WEBVTT - Rick Steiner Kidnapped/Was Wrestlemania a Success? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:17.080 Let's get it all. How's going to everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.880 here on Wrestling over Live. We are here every day 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.680 Monday through Friday, New Pacific three from Sunday three Pacific 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:30.440 six Eastern. You hear a screaming child downstairs. For the 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.000 next hour. It's my daughter, she hit her wall today. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:40.559 Mommy has been down on vacation for the last two 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:44.320 days and she finally hit her wall. Trying to calm 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.280 her down, but babysitters having a rough time, So I 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:51.839 apologize in advance if you you're na for the next hour. Anyway, 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:53.960 it's Wednesday here in this program. We got a lot 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.680 to get into here today. Oh do we ever? Did 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.360 you know that Rick Steiner was kidnapped last night? I 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.639 don't even know where to be in. But yes, we're 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.040 gonna talk about n x T two point oh and 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.880 a lot of other news as well, because there's actually 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.319 some big news. We've got the Raw after WrestleMania, largest 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:17.240 audience for the show since January of twenty twenty one 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:21.800 and over a year, largest audience for the show on Monday. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.280 They had a huge first hour by Ross standards. We're 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.520 gonna tell you about the ratings for the raw after 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.080 WrestleMania was a big success. We'll see where it is 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:32.440 obviously a month from now, but that was the UH. 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.680 That was the Monday numbers. We got a w Dynamite tonight, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.199 and in fact, we have qualifying matches for the Owen 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:42.400 Hart Foundation Men's and Women's tournament. And in the men's 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.440 tournament it will be Samoa Joe in his Dynamite debut 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:51.480 against Max. This poor Max castor Ah just one horrible 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.320 beating after another. But that's tonight. We'll give you the 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.080 full line for the rest of the show as well. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.080 We got updates on Cody Roads coming off Monday. A 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:06.000 counter talks about his UH, his weight loss and his 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:11.079 name change and his focus on nutrition. So we got 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:15.079 that to talk about here today and New Japan it's 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.560 coming up this weekend. And we got a big guest 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.399 on today literally and figuratively. We'll tell you bad after 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:45.440 the break, rusting Observer Live back in the show. Brain 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:50.240 Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike's Andimburviti also Wrestling 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:51.680 Observer dot com. We got a lot of news to 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.000 get into here today, and don't even think I'm not 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.400 reviewing an x T two point oh in the final 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.520 center of the show, however, Big Damo is gonna be 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.400 on the show here today, the former killing Dane. He 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.519 will be wrestling for New Japan this coming Sunday night. 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.959 And you want a mean guy match? Have I got 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:17.080 a mean guy match for you, Big Demo versus Tomo 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:22.440 hero Is She They'll be tearing up on Sunday in Hollywood. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.520 I wish I could be there, but I can't. I'm 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.160 getting right in an x T. So we gotta get 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.600 going because this is the shortest segment we've got today, 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.200 because I got a lot to say and I may 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.960 I may need more time. So uh. It opened up 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:42.960 with Gunter coming out as braun Breaker is doing a 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.560 promo and this crowd is just I don't know what's 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.640 up with this crowd, this crowd. I'm over this crowd, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.720 you know. Cameron Grimes came out later in the show 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:53.640 after he won the title for his father who had 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.360 passed away, and half the crowd chance you deserve the 0:03:56.360 --> 0:04:00.600 other half? Chance, No, he doesn't. His death died and 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.360 he won the title for his father, and we're doing 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.200 the no he doesn't anyway whatever, and he's a baby face. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:08.840 So Brown Breakers out there and you're getting all these 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:13.440 chances and everything and outcomes Uh comes Gunter and I'm like, 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.840 oh my god, I cannot wait to see this feud. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.080 Holy Smokes is gonna be awesome. They announced a match 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:23.400 for tonight in the main event, so I figured, well, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.640 you know, maybe we'll ever run in or whatever. So 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.080 then we had the Creed Brothers versus Imperium and they're 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.680 having this match, and all of a sudden, in the 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.719 middle of the match, Fabian Aichner just walks out on 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:40.320 Marcel Bartel like there was no spot, there was no nothing. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.839 It's like he broke up a pin. And then he 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.599 walked out and Marcel Bartel is all by himself and 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.000 he gets beaten. So I don't know what's going on there. 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:55.279 Then we had the two masked assailants they that have 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.880 been messing with the Creeds. They jump him after the match, 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.440 and the unmasked and that's like, oh my god, look 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.520 who it is, but they don't tell us who it is. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.640 And then uh, and then uh, the other one I 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.400 don't remember who started an who ended, but the other 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.000 guy goes, I know those guys there from n X 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:17.680 t U K. I'm like, yeah, who are they? And 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.839 finally they spit out. It's pretty deadly, but I think 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.000 both guys forgot who they were and someone had to 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:25.560 like tell him over the that side because it was 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.799 forever before they told us who they were. So pretty 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.000 deadly is debuted. It will be scaring off with the 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:35.080 creeds here. So then we had Cameron Grimes coming out 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.440 and as noted, he does his promo and he's all 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:40.360 emotional about his father's passed away and the crowd's heckling 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.520 him half of them and Solo Sko comes out and 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.040 he wants a shot at the North American title and 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:47.960 they're gonna have a match, so that should at least 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.560 be good. We had a bunch of Joe Gayzy promos 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.280 that sucks. I don't know what's going on, but they're 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:55.920 Joe Gayzy promo, so you know the you know the deal. 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.960 Then we had Dexter Loomas versus Duke Hudson, so they 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.239 had all these vignettes over the weekend. You know which 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:06.960 couple is hotter and everything like that. So they show 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:08.560 us a couple of the clips, and the clips are 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.560 funny because, like I've said it a million times, I 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.560 don't need to see Dexter Loomas do a lot of matches, 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.920 but like his character in the vignettes, he's in fantastic. Well, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.200 now he's got to wrestle and so him and Hudson 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.280 are wrestling and they both end up outside the ring 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.479 and the referee is is counting, and then both women 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:30.800 try to get their man into the ring. They both fail. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:35.479 Then all four of them fall down in an orgy 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:39.520 horrific pile. But like they want you to think stuff 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:40.800 like that, but they actually want to show it, so 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:42.680 they cut it. They cut away so fast when they 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.880 were all laying on top of each other, It's like, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.360 why are you even bothering if you're like afraid to 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.320 actually show this. So anyway, they cut away and we 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.880 never saw it again. They both got counted out. That 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.680 was cool. Uh, then we add Toxic Attraction versus Raquel 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.920 and Dakota Kai. So for those of you, I don't 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.039 know if you're fall doing this story or not, but 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.200 the WrestleMania was Saturday, guys, remember that show. Do you 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.600 remember Night one of WrestleMania, the show that started at 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.280 six o'clock pm pacificy Eastern for the pre show and 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.360 ended after midnight, so six hours if you wanted to 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.040 watch the pre show, and then they decided, well, earlier 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.400 in the day, we're gonna do this n x T 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.520 Standing Deliver show. So you know, if you're on the 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:25.440 West coast like me, it started like nine or ten am, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:27.120 and I'm like, I ain't getting up at nine or 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:28.360 ten am and to watch the show. We know what 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.280 some people did, and more power to them. If you're 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.360 that big a fan, you're gonna watch, you know, a 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:35.200 three hour n x T show and then a six 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.280 hour wrestle Mania show. Like I'm not gonna say anything 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.320 bad about you. I could use a lot of loyal 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.200 a lot of loyalty like that on this program. But anyway, 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.760 so if you did that, if you went out of 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.040 your way to watch three hours of n x T 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.600 before you watch six hours of WrestleMania, well, man, what 0:07:54.760 --> 0:08:01.240 you saw. You saw braun Breaker fail to win back 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.880 the title against a Masso Champa. You saw an n 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:09.560 x T Tag Team championship change where Riquel Gonzalez and 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:13.680 Dakota Kai won the tag team titles. Well, if you 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:17.040 put all that working and watching that show Monday night 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.760 on Raw, brun Breaker won the title on Raw, and 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.440 then the next night they did a rematch for Toxic 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.760 Attraction and Raquel and Dakota and Toxic Attraction they won 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:33.200 those belts back. So you were sure rewarded for watching 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.000 that stand in the Liver show. So yeah, we got 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.120 new take team champions. They have won the belts back 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:46.520 then we had Tony D'Angelo doing a segment a j Galante. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.400 This poor bloke, all he had to do was a 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:55.120 ceremony to crown Uh Tony D'Angelo a made man. This 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:59.760 was too much. This segment was horrible. Forgot lines no, 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:04.600 but he cared and then uh he was heckled, and 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.240 then Tony D'Angelo was given a ring. He's now the 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:13.120 dawn of n XT. He's a made man. MSK cut 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.480 promos about how they won the titles, and then uh, 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.680 Grays and Waller's out there with his arm and his 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.400 sling and the baby face tag champs challenged the guy 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.720 with the broken arm to fight for the titles tonight. 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.280 He's like, dude, I'm hurt, so they didn't do their 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:29.920 match tonight. And for those of you wondering, I hate 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.160 to break KFE, but Grays and Waller is not hurt, 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.880 but it looks so bad that they're gonna pretend he's hurt. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.840 So that's why he had the sling on, which is 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.360 good because it looked like he killed himself. We had 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:45.280 Nikita Lyons and lash Legend. I mean, it wasn't horrible. 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:47.679 I mean the match with Vince McMahon at WrestleMania was 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.080 like a thousand times worse. But I'll talk more about 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:53.400 this in a moment. Santos Escobar and Legato del Fantasma 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.040 running a Tony D'Angelo and a j Galante who apparently 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.160 duo now, and you know they both essentially totally other 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.640 to stay out of each other's business. And then the 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:08.400 main event was braun Breaker and Gunther Okay, and I 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.080 was so excited to see this like headline a takeover 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.280 whatever whatever they call the takeovers now, and uh, I 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.920 can't even believe I'm complaining about this one. They went 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.959 in there and they had a very good match and 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.000 they had a clean finish. Braun Breaker beat Gunther in 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.080 the middle of the ring with his move pinned him one, 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.679 two three. Now why am I complaining about this? Well, 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.680 they gave this away on TV for free as a 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:39.720 set up for braun Breaker's next challenger, Joe Gacy, the 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:45.600 former vaulter, was a set up guy for Joe Casey. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.520 That's gonna be the feud and the long term feud. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:54.560 Here Joe Casey has kidnapped because we joke about it, 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.000 but it's actually not a joke. There is a kidnapping 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.440 on this show every other week, and this week Rick 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:05.560 Steiner has been kidnapped by Joe Gacy. That is this 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:11.079 set up for this braun Breaker Joe Gacy feud. There 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.480 was set up by braun Breaker just pinning gun Through 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:14.640 in the middle of the ring in a random main 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.720 event unadvertised on n x T two point Oh. The 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.280 only thing I gotta say about this is, uh, what 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.559 the good thing about this match, besides the fact that 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:27.000 it was good was you know, braun Breaker is going 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:30.240 to be somebody, and what I like is he's being 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.120 thrown into the deep end because you know, this was 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.960 not something that braun Breaker and Gunther practiced for a 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.480 week like Gunther's in there he's calling spots left and right. 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.199 So I think that this was kind of like a 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.240 I don't know, I don't I shouldn't say last minute, 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:46.800 but I mean it was sort of last minute, because 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:48.920 you know, this whole thing on Monday was last minute. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.280 So anyway, you know, he had to go in there 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.440 and he had to do a you know, call the match. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.160 I'm sure they went over some stuff, but this was 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.760 called the match in the ring. Listen to Gunther do 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:04.000 what he says, get in there and actually work, which 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.480 of course is the opposite of what we saw with 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:08.080 the Nikita Lions match. Nikia Lions and Lash Legend like 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.200 they practiced their match probably for weeks. They got in there. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.960 You know, they managed to pull it off, but you 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:16.160 ain't gonna learn to work like that. You're just gonna 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.080 be able to pull off a match on television, which 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:20.520 you know, if that's all you want these two to do, 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:23.160 that's fine. But Brown Breaker needs learned how to work. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.720 And this match with Gunther, I mean, he was in 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.560 there and he's a better worker now after the match 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:31.560 than he was before. So I like that aspect of it. 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.280 We'll get Mike Saus after the break talk more Observer 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:45.480 Live anything else? Alright, Mike, your thoughts on nine x 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:50.480 T two point Oh uh. There's a lot of talent 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:53.200 on that show booth, a little bit seasoned and a 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:56.480 lot of raw talent, obviously, with people like braun Breaker 0:12:56.559 --> 0:13:00.319 and such. But when they pulled back after he seated 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:05.680 Walter Clean, I just assumed Fabia Eichner would be standing there, 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.480 you know, explaining where he went. You know that would 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.520 that would make some sense? Okay, he just beat Walter Clean. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.600 We just had Imperium lose the tag titles. You know, 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.080 things are falling apart. But you know what, he lost 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:21.760 his mind, went to the back and said, you know what, 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:25.080 Selverik Steiner there and decided to take him. I don't 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.800 know would it made more sense, I think than Joe Gayzy, 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:32.120 But I am not a seasoned cz W viewer. I'm 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.240 not I don't know if Joe Gayzy did a lot 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:37.679 of training at the cz W Jojo. I know a 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.400 lot of people have come out of that gone through it. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.440 The MJ have a lot of people wrestled for cz W. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.880 I know he was a big part of that. I'm 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.840 guessing and I'm just I'm throwing this out there because 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:54.440 I don't know. Maybe this is obviously they want Harland 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:58.360 with Joe Gacy to try to learn something. Maybe this 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:01.080 is a good thing for ron Breaker. Again I am 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:08.120 not but Walter I know, And that's to me, braun 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.520 Breaker working with Eichner and being involved in it with 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.760 having some friends go after that whole group, to me 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:18.360 would be better for braun Breaker. But maybe again this 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.400 won't be the end of the world. But they the 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.280 problem is it's just the gay Cy character and I 0:14:24.640 --> 0:14:27.240 don't know, to the n x T crowd, is it over. 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:29.520 I mean, that's some of the metrics on some of 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.080 the stuff that WW is doing and doubling down on. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.240 It's like you see in some cases it's worked, you know, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.120 Tony D'Angelo people took to you know, and he's been 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:39.680 able to kind of hold up to his end of 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.000 the own in the Chomp if you'd we've had braun Breaker, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.680 we've had some successes there, but we've had some things 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.920 that they have obviously done they keep they keep doubling 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:51.520 and tripling down on that I don't think are very 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:55.040 good at all. And again I don't know. I'm I'm 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.240 kind of up in the air. On this because I 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.480 know at the end, braun Breaker should be standing Vic Toorious, 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.200 and I'm sure he'll do it, and I'm sure he'll 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.720 do something impressive to Harland to throw him. But you know, 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.640 I'm just kind of hoping against hope here because I 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.720 really don't know about Gaycy and the character and whether 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.200 this people are gonna care when the match is actually 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:17.320 taking place. No, but maybe they have to maybe have 0:15:17.400 --> 0:15:20.640 to train him to do sports entertainment storylines, and so 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.520 he's got to have this feud before he can go 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.920 up to the main roster. It's so silly because that's 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.640 where he should be. I just don't understand why you 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.920 don't make that move. He's lost it off already and 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.280 you just bring him up there as a surprise and 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.040 he starts throwing people, whether it be on Raw or 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.080 whether it be on SmackDown, especially with some of the 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:41.880 moves that they've made. It still again, it's a continuation 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:45.840 from yesterday. I just don't understand why he's there to 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.200 do that when he could work with so many people 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.600 on the main roster go over them and and and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.400 they could build that. But who am I after WrestleMania 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.560 largest audience for the show since January of one, which 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.760 by the way, was a special Legends Night episode, So 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.000 if you go back, I guess uh nine have to 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.400 rustle me is special. Best eighteen and forty nine numbers 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:11.200 since the start of one football season two point one 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:17.680 zero million viewers. Point six three at eighteen and forty 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.160 nine numbers far more impressive when you consider the show 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.520 winning against It could be one of its toughest nights 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.280 of the year for competition with the n C Double 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.280 A Men's championship game going head to head with the 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.920 second half of RAW sled Our one being the highest 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.000 rated when of late it has been Our to nineteen 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.880 point three percent drop our one to three, which is 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:37.800 usually the sign of a bad show, but in this case, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:42.400 it's a sign of a basketball game. The North Carolina 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.000 Kansas game, which aired on TBS, TNT and True TV 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.280 seventeen point oh five million viewers and are you ready 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:57.280 for this Row did a point six three in eighteen 0:16:57.280 --> 0:17:00.560 and forty nine, which is stupendous for Raw. So to speak, 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:06.080 point six three. This North Carolina Kansas game did a 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:15.320 four point seven two in eighteen to forty nine, A 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:22.720 four point seven two in eighteen to forty nine, all 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:30.000 le two traditional powerhouse teams realized the listen, listen, I 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:34.840 don't think you guys get it. Raw okay is normally 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.520 in the top ten, and sometimes it's in the top five, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:45.560 and sometimes it's like one, two three okay. It rarely 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:50.879 comes near a point six three. This game did a four, 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:56.080 not a point four, did a four point seven two 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.760 and eighteen and forty nine. So the raw number is 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:02.800 even Morris down. It's more stupendous when you think about it. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.640 To point three two million viewers first hour, to point 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:10.479 one one million second hour, and one point eight seven 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:16.960 million in the third hour, so very very good numbers. 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:23.359 So TBS and CBS, CBS and Turner Sports have this deal. 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:27.480 They extended it out I believe here through twenty thirty two. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:30.919 The eight additional years of the contract when they signed 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:33.840 this thing a couple of years ago, are worth eight 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:38.280 point eight billion dollars, nearly matching the value of the 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.679 original fourteen year deal, which was ten point eight million 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.480 billion signed in two thousand and ten. It is amazing 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:50.080 what live sports will do, and hey, wrestling has the 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.560 ability to continue to piggyback off of that. So it's uh, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:57.960 it's absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing those numbers that are thrown there. 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:01.520 This person says, normal folks don't watch this trash wrestling product. 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.840 You realize it. Raw and Dynamite do very, very well 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.040 in the top fifty. So all those numbers I gave 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:14.040 you about four point seven to compared to most every 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.200 other show on television comes nowhere near a point six 0:19:16.280 --> 0:19:20.840 three either, So nobody's watching nothing compared to this basketball game. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:25.760 So we got Dynamite tonight, Samo Joe Max Castor Men's 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:31.439 Tournament qualifier, Karasheeda Julia Hart Women's Tournament qualifier. Given this 0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.720 is a multi week tournament leading to the end of May, 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:39.560 so multi month, why do we have qualifiers for the tournament? 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.760 Why don't just have one more round of brackets? But 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:46.000 anyway we can, we can push storylines. We're debuting Samoa 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.920 Joe and we gotta figure out how brooding Julia Hart 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:54.000 is in this match. And I'm col Christian Cage Tables 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:57.920 match Hardy's versus Butcher and Blade FTR versus the Young 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:00.560 Bucks for the r O H Tag Team Titch Ampionships 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:03.400 and the Triple A Tag Team Championships. So don't miss 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.280 that one. Eddie Kingston, Santana and Ortiz will all be appearing. 0:20:08.080 --> 0:20:14.520 And Tony Kahn, whoa Tony Khan, on his Busted Open 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.960 radio appearance on Wednesday, made a point to say that 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.360 he is quote going back to his ruthless roots when 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.320 it comes to the line up for Friday, and it 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:27.679 will be a stacked up show. So obviously a Rampage 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.360 has not been doing great on Friday Night to say 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:35.560 the least. And uh, you know, he's gonna have to 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.280 do that more, and I think they probably should. Look, 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.720 Friday is the day that they're on. It's hard to 0:20:40.760 --> 0:20:42.439 move to a new day. It's hard to move to 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:45.920 a new time and really be able to scratch something out. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.600 And apparently you know, TBS and T and T are 0:20:48.600 --> 0:20:51.200 happy where it's at. But it has become the show 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.520 for rustling fans that if you're gonna miss something from 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.520 a w yeah you're gonna miss that over Dynamite. That's 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.359 just the way it goes. But when you have the 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:03.440 NHL Playoffs, when you have the n c A tournament, 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:06.040 where you have all of these things that are playing 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:09.879 with you, it may just be you really have to 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:13.160 EBB and flow that show kind of around these big events, 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.280 and then you have that stacked show after three weeks 0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:18.320 of not getting any attention at all, and you're looking 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.200 forward at baseball coming up and all the other things 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.040 that are on those properties. It's like, man, you really 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:25.960 are going to have to dance around this because I 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:28.640 again we've talked about the day, it's I'm moving off 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.000 of that day. The best thing I think they can 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.480 do is probably replay in other places like True TV, 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.600 L places like that. If you can spread a w 0:21:36.800 --> 0:21:39.399 programming out all across the Turner networks, I think that 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:42.040 would be great. But this is the only thing I 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:45.359 think you can do is try to promote strategically around 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:50.040 this stuff, and you better hope it hits. Gunter was 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:54.040 asked by Wrestling Inc. What he's been doing to get 0:21:54.080 --> 0:22:01.199 in shape. I guess eat less, Gunter s D. I 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:03.040 always worked out a lot, but I would say for 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:06.520 the first time I have really focused on nutrition. These 0:22:06.560 --> 0:22:09.480 two guys, Marcel Bartel and Phoebe and I Canner really 0:22:09.520 --> 0:22:13.359 pushed me. They're shredded. I've got to say, when I 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.439 was a wrestling fan, I always liked the look of 0:22:15.440 --> 0:22:17.600 these solid heavyweights in Japan who had a little bit 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.400 of a gut carrying around just brawlers and stuff like that. 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.399 But at the end of the day, you've got to 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:25.040 do go with the times and evolve a little bit, 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.919 and that's what he did. So for those of you 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:32.639 that are too heavy trying to lose some weight, Gunther 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:38.360 has advice for you eat less, which actually is part 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.280 of it. Yes, you know, I was. I hate to 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.360 digress and everything like that, but I always eat well, 0:22:44.760 --> 0:22:47.879 and uh, you know I was. I was doing the 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:50.280 old I can't say it was keto, but it was 0:22:50.320 --> 0:22:53.840 pretty low carb and uh and one day I thought, 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.400 you know what, I'm almost I'm almost. Actually was because 0:22:57.400 --> 0:23:00.639 I was going to Hawaii, and so I decided, you 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:02.200 know what, I'm not only gonna eat like this, but 0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:05.280 I'm gonna I'm gonna calorie count. I'm gonna cut my 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:10.560 calories a little bit. And uh, I just disappeared. I 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:14.160