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00:00All rise for Queen Jax, who squashed a woman with her bottom.

00:05All rise for King Gunter, who beat a man without his shoulders on the mat.

00:12But most of all, all rise for this 360 degree revolving drone shot of Logan Paul jumping

00:20off the top rope outside.

00:21I do not miss you, Kevin Dunne.

00:24I'm Oli Davis, and this is my review of King and Queen and Influencer of the Ring.

00:36The pre-show match saw Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill defend their women's tag team titles

00:40against Candice LeRae and Indi Hartwell, not Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark, who won a title

00:45shot on Monday's Raw.

00:46When putting on shows in Saudi Arabia, WWE has female performers cover themselves from

00:51head to toe, rather than their usual, more revealing ring attire.

00:55Yet somehow, covering all of Jade Cargill's muscles up only made her look more muscly,

01:01the forefront of change.

01:03Usually when Bianca Belair gets her knee worked over, I check out a bit.

01:07It's done a lot, and always builds to a predictable comeback or hot tag.

01:11But the way we're so entertaining as goofy heels, with Indi mocking Bianca by twirling

01:15her own hair around, I was really into it.

01:18The action picked up significantly after Cargill's hot tag, and the champions retained

01:23with their awesome new tag team finisher, a wheelbarrow DDT into a leg press wheelbarrow

01:28suplex.

01:29That should've been the best finish of the night.

01:31But nothing can escape Nia Jax's hole.

01:36The main card bizarrely opened with the unadvertised celebrity match of Britney Spears vs Liza

01:41Minnelli.

01:42The Crown Prince wants what the Crown Prince wants, I guess.

01:44This was actually Becky Lynch taking on Liv Morgan for the Women's World Championship.

01:48Morgan was in her red standard OOPS I DID IT AGAIN catsuit, but I thought Becky's

01:54tuxedo-like outfit was just her ring entrance gear.

01:59And then she kept wrestling in it.

02:00It was a bit like watching a piano maestro.

02:03Costumes aside, this was a good match that became great with the Judgment Day Intrigue

02:07finish.

02:08Becky suddenly paused in the disarmour because she was distracted by Dominic Mysterio's

02:12hairstyle appearing at ringside.

02:14Was he here for her, or for Liv?

02:16We still don't know, although it's definitely Liv.

02:19Because he slid a chair into the ring behind the referee's back, which was just close

02:23enough to Lynch to make you still think he could be on her side.

02:27Mysterio distracted the referee, maybe to help Becky, maybe to help Liv.

02:31It's Liv.

02:32For Morgan to hit a DDT on the chair, an Oblivion, and get the 1-2-3 to become the new Women's

02:39Champion.

02:40Becky's reign was just transitional.

02:42A smart move to get over Liv as a more credible champion, not just winning it in a battle

02:46royal, but by beating a main eventer like Lynch, albeit dirtily, and Domily.

02:52Even in the post-match, Dom was selling it like it was a mistake, and they never celebrated

02:56together.

02:57Becky was later seen arguing with Dom backstage in confusion, and said that she's going

03:01to have a rematch on Raw.

03:03Something is definitely up here, and I think it leads to Rhea Ripley and Damian Priest,

03:07the last two original members, getting kicked out of Judgment Day.

03:12For a new era of Finn, Dom, JD and weirdly Carlito to be led by Morgan as Judgment Day

03:212000.

03:22The storyline character work continued in the next match, with the Alpha Academy faction

03:27drama providing the emotional backdrop for an excellent triple threat.

03:32Sami Zayn and Chad Gable just wanted to fight each other near the start, so Brunson Reed

03:35would cut in and be an absolute monster, getting the best of a Tower of Doom, and also somehow

03:40reverse DDTing Chad and Urunagin Sami on him at the same time.

03:46We got a triple ankle lock, a triple German suplex, but we didn't get a trio of Alpha

03:51Academy members on the same page.

03:53Chad had already stopped Maxine, who was dressed entirely in gold, from being at ringside,

04:00and Otis couldn't bring himself to clothesline Sami.

04:03And after Chad fired him up with a slap, he ended up accidentally taking out Gable instead.

04:09This let Sami crawl back into the ring, hit Halluva Kick on Reed and retain.

04:14A terrific match that also neatly furthered the Chad and Otis storyline.

04:17There was also a brief QR code flash for Uncle Heldy which takes you to a scary video I wish

04:23I hadn't watched, because it's now late at night and I'm in our studio building

04:26all by myself.

04:29I was already a little bit on edge after watching that snuff film, also known as Nia Jax squashing

04:34Lyra Valkyrie.

04:44Usually when we use the word squash to review wrestling matches, it's about a quick one-sided

04:48win to make a wrestler look very good at the expense of the squashed other.

04:53It's rarely used in the more literal sense, as in, oh my god, Nia Jax just squashed Lyra

04:58Valkyrie.

05:00The Queen of the Ring final was a classic tale of powerful monster heel vs the speedy

05:04young bird lady.

05:05Lyra would dodge or run around Nia's moves, while Jax occasionally would just power through

05:10her.

05:11Both women worked really well.

05:12Initially, most of the crowd heat was directed at booing Nia as the heel, but as the match

05:17progressed, it became just as much about people investing in Valkyria as the underdog babyface.

05:23She wrestled really well.

05:25Until out of nowhere, because I thought we were a few moves away from the finish, Lyra

05:29was kicking at Nia's legs on the second rope, when Jax just dropped herself on her

05:35chest, making her more one-dimensional than 2012 Usos.

05:40It was honestly a fantastic finish, both hilarious and awesome at the same time.

05:45Triple H presented Nia with the crown afterwards, where she said she's going to make us all

05:49angry by becoming the WWE Champion.

05:52Which is Cody's belt.

05:53I assume she means she'll face Bayley at SummerSlam.

05:56The main card of this premium live event was five matches long.

06:00In the history books, however, I want it to be recorded as five matches and Randy Orton's

06:05entrance.

06:06He took forever to get into the ring, which I can only assume was because he didn't

06:10want to take a Gunther chop.

06:11But you can't prolong the inevitable, and Gunther is nothing if not inevitable.

06:18All the matches were really good on this show, but this was the match of the night for me.

06:22At the start, it felt like Randy and Gunther actually hated each other, with Orton in particular

06:26showing a physical realism not usually part of his style.

06:30It felt like Randy had really come to do a Gunther match, which is outside his usual

06:34comfort zone.

06:35And with that, we interestingly got the opposite reaction from Gunther.

06:39Whereas Randy was snarling and confident from the start, Gunther at the beginning looked

06:44a little unsure of himself.

06:46And why wouldn't he?

06:47While his icy reign was incredible, he never really encountered wrestlers at Randy's

06:52main event level.

06:53And when Orton just absorbed the first few chops, it felt like Gunther was on uncertain

06:58ground.

06:59Little details like that hooked me in right from the start, and it was the little details

07:03throughout that gave this match a psychological subtlety you rarely see in WWE.

07:09It started when Gunther dodged an RKO, sending Randy crashing onto his own back, aggravating

07:14the injury that kept him out for 18 months.

07:17Then Randy would do the snap powerslam, again torquing the injured back.

07:21It was Orton's own offence that was slowly chipping away at him.

07:25Other bits of damage started to appear, like welts on his chest from the original chops,

07:29and his knee being worked over too.

07:32So when Randy finally hit an RKO, he was too hurt to make a quick cover on Gunther.

07:37For the finish, Orton hit another RKO, hurting his own back more, but he couldn't do a

07:42full cover with his injured knee.

07:43He couldn't get that leverage, and when Gunther kicked out, it tweaked Randy's knee

07:47further.

07:48Randy quickly hooked in a Crucifix Pin FROM OUTTA NOWHERE, and got the win to become your

07:53new King General, and declare he'll be going for the World Heavyweight Championship at

07:59SummerSlam.

08:00And that's it.

08:02Match of the Night.

08:03Great subtle storytelling, and an excellent way to put Gunther over.

08:08Yes, but just one more thing… yeah, Randy's shoulder was massively off the mat.

08:14The commentators didn't bring it up, and the replay tried to hide that it had happened,

08:18implying that this wasn't intentional.

08:20It's such a shame, after such a meticulously worked match, that the finish was so glaringly

08:25screwed up.

08:30But just one more other thing.

08:31This entire match was about small details.

08:35Perhaps this was intentional.

08:37Gunther is going for the World Heavyweight title at SummerSlam, but I expect Cody vs

08:41Randy Orton for that show's main event.

08:44If Orton gets to say Gunther never really beat him, it protects Orton for the Rhodes

08:48match and, hopefully, means Gunther will have an immediate programme for when he wins the

08:54belt.

08:55Even if it was a botch, if it means we get Gunther vs Randy again for the title at Bash

09:00at Berlin, botch away.

09:03Gunther will likely be facing Drew McIntyre for the title at SummerSlam, because Paul

09:07Levesque then announced McIntyre is cleared, and he'll face Damian Priest at next month's

09:12Bash at the Castle from Glass Cow, Scotland.

09:16And the main event saw Cody Rhodes defend only his WWE title against US Champion Logan

09:21Paul.

09:22Where there will definitely be absolutely zero brass knuckles used.

09:26See?

09:27Michael Cole has them.

09:28There's no way that cheating heel will cheat.

09:31Ok, it's time to do that thing again.

09:37Goddammit Logan's so good, I'm going to stop even calling him a celebrity or an influencer

09:41now.

09:42He's a wrestler.

09:43He's got the athletic ability, the selling, the psychology, the charisma, the timing.

09:48He's perfect, and he's also the perfect main event player for these Saudi shows.

09:52You'll have a fun time watching him, and he doesn't really affect the larger story

09:57you're trying to tell over the year.

09:59Midway through the match, Cody started beating up one of Logan's prime guys for another

10:03to slip Paul an extra set of brass knuckles and punch Cody in the gut.

10:08Michael Cole got so angry about this, it made me think we're getting Logan Paul vs Michael

10:12Cole at SummerSlam.

10:13Logan kicked out of a crossroads, everyone does.

10:16Cody kicked out of a crossroads, even him.

10:18Cody hit a Cody Cutter onto the announcer's table outside.

10:21And then we got it.

10:23The best thing in wrestling all year.

10:25Better than the main event of WrestleMania 40.

10:28Even better than Nia Jax squashing Lyra of Alkeria.

10:31Logan hit his Frog Splash off the top rope through the commentary desk, and a drone filmed

10:35him Bad Boyz style all around.

10:37I thought I couldn't love anything more than that 8K camera they do for the ring announcements.

10:42Back in the ring, the ref took a bump.

10:44Cody got a visible pin, but Logan hit a low blow that dastardly heel, whereupon he revealed

10:49the brass knucks he still had in his pants.

10:52And here was me thinking he was just really happy with that drone shot.

10:55But that guy stopped him.

10:57You know, that guy.

11:00The guy.

11:01The guy from Saudi Arabia.

11:03He did the guest ring announcing.

11:05Yeah.

11:07That guy.

11:09Cody hit three crossroads and retained.

11:10Yes, the local celebrity finish made it feel very House Show-esque, especially when Corey

11:15Graves would've made far more sense standing up to Logan for Michael Cole, but it was still

11:19a really enjoyable match.

11:21King and Queen of the Ring is 80%.

11:25Go celebrate Cody's win by watching my video essay on the crazy story of Cody Rhodes.

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