WEBVTT - Iron Survivor Challenge Recap 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.200 Live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.599 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.920 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervv. Are you ready, When you're ready, 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:26.239 let's get it all. 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:29.560 How's it going everybody? 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.120 Brian Alvarez here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.599 here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern Sundays, 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.760 three Pacific six Eastern Saturday mornings with a Jim Valley 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:44.040 ten and Pacific one Eastern Sundays with andrews Arian. And 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.440 it is Monday on the show. You know what that means. 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.239 We had a lot to talk about. Busy weekend, NXT 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:59.320 deadline and awesome men's what was it called Iron Survivor Challenge. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.600 Men's was awesome. The women's version was there, It was fine. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.400 But between that and what I thought was a very 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.920 good main event, not everyone agreed. You know, for sure, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.400 the men's Iron Survivor Challenges one you should go out 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:13.280 of your way to see. So we'll talk about that 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.039 here today as well as SmackDown and Collision from this 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.720 past weekend, and of course we've got a lot coming 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:22.640 up over the next couple of days. Cm Punk is 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.880 going to be on Raw tonight and in storyline tonight, 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.240 he is going to decide if he is going to 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:36.200 sign with Raw, SmackDown or NXT. He's gonna make that 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.600 decision tonight. Where will he sign? Well, I guess we'll 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:43.800 have to find out. So we've got the Raw lineup 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.200 for tonight as well as a bunch of other upcoming shows, 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.440 including the Tokyotome. We got a line up for the 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.840 Tokyo Dome. A Steele did a podcast and talked about 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:56.840 how proud he was of his friend cm Punk. Going 0:01:56.880 --> 0:02:00.640 back to WWE, we've got the WWE holiday scale. Back 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.320 in the old days, you just worked right through Christmas. 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:07.000 Now everybody's gonna get a week off. We've had more 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:12.000 on the seth Rawland Cmpunk feud, which, uh, you know, 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.640 I thought that match was going to be uh Royal Rumble, 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:18.400 but Cmpunk apparently is in the Royal Rumble. Now. Granted, 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.040 there have been years where there have been matches and 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:23.079 then guys have gone from the matches to also be 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:25.880 in the Royal Rumbles, so that is possible. Some years 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:27.600 you do one or the other. Some years some people 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:30.240 have done both. So we can talk about that and 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.000 so much more. 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That's eight hundred seven 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.520 six oh eighteen forty five. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.120 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:12.320 and Mike SIMPERVV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.920 Again the show Brian Elbarez here, Wrestling Observer Alive, Mike 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.640 Simber VV also Wrestling Observer dot Com and right when 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:26.440 we went to commercial, I noticed a news story I 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:27.200 didn't talk about. 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:28.000 In the opening segment. 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.400 And we don't have a lot of details yet, but 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:37.600 the MLWWWE lawsuit appears to be done after issuing. A 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.920 notification regarding a settlement was filed in the U. S. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.279 District Court in the Northern District of California. In accordings 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:48.640 with the court's standing order for civil cases, MLW and 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:53.320 WWE hereby submit this notice of settlement to notify the 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.400 Court that the parties have settled this action. Parties are 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.839 in the process of completing the final settlement documents expect 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.720 to file the appropriate dismissal papers within the next thirty days. 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.760 MLW would file an antitrust suit against WWE January twenty 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:12.600 twenty two, with allegations of WWE tempty to undermine competition 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.640 and monopolize a pro wrestling market by interfering in MLW's 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:22.000 contracts and business prospects. MLW alleged WWE pressured third parties 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:27.360 into abandoning contracts and prospective relationships for MLW. This includes 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.920 a pending deal for MLW with Vice TV in twenty 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.760 twenty one, which is killed the last minute, and MLW 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:37.880 blaming WWE. Suit was dismissed in February, but MLW had 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.840 twenty one days to amend its complaint, did so and 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:45.320 were successful. The amended suit stated WWE violated the Sherman 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:51.080 Antitrust Act stifled competition through its exclusivity agreements with broadcasters. 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.720 So I'm sure we probably will never find out details 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.760 of the settlement would be my guess, but it has 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.679 been settled, so is the end of that for now. 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:08.000 Probably the best news they could have happened for both sides. MLW, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.680 unless you were guaranteed to win, was going to be 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.640 dragged into some pretty deep waters financially when it comes 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:19.480 to what TKO has and WWE surely does not want 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.360 any discovery and want anything more to come out in 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.880 the process of a trial that would make them look 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:30.080 like that they violated an a trust Act, so as 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:32.520 well as many other things. Possibly who knows what could 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.760 come out when it comes to WWE. So is this 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.720 enough to keep MLW going? Is this going to be 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.600 enough to kind of pad them as they continue to 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.600 look for a TV deal. We'll see, you know, I'm 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.520 not sure how their fight TV deals are going, but 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.959 Court obviously is continuing on and we'll see what ends 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.280 up happening with MLW here in twenty twenty four. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.120 Hey Steele, Well we'll talk about that later. We'll talking 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.040 about the big show this weekend, this NX two, the 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:04.880 Deadline show which speaking of a Steel, his students see 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.320 him Punk actually open up the show and yes, the 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.800 story is that tonight on Raw Cmpunk will decide if 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:17.600 he should sign with Raw SmackDown or NXT. We're gonna 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.720 find out tonight. I'll let you guys know tomorrow if 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:23.840 he's signing with NXT. 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:26.800 But anyway, we happy. 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.160 Would you be? Would it ruin everything for you if 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.920 he went on your favorite show of all time all 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:32.320 your life? 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.440 They're all my favorite shows? What are you talking about? 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:35.480 I don't care where he goes. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.320 As long as people pay to see where he goes, 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:45.280 subscribe and then exactly exactly so, we had a bunch 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.400 of matches on the show by far by far, the 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.640 best match on the show was the Men's Iron Survivor Challenge, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:59.839 which was so ridiculously great and it was impeccably time. 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.720 And I saw some people on the internet mad that 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.439 I kept mentioning that the Women's Iron Survivor Challenge was 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:11.640 was intricately booked and timed and practiced for weeks. They 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.920 both were I've said that since day one, and you 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.160 can't have a match this intricately booked in the last 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:21.280 couple of minutes calling it in the ring, of course, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:22.480 it was intricately. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.280 Wait a second, Landstorm is going to call it. 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.040 If he watched this match, he'd no, he's been watching 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.280 this show. He knows what's called in the ring what's not. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:30.800 But the match was awesome. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:32.720 You could hit your match time. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:38.120 And the story was essentially that everyone's favorite wrestler in 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:42.600 a n XT is Trick Williams. And throughout the match 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.560 twenty five minute time limit and for the first I 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.760 swear to God, twenty three minutes and thirty seconds. This 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.960 bloke just keeps getting pinned and sent to this penalty 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:56.520 box over and over again, and the crowd she's like, ah, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:11:01.520 they're sad. And then finally with a minute and a 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:05.720 half left, it's there's a three way tie for first place. 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.760 Broun Breaker and Tyler Bayden and I think Dye Jack 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.760 all had three points, Trick has zero, briggs Head two. 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.360 Thing anyway, it was three three three with those other 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:20.080 guys that I mentioned. Thinking anyway, So with a minute 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:25.400 thirty left, this guy gets three pins in a row, 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.120 and so there's like nine seconds or something left in 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.480 the match and he's tied it up, but behind him 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.200 is bron Breaker setting him for that spear, and Trick 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:42.480 turns around and Braun rushes in to pin him and 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:47.520 win this match. But Trick does his leaping v trigger 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:51.480 knee and he hits Braun right in the head and 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.400 he pins him and he wins the match. And man, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:59.760 this place went absolutely nuts for this finish because it 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:02.720 wasn't they wanted the guy to win, but the match 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.040 was booked so well that even me, who knew who won, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.000 I was like, there's no way this guy could possibly win, 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:11.800 Like it's impossible at this point, like what are they 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:14.040 gonna do? How they get screw it? But they didn't, 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.800 and in fact, he it was not only him winning 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.839 but convincing the fans that at best, at best he 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.960 might get a point, but then he came back to 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:29.120 win it all. It was awesome, awesome match, and it's 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:31.160 even more awesome because now we know where it goes. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:32.280 It is. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.400 It is Trick getting a title shot at New Year's Evil. 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:40.240 He will almost invariably be screwed by Carmelo Hayes. But 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.720 we're gonna find out did attack him because Lexis King 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:47.040 on the show did admit I didn't attack the guy. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.640 I was just I was just taking credit for it 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:52.040 because everybody was like, you know, praising me because I'm 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:52.520 a bad guy. 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:54.640 So he admitted he didn't do it. 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.000 That made Carmelo. Man, why would Carmelo be mad because 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.560 he did it? So anyway, Carmelo can screw him out 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.880 of his world title match, which of course will make 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.760 Carmelo the biggest heel in the company, and then they 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:09.960 can build their match towards WrestleMania weekend and Trick can 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:13.200 beat Carmelo at the You know how many be able 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.040 to have there? Thirteen fourteen thousand people. I mean, the 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.720 play's gonna be packed and they'll get their big Trick 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.160 Williams victory on that show it's awesome. The whole thing 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:22.640 was great. 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.640 Can't complain about that layout. Could not complain about the 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.040 layout of the match, as you mentioned, because of the 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.840 way that they did it as well, and the fact 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.079 that you were running out of time, him going and 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.160 trying to get a pin and then maybe thinking at 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:39.320 the end that Carmelo was going to screw him or 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.079 something was going to happen. They had that card that 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:45.200 was in the fans' minds as well too, so I'm 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.000 with you. I thought it was fantastic. Again, there was 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.520 nothing wrong with the women's match, but the way that 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.079 this one was laid out, the way this one was timed, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.720 and how they did everything right when it came to 0:13:56.760 --> 0:14:01.160 everyone's favorite trick, Williams, you can't complain about it whatsoever. 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.559 The only real complaint now, in hindsight is I probably 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:06.839 would have had that match as the semi main event 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.480 because the cage match between Keana and Roxane suffered a 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.760 little bit, so that's probably. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.480 Should have been the main event. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.520 Well yeah, I mean you could absolutely argue that you could, 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.800 but I understood what they were doing there. But at 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.400 the least in hindsight, it should have been the semi. 0:14:22.120 --> 0:14:24.720 Main because listen, I mean you could, you could. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:25.720 It doesn't really matter. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.840 But at the end of the match, at the end 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.720 of the main event, which was Elia Dragonov beating Baron Corbin, 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.200 I mean the match ended and then out came Trick 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.040 to alert him that he was next. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:36.840 For the next for the belt. 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:38.600 But you could have easily done it the other way 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.360 where Elia Draganov retains the title. Trick wins the main event, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.040 and then Elia comes out and says, your next brother, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.280 and I beat you within an inch of your life 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:51.120 the first time, so you better get training here. So 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.440 I thought the main event was a. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:54.240 Very good match. 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.200 I know some people were bored, but I thought Dragonov 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:58.960 and Baron Corbin did an excellent job. 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:03.880 Sorry for someone dragonoff match, and I understand that people 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.240 do not like Baron KORbin. And I'm not saying that 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.920 this was Flair steamboat or anything like that, but it 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.000 served a purpose and they told a little story that 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.200 was believable with the two characters that they had, or 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.920 believable enough, I should say, with the two characters that 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.600 they had, and he got a title defense out of 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.040 the way. Baron Corbin for those who don't like him 0:15:23.080 --> 0:15:27.120 to me, frankly should be right in the mix and 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.240 NXT all of the time, the way he's able to 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:33.040 use his size and use his experience and his real 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.800 life riches to rub in the face of all of 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.240 these people on the come up. So I actually enjoy 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.360 Baron Korban a lot there. And I thought the title 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:42.560 match was very solid. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.160 I said, Dragon Lee and Dominic North American title and 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:49.400 the Dominic run I guess was gonna end one. 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.320 Way or the other this show. 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:55.320 Wes Lee was gonna beat him, and of course Wes 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:58.640 Lee had to you know Lee for surgery, and so 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:02.560 his brother Dragon and Lee ended up getting the match 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.320 and beat Tom Pinham clean in the middle Destino. So 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.320 he's the new North American Champion. We let to figure 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:10.600 out who's gonna beat him. Now, get somebody in the 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.640 n XT over. We'll talk more about the show for 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:12.880 the break. 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:13.480 Observer Live. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.720 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:37.240 and Mike SIMPERBB on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.840 Again the show Brain Elberrez here, Wrestling Observer Live, Mike 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.720 simber BB. Also Wrestling Observer dot Com Women's Iron Survivor 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:50.920 Challenge was won by Blair Davenport. Yes, they did the 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.080 old finish where she was ahead last try to chase 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:58.200 her for the last couple of seconds, but uh, Blair 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:01.000 ran for her life to be the winner. So she 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.840 will be facing Lyra at New Year's Evil. But then 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:11.720 Cory Jade, the resident bad girl of NXT, foils my 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.359 blood every time I hear it. She returned, and I 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:20.000 guess she's also in line for Lyra's title match. 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:20.440 Is fine? 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:21.240 Is all right? 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:26.160 I mean, if you hey, listen for the experienced level 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.439 of the women in there going twenty five minutes, they 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.919 did an excellent job putting it together, but at no 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.520 point did it not look like a choreographed twenty five 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.720 minute match with Green women wrestling. That was that, and 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.760 we had Carmelo and Lexus King, and Carmelo got the 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.600 wind there and that's when Lexus revealed that he had 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:50.320 not attacked Trick Williams, but he did thank Carmelo for 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:55.080 giving him that pl spotlight. And then that's pretty much it. 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:58.400 We talked about everything else, so I would say overall 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.720 a very good Oh he didn't talk about the cage match, eh, 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.120 you know, horrible spot for the cage match. The match 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.840 was all right, it was like your basic cage match. 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.880 And then who should slam the door because of course 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:16.800 we have to have the cage door slammed on someone's 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:21.639 head in every single cage match ever. But nobody knows 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:26.399 some blonde. The crowd had no earthly idea who she was. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.800 The announcers didn't appear to know who she was. They 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:30.919 had to be smartened up. I had no idea who 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.280 she was. For those wondering, it was i Isy Dame. 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:38.600 Yeah. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.879 For those of you that don't watch the show and 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.879 have no idea who I'm talking about, well, most people 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.679 watching the show also have no idea who I'm talking about. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.200 But she cost rock sand the match. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.480 Not a fully developed established character as of yet. 0:18:54.920 --> 0:18:55.680 Is he dame? 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.080 Is he dame? Yeah? What do you think about the name? Though? 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.440 I don't know whatever. It's x T dude. Every name 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.040 is dumb overall. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.840 I thought a very good show, very good show. 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:10.280 I don't think Roxy and Perez is a dumb name. 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:11.480 We'll stop. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.040 So then we add, uh, well, we'll get in some 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:16.879 news and we'll go back to uh some of the 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.720 other TV shows because uh, I hear people want SmackDown 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:24.040 reviewed is that right? It was a groundbreaking newsworthy show 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:28.120 that SmackDown this week. Let me tell you so rot 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.000 tonight as cmpunk to reveal which Brandy's gonna appear on, 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:36.040 Cody Rhads versus Shinskate Nakamura, Drew McIntyre versus Jay Usso 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.640 we're getting Drew McIntyre and Jay USO tonight. Drew's gonna 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:44.520 get his pound of flesh and Cody and Shinsky Nakamura 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.800 which has been built up for a while. And then of 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.400 course we got Ria Ripley and Maxine Dupree. That should 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.760 be something else. And Becky Lynch wants to call out 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:59.600 Naya jacks Yeah, you know that's a match I've been 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.840 looking for over to four years. Becky Lynch and Nya 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:09.080 Jackson a rematch, Yes, indeed. Then we have got SmackDown 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.159 this Friday, which has the return of Roman Reigns, so 0:20:12.240 --> 0:20:15.040 he'll do a big number. Kevin Owens versus austin theory 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:19.080 US Title Contenders Tournament match. And also in the US 0:20:19.119 --> 0:20:24.480 Title Contenders Tournament, Grace and Waller will be facing Carmelo 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:30.040 hayes Hey, Yes, getting his shot here in the SmackDown tournament. 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.600 So that will be exciting, and we got, of course, 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:38.200 the a steal interview about cmpunk. He was a guest 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.360 on Wrestling with Rip Rogers. With Rip Rogers, I wish 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:43.760 that was the actual name of it. 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.800 But that is not broadcast over the air. I'll tell 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:47.040 you that. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:51.160 Yes, Steele said, I'm very proud of my number one student, 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.679 the number one student I've ever coached in the world. 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.080 Feel bad for the rest of his students for heading 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.240 back to show the world who the he the hell 0:21:00.280 --> 0:21:03.160 he is. I did his speech at the Cauliflower Ally Club. 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:06.560 Steve Kernan was supposed to induct Punk at the Cauliflower 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:08.840 Ally but he couldn't make it. They were kind of 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:10.840 scrambling around. I said, I'll do it because who else 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.760 can introduce to and talk about the days we started together. 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.040 And I said the reason people hate him or whatever 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:21.000 is he's not about the bs. The guy doesn't take 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.480 s and he doesn't take it lightly. And when you've 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.440 had enough s, you either explode or you take care 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.280 of business yourself and you defend yourself. People don't like 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.760 him because he defends himself or calls stuff out when 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.960 it's not proper. But if you treat him right, he 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:43.760 treats everyone else right. Was that the speech he gave 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.160 a cauliflower ally. 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:50.359 I don't think so. No, okay, no, some of that 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.639 was in there but extended out to about you know, 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:56.600 fifteen minutes or so. Yeah, so those inductions work. 0:21:57.760 --> 0:22:01.439 He was asked about his time and the all out brawl. 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:03.840 He said, well, I worked with a lot of great people, 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:08.920 some great, some not so much. Family still exists in 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:11.600 this business. There are things none of us can say, 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:12.440 and none of us will. 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:13.280 I think. 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:15.159 Actually, my wife's the only one who could probably tell 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:17.679 the stories since she was there. Maybe someday as far 0:22:17.720 --> 0:22:20.280 as that goes. You don't f with family, You just don't. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:22.879 You just don't. And we came out just fine. I 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:24.800 have a great lawyer, Stephen P. 0:22:25.119 --> 0:22:27.879