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Speaker 1: here today. Last night was aw Dynamite and we actually
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Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Want a big offer of congratulations to the former Carmela
Speaker 1: and Corey Graves. They will be having a second child
Speaker 1: and she will be giving birth this fall. Their son, Dimitri,
Speaker 1: born in November of twenty twenty three, So she's done
Speaker 1: with WWE. Corey Graves obviously still a commentator for NXT,
Speaker 1: so best of luck to them.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Mayu Ewatani is going to Marygold. The promotion founded in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four by rossi Ogawa formerly of Stardom, held
Speaker 1: a press conference overnight announcing she had joined. Makes her
Speaker 1: debut at Corkanhall May fourth, three days from now. She
Speaker 1: makes her big debut, and she explained she had done
Speaker 1: everything she could in Stardom, Goal and Marygold to become
Speaker 1: a Grand Slam champion. She wants their world title, their
Speaker 1: United National title, their tag team titles, and their Superfly title.
Speaker 3: Super Wait a second, you heard a second? The super
Speaker 3: Fly title. Yes, a Flyway title, no.
Speaker 1: Superfly Hmmm, that's cool, So there you go.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Curtis Mayfield.
Speaker 1: Live Morgan will be starring in Bad Lieutenant Tokyo, was
Speaker 1: reported by Deadline and Uh Takashi Iki is the director
Speaker 1: and uh The film will be theatrically released in North
Speaker 1: America International distribution rights go on sale at the con
Speaker 1: Film Festival in France next month. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the thing with this is she announced that she was
Speaker 1: going to be in a in a mad in a
Speaker 1: in a big I think she said a holly whatever
Speaker 1: she said on on raw and then you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't say what it was, and so everybody got talking,
Speaker 1: and you know, the fans all started talking one thing.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, you know, the the rumor in
Speaker 1: Hollywood was, you know, it's a big deal for her.
Speaker 1: What that meant, who knows, but you know, this is
Speaker 1: a real director and uh and this is a really
Speaker 1: big deal for her. But everybody appears, especially on our board,
Speaker 1: had talked to themselves into she's going to she is
Speaker 1: going to be in the Once Upon a Time in
Speaker 1: Hollywood sequel.
Speaker 3: A lot of those people sign with Vivid.
Speaker 1: Which, by the way, was funny because like the Once
Speaker 1: upon a Time? Have you ever seen Once Upon Time
Speaker 1: in Hollywood?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Okay, well go watch it tonight. This movie is freaking awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: but the sequel is not going to be a Hollywood
Speaker 1: blockbuster because it's on Netflix. So I kind of knew
Speaker 1: it wasn't going to be that, and I was I
Speaker 1: was told that she was filming out of the country,
Speaker 1: whatever that meant. And now we know she's gonna be
Speaker 1: going to Tokyo and it says it begins production next month.
Speaker 1: But I think she's leaving like this week, which is
Speaker 1: why they did that angle on raw Monday. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe she won't, but I think she's already
Speaker 1: on her way, so good for her and might be
Speaker 1: gone for a little while.
Speaker 3: So we still had that deadline article where they really
Speaker 3: hyped up the director. And I guess this production company, Neon,
Speaker 3: does a lot of good things, and apparently they go
Speaker 3: to Japan a lot to do filming. I don't know
Speaker 3: for what reason, if it's tax breaks or scenery, exactly
Speaker 3: what it is, but apparently the director is very well
Speaker 3: respected in Lily James, who was that Kevin von Eric's
Speaker 3: wife in the Von Eric movie. I don't I'm not
Speaker 3: a big Hollywood person. I think everybody knows that, but
Speaker 3: you know, Lily James is in there too as being,
Speaker 3: you know, part of this movie. So I just want
Speaker 3: to know, is it actually somehow connected to the old
Speaker 3: bat lieutenant that had Harvey Kaitel in it. That was
Speaker 3: a dark movie.
Speaker 1: Alrighty, we've got to wrestling, don't taku coming up? Hell,
Speaker 1: Fantasmo defend the new Japan TV title, which he just regained,
Speaker 1: by the way, against Takeshta, which is interesting Takesha winning
Speaker 1: that title. Are they gonna beat Takeshta?
Speaker 3: No way?
Speaker 1: I guess we'll see.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what if they do El Fantasmo.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was supposed to be Takesha and Rocky
Speaker 1: versus Fantasmo and Jutt on a tag match, but very
Speaker 1: recently Fantasmo beat Great o'conn. It was just Tuesday, So
Speaker 1: are they really gonna switch the title that quickly?
Speaker 3: Hey, maybe they do some sort of like that and
Speaker 3: maybe well I either that or they go to some
Speaker 3: sort of no contest where then we're going to see
Speaker 3: LP on aw TV at least once.
Speaker 1: Well, the one thing that is important is that they
Speaker 1: are also wrestling again on May ninth for the never
Speaker 1: open weight title that Takeshta has, So it's possible they're
Speaker 1: just gonna split wins and both will leave with their titles.
Speaker 1: So we got the dog pound steel cage match. Losing
Speaker 1: team leaves Bullet Club with the war Dogs versus House
Speaker 1: of Torture.
Speaker 3: And then we know way LP is being to That's crazy.
Speaker 1: That's absolutely He's gonna lose to him twice in a row,
Speaker 1: two straight shows. They're wrestling two straight shows.
Speaker 3: I like him, but let's be honest. You signed Takeshta
Speaker 3: to a new Japan contract. He's one of aw's biggest stars.
Speaker 3: I guess you could you could argue that, but I
Speaker 3: mean he's certainly in the top tier mix and he's
Speaker 3: almost I don't want him to I mean, if I'm
Speaker 3: Tony Kahan, I don't think I want him losing to
Speaker 3: El Fantasmo. And again, nothing against El Fantasmo, but where
Speaker 3: they are on the pecking order, I mean, that's kind
Speaker 3: of crazy to me.
Speaker 1: Well, the fact is he has two contracts, and whatever
Speaker 1: each side wants from the other side, it's two contracts.
Speaker 1: I mean, Well, anyway, we'll talk more about this after
Speaker 1: the break ups of her life.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
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Speaker 1: And the show Brian Elberz here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike
Speaker 1: shember v also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So yes, the
Speaker 1: first night as that dog pound steel cage match and
Speaker 1: Hiroshi Tanahashi and Zach Saber Junior and Shingo and showed
Speaker 1: Umino and Fantasmo and Takeshta, and then night two's got
Speaker 1: the big go to Callum Newman I w GP World
Speaker 1: Heavyweight title match.
Speaker 3: You don't sound enthused about that one.
Speaker 1: That's for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title. Go to versus
Speaker 1: Callum Newman.
Speaker 3: Well, there was gonna be another guy, but he happened
Speaker 3: to uh not have a contract, and maybe he's in
Speaker 3: a route to the United States. I don't know. We
Speaker 3: have no idea where Jeff Cobb is.
Speaker 1: Then we got Yodasuji and u Ui Mura for the
Speaker 1: global title and in several coda as well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 3: To be two nights. Talk about WrestleMania not having to
Speaker 3: be two nights. This show did not have to be
Speaker 3: two nights. And Nu Japan does not have to fall
Speaker 3: into this trap. If they're going to do it, dude
Speaker 3: with the Tokyo Dome when you can, but otherwise, my gosh,
Speaker 3: don't fall into this habit.
Speaker 1: Like a funk monk. Here goes Goto is winning, you think,
Speaker 1: I think there's a decent chance he's gonna beat Callum Newman.
Speaker 1: I mean, I could be wrong, nothing against the guy
Speaker 1: or anything like that, but certainly nobody predicted on the
Speaker 1: Prediction Show that Goto would face Callum Newman for the
Speaker 1: IWGP heavyweight title at a major Nujapan event in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. That didn't happen.
Speaker 3: And let's not sleep on the fact that tanahash and
Speaker 3: Zach Saber Junior. I guess this is going to be
Speaker 3: the last one between these two is as far as
Speaker 3: the singles match go, which makes me wonder how long
Speaker 3: that match will go too, because if Tamahashi can do
Speaker 3: a long match with anybody, you would be Zaxaber Junior.
Speaker 3: But gonna be interesting to see how much they pull out.
Speaker 1: So u Valhalla should be back soon? Really is the
Speaker 1: husband of Eric, I'm sorry, the wife of Eric? And
Speaker 1: uh well, you know.
Speaker 3: When she was dressed up in that outfit, you couldn't tell.
Speaker 1: And they she she gave birth and should be back soon. Now.
Speaker 1: There was a Chris van Vliet interview with Eric the
Speaker 1: Viking Raiders and somebody sent me a clip on Twitter
Speaker 1: and it was amazing because he told the story of
Speaker 1: how one day they got called up to the main
Speaker 1: roster and they were putting in the videos or whatever
Speaker 1: on the screen or whatever before the show, and he
Speaker 1: looks up and he sees Viking experience and he had
Speaker 1: the same reaction. It's so he's funny because like, you know,
Speaker 1: this happens with AW, it happens with WWE. I've dealt
Speaker 1: with this for decades. The company will do something dumb.
Speaker 1: You will point out that it's dumb, the fans will
Speaker 1: jump to the defense of the company and talk about
Speaker 1: how it's actually not dumb, and then like later one
Speaker 1: of the wrestlers involved will do an interview and say
Speaker 1: it was really dumb. I can't even tell you how
Speaker 1: many times this happened. So anyway, he looks up at
Speaker 1: the screen, He's like, oh my god. And so he
Speaker 1: goes to Triple H's at ringside and he goes, is
Speaker 1: this a rib or what? And Hunter's looking at his phone.
Speaker 1: He just goes, I wish. He says, if you want
Speaker 1: to talk to Vince, you gotta go talk to Vince.
Speaker 1: So Eric and Ivar they go talk to Vince, and
Speaker 1: Vince was like he literally it has to be explained
Speaker 1: to him. They go listen Viking Experience. What is a
Speaker 1: Viking experience? It sounds like a ride Disneyland. Hey, go
Speaker 1: on the Viking Experience. Like So, as it turns out,
Speaker 1: Vince is a fan of Vikings and there was like
Speaker 1: a Viking show that Vince really liked. He likes Vikings
Speaker 1: and so and so literally it's explained that like he'd
Speaker 1: been watching the show about Vikings and and somebody you'd
Speaker 1: explained to him, you know, we have a team that
Speaker 1: they're Vikings, and he was.
Speaker 3: Like, what called up?
Speaker 1: Because he likes Vikings, that's how that's how they get
Speaker 1: called up, I guess. But then you know they got
Speaker 1: to get a name, so uh, I guess.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: He explains it like at the time, Vikings actually were
Speaker 1: like sort of in and so one of the things was,
Speaker 1: you know, they were trying to trademark something involving Vikings,
Speaker 1: and like everything was taken and and Eric goes, a
Speaker 1: Viking Experience wasn't taken because nobody wanted it. And so
Speaker 1: they're explaining to Vince how stupid this is Viking Experience whatever,
Speaker 1: and and they like had a list of possible names,
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of them involved raiders, and so
Speaker 1: they were like, well, how about the Viking Raiders, And
Speaker 1: so Vince said to him, well, too late in the
Speaker 1: day to change it, So you can be the Viking
Speaker 1: Experience tonight, because we got that one trademarked, and then
Speaker 1: we'll h we'll figure out that other one later. And
Speaker 1: so out they went, and you know, Vince actually did
Speaker 1: the old No Press as Bad Press, you know, because
Speaker 1: that famous Hell in a Cell where the Fiend and
Speaker 1: seth Rawlins had one of the worst matches of all time,
Speaker 1: and Vince watched it and the fans turned a violently
Speaker 1: on it, and meanwhile, you know, he fiddled. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was so funny. So they were the Viking
Speaker 1: Experience for a while there because Vince, Vince had to be.
Speaker 1: It had to be explained to him how stupid a
Speaker 1: Viking Experience is as a tag team name. There you go.
Speaker 3: So it ended up with Viking Express. Yet that was
Speaker 3: the next one.
Speaker 1: Right, I think they actually ended up the Viking Raiders,
Speaker 1: and then later they ended up being able because you
Speaker 1: know the time, you know, we talked about this before,
Speaker 1: like people like to talk about how it's exactly the same.
Speaker 1: Now they always do this stuff, but like they're the
Speaker 1: war Raiders now you know why they weren't the war
Speaker 1: Raiders before because Vince wouldn't allow the word war It
Speaker 1: was too violent for it. This man who wanted to
Speaker 1: do a storyline where Raymistery got his eyeball pulled out.
Speaker 1: That's another great story.
Speaker 3: By the way, I was gonna say, Alistair Black is
Speaker 3: still selling that after all these years.
Speaker 1: Well, it's just funny. Because Vince wanted Vince wanted a match.
Speaker 1: There was an eye for an eye, okay, and so
Speaker 1: like he came up with the idea that you know,
Speaker 1: they would do this complicated thing and a raised eyeball
Speaker 1: would actually be pulled out and it would like, you know,
Speaker 1: they'd have like some thing where they were like dangle.
Speaker 1: Ye had to be dangling. But then like at the
Speaker 1: last second, e he got cold feet. It was just
Speaker 1: too much and ended up even dumber, ended up being
Speaker 1: more stupid. Yeah, that's right. I said I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: watching TNA every week. Really, I announced it on Twitter
Speaker 1: mostly so I couldn't go back on it. So here's
Speaker 1: the deal. Didn't No, I didn't you know, I've been
Speaker 1: watching I haven't been watching Impact for a long time years.
Speaker 1: Actually they drove me off. But you know, unlike some people,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone tells me it's different now, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to argue it's not. So what happened was
Speaker 1: I I went to Many a weekend and we got
Speaker 1: tickets to the The App Special on Thursday, and and
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the show. I know, I had a
Speaker 1: couple of criticisms, like, you know, they should have ended
Speaker 1: with a hardcore match. It was it was very difficult
Speaker 1: to follow that. Plus everybody left and they weren't into
Speaker 1: the three way for the new you know, international title
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I enjoyed the show. And then the
Speaker 1: next week we were gonna be doing SmackDown and Collision
Speaker 1: on the Sunday Bryna Any Show, and and Craig said, hey,
Speaker 1: what about why don't we watch that TNA pay per view?
Speaker 1: And since we just watched the The App Special, I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I'm kind of caught up, let's watch
Speaker 1: the pay per view. So we watched the pay per
Speaker 1: view and it wasn't like the best pay per view
Speaker 1: I've ever seen, but there was nothing on the show
Speaker 1: that was bad. It wasn't stupid in any way, and
Speaker 1: I enjoyed myself, and so I watched that and then
Speaker 1: you know the other thing was I was watching I
Speaker 1: was watching NXT on Tuesday, and you know, here comes
Speaker 1: here comes Joe Hendry and he's feuding with Trick, and
Speaker 1: Trick was you know, he ran in at the end
Speaker 1: of the pay per view, and you know they've got
Speaker 1: other NXT talent that are working TNA shows. I got
Speaker 1: TNA talent working NXT shows. The top NXT angle involves
Speaker 1: the world champion for Impact, so I mean, at least
Speaker 1: for now, I mean, it seems like this is kind
Speaker 1: of important. So I'm gonna start watching the weekly TV
Speaker 1: and fun Friday Lance off and joins his Fun Friday,
Speaker 1: so you know we could talk about it.
Speaker 8: There.
Speaker 1: You've got someone who actually works for Impact. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch it tonight.
Speaker 3: It's a pretty easy show to watch. I mean, the
Speaker 3: biggest problem with TNA is just unfortunately, when you are
Speaker 3: watching all of the other shows, it is our number
Speaker 3: what thirteen or fourteen after Row SmackDown, the two aw
Speaker 3: shows in NXT. It's just i mean, compared to Roh,
Speaker 3: easier watch than ROH because obviously if you're into more
Speaker 3: sports entertainment, that's in there, and some people call it
Speaker 3: WW like, you know, whatever you want to call it
Speaker 3: doesn't really matter. It is a much better show than
Speaker 3: the Dying Days of being on what was it the
Speaker 3: Discovery Channel? Which are they on.
Speaker 1: Destination US Destinations of America.
Speaker 3: That's it. Then they lost the spot That still kills me.
Speaker 3: They lost the spot on Destination America two of all things,
Speaker 3: Ring of Honor that actually took over for them for
Speaker 3: a very short period before that all ended as well.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know, the other thing I noticed is that,
Speaker 1: like if you if you go to our board or
Speaker 1: you you know, look at this or that. It's like
Speaker 1: the the subscribers who are AW fans, they're very loud.
Speaker 1: They let their voice be.
Speaker 3: Heard, they do.
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Speaker 1: the majority of our fan base is AW fans. But
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Speaker 1: the loudest because we review WWE pay per views and
Speaker 1: we get tons of feedback, even though you know, I
Speaker 1: guess they're kind of loud in a different way. But
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Speaker 1: heard from who just quietly watched the show and don't
Speaker 1: make a big deal out of it, And uh so
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Speaker 2: You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike Simperbeebe on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 3: Hey boss, Yes, do you think some of those people
Speaker 3: that are really loud online realize that there are a
Speaker 3: lot more people who just quietly watch what they like
Speaker 3: and don't know and don't bother.
Speaker 1: To Absolutely not. All day yesterday people fighting me on
Speaker 1: video packages again. Oh come on, and there's another funny one.
Speaker 1: So uh so, last night I was I was doing
Speaker 1: the review of the Hangman match with Dave and I'm
Speaker 1: talking about how it was an unusual match because Hangman
Speaker 1: like totally dominated the entire match, and you know, they
Speaker 1: gave some spots to Kyle Fletcher, but it wasn't like,
Speaker 1: it wasn't a back and forth match, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: the match where Kyle Fletcher took eighty percent of the
Speaker 1: match because he was losing. Hangman beat him and beat
Speaker 1: him and beat him, and Dave jumps in, he goes,
Speaker 1: remember he did some moves, he had a kick. Dude,
Speaker 1: I wrote down everything that happened this match, like, what
Speaker 1: are we doing? And so we're kind of like arguing
Speaker 1: this and I wake up this morning, this guy goes.
Speaker 1: You can tell Dynamite was very good with Brian's feeble
Speaker 1: attempts to criticize the show. They were immediately thwarted by
Speaker 1: Dave Holy Cow. That was a lot of reaching.
Speaker 3: No, Brian, they did an arm bar in the Ocado
Speaker 3: Omega match. Everything's fine.
Speaker 1: Well, there's a bigger issue, I know, Okay, tell them,
Speaker 1: so listen. I'm not going to go back and count
Speaker 1: who had more moves because I don't care. But for
Speaker 1: those of you that do care and are very angry
Speaker 1: at my criticism of how that match was put together,
Speaker 1: could you please just do me the one favor of
Speaker 1: instead of rewatching the match, re listen to the review
Speaker 1: because I literally said, I like the way they did it.
Speaker 1: I like that they did it that way. I think
Speaker 1: what they did with Hangman taking the vast majority of
Speaker 1: the match, I think that that was better than what
Speaker 1: they normally do. But people heard I don't even know
Speaker 1: why they thought that was a criticism that Hangman took
Speaker 1: like ninety percent of the match. But they heard that
Speaker 1: and then maybe I guess they heard Dave start to
Speaker 1: argue it, and so then they decided that I must
Speaker 1: have said something negative and Dave was there to defend it. Guys,
Speaker 1: I like what they did with that match, because Hangman
Speaker 1: is now going to the pay per view to fight
Speaker 1: in the finals of the owen Hart Cup. I'm thankful
Speaker 1: that they did a match where when it was over
Speaker 1: it wasn't fifty to fifty, there was no doubt who
Speaker 1: the winner was, who the better man was, and he's
Speaker 1: now going to the finals of the pay per view.
Speaker 1: I didn't criticize it at all. I said what they
Speaker 1: did was good, and I liked it better. But it
Speaker 1: is a thing now where if it even seems like
Speaker 1: I am saying something negative about AW, there must be
Speaker 1: a defense AW, even if the defense doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: And I don't even know what you're defending right now.
Speaker 3: AW fans don't realize how many other wrestling fans who
Speaker 3: are half saying that have been run off by them
Speaker 3: who just went Okay, we don't When do you want
Speaker 3: to deal with this? I had somebody. Somebody sent this
Speaker 3: to me who was in the twitch chats. Somebody actually
Speaker 3: sent when I talked for two days one show with Tom,
Speaker 3: one show with you about Mariah May and Tony Storm,
Speaker 3: how much I liked the match, and I had one
Speaker 3: off comment I think when you were on of like,
Speaker 3: I don't know how great of a wrestling match it was,
Speaker 3: but it was a great spectacle and that was all
Speaker 3: they took. They took that one line item. Listeners, all
Speaker 3: of you who took that one line and then complained
Speaker 3: about that, I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 1: Listen.
Speaker 3: You just want to say that I didn't angry all
Speaker 3: the time.
Speaker 1: I don't want to yell at the fans of aw
Speaker 1: you because most of them are awesome.
Speaker 3: You're exactly.
Speaker 1: But for those of you that have a problem, get
Speaker 1: a life and listen. Sickest criminal love, Hey am I
Speaker 1: allowed to criticize how lazy Okada is? Is that allowed?
Speaker 1: Because this guy is so lazy. I was dying last night.
Speaker 1: So they had a great opener. It was a It
Speaker 1: was an eight man party match straight out of PWG.
Speaker 1: Kenny Omega, Mark Briscoe, Speedball, Mike Bailey, Kevin Knight, versus
Speaker 1: the Bucks Ricochet Okada and my god, this Okada. He's
Speaker 1: winning the match. By the way, he's gonna win the match.
Speaker 1: He does his elbow off the top, and you can
Speaker 1: always tell if he thinks the match is important or not,
Speaker 1: because if he jumps, it's an important match. If he falls,
Speaker 1: it's a less important match. I swear to God this one.
Speaker 1: He not only just fell off the top, he landed
Speaker 1: on his feet and then dropped the elbow. Was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god. Now everybody else worked like very hard,
Speaker 1: went through two commercial breaks. I mean this, I'm surprised.
Speaker 1: I didn't, you know, wake up today and see all
Speaker 1: these clips on Twitter about how horrible the match was.
Speaker 1: Fans loved it. It may have gone on a little
Speaker 1: too long because they they they did hit a peek
Speaker 1: and they were less crazy for it by the end.
Speaker 1: But ultimately Ocada did get a win. He pinned your
Speaker 1: main man, Mark Briscoe. Ah yeah and uh And it
Speaker 1: was a very very fun opener. And I will say
Speaker 1: I will say this though, I gotta be fair as
Speaker 1: lazy as this man was. They had fifteen seconds near
Speaker 1: the end where he tagged in with Kenny Omega and
Speaker 1: for fifteen seconds. We did get the old Okada, but
Speaker 1: it was fifteen seconds, and then he went right back
Speaker 1: to the new Okada. I was so, I think they
Speaker 1: will have an incredible match. I think he's gonna, he's gonna,
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna turn it up for that match,
Speaker 1: but not until then and not afterwards.
Speaker 3: Well, he has saved up all of his energy. I
Speaker 3: mean he should be able to do it. He saw
Speaker 3: in spurts when they started throwing, you know, four arms
Speaker 3: and the drop kick and all that stuff, But you're
Speaker 3: exactly right. Then he went back to it. Then it
Speaker 3: was cartoon Okada again with the kickout two, and then
Speaker 3: it's the big ah. I can't believe you kicked out
Speaker 3: face like that was the most effort he put in
Speaker 3: outside those spots with Omega, and they still they did
Speaker 3: do a good job with Meo Yamashta in that package.
Speaker 3: But you better drive home. You've been hyping up Omega
Speaker 3: and Ocatta.
Speaker 1: Since January that package.
Speaker 3: They've been teasing it, but you have not driven home
Speaker 3: the fact of why this guy, why Okado was a legend,
Speaker 3: and what they did in Japan, and why you want
Speaker 3: to care about this in Texas.
Speaker 1: You know I couldn't help, but know that they did
Speaker 1: have a video package for the for that Yamashta match,
Speaker 1: and I didn't hear one person complain about it. I
Speaker 1: heard people talk about what a great package it was. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: they're telling me we don't need packages. Brian, it's fine,
Speaker 1: people will figure it out. Don't hold our hand.
Speaker 3: Minute by minute says they don't the package.
Speaker 1: Don't even get me started. I'm not doing it today.
Speaker 1: Way of the Ops versus Nick Camarado, Red Titus and
Speaker 1: Miles Hawkins. The ops obviously one, and then the death
Speaker 1: writers jumped them and they killed Shabada with the gut
Speaker 1: first drop on the chair. And then Joe cut a
Speaker 1: promo and the Beach Break match is a steel cage
Speaker 1: match him and Moxley for the AW title. And I'm sorry, Dave.
Speaker 1: There will be run ins because we got to set
Speaker 1: up something for the pay per view, which is a
Speaker 1: multi person match, and so I think madness will occur
Speaker 1: during this cage match, but it'll be fun.
Speaker 3: Do you think maybe it's time to not do a
Speaker 3: anarchy in the arena or a but basically do what
Speaker 3: New Japan's doing. Having the war game style or some
Speaker 3: sort of thing where instead of everybody running around everywhere,
Speaker 3: it's actually encased in two rings or one ring with
Speaker 3: a gimmick cage.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can do that. I mean, honestly, I
Speaker 1: hate to say because people are gonna get mad, but
Speaker 1: this the easiest way to do this is you have
Speaker 1: a cage with no top, and everybody climbs in and
Speaker 1: it's a wild brawl. And then the pay per view
Speaker 1: match they announced, well, this will be in a cage
Speaker 1: with a roof nobody and nobody out, and that's your
Speaker 1: wild wargame style match.
Speaker 3: We had the.
Speaker 1: Tony Storm match. I love how I don't think it started,
Speaker 1: but they had a spot in this match was preposterous,
Speaker 1: which of course nobody they'll get mad at me for
Speaker 1: pointing it out. Tony Storm does a running hip attack,
Speaker 1: you know, on the apron, and she misses, and we're
Speaker 1: supposed to believe that her butt was stuck between the
Speaker 1: middle and bottom rope. Oh no, this is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I know you love Tony Storm, I know you love
Speaker 1: her gimmick and everything like that. I know you love
Speaker 1: the spot they did, but this is preposterous. She didn't
Speaker 1: get stuck between the bottom and middle rope.
Speaker 3: But they did that. Are you saying that spot was cheeks?
Speaker 1: It was ridiculous, preposterous, But she won with the storm
Speaker 1: zero And then Mercedes came out and they had this Mercedes,
Speaker 1: can we all at least admit I was right that
Speaker 1: she's far better as a heal than a baby face.
Speaker 1: She comes out on the ramp and she's got her Uh.
Speaker 1: She does the spot all the time. It's never not amazing.
Speaker 1: She comes out in her heels and then out comes Jamie.
Speaker 1: She wants to beat up Mercedes, and so Mercedes has
Speaker 1: to run for her life carrying four belts in her
Speaker 1: eye heels. Ah, she run, I was dying.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. That was way better than the butt
Speaker 1: getting stuck between the middle and bottom rope spot. Then
Speaker 1: we had the real best thing on the show. I
Speaker 1: will hear no arguments will this is a bannable offense.
Speaker 1: Don Challis does a promo and he says that Kyle
Speaker 1: will win the AW title at all in that Don
Speaker 1: Callous family will be at the top of AW And
Speaker 1: then Don said people will say his full name, and
Speaker 1: Don Kellis proceeds to say the name Kyle Fletcher with
Speaker 1: more enthusiasm than I think I've ever said anything on
Speaker 1: this show, and that goes back a long time. He's incredible,
Speaker 1: hurt business promo, the usual. Bobby Lashley gives him a
Speaker 1: thumbs down again. Now MGF has had enough and he
Speaker 1: makes a bald joke. Ashley, maybe some roguain. I can't
Speaker 1: say the second thing he said big bald, and then
Speaker 1: that was a big mistake.
Speaker 2: Brother.
Speaker 1: Bobby bowls him into the corner. He scares the life
Speaker 1: out of him, and he says, we hurt people. If
Speaker 1: you want to impress me, you need to hurt somebody.
Speaker 1: I think I finally figured out where this is going,
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to reveal it yet. Had a
Speaker 1: recap of FTR turning Heel reuniting with Stokely. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear a complaint about this video package either. It was
Speaker 1: very good. Nick Wayne beat Jay lethal and then Christian like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. Well, I mean I
Speaker 1: know what's going on, but they're they're going about it
Speaker 1: in an interesting way. Christian tells him turn around. He
Speaker 1: wraps the belt around his waist, he collapse and then
Speaker 1: he's like rolls his eyes and chuckles and leaves. Nick
Speaker 1: is now on his way to Best of the super Juniors.
Speaker 3: I know nobody else wants this, but give me one
Speaker 3: Christian Jay lethal match, please. I don't care when it is,
Speaker 3: just give it to me at some point.
Speaker 1: Don't think you're getting it, brother, I know so good though,
Speaker 1: both of them. Hang Man and Kyle Fletcher on our
Speaker 1: tournament match, Hangman beat the stuffing out of the sky
Speaker 1: for minutes on and through two commercial breaks. I didn't
Speaker 1: count the moves, but I was not the only one
Speaker 1: because a bunch of people in the chat agree here.
Speaker 1: He beat this guy so bad that after the second
Speaker 1: commercial break, I was certain that that Fletcher was winning
Speaker 1: the match and going on to double or nothing. And
Speaker 1: he kept beating him, and Kyle would hit him move
Speaker 1: and it immediately get countered and killed again. He's bleeding
Speaker 1: all over because of a bump into the dasherboards. He's dead,
Speaker 1: and so finally like Hangman's beat him so vociferously that
Speaker 1: he goes for a buck shot. He gets one low blow,
Speaker 1: one brain buster. Everybody believes Hangman's lost. Hangman kicks out.
Speaker 1: They went nuts. Kyle hits the running boot, tries the
Speaker 1: corner brainbuster, but he gets knocked off buck shot off
Speaker 1: the top, buck shot out of the off the apron
Speaker 1: pins him and excellent main event. Hangman looked like, I mean,
Speaker 1: when this match was, it's Hangman and will Ospray at
Speaker 1: double or nothing. One of these men, I bet you
Speaker 1: dollars to donuts. One of these men is beating John
Speaker 1: Moxley for that title at all in. And when this
Speaker 1: match ended, I was like, I don't know which one
Speaker 1: would be a better choice, because will Ospray is like,
Speaker 1: he's so over, he's so great, But man, this Hangman,
Speaker 1: he's so over and he's so great, and he's also
Speaker 1: an aw original, which when this whole story's first started
Speaker 1: with Moxley, it was clear that was what the ending
Speaker 1: was supposed to be. It's very much shifted now that
Speaker 1: Darby's climbing the mountain and everything like that. But we'll see,
Speaker 1: we will see, and there's already look fifty to fifty
Speaker 1: in the chat of who should win. Back in the
Speaker 1: moment it was ever Live, you.
Speaker 2: Were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and
Speaker 2: Mike simper Vivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: Started blocking some folks on Twitter. Oh finally, I just
Speaker 1: I used to mute them, but h but then I realize,
Speaker 1: you know what, they're not learning their lesson? No exactly,
Speaker 1: I don't want to see your tweet and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help you understand that, Like, there's better
Speaker 1: things to do with your life then troll people on Twitter,
Speaker 1: so you co troll somebody.
Speaker 3: Else a life, It would be one good thing. Go
Speaker 3: out and meet another human being, preferably one of whatever
Speaker 3: you like to do. You know, find somebody and you know,
Speaker 3: go somewhere, see something, do something, open, expand your horizons.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of life out there that you could
Speaker 3: be living. But instead you jump on YouTube, you jump
Speaker 3: on Twitter and all these other places, and you you're
Speaker 3: trolling Brian and why for what about wrestling? Like that
Speaker 3: really is what gives you satisfaction in life? Is just bitching, moaning, comm.
Speaker 1: No, it doesn't give him any satisfaction. Sorry, Dom, he
Speaker 1: did it again.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, but seriously, I mean honestly that this is
Speaker 3: what you do for fun, Like.
Speaker 1: It's what they do for fun. It's it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's an illness, is what it is. It's not what
Speaker 1: they do for fun. They don't have fun. That's the problem.
Speaker 3: You don't have fun.
Speaker 1: Hey know what I'm gonna do right now, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go have lunch. I got some eggs.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, eggs, yep. I know somebody could make those little
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Speaker 1: Cheese, some almonds, a little bit of whole milk almonds. Yeah,
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