The Ariel Helwani Show - The Uncrowned Wrestling Show | WrestleMania 42 Night Two Review, Brock Lesnar RETIRES?

Episode Date: April 20, 2026

Solomonster is back with a WrestleMania 42 recap for Night 2 in Las Vegas with an incredible main event capping off a much better show and Roman Reigns winning the World Heavyweight Title.  He also has news on Roman's schedule moving forward on Monday nights.  Plus, a MAJOR surprise with Brock Lesnar seemingly retiring after his loss to Oba Femi, Rhea Ripley and Trick Williams with big title wins and a crazy ladder match.  But as with Night 1, the show was not without its issues.

Jason Solomon back with you here for another uncrown wrestling update after night two of WrestleMania 42. WrestleMania is officially in the books. And if you look at night one and you compare it to night two, in a lot of ways it's the tale of two shows. WrestleMania Night One, not very good. There were some good things to like about it, but on the whole, it didn't feel like a WrestleMania.

It was a big letdown. The main event was a mess. We've already talked about the Pat McAfee stuff. going into the main event. And Cody Rhodes, by the way, there is no firm update on his status other than he is injured. He suffered a very gnarly eye injury. There's talk of maybe an orbital injury. I'm not sure if that's kind of a worked aspect to it, but he definitely suffered an eye

injury to the point where his eye was swollen shut. Apparently it may have come on a punch that Orton threw at him late in the match and not on the punt kick after the match. So we'll see what the update is on Cody and what his status is going to be moving forward. But when that show was over last night, it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, myself included. And so my only hope coming into Night 2, just rebound. Just give us a better show because it's all about how you end. And if you can end strong and if you can stick the landing, people won't be talking about what happened before as much.

And that was my only hope coming into Night 2. They had one goal, one mission. And it was mission accomplished because Night 2 easily cleared night 1. night two felt more like a night of WrestleMania, not exactly in terms of the six matches that we got on the show. Night two was the one night of WrestleMania all by

itself. It would be very weird to only have six matches on the card. But quality-wise, night two was a lot more enjoyable than night one. A very newsworthy show that ended with Roman Reins once again holding a world championship, this time the World Heavyweight

title for the very first time. He and CM Punk went out there. for 34 minutes in that main event, and they crushed it. Easily cleared the night one main event, but it was truly just on its own, just an outstanding match between the two of them. No bullshit, no interference, no Pat McAfee, no ref bumps, no nothing. It was just two guys who went out there and had a great professional wrestling match. And they had the crowd in the palm of their hand.

The crowd was engaged. They were going back and forth. They were cheering and booing both guys at different. points, just a great match. And I was thinking about this. You know, CM Punk has had a lot of WrestleMania matches over the years. Obviously, there was a gap

of about 10 years that he missed there. This very likely was the greatest WrestleMania match that CM Punk has ever had. And he's had some really good ones before, although not as many as you would think in terms of like big classics that

people, you know, talk about to this day. But he's had some really great matches. And this one, I think, probably clears them all, which is saying a lot. You know, considering the man's almost 50 years old, there were people himself included who probably never imagined that he would even be back in WWE, let alone in the WrestleMania main event. And so it's a credit to him. It's a credit to Roman. Can't say enough good things about the match that those two had. There was also some news coming out of the post show because Roman Raines made a comment after the fans in the background were chanting

part-time or part-timer at him. And he addressed that, and he said that we're going to fix that. And he said, you're going to be seeing a lot of me through the summer. So it sounds like we're going to get a full-time or as close to a full-time Roman Raines as we've had in many years, at least through SummerSlam. And I'm happy to hear that, because that was my one reservation about putting the World Championship back on Roman Rains. Roman's a part-time guy.

He's very limited in the number of matches that he works and the appearance. he makes. And, you know, look, he's got a big family at home and he's earned the right to have whatever schedule it is that he wants to have. That doesn't mean he needs to be the World Heavyweight Champion. But they put the belt on him. And so if he is going to be sticking around on a full-time basis, I think that's great because Monday Night Rawan needs him. They need that. The whole, if you go back to the genesis of the World Heavyweight Championship in 2023, why was that title created in the first place? It was because Roman Reins had a stranglehold on the other two championships that he had unified together.

And Monday Night Raw had no champion. So they had no choice but to create a new belt. Well, now Roman has that belt. And we were kind of spoiled because over the last few months, CM Punk has had that championship, and he's been around full time. He's been defending the belt on Monday nights. He actually ended up having a hell of a run for himself. That was never the plan because Seth Rollins got hurt.

when CM Punk won that championship in November of last year, that was not the original plan. But he made the most of it and he had a nice run for himself. And so I would hope that Roman is going to be around more often because Monday Night Raw needs him. They don't need an absentee champion. So if he's going to be around full time, that's great news. That was really the only reservation I had about him potentially winning that match. What the future holds for CM Punk, the immediate future, we'll have to wait and see. but that match, that main event match that we had tonight,

the best match of WrestleMania weekend, in my opinion. So that match delivered. Beyond that, there was another match that I was looking forward to, actually the most, if we're being honest, that of all the matches on either night of WrestleMania. And that was Brock Lesnar and Obafemi. Obafemi is the future. I'm just going to say it right now.

I'm not breaking any news here. I'm sure a lot of people listening to this would agree, and they've probably seen this for a while. while. Brock Lesner against Obafemi, to me, was a passing of the torch moment because Obafemi is the future of WWE. But he's not just the future. He's the here and now. You know, when I say future, it's like, oh, well, you know, two years from now, he'll be anointed. No, he was anointed tonight in Las Vegas or WrestleMania. And he will be a world champion inside of a year. He is the guy that this company is going to build around.

There's like a core group of guys, Obafen. Emmy, Bronn Breaker, Trick Williams, Jacob Fawtoo. I'll even throw Dominic Mysterio in there as a possible, you know, fifth guy. That could be your core group of guys on the men's side that I think this company can truly build around. As future world champions and as the future of this company, as bigger names and older stars, they begin to age out. You've got to build for the next generation. and that match tonight more than any other, although Trick Williams also won the U.S. title on this show from Sammy Zane.

So that kind of fits into the criteria here. But that opening match on ESPN tonight, more than any other, to me, signified this is, it really did feel like this was the new generation taking hold, which is something that, you know, they need to be doing. You know, they need to be looking to the future. These guys are the here and now, but nobody more so than Oba. And they had one job tonight on this show. Stick the landing.

Everything they have done up until this point in the buildup to this match has been pitch, perfect. They have not made a misstep. But they could easily have fucked the entire thing up by going in there tonight and having Brock beat Oba. I think that would have been a huge mistake. Just stick the landing. One job is all they had. Have Oba Femi beat Brock Lesner and beat him dominantly. And that's exactly what they did.

Everything, every step of the way here, everything they did, they made the right move. and they made a star. Now, Oba was already being looked at as a star. I just listened to these reactions he's been getting. Tonight, though, solidified it. That may have been, honestly, the most important match that we saw on that card tonight was the opening match, and it didn't even go five full minutes. But that was the most important match of the night. And beyond that, Ria Ripley, new WWE Women's Champion,

we had the new United States champion in Trick Williams. We had the return of the demon, Finn Baller. we had this incredible car crash six-way ladder match for the Intercontinental title. But also, major news coming out of that Brock Lesnar match that I just talked about, something very unexpected and very newsworthy happened when that match was over. So let's get into it. This is a quick recap for all you on crowd fans out there for WrestleMania Sunday, WrestleMania 42, Night 2.

They did start on ESPN with Brock Lesner and Obafemey in the opening match. Again, it did not go very long. It went a shade under five minutes, and it was exactly what it needed to be. You know, you had them going back and forth, and Brock was kind of testing him out. He was trying stuff that wasn't really working. Obel was no selling some of his stuff. But it all culminated with Brock hitting an F5. And the key there is that Oba was able to get back up to his feet. And when Brock turned around, he was very surprised to see Obafemi vertical. And he took a choke slam and he took his finish. He took the fall from grace, and this was not finisher spam. This was not him kicking out of the guy's finish. Hey, nice finish there, kid.

I think I'll kick out of it. Yeah, no bullshit like that. He took one fall from grace, and he ate the pin. And Oba Femi slays the beast. He beats Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania. Even he looked more shocked than anybody. But the big story came when the match was over. Because Brock is laying there.

And he's laying there until Oba's gone. He waits until Oba has already gone. up the ramp, 75 yards, he's in the back. And Brock Lesnar sits up in the ring and he takes off his gloves, he unlaces his boots. And the fans, they know what that means. And Paul Heyman had a look on his face like he was surprised and he didn't know any of this was happening. And I don't know if he did or not. What makes me think maybe he didn't is that when he got in the ring, Brock flashed the X sign with his hands. And so I don't know what that was about. But my first thought was, he was signaling to Paul like, no, this is a shoot. This is legit. And Paul had tears streaming down

his face. He was very emotional with that, I'm sure, was very real. And they embraced. And it's funny because when they came in here, Brock Lesnar was the heel. Right. He was the heel in this scenario. And Oba was the clear baby face. And when it was over, Brock was the baby face. And everybody was cheering for him. Thank you, Brock. Thank you, Brock. Because this is what it looks like when somebody is done. You know, they wanted you or he wanted you to get the impression that this was his final match. This was Brock Lesnar's retirement. And we don't have that confirmed. We don't know for sure. And I'm always very skeptical anyway when it comes to wrestling retirements. Brock is a businessman. You flash enough money in his face. It would not at all shock me if he came

back, even if he meant for this to be his retirement. There's been a lot of chatter about maybe a potential match with him in Gunther. They're going to be in Minneapolis, you know, which is where Lesner is from. That's where SummerSlam is this summer. I don't know for sure one way or the other. My impression, though, watching this and taking this all in is that this was it. And the more I think about it, while, you know, a Gunther Brock match would be cool, it's not needed. Honestly, I can't think of a better way for Brock to end his run than the way he ended it tonight. He got to put over the future, in my opinion, potentially future face of this company. The next big thing. They even called him that on commentary. Guess what? That's what they called Brock when he debuted in 2002. He was the next big thing. And here we are all these years. Two decades plus later, the next big

thing is here. And what better time for Brock to bow out than putting this guy over at WrestleMania, right, on the biggest stage that they have, and walking out with his head held high? I think it's the perfect way for him to kind of ride off into the sunset. So I hope that is it for him. I can't write a better ending than that. But whether it is or not, only time will tell. But what a run for him if it was? I mean, obviously, you know, he missed two years recently. A lot of controversy around Brock.

But as far as his in-ring career is concerned, you know, you have to consider him when you start talking about lists of the goat. And maybe he's not the goat. When you start talking about top 10 and top 15 lists all time, you know, where does Brock, fall where does he rank when it comes to that stuff. There'll be plenty of time to talk about that and litigate that. You know, my list personally, he's up there.

Is he top 10? Quite possibly, yeah. When you really look back of what this man was able to accomplish, the people he worked with, the people he beat, right, if you want to consider that, like championships won, the big names that he beat. From the very moment he walked onto the scene, this guy was a force. He's a freak of nature. Look at the way he's.

he was pushed in his rookie year. And then to leave and come back with the, you know, the added legitimacy of being a UFC heavyweight champion and the way that he was booked and protected in his second run, ending the undertaker streak at WrestleMania and all the things that he did, obviously a future Hall of Famer in WWE. But he's pretty high up there on the list. You know, he has had a very charmed career. He has got to work with the biggest names in the business and pretty much beaten them all.

and so if that really is it for Brock Lesnar, what a run. I don't know what else there is to say. What a fucking run this guy had. But again, we'll see if that really is the end form. Part of me just is a little skeptical. And maybe it's a way to convince people that he is gone and Gunther is going to coax him out of retirement just in time for SummerSlam so that he's a big baby face when he comes back.

But we'll see what happens there. As far as the ladder match, intercontinental championship on the line, Penta successfully defending his title against Dragon Lee, Javan, Ray Mysterio, J.D. McDonough, and Roussev. This was a lot of fun. They gave it 15 minutes, and everybody had a chance to shine. There were a couple of really big high spots in the match where J.D. McDonough took a Mexican destroyer onto a ladder bridge in the ring, which is insane.

and then Javon Evans hit this just picture perfect OG cutter off the top rope to Rusev, who was hanging on to a ladder. But in the end, it was Penta, pulling down the championship, retaining the title. I was happy to see it. Penta hasn't even had a full two months yet as the champion. I think it would have been crazy to take the belt off of him. He's super over. So I was very happy to see him hold on to the belt.

We had Sammy Zane defending the United States Championship against Trick Williams. You know, people have talked a lot of. about double turns, right? They talked about it with Cody and Randy and the one double turn I was always envisioning for this show, realistically, would have come in this match. And they didn't do it, but looking back at it, there was really no reason for them to because the fans kind of already did it for them. Sammy Zane came out here. He was booed out of the building, even though he hasn't done anything heelish. He clearly was the heel in this match. Trick Williams was clearly the baby face. The fans loved him. My biggest

gripe about this match. I mean, the work was fine. And Trick won. He is the new United States champion. Great for him. I have no issue with him being the champion. Personally, I think it would have been better to keep the belt on Sammy just because it would have made him that much more of a heel. Because the fans do love Trick. And so if Sammy cheated to win, if he did the one thing that like this version of Sammy Zane is above doing, he's above reproach, and if he took a shortcut as a way to the fan favorite in this case, man, the heat on him would have been twice as big. And then you could have milked it a little bit more, this feud between the two of them, and people would have been even more behind Trick, and then he could have won the belt in a few months.

But they opted to put the belt on him here. That's fine. My biggest issue with it, they gave them seven minutes. This match was nothing special. Like, if you put this match on Smackdown, even on Smackdown, this match would not be anything special. And that was my biggest gripe. when I look back at these two nights of WrestleMania, so many matches on these

undercards were short-changed. I'm not saying every match has to go 20 minutes, but there were definitely matches that went seven, eight, ten minutes that deserved more time. And they just did not have enough time to really tell the stories that I think they probably wanted to tell.

Or in some cases, the match felt like it was in first gear and it was about to hit second gear, but then it just ended. And I don't understand how that has. happens on a show called WrestleMania where you don't have an overabundance of matches. Like there's plenty of time. Looking back at it now, I mean, they have plenty of time, except for the fact that they have tons and tons and tons of commercials.

And so I guess in reality, they didn't have time because they had to allot time for that. And so we had more time allotted to that than the actual matches, unfortunately, at the expense of the actual wrestling. And that was my biggest gripe about this match. They deserve more than seven minutes to tell that story. Then we had a street fight between Finn Baller, all painted up as the demon, taking on Dominic Mysterio. This was not a street fight until like an hour before the show. Then all of a sudden it became a street fight, I guess for reasons.

But this was the first time we saw Ballard donning the demon paint since he lost a hell and a cell match to Edge at WrestleMania 39, a match that he was reportedly going to win until VIII. Vince McMahon, who had already been ousted, he got a little bit of influence into that card and said, Nope, Edge is going to win. So the last two times we saw the demon, he lost. He lost to Edge. He lost to Roman Raines in the most embarrassing way possible, falling off the top rope. I still don't quite understand what the point of that finish was. So he needed to win this match.

I mean, it would have been ridiculous for him to bring the paint back and then lose. So, of course, he won. They had a very basic W.W.E style plunder match. They went about 10 minutes. Again, I hate to sound like a broken record here, but you have a lot of history with these two. They've been in the Judgment Day now for a few years.

And they've been teasing, you know, drama, I guess, at various points between them now for a long time. Only recently did they finally kick Baller out of the group. And you give these guys 10 minutes. So, you know, they did their spots with the chairs and the Kendo sticks and the slim gym tables. and all the stuff that you would expect to see in a WWE-style hardcore match. But it was a very basic kind of blasé nothing match.

I mean, it just didn't make me feel anything. And if this was the payoff between Baller and Dominique, what a disappointment. You know, I mean, they tried their best. They had a solid enough match, but, I mean, that's really the best thing I can say about it. Good for the demon, though. Hey, you know, this was the first time the demon won a match, if you can believe it, since a win over Andrade, who doesn't work there anymore, in 2019. It's been a long time coming.

Now, we had a women's championship match with Jade Cargill defending her title against Ria Ripley. I do have to mention this. Before this match, they showed the announcers of ringside. And it was Michael Cole and Wade Barrett, and sitting next to them was a man that I had never seen before. In my life. and they identified him as Adam Whitesman. And I said, okay, is that supposed to mean anything to me? Because it sure doesn't.

So I hit up Google to look up who this guy was. And evidently, he is an entrepreneur and the CEO of a scrap metal company. I believe he may be a billionaire, at least a millionaire. And then it started to make sense to me. Now, he's sitting next to the announcers. And they said he's going to join us for this next match. And you would think, oh, my God, going to be on commentary. What is the point of this? Either he didn't have a mic in his headset

or they muted his mic, because we never heard a word out of this guy's mouth. What happened here, clearly, is this man paid a lot of money to sit ringside next to Michael Cole and Wade Barrett. Not to do commentary, but just to sit there and I guess just take it all in because the guy's a billionaire and he can afford it. So of all the ways that TKO has found to make money here off of WW. I guess they have found a new way when you can find millionaires and billionaires who, again, I've used the term fantasy camp to describe WWE recently with all the celebrity involvement. I guess the fantasy camp extends to

people who can afford to pay for a spot sitting at ringside because I still don't know exactly what the point of all this was. So Jade and Rio Ripley, they come out. No Meachin or B-Fab in Jade's corner, no Eoske and Ria's corner. They had what I thought was a pretty good match. This was one of the better

matches that Jade has ever had in her career. I don't want to say the best, but it was one of the better ones. It was not one of the better ones for Ria. She's had much better match. Last year, I thought that was the match of the year that she was a part of that triple threat last year. So she's had some really

killer matches at WrestleMania. This was not a killer match. But it could have been a lot worse. You know, just given Jade's skill level at this point, you never really know what to expect. She's on a big stage. This was the biggest match of her life. I thought she did fine. Meachin and B-Fab, they did run out during the match. E.O. Sky ran out to fight them off. In the end, it was Ria Ripley. A very cool counter out of the jaded into a riptide wins her fourth women's championship. Singles title. I believe singles.

title, unless they're counting them all because she was a tag champion as well. But anyway, four women's titles for Ria Ripley. She is now officially a member of the Smackdown roster because she has to be. I mean, that championship belongs to Smackdown. Jade Cargill, a very forgettable, what was it, 170 days or whatever it was, a very forgettable run as champion. It took her over a hundred days for them to even put her in a title match, which is just completely ridiculous. I suspect we're not done with these two. I mean, they got backlash coming up in a couple of weeks. I could see a rematch happening on that show. Ria has some new faces now and some old ones to work within that division on Smackdown, but she has some newer faces. Tiffany Stratton has never

worked with her before. Jordan Grace, right? That could be a fun one. Kiana James, Lash Legend. Maybe they'll call up some new faces from NXT. I think as early as this week coming up, we could see some new faces like J.C. Jane of being called up from NXT. I don't know if she'll be on Smackdown. So I like the move as far as putting the belt on Ria. But I'm looking at where we are at this point in the show. And I'm like, I see E.Skyo Sky doing a run-in in this match. And they had been promoting a potential match for WrestleMania between her and Oscar.

They never officially announced it. But she was addressing Aska on social media as recently as this past, I think, Monday night after Raw went off the air. I'll see you in Las Vegas. Well, if she saw Aska in Las Vegas, they were passing each other in the hallway backstage. Because as you could tell, neither woman had a match on this show, night one or night two. And I'm watching this show, and it's still relatively early. And they had one match less on night two than they did on night one. You couldn't fit in a match between Aska and Ioska, who actually have a story built around Kyrie Sane coming into this match.

Kyrie has, I mean, she's in this toxic relationship with Aska basically being verbally abused. Eo's been trying to tell her snap out of it. You could have had a big moment with them at WrestleMania. You couldn't find time to fit these women in on this show. It's ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. The only potential saving grace is that they were not going to get a lot of time because nobody got a lot of time unless you were in the main event. So realistically, if they did the match, they would have gotten maybe six minutes.

If they save the match for backlash, maybe they'll get 12. That might be the only saving grace here. But otherwise, like we're heading into the main event as I'm watching this, and I'm like, you absolutely could have fit one extra match on this show. The fact that they didn't, and they got left off, I think, is just a slap in the face. So John Cena was the host. He was back out to announce the attendance for Knight 2, 55,255,255. and he claimed 106,072

as the combined attendance for night one and two, which for the record is over 10,000, I think it's about 12,000 less than what they claimed was the total for last year's WrestleMania weekend. And then we got some comedy where the Miz came out through the crowd with Kit Wilson to approach John Sina. Danhausen came out, he had a bunch of little people with him.

Michael Cole called the midgets and said it's okay. They told me they wanted me to call them that. Hilarity ensued when they came down to the ring. And Kit Wilson got dogpiled by a bunch of the little people. Miz got hitting the balls. Dan Housen did his version of the You Can't See Me in Five Knuckle Shuffle to him. And I mean, that's what else is there for me to say here? My God.

I mean, this segment was longer than most of the matches on this show. It's a fine little comedy detour for a few minutes. but I'm just sitting here shaking my head going, man, we could have fit another match in here on this show, I'm just saying. But we got the main event after this. And this was easily the best match of the entire weekend here as far as WrestleMania goes. CM Punk, defending the World Heavyweight Championship against Roman Reigns. And CM Punk, in my opinion, Cody Rhodes had a pretty badass entrance on night one for his match. Punk's entrance, though, takes the keg for me because they had a,

It was kind of like a slideshow of different images of him over the course of his career, but it was set to his old AFI theme, Zaria Cantare, that he used in Ring of Honor many years ago. And then they showed punk walking through the back. He came out on stage, and then they played his cult of personality music. So a very cool entrance here, and Roman got his own entrance with his old music, by the way. That should have been a tell-tale sign of something here. But the bell rang, and these two went in there, and as I said at the beginning here of this review,

they had just a kick-ass back-and-forth pro wrestling match. You had CM Punk at one point during this match. Guy's almost 50 years old. Roman Raines is laid out on the announced desk outside. So he's got to clear some distance. Now, when we saw I Show Speed do this in the opening match on night one, that's one thing. Speed's a lot smaller, he's a lot younger, arguably probably more athletic, at least at this stage of the game. And so someone like him or Logan Paul clearing that distance from the top rope or the top of the ringpost all the way onto the announced desk, it's like, all right, you know what?

It's still very impressive, but like I could see that. Or see, I'm punk to do it. I give the guy a lot of credit, you know, that his body didn't just disintegrate into dust because that was a hell of a bump to take. And he put Roman reins through the announced desk. You know, again, they were trading finishers back and forth, but I felt like they, I felt like, they didn't overdo it. There have been matches at WrestleMania before where it is just excessive. I mean excessive. I'm looking at you rocking John Cena. WrestleMania 29. I was there for that. I was very disappointed. But anyway, I felt like

they didn't overdo it here. The fans were just, I mean, they were hanging on to every near fall. It was great. And I love what they did here at the end of the match because they're well over 30 minutes into this match. And CM Punk hits a go-to-sleep. And Roman-Ran, he bounces backwards, off the ropes, and lands back on punk's shoulders. So punk hoists him up or tries to for another one, and he collapses under the weight because his body could take no more. You know, punk has talked about when he's asked, when do you plan on retiring? And he's made the comment, well, I'm just going to go until the wheels fall off.

And I thought about that here as I was watching him. Like in this match, you could see the story they were telling. Like, he went until the wheels fell off. and he just couldn't do it anymore. And they were on their knees at one point. And Punk's looking at him, and he took just a wild swing, but he didn't really have a lot on it,

and he just completely whiffed. But it was almost like one last defiant swing. And then finally, Roman, he crisscrosses the ropes, back and forth, builds up some speed, and he gave him a spear, and he pinned him. Cleaned in the middle of the ring, one, two, three. And just like that, Roman Raines is the new world heavyweight champion. No outside interference, no Jimmy and Jay Uso, no Pat McAfee, no ref bumps.

You just had two guys in there beating the holy hell out of each other until one of them ran out of gas. And tonight it was CM Punk. So I thought it was an incredible main event, but it was a match that this show desperately needed. And when I say this show, I'm talking about both nights, they desperately needed a match of this caliber on this show. And again, it's not how you start. It's how you end. They were very fortunate tonight that they started hot and they ended hot. We had a great match to open the show and we had a great match to close the show.

And so, WrestleMania Night 2 could not have ended any better. It was exactly the antidote to the poison that was night one. Has that for an analogy. If you combine the two, look, this is not going to go down as one of the better WrestleMania's. I'm watching this show and again, all the downtime in between matches and so many people that were left off and, you know, long entrances, the elaborate entrances, you kind of expect them, but at the expense of in ring, I mean, if we would have gotten some more in ring in some of these matches, especially some of the title matches, you know, the women's title match from night one,

the U.S. title match with the men from tonight, and some of the other stuff as well, it just, I felt like a lot of these men and women, and I'm sure they must, they have to feel the same way. They were short-changed, and I'm sure they would have loved to have even just five more minutes to go out there and sort of paint that canvas, so to speak, and tell that story and maybe have some more dramatic near falls, you know, towards the end of some of their matches. And so many of them were just cut short. It was very, very noticeable. But to me, it's just indisputable.

Night two, better than night one. they ended on a high note, and now the Roman Rain's error begins on Monday Night Raw. And when he says he's going to be here full-time through the summer, we shall see. We shall see what full-time means. If it literally means every week, is he going to be doing any wrestling like Punk was doing on the weekly shows?

Roman could be there. That doesn't mean he's going to be wrestling necessarily. But it would seem to me like he would be on a collision chorus with Gunther. I don't know if that would be a SummerSlam match, if it would come earlier than that, Roman and Oba. Oba called him out on the post show tonight. And Roman responded and said, in so many words, basically, you know, you're still very wet behind the ears here.

Maybe let's see how you do through the summer before you start coming after the world champion. So it doesn't sound like that's something they're going into immediately. But Roman's got some new faces now, you know, to work with on Monday Night Raw. Which I will be talking about. when I do the full uncrowned wrestling show this Tuesday. So you'll definitely want to tune in for that. We'll have all the WrestleMania fallout, thoughts from the PostMania Raw, which is coming up later tonight as I am recording this.

And some other news and notes from the week. So that'll be dropping during the day on Tuesday, the Uncrown Wrestling Show. You can find that on the Ariel Helwani show feed, or the dedicated Uncrown Wrestling Show feed, wherever you get your podcast from, like the one you're listening to right now, Apple, Spotify, wherever it may be.

I hope you guys enjoyed these little updates. Each night of WrestleMania, leave some feedback. You could find me on Twitter at Solomonster. You can email me, the Solomonster, at gmail.com. And I will see you for the Uncrowned Wrestling Show this Tuesday. Until then, take care, guys.