WEBVTT - Exciting Dynamite/Surprise Debut Recap 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.600 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:09.560 --> 0:00:14.880 Let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.480 Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.040 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:25.119 sixth Eastern. Well, that brand new graphic they're all you 0:00:25.120 --> 0:00:29.920 watching on video? Wow? How fancy? And I'm out of 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.360 focus again. Someday we'll remember this one now it says 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.680 it's on auto focus. Whatever. We got a lot of 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:39.480 news get into today. It is Thursday on this program, 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.879 and you know what that means. We got a w 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.280 Dynamite to talk about last night, very very exciting edition 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.480 of Dynamite. And on top of that, we've got, of course, 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.280 the debuts of the two big surprises, who were in 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.360 fact the two big surprises that I predicted yesterday. We'll 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.640 talk about those later, but first, a couple of deaths 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:04.000 to our ports. Uh Super Munyako passed away at fifty 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.000 nine following a battle with health issues. He had been 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:11.240 hospitalized in serious condition due to a long issue from 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.480 COVID nineteen. So for all of you that are decided 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.560 this pandemic is over, It's not over for everybody. He 0:01:18.640 --> 0:01:21.640 was hospitalized lung issue. They actually he was out of 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.800 the hospital and on Monday show we had reported that 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.399 he was recuperating, but then he took a turn for 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.959 the worst and passed away. He wrestled in a clown 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:34.800 gimmick part of Los Trios Fantasia with Super Ratone and 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:39.839 Super Pinocco doing a Pinocchio gimmick for kids. So sad 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:45.000 story there and also passing away, I believe also as 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:49.080 a result of COVID complications are Touro rivera longtime announcer 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.960 for Lucha Libre A Triple A, passed away at the 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.480 age of sixty seven. They confirmed the news on social 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:00.480 media Wednesday. Hospitalized due to multiple health problems. Family recently 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:04.960 requested a blooded donors. For those of you that watched uh, well, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.800 for me, it was my glory period watching Lucci every week, 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.880 Triple A and CMLL in the early two thousand's. I mean, 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:15.960 he was one of the voices of commentary with Dr 0:02:16.000 --> 0:02:20.880 Alfonso morale As so very said story there as well. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:22.919 You have comments in any of those, you can text 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.160 us with your memories. We'll get into all of the 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.120 news with Mike Simpler viv after the break. Lots to 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.399 get into today back in a moment of Server Live. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.360 So I got a bunch of twitch homies here today 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:49.680 because YouTube ain working. That's why it's always good make 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.280 sure that you have a subscription to twitch dot tv 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:55.720 slash Chef four W video in case things like that 0:02:55.760 --> 0:03:00.799 happened and YouTube is not working. But you know what's 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.960 working is a lot of the things going on in 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.160 in a W. You guys forget who the two surprises 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:11.280 were last night. You know it's funny is uh we 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:15.800 did a show yesterday and I said, I don't know 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:17.520 who they're gonna be, but I'll tell you I think 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:20.079 they are. I think it's Keith Lee and j White 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.360 and uh so I think it's brilliant Rose. We've got 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.959 a couple of guys that they get clips of this 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:30.280 show and they put it up on They put the 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.000 clips up on YouTube, and man, you you think my actually, 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:36.120 the the the YouTube comments are not as bad as 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.119 my Twitter mentions, but there's some there's some dumb people there, 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.839 and a couple of people are like god, Brian and Dave, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.440 They spoil all sorts of things from from w W, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.120 and they never spoil anything for a W. Like, first off, 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.560 the names I gave where the names that actually showed 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.560 up on Wednesday night, And uh, you wanna know why 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.119 we almost never spoil anything from a W. I never 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.920 know what's going on. I don't know if everyone's required 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.760 to sign n d s or something like that, or 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.720 maybe they're just like, you know, whatever, But I never 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.640 know what's going on in advance in a W. I 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.960 I figured it was j White and Keith Lee, but 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.440 I didn't know for sure. But I I told you 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.040 what I knew, and that's what they ended up being. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.520 So the story of this is on Friday, I don't 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.600 have his tweet in front of me, but Tony Khan 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.840 made some comment about how somebody was going to step 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.560 through the forbidden door and they were going to sign 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:40.600 a contract with a W and listen, I don't really 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.160 care much about the verbiage of forbidden door, but some 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.279 people are really hung up on it if he says 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:50.039 the forbidden door. So, uh, Tony heard all of this 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.720 criticism because people were expecting it to be someone from 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.760 New Japan, because New Japan has traditionally been what is 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.680 considered the forbidden door, because for a while it wasn't 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.320 for in door. There was there were political issues between 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.400 a W and New Japan, and so that was the 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.080 forbidden door. A W guys weren't going to New Japan. 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:12.880 New Japan wasn't going, they weren't working together. So Tanahashi 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.159 did a a promo and he wanted to step through 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.560 the forbidden door. He said to go to a W. Well, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.600 you know kind of went all over the internet this 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.320 forbidden door, and so Tony, you know, I don't know 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.599 if he trademarket or whatever, but he's he's using the 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:31.520 forbidden door term. So you know, he heard over the weekend, 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.560 like everyone expecting it to be Keith Lee. But Keith 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:38.159 Lee wouldn't technically be the forbidden door. He's a free agent. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:43.120 So once he heard that this was what was being 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:46.080 discussed with fans, he went to New Japan and he said, 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.560 can I get j White? Because now people are expecting 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.040 somebody from New Japan to UH to show up, So 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.640 all of this speculation. I've had this speculation about j 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.960 White for like three weeks now. It was never the 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.680 plan to like Sunday Now, the reason I thought it 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:01.720 was gonna be j White was because if you guys 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.719 watching New Japan Strong not a show goes By where 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:06.960 J White does not talk about going to a W. 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.800 So inevitably he was going to be going to a W. 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:12.839 But what happened was he showed up and he helped 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.680 to beat up ra Punky Vice, and he's going to 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:19.800 be on Rampage on Friday. No spoilers in case you 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.200 guys are you know who could possibly win the Young 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.440 Bucks and Rapunk device. I actually don't know. I forgot, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:27.200 but you know, if you want to know, we've got 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.080 the spoilers up on the front page. But he's there. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.360 And then the big debut that signed a contract with 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:38.640 a W was in fact Keith Lee, who uh absolutely 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:43.080 just got over as the biggest superstar here on this 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:49.400 show just by you know, smashing poor Isaiah Cassidy, who 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.000 you know, the old saying he got frequent flyer miles. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.760 The very first spot was Keith Lee beeling this guy 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.240 so high I thought he was gonna go over the 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.119 post to the floor on the other side of the ring. 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.640 The biggest meal you ever saw like that that it 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.839 was off to the races from there. He you know, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.800 did a couple of things, but mostly was just a 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.120 gigantic monster. People went nuts for the guy. You know. 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.480 He did a tweet today saying that he's gotta got 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.640 a lot of work to do. He's gotta you know, 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.560 the grind starts. Now. I think that's in reference to 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.320 dropping a little bit of weight, because he was absolutely gigantic. 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.440 He looked like it was three sixty pounds, legit, and 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.720 uh yeah, there you go. That's the story of Keith Lee. 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.840 How did he get over everybody working like a big 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:37.720 man but being able to be Keith Lee? Unlike w W 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.960 W either wanted a big man who wasn't Keith Lee. 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:46.600 They wanted a bearcat. Carl, I can't wait for B 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.720 to e this week. What were your thoughts on these 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.080 two stories, Mike, I don't watch BAT much, but do 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.960 you think Adam Cole will make an appearance with Keith 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.640 Lee at any point to poke fun at that? You know, 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.880 maybe at the barber shop where Adam all considers about 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.480 getting his haircut. But yeah, those days are long gone 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.000 for both of those guys. And Keith Lee certainly made 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.720 an impact last night. Whether he's a couple of biscuits 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.600 too heavy or not, whatever, I don't care. It didn't 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.880 matter in that match at all. Sure he was big, 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:18.760 Sure that's probably something he's got to work on, but whatever, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.120 it didn't matter last night because he was throwing Isaih 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:24.480 Cassidy around, who flew like a champ for him, and 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.440 it was a very simple, dominant performance. I thought everything 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.240 really went perfectly. I really did. I thought it was 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:35.280 an excellent Everything about it was excellent. Keith Lee catching 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.240 Mark Quinn on that rona attempt, I mean, just everything 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.640 I thought worked perfectly there on what was a a 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.880 great night, with the exception of Jade nick A. Obviously 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.920 that match went sideways at the point, but you know, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.959 if you take that out of the mix, I thought 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.400 it was a really good show. And you know, some 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.080 people will probably poke fun at the twenty minute open 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.600 and say it compares to Raw, but the twenty did open, 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.920 you know, opening segment with the talk and the setting 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.400 up the match for later. If you don't do it 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.840 all the time, it works, it's special. You know. Even 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.560 with w w E, it's just it became a staple 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.000 of their programming, which I'm not a big fan of. 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.880 I like it when they mix it up, but a 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.679 w's usually starts off with a match, and certainly not 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.319 with the twenty minute talking segments. I thought, in this case, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.640 with who was involved the whole thing, that we actually 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.080 worked out great. You know, I want to say something 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.000 about Keith Lee that when you first hear what I'm 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.160 about to say, you may think it's very insulting, but 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:34.120 honest to God, it's not. And the reason I bring 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:37.079 up this comparison is because we literally two days ago 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.120 just did a toga party and we watched WrestleMania nine. 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.760 I watched that Brett Hart Yokazuna match, and bro, I 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.920 love that match. It was only eight minutes. But you know, 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.760 from when I was a kid so to speak, as 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:53.080 in my teens, dude, I always thought Yokazuna was awesome 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.480 and Yokazuna at the end was not awesome, and so 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.320 you know, I think you sort of had a a 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.400 rep of, you know, not being that great. But I 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.200 thought he was awesome. And that match with Bret Hart, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:11.160 like he was just the best giant and Bret Hart 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.240 was you know, he's Bret Hard. But man, watch that 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.120 Yokasina Bret Hart match to see how a big dude 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:21.120 can just be a freaking monster. And two days later, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.480 Keith Lee goes in there and he's big, like he's 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.520 three and fifty three and six minces. He's nowhere near 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.959 as big as Yokazuna. But that way, like this guy 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:32.480 ain't gonna be sprinting for for eight minutes. He's got 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:35.960 to pace himself. And just the way that Keith Lee 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.240 worked that match, it was exactly like Yoka is gonna 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:42.280 work that match with Bret Hard. It's like you stand 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.920 there and you're just enormous and you do some massive 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.400 power move and the other dude sells great for you, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.280 and you just stand there and you're just big, and 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.640 every now and then you do something like super impressive, 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.959 Like every now and then Yokazuna would whip out that 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.960 that freaking leg drop. He just start sprinting and he 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:03.679 jump in the air and he just crushed this guy 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:06.120 and the people would like be screaming like he's got 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.280 to be dead. I mean, the way that Keith Lee 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.640 worked this match and the way that yoks didn't work 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:13.959 the match with Brett, I mean, it's the exact same thing. 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.640 And I thought both of them were just great. Now. Granted, 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.760 Keith Leeve, he's gonna be a main of veentor he's 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.760 gonna have to work long matches and he's gonna have 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.679 to do more, and he'd be way better served at 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.920 like pounds three fifteen pounds, and hopefully he can get there. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.319 But for what he did with Isaiah Cassidy, I thought 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.880 it was perfect. And in the land where there's not 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.840 a lot of giants, he can change his style a 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.439 little bit and dial back on some of those things 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.640 that I know Dave was oh Man. What makes Keith 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:45.200 Lee is the agility in this and that he's in 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.439 a place where he can he can afford to just 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.400 be big and yeah he does, I guess whatever, have 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:52.839 to drop some weight and whatever, whatever, that's fine, But 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.200 because of where he's at, he does not have to 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.520 rely on doing that as much anymore. Now. Can he 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.200 take that out of his repertoire and change it up? 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:03.640 Do they want him to change it up? Does he 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.360 want to change it up? I don't know, but I 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.280 know he can. And this could be the opportunity to 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.000 do some of that, take out some of those flying 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.600 through the ropes and actually concentrate on big man moves. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:34.120 Back at a moment Observer Live back in the show 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:39.079 Bright nowba is here Wrestling Observer Live Mixumburvit also Wrestling 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:42.679 Observer dot Com. Well did the h Dynamite report here 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.680 in the bid we got a little bit of news 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.640 as a new show supposed to be. So the other 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:56.320 day we were talking about the Olympics and ratings, and 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.600 you know, the SmackDown rating was down against the Olympics, 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:04.800 and Rampage was down against the Olympics, and Raw did 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.959 one point three million viewers. It's all time record low 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:12.800 viewership against the Olympics and only the second, by the way, 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.199 the lowest eighteen forty nine. So I actually did worse 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.280 at one point in their normal time slot with no competition. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:23.000 But they were on sci Fi obviously, So actually they 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.240 did a worse eighteen and forty nine on USA than 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.360 they did on Sci Fi, which is pretty amazing. But 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.319 the fact of the matter is, we knew this was 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:34.080 gonna happen, and honest to God, all things considered, you know, 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.440 I thought the rod number was actually right, Like, I 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.280 thought it was gonna do much worse moving to Sci Fi, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.680 especially when I actually watched the show, and uh, you know, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:51.720 Dave last night on Observer Radio noted that the that 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:56.000 first segment with Randy Orton and Riddle and Otis and 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.079 and Chad Gable, which I thought was just awesome. I 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:07.320 love that segment. One point one million viewers, bro. So anyway, 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.200 picked up after that, people started tuning in a lot 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.720 of a lot of women and uh and and uh. 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:16.719 Elderly folks they couldn't find it initially, but the young 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:19.080 men knew right where it was for some reason. Anyway, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.080 I don't like saying elderly because I'm pretty much there. 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.240 But the point of all of this is I said, 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:31.720 don't worry about it. These numbers, the Olympics, competition, etcetera, etcetera. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:38.000 But Bro, this n x T number, Oh my god, dude, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:43.800 n x T on Sci Fi, which, by the way, 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:48.720 they did the limited commercial interruptions gimmick because that always works. Like, 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.720 if you want to boost your number, do limited commercial interruptions. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:56.120 It works every time because there's anywhere from twenty of 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:59.560 people that that switched the channel whenever you go to commercial. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.760 That's a lot of people. Dude. Like if you have 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.800 a million people watching, three hundred thousand turn off every time, 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.320 there's a commercial. Some of them come back, maybe not 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.720 all of them. But by eliminating the commercials, you're you're 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.320 artificially can inflate the number. I mean, it's real, but 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.720 it's a gimmick. So they had limited commercial interruptions and 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.120 a Women's championship match on this show and two Dusty 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:29.520 Classic matches. This show did four hundred thousand viewers and 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:36.760 a zero point zero seven in eighteen of forty nine 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:42.880 I mean eighteen to forty nine. Ring of Honor on 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.840 Sinclair running reruns has probably beaten this number. I mean, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.640 mL W maybe be beating this number. Impact Wrestling almost 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:55.480 surely gonna beat this number. And this is that this 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.800 is sci Fi, Like, it's not the USA network, but 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.800 it's a network where RANG managed to get one point 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.920 four million viewers or something like that in the second 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:11.800 hour a point oh seven. Callly soly smokes, that's a 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:16.680 horrible number. And for whatever reason, you know, which I 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.680 can't explain, just because they like to make things hard 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.920 on themselves. They're not delaying this, uh, this big show, 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.840 the Valentine's Day Show. They're not delaying it a week. 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:31.040 They're gonna air it next week on Sci Fi. Why 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.080 even bother, like they're gonna do Day one, unlike Day 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.960 two and Day five and whatever every year, like they 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.800 don't care about that. But man, we gotta do this 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:44.360 Valentine's Day show, Uh, the day after Valentine's Day. We 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.080 can't wait a week. It's gotta be done, this Vengeance 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:53.680 Day show. And not even say Valentine's So anyway, horrible number, atrocious, appalling, horrific, 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.880 So it matches the show then, No, the show was 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:04.679 way better than that number. I'm not a fan of 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.960 the show always, but I mean the two Dusty Classic 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.520 matches were good, and you know, it was a bad 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:13.960 finish for the women's match. I mean, there was no 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.800 match as bad as the I don't want to say 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.720 the Jade Cargill match with a q A because you know, 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.560 I've I've talked about how green Jade is, but this 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.439 was not her fault at all on Dynamite Do you 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.440 hear me at all? How hard were Mark Sterling? And uh, 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.680 oh my god, Bryce Rimsberg, God bless this guy. He 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.240 should have got paid double. He's screaming spots at the 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.120 top of his lungs and I had some people going, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:40.720 why do you have to yell so loud, and I 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:43.640 was like, he should have yelled louder, because however loud 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:49.040 he was yelling, it wasn't working. Bad match, my goodness. Gracious. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.760 We'll talk more about the h the a double show 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.120 after the next break, but I also want to mention 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:58.680 Thursday morning, there was a hoax candidacy filing that led 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.320 to speculation that Tony Khan would be entering the political arena. 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:06.200 Jacksonville Today reported on a statement of candidacy file last 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:11.320 September claimed that Tony Kahn yes, that Tony Khan would 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.760 be running as a Democrat in the race to represent 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.639 Florida's fourth congressional district. The report was picked up by 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.720 Pro Football Talk, NFL networks, E and RAP reported more, 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:23.720 but it was soon pointed out that Khan was not 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:28.320 listed as an active candidate for congress. Tony Cohn tweeted, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:31.480 the fact checking standard for Pro Football Talk reporting is 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.440 far lower than that of a w's roving reporter, Tony, Oh, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.360 what a horrible thing to say about Tony Shivanni. I'm 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.600 definitely not running for congress, Tony Khan said. This filing 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.639 is faker than Eddie Gilbert's apology to Tommy Rich in 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:49.080 p f T sources as trustworthy as m JF so 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:53.680 he's not running for office. Good job, t K Stack money. 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.119 I appreciate that, Tommy rich Did you call him? T 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.680 K Stack money? Ain't gonna be paying you, brother, I 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.760 should know. Yeah, and well because all the money's obviously 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.640 going to you and Dave Um. Just something to point 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.800 out about the n x T rating two. I mean, 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.439 if you want to Brandon Thurston, looking at the numbers, 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:18.359 women eighteen to thirty four down nearly seventy five percent. 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:23.640 Seven thousand women on average watched seven thousand in the 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:29.080 United States of America. It's wild. It is absolutely wild. 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.320 And you know, more people are gonna listen to this 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.239 show than women watching n x T two point oh. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.960 On Sci Fi, dude, four hundred thousand people not aged 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.399 eighteen to forty nine. Three hundred and three thousand of 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:46.000 those people and probably not many of them were, you know, 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:51.960 between zero and seventeens. So it's just a it is 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:53.720 kind of wild to see it. But then again, I 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:56.600 mean on sci Fi, I don't know what their average is. 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.639 I mean, it's probably actually good. They'll spend this for 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:03.200 II Fi somehow, as it's actually been beneficial to them 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.720 to have this on there, and maybe that's the case, 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:08.399 but for n XD, I mean, these are terrible numbers. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.400 But I mean even like the Valentine's Day Show, so 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:14.359 they're there to create content and that's what they're doing, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:18.680 and I mean that's it. I just it's a it's 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.560 a hard show to watch and I'm not surprised at all. 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.320 And we'll see if it rebounds back when it hits USA. 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:26.879 I'm sure that it will, but like it feels like 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:30.280 a four hundred thousand view show every single week. I mean, 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:34.040 I'm baffled that that many, that six hundred thousand people 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:39.159 usually watch this show. I meantimes sometimes it's baffling to me. 0:20:39.200 --> 0:20:41.960 It really, it really really is. But if some people 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:46.520 like it, that's they're bad. Cool. It's just it's not easy. 0:20:46.640 --> 0:20:48.680 It really is not easy to get through. And that's 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:51.480 even with good things like the Creeds and you know, 0:20:51.680 --> 0:20:54.360 Chompa and Strong. I mean, they're it's not like they 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.960 don't have anything there, it's just how to utilize it. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:20:59.040 The show has hit and missed for me. I mean, 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.560 Vinny Vinnie got so mad last week he actually literally 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.719 took his headphones off and started banging his head on 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:07.560 the wood desk. I had to make it abundantly clear. 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.560 I did not book that because I was not worth 0:21:09.680 --> 0:21:12.760 ct deal with this lawsuit in a few years. But 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.879 ain't that bad? I mean last week's show. Last week 0:21:15.920 --> 0:21:18.239 show was pretty bad, but I was fine with this 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.520 week's show. There was an audience of people that grew 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.160 up with w w E and they want to watch 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.080 w w E. And bro, let me tell you something. 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:31.120 A lot of you are listening on the chat right now. 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.440 YouTube is apparently back up. You guys watch wrestling all 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:41.359 over the world. You watch a w New Japan Stardom, Noah, whatever, progress, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.760 whatever the whatever you watch, Bro, you watch all sorts 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:46.919 of wrestling. So you watch n NEX Team You're like, 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:51.439 what is this trash? Okay? But if you grew up 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:54.800 watching w w E and you made it, you made 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:59.000 it through the early nineties, God bless you, and you 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:01.760 enjoyed the attitude era and then you know it fell 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:05.480 off and you've kept watching and you've made it through 0:22:05.560 --> 0:22:10.159 to today. N x T is a fine show. That's it. 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:15.480 If that's your jam w w E style wrestling with 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:18.840 with colors and uh, you know, women that are still 0:22:18.880 --> 0:22:23.080 in the diva's era and big muscle men. You know 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:26.600 this is this is right up your alley. So I understand. 0:22:27.520 --> 0:22:30.080 I don't like it half the time, but I get it. 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:35.439 I understand why people watch this thing. You're getting what 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.200 you what you're expecting. That's what you get with n 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:39.880 x T two. Boy, I was a w W E fan, 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:44.520 pretty much what you're expecting. So there you go. I 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:49.360 can't wait till review it next week. My DVR doesn't, which, 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:51.919 by the way, again, this is it. Maybe it's an 0:22:51.920 --> 0:22:53.840 ex affinity thing. I'll be interested to see what the 0:22:53.960 --> 0:22:55.919 DVR numbers are going to be for all, because I 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.760 had to manually set that that did not automatically change over. 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:03.200 But every time they've done something with n x T, 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:07.320 my DVR picks it up. So I have no idea 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:09.600 why that was the case. But I'll say this too 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:13.840 about the no I definitely have sci fi. Believe me. 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.840