Raw Recap - CM Punk and Finn Bálor deliver an instant CLASSIC: Raw Recap, Jan. 19, 2026

0:00An absolutely classic world heavyweight championship match between CM Punk and Finn Balor Adam Pearce is at his wits end with the vision Becky Lynch has another intercontinental championship match and so much more this is the raw recap of WWE and Fanatics original production.

0:28Oh, Megan, what a Monday Night Raw. How about it? From Belfast, Ireland. First at the top, I want to say that we're all thinking about Javon Evans. Yes, we are. Who they had to stop his match with El Grande Americano earlier tonight. Obviously, he's not going to be a part of the Raw recap tonight. I know he's being evaluated by the medical team at WWE. And hopefully by next week, we find out more about what's going on with Javon Evans, but we're all hoping for the best. All that said, Monday Night Raw, I would imagine behind the scenes is a disorganized mess. Yeah. And the reason for that is because at some point, the general manager of Monday Night Raw became a highly emotional, some might say vindictive, human being who will stop at nothing to get at the vision to the point where like, if I'm on that show and I'm not in the vision, can you imagine like knocking on Adam Pearce's office door and then realizing he's sitting at ringside for the match?

1:37I mean, he had a lot of people who were looking for him, the New Day included in that. You know, I was wondering if Adam Pearce was going to come out and we're going to get to this later with Natalia attacking Maxine Dupree. But no, AJ Styles will get to that later as well. Yeah. Adam Pearce preoccupied with Paul Heyman and the vision. I mean, I've got to say, you know, I do think that when you look at this battle between Adam Pearce and the vision, it feels like Adam Pierce is being led astray by his emotions. Because every time you see an interaction between Paul Heyman and Adam Pierce, who appears to be by the end of the conversation, maybe you don't get it at the beginning of the conversation, but by the end of the conversation, who appears to be in complete control?

2:24Paul Heyman. But here's the thing with Paul Heyman. He knows exactly which buttons to push. I mean, I loved. And which phone calls to arrange. I want to know who was on the other end of the phone. That was really, and it's so funny, like the world of professional wrestling is supposed to be an escape for a lot of us. You know, we plunk down in front of the TV and these stories play out in front of our eyes. But anybody that's ever been involved in any sort of corporate anything at work has seen like their boss getting yelled at by their boss above them in this corporate political like interplay happening.

3:01and it's so stressful. And that's what I get with all of this Adam Pearce stuff. Like Adam Pearce is trying to control things on Monday Night Raw, but he's so far out of control. So you see like in the match, right? You had Rey Mysterio, Dragon Lee, and Penta, which is a nuts. Insane. Trios tag team versus the Vision. And I'm telling you, like in my mind, I'm wondering how far this goes with Paul Heyman manipulating everything because it seems like with the vision, and we saw this playthrough, obviously Braun Breger wasn't on Raw tonight. Because he's suspended. I guess, but he was invited to Raw next week.

3:39So how suspended could he possibly be? It depends who is on the phone. That's right. That's right. But Paul Heyman has the vision now to the point where he's in complete control. Even more so, I would say Paul Heyman is more in control of the vision than he was even in control of the bloodline. Like, I don't know that we've ever seen Paul Heyman with this kind of control over these kind of high level people. I'm talking about Brom Breaker and Austin Theory and Logan Paul and Bronson Reed. Like, all these people that were earmarked for success early, somehow they're completely falling in line. I mean, this is like when you look at how in step the members of the vision are with whatever Paul Heyman says.

4:31Yep. It's like it's the ECW roster. Well, it's wild that you say that that he has more power and more control over the vision than he ever did with the bloodline. Because when you think back to the bloodline, ultimately, Paul Heyman still had to answer to Roman. That's right. Yes, my tribal chief. Who does Paul Heyman have to answer to now? I don't think anybody. Not even Adam Pearce. Nobody, especially since Seth left. That's right. Like this has now become like, no, no, no, no, no. This is Paul Heyman's vision that now matches the vision. Paul Heyman's vision is wrapped around these four superstars being in control of the WWE.

5:07And so for these four superstars, they're like, yeah, that vision sounds really great to me. And you know what? Let's take it right now. And I'm watching, right? And I'm seeing Adam Pearce. It's one thing for Paul Heyman to be distracting a referee. But for Paul Heyman and Adam Pearce to be bickering on the apron, distracting the referee in the middle of the match, I'm like, Adam Pearce has totally lost the plot. There was one moment where I thought, oh my gosh, Paul Heyman is going to bait Adam Pearce into putting hands on him. And then while the referee is distracted, and then Adam Pearce and Paul Heyman are distracting him.

5:47Now, they also, they have them, everybody in the vision has like Adam Pearce just spinning and spinning around in circles. Every time this guy's focused on another member, somebody behind his back, it's like the little rascals, except violent. Somebody behind his back is doing something else where like you see Austin Theory get the brass knuckles slipped to him. And I'm telling you, I believe that those brass knuckles were not slipped to Austin Theory so that Austin Theory could win that match. I don't even think that Paul Heyman necessarily cared that they lost the match to Ray, Penta, and Dragon Lee.

6:24I don't feel like on this night for the vision that that was the primary objective. The primary objective was to get to Pierce and make sure Braun Breaker can come back to Monday Night Raw. Because when they slipped Austin Theory the Knucks and Adam Pearce found them, he physically got involved again. He physically got involved in the match and physically took those brass knuckles out of Austin Theory's hand. So technically, once again, put hands... On a member of the Vision. That's right. So he's already at ringside for this match, which is showing too much interest in this group. Then he's putting his hands on Austin Theory where Paul Heyman's like, I don't know where the brass knuckles came from.

7:13There's so much plausible deniability created in this winding road that has Adam Pearce doing exactly what Paul Heyman wants him to do to the point that you're right. I think Paul Heyman was willing to take a punch tonight because he knew that would be checkmate. Paul Heyman is playing Adam Pearce like a fiddle. I do, to your point, want to know who's he talking to because he said in the beginning of the show, nobody called you nobody called you like who's who's calling Adam Pierce is it is there who I don't even know how the corporate structure works with GMs of Monday Night Raw is it Triple H is it somebody in the gorilla position from Unreal is it the board of directors I don't know but I want to know like who because somebody shook up Adam Pierce because all of a sudden he goes well yeah how why don't you have Braun Breaker come back to Monday Night Raw next week and we can talk And then Paul's like, oh, because of the phone call, this has nothing to do with the phone call, according to Pierce.

8:11Yeah, right. Interesting how everything seemed to change as soon as that phone call came through. I mean, that's like the rule in sales, right, or in any negotiation. Whoever talks first loses. So Braun Breaker gets suspended. Fine, I'm suspended. I'm going home. And then it's Adam Pierce going, hey, would you like to come back? all of a sudden braun breaker is in this position of power and i think when i'm looking at it i don't know how exactly it's going to end up but being in a position of power on the road to the royal rumble on the road to wrestlemania is the absolute best time in the wwe to be in a position of power yeah i mean this is the most important time of the year yeah for wwe superstars what better time is it to be in a position of power what better time is it to have leverage heading into the royal rumble leverage is the word like think about all the doors that'll open and with everybody declaring for the rumble does the vision get to just sit there and go like yeah all four of us because you know i mean they say every man for himself but i don't recall at least in the short period of time that they've been around like even when we had austin theory on the show there was no it's it's it's a complete and a lot of factions will say this but it's clearly not true but it's a complete all for one, one for all mentality where there is a mission.

9:36Truly. I think of all four of those guys and none of them have declared for the Rumble. But if all four of them were to be in the Rumble, there'd be one mission that all four of them were working on achieving. Yes. And I think that if anybody can pull it off, it's them. And based on their actions, I have no doubt in that. Now, a couple of weeks ago, right, I would say I'm not so sure I can see Logan Paul's a team player. I'm not so sure I can see all these people coexisting. In fact, I even said that right here on this show. I can't see them. After the title match, you said it. But a week later, I go, oh, no, the vision is unified.

10:12The vision is all for one. I mean, why wouldn't Adam Pearce just like see there's a chess game happening and I'm playing checkers? Because he's leading with his emotions. He is. You can't do that in a position of power. You get yourself into trouble. Every time. Every time. especially with somebody like Paul Heyman who can smell those out and go, oh, I can manipulate those. I can make you do crazy. And then you're looking back and you're looking at like the show going like, why would I have done all that stuff? How did that even happen? That's the power, man. There were a couple things too about the match itself.

10:48First of all, like seeing Rey Mysterio, Dragon Lee, and Penta teaming together on Raw. We say it every time that Rey steps in the ring, but at this point in his career, it should be said every time Rey steps in the ring. It should. The rate at which that superstar, Hall of Famer, is still wrestling. I mean, you forget how long he's been around because he's timeless because of the mask. It turns into this total other thing. Like it almost is like, well, there's human beings and then there's Rey Mysterio. No, I think that that is how it is. Because the action backs it up, right? Yes. It was, I mean, unbelievable.

11:28There was that one moment, the sort of the triple plancha to the outside where they all kind of lined up, the three of them, and went over the rope. And it went right to break after that. It was so good. Yeah, yeah. And I mean, and a huge win regardless of all the tomfoolery that was going on with Adam Pearce and Brass Knuckles and this and that. I thought it was smart that the luchadors were like, well, I mean, whatever. Like all these guys are worried about all this other stuff. Let's just focus on winning the match. Yeah, let's take the brass knuckles and win the match. And that's it. And that's what we did.

12:04And then also something that like really, I was like, huh, this is something that deserves to be mentioned is that Logan Paul is just wrestling on Raw in Belfast. How about that? That's another thing. I think we both talked about it. only a few months ago when Logan Paul was running around being like I'm a full time wrestler and you and I were both like can you just say that like you could just say you're a full time wrestler you don't have to be on you would think that your actions would prove that because he was not on television every week he was just saying he's a full time wrestler I think both of us were like I don't think he's a full time wrestler no if you're not wrestling on a Monday Night Raw middle of the show I don't think you're a full time wrestler but like right under everybody's nose and I feel like people just take it for granted now, he's a full-time wrestler.

12:56He's just wrestling on Raw in a six-man tag in Belfast. It hit me when his music played. Right. Ayo. I know. Because typically when we hear the start of Logan Paul's music, we go, oh, he's back to ruin something. Right. That's a good point. Yes. Yes. Yes. Logan Paul is here. Oh, boo. Yes. But in this case, this was a Monday Night Raw match. And this is where he should be. Yeah. Right? This is where he's been every week. And I don't know. I mean, I feel like he might be the first celebrity to have come in as sort of a novelty celebrity wrestler that would just come in. And then, you know, there have been other celebrities that will come in and out and do their thing.

13:41But I can't remember another celebrity that started as a celebrity wrestler and then became a full-time wrestler right under everybody's nose. to the point where it's like that's and people especially somebody like logan paul that nobody wanted here to begin with and like it and he knows it's a nightmare for most wrestling fans to say that's wwe superstar logan paul but there's no falsities in that statement not right now there's not and it's upsetting to a lot of people but a lot of people still want to go no he's not a full-timer no he's still an outsider but if logan paul keeps showing up and having matches on Monday Night Raw.

14:17What else can you say about it? I mean, I watched a YouTube video of a five-year-old that was doing an entrance for the WWE and Logan Paul called him an outsider and said he was tired of all these outsiders coming into WWE, coming into his industry. It's ridiculous. And a part of me wonders if he decided to become a full-time wrestler so that he can call out other people for being outsiders, so he can call out the jelly rolls and so on for being outsiders when that's exactly who he was five minutes ago not long ago at all i know or because paul hayman presented him with an opportunity and logan paul wants to capitalize on it i mean it is interesting when you go back because it's like logan paul had that thing with cm punk where for a second it looked like he and punk may be on the same side yes and then he turned on punk and then he sided with division and that was like november i want to say because it was starting to lead up to elimination chamber I'm sorry, War Games.

15:12And then the thought was that he'd be on the team for War Games, and then all of a sudden, no, he's a part of the vision. I know. I thought he'd come for War Games, go away, come back for Royal Rumble, and then be around for the build to WrestleMania. Yeah. But Logan Paul's around every week. That might have been wishful thinking on your part. I don't know if we need it. For Adam Pearce, definitely. Absolutely. I can't wait to see what happens there. but speaking of CM Punk we got an absolute classic so good to main event this thing Finn Balor old school music old school entrance that sounded exactly like it when I was getting ready to come here I knew this was the main event and I was thinking I'm so excited to see Finn Balor in the main event I don't remember the last time I saw Finn Balor in a main event singles match No, and he promised the prince.

16:07Yes. And that's who he gave us. So happy. And, you know, Michael Cole and Corey Graves told the story on commentary that this was, because you're right, there's been so much going on with the Judgment Day and so much sort of turmoil and things that go on backstage and intergroup dynamics that you forget who the prince was. You forget the first NXT run. You forget the second NXT run when he came back to NXT as the prince. You forget about him winning the Universal Championship. You forget about the impact that he had on the main roster early on. Like, you forget about Finn Balor. And it's the biggest mistake you could make.

16:50I was so glad that Balor was on Cody's podcast. And they were talking about his past and the impact that he's had on the industry at large. Yeah. Because. He's changed the industry. And you would never know it because he doesn't talk about it. He's just living in today. And for him today was a World Heavyweight Championship match in Belfast, Ireland. And I mean, they were going nuts for the prince. It's rare these days that CM Punk gets booed. But it was yeah, booze the whole night. Yaz for the prince. Yas for the prince. Finn Balor. Booze for CM Punk. Which is insane to think about. Every arena we've been in, Sam, since CM Punk returned a few years ago at Survivor Series.

17:36The entire building echoes CM Punk chants, whether CM Punk is in the building or not. I mean, the entire building was echoing CM Punk chants for the 10 years before he came back, too. But, like, you're right. Like, there is still, with Punk, there is still to this day, even though he's been back for two years, there is still this idea of when you're in the building, you look at this guy and you're like, I can't believe he's back. This is amazing. This is so exciting. Except what was more exciting for Ireland, I think, was we get to see Finn Balor in a world heavyweight title match and wrestling at a tippity, tippity top level.

18:15You know what I mean? Reminding people. And I've said this before, that Finn Balor is this rare case where he can be doing whatever else on the roster. He can be teaming with JD McDonough. He can be playing 2K in the Judgment Day Clubhouse. As himself. As himself, as he should. If I were Finn Balor, I would play as myself too. Look at those abs. He's the only guy who there's a render of him on a video game. And he's like, I actually look a little better in person. Like, it's incredible, this guy. But like, he could be doing any of that. He could just like put his feet up for months and then go like, okay, today's the day.

18:51Let me go remind everybody that I'm one of the best to have ever done this. And he does. And he did it tonight. This is what, that's what tonight was. And we were in there and you were saying, I don't remember the last time Finn Balor had a big singles match. Don't remember. You know, and then, but then you see him and there's nothing out of place about it. And I'm like, why doesn't he have more big singles matches? I like this. Right. I mean, I. I mean, there was the moment when he hits the coup de grace and you think, you know, he had, he had punk for two and you're like, Oh, what if, what if.

19:21Did he, I mean, I know the answer because I was in the room with you. Did you have moments where you were like, it's happening? Yeah, we're getting it. Yes, I know you did. Just a few moments where like your heart drops and the late the late kick out or the late shoulder comes up and you go, maybe, maybe he had those moments where he'd hit you with the gun that like whatever it's called where he goes for the sleeper and slams you down the drop kick with the two, you know, where he lands on his back going into the corner. and he's so, I mean, the way this dude moves, when he kicks you into the corner and as you're coming off of the corner, he doesn't take that moment to like wait until you are on the mat and then look at the crowd and go, should I do it, gang?

20:01Should I do, yeah, okay, let me get out of the ring and go to the top rope. It's like this fluid poetic motion where he kicks you, you hit the turnbuckles, as you're falling down on your back, he's already leaving the ring to get to the top rope. And I'm watching it going, it's happening, it's happening. it's happening Finn Balor's gonna be the new world heavyweight champion and the reason is because the speed that it's all happening you're like oh my god oh my god oh my god and then he hits that coup de grace perfectly and it really was this like what if but what if is where it ends those what if moments are my favorite thing about professional wrestling my favorite part well that's yeah and the best is that like all you need is one to actually happen and then that will take you for the next several months of seeing it everywhere like the minute Drew McIntyre beat Cody Rhodes in three stages of hell now everything is like it could happen it would never happen but it could happen no they would never but they did this you know what I mean and it completely changes the dynamic and I think it changed the dynamic of of tonight you know I I think there were also like there were a lot of ways that you could go in terms of of you know you could bring out the judgment day here you could have a foreign object or a dq or or chicanery or tomfoolery or whatever it was but the fact that it was like once again cm punk just catches that one moment and on that night for that one moment he got the three and that's what he needed and cm punk retains the title kind of the same way he did with braun break i was just gonna say that now now there were outside interference with the braun breaker match the vision got involved and you know but that almost canceled yeah that canceled out and then it was that one moment that cm punk bested braun breaker and cm punk still your world heavyweight champion right the braun breaker one it was just a matter of getting the knee up when braun went for the last spear and then that knee led to the go to sleep and the same thing tonight it was almost like oh oh and then all of a sudden before you even realize it finn balor is up on dude's shoulders and then boom and we all know how that ends one two three cm punk wins and it's like you know of course you're gonna like have all these what if moments and and and fantasy booking and everything going on in your head but ultimately and i think it's very interesting for punk because punk's title reign that he has right now is not necessarily one that anybody expected no or even that probably wwe expected because the only reason it's happening, most likely, is because Seth Rollins went down with an injury.

22:40And so things changed, and all of a sudden, CM Punk was the world heavyweight champion. And it's like, and because it happened so quickly and out of the blue, you almost go, well, what, the moment of Punk being champion is like, this is so cool. And the story at first is, wow, after all this time, who you didn't even think he would ever be back. And now CM Punk is the man and he's the world heavyweight champion. And that's great. But what is the story of the reign? What defines CM Punk's title reign? And I think the answer to that question is finishes like we see in matches like this, in matches with Braun Breaker, where it's not about, you know, chicanery.

23:29It's not about interference. It's not about, you know, an angle or pushing the story this way. It's about... Outsmarting. Right. It's about outsmarting in this moment, on this night. It's about the fact that CM Punk, that something happens when you've been wrestling as long as CM Punk has. Corey Graves talked about it on commentary at the beginning of the match. He talked about CM Punk's wrestling psychology and the fact that he can solve puzzles that he doesn't even know exist yet. And I think that that is how you have to define this title reign for CM Punk, that he finds that one opening, that one thing that he needs.

24:06It's not about this formulaic, systematic, you know, beat down and ripping apart. It's about, oh, there was the opening. And finding a way to capitalize on it. That's right. Because the opening can come at any point for a match, and most superstars can't capitalize on the moment. And once the moment is gone, it's gone. You don't get that moment back. But CM Punk, throughout his title reign, capitalizes on all those moments, and that leads to him retaining his title. Yeah, and it's also about his ability to survive, just to keep fighting and keep fighting. There's very few wrestlers that have that reputation as much as Punk where you can just throw anything at them, and they're going to find a way.

24:47They're just scrappy. They're going to keep fighting and fighting and survive long enough where, to your point, they're still alive when that opening comes because you're right, when's it going to come? If it's going to come later in the match, guess what? I'm going to have to survive long enough I'm going to have to kick out of this coup de grace I'm going to have to do this, I'm going to have to do that and sometimes that opening comes because people are like, what do I have to do to this guy and just as you're thinking that that's the one moment you let your guard down I got my knee up, I got my forearm in whatever it is, you're on my shoulders now and it's night night and really for Punk, his whole career has been about surviving finding a way yes, yes Well, Becky Lynch also found a way tonight.

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26:14This title is a must-have for any belt collector, any AJ Styles collector. of course you got the shirts the hoodie the long sleeve the hat everything hard to believe it's been 10 years in the wwe but the royal rumble is aj styles's event uh and then of course becky lynch i ordered mine already of course did you no i was hoping i get a free a freebie or some of course typical scam roberts becky lynch looking to beat the system is still the man and just dropped a new t-shirt head over to wwe shop and fanatics and rep her magazine cover t-shirt today of course people should know it's a great t-shirt if you're a fan of becky lynch you should pick it up it is a forged magazine cover she wasn't really on the cover of that magazine i should be doing these these reads for becky lynch you think so yes okay well maybe next time maybe next time grab the shirts you can be like megan if you want to dress like megan and who doesn't you're an icon right thank you thank you wwe shop and fanatic i heard that they're already record-breaking sales for this becky lynch shirt what record records of all of the sales okay good more shirts fanatics has already said this is the the best selling t-shirt that they've ever had fanatics said that where it's all over oh i guess i'll just check then yeah it's all over all over the internet everywhere the trades yeah all the trades everything yeah wow well then you don't want to miss out you don't want to i mean you gotta get there you gotta get your hands on this shirt they're gonna fly off the shelves apparently they already are you what do you mean they're going to fly off the shelves you said that they've already record breaking sales already or they're going to be already oh and then it's probably going to break her own record i got the whole control room shirts everybody you got them so the record breaking sales are mainly going to the Morant house.

28:07I got your family some too. They don't need them. They're going to love them. She said unkind things about members of my family. The small ones. Horrible children. Well, you didn't have to say that that's what she said, but that's what she said. Regardless, they are available. You all right there? I got another one. They are available. You bring a backup pen to the show in case you accidentally just throw it on the ground in here? Honestly, that was pretty cool that I was able to pull another one just like that, wasn't it? It was like a magic trick. Thank you. yeah Becky Lynch t-shirt available now at WWE she gets you all fired up you're throwing pens all over the studio and fanatics relax will you take a deep breath relax you're right you're right um Becky Lynch did defeat Maxine Dupree heck yeah tonight uh I mean there is a story to tell around that victory you think it's just kind of no I actually saw on Twitter before we came on the show that once again pierce as we know can't be trusted he has been having a rough couple weeks with not just the vision of paul hayman with becky lynch and many others on the roster as well but he called for a specific camera angle and that camera he's calling the camera angles i mean he's the general manager he's in charge of the whole show so he called for a specific he's in the truck i thought he was in his office well no he was ringside but during becky's match truck wow he called for a specific camera angle right that missed that Becky got her shoulder up is that true it is he's got to get better about delegating I know yeah so yeah where'd you hear that I saw that on on Becky Lynch's Twitter actually okay all right so it's I didn't realize that that was where you okay well that's fine then um so it was good that that Natty got her foot on the rope but Becky did have the shoulder so she didn't need the help anyways so regardless of if the foot was on the rope she the pin wouldn't have counted yeah we can talk to Danilo about it I'm sure he saw excellent referee yeah i've heard good things but he'll only do shows if you pay him to do them that's true he's very cheap uh yeah listen first of all maxine du pre has been getting better and better every single week she has and let me tell you something my jaw is on the ground every time she hits that like delayed kip up you know when she like kicks her feet up and then she comes up but she still arched back and just slowly like cranks up.

30:25It's amazing the control that this human being has. It's unbelievable. Every time she does it, I'm like, is she going to get up? Yeah. Is she going to make it? Yeah. She delivers every time. It's unbelievable. The muscle control is crazy. Natalia, her trainer, she's been going to the dungeon. She's been getting better. She was on this show talking about how like how much it's helped becoming a regular student at Natalia's school, at the dungeon. I mean, these two were tag team partners. They were tag team partners. I have a shirt that says Dungeon Dolls and it has Maxine and Natalia on it. You have that shirt?

30:58I have it. Does Becky know you have that shirt? I haven't told her yet. Okay, well, let's clip it. Don't clip it. Clip it. Please don't clip it. Let's clip it. You know, we all have a pass. Control room has let me know. Becky does know now. When she was in the Dungeon Dolls, this was before she was moody. So I get a pass. She's moody now? Maxine's very moody right now. Oh, okay. Which is potentially why Natalia did what she did Well I'd be in a bad mood if Natalia did that to me too Everybody would Right okay so Natalia's there on Raw She's like I'm gonna come out with you To make sure that Becky Lynch Doesn't do the underhanded things This week that she did last week Specifically hooking the rope On her way over you know to cover Maxine And this was a big ask because it's not like You know they're down the street Like Natalia flew all the way to Ireland.

31:48She stamped her passport to get this done. Yeah. So she's there shows up to ringside and of course and we saw those training videos too. Don't forget that black and white footage of Maxine getting mean. So Natalia's out there at ringside watching her back. Eventually I didn't realize the by the way I will give I think Becky credit. It was Becky did the superplex on Maxine that then rolled through into a DDT. Pretty slick. That was a slick. I was going to say it was sick, but Becky would prefer it. That was sick. It was great. Slick. Sorry. That was slick. But Maxine, it would appear, had her beat.

32:34I don't know about that. I was watching the Pierce camera angle. I didn't see it, so. Well, you should have watched it. I didn't see the Pierce camera angle. It was your responsibility. but uh as she's got Becky Lynch covered we see Natalia put Becky's foot on the rope and just stare right at Maxine and Maxine look at that and Maxine goes why would you do that and look at the look at the cock of the head of Natalia going like yes I did that what are you gonna do with so much confidence and look at the way she's crossing her arms and just the smirk on her face and this goes back to the emotions too this goes back to the the taking advantage of people who are going to get emotional about this stuff like Maxine's head was completely out of the game at that point like you look at this and this is not a person that is wrestling the intercontinental champion anymore this is a person who is focused on being betrayed by Natalia who's on the outside of the ring and Natalya just looking right at her going like I did that and I'm glad I did that I mean it's so difficult right we've been through friend breakups before I mean at least I've been through friend breakups before you have a friend turn their back on you I mean that hurts more than any you know romantic relationship that's that's thrown away these two have been together since Maxine came into WWE and Maxine was you know she was she was very upfront about the fact that she who's been learning sort of on the job.

34:06And Natty's been a huge part to Maxine learning. When she sat down with us at Madison Square Garden, she talked so much about Natalia. The fact that the person who trained her stabbed her in the back, that cuts deep. You've had that happen to you a lot? Friend breakups? Every now and then. Sounds bad. Never? You've never had a friend breakup? No. Never once? Never. No, on my side. Everybody's in the line of people who want to be friends with you? So far, yeah. So far, so good. So you're like a Natalia. You're just... I guess so. And then lucky me. I guess if that's the comparison you want to make, yeah, I guess so.