Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: Monday on this show, and you know what that means.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot to talk about here today. Tonight
Speaker 1: is RAW, Tomorrow is NXT, Everybody's favorite show. Wednesday's aw Dynamite,
Speaker 1: the last show before Grand Slam. I also got to
Speaker 1: build up that Seattle pay per view coming up on
Speaker 1: October first, and of course this weekend we had a
Speaker 1: lot of shows including SmackDown, Collision, Rampage, a UFC pay
Speaker 1: per view, and Mike SEPPERBV will not be joining us
Speaker 1: here today. No, Instead, once again we will be joined
Speaker 1: by Filthy Tom Lawler co hosting the show today. Now
Speaker 1: from this point forward, most likely Tom's going to be
Speaker 1: returning to Monday's ADD two Pacific five Eastern Schools started again.
Speaker 1: But Mike was unavailable today and so for a number
Speaker 1: of reasons, we decided we'll just get Tom on this show,
Speaker 1: so he's going to be joining us after the break.
Speaker 1: We can talk about all of this news, and the
Speaker 1: news includes the final day that Vince McMahon will own
Speaker 1: the WWE. That is today, We've got the NXT lineup,
Speaker 1: updates on Hacksaw, Jim Duggan and Bray Wyatt's family, Matt
Speaker 1: Riddle sexual assault claim against an officer from the port
Speaker 1: authority JFK Airport. We'll tell you about that New Japan.
Speaker 1: New Japan World is going to be introducing some new,
Speaker 1: some different. I guess I don't even know what. Why
Speaker 1: don't we have Tom on, He's the last guy that
Speaker 1: knows anything about New Japan. But they're changing some aspects
Speaker 1: of the service and raising the price. And we'll talk
Speaker 1: about Drue Mcattyre and a bunch of other things as well.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to get into today, so stick around
Speaker 1: and we'll be back after the break. Wrestling Observer Live
Speaker 1: back in the show. Brian Elbarez here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike Simper VD, also Wrestling observe dot com. Filthy. Tom
Speaker 1: Lawlor is joining us here today and I got a
Speaker 1: question for you, Tom. How long have you been a
Speaker 1: wrestling fan?
Speaker 2: My entire life? Since you were zero nineteen eighty three
Speaker 2: May fifteenth, forty years Wow. I would say you've been
Speaker 2: watching probably thirty five years.
Speaker 1: Really thirty five years. What is the first thing that
Speaker 1: you remember watching? Tom to earliest memory of wrestling.
Speaker 2: Adrian Street Adrian Street on ESPN on ESPN, Lightning Kid,
Speaker 2: I don't know, Jeff Jarrett get getting etherd with a
Speaker 2: rag on ESPN.
Speaker 1: And what is your first memory of WWF?
Speaker 2: My first memory? Do you remember covid the Hulkster?
Speaker 1: Brother watched the Hulkster? Huh?
Speaker 2: I watched the Hulkster. I was watching. I definitely watched
Speaker 2: before for Hogan Warrior, which was a monumental match. I
Speaker 2: was probably watching for two or three years consistently up
Speaker 2: to that point. I remember Demolition being able to fool
Speaker 2: the referee when he couldn't tell that it.
Speaker 1: Was as ridiculous, crush ridiculous. Well, you know, I bring
Speaker 1: it up, Tom, because my early memories of wrestling are
Speaker 1: also WWF. My sister was a fan before I was,
Speaker 1: and she loved hul Cogan and she had a Hull
Speaker 1: Cogan posters on the door, and man, I hated that thing.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to rip it down. I did not
Speaker 1: like wrestling. I thought it was so stupid. And later
Speaker 1: my father's mother, my grandmother, not granny on my father's side,
Speaker 1: she moved in and she spoke no English, she only
Speaker 1: spoke Spanish. And she would sit there and I didn't
Speaker 1: speak any Spanish, and she would always just go Lucca.
Speaker 1: And I asked him, my dad, what does this mean, Luchen.
Speaker 1: He goes, she wants to watch wrestling. I was like, God,
Speaker 1: my sister and my grandma, so so I turned on wrestling,
Speaker 1: and anyway, long story short, I sort of got into it.
Speaker 1: But the point is, Tom, that Dave our own Dave
Speaker 1: Meltzer tweeted today, today is the last day Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: owns the WWE. Tomorrow it becomes part of the Endeavor
Speaker 1: Family as a merged company TKO with the UFC. McMahon
Speaker 1: will still be in charge of WWE, executive chair of
Speaker 1: the new company and sixteen percent owner. So this is
Speaker 1: the end of an era. Today is the end of
Speaker 1: an era. Tom, This is the final day that a
Speaker 1: McMahon owns WWWF WWFWWE Today is the final day we
Speaker 1: lived to see this day, Tom.
Speaker 2: And I could not be happier, Brian, because now who
Speaker 2: is in charge of the entire thing none other than Emmanuel.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's all come full circle here. Who
Speaker 1: would ever thought, at in the day you might go
Speaker 1: to work for Emmanuel. It's amazing.
Speaker 2: You never know, Tom, I don't foresee that. Although the
Speaker 2: UFC and WW merger does present a lot of interesting,
Speaker 2: you know, scenarios upcoming, not only with the two companies themselves,
Speaker 2: but they both have rights deals coming up. They have
Speaker 2: what could be, you know, one lucrative streaming service perhaps
Speaker 2: if they combined fight Pass and whatever they have going
Speaker 2: on with Peacock into you know, one package. So the
Speaker 2: future looks bright for this troup. Despite their stock, the
Speaker 2: WW stock taking a hit last week, it looks like
Speaker 2: that's gonna rebound, no problem here this week.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, speaking of services, Tom, I don't know
Speaker 1: why I bring this up to you because you don't know, Jack,
Speaker 1: but New Japan Pro Wrestling is now significant upgrades to
Speaker 1: its streaming service, New Japan World About time. New service
Speaker 1: will include apps, for iOS, Android, and Roku. Video on
Speaker 1: the service will be upgraded a full HD. Users will
Speaker 1: have the ability to download content to watch offline, search
Speaker 1: functions will be improved. Price of the service is increasing
Speaker 1: from nine hundred and ninety nine yen to ninety eight yen,
Speaker 1: so basically it's going from six't eighty two in the
Speaker 1: US to eight eighty six in the US, so still
Speaker 1: a major bargain and an exact release date for this
Speaker 1: new service is yet to be announced. With it, this
Speaker 1: means like if you have Apple TV, if you have
Speaker 1: a rokup like you can now stream it on your television.
Speaker 1: And the increase to full HD, I mean, man, I
Speaker 1: watched those shows and I loved them, but it certainly
Speaker 1: was not full age D I can tell you that much.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty exciting.
Speaker 2: I think the most exciting aspect of it all is
Speaker 2: they mentioned the ability to download content offline and as
Speaker 2: a subscriber to YouTube Premium. As someone who travels quite frequently,
Speaker 2: that is a huge, huge bonus for any sort of app,
Speaker 2: so I'm very I was pumped up for that. It
Speaker 2: says that the search function will be improved, Well, I'm
Speaker 2: not sure it could possibly get any worse. So I'm
Speaker 2: glad that they're ticketing.
Speaker 1: I've never even tried to use a search function, like
Speaker 1: what's it about? What's it? Do nothing?
Speaker 2: The opposite of whatever it's intended purpose is.
Speaker 1: So if I search filthy Tom, it'll just like you know,
Speaker 1: Tom McGee will come up or something.
Speaker 2: If you're lucky, I think, Yeah, a.
Speaker 1: Bunch of Jerry Lawler matches from new school. I'm still
Speaker 1: I'm still recovering. Goll darn it. Yeah, this school thing, Tom,
Speaker 1: I don't know. Man, kids just go to school and
Speaker 1: they just come home sick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it happened in the first week to my kids too,
Speaker 2: But we've recovered. He's all good, all good in the hood.
Speaker 2: Although they are off today.
Speaker 1: Which uh what are they Monday?
Speaker 2: For school development day? Teacher development?
Speaker 1: I see, couldn't they do that like during the whole
Speaker 1: long summer.
Speaker 2: It's probably because of the day, I see.
Speaker 1: I guess all right. We've got NXT tomorrow, which is
Speaker 1: a big show for those of you that are big
Speaker 1: fans like me of NXT. We have got Tiffany Stratton
Speaker 1: versus Becky Lynch for the NXT women's title. So there's
Speaker 1: really I mean there's two options here. They're doing a
Speaker 1: lame DQ in the main event or Becky Lynch is
Speaker 1: winning the NXT Women's title, and I would lean towards
Speaker 1: the ladder. I mean, they're not even doing like angles.
Speaker 1: It was like they just announced next week this championship
Speaker 1: match is tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That is not true. She was called out Tiffany Stratton
Speaker 2: call yeah, but I mean and backstage, and then Becky
Speaker 2: also made mention of it.
Speaker 1: They did they have not like It's not like Becky
Speaker 1: showed up on NXT and you did like a back
Speaker 1: and forth or whatever. It's like her first appearance on
Speaker 1: NXT is going to be a title match, her first
Speaker 1: live appearance.
Speaker 2: She might as well win it. I mean, what else
Speaker 2: are you doing with Tiffany Shtratt? And this will elevator
Speaker 2: regardless if she wins or loses. I can't see her
Speaker 2: winning a feud over Becky Lynch.
Speaker 1: Well, if you guys remember they they actually did this
Speaker 1: once with Braun. Remember when Dolph Ziggler went down NXT
Speaker 1: and he beat Braun for the title and then that
Speaker 1: led to Braun winning the title back on Raw. So
Speaker 1: that's even that's a pretty big thing. Like Tiffany Stratton
Speaker 1: beating Becky Lynch for a belt on Raw or SmackDown
Speaker 1: if they changed the title in NXT. I mean, Becky
Speaker 1: is not Dolf Ziggler, She's like a big star. So
Speaker 1: that's a pretty interesting decision there.
Speaker 2: Tiffany Stratton's gonna be a big star too.
Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, at some point we have Wes Lee versus
Speaker 1: Elia Dragonov number one contenders match, which should be awesome.
Speaker 2: We object Ilja drag it off into my veins, please,
Speaker 2: because not only will I be happy, but I'd be
Speaker 2: higher on the card and making more money. That guy
Speaker 2: is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Yes, he is ooon one of the best workers on
Speaker 1: the planet. Honestly, one of the best workers on the planet.
Speaker 1: I'm not like I know some of you don't watch it,
Speaker 1: but like he is. Then we have two Global Heritage
Speaker 1: International Tournaments Invitational Tyler Bate versus Axiom, which could be great,
Speaker 1: and a Curree Tazawe versus Nathan Fraser, which if you've
Speaker 1: seen a cure Tazowel when he actually gets to work
Speaker 1: and not do stupid stuff, that could be great. Then
Speaker 1: we've got the Creeds versus Dries and no Fad Malique Blade,
Speaker 1: Dana Brook versus Lyra Valkyre. You gotta have one of those.
Speaker 1: On the show, Charlie Dempsey, Drew Gulak and Damon Kemp
Speaker 1: versus Brooks, Jensen, Josh Briggs and Miles Bourne come back
Speaker 1: with the standings for the tournament and the now Mercy
Speaker 1: lineup after the break and more Wrestling Observer Live at
Speaker 1: the show. Bryan Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live Filthy
Speaker 1: Tom Lawler. So we got I was actually thrown off
Speaker 1: because I was. This is basically a g one tournament,
Speaker 1: but they're doing it right. They only have two blocks
Speaker 1: instead of the four we got. Group A Butch has
Speaker 1: three points, Actium as one, Tyler Bait, Charlie Dempsey of zero,
Speaker 1: Group B, Joe Coffee four points, Nathan Fraser and Duke
Speaker 1: cuts and both have two, and a cure to Zawah
Speaker 1: has zero. So that's the standings for this Global Heritage Tournament.
Speaker 1: We have this odd story. The Port Authority Police Department
Speaker 1: has launched an investigation into a sexual assault claim made
Speaker 1: by Matt Riddle against one of its officers. TMZ reports
Speaker 1: that the Port Authority PD is internally investigating Riddle's claim
Speaker 1: made on Sunday and has since deleted Instagram post following
Speaker 1: an alleged incident at New York's JFK Airport, Riddle posted
Speaker 1: a photo of a Port Authority PD officer on Sunday
Speaker 1: with the following caption, later deleted, nothing like being sexually
Speaker 1: assaulted by an officer and harassed the JFK air Airport.
Speaker 1: No means no and just because I'm nice does not
Speaker 1: mean yes. Then he says a bad word. Don't know
Speaker 1: their Twitter or Instagram handles, but I took pictures normally
Speaker 1: I'm like whatever, but today was really weird and uncomfortable,
Speaker 1: and they made a point to make me feel small
Speaker 1: and useless. Definitely one of the most uncomfortable travel days
Speaker 1: I've ever had. Thanks New York City are so progressive
Speaker 1: and accepting. Ringside News on Sunday reported to claim from
Speaker 1: an officer on the scene that Riddle was quote heavily
Speaker 1: intoxicated and causing a scene and acting disrupt between his
Speaker 1: transfer of flights at JFK, leaning to the Port Authority
Speaker 1: Police being called to the scene to deal with Riddle.
Speaker 1: After a few attempts of de escalating the situation and
Speaker 1: removing Matt from the area it became physical, said Riddle,
Speaker 1: brushed off an opportunity to file a formal complaint against
Speaker 1: the officer in the alleged assault. Regarding the alleged disruptive
Speaker 1: behavior that caused police to be called to the scene
Speaker 1: in the first place, DMZ notes there was no police
Speaker 1: report filed. Riddle was declared quote free to go. So
Speaker 1: I guess there's an investigation going on and we'll find
Speaker 1: out what's happening.
Speaker 2: Bizarre story.
Speaker 1: Nothing like that ever happened to you.
Speaker 2: No one has ever touched me.
Speaker 1: I'm talking like just a bad experience, like going through
Speaker 1: this thing. No, you travel all the time.
Speaker 2: I do, but I keep to myself, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean. I have been accused of being not real
Speaker 2: on an airplane. You know.
Speaker 1: I can give everybody a lighthearted thing that happened to
Speaker 1: me a few years ago. So back in the day,
Speaker 1: back when it was a lot harder to do podcasts
Speaker 1: on the road, I had this extremely complicated setup, and
Speaker 1: there was like, you know, two boxes this long, and
Speaker 1: I had all of these different cables, and then I
Speaker 1: had to have the computer, and then I had to
Speaker 1: have all of these mics, and like it was just
Speaker 1: like this crazy thing. And I had all in this
Speaker 1: suitcase and I went through the you know, the metal
Speaker 1: detector and everything, and and they like pulled me aside
Speaker 1: for my backpack, which had like nothing but clothes in it.
Speaker 1: But the suitcase with all of these wires and devices
Speaker 1: and machines. Man, that just sailed right through. I was like,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, man, that thing looks like
Speaker 1: that looked like a bomb quite frankly. But man, they
Speaker 1: didn't care. They just let it slide on through. Now
Speaker 1: things are different, what I'm saying, what a story, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for today exactly anytime? Yeah, that is it is nine
Speaker 1: to eleven a day, isn't it. I was very surprised
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 2: Well, uh yeah, me too. I was surprised.
Speaker 1: Hey, hacksaw Jim Duggins. All right, they got They said
Speaker 1: he'll be back on his feet soon, back on the mend.
Speaker 1: The surgery has not been disclosed, but he underwent emergency
Speaker 1: surgery a couple of days ago, admitted to the hospital,
Speaker 1: and his wife, Debra, says that he will be back
Speaker 1: on his feet, but to not say what the deal was.
Speaker 1: So and then, the Rotunda family has publicly thanked the
Speaker 1: Rock for this port he has offered. Since bray Wyatt's passing,
Speaker 1: his sister Mika praised a Rock and his social media post,
Speaker 1: writing he has kept the family's home filled with groceries
Speaker 1: the past two weeks. They want to thank the Rock
Speaker 1: for his kindness, condolences and love the past two weeks.
Speaker 1: Like he did all people wouldn't have had a positive
Speaker 1: impact on him as well. DJ has kept our fridges
Speaker 1: and homes, yes plural, filled with meals and groceries. So
Speaker 1: very nice of the Rock to to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Rock gets some heat, and some of it rightfully. So,
Speaker 2: I mean, he is selling his footwear products through the
Speaker 2: UFC and the fighters are getting no cut of that. However,
Speaker 2: he's also out there making a difference for people, you know,
Speaker 2: buying one of the UFC fighters a home. He's donating
Speaker 2: money to the wildfire victims in Hawaii, and.
Speaker 1: Guys got a little like how money laying around you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, He's got some money. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine like twenty years ago, it's twenty twenty three, right,
Speaker 1: Can you imagine in two thousand and three when he
Speaker 1: was doing like Scorpion King and like he was just
Speaker 1: like a cgi face in that movie or whatever. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if someone would have told you, do you
Speaker 1: realize that within like, you know, decade or so, fifteen years,
Speaker 1: the rock will be the biggest movie star and the
Speaker 1: highest paid movie star in all of Hollywood. It happened.
Speaker 2: What was the other thing he did? Like? What was it? Walking? Tall?
Speaker 2: He did?
Speaker 1: Walking?
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: For a while there, it was like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: want to be typecass is a muscle man. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: lose a lot of weight and do a normal man roles.
Speaker 1: That didn't work out too well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't think he would be he would
Speaker 2: reach these heights, even though that was, you know, a
Speaker 2: big name movie. Then Fast and the Furious. You know,
Speaker 2: sure that's a that's a big role. But I didn't
Speaker 2: think it'd be the highest paid actor in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: At one point. You know who else is quite popular?
Speaker 2: You know who? My kids always mentioned to me Batista? No,
Speaker 2: the other guy, John Cena.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's.
Speaker 2: Apparently very popular with six and seven year olds.
Speaker 1: Right now, I can believe that. I was somewhere yesterday
Speaker 1: and I saw a kid with the John Sena shirt on.
Speaker 2: It's popular with forty year olds too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this kid had to never give up shirt on
Speaker 1: or something like that. I was like, yes, when you're seven,
Speaker 1: don't ever give up. Hey, how was that UFC this weekend?
Speaker 1: How is that main event?
Speaker 2: Boy? Oh boy? What an upset. I was one of
Speaker 2: these people that you if you would have asked to
Speaker 2: bet their house before the fight, I would have bet
Speaker 2: on Israel Adisania. And that's coming from somebody who's man.
Speaker 1: I've trained, I bet your house unless you know the
Speaker 1: rock brother.
Speaker 2: I have trained quite a bit with Sean Strickland in
Speaker 2: the past, years ago when I was still fighting, and
Speaker 2: he is as advertised. There's absolutely no faking his persona
Speaker 2: or his fighting style. When he is talking about wanting
Speaker 2: to meet people in the desert and fight them to
Speaker 2: the death, I one hundred percent believe that is the
Speaker 2: thing that would make him the happiest. Now he has
Speaker 2: shown some what you could say or defensive deficiencies. In
Speaker 2: the past, he's been kaoed. He got kao with a
Speaker 2: spinning heel kick years ago. He got kaoed by Kamaro
Speaker 2: Usman years ago. He was kaoed by Alexander Pereira Poeton
Speaker 2: a few years back. So he has been knocked out.
Speaker 2: But Israel Adisani was not able to find his chin. Really,
Speaker 2: he wasn't even able to come close. Sean Strickland walked
Speaker 2: him down, put Adisania on his back foot. The entire
Speaker 2: fight at Asnia looked off balance, throwing strike, he looked
Speaker 2: uncomfortable in the cage, and it was except for the
Speaker 2: second round, which was a close round in you know,
Speaker 2: most ways, it was a shutout for Sean Strickland, who
Speaker 2: walked at Israel Adisania and punched him in the face
Speaker 2: repeatedly more times than Israel Adisnia did to him, and
Speaker 2: walked away against the odds as the new UFC Middleweight
Speaker 2: Champion of the World. And now we just wait and
Speaker 2: see how long until GSP announces he's coming back out
Speaker 2: of retirement. Wow.
Speaker 1: Hey, without saying it on the air, obviously a couple
Speaker 1: of comments in the chat here, What was the story
Speaker 1: with the homophobic slurs that Dana swept under the rug?
Speaker 1: What happens?
Speaker 2: The story is that two of the fighters, Manel Cape
Speaker 2: and I believe Charles Radkey dropped one of the f
Speaker 2: bombs towards the fans. Charles Radkey did that because the
Speaker 2: fans were booing him, and then he told he told
Speaker 2: the fans that get in the ring and he'd fight them.
Speaker 2: So that tells you his mindset in that moment. Uh
Speaker 2: and Manel Cape I believe was referring to a number
Speaker 2: of people who've dropped out and we're not able to
Speaker 2: fight him that he had scheduled in the past and
Speaker 2: used that same term. So this doesn't but he doesn't
Speaker 2: look good.
Speaker 1: And he started screaming homophobic slurs at the crowd and
Speaker 1: asking him to get in the cage and fight him.
Speaker 2: That's what happened. He got booed yeah, and then and
Speaker 2: then Daniel Cormier said thank you very much and he
Speaker 2: walked off. That was the opening of the interview and
Speaker 2: the end of the interview.
Speaker 1: And then Dana's response was just that they were over excited.
Speaker 2: Hey, sometimes these things happen in MMA. You know, people
Speaker 2: don't know what to say in public, they don't know
Speaker 2: how to act. We're dealing with a bunch of heathens.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this or not.
Speaker 1: Brian, Well, I mean I got one.
Speaker 2: I'm one of the few. I'm one of the few
Speaker 2: that made it out.
Speaker 1: You did make it out, right, he did make it out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm one of the more intelligent ones.
Speaker 1: And you didn't grow up wanting to fight. You wanted
Speaker 1: to grow up to be a wrestler.
Speaker 2: Well, no, I wanted to grow up and make money
Speaker 2: playing dress up and fighting people in my underwear a couple.
Speaker 2: Whether that's the UFC. Yeah, Well the UFC wasn't an
Speaker 2: option when I was growing up, and then it became one.
Speaker 1: So ironically, you don't wear your underwear now you wear
Speaker 1: these daisy dukes whatever these things are.
Speaker 2: Got a new Fall twenty twenty three catalog you gonna
Speaker 2: hit soon? Really, my Fall twenty twenty three fight kit.
Speaker 2: The denim's out, brother, Oh it is, it's gone well,
Speaker 2: but sporting the stars and stripes over the summer.
Speaker 1: You have, actually I've seen that. Yes, Well, stand by
Speaker 1: everybody when we come back, when we get Tom's thoughts
Speaker 1: on SmackDown and collision. And did you watch Rampaid Deserve
Speaker 1: a Battle Royal this week or no?
Speaker 2: It was not a Battle Royal. However, there were tournament
Speaker 2: matches in the Grand Slam eliminator which were.
Speaker 1: Well stand by and we'll talk about it after the break.
Speaker 1: Brother Observer Live Oday, not gonna show Bryin Elbert is
Speaker 1: here Wrestling Observer Live guilty, Tom Lawler joining us. How
Speaker 1: you want to talk about first? Tom, you got two
Speaker 1: shows you're gonna cover here. I'll throw in my thoughts.
Speaker 2: These shows are smacked down and collision. You're referring to
Speaker 2: yes orright? I believe rampage, collision.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want, dude, I watched all three of them.
Speaker 1: Well get going, brother, Hey, let's get smacked.
Speaker 2: Down out of the way while we have time. TD Garden, Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 2: What a fine place to have anything professional wrestling, sports life.
Speaker 2: It's an awesome place. Check it out if you have
Speaker 2: a chance. Boston Garden, Boston, mass Shatzi and Charlotte opened
Speaker 2: up the show, taking on EO, Sky and Bailey Damaged
Speaker 2: Control seemingly had things won, but Osca came out looking
Speaker 2: like a clown and she stole the Woman's belt from
Speaker 2: Dakota Kai, who was ringside. Charlotte'sent Eo off the apron
Speaker 2: with a boot, Shatzi hit Bailey with a cross like
Speaker 2: a DDT and they picked up the win. This really
Speaker 2: was there to set up Osca getting in the ring,
Speaker 2: dancing with the woman's title and going face to face
Speaker 2: with EO. So it looks like we're heading towards a
Speaker 2: singles contest.
Speaker 1: Are two now they have announced that match SmackDown.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Usso, I don't know what's going on here. Apparently
Speaker 2: he wants to be back in the Bloodline.
Speaker 1: Yes, he says he's never officially been kicked out, so
Speaker 1: he must be in. And Paul says, well, you're in,
Speaker 1: but you're not really in until Roman gives it the okay,
Speaker 1: and so he wants Jimmy to take care of a
Speaker 1: j and uh, you know, AJ goes after Paul, Jimmy
Speaker 1: attacks him, makes the safe for Paul, and that sets
Speaker 1: up Jimmy and AJ for the main events.
Speaker 2: Seem like they kind of ran out of things to
Speaker 2: do this week.
Speaker 1: They're in a lull story right now. We're just kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, just kind of doing whatever until we get
Speaker 1: to Rumble season. I think is the way it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: And I think that we're gonna get Roman reigns in
Speaker 1: La Knight. I honestly gotta think that's gonna be the
Speaker 1: the championship match for Royal Rumble.
Speaker 2: Well that's a good direction because La Knight is over
Speaker 2: with this Bean Town crowd, and every crowd that he's
Speaker 2: in front of nowadays gets them cheering for him as
Speaker 2: he talks about beating up the miz. This's brought out
Speaker 2: Grayson Waller, who then brought out Austin. Thierry Knight told
Speaker 2: these mushmouthed, dim wooded halfwits that tonight on Legend's Way
Speaker 2: and Boston mass They're gonna get beat up in a
Speaker 2: legendary way. Yeah. I was wondering, Brian, this would have
Speaker 2: been a perfect segment to get the return of the dummy.
Speaker 1: Yeah we didn't. We got marble mouthed mush face or
Speaker 1: something like that. I forget what he said.
Speaker 2: Do you remember on TNA he had the button, he
Speaker 2: had a stand eli Drake would stand up there and
Speaker 2: smash it and call people dummies. Dummy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I actually do not remember this, but maybe they'll
Speaker 1: bring the button back. Hey, you know what, last week
Speaker 1: I went on a what I thought was just a
Speaker 1: nothing happening commentary on ol Austin theory because he had
Speaker 1: the most boring ass match with just long chin locks
Speaker 1: and it was just nothing happening. I think it was him,
Speaker 1: and I can't remember. It doesn't matter anyway. The point is.
Speaker 2: For some reason him in La Night.
Speaker 1: This no was a different match. This was one of
Speaker 1: those things where it went all over the internet. Wrestling
Speaker 1: Reporter offers in vice Austin there. I'm like, God, he
Speaker 1: got nothing better to do. He literally got nothing better
Speaker 1: to do than to make this a headline story. And
Speaker 1: you know, I was like, come on, like, I'm really
Speaker 1: in the wrong for saying that he should do more
Speaker 1: than lay on the mat in chinlocks. And yeah, it
Speaker 1: was a Ray match, My god, like, can you imagine
Speaker 1: having a match to Boring with Ray? Well, anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't think you listened to my advice at all. And
Speaker 1: in fact, all of those articles were like, uh, WWE
Speaker 1: wrestler advised not to listen to h Wrestling Reporter and
Speaker 1: that one I had to read because I was like,
Speaker 1: who's who advised him that? And it turned out it
Speaker 1: was like people in the comments section were advising him
Speaker 1: not to listen to me. I was like, my god,
Speaker 1: what a life I live. But anyway, so he has
Speaker 1: he goes in there with La Knight, and man, this
Speaker 1: La Knight mismatch they had a week ago was the
Speaker 1: most generic nothing happened in mid nineties. Boring match you've
Speaker 1: ever seen, and I thought, oh my god, now we've
Speaker 1: got l A. Knight in Austin Theory, like, God help me.
Speaker 1: But you know what is good. They went in there
Speaker 1: and they worked hard, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I thought they had a much better match than I
Speaker 1: was expecting. And La won with that stunner after Theory
Speaker 1: avoided going into a buckle that old Grayson yanked off.
Speaker 1: I thought this match was good.
Speaker 2: It's a cravat facebuster.
Speaker 1: Whatever dude got stunning. He's being stone cold in the
Speaker 1: rock as two finishes are the people's elbow and the stunner.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can change him a little bit, but
Speaker 1: we all know what's going on. It's not a mystery.
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one saying it. Come on.
Speaker 2: La Knight was backstage. He interrupted Adam Pierce of Paul
Speaker 2: Hayman said that he wants to rematch with them is
Speaker 2: next week, which we're gonna get, and then there was
Speaker 2: an interaction between Paul and Knight where Paul told him,
Speaker 2: next time he's in the room, knock first. So there's
Speaker 2: your setup the future. They're moving Actually we mentioned kind
Speaker 2: of like a holding pattern on the show, but they
Speaker 2: at least moved forward with the storylines outside of the
Speaker 2: Bloodline towards Roman Reigns and the bloodline with what happened
Speaker 2: later on and La Knight here, so more people are
Speaker 2: getting involved in the main event, the Judgment Day. Who
Speaker 2: now can appear on both shows legally? I guess even
Speaker 2: though they've been on both.
Speaker 1: Shows, everybody can. Everyone's gonna be on both shows till
Speaker 1: Vince comes back.
Speaker 2: Well he's gone good after today.
Speaker 1: Right, Nah, he's still He's still kind.
Speaker 2: So they're the unified tag champs. Finn talked for a
Speaker 2: little bit, then Dom tried to speak and Jessica buried
Speaker 2: in jeers and booze by the crowd. Damian Priest says
Speaker 2: they did something that the Bloodline of Roman Reigns could
Speaker 2: not do. They took the belts off Kevin Owens and
Speaker 2: Sammy Zain. Eventually the brawling brutes came out, well minus Seamus.
Speaker 2: So it's Butcher and Ridge Holland. They get in the ring,
Speaker 2: Butch snaps Finn's fingers. They clear the ring and their
Speaker 2: schedule contests began. Butcher Ridge Holland took on Finn Baller
Speaker 2: and Damian Priest and the Judgment Day, the Tag Team
Speaker 2: Champions won the match. Ye won the match with a
Speaker 2: South of Heaven on Ridge. Priest hit another one onto Butch,
Speaker 2: throwing him under Ridge. Finn hit the coup de gras
Speaker 2: and they got the win. And afterwards, as Judgment Day
Speaker 2: celebrated Bobby Lashley's music hit, he and the Street Profits
Speaker 2: came down went face to face with the Judgment Day
Speaker 2: and told them he's right. Judgment Day is right. The
Speaker 2: bloodline is crumbling, but it's going to be Lashlee in
Speaker 2: the Street Profits taken over Man and then the main
Speaker 2: event set up over the past two weeks, AJ Styles
Speaker 2: versus Jimmy Usso this match is going on. Paul Hayman
Speaker 2: shows up on the ramp with Solo. Paul told Jimmy
Speaker 2: was not even there. They went at it, slapped each
Speaker 2: other in the face, Jimmy and in Zagury. AJ answered
Speaker 2: with a pele kick, hit the forearm on Jimmy on
Speaker 2: the floor and Ushi Garoschi in the ring, and then
Speaker 2: he sent Jimmy to the floor or I'm sorry, Jimmy
Speaker 2: sent Aj to the floor. Solo was stalking him. Jimmy
Speaker 2: wanted him to attack. Apparently any went outside. They argued,
Speaker 2: aj pushed Jimmy into solo hit the Phenomenal Form got
Speaker 2: the win pin Jimmy Usso and as he went back
Speaker 2: up the ramp, Finn Baaler and Damian Priest came out,
Speaker 2: beat him down, threw him in the ring, solo hit
Speaker 2: the Someone's Spike. A lot of people stood around staring
Speaker 2: at each other, and the show ended. Not a fan
Speaker 2: of this main event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the main event was just there, but it was
Speaker 1: very interesting. They've taken the two hottest storylines in the
Speaker 1: two hottest groups and they're they're putting them together for something,
Speaker 1: and presumably they'll also split in feud and theoretically, like
Speaker 1: if you did judgment Dave versus bloodline at Survivor Series,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a pretty big match, So we'll see
Speaker 1: what they end up doing.
Speaker 2: Here we had rampage and collision. Of course, the Grand
Speaker 2: Slam Eliminator Tournament is probably the main thing going on
Speaker 2: in aw over the past few weeks, setting up the
Speaker 2: title challenge for MJF next week on Dynamite. Here, we
Speaker 2: had Penta take it on Jay Lethal exactly as you'd expect.
Speaker 2: Both guys were awesome and wrestled well Lethal's group tried
Speaker 2: to get involved. Referee Stefan Smith ejected everyone. Lethal tried
Speaker 2: to use a guitar. I don't know what he thought
Speaker 2: he was gonna do. He was gonna hit Peta in
Speaker 2: the head in front of the ref with the guitar,
Speaker 2: but Alex Aprahantis tussled with him over this guitar. Peta
Speaker 2: snapped his arm, hit the Fear Factor package pile driver
Speaker 2: and got the win. Sammy Guvar and Chris Jericho argued
Speaker 2: and then agreed to face each other at aw Grand Slam.
Speaker 2: Anna Jay the Bunny Tya Valkyrie took on Haikaroshida Sky
Speaker 2: Blue and Britt Baker and Uh. Britt got pushed at
Speaker 2: the Shida as the Bunny tried to then capitalize, Britt
Speaker 2: reversed her put her in the Lockjaw got the submission,
Speaker 2: and then Britt and Schiedah argued a little bit. Nothing
Speaker 2: major after the match, but clearly, yeah.
Speaker 1: This is the third communication done something with Britt Nkarushetas,
Speaker 1: so clearly they're gonna be doing a match. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a Number one contenders match, would be
Speaker 1: my guess.
Speaker 2: I believe they're in a four way title eliminator for
Speaker 2: shot at Grand Slam.
Speaker 1: Oh, the old title eliminator.
Speaker 2: Daddy Magic and Angela Parker took on the Bucks, the
Speaker 2: Bucks one with the BT trigger. What do you expect?
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny with this, this title elimited, this
Speaker 1: four way title eliminator. It's like they do so many
Speaker 1: title eliminators and tournaments, open challenges, and it's like I
Speaker 1: was there at Grand Slam and literally they had a
Speaker 1: a perfect finish to set up a number one contenders match,
Speaker 1: which is a Karashida was a champion. Britt Baker had
Speaker 1: a Carsheta in her finish, but then Sirea got a
Speaker 1: pin on somebody else to win the title, so the
Speaker 1: champion wasn't involved in the finish. Britt was almost beating
Speaker 1: the champion during the finish.
Speaker 3: Like, hello, you got a number one contenders match right there.
Speaker 3: We don't need a Rando title eliminator when you actually
Speaker 3: book something that you could use to make a number
Speaker 3: one contender. But whatever, we move on to collision title
Speaker 3: eliminators right now.
Speaker 2: Well, well, the title matches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these were open challenges.
Speaker 2: We had a title match. John Moxley took on Action
Speaker 2: on Dretti for the International title. This is a clash
Speaker 2: of styles in some ways. Max left off the top
Speaker 2: early came up limping sold throughout much of the match.
Speaker 2: This allowed Andretti to get some high flying and flipping
Speaker 2: offense in there. Falcon Arrow from Maretti got a big
Speaker 2: two count that was probably his biggest offensive close near fall,
Speaker 2: and then Moxley won with the arm trapped rear naked
Speaker 2: choke nice technique. Roger Strong's backstage still upset with Adam Cole.
Speaker 2: He wants to win this tournament and beat MJF and
Speaker 2: then get his friend Adam back. Chris Statlander beat Robin Renegade.
Speaker 2: The biggest story here was afterwards the Renegade Twins. Renegade's
Speaker 2: sisters beat up Chris Statlander and who came back to
Speaker 2: make the save. But Jade Cargill Old Jade Is came
Speaker 2: out flexing, choke slamming people and then she hit Jaded
Speaker 2: on Statlander, so it looks like she may be going
Speaker 2: back after that TBS title. Eddie Kingston and Claudio Castignoli
Speaker 2: argued backstage, then agreed to fight each other at Grand
Speaker 2: Slam for the ROH and New Japan Strong titles. Eddie
Speaker 2: talked about how much that title meant to him, and
Speaker 2: I can assure you that it means about ten times
Speaker 2: as much to me as it does him. Good luck
Speaker 2: to both guys. Buller Club Gold pretty much squashed Gravity
Speaker 2: Aerostar and Dias del A Fermundo, who I believe was Drago.
Speaker 1: But I yes it was drug.
Speaker 2: Juice hit his sprawling DDT. He got the win. Ray
Speaker 2: Fennix beat and Helico. These two lutradors, very familiar with
Speaker 2: each other, put on a good match. Fenix with the rolling,
Speaker 2: leaping cutter and the Fenix driver get the win. Roderick
Speaker 2: Strong took on Darby Allen awesome semi awesome match. Darby
Speaker 2: got beat up by Lucasaurus as he was riding his
Speaker 2: skateboard to the ring. Backstage, he got beat up by
Speaker 2: Roderick Strong. Strong got the win, and in the main event,
Speaker 2: Samoa Joe and Pentagon put on another awesome match in
Speaker 2: which Samoa Joe won and moves on to the finals.
Speaker 1: Job Stilling job back. In a moment Observer Live, Well Tom,
Speaker 1: we should mention that old Daniel Brian says that this
Speaker 1: will be the last year before he winds down his
Speaker 1: career what do you.
Speaker 2: Think about that.
Speaker 1: Not happening.
Speaker 2: I don't believe him.
Speaker 1: I believe he's gonna wind down.
Speaker 2: Wind down, sure, but I don't believe you know.
Speaker 1: I think one of these days I'll be seventy and
Speaker 1: he'll be sixty. We might finally do that match together.
Speaker 1: I think that's the most likely scenario.
Speaker 2: Maybe Adam Cole and I'll get our match on the undercard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you guys gonna wrestle? You know they're
Speaker 1: coming to Seattle for a New Japan show.
Speaker 2: I just told you on the undercard of you and
Speaker 2: Brian Danielson.
Speaker 1: I'm not wrestling Brian Danielson in Seattle. I got to
Speaker 1: retire from this job first. Which are the rate you
Speaker 1: and Samprago and could be at any time?
Speaker 2: Did you want to bury I We're gonna bury us.
Speaker 2: There was that a compliment.
Speaker 1: I think you. I think you guys do a good
Speaker 1: job on Fridays. I don't think I'm needed. A lot
Speaker 1: of things I could do on Fridays, you.
Speaker 2: Know, really a lot of things I could do on
Speaker 2: Fridays too, Like what including wrestling, which I'm usually doing
Speaker 2: there is Friday.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, actually this Friday upcoming, I'll be wrestling in Cleveland, Ohio,
Speaker 2: AIW Wrestling the Jay Lit Invitational Friday and Saturday Sunday
Speaker 2: Deadlock Pro in North Carolina. I'm taking on Anthony Henry
Speaker 2: Packed weekend for.
Speaker 1: Me at philby Tom Lawler on the X, everybody at
Speaker 1: Brian Alvarez as well. We're gonna wrap it up for today.
Speaker 1: Grab your cameos while you can. Always doing cameos for
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Speaker 1: we're out of here. Thanks Tom. Back tonight with Wrestling Observer.
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