Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.
Speaker 1: Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth eastern. Well, it's Tuesday here on the show, and
Speaker 1: you know what that means. We got a lot to
Speaker 1: get into here today, and uh, that includes the Monday
Speaker 1: night Raw show that aired last night. I told you
Speaker 1: guys yesterday the segment with the Ark Bro and alph
Speaker 1: Academy what they call it, the Academic Challenge. I told
Speaker 1: you guys yesterday I was gonna be awesome, and in
Speaker 1: fact it, uh, it was quite awesome. So it's besting
Speaker 1: on the show that in the Randy Orton versus Otis match.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about both of those things here
Speaker 1: tonight on the show this afternoon. And in addition to that,
Speaker 1: a lot of other news we've got n XT coming
Speaker 1: up tonight. We got the Wrestle Media thirty eight schedule,
Speaker 1: which you talked about yesterday. But I have more to
Speaker 1: say about that. Because there's been a there's news on
Speaker 1: that coming out of w w E, which is actually
Speaker 1: gonna be the top story today. I'll explain why here
Speaker 1: in a while. Brian Kendrick has requested his release from
Speaker 1: w w E. Add him to the list. We got
Speaker 1: the SmackDown ratings, we got the Rampage ratings, Triple A
Speaker 1: doing multiple Triple Menia events coming up this year, and
Speaker 1: we've also got his noted raw and SmackDown. Actually, we
Speaker 1: have the SmackDown in Rampage ratings. We're talking about those,
Speaker 1: and also the raw report for for last night. So
Speaker 1: a lot to get into here today for those that
Speaker 1: have asked, I believe I don't know this for sure
Speaker 1: because you never know what might happen, but I think
Speaker 1: we're actually going to be doing the prediction and show
Speaker 1: on Friday, So if you've been waiting to participate in that,
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be Friday. So I'll give
Speaker 1: it the details on that here coming up pretty soon,
Speaker 1: but we'll go over the predictions from last year. Who
Speaker 1: was a prognosticator, who was a fool, awarded me My
Speaker 1: Prize and so much more so. Anyway, rest of the
Speaker 1: show coming up after the break Stick Around Observer Live, Man,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much I made it back on time.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, we're live. Sorry about the opening segment. Have
Speaker 1: you ever had one of those days? I started talking
Speaker 1: to the mike and there was no level on it,
Speaker 1: and then I, uh, I started trying to do the
Speaker 1: whole open of the show. We'll try to figure out
Speaker 1: why I had no audio. So if you heard the
Speaker 1: opening segment, you're like, what's this guy babbling about? Like
Speaker 1: can't he get a sentence out? I was trying to
Speaker 1: do two things at the same time, fix something, and
Speaker 1: got back here, and I don't know what the heck
Speaker 1: the problem is with that thing over there. Who's the
Speaker 1: engineer over there? You know it is to be the
Speaker 1: engineer around the host at the same time. Holy smokes.
Speaker 1: I know a producer who's just sitting there, who could
Speaker 1: you know, use some work right now? Who whose name
Speaker 1: is Rob Bro? If Robert the producer, there'd be no audio.
Speaker 1: That's not on Twitter. I go, I told you so,
Speaker 1: and then Rob tweeted, he goes, would you tell me?
Speaker 1: And boy had a thousand things. I didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: How about show up for class being number one of them? Well, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's up there. Hey, listen, I gotta talk about the
Speaker 1: top story today. Why is this the top story? I
Speaker 1: gotta have something to complain about. And when I heard
Speaker 1: this brow I mean this one. I'll just read this, okay.
Speaker 1: This year's schedule for WrestleMania thirty eight week continues to
Speaker 1: take shape, with p W Insider reporting a discussed change
Speaker 1: regarding n x T that would have seemed unfathomable just
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Well, whoever wrote this article on
Speaker 1: the front page is unfathomable. Now forget a few years ago.
Speaker 1: The website said that while this is still preliminary in
Speaker 1: the planning this year's n x T Stand and Deliver,
Speaker 1: it's currently planned for Saturday, April two, on the first
Speaker 1: night of WrestleMania thirty eight. While the venue is yet
Speaker 1: to be determined, the idea is the show would be
Speaker 1: a matinee running from noon to three. If that happens,
Speaker 1: it would be the first time since n x T
Speaker 1: began running events during WrestleMania weekend that one of its
Speaker 1: centerpiece shows wouldn't have its own night. P w i
Speaker 1: Insider also reported the preliminary land is there the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famos ceremony and Freya, who cares about that? All right? Listen,
Speaker 1: matters a little bit. List hold on a second, bro Okay, listen.
Speaker 1: I never worked for Vince McMahon, but I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people who have worked for Vince McMahon, okay,
Speaker 1: and they all say the same thing, and that is
Speaker 1: that when you work for Vince McMahon, this guy is
Speaker 1: out of his mind. Okay. I saw the other day
Speaker 1: there was an article. I can't remember where it was,
Speaker 1: but you know, the headline was, w E is Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon still exercises at seventy six at three am? Apparently
Speaker 1: it's a news story. But the point of this is
Speaker 1: this guy. It's like, you know, let's see like collapses
Speaker 1: and naps or whatever. I mean, it's seven for this guy,
Speaker 1: and so when you work for him, you know expected
Speaker 1: to seven for you. If he calls at four am,
Speaker 1: you better be ready to take the call. It's like,
Speaker 1: this guy lives breathes the total w W E bubble.
Speaker 1: All right. When you live and work work in a bubble,
Speaker 1: I've heard what happens is you believe that everybody else
Speaker 1: lives and works in your bubble. So if you're if
Speaker 1: you're Vince, you know you've got this idea that well,
Speaker 1: you know, underesting for living and everybody, Bro, nobody wants
Speaker 1: to watch. Nobody wants to watch w w E for
Speaker 1: nine hours on his Saturday. Okay, maybe Vince does. Maybe
Speaker 1: his uh you know, his right hand man are like, yeah,
Speaker 1: great idea of Vince. You know, maybe there's some real
Speaker 1: hardcore stand up for w w E blokes that just
Speaker 1: can't wait to watch from noon to ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1: But bro, here's the deal. You can do whatever you want. Okay,
Speaker 1: but this is not the real world. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you about the real world. Okay. So every year we
Speaker 1: do a Royal Rumble post show and my buddy Mark
Speaker 1: joins us on the show. It's Brian, Vinny, Craig and Mark. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if he's heard the Sunday Brian
Speaker 1: and Vinney Show. But the show starts and I explained
Speaker 1: everybody that, well, we're gonna do our normal show this week,
Speaker 1: but next week things are going to be different because
Speaker 1: this Saturday is the Royal Rumble. Vinny then had a
Speaker 1: nuclear meltdown because life and double booked him. He couldn't
Speaker 1: do Saturday, and so then none of you were privy
Speaker 1: to this where there was a text chain with myself
Speaker 1: and Vinnie and Craig, and Craig's like, bro, do we
Speaker 1: have to do Saturday? Why do we have to do Saturday.
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, dude, Saturday we go right after the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. We're gonna have multiple more viewers and listeners
Speaker 1: than if we go on Sunday. Vinny can't go on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Craig would rather go on Sunday. I talked to Mark.
Speaker 1: Mark don't even know it's on Saturday anyway. Long story short,
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble post show is not gonna be a
Speaker 1: post show this Saturday. It's gonna be a post show
Speaker 1: on Sunday. Craig is like, dude, why are these shows
Speaker 1: on Saturday? Like, I got friends, I want to go
Speaker 1: do things on Saturday night. Now I gotta eight times
Speaker 1: this year. I gotta sit on a Saturday night and
Speaker 1: watch a w w E show and then do a
Speaker 1: post show. And it's like, yeah, that they've decided. Listen
Speaker 1: if you like it, that's fine, but it is horribly
Speaker 1: inconvenient to have these pay per views on a Saturday night.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, you want to go to someone on Saturday, wife, Oh,
Speaker 1: I gotta be back at three thirty because there's a
Speaker 1: w w E pay per view on Saturday night. Now,
Speaker 1: now some of you go, oh, well, you know UFC
Speaker 1: run Saturday night. You're right, it does run Saturday night.
Speaker 1: And you know what if I host a pay per
Speaker 1: view party on my house for UFC and Saturday Night,
Speaker 1: I got a dozen people that will come over, lickety split,
Speaker 1: I say, I gotta have a Royal Rumble party. Royal Rumble.
Speaker 1: I might get a couple of people. But what's the
Speaker 1: next pay per view? Elimination Chamber. I go, I'm watching
Speaker 1: Elimination Chamber live on Saturday night. You know, may people
Speaker 1: are gonna come over to the house to watch it. None. Okay,
Speaker 1: UFC and w w E are not the same thing
Speaker 1: in terms of gathering your crowd on Saturday night. Elimination
Speaker 1: Chambers on Saturday. All my buddies are gonna go out
Speaker 1: on Saturday night. They're not gonna come over to watch
Speaker 1: a pay per view. So now the idea is, well,
Speaker 1: Saturday night, April whatever. You know, if you had planned
Speaker 1: Saturday night, you want to watch wrestling, like you know,
Speaker 1: cancel your plans because WrestleMania is on Saturday and Sunday.
Speaker 1: But now they think that you are gonna sit down
Speaker 1: at Nude on a Saturday to watch an n x
Speaker 1: T take Over two point oh show and then you know,
Speaker 1: get some need or whatever, then come back for a
Speaker 1: two hour pre show and then a four hour main
Speaker 1: show for wrestle Media. Bro this idea horrible. I hate
Speaker 1: this idea. Ah got out of my system. How much
Speaker 1: time I got left? And just go go through the
Speaker 1: break while you're at it. Look I usually do, Um,
Speaker 1: I can't our first world problems. You're exactly right. They
Speaker 1: have all the right in the world to change it
Speaker 1: to whatever day they want. There's always been boxing and
Speaker 1: wrestling or different things on Saturdays. Of course, their events,
Speaker 1: you know, events to get people to come over. The
Speaker 1: problem with everything with WW right now, except for WrestleMania
Speaker 1: in the name, what else is really gonna be drawing
Speaker 1: people to come over your house and hang out and
Speaker 1: watch it and make it like that big event that
Speaker 1: Saturday night usually is that aside and our frustrations with
Speaker 1: our schedules and that stuff. Aside n XD stand and
Speaker 1: Deliver being on on a Saturday during the day would
Speaker 1: have meant something when it was strong. Now it would
Speaker 1: have been predatory. You w W would look at this
Speaker 1: as retaliation. Well, it's our weekend. Everybody's invaded it now
Speaker 1: for their collectives and they're this, and they're that, and
Speaker 1: their i WTV and their Fight TV stuff, all this
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. It's our weekend, and this is what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're putting the Hall of Him on Friday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna load up Friday with stuff. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: n XT Saturday during the day with a huge card
Speaker 1: with guys like Adam Cole and Roderick Strong and these
Speaker 1: big things we've been building to blowing up. And you
Speaker 1: know what, Yeah, you may not like it as a fan,
Speaker 1: but it's our weekend. We're gonna show it off and
Speaker 1: then you have WrestleMania that night. It's still not a
Speaker 1: great idea, and it's still asking fans to really who
Speaker 1: do want to do other things that weekend? Who do
Speaker 1: want to see other shows? You know, it does limit
Speaker 1: them to your product, and they may not like that,
Speaker 1: but at least when the product was strong, you can
Speaker 1: make the case for it. Now and I hate to
Speaker 1: say this, And I don't mean to demean anybody personally
Speaker 1: in n x T. It's just like one of those
Speaker 1: other indie shows during the week when there's like seven
Speaker 1: of them going on, and you go, do you want
Speaker 1: to see this young guy Tony D'Angelo, you know, he
Speaker 1: just started his career. You want to see these new
Speaker 1: guys to Creed Brothers, Like, I hate to say it,
Speaker 1: like this replaces the Evolved show during the day for me,
Speaker 1: unless they're gonna do some thing incredible like it's to
Speaker 1: me twelve noon to three pm, Brian in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, and I know you have attached your wagon
Speaker 1: to this and feeling though you have to review this
Speaker 1: show and you have to keep up with it and
Speaker 1: you have to watch this. I mean, I hate to
Speaker 1: say it. I think to a lot of other people,
Speaker 1: this is just now another indie show in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways on the weekend, I don't have to watch
Speaker 1: affiliated wrestling and something. And that's the thing. And I
Speaker 1: don't think they are and I think they actually do
Speaker 1: a lot of damage to themselves this way. If you
Speaker 1: think I'm crying about this, I'm asking about everybody else
Speaker 1: who is gonna watch two of these shows back to back.
Speaker 1: I put a poll up on my Twitter at Brian Alvarez.
Speaker 1: Go up there and vote how many people are watching
Speaker 1: NXC Standing Deliver and then sticking around for WrestleMania both
Speaker 1: on the same Saturday afternoon back in a moment, it's
Speaker 1: ever live, all right, now, I got two poles. You
Speaker 1: ever met a man had two poles? While you're looking
Speaker 1: at one right now? The first pole on my Twitter
Speaker 1: at Arez, who is gonna watch n XC Standing Deliver
Speaker 1: as a Saturday afternoon matinee and then watch the first
Speaker 1: night of WrestleMania immediately after? Oh, it's not immediately after
Speaker 1: Everyone says whatever, close enough, it's close enough, eight percent
Speaker 1: saying not me, nineteen point six percent saying me. And
Speaker 1: of course you have the blokes on the comments. Well,
Speaker 1: real wrestling fans will bro. I am a real wrestling fan.
Speaker 1: I'm the only one. I'm literally the only one with
Speaker 1: any association of Wrestling Observer Live, including the listeners that
Speaker 1: actually will watch n x T two point oh and
Speaker 1: would like to watch Stand and Deliver. But no, I'm
Speaker 1: not spending bro. Listen, when you when you don't have
Speaker 1: a life, you only have a job. Okay, like Vince.
Speaker 1: Then then that's it. But you know what, a lot
Speaker 1: of people have a life, and no, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: take a day a Saturday and go wife and two
Speaker 1: young children. Sorry, i can't go anywhere and do anything
Speaker 1: with you this Saturday because I'm gonna start watching wrestling
Speaker 1: at nine am and I'm gonna watch it until you know,
Speaker 1: ten pm. So I can't put the babes too bad,
Speaker 1: I can't go nothing. I'm not gonna No, I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that, and I'm not. The point is I'm not
Speaker 1: the only one. That's my point. I'm not the only
Speaker 1: one who's like, what are we talking about here? But
Speaker 1: we have lives, do you understand? I need you to
Speaker 1: look at this from a different perspective, though now you're
Speaker 1: still gonna come up with the same you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna end up in the same place. But still you
Speaker 1: have to look at this from the aspect of wrestling
Speaker 1: fans who are going to be going there, who are
Speaker 1: going to be in the mix down there, who were
Speaker 1: going to want to see all these shows, the types
Speaker 1: of wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, after
Speaker 1: going to bed at four o'clock in the morning, after
Speaker 1: seeing all these shows that take place beginning on Thursday,
Speaker 1: WrestleMania weekend. Okay, for those people, the question is, say,
Speaker 1: I know F Thee's big gay Brunch is usually Sunday,
Speaker 1: but let's say that Saturday. Okay, let's say Beyond has
Speaker 1: got a really amped up show where whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: you got all this stuff going on with all these
Speaker 1: big names that that are all over the place, all
Speaker 1: the legendary names that are all over the place. To me,
Speaker 1: forget about you know, it's screwing up your schedule and
Speaker 1: wanting to do things as a home viewer, and I
Speaker 1: know most of the people watching will be doing that.
Speaker 1: To me, this is all about that day. And I
Speaker 1: know n x T is gonna have its fans, but
Speaker 1: you're telling me, look at these shows. Will Osprey and
Speaker 1: Nick Wayne is obviously going to be a Joey Janelli's
Speaker 1: you know, spring break main event at night, but let's
Speaker 1: just say they have a spot during the day and
Speaker 1: that's when they're gonna do that match. It will be
Speaker 1: for some bizarre reason on a Jersey Championship Wrestling show
Speaker 1: that they happen to be running that weekend down there
Speaker 1: with everybody else. That's where n x D has got
Speaker 1: its biggest problems. That's where the attention is pulled away.
Speaker 1: That's where who do you want to see? You want
Speaker 1: to see j White or do you want to see
Speaker 1: lash Legend? You know what I'm saying like this? You
Speaker 1: know you're exactly right with what you're saying, because I'm
Speaker 1: not waking up and and wanting to see where this
Speaker 1: product has gone. I'm not doing that from noon to
Speaker 1: three and then watching Rustlemania at night, especially when I
Speaker 1: have to watch Rustlemania that night. I don't have to
Speaker 1: watch n x T. I can find out if it
Speaker 1: was any good. I can hear if it was any
Speaker 1: good and catch the highlights and care about that. To me,
Speaker 1: the damage that's being done to n x T is
Speaker 1: how many people Unless you load this up all of
Speaker 1: a sudden with like brock Lessner showing up at the
Speaker 1: n x T show, That's where the problem is. Like
Speaker 1: that live show and with all the buzz that's going
Speaker 1: on down there. Man, if there's three shows taking place
Speaker 1: at noon, that could very well it will easily be
Speaker 1: the third one that nobody cares about. You know, the
Speaker 1: long as the show goes, the more I calm down
Speaker 1: and I actually don't care because I ain't gonna watch it.
Speaker 1: Good good, Bro, I can't like this. This is not
Speaker 1: one where oh I don't have time on Tuesday to
Speaker 1: watch n x T TV show. Of course I have
Speaker 1: time on Tuesday night to watch the n XT TV show.
Speaker 1: But Bro, I'm not spending all day Saturday sitting on
Speaker 1: my couch. Now. If I went to wherever the where's
Speaker 1: it at Texas this year? Wherever it's ad Alice. If
Speaker 1: I actually went to Dallas and it was like Effie's
Speaker 1: Big Gay Brunch, and then n x T and then
Speaker 1: you know, some other show, and then I hit every
Speaker 1: single one of them if I could. But I'm not
Speaker 1: sitting on my couch on a Saturday and swatching wrestling
Speaker 1: for ten hours. Okay, I'd be absorbed into the couch.
Speaker 1: You're here by those people that like they're on the
Speaker 1: couch for so longer their their skin gets absorbed into
Speaker 1: the couch. I'm not making it up. I'm not doing
Speaker 1: this shows now. I will say. I will say of
Speaker 1: the house I am. I am surprised the results of
Speaker 1: my second poll. I I I better night for w
Speaker 1: w E pay per views. Seventent are voting for Saturday
Speaker 1: and are voting for Sunday. Now, it's possible that a
Speaker 1: contingent of folks from overseas invaded my poll and they're
Speaker 1: all voting for Saturday because they don't like to stay
Speaker 1: until five am on on Monday morning. But right now, uh,
Speaker 1: the the poll results show that Saturday is the preferred
Speaker 1: day for these uh, these w W pay per views,
Speaker 1: which tells me that I may have a lot of
Speaker 1: Twitter followers with no friends or family, or maybe they
Speaker 1: just like doing stuff on Saturdays. Man, maybe maybe they
Speaker 1: want to do something on Saturdays and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: sit at home and watch a pay per view, that's
Speaker 1: the point. No, Well, look, some people, you're just killing
Speaker 1: this Saturday thing because it doesn't fit into your schedule.
Speaker 1: And I understand that, but still, and my my point,
Speaker 1: Mike is, yes, it doesn't fit into my schedule, Okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying, hold on, I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how it fits into other people's schedules. Like you don't
Speaker 1: do anything on Saturday, Like Saturday nights, I was like,
Speaker 1: I got nothing to do, I'll just watch a pay
Speaker 1: per view. Like you don't have any friends that are like, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead to eat or let's go whatever on Saturday.
Speaker 1: You don't have any friends to do that. That's actually
Speaker 1: my question. But I don't feel like I'm the only
Speaker 1: one here. I understand that. But you act as if
Speaker 1: though everybody's got the same sketch, set schedule all the time. Okay.
Speaker 1: I live in essentially a resort area. Okay, basically down
Speaker 1: at the beach. There's a lot of random times where
Speaker 1: you know, you go in and you'll work Sunday through Thursday,
Speaker 1: and maybe you get Friday and Saturday. Often you've already
Speaker 1: gone out on Friday, so Saturdays like your Sunday night.
Speaker 1: Everybody's situation is different. I think the question is more
Speaker 1: we should be having. Is this because of traditional wrestling
Speaker 1: used to be on Monday's. Boxing pay per views used
Speaker 1: to be on Monday nights because they wanted to take
Speaker 1: advantage of Las Vegas and people traveling there, and they
Speaker 1: come in after work on Friday and they have Saturday
Speaker 1: Sunday and they would have the big event on Monday.
Speaker 1: That's when people look back like, well, the Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: was on Monday night. Yes, that's when they would do things.
Speaker 1: The times and things have shifted, and yes, Sunday became
Speaker 1: the night for pro wrestling. Absolutely, boxing in the UFC
Speaker 1: became Saturday night things. They tried them on Friday nights.
Speaker 1: Boxing tried on Friday night, it just didn't work. Saturday
Speaker 1: became that night. I think it's do you do yourself damage? Overall?
Speaker 1: I think that's the better question. Is forget about the
Speaker 1: fact that people will find your event if it's big enough.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing. If if they had something going on,
Speaker 1: if there was something really strong, okay, that would make
Speaker 1: more sense to have more events on Saturday. Okay. Did
Speaker 1: this have anything to do with the fact that football
Speaker 1: season got extended out in the a f C, n
Speaker 1: NFC title games, which, if if the games go as
Speaker 1: they did last week, w W would have been buried
Speaker 1: even more underground with trying to grab some attention for
Speaker 1: their pay per view that was taking place that night.
Speaker 1: I I don't I don't know, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I think to put it on people and go, well,
Speaker 1: you know, does this fit you? Does this fit your schedule?
Speaker 1: You know, to to some of the people listening right now,
Speaker 1: maybe not. But I think when you look overall, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's I don't know if that's exactly the
Speaker 1: question we need to be asking here, because I think
Speaker 1: for a lot of people they go, yeah, I finally
Speaker 1: get off on Saturday night, I'll go do this and
Speaker 1: I don't go out. And again, everybody's lives are different.
Speaker 1: It's got family obligations and everything else. Because a lot
Speaker 1: of your problems with a lot of this stuff come
Speaker 1: down to the fact that you've got to deal with
Speaker 1: family stuff. Ever since they started putting Rustlemania back at
Speaker 1: the start time of what one thirty in the afternoon
Speaker 1: or eleven thirty in the morning, with the hell time
Speaker 1: they started with about Samania, you started hating this because
Speaker 1: you've got children's No, it's not I got to deal
Speaker 1: with family stuff. It's I want to deal with family stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I just want to go on the ferry
Speaker 1: of the Islands. Sorry we can't. I'd like to do
Speaker 1: family stuff right now. But I'm working my job, okay,
Speaker 1: and that's what I gotta do. Work week Saturday night, you, hey,
Speaker 1: do business doesn't get you know how you enjoy your
Speaker 1: Saturday night, Brian, Going out and doing these things with
Speaker 1: your family and your friends is because somebody else is
Speaker 1: working serving you trying to put out this stuff. So hey, look,
Speaker 1: people work on Saturday's. Okay. People actually have to serve
Speaker 1: people like you. It's not all about you and your schedule, Brian,
Speaker 1: Look look at these. Look at these for saying get
Speaker 1: out of the bubble. I'm in the bubble because I
Speaker 1: want to do something on a Saturday night like the
Speaker 1: rest of them. Is literally what we've come to. People
Speaker 1: wanted to do stuff on Sunday. What if people want
Speaker 1: to do stuff on Sunday? And now these people are
Speaker 1: rejoicing over this. You want me to do a poll,
Speaker 1: what day do you do more social activities? On Saturday
Speaker 1: or a Sunday? You better be careful, I will, like
Speaker 1: weld on, you better be careful about asking that with
Speaker 1: social activity when that's a day that a lot of
Speaker 1: people will make sure that they're not working and actually
Speaker 1: do social activity during the day. Okay. Now, a couple
Speaker 1: of people have noted that having to stay until midnight
Speaker 1: is harder on a Sunday because there's work the next
Speaker 1: day than is Saturday. Okay, that's fine, because I do
Speaker 1: live on the West Coast. I do live on the
Speaker 1: West Coast, but you know, you know, to solve this problem,
Speaker 1: have pay per views go from you know, till eleven
Speaker 1: like they used to. Right, do they need to go
Speaker 1: four and a half hours and go to midnight or later?
Speaker 1: I mean ask the question for you. No, they don't.
Speaker 1: Three hours is more than enough time. Wasn't the old
Speaker 1: deal that, oh, WrestleMania is too long one day, so
Speaker 1: we'll do two shorter days. Now we're just gonna do
Speaker 1: two four and a half hour days. So now the
Speaker 1: show's nine hours, Why don't we just do two six
Speaker 1: hour days while we're at it, because apparently nobody has
Speaker 1: a life. Just keep running them shows all night. You
Speaker 1: know they should do us really stupid twenty four hours
Speaker 1: of WrestleMania, twenty four hours of WrestleMania. Dude, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a twenty four hour raw before that happens, doesn't
Speaker 1: bottom out in the ratings. Did you just pretend to
Speaker 1: cry that you watch n x T, because in fact,
Speaker 1: that is your gimmick. So I don't know who you're
Speaker 1: making fun of except for yourself what I'm making fun
Speaker 1: of you, and I don't even have to make fun
Speaker 1: of yourself to everybody again. Albarez localized problems hyperlocalized issues
Speaker 1: with Brian. It's the first world problem that I want
Speaker 1: to do something on a Saturday night. Yeah, yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: do that in the third world country. The second tough guy.
Speaker 1: When you used to have to watch UFC s you
Speaker 1: weren't you know, did you went out on Sunday or
Speaker 1: you did it on another day? Sorry? Brother, some people
Speaker 1: actually have to work. I get what you're saying, but
Speaker 1: you're taking it to an extreme as if this is
Speaker 1: all about you, Brian albrezz It's not all of out you.
Speaker 1: I'm not the one who's not reviewing an XT brother
Speaker 1: in the show Bright Now were is here Wrestling Observer
Speaker 1: Live like simper viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Love
Speaker 1: what Mike pretends to be a man of the people.
Speaker 1: I fight for the working man. So I sit here
Speaker 1: talking to this microphone. Get saved for it. I guess
Speaker 1: where I'm gonna be going tonight at midnight? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: where's that work at eleven o'clock. I'm going to work
Speaker 1: overnight and want to go teach jujitsu tonight. Yeah, eleven o'clock, manning.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm gonna do. And I'm gonna come home
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna deal with family stuff, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take a small nap and then I'm gonna wake up
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do this show, and then might get
Speaker 1: done this show. I'm gonna see how my kids day
Speaker 1: was at school, okay, and then you have then and
Speaker 1: then I have dinner, and then I got some more
Speaker 1: work I gotta do, because you know, work doesn't stop
Speaker 1: into support. My family got to do work like the
Speaker 1: same people that some people have to do work on
Speaker 1: Saturday nights, you know, watching a show in the comfort
Speaker 1: of their own couch, and then they walk up stairs
Speaker 1: to their own little home studio, and then they get
Speaker 1: to complain about how hard their life is. You better
Speaker 1: stop with that stuff. Yeah, you a lot more. There's
Speaker 1: a lot more like me and Craig and real hard
Speaker 1: working out there and with real men like filthy Tom
Speaker 1: Lawler as opposed to people like you on your gilded
Speaker 1: little boats. So you, you and Craig are gonna be
Speaker 1: a tag team. Huh Is that right? The hard working men? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: guess who the most has the most hatred and anger
Speaker 1: for Saturday night pay per views? Working man Craig Uh huh,
Speaker 1: you know who he's got more anger towards you, and
Speaker 1: it's all built up inside him. After all these years
Speaker 1: and all those nasty said that things you've said about
Speaker 1: can I move on? Here? Remembers all of them. He's
Speaker 1: gonna throttle you. M JF. Fielded a little bastard, and
Speaker 1: now you're gonna talk about m jeff. It's amazing how
Speaker 1: you two don't hear each other. You're excited for a second.
Speaker 1: You know what m JFF wrote. The fact that Satura
Speaker 1: is winning is the prime example of the fact that
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer newsletter subscribers are virgins and have nowhere to
Speaker 1: go on a Saturday night. I never said anything like that.
Speaker 1: By the way, that's m JF right there. Don't look
Speaker 1: at me. I slipped one past the goalie. You slipped
Speaker 1: two past. It's amazing. And then someone immediately asked if
Speaker 1: he's gonna be in the Royal Rumble. No, MGM is
Speaker 1: not gonna be in the royal rumble. Why are people
Speaker 1: doing this him and Cody? Stop it? Just for that,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm dear everybody. I guess I should do
Speaker 1: the news. I was gonna punish you all with the
Speaker 1: raw report, but actually Rob was pretty good last night,
Speaker 1: including all at least, if I'm gonna cover one segment,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cover the best segment on the show. But
Speaker 1: very quickly, here's the news. Solo Suco and Boa tonight
Speaker 1: on n X t nod Q falls count anywhere. So
Speaker 1: we have two of these over the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: We have Adam Cole versus Orange Cassidy on Wednesday and
Speaker 1: Solo Sakoa and Boa on Tuesday. Perhaps I can put
Speaker 1: a ll up about the match quality of those two.
Speaker 1: Cameron Grimes versus Tony D'Angelo number one contenders, a match
Speaker 1: for the North American title. UH Toxic Attraction against any
Speaker 1: Heartwell Percha Parata and Kaylee Ray wes Lee and Nash
Speaker 1: Carter against Jacket Time Grizzly Young Vets versus Chase University
Speaker 1: Jacket Time Christ that's their name. They both wear jackets
Speaker 1: and they travel through time. What do you want me
Speaker 1: to do? Oh? Add this to the list. Brian Kendrick
Speaker 1: has reportedly requested his release from w w E and
Speaker 1: is waiting to have the request granted. But I'm the
Speaker 1: bad guy as usual. Kendrick hasn't been a recent n
Speaker 1: X teacher of five life shows after requesting his release.
Speaker 1: Anything to do with him, Well, you know, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: upset that n x T two point ohs thing is
Speaker 1: on Saturday. I'm not gonna watch it, and I'm vilified
Speaker 1: this guy want to quit n x T. Scotty too,
Speaker 1: HATTI look Scotty too. Hottie was the one with the
Speaker 1: right foresight there, I think, to see what was taking place.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you what, if Spanky is released, I
Speaker 1: look forward to seeing be inducted to the Indie Wrestling
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame next year and seeing him go out
Speaker 1: there on the indies helping people out what he is
Speaker 1: seemingly was doing in n x T and being a
Speaker 1: trainer and uh capitalizing on his past. That's what I
Speaker 1: would really like for that man, as opposed to being
Speaker 1: told that he needs to look younger as a trainer
Speaker 1: or whatever the hell it is that they do there.
Speaker 1: But I can't figure out is nobody that, not one
Speaker 1: person there thought of putting Spanky with Jack at time? Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1: Rampage on Friday five thousand viewers at a point to four,
Speaker 1: which doubled n x T this past Wednesday. SmackDown did
Speaker 1: where is it? Here two point to five five million
Speaker 1: viewers at a point six four and eighteen and forty nine.
Speaker 1: Its a very good numbers for Rampage and SmackDown on Friday.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the best. Actually, there were several
Speaker 1: good things on RAW. I'll just do the whole Raw report. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good this week. First we had a Bobby
Speaker 1: Lashly brock Lessner way in, which was great. Rock Lesser
Speaker 1: shows up dressed as a Cowboy's got a big old
Speaker 1: hat on and this giant jacket because apparently it's colder.
Speaker 1: He's at cowboy boots. Corey Graves tells him you should
Speaker 1: take some of that off for this way in for
Speaker 1: a fight with no weight limit. Brocks like, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go nude. So anyway, they weigh in
Speaker 1: and then they go back and forth, and you know,
Speaker 1: Brock calls him Bobby who, and you know, Bobby's all
Speaker 1: frothing in the mouth. He can't wait to kill this
Speaker 1: guy at the pay per view. It's funny because if
Speaker 1: if you showed a normal person this that didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about w E, they'd go like, man, I hope
Speaker 1: Bobby just beats his ass because Bobby comes off as
Speaker 1: the bullied baby face, but in this story, Brocks the
Speaker 1: baby face and Bobby's the heel. It depends on what
Speaker 1: world you live in, and my world, Bobby Lashley is
Speaker 1: the complete baby face in all of this period. Point plank.
Speaker 1: That's it, and that's all. And I think we know,
Speaker 1: like Corey Graves was cleared because at some point brock
Speaker 1: Lesner is going to kill him. Then we had Bianca
Speaker 1: beating Zalina and they're teasing that she will be the
Speaker 1: first person in twenty four years to repeat as a
Speaker 1: Rumble winner, because in fact, multiple person's people have repeated,
Speaker 1: just none in the lass twenty four years. We had
Speaker 1: Damien Priest and Kevin Owens. You got to watch The SmackDown?
Speaker 1: Do you see that show? Do you guys watch the SmackDown? Anybody?
Speaker 1: Mike SmackDown was on the road. They's a horrible finish
Speaker 1: where Natty stomped on what's her face and got d
Speaker 1: Q for beating too much ass. Well, you know it
Speaker 1: must have gotten over because he did the same thing here,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens beats Damian Priest. So here's the thing. Remember
Speaker 1: I said it was many a season, So now Ron
Speaker 1: SmackDown could be on the same brand. Well, they sent
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens and seth Rawlins to SmackDown on Friday and
Speaker 1: they worked as baby faces, and you know, two point
Speaker 1: three million people watched the show. So now Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: shows up on Raw to face baby face Damian Priest.
Speaker 1: But now everyone thinks Kevin Owens is a baby face.
Speaker 1: Plus they booked Damian Priest like an idiot. He gets
Speaker 1: d cute for stomping on Kevin and not breaking. They
Speaker 1: booed Damian Priest out of the building. He walks out.
Speaker 1: All I rate the match was good, but it's w
Speaker 1: W E booking. They beat him. Why they beat him
Speaker 1: with Kevin Owens last week? Why if you're just match
Speaker 1: It's just so completely stupid and ridiculous. When he keeps
Speaker 1: getting d cute anyway because he can't like hold himself together,
Speaker 1: that's when they should have threatened him with the title match.
Speaker 1: So you gotta put this title up on the line
Speaker 1: and if you get just qualified, you lose it to Owens.
Speaker 1: They never had to pin this freaking guy, but this
Speaker 1: is what they do. It's just stupid, stupid. We had
Speaker 1: Dana Brook rear Ripley Live Morgan, it's too mean it
Speaker 1: Nikki and Carmela. This is the one to watch everybody,
Speaker 1: if you have if you have a friend who thinks
Speaker 1: wrestling is real. And I got the match to show
Speaker 1: them to twenty three and they botched ninety spots. Was
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. And then re Ripley submitted Carmela. So both
Speaker 1: both of the tag team champions were defeated on this
Speaker 1: show by individuals who will not be teaming up to
Speaker 1: get a championship match, although maybe they will. But we
Speaker 1: had the greatest thing all time, all my life, the
Speaker 1: Healpha Academy Academic Challenge, which was awesome for a million reasons.
Speaker 1: So Chad Gable and Otists come out and they're gonna
Speaker 1: do a spelling bee with Randy Orton and Riddle and uh.
Speaker 1: This may have been the highest rated segment on the show.
Speaker 1: So Riddle and Randy come out and uh and Chad
Speaker 1: Gables awesome on the mike. By the way, this is
Speaker 1: the best. This was the best Chad Gable of his career.
Speaker 1: So Otis has to go first, and the word he
Speaker 1: has to spell is a mental which is something about cheese. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I never even heard this word I would not
Speaker 1: have been able to spell it. And so the gimmick
Speaker 1: is that Otis is supposed to be an idiot, but
Speaker 1: he spells it right. So he spells it E M
Speaker 1: M E N T L. He shoots spells it wrong,
Speaker 1: but as a work, he was supposed to spell it right.
Speaker 1: That's when they said, oh, you spelled it right, Otis,
Speaker 1: and they just keep going. So then we go to
Speaker 1: Riddle In. His word is calibration. He doesn't know what
Speaker 1: this means, and so uh. The the the funniest, one
Speaker 1: of the low key funniest things in this segment is
Speaker 1: the actual uh definition that Patrick gave for calibration. It's
Speaker 1: just the biggest hodgepodge of random words. It's like it's
Speaker 1: not even a definition. So Real goes oh, I get.
Speaker 1: It's like if you're weighing, you're everyone goes ah, he's
Speaker 1: talking about weed. So he spells it right. So then
Speaker 1: we go to Chad Gable. He's got a four point
Speaker 1: oh and you know he graduated college during the pandemic,
Speaker 1: you know, two master's degrees or whatever. And his word
Speaker 1: is disillusion. Well, in fact, there's disillusion and there's dissolution.
Speaker 1: So Kevin Patrick offers to give him the definition, but
Speaker 1: Chad Gables, I know what it means. Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: And he spells the wrong dissolution, and so he's wrong,
Speaker 1: and he's furious, and uh so, now all Orton has
Speaker 1: to do is spell one word, and they claim he's
Speaker 1: gonna get one of the most misspelled words in the
Speaker 1: English language. No, it's not separate. He has to spell
Speaker 1: dumbbell and so he says d U M V B
Speaker 1: E l L and he spells it right and they win,
Speaker 1: and then as great as it is now, Chad Gable
Speaker 1: is furious. He starts screaming at Patrick, it's all your fault.
Speaker 1: What did you say? You gave me the wrong word.
Speaker 1: You said it wrong, said it wrong, and I was like,
Speaker 1: fun funny, funny, funny, funny, funny. He says that because
Speaker 1: when I was in the spelling b I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys know this or not. I went all
Speaker 1: the way to regionals and I lost on the word philanderer.
Speaker 1: I was in the sixth grade. I don't know what
Speaker 1: a philanderer was, and I thought the guy said philanderer.
Speaker 1: So I spelled p A P H I L A
Speaker 1: N D E r A, No, it's e er what
Speaker 1: you said it wrong. So I was all in check
Speaker 1: Gables camp. He got screwed in his spelling be but anyway,
Speaker 1: otis lost anyway, so they were screwed. But anyway, there's
Speaker 1: a big ker fluffle and everything like that. And then uh,
Speaker 1: we have Randy Ordon versus Chet Gable, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: Great Matson went fourteen minutes and then Randy Jordan gives
Speaker 1: him the greatest r KO ever right on literally the
Speaker 1: top of his head, so he's dead. And then they
Speaker 1: announced it next week, which is preposterous because the baby
Speaker 1: faces one, Chet had Gables idea. Now they get to
Speaker 1: pick the next idea. It's two out of three, so
Speaker 1: it's a scooter race. It's a scooter race in its
Speaker 1: academic challenge because in school, I mean, you gotta go
Speaker 1: to pe. So the point of this is it's two
Speaker 1: out of three, so Chad Gable and ODIs have to
Speaker 1: win the scooter race. So we got two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. This was the best thing on w w
Speaker 1: E TV, like as far as like creativity and and
Speaker 1: you know, writers and everything like that in eons, Like
Speaker 1: I think you gotta go back to Rick Flair on
Speaker 1: on Musical Chairs Chas, oh Man, this was the greatest
Speaker 1: And don't even tell me that I'm just wanting to
Speaker 1: say that I'm right. You all know, you all know.
Speaker 1: This segment was awesome. Everything they took away from otis
Speaker 1: they slowly is coming back with him in this goofball gimmick. God,
Speaker 1: it was great. Then we had uh alexiblist segment absolutely sucked.
Speaker 1: A j bea Dawson theory seventeen minutes. It was good,
Speaker 1: but we did not need like six minutes of of
Speaker 1: Austin theory. Working the guy over a j one with
Speaker 1: four arm Becky Lynch and do Drop interview. They did
Speaker 1: like the face to face like you do on on
Speaker 1: Rampage or UFC or whatever, and it was good. De
Speaker 1: Drop was really good. Becky was good. I thought this
Speaker 1: was a very very good segment. We had the Ray
Speaker 1: and Dominic Street Profits deal, which is dumb. This is
Speaker 1: the only thing they're doing to build up the Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble is these nerds keep rustling each other and then
Speaker 1: throwing each other over the top rope. That's like you're
Speaker 1: built to the Royal Rumble and Ray can't figure out, Wait,
Speaker 1: what do you mean, my son could throw me out.
Speaker 1: What do you think you can tie? You can't tie
Speaker 1: Ray along? How many rumbles have you done, buddy? And
Speaker 1: then Maurice's extravagance of course Edge and Beth Phoenix ruined
Speaker 1: the party and and beat up some security guards. And
Speaker 1: if I'm not here after the break, I love y'all
Speaker 1: Observer live back on the show. My sympathy V here
Speaker 1: with you. That empty chair right there is where the
Speaker 1: big boss Man, Brian Alvarez used to be. But he's
Speaker 1: got some some things he needs to take care of
Speaker 1: as if it was a Saturday night. Already, boss Man
Speaker 1: gone out of here. But don't worry, he will be
Speaker 1: back with me tomorrow in that chair right there, hosting
Speaker 1: this show. And a couple of notes before we get
Speaker 1: out of here for everybody, for n XD talents, because
Speaker 1: I don't think Brian said this at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show. Scheduled for the SmackDown tapings tonight or for
Speaker 1: Friday SmackDown tapings, p w I Insider reporting that EO Sharai,
Speaker 1: Dakota Kai, Robert Strong in l a Night will be
Speaker 1: at the SmackDown tapings this Friday in Kansas City. This
Speaker 1: would mark Sharai's first main roster match since Survivor Series
Speaker 1: two thousand and nineteen. Think about the time on that,
Speaker 1: Think about how ridiculous that is. And also another little
Speaker 1: note here following up with some things that took place
Speaker 1: at the Game Change or wrestling shows over the weekend.
Speaker 1: As a lot of people know, but he starts, looks
Speaker 1: like she was scheduled to be in the Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: Nick Wayne was certainly scheduled to be part of the Scramble. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: as has been reported now, an anonymous email was sent
Speaker 1: to the New York State Athletic Commission on Thursday morning. Uh.
Speaker 1: Since Nick had previously worked the the IMO night show
Speaker 1: that g CW had held in Queens, they didn't think
Speaker 1: it was going to be an issue with him appearing
Speaker 1: on the show. Apparently somebody dropped dime to the New
Speaker 1: York State Athletic Commission, and unfortunately for Nick, he found
Speaker 1: out during fourth period at high school. So you want
Speaker 1: to see how that ruined his day and how it
Speaker 1: ruined his weekend. Uh, there it was. But as we
Speaker 1: also mentioned, with what Joey Janella put online on Twitter
Speaker 1: saying that they were going to make this up, to
Speaker 1: Nick and trying to schedule a match against anybody he wanted.
Speaker 1: Nick chose Will Osprey will aspreys for it. So maybe
Speaker 1: wrestle Mania weekend we get to see Nick, Wayne and
Speaker 1: will Osprey and uh. I think for anybody who decided
Speaker 1: to be a cop caller on this too, they can
Speaker 1: go get bent. So that was are my only words,
Speaker 1: and we shall talk to you again after a while.
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