WEBVTT - Rampage/Smackdown/Ring of Honor Spoiler 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.759 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:10.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:15.680 let's get it all. How's going everybody? Brian Alvarez here 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.560 on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:21.720 Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.880 sixth Eastern. We have not talked to you since Friday, 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:29.000 and boys, a lot of stuff happened since Friday. We 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.120 had the Rampage Show, we had the SmackDown Show, we 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.680 had Battle of the Belt, we got a line up 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.360 for Raw tonight. We had an update on Sasha Banks 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.360 who injured her knee at a house show taping. We 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.839 have got to the announcement of the return of a 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.760 Ring of Honor exactly as they had stated. They will 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:53.199 be returning April first for Supercard of Honor. And we 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.680 actually have a ton of details on what the relaunch 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.200 of a Ring of Honor is going to entail. Obviously, 0:00:59.320 --> 0:01:02.920 if you have not heard, uh spoiler alert here, there 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:08.039 was a Ring of Honor championship change that just occurred, 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.959 and we'll tell you everything we know about that. So 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:12.720 if you don't want impact spoilers. I'll give you a 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.480 warning before we talk about it, but we'll talk about that. 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.440 There was an injury had the Impact taping is Luckily 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.200 the news is good. The former Tom Phillips is debut 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.639 for Impact Wrestling. Tom Phillips was great at his job, 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.520 but he was released by w E. Now he appears 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:34.800 to be replacing Matt Striker in Impact Wrestling. We've also 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.000 got to the results of SmackDown, the results of Rampage, 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.040 the results of Battle of the Belts, everything going forward 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.640 there and plenty more if you'd like to Texas here today. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.880 The number four to seven eight zero seven five six six. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.200 That is four to five seven eight zero seven five 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.240 six six Bryan at Wrestling Observed dot Com is email 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.040 at Bran Alvarez is the text message. I'm sorry, that's 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:59.800 the that's the Twitter handle I'm on Twitter. Did you 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.520 know at Brian Alvarez. 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So go up there, use 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:17.920 your Amazon Prime sign up and enjoy the fun everybody. 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.360 So here's the news, got a lot of it. It's 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:23.960 actually not all bad news for once. I mean the 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.120 worst news is it ROS tonight. Maybe it'll be good. 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:29.200 Who knows. We got Bianca bell Air, Live Morgan and 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:34.400 Do drop in a three way uh for a raw 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.560 women's title opportunity at Royal Rumble. According to w W 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:44.120 dot com, we got Alexa Blisses journey back to rab begins. 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:48.760 Can't wait for that. And RK Brow will defend the 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.560 raw take team titles against the Alpha Academy. So two 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.280 matches announced. I presume they'll both take place, but that's 0:07:56.320 --> 0:08:01.000 a foolish presumption because many times that doesn't happen. And 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.800 they also announced that Sasha Banks will be out of action. 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.360 Here's what it says. Six to eight weeks after suffering 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:14.920 a foot injury at a live event in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:19.440 It says after seeking emergency medical attention, it was determined 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.200 and nothing was broken. Sasha underwent an m r I 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:30.320 it was discovered she has a bruised calcineus bone. I 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.319 think only women have a calcineus bone. I'm not aware 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.880 of having one myself. She is at home recovering and undergoing, 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.040 like how a dude as an Adams Apple but a 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.000 woman doesn't. She is expected to be out of action 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.760 for six to eight weeks w W WE announced, which, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.040 of course, if that's true, that means she will not 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.200 be in the Women's Royal Rumble and why do they 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.920 need women? So you know, do I think she's gonna 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.040 be back at the rumble? Is a big surprise? Yes? 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.160 Is that confer? Absolutely not? Will she likely miss it? 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.199 Who knows? That's what they're claiming, So I guess we'll 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:09.040 see what happens. But I think they have nineteen women 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.800 announced for a thirty woman Royal Rumble, And boy, if 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.240 you see the list of women that they have for 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:16.800 this royal Rumble, where in God's name are they gonna 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.720 get eleven other women? Do you want to hear the lineup? 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.680 Somebody dm me on Twitter and said, hey, do you 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.320 think there's going to be some surprises that take place 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:28.960 in the Rumble? And just by math, yes, of course 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:33.680 there already is one for those of you who somehow 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:36.560 stayed under a rock all weekend as Brian goes through 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.000 these names and maybe a little bit of a surprise 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.400 to you. All right, So this is the lineup for 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:47.720 the thirty woman a Royal Rumble, and this is this 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.360 is nineteen. Look who we've got and they're they've got nineteen. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.880 We got real ripley Nikki. This is Nikki a s 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.040 h Nicky ash Aaliyah who has not been seen since 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:04.040 she vomited all over self, Naddy and Shana summer Ray 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.760 is back for the Royal Rumble to Mina, Dana Brook, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:16.600 Kelly Kelly, Naomi, Carmela, Zelina, Michelle McCool who's living life. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.320 Both of the Bella Twins. Remember when Nicki said that 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:27.040 she was prom Nicki didn't interview, said her neck is 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.120 such a disaster she can never have another match again. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:34.760 Now they've announced both Bella's for the Royal Rumble Leta 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:39.319 and uh. Coming in at number nineteen is Mickey James, 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:45.119 who they build and who is still the Impact Wrestling 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:51.680 Women's Champion. That is your lineup for the Women's Royal Rumble. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.679 And now they have to come up with eleven more 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:59.800 women for this Royal Rumble. So oh and Charlotte. Charlotte 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:05.120 also so declared, hyah, so that's is that eleven more 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.440 with or without Charlotte. It might be only ten more 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.560 with Charlotte, but I'm not bothering the account. They have 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:14.200 many more to add. Three of them will probably very 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:20.160 likely be I would assume toxic attraction. Right. Well, all 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.560 I was told and you know, you know, when you're 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.160 told something by w W E, it's like you know 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:29.200 you can report it, but what what you're told yesterday 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.319 is not the same as what actually happens often. But 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:34.840 I was told that they didn't really want to use 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.920 a lot of n x T women. That's probably changed 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:41.720 by now is they have eleven women remaining, and uh, 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.640 we're already down to the Kelly Kelly's and etcetera. So well, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.760 I say, who are they going to use? Diana Parrazzo? 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:52.600 And they got Mickey, So maybe we'll have more more 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.280 impact women involved a lounder a blaze, but a lot 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:01.600 of women remaining would surprised me. Actually, person notes Molly here, 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:05.520 yet they could call Molly Chelsea Green. No, no, that 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.280 won't be happening, Gail Kim, absolutely not. That won't be 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.439 happening now alright, So the other there's actually a lot 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.360 of big news today, But one of the other big 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.360 stories today is yes, as we have been stating for 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.559 months now, and as a lot of people do not believe, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.040 Ring of Honor is in fact relaunching over WrestleMania weekend, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:28.520 they made the announcement today. Supercard of Honor is taking 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:32.680 place on Friday, April one at the Curtis cole Well 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.640 Center in Garland, Texas. Take us for the annual pay 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.560 per view EXTRAVAGANZAA on sale Friday January one at eleven 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:46.880 Eastern for Honor Club members Friday January for the general public. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:50.080 No matches have been announced for Supercard of Honor yet, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.040 so this is this is the working plan, okay, And 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.280 this is a spoiler by the way, for the Impact tapings, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.679 Rock c is no longer the Ring of Honor Women's 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:06.680 champ you. She was defeated by Dianna Parazzo. And uh 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:11.360 the story is that, as we had noted, Ring of 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.920 Honor is going to be a glorified independent promotion with television. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.560 So uh p W g A g c W. They're 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:24.199 essentially gonna use who is available to run shows and 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.320 they are going to put those shows on television. That's 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.880 that's part one of the plan. At this point, Roxy 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:34.800 has not signed with anybody, but the presumption is she 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.800 probably ain't gonna be available in April. She's got another 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.720 w w E tryout camp coming up, a w who knows, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.320 maybe they'll make an offer for her, but the feeling 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:48.040 is it's unlikely that she's gonna be available. So therefore 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:51.080 they took the title off of her two because I 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.640 think they figured that Dianna will be available in April. Dianna, 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.880 they must have some sort of agreement with um Impact 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.560 or whatever, whatever the situation is, they feel they're gonna 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:05.520 be able to use Dianna come April. So Dianna is 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.960 the current Ring of Honor Champion. There were a whole 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.640 bunch of belts in Ring of Honor, and going forward 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.199 they're largely gonna book three belts. They're gonna book the 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:18.520 Ring of Honor Men's title, the Ring of Honor Women's title, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:22.360 the Ring of Honor tag team titles, so six man titles, 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.560 pure title. I know Jonathan Gresham is out there with 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.400 the pure title as well, but I don't want to 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.840 say those belts are like fully retired. But Ring of 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:36.200 Honor is gonna be focusing on men's women's tag and 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.240 so what's gonna happen is you've been seeing Jonathan Gresham 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.600 working elsewhere defending the the Ring of Honor titles. See 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.960 Diana Parrazzo do the same thing, and uh same with 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.920 the tag team titles. And the agreement that Ring of 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:54.000 Honor has with all of these other promotions is, let's 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.560 say that you know, you see a Ring of Honor, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.080 uh tag team championship match at g CW. Ring of 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:04.800 Honor has the rights to the footage of their tag 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:08.080 team championship match or whatever match in other promotions. Doesn't 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.240 mean exclusive rights, but if the Briscoes defend the tag 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:14.440 team titles in g c W, Ring of Honor can 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:19.040 use that footage on their television shows. So basically, from 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:22.280 now until Supercard of Honor, if you watch the Ring 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.800 of Honor television show, you're gonna see championship matches from 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.440 all different promotions because the Ring of Honor has the 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.160 right to use those matches on their television show. And 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.080 then obviously come Supercard of Honor, you'll see you know, 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:38.040 matches from there and the tapings on the television show, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.600 and uh, the champions are essentially gonna be touring World Champions. 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.240 So we'll talk more about this after the break back 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:54.000 in a Moment of er her Life. The show Bright 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.040 Nowver is here Wrestling Observer Live miximber viv also Wrestling 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.360 Observer dot Com. So I don't know what the future 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.800 is for the uh six men pure television titles, etcetera. 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:08.000 I mean, they may they may have to return them, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.720 they may just float around the indies and whoever's champions 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:12.400 just books some side. I don't know what they're gonna do. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.800 But the three that they're going to focus on our men's, 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:19.280 women's in tag and touring World Champions is noted, So 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.680 they'll go all over the place defend those titles. Ring 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.840 of Hunter gets to use the footage for television. Ring 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.080 of Honor shoots their own television and pay per views, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.880 and uh that's the future at this point of a 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.800 Ring of Honors. So first big show coming back will 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:36.000 be as noted, the Supercard of Honor on April one 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.600 in Garland at Texas. Yeah, what do you need all 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.120 those belts for? You know, in the situation that they're in, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.320 you could argue that they don't even need a women's title, 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.440 although because of the way they're going to be set 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.760 up now, the women's division might actually thrive and that 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.960 belt actually might get a lot more shine on it 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.360 because you are able to bring in people from outside 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.880 and you don't have to worry about acquiring a roster 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.960 that they were attempting to do and all that sort 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.399 of stuff, so you can bring in somebody, you know, 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.879 as much money Sinclair is gonna want to throw at people, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:08.879 and I think this is the best case scenario for 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:14.399 Ring of Honor. Obviously, what the wrestling side wanted, Sinclair 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.120 could only give them so much as far as being 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.640 able to flood them with money and production and all 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.000 these sorts of things. You know that limitation, especially production wise, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.480 has been there since day one when it comes to 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.680 getting the equipment and having really what these guys want 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.320 to use, and they were only going to make it 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.480 so far. So in this crazy environment that we're in, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.960 they need to concentrate on Honor Club, make sure people 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:42.840 sign up for it, give people, get them excited for 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.600 that possibility, getting excited for these weekend pay per views 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.840 that they're going to be doing. What is going to 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.600 be interesting or is going to be how the rest 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:56.000 of the landscape spins around Ring of Honor. When they 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:59.000 decide we're going to have this weekend and we're gonna 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.720 watch it for fry Day and Saturday or however that's 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:05.080 going to work. How there's so many other promotions that 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.280 now run Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. There's so much going on. 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:10.480 It'll be interesting to see who they are able to 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.240 draw in. But as far as I'm I know, and 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:15.040 I could be dead wrong about this, Brian, maybe you 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.640 have some insight on it. Chris Hero is still there. 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.880 There are other people that are still there who certainly 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.600 have a cache in this business, certainly love pro wrestling 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.000 and certainly want to see Ring of Honor succeed and 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:30.520 understand that, even with its limitations, having Sinclair behind you 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:34.239 and having those resources are a massive, massive help. This 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.639 person says, Roah better pay up if they're going to 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:41.280 be using people's footage in syndication, Bro, what do you 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:42.640 think they're gonna be What do you think they're gonna 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.200 be paying for this? Number One, if you're if you're 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.320 g c W, you get to promote that the Ring 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.520 of Honor champions defending its championship on your show, and 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.800 then g CW is getting syndicated all over the country 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.360 with tons of You think they're not gonna say where 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:01.440 it's at. Well, like they're gonna plug GCW. They'll probably 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:03.520 plug their next show. I mean, this works out great 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.160 for everybody. No one's turning this idea down because they're 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:08.920 not getting paid huge money if the footage is used 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.680 on on television. No, and we already saw F E 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.240 and A. J. Gray show up to face the Briscoes 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.000 on r O H TV and they they benefited from that. 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.400 We've seen the Briscoes. This was a couple of years ago, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.919 right after the hurricane in Puerto Rico, when every I 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.000 mean it was it's still awful down there, especially forget 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.000 about the wrestling scene. But you know w W c 0:19:29.480 --> 0:19:32.520 ran their anniversary show that Briscos went down there for that. 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:34.960 That footage ended up on on Ring of Honor TV. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.960 So again it's a little bit of a different example, 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:39.560 but there's gonna be a lot of give and take here, 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:43.320 especially for groups like say The Fire or you know, yes, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.520 if I has got a channel on Pluto, they absolutely 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.200 have that. Unfortunately, the visibility is not there. Ring of Honor, 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.320 you know, you can debate how many people watch it 0:19:52.320 --> 0:19:54.960 and all this sort of stuff, but because of the 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.679 way it's syndicated out, because there's still the possibility of 0:19:58.680 --> 0:20:00.359 getting a lot of viewers for a out of these 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.919 smaller groups even impact you know, it's not necessarily a 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.600 bad thing to have your name mentioned on TV like that. 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.000 First and ever wants to know if I know if 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:10.880 a Ring of Under is going to use original commentary 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:12.719 for shows from other promotions or if they'll do their 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.440 own commentary. Actually, I don't know. I don't know what's 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:17.439 going on right now. I will try to answer some 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:21.000 of these questions later on, but that's uh, that's all 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.160 I know at this exact moment. I'll try to figure 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.439 out more about like Josh Woods peer title, like is 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.439 he the shoot Peer Champion? Right now, I don't know. 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:32.119 We'll see a lot of these belts. I mean, honestly, 0:20:32.359 --> 0:20:35.000 I if I'm Ring of Honor, I just reeled them 0:20:35.040 --> 0:20:37.600 back in and look at Chaine Taylor Promotions and look 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.240 at who you know, whoever's got these belts and go, hey, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:42.680 you know, the time to cash them out. We're gonna 0:20:42.680 --> 0:20:45.480 put them up into in the offices, and that's it. 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:47.520 I mean, you could let the belts linger out there, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:49.760 sell them to somebody. You know, you could sell the 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:53.320 rights to have a a trio smatch where those belts 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:56.720 get merged and sucked in by Triple A or something 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:58.959 like that. You could absolutely do something like that if 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:02.560 you so chose. But realistically, right now, I would honestly 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.560 just vacate those belts up here. Championship was was basically 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:08.480 melded in to the world title. Anyway, the TV title 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.720 I think went that direction. They did. They emerged that 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:12.639 one already, so I think when it comes to the 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:15.159 pure title in the six man titles, you know, it 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.200 kind of stinks for those guys, But I would say, 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:18.800 go ahead and pull them off, and they can walk 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.720 around any independent promotion and go hey, I was never 0:21:21.720 --> 0:21:24.000 beat for those belts. We were never beat for those belts. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.119 We want to come in. You could always have that 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:28.920 storyline when they go in somewhere. I write a couple 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.119 of notes from SmackDown because a lot of this plays 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:35.159 into the Royal rumble. We had a Lessner Reins confrontation 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:40.560 where Paul Hayman started to feel really sad that Roman 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:43.359 Reigns had said mean things about him and he almost 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.840 started crying, and then Brock got mad at Paul Hayman 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.240 fur it, and so they are still playing up the 0:21:48.280 --> 0:21:53.639 storyline that maybe maybe Paul would rather be with a 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:55.960 Roman than Brock. So this obviously is going to play 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.040 out through the the Wrestle Media show. But in the meantime, 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.119 obviously Brock ledser versus Bobby Lashley at the Royal Rumble 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.679 and the storyline on SmackDown. I love when his storyline 0:22:07.480 --> 0:22:12.919 in storyline, the company is incompetent. So in storyline, Adam 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:17.800 Pierce gets a call and he's told bro we need 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.840 a challenger for Roman and Royal Rumble. Find somebody like 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.679 right now. So you know, Adam Pierce is is on 0:22:25.840 --> 0:22:28.280 He's on SmackDown and he gets his call, so he 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:32.240 tries to find somebody and who does he find, well 0:22:32.240 --> 0:22:37.399 a guy not on SmackDown. Roman reigns, So you know 0:22:37.480 --> 0:22:41.520 that old uh the one time per year that I 0:22:41.600 --> 0:22:44.160 don't even mention it. But anyway, it's gonna be seth 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:47.920 rawlins and Roman reigns and WrestleMania because the SmackDown roster 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.480 is so like, God bless all the guys. Like I'm 0:22:51.520 --> 0:22:53.919 a big fan of the individual wrestlers personally, but in 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:57.679 terms of like Star Power, SmackDown is dead and you 0:22:57.840 --> 0:23:00.960 literally had to go to another brand to get somebody 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:05.959 to challenge Roman Reigns at the Royal Rumble. So they 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:12.040 did that and Rick Boogs beat Sammy Zane. Sammy Zane 0:23:12.080 --> 0:23:16.880