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Danielle Thiel Season 4 Episode 16

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Another episode without sister Twisted as she continues her maternity leave to care for baby crossroads and tiny twisted. 

Becky Lynch defeated Bayley & Lyra Valkyria to retain the Women’s Intercontinental Championship 

Jacy Jayne defeated Jordynne Grace to retain the NXT Women’s Championship 

‘The Judgement Day’s’ Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez defeated The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane) & Charolette Flair and Alexa Bliss & Sol Ruca and Zaria to retain the Women’s tag team championship 

Tiffany Stratton defeated Hall of Famer Trish Stratus to retain the WWE Women’s Championship 

Jade Cargill defeated Naomi in a Falls Count Anywhere match 

Stephanie Vaquer was the winner of the Battle Royal to find a No. 1 contender for the women's world title at Clash in Paris.

 Naomi cashed in to make the Women’s World Championship match between Iyo Sky and Rhea Ripley a triple threat match. Naomi would go on to defeat Sky & Ripley making her the NEW Women’s World Champion. 


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Wrestling has more than one royal family. Whoa. What is up guys? It is brother pyro teaming once again with our lovely hecks. This was a mistake. We are on episode. I don't know what of this weekend. I don't know, but we're here. Thank you again for filling in for Twisted while she is, uh. On maternity leave, learning how to pretzel a couple old babes. Yeah. Yeah. Because remember we got Baby Crossroads and now we got Tiny terror. Tiny terror. Tiny twisted. Exactly. Alright, so let's kick it off here we have the Women's Intercontinental Championship match between Becky Lynch. You ain't even gonna let me let the people know. You ain't even gonna let me let the people know what we covering right now with this episode. No. Go ahead. No, we're covering Evolution 2.0 at only took us seven years to get this all woman's pay-per-view again. But here we are. Here we are now kicking off the action, setting the bar, and setting the tone for the show. Take it away please. I told you this was a mistake. Becky Lynch versus Bailey versus Ra val and a triple threat ba bam was a great first match to kick it off. Um, some real good, bad blood going between people in the ring there. Um, it was pretty fire from the get go. Fists were flying feuds. Were translating in ring. Oh dude, everybody, everybody had an issue with everybody. Becky played it. Probably the smartest of mm-hmm. I'm gonna try to see how long it's gonna take for you to notice me before I do anything smart. It's very smart. Very smart, and, and it worked out. Uh, Bailey and, uh, RA kept socking each other and she got to just kind of sit by until, like, time to pop in or she got noticed and in the end it worked out for her. It did. Um, so in the end, Becky, uh, or Bailey Rose planted Lyra. A beautiful looking rose plant at that. And in a moment where she's trying to pin in one nice fluid motion, Becky Lynch comes in and just swoops her right off of Lara into the most beautiful pin I've ever seen. Oh yeah, that was wrong with the smoothest. Uh, no, no me moment ever. That was so beautiful to watch. My gosh. It was like dancing. It really was. It was. It was absolutely wonderful. Absolutely wonderful, and you really got to see each one really shine at points in the match. Oh yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm really happy that they gave equal spot to all three of these competitors. Yeah, because you can definitely tell that with Becky and Bailey, obviously being the vets in this match, Lyra did really well holding her own with, with, uh, keeping up with these guys, with these ladies. And you, you can tell. The amount of faith they have with Myra. Mm-hmm. Putting her in this, in such a high profile match. Mm-hmm. Safe to say, the future is in good hands Yes. For the WWE women's division. Absolutely. If these young ladies continue to deliver the way that they are delivering, we've got, we've got several of them in, in this, uh, match card that are just Oh, yeah. Well, well, we're getting to everybody. We're getting to everybody. We're getting to everybody. Oh yeah. No, I was just saying in general. So, but all right. Like she said, congrats to Miss Becky Lynch for retaining her intercontinental championship. Abso, she deserves it after that pin. Oh, good. She deserved it after that match. Yeah. Yes, yes. But going into max number two of the evening, Jordan Grace, challenging fatal influences. JC Jane for the NXT Women's Championship. Uh. This match with some serious implications going into mm-hmm. TNAs slam anniversary where they will take, uh, where the winner of this match takes on Slam Ovi. Mm-hmm. In a winner take all knockout championship NXT championship match. Oh boy. Oh boy. Gonna be great. Somebody's going to be pulling double duty. Someone's gonna be pulling double duty for sure. Just saying. And honestly, I don't think any woman involved is going to not deliver or no. Or measure up to that task. Yeah. Both of them being around for a while, they know what to do. Or Jordan Grace is accompanied by Blake Monroe to kind of play equal or attempt to play equalizer to Jasmine Nicks and Fallon Henley, who you know are of, are also outside and known to interfere. Mm-hmm. Ah, sneaky, sneaky match got started right away. Jordan Grace, wasting no time showcasing that raw power. Mm-hmm. And speed. You can tell. Look, I don't know the next time I'm gonna get this op another opportunity I've been chasing and clawing and scratching at this for over a year now for this title specifically. I need to get it done. Mm-hmm. You, I, I feel like it was almost a must win for Jordan Gray. And that's saying something,'cause talking about Jordan Grace, you never use that sentence structure together. Mm-hmm. Jordan Grayson must win situation no. Aren't typically a thing. Usually it's for whoever's opposite hurt. Yeah. I, I don't doubt it. Um, I love that Cole and Graves. Oh, uh, we're both talking about how a lot of the locker room and a lot of fans on mine are calling JC Jane the most beatable NXT woman's champion in history. They, they, they were talking about that a lot and we watched JCJ grow. As a competitor. Mm-hmm. I feel like I'm a lot disrespectful. Not at all. I, I wouldn't necessarily put that title on. JC Jane of All People is the most beatable, most beatable women's champion in NXD history. I, I think I could disagree with that. Who Okay. Not to, not to stir up any controversy. But then again, what does Brother Pyro do best but play Devil? Other than play devil's advocate, who, if, if, if you were to give that moniker to any female that has ever held that n entity women's title, who would you give it to? I'm not sure I could answer this only'cause I cannot place a, a bunch of women in a row under that specific title. Okay. I can name women who've won titles. But that's specific. That's fair. Fair. Because like honestly, it takes a lot to be a champion. It takes a lot of hard work. It takes a lot of dedication to say, oh, such and such is the easiest one to beat. I don't think that's true because every champion one carries themselves with something different. Mm-hmm. With a different level of pride, a different work ethic. Mm-hmm. But clearly they're doing something right. To be labeled and crowned. Mm-hmm. Champion, right? So to disrespect any champion, male or female, by giving them that type by, by, by saying, oh, the most beatable, they're the easiest one to meet. Because you know what? If that's the case for all you keyboard warriors out there, for all you internet goons out there that think doing something like this is so easy. First off, let me call a couple people that I know in the industry they're gonna tell you it ain't. Secondly, please get off that keyboard, get in a ring and tell me how well you do. You go ahead and try to win a championship and then defend, said, championship, come back to me. Pyro, nightmare 97 on Twitter. Just saying, we can talk about it then let, let, let's talk about it if we really gonna talk about it. Right. But going back into now, getting into the match mm-hmm. Itself, uh, again, Jordan Gray's showing almost desperation. The, the, the sense of urgency to really get this match done and out the way. Mm-hmm. Get the win. Let me, let me do what I can.'cause again, chimp chip opportunities don't come off. Nope. It is hard to get'em. And when you get'em, you gotta make sure you don't waste them. Mm-hmm. They, uh. Jay-Z did really hold her own mm-hmm. By herself before Fatal went. But of course, you know, Jasmine and Fallon were really good at getting involved, distracting that ref. Um, throughout the match though, both women really kind of that sense of power.'cause again. I know Jce is no fool to what's been being said about her on the internet. Mm-hmm. Now this is a sense of you're attacking my pride, Jordan. Grace, I need to win this.'cause I don't know if I'm gonna get a chance to. Yeah. Ah, I, and in a shocking but not really shocking'cause the heel turn hurt around the world that nobody was really surprised about. No. As the ref is distracted. Mm-hmm. Distracted her down one of the two. He was distracted. She was okay. She was distracted. Blake Monroe has the XD women's title in hand after wrestling it away from, no, as soon as she kept holding it, I'm like, so don't feel right. Oh no, some don't feel right. As soon as she wrestled it away from her, I wanna, it was Jasmine. Nicks? Mm-hmm. She's holding that title and thinking, oh, she's holding onto it. She's gonna present it to her friend. Post match. Mm-hmm. As Fallon has the, uh, referee's attention, Blake Monroe, uh, attacks Jordan Grace with it. Mm-hmm. And again, he, because again, the heel turn that we all saw coming from the day she arrived. Thank you very much. Helping JC Jane retain her title and now she walks into Slam Slam averse against Slam Ovi in what should be a damn good women's match. I am actually really eager to see that one. Yeah. For me, for me though, I've really paid attention. Once Blake handed it to JC and walked away where it was just a look of like a, like a half smile of, I really didn't care if you, I didn't care who won. Just no, I wanted to her, I'm coming for this. I, I just, you have this for now. This is a, you may have it now, but No, I'm next in line. It was definitely a threatening look as she walked away. Oh, 100%. Uh, so I'm gonna put you on the spot right now. Slam a bitch, Jane. Well, I don't know, slam avic, but we also know I really don't like JCJ Exactly. So we're going slam a bitch. I was gonna say the one you don't know or the one you don't like. I mean, we already gave a TNA title to trick. Let's give a women's title to someone in TNA instead. Let's give a WW title. Let's give it to Slam a Bitch. I mean, honestly, like if, because I'm familiar with both layman's work. I think Slam Ovi has the upper hand in the, in this aspect, she's, she knows what it is to be a champion on a singles level for a long time. This is jcs first singles run. Yeah. She's found a lot of success as a tag team competitor though. So again, this is a test your knowledge. It is gonna be a test or knowledge thing.'cause we're talking NXD Women's Championship. Obviously it was featured on, uh, evolution seven years ago. Mm-hmm. Can you name me the two competitors that fought for that title? For which title again? For the NXD women's title at the first evolution. I'm gonna tell you right now, one of them is on the card tonight. Becky Lynch. No, no. One of them's on the card for tonight. One of them's on the card for tonight. The other one is no longer with the company. Me and we talked and we were talking about said person earlier. Hmm. Watching Heus thinking faces really entertaining because she is so hyper fixated. I'm trying to figure it out. I, is it Bailey? No. Dang. Your competitors were Kyrie saying, defending and losing to Shana Basler. Shannon was producing. Can't say she's not with the company anymore. She's not an in ring competitor. There you go. Anymore with the company. Yeah, I came in with the technicality, that's all. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They both, but All right. Go ahead and take us in to the next match. All right, next we have that four wafer, the tag team championships with uh, Raquel Rodriguez and Roxanne Perez representing Judgment Day. With Alexa Bliss and Charlotte Flair versus the Kabuki warriors, Oscar and Kyrie saying versus So Ruka and Zaria. And that is why I brought up the, uh, the, the, the title match. Segue into, yeah. So way the Kyrie, the last time she was on Evolution, she was a single competitor. Yeah. She's tech team with, uh, Oscar and. Two match. They were a bit of an afterthought in this match. They really were. I noticed that I'm watching and I'm like, they really treated these girls like, they didn't match, like they were a non-factor th that, and they were trying to make, and I noticed in the, in the mes that the NXT ladies were getting picked on a lot. Almost like you're not getting a shot at the main, like no way. This was a, this was a. Like, we're still here. Y'all need to wait your turn. Like that way. Yeah. You go back to N XT type of thing. Pretty much with what it seemed like. Zaria getting the brunt of it. Oh yeah. Zaria. No. So took her fair share of a meeting too. Oh yeah. No, she definitely did a testament to So Ruca character. Showed up three matches, three nights, like she was a workhorse this weekend. Again, put herself out there really nicely in this match too, dude. She set herself up that the next draft, if she's not MVP of the weekend solo opinion called up. Oh, absolutely. Because she really said, I'm gonna be in this theater of four way in Nashville on SmackDown to then go to Atlanta for. Both of these events, she really said no time wasted. What, what was that song by, uh, elephant Cake? Ain't No Rest For The Wicked. No. Rest For The Wicked. Yeah, I get it. Alright, so after, was it Ky Kyrie started the, uh, the match and they referenced how she, her and Roxanne entered, started this match. They referenced how Roxanne's only in this position because Liv got hurt in a match with Kyrie Say Yes. Kind of funny how it was full circled again. Oh yeah, the irony here. Yeah, just like little ironic. The match itself. Great. The ending I thought was a bit anti-climactic. I mean, I wish there was still a little more pop on the wind there. There was just, yeah, it was just kind of, oh, okay. It's over. Speaking of, it's over. The anti climactic rain was a retain. Yep. Between Roxanne and Raquel, I will say they, for having the least, Nope. Can't say that they had the least amount of experience in this match as a team. That one would go to Charlotte and Alexa. But like for not gelling what like. For, for the hesitation of Roxanne by Raquel. Mm-hmm. And having Roxanne as a tag partner, they gelled and worked really well together throughout this map. They did. They knew, like, and I, again, that is one of those things where, um, and I'm gonna talk about this when we cover the next show, but like for, for, for two singles stars or for two people to just come together. To be an effective tech team, you really gotta be in sync with your partner, right? You gotta know where your partner and the these ladies, Raquel and Roxanne, definitely were in a lot better sync than I ever would've thought. Yeah. Oh, I don't wanna, alright, so. You. Okay. Bye. Shut up. I'm trying to get it together, but then I hear you giggle and it makes me laugh. All right, chuckles, shut up. All right. Tiffany Stratton defends her title against WWE e Hall of Famer seven time Women's champion, Trish Stratus. What are you doing? The only thing I can think about when it comes to her is how too big her, her s are to her body. Look man, I'm sorry. Look. Leave her alone. She's like a body double for one of my aunts. Okay. She looks exactly like what a finance. Oh, I am ruining brother pyro. Everybody. I, I really wish we, we did video sometimes so that way they could see the look of disappointment on my, like, that's hex foria class. A disappointment. I'm here to party anyway. Anyways, Tiffany and Trish. Tiffany and Trish, I do like, but. Trish really did pay homage to the older belt, the one that she was able to hold mm-hmm. Throughout her career with her ring gear. Uh, this match was pretty much what you expected though. Nothing really too special. Nothing really too spectacular. Nope. Uh, Tiffy and Trish really doing tiffy and Trish. It's pretty much Trish, Travis OG versus Spring. I guess just like, maybe it was more of like an ode to evolutions past and the women's division past where she wanted to give an O to your flowers. Where they, where they started versus where they're going. Yeah. Essentially with that, and that's exactly what it was. That's Tiffany like when picking Trish did kind of explain like, look, you were somebody I always looked up to. You were a good mentor. Why not? Let's, let's do this, me and you, like mm-hmm. Kind of a dream for her. Mm-hmm. So, and I, and I respect to that then again, like of all the women on your roster mm-hmm. You kind of had, yeah, yeah. You had better options. I'm not gonna lie to you. You had better options. They did what they did. They know what they've done. But again, like I, I, I, I do respect Tiffy for, for why she chose Trish. Mm-hmm. I, I wanna prove that I know what I'm doing. I wanna prove that I can hang with the best of'em. Mm-hmm. Maybe this finally puts me in that category of mm-hmm. Which is why legitimizing my status as a, as a superstar and as a champion. Which is probably why she said when she confronted her on on SmackDown was if I beat one of the greatest of all time, does that mean I get to be the greatest of all time? Do I get to be in that conversation? Yep. Honestly, Rick Flair said it best to be the best. You have to beat the best. Yep. And this is one of those examples of she, she managed to do it.'cause you know what? Uh, the showcasing of athleticism between these two women despite their different styles was absolutely a great showing. Tiffy. Though I think being younger, Trish not being as active in the ring, I think is what caught up to her. In the end, Tiffany picks up the wind. With the prettiest moon salt ever. And it's funny'cause I'm watching with, uh, with Twisted and we were talking about the Swanton that she had delivered earlier in the, in the night. Mm-hmm. And we talked about how pretty it was. It was a pretty swan dude. No, TIFF definitely has a pretty, a pretty swanton obviously nothing compares to that of Horney. Nope. Nothing. But that was a really pretty moon salt or, uh. Swanton again, her, I think her gymnastics background really helps her. Throughout all of her Hi-Fi angles. So speaking of Jeff Hardy, let's, we'll correlate that back to uh, uh, church stratas shirt. My first crush was not TR Stratus, it was Jeff Hardy. But she wasn't speaking to you. That was not targeted at you. That was targeted. Her shirt is targeted towards everybody. That shirt I smack down was the truest shirt she could have wore'cause she was talking to all the. All the male parents in the room, they're wrong. Beth Phoenix is prettier. You can't even argue. I'm not gonna say she's prettier, but Beth definitely wasn't attractive, wasn't is an attractive woman in in her own right. Don't get me wrong, but you gotta remember. Trisha's been around longer, which is why she can accurately wear that shirt. We didn't get Beth till like the early to mid two thousands. Trisha's been around since the nineties. Yeah, but to be fair, she was not my first wrestling crush. It was Lita. It was Lita. See, it was Lita tatted up psycho, psycho chick. Like, come on, heck, you know my aesthetic. She fit every, she checked every box. My dad preferred Lillian Garcia. That's not a bad one either though. No, it's really not a bad one either. But no, mine was, but Trish really was talking to every dad in the arena and every dad watching at home wearing that shirt. She attacked the right audience. It's typical tradition. Yeah, congratulations to Tiff. Now, maybe we could start giving her some more of them flowers. Yes. Because there's a lot of fans that still don't wanna give her her credit. Speaking of flowers. Let's go through the next match. I don't think there was really any flowers. No. There's just a lot of proceed with caution. There was a lot of something, but flowers were not one of them. No. But there was a lot of razorblades attached to the match between Naomi and Jade Cargill. No. No holds barred match because they can't seem to stay away from each other. They can't seem to leave each other to not mm-hmm. Get violent. They, they are the definition of onsite beef. Mm-hmm. I swear, I will say the, uh, added stipulation of Becky or not. Yeah. Becky of Bianca being, uh, the referee for this match. I was gonna call it, added chaos. Oh. It definitely added chaos. But like, you wanted somebody that knew both women mm-hmm. Really well, and somebody that was gonna be able to handle it if, uh. I if they got hands put to her, you know, I wonder if Bianca being a part of that messed Naomi up a little bit. It probably did. She's still up to then trying to get her attention. She was still trying to like, yo, be my friend. You're still supposed to be my friend. Yep. So, but it was a fire, a match full of fire. And ferocity and volatile, oh no, this, this match again, chaos was violent from the word go. Jade wasted no time, no going after Naomi. All within her. Right? So much so. Like she didn't even get in the ring making her entrance. Nope. She said, I'm gonna slide it out. We, we throw in hand. Right now. So I'm not right now, I'm done waiting. I've waited long enough. I'm gonna put my hands on your face. And honestly, this was, this was a good sense of chaos. Mm-hmm. It was. It wasn't over the top. Like we can see most hold bar. Most matches of this style bee. So there was smoke in a tv, so that was wild. No, Michael Cole pointed out a wild stat on, I don't know if you caught it. I probably did not. Why don't you enlighten me? This is the first ever no holds bar Women's no holds patch. Oh, it was, Ooh. We've had a street fight. We've had tables. We've had all fall first two to do it. Oh yeah. We've had. We've had tables, we've had, we've had steel cages, we've had matter matches. That savings, I'm sure we've never had no holds barred amongst the two women's. Awesome. Awesome. Well, yeah. No Becky or Becky here. See I did it with you two. Bianca did a good job remaining impartial. Oh yeah. She definitely checking on both of them when they got real good hits, making sure they were good. She really does a good ref job. May, maybe that's her career post, uh, in ring competition. I, I'd love to see it. Uh, there was a spot that kind of made me laugh. Tell me it was Jade putting the, uh, the trash can on Naomi. And as Naomi went to get up, it fell so she had to like kind of put it back on her so they can deliver the spot properly. Yeah. She had to put it back on herself and I thought it was kind of funny'cause at that point I would've just like let it fall and continued with the match and maybe came back to that spot later or something. Yeah. But like she was like, nah, we're just gonna make the spot what it is. Another thing that really got me is. They were, they were talking about how Naomi felt like an afterthought when Jade came around and became mm-hmm. And got real close to Bianca. And this, they referenced an old gimmick of hers. Okay. They made the reference to the Funk Aact, and I don't know if you remember, I don't know if you were watching at that time, but Funk Dals was her and, uh, what was the other chick's name? Ca Cameron, I wanna say it was, uh, they were, they were essentially glorified valets Oh boy. For Broadus clay. They came out with pompoms dancing, you know, the whole nine. Gotcha. But they weren't really taken seriously as competitors? Nope. They were the afterthought to the guy that was the competitor. Gotcha. Gotcha. Interesting. Oh yeah, but it's a little footnote. Oh, it was because like I was, I heard it and it took a minute to register, and then once it did register, I was like, well, okay then, because never did I think that that gimmick would give up. Would get brought up again. Surprise, it got brought up again. But winning the match after putting Naomi through a table is jade. See now that's how you utilize a proper top rope table spot. Mm-hmm. If you remember at Night of Champions, one of my biggest complaints about that street flight was they had the table set up top rope and Ria used it as an extension of the rope to a do hit the avalanche. Rip tight. To beat Raquel. Mm-hmm. Why not put her to the table? That would've been more impactful. That would've been trying something different, a lot more. That would've made it mean something just a little more. That's fair. And that went, that's fair. So that avalanche jaded through the table, I think hit the hit a lot better. I think this no hold bar match hit a lot better than that street pipe did. That's a hole. Personally speaking, totally fair. All right. 20 women vying for an opportunity at championship vying for an opportunity for a chance to win gold. Mm-hmm. Number one, contender Evolution Battle Royal. Yeah. Winner faces, uh. The WWE E Women's or the Women's World Champion at the Clash of Paris at the end of August. Mm-hmm. Gotcha. Uh, 20 women all earning this spot. We talked a lot about. Some of the young talent that we got here. We talked a lot about the NXT ones on the pre, but I know earlier we were also talking young talent when we Yep. We talked about we, we were Lyra earlier. Mm-hmm. You know, when we were talking about JC Saru and Zaria, we had Tatum and Izzy in there. You had Tatum Pley, Izzy Day, unfortunately the first two to get eliminated. Naya making sure they were the first to eliminate. Yeah, I know the significance. Naya was in the other evolution too, wasn't she? She won the first one. Yep. She won the A fitting for her to make it towards the end of it since Oh yeah. Wasn't the first one. Absolutely. But then think about it, we had, mm-hmm. Lush legend. Mm-hmm. The Levi Vice, Jada Parker, again, all women that we have, we've talked about today. Mm-hmm. And how they're so young, but, so talented. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And I'm really glad that the women of NXT and the women of the company as a whole are really getting this opportunity to finally shine. Yes. The brightest that they can. The them finally, after seven years, giving us this all woman's pay-per-view. Is what we needed. Mm-hmm. Is what this woman division needed. They have the talent to keep up. Let them finally show it for sure. But let's see, T like you said, Tatum and Izzy being the first to eliminate. Uh, which was really funny'cause they ported, but as soon as that bow rang you got to see who had beef with who.'cause the first thing I noticed was Selena, Julia go at it. Mm-hmm. I noticed, you know. Naya get her attacks.'cause she was the biggest threat. You know, you got to see a few of the NXT feud. See you noticed the feud starting. I noticed Piper and Alba guarding Chelsea Green. Oh, I noticed that. Them playing TV too. Uh, I was like, boo Chelsea as well. From my seat, I was booing the TV screen. I was like, well, by the way, make Chelsea fight a, a. She, Chelsea did fight though. She did really well. Oh my God. I love that. Everybody had their chant, like certain people, and we talked about this, um, earlier before we started recording the, the Nikki Bella imitation. Mm-hmm. Because Naya tried it. Ugh. Chelsea tried. She ain't got no rhythm. Naya. Chelsea tried it. Mm-hmm. My favorite one, Lola tried it. They got That's'cause they got to do it side by side. Yeah. And I was like, uh, but you could see like what Nikki meant to a lot of these younger girls.'cause they did, they pulled the secret hervis. They really tried to, uh, protect her. I don't know if that was a, I wanna make it to the end and eliminate her to win or what their thought processes were. Yeah. But like as eliminations are starting to go mm-hmm. Um. We are, we're, we're getting to the nitty gritty. You know Julia is eliminated by Selena, so you know that's gonna come back. We might finally get that rematched.'cause they did my girl Selena dirty. They did my girl Lina. So dirty. We're gonna about, about to see, uh, another one between Maxine Dupre and Candace Leray. I think so. Candace, Candace trying to protect, you know, Naya at all costs too. Yep. We saw that come back. People You didn't see that. I did see her defend Naya. I think we didn't notice that one. I, I pointed it out to Cauldron too. I was like, look, look, look. Who's defending Naya? Ha. But going into aggressively smacking him. Look, oh yeah, I believe it. I'll believe it. Going into the last three. Last four Nikki's eliminated by Naya Lash with an amazing feet of strength is able to hoist Naya up. Like, all right, I'm not one to talk about weight for anybody'cause I am a fluffy dude. I am a big man. No small lady. Nope. So the ability to just shows you got some power to you. We knew that about last already. Oh my. I was waiting for her to showcase that with, with people like NAYA and they and Pipe Piper. And I'm really glad that they, they had had the moment with NAYA over Piper, just'cause. No disrespect to N or to Piper, but AYAs a lot more willing to work those haunted spots. Piper, I don't see that working as well. That's fair. That's a fair assessment. But like her able to like power her up and get her over the rope, her and Steph being the fi, the final two, very fitting.'cause I, when we talked about it on the pre-show. Who were my two picks? It was, it was lash and vodka. And if we had to have a third, it was Jada Parker, which, uh, when it came down to the final two, I kind of chuckled. I was like, pyros, gotta be happy as heck. Big on. Let's go, let's go. Both ladies over the top rope, the devil's kiss on the apron, on the apron. To end it off, Stephanie Viki slicks her over the edge after Stephanie Viki with a, with a title opportunity at the class at Paris post match. Stephanie gets into the room to interview her. I'm say gonna say this once, and I know how this is gonna sound. I don't mean to offend anybody but listening to white people. That don't typically speak another language, try to speak another language because listening to Stephanie McMahon try to ask her what the win meant to her in Spanish. Sent me to the, I was. Crying. I was laughing so hard. Remind me to brush up on my Spanish later and I'll do it for you too. Oh my God. Listening to sic man. Really try to ask her that in Spanish. Oh, I was like, she is the type that, uh, smiles at the waitress at a Mexican re restaurant for being able to use the word gracias. Inchi, exactly what that is. You ever, you cannot out to eat. You know those people. Can we get this, this, and this? Gra See, that's good. They make it okay. When I speak it, I try to actually have it sound like it's supposed to and like don't. So American sounding like gra don't, don't, that's supposed to be grass. Yes. Give me like, no, no, I'm not. I'm not, I'm not trying to disrespect or anything. Oh yeah. Stephanie did well with structuring that sentence, but it was just the way it sounded coming out of her mouth.'cause you could tell she had to think about it. She apologized in advance. She was like, I'm sorry, bear with me. I'm gonna try to ask you this in Spanish.'cause. Anybody that knows Stephanie's first language is Spanish, not English. Yep. So listening to her kind a promo in English versus Spanish are two complete, are a night and day difference. Mm-hmm. But congratulations, I cannot wait to see how this plays up. Yeah, for sure. I cannot wait to see La Primera with gold around her waist again. All right, let's, let's go into the final match, shall we? Main event time for the main event. We have the Women's World Championship match between EO Sky and Rhe Ripley. A beautiful match to end the night. Oh, these women were playing chess with each other. You knew how well they knew each other. They, they were playing mind games with each other. Just for the longest in this match, it was very EO dominant. I was surprised to see how dominant it was in eo. Dude. No, I love the, uh, the moment in the corner EO ria, you know, she kind of mocks her for a minute and then she's like, all right, look, we're gonna get this out the way I respect you. I respect you too. Alright. No, let's actually fight. Let's stop playing games. Let's actually fight that, that, that part right there. Yep. Yep. That was, we, we, we ain't playing no more. We could fight. No, this match was, dude, I am convinced that these women cannot put on a bed. Actually, no, no. They compliment each other so beautifully. They're so whoa. And I think that's just the familiarity with each other because that in Ring chemistry is, and I'm sure coming in that nextt together, they have quite the bond too, just like some of the other ones that she's mentioned having bonds with, you know, so for real though, and that's, it's lovely every time they interact with each other, whether it be in a match or a mic spot or dude, honestly, there, there isn't many superstars where I'm like. Mm. This feud could be never ending.'cause like after a while you get bored of'em. You get tired of'em Personally, these two can have a forever rivalry fight every day of the week. And I promise you, I'm not gonna get tired of it.'cause no, if you really look back and pick up every match, it's never the same exact match twice. They have never wrestled the same exact match. It's always something different. They always are able to top their previous one ever so slightly. Mm-hmm. And I think that size of a really good competitor, just being able to evolve Yes. And adapt and you know, you get better every time you do this. Yeah, I get it. Practice makes perfect. Exactly, exactly. Practice makes habit. So it was, it was very EO dominant, but we still had some really good spots from Ria. Ripley showing before. Showing definitely wasn't gonna just go, she definitely didn't lay down, lay down. She definitely didn't lay down. She ain't no pushover, and they kept going. There was multiple spots where we, where you would think this is it and nope. All right. This is the, they could have kept going forever, honestly, until sound, the alarm proceed with caution. All of a sudden our start, our match between EO and RIA turns into a triple threat with Naomi. Dude cashing in her money in the bank. Getting rid of rhe Ripley by throwing her into the corner, getting her shoulder first and falling on the outside. No. And Michael Cole said it like, it's just like they, he questioned it too.'cause he was like, she's made it seem like she, she made it seem like she was really targeting tiffy. She did. And t target getting tiffy and tar, like, you know, so for them to hit us with that, it was the perfect cash it. Mm-hmm. It really was. She pulled the Seth rolling. She still did warn EO to begin with, though. She did get in her face until to proceed with caution. She just let EO forget about her. Exactly. And I think that's what made it so perfect. Yep. We for she was, she made it seem so focused on Tiffy. We forgot she can still cash in over here too. Mm-hmm. I know, I know. I think we as the fans and them as the competitors not remembering. Naomi still exists with that briefcase. Her pulling the Seth Rollins maybe not as great to end it. On a surprise note though, oh my God, none of us, none of us we're really thinking about Naomi. Nobody, especially after that fierce match with she Right. I'm like, you saw her nose, dude. Girl. Like girl. No. She came in still busted and bloody. Yeah, but she definitely. We definitely saw her say, I'm, I'm on top now. This is, this was my spot to be. She called her shot and she made it count. Mm-hmm. And I was reading something on Facebook in one of the other wrestling groups that I'm in, and it talks about how a lot of fans said she was crazy for. Looking out of the company. When she did, she had just won the, uh, tag titles with Sasha. Mm-hmm. She was crazy for walking out'cause she felt disrespected. She bet on herself. She, she pulled a drew, she pulled a Cody, she bet on herself, took some time away from what she knew to better herself and came back to show. The, the, that version of me that you once knew and had isn't there anymore. I'm better. It doesn't make sense. I wanna prove she bet on herself. And I think it paid off. Yes. And this was the right way to do it, to show that it paid off because, you know what mm-hmm. The end of the day, she's champion again. Nope. She, our new women's world champion this, this is her third championship ring. Mm-hmm. And she's been with the company for like on and off for like a decade plus. And it's no surprise that she said she's trying to bow out soon to, so why not? Like, and again, and they've done so well with the, they've done so well with this heel turn, with the character developed. I've loved this heat track. Dude, I nailed dude, dude, like I'll take this over. Uh, team bad. I was like, who are you? I like you. This is what I've wanted to see from her forever. Oh, yes. I'm loving it. I'm glad I'm getting, I'm glad we are finally getting a version of her, that one nobody's seen coming, and two, that we can actually as fans be invested in. I'm for sure, because I will say previously, her previous stint in the company and other gimmicks that she's had, they haven't really made us care about her. Mm-hmm. Now everybody's well. If you're watching SmackDown Raw, whatever you're watching for her, she's one of the reasons you're watching. What's she gonna do next? Who's she coming after next? What's about to happen? I'm watching SmackDown for Jacob Fought two I ever since he first popped in. Man, dude, dude. And the funny part is outside of the story, I think I'm the only one that knew him. Pre WE I've put my other wrestling friends onto a Jacob Tu onto a Tonga, onto a Tama Tonga and a tga lower. Like I, I don't recommend bad things. My, my friend, one of my friends, he, he loves to, I'll give it to you. You did put me onto Jacob. I, I mean, granted, when you were telling me about him, I had to do my own research just to be sure you weren't feeding me bull. But I looked at him and I was like, when have I ever told you to invest in somebody and be wrong about that investment as a fan? And he's like, you're right, exactly. I know I'm right. And Jacob Faso was one of the smartest investments. Oh man. But. That will wrap up our Evolution Pres show, post show, post show, post show recap, post show, everything that did happened. Uh, we hope you guys enjoyed the show. That was evolution. Hope you enjoyed, uh, US two going at it for tucking your ear off for a little while. It's been a while. It's almost an hour episode. Yeah, we, nah. But all right, uh, we will see y'all later. Bye.

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