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Speaker 1: and we got a lot to talk about, and uh,
Speaker 1: I mean we've got news and everything like that. But
Speaker 1: as usual, you know, what what is everyone talking about
Speaker 1: here today? What feedback have I gotten today? Well, it's
Speaker 1: all about Joe Casey and on Breaker, so we do
Speaker 1: have to talk about that. It was monstrously stupid, but
Speaker 1: you know, people saying it was the WCW caliber, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: I mean, how how short people's memories are. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's stuff with the Fiend, there's stuff with Alexi Blizz
Speaker 1: way worse than this. But you know, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a low bar. So it was horrible. We'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that here today. And also a w dynamite tonight
Speaker 1: with a big announcement by Tony Khan. What is the
Speaker 1: big announcement, Well, Tony Khan did an interview and uh
Speaker 1: our Stool Sports interview and he talked about a bunch
Speaker 1: of things, including the possibility of a combined a w
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor event. So we'll see what the event.
Speaker 1: We'll see what the announcement is tonight. NBA Playoffs affected
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Speaker 1: smash Raw on Monday night. The final segment of a
Speaker 1: show was just under one point four million viewers, was
Speaker 1: in the one point three million range. Of course, before
Speaker 1: people go oh go Cody, Cody was also in the
Speaker 1: highest rated thing on the show. So this is not
Speaker 1: an issue with Cody, it's an issue with the NBA playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Observer dot com, who watched n x T two point
Speaker 1: oh last night, Raise your hand, anybody, oh man at
Speaker 1: Joe Gacy braun Breaker deal. I got over a dozen
Speaker 1: emails in the span of about ten minutes when that
Speaker 1: show ended about how preposterous this was. And for you,
Speaker 1: for those of you that didn't see it, I mean,
Speaker 1: braun Breaker has stolen the Hall of Fame ring of
Speaker 1: Rick Steiner, who is now confirmed to be the the
Speaker 1: father of braun Breaker. So Bronze running all over trying
Speaker 1: to find this this ring. And first we've got Joe
Speaker 1: Gacy video walls everywhere like ah, and he's and then
Speaker 1: they go backstage and they literally did the thing from
Speaker 1: w c W where brun Breaker looks in the mirror
Speaker 1: and Joe Gacy is behind him and he spins around
Speaker 1: and there's no Joe Gacy. Somehow there's a hall of
Speaker 1: mirrors in the n x T. I don't know what
Speaker 1: that's all about. And then uh, and then later like
Speaker 1: the whole show, he's looking for Joe Gazy and so
Speaker 1: finally in this show, Joe Gacy shows up and he's
Speaker 1: he's on He's up in the thing. What do they
Speaker 1: call that the nest whatever, the bird's nest or whatever.
Speaker 1: So he's up in this nest and he goes, I'm here.
Speaker 1: It's like brown Breakers so angry that he starts storming
Speaker 1: up to the crow's nest or a crow's nest, starts
Speaker 1: storming up to the crow's nest, and Joe Gazy goes,
Speaker 1: hold second, buddy, calm down, so you'll never gets the
Speaker 1: brown Breaker does. He calms down. So Joe Gazy says,
Speaker 1: you know, I know you really want this ring, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make you deal. No tricks, he says. He goes,
Speaker 1: I will give you this ring back, and all I
Speaker 1: ask is that you give me a championship match in
Speaker 1: two weeks at n X t uh, you know, busted
Speaker 1: Open or whatever it's called spring Breaker, spring break in
Speaker 1: or something. So a brown Breaker goes, all right, you're on.
Speaker 1: So the tension has been lifted. So Joe Gazy he
Speaker 1: takes the ring off, takes the ring off. He he
Speaker 1: puts it down the shirt of a brown Breaker, and
Speaker 1: then they they look at each other, and then Joe
Speaker 1: Gacy says, I don't know that none of this matters.
Speaker 1: Some dumb line he goes one other thing and then
Speaker 1: he he shoves braun Breaker. You gotta take a leap
Speaker 1: of faith, Yeah, leap of faith. Braun Breaker falls off
Speaker 1: the crow's nest. You just see him, you know, he
Speaker 1: just appears off screen, and then you hear clang and uh,
Speaker 1: and then you missed the announcer going. The only sound
Speaker 1: from the announcer, and then from there is a bizarre
Speaker 1: I'm I'm like ninety nine percent sure from that point
Speaker 1: forward it's all pre tape because you never see the
Speaker 1: crowd again. You see a shot looking up at Joe Gacy,
Speaker 1: but you don't see any people, and then you they
Speaker 1: have another shot of brown Breaker. Of course he's laying
Speaker 1: flat on cement like he fell off the thing and
Speaker 1: laying it on cement. And uh, you know, at this point,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, alright, it's dumb, But I mean, what's everyone
Speaker 1: so angry about? Like it's just a stupid angle. No
Speaker 1: sooner should I think? Then braun Breakers laying on the
Speaker 1: a meant and all of a sudden, from around him
Speaker 1: are a dozen druids. Druids in Florida. There are a
Speaker 1: bunch of druids there, and all the druids they lift
Speaker 1: up there there things or whatever, and they start to
Speaker 1: cover the body of brawn. He goes, ah, and that's
Speaker 1: how the show goes off the air. That was stupid,
Speaker 1: And that's how the show went off the air. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I couldn't help. But I couldn't help.
Speaker 1: But notice, well you remember when Vince McMahon did that
Speaker 1: interview with McAfee and he goes, you know, sometimes we
Speaker 1: we make mistakes. By the way, doesn't mention a mistake
Speaker 1: he ever made, just in general. You know, sometimes we
Speaker 1: make mistakes. And what we do is we we learn
Speaker 1: from those mistakes, as we said. And I couldn't I
Speaker 1: couldn't help, but think that. You know, they had this guy,
Speaker 1: the Fiend, and they did a whole bunch of absolutely
Speaker 1: god awful, horrible television with this guy. And do you
Speaker 1: remember what happened to the Fiend got released? I fired you.
Speaker 1: So then he's gone. And then they decide, you know
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do is we're gonna make a female Fiend,
Speaker 1: and so Alexa Bliss is the new Fiend after they
Speaker 1: fired the first guy. And uh, some of the absolute
Speaker 1: Thomas stupid stuff you ever saw on television she's teleporting
Speaker 1: and all this other crap, and uh, I can't be helped.
Speaker 1: But noticed I have not seen her for a long time.
Speaker 1: She she vanished and then they did a bunch of
Speaker 1: equally stupid vignettes and then she had one match, and
Speaker 1: then she vanished again, and we haven't seen her. And
Speaker 1: now you of course, you know, you go online and uh,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know, but the rumors are that
Speaker 1: she's she's unhappy. She don't wonder why why would she
Speaker 1: be unhappy? Oh? Maybe you know, she did six weeks
Speaker 1: of vignettes and then they had no plan, and then
Speaker 1: she had one match and then advantage and then she
Speaker 1: wasn't even on wrestle me. I wonder if it could
Speaker 1: possibly be true that she would be frustrated. But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's two. Now, that's too Fiend related gimmicks involving horrible
Speaker 1: television where the you know, the antagonists here, first the
Speaker 1: Fiend and then Alexa. It's like then they it's just
Speaker 1: like they're gone. It's like a curse. Well, now now
Speaker 1: someone decided, well we need another Fiend. It'll be Joe Gacy.
Speaker 1: He'll laugh and he'll teleport and he'll be in mirrors
Speaker 1: even though he's not there, And I'm like, bro, how many, honestly,
Speaker 1: how many times are we gonna do this stupid crap
Speaker 1: and not figure out that it sucks and that nobody
Speaker 1: wants to see? The individuals involved they never get over
Speaker 1: and it's like they're cursed when they get strapped with
Speaker 1: this stupid How many times do we have to do this?
Speaker 1: Am I wrong? Forever? Because they make movies, No, they
Speaker 1: don't make movies. This is what they say, this is
Speaker 1: what they believe, this is what Vince believes, and come on,
Speaker 1: look the cinematics to all the things that we've gotten.
Speaker 1: Vince loves this stuff. And when sometimes when it hits,
Speaker 1: it's really good. Other times it's not. And to be honest,
Speaker 1: it hasn't hit all that often for me. No matter
Speaker 1: who is doing it, whether it be Alexa Bliss or
Speaker 1: Bray White or now Joe Gacy. How do these people
Speaker 1: get control of all the production. That's another thing too,
Speaker 1: wrestlers taking over the production and Joe Gacy being able
Speaker 1: to just you know, run wild in n XT in
Speaker 1: that place small enough where you can actually, you know,
Speaker 1: do something. But then again, there's carnage all over this show.
Speaker 1: There's a little mini movies taking place all over the place.
Speaker 1: Look at the heavy handedness of Tony D'Angelo and every
Speaker 1: single Mafia movie stereotype being brought out in very short
Speaker 1: order in this battle against Legato d Phantasma, Right. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what this whole show is about. That's what they
Speaker 1: like to do. That's where this show is more like
Speaker 1: the main roster than it ever has been, because they
Speaker 1: love doing this stuff, and the people be damned. You know,
Speaker 1: whether this is good for Joe Gazy or not doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: We have an idea, we have a plan. If it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, yeah, then we go on to the
Speaker 1: next one. That's what they do. I'm not surprised by
Speaker 1: this at all. Was a good No. Is this what
Speaker 1: I want to see braun Breaker doing? No? But in
Speaker 1: their mind, is this readying him for the main roster
Speaker 1: and all the sports entertainment that he's going to be doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess in their mind they do. I don't even
Speaker 1: think they think that. I think they just came up
Speaker 1: with a stupid idea. They needed a challenger for braun Breaker,
Speaker 1: and they looked at that whole roster they were like,
Speaker 1: you know, you know who's gonna be a great challenger
Speaker 1: for braun Breaker, Joe Gacy. Where's Powder? I don't know.
Speaker 1: He wasn't there. Maybe he watched this thing. He was like,
Speaker 1: I can't be involved in this. I'll go back to football.
Speaker 1: I'd rather do anything. And you know, I gotta I
Speaker 1: gotta give the guy credit. I mean, you know, braun Breaker,
Speaker 1: I mean low bar, but he was fine in these segments.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was an angry He was an angry
Speaker 1: guy looking around for a ring. It wasn't this horrible
Speaker 1: acting that we see every time. You know, Persia parad
Speaker 1: and uh, what's her face? Indie indie heart screen. I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was like the the stuff was bad,
Speaker 1: but I mean he did find Observer Live. Check you're
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Speaker 1: Bran Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simber Viv,
Speaker 1: also of Wrestling Observer dot Com, say something. He gave
Speaker 1: me the look when we were going to break Joe
Speaker 1: Gacy for what they want him to do is doing it.
Speaker 1: And I know the whole thing is annoying. But as
Speaker 1: far as Joe Gacy's performance, much like Alexa Bliss, a
Speaker 1: lot of the time, they're actually doing a good job.
Speaker 1: It's just everything about it. It doesn't appeal to me.
Speaker 1: But you can't say that he breaker is doing this
Speaker 1: great job, whereas Joe Gaycy isn't there doing a great job.
Speaker 1: But none of it appeals to me. That sounds like
Speaker 1: they're doing an awesome job. Well, I mean, is it
Speaker 1: more w W E in the stories are coming up with?
Speaker 1: If Joe Gaycy was given this on his own, do
Speaker 1: you think they could come up with something a little
Speaker 1: bit better with with if it's Rex Steiner and Joe
Speaker 1: Gaycy wherever the hell his name was before this, Like,
Speaker 1: do you think they'd come up with something better? I would?
Speaker 1: I would think So, you know, a combined a w
Speaker 1: Ring of honor event may happen one day if it
Speaker 1: makes sense. According to the owner of both companies, didn't
Speaker 1: we just see that it was Battle of the Belts?
Speaker 1: Well sort of? What do you mean? Sort of? It
Speaker 1: was totally a combined a w ring of combined. They
Speaker 1: had one match on a three match card. It's not
Speaker 1: a combined like we had a Ring of Honor matches.
Speaker 1: We had a W matches. We had an a W
Speaker 1: star with a Ring of Honor belt. I mean, no,
Speaker 1: you can't get more a W ring of You mean
Speaker 1: the terminus champion. No, I'm talking about what's his face?
Speaker 1: A Wheeler who is the pure champion of Ring of Honor.
Speaker 1: You already forget about that Wheeler? You ta is purely
Speaker 1: a champion of Ring of Honor. Oh my god. So
Speaker 1: he says that maybe one of these days, maybe one
Speaker 1: of these days, there will be a combined show. Everybody,
Speaker 1: wait and see, that's the question, A try show. That's
Speaker 1: what we're all looking for. All this banter about what
Speaker 1: this this thing is gonna be tonight. The Briscoe is here,
Speaker 1: by the way, so don't blame me. With the competition
Speaker 1: for the NBA playoffs, RAW dropped to its lowest total
Speaker 1: viewership number since the end of football season one point
Speaker 1: six five million viewers overall point four seven and eighteen
Speaker 1: and forty nine point three two in eighteen two thirty four.
Speaker 1: Major key was a big drop an hour three caused
Speaker 1: by the Golden State Warriors, the best drawing team left
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, versus Denver Nuggets. Game did three point
Speaker 1: two two million viewers and one point eight in eighteen
Speaker 1: forty nine Toronto Raptors Philadelphi is seventy six six against
Speaker 1: the first two hours two point seven four million at
Speaker 1: a point nine six in eighteen to nine twenty third
Speaker 1: biggest first a third hour drop in history. A lot
Speaker 1: of other stuff here. You know, he had a guy
Speaker 1: yesterday that did say that obviously there was NBA competition,
Speaker 1: but the I think it was a debut of the
Speaker 1: final season of Better Call Saul. He accurately predicted it
Speaker 1: would be going head to head starting an hour two
Speaker 1: and was gonna kill Raw. And if you look at
Speaker 1: the quarter hours for Raw, the first hour was very
Speaker 1: very stable, downright totally fine, and then that that second
Speaker 1: hour plunged in the third hour plunged even further. One
Speaker 1: point eight zero million for the first hour, one point
Speaker 1: six nine million for the second hour, one point four
Speaker 1: six million for the third hour, one point three eight
Speaker 1: million I believe for the final quarter. So that show
Speaker 1: fell off a cliff there. Eventually, Brandon Thurston has got
Speaker 1: the the quarter hours here because I know that everyone's
Speaker 1: gonna freak out about Oh Cody blah blah, blah. So
Speaker 1: in viewers. Yes, the Cody match with Seth Rawlins did
Speaker 1: one point three nine eight million viewers. That's bad. The
Speaker 1: Cody interview with Seth the same two guys one point
Speaker 1: eight one point nine million viewers, So it did the
Speaker 1: highest and the lowest quarter of the show. So you
Speaker 1: can't say, oh, it's all Cody's fault, it's all Seth's fault. No,
Speaker 1: it's just I mean literally the first the first hour
Speaker 1: averaged one point eight million viewers, and the second that
Speaker 1: second hour hit one seven, one six, one five, one
Speaker 1: four one three. Also go to show that nobody cared
Speaker 1: about who the mystery opponent was going to be for
Speaker 1: Cody Roads, because it didn't help. That didn't help, you know,
Speaker 1: good night for Roman reigns to take off, that's for sure,
Speaker 1: you know, And maybe they they don't give them too
Speaker 1: many more nights off at least while all this stuff
Speaker 1: is happening, and you just advertise him for something, even
Speaker 1: if it's just showing up in the last quarter just
Speaker 1: to see if you can pop something, because I don't
Speaker 1: know who. If it's not him or brock Lesner, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure else it's gonna be able to move anything
Speaker 1: or you know what else you're gonna be able to advertise.
Speaker 1: It's really gonna strike people's fancy. We've also got g
Speaker 1: c W and i w TV have reached a settlement.
Speaker 1: I w TV filed a lawsuit against g c W
Speaker 1: for breach of contract in streaming service claimed they had
Speaker 1: an exclusive agreement with the promotion for filming, producing, and
Speaker 1: digitally distributing their pay per view content. I w TV
Speaker 1: alleges g c W broke their deal when they began
Speaker 1: streaming their events on Fight TV in December of twenty
Speaker 1: g c W announced Wednesday they've reached a settlement. Gc
Speaker 1: W police to announce that we have come to terms
Speaker 1: in the settlement agreement with i w TV that brings
Speaker 1: an end to litigation between the parties. We even represents
Speaker 1: a significant milestone for g c W, but most importantly
Speaker 1: serves as a victory for independent wrestling and it's fans.
Speaker 1: Statement continues to say, as part of the settlement, g
Speaker 1: c W will produce a series of eight live events
Speaker 1: to be streamed on i w TV that will be
Speaker 1: titled The Settlement Series. The Settlement Series, I like it,
Speaker 1: Hey make some hey out of it. You're both gonna
Speaker 1: make money whatever it's gonna be, and you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: get some pretty good matches. It's some I t WTV.
Speaker 1: I they their last couple of champions. I mean, you
Speaker 1: you fought Orange Cassidy for that title wheel or you know,
Speaker 1: was you know, I'm not sure who's got it now
Speaker 1: if you just still does are not I've kind of
Speaker 1: lost track of it. But like, that's actually not a
Speaker 1: bad thing. I would love to see the you know,
Speaker 1: every once in a while, maybe on most WrestleMania weekend,
Speaker 1: all weekend, something like that. I WTV having that type
Speaker 1: of thing with all the promotions that they have under
Speaker 1: their umbrella, to have kind of a series like that
Speaker 1: against you know that defies or whoever it is, it's
Speaker 1: not under their umbrella, It's not a bad idea. It
Speaker 1: would probably work out pretty well for both. And we're
Speaker 1: talking about being calling it the Settlement series. Why well,
Speaker 1: you know, I remember it is obviously a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But in uh are they mowing your walls? They're actually
Speaker 1: the size of these machines for the lots are It's insane. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I remember when I don't think I remember the COVID
Speaker 1: Night Team pandemic. Heard of shut down the world. But
Speaker 1: everything shut down around here about the second week of March,
Speaker 1: and uh, there had been a there's a gym around here,
Speaker 1: there's running a kids camp, and uh, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the end of March, two weeks after things that started
Speaker 1: to shut down, and they renamed it out Break Camp.
Speaker 1: I didn't do very well that workout for him. Man
Speaker 1: was poor choice of camp name. Casey canton Zaro has
Speaker 1: been given a new ring name. Now listen, everybody, listen
Speaker 1: to me. Okay, listen. I am politely asking that before
Speaker 1: you completely ridicule this. She actually, you can go and
Speaker 1: watch the video for yourself. Maybe it'll be better than
Speaker 1: when I read what she said. In a video uploaded
Speaker 1: after this week's n x T, it was confirmed that
Speaker 1: Caton Zara is now going by the name A ton
Speaker 1: of Chance. Should have been like can not a chance Chance?
Speaker 1: And Caden Carter will face you lista Leone and Valentina
Speaker 1: for raz on the n next T next Tuesday. Both
Speaker 1: teams are looking to challenge toxic attraction. She said, and
Speaker 1: I quote everyone knows me as Casey Captain Zoro, and
Speaker 1: that is me. But there are parts of me that
Speaker 1: people have not seen except maybe Kayden, where I get
Speaker 1: to do what I want and that's like shooting back
Speaker 1: straight whiskey and letting loose. And Caden isn't the only
Speaker 1: one that can party and shake a little something. That
Speaker 1: is Katana Chance and that is the energy that I'll
Speaker 1: be bringing to n x T from now on. Wasn't
Speaker 1: that the Casey caton Zoro gimmick? Remember they went out
Speaker 1: and they drank and they parted and they went to
Speaker 1: festivals all the time. That was a best storyline. So
Speaker 1: that's her new name. And by the way, if anybody
Speaker 1: actually did watch n x T two, boy no I
Speaker 1: I was not paying good enough attention. But uh Raoul
Speaker 1: Mendoza was on the show. Uh did they mention that
Speaker 1: he had a new name or do they just started
Speaker 1: calling him his new name? Because I think they just
Speaker 1: started calling him his new name. They were just like
Speaker 1: hot tag to del Toro, and I was like Nicio
Speaker 1: del Toros here, So when they started a big star
Speaker 1: they started calling him that last week. Yes, yes, he
Speaker 1: was the only one whose name they announced and was
Speaker 1: was planted on him. So yeah, yeah, you know it's
Speaker 1: funny and these people are right uh, so, you know
Speaker 1: every time Gunter comes out, the fans chant Walter. Well,
Speaker 1: they had no problem with Del Toro. I guess they
Speaker 1: like that name better. They had a big del Toro
Speaker 1: chant when reman so they didn't get angry about that one,
Speaker 1: but they definitely got angry that Vulter was now Gunther.
Speaker 1: But it's okay to call the guy del Toro. Apparently.
Speaker 1: I don't know how these fans think. I can't figure
Speaker 1: it out. So next week on n x T we
Speaker 1: got Solo Socoa Trick, Williams, Fallon Henley, Josh Briggs and
Speaker 1: Brooks Jensen against Legato del Fantasma, which I thought Legato
Speaker 1: del Fantasma turned baby face. That's what I got another
Speaker 1: show last night, but I guess not Nikita, Lion and
Speaker 1: Lash a legend to get baby faces and heels and
Speaker 1: this in this thing chase all of them. Everything is
Speaker 1: just a complete mess. There are no baby faces and heels.
Speaker 1: Nathan very few. Frazier makes his n x T two
Speaker 1: point oh debut with that haircut in and cut a
Speaker 1: ton of chance and Caden Carter will face you listen.
Speaker 1: Leone and Valentina for us unless they get new names,
Speaker 1: that's possible. We're talking about the King of Pro Wrestling
Speaker 1: stip after the break and then n x T two
Speaker 1: point oh and more Observer Life. You were listening to
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv on
Speaker 1: the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Back in the show, Brian
Speaker 1: over is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike super Vi also
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer dot Com. So Shingo Takagi will be fighting
Speaker 1: for the King of Pro Wrestling championship here, King of
Speaker 1: Pro Wrestling? What do they call it? The King of
Speaker 1: Pro Wrestling provisional provisional? Yeah, what does that mean anyway?
Speaker 1: The provisional that's a that's a big word. What does
Speaker 1: that mean? Everybody? The King of Pro Wrestling provisional title?
Speaker 1: What is being pro provisioned? Anybody? Nobody? So anyway, he's
Speaker 1: gonna defend it, and they're gonna do a fan vote
Speaker 1: on Twitter to determine which of these stipulations will be
Speaker 1: chosen for their match in Hiroshima on April. I'm still
Speaker 1: looking and nobody has any idea. Yeah, let me just
Speaker 1: go to here for heaven's sake, looking up on the internet.
Speaker 1: That's all right, provisional arranged or existing for the present,
Speaker 1: possibly to be changed later. Well, I guess it is
Speaker 1: provisional because it's that it's two. So that's um. Also here,
Speaker 1: relating to the unofficial Wings of the Irish Republican Army
Speaker 1: and sin Fain, established in nineteen sixty nine and advocating terrorism,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna happen. Don't think they do
Speaker 1: that anymore though, So this person says, is basically temporary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes sense. It's been going on for years now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I guess it's the role changes which also have
Speaker 1: now been going on for a long time. And uh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you love this. I think it sucks. Well anyway,
Speaker 1: I love Toriyana. I think it's great, but it does
Speaker 1: nothing for me. He won the trophy. Shut up, you're
Speaker 1: an idiot. Okay. So Taichi has proposed a thirty account
Speaker 1: Oh god, see this one involves math. So it's a
Speaker 1: third count match where the first wrestler to get a
Speaker 1: combined thirty count on their opponent in pinfall attempts throughout
Speaker 1: the match is declared the winner. Do you realize that
Speaker 1: you would have to get uh, fifteen two counts on
Speaker 1: Shingo to make this work, dude, fans get confused, like
Speaker 1: if you go north of ten, if you're punching somebody
Speaker 1: in the corner, who's there needs to be a big
Speaker 1: talk or a screen or something like that, and then
Speaker 1: the other one tai Chi as TIChE suggestion, Takagi has
Speaker 1: proposed to quote a Takagi style three falls match, the
Speaker 1: first to three falls is the winner, but rather than
Speaker 1: being best three out of five, a competitor must get
Speaker 1: first a one count, then a two count, and then
Speaker 1: a three count. So whoever gets a one count first,
Speaker 1: that's the first fall. Whoever gets a two count next
Speaker 1: is a second fall, and then the winner must get
Speaker 1: a three count for the third fall. Hey, Brian, remember
Speaker 1: all those legendary matches where they would have amateur rules
Speaker 1: where it would be like Mike Rotundo and Jimmy Garvin,
Speaker 1: you have to pin somebody for a one count? No?
Speaker 1: See do you really though? Nobody really does? Are you
Speaker 1: bringing this back? Are having a two count for two
Speaker 1: and then you beat the guy with a three? Just
Speaker 1: here's a bigger issue. Okay. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys are aware of this or not, but it's which
Speaker 1: means that there has been professionally. To Brian, the point
Speaker 1: is the decade. The point is there has been wrestling
Speaker 1: in this country going on one hundred and forty years
Speaker 1: and probably even further back than that, because they did
Speaker 1: they did wrestling matches during the Civil War. But the
Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, yes, if no one in
Speaker 1: a hundred forty years has done a match under these
Speaker 1: stupid rules, there's probably a reason for that. There's a
Speaker 1: reason that that it took one hundred and twenty years
Speaker 1: for some idiot to come up with a rever first
Speaker 1: Battle Royal because it's stupid. Should talk about n x
Speaker 1: T tell me how that just works for you? Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what I do want to see one more
Speaker 1: King of Pro Wrestling Championship defense by Toriano, just one more,
Speaker 1: and you know who I'd like to see in that match,
Speaker 1: Bothy Tom Lawler so he can end this all for
Speaker 1: good and become the rat King. So n XT opened
Speaker 1: up with Elton Prince and Kit Wilson. This was a
Speaker 1: busy show, pretty deadly. They're the new tag team champs.
Speaker 1: They did a promo and then uh Drake and they're
Speaker 1: not the grizzly young Vetsny but just yes, it's Drake
Speaker 1: and Gibson. They they they're they're they literally lost their
Speaker 1: team name and half of their names. So Drake and
Speaker 1: Gibson come out and they won each championship match. Then
Speaker 1: Elector Lopez, who actually still has a first and last name,
Speaker 1: she comes out and there's a big brawl and uh,
Speaker 1: pretty deadly runs away and uh, look like I said,
Speaker 1: Logotto del Fantasia told baby Face on this show, but
Speaker 1: apparently they're not. And then braun Breaker comes out and
Speaker 1: we have the beginning of this stupid stuff with Joe
Speaker 1: Gaysing is laughing. We have Tiffany Stratton versus Serai and uh,
Speaker 1: Tiffany beatter clean in the middle twisting Vader bomb off
Speaker 1: the middle rope. That's just fine. Three weeks, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a lot of time to work on it.
Speaker 1: Sura is really good, but she looks like a star start.
Speaker 1: Tiffany Stratton looks like a w w E main roster star.
Speaker 1: How long it takes for them to pull her up
Speaker 1: there when she should probably have a lot more seasoning.
Speaker 1: Who knows, but it's probably gonna be sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: We have a pretty deadly They show up an Indie
Speaker 1: Heartwell and Persia Parata there and they're hitting on them,
Speaker 1: and then Heartwell and Prat to Wana match and they're like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I can name the place. But then they reveal the
Speaker 1: man is actually with Dexter Loomis and Duke Hudson and
Speaker 1: pretty deadly doesn't want the match. Week of the match.
Speaker 1: For later, Grayson Waller does an interview he has broken
Speaker 1: up with Songa after what happened, and Sanga shows up
Speaker 1: and chases Grayson Waller. They have a match, and believe
Speaker 1: it or not, Grayson Waller pins Sana with his move. So,
Speaker 1: for those of you keeping track, Sana has never won
Speaker 1: a single match in n x T Big Giant. He's
Speaker 1: lost every single match he's ever had, and he lost
Speaker 1: another one here. And my guess is that Songa and
Speaker 1: Veer are going to end up a tag team on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Raw. And for those of you, for those
Speaker 1: of you that have not seen Songa, help me describe Songa.
Speaker 1: He's broun Stroman, but he's lost smarter because braun Stroman
Speaker 1: said idiot. But Sana, they dress him exact really the same. Literally,
Speaker 1: he's got the same pants, he's got the same boots.
Speaker 1: He's got the same single it, he's got the same ponytail,
Speaker 1: he's got the same beard. I mean literally, I swear
Speaker 1: to God, You'll never not You'll never not see it.
Speaker 1: He looks exactly like bron Stroman, but he's younger and smarter.
Speaker 1: So now he's going to the main roster. And the
Speaker 1: other guys working at a taco festival. We had a
Speaker 1: vignette with the former rock Cy who's now Roxane Perez
Speaker 1: and uh, she is challenged by toxic attraction, and it
Speaker 1: led to a match later which was a good match
Speaker 1: like Del Fantasima versus Uh. You know, those two guys
Speaker 1: Rake and Gibson had a good match and uh Legato
Speaker 1: del fantasma one and uh, and that was that. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine if they just would have let them be wrestlers,
Speaker 1: and you put Legato in the grizzle young vets, and
Speaker 1: you kept Bartel and Eichner together, and you just brought
Speaker 1: all of them up to the main roster. We wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to see street profits and usso's and r Cape
Speaker 1: row over and over again. And for Randy Orton's sake,
Speaker 1: he would have somebody else to work with besides the
Speaker 1: street profits, who he seems to be getting tired of.
Speaker 1: We had Carmelo Hayes and Santos Escobar. Okay, listen, everybody listen. Okay,
Speaker 1: Santos Escobar is like, he's really good and Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: is good, and uh, because they're a certain level of good,
Speaker 1: the match was actually pretty good. But bro, this had
Speaker 1: to be the worst possible match these two could have together.
Speaker 1: They looked lost constantly in this. Am I the only
Speaker 1: one I'm watching this match, and they had no idea
Speaker 1: what was going on, but it still ended up being
Speaker 1: all right. But man, they're just on two separate planets
Speaker 1: doing this match, and I think part of it might
Speaker 1: have been that Santos Escobar was working baby Face here
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean they're just constantly talking to each
Speaker 1: other and like they're in one corner and then they
Speaker 1: just walked to the other corner and I can't even
Speaker 1: figure out why, because nothing happened in that corner either.
Speaker 1: I was just I could not figure out what was
Speaker 1: going on in this match. But they even with all that,
Speaker 1: it was all right. Yeah, it was. It was amazing.
Speaker 1: You wanted to be really, I thought I was hoping
Speaker 1: it was gonna be really really good, and you know
Speaker 1: they have it in them and do that. I would
Speaker 1: love to see them rewind this one back. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they will because of what's going on, you
Speaker 1: know with obviously Cameron Grimes and and the deal with
Speaker 1: Tony D'Angelo, so but i'd love to see it again
Speaker 1: different circumstances. So then two dorks show up and uh,
Speaker 1: there's a distraction, and uh, Escobar gets pinned as a
Speaker 1: result because of these these two men, which we'll find
Speaker 1: out more about them later. And then Hayes wants a
Speaker 1: shot against Cameron Grimes at spring Breaking that's what it's
Speaker 1: called in two weeks, and Solo Skoll shows up, and
Speaker 1: so they're gonna end up having a three way spring
Speaker 1: break into Electric Vogaloot next year. Why isn't it like
Speaker 1: spring Breaker when you have braun Breaker right there? Why
Speaker 1: not theme it out that way? We had We had
Speaker 1: Natty versus Tatum Pasley, and uh, this was a really
Speaker 1: interesting match because Natty must be pretty good at caring people,
Speaker 1: because for the most part this match was actually really
Speaker 1: good until Tatum Paxley like had to be in charge
Speaker 1: and then it just totally fell apart. She just stood there,
Speaker 1: she just looked at Natty. I didn't know what to
Speaker 1: do in her comeback. But like whenever Natty was like
Speaker 1: controlling the match, it was good. So Tatum Paxley, I can,
Speaker 1: I can say, can be carried, but she can only
Speaker 1: be carried by someone like Natty. So sharp Shooter finished.
Speaker 1: That was the end of that. Tony de'angelo's in the
Speaker 1: parking lot. He's asked to be anything to do with
Speaker 1: the blokes that appeared to the Escobar match. He says no. Later,
Speaker 1: Santos and everybody your eaving, there's a dead fish on
Speaker 1: their car, and Santo says, bar goes a dead fish.
Speaker 1: This could only mean one person, and bro I was
Speaker 1: just waiting for him to have to explain who it
Speaker 1: was to the idiots watching, but they actually didn't ever
Speaker 1: do it, so we were able to figure it out
Speaker 1: on our own. Don't forget the boot on the car too.
Speaker 1: After he had earlier on Tony Dangel and made a
Speaker 1: crack about mice wheels, they come out and there's a
Speaker 1: government you know cop size, you know, block on the
Speaker 1: front tire. So so this Zion Quinn, he's been a
Speaker 1: baby face, but you know, there have been weird things
Speaker 1: that have happened, Like, you know, a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: the one guy, the military guy, he's doing he's like
Speaker 1: watching something and Zion Quinn rudely shows up and tells
Speaker 1: him to stop watching it. And then guys like, don't
Speaker 1: tell me what to do, and Zion goes, now, you
Speaker 1: must be tough a lesson in respect. It's like you're
Speaker 1: a jerk. Well, this week, poor west Lee's back stage
Speaker 1: his partner. No explanation, his partner has vanished off the
Speaker 1: face of the earth. They've been stripped to the titles.
Speaker 1: They don't talk about him, there's no nothing. So they're
Speaker 1: interviewing poor Wesley and they're like, how you feeling, Wesley,
Speaker 1: And of course west Lee ken mentioned it. It's either
Speaker 1: so he's just like, man, you know, I've been really down.
Speaker 1: I got a lot of questions, and and Zion Quinn
Speaker 1: shows up. He starts hadding like a jerk again, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, so has he turned to heel? And I
Speaker 1: just found out about it? So they end up doing
Speaker 1: a match. It's Westley manifestation of the n x D
Speaker 1: studio audience. He's a total jerk. So they have a
Speaker 1: match and Zion Quinn versus Wesley, and I man Wesley
Speaker 1: had questions before this poor guy he got beat And
Speaker 1: not only that, remember that interview with Randy Orton and
Speaker 1: he's talking about how these n x T guys aren't
Speaker 1: taught to take care of their opponents. Bro this Zion Quinn.
Speaker 1: He did a flying form for the finish. He hit
Speaker 1: this guy so hard. I thought he killed him. They
Speaker 1: showed a replay, and usually on the replays its slow
Speaker 1: motion and they eat it up at the end so
Speaker 1: you can't actually see. Not this one, they do the
Speaker 1: slow motion. He hit this guy so hard and then
Speaker 1: pinned him. I was like, my god, anything else. And
Speaker 1: then we had Roxanne Perez, the former Roxy against j C. Jane.
Speaker 1: Roxanne Perez is good and this is a good match.
Speaker 1: She got the win with the code red. I like
Speaker 1: this a lot. Did you like the set up for it? Uh?
Speaker 1: The interview we talked about that it was goofy. And
Speaker 1: then the main event was pretty Deadly against Dexter Loomis
Speaker 1: and Duke Hudson. That was a pretty good match. I
Speaker 1: like this pretty Deadly. They're right up my alleys a team,
Speaker 1: and uh, of course distraction finish and then uh Hudson
Speaker 1: got pinned. Champions retained their belts and then we had
Speaker 1: the stupid stuff with Joe Gacy and Braun Breaker at
Speaker 1: the end. Back in the moment, everybody Observer Live. You're
Speaker 1: listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike
Speaker 1: semper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Okay, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't talk about Nikita Lions, but I gotta talk
Speaker 1: about this segment. I am begging you. If you're listening
Speaker 1: to this right now, you have got to watch the
Speaker 1: interview segment with Natty and Nikita Lions. So Natty is
Speaker 1: walking backstage and they're interviewing her about core Jade, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Nikita Lions just walks up from
Speaker 1: off screen and she's standing there. And I don't have
Speaker 1: all the dialogue, but the gist of it is Nay
Speaker 1: says something like, oh who are you? And I swear
Speaker 1: to god, Nikita is standing there and there's like a
Speaker 1: long pause and then she goes and then she launched
Speaker 1: it into her her whole character. It was still most
Speaker 1: it was the weirdest thing. So then they're starting to
Speaker 1: go back and forth and uh, and they're gonna do
Speaker 1: a challenge. Uh, Nikia is facing lash legend next week.
Speaker 1: And then she wants to Natty. But like every time
Speaker 1: one of the others stopped talking, there was just like
Speaker 1: this awkward silence and they look at each other for
Speaker 1: a while, then they stopped talking. Then one of them
Speaker 1: would awkwardly look a different direction and smile like they're
Speaker 1: both waiting for someone to go cut. Let's do it again,
Speaker 1: but the guy filming was refusing to cut it and
Speaker 1: start over, and so they did the whole thing. I'm
Speaker 1: just dying watching this, and so, my my, I got
Speaker 1: two questions. I don't know the answer. It's like, he
Speaker 1: was this live? And if so, why and be was
Speaker 1: it taped? And if so, why did this air? Why
Speaker 1: didn't you tape it again? You guys gotta go watch this.
Speaker 1: It was I don't even know what happened to you.
Speaker 1: Nikita does a decree that she is flexible, which will
Speaker 1: help her with the sharpshooter, and yeah, well, look that's
Speaker 1: getting them ready for the main roster. The long fade
Speaker 1: out that they do sometimes on the main roster, which
Speaker 1: feels like a rib, that's what this one felt like.
Speaker 1: By the time everybody land Storm show today five Pacific,
Speaker 1: eight eastern. It's gonna be late today due to a
Speaker 1: scheduling conflict, So that's tonight five Pacific, eight eastern. Later
Speaker 1: on tonight with Dave back tomorrow Observer Live. Because Mike
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