WEBVTT - WWE Draft With Mike 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:12.760 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network, live. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.560 From San Francisco. I'm a Sports Byline Broadcasting network. You 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.079 are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, Brian 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:24.000 Alvarez and Mike sempervb Are you ready? 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:24.960 Are you ready? 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:26.599 Let's get it all off. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:28.600 Let's get it. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.560 Mike semper VV here with you for the next hour 0:00:31.720 --> 0:00:35.159 talking about professional wrestling, which is something we do every 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.320 single day here on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Tune in, 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.080 iHeart American Forces Radio, Sports Byline dot Com, over the 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:48.280 air affiliates like KMAV and Kate ninety nine KMSR podcast 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:52.720 replay on Sirius XM, or video streaming on Twitch or YouTube. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.920 However you're joining me today, I just like to say 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:58.000 thank you. Hopefully wherever you are at sonny outside, and 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.000 if it's not hopefully, it's sonny inside your if you're 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.280 on the Del Marvel Peninsula, I really hope it's sunny 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:07.440 inside your mind, because it's miserable outside, it's cold, it's wet, 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:12.119 it's just sorry, empathetic. I don't know if that's what 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.840 the weather is like where Brian Alvarez is right now. 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:17.679 I kind of hope that he's suffering with it unless 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:20.280 he's with the family. But we don't know where Brian is. 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.760 If you heard yesterday's show, all he said was I'm 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:25.960 not going to be here. You have a solo show. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:30.040 Deal with that. So I assume he's not at the dentist. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.280 He went like three times in the past week or so. 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.160 Who knows, you know, maybe he's out fighting Oreo right 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.520 now or something. But we have to get through a 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.080 show without him, and we have to talk about the 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:47.840 WWE Draft, which begins tonight on SmackDown, And there's a 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.960 lot of news to get into, but that's one of 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.800 the more overarching things that we're going to be getting 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.920 into today. Chad Gable was on Monday Night Raw talking 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.640 to Boogs, telling him, you know what, you better get 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.680 draft with your partner because you never know what could happen. 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:07.600 Teams could split up, managers could be you know, disappear 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:11.240 from the people that they're apparently none of that's happening. 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.880 Units are going to be drafted together. Tag teams are 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:19.600 going to be drafted together. That's how it works. Except 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:24.680 for one group, the bloodline is being split up. So 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.840 when it comes down to this draft, I wonder if 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.720 it's just going to be a backdrop at the end 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:35.040 of the day for more bloodline stuff. But we'll see, 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.720 we'll see what happens and we'll get into all the 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.200 splits going on. There a bunch of injuries that have 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.639 taken place, Rampage which is starting up in oh about 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.480 two hours and twenty minutes or so here on the 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.720 East Coast, So we're getting into all that stuff when 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:50.720 we get back from break. 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:51.799 Wrestling Observe Alive. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.200 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:09.919 Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:14.480 Back from Breaking, Mike Simper vv here with you Wrestling 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.520 Observer Live. Hey, make the wrestling news part of your day, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.639 all the news that you need to know to get 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.960 your day started, or to get you caught up, or 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.240 to just get you to your favorite pod which goes 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.360 into heavy detail on what's taking place on Monday Night 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.160 Raw and all those sorts of things. But if you 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.200 just want the results of what happened, you just want 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.880 the main stuff. Find out who got hurt, find out 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.400 who got buried, and then get on to work. The 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.400 Wrestling News is what you need to go to. Just 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.920 go to the wrestling News dot Com or at Wrestling 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:46.320 newsav on Twitter and Facebook. Every day news of the 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.200 wrestling world, deliver to your ears via podcast wherever you 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.960 get your favorite podcasts, and between seven and fifteen minutes long, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.800 and as I mentioned, perfect way to get you caught 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:00.240 up and get you on your way. So do you 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:03.200 want to be on your way to Minnesota? In April? 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:07.680 Patrick Kessler, who retired in twenty twenty after thirty six 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.120 years as a political reporter in Minnesota and now serves 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:16.160 as a special contributor for WCCOTV and KFAN Allsports Radio 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:21.080 in Minneapolis, tweeted on Thursday that quote, sources tell me 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.000 that Minneapolis is a finalist city for WrestleMania twenty twenty five. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:30.039 This would be a huge get end quote. Seems like 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.960 twenty twenty five and twenty twenty six are up for grabs. 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.600 The new Titans Stadium that is being built in Nashville 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.520 will be done in twenty twenty seven, and it has 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.200 long been rumored that WrestleMania will run in that venue 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.240 once it opens. It is also very likely that the 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.800 Super Bowl after that first Titans season will also be 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:57.440 held there. US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis seats about sixty 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.120 five thousand people or so for football. It's the home 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.599 of the Minnesota Vikings. It hosted Super Bowl fifty two 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:09.360 in two thousand and seventeen. And there's a reason for that, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.479 and I'll get back to that in a second, but 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.720 there has not one thing Minneapolis has got going for 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:19.440 it is they have been trying to get a WrestleMania 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.599 for I don't want to say a long time, but 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.920 at the very least since there was an idea that 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.840 they the Vikings were going to get out of the 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:33.640 Metrodome and end up in US Bank Stadium, like they 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.839 have wanted to be a hub of events, and they 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:41.360 did hold the super Bowl there, could they hold WrestleMania. 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:43.920 There one thing they have going for them. There has 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:48.880 not been a non metro New York City Mania that 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.920 far north since WrestleMania twenty two and twenty three were 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.120 in Chicago in Detroit in two thousand and six, in 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.799 two thousand and seven, so they do have that going 0:05:58.880 --> 0:05:59.480 for them. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.200 But the old. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:06.080 Metrodome hosted the Super Bowl in nineteen ninety two, super 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.400 Bowl twenty six when the then Washington Redskins just pounded 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:15.600 the Buffalo Bills, and that ninety two Washington team was incredible. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.720 Ninety one, they finished fourteen and two. They were amazing. 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:19.280 Chiple O. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.800 Miller was in the before the game, kicking like seventy 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.520 yard field goals before that was like really a thing. 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.719 But I remember it because all of the media, because 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.400 I lived in the area at the time, all of 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.840 the media hated it and just beat to death the 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.600 fact that it was freezing there. The low on Saturday 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.240 before the Super Bowl was without the wind chill. I 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:46.960 believe it was negative fourteen and they hated it, and 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:48.919 that was one of the last times you had a 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:50.680 Super Bowl, you know, up that far. 0:06:51.080 --> 0:06:52.239 They didn't even want to hold. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.600 The Super Bowl in New York when they opened up 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.760 that stadium, but they ended up doing it there. Now, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.880 in April, it's obviously a little bit warmer. You know, 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.159 it tends to be in the upper fifties, or at 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.720 least in the mid fifties. The lows are still in 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:09.760 the thirties usually at that time of year. But there's 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.200 always the possibility that you could get a huge snowfall 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.560 that could happen and Granted, that could happen in Philadelphia 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:23.200 next year because of its location, but usually there's a 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.080 reason that they don't like holding events in northern cities 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.240 during that time of year, and that's one of the 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:31.480 reasons why it's a big getaway for people. Obviously, the 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.720 media people are going to complain and whine and bitch 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:39.160 and moan about it. No surprise there, but again I 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.080 get it that you would rather have it in a 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.000 Phoenix or an Atlanta, or a Miami or a Los Angeles. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:49.280 And that's what Minnesota has really working against it now 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:54.440 they and another thing unfortunately from Minnesota too, what they 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.200 have working against it in granted twenty five, twenty twenty six, 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.160 you know, they seem to be up for grabs. But 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.320 New Orleans hasn't had a WrestleMania since twenty and eighteen, 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.440 the Bay Area hasn't had one since twenty and fifteen, 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.200 and the Super Bowl is apparently looking to go back 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.960 to SOFI in a couple of years. Atlanta was two 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:17.120 thousand and eleven, and goy, you go to twenty twenty six, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.880 it's like, okay, fifteen years since Atlanta, which was a 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.480 great you know, a great hub for a lot of 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:25.400 different reasons. You know, holding the WrestleMania Phoenix twenty ten, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:29.360 Houston twenty oh nine, Miami was twenty and twelve, so 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:31.680 that was going back a little bit. But you did 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:35.800 have Orlando and Tampa holding during the pandemic in twenty 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.480 twenty and twenty twenty one there, So Allegiant Stadium from 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:42.280 Las Vegas is obviously probably going to be in the 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.320 mixes well too, They're holding the super Bowl this year, 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.960 so you know, Minnesota really wants to get this and 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:52.520 they may have to pony up possibly the biggest money 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:59.120 offer to do so, because again it's just Minneapolis, great airport, again, 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:03.720 great city. It's just again in April. Is that where 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.079 you want to hold your biggest event. I'lla the super 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.400 Bowl or something like that. So best to look to them, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:10.960 and best to look for all the fans that are 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.800 up there that are pining for this and have wanted 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.239 this for quite some time. Got a couple of injuries 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.040 we'll get into before we get into the draft and 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:24.679 every thing that's taking place this weekend. Raining MLW champion 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.040 Alexander Hammerstone revealed on Twitter Friday that he's recovering from 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.640 a torn aductor, and if you go to Wikipedia like 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.120 we all do for our medical advice and a doctor, 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.440 tear is caused by a groin strain resulting from a 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.920 sudden muscle contraction such that which might accompany a quick 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.040 change in direction like pivoting or a rapid acceleration like sprinting. 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.439 This overstretch. This can overstretch or tear the muscles. Look 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:54.760 Lane Johnson of the Philadelphia Eagles had a torn aductor 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.920 that he played the Super Bowl with this year and 0:09:56.920 --> 0:10:00.880 then had surgery for it afterwards. You know, not tears, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.679 but strains or something that will often pop up. When 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.360 he comes to Major League Baseball pitchers, you hear a 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.199 lot about it with them. It's assumed Hammerson stuff for 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.800 the injury during April six's Word Chamber match, in which 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.640 he had to leave early. Hammerstone was able to work 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:21.000 a match against Mister Thomas aka Thomas Sharp aka Blaster 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:26.080 mcmassive for an MLW on Reels taping two days later, 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.719 but he has not wrestled since. A thirty two year old. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.160 Hammerstone said he'll be cleared and should be able to 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:35.320 start taking bookings beginning the weekend of May twelfth, so 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.560 putting one more on the disabled list. You can also 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.439 put now Commander apparently on the injured reserve as well, 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.400 as he may have suffered an injury on a Demand 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.720 Luca show. And this is was posted up a little 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.600 bit before the show by Ian Carey on the front 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.280 page of the Wrestling Observer dot com website. Post Wrestling's 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.720 John Pollock was in attendance for the show and said 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:02.280 that Commander, who was facing Gringo Loco and Ares in 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:06.960 a three way main event in Toronto's Parkdale Hall on 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.440 Thursday evening. He said that Commander appeared to be favoring 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.200 his knee after a moon salt, he was taken to 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.560 the back and did not return. It's also posted on 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.839 here that a Reddit user who says they were also 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.319 at the show posted that Commander attempted to return to 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.280 the match but was limping badly and was not able 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:28.760 to continue. Demand Luca had actually announced on April tenth 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:34.120 that in quote unforeseen travel complication end quote would prevent 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:37.840 Commander from traveling to Canada for the show. Does that 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.400 sound like a visa issue? I don't know, however, as 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.360 the main event between Gringo Loco and Ares was about 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.480 to start, or made a surprise appearance and the match 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.520 was made a three way. As everybody probably knows by 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:55.400 this point, Tony Kahan announced on April nineteenth that Commander 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:59.080 had signed with AW. Took place after his match with 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.960 Jay White on Dynamite. I wasn't sure if it was 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.880 that night or early the next morning. Commander was announced 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.560 as official in a part of a e W and 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:13.400 unfortunately right now, hopefully he is not banged up too bad. 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:18.120 Hopefully the knee has got some structural integrity left there, 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.680 and hopefully he's not going to be out for too long. 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.640 But you know, you chalk those names up to the 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:28.679 battery of names out of NXT Soul, Ruka in, Indy 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:34.160 Hartwell and Grayson Waller and again a bunch of names 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:37.240 that are part of the PC and you know who 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.640 haven't been on TV for a while, who were recovering 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:40.320 from injuries. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.760 So tough time going on right now. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.120 But we'll get into the draft rampage and so much 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.400 more when we get back from break. 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:48.880 Wrestling Observer Alive. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.600 To seven eight seventeen thirty eight. 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:17.920 Law, You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.240 Alvarez and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.320 Back on the show, Mike semper vv here with you. 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:30.800 Wrestling Observer Live. The Big boss Man, Brian Alvarez will 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:34.360 be back with me on Monday least. I assume he's 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.800 going to be back with me on Monday. If you 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.319 can't wait that long, I'm sure he and Dave are 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.439 going to have a show coming up at some point 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:45.640 over this weekend, probably on Sunday night into Monday morning. 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.400 Why because Dave is going to be doing Wrestling Observer 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:53.280 Radio with Garret Gonzalez sometime late tonight Friday Night. Should 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:58.080 be up for all listeners early early Saturday morning. If 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.439 you're a listener to this show and this show only, 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.480 well thank you for that. Jim Valley is going to 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.960 reward you with a show tomorrow as always on Saturdays 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.920 ten am Pacific one am Eastern Time, and then on Sunday, 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:15.080 Wrestling Observer Live. We'll be back with andrews Arian at 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.600 six pm Eastern Time. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.200 I just saw this right before I came back up. 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:24.760 Zach Saber Junior, as many of you know, or at 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:27.520 least some of you know, has been booked for a 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.400 game Changer Wrestling show in Los Angeles on June seventeenth 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:37.080 at the Ukrainian Cultural Center. They have found an opponent 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:43.680 for Zach Saber Junior. An obvious meshing of styles here 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:48.440 as zsj will be facing off against Nick Gage. So 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.680 Zach Saber Junior and Nick Gage. And and for all 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.800 of you out there, this thought, Oh my god, you 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.440 saw Zach Saber in there with Filthy and you were 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:02.400 worried about you know, Zach's face. Then you know Filthy. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.960 I know he had a toothbrush in his knee pad there. 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:10.440 I believe it was in Philadelphia before their six man 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.200 tag team match at the New Japan Strong Show. But 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:17.280 Pizza Cutter, that's probably gonna be pretty new for Zach 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:21.160 Saber Junior. So that's coming up on June seventeenth, certainly 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:22.720 is going to be a match that is going to 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.000 get people talking just because they're gonna want to see 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:31.440 the clashing of styles. So that's certainly something. Also, certainly something, 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:35.200 of course, is WWE SmackDown tonight from the American Banks 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:40.200 Center in Corpus Christy, Texas. We have a couple of 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.200 things besides the draft announced for the show. Not much 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.560 Zelina Vega will be taking on Sonya Deville, which of 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:51.720 course is leading into Vegas match with SmackDown for now 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:56.400 women's champion Rio Ripley coming up at Backlash. Also tonight, 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:59.200 Kevin Owens and Sammy's Ain against the USO's and a 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:04.640 wrestle Mania rematch for the as of now undisputed world 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.480 tag team titles. Could we see a splitting of those 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:14.320 It's very very possible, and the draft in which something 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:18.920 has changed in the last couple of days. Teams are 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:23.720 drafted together, managers are going to be drafted with their clients. 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:29.880 Full units will be drafted together, with the one glowing 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:36.560 exception of the Bloodline, and apparently Teddy Long has been 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:41.400 booked for both tonight and Monday. Fightful a little bit 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:46.680 earlier on noted that WWE has reached out to legends 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.200 and former I guess you know, former wrestlers and whatever, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.600 so they could give cameos and give their thoughts on 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:57.680 some of the draft picks as well, and they have 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.960 split the groups as they usually do this sort of thing, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.880 into people that could be drafted tonight and people that 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.400 will have to be drafted on raw on Monday and 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.440 the Bloodline is listed as being eligible for draft tonight, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:19.119 but it only lists Roman Reigns and Solo Sokoa, not 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:24.560 the USOS. The USOS will be available for draft come Monday. Now, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.200 does that mean that they are being broken up and 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:31.760 they will not remain on the same brand. No, they 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.480 can absolutely still remain on the same brand, but it 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:40.080 is notable that that is the only faction that seems 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.639 to be split. And I will go through the names 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.560 of who is going to be eligible tonight. Also on 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.680 the men's side, Bobby Lashley, Cody Rhodes, Dexter Loomis, Golf Ziggler, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:56.159 Drew McIntyre, Edge, Matt Riddle, Mustafa Ali Omas with MVP, 0:17:56.720 --> 0:18:00.800 Shinsky Nakamura, The Miz, The Street Profits and the Viking 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:06.359 writers Eric and Ivar with Valhalla women Raw for Now 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.200 Women's Champion, Bianca Belaire, Becky Lynch, Candice Lay, Chelsea Green 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.640 and Sonia Deville as a group, Damage Control, Bailey Eosky 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.399 and Dakota Kai as a unit, Lacy Evans and Natalia 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:26.040 Stables available to be drafted tonight, hit Row which is 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:31.719 top Dollar, Ashante Viadonnas and b Fab Imperium, Gunther Ludvig 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:36.760 Kaiser and Giovanni Vinci, maximum male models Mace Mansur and 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:41.720 Maxine Duprie, and the OC still listed in this form 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:47.480 as a group, aj Styles, Luke Gallows, Carl Anderson and Meechen, 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.280 as well as select NXD superstars with of course no 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.919 names given there. So that is who's eligible to be 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.480 drafted on Night one. How this has worked in the past, 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.560 if you just climbed from under a rock and heard 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.439 about the WWE having drafts every once in a while, 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:09.920 they will go through a bunch of names tonight. They 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:15.040 may go to Peacock afterwards and have a post match 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.720 deal or a post show deal where people are continued, 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.119 you know, the draft continues that way on social media. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:26.160 They have announced picks well into the night, and they've 0:19:26.160 --> 0:19:29.040 actually changed picks and flop them back and forth after 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:29.840 a couple of days. 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.600 But we'll see what happens tonight. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.080 But that's what they have set up for the draft, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.440 and that is going to of course dominate the show, 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.320 with the exception of the tag team title match. And 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:43.160 I'm interested to see how much time that actually gets 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.919 tonight as well too, because do they do the draft 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.720 and then have the match, because I think you'd be 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:51.879 ripping people off if this didn't go for about a 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.679 half hour, you know, go for a couple segments to 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.399 close the show. Are they going to get the draft 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.560 out of the way early? Are they going to be 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:01.320 cute with it? And have you know a match take 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:04.359 place and then oh yeah, hey, player Teddy Long comes 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:08.399 out and then announces somebody gets drafted somewhere. Don't know 0:20:08.440 --> 0:20:10.199 how it's going to go down. We may hear some 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:12.679 more as things get closed. Just keep your eye on 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:17.240 wrestlingobserver dot com or at at wonfour w on Twitter 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:20.040 and at Dave Meltzer and if if there's any tips 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:21.960 or anything like that to come out, I'm sure they're 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:27.080 going to have them there. Also tonight, or should I 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:31.560 say this Afternoon Rampage once again shifted out of its 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:35.320 time slot today. It's going to be aired at six 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:40.280 thirty pm Eastern Time three thirty pm Pacific. No stagger feed. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:44.040 So if you're listening to the West Coast replay of 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.119 this show, I hope you sit your DVR. This is 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.439 all leading into TNTs coverage tonight of the NHL Stanley 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:54.359 Cup playoffs. Here is your no spoilers lineup for the show. 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:58.000 After Dynamite, Kenny Omega cut of promo in the ring 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.400 to Tony Kahan as everybody was tending to a bloody 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:06.200 Kenoskate Takeshta asking for a cage match against John Moxley. 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:09.600 So on Twitter earlier on aw tweeted out a video 0:21:10.080 --> 0:21:13.840 that was posted of the Blackpool Combat Club talking smack 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:17.520 on Takeshta talking smack on Kenny Omega and it's got 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:21.360 the caption will Tony Kahan sanction an Omega versus Moxley 0:21:21.440 --> 0:21:24.239 cage match? And if so, where and when will it 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:28.520 take place? Find out soon tonight on Rampage. And I'm 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:30.960 sure we're going to get some segments announced for this 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:35.600 Wednesday's Dynamite as well. Sean Spears and Ricky Starks will 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:39.280 face Bully Club, Goal Jay White and Juice Robinson, Jay 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.560 Lethal against Cash Wheeler with Mark Briscoe as the special 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:47.920 ringside enforcer. No spoilers here, but Dustin Rhodes and Keith 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:54.199 Lee against Freddie Pierce and Cha Cha Charlie. I know 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.680 who my money's on, Anna Jay against Ashley des Mois 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:02.479 and the Acclaimed and Billy Gun Wrestle three dudes. It 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:05.840 was a guy and with two other guys, and again 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:09.359 no spoilers here, but I'm assuming the Acclaimed and Billy 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:11.840 Gunn come out on top of that one. So next 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:15.080 week Rampage runs into the same thing, and this may 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:18.360 be it for a while. When he comes to preempting Rampage, 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:21.359 it's going to air at five thirty PM next week, 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:24.240 again without a staggered feed, So those on the West Coast, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:26.520 you're going to be getting in at two thirty. And 0:22:26.560 --> 0:22:32.879 once again that is because of hockey. Now, Rampage is 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.800 going to continue to exist no matter what AW does 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.919 on Saturday. At least that's a according to Dave Meltzer 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:44.000 and this week's Wrestling Observer newsletter, who said the TNT 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:48.040 will continue to air Rampage on Friday nights for one hour. 0:22:48.480 --> 0:22:51.119 He wrote that as a part of a story he 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:55.639 did on cmpunk and another major name expected to be 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.160 a part of the new show, rumor to be called 0:22:58.240 --> 0:23:02.359 AW Collision. The first episode of the planned Saturday night show, 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.480 while not officially announced, is believed to be taking place 0:23:05.960 --> 0:23:10.560 June seventeenth at Chicago's United Center, and in today's Wrestling 0:23:10.600 --> 0:23:14.159 Observer newsletter, Dave Meltzer wrote quote The show, believed to 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.520 be called aw Collision is noted last week, is expected 0:23:17.560 --> 0:23:20.240 to debut on June seventeenth with a show from eight 0:23:20.280 --> 0:23:23.040 to ten pm Eastern from the United Center in Chicago, 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:26.560 which would also be the return of cmpunk, along with 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:35.480 what is expected to be another major name debut or return. Hmm, well, 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:38.800 I doubt it's going to be Kenny Omega, the Youumbucks 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:41.600 or Hangman Page. And I'm not sure who's out there 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:46.200 they could return. Could it be Miro, haven't seen him 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:49.600 for a while. Could it be Eddie Kingston who's kind 0:23:49.600 --> 0:23:51.919 of disappeared. I know he's been doing his thing and 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.359 Ring of Honor, but could he be one of those guys? 0:23:54.920 --> 0:23:57.520 Seems like cmpunk is going to be on that show. 0:23:57.680 --> 0:24:00.920 FTR is going to be on that show. Rumors about 0:24:01.040 --> 0:24:04.240 Chris Jericho being on that show. Dave wrote about that, 0:24:04.840 --> 0:24:09.120 saying that Chris Jericho is probably a good choice because 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:11.919 Punk is going to need a strong opponent and maybe 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:14.480 that's was talked about during the meeting that they had 0:24:14.480 --> 0:24:18.000 on April twenty first, where they were mending fences with 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:21.000 each other. So we'll have to see what happens there. 0:24:21.040 --> 0:24:23.800