WEBVTT - Scott Hall/Big E 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:14.560 Read Let's get it all. How's going to everybody? Brian 0:00:14.560 --> 0:00:17.720 Alvarez here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:21.160 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three sturn Sunday 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.560 three Pacific six Eastern Monday here on the show. You 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:26.799 know that means we'll talk about Ron everything after a while. 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:28.720 But obviously we've got some very big stories from this 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:32.000 past weekend and a lot of news that is not 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:38.159 good news. Scott Hall will be taken off life support 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.920 once his family is in place, Kevin Nash wrote on Instagram. 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:44.680 Life support will be removed for Scott Hall, who suffered 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:48.800 three heart attacks on Saturday following complications from the hip surgery. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.760 Scott's on life support. Nash wrote, once his family is 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.120 in place, they will discontinue support. I'm gonna lose the 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.880 one person on this planet I've spent more of my 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.440 life with than anybody else. My heart is broken and 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.360 I am so he said. I love Scott with all 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:03.720 my heart and now I have to prepare my for 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.200 a life without him. In the present. I have been 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:08.080 blessed to have a friend that took me at face 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:10.840 value and I him. Hall has been in the hospital 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:15.319 since March one after suffering a broken hip that required surgery. 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:20.000 Complications started when a blood clot became loose. Obviously, Hall 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:21.760 is best known for his running w w E s 0:01:21.840 --> 0:01:23.720 raised Ramon later in w c W as a founding 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.000 member of the n w OH four time w W 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.000 in are Kindell champion, seven time at tag team champion 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.839 in w CW, etcetera, etcetera. So we can talk about 0:01:31.840 --> 0:01:36.880 Scott Hall here on the show today not looking good 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:42.360 at this moment. Also and what it's bad news. But 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.440 I mean, as far as like bad news goes, it's 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.800 about the best. The outcome is about as best as 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.200 you can hope for such bad news. Biggie was on 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.040 SmackDown Friday. He was given an overhead belly to belly 0:01:55.160 --> 0:02:02.400 and landed on his head and broke his neck. He 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.360 broke his C one and his C six. Anything about 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.400 broken necks, your ce one vertebrae. A lot of people 0:02:09.440 --> 0:02:12.320 that break that one, that's the end of them. They 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:17.480 either are paralyzes for life or dead. Somehow he broke 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.440 his C one and C six won't even need surgery. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.600 We can talk about more after the break Wrestling Observer 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:46.880 Live than thank you back in the show, right, albur 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:53.600 is here, Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike Simper BV isn't here. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:58.600 I just realized he's not here today. I'll find out 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.280 what's going on. You're a moment. In fact, let's do 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.560 it here in the year, because you know that's what 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.600 we do on this show, is find out what's going on. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.040 I guess is he's asleep? All right, let's get into 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:19.079 the news here. Obviously we talked about Scott Hall and Biggie. 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:23.560 Is the two top stories. Scott Hall is on life support, which, 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.720 according to Kevin Nash, will be he will be removed 0:03:27.880 --> 0:03:31.760 from life support when his family is in place. So 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.480 that is the latest on Scott Hall. And as noted, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:41.880 Biggie suffered a broken neck on SmackDown and uh yes, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:44.320 I said he broke his C one and C six. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:48.240 It's it's semantics. I guess the C one and C 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.200 six were fractured, but the doctor said his neck was broken, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.720 so anyway, not good. But what is good is that 0:03:55.240 --> 0:04:01.160 he will not need surgery, and presumably I mean, he's 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.640 got a full use of his arms, legs, fingers, digits, 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.440 and hopefully this means that he will be back in 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.560 action sooner rather than later. He even joked pro tip, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.200 if you're gonna break your neck, do it in Birmingham, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.840 because of course that's where all of the major surgeries 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:19.760 are done if you get yourself injured in w w E. 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.200 So um, so that's that we have a question here, 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.320 Uh thoughts, you know, what do you what do you 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.320 think about the whole idea that even took an overhead 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.920 belly to belly on the mats outside on SmackDown. So 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.920 here's the thing to me regarding this move right here, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:44.320 the the listen outside it is it is matted. Okay, 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:48.000 the mats on the outside are are you're one and 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.520 a half inch wrestling mats basically. So you know, if 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.680 you ever watch Olympic wrestling, and if you watch freestyle 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.240 Olympic wrestling, you know there's there's dudes to get picked 0:05:00.320 --> 0:05:05.839 up and thrown hard in in Olympic wrestling competition, and 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.320 they're landing on the same mats as the mats you're 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:11.480 landing on outside. So it's not like you're landing on cement. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.599 It's obviously different from you know, taking a bump in 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:17.640 the middle of the ring, which is the bounciest in 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.680 the best place to take a bump, but you are 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:25.080 you are still landing on a padded area. That's number one. 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:29.080 Number two when they you know, when when you talk, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.120 they talk about the hardest part of the ring being 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.479 the the ring, apron, etcetera. Yes, in the middle of 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.719 the ring there's a lot of give. There's less give 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:41.520 on the ring apron, but the the mat that covers 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:46.840 the ring itself, that extends the padded area that extends 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.440 all the way to the end and usually curves over. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.640 So you know, you take a bump on the the 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.479 apron and it is there is less give, but it 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.560 is just as padded as as anywhere else. So what's 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:05.960 the point. The point is, if you take a proper 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.479 overhead belly to belly, what I would I like to 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:11.760 be taking overhead belly to bellies on the matted area 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.640 in the floor. I wouldn't. But you know, if you're 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.160 taking a vertical suplex, your body's going up and down 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.240 this way. It's roughly the same as taking an overhead 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.880 belly to belly on the floor, unless, of course, you 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.320 land on top of your head like Big E did. 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.800 If you watch the injury too, big E, I mean, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.559 if you would have landed like that in the middle 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.960 of the ring, he probably would have suffered the exact 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:42.480 same injury. I mean, that's a that's a two and 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.880 eighty pound guy or whatever, literally falling straight down on 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.440 his head neck. So I'm not sure it would have 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.360 been any better to take that bump inside the ring. 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:58.640 I've seen thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:02.400 overhead belly to belly super lexus and they very, very 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.520 rarely go wrong. So if the question is what I 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:10.360 ban that move, I would not ban the overhead belly 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.040 to belly suplex. Would I make sure that the person 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.240 delivering the overhead belly to belly suplex knows exactly how 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.720 to do it? Of course, And you know there's also 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.280 you know this this. If you gonna watch Drew McIntyre 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.960 do an overhead belly to belly suplex, he grabs people 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.960 around the waist, but as he throws, he also takes 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.800 one of his hand and he bumps him over, as 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.720 opposed to just doing the curd angle style or the 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.480 brock Lesson. You just grab him and you go and 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.400 and they flip over. I mean, I prefer the way 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.880 that Drew does it in the sense that most people 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.520 may not even notice it, but you're doing essentially the 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.960 same move, but you're also giving them that little bump 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.240 to help turn them over in case something goes wrong. 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:56.880 I would prefer if it was done that way, but 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.480 this was it was an accident. I don't know what 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.880 went wrong. You know, it's not that much harder of 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:06.720 a bump on the outside than a lot of other 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:10.440 bumps if done correctly, So it was an It was 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.200 an accident that happened. And if it would have happened 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.680 in the ring, on the ramp, pretty much anywhere. I mean, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.320 a two pound guy landing straight up and down on 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.960 his head like that, it's gonna there's gonna be it's 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:27.400 gonna be a poor outcome. So I don't think that 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.200 everybody should be getting all over Ridge Holland. You know, 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.760 I I watched it. I mean, I don't even really 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:35.560 know what went wrong. The guy didn't rotate enough. But 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.679 sometimes when you see a botched move, I mean, it's 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.200 abundantly clear what went wrong with that botched move, and 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.920 obviously something went wrong here, but it wasn't something where 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:47.839 when I watched it's like, well, of course the guy 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.240 landed on his head. The whole thing got completely screwed up. 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.800 It clearly got screwed up, but it's not like some 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:56.240 things where you know, it's very obvious what went wrong, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.079 why it went wrong, etcetera, etcetera. So thankfully Big he 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:04.520 appears to be on the road to recovery, hopefully quickly, 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.040 hopefully he can get back in the ring. I mean, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:13.520 it wasn't that move, but you know, I was way 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:16.079 more concerned for years about you know, when Biggie did 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.560 that running topay and just crashed so hard on the 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.520 outside over and over. I thought for sure something bad 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:23.040 was gonna happen there, but it never did. And uh, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.800 you know, maybe when he comes back, maybe avoid stuff 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.880 like that. But hopefully he can come back and do 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.880 everything he did before. I'm glad he's all right, And uh, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.760 I'm glad that. I'm glad it didn't turn out worse 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.640 because watching that bump, like times out of a hundred, 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:42.480 I think it probably would have ended up much much worse. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.280 Scott Hall, what can you say about Scott Hall. You know, 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:53.280 obviously the most notable run of Scott Hall's career was 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:57.320 when they came in as the Outsiders and uh, you 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:02.400 know it's been talked about nauseum for years, but the 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:06.120 Outsiders in World Championship Wrestling, and I don't want I 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:11.440 don't want people to listen to this and Gobry listen. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.120 It's not I'm not denigrating Kevin Nash or running down 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.680 Kevin Nash, okay, but what I'm saying is if you 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.040 watched the Outsiders when they first came in, before they 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.440 were linked with Whole Cogan. I don't want to say 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.480 that it was like the Scott Hall Show because it 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.520 took both of them, but holy smokes, a Scott Hall. 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.720 This guy had the charisma of like fifty men. And 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:37.400 I'm not sure that if if it would have been 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.320 like you know, Kevin Nash and uh, if they would 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.959 have chosen Kevin Nash and Lex Luger or Kevin Nash 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.320 and um, you know who else might have jumped over 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.240 that time, Ted d Base whatever, I'm not sure any 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.640 other group it would have been as big as it 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:56.839 was with Kevin Nash and Scott Hall. Because Scott Hall 0:10:57.320 --> 0:11:04.600 had so much charisma and and he, like I felt, 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.240 was the guy that at the very beginning, held this 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.720 whole thing together, is like a mega superstar type group. 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.280 And then of course once he had a whole COVID, 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.000 it was off to the races and everything like that. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.200 But I don't know if Hall gets enough credit for, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:21.000 you know, doing as much as he did when this 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:25.800 when this act first came over from from from w WF. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:30.800 So obviously, you know, once once he started to have 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.880 his problems, I mean it was it was a rough road. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.600 Even at his worst, he still had so much charisma. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:39.800 I mean, he could come out and you know, clearly 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.360 he wasn't in the best state of mind, but he 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:42.920 could get in the ring and do his hey yo, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.440 and the people would go absolutely crazy and and uh, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:51.440 super charismatic guy. I always thought he was a great worker, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.920 and uh, you know, there were some people that I 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.079 thought that he was. He was a little bit overrated 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.920 as worker. Maybe in some ways he was, but I 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.640 thought that he was great. He was he was smooth, 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:06.280 he could have good matches, he would never hurt you. Uh, 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.240 he connected with the fans. He was he was way 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.640 way better as Scott Hall. In uh in w c 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.360 W than he was his Razor Ramone, and he was 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.080 a big star as Razor Ramone. But I felt that 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.280 he was far more charismatic under his real name doing 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:24.520 that character than he was is you know, the fake 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.720 whatever he was with Razormon. We could have more about 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.720 Scoll Hall Scott Hall after the break, rusting him Server Live. 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.280 I am, in fact here on the show Hustling Observer 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.800 Live right, Alvarez here, Mike semperviv. I do not know 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.160 where he's at. I guess we will. We'll see he 0:12:56.200 --> 0:13:00.120 shows up here today daylight savings time. I guess is 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.920 that he is a He is asleep right now, so 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.000 UM a couple of other things. We'll we'll talk more 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.560 about Hall and Biggie when we get in the feedback here, 0:13:09.320 --> 0:13:13.160 but raw is tonight, and tonight we're gonna find out 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.680 if Cody is signed or not, because if Cody has signed, 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.160 he's gonna be on the show tonight. I guess it's 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.079 also possible he has signed and they've changed plans, but 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:27.440 the plans even as of this weekend, we're still Cody 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.120 and seth rawlins. If if Cody signs his deal, So 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.280 if he has signed, he is expected to be on 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.760 the show tonight, and if he has not signed the 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.840 obviously he's not gonna be on the show tonight. And 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.720 if he has not signed yet, then I guess we'll 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.040 find out if they're going to hold off and continue 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.679 the presumption that he will face seth Rawlins, or if 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:51.640 they will move seth Rawlins onto something else. Because they've 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.280 been doing house shows this weekend and seth Rawlins was 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:59.360 added to the I guess would be Finn Balor and 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:03.200 Damien East feud. They've been doing three ways this weekend, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.720 So presumably if they can't figure out, uh, they can't 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.880 get the Cody deal done, then uh, seth Rollings does 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:14.160 have a clear path to wrestle Menia everybody. He will 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.360 be involved, most likely in a three way, but we'll 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:22.520 find out tonight. I Uh, I don't know what's gonna happen. 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.920 I have absolutely no idea. It's like one of those uh, 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.080 you know when when people go, oh, you think such 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:29.360 as that, I have no idea what's gonna happen to 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.200 a W And I have no idea what's gonna happen 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:35.120 with Cody. Do I think he's gonna be there tonight. Well, 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.600 I don't know. I can't even say one way or 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.040 the other. What I could tell you is that this 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.520 was the place that they were expecting him to debut. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.680 So debuts the debuts, and if he doesn't, and we'll 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.440 see what happens. Also, this weekend of our shows, who 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:58.320 should return to action but Becky Lynch. So she'd done 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.760 a house show. I guess it would have been a 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:07.120 week ago, and she suffered a broken voice box, she said, 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:12.360 and uh, she was not at RAW. Actually she wasn't Raw. 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.240 She was backstage, but she was not on TV. But 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.640 she'd been hospitalized over the weekends. Would have been marked 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:21.000 sixth and all Intown, Pennsylvania. She suffered the broken voice box, 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.200 and she's in the hospital. She's got the gimmick. She 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.640 shows up at RAW the next day she can't talk. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:30.880 And the word we were given was they expect that 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.440 she's going to be back in time for WrestleMania. I thought, Wow, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.040 it seems like it's gonna be pretty quick. Well, lo 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:39.160 and behold, she was back to an house shows this weekend, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.520 so she's good to go for WrestleMania. So I presume 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:47.640 that she will be on the show tonight, but I 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:52.160 guess anything is possible. We also had w W revealing 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:56.440 the newest member of this year's w w E Hall 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:02.160 of Fame class. It was announced via Complex whatever that is, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.680 and that Charmel will be inducted into the w w 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.760 E Hall of Fame over WrestleMania Week this April. Joins 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.680 the Undertaker and Vader in the twenty two Hall of 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.320 Fame class. I was so happy, she told the Complex. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.120 After learning she was going into the Hall of Fame, 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.800 I didn't even know what to say. It was an unexpected, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:26.560 great surprise, a welcome surprise. Somebody asked if she was 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:28.480 the first w w E Hall of Famer that had 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.320 gotten a negative five star rating, and the answer is no, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:38.800 That would go to the Bushwhackers who once faced the 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.680 Iron Chic at Nikolai Volkoff and a tag team match 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.440 at the Heroes of Wrestling, which actually I gave significantly 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.600 less than five stars to Minus five stars would have 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.720 been like praising that particular match, it was so bad. 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.480 And then also on the subject of the Huffman's Nearly 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:02.360 a month after Booker t backtrack after initially breaking the news, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:07.080 rock Cy has reportedly signed a w w E contract 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.000 and will start in n x T pple Inside Report 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.720 of the News on Monday during a mid February appearance 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:17.600 on Ariel Hellwani's MMA Our but Curtisa, the twenty year 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.199 old had signed a deal, but later tweeted that he 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:24.480 misspoke because this company is weird and uh, they don't 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.439 want you announcing anything until either they have announced it 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:32.000 or they have given the news to somebody else to announce, 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.919 where they can announce that somebody else announced it, because 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:37.160 it seems like you're a bigger deal when somebody else 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.520 is breaking your news, except if it's like you know, 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.120 Wrestling Observer, p W Inside or something, then that doesn't count. 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:46.960 But anyway, she's been signed for a while, so there 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.000 you go, and I hope she does well in n 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:55.240 x T, and honestly I expect, oh, here, here he goes, 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:59.680 she's gonna do well in n x T. Roman rains 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.720 Is All have been added to two stops on w 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:05.000 w e's upcoming European House show tour. Rain's gonna be 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:09.560 wrestling in London on April, Paris on April. They've got 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:12.640 a tour from April one through May one. Since their 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:17.840 usual the usually do a post WrestleMania European tour and 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.639 so uh they've added Roman and Rhonda, which to me 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.439 probably means, you know, we gotta sell some tickets, because 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.840 that's what they normally do in they need to sell 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.280 some tickets. So there you go. We're gonna go to 0:18:30.320 --> 0:18:33.359 some feedback and I may open up the phone lines 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:35.920 in the next segment if you've got memories and things 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.879 you want to talk about regarding Scott Hall, and we 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.679 can also if you want to talk about the Rampage 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:47.400 show on Friday night and the SmackDown Show on Friday 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.080 Night as well, which had a very good main event. 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:54.919 It was weird actually was made evented by um Sammy 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.880 Zane and Ricochet. That was a main event of SmackDown 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:02.639 Sammy Zane and Ricochet. Although they did end with a 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:04.399 as I attempt to not sneeze here and I have 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.919 no Mike to cover for me. Ah, they did end 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:13.880 with a brawl Charlotte Flair and uh Rhonda Rousy. Huh. 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.080 Don't look at the light, that's what they say. Don't 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:21.919 look at the light. All right. Scott Hall was awesome. 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.320 This person said, I never got to see him. Russell 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:26.760 alive because his peak was before I was born. But 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.159 looking back at his matches with the guys like Brett 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:33.000 and Sean, they're amazing and his importance to wrestling history 0:19:33.040 --> 0:19:36.640 is undeniable. Yeah, Like I said, I was a way 0:19:36.680 --> 0:19:39.000 bigger fan of him as Scott Hall than Razor Ramone. 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:43.119 Those Razor Ramon the vignettes were just so wacky, and 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:45.520 he ended up doing a good job with the character. 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:49.280 But I mean this is like a classic example of 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.080 you know, we've talked about it a million times. No 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:55.919 matter how good you are at at playing a character, 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.400 you're still better at being yourself. And uh, and he 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.359 was himself when he was Scott Hall and when he 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.679 was raised Ramoney was was it a fake Cuban? Is 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:09.520 that what it was? So? You know, but it was, 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:13.199 you know, there was um, you know, he used some 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:17.399 of the the Razor Ramon mannerisms when he went to 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.880 UH to World Champions pressling when him and Kevin Nash 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.600 jumped over. I mean, there was a lawsuit filed by 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.320 w w E that that w w E was using 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.400 their intellectual property because even though they you know, they 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.000 they called him Scott Hall. I mean, he used the 0:20:33.040 --> 0:20:36.199 line about you know who I am. He had the 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.680 you know, the whole gimmick and everything like that, so 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:44.760 you know that was but he he he changed, he went, 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.560 he went full Scott Hall there after a while, and 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:51.320 it was a I thought, a big improvement. This person says, 0:20:51.560 --> 0:20:54.120 it's funny growing up as a wrestling fan, my mom 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.600 and my aunt would occasionally watch with me. My mom 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.280 hated Scott Hall, while my aunt loved him and always 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:02.760 had such a huge crush on him. One time, I 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:07.440 free uh freeze framed a picture of him in picture 0:21:07.480 --> 0:21:10.959 and picture tease my aunt with and it accidentally burned 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:13.040 an imprint in the TV heath that lasted a week. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:14.800 Remember back in the day when you have like a 0:21:14.840 --> 0:21:18.280 screen saver or you would uh you know, burn an 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:23.239 imprint into your cathode ray monitor. Some of youngsters are like, 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.520 what is this guy talking about him? Many Christmas? Regardless 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:29.280 of this, he says, I still do some of his 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.919 mannerisms in the mirror, like slicking the hair, pumping the 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:35.800 chest while stomping the floor to show off. The man 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:37.879 at Chrisma said to have a world without him, and 0:21:37.920 --> 0:21:39.639 glad he sobered up to enjoy the world for his 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:45.080 last few years. He will be missed dearly. This person 0:21:45.119 --> 0:21:47.960 says Scott really got hey yo over as a catchphrase. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:50.359 He was that good rest in power man. He would 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:52.679 stand out there and he would just build it up 0:21:52.680 --> 0:22:00.439 forever and then he'd uh, oh, here's Mike. Yeah, he 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:05.200 sent me a text that I cannot. I can't. I 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.679 don't know what he's talking about, but I'll contact him 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:13.840 during the break. So, oh, you know what. I know 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:18.840 where he's at and I can now. Yeah, I forgot 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:21.520 about this. It's actually my fault. He didn't know show. 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.840 He told me last week he's actually going to see 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:29.080 the Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant live. I forgot about that. 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:34.159 My fault. He didn't sleep in there. You go, Brian 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:38.960 forgot again. Remember he went to see the Boogie Woogie Man. Alright, 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.600 I'll let him know, all right, Well that's where he's at. 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:47.080 He's out seeing Jimmy Valiant today. Totally forgot about that, 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:52.119 all right. And actually somebody notes here, you know, with 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.800 that w w E lawsuit where they they claimed that 0:22:56.440 --> 0:22:59.080 Hall was using too many of the Razor Ramon mannerisms 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:03.239 when he went to Championship Wrestling UM. His w W 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:07.760 e w W f Razor Ramone mannerisms remarkably similar to 0:23:07.840 --> 0:23:12.359 the Diamond stud I don't think that was mentioned in 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:16.840 the lawsuit. Also got here four to five seven eight 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:18.600 zero seven five six six. By the way, as the 0:23:18.720 --> 0:23:22.920 text message line, this person says, that's about the Bullet Club. 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:26.560 We'll get into those later. Let's just largely do uh. 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:30.919 Scott halland such here today. Josiah says, I met Scott 0:23:30.920 --> 0:23:34.600 Hall when I was eight. He was a replacement for 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.720 Kevin Nash when Kevin Nash had travel issues. He made 0:23:37.760 --> 0:23:41.520 the show but was late. Maybe he was also visiting 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:45.000 the Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant. He shook my hand 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:48.520 with his hand covering half of my arm and spent 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:50.520 some time talking to me. He took the time to 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.439 talk to everybody, made sure all the kids felt welcome. 0:23:53.480 --> 0:23:55.399 It was my first ever wrestling show live. It was 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:57.440 so great and it was a huge part of why 0:23:57.480 --> 0:23:59.520 I'm a fan today. Back in the mall, we'll drop 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:23.360