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00:00 It's been about 3 days since SmackDown, I'm sure all that Cody and Rock stuff's

00:05 blown over by now.

00:06 Let's see what happened on last night's Raw.

00:11 WWE allegedly censoring anti-Rock chants, fans send death threats to The Rock's daughter,

00:20 and Luke's review of Monday Night Raw.

00:23 I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:33 For the benefit of those wrestling fans who haven't been online for the past two weeks,

00:37 and to those, I envy you.

00:39 I want your prelapsarian innocence.

00:41 The Rock has been appointed to TKO's board of directors, Cody Rhodes won the Royal Rumble,

00:45 chose to fight Roman Reigns at WrestleMania XL, and then gave that match to The Rock six

00:49 days later.

00:50 Also, Vince McMahon resigned because of a very serious lawsuit, and The Rock might be

00:53 trying to take over the company behind the scenes.

00:56 Which after the last four years of wrestling, is just a pretty normal January and February.

01:02 One of the many problems with all of this is that fans were quite invested in that two

01:06 year long story WWE have been explicitly telling - where Cody will win the title his father

01:12 had taken away from him on the grandest stage of them all.

01:15 So it's prompted quite the backlash, some fun, some unhinged, but all - and it's important

01:21 to never lose sight of our place in the marks, carny promoters dynamic - making loads of

01:26 money for WWE.

01:29 Following the NXT Vengeance Day crowd booing graphics of The Rock on a screen, the February

01:33 5th episode of Raw's audience took fan hijacking to a level we haven't seen in WWE for years.

01:40 Partly because the product has gotten so good recently, and partly because one of those

01:44 years had a pandemic.

01:46 There were no fans.

01:48 Raw's St. Louis crowd heavily chanted "Rocky sucks" during the opening segment between

01:52 Seth Rollins, Cody and Drew McIntyre.

01:55 But WWE acknowledged the boos, and reportedly even fostered a pro-Cody sentiment, handing

02:01 out We Want Cody signs in the audience.

02:04 Yes, there's a reason they were all written in the same font.

02:08 The apparent plan is to give Cody a Daniel Bryan, WrestleMania 30 style 'yes' movement,

02:14 to properly make Rhodes the company's top babyface.

02:17 Unfortunately for WWE, that process also turning The Rock heel was not their intention.

02:23 Which might be why, weirdly, WWE allegedly muted Rocky Sucks chants later in the show.

02:30 In the main event ballrope match of Cody vs Shinsuke Nakamura, fan footage is circulating

02:35 of the audience heavily chanting "Rocky sucks".

02:38 I've checked the spot they're doing it on, Cody punching Nakamura in the corner,

02:42 but that took place during the commercial break.

02:45 WWE didn't censor that one, it just wasn't broadcast.

02:49 But according to Fightful Select, WWE production did try to cover the boos against The Rock

02:54 on the previous night's NXT PLE.

02:56 It's rumoured the same thing happened on Raw following them "acknowledging it"

03:02 at the top of the show.

03:03 Chanting "Rocky sucks" is a mostly well-adjusted way to express your anger at pro wrestling

03:08 booking.

03:09 And in his daughter death threats… not so much.

03:13 Ava Rain, the real-life daughter of Rock 'The Dwayne' Johnson and also the General Manager

03:18 of NXT that was totally, totally done on her own merit, has posted "Can y'all just

03:22 leave me out of this for F sake?

03:24 I'm busy running a show.

03:26 I'm a threat over a situation I have nothing to do with.

03:41 BFFR.

03:42 BFFR.

03:43 Best friend forever.

03:44 Right?

03:45 Oh, no, it's B effing for real.

03:46 I'm cool.

03:47 I'm effing real."

03:48 But as a wise man once said, controversy creates cash.

03:50 Or just look past the fact he then killed his own company.

03:53 Dave Meltzer is reporting the Backlash against The Rock is currently "a shrewd business

03:58 decision".

03:59 Following the People's Cuck holding on SmackDown, there was a major jump in ticket sales for

04:03 the next episode of Raw.

04:05 And WWE is going to get more eyeballs for this match than any match they've ever had.

04:10 They're going to have more sponsorship revenue based on the fact Dwayne's wrestling than

04:14 any match they've had.

04:16 Let's spread some wrestling positivity before we get into Luke's Raw review.

04:20 Here's a clip of the brand new episode of Tables, Lists and Chairs counting down the

04:24 best Royal Rumble matches ever.

04:27 You can watch now using the link in the video description below.

04:30 You've got a lot of like really fun Madison Square Garden stuff here.

04:34 I love the short ramp that they have here, reminiscent of 2000.

04:38 I wish they'd bring that back.

04:39 Such a cool time.

04:40 Hyper and Snuka have their deal.

04:42 Triple H and Cactus, eight years after the Street Fighter here.

04:45 And then of course, it's Cena coming back, which everybody forgot for 10 seconds how

04:50 much they hated him.

04:51 "Because I cannot stress how superhuman this is.

04:52 Like, it's been 15, 16 years."

04:59 I still can't believe that this man came back from a torn pack in like three and a half

05:02 months.

05:03 So just as a spoiler, this isn't on my list at all.

05:06 No.

05:07 Still angry.

05:08 You're mine.

05:09 When I was looking around, everyone was like, "Oh, it's top, top three or top five or whatever.

05:13 Some people's number one."

05:14 But whenever I think of this Rumble, I just think of them.

05:21 And now it's time for my review of Monday Night Raw, aka the Pivot, Pivot, Pivot episode

05:28 of Monday Night Raw in about five minutes.

05:31 Seth Rollins opened the show to brag about getting a pop this time, and the commentary

05:35 let us know what this episode of Raw was all about.

05:38 Pat McAfee said, "The whole world is talking about WWE."

05:42 He didn't say that the whole world was upset about The Rock seemingly taking Cody's place

05:47 at WrestleMania, just that "the whole world is talking about WWE."

05:53 Michael Cole on several occasions noted that Cody Rhodes has been trending on Twitter for

05:58 three whole days.

05:59 He didn't say it's because of fan backlash to WWE's whiplash change of plans, just that

06:04 "Cody's been trending for three days on Twitter."

06:07 WWE did an incredible amount of spin on this episode, and turned a rather ugly booking

06:14 situation from Smackdown into an intriguing positive for Monday Night Raw.

06:18 Rollins called out Cody, who just feels like the world's biggest doofus at the moment,

06:22 but he didn't actually get to say anything.

06:24 Rollins put over his title, which got booed again, and once again asked Cody if he would

06:29 face him at WrestleMania, which also got booed again.

06:32 Drew McIntyre came out to say that Rollins is just trying to get into Cody's head,

06:36 and that he should go and finish the story.

06:38 Do not let your dad down.

06:41 Because when you go and do what Drew wants you to do, it means that Drew can face Rollins

06:45 for the belt because it's time for him to take over.

06:48 He headbutted Seth Rollins, and Cody sent him packing.

06:51 WWE are in full pivot mode following the backlash to Smackdown, and this segment was designed

06:57 to make you think that Cody vs. Roman is still a possibility for WrestleMania.

07:03 Which it very much is.

07:04 They went to great lengths later in the show to say that Rock vs. Roman at Mania is not

07:09 official.

07:10 All the while setting up Drew vs. Rollins for the Loser's Belt at Mania in the Loser's

07:15 Bracket.

07:16 Thursday is going to be an interesting day, that's for sure.

07:19 WWE are in a bit of a mess right now, but they're leaning into it.

07:24 I think this might be the most watched WWE press conference in history.

07:28 The other story of the show was that this crowd turned out to go nuts for Cody Rhodes

07:32 and let WWE know that they want Cody Rhodes, but they didn't really care about much else.

07:38 They did very much get into the Fatal 4-Way tag match by the end, because the action broke

07:42 down into 8 lads hitting big moves and doing big dives and it was awesome and that's

07:46 always going to get a reaction.

07:47 DIY got a blind tag on the Creed Brothers to hit meat in the middle to get the win.

07:51 They're now going to face British Strong Style on Smackdown with the winners facing

07:54 Judgment Day at Elimination Chamber.

07:56 It was a really good showing for the Creed's, who felt like they've been off the boil

07:59 since their debut, and it furthered the feud between New Day and Imperium.

08:03 More on that in a bit.

08:05 Becky Lynch beat Shayna Baszler to qualify for the Women's Elimination Chamber, the

08:08 winner of which will face Rhea Ripley at WrestleMania.

08:11 It was a good match, and we're going to get Liv Morgan vs. Zoey Stark in another

08:14 qualifier next week.

08:16 Speaking of Ripley, Adam Pearce announced that she'll be facing Nia Jax for the title

08:19 at Elimination Chamber, with Jax coming out to lay out Rhea Ripley once again.

08:24 It is so smart to position Rhea Ripley as the babyface going against the heel Nia Jax

08:29 going into the PPV.

08:31 Not only because Rhea's basically over as a babyface anyway, but she's going into

08:35 her home country for Chamber and will be cheered like a returning national hero.

08:40 Valhalla and Ivar beat Alpha Academy in a mixed tag match that was… sloppy.

08:46 And Judgment Day had a chat in their Judgment Den when R-Truth showed up to make jokes about

08:50 being initiated into the group last week.

08:53 So rather than beat him up like they did last week, Pearce told Truth to make himself at

08:57 home in the Den.

08:59 Truth instead decided to go to ringside to give his t-shirt away for free during JD McDonough's

09:04 match with The Miz - which was a match that you can close your eyes and imagine beat for

09:09 beat and you'll probably be right.

09:12 Truth tried to give JD his cut of the merch money despite thinking that JD isn't part

09:15 of the group and isn't even on the merchandise - and it allowed Miz to hit the Skull Crushing

09:19 Finale for the win.

09:20 As I said last week, I think this sets up Awesome Truth winning the tag team gold from

09:25 Judgment Day at WrestleMania and that will be really, really nice.

09:29 Adam Pearce had a chat backstage with Braun Breaker who had a staredown moment with Imperium

09:33 which could set up Braun to just fully take Brock's place at Mania and face Gunther

09:38 for the IC title.

09:39 But not before Jey Uso gets his shot.

09:42 Gunther celebrated 600+ days as Intercontinental Champion, but was quickly interrupted by Jey

09:48 Uso who put over Gunther's accomplishments.

09:51 Gunther responded by putting over Jey's accomplishments too.

09:54 He was tag champion for over 1,000 days.

09:56 But that also means he only did 50% of the work - unlike Gunther who's done 100% of

10:03 the work.

10:04 Imperium attacked Jey Uso and New Day ran out for the save, they'll have a trios match

10:07 next week.

10:08 Edge of Control retained the women's tag titles over the party girls in a okay match

10:12 with not a lot of heat, and Jackie sat down with Sami Zayn to talk about his current direction

10:16 or perhaps lack thereof.

10:18 Sami talked about the highs he had around this time last year - turning face, nearly

10:23 beating Roman in his home country, main eventing WrestleMania - and now he's not really sure.

10:29 But he does want to be a champion and he wants to do it for the fans who believed in him.

10:34 It was a very good and very real promo, but it also does highlight that there are a lot

10:39 of guys with question marks above their heads going into WrestleMania.

10:43 And the main event saw Cody Rhodes beat Shinsuke Nakamura in a bull rope match to finish a

10:47 feud that finished last month, but is happening again because we want Cody I guess.

10:51 They put over the connections the Rhodes family has to the bull rope gimmick, even saying

10:55 this was the same bull rope that Dusty used in his infamous match with Superstar Billy

10:59 Graham - and while this was nowhere near the quality of that, it was still a fine main

11:05 event.

11:06 WWE's problem is that they can't really do a proper bull rope match because they can't

11:10 go to that level of violence - not that this feud necessitated that level of violence,

11:14 Cody's already beaten him twice - but they did have a clever little twist.

11:18 You see, WWE can't do blood, so Nakamura spat red fist on Cody's face to make it

11:24 look like he was covered in blood just like his old man.

11:28 Cody hit the Crossroads for the win, and Drew McIntyre laid him out after the match.

11:32 And it capped off an episode that was… fine.

11:35 There is so much intrigue in WWE right now following the controversial end to Smackdown,

11:41 and I would wager that the opening quarter hour of this show will do a monster number

11:47 when the ratings come out tomorrow.

11:49 The Fatal 4-Way tag match was awesome, and the rest of the wrestling was broadly fine.

11:53 This week's show is 3 out of 5.

11:55 Now go and check out myself, Oli Davis and Tempest counting down our top 10 Royal Rumble

12:00 matches.

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