WWE’s ROUGH night in AEW’s Shadow: SNME Fallout, What’s Next?

Peter Klein

🔥 WWE’s SNME 2025 delivered drama, injuries, and a legend’s farewell—but did it *really* compete with AEW All In? Former Sportsnet 960 host Peter Klein breaks down the highs (Gunther’s dominance), lows (Seth Rollins’ knee disaster), and head-scratchers (Jelly Roll’s Claymore karma) in this no-fluff recap.  #WWESNME #SethRollins #GoldbergRetirement #Gunther #LoganPaul #JellyRoll #WrestlingNews #AEWAllIn #WWEInjury #SummerSlam  💬 Was SNME 2025 a worthy follow-up to AEW All In? Drop your hot takes below!  👍 SMASH LIKE if you are excited about what is next for Gunther  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00WWE Saturday night's main event going down from Atlanta, part of a trio of events that

00:17WWE tried to use to counterprogram AEW's All In, and all I will say is I should not

00:25have watched this after All In, it was not even close to anything that AEW had going on, the buzz,

00:32the match quality, any of it, and I understand that this was a network special compared to

00:38their WrestleMania, but it just, it was quite the contrast, we will say that, going into this one.

00:45Randy Orton against Drew McIntyre, a pretty fun match, both these guys are just, they're so good

00:49at what they do, not wild and crazy or anything, but it wasn't supposed to be, this was about getting

00:54a couple of your stars on NBC with some mainstream talent and setting up things for SummerSlam. It

01:01was merely a vessel to get to Logan Paul and Jelly Roll and set up the SummerSlam match, and since

01:09that has happened, we have had a lot on Jimmy Kimmel's show and all of those things, but I do

01:15understand people's frustration. I don't have as much of a deal with this one. It is a two-night show,

01:21it will be one match, it'll be alright. We still get a lot of Randy Orton and Drew McIntyre on our

01:27television, it's going to be fine. Again, I understand that there is going to be a little

01:32bit of, okay, we get it, celebrity involvement again, but I do think that having that sometimes

01:40does help bring those mainstream eyeballs in, and I do think that Randy and Drew getting this

01:45kind of spotlight works very well for them. So, like I said before, I was hoping this would be a long

01:49feud. It's not exactly what I had in mind, but I think it's still going to be a pretty effective

01:53use of both of these talents. Jimmy Uso and Solo Sokola for the United States Championship, and

02:00again, this match was mainly about the post-match. The match itself was fine. You get Jimmy into a

02:06title match, made Solo look pretty dominant again. Tala uses his height to get the pinfall in what was

02:13a pretty creative finish, I thought. That would be replicated a couple of nights later, but

02:17after the fact, again, like I said, it's all about the after-match, or the post-match stuff,

02:23where there's the beatdown and Jacob Fautu comes out. I thought this was going to be a time where

02:26you would use this to introduce someone else to help out Jacob Fautu on his side. Instead,

02:32it just made Jacob Fautu look like a beast as he came out and just ran over everybody on the

02:40MFT side. So anytime we get Jacob Fautu looking like a beast, I will absolutely sign up for that

02:47one. Every time he is out there, he comes across like an absolute superstar. Seth Rollins against

02:54LA Knight. Obviously, the story here is Seth's injury. This has been hotly debated. Sean Ross Sapp

03:03saying that this is a legitimate injury. John Pollock from Post Wrestling saying that he was told on

03:08Thursday to watch out for an injury angle. Some people are saying that the reason that you would

03:14go down that route is, well, he was already injured, and they just did something here. He

03:18didn't look like it was affecting him all that much in the match. And all the stuff coming out

03:24after where they're being very vague about these things is kind of leading you to believe that

03:29maybe it is a bit more of an angle. And so look, they got me on that. I will fully admit I didn't

03:34see the angle part coming in all of this. If he is actually hurt, it is a gigantic blow to some of

03:42the plans that they have had. It does allow them to put more of a spotlight on Braun Breaker. And even

03:48if Seth's injury is legitimate, it allows them to put the spotlight on Braun Breaker a little bit more.

03:54Um, I thought on Raw, we'll talk about Raw in a little bit here. I thought it was interesting that

03:59you keep the Money in the Bank briefcase in sight, I guess. A lot of times, if they want to go for the

04:06surprise, they just take everything away so that you don't even have the foggiest of clues that

04:12something like that could be happening. But a lot of debate over whether this was a work or not. And I

04:17thought LA Knight with a great promo, even during commercial break on Monday Night Raw saying like,

04:21I wanted to hurt you and you hurt yourself. So don't love that. Uh, then we get to the main event

04:26and it was Gunther against Goldberg for the World Heavyweight Championship. There has been a lot of

04:30discussion coming out of this show and out of this match specifically on the Goldberg side.

04:36I thought it's what it needed to be. They, they got the crowd to bite on a near fall. In the end,

04:41Gunther gets the win. Goldberg gets to do the honors on the way out. Goldberg was obviously limited in

04:47this match, but I thought for what he could do, they, they played it up very, very well. Um,

04:52you get a spear, it's Charles Robinson, but you still, you get, you get some of the basics of what

04:57you wanted out of this match. It is unfortunate that the post-match gets cut off because of one

05:02last commercial break. Um, that, that is a little bit unfortunate, but I, I do think that this basically

05:08went as well as you could expect. And Goldberg has come out after and said, um, I did three promos in

05:15six months. Like, what are we doing here? I, I get that part of it. And I, I do think that there

05:20could have been maybe a bit more Goldberg involvement in this. I thought what they did,

05:23we talked about it on the show. I thought what they did was great. I, I really liked the promos

05:29of, um, Goldberg saying that he just wants to kill this guy and Gunther saying that he's going to

05:34destroy the legacy of the man that used to be Goldberg. I actually thought they built this up

05:38pretty well. And then on the night talking about what you, um, talking about like honoring the

05:46legacy or anything like that. I thought like they, they played a bunch of clips from Goldberg

05:51throughout the night. Like this was the Goldberg retirement night. I thought was the main story

05:55of all of it. So I, I'm not him. I didn't get the disrespect part of it. Like he's limping his way

06:01down to the ring. You can't have him limp his way down to the ring for eight months or for six months

06:06or whatever to build this thing up. It's not going to work. And Goldberg has always kind of been a

06:11character where less is more. So I just, I, I don't see the issue with it. I don't think they

06:17could have gotten any more out of the match. The build, if you wanted him to be live a little bit

06:21more, I mean, sure, but the entrance isn't the same. He is limping his way down. Maybe you could do

06:27a couple of like heated up matches or anything like that, but then you're kind of taken away

06:30from the spectacle of Goldberg. Like this was all built up to what he could do.

06:36And it seemed like they got the most out of what he could do. So it's unfortunate that he

06:40feels that way. A lot of guys feel like their retirement match wasn't perfect. And that's

06:45why Ric Flair has had like eight of them. And Terry Funk had 15. Like there's always going to be that

06:50thing. And so hopefully in the weeks and months to come, Goldberg recognizes that maybe this was

06:56the best that they could do. I, I genuinely, and I'm a Goldberg fan, right? Like I, I grew up in the

07:02time with who's next. I have that on a shirt here still somewhere. I, I loved that guy as a fan.

07:09I didn't feel like this disrespected the legacy of him or anything like that. I thought we saw what

07:14we needed to see and anything more would have been bordering on too much given the physical

07:20limitations of a guy who by all rights should be physically limited at this point in his life,

07:25given what he has given to us in the pro wrestling world. So I, I was disappointed to see

07:30that he was upset about it because I, I thought they got the most out of it that they possibly

07:34could. And you kind of can say that for this show in general, like it was, you do push a couple of

07:41storylines forward. You get to have Goldberg get his one big spot, but if they wanted to steal the

07:46headlines from AEW, if they did, it was in a negative way. And every wrestling fan was talking

07:52about all in all the wrestling buzz was about that particular show. So I just, I don't think this

07:59accomplished what it needed to in the slightest for WWE on Saturday night's main event. As I

08:08mentioned before, um, everything is always changing around couch potato diary. So make sure you follow

08:12me on social media. I am at primetime Klein on X, Instagram, Tik TOK threads, blue sky, and all of

08:19those other places.

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