Video summary
Ross returns to discuss the main event of Sunday night's show, focusing heavily on the Cody Rhodes versus Randy Orton match and his disappointment with the storytelling choices made by WWE. While he initially praised the build-up, particularly how Cody anticipated Randy's RKO attempt due to their long history and friendship, Ross felt the climax undermined Cody's character credibility. He argues that it makes little sense for a protagonist who knows his opponent so well to suddenly hesitate when asked not to finish the fight after having his family disrespected; in a real-world scenario, most people would not stop beating someone down just because they are pleading for mercy. Ross believes this hesitation was unnecessary and prevented Cody from fully committing to the darker side of his character, leaving the audience unsure if he will ever truly snap and eliminate Randy Orton permanently.
The discussion then shifts to the match between Oba Femi and Braun Strowman, which Ross viewed as a much more successful booking decision that properly showcased both competitors' strengths. He appreciated that the match was not a squash contest but rather a back-and-forth battle where Oba had to dig deep to survive, maintaining his status as a formidable threat even after being beaten down by multiple people including the returning Bronson Reed. Ross was excited to see Bronson Reed make his return in healthy condition, delivering a brutal assault on Oba that involved multiple chair shots and Tsunamis from the top rope. He expressed great anticipation for Monday Night Raw, expecting Oba to unleash chaos on the entire AEW All Out roster, including Logan Paul and Austin Theory, now that he has been pushed to his limit by Reed's interference.
Finally, Ross briefly covers the other matches on the card, noting a lack of personal investment in the Lil Yachty versus Baron Corbin bout and the Trick Williams title defense against Corbin, though he acknowledged the fun atmosphere and the eventual return of Trick Williams as champion. He was also surprised by the victory of Jade Cargill and The Baddies over Tatum Paxley, Alexa Bliss, and Charlotte Flair in the three-on-one handicap match, a result that defied expectations given the historical stats cited by Michael Cole. Ross voiced his strong hope that this win does not lead to a women's version of WarGames, fearing such an event would be too chaotic or poorly received. Overall, he concluded that while the show was decent with some entertaining moments like the blood in the main event, only the Cody Rhodes match and the Oba Femi match truly sold the product for him, leaving room for future storylines to finally resolve Cody's character arc without further hesitation.
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What's good, Josh? Ross back at again
with another video. And we got to talk
about what happened on Sunday night's
main event tonight. Shout out to
everyone that was uh joined us on uh
YouTube, Patreon, and Twitch. We got to
talk about what happened tonight. There
was really only two matches that I was
really invested in, and I'm going to
start with those matches. I normally
start, you know, with, you know, how the
matches played out in order, but tonight
is a little bit different because I got
to get some things off my chest. So,
we're going to start with the main event
and then we'll talk about Oba and um and
Braun Breaker and then we'll get into
the uh the matches with the the ladies
and and what happened with uh Lil Yachty
and Drake Williams and Baron Corbin.
We'll we'll talk about those other
matches later, but I got to talk about
obviously the main event. This was the
match I was looking forward to the most.
And I will start off saying I did enjoy
this match. I enjoyed this match. This
was very entertaining. I like how they
started it off. I love how Cody came out
there. He's He's focused. He's fired up.
He's ready to, you know, confront Randy
Orton. Randy Orton music hit. Randy
doesn't come down the ramp. He tries to
come from behind and hit him with a RKO,
but Cody knew that was going to happen.
So, he turned around at the right moment
because he knows Randy Orton. Now, this
is why
I brought this particular part of the
matchup. He knows Randy Orton. He knows
him very well. He spent many years with
him. They have been good friends.
He knows the type of person Randy is. He
know he knew Randy would try to attack
him from behind. So when Randy is at the
mercy of Cody, he is busted open,
Cody hit him with steel steps, busted it
open while the referee was down,
punching him over and over and over,
making the blood, you know, spread
across his face. This is after Randy was
taunting Brandy uh uh Cody's wife and
Cody's mom was sitting at ringside after
he taunted him after Brandy threw a
drink on Randy Orton. All this stuff is
happening.
R Cody finally gets the advantage and
packing him up. Referee's down, beating
the crap out of them. Bloody mess.
Shades of Wrestlemania.
And you mean to tell me the guy that
knows Randy Orton damn near more than
anybody else,
he has him in a great situation. He's
about to punt kick him. He's about to
pack him up.
As soon as he's about to land the kick,
Ry's begging for mercy,
pleading with him not to do it.
At that moment,
it took me out the match.
And you want to know why it took me out
the match? Not because I don't know
where the story is probably heading, but
for the simple fact that it it just
doesn't make sense for a character that
knows his opponent as well as Cody does
to fall for the oldest trick in the
book.
I know wrestling has rehash stories many
many years, many generations, but this
is one of those situations where it's
like it takes you out of it because you
force a character to do something that a
normal human being wouldn't do.
I want to ask you guys a question that's
watching this video. If someone
that you grew to trust and care about
starts disrespecting your mother,
disrespecting your wife, disrespecting
your family, and you have the
opportunity to pack them up. When you're
in the midst of beating them down,
they're pleading no, you're stopping.
Especially in a match,
you're you're gonna stop after
everything they said. just randomly
you're going to stop even though you
know
how they are and how they'll do anything
to try to trick you. You know this about
this person.
Would you stop? Most people wouldn't
stop. Most people would fall through
with it and end the damn match. Pack
them up in the damn match. Right now I
get that's not the route of the story
that they're taking. So I understand
that. Honestly, I thought the route they
were going to take was have Cody
get so
distracted with with trying to pack up
Randy that he slips up, he loses focus,
and that's how Randy was going to
capitalize. That's what I thought. I
honestly thought that was going to be
the case. So, when I saw Brandy and his
wife out there, I mean Brandy and um his
mother, I'm thinking he's going to get
so caught up in Randy to taunting them,
he's going to get distracted and it's
going to cost him, right? That's where I
was thinking they were heading, but
instead they go with the possible double
turn because if you paid attention when
Ry's bleeding on the canvas, the crowd
was adamantly cheering
Randy Orton and was booing Cody. So, I'm
thinking this is possibly a double turn.
Awesome. We didn't get that. We got He
does all of this only to prove Randy
right and only to prove everyone else
that doesn't believe Cody can get to
that to that darker side. Oh, he really
won't fully commit. He proved everybody
right in that sense. And once again,
from a character standpoint, it just I
find it hard to believe someone wouldn't
would fall for that. Like what? I'm
falling for the don't do it.
And I know that's the story they want to
tell. And I don't know, maybe they go,
you know, have another match and then
Randy, not Randy, Cody finally snaps.
But I to be honest with you, they've
done this story so many times with Cody.
The only time I think it's really been
successful
of him like kind of snapping is this
feud with Kevin Owens where he
legitimately packed him up in the match.
That ladder match. That was a crazy
spot. I was like, "Okay, that was cool."
I enjoyed that. And here it's like they
got so close and then
they went with another direction. And
that's my only problem with this
situation is how many times we're gonna
do this. Will they won't they with Cody
T's because at this point for me it's
like
it's kind of hard to invest in a
character that you know or that they
seem to be putting in that that line of
they may go to that limit but they
probably won't. And it's like especially
the story that they're trying to tell
here that Cody won't pull the trigger.
Now, it may lead to the down the road
that Cody finally does pull the trigger
and does go to that dark side. And once
again, it's not even about him being a
heel. It's him adding a little bit of
layer to his character where it's
believable because a human being acts
off of real emotions. And if someone is
doing harm to you, your family, or
whatever the case may be, a real person
is going to want to get revenge. a real
person's not going to want to stop for
the most part. So, that was my only like
disappointment is they they went this
route of teasing him going full, you
know, I'm going to pack up Randy Orton,
you you know, you think just because,
you know, I've always been this good guy
or whatever that I won't get to that
place. And then he finally gets there
and then he falls for the don't do it,
please, bro. I'm I'm just Randy Orton.
please have mercy only to get hit with a
lowb blow RKO and lose the match in
front of his wife and his mom.
So that's just my thing. That's my issue
with what they did there. Other than
that, I still enjoyed the match and I'm
still enjoying the feud and I'm looking
forward to seeing how things are going
to play out probably in their I I'm
guessing they're going to have another
match. It'll probably be a stipulation
of sorts. Will Cody finally pack up
Randy? I don't know. We'll see. But
nevertheless, that was I had to get that
off my chest because I just was like,
ah, what are we doing here? What are we
doing here with with uh Cody, man? Like,
where's this character progression
going? That's that's where I'm at with
it. So, uh y'all let me know how y'all
felt about that match with Cody and
Randy. Did you enjoy them finish? Um are
you liking what they're doing with the
story so far? Y'all let me know. Next, I
want to talk about
Oba versus Braun Breaker. They actually
gave them decent time. They gave him
some time. It wasn't going to be no
squash match, which I'm glad they didn't
do. It was a back and forth. Oba
actually had to dig deep in certain
parts of this match. And the same thing
with Braun Breaker. So, I can appreciate
them doing this back and forth situation
because if it was more one-sided, it
would have, you know, especially if it
was one-sided for Oba and Oba was really
getting all the offense in, it would
have looked bad for Braun Breaker. So,
I'm glad there was a they there was a
kind of a a tussle there. There was
definitely a tussle there. Um, of
course, you know, Division was going to
be involved. So, what's his name? Um,
was it Austin Theory? Austin Theory
tries to get involved. He gets packed
up. Logan Paul uses the distraction.
Uses distraction. And then, um, that's
when Maxine comes in there with the
brass nucks. She gives it to Braun
Breaker. Ref doesn't see it cuz he's
distracted with Logan. Bron Breaker
tries to use the brass nooks on Oba. Oba
scouts it, picks him up. Skin sends him
skyhigh to the ground. He's charging up.
And then out of nowhere, he gets hit in
the back with a chair and it's none
other than Bronson Reed. Bronson Reed
has returned. And I'm got to say this,
Bronson Reed looking pretty healthy,
looking more slim. Love to see that for
Bronson. Been seeing like some of the
pictures he had been posting on X of
just his workout grind. So, he's looking
good out there. Packs him up. He's
beating down Oba with multiple chair
shots. goes up top, hits the tsunami,
and the match is already thrown out. The
match, you know, they've been uh Bron
Breaker was disqualified. The match been
thrown out. Then, um, Bronson picks up
Oba and
Bron Breaker runs the ropes to hit him
with the spear. Then they Bronson go up
top to hit another tsunami. Fishials
coming out there. Then Bronson goes up
top again to hit another tsunami. Fish's
trying to break it up. Then Bronson goes
up top again to hit another tsunami. I
think he hit four tsunamis on Oba. And
the one thing I can say about this, Oba
still was moving around. He still was
trying to stand up. So, they're still
making Oba look strong. Even to even
though it took like four people
essentially to kind of take him down.
And guess what? Bronn Breaker didn't
beat him. He got beat down. He, you
know, he, you know, Braun Breaker,
Bronson Reed, you know, assisted in
beating him down, but they didn't beat
him, so it still protects him. Oba still
looks like a a a strong threat. It took
so many people to take him out. And
honestly, I'm ready for the chaos on
Monday Night Raw. Oba is going to
destroy them. He's going to make sure he
gets his heads on Bronson Reed, Braun
Breaker, Logan Paul, and Austin Theory.
I can't wait. They're gonna extend this.
He's gonna do whatever he can to destroy
division. I'm here for it. So, I thought
everything else in the match was dope. I
enjoyed it. And honestly, that was that
was probably the best decision to go
with. I think they're most likely to
have another match, but we'll see what's
going to happen because ultimately Braun
I mean Oba is going to have to go
through multiple people in division to
probably try to get his hands on Braun
Breaker. Depends on how they set it up.
But can't wait till Monday Night Raw to
see how pissed Oba is going to be. And
now that Bronson Reed's back, Vision's
looking uh a little bit more formidable.
So interested to see what they do there.
Now we got to talk about the matches
obviously didn't too much care about. Uh
we can talk about Lil Yachty going
against Baron Corbin. He had the last
five minutes. Um Lil Yachty came out
there with his entourage. I think
Caribou Gia Gio or something like that.
I think Gia she used to be um what's um
Playboy Card's uh girlfriend or
something like that. They I think they
all hang out together. So he had his
entourage with him. They come out there
and you got a nice reception from the
crowd in Atlanta and basically it was
not really much of a match. It just
Yachti had to last for five minutes. Uh
Yachti got in in a couple offensive
moves but he was getting packed up
majority of the time. Got hit with two
end days. I thought they were going to
do some crazy like have him kick
out of that. That would have been
insane. But ultimately, Baron Corbin is
the reason why Baron Corbin lost because
all he had to do was pin Little Yachty
on the first end of days. He didn't do
it. He could have did it on the second
end of days. He didn't do it. He wanted
to get a table to really embarrass Lil
Yachty. But Lil Yachty lasted the five
minutes when he end up hitting Baron
Corbin on the top rope cuz I think Baron
Corbin was going to try to do some type
of move uh from the top turnbuckle all
the way to the the table that was
propped up in the ring. But since he got
hung up on the ropes, he wasn't able to
beat Lil Yachty in the time limit and
Trick Williams ends up getting his
championship opportunity. But before
that happened, Lil Yachty got put
through a um slim gym table for his
trouble. So they had the match Trick
Williams versus Baron Corbin for the
United States Championship.
I can also be brutally honest here. Even
though it was a fun match and the crowd
was really behind Trick, I think this
match went on a little bit too long in
my personal opinion. I thought it went
on just a little bit long, but it did
pick up towards the end and there was a
nice little false finish. I think uh the
ref was distracted. I think he was
distracted with Lil Yachty and Baron
Corbin hit Trick Williams with the
title, United States Championship. Ref
didn't see it. Goes for the pin. I
thought it was over, but Lil um not Lil
Yachty hit Trick Williams, but Trick
Williams kicked out like 2.9. I thought
the match was over. He kicked out.
Ultimately, Lil Yachty was able to use,
you know, create another distraction and
in uh Trick Williams hit him with his
finishing move for the one, two, three,
and Trick Williams has regained the
United States Championship, which I'm
okay with. I honestly don't think maybe
he probably should have lost it at all
in the first place, but nevertheless,
I'm okay with how, you know, things
ultimately played out. Trick Williams is
back as United States Champion, and uh
it kind of makes sense why they didn't
change the first straps on the United
States Championship because Trick
Williams was most likely going to get
the title back anyway. So, what was the
point of Baron Corbin's title run? You
tell me. But hey, cool. Trick Williams,
United States Champion, back on
Smackdown. So, I'm here for that. And
last but not least, we had the uh
threeon-ree match with the ladies. Um,
what's her name? Can't even think. Jade
and Mein and BAB versus Tatum Paxley,
Alexa Bliss, and Charlotte Flair. Once
again, didn't really too much care for
this match. Wasn't really that invested
in it. I was surprised that Jade and the
baddies won. I did not expect that. I
think Michael Cole said a stat that that
um the baddies have not lost in a
threeon-ree match yet. So, I was
thinking, oh well, that was going to be
like the red herring like, oh, then
they're probably going to lose this
match. No,
nope. That did not happen. Jade and the
baddies won. So, I don't know what that
means for them going forward, but I'm
guessing the feud is still going to
continue on. I hope, and this is my
fear,
I hope this doesn't lead to a uh war
game situation. I really do. Please
don't. Please, cuz you know they're
going to do a women's war games because
they if the men's having one, the
women's going to have one. Please, I
hope this does not lead to these ladies
being in a War Games match in some form
or capacity. Please, please don't do
that to me. Please don't do that to us.
No. But nevertheless,
Jade and the Baddies, they ended up
winning, which I was very surprised by.
And overall,
that's the end of the show. Honestly,
the matches I cared about the most was
the Baron, not Baron Corbin. Um,
Braun Breaker versus Oba. Definitely
cared about that. and um Cody versus
Randy Orton. Um overall, I'm okay with
how the finishes played out. Not really
tripping too much. And this was a it was
an okay show. Just those two matches
definitely sold the show for me.
Everything else was just like it was
okay. And the fact that we got some
blood in the main event, I can
appreciate that. Hopefully they can
extend the story and maybe finally Cody
will not be a dumb baby face and finally
pack up Randy. But knowing them,
probably not. But yeah, comment down
below. Let me know what did you guys
rate Sunday night's main event on a
scale of 1 to 10. What was your favorite
uh match of the night? What was your
least favorite match? Let me know down
below. But I appreciate all love
support. Road two 20k. Appreciate y'all
kicking me. See you on the next one.
Peace.