WEBVTT - Double or Nothing Lineup 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.080 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.360 Live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.720 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:21.960 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervv. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:25.160 Are you ready? Are you ready? 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:26.360 Let's get it off. 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:32.880 How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.400 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.320 three Eastern Sunday three, Pacific six Eastern Saturday Mornings with 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:43.040 Jim Ballely today and Pacific one Eastern Sundays with Andrew 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.159 A Zarian. And it's Sursday here in the show. You 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.680 know that means we got a lot to talk about 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:54.240 here today. Last night was aw Dynamite and we actually 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.680 have two matches now, the finals of the Owen Hard 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.440 Cup announced for the Double or Nothing pay per view 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.279 coming up at the end of the month. So we're 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.400 gonna do the Dynamite Report a little bit later on today, 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.560 tell you everything that happened on the show. Lots going on, 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:12.760 although we have absolutely no idea what's going on next week. 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.800 Because they announced zero matches for next week's Dynamite, but 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:20.360 we do have two matches for Collision, so we'll tell 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.560 you about that. And then of course all of the 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:29.320 rest of the news, including where Mayu Ewatani is going 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.160 we now know. Not really a surprise, I guess, so 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.920 we're I thought there was a chance she might sign 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.400 somewhere in America, but in fact she's going to marry Gold. 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.560 Update on liv Morgan. We know the film that she 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.880 is going to be involved in, and I have some 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.040 more details on that as well. 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That's eight hundred 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.400 four seventy five sixty eight twenty four. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:08.040 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.800 and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:15.760 Already back here in the show, Bryan Elverez here Wrestling 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:17.040 Observer Live. Mike made it. 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:18.200 I'm here. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:18.880 What happened? 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.560 Now Comcast? 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:24.680 I know, but what happened? Obviously there's a problem with Comcast. 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.560 I got home and it's like, nothing is working. Why 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.880 is nothing working? The bill is paid, everything should be working. 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.120 So I call up hold On, let me put you 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.680 on hold. Fifteen minutes later, at three to oh two, 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.719 they got back to me and went, everything should be 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.880 starting up. Now here's your ticket number. Okay, great, Why 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.400 did this happen? Is anybody coming out? Nothing? 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.240 Hold on? Hey, dumb? Is Comcast day an advertiser? 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:50.839 No, they're not. 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.400 Okay, you know they suck, they do. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:54.800 They can kiss my whole rear end. 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.880 Well, you know, I just have a question for everybody, like, 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.560 is anybody listening right now? Does anybody who's listening right 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:05.880 now have Comcast and they've never had a problem? Anybody? 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.279 Well wait, because you know, believe it or not, believe 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:11.200 it or not. And some people would say that this 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:12.960 was a problem, but it really wasn't because it was 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.440 my own fault. You know, when I found out that 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.120 I'd been paying one hundred and fifty dollars a month 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.600 for a landline for the last six years, and I 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.880 ended up you know, getting that axed off my bill. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.840 I mean it was my fault. I mean I had 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.320 the landline. I was using it for the show, and 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:33.160 then one day I found a way to take calls 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:36.080 without a landline, and like I set everything up and 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:39.320 everything like that, and you know, just didn't even think about, Hey, 0:07:39.360 --> 0:07:42.520 maybe I should cancel the landline. But the point is, 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.239 that's not their fault. That was my fault. I don't 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:49.720 think I have ever had a single problem ever I 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.840 got ziply Fiber. I don't think I've ever had a 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.200 single problem with them. It's it's it's crazy. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.600 I'm so jealous. 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:01.280 I had Comcasts sucked, I had Frontier sucked, I had 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.720 Verizon sucked. I mean they all sucked. But I've never 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.160 had a problem with ZIPI ever. 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:13.080 It's crazy they didn't they stopped running fiber. Verizon did. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:17.160 Like is somewhere in like Dover, which is way far 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:17.720 away from. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.160 The home of the Dover Demon. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.320 That's it, well, the monster mile up there, But down 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.160 here in Briscoe County, down here near Sandy Fork, we 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.640 are suffering right now. Although believe it or not, a 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.720 Comcast is better than Mediacom if that tells you anything. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:34.880 Hey, I know that I travel all over, like we 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.760 went to Vegas and like everywhere we go we like 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:41.360 and like where Dave lives. Oh, what's the internet speeds here? 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.200 What's the internet speeds there? God, most of you in 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:47.480 this country, you're an Internet sucks. It's actually it's the 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.200 it's the upload. Most of you don't need the upload 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:54.040 we do. We do this show, but like I get, 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:55.920 I get a thousand, a thousand here, I never have 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.480 any problems. But most places we go you don't get 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.600 anywhere near a thousand an upload, which can cause some problem. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.480 Mine is supposed to be one point five and one. 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.160 That's what I'm paying for with business internet, okay, and 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.400 it's like at best, at best it'll be you know, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.200 seventy five up, which is just like, come on, give 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:20.320 me a break please. Terrible Nah, first world problems. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.199 I know, Well, it's not a first world problem if 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.719 it involves the business you do that goes all over 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:30.120 the world. If you're listening to this anywhere, then I 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.760 don't want you to complain about me complaining about internet speed, 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.760 because otherwise you wouldn't be listening to this. Got it? 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:35.720 Now? 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.800 Want a big offer of congratulations to the former Carmela 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:43.359 and Corey Graves. They will be having a second child 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.960 and she will be giving birth this fall. Their son, Dimitri, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:55.160 born in November of twenty twenty three, So she's done 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:59.079 with WWE. Corey Graves obviously still a commentator for NXT, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.560 so best of luck to them. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:03.319 Absolutely. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:10.920 Mayu Ewatani is going to Marygold. The promotion founded in 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:14.679 twenty twenty four by rossi Ogawa formerly of Stardom, held 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.160 a press conference overnight announcing she had joined. Makes her 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.760 debut at Corkanhall May fourth, three days from now. She 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:25.520 makes her big debut, and she explained she had done 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:29.680 everything she could in Stardom, Goal and Marygold to become 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:33.280 a Grand Slam champion. She wants their world title, their 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:38.160 United National title, their tag team titles, and their Superfly title. 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:42.559 Super Wait a second, you heard a second? The super 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.400 Fly title. Yes, a Flyway title, no. 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:51.360 Superfly Hmmm, that's cool, So there you go. 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:52.960 Shout out to Curtis Mayfield. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:11:00.760 Live Morgan will be starring in Bad Lieutenant Tokyo, was 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:07.600 reported by Deadline and Uh Takashi Iki is the director 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:13.040 and uh The film will be theatrically released in North 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:17.640 America International distribution rights go on sale at the con 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:22.440 Film Festival in France next month. So, uh, you know, 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.520 the thing with this is she announced that she was 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.120 going to be in a in a mad in a 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.120 in a big I think she said a holly whatever 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.960 she said on on raw and then you know, they 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.040 didn't say what it was, and so everybody got talking, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:40.080 and you know, the fans all started talking one thing. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.800 And to be fair, you know, the the rumor in 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:47.640 Hollywood was, you know, it's a big deal for her. 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.680 What that meant, who knows, but you know, this is 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.440 a real director and uh and this is a really 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.320 big deal for her. But everybody appears, especially on our board, 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:05.400 had talked to themselves into she's going to she is 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:07.840 going to be in the Once Upon a Time in 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.680 Hollywood sequel. 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.280 A lot of those people sign with Vivid. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.160 Which, by the way, was funny because like the Once 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:15.719 upon a Time? Have you ever seen Once Upon Time 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:16.280 in Hollywood? 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:17.400 No? 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:22.400 Okay, well go watch it tonight. This movie is freaking awesome. Okay, 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:27.120 but the sequel is not going to be a Hollywood 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.280 blockbuster because it's on Netflix. So I kind of knew 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.800 it wasn't going to be that, and I was I 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:37.840 was told that she was filming out of the country, 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.880 whatever that meant. And now we know she's gonna be 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.959 going to Tokyo and it says it begins production next month. 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:48.920 But I think she's leaving like this week, which is 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.120 why they did that angle on raw Monday. I mean, 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:54.360 I guess maybe she won't, but I think she's already 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:58.560 on her way, so good for her and might be 0:12:58.600 --> 0:12:59.440 gone for a little while. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:03.680 So we still had that deadline article where they really 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:07.280 hyped up the director. And I guess this production company, Neon, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.320 does a lot of good things, and apparently they go 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.240 to Japan a lot to do filming. I don't know 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:15.840 for what reason, if it's tax breaks or scenery, exactly 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.640 what it is, but apparently the director is very well 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:24.160 respected in Lily James, who was that Kevin von Eric's 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:26.560 wife in the Von Eric movie. I don't I'm not 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.040 a big Hollywood person. I think everybody knows that, but 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.720 you know, Lily James is in there too as being, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.640 you know, part of this movie. So I just want 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:38.000 to know, is it actually somehow connected to the old 0:13:38.200 --> 0:13:41.360 bat lieutenant that had Harvey Kaitel in it. That was 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.720 a dark movie. 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:49.240 Alrighty, we've got to wrestling, don't taku coming up? Hell, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:56.079 Fantasmo defend the new Japan TV title, which he just regained, 0:13:56.080 --> 0:14:00.920 by the way, against Takeshta, which is interesting Takesha winning 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.520 that title. Are they gonna beat Takeshta? 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:03.560 No way? 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.120 I guess we'll see. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.920 I'll tell you what if they do El Fantasmo. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:10.920 I mean, it was supposed to be Takesha and Rocky 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:15.200 versus Fantasmo and Jutt on a tag match, but very 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:19.280 recently Fantasmo beat Great o'conn. It was just Tuesday, So 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:21.640 are they really gonna switch the title that quickly? 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.320 Hey, maybe they do some sort of like that and 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.520 maybe well I either that or they go to some 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.920 sort of no contest where then we're going to see 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.920 LP on aw TV at least once. 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.760 Well, the one thing that is important is that they 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:41.200 are also wrestling again on May ninth for the never 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.240 open weight title that Takeshta has, So it's possible they're 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:47.400 just gonna split wins and both will leave with their titles. 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.960 So we got the dog pound steel cage match. Losing 0:14:53.080 --> 0:14:56.280 team leaves Bullet Club with the war Dogs versus House 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:56.800 of Torture. 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.200 And then we know way LP is being to That's crazy. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.640 That's absolutely He's gonna lose to him twice in a row, 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.960 two straight shows. They're wrestling two straight shows. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:09.960 I like him, but let's be honest. You signed Takeshta 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.760 to a new Japan contract. He's one of aw's biggest stars. 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:15.400 I guess you could you could argue that, but I 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.440 mean he's certainly in the top tier mix and he's 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.480 almost I don't want him to I mean, if I'm 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.680 Tony Kahan, I don't think I want him losing to 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.680 El Fantasmo. And again, nothing against El Fantasmo, but where 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.840 they are on the pecking order, I mean, that's kind 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:29.520 of crazy to me. 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.760 Well, the fact is he has two contracts, and whatever 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.520 each side wants from the other side, it's two contracts. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.040 I mean, Well, anyway, we'll talk more about this after 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:41.840 the break ups of her life. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:19.040 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:23.240 and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.480 And the show Brian Elberz here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.960 shember v also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So yes, the 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:33.520 first night as that dog pound steel cage match and 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.480 Hiroshi Tanahashi and Zach Saber Junior and Shingo and showed 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:42.680 Umino and Fantasmo and Takeshta, and then night two's got 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.320 the big go to Callum Newman I w GP World 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:48.360 Heavyweight title match. 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.520 You don't sound enthused about that one. 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.880 That's for the IWGP World Heavyweight Title. Go to versus 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:56.680 Callum Newman. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.720 Well, there was gonna be another guy, but he happened 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.840 to uh not have a contract, and maybe he's in 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:07.040 a route to the United States. I don't know. We 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:08.560 have no idea where Jeff Cobb is. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.919 Then we got Yodasuji and u Ui Mura for the 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:19.280 global title and in several coda as well. So yeah, 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:20.359 you have. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.119 To be two nights. Talk about WrestleMania not having to 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.199 be two nights. This show did not have to be 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:28.040 two nights. And Nu Japan does not have to fall 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.920 into this trap. If they're going to do it, dude 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:34.720 with the Tokyo Dome when you can, but otherwise, my gosh, 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:36.520 don't fall into this habit. 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.400 Like a funk monk. Here goes Goto is winning, you think, 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:44.080 I think there's a decent chance he's gonna beat Callum Newman. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.440 I mean, I could be wrong, nothing against the guy 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.240 or anything like that, but certainly nobody predicted on the 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:54.159 Prediction Show that Goto would face Callum Newman for the 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.520 IWGP heavyweight title at a major Nujapan event in twenty 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.840 twenty five. That didn't happen. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.600 And let's not sleep on the fact that tanahash and 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.919 Zach Saber Junior. I guess this is going to be 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:07.439 the last one between these two is as far as 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.560 the singles match go, which makes me wonder how long 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.480 that match will go too, because if Tamahashi can do 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:16.359 a long match with anybody, you would be Zaxaber Junior. 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.640 But gonna be interesting to see how much they pull out. 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:25.480 So u Valhalla should be back soon? Really is the 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:30.000 husband of Eric, I'm sorry, the wife of Eric? And 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.280 uh well, you know. 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.280 When she was dressed up in that outfit, you couldn't tell. 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:38.080 And they she she gave birth and should be back soon. Now. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:42.879 There was a Chris van Vliet interview with Eric the 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:46.080 Viking Raiders and somebody sent me a clip on Twitter 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:52.560 and it was amazing because he told the story of 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:55.880 how one day they got called up to the main 0:18:55.960 --> 0:19:01.359 roster and they were putting in the videos or whatever 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.320 on the screen or whatever before the show, and he 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:11.200 looks up and he sees Viking experience and he had 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.439 the same reaction. It's so he's funny because like, you know, 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:19.000 this happens with AW, it happens with WWE. I've dealt 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:23.600 with this for decades. The company will do something dumb. 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:29.040 You will point out that it's dumb, the fans will 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.200 jump to the defense of the company and talk about 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:36.800 how it's actually not dumb, and then like later one 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.159 of the wrestlers involved will do an interview and say 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.760 it was really dumb. I can't even tell you how 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:45.760 many times this happened. So anyway, he looks up at 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:50.439 the screen, He's like, oh my god. And so he 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:54.440 goes to Triple H's at ringside and he goes, is 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.800 this a rib or what? And Hunter's looking at his phone. 0:19:57.840 --> 0:20:06.120 He just goes, I wish. He says, if you want 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.359 to talk to Vince, you gotta go talk to Vince. 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:18.280 So Eric and Ivar they go talk to Vince, and 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.919 Vince was like he literally it has to be explained 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:28.240 to him. They go listen Viking Experience. What is a 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.639 Viking experience? It sounds like a ride Disneyland. Hey, go 0:20:32.720 --> 0:20:40.480 on the Viking Experience. Like So, as it turns out, 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:47.800 Vince is a fan of Vikings and there was like 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:51.200 a Viking show that Vince really liked. He likes Vikings 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.320 and so and so literally it's explained that like he'd 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:58.840 been watching the show about Vikings and and somebody you'd 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.000 explained to him, you know, we have a team that 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:02.439 they're Vikings, and he was. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:03.600 Like, what called up? 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:05.920 Because he likes Vikings, that's how that's how they get 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:07.959 called up, I guess. But then you know they got 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.960 to get a name, so uh, I guess. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:12.320 You know. 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.360 He explains it like at the time, Vikings actually were 0:21:15.359 --> 0:21:18.239 like sort of in and so one of the things was, 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.280 you know, they were trying to trademark something involving Vikings, 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:27.280 and like everything was taken and and Eric goes, a 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:32.000 Viking Experience wasn't taken because nobody wanted it. And so 0:21:32.040 --> 0:21:35.840 they're explaining to Vince how stupid this is Viking Experience whatever, 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.080 and and they like had a list of possible names, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.199 and a whole bunch of them involved raiders, and so 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.160 they were like, well, how about the Viking Raiders, And 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.399 so Vince said to him, well, too late in the 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:53.080 day to change it, So you can be the Viking 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:56.960 Experience tonight, because we got that one trademarked, and then 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.240 we'll h we'll figure out that other one later. And 0:22:00.320 --> 0:22:03.160 so out they went, and you know, Vince actually did 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:07.159 the old No Press as Bad Press, you know, because 0:22:07.160 --> 0:22:10.439 that famous Hell in a Cell where the Fiend and 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.640 seth Rawlins had one of the worst matches of all time, 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.320 and Vince watched it and the fans turned a violently 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:19.000 on it, and meanwhile, you know, he fiddled. I just 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:22.520 thought it was so funny. So they were the Viking 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:28.960 Experience for a while there because Vince, Vince had to be. 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.800 It had to be explained to him how stupid a 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:38.800 Viking Experience is as a tag team name. There you go. 0:22:40.160 --> 0:22:43.480 So it ended up with Viking Express. Yet that was 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:44.320 the next one. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:47.400 Right, I think they actually ended up the Viking Raiders, 0:22:48.800 --> 0:22:50.960 and then later they ended up being able because you 0:22:50.960 --> 0:22:53.040 know the time, you know, we talked about this before, 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:55.520 like people like to talk about how it's exactly the same. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:23:00.359 Now they always do this stuff, but like they're the 0:23:00.359 --> 0:23:02.600 war Raiders now you know why they weren't the war 0:23:02.680 --> 0:23:08.080 Raiders before because Vince wouldn't allow the word war It 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:10.439 was too violent for it. This man who wanted to 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.000 do a storyline where Raymistery got his eyeball pulled out. 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:15.800 That's another great story. 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:17.720 By the way, I was gonna say, Alistair Black is 0:23:17.760 --> 0:23:19.680 still selling that after all these years. 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:24.119 Well, it's just funny. Because Vince wanted Vince wanted a match. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.679 There was an eye for an eye, okay, and so 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.679 like he came up with the idea that you know, 0:23:30.720 --> 0:23:33.320