WEBVTT - John Moxley Returns/RAW Report/AEW 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.879 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:15.640 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:18.640 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:22.279 day Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.240 sixth Eastern. We are back here on the show. Had 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:30.880 the day off from Observer Live yesterday, but today we 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.680 are back with a vengeance and we got a lot 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:38.120 to talk about, not the least of which six minutes 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:45.120 ago it was announced John Moxley returns to a W tomorrow. 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.280 So for those of you wondering why his first appearance 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.040 was going to be at the g c W pay 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.840 per view, well it's not. He will be returning to 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.680 a e W tomorrow night. Tomorrow is a packed a 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.800 W show. They've got about a dozen things announced. We'll 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.640 go over those here in a moment. We also have 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.520 a I don't know if I could call a line up, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:09.800 but we have one match for n x T two 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.720 point out tonight and uh in a segment as well, 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.679 and uh raw last night. We've got three things announced 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.520 for next week. Of course, none of which are professional 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:23.000 wrestling matches. I just got a bunch of segments for 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.320 next week. We got updates on a Cody. Everyone's talking 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.320 about Cody, who, by the way, will not be in 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.600 the Royal Rumble. If you guys all want to start 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.120 sending money today to UH Whale Scout, I will be 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.080 UH making monetary best with folks at UH and for 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:42.000 some reason, sure he's gonna be in the Rumble. He's 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.720 not going to be Eddie Kingston update the Dusty Rhodes 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.080 Classic brackets for the men. They have not figured out 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:50.480 what in God's name to do with the women. Ed 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.960 has noted the Raw Report and so much more. In 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:56.440 the third segment of the show, Alicia A. Touch will 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:58.720 be joining us talking about m l W and a 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.840 number of other topics as well. What it's like to 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.800 be an influencer. I don't even know what that means, 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.559 but she's one. So we'll talk to her today about 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.919 all sorts of different things and plenty more. If you 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.640 want to contact us four to five seven zero seven 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.920 five six the text message line Brian at Wrestling Observer 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.079 dot com at Brian alvare is on Twitter, loss of 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.119 get into today, kicking it off after the break, stick 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:50.720 around Wrestling Observer Live ran back in the show. Brian 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:55.560 Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simp for viv also 0:02:55.639 --> 0:03:00.280 Wrestling Observer dot com. Is your computer restarting you like 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:03.600 Dave's last night? No, I was actually getting a call 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.000 from somebody we both know who I thought maybe was 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.520 in the producer chair today. So but who's there today? 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:14.720 Is it Tom who just called me? Excepy, I'm smart 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.840 enough to turn my ringer off. That's that's the difference 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:18.760 between you. Well, I didn't expect that to be coming, 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:20.640 and I just did. So why don't you just shut 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:22.680 up and start the show? Okay, people haven't heard us 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.560 in a while, and they haven't heard us for a while, 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:28.280 but boy are they they hearing everything now they are. Hey, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.080 Alicia is gonna be on the show in the final segment, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.800 at which point we're gonna have a discussion about the 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:37.560 proper pronunciation of her last name. It's gonna be how 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:41.119 we start that interview here today? We got a lot 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.360 of news. What are you British? We got a lot 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.560 of news to get into here today, and I wanted 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.080 to start off by saying that Cody Rhodes is not 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.800 gonna be in the Royal Rumble. Say what you know? 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.360 Who else is not gonna be in the Royal Rumble? 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:59.280 John Moxley, No, John Moxley returns to A W tomorrow. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.360 Hand Cody is going to return to uh A W 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:06.240 T tomorrow as well. Now if Cody is not there, uh, 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.760 that's not Uh, He's still not gonna be in the rumble. Okay, 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.840 But we'll see how much. We'll see how much traction 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.120 this story has gotten. I do expect him to be 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.680 on the show. But that's the story. You get a 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.000 lot more psychopaths than I. Guys want more timeline. So 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:26.520 I mean, really, are people really really getting themselves whipped 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:31.680 up into a frenzy? Think listen. I know that that 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.839 some of you don't believe this. You you hardcore tweeters. Okay, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:41.200 but bro, I am never on Twitter. Okay. I go 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.600 on Twitter to put the ratings up there. I go 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.159 on Twitter before the show and I retweeted much stuff 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:48.520 from her sight, and I go on Twitter to send 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:51.920 out the you know whatever for this show, and then 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.279 like during pay per views, all tweet because like people 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.240 seem to like that but other than that, I am 0:04:56.360 --> 0:05:00.760 never on Twitter, and every day, like in the middle 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.480 of the day, I'll have people texting me about stuff 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.880 that's all over Twitter right now, like what are you 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:12.760 talking about? Like I get these random text messages about 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.560 Moxy is not going to be at the Royal Rumble. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.599 I'm like, yeah, I'm well aware of that. And then 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.400 I'm like what is this all about? And then I'm 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:25.920 directed to Twitter and then I see all these numb 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.600 skulls are like, um, Dean Ambrose is gonna be back. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.880 I'm like, why would Dean Ambrose? Why would anybody in 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.279 a W be in the Royal Rumble? I realized that 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:38.440 Mickey James, who is part of Impact, is going to 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:42.880 be in the Royal Rumble. Okay, but unless someone has 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.600 been recently fired from a W or or their contract 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:51.760 expired and it's not renewed, there's nobody in a W. 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.440 Why am I wasting my time with this? Why? Why 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.960 am I wasting my time with this? Well, because of 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.599 Twitter is why. But I'm gonna move on now. You 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.400 guys don't need to know anything else. We have other 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.279 things to talk about. But mox Ley and Cody and 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:09.720 anybody else nobody from a W is gonna be in 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:11.920 the Royal Rumble. Now this is your shot. You want 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:13.800 to blame Reddit too? Are you putting this all on Twitter? 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.479 I didn't say anything about Reddit. I don't know what 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.720 Reddit's talking about either. It all Twitter's fault. Well, this 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.680 one is all Twitter's fault. Like you know, Chris Jericho 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.720 is not going to be in the Rumbles? What you're saying, Oh, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.640 of course he's not gonna be in the Royal Rumble? 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:31.040 Are you kidding me? But you know who's gonna be 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:35.400 on television tonight? Voulter. Yeah, he is said to collide 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.760 with one of the top in ring wrestlers in n 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:43.560 x T. Volter will be facing Roderick Strong on Tuesday night. God, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.839 I hope they give this match time. I don't know 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.640 what the future is for Roderick Strong, because you know, 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:52.880 Roderick Strong was the cruiseweight champion. They're getting rid of 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:58.359 the Cruiserweight belt. Clearly they don't want cruiserweights. And I 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:01.680 believe Roderick Strong just opened up a p W T 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.360 S store. So I don't know what the future is 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.640 for this guy. But if if he has a future, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.880 or if he does not have a future will probably uh, 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:12.640 I don't know if we'll no more tonight, but I 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:17.000 expect him to be destroyed by Vault tonight and who 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.080 knows what his future will be from there. But my 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.960 guess is Roderick Strong also will not be in the 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:27.760 Royal Rumble. Nor do I expect Moustafa Ali to be 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.400 in the Royal Rumble because he wants out. You'll ever 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.000 believe this, but the seventy five year old guy, I 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.720 think he's seventy six now came up with an idea 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.440 for Ali where all he decided, you know what, I'm 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:45.240 at here, I'm done, I quit that. You can only imagine, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.080 You can only imagine what this seventy six year old 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.440 bloke must have come up with for for Ali to 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.280 want to just quit and get out of there. Although 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:55.480 quite frankly, if you watch how he was used, I 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:56.880 mean I wouldn't want to quit and get out of 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.400 there as well, even without you know, Vince coming up 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:02.680 with some stupid idea for me. But did you see 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.400 that Roberick Strong shirt. You should be upset about this 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.640 because you should have come up with this family shirt 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.440 of ass kicking jiu jitsu fighters that they have on 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:14.920 this T shirt with the child and the Strongs together. 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:19.800 I have a feeling too, just just by watching already 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:24.720 on her white belt. Well you know what, Yeah, you 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:32.319 talked about some some mixed tag team that I I say, belt, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.200 I say, we've got a natural match up here with 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.600 the whole family being involved. And I have a feeling 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.480 just by watching Marina Schaffer what she's been doing on 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:43.280 the indies, her social media and how she's marketing herself 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.040 that UH, Robert Strong when he gets back to the 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.080 Indian's better play catch up because Marina Schaffir may actually 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.200 be the one that's uh most in demand here because 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:56.439 she is getting much much better and she knows exactly 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.480 who she is and what she is, and Uh, I 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.640 have a feeling she'll be sitting bringing her blood sport 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.720 aspects to uh Denny where she goes. So I'm looking 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:06.880 forward to this and I hope they get time tonight. 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.160 Look for Roderick Strong. I don't know if he's leaving 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:12.080 or not, but I do hope they get significant time tonight, 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:13.800 and if he is on the way out the door, 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.280 I mean I hope they Again, I don't know how 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:21.640 he's gonna go out, But I if this is it good, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.199 you know, I hate to say it. From his financial 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.079 point of view, it's not gonna be good for him. 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:29.880 But for him, you know, as a fan watching him work, boy, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.400 I would love to see him do a lot of 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.880 different things. And can you imagine Roderick Strong in New 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:36.400 Japan right now, and New Japan is strong? It would 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:41.200 be great tonight, uh n x T Tomorrow. Dynamite Adam 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.960 Cole and Britt Baker versus Orange Cassidy and Chris stad Lander, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:49.080 seem Punk versus Sean Spears, Sting and Darby Ellen versus 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.280 the acclaimed Serena Deeve versus Sky Blue, Lee Johnson and 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.559 brock Anderson versus FTR, Cody Rhodes returns House of Black 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.400 versus Varsity Blonde, and the return of John Moxley. Eight 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.760 segments announced. Wait a second, you just announced mostly a 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.560 bunch of matches, not enough segments for the show. I mean, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.960 didn't have what wrestling is all about? We got the segments, 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.760 next segments, Well, next week we have many segments. We 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:19.920 have got. We have got an i Q test between 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:23.599 the Alpha Academy and Riddle and Randy Jordan. We have 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.080 got the birthday celebration of MS and Maurice. I'm totally 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.440 turning the corner on this feud, by the way. So 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.520 it's a waste of miss, but like are not a 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.480 waste of miss. I mean, it's actually good for miss. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.719 It's a waste of edge, but I mean, if we 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:38.439 get past, it's a total waste of edge. This feud 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.280 has been great so far. I don't know. There's another 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.120 way to look at that, which is that that man 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.079 has given his body and a lot of work. If 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.400 he's having a lot of fun, I'll take it just 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.080 because everybody involved is good at what they do. These 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.199 people can't believe there's gonna be an i Q test. Yeah, 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:53.000 just wait, I'll do the raw report in a minute. 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.600 And we've also got a way in for a match 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.280 with no weight limits six days prior to the match 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.319 between brock Lessner and Bobby Lashley. We much like you 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.480 have c we want to give you plenty of time 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:13.000 to rehydrate. So that's what's happening here. You know, a 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:14.640 lot of people don't know this. There's a two hunter 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:18.120 and sixty five pound weight limit for for UFC. I 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.120 think it's stole that number two eighty five. I think 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.960 for the n c A A, so there actually is 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.000 a weight limit for heavyweights and it is not unlimited, 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.679 unlike pro wrestling where it's unlimited. But I guess this 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.199 takes the place of a contract signing, right. Hey, listen, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.600 I'm I'm all four A w has done the way 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.920 in it's it's ridiculous, but it's fine. It's obviously a 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:43.240 ceremonial way, a better sale than another stupid contract signing. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.800 Much prefer a way in. Hopefully it's a shoot weight 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.680 in brocks, like two pounds or something like that. Yeah, 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.679 for real, while we weigh in Paul Hayman, I want 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.920 to see that for Brock and Roman when it comes 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.360 down to it again, I just hope they don't have 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.720 him stripped nude and put them mind a towel, because 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:02.840 if opposite the hard came, we're gonna have quite a show. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.200 I don't think we need that. Listen, We're gonna go 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.400 to a break everybody, and we're gonna be back in 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.959 a moment. We're gonna do the raw report. For those 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.840 who aren't buy the i Q test, I'll tell you 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:42.840 all about it back in a moment. Observer Live back 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:46.079 in the show. Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:51.800 Mike simper Viv, also of Wrestling observer dot Com, Thank god, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.480 I'm back to do a full raw report. I heard 0:12:55.480 --> 0:13:00.480 you at a lackluster, subpar raw report last week's Room Right. 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:02.719 The people in the chat said it was one of 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.120 the best ones that they ever heard. That Chad doesn't 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:09.480 know what they want. Listen to you. You're starting to 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.840 sound like that guy who looks like his face is 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.800 falling off and who gargles on razor blades. Oh my god, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.680 Mike Simperviv, do you know how many times Vince has 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:20.840 come out on TV and I've said, this guy looked 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.120 a hundred years on your Oh, I have to say 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:24.680 to you, so I have to say something about his 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:28.080 age and looks like now you say, his face is 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.640 falling off and he looks like he's stargling razor blades. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:35.600 You were participating, but you were perfect. When you his 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.360 face looks like it's falling off. He would come on 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.520 and you would start getting uncomfortable. In fact, I think 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.559 you actually used that on the world. He made you, 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.680 You made you uncomfortable. I never said he made me uncomfortable. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.600 He said he looked two hundred years old, which actually 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.400 I was given him a compliment. He said he's too Basically, 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.360 he's too old to be on TV. You that's what 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:00.640 you said, Cogan was too old to be on TV. 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.800 What he is forty. Look, they'd tell you he's too 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.800 old to be on TV. He would tell you that wrong. 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.880 There is nobody. Betty White proved it. There is nobody 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:13.920 too old to be on TV if they're good at 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:17.160 what they do. And last night's Raw the only thing 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.040 I because he didn't what he did last night, No, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:24.000 he was not. And that's the whole thing with that 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:27.280 show last night. That's my only takeaway from it is 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.960 they were facing off against the wild card game and 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.320 it felt like they threw in the towel. And the 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.680 big takeaway is the thespianism on this show and the 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.680 dialogue that has written for these people. I know it 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.240 is completely shooting a dead horse when it comes to 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.480 w W een and when it comes to their dialogue, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.640 and when it comes to the fact that these are 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:50.600 the people that brag about wanting to make movies, yet 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.720 any time they actually have dialogue, it's not what any 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.840 normal person would ever say, even inside their universe, none 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.560 of this makes any sense with the characters that are involved. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:03.040 It's all a big, fat mess. And as you go 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.800 through this, I'm sure you'll probably point out how bad 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:10.000 a lot of this is, including with Vince McMahon, whose 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:14.160 bits have become I mean almost they're almost like parodies 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.920 of skits that Vince used to do. I mean they 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.440 really really are. Well, let me get this over with. Then. 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.440 First we have a segment with Becky, Do Drop, Bianca 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.600 and Live, which leads to a match. See I could 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.840 have wasted time telling you about it, but there was 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.520 nothing to it. So it's Becky Lynch and Do Drop 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.440 teaming together as they will face off of the Royal 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.400 Rumble against Biancan Live. There was no explanation as to 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.200 why these people are teaming with each other, and so 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.600 the match goes three minutes. Becky hits Live with her finisher. 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.840 She goes to cover her partner Do Drop breaks up 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.760 the pin. Do Drop tries to make a cover, but 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.360 the rest is stickler. No, you're not legal, so Do 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.160 Drop has to get up, walk over, drag Becky to 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.320 the corner, get out of the ring, tag get back 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.440 in the ring squash Live and then pin her so Live. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.320 I mean, you know, if this match was two minutes 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.800 and fifty seconds, she was on her back after getting 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.560 hit with a finish for fifty full seconds. So for 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.520 those of you waiting for Live Morgan and win the title, 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.360 she couldn't be any further under. The only reason that 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:24.320 I'm gonna give Live Morgan a lifeline in my world 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:26.560 is because there are still fans out there to believe 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.680 in her and that's still like her, and it's very 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.680 easy to do because she's very believable and likable. But 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.000 with the dialogue they've given her, with the positions they've 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.720 putting her in, which have just gotten her way under. 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.360 And then you had the big botch with Becky at 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:42.160 the pay per view where you know, why is Live? 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.640 Why do we care about Live going after this? Because 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.880 she continues to lose. I mean, look, this is how 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.760 do Drop got into her title match, was the fact 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.320 that she's basically lost. And it doesn't even make any 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.400 sense that dude Dropping Becky Lynch would have been teaming 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.680 last night at such a cohesive unit anyway, So it's 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.280 just stupid. We had a bunch of backstage seig Men's 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.720 Reggie wants advice from Edge against Omas Edge. Hey, listen, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.280 you want to talk about backstage skits being bad, Edge 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:09.159 is not involved in them. Edge was awesome on this show. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:12.000 Reggie wants advice and Edges like, oh man, you know 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.040 you do all these flips and all this great stuff 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:17.080 I mean, and Reggie goes, so I can win. Edge goes, hell, no, 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.640 you can't win, and then Beth wax him. So Reggie's 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.240 all sad and Edge was right by the way. And 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.200 then Edge and Damian Priest have a conversation. Damian wants 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.240 advice on how to win the Royal Rumble. When did 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.359 they become friends? Edge blows him off. They're both baby faces. 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:34.560 And then Kevin Owens goes up to Priests and he 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:38.000 wants a nice clean wrestling match later on tonight. I'm 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.720 trying to get through this show. Everybody the KO Show 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.199 with seth Rawlins. The gist of it is, Kevin Owens 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:47.240 wants to win the Rumble, Rawlins wants to win the championship. 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.320 Kevin Owens wants the two of them for the belt 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:51.920 at WrestleMania. Rawlins didn't seem like he was down with that. Idea, 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.720 but they're supposed to pretend like they're friends. So that 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.600 was that, and then Damien Priest comes out. I don't 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.000 know if you guys know this or not. I'm sure 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:02.119 you don't because they never made a comment about it. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:04.680 Damian Priests has been on the main roster for twelve 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:09.600 months and he's never lost a singles match ever, Like 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:16.680 he's too Tonka never lost, undefeated a streak of one year. Well, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:18.399 they never bring it to your attention, so he probably 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.480 didn't even notice when Kevin Owens penned him tonight in 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.640 a ten minute match clean. I guess it was kind 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.280 of clean. He actually was clean. Kevin Owens acts like 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.359 his knee is hurt. The referee goes to check on it. 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.119 Damian Priest, who doesn't want to be a stupid baby 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:38.480 face like he's trying, he goes, I don't believe it. Referee, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:43.000 get him up, that's not real. But regardless, he's distracted 0:18:43.080 --> 0:18:44.960 and Kevin Owens boots him and it's him with a 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.919 stunner and pins him. First singles lost in one year 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.840 for Damian Priest. Not even a story on this show. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:57.960 Nicky Yash promo. We had the Alpha Academy graduation ceremony, 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.520 which actually Chad Gable was great and segment. He gives 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:05.160 the the diploma to Otis and then Riddle comes out 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.439 at a cap and gown. Riddles acting all stupid as usual. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.720 Gable tells him he's an idiot. You don't even know 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:14.560 what the word rematch means. Riddle makes a weed reference. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.199 Everyone cheers, and so finally Gable says, listen, you're an idiot. 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:23.239 You want to rematch for the titles, fine, if you 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:29.760 can win an academic aptitude test next week. So next week, 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:32.640 I know this Riddle. They didn't really explain this very well, 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.120 but there's gonna be an i Q test of some sort, 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.400 either with Riddle or with Riddle and Orton, and it's 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.879 either a contest or it's not a contest. Otis was 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:43.520 selling it like it was a contest because he was 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.840 frett he was gonna lose. But I think it might 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:48.720 just be that Orton and Riddle have to pass this test. 0:19:48.760 --> 0:19:52.320 But regardless, there's gonna be an intelligent segment on the 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:57.920 show next week. Cannot wait. Then we had Finn Balor. Well. 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:02.040 First we had Austin theory approaching Vin McMahon, Vince McMahon, 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:06.639 who does not like gore and violence. Uh. He tells 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.880 Austin theory. If you don't beat Finn Balor tonight, I'm 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:13.640 gonna pull a quote equalizer out of my desk. I'm 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.800 gonna beat you within an inch of your life. I'm 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.000 gonna knock your teeth out, I'm gonna bloody you up, 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.440 and there's gonna be nothing but blood and snot everywhere. 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:23.119 That's what Vin said. And then I'm gonna take a 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:27.040 selfie of your crumpled body and send it to your mother. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:33.720 Does your mother like mutilation? Yeah? We had our annual 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.960 Martin Luther King Junior video. The videos are the best 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:37.560 thing on the show. The Martin Luther King and the 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.119 Bobby lash Lee versus uh brock Lesser videos. They were 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:44.240 the best ode. Those are the best things you're gonna 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:46.600 talk about Martin Luther King Nay videos which you know, 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.600 the official old white person. You know, I really care 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.959 about relations because you know we have a actually shoot 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:58.400 loves and and considers a hero, Martin Luther King Jr. 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:02.320 That's great, you know, and maybe you should you know again, 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.200 story for a different day. But you know, your actions 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:07.040 and how you run your business and some of the 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:08.960 people that you've pushed in some of the things that 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:12.399 you've done and overseen actually telling from that to plug 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.240 in the Saudi Show, but anywhere you go. Austin Theory 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.840 beat Finn Balor Clean in the middle of the ring 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:23.240 with his finish. Yeah. Then we had a Rea Ripley interview. 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:25.560 You throw that Irish man on the pile. He's lost 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:27.919 everything now that we've got a Damian and a priest, 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:30.879 his gimmicks gone. The whole deal is gone. Ria Ripley 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.439 versus Nicky Ashton happened of Vegan. Carmela came out, they 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.880 distracted Ria, Nikki beat her up from behind and then 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:43.360 walked out. So no match. They are, oh god. Then 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:45.760 we had a say, hold on before you even do, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.200 I gotta get through this before sorry. But Selina and 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.480 Carmela come out there and Selena is bashing Nicky ash 0:21:52.600 --> 0:21:54.760 like an idiot. She's supposed to be the new heel 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:57.240 in this. The other two heels are making fun of her, 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.720 and then Selina is making fun of Rea Ripley for 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:01.800 not being able to be on her own. When the 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:07.040 tag titles, which made absolutely no sense, stupid Omas defeated Reggie. 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.520 Reggie wanted advice. The advice was to stay low like 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:12.600 an idiot. He went high. He was caught. He was 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:16.200