Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going? Everybody? Brian Alvarez
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Speaker 1: Sunday Street Pacific sixth Eastern. Oh, we got a lot
Speaker 1: to get into here today it is Thursday here on
Speaker 1: the program, and uh, and a lot to get into you.
Speaker 1: Last night, a W Dynamite and a lot of Angles
Speaker 1: shot a lot of storylines leading for their pay per
Speaker 1: view coming up at the end of the month, which
Speaker 1: we will be attending. I might add, we'll tell you
Speaker 1: about a W Dynamite n x T two point oh
Speaker 1: ratings from Wednesday nights we got some more all time
Speaker 1: record lows, which, of course, if you're a fan of
Speaker 1: women's professional wrestling, that's bad news because that was an
Speaker 1: all women's show. Every single match on the show featured
Speaker 1: women and did a record low number. We've also got
Speaker 1: notes on the A W. Warner media relationship. We have
Speaker 1: got an update on Coda a bushe and uh, this
Speaker 1: is not looking good. For Coda Abushi. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that here today Roman Reigns. We talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about the idea that he is peering down his
Speaker 1: schedule this summer, and in fact he is perhaps not
Speaker 1: is uh, perhaps not is dramatically as we had thought,
Speaker 1: but still fairly dramatic. And uh, there's a key to
Speaker 1: this that's more than just him being off shows. We've
Speaker 1: got n x T returning to touring, more n I
Speaker 1: L Deals, Hikaru Shida, and plenty more. So, if you're
Speaker 1: hoping for frivolity on this show, ain't gonna get it.
Speaker 1: Alison didn't sleep at all last night. Whatever illness I had,
Speaker 1: I still got in here. And my daughter didn't sleep
Speaker 1: at all last night. So it's been rough, don't you
Speaker 1: know what. I'm here and so are you. And so
Speaker 1: when we come back from the break, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: in all of this news. Four to five zero seven,
Speaker 1: five six six back in a moment more Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
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Speaker 1: the show Bright Albare is here. Wrestling Observer Live, Mike
Speaker 1: simber VIVI also wrestling Observe dot Com. I try to
Speaker 1: tell you, but it was too late. I got a buzz,
Speaker 1: not the right kind of buzz either. You're exactly right.
Speaker 1: You know what kind of buzz I need right now,
Speaker 1: A night cool buzz. This is miserable. Why did you
Speaker 1: give this to me? How did you give me your
Speaker 1: sickness that not only now won't go away, that is
Speaker 1: infecting your family again. How did this happen? I I
Speaker 1: don't know. It's not affecting them again, the issues that
Speaker 1: won't go away. Yeah, you switched to the other channel
Speaker 1: while I get going on all this stuff right here? Alright,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we got a lot of news to get
Speaker 1: into here today. So I mean the first story I
Speaker 1: want to get into the kind of talked about this
Speaker 1: a W discovery thing and what does it mean? And uh, well,
Speaker 1: we don't know. But one of the major players that
Speaker 1: helped a E W expand within Warner Media is leaving
Speaker 1: the company. Deadline first reported Wednesday. Brett White's general manager
Speaker 1: of T and T, t B S and True TV,
Speaker 1: will be transitioning out of his role within the next
Speaker 1: month after fourteen years within Turner might spend himself with
Speaker 1: that position. Following the Warner Media Discovery merger took over
Speaker 1: as GM when a W launched on TNT helped the
Speaker 1: guide subsequent expansion with the Rampage and Battle of the Belt,
Speaker 1: in addition to reviving the John Cena led wipeout on TBS.
Speaker 1: New environment within the new Warner Brothers Discovery corporate environment
Speaker 1: to be shaken up due to the fallout from the
Speaker 1: recently approved merger. So again, what does this mean? We
Speaker 1: don't know, but I can tell you some facts. This
Speaker 1: guy's gone. He helped with the expansion of a W.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean a W is being canceled, but obviously,
Speaker 1: obviously objectively factually, it certainly would have been better if
Speaker 1: he had been promoted instead of fired. Now, you guys
Speaker 1: remember the A O L. Time Warner merger and ultimately
Speaker 1: the death of w CW and all of the people
Speaker 1: that were booking and et cetera with WCW. They have
Speaker 1: laid all the blame on the A O L. Time
Speaker 1: Warner merger because they can't blame themselves. I mean, they could,
Speaker 1: but they don't, and so it's all the fault of
Speaker 1: the merger. Well, What happened was they booked the company
Speaker 1: into oblivion and it was bleeding millions and millions and
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars of sixty five million dollars
Speaker 1: had lost in a year. Okay, so yeah, if you
Speaker 1: if you do a merger and you hire a guy
Speaker 1: who doesn't like wrestling and the wrestling shows bleeding money,
Speaker 1: yeah it gets canceled. Now, a few years earlier, the
Speaker 1: BCW is grossing a hundred million dollars a year, which
Speaker 1: back then that was the most lucrative wrestling company in
Speaker 1: history of the planet Earth. And given we don't know
Speaker 1: if there's alien life and the history of this universe,
Speaker 1: no company had ever been more lucrative than World Championship.
Speaker 1: I was talking w WF in the eighties with Hogan nothing. Ever,
Speaker 1: they were number one in history. Now, if there had
Speaker 1: been a merger then I mean, there's no guarantee that
Speaker 1: they would have been canceled because they would have been
Speaker 1: making money. So Rampage and Dynamite are doing very very
Speaker 1: well given the time slot, what they're what is being
Speaker 1: paid for the programming, etcetera. So there may very well
Speaker 1: be people within a Well or UH Warner Media here
Speaker 1: that don't like wrestling, but it's a business, and if
Speaker 1: the wrestling is doing well, it doesn't matter if they
Speaker 1: don't like wrestling or not. If they're here to do business,
Speaker 1: then a w is gonna be fine. They may even
Speaker 1: get a better deal. But that's not a guarantee. Not
Speaker 1: a guarantee they'll get the same money. None of this
Speaker 1: is a guarantee. So we'll see what happens. But that
Speaker 1: is the that is the latest shake up with this
Speaker 1: merger here. What it is a guarantee in life, Brian,
Speaker 1: nothing that I'm sick that's guaranteed. Actually it is Koda
Speaker 1: bush So. I talked about Coda Bushy. He's gonna take over.
Speaker 1: When it comes time for a w to make a move,
Speaker 1: he's gonna make his bid. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff out there about Koda Bushi. You know what I am?
Speaker 1: What's that? I'm a man of facts, Okay, So I'm
Speaker 1: only gonna tell you what I'm I'm pretty confident is
Speaker 1: is going on here. He's on Twitter. That is the fact.
Speaker 1: This guy probably needs to get off Twitter here. So
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of translations of tweets and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go into any of those because they're just
Speaker 1: they're all over the place, all right. But I do
Speaker 1: know this, as I meant it a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: He doesn't like them attempting to force him to come
Speaker 1: back and work hurt okay, And part of the story
Speaker 1: that I don't think it's been talked about by anybody
Speaker 1: is do you remember the G One last year? Bro,
Speaker 1: This guy was the walking wounded. He was hurting in
Speaker 1: that g One and uh, and didn't matter. They wanted
Speaker 1: him to work the g One. And Uh, this issue
Speaker 1: that he's had, I mean, I don't know how far
Speaker 1: it dates back, but it dates back at least to
Speaker 1: the G One and maybe further back. So he was
Speaker 1: just like he was in bad shape during the g One,
Speaker 1: and uh, there was there was a lot of there
Speaker 1: were issues between the two sides because of that. They
Speaker 1: wanted him in the g One and uh he was hurting,
Speaker 1: but he did the g One because that's what they wanted,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, he then went on and uh
Speaker 1: injured his shoulder. And I think that, you know, there's
Speaker 1: probably a lot of blame in his brain for that one. Like, Bro,
Speaker 1: I didn't even want to work this g One you
Speaker 1: guys made me work this g one. You made me
Speaker 1: do all this one I don't want to. And then
Speaker 1: I got hurt, and then he gets hurt, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it was a separated shoulder. And
Speaker 1: you know, I can talk quite a bit about separated
Speaker 1: shoulders because I separated both of mind wrestling. And when
Speaker 1: he talked about bench pressing, I never bench pressed as
Speaker 1: much as a bush. He did, okay, but uh, for
Speaker 1: a while there, I could bench a lot. I could
Speaker 1: bench to eighty and I separated my shoulder and I
Speaker 1: could not bench that bar for a long time. And uh,
Speaker 1: he actually need a tweet literally saying the exact same
Speaker 1: thing I used to bench. I think he said like
Speaker 1: three pounds or something like that. Now I'm I'm benching like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a little bit more than the bar. He
Speaker 1: has no strength. His shoulder is nowhere near recovered. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you separate your shoulder. It's serious. And
Speaker 1: they've been trying to get him come back. He doesn't
Speaker 1: want to come back. And I think, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but these puzzle pieces together. This dude's already angry that
Speaker 1: he got hurt working a match. When he didn't want
Speaker 1: to work a match, and then as he's recovering and
Speaker 1: not recovered, they're trying to get him back again. So
Speaker 1: that's one of the that's one of that's that's perhaps
Speaker 1: the crux of the issue. And then this guy's just
Speaker 1: gotten nuts on Twitter, okay, and uh so he was
Speaker 1: talking about this uh Cokuchie guy that he claims is
Speaker 1: uh the booker, and uh, you know, everyone's been under
Speaker 1: the oppression that Ghetto is the booker. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what's going on. I'm not gonna lie. Okay,
Speaker 1: Dave says that Ghetto is still the booker and as
Speaker 1: of just not that long ago. I mean, if Ghetto
Speaker 1: wasn't the booker, then the wrestlers didn't know about it,
Speaker 1: because I had wrestlers talking to me about how Ghetto
Speaker 1: was the booker. Now I talked to somebody in Japan
Speaker 1: who told me that when a bushi actually said, is
Speaker 1: Cokuchi is a booker, not the booker. And so I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means if he's in charge of
Speaker 1: this or that or whatever, but it appears that this
Speaker 1: Cookuchie is doing something and it wasn't supposed to come out,
Speaker 1: and so Ibushi coming out with this, and then you
Speaker 1: know a bunch of other stuff that that he has
Speaker 1: said on on Twitter. Uh, you know, I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not over there. People over there no way more
Speaker 1: than me about the culture. But I was told by
Speaker 1: somebody who is there all the time, very connected, that
Speaker 1: this isn't like America, where you know, Cody goes on TV,
Speaker 1: he says a bunch of stuff about w W and
Speaker 1: he buries hbody ridicules him. But then his contract comes
Speaker 1: up and they're like, bro, we want this guy and
Speaker 1: they hire him. Okay, that's not Japan. The exact wording
Speaker 1: I was told was he's burned his bridges, as in
Speaker 1: not just like New Japan. And I find it hard
Speaker 1: to believe that nobody would want to hire Code of Bushi.
Speaker 1: But the culture of Japan is you don't do stuff
Speaker 1: like this. This is a no no, you do not
Speaker 1: reveal things. And he did, and so there's kind of
Speaker 1: this feeling that you know, he may be done. Do
Speaker 1: I believe the Code of Bushi is never wrestling again.
Speaker 1: I find that hard to believe. But suffice to say,
Speaker 1: this is a this is not good at this point
Speaker 1: for Coda Bushy. So anyway, we'll getting Mike Stots and
Speaker 1: talk more about the news after the break Observer Live
Speaker 1: back in the show, Bright now Bre is here, Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Alive, Mike Sumburvivie also have Wrestling Serve the company.
Speaker 1: I would just like to make it a budget clear
Speaker 1: since a lot of people have asked on the on
Speaker 1: the chat and he's on the show all the time.
Speaker 1: I've heard zero zilch from Rocky Romero, nothing and I
Speaker 1: would bet if I asked him he would have no
Speaker 1: idea what's going on. But and this is someone over
Speaker 1: in Japan who is very well connected, who quite frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody listened to this way have any
Speaker 1: idea who this is. So it's not just some random
Speaker 1: wrestler talking about what they've heard. But anyway, and actually
Speaker 1: it's from uh two different people in fact, not just one.
Speaker 1: So anything you want to add or should we just
Speaker 1: move on here? The Havam like Big Audio Nightmare, which
Speaker 1: is available for subscribers at Wrestling Observer dot com, talk
Speaker 1: a lot about this situation up until the point today.
Speaker 1: Because we recorded the show after Observer Alive yesterday, So
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about, uh, the entire situation with him,
Speaker 1: what he may have been intending to do, who Coochie
Speaker 1: is and in a little bit of that sort of stuff. Um.
Speaker 1: At this point though that doesn't really matter. He what
Speaker 1: the bottom line is is he is outright trying to
Speaker 1: get fired and he can now there are maybe things
Speaker 1: that are being translated that are being alleged that he
Speaker 1: may be saying that you know, would put a negative
Speaker 1: light on him wrestling anywhere in Japan, and he is
Speaker 1: being very outspoken. Now. He is a man with options.
Speaker 1: One of those big options is coming to the United
Speaker 1: States and going internationally and making money. Where Now that
Speaker 1: becomes an issue is the a W relationship with New Japan,
Speaker 1: the relationship with anybody who is that dealings with a
Speaker 1: Bushe that's going to be very very interesting because his
Speaker 1: best friend, you know, on that don't know these guys personally,
Speaker 1: but one of his best friends in the whole wide world,
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega, is the executive vice president with a W.
Speaker 1: For business reasons that have nothing to do with Japan,
Speaker 1: that have no bearing on AW whatsoever. They can say,
Speaker 1: we would like to bring in Coda, a Boushi and
Speaker 1: it would make sense, except how would New Japan feel
Speaker 1: about that? And there's where that whole can of worms
Speaker 1: gets really, really nasty, and where it now affects American
Speaker 1: wrestling fans were it affects this show mostly we'll talk
Speaker 1: about it in the big Audio nightmare when it comes
Speaker 1: to Japan, But when it comes to this show, it's
Speaker 1: now going to be the relationship between Uchapan and a
Speaker 1: W and Kota Obushi. And if he does leave, then
Speaker 1: what happens? They've given up dating Roman Rains last night.
Speaker 1: Rains is off the hell and his Cell pay per
Speaker 1: view will be wrestling at other pay per views this summer,
Speaker 1: and he will be doing some TV to be that's nice,
Speaker 1: nice to see. He'll be doing some angles to build
Speaker 1: up those matches. But yes, he's gonna be working far
Speaker 1: fewer dates and uh he's essentially gonna be doing the
Speaker 1: same number of dates that Lessner was doing when Lesnar
Speaker 1: was around, which was not very many dates. And uh me,
Speaker 1: congratulations on the deal, bro, I mean, it's all nice enough.
Speaker 1: I have nothing against Roman Reigns. Good for the guy,
Speaker 1: but Bro, so you guys did a unification match and
Speaker 1: you unified the two main titles into one title, and
Speaker 1: now the guy is never gonna be around. Even when
Speaker 1: Lessner was never around, you had the other champion. So
Speaker 1: essentially we've iced, We've iced the w w E and
Speaker 1: Universal championships, and now we rely on the US title.
Speaker 1: Who cares anyone know who the U S Champion is
Speaker 1: and we rely on the inter Continal championship. Anybody know
Speaker 1: who the inter Continal champion is? And yes it's actually
Speaker 1: Ricky Rickyche In theory, those are your top champions in
Speaker 1: w w E. As they attempt to sell tickets, Ricky
Speaker 1: Shane Page as the Intercontinental champion right now. They don't
Speaker 1: care about their belts. There props as part of the game.
Speaker 1: As long as Roman or Brock has got one or
Speaker 1: maybe Drew, it doesn't really matter. Well hold on his second.
Speaker 1: They do care about their belts because they had to
Speaker 1: have not They had to have a raw and a
Speaker 1: SmackDown World Champion. They had to have a raw and
Speaker 1: a SmackDown second. Why did they not unify these belts
Speaker 1: a long time ago? Because they felt, well, if we
Speaker 1: go on the road, we've got to have these championship matches.
Speaker 1: If we have a raw show and a SmackDown touring show.
Speaker 1: We have to have championship matches. They believe it was
Speaker 1: championship matches, but it was a weak argument from them
Speaker 1: because their championships, if you look at it on paper,
Speaker 1: didn't really mean anything. They would have the belt on
Speaker 1: guys sometimes, I mean your gender Mahal examples guys like
Speaker 1: that that like this isn't gonna benefit you going out
Speaker 1: on the road, that this person's you're champion of the
Speaker 1: fact that you have two belts. What would you rather
Speaker 1: see some geek with this belt or see Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: or brock Lessners. So it was a weak argument to
Speaker 1: begin with. I just at this point with how they
Speaker 1: run their business and the Muppet Show that they like
Speaker 1: to create this hybrid sports entertainment universe that that you know,
Speaker 1: saturates their fan base and makes them happy. I mean,
Speaker 1: let them do what they want. That's how they're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. That's how they feel about it. Fine, they
Speaker 1: don't need multiple belts, they don't need to try to
Speaker 1: fake push the US or i CE titles. I mean,
Speaker 1: we've gone through that how many times and you know
Speaker 1: where that always leads. So you know, it's nice to Hap. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the reality, Mike. You're not a w w E fan,
Speaker 1: You're not stand up for w w E. So I'm
Speaker 1: sure that yes, in in if you look at if
Speaker 1: you look at w w E the way you look
Speaker 1: at every other promotion, then you're right. But you this
Speaker 1: is the thing that like you, I had the big argument.
Speaker 1: I've had the argument from me, you're gonna try to
Speaker 1: tie ww together with a wrestling promotion. I've I've had
Speaker 1: this argument with people for like a month now about
Speaker 1: Cody and the usage of Cody, and I'm still hearing it.
Speaker 1: How badly they're using Cody. Cody's lost, he couldn't beat
Speaker 1: Theory and you know he wonld On, hold on, bro,
Speaker 1: if you go to the thread for any of our
Speaker 1: shows over and over and over again, Cody is not
Speaker 1: being used. Well, they've screwed up Cody. Blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and listen. This is a prime example of if you
Speaker 1: want to put on your new Japan glasses and watch
Speaker 1: w w E. If you want to put your a
Speaker 1: W glasses on and watch w w if you want
Speaker 1: to put your mid South glasses on and watch w Yeah,
Speaker 1: they haven't done a good job with Cody or anybody.
Speaker 1: But if you put your w w E glasses on
Speaker 1: and you'll go, oh, why don't we have to do
Speaker 1: you know, great w w on a cur Yeah, of
Speaker 1: course we do. Of course we have to grade w
Speaker 1: w E in a curve. And the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is the way that w w E books. They
Speaker 1: are doing a better job with Cody than anyone in
Speaker 1: the entire company outside of Roman Reigns, anybody. So yes,
Speaker 1: you have to grade on a and yes, if you
Speaker 1: look at it in a traditional manner, these belts are meaningless.
Speaker 1: These belts are useless. However, stand up for w w E.
Speaker 1: You deserve it. You still got it. Hey, everyone stand
Speaker 1: up and sing my song. I'm a heel. They do it. Okay,
Speaker 1: this audience, this audience, these belts means something. Why I
Speaker 1: don't know, but they performers. They're hard working. They deserve
Speaker 1: their belts to fens. They get into this stuff. I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but they knew. So the fact that
Speaker 1: we don't have a world champion, that it's gonna be
Speaker 1: working out shows, going to live events. It's ridiculous. You
Speaker 1: must have a champion, but they don't. You worked real
Speaker 1: hard to get around to get to that, and you
Speaker 1: brought Cody into it, and that was you have degrade
Speaker 1: on a curve. You have to look at w W
Speaker 1: either way. They're fans look at w W E, not
Speaker 1: how their non fans look at it. I don't know
Speaker 1: even what you were arguing there, like that these belts
Speaker 1: mean something to their fans. They're not meaningless Brian, but
Speaker 1: their fans Also if you said, here's this big story
Speaker 1: with these two people. Guess what. Romans not gonna be here,
Speaker 1: but Brock's going to be back for X show at
Speaker 1: this place and he's going to be facing this person
Speaker 1: with no title on the line. Would they care. They
Speaker 1: wouldn't care. They don't care her. They wouldn't care if
Speaker 1: Brock Lesser showed up at an out show. The fact
Speaker 1: that there's no title, they wouldn't care. TV and not
Speaker 1: having a championship. You're acting as if fans care about
Speaker 1: the U S or I C titles. They care about
Speaker 1: these titles. No, they don't, because the company that that
Speaker 1: that they love so much that they stand up for,
Speaker 1: they're just props in the game. So they just had
Speaker 1: a pay per view where they initially teased we're gonna
Speaker 1: whoever wins, they're gonna get all the belts. And then
Speaker 1: that quietly Gett went away and there were no titles
Speaker 1: on the line, and did anybody care. No, their fans
Speaker 1: didn't care at all. So the fact that they're not
Speaker 1: going to have a belt, who cares? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: This isn't a W now a W one on tour.
Speaker 1: And there were no Hangman page title defenses that would
Speaker 1: mean something like w W doing it. It doesn't mean
Speaker 1: a damn thing at all. So I didn't get that
Speaker 1: now and hold on, no, because you brought this guy up.
Speaker 1: I don't know, and I guess I'm not paying attention
Speaker 1: in the same circles that Cody Rhodes. Cody Rhodes has
Speaker 1: been a failure or has been used incorrectly or doesn't
Speaker 1: hit in the same way that what I don't know,
Speaker 1: I haven't I haven't paid it. I haven't paid attention,
Speaker 1: I guess to the stupidest people in the dumbest, most
Speaker 1: ignorant takes. You've got to be kidding me. Take he
Speaker 1: couldn't beat Austin theory. So they're using Cody Rhodes incorrectly. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: where have you been dude, where have you been obviously
Speaker 1: with rational saying smart people. Well, listen when we when
Speaker 1: we start running house shows this summer and there's no championships,
Speaker 1: no no Roman Reigns championship match or anything like that
Speaker 1: on the house shows or Brock and we will track
Speaker 1: the attendance and we will see how it does with nothing.
Speaker 1: I realized that they sell tickets on the brand. But like,
Speaker 1: these titles actually do mean something to this audience. Awesome
Speaker 1: theory may not mean much, but you know what if
Speaker 1: they did Austin theory versus Kofi Kingston and Kofe Kingston
Speaker 1: won that title, those fans would go crazy. They would
Speaker 1: chant you deserve it. They would have a big celebration
Speaker 1: in the in the out, Yes, that would happen. I'm
Speaker 1: going to your fans. Can't wait for Natalia and And
Speaker 1: and Shana as the new tag team champions on Friday.
Speaker 1: I can't back in a moment with this Dynamite report.
Speaker 1: Observer Live in the show right now? Were is here?
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simper viv also Wrestling Observer dot com.
Speaker 1: Maybe that guy just got banned from the chests. Gonna
Speaker 1: send me an angry text message like that other guy.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, he actually was banned for what he was accusing. Anyway, Hey,
Speaker 1: we got the a W show Adam Cole Dax Harwood,
Speaker 1: very very good match fifteen minutes and uh Martha Art's
Speaker 1: family was there. So they had like a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of Bretton Owen spots and the sharpshooter and and Dax
Speaker 1: got sent ribs first into the post, sold his ribs
Speaker 1: the entire match. Finally he goes for the sharpshooter but
Speaker 1: his ribs give out and ultimately Adam Cole puts him
Speaker 1: in the sharpshooter. Ribs are so bad he's forced to submit.
Speaker 1: This was a great match, so Adam Cole moves on
Speaker 1: to the semifinals. We had c him Punk, whose gimmick
Speaker 1: is he hates Long Island, every show in Long Island.
Speaker 1: He's a heel. And so he comes out He's got
Speaker 1: an Islanders jersey on for some bloke that way, and
Speaker 1: the fans are furious at this guy. And he faces
Speaker 1: hometown guy John Silver and he beats him with the
Speaker 1: buck shot. Larry, and let me tell you something, huge
Speaker 1: fan of punk, great worker, This is the best working
Speaker 1: punk there's ever been this guy ain't coordinated and bro,
Speaker 1: this was a live show and this dude's got balls
Speaker 1: because he stood on a apron and he stood there
Speaker 1: for a while and he's in his mid forties and
Speaker 1: was gonna do a flip over the ropes landed his
Speaker 1: feet into a buckshot and bro, he stood and mad
Speaker 1: and he did it and he hit the buckshot and
Speaker 1: he been this guy. And of course Pages on commentary
Speaker 1: is furious. He comes down to the ring and they
Speaker 1: have a stare down and essentially Punk has said, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna beat you with the paper, Vin You're gonna shake
Speaker 1: my hand one way or the other, and he wants
Speaker 1: a handshake and Page just flips him off. We had
Speaker 1: Tony Niece versus Dan Housing, so this match was like
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. Uh, they go down to the ring. Everyone's
Speaker 1: behind Dan Housing. Uh, Mark Sterling interferes. Dan Housing gets
Speaker 1: kneed in the face and pinned immediately. Okay, and uh
Speaker 1: I saw this and I was like, dude, this guy
Speaker 1: ain't ready because he shattered his leg in two in
Speaker 1: uh all around Halloween, So I guess that's why. Nope,
Speaker 1: he's actually alright. His legs great. So this was just
Speaker 1: the story they wanted to tell. And I'm very happy
Speaker 1: that his leg is great, because you know, he snapped
Speaker 1: that thing two and Sid the guy like Sid never
Speaker 1: the same again. But whatever they did, he's he's good
Speaker 1: to go. So they're gonna be doing a tag match
Speaker 1: at the pay per view. Hook comes out, he clears
Speaker 1: the ring of the heels. Dan Housing offers a handshake
Speaker 1: and Hook shakes and the place goes nuts and Hook
Speaker 1: Housing is officially a team with the MGF Wardlow contracts
Speaker 1: signing cut to the chase, it was great. MGF is
Speaker 1: demanded that in order for Wordlow to get the match A,
Speaker 1: he must take ten lashings with a belt next week
Speaker 1: on Dynamite, and then he has to face Sean Spears
Speaker 1: in a steel cage match with m jf Is the referee.
Speaker 1: Then they go to the pay per view, and if
Speaker 1: Wardlow loses, he can never sign a contract with a
Speaker 1: e W Wrestling, So there's there's actually only two options.
Speaker 1: Either his contract is expiring, he's going to of W E,
Speaker 1: or he's beating him. Jaff I bet on the ladder.
Speaker 1: We had Ricky Starks versus Jungle Boy didn't have a
Speaker 1: ton of heat. But it was a good match, and
Speaker 1: uh Ricky Starks tried to use the ft W title belt,
Speaker 1: so Swerve ran down to tell the referee, but he
Speaker 1: took the referee in doing so, and uh Jungle Boy
Speaker 1: had a pin with a small package, but no ref
Speaker 1: and the ref finally gets back in the ring, starts
Speaker 1: hits ro Shambo and gets to the wind and then
Speaker 1: Christian Lucasaurus Starks hobbs the whole crew, Keith Lee. They're
Speaker 1: all out there, so it looks like a three way
Speaker 1: for the titles coming up at the pay per view
Speaker 1: and Jungle Boys just demoralized and everyone's outside the ring
Speaker 1: except him, and then Christian gets in the ring and
Speaker 1: Jungle Boys back is turned and Christian looks at him
Speaker 1: and then gives him a hug because they ain't nothing
Speaker 1: done quick on this program. Oh look at you, it's happening, brother.
Speaker 1: Just wait. We have the Jericho Appreciation Society victory party.
Speaker 1: So the key is that Jericho makes a comment about
Speaker 1: Eddie Kingson's wife. As soon as he says it, Moxy's
Speaker 1: music hits, Moxie comes through the crowd, Jericho makes fun
Speaker 1: of him. There's only one of you we'll kick your ass.
Speaker 1: We've got five of us in here. Then Daniel Bryan's
Speaker 1: music hits. He comes out with Wheeler You two and Regal.
Speaker 1: It's still five on four. Jericho's like, come on in here.
Speaker 1: But of course Eddie Kingston with his face all burnt,
Speaker 1: Santana Ortiz. They're coming out of the crowd. Jericho Appreciation
Speaker 1: Society now greatly outnumbered. But in this situation, the fans
Speaker 1: are just so happy to see these guys get there's
Speaker 1: Eddie goes right after Jericho Jericho managed to escape, William
Speaker 1: Regal Pa Bam gives him the power of the punch.
Speaker 1: No breast nuxs though, and lays out Jericho is awesome.
Speaker 1: So it looks like, I don't know what it looks like.
Speaker 1: I presume a multiperson match at the pay per view,
Speaker 1: and then blood Guts would be my guess. We had
Speaker 1: the Tony Storm Jamie Hayter match. Also not a ton
Speaker 1: of heat for this match here, but it was a
Speaker 1: good match, and uh Storm ends up cradling her and
Speaker 1: turning that immediately into the Storm zero and pinning her,
Speaker 1: And so it is Tony Storm versus the winner of
Speaker 1: Britt Baker and the Joker coming up here soon Friday.
Speaker 1: I'll have Fontleroy do that in a while here Dynamite.
Speaker 1: Next week we have Jericho and William Regal having a
Speaker 1: face to face, Kylo Riley versus Ray Phoenix in the
Speaker 1: Own Hard Cup, Britt Baker versus The Joker in an
Speaker 1: Own Hard Cup, Somoa Joe versus a Joker. They're calling
Speaker 1: it wild Card Wednesday, Hangman Page versus Takeshta, Wardlow takes
Speaker 1: his ten lashes from m JF and Adam Cole face
Speaker 1: of the her of tonight's main event. Darby Allen versus
Speaker 1: Jeff Hardy. We did a segment with Scorpio Sky. We'll
Speaker 1: talk you know what, I don't even want to talk
Speaker 1: about this segment because I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: There's there's a match coming up Friday, and you know
Speaker 1: people are so I'll have Funtleroy to the spoilers. I'll
Speaker 1: talk about everything after Friday. And then we had Jeff
Speaker 1: Hardy versus Darby Allen. Darby Ellen did this, uh this interview.
Speaker 1: He said, dude, I thought we were gonna build up
Speaker 1: to this one, and he thought, of all these video
Speaker 1: packages they could do, we should just be both guys
Speaker 1: doing totally crazy stuff dirt bikes, explosions, falling off the
Speaker 1: bridge into the river. But he said, Tony wanted tonight,
Speaker 1: so damn it, We're gonna do our best tonight, and
Speaker 1: uh they did. And to be honest, yes, and theory
Speaker 1: would be better to build this up over a long
Speaker 1: period of time, But bro, I watched this, Jeff hardy,
Speaker 1: and just just get this done. I don't know how
Speaker 1: long this guy is gonna last. He is hurting, and
Speaker 1: they killed themselves in this match. The worst spot may
Speaker 1: have been not even the thing off the ladder under
Speaker 1: the chairs, but the very first spot is uh, Derby
Speaker 1: running as fast as humanly possible and doing his cannonball topee,
Speaker 1: and uh, listen, I've been wrestling for a long time.
Speaker 1: The worst is what you don't expect. Like even though
Speaker 1: Darby came off that thing and Jeff went to and
Speaker 1: they both crashed from the chairs, they both knew what
Speaker 1: was coming. It may have hurt more. I haven't asked anybody,
Speaker 1: but the fact of the matter is Jeff was expecting
Speaker 1: Darby to hit him with this big cannonball. Okay, which
Speaker 1: is what happened. But what was worse is Darby just flies.
Speaker 1: It was like a Civil War cannonball. He hit this
Speaker 1: dude so hard. And then worse, Jeff takes a bump
Speaker 1: on the cement and as he lands, Darby then falls
Speaker 1: on him again, which Jeff Hardy was not expecting that
Speaker 1: second one, and bro that looked and that was just
Speaker 1: the beginning. And then man, they went from there and
Speaker 1: as noted, you know, Darby came off third wrung from
Speaker 1: the top of a very high ladder, threw a bridge
Speaker 1: of chairs outside and Jeff missed a sent on and
Speaker 1: hit the side of the steel steps that they were
Speaker 1: just killing each other, and finally, uh, Jeff goes for
Speaker 1: the or Darby goes for the coffin drop hits it,
Speaker 1: and now you know, it's really clever. They actually did
Speaker 1: this cradle reversal in the opener and it was a
Speaker 1: near fall. They did the exact same spot in the
Speaker 1: main event, and it was the finish and Jeff Hardy
Speaker 1: pins Darby Allen. So Jeff Hardy moves on in the
Speaker 1: owen hard Cup. Darby Ellen's devastated, but they did shake
Speaker 1: hands in ug afterwards, and man, if you're only doing
Speaker 1: this once, I mean dude, these guys, you know, Jim ROSSI,
Speaker 1: he's talks about how these matches are career shorteners and
Speaker 1: uh and this one may have been is brutal. So
Speaker 1: there you go. That was a w dynamite. I thought
Speaker 1: an excellent show. Excellent show top to bottom. It was
Speaker 1: Darby Allen getting revenge for this new generation that has
Speaker 1: had to lay underneath Jeff Hardy as he comes down
Speaker 1: like that sack of fertilizer from the top shelf at
Speaker 1: home depot right down upon you, saying just take this
Speaker 1: and Darby Allen that the one thing about him is
Speaker 1: a lot of times with guys who do dives, you know,
Speaker 1: the setup takes forever, all that sort of thing, and
Speaker 1: you know, even though they can be spectacular, they can
Speaker 1: be very contrived. The one thing that you can say
Speaker 1: about Darby Allen is he is very believable. And the
Speaker 1: force and the velocity at which he flies out there
Speaker 1: to you use his body as an offensive maneuver, it's
Speaker 1: just one big offensive maneuver is as good as anybody
Speaker 1: in wrestling. I mean, it's as believable as anybody who
Speaker 1: can do that sort of thing. It's it's he's absolutely awesome.
Speaker 1: I don't know how long he's gonna last. He doesn't
Speaker 1: know how long he's gonna last. Jeff Hardy, you ain't
Speaker 1: gonna last too much longer. So as fast as they
Speaker 1: can get to the young bucks and the hearties, I'm
Speaker 1: probably good with that. And however, those two other dudes
Speaker 1: and then wanna you know, go from there. That's on them.
Speaker 1: You did mention one thing about Wardlow. There is the
Speaker 1: outside possibility that he could lose the MGF. He could
Speaker 1: go to Ring of Honor and almost in like a
Speaker 1: big Bubba Rodgers sort of way, when he was in
Speaker 1: the Crockett and then ended up in the Mid South
Speaker 1: u WF for a while to get seasoning, became their
Speaker 1: champion there, to get him some experience, and then to
Speaker 1: have a way to bring him back that doesn't have
Speaker 1: anything to do with him JF. Oh wait, he can't
Speaker 1: sign with a w but we'll welcome him in because
Speaker 1: he's the r O H champion. It's a you know,
Speaker 1: in a contract could change that way or something like that.
Speaker 1: It is a long shot, but it is a possibility
Speaker 1: that a slim one, but there's a possibility they could
Speaker 1: go that way. I would just rather see him win.
Speaker 1: But if you're trying to protect m JF for a reason,
Speaker 1: you do at least have that option. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: we should get Old Fauntleroy here to uh do this
Speaker 1: rampage lineup? Is that the idea, I gotta find him,
Speaker 1: let me, let me catch him. I don't know where
Speaker 1: he's at. Where is this guy? It's like this point
Speaker 1: in the show every week now should be like on schedule. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a little idiot, talk about something. She's
Speaker 1: talking about more little idiots. You anyway at nothing And
Speaker 1: obviously you didn't plan this out very I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: I got him, alright, alright, just left, alright, faunt let's
Speaker 1: do this. Ready, here we go, Owen Heart, cup Riho
Speaker 1: versus Ruby Soho, Jade Cargill and the Batties will speak
Speaker 1: t NT Championship, Scorpio sky See versus Frankie Kazarius, Death
Speaker 1: Triangle versus the Butcher the Blade and Mark Quinn Sean
Speaker 1: Spears versus Bear Boulder, Sean Spears versus Bear Boulder. Yep,
Speaker 1: that's the line up for this coming Friday night. And uh,
Speaker 1: we'll have more later. But there is a change in
Speaker 1: the owen Hart Women's Tournament. As Hikaru Shida is out.
Speaker 1: The story is she has been injured. Morena come wrestling
Speaker 1: up her alive back in the show right now. Bert
Speaker 1: is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simper v V also
Speaker 1: of Wrestling Observer dot Com, Sotttery's running out right there,
Speaker 1: you're right very quickly here. Uh. N x T two
Speaker 1: point oh on Tuesday, the All Women's Show, the Women's
Speaker 1: Breakout Tournament, the Women's Championship, UH take Team Championship match,
Speaker 1: the Big Car or Not CARSA still know how curs history,
Speaker 1: The Big Natalia Match, whole nine yards, all women every
Speaker 1: match point one oh eighteen forty nine three thousand viewers.
Speaker 1: It was the least watched show ever in n x
Speaker 1: T history on the USA network. So obviously NBA Playoffs
Speaker 1: at HL Playoffs. Uh, the NBA game on t n
Speaker 1: T three point eight million viewers one point three in
Speaker 1: So obviously you know, the vast, vast majority of this
Speaker 1: is UH that they had very very strong competition. But
Speaker 1: I certainly would not classify this as good news if
Speaker 1: you're a big fan of of women's wrestling, because we
Speaker 1: had a full women's only show and it broke the
Speaker 1: record for the least watch show of all time on
Speaker 1: the USA Network. Give me the demo that matters here,
Speaker 1: give me the sixty five plus that's what I need. Actually,
Speaker 1: don't have it in front of me. Well, and the
Speaker 1: problem is an X they didn't hit, they didn't chart,
Speaker 1: so we don't have any of the other demos damn.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that would not be good. Also, Piers, we've
Speaker 1: just got the A W Dynamite ratings from Brandon Thurston
Speaker 1: forty thousand and a point three three another they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to close the doors now. Let's talk about it tomorrow.
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