WEBVTT - Shark Cage/Ric Flair News 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.880 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:17.200 let's get it all. How's going everybody? Brian Alvarez here 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:20.320 on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day Monday 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.600 through Friday. Now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well, 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.400 it's Wednesday here on this program. You know what that means. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.600 We've got a lot to get into today. A w 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.360 Dynamite coming up tonight. Got some big matches kid for 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.120 that show. Apparently it's Shark Week. We've got a shark 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:44.720 cage where the Jericho Appreciation Society will be spending. Is 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.199 it one giant shark cage? Is it multiple small shark cages? 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.199 Are we gonna jam a bunch of them into a 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.920 four foot five five ft box? What are we gonna 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.560 do here? Tonight? We'll find out what is they barbed 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.720 wire death match Eddie Kingston and Chris Jericho. There will 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.679 be blood tonight. So you don't like that, I don't 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:09.360 know what to tell you. There's gonna be blood tonight 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:11.360 and a bunch of other matches as well, which we 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.720 will get into We've also got some notes on Rick 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.720 Flair and of course having his last match, but he's 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:23.200 also the interview talking about being removed from the w 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.279 w E Open and then being put back in, which 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.039 is interesting, probably not for the reasons that you're thinking 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.640 what I'll talk to you about that. Today. We've got 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.240 the raw ratings from Monday night. Rod did much better 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.240 than expected, going head to head with the home run 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:45.000 derby a shockingly good number and as it pertains w 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:50.800 W and shocking that n x T Women's Battle Royal. 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.000 It's not gonna win a single vote for Match of 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.000 the Year, don't get me wrong, but that was so 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.240 much better than I expected it to be, and we 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:05.640 had a surprise winner and the crowd loved it and 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.880 nobody got hurt, which is the most important thing. So 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:10.239 we'll tell you about that as well as the n 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:12.560 x T two point out review today, So a lot 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.079 to get into. You can Texas four to five seven 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.920 zero seven five six six back in a moment with 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:44.120 more Wrestling Observer Live back in the show. Bran Elbert 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:48.800 is here Wrestling Observer Live, MAXI for bb also Wrestling Observer, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:50.200 and we got a lot of news to get into 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:54.120 here today. But I am gonna start with a note 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.240 on n x T two point out. I realized I 0:02:57.320 --> 0:02:59.399 say it's my favorite show, It's really not my favorite show. 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.000 But I think it's are to say that I enjoy 0:03:01.040 --> 0:03:04.200 the show more than most. Would that be fair? I 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:09.800 think I enjoy the show more than most. But listen, Okay, 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:14.400 there's there's there's being a gimmick, and there's being honest. Okay, 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.079 And I don't want to hear anybody try to tell 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.680 me that that Battle Royal was bad? Okay? Was it 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.760 the match of the year? Absolutely not. You know what, 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.760 I've been ridiculing the idea of this Battle Royal for 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:28.800 a week now. Okay, there's absolutely no reason that this 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.280 thing should be any good at all. They have a 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.960 whole they have twenty women. Probably i'd have to look 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.640 at the whole lineup, but I mean probably half of 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:41.400 them shouldn't even be on TV right now. And they're 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:45.960 all in a chaotic match, which you really I mean, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:47.600 you could practice to a degree, but it's not like 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.840 practicing a one on one singles match you can choreograph. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.200 I mean, there's there's just things everywhere. It's it's chaotic. 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.720 They have to be thrown over the top rope to 0:03:54.760 --> 0:04:01.680 the floor. This was a recipe, a recipe for quite 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:07.800 frankly a lot of material. Okay, but was it Sarah 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.360 Matto who put this together? Whoever put this together needs 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:17.279 a raise immediately, Okay. So they had twenty one women, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.880 actually because Zoe Start comes out as a surprise number 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.320 twenty one. She hasn't been around since November when she 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.760 tore something in her knee. I can't remember which which 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.800 ligament it was, but she's been out for eight months 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.760 and she comes back as the big surprise final person 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.200 to enter this Battle Royal. So they do this Battle 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:43.880 Royal and it is impossibly booked where the women that 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.440 should not be on TV. I mean they're lifted over 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.000 the top, that they're helped the entire way. They got 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.560 him out of the thing as quickly as possible, and 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:56.760 then all of the women who are capable of doing 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:01.160 a Battle Royal. They had some very clever spots with 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.120 all of the women that could actually competently work this 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.760 Battle Royal. So I'm watching it, I'm going to holy smokes, 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.279 it's like way better than I expected. And then you know, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.440 it comes down to the final four or whatever, and uh, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.400 then we've got we've got Tiffany Stratton and Zoe Stark. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.279 They're the last two in there. And it wasn't perfect. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.159 And the funny thing actually, is it. Tiffany Stratton was 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.880 like an excellent high level gymnast and she's so tired 0:05:28.920 --> 0:05:30.440 she can't do a skin the cat at the end. 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.880 That was something to see. But then she immediately does 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:34.839 a round off two back hand springs into the corner. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:37.599 She could pull that off somehow. But anyway, they're going 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.640 back and forth and they're throwing each other and there 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.360 were some dumb spots, like you know, Wendy che gets 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.560 thrown over the top, but she lands on her own pillow, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.880 but they don't count that as being on the floor, 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:52.240 which I've argued this so many times. It's preposterous. I mean, so, yay, 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:53.400 she gets back in the ring and then she gets 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.240 thrown out again. So Tiffany Stratton, she gets thrown up, 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.760 but only one foot touches. They're doing the you know, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:02.760 back and forth and whatever, and finally she gets tossed 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:07.200 out and Zoe starts and everyone starts cheering She's the winner, 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.599 blah blah blah, and then she's cheering. Just like in 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:15.440 every Battle Royal you see the diabolical Cora j who 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.200 just turned. He'll sneak into the ring and she's down 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.960 in the corner and she's ready to pounce, and I 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.960 was like no, And she runs at Zoe Start and 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.760 Zoe ducks boom and she throws her over the top 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.440 of the floor and eliminates her. It was so good. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.120 And then the fans like going crazy because they like 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.279 saw this miracle Battle Royal and then you know, everyone's 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.680 cheering for Zoe Start and Zoe Starts. She goes her 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.960 and she points at Mandy Rose who's on the whatever, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:45.480 and they point out Mandy Rose and Toxic Attraction are 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.120 the ones that jumped and injured Zoe Stark eight months ago. 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.200 Now Zoe Stark has won this Battle Rose, she gets 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.440 a shot at Manny Rose for the title. I was like, 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.640 what the heck? How did they pull this off? How? 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.599 But I am a man who's only to say I 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.440 was wrong. I was wrong. I thought this was gonna 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.159 be horrible. I was just I was so excited to 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.760 watch this match. I was just I was more giddy 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:11.480 than I am right now. I'm like, oh, man, let's 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.160 see what's gonna happen. I can't just wait to see 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.720 what you'll listen to aone does in this match, and dude, 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.160 they pulled it off. It's like if they would have 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.080 done this Battle Roylla hundred times, I'm not sure any 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.200 of them would have been better than this one. It 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.680 was good. So anyway, that was a main event of 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:28.240 n x T two point oh and they did it 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:33.200 so good for them. I am nothing if not a 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:38.200 fair man. Oh yeah, I am, And I was not 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.760 looking forward to that, but that's a lie. I was 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.080 looking forward to the Battle Royal because I thought it 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.320 was going to be a bunch of knees and elbows 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:50.640 and fist flying backfists in people's faces and a foot 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.240 catching somebody in the nose as they get tossed over 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.560 the top rope. But we didn't get that, and the 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.840 build up to it we only heard from a handful 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.680 of people, the people you would expect to hear from Nikita, 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:06.200 lions Lash Legend, those types of people leading into a 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.920 Tiffany Stratton, So you knew it was going to be 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.440 about the bigger names when it all shook out, and 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:14.280 it was Zoe Stark makes her Redbut and I know 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.280 probably there are people that have their favorites in n 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.440 x D, and Zoe Stark may not be one of them. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.800 I would say, give me anybody on that roster and 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.800 forget about who's got the most w w E potential 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.360 a year to three years down the road. Whatever Vince likes. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:35.120 But I'd argue I put Zoe Stark against anybody else 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:39.520 on that roster for the most part. Yeah, put her 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.080 against Mandy Rose. I'm taking Mandy Rose. Put her against 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:49.880 Cora Jade. I'm taking Zoe Stark, not because Rose Zoe starts. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.920 I'm taking over Mandy Rose, Zoe Stark, I'm taking over 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.600 Cora Jade all over a lot of people right now. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.640 So I don't know she's going to be the perfect 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:03.760 person that actually ends dethroning Mandy Rose, and maybe Roxy 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.240 will have to see. But I like the fact that 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.600 there's another threat to Mandy. And I like the fact 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.560 that Zoe's back because she is good. We're not gonna 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.400 get Eo back. So Zoe the next best thing. I 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.040 don't know, but with her experience level and the fact 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.520 that she can work with everybody, it's a plus for me. Yeah, 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:22.800 I got one of the thing I gotta say about 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.199 this Battle Royal. They We'll talk about the rest of 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:25.920 the news. We'll do the full review of the show later. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:30.160 But what was amazing is they they did simplify a 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.079 lot of things to make sure that nothing went wrong, 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.240 but there were a couple of things that they didn't 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:38.360 idiot proof and and they still managed to pull them off. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.320 That I think was what was the most impressive, because 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.920 they did a spot with Alba Fire and Lash Legend. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.520 Albi Fire goes up, Lash Legends got in power bomb position, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.760 Joe starts as a hurricane Rana on Lash Legend over 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.080 the top rope and they both tumbled to the floor. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.959 If they tried that a hundred times, I'm not sure 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.160 they would hit it times. But and they hit it, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.160 and it was so good. I thought they messed it up. 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.680 Honest to god, I'm like, was that supposed to happen? 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.800 That was exactly what was supposed to happen. And once 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:10.920 it sinks in for a second, it's like, well, that 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.760 spot one perfectly, and it's like it sounds like an 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.160 insult to lash Legend, but let's be honest here, it's 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.239 not her fault. She went out there with no experience whatsoever. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:21.960 And yes, Alba Fire has got a lot of it. 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.720 But it is very difficult to work with somebody, especially 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.719 somebody the size of lash Legend. You know that you're 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.640 not used to throwing around and getting in there and 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.840 in messing with and you're supposed to be doing spots 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:37.319 with that person who's inexperience. It's very difficult. We have 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.400 a w Dynamite tonight, and we have more added to 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.040 this show. We've got the barbed wire death match obviously 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:47.960 Eddie Kingston Chris Jericho with Jericho Appreciation Society suspended above 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:52.199 the ring in a sharp cage. You've got Lucasaurus and 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.440 Christian Cage versus the Varsity Blonde. Brodie king will be 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.480 facing Darby Allen, John Moxley and Wheeler. You to take 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:02.920 on the best Friends. Is it true? I think they 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:05.240 said the best Friends have never lost on Dynamite in 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.000 a tag team match? Is that right? I find that 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.520 hard to believe. That's I could be wrong about that. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:15.080 Jade Cargill, Kiara Hogan and Layla Gray will face Athena 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:18.800 Christad Lander and Willow Nightingale, and we will have the 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:24.040 swerve in our Glory championship celebration. So that is the 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.280 lineup for Dynamite tonight, and I guess we'll find out 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:31.120 who the next challengers will be. I'd presume for swerving 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.599 our glory because something. I mean, maybe those come on 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.920 and celebrate. That'd be new. They celebrate they dropped the 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.360 comfetti in the balloons. They go, we did it, and 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.679 then they go to the back. Then we go to 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:47.880 another segment. Oh yeah, confetti skeptical. That's that's exactly what's 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:52.720 gonna happen right there. Hey, Brian, are you now Comfy Kingston? 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:59.160 Are you stealing that nickname from Wendy chu That. Yes, 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.840 that's because like Kofi Kingston always had the spots in 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:05.040 the Royal Rumble, That's what it was for Wendy Choya. 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.920 Hey have you been tanning? Dude? I've been out in 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.640 the sun NonStop. Is baking outside. I'm not sure if 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:16.040 I mentioned it here on the show, but my daughter 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:19.160 as COVID. My wife has had symptoms for days but 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:22.800 refuses to test positive. So we're just hanging out here 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:26.880 in the sun all day. It's been worse, I can 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:43.280 tell you. Back in a moment Observer Live hack in 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.960 the show. Bright Albert is here wrestling Observer Live. Mike 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:51.760 simper Viv also wrestling Observer at dot com. Do you 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:58.280 remember a long time ago Stephanie McMahon was doing some 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.080 something and she made the comment, I don't remember what 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.720 the comment was. It was something like charity work is 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.880 uh the new marketing or whatever you whatever, something like 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:15.079 that new ad. Yeah, can you remember exactly what she said? 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:17.400 Someone find it for me and put it here on 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:22.520 the chat, because yeah, that was that was an interesting statement. 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:24.960 We don't need charity work, like, you know, to be nice. 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.160 I mean we do to a degree, but mostly it's 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:32.800 for you know, marketing and for publicity. And look, she 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.400 said the quiet part out loud. I mean, let's let's 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.800 be honest about this. Yes, anybody, any major corporation it 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.200 does charity. They have more money at their disposal to 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.319 give out, to donate, to do things with. But every 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.120 single last one of them. That's why every single ribbon 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.040 has got a color attached to it. There is a 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:55.320 marketing campaign attached to charity and depending on the size 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.000 of it, like a Susan G. Coleman, and depending on 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:00.400 what they do with that money. That's where it starts 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:04.440 to really, you know, come into play on what are 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.000 you really doing this for? But she even though it 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:12.720 was maybe nasty for people to hear, that's that's everything 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:17.120 here is, every single one of them. Philanthropy is the 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:25.680 future of marketing. It's the way brands are going to win. Yeah. Yeah, Hey, Look, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.880 we always talk about the battle for public opinion and 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.400 how you look in the public eye and all that 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.920 sort of stuff. I mean, we see it on Twitter 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.760 every day with companies making the right choice wrong choice 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.840 on how to advertise or how to celebrate something or 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.560 how to my point is, I always thought that philanthropy 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.440 should kind of just be about philanthropy, you know what 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.720 I mean, really is That's what I mean. But here's 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.520 my point. The first place you actually have a point. Yeah, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.880 what you got? Well? Rick Flair says he met with 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.200 Vince McMahon because there's nobody he was more charitable you Ane, 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.920 can I finish? Rick Flair said he met with Vince 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:06.440 McMahon recently and thanked him for putting his woo back 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.520 into the w w E signature opening. It had been 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.600 removed from the video last September following the airing of 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:16.120 a Dark Side of the Ring episode on Playing or 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.160 two twos Playing Right from Hell two weeks ago, the 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.240 WOU was added back again. Flair spoke about what this 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.880 meant to him on Tuesday's edition of Busted Open Radio. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.680 He also mentioned having visited with McMahon on Monday when 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.360 w w E was in Tampa. I went and saw 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.880 Vince yesterday to personally thank him because they were in Tampa. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.880 Flair said, it made me feel like my world had 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.440 changed again. It made me feel a lot better than 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.040 when they took me off. I can tell you that 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.920 everything Vince McMahon has ever said to me is in 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:49.080 in his entire life, has come true. And he said, quote, 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:52.840 I promise that I will put you back on it. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.640 So when he took him out, he took him out 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:04.120 soul Lee because of the controversy controversy and not because 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.400 of any like. You know, he shouldn't be in here. 0:16:06.960 --> 0:16:09.880 What he did was wrong. We should remove him. It 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.280 was all, well, we're gonna take him out because you 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.720 know people are mad, so we'll take him out. But 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:17.320 I'm gonna promise him at the time, don't worry, I'll 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:23.320 put you back in whatever of course he did. So anyway, 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.240 you wasted our time with that. I didn't waste everyone's time. 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.360 I'm pointing out the way this company operated. How does 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.160 this tied end with Stephanie by the way, Well, when 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.040 he comes to legitimate giving money to charity, you know, 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:36.360 they do their good deeds, but they do their good 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.360 deeds because it's good marketing. And uh, he did his 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.360 good deed of taking Flair out while promising him don't worry, 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:44.640 I'll put you back in. I'm only taking you out 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.360 because you know, other people are mad about it. Look 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:48.800 how people will donate to go fund means and things 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.200 like that. Some people don't donate anonymously. Some people have 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:56.040 got to have their name there. Thank you. I'm pointing 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.600 out that all of these things are performative. Thank you, dude. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.640 Come on, what that's a revelation now all of a 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.040 sudden that everything that a revelation for everybody I said 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.000 for that matter is performance art. I mean every corporation 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.480 does this there, that's all performance art in the same 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.000 w W is just an extra special layer of it. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.040 And to do anything with Rick Flair, who was so 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:24.480 his his professional career was placed into question, into his 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:30.200 mind when Vince took him out of the opening, spend 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:35.760 more time with your family, folks. It is important for 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.560 him to be in the opening. It is it is 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.359 very important for Ricky. And you know what opening. I 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:41.720 can't even tell you one of the person in it 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:43.520 right now except Rick Flair because he just mentioned it. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:47.760 Probably girl a monsoon, I mean, and that's still in there. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.000 Possibly possibly unless they throw a fit and take him 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.240 out for some reason or something like that. I mean, 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:58.320 my god, it's just it's it's craziness to me, it's crazy. 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:02.359 This is all crazy. Rick Flair his nuts, absolutely bat 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.800 s nuts. Well, yeah, now you're talking talking about revelations. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:12.320 I know, I know, Raw against the Home Run at 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:18.280 Derby one point seven seven million viewers point four six 0:18:19.119 --> 0:18:23.800 at eight to forty nine. This is a shockingly good number. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.040 Why did they take Rick Flair out in the first place. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.960 You want to remind everybody that because of the plane 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.679 ride from hell or whatever is swinging around on the 0:18:31.760 --> 0:18:34.240 plane and the how do we get back to this 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.560 allegations made by that woman? I well, you know, Vincent, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.040 Rick probably had a lot to talk about. And look, 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.000 Rick Flair probably is absolutely telling the truth. When he 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.400 says Vince has never lied to him, because to Rick, 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:48.359 when Vince said I'm gonna pay your taxes for you, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.359 and he did it. And there's lots of things where, 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.879 you know what, I'm not throwing shade on Ric Flair for, 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.760 you know, saying that Vince has always kept his word 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:58.720 to him. I can absolutely believe that. It's just look 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:00.760 at the two people who are in on the conversation. 0:19:00.880 --> 0:19:03.879 What good guys. Well, anyway, these ratings, and I was 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.800 talking about here, the show against the Home Run Derby 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.560 did a good good number one point seven eight million, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.280 first hour one point eight one million, third hour one 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.119 point seven million. In the third hour. You know that means? 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.800 What's that mean? I hate to tell you this Austin 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.760 theory people want to see. It absolutely had nothing to 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:25.960 do with Austin theory. But people tuned in to see 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:30.600 Logan Paul Oh come on, no, they did. I'm positive, 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.520 Oh man, that was that was an incredibly strong third hour. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:38.080 That's what I want to see. I don't know if 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.040 I believe this. Now we know what I watched a show, brother, 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.400 and it wasn't because anything else in that hour, I'm 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.720 telling you, do you think people actually stayed at the 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:46.320 very end of it with those two going back and 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.080 forth with each other. Well, if it did one point 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.600 seven oh million, yeah, I don't know. Bro. The show 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:53.719 open at one point seven eight million, they ended at 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:58.120 one point seven oh million, so they lost virtually nobody 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.800 during the show and gained people in the second hour. 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:05.680 So that's that's a that's a shockingly good number for raw. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.880 But they didn't stick around for missing mrs this time. 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.720 I guess in mass like they usually do. Well, you know, 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:14.480 they've seen one sleb, they've seen miss once. How many 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.120 times we need to see that guy during the day, 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.920 I'll tell you how many zero, but we're forced to 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:24.760 see him at least once. Oh. Home Run Derby six 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.400 point oh two million viewers, So don't think that shouldn't 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:31.000 have taken a chunk out of this one point seven 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:35.760 two and eighteen and forty nine on ESPN Kid Loves 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.480 the Big Bats pre show for Home Run Derby, the 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.440 pre show the pre show for the Home Run Derby 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:47.280 four million viewers and a one point one three And 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:50.639 they did a Derek Jeter documentary which did one point 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.359 eight four million at a point five seven. So the 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.720 Derek Jeter documentary beat Raw in viewership and eighteen forty. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.000 Maybe they need to bring that guy in. Maybe he 0:21:01.040 --> 0:21:05.000 needs to do a seleb match coming up here at SummerSlam. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.760 I'm sure he'll be first in line to do that. Well, 0:21:07.800 --> 0:21:13.919 you know, money talks, brother John Kroc, you know. So 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:18.760 there you go. I'm saving my full n x T 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:23.520 review for the next segment. It wasn't all perfect, though 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:25.720 it was. The thing was not like the Battle Royal. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.600 I didn't I didn't say that at all. No, I 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:29.479 didn't say that. You said that. I'm just saying that 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.879 to the people that they believe that you may have 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.480 said that earlier, even though you didn't say that. People 0:21:34.560 --> 0:21:37.720 people don't ever misquote me. Amos Here says I'm in 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:39.520 the same boat as you. Brian expected the n XT 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:42.639 Female Battle Royal to be a car crash, which he 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:45.320 wrote in one word in all caps. But I ended 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:48.359 up being just fine, in fact, enjoyable. The finish was 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.560 smart despite the usual w W E trope finish. Cora 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.880 Jade got hers in the end. She sure did, Yeah, 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.600 she sure did. She got dumped over the top of 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.200 rope like she dumped those tag belts into the garbage age. 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:03.520 They have to just be getting rid of the tag titles. 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:05.600 Let's hope. So, I mean, there's no there's no other 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.680 reason to crown new champions, break them up a week 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.960 later and then have one half of the champions throw 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:15.080 her belt in the garbage can Sasha Banks And if 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:18.760 the plan is to keep the belts, oh, Man, Yeah, 0:22:18.760 --> 0:22:21.800 I don't think. I don't think Sasha is going in 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:25.119 x T tell you that much. You see those cheese 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:28.159 I can report Sasha Banks not going to n x T, 0:22:28.400 --> 0:22:31.240 as reported by Brian Alvarez. Man, I think that's the 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:34.399 true one. But you see the cheese crisps in the 0:22:34.520 --> 0:22:36.800 trash can there? Do you ever have those? Do you 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:40.000 ever have the it's just cheese that they hide rate 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.359 And it literally is taste like you chopped off a 0:22:43.400 --> 0:22:45.720 block of cheese and just put it in your mouth. 0:22:45.800 --> 0:22:48.280