Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every
Speaker 1: day Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. We are back here on the show. Had
Speaker 1: the day off from Observer Live yesterday, but today we
Speaker 1: are back with a vengeance and we got a lot
Speaker 1: to talk about, not the least of which six minutes
Speaker 1: ago it was announced John Moxley returns to a W tomorrow.
Speaker 1: So for those of you wondering why his first appearance
Speaker 1: was going to be at the g c W pay
Speaker 1: per view, well it's not. He will be returning to
Speaker 1: a e W tomorrow night. Tomorrow is a packed a
Speaker 1: W show. They've got about a dozen things announced. We'll
Speaker 1: go over those here in a moment. We also have
Speaker 1: a I don't know if I could call a line up,
Speaker 1: but we have one match for n x T two
Speaker 1: point out tonight and uh in a segment as well,
Speaker 1: and uh raw last night. We've got three things announced
Speaker 1: for next week. Of course, none of which are professional
Speaker 1: wrestling matches. I just got a bunch of segments for
Speaker 1: next week. We got updates on a Cody. Everyone's talking
Speaker 1: about Cody, who, by the way, will not be in
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. If you guys all want to start
Speaker 1: sending money today to UH Whale Scout, I will be
Speaker 1: UH making monetary best with folks at UH and for
Speaker 1: some reason, sure he's gonna be in the Rumble. He's
Speaker 1: not going to be Eddie Kingston update the Dusty Rhodes
Speaker 1: Classic brackets for the men. They have not figured out
Speaker 1: what in God's name to do with the women. Ed
Speaker 1: has noted the Raw Report and so much more. In
Speaker 1: the third segment of the show, Alicia A. Touch will
Speaker 1: be joining us talking about m l W and a
Speaker 1: number of other topics as well. What it's like to
Speaker 1: be an influencer. I don't even know what that means,
Speaker 1: but she's one. So we'll talk to her today about
Speaker 1: all sorts of different things and plenty more. If you
Speaker 1: want to contact us four to five seven zero seven
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Speaker 1: get into today, kicking it off after the break, stick
Speaker 1: around Wrestling Observer Live ran back in the show. Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simp for viv also
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer dot com. Is your computer restarting you like
Speaker 1: Dave's last night? No, I was actually getting a call
Speaker 1: from somebody we both know who I thought maybe was
Speaker 1: in the producer chair today. So but who's there today?
Speaker 1: Is it Tom who just called me? Excepy, I'm smart
Speaker 1: enough to turn my ringer off. That's that's the difference
Speaker 1: between you. Well, I didn't expect that to be coming,
Speaker 1: and I just did. So why don't you just shut
Speaker 1: up and start the show? Okay, people haven't heard us
Speaker 1: in a while, and they haven't heard us for a while,
Speaker 1: but boy are they they hearing everything now they are. Hey,
Speaker 1: Alicia is gonna be on the show in the final segment,
Speaker 1: at which point we're gonna have a discussion about the
Speaker 1: proper pronunciation of her last name. It's gonna be how
Speaker 1: we start that interview here today? We got a lot
Speaker 1: of news. What are you British? We got a lot
Speaker 1: of news to get into here today, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to start off by saying that Cody Rhodes is not
Speaker 1: gonna be in the Royal Rumble. Say what you know?
Speaker 1: Who else is not gonna be in the Royal Rumble?
Speaker 1: John Moxley, No, John Moxley returns to A W tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Hand Cody is going to return to uh A W
Speaker 1: T tomorrow as well. Now if Cody is not there, uh,
Speaker 1: that's not Uh, He's still not gonna be in the rumble. Okay,
Speaker 1: But we'll see how much. We'll see how much traction
Speaker 1: this story has gotten. I do expect him to be
Speaker 1: on the show. But that's the story. You get a
Speaker 1: lot more psychopaths than I. Guys want more timeline. So
Speaker 1: I mean, really, are people really really getting themselves whipped
Speaker 1: up into a frenzy? Think listen. I know that that
Speaker 1: some of you don't believe this. You you hardcore tweeters. Okay,
Speaker 1: but bro, I am never on Twitter. Okay. I go
Speaker 1: on Twitter to put the ratings up there. I go
Speaker 1: on Twitter before the show and I retweeted much stuff
Speaker 1: from her sight, and I go on Twitter to send
Speaker 1: out the you know whatever for this show, and then
Speaker 1: like during pay per views, all tweet because like people
Speaker 1: seem to like that but other than that, I am
Speaker 1: never on Twitter, and every day, like in the middle
Speaker 1: of the day, I'll have people texting me about stuff
Speaker 1: that's all over Twitter right now, like what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Like I get these random text messages about
Speaker 1: Moxy is not going to be at the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, I'm well aware of that. And then
Speaker 1: I'm like what is this all about? And then I'm
Speaker 1: directed to Twitter and then I see all these numb
Speaker 1: skulls are like, um, Dean Ambrose is gonna be back.
Speaker 1: I'm like, why would Dean Ambrose? Why would anybody in
Speaker 1: a W be in the Royal Rumble? I realized that
Speaker 1: Mickey James, who is part of Impact, is going to
Speaker 1: be in the Royal Rumble. Okay, but unless someone has
Speaker 1: been recently fired from a W or or their contract
Speaker 1: expired and it's not renewed, there's nobody in a W.
Speaker 1: Why am I wasting my time with this? Why? Why
Speaker 1: am I wasting my time with this? Well, because of
Speaker 1: Twitter is why. But I'm gonna move on now. You
Speaker 1: guys don't need to know anything else. We have other
Speaker 1: things to talk about. But mox Ley and Cody and
Speaker 1: anybody else nobody from a W is gonna be in
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble. Now this is your shot. You want
Speaker 1: to blame Reddit too? Are you putting this all on Twitter?
Speaker 1: I didn't say anything about Reddit. I don't know what
Speaker 1: Reddit's talking about either. It all Twitter's fault. Well, this
Speaker 1: one is all Twitter's fault. Like you know, Chris Jericho
Speaker 1: is not going to be in the Rumbles? What you're saying, Oh,
Speaker 1: of course he's not gonna be in the Royal Rumble?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? But you know who's gonna be
Speaker 1: on television tonight? Voulter. Yeah, he is said to collide
Speaker 1: with one of the top in ring wrestlers in n
Speaker 1: x T. Volter will be facing Roderick Strong on Tuesday night. God,
Speaker 1: I hope they give this match time. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the future is for Roderick Strong, because you know,
Speaker 1: Roderick Strong was the cruiseweight champion. They're getting rid of
Speaker 1: the Cruiserweight belt. Clearly they don't want cruiserweights. And I
Speaker 1: believe Roderick Strong just opened up a p W T
Speaker 1: S store. So I don't know what the future is
Speaker 1: for this guy. But if if he has a future,
Speaker 1: or if he does not have a future will probably uh,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we'll no more tonight, but I
Speaker 1: expect him to be destroyed by Vault tonight and who
Speaker 1: knows what his future will be from there. But my
Speaker 1: guess is Roderick Strong also will not be in the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. Nor do I expect Moustafa Ali to be
Speaker 1: in the Royal Rumble because he wants out. You'll ever
Speaker 1: believe this, but the seventy five year old guy, I
Speaker 1: think he's seventy six now came up with an idea
Speaker 1: for Ali where all he decided, you know what, I'm
Speaker 1: at here, I'm done, I quit that. You can only imagine,
Speaker 1: You can only imagine what this seventy six year old
Speaker 1: bloke must have come up with for for Ali to
Speaker 1: want to just quit and get out of there. Although
Speaker 1: quite frankly, if you watch how he was used, I
Speaker 1: mean I wouldn't want to quit and get out of
Speaker 1: there as well, even without you know, Vince coming up
Speaker 1: with some stupid idea for me. But did you see
Speaker 1: that Roberick Strong shirt. You should be upset about this
Speaker 1: because you should have come up with this family shirt
Speaker 1: of ass kicking jiu jitsu fighters that they have on
Speaker 1: this T shirt with the child and the Strongs together.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling too, just just by watching already
Speaker 1: on her white belt. Well you know what, Yeah, you
Speaker 1: talked about some some mixed tag team that I I say, belt,
Speaker 1: I say, we've got a natural match up here with
Speaker 1: the whole family being involved. And I have a feeling
Speaker 1: just by watching Marina Schaffer what she's been doing on
Speaker 1: the indies, her social media and how she's marketing herself
Speaker 1: that UH, Robert Strong when he gets back to the
Speaker 1: Indian's better play catch up because Marina Schaffir may actually
Speaker 1: be the one that's uh most in demand here because
Speaker 1: she is getting much much better and she knows exactly
Speaker 1: who she is and what she is, and Uh, I
Speaker 1: have a feeling she'll be sitting bringing her blood sport
Speaker 1: aspects to uh Denny where she goes. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to this and I hope they get time tonight.
Speaker 1: Look for Roderick Strong. I don't know if he's leaving
Speaker 1: or not, but I do hope they get significant time tonight,
Speaker 1: and if he is on the way out the door,
Speaker 1: I mean I hope they Again, I don't know how
Speaker 1: he's gonna go out, But I if this is it good,
Speaker 1: you know, I hate to say it. From his financial
Speaker 1: point of view, it's not gonna be good for him.
Speaker 1: But for him, you know, as a fan watching him work, boy,
Speaker 1: I would love to see him do a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. And can you imagine Roderick Strong in New
Speaker 1: Japan right now, and New Japan is strong? It would
Speaker 1: be great tonight, uh n x T Tomorrow. Dynamite Adam
Speaker 1: Cole and Britt Baker versus Orange Cassidy and Chris stad Lander,
Speaker 1: seem Punk versus Sean Spears, Sting and Darby Ellen versus
Speaker 1: the acclaimed Serena Deeve versus Sky Blue, Lee Johnson and
Speaker 1: brock Anderson versus FTR, Cody Rhodes returns House of Black
Speaker 1: versus Varsity Blonde, and the return of John Moxley. Eight
Speaker 1: segments announced. Wait a second, you just announced mostly a
Speaker 1: bunch of matches, not enough segments for the show. I mean,
Speaker 1: didn't have what wrestling is all about? We got the segments,
Speaker 1: next segments, Well, next week we have many segments. We
Speaker 1: have got. We have got an i Q test between
Speaker 1: the Alpha Academy and Riddle and Randy Jordan. We have
Speaker 1: got the birthday celebration of MS and Maurice. I'm totally
Speaker 1: turning the corner on this feud, by the way. So
Speaker 1: it's a waste of miss, but like are not a
Speaker 1: waste of miss. I mean, it's actually good for miss.
Speaker 1: It's a waste of edge, but I mean, if we
Speaker 1: get past, it's a total waste of edge. This feud
Speaker 1: has been great so far. I don't know. There's another
Speaker 1: way to look at that, which is that that man
Speaker 1: has given his body and a lot of work. If
Speaker 1: he's having a lot of fun, I'll take it just
Speaker 1: because everybody involved is good at what they do. These
Speaker 1: people can't believe there's gonna be an i Q test. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just wait, I'll do the raw report in a minute.
Speaker 1: And we've also got a way in for a match
Speaker 1: with no weight limits six days prior to the match
Speaker 1: between brock Lessner and Bobby Lashley. We much like you
Speaker 1: have c we want to give you plenty of time
Speaker 1: to rehydrate. So that's what's happening here. You know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people don't know this. There's a two hunter
Speaker 1: and sixty five pound weight limit for for UFC. I
Speaker 1: think it's stole that number two eighty five. I think
Speaker 1: for the n c A A, so there actually is
Speaker 1: a weight limit for heavyweights and it is not unlimited,
Speaker 1: unlike pro wrestling where it's unlimited. But I guess this
Speaker 1: takes the place of a contract signing, right. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all four A w has done the way
Speaker 1: in it's it's ridiculous, but it's fine. It's obviously a
Speaker 1: ceremonial way, a better sale than another stupid contract signing.
Speaker 1: Much prefer a way in. Hopefully it's a shoot weight
Speaker 1: in brocks, like two pounds or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for real, while we weigh in Paul Hayman, I want
Speaker 1: to see that for Brock and Roman when it comes
Speaker 1: down to it again, I just hope they don't have
Speaker 1: him stripped nude and put them mind a towel, because
Speaker 1: if opposite the hard came, we're gonna have quite a show.
Speaker 1: I don't think we need that. Listen, We're gonna go
Speaker 1: to a break everybody, and we're gonna be back in
Speaker 1: a moment. We're gonna do the raw report. For those
Speaker 1: who aren't buy the i Q test, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: all about it back in a moment. Observer Live back
Speaker 1: in the show. Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive.
Speaker 1: Mike simper Viv, also of Wrestling observer dot Com, Thank god,
Speaker 1: I'm back to do a full raw report. I heard
Speaker 1: you at a lackluster, subpar raw report last week's Room Right.
Speaker 1: The people in the chat said it was one of
Speaker 1: the best ones that they ever heard. That Chad doesn't
Speaker 1: know what they want. Listen to you. You're starting to
Speaker 1: sound like that guy who looks like his face is
Speaker 1: falling off and who gargles on razor blades. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Mike Simperviv, do you know how many times Vince has
Speaker 1: come out on TV and I've said, this guy looked
Speaker 1: a hundred years on your Oh, I have to say
Speaker 1: to you, so I have to say something about his
Speaker 1: age and looks like now you say, his face is
Speaker 1: falling off and he looks like he's stargling razor blades.
Speaker 1: You were participating, but you were perfect. When you his
Speaker 1: face looks like it's falling off. He would come on
Speaker 1: and you would start getting uncomfortable. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: you actually used that on the world. He made you,
Speaker 1: You made you uncomfortable. I never said he made me uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: He said he looked two hundred years old, which actually
Speaker 1: I was given him a compliment. He said he's too Basically,
Speaker 1: he's too old to be on TV. You that's what
Speaker 1: you said, Cogan was too old to be on TV.
Speaker 1: What he is forty. Look, they'd tell you he's too
Speaker 1: old to be on TV. He would tell you that wrong.
Speaker 1: There is nobody. Betty White proved it. There is nobody
Speaker 1: too old to be on TV if they're good at
Speaker 1: what they do. And last night's Raw the only thing
Speaker 1: I because he didn't what he did last night, No,
Speaker 1: he was not. And that's the whole thing with that
Speaker 1: show last night. That's my only takeaway from it is
Speaker 1: they were facing off against the wild card game and
Speaker 1: it felt like they threw in the towel. And the
Speaker 1: big takeaway is the thespianism on this show and the
Speaker 1: dialogue that has written for these people. I know it
Speaker 1: is completely shooting a dead horse when it comes to
Speaker 1: w W een and when it comes to their dialogue,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to the fact that these are
Speaker 1: the people that brag about wanting to make movies, yet
Speaker 1: any time they actually have dialogue, it's not what any
Speaker 1: normal person would ever say, even inside their universe, none
Speaker 1: of this makes any sense with the characters that are involved.
Speaker 1: It's all a big, fat mess. And as you go
Speaker 1: through this, I'm sure you'll probably point out how bad
Speaker 1: a lot of this is, including with Vince McMahon, whose
Speaker 1: bits have become I mean almost they're almost like parodies
Speaker 1: of skits that Vince used to do. I mean they
Speaker 1: really really are. Well, let me get this over with. Then.
Speaker 1: First we have a segment with Becky, Do Drop, Bianca
Speaker 1: and Live, which leads to a match. See I could
Speaker 1: have wasted time telling you about it, but there was
Speaker 1: nothing to it. So it's Becky Lynch and Do Drop
Speaker 1: teaming together as they will face off of the Royal
Speaker 1: Rumble against Biancan Live. There was no explanation as to
Speaker 1: why these people are teaming with each other, and so
Speaker 1: the match goes three minutes. Becky hits Live with her finisher.
Speaker 1: She goes to cover her partner Do Drop breaks up
Speaker 1: the pin. Do Drop tries to make a cover, but
Speaker 1: the rest is stickler. No, you're not legal, so Do
Speaker 1: Drop has to get up, walk over, drag Becky to
Speaker 1: the corner, get out of the ring, tag get back
Speaker 1: in the ring squash Live and then pin her so Live.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if this match was two minutes
Speaker 1: and fifty seconds, she was on her back after getting
Speaker 1: hit with a finish for fifty full seconds. So for
Speaker 1: those of you waiting for Live Morgan and win the title,
Speaker 1: she couldn't be any further under. The only reason that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give Live Morgan a lifeline in my world
Speaker 1: is because there are still fans out there to believe
Speaker 1: in her and that's still like her, and it's very
Speaker 1: easy to do because she's very believable and likable. But
Speaker 1: with the dialogue they've given her, with the positions they've
Speaker 1: putting her in, which have just gotten her way under.
Speaker 1: And then you had the big botch with Becky at
Speaker 1: the pay per view where you know, why is Live?
Speaker 1: Why do we care about Live going after this? Because
Speaker 1: she continues to lose. I mean, look, this is how
Speaker 1: do Drop got into her title match, was the fact
Speaker 1: that she's basically lost. And it doesn't even make any
Speaker 1: sense that dude Dropping Becky Lynch would have been teaming
Speaker 1: last night at such a cohesive unit anyway, So it's
Speaker 1: just stupid. We had a bunch of backstage seig Men's
Speaker 1: Reggie wants advice from Edge against Omas Edge. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: you want to talk about backstage skits being bad, Edge
Speaker 1: is not involved in them. Edge was awesome on this show.
Speaker 1: Reggie wants advice and Edges like, oh man, you know
Speaker 1: you do all these flips and all this great stuff
Speaker 1: I mean, and Reggie goes, so I can win. Edge goes, hell, no,
Speaker 1: you can't win, and then Beth wax him. So Reggie's
Speaker 1: all sad and Edge was right by the way. And
Speaker 1: then Edge and Damian Priest have a conversation. Damian wants
Speaker 1: advice on how to win the Royal Rumble. When did
Speaker 1: they become friends? Edge blows him off. They're both baby faces.
Speaker 1: And then Kevin Owens goes up to Priests and he
Speaker 1: wants a nice clean wrestling match later on tonight. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to get through this show. Everybody the KO Show
Speaker 1: with seth Rawlins. The gist of it is, Kevin Owens
Speaker 1: wants to win the Rumble, Rawlins wants to win the championship.
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens wants the two of them for the belt
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania. Rawlins didn't seem like he was down with that. Idea,
Speaker 1: but they're supposed to pretend like they're friends. So that
Speaker 1: was that, and then Damien Priest comes out. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys know this or not. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you don't because they never made a comment about it.
Speaker 1: Damian Priests has been on the main roster for twelve
Speaker 1: months and he's never lost a singles match ever, Like
Speaker 1: he's too Tonka never lost, undefeated a streak of one year. Well,
Speaker 1: they never bring it to your attention, so he probably
Speaker 1: didn't even notice when Kevin Owens penned him tonight in
Speaker 1: a ten minute match clean. I guess it was kind
Speaker 1: of clean. He actually was clean. Kevin Owens acts like
Speaker 1: his knee is hurt. The referee goes to check on it.
Speaker 1: Damian Priest, who doesn't want to be a stupid baby
Speaker 1: face like he's trying, he goes, I don't believe it. Referee,
Speaker 1: get him up, that's not real. But regardless, he's distracted
Speaker 1: and Kevin Owens boots him and it's him with a
Speaker 1: stunner and pins him. First singles lost in one year
Speaker 1: for Damian Priest. Not even a story on this show.
Speaker 1: Nicky Yash promo. We had the Alpha Academy graduation ceremony,
Speaker 1: which actually Chad Gable was great and segment. He gives
Speaker 1: the the diploma to Otis and then Riddle comes out
Speaker 1: at a cap and gown. Riddles acting all stupid as usual.
Speaker 1: Gable tells him he's an idiot. You don't even know
Speaker 1: what the word rematch means. Riddle makes a weed reference.
Speaker 1: Everyone cheers, and so finally Gable says, listen, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1: You want to rematch for the titles, fine, if you
Speaker 1: can win an academic aptitude test next week. So next week,
Speaker 1: I know this Riddle. They didn't really explain this very well,
Speaker 1: but there's gonna be an i Q test of some sort,
Speaker 1: either with Riddle or with Riddle and Orton, and it's
Speaker 1: either a contest or it's not a contest. Otis was
Speaker 1: selling it like it was a contest because he was
Speaker 1: frett he was gonna lose. But I think it might
Speaker 1: just be that Orton and Riddle have to pass this test.
Speaker 1: But regardless, there's gonna be an intelligent segment on the
Speaker 1: show next week. Cannot wait. Then we had Finn Balor. Well.
Speaker 1: First we had Austin theory approaching Vin McMahon, Vince McMahon,
Speaker 1: who does not like gore and violence. Uh. He tells
Speaker 1: Austin theory. If you don't beat Finn Balor tonight, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pull a quote equalizer out of my desk. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna beat you within an inch of your life. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna knock your teeth out, I'm gonna bloody you up,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be nothing but blood and snot everywhere.
Speaker 1: That's what Vin said. And then I'm gonna take a
Speaker 1: selfie of your crumpled body and send it to your mother.
Speaker 1: Does your mother like mutilation? Yeah? We had our annual
Speaker 1: Martin Luther King Junior video. The videos are the best
Speaker 1: thing on the show. The Martin Luther King and the
Speaker 1: Bobby lash Lee versus uh brock Lesser videos. They were
Speaker 1: the best ode. Those are the best things you're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Martin Luther King Nay videos which you know,
Speaker 1: the official old white person. You know, I really care
Speaker 1: about relations because you know we have a actually shoot
Speaker 1: loves and and considers a hero, Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaker 1: That's great, you know, and maybe you should you know again,
Speaker 1: story for a different day. But you know, your actions
Speaker 1: and how you run your business and some of the
Speaker 1: people that you've pushed in some of the things that
Speaker 1: you've done and overseen actually telling from that to plug
Speaker 1: in the Saudi Show, but anywhere you go. Austin Theory
Speaker 1: beat Finn Balor Clean in the middle of the ring
Speaker 1: with his finish. Yeah. Then we had a Rea Ripley interview.
Speaker 1: You throw that Irish man on the pile. He's lost
Speaker 1: everything now that we've got a Damian and a priest,
Speaker 1: his gimmicks gone. The whole deal is gone. Ria Ripley
Speaker 1: versus Nicky Ashton happened of Vegan. Carmela came out, they
Speaker 1: distracted Ria, Nikki beat her up from behind and then
Speaker 1: walked out. So no match. They are, oh god. Then
Speaker 1: we had a say, hold on before you even do,
Speaker 1: I gotta get through this before sorry. But Selina and
Speaker 1: Carmela come out there and Selena is bashing Nicky ash
Speaker 1: like an idiot. She's supposed to be the new heel
Speaker 1: in this. The other two heels are making fun of her,
Speaker 1: and then Selina is making fun of Rea Ripley for
Speaker 1: not being able to be on her own. When the
Speaker 1: tag titles, which made absolutely no sense, stupid Omas defeated Reggie.
Speaker 1: Reggie wanted advice. The advice was to stay low like
Speaker 1: an idiot. He went high. He was caught. He was
Speaker 1: chokes lamb. He was pinned in thirty seconds by a
Speaker 1: better thirty seconds and four minutes we had a Maurice
Speaker 1: and Beth Phoenix face to face where obviously MS came out.
Speaker 1: He had tried to attack Edge. Maurice then whacked Beth
Speaker 1: Phoenix with her purse, knocked her out. They go up
Speaker 1: the ramp. She reveals there's a brick in her purse.
Speaker 1: Old school, simple, cowardly heels. I was fine with this,
Speaker 1: and and Maurice was good. In this segment, we had
Speaker 1: Street Profits, Dominic and Ray versus Ziggler, Robert Rude, Apollo
Speaker 1: and Commander Disease. Eight minutes, four minutes was on television
Speaker 1: because we had a long commercial matches fine, and the
Speaker 1: whole thing was a build for the baby faces winning.
Speaker 1: And then Ray and Dominic threw the Street Profits over
Speaker 1: the top rope. They all had a laugh. And then
Speaker 1: Ray through his son over the top rope. They all
Speaker 1: had a laugh. That's your royal rumble build. Everybody buy
Speaker 1: your tickets now at Alexa Bliss segment. It was dumb.
Speaker 1: You know, she had to do word association. Every word
Speaker 1: she associated with Lily. Finally, the guy goes imaginary and
Speaker 1: she gets all mad and he leaves, but then she
Speaker 1: calmed down. So I'm hoping the storyline is she's being
Speaker 1: healed and we'll come back as a pro wrestler and
Speaker 1: not the old Alexa with the doll everything. And finally,
Speaker 1: Lashly and Seth Rawlins in the main event went to
Speaker 1: a thirteen minute disqualification when the Hert business just ran in.
Speaker 1: After thirteen minutes, Lashly beats him up and then Rawlins
Speaker 1: got super kicked by the use SOS. I guess they figured, oh,
Speaker 1: we can give everyone a horrible d Q because we're
Speaker 1: gonna have the use os here on this show. And uh,
Speaker 1: the only thing I got saved for the break is
Speaker 1: what's with Lashly's new move where he puts the dude
Speaker 1: on his shoulders like, uh, simoe drop and then he
Speaker 1: runs head first into the post and they fall down.
Speaker 1: He's done it two weeks now. It's ridiculous at a
Speaker 1: moment Observer Live in the show Bright Now, but is
Speaker 1: here Wrestling Observer Live Mixumber viv also of Wrestling Observer
Speaker 1: dot com. And yes, Alicia is joining us right now.
Speaker 1: How are you? Where's my here? Here we go? I
Speaker 1: had you meet it, but now you're back because we
Speaker 1: have a very professional operation that we're running here. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna live done that once or twice and I've
Speaker 1: got check as soon as you realize, you're like, yes,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me. Yes, now, the first question
Speaker 1: came up earlier in the show. So please pronounce your
Speaker 1: last name for the listeners here. Yes, yes, Alicia. It's
Speaker 1: always the way. People don't want to say it. I
Speaker 1: get a tout at two, but it's literally as a
Speaker 1: red okay. But but here's my question. So I I
Speaker 1: see it, and I would would say a tout. Okay,
Speaker 1: But you're a Canadian, correct, I am Canadians from Toronto, Canada,
Speaker 1: all right, So so I would say about you would
Speaker 1: say a boot that's right? Yeah? Right? So is it?
Speaker 1: Is it a tute because you are a Canadian? But
Speaker 1: but for US Americans, we can we could use a tote,
Speaker 1: a tout. Any of these a tote, I mean, all
Speaker 1: are possible. I'll except any of them. I've heard any
Speaker 1: in which way it could be said, But I think
Speaker 1: I just always grew up with it being a tooth,
Speaker 1: so I've never really thought to kind of change or
Speaker 1: trying to make it sound fancier. I mean, Alicia too
Speaker 1: is pretty uh fancy sounding, But you know, I just
Speaker 1: decided to keep it how it was, where I've never
Speaker 1: thought of it that way, where we haven't got back
Speaker 1: and done any you know, DNA testing on the name
Speaker 1: or anything like that, if it changed once your your
Speaker 1: ancestors made it over to Canada in a testing her
Speaker 1: name you're talking about because people would you know, they
Speaker 1: travel the different areas and they changed their name. They
Speaker 1: changed their name. Is said, Yeah, where are you from?
Speaker 1: So I have been Canadian? Been Canadian? That sounds hilarious.
Speaker 1: I've lived in Canada my entire life. So I'm from Toronto, Canada. However, yeah, Toronto.
Speaker 1: But thinking back to it, like when I grew up,
Speaker 1: they told me that the lineage was French. However, I
Speaker 1: don't even know where that starts in my family because
Speaker 1: none of us speak French. And then in terms of
Speaker 1: even like going three generations down, no one's from Quebec. Like,
Speaker 1: I have no clue how it integrated its way into
Speaker 1: this bloodline, but hey, I'll accept it. Well, when you
Speaker 1: when you pronounced your name, it sounded very French, I thought, sure,
Speaker 1: I got a lot of French folks in my family.
Speaker 1: So so you know, actually my my my in laws
Speaker 1: are in France right now as we speak there in Paris.
Speaker 1: Well I'm a little jealous about that. I could go
Speaker 1: for a croissant right now. So so tell us about uh,
Speaker 1: tell us about wrestling? When did you When did you
Speaker 1: first get into wrestling? So I've been a wrestling fan
Speaker 1: since I was a kid. I started watching it when
Speaker 1: I was about three or four years old. My dad
Speaker 1: would have a bunch of his buddies over. They just
Speaker 1: sent me around the couch with them, and my eyes
Speaker 1: were glued to the screen. So my earliest memories really
Speaker 1: we're Mick Foley, Like that Hell in a Cell Classic
Speaker 1: match is just ingrained into my brain. And ever since
Speaker 1: watching that, I just needed more and more and more.
Speaker 1: And of course, like a lot of people, you go
Speaker 1: through phases, especially when you're a teenager. Were like, sometimes
Speaker 1: you watch it intensely, other times you fall out of
Speaker 1: it a little bit. But it's always kind of been
Speaker 1: somewhat of a constant, So you know, it went from
Speaker 1: being a fan as a child now being like heavily
Speaker 1: involved in it. So so one of your earliest memories
Speaker 1: is Mick Foley being thrown off the top of the
Speaker 1: tw cell and almost dying. It's one of those things too,
Speaker 1: And I appreciate my parents for this. They were like,
Speaker 1: you know, what, she's ever going to be exposed to
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, Like, let's make sure it's within
Speaker 1: our household. So I grew up watching Tarantino films, rest
Speaker 1: Slaying like all that stuff. I was really really young,
Speaker 1: but I'm grateful for It's definitely shaped me for what
Speaker 1: I like today. What I watched, what I'm into. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that entire match, I couldn't get enough of it. I
Speaker 1: had to thinks to myself, this is all wrestling is.
Speaker 1: I want to see more, and then I just went
Speaker 1: on a complete deep dive. Okay, So you go into
Speaker 1: this deep dive and and at what point was it
Speaker 1: where you thought, you know, I want to be involved
Speaker 1: in this in some way. I mean, did you ever
Speaker 1: did you ever want to be like one of the
Speaker 1: wrestlers or were you always attracted the idea of being
Speaker 1: a an on screen non wrestling personality. Yeah, so it
Speaker 1: was never a goal of mine growing up. I kind
Speaker 1: of started interviewing people because I was just at a
Speaker 1: random gig and decided to ask a band to questions.
Speaker 1: Then once I started to get popular on YouTube, I
Speaker 1: started interviewing the Metallicas and the motor Heads. And it
Speaker 1: was actually my father again who said, hey, you love wrestling,
Speaker 1: why don't you try interviewing wrestlers. So next thing I know,
Speaker 1: I'm at indie shows interviewing people, and then I got
Speaker 1: picked up by Impact is some a W gigs and
Speaker 1: now I'm with MLW. So it's just kind of this crazy,
Speaker 1: unexed spected roller coaster I never had had my eyes
Speaker 1: set on. But I'm so glad it worked out this week.
Speaker 1: I just I'm really passionate about both those things. So
Speaker 1: that was kind of no game plan from the jump,
Speaker 1: but you know, I'm happy with how it ended up.
Speaker 1: But in terms of actually wrestling, I I was just
Speaker 1: asked that like a year ago, say no, there's no
Speaker 1: way I'd ever stepped into a ring. But now with
Speaker 1: my current feud with Selina to Lorenza, we've had wrestling matches.
Speaker 1: I've had to train for them. I've had fractures because
Speaker 1: of it, which is why I'm never went wrestling in
Speaker 1: the first place. So that's fun, But you know, it's
Speaker 1: just kind of trying to continue to grow and trying
Speaker 1: new things. I always will never say no to an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Did you go to school to to kind of start
Speaker 1: carving out your career path or was it something that
Speaker 1: just kind of started happening on your own that you
Speaker 1: started going to shows, into concerts and just talking to people,
Speaker 1: or how did your evolution happen as far as you know,
Speaker 1: getting out there and and being on YouTube and doing
Speaker 1: these types of things. Yeah, it completely happened organically. In
Speaker 1: terms of education, I have my high school deploy alma.
Speaker 1: I applied for a bunch of universities here in Toronto,
Speaker 1: was accepted. But then I kind of realized, if I
Speaker 1: can craft this into my own thing without needing to
Speaker 1: go to school for journalism or English or anything else,
Speaker 1: let's just give it a shot. So I took everything
Speaker 1: that I learned my last year of high school, which
Speaker 1: is literally all writing courses, and decided, hey, let's go
Speaker 1: into the world. I was already going to concerts five
Speaker 1: times a night, just because I loved music. I started
Speaker 1: interviewing the bands that turn into not only five concerts,
Speaker 1: but like three to five interviews at night. It was insane.
Speaker 1: And then I just grew this crazy passion for it.
Speaker 1: So it was very organic, very natural. But I think
Speaker 1: it was just this constant grind that I definitely got
Speaker 1: from my parents, where it's like, all right, you've hit
Speaker 1: this and you gotta get there and better and better,
Speaker 1: and then I just never stopped. I still like, not content,
Speaker 1: I'll never be content. I don't I don't recommend uh
Speaker 1: pursuing the career path in that way, but I did
Speaker 1: the exact same thing because when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a writer, and so I went
Speaker 1: briefly to community college and I got an A in English,
Speaker 1: and it was like, what am I doing here? What
Speaker 1: am I wasting my time for? Like if I want
Speaker 1: to write a book, they're not gonna ask me for
Speaker 1: my college degree. Like they're either gonna like the book
Speaker 1: or they're not. They're not gonna like the book. And
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, if you wanted to
Speaker 1: be a broadcast journalist, I mean, you'd have to go
Speaker 1: to school because you're trying to get a job at
Speaker 1: like the local whatever, King five or whatever. Nowadays, I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't need anything to start on YouTube, just have
Speaker 1: to have a YouTube account, in a in a camera.
Speaker 1: So most people probably wouldn't have it succeeded the way
Speaker 1: that you did. But the barrier of entry for what
Speaker 1: you're doing is is quite low, which of course also
Speaker 1: makes it difficult because then everybody tries to do it,
Speaker 1: and so you've you've got uh far bigger I don't
Speaker 1: know what the term would be, but you've got more competition. Basically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's exactly I was about to say. When I first started,
Speaker 1: I started calling my website a music blog, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I was just poking fun at the fact that every
Speaker 1: single person had a music blog or some kind of
Speaker 1: blog out there, whatever their hobby, as there was thousands
Speaker 1: of blogs for it. So I just started as a
Speaker 1: hobby myself and never expected it to actually turn into
Speaker 1: what it has today. But again, I think it kind
Speaker 1: of went to the point where I got to the
Speaker 1: point where I started seeing some income coming in from
Speaker 1: different places and realized this could actually be a job.
Speaker 1: So kind of, like you mentioned, I wouldn't always recommend
Speaker 1: that path because it doesn't work out for everyone. You
Speaker 1: really have to have a crazy drive for it. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm just glad that it did
Speaker 1: happen to work out. I was told myself, I can
Speaker 1: always go back to school if I need to, but
Speaker 1: I just I didn't take a break, you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was a hectic few years starting this thing up.
Speaker 1: So so now having done everything that you have done
Speaker 1: and also been in the ring a few times and
Speaker 1: is noted resulted in some fractures. I mean, looking forward,
Speaker 1: what what would you prefer to do? Because obviously if
Speaker 1: you become a if you become a very very popular wrestler,
Speaker 1: you can obviously make a lot more money. However, you're
Speaker 1: also wrestling and fractures and etcetera, etcetera. Where is is
Speaker 1: doing an interview, gig announcer whatever. I mean, you can
Speaker 1: do that till you're a hundred. So what what do
Speaker 1: you feel more comfortable doing and pursuing? Is the future comes?
Speaker 1: Oh the wrestling aspect is so difficult for me, Like,
Speaker 1: I have so much even more appreciation for wrestlers now
Speaker 1: after I've tried doing it. And I'm lucky because when
Speaker 1: I first started doing this stuff, I told myself, I
Speaker 1: don't want to just go in there and you know,
Speaker 1: work out clothes and have a match. As we went
Speaker 1: all out. We had gear made for entrance, music, everything,
Speaker 1: and we actually taught me some pretty intense moves and
Speaker 1: end up being a really good match. But I fractured
Speaker 1: my tailbone, and it's because I hadn't done all of
Speaker 1: the necessary training and train for you know, people who
Speaker 1: have been doing this for ten years still get injured.
Speaker 1: So I didn't go in there thinking like I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be the best, but that did happen. It resulted in
Speaker 1: the tailbone fracture, and it is a pain being in there.
Speaker 1: So I would love to hold the microphone, show my attitude,
Speaker 1: show what I can bring in that sense, rather than
Speaker 1: having to actually wrestle. But there's some stuff coming up
Speaker 1: where I don't necessarily need to be crazy physical, but
Speaker 1: I think it's going to bring what I what I
Speaker 1: have and what I can bring to the table to
Speaker 1: a whole other levels. So I'm really excited about that.
Speaker 1: Did it take any convincing to get you in the ring?
Speaker 1: And what are some of the things that people told
Speaker 1: you bro pro and con about this, because it seems
Speaker 1: like the feud with with Selena was just something that
Speaker 1: people took to and was such a natural for you
Speaker 1: to take, you know, off screen and do things with
Speaker 1: what you obviously have. But was there any hesitation on
Speaker 1: getting in the ring and did you have anybody tell
Speaker 1: you that, hey, you know, you may not want to
Speaker 1: do this aspect of it, don't get hurt, don't don't
Speaker 1: bother doing this. Oh yeah. A bunch of my wrestling
Speaker 1: buddies were like, you're crazy. We've been training for ten years.
Speaker 1: It takes a lot, and it wasn't They were doubting
Speaker 1: the fact I could do it or not. It wasn't
Speaker 1: is she competent to its more so just we just
Speaker 1: don't want to see someone get hurt, which I completely understand.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I'd love proving people wrong, just
Speaker 1: in terms of, hey, I can do this, I can
Speaker 1: put on a good match, I can make fans respect
Speaker 1: something else I can do. So that was my drive.
Speaker 1: But a the same time, if you just picked up
Speaker 1: and ways we never thought it would. It all started
Speaker 1: to be putting a poop emoji on some stupid graphic
Speaker 1: of hers for an MLW match when she was managing
Speaker 1: No Markets and then we just had this crazy Twitter
Speaker 1: online thing going and it kind of got to the
Speaker 1: point where, about eight months in, where do we take this?
Speaker 1: We can only talk so much crap to one another
Speaker 1: for so long, what do we do? And then all
Speaker 1: the requests we had to have a match in the
Speaker 1: pay per view and to do things together, we just
Speaker 1: you can't ignore what the fans want at that point,
Speaker 1: so we just went for it. We went completely in
Speaker 1: and I'm still very happy that we did. So is is, uh,
Speaker 1: would wrestling be your first love right now? Or or
Speaker 1: are you still like a huge music fan and that
Speaker 1: will always be like how this all started for you?
Speaker 1: I think music will always be my first love. Like
Speaker 1: I have so many just memories and stories from my
Speaker 1: parents from even like from them bathing me, and I
Speaker 1: was little to prints to four days ago watching the
Speaker 1: New Beatles documentary and just the way that that makes
Speaker 1: me feel. I just can't shake that if there's nostalgian warmth,
Speaker 1: and I just I'll always have music as my first love.
Speaker 1: But wrestling now is a very close second. And it's
Speaker 1: interesting because of course I love watching the matches, but
Speaker 1: the feeling I get from performing and going out in
Speaker 1: front of the crowd and seeing my friends do their
Speaker 1: thing and working with them now in companies. That's a
Speaker 1: rush that music doesn't give you unless you're on stage performing.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of nice that I have the balance
Speaker 1: of the two now. I'm really grateful for that. But
Speaker 1: so did you Did you ever play an instrument or
Speaker 1: anything like that, or or you know, uh mingle with
Speaker 1: being in a band? Who's my dream when I was younger,
Speaker 1: But I just don't have the mental capacity to remember
Speaker 1: that time of stuff, so I think of ultim I
Speaker 1: never wanted to go get into wrestling either, because there's
Speaker 1: so much stuff that you have to just be on constantly.
Speaker 1: You can't screw it up. So I never tried any instruments.
Speaker 1: But I loved love singing growing up. I was inquired
Speaker 1: to local class every single year. Wasn't all the talent
Speaker 1: shows Until this day. I love singing. It's one of
Speaker 1: my biggest passions. In terms of playing an instrument. My
Speaker 1: family members or friends will play, I'll sing with them,
Speaker 1: but otherwise, you know, it's always the vocals for me.
Speaker 1: Do you still go to concerts all the time? Now?
Speaker 1: With now with COVID, it's so much harder because I
Speaker 1: just it still worries me so much if I go
Speaker 1: to this one thing that I can't make it to
Speaker 1: tapings next week, or I can't visit people that I
Speaker 1: want to see, like it's always in the back of
Speaker 1: my mind. However, right now I'm working for not Fest,
Speaker 1: which is slip Knots company and their festival, so there's
Speaker 1: some stuff on the horizon with them I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: So hopefully I'll be able to see some new gigs
Speaker 1: soon because I haven't been to a concert and way
Speaker 1: too long, way too long. All Right'm ahead to break
Speaker 1: everybody back in a moment with more Observer Live h
Speaker 1: H taking the show. Brian Elber is here wrestling Observer
Speaker 1: Live mixumbur viv, also Wrestling Observer dot Com, Alicia Too
Speaker 1: dis joining us here today and a lot of plugs
Speaker 1: get in here, mL W your YouTube channel, a thousand
Speaker 1: different social media outlets. What do we got? I'm all
Speaker 1: over the place, so yeah, you guys. It's the easiest
Speaker 1: RCT to find my stuff is simply searching Alicia Too.
Speaker 1: There you'll find my YouTube with over four thousand in
Speaker 1: person interviews. To check those out with musicians wrestlers and bodybuilders.
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Speaker 1: We are also coming up having a lot of features
Speaker 1: in terms of pay per views and whatnot. To check
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Speaker 1: am their host. We have some crazy stuff coming up,
Speaker 1: including a show this Friday and Dallas, Texas. Tickets are
Speaker 1: still available, guys, you can snag those now. And otherwise,
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place for socialist posting daily, whether
Speaker 1: it's my thoughts, photographs, co labs. So yeah, let's ride
Speaker 1: the train, and I have a lot of exciting things
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to share them with you. So
Speaker 1: four thousand interviews, it's a lot, right, Like it's excessive, dude.
Speaker 1: We need to have you on again so I can
Speaker 1: strictly talk to you about interviewing body builders. Yeah, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's so much fun. Please but it is,
Speaker 1: I can imagine. All right, we'll check that out everybody.
Speaker 1: N Alicia want to thank you so much for doing
Speaker 1: the show here today and yes, we will have you
Speaker 1: on again and that's luck m l W this coming weekend,
Speaker 1: so check that out m l W. All over their
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