WEBVTT - Monday RAW Preview/More Wrestlemania Matches 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:16.000 Let's get it all. How's going everybody? Brian Alvarez here 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:19.320 on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day Monday 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.880 through Friday, now Pacific three during Sunday three Pacific six Eastern. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:27.320 Said to be back everybody. I've never been so depressed 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:34.479 to return. Call le back home here in uh absolutely 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:41.360 horrific Seattle. So it's raining like crazy. We're breaking the 0:00:41.479 --> 0:00:47.559 rain record today. Yeah, no, I'm not putting the microphone 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:52.800 stand back up now. The this vacation is going to 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.320 go on forever. It's just reminds me of being sitting 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:02.120 there on that rocking chair with old Vinny um Man. Anyway, Hey, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:03.480 we got a lot of news to get into today. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:06.520 It's Monday here on the program, and you know what 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.000 that means. We got Monday Night Raw coming up tonight, 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.520 and we actually have a match announced, believe it or not, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:16.520 which is Damien Priest defending his uh his title against 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.840 Finn Balor. And also Edge is going to be on 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:22.480 the show. That's literally all we know about it. So 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.800 that's my Raw preview for tonight, and we've got all 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.720 of the news. We've got more matches for WrestleMania, as in, 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.040 they're gonna tell you what day the matches are, because 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.160 you know they're trying to sell tickets desperately here to 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.360 the point that they're bringing back, of all people, Vince McMahon. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.960 Vince McMahon scheduled for a match at WrestleMania, although all 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.160 of the news today is how full of it w 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.800 w E is. We've got updates on the utification match, 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.320 which apparently isn't really gonna be much of a unification match. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.320 And we've got updates on Vince McMahon wrestling although he's 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.960 apparently not gonna be wrestling, and a bunch of other 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.000 stuff as well. So if you're looking to, uh, if 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.320 you're looking to buy a ticket to not get what's advertised, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.840 if I got the big show for you everybody, we'll 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.200 tell you about that here on the program today. Also 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.160 what day you should buy a ticket for if you 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.440 want to see Becky Lynch and Bianca bel Air. We 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.400 have a e w's announcement. Uh they're heading to the 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.160 West coast. So we'll give you some upcoming dates for 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.400 for a w and uh, of course we got smacked 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:28.359 down rampage and plenty more. So stick around, everybody. We're 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:48.200 back Wrestling Observer Live, begging the show. Bring Albert is here, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:52.520 Wrestling Observer Live Mixemburg Baby also Wrestling Observer at dot 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:57.240 com and we're gonna talk about this, uh, this West 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.760 Coast swing here for me w here a little while 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.520 by No, for the guy that asked on the chat, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.079 that is not the big announcement that Tony's gonna have 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.959 on Wednesday, And that's something else And I don't know 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.600 what it is. Do you know what it is? Mike? 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:15.040 I don't. Do you think Dave knows what it is? No, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.480 Dave was really weird last night. It's like there's a 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.639 lot of rumors. I don't know what he said, but 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:23.520 it was like he did. I don't think he knows 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.400 what it is. He's heard rumors, but I haven't even 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.079 heard rumors. I don't know what it is, am I 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:36.520 Matt to lunch mm hmmm, I don't know. I needed 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:40.000 to not look at the chat. There's so much stuff 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.640 going on and everyone all even can talk about is 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:46.000 my hair and I didn't do anything. That's a point 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.400 Brian's hair was blonde in Hawaii, but it's gray in Seattle. 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.600 What's going on? Maybe it didn't change color, blokes, Maybe 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.800 you're imagining things like I've been telling you for weeks. Now, 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:58.880 now let's get into the news here, because we've got 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.400 two top stories that are just they're incredible w w 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.400 E stories. I was gonna read this word for word 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.880 from Wrestling Observer dot com. On the latest episode of 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:12.080 Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer give an update on w 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.760 w e's title unification plans for WrestleMania thirty eight and 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:19.479 it's aftermath. W w E Champion Brock Lesner and Universal 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:21.440 Champion Roman Reigns are set to face off in a 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:24.800 winner take all championship unification match at Mania thirty eight, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.960 but it doesn't appear that w w E will only 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:32.760 have one men's world championship for long. Meltzer noted on 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:36.360 Sunday's Wrestling Observer Radio that he has been told w 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.320 w E does not believe it is quote feasible in 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:44.800 the modern environment to have one world champion for both 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.760 raw and SmackDown quote. The deal here is it. It 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:52.360 is a unification match. From what I am told it's 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.840 the same idea as the last time he unified the titles. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.080 Remember like twenty years ago, eighteen years ago, and they 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.400 did that, and then like a week later, they just 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.720 handed a belt to Triple H. I was told that 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.440 it is not feasible in the modern environment to not 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:11.080 have each brand given the two networks have a champion, 0:05:11.520 --> 0:05:13.560 so this would be a unification match, and then they 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:18.160 will not forget about it, but there will be two champions. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:25.080 So we're gonna have a unification match at WrestleMania, but 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.240 we will not have a unified champion for any length 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:32.360 of time, which brings us to a match between Vince 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:36.520 McMahon and SmackDown announcer Pat McAfee looks to be on 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.440 the cards for WrestleMania thirty eight. Dave Melton reported this 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.640 afternoon the match between McAfee and m command is listed 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.760 in the internal schedule for WrestleMania, as follows a post 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.480 wrestling report from Friday, where it was reported that a 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.719 program between the two is expected to start and lead 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:58.640 to WrestleMania. Dave then noted that very unlikely Vince is 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:00.880 actually gonna have a wrestling match. There's gonna be a 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.480 lot of smoke and mirrors. So you're telling me that 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:07.560 we got two matches now that we're advertising for WrestleMania 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:13.560 where they're not gonna give you what they're advertising. I've 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:18.520 mentioned this before. I've mentioned this before, but I have 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:23.760 never in my life seen arresting I should say a 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.440 wrestling company, because I'm sure that they're actual, real companies 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.600 out there that are like this. But I have never 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:33.720 seen a wrestling company that made life so willingly difficult 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:38.720 for themselves. Never, not one time ever. Like you know, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.680 Impact Wrestling, life was difficult for them, but they were 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.760 like completely incompetent. Okay, and uh, you know WCW life 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.480 got difficult for them also due to incompetence. But the 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.599 funny thing about WW is the guy the very top, 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.320 you know, God bless the guy. He's completely incompetent. But 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.240 there's like a lot of smart people working there. But man, 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.560 I hear so much stuff from this company me and 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:05.400 it's like, you're smart, but you you come up with 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:09.840 all of these ideas, these circuitous ideas that they going 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.400 this big circle and just make life way more difficult 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:14.840 than it needs to be. This thing here about how 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.000 I want to read the exact quote, it is not 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:23.560 quote feasible in the modern environment. Do not have each 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:30.040 brand given the two networks have a champion bro How 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:35.640 many times have we heard, oh, man, you know Fox 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.280 doesn't know that Brock is now going to be on Raw. 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:43.480 Oh SmackDown wants to make sure that they've got Ronda. Dude, 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.400 I listen, I'm out in the meetings. Are you actually 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:50.320 telling me that, like these people are insistent, like these 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:56.080 network executives are insistent that we have a very specific 0:07:56.480 --> 0:08:00.880 and very limited roster, and were for that over being 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:04.440 able to have everybody. You honestly are telling me that 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.520 if you went to Fox and you were like, listen, 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:10.560 all right, we'll give you Ronda and Roman, but like 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.840 Brock's largely gonna be we gotta give u say something. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.720 And then you go to us and you're like, you're 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.640 gonna get Brock, but like we gotta give you know, Fox, 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.040 you're telling me that they would prefer that to you 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.440 going to them and saying, you know what, we're gonna 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:29.000 We're gonna unify these two rosters and Fox bro you're 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.760 gonna get Lessner and and Bianca bell Air and Becky 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.000 Lynch and Sasha Banks and Brock Lesner and Roman and 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.720 guess what USA, You're gonna get Roman and Brock. You're 0:08:39.800 --> 0:08:43.199 telling me that each network is gonna go no, no, no, no, no. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.360 Hold on a second, Hold on a second. I prefer 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:51.360 not to have all of the biggest stars. I'd rather 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:56.079 have half of the biggest stars exclusively. You're telling me 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:02.320 that that's what they prefer. So anyway, we have this problem, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.520 you know, the modern era, you just can't have one 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.720 champion in the modern era, you have to have what whatever, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.719 who cares. But anyway, we're advertising a match that we're 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:15.640 gonna deliver in the moment, but then it's gonna be 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.880 just like whatever. The belts are gonna go back to 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:20.400 each brand afterwards. So you know, pay your money for 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.080 the one night to see which guy is gonna win, 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:24.360 and then we'll go back to the way things used 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.880 to be and that Vince McMahon match. Make sure you 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:28.599 buy your ticket. We don't want to get stuck in 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:30.880 fifty five thousand and have Brian be right here, So 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.160 make sure you buy your ticket to see Vince McMahon wrestle. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.760 But then he's not gonna We're just gonna do a 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:40.559 bunch of gimmicks, but you'll still bow to him and 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.319 uh and thank him for everything that he's done for 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:47.840 this business. I got nothing more to say. Aren't they 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.720 passed fifty five thousand a night? I think they're barely 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.559 past fifty five thousand. Look at least they're being transparent 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.640 about everything this year. They're not even hiding the fact 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.160 that you know they're just they said it, it's impossible 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.120 in this environment to have only one champion. So you 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.480 know that match is going to lead to nothing. It's 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.640 gonna lead to a backlash match maybe or whatever. But 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:16.880 at some point, Belt goes off and he'll say, whoever 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.199 wins this match, I only want to be on this brand. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:21.920 Why am I working so much? I'm done with this. However, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.199 they decide to go do things. They're bringing back Vince McMahon, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.920 Vince McMahon, They're bringing back Stone Cold, Steve Austin, They've 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:34.319 already brought back ron Da Rousey. There's no bones about 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.880 what this year is. It is We're gonna put on 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.640 the wackiest Johnny Knoxville for the Intercontinental title. We're putting 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:45.840 on the wackiest show we possibly can. We are running 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:49.840 a Rustlemania show during WrestleMania. That's what we're doing. All 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.040 these other promotions that run these wacky shows, we're doing 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.199 the same thing, except it's going to be WrestleMania. And 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.920 what will it mean the next day? I guess we'll 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:03.240 find out on Raw. That's just to me. That's what 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.320 a lot of this is. It's a lot of stuff 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.800 and in a on Wrustlemania Night one in night two 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:13.360 is gonna be something, I guess. But it's like, I mean, 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.520 for the future again, how many times are you gonna 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.199 continue to try to do this? How many times you're 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.320 gonna be able to pull something like this off? How 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.600 many more names can you pull back from the past? 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.480 Is Santino Morrella. We're bringing back seventies six year olds 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.079 and we can go on for a long damn time 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.079 pulling people are we bringing back? I mean, as Santela, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:36.240 Santino Morella a big enough name. You've exhausted everyone. Now 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.080 you've exhausted everyone except for Rock who who knows if 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:44.959 he comes back. But if Austin comes back, who that's it? So, 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.599 I mean, it's just the law of diminishing returns. With 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.719 bringing all these people back, I mean, Steve Austin's name 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.559 was said, wwes product is so cold right now, I 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:57.440 guess maybe it hasn't it the mainstream. Nobody is saying 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:01.360 a word about it now. They're hoping Vin and Pat McAfee, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.640 because it can be promoted on Fox, is going to 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.080 be the thing. You know, at some point you're gonna 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.280 need to create stars and said over and over if 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.280 you had a bunch of stars, you wouldn't have this 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:14.360 problem out of here, back in the moment of Server Live, 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.319 Jimminy Christmas, I'm trying to create new stars here like 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:46.240 handheld mix. You geeks can't handle any change. Fine, back 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:49.600 on the stand, you all happy now? If not mat 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:59.080 of focus anything else? Watch this? Everybody see that that anyway? 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.880 Lift up your sleeve again. Lift up your sleeve again. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.120 What is going on there with that? With that cuff? 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.599 You put your thumb in it? Bro? What are you 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:15.000 a sixteen year old girl? Would there be a problem? 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:22.080 You know? What's funny about this whole feasibility thing is okay, fine, 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.760 you you go to you go to Fox, and you 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:26.480 talk to all these geeks in USA and they're like, no, 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.760 damn it, we only want half a roster. How there's 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:34.640 no way we want all the stars. We're being one 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.000 point three billion between the two of us. We only 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.880 want half the stars. Okay, don't even argue, we only 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:44.120 want fine. All right, fine, you get half and you 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.959 get half, but the biggest star is gonna be the champion. 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:54.640 They're gonna wear both shows, right feasibility. You know, somebody 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:57.760 inside w W right now is going Brian Varez, what 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.680 do you know about anything? What do you know about 0:13:59.720 --> 0:14:02.400 bus this? We've been able to sell these fools on 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:04.760 the fact we are only giving them half a roster, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.800 and then whenever they perk up, then we go, oh, well, 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.760 Brock will work both or Roman is gonna show up 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:15.280 or whatever it's gonna be. So maybe maybe they're just geniuses. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.800 And the fact that they've been able to get a 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:20.160 billion dollars for a half pass roster with really no 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:24.920 stars whatsoever except for what to Brock Lesner and Roman 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.960 reigns and that's about it. It's amazing. They've had Ria 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.640 Ripley and they've had Bianca, and Bianca obviously had to 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.320 deal with the fact that, you know, when they brought 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.640 Becky back, they just completely mashed her over and of course. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:41.400 Well that's supposed to gonna rectify itself at WrestleMania. Sure, 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.080 maybe it will, but let's see what actually happens after that. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.240 They've had Rhea and and Bianca for this long. You 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.760 think with a roster they would have those two. Charlotte Sasha. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.520 I mean, it's just it's amazing. Becky in theory should 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.360 be a huge star right now. It's amazed they have 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.280 these women and they still need Ronda Rousey. You think 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.440 if they were firing on all cylinders, they would even 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:09.360 need Rohonda Rousey. The answer is actually no, no, they wouldn't. 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:11.960 But they have done nothing to develop so many of 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.720 those women I just mentioned. And it's funny, by the way, 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:19.920 as I know this person being sarcastic, but what he says, Hey, Brian, 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.200 how's your territory doing? Well, you know what, you're right on, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.680 have a territory, But you know what I have is 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:32.200 uh business, brain business, okay, and you know you know 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:34.000 I don't have a territory. You know who did have 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.960 a successful territory back in the day, Well, his name 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.760 was Vince McMahon in a very successful territory. It was 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.680 it was, and his business was absolutely on fire. It 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.760 was called the Monday Night Wars. It was in terms 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:50.040 of like popularity of professional wrestling, it was the the 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.880 absolute peak of this business, much much, much more popular. 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:58.680 Not financially successful because television deals weren't what they are today, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.360 but in terms of pop already pro wrestling. Would you 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:04.640 argue that Vince McMahon's nine was more popular than today, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.280 So it's a pretty popular territory in nine, Tell me 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.680 it was. You know what happened in Well, they had 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:17.080 a show called Raw and they had a show called SmackDown, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:24.320 and they were on different networks. I was on USA 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:29.960 and SmackDown was on UPN and somehow, and I don't 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:33.720 know how, it was feasible then but not now. Why 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.720 they had everybody working both shows on both networks and 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:42.120 they had one champion that's worked both shows in that 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:47.200 very successful territory. But that was twenty three years ago. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.720 Twenty three years ago. They lived twenty three years ago. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:52.840 Nothing has changed in this company. They still wish it 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.720 was twenty three years ago, except in this case it's 0:16:55.920 --> 0:17:02.280 it's completely, absolutely positively unfeasible to do what they did. 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.280 By the way, my wife got me this this top 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.359 here Severn shut up about it. So once again she 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.000 got it for herself and you've decided to like take 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.560 it out of the closet. She bought it for me. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:21.760 There's a gift. M Two women's championship matches are set 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:23.800 for Night one of WrestleMania thirty eight. So if you're 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.080 a fan of women and then I've got the WrestleMania 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.800 night for you. W W has announced Becky Lynch and 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:33.280 Bianca bell Air's Raw Women's Championship match will take place 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.720 Rustlemania thirty eight Night one this April. A T n T. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.840 Stephen Arlington, Texas is hosting the two nights, Saturday April 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:44.920 two and Sunday April three. That means that Lynch versus 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:48.120 Bellair will be happening on the same night as he SmackDown. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:53.200 Women's Championship match between Charlotte Flair and Ron Drousy brock 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:56.080 Lesner and Universal Champion Roman Reigns winner take all title 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.320 unification match has been announced for Night to of WrestleMania. 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:04.200 So now you know what to buy your ticket for. 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.680 I don't know, I don't know. Just the way to 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:11.880 see what happens with Johnny knox Hill that's really gonna 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:13.879 be the thing that pushes me over the edge on 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.119 which night I'm going to buy and go down for Bro. 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.800 Sammy Zane kicked this guy in the head so hard 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:24.959 on SmackDown, like they they did. Uh. Johnny Knoxville comes 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:27.800 out and he challenges Sammy Zane and Sammy says no, 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:30.119 and they get into this. Uh, they get into this 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.760 brawl and I can't help. But you know, think about 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.720 all the concussions Johnny Knoxville has had and uh and 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.960 in his words, almost dying of a brain hemorrhage like 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.000 a year ago when he was filming this movie. And 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.960 maybe he was exaggerating a little bit, but any of 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.320 you blokes out there watch Johnny knoxvilln't think that guy's 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.600 never had a concussion. Raise your hand. If so, there's 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.720 that hole in my shirt again, raise your hand, everybody? 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:55.440 No one? Okay, Well, anyway, he's been cleared by w 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.800 W E And so I'm watched in this angle and 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.720 Sammy Zane throws him in the corner and he goes 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:05.159 for this running mafia kick because I like to call 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:10.120 it Kuza kick, and and Bro, he misses by a mile. 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:14.200 I mean, he's nowhere near Johnny Knoxville's head. And at first, 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:17.639 I'm like, god, Lee, they don't usually uh, you know, 0:19:18.600 --> 0:19:21.359 they don't usually get shots like that. For like, for 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:23.800 once in an eternity, they didn't cut the camera ninety 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.080 two times during the kick. They just left it one 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.359 continuous shot and you could see that it missed, and 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.840 I was like, man, well that's good. I don't want 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:32.840 to see the guy kicked in the face, so, you know, 0:19:34.359 --> 0:19:36.080 then Sammy Zane puts him in the corner again and 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.600 he goes running and he kicks his dude right in 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:42.840 the face and it's the It's like a baseball bat 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.800 hitting a tree. I was like, oh my god, that 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.840 sounded brutal, and I thought this, you know this, Sammysane, 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:50.000 what do you want to say about the guy? Man, 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:54.600 he can slap a leg. Then they go check this 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.280 out from before the break. And what likes to do 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:01.520 I've mentioned this a million times is their replays are 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:04.480 always weird. Like you know, any other sport. If there's 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:06.920 like a big you know, some guy gets punched in 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.960 the head. In UFC, they turn on the four K 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.280 cam and super super duper slow motion and so you 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.280 see the thing go and the whole guy's face does 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:21.440 whatever and spit goes flying. It's gross, but not w 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:24.040 w e w w EI. There's like a big move 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.960 and they're like, watch this move in slow motion and 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.160 you see the guy's foot coming into the guy's face 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.040 in super slow motion and all of a sudden goes 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.959 bamn in super fast meats so you can't see anything 0:20:36.200 --> 0:20:39.400 at this time. They got out that four K cam 0:20:40.600 --> 0:20:46.880 and you just see Sammy's aid's foot just go right 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.240 into the face of Johnny Knoxville. John Knoxell goes, he 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.560 falls down, the refere he goes to make sure he's alive. 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:56.960 I'm like, did someone smart enough Sammy's that this guy 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.840 had sixteen concussions and a brain hemorrhage because him and 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:01.800 he Christmas, he kicked him as hard as he couldn't 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:05.359 a head. No, I have a match of wrestle media. 0:21:07.160 --> 0:21:09.200 This is like the WrestleMania where it's like, well, we 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:11.920 made it through this pandemic, so let's roll every dice 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.000 that we've got. That's what Vince in the ring. That's 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:16.960 when the guy with the brain hemorrhage in the ring. 0:21:17.480 --> 0:21:19.520 Let's get stone cold Steve Boston, who was told in 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:21.320 two thousand two he should never wrestle again because you 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.560 cant con paralyzes. Let's put him in the ring twenty 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:26.959 years later. Well, I mean edge edges held up all right, 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:33.120 But they are rolling the dice on this show. Thank god, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:36.960 this is not my show. Mm hmm. They don't have 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.880 a territory. Thank god. They're not rolling the dice. They're 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:43.399 just literally no, they are rolling the dice. Mike, No, no, no, no, 0:21:43.800 --> 0:21:45.880 like rolling the dice would mean they're put they're making 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.160 it a risk. There's no risk here. Really, what they're 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:51.920 they're emptying out the toy box is what they're doing. Look, Brian, 0:21:51.960 --> 0:21:54.240 how many tickets have already been sold? How much money 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.000 has already been? Talking physical risk for a seventy six 0:21:57.080 --> 0:21:58.800 year old guy who was told a decade ago, no 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:01.840 more bumps. A guy who had a brain hemorrhagy a 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:03.840 year ago is in the ring doing a match. A 0:22:03.920 --> 0:22:05.760 guy who was told not to wrestle because he could 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.679 get paralyzed twenty years ago is back wrestling again. Are 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:13.160 they gonna put Hunter in next? Yes they might. I'm 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.560 not even joking. What's next? Now? They're gonna bring out 0:22:16.680 --> 0:22:20.240 next hunter to be out there when Cody faces whoever 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:23.520 he's gonna face, this guy says they're rolling one die. No, bro, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:25.840 you don't get it, okay, especially in the case of 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:32.439 Vince McMahon. Physically, Yes, this guy, this guy is the boss. Okay. 0:22:33.040 --> 0:22:34.680 He's gonna get in the ring, and once he's in 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:36.600 the ring, he's gonna do whatever he wants. All Right, 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.040 that's it. It doesn't matter if he was clear, that 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:41.440 doesn't matter if he was given restrictions. The moment that 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:45.440 guy gets in the ring, maybe he'll be smart and 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.040 he's not gonna anything stupid. But once that guy gets 0:22:48.080 --> 0:22:50.159 in the ring, there's nothing you can do about it. 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.800 He got headbutted by Kevin Owens his last physical appearance 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:02.960 in the head but open bled everywhere. Yeah, shoot, headbutted 0:23:03.040 --> 0:23:09.000 by Kevin Owens. I can't believe the night, night night. 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:15.080 What's the word naive night, naivety, not my whole naivety 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:23.359 of these people here they're taking no whatever whatever naive Okay, 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:26.639 so naivety. On the Wednesday after this year's Double or 0:23:26.680 --> 0:23:28.359 Nothing pay per view, a double is gonna make its 0:23:28.440 --> 0:23:31.440 Los Angeles debut. It was announced today the Wednesday June 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.359 one episode of Dynamite will be at the Forum in Inglewood, California. 0:23:34.680 --> 0:23:37.080 Double or Nothing taking place in Las Vegas Sunday, May 0:23:37.480 --> 0:23:41.879 n I'll be there and in my episode will be 0:23:41.920 --> 0:23:43.400 the first ever eight Double You show to take place 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:48.199 in California. Also inst today the Toyota Arena on Ontario, California, 0:23:48.280 --> 0:23:51.280 hosting the Double or Nothing Fallout edition of a Rampage. 0:23:51.880 --> 0:23:55.000 I got a big list of upcoming shows. We'll do 0:23:55.080 --> 0:24:16.600 that after the break. Observer Live back at the show. 0:24:16.640 --> 0:24:20.560 Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive, Mikes and burviv 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:25.600 also Wrestling Observer dot Com. A w you know this, 0:24:25.720 --> 0:24:31.520