WEBVTT - Forbidden Door PPV 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:14.480 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:17.840 here on Wrestling Observe Live. We are here every day 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.960 Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.319 sixth Eastern. Well, it's Thursday on this program, and you 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:28.720 know what that means. Last night a w Dynamite, the 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.200 go home Dynamite for the Forbidden Door pay per view, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.680 and we have got a rampage show coming up on Friday. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:40.519 But I believe that all of the matches for Forbidden 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.680 Door are known as of today. So that's pretty much 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.159 the main thing to talk about here today, Dynamite and 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:50.000 Forbidden Doors. So we'll do that. What's the think of 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.720 the show? You're welcome to contact us for five seven 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:58.720 eight zero seven five six. They added four matches to 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.040 the show last night, and so at this point we've 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.479 got quite a few matches on this pay per view. 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:08.440 I guess the two big stories were Brian Danielson announcing 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.959 that he is not on the show, nor is he 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:15.200 on the Blood and Cuts show, and in fact, Will Osprey, 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.800 I'm sorry, well, Will Osprey is on the show as well, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.760 but because it's Golconda showed up and it will be 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.960 a four way for the i W d g P 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.039 World Heavyweight Championship, J White, Hangman Page, Adam Cole and 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.760 Okada for the title. Those are the two biggest stories, 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:35.240 I would say coming out of the show last night, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.880 so we can talk about that, as well as notes 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.680 on the n x T two point oh ratings which 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:47.280 were huge. It's interesting because Dynamite last week didn't do 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:51.960 well and Rampage did horribly, but SmackDown Raw and n 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.520 x T all huge numbers and we can talk about 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.480 that here today. Plus an update on Rhea Ripley, who 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.720 has gone public with the issues that are keeping her 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.000 out of the pay per view. We can tell you 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:08.640 about that. Uh And also on the subject of a 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.040 W injuries, you can add sky Blue to the list. 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:17.040 She is injured, Kyle O'Reilly is injured, Red Velvet is injured. 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.600 There have never been this many injuries at one time 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.720 at a W. Back in the mout and talk about 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:45.160 all of it Observer Live on the show Bright Albarez 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.359 here Wrestling Observer Live Mike sumbur Viv also Wrestling Observer 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.440 dot com. If you're watching the Twitch video right now, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.760 you just saw Denise. I will be on Denise's show 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:02.040 one ten Pacific for ten Eastern today. We'll be doing 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.480 a preview of the Forbidden Door pay per view and 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.440 talk some other stuff as well. So that's coming up 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.679 today after this show, so you can look forward to that. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.079 And uh, we had a lot to talk about from 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:20.440 that Dynamite show last night. The show opened with Brian 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.880 Danielson coming out. You know what happened when that guy 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.720 came out. Mike's already backing away from the mic. You 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.800 know what happened when that guy came out. He said, 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:34.880 I will not be at Forbidden Door, nor will I 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:40.760 be at Blood and Guts about that DJ. Did I 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.880 get my apology from the Peanut Gallery yesterday and all 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.800 of the uh places that were very mad at me 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:50.640 for having the temerity to report what ended up being 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:55.360 exactly accurate. Did I get my apology? Oh? He's laughing uproariously. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.160 It sounds like no, I didn't get my apology. Well, 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.560 you know what, I don't care. I'm not here for praise. 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.240 I'm not here to get apologies. I don't. I don't 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.880 care one way or the other. Did you apologize to 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:13.040 everybody yet for what? Because there are people out there 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.040 that said that you and your partner on russelling Observer Radio, 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:24.080 Dave Meltzer led them to believe Kazucha Okada or Cazuchica Okada, 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.279 depending on how everybody wants to fight over translations. Now, 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.120 Kazucha Okada would not be there. His wife was pregnant, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.320 she's having a birthday. He's not coming over here. But 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.520 there he is, like he was. I never said he 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.520 wasn't going to be there. I said expected it to 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.640 be a three way. I didn't know what the match 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:46.800 was going to be. I mean, you know, Okada Ocada 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:49.280 had done an interview where he talked about this, there 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.880 shouldn't even be a show without him, and then, uh, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.000 you know, there was word that he wasn't gonna be there, 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.080 and uh you know they even had someone on the 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.360 show say he wasn't gonna be there. For bro, you 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:03.279 got over two cares. I got worked by Juice Robinson 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.600 too well. I didn't think it was I didn't think 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:09.520 it was funny that actually, you know the thing about 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.000 Juice Robinson is kind of funny because I was sort 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.680 of worked, but at the same time he actually was 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:17.440 telling the truth is New Japan contract had expired at 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:20.159 the time. That was all true. Now, the part where 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:21.360 he said, you know, I don't know if I want 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:23.600 to do this anymore, and everything like that, I mean, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.679 I guess I presume that he was. He was working, 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:28.800 but you know, maybe he was just depressed. I don't know. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.680 But one way the other, uh, one way the other, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.559 one way or the other. New Japan is in put 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.279 on a show complained about. People need to complain about it, 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.360 whether they love New Japan or love a W or 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:46.440 maybe even worse, hate both of them and love w 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:50.240 W E. You know it's gonna be a good show 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.320 when it's all said and done. We can pick nits 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.080 over lots of different things. People can cry and say 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.680 that politics don't matter when they absolutely do. Unfortunately, in 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.680 the cope of this thing, I just for anything I 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:05.880 want to say, I just feel as though there's going 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.240 to be one side that just gets all in a tizzy. 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:13.520 And I'm sure we'll get into some of this stuff today, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:17.880 but it's just people. NATO's not there. This should happen. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:19.839 This should be a singles match, This should be this 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.880 Why is this this? Man? Yeah, you know what, let 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.520 me tell you Okay, let me tell y'all something, all right. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:33.280 I don't know about Andrada, okay, andrad A seems to 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.039 think that he was and I guess he said this 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.560 that he was booked for the show and then he 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.960 was gonna wrestle Osprey and then uh, and then they 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.599 put the key bosh, the X and A on it. Okay, 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.840 but I mean a lot of this, you know, it 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.880 was not like there was ever a card that had 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.279 the Luca brothers on it. Okay, I talked about this. 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.160 It's been known forever that the Luca brothers were not 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.599 gonna be able to work this show. Most of the 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.960 issues with this show have nothing to do with politics. Okay, 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.159 there are a few wrestlers that can't work the show 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.320 as a result of politics. But I guess maybe with 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.600 the exception of Andrade, all of that was known going in. 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.360 The issues with the booking of this show are almost 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:22.240 one hundred percent due to all of the injuries that 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.720 have taken place that have changed a lot of the 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:30.600 major matches. Uh. They they announced last night an get 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:35.120 the card here later, but like a totally random match 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:39.800 involving Sting and Darby and the Young Bucks and Hikko 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.920 Leo is in there and Shingo is in there. Listen. 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.920 I don't I have absolutely I have absolutely no idea 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.920 what the New Japan or what the the Young Bucks 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.280 match was originally going to be. Okay, but they're the 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:59.360 a W World Tag Team Champions and they're in a 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.800 match where Hikolo and Shingo were thrown in at the 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.720 last minute. There is no way that was the originally 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.960 scheduled Young Bucks match. I don't know what it was. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.920 I don't know who was originally going to be in it. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:18.440 They announced last night that Kyle O'Reilly uh is injured. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.800 He's he's on the shelf. So I don't know if 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.840 originally the Young Bucks and Red Dragon or I don't 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.120 know what the match was going to be. But that 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.600 was another match that was changed due to injury, The 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.520 Hangman Page uh the i w g P Championship match 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:39.000 that was changed during due to injury, The uh CM 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.959 punk uh Ton Hashi match changed due to injury. Whatever 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.040 Moxley was going to do changed due to injury. I 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:47.559 mean you can go down the card if you want 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.000 me to go down the card. I mean there were 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.760 I'm sure tons of matches that have now been made 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:56.800 that were never originally going to be made, and uh, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.360 and other matches. Okay, here, here you go. John Max 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.160 and Hiroshi Nashi changed due to injury. J White, Okada 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:09.319 Hangman and Cole changed due to injury. Malachi Black, Pocmero Nishi. 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.520 I presume that was that was the original match, thunder 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:16.200 Rosen Tony Storm. I presume there were no changes there. Uh, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:21.200 United Empire FTR Rapongi weis. I presume that was the 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.240 original match. But will Osprey Orange Cassidy changed due to injury, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.240 U Jericho Minor Suzuki, Sammy Cavara, Eddie Kingston Wheeler. You 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.079 didn't showed a Umano. I presume that was originally a 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:36.319 scheduled Zach Saber to be determined changed due to injury. 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:41.680 And then Bullet Club versus Sting, Darby Shingo and Haromu 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:46.080 Young Bucks Fantasamine Hiccolo or Bullet Club changed due to injury. 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.439 So how many matches I just rattle off that were 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:52.240 changed due to injury? Everyone's complaining about politics and everything, 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:59.000 But what really screwed up this show was injuries. I 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.199 don't know what you canna do brought it. It's been 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.640 brought up about. You know, politics has been written about, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.840 injuries have been written about, and you know, this is 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.000 just step one. And I know, like, if we look 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.240 back ten years from now and this is the only 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.679 thing that New Japan and a W collaborate on, yeah, 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.959 I'll probably look back and go, man, I wish there 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.720 was a whole lot in hindsight that would have been changed. 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.040 But this is going to be hopefully step one. And 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:31.040 we've seen shows like this a zillion times where groups 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.160 work together, especially if you're a Japanese fan, now maybe 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.520 if you're not as much. When you see super shows 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.360 like these and and groups working together, you get a 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.960 lot of multiple person matches, you get a lot of 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.000 tag team matches, and that's what we have here. So no, 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.199 is Orange Cassidy the person I would have picked to 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.680 come off the bench to replace Andrade against wall Osprey. No, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.960 But we also don't know what else went behind this 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.880 as well too, And you do have two separate companies 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.360 are trying to actually do a bunch of things and 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.000 protect people and do what they need to do for 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.400 storylines that have nothing to do with this one night, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.319 and then they are going to continue on and may 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.240 have an effect for later on in the next upcoming months. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:16.240 So it's just the amount of reaction pro and con 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.120 push and pull and everybody going after each other. Last 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:23.880 night after that show was it was something else, all right. 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.120 We had to break here in a while. But I 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.880 want to throw the phone numbers and etcetera here if 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.920 you'd like to text us four to five seven eight 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.880 zero seven five six six Brian and Wrestling Observer dot 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.960 com is the email at Brian Alvarez on Twitter. And yes, 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.760 if you'd like a cameo from the shores of the 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:46.480 Pacific Ocean home, I'll the All Atlantic title. I will 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.360 be doing those from the beach at four W online 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.080 on cameo, so make sure you check that out. And 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.600 also we're live, pal I was a special guest this week. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.920 Check that one out on YouTube later and I'll be 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.160 on Denise's show and me after this show as well. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:05.560 So man, so much stuff, brother, and we more after 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:32.360 the breaks. They're live. Welcome back to the show. Mike' 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.840 semper viv here Russy Server Live Brian Alvarez also here. 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:39.200 I'm not sure since I don't have the Twitter YouTube 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.679 chats up if you can see this man's torso right 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.920 now in your camera lens. That's right now. Apparently the 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.920 pictures frozen. No, there he is. He's very vascular. You 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:49.840 see his forearm. He probably gets a lot of work 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.080 on that forearm now that he has two kids and 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.920 his wife doesn't want anything to do with him. Yep, 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.840 Brian Alvarez and that baby blue shirt. I have no 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.240 idea what he's doing. He just got up moment months 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.120 ago and started fiddling around with stuff. I know this 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.600 doesn't make for very good radio everybody, but there's an 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.240 adventure going on the home of Brian Alvarez right now. 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.160 Now he's looking angrily at his computer. I have no 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.360 idea what's going on here. He's got no audio apparently whatsoever. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.000 I have no idea if I'm even on right now. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.040 But uh yeah, So we'll get back to Brian here 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.480 in a moment, once Brian figures out exactly what is 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.680 going on over there, and we can get his world 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:33.520 famous and critically acclaimed Dynamite review from from last night. 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.680 Rick Flair's having a press conference right now because his 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.559 last match is coming up. They moved it out of 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:43.000 the Fairgrounds to Nashville Municipal Auditorium. They're hyping that up 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.640 as we speak. Rick Flair's last match coming up part 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:50.240 of Money in the Bank weekend taking place in Nashville. 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.640 So there's that, Brian's forearm and and right bicep and 0:13:55.720 --> 0:14:01.880 now bell buckle still in the shop. Ah oh man, 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.840 we shall take it to the front page or the 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:07.680 Wrestling Observer newsletter right now. We're men like Ian Carry 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.880 are putting in work. In fact, Ian just posted up 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.079 a story not all that long ago about Ria Ripley 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:18.920 being back fairly soon following a possible concussion and having 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.040 her teeth teeth knocked loose. It was announced on RAW 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.000 that she would be unable to perform at Money in 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:27.200 the Bank due to her injuries. Ripley revealed in an 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.680 Instagram comment yesterday that she's dealing with brain and teeth issues. 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:34.160 Can't see. Can't see a brain injury, stopped being competent 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.960 at reaching it nothing for those people that said that 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.720 Ripley was not injured, she responded back to them. So 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.520 Dave and Bryan talked about it on this morning's Wrestling 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.240 Observer Radio or teeth knock loosen to match and had 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.600 braces put in and unfortunately we're not sure about the 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:51.720 other thing. When he comes to her brain, odds are 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:53.840 it's a concussion. Hopefully it is a light one and 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.680 she can return soon, as Brian Alvarez is doing to 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:01.520 the show right now. Yes, yes, I am bad. Hello everybody, 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:06.320 what happened? My internet just died? It was weird, the 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.520 bizarre your internet? Wait when a second bout if your 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:15.600 internet died, what exactly is the video wired into? No, 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.960 the internet on the thing that connects the timeline just 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:23.040 dropped the internet and I fixed again, so I rebooted everything. 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.200 But yes, Ria Ribley is injured. And uh, I don't know, bro, 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.800 what else could a brain injury be? Like she had 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:37.120 never removed and put back in like Shabbada. I think 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.400 it's Uh, it's one of those things. It's like so weird. 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.120 It's like you're allowed to like tell the world you 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.920 have a brain injury, but don't don't ever use the 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.400 word concussion. And again, we don't know for sure that 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.160 Brian Danielson is out with a concussion, but I mean 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.040 we initially heard one in two weeks now it's been longer. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:15:59.480 And then the first thing he said about people worried 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.080 about his his health is that he could read two 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.480 hundred words a minute and a bunch of other stuff 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:10.360 that air brain. So I presume that he and Rha 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.600 are both out with concussions, but no one's allowed to 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:15.880 say the word concussions. So at the end of the day, 0:16:16.440 --> 0:16:19.920 what matters is they're both out and reassays she'll be 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.080 back soon, but I mean, and I hope she is. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.800 But Brian Danielson also was supposed to be back soon 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.640 and he's not back yet, and he it would not 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:33.080 be the first person who they figured would be back soon, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.480 and uh, and that's worrisome. It is. It is as 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:39.360 a fan of Brian Danielson, And I'm one of those 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.920 people that said, if he was done, great, you owe 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.320 me nothing. I've seen it all. I know you want 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.600 to do more. But you know what, if you stopped today, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.920 you were in that top percentile. You won. You're one 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.400 of those people I can say outright won the professional 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:58.400 wrestling business. Um. But he's had a lot of these things. 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:00.760 We've talked about it at length for a lot of time. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.880 Everybody knows the time he had to sit on the 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:06.840 shelf in w W E before eventually he was cleared 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:08.639 and then eventually he made his way to a W. 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.679 But it's just a scary thought. And uh, you know, 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.199 hopefully you heard him talking about what he you know, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.240 this is these are the things I can do, no 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.639 matter what my condition my brain may happen to be in. 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:25.240 But you're taking a lot of beatings here and how 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.600 how much longer we'll see? So apparently Brian's Internet is 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:34.359 out again. He just gave me the throat slash, so 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:39.439 that's not good. I'm gonna delay on doing anything when 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:41.719 he comes to the Dynamite review until we might be 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.199 able to get him back on here. So yeah, and 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.040 Rod A, l E Loo and Rayphine ex except for 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.920 rampage on Friday. No spoilers, of course, we'll let font 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.280 font Leroy do that one and read down the card 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.119 possibly maybe a little bit later on. But and Rode 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.320 and rayphene A plus three additional bouts have been planned 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.320 for Friday's a W rampage. They taped the whole thing 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:09.960 after uh Dynamite last night and this is apparently this 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.240 is Androddi's first singles about on TV since losing a 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.919 coffin match to Darby Allen in April. He did appear 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.480 at the Casino Battle Royal on the June eighth Dynamite 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.800 and then defeated Frankie Kazarian on Dark Elevation in the 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:27.520 match that actually had aired this week. So again no spoilers, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.600 but all of the word is you gotta watch Androtti 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.720 and Phoenix. Uh no surprise. Dave and Bryant talked about 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.520 it this morning. David had heard that it was great. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:39.720 There are a couple other people online who have already 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:41.639 seen it and said, yeah, you know, that's when you 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.280 gotta watch. They're having their pay per view match that 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.680 a lot of people thought, and Roddy should be having 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.840 a year against the Wall of Sprey. They had it 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.480 against each other and apparently he kicked ass. Jeff Cobb 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:55.640 faces Cash Wheeler and it's gonna be nice to actually 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.680 see Cash in the ring in the singles match. He's 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.320 becoming like the Marty to to Dax's Sean in some 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.280 ways when it comes to the praise that Dax gets 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:08.720 for his singles matches. But you face off against Jeff Cobb. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.000 How is it not going to be awesome? So Cash 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.200 Wheeler and Jeff Cobb will be facing off against each other, 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:17.159 Hook will be facing the d k C from the 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:22.080 l A Dojo, plus Serena Deep and Mercedes Martinez tagging 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:25.480 up together as it looks like they are going to 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.480 be paired off against each other. Uh for the Ring 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.600 of Honor Women's Championship that's going to be taking place. Now. 0:19:31.600 --> 0:19:35.080 There's one criticism about aw that's probably true. There are 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.720 too many belts and as much as I like seeing 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.800 j Lethal and Samoa Joe involved in something, r O 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.000 H having a television champion right now, it's kind of wacky. 0:19:45.160 --> 0:19:48.520 I mean it is right. It's they have no TV. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.119 They may never get TV again. They may end up 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.080 on a streaming service somewhere. Why they still have that 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:56.320 TV title? I don't know what they can do. I 0:19:56.400 --> 0:20:01.359 don't know, but speculation station. And it's hard to believe 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.119 that after what Brian Danielson said last night, it's hard 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:10.520 to believe that it's not going to be the former 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:16.160 Antonio Sazzaro Claudio Castan only it could be somebody else, 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.399 But it's really hard to believe that. Brian Danielson was 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:23.919 not talking about Cesaro last night and the possibility of 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.720 him coming in and replacing him not only at Forbidden 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:30.560 Door against Zach Saber Jr. But also in the Blood 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:33.560 and Guts match. And I'll say this, if it's Cizarro, 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.520 because he's got a history with Eddie Kingston, you know, 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:41.720 you could maybe add some intrigue to the to the match. 0:20:41.800 --> 0:20:43.800 But you know, I I don't want to see a 0:20:43.840 --> 0:20:46.439 situation like Kurt Henning and the Horseman in the end 0:20:46.600 --> 0:20:48.960 w oh back in the day, where he gets in 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:51.399 there and he's gonna help defend the honor and then 0:20:51.440 --> 0:20:55.159 he ends up turning immediately and beating down Flair and 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.600 all that sort of stuff, slamming the cage door on 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.600 the head, doing that routine. I wouldn't be looking forward 0:21:00.640 --> 0:21:03.000 to something like that, but it would add a little 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:06.919 bit of mysterious intrigue in I guess for for some 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:09.760 people if you wanted to go in that direction. Uh, 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.199 if it's him who shows up to face off against 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:15.320 Zach Saber Jr. If it's not him, I don't know 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:19.080 who else he could be. Because you have Jonathan Gresham 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.440 on the roster and he's fabulous and he is your 0:21:22.520 --> 0:21:25.199 ro OH heavyweight champion, and he is the type of 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:28.919 person that Brian Danielson was talking about. But I have 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:30.520 a feeling that if it was going to be a 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:34.000 Jonathan Gresham, you would have announced that last night and 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.040 you could have had some sort of face off against 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:38.840 Zach Saber Jr. It's just not a big enough name, 0:21:38.880 --> 0:21:41.560 it's not enough of an impactful name for you to 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.959 pull that out as a surprise. The only other person 0:21:45.280 --> 0:21:48.840 that I could randomly think of. Maybe I don't know 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.080 his contract status, I don't know his concussion status, but 0:21:52.119 --> 0:21:54.440 we've seen a lot of guys come back from head 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.520 and neck injuries that a lot of people thought they'd 0:21:56.560 --> 0:22:00.520 never come back from. And that's Nigel McGinnis. And like 0:22:00.720 --> 0:22:03.840 I said, it's such a it's a it's a slight 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:09.320 outside shot. I am for X t U K. Well, 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.000 that's why I wanted to ask you. If I don't know, 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:12.679 I don't watch it next to UK. I have no 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.000 idea if he does announcing, I have no idea about 0:22:15.040 --> 0:22:19.000 any of that stuff or or his status. So again, 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.880 if it's not Gresham, if it's not Zach Saber Jr. 0:22:21.960 --> 0:22:23.920 You start trying to pull up names from the past 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:25.960 and pull up names that you think would be relevant 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.600 who he could actually be, you know, talking about, and 0:22:29.640 --> 0:22:31.679 there's just there's just not enough of them. You know, 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.359 others signed. He's signed a w W E. He's a 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:38.159 commentator for n x T. Well, forget about him. Take 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:40.440 him out of the You know a name someone through 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:49.320 in here, who Chris Hero just as good as Claudio 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:54.240 Because yes, here's a thing like everyone's talking about Gargano 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.680 and I would have no problem with Gargano. But but 0:22:56.680 --> 0:23:01.200 but the promo last night from last night, Danielson said, 0:23:01.320 --> 0:23:04.879 I trust this man to both face Zach Saber Jr. 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:09.439 And also like a violent blood guts match coming up 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:13.760 on on on Wednesday. And I'm not saying that that 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.359 Gargano couldn't do a wild blood and guts match, but 0:23:17.680 --> 0:23:22.840 that seems more fitting like a big, brutish you know, 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:27.560 a cloud eo Chris Hero. And Chris Hero is back 0:23:27.560 --> 0:23:30.159 taking bookings again, So I don't think it's Uh, I 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.119