WEBVTT - RAW Recap/Roman Reigns - Time Off? 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:16.200 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.480 here on Wrestling Over Live. We are here every day 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:22.640 Monday through Friday. Now Pacific three Stern Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:25.079 sixth Eastern. Well it's Tuesday on this show. You know 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.280 that means, hey, n x T two point ohs tonight 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.159 my favorite show. Anyway, We're not gonna talk about a 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:34.000 lot of that today, but we will talk about the 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.360 Raw show from last night. What a what a last 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:40.720 forty five minutes of the show that was. We'll tell 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.880 you by the Raw show fallout from Rustlemania Backlash. Roman 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.240 Rains appears to be taking some time off this summer. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.920 What exactly that means? I don't know what that means 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.720 for the pay per view events. I don't know, but 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:56.680 it looks like you take about ten weeks off this summer, 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.000 So we'll tell you about that. We've also got an 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:04.160 update on the uh the title unification match that's not 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.800 going to happen with r K bro and the USOS. 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.280 We'll tell you about that. New Japan is running Strong 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:15.520 Collision coming up on Sunday, and we have a lot 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.000 of matches announced for that show, so we'll go over 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:21.080 to the lineup for that. Ted DBAs, Sons, Ted Junior, 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:25.839 Brett DBAs all in trouble with the state a state 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.200 of Florida to me, have Tammy Sitch incarcerated prior to 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.440 her trial? Of course she was, She was arrested, but 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.080 then quarter million dollar bond was posted, so she's out. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.000 They want to put her back in. And we've got 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:42.800 the ratings for SmackDown. We've got the ratings for Rampage, 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:47.160 which unsurprisingly an all time record low given it the 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.040 show aired it to thirty Pacific, sofice to say, I 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.560 was not watching that show live. My child wasn't even 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.760 out of school yet when Rampage aired. And of course 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:00.160 the Raw Report ends so much more. And yes, we 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.880 come back from the break. I we'll talk for a moment, 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:10.000 just a moment about Lacy Evans. If you're wondering why 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.200 there was a video of Lacy Evans on Raw last night, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.720 well we'll tell you all about that here today if 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.680 you want to. Texas zero seven five six six back 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:47.880 in a month with more Observer Live some times loves 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.000 back in the show. Bryan Alburn is here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:56.080 Mikes and Berviv also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. What 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:01.200 are you doing here? Hey? Listen, listen to everybody. I 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.440 want to uh, I want to explain something to all 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.520 of you very quickly. All right. I realized that you 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:14.160 watched this show, and you watch my cameos Affortable you 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:19.040 online dot com on cameo and these wacky videos that 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:23.000 we show here and all of that stuff, and you 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.400 think this this blokes a gimmick. Okay, let me tell 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.720 you something. I'm actually not a gimmick. Okay, I really, 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:34.400 I really am not. And uh. I mentioned that I 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.600 was gonna talk about Lacy Evans, and of course, you 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.400 know what everyone's expecting. I expected me to blow my 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.640 stack and just like do a big rant and all that. Bro, 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.320 I'm not a gimmick. Okay. I can't just I can't 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.720 just like force myself to do a rant. I didn't 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.400 think I was gonna do a rant about Lacey Evans yesterday, 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.880 but I did. I didn't know where it was going. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.360 And uh, and I'm afraid to tell all of you 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.480 that are expecting a big rant right now. You ain't 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:04.480 gonna get it. Okay, I don't care, like I sincerely, 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.320 I honestly I don't care. I'm over well. See can 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.240 you understand why people may be a little surprised by 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.680 that since you were on the point is I never 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.760 know having to react anything until it's in the moment. Okay, listen, 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:19.360 maybe in the middle of this, I'm gonna lose my mind. 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.520 I don't think so, Okay, I'm over it so very quickly. 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:26.680 Last night on RAW they aired the Lacey Evans video again, 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:32.840 and I should I should backtrack slightly, okay, by explaining that, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.039 you know, I talked about the Lacey Evans SmackDown thing 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.080 and how the ring announcer said, you know, Lacy Evans 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.839 request you give her her due respect or whatever. I 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.599 was like, that had to be a mistake, Okay. So 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.360 on Raw last night they showed the video again of 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:57.240 her telling her harrowing story, a story of addiction, death, 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:03.279 and suicide. And they come back and Corey Graves explains 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.200 that listen, you know a lot of these characters are 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.720 larger than life or whatever. But you know, everything, everything 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:12.680 that she said is absolutely true and you know, they 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.679 talked about her in glowing terms. She's you know, she's 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.480 gone through all of this and she's still here and 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:24.479 she's she's like, uh whatever, you know, and and I 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.720 watched it. I was like there. What I thought, foolishly, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.719 of course, was they're totally backtracking on what happened on 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:34.360 SmackDown because there was no hint of give her her 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.600 proper respect or anything like that. They were just like, 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.479 this is her true story. It's real. She's been through 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.400 a lot, she's persevered, like she's someone that we can 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.359 all look up to and all of this and that, 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.920 and there was no nothing. So I thought, Okay, well 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:51.400 they realized how stupid that was Friday, and you know, 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.000 but I was wrong. So Lacy Evans is now a 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.080 member of the w w E Raw roster. Peter the 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.120 inside of reporting the reason the videos aired last night 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.800 is because Evans has switched brands and is now on Raw. 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.560 P w Insider noted that Evans is going to be 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.320 a heel going forward, So it wasn't a mistake on SmackDown, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.040 like when they when they had the ring announcers say, 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:23.039 Lacy Evans asks that you show her the proper respect 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.719 a line that has been used for thirty years for 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:29.920 heels in w w E. It wasn't a mistake. They 0:06:29.960 --> 0:06:32.360 did all of that and she's coming back to So 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.560 I'm not gonna get mad. I got all out of 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.839 my system yesterday. I don't care. And you know, you 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.320 know the main reason I don't care. It's not my company. Okay. 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.600 I'm not the one that has to wake up in 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.840 the morning and look in the mirror and know that 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:51.600 this was my plan. Okay. Here's the thing, as of 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:53.640 one thing that I want to say, and that is 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.800 that I know that I talk about an x T 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.880 two point oh and everybody makes fun of it and 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.000 they don't know why I watch it and all this 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:06.120 and that, okay, But the wrestling is bad, the storylines 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:09.360 are preposterous, all that, okay, But at the end of 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:14.800 the day, at the end of the day. They had 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.680 Cameron Grimes do a promo a few weeks ago, and 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:21.640 in real life, Cameron Grimes and his father were very 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.120 close and his father supported his wrestling career like from 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.400 day one, and Cameron Grimes told his story about how 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:33.040 his father was dying and literally in one of his 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:38.200 last conversation with his father. He got to tell his father, Bro, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.200 I signed with n x T and I'm going to 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.600 be a champion there someday. And then his dad died. 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.320 Dad never got to see him become a champion in 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.440 n XT. And Grimes is telling this emotional story and 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.640 he says, I'm gonna go win that title at Standing 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:57.800 the liver over WrestleMania weekend. And when they aired it, 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.720 what did I say. I said, Bro, there's no way 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.920 he's not winning the title. Remember this, I said, there's 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:06.280 no way. And of course there was a way he 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.520 could have not won the title. But at the end 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.320 of the day, I looked at that, and I looked 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.000 at the story they told and the story of his 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.520 and all of that, and I was like, Bro, there's 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.040 only one way to mess us up. Like you're either 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.760 absolutely beyond incompetent or you're a horrible person. These are 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.520 the only two ways. That he goes to the show 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:27.320 and he doesn't win the title. Okay, well, you know what, 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:31.880 He went to the show and he won. He went 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:35.360 to the show, he vowed to win this championship for 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:39.880 his father, and he did. They didn't screw it up 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:44.440 because the wrestling sucks and the storylines are dumb and 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.520 everything like that. But at the end of the day, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.360 like the people that are there on a day too. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.320 I know, it's like, you know, Vince's Calle who gets 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.200 pushed anything, But like the people that are there on 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.000 a day to day basis and everything like that, you know, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:09:01.920 they're they're decent human beings. Well, now we've got the 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:06.040 main roster, and there are many decent human beings that 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.079 work on the main roster. But there's also a guy 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.760 at the very top. And this guy at the very top, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:14.360 which who ironically you know, came from the trailer park. 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.520 But now he's a billionaire and he has enough money 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.920 to like support his family for generations, and he has 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:24.319 yes men in his ears, and you know, he's got 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.160 his own gym that can work out. You know, he's 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.520 just like he lives on another planet. And and this guy, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.920 this guy came up with this idea and he had 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.720 Lacey Evans come out and tell this story of and 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.120 I hate to repeat this again because when people email 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:40.760 me about this, they always put it the top, you know, 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:51.239 possible trigger warning. She tells a story of abuse and death, suicide, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:56.719 drug overdoses, people dying in parking lots. She tells all 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.600 of these stories and it's all true. And they have 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:06.440 an audience, a large audience, and there are people in 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:10.280 the audience who have dealt with this same thing. They 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.280 have people in the audience who have dealt with abuse, 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:22.280 drug addiction, overdoses, suicide, and they did five weeks of 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.080 this and you can hear. I don't want to hear 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.280 about crowd swinging. You can hear, and you can see 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.840 the fans standing up and showing respect for Lacey Evans, 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.000 and they do, in fact see her as a pretty 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:39.640 special person. And the message is that for those of 0:10:39.679 --> 0:10:42.600 you out there who have lived a life similar to 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.520 what Lacy Evans has lived, and you've you've gone through 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.200 these same things and everything like that, you know, and 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.440 she's someone that perhaps you can look up to. She's 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.240 actually a horrible person. She's a bad person. That is 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:58.240 a message. But again it's not it's not my company. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.680 I don't book w w A. I don't have to 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.440 look in the mirror that guy does. So whatever, if 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.040 that's what you want to do, fine, I don't. I 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.959 honestly I don't care. I'm over it. So that's my speech. 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.079 I'm I'm still like kind of gobsmacked because I thought, 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:16.600 you know, there was like whatever, who cares? But anyway, 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.280 that's it. She's a heel. She is a bad person, 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.760 this lazy Evans character you've been watching for five weeks 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:30.320 in storyline, she's a bad person. She's a heel. Why 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.800 is she a bad person? Though? Well, she's a heel. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.720 She's gonna beat up the baby face. You canna do 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.560 all the stuff that he's she's gonna talk about. It's 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.880 a fans fault. You didn't cheer me, you didn't stand 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.160 up and respect me. I'm better than you, blah blah. 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.920 That's why, because it's got to be something with the fans. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.559 It's gotta be something with the way society treated her 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.400 after her mother and everything that happened with her moondog 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.840 father and all that sort of stuff. It's gonna be 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.160 with the fans because just like Becky Lynch, just like 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.920 Rea Ripley last night, I think Zi Lee Dezialie blame 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.160 the fans. She was tired of shouldering the fans and 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.920 carrying them as she tried to be a warrior. So 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.400 now she's looking out for self every time something happens 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.360 it's gonna have to be about the fans. So that's 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:18.880 how she'll be bad. Back in a moment Wrestling Observer Live. 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.360 Back in the show, Brian albur Is here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.480 Mike simberbb also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Hey, we got 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.520 other news to talk about here today. Guys heard about 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:55.520 a Bushey yeah, okay, So listen, something's going on with Bushy, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:02.559 thanks Paul. So here's the though, and Bushi has been uh, 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:07.600 he's been tweeting okay in Japanese, which is then being 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.960 everyone's hitting the translate button. And now they've got this. 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:14.160 They've crafted this entire story. And it doesn't help that 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:18.640 Dave made some sarcastic remark on the board that a 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.559 lot of people, including some people in New Japan who 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:26.040 were just baffled, I didn't understand was sarcasm. Okay. So 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.200 I'm just gonna give you what I have been told. 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:32.000 And this is not from translated tweets, Okay, this is 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:36.720 this is from the Bushy side. Let's just put it 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.320 that way. And I'm sure there's a lot more, but 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.480 this is the basic gist of the story. First off, 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.800 Ghetto is the booker. Okay, can we get that out 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:48.880 of the way first, is not the worked gimmick whatever 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:55.400 David called him. So essentially this appears to be the 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:59.640 gist of the issue. You know how for years, um, 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:03.080 you know, guys would would work in New Japan shows 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.680 and every now and then, you know, somebody would get 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:10.840 injured and they would miss a show. And what happened 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:13.400 every time someone missed a New Japan show, there was 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.440 no assumption, bro, something must be bad because people don't 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.680 ever miss shows. Right, how many years have we heard 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.920 that forever? Okay? So, uh, you know, Abushi has gotten 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:28.320 a lot of injuries and uh, in fact, he's been 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:32.600 out of action with injuries. And if you if you 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:36.320 watch New Japan Pro Wrestling, I mean there's a lot 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:41.800 of guys that are walking wounded. Okay, remember how beat 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.920 up Nighto was for so long, and you know Tanahashi 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.040 looks like he could barely move with his knees and 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.640 everything like that. But in Japan there's always been that 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:56.360 deal where unless you're really hurt, you work right. Well, 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.240 apparently uh Abushi is just like he's done with it, 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.880 and and the crux of the issue with the Bush 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:06.520 he seems to be that they and I think he's 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:07.760 he kind of said this is in one of his 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:13.760 weirdly translated tweets everyone seen. But he has been asked 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.360 to work when he does not feel like he's ready 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.880 to work. And it's been it's happened many times where 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.520 they've tried to get him to come back and he's 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:26.120 got one injury or another. And apparently he just he snapped. 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.760 I don't want to say he's snapped, but like he's 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:31.200 had enough and he's he's sick of it. And uh, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.680 he's come out publicly with this, and that appears to 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.400 be the crux of the issue. Is he gonna leave 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.400 New Japan? I don't know. Uh, did he get really 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:41.640 mad one night and start tweeting and now it's turned 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.800 into something and and he's regretting it? Did I don't know? Maybe? Maybe? 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.400 Maybe not? Is is he wanting to get out and 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.040 he's sick of all of this? Maybe? Like everything everything 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.280 other than what I just said is like we'll see, okay, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.720 But absolutely he is upset that they have tried to 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.080 get him to come back, really from injuries when he 0:16:01.120 --> 0:16:04.520 doesn't want to. And uh, and now he's going public 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.720 with it and he's he's not happy about it. So 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.080 where this will all end up, I don't know. But 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.080 that's what's going on with Abushi. So in any of 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:18.720 those translated tweets, anything from your source about him revealing 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.200 all of the t I guess here on on Taka 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:24.400 and these other you know things that have come out. Well, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.480 I mean maybe there's other things he's really upset about, 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.720 but I don't know. I don't know what he's gonna do, 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.000 what he's gonna you guys, you guys know anything about 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:39.560 a bushy. This bloke is a free spirit, okay, and 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:43.880 uh and you know he also he much like me, 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:46.320 I might add, he ain't a gimmick. You don't know 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:50.080 what's gonna come out when with and this is what 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.600 came out today, and who knows what will come out tomorrow. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.280 Maybe he'll wake up tomorrow, he'll just be in a 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:59.520 totally different mood. So that's that's the story with with you. 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.120 We oh, usually what's coming out when you open up 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:07.639 your mouth. So yep, what truth, Brian? Truth? Of course, 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.199 you're gonna get the truth. You'll always get the truth 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.760 from me, one way or the other. And I'm actually 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:22.560 thinking about the those uh one of my buddies today. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.720 He's such a gimmick. He does the he does his 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:31.399 usual tweet about my god, those Rampage ratings, and I 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:35.040 immediately tweeted back, like, you're such a gimmick dude. Of course, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.320 Rampage did a horrible number. And what's funny about it 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.520 is we all knew going in, We all talked about 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:45.240 it going in. It wasn't a surprise. Bro I said, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.719 if they come close to four thousand, they should throw 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.879 a party. Because it aired it to thirty on a 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:55.159 Friday afternoon on the West Coast. My kid was doing 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.880 pe at the time. I'd't even picked up from school yet. So, yes, 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:04.840 Rampage two or thousand viewers. Obviously it did terrible. Eighteen 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:09.360 and forty nine point one one obviously did terrible. Obviously 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.719 these are all of the worst numbers. But you know 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.399 what my buddy won't talk about is, you know this 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.600 NBA that just smashes everybody, and they just destroy everybody, 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:21.600 And they were the reason that that Rampage got. You 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.400 know all that how well the NBA does the NBA playoffs. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:27.959 There was an NBA game in the Rampage time slot, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.360 and it did about what a rampage does. What does 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.959 that tell you, Well, it tells you everybody freaking out 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:39.200 about rampage numbers for the last five months or whatever. Yeah, 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.520 Friday at ten is not ideal. Hey, you know who's 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.320 not freaking out about this? And you know who doesn't care? 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:49.840 The networks, And you know what, a W is still 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.480 getting paid the same way that SmackDown in w W 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:54.439 ee'll still get paid when they have to move that 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.760 to FS one again. And those ratings stink, and then 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.600 everybody goings on the a W side will point and laugh, 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.600 and it's you know, at the end of the day, 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:07.760 who cares if you're a fan that's really fighting this battle? 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:09.560 And it always seems to be the stand up for 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:12.199 w w E types that do it more and do 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:16.399 it more ferocity. But it's just so completely ridiculous. Again, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.960 this thing air did five thirty on the East coast 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.359 to thirty on the West coast. It was a twelve 0:19:21.440 --> 0:19:25.240 thirty in Hawaii, whatever it was, doesn't matter. Who cares. 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.680 The only people that are really fighting and talking about 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.240 this are the wrestling fans that all either watched it 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:35.960 or we're never gonna watch it anyway. Oh ready, SmackDown. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:41.119 How did SmackDown do? Well? Where's my smack down? I 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:43.160 got so much news I can't get in here today 0:19:43.160 --> 0:19:47.520 because I talked too long about Lacey Evans one million 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:50.560 viewers to do it like Caliber, then do the whole 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:53.080 rest of the show in fast motion. Gud No. You 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:56.240 know that? When when when ex Caliber made a comment 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.000 on on Twitter about how I think it was Vinny 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:00.920 that said perhaps as pre taped and sped up, it 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.480 might have been me. I was obviously joking, but I 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.080 never took any of this out on Excalibur. It's not 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:11.639 his fault. That's his job. His boss told him, I 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.119 need you to do eleven matches and forty six seconds 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:18.000 or whatever, and he did it his fault. I'm very 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:23.760 impressive and I tried. I tried to do it as 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.159 fast as he did, and I couldn't. I am impressed 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.679 with his ability to spout out eleven matches in forty 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.320 six seconds. It's impressive. Should they do it? No? And 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:38.680 in fact after that they stopped. You know who should 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.440 give them props and all that? As Tony Shiavanni because 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.399 I don't know if you remember this, since you were 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.320 such a WWE fan but on those old World Championship Wrestlings, 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:49.520 they would have the go around of everywhere the n 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.239 w A was going on tour, and granted he had 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.000 a lot more time to do it, but he had 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.840 to flawlessly go through for that minute long and actually 0:20:57.880 --> 0:21:01.399 cut promos on every way. They're going to be in Allantown, 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.919 Pennsylvania on Saturday January in Baltimore, Maryland on and just 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:07.679 go down with a couple of people who were on 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:10.880 the card, maybe how to get tickets, and then boom. 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:13.479 I was very impressed by the way Tony Schivanni always 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.080 did that, and if he gave props Tex Caliber, that's 0:21:16.119 --> 0:21:18.000 the way it should be for that, unless they just 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:20.280 sped him up, which is also possible. All Right, we 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:23.359 also have a couple of notes from last night's Observer Radio. 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:28.479 So Roman Reigns has been pulled from all advertising for 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:34.639 ten weeks starting in June, although Dave seemed to indicate 0:21:36.400 --> 0:21:39.960 well he said this, he's been pulled from TVs and 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.080 house shows, but they have not pulled the advertising from 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.800 pay per views. Now, if you know anything about w 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:49.359 w E, this means nothing. Okay, they will happily false 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:51.960 advertise Roman reigns to sell out stadiums and then not 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.040 have him there, and uh, that's just a fact. They've 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.640 done it a thousand times. I mean, they'll just advertise 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.199 whatever they want, which brings us. By the way, when 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.560 they advertised for three weeks that they were gonna do 0:22:02.600 --> 0:22:05.800 a take team unification match and WrestleMania Backlash sold a 0:22:05.800 --> 0:22:09.600 whole bunch of tickets and it was blatant false advertising. 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.280 They just didn't do the match. Well, they teased doing 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:15.879 the match again on Raw last night, and the US 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.600 are gonna show up on SmackDown on Friday to continue 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:26.000 the storyline and plans can change, okay, because they do 0:22:26.040 --> 0:22:30.640 all the time. But as of Monday, they have every 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:36.400 intention of doing the match but not unifying the titles. 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:43.360 So there you go. Congratulations to Roman for being able 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:48.400 to go on vacation and interrupted. I don't care. What's 0:22:48.440 --> 0:22:51.720 the matter nothing, It's just like, what do you not, 0:22:51.800 --> 0:22:54.359 car You just read a story. Now you're saying you 0:22:54.359 --> 0:22:56.840 don't care. I don't care that they're advertising a match 0:22:56.880 --> 0:22:59.520 and they've decided they're not actually gonna give you what's advertised. 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:02.760 I should. The thing that kind of irritates me is 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.080 I should care, but I don't broken, man. I am. 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:11.359 I am broken hardened to this game. Now I wouldn't hardened. 0:23:13.320 --> 0:23:16.760 Teddy Bassi, Sons, Ted Junior, and Brett sued by the 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.520 State of Mississippi. State seeks to reclaim twenty four million 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:24.280 dollars of misused federal funds meant for welfare ted Dy 0:23:24.320 --> 0:23:30.280 Bias uh oh, Teddy best Is Senior, the million dollar man. Oh, 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.239 thank goodness, he's a million dollar man. He owes one 0:23:33.240 --> 0:23:37.520 point nine million, ted D Bassi Jr. Owes two point 0:23:37.600 --> 0:23:42.159 eight nine seven million, Brett DBAs thousand. Others named in 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:45.640 the lawsuit include football stars Brett Farve, paul A Coaste, 0:23:45.760 --> 0:23:50.960 and Marcus dupri Back with the Raw Report and more, 0:23:51.200 --> 0:24:09.480 Observer Live Bug in the show. Bright Elber is here 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:12.880 wrestling Observer Live Mi Simber BB also Wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:14.880 We're gonna talk raw here in the moment. But first 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:18.720 couple of notes Land Storm Life, Q and A. This 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.440 afternoon to Pacific five Eastern. We do this once a month. 0:24:22.240 --> 0:24:26.440 Lancel answer any of your questions whatever you want. Ask 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:30.760 him about American breakfast. 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