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Speaker 1: know what that means. Tonight is aw Dynamite and we
Speaker 1: have a lot of announced for the show. They added
Speaker 1: a couple of segments overnight this morning today and they
Speaker 1: also announced that later on today. Man, I thought we
Speaker 1: were done with it, but apparently not, the rankings will
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Speaker 1: the lineup for the show. We'll talk about that as
Speaker 1: well as last night's an XT, which second week in
Speaker 1: a row, big improvement over what it had been the
Speaker 1: last couple of months, and one of those shows where
Speaker 1: they did something that just it was so good that
Speaker 1: it made me so mad. So we'll talk about that here.
Speaker 1: Today got the lineup for Stand and Deliver. We have
Speaker 1: got a bunch of other news as well, including the
Speaker 1: announcement of Double or Nothing. I thought we might have
Speaker 1: to wait until the next pay per view wrapped up
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Speaker 1: and as I pretty much had told everybody, well, it
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Speaker 1: going to be taking place. We got raw notes the
Speaker 1: ratings from Monday night, which nothing particularly special about the
Speaker 1: ratings until you look at the quarter hours. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you about that. We have the stipulation for the new
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Speaker 1: Back in the show, Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike SIMBERVB also Wrestling Observer dot com, and we got
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about here today, But I want
Speaker 1: to make a note about the raw ratings before we
Speaker 1: go any further, because apparently it's been the subject of
Speaker 1: much debate. Raw Show Monday one point seven to three
Speaker 1: million viewers and a point five to seven in eighteen
Speaker 1: to forty nine, Bachelor on ABC four point one four
Speaker 1: million and a point eight which is very high. And
Speaker 1: Iowa versus West Virginia n CLA Women's basketball Tournament four
Speaker 1: point nine million viewers, which would be the third largest
Speaker 1: viewing audience for a women's NCAA tournament game in the
Speaker 1: past twenty years. And while i was up two percent
Speaker 1: in total viewers, rating was up from last week. The
Speaker 1: eighteen to forty nine which did a point five to
Speaker 1: five last week, and the hours one point seven to
Speaker 1: six million, one point eight three million. Second hour is
Speaker 1: now consistently higher because of the daylight savings time switch,
Speaker 1: and the third hour did one point six to zero million.
Speaker 1: And as a guy who I got to hear it
Speaker 1: all the time, Oh yeah, hey, cm punk, Well, I'm
Speaker 1: here to defend cmpunk from a bunch of stupid stuff
Speaker 1: written on the internet in the usual Ah, they couldn't
Speaker 1: get two million with cmpunk. The quarter hours for the show.
Speaker 1: This was one of those shows where it's kind of
Speaker 1: just sort of going like this and then it goes
Speaker 1: tram straight up in the air. That's CM punk, seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins and Drew McIntyre. Segment did a whopping two point
Speaker 1: two million viewers for RAW. I'm not even sure the
Speaker 1: last time the show did two point two million viewers
Speaker 1: for a quarter, but man, etting shot straight up, and
Speaker 1: next week when they have the Rock and Roman reigns
Speaker 1: advertised for the show, I think we're going to have
Speaker 1: another one of those. I think, if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: the last time it shot straight up, I think was
Speaker 1: when they did that Cody Rhads deal last week on
Speaker 1: the show. If I can find it here, that would
Speaker 1: have been what's today, March twentieth. Yeah, So the Cody
Speaker 1: Roads segment also shot straight up last week, which I
Speaker 1: was very very impressed by. It was like the highest
Speaker 1: rated show or highest rated quarter on the show by
Speaker 1: far one point ninety six million, So it shot even
Speaker 1: higher than that for cmpunk in Chicago with seth Rawlins
Speaker 1: and Drew McIntyre and man, whatever the heck that segment was,
Speaker 1: you know, that was that was a promo train wreck
Speaker 1: is what that was. And somebody in the chat here says,
Speaker 1: what are you kidding me? Rack, Oh my god, we
Speaker 1: have had.
Speaker 3: Train wreck segments and professional wrestling and on the microphone.
Speaker 3: Look that may have gone on for way too long,
Speaker 3: but three guys all hit their points at all score points.
Speaker 1: They did, they did. I was, I was, I was
Speaker 1: greatly compelled. I couldn't take my eyes off of it.
Speaker 1: But you know, listen, I don't want this to go
Speaker 1: out on the internet saying that I'm saying this is true.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this is a fan Okay. I watched
Speaker 1: that segment, and someone in the chat here goes, pretty
Speaker 1: sure all three of those guys actually hate each other,
Speaker 1: and uh, as a fan watching it. As a fan
Speaker 1: watching it, I thought, I'm pretty sure those three guys
Speaker 1: hate each other. And even Seth goes, are you guys
Speaker 1: done trolling each other yet? Because Drew and Punk going
Speaker 1: back and forth. Listen, everybody there was there were some
Speaker 1: you know, anytime you do anything like you know, everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of pretty much on the same page mostly but
Speaker 1: not always. And I don't care what anyone tells me.
Speaker 1: You cannot convince me for any amount of money that
Speaker 1: it was scripted for Drew MacIntyre to say I'm the
Speaker 1: chosen one or whatever it was he said, and for
Speaker 1: see him Punk to respond with who named you the
Speaker 1: chosen one? Say his name? Because everyone knows who it was, Vince,
Speaker 1: And that was Punk's little checkmate right there. And you know,
Speaker 1: Drew laughed it off and everything. But there is no
Speaker 1: way that they are scripting a Vince McMahon line into television.
Speaker 1: That was one where they decided to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and that happens sometimes. So but anyway, I couldn't. I
Speaker 1: couldn't take my eyes off it, and either could anybody else.
Speaker 1: Two point two million for that quarter.
Speaker 3: People complaining about that, don't be silly. Look at your boy.
Speaker 3: Lenny in the Chat nineteen ninety seven called and wanted
Speaker 3: its segment back.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, Yeah, you know, you know, it was
Speaker 1: really popular in nineteen ninety seven wrestling. It was called
Speaker 1: a boom period and it was insanely successful. And so
Speaker 1: I don't know how that's some sort of knock on anything.
Speaker 3: Look, there were a lot of people who seemingly are
Speaker 3: going out of their way to try to tear down
Speaker 3: that raw on Monday, which you know, hey to each
Speaker 3: of their own. If people hated it, they hated it.
Speaker 3: I think it's been the best one of this new regime.
Speaker 3: Certainly the best raw in quite some time, but certainly
Speaker 3: under TKO auspices, this has been the best one. I
Speaker 3: thought it was a well balanced show. I thought they
Speaker 3: hit on everything they needed to hit and even the
Speaker 3: stuff that went too long, it was actually as you said,
Speaker 3: it was compelling, whether you thought that went too long
Speaker 3: or whether you thought the rock stuff with Cody at
Speaker 3: the beginning went too long.
Speaker 1: Now, the other thing I got to talk about at
Speaker 1: the top of the show here is, I know people
Speaker 1: like to say that I never can admit that I'm wrong,
Speaker 1: but that's that's just a lie. I have many times
Speaker 1: Wait a second, but I will, I will double down.
Speaker 1: I will die on this hill. Do you understand?
Speaker 3: All right? What is it?
Speaker 1: I watched NXT last night and they did Prime Target
Speaker 1: Carmelo Hayes and Trick williams Man and oh my god,
Speaker 1: they went back to like who did they have on
Speaker 1: here with? With There was a segment with Trick which
Speaker 1: was like the greatest segment I've ever seen. It was
Speaker 1: they went back to Philadelphia. They actually went to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: and Trick is introducing us to Sweet Baby James, his
Speaker 1: uncle who took him in and is the reason that
Speaker 1: he is in NXT today death Sweet Baby James is
Speaker 1: going to stand and deliver. They had an interview with
Speaker 1: Gary Cobb. It was a former NFL player. I don't
Speaker 1: even know why they interviewed him. I mean, did Trick,
Speaker 1: was he coaching Trick?
Speaker 9: And some.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but this guy, I swear to god,
Speaker 1: he cut the best promo of anyone in NXT by miles.
Speaker 1: I was dying, dying to see Jerry Cobb and the
Speaker 1: Rock go back and forth in a promo battle or
Speaker 1: Curtis ayakaia it doesn't matter to me and uh. And
Speaker 1: then they talked to William Davis, a family friend who
Speaker 1: cut the second greatest and anyway, this freakin' prime target.
Speaker 1: When this was over, why in the name of the
Speaker 1: good Lord above is this not Trick going for the
Speaker 1: title and WrestleMania dude? Why and then stop, Mike, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it.
Speaker 3: I'll meet you.
Speaker 1: Then then it's the world title feud. You guys know
Speaker 1: what they're doing for the World Championship feud. Well, first, staff.
Speaker 1: Eliot gets in the ring with freaking Stacks. Okay, I
Speaker 1: like Stacks, Okay, I like the guy. He keeps this
Speaker 1: guy ninety percent of the match. Stax just beats him
Speaker 1: and and the crowd's dead because the crowd singing the
Speaker 1: exact same thing I am. I want to see Eli
Speaker 1: Dragonov kill some bloke, but he just sells, and he sells.
Speaker 1: It's like a Randy Savage match. I'm gonna sell the
Speaker 1: entire match from the opening bell and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hit one flying elbow at the end, or an Elia's case,
Speaker 1: one torpedo escaped by the skin of my teeth. And
Speaker 1: then the follow up is Tony wants to meet him
Speaker 1: for dinner next week.
Speaker 3: One should not have to do with the other.
Speaker 1: One going to dinner. This is the bill to the
Speaker 1: world title. Broke Target was like Mayweather Pachio back in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight when they did that series on HBO.
Speaker 1: Bro I was just aghast. I'm like, why in God's sake,
Speaker 1: bro Mike, Mike what, there's not even a stip. I know,
Speaker 1: it's not Loser Leaves Town, it's not Last Man Standing,
Speaker 1: it's not lights out. It's hey, guys, we're gonna do
Speaker 1: the best prime target I've probably ever seen at ed XT.
Speaker 3: It was for a wrestling match. I mean, come on,
Speaker 3: look it, Brian, You're exactly right, and if you wanted
Speaker 3: to do the title, you could have done that, but
Speaker 3: they decided to go with Ilia draggon off if this
Speaker 3: is the champion, and I'm fine with that as long
Speaker 3: as we get Trick Williams and Carmelo one on one
Speaker 3: with some sort of definitive finish. And I would rather
Speaker 3: be a stip match. But you keep dragging up the title.
Speaker 3: Don't worry, they'll have it soon.
Speaker 1: I don't want him to have the title after WrestleMania weekend.
Speaker 1: I want Sweet Baby James to be sitting there over
Speaker 1: WrestleMania weekend watching Trick win the title. Back in a moment,
Speaker 1: Observer Live.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike simper vv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: Back in the show, Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live
Speaker 1: like simpervb also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So yes, they
Speaker 1: did announce it. Double or Nothing is going to be
Speaker 1: taking place on Memorial Day weekend. As we expected that
Speaker 1: it would be, and uh, can I find it already here?
Speaker 1: This Sunday, May twenty sixth of the date MGM Grand
Speaker 1: Garden Arena those of you just to go to those
Speaker 1: big UFC events there. Tickets will go on sale to
Speaker 1: the general public this Saturday. This is the first time
Speaker 1: hosting Double or Nothing since twenty nineteen. The MGM past
Speaker 1: two years it was at T Mobile and Daily's place
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville most of the show during the pandemic twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and at twenty twenty one. So they will also
Speaker 1: be presenting Dynasty Saint Louis on Sunday, April twenty. First,
Speaker 1: just hit me, that was the old soap opera. Finally,
Speaker 1: guys are gonna get a new soap opera review coming?
Speaker 3: Yeah, will wait. Dallas Falcon Crest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they should do aw Falcon Crest. I think should
Speaker 1: be their next pay per.
Speaker 3: View AEW nine two one zero.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that one.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that would be rough under the circumstances.
Speaker 1: Jungle Boys on the outs.
Speaker 3: Anyway, they are going to be back. They did announced too.
Speaker 3: They're going to be back in Cali again too, as
Speaker 3: part of that Double or Nothing weekend. They're going back
Speaker 3: to the Key of Forum in Inglewood on the twenty
Speaker 3: ninth for that Dynamite So there you go. Also in
Speaker 3: Palm Springs, California, Big Wrestling there.
Speaker 1: Well, now that you know about double or nothing, now
Speaker 1: you can start grabbing some tickets for the convention.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: So we will be there that weekend, going to the
Speaker 1: pay per view, and we got a lot of events.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so much fun stuff to do in Vegas,
Speaker 1: so there's plenty of time for you to do fun
Speaker 1: stuff but also hang out with us. Annual all you
Speaker 1: can eat dinner at Texas Day Brazil. I think that'll
Speaker 1: be Friday night. Vinnie and I will be doing a
Speaker 1: live Q and a live Branon Vinnie show. You can
Speaker 1: ask questions, we'll do a meet and greet. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of fun. Ed's got a pro wrestling
Speaker 1: show Sweet Party with details of Hey take a look
Speaker 1: at that on the screen if you're watching on video,
Speaker 1: there's the graphic Las Vegas Convention twenty twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ford w online dot com, Slash Vegas. Sweet Party is
Speaker 1: noted annual brunch at the Wicked Spoon and you can
Speaker 1: buy tickets for any of this by going to FW
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Speaker 1: dot com slash Vegas. Don't know about uh group tickets,
Speaker 1: but we should know imminently and so we will let
Speaker 1: you know when we know. So that is the.
Speaker 3: Plan Byobu No at the Sweet Party, So Sweet parties there,
Speaker 3: there'll be plenty fear.
Speaker 1: I mean you can, I mean John and Memphis brings moonshine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, The Rock and John Sena are both going
Speaker 1: to be appearing on the Tonight Show on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: April third, The Rock and John Cena, The.
Speaker 1: Rock and Roman Reigns. Thank you, may say, John Cena.
Speaker 3: You know, is it already Friday for you?
Speaker 1: Well know, hey, listen, you know he talking about The
Speaker 1: Rock and Roman Reigns and John Cena. Okay, so when
Speaker 1: they were brawling on Monday night in the rain, covered
Speaker 1: in blood, they just happened to brawl in front of
Speaker 1: a giant truck with John Cena's massive face. All you
Speaker 1: could see in the background was John Cena's massive face. Okay.
Speaker 1: So John Cena has made it clear he wishes he
Speaker 1: could have a road to WrestleMania. Well, have I got
Speaker 1: a road? To WrestleMania for John Cena.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be watching Cody's Dog.
Speaker 1: And that is you know, Cody's probably gonna need some
Speaker 1: people to watch his back on Sunday when all hell
Speaker 1: breaks loose in that Bloodlin's Rules match, if that is
Speaker 1: the direction they're going, or Seena could maybe do Saturday Night.
Speaker 1: If they're gonna have Cody Pinrock. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of different ways you can go here, and I
Speaker 1: don't know which way they're gonna go. Everyone seems to
Speaker 1: think the rock Is is gonna beat Cody, and my
Speaker 1: argument is, here's the thing. So sometimes you want to
Speaker 1: have a match where the fans don't know who's going
Speaker 1: to win, and sometimes you have a match or the
Speaker 1: fans know exactly who's going to win, and you essentially
Speaker 1: tell them and they pay for it because they want
Speaker 1: to see it and they get it and everybody's happy.
Speaker 1: This has happened throughout the history of wrestling in promotions
Speaker 1: all over the world. You're essentially telling people to finish.
Speaker 1: It's it's not a mystery at all, a flair for
Speaker 1: the go, and they are doing that here. I mean literally,
Speaker 1: the storyline is that if Cody doesn't win the title.
Speaker 1: This is the exact same thing they did in aw
Speaker 1: except Cody's idnaw was he just never wanted to challenge
Speaker 1: for the title, which I think he'd double. You know,
Speaker 1: he thought twice about it later but it was too late.
Speaker 1: But they're saying if he doesn't beat Roman reigns, he
Speaker 1: never gets to challenge for the title again. And they
Speaker 1: did not say against Roman. It's like this is it,
Speaker 1: you win or you don't get to try again. So
Speaker 1: they're essentially telling you that he's winning. So what are
Speaker 1: they gonna do on Sunday? Well, you could have Seth
Speaker 1: rawlins his team lose Seth and Cody and then they
Speaker 1: got Bloodline Rules on Sunday. But my problem with that,
Speaker 1: and maybe they know what they're doing, is that, you know,
Speaker 1: they've announces Bloodline rules the Rock and Roman can do anything,
Speaker 1: and I hate that because it's exactly like House Rules matches. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if the Rock and Roman can do anything, then the
Speaker 1: finish needs to be Cody can only win with a
Speaker 1: six thirty splash. That's it. That's the only way we
Speaker 1: can win because we can do anything. Rock's gonna be
Speaker 1: the referee. You know, if he's a referee. Roman can
Speaker 1: win with a one count, Cody has to get a
Speaker 1: six hundred count to win. If they can do anything,
Speaker 1: the whole thing just gets stupid. So I don't like
Speaker 1: Bloodline rules. I just don't like it. If they had
Speaker 1: a specific set of rules as I try not to sneeze,
Speaker 1: then that's fine. But bloodline rules, meaning we can do
Speaker 1: whatever we want, it makes it stupid. Maybe they got
Speaker 1: an idea, but you could do some wild bloodline rules
Speaker 1: and everybody runs in and Seth is there and John
Speaker 1: Cena shows up as the big surprise and whatever, or
Speaker 1: Cody pins the Rock in front of his mama gets
Speaker 1: his revenge on the Rock. Rock, of course, is very upset.
Speaker 1: Cody goes on to bea at Roman. Cody's gonna be
Speaker 1: your guy. He's gonna be the top guy in the company,
Speaker 1: so he should pin the Rock and Roman reigns on
Speaker 1: the same weekend. Pin the Rock. Rock's angry at Roman.
Speaker 1: Maybe Romans screwed up leading to it. This leads to
Speaker 1: your Rock and Roman match. Rock is going to do.
Speaker 1: This is his plan, and this could all change. He's
Speaker 1: gonna do one more match and it's with the Roman. Reigns.
Speaker 1: So what's the point of Rock pinning Cody If Cody
Speaker 1: in the Rock is not on the books, it doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. I guess you could pin Seth or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I think that Cody should pin the Rock. That
Speaker 1: starts to split between Rock and Roman. Now, Roman screwed.
Speaker 1: I gotta do this with nobody running in, You're further
Speaker 1: informing the fans, you know, get the show if you're
Speaker 1: not already, because Cody's winning that title tonight, and you know,
Speaker 1: you could always have Roman lie, you know, and out
Speaker 1: comes you know whoever, and then Johnsena makes the save
Speaker 1: and you do the finish. I mean, you could do
Speaker 1: that if you wanted to. But that's that's what I
Speaker 1: would do. But you know what, not my company.
Speaker 3: Or because of the numbers game, you have John Cen
Speaker 3: out there to offset Solo Socoa on Saturday. Because I
Speaker 3: think your scenario is the one that makes the most sense,
Speaker 3: which is Roman in the Rock. There is some sort
Speaker 3: of miscommunication that happens which leads to Cody getting the
Speaker 3: pin on the Rock. Now, I guess what you could
Speaker 3: also do, depending on when you're going to have Seth
Speaker 3: Rawlins defend that title against Drew, even though it's not
Speaker 3: I don't think they'll do this and it's not the
Speaker 3: best idea, but you could take Rawlins out of that
Speaker 3: match if you decide you're going to do that match
Speaker 3: on Saturday. You could do that, I guess, if you
Speaker 3: wanted to, and then have John Cena fill that position,
Speaker 3: because it's not a downgrade. I don't think for people.
Speaker 3: They kind of Again, you get the Rock and John
Speaker 3: Cena in the ring at the same time. You know,
Speaker 3: you get a huge star. So you could do that
Speaker 3: that way if you wanted. But I think John Cena's
Speaker 3: presence out there to offset maybe Solo Socoa as Jay
Speaker 3: offsets Jimmy, I think that might be the way to go. Now.
Speaker 3: Is Paul Hayman going to be allowed to be out
Speaker 3: there with Roman on Sunday?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be interesting as well too. Does he is
Speaker 3: he well? Is he the advisor? But you know? Or
Speaker 3: is he part of the bloodline where he if they
Speaker 3: lose on Saturday he can't be there. That's gonna be
Speaker 3: interesting as well too.
Speaker 1: I will say that there is a way that I
Speaker 1: could see the Rock pinning Cody, and that is that
Speaker 1: Saudi Arabia wants the Rock, and Saudi Arabia has got
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and perhaps Rock has agreed I
Speaker 1: will put over Cody in Saudi Arabia, and I will
Speaker 1: put over the Rock at next year's WrestleMania. Or the
Speaker 1: Rock can beat Roman reigns, it doesn't matter. Actually, if
Speaker 1: it were me, I would have Cody beat the Rock
Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia if Rock is gonna pin him at
Speaker 1: the pay per view, and then I would have the
Speaker 1: Rock do the full babyface turn Rock and Roman reigns
Speaker 1: just like stings last match, rockets the win, everybody goes
Speaker 1: home happy. It's not gonna hurt Roman reigns. He's he's
Speaker 1: a made man. But the thing with the thing with
Speaker 1: the pinning Cody is, dude, they have put so much
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Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike semper Vivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: I just want to make it clear, yeah, that I
Speaker 1: did not make a mistake at the end of the
Speaker 1: last segment.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 1: I purposely said minus one million so that I could
Speaker 1: come here after the break and prove that when I
Speaker 1: say something wrong, I will correct it. The ode is
Speaker 1: actually plus one million. Yes, no chance, yes, good thing.
Speaker 1: I'm going to double or nothing. Maybe I'll do some gambling.
Speaker 3: Be putting some uh some prompt bets down on the
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Speaker 1: I don't bet, but I actually I will bet. I bet.
Speaker 1: This next match is going to be the greatest all right,
Speaker 1: fans have voted yes yes. Great o'con and Tangaloa will
Speaker 1: be battling in a Rural Rural Rural Revitalization in Hamamatsu
Speaker 1: match Rural Revitalization in Hamamatsu match. It will be best
Speaker 1: of three falls. The first fall ten minute most covers match.
Speaker 1: Every pinfall attempt results in one point, so we are
Speaker 1: guaranteed a second round. Second round is a five minute
Speaker 1: eel eating contest. Whoever can eat the most eel will
Speaker 1: win that round, and presumably, I mean it could be
Speaker 1: over at that point, right, Great o'con gets the most
Speaker 1: pins and then eats more eel, it's over. He is
Speaker 1: he is the Rural Revitalization in Hamamatsu Champion. But if
Speaker 1: it goes to a third fall, it will be a
Speaker 1: strap match. Competitors join with a strap and must touch
Speaker 1: all four corners. Consecutively.
Speaker 3: Yes, have you ever had eel before? No, I've had
Speaker 3: it with sushi. It's fine that way in small doses,
Speaker 3: when you have a bunch of other sushi ins shashimi
Speaker 3: laid out on your plate. But I don't know about
Speaker 3: cooked eel. And well, great o'conn is it possible to
Speaker 3: use the eel as a weapon? These are questions.
Speaker 1: It is an eating contest.
Speaker 2: Bro.
Speaker 1: A travel guide for Hammamatsu reads.
Speaker 3: They've had pie eating contests, and we've seen pies going. Well,
Speaker 3: what did you do with that?
Speaker 4: Bro?
Speaker 1: This ain't no joke, all right, serious business. A travel
Speaker 1: guide for Hamamatsu reads, If you hear Hamamatsu, you think
Speaker 1: of eel.
Speaker 3: You think of garbage, think aboukeem.
Speaker 1: It should be noted that fourteen thousand, seven hundred and
Speaker 1: four fans fourteen thousand, seven hundred and four great fans. Well, well,
Speaker 1: actually that's not true. Fourteen thousand, seven hundred four voted,
Speaker 1: But ten thousand, six hundred and twenty four were great
Speaker 1: fans who voted for the rural revitalization rules. Approximately four
Speaker 1: thousand and seventy fans wanted that other stupid stip. What
Speaker 1: was it like? Last man standing Texas Death match, just death. Yes,
Speaker 1: it would ask for idiotic. It was a landslide. It
Speaker 1: was a landslide. So there you go. I'm excited for
Speaker 1: that match.
Speaker 3: Now if o'conn wins that does he automatically get a
Speaker 3: shot at the winner of Nito and Sushi.
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's it's Nito and Suji, not Sushi.
Speaker 1: That's why you were confused.
Speaker 3: Suji.
Speaker 1: You definitely said sushi.
Speaker 3: That's what I could have some sushi right now. Maybe
Speaker 3: I'll go get some after the show.
Speaker 1: Tonight is Dynamite Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Montreal. I do like
Speaker 1: video where every now and then I roll my rs.
Speaker 3: Incorrectly.
Speaker 1: Let's see how the show's doing. According to wrestle Tics,
Speaker 1: they've been doing better of late. All right, Montreal, I
Speaker 1: don't know where it's at. How come there's no update back?
Speaker 3: Is where it's at in Canada?
Speaker 1: I know that, but it's not in Montreal? Yes, well,
Speaker 1: I googled Montreal and it didn't come up.
Speaker 3: Not the Coca Cola Arena. What do they call it now?
Speaker 1: Over there? All right?
Speaker 3: Telepoint arena something like.
Speaker 1: Quebec Center Videotron is where it is at seventeen tickets.
Speaker 1: Not bad. They got three hundred and twelve left. And
Speaker 1: this is the lineup. Chris Statlander, Willow Nightingale, Sky Blue
Speaker 1: and Anna j Number one Contenders match with Mercedes on commentary. Yes,
Speaker 1: Swerve Strickland versus Takeshta in what is now being billed
Speaker 1: as a Number one Contenders match. Good thing we're doing
Speaker 1: this before these rankings come out. Will Ospray will be
Speaker 1: facing Katsiori Shibata. We have got the Tag Team Tournament
Speaker 1: quarterfinal matches with The Best Friends versus Undisputed Kingdom and
Speaker 1: The Young Bucks versus Private Party. That is the lineup
Speaker 1: for the show. Should mention that WWE is doing a
Speaker 1: very very good job in terms of advertising matches lineups
Speaker 1: in advance. We've already got two segments for Raw Monday,
Speaker 1: Rock and Roman appearing in di Y versus The New
Speaker 1: Day or Dy and The New Day versus The Judgment Day.
Speaker 1: And they've already advised five matches for next week's NXT
Speaker 1: six days from now. We've got Anderson and Gallows Versusaxim
Speaker 1: and Nathan Fraser versus Joaquem Wilde and Cruz del Toro.
Speaker 1: That match sounds awesome. Yeah, for the number one contender
Speaker 1: ship at the pay per view, Carmelo Hayes and Trick
Speaker 1: Williams will have their final face off Supernova sessions with
Speaker 1: Lyra and Roxan Soul, Ruka versus Blair Davenport, and Fallon
Speaker 1: Henley versus j C. Jane. That is the lineup for
Speaker 1: next week.
Speaker 3: Well, let's be real about this too. If you've been
Speaker 3: dotting your eyes and crossing your t's and you're booking
Speaker 3: towards a certain date, which they are with Stand and Deliver,
Speaker 3: they should have this stuff laid out and ready to
Speaker 3: go in an idea on what they want to do,
Speaker 3: and be able to advertise things. Any wrestling promotion should
Speaker 3: be able to do that only a couple weeks out.
Speaker 3: So yes, we should give them credit for it because
Speaker 3: it has been so slapdash in the past, and it
Speaker 3: is often the case with AEW the same exact thing.
Speaker 3: But these are things that it's like, Okay, we'll give
Speaker 3: you a little gold star, but that's all you're really
Speaker 3: going to get for doing what you should be doing.
Speaker 1: All right, So I'm working on a business deal right
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Speaker 1: All right, got that handled? All right?
Speaker 3: This is one. This is an all timer right here, brother.
Speaker 1: This show not even close. Have you listened to this
Speaker 1: show before?
Speaker 3: I try not?
Speaker 1: Isn't even in the top fifty percent of all timer's
Speaker 1: on this show. All right? Yeah, Tony is just not
Speaker 1: that Tony Leader texting me repeatedly.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: So a couple of notes from the NXT show. Besides
Speaker 1: that awesome, there was actually a lot of really good
Speaker 1: stuff I thought on the show, and one of them
Speaker 1: obviously was the prime target. That was by far the highlight.
Speaker 1: And the other thing that I loved and I encourage
Speaker 1: people to watch it is the main event, Alpha Academy
Speaker 1: versus Bron Breaker and Baron Corbin.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Bron, Dude, this match was great and I've said it before.
Speaker 1: I proved myself right every time I watch NXT. Bron
Speaker 1: and Baron are an incredible team. They are being wasted
Speaker 1: in NXT right now. I know when they call Braun
Speaker 1: up and start pushing after Mania, it's gonna be as
Speaker 1: a singles guy. But it makes me sad because.
Speaker 3: Goll Lee don't be Brian. There's a chance that Baron
Speaker 3: Corbin comes up right there with him. Man, hey, are
Speaker 3: not partners, they can be associated together.
Speaker 1: I would be totally fine with that. And they they
Speaker 1: were wrestling Tozawa and Otis, and the story is that
Speaker 1: if to Otis won, they would end up in the
Speaker 1: tag match at Stand and Deliver. They did not win.
Speaker 1: But dude, I'm telling you this.
Speaker 3: This Otis, he stands out so much.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing. He is great at being American
Speaker 1: super porky. Okay, he's fantastic at it. Comedy, silliness, crying
Speaker 1: over a ham whatever. But there was no comedy from
Speaker 1: Otis in this match. This was a match where Otis
Speaker 1: is fighting for a shot at the tag team titles.
Speaker 1: He's facing Brown Breaker and Baron Corbin and he's decided
Speaker 1: today I shall be Vader and God when this guy
Speaker 1: is serious monster. He is great and like bron Breaker
Speaker 1: and Baron Corban, they're a big powerhouse team and they
Speaker 1: do all this cool stuff. But then they run into
Speaker 1: this walking brick wall of pain and then of course,
Speaker 1: you know Tazawa's you know, he's great, you guys, some
Speaker 1: of you don't remember Tozawa, this guy used to be
Speaker 1: two hundred twenty pounds he was a big fat guy.
Speaker 1: Well maybe two hundred, but like he was a big
Speaker 1: fat guy, and and I guess like one day, you know,
Speaker 1: he wanted some motivation to lose weight, right, and then
Speaker 1: he did like some sort of series where he was
Speaker 1: gonna lose x amount of weight by the end of
Speaker 1: the series or whatever. And now he's like one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty five pounds and he shredded. So anyway, look
Speaker 1: up fat Tozawa on the internet you'll be like wow, wow.
Speaker 3: But anyway, didn't have most motivation there for a while.
Speaker 1: So the finish of this match was just like to
Speaker 1: zau Like. First off, they gave Otis a double power
Speaker 1: bomb through the announced table and it was like a
Speaker 1: seismic event when he went through that table. So he's out.
Speaker 1: And then Portizza was alone in the ring with these
Speaker 1: two monsters, and he hits this awesome superkick on Baron
Speaker 1: Corbin and he goes for the pop up Hurricane Rana,
Speaker 1: but Baron stops him upside down. He power bombs him
Speaker 1: to death. He hoists him up into the backward role
Speaker 1: that Wardlow does, but instead of going for another power bomb,
Speaker 1: he hoists him into the back roll and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Braun comes in and mowed this guy. I
Speaker 1: mean he sliced him in two with his spear and
Speaker 1: he pinned him. This match was awesome, absolutely awesome, and
Speaker 1: when it was over, it's like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: you know, the match next week, it's gonna be Braun
Speaker 1: and Baron against either the LWL SO the OC or
Speaker 1: Nathan Fraser and Axiom. Any of these matches would be good,
Speaker 1: but it's got to be Nathan Fraser an Axiom.
Speaker 3: I hope so.
Speaker 1: Bron Breaker and Baron KORbin versus Nathan Fraser Axiom. I'm
Speaker 1: not kidding. That could be the match of the weekend.
Speaker 1: I mean that would be amazing. So I'm praying, like
Speaker 1: I prayed for the Rural Revitalization match, I am praying
Speaker 1: Axiom and Nathan Fraser win this match and they don't
Speaker 1: do some schmas and end up doing a four way.
Speaker 1: It's got to be two unto man all the love
Speaker 1: it part.
Speaker 3: The party afterwards with Carl Anderson, Luke Gallows, bron Breaker
Speaker 3: and Baron KORbin. That cookout and party afterwards, that could
Speaker 3: be more fun than anything that takes place with the match.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I would like to see Axiom and Nathan
Speaker 3: Fraser just because I think they're a great team. Nathan
Speaker 3: Fraser can be so perfectly annoying and such a prick
Speaker 3: because we've seen him obviously be the baby face who
Speaker 3: can pull off all the moves and get one over
Speaker 3: on the bad guys. But he's also in this incarnation
Speaker 3: come across as being able to be very slimy. So
Speaker 3: it works, and I'd like to see them roll with
Speaker 3: them some more.
Speaker 1: Chat is just flabbergasted by Fatzawa. Yeah, he learned something.
Speaker 3: New every day.
Speaker 1: Huh. And this person says FW all about rural revitalization, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we are. What do you think Whale Scout is? Although
Speaker 1: Whale Scout does something a little bit different, I guess
Speaker 1: you could consider it rural revital They take stuff that
Speaker 1: is now, you know, they make it rural again. Is
Speaker 1: that rural revitalization?
Speaker 3: Yes, this show it is.
Speaker 1: Anyway back in a moment Observer Live.
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