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Chapter 1: What is the Night of Champions event about?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and maybe your new TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Nick Nemeth at the Slammiversary. Right here on the Busted Open Podcast, we give our preview of WWE's Night of Champions. Right now, on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. I do want to get into Night of Champions.
Um, so we got the king of the ring tournament final and the queen of the ring tournament file.
Chapter 2: Who are the contenders in the Queen of the Ring final?
I did not think we were going to get this match, but we're getting it. EO sky versus live Morgan. I thought for sure Charlotte was going to move on and be in the finals. EO sky and live Morgan. Now live Morgan is a champion. So when you look at EO Sky and Liv, who do you got for this Queen of the Ring final coming up tomorrow afternoon?
Liv already being the champion makes me think that she somehow gets through this. So Eosky has been absolutely on the top of so many people's lists for years at this point and delivers and comes through. But yeah, we all, I thought, you know, I think the consensus was everywhere else on this channel was that we were going Raquel and Liv at some point down the line. And when that didn't happen...
I went, okay, all bets are off. Let's see. And Io, who clearly delivers all the time and is always in a big spot for the women and rightly so. But Liv, old school, I'm a fan of hers. I like the growth that she's made. I'd like to see her come through here, and then maybe we go champion, champion.
Listen, I love it, but I'm looking at it on the other side. This is what I love about both these finals, that it's a win-win for fans because every scenario, I think, is a good one. I love your scenario. Liv Morgan wins, and she goes on to face Rhea Ripley in maybe a championship unification match at SummerSlam. Liv versus Rhea would be huge. However, I think I might like Io Sky more.
Chapter 3: What predictions are made for the Queen of the Ring match?
We know that Io Sky and Rhea Ripley are best friends. They're best buddies. If Io Sky beats Liv Morgan and wins Queen of the Ring, well, she's already beaten Liv Morgan. Why go back and go and face somebody that you've already beaten? The only challenge that's left for her is Rhea Ripley. Now that's going to test their friendship. And who knows?
Maybe we see a returning Oscar to be by EO sky side to go up against Rhea Ripley. I I'm just throwing it out there. But again, the thing I love about it is that both scenarios work for me.
Chapter 4: What are the stakes for the King of the Ring final?
They both do.
Yeah. And that's really like, I appreciate that no matter what the story is, what the company is, what the backstory, what the last couple, six months for anybody is that you have these two in EO Sky versus Live and whoever wins, you're like, yeah, that makes sense. as long as you're going into another story from it. So there's, there's, there's tie-ins to Rhea on the other side, either way.
But I, I, and EO constantly, I feel like there's this air around her that everyone's just like, man, she's just so unstoppable. She's so good. She's so, but I'm old school. I've been a fan of Liv for a long time and I've watched her go from good to great. And I like watching it. Like I watched Roman for years. I was like, man, he's, he's good. He's good, but he's being forced.
And then finally, one day I watch and I go, man, this dude is an 11 out of 10 blue chip. This is the effing man when he stands there. And I got to watch Liv do a similar thing. Liv was doing okay in a three-woman group. and then did pretty good, and then was killing it, and then watching her get this character and go into her own, I am rooting for her every step of the way.
So I'm behind Liv because I'm biased, but these two going together, it could be magic.
I love what you just said about live.
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Chapter 5: How do Jey Uso and Oba Femi's stories intertwine?
And I remember a few years back, there was a documentary on live Morgan where it always felt like live. There was like a lot of start stops. Like it looked like she was about to get to that next level and it just never happened. And I remember that documentary at the end, she's just talking about, you know, appreciating the ride and trusting the process.
That's always like a term that I hear from wrestlers, like trust the process.
Um,
But here she is. She is the star. She is the one. It started like right after WrestleMania 40 and we've just seen her go just up, up and up. Liv Morgan is where she has earned her place to be. I'm a huge fan of Liv Morgan, but I'm also a huge fan of EO Sky. And I'm also a huge fan of Rhea Ripley. All three of these women are next level.
So I'm really looking forward to who's going to win that match coming up tomorrow afternoon. This is a big one. King of the Ring tournament final, Jey Uso and Oba Femi. Again, the stories and the directions you can go in with both Jey Uso and Oba Femi are incredible.
I never thought they would have put Oba Femi in this tournament right after what we saw with Brock Lesnar because we just assumed, well, you know, Oba Femi is going to be in a match with Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam.
But if he wins on Saturday afternoon, Obafemi and Cody Rhodes, Obafemi and Roman Reigns, or if Jey Uso keeps his promise and goes after Cody Rhodes, if Cody Rhodes is still your champion after Saturday afternoon, or does he make the decision to go after Roman Reigns and be the head of the table?
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Chapter 6: What are the possible outcomes of the Undisputed WWE Championship match?
Again, win-win for wrestling fans on Saturday.
That just goes to show you again, yeah, because this is not ass-kissing. This is when the brackets came out, you went, oh, it's interesting. I don't know what they're doing. Man, were they putting live in here? Like, this doesn't even make sense. And you've watched all the stories and pieces fall into place. And yeah, so many of us were like, well...
I didn't think Oboe was going to be in this, but, well, they're not going to have him win. They'll just have Brock show up and F5 him 38 times, and then he'll still barely, whoever his opponent will get by.
And maybe that's the case for the main event, or maybe we're not bringing in Brock for an extra appearance because we can't use, he has 12 dates, and it's 500,000 every time we bring him in, and you go, okay, sorry, he's not in this one. So we've got to find a way to work around it. So you either get a great match, you get the stories to all line up, however it works,
But the winners done correctly, it doesn't matter who wins these two tournament finals. And I would love to see Jay hit Oba with everything he's got and Oba pump his chest and look jacked and absolutely dominate this match unless you go storyline somewhere. And we've seen Oba and Cody.
I want to see him walk out to the middle of the ring and go, Roman Reigns, get your ass out here and watch the world lose their mind.
Listen, there could be a scenario, because there's dozens of scenarios. That's why I'm saying if you're really focused on what we're going to see this weekend, this is an exciting weekend and an exciting time for pro wrestling.
If Obafemi beats Jey Uso and then chooses Roman Reigns, goes on the SummerSlam and has a match with Roman Reigns and beats Roman Reigns and Obafemi's your champ and then Brock's music hits?
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Chapter 7: How does Nick Nemeth prepare for his title match at Slammiversary?
Yes. Like, come on! Come on! I mean, how do you not get excited for that? It's beautiful.
There's, and there's even pieces that it's like he gets the match and maybe Brock takes away the win or maybe Brock shows up before they, there's so there you're right. There's 12 different scenarios for this finals match. And how great is that? That's a great problem to have.
There's so many times where you've watched things be too predictable or it's like, Oh, that's just Vince wants to push this guy. They're going with them. Okay. Even if it doesn't make sense, this is one of those times where they, they had the brackets and,
Maybe they didn't know what they were doing at first, and slowly the stories led to each other to where everybody wins no matter how they go with this. Because of 10 of those 12 scenarios, you have 99% of the audience going, oh, yeah, I get that story. Oh, that's perfect. And two of them are like, oh, okay, I get it.
So they've booked themselves into a great position here because I really think anybody can win that men's and women's final, and it changes nothing. It just makes the story more interesting.
Absolutely. And let's just say Cody retains tomorrow. We'll get into that match in just a second. Jey Uso somehow, someway beats Oba. Whether he beats him, whether there's interference with Brock or solo Sakoa, you know, hits Jey Uso when the ref's not looking. Whatever. But Jey Uso finds a way to win this match tomorrow. And Jey Uso goes after Cody.
And then you have two members of the bloodline who... Roman Reigns and Jey Uso holding the two world championships in the WWE. Both sitting at different ends of the table.
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Chapter 8: What final thoughts do the hosts share about the upcoming matches?
Or maybe Jey Uso wins and he decides to go after Roman Reigns. Or maybe Sami Zayn beats Cody and it's Jey Uso and Sami Zayn at SummerSlam. There's so many different possibilities. Which brings me to Cody Rhodes, Gunther, and Sami Zayn. So when you look at this match... Cody, Gunther, Sammy. Triple threat match for the Undisputed WWE Championship.
Nick, who do you think's coming out as your Undisputed WWE Champion?
First thing that pops in my head is Cody retains because this is perfectly set up for anyone to win. Gunther has a genuine gripe. He should be the champion. He's walked through people in the last six years. He's lost two damn times, period. Like, he's the guy that they've set up to take over this. But clearly, every time he gets up to something insane,
At the moment in the to become WWE champion is for some reason it doesn't happen. So I think this is the perfect moment for Sammy to make it seem like here's his moment. He doesn't even have to pin Cody. He could have Gunther and Cody beat the hell out of each other and roll one of them up. anything can happen here.
And this is how, this is how in the old days before even a money in the bank briefcase, someone who Vince didn't see in the gold circle of WWE champions could find a way. Cause you're like, Oh, I got my one or two protected guys, but you could always pin somebody else and take that title off them. And then you built up a story between those two.
So you could have Gunther get rolled up by Sammy and then, And instantly Cody's run is over with. And sometimes it's good for Cody to not be champion because it's real easy in these last couple years to be like, oh, he won again. Oh, that's not even creative. Or, oh, he's champ again. You don't always have to be the champ. You can still be QB1.
You can still be the face of the company, the place to be, the guy, all of that. Sometimes there's a little fatigue when you're always champion or always winning.
I think this might be that scenario here for Cody. And I love Cody Rhodes. I'll be rooting for Cody because he's my guy. But I could definitely see Sami Zayn. And I said it weeks ago, and nobody saw it. But if you really pay attention to the story... I could see Sami Zayn winning this match and becoming your undisputed WWE champion. Storyline-wise, it makes sense.
Kind of the odd man out is Gunther here. Which is crazy, because when this story started with Cody, I thought for sure, because the momentum of Gunther and retiring Goldberg and retiring AJ and retiring Cena... Boy, the next step seemed like becoming a champion. And I thought he was going to be Cody.
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