Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it calling? Everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. It is Tuesday here on this program. And
Speaker 1: you know that means we got a lot to get into,
Speaker 1: including the raw show from Monday night, the Cody Roads
Speaker 1: Show is what it basically was. Let's tell you all
Speaker 1: about that here today on the program, and of course
Speaker 1: all the rest of the news as well. And we
Speaker 1: got an update today on Shinjiro Otani. Otani will undergo
Speaker 1: surgery as a result of the spinal cord injury he
Speaker 1: suffered during a zero one show on Sunday. The promotion
Speaker 1: centered an update on Tuesday, noting the surgery will take
Speaker 1: place on Wednesday, April thirteen, and is being done too
Speaker 1: to prevent future deterioration. Otani incurred a cervical injury after
Speaker 1: taking a German suplex into the turnbuckle during a match
Speaker 1: with Takashi Sagia remained motionless on the mat. After taking
Speaker 1: the move, fans ruts to leave the venue. Ring ropes
Speaker 1: were removed, and eventually he was transported to the hospital.
Speaker 1: He has not been able to move his limbs since
Speaker 1: the injury. Numerous personalities from around the wrestling rolfs and
Speaker 1: that well wishes to Itani on social media, sending a
Speaker 1: rials of positive vibes. So Shinger Otani said, Adam Pierce
Speaker 1: joined me and doing the same if you please. So
Speaker 1: O Joe wrote, praying for you this morning, my brother.
Speaker 1: I know your spirit is too strong to be broken.
Speaker 1: Best wishes to Otani for a speedy recovery, wrote Chris Daniels,
Speaker 1: and Stardom s Kyrie also announced that she will be
Speaker 1: donating a portion of the proceeds from recent merchandise sales
Speaker 1: to Otani's recovery. So obviously the best wishes to him
Speaker 1: as he undergoes this surgery. No update other than that
Speaker 1: still cannot move his arms and legs and uh see
Speaker 1: what happens after this surgery. But very very sad story.
Speaker 1: And we'll give you updates as we get him. But
Speaker 1: that's pretty much all we know. And it's been several
Speaker 1: days so it would be time for some good news
Speaker 1: if we could get it more. After the break, we
Speaker 1: got the Raw Report. Mike simper Bev joins us. A
Speaker 1: lot to get into today back in a moment Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live back of the show. Bright albur is here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike supper Bev, also of Wrestling Observer
Speaker 1: dot Com. A lot to get into here today. The
Speaker 1: raw report is always. We have the towny update before
Speaker 1: the break and UH and a lot of news. Guys.
Speaker 1: Seen Sonic the Hedgehog, by the way, I liked it, Mike, No,
Speaker 1: you haven't seen Sonic too. I have not yet known.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, where I didn't see one? I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have to, but well it was for
Speaker 1: my My two daughters are big fans of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Speaker 1: They've they've seen the first movie a thousand times. So
Speaker 1: we found the little Fairfax Theater here wherever we're at,
Speaker 1: which was built and I think the nineteen fifties hasn't
Speaker 1: changed since. And I got tickets for everybody. We were
Speaker 1: gonna go yesterday after the Filthy show, and UH went
Speaker 1: in there smack dab in the middle of the theater,
Speaker 1: great seeds and uh, Hono, it lasted thirty seconds, started screaming,
Speaker 1: mostly because like they were playing previews for these like
Speaker 1: war movies. I don't even know why they didn't have
Speaker 1: kids previews. They had like adults previews before a kid's movie.
Speaker 1: So like this bomb goes off and it's really loud.
Speaker 1: She starts screaming. We take her out of the take
Speaker 1: her to the theater, and my my wife text and says, uh,
Speaker 1: let me know when when something happy is happening, and
Speaker 1: I'll try and bring her back in. So the movie
Speaker 1: starts and there's a brief scene with Dr robot Nick,
Speaker 1: who is by far the highlight of the movie, Jim Carey,
Speaker 1: and then they next scene is, uh, you know, Sonic
Speaker 1: and his buddy or on a boat on a lake.
Speaker 1: What could be more serene? They're on a boat on
Speaker 1: a lake fishing. So I text my wife, Okay, it's
Speaker 1: a pretty calm scene. Bring her back in. So she
Speaker 1: brings uh back in and Hono sits down and she's
Speaker 1: looking at the screen and there's there's as she calls him,
Speaker 1: Sonic hedgehog, and he's sitting on the boat and uh,
Speaker 1: Sonic falls asleep on the boat and so he's sleeping,
Speaker 1: he's eeping, and also he just falls overboard into the
Speaker 1: water and how long he goes? Ah, she started screaming
Speaker 1: and crying and that was it. We got out the theater.
Speaker 1: She never came back. Was there at least a pretty
Speaker 1: sweet arcade she could play on? And so they just
Speaker 1: walked all over, they went to playgrounds. She got her
Speaker 1: her she got her money's worth. I sure didn't. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Paisley at the time of her life watching this movie,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say she unfazed by all that stuff
Speaker 1: that she tried to help. She didn't like that. She
Speaker 1: didn't like the spoiler or the what do they call him?
Speaker 1: The previews either And there were a couple of parts
Speaker 1: of the movie that she didn't really like, mostly because
Speaker 1: the movie so loud. Like if we would have watched
Speaker 1: the movie at the house with the volume on like nine,
Speaker 1: they would have had the time of their lives. But
Speaker 1: they cranked this volume up, and every time there's any
Speaker 1: anything loud, it's just like it's two. It's ear piercing
Speaker 1: for me. And I'm a forty six year old guy,
Speaker 1: who you know, my hearing should be going. But my god.
Speaker 1: So yeah, paysally at the time of her life. So
Speaker 1: I recommend the movie especially uh. I won't give me spoilers.
Speaker 1: So a couple more years to go on the IMAX
Speaker 1: presentations for the kids. Dude, that's gonna happen alright. A
Speaker 1: couple of other news notes here we have Dave Meltzer
Speaker 1: given update out why Ray Mysterio was not on Raw
Speaker 1: last night. He had a medical issue, so I I won't.
Speaker 1: I won't get on him. Although the funny thing is
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't think he know showed like Bandido did. Well, no,
Speaker 1: but here's the deal. Here's the deal. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what happened when Bandyo no show? They go, hey, the
Speaker 1: guy ain't here, he didn't get on his plane or whatever.
Speaker 1: Instead they spend him. They spent a week advertising is
Speaker 1: gonna be Ray Mysterio versus Vier. And then they do
Speaker 1: the show and there's no Raymisterio. He's just not there.
Speaker 1: And Dominic comes out and Dominic starts doing the match.
Speaker 1: It's like, where's his dad at? You know, you don't
Speaker 1: like to see a kid without their dad. So he
Speaker 1: comes out, he gets killed, it gets murdered, and then
Speaker 1: you're expecting Ray to show up. There's no I don't
Speaker 1: think that they had mentioned one thing about where Ray was,
Speaker 1: at least with Ria Ripley, who there was another advertised
Speaker 1: match they didn't do. Ria Ripley wasn't there, but they
Speaker 1: at least told us and I quote, she's in protocol.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? It sounds like she's gonna be
Speaker 1: sent to outer space or something. She's in protocol. She
Speaker 1: won't be here tonight because she's in protocol. So we're
Speaker 1: presuming that next week she'll be out of protocol. We
Speaker 1: also to assume that means COVID, since I don't know when,
Speaker 1: I don't know, so he's in So so it's not
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol or the COVID protocol, which are the
Speaker 1: only two protocols. They don't like to say the word COVID.
Speaker 1: They never have, nor do they like to say the
Speaker 1: word concussion. So my guess is it's either concussion or
Speaker 1: COVID because they're in protocol with Ray. I just don't
Speaker 1: know why they can't say. It was a lingering effect
Speaker 1: from Veer and Dominick. He told Dominick not to do it,
Speaker 1: but dominic said, to hell with it. Um um, taking
Speaker 1: this guy on and then do it that way. It's
Speaker 1: just I was surprised again if they who knows what
Speaker 1: this issue is, Maybe it's gonna linger for a long time,
Speaker 1: but I would have figured they would have played it
Speaker 1: into Vier. You know, Vir's attack last week, since I
Speaker 1: want to get him over as this killer. I mean
Speaker 1: think Dominick went on in the ambulance that that was
Speaker 1: gonna be the way you think, Well, they didn't do that.
Speaker 1: He just wasn't there at all. He was nowhere to
Speaker 1: be seen. There are a lot of things that we're
Speaker 1: all explained on this show. You know what, I hope
Speaker 1: I hope next week. I hope Cody Rhodes comes out
Speaker 1: next week and he says there's a lot of violence
Speaker 1: on this show. After all Vier badly, he injured raymisterio
Speaker 1: and then Miss has to go no in protocol because
Speaker 1: that's the gimmick. Cody uses all the banded words and
Speaker 1: then he has to be corrected. That's literally what the
Speaker 1: gimmick is right now. He was on the show last
Speaker 1: night and he said the word belt and Miss like,
Speaker 1: there's the funny thing is we all hear these things
Speaker 1: and we talk about these things but I'm sure that
Speaker 1: some of those you know stand up for w W
Speaker 1: blokes to actually don't believe it, but it's all true.
Speaker 1: And when when Cody mentioned that he wanted to win
Speaker 1: the belt, MSS literally said, and these were his exact words,
Speaker 1: it's a title, a belt holds your pants up. That
Speaker 1: was the exact thing that we had heard for years,
Speaker 1: and it was incredible to actually hear them use that
Speaker 1: terminology on Monday Night. Rod and he also said wrestlers
Speaker 1: and miss said, no, they're superstars. So you know, the
Speaker 1: thing about the belt just used to be a heel line,
Speaker 1: like I mean, I heard Dick Slater did that with
Speaker 1: Rufus R. Jones. It's not belt Rufus Championship, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to put some you know, some some spice on there.
Speaker 1: And it's been said before the fact that they take
Speaker 1: it to such an extreme as hilarious, but the fact
Speaker 1: that they're also talking about it, I mean, wrestling is
Speaker 1: a part of Cody's introduct I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: how long they're gonna push this or how much they're
Speaker 1: gonna go with this, but yeah, I mean it does
Speaker 1: stand out that Cody, he is the wrestler he is
Speaker 1: the one talking about the second generation and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff. So it's not even that it actually
Speaker 1: likes his gimmick is that he is an a E
Speaker 1: W wrestler that has gone in w W E. Because
Speaker 1: in a W they say belt. In a W they
Speaker 1: say wrestler, and you do al say saying a W.
Speaker 1: I can't stay in the air the S word, which
Speaker 1: he almost said and then corrected himself. So is he's
Speaker 1: an A W guy? Well, I don't. I don't know
Speaker 1: about that as much as they're letting well, they're letting
Speaker 1: them be Cody Rhodes right now, or at least they're
Speaker 1: they're presenting him as ww e's version of Cody Rhodes,
Speaker 1: which is a lot closer uh to you know, what
Speaker 1: he's been doing than they do with a lot of
Speaker 1: other people, you know what I mean. So how long
Speaker 1: they'll let that continue on, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but it is a refreshing little burst wind on our
Speaker 1: program with him there and doing this stuff. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: S word, I can't say it on the air. There's
Speaker 1: a radio show. Do you have to mention this? Every
Speaker 1: week that we're on the radio, and there's commercials and
Speaker 1: if you're watching it on Twitter, YouTube, you're just watching
Speaker 1: it in an alternative medium. But we're a radio show.
Speaker 1: You can't say that word on the radio. Turn her
Speaker 1: s and p has not let us go with a
Speaker 1: stuff that's well and Byeline yells at me and suspends
Speaker 1: me and all that sort of stuff. So obviously we
Speaker 1: didn't get it passed through. When we're able to say
Speaker 1: s on the radio freely, I'm sure that we will,
Speaker 1: of course we won't. Professionals here. You you know, Granny
Speaker 1: there Day goes she never listened to this show because
Speaker 1: of all my swearing, and I explained I don't do
Speaker 1: any swearing on this show. Didn't She used to like
Speaker 1: listening to the show because there was no sword. I
Speaker 1: think I think you ran her off, Mike, Oh, Tony,
Speaker 1: con did well, both of you. Hey, I never dropped.
Speaker 1: I never dropped any m F or F s on
Speaker 1: the air. You have no we had to break everybody.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move on Wrestling Observer Live. It seems blokes
Speaker 1: here clamoring for this raw report. Ah, oh god, what
Speaker 1: is this? What? Yeah? I didn't want to talk about
Speaker 1: this and actually, uh da've wanted to talk about it
Speaker 1: last night, but I forgot to bring it up the
Speaker 1: Spence UGA's fight this weekend. Yeah, what's this idiot Stroman doing.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, you saw my tweet? A No, it was
Speaker 1: your tweet. Well, a couple of days ago, he was
Speaker 1: trying to talk to a fan who said, man, what
Speaker 1: you do is so based, you know, giving him accomplished.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this idiot and he's yelling at a fan
Speaker 1: because he's so stupid. Hey, listen, I mean this with
Speaker 1: all due respect, this is one of the dumbest guys,
Speaker 1: like in the history of man. Okay, God bless the guy,
Speaker 1: but like, he's so dumb. It's one thing when some
Speaker 1: random moron on Twitter or a box starts doing the
Speaker 1: paid by Tony Khan thing, but this, this idiot actually
Speaker 1: thinks that Tony Khan pays Dave. And I like the
Speaker 1: level of stupidity to actually believe that is unfathomable to me.
Speaker 1: Like I read, I read Twitter and everything like that,
Speaker 1: and you know, I haven't think this person can't possibly
Speaker 1: be real, And then you realize that they're actually not real.
Speaker 1: They're just an egg an egg bot probably sent here
Speaker 1: by Captain robot Nick. Now they think about it, But
Speaker 1: this dummy, this guy, I gotta I gotta two and
Speaker 1: a half. You ol, who's smarter than Stroman? I swear
Speaker 1: to god, she is smarter than braun Stroman. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say any more about this dummy. What an idiot? Like, seriously,
Speaker 1: what an idiot? Remember remember that one thing where he
Speaker 1: said something he was really stupid about it, and he
Speaker 1: said something stupid on Twitter. It's probably like fifty times
Speaker 1: and then like a bunch of people, you know, talk
Speaker 1: to him privately, you realize how stupid he was, and
Speaker 1: so he kind of sort of apologized. You know, So
Speaker 1: she s the entire time Shane McMahon was shooting one day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course he was. Of course he was. That was
Speaker 1: ripping on the square in hindsight. Gole, dude, I got
Speaker 1: a pair of shoes right here, These shoes right here
Speaker 1: smarter than Stroman? Do you it me to go on?
Speaker 1: We need a presentation of things smarter than braun Stroman.
Speaker 1: We we need to have these No, the thing should
Speaker 1: me find out what bron Stroman is smarter than? That?
Speaker 1: Should be the real you know, what is broun Stroman
Speaker 1: smarter then a Dodo bird? I'm trying thing I mean,
Speaker 1: I know some stupid dogs, so there there are some
Speaker 1: dogs that I would argue that Braun Stroman is smarter
Speaker 1: than but I don't want to get on that rant again.
Speaker 1: Can you ever figure out what dog you're watching is? Yes,
Speaker 1: you were watching a dog yesterday with a dog, fluffy dog.
Speaker 1: That dog was smarter than Stroman. I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: how about the twitch chat right now? How are they doing?
Speaker 1: Don't you want to know who's smarter than Stroman? The
Speaker 1: YouTube chat? Ouch? Okay? Can I move on now? Stroman,
Speaker 1: you are banned from Wrestling Observer Alive. You're not allowed
Speaker 1: to come on. You're too stupid to come on the show.
Speaker 1: Do you understand Ryan and Cumberland smarter than Braun Stroman.
Speaker 1: If you can figure out how to on block him,
Speaker 1: you would bring him back on before Braun Stroman. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Honolulu smarter than Stroman, hollellulu. And he's still a young
Speaker 1: man with his whole life to go. He's got a
Speaker 1: lot more to learn at this point, Braun, you know
Speaker 1: those brain cells are gonna start going one by one.
Speaker 1: And oh, John and Memphis is way smarter than Stroman.
Speaker 1: He's a gimmick, but he's he's significantly smarter. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: bron Stroman allowed on this show. Don't even ask Braun
Speaker 1: whatever your real name is. I don't think bron Stroman
Speaker 1: is your real name either. Should I throw that in there?
Speaker 1: You know who else is not paid by Tony Khan?
Speaker 1: Bron Stroman? Anyway, I was gonna do rob, but I
Speaker 1: wasted too much time talking about this dummy. Friday's Russell
Speaker 1: made a thirty eight fallout Editions SmackDown two point two
Speaker 1: three zero million viewers on Fox, down five points five
Speaker 1: percent from the previous week's episode. Second large stieties for
Speaker 1: the show since March four point six zero rating, the
Speaker 1: eighteen to forty nine demo on four pc from the
Speaker 1: previous week, and much of other stuff here. I'm still
Speaker 1: on Stroman. You and it, I mean, are you gotta
Speaker 1: be kidding me? Is it just a stupidity? Is it
Speaker 1: the fact that this stupid thing is being repeated again
Speaker 1: by somebody? Is it just him in general and his hair?
Speaker 1: You know? Well, no, I have another gifts a guy personally.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is, if you're so
Speaker 1: dumb that you believe that Tony Khan is actually paying
Speaker 1: Dave and I, it's one thing to be some dumb
Speaker 1: fan on the internet. But bro, you're in the business,
Speaker 1: you have connections. You could very easily find out if
Speaker 1: this is true or not. Well, were you on Reddit
Speaker 1: and you saw the fake invoice, like the fakest invoice
Speaker 1: that you could ever possibly photoshop together? That Dave and
Speaker 1: I getting paid or whatever? You believe Tony CON's tweet
Speaker 1: the other day by by two dollar a month paycheck.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, this is this is insane, stupidy.
Speaker 1: I will apologize for calling Braun an idiot if he
Speaker 1: smartens up about how stupid he is about this. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You understand what I'm saying. If
Speaker 1: you if you're smart en up, I will no longer
Speaker 1: call you stupid. But until then, idiot. Now, how do
Speaker 1: you believe this? How do you believe this? Do you
Speaker 1: also need an apology out of him or just the
Speaker 1: exciting apology? And he's an idiot? So I'm just, I'm just,
Speaker 1: I'm just I can't wrap my head around this being
Speaker 1: so dumb that you actually believe that. I gotta find
Speaker 1: this stupid interview. Where did he say this? Somebody give
Speaker 1: me a link to this interview. EC three has been
Speaker 1: on this show. Correct, Yes, he's in the promotion with
Speaker 1: EC three. Yes? Is he then thinking that EC three
Speaker 1: is a bought and paid for stooge because he appeared
Speaker 1: on this I don't know. With you, I don't know.
Speaker 1: You've got some answers for on the Maybe you want
Speaker 1: to hear them not on this show because you're not
Speaker 1: coming on. But maybe you're You're throwing more people than
Speaker 1: you think under the bus with such a comment. Hey,
Speaker 1: listening their integrity, that's fine if you if you're that dumb,
Speaker 1: then that's on you, not on me. Rampage did six
Speaker 1: hundred thousand, up thirty one point six percent from the
Speaker 1: previous week, best audience for the show since January fourth
Speaker 1: on Cable. In the eighteen forty nine demo with the
Speaker 1: point to five rating ties of January episode for Rampages,
Speaker 1: Heighest reading the in the demo, I was just reading
Speaker 1: on the internet about how oh, Rampage doing terrible because
Speaker 1: it's taped. People won't watch if they know the spoilers.
Speaker 1: What Meanwhile, we got six hundred thousand viewers and a
Speaker 1: point to five here for a tape show. Is it
Speaker 1: the problem? Maybe? Maybe it's a fact that it's on
Speaker 1: Friday nights at ten. Yeah, that's oh my god. And
Speaker 1: now are these a W fans that are leading this
Speaker 1: charge on what we gotta be live? We will, you
Speaker 1: know effort. Let's do it live. That's what we need
Speaker 1: to do. Is that what day? And Dagan sent in
Speaker 1: the article. Let me find this article here. Thank you, Dagon.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm wasting time on this. You know
Speaker 1: what comes after it is the raw report, so it's understandable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well that's all. That's the most of the news anyway,
Speaker 1: aside from the news that Chris Dickinson his dream has
Speaker 1: come true making New Japan is Pro Wrestling Home officially
Speaker 1: signed an agreement with New Japan allows him to work
Speaker 1: in these in the US and internationally. So he has
Speaker 1: God Bless his soul in his in his Instagram thing,
Speaker 1: He's like, there's all these people that wanted me to
Speaker 1: sign elsewhere, and I'm sure that there were people that said, man,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see an a W or something like that.
Speaker 1: I think any Chris Dickinson fan, though, who's watched this
Speaker 1: guy and seen him throughout evolve and all the stuff
Speaker 1: that he does, like that dude is a new japan dude.
Speaker 1: That dude is a Japanese wrestling dude. So I'm really
Speaker 1: happy he's got his chance in the promotion that he
Speaker 1: always wanted to go for. Alright, Braun, This is from
Speaker 1: Ringside News recently joined the bandwagon of wrestlers and fans
Speaker 1: who mocked Tony Khan for his tweet about a network
Speaker 1: of bot's disparaging a w Stroman called out Cohn once again.
Speaker 1: He claimed Tony Khan pays dirt cheet writers and claims
Speaker 1: his wrestlers are free to work where they want. That
Speaker 1: is not the case, he noted. Stroman criticized KHN for
Speaker 1: blackballing a w talent for appearing in the Control your
Speaker 1: Narrative promotion. Gee, why would you do that? This is
Speaker 1: the same guy said maybe I'll read the bronze voice.
Speaker 1: This is the same guy that pays the dirt sheets
Speaker 1: and says his wrestlers are free to do whatever. But
Speaker 1: black bald two words by the way, them from c
Speaker 1: y N shows why because we're a f and threat.
Speaker 1: That's more of Vince mcman. You got blue balls. Look
Speaker 1: at this guy. He told a fan that watching Dynamite
Speaker 1: was quote punishment, So why are you watching it then,
Speaker 1: you dummy? What else did he say here? Anything else?
Speaker 1: That's about it for here? Yeah, he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that doesn't want to watch it. It's it's punishment,
Speaker 1: but he watches anyway, apparently hate watching those people that
Speaker 1: hate listening to this show and things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: of course those people always forget me. Hates listening to
Speaker 1: this show. It is forced to against his own will.
Speaker 1: He can't help it, but listen torture to listen to
Speaker 1: that observer live. I can't help myself though anyway, ohbraun
Speaker 1: mm hmm, talking about everybody else on all these dirt
Speaker 1: sheats and everything. I mean, you can always bring back
Speaker 1: the old how's your territory doing? You know, keep that
Speaker 1: one in your pocket to throw out on the next nime.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what's a dirt eat anyway at
Speaker 1: this point now de Sean ross Sap doesn't write anything
Speaker 1: down on paper and send it out to anybody, Like,
Speaker 1: is is that a dirt cheat? John Pollock has been
Speaker 1: around this game a long time. Post wrestling is fantastic,
Speaker 1: Like are they a dirt sheet? You know what? What
Speaker 1: constituted dirty? Just people that you don't like or what
Speaker 1: exactly is it? What? I'm not sure you ever seen
Speaker 1: those giant dinosaurs. Their brain is the size of a walnut,
Speaker 1: even though they're so big. Hadrosaur. If we get if
Speaker 1: we would get like a stag of Saurus, a Brontosaurus
Speaker 1: and bronze stroman on Jeopardy together, who do you think
Speaker 1: it would come out with the most money steak of Saurus.
Speaker 1: It's possible. Yeah, that one's got plates on its back. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: when we come back, we're gonna do that raw Report.
Speaker 1: I promise this time back in a moment of Zuber
Speaker 1: Live back in the show right over is here Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live mixumbur BT also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's time for the Raw Report before we do that
Speaker 1: O R I P. Gilbert Godfrey really yeah, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: really tell me about it? All right, Well, I'll have
Speaker 1: you to talk about Gilbert Godfrey's to the Raw Report. Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, was he one of your favorite comedians? One
Speaker 1: of my favorite comedians, But I'm sad that he's gone.
Speaker 1: A unique voice, that that is for sure, and when
Speaker 1: peppered into certain situations, Yeah, his stand up was was
Speaker 1: always pretty good and a fun guy when you appear
Speaker 1: on different shows, Howard Stern and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just a certainly a legendary character. That's that's
Speaker 1: for absolutely sure. So R I P. This is your sucks.
Speaker 1: Get this stupid raw report because it's stupid. Wow, wasn't
Speaker 1: that bad? I mean, there were some questionable things on it.
Speaker 1: It opened up with miss TV and Cody Rhodes. It
Speaker 1: was the Cody Rhodes Show here tonight. These fans absolutely
Speaker 1: love this guy for all it was worth. They just
Speaker 1: cheered him. They went crazy, they go nuts there, just
Speaker 1: so happy to see him. He sits down and miscos
Speaker 1: are you done yet? And so he gets somebody just
Speaker 1: does more and the fans were like, ah, they just
Speaker 1: love this guy. And then we had a brief promo
Speaker 1: segment where MS constantly corrected him on his his inappropriate
Speaker 1: usage of of these incorrect terms here in w W
Speaker 1: E and then uh, he tried to attack him, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Roads sent him packing. So not only did
Speaker 1: h Cody beat Missy wasn't even humiliated in the angle
Speaker 1: leading up to it. So, you know, when you pay
Speaker 1: a guy a lot of money, that's kind of what
Speaker 1: happens there, Mohan, what was that? They're doing it right
Speaker 1: so far? I mean I told you all that, look
Speaker 1: I did. Look know what you said was yet that
Speaker 1: that's what they have to do. And we I think
Speaker 1: everybody agrees that, yes, you better put your best foot
Speaker 1: forward with somebody. But the problem always is Vince's interest
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff, and we've always seen
Speaker 1: that slide, and in a case of Cody Rhodes, as
Speaker 1: you've mentioned, you can't let that slide. So there is
Speaker 1: going to be hyper focus week after week. But this
Speaker 1: tie in with MS setting up to another match with Seth,
Speaker 1: which I know maybe redundant for some people, but damn
Speaker 1: the match was good. We got a great MS and
Speaker 1: Cody sports entertainment thing plus the bonus of a pretty
Speaker 1: damn good match. So two for two so far on
Speaker 1: roll the Cody. For me, we had Vier versus Dominic.
Speaker 1: He just killed this guy they sent about on a
Speaker 1: stretcher or Dominic just got he got his butt handed
Speaker 1: to him by by Veer. Then hey, listen, I was
Speaker 1: a big fan of Vier. I was excited to see
Speaker 1: vir debut. You guys all you worried about Cody. Dude,
Speaker 1: Cody is gonna be fine. Veer is the one that
Speaker 1: you should be concerned about, because man, total generic, big
Speaker 1: mean guy, total generic. Nothing happened in promo I strike
Speaker 1: fear into every man. It's like the game, all of
Speaker 1: Stroman's lines and that was that was the end of that.
Speaker 1: So then doing nothing for me right now that sucks too,
Speaker 1: because when you see this guy elsewhere, when you hear
Speaker 1: him talk, it's like, I know they want him to
Speaker 1: have a distinct character, but man, I I don't know
Speaker 1: if they set this guy off on the best foot.
Speaker 1: But we'll see the damn dumbest thing with AJ Styles
Speaker 1: and Damian Priest. So they have a match and the
Speaker 1: match is good because it's a J and Damien Priest,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, Priest knocks a J
Speaker 1: out of the ring. A J is on the floor,
Speaker 1: Damian Priest stands in the middle of the ring, the
Speaker 1: lights go out, then we see his face going or
Speaker 1: something scary. They go to commercial that all right, Well,
Speaker 1: you know they do this sometimes they want some stupid
Speaker 1: thing to lead you in a commercial break because they
Speaker 1: don't want wrestling during the commercial. But anyway, they come
Speaker 1: back and we've just moved on. I thought what and
Speaker 1: I rewounded. I missed? Did I miss on the count out?
Speaker 1: Did I miss what? Did I miss here? I missed nothing?
Speaker 1: The lights went out and then they went to commercial
Speaker 1: and came back and they moved on. There was no finish,
Speaker 1: there was no bell to match. Technically is still going
Speaker 1: on because they never rang a bell And then they
Speaker 1: cut backstage and a J is all angry. He was
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell out was. I was like,
Speaker 1: we don't either. So anyway, he said he's not he's
Speaker 1: not done with Priest and Edge. Good for us. Huh.
Speaker 1: If I were him, I'd just say I'm done with
Speaker 1: it and then just do something else. But the problem
Speaker 1: here is I don't mind letting the story play out.
Speaker 1: That's that's fine, okay, But like can somebody like when
Speaker 1: they when they come back from commercial, like everybody, even
Speaker 1: the Muppet Show, even Kermit would be looking at Fozzy
Speaker 1: and Shrow or whoever the hell they were going, Hey,
Speaker 1: why did the lights go out? Let's have something? No,
Speaker 1: just the lights go out? They come back on. A
Speaker 1: J is the only one upset. Nobody else is even
Speaker 1: he says it, Am I the only one upset here.
Speaker 1: It's like Kevin Owen's later on asking if he's the
Speaker 1: only one who's crazy. Good question, stupid. So then we
Speaker 1: had Cody versus the miss which was a good match,
Speaker 1: and you don't see a lot of really good mismatches,
Speaker 1: but Cody. You know, they had a very simple, twelve
Speaker 1: minute basic match. They worked over the leg, they did
Speaker 1: the figure four spot, they did the whole nine yards
Speaker 1: and uh, finally Cody hits his springboard cutter. He hits
Speaker 1: the crossroads, pins him clean in the middle of the ring,
Speaker 1: huge pop. Everybody goes crazy. And then sethro what is
Speaker 1: seth Rawlins character? He dances out in his stupid suit.
Speaker 1: He's all wacky. It's like, I supposed to take this
Speaker 1: seriously when you're not taking anything seriously. You're dancing, you're posing,
Speaker 1: you do that stupid laugh that you stole from Sasha,
Speaker 1: and then, uh, I guess they're gonna do a match
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania backlash. I hate this character. It's better than
Speaker 1: the Messiah. But that's about it. That's about it. Do
Speaker 1: you think he buys all of his clothes agains, he
Speaker 1: gets to write all those off because the amount of
Speaker 1: money he must be spending on wardrobe right now, is incredible.
Speaker 1: We Tomasa Champa debut and then Ezekiel shows up and
Speaker 1: he says, Hi, I'm Ezekiel. I'm Elias's younger brother. And
Speaker 1: Kevin Owen shows somebody goes, that ain't Ezekiel, it's Alias.
Speaker 1: It's obviously Alias, and Champa goes, no, that's that's Ezekiel.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if you guys remember back in
Speaker 1: the day World Championship Wrestling where they had a feud
Speaker 1: with Hulk Hogan and the Warrior, and the Warrior could
Speaker 1: appear and disappear in a cloud of smoke via magic.
Speaker 1: And one day Hulk Hogan is in the locker room
Speaker 1: and he looks in the mirror and he sees the Warrior.
Speaker 1: But the warriors not, They're only in theory. Only Hogan
Speaker 1: can see the Warrior. So like all of his friends
Speaker 1: in the locker room and everybody else, they can't see
Speaker 1: the Warrior, so they all think that the whole Cogan
Speaker 1: is crazy. However, we can also see the Warrior, so
Speaker 1: we are all so crazy. Is they're calling the heel crazy.
Speaker 1: We're all so crazy because we can see the Warrior.
Speaker 1: So the story here is it. Kevin Owens thinks that
Speaker 1: this guy is a Lias. You and I know it's
Speaker 1: a Lias, but everybody else in the promotion thinks it's
Speaker 1: another guy. It's not Heels, by the way, it's baby faces.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question, Is there any possible
Speaker 1: possibility that Lias was gone for so long with no
Speaker 1: reasoning at all, that they've done a bunch of stuff
Speaker 1: recorded with him so they can actually like play the
Speaker 1: two off of each other something. I'm sure they should
Speaker 1: do some sort of backstage segnally. Do you think they
Speaker 1: actually have done that? Is there any chance, because that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the only thing that makes this thing redeeming?
Speaker 1: Is any comedy that can come from like Elias and
Speaker 1: Ezekiel in the same place at the same time together.
Speaker 1: Hey you know, Natalie Portman, I've heard. Yes, Okay, my
Speaker 1: mind was absolutely blown. My my daughter still is into
Speaker 1: Star Wars. So we've got a Star Wars magazine at
Speaker 1: the at the grocery store, and uh, in the I
Speaker 1: think it's the Phantom No I remember which, I think
Speaker 1: it's a Phantom Menace. So, uh, Natalie Portman plays the Queen. Okay,
Speaker 1: pod me, She's the Queen and so she's got this
Speaker 1: entourage spoilers everybody, and she has his entourage of these
Speaker 1: other handmaids or whatever. And uh, it turns out at
Speaker 1: the end of the movie that one of the handmaids
Speaker 1: is actually the queen and the real queen has been
Speaker 1: a decoy the entire time. Okay, So anyway, I've watched
Speaker 1: this movie I don't even know how many times, much
Speaker 1: to my dismay because it is the one with the
Speaker 1: jar Jar binks. But anyway, I've watched the movie so
Speaker 1: many times and I was I was absolutely. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even like a question in my mind. Natalie
Speaker 1: Portman played herself and the queen. It's just like, okay,
Speaker 1: well you know they used C G I or whatever,
Speaker 1: and so she's playing both roles. Okay. So I'm reading
Speaker 1: this Star Wars magazine to to Paisley the other night,
Speaker 1: and uh, it explains to me that Kira Knightley was
Speaker 1: the one who played the queen. I was like what,
Speaker 1: And I look at the picture and I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: that's the same person. But in fact it's not. It's
Speaker 1: two different people. Damn. Unless Kira Knightley is playing Ezekiel.
Speaker 1: This thing just isn't gonna work. Do all small white
Speaker 1: women look alike to you? No, dude, even my wife,
Speaker 1: she was like, man, look at that. He looked online
Speaker 1: After I read it, I thought it was nightly. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. I'm not the only one here, are
Speaker 1: you idiots? Get out of here. So anyway, then we
Speaker 1: had Naomi beating Live Morgan because Ria Ripley was in protocol.
Speaker 1: So they were gonna do a tag team championship match
Speaker 1: and they have to delay it because of protocol, And
Speaker 1: so the challenger got pinned in two minutes by one
Speaker 1: of the champions because she probably would have lost because
Speaker 1: she probably would have lost in the tag match. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter the match. Then, I know, I know, I know.
Speaker 1: We had the v I P Lounge with Bobby Lashley.
Speaker 1: We've mentioned this before, like they had a great they
Speaker 1: had a great act with him, and m VP MVP
Speaker 1: talks for him. He's a scary looking guy. Now he's
Speaker 1: got to talk for himself, and there was a reason
Speaker 1: MVP talk for him. Crowds chanting what they don't care
Speaker 1: MVP comes out, and once m v P came out,
Speaker 1: m VP such a great promo that like he lit
Speaker 1: a fire under Lashly and they actually had a really
Speaker 1: good back and forth on Originally, what it's leading to
Speaker 1: is another Omas versus Bobby Lashly match, which I do
Speaker 1: not need to see. Plus Omas is gonna get the win,
Speaker 1: I'm sure this time. So that's not good. We had
Speaker 1: a segment with Reggie acquired to Zawa. There was a
Speaker 1: bachelor party, bachelorette party, bunch of bunch of who ha occurred,
Speaker 1: And they're gonna have a double wedding next week and
Speaker 1: our truth is going to be the Efficient as it
Speaker 1: is called Texas Tornado rules during that wedding. Surely, Austin
Speaker 1: Theory is no longer Austin theory. Literally in storyline, Vince
Speaker 1: decided Austin wasn't a very good name, so and now
Speaker 1: he's just theory. That's literally what he said. So now
Speaker 1: he's just theory. And he left, and then Owens showed
Speaker 1: up and he's really upset about this Ezekiel Elias thing.
Speaker 1: So next week they're gonna have a lie detector test,
Speaker 1: which you know what I'm gonna do next week, everybody,
Speaker 1: So I am going to teach you how to beat
Speaker 1: a lie detector test here on year. I think I'm
Speaker 1: joking and the answer is not by being a great liar.
Speaker 1: There's actually a trick you know where I read it.
Speaker 1: By the way, Big Secrets. Remember we talked about that
Speaker 1: a while ago Chicken recipe, Are you doing the weight is? Can?
Speaker 1: I guess right now the breathing and attack in the
Speaker 1: hand bit as attacking the shoe. We'll talk about it
Speaker 1: next week. Okay, Raw Women's Hivy and Bianca bell Air
Speaker 1: beats Queen Selina. That was quick, and then afterwards they
Speaker 1: shot an angle where Sony Deville attacked her and Sony
Speaker 1: Deville has signed herself to be the next challenger for
Speaker 1: ice Cube's kids said it the best. Oh J Jackson Jr.
Speaker 1: On Twitter last night, Sonya Deville has attacked more black
Speaker 1: people than high blood pressure. Doesn't even make any sense,
Speaker 1: and nobody can still explain why she hated Naomi so much.
Speaker 1: Then she shows up a choplocks Bianco bel Air. But
Speaker 1: in reality, I'm actually really happy to see her back
Speaker 1: in the ring because I would be just fine with
Speaker 1: Adam Pierce being the only executive. That's just fine for me.
Speaker 1: Then we had uh Chad Gable coming out. They had
Speaker 1: forty five minutes of TV time left, and so uh,
Speaker 1: Chad Gable came out and he talked and he talked
Speaker 1: and he talked and he talked, and he talked and
Speaker 1: he talked. Then they had Randy, Jordon and Riddle beating
Speaker 1: alph Academy and we saw a half hour of television
Speaker 1: time left and no matches. The show was just gonna
Speaker 1: go off the air half hour early. But thankfully them
Speaker 1: also showed up and they wanted unification match with Randy,
Speaker 1: Jordon and Riddle and already talked him out of it,
Speaker 1: and so instead we got USO's versus the Street profits
Speaker 1: Usso's beat him and we're heading towards a unification match.
Speaker 1: Ron SmackDown take Team Championships back in a moment, everybody
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Speaker 1: why b wasn't an indie promotion and doubled down on
Speaker 1: it when pressed. C y N. Let's say, see hy
Speaker 1: b right here, But regardless, what is it? Then? Control
Speaker 1: your narrative? I know, but what is if it's not
Speaker 1: an indie promotion? Apparently his isn't. I don't know how
Speaker 1: is it not an indie promotion? I don't know what
Speaker 1: is it? I have no idea. Has anyone seen emotion
Speaker 1: to me? I mean, I haven't seen on National TV.
Speaker 1: Have you seen it on National TV? I haven't. I
Speaker 1: have not. I haven't even seen it on Seattle Public Access.
Speaker 1: Apparently Sarah Logan is gonna control her narrative. Here a
Speaker 1: Viking woman herself, she's allowed on the show. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: see three is allowed on the show. Yeah, but not Stroman.
Speaker 1: He's not allowed band until he smartens up. But he
Speaker 1: smartens up, he can come on the show maybe, but
Speaker 1: he has a smarten up first. So we'll see about that.
Speaker 1: No apologies needed, just the recognition, Braun, look in the mirror.
Speaker 1: I don't mean apology. Had smarten up about it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Start start using your whatever brain you've got. That's it, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's all I'm asking, you know, I'm not asking a lot, right,
Speaker 1: Can you think of another wrestler at his age. It's
Speaker 1: as much of a workhorse, murder monster as Minor Suzuki.
Speaker 1: He's wrestling Samoa Joe and is she in the same week?
Speaker 1: Not to mention, probably it doesn't match he had made
Speaker 1: a week. That's a real tough guy, that's a real smart,
Speaker 1: tough guy. And we're right here. We'll talk to you
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