WEBVTT - Is Vince Back? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:27.040 Ready are you ready? Let's get it all? And I 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.000 am tired, but I'm here. I'm ready to go today. 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.280 And what an exciting weekend. I add I had a 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.720 flight back from from Mao yesterday and the family got 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:43.560 split up, and so my wife and UH and young 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.879 Hannah were in the air and myself and Paisley were 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.040 waiting for a flight and then they tell us, sorry, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:52.639 we overbooked it by five seats, so you can't get 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:54.680 on the plane unless someone wants to give up their seat. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:58.400 And I was like, well, you know, I could get 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.040 stuck here overnight or whatever. Then they alert us the 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:05.080 first flight back is March first, which means she would 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:08.559 miss a bunch of school, she would miss her birthday 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.959 which is tomorrow, and it was not looking good. And 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.360 it turns out that after they offered thousands of dollars 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.600 per person, people got off the plane and we ended 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:24.800 up getting a flight back, which then ended up being delayed, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.880 and then they had to do maintenance. So we landed 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.119 at one thirty. I got to bed at four am 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.360 last night. But now I am here, and I am 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.080 here by myself because Mike's taken the day off, So 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.240 we're gonna get in all of the news and if 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.040 you want to, can complain more about the airlines and uh, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:46.720 and then you know people have been bugging me about it, 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.279 so I may, I may, I may take calls today 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.760 just to see what's so damn important on those phone lines. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:56.520 But man, we got revolution to talk about. We got 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.400 a w n X t raw is tonight, SmackDown in 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.680 rampage Age later on today we're talking about the end 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.600 of the career of KG Muto with Filthy Tom. We 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.880 watched the top matches from his last retirement show and 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.280 uh and plenty more to get into. You can text 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:16.200 two four two five seven eight zero seven five six six. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.000 It is four two five seven eight zero seven five 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:28.120 six six Back in a moment with more Observer live 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.760 back in the show. Bryan Elbarez here wrestling Observer alive. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:49.600 No Mike Simper BB here today, He'll be back tomorrow. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.200 If you want textas here four two five seven eight 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.400 zero seven five six six it is forty five seven 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.600 eight zero seven five six six And may take calls 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.160 later I want to find out what the emergency. The 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.000 last few days, well, we got a lot to get into, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.000 including something a lot of people have been talking about, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:11.680 and that's Vince McMahon and ever since, ever since they 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:16.840 booked Brock Leizer versus Omas, it's it's the topic of discussion. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.280 It's Vince back. And as I mentioned a few days ago, 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.640 I mean even Triple H outright said, you know, Vince 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.639 has been you know, given me his input, his ideas, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.160 but he says, but he says, I still have the 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.920 final say on everything. So as soon as they booked 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.920 Brock and Omas, all the rumors, Oh, Vince's back, Vince's back. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.119 And you know, as we mentioned a few days ago, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.960 you're gonna know when Vince's back when we have full 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.480 lineups for Ron's SmackDown a week in advance, and then 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.040 the show comes and nothing happens. That has not happened yet, 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.200 And of course we'll also know when he is back 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:59.080 if he's back, And I have heard from a few 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.240 different people. Obviously I haven't talked to everybody, but I've 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.160 talked to nobody who has seen him around. He has 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.520 not been around, So that doesn't mean that people aren't 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.400 talking to him. But before he left, he was always around. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.760 There would be the occasional ron SmackDown where he was 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.920 not there for this reason or that. But you know, 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.000 he was always there at the shows. And he is 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.640 not back. He's not there at the shows. He's not 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:25.080 there in Gorilla, and he could be calling folks, he 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:27.480 could be telling people to do this or that. He 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:31.640 if he's doing it, it it is being done surreptitiously. Buddy 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.839 is not backstage it shows at least as of right now. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.720 And if that changes today, hey, I'll tell you about it. 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.039 But Raw is tonight and I actually have lineups for 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.719 literally everything except Raw. Maybe I'll get those during the break. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.440 But we have NXT tomorrow Wes Lee defends the North 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.400 American title and an open challenge Ko said him more 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.839 versus Joey Zoey Stark, Carmelo Hayes and Tyler Bait gg Doland. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:05:01.320 As a promo, Briggs and Jensen the Virgin in the 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.280 Fornicator will be facing a new Share and Soul Ruca 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:11.159 will be facing Elektra Lopez. And then on Wednesday, we 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.400 have Dynamite and this is the go home Dynamite for 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:20.000 the Revolution at pay per view, and they're backing this show. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.880 We not only have a Casino Battle Royal for a 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.919 spot in the tag team title match at Revolution, but 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.880 we also have a Face of the Revolution Ladder match, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.000 both of these on Dynamite this week. We have the 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:42.600 All Atlantic Championship being defended, we have the FTW Championship 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.520 being defended, and then we have a number of other 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:49.919 matches in interview segments. So for the Face of the 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.800 Revolution Ladder match winner gets a future title shot. We 0:05:53.920 --> 0:06:00.520 have got the debut of Commander, We've got Takeshta Ortiz, 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:11.560 Action Andretti, Sammy Gavara, Powerhouse Hobbs, Eddie Kingston, and A. R. Fox. Obviously, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.599 unless there is a unless, well I mean we we 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:19.800 probably will have a title change. My guess is at 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.840 at the pay per view, But the winner of this 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:26.719 match is gonna face the winner of Samoa Joe versus Wardlow, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:33.560 which my guess is probably will be Wardlow. And you know, 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:37.960 when I look at the lineup here, probably gonna end 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:42.640 up being one would think a heel. And really there's 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.159 a lot of baby faces in this match, with the 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:49.240 exception of Sammy Gavara and Powerhouse Hobbs. Eddie Kingston's kind 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:53.520 of walking that line in storyline. But you know, I 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:59.239 months ago when they did that, that that three way match, 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:05.479 I Hobbs should have won that match. Now here's the thing. Okay, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.280 oh Hobbes. They've been doing all these Book of Hobbes deals. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:14.280 It's time to pull the trigger on this dude. Now 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:19.120 there's actually two ways that you could pull the trigger 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.760 on this dude. Way number one is he wins the 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:28.040 Face of the Revolution ladder match and he ends up 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.800 beating Wardlow down the line for that TNT title. I'd 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:34.520 be fine with that. I think some people would argue, oh, 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.440 you can't have Warlow win that belt back and then 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.920 just lose it. Well, you know what we've learned, at 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.240 least I've learned you could do anything you want. I mean, 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.800 you can argue about it, but you can do anything 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:53.200 you want because this is all pretend. Like, there's storylines 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.520 and bookers and you can choose who wins and loses. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.960 So actually you could do that. Wardlow could win the 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.720 TNT title and then he could lose to Hobbs and 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.040 life would continue on and professional wresting they gonna be 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:08.480 all right. But there's another thing. We have a storyline 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:14.920 for the pay per view where Ricky Starks has tricked 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:20.080 Chris Jericho into signing a contract for a match where 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:25.520 Jericho has vowed that nobody from the Jericho Appreciation Society 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:31.080 will be allowed at ringside. Now, the story is that 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:37.600 Chris Jericho says, nobody out smarts the OCHO, and then 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.960 Ricky Starks smiles as if to say, I have outsmarted you. 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.640 I got the match I wanted that you weren't going 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.800 to give me. Now, Ricky Starts has already beaten Chris Jericho. 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:51.880 Maybe he's going to beat him again. But if you 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.440 go with the idea that Chris Jericho is probably getting 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.000 his wind back over Ricky Starks, nobody from the Jericho 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.800 Appreciation Society can get involved. Well, you know who's not 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:07.240 in the Jericho Appreciation Society has Powerhouse Hobbs, and he's 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:13.920 had a past with old Ricky Starks, and maybe maybe 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.679 that's what you could do there. But one way or 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:21.880 the other, I believe that the big push for Powerhouse Hobbs, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.040 I think it's coming soon. And he is from the 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.960 Bay Area and this pay per view is in the 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.120 Bay Area, so We'll see what happens, But anyway, he 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.319 is in the face of the Revolution Ladder match Casino 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.000 Tag Team Battle Royal. The winner gets the fourth spot 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.600 and the tag team title match Revolution. We have top 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.640 flight in Ossie Open and Mett Manard and Angelo Parker 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.720 and the best Friends Alex Reynolds and John Silver, Mike Bennett, 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:56.839 Matt Taven, Preston Vanson, Rush Claudio and Wheeler Utah, the 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:02.280 Lucca Bros. And the Butcher and the Blade. So who's 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.800 going into that fourth spot right now? We've got the 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:13.079 Guns the Acclaimed and Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett and 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.160 you know, as awesome as the Luca Bros Are, do 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:22.120 they fit in that match? There's also, of course, I 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.120 would be remiss if I did not note that the 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:32.160 Casino Battle Royal includes Jokers. There's a Joker team and 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.040 there's a team out there that hasn't been on TV 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.720 for a while, and the last time we saw him, 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.959 they were losing to the Ass Boys, and they have 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:46.200 been shunned by a w They are teasing that they 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.880 are unhappy and perhaps open to going back to w 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.480 W either teasing their deals are up soon. But if 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:56.360 I were a betting man here in this casino tag 0:10:56.360 --> 0:11:00.560 team battle. Royal FTRS coming back can win in this 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.280 thing and go into the pay per view. But that's 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.160 not inside information, that's just speculation on my part. We 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.160 shall see. And then also on the show, we've got 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:14.600 Orange Cassidy versus Big Ass Bill whatever's last name is. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.680 And then Matt Hardy and Hook for the FTW title 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.920 or if Matt Hardy loses, Hook gets his hands on 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:31.600 Stokely Jericho will be facing yes, pretty Peter Avalon, Tony 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.120 Storm who cut his hair off. By the way, Tony 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:38.320 Storm will be facing Riho. Peter Avalon cut the hair off, 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:43.680 not Tony Storm, and we will be hearing from according 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.840 to the front page of Wrestling Observe dot com, both 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:53.640 them Jeff and Bran Danielson b R A N which 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:57.080 when you think about it, wouldn't be a bad NXT name, 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:02.040 poor old Brian Danielson Brand Danielson. So that is the 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.120 lineup for the Dynamite show coming up on Wednesday, talk 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.760 about Revolution after the Break and a bunch of WrestleMania News, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:34.920 weekend shows and more. Observer Live back in the show, 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.000 Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live No. Mike's Simper 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:42.120 Baby on my own today. If you want Texas four 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.880 two five seven eight zero seven five six six is 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.480 the phone number. Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com at 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.680 Brian albert Is on Twitter. I'll read a few more 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:59.160 of these. Uh, a few more of these. I was sinking, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:08.200 we're almost We're almost at one hundred thousand YouTube subscribers. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:10.760 I think we're I think we're like a thousand or 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.640 less away. So if you have not hit that subscribe button, 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:18.840 what are you waiting for now? Twenty seven days past 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:23.040 the cutoff for that? I almost called him a pig. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:29.679 He's actually a whale. Oreo yep, guys couldn't get him 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.680 on the show. And I keep hearing about Oreo, and 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.679 I don't want to hear about him no more. If 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.600 he was so popular, we would have hit hundred thousand 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.400 by the end of January. But it turns out he's not. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:48.200 So Yeah, I I will be accepting that one hundred 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:53.040 thousand YouTube subscribers plaque. But right there back in the 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:57.679 corner so y'all can see it, not Oreo. There was 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:04.400 an Oreo sighting of late. He was doing some dance. Yeah, 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.720 all right, So Revolution we have the Face of the 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.920 Revolution ladder match. Oh we got that. There's the actual 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.840 Revolution pay per view which is coming up this weekend, 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.240 which producer Dom and I are gonna be at a that, right, Dom? 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.120 Heck yeah, I can't wait. I'm excited. Yeah this, Dom 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.720 requested tickets himself and his sister. I went out of 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:27.040 my way to do it, and then he forgot. He 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.000 literally asked me for another ticket the other day for 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.440 someone I already got a ticket for. Come on, what's 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:38.680 going on over there? My confusion was over Rampage, not Revolution. Well, 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.040 I took care of you for both. Brother. Who's the 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:46.720 best host without a doubt? All the others can't compare. 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.920 That's right, that's right. I'd make a comment, but I won't. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:54.640 M JF and Brian Danielson is the main event of 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.360 the show, sixty minute iron Man match for the ae 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:03.920 W We're Old Championship and I'm excited for this match. 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:09.120 It's gonna be some some violence. Did you guys see 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:13.240 the brawl they had Holy Smokes, They had a great 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.360 brawl on Dynamite. Then in the middle of this brawl 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:20.120 they're being torn apart and Brian Danilson builds up ahead 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:25.200 of his team and he goes running and bam, man. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:29.000 He flattened that guy and then they got pulled apart again, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:34.360 and they're gonna they're gonna speak on Wednesday and then 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:42.280 they're gonna wrestle for one hour. Should have had at 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.240 m jaff here on the show, and we could have 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.640 discussed training for an Ironman match, because I heard that 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.480 guy's training pretty hard. That's what I hear. But I 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:54.400 also remember that I trained very very hard for an 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:57.680 iron Man match that I had with street Fighter Tim Flowers. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.000 I think m jaff was about five at the time, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:05.160 if I recall correctly, and man, I trained and I trained, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.160 and I trained. I trained like I was training for 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.760 a fight, a UFC fight, and then we did the 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.840 match and it was nothing. Now, of course I was 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.120 wrestling street fighter Tim Flowers, not Bryan Danielson. So I 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.440 think the advice that I would give him is, you 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:21.640 actually should train like you're training for a fight, buddy, 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:25.160 because he ain't got That guy got one speed. Unlike 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:29.920 street Fighter Tim Flowers, he had multiple gears. I think 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.600 we stayed mostly in first gear, but anyway, we have 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.840 the guns. The acclaimed Jay Lethal and Jeff Jared and 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.680 the fourth team to be announced for the AW World 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.960 tag Team titles in a four way, John Moxley faces 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:48.720 Hangman Adam Page in a Texas death match, which my guess, 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:52.640 if I had to make a guess, I would guess 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:54.400 that there'd be a lot of blood in that one. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.360 Chris Jericho, Ricky Starks, no Jericho appreciation, sight it rings side. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.760 We have a three way for the women's title, Jamie Hayter, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:08.359 Soreya and Ruby Soho. And then for the a e 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.359 W six man titles, the Elite and the House of 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:17.080 Black so is Malachi, Brody and Buddy versus Kenny Nick 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.880 and Matt And that's for the a W World six 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:23.360 man at titles, and maybe they'll do Christian and Jungle Boy. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.120 There's there's still room to add one or two matches, 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.960 but dude, we got an hour Iron Man match, so 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.000 I don't think we should be having twelve matches here 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:35.240 on this show. But it's coming up this weekend. I'll 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:38.000 be there, Dom's gonna be there, Dave's gonna be there. 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:42.040 No Q and A in San Francisco this time around, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.680 but I think we're gonna have one. Yeah, we'll have 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.680 another one coming up here soon. So that's all of 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:52.120 the a W news. And then we have got the 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:58.760 we have smacked down in rampage from Friday. So Young 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:02.040 Bucks Nassi open. If we didn't see, it was awesome 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:07.840 sixteen minute match, and because it was on TV, they 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.920 started building to a finish seemingly about you know, about 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.520 eleven minutes in, so you're thinking it's about to be 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.600 wrapped up, and then they went another five minutes and 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.560 it was just great. Of course, the Young Bucks got 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.520 the wind and then the lights went out. There's als 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:26.560 a black lights go out again, They're gone. That apparently 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:30.760 was their challenge for the trio's titles. We had Tony 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:36.400 Storm beating Willow Nightingale, by the way, speaking a Willow Nightingale, 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.159 do you remember where they were doing that one match? 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.520 And Willow grabbed her and she was gonna give her 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:47.320 a sit out power bomb off the ramp through a table, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:53.080 and what happened was Willow went through the table. Anna 0:18:53.160 --> 0:18:56.280 Jay did not go through the table at all, and dude, 0:18:56.320 --> 0:19:01.880 she crashed and burned on the cement. And a lot 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.399 of times I see, you know, things that look bad, 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.800 and then I ask you know, so and so all right, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.080 and they'll they'll, you know, sometimes I don't get any answer. 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:16.199 That's usually not good. Sometimes I'll hear, you know, it 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.520 was it looked scary, but it wasn't that scary. They're 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:21.359 totally fine. Or I'll here they were banged up, but 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.439 they're all right. I did not get an injury update 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.680 on Anna Jay, but I was told she was messed 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:33.080 up bad, and that was all I heard. And now 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.800 it turns out that what messed up bad means is 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:42.000 she dislocated her ribs. She was asked about the injury. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.919 This was January thirteenth. She wrote, no bruised tailbone, but 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:50.960 I did have some dislocated ribs. Not fun. She's not 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.080 wrestled on television since they'll think she's wrestled at all 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:58.880 since actually, but that's what happened. So got to be careful. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:01.480 They have to be. There's so many injuries in this 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.560 women's division, and I mean there are injuries in the 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.600 men's division too, but it seems like, you know, on 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:10.600 a monthly basis, somebody is getting injured or more than 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.080 one person getting injured in the women's division. Jade, by 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.600 the way, cut of promo. We have no match for 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:17.960 her at the pay per view, so if they want 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.680 to do a TBS title match, I mean we got 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:23.800 to get a challenger. Quick. Lance Archer squashed Bryce Saturn 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:27.080 and then we had Sammy gabar Action and Dreading the 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:28.639 made of it. They only got about ten minutes, but 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.800 very good ten minutes, very good match, and you know, 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:39.720 everybody was out there at ringside, and and Jericho was 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:45.960 doing commentary and ended up with Garcia hitting and Dready 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:49.560 with a clothesline behind the referees back Sammy hit the 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.879 gth pinned him and then Jericho came out and they 0:20:52.920 --> 0:20:55.680 celebrated as the show went off the air. So overall, 0:20:55.680 --> 0:21:00.159 in terms of wrestling, Rampage was an excellent show and 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.720 we'll see, I guess today how it does in the ratings. 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.240 I mean, he's gonna do better than last week, and 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.600 if not, big problems because they are not preempted. This 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:15.960 week we had smacked out with Imperium beating braun Stroman 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:21.000 Ricochet and mad cab Moss. So they did a social 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:28.000 media deal where Emma and mad Cap teased turning heel 0:21:28.760 --> 0:21:33.320 because of the fans. But in this match, I mean 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:35.399 he was a total baby face, although they did acknowledge 0:21:35.440 --> 0:21:37.840 the promo, So it looks like mad Cap is all 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:40.800 on the way to a heel turn, but they are 0:21:40.800 --> 0:21:43.440 not doing it. Imminently, Drew mcatyre came out he is 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:48.520 officially challenged for the Intercontinental title him been Gunther at Mania, 0:21:48.600 --> 0:21:51.399 which listen, I wanted to see Gunther and brock Lessner 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.440 a Mania, but you know it's going to be an 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:57.760 awesome match. Is Drew McIntyre and Gunther for the Intercontinental title, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.280 so that looks like it's going to be a WrestleMania match. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:06.400 We had a show long storyline with Jimmy and Solo 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:10.199 and Jay and Sammy which wrapped up at the end 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:13.360 of the show where essentially, you know, Sammy's trying to 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:18.200 turn Jimmy against Roman, but Roman was not having it, 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:20.880 and Jay ends up showing up there at the end, 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:24.520 and first Jimmy goes after Sammy, then there's abstractions. Sammy 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.240 lays out Jimmy with the kick in the corner, and 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:28.960 then he leaves the ring and he looks at Jay 0:22:29.000 --> 0:22:31.760 and Jay looks at him, and they're teasing which way 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:35.280 is Jay gonna go? And I think we all know 0:22:35.359 --> 0:22:38.639 which way Jay is going to go La Night segment 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:43.399 with The New Day, which led to Kofe Kingston and 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:48.359 La Night. Dude, I love these guys, but between the 0:22:48.400 --> 0:22:51.560 promo and the match, this whole segment was like thirty minutes. 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.439 They talked for like I don't know, eight nine minutes, 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:58.360 and then they go to commercial, and then they came 0:22:58.400 --> 0:23:05.000 back and wrestled for sixteen minutes, and then there was 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:11.879 a distraction trombone and Kingston ended up hitting him with 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:14.440 the trouble in Paradise for the Wind. I think there 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.120 was like a segment with it might have been Live 0:23:17.200 --> 0:23:20.440 Morgan or something that was bumped from the show due 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:26.600 to time constraints or something, But dude, what did this thing? 0:23:26.760 --> 0:23:30.560 And you know, we've talked about it before, like saying, 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.640 you know, cut time here and add time there. That's 0:23:33.680 --> 0:23:37.040 all great in theory, but you know in real life 0:23:37.840 --> 0:23:40.560 you can't always do that because of crossover segments and 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:43.280 commercials and everything like that. But man, this did not 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:46.200 need to go sixteen minutes and then have something else 0:23:46.240 --> 0:23:48.800 get cut later in the show. But we'll talk more 0:23:48.840 --> 0:24:14.280 about SmackDown after the break. Obserber Live back on the show, 0:24:14.320 --> 0:24:18.280 Brian Elberez here, Rustling Observer Live, a couple more SmackDown 0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:21.000 notes and then you guys lucked out, got a lot 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:27.160 of text messages. So I'm not gonna take calls Charlotte 0:24:27.160 --> 0:24:28.920 and Ria. We're supposed to have a face to face. 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:33.000 What was actually Charlotte and Dominic. Man. This Dominant gets heat. 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:37.919 This guy got some heat. He goes back and forth. 0:24:38.760 --> 0:24:41.040 Finally Charlotte's like, dude, you know what, I'm gonna beat 0:24:41.080 --> 0:24:46.800 your ass, starts taking off her gimmick and incomes Ria 0:24:47.160 --> 0:24:49.800 and literally they looked each other and then left. That 0:24:49.920 --> 0:24:54.840 was an old segment. Shana beat Natty Tigan. Knox was 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:58.879 out there, Ronda Rousy ended up interfering. Basler hit a 0:24:58.920 --> 0:25:02.480 running knee armball, and then they go after Natty after 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:06.160 the match. Tigan makes the save and so Rousey was weird. 0:25:06.480 --> 0:25:11.360 Rousey challenged Teagan to a match next week, but then 0:25:11.440 --> 0:25:14.280 later they announced it was a tag match. I'm not 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.520 gonna say this is a change of plans because Okam's 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.840 razor is Rousey you know, just said, you know, beat 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:22.439 your ass next week, and it was to set up 0:25:22.480 --> 0:25:24.800 a tag match, but it sounded like she was challenging 0:25:24.800 --> 0:25:29.000 for a singles match. We had a wacky firefly funhouse deal. 0:25:29.560 --> 0:25:32.720 I don't know what's going on. I never knew apparely, 0:25:32.760 --> 0:25:35.240 I don't have a high enough IQ. But there's some 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:42.560 sort of secret all right, carrying Cross beat Ray mysterio. 0:25:43.680 --> 0:25:48.400 When Dominic interfered and Dominic got in Ray's face, He's 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:52.119 begging him to hit him, and Cross ends up whacking 0:25:52.240 --> 0:25:56.240 Ray from behind. Cross jacket submits him. Afterwards, Dominant gets 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:59.560 back in the ring. Come on, dad, hit me all 0:25:59.640 --> 0:26:03.600 right and raise like ah. And he looks around and 0:26:03.600 --> 0:26:09.000 he's raised, got such amazing facial expressions in a mask. 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.359 You can see how sad and how heartbroken he is. 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.320 And finally he just can't do and he walks away 0:26:14.320 --> 0:26:18.920 and everybody booze. They're waiting for that big punch. Then 0:26:18.960 --> 0:26:22.960 we had the main event segment and that was the 0:26:23.040 --> 0:26:27.240 end of that. So not lock him and raise are 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:30.080 I can't even look at the chat half the time anymore. 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:34.679 Let's see what the I was. I'm gonna do it, 0:26:34.720 --> 0:26:37.720 but people are texting about it. How is it possible 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:39.720 for an airline to sell more seats than a half 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:42.520 for a flight even one time? Let alone all day 0:26:42.560 --> 0:26:45.359 every day. Well, I don't know, but it's legal. You 0:26:45.359 --> 0:26:48.200 don't think I looked it up. Yeah, so here's what 0:26:48.240 --> 0:26:53.800 I understand. Explain this to me. Okay, So they're allowed 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.760 to oversell because the idea is, well, if we sell 0:26:57.800 --> 0:27:02.399 a hundred tickets, two people may not show up. You know, 0:27:02.400 --> 0:27:04.000