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Speaker 1: But we're gonna get into all the news. Last night,
Speaker 1: of course, was Monday Night Raw, which was the go
Speaker 1: home Raw for a wild weekend of shows, and I
Speaker 1: thought they did a pretty good job. Actually, if you
Speaker 1: think about all the shows they got to run this weekend,
Speaker 1: I think they did a pretty good job kind of
Speaker 1: plug it everything. You know, there's still a lot to do.
Speaker 1: We can plug some more on NXT and smack Down,
Speaker 1: But as far as I go weekend with three shows
Speaker 1: and a lot of big matches they had to shoot
Speaker 1: angles and get in for about four I thought they
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job. So we'll talk about Raw
Speaker 1: here tonight, give you some updates on lineups and that
Speaker 1: sort of thing, and then we'll talk about all the news,
Speaker 1: including Becky and Seth at their beach house broken into
Speaker 1: that sucks. We got more on Janelle Grant and Carlin Kolker,
Speaker 1: which it's one of those uh well, we'll get to that.
Speaker 1: TNA Wrestling is looking to uh secure a media rites
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Speaker 1: Back in the show, Brian Alvarez here, Wrestling Observer Alive,
Speaker 1: Landstorm is joining us here today we got a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about as always, but I do want to
Speaker 1: start with this lance TNA Wrestling hoping to secure a
Speaker 1: new media rights deal that would allow them to go
Speaker 1: live fifty two weeks a year. Anthem Sports Group President
Speaker 1: Carlos Silva spoke to John Wallstreet dot Com about his
Speaker 1: plans to grow the promotion as it receives increased exposure
Speaker 1: from its partnership with WE. So this said, we are
Speaker 1: regularly being featured on every major WE and NXT platform
Speaker 1: ples as well as weekly programming like the CW and
Speaker 1: their other outlets like Peacock, as a result in a
Speaker 1: huge television audience lift for us, along with all the
Speaker 1: social media support we get from them. He believes ten
Speaker 1: million per years in the range they are targeting. Funny
Speaker 1: we are too. He also the new Meteorites deal for
Speaker 1: TEENA would provide us the opportunity to go live fifty
Speaker 1: two weeks a year, and today's world live matters. Usually
Speaker 1: when we're live, we're doing around one hundred thousand household
Speaker 1: of viewers, he continued. A weekly number between two fifty
Speaker 1: and five hundred thousand in terms of Nielsen is perfectly
Speaker 1: realistic on a network in forty or fifty million homes.
Speaker 1: Something in the range of ten million a year is
Speaker 1: where we think we should be. What do you think
Speaker 1: Lance about the idea of going every week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this has been talked about many times, and my
Speaker 7: answer is always there's a good chance I won't be
Speaker 7: working there if that happens. I love TNA, I love
Speaker 7: my job, I love everyone that I work with, but
Speaker 7: my life has always been a balance of my home
Speaker 7: life and my schedule. And the idea of flying out
Speaker 7: early Wednesday to not get home till later in the
Speaker 7: day Friday is a three day a week job, and
Speaker 7: I'm not sure that's in the cards for me anymore.
Speaker 7: Maybe we could work out a deal that I didn't
Speaker 7: do every week, who knows. I would do everything I
Speaker 7: could to stay with the company should that happen, and
Speaker 7: that'd be great if they could get a great media
Speaker 7: rites deal, But I'm not looking at a full time
Speaker 7: schedule at this point in my life.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, Carlos, Carlos Silva here's got all of
Speaker 1: the information that we don't have. But I think that ultimately,
Speaker 1: if you can get ten million a year and still
Speaker 1: go every other week, I think that's the best bet
Speaker 1: here Carlos, because I don't think it really matters all
Speaker 1: that much whether the show was like taped. I mean,
Speaker 1: we plug the show every week. On the show, I
Speaker 1: got no idea whether it's live or tape. I'd ask you,
Speaker 1: I kind of know whether you're gone or not, like, oh,
Speaker 1: Lance isn't here, it must be live this week. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it makes much of a difference. I
Speaker 1: don't think that if you're a hardcore TNA fan, and
Speaker 1: this goes for AW in WWE as well. I mean,
Speaker 1: you really can't look at the collision numbers and say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it always does better live. They've been live,
Speaker 1: they've been taped, they've been after this game, they've been
Speaker 1: after that game. Doesn't seem to make that big a deal.
Speaker 1: Fans like to think it matters, and I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: more exciting to go live, but it really doesn't matter.
Speaker 7: That there was a time when Raw went live every
Speaker 7: other week, and I think having some live shows to
Speaker 7: enable your TV to have spoiler free surprises can help,
Speaker 7: but I don't think you need to be live every
Speaker 7: single week to have that feel on your show.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 1: Also, I think in the nineties, I mean one of
Speaker 1: the benefits to going every week is if the other
Speaker 1: promotion and you know, we saw this happen, like if
Speaker 1: WWE was taped and WCW was live, Bischoff would do
Speaker 1: the thing where we would go on TV and give
Speaker 1: the spoilers because the show was taped, and so you know,
Speaker 1: there was this feeling that, well, we have to go live.
Speaker 1: And you know you may remember this, but during the
Speaker 1: Monday night Wars, I mean, each promotion had a TV
Speaker 1: had the building where somebody was watching the other show,
Speaker 1: and they were seeing what was going on live on
Speaker 1: the other show, and sometimes they would try to react
Speaker 1: to that in some way or another. So like from
Speaker 1: that perspective, yeah, it's kind of important to go live.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if we're talking like Modern Day SmackDown,
Speaker 1: it's just on Friday night. Doesn't matter if it's live
Speaker 1: or taped. I mean, if the show's worse because it's tape,
Speaker 1: that's one thing. But you know, most fans, ninety percent
Speaker 1: of fans, they can't tell the difference. Same with NXT,
Speaker 1: same with AW Collision, whatever. So it's it's nice, it's fun.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's more exciting, but it's not needed.
Speaker 7: I agree, and I even downplay that because it was, Oh,
Speaker 7: it's more exciting live. I'm like every wrestling show I've
Speaker 7: done was live. There was an audience in the crowd,
Speaker 7: and it was live to me, and the excitement of
Speaker 7: performing is for the people in the building. So to me,
Speaker 7: it's not a deal breaker for a show for me
Speaker 7: to watch or not.
Speaker 1: All right, we got NXT tonight, which has a t
Speaker 1: and a crossover. Of course, we have got Hank and
Speaker 1: Tank against Sean Spears and Nico Vance for those tag
Speaker 1: team titles. We got the Gauntlet match Ricky Saints and
Speaker 1: Ricky Smokes and Jackson Drake and Brad Baylor. Ricky Saints
Speaker 1: has to run this gauntlet. Joe Hendry and Mike Santana
Speaker 1: versus Tyson and Tyreek in a tag match, and Tavion
Speaker 1: Heights tries to win his freedom from the No Quarter
Speaker 1: Catch Crew by facing Charlie Dempsey. If he wins, he's out.
Speaker 1: Then apparently if he uh, if he loses injury time
Speaker 1: tacked onto this contract or something, I don't know, he
Speaker 1: can't get out.
Speaker 7: He's iron clad. No Quarter Catch Crew contracts.
Speaker 1: Iron iron clad. All Right, They've added a couple of
Speaker 1: things for this weekend.
Speaker 7: Hopefully not more shows, well not yet, but who.
Speaker 1: Knows, ay I was I was told that, like if
Speaker 1: you think that wwe like learn something or maybe they
Speaker 1: decided now we got more coming. So at any time
Speaker 1: you're gonna hear about the next w W E uh
Speaker 1: whatever you call it?
Speaker 4: What what what? What?
Speaker 1: What do we call it? The next uh, the next
Speaker 1: battle versus a W, the next counter.
Speaker 7: Program next cluster of shows.
Speaker 1: The next counter programming attempt. We'll be hearing about that
Speaker 1: fairly soon. But anyway, for Revolution, they've added a few things.
Speaker 1: So it is now for the women's tag team titles,
Speaker 1: the four Way is official, like for no reason whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Last week, Adam Pierce said that Raquel and Roxanne would
Speaker 1: have to defend against teams from all four brands, three brands,
Speaker 1: but he didn't mention the teams. And then this week,
Speaker 1: you know, ask and Kyrie just asked, so he was like,
Speaker 1: all right, so he had no plan, is my point.
Speaker 1: And then Soul Rukanzaria just got added, even though they're
Speaker 1: coming off a loss. Although the loss, the reason that
Speaker 1: they lost was to set up Soul Ruka versus Izzy
Speaker 1: Dame on Saturday, so there was like a like win's
Speaker 1: the losses mattered. It does actually rarely see this. We
Speaker 1: had a match where wins and mattered and also did
Speaker 1: it matter in the exact same match because they lost
Speaker 1: a tag match to set up a singles match, but
Speaker 1: in losing that tag match, they also got added to
Speaker 1: a tag team title match, so anyway they're in it
Speaker 1: as well. And then for the Battle Royal where the
Speaker 1: winner gets a shot at the Clash in Paris, it's
Speaker 1: Nikki Bella, Stephanie, Naddy, Maxine, Naya, Ivy Nile, and I
Speaker 1: guess others, but those are the official names for that.
Speaker 1: Or maybe it's just like a seven woman Battle Royal.
Speaker 7: I hope it's more than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be something else. That would be something else.
Speaker 1: You guys also got Slammiversary coming up, but thankfully it's
Speaker 1: not this weekend.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's next weekend, Yes, the twentieth, I believe.
Speaker 1: Yes, Sunday the twentieth, with Trick Williams, Joe Hendry and
Speaker 1: Santana in the three way the Nemoths versus the Hardy's
Speaker 1: versus the Rascals versus First Class in a ladder match
Speaker 1: for the tag titles yep. And for the X title.
Speaker 1: It's Champion Moose, it says here, which is that should
Speaker 1: just be his name? Champion Moose against Leon Slater.
Speaker 7: And if Leon wins, he will become the youngest ex
Speaker 7: Division champion of all time, dethroning Amazing Red.
Speaker 1: Really yeah, is he only twenty?
Speaker 7: I guess so?
Speaker 2: Wow?
Speaker 1: College, Gee he is very young?
Speaker 7: Yes, all right, both my kids are older.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna to a break everybody back in
Speaker 1: a moment. We'll talk the rest of the news and
Speaker 1: get into raw and more Wrestling Observer Live.
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Speaker 1: Well, we got a lot of discussion in the chat
Speaker 1: about the winner of this Battle Royal getting a title
Speaker 1: shot at Clash in Paris, and this fella here says,
Speaker 1: I hope Nikki Bella doesn't win.
Speaker 2: Well, all right, we'll.
Speaker 1: See what we can figure.
Speaker 7: Don't hold your breath.
Speaker 1: Does it Does it specify which champion they just get
Speaker 1: a title shot?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 7: I would imagine it's not like she's designated to a
Speaker 7: brand where she'd have to stay specific.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm just looking at this because I just.
Speaker 7: Can't imagine she came back. Well, she didn't come back
Speaker 7: for a spot in the Battle Royal. She came back
Speaker 7: for a program.
Speaker 1: Well, originally it was going to be Raquel and Live
Speaker 1: versus the Bellas, okay for the tag titles. So the
Speaker 1: original idea did not involve her getting a title match
Speaker 1: at Clash in Paris.
Speaker 7: Okay, So.
Speaker 1: Originally the winner of the Battle Royal was not going
Speaker 1: to be Nikki Bella. But the original idea did have
Speaker 1: her wrestling for a title, and now she's not, So
Speaker 1: I think there is a pretty good chance that she
Speaker 1: is winning the Battle Royal. Now. She could win the
Speaker 1: Battle Royal and then ask for a tag team title
Speaker 1: shot at Clash in Paris with Brie and then they
Speaker 1: face whoever ends up with the tag team titles coming
Speaker 1: out of the show. They could do that.
Speaker 7: It just seems that her coming back getting laid out
Speaker 7: by Live and then losing in a Battle Royal seems
Speaker 7: like a big whoop tee doo crap dump on poor
Speaker 7: Nicki Bella. That would be a pretty sad way to
Speaker 7: come back.
Speaker 1: Last night, we were talking about this and the question
Speaker 1: was asked, were Nicki and Brie going to win the
Speaker 1: tag titles, and Dave said, no, he didn't think so,
Speaker 1: because you know, they're part timers, so to speak. But
Speaker 1: it was it was noted to me today that compared
Speaker 1: to the old days, right now, everybody's a part timer.
Speaker 1: I mean literally, if they won the tag team titles,
Speaker 1: what They're not going to go on the road. There's
Speaker 1: no house shows, you know, they'd have to show up
Speaker 1: for Raw once a week and probably do a match
Speaker 1: once one match a month. So I certainly would not
Speaker 1: rule out the idea. I wouldn't rule out a lot
Speaker 1: of ideas. I would not rule out that Nicky could
Speaker 1: win and then challenge for the tag titles with her
Speaker 1: sister at Clash in Paris, and I could not rule
Speaker 1: out Nicki winning and challenging for the world title, which
Speaker 1: would be I guess I'm presuming that Rhea wins, and
Speaker 1: I would be stunned if Tiffany lost, although I guess,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of there's two briefcases out there,
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of stuff that could happen this weekend.
Speaker 1: Trish could win and then get cashed in on I
Speaker 1: don't think that's gonna happen, because I think if Naomi
Speaker 1: cash is in on somebody, it would be on Jade
Speaker 1: after she would beat Tiffany at SummerSlam. No, but they
Speaker 1: can do anything.
Speaker 7: Don't the money in the bank. People have to cash
Speaker 7: in on their specific brand or are they allowed to jump?
Speaker 1: I think that, well, there's no rule, the rules, whatever
Speaker 1: they want the rule to be.
Speaker 7: This year, Well there is a rule, they just don't
Speaker 7: abide by it.
Speaker 1: Well there's not a rule. That's the point. Like some
Speaker 1: years that's kind of the rule. But Seth, it was
Speaker 1: like in the last week, Seth did a promo where
Speaker 1: he basically said he was eyeball both titles, meaning he
Speaker 1: could cash in on anybody. So I don't think this
Speaker 1: year you have to cash in on somebody on your brand.
Speaker 1: And then uh, there's also and everyone's talking about Goldberg
Speaker 1: that dude was over brother on raw. I do not
Speaker 1: I do not discount the possibility that he wins the
Speaker 1: world title and then is immediately cashed in on by
Speaker 1: Seth and Seth takes the belt. I think that's possible.
Speaker 1: Not saying it's gonna happen. I think it's possible. So
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 7: Anything can happen in the w WWE I almost said
Speaker 7: WWF okay.
Speaker 1: A couple of news notes, Seth and Becky had their
Speaker 1: beach house broken into. That sucks. They were they were
Speaker 1: in Providence for raw. No arrests made yet they busted
Speaker 1: through the homes rear slider and took cash and then
Speaker 1: I guess made the nine to one one call, so
Speaker 1: somehow he found out. The investigation remains ongoing. We got
Speaker 1: an update on Janelle and uh, you know this is
Speaker 1: another weird one Mendela effect? Am I wrong that this
Speaker 1: doctor was Carlton Kolker for like a year? Am I
Speaker 1: the only one?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 1: Carlin the tea has vanished?
Speaker 7: No, I think it was always that. I think you
Speaker 7: inserted the T.
Speaker 1: Are you sure?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Because the other one was you know the other. The
Speaker 1: other Mendel effect is is Tony Kahan and Nick Khan,
Speaker 1: who I could have sworn originally had two different spellings
Speaker 1: of their last name, and now their last name is
Speaker 1: spelled the same. Am I wrong? Chat? Help me out
Speaker 1: here anyway? And a ruling announced on Monday, Colleen Zingaro,
Speaker 1: the judge, ruled in favor of Janelle Grant's Bill of
Speaker 1: discovery against Carlin Kolker and Pete Wellness wearing both the
Speaker 1: plaintive and defendants to submit scheduling order proposals. So, uh,
Speaker 1: she's getting a discovery here.
Speaker 7: It always seemed odd to me that they were trying
Speaker 7: to deny her access to her own health records.
Speaker 1: Well, it's also weird. This one is really weird because
Speaker 1: she claims I got all these records that he didn't
Speaker 1: give me. Okay, he claims, no, I gave you every record,
Speaker 1: and it's like this should be open and shut. Did
Speaker 1: he or didn't he? I mean, there's no halfway.
Speaker 7: I mean, but if he did, so, just do it again.
Speaker 7: I guess it's her records.
Speaker 1: I guess. But anyway, that's the update. And then we've
Speaker 1: got Nicki Bella on Live with Kelly and Mark for
Speaker 1: an appearance on Tuesday morning, and there was a lot
Speaker 1: of discussion about, you know, why they choose Nicki Bella,
Speaker 1: why they choose Nicki Bella and uh, you know as
Speaker 1: supposed to Ria Ripley or somebody like that. And you know,
Speaker 1: somebody there said, well Nicki, uh, you know, she's she's
Speaker 1: already done a lot with uh whatever network this is on.
Speaker 1: So like everybody knows her, so she's a good person
Speaker 1: to send there. But anyway, she was she was talking
Speaker 1: about about Brie. She told Kelly and Mark that her
Speaker 1: return to w W will only be complete once the
Speaker 1: Bellas reunite. So, by the way, I should mention this
Speaker 1: as well. So you know, we've been talking about Nicki
Speaker 1: and Brie and them coming back for that match with
Speaker 1: Live and Raquel before liv got hurt, and you know,
Speaker 1: Nicky in all these interviews was talking about how Brie
Speaker 1: was in talks to also return. Okay, but then like Brie,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a tweet or what,
Speaker 1: but she said, I've had no contact with WWE, And
Speaker 1: then like the whole thing was weird because then it's like, well,
Speaker 1: we're the stories of them tagging up wrong. But then
Speaker 1: like if they were wrong, why did Nicki publicly say
Speaker 1: that Brie was negotiating? And then if Nicki said Brie
Speaker 1: was negotiating, why did Brie then said no one, I
Speaker 1: haven't talked to anybody. Well, I was told that the
Speaker 1: way it works in WWE, which actually is very much
Speaker 1: like when you're signed, they they want you to publicly
Speaker 1: say you've had no discussions until they announce it. And
Speaker 1: it's the same thing when somebody gets signed, they want
Speaker 1: to be the person to announce it, or they want
Speaker 1: somebody else to announce it. So long story show, it
Speaker 1: appears that the Breeze probably almost assuredly negotiating and on
Speaker 1: her way back, maybe even making an appearance on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but she publicly is saying I've had no discussions. Although
Speaker 1: it's also funny because live or no it was uh Alexa.
Speaker 1: Remember Alexa was having those issues and then and everybody
Speaker 1: said she wasn't, and then she admitted that she was,
Speaker 1: and they called her the night before. So who knows
Speaker 1: who the hell knows everybody, but I think she's gonna
Speaker 1: be there on Sunday.
Speaker 7: What about you, I would imagine. So it's they've always
Speaker 7: been a unit in WWE, They've had singles careers in WV,
Speaker 7: but the Bellaz is the brand. I would suspect they'll
Speaker 7: do a reunion.
Speaker 1: Let's see see what the chat says about this con
Speaker 1: con thing. I don't think any of us really care
Speaker 1: what the dude's name is. Well I don't care either.
Speaker 1: I'm just pointing out. Feel like I did fifty shows
Speaker 1: talking about Carlin Coolker Carlton and then ends up being Carlin.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm the only one, all right. Before we get
Speaker 1: to the raw report, We've got Dynamite coming up on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: John Moxley, Claudio Cassioli and the Young Bucks will face Hangman,
Speaker 1: will Ospray, Sabata and Hobbes. Will Ospray, Shebata Hobbes okay,
Speaker 1: So two members of the Ops and will Ospray and
Speaker 1: Hangman Okay trying to figure this out because basically the
Speaker 1: Ops are the trios champions and Claudio has challenged them
Speaker 1: to a trios match, and everybody's wondering if that means
Speaker 1: Pak is coming back. So I guess whatever happens if
Speaker 1: packets coming back or not, I presume it would happen
Speaker 1: during this segment year at a number two spot in
Speaker 1: the Women's Casino Gauntlet on the line, Tekla Tai Mellow,
Speaker 1: Queen Amnad and Megan Vain Samoa Joe will face poor
Speaker 1: Wheeler Yuda this poor geek. Mercedes Monet and Tony Storm
Speaker 1: will have a face to face and MJF and Mark
Speaker 1: Brisko will have a talkie talk.
Speaker 7: You know the difference, No, I do not.
Speaker 1: I think a Taki talk is when you're in trouble,
Speaker 1: you gotta sit down and have a talkie talk back
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Speaker 2: You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez
Speaker 2: and Mike simperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
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Speaker 1: In the show, Brian Alberz here Wrestling Observer Live. Oh,
Speaker 1: Land Storm has joined us. As I like to call
Speaker 1: him Old land Storm. It's like old McDonald. What do
Speaker 1: you think of that raw show?
Speaker 7: It was a yeah, there was some talkie talk on it,
Speaker 7: there was some wrestling on it, and uh they promoted
Speaker 7: a Battle Royal a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, this was a show where when it was over,
Speaker 1: I felt, man, this was a really good show. But
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes I review it and I think differently.
Speaker 1: So let's see if that happens today. So it did
Speaker 1: open up with a long segment where Seth comes out,
Speaker 1: everybody sings this song, he gets the microphone, he gonna
Speaker 1: he's gonna talk, but one by one everybody steals the
Speaker 1: mic from him so they can do their promo.
Speaker 3: So first.
Speaker 1: Bron g as it and he runs down Sammy says
Speaker 1: he's gonna beat him up the whole shebang. He's gonna
Speaker 1: leave him for dead. And then Bronson takes the mic.
Speaker 7: No, he offered it to Bronson.
Speaker 1: Well, point is Seth hasn't talked yet. And then Bronson
Speaker 1: does a big speech about how he's gonna take out
Speaker 1: Jay Uso and teach him for some respect. And then
Speaker 1: Paul gets the mic and he basically reiterates what Bron said,
Speaker 1: and he reiterates what Bronson said, and then they finally
Speaker 1: go to Seth rawlins, well.
Speaker 7: Well, how do you skip Paul Hayman speaking more and
Speaker 7: better Spanish?
Speaker 2: Do you do?
Speaker 1: No, because it's not true. I just don't like to
Speaker 1: show off. I was pretty impressed, though, that was pretty impressed.
Speaker 1: He didn't speak as good as a Spanish as hangman
Speaker 1: though that guy gets the award this year and uh
Speaker 1: and then Seth grabs some mic and it has nothing
Speaker 1: to say. And all night they were chanting for seeing
Speaker 1: Punk and he never showed up. But it was a
Speaker 1: fine segment, you know, it was all right, it was
Speaker 1: what it was. Pat Matt gone for the fifth week
Speaker 1: in a row. So I'm thinking the days of Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee doing commentary for WWE likely coming to an end.
Speaker 1: I'm not reporting that as a fact or anything, but
Speaker 1: you know, it certainly does seem that way, because it's
Speaker 1: been five weeks. We're in July. He'll be gone for
Speaker 1: football soon anyway. I think, yeah, Graves got his job
Speaker 1: back somehow. So yeah, we had Judgment Day, celebrating with
Speaker 1: all their belts, and there's a live shrine that has
Speaker 1: been set up, and Raquela is aghast. She's not dead,
Speaker 1: but she still has to cross herself when she sees it,
Speaker 1: and so she says she's gonna be back soon. She's training,
Speaker 1: and Finn goes, no, man, I was out. I was
Speaker 1: out eight months with my shoulder injury, and I'm tough.
Speaker 1: So she leaves, and then Dom sees a cake, Get
Speaker 1: well soon, domb and he's like, do you guys get
Speaker 1: this for me? And they say no, And then he
Speaker 1: looks over and ajp his head out from behind this
Speaker 1: deal and goes like this and the crowd howls with laughter.
Speaker 1: AJ is waiting for him to get well. Raquel and Kyrie, brother,
Speaker 1: what is up with Kyrie? Oh my god? Every single
Speaker 1: match she forgets spot after spot after spot. There were
Speaker 1: at least four times during this match where she either
Speaker 1: forgot a spot or like, I mean, there were some struggles.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Roxanne and Kyrie, so I mean at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's like they had tons
Speaker 1: of heat at the end, and like when she gets
Speaker 1: everything right, she's really good. She just like forgets what
Speaker 1: she's supposed to do all the time. So finally at
Speaker 1: the end, Roxanne jumped her, threw in the ring, tried
Speaker 1: the pop rocks, Kyrie avoided it, hit the backslide and
Speaker 1: got the pin. So Roxanne lost and then Raquel jumps
Speaker 1: her afterwards beats her down. Oscar makes the best comeback.
Speaker 1: She is so awesome.
Speaker 7: She whooped butt.
Speaker 1: Yep, and they get added to the tag team title
Speaker 1: match coming up this weekend. Sammy's AM's doing a promo.
Speaker 1: He's all beat up. He says, man, I gotta take
Speaker 1: out Bronson tonight and I'm gonna deal with carrying cross later.
Speaker 1: And so he leaves and Scarlet shows up, and this
Speaker 1: Jackie Redmond acting Jackie Redmond is really good, but she
Speaker 1: was horrible on this segment. She just sees Scarlet. She goes, oh, Scarlet,
Speaker 1: what are you doing here? It seems like maybe you
Speaker 1: have something to say, and Scarlett goes, no, this was
Speaker 1: not a good segment. So then pierces with American Maid
Speaker 1: and he says, I hear El Grandel Americano is wrestling tonight,
Speaker 1: and Bruto says that's impossible. Pierre says why. Bruta says, well,
Speaker 1: Chad Gables hurt, and Julie slaps him in the head
Speaker 1: and Pierce goes, well, why would it matter if Chad
Speaker 1: Gable has heard? So Ivy jumps in and she says, well,
Speaker 1: you know, Chad's not gonna be happy about that. Pierce says, well,
Speaker 1: he can call me, and Ivy says, let's talk about
Speaker 1: why I'm really here. I want to be in the
Speaker 1: Battle Royal on Sunday or whatever, and Pierce goes all right, fine,
Speaker 1: you're in. I was like, Okay, that was easy.
Speaker 7: You've wrestled Brian. Have you ever wanted to be in
Speaker 7: a Battle Royal?
Speaker 1: I can't think of anything I ever wanted to do
Speaker 1: in wrestling less than be in a Battle Royal other
Speaker 1: than like take bumps. I hated. I hated Battle Royals.
Speaker 1: I wish some of you would. You know, sometimes people
Speaker 1: will like they want to make fun of me for
Speaker 1: whatever reason. There's a lot of reasons, but they'll go
Speaker 1: on cage match. It'll go you know, Brian's only had
Speaker 1: thirty three matches or whatever. It's like, dude, I had
Speaker 1: thirty three matches in like anyway, there's so much stuff
Speaker 1: that is not on cage match in these deals from
Speaker 1: way back in the late late nineties or least.
Speaker 7: What happens really tiny shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm working tiny shows in the middle of nowhere
Speaker 1: in the late nineties. You think all those shows are
Speaker 1: logged on cage Match. But anyway, golly, I probably had
Speaker 1: eighty seven Battle Royals, to be honest, because virtually every show,
Speaker 1: every TIM show was geek Battle Royal. Whoever wins faces
Speaker 1: TIM at the end of the night. So you had
Speaker 1: to do these Battle Royals, and God, I hated them,
Speaker 1: and me and Buddy and Richie, Buddy Wayne and Richie Magnet.
Speaker 1: I mean we'd get in there and it's just like
Speaker 1: Buddy would put me in a headlock in the corner
Speaker 1: and we would just stand there and not touch anybody,
Speaker 1: just like go right to each other and just stand
Speaker 1: in the corner in the headlock until like there was
Speaker 1: the one good thing was Tim. As somebody mentioned here,
Speaker 1: I must have told the story a million times. Tim
Speaker 1: had a rule no pumps in the Battle Royal, so
Speaker 1: at least you didn't have to take a bump. But
Speaker 1: like you're out there just it's boring and it's stupid
Speaker 1: and it sucks. Can't imagine asking to be in one. God,
Speaker 1: and then ours did have a title shot on the line.
Speaker 1: I think I wanted to wrestle twice for my thirty
Speaker 1: dollars against Tim in the main event where the guy
Speaker 1: with the kendostick from Costco was gonna cane me fifty times. No,
Speaker 1: no thank you anyway. Then we had a Nicki Bella
Speaker 1: video package. She wants the shot at the Paris pl
Speaker 1: total Vince promo, every old school buzzword you ever heard.
Speaker 1: Sammy's attacked by Carrion Cross. He's beaten within an inch
Speaker 1: of his life, but he wants to do the match.
Speaker 1: This idiot referee and doctor say sure, fine, So then
Speaker 1: the match starts and he gets murdered, and Michael Cole's like,
Speaker 1: can someone stop this match? Nope, nope, You're gonna let
Speaker 1: this guy get killed. He asked for it. So the
Speaker 1: fans are like totally behind Sammy's comeback until he comes
Speaker 1: off the top and gets speared out of mid air.
Speaker 1: Then they start barking and chanting one more time and
Speaker 1: they just want to see this guy die, so Braun
Speaker 1: murders him to death, pins him, and then later they
Speaker 1: announce he's indefinitely. He's out of action indefinitely because he's
Speaker 1: been killed.
Speaker 7: Because the doctor's finally smartened up.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did. Pierce is meeting with the Viking Raiders
Speaker 1: the New Days. The New Day shows up and uh,
Speaker 1: I forget the exact I didn't write down all of
Speaker 1: the comedy, but like they're all in these black veils
Speaker 1: and Pierce goes, why are you Why are you grieving?
Speaker 1: And they say mourning and he goes, no, it's it's
Speaker 1: the nighttime and they said, we're morning anyway. The whole
Speaker 1: thing is stupid because he doesn't know why they're mourning.
Speaker 1: They just lost their tag titles brother, so they want
Speaker 1: to rematch Viking Raiders say we don't get automatic rematches anymore,
Speaker 1: and so nothing is handled. That was a useless segment.
Speaker 1: Becky came out for a promo. It's her and Bailey
Speaker 1: and Lyra. The whole segment was I can't say like
Speaker 1: it sucked, but you know, Becky's a heel and no
Speaker 1: one really cares. They just want to cheer her. Bailey
Speaker 1: is supposed to be a babyface, but she's been acting
Speaker 1: Meanlyra is supposed to be a babyface, but she's screwed
Speaker 1: Bailey and she's half heelish and this crowd is just dead.
Speaker 1: And they builded this big reveal about how Lira thinks
Speaker 1: I called Becky at Mania, but I didn't. She attacked
Speaker 1: you and then she called me, and the crowd's totally
Speaker 1: dead because it's like that's a reveal. Who cares? Nobody cared.
Speaker 1: And then finally there's a big brawl and Lyra beats
Speaker 1: everyone up, and yeah, this was not all that good.
Speaker 1: We had a video package Ruth seven Seamus, where they
Speaker 1: made that man looks so epic compared to what it
Speaker 1: actually was. Well nough, it was a bad match, but
Speaker 1: the video package made it look much much better. We
Speaker 1: add Bronson and Jay. They brawl outside. Jay super kicks
Speaker 1: him out of a chair at ringside. He gets in
Speaker 1: the ring. Bronson grabs his giant rolling chair. It's got
Speaker 1: the big wheels and everything. He just throws this thing
Speaker 1: like a missile at Jay. Uso hits him for the
Speaker 1: DQ and then he hits two tsunamis. All the geeks
Speaker 1: come out to break it up, and he politely leaves,
Speaker 1: which is a very unbronzing thing to do, but I
Speaker 1: guess they didn't want to keep Ja out of action,
Speaker 1: so he can only give him two tsunamis.
Speaker 7: Well, especially if he's gonna be back and Sammy isn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fabulous Eosky Rheo Ripley video package. This was great.
Speaker 1: Eosky has never lost to Rhea Ripley in a one
Speaker 1: on one match, so I think that might be happening
Speaker 1: this weekend. El Grand versus Dragon Lee. So Michael Cole
Speaker 1: will not say who this Elgrande Americano is even though
Speaker 1: it's so obviously Ludvig. Heiser to the point that he
Speaker 1: doesn't even try like. He walks like Ludvig, he wrestles
Speaker 1: like Ludvig. He screams at ringside in Ludwig's voice. But
Speaker 1: Michael Cole, who is certain that the original El Grande
Speaker 1: is chad Gable, he cannot figure out or he will
Speaker 1: not say who this man is. And so Grande hits
Speaker 1: the El Santo where I guess it's the It's not
Speaker 1: El Santo, but he mill Mosker is diving head butt,
Speaker 1: gets the pin n I said, bud though, give him that,
Speaker 1: give him that. Goldberg and Gunther had a segment It
Speaker 1: was perfect. Gunther comes out, he does a quick promo,
Speaker 1: Goldberg's music hits. He flies in in a sports car.
Speaker 1: He gets out, gets in the ring, Gunther say something.
Speaker 1: Goldberg just slaps his mic out of his hand. Place
Speaker 1: is going wild. Gunner goes go ahead, or Goldberg says
Speaker 1: go ahead, hit me. So Gunther tries. Goldberg blocks it,
Speaker 1: decks him, goes for the spear, and Gunther leaves.
Speaker 3: It was perfect.
Speaker 7: This was classic out of WCW, where Goldberg would make
Speaker 7: run in saves by driving up in a car. Yeah,
Speaker 7: were you somehow watching in your car? At least today
Speaker 7: he could be watching it. Yes, yeah, good thing he
Speaker 7: made it.
Speaker 1: And then Seth raw he showed up just in time
Speaker 1: for the promo about him.
Speaker 7: In fact, yes, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1: Seth and Penta is the main event and very very
Speaker 1: good match, almost like an aw match. Like Seth, he
Speaker 1: was going to take all the bumps, he was going
Speaker 1: to take the finish, he was going to take all
Speaker 1: of it. Great heat, Let's go Penta. Chance, This is
Speaker 1: awesome chance. The best spot was straight out of aw Penta.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: He hits the running head scissors, he hits the Penta driver.
Speaker 1: Seth kicks out, Seth hits the buckle bomb. Penta pops
Speaker 1: out of the corner, hits the destroyer, place goes wild.
Speaker 1: Seth gets the ropes and then Penta goes for like
Speaker 1: a pile driver, but Seth like lifts up and hits
Speaker 1: him in the balls. The ref pretends it must have
Speaker 1: been an accident, and then Seth stomps him and pins him,
Speaker 1: and then the heels go to kill Penta afterwards, but
Speaker 1: l A Knight comes in out of the crowd. Giant
Speaker 1: pop hits, the bft on Rawlins, flees through the crowd
Speaker 1: and a very very good main event, So a lot
Speaker 1: going on here. They also built up seth versus l
Speaker 1: a Knight for Saturday at Saturday Night's main event, Back
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