WEBVTT - Vince McMahon Vice Doc 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.800 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:16.000 let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.720 Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:23.360 day Monday through Friday. Now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:30.640 sixth Eastern. Well it's Tuesday here on this show. I 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:35.040 got a lot to talk about here today. Only Row 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.240 was last night. Yeah, we'll do the Raw Report and 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.160 everything like that, but yeah, we gotta talking about old 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:45.520 Vince McMahon man. What timing for that Vice documentary tonight? 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.559 Dave and I are on it. They've been promoting it 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:53.400 like crazy. It airs on Vice TV at nine o'clock 0:00:54.040 --> 0:01:01.160 midnight and three a m. Eastern. So depending on when 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:02.880 you get a chance to watch any of these shows 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:08.160 on Vice, if you're on the West coast, nine and midnight, 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.400 it maybe six o'clock, so three times that show is 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:15.080 gonna air tonight on Vice. I'm on it, Dave's on it, 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:19.200 I saw the trailer. Vince Russo's on it, Jim Cornett, 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.000 So it's two hour show. Make sure you check it out. 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:27.720 Tonight and man Well Street Journal today comes out with 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:36.039 another article on Vince McMahon and allegations and claims by Vince. 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.440 So we're gonna talk about that here today on the 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:42.319 show and all the other news as well. 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You know, this thing, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.480 this Vice documentary was scheduled to air, uh several weeks 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.400 ago and it just happened to be scheduled for a 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.320 night where a W had been moved to Tuesday. So 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.440 we had a W and n X T on a 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:15.560 Tuesday night, and this Vice show was going to run 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:17.880 head to head and I was like, Man, no one's 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.840 gonna watch this show. So they pulled it from that 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.880 date and they booked it here for this date. And 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.800 I don't know if they knew that there was gonna 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.280 be a Wall Street Journal article coming out today or 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.560 if it was just an amazing coincidence that the day 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.719 that this thing was scheduled to air, we got a 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:41.839 new Wall Street Journal article. But what incredible timing. Tuesday, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.159 Wall Street Journal published an article revealing McMahon's attorney received 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.039 a demand letter from Rita Chatterton's lawyer on November three, 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:55.720 asking for eleven points seven five million in damages. Jatterton, 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.680 who was the first female referee in w w E history, 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.440 publicly accute as to McMahon of raping her in the 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:06.200 back of a limo November in New York in nineteen six. 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:10.680 Also November, McMahon's attorney received an email from a lawyer 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:15.279 from a former SPA manager who says that McMahon assaulted 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:20.000 her at a California result in twenty eleven. The incident 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.840 had not been reported in the media until now let 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:27.400 her from chart. Chatterton's lawyer states Chatterton quote has suffered 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:31.359 years of ongoing depression, substance abuse, disordered eating, lost income, 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.240 and overall a decreased quality of life following the mcmann's 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:40.320 alleged rape. And there's more here and talks about the 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.600 SPA manager told her husband about the incident. Her husband 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.560 drove to a w W event with a baseball bat 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:54.680 try to confront Mr McMahon but was turned away. I 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.039 don't want to make light of this, but what like 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:58.760 he showed up at the door with a bat and 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.440 asked to see Vince and they turned him away. That's 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.640 what this sounds like. Here. The woman's lawyer has been 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.120 in touch with Mr McMahon's attorney since at least July. 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.200 McMahon is told people he refuses to pay settlements to 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:17.880 Chatterton or the SPA manager. So uh, And there's more 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.440 here about the the past, and then we have this 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:27.000 which everyone's uh talking about today. Despite his retirement, mcaman 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.560 remains w w e's majority shareholder. In the Wall Street 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.560 Journal story that was published today, it has noted that 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:40.080 McMahon has told people that he quote intends to make 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:44.599 a comeback to w w E. McMahon feels that he 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:49.120 received quote bad advice from people close to him and 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.640 thinks the allegations would have blown over if he didn't 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:56.479 step down. Well, these two new allegations suggests that wouldn't happen, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:00.279 But that's what he thinks. And then it was on 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.720 and on. Now, obviously there's a lot of fans on 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:08.120 social media today they're freaking out about this, and there 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.360 are certainly people within w w E that certainly we're 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:15.560 not expecting nor we're happy to hear this, this article 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.400 from the Wall Street Journal. And I'm not gonna sit 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.760 here and tell you anything because I don't know what 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.320 is going to or could happen. But I will say this, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.640 I don't think it's gonna be as easy as Vince going. 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.960 You know, I'm ready to come back. Now, I'll be 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:36.240 the office on Monday. The official word, if you guys remember, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.280 was I don't even have the tweet in front of me, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:41.600 but Vince. Vince tweeted something like, you know, I'm old 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.520 and I think it's time to go, or something like that, 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:46.320 and then you know, officially they talked about how he 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.600 had stepped down or whatever, but I seem to recall 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:57.320 that that the reason that he voluntarily stepped down was 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.200 it if he hadn't voluntarily stepped down, it was gonna 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.080 be done in a different manner. And so the idea 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.760 that you know, he could just come back. I'm not 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.400 saying he's never going to be back. I'm not saying 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.800 it's not possible, but he can have all of the 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.800 intentions that he wants, and uh, there's a lot that 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:20.920 would have to happen for him to just come back. 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:27.880 So we shall see what happens. Yeah, because remember how 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.080 this whole thing started with the Wall Street Journal. It 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.280 was something that was sent by you know, it's something 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.560 sent to a board of director, and you know, there 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:41.720 we have this whole thing about the independent investigation that 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:46.920 was going to look at the entirety of the company 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.480 and see what the culture was and see all that 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.960 sort of stuff, you know, and we haven't heard anything 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.320 about any of that stuff, any changes that are going 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.960 to be made, anything like that. So you would figure 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:02.480 if even they've quietly done what they've needed to do 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.840 and everything's over with now and we're not going to 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.320 hear about any changes, or they may change as quietly. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.800 Whatever it is, you go ahead and you upset the 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:13.080 apple cart by varying Vince McMahon back in if he 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.840 tries to force himself back in. And again, I don't 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:19.280 know how this works as far as him being the 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.160 majority stockholder and how he can leverage that to try 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.920 to take over the company again, and what that would 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.480 set off as far as the you know, securities and 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.760 Exchange Commission and other stockholders and all that sort of stuff. 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:37.040 But what I do know is that I who knows 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.200 if this What I know is there are now what 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:45.960 six seven allegations against Vince McMahon for that have been 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.360 settled that we know of from O. Six oh eight 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.720 two thousand eighteen and then this one in two thousand 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.719 and twenty two. The reader Chatterton's story has been out 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.280 there for a long time. There is these ans of 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.480 bar story in Florida that ended up not going anywhere 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.600 in two thousand and six, of groping story, and a 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.000 story where a somebody that works at a spa says 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.520 did he sent pictures? And as we found out later on, 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.520 that is part of his m O and other n 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:17.000 d a's that have apparently been signed. That's something he's doing. 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.120 So now we have another situation with a spot in 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.360 California for all this happened. I mean, he can talk 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.560 about trying to get himself back and all he wants 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:29.080 he can. He may be right, he may be absolutely right. 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.320 Because you saw what the stock price did. Maybe people 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:35.360 wouldn't have taken it seriously, maybe it would have blown over. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:38.400 But at this point in the game, you're gonna go 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.000 ahead and bring back Vince McMahon. The thought of him 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.360 coming back after all of this stuff, when there's still 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:49.480 stuff that could very well be out there, is just insanity. Well, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.920 I think people need to remember as well. Did he 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.439 didn't just step down to do allegations. He stepped down 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.800 because he had used essentially company money for teen page 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.520 six million women. So so listen here. You know, somebody 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.480 asked me this question a few months ago. It was 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.800 a great question. This was after Vince had been gone 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:13.320 for a while, and they were like, what is worse 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:18.360 with Vince gone? Like, you know, before Vince stepped down, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.559 the the fear was a w w Without Vince McMahon, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:25.240 the stock's gonna create. You know, the thing's just gonna well, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:27.400 what happened when he left was it didn't create her. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:31.079 And in fact, if you look at every single solitary 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:34.920 aspect of business and how much money they're making and 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:39.400 their house show business and the ratings and blah blah blah. Yeah, 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:41.320 I realized they had a bad quarter a little while ago, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:46.800 But in general, what is worse now then when he 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.560 was around. If it were a situation where he left 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.320 and things really did crater and then he wanted to 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:56.400 come back, yeah, I can see them going, well, you know, yeah, 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.319 this is a publicly traded company, we have a requirement 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:03.440 to our stockhold, etcetera. But I mean, none of that happened. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.600 You know, in a lot of ways, virtually everything is 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.800 better now with him gone. So it's gonna be pretty 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.840 tough to go. Hey, you know, he wants to come back. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:15.840 I got more allegations against him, use company money, But hey, 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.520 he wants to come back, let's do it. Back in 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:41.480 a moment Observer Live Back in the show, Brian Elbare 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:45.400 is here wrestling Observer Alive mixambur Viv, also wrestling Observer 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:50.720 dot Com. In another kind of related story, a double 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:54.440 views hired Michael Mansuriy w w E is former vice 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.880 president of Global Global TV Production to be their new 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:02.400 senior Vice President co executive producer her fire. The hiring 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.840 first reporter by p w Insider, who said that he's 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:09.200 gonna begin his job tonight. Specific job responsibilities not reported. 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.440 He was most recently the Senior VP Executive Producer of 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:19.040 Global Production for one the m A organization. For that, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.800 he was an executive producer for The Pat McAfee Show. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.160 And so it was with the w w E for 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:28.000 eleven years beginning in two thousand nine, left on his 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.880 own accord in While his name is likely not familiar 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.160 with most fans, his work as a director of record 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.880 from many w w E pay per view and TV 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:41.719 shows during his time. Uh they are so uh. P 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.720 w Insider, when they first broke the story of him leaving, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.280 said he was seen by some of his eventual successor 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.800 to Kevin Dunn was seen as a big part of 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.439 the Triple H regime. So there's a there's a lot 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.000 to say here. So first off, you know, from talking 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.040 to two people in w w E in production, this 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.240 bloke was eight in his job, and uh, you know 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.600 a lot of there are people there in production. They 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:08.239 think that a W product production is just like atrocious. 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.880 They think it's absolutely positively atrocious. And I often mentioned, Bro, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.760 I'd rather watch whatever atrocious production they had than this 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.640 zooming and camera cutting and all this other rigmarole. But 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.240 that's what they say. Their production is horrible. And so 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.960 when when man sorry got signed there like, oh my god, 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:30.120 what a signing. This is a gigantic, gigantic signing for 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.000 a w they said, because this guy is so good 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:35.640 at his job. Now here's there's a few questions about 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.520 this that that that should be asked. So and I 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:43.320 don't know the answers to him. But this guy worked 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:49.080 for W W E for eleven years and he was 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.960 thought to be next in line for Kevin Dunn's role. 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:56.120 He was thought to be one of the Triple H guys. 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:58.800 When Kevin Dunn is gone, when Triple H is in, 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.600 when Vince is gone, he he's gonna he's gonna rise 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.040 to that position. So in in or whatever, he quit 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.120 and uh, he went to do all of these other things. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.360 So he's been gone for a while. And then in 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:17.520 the summer of two, everything that happened with Vince happened, 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:22.400 and UH and Vince was removed from his position, and 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.440 Triple H started bringing all of his guys into UH 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:30.960 certain positions and he started bringing back wrestlers at Vince 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.560 saw nothing in that he did, and he's he's UH, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:39.400 he's starting to create his his his core group. And 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:44.720 here we are. It is December and Michael Mansouri decided, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.720 I am not going back to w W E. I 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.320 am not going back to work under Triple H. I 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:54.800 am going to go to a W. And a lot 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.480 of people have asked a question as to whai. The 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.520 answer may be as simple as well, it doesn't look 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.000 like Kevin Dunn's going anywhere anytime soon, so I don't 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.320 want to work under this guy. Could just be that, 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.600 or I mean, you know, there could be there could 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.040 be a lot of things going on here. But in general, 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.280 the feeling is is a huge positive for a W. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.320 But what it means, I don't know. I don't know 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.680 what it means. I mean, there's a lot, there's a 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.320 lot that goes into production. Everybody. It's not just pushing 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.240 a button. Are we talking like he's gonna he's gonna go? 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:29.880 You know what? You need a different set for all 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.240 these pay per views revolution there should be like whatever, 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.160 barbed wire all over the place, you know, the Vegas, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.760 I want chips everywhere. You know. W w has all 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.160 these special sets. Could be something like that. Could be 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.200 he wants more zooming, could be he wants this or 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.480 that lighting. I don't know what he's gonna do. But 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:49.240 all I know is I don't think you just see 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:53.080 massive changes tonight. I think that it will take a 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:58.960 while to uh to get his vision instated. But we'll see. Yeah, 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.560 well you see, know they got a second TV show 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.680 starting soon, you know, and I know he's got probably 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:06.720 nothing to do with that, but you're gonna have to, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.040 you know, stand out your resources. And when you have 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.400 somebody like this out on the market and you're able 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.480 to grab him, you grab him. That's what you do, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:17.159 you know. But who knows what the deal was with 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.679 w w E. Maybe he was not called back to 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.600 take over for Kevin Dunn. Maybe he was called back 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.440 and said no, I kind of like this guy's spirit. 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.119 You know, he left on his own from w w 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.840 E and then went and got a job. I mean, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.320 you saw you hear what Brian told you about his 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.639 title and what he did for that company, and yes, 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:39.080 Brian's not lying with you to you at all. People 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:42.040 inside w w E who are still there ty hype 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.520 this guy up immensely and said it was going to 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:48.280 be a great win for a e W. So obviously 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.520 it's a big deal. But he went did the Pat 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.080 McAfee show, he went decompressed probably for a while when 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:56.000 did something that he liked to do, and then took 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:59.000 on a new challenge with One Singapore and now he's 0:17:59.040 --> 0:18:02.840 coming back here to do this. Look I again, I'm 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.960 going off of what other people are saying about it, 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.520 and they are extremely excited. There have been times with 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.600 AWS production I have been very frustrated. There are times 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.280 where it's great. You know that it looks like nitro 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.760 and it feels like nitro. But you know what w 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:19.840 w E. The one thing you can't take away from 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.639 is their production. And if somebody can bring some of 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:25.840 the aesthetic that's good about w w E over to 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:29.560 a W not a bad thing. How much you say 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:31.640 in the ratings this week. Although SmackDown did a really 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:35.560 good number two point three million viewers SmackDown on Friday, 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.000 obviously this was you know, if some of this might 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:41.959 actually be, I'd have to go back and chart it. 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:45.760 But last week they were on FS one and man 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.320 if I had a stock, it did very It did 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:53.639 uh nine hundreds something thousand on FS one in the 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:56.320 eighteen and forty nine was not that great. So they're 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:58.920 actually up a hundred and fifty five point six percent 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:00.840 this week because they went for so man if I 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:05.000 had a stock this week, who man oh man. But anyway, 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:10.920 eight point five seven up one hundred and twenty eight 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.440 percent from last week. So basically my question is that 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.800 I'd have to go back. But you know, when they 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:20.040 moved FS one, their viewership is cut in half every 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:24.439 time or more, and so I wonder if if every 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:27.159 time when they come back from FS one they do 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.400 a better than usual number because half the people didn't 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.720 watch the show the previous week and tune in to 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:36.160 find out what they missed, perhaps in larger numbers. But anyway, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.560 I did a very good number, and uh, I have 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.639 no other explanation because as a show, just show it 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.600 was fine. And then Rampage did four hundred and fifty 0:19:46.600 --> 0:19:50.760 seven thousand viewers, which is up over from the week prior. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.760 How his total audience since October one, although Um, the 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.800 demo was not great. It was a point one one, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.800 and it was up from the previous week's record low, 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:08.240 but still it's a point one one, which is not 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.040 a great demo. But they were up in viewership and 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.480 it was a better show. So I guess we'll see 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.159 what happens is coming Friday on Rampage if people liked 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:20.040 it and decide they're gonna give another chance this week. 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.960 So I don't know it they can put as many 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:25.920 people on it as they want to. I know Tony's 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.880 talking about reinvigorating it again, but it's still tough on 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.880 Friday nights with the market that you have, what your 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:36.359 demo is, and what your competition is, and the time 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:40.400 slot that you're on again, I don't know you can 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:43.399 pop it even for a couple of weeks. Maybe, but 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:47.000 I don't know if consistently there's an answer for the 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:51.080 time slot. And then finally they had the announcement that 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:58.160 they're gonna be touring June and July three. On Wednesday, June, 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.879 w w E is heading you Liverpool. Thursday, they'll be 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:06.639 in Sheffield. The nine also in uh in Dublin Islands, 0:21:06.640 --> 0:21:09.440 so they're doing a split crew the Raw crew will 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:14.040 be in Sheffield and the SmackDown Crew in Dublin, Newcastle 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:18.320 Friday June and uh Sunday Age Life. Second, they will 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:23.520 be in Cardiff, Wales again where hopefully Drew mciner could 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:28.119 get a big victory. This time they're going back. And 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:31.320 then they also announced the King and Queen of the Ring, 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:36.600 which was I don't know what like. Obviously they have 0:21:36.600 --> 0:21:38.879 trademarked King of the Ring and probably Queen of the 0:21:38.960 --> 0:21:42.320 Ring as well, but now they have trademarked w w 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:46.920 E King and Queen of the Ring, so barely that's 0:21:47.160 --> 0:21:48.719 you know, if they do a King of the Ring 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:50.480 pay per view, it will no longer be the King 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.280 of the Ring pay per view with a Queen of 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:57.680 the Ring tournament. It will be King and Queen of 0:21:57.720 --> 0:22:01.760 the Ring. So there you go excited for that. Everyone. 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:05.040 Did I lose Mike? I think I did his his 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.359 his house was noisy and then suddenly got very quiet, 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:14.160 very peaceful. I think that means that he likely dropped. Alright, 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:15.960 we're gonna do a row when we come back from 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.360 the break, but in the meantime I will look through 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:21.800 some of the feedback and see what people are saying 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:25.400 here four to five seven eight zero seven, five six 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.879 six is the phone number for text messages. Four to 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:33.439 five seven eight zero seven five six six. Remember that 0:22:33.440 --> 0:22:35.639 short time when he and w W is having words 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:38.760 and graphics appear on the screen while people cut promos. 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:40.719 Hopefully that doesn't go to a W. I don't remember that. 0:22:41.720 --> 0:22:43.880 What was that? I remember every now and then somebody 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:45.920 would kind of promo. There be creepy music in the 0:22:45.960 --> 0:22:49.360 background which was goofy, but there were words and graphics 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:53.120 on the screen. I mean, I would like to see 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:56.679 when people are interviewed, like their names appear on the screen. 0:22:57.040 --> 0:23:01.560 I think there should be more of that. But remember 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.280 that one. If you had to give a percentage as 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.320 to the chance of Vince returns, what would it be. 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:08.880 I have no idea, but I mean it would be low. 0:23:09.760 --> 0:23:14.520 I mean, honestly, I'd say less than ten percent. Now, 0:23:15.119 --> 0:23:18.119 I mean, I suppose that could change, but I find 0:23:18.119 --> 0:23:21.840 this to be quite unlikely for a lot of reasons, 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:27.280 but who knows. Wright Another news, congrats on scoring the 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:29.840 second goal in the semifinals of the World Cup. Thank you. 0:23:30.400 --> 0:23:34.280 I appreciate that I have a more talented man than 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:42.880 people are aware. This person here says, uh, no joke. 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:47.720 Oh God, people talk about this Undertaker thing. Now is 0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:49.840 not the day to argue with me about whether Undertaker 0:23:49.960 --> 0:23:52.600 supernatural voodoo in the nineties was cool or not. Now 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:54.280 it's not the day. Back in a moment with a 0:23:54.359 --> 0:24:22.520 raw reporting morebs, They're alive. You're right back in the show. 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:26.560 Brin Elbert is here Wrestling Observer live chat getting natural 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.080 except for me, gets done the chats. Just Undertaker thing. Listen, 0:24:30.119 --> 0:24:32.359 he's a Hall of famer. Everybody is a Hall of famer. 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:37.879 But I keep asking people, show me times when the 0:24:37.960 --> 0:24:43.200 stupid voodoo drew money, Like the best anyone has ever 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:47.320 come up with was the Ministry of Darkness, when the 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:51.640