In this WrestleTalk News, Vince McMahon’s opponent for WrestleMania 38 has been revealed,
yes it’s an actual match, my review of SmackDown, Tempest’s review of Rampage and more.
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With SmackDown this week came the bonkers announcement that Chairman of the Board Vincent
Kennedy McMahon will be appearing on Pat McAfee’s show next week.
Not only does Vince McMahon absolutely not fit the vibe of Adam Cole blowing up at McAfee
but Vinnie Mac will get to show just how much of a totally real person he is when he steps
onto the show.
Somehow this is not the most bonkers thing to come from this little tidbit as POST Wrestling
is reporting that not only will McMahon be appearing on McAfee’s show, but Vince is
penciled in to return to the ring at WrestleMania 38 wait for it…
AGAINST PAT MCAFEE!
Their sources have said this will “most likely” be billed as an official match on
the WrestleMania card.
That does not mean this has to be an official match as the intricacies of an honest to god
Vince McMahon vs. Pat McAfee match melt my mind to even consider.
However, instead it seems possible that an excessive amount of bells and whistles will
be added to the proceedings or we could get a cinematic match of sorts instead.
Pat McAfee had a pair of very impressive outings in NXT back in 2020, wrestling Adam Cole at
Takeover 30 and leading his ragtag group of Undisputed Era opponents into battle at WarGames.
Vince McMahon, however, has not wrestled in nearly a decade with his last official bout
coming against CM Punk in October 2012.
Even still this was more of a brawl than a match but it still marks nearly a decade since
Vince decided to test the size of his grapefruits.
There have been reports of the WrestleMania card being in a state of flux and there are
still big surprises coming regarding the show and yeah this would have me surprised.
Ahh the beauty of taped shows.
They allow television people to time out their shows with plenty of notice and they allow
us to speculate over that controversial thing Max Caster said this week until it airs.
Yes, AEW star Max Caster of The Acclaimed is no stranger to his trademark raps being
censored and it happened again this week.
Some fans may have noticed that The Acclaimed’s entrance was cut weird prior to the main event
on Rampage but that was because a line had to be cut from Caster’s entrance.
During the live performance, fans could hear Caster say “Play with the Acclaimed, you
gotta be stupid.
This guy’s as popular as Vladimir Putin.”
Just a reminder that the threat of war and considerable loss of life are probably not
things to joke about in a wrestling promo about your friend wrestling a fruit with ray
bans.
Meanwhile in other news the line “Yo I don’t like you, Anthony is about to come fight you.
Best Friends, very nice, very evil.
But I guess you’re not friends with any Black people.”
was left intact.
And now it’s time for my review of SmackDown, in about 5 minutes.
The show opened with a long video package about Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns, and ended
by saying that their upcoming match at WrestleMania is the BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA MATCH OF ALL TIME.
The show then began in the crowd and then they showed the same graphic again of the
BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA MATCH OF ALL TIME.
After they showed another graphic saying that tonight is the contract signing of the BIGGEST
WRESTLEMANIA MATCH OF ALL TIME.
I’m just getting a slight inclination, just a hint, that maybe WWE might care about Lesnar
vs Reigns just a bit too much.
In the ring Michael Cole introduces Ronda Rousey who cut a seemingly very nervous promo
about winning at WrestleMania, before Charlotte Flair came out and cut an obnoxious promo
about her winning at WrestleMania.
Sonya Deville then ineffectively attacked Ronda Rousey, and Ronda stood tall to end
the segment.
That’s right, we’ve got Charlotte vs Ronda Rousey, and now we’ve got the heel authority
figure going against the babyface challenger again.
It always works.
Next week it’s Ronda vs Sonya.
Three weeks ago we had New Day vs Los Lotharios.
The week after it was New Day vs Los Lotharios.
Then we had a week break, and now it’s New Day vs Los Lotharios.
This company is so repetitive.
This was a good match, but probably the weakest of the three they’ve had so far.
New Day entered on a quad bike, and towards the end of the match, Big E distracted Angel
by threatening to run over Humberto with the quad bike, so Kofi took advantage.
What babyfaces.
New Day with the Midnight Hour.
This was fine.
The Usos were interviewed backstage by Sam Roberts, where they hyped up THE BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA
MATCH OF ALL TIME.
Before they could properly talk about their own tag titles though, the Viking Raiders
beat them up and it’ll be a tag title match next week.
Xia Li made her in-ring SmackDown debut next against Natalya, and this match was so eagerly
anticipated backstage that it was watched on by Aliyah, Shayna Baszler, Drew Gulak and
Mansoor?
What a weird selection of people.
Xia Li won this match, and it was fine.
Though her doing her whirling arm fire up spot looked a bit like…
Sami Zayn came out for an Intercontinental Championship Celebration, where he said he’s
happy to defend his belt against all comes.
Me and you Sami, two peas in a pod.
Johnny Knoxville interrupted the segment and said he wants to face him for the title, but
Sami said he doesn’t belong here, and then beat him up, delivering two Helluva Kicks.
Backstage Ricochet interrupted Zayn so Adam Pearce made Ricochet vs Zayn next week for
the title.
That could be a lot of fun if WWE want it to be.
We then got reminded of the BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA MATCH OF ALL TIME before we got Sasha Banks
vs Shotzi.
Remember when these two had some kind of intense blood feud or something?
Naomi came out for commentary to watch Banks win quickly in a few minutes, and then afterwards
got into the ring, stood alongside Banks and announced that everyone was looking at the
next women’s tag team champions.
Bit out of nowhere and an awkward presentation of the announcement, but I guess it gives
them something to do, and makes a second tag team in that division.
We then cut backstage to Mckenzie Mitchell who said “I’m not too sure what Naomi
meant by next women’s tag team champions, nonetheless, here’s Happy Corbin and Madcap
Moss”.
What do you mean you don’t know what she meant Mckenzie?
She couldn’t be more clear.
They’re going to be the next women’s tag champions.
It’s not an ambiguous phrase.
Corbin and Moss got reminded of Moss nearly dying at Elimination Chamber, before it’s
going to be Corbin vs McIntyre next.
Despite WWE’s social media team announcing before the show it was going to be McIntyre
vs Moss in an Elimination Chamber rematch.
Which of course did still end up happening, as Corbin chickened out of the match and said
Moss deserved this rematch to get revenge on McIntyre.
Moss didn’t seem too happy about it, so we’re getting dissension between Moss and
Corbin, which I think we all wanted to see.
McIntyre eventually won against Moss, but they were really playing up Moss’ neck injury,
so McIntyre absolutely should have squashed him here.
Also - Moss was the injured underdog babyface, and McIntyre was a dick for beating up an
injured man.
This company doesn’t understand storytelling.
Ronda backstage said she’s going to beat up Sonya Deville next week.
And then we had the main event segment which was the contract signing for the BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA
MATCH OF ALL TIME.
Roman Reigns came out, and Paul Heyman cut a promo saying this was the BIGGEST WRESTLEMANIA
MATCH OF ALL TIME, bigger than Hulk Hogan vs Andre The Giant, bigger than The Rock vs
Stone Cold Steve Austin, bigger than when The Undertaker’s undefeated streak was broken…
Heyman finished cutting his promo saying that the contract signing was up next, called it
a cliffhanger, and then it cut to an ad break.
No Paul, not really.
I was actually exactly expecting the contract signing to come next, what with the announcement
that the segment was happening and everything.
After the ad break here comes Lesnar, who cut a decent promo saying he was going to
beat up both Reigns and Heyman at WrestleMania and unify the titles.
That fact was mentioned quite a few times on this show, in that the titles are seemingly
actually being unified rather than Reigns holding two belts for a while, then vacating
one because he can’t be bothered to defend it, which is what I had originally predicted
to happen.
I would assume that they would essentially remove the Universal Championship from existence
and have Reigns go on as the WWE Champion after he does win, but who knows.
Reigns fired up and said that he runs this show, that camerman is mine, the commentators
are mine, these people are mine, that WrestleMania sign is mine because I am WrestleMania, and
the security guards in the ring are mine too.
They all turn to face Lesnar and of course, they get beaten up a whole bunch, including
Lesnar throwing a chair in some guy’s face.
Jesus Brock.
Who throws a chair, honestly.
This was alright, we’ve got five more weeks to build to Mania though, and if Lesnar and
Reigns are going to be featured on Raw and SmackDown every week in the lead up, I hope
they’ve got enough material to last until then.
What did you think of the show?
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This show was fine.
There was nothing actively bad, but there was nothing actively good either.
This was…a show.
I was honestly, quite bored a lot of the time.
Nothing standout whatsoever.
Apart from Mckenzie Mitchell not understanding basic English.
That was amazing.
This gets a 3 I guess?
And now over to Tempest for his review of AEW Rampage.