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Roman Reigns walks out to his original theme, raises the belt with the Usos behind him, and the pyro goes off. Danny got goosebumps. Tanya thought we were going paper instead of rock. John Arpino and Danny break down every segment of a Raw After WrestleMania that had genuine momentum from top to bottom, two NXT call-ups, a Brock Lesnar tribute package, and a closing segment that made both of them immediately want to tune in next week. This week on The Go-Home Show: Oba Femi struts to the ring, says the ruler has arrived, drops the mic and walks away in what is the exact opposite of the My Yard promo Roman got years ago, Ethan Page debuts and wins on Raw with All Ego energy and the guys immediately want him in a tag team with Miz called Miz Ego, Braun Breaker returns looking shredded without the spray tan, cuts a promo that made Danny ready to strap the rocket to him right now, and then bleeds after Seth Rollins clips him with the wrong side of a chair, Cody Rhodes comes out with a face that is genuinely concave from Randy Orton's punt and somehow decides this is the moment for a casual hang in the ring with CM Punk, Sol Ruka debuts against Liv Morgan in a match that went longer and hit harder than anything Liv had at WrestleMania, the Street Profits return and nobody really clocked it as a return, Joe Hendry is officially called up to Raw, Jacob Fatu comes out while the Bloodline is all standing in the ring and cuts one of the best promos of his career saying he does not want the title he needs it, and Roman tells him to take a week and think about whether he can handle the burden of winning or the burden of having to acknowledge him. Final grades: B minus and B. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Nobody in that building knew Brock Lesnar was retiring. There was no graphic, no shirt on the merchandise stand, no announcement. He locked up with Oba Femi, changed the finish on the fly, made the kid look like a million dollars, laid down his gloves and boots, silently prayed, and started crying. Paul Heyman threw up the X and real Paul Heyman showed up for about thirty seconds. John Arpino and Danny break down every match of a WrestleMania Night Two that delivered almost everything it promised and saved a weekend that desperately needed saving. This week on The Go-Home Show: Oba Femi wins clean in one of the most emotional and surprising moments in recent WWE history as Brock Lesnar retires on his own terms at WrestleMania, Penta wins the Intercontinental ladder match in a spot fest that had the crowd losing their minds with Ray Mysterio doing a West Coast Pop through a ladder at 51 years old, Demon Finn beats Dirty Dom in a physical street fight that had Dom genuinely getting clobbered and taking some of the nastiest bumps of the night, Rhea Ripley defeats Jade Cargill in the best match either of them has had in months with a sick counter into the Riptide to close it out, Dan Housen gets made official when John Cena gives him permission to do the five knuckle shuffle on Miz while midgets carry Miz out of the arena, Roman Reigns comes out to his original theme and puts on an old school pro wrestling clinic with CM Punk that neither man discussed in the back, Roman wins the World Heavyweight Championship clean with no interference and no b******t, and Trick Williams beats Sami Zayn for the United States title in the one match that could have used a few more minutes. Final grades: A minus for Night Two. B minus combined for the weekend. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE WrestleMania and beyond with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

John Arpino and Danny break down every match of WrestleMania Night One, a show they genuinely had fun watching that still somehow felt like a double Saturday Night Main Event with a bigger stage. The matches were short, the production had problems, the house was down 12,000 from last year, and everyone went home before it got dark. Night Two cannot come fast enough. This week on The Go-Home Show: John Cena opens the show looking like a young Vince McMahon Jr., gets emotional feeling the crowd energy again, and holds back absolutely nothing including a pot shot at the attendance before Bianca Belair comes out to save the night by revealing her pregnancy and making everyone cry, Jacob Fatu versus Drew McIntyre delivers the most intensity of the night but falls short of what an unsanctioned match should actually be with a sword that never gets used and weapons that feel more PG era extreme rules than anything else, Gunther versus Seth Rollins is the match of the night and possibly match of the year despite being put together two weeks ago with Seth taking black eye contacts out mid entrance and both men beating the absolute hell out of each other, Braun Breaker sprints down the ramp for what could have been the greatest spear of all time and Seth sidesteps it completely, Paige returns to a massive pop that was nearly missed by a cameraman who literally falls over, Becky Lynch wins the women's title over AJ Lee in the best women's match of the night, Liv Morgan versus Stephanie Vicarro gets seven minutes after a music video entrance that runs longer than the match, Randy Orton punts Cody Rhodes after retaining with a Crossroads to set up what looks like a trilogy, and the total in ring time across seven matches on a four hour show clocks in at ninety minutes. Final grades: B minus and C. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE WrestleMania and beyond with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

The go home SmackDown before WrestleMania had every main event guy on the show, a crowd that booed everything and cheered almost nothing, and a closing segment where Cody Rhodes and CM Punk almost cried together and nobody quite knew why. John Arpino and Danny break down every segment of a flat and forgettable go home show, give it a D and a C minus respectively, and try to get themselves hyped for a WrestleMania weekend that still has not fully clicked. This week on The Go-Home Show: Randy Orton talks legacy approximately 97 times and Shane McMahon quietly appears on the active WWE roster page for no reason, Jacob Fatu arrives in the back of a cop car and delivers another great promo that deserves a better show around it, Tiffany Stratton versus Jordan Grace is the best SmackDown match in months and has no business not being on the WrestleMania card, Jade Cargill dresses like Giant Gonzalez in Vegas and the guys cannot let it go, Cody and Punk close the show by almost hugging each other the night before WrestleMania while rushing through crowd chants like they were running late for the Hall of Fame, Paige has reportedly re-signed with WWE and is likely showing up this weekend, Royce Keys wins the Andre Battle Royal as telegraphed from the opening bell, the Trick Williams and Sami Zayn segment gets told to shut the hell up by a crowd that has officially had enough, and the guys debate whether this WrestleMania card has enough match quality to save a build that never fully got off the ground. Final grades: D and C minus. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE SmackDown and Raw with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

The last Raw before WrestleMania did not give you brawls or contract chaos or extras taking bumps. It gave you two men talking quietly into a microphone and making an entire arena stop and listen, and somehow that was not enough for people. John Arpino and Danny break down every segment of the go home Raw, give their honest grades, and make the case that what happened at the end of this show was some of the best old school wrestling television they have seen in years. This week on The Go-Home Show: CM Punk and Roman Reigns stand across from each other and just talk, no fists, no extras, no nonsense, just two guys saying true things out loud in front of a crowd that had to listen, Oba Femi cuts the best promo of his career and works the crowd like a veteran twice his age, Paul Heyman gives Oba his flowers and John doubles down on Brock going over at WrestleMania, Stephanie Vicarro and Liv Morgan have their best segment of the entire build with Liv looking genuinely psychotic, the Demon Finn is confirmed, Seth Rollins goes from polite handshake to stomp attempt in about 45 seconds, the IShowSpeed clip from a few weeks ago is apparently the most viral Raw moment of all time with 500 million views across platforms, the WWE Club waitlist is open and Danny put Oba while John put Paul Heyman, and the guys go through the full WrestleMania card and debate whether this weekend can quietly become one of the better shows of the year on match quality alone. Final grades: B minus across the board. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

CM Punk storms to the ring, skips the pageantry, and goes full shoot on TKO, Ari Emanuel, ticket prices, and everything in between while the Houston crowd tries to eat him alive. John Arpino and Danny Mabley break down every segment of a Raw that started with a genuine moment of chaos and spent the rest of the night trying to live up to it, give their honest grades, and debate whether WWE should have just cut the feed and let it play out on social media. This week on The Go-Home Show: Punk drops the nepo baby who ate dog food line, says he can gleefully stand on a bridge and blow it up because he knows how to swim, and tells everyone to call their agent and lower the ticket prices, Gunther aligns with Paul Heyman in the best backstage segment of the night and the possibilities are genuinely exciting, Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar sign no contract and brawl through a ring full of security for the fourth time this build, IShowSpeed gets a WrestleMania match officially announced and the Vision versus LA Night and Speed is now a six person tag, Demon Finn is confirmed for WrestleMania and the little animation was dorky but we will allow it, Asuka cuts a cinematic promo that makes Io Sky versus Asuka feel like a genuine sleeper match of the night candidate, Stephanie Vaquer throws Liv Morgan headfirst into Roxanne Perez at Mach 4 and nobody was ready, and Rey Mysterio gets added to the ladder match two weeks before WrestleMania on a freshly healed ankle. Final grades: C plus and B minus. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Pat McAfee reveals himself as Randy Orton's mystery ally, roasts the WWE product into the ground on live television, and somehow makes John Arpino and Danny feel better about WrestleMania than they have in weeks. John and Danny break down every segment of a genuinely entertaining SmackDown that had no business being this fun two weeks out from the biggest show of the year. This week on The Go-Home Show: Pat McAfee comes out in sunglasses looking like a young Scott Hall, calls out five foot five guys doing Iron Man matches, says everyone in gorilla is circle jerking themselves, and compares the Randy reveal to Hall and Nash presenting the third man except it was disco inferno, Randy cuts a career level promo in his hometown about waking something in himself that cannot be put back to bed, Cody Rhodes delivers his best promo of this entire run and alludes to the voices in his head saying things nobody wants to hear, the Dan Hausen hot tag from R-Truth is the hardest either of them have laughed at wrestling in years, Trick Williams steals Sammy Zayn's pyro with Lil Yachty by his side and nobody explains why, Tama Tonga tells Solo to get the goddamn lantern out of his face and speaks for everyone watching, the Bayley and Lyra versus Charlotte and Alexa match is quietly one of the better women's matches in weeks, and SmackDown ends on a mid-card US title angle two weeks before WrestleMania for reasons nobody can explain. Final grades: B across the board. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE SmackDown and Raw with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

John Arpino and Danny Mabley break down a Raw at MSG that had all the ingredients for a classic and somehow still left them flat, give their honest grades, and score the entire WrestleMania card build from top to bottom in a way that does not paint a pretty picture. This week on The Go-Home Show: Seth Rollins is medically cleared and immediately chokes out Gunther to set up a WrestleMania match with no story and four weeks to build it, Stephanie McMahon returns out of nowhere to warn Cody Rhodes about the version of Randy Orton he is about to face, IShowSpeed accidentally decks LA Knight with Logan Paul's brass knuckles and hands the Vision the tag titles in a street fight that felt more like a video game than a wrestling match, Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi go face to face again and the whole building sides with Oba while Brock tells him he is not that guy, Paul Heyman reminds MSG that he is the last manager standing from the 80s and the crowd loses its mind, Penta versus Kofi Kingston is quietly the match of the night, the IC ladder match at WrestleMania gets announced with Dragon Lee, Javon Evans, Rusev, JD McDonough and Penta, Roxanne Perez returns to complete silence, Io Shirai nearly lands on her head and no sells it immediately, and WWE Club keeps showing up on screen with zero explanation and everyone is losing their minds trying to figure out what it is. Final grades: C minus and C. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Sami Zayn wins the US title, Jelly Roll does the Dusty elbow, and SmackDown limps into WrestleMania week with nothing to say for itself. John Arpino and Danny break down every segment of a frustrating go-home SmackDown that had the bones of a good show and somehow made them feel nothing, give their honest grades, and ask out loud what exactly is supposed to make anyone want to buy WrestleMania. This week on The Go-Home Show: Sammy Zayn wins the US title off Carmelo Hayes after Trick Williams accidentally bonks Melo with a water bottle and the triple threat booking writes itself, Jacob Fatu gets an unsanctioned match at WrestleMania which is the dumbest stipulation in wrestling and John has thoughts, Randy Orton beats the dog piss out of Matt Cardona then RKOs Jelly Roll in the middle of the main event for reasons, Cody Rhodes runs down the ramp and fights Randy before WrestleMania like they are not about to fight at WrestleMania, the Rhea and Jade build hits a new low with BFAV Mission involved and nobody has any chemistry with anybody, the Bellas match is slow and rough and Nikki might be hurt, Dan Hausen curses Kit Wilson before Kit loses to Jelly Roll and the curse is now officially just a get out of jail free card for anyone who needs to take a clean L, Tiffany Stratton and Julia Hart deliver the match of the night while nobody was paying attention, Man Bun Jesus from Outlaw Wrestling gets his moment on SmackDown and deserves every second of it, and WWE Club shows up on screen with zero explanation. Final grades: C, C- The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE SmackDown and Raw with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Danny was in the second row at TD Garden and John had notes from the couch, and somehow this might be the best Raw of the year. John Arpino and Danny break down every segment of a loaded Boston show that had something cooking in every single segment, give their honest grades, and debate whether Roman Reigns is now officially eating CM Punk alive on the mic every single week. This week on The Go-Home Show: Roman Reigns returns, spears Punk through a table and closes the show in full Training Day mode, Paul Heyman goes completely off script and says things that probably should not have been said on television, Oba Femi runs Brock Lesnar off again and the WrestleMania match is building perfectly, Jay Uso keeps crashing out and Jimmy keeps playing the straight man, Becky Lynch delivers her best promo since coming back in front of a crowd that was basically her hometown, Penta retains with a surprise roll-up that nobody has seen in years, Finn Balor hits a stiff coup de grace on JD McDonagh and the triple A Mega title picture gets clearer, IShowSpeed gets cursed by Dan Hausen and loses his streaming password, Grayson Waller shows up with a whole new look that nobody got an explanation for, and a production truck with The Rock's face on it closes the show with more questions than answers. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Heel Randy Orton is waking up, Jacob Fatu bleeds through a windshield, and SmackDown delivers a hot start and a great ending with a whole lot of nothing in between. John Arpino and Danny break down every segment of a frustrating go-home-adjacent SmackDown that had all the ingredients and still managed to lose them for an hour in the middle. This week on The Go-Home Show: Randy Orton calls Matt Cardona a mark ass stooge indie nerd and then breaks his arm for good measure, Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre brawl through a car windshield to open the show, the Viper battles his inner heel and the punt is coming whether WWE is ready or not, Carmelo Hayes versus Ilya Dragunov delivers the match of the night while nobody is paying attention, the MFT cracks begin to show as Tama Tonga tells Solo he sounds like Roman, Dan Hausen steals twenty dollars on camera and keeps printing money, the Bellas come home to one of the worst hometown pops in recent memory, Nia Jax undersells everything in sight, and Jade Cargill shows up looking like she killed Grimace and put it on. Final grades: C minus across the board. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE SmackDown and Raw with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode. 5:48 PM

Oba Femi drops Brock Lesnar, puts his foot on his chest, and becomes a made man in front of a rabid San Antonio crowd. John Arpino and Danny Mabley break down every segment of a hot Raw that finally feels like the road to WrestleMania, give their honest grades, and debate whether Roman Reigns just delivered the promo of the entire build. This week on The Go-Home Show: Oba and Brock go face to face and the WrestleMania match is official, Roman Reigns returns and absolutely eats CM Punk alive on the mic, Randy Orton calls a mystery ally from what appears to be a 2014 Nokia and the internet loses its mind, Penta's pyro budget continues to spiral out of control, Dragon Lee shows up with inflatable wings and a tail, AJ Lee and Bailey deliver a solid TV match before Becky Lynch crashes the party, Paul Heyman's method acting reaches new heights with one very suspicious red eye, Dan Hausen curses his way into another segment and continues to print money, and the guys weigh in on AEW Revolution and a very entertaining Triple A show. Final grades: A minus and B plus. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Randy Orton turns heel in a contract signing nobody saw coming, Cody Rhodes bleeds, and The Go-Home Show is officially bought in on WrestleMania season. John Arpino and Danny Mabley break down every segment of a loaded three-hour SmackDown, give their honest grades, and ask whether WWE finally lit the dynamite stick with five weeks to go. This week on The Go-Home Show: Randy goes full Viper mode and what it means for the WrestleMania main event picture, Jacob Fatu and Drew McIntyre deliver the match of the night with next week's rematch already announced, Trick Williams and the lemon pepper step debate, Dan Hausen and the Miz are going to make WWE a lot of money, the MFT roster breakdown and the New Japan faction rumors that could blow the whole thing up, Jelly Roll calls the Miz obese and handles his business on the mic, the Bella Twins get the worst hometown pop in recent memory, and the women's tag division continues to frustrate two guys who know what these women are capable of after Evolution. Final grades: B plus across the board. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE SmackDown and Raw with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Finn Balor turns on Dominik Mysterio, Judgment Day implodes, and Roman Reigns is nowhere to be found with WrestleMania just weeks away. John Arpino and Danny Mabley break down every segment of this week's Monday Night Raw, give their honest grades, and ask the question nobody wants to answer: how do you sell a Roman Reigns main event when Roman Reigns is not on your show? This week on The Go-Home Show: the Finn and Dom fallout and what it means for WrestleMania, JD McDonagh makes the save and the Irish alliance is born, CM Punk calls the Usos young boys and gets a potato for it, Oba Femi ragdolls Rusev and the Brock Lesnar path gets clearer, the women's gauntlet match and why Raquel Rodriguez deserves the rocket right now, Penta's pyro budget might be the most expensive in WWE history, and Dan Hausen keeps the curses coming with the Miz by his side. Final grades: B minus across the board. The Go-Home Show drops every week breaking down WWE Raw and SmackDown with honest takes, real grades, and zero filter. Subscribe so you never miss an episode.

Cody retains, Randy's ready for Mania, and WWE just handed Drew McIntyre another transitional reign with nothing to show for it. John Arpino and Danny Mabley break down every segment of this week's SmackDown, the good, the bad, and the exact moment the show completely lost them. 🔥 In this episode: Randy Orton opens hot but should this Cody feud even be happening yet?Son of Dr. Wagner Jr. debuts against Carmelo Hayes (and it actually slapped)The Irresistible Forces celebration that killed the show's momentumRhea vs. Jade, great on paper, underwhelming in realityOba Femi squashes Gargano and the Brock Lesnar path is getting clearerDan Hausen + The Miz = the buddy cop duo nobody asked for but everyone needsDrew vs. Cody main event graded and what's next for WrestleMania📊 Final grades: C- / C+