what is this tragedy? Reacting to WWE Bad Blood 🔥HOT TAKES🔥

[@NixxNethos]

the crowd booing as soon as hhh mentioned crown jewel and saudi arabia was hilarious

[@Papellxhase]

I hate that Vince signed that 10 year deal smh

[@scottie2hottyringer299]

I really want to make The Simpsons Boo-urns joke here. But I am choosing to take the mature path here.

[@timytimeerased]

dont worry that aint gonna change under TKO, saudis are an infinite money glitch ​@@Papellxhase

[@Aartisme]

It’s funny, I was wondering why HHH looked so nervous. After he mentioned crown jewel, I was like, oh I see why.

[@deathmauler181]

Its good business, people booing one small part of a huge money deal, still pays the bills ​@@Papellxhase

[@cxnnxr_99]

I’m honestly kinda shocked Steve hates the Crown Jewel title given that he adores the Divas and spinner titles 😂 It’s all good tho Steve

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I'm a sucker for oblong plates on titles so that Crown Jewel belt looks really nice to me. Probably has to do with nostalgia over the ROH TV Title that the likes of Ciampa, Jay Lethal, Roderick Strong, and many others held during the early to mid 2010s era of ROH.

[@buckleupteddy]

@ChaoticMeatballTV yoooooo love the videos brother I did not expect to see you here lmao

[@Aj_Ohtani]

@@buckleupteddyI’m always surprised when I see him in the comments😭

[@mikeidone7078]

Apparently even the operators know who Steve’s “guy in Pakistan” is lmao I love it

[@dad9466]

Saudi PLEs are like weird spin off episodes

[@thevoicelesswriter]

That the network forces the creators to do.

[@scottie2hottyringer299]

It’s WWE’s version of “the musical episode”

[@crunchytaco4472]

Bro every time 🤣🤣😂

[@chefchrissmith]

My exact thoughts

[@StonedPriest]

There like the "gas leak year" on Community.

[@AlexanderKahrs]

Someone reminded Triple H about that video game storyline where Night of Champions led to an actual Champion of Champions title, and here we are.

[@antoniocoleman8380]

Svr 2010 vibes 😂😂😂

[@FTB_KY]

Tiffany having a failed cash-in would be stupid especially when the men’s briefcase was wasted already

[@alexramgoonai5881]

I feel like fans forget about Cody vs Seth in hiac. That match was awesome, besides Cody’s peck looking purple

[@JeffVanDam9]

Fuck could’ve sworn this was wrestling juice

[@justusbeets5130]

HHH shouldn't lie. He would have worn that round his head at wrestlemania

[@deadwafflez9685]

I was eating tacos and when Steve said 'old man body' I choked on my lettuce. Good stuff Steve.

[@PW.Skyline.V37]

15:02 that’s what she said.

[@Aj_Ohtani]

OHHH MAN😭

[@CuriousCorduroy]

It’s like they took a diamond ring and hit it with an enlargement ray or something. It’s so oddly shaped.

[@WrestleJuice]

Enlargement ray! 🤣🤣

[@jrmbbr]

Oh man! I did it, mom! I made it to a WrestleJuice thumbnail & video!!! Seriously though, despite the very busy design of the Crown Jewel title, it's not the ugliest title in wrestling history. I'll put it slightly below average. If it wasn't connected to Saudi and with some minor tweaks, it can pass as a World title of a promotion.

[@animedarkskingod]

I actually don't mind the title. But I wish that was a women's midcard title.

[@BBoy4040]

I swear there's not a single Steve video without a mention of Bloodline Vs. Bad Bloodline

[@cdtnplyr]

Well I mean are you watching at all. That’s kinda what’s going on at the moment.

[@BBoy4040]

@@cdtnplyr I get that, but him constantly going "I think this is what's going to happen" when no, it's exactly what they're building to.

[@Bayley4ever]

enjoyed the Punk vs McIntyre match, popped for the bracelet beads spot. I was talking last week with someone at work and we were joking about stuff they could do in the match. Like have real glass in the cage, but never use it, or other silly stuff referencing his AEW days, but then I thought it would be funny if they did the thumbtack spot with the bad and instead of the thumbtacks, have the beads. When I saw that spot tonight I was at work watching, screamed out, they did the spot. LOL

[@alanmartinez7187]

I love your booking idea of Roman finally saying YEET and the crowd goes wild. Hopefully Triple H or someone in creative watches this video. 👍🏽

[@navtektv]

2:13 Someone needs to rewatch Triple H vs Taker Mania 28 or Triple H vs Shawn Michaels 2004 Vengeance.

[@CommodoreFan64]

We have to suffer at least till March 2028 with these Crown Jewel messes 😩

[@IroquoisPliskin86]

Don't be surprised if they re-up that deal after it expires. Hard to turn down that kind of cash and I think they're willing to swallow this bullshit for that kind of money.

[@CommodoreFan64]

@@IroquoisPliskin86 O I wouldn't be surprised, and that's why I said at least till March 2028

[@cosmicvcosmic]

It makes sense for Gunther to beat Cody at Saudi after being eliminated twice by him in Rumble but Gunther 100% will not carry that title like he did with the crown from King of the Ring

[@funknelson87]

The ending of this video was pure cinema…

[@JesseEwiak]

Finn Balor is early 90's Tito Santana and I'm not saying that as an dunk - he's a very good veteran who isn't going to be jobbed out to everyone, but is there to put over new younger (in term of TV time) main event talent, while he still has to use TEW/EWR terms, overness to leak.

[@kami_in_the_skye]

And reliably over vets like that are only ever a couple major moments from being in the world title picture. See Kingston, Kofi. Find a killer hook for turning Balor face again, and he's right back in the mix with a good chance to win it.

[@DrLipkin]

Steve, you should do a tier ranking of every Hell in a Cell match.

[@The2143]

I love standup guy Gunther more and more.

[@Mister-jv6zq]

6:23 This is probably what Vince had envisioned for the Million Dollar Championship back in the day.

[@irrsinnrainer]

If Gunther squashes Goldberg in a few minutes, I would be ok with a match between the two.

[@thecomedicgenius373]

The ending and restart is a great loop😂😂

[@MisterNym]

I cant think of something from the Drew/Punk feud I can tell my non-wrestling friends that would hold their interest. But I can say to them "A wrestler burned down an actual house on TV as revenge for a break in that was also televised" and that creates interest.

[@undertakernumberone1]

the interest being "How's the trial going?"

[@TakerKaneanite619]

They remembered the Cena/Triple H Road to Wrestlemania story from Smackdown vs Raw 2010

[@diabeticman2194]

Anyone else think Dom was shoot falling to the floor after he left the cage? Even for a brief moment

[@reaganching1967]

HHH is his mind: yep i know this sucks too but what can we do, we still have four years of this.

[@pillsburidoughboi]

TOP 10 1. Mankind vs. Undertaker 2. Undertaker vs. Edge 3. Punk vs. McIntyre 4. Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins 5. End of a Era 6. Mankind vs. Triple H 7. The New Day vs. The Usos 8. Brock Lesnar vs. Undertaker, 2002 9. Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker 10. Batista vs. Undertaker HONORABLE MENTION: Becky Lynch vs. Sasha Banks

[@respect_the_curv]

Omega level bloodline booking brother. That was good lol

[@bingbangboomxx]

Steve is Booker of the Year. Old Bloodline is a good idea, especially with the Trial stuff. Roman can even put on a YEET shirt.

[@erikruiz8222]

The Crown Jewel Championship reminds me of Chemical Plant Zone from Sonic 2.

[@Roddy_toogood]

Swerve and Hangman by a mile

[@Skip_Jaymz]

Honestly i KINDA like it. The giant side plates are goated

[@johnnyray2955]

I honestly think the title looks great lol thats my hot take

[@loganwhitehorse]

Agree.

[@wrequiem1727]

I don't know about "great" but seeing how Steve talking about that Twitter championship in a positive light, I dunno...

[@undertakernumberone1]

​@@loganwhitehorseat the very least, it looks more interesting than the WWE belt

[@coltonwilkie241]

I like the shape and size of it. It's huge but I'm not a fan of the diamonds. It's way too bright.

[@TheSpektrum1989]

looking at it again, the center plate is like the same shape as Galactus's helmet

[@dizzle1119]

Meh, that belt is just one of the things they do to appease the Saudis. That contract is massive, after all. WWE should just treat those shows as completely non-canonical. If the Saudis want to have their own championships & champions for their show...let 'em. Big fat meh all the way around from me. If I'm being honest, I don't think they should be doing the shows at all...but they do 'em, so it is what it is. The Punk/McIntyre Hell In A Cell match tonight was really solid. It's the only part of the show I saw, but it was good... As for Gunther v Goldberg, I don't want to see it either, and there's no way I'd pay a dime to watch it...but if Goldberg wants a retirement match WWE will certainly give him one, and Gunther is probably the right guy to send Goldberg out on his shield...

[@jdionio]

The Rock didn't need to come back tonight. He could have came back at Saudi or such. If you're not gonna have the world titles be defended at the show and aren't gonna put the women's titles on the main event slot, have the hottest match that would be hard to follow to the main event.

[@thelastquincy1457]

Well the rock technically doesn't ever need to come back. Everything will be fine without him. And vice versa.

[@blablablaa14]

Gunther is about to beat Cody for the weird "best of the best" title, and I just think that's such a great story. I think not beating Gunther should be the last straw that should make cody go full homelander (after every friend he has turns on him to break his spirit)

[@SoulSearchingLG]

The Rhea/Liv match was probably scheduled to end how you suggested BUT if you watch it play out again, the ref was in the wrong position and saw Raquel attack Rhea. He immediately turned around and just stood facing the ring looking like an idiot (he says playfully). The camera clearly picked it up and production had no choice but to go the DW route. I imagine this is why Raquel plopped Liv on top for the pin…then just picked her up. She wasn’t aware (yes the bell rang, but she’s in the zone).

[@PW.Skyline.V37]

11:20 I think he was telling them to cut his music with that.

[@theWynn3]

Dom and Drew have easily been the best heels the past year

[@stephenlawlor1032]

I can totally see Gunther-Goldberg happening at the Saturday Night Main Event. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but seems like they might want to just do a one time thing for this being Goldberg's retirement. I'm kind of on the fence about it but I don't mind it much if it is just a one time thing. That's as long as GOONTHA wins ofc.

[@hamdal]

The rock might call himself the final boss. But during WM The undertaker was and will always be SECRET BOSS.

[@cirrus070]

I want that crown jewel belt to be super heavy and there’s a stipulation who ever wins it. Need to defend it while wearing it.

[@navtektv]

I guess my hot take would be that I love the way Romans matches start. It's a hold over from the vid era days but to me it's a welcome one. Romans meandering, trash talking emotive interactions with everything and everyone from the crowd to the opponents to his own partner is a different kind of Pro Wrestling. it's almost like theater and I like a lot of it.

[@navtektv]

I think the Rhea vs Liv match botched at the end there. I don't think the ref was supposed to see Raquel attack Rhea. but he did so he had to call the DQ.

[@greasy2007]

My thing was the bell went off and Raquel still placed Liv on Rhea! But mistakes happen, actually Love her returning as a heel, worked much better for her in NXT

[@KTF0]

I agree. Liv had to keep the belt on a technicality. I knew there had to be some fishy business

[@coltonwilkie241]

And you can see the ref immediately turn around when Rhea got hit. There's no way that wasn't a botch. It was just awkward looking. But that's bound to happen in this overbooked terrible love story.

[@michaelsuezo]

Logical bumps. Blood done right. Feud build up with purposeful moments. Drew punk is the feud of the yr.

[@cosmicvcosmic]

Saudi belt is stupid but seeing Champion vs Champion will be fun

[@cosmicvcosmic]

They should advertise Saudi PLEs as exhibition matches and not mention them Raw or Smackdown after the PLE, to makesure everyone knows its not canon and meaningless

[@Orochimaul]

Peoples championship vs the Crown jewel championship

[@DamonHardin]

When he said it was female champ Vs female champ at Crown Royal, I thought the news was for a debuting female midcard belt. I didn’t think they actually meant Raw champ Vs Smackdown champ.

[@greasy2007]

Right, we make a crappy belt instead of giving one of the deserving mid card females a championship

[@JulesEAbril]

the blood money in the sand belt looks ROUGH.

[@MahkyVmedia1]

They looked at AEWs title and said "that's not a title this is a title" (said in Australian accent)

[@ren3gadeviews274]

Several/Hangman character work, longer term story telling and matches were simply better than Punk/Drew

[@Casey420]

It looks like an AEW title only crappy. Like the front plate shape looks near identical to the AEW women's and International title.

[@Channingz]

Gunther should defend his title at Rumble while taking shots at Goldy all the while who will cost him the title and set their match up at Mania.

[@paulevans6076]

I actually like that title belt. It does look like a title you'd find in AEW, but still its not the worst looking title they have. Be interesting to see how it looks in real life and on a wrestler.

[@undertakernumberone1]

its not great, but at least it looks more interesting than the WWE belt

[@Los_000]

thats the coolest title ever i love it

[@broski158]

Tbh I forgot about the end of an era hell in a cell match

[@zeqah]

the best thing about this is atleast we get cody vs gunther

[@SamSamSamJ]

Here's a hot take. The Rock will be in the War Games match.

[@Soapdish747]

Steve i love that you're leaning into the bootleg Pakistan bit, so funny!

[@jellybeanerino7672]

Hangman vs Swerve's matches and feud are much better than the Punk vs Drew matches and the feud. It's not even close

[@shayurmohun5435]

I actually want that title! It's what a title should be 👀

[@hutrod7721]

A triple threat at Mania with Rock winning so he and Roman can face off at WM42 for the belt

[@dav1d1400]

The title would look better if the side plate was the main plate and the main plate on the sides and shrink it down 15%

[@nate1066pollock]

Yes, Roman needs the OG Bloodline for WarGames. He does NOT need Cody.

[@xRIPSte]

Doubt it’ll happen but god can you imagine what the render of that title would look like? 🤧

[@BlazingAce20]

I want to straight up be honest. People hated the Universal title but years later they ended up loving it. Some people even wanted it to go back to being red. This "championship" is more of bragging rights. He also said it was the men's and women's that will basically battle for this bragging rights "title". Right now I don't think it looks that bad. Especially when all you have is people complaining about WWE titles not looking good or not being more unique. So now they show you something that isn't even going to be carried around or really defended and it's only complaining about it being ugly. It's not even a real title that will be defended. Its basically like the Andre the Giant trophy that people win and never carry around. Like that Speed title no one really carries around either.

[@greasy2007]

The RED universal is one of the all time ugliest belt... Change my mind

[@SheddBoyRecords]

i thought dom was gonna do a dive onto a bunch of people….this was way better lol

[@blablablaa14]

I can't believe we are getting Gunther vs Goldberg (I would guess at Saudi or maybe even Mania)

[@rslabiak]

It's been over 10 years and Punk is still ceding main events to Dwayne. The more things change...

[@thelastquincy1457]

Punk ceded the main event to roman and Cody not the rock. When was the last time Roman didn't main event something that wasn't a royal rumble.

[@bantu_gq]

Yeet SteveHere

[@JawnNawva]

Horrible take Steve, that belt is gorgeous

[@honkedoffjohn]

Honestly its between the Cody Torn Pec HIAC or the Punk Drew Crimson Mask HIAC on which one if the best. The problem with End of an Era is that Undertaker won that match. The streak was still alive and Undertaker overcame multiple finishers and Shawn as the ref and he still won. That took me out of it and made Undertaker indestructible. He would then go on to lose to Lesnar and that was the biggest gut punch to the End of an Era's legacy.

[@TheLegendofQ]

Swerve and Hangman is waay better than the bloody bracelet feud

[@ComeatMEOW]

No way we are having liv vs nia, you may as well not even bother, just give it to nia, because we dont seem to care about anyone else other than rhea....

[@eastsidereviews727]

Yeah the Crown Jewel Title and Champ vs Champ thing is a higher up decision, like either with Nick Khan or big boss Ari Emmanuel having it happen. You know HHH is heated he has to blow Cody vs GUNTHER this soon.

[@ikervega0116]

No we cannot have Tiffany fail the cash in. We already wasted the men’s briefcase

[@THEREALTJP]

CM Punk the ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ King of the WWE!

[@rogerbabin8175]

Poor PLE in terms of matches. Important PLE in terms of pushing stories forward. This is a show I enjoyed more in podcast recap form than actually watching. Not ideal.

[@PettyCrow-n9c]

The title is a good idea, it's just an annual trophy that brings back the old "champion vs champion" tradition.

[@goatbrook9065]

Drew punk and Swerve hangman is tough idk. A month ago i probably would have said Swerve page but now i dont know. Its flip a coint for me. Ill jist say punk drew since im a E drone but it is tough

[@TheHarv68]

We still got (at least) 3 more years of the Saudi shows. Though with how much money the Saudi Government throws around, I could see that relationship continuing for awhile

[@greasy2007]

Am I the only one that thinks it looks modeled after an AEW belt??

[@bingbangboomxx]

Hot Take: That Crown Jewel title is actually not that bad, it is just for something stupid and associated with an event that people don't like.

[@AbsAli02]

What an intro.

[@ComeatMEOW]

Because of the rock...it makes cody and any title defence until then is pretty much pointless. I dont want the rock in a title match at all. However i would take it if they did a roman vs cody vs rock vs cm punk vs seth rollins vs kevin owens in a elimination chamber.

[@Papellxhase]

U as a fan of the rock expect rock to be in a chamber match in 2025 lol insane take. Rock is doing his mania match with Roman & getting back to Hollywood, it’s the only reason he came back this year but ofc u cody fans ruined that

[@ComeatMEOW]

@@Papellxhase I'm not a fan of the rock. I actually cannot stand his fakeness

[@ComeatMEOW]

@@Papellxhase i don't really have any biased toward any wrestler really. I dont really care...however no title defence can be believable when you know in several months time whats due to happen. Cody may as well go away during that time just like roman.

[@CulEdz]

The Rock, famous Hollywood star with arguably the busiest acting schedule, is going to wrestle in a match full of injury-causing spots. Yes, definitely gonna happen.

[@ComeatMEOW]

@@CulEdz no sh1t cos dwayne is a meecrob, he is a roided up freak who lies all the time, I really wish he ain't even there.

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

Kevin Owens didn’t turn heel, its the right way to react to Cody doing that

[@alexubel]

The belt looks good. The problem is it is pointless.

[@Moonijuana]

🔥🔥Solo has become Samoa Joe 🤨

[@TheAlmightyPinch]

Punk and Drew is definitely a top 5 cell match of all time

[@mattmk476]

it was good but not of all time

[@paulietheterrible]

Bad Bloodline should’ve won. But, it is what it is.

[@ayejackson884]

Technically Owen’s didn’t go heel , his action was justifiable

[@chips2441]

Come on man, you KNOW you want this title. Just imagine it sitting on yourself next to Roman's belt.

[@UninvitedGhost]

Y’all got any of them… video phones?