WEBVTT - Collision Kick Off 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:08.320 --> 0:00:10.720 Ready, when you're ready, let's. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:10.960 Get it off. 0:00:13.560 --> 0:00:14.520 How's it going, everybody? 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:18.040 Brian Alvarez here on a Wrestling Observer Live. We are 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.040 here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.440 Sunday three Pacific six Eastern, Saturday mornings with Jim Bally 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.400 at ten Pacific, one Eastern. And it is Tuesday here 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:30.080 on this show. 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:31.640 Hey, you know what that means. 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.720 We have a lot to talk about here today, a 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:39.240 very busy week because a lot's changing both in pro 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:46.680 wrestling and on this site. As tonight, the final retro 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:49.960 raw from the nineties on the Brian and Vinnie and 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.080 Granny and Craig and Sean Show. Tonight we're gonna be 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:56.040 reviewing part two of The King of the Ring nineteen 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.720 ninety four, and after that it's done. Next week we 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:05.600 move on to twenty one years ago in Nwatna. As 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:07.920 a result, Tonight on the Brana Vinie Show, it is 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.600 going to be a nineties party. We're celebrating the end 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:15.840 of the nineties. We're gonna party like it's nineteen ninety nine, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.920 and then we are going to move on well two 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:24.200 thousand and two, so that's tonight. Also, of course, that 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.200 means this Sunday we will no longer be reviewing Rampage. 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:33.480 We will be reviewing Collision, which kicks off on Saturday night. 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:35.400 And we've got a lot of news on Collision on 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.840 the show here today, so we're gonna tell you about that. 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.400 Last night obviously was Monday Night Raw. We've got the 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:44.800 Raw Report, the world famous Raw Report actually, and we've 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:50.960 also got the lineup for everybody's favorite show tonight's NXT, 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:58.960 so that and Kofi Kingston and incredibly, another wrestler from 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.520 NXT is gonna be working for Booker T's Reality of Wrestling. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:04.960 I don't know if you remember this story, well I 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:09.000 sure do. We'll tell you about that and plenty more 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.000 if you'd like to text us here today. Four two 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.440 five seven eight zero seven five sixty six is the 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:15.799 phone number at is four two five seven eight zero 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:18.640 seven five sixty six, Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com, 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:21.880 at Brian Albarez on Twitter, and more. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:23.359 Back in a moment Observer Live. 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.919 Back in the show, Bright Albert is here wrestling Observer Live, 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.440 Mike SIMBERBBI, also Wrestling Observer dot Com. I got a 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.120 lot of news to get into here today. My first 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:58.760 I've a plug Observing Live. Wrestling Observer Live podcast with 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:03.440 Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez August twenty seventh, ten am 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:09.200 to noon British Standard time, because Dave and I are 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:13.440 in fact going to the UK. We're going to this 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:15.280 Wembley show and we are gonna be doing a Q 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:21.400 and A and tickets are on sale kind of now. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:25.600 There is a mailing list pre sale which began at 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:30.359 six pm UK time today and gets go on sale 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:35.600 to the general public six pm UK time on Wednesday, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:41.120 July fourteenth. The podcast will take place at Clubhouse five 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:48.120 WC two h seven b G and I'm a stupid American, 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.280 so I don't know any of that means, but it 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:52.960 will be just hours before all in. Dave and I 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.440 will be there for a Q and A and a 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:02.800 meet and greet and tickets on sale. General admission is 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:08.320 fifty five pounds and the seven Star VIP admission is 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:13.240 seventy five pounds That includes priority seating, professional digital photo 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:18.880 autographs with Brian and Dave and I know some people 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:23.280 have said, man, that's expensive. Well we have to go 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:30.520 to the UK and that is also very expensive, and we're. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.120 Going to be paying for it. Folks, Well, I mean questions. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.320 Good, No, here's the reality, Like, yeah, that probably is 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.880 a lot of money, but you know what, we're not 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.080 going to lose money. Like, it's just not gonna work. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.440 If we're to lose money, I'm not going How. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:45.600 Much was the cheapest ticket? 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.159 I don't know, dude, but it would you say, there's 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:49.880 seventy how much seventy five for. 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:54.240 The U fifty five pounds is the cheapest ticket? 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.560 Okay, it's American right now. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.480 Yeah, and I'm afraid that, you know, the fl to 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.360 and from the UK and lodging and everything like that, 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:05.960 we could not get that for fifty five pounds. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.520 It was a little more expensive than that. 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.479 But I know, I know you're not paying for that, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:10.800 are you. 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.440 Well no, because we're selling tickets. If we weren't, I 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.320 would be paying for that. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:16.440 I thought you had a sponsor. 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.520 I thought maybe you know, somebody was picking that up 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:20.719 for you guys traveling first class over there. 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.760 I wouldn't move out to the first class. Yeah, you're 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.000 a star right. 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:29.240 Listen, it's it's a business, everybody, and you know, if 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.160 it's if it's not, if it doesn't make financial sense, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:32.960 it's not going to happen. 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:33.120 Now. 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.960 I would love to go to Wembley and go to 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.560 the aw Show, which we're going to do, but I 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.800 can't lose my ass doing it. It's just the fact 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.400 I got kids, as Heath Slater used to say, I 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:48.359 got kids. So anyway, the pre sales today, the actual 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:52.920 sale is tomorrow, and tickets are limited because there's only 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.880 so many seats in this particular building. So anyway, get it, 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.800 well you can. We have never gone over there for 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:04.360 a and who knows when we will be back if ever. Hey, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.919 I haven't gotten to the UK since it was my 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.800 senior year in high school. I think I went there 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:18.640 for a school trip. And actually, you know, I've told 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.880 this story before. I don't remember this, but Vinie does. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.880 Vinie and I climbed the Eiffel Tower together because we 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.560 weren't actually friends in high school because I was a 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:30.440 senior and he was a junior, and who hangs out 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.920 with the juniors, So anyway, I didn't really know him. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.599 But apparently we went up the Eiffel Tower together, and 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.280 then a few years later he met me at the 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.680 local YMCA after I'd been wrestling and he wanted to 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.000 get into wrestling, and then I agreed to help him 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:48.120 with that. So that's actually how we really met. But 0:06:48.160 --> 0:06:50.640 we did go to the UK together when I was 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:53.960 a senior in high school. And I don't know if 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:55.640 you guys are where this or not. My birthday was yesterday. 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.200 I'm forty eight. That means that I have not I 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.600 have not been to the UK in thirty years, and 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:06.240 so there's a decent chance I may not return to 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.960 the UK for thirty years. So you know, if you 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:13.040 don't want to pay the fifty five pounds, that's fine. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.920 I'm not mad at you. But if you want to, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:17.960 this will be your chance, and then who knows if 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:18.760 you'll ever get a chance. 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:20.840 Due again, how's that for a plug? 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.080 Well, ay, not going to pay for it because you 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:25.720 know they're not showing it in this country. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:29.280 It's gonna be fun, you know what, It's gonna be fun. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.360 So no, I will not bring the tech sar Candad 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:38.960 television title because that would involve me bringing more carrying man. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.120 And yeah, I've been doing a fair amount of traveling lately. 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.679 You know, the secret of traveling is bring nothing. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.640 Yeah, you're just gonna like do it old school style too, 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:51.800 like you did back in ninety four, ninety three whenever 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:53.920 it was that you graduate in. Just take a bunch 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:56.160 of T shirts and roll them all up in the ball, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.920 sticking them at the bottom of the backpack, and there 0:07:58.960 --> 0:07:59.240 you go. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.560 That's basically what I do. I try not to ever 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.480 have to check any luggage nothing. Never. Never do things 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:08.720 go right when you check luggage. It only goes wrong. 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:13.040 And so anyway, grab your tickets now. The website get 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:17.400 ready for this who Live London dot com at being 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:24.160 WO Live London as in Wrestling Observer wo Live London 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.400 dot com and all of the information is up there. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.559 It is in association with wrestled Tours and Progress Wrestling 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:34.560 and we are going to be going to a lot 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:39.040 of shows that weekend. It's gonna just basically fly to 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.280 the UK, go to a bunch of shows, do a 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.280 Q and A go to another show and go home. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.640 Boom boom boom boom boom. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.600 So that's gonna be a lot of fun and. 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.640 If it goes well, maybe we can have a wol 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:52.640 live in London. 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.280 Hey, you never know, dude, You never know, You never know. 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.160 Might need to get my paperwork in order. 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.439 All right, we got new It's not all good. AW 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:06.800 has fired BJ Whitmer after his early June arrest on 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.120 domestic violence charges. Fightful reported Monday. The forty five year 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:14.480 old was arrested Sunday, June fourth by the Boone County 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.079 Sheriff's Department charges of first degree strangulation, second degree burglary. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.920 Shortly after the report, AW released the following statement to 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:26.600 the media. BJ Whitmer has been terminated following his arrest 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.920 on domestic violence charges. While talent and staff are ultimately 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.240 responsible for their own personal actions, this behavior is intolerable 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.440 within AW. AW has reached out to for support to 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:42.720 those impacted by his behavior. He was released from custody Monday. 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.520 Bond of twenty five thousand dollars was set. Whitmer bound 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:50.000 to a grand jury. For a further definition in Kentucky quote, 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:52.319 the prosecutor must prove to the judge that there is 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.600 enough evidence to show that a crime has been committed. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.240 This involves presenting a minimal amount of evidence which will 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:02.640 justify further proceedings. If the prosecutor establishes sufficient evidence, the 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.959 case will be bound to the grand jury. And this 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.920 is wouldn't say a former ring of Bonner or Take 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.840 Team Champion been with AW in a producing role since 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:17.640 twenty nineteen, So I don't have any other details. Talk 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.960 to people yesterday, actually asked some people yesterday and they 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:25.080 hadn't even heard about it yet. So yeah, not a 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:29.920 good story at all. To kick off the show today. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:36.040 Gos's Collision coming up on Saturday, and I'm gonna talk 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.199 about this after the break because there's been a lot 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:42.199 of talk, including finally by Tony Kahan, about the idea 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.480 of who is going to be on what show and 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.560 what is going on, and we're gonna know more once 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.600 Collision kicks off, and maybe there will be some mentions 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.520 of things on Dynamite, but I've talked to people and 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.200 I got a lot to say about that, so that'll 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:02.000 be after the break. Very quickly to is NXT everybody's 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:07.920 favorite program, We've got braun Breaker. He is going to 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.360 do a promo talking more about wanting seth Rawlins to 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.520 come to NXT to defend the world title. Thea Hale 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.880 will face Kora Jade. We have got Mustavali Wesley and 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:24.120 Tyler Bate against Joe Gasey and the Diad. I guess 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.280 remember Joe Gasey was gonna take some time off to 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:30.680 think about things. I guess he's thought about it. Baron 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:37.400 Corbin versus Elia Dragonov Noam Dar or, as Granny refers 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:42.960 to him, Normdor. He is gonna be facing Nathan Fraser, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:47.960 Edris and Ope versus Mulik Blade and Roxane Perez versus 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:51.559 Tatum Pasley speaking of Granny. Tonight on the Bran and 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.280 Vinnie and Granny and Craig and Sean and everybody else show, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:12:00.440 there is a Brian's Birthday song contest MP three sixty 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:04.400 seconds or less. But song contest in the subject line. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:06.880 And I know you're laughing, Mike, but I did not 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:07.680 come up with this idea. 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:09.239 This was Tim Page's idea. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:12.000 And not only is it Tim Page's idea, but he 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:15.199 is going to pay one hundred dollars to the winner 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:16.000 of this contest. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:17.199 I'm shocked. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:18.120 So I'm giving you. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.840 Guys some time to come up with some songs. Not 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.400 a lot of time, but you still have time. Brian 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.319 at Wrestling Observer dot com MP three sixty seconds or 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:29.360 less song contests in the subject line er Now everybody 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:31.839 and have fun on our nineties party tonight. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:40.760 Back in a Moment, Observer Live. Back in the show. 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:46.160 Bryan Elberz here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike SIMBERDDI, also Wrestling 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.720 Observer dot com. You know, I'm in a preface what 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:54.000 I'm about to say by pointing out how often I'm right. Okay, 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.160 I don't like to do that. No, I'm not that 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:57.800 kind of guy. 0:12:58.280 --> 0:12:59.040 No. 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.679 But you know, it wasn't that long ago that there 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.520 were all of these stories about Aw's new television deal, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.840 and you know, all sort of rumors about a billion 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.360 dollars or this that and the other and everything like that. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.320 And uh, and what what did I say? I said, 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:19.320 you know, you know what I think this is. I 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.760 think this is a deal for collision and not anything 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:27.200 involving streaming HBO Max. Did I not say this? And 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.120 I know I said this. I know I said this 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.160 because I had all these people that were messaging me 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:34.000 one weekend when I was camping and they were all 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:37.240 angry about what I said. And then uh, and then 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:41.680 what happened, Well, it was just a deal for collision. Right, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.680 that's what happened. So I was right, do you want 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.960 a gold star for not that? Well, no, I just 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.760 want to I want to bring that up, you know, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:51.640 I want another one to bring up. You remember like 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:54.120 a couple of months ago where I said, you know, 0:13:54.920 --> 0:14:00.840 NXT wrestlers, you might remember this, Mike, NXT wrestlers are 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.800 going to be doing select indie dates. Do you remember 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.000 I said this? And then Ivy Niall was booked for 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:11.839 Booker T's Reality of Wrestling. And what did they say 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.000 after I said, you know, they're gonna be doing selects 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.320 indies and hey, here's Ivy working Booker T's Well, they said, no, 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.360 that's not gonna happen. Now, this is a one time 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.760 only thing. It's one time only. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.600 We just happened, remember that. 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:28.520 And even Booker T did some interview and he was like, ah, 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.840 all this other stuff, well, you know. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:34.840 That's about what it sounded like. 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:37.720 Do you know who's wrestling for Reality of Wrestling on 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:43.360 July fifteenth, Booker T's Reality of Wrestling. Incidentally, well, Trick Williams, 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.800 another NXT wrestler, is booked for Reality of Wrestling. I'm 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.560 sure that this is also a one time only thing 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:54.000 that will never happen again until the next time it happens. 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:55.680 But I just want to point. 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.600 Out that that I was right about that as well. 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:01.720 Now I could go on, but let's get the point here. Okay, 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:09.120 everybody is talking about Collision and Dynamite rosters. Everybody wants 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.640 to believe this, and they want to believe that. Now 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.040 I'm gonna tell you what I think is gonna happen. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.280 And I don't care if you believe me or not. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:22.920 If I'm wrong, you can get back to me in 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.600 a couple of months. But I'm gonna tell you what 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:26.840 I believe is happening. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.040 Here about something else that's okay. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:37.080 Tony Kann did an interview on Barstool Wrestling, and he 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.880 says he has not quote drawn any hard lines between 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:47.320 the shows or locked AEW into a roster split. Certain 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.000 talent will be featured on certain shows. There's also the 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.520 opportunity for certain stories to cross between Dynamite and Collision. 0:15:54.200 --> 0:15:58.120 A w champions will be the champions of every show. So, 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.040 you know, we've heard a lot of words hard split, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:06.680 soft split, you know this and that. 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:09.320 Who's talked about a lot of that stuff. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.720 And I have said from day one, and I will 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.440 reiterate here that this I believe is what's going to 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:19.720 happen with AW and Collision in Dynamite. This is going 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:27.760 to be how it was after Vince left and before 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:32.040 he came back in WWE, which means you have a 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:37.440 raw show and you have a SmackDown show. There are 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:41.000 talents that are generally featured on one show, and there 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.320 are talents that are generally featured on another show. But 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.880 if there is a talent that is hot, if there 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.000 is a storyline that is hot, if there is a 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.600 necessity for someone to switch to another show, then they 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:58.080 will do that. That is the way it was when 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.560 Vince was gone, and I am telling you that that 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:03.120 is the way it is going to be here. Now, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.919 there are exceptions. The young Bucks and Cmpunk are not 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:12.640 going to be on the same show. Now, does that 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.399 mean one hundred percent that you will never see the 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:19.080 Bucks on Collision or Cempunk on Dynamite. No, but you 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.639 will not see them on the same show together. The 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:27.880 Collision show is largely going to be considered CM Punk's show. 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.160 He will be on that show ninety percent of the time. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.400 If he is needed on Dynamite. He will be on Dynamite, 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.840 but the Young Bucks will not be there that day. Okay, 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.560 MJF And may show up on the Wednesday show, he 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.920 may show up on the Saturday show depending on when 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:49.040 he is needed or whatever. But for those people that 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.240 think there is not going to be a split or whatever, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.439 I hate to tell you this, but yesterday not all talent, 0:17:57.440 --> 0:18:01.399 but some talent were sent the e that this is 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.200 the show that you are going to be on. Now, 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.880 if there's no such thing as a brand split, they're 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.520 not sending out an email telling you that this is 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.639 the show that you are going to be on. So 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:15.320 to a degree, there is going to be a split. 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.120 Is it a split that is set in stone? 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:19.840 No, of course not. 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:25.240 But this is the key to all of this. Okay, 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:30.840 this is not WWE where you know, in the old days, 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:34.520 before there was a brand split, you could if you 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:38.520 let's say your curt Angle, you leave your house on 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:43.240 Thursday to fly to the city. You work SmackDown on Friday, 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:46.600 you work House Show on Saturday, you work House Show 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.040 on Sunday, you work Raw Monday, and you fly home 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.560 your home Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, you fly out and 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:57.080 then you do that loop again. Okay, they do not 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.919 have a loop. They do not have a loop. And 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.280 so therefore, if everybody is going to work every show, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:07.359 which is not gonna happen, that would require you to 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:13.080 fly out Tuesday, do Dynamite Wednesday, and then either fly 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.520 home Thursday and fly back out Friday. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:17.720 So you can do the Saturday show. 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.840 Fly out Sunday, and you get like a day or 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.000 two at home, and then this will be a nightmare. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:23.640 Okay. 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:27.879 So that is why what is likely to happen is 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.280 certain people Wednesday is going to be their show. Other 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.200 people Saturday is going to be their show. Doesn't mean 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:41.720 you can't do both, but for ease of travel, having 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.080 a schedule, knowing what you're going to do, you're gonna 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.720 know whether you're likely going to be Saturday or you're 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.600 likely going to be Wednesday. 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:50.400 Okay. 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:56.480 I mean, it's just not feasible to require people to 0:19:56.760 --> 0:20:00.960 either be on the road from Tuesday night Sunday morning, 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.959 or to fly home for a day and fly right 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:06.960 back out again. It's just not feasible to do that. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.600 No one's gonna want to do that. Some people are 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.280 gonna have to sometimes if you're a champion. But MGF 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.760 doesn't need to work both shows every week. MJF can 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:19.720 work four straight weeks of Wednesday and then after the 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.240 pay per view cycle or whatever, he can do six 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.439 eight straight weeks of Collision or whatever, and then you know, 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:28.800 go back and forth. But there is going to be 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.480 a split. There's gonna be talent that are largely always 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.919 on Collision, There's gonna be talent that's largely always on Dynamite, 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:38.680 and here and there without a draft, you will move 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.480 to a different show or whatever. But that's the way 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:43.640 it's going to be. And if you want to call 0:20:43.680 --> 0:20:46.679 it a soft brand split, whatever you want to call it. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.000 I mean, each show has its separate ross, whatever you. 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:50.560 Want to call it. 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.400 That is what's going to happen here. So we'll see 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:59.120 who ends up where when. But obviously things can change. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:03.160 And when they have pay per views is gonna get 0:21:03.160 --> 0:21:05.639 in the way of that. Roh House shows are going 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:07.080 to get in the way of that when it comes 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:10.720 to Claudio and Joe and some other people just regular 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.480 house shows. You know, if you're usually working on Wednesdays 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:17.440 on Dynamite, but your scheduled for this Saturday House show, 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:20.879 maybe you don't work that previous week's Wednesdays Dynamite. Instead 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.960 you work Friday on Collision, then you go Saturday to 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:26.720 wherever the house show is and Sunday whatever it's going 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:28.840 to be, We'll just have to see how it goes. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:32.040 It just seems like the only real brand split is 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.720 keeping cmpunk and the Young Bucks apart. You know, it's 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.639 really at the end of the day, that seems to 0:21:36.640 --> 0:21:39.880 be what it is, because I can't picture a scenario 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.720 where champions don't show up on both shows. Then you're 0:21:42.760 --> 0:21:45.919 putting yourself into a position that WWE is in. Just 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.040 doesn't make any sense when it comes to your mjfs 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.000 and people like that. If something happened serious on Dynamite, 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.320 you haven't cut a promo where you have a really 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:57.239 good video package that you could show on Collision and 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:01.199 vice versa. So you know, it's obviously we're gonna have 0:22:01.240 --> 0:22:03.800 to see how everything shakes out. But I wouldn't look 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.119 for too much on that first or second show either. 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:09.080 I mean, it's going to be a process to kind 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:12.399 of see how everything plays itself and how you construct 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.280 the travel and all that sort of stuff. So it's 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:16.200 probably going to be a work in progress, at least 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:17.119 through the first month. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:23.560 SmackDown on Friday two point two seven eight million viewers 0:22:23.560 --> 0:22:26.800 on Fox, down eleven percent from the thousand day celebration. 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.640 It was third on all of television points six zero 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:33.080 in eighteen to forty nine trail to Game four of 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:38.359 the NBA Finals, SmackDown more than doubled everything else on 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:42.240 TV in eighteen to forty nine. They more than doubled 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:46.159 everything else on television in eighteen forty nine, finished third 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.520 behind the NBA with a point four four eighteen to 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:56.920 thirty four, also more than doubling the next closest competition. So, uh, SmackDown. 0:22:56.400 --> 0:22:58.520 Remains it would be sawn hot. 0:22:58.880 --> 0:22:59.600 At this moment. 0:23:00.520 --> 0:23:07.240