WEBVTT - Smackdown and Weekend Preview 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.200 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.320 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.560 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Vibe with your hosts 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:25.239 Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper vv Ready are you ready? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:30.800 Let's get it all? How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.080 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.440 Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday Street Pacific 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.880 sixth Eastern, and Saturday's tending a Pacific one Eastern with 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.360 the Gym Valley. It is Friday on the show. You 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:48.160 know what that means. We got SmackDown tonight. You'll never 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.519 guess what is scheduled for SmackDown. But first from the 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:54.880 front page Pressing Observer dot com the wrestling world this morning, 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.360 the passing of Adam Bernie Arski, wrestled as the Royal 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:03.040 stud Adam Windsor, at just forty one years old, slam 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.280 rustling reporter. He died due to a heart issue, the 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.200 details of which are not known. Worn in England, trainee 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.000 of Neil Adams Dory Funk Jr. Top starring champion in 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.360 his Florida based Bank promotion from through two thousand five. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.680 Also champion of the nw A Florida promotion run by 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:23.800 Howard Brody. Later married Jade Adams, the daughter of Chris 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.759 Adams and Jeanie Clark. Neil was Chris's brother. They had 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:31.160 three children. Worked three w w E Florida House Show 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.080 matches in two thousand one, had one match in the 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.200 then n w A t n A in addition to 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.000 n w A wild Side Day Meltzer Road. After his 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.360 original training and Funk Junior putting him over as a 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.880 local champion by two thousand two, became a coach at 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.480 Funk Junior School, producer local television show, was co booker 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.760 the promotion until the two split up in two thousand five. 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.440 Funk Junior got him some outside dates during that period, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:57.400 including the match in Calgary for Stampede Wrestling Revival promotion 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.400 in two thousand two, where Funk Junior, the age of 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:05.120 sixty one, team with Windsor against Teddy and Bruce Hart. 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:08.760 I had not heard his name in a long time. 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.480 Turns out his last match was back in two thousand eleven. 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.320 But certainly heard the name Adam wins Or a lot 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.720 in the early part of the two thousands. No details 0:02:17.720 --> 0:02:20.000 has noted, but a hard issue forty one years old. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.680 So all the best to his friends and family. And uh, 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.360 if you have anything you want to write about Adam 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.160 Windsor you welcome to do so. Seven eight zero seven 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.440 s six is the phone number zero seven six Text 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.600 messages only. Do not call that number. Brian and Rusling 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.239 Observer dot com at Bran albert Is on Twitter, back 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.120 in them on with mike's umber Vive, the news and 0:02:43.200 --> 0:03:12.440 more Observer Live night. You were listening to Wrestling Observer 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.160 Live with Brian Alfarez and Mike semperviving on the Sports 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:22.640 Byline Broadcasting network bag In the show, Bran olbur is 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:27.360 here Wrestling Observer Live Mix simper Viv, also of Wrestling 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:33.440 Observer dot Com. Well, does anyone want to guess what 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:37.960 they're advertising for SmackDown tonight? Anybody? Can I go out 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:44.600 of limb go for it? Contract signing? Eight contracts signing 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:49.880 has been added to tonight's SmackDown. Head of Wrestle Media Backlash. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:53.400 Tonight's SmackDown will feature Charlotte Flair and Ron Da Rousey 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.800 taking part in a contract signing for their match at 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:00.120 the pay per view. We've already had a match at 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.720 the pay per view. I feel like we've already had 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.720 a contract signing for this exact same match. But anyway, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.680 we got a contract sighting between Charlotte and Runda Rousing. 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.760 Riddle will face j Usso this week, Drew m Guitar 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:20.760 faces Sammy Zane in a lumberjack match, and Mad decap 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:26.840 Moss faces Angel It does not have a last name. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:28.919 I think they should do, and like that's you know, 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.480 that's why you know, w w E beats the NFL 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:35.400 and social media whatever their latest gimmick was. I think 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.960 the NFL needs to drop everybody's last name. They only 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.440 all the players need to only have a first name. 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.839 That I think is is what the NFL is is 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.800 need in the NBA as well. Can you imagine? I mean, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.839 actually it's true. You know, he got over because he 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.320 was Shock, not because he was Shaquille O'Neil. We all 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:57.760 knew I was his name, but he got over because 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:06.320 of Shock dropping that last name. Lebron you know Magic. Yeah, 0:05:06.360 --> 0:05:08.440 these guys are all in a first name basis. So 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:11.159 I think That's that's what's going on right here. But 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.279 it needs to happen more in the NFL. I just 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.920 need to drop everybody's first name golf. Nobody calls him 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:26.719 Tiger Woods. He's just Tiger right for for all the 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.680 people out there, just you know, it's you've got multiple 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.440 you know, Mike's and Peter's and you know things like that, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:37.960 multiple Brian's. Are you going to insist now everybody also 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:42.640 have a a unique way to spell their name to No. No, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.400 if there's there's multiple Brian's on a team, one of 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.720 them is got just changed his name. That's all there 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.920 is to it. That's true. That's how Lancecade became Garrison 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.359 Cade because Lance Storm was standing in his way with 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.040 his first name. See Larry Bird, for example, would have 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.840 been much more famous if he was just Larry Larry Yeah. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.119 But then Saturday, let's sit down and watch Larry. Yeah. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.640 But but maybe if somebody might think you want to 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.240 watch like Frees Company and like Larry hanging out with 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:12.599 Jack at the Regal Beagle, you know, won't this cause 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:17.440 confusion in the marketplace? I don't know. Or Bird. They 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.160 could just call him bird, you know, but not bird Man. 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.400 I'm gonna get some tickets to go see Bird. Are 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:31.680 we going to the zoo? No basketball game? Bird is playing? Okay? Wow? Anyway, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.240 let's get to the actual news here. More important than 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:39.160 ever FTR I I there's a lot going on. This 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.360 is FTR thing. FDR says they pitched the idea of 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.320 facing each other in an own Heart Foundation tournament qualifying match, 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.479 but are not interested in ever breaking up their team. 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:52.040 Appearing on the three episode of the Arresting Perspectives podcast, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.800 Cash and Dax spoke about having to fight for being 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:56.880 able to face each other in the tournament. It was 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.280 our idea, Hartwood said, we had a fight for it, 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.800 but that was completely our idea. We've always wanted to 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.520 have a match, but we didn't want to just have 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.200 a match just to have a match. There to be 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.919 a reason, and this is the perfect reason to do it. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.080 The Heart Family means a lot to both of us 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:13.480 personally and professionally, and so being able to show respect 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.200 tow and Heart of his whole family. What better way 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.560 to do it then allowing the two biggest Heart Family 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:21.880 fans in the world to compete like how everybody thinks 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.000 they're the biggest Heart family fan. And by the way, 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:28.200 does anyone not know the finish of that match? I'm 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.160 not gonna say it here, but I think it's patently 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:33.600 obvious what's gonna happen. And then he discusses more about 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.320 how they don't want to break up in etcetera, etcetera, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.360 And then of course there is this Brett Hart is 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.080 believed to have signed a deal with w W E 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.720 and that prevents him from appearing in a e W. 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.080 Hart is advertised to be an FDRs corner for a 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:51.520 Big Time Wrestling show on June tenth. He is not 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:54.040 expected to play the same role in a W However, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.520 our own Dave Meltz reported in Friday as Observer newsletter, 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.280 Hart is believed to assign a deal with w w 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:03.080 E that prevents him from appearing in a W but 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:07.800 allows him to take independent bookings. The reason this is 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.800 on an indie show and not a W is that 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.040 those in a W over the belief that Heart quietly 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:16.040 signed a lucrative w W E deal that would ban 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:19.320 him from appearing on a e W shows, but he 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.840 is allowed to do indie shows, so that loophole allowed 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.400 this to happen. So yes, a W announce and Owen 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:33.400 Heart Foundation tournament. They had all of those teases on 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:39.240 television about Brett Hart, and so w W E throw 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.440 a bunch of money in him and more power to him. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.640 I mean, that's the game. It's business here, I mean, 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.239 and they don't need him to be there to celebrate 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.920 Owen Hart. This is about Owen Heart, the Foundation, Martha, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:58.120 her kids, what they are doing. Everybody else. You know, 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.880 it would have been nice if he was there, but 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.960 that's okay. This is about Owen anyway. And I don't 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:06.960 blame Brett. I don't blame w w E, you know, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.960 or really anybody any of these parties here. They all 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.120 are individuals who do have themselves to look out for. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.440 You know. F trs with a W for quite a 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.120 while now, I believe at least a year to two 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.000 more years. I think I got another year than a 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:25.920 one year option. And there was that story out a 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:30.200 week ago about how w W was really interested in FTR. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:38.400 I was like, yeah, I mean, fel so funny about 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.319 this story. There's a lot of things, but so they 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:50.480 had FTR. FTR was in n x T having incredible 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:55.080 wrestling matches. FTR gets called up to the main roster. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.200 Their gimmick is that they are wrestlers. Deb of WU 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:04.840 has no clue what to do with them. They had 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.480 that thing on the that one show where they were 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.800 humiliated by d X or whatever just taken off television. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:17.240 They just desperately want out w W E. Finally, you know, 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:20.480 they end up going a W. And then you know 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:25.280 they do in a W. They have great tag team 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:31.839 wrestling matches. They didn't get new gimmicks, they didn't get anything. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.319 They're the exact same team doing the exact same thing 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.680 that they were doing, but a W let them do it. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.200 Now they're super over with the a W audience and 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.760 now w w WE wants them back for what to do, 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.080 what you could have done with them before they left. 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.640 I was just thinking about this yesterday and it was 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:59.400 just it's actually mind blowing to me. I mean, you 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:04.200 add them, it's not like you know, you you let 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:07.920 somebody go and then they get a new look, a 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.560 new makeover, a new character, a new whatever. Cody, for example, 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.640 you know, they they had Cody doing star Dust and 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:18.920 all this other stuff those day. W becomes a big star. 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:22.280 He's the American Nightmare. Cody Rhodes and they let him 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.240 come back with everything he was doing in a e 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.160 W which is also funny by the way that you 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.160 know he got over there and you want that guy. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.640 I mean, that's fine and all, but like FTR are 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:39.480 doing nothing different than what they absolutely could have done 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.360 the exact same thing with you, and you wouldn't let 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.120 him do it, and you froze him off television and 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:48.000 you humiliated them, and now you want him back. I 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.840 was just like, okay, whatever, I'm sure they don't want 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.920 him back. But this is why it is a you know, 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.160 no matter what they do with Cody, because you talked 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.520 about that how important it is that they treat Cody 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.719 in trying to bring over other people, and you are 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.440 right about that, But there's also the underlying piece of 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.600 if they want you back and they point to Cody 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:13.680 and say, see, you know everything's gonna be fine, No, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.440 it may not be for you. And with FTR, with 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.560 the type of wrestlers that they are, the fact that 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.320 they are wrestlers, not sports entertainers, and that's the whole 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.920 part of it. That's only going to go so far. 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.320 So they are far better off where they are. And 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.240 there are another group now that things are opening up worldwide. 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.280 I don't know how much they would like to travel. 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.400 Tellan Arn didn't travel that much and go to Japan, 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.400 but they did go, and I would love to see 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.439 f TR take a trip over there. I love to 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:42.360 see even go to the UK and continue to do 0:12:42.760 --> 0:13:09.320 what they do best. A moment of Deserver Live. You're 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.920 listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:19.600 Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Right in the show. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:23.160 Brian Elbarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike sembur Viv also 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:28.280 Wrestling Observer dot com. Dynamite Wednesday nine thousand of viewers, 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.480 down four from last week. As far as total audience, 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:36.400 it was the second lowest of the year eighteen forty nine. However, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:42.079 point three seven same as last week and uh most 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:46.040 watch show on cable excluding the NBA, because the NBA 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:51.760 is killing every show. Dynamites numbers were even with last 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:57.679 week and most categories, so uh compared to the same 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:03.280 week in viewer, but steady in the eighteen to nine demo. 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:08.520 That's the update on the Dynamite numbers. Darius Martin out 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:11.800 of action for qude a lengthy period due to injury. 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:16.160 According to report from Fightful Select, two year old sustained 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:21.080 a leg injury fairly recently. The nature of the injury 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.200 not currently known, but he will be out a significant 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.960 amount of time. Second time in fourteen months he will 0:14:27.000 --> 0:14:30.320 have been sidelined for an extended period of time. February 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.280 he suffered a torn a c L. Just returned on 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.480 March second, so it's been about six weeks. And actually 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.360 his last match was on April fifteenth, so it was 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.960 about five weeks before he seriously injured his leg again. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.560 So best of luck with him, and uh, that's the 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:54.640 update there. And also the Observer this week noted that 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:59.760 there have been talk of Daniel Garcia joining the Blackpool 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:06.720 Combat Club. However, Chris Jericho personally picked Garcia to join 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.320 the Jericho Appreciation Society, and so that's how he ended 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.360 up with that group. If you recall, UH, Daniel Brin 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.080 and John Moxley, Bryan Danielson had been talking about wanting 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.920 to form a faction and they had thrown out various names, 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:24.240 including Wheeler Utah, and one of those other names was 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:30.240 Daniel Garcia. So uh, it's I mean, I I have 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.840 no idea I mean, if I have no idea if 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:33.640 it would have been better if Garcia had been with 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.240 the Blackpool Combat Club and Wheeler you to have been 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:40.080 with the Jericho Appreciation Society. But I do both of 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:42.680 them with the Blackpool Combat Club and somebody else with 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.440 Jericho that would have probably jelled better. Well, I'll say this, 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:52.760 hold on, here's the thing. I think that Daniel Garcia's 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:58.240 style it works better in the Blackpool Combat Club based 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.440 on what he had already been doing. However, the idea 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.880 that you've got a guy like Daniel Garcia who just 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.400 does a total you know, shoot style pro wrestling style, 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:14.880 plane trunks, plane boots, plane hair like plane everything, and 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:18.080 he's the guy in the group that brags about being 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.960 a sports entertainer and not a wrestler. I like it. 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.240 So I think it's working out. It should yeah, I 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.800 mean his his sports entertainment aptitude should go up being 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.800 around uh, Chris Jericho, that is for sure. But yeah, 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.000 I mean I don't know. I guess it's six of 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.120 one half dozen of the other there. As long as 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.560 they're featured more, both he and Utah, you know that's 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:44.120 gonna be good. Lee Moriarty, you know, got some shine 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:46.720 this week before getting beaten up by the rest of 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.200 the Blackpool Combat Club. But he's another one in that, 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.400 you know, realm of guys to keep an eye on 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.160 as they continue to move forward. Alright, we're gonna go 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.280 through all of the feedback. I may even open up 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.200 the phone lines, and you've been a long time since 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.280 we did that. That would be fun to seven eight 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:07.840 zero seven five six six is the text message line. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.960 Don't try calling yet. I'll open up those next. Brian 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:16.360 at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Alvarez on Twitter. 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.640 I wonder how many of these questions will be about 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:23.760 font Leroy and your treatment of font Leroy. None. I 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:30.600 treat him great, Brian. Did Brett Hart sign a new contract? Yeah, 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.960 we just talked about that. That came in. I got 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.800 a better question for you, Brett Verse, Shawn, all this 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.560 stuff right now taking place, everybody loading up behind Brett Hart. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.680 You don't find many Shawn Michael's backers anymore. When people 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.600 ask who the greatest of all time is? What are 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.359 you talking about? Year? A lot of people saying that 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.639 if you really yeah, I don't know. Everybody seems to 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.840 be talking about Brett right now, yeah, the own Hard 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.320 Cup tournament is coming up, and you've got see him 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.919 Punk and FTR doing a bunch of matches. Uh. And 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.000 that's that's led to a lot of people talking about 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:03.400 Brett by Far always being better than Shawn Michael's. It's 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.520 never been. Well, the problem is poor Shawn Michaels is 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:09.920 running n x T which sucks right now. Poor Shawn Michaels, well, yeah, 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.879 he didn't want this job at all. He was talked 0:18:12.920 --> 0:18:16.240 into doing this job by Triple H. Triple H begged 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:18.840 for a favor from his friend. So Sean goes to 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.760 help his buddy, and then the whole thing that he 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:25.600 signed up for, they they they they rebrand it. They 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.679 take out all of the great wrestlers, They fire a 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.320 Triple H and all of his friends, and now Sean's 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.520 running a thing that he never wanted. Are you say sucks? 0:18:34.880 --> 0:18:37.680 Are you saying he is as broke as Stephanie McMahon 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.160 said he was And that's why he had to come back. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.439 He was just he wanted to help out his buddy. 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:46.239 Why doesn't he just stop helping out now? Then? If 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.080 you well, I mean he's being paid, he's it's his job. 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.600 I'm sure he enjoys the people he's working with. I'm 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.440 sure he liked it were the old way. I mean, 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.680 trust me, if you think listen, I've never spoken to 0:18:58.720 --> 0:19:01.200 Shawn Michael's I don't even think in my life about anything. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.439 Maybe I did once, but anyway, I can tell you 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:09.000 for a fact that that there are among the people 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.760 that are still working there that we're there before. I 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:17.320 don't think they're rejoicing in n x T two point Oh. 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.400 They're longing for the days the back in the day. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:27.359 It is the past and it's gone, alrighty. I feel 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.000 Bird would have been a better name than Larry Well, 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.040 take your pick, dude. I mean, Riddle is probably better 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.640 named than Matt, but perhaps others would have been better 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.359 the other way. No shock on w W E approaching 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.800 Brett trying to undercut something the fans want, plowing forward 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:51.120 with their nonsensical box of gimmicks, b S booking, Bruce Vinska, 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.720 bro Listen, guys, let's get in the real world. If 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:58.560 a W is doing an Owen Hart tournament and they 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.800 are constantly teasing at heart, and you find out that 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.560 Brett Hart is not signed with a W, what do 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:07.680 you think they're gonna do. Like obviously Bret Hart would 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:10.560 be of great value to a w and this tournament 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:14.480 and the promotion managing FTR. They don't want that to happen. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:16.000 So they threw the guy a lot of money. Of 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.960 the guy, and he's signed with them, and now he's 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.520 making a lot of money, so all the best of 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:24.359 him as well. This is business. Is what happens in 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:27.840 a company that he is always identified with, and he 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.879 has always wanted to identify himself with. You know, it 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.719 just I I don't know I the timing of whatever. 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.680 I just people. I I guess he's just a pawn. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.639 This particular move is just a pawn in the in 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:45.119 the game of people that we'll just continue to battle 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.280 this back and forth. I just look at this as 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:51.080 separate entities with Owen Hart and what they're doing. I'm 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:53.200 just looking at it in that direction. I'm not trying 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:55.719 to add in every other Heart member to this, even Brett. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.000 It doesn't at the end of the day, it doesn't 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.040 matter he's in the match with ft ARE for Big 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:04.040 Time Wrestling or wherever it is. They will probably do 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:06.640 the same somewhere in the South. I wouldn't be fall 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:10.240 over shocked about that. If they do that, that's good enough. 0:21:10.440 --> 0:21:14.080 Isn't that enough? I mean, really, does Brett really have 0:21:14.200 --> 0:21:17.440 to be there on a w TV every week? Why 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:19.720 it doesn't matter At the end of the day, none 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:22.679 of this matters. I got a pull here who is 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:25.560 better Brett Harder Shawn Michaels here on the twitch feed 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:31.000 and it's currently Bret Hart and five percent Shawn Michaels, 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:33.480 which is actually a lot farther part than I would 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:37.760 have thought, but even better. In the chat, people are 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.440 angry at the people who had the temerity to vote 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:44.119 for Is this what this world has come to? So 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:47.720 you've been missing all of this. I tried to tell listen, hey, 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:49.600 if you think that Brett Hart was better than Shawn 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.520 Michael's like, that's fine, But what happened in this world 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.000 where all of a sudden it is an insult to 0:21:56.080 --> 0:21:59.400 believe that Shaun Michaels was a better worker than Bret Hart. Dude, 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:01.639 back in the nine these there were a lot of 0:22:01.720 --> 0:22:04.640 people that they thought that Sean Michaels was a better 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:07.639 worker than Bret Hart. This is not like saying who's 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:12.280 the better worker, Brett Hart or a great Collie and 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.399 then you're like, who voted for Collie? That I can 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.800 understand Bret Heart and Shawn Michael's here, you'd always get 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.600 egghead Japanese guy in there too, where it's like, well 0:22:21.600 --> 0:22:24.240 you're both wrong, it's Mussa or somebody like that, where 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:27.360 it was just like, it's not muddying the whole thing. Oh, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:29.640 now now the Shawn Michael's votes are all coming in. 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:31.880 Are you gonna blame me for skewing the poll? Now? 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:39.119 That fr things It's like Michaels FTR thing is like 0:22:39.119 --> 0:22:41.040 when a child doesn't want to play with their toy 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:44.600 until they see some other child playing with their toy. Well, 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:47.000 like I said, I'll give you a great example a 0:22:47.000 --> 0:22:49.120 lot of Okay, I realized he didn't do a great 0:22:49.119 --> 0:22:51.520 interview the other day. But if you guys ever saw 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:55.600 Juice Robinson when he was in an XT and he 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.920 was named after Pamela Anderson's character on bay Watch. I 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:02.879 don't even know why. And then then he went to 0:23:02.880 --> 0:23:06.800 to New Japan and it was like a total transformation. 0:23:07.280 --> 0:23:12.360 I mean, way more charismatic, way better worker, way better matches. 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:16.560 Everything about him was multiples better when he went to 0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:19.760 New Japan. If they would have saw him and went, guy, 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.480 we want this guy back. Is great, that's one thing, 0:23:24.040 --> 0:23:30.000 But there was no gimmick change. There was literally they're 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:36.120 doing exactly what you didn't want them to do when 0:23:36.160 --> 0:23:41.639 you had them. Now you want them back. I mean, bro, 0:23:41.680 --> 0:23:43.280 if I read in the place, I'd wanted back too. 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:45.440 But I'm just baffled, Like, what did it do when 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:47.480 you get him? Do you remember when they wanted the 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:51.359 Young Bucks? Remember that that's totally different. They didn't have 0:23:51.440 --> 0:23:55.200 the Young Bucks before. They said about the same teams 0:23:55.400 --> 0:23:58.919 doing the same thing, with the same look and the 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:03.080 same gimmick. They did nothing with them nels and they 0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.560 want to do something with them. Well, why did you 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:08.960 do someone in the first place, same philosophy, the same 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.399 reason you would never sign those guys. You didn't want 0:24:11.400 --> 0:24:14.119 anything to do with him. You can't teach him anything. There, this, that, 0:24:14.240 --> 0:24:18.200 and the third. But oh now we want you. Look, 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:21.760 you know what this is. It's business, it's pettiness, it's 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:24.080 trying to get one over. It's just basically trying to 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:27.359 hurt the other guy. And I don't think FTR is 0:24:27.400 --> 0:24:29.240 down with them back. In the moment of is ever 0:24:29.359 --> 0:24:38.520