WEBVTT - Title Changes, Injuries, and RAW 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.520 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:10.520 when you're ready, let's. 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:10.840 Get it all. 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.560 How's it going to everybody? Bryan Alvarez here on Wrestling 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.639 Observer Live. We are here every day Monday through Friday, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.319 New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, six Eastern, and 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:28.840 of course Saturdays with Jim Valley at ten Pacific, one Eastern. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.120 We got a lot of news to get into today. 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.960 It's Monday, you know. That means a lot of stuff 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:39.599 happened over the weekend. We had shows, we had title changes, 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.519 we had literally a half dozen injuries that we have 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:47.919 to get into here today, and we're gonna go over 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:49.600 all that here on the show, as well as the 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.680 full lineup for Raw tonight, the full lineup for NXT tomorrow, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.640 the full lineup for AW on Wednesday. Wednesday, of course, 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.960 is the go home Dynamite for the pay per view 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.600 is coming weekend, which I will be attending. I'm gonna 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.800 be there in Vegas. Dave's gonna be there, got a 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.240 whole bunch of people going and if you would like 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:09.360 to join us there at for W one line dot 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:12.160 com slash Vegas. You can join us for our Q 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.559 and A. You can join us for a Brazilian steakhouse dinner. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.720 Don't miss that one, and we may we may have 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.600 a couple of packages available that involve a ticket to 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.400 double or nothing, but those may be sold out. So 0:01:25.640 --> 0:01:29.160 whatever you're interested inffor do W online dot com, slash Vegas, 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.320 I would go there asap and see what is left. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.600 Could do a meet and greet with Dave. It's gonna 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.880 be a lot of fun, so don't miss that this weekend. 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.040 We've also got updates on the video game. We finally 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:47.800 finally have a release date for aw Fight Forever, and 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:52.559 believe it or not, that is the top story today. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.400 I'll tell you why has noted. We've got a backup 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.200 location for Collision and we're gonna know one way or 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:01.600 the other on Wednesday, so we'll tell you about that 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:08.640 and the New Japan Show yesterday and SmackDown Rampage, whatever 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.600 you want to talk about. Texas four two five seven 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.200 eight zero seven five sixty six. That is four two 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:17.320 five seven eight zero seven five sixty six. Brian at 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.120 Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Elbers on Twitter, Back 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:46.919 in a moment Observer Live. Back in the show, Briin 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.840 Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simber Viv also 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:54.040 of Wrestling Observer dot com. Let's get going on the 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.960 news and the big story today. Fight Forever finally as 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:03.520 an official release date, announce today. Fight Forever will be 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:09.560 released Thursday, June twenty ninth, PS five, PS four, Xbox 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.760 Series X and S, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:18.000 and S was made via video from Kenney Omega quite 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.920 some time ago. He said, we announced our first foray 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:24.760 into the video game world, aw Fight Forever. We wanted 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.320 to develop an arcade experience. It was fun, easy to 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.400 pick up and play, but difficult to master. We believe Awn, 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.600 our partners with Yukes, have created just that experience. Rated 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:41.960 T fourteen due to blood, violence, language, mild suggestive themes, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:49.440 and use of alcohol and tobacco. Okay. Following match types 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.000 are included in the game Singles matches, tag team, three way, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:57.080 four way, casino battle, royal falls, count anywhere, unsanctioned lights 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:00.680 out and exploding barbed wire death matches. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:05.720 Why were you so surprised by that there's a career mode, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.160 Brian Alvarez. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.080 So he can make the Sandman? 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.680 How can you tell the career of the Hangman outam 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.280 page without him sitting at the bar, sitting there with 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.720 a drink in his hand, maybe using that drink when 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:22.480 he wrestles an unsanctioned lights out match, which it says 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.560 here in the press release allows use of weapons and 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.760 of course lots of blood. 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.600 Just tell me that they have that create a wrestler 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.360 function where I can make the Sandman and do all 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:39.200 of my aw dream matches with the Sandman that possible? 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.080 Did you have a Sandman in his prime versus John Moxley? 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.760 Don't tell me. You don't want to see that match. 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:50.480 Don't even tell me. Might be blood, he says Tony Knst. 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.560 Since our initial announcement, fans worldwide have shown unbridled passion 0:04:54.040 --> 0:05:00.400 around the launch of Fight Forever. Unbridled, that's passionate word. Yes, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.520 they could not be bridled. No, they were so excited 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.880 for this game, Fight Forever Kenny and our world class 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.599 team and delivered an authentic, nostalgic feel, etcetera, etcetera. So 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.200 why am I even announcing this? 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:12.440 Well? 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:16.480 The video game was first announced in November of twenty twenty. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:23.400 It is now May of twenty twenty three. It's been 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:29.760 a long time since they announced this, and the fact 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:35.440 of the matter is this is potentially a real big 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.920 money thing for AW. They've been banking a lot on 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.800 this video game. They invested a ton into this video 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.480 game with the hopes of this video game was going 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:49.320 to be a huge hit which would result in a 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:53.560 huge influx of income to AW. So it would not 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.880 be as important as say a television deal, but you know, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.800 there's a lot of money at stake with this game. 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.600 So they've been waiting almost three years since the announcement 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.600 to have it released, and it's been pushback, pushback, pushback. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.840 But it's now time. So it's gonna be very interesting 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:16.159 to follow the release sales, what fans think about the 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.920 game if they announced another game for somewhere down the road. 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.080 But this is a big one financially for AW, so 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.240 we can all hope for the best there. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.640 I haven't followed this intensely or anything. Has there been 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.120 an estimate on how much they've put out to produce 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:35.080 this game so far? 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.880 I don't think there's actually been an estimate, But my 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:42.360 guess is, like you know eight figures like a lot 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:45.200 of money. A lot of money went into this to 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.600 my knowledge. It could be totally wrong about that, but 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:49.000 that's the impression that I got. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.400 Well, and I guess this is one for the listeners 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:55.120 really obviously more than either one of us. But what 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:58.280 is good for a release of a game like this 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.000 in the first can you make that? Much? Like? What 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.000 do games? And not talking about the biggest games in 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.920 the world, what would a game to this level actually 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.920 look to get in its main buying cycle? Seriously, because 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.720 I have no idea at this point, what actually, you know, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.840 gold or platinum would actually equate to when it comes 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.080 to the gaming world. Now. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:27.160 Also very important for AW is Wednesday. AW is considering 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:33.000 a backup location for the debut edition of Collision. Daily's Place. Jacksonville, 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:36.640 Florida is being considered as a backup location. AW who 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:39.160 had originally set to launch the show at the United 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.880 Center Chicago June seventeenth, but plans are currently up in 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.080 the air due to a dispute between Punk and AW. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.240 Dave wrote aw's d contact with Daily's Place is a 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.760 possible backup location. This is not an official change, but 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.520 it has appeared that the cmpunk situation has until Wednesday 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.160 to go whichever way it goes, and if he's not 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.920 appearing then and they won't go to the United Center. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.360 People involved with the proposed events, so they were told 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.960 yesterday about the show being possible and that a decision 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:11.240 would be made over the next week. So they had 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:17.000 a list of upcoming events and the Wednesday after, or 0:08:17.000 --> 0:08:20.240 maybe it's the Wednesday before, it's the wind Trust Arena. 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.800 And so you know, some people saw the announcement of 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.840 the wind Trust arena and they were like, well, I 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.480 guess that means, you know, there's no cm punk, And 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.280 in fact, that's not what that means because their plan. 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.920 Their plan is they are going to run the wind 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.640 Trust Arena one way or the other. So if cm 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.080 punk decides he's going to do this or whatever the 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:52.040 situation is, and you know he's on, then they're going 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.640 to announce the United Center and they would do both 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.640 shows within a you know, three to five day period 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.560 or whatever. I can't remember if the wind Trust before after, 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:04.040 someone probably remembers, but it's either the Dynamite before after, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.680 But that's that's the idea. So if punk is not 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.160 going to be on the debut collision, then they're not 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:16.079 gonna run the United Center. They will run Daily's place 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.960 because they feel and there's two things here. Number One, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.600 they feel that if Punk's return is advertised for the 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.280 United Center, they're gonna do great there, and then they'll 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.520 do fine for the show at the wind Trust Arena. 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.400 But if he's not there, I don't think they're confident 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.640 at all of doing great numbers for the United Center 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.000 and wind Trust, you know, three to five days apart. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:44.680 The other issue. The other issue, and this is a 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.760 big issue because of what they did last time when 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:52.640 he debuted. If they announce the United Center, everybody is 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:54.800 gonna expect that the guy is gonna be there, and 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.120 if he's not gonna be there, you're gonna have some 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.719 really really unhappy people. So, because of what happened the 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:03.840 first time, you do not want to announce the United 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.400 Center unless he's for sure going to be there. Now, 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:12.040 last week they were supposed to announce the United Center, 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:16.679 they did not. They announced every single upcoming data location 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.520 except that one we will announce next week, which meant 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.080 there were seven days to get everything figured out, and 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.360 you know, not just figured out, but I don't know 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.760 what the agreement is. I don't know. I don't know 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:34.600 what's going on. But if Punk is confirmed for the show, 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.120 then on Wednesday, they are going to announce the United Center, 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.120 and if he's not, they're going to announce daily It's place. 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.679 So that's how I'm gonna know what's going on. If 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:47.160 you asked me right now what they are going to 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:54.000 announce on Wednesday, I shouldn't say anything. But my presumption 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:56.400 is that they're going to come to an agreement with 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:58.880 Punk and they are going to announce the United Center. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.160 This obviously obvious. I could change. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.600 Okay, you're gonna get lit up. 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:08.080 Why for what? 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:09.240 I don't know. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.920 My gut is that they're going to come to an agreement. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.079 I want to see it happen again. 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.200 Well, you know what's funny is at the end of 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.880 last Wednesday show, the last thing I said in the 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.840 show was my presumption is that they're going to announce 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:26.480 him tonight, and they didn't. Okay, so I guess we'll say. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.800 You got presented on Instagram. That's what happened. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.120 I still don't know why. I still have absolutely no 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:32.800 idea why. 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.000 I'd just like to know why this wasn't Iron out 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.360 with a steal long before now. I mean, why the 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.800 decision was made last tuesdays? It stands right now, unless 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:47.160 any other new reporting has come out, unless AWS said 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:51.280 anything else. Why was it Tuesday when this was decided? 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.440 Why was this not ironed out ahead of time? Knowing 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.679 it was going to be a headache for people on 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.800 both sides of the equation no matter what the decision was, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.600 How did it go this far? That, to me is 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:04.720 really the biggest question. You're regardless of what happens, what 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:07.640 was the breakdown in communications that caused this to happen? 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:11.240 I don't know, but after the break I got something 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.160 I gotta say about that, all right? Yeah, back in 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:42.520 a moment, Observer Live and the show Bright Now. Where 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.680 is here? Wrestling Observer Live, Mike SIMBERBBI also Wrestling Observer 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.800 dot Com. You know, I don't even want to really 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:53.840 talk about this much because you know Punk's listening. Let 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.280 me make it clear, I don't even know if all 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:01.880 this stuff with uh, you know, what's his name, Punk's 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.720 buddy A Steel. I don't even know what happened here, Okay. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.800 I've heard all of the stories, and the general story 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.679 is that A Steele and correct me if I got 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:19.880 this story wrong. A Steele was fired and then CM 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:25.880 Punk wanted him back, and so he was hired back, 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.920 and Punk was given the impression that he was going 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:35.200 to be working as an agent at Collision, and then 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.160 it turned out that he was being hired back, but 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.719 he was going to work remotely and never be a 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.720 Collision And then this made Cmpunk angry. Is that generally 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:48.560 the story that that's been told here? Well, I think 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.480 that's the story that I heard. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:55.000 No, and I can pull up the specifics here. You know, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.400 from the Fight Full and from the House of Wrestling thing, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:03.360 it was that he was hired back at some point. Now, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.360 whether that was because nobody else was fired or whatever 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.120 is obviously you would figure see him. Punk would want 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.760 him back regardless of what it was. But he had 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:16.240 apparently been working there remotely, helping out. I guess it 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.760 was with Creative at that time, and it was he 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.480 was led to believe. Either he was led to believe 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:26.120 or was told he was going to be back when 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:30.600 Collision started again. And then apparently from House ar Wrestling, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.720 the decision was made on Tuesday he was not coming back. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.800 That got to Punk, yes, and then that's what I said. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.480 That's what I said. Like, they thought that he was 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.960 going to be working Collision, and now the story is no, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.080 he's only going to be remote. That made Punk mad 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.000 and probably a steel mad too. 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.280 He's been working remotely, I know. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.280 But the story was that they thought he was going 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.600 to be working in backstage at Collision when it started, 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.840 and now they're told that's not the case. Okay, Well 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.240 that's what the question is. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.840 Well, me is there's the issue, because that's what they 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:08.280 are claiming is we were not only I guess, led 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.520 to believe that that's what it was supposed to be, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.440 and then the decision was see. 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.480 Here, it's before that. But the problem actually goes even 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.960 before that. Okay, here's the thing to me. Okay, and 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.800 this is not the first time. Here's the thing. Whether 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.120 that exact series of events is true or not, my 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.920 larger point is that this is not the first time 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:33.320 that there has been an issue in aw between parties 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.800 and the solution that Tony Kahan has come up with 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.520 has resulted in both sides being angry. Okay, that's my 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.440 point here. So here's the deal. Here's the deal. Okay, 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:51.960 you have a situation where a Steel bit Kenny Omega, 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.960 and I don't think that the elite really would like 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.720 him to be hired back because he bit somebody. Okay, 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.720 Now Punk is friends with a Steel. Punk believes that 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.440 a Steele did what was right, you know whatever, and 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:12.480 so he wants him to come back. So really, there's 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.760 only two solutions that are actually going to work here, 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.120 and each solution is going to make one side angry. 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.480 The one solution is a Steel is fired. He ain't 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.080 coming back. He bit somebody, He's not coming back. He's done. Okay, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:30.360 This makes a Steel angry, It makes the impunk angry, 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.000 makes the elide happy. They don't want the guy back. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.960 He bits somebody, all right. The other solution is, well, 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.520 we bring the guy back. He's going to be working collision. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.920 The elite is not going to be on collision. We're 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.640 gonna we're gonna rehire him. This is gonna make seeimpunk happy. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:51.160 He's gonna make a Steel happy, but it's gonna make 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:55.240 the elite angry. Guy bit us and now he's back, 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.680 got a job again. Okay. So the one solution makes 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.880 the punk side happy and the other side the other 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.879 is the opposite. Right, Well, the third solution here is 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:10.040 we're going to rehire him, which of course makes the 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.199 elite angry that he's being rehired, but he is not 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:17.840 allowed to actually go to the show, which then makes 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.760 Cmpunk and a Steel angry. So the one solution chosen 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:27.520 was a solution that makes all sides angry. This is 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:32.800 not the first time that I have heard that Tony 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:37.159 wants to find a solution that makes everybody happy, but 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:41.880 in doing so, the solution often makes everyone unhappy. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.760 Brian, let me let me ask a question here, Yes, 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:51.720 why then was this not really ironed out long before 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:56.760 the day before this was going to be announced? Where everybody? Again, 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:01.160 I that's that's my only question. I guess is how 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:01.919 did this happen? 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.280 My guess is that Tony probably knew that eventually this 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:06.919 was going to come to a head, and he figured 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.920 that he would buy himself time until that day came. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.840 I don't know that, but I mean, I don't know. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.520 It's you know, it's funny. You got Androtti on that 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.800 poster and he was told, if you mess with Sammy, 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.919 when you come back where it being, you're you're getting 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.080 sent home. And he comes back and he punches dude 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:29.399 talking about a guy that somebody his dude punches a 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:34.719 dude God sent home, and it's like, now he's back, Like, I, Oh, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.120 there's a lot of appeasing that goes on there. There's 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.440 a lot of a lot that goes on there, I guess, 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:43.240 and it's it's it's frustrating as a fan because again, 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:47.560 this takes away from any excitement that's been going on 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.720 and reduces and and I hate to say this, but 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:55.240 like it reduces the debut of collision. Of course, it's 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.240 already happened by being moved to the amphitheater. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.440 How many things have ever ruined the something or other 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.800 at the end of the day, here is my advice 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:06.080 to Tony Kahan, which nobody will listen to, but perhaps 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:07.679 someone out there will listen to it, because it's a 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:13.520 life lesson that I have learned personally. You will never 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:18.760 have everyone like you. You will never have everybody like you. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.200 There's always going to be people that don't like you. 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.000 And sometimes when you have to make a decision because 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.120 you're the boss, well you have to make a decision 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.679 that some people are not going to like. Now, I 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.480 know that everyone on the internet's going to say, oh, well, 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:36.840 he's saying that I didn't even tell you which side 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.040 Tony should choose. My point is there's two options here. 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.600 A Steel is either rehired and he works backstage at 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.439 Collision and him and Punk are happy, or he is 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.320 fired and he does not come back and the elite 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:54.280 are happy. That is the only solution that's going to work. 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.520 If you try to make both sides happy. What happens 0:19:57.560 --> 0:19:59.720 is you are where you are now, where You've made 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:03.439 both sides angry. Both sides are angry right now. You 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.240 have not solved the problem. You've made a bigger problem. 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.360 You pissed everybody off. 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:11.160 Including you. 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.080 I'm not angry, they are. Actually I'm not angry. I'm 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.600 be a great It takes a lot to make me angry. Raw. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.720 Tonight is Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus Knight of Champions 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.480 contract signing, Rock Lesser and Cody Roads quote under one roof. 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.800 That's some branding for you. Seth Rawlins will do his 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:35.840 interview with Corey Graves and talk about Roman Reigns and 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:40.719 A J Kevin Sammy at a Mystery Partner versus Imperium 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:46.119 and Candice Lay versus Zoe Stark then we have the 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:50.840 updated lineup for NXT, where we have got Roxane Perez, 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:55.080 Tiffany Stratton in one semifinal, Lyra val Chira and Kora 0:20:55.240 --> 0:21:00.000 Jade in the other semifinal, Nathan Fraser versus Noam dar. 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.320 Oh Man, a talk show off, Tyler. 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.800 Bate versus Eddie Thorpe, and the real main event this 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:13.400 week everybody Hank versus Tank Yep. 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:15.400 This time it's personal. 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:20.200 Hank versus Tank. Then of course we have the can. 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.600 You imagine what Booker T's commentary is gonna be like? 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.840 During this we got Dynamite coming up at the MGM 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:31.760 Grand Adam Cole, Chris Jericho contracts signing, Orange Cassie defends 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:35.879 the International title against Kyle Fletcher. I guess presumably if 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.000 Kyle wins, he's in that Battle Royal or something like that. 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:42.800 House of Black versus Blake, Christian A. R. Fox and Metallique, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.840 who is no longer Grand, He's just simply he's just 0:21:46.920 --> 0:21:53.800 Metal FTR promo, Ricky Starks promo, Four Pillars promo, Tony 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.880 Kahn promo where he'll announce the location of aw collision, 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:03.520 Taya val Kari versus Lady Frost, and the Luca Bros. 0:22:04.520 --> 0:22:08.760 Against Claudio and Wheeler. You to four the Ring of 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:14.520 Honor World Tag Team Championships. That's the lineup here for 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:18.680 the next couple of days. And of course we've got 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:23.800 all of the injuries where to even begin last night. 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.720 This is not one hundred percent confirmed, but I can 0:22:27.760 --> 0:22:30.879 confirm that the people of the building thought that Mercedes 0:22:30.920 --> 0:22:33.719 broke her ankle. That's what they told me. She was 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:37.080 doing a match with Willow Nightingale the finals of the tournament, 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:40.600 where at least going in, Dave was told she was 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:44.040 going to win, and they were I mean the match, 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:46.439 I mean were there were some problems with this match. 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:51.200 They end up fighting on the top and she slipped, 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:56.679 fell off and injured her ankle, probably broken, that's what 0:22:56.720 --> 0:23:00.439 they believed, and she got back in the ring. She 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:05.520 attempted to do the bank statement, but because she was hurt, 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.439 she couldn't jump, and so she basically pulled Willow onto 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:12.280 her own face and then put the move on. And 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.199 then Willow got the ropes, and I guess they decided, 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:18.200 let's take this thing home. You're going over, and Willow 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:22.720 hit a gut wrench, sit out power bomb, and the 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:30.240 ref counts one, he counts two, he stops counting. Mercedes 0:23:30.240 --> 0:23:36.400 does not kick out. The fans begin booing unmercifully, and 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:40.680 so Willow grabbed her hit her with another sit out 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:44.879 power bomb. This time the referee counted three, and Willow 0:23:45.000 --> 0:23:51.600 Nightingale is the new new Japan Strong Women's Champion and 0:23:51.680 --> 0:23:53.920 she is a strong woman. If you watch this match, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:58.199 let me tell you so. Mercedes appears to be a 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:01.639 broken ankle, and hopefully he gets well soon. And then 0:24:01.640 --> 0:24:04.080 when we come back, we got about five other injuries 0:24:04.119 --> 0:24:22.960 to talk about, so stand by observer line. Well more injuries. 0:24:24.119 --> 0:24:29.960 We've got Mark Davis ossee open, Arthur Scovic surgery on 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:33.359 his knee repairing a torn meniscus. They vacated the Strong 0:24:33.440 --> 0:24:36.480 and Tag Team titles and. 0:24:36.800 --> 0:24:38.760 The Strong and Tag Team I. 0:24:38.880 --> 0:24:46.439 W gp O. Everybody knows what I'm talking about. They 0:24:46.440 --> 0:24:47.919 didn't know what we were talking about. How could they 0:24:47.920 --> 0:24:52.920 listen to you? We have both titles up for grabs 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:56.360 at Dominion and a match with Evil and U Duro 0:24:56.520 --> 0:25:00.639 Versus Goto and Yoshi Hashi for all of the belts 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:03.080 they'll be so so one of those tea teams will 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:10.520 be this Strong Bag Team Champions, okay, rid of the Belts. 0:25:12.440 --> 0:25:14.800 Those close to Davis said he will be back very 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:17.600 soon six weeks or perhaps even shorter. Well that's at 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:23.720 least good. Da Code of Kai torn ac l Live 0:25:23.800 --> 0:25:26.640