When Vince McMahon announced his retirement last July, a lot of people were skeptical. The general consensus was that Vince would be running the company until the literal day that he died. Vince retiring, even because of all the controversy that was surrounding him at the time? That just didn’t seem possible. Surely, his retirement was just a ploy to get his name out of the spotlight, but he would stay behind-the-scenes and continue to handle his daily duties in private, right?
Over the next several months, we would continue hearing rumors that Vince was still around, but watching the WWE product would show you otherwise. Almost everything about the product would change, from new camera shots to different ways to start shows to the returns of numerous “favorites” of Triple H after they had been released over the last two years.
Then, two months ago, we saw the news that Vince was looking to return to the company. Immediately, people who had been enjoying the WWE product more than they had in years (myself included) were beginning to panic. Would all of those exciting changes (and some of the not-so-exciting ones) be swept away as the product returned to what it was when Vince was in charge? Thankfully, reports would come out pretty quickly that shed some light on the situation, saying that Vince was, indeed, trying to make his return, but only in a capacity that would allow him to help push along a potential sale of the company, and that he wouldn’t be returning to any sort of role handling the on-screen product.
That was quite the sigh of relief, and the shows ran by Triple H continued on as they had been. There wasn’t a single time where I felt things were fishy and that there was any validity to the continued rumors that Vince was at least giving his input in creative meetings. Not once.
Until last Monday night.
Oh, things started off just fine. Jimmy Uso delivered a good promo, albeit one that didn’t do much to advance anything in particular, before he was interrupted by The Street Profits. The Profits were especially obnoxious, but that doesn’t seem to bother live crowds very much, and it set up a tag match that would see the Profits take on the Bloodline duo of Jimmy Uso and Solo Sikoa. It would end up being a good match, but again, nothing that was particularly earth shattering or newsworthy. After the match, Kevin Owens would sneak into the ring and take Jimmy and Solo out to pop the crowd.
So far, so good.
Next up, we got MVP’s VIP Lounge segment, with Brock Lesnar as his special guest. On the previous episode of Raw, MVP issues a challenge, on behalf of Omos, for a match against Brock at WrestleMania. Nobody in the WWE Universe wants to see that. Brock Lesnar doesn’t want to see that. MVP doesn’t want to see that. Omos doesn’t even want to see that. Right away, I was worried, but surely, it was all a swerve, right? We were going to get the final match between Brock and Bobby Lashley at WrestleMania.
Nope.
Not yet, anyway. Brock accepted the challenge, and his match against Omos was officially announced. Obviously, there’s still time for a swerve of some sort, but because of other happenings (more on that later), it doesn’t appear that we’re changing directions. Does it seem a little fishy that Omos was more of a featured player when Vince McMahon was in charge, only to damn near completely disappear when Triple H took over, and now, all of a sudden, Omos is having a marquee match at WrestleMania? Triple H tried the “giant squashes multiple opponents in a handicap match” route with Omos for a while last year, but then… nothing. When you look at the brief career of Omos, his path at WrestleMania is fascinating. His first main roster match (and only his seventh officially listed match in 28 months of being under WWE contract) was at WrestleMania 37, where he teamed with AJ Styles to defeat Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods to win the Raw Tag Team Titles. The next year, he was in a high-profile match against Bobby Lashley at WrestleMania 38. Now, he gets an even more high-profile match against Brock Lesnar. At this rate, pencil him in for the main event spot at WrestleMania 40. This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
Things seemed to return to a bit of normalcy (for Triple H’s booking) with Cody Rhodes defeating Chad Gable in a fun match. You could make the argument that Cody, set to face the biggest star in the industry today at WrestleMania, shouldn’t have taken ten minutes to beat Gable, and you’d probably be right… Gable has won a whopping five televised singles matches, in total, over the last three-plus years… but making someone look good in defeat can certainly be used to potentially give them a push in the future. Maybe we’ll get that one day soon for Chad Gable.
There was some perfectly acceptable stuff that followed the match, from a backstage interview with Baron Corbin that turned into a backstage interview with Kevin Owens, and then another backstage interview with The Judgment Day. No harm, no foul here.
From there, I started having that bad feeling again. Maxxine Dupri continued her attempts to recruit Otis and get him to join Maximum Male Models. Look… I’m not mentioning this to gauge whether or not you think this storyline is funny, or even has the potential to be funny. I’m simply saying that this is just like the Omos thing I mentioned before. Maximum Male Models was a Vince McMahon thing. He put the former MACE and Mansoor together, and changed LA Knight’s name to Max Dupri to be their manager in a baffling move. Once Vince was gone, Dupri was back to being LA Knight and actually wrestling again, and we saw less and less of the Maximum Male Models group. Now, not only are MMM back in the mix of a storyline that is taking up multiple segments of television time, they’re recruiting Otis in a “LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL THE MODELS ARE TRYING TO SIGN THE FAT GUY” storyline that Vince McMahon and Bruce Prichard are probably laughing at until they’re in tears. This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
Next up, we got Asuka squaring off against Carmella. The match was fine, but again, maybe a bit more lengthy and competitive than many would expect Asuka to be in because of her big match coming up at WrestleMania. Then, after Asuka picked up the victory, she got on the mic and did the thing again where she just screams things in Japanese while the live crowd stares in silence because they have no idea what she’s saying. That’s the type of shit she used to do. Since returning at the Royal Rumble, she has basically been a silent assassin, changing her face paint to more of an homage to her days as Kana in Japan, and looking every bit like the “monster” she should be. Those screaming promos? They didn’t help her whatsoever then, and they aren’t going to help her now. This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
I was able to take a bit of a break from the wild speculation after that, as a Candice LeRae vs Piper Niven match was short and inoffensive, and so was a backstage interview with Johnny Gargano that was interrupted by The Judgment Day, setting up a match for next week between Gargano and Finn Balor.
Just when I thought it was safe to breathe again, the show would get to MizTV. Miz announcing that he was going to be the “host” of WrestleMania this year was… meh. Some people won’t mind that, but personally, I don’t look forward to any weekend where I need to hear Miz speak a dozen times. When Seth Rollins came out, I was excited to see him hand Miz yet another ass whooping, and that’s precisely what happened. Eventually. First, we had to sit through Seth calling Miz a “b-hole” so that Miz could respond that he’s an “a-type of person, not a b-type of person” and have Seth say that he’s an “a-hole” instead. You know… the finest of comedy. If that’s how the segment ended, that would be painful enough.
That isn’t how the segment ended, though.
After knocking Miz out, Rollins would steal Miz’s phone and use it to place a FaceTime call to Logan Paul. This is when the wheels fell off and the entire segment careened smooth the fuck off of a cliff. After unlocking the phone, the sounds from said phone were able to be heard throughout the arena all of a sudden. Leave it to the 217-year-old Vince to have zero fucking idea how technology works. Then, Logan answers the call, and still thinking it’s The Miz, tells Mr. Mizanin to stop calling him. I’m certainly no expert, but wouldn’t it have been better to have Logan know that Seth was the one calling him? You just told the world that Logan Paul isn’t even watching the show. Stupid. Then we get camera cuts to what is either a pre-taped shot of Seth’s arm holding the phone from a over-his-shoulder perspective, or it was a shot of someone else’s arm entirely, because it CLEARLY wasn’t Seth’s arm, live and in color, as the segment was happening. Stupid. Then, once Logan Paul realizes that it isn’t The Miz who just called him, he is shown looking around with a puzzled look on his face, as if he’s trying to listen in to who is actually on the other end. Hey, moron, you’re on FaceTime. LOOK AT THE FUCKING PHONE. He would finally figure out how FaceTime works, just in time to agree to a face-to-face with Rollins instead of the cat and mouse game they’ve been playing.
From beginning to end, this whole thing was full of the not-in-touch-with-reality nonsense that we’ve seen a million times through the years on WWE programming. You know the type… wrestlers not noticing an entire cameraman and a full-sized television camera is a foot in front of their face as they speak, some sort of segment with a car being destroyed while there just so happens to be a conveniently-placed camera in the car to catch different angles of the destruction, and so on. This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
Next up was a backstage interview with Austin Theory where he continued to hype up a possible match against John Cena at WrestleMania. We all know how much Vince McMahon has loved John Cena through the years, but putting Cena next to Austin Theory, who, FOR YEARS, I have said that Vince will see as the “next John Cena” and fall in love with? My God, pal… Vince is going to see them have a match and he’s going to end up like Randy Marsh yelling out “THERE WAS A GHOST! THIS IS ECTOPLASM!” If you know, you know. This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
The next thing we got to see was Bobby Lashley mowing through Elias in about 90 seconds, looking as strong as ever. That’s a good thing. Lashley would cut a post-match promo, talking about how pissed off he was that Brock Lesnar got himself disqualified at Elimination Chamber, but also that he had to deal with Bray Wyatt’s “games” now. As Lashley left the ring, Bray himself would appear on the big screen and do his whole “Muscle Man Dance” music video routine that we’ve seen him do in the past. You know… when Vince McMahon was in charge. Look at the way that the Triple H-led creative squad was able to capture our attentions with the Bray Wyatt character again, after a very long time where The Fiend did nothing but dig Bray deeper and deeper into a grave that the WWE Universe was shoveling dirt on. Now, just like that, the Firefly Funhouse bullshit is back and worse than ever. Brock Lesnar vs Bobby Lashley in some sort of major stipulation match at WrestleMania was RIGHT THERE. Instead, WWE took that and turned it into Brock Lesnar vs Omos, and then Bobby Lashley vs Bray Wyatt? This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
From there, we got more stuff involving Otis and Maximum Male Models, because that’s the type of storyline that has everyone invested in, leaving us all wanting several segments of it in a single episode of Raw. At least the episode was about to end. All we had left was the show’s main event… Dakota Kai and Iyo Sky defending the WWE Women’s Tag Team Titles against Becky Lynch and Lita.
Cool.
The match itself was good, and the crowd was excited about everything. Lita was pretty gassed by the end, moving as if she were running underwater, but that will be overlooked by most fans because, well, it’s Lita. I don’t know if we should be surprised that the titles changed hands here, but change hands is what they did. There are rumors that Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler will be challenging for the titles at WrestleMania, and if that’s true, it would make sense to get the belts on a face duo. Dakota and Iyo facing Ronda and Shayna wasn’t going to give you anywhere near the type of WrestleMania crowd reaction that you’re going to get with Becky Lynch and Lita possibly defending the titles. The thing is… Lita is clearly not a full-time wrestler. She is a month away from her 48th birthday and hasn’t wrestled more than a couple matches in a single calendar year since 2006, and even then, she had 18 televised matches all year. Trish Stratus was brought in, potentially for a match at WrestleMania against Bayley or to team with Becky and Lita to face Damage CTRL in a six-woman tag that weekend. Trish just turned 47 a couple months ago, and she hasn’t had a match in nearly three-and-a-half years, with her last year of more than a handful of matches also being 2006, where she had a total of 23 televised matches all year.
Think about Triple H and his creative side for a moment. Now, think about Vince McMahon and his creative side for a moment. Of the two, who seems more likely to lean on names from way back and have them take up valuable real estate on shows like WrestleMania? Be honest with yourselves. Exactly. This absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
I would like to take this time to point out, yet again, that I don’t feel Triple H’s run with the creative team has been perfect. He has made some mistakes since taking Vince’s spot there, and I have been quick to mention them in my columns when they happen. As I mentioned earlier, though, I find myself enjoying the WWE product, as a whole, a lot more since Vince left the company. That’s not a coincidence. I’ve seen and heard all the rumors and conspiracy theories about Vince either not really leaving in the first place or making a quiet return recently, but I never put any faith in them because you could just take a look at Raw and Smackdown and see that Vince’s rotting flesh was nowhere near the meetings that were crafting and creating what we were watching. One episode of Monday Night Raw is all it took for me to get that uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach. A single episode is all it took for me to stare at my television like Disappointed Cricket Fan. Again… if you know, you know.
In all seriousness, I don’t ACTUALLY think Vince McMahon is back. At least not in the way he was before he “retired” and had Triple H take his place. Would it shock me if he was some sort of “silent partner” and chiming in here and there? No, it wouldn’t shock me, simply because this is Vince McMahon we’re talking about here, and he’s still loved and respected by the people at the top of the WWE food chain. I’m just pointing out a lot of the weirdness of last week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, and how the timing of it all made that weirdness really stand out.
Yes, this absolutely stinks of Vince McMahon’s fingerprints all over it.
Perhaps I’m wrong, though.
God, I hope so.
Weekly Power Rankings
MJF vs Bryan Danielson: Right off the bat, this is one of the best Ironman Matches in the history of the business. If you read my Revolution review column, you saw the rating I gave the match, so I don’t think I can really say I have any Ironman Match rated higher. The pace and the layout of the match was about as close to perfect as you’re ever going to see, with both men working their asses off for over 65 minutes and not having several-minute chunks of stalling and rest holds like a lot of these lengthy matches feature. Expect this to be fully represented in all sorts of year-end lists come December and January.
MJF: I guess I could’ve just included this in the previous entry, but it’s important enough that I felt like including it on its own. There were a lot of questions about how MJF would be able to perform at Revolution. Not only had he never wrestled a 60-minute match before, but he has been largely known for his mic skills and character work more than his in-ring skills. Could he handle this type of workload? How would he look going toe-to-toe with someone who many feel is the best in-ring performer in wrestling history for 60 minutes? He showed up in the best physical shape of his career, and that helped him deliver the best performance of his career. It wasn’t the case of Danielson being good enough to “carry” him for the duration of the match. MJF went step-for-step with Danielson, and he looked great in doing so. His doubters are running out of things to question him about.
The Elite vs The House Of Black: Your usual AEW trios contest that featured non-stop action for the entire match. What made this stand out was how many different types of action we saw, depending on who was in the ring. We saw Kenny Omega and Buddy Matthews do some really good technical wrestling, complete with plenty of reversals. Next, Omega and Malakai Black had a fun exchange of strikes and counters. Once Brody King entered the match, he took over with some really fun “big man” power offense. When Matt and/or Nick Jackson were in the match, they brought the goods with their high-flying style. It’s like having several really good matches all rolled up into one. Now that The Elite have dropped the titles, I’m really interested to see if the Bucks return to the tag team scene while Omega goes back to being a singles worker again.
Tyler Bate vs Carmelo Hayes: With Melo on the verge of the biggest match of his career, he continues having some tremendous matches, building up a ton of momentum. His last loss in a one-on-one match is over three months ago. He continues to show that he is ready for a main event spot in NXT. As for Bate, he’s still one of the best in-ring performers in the world today, and even though this was his first loss of 2023, he is someone that can, and probably will, remain at the top of the card in NXT. If he were to be involved in a feud with the winner of Bron Breakker vs Carmelo Hayes after Stand & Deliver, the NXT crowd wouldn’t complain one bit.
Jon Moxley vs “Hangman” Adam Page: As I said in my review column, this match is going to be argued about for a long time. The style of the match isn’t for everyone, but then the pro wrestling tribalism makes things worse. Hardcore AEW fans are going to love it, because there isn’t a bigger stage in the world where you’re going to see wrestling matches like this, with the blood, the barbed wire, forks being jabbed into someone’s forehead, bricks, chairs, and all kinds of brutal violence. The hardcore WWE fans are going to hate it, because it’s a well that AEW goes to quite often, and you think it happens way too much. For what it is, this was a lot of fun. A lot of fun that makes you cringe and wince pretty regularly, but a lot of fun nonetheless.
Cody Rhodes vs Chad Gable: With Cody on the verge of the biggest match of his career, he continues having some tremendous matches, building up a ton of momentum. Cody hasn’t suffered a loss of any type since returning to WWE last year. He is looking every bit as strong as he needs to be as we get closer and closer to WrestleMania. Chad Gable, on the other hand, puts on impressive performances week in and week out, even though most of his matches end up in losses. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again… if he was half-a-foot taller, I truly believe he would be a main event talent in WWE, and probably would’ve been a World Champion by now. I would love to see him get a singles push, even if it’s “only” for the United States or Intercontinental Title. He is more than deserving.
“Jungle Boy” Jack Perry vs Christian Cage: I still think the “casket match” type of gimmick was really weird for this particular feud, but the match itself was really good. It was every bit of the blowoff match to a heated blood feud that it needed to be, with both men trying to beat the shit out of each other from the very start. I’m fully expecting Jungle Boy to move his way up to competing for singles titles, whether it’s the TNT Title or the World Title, and he has proven that he deserves it.
Gigi Dolin: Jacy Jayne got the big heel turn and the first opportunity to verbalize why she did what she did, so the natural thought was that she would be the “Shawn Michaels” of the Toxic Attraction split, even though Gigi Dolin was largely viewed as more of a “sure thing” as a singles star. Well, Gigi finally had her chance to respond on the mic, and she did the best work of her career. It was well-delivered, emotional storytelling, helping the crowd root for her even more. Now, we have the interesting scenario where the “Shawn Michaels” of this split might be… both Jacy AND Gigi? Time will tell, and their in-ring work will also go a long way here, but I’m enjoying how things have gone so far.
Riho vs Emi Sakura: To show you just how different the pro wrestling scene in North America has been in comparison to the pro wrestling scene in Japan, Riho began her career in 2006, training at Emi Sakura’s dojo for the Ice Ribbon women’s wrestling promotion that Sakura founded… when Riho was NINE YEARS OLD. While they’ve faced each other numerous times in the past, including several times in AEW, it remains cool as hell to see a real “Student vs Teacher” matchup. This match was so much fun. Riho continues to look great, which helps me not focus on her tiny stature. Emi Sakura continues to look great, which helps me not focus on the fact that she’s going to celebrate her 47th birthday this year. We haven’t seen a run for Riho that lasted more than a couple matches since the end of 2021 and very beginning of 2022, but I would love to see her stick around, as she brings something different to the women’s division in AEW. I’ve already been very clear about wanting to see AEW use Sakura more. Matches like this make me feel stronger about those thoughts on both women.
Wes Lee vs Nathan Frazer: One thing that I’ve liked about NXT recently is their different take to open challenges. Instead of the champion waiting in the ring and a challenger simply walking out to their music, NXT has the champion waiting in the ring while several challengers basically have a free-for-all in the backstage area until someone finally “wins” and makes their way to the ring for the match. This time, it looked like Dabba Kato was going to be Wes Lee’s challenger, but he was cut off by Apollo Crews, allowing for the returning Nathan Frazer to jump over them and hit the ring. The match itself was a lot of fun, with both men looking great, and allowing Frazer to look strong in a losing effort.
Roman Reigns & Cody Rhodes’ Promo: I know that WWE had a little Sami Zayn situation to handle first, but I’m still surprised that it took this long for Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes to go face-to-face. While this wasn’t a promo battle that turned the wrestling world on its ear, it was a very solid “start” to this rivalry. Cody did a good job of continuing to play up the emotion and the nostalgia of his father’s name and image. Roman did a good job in continuing to downplay his opponents, but this time, he’s taking a bit of pleasure in the mind games that come with it, portraying himself as Dusty’s favorite son. The best part about this was that it was a lot more cordial than many were expecting it to be, which leaves the door open for all hell to break loose over the next few weeks as we approach WrestleMania.
Face Of The Revolution Ladder Match: Spot after spot after spot after spot after spot after spot after spot. That’s what you get from these types of matches, but that’s what you want from these types of matches. Powerhouse Hobbs picks up a much-deserved win and a future shot at the TNT Title, but the rest of the competitors had their chances to look great. Rumor has it that Komander, making his AEW debut, was so impressive that he is now being pursued by WWE, as he was working this match without an AEW contract. A winner of the match, someone who might be involved in a bidding war for his services now, and six other men who got their spots in. That’s a lot.
Becky Lynch & Lita: Congratulations to the brand new WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions. To me, the match was simply okay, but it was something that the crowd enjoyed from beginning to end. Obviously, I don’t see the reign lasting very long, unless Lita is shockingly back on a full-time basis, but again, those live crowds are going to love this reign, however long it lasts.
Meiko Satomura vs Zoey Stark: Meiko Satomura needed a strong outing leading up to her NXT Women’s Title shot, and if you’re looking for a heel dance partner in the NXT women’s division, there might not be a more trustworthy opponent to work with in that area. A nice, simple competitive match between two of NXT’s best.
Orange Cassidy vs Big Bill: I’m going to copy last week’s Power Rankings entry for Orange Cassidy vs Wheeler Yuta, almost word-for-word. The All-Atlantic Title is in such a weird place. We’ve officially hit the 250-day mark since the first champion, Pac, was crowned. In that span, the title has been defended in some good-to-great matches. Almost exclusively good-to-great, as a matter of fact. Orange Cassidy remains one of the more popular members of the AEW roster. With all that said, the title still doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things. It was created out of nowhere, introduced out of nowhere, and nowhere is where it has gone ever since. We haven’t been given a reason to care about it. There isn’t effort put into creating storylines around it. It’s just… there. It would be super awesome if that changed sometime soon.
The Street Profits vs Jimmy Uso & Solo Sikoa: I’ve seen some people say the Profits should’ve won this match, with the thinking being that it would build them up as title contenders in a post-WrestleMania landscape, because it was Jimmy and Solo, and not Jimmy and Jey. In a normal situation, I could see that argument, and I might even agree with it. This isn’t a normal situation, though. While we’ve seen The Usos lose non-title matches in this span, they’re currently working on reaching 600 days as the Smackdown Tag Team Champions and 300 days as the Raw Tag Team Champions. Right now, I think the focus should be on making any combination of The Usos look as unstoppable as possible, which will make it mean that much more when they finally lose the titles. I love the Profits, but having them win here, even up against only one Uso, on a random February episode of Raw, doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Top Flight vs Aussie Open vs Claudio Castagnoli & Wheeler Yuta vs John Silver & Alex Reynolds: With the names involved here, this could’ve been a tremendous match. While it still ended up being good, that’s about as high as it got. It was used more as a vehicle to continue the feud that is currently happening between The Dark Order and The Blackpool Combat Club. That’s fine and all, especially with Jon Moxley and “Hangman” Adam Page facing off in a marquee match at AEW’s upcoming pay-per-view, but… Moxley and Page weren’t in this match. I would’ve liked to see more here.
Liv Morgan vs Rhea Ripley: This is another well-booked match, allowing Rhea to win and build momentum for her upcoming match at WrestleMania, while also allowing Liv to look great because she is still one of the most popular women on the WWE roster. That’s pretty simple to figure out, and it stuns me to know that we don’t see stuff like that all the time.
Wardlow: While I wouldn’t say I’m the biggest fan of the match he had with Samoa Joe at Revolution, he’s still the brand new TNT Champion, so he gets congratulations from me. I still don’t like that we’ve seen 17 different reigns (counting an interim reign) in the brief, 33-month history of the title, though. It changes hands far too often, and could very well change hands again soon, with Powerhouse Hobbs getting a shot on Dynamite this week, and with people like Ricky Starks and Jungle Boy potentially on the horizon.
Dustin Rhodes & Keith Lee vs Swerve Strickland & Parker Boudreaux: Keith Lee was good in this match. Dustin Rhodes was good in this match. Swerve Strickland was good in this match. The reason the match isn’t rated higher here is because Parker Boudreaux fucking sucks. He is awful. Horrendous. He continues to show that he would rather kiss the asses of third and fourth-rate rappers than get better in the ring. Some people say that he’s still really new to wrestling, and that is true. Absolutely, positively true. His debut match was 15 months ago. Perhaps he will get better one day. Right now, though, that isn’t happening in the slightest, but he continues to find himself tossed in the fire, stealing time from the countless people on the AEW roster who are infinitely more talented but can’t find a way to get on television at all.
This Week’s Playlist: “I Wish You Roses” by Kali Uchis… “All Mine” by Kali Uchis… “If Darkness Had A Son” by Metallica… “Embarrassed” by Don Toliver & Travis Scott… “Essence” by The Lox… “Hold You Down” by The Alchemist, Prodigy, Nina Sky & Illa Ghee… “WAM” by A$AP Ferg & MadeinTYO… “She is a Fire” by Cradle Of Filth… “Wasted Space” by Kingdom Of Giants… “Get Out Of My Mind” by Symphony Of Sweden… “Eternal Spirits” by Svalbard… “Beheading of the Godhead” by Legion Of The Damned… “PAINTING PICTURES” by Superstar Pride… “Chattahoochee” by Alan Jackson… “In This Life” by Collin Raye… “Watermelon Crawl” by Tracy Byrd… “Be My Baby Tonight” by John Michael Montgomery… “Rope The Moon” by John Michael Montgomery… “Just To See You Smile” by Tim McGraw… “Slow Motion” by Juvenile & Soulja Slim… “Don’t Let Go (Love)” by En Vogue… “Days Of Our Livez” by Bone Thugs N Harmony… “Sex Is On My Mind” by Blulight… “Angel” by Simply Red… “The Heist” by Da 5 Footaz