2025-04-23 WWE Evolve - REVIEW
2025 Malapert Smark Podcast Review System (Rev2):
🤯 - Mind Completely Blown!!! [+10]
🔥 - This Was Fire!! [+5]
❤️ - Loved It! [+3]
👍👍 - REALLY Liked It! [+2]
👍 - Liked It [+1]
½ - Kinda Liked It [+0.5]
👊 - Indifferent [0]
👎 - Didn’t Like it [-1]
👎👎 - Really Didn’t Like It [-2]
🤬- Hated It [-3]
🤮 - Made Me Sick [-5]
🙋♂️- Chris Jericho Bad [-10]
Or any combination of the like…
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STORYLINES:
(1) Stevie Turner has a major announcement…
Participants:
Stevie Turner, Vanity Project (Brad Baylor, Ricky Smokes, Zaida Steel, Bryce Donavon), Drako Knox, Sean Legacy, Harlem Lewis, Keanu Carver, Chuey Martinez, Timothy Thatcher
👉Subplots:
(A) Major announcement by Prime Minister Stevie Turner upended by brash Vanity Project…
TMS: 👍
(B) Vanity Project cement themselves as major problem heels on the roster… Multiple brash actions, including returning after being kicked out… Stevie Turner is wary of the threat…
(C) Vanity Project rival Drako Knox watches angrily from VIP…
(D) Sean Legacy beats Vanity Project’s Jackson Drake and stakes claim to EVOLVE title…
(E) Harlem Lewis & Keanu Carver FACE OFF, but Stevie Turner uses the chance to send soldiers after Vanity Project problem…
(F) Timothy Thatcher fails to defend EVOLVE’s honor against disrepectful Swipe Right stable, losing to Bryce Donavon…
Details:
Enter Vanity Project (Brad Baylor, Ricky Smokes, Zaida Steel, Bryce Donavon) … Drako Knox watches angrily from VIP…
We never find out what the announcement was going to be…
Vanity Project brashly take center stage, Brad Baylor cuts promo insulting the audience, as they will never get w/ Zaida Steel. Zaida dry heaves at the thought of it.
Stevie Turner takes the chance to start the first match of the night w/ Jackson Drake (who’s already in the ring)…
-Match: Jackson Drake vs Sean Legacy….
Physical interference from Vanity Project… Referee ejects all of Vanity Project… Drako Knox, who is still in VIP, taunts Vanity Project as they leave…
Winner: Sean Legacy..
-Post Match, Sean Legacy boasts into camera and wants the EVOLVE title…
-EVOLVE FACE OFF: Harlem Lewis & Keanu Carver…
Enter Stevie Turner who books the two to team together in a tag match next week against Vanity Project’s Swipe Right…
-Later, Vanity Project return to VIP to watch the rest of the show. Chuey Martinez tries to tell them they’ve been kicked out but Brad Baylor says his parents’ lawyer said they could be in VIP…
-Later Chuey Martinez, returns to try to get Swipe Right out, but VIP security defend Swipe Right.. (VIP security is a guy and some scandily dressed woman)… Swipe Right remain in VIP to watch their stablemate in the main event…
-Match: Timothy Thatcher vs Bryce Donavon… the rest of Vanity Project watch from VIP…
Distraction interference from Swipe Right leads to the fall…
Winner: Bryce Donavon…
-Post Match, Vanity Project celebrate over Timothy Thatcher’s body…
-Backstage, Stevie Turner watches from monitor, saying these guys will be a problem…
Enter Keanu Carver & Harlem Lewis, who say they will take care of them next week….
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - ❤️
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️Kayhan:
(A) I assume it might have something to do with the EVOLVE title?… funny that Stevie Turner is now the Prime Minister. I like that…
(B) I gotta say i really like almost everything about this stable. Brad Baylor is really good on the mic and just has an incredible sense of slappable confidence… Ricky Smokes is freakin hilarious. rosenburg calling him an idiot for his dance. 🤣… Zaida Steel fits in very well and has a great personality and Bryce Donavon’s got that Big Bill look… they entertained me today and i feel the show was worth watching, for me, mainly for the Vanity Project… 👍👍 Also, I really like Chuey Martinez getting involved in it. He's really cool lookin so im glad to see him involved. and Vanity Project being a craw up his ass is a hilarious idea. i could see him getting more involved in this...
(C) Well, he didn’t really get involved in anything, but i guess it’s still good to keep him in people’s minds, because i’m sure they’ll have him facing Vanity Project members soon…
(D) Swipe Right getting kicked out. “We didn’t do anything.” 😆 Brad Baylor has incredible comedic sense…. this made me laugh…
(E) really like this idea of Stevie Turner quietly reacting to Swipe Right’s disrespect. she stood there and ate it at the time but then outta no where books these two to team together against her new rivals. the two baddest looking dudes. lol. it’s great subtle storytelling. they never said that outright. but it’s logical!
(F) Timothy Thatcher has just got a great look man. he’s awesome…
(OVERALL) I think this whole thing came together extremely well. it’s a rare occasion where my ratings of the overall storyline here exceeded the sum of its subplots. i complained about complicated overbooking on AEW Dynamite from this same night, but this is an example of when overbooking is done well. i actually think this episode of EVOLVE was pretty genious and i’m very impressed… and i’m looking forward to next week!…
(2) Kylie Rae isn’t afraid of Wendy Choo, challenges her to a match… Wendy Choo accepts…
Participants:
Details:
-Video Package has Kylie Rae cutting promo outdoors…
-After Layla Diggs defeats Aria Bennett, during her Post Match interview, lights go out and a teddy bear and note is left w/ Wendy Choo accepting Zara Zakher’s friend Kylie Rae’s challenge…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - +1/2
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️Kayhan: At least they advanced the story forward. Kylie's promo was good, the lights going out im kinda over... im kinda over wendy choo in general... i don't know how they can get out of this. can they just change her gimmick?!
(3) Zara Zakher defeas Aria Bennett...
Participants:
Details:
-Match: Zara Zakher vs Aria Bennett w/ Layla Diggs..
Winner: Zara Zakher…
-Post Match, Zara Zakher was to be interviewed but the interview never happened (See Storyline #2)…
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️Kayhan: Well, I'll say I remember aria & layla meeting and becoming friends, so at least they set them up a little bit, but not a whole lot. i found very little reason to care for the match, storyline-wise.
(4) Carlee Bright defeats Kalyx...
Participants:
👉Subplots:
(A) Carlee Bright & Kendal Grey’s strange friendship… Kendal Grey seems apprehensive to accompany Carlee to the ring, and isn’t so supportive in victory…
TMS: 👊
(B) Kalyx struggles w/ defeat…
Details:
Winner: Carlee Bright…
-Post Match, Kalyx is pissed and wants to get at Carlee and Kendal but is held back by the refs.
🌪️REVIEWS🌪️
Kayhan TheMalapertSmark - 👊
➡️COMMENTS⬅️
⭐️Kayhan:
(A) I honestly dont know whats going on here. I guess Kendal is eventually gonna lash out at Carlee and they can feud... I don't really dig the angle too much...
(B) I think they're kinda failing Kalyx. She's actually an interesting gimmick but they just buried her and then what the hell was that at the end. the ref held her back?! Eeekh. that was weird...
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