Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: Don't we a lot of stuff to talk about here? Today?
Speaker 1: We got a lot of lineups for you. Tonight is
Speaker 1: a live edition of Rampage. It is the go home show,
Speaker 1: the actual go home show for a e W Full Gear,
Speaker 1: which if you're listening John Moxley, it's Saturday. So I've
Speaker 1: got a full lineup for the show. As of right now,
Speaker 1: we have eleven matches here on the show, and perhaps
Speaker 1: more will be added tonight. I guess we shall see.
Speaker 1: Because I actually heard about another match. We don't see
Speaker 1: it listed here, So anyway, I'll get a lot of
Speaker 1: matches tomorrow. If you're there in the building, there will
Speaker 1: be even more SmackDown is tonight. We have got a
Speaker 1: number of matches scheduled for the show, including the return
Speaker 1: of Sammy Zane. He will be in the SmackDown World
Speaker 1: Cup Tournament facing Butch tonight, which should be an excellent match.
Speaker 1: And then later on this weekend we have the new
Speaker 1: Japan Stardom Across Over show where our own Filthy Tom
Speaker 1: Lawler teams with Serri Today, Zack Saber Junior and Julia
Speaker 1: and what I think is the main event. Although my
Speaker 1: Eutonian Kyrie is gonna be an awesome match for the
Speaker 1: i w g P Women's title. We'll lost for a
Speaker 1: show to Mino and more on the show. We have
Speaker 1: updates on See Him Punk from The Observer this week,
Speaker 1: Britt Baker talks about Full Gear and the match with Syria.
Speaker 1: Tony Khan talks about the Women's Interim Championship. We have
Speaker 1: the ratings for Dynamite, a lot to talk about there
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Speaker 1: want to do it. I I don't wanna. I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear from people that I want people to
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. The only the only negative is, I hate
Speaker 1: to say it, but Dave will not have video because
Speaker 1: he's on vacation and so he's gonna be on the telephone.
Speaker 1: But we'll try to find a real cool pick we'll
Speaker 1: put up to represent Dave Meltzer on on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I should mention that for those
Speaker 1: of you that have been watching video and you just
Speaker 1: be quiet about Dave having to hold the mic. Years ago,
Speaker 1: I offered to do a full set up with Dave
Speaker 1: and he didn't want anything except a mike that he
Speaker 1: could hold. This was his request from day one. Same
Speaker 1: thing with Filthy. Filthy wanted to hold the mic so
Speaker 1: you can do all the don't any you want, Brothers.
Speaker 1: He's always going to hold the mic because that's what
Speaker 1: he wants to do. Same with Filthy Tom. It's not
Speaker 1: a punishment or anything of that nature. He wants to
Speaker 1: hold the mic, so he's gonna get to hold the mic. Now,
Speaker 1: Full Gear is tomorrow and tonight we have the go
Speaker 1: home show for Full Full Gear. It is Rampage. Rampages
Speaker 1: Live again this tape last week. This week it is
Speaker 1: back to being live and you dear listener and viewer,
Speaker 1: can watch the following matches live tonight. Eddie Kingston and
Speaker 1: or Tease. We'll face Kneski Ta Keshta and June Akiyama
Speaker 1: tonight live on Rampage. What was that name again, Unakayama? No,
Speaker 1: the other one can Kaketa? Yeah? I mean you want
Speaker 1: to say, kind of get out of here. Ricky Starks,
Speaker 1: we'll be facing a Lance Archer in an a W
Speaker 1: eliminator tournament match and then hoo can Lee Moriarady fight
Speaker 1: for the ft W title. Madison reigns back. She will
Speaker 1: be facing Athena. You know, I I talked yesterday about
Speaker 1: my my idea for Ricky Starks and how you could
Speaker 1: do a deal where he had you know, three matches
Speaker 1: in two days and somebody on the board, I mean,
Speaker 1: they kind of made a good point. They said, you know,
Speaker 1: if you do that, you kind of make him sympathetic,
Speaker 1: and you kind of make the company a heel for
Speaker 1: making him go through that, as opposed to what they
Speaker 1: did would just putting the finals on Dynamite. And then
Speaker 1: you know, if he makes it the finals, he gets
Speaker 1: a few days to rest, And yes, you could argue
Speaker 1: that if you if you wanted to, but you know,
Speaker 1: I'm if he does that, and you don't make a
Speaker 1: big deal out of about why he has to. It's
Speaker 1: just that's the way it is. That's the way the
Speaker 1: tournament was booked. You got injured, and like this, the
Speaker 1: finals are on the pay per view. We want to
Speaker 1: do the finals on the pay per view. You're not
Speaker 1: really making the company that helish, especially if he does
Speaker 1: a great job. So whatever, it's not happening, So who
Speaker 1: cares well, especially because baby Faces have fought through these
Speaker 1: scenarios for as long as there has been pro wrestling.
Speaker 1: Whatever it is, whether it be somebody needing to come
Speaker 1: back and struggling to come back because the thirty days
Speaker 1: is almost up and they're gonna lose their title or
Speaker 1: whatever it is. It's not like it's that uncommon thing
Speaker 1: to do. So that all leads to the full gear show,
Speaker 1: and I haven't actually do the full gear lineup after
Speaker 1: this next break because we can. We can go old
Speaker 1: school and do predictions. Who is going to win all
Speaker 1: of these matches on Saturday. Maybe maybe Mike and I
Speaker 1: can put in our predictions and we'll we'll find out
Speaker 1: Sunday that I was the winner. I guess it'd be
Speaker 1: Monday when. But we do have SmackDown tonight SmackDown. Wait
Speaker 1: a second, where was Where was Dynamite? Weren't they in Connecticut?
Speaker 1: They were? That was an odd one because I think
Speaker 1: WW even announced their's earlier. It was forty five minutes away.
Speaker 1: It was in Uncasville, whereas this is in Hartford. But still,
Speaker 1: I mean it's still relatively close together. Okay, So so
Speaker 1: a w was in Connecticut and now tonight SmackDown is
Speaker 1: in Connecticut. So we'll see how the crowd is. Boy,
Speaker 1: that crowd went very good in Connecticut on Wednesday. Well,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a difference here, and that
Speaker 1: they had about what thirty four hundred people inside of
Speaker 1: a ten thousand person building and the Xcel Center apparently
Speaker 1: is like it's a lot more than that as far
Speaker 1: as tickets sold, at least according to Russell text. Well,
Speaker 1: we have Roman Reigns appearing tonight, we have two tournament matches.
Speaker 1: We have Butcher versus the returning Sammy Zane, and we
Speaker 1: have a Ricochet versus Ali coming off that big, great
Speaker 1: performance on Monday, Ali going in there to show us
Speaker 1: how it's done here on SmackDown. And then Rhonda Rousey
Speaker 1: will appear. It's almost like it's a magic act. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be looking at the ring and then she's gonna appear.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're trying to make fans disappear by announcing her
Speaker 1: to be on the show to appear. Maybe they'll have
Speaker 1: a big hat she'll be, She'll be pulled out of
Speaker 1: you say it will be Marina Schaffiers could be. Then
Speaker 1: we've got the crossover show and the top matches on
Speaker 1: the show. Obviously we have Filthy, Tom Lawler and Syrie
Speaker 1: versus Zach Saber Jr. And Julia. That's gonna be man man,
Speaker 1: That's wh the going to be the main event, because
Speaker 1: I think Tom's got some special stuff planned and he's
Speaker 1: very very excited. I mean, I I've never seen the
Speaker 1: guy so happy in my life. Children wasn't that happy? Wait? Wait,
Speaker 1: you say you helped deliver the children? Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a little messy, I could believe that. But hopefully he
Speaker 1: made it through customs because I can see him getting
Speaker 1: hung up there for a long time trying to explain
Speaker 1: why you have all of this, boy, George Memorabil you're
Speaker 1: ready to go to Japan. Well, you know, I'm afraid
Speaker 1: that he doesn't need to bring it because when he
Speaker 1: gets to Japan there will be plenty. Then we've got
Speaker 1: will Osprey and Shota Umino for the i w g
Speaker 1: P United States title, and Mayu I Watani and Kyrie
Speaker 1: will be wrestling for the i w g P Women's Championship.
Speaker 1: The winner will be the first champion. And I believe
Speaker 1: what's so funny? Somebody in the who was this sticker?
Speaker 1: Reds to a too in the chat saying that Julio
Speaker 1: will rip off his George to reveal just tiny your shorts?
Speaker 1: And I actually can't wait for that to happen because
Speaker 1: I can see that happening. Man, I'm I'm getting questioned
Speaker 1: about ever soiling my hands after what I said about
Speaker 1: the birth Bros. Listen, I was there for the birth
Speaker 1: of my two children, one of which was in a
Speaker 1: uh with a midwife. I did, in fact, soil my hands.
Speaker 1: Was it all natural for you as well? Or do
Speaker 1: you get hammered before this one was out? I mean
Speaker 1: it was all natural. Oh I should have put some
Speaker 1: of that, some of that you know, that thing that
Speaker 1: gives you all of the gas. Laugh. By the way,
Speaker 1: if anybody out there, I know we have a relatively
Speaker 1: young audience here, but if you're going to you get
Speaker 1: to the age and you're you decide to have kids
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff, just be ready. Be ready.
Speaker 1: If you say you're gonna help, I want to pass
Speaker 1: out all that sort of stuff. Just be ready for
Speaker 1: what you're ready. No one's ever ready, No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I know. I remember taking those birthing classes and boy,
Speaker 1: what a waste of time that was that we didn't
Speaker 1: take any you oh will prepare you? Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well that can't prepare me. Nothing could have prepared Joe
Speaker 1: must pass out. No, not even close at all. You
Speaker 1: didn't have that joy that came over you, that lightheadedness.
Speaker 1: Well you know, I mean I was I was happy.
Speaker 1: I did. It was pretty messy. Joy came after a
Speaker 1: clean up. You're making it sound like it was a
Speaker 1: little too messy. What did she pop out of her stomach?
Speaker 1: Like alien or something? It was it was pretty messy.
Speaker 1: And then she came out. She looked like a little
Speaker 1: old man. This is Paisley. Was she holding onto the
Speaker 1: the umbilical cord like a tag chord? Uh no, I
Speaker 1: don't think so, but I'm not gonna give that kind
Speaker 1: of details everybody. But she did come out looking like
Speaker 1: a little old man. It was I was like, you
Speaker 1: gave birth to an old man? What happened? I was baffled.
Speaker 1: And then you know, they cleaned her up and they
Speaker 1: put her in some cute clothes and by the time
Speaker 1: we got her in a car seat, she looked like
Speaker 1: a little baby man. When she first came out, she
Speaker 1: looked like an old man. I was like, is this
Speaker 1: Benjamin Button. This is the weirdest thing that ever happened
Speaker 1: to me. An old man came out. They told me
Speaker 1: it was a girl, but an old man came out
Speaker 1: of her belly. I'll never forget this. Back in a
Speaker 1: moment Observer Live, you're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with
Speaker 1: Brian Alvarez and Mike Simperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: Back in the show, Bran Elba is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike Simperviv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: over the full gear line up to do some prediction
Speaker 1: is here and uh Dagan is apparently going to Rampage tonight,
Speaker 1: but he is upgrading to the front row and he
Speaker 1: is offering to give away his ticket if you do
Speaker 1: not have a ticket to Rampage. Dagan is willing to
Speaker 1: give his old ticket away section eight, row five opposite
Speaker 1: the hard cam, and I'm gonna make sure that he
Speaker 1: wants to do it, and then we will give it away.
Speaker 1: In the final segment here of this show, I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a text message trivia contest, but only
Speaker 1: answer obviously if you're able to go to Rampage tonight.
Speaker 1: Don't enter if you're in you know, Egypt or something.
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, folks, if you're listening to the
Speaker 1: West Coast replay of the show at a p m.
Speaker 1: Eastern time, it's too late. Yeah, text blow up text machine.
Speaker 1: Then Brian's gonna be complaining about that. Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: I gotta my My wife of course is texting she
Speaker 1: heard the show, didn't she the one time she listened
Speaker 1: to the show, and she is pissed now she don't care. Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: see that it's really dismissal day. So we have to anyway,
Speaker 1: probably won't be here on Monday. I might have to
Speaker 1: go back to the doctor with Avery. So alright, Brian Cage,
Speaker 1: Lance Archer, Ricky Starks, either Lance Archer or Ricky Starks
Speaker 1: will be facing Brian Cage in the in the whatever
Speaker 1: is the next round? So tonight obviously is Ricky Starks
Speaker 1: and Lance Archer winner faces Brian Cage in the pre show.
Speaker 1: I predict Ricky Starks is winning this match over Brian Cage.
Speaker 1: I agree we have got Wardlow, Samoa Joe, and Powerhouse
Speaker 1: Hobbs three way for Wardlow's titled, not Samoa Joe's. I
Speaker 1: I predicted, like a long, long long time ago that
Speaker 1: the man who should eventually beat Wardlow was Powerhouse Hobbs.
Speaker 1: I sait it here on this show. Now some people
Speaker 1: would say, oh, well, it's way too early to beat Wardlow.
Speaker 1: I mean, you may be right, but Let's be honest,
Speaker 1: what have they done with Wardlow? Is Ward Low gonna
Speaker 1: be in the championship picture for the a W title
Speaker 1: anytime soon? Unlikely? Is he just going to be doing
Speaker 1: the exact same thing? Most likely? Yes, So to me,
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs should win the title and then ward locan
Speaker 1: chase him for a while and give him something to do.
Speaker 1: So I I will I will say Powerhouse Hobbs. But
Speaker 1: honest to God, I I predict Wardlow probably retains. I'm
Speaker 1: going with Powerhouse Hobbs. I bet you there there could
Speaker 1: be a surprise. I mean, look, Joe, having both titles
Speaker 1: for a little while isn't the worst thing in the world.
Speaker 1: Considering an arrow each doesn't have a TV outlet, So
Speaker 1: if you decided to do that, I think that would
Speaker 1: be cool. But Powerhouse Hobbs would be my choice as
Speaker 1: well too, for the reason that you mentioned about Wardlow
Speaker 1: chasing and Hobbs has already used a bunch of minions
Speaker 1: and a bunch of goons and goofs already to try
Speaker 1: to go after people. Wardlow tearing through a bunch of them,
Speaker 1: power bombing somebody at all times not the worst idea
Speaker 1: in the world. You know what else I would do
Speaker 1: is uh? I mean, you have too many matches, so
Speaker 1: you wouldn't do it. But I would have made this
Speaker 1: a best of three falls match. The first fall is
Speaker 1: for the Ring of Honor title, the second fall is
Speaker 1: for the uh whatever title Wardlow has, and then even
Speaker 1: though the first the titles have changed, then you've got
Speaker 1: the final, the real dramatic third fall, where can some
Speaker 1: guy win either title? Can a guy who's the champion
Speaker 1: win both titles? And then you know, whatever you do
Speaker 1: you end up doing. But did the guy won the
Speaker 1: second one? Try to run out the clock in the third?
Speaker 1: I mean there are interesting options there. I don't think
Speaker 1: with these three guys that would be right, But that
Speaker 1: scenario with somebody saying Danielson and two other people or
Speaker 1: something like that, I think could be a cool idea.
Speaker 1: Now we've got to the death a triangle Penta and
Speaker 1: Ray Phoenix versus Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks for
Speaker 1: the six man titles, and let's be real. Death triangle
Speaker 1: was never supposed to get these titles. The Elite was
Speaker 1: never supposed to lose these titles. He didn't. He didn't
Speaker 1: make these titles without some sort of plan. So I
Speaker 1: I predict the Elite wins the titles in their first
Speaker 1: match back. I think the Elite win the titles, and
Speaker 1: I think on top of that, we could see a
Speaker 1: split in the death triangle with that Hammer you know,
Speaker 1: coming into play, because if you think about it, with
Speaker 1: whatever they're doing with House of Black, there's a really
Speaker 1: good chance that they're back as a trio. Perfect thing
Speaker 1: for the to have the Elite feud with them as
Speaker 1: you go ahead and obviously do something there and change
Speaker 1: things up a little bit, get pack a partner and
Speaker 1: have him feud with Penta and Phoenix. By the way,
Speaker 1: this person goes, why does Joe get a shiny belt
Speaker 1: and jerichos the dull old World title? Well, that Jericho's
Speaker 1: belt is made of platinum just looks like Steele or
Speaker 1: maybe it's white gold. In does matter? Lucia Source versus
Speaker 1: Jungle Boy Jack Perry in a cage match. Jack Perry's
Speaker 1: winning this match, jungle Jack, and then ultimately we gotta
Speaker 1: still drag it out even longer until Christian can come
Speaker 1: back for that big blowoff match. Yeah, I wonder if
Speaker 1: he wins the match but then gets attacked by somebody else. Now,
Speaker 1: who's joining Christian's army here because Lucia Source could use
Speaker 1: a partner, especially if he's banged up anyway, I think
Speaker 1: he's much better off in tag teams and Christian not
Speaker 1: letting this die. I can see somebody, if not tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: maybe on Wednesday night, Jeff Jarrett and Jay Lethal versus
Speaker 1: Sting and Darby Ellen. Sting is going to submit Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett with the Scorpion deathlock. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: submits Jeff Jarrett, I could see a eron guitar shot
Speaker 1: hitting Jeff j Lethal, Satten, him Sing doing some something
Speaker 1: going wrong and actually Sting or Darby Allen getting the
Speaker 1: victory over Jay Leapal. I can absolutely see that. I'll
Speaker 1: say this, and granted I'm a huge Jeff Jared apologist.
Speaker 1: I have my entire life. There's no survivor in pro
Speaker 1: wrestling like Jeff Jared or the Jared family. But everybody
Speaker 1: that's complaining about this, it's him and Sting. It gives
Speaker 1: Sting somebody, I don't know. I know people want to
Speaker 1: see Sting fly off of things at all times and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, but this is a way to get
Speaker 1: Stinging Darby Allen on the show without them necessarily killing
Speaker 1: themselves and not having it effect anything else in the
Speaker 1: A W stratosphere anyway. It's a self contained feud. And
Speaker 1: I think there are far worse things in Jeff Jarrett. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, there are him wrestling somebody else. So let's
Speaker 1: get this thing over with. Sting submits the guy and
Speaker 1: he goes and eat books towns. Hey, look, Jared, Jared
Speaker 1: is a character popping up once in a while. It
Speaker 1: is not the worst idea in the world. So if
Speaker 1: he doesn't lose here, that's fine. I think a far
Speaker 1: worst character I mean, I'm sorry, but a far worst
Speaker 1: character of Sanjay Dutt. He is an annoying cartoon character
Speaker 1: out there and Dutt it sucks. It sucks and it's
Speaker 1: annoying and I'm sorry. And again, I like Sanjay Dutt.
Speaker 1: It's not nothing against him personally, but in the mix
Speaker 1: of that show. I mean, honest to god, I think
Speaker 1: if you pulled people, I think he'd finished low on
Speaker 1: the list of people that fans want to see. Well,
Speaker 1: they're not great to want to see him. He's a
Speaker 1: he's an annoying Hell no, it's I go away, heat, dude.
Speaker 1: It's like there's gotta be somebody else that could be
Speaker 1: used in the spots sort of thing. But I get
Speaker 1: it with the whole Indian thing. I get it with
Speaker 1: Sttenham Singh, but it's been overkilled with that dude. Look,
Speaker 1: and I'm saying that about him. People say that about
Speaker 1: Jay Lethal, and I don't agree with that because I
Speaker 1: don't think Jay Lethal is overrated or annoying or any
Speaker 1: of that sort of stuff. But there are people that
Speaker 1: want Jay Lethal off TV, you know, more than Sanjay Dutt.
Speaker 1: Can I move on now to Britt Baker and Soria? Sure?
Speaker 1: Poor Sonjay Dubt CALLI of all the people to take
Speaker 1: all this heat on this show with five people in
Speaker 1: the contract people wrestling on the show. He's not wrestling,
Speaker 1: just out. There's a manager for crying out loud. You know, listen,
Speaker 1: you know what I really like. But has been far
Speaker 1: worse than san Jay Dutt on this on this show
Speaker 1: is smart Mark Sterling okaynother one that the two ps
Speaker 1: in the same pod. No, there's a difference because san
Speaker 1: j has never actively hurt anybody's title reign. Okay, but
Speaker 1: every time somebody wins a title and the first thing
Speaker 1: that happens is Smart Mark comes out and one of
Speaker 1: his random dorks has to have a match with the
Speaker 1: champion and it just halts them. Like that's a far
Speaker 1: bigger problem than Sanjay Dutt. And I like Smart Mark
Speaker 1: and I'm not even saying take the guy off the show,
Speaker 1: but that man. Every time somebody wins the tip, like
Speaker 1: if Hobbs wins his title, he's gonna come out on
Speaker 1: the next show and here's gonna come smart Mark Sterling
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be like what why? Like why was
Speaker 1: that Warlow's first feud with Smart Mark? He beat him, JF,
Speaker 1: he won his title, and here comes smart Mark Sterling. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Brett Baker and Siria Brett Baker should win Sarriah Will
Speaker 1: That's my prediction. I think Brett Baker cheats, she gets
Speaker 1: the victory overall rusty. They can always say a rusty Siria,
Speaker 1: and I think that ends up leading to her and
Speaker 1: Jamie Haytor because I think I know we're not to
Speaker 1: it yet, but Jamie Haydor's gonna beat Tony Storm. Nila Rose, Wait, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Tony. Yes, Jamie hayd is going to beat
Speaker 1: Tony Storm. That is my prediction. Also for the women's title,
Speaker 1: Jade Cargill will beat Nila Rose and get this over
Speaker 1: With my prediction, We've got Jericho and Danielson versus Claudio.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Jericho, Danielson, Claudio and Sammy in a four
Speaker 1: way for the Ring of Honor title, and I fully
Speaker 1: exp Chris Jericho to retain and something will happen. I
Speaker 1: believe to lead to Jericho and Danielson a final battle.
Speaker 1: I think Jericho pins Sammy, but I think the same way.
Speaker 1: I think the you know, the real feud for the
Speaker 1: title is going to be Jericho and Danielson, but the
Speaker 1: underlying feud is still going to be Jericho and Sammy.
Speaker 1: So and we have got Acclaimed versus Swerving Our Glory.
Speaker 1: I predict Swerving Our Glory wins. When Keith Lee turns
Speaker 1: Heal and they beat the Acclaim, We'll get Mike's thoughts
Speaker 1: and the main event after the breakups. You're a live
Speaker 1: You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Back
Speaker 1: in the show, Brian Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live
Speaker 1: Mike simber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. Did you
Speaker 1: do a prediction. You didn't do a prediction for the
Speaker 1: tag match, Yeah, when you skipped over. I'm going with
Speaker 1: Jade as well too, but I'm going with the Acclaimed,
Speaker 1: which I believe maybe the only thing that we different.
Speaker 1: But I could see, Look, I could see the Acclaim
Speaker 1: getting the victory and Keith Lee still turning dirty after
Speaker 1: the match, you know, shaking hands and he destroys both guys.
Speaker 1: There's a miscommunication or something like that where you can
Speaker 1: still turn Lee hell but not take the belts off
Speaker 1: the Acclaim quite yet. I think it's a very obvious
Speaker 1: finish in that they're doing all their near falls. Referee
Speaker 1: goes down, Swerve grabs the belt, he holds it up,
Speaker 1: He's gonna hit Bones or whoever, and Keith stops him. No,
Speaker 1: I've been yelling about cheating for months. We're not to
Speaker 1: give me that belt. He takes the belt, he waxed him,
Speaker 1: turns heel, they win the titles. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be something like that. Then the main event is Moxley
Speaker 1: and MGF for the title. And I have gone back
Speaker 1: and forth on this for weeks now and as of
Speaker 1: right now, As of right now, I believe that m
Speaker 1: JF is turning heel and winning the title, which is
Speaker 1: interesting now that I think about it, because if they
Speaker 1: put that tag title match on last and you do
Speaker 1: the same finish in two matches, maybe they'll have to
Speaker 1: wix mix it up a little bit. But I'm not
Speaker 1: sure how. I don't know if he uses the brass
Speaker 1: nuts and William Regal sides with him, or or what happens,
Speaker 1: but that's my prediction as of now. M JF goes
Speaker 1: full heel wins the title from Moxley. He is a heel,
Speaker 1: and I think the question is does William Regal turn heel?
Speaker 1: That's gonna be interesting. Um, he's been a baby face
Speaker 1: for weeks. I guess you could say that. I mean
Speaker 1: as for sure, m j I look because when he
Speaker 1: was getting dumped through the table by the firm and
Speaker 1: all that, but I mean again, he talks about being
Speaker 1: the devil all the time. I know he's backed off
Speaker 1: on some of the insults and all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: I don't look to me, he's moved somewhere towards the middle,
Speaker 1: and that's where he's at right now this little island
Speaker 1: among himself, you know, with Stokely and his crew on
Speaker 1: one side, and m j were Moxley and Regal and
Speaker 1: the whole Blackpool Combat Club on the other side. I
Speaker 1: see Regal turning heel. I can see Regal turning heel.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the best idea, but it's
Speaker 1: not like the Blackpool Combat Club with the people that
Speaker 1: are involved, needs a mouthpiece or anything like that. So
Speaker 1: Regal maybe seeing some of himself and m JF and
Speaker 1: doing something to help him win. And still, to me,
Speaker 1: the smartest thing you can do is have him play
Speaker 1: that Rick Flair role. If people are cheering him, he
Speaker 1: can play to that. If he's wrestling w Morrissey, then
Speaker 1: he's the biggest baby face in the world. If he's
Speaker 1: wrestling John Moxley, he's a dirty, lying, cheating prick. There
Speaker 1: are so many things you can do with with m
Speaker 1: j F as a eight five Rick Flair type of character.
Speaker 1: No matter where he goes, no no matter who he faces,
Speaker 1: he can adapt to the scene and be the biggest thing.
Speaker 1: He ain't gonna like this, but I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I think that he's he's he is a he is
Speaker 1: an incredible, incredible heal, And my issue with all of
Speaker 1: this is I don't even know if he can be
Speaker 1: an incredible baby face because I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 1: find out. I advocate that we try to find out. Well,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, see how far he can go
Speaker 1: as a baby face, and if it ain't working out
Speaker 1: as a baby face, then he should just be the
Speaker 1: biggest hell in all of wrestling. Don't don't half away
Speaker 1: at where sometimes he's a heel, sometimes he's a baby face.
Speaker 1: If anybody can do it, though, it's it really is him,
Speaker 1: and he's unique enough with the fact the way he
Speaker 1: cuts promos and and how he does it, and he's
Speaker 1: where you can pull something like that off where everybody
Speaker 1: is aiming at this jerk, this prick, you know, this
Speaker 1: bastard who holds this title now hostage in his little world,
Speaker 1: in his little Burberry world, and he can compete against
Speaker 1: everybody and still be a heel, still be the biggest
Speaker 1: heal in the world, but be able to play it
Speaker 1: up in different ways depending on who he's facing, because
Speaker 1: what does the devil k or care if he's facing
Speaker 1: Malachi Black? You know what I mean? As opposed to
Speaker 1: facing Wheeler Utah or something like that. So I think
Speaker 1: there's a way that you could absolutely do that. And
Speaker 1: I think obviously it's really early in his career, but
Speaker 1: this is not like a football player or a basketball
Speaker 1: player where his skills may all of a sudden deteriorate
Speaker 1: and diminish overnight. M JF. One thing we know about
Speaker 1: great heels, the class seckels of wrestling history is when
Speaker 1: it's time to turn baby face, they're great baby faces.
Speaker 1: And everything's been accelerated with him anyway, and I think
Speaker 1: he actually is. I mean again, right now, you could
Speaker 1: pull it off and do it all right. Listen, Daigan
Speaker 1: here says I got front row secured. Daigan has a
Speaker 1: ticket for Rampage tonight, Section eight, row five, seat four,
Speaker 1: opposite the hard cam. So if you are in Connecticut
Speaker 1: and you can go to Rampage tonight and you don't
Speaker 1: have a ticket, but you will go if you get
Speaker 1: a free ticket. I'm gonna do a trivia contest. We're
Speaker 1: gonna see how close to you guys listen to this show.
Speaker 1: So you freeloaders are in trouble, you should have paid.
Speaker 1: The question is we'll try this if it's too hard.
Speaker 1: I'll do another question during the commercial breaks Twitch dot TV,
Speaker 1: slash f W Video Video dot f W one line
Speaker 1: dot com. During the commercial breaks, we often play, or
Speaker 1: we have in the past, played matches of mine, and
Speaker 1: in some of these matches, there's a guy referred to
Speaker 1: as the filmer. He's the guy filming the matches, and
Speaker 1: oftentimes he buries the people wrestling the match. I paid
Speaker 1: him to film, and he just spent the entire match
Speaker 1: burying us. What is this man's name? Four to five
Speaker 1: seven eight zero seven five six six is the text
Speaker 1: message line four to five seven eight zero seven five
Speaker 1: six six if you know the name of the filmer
Speaker 1: and you're in Connecticut, first person to texts me the
Speaker 1: correct answer gets this free ticket. I think they're in
Speaker 1: Jersey to rampage. What rampages in Jersey live tonight? Yeah? Sorry,
Speaker 1: wherever it is? Where the where the hell's rampage? No
Speaker 1: one corrects me until just now, where's rampage at Jersey
Speaker 1: Pruncial Center. God, if you're in Jersey, New Jersey at
Speaker 1: the Pruncial Center area, whatever, dud? Who cares? Can you
Speaker 1: get to rampage? If you can't get to rampage and
Speaker 1: you know the name of the filmer four to five
Speaker 1: seven eight zero seven five six six. I don't care
Speaker 1: if it's on the moon, I don't care where it's at.
Speaker 1: If you're in some part of metropolitan New York that
Speaker 1: Brian knows, like Buffalo, and you're buried under six ft
Speaker 1: of snow, you're an idiot. Maybe you can make it
Speaker 1: a shoot. Idiot is where you are? Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: where it's at now, you dorks? All right? No, yes,
Speaker 1: it's Friday and the four and a half minutes to
Speaker 1: go the pay per view. Oh, we got way more
Speaker 1: than that, dude, We got way more than that. We
Speaker 1: got we got a solid six minutes. Does anybody know
Speaker 1: the name of the filmer? I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 1: It's not Craig. See if they don't know who it is,
Speaker 1: me saying anything about a website or anything like that
Speaker 1: isn't gonna jog their memory. So if no one answers,
Speaker 1: I may just say first text message comes in. But
Speaker 1: let's see who can do this. Oh, I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be embarrassing at John Moxley moment. That guy's an all
Speaker 1: time or he's in all of awesome I'm not sad.
Speaker 1: I don't mind having a John Moxley moment as long
Speaker 1: as it doesn't involve a blade. Anybody, nobody, Wow, Come on, guys, well,
Speaker 1: let's read some of these text messages while well everybody fails.
Speaker 1: Why is Vinny? People be Vinny was the filmer. It's
Speaker 1: not Vinny what Vinny managed to film his own match
Speaker 1: and bury himself. Come on, nobody knows that. We don't
Speaker 1: have any listeners in New Jersey that know the name
Speaker 1: of the filmer, or maybe they already got tickets. Maybe
Speaker 1: they don't want to go. I don't know no idea
Speaker 1: his name, but rampages in Newark. Thank you, thank you?
Speaker 1: But you know what, you might have been in Connecticut
Speaker 1: and you could make it to Newark. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's airplanes, it's a ride, trains, cars, Well, I realized
Speaker 1: there's cars, bloke. You know what. I could drive to
Speaker 1: San Francisco, but I flew make my life easy. You
Speaker 1: think the distance between like Bridgeport in Newark is that
Speaker 1: far San Francisco thirty minutes? See, I told you, guys,
Speaker 1: if you live in Connecticut, you also could get this
Speaker 1: ticket here. Just tell me the name of the filmer day,
Speaker 1: i'd have to ask an easier question. I'll give it,
Speaker 1: I'll give it one more minute and I'll do an
Speaker 1: easier question. But will you give them the answer to
Speaker 1: that question? Or because someone may actually get it? All right?
Speaker 1: A w w W need to have more matches that
Speaker 1: end on secondary moves and have short matches with the
Speaker 1: story he has defeated quickly as opposed to they weren't
Speaker 1: given time to perform. It will teach fans to pay
Speaker 1: attention before the near falls. Yeah, you can do that.
Speaker 1: M Let see if we've got an answer yet still nothing.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows the name of the filmer. Nobody knows the
Speaker 1: name of the filmer. Here, I guess I'm in I'm
Speaker 1: in pain thinking that nobody knows the name of the filmer.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite non wrestling shoot favored show? Shot? What show?
Speaker 1: Shoot favored? That mean it's my favorite shoot show? Alright?
Speaker 1: Second question? Who knows the answer to this? If you're
Speaker 1: in if you're in the range of Newark, New Jersey?
Speaker 1: How how shoulder TERRELLI became Big Vinny V. My sidekick
Speaker 1: in this film is not Craig, Despite what many people
Speaker 1: have thought over the years. What is this man's name?
Speaker 1: Four to five, seven, eight zero six? Come on, anybody,
Speaker 1: it's not Craig. Don't drop it in the chat everybody.
Speaker 1: You're you're making this too easy for people. Maybe we
Speaker 1: need to make it a little bit easier for people.
Speaker 1: The way this thing is this person's clothes. I think
Speaker 1: it was your uncle, but I forgot his name. Ah, No,
Speaker 1: it is not that. Howdy ah. This person wants to
Speaker 1: know is it the author of the job or five?
Speaker 1: Why yes? It is? Why yes it is. Nobody from
Speaker 1: new Ark can get this and ain't Dick Togo, ain't
Speaker 1: Uncle Buck? Then John goes. I don't live there, but
Speaker 1: I know the filmer we did is well, what's good?
Speaker 1: And want to give it away? No one giving away
Speaker 1: from somebody else. Come on, New Jersey, anybody know the answer?
Speaker 1: What's the guy's name? It ain't Craig, It's not Mondo Gero. Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta correct randomness that Okay, we got a correct
Speaker 1: answer here from the four oh five area code? Are
Speaker 1: you in range of rampage? If you are, you're the
Speaker 1: winner four oh five area code? Anybody four oh five
Speaker 1: is Oklahoma City? Wait a second, well, I mean you
Speaker 1: could be on a cell phone. That's true. I guess
Speaker 1: he's he's hooking it up so we can have the
Speaker 1: dish TV. Okay, yeah, nine o nine oh you got
Speaker 1: the answer, right, Hey, listen, you gotta tell me if
Speaker 1: you're in range of Newark. Don't just give me the answer.
Speaker 1: If you're in range of Newark and you want the ticket,
Speaker 1: let me know. Okay, we got another one here. Three
Speaker 1: four seven? Whoever text me first from you? Any of
Speaker 1: those text messages saying that they are It's not Bobby
Speaker 1: Sox McLachlin, it's not okay. Who's in range? Who's in
Speaker 1: range nine oh to shooting New Jersey? Who's nine oh eight?
Speaker 1: You want the ticket? Text me right now if you
Speaker 1: want that ticket, brother, and then I'll give the answers
Speaker 1: to these questions. I think nine oh weight's gonna get
Speaker 1: it unless he lived there and then moved to like Guam,
Speaker 1: which is entirely possible. Ah. Four oh five, not in
Speaker 1: the range? All right? Three four seven? I am in
Speaker 1: New Jersey. Seven you want the ticket? If you do,
Speaker 1: text me right now, I'll give you the winner after
Speaker 1: the break. Give me your name and everything. Observer live. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and
Speaker 1: Mike semper Viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. I
Speaker 1: can't believe how hard it is to give this ticket away. Okay,
Speaker 1: so nine oh eight one, but oh here we go
Speaker 1: finally okay nine o eight actually one, but then they
Speaker 1: didn't want the ticket. So the winner, I won't read
Speaker 1: the last name is uh Bob. Bob is the winner
Speaker 1: seven three to area code and uh. I will be
Speaker 1: forwarding this on to Dagan and uh and he is
Speaker 1: the lucky winner of this vacant rampage ticket. He had
Speaker 1: the correct answer. The man who is not Craig is
Speaker 1: in fact the late great Sonny O'Meara. And coincidentally, also
Speaker 1: late and great is the name of the filmer who
Speaker 1: was my uncle Wayne. So those are the answers. Congratulations
Speaker 1: to all of the winners, particularly Bob, who is uh.
Speaker 1: I think he's accepting the ticket. Shout out to Union County.
Speaker 1: Oh look he is in the Uh, yeah he is.
Speaker 1: He's in the chat right now. B v kideven Okay,
Speaker 1: so uh, dig and you can just you want to
Speaker 1: just chat with him there or do you want this
Speaker 1: because he only sent me his first name. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can transfer the ticket to Bob. I
Speaker 1: think we might need a little bit more than that,
Speaker 1: but anyway, congratulations rampage tonight. Check it out everybody, and
Speaker 1: is noted Tomorrow after Full Gear. Myself and Dave will
Speaker 1: be streaming pretty much immediately after the pay per view
Speaker 1: video dot f W online dot com for all of
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Speaker 1: for Twitch free and watch the post show tomorrow. We'll
Speaker 1: also be doing a simulcast post show Sunday, myself, Vinnie,
Speaker 1: and Craig who is not Sunny. Also YouTube and Twitch,
Speaker 1: so check it out. Thanks for listening everybody. It was
Speaker 1: a fun Friday as always, wasn't it. We'll talk to
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