Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
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Speaker 1: get into here today. It is Tuesday here on this program,
Speaker 1: and you don't know what that means today. Normally you
Speaker 1: know what that means on Tuesday, I'm gonna bury all
Speaker 1: these raw segments and talk about all this stupid stuff
Speaker 1: on the show. But no, not today. The show wasn't perfect,
Speaker 1: but this is my favorite raw and I don't even
Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time there was a raw
Speaker 1: that I thought was as good as this raw. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that today on the show. That'll
Speaker 1: be fun, a fun raw report. Also fun. I've seen
Speaker 1: two matches so far from that Impact Rebellion show. They're
Speaker 1: both awesome. So if you have not seen the show
Speaker 1: where all of the show, I strongly recommend Moose versus
Speaker 1: Josh Alexander and a she E versus Jonah, two great
Speaker 1: matches we can talk about on the program today. And
Speaker 1: they're gonna be doing a rematch of the Josh Alexander
Speaker 1: Moose match coming up on Access TV. That's coming at
Speaker 1: Thursday if you want to see it again. We got
Speaker 1: updates on ft R and the story that w w
Speaker 1: E has interest in them. We got an update for
Speaker 1: the a W Show coming up on Wednesday. We have
Speaker 1: a new special commentator for the Decks Hardwood Cash Wheeler match. No,
Speaker 1: it's not Bret Hart, but it is one of Bret
Speaker 1: Hart's biggest fans, commentating on two of Bret Hart's biggest fans,
Speaker 1: having essentially a Brett versus Own tribute match. Sam Punk
Speaker 1: will be doing commentary for Dax Hardwood and Cash Wheeler.
Speaker 1: We can talk about the rest of the lineup as well.
Speaker 1: We have the Dynamite I'm sorry, the a W Rampage numbers,
Speaker 1: the SmackDown numbers. Bad Bunny is gonna be a pro
Speaker 1: wrestler in a movie, and so much more. Back in
Speaker 1: a moment to kick it off Observer Live back in
Speaker 1: the show, Brian Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live, maximbur
Speaker 1: Bhev also Wrestling Observer dot com. You look amused. I
Speaker 1: was just saying that some stuff at two Pacific five
Speaker 1: Eastern today. Lance is gonna be on the show and
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about this Impact Rebellion paper view. But
Speaker 1: as I know, to the opening segment, there's there's two
Speaker 1: matches that I strongly recommend. They're the only two have
Speaker 1: seen so far. Apparently there's a lot of other great
Speaker 1: stuff on the show, but Moose and Josh Alexander is
Speaker 1: great main event and she versus Jonah It's just a
Speaker 1: great Ash versus Jonah match. And I was I was watching, uh,
Speaker 1: I was watching that main event. And I'm sure I'm
Speaker 1: not the biggest Moose fan on the planet, but sometimes
Speaker 1: I feel like I am because I never really hear
Speaker 1: anybody talking about Moose. I mean, they talk about him,
Speaker 1: you know, they talk about him. But here's the thing. Okay,
Speaker 1: I watched that Raw show last night and they actually
Speaker 1: didn't quite do my idea with the arm wrestling contest,
Speaker 1: but one guy actually beat the other guy clean. I
Speaker 1: thought for sure they were going to do the deal
Speaker 1: where you know, O Moss is about to lose and
Speaker 1: then m v P hits him with the cane or whatever,
Speaker 1: and then they took the Bobby Lashley beat him, He
Speaker 1: beat him, He beat him in an arm wrestling match clean,
Speaker 1: and then they have the post match, you know, attack
Speaker 1: and everything like that. And I'm just watching Omas and
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my god, they so badly want this
Speaker 1: giant and he's just a tall guy and you know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy playing program and I don't believe anything
Speaker 1: about I've talked about it before. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get on the guy. Sure he's a nice guy at all.
Speaker 1: And then like I'm watching SmackDown and they got all shankly.
Speaker 1: He's a tall guy, another giant, and uh, he's gonna
Speaker 1: be facing a Ricochet for the championship on SmackDown on Friday.
Speaker 1: He's in a title match, and on the show he's
Speaker 1: also in a lumberjack match and he has no idea
Speaker 1: how to be a lumberjack, and even the announcers are like,
Speaker 1: shank Lee clearly has never been told the rules of
Speaker 1: a lumberjack match before. He doesn't know the rules lumberjack match.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure he's a nice guy as well, but
Speaker 1: you were seeing Shankly wrestll so anyway, and then you
Speaker 1: know they got sutten him sing that is debuted in
Speaker 1: in a by the way of all of the newly
Speaker 1: debut giants. I mean, from what I've seen, he's the best.
Speaker 1: But still I mean just a big guy, just a
Speaker 1: big guy. Has learned a couple of moves. We don't
Speaker 1: know anything about how he can work in the ring
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Everybody wants a giant, and bro,
Speaker 1: here's a Moose right here. This dude is a legit
Speaker 1: six four six five and so like in in wrestling,
Speaker 1: he's six eight six nine, and dude, this guy is
Speaker 1: so good, like he has no holes in his game.
Speaker 1: The number one hole you'll see in a giant's game
Speaker 1: is always the same. They have no idea how to sell, right,
Speaker 1: Look at Almas try and sells it's comedy, shank Lee,
Speaker 1: We have no idea, I Suttman singh can sell call.
Speaker 1: I mean, you could go through the list of giants
Speaker 1: in this business and virtually none of them have a
Speaker 1: clue had to sell. Moose can sell. He knows how
Speaker 1: to work as a giant. He knows what to do
Speaker 1: and when he has and intimidating, He looks, he works
Speaker 1: like he's a giant, a big dude. He comes across
Speaker 1: as a big dude. When he needs to sell, he
Speaker 1: knows how to sell. When he knows how when he
Speaker 1: needs to put the guy over, he knows how to
Speaker 1: put the guy over. The guy can cut promos and
Speaker 1: then he's in there on top of everything else. Josh
Speaker 1: Alexander sitting on the top rope. This dude does a
Speaker 1: vertical leap dropkick knocks this guy off the top rope
Speaker 1: to the floor. This guy is just he's unbelievable. And meanwhile, it's, oh,
Speaker 1: we gotta find some tall guy. I'm not saying that, like,
Speaker 1: you know, he should be immediately because I don't think
Speaker 1: he could be rated from impact wrestling. But it's like,
Speaker 1: how come when everyone's looking for a giant, it is
Speaker 1: like nobody ever talks about how great Moose is. He's
Speaker 1: an awesome giant, and him and Alexander Josh Alexander's great man.
Speaker 1: They had a great main event, places going crazy, all
Speaker 1: these awesome near falls, and finally Josh Alexander plants this
Speaker 1: guy with his his Jay driller pens him in the
Speaker 1: middle of Windsy wins the title. His family is there,
Speaker 1: they get in the ring, they're all so happy. That
Speaker 1: was awesome. And then is she and Jonah who are
Speaker 1: like to uh, you know, they're they're giants with their
Speaker 1: short giants. You know, she's shorter than I am, and uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's tall Joan is, but he eats
Speaker 1: six five. But they they it was like it was like,
Speaker 1: you know, King Kong versus godzill in there they're just
Speaker 1: pounding on each other and and you know, the story
Speaker 1: couldn't be a simpler story. Is she tries a brainbuster,
Speaker 1: he can't get it. Then at the end, she goes
Speaker 1: for his giant big splash off the top. He misses.
Speaker 1: Is she it's a sliding lariat, grabs this guy, lifts
Speaker 1: him up and hits him with He hits Jonah with
Speaker 1: the brain buster, and these people leaped out of their
Speaker 1: seats and they're screaming and going crazy, and he pinned him.
Speaker 1: These guys have never touched before this match. They're both
Speaker 1: working New Japan Strung regularly, but they've never had a
Speaker 1: singles match before. This match was awesome. So now I
Speaker 1: want to see like both these guys in the g
Speaker 1: one opposite blocks go up against each other again in Japan. Man,
Speaker 1: I always got two matches for this from this Impact show.
Speaker 1: But this show is great. I love to watch more
Speaker 1: later you can be able to get that done by
Speaker 1: the time you do the show with Lance. It can happen.
Speaker 1: But I could talk about Moose And and Josh Alexander
Speaker 1: and Joni Versa Shei for an hour. If I had
Speaker 1: to try to find a bad opponent for Josh Alexander.
Speaker 1: There isn't one. There isn't there just isn't one at all.
Speaker 1: And it's uh, you know, impact being there is is
Speaker 1: especially because at the time nobody knew what was happening
Speaker 1: with Ring of Honor, and before a W went in there,
Speaker 1: it didn't seem like there was going to be much
Speaker 1: of a future there. And I know, look, I would
Speaker 1: have been happy if Josh Alexander would have signed with
Speaker 1: a W. The thought of him. You know, he could
Speaker 1: always pick up the team with with with Ego again
Speaker 1: and you know, if you wanted to down the line
Speaker 1: and him as a worker in there with Daniel Bryant,
Speaker 1: see him, punk Le Moriarty, all these guys, many of
Speaker 1: whom he's already wrestled on the indie scene anyway would
Speaker 1: have been fantastic, But he gets to be a much
Speaker 1: bigger fish in you know, smaller pond. Unfortunately for Impact,
Speaker 1: that's just the way it goes. But he gets a
Speaker 1: chance to really showcase himself. Plus he gets to stay
Speaker 1: on the indie scene and have these great matches with
Speaker 1: the Davy Richards, with the I mean I think he
Speaker 1: had one with Leo Rush. He certainly had a bunch
Speaker 1: of a w with Uh. He's adding with Myron Reid.
Speaker 1: He's having with a bunch of guys there. So he's
Speaker 1: just so so good and probably doesn't get his do
Speaker 1: And we'll see what happens with Impact in this title
Speaker 1: reign that was obviously cut short by Moose and they
Speaker 1: had the whole feud's gone on for god what six months?
Speaker 1: Nine months? It just seems like forever now. But it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how his rain goes because he's
Speaker 1: really really good, you know. And there's a comment in
Speaker 1: here that someone goes, well, you know, Moose isn't as
Speaker 1: big as those other giants you listed. You're right, but
Speaker 1: here's the point, who cares. You don't need your giant
Speaker 1: to be seven four. You don't need your giant to
Speaker 1: be seven you know, all you need is your giant
Speaker 1: to be a giant, as it's compared to the other
Speaker 1: guys who watches who watches? Uh you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know you Godzilla movies or I should ask Vinny, but
Speaker 1: you know, if you if I bet you anything, if
Speaker 1: you watch a bunch of Godzilla movies, Godzilla is a
Speaker 1: different height in each movie. And I'm sure there's like
Speaker 1: one movie where he's nine stories tall, but then there's
Speaker 1: another movie where he's only six stories tall. Well, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he's six or nine. The guy who's
Speaker 1: six stories tall that Godzilla still destroys the city. You
Speaker 1: just need a guy who is portrayed as the big,
Speaker 1: scary giant. I mean, Dave was talking about this the
Speaker 1: other day. Let's talk about the last giant that was
Speaker 1: like super Over. Okay, Nash wasn't seven ft tall, but
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could say Kevin Nash. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, Kevin Nash's prime was in the mid nineties.
Speaker 1: We had the big show who uh you know, his
Speaker 1: actual prime as a giant. As I try not to
Speaker 1: do a giant niece right here, His actual prime as
Speaker 1: a giant was was actually when he was in w
Speaker 1: CW because once they brought him to UH to w
Speaker 1: W E, he was just a big dude. They didn't
Speaker 1: push him like Andre the Giant. They beat him three
Speaker 1: weeks in cleaning the middle of a stone cold stunner,
Speaker 1: and then you know, they they sent him away to
Speaker 1: ev W because they like how big he was, and
Speaker 1: you know he was he was ineffective. He was an
Speaker 1: effective big man, but like you know, he was never
Speaker 1: Andre the Giant or anything like that. His most effective
Speaker 1: run as a giant was actually in w CW when
Speaker 1: he was a giant actually, and they pushed him as
Speaker 1: an actual giant. So you know, if you if you
Speaker 1: have a moose, get rid of Omas and Shankly all
Speaker 1: these other seven ft you don't need to be seven feet.
Speaker 1: Nobody cares if you're seven four. They care if you're
Speaker 1: an effective giant, and an ineffective seven foot four guy
Speaker 1: is worse than having an effective guy that you pushes
Speaker 1: six eight. I gotta talk about Rod to this so
Speaker 1: I can get back in a good mood again. Observer
Speaker 1: Live back in the show bright Over is Here Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live Mike simbur Bb also Wrestling observer dot com.
Speaker 1: I'm not having the giant argument right here now. People
Speaker 1: are telling me that Godzilla is taller than King Kong,
Speaker 1: so King Kong is definitely not a giant. Well, during
Speaker 1: the movie, the only guy in Impact Wrestling this taller
Speaker 1: than Moose is W Morrissey. I am I'm nine nine percent.
Speaker 1: Or that Gallows is either the same height or very slightly,
Speaker 1: very slightly shorter than Moose. They're They're basically the exact
Speaker 1: same height. So giants Moose a big guy drafted in
Speaker 1: the NFL, you know, big giant thirty eight years old.
Speaker 1: Those of your wwfanel guys, do not go on the
Speaker 1: Internet and go by what it says about gallows height
Speaker 1: on Wikipedia. Unless you want to say that I'm five nine,
Speaker 1: I'll make I'll do that. If you want to say
Speaker 1: that I'm five nine, then you can say that Gallows
Speaker 1: is six seven six eight. You want to text the
Speaker 1: good brother and see what he comes back with. She's
Speaker 1: gonna say that he's not gonna kill his own gimmicks.
Speaker 1: Six ft twelve baby. How about how about we ask
Speaker 1: the actual agent who is at Impact and is right
Speaker 1: there in the locker room with all those guys at
Speaker 1: two Pacific five eastern and we'll find out who is taller,
Speaker 1: Gallows or moose or if they're basically exactly the same height. Brian,
Speaker 1: you say, two Pacific five eastern. How do I watch
Speaker 1: or hear such a show? Okay, I think I pulled
Speaker 1: this out of my buttocks. Well, uh, YouTube, of course,
Speaker 1: video dot FW online dot com. Now let me talk
Speaker 1: about raw, because this show was the best raw in forever. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: you know the opening segment, the opening segment was very
Speaker 1: by the numbers where Orton's out there celebrating and the
Speaker 1: baby face are out there, that a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: heels come out and they announced a multi person tag
Speaker 1: at the end of the show. It's it was nothing special,
Speaker 1: It's nothing you need to go out of your way
Speaker 1: to see, but it was worth it to see how
Speaker 1: happy Randy Orton was. When you think about this guy's career,
Speaker 1: and boy did he have some some ups and downs
Speaker 1: and a lot of downs. And uh, he came out
Speaker 1: there and I'm pretty sure with all sincerity, told us
Speaker 1: this was the greatest run of his entire career. And
Speaker 1: he was so happy and he loved Riddle, and they
Speaker 1: hugged and the people were just so full of joy.
Speaker 1: They break these guys up anytime soon, I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: so mad. But they haven't yet, everybody, so I'm not
Speaker 1: taking that away from the show. It was a great moment.
Speaker 1: We had Bianca bell Air and Sonya Deville and they
Speaker 1: went forty five seconds to account out. Then, of course
Speaker 1: Sony Deville has management, so she restarted the match with
Speaker 1: no countouts. Then they went fifty two seconds to a
Speaker 1: d Q when she had Bianca with a chair, then
Speaker 1: she's management, so she announced it is no d Q.
Speaker 1: And so since it's no d Q, I mean, the
Speaker 1: heels just started running in and and they were triple
Speaker 1: teaming Bianca Taylor. Now, why Bianca has no friends in
Speaker 1: her hometown, that's uh, that's another matter entirely. But she
Speaker 1: overcame the odds in her hometown. She beat up three wrestlers,
Speaker 1: she sent the two outsiders packing, she hit her finishing
Speaker 1: move on Sony Deville, she pinned her, retained the title,
Speaker 1: and everybody in her hometown was so happy. It worked,
Speaker 1: and I liked it. We had an edge in Damian
Speaker 1: Priest segment and as I've said before, I have no
Speaker 1: idea what Edge is talking about, and I don't like
Speaker 1: these promos, and he's a thousand times better as a
Speaker 1: baby face. But I don't know what it was. But
Speaker 1: he had a delivery on this one where I actually
Speaker 1: briefly became compelled. I thought he did a good job.
Speaker 1: I still don't know what he's talking about, but this
Speaker 1: was of all of the Edge promos he has done
Speaker 1: backstage with Damian Priest, this was the best. But I
Speaker 1: still don't know what's going on. Vir Mahan beat Sam
Speaker 1: of the Smothers Brothers. He was killed in thirty six seconds,
Speaker 1: just a squashed to get the guy over. They did
Speaker 1: the arm wrestling match, and as noted, they went back
Speaker 1: and forth. They they they did a fake real arm
Speaker 1: wrestling match, and in the end Bobby Lashly won. He
Speaker 1: put the guy's hand down and he won, and then
Speaker 1: of course he's celebrating, he gets jumped by Omas. They
Speaker 1: beat him up. They they dropped the table on him.
Speaker 1: They're having a match of the pay per view and
Speaker 1: it ain't gonna be good. But this was not your
Speaker 1: your totally typical arm wrestling trope. It was at least
Speaker 1: we got a winner before they turned the table over
Speaker 1: on the guy. We had a mixed tag match with
Speaker 1: Truth is referee. It's his way to try to get
Speaker 1: all these couples. You know they're they're they're unhappily married.
Speaker 1: I got married a week ago. So they do the
Speaker 1: match here and uh a cure to Zawa, pins Reggie
Speaker 1: and Bro. He did the biggest cent on. It was
Speaker 1: like if if Montez four decided he was gonna do
Speaker 1: a cent on. So how it jumped so high and
Speaker 1: pin Reggie in a minute thirty one and then Truth
Speaker 1: tells Dana, you know the match is over, you know,
Speaker 1: get out of this ring before someone takes your title.
Speaker 1: He then rolls her up, and because he's the referee,
Speaker 1: he tries to count his own pin like it's the
Speaker 1: y WF. But she kicks out, goes running and this
Speaker 1: must continue. We had a Becky Lynch promo like her
Speaker 1: and Seth are too smart people, but like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're thinking with these gimmicks. She's got this
Speaker 1: outfit on, she's all depressed. Her life means nothing without
Speaker 1: this belt. Her gimmick cause she's a new mother, but
Speaker 1: her life means nothing without this belt, like, dude, I'm
Speaker 1: a dad. I don't buy this for a second. So
Speaker 1: she's all sad and then whose music should hit? Oh? Her,
Speaker 1: her whole storyline. Get this, I've hit rock bottom. Now
Speaker 1: I can fight my way back to the top. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know what a storyline is. It will really hook
Speaker 1: those viewers. Is the hated heel fighting their way back
Speaker 1: from below. So anyway, Oscar's music hits, she makes her
Speaker 1: big return. She dances down to the ring places going nuts.
Speaker 1: She cuts a promo I will stop you. Nobody is
Speaker 1: ready for Oscar. Fans love it. She flicks Becky in
Speaker 1: the nose. Becky takes a swing, Oscar avoids it. She
Speaker 1: takes a swing. Becky bales. I thought it was a
Speaker 1: good segment, mostly because Oscar returned. But I thought it
Speaker 1: was all right. And then we had Damian Priest beating Finnbalor.
Speaker 1: Match was good, but then the finish, of course it
Speaker 1: is raw. So they're having this good match. And then
Speaker 1: edges all the way up on the on the ramp.
Speaker 1: He's he's hundred yards away, sitting in this goofy throne.
Speaker 1: He stands up. Finn Valor is distracted by height and
Speaker 1: he is hit with a choked slam and this new
Speaker 1: flat Lander gimmick and he is pinned. I don't know
Speaker 1: if future is bright for old Finn Valory here unless
Speaker 1: you go on the YouTube chat. Then they're sure he's staying.
Speaker 1: He would never leave MS TV with theory. It's MMS
Speaker 1: in theory. The first five minutes of this was the
Speaker 1: biggest load of trash on this show by a significant margin.
Speaker 1: God help me, austin theory and miss going over Mrs
Speaker 1: Resume Bro, if I never hear Mrs Resume again, it'll
Speaker 1: be too soon. I am so sick. I'm hearing this guy.
Speaker 1: I got it. Okay, it's it's a big time go away.
Speaker 1: Turn the channel heat at this point, So finally who
Speaker 1: shall return? But Ali Ali is back. They make fun
Speaker 1: of him for, you know, wanting to take his ball
Speaker 1: and go home, and he wants a shot at at
Speaker 1: at theory. But you know, Miss says blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: so theory challenges ms. MS says, dude, I can't just
Speaker 1: make matches, so theory goes. I just Texteddvince. He said
Speaker 1: the matches on Mrs Furious, but in fact they have
Speaker 1: the match. It's Mustafa Ali versus Miss. And I'm a
Speaker 1: big critic of Miss, especially in the ring, and granted
Speaker 1: this was you know, he was in there with musev Ali,
Speaker 1: but this was the best mismatch. I can't remember the
Speaker 1: last singles match Miss had was this good. He was working,
Speaker 1: they went up and down, they had psychology, the I mean,
Speaker 1: this was a This was a legitimate, very good mismatch,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't all the other guy. It may have
Speaker 1: been largely the other guy, but MS. This is one
Speaker 1: of those matches where MS totally held up his end
Speaker 1: of the show and he did a good job and
Speaker 1: he got pinned clean in the middle off a figure
Speaker 1: four reversal and Ali won. Ali returned and one, and
Speaker 1: then he got laid out by Chompa, whose real first
Speaker 1: name is in fact Tomaso, so he is no longer
Speaker 1: Tamaso Champa. He is now just Chompa. Rea Ripley promo.
Speaker 1: She actually asked a good question, are you ready to
Speaker 1: tell us why you did this? And we had a
Speaker 1: good answer. Dude, I showed up here as a single star,
Speaker 1: I won the women's title, then I get and I
Speaker 1: end up in the tag division, and dude, I'm just
Speaker 1: getting beaten right and left, and my partner's don't hold
Speaker 1: up there into the bargain, so I couldn't take it anymore.
Speaker 1: Live shows up attack, sir. They had a brawl. There's
Speaker 1: a segment I cannot do justice too. But if you
Speaker 1: have this on your DVR, watch the segment with Chad Gable,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens, seth Rawlins, and the USOS as they all
Speaker 1: argue back and forth said ing up the main event tonight.
Speaker 1: They were all great in this segment and I greatly
Speaker 1: enjoyed it. And then we had the main event, which
Speaker 1: was Cody Rhodes, Ezekiel, Randy Jordan Riddle against Rawlins, Owens
Speaker 1: and the us OS. This was the closer you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in w W E to uh. How a w
Speaker 1: has their their party match every night. So the party match.
Speaker 1: Everybody got in there. They got to do their spots,
Speaker 1: they got to shine all the big spots. At the end,
Speaker 1: baby faces, they take out all of those uh, all
Speaker 1: of those heels, one by one by one ends up
Speaker 1: with and whoso in the ring he gets the r
Speaker 1: k oh off the middle rope pinned in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring. Randy Ordon celebrates on his twentieth anniversary show.
Speaker 1: I like this raw a lot. Am I the only one?
Speaker 1: I realized that the show normally sucks. I realized that
Speaker 1: when you compare this to like an actual great wrestling show,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like that good. But man, I thought this
Speaker 1: was a good show. I enjoyed the three hours and
Speaker 1: I liked it, and I won't hear otherwise. Are there
Speaker 1: a bunch of people flooding your timeline and your mentions
Speaker 1: and your emails? I don't care how it was good?
Speaker 1: What do you think about Becky's makeup? And dude, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with the haircut. I thought
Speaker 1: that look good. I'm now the whole outfit. She's been
Speaker 1: with her man too much. They don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you. I'm gonna give you a I'm gonna
Speaker 1: give you a secret. Becky Lynch is objectively a beautiful woman,
Speaker 1: and so you actually can do anything with her hair
Speaker 1: and she's going to look good. That's why. That's why
Speaker 1: when you look at a catalog, you know they got
Speaker 1: all these clothes, or you know, you go and you
Speaker 1: flip through that thing at the barber, Oh, what haircut
Speaker 1: is gonna look good. Well, that haircut may not look
Speaker 1: good on you. They found a good looking person to
Speaker 1: put that haircut on. Stay with clothes. I'll talk more
Speaker 1: about beauty after the Breaking Observer Live. Of course, I'm
Speaker 1: not actually gonna talk about beauty on this show. I
Speaker 1: cannot I cannot believe how attacked people are the idea
Speaker 1: that Raw was a good show or that I liked it.
Speaker 1: They're attacked. What do you think I do in my life?
Speaker 1: I'm miserable all day. I'm a happy guy. Literally, My
Speaker 1: only pain is doing my job. Ch happens to be
Speaker 1: most of my life. And I had a great time today.
Speaker 1: I watched I watched those impact matches, you know, coming
Speaker 1: off a good Raw last night, and you know, I'm happy.
Speaker 1: I don't think you are a horrible front. People are
Speaker 1: so appalled. I didn't talk about nothing but lousy segments.
Speaker 1: They were. They were good segments one after the other.
Speaker 1: Some good stuff on there. And I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you're writing yourself for all the influx of people
Speaker 1: who want to discuss Becky Lynch talking about the a
Speaker 1: W Women's division, have to talk about legitimate, like no
Speaker 1: problem segments on the show for people to actually believe me.
Speaker 1: Sure well, I mean the opening segment, there was something
Speaker 1: wrong with it. It was very by the numbers, But
Speaker 1: I liked it. Liked Randy, you know, I liked Bianca
Speaker 1: winning and overcoming all the odds in her hometown. That
Speaker 1: was good. I I even liked Edge. Did you like
Speaker 1: Sonia slapping the hell out of Carmela? And oh we
Speaker 1: can I'll get into that in a second. Forget I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, to mean in a cure to Zawa versus
Speaker 1: Dana and Reggie. That was harmless and I had a
Speaker 1: great finish. That sent on was awesome, Oscar's return was great.
Speaker 1: And I swear to God that mismatch. I was so
Speaker 1: impressed with Miss in that match. And obviously Ali was great,
Speaker 1: But you know, I've seen a million matches. Everyone misses
Speaker 1: in the ring with is better than him. So I've
Speaker 1: seen a million matches where like, it was good, but
Speaker 1: it was all the other person. This was not all
Speaker 1: the other person. MS was really good in this match.
Speaker 1: What do you think about Ali? You're gonna lie about
Speaker 1: the miss of all people? What do you think about
Speaker 1: Ali getting the win and then getting laid out? Do
Speaker 1: you think they're gonna do something like, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why it was weird. Don't tell you why
Speaker 1: it was weird because the way they did the segment,
Speaker 1: I thought that Ali was going to be next in
Speaker 1: line for Theory and then he had to go like
Speaker 1: go through miss first. So he goes through the miss
Speaker 1: and then like he'll be fine a Theory laid him
Speaker 1: out or whatever, but Chomper laid him out. So what
Speaker 1: do you want with any of this? Well, do you
Speaker 1: think it's gonna end up in a three way? And
Speaker 1: I see any of the things that they've done, I
Speaker 1: know they do. They film things for w W dot
Speaker 1: com and all that afterwards, and maybe somebody talked to
Speaker 1: Chompa and he made things more clear. But it's like
Speaker 1: I could see them actually going with a three way there,
Speaker 1: you know, and having singles matches because well, you're right,
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. The pay per view, the go
Speaker 1: home show is next week. So it would be one
Speaker 1: thing if we had like four weeks for the pay
Speaker 1: per view, and you could do a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: to build a three way, like why not do Theory
Speaker 1: against Ali and then you know, whoever wins or chump
Speaker 1: can run in during the pay per view match and
Speaker 1: then you do the thing to set up a three
Speaker 1: way later. Why would you start with the three way? Well,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm wondering if because Chomper can say I'm
Speaker 1: here and it's great that you're back, but I want
Speaker 1: to beat up that kid who I should should have
Speaker 1: beaten up more in n x T and they do
Speaker 1: it that way and I and I know what you're saying,
Speaker 1: and you're exactly right, but I don't think that that
Speaker 1: affects there. There there's no time constraints on them. They
Speaker 1: can have a match with two people for that title.
Speaker 1: But this story really just kicking off now. I mean,
Speaker 1: backlash is just a stop on in that story if
Speaker 1: you wanted to go in that direction, which again, don't
Speaker 1: know what they're going to do here, but I know
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are happy I'll lease back.
Speaker 1: I'm happy I'll lease back. I love watching him, but
Speaker 1: you know I'm sitting here with tempered expectations right now.
Speaker 1: So he had an interview with FTR with Renee about
Speaker 1: the rumors that w E wants them back and uh
Speaker 1: and Dax says, I think we know about as much
Speaker 1: as everyone else does. We left that place because they
Speaker 1: didn't put a focus on tag team wrestling. We knew
Speaker 1: there was a ceiling to where we could go in
Speaker 1: the company. We wanted to do more. We wanted to
Speaker 1: be known as the greatest tag team of all time,
Speaker 1: and we had to leave there to do that. I
Speaker 1: told Tony, because obviously he heard about it. I told
Speaker 1: him there's no way we would ever talk contracts with
Speaker 1: anybody while we were working for him. We have way
Speaker 1: too much respect for him, and our word means something.
Speaker 1: He continued to speculate as to why w W would
Speaker 1: want to bring them back. He says, I started thinking,
Speaker 1: this is Dax. Do they want us or do they
Speaker 1: want a w not to have us? I think I
Speaker 1: can answer that question, rold Ax. It's cool for Cody
Speaker 1: to do what he's done. There's so many unknowns there.
Speaker 1: Would they ever focus on take Team Russling the way
Speaker 1: we've been able to the last two years. I think
Speaker 1: we all know the answer to that one. I don't
Speaker 1: know how much has changed there as far as what
Speaker 1: we wanted to take Team Russling to be. Now we're
Speaker 1: getting to show everybody would take Team Rustling could be
Speaker 1: and what our vision of it is. He commented on
Speaker 1: the match at Supercard of Honor against the Briscoes. I
Speaker 1: told Cash after the match was over, that was our
Speaker 1: Brett Austin. I don't know if we'll ever have a
Speaker 1: better match than that one. That's okay with me. I
Speaker 1: can hang my hat on that. I can hang my
Speaker 1: hat on that whole week, me and the or them
Speaker 1: in the Bucks match, but specifically that match, I can
Speaker 1: hang my proverbial. So basically, for those of you, which
Speaker 1: match was better, I think you and I agreed the
Speaker 1: Briscoes match. They are undoubtedly saying the match with the
Speaker 1: Briscos was a better match than the match with the
Speaker 1: Bucks that they had on Dynamite, And he talks about
Speaker 1: how they want to be two time a W two
Speaker 1: team champions. Until then or after then, we want the
Speaker 1: i W g P tag team titles that would solidify
Speaker 1: them he believes as the greatest tag team of all time.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Yeah, well, look they want to
Speaker 1: be a tag team. And there wouldn't be an own
Speaker 1: Hard Cup if they were in w W E and
Speaker 1: they were facing off against each other, and mean, they
Speaker 1: were splitting up, and that's something that they're not gonna do.
Speaker 1: And look, professional wrestling has not been fair to tag
Speaker 1: teams for fifty years, the fifties, you know, seventy years,
Speaker 1: you know, the last time tag teams would really main
Speaker 1: event territories. Yeah, the Carolinas did its sixties into the seventies,
Speaker 1: but it's just not something that modern promoters really want
Speaker 1: to put on that pedestal, not even a w Once
Speaker 1: in a while they'll do that. But you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: when you have CM Punk and Hangman Page and Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega and all those guys, you know that takes precedent.
Speaker 1: Those singles matches take precedent. But they're in the best
Speaker 1: place now that they can possibly be. If if if
Speaker 1: a W allows them to continue to go out and
Speaker 1: take indie bookings, which they have, and continue to go
Speaker 1: face teams like the Briscoes and face other teams who
Speaker 1: are out there, you know, that's always going to be
Speaker 1: the best place for them. And if it's not there,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be another independent because it certainly won't be
Speaker 1: w W E. And I think I talked about this
Speaker 1: yesterday or a couple of days ago. I mean that
Speaker 1: the thought of them going over to New Japan, the
Speaker 1: thought of them against Oh, I don't know dangerous Tackers
Speaker 1: or really anybody because they're so great. I mean, I
Speaker 1: hope that happens, I really do. We have a Dynamite
Speaker 1: coming up on Wednesday on Disputed Elite versus Varsity Blonde
Speaker 1: Dante Martin, Lee Johnson and Brock Anderson, Sammy versus Scorpio
Speaker 1: Sky Ladder Match, Owen Hart Foundation, Dax Harwood, Cash Wheeler,
Speaker 1: c HM, punk On Commentary and Sartro versus Wardlow and
Speaker 1: a Kutasheea Serena Deep in a street fight Rampage on
Speaker 1: Friday five or eighteen thousand viewers of seven and a
Speaker 1: precented viewers, but just a point nineteen in eighteen forty nine,
Speaker 1: which given the competition was only down, but they had
Speaker 1: a big gain in people over fifty over fifty folks
Speaker 1: chose wrestling over the NBA SmackDown, also down one point
Speaker 1: nine five two million viewers. You know, many times there's
Speaker 1: been like a rampage or or Dynamite up against some
Speaker 1: NBA competition or whatever, and the show suffers as a result.
Speaker 1: And you know, my buddy's a w W E glowed
Speaker 1: and laugh where those guys when SmackDown is one point
Speaker 1: nine million view it's a horrible viewership. But of course
Speaker 1: it's because of the NBA. That's all right, what happens
Speaker 1: to w w E, but man when happens anyway. Lowest
Speaker 1: audience for a Fox aaring since July nine of last
Speaker 1: year point four seven. Lowest number for a Fox airing
Speaker 1: going back to the July Ship must be sinking or
Speaker 1: it was. The NBA probably effected all wrestling shows promoted
Speaker 1: by all folks. It's almost like there's a must be
Speaker 1: something to this whole thing with life sports, A music
Speaker 1: superstar Bad Bunny as opposed to the annoying rabbit digging
Speaker 1: up your carrots. Outside music, superstar Bad Bunny is putting
Speaker 1: his progressing training to use for an upcoming movie role.
Speaker 1: He will start in the Spider Man spinoff movie El Muerto,
Speaker 1: which will be released January four. The Elmerto character is
Speaker 1: a quote superpowered wrestler. It is amazing, it is incredible.
Speaker 1: I love wrestling, said Bunny about playing elm Werto the Dead.
Speaker 1: I grew up watching wrestling, and I am a wrestler.
Speaker 1: I'm a former champion, So this is why I love
Speaker 1: this character. I think it is a perfect rule. I
Speaker 1: Hope on his resume. He put w W seven Champion,
Speaker 1: like I put Death of w c W on my
Speaker 1: acting resume. In two thousand five, elm Morta will be
Speaker 1: the first Latino Marvel character to get their own live
Speaker 1: action film. Congratulations to bad Bunny, and yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: where he's come from, and as big as he's gotten
Speaker 1: and as much as he's crossed over. I am. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: It's absolutely crazy, it really is. Congratulations down all right,
Speaker 1: let's look at the feedback here you'd like to Texas.
Speaker 1: Four to five seven eight zero seven five six six
Speaker 1: is the phone number and is four to five seven
Speaker 1: eight zero seven five s six Brian, please make a
Speaker 1: bird whistle or a link in morse code, Evince or
Speaker 1: someone at w W E as you hostage right now?
Speaker 1: He actually believes all this, folks, What what makes you
Speaker 1: not believe that he believes all of this? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: didn't you watch the show? There's funny worse raw shows.
Speaker 1: I am accused of being biased every day of my life,
Speaker 1: and then here I am enjoying raw and people presume
Speaker 1: I've been kidnapped? Are you an alien? Do I have
Speaker 1: to put on my vailib glasses to make sure that's
Speaker 1: you do it. It wouldn't be the weirdest thing you've
Speaker 1: worn on this show. I didn't take you started to
Speaker 1: have some good matches later on in his career. Kine
Speaker 1: was a solid giant. I'm not sure if those guys
Speaker 1: were seven foot or not. Yeah, they weren't. They weren't anything.
Speaker 1: They were both safe workers. I've heard other wrestlers put
Speaker 1: them over. Yeah they were. It's one of the most
Speaker 1: important things besides selling about being a giant being safe.
Speaker 1: We think about Sid Dude. I loved Sid Guilty Pleasure.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a great worker. Six six. I think legit,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess he wasn't really Berry Windham,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm black Jack Mulligan was. His father was
Speaker 1: like legit six seven or whatever it was. And he
Speaker 1: was way up there too. And you know, if there's anybody,
Speaker 1: and granted, you gotta have the athleticism, you gotta have
Speaker 1: the genes and all that sort of stuff, But Barry
Speaker 1: Windham is the ultimate example of a big man. I mean,
Speaker 1: who could work tiny. We talk a lot about small
Speaker 1: guys who make themselves big. You know, Randy Savage is
Speaker 1: a great example of that. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: guys like that. He is like that. Dalton Castle in
Speaker 1: some ways is like that because of the flash, because
Speaker 1: of what they can do physically makes them seem that
Speaker 1: much bigger. But it's always amazing that those big guys
Speaker 1: who could actually work, and there are very few of
Speaker 1: them over, you know, legitimately six five six six, it's like,
Speaker 1: how many of those guys really could work? Not many,
Speaker 1: But Barry Windham is the one to watch, Happy Alvarez
Speaker 1: and mad Mike's about what it is. It's about what
Speaker 1: it is here today. Oh no, no, except you ever
Speaker 1: rock the Mike an't got that physique, shure, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't have that as athleticism. But you
Speaker 1: talk about Moose, you know, he's been in this game
Speaker 1: now a long time, and Rick Moss, Mojo Rawleigh. That's
Speaker 1: why Jim Ross and a lot of people for years,
Speaker 1: that's why they want to go get football players. They're big,
Speaker 1: they're athletic, but it's just you know some of that
Speaker 1: better uh times than others trying to transition over. I
Speaker 1: have more in comment or a common with this soul
Speaker 1: Corbin than And he even realized when he banned me?
Speaker 1: What did they call it when you blocked me on block? Yeah?
Speaker 1: What a whimper? Back in a moment, it was ever
Speaker 1: live back of the show. Bran Alvarez here wrestling Observer live,
Speaker 1: Mike Simper vv Yeah, what where were you? It's busy.
Speaker 1: Just flew into the last second there, and I had
Speaker 1: to bring it to everybody's attention, even though they would
Speaker 1: not have known otherwise. I was. I was doing the
Speaker 1: forty because you said I wasn't as physically fit as
Speaker 1: Reddick Moss. So I just ran the forty and us
Speaker 1: looks like that he's running the forty. It's all about comparison.
Speaker 1: As the person says that in third grade, that one
Speaker 1: kid who was over five ft tall and weighs over
Speaker 1: a hundred pounds is gonna look like a giant on
Speaker 1: the playground. The dude just has to be bigger than
Speaker 1: everyone else. Thank you, thank you. This person knows what
Speaker 1: they're talking about. Only if they can work what's the
Speaker 1: point being a big hit on the playground. If you can't,
Speaker 1: you can't work it. You can't fight the same thing
Speaker 1: within the ring. That's what problem with all these giants.
Speaker 1: And I understand you wanna appease to a market. I
Speaker 1: get that, but for God's sakes, you know all these
Speaker 1: guys over the years, how many of them lasted? How
Speaker 1: many of them were even worth it for a little bit?
Speaker 1: Very few? For example, this person says, Voulter is a
Speaker 1: legit six four and he has had his best when
Speaker 1: he has portrayed as a world destroying, indestructible giant. It
Speaker 1: can be done, of course it can. Of course it
Speaker 1: can be done. Anything can be done if you wanted
Speaker 1: to be in wrestling. And by the way, yes this
Speaker 1: is a correction. I can't believe I didn't remember this.
Speaker 1: Carmelins Lena did break up a second time right before
Speaker 1: Carmelo went on her honeymoon, and then they were just
Speaker 1: randomly back together after the honeymoon. So they must have
Speaker 1: talked to Pacific five East or Landstorm, everybody, we'll talk impact,
Speaker 1: we'll talk raw. I think he watched them of raw
Speaker 1: aw and a bunch of other stuff as well. So
Speaker 1: to Pacific five Eastern Video dot f W online dot com.
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Speaker 1: that out, and then said, everybody will talk to you
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