WEBVTT - AEW Winter/Kevin Owens/Tokyo Dome Wrestle Kingdom 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:09.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.640 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.200 here on Wrestling Ober Live. We're here every day Monday 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:22.599 to Friday, New Pacific, three sturn Sunday three Pacific, six Eastern. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.640 It is Wednesday on this program. You know that means 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:32.839 tonight a w Winter is coming. We have the lineup 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.320 for the show thus far, and at this point in 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:40.240 a two hour show, there's four matches. Are we gonna 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:44.920 be seeing some angles, some debuts? What will we see 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.199 tonight on Winter is Coming? We'll talk about that here 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.200 today on the program. And also i'll talk more about 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:56.760 this after the break. Kevin Owens has re signed with 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.080 w w E a multi year deal. We'll getting that 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.320 more in a moment, because I got a lot to 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.559 say about that. We got the raw ratings from Monday night. 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.480 It increased from record lows, but it was it almost 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:15.680 record lows. We've got the hourly numbers, which actually the 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.720 first two hours not bad. Third hour plunge as usual, 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.720 one point four seven million viewers in that third hour. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:28.200 We've got updates on Jeff Hardy, lots of news out 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:32.560 of New Japan. Tokyo Dome. Russell Kingdom is upcoming, and 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.760 so we've got some matches for that show. We have 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.000 got the winners of the Tag League tournament, we have 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.200 the winner of the UM, the other one hand Best 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.360 Super Juniors UM and of course we have got to 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:52.000 the return of Catsiori Shibada. So we're getting all of 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.680 that here today. Update for next week's at x T. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.160 I've only seen the opener on an x T two 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:00.480 point oh, so I can only talk about the Duke 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:05.280 Hudson match, the no holds barred match, which largely ones 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:07.320 I expected, but not quite. We'll talk to you about 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.160 that and plenty more if you'd like to contact us 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.040 here today. Four to five seven eight zero seven five 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.959 six six is the phone number. That is four to 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.920 five seven eight zero seven five six six. Brian at 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.799 Wrestling Observer dot com, at Brian Elberts on Twitter. Back 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:45.760 in up on with more Observer Live, back in the show. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.400 Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike sember Vid 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.560 also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Not to get into here 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.520 today if you want to Texas four to five seven 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:59.320 eight zero seven five six six. First story here. Kevin 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.639 Owen well not to be going anywhere anytime soon, as 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.639 the impending free agent has re signed with w w E. 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.760 This from Wrestling Observer dot com Fightful first report of 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:12.640 the news. Pat Laprade confirmed details are light, but Laprade 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:17.000 reported the deal is for multiple years. According to Laprade, 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:20.120 Owens will explain the rationale for his decision in a 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:24.840 podcast with Laprade that will drop Thursday. It was learned 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.680 in September that Owens was set to become a free 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.359 agent at the end of January thanks to a pre 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:35.320 pandemic restructuring of contracts. Thirty seven year old said in 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.600 a May interview with Laprade that he had inked a 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:43.160 five year deal that ran into twenty twenty three. At 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:47.000 one point in September, Owens had posted and then deleted 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.560 a tweet of coordinates to Mount Rushmore, which fans took 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.680 as a nod to a future in a e W 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:56.160 as the landmark shares the name of his former pwdch 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.680 faction with The Young Bucks and Adam Cole. He also 0:03:58.760 --> 0:04:03.080 changed his Twitter location to almost there. Owens been in 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:07.680 w w since starting an n X t etcetera, etcetera. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:14.080 So anyway, listen, I don't know what Johnny Gargano is 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:18.159 going to do, and I don't know what Kyle O'Reilly 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.799 is going to do. But when we were talking about 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.000 Johnny Gargano and Kylo Riley and I was talking about, 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.640 you know, potential ways that you could get Johnny Gargana 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.919 to stay in w w E, not the least of 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.000 which would be, you know, sticking around, not going on 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.800 the road, hanging around his newborn child, maybe having a 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.880 talent contract and a trainer's contract. And no matter what 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.000 I said, all I heard was, No, he's absolutely for 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.320 sure leaving. He's absolutely gonna leave. He's leaving for sure. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.520 And listen, he might leave. But when the Kevin Owens 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.920 story shows you here is I heard the same thing 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.720 about Kevin owns he's leaving for sure, he's going. There's 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.760 no chance he's staying. Well, he's staying because I know 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.280 that there's this idea on the internet and oh it's 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.560 horrible in w w E. Everyone hates the place. Everyone's 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.000 gonna be going a w if they've got any talent whatsoever. 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.280 There's gonna be people that are going to resign with 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:13.200 w w E. There are people who like it. There 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:15.000 there are people who are gonna be made good offers, 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.280 and they're gonna weigh it against everything else and they're 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:19.320 gonna decide that they want to stay with w w E. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.880 And Kevin Owens is staying, and perhaps Johnny Gargan who 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.640 is staying, and perhaps Kyle O'Riley is staying. And I 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.400 don't know this for sure, but wasn't Pete Dunn's deal 0:05:28.440 --> 0:05:32.120 up and he's he's still there, so it's possible he's resigned. 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.120 But I think this is a The moral of this 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.600 story is there are some people who, when they weigh 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.760 their options, are going to want to stay with w 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.120 w E. So that's it. That's all I got out 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.920 of this. I mean maybe there's more, but congratulations Kevin 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.560 Owens and now he'll be main eventing the show on 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:57.960 the first of January Day one. Good for him this year, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.240 happy for him, happy first Emily, happy that he's able 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.680 to sign this deal, that he's happy where he's at 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.400 and good And I don't think Kevin Owens is the 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.320 type of guy that is going to come out at 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:12.159 any point during however, the long this duration of this 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:16.000 contract is and complains about it. Maybe he does, but 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.880 he seems to be content with his choice and goods. 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.120 You know, I like you mentioned, you know, everybody's got 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.120 different goals, everybody's got different ideas, everybody's got different lives 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.960 to to worry about. And w w E he has 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:35.239 been very open about the fact that, much like Eddie Kingston, 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.440 you know, was he going to be able to carve 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.960 out a niche for his family in this business? Was 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.520 he going to be able to have enough money saved up? 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:45.000 Was this going to be what was going to provide 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.200 his family security? Could wrestling do that? And in w 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.160 w E he has been able to do that. And 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.400 you hear stories about Daniel Brian when people look at 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.760 his creative and go, oh my god, get that guy 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:57.920 out of there, and must have been miserable. It's terrible. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.360 They've misused him, They've done this, they've them that, And 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.839 you hear about how much he's got, how much respect 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.880 he has for Vince McMahon, how much he liked certain 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.640 aspects about being there. So you know, Kevin Owens the 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.320 same way, And much like I mentioned about Johnny Gargano 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:19.160 and Tomaso Chompa. Kevin Owens has been a Triple H guy, 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:22.280 you know, much like Samoa Joe was. You know, Kevin 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:24.920 Owens always had the support of Triple H. And for 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.400 those guys, you know, you don't know what their goals are. 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.200 Do they want to be again? You know? What are 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.080 his post wrestling goals? Is there something about w W 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.120 that he wants to stay there being agent, be a trainer, 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.880 being a a representative of the company. You just you 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.160 just don't know what it is. And I'd be fascinated 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.560 to find out later on down the road after this 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:48.400 contract is over, or maybe even before it's over, although 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.160 I don't think we'll get that what his mentality was 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.240 going into it and why he decided to make the 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.400 decision that he did when he has options available to him. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.040 That of course, obviously a lot of fans are probably 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.480 disappointed today that he didn't go and take Hey, listen 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.440 to everybody. I know that there have been a lot 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.360 of cuts. I know a lot of people have been fired. 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.320 I know everyone's heard about the talent budget that they have. 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.560 But at the end of the day, yeah they cut 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.600 a lot of people, Yeah they signed a lot of 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.440 people in twenty nineteen and then they cut them, but 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:20.800 I can I don't want to name anyone in particular, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:22.560 but if you look at the list of people that 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.880 were cut, I mean of them were hired not because 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.160 w w E wanted to do anything with them, but 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.040 because they didn't want anybody going anywhere else. And while 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.439 there is a budget, I mean, there's a very good 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.000 chance and they could have offered and I don't even 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.720 want to throw a number here because then somebody's gonna 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.640 report some stupid number on the internet as a fact. 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:41.960 But let's just put it this way. They could have 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:46.839 offered Kevin Owens a huge sum of money to stay 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.400 with w w E, and a W is not going 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.240 to match that, and so he stayed with w w E. 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:55.520 There are there are people, and actually most of them 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.720 have been fired, but I mean there are people that 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.560 were offered contracts with the w w E. The w 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.520 W he had no intention of ever doing anything with. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.240 Clearly they like Kevin Owens. Kevin Owens is one of 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.720 their best promos. Kevin Owens never gives and listen, I 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.280 mean I've seen some Kevin Owens matches where, in my opinion, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.880 if I were Kevin Owens I would have given and not. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:19.439 But the fact of the matter is he always gives on. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.079 So even though there is a talent budget, there will 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.800 be guys like Kevin Owens where their deal comes up 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.319 and they're gonna be offered a lot of money to stay. 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.240 And my guess is he was offered a lot of 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.480 money to stay despite this being an environment where a 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.960 lot of people are getting cut. Did you know that 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.400 Winner is coming is tonight? You know it's not gonna 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:47.360 be there, Kevin Owens. But Tony Con did an interview 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.560 the other day more new faces maybe on their way 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.880 to a w TV sooner than later, as company had, 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.839 Tony Con hinted, and an interview released Tuesday, which happens 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.600 to be the day before Winter Is Coming. He was 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.920 promoting Winter is Coming. He says, I'm more than aware 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.080 that there's a number of free agents out there, wrestlers 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.120 I admire to. But I gotta say that you just 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.600 have to keep watching over these next few weeks and 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.080 not just Winter is Coming. And of course he lists 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 off all of these other events that they've got coming up, 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.079 and I think, and this is speculation, but I mean 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.320 it's really not speculation to a degree. I mean they 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.280 shot an angle at the r O H pay per 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:30.000 view this weekend where FTR attacked the Briscos. I don't 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:32.880 know if the Briscos are showing up tonight, but you 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.920 know where Briscos and FCR is not going to be 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:38.160 taken place in a Ring of Honor, And I would 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.880 be surprised if they shot an angle of the Ring 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.079 of Honor pay per view to send f TR too, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.400 for example, impact to wrestle the Briscos. So I would 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.080 think that there's a very good chance that very very 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.560 soon you will see the Briscos in a w I 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.760 don't know if they're going to sign. I don't know 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.839 if this would be a a short term deal. I 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:00.280 don't know the situation would be. But I think that 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.600 you will be seeing them and uh and surely probably 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.320 others as well coming out of this this Final Battle 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.640 pay per view. So you don't think the first time 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.800 they touch will be for the Triple A Tag Team 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.319 titles in Monterey or something like that. I don't think 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.240 that's going to happen. I mean it could, but I 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:21.679 don't think it's as possible. I guess. Yeah, So Winner's 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.240 coming is tonight. We've got four matches, and this is 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.840 the key to me. The show is two hours long. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.920 Hangman Page and Brian Daniels is probably gonna be twenty minutes, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.280 m j F and Dante. I don't think it'll be 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:35.040 twenty minutes. Karasheet is Serena Deep and Wardlow and Matt 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:38.199 Side Out, which will not be twenty minutes, so they 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.679 have room for more matches to be added, more surprises 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.880 to be had. It is it is. I mean, clearly 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.600 this is supposed to be a giant show because you've 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.000 got a World Championship match with Danielson and Adam Page. 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.079 So I would be stunned if we didn't get a 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.800 surprise debut of some sort tonight on the show. But 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.000 how's it going to do? I still don't think it's 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.839 gonna break a million. I don't think there's gonna be 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:02.760 any shows breaking a million until the New year when 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.880 they moved to TBS and they're no longer live on 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.880 the West coast. We're talking probably about a quarter of 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.160 the country that if they want to watch this show, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.840 they have to watch it at five PM, so until 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:17.280 it's live or not live until it airs in prime 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:21.240 time on all coasts both of them in the middle 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.240 of the country everywhere. It's not gonna breaking, but I 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.440 could be wrong. I'll find out tomorrow. Back in the 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:40.960 moment you were live, God, alright, what's going on here? 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:45.640 You have been placed in time out by the owner 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.560 of this video or a monitor moderator. Who are you 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.920 talking about? I got banned from my own YouTube chat? 0:12:54.720 --> 0:13:03.199 What's happening here? How did I get banned from my 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:07.080 own chat? Riveting radio here? Well, I don't know who 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.079 this is? A moderator here? You're about to be out 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.959 of a job. Year that it was went a full 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:19.760 bobcat Albarez there. I can't even post anything. Who's the 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:24.040 moderator of the YouTube chat? Give me his name? John Madden? 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:29.160 Alperez Platter? Who did this? Good night? This is ridiculous. 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:35.160 I literally can't post anything here? Is that you? Yeah? 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.200 Who's the moderator here? Somebody somebody getting me this information now? 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.720 Brian Rose on the twitch chat? Who this is? Producer 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.400 Rob Levell? By the way, happy belated birthday on the air. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.120 All right, listen, bro, you got you got till the 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.120 next commercial to unbanned me from my own YouTube or 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:56.200 you're out of here. Brother, that you got it Google overlords. Yeah, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:14:00.160 boss man, who do you think I am? No, not 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.120 the Monica band myself. Wait a second, did you get 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:05.280 in a word from YouTube? For all those videos that 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:08.360 people be watching and whatnot? You should have special status here? 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.520 Isn't there a direct line for you and the president 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:14.120 of YouTube? Dude, someone's in trouble. All right, you got 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.160 you got ten minutes left and then it's all done. 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.280 I'll shut that whole YouTube thing down right now. Raw 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:24.280 Monday down in total viewers, show increase from the record lows, 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.320 it had said in eighteen eighteen to thirty four and 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.480 with teenagers the previous week was still the second lowest 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.680 rating in eighteen forty nine and with teenagers in the 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.960 history of the show. Raw finished sixth on cable eighteen 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:42.000 forty nine, seventeenth and total viewers. So once again for 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:45.280 all of you nerds to get angry that we talked 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.040 about when a W does well at the top ten, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.280 if you want to rank only by viewers, that's all right, 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.400 but ras down to seventeenth place if you do it 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:58.440 that way, tenth in women eighteen to forty nine six 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.240 and eighteen and forty nine, it said, or etcetera show 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.200 down two percent in viewers. So they did the out. 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:06.440 He did the storyline that lastly had to wrestled three 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.520 times and he had to beat all three men in 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:13.920 order to get into the championship match at Day one, 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:18.480 and it did in the first two hours, and it 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.880 was funny because I think when when Dave was talking 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:22.760 about this, he noted that it held up fine because 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.800 of that storyline, but I actually don't think that happened, 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.960 because the first hour did one point six too, and 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.000 the second hour did one point six three. Okay, so 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.920 you know that's good and all, but the whole point 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.560 of the story was he had to beat all three, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.560 so he beat two, and then in the third hour 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:41.800 when he had to beat the third guy, it fell 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:45.920 to one point four seven million viewers. That's a big drop. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.240 So that tells me that they actually didn't care that much, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.640 or they just presumed, well, obviously he's gonna do it, 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.240 or they were sick of seeing him because, you know, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.600 dating all the way back to World Championship Wrestling, whenever 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:58.680 he had a guy on the show wrestling more than once, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.880 I mean, no one tuned in the second time. The 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:03.880 first time did well, but then everyone was like, well 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.680 we saw the guy and wrestling twice on one show. 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:08.800 It's we have with Steve Auston. Of all people, you 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:11.400 put Steve Auston in early in the show, and then 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.880 you put him on later in the show, and you 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.240 know people have seen it. So one point four seven million, 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:23.760 third hour and that's the story of Monday Night Rob 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.720 this week. Nothing all that special to talk about, really, 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.720 well those theories, you know, the one that makes the 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:31.960 most sense to me is people knew what was going 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:35.360 to happen. You know, it got to be close. I'm 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:38.520 not sure what time halftime was that Cardinals Rams game, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.120 but it was a really tight, close game between two rivals, 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.400 and one of which in the second biggest city in 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.760 the country, so you know they're gonna be doing great 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:51.080 ratings there. Whether it be in prime time or out 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.920 of prime time doesn't matter when it comes to the NFL. So, 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:56.600 you know, I think that's what it was, because I 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.160 don't think there was anybody that watched the beginning of that, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.800 certainly after seeing the first match with Kevin Owens, that thought, Okay, 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.840 Bobby Lashly ain't getting into this thing. I mean, you know, 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.120 I think everybody knew better. By the way, I'm still 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:12.480 not reinstated on my own YouTube channel. So we're we're 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:18.200 the countdowns on seven minutes left. It's gonna be it's 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:21.840 gonna be bad times for somebody here. See what else, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.760 We got a lot of Japanese news. So we had 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.639 Romu Takashi winning Best of the Super Juniors for the 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:35.119 third time. He defeated Yo in thirty eight minutes and 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.360 thirty seconds in the tournament finals at Sumo Hall, second 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.400 consecutive Best of the Sunior super Juniors and the third 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:46.399 in four years. And so it'll likely be Haromu and 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:51.560 Desperado for the title Russell Kingdom sixteen. You know, I've 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.160 I've noticed that sometimes with the New Japan and actually, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.720 you know, Haromo winning for the third time in four years. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.920 But then we go the other way and the finals 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.280 of the World Tag League, of all of the teams 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.960 to be in the finals, Got and Yoshi Hashi versus 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.879 Evil and Udro was the finals and uh got and 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:15.159 Yoshi Hashi won, And so I'm sure they're getting a 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.879 take team championship match at Wressell Kingdom Saber Junior and 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.880 tight Year the champions Saber junior, by the way, not 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:30.679 best technical wrestler in the Tokyo Sports Awards anyway. Well 0:18:30.720 --> 0:18:33.320 as I love Haromo and all, and I know that 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.760 you're trying to sell three straight Wrestle Kingdom shows, and 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:40.000 I know that you need the bigger marquee matches, But 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.600 when I saw that Horomo one for the third time 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.600 in four years, it's kind of like, is it isn't 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:49.359 it time to maybe make some new championship caliber bigs? 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.320 Why Why couldn't show have won? This show is awesome? Like, 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.640 I don't know, whatever doesn't matter. Not this year. They 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.520 need Horomo. They need as much star power as they 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:01.840 can get. And I if it wasn't Herrome who I 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.760 could understand it. But he's been injured. There's been enough 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.400 strife with him where him coming back and winning this 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.480 thing actually makes sense. And it may be this the 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.240 easiest thing to do, mayven the simplest thing to do, 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.520 but I think in this case it was absolutely the 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.400 right thing to do. I look forward to Robbie Eagles 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.280 and l Phantasmo and other people winning this award show 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.920 Yo down the line. You know they've got a generational 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:31.360 feud that's going to be rolling on here for quite 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:34.240 some time, I would assume. So there's a lot of guys, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:37.280 especially as the pandemic ends and things start to open up. 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:40.159 God knows if that ever happens in Japan, but you know, 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:41.960 when that does happen, there's gonna be a lot of 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:45.520 names there. And who knows what Herome Moos status is 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:50.400 going to be, because again, if this pandemic doesn't go anywhere, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.880 his spot, and really even if it does go somewhere, 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:57.360 his spots in the heavyweight ranks. I don't know when 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.920 that's going to be, but he's going to be a 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.280 heavy wait at some point there, and I think it's 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.639 sooner rather than later. So this doesn't really bother me 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:10.760 at all. So I've been reinstated so life can continue on. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.000 I still haven't found out who's responsible yet, but I'm 0:20:14.040 --> 0:20:17.840 doing some investigations here as you talked about whatever you 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:20.000 were talking about, but there was other big news. Yeah. 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:22.040 I love it how you all the things you lead 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.560 with you don't leave with catsi Uri Shabata coming back. 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.560 It's this deal about, you know, an extra grind with 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:32.320 Romo and the Juniors. Actually began the show thirty three 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.240 minutes ago, talking about Kevin Owens resigning with DEVI w E. 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:37.840 But dude, we knew Shabata was coming back anyway, Like, 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.320 who didn't know that he came back and he said 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:43.119 I'm coming back, and we got three nights of the 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.280 Tokyo Dome. Didn't wanna think he's gonna go. Yeah, I'm 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:47.560 gonna come back, but I'm gonna wait till the Tokyo 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:52.000 domes over. I'm gonna come back on a small show somewhere. Yes, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.720 Shabata is coming back January four in the Tokyo Dome. 0:20:56.440 --> 0:21:01.439 No opponent has been announced. Maybe it'll be oh. His 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:03.640 announcement was one of the selling points of today's event. 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.600 He kept it short and sweet, fighting back too years. 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.720 He simply stated he will have a match on January four. 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.560 Where's Filthy? I think he should be wrestling Filthy Tom 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:16.119 lawlerd the Tokyo Do be interesting to see what the 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.360 rule set is. You know, he's talked about he has 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.520 talked about on New Japan's website. There's been an interview 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:24.960 with him that has gone into some detail about some 0:21:25.000 --> 0:21:26.920 of his thoughts about New Japan, and we talked about 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:29.320 on the last Advo and Mike Show. Where yes, some 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.040 of it is shrouded in Cafevee when he speaks, but 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.000 you can see, you know, much like the Tomahashi interviews 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.160 and other things they've done there, you know, some some 0:21:38.280 --> 0:21:40.760 reality into what he says. He kind of have to 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:42.720 read but three between the lines a little bit. But 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:46.040 he's talked about his head being fully completely healed. He 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:50.119 can take some punishment to the head in theory, at least, 0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:52.240 you know his head is is strong enough for that. 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:56.200 In theory. What happens when he goes out there in 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:58.360 the ring, we'll have to see. The match with zax 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:02.080 aberd Jr. Was a grappling match. Do they have modified rules? 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.359 I would assume that they do for whatever this match 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.480 is going to be, but you never know. I'm not sure, 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.040 And I know kentis tied up right now, and I 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:14.920 have one match against Tanahashi right at least. So he's 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:17.240