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411’s WWE RAW Report 6.6.16
RAW!
IS!
UFC?
We start RAW with the competitors of the MITB match heading out. Some are already out there, while Dean gets his entrance. Jericho is first to talk, saying he’s the most famous one.
Ok, I’ll have to fit this all in a little later, because I missed about five minutes, but came back to the greatest return of all time! According to JSawyer80,” the opening segment was essentially:
It was a plethora of pantsless pests atop ladders being the best in the world at what they did, which was sitting on ladders.
Teddy Long is here!!! He says he is back to take the longest running wrestling show in television history to a brand new era!
Jericho calls Teddy a bag of bones and a stupid idiot. haha. Teddy says that if he was in control, and this was a live episode of Smackdown, he would take all of these playas, and make a bunch of ridiculous matches.
Stephanie McMahon heads out to help Teddy iron out the kinks of what he said. She said he made no sense at all. Teddy tells Steph that he’s here to steal the show. Stephanie says she hasn’t made any decisions as to who is going to run Smackdown. Teddy says he doesn’t have any time for Stephanie, and wants to talk to Shane. haha.
Stephanie says Shane is on vacation. Steph wishes he was here, but he’s not. Steph asks Teddy to head on outta here. She refuses to let Teddy’s music hit. Aw.
Stephanie turns her attention to the men tonight, and says they’ll all be in singles matches; Del Rio vs Zayn, Ambrose vs Owens, and Cesaro vs Jericho. I love how Owens is pissed that he has a match against Ambrose.
Stephanie calls for Long’s music, and does a mocking version of his dance.
Match 1: Cesaro vs Chris Jericho
We return to RAW with the match already going down. Jericho’s got himself a side headlock, but escapes and hits a shoulder tackle. Jericho locks up with Cesaro, but Cesaro escapes by flipping out of it elaborately and locking in a side headlock. Jericho shoves, but Cesaro hits a tackle of his own, then catches Jericho midair and hits a backbreaker. Jericho with a chop. Another. Whip but Cesaro flips over the ropes, goes for a boot, but Jericho hits a forearm! Jericho hits the corner, bounces off, and tries for a right, but Cesaro hits a hard uppercut, and Jericho tumbles down. Cesaro with a flying hit off the apron. Whip to Jericho into the barricade. Cesaro rushes forward, and hits another uppercut into the barricade! Cesaro shoves Jericho back into the ring then gets to the top rope. Cesaro goes for a crossbody, but Jericho counters with a dropkick! Pin for 1..2…NO!
Back to RAW, and someone has been watching too much Sundance, as we get a camera zoom through two steps of a ladder. Anyway, in the ring, Cesaro hits Jericho with an uppercut. Another. They’re in the ring, center. Cesaro backs Jericho in the corner and hits uppercut after uppercut. Whip to Jericho and another uppercut. One more. Cesaro calls for the spin. Jericho steps forward, Cesaro goes for another uppercut, but Jericho wants the backslide. Escapes. Jericho heads to the top rope and flies off…UPPERCUT! Pin for 1..2..NO! Cesaro calls for the swing yet again. Jericho turns, Cesaro starts it, but Jericho hooks the leg and gets a small package. Pin for 1..2..NO! Cesaro hits the ropes. He wants a springboard, turns, CODEBREAKER!!!! Cesaro rolls out of the ring quickly! Jericho leaves the ring and heads to Cesaro. He grabs Cesaro and tries to send him back in the ring. Jericho gets him in, follows, and pins! 1..2…NO!!! Jericho sends Cesaro into the corner headfirst. Jericho goes to the apron, tries to grab Cesaaro, but Cesaro hits a hard ass uppercut, then hits a suplex from the 2nd rope, totally deadlifting Jericho! Pin for 1…2..NO!!! I lOVE that move. Jericho hits a kick into the running Cesaro, then a dropkick to the head off the 2nd rope. Cover for 1..2..NO! Jericho with a right hand to Cesaro. Cesaro stands and hits an uppercut. Jericho with a kick. Uppercut from Cesaro. Kick. Uppercut. Cesaro spins and hits a clothesline!! He lifts Jericho, sets up the Nuetralizer, but Jericho gets a backdrop – no, Cesaro rolls through, but so does Jericho! WALLS OF JERICHO!!!!! Cesaro turns, picks the ankle, turns, hits right hands, Jerichoo tries to slingshot, but Cesaro grabs the freaking legs and we get THE SWING!!!!! SIIIIIICCCCKKK!!!!
Cesaro gets 15 rotations, then locks in The Sharpshooter!!! Jericho taps!! JERICHO TAPS!!
Winner: Cesaro
Cesaro got a great match out of Jericho!!
Match Quality: ***1/2
Personal Enjoyment: ****
Total Rating: ***3/4
Recap of AJ Styles beating the Ellen off of John Cena’s shorts.
WE move to a little package from the “point of view of the challenger.” It starts with Seth talking about the debut of The Shield. Rollins makes it a point to say that he’s always wanted to be the best of all time, not just one of the best. He was presented with the opportunity to take that next step with The Authority. He wanted to be at the top, on the marquee everey single night. He doesn’t dislike Roman, Roman just happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He didn’t steal Roman’s moment at Mania because there was no moment without Seth. He dreamed his entire life of leaving Mania the champion, and he didn’t care about Roman – he wanted HIS moment. He was at the top of his game.
We go over the injury, and how it impacted Seth. Some home video footage of Seth wrestling as a kid is spliced with him wrestling, and he says that the title was taken from him unjustly. We get a doctor interview, giving Reigns a 6+ months recovery time.
More footage of Seth watching Reigns win the title. He hated watching it, and we see footage of him leaving in an angry fashion. A lot of this footage can be seen in the Network special, which I’m sure is what this thing is attempting to advertise, but it’s also a very cool way to look at the feud going in, because it makes both of these guys REAL. I hope this isn’t glossed over, because it’s a beautiful addition to the program.
We head to the ring, and Lana is here! Her accent has also made a return. She would like for us to put our hand over our heart and welcome her man Rusev. I would, totally, but I have to type.
Before Swagger can come out, Titus O’Neil comes out to join commentary.
Match 2: Rusev vs Jack Swagger
Rusev with a go-behind takedown. Front faced headlock. Swagger stands into the hold, tries to turn out of it. Right hand. Another. Swagger with a third. Whip to the ropes is reversed, and Rusev hits a spinning heel kick. Pin for 1..2..NO! Rusev with a stomp to the back of the head. Another stomp. Right hand to the face. Rusev sends Swagger into the corner headfirst then hits a right hand to the side abdomen. Another right. Stomp to the corner. Rusev with a kick to the chest, followed by another to the head. Rusev with a cravat from behind. Swagger tries to stand into it, turns, and hits right hands to the gut. Rusev with a knee. Rusev whips to the corner, but Swagger esacpes a shoulder. clothesline in the corner, then he runs into an elbow. Rusev hits the ropes. Swagger with a powerslam! Pin for 1…NO! Swagger scoops the legs, looks for the ANkle Lock! He locks it in!!! Rusev rolls to his back and escapes the ring. Swagger leaves the ring on the opposite side. They circle around towards the front of the announce table, and we get a huge double clothesline! Sick. Both men are down near the table. Rusev tries to get in the ring, Swagger pulls him down, Swagger shoves Rusev into the apron, but Rusev shoves Swagger INTO TITUS!
Rusev gets back in the ring at the count of 9! Rusev stands as Swagger gets counted out!
Winner: Rusev via Countout
Can’t hate em for tryin…
Match Quality: *1/2
Personal Enjoyment: *1/2
Total Rating: *1/2
Swagger is mad, gets in the ring, but Rusev sends him in the corner. Titus is in the ring! Rusev fights Titus a bit, but Swagger clips the leg! Titus sends Rusev to the outside. Titus does the WE THE PEOPLE thing with Swagger.
John Cena is here to claim that AJ Styles ruined a moment. He says what we normally have is a rowdy RAW crowd where everyone is standing and making noise, people chanting both Let’s Go Cena/Cena Sucks. Last week, we had – for over two minutes – was an entire arena chanting LET’S GO CENA/AJ STYLES. Cena claims he’s only ever had electricity like that with one man – The Rock. Yes, they have very different career paths, but it does not change the energy that they had. For a lot of us, this was a moment that would never happen. For 15 years, the best we could do was say WHAT IF. So Cena has a new question; Why? Why did Styles do what he did and take the easy way out?
So Cena is mad that Styles ruined a potential match that they could have had together yet….they’re having a match together…
Styles comes out, but he’s not alone. The crowd does the LET’S GO CENA/AJ STYLES chant. Cena says, AJ didn’t have to bring his junkies from The Bullet Club.
Styles said he had a plan to go into the ring, look him into the eyes, and punch him in the face. John Cena insults Styles. He’s great at what Cena does, don’t get Styles wrong. His movies (Not the one Cena stars in, but his cameos are great!) hahaha.
Cena insults him every time that bell rings. Styles knows that it burns Cena up inside, because even on Cena’s best day, “You Can’t Beat Me!” He’ll tell Cena what he tells his kids when they ask why Styles hasn’t wrestled Cena. Styles says because he would wrestle circles around Cena.
Cena says Styles has had 15 years to come up with great material, and all he’s got is the same shit Cena hears every single time. He wants to drop some truth; Styles waited 15 years, showed up at the Rumble and did nothing, then got a chance at the title and failed, and failed again. Cena says everyone around Styles has been telling Styles he’s God’s gift to Sports Entertainment, but he gets to the big show, and he fails. Cena calls Styles desperate. Cena tells Styles that he doesn’t know who he is dealing with. Cena is sure to pick up the urban drawl big time here.
Styles wants to back it up a little bit. Styles has been all over the world. Desperate is for someone who can’t go anywhere else. He can go anywhere, and they’d welcome him back in open arms. He’d sell out Tokyo in a second, because that’s what he does when he steps in the ring. He has nothing else to prove. He also has nothing to lose, which is why he is the most dangerous.
Cena says he loves this, and has nothing to lose every time he steps in this ring. He says to quit ducking the question, why is it not Styles vs Cena? Why is it Cena vs The Club.
Styles says it’s simple; everyone knows that guys like Cena bury guys like Styles. These two are his insurance policy. They’re going to make sure that his head stays above ground. He tells Cena that he has no idea who HE is dealing with.
Styles drops the mic, and all three men walk down to circle (triangle) the ring. Styles barks orders and all three men get on the apron. Cena stands his ground. He gets ready to fight. The Club enters the ring, but THE NEW DAY IS HERE!! Cena gets SUPER Pumped up because he thinks he’s finally got his Black Card.
The Club decides now’s not a good time and heads up the ramp.
Cole announces a match tonight as if it was already made – which takes away from the segment we just saw. It’s a minor thing, but I didn’t like it. Anyway, New Day and Cena vs The Club tonight.
Hey guys, guess what….ENZO AND CASS ARE IN THE HOWSE!!!
Cass quotes the greatest of all times, “FLoat like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Get at these fools like a certified G”
Enzo busts himself a little flow that ends with him saying he’s so mean, he makes medicine sick. Yeeeeee. hahha. He says they fought Vaudevillians at Payback, and his head bounced off the mat. Haha. He says they couldn’t knock him out now, and couldn’t knock em out later, and his jaw is so strong, he could blow a bubble with a Now-n-Later.
Cass says we’re looking at the NEXT WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS, and they’re about to big league chew them up and spit them out.
Match 3: Enzo and Big Cass vs The Vuadevillains
Looks like Enzo and Aiden are starting. Some basic stuff until Gotch gets a tag and locks up a cravat from behind. Enzo esacapes with an arm drag, reaches for a tag, gets it! Tackle to Gotch, he blasts Aiden. A clothesline to Gotch, followed by a Fallaway Slam. Cass with a splash in the corner. Body slam in the middle of the ring. He hits the ropes. Empire Elbow and a cover for 1…2..NO! English breaks the hold. Big Boot to Enzo who tries to stop the hold. He grabs Enzo, and looks to toss Enzo one more time into the ropes. He does so and yells for Enzo to stay down! Big Cass is ready for him inside the ring, though. He looks on in shock and now he’s pissed. He corners English and beats the shit out of him.The ref holds him back, but Cass gets some licks in again. Massive stomps in the corner. Ref calls for the bell.
Winner: The Vaudevillains
Call me crazy, but I kinda like that ending…
Match Quality: NR
Personal Enjoyment: **
Total Rating: *
Big Cass gets attacked by Gotch, but gives him the Big Ass Boot!
Enzo enters the ring slowly, as Cass grabs Gotch by the head. He hits East River Crossing.
Backstage, good ol Tom wants to talk to Sami. He brings up the match with Del Rio. Tom wants to know if Sami considers himself the underdog. He says that he’s got to tonight, because Del Rio has already won the briefcase. So yeah…duh. Sami says he knows he can beat Del Rio, and doing so would prove a lot of things.
Del Rio comes up from behind and applauds Sami’s dreams. He says winning the contract would make Sami’s life mean something, wouldn’t it. It would make all of those who laughed at him and doubted him that they were wrong. Del Rio says that they were right, though. Sami’s dreams are his reality, and Sami’s role is to be what he has always been, a dog….a paperboy. lol. Del Rio’s such a dick…
Backstage, Stephanie is trying to get the attention of Teddy. He gives his opinion on the tag team title situation. Steph wants to know how Teddy even got in the building. Teddy brings a dollar out of his suit, and says “this is the dolla dolla. It makes ya go holla holla! Ya feel that?”
Stephanie makes a phone call to Marketing, and says that she thinks we’ve got a tag team championship match for MITB.
Anderson and Gallows vs The New Day vs Enzo and Cass vs The Vuadevillains.
She takes credit for the match. Nice to see the innerworkings of the WWE marketing system.
Match 4: Alberto Del Rio vs Sami Zayn
Del Rio starts the match with a hard kick to Sami, then shoves Sami nito the corner and stomps him down a bit. Right hand followed by a whip to the ropes. Del Rio mises a clothesline and eats a hurricanrana. Del Rio heads to the outside. Sami follows. Del Rio slams his head off the apron a couple of times. Whip to the barricade, and Sami hits a moonsault off of it!
After a break, we return to Del Rio gaining a cover for 1..2..NO! Cravat from behind. Sami turns into the hold. Del Rio rushes forward and eats an elbow. Sami reverses, gets up top. Crossbody and a pin for 1..2..NO! Sami with a suplex attempt, but Del Rio drops on his feet and hits a backstabber for 1..2..NO! Del Rio looks for a superkick, but Sami rolls him up for 1..2..NO! Del Rio kicks out. SUPERKICK! pin for 1..2..NO! Del Rio locks the head. Sami turns, but Del Rio clips the knee. He slams Sami around then hits the ropes. Sami hops up with a clothesline! Sami hits the corner, waits for Del Rio to stand. Del Rio is up in the corner. Sami runs, and Del Rio with both the boots up. He sets Sami up on the corner, backfirst. Del Rio locks one arm, but Sami elbows out hard. Del Rio runs up, ENZIGURI! Sami drops down. Tree of Woe! Del Rio hops on the apron. This move is retarded. Del Rio stalls. Sami holds on like an idiot. Sami hops up, grabs the arm of Del Rio, and hits an arm drag! Del Rio hops back up quickly, and bangs Sami’s head on the ringpost!
A kick to the head. Del Rio goes back up to the top rope again. He waits. STOMP to Sami. Pin for 1..2…3!!!
Winner: Alberto Del Rio
I don’t care how creative you get, that move will never NOT be obviously set up…
Match Quality: **
Personal Enjoyment: **
Total Rating: **
Backstage, Ambrose is walkin here! Owens is nearby. Ambrose wonders if Owens thinks something is funny. Owens says that he is really concerned for Ambrose, and not just because in two weeks, he’s going to try and dismember Ambrose with a ladder. He’s known Ambrose for a while now, and Ambrose is seemingly more off the deep end for a while now.
Ambrose wonders if he was off when he beat Owens for the IC Title, or at the Rumble when he beat Owens ass? At MITB, he’ll probably still think that Ambrose is a little bit off.
Owens tells Ambrose that he needs help.
Ambrose says, no, Owens needs help.
Romans turn for a video package, and it’s pretty solid. I especially love the part where he says that if you asked Rollins, he’d say he created Pop-Tarts and sliced bread. Roman said it was Seth’s choice to break up The Shield. WE revisit Mania, where Roman says he was angry, and sometimes anger is the best motivator a man can have. Roman says that any time Seth has left him laying, it’s always been after an attack from behind. Reigns will not be fulfilled with this Reign until he beats Seth. He is expecting a better Seth Rollins, and he’s going to beat a better Seth Rollins.
Match 5: Dean Ambrose vs Kevin Owens
Ambrose is quick on the offense, hitting some rights, whip, takedown, and another. Owens sees he’s losing here and rolls to the outside. Ambrose follows and bounces his face off the table. Owens tosses Ambrose across the table! He rolls back in the ring to gloat. Owens grabs the headset off of Byron and is about to tell us why he’s going to win the Money in the Bank, but Ambrose runs off the table and hits a clothesline. He sends Owens back into the ring. Side suplex to Owens. Ambrose flies off the top ropes, rolls through, locks with the double underhook, but Owens hits an Enziguri! Running Senton and a pin for 1..2…NO! Kick to the back of Ambrose. Owens with another kick to the back. Righ thand to the head of Ambrose. Owens with a clothesline attempt, he misses, and Ambrose hits a neckbreaker! Owens witgh rights, hits the ropes, headbutt, hits the ropes, SUPERKICK from Owens! Pin for 1..2..NO! Chin lock from behind by Owens. Ambrose turns into it. Attacks the midsection, and hits the ropes. Owens with a back elbow! Owens heads to the top rope. Ambrose is up, though, and hits a right hand. He locks the head. Superplex off the 2nd rope! Owens is able to bounce Ambrose out of the corner. German Suplex! Owens in the corner, he’s looking for the cannonball, but Ambrose shoots out of the corner with a hard ass clothesline! Ambrose tries to stand, loses his balance, and falls in the corner. Owens with the running cannonball! Cover for 1..2…NO! Owens rolls to the outside. Ambrose opts for the suicide dive! Owens CATCHES AMBROSE!!! He shoves Ambrose into the apron backfirst!
FROG SPLASH OFF THE APRON!! Owens heads onto the apron, then rolls Ambrose back into the ring. He grabs Ambrose and tosses him into the ropes for a pop up ,but Ambrose ducks under a clothesline. DIRTY DEEDS! Pin for 1…2..3!!!
Winner: Dean Ambrose
Pretty solid, albeit short.
Match Quality: **
Personal Enjoyment: **1/2
Total Rating: **1/4
Ambrose, instead of leaving, grabs a ladder from underneath the ring and sets it up in the middle of the ring. Ambrose climbs, and just as Cole explains that it won’t be this easy, Kevin Owens rushes in the ring and tips the ladder over. Owens then sets the ladder up and shouts that it is his.
We’ve got a new Darren Young video package. Young tells Bob that he had a run. Backlund says he never wants Young to run. He stopped running in 1978. Backlund says he has Young’s car keys, and it’ll take 8 hours for Young to walk to the next town. If Young ghets there too fast, he’ll know Young ran.
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Apparently, the entire universe is “still reeling” over what Charlotte did to Flair.
Charlotte is out with Dana Broooke. Charlotte says she has been watching the footage of her and her dad for the last two weeks. She wants to apologize to her dad, but everything that she said needed to be said. We don’t know what it’s like to be on top. We don’t understand the pressure that is on her daily. She’s sorry that she didn’t explain herself better. When she said Flair was dead to her, she meant it professionally. She drones on until Nattie interrupts her. Nattie is not alone, either. She’s got Becky Lynch alongside her. Nattie asks Becky if she is buying any of this. Becky says Charlotte is basically bullshitting. Charlotte say this has nothing to do with Becky. Charlotte thought out of all peopple, she would hope that Nattie would understand. She brings up her crazy uncle and father, and there should be a show called “Broken Harts.” Nattie says her family is not perfect, but the way Charlotte treated her father is disgusting.
Becky says that this is what Charlotte does. She uses people. Becky doesn’t like Dana at all, but if she has any sense, then she’d see that Charlotte is using her too. Charlotte says that would never happen because Dana is Charlotte’s protege. Nattie tells Dana to look at Charlotte’s track record. She tells Dana that she has options. Becky says that this screamin Banshee turned on her own flesh and blood. Becky says that when someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Charlotte wonders if they are done. Dana seems a little taken aback by this all. Charlotte gives her a playful “dude…” Dana considers her options, apparently. Charlotte starts bossing her up a bit, telling her let’s go. It’s a swerve, apparently, and Dana and Charlotte attack Becky and Nattie. Nattie tries to fight back, but Charlotte gets her down in a submission while Dana sets Becky up on her shoulders. Sitout powerbomb to Becky! Charlotte and Dana stand tall.
Go to Puerto Rico, because it’s the only place you’re going to see Primo and Epico.
A little promo of Billy and Chuck 2.0 is shown where they talk about body hair removal.
Match 6: Tyler Breeze (w/ Fandango) vs R-Truth (w/ Goldust0
Breeze misses a right hand as Truth ducks under it. Righ hand by Truth. Another. A third. Breeze with a knee to the gut. He hits a right hand to the face then runs right into a spinning kick by Truth. Fandango tries to distract, but Goldust is there to stop him any further. Goldust then tosses Fandango back in the ring?
The ref quickly calls for a DQ as all four men start fighting.
Winners: Us
Match Quality: NR
Personal Enjoyment: NR
Total Rating: NR
TEDDY LONG is here! He’s all smiles. He says that it’s not going down like this tonight, playa. This is the reason why he should be running Smackdown when it goes live. He’s got a solution right now, in fact – it’s the only solution. He wants to restart this match, and make it a TAG TEAM MATCH! haha
Security comes out behind him and removes him. Teddy shouts that he thought he’d give it a shot. haha.
Backstage, Stephanie walks up to Teddy. She says the fun and games are over. They’re not going to have some old, pathetic, and incompetent fool run their show. Vince wants someone in charge who is intelligent, young, smart, someone to bring in the new era right, and that’s NOT Shane McMahon….it’s going to be Stephanie. She then kicks Teddy out with the rudeness.
Teddy walks away, stops and turns, then leaves.
A pretty stellar Muhammad Ali video package is next.
RIP ALI
New Day comes out to the ring after The Club does. They bring up MITB. Big E says that they’ve already established they are not the Hair Club for Men. Kofi says he wishes that they were the Mickey Mouse Club, so he could get autographs…and himself. The theme song was hot fiyah. Woods sings it, but Big E stops him to prevent litigation. Woods says that New Day is actually IN a club, and that’s the club of WWE TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS. Fair. Woods says the only club that really matters. Kofi points out the obvious; they’re club does not matter.
New Day enters the ring, and we get a face to face to face.
Outside of the ring, Big E hits the steps shoulder first. On the other side, Kofi flies right into a hard right hand. In the ring….Woods hits Styles with a big move, then flips over the top rope to the outside. Woods with a spinning forearm to Styles, but Styles pulls the leg out from under Woods. Anderson with a huge kick to Woods. Styles with THE STYLES CLASH ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE RING!!!!
Match 7: The Club vs The New Day and John Cena
We come back to the match already in progress. Anderson misses a butt splash to Big E, as he rolls out of the way. E reaches for a tag to Kofi, gets it. Styles is also in. He hits a flying right hand. Knocks off Gallows. Another right. Dropkick. Clothesline to Styles. Kofi hits the ropes.. Boom Drop. Gallows is in the ring, but Kofi stops him with a kick and a DDT! Styles locks up from behind, but Kofi escapes, hits the top rope, flies, but Styles moves! Kofi eats shit with a cross body! Styles wants the Clash, but Kofi reverses and hits an SOS. Anderson in, but Belly stops him and hits Belly to Belly. Gallows is in! Kofi with Trouble in Paradise, sending Gallows outside.
Styles on the top rope. Phenomenal Forearm! Pin for 1..2…3!!!
Winners: The Club
I missed a bit there, sorry guys.
Match Quality: **
Personal Enjoyment: **
Total Rating: **
Styles attacks Kofi after the match. Anderson and Gallows toss Big E into the barricade then rush into the ing to help Styles beat down Kofi. Eventually, Cena heads down the ring to attack Gallows and Anderson. Styles rolls out of the ring. Anderson and Gallows are on the apron. Cena knocks them both off. Styles attacks from behind. Right hands to the head. Styles looking to attack some more, but Kofi is in! He sends Styles out! Big E with the Big Ending to Anderson! Cena is up! AA to Gallows!
All three of The Club are standing at the bottom of the ramp. Yes, even Gallows, who just took an AA….
End Show
