tonight on monday night raw the wwe
united states championship
is on the line it's going to open up the
show we're going to have apollo crews
returning to monday night raw
to defend the wwe united states
championship against the south appointed
real united states champion
mvp now apollo cruz has been absent from
wwe television for several weeks now
um the feud between mvp and apollo crews
goes back quite a while actually it goes
back to
uh back to june and we're in august
right now so on the uh june 22
uh 2020 edition of monday night raw
after weeks of turning down the advances
to become his business manager apollo
cruz was indeed the guest
on mvp's vip lounge now during the
segment during the
talk show mvp once again said that he
would like to be apollo cruz's business
manager helped the united states
champion thrive
in wwe but once again apollo crews would
turn down
mvp's advances to become a member
of what would now be known as the hurt
business he didn't officially have a
name at that point but
uh mvp would go on to create this stable
known as the hurt business but
apollo crews turned down mvp's advances
um
which led to a match between apollo
crews and shout and benjamin which
apollo crews won
however after that match apollo crews
was attacked
by bobby lashley mvp's heavy in recent
weeks and a member of the hurt business
of course
putting uh apollo crews in the full
nelson submission hold which
bobby lashley has used going forward now
as his finishing maneuver hasn't he and
to be honest it's it's classic isn't it
because um
it just goes to show that if you use a
submission long enough and if it's done
with the right person
it can get over and be devastating i
remember an analogy that paul heyman
wants to use he said if mark henry
had a side headlock as his finisher
and the person selling it really sold
the hell out of it and the commentator
said this is the world's strongest man
he's got someone in the side headlock
and let's be honest
if the world's strongest man gets you in
a side headlock your head would probably
explode
it could be a finish and it's the same
thing here with bobby lashley this full
nelson
submission hold if you've ever been in a
full nation actually does really really
hurt
so someone the size of bobby lashley
putting it on someone
yeah it can be a legitimate uh
legitimate finish and a legitimate
submission so
that's always interesting i think what's
also interesting about bobby lashley
using the fullness and submission is
that
for ages the formation for nelson
submission was known as the master lock
in wwe used by chris masters the
masterpiece
and the first person to officially break
the master lock after years and years of
it not being broken on wwe television
was none other
than bobby lashley himself in 2007 so
interesting that bobby lashley is the
one to be currently using
the full nation submission hold now the
following week on monday night raw after
this
uh june 22nd episode to the june 29th
edition of monday night raw uh mvp would
actually defeat apollo crews in a
non-title match
and apollo crews hasn't been seen on wwe
television ever since that loss to mvp
on the june 29th
edition of monday night raw since then
we've seen mvp do a whole lot
on wwe television since then mvp
actually has
unveiled the new wwe united states
championship design
the first redesign since the
championship became official in wwe back
in 2003
uh but also the first redesign of the
united states championship for 13 years
and dubbed himself as the real united
states champion now
uh there's a video on this channel which
basically says my opinion
of this redesign of the united states
championships i'm not going to
completely chew my food twice when it
comes to that one
um as i mentioned at the time it is
growing on me i don't think it's
horrible or anything like that
there is still a lot that i would change
about that united states championship
particularly the lack of blue
in the whole stars i think if it's going
to be united states you've got to have
some blue and red on there
there's red but there's not a lot of
blue on there so i would have the blue
on there
um i wouldn't have the words champion
being so big on there as well
um it's funny because the words united
states
are small and the word champion is big
surely that would be the other way
around
and i would have the eagle being the
centerpiece of the title as opposed to
being at the bottom i know it's
nitpicking but the title is growing on
me and it
and it is i've warmed it more than i had
when i first saw it but i still think
there was
they could have they could have done it
better but look you can always do
something better right
as always hindsight is a wonderful thing
it's not horrible but
uh there are parts of it that i would
that i would improve um
so this had set up a united states
championship match between mvp and
apollo crews at the horror show at
extreme rules we were going to see who
was indeed the real
united states champion at that show mvp
carrying around the new united states
championship or apollo crews
holding the old version of the united
states championship and officially being
the united states champion
uh uh after beating andrade several
weeks prior to that on monday night raw
however it was announced during the
pay-per-view so we had mvp come out at
extreme rules we have the match ready to
go
and then the announcers uh tom phillips
byron sax and samoa joe announced that
apollo crews did not pass his quote
pre-match physical
end quote due to bobby lashley's
previous attack on him and therefore
would be unable to compete thus
canceling the match
a lot of people were very confused what
was going on at this point in time
what was going on with apollo crews in
reality it had been reported by dave
meltz said that apollo crews had
reportedly tested positive for covid19
therefore he was going to be off of
television for several weeks while he
was self-isolating and in quarantine
this then led again uh to mvp declaring
himself as the real wwe united states
champion at
extreme rules and he's carried around
the united states championship
ever since um now obviously apollo crews
has
been medically cleared to return to
monday night raw so we can finally find
out who of course is the real
wwe wwe united states champion once and
for all
however it must be said that in recent
weeks mvp has officially founded his new
group known as the herp business on
monday night raw
this group consists of himself bobby
lashley and the newest recruit the wwe
24
7 shout and benjamin so apollo crews
certainly will not have the numbers in
his favor
on monday night raw tonight um it's
interesting because
who do i think is going to win this one
it would make a lot of sense here
you would think for apollo crews to come
in and win but i think
given everything that's happened
obviously he's been off of telly for
telling i said again i'm very i'm very
british today off of television telly
that's that is very british should be um
he's been off of tv for uh
over a month now and uh has he lost
momentum because of that absolutely he
absolutely has if you're not on tv you
do lose momentum
of course it's not his fault they had
him written off television initially
uh just to sell the attack of bobby
lashley and hype up the extreme rules
match i don't think they factored in
that apollo crews was going to get uh or
test positive for covert 19
heading into extreme rules however with
apollo crews of course being off of
television
it it does has it has meant that he's
lost a bit of the shine
to his character at the moment and
certainly has lost momentum and in that
void space of not having apollo cruise
on raw mvp and his group the her
business have absolutely got a ton of
momentum
i think the hurt business as a faction
is very very interesting at the moment
and certainly has a lot of people
talking about them
um i still think we're going to see more
members added to the hurt business
currently we have mvp bobby lashley and
shout on benjamin but i think it's
highly likely
we can see other people join the faction
in the near future
um i've made a video on this channel
discussing who i do think will
um join the hurt business or could
rather join the hurt business in the
future
and if i was it's a very close one to
call this one i think
it's likely in my opinion that i think
apollo crews
will retain i would i would say that is
probably my prediction for this one
but the interesting thing about it is
that
if you're looking at momentum if you're
looking at who really
could i think deserves to be united
states champion at the moment it's
probably mvp
it's probably mvp you look at that group
the hurt business and that can be
something
really special and quite substantial on
monday night raw going forward
obviously there have been lots of
discussions about it being a 2020
version of the nation of domination are
they going to be doing something with
that
we saw ron simmons backstage at raw
recently we saw mark henry backstage at
raw recently
by all accounts that was to properly put
the
foot to the gas about having the hurt
business
become a bit more political and tap into
the black lives matter movement that
we're seeing around the world at the
moment
um and essentially have the hurt
business as a soft relaunch of the
nation of domination
and they certainly have been parallels
between them however it's been
rumored that wwe have decided not to go
that way that's something that i didn't
speculate on
uh in the hurt business video that i did
on the channel here is that
i just think with wwe nowadays in 2020
as a publicly traded company and
um with their political connections i
mean they were deemed an essential
business in florida for a reason because
linda mcmahon and vincent
mann donated heavily to the governor of
florida's re-election campaign and do
have their ties
with the current presidential um
administration
i just don't think that wwe would touch
that with a with a 10-foot poll to be
honest because
it just it's it's too it's too close to
the best for them it's too
it's i don't know it would it would get
to people talking too much could you
imagine that wwe not want to get people
talking about them and not having
publicity
um they in the recent years
especially as we've had the current
administration in wwe of tend
uh tended to stay away from political
issues on wwe television intended to not
mention the likes of
uh the current president and his
affiliation were being a wwe hall of
famer and the mcmahon
family's affiliation with uh the trump
administration linda mcmahon being part
of the trump administration which
she was a small business about the small
business cabinet or something like that
so
they don't tend to mention that and
again that's why i didn't think they
were going to touch
the whole black lives matter movement at
the moment and uh it looks like that's
going to be the case so
i don't think the hurt business is going
to be the nation of the domination
version 2.
um which is just funny because it's
typical wwe isn't it bringing
mark henry and ron simmons to raw
bringing him to the performance center
and we know the
the perils of going to the performance
center at the moment whether it be
covert testing or people actually being
tested positive for covid and all that
sort of stuff
and bringing someone of the age of ron
simmons and bringing mark henry in there
and they're not using them at all it's
just typical wwe isn't it at the moment
um so that's that's the status when it
comes to the hurt business
uh but as i mentioned i think mvp would
be the one to benefit most by winning
tonight
if i was booking if i was in charge i
would have mvp win
i think apollo crews will win because
that kind of
puts a nice bow on the feud between
apollo crews and mvp
again i do sympathize with apollo crews
i think his united states championship
run
at the moment has been very very
forgetful and not massively
impactful and again i don't thought of
his own i think it's just
um when he became champion wwe and they
still are at the moment are in a bit of
a state of chaos and flux and
ratings going down not sure what's going
on with fans having the shows at the
performance center
multiple shows being taped at one time
certain superstars not being available
because they're at home isolating or
shielding or not comfortable performing
or people then testing positive
4k vid19 including apollo crews himself
so it's just been a very misfortunate uh
case
for apollo crews so far as united states
champion
so um again it's just a an unlucky thing
for him
but if i was booking monday night raw
and i'm not
shocker spoiler i'm not um but if i if i
was booking money like right have nbp go
over in this one i really would i think
having just to be honest having sean
benjamin as the 24 7 champion
and it being in the hurt business has
made the group or makes
rather the 24 7 championship feel more
important than it has
been at all recently and i think that's
a positive i think as i mentioned the
hurt business as a faction going forward
and
um as a group on monday night raw is
something that people are talking about
and people are interested in because
it's different
obviously we see factions at certain
points but this is a faction so far of
superstars that
the majority of people know very very
well and are well tenured superstars in
wwe mvp made his debut in wwe back in
2006. i know
obviously he had some uh time off
between then and returning at the start
of this year at the royal rumble
bobby lashley again made his debut
around 2004
2005 i think um i think 2005.
i'm going to say 2005. um but made his
debut in 2005 and uh again well known
obviously took again like mvp was away
for a while before returning to wwe in
2018
same with shout out benjamin sharon
benjamin made his debut back in 2003
in wwe uh left the company for a while
came back but these are well-known
superstars that maybe wouldn't be in use
especially in lashley and sharon
benjamin's case weren't being used to
the best of their ability
and since being affiliated with mvp they
suddenly seem more important
um they're getting tv time and just the
group as a whole is something that's
interesting
and worth watching bobby lashley in
recent months in my opinion has been
booked the best
that he has been since he returned to
wwe in 2018 he's not been flexing his
glutes he's not been doing double bicep
poses wearing stupid
ray-ban sunglasses or anything like that
he's been booked as a monster
which is what got him over so well in
when he was wrestling in impact
wrestling and got him
over so well back in the the mid 2000s
when he was there previously
because he looks great he looks like a
monster so you book him like a monster
you don't have him doing comedic stuff
you don't have him being a lackey for
baron corbin or constable corbin or king
corbin or
corbin corbin corbin whatever his name
is um
and uh anything like that i think he's
just he's been booked
uh the best way that he has been since
he's returned and chatting benjamin
it's it's funny because when sharon
benjamin returned in um
2017 i think he was originally scheduled
to return in 2016 had the shoulder
problem came back in 2017
when he did return people were excited
because shelton benjamin
was well known for these crazy moments
in wwe super athletic one of the best
mid-card guys
in the mid 2000s intercontinental
champion numerous times spots at
wrestlemania doing those money in the
bank ladder matches
the spot german with sure michael's on
raw in 2005 with the super kick
just great wrestler not great on the mic
but his matches were always great and he
was a great talent to have on the roster
and people were excited to see him back
when he came back
and just again wwe brought talent back
and they just didn't know what to do
with him and
for the longest time he was was he with
gable on smackdown didn't really work
out
uh singles run just didn't do anything i
mean was it in 2019 where they would
have interviews and
he would just sort of stand there and
not say anything and pull weird faces
great creative pal um but since he's
been associated with her business the
last couple of weeks on raw he's felt
more relevant
he's a 24 7 champion now and has kept it
for a while
i think to be honest that championship
is just it's dead
the the idea of it just hasn't been
properly executed it was fun for a
little while but
it was a novelty and it's got old very
quickly i think the only way to save it
if you can
is potentially um like i mentioned
before put it on someone
that's relevant put on someone that
isn't going to drop the title every five
seconds and make it mean something
i've pitched for a long time have a main
event to hold the title
you know a couple of weeks ago i thought
randy orton should have won it with our
truth why because
if randy orton's a 24 7 champion nobody
is going to touch him it's a similar way
in my opinion to how
when the undertaker was the hardcore
champion back in 2001 2002
you're not gonna have anyone go and try
and roll up the undertaker you know no
one's got the balls to do that no one's
gonna try and mess with the undertaker
he's the
he's the guy he's the legend he's the
icon and if you've got someone that
intimidating that big holding the title
not only does it give um a rub to the
bow and make the belt feel more
important
um and more meaningful it also means you
actually have someone with a substantial
title reign they can defend it a few
times you actually have credible
challenges it feels like a championship
again
rather than a stupid comedy belt um it
doesn't help the way it looks as well
the green strap and the clock logo is
one of the worst looking championships
in history
in my opinion some people would disagree
with that but it's just yeah awful title
awful title but
having shout and benchman as the
champion i think does help it out
um and makes him feel a bit more
relevant especially being in the hurt
business but also helps the credibility
of the hurt business too
again i would have mvp win the united
states championship tonight because
he's just so synonymous with the title
um at this point he was the one that
introduced it i i'm
guessing the original plan would have
been to have apollo crews beat mvp at
extreme rules
but i think momentum's with mvp right
now i think mvp has
the momentum i think the hurt business
has momentum so for me it makes logical
sense for mvp to win the title tonight
again i'm not sure if he will maybe
we'll see another swerve maybe we'll see
there were rumors back around money in
the bank time that apollo crews was
going to turn here with
mvp um of course apollo crews was meant
to be part of money in the bank
he got a knee injury uh which led to
eventually coming back and then winning
the united states championship off of
andrade
but a lot of people speculated and i
believe it was the plan at the time
was that this whole knee injury angle
was to facilitate a heal term for apollo
crews
and he was going to be potentially part
of the hurt business stable with mvp
with bobby lashley i don't know if shout
out benjamin was part of the plans
uh then but that still certainly could
happen what happens tonight if
the bow rings and we have a little bit
of a finger poke of doom
if apollo crews lays down or maybe mvp
lays down and lets apollo crews pin him
and then we see that after weeks and
weeks and weeks of
mvp trying his very very best to win
over apollo crews and let apollo crews
be his business manager
this month off of television due to
bobby lashley's vicious fullness and
attack
could be the facilitator uh for
apollo crews finally turning heel and
mvp finally becoming
uh apollo cruz's business manager i
could see that happening too
um i'm not gonna say if just apollo
crews wins clean i'm gonna be annoyed
because i wouldn't because i still think
apollo crews
does deserve to have a proper run with
the title which just circumstances been
that
it hasn't worked out so far but i think
it's definitely possible that
either mvp wins or we see some sort of
some form of swerve of
apollo crews joining the her business i
think there's more to come as i
mentioned before i think there is more
to come when it comes to the hurt
business
this is a fledgling faction on monday
night raw i think we'll eventually get
more members
i think eventually you know i don't
think bobby lash will become wwe
champion or anything like that
but i think it's certainly a group that
that is interesting and certainly a
group that
um that has a more to it and i think
we're going to
see more more of this group being
explored in the coming weeks and i think
it's
going to become a bigger part of monday
night raw uh in the near future so
that's really exciting and i think
because of that i would have
mvp win tonight but i'm going to go with
my prediction that apollo crews wins
i won't say how it's going to happen
because i don't know um
again it could be totally clean apollo
cruz returns to the royal baby face
beats the heel
one and done apollo crews gets in the
new title and gets out of there again
we could have a polar cruise win but he
joins the hurt business in the process
so
there's lots of different ways that they
could do this one so it's a fascinating
uh match um actually we meant to see at
extreme rules but we're going to see
tonight on monday night raw
and it's going to open the show and
traditionally uh if you look at the
ratings of monday night raw if you
compare to
over the last couple of months the thing
that opens manly night raw is the thing
that gets the most
viewers most of the time because the
viewers are there at the start of the
show and then because it's three hours
it
gradually tails off because people get
tired they don't watch it anymore the
show's not that great it's too long et
cetera et cetera
so arguably uh apollo crews vs mvp
might be the most watched match of this
show and being put
in the position to open the show
suggests that something big might happen
so if that is the case if something big
might happen we might see apollo crews
turn heel
we might see a new united states
champion we might even see this whole
nation of domination thing
come together even though i don't think
that will be the case
uh but we could see something big happen
um so i'm very interested to see
what happens going forward with this
united states championship match what
happens with the hurt business going
forward and what happens with apollo
crews going forward in wwe
uh but of course as always this is just
one man's opinion what are your thoughts
on tonight's united states championship
match between apollo crews and mvp to
open monday night raw who do you think
is going to win is it going to be mvp is
it going to be apollo crews who will
leave
as the real united states champion let
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