WEBVTT - AEW Dissapointment? 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.439 Live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.880 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.040 Brian Alvarez and Mike semper Vv. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.080 Right, you're ready, where you're ready, Let's get it all now. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.520 How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.240 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:40.120 three Eastern at Sunday three Pacific six Eastern, Saturday Mornings 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.560 with Jim Valley Tenday and Pacific one Eastern. And yes, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:50.280 I'm back. I'm back here on the show. Yesterday I 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.920 was gone, we uh we went north and we were 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.279 not going to make it back on time. So I 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.520 had my main man, semper vv step in. And today 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.480 I shall pay back that favor as I'm on the 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.199 show here today and simper vv has a day off 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:08.959 and I will be joined in the next segment by 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:13.760 our own Lance Storm, who in fact will join us 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.440 for this entire program here today. And it's Thursday on 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.399 the show. You know that means man we have got 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:29.120 a lot to talk about, including yes last night, AW Dynamite. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.839 What'd you think of that show? What did you think 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.720 of the footage with CM punk and Jack Perry, what 0:01:36.800 --> 0:01:39.800 did you think of all of it? Well, we're gonna 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.199 talk today about what I thought of it as well 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:47.400 as Lance Storm, and I should add that I also 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:53.040 have some notes about yesterday and the belief internally about 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.160 where things are going from this point forward. And I 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:59.920 think that you are an AW fan and you were 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.320 disappointed by what happened last night, didn't like it, whatever, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.560 Hopefully what I have heard is true, and so we'll 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.919 talk about that here today on the program. And we've 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:13.160 also got a whole bunch of ratings notes, some notes 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:14.919 on the Rock and how much money he got for 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.760 Mania weekend, and I think it's a pretty good chance 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.320 based on all of this, we're going to see Rock 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:23.239 wrestling again because that dude made a lot of money. 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.600 And we'll also take your feedback as well. That's got 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:28.480 the AW pay per view schedule for the rest of 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.760 the year. Coming back here to Seattle. 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Doctor put me on prednazone for five 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.160 days to see if it can help my breathing issues, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.599 and it certainly seems to have helped. So I'm sleeping 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.440 and feeling a thousand times better. 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.080 Excellent news. So now what's what's next? I mean, you 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.400 can't be on prednazone forever. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.599 Well, the hope is that the prednic zone will knock 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.520 down whatever is bothering my nasal passages bad enough that 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.760 we can maintain afterwards without it. So we'll see. 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:15.880 All right. Well, good luck, Lance, I know it's been rough, trust, 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:23.560 I've heard about it. All right, everybody, let's talk about 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.560 last night. Shall I start, Lance or would you like 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:28.520 to to begin? 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:29.600 Go ahead? 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:35.320 All right, So here's the deal, everybody. I watched the footage, okay, 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:42.400 and you know many times I you know something's coming. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:47.840 It's my job to analyze, predict whatever, okay, And a 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.600 lot of times, you know, something will I'll make some 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:56.200 prediction or something like that, and and sometimes I'm like, wow, 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:58.760 you know, I was not expecting that, but that is 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.440 actually better than I expect, okay. And then there are 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.680 other times where I make some predictions, I make some whatever, 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.040 and then the thing happens and I'm like, that's exactly 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.320 what I was thinking going in. This is what I 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:18.320 thought about last night. I honestly have absolutely no idea 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.119 why they aired that footage. I cannot, for the life 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:26.680 of me figure it out. Because the thing is, Cmpunk 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.760 had his side of the story that he gave on 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:35.199 Ariel Hiljuane's show, and apparently Tony was furious and decided 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.560 that he was going to air the footage. Okay, So 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:43.560 knowing that, you know, I figured, okay, well, in some 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:45.840 way this footage has to make, you know, see mpunk 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.640 look very bad, and it was the footage that got 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:53.120 him fired, by the way, And so I had the 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.559 other question though, which is the people that are showing 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:00.000 this footage in storyline are going to be the young 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.520 bucks their heels and you know this involves Jack Perry, 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.360 who is currently working as a heel and he's got 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:13.240 this big shirt that says scapegoat on it. And it 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.320 also like how's it gonna be handled? This whole deal 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.600 where Tony Kahan said that he felt like his life 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.720 was in danger. These are the things that we're gonna 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.920 have to figure out when they are this footage. Now, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.040 the one thing I will say they did this because 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:25.400 I didn't know how they were going to do this. 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:28.080 I was baffled when I was told that this was 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.280 going to play into a storyline leading to the pay 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:35.280 per view. I thought, how okay. Now, whether you like 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.719 how they did it or not, the fact is they 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:41.480 did try. And the storyline was the Young Bucks were 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:45.280 getting ready for their match with FTR at Wembley. This 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.560 incident happened in the back before the match. They had 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.520 to put on their EVP caps go handle the situation. 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.360 They were totally out of wrestler mode. They got it 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.040 all handled and then they had to go to the 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.160 ring all flustered or whatever, and they lost to FTR. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.800 And this is time that's not gonna happen. That's the 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.560 story they told. Okay, fine, they try to do something 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.320 to turn it into a pay per view angle. But 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:16.280 it was obvious watching the video that cmpunk was the aggressor. Okay, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:21.120 Jack Perry did not aggressively approach him. C mpunk went 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.880 right up to the guy and they had a long conversation, 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.720 and like, there's all these other people around, and I 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.800 don't know what was said in the confrontation, but like 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.400 all the people surrounding them, I mean, you know, they 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.480 they clearly heard that something was going on, but they 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.160 didn't appear like, oh my god, we got to break 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.719 this up before it escalates. Just you know, they had 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.240 some sort of confrontation. We have no idea what they 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.080 said because there was no audio. And then you know, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.280 whatever Jack Perry said, whether it's what are you gonna 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:54.240 do about it? Or whatever, you know, Punk Boom shoved him. 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:59.040 Once Boom shoved him twice. Jack Perry comes forward, Punk 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.200 grabs his head. Was it a choke, was it a 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:05.520 front face lock? We don't know because we couldn't see it. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.000 And then you know, there was no moment where you know, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.400 some Ojoe politely asked Punk to let go, and Punk 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.760 Lego Joe rushed in there, and man, he tore these 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:18.360 dudes apart. The entire thing from the first shove to 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:22.480 them being torn apart was less than six seconds. The 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:27.440 actual front headlock, choke whatever it was less than four seconds. 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.720 I mean it was boom immediately broken up in the melee, 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.600 some monitors. You know, we heard that monitors went flying. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.200 They didn't go flying, but there were monitors that were 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.360 knocked around and people were trying to fix the monitors. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.400 Punk's you know, rear end banged into them and they 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.959 started falling all over the place. And then when they 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.320 were broken up, you know, you could you could see 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.280 I think Tony Kahan's hand and like part of his 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.040 face trying to get him away from the monitors. And 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:57.560 then Chrishierro comes from behind the monitors to help break 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.839 them up, and boy to that guy looked miserable. And 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:05.040 then Punk does, you know, go straight towards Tony Khan 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.559 and Cris Hero got between him and Tony Khan and 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.920 Punk was not getting past Chris Hero, and then he 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.880 was dragged away and away they went. And when it 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:20.360 was over, I mean, I thought, you know this this, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.560 you know, Punk did look somewhat crazed, but you know, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.160 he was immediately held back I don't know how Tony 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:32.160 felt that his life was in danger, So having seen that, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.840 I don't know why he heard the footage. And then 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:41.440 number two, it's like Jack Perry, whatever he said verbally physically, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.680 he did not do anything. He did not do anything. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:46.760 He did not go after see him punk. He did 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.240 not like he was attacked in this segment. And you know, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:54.240 having watched the video and knowing that dude's been gone 0:12:54.280 --> 0:13:02.640 for seven months, seven months has been gone because of this, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.680 And you know, when the Young Bucks are there and 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.160 Matt Scott his Scapegoat shirt, hun, It's like, yeah, the 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.440 guy comes up with a scapegoat. He's supposed to be 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.600 a heel. They've already apparently completely sold out of Scapegoat 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:19.800 T shirts, So like, how this is making him a heel? 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.439 I have no earthly idea. You know, the Young Bucks 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:28.360 ran in and they got cmpunk Chance, which, my god, 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.439 if that's gonna be a thing in aw where every 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.439 week we have to here cmpunk Chance, I mean, that's 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:38.440 to me a disaster. And you know that's kind of 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:43.000 my thoughts on everything. They spent all this time angry 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.920 at somebody in WWE. They went immediately to Will Osprey 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:50.200 cutting a promo on Triple H. As a viewer, I'm 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:54.839 sitting there for twenty minutes watching Tony Kahan get what 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.160 he feels is his revenge on WWE on an aw show, 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.280 and I am just begging for them to move on. 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.280 So I guess before we talk more, Lance, your thoughts 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:06.800 on what we saw last night. 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:09.680 I didn't mind it as much as you did, I 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.880 think because I looked at it more as I'm just 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:16.079 a wrestling viewer, like I haven't followed as much of 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:21.960 the backstage bs as you have, so it's like it 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.200 ended up being far better than I expected. I expected 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.960 it to be pretty bad, but it's like it came 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.080 off like the Young Bucks coming up with a lame 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.720 excuse on why they lost their match, and I thought 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.440 Matt saying, we're gonna air the footage, but you know, 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.320 it's really just like some high school garbage and it 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.680 really isn't much, which I thought was good to downplay 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.480 it because it did come off as very high school. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:51.240 One guy shoved the other guy, one guy charged at 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.040 him to take him down, and they were broken up. 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.120 It's like, yeah, that's the level of fight you see 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.000 in high school. Because I've seen far better backstage fights 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.720 than this one, So it was just they showed some 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:06.520 footage that really didn't amount to anything, tried to turn 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.960 it into an angle. Now. I do think a good 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.960 quality video package would have made me more interested in 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:16.360 the Bucks FDR match, but it wasn't as bad as 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.480 I expected it to be. You say, Jungle Boy is 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.520 a heel. He may be in New Japan, but he 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.840 hasn't been established that in AAW. I think he's got 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.480 to come back as a baby face because he came 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.800 off like a scapegoat. It's like this guy was gone 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.800 for that. It's like he was fixing his hair. A 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:38.040 guy shoved him, he tried to take him down. The 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.880 takedown got stuffed, probably partially because Punk hit the desk 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:46.200 and it was broken up. It's like, I've seen way worse. 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.720 All right, we'll talk about this more after the break. 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:51.440 Observer Live. 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:15.680 For you, were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:20.000 Albarez and Mike SIMPERVV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.000 Back on the show, Bryan Alberaz here Wrestling Observer Live, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.520 Mike simber vv not here today Lance is joining us 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:32.600 and during the break there were some comments in the chat, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:36.120 so I'll address a few of those. First off, Yeah, 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.560 I mean, like I said, as far as like turning 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:42.480 it into a storyline, I mean, I don't know if 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:46.480 they could have done anything better, because I couldn't conceive 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:51.040 of anything working. But the young Bucks using that as 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.480 a heel excuse for why they lost. They were busy 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.840 dealing with something else because they are evp's and and 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.600 then you know Dax and Cash coming out, they're doing 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.240 their promo. What can we get over this and everything? 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.200 I mean, it was it was I think the best 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.600 they could have done. So I don't really have anything. Listen, 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.640 if they decided they were going to show it, then 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:11.240 I don't have a problem with they ended up doing 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.359 with it. Okay. Now the other thing is, well, what 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.520 is going on with Jack Perry? And you know, people 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.080 have mentioned he's not actually suspended right now, which is 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:23.520 which is the case? Okay, So we talked about this 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:28.640 a while ago. What happened with Jack is that the 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:33.240 thing happened and then they you know, he's got sent home. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:38.359 And this was in like late August, early September. I 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:39.840 forget when the show was. I think the very end 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:44.199 of August, but he just you know, I believe no 0:17:44.280 --> 0:17:47.000 communication whatsoever. Its the same thing at all of these suspensions, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:49.960 when when something happens, there's an investigation, there's like no 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:55.200 communication whatsoever. And so he was gone, and he would 0:17:55.200 --> 0:18:00.240 have been suspended for at least two months because there 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:05.280 was no discussion of bringing him back until November. And 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.640 around November there was an idea in motion to bring 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:13.040 him back, but Cmpunk showed up at Survivor series and 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:17.359 Tony scrapped the idea. Now why I don't know, but 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.680 he did. As soon as cmpunk came back to WWE, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.360 he scrapped the idea of the return of Jungle Boy. So, which, 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.320 by the way, if the reason is he wanted to 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.880 avoid cmpunk chants, that's quite ironic today. But anyway, so he, 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:34.919 you know, no plans for return. And that's when you 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:38.920 know Jack and Rocky Romero and Tony Kahan. It's not 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.000 supposed to be like a shoot. But they eventually all 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.719 got together and set up Jack's run in New Japan. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:50.360 Because the fact is, Tony wasn't planning on using him, 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:55.840 so he wasn't suspended the entire time, but until very recently, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.600 there have been no plans to bring him back now 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.560 obvious probably in the last you know, two three weeks. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:05.480 You can see things that Jack has been doing. You 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.359 can see things that Young Buck as Young Bucks have 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.360 been doing. You saw this whole thing there. I mean, 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.879 my guess is, I know you think otherwise, Lance, but 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.800 I think that Jack Perry is returning at the pay 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:19.480 per view and he's gonna help screw FTR. Young Bucks 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:21.320 are gonna win the tag team titles and they will 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:25.280 be a heel trio. That's where I think they're going here. 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.520 But that is the update on what's going on with 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:33.920 Jack Perry and his his status with AW. 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.439 All Right, I would rather see him be the third 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.919 to FTR because he's a scapegoat because the office treated 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.360 him poorly, and the Bucks are the office and they 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:50.919 already have ocado for their trio. They don't need another one. 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.879 I suppose as possible he can return and you know, 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.199 the Bucks think he's gonna be helping them, and then 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.960 he helps FTR. You could, you could definitely do that, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:04.960 but but we shall see. So anyway, that is the 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.080 that's the story of the footage and the whole shebang, 0:20:08.960 --> 0:20:14.160 and uh yeah, that's what they did. I will say 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:15.960 this because I talked to a lot of people last night, 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:21.960 okay in AW and by the way, like, uh, this 0:20:22.200 --> 0:20:24.359 was a well, it's gonna be interesting to see the 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:30.520 rating because this was a This was viewed by a 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.320 lot of people. I heard from people in WWE that 0:20:33.440 --> 0:20:36.440 like everybody was talking about it, which obviously they would 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:39.919 because see them Punk was involved, and you know, everybody 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:43.160 in a w was talking about it. Now did they 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:46.120 did they actually watch it on television? Did they see 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.640 it on Twitter? I mean the first place I saw 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:50.960 it was Twitter, but I mean I watch on a delay. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.639 But it's not like you couldn't find it on social 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.320 media yesterday. It was everywhere. They did try like all 0:20:56.440 --> 0:20:58.560 night to try to take it down, but I mean, 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:01.000 you know, I saw it everywhere on social media. So 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.720 the feeling that I heard from from the people in 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:10.560 AW is going in. I don't want to say everybody, 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:13.920 And obviously I didn't talk to everybody or even nearly everybody, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:18.520 but people talk and in general, I mean, the vast, 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.239 vast majority, we're like, why are we doing this? I 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:26.399 can't believe we're gonna show this? Why? Very upset, disappointed, 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.760 you know, is this ship sinking? Like, what are we 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:34.280 doing here? So the footage aired, I heard a lot 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.919 of the same. I can't believe that this was aired. 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:41.000 I can't believe blah blah blah. But I did hear this, 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.960 and that is that. You know, this is not from 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:48.800 Tony Khan, but this is. This is what people have 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:53.000 said regarding Tony. They believe that he has now gotten 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:55.639 this out of his system and he is ready to 0:21:55.720 --> 0:22:00.560 just move on, look past it. It's done. I showed 0:22:00.560 --> 0:22:02.840 my footage, Like he wanted to show this footage months 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.639 and months and months ago, but for whatever reason, whether 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.920 he decided that it was a bad idea or somebody 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:12.919 talked him out of it, he didn't. But allegedly he 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:17.600 is saying it's done, We're moving on. The footage is aired. 0:22:17.760 --> 0:22:20.119 Let's just move on with this and for what it's worth. Like, 0:22:20.160 --> 0:22:21.560 I have heard from a lot of people that did 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:23.800 not want to see it aired. They were disappointed that 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.679 it aired, but they were like, you know what, like 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:29.760 this has got to be rock a bottom. Let's just 0:22:30.160 --> 0:22:32.720 it's time to move on. It's time to get out 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:36.240 of this mode, go back to do an aw, concentrate 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.119 on ourselves, that is the feeling. Now. Whether that is 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.119 the case, whether you know, next Wednesday on Dynamite we 0:22:42.160 --> 0:22:43.919 have another wacky thing or whatever, I don't know, but 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:48.760 that is what I heard from people there today. You know, universally, 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.359 the feeling is, you know, we did it, It's over 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:52.600 and let's move on. 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:56.639 Let's hope because on the whole it was a pretty 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:57.000 good show. 0:22:58.200 --> 0:23:01.280 Now. I know you want to talk about this Dustin 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.760 match with Joe, which I very much liked. By the way, 0:23:05.800 --> 0:23:08.360 I thought the opening match and I thought the main 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.080 event were both like excellent matches. You know, Adam Copeland 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:15.919 Edge versus Pentagon. Never thought i'd see it, but that 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:18.240 was a very good match. And then the main event 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:21.840 with Dustin and Simoe Joe was very good, but it 0:23:21.920 --> 0:23:24.280 was non title and I don't want to go on 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:27.080 this rant, so I'll let you do it. 0:23:28.119 --> 0:23:31.840 Yeah. I liked the starting of the show with Swerve 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:34.560 jumping Joe and giving the show a bit of a oh, 0:23:34.760 --> 0:23:37.040 we're on the edge of our seat. 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:39.520 You can't say that on byline, brother. 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:43.280 Yeah, I know, I apologize, but I think it would 0:23:43.280 --> 0:23:46.840 have been so much better if it was a title match, 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:52.320 because then there is the Swerve jumps Joe. He's not 0:23:52.359 --> 0:23:54.119 only mad at Joe, but mad that he's putting the 0:23:54.160 --> 0:23:56.800