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Taz opens today’s show by saying he issued a video apology to Greg Hamilton, who he initially criticized on Twitter on Sunday night because he’s not a fan of Hamilton’s ‘One fall’ line. After some thought, Taz realized that his words may have been too stiff. Although he’s still not a fan of Hamilton pausing for the audience to chant in the middle of his announcing, Taz apologized to Hamilton because he knew his words may have hurt Hamilton.

Getting into his thoughts about last night’s episode of Monday Night RAW, Taz says he really disliked Sister Abigail’s debut. He thought this was a very lacklustre reveal, and he would have much preferred to see a female talent portray the Sister Abigail character. Taz admits that this storyline is still rather fresh, so there’s still time for WWE to fix their mistakes and switch some things up here.

Taz gives credit to the live audience in Indianapolis last night. He thought the live audience was hot from the start of the show right until the end, and that made for a fun watching experience for fans viewing from home.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler opens today’s show by saying he met Gary Busey at a convention this past weekend and got a picture with him. He laughs while saying that Busey was certainly baked, and he has no idea how Busey can socialize like that everyday.

He also says that he met a fan who has a tattoo of Vince McMahon on his ass. Lawler couldn’t believe it and took a picture of the tattoo which he sent to McMahon. He says that McMahon replied by simply saying, ”
OMG”.

With JBL announcing late last week that he has decided to step away from the Smackdown Live commentary booth, Moore asks Lawler if he has received a call from WWE, offering him his full-time commentary job back. Lawler says he hasn’t received a call, but even if he was offered a full-time job again that’s something he’d really have to think about at this point.

He says that he has grown accustomed to making his own schedule, and working sporadically with WWE has been really great for him. He admits that if WWE offered him the same salary that he was receiving during his last full-time commentary run, it’d be hard for him to turn that down.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by his co-host Jeff Lane.

He opens today’s show by saying that Smackdown Live simply isn’t for him. He has tried to review that show for three straight weeks now and it has been nothing more than six hours of wasted time. Next week Russo is going to switch back to watching and reviewing RAW because Smackdown Live just isn’t entertaining him.

Russo says that Smackdown Live is a ‘cookie cutter’ show. Every week it’s the exact same thing, and viewers are never given fresh looks or different programming. He points out that the opening segment with all the women in the ring was the exact same segment we saw with the men only two weeks ago.

He says that WWE has been hyping and promoting Lana’s debut for weeks, and when she finally came out the entire announce team no-sold it. He adds that they totally buried Lana by not selling her entrance, and it’s almost like they did it on purpose because it was that bad. He says that Tom Phillips is horrible because if he doesn’t sell something, the audience at home will never look at it as important.

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Taz opens today’s show by saying RAW was really good last night on the whole. He says the Paul Heyman and Samoa Joe segment was fantastic and he loved a lot of the subtleties from Heyman and Joe in that promo.

When Heyman makes his way to the ring he does it nice and slowly, and he always asks the performer in the ring if he can step through the ropes before doing so because he respects the ring and the performers who stand in it. Heyman’s promos are always tremendous, but an underrated part of Heyman’s delivery is his facial expressions.

Taz says that he didn’t anticipate Joe attacking Heyman but once Heyman turned his back to Joe, Taz could see the writing on the wall. He actually anticipated Joe choking Heyman from behind because that would have been a real heel, scumbag thing to do. However, he liked what WWE chose to do by having Joe corner Heyman and threaten him while the handheld mics picked it up.

Taz thought this was very well done, and he has been asking WWE to do this type of thing for a while now. The focus should never be on the live audience, because the millions of viewers at home are the priority. For this reason, it was very cool to see Joe cut this promo right to Heyman’s face which made it more realistic, and only the fans at home knew what he was saying.

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