Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here
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Speaker 1: favorite day of the week. Everybody on the chat is
Speaker 1: all excited about an hour of n x T talk.
Speaker 1: I gotta talk about n x T for an how
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? But I will review it as
Speaker 1: I always do here today because they got a big
Speaker 1: show coming up next week. Everybody spring something or other,
Speaker 1: spring break in, breaking, break out, whatever, anyway we got that.
Speaker 1: We got a e W Dynamite tonight. And what we
Speaker 1: do know for sure about Dynamite despite besides the five
Speaker 1: matches have been announced, is it Hangman Page, we will
Speaker 1: not be there. Hegman Page has COVID nineteen will not
Speaker 1: be on Dynamite tonight. He took to social media Wednesday
Speaker 1: to announce you will not be on the show. Dynamite
Speaker 1: is tonight at eight on TBS, but I will not
Speaker 1: be there because my face is full of COVID snott. Sorry,
Speaker 1: please enjoy regardless, he wrote on Twitter a brief starred
Speaker 1: down and we'll see him Punk after the Punk dustin
Speaker 1: Rhodes match last week. It is going to be Hangman
Speaker 1: Page versus Punk at the pay per view coming up
Speaker 1: at the n m A. But we still got about
Speaker 1: a month to build that up, so I think it's
Speaker 1: all right if he misses a week. Best of luck
Speaker 1: to him, and we'll go over the rest of the
Speaker 1: line up here in a while as well. Raw ratings
Speaker 1: killed by the NBA playoffs, as always, got some notes
Speaker 1: on the w w E stadium shows, the inspiration the
Speaker 1: former Iconics now Cassie Lee and Jesse McKay done with
Speaker 1: pro wrestling for the time being. We'll tell you about
Speaker 1: that and plenty of their notes as well. If you
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Speaker 1: here Wrestling oh Hi, Wrestling Observer Live, Mike's umber viv
Speaker 1: also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yes, the Inspiration. They're done
Speaker 1: with wrestling for the time being. I don't know that means,
Speaker 1: because you know how it is in wrestling. People are done.
Speaker 1: They almost always come back, except in the case of myself,
Speaker 1: I'm fully retired. Inspirations. Cassie Lee Jesse McKay are stepping
Speaker 1: away from the ring statement issued Wednesday, they announced their
Speaker 1: quote in definitely stepping away from in ring action. Lee
Speaker 1: and McCabe been part of Impact Wrestling since signing with
Speaker 1: the promotion last October. I want to thank Scott Demore
Speaker 1: the entire Impact family, they said it have had such
Speaker 1: an incredible experience working with the incredible Impact staff and roster,
Speaker 1: um a bunch of other stuff here. So all I
Speaker 1: know is that like this is all legit. So they
Speaker 1: left on very very good terms, but for the time being,
Speaker 1: they're leaving wrestling, and what they're gonna do I don't know.
Speaker 1: But they had their last match this past weekend, they
Speaker 1: faced the Influence and Influence retained their titles. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll find out what the future holds. But
Speaker 1: and who knows, you know how wrestling is. We'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: I guess is is uh, you know, contractually, I mean
Speaker 1: you can, you can leave. But if they decided to
Speaker 1: return to wrestling, presumably contractually, they would have to return
Speaker 1: to Impact Wrestling and work out the rest of that contract.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what they do if they come back
Speaker 1: and have any more to say. That's the updates, So
Speaker 1: best of luck to them. Did Lance run them off?
Speaker 1: So you came up with that? Of all that? Do
Speaker 1: you really care? What's your favorite iconics moment? Brian? So anyway,
Speaker 1: can we talk about Dynamite here tonight? Sure? We have
Speaker 1: a Carusita Serena deep in a street fight, Lance Archer
Speaker 1: faces Ward Low. We've got an OW and Hard Tournament
Speaker 1: qualifier with Dax Harwood and Cash Wheeler with see Him
Speaker 1: Punk doing commentary. Lee Him Punk was not exposed to
Speaker 1: COVID when he had that faced face with Hangman page
Speaker 1: last week. I have heard nothing about that. We have
Speaker 1: got Sammy Gavars Scorpio Sky in a Ladder Match, and
Speaker 1: we have Adam Cole, Kylo Riley, Bobby Fish, Matt and
Speaker 1: Nick Jackson against Griff Garrison, Brian Pillman Jr. Dante Martin,
Speaker 1: Lee Johnson, and Brock Anderson. So that is the lineup
Speaker 1: for the show tonight. Probably ain't gonna do all that
Speaker 1: well since we got the NBA which brutalized Raw on
Speaker 1: Monday Night again. Row did a one point six one
Speaker 1: million viewership one zero point four four in the eighteen
Speaker 1: to forty nine demo the Brooklyn Nets Boston Celtics game
Speaker 1: three point eight three million viewers, and a one point
Speaker 1: three three eighteen to forty nine Utah Jazz and Dallas Mavericks.
Speaker 1: We put one nine million and one point one seven
Speaker 1: at eighteen to forty nine. So these these basketball games,
Speaker 1: they just they hill, they kill everything. It was the
Speaker 1: normal first to third hour drop one point seven zero million,
Speaker 1: first hour, one point six seven million, second hour, big
Speaker 1: drop one point four seven million, third hour older than
Speaker 1: is usual drop. And hey, they were out of the
Speaker 1: one point threes in that third hour this week, so
Speaker 1: I guess that's a positive. But that's the it's run numbers.
Speaker 1: There no story I can keep going Mike, then we've
Speaker 1: got what would you like me to add to that?
Speaker 1: It was very fun watching Brooklyn failed miserably instead of
Speaker 1: watching Well, sure that's something now, isn't it. I don't
Speaker 1: want you to say anything. I'm just expecting you're h
Speaker 1: I got a lot of you. Hey, listen, you guys
Speaker 1: want to talk about NFC two point over the rest
Speaker 1: of the show, I can, so you can either jump
Speaker 1: into or I'll just continue on here. Not even a threat.
Speaker 1: I got a lot I could say about this show.
Speaker 1: I don't know why everyone hates an x T two
Speaker 1: points so much. I mean, it's a bad show, but
Speaker 1: I mean, god, do you guys not lived through like
Speaker 1: WCW thunder and and Nitro Brian was twenty five years ago.
Speaker 1: It was My point is like, god, the show's you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a great show, and there was
Speaker 1: some good matches on the show. Hey, Roxy is gonna
Speaker 1: be a star no matter what happens. I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'd go that far, but she's very good, like
Speaker 1: she worked rings around Mandy Rose. God bless Mandy Rose.
Speaker 1: But I mean we'll get into that later. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to avoid it. You guys, trying to goad me into it.
Speaker 1: And you know, here's another thing, by the way, I'm
Speaker 1: sure this person's joking. Me goes, I'd rather watch prime Thunder. Bro,
Speaker 1: you guys don't get it. Everybody says stuff like that
Speaker 1: until you actually go back and watch Thunder. You watch
Speaker 1: you watch three episodes of Thunder, and you're gonna be begging,
Speaker 1: begging to watch n x T two point oh again,
Speaker 1: remember the Natural Board thriller. Yeah, all of this, Oh
Speaker 1: how easily. Actually it's not really I mean, it was
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago or whatever. But bro, those sunders,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm telling you tore you asunder? Is that those
Speaker 1: thunders did tear me asunder. So let's not have you
Speaker 1: know it's it's called rose colored glasses. You're looking at
Speaker 1: the past through rose colored glasses. I I watched it
Speaker 1: with with no glasses. I watched it actually as it was,
Speaker 1: and it was absolutely horrible. And uh, it's funny. It's
Speaker 1: like people remember, you know, every now and then there
Speaker 1: was something funny like, you know, uh, Sid versus the
Speaker 1: Harris brothers, and one of the Harris brothers said his
Speaker 1: head almost fell off, and then he adds that was
Speaker 1: sad and stuff like that. It was funny, but bro,
Speaker 1: you guys don't remember there was a funny thing that
Speaker 1: would happen every now and then on the show. The
Speaker 1: rest of the time, it absolutely sucked. It was not
Speaker 1: so bad. It was good. It was not so bad.
Speaker 1: It was funny me. Every now and then a funny
Speaker 1: thing happened. But that show was one hundred and four
Speaker 1: hours of thunder over the course of a year, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't all funny. It was outright bad. So anyway, uh,
Speaker 1: stadium shows. An increased amount of stadium shows look to
Speaker 1: be the norm for w E going forward, said a
Speaker 1: company record, with eight stadium shows this year. Our own ANDREWS.
Speaker 1: Zerrian reports that running more stadium events is an approach
Speaker 1: that w w E plans to continue in three so
Speaker 1: at eight events, goal is to make this the new norm.
Speaker 1: It's a nick con approach when it comes to premium
Speaker 1: live events. Scalability of stadium is very beneficial when it
Speaker 1: comes to having a live audience over fifteen thousand even
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a sell out of fifty thousand,
Speaker 1: but now you have room to do twenty to thirty
Speaker 1: five thousand shows more often, leading to higher reven doing
Speaker 1: a higher level of excitement for the event. Well, that's
Speaker 1: certainly the idea now, isn't it. But can you put
Speaker 1: thirty five thousand people regularly into a stadium? I guess
Speaker 1: we shall find out obviously if you're doing a Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble or a WrestleMania or a Summer Slam. But are
Speaker 1: you gonna put thirty five thousand people in the building
Speaker 1: for a hell and to sell pay per view? Yes,
Speaker 1: we shall. We shall find out how loyal these traveling
Speaker 1: fans are for these shows. Money in the bank at
Speaker 1: Allegiance Stadium, that's the most interesting one for me. You know,
Speaker 1: Summer Slam, the show that's going to take place in Wales.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think they're gonna be any problem there,
Speaker 1: but it's amazing money in the bank at Allegiance Stadium.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just like you know, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: a probably a great test, you know, without having a
Speaker 1: Wrestlemanian name or Survivor series or something like that attached
Speaker 1: to it be interesting to see what they actually end
Speaker 1: up with. And this person asked about won't they lie? Well,
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna lie about the attendance, But the
Speaker 1: fact is you're still gonna put way more people in
Speaker 1: then you would running a building that seats fifteen thousand.
Speaker 1: That's the idea here, and uh, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: it will be an experiment. It's all about it's all
Speaker 1: about whether this works out in terms of revenue. Do
Speaker 1: you have to lower ticket prices to sell thirty five
Speaker 1: thousand tickets? Are you gonna sell thirty five thousand tickets?
Speaker 1: Is it is it worthwhile to rent the building? And
Speaker 1: then you do the math. Obviously I'm not a math guy.
Speaker 1: But if it works, then you continue running its stadiums.
Speaker 1: And uh, I mean the big thing is, here's the
Speaker 1: thing with w w E everybody. The booking sucks and
Speaker 1: they create they can't create stars. Okay, they have a
Speaker 1: very hard time doing that. If the booking were better,
Speaker 1: they would easily, I believe, sell lots of tickets to
Speaker 1: stadium shows for their big events. So, you know, is
Speaker 1: the booking the star making ability enough to you know,
Speaker 1: sell thirty five thousand tickets to uh ten fifteen stadium
Speaker 1: events every year. We're gonna find out. But they certainly could.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they can't. They could a lot of
Speaker 1: things they could do back in a moment was they
Speaker 1: were liveday couple money to day cop Monday days that
Speaker 1: see see pretty mentally because they see it strung trung
Speaker 1: ring and I think it's me that can get It's
Speaker 1: something that I won't try whatever, jail again the show.
Speaker 1: Brain Elba is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike sumber Viv
Speaker 1: also of Wrestling Observer dot com. Well, let's talk about
Speaker 1: it x T Y. Another thing with this show is
Speaker 1: the the good workers have good matches and the non
Speaker 1: wrestlers they practice all week and then like on a
Speaker 1: good night, it's all right on a bad night and
Speaker 1: an't know right and uh you know, I mean it
Speaker 1: would be fine. But like if you've been following this
Speaker 1: whole n I L recruitment deal, I mean the future
Speaker 1: of the show is more matches like Nikita Lyons and
Speaker 1: lash Legend. Do you guys watch this match? It wasn't bad, Okay,
Speaker 1: it certainly was not good, but what it was was
Speaker 1: too very very green. And I will call them non
Speaker 1: wrestlers because they're not learning to wrestle there, they're learning
Speaker 1: to choreograph performances. They are sports entertainers through through. They
Speaker 1: practice the match for a long time and then they
Speaker 1: get in there live and then they try and there
Speaker 1: was a spot in this match was so funny where
Speaker 1: they both start hitting the ropes and they both forgot
Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do, so literally they're criss crossing
Speaker 1: like the Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan, but go in
Speaker 1: the same direction, and they're yelling at each other as
Speaker 1: they crossed to try to tell each other what they're
Speaker 1: supposed to be doing. I was dying, and uh, I
Speaker 1: just watched a show and I thought, and I know
Speaker 1: that USA network, Uh, I'm sure they want the show live, right,
Speaker 1: but this show absolutely should not be live. This is
Speaker 1: a developmental show with green non wrestlers who have to
Speaker 1: practice their matches and then go out there and like
Speaker 1: do their best. This absolutely positively needs to be a
Speaker 1: tape show if it's gonna be on national television. But
Speaker 1: it's live, and so we get funny moments like this.
Speaker 1: So you know, they did the match Nikita Lions one
Speaker 1: with a big kick, and the announcers just, you know,
Speaker 1: put over that Twitter's exploding every time Nikita Lions on TV,
Speaker 1: and I mean it's just so just so whatever it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what this show is. And then we
Speaker 1: had Tony D'Angelo space supposed to face Zion Quinn, who
Speaker 1: who I guess was out of action due to injury,
Speaker 1: and so he gets set up for a match with
Speaker 1: Von Wagner, which at least actually even then, I don't
Speaker 1: know who was supposed to be the baby face. I
Speaker 1: guess nobody. I don't know what's going on. Then we
Speaker 1: had Roderick Strong is upset that the Creed Brothers keep failing,
Speaker 1: and so he has brought the Viking Raiders from the
Speaker 1: main roster. They only facing the Creed Brothers next week,
Speaker 1: which actually could be a fun match. We had Von
Speaker 1: Wagner and Tony D'Angelo and this match was all right,
Speaker 1: I mean, Tony d' angelo has had I mean, at
Speaker 1: this point is probably, I swear to God, like twelve matches,
Speaker 1: and for a guy with twelve matches, he's doing really good.
Speaker 1: So you know, this was not like you're not getting
Speaker 1: a five star match or anything close. But it was fine.
Speaker 1: And then uh, you know, uh, Legato dell Phantasma showed
Speaker 1: up and there was a distraction. Escobar took out d'angelo's
Speaker 1: knee with a Crowbar, D'Angelo sells and cells. He finally
Speaker 1: jumps in the ring to break up the count. He
Speaker 1: gets kicked and pinned by von Wagner. I mean the
Speaker 1: way this was worked, it was like Tony D'Angelo supposed
Speaker 1: to be a baby face, but like later in the show,
Speaker 1: you know Legatto del Phantasma, we're baby faces, but I
Speaker 1: think they're all heels. I am so baffled watching this show.
Speaker 1: We had a toxic attraction segment with rock the former
Speaker 1: rock Sy. She'll always be the former Rocksy to me.
Speaker 1: This set up a match with Mandy Rose tonight. I thought,
Speaker 1: for sure they do Gigi Dolan next because she beat
Speaker 1: j C. Jane last week. But no, it's just this week.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Uh, it's gonna be Mandy Rose fallon Henley. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be doing a a match later, a six
Speaker 1: person with Legato and that one woman that we just
Speaker 1: cannot identify and they never identify her, They never give
Speaker 1: us her name. She walked by and Brooks Jensen he's
Speaker 1: all distracted, you know, because he's got some problems down there,
Speaker 1: and uh he was yelled at for that. We had
Speaker 1: Grayson Waller, so they got this guy Nathan Fraser from
Speaker 1: an X to UK. He's supposed to debut and Grayson
Speaker 1: Waller comes out and he interrupts the debut. He starts
Speaker 1: cutting this promo. He starts burying Nathan Frasier for having
Speaker 1: a horrible haircut. And you know, here's the thing everybody,
Speaker 1: when you're a baby face and the heels telling you
Speaker 1: that your haircut sucks, and with all due respect, your
Speaker 1: haircut sucks, it might be time to get a new haircut.
Speaker 1: So then for some reason, uh, Andre ch Ason Body Hayward,
Speaker 1: which is a great name, it's one of the rare
Speaker 1: great names in this company. They're in the crowd and
Speaker 1: then they get in the ring and they distract Grayson
Speaker 1: and then you know, Nathan Frasier jumps off the top
Speaker 1: of the drop kick and then does a bunch of spots.
Speaker 1: So I guess, I guess Chase University or baby Faces.
Speaker 1: I don't know why. And and Nathan Fraser is now
Speaker 1: aligned with them, and he's a you know what this
Speaker 1: is For those of you that watched before before y'all
Speaker 1: gave up what they're doing with Nathan Fraser, it is
Speaker 1: exactly what they did with Kurt Stallion exactly. Oh no,
Speaker 1: except Nathan Fraser has a much worse haircut. He hasn't
Speaker 1: had anywhere near as cool of a promo as the Stallion.
Speaker 1: Did you remember that? Oh? I remember? Remember those acting
Speaker 1: chops he had when he was laid out? Don't They
Speaker 1: don't remember any of this, guys. Guys remember, And like
Speaker 1: it's about to thousand one or so, Seaun Michael's had
Speaker 1: been gone for a while, and then there's like one
Speaker 1: show where he came back and he decided he was
Speaker 1: gonna cut his hair to hear and straight all the
Speaker 1: way around page. Boy. God, well that's what this Nathan
Speaker 1: Fraser has done. I don't know what he was thinking
Speaker 1: in By the way, the former Ben Carter for everybody
Speaker 1: out there who does not watch that next day, yeah, Ben,
Speaker 1: get a Ben Carter haircut, whatever that would be. And
Speaker 1: then we had a ton of Chance and Caden Carter
Speaker 1: versus Ulyssa Leon and Valentina Ferraz and uh, what's so funny? Well,
Speaker 1: the Road Warriors neon whatever the hell it was shoulder
Speaker 1: pads that they had on that they came out with.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I cannot figure out this. You
Speaker 1: listen to Leone and Valentina farraz thing here, because first off,
Speaker 1: their gimmick is that they're they're they just you know,
Speaker 1: they do a lot of shaking. They do a lot
Speaker 1: of shaking, okay, and in one of them, I think
Speaker 1: it's Ulyssa Leone. Okay, this just I mean here, it's
Speaker 1: just weird. The way she moves in the ring. It's
Speaker 1: like it's totally wrong. Okay, everything she does when she
Speaker 1: moves looks totally wrong, but her stuff looks good and
Speaker 1: she can actually kind of work. Well what do you
Speaker 1: mean by that for the layman out there who has
Speaker 1: never been in the ring. But she just like you know,
Speaker 1: stands up too tall and everything looks totally unnatural and awkward,
Speaker 1: but she still manages to pull everything off. I can't
Speaker 1: even explain it. It's just like it's so weird. But
Speaker 1: I was watching the match, and at the beginning, it's
Speaker 1: like all they're doing is just shaking their ass and
Speaker 1: moving weird, and I'm just watching the going what But
Speaker 1: then like as a match kept getting by the end
Speaker 1: it was actually a good match. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just this it leaves me with I just I
Speaker 1: have no words except somehow they had a really good match.
Speaker 1: I don't know about really good, but it was good.
Speaker 1: And uh yeah, that was that Legato del Fantasma. So
Speaker 1: uh Old J Old b J gets beat up in
Speaker 1: the back and uh the baby Faces presume it's Legato
Speaker 1: del Fantasma, but we later find out that it was
Speaker 1: actually von Wagner who was sent to beat him up
Speaker 1: because he'd been rubber necking on the woman who they
Speaker 1: don't identify. That's what happened. So it ended up being
Speaker 1: two on three. And this was also a good match
Speaker 1: because you got Legato del Fantasma in there, and they're
Speaker 1: they're very, very good and fallon Henley, I mean, she's
Speaker 1: she's not bad. And Josh Briggs is you know, he's
Speaker 1: every big man they've ever had on this show. I
Speaker 1: mean you can rattle off every big man tag team
Speaker 1: partner they've had from you know, I've already forgotten all
Speaker 1: of their names. But Tucker, you know all these guys,
Speaker 1: he's he's exactly like all of them. But he's he's fine,
Speaker 1: He's perfectly serviceable. And this match was good, and of
Speaker 1: course they got beaten because it was it was three
Speaker 1: on two, but you know that match is totally fine.
Speaker 1: Solo Sico and Trick Williams. I mean, it wasn't very good.
Speaker 1: Trick Williams very very green. And the funniest thing about
Speaker 1: this match is they have Cameron Grimes on commentary. Cameron
Speaker 1: Grimes a great promo. I have no idea what was
Speaker 1: going on in commentary. His commentary was not good at all.
Speaker 1: And the weirdest thing was I don't even know if
Speaker 1: he was doing it on purpose or or what, but
Speaker 1: like he had all of these cliches and he would
Speaker 1: begin the cliche, but the end of the cliche he'd
Speaker 1: get it wrong. It was just like one after another.
Speaker 1: I listened to this whole thing. I was like, what
Speaker 1: is happening here? And then he got in the ring
Speaker 1: afterwards and Socoa tried to super kick Hayes. He ducked
Speaker 1: and so he hit Grimes and uh, they're doing a
Speaker 1: three way next week. We had a great segment with
Speaker 1: Nervous Malik Blade and Enterest and no Fai trying to
Speaker 1: give him a pep talk. These two guys are great,
Speaker 1: but they got killed by the Viking Raiders. That was
Speaker 1: That was a fun little match there. We had a
Speaker 1: vignette with Wes Lee on the beach. He's he's all
Speaker 1: sad about what happened, but he can't tell you what happened,
Speaker 1: or mentioned his partner's name or tell you anything. So
Speaker 1: given he could give you no information, it was a
Speaker 1: pretty good promo. And then we had Mandy Rose and
Speaker 1: Dad went to the liquor store, never came home. That's
Speaker 1: what happened here. I guess Mandy Rose and Roxy was
Speaker 1: the main event, and uh it was. It was all right.
Speaker 1: You know Roxanne Perez, she's in the ring at this point.
Speaker 1: I mean, she was carrying this match with Mandy. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going on with Mandy. I don't like
Speaker 1: to say bad things about people, but her promos and
Speaker 1: her work like this is where she was years ago.
Speaker 1: There's been no improvement over all of these years. I
Speaker 1: don't know if she doesn't care or what. But she won.
Speaker 1: So they beat U sand which I couldn't even believe.
Speaker 1: And after those just leveled out in her in their system.
Speaker 1: After the break, we'll talk more Observer Live. Glad Is
Speaker 1: yelled the praise for my n x T reporting here,
Speaker 1: so I'll continue on. By the way throughout the show,
Speaker 1: They've got video package for all of these women that
Speaker 1: will be in the new the breakout tournaments coming up.
Speaker 1: Oh man, this tournament. Alexander Yorke is back talking about
Speaker 1: putting something up from thirty five years ago. We got
Speaker 1: Sloan Jacobs, she's gonna be there, and some of these
Speaker 1: other names that they've got, Kiana James. Who else do
Speaker 1: they have? Alba fire? She explains it like she has
Speaker 1: she older what spins fire around now or something like that.
Speaker 1: That's what she said. I'm not kidding. I know. Well,
Speaker 1: she had a stick she was dragging across the ground,
Speaker 1: wouldn't she may have been anyway. After that Mandy Rose
Speaker 1: match she won, and then Wendy Chew showed up and
Speaker 1: she was gonna shoot him with a super so I
Speaker 1: I actually, I gotta, I gotta please. Why do you
Speaker 1: guys not watch the show? So Mandy Rose beats Rock
Speaker 1: Sand and then as the Heels are celebrating, Wendy Chew
Speaker 1: shows up in her pajamas with a super soaker. She
Speaker 1: tries to spray the Heels with water, but they go
Speaker 1: running and they stop on the ramp to go, ha,
Speaker 1: we're too far away for you to get us without water,
Speaker 1: and Wendy Chew has a device and she goes and
Speaker 1: on net falls from the ceiling to capture the heels
Speaker 1: on the ramp. They attempt to get out of the ramp,
Speaker 1: but or the the whatever the net, but it takes
Speaker 1: just long enough for Wendy Chew and Perez to shoot
Speaker 1: them with silly string. I'm not making a second of
Speaker 1: that up. She's got a long career in seven Division
Speaker 1: coming up, don't she so? Spring Breaking is next week.
Speaker 1: Nathan Fraser will face Grayson Waller. Have you made fun
Speaker 1: of this name yet? Who cares? Naddy and Lash Legend
Speaker 1: face Cora Jade and Nikita Lyons, The Few that Will
Speaker 1: Never Die, The Viking Raiders versus the Creed Brothers, Cameron
Speaker 1: Grimes versus Solo, Sico and Carmelo Hayes, Tony de'angelo and
Speaker 1: Santos Escobar, and a sit down meeting their advertising that
Speaker 1: in case here thinking about skipping the show and Braun
Speaker 1: Breaker against Joe Gacy? Do you want to talk about
Speaker 1: that final segment more? Braun Breaker versus Joe Gacy would be,
Speaker 1: in the words of Cameron Grimes, a main event in
Speaker 1: any arena. In this arena, I'm seriously gonna go back
Speaker 1: and listen to that whole segment and try and figure
Speaker 1: out what was going on there. Oh my god. We
Speaker 1: should actually take a list of the people that are
Speaker 1: on this show and actually just divide them on a
Speaker 1: piece of paper on baby Faces and Heels and see
Speaker 1: how many names actually fill up, because for all the
Speaker 1: things we said about Heels there, and I know she's
Speaker 1: teaming with Natty, but our Lash Legend and Nikita Lions
Speaker 1: at this point both baby faces and at some point
Speaker 1: does it feel like they are going to be a
Speaker 1: tag team? Well, I think the last Legend is a
Speaker 1: heel and they may eventually, yes, you know, be grudgingly
Speaker 1: become a tag team. Can you imagine the team names
Speaker 1: they're going to come and get through this stupid main
Speaker 1: events So I can stop talking about this show, sorry.
Speaker 1: Joe Gazy comes down to the ring and he is
Speaker 1: surrounded by all of his uh Druids because now Joe
Speaker 1: Gazy and has never been explained, Now he has druids,
Speaker 1: and how Alan has vanished. We don't know where Harlan went.
Speaker 1: He disappeared, but who needs Harland when you got two
Speaker 1: dozen druids? So he's got all these druids around the
Speaker 1: ring and he's cutting a promo and braun Breaker and
Speaker 1: he says that braun Breaker is not medically clear to
Speaker 1: defend the title, and so he's just gonna be the champion.
Speaker 1: Rick Steiner appears, Yes, Rick Steiner, and he comes down
Speaker 1: the aisland. He gets in the ring and Joe Gacy said,
Speaker 1: you made a big mistake coming here, Rick Breaker, and
Speaker 1: all the druids get up on the apron and so
Speaker 1: you know, Rick's in big trouble because like they're gonna
Speaker 1: suck his blood next. But then the music of brown
Speaker 1: Breaker hits and uh, he's actually great. He comes out.
Speaker 1: He's killing druids. He's just clothes line, clothesline, boom, He's
Speaker 1: just killing all these druids and uh. And then he
Speaker 1: gets in the ring and gay c lays him out
Speaker 1: and so he's down. And then his belt has been
Speaker 1: left in the aisle. So the last the last two
Speaker 1: minutes to show the show seriously, the Druid at the
Speaker 1: end of the line, he picks up the belt, he
Speaker 1: gives it to the next Druid. That druid gives it
Speaker 1: to the next druid. That druid gives it and they
Speaker 1: just all the way down the aisle up into the
Speaker 1: ring and they finally give it. Joe Gacy and the
Speaker 1: announcedent have that creeped out that they transported the belt
Speaker 1: to the ring when Druid at a time and as
Speaker 1: the show goes off the air, it's a guilty pleasure everybody.
Speaker 1: You know you want to watch his leasure. You know
Speaker 1: you want to watch his show. Everything, I guess for
Speaker 1: some s and m is his pleasure. Nipple clamps are pleasure,
Speaker 1: so they what are we talking about. It's a television show.
Speaker 1: There was some decent stuff on it. Malcolm Vivens giving
Speaker 1: a dirty look to Roderick Straw and Ivy Nile is
Speaker 1: on the on the outside right now. And Creed Brothers interesting,
Speaker 1: you know they've been playing up. Malcolm Vivens is a
Speaker 1: baby face. He can do a promo either way. They
Speaker 1: haven't really defined him. It's just the people have taken
Speaker 1: to him in a certain way. And the Creed Brothers
Speaker 1: will be interesting to see if he sticks with them,
Speaker 1: which I would like to see, or if he ends
Speaker 1: up going with Roderick Strong since it looks like they're
Speaker 1: gonna be breaking everybody up here at least maybe having
Speaker 1: some new new members of the Diamond Mind, possibly if
Speaker 1: the Creed Brothers leave the group. So, by the way,
Speaker 1: since uh so many people are interested in this review
Speaker 1: on the chat that many questions have come up. Yes,
Speaker 1: von Wagner's suspension was lifted. Why because he wasn't supposed
Speaker 1: to be on the show. Zion Quinn got injured and
Speaker 1: they needed a replacement, so they had to use von Wagner,
Speaker 1: So they didn't explain his His suspension has been lifted,
Speaker 1: which was good because I forgot he was suspended because
Speaker 1: his show is just like a bunch of stuff happens.
Speaker 1: It's really not all that important, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: Doesn't Robert Stone have another woman under contract? Or is
Speaker 1: this mystery woman the only person that he's he's having
Speaker 1: contact with. I think you're you're remembering, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: what's her face that called him to SmackDown like six
Speaker 1: months ago? Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. Aaliyah.
Speaker 1: She was with Robert Stone, She's on SmackDown. She was
Speaker 1: there this week. What do you mean what happened to
Speaker 1: or didn't I play the audio yesterday on this very show. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I did, did I not? What I
Speaker 1: do that with Tom? Alright, well, okay, you want to
Speaker 1: set this clip up. Well, she's backstage and uh she's
Speaker 1: she's uh fawning over Ricochet because you see on SmackDown,
Speaker 1: remember they had that thing and they asked, you know, randos,
Speaker 1: who has better storytelling? Uh? W W E or a
Speaker 1: W and like w W E. Well their storytelling is
Speaker 1: we do an angle every six months or so and
Speaker 1: then we just totally drop it. So you know, about
Speaker 1: six months ago, Aliyah was fawning over Ricochet and then
Speaker 1: they just totally dropped it and we never heard about
Speaker 1: it again until Friday. Now she's back finding over Ricochet again.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to hear this? He is just he's
Speaker 1: gonna be defending the title later on in the program
Speaker 1: or something like that. Here we go, give it to
Speaker 1: me that wants some audio. Huh. You know, if you
Speaker 1: guys think this live radio is easy, there's a reason
Speaker 1: I'm doing it. And none of you that are complaining
Speaker 1: are all right? Here we go? You're much last week?
Speaker 1: The gender was incredible. He's so big and you were
Speaker 1: flying around the ring like it was nobody's business. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Um, so far he'd beaten gender, Sammy Angel
Speaker 1: and Humbert. Oh how and what is next? Honestly, this
Speaker 1: this is just the beginning. It is. I've said it before, beaten, beaten, beaten.
Speaker 1: You know als did that last night? Oh not not
Speaker 1: not Roxy, but what's her face? Andy? No? Oh no, no,
Speaker 1: uh damn it? J c Jane Jane no not you're
Speaker 1: killing me here described the person killing us small black hair.
Speaker 1: Cord Jaide, cord Jaide. Cord Jaide also has that same
Speaker 1: inflection or whatever it would be, with the how she
Speaker 1: says things. Bennen, look at some of this feedback here.
Speaker 1: Sure people have got a lot to say, probably about
Speaker 1: n x T two point. Oh did you know the
Speaker 1: former Kayla Inlay? Who was that worker who was? Oh
Speaker 1: my my favorite Kayla Inlay? She was she has a
Speaker 1: new gimmick where she looks like a business woman. Is
Speaker 1: that who that was? Oh? I got it? Trying to
Speaker 1: figure out who that was. Yeah, maybe she's a York
Speaker 1: foundation another thing that looked that's who you were talking about. Yes,
Speaker 1: when you take a picture in a magazine and you
Speaker 1: see Terry Taylor and Alexander Yorke and everybody else who
Speaker 1: was Thomas Rich, Tommy Rich. When you see that group
Speaker 1: on paper, Ricky Morton, you go, hey, that's that may
Speaker 1: have been kind of cool if you live through it.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. Really, it wasn't. This person says, I looked
Speaker 1: n x T for comedy at this point. Just make
Speaker 1: me laugh. I'll be fine with the show. Give me
Speaker 1: Persian indie having quote real conversations. Give me J B
Speaker 1: and b J Mollike and Eddriss wrestling and I'm good.
Speaker 1: They have people on there where you it's you see
Speaker 1: it is Tiffany Stratton, you got me. You know, Trick
Speaker 1: Williams and Carmelo Hayes especially. You know Melo is gonna
Speaker 1: be a star, should be hopefully knock on what a
Speaker 1: star in this business. Legato's all fantastic. I mean, there
Speaker 1: is stuff they're worth viewing every week. It's just you.
Speaker 1: This is for I guess for hoddern Times. This is
Speaker 1: as close as to as what we have to those
Speaker 1: syndicated shows from our U thirty five years ago on
Speaker 1: Superstars and Challenge and Main Event Worldwide and all those
Speaker 1: sorts of things where you do really have to pluck
Speaker 1: out what is good and the rest of it. You
Speaker 1: just kind of have to forget and put in the background.
Speaker 1: And that's what w W is hoping you're gonna do
Speaker 1: with these shows. This person here says, Brian, you should
Speaker 1: talk about some real news, like the fact that Shop
Speaker 1: a e W now has a cake and violence shirt
Speaker 1: available for sale. Well, I gotta jump on that sort
Speaker 1: of thing. Who's is that I do too? M hm bran.
Speaker 1: I got my hair cut in high school because of
Speaker 1: Seaun Michael's Dutch Man do dead serious and I can
Speaker 1: prove it. I don't need it proven. I believe you.
Speaker 1: I wanted proven. And is it okay that we show
Speaker 1: the people this? And then he he He also added here,
Speaker 1: I immediately regretted it, by the way, so that's probably
Speaker 1: a no. That's but if you want to please this
Speaker 1: person here says, if every pay per view is in
Speaker 1: a stadium, how do you tell your audience a wrestle
Speaker 1: Mania is all glits and glamorous of every show in
Speaker 1: a stadium. Well, because WrestleMania is two days, that'st the hook.
Speaker 1: And there will be more people there obviously, but more
Speaker 1: shows two days. Just watch let's see. Anytime Brian says
Speaker 1: anything positive, oh, he's got a animated gift here wasting
Speaker 1: me a text animated gift. I've heard a lot about this,
Speaker 1: I've not seen it. Uh. Takeshita versus Brandon Cutler on
Speaker 1: Dark Elevation was the greatest match this person says of
Speaker 1: Brandon Cutler's entire career. Please go out of your way
Speaker 1: to watch this match if you know what is best
Speaker 1: for you, or just watch one of the many Takashita
Speaker 1: matches over the last several years where he showed himself
Speaker 1: to be one of the best young stars in all
Speaker 1: of professional wrestling anywhere. I don't think you need be
Speaker 1: see for that. See what we got here, cas vegeta.
Speaker 1: Let me just throw this one in here, because got
Speaker 1: COVID vacated. And there are people who don't necessarily believe that,
Speaker 1: but you know, they don't believe that he got COVID
Speaker 1: mm hmm. Conveniently what he didn't want to drop the title.
Speaker 1: That's what a lot of people would like to didn't
Speaker 1: drop the title because he ripped No, he was stripped
Speaker 1: of the title. Take you lose it and you never
Speaker 1: actually lose it looking at the lights. So I'd be disgusted,
Speaker 1: I would be I'd be disgusted back in a moment
Speaker 1: it was ever Alive bagging the show. Bran Elburn is
Speaker 1: here Wrestling Observer Live mixumburviv, also wrestling dot Com. Speaking
Speaker 1: of stadium shows, Summer Slam Nissan Stadium, Nashville, Tennessee. Uh,
Speaker 1: the show is currently set up for thirty four thousand,
Speaker 1: four thirty four. According to wrestle Ticks, they have sold
Speaker 1: nineteen thousand, nine hundred and forty nine at tickets and uh,
Speaker 1: the show is a long way away. It's July, so
Speaker 1: can you stop chomping on the air, Dude, April you're
Speaker 1: you're muted for a second. Uh, we got July, so
Speaker 1: three months and at this point they're selling tickets a day.
Speaker 1: So it is drastically slowed down after the pre sale.
Speaker 1: But presumably when we get m when we get some
Speaker 1: matches announced, etcetera, etcetera. I'm sure they hope it will
Speaker 1: pick up again. But that is the update on SummerSlam
Speaker 1: right now. And bro, what are you eating on the
Speaker 1: see this? Brian? Somebody somebody likes me, Okay, somebody liked
Speaker 1: me enough to send me a whole box of various
Speaker 1: insomnia cookies. Do you know who that person was. It
Speaker 1: wasn't you. It was our fine producer Dom Dom's got
Speaker 1: heat with me now sauce. He decided to eat them
Speaker 1: during the final segment of the show, and chump, that's
Speaker 1: what that buttons for everybody. Anyway, Hey, listen tonight a
Speaker 1: w Dynamite I will be recapping that show with Dave
Speaker 1: for resting Observer Radio tonight plus all of the news
Speaker 1: tomorrow we will recap it here on this program, and
Speaker 1: that is the plan. So we're gonna wrap it up
Speaker 1: here for today. I think Mike has always I guess
Speaker 1: dumb m callers and listeners, Twitch homies, those of you
Speaker 1: that actually pay for YouTube, we'll talk to you next
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