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.
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Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live.
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Speaker 1: there we go. All right, Well, now we're ready to go,
Speaker 1: and it is Tuesday on the show. We have lots
Speaker 1: to talk about here today. Last night was Raw and
Speaker 1: it was the go home show for Summer Slam, which
Speaker 1: is coming up on Saturday. And we have a full
Speaker 1: lineup for the Summer Slam show here today, which has
Speaker 1: at this point eight matches, and several matches that we
Speaker 1: thought were going to be on Summer Slam actually are
Speaker 1: not going to be on Summer Slam. They've made some
Speaker 1: changes and we'll tell you exactly why those changes were made.
Speaker 1: What's on the show and what is not. We've also
Speaker 1: got the NXT show tonight, which is the follow up
Speaker 1: from the Great American Bash. They've added a tag team
Speaker 1: match to the show, so we'll give you that one.
Speaker 1: Dynamite two hundred The two hundredth episode of Dynamite is tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and we have seven matches for that show, and I
Speaker 1: would presume, and I would pray actually that tomorrow we
Speaker 1: start hearing a lot more about Wembley because we are
Speaker 1: now four weeks away, and even Cmpunk on the Collision
Speaker 1: Show on Saturday asked, am I the first person to
Speaker 1: actually talk about this show here? It is time to
Speaker 1: start getting a card. It's been time for a while,
Speaker 1: and we do have an update on how you are
Speaker 1: going to be able to watch both that show and
Speaker 1: all out. We've also got some rating notes. The Thursday
Speaker 1: or the Saturday night Collision Show ended up doing a
Speaker 1: great number, that of course being with the MGF and
Speaker 1: Adam Cole versus FTR title match, so we'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that. What the highest rated thing on the show
Speaker 1: was same with SmackDown. Had a bunch of other news
Speaker 1: as well, So back in a moment to kick everything off,
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live. Sure, I kind of.
Speaker 3: See the range, but they.
Speaker 1: Back in the show. Bright Elvarez here Wrestling Observer Live,
Speaker 1: Mike siberbb also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Got a lot
Speaker 1: of lineups to talk about here today. The NXT show
Speaker 1: is tonight, Everyone's favorite show. We have got a lot
Speaker 1: hira of val Kaira versus j C. Jaane, Die Jack
Speaker 1: versus Eddie Thorpe. The Schism is doing an interrogation segment
Speaker 1: those Maschism members. Man, We're gonna find out who those
Speaker 1: guys are tonight and Ulyssa Leone and Valentina Ferraz versus
Speaker 1: Lola Weiss and Electro Lopez. Now, granted, I expected that
Speaker 1: pre show match on the NXT pay per view to
Speaker 1: be bad, and apparently it was not. I heard nothing
Speaker 1: but great reviews about it, So maybe this one will
Speaker 1: surprise people. But if it does, I will be surprised,
Speaker 1: won't put it that way. Then we have the Dynamite
Speaker 1: two hundred lineup for tomorrow, Tony Storm versus A Karashida,
Speaker 1: Ossi Open versus Ejdel Vikingo and Commander Jericho, and Takesha
Speaker 1: versus Samy Gabar and daliel Garcia. Jack Perry goes face
Speaker 1: to face with the Jerry It is so bizarre. I've
Speaker 1: been watching these old NWATNA shows and Jerry Lynn is
Speaker 1: wrestling on every single show, and here I am twenty
Speaker 1: one years later, Jerry Lynn is doing a face to face.
Speaker 1: He's gonna beat some sense and to Jack Perry tomorrow,
Speaker 1: he says, just like he beats some sense in a
Speaker 1: young aj Styles twenty one years ago. What a stupid storyline. God,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to digress, but you know
Speaker 1: I've never been a fan of Vince Russo you know, man,
Speaker 1: I'm watching these old NWATNA shows that he is booking,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't want to say anything bad about anybody,
Speaker 1: but he's just like a dumb person. Like this stuff
Speaker 1: is so dumb. It doesn't make any sense anybody with
Speaker 1: a lick of sense, anybody with a like anything involving
Speaker 1: a working brain. Like I'll just give you one example. Okay,
Speaker 1: you guys, remember Sonny Siaki.
Speaker 2: I do all right?
Speaker 1: Well, Sonny Seaki is one of the Flying Elvis's. Okay,
Speaker 1: so like for the last three weeks, Sonny Siaki has
Speaker 1: been doing commentary why the football the Flying Elvis is
Speaker 1: wrestle and he's like, ah, these Flying Elvis is they suck.
Speaker 1: You know anything they do that's good they got from me.
Speaker 1: I taught them everything they know. I'm the best guy here.
Speaker 1: And so then you know, he does this couple weeks
Speaker 1: in a row, and then on the show that I
Speaker 1: just watch, it's like he does an interview backstage with Goldilocks, who,
Speaker 1: of course he has to bury and make fun of her.
Speaker 1: He goes, are you checking out my butt? You're not
Speaker 1: allowed to do that, and he just he cuts his
Speaker 1: total heel promo. Okay, three straight weeks, he's been a
Speaker 1: total heel. He's cocky, he's arrogant. He's cutting this heel
Speaker 1: promo and he goes, I'm gonna be wrestling here tonight.
Speaker 1: I meant I left those zelbs. This isn't home. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna show y'all how it's done here tonight, Goldie Horrible
Speaker 1: Lady or whatever. So he goes down to the ring
Speaker 1: and his opponent comes out and it's whatever, I forget
Speaker 1: the it's like Slash or whatever. It's Wolfy d.
Speaker 2: Slash, a heel.
Speaker 1: Yes, a member of James Mitchell's heel group. This guy
Speaker 1: goes in and he gets the heat on Sonny Siaki.
Speaker 1: Honey Sunday Sayaki is now a babyface in peril. It's
Speaker 1: like the match is getting no heat because nobody knows
Speaker 1: what's going on. It's like, wit, We're supposed to cheer
Speaker 1: for Sonny Siaki now, and Sonny's trying to make these
Speaker 1: babyface comebacks or whatever, and then of course he gets pinned.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, I mean, God, like, of all
Speaker 1: of this stupid stuff, you have to be so stupid,
Speaker 1: so legitimately stupid to put something together like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was just like, what is happening here? Why is
Speaker 1: he a bit?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll review the whole show tonight, and that's not
Speaker 1: even close to the worst thing on the show.
Speaker 4: In fact, it's just going to get worse for you, you
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying. It's just gonna get worse. At
Speaker 4: some point. You're gonna see just go Inferno, Johnny Swinger
Speaker 4: and David Young dancing around in coconut brawls. That's going
Speaker 4: to happen at some point here.
Speaker 1: Just the stupidest psychotic I used to always tell Dave,
Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, this show is so stupid. This show
Speaker 1: is even dumber than than ww' nothing's dumber than W.
Speaker 1: I'm watching a second time and I'm telling you this
Speaker 1: stuff is way worse than w CW was. Yeah, anyway, it.
Speaker 2: Gets a lot more offensive at times as well too.
Speaker 1: Moxley, Penta and Trent anything goes match. We're back. We're
Speaker 1: back to a real show now. Well, dude, whatever you
Speaker 1: think about anything going on in in a e W
Speaker 1: or WWE or even NXT, guys, you don't know how
Speaker 1: good you got it. You just don't know how good
Speaker 1: you've gotten it. And all this anyway, Kenny Omega, the
Speaker 1: Young Bucks versus Jared Jay Lethal and Suttenham sing, I.
Speaker 4: Can tell you this is somebody that paid for those
Speaker 4: weekly pay per views. I think I would rather pay
Speaker 4: you and Vinnie and Craig and Sean to review them
Speaker 4: as opposed to paying for them in real time again, and.
Speaker 1: Watch, please do, I'm begging you. And then MJF speaks,
Speaker 1: and I presume Adam Cole will be out there as well,
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk about collision ratings here in a moment.
Speaker 1: But Adam Cole, MGF and FTR, Yeah they did it.
Speaker 1: And then SummerSlam. We'll talk about the Raw report here
Speaker 1: later on as well, but this is the update on SummerSlam.
Speaker 1: We have got the Tribal Combat match for the Beads
Speaker 1: in the title, Roman Reigns versus Jayu, so Cody Rhodes
Speaker 1: versus brock Lesner does not have a stipulation, so at
Speaker 1: the end of the day they opted against doing this
Speaker 1: stipulation whatever it was gonna be. We've got seth Rawlins
Speaker 1: versus Finn Baler for the World Heavyweight title. We have
Speaker 1: Gunther versus Drew McIntyre for the inter Continental title. We
Speaker 1: have Oscar, Charlotte and Bianca triple threat for the WE
Speaker 1: Women's title, Logan Paul versus Ricochet, Ronda Rousey versus Shana
Speaker 1: Basler MMA rules, and we have a Summer Slam Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: So there are eight matches. The Rhea Ripley match versus Raquel,
Speaker 1: which was scheduled for the show, is not taking place.
Speaker 1: They've done an injury angle with Raquel and she is
Speaker 1: not cleared in storyline, but when she is cleared, she
Speaker 1: will be back. And I'm not sure all of the
Speaker 1: circumstances beyond that one. Maybe there's just you know, they
Speaker 1: don't want to do a rush to nothing happened in
Speaker 1: match on this show, give them more time, put them
Speaker 1: on the next pay per view, whatever. And also the
Speaker 1: plan and this one actually was planned, I think, like
Speaker 1: before WrestleMania, Becky Lynch and Trish Stratus was planned for
Speaker 1: WrestleMania and they shot a nothing happened in Angle last
Speaker 1: night and then announced that the match is actually gonna
Speaker 1: be taking place in several weeks in Winnipeg. And I
Speaker 1: think that Trish is not ready to do a full
Speaker 1: match because of her broken nose, and so I think
Speaker 1: that they figured she would be ready by Summer Slam,
Speaker 1: but she's not gonna be ready, and they don't want
Speaker 1: to do a literally two second match at SummerSlam, and
Speaker 1: so they're gonna give her another couple of weeks to
Speaker 1: heal up and then do that match on TV as
Speaker 1: a main event in Winnipeg. So that is the lineup
Speaker 1: on all of that, and I still expect this to
Speaker 1: be a hell of a Summer Slam. I mean probably,
Speaker 1: you know, Ray and Roman reigns and jay Uso is
Speaker 1: going to be great, Cody Rose and brock Lester is
Speaker 1: probably gonna be great. Seth Rawlins and finnbatt Baler is
Speaker 1: gonna be great, Gunthor and Drew McIntyre is going to
Speaker 1: be great, Charlotte and Bianca and Oscar. Whatever you think
Speaker 1: of the build for this, I mean, it should be
Speaker 1: a really good match. Logan Paul and Ricochet are setting
Speaker 1: out to do like a series of the craziest things
Speaker 1: ever seen in wrestling. The most vil yeah, though not
Speaker 1: not just that, Mike the most viral match most and
Speaker 1: then Ronda Rousey and Shayea Basler. You know, they had
Speaker 1: a great series of video packages on Raw, and I
Speaker 1: will say that they did a brawl a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago and the brawl was great, and the stipulation
Speaker 1: years it's going to be an MMA rules match, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're going to go full MMA
Speaker 1: and they're just gonna do like a fifty sparring UFC
Speaker 1: style match or what they're going to do. Oh yes,
Speaker 1: but this could be. This could be awesome. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: we shall see.
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to I'm actually looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: And maybe the two video packages helped.
Speaker 2: Out a little bit. But I haven't big.
Speaker 4: On Rondo, but I'm a big shanea fan, and I
Speaker 4: would love to see them go at it.
Speaker 1: On the back at the moment with more Observer Live
Speaker 1: cats back of the show bright nowb is here wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live except for VB also Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: We had an old White WUF match airing during the
Speaker 1: commercial break, and in fact, as somebody pointed out, that
Speaker 1: was watching those children in that video there in the audience,
Speaker 1: They're in their thirties. Now, oh, that was nineteen ninety five.
Speaker 2: Why did you have to go and do that.
Speaker 1: Some of those some of those children have children.
Speaker 2: Now, I was in thirteenth grade at that point.
Speaker 1: All right, A couple of notes here. Brandon Thurston is
Speaker 1: confirmed that Direct TV will be carrying the All in
Speaker 1: pay per view. In Demand is as well, so all
Speaker 1: of the major cable companies will be carrying it like
Speaker 1: a normal show. They are listing a fifty dollars price tag.
Speaker 1: None of this has been made official to the public,
Speaker 1: but officials with Direct TV confirmed it to Thurston, and
Speaker 1: those within companies have confirmed In Demand carrying it to us.
Speaker 1: Nor have any of the companies advertised the show to
Speaker 1: the public. It is amazing, It is amazing how secretive,
Speaker 1: this gigantic, gigantic show is here.
Speaker 4: Well, this is about the time. I mean we're about
Speaker 4: three weeks a month out. This is about the time
Speaker 4: they start getting crankin on that stuff, which is one
Speaker 4: of the reasons that it was added to the Comcast schedule.
Speaker 4: And for those who don't know, In Demand is actually
Speaker 4: owned by Comcast, Cocks and Charter Communication, and so it
Speaker 4: is a was it fata compley that this show is
Speaker 4: going to be airing into the exact same way all
Speaker 4: of the other shows there. It's just a matter of
Speaker 4: whether it will air on Bleacher Report or it somehow
Speaker 4: again miraculously gets picked up and put on Max. But
Speaker 4: that is not looking like it's going to be the case.
Speaker 4: And it is looking like you're going to have back
Speaker 4: to back pay per views only what a week or
Speaker 4: two apart.
Speaker 1: I would say, barring a major, major, major change, this
Speaker 1: is not airing on Max. It is probably gonna be
Speaker 1: on Bleacher Report and uh yeah, probably one hundred bucks
Speaker 1: over two weeks if you want to watch both of
Speaker 1: these shows. Is the way it is looking right now.
Speaker 1: And the other big note is Collision. The Collision Show
Speaker 1: seven hundred and thirty nine thousand viewers for Adam Cole
Speaker 1: and MJF versus FTR, up twenty percent from the previous week.
Speaker 1: Highest audience total for the show since the premiere episode
Speaker 1: a point two seven in eighteen to forty nine, which
Speaker 1: was up fifty percent from the week prior. Best number
Speaker 1: of the show is done since the point three to
Speaker 1: one it drew for the premiere. Hey, you know the
Speaker 1: thing is these premiers always they always do sky high
Speaker 1: numbers and always falls from the premiere. It doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if you're aw, it doesn't matter if you're WWE. That
Speaker 1: first SmackDown on Fox had four million viewers. It's never
Speaker 1: come close. But to go over a month later and
Speaker 1: almost do what you did for the premiere is very impressive.
Speaker 1: They went ahead to d with the UFC two to
Speaker 1: ninety one prelimbs, which did a point thirty on ABC
Speaker 1: and MLB on Fox which did a point three five
Speaker 1: and eighteen to forty nine. So it was very very
Speaker 1: strong competition and the biggest increases men eighteen to thirty
Speaker 1: four up one hundred and eighty one percent. Wow from
Speaker 1: last week. Collision's best viewership in the demo since the premiere,
Speaker 1: but they were down sixty one percent in females, which
Speaker 1: is the only demo the show had to a decrease in.
Speaker 1: So Brandon Thurston had the quarters out this morning and
Speaker 1: sampunk streak of being the highest rated thing on Collision
Speaker 1: ended because of that main event and the MJF and
Speaker 1: Adam cole versus FTR quarter did eight hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven thousand viewers and four hundred and twenty six thousand
Speaker 1: in eighteen to forty nine, which is a huge number
Speaker 1: four Collision, and it grew tremendously. Really it was actually
Speaker 1: it was it was long match, so the comparison would
Speaker 1: actually be the ninth fifteen to nine thirty segment, which
Speaker 1: was six hundred and eighty two thousand viewers. They grew
Speaker 1: to seven fifty six for the first part of the
Speaker 1: match in eight thirty seven for the second part of
Speaker 1: the match, so they almost added two hundred thousand viewers,
Speaker 1: which is a very very impressive number. And the opening
Speaker 1: segment seven fifty five, which was the Buddy Matthews Andrade
Speaker 1: ladder match, although that did lose viewers, and then the
Speaker 1: cmpunk promo did about seven forty five averaging it out,
Speaker 1: so he still did very well, but you know, the
Speaker 1: big thing was the tag team title match. And what's
Speaker 1: going to be interesting, as always is how are we
Speaker 1: following this up? How are we following this up? Because
Speaker 1: you know, we saw with WWE, I thought for sure
Speaker 1: that Sammy should have beaten Roman, but he did not.
Speaker 1: And I thought that if he wasn't beating Roman, then
Speaker 1: Cody had to beat Roman, and he did not. And
Speaker 1: so you know, there was a lot of second guessing
Speaker 1: of these decisions. And now here we are. It's August first,
Speaker 1: and as I've noted before, you know, we'll never know
Speaker 1: how things would have been if Cody had just won
Speaker 1: the title and Roman Reigns would have done the exact
Speaker 1: same stuff that he's doing now with the bloodline. But
Speaker 1: what we do know is it did not do any
Speaker 1: sort of damage whatsoever because everything has been up substantially
Speaker 1: since WrestleMania. Everything has gone up since WrestleMania when Roman
Speaker 1: beat Cody, and that means that they did not make
Speaker 1: the wrong call. We'll never know if the other call
Speaker 1: would have been better, but we do know they did
Speaker 1: not make a bad call here. Now the question on
Speaker 1: this one is did they make the right call with
Speaker 1: Adam Cole and MGFF not winning the title, where are
Speaker 1: they going next? Are they going to do a rematch
Speaker 1: in Wembley? When the match, you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought, oh my god, you know they're going to
Speaker 1: do the rematch in Wembley, And the fact of the
Speaker 1: matter is, you know, FTR beat them, and if they
Speaker 1: were going to do a rematch in Wembley, I think
Speaker 1: that they might have done another finish. I am not
Speaker 1: sitting here telling you. If you had to put a
Speaker 1: gun to my head and I asked me, you think
Speaker 1: they're going to do this rematch in Wembley, I would
Speaker 1: say no, I think they're still going to be doing
Speaker 1: MJFF and Adam Cole. I don't know that. I don't
Speaker 1: know for sure what they're going to do, but you
Speaker 1: know that was that was the plan, and obviously to
Speaker 1: get to that plan, they were not going to beat
Speaker 1: FTR in the finals of this tournament and Tony is
Speaker 1: stuck with that. So you know, is the follow up
Speaker 1: going to be better? Is the bill to MGFF and
Speaker 1: Adam Cole or whatever they're going to do, is that
Speaker 1: going to be better? Because they had a lot of
Speaker 1: momentum going into that tag title match, and as you
Speaker 1: can see from the number and I myself personally, that
Speaker 1: was to me my most anticipated match on any television
Speaker 1: show in a long, long, long time, because I felt
Speaker 1: very strongly that they needed to go with this and
Speaker 1: put the tag titles on them. I was more interested
Speaker 1: in this match than any match on TV and I
Speaker 1: don't even know how long, and clearly a lot of
Speaker 1: other people were as well. So what's the follow up
Speaker 1: gonna be. We're gonna find out more tomorrow. Is the
Speaker 1: alternate storyline is going to be better than what they
Speaker 1: did leading into this? I guess we'll find out, but
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be a tough hill to
Speaker 1: climb because there was a lot of interest in this
Speaker 1: feud and in MGF and Adam Cole winning those titles.
Speaker 4: Well, let me ask you a question, then, a philosophical question,
Speaker 4: because you were very big on not only them getting
Speaker 4: the titles, but even more importantly than that, them staying together.
Speaker 4: What do you think is more important them winning the
Speaker 4: titles or them just staying together? Because off of this
Speaker 4: you could get Dax Horwood in MJF, which leads to
Speaker 4: MJF and cm PUNK. There are some things that you
Speaker 4: can do with it. But what was more important to you?
Speaker 4: The fact that they are together here? Do you think
Speaker 4: that or do you think they really needed to stay
Speaker 4: together and win those tag titles?
Speaker 1: Well, absolutely, without question, they need to stay together for now.
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying that they need to stay together
Speaker 1: for another year because obviously this thing is super hot
Speaker 1: right now. But you know, how long are the fans
Speaker 1: going to be into this? I don't know, But what
Speaker 1: I do know is they weren't ready for it to
Speaker 1: be over yet, and so on that day the more
Speaker 1: important thing. I mean, there's only two options. There's either
Speaker 1: they win the titles and then they split, which would
Speaker 1: be stupid, or they don't win the titles and stay together,
Speaker 1: or they win the titles. So I guess there's three
Speaker 1: options here. So obviously the stupid ones would be, you know,
Speaker 1: winning the titles and breaking up. That would be very dumb.
Speaker 1: That's Vince Russo yeah, you know, second, my most favored
Speaker 1: would be staying together and winning the tag team titles
Speaker 1: and then you know, at some point they lose them
Speaker 1: back to FTR and then break up then and then
Speaker 1: go to whatever they're doing. Or you know this option here,
Speaker 1: which is not winning the tag team titles and staying together.
Speaker 1: But they're still apparently going to have a match against
Speaker 1: each other, So, you know, are they gonna split in
Speaker 1: the match? Is one of them gonna turn against the
Speaker 1: other during the match. Are they gonna try and do
Speaker 1: just a babyface match for the world title. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they're gonna do, but they must have some
Speaker 1: sort of idea. So now I'm interested to see what
Speaker 1: the idea is.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, and this is very much a WWE
Speaker 4: thing because I'm kind of throwing the sporting point of
Speaker 4: view completely out of this now. I'm really just interested
Speaker 4: in what they do with MJF and Adam Cole, how
Speaker 4: they split them up, do they keep them together. I'm
Speaker 4: actually more interested in their psychology of working with each
Speaker 4: other and all that. I'm more interested in that aspect
Speaker 4: of it than I am, you know, over almost anything
Speaker 4: else in it. So I am interested to see where
Speaker 4: they go and how they decide to get out of this,
Speaker 4: and how they decide to maneuver because again, I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, what role will Roderick Strong play in this?
Speaker 4: It's just this is very very interesting. The only issue
Speaker 4: that I would have with them winning the titles or
Speaker 4: them doing a match at all in for the titles
Speaker 4: would be I think unless you have a slight of
Speaker 4: hand set up for mgf's title defense at all out,
Speaker 4: I think you may just be telegraphing it too much
Speaker 4: that one is going to turn on the other and
Speaker 4: then that is going to be the match for all out,
Speaker 4: the title match for all out.
Speaker 1: I can. I'm all with the more Observer Live talk
Speaker 1: in the show. Bryan Elbarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Micember
Speaker 1: of bb also Wrestling Observer dot Com. We gonna do
Speaker 1: the World Famous Raw Report, but I'd like to mention
Speaker 1: before we do that. First off, congratulations to Deanna Parazzo.
Speaker 1: She just graduated from college a Bachelor of Arts degree
Speaker 1: in history from Southern New Hampshire University, doing all that
Speaker 1: while wrestling, So congratulations to her.
Speaker 2: He yeah, and also, oh, I'm sorry, I just wanted
Speaker 2: to throw in there.
Speaker 4: I guess she's going to be a part of the
Speaker 4: UH Impact multiverse in the whole deal with New Japan
Speaker 4: coming up here in Philadelphia, which is actually nice to see.
Speaker 4: She called out somebody from stardom and of women that
Speaker 4: are not signed by WWE and ae W at the
Speaker 4: top of my list on somebody that I would want. Sorry, Lance,
Speaker 4: I'm not trying to get her out of impact, but
Speaker 4: Deanna Parrazzo's great.
Speaker 1: And the other note is the SmackDown Show Friday did
Speaker 1: h rate as usual two point three million viewers, and
Speaker 1: the highest rated segment obviously was Roman reigns as he
Speaker 1: always is when he has a segment. But if you
Speaker 1: exclude Roman rains from the show since I've been tracking this,
Speaker 1: the highest rated segment on the show was the women.
Speaker 1: So there you go, all right, Logan, Paul came out
Speaker 1: to open up Raw and he's running down Ricochet. He's
Speaker 1: gonna make a spectacle out of him. On Saturday, Ricochet
Speaker 1: comes out and they go back and forth about each
Speaker 1: other what they don't like, but they begrudgingly respect each
Speaker 1: other and they finally do a half hearted fist bump,
Speaker 1: and as they go to leave, Logan says, oh, one
Speaker 1: other thing I forgot to mention. After the match is over,
Speaker 1: the ring announcer is going to announce the winner, and
Speaker 1: that ring announcer over there is Samantha Urvan. Isn't that
Speaker 1: your fiance? So how's it gonna feel? Hope, there's no
Speaker 1: hard feelings when I have your girl saying the winner
Speaker 1: of this match is Logan Paul, So Ricochet flips out,
Speaker 1: ough tax him, brawl and then Rick Achet trice a
Speaker 1: springboard and Logan punched this bloke out of mid air,
Speaker 1: left him for dead.
Speaker 4: Knocked him out right in front of his woman. You know,
Speaker 4: I think he could have been actually a little bit
Speaker 4: rougher about that. He's like, what are you gonna do
Speaker 4: when your woman says that the winner of the match, Like,
Speaker 4: just you didn't even need to say that, Just what
Speaker 4: are you gonna do when my name comes out of
Speaker 4: your woman's mouth? And then then Ricochet could have jumped
Speaker 4: right on.
Speaker 2: Him there.
Speaker 3: Too.
Speaker 2: Lude to Loude that's not viral enough.
Speaker 1: Gun Thann Imperium didn't interview. So Gunther is upset at
Speaker 1: old Ludwig because he keeps messing up. But he says
Speaker 1: tonight he's gonna make good take out that barefoot idiot
Speaker 1: met Riddle and Sunday I I'm gonna be Drew mctyre.
Speaker 1: So is Ludwig and Matt Riddle, and they had a
Speaker 1: good match, and to their credit, you know, this was
Speaker 1: a great crowd. There's like twelve thirteen thousand people there,
Speaker 1: but it's one of those crowds where you know they're
Speaker 1: not necessarily super in this stuff. You gotta get him
Speaker 1: into it, and it took him about i'd say, two
Speaker 1: thirds of this match to finally hit a big spot
Speaker 1: and get the crowd into it. And at that point
Speaker 1: the crowd was into the match, and Kaiser finally avoided
Speaker 1: the moon Salt running in Zagiary, hit his DDT, got
Speaker 1: the pin and then Gunther was very proud of Big
Speaker 1: Kaiser offered him a handshake afterwards.
Speaker 4: Man, I don't know if I like where they're going
Speaker 4: with Otis and Gable and that tie up with Imperium,
Speaker 4: but with Kevin Owens possibly being on the DL list
Speaker 4: for a while, I would love to see those titles
Speaker 4: on Vinci and Kaiser. I know I do the same
Speaker 4: thing with Waukie Wild and Cruz on the other brand,
Speaker 4: But my god, you brought these guys up.
Speaker 1: At least you remember their names today.
Speaker 2: I know all four of them well. I wish wwe wood.
Speaker 2: They're all talented as hell, they all have a lot
Speaker 2: of experience. They can all bring a lot to that division.
Speaker 1: We had Valhalla and Maxine dupri This is just like
Speaker 1: NXT where it's like it's not good, but it's it's
Speaker 1: totally harmless and the crowd loves it.
Speaker 2: And I can't hate it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they're doing this match, and you know, if
Speaker 1: Valhalla is a pro, Maxines is like her first ever
Speaker 1: national television match, and man, she can't do anything, but
Speaker 1: she tries. I think that's what I like about it.
Speaker 1: Like she tries, you know what I'm saying, not like
Speaker 1: other people don't try, but she gives two hundred percent
Speaker 1: out there trying to be this character and the wacky
Speaker 1: face and everything. So she's doing this match and finally
Speaker 1: she has to do the caterpillar. And have you guys
Speaker 1: seen Otis do the worm the caterpillar lately? Dude, he's
Speaker 1: so slow he can barely get to his feet at
Speaker 1: the end because he's so fat, and somehow like if
Speaker 1: him and Maxine were doing a race, he'd like do
Speaker 1: it three times before she got through it once. She
Speaker 1: did the.
Speaker 2: Slowest worm of all of.
Speaker 1: All the recorded history, like shoot worms. I mean in
Speaker 1: like Cement could move faster than max scene. But she
Speaker 1: hits the elbow and then you know, Eric gets in
Speaker 1: the ring a big brawl breaks out and Chad Gable
Speaker 1: does a moonsalt off the post and then as God
Speaker 1: is My Witness, they're fighting up top and Maxine slips underneath.
Speaker 2: She puts Valhalla on her shoulders.
Speaker 1: And she hits a Japanese Ocean cyclone suplex and pins her.
Speaker 2: Amazing, amazing.
Speaker 4: They taught her three moves Jericho and that was one
Speaker 4: of them, arm drag, which was her number one offensive
Speaker 4: and defensive move. Then it was the worm, and then
Speaker 4: the natural progression, the Japanese ocean suplex or cyclone suplex.
Speaker 2: Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Finish Judgment Day came out and talk about how they
Speaker 1: ran the show. Finn talks about Summer Slam. Finn so great,
Speaker 1: He's got to win this title, like he's so great,
Speaker 1: promos he's cutting, he's just absolutely obsessed with getting his
Speaker 1: revenge on seth after seven years. And then Dominic did
Speaker 1: the promo and then who should come out but Raquel
Speaker 1: and Raquel goes after Rhea. They get into a brawl.
Speaker 1: Raquel's pounding on her and for the first time, dom
Speaker 1: has to run distraction for Ria so that Rhea can
Speaker 1: chop block Raquel stomp on her knee. And put her
Speaker 1: out of action.
Speaker 2: I know nobody will.
Speaker 1: Two incredible run Arousing Shana Baser video packages. I'm talking
Speaker 1: full out incredible. These were the best video packages in forever.
Speaker 1: And they look back at the beginning of their friendship,
Speaker 1: Ultimate Fighter Run and telling the story about how they
Speaker 1: they were rolling after like eleven weeks on the show
Speaker 1: and Shana, which is true by the way, she goes, man,
Speaker 1: I made it eleven weeks. You haven't tapped me one time?
Speaker 1: Amateur run it mutially her at that point, and then
Speaker 1: they go to Shane and she goes, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be friends, but man, Rondo, she put
Speaker 1: me up in her house for free. But the only
Speaker 1: re it wasn't the goodness of her heart. It was
Speaker 1: there because she wanted people to beat up. And I
Speaker 1: helped prep her for every one of her fights, and
Speaker 1: she beat me up every time. And do you know
Speaker 1: how many of my training camps she ever showed up to? Zero?
Speaker 1: I went to WWE, Rhonda went to WWE. She was
Speaker 1: the one, of course, that got pushed all the way
Speaker 1: to the top and I'm sick of it.
Speaker 2: It's awesome.
Speaker 1: Then we had a segment with Alpha Academy and Imperium,
Speaker 1: and Imperium is making fun of Alpha Academy. You know,
Speaker 1: Otis is fat. Maxine's talking for this Olympic gold medalist,
Speaker 1: how far he's falling?
Speaker 2: Former look at yourself now?
Speaker 1: And finally Ludwig says, don't worry about this guy. He
Speaker 1: couldn't last five minutes with you, and Gable says, I'd
Speaker 1: last five hours. You want to do this tonight, leave
Speaker 1: your nerds in the back, I'll leave mind. Let's do this,
Speaker 1: and Gunther says, all right, let's do it. We had
Speaker 1: chompin Knakamura Finish came out of nowhere, Knakamura Pendim used
Speaker 1: the tights as made Bronson read backstage happy, Raquel's getting
Speaker 1: her knee checked out. They postponed the match. Then we
Speaker 1: had an amazingly like amazing segment. Cowboy Brock comes down
Speaker 1: to the ring. He's in his chaps, he's in his hat,
Speaker 1: got his vest on, comes down and he cuts his promo,
Speaker 1: which was just like. The funny thing is he really,
Speaker 1: honestly is not that much better than Gable Steveson, but
Speaker 1: he's Brock. I swear to god, this is what he goes.
Speaker 1: He says let's cut the crap. I've been here too
Speaker 1: long tonight, Cody, if you want to come out here
Speaker 1: and tell me otherwise, come out here, shake my hand,
Speaker 1: and I'll see you Saturday. But if you don't come
Speaker 1: out here and shake my hand, i'll see you Saturday.
Speaker 1: What what are you trying to say? Bro Spin it out, dude.
Speaker 1: And so Cody comes out and he offers him a handshake.
Speaker 1: Brock shakes his hand, goes to leave. They do the
Speaker 1: shoulder check deal. Brock gets out of the ring and
Speaker 1: man if I ever saw a Vince McMahon's segment, this
Speaker 1: was it. I've seen this a thousand times. Cody goes
Speaker 1: for the dive from behind. They get in a brawl.
Speaker 1: Brock beats him and beats him and beats him and
Speaker 1: beats him. Finally, they play Brock's music. He starts going
Speaker 1: to the back. He decides I ain't done yet, comes
Speaker 1: back out. He beats him, and he beats him, and
Speaker 1: he beats him. They plays music a second time. He
Speaker 1: starts going to the back. He decides he wants to
Speaker 1: beat him more. He comes back and he beats him,
Speaker 1: and he beats him, and he gives him an F
Speaker 1: five and leaves him for dead and not even sweating.
Speaker 2: Tips the hat walks to the back.
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm supposed to be more into the
Speaker 1: match after the home angle, not less. I was flabbergasted.
Speaker 1: But you know, Cody's gonna win on Sunday. You know
Speaker 1: he overcame the odds. But my god, they would have
Speaker 1: been better off not even being on the show and
Speaker 1: just on a video package. So Gunther and Chad Gable
Speaker 1: five Minute Challenge. Crowd got into it because of the
Speaker 1: clock and Gable ends up giving him a frankenst Under
Speaker 1: to the outside, slips into the ring. He wins. He
Speaker 1: has declared the winner over Gunther. Gunther says this match
Speaker 1: is not over. I'm going to decide when this is over,
Speaker 1: restart this match. So they come back. They went back
Speaker 1: and forth. It's great, delayed German sue plex. Chad goes
Speaker 1: for the chaos theory again. Finally gun Through avoids it,
Speaker 1: chops him to death, power bombs him for the pin.
Speaker 1: This was great, and then Gunther says he's gonna do
Speaker 1: the same thing to Drew McIntyre. Coming up on Sunday,
Speaker 1: we had the Becky Angle. She came out challenges tris
Speaker 1: stratus since she beat Zoe last week. Trish goes, now,
Speaker 1: I'll decide what it's going to be, but then Pierce
Speaker 1: comes down and goes, no, I heard the stip. This
Speaker 1: match is happening tonight, so Trish is forced to get
Speaker 1: in the ring. They ring the bell. Zoe immediately hits
Speaker 1: a ring. The bell rings again. Two second match heals her,
Speaker 1: double teaming her. Afterwards, Trish gets the chair beats down Becky.
Speaker 1: They go to the back all happy that they put
Speaker 1: one over on her, but then after commercial that's when
Speaker 1: Pierce meets with her and says, unacceptable, I will be generous,
Speaker 1: give you some time to prepare. It will be on
Speaker 1: your home turf, which, by the way, makes no sense
Speaker 1: in storyline. In Winnipeg, it is you and Becky and
Speaker 1: Zoe's banned from ringside.
Speaker 4: Manitoba, I've heard, is a horrible, horrible place and it
Speaker 4: produces horrible, horrible people. If it was really on Trish's
Speaker 4: home turf, it would have been in a beautiful province
Speaker 4: like Ontario.
Speaker 1: And another run to Shane's segment. Essentially, like both of
Speaker 1: these women think they did everything for the other, and
Speaker 1: they both were trade and so It's funny because, like
Speaker 1: I mentioned a few weeks ago, like they kept going
Speaker 1: back and forth who's the baby face heel? On the
Speaker 1: actual formats backstage listing who is a babyface and heel,
Speaker 1: they're both listed as heels, but if you watch these segments,
Speaker 1: they're basically both babyfaces who feel they've been wronged by
Speaker 1: the other one. Anyway, these segments were great. And then
Speaker 1: the main event Sammy and Seth versus Dom and Priest,
Speaker 1: and they did like so much stuff at the end,
Speaker 1: but the crowd's eating it up, so Rawlins makes a tag.
Speaker 1: Hits Priest with three straight topays, sends him over the
Speaker 1: oounce table. He managed to get back in the ring,
Speaker 1: goes for the South Heaven and Seth sets up for
Speaker 1: the stomp. Rhea distracts him, Dom lays out Seth. Sammy
Speaker 1: goes after Dom, so Rhea starts screaming at him. Finn
Speaker 1: ends up drop kicking him into the barricade. Back in
Speaker 1: the ring, Priest hits Seth with the razor's edge, but
Speaker 1: then he knowses the briefcase. Now's his chance. He goes, Finn,
Speaker 1: get that briefcase. I'm cashing in, Finn, He's got a
Speaker 1: title match on Sunday, so he's all hesitant, but finally
Speaker 1: it's like, ah, here's a briefcase, but it's too late.
Speaker 1: Seth super kicks it into his face. Finn goes after Seth,
Speaker 1: Sammy boots him off the apron. Seth hits priest with
Speaker 1: the stomp and pins him. So uh, Seth rawlins getting
Speaker 1: the win here. I was overjoyed because that tells me
Speaker 1: he's losing on Saturday on Summer Slam. Here, Finn Balor
Speaker 1: is gonna get that title.
Speaker 2: Brother. Why did Finn hesitate with the briefcase?
Speaker 4: It would have solved all their problems because it's wrestling,
Speaker 4: that's why.
Speaker 1: Of course it makes sense. He doesn't want this guy
Speaker 1: to cash in. He wants to win the title. Got
Speaker 1: the moment with more Observer Live back on the show
Speaker 1: Bryan Albarez here wrestling Observer Live like except for bb
Speaker 1: also wrestling Observe dot Com. Tonight it is a Briana
Speaker 1: Vidy show for subscribers with Craig Granny. Although Sean cannot
Speaker 1: be there tonight is Emmy winning job requires him to
Speaker 1: cover this election here in Washington. But we've got nwatn
Speaker 1: a from twenty one years ago. This week horrible show,
Speaker 1: absolutely horrible. And I haven't even I haven't even watched
Speaker 1: the final match yet, which is the one that everybody
Speaker 1: said was gonna get me to just quit this thing altogether.
Speaker 1: But I am not a quitter. You understand, we only
Speaker 1: have one hundred and four more weeks left. I think
Speaker 1: we can do this. I think.
Speaker 2: You might be able to out.
Speaker 1: I mean, how much how much worse can it get?
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? How much worse can it
Speaker 1: get than this show and the show two weeks ago?
Speaker 1: If I can make it through those two, I think
Speaker 1: I can make it through just about anything.
Speaker 2: Sh You have the Harris Boys and Conan and oh
Speaker 2: they're there?
Speaker 1: Are the Hairs Boys are on this show?
Speaker 2: Are they all fighting in the block? Yet?
Speaker 4: They were doing this whole like it's OZ But we're
Speaker 4: not HBO and we're not that talented, so it's just racist.
Speaker 4: It's uh yeah, yeah, it's it's gonna get worse.
Speaker 1: Actually, I will say that I will. I will for
Speaker 1: sure survive next week's show cause I think next week
Speaker 1: is a show where Ron Killings wins the NWA title
Speaker 1: and uh, that guy is a gemler he is a
Speaker 1: diamond in the rough on this horrific show. He's unbelievably great,
Speaker 1: which actually really makes you depressed to think about what
Speaker 1: WWE did with him after that one week where he
Speaker 1: screwed up the name of the town dude because unbelievable quick, Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, he was great. They should have never dropped him
Speaker 2: in the first place.
Speaker 4: He went to TNA, but thank god he did because
Speaker 4: it actually helped his whole career.
Speaker 1: Well, Ron Time, everybody, We'll see you later on tonight.
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