WEBVTT - Tammy Sytch Update/Rampage-Smackdown-RAW News 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:10.160 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:15.400 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.759 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:22.400 Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:27.240 six Eastern Saturdays, tending a Pacific one Eastern with the 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.960 returning Jim Valley the show from Las Vegas this weekend. 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:38.080 Holy smokes, you'd love to get into here today. Bad 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.960 news is always, but also we've got some lineups and 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.159 some fun stuff to get into here as well. I 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.880 want to invest wishes to the family of Carl Lour 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.519 Cauliflower Alley Club. We talked about it last night on 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.880 the Wrestling Observer Radio show with Dave Meltzer, man of 0:00:54.920 --> 0:00:56.760 a few times. Didn't really know him all that well, 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.320 but he was a key figure in uh call Flower Alley, 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.080 which was not why Jim Valley was in Las Vegas, 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.479 mind you. But I would bet that Jim Valley will 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.840 be attending the Cauliflower Alley Club banquet coming up this 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:14.480 year as well. The Ormond the Ormond Beach Police Department 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.600 provided an update on the criminal investigation of Tammy Sich 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:19.920 w w WE Hall of Famer, suspected of d u 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:21.800 I and a fatal car crash led to the death 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:27.959 of seventy five year old Julian Lassener. March. Department released 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:30.800 a statement to p W Insider noting that they have 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:35.440 received part of the toxicology report. We ever see part 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.480 of the toxicology report. If charges are filed, they will 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.640 not be until the investigation is completed. We will update 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.760 the press release once a decision is reached. You know, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:50.240 this is this is not new and I don't even listen. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.960 I'm not in this line of work. But I remember 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.840 in the nineties. Obviously there were a lot of issues 0:01:56.920 --> 0:02:00.360 with drugs and alcohol in the nineties and lots of 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:04.120 toxicology reports. Oh my god, those things took forever to 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.080 come back, and uh, here we are. It's now twenty 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.120 two and I guess I kind of had this idea 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.840 that you know, it's been uh whatever, you know, twenty 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:18.720 five years. These things got to come back faster nowadays. No, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.839 So anyway, still waiting for the results of toxicology test 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:28.040 taken on March. We're after the Break, Wrestling Observer Live 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:47.920 than than back in the show. Bright nowbur is here 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.040 Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike simper viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.280 We got a lot of news to get into to 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:59.919 mention Rampage and SmackDown and row to Night and heck 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:04.480 Tea tomorrow. Listen, I'm gonna go over the full lineup 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.280 for an x T later because it's not very important, 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.320 but I'm going to ask a question here because I'm 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.480 gonna give everyone a little bit of time to uh, 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:12.880 to think about it. I don't even know why, but 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:21.079 they've announced that Tony D'Angelo is facing Zion Quinn. So 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:28.600 is Zion Quinn supposed to be a baby face? Is 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:34.200 Tony D'Angelo supposed to be a baby face? Or is 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.720 this heel versus hell? So anyway, you can think about 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.040 that for a while as I talk about the news. 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:43.000 M l W has responded to w w e's March 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:47.880 motion to dismiss the former antitrust lawsuit against the Ladder 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.560 wants this dismissed. In a statement filed Friday in U S. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.480 District Court in the Northern District of California, m l 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.200 W asserted they have quote properly pleaded all of its 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.200 claims for relief in their initial genuine lawsuit when they 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:05.040 alleged w w E put pressure on third parties to 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:09.760 abandon relationships with m l W. The suit specifically is 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.920 pointing to a failed deal with Fox owned two B 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:17.239 t V, where MLW is claiming Stephanie McMahon pressured Fox 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.600 and to be executives to quote deny mL W a 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.320 time slot that would compete head to head with w 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:26.039 w E s n x T programs, and to quote 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:31.320 terminate the agreement with MLW in its entirety. MLW said 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:34.760 that for these antitrust claimant our section to the Sherman Act, 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:37.599 they only needed to allege it or alleged the w 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:41.600 W E both possessed monopoly power in the relevant market 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:46.280 and willfully acquire or maintain that power. M l W 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:51.120 and questionably properly alleges they wrote both elements. M l 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.799 W has pleaded the irrelevant market broadcast rights for professional 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.800 wrestling programs, and such a single professional sport or form 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.440 of entertainment can as core it's of repeatedly recognized constitute 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.040 a market, whereas alleged here it attracts unique audience, limiting 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.279 the number of economic substitutes. MLW also alleges w W 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.400 es monopoly power because, among other things, it holds eight 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.520 of the relevant market and has reduced the output of 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:23.159 professional wrestling broadcasts. MLW's pleaded w WS willfully acquired and 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.120 maintained that monopoly power by preventing MLW from distributing its 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.400 programs through to B and vice, by locking up, russing 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:34.400 talent and key networks with exclusivity agreements, and by other 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.720 conduct to constrain competitors and competition. W w E argues 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:42.640 MLW's claim is insufficient because w w WE contented does 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:45.000 not alleged facts quote suggesting that w w WE could 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:48.200 possibly hold any power over the dozens of not hundreds, 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:51.880 of networks, cable and streaming services which w w E 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.120 has no commercial relationship with. There's much more on this 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.360 in the uh on the front page of Rustling Observer 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.560 dot com um. There is, of course, the quote from 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.440 Jerry mcdivid and the Observer, if to be breached then 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.279 sued to be As to vice, w w has no 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.880 commercial relationship with them, or, for that matter, any of 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.920 the other dozens of contact distribution entities with whom mL 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.159 W could do a deal with if they had a 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.200 commercially viable product. They put a show on Vice. If 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.960 my memory serves me correctly, after one of the Dark 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.640 Side shows, they lost most of the audience. I think 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.040 I read they got forty viewers. No wonder, Vice did 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:37.160 no further deal. Sky's brutal. Holy smokes, he's brutal. But anyway, anyway, 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.719 there's a point to all of this. I'll just cut 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.520 to the chase. I don't know who's right and who's wrong. 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:47.159 I don't know what's going on, Okay, but mL W 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:51.200 absolutely believes that they have a case here and there 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.880 is wrongdoing by w W. E And I bring this 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.039 up because you ain't going all this trouble and and 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.919 demanding a jury trial just to whatever. I mean, there's 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.479 there's a belief here and uh. And I bring it 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:10.200 up because you remember the whole thing with bots. Everybody 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.920 ridiculed Tony Khan, but the bots. I don't know what's 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.160 going on. I don't know who's I don't know if 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:18.840 I don't like to say I don't know who's behind 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:20.800 the box, because it sounds like it's a storyline from 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:23.280 Sonic the Hedgehog. But the point is, I don't know 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.360 who's behind all of this or whatever. But the fact 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.920 of the matter is this also not something Tony con 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.640 made up, not something he just wanted to tweet for attention. 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.680 Something's going on. Is he gonna get lititious? He might. 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.360 That's why I'm bringing it up here, Like, don't think 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.240 that this is just like some goofy thing that Tony 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:45.160 came up with. This could be litigated. I guess we'll 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.760 find out at the end of this, uh this investigation here. 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.320 But sometimes I think that fans hear these stories are like, ah, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:56.080 it's not always that. Sometimes there's something going on. So anyway, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.600 that's the story. Well, we guy like Tony Khan. I mean, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:03.880 you know, he's not just some blowhard indie local promoter. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.640 I mean, if he's gonna tweet something, there's probably something 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:09.600 behind it. Whether you like what's behind it or not, 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.000 a different story. But you know, MLW, there's gonna be 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.600 a lot that has to come out about this before 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.360 I think anybody can really make their minds up on it. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.720 One of the reasons why is because what was this 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.240 spot that they were offered on to be which is 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:28.320 a streaming service. It's like everything else. There's a portal 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.560 you can go through and watch Sky News or watch 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:35.520 local affiliates, Fox affiliates and owned affiliates from across the country. 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.000 So I don't know, you know, were they were they 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.280 going to be offered a spot head up really or 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.080 were they just going all those little things like that 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.200 with MLW is claiming and what WW is claiming that 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.440 they didn't do all of it's just gonna have to 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.880 come out and the wash once this thing, I guess 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.120 goes to trial if it actually makes it that far. 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.040 As far as Jerry McDivitt goes, he's a very tough 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.400 opponent to go head up against, and he is, I'm 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.720 sure going to be quite colorful and full of himself 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:07.600 and what is probably going to be one would assume 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.480 one of his last high profile cases here, at least 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.160 with w W for for at least for the time being. 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.000 Right now, I'm not gonna address this on the air. 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.000 I'm dealing with something in the chat here which one 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:25.000 YouTube or twitch well actually I think it's a YouTube 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:28.080 guy on Twitch. He's actually just he's very upset that 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.680 Tony mentioned this three weeks ago. We haven't had an 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.800 update yet. Bro, we can't get toxicology reports back in 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.839 four weeks. So you think they're gonna finish this investigation 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.920 and do all of this in three weeks. The investigation 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.680 is ongoing, Bro, This could be six months, it could 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:45.160 be a year. I don't know how long it's gonna take. 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:48.640 But like the st Perry Mason or in an hour, 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.840 we're gonna have an answer to this question. It's gonna 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:56.079 take a while. Yes, I name dropped Perry Mason sports 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.280 show from uh court show from back in the day. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.880 Why is it probably played baseball or something? Do you 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:06.080 ever watched murder? She wrote? Remember that show? I'm starting 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:10.640 to show. You gotta ask her Like for some reason, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.520 in that little small town around this woman, everybody kept dying. 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.520 There always seemed to be something happening. Yet she and 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.560 she was involved in all of it, yet never never 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:23.560 was looked at as a suspect. Well, when you live 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.199 in a small town, there's like one person in charge of, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.800 you know, doing all this stuff. I think she was. 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.640 Maybe they were doing something. Get out of here, you 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:35.800 know what I mean. John Cena recently offered some praise 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.320 for us in theory. He sent a message on social 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.960 media for the sixteen time World Champions birthday. The message 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.719 included an apology from the twenty four year old This 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.120 is Austin Theory for quote being a better US champ. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.320 Theory also attached a video of him telling a young 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:56.040 Sena that he is a young Scena fan that he 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.000 is better than their hero. Sena responded by saying Theory 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:02.120 shouldn't apologize for having more talent. He should only apologize 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:03.880 after twenty years if he hasn't put in the work 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.640 required to capitalize it. This John Seene is something else. 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.560 He's a He's a robot, not even saying that like 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.199 an in a negative way. I guess it's kind of 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.480 a negative, but it's not. I'm actually not meaning it 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.000 to be negative. All he's very robotic, like exactly what 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.880 he's going to say in all of these circumstances. And uh, 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:25.960 he did, however, say because I think it's usually generic 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.480 and right, like usually people can't complain about well this 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.240 was in his programming, because whoever programmed this like is 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.320 a robot. He just has to repeat it. But as 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.079 a human being, he goes what am I saying here? 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.880 He goes, ever understands you have far more talent, strength, 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.840 and gifts than I ever had. Well, first off, it's 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:45.160 an objective fact. He does not have more strength than you, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:49.319 John Cena, You're much stronger than Austin Theory. I could 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:53.040 say that as a factual statement. Now, talent and gifts, well, 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.040 I don't know about that. I would say that in 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:01.040 terms of like athleticism and the ability to be limb burr. Yes, 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:05.480 Austin Theory is is uh more talented than than John Cena. 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:09.319 So physical gifts, I could argue that maybe Austin Theory 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.400 has more than John Cena, but certainly not strength and talent. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.719 I mean, what are you talking about, brother? I mean 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.840 maybe someday, but not right now. So anyway, you know 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.400 what this is all about. It's Austin Theories and new 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.840 shows in one and I would not be surprised if 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.439 Vince wanted Seena to come back and put over Austin 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:41.720 Theory back in a moment. It's a revived the show. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.679 Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simbur viv 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.080 also Wrestling Observer dot com. More news. We'll do some 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:51.520 reviews here in a while. Rampage bounced around the schedule 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.080 and made due to T and T S coverage of 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.640 the NBA and NHL playoffs, because it depends on who 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.560 is playing when there's no set time past this coming Friday, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.600 A schedule the regular time slot Base six right now 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:06.480 schedule for six eastern, three Pacific. I can't wait to 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.760 like post those ratings and a bunch of nerds talk 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:14.640 about how the show's dying three Pacific, six eastern, which 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:18.280 I think would be uh one in the afternoon in Hawaii. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.520 That's gonna say what two mountains, five mountain wherever the 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:26.160 hell it is too. And also update from the Summer 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.680 Slam tickets. Tickets when I've sealed the public on Friday, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.160 they went up twenty three thousand tickets in the pre sale, 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.640 they've opened up down thirty five thousand, and about nineteen 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:39.199 thousand tickets are out, which is paid and comps. So 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:43.360 that's the update on SummerSlam. Probably will I would think 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.480 get close to selling out thirty five but I suppose 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.280 we shall see well live. UK viewers of Rampage ought 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.400 to be happy. I know there's not many of them, 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:57.160 but I guess ten pm wouldn't be around that British 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.880 summertime or whatever it is. So at least they're making 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.560 on the Steel. Becky Lynch will be returning to Raw tonight. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:09.319 This is the lineup for the show. Everybody, of course, 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.080 this is This is the lineup as of Friday, so 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.280 it's possible nothing I tell you right now actually happens tonight. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.440 We have Bianca bell Air versus Sonya Deville for the 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.840 Raw Women's title, and I think they did that match 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.920 is like a dark match at the SmackDown tapings on 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:31.040 Friday night, which obviously Bianco won, so they are practicing 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.720 the match, so I presume that's taken place tonight. And 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.600 by the way, as we'll get to on SmackDown, Sony 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:41.280 Deville maybe just moving into the full time wrestler gig, 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:46.160 because they're teasing that there is a potential new assistant 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:54.520 for Adam Pierce Randy Orn's twenty anniversary celebration, which when 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.680 you think about it, you know, I got a I 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.520 got a six year old now, Paisley six years old old, 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.560 and sometimes I sit there and, oh my god, she's 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:07.280 six years old already, like at the time, just it flies. 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.560 How many times do we hear that? How how fast. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.600 These children grow up and it's like a blink of 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.800 an eye. But then I hear that Randy Orton has 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.560 only been in w W for twenty years, and it's 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.120 like Jesus, it seems like it's been about, I mean, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:23.000 five lifetimes he's been with that company, So time is weird. 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.800 I believe Albert Einstein once said that it's weird this 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.760 whole time thing. We had the Return to Becky Lynch 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:37.320 and then and arm wrestling Challenge. Bobby Lashley will be 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:45.280 facing oh Moss in an arm wrestling challenge, not a match. Yeah, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:49.560 it's a challenge. Well, you have reviewed many an old 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.920 wrestling show that has featured the arm wrestling challenge, whether 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:58.440 it be Superstar Billy Graham and the Barbarian and UH 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.600 on Saturday Night, Old end u a Action, And they've 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.280 done this in w W E plenty of times. And 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:06.920 I have a feeling, no matter what happens, it's going 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.600 to end with a table being turned over and somebody 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.120 smashed over the head with it. You know, I think 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:16.040 they should do anything. They should have Omas and Lashly 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:20.120 sit down at that table, slam dun contest, put their 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.760 arms up. The referee says go and they they fight, 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:33.080 and they fight and they fight. One of them wins 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:39.040 clean then the loser says, damn, you are stronger than 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.080 I am. And they shake hands and they're all part 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.560 of m v P S unit. Can can we get 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.400 that idea? Can we get that? Lucky? No, of course 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.600 not just say you talk about me wanting to have 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.640 hope for some of these things and fantasy booking something 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.640 coherent and happy to happen on these pro rams. There 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.240 would be nothing better than that. The only thing that 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.280 would be better than that is if at some point, 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.440 as they're doing that, the music hits and Shelton Benjamin 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:13.200 and Cedric Alexander come out there and they all look 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.320 like they're ready to fight, and they don't, and they 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.600 all put on their hurt business shirts and everybody Bobby lash. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.720 He's got a suit that is only matched by m 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:24.560 v P. They give almost a suit and they're back 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:27.080 as a unit. And the only time we see almost 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.320 is when he is there nine and he's putting somebody 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.639 through a table with a choke swam. I think it happened, brother, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:35.879 I wish it would alright. So n XT on Tuesday, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:43.000 we have got solo Sokoa versus Trick Williams Fellon Henley. 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.120 I have to totally turn away from the microphone, never 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.200 say that name. She will a team with Josh Briggs 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:55.439 and Brooks Jensen against Electro Lopez, Cruise del Toro and 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:59.840 Joaquin wild Tikedalliance faces Lash Legend and boy did I 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.600 your Oh yeah, a rumor this weekend? Can you be 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:08.640 exposed this please? Well, well no, let's wait till tomorrow. 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.480 Let's just put it this way. It's possible. This is 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:17.440 not the last you've seen of last Legend versus Nikila Lyons. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.040 Some of you will be in rapture, the others will 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:26.040 be in in hell. We have got Nathan Fraser making 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.439 his n x T two buin no debut. Every time 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.880 I hear that, I think it's gonna be the debut 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:35.800 of Ah, what's that guy from Men on a Mission? 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:41.360 A really big one, Mabel, Mabel. I keep thinking that 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.840 that's Nathan Fraser, but I don't think that wasn't his 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:52.320 real name, Nelson Fraser. Nelson Fraser. Yes, And then Uhtana 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:59.560 Chance and Caden Carter face Ulyssa Leone and Valentina Ferraz. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.920 Have they gone through a promo as to how they've 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.960 changed their names that they didn't do that last week, 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:07.840 did they? Because if they do one, I need to 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:11.200 hear Vinny Uh go ahead and re enact that because 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:13.720 it ought to be something. And then we've got to 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:22.240 is noted Tony di'angelo the the mobster against Zion Quinn 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.520 the jerk bro. Everybody's a heel on this show. I'm 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.639 I'm I'm just this one. I got a feed everybody, 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:30.440 who am I supposed to cheer for in this match? 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.720 Of anybody? And if not, why am I watching a 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.960 match with two people that are that are heels for? 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.760 Not like there's not a reason for it. They never 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.360 switched diamond mind Chase, you didn't get like are they 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.359 bad guys? I mean every and they're supposed to I 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:47.840 don't know. I guess it depends on the scenario. But like, 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.000 this is what Cody had said about a w that 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.920 people had took and ran with about the tropes about 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:57.320 good guys and bad guys, And this is the greatest 0:19:57.320 --> 0:19:59.840 example of it. Things just happened on this show, but 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.359 tween people for no reason. Look how we got to 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:07.760 D'Angelo and Uh and Phantasma in the first place. We've 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:11.000 got Tyson Fury bringing up Drew McIntyre's name during a 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:14.119 postfight press conference in the UK. They were gonna do 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.560 this match, and then the pandemic put a the old 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:20.919 kabash on that, and so it looks like I wouldn't 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:25.639 be surprised at all. Summer Slam wrestlemany next year. Just uh, 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.920 I saw the law the Dylan White. I hadn't seen 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.720 him fighting a while, so I saw the knockout happen. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.840 But the most interesting part of the fight is the 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:38.800 fact that somehow Tyson Fury does not get winded upon 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.000 his ring entrance coming to the ring, which is if 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:44.840 you took Jerry Lawler and Dusty Rhodes and I don't 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:47.880 know who the longest ring entrances in history have been, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.439 you know, showing off going down the aisle. This was it. 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.159 I think Princess Diana got down for the wedding in 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.760 a faster time than he actually did make in it 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.360 to the ring with his seventy seven different songs. Out 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:03.359 of the six title matches Saturday's Impact Rebellion pay per view, 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:09.040 three titles changed hands. Josh Alexander beat Moose for the 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.000 Impact World title, of course he had won it, and 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.119 then there was the immediate cash in by Moose, so 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:15.760 he never even got to put the belt on. Then, 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:20.520 of course he had issues with his visa contract expired. 0:21:20.920 --> 0:21:23.760 I think they always knew that he was almost as 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.040 surely going to resign the way they shot the angles 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:28.840 and everything like that, So this was their big match 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.280 one on one for the title. Josh Alexander won the belt. 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:35.080 Back also had Ace Austin winning the X Division title 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.800 in a match with Trey mcguel and Speedball. Mike Bailey 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.160 and Tie of Valkyrie beat Diana Parazzo for the Reina 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:48.360 da Rena's title, and I'm gonna watch um at least 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.960 I think those matches tomorrow morning before the show with Lance, 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.840 so if you're an Impact fan, we'll review those on 0:21:55.840 --> 0:22:00.679 the land Storm show tomorrow today. On thinking for a 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.280 dealing with Tom Lawler, it is going to be SmackDown 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:09.600 and uh New Japan strong, and I don't know if 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.680 I'm gonna be able to get through the I think 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:14.560 we're the semifinals of the Cinderella Tournament. Tom has watched 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:16.400 everything so we can talk about I'm not trumany will 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:18.959 get to it, but that's the lineup for the Filthy 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:21.520 Tom Lawler Show today, because we do what we can. 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:24.800 You know what I'm saying, There's a lot of wrestling 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.160 out there there. I can't keep up with all of it. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:33.200 It's crazy, it is crazy. It's madness. I would go 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.280 as far as to say, not macho madness, just madness. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:40.000 We also have a new Japan title change. Shingo did 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:42.639 in effect beat tai Chi. He is a new provisional 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:46.359 King of Pro Wrestling two champion. I guess it's provisional 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:53.359 because next year it'll be three. Yeah. So it was 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.480 a thirty count match. The first wrestler to get a 0:22:55.520 --> 0:23:00.919 combined thirty count in pinfall attempts well declared the winner. 0:23:01.080 --> 0:23:03.040 So I haven't seen it yet, but when you think 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.280 about it, this should mean like Shingo could have hit 0:23:05.320 --> 0:23:08.000 him with a pumping bomber and got a nineteen count, 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.679 but since it wasn't thirty, he would still have to 0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:13.359 get eleven more counts. Is that how worked? Isn't like 0:23:13.440 --> 0:23:16.000 you to get a two count fifteen times? No? No, 0:23:16.119 --> 0:23:18.480 it was a culmination, so if you got like a 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.119 two then that went on the topeboard exactly. But I 0:23:21.160 --> 0:23:23.199 mean could I could he could he pin him for 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.439 third for for twenty two seconds and then the guy 0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.199 kicks out of twenty three and it's not over ye 0:23:28.200 --> 0:23:30.440 because it's not a combined thirty. I assumed it was 0:23:30.480 --> 0:23:32.680 always like the deal that we'd always see on TV, 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:35.040 where like somebody would get hit, the guy would get 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:37.400 knocked out, the guy, you know, the person is down 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:39.760 there for a ten count, but the referee doesn't see it. 0:23:39.840 --> 0:23:42.480 He sees a two counts that the guy kicks out, 0:23:42.640 --> 0:23:44.680 you know, and then that would count for twelve. I 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:47.840 guess in this situation, if he just stood down there, 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:51.480