Dominik Mysterio Has Everything on Monday Night Raw — Except a Story

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Poor proposito Stephanie Mccure
reduced Liv Morgan to tears last

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night, and the reasons for it
still feel hollow.

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Dominic Mysterio was there to
comforter, and once again Dom

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was orbiting someone else's
story instead of driving his

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own.
Then Belore had a standout promo

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with CM Punk, flanked by Dominic
and a returning JD McDonough.

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JD showed real fire, especially
when Finn stopped him from

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attacking Punk.
But even in that moment, Dom

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fell.
Secondary.

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Raquel Rodriguez is helded to
Elimination Chamber qualifier

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next week, yet her only role
tonight was helping Liv feel

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better with no tension of her
own.

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And barely a minute of screen
time later, Dom was stuck

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between Finn and JD as they
argued.

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And then they both walked away,
leaving Dom alone to prepare for

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his Triple Threat match.
And despite Dom losing that

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match and possibly setting up
future challengers for his

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Intercontinental Championship,
nothing on the show felt like it

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belonged to him.
And that's the problem.

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The Jasmine Day had a strong
showing on Monday Night Raw.

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Finally, the Dominic Mysterio
still feels like he's

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supplementing someone else's
story and not owning his own.

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He translated for live.
He helped Finn confront CM Punk,

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he comforted live when she broke
down, He stood in between Finn

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and JD as they fought.
And yet, what was Dom's story?

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Yes, he's now has #1 contenders
for his Intercontinental

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Championships in PENTA.
And yes, Jayvon Evans pinned him

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to advance to the Elimination
Chamber.

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But none of it felt like Dom
taking ownership and Dom taking

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ownership of a story.
Combine that with Raquel barely

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getting a minute of screen time
and it feels like Jasper J is

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clicking for everyone except the
two people most tied to it.

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We're all quietly highlighted a
pattern which we've seen before.

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Dominic Mysterio takes care of
everyone except himself.

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And that's the kind of pattern
that leads to real drama down

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the line.
Let's get into it.

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So pre brought notes, Dom did
not repost any of Liz's post

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today.
She had a Daddy Dom post where

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it just we was just WWE showing,
you know, the triple threat

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match between Dom Gunther and
Devon Evans.

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And she, you know, did a repost
saying Daddy Dom and Dom did not

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repost it at and it was just and
it's just something interesting.

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And like I said, this shows the
pattern of Dom, you know,

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selectively reposting stuff.
And this is like a one time kind

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of call out where he didn't
repost it.

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I was kind of thinking at the
time that maybe Dom was just,

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you know, maybe focused on his
match.

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But maybe again, like I said,
maybe some of this stuff is

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starting to be by design and I'm
going to get into that a little

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bit later.
And then in the beginning of the

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show, we find out that Raquel
Rodriguez will be in the

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elimination qualifier next week.
This finally gives Raquel a

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clear competitive direction
after being in limbo.

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Like after she's lost two Times
Now she's finally and a

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qualifier.
But this direction was not

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reflected in her uses on Raw.
She was just used to comfort

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live, as I will talk about
later.

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So she has a chance to getting
him to to the qualifier, but

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there's no tension and there's
still no story.

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She's hasn't orbited around Liv
and Stephanie for a minute.

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So does she win?
Does she lose?

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Like is she just there to get
take the pin?

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It's concerning what they're
doing to Raquel right now, but

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at least she's in the
elimination qualifier.

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Up next we have the Liv Morgan
segment which is a Michael Cole

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interview.
It's a sit down.

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Liv Morgan joined Michael Cole
in a sit down segment and then

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Dom joins her later on.
Michael Cole asked Liv which

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championship plans to challenge
and Liz says that she's not

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written in her decision.
She states that she's worked for

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this moment and it seems to take
her time.

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This is when Stephanie Baquier
interrupts.

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She starts speaking rapid fire
Spanish to live and Dominic is

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trying to translate this and
respond on Liz's behalf.

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Stephanie finished her spiel and
then leaves.

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And in the aftermath, Dom says a
little bit more to live.

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And then Liv begins quiet
crying.

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Dominic compass hers.
And then Liv and Dom leave

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together, leaving Michael Cole
behind.

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And I'm going to say one
translation that I got from

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this.
And I know the WWE had to put

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out the translation because they
were scrambling all over

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themselves like we have a
translation and but which I

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found funny, but this is the
translation that I got.

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And you had to know that the WWE
was going to have this

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translation.
You know that people were going

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to translate it.
Like they had to know that

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people were going to be
listening to it and translating

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it.
Because initially I thought

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Stephanie had said something
really spicy that might have

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implicated Dom or implicated
something to live, which made

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her cry.
But this is pretty much what

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Stephanie said and not so many
words, and probably with some

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curseworth added in.
She she says that Liv hadn't

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sacrificed anything, that
everything she was given to her

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was by the WWE, that she was
born in Chile where wrestling is

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much smaller and she worked her
ass off.

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Now, is this really something
for Liv to be crying over like

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she's been called out for being
spoiled and entitled, which is

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not the case.
Even though I'm hard on Lib, I

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know that's not the case.
I know what she did to work up

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to get to where she is right now
and being a Royal Rumble winner.

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And yeah, maybe that's a beat
that Lib can have on, you know,

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later on with Stephanie, like
she did do the.

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But she knows she scratched and
pecked her way up to the top.

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And maybe that's a counterpoint
she can have to Stephanie, which

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really sounds like face behavior
if you think about it.

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But for her to cry over this, it
just rings hollow.

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Like this is the woman who cried
when Ria Ripley betrayed her.

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And that wasn't a legitimate
hurt because she hadn't done

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anything to Ria.
So she cried when Ria betrayed

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her.
And that made sense.

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You know, this was somebody that
she was thought she was really

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close to, and Ria betrayed her.
And then she cried when Dom told

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her he hated her because he was
trying to save her from rear

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rippling.
And that's a deep hurt because

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this is someone you thought who
you loved, even though I do have

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my theories on that.
But you know, take it at this

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point like this is someone you
thought you loved telling you

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that he hated you and she cried.
That's the legit hurt.

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These both instances are legit
trauma and traumatic and

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instances.
So for her to cry there, that's

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understandable, completely
understandable, especially the

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dumb one.
But for her to cry because

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Stephanie says like, Oh, you,
you know, you're privileged.

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You had all the best and you
know, I had to hump and page my

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way in Chile.
Like it just really rings

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hollow.
Like why are you crying over

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that?
You know, you could have came

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back and immediately say, Hey, I
was, I'm hunting and pecking.

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Nobody thought that to me.
I was third, you know, third in

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a group.
I had to hunt and Peck and fight

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my way out of injuries and come
back to get where I am.

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You know, that's a quick
snapback.

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So unless they're preparing for
some kind of faith term, which

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they might, I'm not discounting
that.

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But unless they're doing that, I
see no reason for them to cry

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over this.
Like, you know, maybe I'm just

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a, you know, a shallow bitch.
Maybe I'm just not unfeeling and

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cold.
Because for live to cry over,

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that just doesn't make sense for
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And that's why I'm thinking now,
like, OK, maybe there's

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something that Dom really didn't
translate, you know, didn't

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translate.
I know the WWE put out the

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translation, but maybe there's
something that Stephanie said

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that Dom didn't translate, but
Liv was able to understand and

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that's why she's crying.
You see what I mean?

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Like, it seems like that would
have made more sense.

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You know, maybe Dom didn't
translate everything 'cause he

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didn't want to translate
everything.

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But Liv understood what was
being said and she's crying over

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that.
That makes sense.

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Not just live, just live crying
just because, you know,

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Stephanie's just said that she's
privileged.

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So yeah, I really did not get, I
don't really get the point of

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live crying over that.
It feels emotionally

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disproportionate.
And also with this dog continues

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to be live translator, why is he
being the translator?

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This should be for Raquel if
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near the title scene or anything
like that.

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Or are they going, are they just
going to split off Raquel and

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just going to focus on living
Stephanie?

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And maybe this little promo may
get living Stephanie over the

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hump, but still, Stephanie is
still requiring somebody to

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translate for her.
Like at this point, she's got a

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secret swim.
She's got to do something.

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Say it in English.
And I'm not saying that just

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because everybody needs to speak
English.

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It's just like, umm, she should,
umm, you know, she shouldn't be

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relying on this because EO Sky
didn't require this.

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You know, when EO Sky and Oscar
and Khali are going at each

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other in Japanese, they don't
have translators.

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It's not like they got Shinsuke
Nakamura out there in

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translating form.
You see what I mean?

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So why is it that EO, you know,
had to fight and get over her,

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You know, the language barrier,
you know, and she got over

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pretty much on on her own
through grit and no translators.

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But Stephanie, she gets the
translator and then you're

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putting Dom in that position
when Dom doesn't isn't needed

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for that position.
And maybe that's why I didn't

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really feel anything when he
lost because at that point, I

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was so annoyed when Dom showed
up as a translator because when

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he showed up because I'm like,
first of all, why Dom?

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Why are you here?
Because when it was presented

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during the show, it sounded like
it was just going to be Liv on

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her own.
And I'm like, OK, cool.

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You know, this kind of splits up
Dom from this and Liv can have

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this this promo with Michael
Cole on her own.

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And then Dom shows up and I'm
like, you know, Dom, you know,

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if you lose tonight, I don't
think I'm not going to be that

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upset and I'm of your right or
not.

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You know, I was to that point.
So when Stephanie shows up, I'm

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like, OK, so This is why Dom is
here.

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He has to translate it, but he
doesn't have to.

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But he shouldn't be translating
like that.

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You have Raquel and but like I
said, if Raquel is not going to

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be in this championship
situation, which it will be

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really shitty if she's not
anywhere near this, then because

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they just rapidly cooled off
Raquel if she's not going to be

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doing anything.
So Raquel is out and if she

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doesn't win, she's out.
And then they're just going to

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probably focus on living
Stephanie and they're going to

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be trying to manufacture a feud.
And that's what sucks because

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you had a feud with Raquel.
Look at what JD is doing right

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now, which is what I'm getting
into.

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JD came back with fire, went
right right for Finn.

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That's a feud.
That's something that can build

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up.
They have history that makes

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sense.
You know, Finn is JD's mentor.

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He calls him, JD calls Finn da
like that.

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That's a feud.
That's something with heat that

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has history.
Liv and Stephanie don't have

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this history.
They don't have this heat.

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You can manufacture heat and we
have some time to build this

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heat, but this is something that
just seems like manufactured for

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WrestleMania.
This is not something that is

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built up for, you know, using
built up of years.

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It's kind of like how Dumb and
Finn have this history and I

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think it's kind of too late now,
but at least if they pull the

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trigger on that, they have some
history to fall back on.

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You know, Don, uh, Finn is Dom's
stepdaddy.

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Finn showed him the ropes.
Finn did a lot of things for

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Dom.
You know, they've been through

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thick and thin.
You know, that's the actual

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feud.
So now we got Raquel, who can

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give some at least something to
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and then she might be ejected
and then a pathway for Raquel to

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be there, like beating the
translator, being forced to

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translate and she's got to deal
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What what?
You know, watching Liv deal with

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everything and you know, that
could be additional heat and

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additional tension, but no, we
got to use Dom and Dom being

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there doesn't make sense.
I'm sorry.

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I don't care if Dom is the
boyfriend.

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You know, she could be using
Raquel for that position.

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Dom shouldn't be in there
because now you got people that

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are upset for Dom being in this
and involving himself into

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another women's title match,
even though it's the booker's

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doing it.
But you know, people are going

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to blame Dom and that's always
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was using Dom and he's always
been in some kind of women's

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title match except for like
Naomi and then Stephanie when

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she first got a title and EO.
But still, you know, he's always

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around the majority of the
women's championships and people

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are just going to keep pecking
at him when he because he there

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when he doesn't need to be
there, especially now.

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So yeah, so like I said, live
crying over this doesn't make

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sense.
There might have been something

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where Dom might not, you know,
wasn't aligning right with his

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body language.
But, you know, I have to do

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another look on that and I can't
really commit to saying that

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right now because I was just
going through really rapidly.

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Maybe by the end of the week
I'll digest it a little bit more

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and think about it.
Next up we have Ben Velour and

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ACM Punk segment.
This is in ring CM Punk opens.

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He comes out first.
He references Adam Pierce

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accusing him of jeopardizing his
Wrestle Mania mass with Roman

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Reigns by challenge by accepting
see Finn Velour's challenge.

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He says he makes things better.
He says the fans deserve a

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fighting champion.
Says Ben Velour Desert deserved

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a title shot in Belfast and
deserves an as media Elimination

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Chamber for ruining his match
with AJ Styles.

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He declares himself the best in
the world, not Roman Reigns, not

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Finn Belore.
This is when Finn Belore comes

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out with his OG catch your
breath entrance and I'm really,

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really happy he's using them.
Umm, he does the thing, you know

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the the all the gestures were
get all the audience

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participation and then he brings
out Dominic Mysterio and a

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returning JD McDonough.
My man.

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Umm they come out to the ring
and they circle Punk thing is in

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the ring saying to be the best
in the world, you must train and

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catch wrestling in England with
Bucha doors in Mexico, which

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where Dom points to himself,
which was hilarious and and and

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fight in Japanese dojos.
And then he says to be the best

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you debut on raw and beat Roman
Reigns, which was a shot at CM

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Punk because Vin has beaten
Roman Reigns.

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And then he says that the best
of the world is standing in

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front of CM Punk and says that
beating Punk at Chicago will

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will make WrestleMania better
because he'll he won't

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jeopardize it.
He'll make the WrestleMania main

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event better because he he will
be the champion.

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CM Punk fires back saying uh,
you know, he's asking why Dom

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and JDJD are there, calling them
idiots.

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Umm, You know, he called Dom and
you know, idiot and then he

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called, you know, he said J DS
head is so big he can't enter

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the ring.
Umm, he says to Ben, umm, you

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know, been accomplished all
these things on his own.

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So like when he was learning
catch wrestling in England and

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when he was in Japan and when he
was in Mexico, he was doing that

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on his own.
He says that Judgment Day is an

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anchor on Vimbalore's neck.
He said that he would think that

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he would be raising the judgment
day to his level, but the

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judgment day had just brought
him down.

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And then he said that Dom is an
idiot.

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It has two titles that he never
defends.

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And you know, like I said, he
mocks JD's head size.

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Where to call?
The crowd just started chanting

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bobblehead at JD.
Punk turns his back and bears

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them to jump him.
JD was all for it.

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He was about to go after him,
but Finn holds JD back.

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Punk leaves and then tosses the
mic at Finn.

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JD is visibly furious at this
dog kind of hanging off to the

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side there and then you see the
last shot of CM Punk pretty much

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leaving and Finn and JD are
arguing in the ring.

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Notes on this.
Is that JD?

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But none of my man returned hot
and emotionally reactive like he

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was ready to go.
Finn using his OG interest

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really strongly signals a face
turn in progress.

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Like catchy breath is like the
ultimate face move there.

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So he's that man is turning
face.

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Finn restraining JD reinforces
his restraining control and

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that's a face like move.
You know, like faces don't

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attack people from behind.
And Dom again, is present but

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not central.
And he's not doing anything like

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he wasn't he was the one arguing
with Finn.

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It was JD arguing with Finn.
So once again, where you could

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have used this tension between
Finn and Dom to start something

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like Finn could have, I mean,
Dom could have really gone after

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Finn here or at least later on
and said like, hey, this is like

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the second time Punk has been
assaulted me and you don't do

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anything like something like
that.

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He could have that could have
been brought up, but it's not.

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But the one who is reacting and
the one who's hot and the one

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that's upset is JD.
And I don't blame and I don't

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mind JD getting it because he
needed something.

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But this is something that Dom
should have kind of returned to.

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You see how JD came out and
returned during a pretty much an

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explosive type of situation,
then comes out, brings out Dom,

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brings out JD, but JD gets to
come out and confront with Finn

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and Dom, CM Punk, the world
champion.

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What did Dom do?
Dom came out and returned after

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injury just to introduce Liv and
then after that it was just to

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be a translator.
You see the disproportionate

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here.
So JD gets a nice explosive

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thing.
It's not like if he came out

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with a huge bang, but it was
explosive and he was allowed to

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contribute to the to the
outcome.

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Finn was done.
JD was upset that Finn was

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holding him back and he was hot.
Dom was not allowed that and

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that's and that's just really
showing how disproportionate it

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is.
Same thing with Raquel, not

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forgetting her here too.
But you know, you see the

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difference between J DS return
and what he was allowed to do

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and Don's return and he was
allowed to do.

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I mean it's not like JD came
back and he was all like

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snuggled with Raquel his woman
there.

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And I'm joking on that kinda
because Jack, well, would be

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really cool and I would like to
put him to hook up 'cause I

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think they will be really
interesting.

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But you get what I'm saying
here.

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It's like, it's like JD got all
this and just a little bit of

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time.
It wasn't a lot, it was just a

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little bit.
It was a segment.

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But he was allowed to do this
and Dom hasn't.

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And when Dom could make
something happened and Dom could

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call out, then hey, why are you
letting see him?

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Punk call me an idiot?
Why are you letting see him,

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Punk call me garbage?
He has nothing to say.

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And it almost seems like JD will
be the one that'll be fighting

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Finn at WrestleMania and not
Dom.

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By the way, things are going
with the Intercontinental

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Championship and I'll get into
that.

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Next up, we have a Judgment Day
clubhouse scene.

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Liv is laying on Dominic.
Still sad.

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Why?
I don't know.

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Dominic tells Liv like to have
the night off, he'll handle it

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with the boys, umm he asked
Raquel to take care of her.

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Raquel tells Liz they need to
touch grass and leaves with her

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and there is no tension
whatsoever between Liv and

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Raquel, none.
And then that was the West.

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That will be all what we saw of
Raquel tonight, umm.

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The scene ships to JD
confronting fan UMM, Dom gets up

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from the couch where he was and
then he gets in the middle of JD

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and Finn.
He JD says he that Finn is

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playing into Punk's hand, says
that it was hard watching Finn

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be embarrassed in Ireland, and
says that the three of them can

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hurt Punk before Elimination
Chamber which will help Finn

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win.
Dominic at this point is kind of

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in the middle stuck trying to
mediate.

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Finn responds saying he needs to
prove that he can do this alone,

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says that JD would understand
and then JD is firing back

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saying he got he does understand
and he says that he's trying to

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help then become champion, then
tell JD to let him do this on do

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this alone and walks away.
JD says fine and leaves and this

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leaves Dominic all by himself
saying you know, hey, I have a

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match, but everybody's gone, Liv
is gone, Raquel is gone.

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Uh, JD is gone if it is gone, so
he's like, hey, I got a match.

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Some visual details in the
clubhouse.

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Raquel have one minute of
training time.

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Like I was saying, you see Dom's
Dom's Dom Perion bottle, you

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know the one that was based on
it is in the clubhouse now.

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Liv sat on a get rocked.
Roxanne Perez's like pillow on

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the on the couch there.
Liz Revenge Tour 2.0 shirt is on

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the arc reactor and then Kane
was visible on the WWE2K25

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scene.
This segment really highlighted

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that Dominant consistently takes
care of others and leave and

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then is left behind.
This really parallels back

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during the His Early Judgment
Day era around 2023.

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I want to say I want y'all to
remember 2023.

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If y'all remember Dominic in
Judgment Day, what was Dom doing

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in Judgment Day?
What was going on?

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He was helping Ria retain her
championship.

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He was helping Finn and Damien
win the undisputed tag team

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champions and then helping them
out.

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He was also there to soften up
people for Ben and and Damian.

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So he would always get placed in
the matches that he didn't want

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to do to soften other people up
for Finn and Finn and Damian and

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JD would be placed into this
role too.

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So he's really putting put in
this position what he was doing

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in 2023, and that's just taking
care of others and then nobody

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takes care of him.
And then what usually happens is

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that when Dom has saying, OK,
fine, I'm gonna do some things

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on the on my own, people get
upset.

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We haven't gotten to that point
yet.

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Like we haven't gotten gotten to
that point where Ria and Damian

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were upset with Dom for trying
to fight at that again, like

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around WrestleMania 40.
Like this is when like he, you

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know, Santos reached out to Dom
and wanted Dom's help to fight

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Ray.
We haven't gotten to that point

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yet.
And I'm not sure we are, but

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it's just highlighting A trend
here where Dom will do all this

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for everybody else and then he
has nobody left to sell for

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himself.
Now, at this point, you would

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think Dom would be able to
handle it.

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And he kind of did.
Like he was doing some things on

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his own with like he kind of did
that, tried to do that tonight,

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but it failed.
But he has done things where he

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would win, you know, win on his
own merits.

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But he wasn't going into it
where everybody else is just

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preoccupied and where people are
upset, like when he was

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defending against AD Styles
Penta, AD Styles, Penta Rusev

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and some other people, they were
people upset with him.

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But now there are, you know,
people are set or people around

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her on the set and maybe that's
affecting them, but still there

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there's nobody there to really
help.

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J DS frustration with Finn is
escalating.

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And like I said, maybe this is
going to be the call.

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You know how I said that I don't
want Finn to fall back into

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becoming a, you know, to
Intercontinental because he's

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doing his main event stuff.
Maybe this is just going to be a

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sidestep and they're going to
put Jade in that position where

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it's going to be JD turning on
Finn with his mentor because he

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feels like Finn has gotten soft
or something like that.

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So we could have that and things
and then they'll have that feud

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at WrestleMania and then Dom
will be and maybe a multi man or

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something like that at
WrestleMania for the inner kind

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of title.
We could have a job on.

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00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:37,000
You have a Pinta.
You can have some other people

449
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,240
for the IC title in that match.
Make it multi man made a lot of

450
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,160
match.
I don't know, but that that

451
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,360
might be the sidestep here.
It may not be Dom versus Finn.

452
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:52,760
Dom might lead the charge and
kicking Finn out, but he may not

453
00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:56,560
have the match like people were
expecting because like I said,

454
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,800
why would you?
Why would Finn want to go from

455
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:03,000
main event title to
Intercontinental?

456
00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,320
He should have been going for
Intercontinental first, then the

457
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,200
main event, but I digress.
Ben insisting on going it alone

458
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,360
reinforces the face turn
trajectory because again, faces

459
00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,000
want to do that.
It's kind of like Cody Rhodes,

460
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,040
like he was, you know, he, Ben
is wanting to do it on his own.

461
00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:21,360
He has to prove to himself that
he could do it alone because

462
00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:24,400
that's what he did when he was,
you know, best in the world.

463
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,920
And Raquel just remains
functional there, but no

464
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:30,160
narrative.
Like she has no attention.

465
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,560
And that really, really annoys
me.

466
00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,040
Like, you know, I'm sure
everybody knows about me right

467
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,160
now.
That just annoys me.

468
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:39,160
Like, where's the tension?
Why did you do this pure pool at

469
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,160
Royal Rumble and still have no
tension?

470
00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:44,200
You know, if they were gonna do
this, Raquel could have just

471
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:46,280
been ejected from the Royal
Rumble.

472
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,880
Like I was saying on Sunday that
Raquel should have just been

473
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:53,760
ejected from the Royal Rumble
and not ejected by live.

474
00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:57,240
That way it would make it would
we would have this awkwardness

475
00:26:57,240 --> 00:27:02,680
now of wanting Raquel to have
some tension when and they're

476
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,720
not giving it to us.
Because like I said, if Zarya

477
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:10,320
could have be have her feelings
about soul Ruka and soul Brooker

478
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:13,280
taking over shots and taking her
shots and things like that and

479
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,840
be allowed to express them, like
is sorry, I can do that.

480
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,760
Raquel can be doing that.
Like at least let Raquel express

481
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,720
her feelings.
You know, you don't have to

482
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,400
physically pull the trigger and
get them get Raquel ejected or

483
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:28,960
live ejected or whatever, but at
least allow or kill her

484
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,560
feelings.
And they're not even allowing

485
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,880
that.
It's just Raquel being forced to

486
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,160
be happy or forced to being
supporting Liv when it doesn't

487
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,400
make sense.
And I don't like that because

488
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,960
Raquel deserves much more.
Like I said, she held it down

489
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,040
while Liv was gone.
It was Raquel.

490
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,680
She made Stephanie interesting.
I'm sure people don't want to

491
00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,720
hear that, but she did.
She made Stephanie more

492
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:57,600
interesting by beating her ass.
She leaned into the big mommy,

493
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:02,360
cool, big sexy persona and she
stepped up and owned it and she

494
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:07,040
took advantage of what she was
being given and she made

495
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,920
Stephanie more interesting.
She should be rewarded for that.

496
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:16,400
Instead, she's pretty much been
wiped out of the whole story.

497
00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,320
You know, she build up Stephanie
and she's wiped out of the

498
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,520
story.
She can't have any tension with

499
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:25,960
this.
She can't have any kind of, you

500
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,160
know, you can't even allow her
to have a stare down with Jade

501
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:32,440
when she was on Smackdown on
Friday.

502
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,080
It was just everything's about
Liv and it's in.

503
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,200
Yeah, I know Liv is the royal
rubber winner, but we used to

504
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,680
let Raquel have some kind of
tension with with with Jade when

505
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,840
she was on Smackdown.
At least allow Raquel her

506
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:49,440
feelings with Liv when she has
to deal with Liv now.

507
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,760
Like Liv being sad would have
been a perfect opportunity for

508
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:56,320
Raquel to be be like, you know,
now, now you know how it feels,

509
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,520
you know, do it like a slight
take that to her, you know

510
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,760
something.
But no, you know, we got to go

511
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:05,880
help live feel better.
So I'm not liking what they're

512
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,120
doing with Raquel.
Hopefully, of course, Chris next

513
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,720
week because if she loses next
week, it's not going to be good.

514
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,400
I don't think they're going to
probably wait all the way to

515
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,080
WrestleMania before we get any
major kind of trigger pull over

516
00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:22,400
Raquel, and by then the Impact
is probably going to be not

517
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:27,040
where it needs to be.
So Next up we have the triple

518
00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,960
threat match between Dom and
Javon Evans in Gunther.

519
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:32,920
Javon Evans wins by painting
Dominic.

520
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,240
This was an excellent match.
Everybody was showing out.

521
00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:38,520
Dom has some brutal chops.
I always like it when Dom

522
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,640
actually gets into a chop battle
with Gunther.

523
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,160
He really didn't do it here, but
he can get into a chop battle

524
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,320
with Gunther because his chops
hit.

525
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,720
He did it to Ilya and NXT and
he's done that to Gunther on the

526
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,240
main roster and I just like it
when he gets into these chop

527
00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,960
battles with them.
But Ilya and Gunther, because he

528
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,120
is just stiff.
Like you can hear it.

529
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:02,160
He'll just starts chopping up.
I love it.

530
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:06,400
I love when he does that.
I called Dragon Lee attacking

531
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:09,560
Gunther and it was scoreboard
because Don was trying to use

532
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:15,960
the ring, the time keepers
hammer and got to took it away.

533
00:30:15,960 --> 00:30:20,360
But here comes Dragon Lee to
attack Gunther with the actual

534
00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,000
bill.
Like he took the actual bill

535
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,000
like the whole wood thing bill
everything he took it attacked

536
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,080
Gunther and which took Gunther
out of the match.

537
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,120
So scoreboard on that because,
uh, Jacob Lee did A tag Gunther

538
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,160
and took him out.
Um, Devon pins the

539
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:42,480
Intercontinental Champion, which
opens up future feud potential

540
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,880
between Dom and Devon and I
don't really mind this.

541
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,920
Um, but yeah, it was a really
good match.

542
00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,360
I recommend going back and
watching it.

543
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,120
Umm, some notes on this is that
me?

544
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,960
I personally and like I said,
even though I'm a Tom ride or

545
00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,040
die umm, if Dom is going to be
this in this translator

546
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,800
supporting role, then maybe
losing he will serve him better.

547
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,120
Like I was really I was kind of
hoping he would get an

548
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:08,560
elimination chamber, but if he's
just going to be serving like

549
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,480
this, the translator, he
probably should have just lost.

550
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:15,640
I was just that annoyed with it
right now.

551
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,360
But like I said this could be by
design.

552
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:21,760
I'm going to kind of get into it
later, but it's just like, you

553
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,920
know, there would be no point in
Dom going to Elimination Chamber

554
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,800
if he's just gonna keep just
orbiting around everybody else's

555
00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:30,880
stories and nobody came out to
help Dom, so he was just pretty

556
00:31:30,880 --> 00:31:35,720
much on his own.
Umm now for raw, raw quick hits.

557
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,160
Umm, the the division defeated
the Usos in LA Knight after

558
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,240
Bronson Reed hit Jimmy with the
tsunami.

559
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,760
Umm post match the match man
attacked Logan Paul and took him

560
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,160
out.
So we got the mass man again.

561
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,800
So it's not Lily Paul, it's not
awesome theory.

562
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,920
It's not scrap daddy Adam
Pierce.

563
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,920
I don't think so.
Whoever we don't know who this

564
00:31:56,920 --> 00:31:58,760
mass man is.
People keep saying it's sense

565
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,680
until he's ready to return.
I don't know, but the vision is

566
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:02,960
boring.
I don't know, I don't care.

567
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:07,320
Oscar defeated Bailey and
Natalia by Oscar tapping out

568
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:10,120
Bailey.
Post match Maxine Dupree

569
00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,560
attacked Natty because she's
still hot about what happened

570
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,080
the other week.
So we have Maxine Dupree

571
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,920
attacking Natty in the IC title
scene.

572
00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:26,360
We had El Grande Americano with
quest and IC title shot from

573
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,920
Pierce and Adam Pierce made a
match.

574
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:34,360
El Grande Americano Original is
set for an Elimination Chamber

575
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:38,240
qualifier next week, And that's
why El Grande Americano was

576
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:42,120
annoyed by it.
Commercial break.

577
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,320
El Gani Americano Original was
speaking English even though he

578
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,920
said he'd like, you know, these,
his English is no good.

579
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,960
But I'm going to, you know, I'm
going to try anyway.

580
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:51,200
He's just talking perfect
English.

581
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:56,600
And he was just talking about
how the other El Gani Americano

582
00:32:56,600 --> 00:33:00,280
is an imposter.
He also shouted out Devon Evans

583
00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:04,600
too.
Umm, we had a #1 contender IC

584
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:08,680
title contender match between
Pinta and El Grande Americano.

585
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,200
Pinta beat El Grande Americano
via pinball after a very El

586
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:18,120
Grande Americano original
prevent a cheating by both

587
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,760
Americanos.
Those two Americanos were

588
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:24,640
digging in their junk to give El
Grande Americano the disc, and

589
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,040
El Grande Americano Original
prevented that and say that

590
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,000
three times fast.
And PENTA now is the number one

591
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:34,320
contender to Dominic Mysterio's
Intercontinental Championship.

592
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,000
I don't know where they're gonna
put that in there.

593
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,880
Maybe that's in between now and
the Road to WrestleMania after

594
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:41,000
Elimination Chamber.
I don't know.

595
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:42,440
I don't know where they're gonna
put that match in.

596
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:49,600
Umm, So some Raw notes.
Umm, just the final thoughts of

597
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:50,080
Raw.
Umm.

598
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:55,360
Dominic had two segments, one
major promo presence and a

599
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,760
match.
Finn have fewer segments but a

600
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:02,040
complete self driven storyline.
He came out, talk to shit to

601
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,200
Punk, stop JD from getting all
attacking Punk and then him and

602
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:11,520
JD were arguing.
JD returned with purpose and

603
00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:14,040
emotional stakes.
He came in, he wanted to support

604
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:15,719
Ben, he wanted to support his
mentor.

605
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:20,520
He was upset when Finn prevented
him from helping him out and he

606
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:22,560
would let Finn know that he was
upset.

607
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,159
So he has his emotional beats
and he came back with a purpose.

608
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,639
Raquel has no agency.
One minute of screen time and

609
00:34:30,639 --> 00:34:35,080
it'll just support Liv and it
her and this is continually to

610
00:34:35,080 --> 00:34:40,000
hurt her presentation.
Liv's emotional framing when she

611
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:43,600
was crying feels unearned
related to past trauma.

612
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:49,320
So when I say that, I mean that
her crying doesn't make sense

613
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,920
for what was presented like and
like I said earlier, like it

614
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,880
doesn't make sense like I for
the amount of crying Liv did.

615
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,880
I was kind of expecting
Stephanie to say before I got

616
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:02,920
the translation.
But hey, Stephanie, Don's been

617
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:06,200
stepping out on you with Roxanne
something that's what I was

618
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:11,280
expecting.
You know, that make you cry or

619
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,800
hey, Don has the wandering eye.
He was looking at me something,

620
00:35:15,280 --> 00:35:17,560
you know, that would make sense.
You know, maybe she could, you

621
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,440
know, she would kind of break
about that 'cause she's worried

622
00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,320
about that Don will cheat on her
again.

623
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,680
You know, something like that.
That would make sense for her to

624
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:27,840
cry.
Not because you know, you're,

625
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,880
you know, you were given all
the, all the best and had all

626
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,160
the privilege.
Like it's an, it was an unequal

627
00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:38,480
for her to cry about that and to
continually be sad about that.

628
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,800
I can see maybe she could have
cried in the moment, but then

629
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:44,600
when she was back in the
clubhouse, then she was, you

630
00:35:44,600 --> 00:35:45,960
know, ready to go and ready to
fight.

631
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,600
You see what I mean?
Like, why are you still sad

632
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:52,160
about it?
JD, not JD Judgment Day is

633
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:54,760
fracturing intentionally and not
chaotically.

634
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:57,160
So we're getting the bits and
pieces of JD Judgment Day

635
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,840
fracturing, but I don't think
it's going to be a full fracture

636
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,200
where Judgment Day imposed.
I believe it's going to be

637
00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:04,760
fracturing where two people
leave.

638
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,400
And this could be just Finn,
this could be Raquel.

639
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,840
It couldn't even be Liv.
Like I said, if they're going to

640
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:12,880
frame Liv as being this
emotional about privilege, then

641
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,040
that might just be signaling the
face turn.

642
00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:20,120
Like I keep saying that that
might happen with with her also.

643
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,760
I have also had the thought with
Dom that they might be

644
00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:27,400
downplaying what he's doing
right now to set up for an

645
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:31,360
emotional beat later on.
And by that I mean they're

646
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,080
downplaying what Dom is doing.
So whenever Dom comes back

647
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:39,360
around and does like maybe he
does a triple heel turn is going

648
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:42,800
to shock people because he's
been kind of floating underneath

649
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:44,560
the radar.
Like he's been that translator,

650
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:46,920
he's been, you know, in the
background if he's not really

651
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,480
having a story right now.
So right now my current theory

652
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:55,600
is is that they're gearing up
for something big with them and

653
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,600
they're having him do like this
orbiting.

654
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:05,480
So when it the, when it needs to
happen, this major event, it'll

655
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:07,480
have the most impact.
You see what I mean?

656
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,200
But it's just going to suck in
the meantime.

657
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:15,440
But we still got to deal with
seeing Dom deal with it because

658
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,480
like I said, Finn has a story,
JD has motivation, and Dom has

659
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:21,040
screen time.
So Dom had all the screen time

660
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:23,120
in the world, but it wasn't
something central to him.

661
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:28,360
It was central to other people.
One final note is that Roxanne

662
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,440
Perez did not appear.
Hopefully she's OK.

663
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,560
I know people are saying she has
some lingering issue issues, but

664
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,320
that's not really confirmed.
And like I said, you got to take

665
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,840
that with a huge grain of salt
from the from the dirt sheets.

666
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:42,680
So maybe she's just taking some
time off while they set this

667
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,000
stuff up.
Maybe for Elimination Chamber,

668
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,640
they want something to set up
here with the guys now,

669
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,280
especially since JD is back.
And then maybe after Elimination

670
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,200
Chamber she'll be back.
Hopefully she's, but hopefully

671
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she's OK.
I haven't heard anything about

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any kind of major injuries for
Roxanne, but to in conclusion,

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00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,440
earlier I said nothing on the
shelf felt like it belongs to

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Nick Mysterio.
And by the end of Raw, that

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didn't change.
He showed up, he supported

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everyone, he translated, he
mediated and he competed.

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And then once again he was left
standing alone while everyone

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else walked away with some kind
of direction.

679
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:21,480
Finn has a mission, Janie has
motivation and Liv has emotional

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framing, and Dom has all the
responsibility but no ownership.

681
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,320
And that's a pattern because Dom
didn't fail when he was selfish.

682
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,920
He's stalling when he's
selfless, and that seems like

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par for the course for him.
Paul didn't break break Dom

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00:38:37,240 --> 00:38:39,280
tonight, but it didn't build him
either.

685
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:42,240
So he's just there.
And until Dom is allowed to put

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himself first, the story will
keep moving.

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Just just not with him.