 What's good Josh boros back again with another video? So We're back with another thoughts and opinions for this time for payback 2023 man shout out to everyone else part of live stream part of the chat you guys were Amazing ain't kind of weird and chat y'all going crazy, but we had a good time Nevertheless this show was a mixture of some great stuff and then just some stuff that just did not land Like it was supposed to Honestly, it was one of those type of situations where not every match was gonna be as you know great as some of the other ones but Some of these matches I was expecting a lot more from and I feel like the fans then it were in attendance a few of these matches They they just weren't there energy wise. So we're gonna go through this I took some notes tried to take as much notes as I possibly could try to get through this Thoughts and opinions video as smoothly and quickly as possible for you guys not trying to take too much of your time Let's get right into this one man. So we got to start with the steel cage match between Trish and Becky Lynch now I'm I I've been on record saying I have not cared for this feud I still have not cared for this view, but I will say this Surprisingly, I Really enjoyed this match and these ladies put on a hell of a show They went out there and put their bodies on the line to entertain us if this match was on Summer Slam I would have been okay with it. This was actually great way to start off the show crowd was high for it It got me into it even more towards the end for sure. I enjoyed this and the women went crazy. There was a spot early in the match where Trish Stratus was getting to her head around into the steel cage by Becky Lynch and Afterwards, I want to say this may have been that spot after what there was a huge wealth on Trish Stratus Forehead it was Visibly just blown up. So the fact that she had the battle scars and and to prove how You know tough she is that's you know got to give credit where credit is due and I believe this is Trish Stratus Very first ever steel cage match. So that's quite interesting. But that that wealth on her forehead definitely looked Painful There was a one spot where Trish was getting over the steel cage about to kind of you know I guess you could say jump down But obviously Becky was able to catch her and it was and she was in one position where her body Kind of laid down against will I kind of fell through like you know She's hanging at the top of the cage and her knees are at the top of the cage So she kind of falls back and I was like yo that I don't know how Strong her knees on but that made me cringe just off of hanging upside down by your knees Why is all your weight is just dangling on the side of the cage? I thought that was kind of crazy. I don't know how she was able to do that without hurting her knees But she was up there and then it turned into Pretty much Bexy. I said Bexy Becky Lynch superplexing her as as Trisha's laying on the top of the cage and Becky Lynch is at the top rope She's have her in a position to superplex her from the top of the cage all the way down to the ring mat below just Props to the ladies for taking that spot that was that was a holy-ess moment if I do say so myself Then At this point, I was really surprised that even Becky was able Trish was able to kick out because I thought the mattress done you would think the match would been done there but she was able to kick out and of course Any typical WWE steel cage match or just still cage match in general is supposed to keep people out of it But somehow people find their way to get into the steel cage match Zoe gets involved or whatnot as Becky Is climbing a cage Trish starts crawling towards the door to get out the cage Becky stops her grabs her legs and then that's when Zoe gets involved and is trying to pull Trish out to help her win Oh, what not ultimately it doesn't happen that way. I believe Zoe swings the door in Becky Lynch's face. She gets in gets in the ring. Oh what now it's like a two-on-one situation No disqualification Becky ends up closing the door or whatnot and Becky ends up hitting her with the the manhandled slam and then This was a nice spot as well They end up Trish ends up going to the top of the cage or whatnot Becky chases her hits her with the manhandled slam from the top rope not the top of the cage But from the top rope and to get the one two three win. So good win Obviously should be done with the feud and moving on forward to something else We will see whether she ends up facing Rhea at some point or they save that for a later day We don't know who the next few days, but we'll see what happens there But some interesting things happen. So the match is over we cut back to Zoe trying to help out Trish Trish doesn't want her help. She's all battered up and bruised up Trish ends up slapping Zoe Zoe still trying to help her and At that point Trish pushes her and Zoe is like, alright enough of this she closes the cage door or whatnot and Preceeds to hit Trish with this. I love her finisher the 0 360 I say 0 360 the Z 360 such a beautiful move hits her with it rips off or it takes off her Thank You Trish shirt and walks out. So maybe Maybe they're setting up a few with Trish and Zoe since now Zoe is done with Trish stratus We will see how that happened, but it's gonna be interesting to see what they do with there Maybe that can help so we get over a little bit more We will see but overall first match quite enjoyable great way to start off the show. So next We have LA night versus the mids was the next miss was next but My boy John Cena was out there, you know John Cena the host of payback So he goes out there crowd loving him what not then the miss comes out there He interrupts John Cena as he's given a promo or whatnot and it turns into John Cena Ultimately becoming a special guest referee for this match because he was trying to take advice from the miss This miss has done a lot of hosting duties himself and he's like you got to be spontaneous You got to get into the action. So that's how John Cena ends up getting a random referee shirt from somewhere some guy gave it to him at ringside in now He's a special guest referee for LA night in the miss once LA night music hit crowd goes crazy as you expected and This was a fun match, I enjoyed this match I do not think you need it John Cena, but maybe there's something they can there's a story They may end up telling we're gonna talk about that in a few Anytime LA night hit any type of offensive move. It was it was exemplified with a yeah crowd was just pro LA night I Want to say Cena at one point wasn't really doing good rev duty because when they were outside Fighting outside and ring he wouldn't count them out He wasn't doing a one count to count nothing He was just kind of letting them brawl and then they would get back in the ring But then he started to try to pick up his refereeing skills at one point When they finally got back into the ring John was getting a little bit rough with LA night on the five count, you know how he was stomping What's the name? Ellen I was stomping the Miz in the corner, you know crowds going crazy and he you know As a ref you supposed to give them a five count and then they got to break it up and LA that wouldn't try to break it up So he kind of he at first see you know who you removed LA night LA night kind of spun off of them Went back to the corner start stomping out the Miz attacking the Miz and then The second time John got a little bit more physical like hey, you gotta listen to me and then that's when LA night and John Cena started having a back and forth and I was enjoying that he was talking I'll give them who you are and it almost cost LA night to match there because of the distraction. He was having The Miz was trying to get a cheap roll up by holding the second ropes and it was funny because John saw it So he kicked his arm and he had to get your arm off that second rope and then the Miz ended up getting distracted Going back and forth with John Cena and LA night was able to capitalize a little bit from that so LA night as In a bad situation. It looks like the Miz is about to Get the upper hand here and he looks at John Cena and he hits him with the you can't see me to allow coarse booze Disrespecting John But ultimately it didn't work but LA night was able to get the clean win and Crowd went crazy as expected. It was a fun match I enjoyed the match for what it was gonna be interesting to see what they do for it going forward because in the ring When he when John Cena was trying to raise LA night's hand He kind of LA night took his hand away like he didn't want to raise his hand So when they go up to the ramp John Cena takes off the referee shirt And then they start talking to each other and the camera can pick up the audio He's like I ain't trying to be your friend or whatever because John was trying to hold out his hand to you know shake his hand I'm not trying to be a friend or what not like you almost cost me that match out there We can go back out there and we can get it going and I like that about like that about LA night He's not just no cookie cutter Smiley face baby face if he has some issues with you He's gonna address it whether the fans are cheering them or not. I appreciate that His back and forth with John ultimately you shook John's hand He raised his hand or what not as a signal, you know the guy won the match got his respect But I hope they do something with that. He's like you almost cost me the match. Don't give a damn who you are That would be interesting It'll be interesting to see what they do with that so but definitely enjoyed the match fun It didn't need John Cena, but it was still a fun match Now this is the one match early in the show that kind of died off from me and mainly because we had seen this match a couple Of weeks ago, and I think they just recently added this match like yesterday or today Ray Mysterio versus Austin Theory for the United States Championship. I don't know if I would have put this match on the show I don't think this match needed to be on the show specifically. I would have preferred goop there Versus Chad Gable, but I know that I think they're doing that for all But I would have preferred that to be on the show to be honest with you But I really have to take too much notes on this show on this part cuz the crowd was kind of dead I wasn't really as invested wasn't a bad match per se But it's a match we've seen on Smackdown with these guys already Theory tried to take off raise match. That's a typical heel. We're trying to do it Ray didn't work theory Now I love this signature move I wish it was his finisher move, but theory hit and I believe this is what it's called They hit the torture rack bomb on Ray. I really do wish this was his finisher I believe he was doing an independent scene as well, but it's so beautiful, bro He carries them on the shoulders spins them off and hit someone like a Some sort of like power ball move. It's a combination. I love it, bro That I really wish that was his finisher such a Impactful beautiful looking move ever definitely reminds me of the blue thunder bomb love that move But he didn't get the win there and I also put cloud is kind of dead for this match But ultimately Ray won and then that was pretty much it that that was it, you know Over and done didn't take too much time. They didn't really expound on anything. Don't know what you do with Austin theory I just think he needs to get off television for a little bit and y'all need to do something to his character because It's not really working right now. And I don't know what they do with Ray I don't know if they're gonna have a few with Santos at some point, but we'll see now the match of the night and Honestly, I would put this as one of my favorite matches from them in this time of rain outside of their match They have with the Usos at WrestleMania night one. This may be their best match KO and Sami Zayn versus Finn Balor and Damian Priest in a street fight match and Boy, I have notes for days And I don't even think I took all the notes because it was just that great Let's get right into it fantastic match favorite match of the night for me Just go over some of the highlights Sammy jumping over in the top rope to take out the judgment day Why Kevin Owens was getting jumped Sammy jumped over the top rope took out both of the judgment day members KO ripping off his shirt to show he had a Terry funk shirt underneath underneath Rest in peace Terry funk and boy that KO embraced the Terry funk Vibes tonight. This was definitely a tribute to him because he showed out KO was going crazy with the stumps to Damian Priest when they was in the ring I mean, he was just stomping him just for 30 seconds straight just going crazy Stomping the mud hole love to see it. Obviously if I'm KO per storyline wise these guys injured me a few weeks ago I think I'm gonna take this a little bit personally All right, then as you expected with judgment day in the numbers game Dominic gets involved in the match KO and Sammy at the Dominic gets involved They disappear off-screen because now they're in the crowd area about production They disappear off-screen and they come out with the with hockey jerseys on Hockey sticks, but this time KO is bleeding. I don't know what he was bleeding from but he was bleeding Perfusely there was no ref an official to stop the blood So they had no other choice but to film it But he was bleeding Perfusely and it was a beautiful sight because you don't see that much nowadays in WWE with street fights I've always felt it's a street fight still cage match or whatever Something involved in no rules. It should be a little bit of color from time to time This was perfect It made this match that even more fantastic when you see him rise with with this jersey on But he's just bloodied up and they start beating them up with the hockey sticks Once again, I don't know what spot he ended up bleeding from I may have to check it out again But that was crazy. They fight off Dominic in the back or not They start beating him up and Dominic runs away love to see Dominic get beat up They get back into the ring and this this is such a beauty. I love this move by Sammy He rarely wins with it Sammy hits Finn baller with the blue thunderbomb onto a stack of chairs Such a beautiful spot. Look painful then Sammy Was sit spying first onto some chairs placed in the middle of the ring. They were set up You know like side by side so it's like a bed of chairs and Damian priests flip Sammy right onto the chairs. Oh my goodness the pain. Oh, just brutal brutal spot KO has that dog in them in this match I had to put that out there because KO when Sammy was taken out. It's two on one and KO is still Fighting bro. He's still fighting them off Sammy hits a scent on off the kickoff announce table where the where the announce team is for the kickoff show They get to that area. Oh what now you see the announce table and he hits a scent on Sammy hits a scent on off of that I believe that was to Damian priests and Finn. I'm not I don't remember. I think it was one of them or both of them and then Of course at this point Uh Dominic gets involved again But KO says I'm gonna I've had enough of you Dominic So he starts beating them up by the production area XLR cables and stuff right next to the kickoff announcement table And he lays them on a table and then he climbs up Where the crowd is that off the balcony and my boy Uh jumps off the balcony In that shit it was high up Jumps off the balcony through Dominic through the table and it looked like Kevin Owens hit most of the ground Then the actual table itself and bro the crowd went crazy I went crazy the chat on youtube went crazy Bruh that that that was a holy s moment That flip off the top of the barricade where the crowd is off the balcony To Dominic through the table Chef's kiss Carnage bro at this point. They was just They stole the show. It wasn't even Close so they get them back and they go back to the ringside all of a sudden jd Uh saves Damian priests in the match because I believe Damian priests got hit with the stunner And I believe he ended up getting hit with the louver kick or whatnot and it was over and then jd saved the match And boy did he pay for it. That's why I said Kevin Owens had that dog Bro, he hit jd with a beautiful clothesline Turned them inside out jd sold it on the on the outside and then He proceeds to pick him up Pop up power. Well, it was just a power bomb Picks him up and power bombs him on the edge of the announce table and it didn't break and jd died Rest in peace jd. He literally just died. I was like, bro. KO got that dog in Hell, bro. Oh my god. That was a horrendous spot on the edge of the announce table JD didn't move no more then all of a sudden Real Ripley comes out of nowhere and spears KO through the barricade. KO's done At that point So now sammy's about to get the job done because fin baller missed the double stump in the ring He's by himself. He's about to get the job done He hits the louver kick on on on fin baller. I'm thinking oh Bro, he's gonna win and then judgment is gonna blame fin baller because he couldn't you know, he He was the reason why he got pinned, you know fin baller got pinned everyone else did their part fin baller got pinned Oh, no, they're gonna blame him and they're gonna retain but nope dominant came out of nowhere hit, uh sammy with the briefcase and Of course fin baller rolls over pins sammy zane and we have new tag team champions for the one two three Crowd was booing like crazy. I was shocked. They actually pulled the trigger And they won they won fin baller got the cover off the assist with once again dominant hitting sammy zane with the briefcase and their title reign is over But fantastic match took so many notes fantastic match That was it Just like that and now all the judgment day members have gold. We have the women's title Dominic has the nxt north american championship North american title and fin and damian priest both have the tag titles there the under speeded tag titles Damn, I was not expecting that It's gonna be very interesting. But that's the story. They wanted to tell Everybody has gold the question is whenever Damian priest cashes in it's gonna be very interesting what happens with that and everybody has gold They're the new top faction in wwe and one point bloodline had all the gold Almost all the gold but now these guys have all the gold So it's gonna be interesting to see what happens But they are building them up as judgment day as the top faction in wwe and I didn't have a problem with it It was fun that 10 out of 10 best match of the night. Go watch that match. You will enjoy it. That was fun And honestly once again, like I said, this is their best match outside samia and kevin ons This is the best match Outside of the match. They had a wrestleman the match they had with Roman and solo was good But the storyline there was it was what was gonna happen with the usos. That was the best thing about that It was a good match for sure That was a fantastic match for sure. But this one This one in my opinion, it's their second best match as For for the titles revolving the title so good. So good So after that, we got the grace waller effect Obviously cody was the guest host and he had a major announcement And we're gonna get right into it cody basically said I pulled some strings in the back And I was able to get j. Uso Hired back in the company and now he's on monday night raw j. Uso comes out huge pop Huge pop And I like the subtle storytelling there Jay Was brought back by cody wrote Because he said he saw something interesting on smackdown Now i'm thinking is cody gonna request a trade and jump to smack down Because if you're doing that then you're trying to finish the story, right? But not yet what they did was have Cody get involved in this bloodline situation Get j back in wwe Ah, bruh Ah, bruh Get them back in wwe And get them involved And if i'm roman per storyline what the hell is going on? Why is cody getting involved in my family business? Why I love it And it creates that dissension Cody Cody that was a good move that was that was a good move That's the probably the best thing they've done with cody in a while in my opinion Is having him do a power play like that to get j to come over to raw And they be cool Very interesting very interesting someone made a great point. They do war games that survive a series Judgment day members versus maybe cody Cody sammy kevin owens and j usa Now here's the thing Obviously the story they can tell is ko is not going to be trusting So trustworthy of j because he still remembers what j did to him and I hope they bring that up I hope it's not water under a bridge But I do think that will be very interesting judgment day members versus cody sammy ko and j usa I think that's good But we'll see if that happens But that was that was a shocking moment and then obviously Grayson waller talking trash about j and j just super kicks him in the face and the crowd goes crazy for j Love it. Love it. Love it Now we get to rhea and rakel for the women's championship match uh I'ma be honest with you This match wasn't bad Like it looked good on paper and they were doing some stuff in the match But the crowd was just dead after the cody segment and well grayson waller effect segment with cody and j And the match we just saw for the titles in that street fight crowd was It's like they died for this match and it wasn't even bad But I think it the pace was too slow did take some notes here um First and foremost rakel coming out there smiling. I don't like that This person has been beating you up and you finally got in your revenge here and there I wouldn't come out there smiling. I've come out there straight business because this is rhea And I know that's a gimmick But as a baby face you can come out there And you don't have to be all smiles like l.a. Like he's a baby face at this point But he's not smiling when he's coming out there with the miss All right. That's all I'm saying. I would not say she got to be mean muggin But serious because you're facing rhea and you know how dangerous she is So I would have preferred to not doing that. But that's just a personal preference Uh, I would say this rakel looks formidable to rhea. Rhea couldn't run her over in this match as she should not um Rhea couldn't even close line rakel to make her fall. They were telling that story like rakel is a tough opponent Rhea ends up hitting a very beautiful drop kick. She hits multiple beautiful drop kicks on rakel Hits a square in the face with the slow mo cam. I'm like, god Damn, but that was a beautiful drop kick. She hit on rakel um, and at some point uh, I believe something happened with rhea's nose ring where she started bleeding from her nose and she was She was embracing. She was blowing out blood like blood a snot like it was just like she just blowing it out On the ring like she even talking trash like you made me bleed like I was like, okay Looking really looking like a bad ass. I'm like, all right. I'm rocking with it But the thing is they're hitting impactful moves. There was a few botches here and there but it was just was slowing Just the crowd was just kind of dead um Rhea ultimately goes for the bad knee I'm surprised she didn't go for that early in the match. That's the story They've been building for weeks of rakel's bad knee. She ends up going for the bad knee And then at some point rakel turns it up starts taking it outside the ring and running it against the ring barricade Throwing her dartner into it into it. Not the ring barricade the ring post dartner towards the ring Post like throwing her head first into it throwing her spine first into it And it was a pretty cool visual of her swinging rhea Just straight to the barricade bro. Just just swung around like a rag doll. It was a cool cool visual But once again dominant ends up getting involved, which costs rakel the match and that's how we win end up with the uh, the one two three victory Rearrotaining because obviously dominant gets involved. I don't know I'm okay if they I don't know I'm not saying I do think they need another match I just don't know. Maybe there's a stipulation of some sort Because I like I said the match went bad. I just think the crowd was just kind of dead and the pace was slow um The one thing I can say Well, rhea's towering it has it hasn't really been that memorable immemorable outside of her winning the title at WrestleMania And it at WrestleMania against Charlotte and they started off slow there, but it picked up it crescendo This kind of just stayed The same place and it started to get a get a little bit better But then they went with the Dominic finish and it kind of faulted off. So I would like to see them have one more match Maybe a stipulation of some sort And maybe people will be invested more and depend on where they put the match at in the next pay review Where they they place the match that could help it out I will give it one more They can continue to few because I mean rhea needs some more people to feel with Credible people that make sense. And I still think Raquel still looks credible there And the main event shinsuke versus Seth Rollins I ain't even taking as many notes as you would think for the main event of this show I was thinking something was gonna happen But it didn't shinsuke versus sef for the world heavyweight championship. Obviously sef does his normal Entrance so you kind of knew that was gonna happen. I did like they created an anime comic style promo Package before shinsuke came out there. It was actually pretty cool actually pretty dope. I like that. That was that was quite quite unique I definitely like that. Um, I was not expecting them to hit the anime style narration with the comic book Aesthetics to portray the story they're trying to tell of shinsuke Putting sef out of his misery into becoming the world heavyweight champion early in the match They came off evenly sizing each other up a lot of chain wrestling They came off, uh, evenly killed like no one seemed, you know, better than the other They was just more so filling each other out Uh, then this is our ayo segment shinsuke started rubbing sef's back and looking at it like it was some Tandalizing, uh Cuisine you just rubbing on it. He was like, yeah, I was like, hey yo Uh, I get that's the back is his injury back is the the target, but damn, bro. Don't rub on my back bro pause. What are you doing? um Then obviously shins starts to target self-smacks with strikes and knees and stuff like that Uh shin throws sef from the barricade onto the announce table as sef was on the top of the announce table While shinsuke uh was laying on the uh Oh, no sef was on the top of the barricade about to jump on to shinsuke by laying across the announce table Shinsuke gets up throws him on to the announce table Obviously sef selling his back from that announce table did not break. They had a strong announce table today Um, I don't think it broke any at one point. The announce table was reinforced um Beautiful frog splash from sef to shinsuke at one point in his match his frog splash was beautiful Heidi got on it was fantastic But once again, there was some highlight moments in this match here and there But the crowd was kind of quiet majority of the match It started to pick up towards the end the pace a little bit I think the pace was kind of slow. It wasn't slow. It's just I don't know It wasn't hitting as you would expect a main event match to hit the crowd was just kind of just sitting there um They started doing trading elbows in the middle of the ring back and forth um and at one point at one point sef is able to catch um Uh shinsuke in a in a position where he could hit the stomp and he hits the stomp And i'm thinking he's gonna at least kick out he hits the stomp It literally came out of nowhere It wasn't it wasn't even like no build up or set up to it. He literally Hits the stomp out of nowhere for the one two three win Over shinsuke like it was no build up. It's just even the framing of the camera angle They weren't even in the center of the ring. They were kind of like at a corner So the camera was kind of close up and all of a sudden you you see him and he's kind of shinsuke It's kind of close to the ropes. So i'm thinking maybe he's gonna grab the ropes or something. No Sef hits the stomp out of nowhere one two three. It wasn't even What no build up and that was it One two three and then not even long after that While sef is in the ring, you see shinsuke in the back just mad So you got hit with the finishing move. You're not even selling it He he was up like within a couple Couple minutes not even out. He was just outside the ring just walking around Like he didn't just eat the finisher. That was so devastating. It took him out that quick That was it. No cash in like people were expecting or predicting from damian priest You would think they would have cashed in because sef is hurt If that's the story they were gonna go but no that was it Hit him with the cut hit him with the stomp one two three um pin victory and sef is still the world headway champion and The show goes off the air That's it. That's how the show ends I was very anti-contacted the match. I wouldn't say it was bad, but it just it had nothing other than the story of sef's back and even then No point did I feel like even though they were going with the sef's back storyline Did I ever feel like shinsuke was gonna win? And it proved me that proved my point because he even reached towards the rope or kick out or nothing He just and once again, I'm all for wrestlers Finisher's being protected. I just think it should be a build up to the finish. There was no building He just boom hit the movie. That was it So I'm all for no, you know He not kicking out or whatever grabbing the bottom rope whatever the case may be I'm all for that if there was proper build up and you're gonna hit the finisher once But I was not expecting the finish just came out of nowhere anti-contacted. That was it but other than that, man The show was okay First half of the show outside of the ray and awesom theory match was really pretty really good That second half it after the grace and waller effect Maybe that is the grace and waller effect after after you sit there sit through that Everything goes downhill, but after the grace and waller effect segment The show never really picked up the steam and energy All right on the scale of one and ten I gave this show at least like a six and a half bro six and a half seven Most likely six and a half because just that main event did not hit bro and honestly in my opinion, this is probably the lowest rated main uh main roster pay-per-view That I've like the lowest rating that I've given the main roster pay-per-view in over a year and a half Everything's been eight nine nine and a half almost tens Since summer slam of last year everything's been like eight and up Maybe sevens sevens and up, but mostly it's been eights and up. This is the lowest I've personally rated the show a PLE in the last almost a year Yeah, it'd be like a year last year from you know saying from last year summer slam to now So if you haven't been out of here Mr. Lois Still some good stuff on here once again that tag team street fight match was fantastic and women's still cage match was really good as Well, there's some decent wrestling on here But it wasn't too much stuff that stood out. So comment down below. Let me know. What's your thoughts and opinions on the show What was your favorite match? What was your least favorite match? Where do you think some of these storylines are going forward? Let me know down below But I appreciate all the love of sport you guys show on channel roto 150 game I am still gonna speak to youtube rest of the world. Appreciate talking to me see our next one. Peace