Joe tesor is our brand new commentator for Monday Night Raw and Wade Barrett even introduced him at the start of the show everyone on social media has given their review so I shall give mine thought he did a very good job now we do have to give him some leeway cuz it was his first go and yes he didn't know the name of some moves but I even pretend that you know the name of all the moves because you don't and on occasion he needs to put some more emotion in there but honestly if you rang me up right now and said Simon come commentate on Raw I well I didn't have the voice to match what old Joey did so I actually think this could turn into something very very fun but we just have to be patient and it did give WWE a different feel and as we all know we all like different feels Al hello my friends and welcome to ups and downs the only review show that you do need hence why just reviewed a human being talking about flying all over the place if you are in Canada this weekend in Ontario I shall be fighting for Ethan Pig Alpha One promotion so come on down and say hello or it's streaming live on their YouTube channel so you can laugh at me and go Simon sucks at the wrestling it's true but I do it anyway let's up those downs we then got this big video which is essentially somebody shouting at you you should have watched batet Berlin when out came Ria Ripley Big Pop she welcomed us to Monday night mamy which is not the name of the show but she was happy either way because at the pay-per-view premium live event she and Damien priest had defeated Dominic Mysterio and Liv Morgan R promised she wasn't done because she has to go win her Championship back when she got interrupted by the onom that mother fluer went and got a black eye now he had a mustach as well when he got booed out of the place but he was able to squeak out live Morgan isn't here because of everything you did to her in Berlin I like you're right and I shaved my head cuz I think it looks good seral then blame jet lag on the fact they didn't get any sleep on their loss cuz he insinuated they were having a lot of sex don't blame me that's the point he was getting at and all that really matters is where this story ends because Dominic Mysterio will become the Intercontinental Champion no matter what Ria does Morgan will be keeping that belt too Ripley then told Dom he was stupid which kind of made me laugh I mean why not when of course Liv Morgan did attack the nightmare but Ria Ripley ain't no stupid baby face just smacked her right in the face and the only reason she wasn't able to keep this going is because of course Dominic got in the way when Ria got trapped in the ropes and I was like what is it with these Terror twins getting trapped in the damn things or actually I think this one was planned cuz instantly my gosh Li attacked the leg like it owed her money listen I went talked to a scientist a leg can't owe your money Daman priest was finally here I like where have you been bro you're well delayed and if I was going to guess which I shall do right now I would assume we get to Bad Blood and we do the singles matches and yeah I'll give it to you the new judgment day are getting their butts kicked a lot I do believe this is going to tie in either way though to me they all feel like stars so I don't actually care what you do cuz the good guys get cheered the bad guy gets booed that's all I want from my Sports Center pment I thought this was nice quick and fun Chad Gable then smacked Julius Creed right in the face cuz American maid was about to have a match and this is how he had decided to G him up I was like Chad that is certainly a choice Ria also screamed at some medical trainers I was like man that's not going to help you with your injury you have to let them help you when Daman priest walked in said the same thing he was like listen you know they're like from the hospital and stuff they need to massage the wound otherwise you're going to be in trouble we then cut to the six-man tag which was alfha Academy versus American maid and you'd be shocked to hear it was pretty pretty fun now otus used tour as a weapon right away if I was tazar I'd be so upset like man all those years of training and I got all these cool moves and now I'm being used as a projectile not a happy panda Maxine Dupri also kicked all the ass which I always enjoy seeing because you do see her improve every single week when she did a big old TI off the top rope onto everybody when she got merked by the most powerful force in all Sports entertainment the commercial Breakers that's right we cut to the advert when we came back America made we just in control as actually mad about this I was like don't you dare do that to Maxine she just P with a laugh it meant that tazar was getting his ass whooped for a long old time and all of a sudden I think he could feel it he could feel that somebody's arm around the place was getting a warm and sweat was dripping from their palms so as soon as he had DDT he got the hot tag to W he was basically just a human tag as he ran everybody over this when tour must have taken a med pack cuz he was back in the ring he was busting out German suplexes and as somebody made a great point I should have done this to let myself down at the Berlin pay-per-view premium live event we should have called him American suplexes I'm an idiot s then tried to dive and Julius caught him and totally Merk this guy when Brutus and OAS were taking the other person out and I don't mean to dinner when it was time for Max te to go at it again and she grabbed Ivy Nile she gave her a Northern Light suplex now of course this wasn't as good as Alicia Fox is but that's a different conversation for a different day when Chad Gable of all people jumped on the apron he caused the distraction it totally worked Maxine she's like a rookie man she's never going to be able to handle this when Ivy n snuck up behind her she applied the dragon sleeper American made one damn it Chad wasn't done though cuz he thinks the white six are a bunch of freaks when he challenged them to an eight-man tag in seven days because he just kept going on and on here eventually the lights went out and here came Uncle howdy I think he said something along the lines of his sanity crumpled a year ago but he can still hear the silence in his brain I was I'm pretty sure that's what my teachers used to say to me when I was in school this is when the rest of his team appeared around him just to have the coolest shot you'll ever see in your life and I'm just enjoying this Feud for what it is I mean I have no idea who wins the eight-man tag cuz Chad Gable needs to start getting some victories but in terms of what it was meant to be I'm giving it an up I don't want to like downplay or anything but it just works on TV long may it continue when Shaya basa was indeed taking on zelina Vega I mean Shaya did break her up now there was this super nice moment too when vega saw a sign in the crowd and it turned out to be her dad who passed away versus 9/11 so I thought that was lovely jubly I suppose it fired her up too she smashed sh basa was a 619 it's like a low one son DeVille was being an idiot on the outside though F then just jumped onto her cuz she had learned this in the street fighter tournament I kid you not she then got back in the ring and Sh just went and she booted her kind of in the shoulder head area and she pinned her one two three I had to rewind it to make sure I missed anything nope she lost ver kicking the pure Fusion Collective then made it very clear they are not a product on the Home Shopping Network even though Lyra valkiria tried to make the save she absolutely failed like if you going to grade it you give it an F then threatened everybody in the back and said they would face anyone and she did scream through the camera and then later on Lyra and Selena were talking and valkiria was like well we're going have to go find somebody else in order to have a six-person tag I was like aren't you meant to be friends with kayen Carter and Katana chance what happened to that so it really does still feel like we're doing stuff just to do some stuff and listen I do not mind Shaya basa being presented like this at all cuz she is a badass but I still don't know what the story is here and we did have some promo time and I think we could have added some layers to it and I know I say the same thing every week and I'm really boring hi Mom and Dad but if the same thing is going to happen each and every every week on TV what am I meant to do I think the reason it irks me so much is cuz everybody in this is so damn good and we do have a pure Fusion Collective which is not a Pokémon game but yeah when you compare it to other narratives happening in WWE this deserves more TLC and I'm going to stand by it until the day I die you'll come to my grave and under the mound of dirt you hear me going what do we do this and you'll you know freak out because you shouldn't have buried an alive guy don't how he got here but it's getting it down we then saw rear rley telling Daman priest she'll be fine while wearing a knee brace and holding a crutch I was like yes Ria I totally believe you Damian had also tried to get a match with Finn Balor but Adam Pearson told him oh Balor only wants a tag team match so once again I was like Adam you are the boss if you want Finn Balor to be in a singles match you just say Let It Be of course it was just a big tease cuz even though Daman doesn't have any friends Ria was like I know who you can get when the crowd yeated and they smiled at each other this was a real thing that happened on wrestling television and if you'd never watched WWE before quite rightfully you would have been very confused ye we then saw CM Punk walking into the ring mostly because he was headed to the ring he grabbed a microphone and man he was just happy to be here he was also excited to see his wife and dog after a long old trip and let's not forget what did happen at the weekend he finally got his personal life sorted cuz he beat Drew McIntyre look at this I've got the bracelet back think he kissed it again let's forget where that's been it also means now he can start focusing on the business side of professional wrestling which means gold yeah he was talking about the world heavyweight title so G you better get ready for one CM Punk he made s to put Drew and gooda over massively though and even said oh my gosh the ring General beat Randy Orton which is quite the name for your CV but we are now coming after your trinket and he said we cuz he met the fans well I'm a fan so I'm going to Rite all my friends dear Brian I'm about to beat the WWE CH I knew he was going to make a terrible mistake after this cuz all wrest do and he went and posed on Alan the announce table this is when his world came crumbling down into dust cuz as soon as he was up there Drew McIntyre appeared in a hoodie this is exactly what Joe tesor said in that moment I was like Joe you can never do wrong by me if you start calling stuff literally you and I going to be best friends he really kicked Punk's ass too to the point where Barrett tried to calm him down but he totally ignored him here and even back on commentary Wade was like I've never seen him like that before and I've known him now on 20 years I mean he literally Claymore punk out of his shoes and he got him in the ring and we beat him up there and he claymor again he beat him up some more and while the rubber security were trying to stop this they did nothing to the point Drew got the bracelet he destroyed it which got massive reaction for the fans so you can't say this didn't work when he took the remnants and he stuck it in CM Punk's mouth and as I we are not in Kansas anymore Toto no also the fact that Drew McIntyre is absolutely 2024's Hatter of the Year this got so bad Punk had to be stretched out of there but he didn't get to the local medical facility wagon cuz Drew appeared again and he beat CM Punk up on the stretcher the best part about this is Adam Pierce saw him and literally went a greatest moment of my life P then started shouting at Punk talked to me and CM didn't reply so I don't know what else to do with this information I guess he's dead I did find odd that some people thought that we were just going to be done with these two out Bash in given there's a pay-per-view premium live event coming up called Bad Blood and they're probably going to have a Hell in the Cell or a cage match and we should do this imagine Drew McIntyre just walked out and go oh man I don't want to f a punk anymore we would all have been livid what we have done is we have definitely drawn a line on the bracelet thing but if you wanted some violence between these two it is absolutely coming and I'm still invested I'm still massively enjoying it and I'm giving it enough when we got into our Intercontinental title tournament and it was Ilia dragonov taking on Dragon Lee kind of taking on Dominic Mysterio but essentially Boop we got rid of him so we could see dragon and Elia go at it it did kind of feel like Triple H going oh man internet wrestling Community you want something I'll give it to you the reason Dom wasn't there too is almost instantly Caro came out to try and get involved here when Damian priest must have gone right push play on my entrance theme I'm going out there too and not only did he run off Mr Caribbean Apple cool but Dominic was so scared he chased him through the fans so even though Dommy boy had given it the big earlier on going oh I'm going to be the IC Champion he was so scared of Damien he gave up his dreams otherwise you just got to find five minutes to watch dragonov and dragon League going at it because it's so damn good the only real issue being me being like man we haven't seen Lee properly on TV for ages I don't think he's going to win and he didn't Al he's a dragon so you know you got to be careful of his fire so from nowhere Elia was able to hit the torpedo Moscow and he got the one two three and yes Joe tesor called it a shoulder tackle once again not everybody knows all the moves and somebody would have said oh that was the tornado Moscow and Joe would go oh thanks very much hopefully without the screams because that will make for a very difficult conversation but it also means in terms of our big finals it is pakan versus J Uso versus idia dragonov and one more and if you ain't excited for that well you're allowed not to be you pick and choose but this B idiot I can't wait then got he confirmed that Bronson Reed wasn't going to be able to compete in his match cuz he got Co I was oh man that ruins me deep down in my tum tum he had such good momentum and Bronson is well with in his rights to be super pissed off cuz his replacement is Braun strowman and we saw Adam Pearce and strowman talking here man what a massive troll this was cuz Adam at first was like what are you doing here Braun Brun was like oh man I know I got killed last week when I got exploded into a car but I am going to be okay cuz look and he had his ribs taped I like what good do you think that that is going to do and later on we would find the answer to be nothing it also made me laugh because strowman told Adam Well Medical said I can do whatever I want I was like no medical has ever gone to a patient said do whatever you want so somebody is lying here and we need to find out who's responsible and speaking about issues like that before we got to this match Kyrie sa almost died good grief for it was indeed Isa dwn and Alba fire taking on damage control and when Kyrie went to do a dive dor essentially pushed Bianca Blair in the way cuz her and Jay gar were watching from ringside and man Kyrie must have overshot this cuz she flew into an the announc table she was bleeding everywhere you can see on social media she needed Stitch shoes basically in her eye so she is one tough son of a dick that could have been way worse too but Kyrie saying iOS Sky should be livid cuz for the first 5 minutes man they were all over the Unholy Union Collective whatever they're called when they got merked by the most powerful force in all of sports entertainment the commercial break so once again production strop stop running adverts you are literally costing people their careers yours had some skirmishing with Jaden banaa cuz of course they were like how dare you jump into me and given that kyin was essentially passed out on the floor EOS Sky tried to fight here when Isa and Alba hit that face Buster plant gory bomb thing of Mag jig and they beat damage control for the one 12 three I'll be completely honest with you I was surprised I didn't see that coming especially because this was a number one contendership match match now we have to redo Jay cargo Bianca Belair versus these two but I shall tell you this the reason I was such in favor is cu I was like oh my gosh the women's Tag Team Championships are still being focused on I'm doing the dance of Joy No minut is a little bit drab cuz I would have preferred some brand new contenders after somebody pressed start on controller to but Beggars can't be choosers this is the most structured the whole division has been in ages I'm giving it up keep it going when we got to question time what the flub is happening with the new day the sty Kingston was with Adam Pierce and he rightfully pointed out oh hello my good man do you know the Judgment Day haven't defended their Tag Team titles since 1412 he's right just as he was going to pitch something though Gunther walked by and KY looked at Gunther and Gunther looked at Kofi and I was like well if that's not a tease of a match take your hand out of my pants cuz this ain't right my big question though is where the flub is Odyssey Jones CU you've been following the news on social media he vanished from the WWE roster age and now he's not on raw and from the past 2 weeks Kofi Kingson and Xavier Woods have barely said his name so I I'm jumping to conclusions here but either way it has just made whatever this story was so wishy-washy and I understand WWE now retroactively has to try and fit that but as a stupid fan watching on television of course it has to get her down I was on tent hooks going oh my gosh Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods are about to break up and Al Kofi wants to be the world champion that's like me riding novel and said then Steve went to the bathroom and ended up becoming the Prime Minister that don't make no sense D and look now it's nobody's fault here and we have to wait and see what's going on but it's just how I felt when Daman priest found Ria Ripley and said our potential partner has said Yeet and everyone acted like this was perfectly normal conversation there's also the trigger for the champ champ to come to the ring cuz Gunther was here he was like that's right not only did I beat Randy Orton but I packed out Germany and if you want to talk about that record live gate look at this guy it's all because of me it also means he continues to cement his legacy as he does go through all of his opponents when of all the people Sami Zayn interrupted I was like UD now the fans pop like a balloon as Sami Zayn did start talking about the Intercontinental title cuz look at the metcho man look at Shawn Michaels look at the right look at Steve Austin look at my personal favorite Brett The Hitman har they all won the Workhorse belt and then they used that to become the WWE Champion so after some thinking I would like to do that too that's why I'm looking at JW Gunter so talk about in your shot that was always Gunther had the best rort he was like man that was a great list of names and you're right all of them did move up after they won the IC belt but when it comes to you Sam you've moved down also if I was going to write that list your name wouldn't be on it Samy man you're right I'm sorry friend I'd talk to you soon the good is just like a James Bond villain and he was even going to leave here his music started to play when Sam was like no no no man we ain't doing this cuz let's face it you've never backed down from a fight and actually ever since you've been on Main roster there's only been one guy who has beaten you that was at Wrestlemania 40 and that was me so there I said I think you're scared now I did say we're good through at first cuz Sammy was trying to pull a geese title shot here but actually everything he said did make perfect sense it was not 2 plus 2 equals potato and as Gunther told him fine if you do want to have a shot at me well maybe you should go out another way and try and prove it so I guess that's what he's going to do by winning a lot of matches so I really enjoyed this because on the one hand Gunther was right to laugh it off but on the other Sammy was right to bring up WrestleMania cuz yes he did pick Gunther so you know if he was going to have a rematch he does have just cause but now Gunther just happens to be the World Heavyweight Champion so look it's a little bit different but actually it ties Together Like Glue nothing else if we go back to 2017 to 2018 here on Upson down Sami Zay was being dragged through the mud so much I invented a counter now he can be one of the guys that comes out and challenges for the world championship I will never get mad at it even if it was baloney so I'm telling you the truth right now it's getting it up I'm excited jery redond was then interviewing Jay Uso who was talking about his tag team match and the fact he's going after the IC title when Brun breaker walked in and he did it again like Britney Spears your family has never beaten someone from my family so he's talking about the bloodline he's talking about the thers what the flab are we hinting at I mean we're probably just being nerds and Braum was like you have one last chance to walk away and go hang out with Dominic Mysterio sloppy seconds when Uso just won this exchange and he called him a rookie that don't sound great when I say it but the look on breaker's face he was not pleased also just means the Braun breaker has now given Jay Uso another reason why he wants to win the IC title and this was so good in its Simplicity it was just like something magic about it and even though Jay Uso isn't a new guy it kind of felt like two new guys doing a thing for the Intercontinental title I'm giving it a round of applause you also got great Jeopardy here cuz I want Jay to win the icy title but I don't think Bron should lose so what the flu do we do thankfully I don't have to worry about that when I got sad can't help it but it was Braun strowman versus luff kyver versus Sheamus in the IC title tournament Braun strowman won which probably means the Bronson Reed was going to win he got taken out with stupid health issues I mean obviously I want him to be protected nothing is more important in health and happiness but I'm still going to give it a down mostly cuz that's just really willly unfair this match though was just super fun even though braw was able to level Sheamus lud to begin with when he did his big chwo chw thing K's like all right well I just G the way Braun strowman went crashing through Barry barricade this is where ludvig was going to go his big run but Braun had a plan of his own which was quite good and going to pick up this leather chair and throw it right at your face annoyed strowman so much he went and choked slam Sheamus as well so braw was winning here I think the Irishman was so annoyed he just hit broad strobin right in the ribs and Surpise surpris the magic tape did nothing it's almost like a real medical personnel could have told you that he was also able to get the 10 beats as ludvig was back and he tried to win with the most deast athetic move in all the sports entertainment the surprise roll up he was already able to get a one two he was hit in security to Sheamus but he must have accidentally turned on his go button too cuz Sheamus came back with a bro kick and just as he was about to win Pete D pulled him out of the ring and he hit him with a shalele because of course he did Sheamus is Irish you're not allowed to hit him with any other sort of weapon lud was still all confused from the broad kick as well when Braun strowman had taken his Phoenix down so he hit the power slam and yeah like I told you he got the 1 2 3 so mostly this was totally fine because I think the Jay Uso should be the guy to win the whole tournament and Al it was just big men slapping man meat and you'd really have to do something bad for me not to be entertained by that we then saw Jay and Damen priest having a quick chat too cuz Jay was like I understand your pain my friend I mean you've even lost your family and who understands that better than me he also mentioned that he can't say no to R riply so it was a proper moment when Jackie Redmond was talking to Pete I have to be on every single show done cuzz now that he has laid waste to Sheamus he's going to go to NXT and do the same thing to trick Williams when Jackie just decided Well I'm in a trolling mood and she called him Butch now Peter turned around like you better not call me butch but what the hell were you thinking Jackie you are walking a tight RPP when surely we must have teased brand new tag team champions cuz Jay Uso and Damen priest defeated the Judgment Day and poor Uso was doing great but after he hit a dive he got smashed by the most powerful force in all of sports entertainment the commercial break I can't talk about it anymore I'm totally worn out by the adverts but I tell you there are curse it was sort of the same as our earlier matches too because Finn Balor and JD mcdonut then whipped Jay Uso's ass but they forgot they had the power of Yeet or he has the power of Yeet so he ye it up and he got a yeet tag to Damien priest who ran wild it allowed him to kill JD but Balor was able to get in there with a sling blade but that was the equivalent of kissing a wall it did not after priest had lined his head off and was going for the choke slam Finn reversed it into the most devastating move in all of sports entertainment the surprise roll up but he too could only get one to mdon then tried to cheat but he totally failed which made me laugh so Jay Uso super kicked everything and hit him with the spear but of course when he tried for the splash Liv Morgan teleported down from the Starship Enterprise and she hit him so his balls fell into the Rope Finn Bal went crazy here though cuz he got the tag and went SL play Drop Kick and C de gr and this happened so quickly I was like damn it he's going to win he probably would have done two if it wasn't for these meddling kids cuz even though he tagged JD who hit the moon salt once again it got broken up at the one two Morgan then jumped on the ring apron which is when Ria Ripley either won was just hanging behind the curtain and finally decided oh fine I'll go sort it out or two was limping so she couldn't get there in time did walk to the ring and as ever Liv was terrified about this she should have been too Ripley took the crutch wo smacked very timely to JD McDonald then stumbled into the screen so Jay Uso gave him the spear so Damen priest gave him the razor's Edge as Uso finally hit the Uso Splash so yes they beat the Tag Team Champions they should call their shot soon when Ria Ripley Damen PRI and Jay Uso basically danced to end Monday Night Raw and somewhere rkhi was probably really really mad most important part though is that we sent the fans home happy which is so damn important when it comes to wrestling it makes you go oh we should go back I had a good time actually I had a good time too so this main event is getting up and Roar as a whole it gets an up two like if we could just get the pieces in place for the women's division well there'd be barely any cracks at all now of course please do let me know what you thought 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