WEBVTT - AEW Fight Forever 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.559 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:14.400 where you're ready, Let's get it all. How's going everybody? 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.880 Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:21.160 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.200 three Pacific six Eastern Saturday mornings with the Jim Valley 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.600 at Tenday and Pacific one Eastern. Hey, I'm back. I 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.160 am back here today, and I got a lot to 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:34.479 talk about. Is it true that Mike SIMPERBB reviewed NXT 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:37.800 in three minutes yesterday? Don't even tell me that's true, 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.760 because man, if only had time to get revenge, I would. 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.639 But you see, it is Thursday, year in the show, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.640 and so we got lots to talk about. Gotta go 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:50.440 over the aw Dynamite show from last night and that 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:54.440 builds towards rampage and also collision, And we gotta talk 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.440 about collision because the week two ratings are in and 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.560 there's a big drop, but that was pretty much to 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:04.720 be expected. But the thing to talk about now is, well, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:07.160 with that big drop, what do we got coming up next? 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:09.920 And granted it's only Thursday. We have a couple of 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.479 more a couple of days left to announce more. But man, 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.319 this is not much of a lineup right now, and 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.199 so we'll talk about that. And we have also got 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.200 some notes on the gold Rush of viewership. We've got, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.000 as noted there, the Dynamite review, and we have a 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:29.600 special guest who's coming on the show here today, our 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.080 own Brian Rose is going to join us in the 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.399 second segment of the show, the second long segment, because 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:41.160 he is here to talk aw Fight Forever. Have you 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.840 played this game? I think it's out today, right, and 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:47.119 so he is going to come on. He seems surprised 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.720 in the chat, but too bad. You're booked, Brian. He's 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:52.280 gonna come on today and he's gonna talk about the 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.120 video game. So if you're interested in hearing about that, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.440 have we got the show for you today. Should also 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.000 have time for some text messages for five seven eight 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.040 zero seven five sixty six. That is four two five 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.559 seven eight zero seven five sixty six. I am Brian 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:13.360 Wrestling Observer dot Com at Brian Albarez on Twitter and 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:16.919 Mike Simber BB's at SIMPERVB. So kick it off. After 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:48.040 the break, stick around everybody, Observer Live. All right back 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.800 here on the show. Brian Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.080 Mike Simper Vid also Wrestling Observer dot Com. And Uh, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.240 you're in big trouble, mister. 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:58.839 Oh yeah, is it true? 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.520 Is it true? Three minute? It's on the NXT review yesterday. 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:04.880 That's the rumor I heard. Three minutes, that's the rumor 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:05.680 I heard. 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.400 Well, they lied to you. Where'd you hear that rumor? 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.000 I can't remember where I heard it, but they were like, lol, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.080 Mike went through all of NXT in three minutes. 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.760 There's nothing nothing I can do in three minutes, Brian, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:17.919 you know this. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.800 This guy says more like two minutes forty five seconds. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.040 Oh wall you stopped. That's what they said right here, 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:28.040 fourteen minutes, a full third segment of the world famous 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.160 NXT review, and it was fantastic. 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:31.880 Well, you know, I don't listen to your ship, so 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:32.640 I'll just trust you. 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:33.359 I'll believe me. 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.200 I know I won't do it again today, but I do. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:37.880 I do have stuff to talk about here. 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.920 Haven't listening to rumors gotten you in enough trouble? 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:41.200 Sir? 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.280 You know what's silly? Is this you know, everyone freaked 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.640 out kind of about the Collision rating even though it 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.360 was down, But I mean, you know, who was expecting 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.880 to do a million? I wasn't. I mean, I thought 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.680 it was going to drop in the second week because 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.680 every show drops in week two. And was it a 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.640 great number? Well, certainly not. Was it the end of 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:02.080 the world. I don't think he was the end of 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.960 the world, but I am. I am interested in the 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.920 fact that they had a sizeable drop for week two 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:14.800 and as of yesterday, As of yesterday on aw Dynamite, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.159 as of this morning, this is the Collision lineup for 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.440 this coming Saturday. We have got MGF in action, no 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:27.120 opponent listed, He's just gonna have a match. We have 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:30.800 got Chris dad Lander and Lady Frost for the TBS title, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.359 and we have three Owen Hart Tournament matches. We have 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:38.760 Joe versus Strong, Smode, Joan Roderick Strong, Powerhouse Hobbs and 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:43.840 Dustin Rhodes and Ricky Starks and Juice Robinson. And nothing 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:48.279 against any of these matches, Okay, but there is no 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:54.840 advertised appearance by cmpunk, there's no FTR, there's no Jay White. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.240 I mean, they could announce this stuff. You know later on. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.719 But I'm I'm pretty surprised this is the lineup for 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:07.240 week three because to me, I mean, you can't really 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.719 do it forever. But I mean, you're kicking off a 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.039 new show and this should be like boom boom boom 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:17.120 boom for a while. And you know, I'm certainly do 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:19.880 not report all right Sunday game. I'm not saying that 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.839 at all. I'm just saying, you know, we're three weeks 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.960 in and I thought we'd have a much bigger card 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.040 for this coming Saturday show because we need to get 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.760 this show on the road, if you know what I mean. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:32.760 So it'll be interesting. We can add stuff on Rampage, 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.200 you know, maybe there'll be more at it over the 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.320 next couple of days. But it was very interesting to 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:38.880 see that lineup on Wednesday night. 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.000 Well I hate to say it, but you know, what 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.159 do you want them to do? Because it there is 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.159 a rumor out there that CM punk is going to 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.560 be there for the tapings tonight and maybe they announced 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:53.440 that on Rampage. I'll be honest with you, if they 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.679 had any inkling of putting him on there, they should 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.920 have announced it last night. Absolutely, But MJF the World Champion, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:03.719 the biggest star outside Cmpunk arguably is going to be 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:07.520 on that show. You have three owen Hart Tournament matches, 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.080 which in theory is a big deal for the company 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.279 to have these three matches on there. So the problem 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:19.280 is what else can you throw on there where the 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.800 College World Series won't do. It's gonna be tough. And 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.000 I said this yesterday. This is going to be a 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.559 show that I have a feeling varies wildly no matter 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.120 what is on it. To be really honest with you, 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:35.239 and I could be wrong about this, but you can't 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:37.520 load that show up as if it's a pay per 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.960 view every single week. You can't. You can't do that 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.719 with all of the shows. Then there's no reason to 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.080 build up the pay per views. Could you add some 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:51.400 better matches, Could you be more careful about crafting your matchmaking? Sure, 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:53.760 but I have a feeling they're gonna do shows that 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.599 are loaded for bear that only get like four hundred 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.400 and twenty five thousand. Then you're gonna have shows that 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:02.599 like Monday we were talking about with Raw where it's 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.960 like they did nothing and it's going to get a 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.800 great number. It seems like we'll see, but it seems 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.840 like Saturday is going to be They're going to be 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.840 a victim of their competition taking place elsewhere, and this 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:19.400 is going to be a show that again DVR three numbers, 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.120 those three day after numbers, I think are going to 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.720 be just almost as important for WBD and AEW. Obviously 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.280 for fans that are listening that are used to hearing ratings, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.880 they're gonna plant their flags no matter what. But I 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.600 think it's going to be very tough for them. We'll see, 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.040 but that's my feeling right now, a couple weeks in 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.040 with looking at a very long. 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:41.640 Well, it is going to be like that. Obviously it's 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.240 going to be like that. But my point is, you know, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.000 whatever you want to say about the ratings for the 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:47.720 first week, whatever you want to say about the ratings 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.880 for the second week, whatever you want to say about Sampunk, 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.640 there are a couple of facts, and that is that 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.240 while he did not spike the numbers like Roman Reigns 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:59.320 has been doing lately. For example, he was in the 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.760 highest rate segment on the first show, and he was 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.760 in the highest rated segment on the second show, and 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.240 he's not even on the third show. I don't know 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:11.640 if he's filming something like they I guess there's a 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.000 commercial out for the new season of Heels and and 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.320 him and AJ are both on it. But I mean, 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:19.119 you know, outside of something like that, I mean, why 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.840 is he not on this show? He is the biggest 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.920 draw for Saturday night on Collision, and he should be 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.640 announced for the show. Especially this is the Hamilton show, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.199 which you know they were struggling or not Hamilton, it's 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:37.800 where's it Hamilton's Well, yeah, tonight was I think the 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:39.760 night where they were having a rough time and so 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.040 well they were originally at eight hundred and they sold 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:47.319 some tickets when he returned. But he's not even advertiser 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.560 right now, so they've they've cut some prices and that 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.400 sort of thing. AJ No, no, no, no, no, anyway, 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:58.160 they've cut some He should be There's my point exactly. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.000 And that's the thing. And again there is seemingly some 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.520 people that are now saying that he, yes, he is 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.480 going to be on that show. But again, if you 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.800 he should be announced for every show, it shouldn't. It 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.280 should be no question that CM punk is going to 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.720 be on that show. I would argue FTR and Andrade 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.480 and Miro and those guys. But again I don't know 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.480 as far as getting into Canada, getting outocate all that 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.520 sort of stuff, because this was such a unique week 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.240 why they may not be there. But yeah, I mean, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.280 obviously to me, CM punk should be on every show, 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.000 and frankly, as much as you can get MJF on 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:35.480 that show to wrestle, cut a promo, have a pre tape, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.760 do something, you get him on that show as well too. Well. 0:09:38.800 --> 0:09:40.880 The other thing is maybe he is on the show tonight, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.280 and if he's on the show, then you know there's 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.160 a portion of the audience it's gonna hear about it, 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.120 and then you can advertise it on Twitter or whatever 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.640 in the in the next couple of days. But it 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.640 was if you knew he was gonna be on the show, 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.120 this should have been announced on Dynamite. You're gonna have 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.680 eight hundred and fifty nine thousand, know which you can 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.760 for Dynamite this week, but advertise the match. That's it. 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:05.720 Advertise that he's going to be there. Anyway. The gold 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.480 Rush Show NXT show six hundred and twenty two thousand viewers, 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.280 which was down twenty percent from when seth Rawlins showed up, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.680 but they did do a point one seven in eighteen 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:20.480 forty nine, and that was good for second place on cable, 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.319 and that is what they want. You know, you can 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.400 say whatever you want about whatever, but it actually the 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.800 second place on cable thing is funny because that's like 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.520 a big deal now. But with show Buzz Daily going down, 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.400 we may not get rankings much at all from this 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:39.080 point forward. We're still gonna get the numbers, but you know, 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.120 the actual chart and everything like that, that's gonna be 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.160 going away. So you know, the key is just going 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.079 to be what's that what's that eighteen to forty nine demo? 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.160 For later on this year when it's time to sign 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.319 a new television deal. They want that thing up. And 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:57.319 it has been up since they started putting main roster 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:00.320 talent on the show. And this obviously, you know, Barren 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:02.680 Corman did. He didn't do as well as seth Rawlins, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.559 but they did well enough to get a point one seven, 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:07.679 and you know, there were there were times where they 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.000 would do like a point one point one, a point 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.960 oh eight. I think they did a couple of times. 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.920 So it's a good it's good improvement and it's up 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.400 year over year, and uh wwe you know, this thing. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.640 The same thing happened. The same thing happened like four 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:25.679 or five years ago, where they were just, you know, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.679 everything was down, down, down, down down, and then they 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.000 had like one year where things were good and that 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:32.880 was the year they had to resign their new deal. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:34.839 And then, you know, it's kind of the same thing 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:37.200 where there had been dips year over year. Look at 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:39.080 the eighteen to twenty, eighteen to thirty four, look at 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.040 eighteen to forty nine. You know, there was a couple 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.520 of points where over the last few years it was 0:11:42.520 --> 0:11:44.559 down like fifty percent or something like that, and then 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:48.480 here we are. It's a renewal time and every show 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.600 up year over year it's unearned. 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:58.360 Sandy about real sports, your contranny year, your contract year 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.880 is always your best year. And then if you're a pitcher, 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:03.760 you know, then you can go blow your shoulder out 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:06.560 the next year, get Tommy John surgery because you already 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.840 got paid. But that's kind of the same thing. And 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.640 this is why Nick con has been so obnoxious every 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.520 time you've seen him out there saying, you know, some 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.959 of the most ridiculous things, but hey, it's to whip 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:20.440 everybody into a frenzy to try to get two times 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:21.280 the emault. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:37.840 Back at the moment Observer Live, you know, so busy 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.240 getting mad at the chat, I didn't get Brian rose on. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.760 So I'm gonna do that right now, So Brian stand by. 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:46.079 Hold on, I'll let him know. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.680 Yeah, don't don't. I'm don't make me. Don't make a chat, 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.720 don't made me switch to YouTube. Okay, don't make me 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:59.640 all right, just don't okay, golly yeah, let me just 0:12:59.679 --> 0:12:59.920 do this. 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:02.960 And he good to be back, boss and oh man, 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:05.360 producer dom and I had a ton we. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.480 Got we got real good people on the chat. But brother, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.440 like you just sit here and go. I thought nobody 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.280 wanted to see CM Punk. I thought he was a 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:17.840 bad brother. Come on, knock it off, Knock that crap off. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.440 How many times do you have to say I don't 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:23.880 have a problem with Phil. Phil has a problem with me. 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.120 Everything I've ever said about see him Punk has been 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:31.480 business related. You're trying to tell me now that you 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.280 think that I said, Oh, no one wants to see 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:36.560 c M Punk. Why is he on collision crying out loud? 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:40.040 How about I shift it all right? Forget Phil? What 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.360 was that was the second highest rady? Thing on week one, Mike, 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.320 I can find out real quick. Hold on, I'll tell 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:50.040 you right now. Good Miro versus Androtte. All right, okay, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:53.439 where's Miro on Saturday? He's not advertising? Wait wait wait 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:57.960 say wait it was and it was Androtte and uh 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:02.719 who Buddy Matthews. Yeah, and then Miro also was after that. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.719 But like you know, where they they're no advertisement of 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:10.680 of Miro, no advertisement on Drade. Like I'm trying to 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.560 help here like this, these are the people that we've 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:16.600 looked at the rating spattern. These are the people that 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.920 the people want to see see him Punk, Miro, and 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.080 Drade not advertised for this coming Saturday show. They should 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:29.480 have been advertised. That's my point, goll Lee. I'll say 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.040 it one more time because nobody listens. I don't have 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.240 a problem with CM Punk. My only issue with the 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.880 guy right now is he has convinced you that I 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.160 have a problem with him. I don't. I'm looking at 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.480 this exactly like anybody else would look at it. Is 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:51.360 the guy a draw? What are the issues? Are people 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.680 upset that he was here or there? Whatever? These are 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:58.120 all factual statements. I never called him a bad guy. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.880 Nothing like that. You have created that in your minds 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.440 because something because of something he said on Instagram that 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.600 he then deleted. But knock it off. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.520 Let me transfer it over to a w here too. 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.080 Brian's waiting, but go ahead. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.280 It's putting this on CM punk where again. This is 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.040 if he's there, you he should be on. This is aew. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.960 This is all on aw. You make sure he's announced 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.120 to be on there. He's on every week. There is 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.600 no question about it. It's just whether he's going to 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.240 be talking or wrestling. That's it. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:31.080 Brian, you there? I am all right. Do you have 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.360 do you have video? Or what's up? 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.960 Brother? I should have a video? 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.040 Oh here, let me try. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.880 You turn that camera on? 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.080 Yeah, I turn it on. How's that? 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:46.040 There? We go? Hey, here's Brian Rose. Everybody. He is 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.400 a moderator here in this chat, and I give you 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.200 permission to lay down the hammer. You gotta what are 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.360 you looking at? Mike? Got it? 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:56.520 I'm trying to find Brian Row getting it up. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.160 Calm down right here, fight forever. Let's start with the 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.720 first question here. How does this video game compared to 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.160 Dig Doug my favorite video game of all time? 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.560 Well, it has a little bit more features than Dig Doug. 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.880 It's about it's fun to play. I remember playing Dig Doug. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:20.160 Fun game, wasn't it Go? Yeah? And Super Mario Brothers 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.760 also a classic, A classic. Yeah, that's the last game 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:27.440 I really played. But tell everybody that actually knows anything 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.720 about video games your thoughts on Fight Forever and Hell 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:34.160 compares some other wrestling games, and your recommendation. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.360 I recommend people play it. It's like a really really 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.160 fun game. If you've ever played No Mercy on Intail 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:47.280 sixty four or any of the other WCWWWE games that 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.680 came out on the N sixty four during that time, 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:53.440 this is pretty much the spiritual sequel to those games, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.880 so it's super fun to play. It's I even see 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.920 like the same animations and the same you know, the 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.159 same controls as No Mercy, So you're going to be 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.320 playing No Mercy for those that know about it. 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.639 Noah, I don't know any about video games, Brian in 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.480 the last thirty years, but I do know that No 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.880 Mercy among wrestling fans is kind of a legendary game. 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:16.520 Am I wrong? 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:20.879 It is the whole virtual pro wrestling kind of gameplay. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:26.240 No Mercy Wrestlingia two thousand WCWNWI Revenge. Those are all 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:29.320 classic games that people always cite as being some of 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:30.040 the best. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.720 Of all time. 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:35.000 And Fight Forever in terms of gameplay has that. It's 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.520 it's very good. It's very fun to pick up and play. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.600 It's much more of an arcadie style than ww's games, 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:45.240 where it's much more simulated, like you have to watch 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.640 your standard buck gauge and things like that, and that's 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:51.200 kind of not as fun. It's just picking up and play. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.359 So aw, Fight Forever has that in terms of terms 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.000 of being fun, it's very fun. 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:00.280 That's that's high praise right there, Brian. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.560 Let me ask you, because a lot of people you. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.639 Rose, right, b Rose. 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:10.960 Look, a lot of people have said it is great 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.000 for olds like me who stopped playing wrestling games after 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.440 No Mercy, and you can pick it up and play 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.479 and it's great, fun, fantastic. But then it seems like 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.919 some of the pushback on the game is things that 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.879 I certainly wouldn't know about and care about when it 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.000 comes to a game, but I'm seemingly important to a 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.800 lot of people, which is how many people are able 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.440 to play. And then what you can do to variate 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.560 those characters is that something that took away any of 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:39.560 the enjoyment from you. 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.199 Like one of the biggest complaints I had about the 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:46.119 games that there's just not a lot to do. There's 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:50.320 the story mode, which takes maybe a few hours at most. 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:54.160 There's a few mos you can play. There's the exploding 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.359 barbed wire deathmatch. 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.960 Which is fun for a little while. 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.720 There's a casino balleroy, which where you pick a card 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.600 and you go out there based on your entry with 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.720 that card, and it's pretty much like a well rumble 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.800 type mode, and that's kind of fun. But you know, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.320 beyond that, there's not much there. There's not even a 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.080 cage match, which I don't remember the last time there's 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.359 a video game without a wrestling video game without a 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:20.000 cage match. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.360 So do they all have the spot where somebody has 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.080 to slam the cage draw on somebody's head at the 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:26.840 beginning of every single one of those cage matches. 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:31.240 No, actually, maybe in like the WWE games they do 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.679 of course, I don't know, like one hundred percent, but 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:36.840 I'm pretty sure you can do that because that is 0:19:36.880 --> 0:19:41.119 like one of the key trademark spots in each cage 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:45.840 match nowadays. But yeah, there's just not a lot to 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:49.640 do at this point in the game. It's like they've 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.080 said that they're going to roll out more content as 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:56.159 the months go by, you know, more characters, more modes, things. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:58.360 Like that, Brian, let me cut you off there. How 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:02.360 expandable is this where Okay, yeah, it's easy to add 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:05.359 DLC packs that have FTR and a couple other people 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:09.480 in them. But is it difficult to actually create a 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.320 story mode and then you know, just basically put that 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.679 out there as a patch to download? Is that? You know, 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:19.040 is that type of thing possible for them to do, 0:20:19.200 --> 0:20:21.800 to really kind of build it out as it goes along. 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.640 I think it's possible. I mean in other games, there's deal, 0:20:25.720 --> 0:20:28.400 there's added modes where you can download, and there's new 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:31.159 modes to play from. So I don't think it is 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.840 impossible for them to keep adding more content as the 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.520 years go by. They've gone on the record to say, 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:39.280 you know, this is going to be a game that 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.600 is going to be that you play for the next 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:46.440 three four years instead of a yearly released like the 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:50.000 WW two K twenty two and you know those type 0:20:50.000 --> 0:20:52.960 of games. So they're gonna be rolling out more content. 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:58.040 I there's a data mind leak apparently a few days ago, 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.760 where there's going to be a stadium stamp ped mode 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.440 where it's kind of like a bottle Royal game where 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.800 you have up to like thirty I think they said 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.080 thirty people just going out there and brawling around a 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:14.959 stadium stampede mode. So it's that there is stuff in 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.920 the pipeline, there is stuff coming out, So I think 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:21.760 it'll be very easy for them to implement new modes 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:25.119 as time goes by. It's common in a lot of 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.639