Dominik Mysterio’s Reboot, Purple Breadcrumbs & Liv Morgan’s Strategic Chess

0:00 Look welcome my name is writer Maybin. I am the host of the Revs and receives podcast I cover all things judged the day. This is now being recorded for Spotify YouTube has its own script so YouTube gets a separate video while this goes straight to Spotify. We're going to be talking about pre raw discourse, raw discourse and what can possibly happen this raw like I said, felt like a reboot. I think a lot of people finally had enough with dogs booking and it forced a reboot because things still felt disjointed. We didn't get the advancement like they did so much advancement last week and then it stops. See, this is that starting stop storyline with Judgment Day. That just gets really annoying because when used to think the ball is going to start rolling with Judgment Day, they all pull it back and it's like I said, very, very annoying because this is where you expect things to roll forward. But we did get some bread crumbs and they are big crumbs. Like I said, it's good.

1:01 It's starting to feel like a full slice of bread pretty soon, but it's still bread crumbs. But we did get that. I'll see if you all ever saw caught it. What I caught tonight regarding Dom and we had the pre and like I said, pre route discourse and draw discourse and let's go ahead and get started if I can ever get my notes up. So wrestle features and and a lot of the other bigger wrestling accounts was having to was tweeting out that Dom hadn't won a single main roster. Madison beating John Cena at a PLE and that was at last year at Survivor Series and Dom discourse was biking hard on the X2 day.

1:46 Like I said, it was just a full on fan civil war going on. You got Liv fans wanting Liv to do a blaming Dom and then Don's fans were just upset about Don's fuse getting taken away. I didn't really see a lot of, well, I take that back. There was a lot of Dom fans that finally see the issue with Liv's booking. Like I said, she's turned into a big for Texas and a black hole of sucks similar to Ria if you remember 2024. And it's just like it's pulling everybody's booking now and you can't keep going like this. If you're going to keep going with Liv and Dom Dom needed to be up there with her as relates to booking and he's not tonight.

2:30 Who was what was done doing? He barely said 3 words, barely one sentence, but who was talking doing the most talking Liv. And that's the issue if you're going to be presenting Bonnie and Clyde, like I said, Bonnie and Clyde, Natural Born Killers, you know, this ride or die situation, then Dom needs to be up there with his booking. I don't expect him to have like them. The both have the strongest booking, but there should be some trade off. He Don should be doing his own feuds, his own storylines and you can be doing things like that. I suggested to someone else, if you're not going to be having Dom do anything like Feud could be having Dom recruit possible people for the Judgment Day.

3:15 There is different things you can do. So, but Don doesn't get that. Like I said, Liv just gets everything. He's the one talking. She's getting all the spotlight focus When when you thought Don was finally going to be taking over as just a leader, it just skipped right over him and went to live. And I think that finally hit people hard last week. And I was saying last week we warned you about this. It shouldn't have been Liz feud should not be thin. She can add flavor to the feud, but it shouldn't be her feud because like I keep saying, if the reverse was happening, you would not like it if Don took over Liz feud Raquel or live with Stephanie. So why is it OK for Dom's feud to be taken over? And so now we're getting we got to Raw, we got that restarted back up and rebooted, but it's still angling because there was no follow through.

4:14 Are you going to have Finn attack JD to him out, but then you don't have Finn come out after Dom wins to attack Dom again or attack Finn or dim fight or anything like that. See, there was no follow through there. So it's just a big tangling thread when they could have been doing so much more. So that was the discourse on the X and it's just been really fascinating because I said I called that last year also pre wall when they the WWE was announcing 3 and page were going to be a raw. She did this big old yawn emoji. Me, I'm like, woman, you're the one pushing Raquela Roxanne to the to the tag titles and then here you are with a yawn emoji. But then Roxanne, if you've been looking at her social, she posted, she posted her peep was inspiring me and thanks for walking so I can run.

5:02 It was the same announcement, but peep what she did. She did the judgment day scales emoji, which is those black scales. Everybody uses that a judgment day. She used a black heart and a star. Now star girl because she is star girl. We I know about the star, but her including the black heart is interesting because we've seen that with Dom using a black heart and we've seen Liv do a black heart. So caveat and poor. We have seen Liv and Dom use the black heart. Read initially went to black some time last year, I want to say, but it was just really interesting. We have Roxanne kind of talking up the Judgment Day, which ties into her calling up family during the International interview. But it's just really interesting to see her use that particular emoji because I was expecting Star, I expect Judgment Day scales.

5:55 But a black heart is really interesting. And as I have been noting for a while, I haven't really been putting it out there because somebody's going to be saying, well, no, he's nice. He's too busy for social media, even though he set that baseline. So I'll say it here, Dom has been super, super, super, super quiet on social media. He does stories and then that's it. Has it been posting to the ex? He hasn't really been reposting their stories or liking anything like that. And as y'all know, from 2024, he used to be on the ball with that. I'm not expecting him to be reposting things immediately because I thought that was because you could time it two years ago on how fast he would like her stuff.

6:39 But now you don't see that in here. Now he's just been quiet and it's just and it's just been odd. Now I've the meta version for this is that I do think maybe they're kind of resetting his response time. So whenever he finishes with Lib Dom, you won't have that same expectation. You won't be expecting Dom to reply to to social media post this quickly because he pretty much crashed it with this. And I get that, but it's just really interesting. Like I said, it's just something to keep an eye on and he has been posting different stories so he is still active. He's just not liking their stuff anymore, especially on the X. And like I said, it's Dom fan civil war, like dolphins versus little fans Civil war. Even Don fans who liked lived on are done with him after getting ejected from the pen feud.

7:28 And it's just, it's just been like I said, it's just been hilarious to me. Fans coping by having lived on break from judgment Day. And I don't see how that happens because you're not building them up properly as a couple. I could see live not versus the Laurel, Bonnie and Clyde, Natural burn killers if they were getting the proper build up. But they're not. So Caleb says they just posted to the ex. What did she say? Let's see. Finn says really, Finn? JD said. Finn says JD really was a bobble head tonight. Oh my gosh. And Liam was posting nobody better not touch her. Me like you you. She's posting all that. But was she out there for him?

8:09 No, it's that's like it's such a sure gin moment. Let's see. And then we got the spoilers pre show where I do what things were going on. And I was got really concerned because we did hear that it was going to be Dom versus the original El Grande Americano. Where did AAA make a championship? And then when they started doing promos regarding it, I was I got really concerned because usually when they start doing that, that usually means some kind of title change. I would not have put it past the WWE to do a title change to put the AAA belt on original El Grande Americano because once it goes rolls into their mass versus match match in Mexico in the end of May, then I wouldn't put it past them to do that.

8:56 But they didn't. I'm one. I'll get to that later, but I got really, really concerned there because I want to bid. I wouldn't have put it past the WWE to do something like that just to put more weight into that big match. That's mask versus match, mask versus match, mask match in AAA because there's there's a lot of interest in that match. Also. We also got the notice of EO versus Tolbrooka and it looks like EO was not even in main title contention because I was looking because once they announced that match, it looked like EO might be in staying around. I see now she could pivot and go after Liz world title but just by them having that match and not having EO even address Lib or mention anything about titles or title or anything like that, EO effectively removed herself from world title contention right now. So we have live still not having a challenger. Meanwhile was saying on Friday you have Smackdown where Rhea has Jay coming back after her, she has JC Jane after her she was looking at last legend and they she has a lot of challenges.

10:11 You could even slot in Charlotte two face Ria, or you can slot in a little Lexa or any of these other people like Julia. You could do any of them. And then here on Raw, there's nobody because they're pretty much forcing everybody else to be either in I see title contention with Becky or the tag team. And then Bailey and Lyra didn't even show up today. So this challenger pool just gets even thinner. I'm not even sure who could step up because they were saying Nikki, but I still think she still got a jacked up ankle. Unless she's miraculously healed to the point where she can start fighting, but even then that's just a stopgap challenger that's not even done.

10:54 That's how I was two years ago. But let's get into raw segment wise. We have the first segments where scrap Daddy Adam Pierce is talking to El Grande, Americano Original and the Creed brothers. I forgot their names, but them forcing them into Mass was hilarious because it barely, I think it barely that one of those masks, barely Brutus's face, Brutus face. So it's like you got a mass barely hanging on the Creed brothers while El Grande Americano. Originally I was talking to Adam Pierce and then here comes Liv rolling up. She barges into the conversation and then she's speaking up for Dom. He's the hottest rising star.

11:34 What have you done for him, yada yada yada. He's just talking. Dom is not saying anything and El Grande was like, hey, stay out of it. And then Liv is just dismissing El Grande and we're and then Dom just does his one line of the night where he's calling El Grande. You're not even a real luchador, which kind of contradicts what happened with between him and El Grande last year because he sent El Grande on that path. But got digress. Then this is where Pierce uses his own his own words against her and turns this into a Dom title defense where he has to defend the AAA mega championship against El Grande Americano region now and Levis. That's not what I meant. And that ends that segment.

12:17 Like I said, Liv just pretty much set up Dom. And that's why I got really concerned that that's why I got really concerned that Don could lose that title because you could do that. You could just have Liv set things up and then Don lose the title. And like I said, I wouldn't put it past the WWE to do something like that. But it didn't happen. But you can see what happened. Liv came in talking a lot of stuff, talking a lot of shit and got Dom into a title match that he didn't want. And again, this is that whole thing. Y'all remember when JD was trying to talk on Don's behalf? So you got JD that will try to talk on Don's behalf, which where he wasn't trying to where he was trying to get Dom into his rematch.

12:59 And then you have Lib here who talked a lot of crap and then got Dom. He had to forge the fit and that was my big argument today. Ben took out JD, but Lib was the one who talked the big game. If you're going to be Bonnie, where where were you? She wasn't out there and she hasn't been out there. He's gay. They, I wouldn't say she well, she helped with him retain, but that was mostly about her. Everything just seems it's about her nowadays. Her helping Dom reclaim the Intercontinental title last year was about her. And then she's done nothing since. And then he lost the Intercontinental title because she supposedly knew what Fed was up to. So is what it is. Then we roll into the Raquel, Roxanne and Bree and Page promo. Roxanne opened up with the personal connection to Breeze and he was going to tell him Breed that he was going to carry on to the legacy and then she said I was setting the bar too low.

13:55 Basic kills. The re response to Roxanne's are your own legacy. Don't be a footnote for Judgment Day. Don't be lucky to live pretty much Raquel went for the juggler here. She went after Paige, called her comeback girl who fumbles every chance and scandal and I was like, geez, you're going to bring that up? We're going to leave. In the reality era. This is where the ball breaks out and then this is when Will comes out ranch out and hits Breed with a code breaker and pretty much helps Roxana Raquel clean house and they stand tall with titles. And they did. Then that was the end of that segment and the crowd was really, really quiet on that one. So I don't know what was going on with the crowd on that one, but the crowd was just they weren't responding like I thought they would do on that one. And then so this is the justification here. You had Liv yawning earlier and then she's inserting herself back into the title picture or not the title picture, but she's just inserting herself where it's about her again or helping Roxana, Raquel.

14:57 And I do think that this is to keep their them occupied so they don't look and go after her title. But if you could just see that she's just running around trying to do everything just to keep the the focus off her title. And it's just it's just one of those running around things. And then he doesn't have no challengers. So you got that's another point of some fans, just like like where is Liz challenger? It's like she's running into he's doing her everybody else's but her own title. Been easy just to spin it like they gotta just ran so Rooka or the title on that if they wanted to or Neo. But I guess they're just going to keep it hidden until whenever they pull whatever trigger with Roxanne, Raquel, I don't know.

15:41 Then we had the international backstage interview. Not backstage or at least the international interview where they're in a crowd where virus accident is with Lib or Kayla works in and Lib is interrupting Byron to make an introduction about herself. The greatest of all time. And if I hear that one more time, I am going this just going to make my ears bleed. The Lib Morgan, the greatest of all time, yadda yadda yadda. You've heard it before. She's introducing Raquel, but Raquel and my name is her next team champions hands off the bike to Raquel to talk about the titles and Roxanne closed that When we need trust, nobody trusts each other more than family. So here's that family thing spinning up again. Fan got the last word in but Liv is just still talking over about it. He's grabbing a mic.

16:25 It's there is Raquel and Roxanne's opportunity next week because they did say that that's next week is for the women tag team titles next week. So it's their opportunity, but it's live just talking all over everything. So you will see that tag team next week. I'm not sure how that is. I wouldn't be surprised if Roxanne and Raquel show up to smack down this this Friday. And then we had throughout the night we had promo or the mega championship. It's history like when it goes from Tejano Junior to El. He held it by Kingo and just Doctor Wagner and you talking about the lineage and how it's with Dom now. We had a promo with Dom and then we had a video promo with Americano Origin.

17:14 Now that's what I was saying. I got really concerned because usually when they spin that up, that means the title change is going to happen. But during Dom's promo, if you notice his purple lettering is back. Now, like I said, it's a breadcrumb, but we've been tracking that purple for a while and he hasn't been going back to purple. Wasn't hasn't been a part of Judgment Day aesthetics since Live Joy. It went from purple, which is original Judgment Day like Finn J, Finn, JD, Ria and Damian, and then it went to black and white. And he's still retaining some of that old stuff, still have the old English lettering in his entrance tonight, but he had the purple lettering in that promo and he had the purple school back and his entrance tonight. So it's just really, so it's just really interesting to see the purple lettering come back.

18:06 And like I said, these are just bread crumbs. We're not getting anything concrete and I don't think we could still get anything concrete like we did in 2020. Four 22,024 is different because they had to do things because Rhea wasn't there because she was injured and they were just making it really blatant that way. It was after dawn here. Now I think they have to do it has to be different and you just and the only thing I wish they would do is make a little bit more clues more apparent. Right now we're just getting a lot of bread crumbs with this. And then we got into the match between Domino Garden American and the original. Dom sent El Grande Americano original hard into that Tumblr and buckle and he flew.

18:50 I'm not sure if that was an accident or that was planned, but old Chad Gable El Grande Americano original just went flying. We got the finish coming where we had Bravo REO from El Grade Americano original El Grade Americano Ludwig edition came out to interfere. And then we got the Kree brothers to fight them off and then El Grade Americano, it was pretty much interfering where El Grande Americano was reaching for his mask. And that's when dog was able to hit the 619 on El Grande Americano to limited position for the frog splash. Doms hits the frog splash 123. Dom retains. Prior to this match, Dom, like I said, I was walking out with JD with it to come out. So we've got that thread back of been still messing around with Judgement Day.

19:40 But after this match, we didn't see Finn come back out. We didn't get any kind of stare down. We didn't see Finn try to take Dom out again. We didn't see Dom fight Finn. We could have had a brawl here because you know, we could have just had a simple brawl between Finn and Dom just to keep that going. But it was. But nothing happened. So we had Finn take out JD where he couldn't help Dom and Dom was on his own. He won on his own because Liv wasn't there. After she said he set the whole thing in motion. But we don't get nothing to follow up with Finn. So it's just a really big dangling thread. And that wasn't then that's another annoying part. If we if we're rebooting everything back to where it should be, where it's between Dom and Finn, where we can actually use their history in this feud, then why did you not just have Finn come out after the match? Have Finn come out to the match and attack Dom or just have Dom, if Bin comes out there, it attacks Bin. Just have a brawl.

20:42 But they didn't do that. So we just have a really big dangling thread there. So what was that? My final observations on this is just Liv is just doing the most to keep Roxanne and Raquel occupy, give him A tag team title match. Now their eyes are on Bri and Page instead of her title. Liv is running around doing the talking for everyone. Dom could barely speak. Roxanne and Raquel get shots in, but Liv is making everything about herself. Everything is just being controlled by her where nobody can really get what they really want to say. Then they still targeting Judgment day broadly, but nothing is landing with Don specifically. So that's what I'm saying. It looks like it wants to reset, but it didn't.

21:23 There's no clear payoff beats connecting here. Dom wins alone where he he's just pretty much on his own with the wind. And I'm glad he won and I'm glad he's he won on his own and even with the interference with from all the Grande Americanos and their associates and Los Americanos. But it's just really, it's just really interesting just to see him out there by himself live. There was, I know why JD wasn't out there, but there's nothing there. It was just it just he won. That's it. And like I said, I think this was this is what was a reboot for Dom. They saw the the discourse on the X and on social media and oh, we need to do this to re establish Dom and get him a big win. So the discourse dies down.

22:07 But the discourse isn't going to die down. It's going to keep spinning up, especially with if they keep going like they are, it's going to keep going. And like I said, we have the purple lettering and Roxanne social media post. So like I said, bread crumbs, but that's it. Just it was only just bread comes and that was raw. We have to see next week. Like I said, I am not telling anybody to be patient with the storyline because Lord knows I can't tell anybody to be patient. I don't like that word. I like the terminology. We've been dealing with this storyline for years at this point. I can't tell anybody to be patient. We'll just have to see what happens next week. Are we going to keep going? What happens with this women's tag team match? What happens with Dom, What happens with everything else? We need to see what's going on there. I'm hoping that it advances for if we're going to pull a trigger at clash, at clash in Italy, clash in Paris, please just get the ball rolling on that.

23:04 If it's going to be SummerSlam, we still need the beats. So I'm just going to take this raw as a reboot. It wasn't the most exciting, but at least it rebooted Dom to something where he kind of was reestablished and that's all we can asked for at that point at this point. But that's raw.