Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.
Speaker 1: Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Over Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday. Now Pacific three Stern Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. Well it's Tuesday on this show. You know
Speaker 1: that means, hey, n x T two point ohs tonight
Speaker 1: my favorite show. Anyway, We're not gonna talk about a
Speaker 1: lot of that today, but we will talk about the
Speaker 1: Raw show from last night. What a what a last
Speaker 1: forty five minutes of the show that was. We'll tell
Speaker 1: you by the Raw show fallout from Rustlemania Backlash. Roman
Speaker 1: Rains appears to be taking some time off this summer.
Speaker 1: What exactly that means? I don't know what that means
Speaker 1: for the pay per view events. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: it looks like you take about ten weeks off this summer,
Speaker 1: So we'll tell you about that. We've also got an
Speaker 1: update on the uh the title unification match that's not
Speaker 1: going to happen with r K bro and the USOS.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you about that. New Japan is running Strong
Speaker 1: Collision coming up on Sunday, and we have a lot
Speaker 1: of matches announced for that show, so we'll go over
Speaker 1: to the lineup for that. Ted DBAs, Sons, Ted Junior,
Speaker 1: Brett DBAs all in trouble with the state a state
Speaker 1: of Florida to me, have Tammy Sitch incarcerated prior to
Speaker 1: her trial? Of course she was, She was arrested, but
Speaker 1: then quarter million dollar bond was posted, so she's out.
Speaker 1: They want to put her back in. And we've got
Speaker 1: the ratings for SmackDown. We've got the ratings for Rampage,
Speaker 1: which unsurprisingly an all time record low given it the
Speaker 1: show aired it to thirty Pacific, sofice to say, I
Speaker 1: was not watching that show live. My child wasn't even
Speaker 1: out of school yet when Rampage aired. And of course
Speaker 1: the Raw Report ends so much more. And yes, we
Speaker 1: come back from the break. I we'll talk for a moment,
Speaker 1: just a moment about Lacy Evans. If you're wondering why
Speaker 1: there was a video of Lacy Evans on Raw last night,
Speaker 1: well we'll tell you all about that here today if
Speaker 1: you want to. Texas zero seven five six six back
Speaker 1: in a month with more Observer Live some times loves
Speaker 1: back in the show. Bryan Alburn is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mikes and Berviv also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. What
Speaker 1: are you doing here? Hey? Listen, listen to everybody. I
Speaker 1: want to uh, I want to explain something to all
Speaker 1: of you very quickly. All right. I realized that you
Speaker 1: watched this show, and you watch my cameos Affortable you
Speaker 1: online dot com on cameo and these wacky videos that
Speaker 1: we show here and all of that stuff, and you
Speaker 1: think this this blokes a gimmick. Okay, let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. I'm actually not a gimmick. Okay, I really,
Speaker 1: I really am not. And uh. I mentioned that I
Speaker 1: was gonna talk about Lacy Evans, and of course, you
Speaker 1: know what everyone's expecting. I expected me to blow my
Speaker 1: stack and just like do a big rant and all that. Bro,
Speaker 1: I'm not a gimmick. Okay. I can't just I can't
Speaker 1: just like force myself to do a rant. I didn't
Speaker 1: think I was gonna do a rant about Lacey Evans yesterday,
Speaker 1: but I did. I didn't know where it was going.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I'm afraid to tell all of you
Speaker 1: that are expecting a big rant right now. You ain't
Speaker 1: gonna get it. Okay, I don't care, like I sincerely,
Speaker 1: I honestly I don't care. I'm over well. See can
Speaker 1: you understand why people may be a little surprised by
Speaker 1: that since you were on the point is I never
Speaker 1: know having to react anything until it's in the moment. Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: maybe in the middle of this, I'm gonna lose my mind.
Speaker 1: I don't think so, Okay, I'm over it so very quickly.
Speaker 1: Last night on RAW they aired the Lacey Evans video again,
Speaker 1: and I should I should backtrack slightly, okay, by explaining that,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked about the Lacey Evans SmackDown thing
Speaker 1: and how the ring announcer said, you know, Lacy Evans
Speaker 1: request you give her her due respect or whatever. I
Speaker 1: was like, that had to be a mistake, Okay. So
Speaker 1: on Raw last night they showed the video again of
Speaker 1: her telling her harrowing story, a story of addiction, death,
Speaker 1: and suicide. And they come back and Corey Graves explains
Speaker 1: that listen, you know a lot of these characters are
Speaker 1: larger than life or whatever. But you know, everything, everything
Speaker 1: that she said is absolutely true and you know, they
Speaker 1: talked about her in glowing terms. She's you know, she's
Speaker 1: gone through all of this and she's still here and
Speaker 1: she's she's like, uh whatever, you know, and and I
Speaker 1: watched it. I was like there. What I thought, foolishly,
Speaker 1: of course, was they're totally backtracking on what happened on
Speaker 1: SmackDown because there was no hint of give her her
Speaker 1: proper respect or anything like that. They were just like,
Speaker 1: this is her true story. It's real. She's been through
Speaker 1: a lot, she's persevered, like she's someone that we can
Speaker 1: all look up to and all of this and that,
Speaker 1: and there was no nothing. So I thought, Okay, well
Speaker 1: they realized how stupid that was Friday, and you know,
Speaker 1: but I was wrong. So Lacy Evans is now a
Speaker 1: member of the w w E Raw roster. Peter the
Speaker 1: inside of reporting the reason the videos aired last night
Speaker 1: is because Evans has switched brands and is now on Raw.
Speaker 1: P w Insider noted that Evans is going to be
Speaker 1: a heel going forward, So it wasn't a mistake on SmackDown,
Speaker 1: like when they when they had the ring announcers say,
Speaker 1: Lacy Evans asks that you show her the proper respect
Speaker 1: a line that has been used for thirty years for
Speaker 1: heels in w w E. It wasn't a mistake. They
Speaker 1: did all of that and she's coming back to So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get mad. I got all out of
Speaker 1: my system yesterday. I don't care. And you know, you
Speaker 1: know the main reason I don't care. It's not my company. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm not the one that has to wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning and look in the mirror and know that
Speaker 1: this was my plan. Okay. Here's the thing, as of
Speaker 1: one thing that I want to say, and that is
Speaker 1: that I know that I talk about an x T
Speaker 1: two point oh and everybody makes fun of it and
Speaker 1: they don't know why I watch it and all this
Speaker 1: and that, okay, But the wrestling is bad, the storylines
Speaker 1: are preposterous, all that, okay, But at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, at the end of the day. They had
Speaker 1: Cameron Grimes do a promo a few weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: in real life, Cameron Grimes and his father were very
Speaker 1: close and his father supported his wrestling career like from
Speaker 1: day one, and Cameron Grimes told his story about how
Speaker 1: his father was dying and literally in one of his
Speaker 1: last conversation with his father. He got to tell his father, Bro,
Speaker 1: I signed with n x T and I'm going to
Speaker 1: be a champion there someday. And then his dad died.
Speaker 1: Dad never got to see him become a champion in
Speaker 1: n XT. And Grimes is telling this emotional story and
Speaker 1: he says, I'm gonna go win that title at Standing
Speaker 1: the liver over WrestleMania weekend. And when they aired it,
Speaker 1: what did I say. I said, Bro, there's no way
Speaker 1: he's not winning the title. Remember this, I said, there's
Speaker 1: no way. And of course there was a way he
Speaker 1: could have not won the title. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, I looked at that, and I looked
Speaker 1: at the story they told and the story of his
Speaker 1: and all of that, and I was like, Bro, there's
Speaker 1: only one way to mess us up. Like you're either
Speaker 1: absolutely beyond incompetent or you're a horrible person. These are
Speaker 1: the only two ways. That he goes to the show
Speaker 1: and he doesn't win the title. Okay, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: He went to the show and he won. He went
Speaker 1: to the show, he vowed to win this championship for
Speaker 1: his father, and he did. They didn't screw it up
Speaker 1: because the wrestling sucks and the storylines are dumb and
Speaker 1: everything like that. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: like the people that are there on a day too.
Speaker 1: I know, it's like, you know, Vince's Calle who gets
Speaker 1: pushed anything, But like the people that are there on
Speaker 1: a day to day basis and everything like that, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're decent human beings. Well, now we've got the
Speaker 1: main roster, and there are many decent human beings that
Speaker 1: work on the main roster. But there's also a guy
Speaker 1: at the very top. And this guy at the very top,
Speaker 1: which who ironically you know, came from the trailer park.
Speaker 1: But now he's a billionaire and he has enough money
Speaker 1: to like support his family for generations, and he has
Speaker 1: yes men in his ears, and you know, he's got
Speaker 1: his own gym that can work out. You know, he's
Speaker 1: just like he lives on another planet. And and this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy came up with this idea and he had
Speaker 1: Lacey Evans come out and tell this story of and
Speaker 1: I hate to repeat this again because when people email
Speaker 1: me about this, they always put it the top, you know,
Speaker 1: possible trigger warning. She tells a story of abuse and death, suicide,
Speaker 1: drug overdoses, people dying in parking lots. She tells all
Speaker 1: of these stories and it's all true. And they have
Speaker 1: an audience, a large audience, and there are people in
Speaker 1: the audience who have dealt with this same thing. They
Speaker 1: have people in the audience who have dealt with abuse,
Speaker 1: drug addiction, overdoses, suicide, and they did five weeks of
Speaker 1: this and you can hear. I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: about crowd swinging. You can hear, and you can see
Speaker 1: the fans standing up and showing respect for Lacey Evans,
Speaker 1: and they do, in fact see her as a pretty
Speaker 1: special person. And the message is that for those of
Speaker 1: you out there who have lived a life similar to
Speaker 1: what Lacy Evans has lived, and you've you've gone through
Speaker 1: these same things and everything like that, you know, and
Speaker 1: she's someone that perhaps you can look up to. She's
Speaker 1: actually a horrible person. She's a bad person. That is
Speaker 1: a message. But again it's not it's not my company.
Speaker 1: I don't book w w A. I don't have to
Speaker 1: look in the mirror that guy does. So whatever, if
Speaker 1: that's what you want to do, fine, I don't. I
Speaker 1: honestly I don't care. I'm over it. So that's my speech.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm still like kind of gobsmacked because I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, there was like whatever, who cares? But anyway,
Speaker 1: that's it. She's a heel. She is a bad person,
Speaker 1: this lazy Evans character you've been watching for five weeks
Speaker 1: in storyline, she's a bad person. She's a heel. Why
Speaker 1: is she a bad person? Though? Well, she's a heel.
Speaker 1: She's gonna beat up the baby face. You canna do
Speaker 1: all the stuff that he's she's gonna talk about. It's
Speaker 1: a fans fault. You didn't cheer me, you didn't stand
Speaker 1: up and respect me. I'm better than you, blah blah.
Speaker 1: That's why, because it's got to be something with the fans.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be something with the way society treated her
Speaker 1: after her mother and everything that happened with her moondog
Speaker 1: father and all that sort of stuff. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: with the fans because just like Becky Lynch, just like
Speaker 1: Rea Ripley last night, I think Zi Lee Dezialie blame
Speaker 1: the fans. She was tired of shouldering the fans and
Speaker 1: carrying them as she tried to be a warrior. So
Speaker 1: now she's looking out for self every time something happens
Speaker 1: it's gonna have to be about the fans. So that's
Speaker 1: how she'll be bad. Back in a moment Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Back in the show, Brian albur Is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike simberbb also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Hey, we got
Speaker 1: other news to talk about here today. Guys heard about
Speaker 1: a Bushey yeah, okay, So listen, something's going on with Bushy,
Speaker 1: thanks Paul. So here's the though, and Bushi has been uh,
Speaker 1: he's been tweeting okay in Japanese, which is then being
Speaker 1: everyone's hitting the translate button. And now they've got this.
Speaker 1: They've crafted this entire story. And it doesn't help that
Speaker 1: Dave made some sarcastic remark on the board that a
Speaker 1: lot of people, including some people in New Japan who
Speaker 1: were just baffled, I didn't understand was sarcasm. Okay. So
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna give you what I have been told.
Speaker 1: And this is not from translated tweets, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: this is from the Bushy side. Let's just put it
Speaker 1: that way. And I'm sure there's a lot more, but
Speaker 1: this is the basic gist of the story. First off,
Speaker 1: Ghetto is the booker. Okay, can we get that out
Speaker 1: of the way first, is not the worked gimmick whatever
Speaker 1: David called him. So essentially this appears to be the
Speaker 1: gist of the issue. You know how for years, um,
Speaker 1: you know, guys would would work in New Japan shows
Speaker 1: and every now and then, you know, somebody would get
Speaker 1: injured and they would miss a show. And what happened
Speaker 1: every time someone missed a New Japan show, there was
Speaker 1: no assumption, bro, something must be bad because people don't
Speaker 1: ever miss shows. Right, how many years have we heard
Speaker 1: that forever? Okay? So, uh, you know, Abushi has gotten
Speaker 1: a lot of injuries and uh, in fact, he's been
Speaker 1: out of action with injuries. And if you if you
Speaker 1: watch New Japan Pro Wrestling, I mean there's a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that are walking wounded. Okay, remember how beat
Speaker 1: up Nighto was for so long, and you know Tanahashi
Speaker 1: looks like he could barely move with his knees and
Speaker 1: everything like that. But in Japan there's always been that
Speaker 1: deal where unless you're really hurt, you work right. Well,
Speaker 1: apparently uh Abushi is just like he's done with it,
Speaker 1: and and the crux of the issue with the Bush
Speaker 1: he seems to be that they and I think he's
Speaker 1: he kind of said this is in one of his
Speaker 1: weirdly translated tweets everyone seen. But he has been asked
Speaker 1: to work when he does not feel like he's ready
Speaker 1: to work. And it's been it's happened many times where
Speaker 1: they've tried to get him to come back and he's
Speaker 1: got one injury or another. And apparently he just he snapped.
Speaker 1: I don't want to say he's snapped, but like he's
Speaker 1: had enough and he's he's sick of it. And uh,
Speaker 1: he's come out publicly with this, and that appears to
Speaker 1: be the crux of the issue. Is he gonna leave
Speaker 1: New Japan? I don't know. Uh, did he get really
Speaker 1: mad one night and start tweeting and now it's turned
Speaker 1: into something and and he's regretting it? Did I don't know? Maybe? Maybe?
Speaker 1: Maybe not? Is is he wanting to get out and
Speaker 1: he's sick of all of this? Maybe? Like everything everything
Speaker 1: other than what I just said is like we'll see, okay,
Speaker 1: But absolutely he is upset that they have tried to
Speaker 1: get him to come back, really from injuries when he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to. And uh, and now he's going public
Speaker 1: with it and he's he's not happy about it. So
Speaker 1: where this will all end up, I don't know. But
Speaker 1: that's what's going on with Abushi. So in any of
Speaker 1: those translated tweets, anything from your source about him revealing
Speaker 1: all of the t I guess here on on Taka
Speaker 1: and these other you know things that have come out. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe there's other things he's really upset about,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I don't know what he's gonna do,
Speaker 1: what he's gonna you guys, you guys know anything about
Speaker 1: a bushy. This bloke is a free spirit, okay, and
Speaker 1: uh and you know he also he much like me,
Speaker 1: I might add, he ain't a gimmick. You don't know
Speaker 1: what's gonna come out when with and this is what
Speaker 1: came out today, and who knows what will come out tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll wake up tomorrow, he'll just be in a
Speaker 1: totally different mood. So that's that's the story with with you.
Speaker 1: We oh, usually what's coming out when you open up
Speaker 1: your mouth. So yep, what truth, Brian? Truth? Of course,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get the truth. You'll always get the truth
Speaker 1: from me, one way or the other. And I'm actually
Speaker 1: thinking about the those uh one of my buddies today.
Speaker 1: He's such a gimmick. He does the he does his
Speaker 1: usual tweet about my god, those Rampage ratings, and I
Speaker 1: immediately tweeted back, like, you're such a gimmick dude. Of course,
Speaker 1: Rampage did a horrible number. And what's funny about it
Speaker 1: is we all knew going in, We all talked about
Speaker 1: it going in. It wasn't a surprise. Bro I said,
Speaker 1: if they come close to four thousand, they should throw
Speaker 1: a party. Because it aired it to thirty on a
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon on the West Coast. My kid was doing
Speaker 1: pe at the time. I'd't even picked up from school yet. So, yes,
Speaker 1: Rampage two or thousand viewers. Obviously it did terrible. Eighteen
Speaker 1: and forty nine point one one obviously did terrible. Obviously
Speaker 1: these are all of the worst numbers. But you know
Speaker 1: what my buddy won't talk about is, you know this
Speaker 1: NBA that just smashes everybody, and they just destroy everybody,
Speaker 1: And they were the reason that that Rampage got. You
Speaker 1: know all that how well the NBA does the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1: There was an NBA game in the Rampage time slot,
Speaker 1: and it did about what a rampage does. What does
Speaker 1: that tell you, Well, it tells you everybody freaking out
Speaker 1: about rampage numbers for the last five months or whatever. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Friday at ten is not ideal. Hey, you know who's
Speaker 1: not freaking out about this? And you know who doesn't care?
Speaker 1: The networks, And you know what, a W is still
Speaker 1: getting paid the same way that SmackDown in w W
Speaker 1: ee'll still get paid when they have to move that
Speaker 1: to FS one again. And those ratings stink, and then
Speaker 1: everybody goings on the a W side will point and laugh,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: who cares if you're a fan that's really fighting this battle?
Speaker 1: And it always seems to be the stand up for
Speaker 1: w w E types that do it more and do
Speaker 1: it more ferocity. But it's just so completely ridiculous. Again,
Speaker 1: this thing air did five thirty on the East coast
Speaker 1: to thirty on the West coast. It was a twelve
Speaker 1: thirty in Hawaii, whatever it was, doesn't matter. Who cares.
Speaker 1: The only people that are really fighting and talking about
Speaker 1: this are the wrestling fans that all either watched it
Speaker 1: or we're never gonna watch it anyway. Oh ready, SmackDown.
Speaker 1: How did SmackDown do? Well? Where's my smack down? I
Speaker 1: got so much news I can't get in here today
Speaker 1: because I talked too long about Lacey Evans one million
Speaker 1: viewers to do it like Caliber, then do the whole
Speaker 1: rest of the show in fast motion. Gud No. You
Speaker 1: know that? When when when ex Caliber made a comment
Speaker 1: on on Twitter about how I think it was Vinny
Speaker 1: that said perhaps as pre taped and sped up, it
Speaker 1: might have been me. I was obviously joking, but I
Speaker 1: never took any of this out on Excalibur. It's not
Speaker 1: his fault. That's his job. His boss told him, I
Speaker 1: need you to do eleven matches and forty six seconds
Speaker 1: or whatever, and he did it his fault. I'm very
Speaker 1: impressive and I tried. I tried to do it as
Speaker 1: fast as he did, and I couldn't. I am impressed
Speaker 1: with his ability to spout out eleven matches in forty
Speaker 1: six seconds. It's impressive. Should they do it? No? And
Speaker 1: in fact after that they stopped. You know who should
Speaker 1: give them props and all that? As Tony Shiavanni because
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, since you were
Speaker 1: such a WWE fan but on those old World Championship Wrestlings,
Speaker 1: they would have the go around of everywhere the n
Speaker 1: w A was going on tour, and granted he had
Speaker 1: a lot more time to do it, but he had
Speaker 1: to flawlessly go through for that minute long and actually
Speaker 1: cut promos on every way. They're going to be in Allantown,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania on Saturday January in Baltimore, Maryland on and just
Speaker 1: go down with a couple of people who were on
Speaker 1: the card, maybe how to get tickets, and then boom.
Speaker 1: I was very impressed by the way Tony Schivanni always
Speaker 1: did that, and if he gave props Tex Caliber, that's
Speaker 1: the way it should be for that, unless they just
Speaker 1: sped him up, which is also possible. All Right, we
Speaker 1: also have a couple of notes from last night's Observer Radio.
Speaker 1: So Roman Reigns has been pulled from all advertising for
Speaker 1: ten weeks starting in June, although Dave seemed to indicate
Speaker 1: well he said this, he's been pulled from TVs and
Speaker 1: house shows, but they have not pulled the advertising from
Speaker 1: pay per views. Now, if you know anything about w
Speaker 1: w E, this means nothing. Okay, they will happily false
Speaker 1: advertise Roman reigns to sell out stadiums and then not
Speaker 1: have him there, and uh, that's just a fact. They've
Speaker 1: done it a thousand times. I mean, they'll just advertise
Speaker 1: whatever they want, which brings us. By the way, when
Speaker 1: they advertised for three weeks that they were gonna do
Speaker 1: a take team unification match and WrestleMania Backlash sold a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of tickets and it was blatant false advertising.
Speaker 1: They just didn't do the match. Well, they teased doing
Speaker 1: the match again on Raw last night, and the US
Speaker 1: are gonna show up on SmackDown on Friday to continue
Speaker 1: the storyline and plans can change, okay, because they do
Speaker 1: all the time. But as of Monday, they have every
Speaker 1: intention of doing the match but not unifying the titles.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Congratulations to Roman for being able
Speaker 1: to go on vacation and interrupted. I don't care. What's
Speaker 1: the matter nothing, It's just like, what do you not,
Speaker 1: car You just read a story. Now you're saying you
Speaker 1: don't care. I don't care that they're advertising a match
Speaker 1: and they've decided they're not actually gonna give you what's advertised.
Speaker 1: I should. The thing that kind of irritates me is
Speaker 1: I should care, but I don't broken, man. I am.
Speaker 1: I am broken hardened to this game. Now I wouldn't hardened.
Speaker 1: Teddy Bassi, Sons, Ted Junior, and Brett sued by the
Speaker 1: State of Mississippi. State seeks to reclaim twenty four million
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Speaker 1: Bias uh oh, Teddy best Is Senior, the million dollar man. Oh,
Speaker 1: thank goodness, he's a million dollar man. He owes one
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Speaker 1: the onhing I want to mention was you realize you
Speaker 1: did it earlier on when you were talking about Cameron
Speaker 1: Grimes saying like Bra, Dad, I got signed like, yes,
Speaker 1: he's on his deathbed. I don't think he called his
Speaker 1: dad bro dude, I don't know. Maybe did. We don't know.
Speaker 1: We don't get mad about. And then somebody else here says,
Speaker 1: what uh, what's with America not caring about false advertising?
Speaker 1: You don't get a dude, America does care about false
Speaker 1: ad vertizing. America is not w w E. W w
Speaker 1: E fans, they don't care about false adverage stand up
Speaker 1: for w w E. I was talking to somebody a
Speaker 1: week ago. I mentioned it on this show and they
Speaker 1: were like, you notice that that fans don't hijack w
Speaker 1: w E shows anymore. And their theory was, all those
Speaker 1: fans that used to throw beach balls and hijack the
Speaker 1: shows they just started watching a w and they just
Speaker 1: quit w w E. And it's funny because if you
Speaker 1: watch w w E, I mean, they have heels like
Speaker 1: seth rawls out there leading people into music and they're
Speaker 1: all singing, and then you know they'll they'll have the
Speaker 1: ring announcer go stand up and show Lacey Evans a
Speaker 1: proper respect, and they all stand up and they do
Speaker 1: what they're told. I mean, they're this is total stand
Speaker 1: up for w w E and uh this stand up
Speaker 1: for w w E crowd, bro. They don't care about
Speaker 1: false advertising. You advertise a match and don't deliver, and
Speaker 1: they'll defend it. They'll defend Like if you're a fan
Speaker 1: of of Roman Reigns and there's like tickets for a
Speaker 1: stadium show and they're like five or whatever for your family,
Speaker 1: and your family like all of Roman, and you pay
Speaker 1: your five dollars, your hard earned money, and you buy
Speaker 1: tickets for the show, and they advertise Roman in the
Speaker 1: main event. And then you go and he's not there,
Speaker 1: and like your kids are crying and your wife's like,
Speaker 1: where's that hot guy with the long hair. You know
Speaker 1: what they do, They go cards subject to change, sweetheart.
Speaker 1: Oh maybe I'm sorry he's not here, but cards subject
Speaker 1: to change. It's okay that he's not here. That's what
Speaker 1: they do. But like every other place in this country,
Speaker 1: like they don't false advertised. If they advertise somebody, they
Speaker 1: have every intention of having him be there. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: talk about Raw, Yeah, yeah, Raw was funny because you know,
Speaker 1: as Dave noted last night, everyone leaves. They turn off
Speaker 1: the show at ten fifteen, So I guess w w
Speaker 1: WE had this plan, We're gonna put Cody on in
Speaker 1: a title match at ten. We're gonna try and stop
Speaker 1: the slide. Well to cut to the chase they started
Speaker 1: at ten, it was a thirteen minute match, and then
Speaker 1: the last forty five minutes was like they threw in
Speaker 1: the towel. So I don't know what their plan was.
Speaker 1: They didn't have one as usual alright, so r K
Speaker 1: Brow open up the show and they're still teasing this, uh,
Speaker 1: this unification match, which by the way, they advertised for
Speaker 1: three weeks and didn't deliver. But brother stand up for
Speaker 1: w w E cards subject to change, So now they're saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go smack down and talk about it. And
Speaker 1: this led to Orton and Riddle versus the Street Profits
Speaker 1: for the tag team titles, and they had a very
Speaker 1: good ten minute match and at the end, actually before
Speaker 1: the end, Riddle goes for a dive and he accidentally
Speaker 1: hit Randy. This was the first time this has happened.
Speaker 1: It is way too early to break them up, but
Speaker 1: after this past week, I fully intend, I fully expect
Speaker 1: them to break him up next week because they're completely incompetent.
Speaker 1: He also finished him with an ar ko as Montes
Speaker 1: was jumping off the ropes, and Randy was really happy,
Speaker 1: and and Riddle had that face where he was like
Speaker 1: more turned, you know, tuned in than ever before to
Speaker 1: being just like Randy. They can't be doing that, actually, now,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? What you're getting that guy? Now? No,
Speaker 1: I can't, I mean I can I can see it already.
Speaker 1: Randy's jealous that he's using his move and winning matches
Speaker 1: and he turns on him. What about that swerved though,
Speaker 1: that Riddle turns on Randy, Dude, it doesn't matter. The
Speaker 1: point is, as I was once told by the Great
Speaker 1: Buddy Wayne, my trainer, the father of Nick Wayne, who
Speaker 1: in a decade may be the best worker on the planet,
Speaker 1: when it's time, that's when you do anything in wrestling,
Speaker 1: when it's time. And you know what, it's not time
Speaker 1: for right now these two to break up. It's true.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure at this point that they're gonna be
Speaker 1: breaking up imminently and probably having a match at Helen hisself.
Speaker 1: It uh Kevin Patrick interview with Theory. No. I wasn't
Speaker 1: upset about it. I was really pointing out everybody that
Speaker 1: they have now brought back the platform that they used
Speaker 1: in nineteen three on WWF Superstars of Wrestling where the
Speaker 1: guy interviews the guy on the platform with all the
Speaker 1: fans in the background. I was dying. Let's just go
Speaker 1: back to everything that Pritchard and Vince were doing in
Speaker 1: nineteen three, two thousand three, that was almost thirty years ago.
Speaker 1: Judgment Day comes out Edge, re Ripley and Damian Priest.
Speaker 1: Edge cut all his hair off. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you've seen Edge of late, but his hair is like
Speaker 1: so dry that it like sticks out like uh uh,
Speaker 1: you know Doc from Back to the Future. So you know,
Speaker 1: he decided to shave the sides and just leave the
Speaker 1: top kind of long, and he slipped it back. Looked
Speaker 1: a thousand times better until he got no brawl and
Speaker 1: then it stuck straight up like like Shamus. But anyway,
Speaker 1: it isn't improvement. And they did their promo and this
Speaker 1: led to Rhea. You know, she don't like the fans,
Speaker 1: can you believe it? And so then we had Real
Speaker 1: Ripley versus liv Morgan, which involved re Ripley giving her
Speaker 1: like the hardest kick to the head I've seen since
Speaker 1: the last time I watched the UFC pay per view
Speaker 1: and I thought liv was dead and really supposed to
Speaker 1: stay in character, but she looked so sad to have
Speaker 1: killed poor Live. And then she beat the hell out
Speaker 1: of her and she submitted her and then she put
Speaker 1: her in the hold again afterwards, and then out came
Speaker 1: Finnbalor and aj Styles to make the save, which led
Speaker 1: to Finnbalor and Damian Priest. They went four minutes and
Speaker 1: Edge just ran in and speared him for the disqualification.
Speaker 1: Keep the way. They didn't make the save. They just
Speaker 1: came out because their music hit and they walked down
Speaker 1: to the ring. That's how they go to commercial. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so next week we're gonna have a DNA test with
Speaker 1: Ezekiel and Elias. And this this was the show where
Speaker 1: I figured it out. I figured out this whole Ezekiel thing.
Speaker 1: I've hated it from day one, and now I think
Speaker 1: I figured it out, and if I'm right, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the storyline of the year. They have to
Speaker 1: I realized, I use that term a lot, and I'm
Speaker 1: proven wrong, but they have to have shot a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of footage with Elias before he shaved and cut
Speaker 1: his hair, right, And I brought this up to you
Speaker 1: a long time ago. But it went one ear and
Speaker 1: one when one ear and out another because we'll come up.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, Mike. We come up with all sorts
Speaker 1: of ideas and fantasy booking and it's just all total
Speaker 1: whatever bs something stupid. But man, when he when when
Speaker 1: ezekiels in the ring and he goes, maybe my brother
Speaker 1: should just come out and play you a song, And
Speaker 1: that's when all it just hit me. I was like,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, they've done a bunch of pretapes and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome. So I think that this is
Speaker 1: gonna work. I do. I have hope. I have hope
Speaker 1: because Kevin Owens is involved. N he can make anything work.
Speaker 1: He can yell, he can yell back and forth at
Speaker 1: a pre tape and it's gonna be awesome. And what's
Speaker 1: what what they really need to do is not just
Speaker 1: pre tapes on the screen and stuff like that, but
Speaker 1: they need to do a false count anywhere match where
Speaker 1: he brawls backstage. Ezekiel gets laid out and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Alive shows up and he's he's beaten up.
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens the guitar first, just so Kevin Owens could
Speaker 1: look he hit him with the guitar and run off,
Speaker 1: and then you know, you see Kevin covered in guitar
Speaker 1: pieces and then Ezekiel runs in and pins him. Dude,
Speaker 1: it would be awesome go with me on this. This one.
Speaker 1: We had Omas in the m V P v I
Speaker 1: P lounge and and Cedric was still wants in and
Speaker 1: lastly came out and beat him up, and nobody cared
Speaker 1: by need this. Sony Deville is no longer a whatever.
Speaker 1: She's been stripped of her duties as a backstage management type.
Speaker 1: She's now only a wrestler. After losing a match where
Speaker 1: she can never wrestle again, and her mystery opponent was
Speaker 1: the returning Alexa Bliss, and Alexa came out, tell us
Speaker 1: a doll and uh they do a half and half
Speaker 1: thing with the music, but she is back as Alexa
Speaker 1: the wrestler. She wears her wrestling gear, they play her
Speaker 1: wrestler music, she does wrestling moves. Thank god, Thank god
Speaker 1: all that rigmarole for a gimmick that sucked and led
Speaker 1: to her being taken off TV and put out of
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and their new brilliant ideas, maybe we should just
Speaker 1: let her be a wrestler and guess what she was
Speaker 1: over and she won with the twisted bliss and forty seconds.
Speaker 1: Everybody was happy. So then we had the Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: Elias segments, and then we had a segment with Becky
Speaker 1: Lynch at Oscar. This Becky character, I'm just this is
Speaker 1: another one. I'm just totally over. It's like, whatever, Vir
Speaker 1: Mahan beat Frank Loman, who was the star of the show.
Speaker 1: Go back and watch old Frank Loman. They need a team.
Speaker 1: This guy up with that one. Uh, I forget her name.
Speaker 1: She got a new name anyway, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But she's an n x T and like everything she
Speaker 1: did was like over the top, and she would sell
Speaker 1: wacky and goofy facial looks the whole nine yards. Her
Speaker 1: and Frank would be the most incredible team in all
Speaker 1: of w w E to total gimmicks. And I howled
Speaker 1: watching this segment Cody versus Theory. They had him go
Speaker 1: thirteen minutes and then seth Rawlins just ran in for
Speaker 1: the d Q because that's what they do, and he
Speaker 1: beat up Cody and he gave him the Curbston table,
Speaker 1: and yes, they're gonna do another Cody seth Rawlins match.
Speaker 1: Will they beat seth Rawlins three straight times, which they
Speaker 1: never do with the top Star, or are they gonna
Speaker 1: just screwed all up and beat Cody? I actually have faith,
Speaker 1: but I shouldn't. And we had Sasha and Naomi beating
Speaker 1: Do Drop and Nicki Ash last week. Do Drop said, hey, Nicky,
Speaker 1: are you sick of this stupidity? Like you're ready to
Speaker 1: be serious? Nicky nodded. She came out as Nicky Ash
Speaker 1: in the superhero costume, did all the same gimmick, but
Speaker 1: after getting beaten, Do Drop did chastise her again and
Speaker 1: tell her it's time to stop doing this stupidity. So
Speaker 1: I think they will unmask and renamed Nicki Ash a
Speaker 1: slow build Chubba beat Mustafa Ali. So Sonya was removed
Speaker 1: from power because she was abusing her power. And then
Speaker 1: miss just comes out his referee for an Ali match,
Speaker 1: and there's no explanation as to why. There's no explanation
Speaker 1: as to who allowed it. It just made absolutely zero sense.
Speaker 1: So he's the referee. He won't count for Ali. He
Speaker 1: ask counts when Chompa makes a cover, he screws all
Speaker 1: the Will there be any repercussions seriously, everybody at the
Speaker 1: Lacey Evans video, and then we had literally there were there.
Speaker 1: There was enough time for Bianca and Oscar to do
Speaker 1: a fourteen minute match in the main event, but instead
Speaker 1: we had seven segment where they're trying to serve papers
Speaker 1: to the grooms. They went divorces the women. We had entrance, commercial, entrance, entrance,
Speaker 1: and by the time the match started they had three minutes.
Speaker 1: Bianca versus Oscar and Becky ran in for the d
Speaker 1: Q okay back in a moment, I Deserver Live. H hey,
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Speaker 1: to Lacy Evans Filthy, Tom Lawler did not listen to
Speaker 1: yesterday's Observer Live. He did not hear my rant about
Speaker 1: Lacy and so when we did Filthy four Daily an
Speaker 1: hour later, and I brought the comment by the ring
Speaker 1: announcer up to him. He uh, he couldn't believe it.
Speaker 1: He couldn't even begin to wrap his brain around it.
Speaker 1: And do you know what he said? What do you say?
Speaker 1: He said of Lacy Evans did five weeks of vignettes
Speaker 1: in order to be a heel. I will eat my shoe,
Speaker 1: That's what he said. He said he would eat his
Speaker 1: shoe if it turns out she's a heel. Well looks
Speaker 1: like she's a heel. And I have been in communication
Speaker 1: with Tom and he's a man of his word. He
Speaker 1: is going to eat a shoe as soon as she
Speaker 1: debuts as a heel. So video dot f W online,
Speaker 1: dot com. I don't know how he's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I don't know what preparations he's making, but he said
Speaker 1: it and he's gonna do it. So maybe maybe she
Speaker 1: was gonna be a baby face, but like they heard that,
Speaker 1: and you know, Vince wants to take out the strong
Speaker 1: open weight champion, and so change your plans. Anyway, we're
Speaker 1: out of time. I want to thank you all for
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