WEBVTT - Wrestle Kingdom Night 1/NXT New Years Evil 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:10.280 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, ready, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.680 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.000 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.720 Monday through Friday, a New Pacific three during Sunday three 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.000 Pacific sixth Eastern. Well, it's Tuesday here on the show. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.080 And not only is it Tuesday here on the program, 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:32.120 it is January four, and so we have more than 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.000 ever to talk about here today, not the least of 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:39.960 which is Night one of Wrestle Kingdom at the Tokyo Dome. 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:43.599 I've seen two matches, Shabbata versus Rendarita and the Ocado 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:45.440 verus Shingo match, so we can talk about that today. 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:47.680 We'll see how much Mike has seen. That of course, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.480 leads to the second night of the Wrestle Kingdom Tokyo 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.640 Dome show, that is tonight. We'll give you the lineup 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.279 for the show coming off last night's show, including the 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:02.600 main event Champion versus Champion match, and I'll talking about 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:09.080 I was talking about Roman Reigns yesterday and brock Lessner 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.480 and how they're both champions and how they might do 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:16.160 a champion versus champion match at WrestleMania. This guy was 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:17.840 so many he goes, they can't do a champion versus 0:01:17.920 --> 0:01:23.919 champion match wrestle Mare. There's two nights of WrestleMania. So anyway, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.760 the second night of the Tokyo at almost coming up 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:30.039 here tonight with a champion versus champion match, and we'll 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.319 tell you about that. We've also got the n x 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.880 T New Year's Evil Show coming up here tonight. We've 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:41.319 got a W rampage ratings. A W moves to TBS tomorrow. 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:45.920 New Japan is moving back to access television, so if 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:47.760 you're a fan of New Japan Pro Wrestling, you'll be 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.680 able to watch it on television again, provided you get access, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.320 which I guess I h about two years ago. I 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:56.760 bought uh. I watched everything on YouTube TV, but I 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.680 bought Sling because I needed access, and then they dropped 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.760 off Access and I still had Sling. But anyway, now 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:05.760 I'll get my money's worth. We got Battle of the 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.280 Belts coming up on Saturday. We have got the raw 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:14.160 report for last night, which ended with a match to 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.320 determine brock Lestener's Challenger coming up at the Royal Rumble 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:19.799 will tell you all about that and so much more 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:21.919 if you want Texas here today four to five seven 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:25.280 zero seven five six six, Brian at Rustling Observer dot com. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.359 At Bran Elbert is on Twitter, back in a moment, 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:46.320 simper viv and more Observer Live and back at the show. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.359 Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper Viv, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:54.920 also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. For those blokes asking, 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:57.400 I switched them back to six nine for you. Hey, 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.240 look at that everybody, and I can't see the top 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.240 of my head. Oh my gray hair. There's not much 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.680 to see there anyway. Hey, yesterday was the first night 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:08.880 of the Tokyo Dome. Don't tell me no spoilers here. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.959 The show's long since over. It's uh it's twelve hours later, 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.480 and we're gonna give you some of the notes here. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.520 I have seen two of these matches. I saw Shabbata 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.200 and Red Narita, which was awesome where it was supposed 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.120 to be a submission grappling match, and then Shabata just 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.080 announced we're going all out and they beat the crap 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.680 out of each other, although they did not go anywhere 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:36.080 near Shabbata's head. But Shabbata was actually the first guy 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.760 that just stomped on Red Narita this supposed submission match, 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:44.920 so he's just decided whatever. Um the announcers did say 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:48.480 that he had gone into business for himself. I presume 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.720 is not the case. But you know it's Shabbata, you've 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.320 gotta challenge well you never know, I mean, the the 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.480 the agreement was, you know, he could come back and 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.880 and have no one go near his head, no strike, 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.920 and just grapple because you all know he almost died 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.760 as a result of that headbut that he gave Alcada 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.800 the clunking head butt. But then he just showed up 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.120 and announced that wasn't what it was going to be. 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.320 And at that point, what are they gonna do? Come 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.280 out and drag the guy out of the ring. Well, 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.920 he did mention in the lead up to this too, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.760 that he can his head has been you know, his 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.800 skull is fully healed, and he wanted to make sure 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:27.039 that everybody knew that. So there was a tease that 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.120 he could go full force if he wanted to, but 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.039 they were taking it slow. But since he's facing off 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.120 against his uh, his student Rennarrita, which filthy Tom if 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:38.400 you had a chance to listen to those shows, which 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:40.839 you didn't because you were swimming with Orio the Orca. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.560 But Tom basically said that he felt like it was 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.919 going to be Nearrita. The whole thing made sense. He 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.640 comes out there looking like a baby Shabbata, and then 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.120 he had to learn from the master, including like Brian mentioned, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.719 getting smacked in the face right off the bat early 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.960 and getting stomped on by Shabbata and bringing having to 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.680 bring the fight to us in sight. You know, Mike, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.560 what I've learned in the last year or so here 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.400 is in a lot of folks think they know more 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.920 than doctors. I just thought i'd throw that out there, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.840 but anyway, you can match had a penalty kick and 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.600 uh and pinned him. And then the main event was 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.080 Ocada and Shingo and Uh. You'll be stunned to hear 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.559 that they had an excellent match thirty five minutes, forty 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:25.240 four seconds. It'll be that guy with the hot take. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.359 But I sure missed the days when you didn't have 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.159 to go like thirty five or forty minutes to have 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.919 a grade match. You know what I'm saying. I wouldn't 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.960 say this match was too long, but like I knew, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.080 I just knew the days of you know, we're gonna 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.000 have a great match in twenty four minutes, I mean 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:43.640 they're over. You gotta go thirty five, You gotta go forty, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.240 you gotta go forty five. I'll bet you, Mike one 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.799 u S dollars. There's no chance that the OCADA match 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.720 tonight for the Unified at title with will Osbury. There's 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.640 zero chance that GOLs in in thirty minutes. I'll put 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.320 a hundred dollars in your account tomorrow if it gils 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.760 list in thirty minut because there ain't no chance. They 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:06.120 don't do that anymore in wrestling. So anyway, wait a second, though, 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:08.440 but you're you're you're acting as if that's not a 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.880 tradition at the Tokyo Dome, if you're going to bag 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.680 on anything. My point is any match they could run 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.160 this in Oorican Hall. They could, they could start a 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.160 main event of the pay per view I just watched. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.040 There ain't no such thing as a sub thirty minute 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.720 main event anymore. It's gotta go forty Now. I got 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.760 too much stuff to watch to tolerate all of this. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:30.560 You know what I could have watched if this end 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.400 gone thirty five minutes, if this, if this matched Gun 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.960 twenty four minutes, I would have been able to watch 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:39.839 Evil and is She, which I have been told impossibly 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.160 was a bad match. So I need to go and 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:45.479 watch this one because I can't believe that you could 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:47.280 do that. But it is with Evil, and you know, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.440 I know they booked those matches, so I guess I'll 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.400 have to find out. But that's the word on the street, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:57.240 is is She had a bad match? Well, I gotta 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.359 be honest. I had to skip two matches because I 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:01.800 had to fit in raw unfortunately before the show, So 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.080 I guess which once I skipped unfortunately Evil and the 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:07.520 She and then the tag match, which I assume was 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.280 very very good. With the blaming is She you geeks, 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.600 I'm just saying that's the word. I didn't think that 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.400 he could have a bad match. You have to default 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.680 blame the House of Torture, and I haven't seen it yet, 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.400 so I want to pass any judgment. But I have 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.560 seen enough of Evil in this new incarnation, with the 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:26.200 House of Torture and all of the Shenanigans and all 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.000 of that stuff. To know that it Most of the time, 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.760 I think it sucks. And if you like it, that's fantastic. 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.520 But I unfortunately seemed to be in the minority or 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.440 the majority on this, so that that's how that goes. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.960 But look, at least hopefully this is out of the 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.720 way with the sheet and they can move him onto 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.240 something else of more value. I one after another. Here 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.800 it was bad, it was bad, bad, it was torture. 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.120 This person writes, it's a house of torture. Dick Togo 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.600 is bad for business. Well, it's not blame Dick Toga. 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:59.720 If you're mad about he gotta blame ghetto match together. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.600 That's his buddy. Is it time for regime change in 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.440 New Japan? Progress? It's time for the pandemic to be over. 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.480 If listen, I know some people are are upset about 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.520 the booking of of New Japan over the last year. 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:13.520 So but let me tell you something. If if the 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.040 pandemic ends, everything opens up and we have a full 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.760 year of anybody can come, anybody can go whatever, blah 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.080 blah blah, and you're still upset with the booking, then 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:27.760 we can talk about a regime change has been that 0:08:27.760 --> 0:08:31.400 has been a fair and out of character year to Brian. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.560 But it's a fair time in theory than to make 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.480 a change like this. And I'm not like, I'm not 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.520 trying to send Ghetto out with you know, throwing his 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.040 bags out and kick him in the ass on the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.160 way out the door. I mean, he's done a wonderful 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:49.559 job and it's just unfortunately, even when the fans come back, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.960 I mean, the die was kind of cast on evil 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:53.960 and house to torture and some of the shenanigans that 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:55.800 they've been doing with the Bullet Club when there was 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.760 no Look, the crowd saved a lot of that stuff 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.600 and and they aid at work and they were all 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.080 in on a lot of the product, so they you know, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.199 glossed over some of the things that they didn't like, 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:09.320 you know, those live crowds. But it sticks out a 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.400 lot more now some of the failings that they've had 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.240 and some of the things that they've been doing over 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.200 and over again since the early days of the Bullet Club. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.800 A lot of the referee things, a lot of the 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.920 things that they've fallen back on unfortunately have not gone away. 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.120 And with fans they also probably are not going to 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.560 go away. So again, I well, I don't know who 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.160 the right person would be, but I it's one of 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.880 those things where I hope that they're looking forward on 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.040 this because a lot of what he's doing, unfortunately is 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.840 getting tired. But I will also say this, you're right 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.360 because of the circumstances in the pandemic and because New 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.000 Japan is strong, is so strong right now, you know, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.199 I find if you want to give him some extra time. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:56.160 But he can't be surprised that people would say something 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.400 like that because they've been saying it for a long 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.640 I'm sticking at stuff too. But but remember yesterday I 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:08.239 was talking about the rainbow. Remember the rainbow? Yes, okay, well, 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.480 uh you know guess who wasn't in the rainbow? Necro Butcher. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.880 Let's look at this rainbow, Mike. This is my whole point. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:22.480 Kosa Fujita, ut Nakashima, Rio, hey Oiwa, Taka, Michinoku, Master 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:30.280 tends On Kojima, Dukie, Cannamaru, Nagata, hone maa bad Luck 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:35.679 fall a Hanare Fujinami and Togi Makabe. And then of 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:39.040 course the final guys were Chaso and Shima, Minor Suzuki 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.360 and Toro Yano, who are advancing to the King of 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.320 But the point of this is you have you have 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.920 a very at this point. I know people are gonna 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.440 maybe argue, but because of the pandemic, your roster is 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.160 very limited. And so it was the same thing with 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.800 the g One this year. What what big outsiders that 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:05.560 we have coming into the gain That's got nothing to 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.400 do with the pandemic. Yeah, it's got to do with 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:12.160 New Japan's philosophy, Brian bro They can't bring anybody in. 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.920 They have no foreigners, They have nobody from a w 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.800 coming in for any man. They never bring anybody in 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.400 from other promotions. That's one of the things that's pointed 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.680 out about New Japan because they are relatively an isolationist company. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.320 That's why people pop so hard when Sema came in, 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.240 even though he's you know, been with you know, Strong 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.120 Hearts or whatever and been on his own anyway, It's 0:11:34.160 --> 0:11:36.440 guys like that where people have been saying for a 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.920 long time, why is Chase Owen's in this match? Call 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.400 on Sima to come in with the guys call on 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.960 this person or that person. So that's that's a lot 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.680 of the issue as well too. Whereas yeah, they're doing 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.560 the thing with no one. They're gonna do a card 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.880 with All Japan, but bringing some of those guys in 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.439 every once in a while, which New Japan doesn't do. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.240 They could do that from the native side and spice 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.079 things up. They just choose not to do that. This 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.040 person here says, are you telling me New Japan needs 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.480 outsiders to be good? No, I'm telling you they need outsiders, 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.560 So they have outsiders. There's a whole lot of different 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:11.959 things you could do instead of the exact same top 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.559 guys in the same matches. It's like watching Ron SmackDown 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.240 right now. That's much worse, by the way, but you 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.640 have a limited roster. How many times have we seen 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.680 Roman Reins versus brock Leser five thousand times? How many 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:26.839 times have we seen the Street Profits and the New Day? 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.880 The match was great or not? The New Day in 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.320 the Use match was great, But I've seen the match 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.600 five thousand times. But what has a w done that 0:12:34.640 --> 0:12:38.080 New Japan doesn't open the doors for everybody to come in. 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.880 Even though they have a loaded up roster, they have 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.480 still opened the doors for a lot of different promotions 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.360 from nick Ga. They have Minora Suzuki to come in, 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.240 which is something because those people were in America and 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:52.920 they could travel. There a lot of people in Japan 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.240 that could travel as well too. That again, that's the 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.840 whole point of why people were happy to see Shima 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.000 last night. You could have been using him the whole 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.480 time instead of you have been the same stuff over 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.200 and over, which comes down to the philosophy and what 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.440 you do. There's dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.439 of people that they will be able to use when 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.079 there's no longer a two week quarantine to get into 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.800 the country, like all of a sudden. Dude, by the way, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.720 where's dumb? We gotta go to a break dom. We're 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:50.319 right back Wrestling Observer live. Between you and these chat 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:55.640 here comes the excuses. Here we go with the exception 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.599 of when n XT was on fire. You realize that 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:05.000 Ghetto was voted best booker for eight straight years. You bet, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.480 then we have a pandemic and now he needs to 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.400 be replaced because there's too much bullet club crap. Time out. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.439 Hold on, you said he should be replaced. I I 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.560 just brought up the idea of regime change, and now 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.920 maybe as good of a time as any to do 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.160 something like that. While things are not awful, you haven't 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.360 sunk down into the mud or anything like that, relying 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.280 on stardom for all your bushy road income. Now, I'm not, 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:34.560 you know, come on, but like you know, people were 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.040 calling for this a long time ago. People have been 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.400 calling for this, and I'm, like I said, I was 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.120 not in a rush to get him out the door. 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.240 But since the pandemic began, and I've seen some of 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400 those things that have been done in a very stark 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.280 you know, in stark buildings where you don't get the 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:55.840 applause and things stand out a lot more. Now might 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.200 be as good of a time as any to do 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:00.400 something like that. And I understand what you're was saying 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.600 as far as letting him have j White back and 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.120 letting him have a lot of those things. But there 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.640 is a fear, like I mentioned during the break of 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.480 that House of Torture Bullet Club split, where it's just 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:16.000 gonna be again. Well, everybody has a bad idea here 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:20.040 and there. They absolutely there's plenty of bad ideas. They're sure, 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.040 I'm not replacing this, But your guy, you's suffering in 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:25.160 the middle of this pandemic, doing the best he can 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:31.560 with nothing, nothing to you, listen to you, it's not nothing. Wow, 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:35.120 as if nobody else out there has got any ideas. Remember, 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.520 let me say, remember when Gheto went in because you don't, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.440 but do you remember when Ghetto took over as the 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.480 foreman of New Japan and how people thought that it 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.240 was not going to be a great idea, But you 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:46.960 know there was a great idea and it was a 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.640 great idea. So you know what, sometimes you can make 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.240 moves and make things better and it's gonna happen everybody. 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.560 What's gonna happen is they're gonna replace Ghetto with Evil 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:57.480 and then you're all gonna cry about it, and I'm 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:00.760 just gonna sit. I tried it to all. Evil is 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:02.920 going to be the booker. I tried to tell you guys, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.480 what about gonna be the booker? What about filthy Tom Wallers? 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.200 Do you realize what Ghetto was before he became the booker? 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.240 He was not an all time top star legend. He 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:14.960 was like the only guy that wanted to do it. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.040 Like it's like like you can't make an improve like 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.560 Bill Watts was a great booker for a long time. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.200 And then realize that I got a great idea Best 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.440 Booker eight years in a row and replace him. That's 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:33.080 a great idea going You're taking You're so You're so lame, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.600 and your arguments are so weak and full of holes. 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.360 They're not Let's move on. I'll move on. I'll move 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.880 on to the main event tonight. What it is not weak? 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:45.040 He wanted him replace in the middle of a pandemic 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:47.120 after he won Best Booker eight years in a row. 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.520 I'm not making any of that up. Okay, we'll find 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.160 out who wins Best Booker this year, but I already 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.080 knowe who it is. It's Tony cohnk Maybe we can 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.520 replace him next year, Lenny, you know what it's signed 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.720 for New York regime change. Why am I were? Is filthy? 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:05.359 Why am I wasting my time? Filthy? Is busy watching 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.959 the Shabbata match? Jesus wondering why, wondering why this Renderita 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.320 tried to kill him, but then it was totally subservient 0:17:12.359 --> 0:17:15.480 to this other guy, Like does Mike and Brian both 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.960 a gun out there and try to take him? Look 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.760 at this Seattle the home move of two. Here is 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.920 the lineup for tonight. We have got Okada versus will 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:32.959 Osprey in a champion versus champion match Kenta versus Hiroshi, 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.399 ton Ashi, Nito and Jeff Cob Sonada in the Great 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:41.120 Ocon About Great Ocon, now, you geek, I didn't see 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:46.600 as a match. I'm sure it was awesome, do you wrestle? 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.359 I wasn't even paying attention to the first Yeah, it was. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.879 It was a will Osprey, Great o'con and Jeff well, 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.280 we had a lot of good workers in that match 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.200 to carry it this one. I'm not so sure about 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:01.800 Sonata in Great o'con. You We'll see about that. Sorry. 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:04.360 I hope Sonada can keep up with the best technical 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:08.880 wrestler in all of New Japan. What are you laughing about? 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:12.840 He got voted best technical wrestler. I'm not making that 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.800 up into the in the Tokyo Sports Awards in all 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.000 of Japan, not just New Japan. And all the time, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:22.119 you you great Okon DENI are you? You? You're just bro. 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:26.760 Even even I've been on our chat and elsewhere, even 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:30.200 the most hardcore Great Okon fan isn't going to say 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.800 that he's the best technical wrestler in all of jan 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.200 Not all of those awards, the most end of year 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.720 awards are jokes. Jaseo and Sima Minora, Suzuki and Toriana 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.680 for the King of Pro Wrestling. What's the what's the 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.640 They have a stip for this one, they're gonna tell 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.520 us tonight, but there's no other stip, like you don't 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.880 have to drink alcohol till they pass out. I hope 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.040 that maybe he should be removed. Yeah, maybe you know 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.399 they'll do. They'll put Torriano in, then the booker, and 0:18:57.400 --> 0:19:00.720 then every single match you'll have some dumb stip. Well, 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.959 isn't the reason we have all this stupidity with Torriano 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.479 because of Ghetto. I'm sure that's actually actually you know, 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:11.159 you know whose idea it was for the King Wrestling title? No, 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.480 you know whose idea it was? Okada, Maybe he could 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.760 take over the book That was o'cata's idea for that tournament, 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:23.720 in that belt in a trophy with I'm not saying 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.800 it's his fault. I'm just wanting out our Truth had 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.320 the pretty ricky teeth in his mouth, and then all 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:30.960 of a sudden they wanted him to have the stupid 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.000 teeth in his mouth. That's Our Truth's fault. You guys 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.359 think I'm joking. You guys think I'm joking that this 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.480 King of Pro Wrestling thing was Ocada's idea. All right, well, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.920 dudever you want, bros, believe whatever you want that makes 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.040 you feel better. My Watani Star Like Kid versus Tom 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:52.399 Knockano and Saya Kamatani. That'll be good. And Robbi Eagles 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:57.600 and Tiger Mask versus Bullet Club's Cutest tag Team Taiji 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:02.600 Shimri l Phantasmo against to Gucci and Rocky Romero. You 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.639 sure about that? Did you name them that's the name 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.040 of the team. Did you give him that idea? Did 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.480 you book that name for them? No? I didn't it. 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:13.679 Your boy, al P, I know you like him, and 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.000 I do like him. He's awesome. Mhm, he's a great 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:22.080 He's a better troll than than somebody I know, Robbie 0:20:22.080 --> 0:20:24.960 Eagles fan myself. And then also tonight we have got 0:20:25.400 --> 0:20:28.520 Chompa and Braun Breaker for the n x T title, 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.679 Mandy Rose, Cora Jade and Raquel Gonzal And he's just 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:34.359 trying to ease us right into that that was the 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:39.440 best women's title. Carmelo versus Roderick Strong and uh, you 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:41.320 know they could do. Remember at the beginning of the 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:42.879 show tell me that guy that was so mad at 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.320 me for even suggesting they would do champion versus champion 0:20:45.320 --> 0:20:50.560 to wrestle men because it was a two night event. Yes, yeah, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:52.440 wait wait, there's another two night event called the Tokyo 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.000 where they're doing the exact same damn thing. And what 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.240 they could do is braun Breaker wins the n x 0:20:57.280 --> 0:21:00.520 T title, he goes up to UH to the may Roster, 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.080 and we could do the same damn thing with three 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:06.240 champions where the n x T champion and the Raw 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.000 champion have their unification match on Night one, the winner 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:12.080 goes tonight too, and then they rutify all these damn titles. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.359 I'm not gonna happen, but I mean, you know they 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.960 could do that with two nights. They could you have 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.640 two unification matches. In theory, you can do anything. Why 0:21:21.640 --> 0:21:24.080 don't you just unify the women's championship. Then in the 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.800 nx Teacher bro, they should unify all of these championships 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.199 so they can send people from brand to brand so 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.360 we don't have these absolutely dead brands like SmackDown, where 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.480 you got a Roman reigns and literally literally nobody that 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:38.240 can look at in the entire roster that could be 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.840 as challenger. I wonder if they could do it, like 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:44.200 you know, was it the best of the super junior style, 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:46.960 like Lance was there for the lead up into that 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.320 where they had they lead up to the J Crown 0:21:49.359 --> 0:21:51.560