Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: gonna be a lot to get into today, not the
Speaker 1: least of which is all of the hullabaloo and scuttle
Speaker 1: but over could it be Naomi and Sasha Banks being
Speaker 1: added back to the active roster page for w w E. Also,
Speaker 1: FTR taken out of the A E W video game.
Speaker 1: Some people who were wondering when they saw that news
Speaker 1: this morning if that would be causing a ton of controversy.
Speaker 1: It has not. FTR was well aware that they were
Speaker 1: being taken out of the game. It's just that the
Speaker 1: news has come out now about all that, and we'll
Speaker 1: tell you all about that, as well as what's coming
Speaker 1: up tonight on Raw at a chance to watch both
Speaker 1: SmackDown in Rampage, we can talk about that. I got
Speaker 1: some news coming up about Samoa Joe as well as
Speaker 1: some other things, not the least of which is tournament
Speaker 1: season coming to an end in Japan. We have the
Speaker 1: finals of the Noah and One all set up, as
Speaker 1: well us some news on the i w g P
Speaker 1: Women's Championship Tournament. The first match has been announced. It
Speaker 1: is Jazzy Gabert against Eva. We'll get into that a
Speaker 1: little bit later on as well too. I am tired
Speaker 1: of holding onto this phone and I'm going to switch
Speaker 1: back over to the fine microphone and highline method that
Speaker 1: we usually use here on this program, So stick with me.
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Speaker 1: That's for the Big boss Man, Brian Alvarez, who will
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow on this program. Right now, he is
Speaker 1: somewhere signing and updating his last Will and testament. Why
Speaker 1: because he will be facing off against Filthy Tom Lawler,
Speaker 1: their partners Billy Starks with Brian Alvarez and Killer Kelly
Speaker 1: with Filthy Tom Lawler coming up this weekend in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna have a heat up for that
Speaker 1: show take place a little while from now for viewers
Speaker 1: of Twitch and YouTube, those premium subscribers, and for those
Speaker 1: of you who listen to the Filthy for dailies over
Speaker 1: Observer dot com. I believe Brian will be back from
Speaker 1: doing whatever it is he is doing right now while
Speaker 1: doing this show, and he'll be doing the show with
Speaker 1: Bolthy Tom Lawler. So that is going to be certainly
Speaker 1: something here as we lead into this weekend. It is
Speaker 1: a a big weekend. The whole opening segment of this
Speaker 1: show has thrown me off, but damn it. We have
Speaker 1: a lot coming up here this weekend as we lead
Speaker 1: into both All Out four in Chicago and w w
Speaker 1: e's Clash at the Castle taking place in Cardiff, Wales.
Speaker 1: There is as well once we hit Sunday, right before
Speaker 1: All Out, n x T World's Collide that is going
Speaker 1: to be taking place, and we have a little bit
Speaker 1: of n x T news to begin the show here.
Speaker 1: It's not really n x T news, but it does
Speaker 1: involve a former n XT wrestler. Santanna Garrett has returned
Speaker 1: to w w E and this is up on the
Speaker 1: front page of the website right now, although I'm not
Speaker 1: looking at it since the show started, so it may
Speaker 1: have changed because a little Birdie has told me that
Speaker 1: she is back at the PC, just as a guest trainer.
Speaker 1: She is not back full time as the article has
Speaker 1: made it look. Garrett, on her Instagram stories on Monday,
Speaker 1: spoke about the role and said she was helping a
Speaker 1: class with new Hires, so it's gonna be uh. Garrett
Speaker 1: had been there for a while. She was part of
Speaker 1: the two thousand seventeen May Young Classic. She signed full
Speaker 1: time with w w E and two thousand and nineteen
Speaker 1: she was a regular on n x T. She wrestled
Speaker 1: on one episode of Raw and was a part of
Speaker 1: the two thousand twenty one Women's Royal Rumble. But then
Speaker 1: that was pretty much it for her. She ended up
Speaker 1: going to a w and working a couple of shows
Speaker 1: down there. In fact, the front page article said it
Speaker 1: was four So uh, she's just back as a guest
Speaker 1: trainer for now. But we've seen plenty of people who
Speaker 1: have been part of n x T in the past
Speaker 1: make their way back. So if this goes successfully for
Speaker 1: her and everybody is happy, she may get called back again.
Speaker 1: And who knows, maybe she gets called back for a
Speaker 1: full time role coming up soon to full time wrestlers
Speaker 1: that a lot of people would like to see back
Speaker 1: in the ring, or Naomi and Sasha Banks, And apparently
Speaker 1: there was a whole bunch of fewer cause when they
Speaker 1: were added back to the active page of w w
Speaker 1: E Talent. I cannot confirm that firsthand, as I rarely
Speaker 1: like to navigate the w w E dot com website,
Speaker 1: but their return to the company has been speculated on
Speaker 1: now for quite some time, and as we come to
Speaker 1: the end of the very jinxt w w E Women's
Speaker 1: Tag Team Championship Tournament. I have a feeling that once
Speaker 1: we see the finals, we may see Naomi and Sasha
Speaker 1: Banks doing a challenge and on paper, if your champions
Speaker 1: happened to be EO Sky and Dakota Kai, matches against
Speaker 1: Naomi and Sasha Banks may get as close to stardom
Speaker 1: stuff as we can get in this country. They ought
Speaker 1: to be fantastic, uh together. So that's the at least
Speaker 1: the direction that I'm hoping that they're going. It certainly
Speaker 1: would seem to be the case if Naomi and Sasha
Speaker 1: are coming back, because you can go with with those
Speaker 1: for for quite some time, probably right into a Survivor series.
Speaker 1: I know we have a w w E Extreme Rules
Speaker 1: is going to be coming up as well too, but
Speaker 1: I have a feeling, because of the participants involved, as
Speaker 1: well as Bailey being in there too, we could be
Speaker 1: seeing tag team matches and six women matches going right
Speaker 1: into Survivor series if you wanted to. That's that's one
Speaker 1: of the best things. If there's a silver lining in
Speaker 1: the cloud that happened with Naomi and Sasha and this
Speaker 1: whole deal with Vince McMahon is, I don't know if
Speaker 1: they happen to fall into line together or what, but
Speaker 1: if Naomi and Sasha come back, Look, the Women's Tag
Speaker 1: Team Championship since then has been a I want to say,
Speaker 1: a comedy of errors. But there they were. They gonna
Speaker 1: shelve it. Okay, are we gonna bring it back? We're
Speaker 1: gonna bring it back. We're gonna have a tournament for it.
Speaker 1: They kind of made a non decision having again Nikita
Speaker 1: Lines and in Zoe Stark, although I kind of understood
Speaker 1: what they were doing. They're trying to give them ship
Speaker 1: some shine on national TV that ends up not coming
Speaker 1: to pass. Toxic trashing comes up, they get hurt. The
Speaker 1: matches themselves haven't exactly been anything to write home about.
Speaker 1: So you know, when this whole thing finally shakes out
Speaker 1: and falls, you know, frankly, Naomi and Sasha coming back
Speaker 1: to rile up the new champions and to take their
Speaker 1: shot at him will probably make everybody forget about how
Speaker 1: forgettable that tournament has been. Samoa Joe's name has been
Speaker 1: speculated on for quite some time as to where is he,
Speaker 1: what is going on, what is happening? Is he upset
Speaker 1: does he not want to be involved with Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor as the TV champion? Why is he not on
Speaker 1: a W Dynamite. What is happening with Samoa Joe? Well
Speaker 1: we have our answer. Samoa Joe has been filming a
Speaker 1: TV show. In June, it was announced that Joe had
Speaker 1: signed on the rate signed on to play the role
Speaker 1: of Sweet Tooth in the Peacock live action adaptation of
Speaker 1: the video game Twisted Metal. On Saturday, the show's show
Speaker 1: runner tweeted that the filming had all wrapped up and
Speaker 1: that's where Joe had been. He suffered a shoulder line
Speaker 1: a storyline shoulder injury at the hands of j leefal
Speaker 1: Sttenham singing san Jay Dutt after r o h is
Speaker 1: July death before this Honor pay per view, where Joe
Speaker 1: had defeated Lethal in the title defense. So now he
Speaker 1: is back. He was in the Owen Hard Tournament. He's
Speaker 1: only wrestled seven matches since the Owen Hard Tournament for
Speaker 1: a w but his presence will be welcomed back, not
Speaker 1: only obviously for Ring of Honor and anything that they
Speaker 1: plan on doing, but just his name value on a
Speaker 1: W Dynamite and on rampage the rampage, and I guess
Speaker 1: I can blast it real quick before this segment ends,
Speaker 1: because there's not really a whole lot to talk about
Speaker 1: with it. It was a a solid show. It was
Speaker 1: not spectacular. I'm not sure that if you were already
Speaker 1: dead set on watching your Major League Baseball Pennant Race
Speaker 1: game or your NFL preseason game, that there was anything
Speaker 1: that was gonna be on this show that didn't have
Speaker 1: you going back to watch it on the DVR a
Speaker 1: little bit later on, or or or maybe even just
Speaker 1: skipping it altogether. The I thought, again, I don't know
Speaker 1: how how banged up Malachi but Black is, and I
Speaker 1: assumed that they're telling a story where Hangman Page is
Speaker 1: going to take the place of Ten in this trio's tournament.
Speaker 1: But if that is not going to be the case,
Speaker 1: you should have had the House of Black when this thing.
Speaker 1: But Malachi Black had a knee bar on Ten. When
Speaker 1: Miro's rams horn hit, he ended up coming out. Buddy
Speaker 1: and Brody went to go after him. That allowed Alex
Speaker 1: Reynolds to get a roll up on Malachi for the pin.
Speaker 1: After the match, Miro got into the ring, he was
Speaker 1: jumped by every Bolly Maliki spin picked him and the
Speaker 1: House of Black was able to put the boots to
Speaker 1: him for a little bit before Sting and Darby. Allen
Speaker 1: made the save which has been setting up or does
Speaker 1: set up something that has been long rumored that six
Speaker 1: man match between the House of Black, Sting, Darby, and
Speaker 1: Miro for the pay per view Wardload destroyed Ryan mf
Speaker 1: No surprise there they're teasing. Dissension continued between the andrad
Speaker 1: A Family Office and private party Powerhouse. Hobbs killed a
Speaker 1: guy named Ashton Day. Jade Cargill and Athena had a
Speaker 1: short pull a park in the In the back, it
Speaker 1: seems as if Cargol has fired Layla Gray out of
Speaker 1: the batties by just telling her to to get out,
Speaker 1: basically in having kiro Hogan take her to the trash.
Speaker 1: Uh that was? That was that Sammy and Tay against
Speaker 1: him and Tie Mellow against Ortiz and Ruby. Soho it
Speaker 1: was okay. There was some weird editing at the end
Speaker 1: of the match. Double jump Cutter by Sammy ended up
Speaker 1: getting the victory. And then in the main event r
Speaker 1: O H Heavy H Championship, Claudio cast No Only defeated
Speaker 1: Dustin Rhodes Old school finish where Dustin jumped up or
Speaker 1: duct underneath Claudio and uh hit A slammed him his
Speaker 1: head into his crotch and that allowed Claudio to get
Speaker 1: the victory. Yeah, I fumbled that at the end there,
Speaker 1: but you know what, that's just the way this show
Speaker 1: is going to be. To day we'll be back Wrestling
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Speaker 1: four W the broadcasters at Sports Byline USA, and if
Speaker 1: you love pro wrestling at mid Atlantic Pod. There was
Speaker 1: a report that came out earlier on this morning that
Speaker 1: uh fightful. I believe it was initially reported this that
Speaker 1: FTR was not going to be a part of the
Speaker 1: brand new a W video game that's coming out here,
Speaker 1: that's gotten a little bit of buzz. Apparently won an
Speaker 1: award not all that long ago, So he does FTR
Speaker 1: not going to be a part of it. People wondered,
Speaker 1: when this environment of everything going on, would they be
Speaker 1: incredibly upset about this? Well apparently, uh no, No, they
Speaker 1: were a little bit blindsided by it, according to according
Speaker 1: to Dax, Or according to Cash, when he and Dax
Speaker 1: spoke to give me sport, but they talked to Tony Khan,
Speaker 1: they talked to the legal department, Tony and everybody got
Speaker 1: back to him. They liked the answer they got, and
Speaker 1: that's that there is no story here whatsoever, unless your
Speaker 1: beat is to cover d l c s, which that's
Speaker 1: got to be what this is. If they were taking
Speaker 1: out of the game completely, I'm sure we would have
Speaker 1: heard about that from Dax in Cash. I believe that
Speaker 1: that would be a thing. But they're not. They're going
Speaker 1: to be characters that are very likely going to be
Speaker 1: downloadable so they can get you to spend an extra
Speaker 1: three nine whatever it's going to be to get both
Speaker 1: of those guys and maybe a couple other people. This
Speaker 1: is a method that I believe all video games used.
Speaker 1: I know certainly w w E uses it. I know
Speaker 1: about the micro transactions and Madden and MLB the Show
Speaker 1: and in different games like that. So no issue here
Speaker 1: with with Dax in cash, and no issue for anybody
Speaker 1: that's going to buy the game and and be upset
Speaker 1: that they're not going to be in it. Although I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I again, in this day and age,
Speaker 1: I have not played a wrestling video game in a
Speaker 1: long time, at least one that was not a retro
Speaker 1: and sixty four style video game or virtual pro uh
Speaker 1: type of deal. So I don't know if it's insulting
Speaker 1: that they're not as part of the original roster. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's insulting or if it hurts their
Speaker 1: income not being a part of it and only being
Speaker 1: part of it as a downloadable. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that's an issue or not. It seems like, you know,
Speaker 1: real small potatoes in the grand scheme of things here
Speaker 1: in the bottom line is if FTR isn't gonna be
Speaker 1: pissed about this. Probably nobody should be pissed about this.
Speaker 1: So that's that on that one. Smell Backdown took place
Speaker 1: at the Little Seasons Arena in Detroit, Michigan, and we
Speaker 1: do have some overnights on that. Now, these numbers are
Speaker 1: bound to change by the time the final numbers come
Speaker 1: out here probably, I guess it's going to be a
Speaker 1: little bit later on today. Usually it's right after the
Speaker 1: show goes off the air. But according to Spoiler TV,
Speaker 1: the overnights were pretty solid two point three million people.
Speaker 1: And again, this is baseball at this point locally is
Speaker 1: probably causing some headaches. Certainly nationally is not an issue
Speaker 1: when it comes to SmackDown, but surely the NFL preseason
Speaker 1: probably cut into this number here a little bit. Last
Speaker 1: week where they also had competition as well, two point
Speaker 1: six million people in the eighteen to forty nine demo
Speaker 1: Friday night show registered a point five rating, which was
Speaker 1: the same as the previous week. So solid numbers for
Speaker 1: SmackDown there, and I thought it was a again, it
Speaker 1: was a a lid show for sure. The interaction between
Speaker 1: Sammy Zane and Roman reigns, and we'll get to that
Speaker 1: later on. Is if nothing else that makes it worth
Speaker 1: the two hours of fast forwarding through on the DVR
Speaker 1: portion of the show, at least through the commercials. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't be you know, fast forward through everything. I think
Speaker 1: that's what Alvarez does. He says he doesn't, but I
Speaker 1: don't know about him. That's why I want Filthy Tom
Speaker 1: to take him out. But the show itself opened right
Speaker 1: in the ring with Ricochet and Baron Cordon. They had
Speaker 1: the introductions for both guys, but we got a match
Speaker 1: right off the bat. As Corbin was making his way
Speaker 1: to the ring, they did an old school in st promo.
Speaker 1: I thought that was cool. This was a rematch from
Speaker 1: a match three weeks ago that Ricochet won. Both of
Speaker 1: those guys were also in the UH Intercontinental Championship five
Speaker 1: way eliminator last week. I thought this was a fun
Speaker 1: match and went through one commercial break. Ricochet ended up
Speaker 1: finishing him off with a beautiful shooting star. S After
Speaker 1: the match, Pat McAfee used a John Madden style tellustrator
Speaker 1: to bury Corbin. So Corbin's back on a long losing streak.
Speaker 1: It looks like here UH in dealing with Pat McAfee
Speaker 1: poking at him from ringside. But the hope is, and
Speaker 1: at least this was the hope of David Bryan today
Speaker 1: on Wrestling Observer Radio, that maybe we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: see a little bit of a turnaround and fortunes here
Speaker 1: for Ricochet. I would be all for that. Again, Ricochet
Speaker 1: does not have the main event WrestleMania for me. But
Speaker 1: if you have a mid card where some guys you
Speaker 1: know they're they're at different levels here and you know
Speaker 1: you can build your way up, you know, this might
Speaker 1: be a good time for Ricochet to see what you
Speaker 1: can get out of him, because what else you gonna
Speaker 1: do here with this guy at this point? If you're
Speaker 1: not going to take him serious now, you may as
Speaker 1: well just send him down to n x T or
Speaker 1: n x T Europe or something like that, because I again,
Speaker 1: to waste him in the way that they have to
Speaker 1: have him lose instantly and not be able to show
Speaker 1: off a lot of his skills I think is a
Speaker 1: big mistake. Hip Profits ran into our the hit row
Speaker 1: ran into the street profits. We'll have a little bit
Speaker 1: more on that coming up later on Great Video Package
Speaker 1: with Drew McIntyre. I thought this was excellent. A goat
Speaker 1: went back through his history with Highlight Clips and the
Speaker 1: first part of it played earlier on in the show. Uh,
Speaker 1: they covered up until his return to the company. He
Speaker 1: was followed by a carry on cross promo that was
Speaker 1: in black and white. He threatened to a race every
Speaker 1: memory that Drew actually had for good and TikTok, and
Speaker 1: that was it for him on the show. Towards the
Speaker 1: end of the show, we got part two with Drew's
Speaker 1: WW redemption story that they always liked going over and
Speaker 1: something by the way, they never mind, I won't even
Speaker 1: bring up one of his girlfriend at the time. Uh Terran, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: Taran Terrell. They were like the they never talked about
Speaker 1: like the hotel room battles and I think it was
Speaker 1: the European tour and and everything else that happens. But
Speaker 1: they do talk about his mother passing away and how
Speaker 1: much that way down on him. But they also added
Speaker 1: some hype for him in Romans Match coming up this
Speaker 1: weekend to Clash in the Castle. And I'm one of
Speaker 1: those people that says felt up drew a cash in
Speaker 1: the Castle. It's not gonna hurt Roman Reigns whatsoever. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a big feather and Drew's cap, you know,
Speaker 1: to end the rain at three. You know it was
Speaker 1: two years now, we're gonna have the two year celebration
Speaker 1: coming up on this addition to SmackDown. He's had both
Speaker 1: belts now for quite some time. It is time to
Speaker 1: give Drew the shot because unless this is a story
Speaker 1: to build to Cody, like the ultimate story where Cody,
Speaker 1: because I believe we're gonna have another Day one show.
Speaker 1: I believe it's going to be in Atlanta. If that
Speaker 1: is going to be the case, what a perfect time
Speaker 1: for Cody to come back from that peck injury, goes
Speaker 1: into the Royal Rumble, announces his entrances into that, when
Speaker 1: ends that, and then goes ahead and defeats Roman. That
Speaker 1: would be that unless you're going to do that, I
Speaker 1: I see no other reason for Drew not to win.
Speaker 1: I mean, that would be the only thing I would do.
Speaker 1: The Rock doesn't factor into that for me. The Rock
Speaker 1: and Roman reigns does not have to be a w
Speaker 1: W World title match. Maybe to somebody in w W
Speaker 1: E that's important, but I guarantee you for pretty much
Speaker 1: the rest of the world, including the world that you're
Speaker 1: trying to attract by having the Rock come back. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter his battle against Roman reigns, his cousin, his family,
Speaker 1: his blood in the l A Coliseum or whatever that
Speaker 1: it's so Fi stadium in front of a hundred thousand
Speaker 1: people or whatever it is, whatever they're gonna claim. You know,
Speaker 1: that's all you really need. And then that way, you
Speaker 1: know you can do Cody and Drew or something like that.
Speaker 1: But again, it's not important for Roman to have that
Speaker 1: title if he's going to go ahead and face the Rock.
Speaker 1: But if the plan is he and Cody, that would
Speaker 1: be the only way I don't belt up Drew. There
Speaker 1: was a last chance fatal four way match only went
Speaker 1: three minutes. In Italian Sonia Daville defeated Duw dropping Nicky
Speaker 1: ash Nikki A s H Sully, Brian now Shot, see
Speaker 1: An Xialie and Dana Brook and Tomina. Natalia reversed the
Speaker 1: superplex by Nikki as Uh. Sonia made a blind tag
Speaker 1: sup plex or actually outside of the ring onto a
Speaker 1: bunch of people. Sonia ran down Scooper up for Carcass
Speaker 1: roller back in the ring, got the pin and they
Speaker 1: advanced to the semifinals. Later on against where Kel Rodriguez
Speaker 1: and Aaliyah. We had a segment with Shamus who came
Speaker 1: down for a promo. He was quickly cut off by Gunther.
Speaker 1: There was Luca Kaiser at gunther side, there was Butch
Speaker 1: and Ridge Holland at at Shamus's side, and they went
Speaker 1: back and forth. I thought they had, you know, good
Speaker 1: good verbiage, kind of these big two guys who are
Speaker 1: just gonna beat the hell out of each other. And
Speaker 1: Gunther says, the Shamus people tell me can't be broken.
Speaker 1: We'll He's gonna break them and is. He finishes that.
Speaker 1: Butch just jumps over, jumps on Liquid, starts fighting him.
Speaker 1: Ridge kind of stands back. Ludwig starts to get the advantage.
Speaker 1: He knocks Butch out of the ring. He knocks Ridge
Speaker 1: out of the ring. Ridge grabs his legs and is
Speaker 1: all of this car and just just going on. As
Speaker 1: these guys are fighting, Shamus and Gunther are just facing
Speaker 1: each other, their eyes that are not leaving each other,
Speaker 1: and they're going at it. And finally Ridges laid to
Speaker 1: the side. Butch gets back in the ring with Ludwig.
Speaker 1: They're staggering and they just get pulled up by the
Speaker 1: sleeves by their their leaders. Who again never take their
Speaker 1: eyes off each other, and that's how they decided to
Speaker 1: go into Clash at the Castle, and I thought that
Speaker 1: was a really good way, especially with the sidekicks that
Speaker 1: they have to build up a match between two bad
Speaker 1: guys who should thump away a clash at the Castle.
Speaker 1: We'll go through the rest of SmackDown, as well as
Speaker 1: a bunch of other news taking place in professional wrestling
Speaker 1: when we get back break. Restumes are Alive. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to the show. Mike simparyvia Restumes are alive. This s
Speaker 1: show just because it fits in with the the rest
Speaker 1: of everything today. There is no filthy for Daily Today.
Speaker 1: Land Storm has let me know this. Apparently Brian said
Speaker 1: last night on The Brian and Vinny Show, what you
Speaker 1: could listen to if you're a subscriber to rescumes over
Speaker 1: dot com. I am, and apparently I should have listened
Speaker 1: to that show and I would have known that there
Speaker 1: is no filthy for it. And I can understand why
Speaker 1: Tom's a fighter. You are now down to the end
Speaker 1: the five week. You know, if you don't have to
Speaker 1: do media. A lot of fighters they hate Diddler. You're
Speaker 1: cutting weight. You've been you've been stressed out. You haven't
Speaker 1: seen your woman. You've been you've been holding back in
Speaker 1: that category. You know you're trying to get to me,
Speaker 1: your your prime physical condition, and have all of your
Speaker 1: focus be placed upon your opponent. So I can understand
Speaker 1: why filthy Tom Lawler, if he doesn't have to, he
Speaker 1: is not doing any media, especially not with the judas
Speaker 1: that is Brian Alvarez before he and Killer Kelly face
Speaker 1: off against Billy Starks. So I really feel bad for
Speaker 1: in this whole exchange teaming up with Brian Alvarez coming
Speaker 1: up BLP show g CW this Friday night, late Friday
Speaker 1: night on all that weekend in Chicago. That's enough promotion
Speaker 1: for that one. Back to SmackDown where Natty and Sonia
Speaker 1: were being interviewed backstage, and this has been a common
Speaker 1: theme recently where if you're just concentrating on who is
Speaker 1: in the the fourth ground in the front of the
Speaker 1: shot there, you kind of missed some things because in
Speaker 1: the corner in the background, as Natty and Sonia were
Speaker 1: cutting their promo, do drop in, Nikki A s h
Speaker 1: we're pantomim ing and argument. This is all led into
Speaker 1: the semifinals by the way of the tag team tournament
Speaker 1: where Bailey, EO and Dakota came down to join the
Speaker 1: commentary team. So, whether this means that do Drop and
Speaker 1: Nikki are going to be splitting up, Whether this means
Speaker 1: that it's we could see them maybe in an x
Speaker 1: T or something like that for a trip maybe so
Speaker 1: they can get themselves together. Not exactly sure, but they
Speaker 1: have at least in a little bit of an idea
Speaker 1: for them right now. When he came to the second
Speaker 1: tag match, they got a Lee out of way early here.
Speaker 1: They were not worried about her whatsoever. The real star
Speaker 1: of that team is obviously Raquel Rodriguez, a mission Oku
Speaker 1: driver on the floor by Natty uh. That's what took
Speaker 1: a Lee out early on. Eventually, Raquel overcame the two
Speaker 1: on one and ended up winning the match after a
Speaker 1: tana bum on Sonia for the win. Afterwards, Aliah had
Speaker 1: the full ability to celebrate. She like bounced into the
Speaker 1: ring and she was all sorts of happy. So I
Speaker 1: don't know. She may have fallen asleep there on the
Speaker 1: floor for a while, but she didn't make it back in,
Speaker 1: and I guess she'll be okay and ready to go
Speaker 1: for tonight. Uh when when when they actually face off
Speaker 1: against EO and Dakota in the finals, Maximum Male huddles,
Speaker 1: we're doing a photo shoot in the parking garage and
Speaker 1: they better figure out something to do with this act quick. Uh.
Speaker 1: Max Dupri was incensed because he was standing in there
Speaker 1: and trying to direct this photo shoot and this isn't
Speaker 1: the parking garage, mind you, there's a bus because it's
Speaker 1: the parking garage where music is coming out of it.
Speaker 1: In his mind, Max dupre thought it was hit Rose
Speaker 1: bus and they've kind of been beefing, and Maxine gives
Speaker 1: him a look and says, you know what, I know
Speaker 1: who to who to get for this job. And she
Speaker 1: comes back with Los Lotharios who say they know what
Speaker 1: they can do to to really get a hit Row
Speaker 1: for bothering Maximum Male models. And they show off having
Speaker 1: spray paint. Sure, and that would be okay if they
Speaker 1: actually like tagged up the bus with anything, but they didn't. It.
Speaker 1: It looked like, first of all, the bus looked like
Speaker 1: a white board anyway that you would write on, and
Speaker 1: it actually looked like instead of spray paint, they actually
Speaker 1: just had blue sharpie's that they wrote hit Row sucks
Speaker 1: all the way across the bus. Unfortunately for the Maximum
Speaker 1: Male Models, um, it wasn't hit Rose because hit Row
Speaker 1: walked over and challenged them for a match next week.
Speaker 1: And then they turned around to find out that the
Speaker 1: Street Profits walking off their bus were not happy with
Speaker 1: what they saw. By the way, nothing planned together with
Speaker 1: the Maximum Male Models and the Street Profits, so I
Speaker 1: don't know if any revenge will ever be gotten for this.
Speaker 1: The New Day then cutting in ring promo. Xavier Woods
Speaker 1: was in a wheelchair. They talked about getting beat up
Speaker 1: over the last several weeks by the Viking Raiders and
Speaker 1: then watching their legacy get burned up during the Viking
Speaker 1: funeral last week. They seemed to be teasing breaking up
Speaker 1: when the Raiders came down to the ring to finish
Speaker 1: them off like the wounded animals they are. Woods tease
Speaker 1: not being able to get up, but he did, and
Speaker 1: he had two Kendo sticks with him, and The New
Speaker 1: Day used them and sent those guys packing. It's time
Speaker 1: for the main event Sammy Zane and Drew McIntyre, and
Speaker 1: this was set up earlier on in the show by
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns and needing another favor from Sammy. Their interactions
Speaker 1: have been out standing and Sammy REPLI using Paul Hayman
Speaker 1: as the fourth tire on that luxury ride that is
Speaker 1: the Bloodline has been sublime. He has been excellent and
Speaker 1: Jay still can't stand him. He was on his case
Speaker 1: about losing last week before Sammy came down to the
Speaker 1: ring uh for the match. Sammy was pissed about that still,
Speaker 1: but went out there anyway afterwards after Sammy unfortunately took
Speaker 1: the l uh. Not unfortunately, obviously he had to take
Speaker 1: the l But with the way he's been performing, I
Speaker 1: need to see Sammy getting some wins here soon, and
Speaker 1: maybe against ja. I guess if they started going at
Speaker 1: it but Roman ran down when when Drew was beaten,
Speaker 1: or after Drew's victory sent him so. But Drew actually
Speaker 1: got the advantage. And this is one thing that may
Speaker 1: play into Saturday show is the fact that he did
Speaker 1: send him shoulder first into the post. And I know
Speaker 1: by the end of this segment it was Roman Rain
Speaker 1: sitting tall in a chair over Drew's body after the
Speaker 1: USO's and Sammy had had put a beating on him.
Speaker 1: They they beat him with steel chairs, they put him
Speaker 1: over the announced table. UH. They held him so Sammy
Speaker 1: could deliver the Hlula cook and they crushed him with
Speaker 1: the ring steps and they did leave him laying but
Speaker 1: it was the first thing that you saw when Roman
Speaker 1: went after Drew was him missing a spear and nailing
Speaker 1: himself and getting put into the ring post and Drew
Speaker 1: throwing him into the ring pace. So I have a
Speaker 1: feeling that that is going to be playing in. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be something that they're going to be bringing up.
Speaker 1: When Drew was completely massacred. The final thing that Roman
Speaker 1: rains due to him was lock on a Gillick team
Speaker 1: before laying him out and placing the chair over him
Speaker 1: and sitting down, which is how the show ended. It
Speaker 1: was a very very strong way to go off the air.
Speaker 1: I thought the show next week, as we've mentioned, is taped,
Speaker 1: carry Cross makes his debut. We have Ronda Rousey's final
Speaker 1: judgment UH where she calls out Adam Pierce. We have
Speaker 1: that hit Row Maximum Male Models Match. Happy Corbin is
Speaker 1: going to have an open challenge as well as the UH.
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns is two year championship celebration which the USO's
Speaker 1: and Sandy Zane are going to be hosting. So that's
Speaker 1: what's going to be taking place coming up on this
Speaker 1: coming Friday's SmackDown, which is going to be the technically
Speaker 1: the last go home show leading into Clash at the Castle,
Speaker 1: but Tonight's Raw is going to be the last last
Speaker 1: live version of that, and we're going to get the
Speaker 1: USO's and Sammy Zane on the show tonight as well. Uh,
Speaker 1: not much has been offered other than that from the
Speaker 1: w w E preview, so we're not sure what they're
Speaker 1: going to be doing, but they're definitely going to be
Speaker 1: on the show, as is Kurt Angle, because they are
Speaker 1: going to be in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and if they're sticking
Speaker 1: with you know, obviously we haven't seen it on TV yet,
Speaker 1: but if they need an excuse for why Adam Pierce
Speaker 1: isn't there, you know, Kurt Angle's got a little bit
Speaker 1: of GM experience. You know, I heard his son is
Speaker 1: a is a producer backstage. Nobody wants to remember that Angle,
Speaker 1: but his his former son's tag team partner, Chad Gable
Speaker 1: Alpha Academy otis. How can we not have some interaction?
Speaker 1: How can we not have interaction between Kurt Angle and
Speaker 1: Alpha Academy tonight so I would assume we're gonna get
Speaker 1: a dose of that as well as we're cal Rodriguez
Speaker 1: and Elie against Dakota Sky or Dakota Kai and Eo
Speaker 1: Sky Um tonight for the w W Tag. And again,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see if Sasha and Naomi are back.
Speaker 1: Do you bring them back tonight? Is it's something that
Speaker 1: you wit on, maybe something you bring them back as
Speaker 1: a surprise of class at the Castle and then you
Speaker 1: blitz everybody with advertising and then they make their return
Speaker 1: next you know, this coming Monday night on Raw. It'd
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what they do there. And the
Speaker 1: one other thing that they've announced for tonight is Matt
Speaker 1: Riddle having a face to face with Cyes Seth Freaking Rollins.
Speaker 1: It is written like that backstage by the way folks,
Speaker 1: Seth Freaking Rollins, And so they're going to be facing
Speaker 1: off a clash at the Castle. Uh. Riddle has been
Speaker 1: out with an injury, uh from Seth. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think of how far back that goes. Now it's been
Speaker 1: a while, uh since Riddle has been actually in the ring. Oh.
Speaker 1: Also Bobby Lashly against the Miss tonight as well too,
Speaker 1: So Chompa Suirreley at Ringside as well as Dexter Loomis
Speaker 1: and hopefully they tie up those strings as well. How
Speaker 1: did the miss break the grip of Dexter Loomis? How
Speaker 1: far did he make it while he was being dragged
Speaker 1: out of the billetling? Did he? Did he make it
Speaker 1: to the top of the concourse? And is like the
Speaker 1: did the Dexter stop to buy a shirt or a
Speaker 1: soda or some nachos or some thing and kind of
Speaker 1: like lost a grip of him while he was trying
Speaker 1: to pay and the miss got away? Uh was was
Speaker 1: the miss and still in a trunk of a car
Speaker 1: or something like that by the time that Dexter Loomis
Speaker 1: was brought over to n x T so he could
Speaker 1: give his goodbye letter to Indie Hartwell, possibly all of
Speaker 1: these questions and were being answered tonight on Monday Night Raw,
Speaker 1: which again is taking place on the USA. Now we're
Speaker 1: eight o'clock from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It's uh yeah, they they've
Speaker 1: really got to figure out there's been no social media
Speaker 1: on that. I don't think there's been nothing to that
Speaker 1: story like whatsoever at all, Like nothing. You couldn't do
Speaker 1: one funny skit like anything like Maurice calling Indie like,
Speaker 1: you know, like where's my husband? What has your man
Speaker 1: done to my husband? Any of that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But uh, I guess not Wednesday's Dynamite. We do have
Speaker 1: a ticket update there. Uh. It's emanating from the Hoffman
Speaker 1: Arena in uh Hoffman and States, Illinois at the Now Arena.
Speaker 1: According to Russell Ticks and this is as of yesterday,
Speaker 1: five thousand, seven hundred and sixty three tickets had been
Speaker 1: sold for the show, twelve hundred and sixty nine remaining.
Speaker 1: So the pay per view is I believe sold out.
Speaker 1: I believe the only thing that is up in the
Speaker 1: air right now is our Rampage tickets. They had a
Speaker 1: bunch of tickets that were bundled together to try to
Speaker 1: get you to go to both Dynamite and Rampage. Apparently
Speaker 1: now they have broken up those tickets. Doesn't sound like
Speaker 1: rampagees sold out yet. We'll get an update on that.
Speaker 1: In fact, after Raw tonight the Late Night Rustling Observer
Speaker 1: Radio with David Brian, there may be an update on that.
Speaker 1: He'll probably have an update on that. Then. Do you
Speaker 1: want to get this in here for you? Uh? The
Speaker 1: Noah and One Victory it is. It is tournament time
Speaker 1: in Japan. We had the G One that ended not
Speaker 1: all that long ago, the Zero one Fire Festival. We
Speaker 1: have the Stardom five Star Grand Prix which is going on,
Speaker 1: but Noah's and One Victory U League has now come
Speaker 1: to an end. Kato Kio Mia won the B block
Speaker 1: and he'll be facing off against Hideki Suzuki, who won
Speaker 1: the A Block a couple of days ago. Their final
Speaker 1: encounters will be taking place on September three, uh they
Speaker 1: will be It's for the End one Victory Final. This
Speaker 1: is a It's a relatively loaded show. Up top. There's
Speaker 1: a eight man tag which on paper looks to be
Speaker 1: really good. Naomichi Marufuji Goshio Zaki, Massato Tanaka, and Massaki
Speaker 1: Masaki Mosuzuki, one of the most underrated guys in wrestling
Speaker 1: history over the age of fifty years old, who still
Speaker 1: can perform at an incredible level against kas Fagina, Kendall
Speaker 1: kash and Hio Del Wagner Jr. And Timothy Thatcher, as
Speaker 1: well as Kenno Minabu Soya and Tataskey and one of
Speaker 1: Great Muda's last matches is he teams when No Sawa
Speaker 1: and the Great Okon, We'll be back to put a
Speaker 1: ball on this thing. Wrestling Observe Alive back on the show,
Speaker 1: Mike Sap for Viva here. Whether you're wrestling Observer live,
Speaker 1: this has been a much better show if we just
Speaker 1: would have recorded the break material. I'm telling you, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, Hey, if you wanna book out Dot Gallows
Speaker 1: and Carl Anderson, you can. It's been noted that their
Speaker 1: contracts have come to an end with Impact Wrestling and
Speaker 1: they have not signed a new deal after what Dave
Speaker 1: had noted were what he believed to have been the
Speaker 1: highest contracts in the company at that time. He noted
Speaker 1: they are both booked for upcoming new Japan shows, but
Speaker 1: could legally appear on either A a W or WW
Speaker 1: programming as soon as this week. You know, Carl Anderson
Speaker 1: is staring down the you know, barrel, the barrel of
Speaker 1: feud with his old his old friend Hiroshi Tanahashi. I
Speaker 1: don't think he no matter what Triple H can do.
Speaker 1: After the last time those two guys were there, I
Speaker 1: don't think you're gonna be seen him pop up on
Speaker 1: w W t V. But I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: also gonna be seen him pop up on a w
Speaker 1: TV either, unless it's somebody to come in and do
Speaker 1: a loss and have a good match with FTR and
Speaker 1: take an l as they defend one of their belts.
Speaker 1: You know, they are where they should be, probably with
Speaker 1: New Japan, especially for the Real World Tag Leave if
Speaker 1: that's gonna be coming up this November, which I believe
Speaker 1: it is, and frankly whenever it is, uh they can
Speaker 1: stand to be in there and and maybe try to
Speaker 1: put over some newer teams that come down the line,
Speaker 1: use a little bit of the cash that they had
Speaker 1: and help out some people down the line. For New
Speaker 1: Japan in the division that I would love to see
Speaker 1: them kind of rebuild and get done again. So that
Speaker 1: is it for me everybody. This show has been jinxed
Speaker 1: from the start, But that's okay. Why because tomorrow is
Speaker 1: a new day, Yes it is, and Brian Albrez is
Speaker 1: going to be back in this chair. I will be
Speaker 1: at his side, and Producer Dom will be in the studio.
Speaker 1: Gotta salute him. Producer Jared will be doing video. I
Speaker 1: gotta salute him, and I salute all of you for
Speaker 1: tuning in and especially staying with me on this very
Speaker 1: Jinx edition of Wrestling Observer Live. We shall talk to
Speaker 1: you after a while. Everyone, you have been listening to
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