Spirit Squad

No.

And he had dodged a bullet previously by avoiding joining the Spirit Squad.

I think he's the one guy that turned it down.

Yeah, I got a story about that real quick.

And that's

right after the Sparrow Squad debuted on Raw, and they had a spot in the Rumble.

And I remember the Pope or Elijah Burke as you know at the time, telling some people that, yes, he is indeed pegged to be one of the Spirit Squad members.

And he's like, I'm not going to be no damn black cheerleader.

Let's go to Plot Twist Jones.

Uh, "Triple H, HBK going from a betrayal to Shawn saving, forgiving Hunter from Spirit Squad was peak storytelling.

Then Orton punts the McMahons and Triple H throws him through his window.

Where's this drama today?" And Vince, I was there for all of that.

Right.

Uh, they also sent the, um, uh, Spirit Squad back to FCW in a box.

Yeah.

And Dolph Ziggler sneaked out.

When they had the cookouts and they had the, yeah

... um, they're feuding with, um, the Spirit Squad and stuff like that.

Yeah.

Like, oh, it was great stuff.

When they were going at it with, they were going against Vince and, and, um, Shane.

Spirit?

And then the Spirit Squad.

Yeah.

She spent on that.

Always reminds me of the Spirit Squad's Titantron.

Nicky! He gave 110% in that intro.

Oh, yeah.

And then Randy goes and ruins it by bringing on the Spirit Squad.

Well, there

will not be any Spirit Squad picked tonight.

That'll be for the next five years.

Like this, this messes up my timeline.

Like when was Spirit Squad that he's already working Evolve? Anyway, [lips smack] um-

This is not Ken Doane the Australian artist for anyone who's-

No. It's Kenny Dykstra.

It's the guy who works at WWE and was in the Spirit Squad.

Um, [lips smack] Jimmy ...

Or no, excuse me.

I had two.

I had Umaga and Kane... didn't really do much for me it's just two big men battling and looking at umaga and seeing his son zilla in nxt spitting image of one another my other candidate for worst match tonight would easily be the world tag title match between the spirit squad and the highlanders i totally forgot the highlanders existed back in 2006 that match happened all right tag titles and spirit hidden gem i had i really liked the women's title match with lita and trish it was trish's quote-unquote retirement match which also had my best non-wrestling happening for the night was the pop she got when she came out for her entrance this wasn't the best match that they had but this was arguably number two their match on raw forgot what year it was where lita did the dive outside and almost broke her neck was the best match they had and this one's like right up there another hidden gem i had like watching this back i didn't remember how brutal the hell in a cell match was the handicap hell in a cell match was between dx the mcmahon's and the big slow i mean the big show crazy thing about this i'm gonna throw a random thought out here i did not realize the big show weighed 506 pounds or 507 pounds excuse me back in 2006 that's insane i did not realize he was that big back then again another match with a bunch of brutal spots triple h's ear bleeding again from you know previous attacks from like raw Like, the weeks prior, you had Shane McMahon doing the coast-to-coast into the trash can in the Triple H.

You had Shawn Michaels slingshotting Shane McMahon into the set, which is one of my worst spots of the night.

That looked really, really painful.

And again, high expectations for the 2006 Raw tag match isn't very high.

You're talking

about Spirit Squad and Highlanders? Yeah.

You had

Mm-hmm.

They were really just unk- they were like a Spirit Squad type team with that.

Also, the Spirit Squad, all they were doing was getting fed to Shawn and Hunter for how many weeks and months?

It did feel like years.

They were in the mix, but they weren't in the mix where they were making progress.