 Matthew from miscellaneous debris and welcome to a long overdue edition of wrestling on tap yes I have not done one of these since the backlash pay-per-view lots happen since then there's been the superstar shake up there's been the money in the bank pay-per-view rather than dwell on the past let's just look forward to the future and in the future this Sunday lies extreme rule so let's kind of break down the card and see what's going on with some of the storylines that they have created since last time I've done a wrestling on tap episode and see what happens from there so let's let's kind of go over some of the more grown inducing matches that they have bestowed upon us for Sunday's festivities let's start with the Smackdown women's championship match between Asuka and Carmella yes I'm starting off a podcast with this one um it's singles match for the WWE Smackdown women's championship last night they added James Ellsworth to be suspended in a ring above a shark cage now it might just be me but it seems like they've done this a lot recently they did it uh I believe the last time was with Enzo during the match with Big Cass and whoever the hell Big Cass was shooting with at the time the other time was with Kevin Owens he was in a shark cage and you know it just it seems like something that they go to or really no reason whatsoever I mean they they could just ban James Ellsworth from ringside but you know they've been banning people from ringside uh an awful lot lately so I can see why they wouldn't want to do that but just come up with some other reason to not have him be involved in the match if James Ellsworth gets involved he gets fired or something along those lines I I don't know but the the whole shark cage thing is is overdone and I it just seems silly to me but this feud Asuka versus Carmella you know no one expected Carmella to keep the women's championship for this long I don't think me being included and I enjoy Carmella as a performer and as a wrestler which is not the greatest in the ring but I I believe on the microphone she does have talent and she does have something going for her but the problem that I see with this with this feud is that the whole Carmella James Ellsworth dynamic is more based on comedy and you can't do that with Asuka because you can't do comedy with it's like trying to do comedy with with Bobby Lashley or with uh you know with the Undertaker you know it's it the people that you just don't associate comedy with that they try and put in these situations and it just makes everybody look foolish and everybody looks stupid it makes Asuka look weak um from her last pay-per-view effort you know just standing there looking at James Ellsworth for five minutes with a confused look on her face it just doesn't make it it doesn't work for anybody so what I would rather them do is I would rather of them not hired back James I actually know I shouldn't say that I I will never tell anyone to not get a job I'd rather they not use James Ellsworth the way that they were using him I would rather him be a background character and more of a hype person for Carmella rather than have him be involved in things especially with the whole intergender thing I just it's in poor taste you know what can you do but I think that this this feud really does have to end at this pay-per-view you cannot extend this feud into Summerslam with gaining any type of traction or momentum coming out of this so my guess I'm gonna go ahead and pick Carmella to retain the championship going into Summerslam and Asuka moving on from there now let's kind of move into the second grown inducing match that they have put on there and you're gonna be surprised and it's Braun Strowman versus Kevin Owens in a steel cage match I am probably one of the select few people that do not enjoy Braun Strowman at least at this point in time everything that he does to Kevin Owens either healish or bullish I don't understand how people can think that these are are good actions to do yes I understand Kevin Owens as a D bag in his character and he deserves everything that he gets to him but the way that Braun Strowman treats Kevin Owens is the way that a bully would treat someone that is being bullied I I don't understand how he's supposed to be cheered for the things that he's doing you know the turning his car over for no apparent reason whatsoever and then you know putting him into a porta potty and shoving him off the stage number one the whole porta potty thing was just it was silly and it was stupid you know they supposedly it was done because uh a real on big cast was pulled that you know he was claustrophobic and he was locked into a bathroom so supposedly that is why they did it the way that they did beside the point you know the things that he's doing I just I don't enjoy I I they gave him the money in the bank contract which they did not need to do um you know out of all of the participants that they had in the in the money in the bank match you know they they give it to Braun Strowman not only was that confusing to me but he doesn't need the contract he's the one guy in the match that can you know kind of call out a universal championship match or a ww championship match and have a legitimate chance to win whenever he does so the the one person you don't need to put it on they put it on you know it's kind of like uh last year when they put it on Baron Corbin like why the hell would you do that it just doesn't make any sense but Kevin Owens is still money on whatever he does so you know he's trying to he's making the best out of this uh out of this feud I don't see Kevin Owens winning there's there's no possible way that he can I don't want this to continue past this pay-per-view and I don't want to see this uh at SummerSlam in any way shape or form so I'm going to take Braun Strowman winning via you know knocking a cage down and decapitating Kevin Owens and then getting cheered for it moving on to a match that was announced on Monday which was Baron Corbin versus Finn Balor you know this feud is was built on the the same old Finn is smaller than me so you know let's let's point out how short he is and how tall I am you know Corbin's jabs of coming coming up short you know it's it's the same old thing that they have been doing with every single feud Finn Balor has been in and it's just it's tiring you know Finn is the best thing on Raw that's not named Seth Rollins and I'm just this sick of seeing this story and sick of the treatment that this guy is getting in in terms of in terms of writing you know he's great in the ring he's over with the crowd it's it's one of those glass healing kind of things you know it's all the things that CM Punk uh was talking about no matter how good you are in the ring no matter how good you are on the mic and don't keep me wrong I'm not saying that Finn Balor is great on the mic because they're that that is far from the truth he is serviceable on the mic but great or even good is is not there which is probably why he's not getting a bigger push than he than he needs to be but in that case get him a manager get someone to talk for him you know but the the the other things that I just want to get in really quick um the what they're doing with Baron Corbin as Constable Corbin I think has rejuvenated his character in ways that we would never have even fathomed you know six months ago the haircut is great his he's got more personality which would which I enjoy and that's what Men's Rookman looks for more in in wrestlers and I think that this is a perfect perfect spot for him because he can be his dickish self because that's who he is in real life he's a he's a he's a dick so I think that he is great in this role and I do want to see this continue I don't want to see this matchup continue that's kind of be going to be a theme for this for this podcast is not wanting to see these matchups again after after this pay-per-view I'm going to take Finn Balor to win this one uh via the coup de gras and uh moving on to bigger and better things now speaking of moving on to bigger and better things let's talk about the leaders of worlds versus the b team this has been a very very fun and enjoyable feud to watch develop over the over the last few weeks I think Bray Wyatt and Matt Hardy are absolutely fantastic together and I think the b team are just running on all cylinders and I think that they are one of the best things in the tag team division on raw outside of the revival and a op now when they first started you know putting these two teams together I was I was 100 percent certain that they were going that that's this feud was going to lead to the b team doing an ultimate deletion match and being sent into the lake of reincarnation and kind of joining the the broken universe I'm not so sure anymore because the b team are so entertaining and they're getting their they're getting themselves so over with the crowd that you can't you can't ignore that you kind of have to run with it and let it run its course so so they may actually you know go into the broken universe at some point in time but just not as soon as I thought they were going to be I don't see the b team winning in this um I see the deletors of worlds going on to probably face a op or the revival at uh summer slam more than likely a op I would not be surprised if they if they fight the revival at summer slam for the titles as well but yes I'm taking the deletors of worlds and the b team will will feud with either so yeah let's say that let's say with the deletors of worlds pick this one up and then the b team uh go on to feud with the revival turning themselves face in the process and a op challenging the deletors of worlds at summer slam for the raw tag team championships let's go over to the smackdown tag team championships with the blood your brother's uh harper and rowan versus the newly reunited team hell no daniel bryan and kane a couple things that i like how what what they've done with this number one it gives daniel bryan something to do uh for this paper view since he's not going to be in a headlining match um but another thing that they that they're doing is is they're acknowledging the past which is a very very nice nod to a lot of the hardcore wrestling snobs like myself you know they're they're bringing up the fact that kane tried ruin his career they're bringing up the fact that he tried to kidnap brie they're they haven't brought the fact that you know last time daniel bryan was on raw you know kane chokes land the shit out of him and you know left him in a in a heap in and Kurt Angle's office you know it's it's mainly a a hold over for this paper view my guess is that it's going to be leading to daniel bryan versus the miz at summer slam the bludgeon brothers are great as a big man tag team i i really do enjoy pretty much everything that they do harper is definitely the standout of the tag team i don't think rowan gets enough credit for the things that he does he's not he's not the best uh wrestler in the ring he's definitely not the best talker but he but he's serviceable and i think that when you pair him with harper it brings out the best in rowan but the problem is that harper is going to have to move on after after this and i think that rowan is going to be left in kind of in the dust but you know that's neither here nor there at this point i don't think the bludgeon brothers should lose anytime soon and there's a couple reasons for that uh it keeps the titles important if you have a dominant title holder um you know much like how brock lezner has kept the universal championship for as long as he has you know it makes the title mean something the the caveat to that is that you actually have to show up on tv and actually present the universal championship at some point in time but you know i digress um but the second you know another reason why they shouldn't lose anytime soon is that who who's left to really challenge them you know after daniel brian and kane you've got you know the the new day the usos we've seen that kind of seems like old had at this point sanity their heels plus they haven't been developed very well i'll get into that a little bit later the good brothers uh they just they just did that and they'd have to build them up a little bit more uh you know which we'll say you do you do have time between extreme rules in summer slam in order to do that uh but in my opinion the best option is the bar and they haven't been seen on tv recently um which is which is good so when they come back they'll seem fresh and they'll get a good pop you know they you turn them face you let them feud up until summer slam and then at summer slam you have them challenged for the tag team championships have them lose break up shameless and cesaro at that point have cesaro go on a huge singles run after that and let shameless uh he let his neck heal for however long he needs to to heal for since he's got that whole spinal stenosis thing going on but in terms of this match going on here i'm going to take the brothers and brothers to retain now let's go on to roman reigns versus bobby lashley now for any anyone that has heard any one of my uh podcast before i'm not a fan of roman reigns but it's not the fact that i'm not a fan of roman reigns in the ring i do think that he is a good wrestler and he puts on good matches whenever he is on television the the problem is that his personality is just the absolute drizzling shits and that's still the problem with lashley too reigns has has proven time and time again that you know he needs to be turned heel he needs to change just about everything that is roman reigns but it's never going to happen so why try to beat a dead horse over it you know with this feud it's kind of like you know take brock out of the picture insert lashley change two or three words and it's the exact same feud oh oh you you left for 10 years oh you're never here you know it's it's just one of those like uh really this is what you're going with you know it just it just kind of like i'm not even i'm not even mad about it i'm just i have i have apathy for it i'm just sitting here going uh okay like it doesn't make me feel anything you know the only thing that has made me even a little bit excited was just like you know the first two minutes of raw that fucking wwe production team my god man can they sell a match or what oh gosh that would be a dream job of mine getting a job on that production team holy crap the brawl was done it was one of the better brawls that that they have done but again the brawl just like the shark cage it's been done to death it seems like every single time roman has a big match you know they bring out you know like the last two or three times he's he's fought uh brog lesnar they've done they've done the pull apart brawl you know this one was done much better i think with with both men getting you know kind of the equal shots and i thought lashley was just beating the shit out of him at the very beginning of that show and then i was like wow they lashley is really getting the upper hand here i'm wondering why he's getting so much offense and and that you know obviously you know roman coming down the ramp and and then doing the the flip over the ring you know it kind of you know even things i would bet but yeah but the brawl it's just been i mean steve wonder could have seen this thing coming you know with this match it's kind of up in the air i'm actually going to take lashley to win this one and roman continuing his losing streak but i think that this is good i say that roman is never going to turn heel so you know but i do think this is leading somewhere with roman i don't want to say it's leading to a heel tournament because i don't want to jinx it but i do think that they have dropped some seeds recently with roman reigns that he is turning heel and i think that that is going to be the best thing that he could possibly do you can't be a mega face without a good heel run ask any person in the business that either watches the business that listens to podcasts that's been in the business ask any wrestling insider you have to have a good heel run in order to be a mega face it's just it's just part of the growth of a character and i'm hoping that wwe is finally learning that kind of pulling the trigger on it i don't want to count my chickens before they hatch because i i don't want to be disappointed but then again with roman reigns nothing's really going to disappoint me because i i just i just don't care anymore at this point so if they do do something with it great if not you know i'll just sit here and eat my popcorn and my peanut while i'm watching his match and kind of go okay all right that was all right because that's pretty much all it ever does now moving on to bigger and better things let's go to uh jeff hardy versus shinsuke nakamura for the united states championship you know not not much has been done with the build-up of this match because not much could have been done with the build-up of this match because shinsuke nakamura got bit by a dog and was uh not able to be on television for two weeks but you know shinsuke still at his best as a healer i think he's doing the the best work uh in the wwe or nxt for that matter his inring work is you know kind of you know not as good as it as it was an nxt i can't speak that much to his new japan run because i didn't see a lot of it but from what i have heard it's it's not even close to to what he was doing in his new japan run hardy has been showing a bit more hardy ish isms if that's a word that's it's a word no hardy ish isms that that's a new word for for now i i don't know if it's going to lead to a brother brother nero or a willow kind of thing but you know he's just being more jeff hardy and i like that because jeff hardy is different jeff hardy is unique unique different i like it i enjoy it keep on going i think that shinsuke nakamura is going to win this one you need to give him something hardy doesn't really need the united states championship if you if you keep it on him you know that's great you know he's he's a top mid card guy but if you take it off of him build him the correct way you can make him into a top guy on on smackdown because i mean outside of daniel bryan and aj styles who are the top guys on on smackdown as a face you've got jeff you've got randy orton who's next exactly so you know you can put hardy in a top tier spot you know i'm not saying wwe championship but you know at some point in time maybe you can have him do a one-off pay-per-view for a wwe championship maybe you know uh in in december or you know in february i'm not one of the big fours but you know i'm one of the off ones like an extreme rules kind of thing um but you know i i want to i want to see shinsuke nakamura take the united states championship because i think that he deserves it and i think that he will have a good run with the us title let's move on to the only extreme rules match on the show which is the extreme rules match for the raw women's championship with alexa bliss and nia jacks much like how you know steve wonder could see the pull-up or the brawl coming between lashley and roman reins whoever doesn't see the whole extreme rules stipulation and ronda rousey being in the front row if you don't see the interference coming then you either can't see or you don't watch wrestling ever the the build for this has been you know we we need something to tide over the title until alexa versus ronda summer slam that's basically all this is you know like i said ronda buying the ticket and and being in you know being suspended for the 30 days kind of gets her out of the way so you don't have to really deal with anything uh with ronda rousey for this match but you know i mean you can you can pretty much write this whole entire match you know alexa bliss comes down nia jacks is in the ring ronda rousey comes out beats the crap out of alexa bliss and then somehow shape or form nia jacks loses for some reason maybe probably a guy interference from natalia and turn or natalia turning on nia jacks causing alexa bliss to win the match and which leads to nia jacks versus natalia and leads to alexa bliss versus ronda rousey pretty simple cut and dry and let's go to uh what should be the main events of the evening but it's it's not going to be but it should be which is uh dulph ziggler versus south ralands uh for the intercontinental championship drew mech entire will be at ringside uh for this match i love what they're doing with dulph ziggler i love what they're doing with drew mech entire south ralands can you know wrong in my book so i'm really really looking forward to to this match i i've always enjoyed dulph in the ring i really like no drew mech entire in the ring south ralands is on the the biggest run of his entire career if he's not challenging for a major title at summer slam then something is wrong with this world i'm going to to have to say that uh dulph ziggler does retain at this because i do want south ralands challenging for a major title at summer slam now drew mech entire you know i i like the mission statement that they have you know that the that the locker room is complacent you know they just want to come in and collect their paychecks and they don't really want to work and they don't want to put on a good show you know it that works with dulph ziggler because you know he claims to be the show off and he is great in the ring and so is drew mech entire you know to to an extent of of what i've seen you know light years from what he's done in in the earlier run with his uh three mb and from the chosen one gimmicks his nxt run was great i i don't know who's going to be going face and who's going to be going heal when this kind of tandem breaks up uh but i'm enjoying it right now so i'm taking it for what it is and i'm just kind of belong for the ride on this one you know they can they can do whatever they want and i'm probably going to be okay with it but i am going to take dulph ziggler to retain probably with interference from drew mech entire uh you know it's a 30 minute iron man match you know i i i'm just i'm really excited for the match and i really have i have no complaints i'm just really really excited to watch it some notable absences from this pay-per-view uh you've got some mojo the miz uh andrata cnl mess and those are those are notable ones from from smackdown from raw uh mostly the tag teams you know aop and uh the revival uh which have been featured on raw and not prominently but you know enough to make the to make it noticeable that they're not on the pay-per-view you know hopefully something goes on uh with them either on the pre-show uh maybe some interviews uh maybe some backstage segments or something along those lines but the the match that is scheduled for the for the pre-show is a tables match between the new day and sanity sanity's debut has been botched worse than you know a Shane McMahon punch you know uh it's it's rather deplorable what they've done with them but you know the new day deserved better and quite frankly so do sanity but you know it's not sanity's fault for being in the position that they're in you know i blame the writing and i blame the way that they've been presented um new day have proven time and time again that you know if they're on the pre-show they're going to steal the show no matter what i give you the example of their summer slam match with the usos on the pre-show last year still one of the best matches i have ever seen in my entire life go back and watch it i guarantee you you will love every single every single minute of that 23 minute match um but yeah that's uh that's the extreme rules pay-per-view uh just to kind of recap here oh geez i didn't talk about the rusev versus aj styles match uh rusev finally getting a wwe championship match i i can't see rusev winning because you do need aj in the main event of summer slam as the wwe championship um they they've they've had to make rusev more of a heal or as much as you can do that with rusev uh these days with it with the fans being behind them um you know rusev got the win on smackdown which of course you know the psychology leads me to believe that of course that he's losing um my my hope is that adan costs rusev the match which will lead to adan turning on rusev and rusev officially turning face leading to adan versus rusev at summer slam but more importantly i want uh aj styles to headline not maybe not headline but i want aj styles to be defending the wwe championship against samoa joe at summer slam i think that is the match you go with for the championship and whatever they do in this match everyone's going to be coming out better for it uh rusev's gonna be probably gonna get the best match of his entire life because he's working with aj styles you're probably going to get the the breakup of uh rusev day uh with rusev officially turning face and just kind of having him and lana be rusev day adan can be a serviceable heal and then you can move aj styles into a program with samoa joe and i think that that's the best route that they can take um so just to kind of recap here just to kind of recap uh i'm gonna go ahead and take uh alexa bliss over nia jacks i'm taking aj styles over rusev i am taking the deletors of worlds versus the b team i'm taking carmela over osca i'm taking the bludgeon brothers over team hell no i'm taking dolph ziggler over south ralands i'm taking uh bobby lashley over roman reigns i'm taking shinsuke nakamura over jeff hardy i'm taking fin baller over baren corbin and i am taking brown stroman over kevin owens and let's see where it goes i'm excited for the pay-per-view you know it can't be any worse than what backlash was which is the last one that i did it's it's it's it's not a coincidence that i haven't done this in uh in a couple months and backlash was the last one that i did so you guys do the math on that one let me know what you guys think in the comments below if you got any comments concerns criticisms shoot them my way uh wrestling on tap at gmail.com uh or you can hit me up on twitter uh miscellaneous underscore underscore debris that's m i c underscore underscore debris d e b r i s here on the channel you can check out the weekly bros podcast or any other videos i uh posted uh miscellaniously throughout the channel uh until next time you guys take care keep on living that dream and we'll see you soon