Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, noo Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: six Eastern. Oh my god, I made it here on
Speaker 1: the show today, and a lot to get into. As
Speaker 1: of course it's Monday here on this program. You know
Speaker 1: what that means. We have n x T take Over
Speaker 1: Vengeance Day to talk about here today, my favorite show,
Speaker 1: and uh and a lot happened on that show that
Speaker 1: we've got to get into here today. We've got full
Speaker 1: results of that. Tonight is Monday Night Raw. And if
Speaker 1: you watch the SmackDown show on Friday, they did shoot
Speaker 1: the angle where Sammy Zane jumped attacked Roman Reiins. That is,
Speaker 1: of course setting up Sammy Zane versus Roman Reins in Montreal.
Speaker 1: Roman Rains is the one who actually challenged him for Montreal.
Speaker 1: He said he wanted to have this match in Montreal
Speaker 1: where he could beat this man in front of his friends,
Speaker 1: his family. I think he actually said his child. I
Speaker 1: don't even know Sammy's ain't had a child, but anyway,
Speaker 1: he's gonna beat him down in front of all of
Speaker 1: his friends and family in Montreal. And that, of course
Speaker 1: is the final stop, final pay per view before WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: So not sure we'll see any of them on the
Speaker 1: show here tonight, but we will do a preview of
Speaker 1: the raw show. And we've also got notes on a
Speaker 1: w ring of honor wrestlers pulled from Beyond Wrestling. Gunther
Speaker 1: talks about the Royal Rumble moment with brock Lesner. We
Speaker 1: have got update on Die Jack. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you saw his finger, but it wasn't quite going the
Speaker 1: right way on that pay per view On Saturday night,
Speaker 1: John Moxley announced for the Blood Sport nine show and
Speaker 1: plenty more so stick around back in the moment of
Speaker 1: Deserver Live. I got the show. Bright Albert is here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live. Mike's Amber Viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yes,
Speaker 1: we've not been here for a while. I was gone Friday,
Speaker 1: and then uh and then Mike was gone as well,
Speaker 1: So none you know what's going on? What did you care? Friday?
Speaker 1: I had some things come up, so I did a
Speaker 1: Unfortunately time was a little going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit tight, so I had to do a site only
Speaker 1: show for subscribers. So I apologize to the twitch homies
Speaker 1: and the YouTube subscribers out there, but the boss Man
Speaker 1: is back. Today's Wow. The twitch homies and the YouTube
Speaker 1: subscribers got shafted. Well, it happens. But since I've been gone,
Speaker 1: a lot's happened, hasn't it. Apparently you gotta shall I
Speaker 1: start with Shawn Michael's ut hideous, But let's talk about
Speaker 1: Seawn Michaels. Listen. I like, I like the guy. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's maybe he's telling his version of of the truth.
Speaker 1: But so this weekend I noted that I should find
Speaker 1: the tweet, but I said that n x T was
Speaker 1: going to be allowing talent to work select indies, indy dates,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know then it just kind of exploded
Speaker 1: with everybody doing every possible, uh dream scenario you could
Speaker 1: come up with. Okay, and I mean, if you actually
Speaker 1: read my twitter, I specified that right now it is
Speaker 1: only book or tease reality of wrestling, But if all
Speaker 1: goes well, you know, they would they would be open
Speaker 1: to expanding and you know. Next thing, you know, there's
Speaker 1: a a press conference after the after the n x
Speaker 1: T show, and Sean Michael said this, uh, this Reality
Speaker 1: of Wrestling thing is a one time only deal and
Speaker 1: we will not be having n x T talent working
Speaker 1: with other promotions. So of course I did. It's in
Speaker 1: my timeline. Well, listen to everybody, listen to me. Okay,
Speaker 1: I did not make this up. Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: I can tell you. First off, Ivy Nile this coming
Speaker 1: weekend is working for book Er t S Reality of Wrestling. Now,
Speaker 1: I just want to ask a question. We don't need
Speaker 1: to answer the question. I just have to ask a question.
Speaker 1: If this is a one time only thing, this is
Speaker 1: the only time that is going to happen. You're telling me,
Speaker 1: and absolutely nothing against Ivy Nile. You're telling me that
Speaker 1: Booker T requested Ivy Nile and not Roxanne Perez, the
Speaker 1: n x T Women's champion that he trained, which is
Speaker 1: a storyline all over n XT television. He did not
Speaker 1: request her for this one time only appearance. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's fine. Now, yes, right now, it is just Booker's promotion.
Speaker 1: But there have been a number of other independent groups
Speaker 1: who over the last six months to a year, they
Speaker 1: have been They have been told that, you know, we're
Speaker 1: thinking of doing this, and uh and if this comes
Speaker 1: to fruition, you are you're gonna be one of the
Speaker 1: groups that we would like to work with. Several promotions
Speaker 1: have been told that, so yeah, you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of this year, this may not come to fruition.
Speaker 1: But the idea that this has not been discussed, the
Speaker 1: idea that this is not like a plan that they
Speaker 1: would like to put into motion. It is okay, that's
Speaker 1: just it. People have been talked to about it. Now. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if if this company gets sold in three months, well
Speaker 1: I have no idea what the new owners are gonna
Speaker 1: want to do. I mean, I have no idea about
Speaker 1: any of this. So yeah, you know what, at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, maybe nothing will come of this.
Speaker 1: But this is not a story that I made up.
Speaker 1: Is It's a story that has been discussed they have
Speaker 1: they have thought about and to various promotions about potentially
Speaker 1: doing something and uh and we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 1: you know, don't go nuts with fantasy booking. You know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to see Lord Low against Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: let's not be nutty. Let's use our brain here. Okay,
Speaker 1: like this guy here lh Underscore thirty three ten. I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to see Hank Walker at Bola. Hey, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd love to see old Hank at BOLA. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna happen. I don't think that would
Speaker 1: be one of the indies they've worked with. But I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's use our brain here. Okay. We've had We've
Speaker 1: had Nakamura doing shows, uh you know, great mood as
Speaker 1: one of his final eighty five buy buys. We've had
Speaker 1: Karl l Anderson going to New Japan to drop the
Speaker 1: never open weight title. We've got We've got Rock Sand
Speaker 1: or not Rock Sand. It's at Ivy Nile going to
Speaker 1: Booker's promotion coming up this weekend. I mean, if you
Speaker 1: want to believe there's nothing going on, it's all made up.
Speaker 1: Brian's an idiot. Fine, that's fine, I don't care. But
Speaker 1: I'm telling you what's going on, so you know that's it.
Speaker 1: And why would that be so out of the ordinary
Speaker 1: For people that remember how Hunter's reign started and some
Speaker 1: of the people that he snatched up and some of
Speaker 1: his plans that he had, and you know, there was
Speaker 1: the one there were people that thought n X he
Speaker 1: was too much like old r O H because the
Speaker 1: Roderick Strong and Adam Cole and lots of things like that.
Speaker 1: So he's probably open to it now. Shawn Michaels may
Speaker 1: not be lying either, because as far as he knows,
Speaker 1: Ivy Nile maybe the only person that's being sent over
Speaker 1: right now that he is aware of, who knows who's
Speaker 1: talking to him about what. You know, we just saw
Speaker 1: Beyond and w x W get axed off Peacock. I
Speaker 1: don't know for what reasons, you know that was the case.
Speaker 1: If it's just they don't want to carry the programming,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just why have that up there if
Speaker 1: X amount of people are gonna watch it? I don't
Speaker 1: know what the reasoning is there, you know, that filter
Speaker 1: out and maybe it's it's going to we'll have a
Speaker 1: stop from up top that stops sending talk of this.
Speaker 1: We could, but I think, you know, for a lot
Speaker 1: of people that work there in the era that we're
Speaker 1: in right now, you know, and the fact that there
Speaker 1: are people need to go out on the road, they
Speaker 1: need to intermingle like a W people same way. They
Speaker 1: need to go out and intermingle with people on the indies.
Speaker 1: W W, E and a W need to find indies
Speaker 1: that they're comfortable with, who have the proper rings and
Speaker 1: the proper everything that that they're looking for and to
Speaker 1: be able to send these massive rosters out to get
Speaker 1: some of the much needed experience that they they lack.
Speaker 1: You know, here's another one here. Let me make this
Speaker 1: abundantly clear, because people don't like to listen to my words.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this guy is lying. Okay, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this guy is lying Shawn Michael's but
Speaker 1: oh old Nick con I, Well, Nick con I laughed
Speaker 1: when I saw the headline. Okay, Nick Constant. On Friday,
Speaker 1: he feels a sale of the company will happen quote
Speaker 1: quick and Speculator to Dale may be done within three months. Now.
Speaker 1: This guy knows way more than I do about whether
Speaker 1: or not they're gonna sell, and who they're gonna sell
Speaker 1: to and all that. I want to make it. I
Speaker 1: want to make it clear. I'm not saying the guy's line. Okay,
Speaker 1: but let's go back a couple of months. Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: to the in a Wall Street Journal story said he
Speaker 1: was interested in returning. Do you guys at what happened?
Speaker 1: Immediately after Vince said he was interested in returning, stock
Speaker 1: fell okay, Then shortly thereafter Vince rewarded it, I am
Speaker 1: interested in returning to facilitate a sale. Well, as soon
Speaker 1: as this guy said to facilitate a sale, stock went up.
Speaker 1: And what did I say? I said, They're gonna keep
Speaker 1: this sale thing in the news every month or so.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some statement about how a sale is close.
Speaker 1: Because the fact of the matter is if if investors
Speaker 1: believe that the sale is not imminent, you know what
Speaker 1: happens to the stock price. Stock price starts to go
Speaker 1: down again. What is keeping the stock price high is
Speaker 1: the belief that a sail is coming. And so I
Speaker 1: was like, well, of course he said that every month
Speaker 1: until this thing is sold, Nick con is going to
Speaker 1: do an interview and remind us that this sale is close.
Speaker 1: Because you'll never guess what happened. As soon as he
Speaker 1: said the sale was close, the stock went up again.
Speaker 1: Well anyway, I mean, like I said, I'm gonna saying,
Speaker 1: you know, this thing might be sold in three months,
Speaker 1: exactly like you said, I don't know, But what I
Speaker 1: do know is regardless about close or not close, they
Speaker 1: are to selling every month, he's gonna show up and
Speaker 1: tell us they're close exactly. The speculation is going to
Speaker 1: keep them going right into the time where they start
Speaker 1: shopping around TV rights, and then that's going to be
Speaker 1: another thing. They're going to be overly bullish on to
Speaker 1: the media, backing um up with more Observer Live. Hey,
Speaker 1: you know, yes, no, I grew up a big fan
Speaker 1: of Shaun Michael. Have you ever seen one of my matches?
Speaker 1: Stole all this stuff? And Rick Flair and Brett Hard
Speaker 1: and anyway, I don't want I don't want to. I
Speaker 1: don't want to keep harping on this. But m hm,
Speaker 1: did you guys? Do you guys see the press release
Speaker 1: from book or Tease? Reality of Wrestling? The official press
Speaker 1: release from Reality of Wrestling Book or Tease? Did you
Speaker 1: guys see this press release? Why? I'm gonna read it
Speaker 1: to you, all right, And as I read it to
Speaker 1: I want you to recall that this is a one
Speaker 1: time only thing and there's nothing to this story. It's
Speaker 1: one time only, nothing else. Do it one time. I'm
Speaker 1: going to read this to you verbatim. Reality of Wrestling
Speaker 1: is taking the roster to the next level. We are
Speaker 1: proud to announce that Reality of Wrestling will be working
Speaker 1: with w W E n x T to bring our
Speaker 1: fans incredible match ups they can't see anywhere else, incredible
Speaker 1: matchups they can't see anywhere else. Working with w W
Speaker 1: E n x T. MHM matchups. That's that's like plural, right, Well,
Speaker 1: every time I say every time I add the letter
Speaker 1: S to the end of a word, that does in
Speaker 1: fact mean plural for the most part. Mhm mhm. It's
Speaker 1: interesting nowhere in there that did it say this one time?
Speaker 1: It did not, in fact say that anywhere. I didn't
Speaker 1: want to bring that up because I'm not that kind
Speaker 1: of guy, No, but I could not help the notice
Speaker 1: that nowhere they didn't say this was a one time.
Speaker 1: In fact, in fact, it actually said the exact opposite.
Speaker 1: But who am I to read? All Right? Did you
Speaker 1: guys see that n XT Vengeance Day show? I liked it.
Speaker 1: I did, especially that opener Wesley and die Jack tart
Speaker 1: Up Brother. They had a great match. This crowd, I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it, nerds, this crowd, this was
Speaker 1: a n X t crowd for this particular match. They
Speaker 1: were going crazy for this match, and Wesley got the victory.
Speaker 1: Die Jack broke his finger, actually didn't break. It turns
Speaker 1: out it was dislocated, and then Relo caated. They found
Speaker 1: his original location, which was good for him because it
Speaker 1: was sideways other way. But man, these guys were awesome,
Speaker 1: absolutely great. It actually makes me more upset at the
Speaker 1: stupid character they've given die Jack, because he deserves way
Speaker 1: better than this dumb character. Yes he does, yes, he does.
Speaker 1: Tell you what that was the type of match that
Speaker 1: you know, you figure, Okay, it's gonna go. I don't
Speaker 1: know how long it went, about fifteen minutes. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: open Earth. The crowd will get into it. The crowd
Speaker 1: was into it the entire time. But like watching at home,
Speaker 1: you know, I was wondering how long it was gonna go.
Speaker 1: But as it went on, he got better and better,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was a die Jack one of
Speaker 1: his greatest strengths. And we saw this with Keith Lee,
Speaker 1: we saw this with all of the people that he
Speaker 1: worked with on the indies. He's a lot bigger than
Speaker 1: everybody else, but he was able to adapt the style
Speaker 1: and be able to come up with a style where
Speaker 1: he can still be there do a little flying around,
Speaker 1: you know, especially when he's in there with a Keith Lee.
Speaker 1: But he's the perfect I for guys like Wes Lee
Speaker 1: to do offense on and to to battle with. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a great, great matchup and die Jack
Speaker 1: again he is not being used to his full potential.
Speaker 1: I want to thank up. That's his name. I may
Speaker 1: be pronouncing it incorrectly, but c h st peached. I
Speaker 1: want to thank this person for bringing both A Wee
Speaker 1: Bailey and a Brian's favorite show sign, both of which
Speaker 1: made it on television. Pretty much appreciate that. And Dagan
Speaker 1: here's he's all on me as always? Why is Brian
Speaker 1: tell me to watch n x T all time? I
Speaker 1: watched that made of it wasn't non special? Well, you
Speaker 1: know what, it wasn't much special, But you know what,
Speaker 1: broun Breaker got hurt and hopefully he did not get
Speaker 1: hurt seriously, but he injured his shoulder, and uh once
Speaker 1: once that shoulder got hurt, this thing went downhill rapid lee.
Speaker 1: So things happen. What do you think about your new
Speaker 1: n XT Women's Tag Champs? I'll get to that I'm
Speaker 1: still in the main event here brother and a steel
Speaker 1: cage match braun Breaker one, and afterwards he was he
Speaker 1: was confronted by Carmelo Hayes. Carmelo Hayes will be challenging
Speaker 1: braun Breaker presumably at the next major event. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be TV, but it should be the next major event.
Speaker 1: And they set that up by having Carmelo Hayes and
Speaker 1: Apollo Cruise at the best of three falls match, where
Speaker 1: Apollo Cruise lost two straight falls, including the first fall
Speaker 1: via clean submission. He got tapped out in the first fall,
Speaker 1: and then the former Commander z showed up ended up
Speaker 1: distracting Apollo on accident. Actually Apollo got pinned, and then Zis,
Speaker 1: who was back to being Cato, ended up beating up Apollo.
Speaker 1: So man, we're gonna get that for you. And we
Speaker 1: even for for years that Apollo Cruse Commander AZ's feud,
Speaker 1: and yes, at this moment, my friends, at this moment,
Speaker 1: right now, February six. In the lead in this year's
Speaker 1: prediction contest is Ryan in Cumberland, Maryland, who did in
Speaker 1: fact predict that fallon Henley and Keana James were going
Speaker 1: to team up and win the n x T women's titles.
Speaker 1: That was his prediction, and in fact, in fact, Fallon
Speaker 1: and Kiana teamed up they beat Caden, Carter and Chance.
Speaker 1: You're such a sellout. Why you sold out the spirit
Speaker 1: of the whole thing. You sold out the spirit of
Speaker 1: the whole Mike, do not do not be a walnut brain. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm if you may bringing up the fact because I
Speaker 1: remember what this whole thing was based on. Bold predictions.
Speaker 1: You gotta be bold. You can't talk about this. You
Speaker 1: and everybody knows it. Here take that. You take your
Speaker 1: hand off your face and start talking. It's national radio comorrow.
Speaker 1: If I predict that Roman Reigns is in the main
Speaker 1: event of WrestleMania, okay, that prediction will be right. But
Speaker 1: I'm not going to win unless every single other prediction
Speaker 1: because Brian would have thrown that. I never that person out.
Speaker 1: I never you can go back. I listen to every
Speaker 1: show every year. I will say every now and then,
Speaker 1: not very bold. Not sure if that one's gonna win,
Speaker 1: but I allow it. Now. The chances are unless every
Speaker 1: single solitary person gets their prediction wrong, Ryan isn't going
Speaker 1: to win because he wasn't bold enough. But we gotta
Speaker 1: wait and see. Every year there's three or four in contention,
Speaker 1: and chances are there's gonna be three or four that
Speaker 1: are better than his unbold prediction. And the prediction contest
Speaker 1: doesn't end for eleven more months. Brother, yea the leader
Speaker 1: now you know what? In the lead now means nothing. Nothing.
Speaker 1: He's the hair in the tortoise and the hair. You
Speaker 1: let that go through because you just love Keana James
Speaker 1: and Fallon Henley and now you actually got something that
Speaker 1: deep inside you really wanted. And next Women's Tag Team Champions,
Speaker 1: or at least they're going to hold them until they
Speaker 1: run in to Albi fire God, because you know that's
Speaker 1: where it's going. Hey, you know what, this is a
Speaker 1: good match. Katana and Kaden are a good team. And
Speaker 1: and I thought this was what like, I did not
Speaker 1: have high expectations for this man that would be fine.
Speaker 1: It was. It was much better than I expected. And
Speaker 1: Fallon and Kiana one because Kana James is the greatest
Speaker 1: tag team wrestler in the company by miles. If you
Speaker 1: watch these matches, like, no one is as good at
Speaker 1: tag team wrestling and storyline as Kiana. She's running around
Speaker 1: the ring she's tripping people, she's holding people down, she's
Speaker 1: doing tags, she's holding feet down. She's a she's she's
Speaker 1: a tag team savage is yes, oh my. They got
Speaker 1: to lose the dudes though at some point fall and
Speaker 1: Emily has just got to get rid of that's the
Speaker 1: whole story. Though they can't lose the dudes. The dudes,
Speaker 1: their geeks. It's gonna it's gonna lead a book or
Speaker 1: t saying something that's gonna getting kicked off commentary at
Speaker 1: some point. If it happens, it happens of all teams.
Speaker 1: And I got nothing against him. But we had Chase University,
Speaker 1: who are preposterously over. We have Pretty Deadly who were
Speaker 1: a great act. We have The New Day who are
Speaker 1: probably a maybe even observer Hall of Fame level tag team.
Speaker 1: And Gallus won the four Way. Okay, all right, they're good.
Speaker 1: Were they're a good working team, but they're they're literally
Speaker 1: the Robert Stone. I don't know anything about you except
Speaker 1: you're big and you grunt. Okay, they're the champions. Good,
Speaker 1: but it was not as good as the main event,
Speaker 1: the tag main event three Way on TV this week,
Speaker 1: but it was good still. Andre Chase, I wish they
Speaker 1: would have done give him like a six day rain.
Speaker 1: You know, he's at home, he's in Carolina and everything.
Speaker 1: I think that I thought that would have been a
Speaker 1: cool thing to do. You can have it. You could
Speaker 1: have had Gallos crushed them on the TV show, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's it's just the way I think more.
Speaker 1: After the break, Observer Live again the show. Bright Albert
Speaker 1: is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike sim Purvide also Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer dot com. Rock Sand, g G and j C.
Speaker 1: Story was good, but matches all right. So I think
Speaker 1: everyone knew what was gonna happen because they telegraphed it
Speaker 1: after they did that great verbal battle between g G
Speaker 1: and Jason and then put them back together again. Now
Speaker 1: the story is they got back together, but they actually
Speaker 1: believed everything they said to each other, and so they're
Speaker 1: double teaming Rock Sand. But then of course something goes
Speaker 1: wrong and g G and j C end up splitting
Speaker 1: again brawling. Rock Sand ekes out a victory, and I
Speaker 1: guess will find out what they do because there's two
Speaker 1: things that we do in wrestling. One is a team
Speaker 1: breaks up, they fight each other, they lose, and they're
Speaker 1: broken up the other is, well, let's break up nine
Speaker 1: times before we actually break up. So I guess we'll
Speaker 1: find out on Tuesday. These current status of the whatever
Speaker 1: they were calling Why because when they feud with each other,
Speaker 1: it was much better than them teaming. And I've seen
Speaker 1: them teaming for five years a time. Time. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know. Again, they them as personalities are great. I
Speaker 1: think they would be better off staying as a tag team. Again.
Speaker 1: That's a great example of a group that, hey, can
Speaker 1: you go back out on the piece, you know and
Speaker 1: go and again with j C. Jayne, I don't know
Speaker 1: what her career was before this, g Donlan I do
Speaker 1: with Evolve and all that other stuff. So that's a
Speaker 1: great example of a team that should probably stay together,
Speaker 1: get better together, and continue to move on that way.
Speaker 1: Because is I don't think that's that splits really is
Speaker 1: that really gonna benefit either one of them or anybody
Speaker 1: else are going to be working within singles matches on
Speaker 1: the roster. I think it would benefit them if they
Speaker 1: got an opportunity to cut promos on each other like
Speaker 1: they did a couple of weeks ago, which was the
Speaker 1: best thing they've ever done in ed x T by Miles.
Speaker 1: I again, I why need you to see him against
Speaker 1: Fallon Henley and Keana James. No, do you really need
Speaker 1: to see him against each other? And singles matches slash
Speaker 1: Legend and the other one against Saul Ruca. Well, I'd
Speaker 1: prefer that to seeing yet another toxic attraction tag match
Speaker 1: that I've seen for like three years now. They they
Speaker 1: create great personalities. But as far as like some of
Speaker 1: these women in the ring, you know, it is a
Speaker 1: little ridiculous, dude. To an apparent conflict with the Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor television tapings, three wrestlers have been pulled from
Speaker 1: an upcoming Beyond Wrestling event Wheeler You To, Tracy Williams
Speaker 1: and Trish Adora will not be working the Sunday, February
Speaker 1: twenty sixth event, it has been reported by Fightful Voices
Speaker 1: of Wrestling Ring ab her schedule of TV tapings that weekend,
Speaker 1: willow Ningale was apparently pulled, but now has been unpulled,
Speaker 1: so she will be working the Beyond Wrestling show that weekend.
Speaker 1: Apparently it's a correction. Yeah, she'll be there, all right.
Speaker 1: We had SmackDown Friday where we had the big deal
Speaker 1: at the end of the show where Roman Rains comes
Speaker 1: out and he of course gets attacked by Sammy Zane
Speaker 1: in a hoodie place. Is going crazy for Sammy Zane,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I don't know, dude. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I've come up with a lot of a lot of
Speaker 1: fantasy booking, and I want to make this clear again,
Speaker 1: like I do on every show repeatedly, I'm not fantasy
Speaker 1: booking Sammy and Roman and Jay and everything. I am
Speaker 1: not fantasy booking that from Montreal because I don't think
Speaker 1: Sammy should be in the main event of WrestleMania. I
Speaker 1: am fantasy booking that because I am presuming he's not
Speaker 1: going to be. So with the presumption that Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: and Cody is WrestleMania and Sammy Zane and Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: is Montreal, my booking. My fantasy booking is about how
Speaker 1: do we make both of these work and not get
Speaker 1: Cody booed. Okay, Well, what I can tell you is
Speaker 1: what would not be in my fantasy booking is Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns coming out and cutting a promo and saying I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about Sammy Zane. He doesn't deserve
Speaker 1: a shot at WrestleMania. I want to talk about Cody Rhodes.
Speaker 1: Because when Roman off handedly uh dismissed the idea of
Speaker 1: Sammy Zane in order to talk about Cody, did you
Speaker 1: guys hear what happened? Everybody started booing. You've got to
Speaker 1: avoid that, otherwise they're gonna turn on Cody. Okay, deal
Speaker 1: with one thing, and then afterwards, when you do whatever
Speaker 1: you're gonna do in Montreal to set up the tag
Speaker 1: match in Mania, then deal with the other thing. You
Speaker 1: cannot be doing a you cannot be doing a segment
Speaker 1: built around Sammy Zane and and have Roman dismiss him
Speaker 1: to talk about Cody. It's gonna get the fans angry
Speaker 1: at Cody. So anyway, Sammy attacks him, Roman beats him
Speaker 1: up in run Solo and Jimmy Uso. They beat down
Speaker 1: Sammy and then Roman challenges him for Montreal. And what
Speaker 1: is interesting. What is interesting is that they had another
Speaker 1: match on the show, which was bron Stroman and Ricochet
Speaker 1: defeating Imperium to become the number one contenders for the
Speaker 1: tag team titles. That tag team title match is taking
Speaker 1: place on Friday this Friday, and Jay Usa was not
Speaker 1: on Murraw. He was not on SmackDown. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be on Row tonight. The storyline is where
Speaker 1: is Jay? What is he doing now? What He's just
Speaker 1: gonna show up on Friday? Maybe he will. My guess
Speaker 1: is that Jay isn't going to be there, and that
Speaker 1: Jimmy is going to defend the tag team titles with
Speaker 1: Solo and they will beat broun Stroman and Ricochet, and
Speaker 1: that will carry on this story of where is Jay?
Speaker 1: What is Jay doing? And you know, maybe Jay will
Speaker 1: show up before Montreal. Maybe they'll just hit say and
Speaker 1: he's music and Jay is gonna come out with him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess we're gonna find out, but
Speaker 1: we shall see. And by the way, for those of
Speaker 1: you that keep getting confused, it's Jimmy that cannot go
Speaker 1: to Canada, not j Well, and Jay was not around
Speaker 1: for the house shows, and they did that match with
Speaker 1: Ricochet and braun Stroman against Jimmy and Solo, So that
Speaker 1: probably is the way it's going to go. I think
Speaker 1: the way that you maximize this in my eyes is
Speaker 1: Jay and Montreal is a very conflicted man by the
Speaker 1: time he gets up there to that country, into that province,
Speaker 1: and that would probably be the time if you're going
Speaker 1: to do some evil, if you're jus, that might be
Speaker 1: the time to do it on Sammy. That way, you
Speaker 1: have Kevin Owens to come out, maybe try to help
Speaker 1: make the save, maybe even Cody, but probably just Kevin Owens,
Speaker 1: and they stand strong at the end. And then on
Speaker 1: Monday they're going to stand in solidarity with Cody because
Speaker 1: they hope Cody ripped the Roman's head off. But guess what,
Speaker 1: Jay and Jimmy, we're going to take your titles at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: And I think that's again there's a more charismatic way
Speaker 1: to get there on the microphone, but you know what,
Speaker 1: that's the way I figured it's gonna go. We also
Speaker 1: had a just preposterous I know they're all into uh,
Speaker 1: you know, sponsorship and branding or whatever, but they they
Speaker 1: had a NASCAR deal where Ray and Dominic we're gonna
Speaker 1: race each other. Okay, so they hate each other. They
Speaker 1: had brawls at the house. Dominic got put in prison. Okay, no, Mike,
Speaker 1: he went to he went to prison. He went to
Speaker 1: the big house, not the little house, the big one. Okay.
Speaker 1: So they both just show up to have a pace
Speaker 1: and they're standing next to each other, and of course
Speaker 1: they're totally facing the camera, and they're they're gonna race.
Speaker 1: And then they get into the cars and they've each
Speaker 1: got a you know another driver who probably has their
Speaker 1: own wheel and gas pedal I guess like a you
Speaker 1: know along. So so then they're racing and they might
Speaker 1: come up okay. And so as they're racing, their their
Speaker 1: trash talking each other and you know, Dominic saying like,
Speaker 1: I hope you got my pops a booster seat, stuff
Speaker 1: like that. I'm just watching this going, dude, like I was,
Speaker 1: I was into this feud, but this is so corny, Like,
Speaker 1: not for one second did I watched this and think
Speaker 1: the men hate each other. I thought, this is a
Speaker 1: father and his son who deeply love each other. And
Speaker 1: her trash talking in the bumper cars. I'm just watching
Speaker 1: this thing, going, what is this? Will you stop? And
Speaker 1: then you can? Then they get out of the car
Speaker 1: and then we kind of have a little bit of
Speaker 1: a poll apard and Tom says, I would have won
Speaker 1: if Real is here, because I guess she would have
Speaker 1: been in a car and steering it or something. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, what what are you so surprised about this
Speaker 1: whole thing has been corny and goofy, and yes it's
Speaker 1: been a much better use of dominicing mysterio. But look
Speaker 1: what we've had. We've had a guy go over and
Speaker 1: attack a man up Thanksgiving. They went over to do
Speaker 1: it again his own father on Christmas and they end
Speaker 1: up calling the cops. He gets sent to county. The
Speaker 1: mom slaps the girl. I mean, this whole thing is
Speaker 1: a spectacle anyway. It's going to continue to be this
Speaker 1: way until they actually have to look at these nerves.
Speaker 1: Do you want to do mask versus hair at WrestleMania?
Speaker 1: Is that what we're doing? Between these it was fun?
Speaker 1: They say, well, yeah, that's the problem. How could you
Speaker 1: take the feud seriously? After a fun cornball segment where
Speaker 1: they're playing bumper cars? God, maybe they can go to
Speaker 1: Wild Waves and each go down a water slide and
Speaker 1: race that. Next will make a slipping slide, roll one
Speaker 1: of those out across the Super Bowl field and we'll
Speaker 1: see who can actually like run. No fun allowed, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the bad guy. No fun allowed? Yeah? Why don't
Speaker 1: they do laser tag? Why don't they fight with lightsabers
Speaker 1: while they're at it? Come on, oh man laser Tag
Speaker 1: and get Hector Guerrero back in be Lasertron again. You
Speaker 1: can be the boogie wiggy man Brian like you and Tom.
Speaker 1: It's safe to say this is not the second greatest
Speaker 1: storyline in wrestling. Yeah, it's safe to say that for sure.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't second anyway, because I mean, the
Speaker 1: fur best storyline is the bloodline. The second is uh
Speaker 1: Kiana James and the Virgin Will you stop? And it's all?
Speaker 1: It's all. Everything else is below that Osprey Omega. You know.
Speaker 1: I know. Then we apparently had a SmackDown match with
Speaker 1: Natty shot see Shane and Selena. I guess that hasn't
Speaker 1: I barely remember it. I probably was still thinking about
Speaker 1: that that race. But you know, I gotta say this.
Speaker 1: You know, Natty has been gone for a while and
Speaker 1: and she's in great shape. She is in great shape
Speaker 1: since coming back. I don't know what she's been doing
Speaker 1: in her time off, but she looked great out in
Speaker 1: that Roman rein segment. So that was smack down everybody.
Speaker 1: You know, Today is the Filthy Tom Show, and we
Speaker 1: got a lot to talk about. You ready for this?
Speaker 1: All right? Okay, We've got SmackDown. We have got ah
Speaker 1: is She and Zach Saber Jr. We got a couple
Speaker 1: of starting matches from the pay per view this weekend
Speaker 1: them Why would I be talking about it if I
Speaker 1: hadn't watched it? And then Tom is going to do
Speaker 1: his his audio breakdown of the finish of the Moxley
Speaker 1: Hangman match from Dynamite, which he was very impressed by.
Speaker 1: He was the technical prowess of one John Moxley. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the that's the lineup for Filthy. It will be
Speaker 1: at to thirty Pacific today, five Eastern, so not two o'clock,
Speaker 1: so it's coming up later today. Backing them up with
Speaker 1: mobs Ever Live begging the show right, Albarez here Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live, Mike simber Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tonight's raw as ready, You're ready for Monday Night Raw shows?
Speaker 1: Hours of hotness of Monday Night Raw. Right. Well, you
Speaker 1: know it's been it's heating up lately, so uh and
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't think there's much on this
Speaker 1: week that was not on last week. Again once again
Speaker 1: no football because that's over with basketball. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if Kyrie and there's anything on tonight that's going to
Speaker 1: be a spectacle that way in sports. So unless the
Speaker 1: entertainment world has something to offer, raw may win. When
Speaker 1: when May win the night again? Well, we have got
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch versus Bailey in a steel cage match, which
Speaker 1: better have an appearance by Wee Bailey. They having in
Speaker 1: that a long time. I think that opens the show,
Speaker 1: should main event the show to what happened last I
Speaker 1: put the bloodline on first, but I wonder. I don't
Speaker 1: think the bloodlines on the show, brother, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Then we got really wonder here Carmela, Candice, Piper Niven
Speaker 1: and meetching me a Yim in a chamber qualifier, Dabian
Speaker 1: Priest bras Angelo dockins chamber qualifier, montes Ford versus Lias
Speaker 1: in a chamber of qualified. So, man, I hope they
Speaker 1: could pack all that in in three hours tonight, but
Speaker 1: I gotta pack a lot in at two thirty Pacific
Speaker 1: five thirties with Old Filthy. We got lot to get into,
Speaker 1: including our upcoming match for the tag team titles Black
Speaker 1: Label Pro coming up at the end of March. I
Speaker 1: got a dude, listen, We'll talk about another day. But
Speaker 1: I'm traveling three out of four weekends in March and
Speaker 1: the first weekend of April, and I got February. We'll
Speaker 1: be gone to get in two weeks. I don't know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do all this, but anyway, we gotta go
Speaker 1: back in a moment next time. Observer life. You have
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