars with,

01:43:47 let me start a power game, plus one morale.

01:43:50 Plus 4% show quality,

01:43:51 I don't care about show quality this week

01:43:53 'cause this week's show is called Make Stuff Happen.

01:43:57 This week we're trying to get Mr. Big E

01:44:01 and Jake the Snake to start something.

01:44:04 Yeah, I don't care.

01:44:06 They're not gonna have a match at the pay-per-view.

01:44:08 Big E ends up injured again, that's his own fault.

01:44:11 We're gonna do Ilya versus Drew,

01:44:14 the feud that won't begin in a title match.

01:44:17 So that's gonna go up here.

01:44:19 We're gonna do, what have we got for the,

01:44:24 things I want to grow.

01:44:25 I really need Asker and Baszler to grow, ideally.

01:44:28 Baszler has 45 stamina.

01:44:31 Asker's got 65, so we could easily,

01:44:34 we can run this this week

01:44:39 and we can give Baszler the physio next week

01:44:41 to reduce the injury chance, which I think is good.

01:44:44 I promised Bailey a match.

01:44:46 So Bailey needs to have a match.

01:44:49 You're not gonna have a match

01:44:50 against Trish Stratus, my love.

01:44:51 You're going to go,

01:44:55 probably in a random triple threat at this stage,

01:44:59 realistically.

01:45:00 You're gonna go in a triple threat match

01:45:02 with Raquel Rodriguez.

01:45:05 And we need another baby face, so Katana Chance.

01:45:11 Which means we can then do a call-out promo

01:45:14 of Shotzi calling out Rodriguez,

01:45:17 hopefully growing that feud.

01:45:18 The other ones we need to grow are,

01:45:22 we need to grow Riddle and T-Bar.

01:45:24 So we will have, who's got the worst stamina?

01:45:30 We'll have T-Bar, the workhorse, do the work again.

01:45:34 And we also need to grow Asker and Baszler.

01:45:36 We're hopefully growing Asker and Baszler the title match.

01:45:38 This is just to get, to make Bailey happy.

01:45:42 I think that'll be fine.

01:45:43 We do run the risk of Raquel,

01:45:46 but I think she'll probably be okay.

01:45:48 Everyone else's stamina is mostly fine.

01:45:51 This I just want to grow.

01:45:53 And I think that's it.

01:45:56 I could now try to basically cram in this

01:46:00 and do the run-in on Hayes.

01:46:02 But I don't know whether I want to,

01:46:05 I mean, I could also just rest Ilya,

01:46:06 'cause Ilya's quite bad on stamina.

01:46:08 So I could do Hayes in a match with Drew,

01:46:13 and then have Balla do the run-in.

01:46:20 (footsteps)

01:46:23 Problem is, they're at a level four rivalry,

01:46:25 and I don't want it to go stale.

01:46:28 So I'm not gonna do that.

01:46:30 I'm gonna stick with this.

01:46:31 And we'll just, 'cause Ilya's not gonna,

01:46:35 Ilya is not booked for my pay-per-view currently,

01:46:37 let me tell you that.

01:46:38 So this way, hopefully, all the feuds that we want to grow,

01:46:41 grow ahead of the pay-per-view.

01:46:44 We might as well just do a popularity promo

01:46:49 with somebody.

01:46:50 It's a real shame to lose the injury rehab thing,

01:46:52 but I think we just have to take it on the chin,

01:46:54 realistically.

01:46:57 What do I want to do?

01:46:59 I've been enjoying just the making the money.

01:47:03 So I'm just gonna make money, I think.

01:47:05 And currently, Julius Creed has nothing to do,

01:47:11 so you can do that.

01:47:12 That's all fine for me.

01:47:15 Let's have a little look at the roster.

01:47:17 We've got people.

01:47:19 Oh my God, it's Gunther!

01:47:21 I want Gunther.

01:47:23 I'll get Gunther, right?

01:47:26 I finished the feud with Hayes at the pay-per-view,

01:47:28 and then Hayes and Gunther have a feud.

01:47:30 That's absolutely happening.

01:47:32 You're getting signed, my son.

01:47:34 - Yeah, forgot about this one.

01:47:35 - That's fine, I'm not missing the chance to have Gunther,

01:47:38 'cause I've got things that can extend a contract

01:47:40 with Gunther, and also it's Gunther.

01:47:43 - I really, really want the Christmas.

01:47:47 I really, really want the Christmas.

01:47:48 - Let's have a look.

01:47:51 Do you know what, let's have a look at these things.

01:47:53 What are these?

01:47:55 I've got 38 seconds.

01:47:56 - Well, I really want the Christmas.

01:47:58 - Purchase all the power cards before a show.

01:48:01 Book eight shows with a charity promo.

01:48:07 Okay, well.

01:48:09 - Lol.

01:48:13 (laughing)

01:48:15 - We'll do that then, shall we?

01:48:17 So I think that's a show I'm pretty happy with.

01:48:20 And I think we'll just lock it in,

01:48:24 and we'll see how we're going.

01:48:25 - Really want the Christmas.

01:48:30 - I really want--

01:48:31 - For you, good sir.

01:48:31 - So first of all, shout out to Another Ghost,

01:48:36 whose song was actually quite lovely.

01:48:38 You could tell it was an independent artist

01:48:40 who'd made something and popped it on Spotify,

01:48:41 and I liked it very much.

01:48:42 Well done, you, showing a great deal of potential there.

01:48:45 Then we followed up with Bing Crosby's

01:48:46 "White Christmas", a classic.

01:48:47 Classic.

01:48:48 And then my playlist, my Christmas playlist showed me,

01:48:50 do you remember last stream,

01:48:52 someone said I should listen to Lil Jon's Christmas song,

01:48:54 "All I Really Want for Christmas."

01:48:56 Brackets is everything on my list, baby.

01:48:58 Featuring the Kool-Aid, man.

01:49:00 - Lovely.

01:49:01 - It was a thrill.

01:49:02 I really enjoyed myself very much.

01:49:04 Okay, how was your week?

01:49:05 - Very good, actually.

01:49:06 Like again, another week of,

01:49:09 people were actually available to do stuff.

01:49:13 We're bubbling along.

01:49:15 Like there's definitely,

01:49:16 there's one risk factor on the match this week.

01:49:18 It's Ilya Dragunov, he's got 35 stamina.

01:49:21 - Ooh, that's low.

01:49:21 - That's low, but he's also not in a integral rivalry.

01:49:24 So he is, I'm trying to build something with him.

01:49:28 He's got a rest week next week,

01:49:29 'cause he's not gonna be on the pay-per-view.

01:49:31 So we just, we do this, we see what happens.

01:49:34 See where the land lies.

01:49:35 - Respect.

01:49:36 I have decided to do the Triple H standard

01:49:40 of booking a sort of mid go-home show

01:49:43 and hope that it comes off good at the pay-per-view.

01:49:45 Because Jive Owens tried to,

01:49:47 what was it, shake me down for a little bit of money.

01:49:50 He tried to jive me.

01:49:51 And I said, no.

01:49:52 He was like, things aren't working out.

01:49:54 I'm going and they should pay me 100,000 right now.

01:49:56 - Wow.

01:49:57 - No, ma'am, I can't afford that.

01:49:57 - Even though he's in, so you got rid of him?

01:49:59 - Yeah, I just got rid of him.

01:50:00 - You pinned him off.

01:50:01 He was in the rivalry with Kevin Owens.

01:50:01 Kevin's the champ.

01:50:02 - Yeah, but they'd only grown it one.

01:50:03 They were at level one

01:50:04 and they've been at level one the entire time.

01:50:06 And I was like, well, if you're not gonna pull your way,

01:50:08 I'm not gonna give you 100,000.

01:50:09 - You're just gonna force a different situation.

01:50:10 - So go away.

01:50:11 In the meantime, which means that I have got-

01:50:12 - What are you doing with Owens?

01:50:13 You've not got the North American title on the pay-per-view.

01:50:15 - I've got plans for him in the future.

01:50:17 You just wait.

01:50:18 We've got Bianca and Charlotte.

01:50:20 Charlotte are at three.

01:50:21 - My plans for his future are endeavors.

01:50:22 (laughing)

01:50:23 - I've got, see, the thing is,

01:50:24 I've got a couple of level three rivalries

01:50:25 and I've got a level four tag rivalry,

01:50:27 which I'm nervous about because of Sammy George being angry.

01:50:29 - This is a much better way of marking the rivalries

01:50:32 than I've been doing.

01:50:32 I've just been scribbling out what I wrote previously.

01:50:35 - It turns out a Krispy Kreme wrapper

01:50:36 is actually quite good.

01:50:37 - It's actually really well, I'm gonna have it next time.

01:50:38 - There it is, yeah, I think you should.

01:50:39 - I'm not, I'm gonna do the prep five minutes beforehand.

01:50:41 (laughing)

01:50:42 - Not, instead of during the stream.

01:50:45 Right, so I put Logan and Randy in a tables match.

01:50:47 They've got a little rivalry going.

01:50:48 I'm hoping this is gonna boost them along.

01:50:50 Good guy, bad guy, fighter, fighter.

01:50:51 Randy Orton wins and it doesn't work.

01:50:54 Fine, but here we have Bobby Roode

01:50:56 with the call-out promo that gets them up to a level four.

01:50:59 I'll take that quite nicely, under advisement.

01:51:01 - Wow, that's great.

01:51:02 So your main event and my main event,

01:51:04 probably level four rivalries.

01:51:05 - If we're lucky, if we're lucky.

01:51:07 Cora Jade was my, I need to get her on the card.

01:51:10 That was my GM goal, my conditioning goal.

01:51:13 And I decided to try an interference

01:51:15 on Charlotte Flair from Bianca

01:51:16 to see if that will further their rivalry

01:51:17 to the next level.

01:51:18 - Are they at three currently?

01:51:19 - They're at three at the moment.

01:51:21 So let's see how we do with this.

01:51:23 I imagine Charlotte's gonna get that.

01:51:24 Cora gets the win.

01:51:26 The rivalry grows!

01:51:27 - Ooh, that's good.

01:51:28 - And it's not as, it's about the same

01:51:29 as the tables match, I think, so that's good.

01:51:32 Right, okay, we've got some level fours.

01:51:33 We've got some level fours.

01:51:34 I didn't book a little slot there.

01:51:36 I left it blank because why not?

01:51:37 Little experiment.

01:51:38 Triple threat match of no stakes.

01:51:40 Cruiser and a giant, two good guys and one bad guy.

01:51:42 They probably should get me an okay match,

01:51:44 maybe a moderate match.

01:51:46 Not expecting gangbusters from this.

01:51:49 But then I get to win and start a rivalry with Marseille.

01:51:53 Okay, L-A-K versus Marseille.

01:52:00 Good for you.

01:52:01 Self-promo from Sammy George

01:52:02 in the hope that it makes her feel better.

01:52:04 It did go okay.

01:52:05 - Yeah, but she didn't get any popularity.

01:52:07 - No, but she's been on the show.

01:52:08 - That's nice.

01:52:09 You've been used, Sammy George.

01:52:10 - Good for you.

01:52:11 And it wasn't against Candice LeRae,

01:52:12 which is your big trick.

01:52:13 And then my main event is another level one rivalry.

01:52:18 It's Kane and Bobby Lashley.

01:52:19 It came out of nowhere,

01:52:20 but I've whacked them in a false count anywhere match

01:52:21 'cause they can both handle it.

01:52:22 - Sure.

01:52:23 - So I'm hoping that that will give me a decent quality match

01:52:25 and push their rivalry up.

01:52:26 That's my goal from this.

01:52:27 - You just want it to be better than the last match.

01:52:29 - Just want it to be better than the last one.

01:52:30 Let's see.

01:52:31 Let's see.

01:52:32 And it's great.

01:52:33 And it worked.

01:52:34 That's done me exactly what I needed it to do.

01:52:36 So that's good.

01:52:37 Thank you very much, both of you.

01:52:39 What a decent little show.

01:52:40 - Here we go.

01:52:41 - Okay.

01:52:42 - Right, so we are running the risk with these boys,

01:52:44 but it's Beth-fun, isn't it?

01:52:47 - Yeah, Beth-fun.

01:52:48 See what happens, live on the edge.

01:52:50 Will they start a rivalry?

01:52:52 They've started the rivalry.

01:52:53 - And it was a great match.

01:52:54 - We've done it.

01:52:55 - You idiots.

01:52:56 You idiots.

01:52:57 - You did it, Joe.

01:52:59 - You stupid idiots.

01:53:01 - Why didn't you do that four weeks ago?

01:53:03 You could have been on a level three rivalry by now.

01:53:05 You insufferable twats.

01:53:08 (laughing)

01:53:10 - We've got Shotzi calling out Raquel,

01:53:12 which goes the rivalry to level three,

01:53:14 which is exactly what we wanted ahead of the pay-per-view.

01:53:17 - Ba-bee.

01:53:18 - Three.

01:53:20 We have Jacky Snakey versus Beej.

01:53:24 - These two are in a rivalry.

01:53:25 - These two are in a rivalry.

01:53:26 So this was a case of people needed a rest,

01:53:30 Snake's good.

01:53:31 Level two, there we go.

01:53:33 In a fairly good match, doesn't beat the opener as well,

01:53:35 which is great.

01:53:36 Beej versus Jake, two.

01:53:38 Another call out.

01:53:40 - Doesn't work, Tabar.

01:53:43 - That's like T-Bar's first L.

01:53:46 - That's his first fail, yeah.

01:53:47 - That's his first big L.

01:53:48 - Tabar let you down.

01:53:49 - Then we've got this.

01:53:51 Annoyingly, one of the things was to get Bailey on.

01:53:55 Bailey wanted to be on the show.

01:53:58 So I had to put Bailey in this match.

01:53:59 I booked the triple threat

01:54:00 because they all get lower stamina reduction from that.

01:54:03 - Other stuff going on.

01:54:04 - They've all got other stuff going on.

01:54:05 So I thought this was just a,

01:54:08 we had to have a match with Bailey.

01:54:09 I didn't want Bailey to lose morale.

01:54:10 I already had to piss off Finn Balor this week.

01:54:14 Yeah, well, 'cause Finn Balor,

01:54:15 who's in a level four rivalry, I forget,

01:54:17 turns up and says, "Can I fight someone else?"

01:54:20 And I was like, "Kind of, no."

01:54:22 - If you could just wait until next week,

01:54:24 you would literally have to move on.

01:54:25 I mean, you can always put them in a match.

01:54:27 - Yeah, but- - But it doesn't matter.

01:54:28 - Again, his stamina's bad, so he needs,

01:54:31 they both needed a rest week.

01:54:32 So the other one was,

01:54:33 "Can you schedule a run-in on your most popular star,

01:54:36 who is Carmelo Hayes?"

01:54:38 And it's like, okay, so the week before the pay-per-view,

01:54:40 Balor wants to face someone who isn't his opponent.

01:54:43 And then we have to book a run-in on Carmelo

01:54:45 and just risk them all.

01:54:46 Didn't wanna do that because,

01:54:47 oh, that went really well.

01:54:50 Charity promo from Julius Creed.

01:54:53 And then, 'cause we had this in the main event.

01:54:55 - Yeah.

01:54:56 - What level are these at already?

01:54:59 - These are at two.

01:55:00 - Oh! - So if they go up to three-

01:55:02 - They've done it! - We are quids in.

01:55:04 - It's taken them about four months, but they've done it.

01:55:07 - With including us being out, but this is it.

01:55:09 This is good.

01:55:10 This works out 'cause I've got solutions to base the stamina.

01:55:13 - Look at that show from you.

01:55:14 - Yeah.

01:55:16 There we go.

01:55:17 - Strong week.

01:55:18 Strong week for us both.

01:55:19 All right, all right.

01:55:22 Let's see how we're doing.

01:55:24 Match card quality still at B,

01:55:25 which I'm quite pleased with.

01:55:26 39,000 fans, it's not the worst,

01:55:27 it's also not the best.

01:55:29 Could be.

01:55:29 Crucially, have made a nice, healthy amount of money,

01:55:33 for which I'm very grateful.

01:55:35 Kane is a natural at fours to count anywhere matches.

01:55:38 - Very good.

01:55:39 - Kane equals FC A-tick.

01:55:42 I know what that means.

01:55:46 Did you guys see Bianca jump Charlotte?

01:55:47 Totally uncomfortable.

01:55:48 I agree.

01:55:49 Does anyone care what Sammy George has to say?

01:55:52 The people of Croydon, don't make her walk out on me.

01:55:54 (laughing)

01:55:56 Elliot and I gets payback on Marseille.

01:55:58 Things are heating up.

01:55:59 Okay, that's decent, that's decent.

01:56:01 They've not been very helpful so far.

01:56:03 - No.

01:56:04 - Jive, Jive in and Juke in.

01:56:07 Sorry to be leaving my fans at NXT 2.0 behind,

01:56:09 but some changes are for the best.

01:56:10 You can tell me about it.

01:56:11 All right, so let's see then.

01:56:14 2-2-2-0 is the score to beat.

01:56:18 (shouting)

01:56:23 - What a big win.

01:56:25 - It's all to play for guys.

01:56:31 It's all to play for.

01:56:32 Am I getting really good at this?

01:56:35 Have I accidentally got really good at this?

01:56:37 I think I just have.

01:56:40 Of course, give the assist to Luke Owen in week one.

01:56:43 Sorry I let everyone down says Katana.

01:56:47 Oh, she's really upset.

01:56:47 - Oh, she sucks.

01:56:48 (laughing)

01:56:50 - She's out of here.

01:56:51 The moment she causes trouble, she's gone.

01:56:53 - Is Ilja drowned?

01:56:54 - Your contract is hanging on by a thread.

01:56:55 - Are you giving him time off?

01:56:57 - Who?

01:56:57 - Ilja.

01:56:58 - Ilja, yes, Ilja is now getting time off.

01:57:00 - Ilja can do a call out promo on my pay-per-view.

01:57:05 - All right.

01:57:06 Oh boy.

01:57:08 So I got the special promotion from my commissioning goal.

01:57:10 That's quite nice.

01:57:11 - Very good.

01:57:12 - I've also got a special effect book.

01:57:13 I already had one of those.

01:57:14 Thank you very much.

01:57:16 And I'm still at number one, still top of the pops,

01:57:18 but it is a close one.

01:57:20 Just 20,000 fans in it.

01:57:23 Okay.

01:57:24 It's all to play for in the final week still.

01:57:26 - Back and forth, back and forth.

01:57:28 I'm coming for you.

01:57:29 - Oh God.

01:57:31 - I actually looked at the season goals as well.

01:57:32 - Did you?

01:57:33 - Yeah.

01:57:34 - You actually got ahead?

01:57:35 - One of them, I actually had enough time

01:57:36 to go and look at one thing.

01:57:38 - He's getting smart, guys.

01:57:41 - Do you know what?

01:57:42 Basically, if I don't have a week

01:57:43 where I'm just panic booking matches

01:57:46 because everyone's injured,

01:57:47 there's enough time to look at all the screens.

01:57:49 - That's it, that's it.

01:57:50 - I've had enough time to look at all the screens.

01:57:51 - It really does help.

01:57:52 - It really does.

01:57:53 - It really does.

01:57:54 - On a game that is mostly reading stuff.

01:57:55 Being able to read the stuff is like really,

01:57:58 it turns out it's really useful.

01:57:59 - Yeah.

01:58:00 - Seven minutes is so short.

01:58:02 - Oh God.

01:58:03 - Over to you, Luke.

01:58:04 - Well, as we head into the final week of this stream,

01:58:10 it is basically neck and neck more or less at this point.

01:58:15 That's why I said basically, Dan.

01:58:17 Dan, I'm trying to sell it.

01:58:20 - I'm trying to sell it, buddy.

01:58:23 - It's practically neck and neck

01:58:25 as we head into our final week, the pay-per-view week.

01:58:27 Both of them have got big power cards at play.

01:58:31 Both of them have got lots of grivories going into the show.

01:58:35 This is shaping up to be an epic Summer Slam battle

01:58:39 as NXT 2.0 goes head to head

01:58:42 with NXT in direct booking competition.

01:58:45 We also have the results of the poll and

01:58:50 33% voted for both of you to have power cards.

01:58:55 Which means both of you now have a one minute

01:58:59 time penalty power cards heading into the final show

01:59:03 to play whenever you want.

01:59:05 You don't have to play it now.

01:59:07 You could save it.

01:59:08 You could do whatever you want with it.

01:59:09 It's yours to have,

01:59:10 but you both have a one minute power card to play.

01:59:14 - Okay, good to know.

01:59:15 Good to know.

01:59:16 - There's a lot running on the line.

01:59:17 I hope you enjoyed the music recommendation,

01:59:20 the review there.

01:59:21 Did anyone listen to Baby Metal in that last show?

01:59:24 - No, I'll write that down.

01:59:25 - That's for the next week's booking.

01:59:28 Just as any, well, I'll tell you what,

01:59:29 the recommendations are Gimme Chocolate or Headbanger.

01:59:33 - Gimme Chocolate, that's the first one that pops up.

01:59:37 There you go.

01:59:37 It's not very festive.

01:59:39 - But you eat Quality Street.

01:59:41 - I suppose so, yeah.

01:59:41 - Yeah, a bit of roses.

01:59:43 What do you prefer?

01:59:44 You're a Quality Street or Roses man?

01:59:47 - I think I'm a Roses man.

01:59:49 But I don't, well, I like a green triangle.

01:59:52 - Yeah, strong.

01:59:53 I think I'm more Quality Street than I am Roses these days.

01:59:57 But are our players ready?

01:59:59 - We sure are.

02:00:00 - Hell yeah.

02:00:01 - We are now heading into the final week of this stream.

02:00:06 It is week 20.

02:00:08 It is pay-per-view week.

02:00:11 This is where things are really about to heat up.

02:00:15 Let's take it over to the boys and SummerSlam.

02:00:18 - Okay.

02:00:21 - Here we go.

02:00:22 Here we go.

02:00:23 You're ready?

02:00:24 - I'm ready.

02:00:25 I'm gonna listen to that song about pressure from Encanto.

02:00:30 - Whenever you whip out the Disney, you do well.

02:00:33 All right.

02:00:35 He's away.

02:00:36 Let me get ahead to my email screen.

02:00:38 Oh, come on.

02:00:42 He's put a double cost on me.

02:00:45 All right then, Alice, are you ready to go?

02:00:47 In three, two, one, go.

02:00:51 Double cost actually isn't the worst thing.

02:00:52 I was worried that he was gonna make it.

02:00:54 I'm talking to Kane a lot lately.

02:00:55 We should team up.

02:00:57 Really?

02:00:58 How happy are you?

02:00:58 Satisfied?

02:00:59 Okay.

02:01:01 Sure.

02:01:02 Let's see.

02:01:03 Okay, so Austin plus Kane tag.

02:01:08 Okay.

02:01:08 Bobby Lashley, I feel like I'm Paul Gaverie.

02:01:09 Whatever my next match is, I want to win.

02:01:11 Okay, well, I can't promise you that.

02:01:12 That's kind of up to you.

02:01:14 Schedule a run in on your most popular star.

02:01:16 That is a good power card.

02:01:17 So first things first, I'm going to buy the big stadium,

02:01:21 but I'm going to book the big stadium

02:01:23 and I'm going to use my free arena booking power card.

02:01:27 I'm also going to use my free advertising

02:01:28 booking power card.

02:01:29 And I'm going to do that.

02:01:35 Let's get some matches on the go.

02:01:38 Main event time.

02:01:39 Stone Cold Steve Austin versus Robert Rude.

02:01:42 How are they both doing?

02:01:43 Well, we'll put them in a tables match

02:01:45 and then we will do who's next.

02:01:49 Bianca Belair and Charlotte Flair in a women's title.

02:01:55 That's far too expensive.

02:01:57 Last man standing, falls can't anywhere.

02:02:01 That's a decent match to have.

02:02:03 And there are enough stamina that it won't wipe them out

02:02:05 ahead of next week.

02:02:07 Power cards.

02:02:11 Any power cards?

02:02:12 Oh, you might help me out.

02:02:13 No, I'll get you.

02:02:16 'Cause that's a good power card to have.

02:02:18 And we'll do the tag team blow off of these guys.

02:02:22 Sammy George came through.

02:02:23 Really appreciate you, Sammy George.

02:02:25 You have no idea.

02:02:26 And I'm gonna, will I leave them as a normal match?

02:02:30 I think I will leave them as a normal match

02:02:32 because I'm going to have

02:02:34 Kane and LA Knight.

02:02:41 Tss.

02:02:42 No.

02:02:46 Kane and Bobby Lashley in a triple threat match with...

02:02:49 No, because I'll tell you what I wanna do.

02:02:55 I'm gonna use my fixed match

02:02:56 and I'm gonna put that so that Bobby Roode

02:03:00 is definitely gonna win

02:03:01 because I want Steve Austin versus Kevin Owens

02:03:03 to be my North American title feud going forward.

02:03:05 And to that end, we're going to do a charity promo

02:03:10 from Kevin Owens to keep him on screen.

02:03:13 We'll have Marseille call out LA Knight.

02:03:23 Not gonna do too well for him.

02:03:25 He's not very good at those.

02:03:26 We'll have Lashley and Kane in a submissions match.

02:03:31 No, we're not, 'cause that's gonna cost me too much money.

02:03:35 So I won't do that.

02:03:37 They can just have a normal match and see what happens.

02:03:40 Um.

02:03:41 What else can I do?

02:03:46 That's another rivalry.

02:03:47 But they're both, they're not doing very well.

02:03:50 I'll just leave them off screen maybe

02:03:54 and have a random match between those two.

02:03:59 I'll just book them in a normal match and hope for the best.

02:04:07 Um.

02:04:08 What have I got here?

02:04:09 Steel cage.

02:04:13 Cost 90,000 pounds.

02:04:18 I can't afford it.

02:04:19 That has really messed me up.

02:04:21 Oh, well.

02:04:22 No, go away.

02:04:23 Xavier, I know how to play!

02:04:25 I know how to play!

02:04:26 Big thumbs.

02:04:30 Three minutes and 20 seconds, right.

02:04:32 Bobby Lashley demanded he win his next match.

02:04:36 That's, I'm gonna have to leave that to him.

02:04:38 Schedule a run in your most popular star.

02:04:40 Available this week for a veto star.

02:04:42 Who is my most popular star?

02:04:45 It's Steve Austin, isn't it?

02:04:46 Or is it Bobby Roode?

02:04:47 Yeah.

02:05:03 I fixed the match so that Bobby Roode will win.

02:05:05 There's no chance.

02:05:06 That's purely so that I can get a really valuable card.

02:05:08 I need that card, let's be honest.

02:05:10 Is that the smartest thing to do?

02:05:13 Book eight shows with interference.

02:05:14 This will help me with that.

02:05:15 So I might get an extra, yeah, yeah, yeah.

02:05:16 I think that's the best thing I can do

02:05:19 because it should not affect the outcome.

02:05:22 I've played my fixed match card on Bobby Roode.

02:05:25 So running on my most popular star,

02:05:28 he's gonna take out the commissioner goal

02:05:34 and that seasonal goal all in one.

02:05:35 I'll get two extra power cards.

02:05:37 That's good.

02:05:38 Two minutes left.

02:05:39 Right, logistics wise,

02:05:40 we're still happy with what we've done.

02:05:41 Everything has a bonus on it.

02:05:42 So that's gonna be a good show.

02:05:43 I think we're gonna do quite well here.

02:05:45 Is it worth me doing free special effects booking

02:05:50 to save myself 10 grand?

02:05:53 I don't know, actually.

02:05:56 No, I'll save that for the week in case I get stuck.

02:06:00 Health spa, I need that for next week.

02:06:03 Real steel, pretty much physio.

02:06:06 Who's not doing too well?

02:06:07 Who could use, yeah, Bobby Lashley

02:06:10 and either of these two.

02:06:11 Whoa, pretty much physio on.

02:06:17 I think Steve's gonna be really upset

02:06:23 because him and Kane are gonna be able to tag together.

02:06:25 But if I use that on Randall Keith,

02:06:28 where's Randy?

02:06:28 There he is.

02:06:29 He won't get injured.

02:06:32 All right, I think I'm kind of done

02:06:34 with a minute to spare.

02:06:35 So let's go through the card.

02:06:37 We have blowing off this rivalry.

02:06:39 A charity from Kevin Owens to get him on TV

02:06:41 because he's got a program for next week.

02:06:45 Bobby Lashley and Kane hopefully will go up

02:06:48 to a level three rivalry that I can blow off next week

02:06:50 or not, I guess we'll see the chips will fall

02:06:53 where they may on Bobby Lashley's health.

02:06:55 That is gonna blow off.

02:06:57 That's gonna do us quite well.

02:06:58 It's a normal match.

02:06:59 I wish it could be something else,

02:07:00 but it's too expensive.

02:07:01 So they're gonna have that.

02:07:03 That's gonna boost them up a rivalry

02:07:04 and hopefully Randy won't get injured.

02:07:06 Call out a promo to keep that going for next week

02:07:08 so that we've got something happening there.

02:07:10 And a main event match of a level four rivalry

02:07:12 between Steve Austin, my most popular star.

02:07:14 So we've got the star power.

02:07:15 We've got the legend star power.

02:07:17 Got the running for the commissioner goal.

02:07:18 We've got the running for the seasonal goal.

02:07:20 I think that is us done.

02:07:22 All the logistics are booked.

02:07:23 Yeah.

02:07:27 Yeah, let's do it.

02:07:29 That sounds good to me.

02:07:30 That sounds good to me.

02:07:33 - Ooh, here we go.

02:07:40 How was it?

02:07:41 - Good.

02:07:42 - Was it expensive?

02:07:43 - Yes.

02:07:44 - Yeah.

02:07:45 - I'm a bit crossy for it.

02:07:46 - A bit expensive was it?

02:07:47 - But don't worry, I've got my own bag.

02:07:49 - Ooh, the most popular superstar in next week's show.

02:07:52 - In this week's show.

02:07:53 - In this week's show, you vetoed Carmelo Hayes.

02:07:56 (laughing)

02:07:57 Interesting.

02:07:58 - Right.

02:08:00 - Interesting, interesting.

02:08:01 - Bye bye.

02:08:02 - You prick.

02:08:03 Carmelo Hayes can't take part in the show this week.

02:08:08 - He didn't get the appointment.

02:08:09 - Yeah, oh yeah.

02:08:10 I was so wrapped up.

02:08:12 Do you know what?

02:08:13 Take two seconds.

02:08:14 - I think that might be another power card.

02:08:15 - He hasn't pressed any buttons yet.

02:08:16 - Hmm.

02:08:17 - Hmm.

02:08:18 - I'm literally reading information

02:08:20 that I already knew about Carmelo Hayes.

02:08:22 - I'm already stopping so you can get it on screen as well.

02:08:25 - Three, two, one, go.

02:08:28 - Bye.

02:08:29 - I'm not writing it.

02:08:30 - Right, here we go.

02:08:32 My friends and family have been waiting so long

02:08:33 to see me compete in Las Vegas.

02:08:35 Can't wait to entertain them tonight.

02:08:36 Later bro.

02:08:37 You're all good Riddle.

02:08:38 You're probably on the show.

02:08:39 Thanks for the title rematch.

02:08:40 You're welcome, Asker.

02:08:41 I'm a little disappointed here, but that's on me.

02:08:45 Great working with you, boss.

02:08:46 Okay.

02:08:47 Do not book your most popular bruiser.

02:08:51 Oh, that's just so annoying though.

02:08:54 New logistics.

02:08:56 Big.

02:08:57 How big?

02:08:59 Jesus Christ.

02:09:00 Too big for me to afford.

02:09:02 We're just gonna buy this.

02:09:05 That's fine.

02:09:05 We're gonna do this.

02:09:07 We're gonna do this.

02:09:09 And we're gonna do this.

02:09:10 Right, logistics is done.

02:09:11 Power cards.

02:09:12 Anything we got?

02:09:14 There can only be one.

02:09:15 Could do a last man standing match.

02:09:18 Could buy that and do a last man standing.

02:09:20 That might be fun.

02:09:21 We're gonna do this.

02:09:22 Use our special promotion.

02:09:24 We're gonna pre-match physio.

02:09:28 We're definitely gonna use it on Baszler.

02:09:30 There was actually a toss up for a bit there,

02:09:31 but I think we'll have to use it on Baszler.

02:09:34 Now, it's interesting,

02:09:38 'cause what I was gonna do originally,

02:09:40 I was gonna have Carmelo Hayes and Finn Balor

02:09:41 pay off their feud,

02:09:42 and then I was gonna have Gunther

02:09:44 do a call-out promo later in the show,

02:09:46 finish it, like, hopefully starting a new feud

02:09:49 for Carmelo Hayes.

02:09:50 But obviously that's so annoying.

02:09:53 That is livid.

02:09:55 I'm actually livid.

02:09:56 Right.

02:09:58 (dramatic music)

02:10:00 We start here.

02:10:01 We'll book that normal for now.

02:10:05 And we will start,

02:10:07 we'll plonk this in, put the title on it.

02:10:10 There we go, middle card.

02:10:13 What's the middle card?

02:10:14 That was gonna be that originally,

02:10:16 which means we might as well have, like,

02:10:18 Raquel and Shotzi in this spot.

02:10:20 We're just gonna plug stuff in,

02:10:22 and then we're gonna come back to

02:10:26 who does the what.

02:10:28 Now the problem is,

02:10:29 do I need to actually use

02:10:30 McIntyre/Dragunov on this show?

02:10:33 Riddle and T-Bar both got good stamina,

02:10:35 so they can go in there

02:10:36 with their level two rivalry.

02:10:38 What else have I got that can fill in space here?

02:10:40 I could just put Beej in against Jake.

02:10:43 That fills out a spot.

02:10:45 Or I could do the level one.

02:10:46 I think doing the level two rivalry makes more sense.

02:10:49 So I could come out of this

02:10:50 with some good results, actually.

02:10:51 And then I've got the men's title match to pay off.

02:10:55 I've got Carmelo and Thingy to pay off next show.

02:10:58 That is frustrating, ultimately,

02:11:02 because it does leave me with a,

02:11:05 like, a complete lack of stuff going on.

02:11:09 Let's have a little look.

02:11:10 Yeah, 'cause we're not gonna feature Ilya either

02:11:14 on the show, so we've only got one title

02:11:16 on the show overall,

02:11:17 but we do have a lot of rivalries.

02:11:19 Done our logistics.

02:11:23 Let's have a look at people

02:11:25 while we're here.

02:11:26 Oh, look, we can get Johnny Gargano back.

02:11:28 (laughs)

02:11:30 Johnny's a specialist.

02:11:31 Who could he go against?

02:11:33 What are we paying off this week?

02:11:34 We are paying off none of the men's ones, though,

02:11:37 so that's a bit of an issue.

02:11:37 We don't really have anything for him to do

02:11:38 if he turns up, so we might as well just wait

02:11:41 and he can come back.

02:11:43 We could get him and turn him, I guess,

02:11:45 is another thing we could do with him,

02:11:48 and have him free to go against somebody else.

02:11:51 I feel like at the moment I'm quite happy with my roster.

02:11:54 I could do with more women, really,

02:11:57 'cause I've just got the same set of feuds

02:12:00 going round in circles,

02:12:02 but at least two of the big ones are paying off

02:12:05 all at the same time,

02:12:05 so let's just make some of these matches more extreme.

02:12:09 So let's go in here and tinker.

02:12:13 Now, I don't want to go...

02:12:16 Branded PLE bonus, plus 50% rivalry chance.

02:12:21 Stamina cost is quite high.

02:12:24 Stamina cost is very high.

02:12:25 I kind of want these guys to come out of this fine,

02:12:30 so maybe extreme rules is the most I can stretch them to.

02:12:36 Shots in Raquel, who I...

02:12:39 Now, Raquel's in danger,

02:12:40 so that's probably nay more than a tables for them, I think.

02:12:45 These two are fine,

02:12:48 so I think they can go a bit more extreme on the old...

02:12:51 I mean, we can get our branded PLE bonus

02:12:53 at that point as well.

02:12:54 Let's put that in a steel cage for now.

02:13:00 For now.

02:13:04 That's just gonna be a regular match.

02:13:06 I don't wanna mess about too much.

02:13:08 Maybe that could be a steel cage.

02:13:09 Let's do some promo stuff.

02:13:13 Who have we got?

02:13:16 We've got you to call out, you.

02:13:18 We're gonna book a charity promo as well,

02:13:19 because we know we need to do those.

02:13:21 Should we just have Gunther do a charity promo?

02:13:24 I assume he's not good at talking.

02:13:27 Bala could do with something to do this week,

02:13:28 so you can do a charity promo.

02:13:30 Then we might as well.

02:13:33 What else are we gonna do?

02:13:34 Gunther should introduce himself to the NXT universe,

02:13:39 so he'll self-promo.

02:13:41 And then, what else have we got?

02:13:44 Got any other things we can call out?

02:13:47 We can try and grow this.

02:13:50 Might as well try and grow this.

02:13:51 Seems wasteful to not use the slots.

02:13:53 So, we've got extreme rules.

02:13:56 Normal, I don't wanna risk that.

02:13:58 I'm gonna risk that, because why not?

02:14:01 I could put a stipulation on this match, actually, as well.

02:14:07 It's the other thing I could do here.

02:14:08 Stamina cost is really high.

02:14:14 T-bar's my workhorse, though,

02:14:16 so I just feel like I could do that

02:14:17 and just risk the stamina for both men.

02:14:20 I think I will.

02:14:21 We'll do a TLC, as well.

02:14:22 I'm spending a lot of dosh on this show,

02:14:26 but also it feels like the time to do it.

02:14:28 What else have we got?

02:14:30 There can only be one.

02:14:31 Run, run, reboot, Last Man Standing.

02:14:33 I could just buy that and do a Last Man Standing,

02:14:35 though, couldn't I?

02:14:36 Ooh, that'd be really silly.

02:14:43 No, I don't wanna do that.

02:14:48 I don't want to.

02:14:49 Right.

02:14:51 Who's my most popular bruiser?

02:14:53 My most popular bruiser is Big E, is he?

02:15:03 Yeah, okay, and he's not booked.

02:15:05 He's booked on the show, that's a shame.

02:15:07 Oh, well, what does this get me?

02:15:08 Double the cost, we've done that already.

02:15:11 I think I'm happy with this show overall.

02:15:13 I'm pretty annoyed about the Hayes and Ballor thing,

02:15:17 but that just means I've got a four-star rivalry

02:15:19 to just pay off on weekly TV if I want to,

02:15:22 which I probably will do on the first show back.

02:15:24 So that's not too bad.

02:15:27 I think I'm okay with that.

02:15:28 Hang on, the title's falling off that.

02:15:32 There we go.

02:15:33 It's 'cause I changed the thing and it doesn't remember.

02:15:38 - So here's the thing about Babymetal.

02:15:43 It sounds like it would be absolutely slamming

02:15:47 on Guitar Hero.

02:15:49 Like, it's like, I think it's K-pop meets metal.

02:15:53 - It's J-pop.

02:15:54 - J-pop meets metal, well, I don't know, you know.

02:15:56 That's a, cancel me, I suppose.

02:15:59 But I liked, enjoyed it.

02:16:01 Babymetal was great, enjoyed it very much.

02:16:02 - Yeah, it was really good.

02:16:03 - It was intense.

02:16:05 - It was intense.

02:16:06 - Good for a run, good to shred on Guitar Hero, I suppose.

02:16:10 Certainly on hard mode.

02:16:12 Speaking of hard mode, how'd you week?

02:16:14 - Yeah, you left me with only one title to have on the show.

02:16:17 Because Ilya's fucked, so he's not gonna be on there.

02:16:21 But I still think I booked a good show.

02:16:22 - Okay.

02:16:23 - So we'll see how it goes.

02:16:24 - I was genuinely, I had so many panic,

02:16:26 I was worried my worst case scenario was gonna be

02:16:28 that you were gonna use a similar card on me

02:16:31 and Sammy George would leave me.

02:16:33 - Sammy George would leave you.

02:16:34 - Yeah, I was afraid, I didn't realize

02:16:37 when I woke up this morning that my biggest fear

02:16:38 would be that Sammy George from Croydon

02:16:40 would walk out on me.

02:16:41 - You should always fear the person from Croydon the most.

02:16:44 - Yeah, well, I mean, now that there's nothing to go for

02:16:46 in the Wikia Center, you know, absolute nightmare.

02:16:49 Just realized it's a pretty samey show,

02:16:51 but I had a very, I had an issue with, again,

02:16:54 people being ill, people being available,

02:16:57 people leaving, people whatever.

02:16:59 So, and then the months. - How were the dollars?

02:17:00 - The months, I couldn't redo. - How were your months?

02:17:02 - I was, well, the thing was, did you buy the stadium?

02:17:05 - No. - You didn't, I did.

02:17:06 - $200,000, I couldn't afford that.

02:17:09 - For five weeks worth.

02:17:10 - I also had a free arena booking.

02:17:12 So I was like, right, I can book it and get it.

02:17:13 And so I did that.

02:17:14 - It was like, that would have been all of my money.

02:17:16 - I could either have dealt with your power card

02:17:19 or had the stadium.

02:17:21 I banked on the stadium.

02:17:22 Will that end up being a mistake?

02:17:24 We'll find out together.

02:17:25 But we're opening the show with a "False God Anywhere" match.

02:17:27 So there's a couple of matches on there

02:17:29 that are, hopefully the drama curve will go.

02:17:31 It's the world title match between Charlotte Flair

02:17:34 and Bianca Belair.

02:17:35 We'll stimulate that, see who comes out on top.

02:17:38 Charlotte wins, lol.

02:17:40 Charlotte wins.

02:17:41 - A legendary rivalry. - A legendary,

02:17:43 legendary five stars.

02:17:45 So gonna write that in my little matrix here

02:17:47 that Charlotte retains her belt.

02:17:49 Charity promo from Kevin Owens.

02:17:52 Ah, only a few fans, could be better.

02:17:56 Kane and Bobby Lashley.

02:17:56 Bobby is low on stamina.

02:17:58 So this could be go very bad for me.

02:18:00 - This could be go very bad.

02:18:01 Will it go be very bad?

02:18:03 - Will it be go be gay very bad?

02:18:04 - Will it be go be gay very bad?

02:18:06 - But they are on a level two rivalry.

02:18:07 I'm hoping it will push them up to three

02:18:08 so that I can blow that off on a roll.

02:18:09 But we'll have to wait and see

02:18:10 whether or not that's physically possible.

02:18:13 Kane wins.

02:18:14 - It's okay.

02:18:15 - Nothing happens and Bobby's fine.

02:18:18 All right, I guess the title match

02:18:20 that we've all been waiting for.

02:18:22 It's a normal match.

02:18:23 - Sammy George.

02:18:24 - Sammy George.

02:18:25 - Go on Sammy.

02:18:26 - Sammy George.

02:18:26 - Go on Sammy.

02:18:28 - Let's see, can she do it?

02:18:30 Can she take it home to Croydon?

02:18:31 No she can't. - Absolutely not.

02:18:32 - No she can't.

02:18:33 - Get on the tram love.

02:18:35 Get back on the tram.

02:18:36 It was amazing.

02:18:38 Bang, happy as a clam.

02:18:40 Thank you very much for that ladies.

02:18:42 Logan and Randy are both pretty poorly,

02:18:44 but again I needed a match on the card

02:18:45 and one that had some stakes.

02:18:46 They wanted to just put something

02:18:47 that was gonna be dull or disappointing on there.

02:18:49 So we've put those two together in a normal match.

02:18:51 See how it works out.

02:18:53 It was okay and nothing happened.

02:18:55 - Very good.

02:18:57 - All right, fine.

02:18:58 - Thank God you're retaining your fans.

02:19:00 - Marseille is calling out.

02:19:05 So let's see, that worked, didn't it?

02:19:07 That went up right?

02:19:07 - Yeah, that went up.

02:19:08 - Fine, fine, we've got that going forward.

02:19:10 LA Knight was poorly, so I couldn't do anything with him.

02:19:12 Now here's an interesting wrinkle.

02:19:14 Get into this.

02:19:15 So my commissioner goal was to book a run-in

02:19:20 on my most popular star, who is Bobby Roode.

02:19:22 I also have a seasonal goal,

02:19:24 which is to book a bunch of interferences.

02:19:26 My theory of the case is,

02:19:28 I've used a power card in the intent

02:19:32 that Bobby Roode retains.

02:19:34 - Yeah.

02:19:34 - Okay, so hopefully, because this is a blow-off rivalry,

02:19:38 this run-in will just be a run-in

02:19:40 and its functionality will be solely

02:19:42 to get me a couple of extra power cards.

02:19:44 - Yeah.

02:19:45 - And it won't have a massive detriment

02:19:46 on the quality of the match.

02:19:47 - Very good.

02:19:48 - We'll see, we'll see.

02:19:49 Pull through for me, guys.

02:19:51 I really believe in the three of you.

02:19:52 Bobby retains.

02:19:53 It's a classic.

02:19:54 - Ooh, that's good.

02:19:55 - But it doesn't blow off the rivalry.

02:19:57 - Ooh, is that because of the run-in?

02:20:00 - The run-in might have affected that.

02:20:02 So that's interesting.

02:20:04 - That is interesting.

02:20:05 - I mean, you've still just got the rivalry, though.

02:20:08 - And I have got a classic match.

02:20:09 - Like, you've still, you've got a classic match

02:20:10 and you've still just got the rivalry sitting there.

02:20:12 Have you found a glitch?

02:20:13 - That is curious.

02:20:18 That is curious.

02:20:19 - You can just spin those wheels for ages now.

02:20:22 - Interesting, interesting.

02:20:25 All right, well, I mean, it was a classic match.

02:20:28 Interesting.

02:20:30 - NXT, baby.

02:20:32 Right, we're struggling here

02:20:33 because of the lack of title matches.

02:20:37 But we have the opener,

02:20:38 Bayley versus Trish Stratus in their four-star rivalry

02:20:41 in a steel cage.

02:20:42 And it's amazing.

02:20:47 And the rivalry's complete.

02:20:48 That's good for me.

02:20:49 I'm happy with that.

02:20:50 We then got a call-out promo,

02:20:52 which does grow the rivalry between Ilya and Drew.

02:20:55 - Now they're cooking with Diesel.

02:20:56 - Yeah, they're finally getting going.

02:20:59 - Where's my notes?

02:21:01 Riddle, Drew, and Ilya.

02:21:03 Here's a two.

02:21:04 I need to get one of these matrixes.

02:21:06 Then we've got T-Bar just propping up the mid-card as usual.

02:21:10 He's having a TLC match against Riddle.

02:21:12 See if the rivalry grows there.

02:21:13 It's a classic.

02:21:18 Does better than the opener.

02:21:22 A four-star rivalry paying off, and that did better.

02:21:25 Still cage matches.

02:21:26 - It's T-Bar, mate.

02:21:27 - T-Bar.

02:21:28 Why good now?

02:21:30 Why good now, T-Bar?

02:21:31 - Dummy.

02:21:32 - Right, here we go.

02:21:33 Rodriguez versus Shotzi.

02:21:34 They're doing a tables match because of Rodriguez

02:21:36 being a little bit close to being injured,

02:21:38 but if it happens, it happens.

02:21:40 She gets the win.

02:21:42 - But at what cost?

02:21:43 At no cost.

02:21:43 - At no cost.

02:21:44 - An amazing match.

02:21:45 - And the rivalry's complete.

02:21:46 Katana Chance and Ilya Sky grow their rivalry.

02:21:50 - Yeah, good for them.

02:21:51 - So that just continues to bubble away for no reason.

02:21:55 It's just a thing we're doing.

02:21:56 We're gonna stimulate this one.

02:21:57 This is, again, Big E's in the danger zone,

02:21:59 so it's just normal.

02:22:00 I don't want Big E back on the show.

02:22:02 He's been back for a month.

02:22:03 I gave him, he lost the title on his return,

02:22:06 and then he's done nothing.

02:22:07 - Well, he's got a little match here, hasn't he?

02:22:08 And he's gonna injure him.

02:22:10 Here's the question.

02:22:11 Jake gets the win.

02:22:13 And it's only good.

02:22:14 That's fine.

02:22:15 That means that continues.

02:22:16 Gunther arrived.

02:22:17 - Oh!

02:22:18 - So you missed the--

02:22:19 - What?

02:22:19 - So you missed the, what I was gonna do with Gunther

02:22:23 was I was originally going to have my opener

02:22:25 be Hayes versus Baller to blow off the rivalry,

02:22:28 and then Gunther immediately steps into the void

02:22:30 to call out Hayes.

02:22:31 - Oh, God, and it would have gone so well for you

02:22:32 because look at that promo.

02:22:33 - Yeah, so Gunther's just boosted popularity by five.

02:22:37 I mean, we'll be blowing off that promo next week

02:22:41 when we return, and then we'll just do the same thing.

02:22:43 So we've got until the next pay-per-view with Gunther,

02:22:45 I think, because I've also got a contract negotiation card,

02:22:48 so I can use that.

02:22:48 - This is gonna be a fascinatingly close one.

02:22:49 - And then this, the three-star extreme rules match rivalry

02:22:53 for the women's title.

02:22:55 Basel had got a rub down,

02:22:57 so hopefully she doesn't get injured.

02:22:58 (laughing)

02:22:59 - I think she'll be fine.

02:23:00 You've had a good run.

02:23:02 She wins the belt.

02:23:04 It's a classic.

02:23:04 The rivalry is finally complete.

02:23:07 - There we go, baby!

02:23:09 - Amazing booking.

02:23:11 Thank you so much.

02:23:11 - Now, the drama curve is quite annoying.

02:23:12 - Yours, however, begins with a poor opening.

02:23:15 - Yeah.

02:23:15 - So I wonder whether or not the poor opening that you have

02:23:19 and the lack of rivalry-gumb-le-tion,

02:23:21 grivalry-rum-ple-tion, will balance out.

02:23:24 - True.

02:23:25 - 'Cause we've had a very similar show elsewhere.

02:23:26 Well, I say that.

02:23:28 My two matches here.

02:23:30 (exhaling)

02:23:34 It's gonna be a close one.

02:23:35 - You know what I think?

02:23:36 We get to follow.

02:23:38 Is it 'cause you guys are more popular than the same?

02:23:40 - It could be.

02:23:41 - The same popularity might not be up to you.

02:23:43 - Maybe.

02:23:44 - So your popularity's high, your performance is high.

02:23:47 Popular, yeah, I mean, I suppose that's what it is.

02:23:49 - Your popularity's like slightly lower, yeah.

02:23:52 - Yeah, that's literally it.

02:23:53 - It's just T-Bar is fucking popular.

02:23:54 T-Bar's like super popular.

02:23:56 T-Bar just carried that whole mat.

02:23:57 All right, so we just know to put T-Bar in everything.

02:23:59 - T-Bar in everything.

02:24:00 - T-Bar is a man.

02:24:01 T-Bar is an opener or a main eventer only.

02:24:03 We know stuff now.

02:24:04 - Isn't T-Bar a giant?

02:24:05 - Yeah.

02:24:06 - So why do you need Gunther?

02:24:08 - Because I've already done T-Bar versus Hayes, so.

02:24:11 - Samey, samey.

02:24:12 All right then, let's see the effects.

02:24:14 - I think it was more for my enjoyment

02:24:16 than it was for the audience's.

02:24:18 That's a huge amount of fans.

02:24:19 - It's a big number of fans

02:24:20 and it's crucially a big number of monies,

02:24:22 but it's not as big as I hoped that it would be.

02:24:27 It's not as big as last time when I got 200.

02:24:29 But then again, I did play a network special card.

02:24:31 Bianca Bella learns about consequences,

02:24:32 rivalry between LeRae, Jade, finally got settled.

02:24:36 Did you guys see Mustafa Ali jump Robbie Roode?

02:24:39 Yeah, well, it didn't help anything.

02:24:40 Roode's winning streak continues.

02:24:41 Who can end the run?

02:24:43 Queen's Lena Gold.

02:24:44 Robbed.

02:24:45 Okay, fine.

02:24:48 Here we go.

02:24:49 Hold your breath, everybody.

02:24:51 2367 is the number to beat.

02:24:53 Can he do it?

02:24:55 2367!

02:24:58 (laughing)

02:25:01 I don't remember what my-

02:25:02 (laughing)

02:25:04 What were the other three numbers?

02:25:05 - I don't know!

02:25:06 I think I'm winning!

02:25:08 - Those are really high three numbers.

02:25:10 959, those are big three numbers.

02:25:12 - Oh my God.

02:25:14 - This might be hundreds of fans.

02:25:16 - Oh Jesus Christ.

02:25:18 - Oh shit, Laurie.

02:25:19 I was losing my shit, man.

02:25:20 - Yeah.

02:25:21 - Shayna Baszler has a really great feel

02:25:23 for Extreme Rules matches.

02:25:24 You can write that one down.

02:25:25 Can't believe I just lost money on Raquel

02:25:27 breaking that losing streak.

02:25:28 Feels like it's Katana Mania at NXT right now.

02:25:30 Wonder how long that'll last.

02:25:32 - I lost five grand.

02:25:34 - You lost five grand?

02:25:35 - But my total budget remains-

02:25:36 - Pretty high!

02:25:37 - 300,000, which is more than I had starting this go round.

02:25:39 So like, I'm fine with that.

02:25:41 - Good God.

02:25:43 - We spent where we needed to spend on the pay-per-view.

02:25:46 - Well, let's see how we did with the power cards

02:25:49 and then we'll see where we've ended up.

02:25:51 This is unreal.

02:25:53 I cannot believe this.

02:25:54 And so I got a Veto star from my commissioner goal.

02:25:57 I also got a health spa for me

02:25:59 to beat the seasonal challenges.

02:26:00 - I might not get anything.

02:26:02 - Yeah, baby!

02:26:03 - There are literally 308 fans in this.

02:26:09 308 fans.

02:26:12 - I love this game.

02:26:15 I hate this game.

02:26:17 Oh my God, I just booked an amazing show.

02:26:19 An amazing show.

02:26:22 - Yes!

02:26:23 - And he had a poor opening.

02:26:25 - I had a brilliant show, Dan.

02:26:28 I had a brilliant show.

02:26:29 We built it up to it all month.

02:26:31 Incredible.

02:26:34 Incredible.

02:26:35 - It's all to play for.

02:26:37 - I can gold all the way, baby.

02:26:38 - Oh my God.

02:26:39 I don't know how this is gonna end.

02:26:43 The Monday Night War has never been this close.

02:26:46 The Monday Night War at this stage

02:26:47 is usually an insurmountable goal

02:26:49 for Luke Owen to try and get.

02:26:50 - I think it could have been this good from the beginning.

02:26:52 - I know.

02:26:53 It could have been.

02:26:54 - Yeah.

02:26:54 - I've gotta pull my finger out.

02:26:56 Cut to me for the remainder of the new year

02:26:59 doing as much like-

02:27:01 - Yeah, you're just gonna math it out.

02:27:02 - Oh yeah, you just wait.

02:27:05 I need to win this.

02:27:06 I need to win this.

02:27:07 - Luke?

02:27:09 - Over to you, Luke.

02:27:12 - Last time I said, "Wow, it's basically neck and neck."

02:27:17 It is legit now.

02:27:18 Neck and neck.

02:27:20 308 fans is all that separates out these two.

02:27:25 What would have happened if Dan had played his card

02:27:28 that retained the fans?

02:27:29 We don't know.

02:27:30 But what we do know for certain

02:27:32 is that Blake and Gold is number one again.

02:27:36 Laurie has won three of the four streams

02:27:39 that we have done, but it's not over yet.

02:27:41 We've got one more stream to do

02:27:44 and it's happening next month, January, 2024.

02:27:48 Keep an eye on our social medias

02:27:50 for the exact date that it is going to happen.

02:27:52 But January, 2024 will be the final episode

02:27:57 of the Wednesday Night War.

02:28:00 Someone in the chat there has pointed out that Dan,

02:28:02 once again, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

02:28:05 (Dan laughing)

02:28:06 Incredible scenes.

02:28:09 What could have happened

02:28:10 if Laurie just switched those two matches around?

02:28:12 If he'd have relied on T-Bar in the opener?

02:28:15 - Should always trust my T-Bar.

02:28:16 - Always trust in T-Bar.

02:28:18 It is gonna be a hell of a show.

02:28:20 Thank you all so much for joining us today.

02:28:22 One final check, but we have read out all of our Ultra Chats,

02:28:25 which means it is time to say goodbye.

02:28:28 We'll be back next month with the final episode

02:28:31 of the Wednesday Night War,

02:28:32 the winner of which will be joining the crew,

02:28:36 will be joining the Monday Night Raw team for season four.

02:28:41 It's gonna be a spicy one, ladies and gentlemen.

02:28:43 I've been Luke Owen, DAD,

02:28:45 not representing Monday Night Raw.

02:28:47 I've been joined today by Dan Layton,

02:28:49 representing Wednesday Night NXT 2.0,

02:28:52 and Laurie Blake, representing Wednesday Night NXT.

02:28:55 We'll see you next month.

02:28:57 Jam that jam.

02:28:58 - Jam it. - Jam that jam.

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