WEBVTT - 2 x WWE PPV/Lacey Evans 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:16.240 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.120 You are listening to Wrestling Observer of VIBE with your 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:25.079 hosts Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper vv Ready are you ready? 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:31.240 Let's get it all? How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.280 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:37.720 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern Sunday, three Pacific, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.599 sixth Eastern Friday. Here in the program. You know that 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:44.960 means we have got a lot to talk about here today, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:49.040 the least of which is the ratings for Dynamite. We 0:00:49.120 --> 0:00:51.720 got some minute by minute notes on the m j 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.800 F deal to w w E pay per views coming 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.480 up this weekend. If you're a fan of n x 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.000 T two point oh or at this point Raw, because 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:03.960 we have no SmackDown matches so far for Hell in 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:07.160 the Cell, I'll tell you about all of those here today. 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.520 The latest on Lacey Evans, which I laughed uproariously about, 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.199 but stuff happened in New Japan. Best of the Super 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:16.440 Junior Finals. We've got some returns. We can talk to 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.919 you about that today, update on Jeff Hardy and UH 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.240 and much much more. In the final segment of the show, 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:27.199 Nick Elvis is going to join us here today and uh. 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:29.120 We'll talk about the n w A a lot of 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.759 other stuff as well, and it's going to be fun. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.800 I'm gonna do my best. I don't know if you 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.440 can hear or not, but I'm pretty congested. I actually 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.960 feel way better than I felt yesterday. But my uh, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:45.160 my head is full of gunk. Been coughing a little bit, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.880 so I'm not at my best, but damn and I'm 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.200 here and ready to go. So if you want to 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.880 contact us four to five seven eight zero seven five 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.920 six six, help carry this show. Four to five seven 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.960 eight zero seven five six six. Brian and Wrestling Observed 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.559 dot Com at Brian Alvarez on a Twitter and also 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.440 at w Online on cameo. I got nothing to do, 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.679 so if you want a cameo, and that would be 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.880 a great time to do it. But Mike Semper viv 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.040 M He's gonna join us after the break and we'll 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:19.400 talk all of the news and UH and get into 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.120 all of this so stick around everybody. We're back here 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.160 in a couple of moments. I'm gonna take a quick 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.760 commercial break because I'm gonna hear that music at any 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:58.920 moment here on Wrestling Observer Live. Mkay, you were listening 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.120 to Wrestling Observe We Live with Brian Albarez and Mike 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:08.120 Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network making the show. 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.760 Bran Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike samper Viv 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.239 also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yes, for those of you asking, 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.679 I feel much better than I sound. Actually sound the 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.079 worst so far, but I feel the best so far. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.120 So I don't know what to make of that. But 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.960 you're almost over the hump, that's what that means. I 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:32.080 sure hope. So yesterday was actually uh, I was, I was. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.840 I had a low fever, thank god, I was so 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.120 hot all day and I'm stuck here in this room 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.160 and for once in my life, like it's been nothing 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:45.000 but cold since the beginning of the year, and then 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:46.520 of course on the one day that I want to 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.520 open the window for some air, it's like in the seventies. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.160 So I'm just baking, which is why you heard frogs 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.520 last night. I left the window open during the The 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.800 Brinon VNI Show. But I'm gonna come back trail, everybody. 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.320 I Am on the comeback trail. Rally back. It's the weekend. Brother. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.520 Oh yeah, I'm rolling back to two w w E 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:15.160 pay per views. Well, uh well, um, your wife will 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.680 be happy, you feel better. So if you can take 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.479 some of the pressure off the kids you know dealing 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.279 with that. Wednesday is Double or Nothing Fallout episode of Dynamite, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.400 nine and sixty nine thousand viewers on TBS, up four 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:28.960 point three percent from last week, best audience for the 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:32.880 show since April eighteen forty nine. Dynamite finished second with 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.200 a point four oh, which was up fourteen point three 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:39.040 percent from last week, Dynamite's best number in the demo 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:42.479 since March three. Bunch of other notes right here, But 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.400 I know what everyone's asking about. You're all asking about 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.839 m JF. And uh First, we had the quarter hours 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.480 yesterday and if you guys saw the quarters we talked 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.159 about it. I think on the Brighton Viny show, I 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.279 do tell these shows. But what happened was the MJF 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:02.119 promo was split over two seconds and the first two 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:05.719 thirds was in one segment and the final one third 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.119 and my math is correct, was in the next segment. Okay, 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:14.960 So the segment that contained it two thirds of his 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:19.000 interview was by far the highest rated thing on the show. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.920 This segment that continue that contained the second half or 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:28.279 the second third of his promo plunged down, ended up 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.359 being the lowest rated thing on the show, the least viewed. 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.279 So two thirds was in the most viewed, one third 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.360 was in the least viewed. Okay. So of course, you know, 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:44.480 it's the Internet, and everybody has their everybody has their 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:49.600 side whether this was good or bad or whatever, so everybody, 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.120 you know, people were using that to prove it didn't 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.120 work and everything like that. So what we were waiting for, 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:59.320 obviously was the minute by minute numbers, which Brandon Thurston 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:03.200 released yesterday. We have them, and what happened, which is 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:07.480 actually what I figured would happen. The entire MGF promo 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.920 was the most watched thing on the show by far, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.080 from beginning to end. Okay, as soon as he called it, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.520 Tony Khan, whatever he called him, because for most people 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.479 it was bleeped as soon as they went to the 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:24.800 commercial break. That's when everybody tuned out and if you've 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.600 if you've ever paid any attention to the quarters, if 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.560 you do a segment that has two commercials in that segment, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.920 which that segment did. They went to commercial, and they 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:36.680 came back and they did some stuff, and then they 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.919 started to match in the match went to commercial for 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.400 picture and picture. There were two commercial breaks during that segment. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:44.920 You are not going to have a quarter with two 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.320 commercial segments that is not going to absolutely fall off 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.800 a cliff, which is what happened. So if you want 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.080 a place to blame on MGF, I'm sorry to tell 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.680 you that his promo was the most watched thing on 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.800 the entire show. Now, of course people are gonna argue, well, 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.159 you know everyone turned it to now it afterwards. Well, 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.159 you can make whatever argument you want. The reality is, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.160 we have no idea if this is gonna work or not. 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.920 It just happened. I mean, it doesn't matter what the 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.720 promo is, doesn't matter what the angle is. Nobody knows 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.600 how something is going to work until they do the 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.800 follow up and they do whatever they're going to do. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:24.240 So you're welcome to make all of your predictions and 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.080 whether it's going to be like the greatest thing ever. 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.400 Everyone's gonna tune in next week to find out what happened, 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.400 or oh they're gonna run off all these fans. People 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:35.200 don't want to watch. Whatever your theory is, we don't know. 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:39.480 We're going to find out based on the follow up starting. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.400 I mean maybe a little bit with a rampage, but 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.120 my guess is next week on Dynamite. So those are 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:48.400 the numbers, and you can do with those what you 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.360 will if you want to, but I would recommend against it. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.880 Have you survived the slings and arrows over the last 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.640 couple of days of being called out of touch or 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.400 old or a contrarian that every anybody else like that 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.280 promo except for you, Brian Alvarez, You're just doing this 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.840 on purpose? Bro? I what has every even time if 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.960 anyone said that they're an idiot? But I've dealt with 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.720 that a lot of late dude, I said, like, his 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:16.200 delivery of that promo was phenomenal, It's absolutely fantastic. But 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:18.960 if you're gonna sit here and pretend like there is 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.640 no risk here, if you're gonna sit here and pretend 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.680 that him trying to cut a full heel promo and 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.520 getting cheered is not the promo. You can do that 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.560 if you want, Like, that's fine, you can do that, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:34.040 but it's what happened, so we'll see what happens. But yeah, 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.520 his delivery was phenomenal. I never said eathing negative at 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:40.000 all about his delivery. He has probably the best delivery 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.800 of anybody in all of wrestling when it comes to 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:45.719 cutting promos. But don't act like there's no possibility that 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.240 something could go wrong here, like well, virtually every other 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:52.240 time that's ever happened, it hasn't worked. But this time, man, Brian, 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:54.960 if you think it's it's not gonna be a home run, 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.600 you're old and out of touch. Well that's foolishness. It's 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.880 almost these people are foolish. So who cares? You hate fun? 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:09.400 I don't. Oh man, it's almost the weekend, though, We're 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.280 almost done with this for now. Get social media at 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.400 all until you start doing your your full review in 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:17.719 time of the n x T pay per view or 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:21.040 pay per view special live premium event coming up on Peacock, 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.760 which I know you're excited for. Bro. I never said 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.400 it wasn't entertaining. What is wrong with people? Honestly? What 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.720 is wrong with people? To grow on Observer Live yesterday, 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.280 the first segment of the show. I don't think I 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:39.600 could have possibly been more fair and given like both 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:42.280 sides of this, I don't think I could have possibly 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.480 been more fair. But what happens is because everyone has 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.640 to choose sides, you only hear the details what you 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:53.240 want to irritating m and Bro. You guys are gonna 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.480 argue that Wardlow wasn't like overshadowed by this. It's even 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.840 really gonna argue that that's the only one to me, 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.600 that's the hilarious one to me is that the Wardlow 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.640 did not come out of this looking, you know, the 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:07.960 way he should be that next night, and coming out 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.520 of this and having somebody who, look, if you're gonna 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.280 power Obama guy ten times, you're gonna kill him dead, 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.560 You're gonna put him out on a stretcher, like you know, 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:18.640 he may want to sell something the next day. If 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.240 this was w W E, those same people would be, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.240 you know, bitching and moaning and complaining that this person 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.400 didn't do this, and it's like it's just crazy and 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.719 and to make the excuse while you would would w 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.840 W does this is that what you want to do 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:33.680 is that what you want to be? Was it the 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.920 whole point of a W starting up to not do 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.640 what WW does and drives people nuts and actually have uh, 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:46.199 forget it. Lacey Evans is uh probably gonna debut on 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:53.640 I shouldn't say debut. Plans change, Brian plans change, No, no, no, yes, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.679 Lacy Evans is actually at SmackDown right now. I don't 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:58.120 know if she'll be on the show, but she's there. 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:02.400 And uh, I recall she was on SmackDown and then 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.440 she was moved to Raw, and then she was announced 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.880 his debuting on Raw, and then she didn't debut on Raw, 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.719 and now she has been moved to SmackDown. I am 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.319 always the bad guy when it's so patently obvious they 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.000 have no idea what they're doing ever. So anyway, now 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.680 she's back on SmackDown, and uh, you know, I guess 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.000 we'll see what they do. I'm not even but even 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.480 bother speculating. I mean, maybe she'll be a heel, maybe 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.360 she'll be a baby face. At this point, who cares. 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:38.319 I mean, I got really mad one day, but like 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:40.679 that's a great thing about having a show like this 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:42.760 is I can get really mad about something and then 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.160 I just don't care anymore. It's actually great. Get it 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.679 all out of your system and then that's that. So 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:53.640 she'll be on SmackDown. Probably is the heel because you know, 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.800 why not, why not listen lit waste five weeks of 0:11:56.880 --> 0:12:01.840 absolutely incredible videos to just have her be a heel. Yeah, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.040 I was. I was reading more about the MGF and 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.720 the cee him Punk thing, and uh as amazing. You 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:10.880 know how many people said, Briant, There's just no way 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:14.000 that pipe bomb was supposed to be a heel promo. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:19.600 I mean, the next show was in Chicago. It's like, guys, hello, 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:25.080 wake up. You think, oh my god, have we not 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.719 had decades of history that oh my god? But there's hey, 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.920 look big recent c bias here. You know, it's like, listen, 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.000 w c W did this, but they never had any 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.559 good times, they never had anything successful happen, and it's like, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.360 well they kind of did. C Am Punk. Ce Am 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:43.720 Punk said it was designed to be a hell promo. 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.880 Listen to the announcers after it happened. Is there trying 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.920 to bury see him Punk and ask why the fans 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.240 are booing him? I mean are cheering him. It's Golee 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.280 helped me back him was something other than that Observer 0:12:55.400 --> 0:13:11.560 Live in the pump time. You were listening to Wrestling 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.240 Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike semperviv on the 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:24.880 Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. I cannot believe sometimes all these 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.920 years and people haven't learned. Don't harass me about what 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.480 to talk about, or I'm not gonna do it. Leave 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.720 me alone, especially when I'm sick. Now, with that said, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.520 I want to mention something about the best of the 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.839 super Juniors, Okay, and I mean listen. To be fair, 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:43.800 I didn't watch any of it. I pulled an m JF. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.760 I'm watching No New Japan, which, by the way, my 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.880 the impression I've been given is that wasn't a heel line. 0:13:52.760 --> 0:14:00.360 Guy hates New Japan. But anyway, he really has taking 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:06.240 all cornuts material, so that may as well get more 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.719 heat while I'm at it. Go ahead, do it, bro 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.640 Haromo won again. Even even Jingo here, who's like a 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.920 huge Japanese pro wrestling mark, even he got it wrong. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.360 This is not Romo's third time winning the Best of 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:26.280 the super Juniors, It's his fourth time since the best 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.320 super junior in the world. I love Harom Okay, I 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.040 love Haro, MO, I love Okada, I love Nighto, I 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.520 love rattle off the list of guys. And granted, yes, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.720 we're in the middle of a pandemic. Yes, it's hard 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.760 to get people in and out of Japan until just 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.880 very recently. But Bro is the same thing when they 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.000 had that big stadium show and it's like, what are 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:50.280 we gonna do for the i W g P title? Okada, Nighto? Bro? 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.160 How many times can I see that match? How many 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:57.640 times can Haroma win the Best of the super Juniors? Like, dude, 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:00.360 there were some talented dudes in that Best of the 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.840 Super Juniors, and I just feel like it's the same 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.440 stuff over and over and over and over and over 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:12.280 and over again. Now hopefully, hopefully this is all about 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:18.680 to swing wildly because now no more quarantine, like we 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.960 can get people from a w We can get people 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.280 like j White is no longer do an impact. He's 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.680 just gonna be back full time doing New Japan. Like, 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.880 you know, we're gonna get a lot of new names 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:32.760 and faces and etcetera in there, But Bro, I need 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.040 something different, Dude. I mean, you know, I have brought 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.680 up Gheto's booking for quite some time, and we've been 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.600 into it over that and I thought there was a 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.080 way and by the way, one thing real quick. It's 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:47.160 not only it's not only the fourth time that Haromo 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.440 has won the Best of the super Juniors, but it 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.840 was the same damn final that we had two years ago. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:59.680 My voice box is falling out. Look fourth. Some of 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:04.360 these folks that are some of the guys that are 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:14.560 coming my voice suck before they're they're just maybe a 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.120 band aid though on some of the things that we 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.600 have been driven nuts about. We'll get some new faces in, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.200 We'll get some familiar faces we haven't seen in some time. 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.840 But some of the booking, a lot of the booking 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.040 that has gone on with Gaetto has not been good. 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.400 Too much reliance on the Bullet Club, which now we 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.640 see another member added to the Bullet Club. Ace Austin 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.640 has now got to be a Bullet Club member because 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:38.200 you need to have a zillion of them. So I 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:42.360 do have concern again, much like the m JF CM 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.160 punk deal within that promote by m JF I'm willing 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.240 to give it some room to breathe, but when it 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.560 comes to New Japan, I'm only going to give it 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.080 so much room to breathe here before they try to 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.560 turn around and make something something happened here because the 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:59.000 house of torture bullet club stuff is way, way, way 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.240 too much. And I know they have wanted for quite 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.800 some time. Horoma, who has talked about for a long time, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.000 I want to be the new Japan I w g 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.399 P Junior heavyweight champion and main event one of the 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:16.280 Dome shows. I hope this is the year because he 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.440 has got to get out of that division, become a heavyweight, 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.800 just get out of there altogether. There's nothing else to accomplish. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.040 And when you watch that tournament, and I know you didn't, 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.360 when you see the names that are there, the new 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.800 names that have come in, like your Wheeler Utos and 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.880 like guys like that, guys who have been there like 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.760 l Phantasmo who has been fantastic, and the fact that 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:39.000 I would argue the best junior heavyweight in the world 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.440 is El Desperado. I mean you have enough guys there 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:46.600 tight Taiji, Issuemory and El Desperado can on their backs 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:51.159 completely run that side of the junior heavyweights. With the 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.880 new names coming in and other people getting built up 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.760 Horomo doesn't need it. So I hope this is gonna 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.119 be it. I'm willing to go to January fourth or 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.320 whatever it is, the six, whatever, the third day is 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.959 going to be and and be all right with it. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:07.840 But like he has got to get out of that division, 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.320 do something in the heavyweight division because somebody's gonna have 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.840 to replace Nato at some point too, because he's being 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.520 held together by tape right now. And I always, you know, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.119 I'm constantly waiting for Haromu to not take his spot 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:22.399 but to kind of slide into it more and we 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.600 see a little less Nato and I. We'll have to 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.040 see how it goes. But you know, New Japan's booking 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.480 just because new guys are coming in. We've talked about it, 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.760 you know, and guys coming back does not automatically make 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.760 things better. The booking has been atrocious for a while. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.320 A couple of returns of the show, Kenta is back. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:47.399 J White kind of promo for the semifinal announced Kent's return. Uh, 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:49.240 he says, I know we're a little shorthanded today. The 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.439 machine Gun Carl Anderson couldn't make it. He's out with 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:54.680 COVID Juice. Robinson couldn't make it either. He's out with 0:18:54.880 --> 0:19:02.600 um Hell, what did he have? I forget Juice Robinson, Yes, right, 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.120 but I do have one surprise, and it was Kent. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:08.960 He has not been around since January five, when he 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:12.119 suffered a dislocated left hip, a broken nose, tending to 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.440 damage to his finger, and severe lacerations to his back 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.680 in that ladder match with Tana Hashi, which I mean, 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:21.639 so that's why he's not gonna be a tournament for 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.240 survival this week. Anybody do not know that was coming, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.080 not that he was gonna get that hurt, but well, 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:28.879 I mean, come on now, you can't look there have 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:30.480 been guys who have done a lot bigger stunts and 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.920 gone through a lot more stuff and actually not been hurt. 0:19:32.960 --> 0:19:35.200 But yeah, but the whole point going in was why 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.240 are these two great wrestlers being put in this garbage match? 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:42.199 Damn near killed poor Kenta. And then also we had 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:46.199 the return of Sonata, who is recovering from a fractured 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:48.520 orbital bone suffered in the New Japan Cup in a 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.879 match with will Osprey, So he is back as well. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.560 It looks fantastic in a suit, doesn't he. We need 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:57.960 some we need some names. Brother, what do you think 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.439 about some folks coming back the times you've seen him? 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:03.280 Because I always disagree with Adam Summers on this on 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:05.480 the Big Audio Nightmare, which you can find it FW 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:09.360 online dot com. I think Sonata has always been missing something. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:11.200 You look at me, you think this is the guy. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.879 Adam Adama argues this, Well, he's a he is a 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:19.400 Sonata supporter, so too. But I mean it's patently obvious 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:23.040 he's missing something. He's missing something, and it's there the 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:25.600 connection and the crowd loves him, but there's a connection 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:27.680 issue somewhere there. And you look at him and it's 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.600 like he you know, im w g P heavyweight champion, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.360 a contender for sure, he can work his ass off. 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.439 You see the matches with him and Zach Saber Jr. 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.200 He's very very good. He just needs something and that's 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.520 another thing. Hopefully the booking can whatever that thing is, 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:43.880 he needs it now because now that he's been out, 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:46.840 he's coming back going after the US title. This is 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:48.640 kind of do or die for him as far as 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:52.520 him ever being a serious, really being a serious threat 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:54.560 to actually win and hold onto the I B g 0:20:54.680 --> 0:21:00.160 P title. My issue with Sonatas and storyline, He's an idiot. 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.399 How many times this guy almost had to win with 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.879 his Dragon Sleeper and he lets go Ofvid to go 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:07.800 miss a moon salt? How many times I've seen that. 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.480 It's like, brother, stop trying to move salt. I don't care. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.080 If you were a big fan of Mudo, you all 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:16.760 lost one and you let go of it and then 0:21:16.760 --> 0:21:19.680 you missed the moon salt, you dummy. Like fifty times 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:24.480 I've seen that spot. He needs a manager like me. 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.480 Oh yeah, he can do the work and I can, 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.440 you know, hack my way through a promo. Yeah. I 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.120 thought it would be really clever to offer cameos while 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:40.200 I was quarantined. Oh that's right. How's that worked out 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:44.080 for you? You should see these cameos I'm doing. Golly, 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.000 is there a mania for cameos? There should be, It's 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:52.280 pretty bad. Matt Hardy explained his brother Jeff was pulled 0:21:52.320 --> 0:21:55.000 from Dynamite this week. Matt hard He said in the 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:57.840 podcast Jeff was almost knocked out very early on in 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.760 the Hearty's match against the Young Bucks. This resulted in 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.800 Jeff being pulled from Dynamite. Matt said, Yeah, I was 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:06.000 happy with the match, especially considering very early on in 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.400 the match, Jeff was almost knocked out, so he got 0:22:08.440 --> 0:22:10.320 hurt pretty bad. That's why he was being pulled from 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.480 the match. In l A. He was kind of running 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:14.680 on fumes going through the match, so he still held 0:22:14.720 --> 0:22:16.159 up his end of the bargain pretty good in the 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.080 grand scheme of things. So listen, and a lot of 0:22:19.080 --> 0:22:20.679 people are upset about the idea that this guy got 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.720 a concussion early on and they kept doing the match. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:27.120 And I don't like that at all. I I do, however, 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.919 often give talent the benefit of the doubt in the 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:35.639 sense that they didn't necessarily know that that that that happened. Like, 0:22:35.680 --> 0:22:37.560 I haven't talked to anybody in the match, so I 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.120 don't know if they knew or not. But like, let 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:43.359 me tell you something about Young Bucks matches. And actually 0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:46.760 it was it was Aj Styles on our on our 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:50.840 show many years ago. I'll never forget this. I was 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:52.560