WEBVTT - Dynamite Beats RAW/Rampage/MLW Dallas 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:10.360 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:15.400 let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:19.200 Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We're here every day 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:22.439 Monday through Friday, New Psific three Eastern Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:27.120 sixth Eastern. Well, it's Monday here on the show, and 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.200 we got a lot to get into here today. I 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:35.240 have not seen the g c W show, and quite frankly, 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:37.720 the man to talked about this show is Mike semper 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.360 viv was there live. I got the results for you. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.880 I got some notes talking about Nick Wayne. But Mike, 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:48.120 we'll be talking about g c W, and I don't 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.320 know when, honestly, because he's still in the car right now. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.320 Apparently the train that he was going to take was 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.840 thirty minutes late, and so he may or may not 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.320 be appearing on the show today. But either today or 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.760 tomorrow we'll get Mike's thoughts on the g c W 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:06.720 show live. So I'll talk a little bit about it, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.120 but not a lot of details other than who beat 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:12.640 who in some notes, because in fact is noted I 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.560 was not there, but there's a lot of news talk about, 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:19.720 including COVID nineteen. New Japan's canceled all of their events 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:21.319 for the rest of the month as a result of 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:25.360 COVID nineteen protocols w W E operating as if there 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.840 is no COVID nineteen. They no longer test anything of 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:33.880 that note, and they are bringing back n x T Takeover. 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.480 I don't know if they're gonna call it takeover. There's 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.360 gonna be an n x T show over Russel Many weekend, 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:42.000 and the Hall of Fame ceremony is back, so we'll 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.200 tell you about that if you'reterest in going to the 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:48.400 Hall of Fame. More notes from g c W Royal Rumble. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.360 You guys know the Royal Rumbles this weekend. Do you 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.640 know it's Saturday? Apparently a lot of people don't know 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.680 that it is Saturday. We got the full lineup for 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:01.440 the Royal Rumble thus far, plus the participants for both 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.800 matches at this point, and the irony is they don't 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:08.079 got thirty women, but they have more women announced than 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.280 men at this point, so we can talk about that. 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.160 The raw lineup for tonight, the A E W lineup 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.959 for this coming Wednesday, the Beach Break Show. We could 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:22.880 talk about Rampage, we could talk about SmackDown. There's a 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:24.520 ton of stuff to get into, so we will kick 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.200 it off when get back from the break. Stick around 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:52.359 everybody back in a moment. Observer Live back of the show. 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:56.840 Brand elbur is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mikes umber Viv 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.720 should be joining us later on today hopefully, If not, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.840 we'll talk about it tomorrow. The g c W Show, 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:12.520 Matt Tremont and Nick Gauge beat the Briscos in the 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.959 main event Tag Team Open Challenge for the g c 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:21.280 W Tag Team titles. John Moxley defeated Homicide for the 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:25.680 g c W title. Jeff Jard beat Effie Ruby, Soho 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:30.680 beat Alie Catch. We had Manson Warner and Matthew Justice 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:35.720 with Sabu and Bill Alfonso being Atticas, Koger Eddie Only, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.200 Gregory Iron and Bobby Beverly met Cardona beat Joey Janella. 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:46.440 Blake Christian defeated Leo Rush. Team Gringo beat Team Bandido 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:51.080 A j Gray by Pco, Alex Colone, g Raver, Tony Deppin, 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:56.600 Jimmy Lloyd and Jordan's Oliver in a grab the brass 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.160 ring ladder match. That was the pay per view opener. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:01.520 Andy Us, the show was on pay per view. You 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:04.040 know what happens when he shows on pay per view, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.160 traditional pay per view, Well what happens is you've got 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:13.480 a pay per view window, and that means everybody needs 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.800 to hit their time cues. And I don't know what 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:21.200 went wrong where, but to the main event with Tremont 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:25.880 Engage versus the Briscos went five minutes and twenty eight seconds, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.680 just boom boo, boom, boom boom and then off the air. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.359 And uh, obviously nobody was happy about that, not the 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.520 least of which would be the Briscos, who in fact 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.400 went public with it. But that's what happens when you 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.839 have a pay per view window. The other big story 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.679 coming out of the show, there were many big stories, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:49.080 but a couple of days ago, we're talking about this show, 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:53.960 and uh, we're talking about Nick Gauge. We're not Nick Gauge, 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:58.040 Nick Wayne, the other Nick, the other bane of my existence, 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.200 Nick Wayne, but Nick Wayne was scheduled to be in 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:07.760 the pre show match, which was scheduled to be Nick Wayne, 0:05:08.120 --> 0:05:13.400 grim Reefer, Alexane Dante Leone, Shane Mercer, Jack Cartwheel and 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:20.080 Ninja Mac in a kickoff scramble match, and Nick Wayne 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:22.680 was not on the show. And somebody had asked me 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:25.880 the other day, how is how is Nick Wayne going 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:31.400 to uh wrestle in New York? He's sixteen? And I said, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.680 I don't know, but I mean he's gonna like they 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.839 booked him. They they're gonna fly him in. He got 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.720 new gear. I mean they must have a they must 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:47.039 have cleared it. Well, the commission became aware that Nick 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:52.160 Wayne was sixteen, and Nick Wayne was not allowed to 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:57.640 work the show. So anyway, he was off the show, 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.800 and uh, his mom was there. I can only imagine 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.039 her reaction to all of this, but he took it 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.080 like a pro. Clearly was not happy. And in the meantime, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:14.320 Joey Janella has now basically stated, you know what do 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.880 you want? Nick? Name your match? I will do anything 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.040 to get this match put together. And uh, Nick's favorite 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.880 wrestler for I don't even know how long, given that 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:28.040 he's sixteen, maybe most of his life has been will Osprey. 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.200 And if you watch Nick Wayne, you can't not see 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:37.239 that his idol is will Osprey. And so Joey Janella 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.080 is going to do everything in his power to put 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:44.480 together Nick Wayne versus Will Osprey. And if he puts 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:48.760 together Nick Wayne and Will Osprey, and uh, he does 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:50.560 everything has power to make this happen because of what 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.640 happened here on this show in the Hammerstein, that being 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:55.719 Nick Wayne going all the way, they're not being allowed 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.160 allowed to work. I would think that at the end 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.599 of the day, Nick Wayne, we'll look back very fondly 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.440 on this day if this day ended up being the 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.960 day that resulted in that particular match being put together 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.440 for some point here down the road. So that's the 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:15.880 story on that, and is noted Mike's simper vv is 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.040 on the road right now and if he gets back 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.880 in time, he will be logging in to talk about 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.640 the rest of this show. Show to not get Rave reviews. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.080 Some of the stuff got Rave reviews. I know that 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.160 the John Moxley homicide match Living Minister fourteen secents with 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:36.240 the g cble the world title, people were raving about that, 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.800 raving about other things of the show. Show completely sold out. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:44.320 It was an insane atmosphere. But as far as match 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:49.160 quality and timing, and I was told audio issues and 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.120 that sort of thing did not get to Rave reviews, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.920 so we'll get Mike's Mike's review when we can. About 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.040 the live show, he probably would be able to comment 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.400 on any of the production snaffoos, but I'm sure we'll 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:08.560 get a bunch of text messages about that as well. Alright, 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.640 two years of WrestleMania being affected by COVID at nineteen, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.520 this year's event is gonna look a little bit closer 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:16.120 to normal. W W announce to be the Dallas Morning 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.640 News that it is returning to putting on a full 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:24.120 slate of in person events during WrestleMania thirty eight week 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.120 That will include this year's Hall of Fame ceremony, n 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.760 x T stand and Deliver, episodes of SmackDown and Raw, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:39.640 and a superstore access interactive fan experience, all of this 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:45.200 taking place in the Dallas area surrounding WrestleMania thirty eight Dates, locations, 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.880 ticket information for the events have yet to be announced, 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:55.960 so w W e returning to normal for this year's WrestleMania. Meanwhile, 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.439 New Japan Pro Wrestling has canceled the remainder of their 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:04.040 events for January due to COVID nineteen medical protocols. Company 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:06.959 announced on their website this morning that due to wrestlers 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.760 quote presenting elevated temperatures or being in close contact with 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:14.680 same end quote, have we not done testing by now 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:16.960 the story has been going on for a week. The 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.320 company will cancel the remainder of their tour this month 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:25.160 and will resume with live touring on February six in Chiba. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.320 All ticket holders for these events will be refunded. Dates 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.040 affected by these cancelations include January twenty five, Fukushima, January 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:39.520 con January iber Rocky January twenty show the scheduled place 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.400 and I has been postponed to April eighteen. Tickets for 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:46.520 the January twenty show will be valid for April eighteen. 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:50.920 Cancelations take place after six and JPW wrestlers missed three 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:57.080 consecutive dates during the Golden Series. Toru Yano, Tomi, Tomlwaukee, 0:09:57.120 --> 0:10:01.199 hone Ma, Suzuki, tai Chi Talk I Met You, Noku, 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:06.000 Toshi Kojima were among those pulled from the show. Dow 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:13.040 Japan last held an event on January in Gunma. You know, 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:18.839 we're like three years in basically to this pandemic. Two years, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.559 three years. It's COVID nineteen. It's twenty two right now. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.960 And I remember in the early days when everybody was 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:30.560 locking down and and everything like that. And I don't 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.400 go on Facebook much anymore, but you guys remember going 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:37.040 on Facebook and everybody would be posting those notes. Does 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:42.360 anybody know anybody that actually got COVID? Remember those days? Well, 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.160 here we are, and does anybody know anybody that hasn't 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.800 got COVID At this point, it seems like everybody has 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.079 gotten over the last several weeks. But now do Japan 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:57.040 shut down as a result. Also coming out of g 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:01.040 c W, this is good news, Chris Dickens in We'll 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:05.679 be returning to action by g CUBLEWS next spring Break event. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.960 Dickenson appeared at tonight's The World on g c W 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:11.120 pre show put over g c W and New York 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.920 City edit Is Promo, saying that he would be back 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:19.560 for Spring Break Weekend. This is an event usually held 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.720 by Joey Janelle and g cuble during Menia Weekend, which 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.400 this year will take place the weekend of April second 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:30.880 and third. He injured himself November November fourteen at the 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.680 New Japan Battle in the Valley card in San Jose. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:38.120 I was there and uh, I went for a frog splash, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:43.200 dislocated and fractured his hip. G c W owner Brett 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.880 Lauderdale kind of promo prior to the start of tonight's show, 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.599 describing his background, talking about how tonight was special, and 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.600 he said there were many as many said that there 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.679 were many g c ws before him, and did the 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.640 promo saying there's nothing like a g c W ever 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:02.000 before and they were all pay per view tonight because 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:06.960 of the fans. So happy to hear that Chris Dickinson 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.280 will be back in action soon. I mean that dude 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:13.560 loves pro wrestling. I mean, if you've heard him on 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.960 the show. Not a lot of guys love pro wrestling 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.720 like Chris Dickinson. Back in the moment, talk of the 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:22.200 lineup for the Royal Rumble and more. Wrestling Observer Live, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:49.840 Happy talk the show. Brain elbur is here Wrestling Observer Alive. 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:52.240 No Mike simper viv at this point, but we'll see 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:56.000 what happens. I told him to drive the speed limit, 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:03.040 don't speed home to do the show. According to Fightful Select, 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.600 I love these stories. Impact Wrestling knockouts Take Team champions 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.080 Cassie Lee and Jesse McKay We're offered spots in the 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:18.040 Women's Royal Rumble, but turned the offer down, reports sites 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.240 an Impact Wrestling. Sources of the company would have approved 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.080 the deal, but Lee and McKay did not want to 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.480 go back to w w E at this time. Let's 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.160 fire everybody and then beg for them to come back 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:36.480 for our Women's Royal Rumble. Good for them, Good for them. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:41.760 So we got a men's and women's Royal Rumble, and like, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.120 they ain't got thirty women, but somehow they've got twenty 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:48.960 one announced, whereas they got more than enough men. But 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.600 at this point they only have announced. So the Royal 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:59.200 Rumble is Saturday, which caught vinneyoff guard. My buddy Mark 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.080 thought it was Sunday. A it's Saturday, everybody. They're gonna 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.440 do eight Saturday pay per views just here. I have 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.160 no idea why. You know, it's a personal opinion. Whatever. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.400 If you like Sunday better, Saturday better, I mean whatever. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.080 Everyone's got a different life and a different schedule. But dude, 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:18.240 these Saturday pay per views are so inconvenient. Anyway, we 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:23.000 got the Royal Rumble match, which is yeah, but broy 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.360 they run UFC's on on Saturday. Yeah, you're right, they do. 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.400 You know what U have cs a pay per view 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.680 or like a bunch of buddies come over to watch it. 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:33.560 How many of you have a bunch of buddies coming 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:35.520 over for the Royal Rumble? Maybe you actually do for 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.720 the rumble because like the Rumble is the show rumble 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.800 and mania. I can see like buddies actually coming over 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.920 to watch. But are you buddies coming over for Survivor 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:48.440 series on a Saturday anybody? So? Anyway, thirty man Royal Rumble, 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:53.720 thirty man actually be thirty women Royal Rumble. At least 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.080 they don't called the men's Women's Royal Rumble like they 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.360 called it the anyway. Brockle Ner versus Bobby Lashing for 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.960 the w w E title, Becky Lynch versus Do Drop 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.200 for the women's title, Edge and Beth Phoenix versus MS 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:13.160 and Maurice and Roman Rains versus seth Rawlins. So well, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.400 by the way, if you've been watching the build for 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.080 Roman Rains versus seth Rollins, if you watched SmackDown on 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:22.160 on Friday night, Uh seth Rawlins is uh the baby 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:25.720 face in this feud. He's doing his cackling character with 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:29.840 the goofy jackets and Roman Rains gets cheered everywhere he goes. Now, 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.800 but Romans gonna be the heal and Seth is gonna 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.840 be the baby face, which you know, it's kind of 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.640 ridiculous in some ways, but I mean, if you watched 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:42.840 the SmackDown Show on Friday, Seth is a great baby face. 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.280 And in fact, it's like we haven't talked for a 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.520 year about how much memory. Here's the Messiah and absolutely 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:52.400 totally sucked. And then you know, he became a father, 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:54.080 and he was gone for a while and he made 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.280 a big return and everybody was cheering him. It was 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:58.760 like a perfect time to turn him baby face, and 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.760 he just went right back to being the sigh again. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.560 And then later in an interview and said, you know, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.800 that would have been a great time to turn baby face. Well, 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:09.000 turns out seth Rawlins as a worker is much better 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.280 served being a baby face and a heel. So at 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.840 least from now until the Royal Rumble, we'll get to 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.440 watch seth Rawlins is a baby face. And then who knows, 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.360 I'm sure they'll turn him back at that point because 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.800 you know, God forbid we take an over baby face 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.720 and just let him be an over baby face. But anyway, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:30.680 getting ahead of myself here, Men's Royal Rumble has the 0:16:30.760 --> 0:16:35.840 following announced. One of these men, any of these men 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:41.000 could headline one of the two Knights of WrestleMania. Angelo Dawkins, 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:53.080 montez Ford, Ray Mysterio, Dominic Mysterio, Austin Theory, Johnny Knoxville, Shamus, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:59.000 Damien Priest, aj Styles big E who at this point, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:04.080 who else is gonna win? Happy Corbin, mad Cap Moss, 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:11.240 Sammy Zane, Kofi Kingston and Kevin Owens. Fifteen men still 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:16.560 to be announced for the Royal Rumble the Women's Rumble 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:23.879 as twenty one entrance announced. Those include Rhea Ripley, Nicky, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:35.680 ash Dana Brook, Carmela Queens, Lena to Mina, Shotsi, Natty Aliyah, Naomi, Shana, 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:41.359 Charlotte Nicki and Briebella. Nikki did an interview about a 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.920 month ago saying her doctor laid down the hammer and said, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:48.080 you'll absolutely never wrestle again. She's in the Real Rumble, Leda, 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:56.800 Michelle McCool, Kelly Kelly, Summer, Ray, Impact Champion, Mickey James, 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.680 Bianca bell Air and Live More Again. So we still 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:06.480 need nine women. They're asking fired women to please come 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:09.800 back to be in this royal Rumble. I would expect 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:13.040 Raquel Gonzalez to be in the rumble. Maybe they'll bring 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:17.320 up all of Mandy's crew. And as far as the 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:23.400 men's and women's rumble, there will be a big return 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:30.639 at the Royal Rumble. Who could that be? Who could 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:37.080 that be? Tonight? Raw brock Lessner, Bobby Lashly will be 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.800 doing a way in for this fight with no weight limits. 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:47.560 Maurice will ever birthday celebration, and the Alpha Academy will 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:52.399 do the Alpha Academy Academic Challenge with Matt Riddle and 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:57.480 Randy Orton. I honestly, as God is my witness, cannot 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:01.520 wait for that. It may be an awful, horrible train wreck, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.880 but it's an academic challenge with with Matt Riddle, Like 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.880 how could it not be entertaining? Even if, like even 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:11.080 if you have the worst writer in the world, If 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:14.760 Matt Riddle is involved with an academic challenge, I think 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:17.800 it's gonna be good. Mark my words. I've been wrong 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:21.920 countless times, but mark my words on this one. So yes, 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.840 three things announced for Row tonight. Not one of them 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:29.959 is a professional wrestling match also backstage l A Night 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.640 and Roderick Strong. According to p W Insider, uh So 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.240 we'll see what happens with these guys, because I don't 0:19:38.240 --> 0:19:41.760 know if you're aware of this or not, but they've 0:19:41.880 --> 0:19:45.880 they've called up folks to uh, do you know, matches 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:50.920 for Ron SmackDown, dark matches, et cetera, backstaged events, and 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.160 sometimes they go from there to the main roster. Sometimes 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.760 they do those matches and then they are sent back 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:00.560 to n x T and they're just in a see again. 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:03.320 The Kodakai would be a fine example of that. And 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:05.720 sometimes they go up and they do these dark matches 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:07.240 and it looks like you can get called up and 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.040 instead they get fired. So we'll see what happens with 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.600 these guys and others as well, but they are backstage 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:21.040 at RAW. We have got Beach Break from Cleveland, Ohio 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:24.680 on TBS on Wednesday. This is the a W Show 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:29.399 and many many things announced. We've got Cody versus Sammy 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:33.240 Gavara in a ladder match to determine the undisputed t 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:39.040 NT champion. Santana and Ortiz. We we're facing Chris Jericho. 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:43.920 I'm sorry, Santana Ortiz and Chris Jericho. They're having uh, 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.920 they're having problems, but they will be teaming together to 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.720 face Daniel Garcia and two point oh. Adam Cole will 0:20:48.720 --> 0:20:54.640 be facing Orange Cassidy, Red Velvet versus Layla Hirsch and 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:57.400 also appearing on the show and interview segments. We've got 0:20:57.400 --> 0:21:01.639 Britt Baker and CM Punk. They will also be taping 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:06.119 a Rampage on Wednesday, so a big edition of a 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:10.639 W on TBS. What you gonna think of a Rampage 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.080 and SmackDown this week? I thought that Rampage was a 0:21:14.080 --> 0:21:17.359 pretty good show. John Moxley Ethan Page ten minutes, good match. 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:20.560 They went a long time. I I thought it was 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:23.000 gonna be quicker. But if you look at the way 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:26.120 that that a W books, which is you know, what's 0:21:26.200 --> 0:21:28.959 what's logical? Well, what's logical? As John mox has been 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:30.920 gone for three months and he's come back and this 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.600 is first match, and so I would not say that 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:37.120 he struggled in storyline, but it did take him ten 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:38.919 minutes to beat Ethan Page, so I didn't have a 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.879 problem with it. They do this in Japan all the 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.040 time and often actually the guy has been out of 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:46.040 action for a long time and comes back. He actually 0:21:46.040 --> 0:21:49.639 loses that first match because he's rusty in storyline, but 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.120 they did not go that far with John Moxley, nor 0:21:53.160 --> 0:21:57.840 would I have beaten John Moxley, Trent barretta Nick Jackson. 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:02.120 They went fourteen minute. It's very very good match. Obviously, 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:05.280 this is supposed to be a tag team match, but 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.080 Rocky Romero out with COVID, so switched to a singles 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.960 match and Trent beat him. So beat him clean in 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:14.920 the middle of the ring with his move, which I'm 0:22:14.920 --> 0:22:17.880 sure when Rocky returns, will build to the tag team match, 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:22.520 which also should be great. Best wishes to Rocky, hopefully 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:28.160 he's back in action soon. Everybody's main man. Hook defeated Serpentaco, 0:22:28.840 --> 0:22:31.600 threw him around for a minute eleven, and then had 0:22:31.600 --> 0:22:35.800 a at a deal on the ramp with QT again 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:39.480 and super Lex QT for the second time. So there's 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.560 either two things are gonna happen right here. Number one, 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:45.800 QT and Hook are just gonna wrestle at any time 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:49.280 on Dynamite Rampage, or you could do the deal where 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.040 QT sends all of his crew to take out a Hook. 0:22:52.480 --> 0:22:54.719 Hook runs through pretty much all of them, maybe not 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:56.600 all of them, but most of them, and then you 0:22:56.640 --> 0:22:58.280 do hook and QT at the pay per view, But 0:22:58.280 --> 0:23:01.200 the pay per views about six weeks away, Uh, maybe 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.520 even longer actually, so we'll see which way they end 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:09.520 up going there. We had Jade Cargill versus Anna j 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:12.000 and I would not say that this was a a 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:15.359 great match. But if you would have told me Jade 0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:19.280 Cargill nag On and a j nine minutes on Rampage Live, 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:22.160 I would have had bad idea. But they pulled it off. 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:24.920 Five minutes was during a commercial break, so I didn't 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:26.679 see the entire match from bell to bell, but what 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:28.840 I saw was good. They had some good near falls. 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.399 At the end, Jade Cargill beat her with her move 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.159 and I got a big pop. So whatever you want 0:23:34.200 --> 0:23:36.600 to say about Jake Cargill, I mean she is over 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:40.600 with this crowd and this was a good showing and 0:23:40.640 --> 0:23:43.680 we'll see who ends up next in line for Jade 0:23:43.680 --> 0:23:48.040 Cargill and Man Smart, Mark Sterling, God Brainbuster right on 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:50.959 his head on the floor and uh showed up this 0:23:51.000 --> 0:23:55.480 weekend h G c W in a neck brace, so 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:59.520 selling it everywhere. I got come up with more your 0:23:59.560 --> 0:24:29.400 phone calls. 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And it's funny because I 0:25:42.600 --> 0:25:45.560 watched SmackDown and it was when it was over, actually 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:48.520 one minute before it ended, I was like, I really 0:25:48.560 --> 0:25:51.320 like this show. And then the finish of the main 0:25:51.359 --> 0:25:55.399 event was just absolutely appalling and insulting. And then when 0:25:55.440 --> 0:25:57.920 I started reviewing with Dave, I don't like the show, 0:25:58.520 --> 0:25:59.919 but I felt like I did like the show, so 0:26:00.000 --> 0:26:02.560 it's kind of weird. So anyway, I will review it 0:26:02.600 --> 0:26:06.200 in full on on the tom Show, but I want 0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:08.600 to talk about the main event very quickly. So what 0:26:08.640 --> 0:26:12.040 they did was they set up seven seth Rawlins and 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:15.640 Kevin Owens against the USOS in a tag team match. 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:20.080 What you say, Kevin Owens on s yes, Because even 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:24.120 though they advertise every year falsely, I might add that 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:28.439