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Speaker 1: got a lot of news to get into here today
Speaker 1: Tonight a w Dynamite that'll be very exciting. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of announcements for the show tonight,
Speaker 1: a hair match coming up, a bunch of big matches
Speaker 1: and uh and more, yes, more tonight. And of course
Speaker 1: n x T two point oh was last night, so
Speaker 1: I got our weekly at x T report. Guys, I
Speaker 1: know you're not watching an x T two point oh,
Speaker 1: but this is not a horrible show. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it's like a great show or anything like that. But
Speaker 1: if you actually watch it. It's all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: tell you about it here today. We've also got lined
Speaker 1: for next week's an x T two point oh. We
Speaker 1: got Tony Khan talking about Moxley and Tana Hashi and
Speaker 1: Forbidden Door. Raw ratings for Monday night, we'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that Third Hour. Holy smokes, Holy smokes. You realize
Speaker 1: the Third Hour main event was a pose down. We'll
Speaker 1: keep that in mind when we go over the the
Speaker 1: raw ratings, the hourly numbers here on the program today,
Speaker 1: Haromu will be aching his debut with New Japan Strong.
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Speaker 1: back after the break with Simpy Observer Live. You were
Speaker 1: listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez and Mike
Speaker 1: Semperviev on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Back in the show,
Speaker 1: Brian Elvarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simber viv also
Speaker 1: of Wrestling Observer dot Com. Tonight is a w dynamite.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of matches announced for the show.
Speaker 1: Get a gander of this lineup. Hair versus Hair Christ,
Speaker 1: Jericho versus Ortiz. Somebody is getting shaved bald. I hear
Speaker 1: Jungle Boy and Luca Source will be facing the Young
Speaker 1: Bucks in a ladder match for the a W title.
Speaker 1: So it's no longer obviously the three way with the Hardies.
Speaker 1: They have not added another team. You know they could
Speaker 1: have added, but it wouldn't have made any sense with
Speaker 1: the rankings. Everything that is the site Ol Brothers because
Speaker 1: this is in their hometown and the site OL's and
Speaker 1: the ladder match would have been something else but Jungle
Speaker 1: Boy and Huge Stores versus the Young Bucks. We got
Speaker 1: Tony Storm versus Britt Baker. We have got an All
Speaker 1: Atlantic Championship qualifier. Mirror versus Ethan Page. Wardlow faces twenty
Speaker 1: security guards and a handicap elimination match. John Moxley and
Speaker 1: Hiroshi Tanahashi will have a face to face and will
Speaker 1: Aspray will face Dax Horwood. That sounds like quite a match,
Speaker 1: Holy smokes. So that's the lineup for Dynamite here tonight.
Speaker 1: And uh, you guys watched the show last week. Not
Speaker 1: a fan, but we'll see how it goes tonight because
Speaker 1: this is quite the lineup. Quite the lineup for the
Speaker 1: show tonight. You're looking forward to it, Mike, I am
Speaker 1: looking forward to watching a bald headed geek, not Paul Jones,
Speaker 1: but Chris Jericho tonight. You losing his hair tonight? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you want to make a bet? No? I actually
Speaker 1: have no idea, but I was just truly going to
Speaker 1: be a a head shaving match because we have had
Speaker 1: way too many times in professional wrestling where they say
Speaker 1: we're going to see a bald headed geek and then
Speaker 1: we just see a little trim of hair and that's it.
Speaker 1: And are we going to see just a little summer
Speaker 1: cut for Chris Jericho or will we see a bald
Speaker 1: bro whoever loses needs to be bald, bald, bald, bald,
Speaker 1: not a hair on their head. Mr Clean, you cannot
Speaker 1: go back on these these two. Yeah, Kevin Nash when
Speaker 1: he got his hair, that's a funny about that. It's like, bro,
Speaker 1: do you guys know anything about hair? It doesn't take
Speaker 1: that long to grow. Like if Kevin Nash wanted a
Speaker 1: nice short haircut, just like you know, buck up, shave
Speaker 1: your head and two months later you'll have your short haircut.
Speaker 1: It's not the end of the world. Dude. You can
Speaker 1: walk around with no hair. I've done it. You're going
Speaker 1: to get some angry emails, angry letters from those people
Speaker 1: suffering from male pattern baldness, those people suffering and getting
Speaker 1: keeps in the mail. Why would they be mad at me.
Speaker 1: I'm the one that said you can walk around with
Speaker 1: a bald head. They should be sending that to Nash
Speaker 1: because if he used to even go bald for two
Speaker 1: months after he lost a hair match, it's easy for
Speaker 1: the hair to grow back for some people here. Once,
Speaker 1: once Ric Flair got his head shaved, Once Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: got his head shave, did they ever look the same
Speaker 1: after that? Yeah, Vince looks exactly the same. It's the
Speaker 1: exact same hair now exactly. It's exact same pompadour he
Speaker 1: had in I'm watching the shows. Remember when that hair
Speaker 1: started growing back, he started looking like a cone head
Speaker 1: for a while because he decided to have like a
Speaker 1: He decided he wanted like a modern haircut, so he
Speaker 1: didn't do the old school nineteen fifties pompadour. After was like,
Speaker 1: look like Elvis. Oh God, guys, over right, great balls
Speaker 1: of fire, pal let's bring it back. They probably talked
Speaker 1: about Elvis being too skinny. Not at the end, then
Speaker 1: he would have said he was too fat Elvis. Elvis
Speaker 1: never had of phyzeke like theory. No, that's true. The
Speaker 1: only thing he had from professional wrestling was the ability
Speaker 1: to take tons of pills. At the end, d J, I,
Speaker 1: I disagree, Vince's hair actually recovered. It went back to
Speaker 1: what it used to be when he I disagree. I disagree.
Speaker 1: I mean he got older and everything like that. And
Speaker 1: you know, somebody commissioned a study on this, because I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, neither Vince nor Rick Flair really ever looked
Speaker 1: the same once he got their head shaved. Well. Flair
Speaker 1: was losing his hair well, and he also had the
Speaker 1: face lifts and all that stuff after that. Now, Kevin Nash,
Speaker 1: was he doing that expressly because he was going to
Speaker 1: be in a movie. I think he was because he
Speaker 1: was going to be in a movie. M hmm, I'll
Speaker 1: be why you didn't get it shaved. But then again,
Speaker 1: just call it a haircut match. It's not as exciting.
Speaker 1: But you guys don't believe me. Find a find a
Speaker 1: picture of events from like the last ten years, photo
Speaker 1: shop his hair onto his old face and tell me
Speaker 1: it looks any different, looks exactly the same. I would
Speaker 1: rather than photos really on this his hair onto your face.
Speaker 1: Tony Khan admitted that he put the kai bosh, that's
Speaker 1: the word you look at you. You skipped over to
Speaker 1: the thunder Rose and what thunder roses story. The fact
Speaker 1: that she denied it, she responded back to you directly.
Speaker 1: She wasn't responding to me at all. I'm not the
Speaker 1: person that did the tweet saying that she's sand bag.
Speaker 1: In fact, yesterday and the show, I opened the show
Speaker 1: saying I didn't think she's sand bag? Were you here?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Just just wanted to have
Speaker 1: some fun with you. On the one, Tony Kan admitted
Speaker 1: he put the kai bosh on John Moxley versus Roshi Tanahashi,
Speaker 1: happening not once, but many times in the past. He
Speaker 1: said there was a backstory with how the match came
Speaker 1: to be, saying that in the past quote, I would
Speaker 1: never allow it to happen. They tried to do it
Speaker 1: so many times. I've always been there to stop it
Speaker 1: from happening. It's such a huge match that we had
Speaker 1: to be involved. It was going to happen, he said,
Speaker 1: joking he was like Vince McMahon at Armageddon when McMahon
Speaker 1: drove out to the ring in a truck to prevent
Speaker 1: the sixth way cage match from happening. How does this
Speaker 1: guy remember that kind of stuff? That when Rakishi got pushed,
Speaker 1: I think he got pushed and landed in the hay.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, that ro actually got hurt on
Speaker 1: Even though it was like they tried to keep it
Speaker 1: as safe as possible, I could believe that that raw
Speaker 1: that that happened the next day would have made you
Speaker 1: believe that everybody was dead that took place. That that
Speaker 1: was in that match, It was just carnage. Says here
Speaker 1: that concept it's fate now is the right time for
Speaker 1: this match to take place. The two will battle over
Speaker 1: the interim title. He also said he's hoping that Forbidden
Speaker 1: Door becomes an an annual event. This was in an
Speaker 1: interview with Comic Book con expressed hope that the joint
Speaker 1: comic book all one word between a W New Japan.
Speaker 1: Would it happen annually going forward? I think we're hoping
Speaker 1: that's what it will become, he said. Ghetto and I
Speaker 1: generally anything that involves a W New Japan, I think
Speaker 1: we're both would have to degree agree on what the
Speaker 1: matchup is and what the ideas are for the show.
Speaker 1: That's good. Let's say in general, that's what we've been
Speaker 1: doing for over a year now. It's worked out really well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, probably an annual Forbidden Door pay per view.
Speaker 1: I'm sure somebody, it's a hardcore New Japan supporter is
Speaker 1: now getting angry and upset at Tony Khan. But why
Speaker 1: would he not want a W to be involved in
Speaker 1: something like that when one of their biggest stars who
Speaker 1: happens to be one of New Japan's biggest imports. I
Speaker 1: want to get together. So hey, look I'm happy when
Speaker 1: it's happening, right now, and I'm good with that. We
Speaker 1: all last night Money Night one point seven million viewers
Speaker 1: O point four three in eighteen to forty nine, first
Speaker 1: place for the night on cable. Number was down nine
Speaker 1: percent in viewers. They went against Game five of the
Speaker 1: never ending NBA Finals. So the interesting thing, obviously is
Speaker 1: the hourly numbers. The first hour to one eight one
Speaker 1: million viewers, the second hour to one point seven four
Speaker 1: million viewers, and then when we main invented with a
Speaker 1: pose down one point five three million viewers. A larger
Speaker 1: than normal third hour block or drop also likely the
Speaker 1: effect of the game and perhaps a lacklusser hour three.
Speaker 1: You don't say, perhaps the pose down didn't audience drops
Speaker 1: from our one to three. We're thirty two percent in
Speaker 1: women eighteen to forty nine, which is huge, and the
Speaker 1: NBA would not have affected women as much as men.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me those women didn't care about the
Speaker 1: you muscle men doing a pose down, that's what you're
Speaker 1: telling me. Wow, teenage girls dropped twelve percent. You're telling
Speaker 1: me that it's possible that men aren't watching wrestling for
Speaker 1: women in skimpy outfits, and women aren't watching wrestling for men.
Speaker 1: Oiled up and posing. Are you telling me that they
Speaker 1: might want more interesting? Teenage girls dropped twelve percent, teenage boys,
Speaker 1: people over fift These are all of the drops. So
Speaker 1: there you go. We'll see you say that. But the
Speaker 1: Tuesday night numbers will be a little bit different. I
Speaker 1: assume for those I don't know what four hundred seventy
Speaker 1: thousand people are, so maybe five thousand people that will
Speaker 1: be watching n next day. What I mean they'll be different?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, they well guess actually they're exactly the same now.
Speaker 1: But you always talk about that pervy old fan base
Speaker 1: watching n x D and now don't you know it's no, no, no,
Speaker 1: they think that. Well, actually we did have that one
Speaker 1: incidents when she talked about graduating high school. Mail popped.
Speaker 1: Anyway back in a moment Observer Live. You're listening to
Speaker 1: wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv on
Speaker 1: the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Let's talk about n x
Speaker 1: T two point Oh already, I don't mind the show.
Speaker 1: It's wrong with the rest of you. Alright, Well, the
Speaker 1: show opened up with the Creed Brothers against Molike, Blade
Speaker 1: and Eddress and No fe Okay, Molly Blade is the
Speaker 1: skinny one, and Eddress and no Fie is the jacked
Speaker 1: up one. And unfortunately the skinny one is a pretty
Speaker 1: good worker, he's fine. And Edressnofi is he's greener than
Speaker 1: my shirt. Oh my god. And these Creed Brothers, Dude,
Speaker 1: I love watching the Creed Brothers, you know, because it's
Speaker 1: like insane. But bro, they're gonna kill somebody. God, they're
Speaker 1: just thrown these blokes around haphazardly. I would go as
Speaker 1: far as to say, and uh, I mean, it was exciting,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't good. It's just an exciting, wild, violent battle.
Speaker 1: And Brutus pinned Molik Blade to win the match. We
Speaker 1: had a segment backstage, very awkward meeting with indie Rock
Speaker 1: Sane and Cora Jade. Rock Sanne and Court Jade. Their
Speaker 1: gimmicks are like buddies at work the indie scene. So
Speaker 1: they're always referencing these random indies, but they never tell
Speaker 1: us anything about him. Remember that time in New York
Speaker 1: where we uh stole my sister's car. Oh, don't talk
Speaker 1: about that story. It's like, this is a really weird gimmick.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they're gonna have a match later how he
Speaker 1: had the wackiest vignette with Apolo Cruz. So Apaulo cruises
Speaker 1: in a diner and he's like writing in his journal
Speaker 1: or whatever, because I guess he goes to the diner
Speaker 1: and writes his journal, and there's some bloke who's complaining
Speaker 1: about the slow service. And unlike me, he doesn't just
Speaker 1: tweet about how the restaurant sucks. He's actually complaining to
Speaker 1: the person there. And so Apollo Cruz has his vision
Speaker 1: and in the vision, he gets up and he walks
Speaker 1: over and he says, is there a problem? And the
Speaker 1: guy goes, get out of my face? And so Paulo
Speaker 1: Cruz beats his ass, and all of a sudden, Apolo's
Speaker 1: back at the table with his journal. It was a
Speaker 1: it was a dream. But then the guy is still complaining.
Speaker 1: So Poula Cruz gets up and he walks over and
Speaker 1: he says, is there a problem? And the guy goes
Speaker 1: get out of my face? And so a Polo Cruz
Speaker 1: beats his ass again. That well, obviously that's what happened.
Speaker 1: It's like, what is this? Is he nostradamus? Is he
Speaker 1: a prophet? He has visions of future beatings? This is bizarre.
Speaker 1: I'm not mean, that's exactly what happened. He's a superhero.
Speaker 1: He was having a superhero Yes, he was having a
Speaker 1: turtles struggle with himself. Bro saw that whole thing happened.
Speaker 1: And you know anything about superheroes. Superheroes are there to defend.
Speaker 1: The week started a fight the guy didn't you? You
Speaker 1: know what you are. You are the person that everybody
Speaker 1: hates you. I'm not you are what you put on
Speaker 1: a blonde wig, Karen Wench, because you're the type a
Speaker 1: person that would do that to that server at a restaurant.
Speaker 1: Now require Apollo Cruise to be the savior of the
Speaker 1: common man to I can't wait. I can't wait till
Speaker 1: the cops show up and Apolo Cruises is cuffed and
Speaker 1: they go, you beat the absolute living hell out of
Speaker 1: this guy? Why? And Apolo Cruz says, well, you know
Speaker 1: he told me to get out of his face. Well
Speaker 1: did he touch you, No, he didn't lay one finger
Speaker 1: on you. Nah, And he just talked to me. Thanks
Speaker 1: for thanks for routing for wrestling for everybody. Brian, and
Speaker 1: you like this show? Huh? Falon Henley against Tiffany Stratton,
Speaker 1: Well that was good. This was good until you know,
Speaker 1: Wendy to bounced out on a bouncing ball. She's distracted, uh,
Speaker 1: Tiffany Stretton, and she ended up getting pinned. I mean,
Speaker 1: Felon Henley and Timmty Stretton are guaranteed main roster. Don't
Speaker 1: even tell me they're not, because it's totally different with
Speaker 1: the women than the men. It's totally different. You all
Speaker 1: know that they're both gonna be stars on the main roster.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little different. But there's Charlotte and
Speaker 1: Sasha for you, like they are generational opponents. And I
Speaker 1: actually thought the same thing in the opener as well too,
Speaker 1: because I think the Greed brothers are gonna be there
Speaker 1: for a long time. But watching Ballade in in in
Speaker 1: o Fe, I mean, obviously I don't know where they
Speaker 1: need their benchmarks to be because they've been there for
Speaker 1: a little while and and there they have itchy trigger fingers,
Speaker 1: but they seem like they have the ability to be
Speaker 1: in that system for a long time. They have a
Speaker 1: good look. They're still very young yet, so if they
Speaker 1: survive it, I can see them on the main roster
Speaker 1: for a long time too. We had a video package
Speaker 1: with the lash Legend about all of her her sporting success,
Speaker 1: which was like a it was like a good package
Speaker 1: and everything like that, but like everything that they had
Speaker 1: her name on it, it didn't say lash Legend. And
Speaker 1: then like none of it had anything to do with
Speaker 1: combat sports. It's like, man, I can't wait to see this.
Speaker 1: You know woman who was really good at basketball and running,
Speaker 1: the woman was professional wrestling matches, who was really good
Speaker 1: at finishing second in track and field. And I'm not
Speaker 1: throwing that under the bus, but it's like it is
Speaker 1: kind of funny where it's like she's not like she
Speaker 1: was an SEC champion or anything grant and she's got
Speaker 1: some basketball cache to fall back on. But it's like
Speaker 1: I was second in in in this track and field competition.
Speaker 1: I'm coming here to take over a new sport. It's
Speaker 1: like to what finished second? Wesley beat Zion Quinn, Yes,
Speaker 1: he pinned him. I don't know if this bodes well
Speaker 1: for rolls. Zion Quinn. Well, we had the Diade versus
Speaker 1: Dante Chin and Javier Javier bern All and uh the
Speaker 1: Diade they wrestled in their monk outfits or their druids
Speaker 1: or whatever. I said, you need to explain who the
Speaker 1: diet is, and the fans are chanting show your face
Speaker 1: or something like that. It's Joe Casey's two hooded guys.
Speaker 1: It's probably the grizzled Young Vats, but burgundy robes. They're
Speaker 1: wrestling in in robes now. So Tony d' angelo did
Speaker 1: a promotion video oh yea and Nikita Lions went as well.
Speaker 1: The Lion's gonna roar again soon. Everybody Tony de' angelo
Speaker 1: with Stacks and two times. So if you're wondering what's
Speaker 1: up with two dimes, here, they tape like three weeks
Speaker 1: of shows or something like that, so I guess they
Speaker 1: just decided, you know, he'll be on the show until
Speaker 1: we tape again and then he's gone. So he rewards
Speaker 1: them all with watches, and Santos Escobard's crew is there
Speaker 1: and they're all upset, and then Carmelo Hayes and Trick
Speaker 1: Williams come out and essentially this leads to a tag
Speaker 1: match for the main events Stacks and two Dimes against
Speaker 1: Hayes and Williams. Bron Breaker just pummeled Duke Kudson in
Speaker 1: a beautiful, all fantastic Goldberg style violent destructive match I
Speaker 1: loved it. Bro, you gotta do this now for a
Speaker 1: while to get braun Breaker back to where he was before.
Speaker 1: You practically ruined this guy with Joe Gazy. This guy
Speaker 1: was so awesome in this match, and he killed this
Speaker 1: poor Duke Hudson fast and it was awesome. And then
Speaker 1: Cameron Grimes comes out and challenges braun Breaker, and uh,
Speaker 1: I know people were upset about this because Grimes was
Speaker 1: mentioning his father. I didn't have a problem with it.
Speaker 1: He was just pointing out, like, you know, everybody knows
Speaker 1: about you because of your father. Everybody knows your dad.
Speaker 1: He's a Hall of Famer, but nobody knows my dad.
Speaker 1: And his dad actually was a protesting promoter, and so
Speaker 1: he's unhappy about that. He wants a championship match. So
Speaker 1: it's taking place at the Great American Bash. We had
Speaker 1: the debut of Giovanni Vinci. It is the former Fabian Eichner.
Speaker 1: He's a great worker. I don't know if this has
Speaker 1: added one smidgen of charisma to him, but he is
Speaker 1: a and I can't figure out I think he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be a heel, but you know, he's a great
Speaker 1: fiery baby face is Giovanni Vinci, So hopefully they figured
Speaker 1: that out. But he beat Guru Raj. You look great
Speaker 1: and that was good. We had uh this guys remember
Speaker 1: years ago when uh Carlino was lazy in real life,
Speaker 1: he was lazy, and so I guess they decided one
Speaker 1: day they're gonna have Rick Flair kind of promo on
Speaker 1: this bloke in a backstage segment and Rick Flair freaking
Speaker 1: buried this dude. He just buried him six ft under
Speaker 1: about being lazy and bro First off, that promo was fantastic.
Speaker 1: This was the exact same promo dress and no fe
Speaker 1: and Molik Blade you know. Uh. Molik's kind of depressed
Speaker 1: that they lost and and just was like, dude, we'll
Speaker 1: get another shot. Wins and losses. They come and go
Speaker 1: let's go to the club. And Cameron Grimes watched Black
Speaker 1: Stuff and he's like, what's up? What are you guys going?
Speaker 1: Oh we're going to the club. Oh yeah, yeah, what
Speaker 1: you know? What about tonight? You know, we'll get another shot.
Speaker 1: Grames goes, will you and he buried these two? What
Speaker 1: are you doing leaving this show? Early? Look at you?
Speaker 1: You you're you're built like a statue. You could be
Speaker 1: one of the biggest stars in its entire company. But
Speaker 1: here you are leaving the show early. You lost tonight
Speaker 1: and you ain't even worried about it, and you're going
Speaker 1: to the club. And uh, it was actually really good
Speaker 1: because Enters and No Faith was like, he was so
Speaker 1: awesome reacting to Cameron Grimes burying him because he's just
Speaker 1: shut up and he's all looking around, He's all this
Speaker 1: was a great segment. So I don't know where it's leading.
Speaker 1: I don't know if Grimes is turning heel because he
Speaker 1: was kind of a you know, a jerk about it,
Speaker 1: but he was it was to tell the truth. So uh,
Speaker 1: this was a great segment. Hey, wherever they're going. The
Speaker 1: evolution of of Grimes is needed right about now. So
Speaker 1: I've taken wherever they go. And then finally we had
Speaker 1: Carmela Hayes Trick Williams against Stacks and two times and
Speaker 1: it was all right, God bless uh Trick Williams, but
Speaker 1: he's he's very green, and uh, anyway, Hayes with the
Speaker 1: pin and then D'Angelo came out and yelled at Legato
Speaker 1: del phantasma, and then the mide of it was Roxanne
Speaker 1: Perez Corp Jada Indie Heartwell versus Toxic Attraction in a
Speaker 1: six person match. Also okay, it absolutely depended on who
Speaker 1: was in there. If the right people were in there,
Speaker 1: it was fine. If the wrong people were in there,
Speaker 1: it was not good. And then at the end, I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened, but Cora Jade comes off the
Speaker 1: top with the sent on and she lands on g
Speaker 1: Dolan and do Gi starts screaming and the ref goes
Speaker 1: over to her, and uh, I think it was rock
Speaker 1: Sand gets tagged in and they had a very obvious
Speaker 1: edit and Rock Sand goes over there and she does
Speaker 1: the old cover. I forget he used to do this cover,
Speaker 1: but the cover where you actually don't put your body
Speaker 1: on the other person at all, there's like air between
Speaker 1: you and the person you get the pin. So I
Speaker 1: think that G like heard her ribs taken this sent on,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it's I don't think it's too
Speaker 1: bad because I think she worked on the house shows
Speaker 1: this weekend. But man, she was screaming when she got
Speaker 1: hit with that cent on. So anyway, if I got
Speaker 1: I'll let you guys know. But that was the n
Speaker 1: x T show. We can talk more about it. After
Speaker 1: the break, we'll take your feedback and more Wrestling Observer Live.
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Speaker 1: x T two point oh is kind of growing on me.
Speaker 1: Show is an excellent or anything, but it is a
Speaker 1: guilty pleasure of mind, and there is some solid stuff
Speaker 1: on the show. I agree with every word of that,
Speaker 1: right there. Tiffany Stratton fan, Yeah, fan of a lot
Speaker 1: of them. This person here, says Fabian Echner. Repackage is
Speaker 1: Giovanni Vinci is quite some feels like the model Rick
Speaker 1: Martel from Superstars. And I loved his last right power bomb,
Speaker 1: which would have impressed Kode Abushi. It's a good worker, yeah,
Speaker 1: very like this bloke mat He's stuck here. Well, it's
Speaker 1: kind of like Partel, who's very good in his role
Speaker 1: aside gunter. Now he is good at doing that, but
Speaker 1: you remember him in the ring, and you remember those
Speaker 1: two together as a team, and you know, who knows
Speaker 1: what the future is going to bring, but I would
Speaker 1: love to see them back together, especially when they could
Speaker 1: use tag teams. This person wants to know if n
Speaker 1: x T is better or worse than Raw or SmackDown. Ah,
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Depends on like what do you mean,
Speaker 1: Like if you want to see the best wrestling, the
Speaker 1: best actual wrestling, Well, the best match of the week,
Speaker 1: and on w w E has been UH seth Rawlins
Speaker 1: and aj Styles which was on Raw, and UH Shamus
Speaker 1: and Drew McIntyre on SmackDown, which both were excellent matches.
Speaker 1: Nothing you're gonna see nothing like that on n x
Speaker 1: T two point oh. And there's pros and cons of
Speaker 1: everything here, I mean three hour shows opposed to too
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. So you know, if
Speaker 1: you like w w E programming, I mean Next is
Speaker 1: right up your alley. It's not like it's alternate programming
Speaker 1: there some same way people used to call it Hunter's
Speaker 1: fantasy Ring of Honor, camp. You know, it's like, no,
Speaker 1: this is exactly the same thread going through the major shows.
Speaker 1: That's what goes through n x T. I think also
Speaker 1: with n x T is the stuff in n x
Speaker 1: T that's bad. It is more usually funny bad that
Speaker 1: a Paolo Cruz thing is preposterous us, but it was funny,
Speaker 1: whereas like some of this stuff that I see on
Speaker 1: on Raw, it's just like that's just actively bad. It's
Speaker 1: too much. Yeah, it's too much cheese stuff on Stupid.
Speaker 1: Well exactly, and that's the obvious punch in the face
Speaker 1: that some times like you need out of comedy and
Speaker 1: stupid stuff. But the problem is they just do it
Speaker 1: so often and so much of it's not good. You
Speaker 1: are going to see you know, uh, but how can
Speaker 1: I say it? I mean when when uh, when stuff
Speaker 1: is bad, like on Raw, when there's like bad matches,
Speaker 1: they're just like bad and boring. But on n x
Speaker 1: T two point oh, they're funny bad because it's like
Speaker 1: you watch someone do something and it's like what are
Speaker 1: they doing? Or cringe e bad because the creeds are
Speaker 1: gonna kill somebody, or you see a move that's so
Speaker 1: messed up you're you're just dying, making sure nobody got hurt.
Speaker 1: By the way, if you guys like seeing my handsome
Speaker 1: face on video here, get ready to see it here
Speaker 1: for a while because apparently our producer's power went out,
Speaker 1: so it's just can't switch the cameras or anything. That's
Speaker 1: gonna be that's gonna be an awkward Uh A couple
Speaker 1: of minutes right here? What what? What other differences do
Speaker 1: we have between n x T and the main roster. Oh,
Speaker 1: you got a pretty smile. I don't know, get out
Speaker 1: of you. This person says, tanas she can win the title.
Speaker 1: This is the a W title lose a count out
Speaker 1: to Yano in the g One and a pinfall loss
Speaker 1: to Lance Archer title match on Dynamite. The Tonahashi retains
Speaker 1: against Archer, and he could even beat Yano in at
Speaker 1: events in Japan. I still think Tanahashi should beat Moxley's point,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't hold your breath, buddy, Well, even if you
Speaker 1: wanted to do that, you don't have to. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to defend it in the g one.
Speaker 1: This person here's is defending baldness. He says going bald
Speaker 1: is underrated. No haircuts, no hair combing and permission to
Speaker 1: grow a massive beard. Well, here's the thing. Yes, no haircuts,
Speaker 1: no hair combing. You have permission to grow beard whenever
Speaker 1: you want. Dude, you can grow a massive beard with hair.
Speaker 1: But the issue is that you're then you're also bald.
Speaker 1: That's the other that's the other problem with being bald.
Speaker 1: It's cooler. Yeah, so here's the thing. I'm so vain.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, no, Actually there's a big I.
Speaker 1: I I have no problem with a bald head, and
Speaker 1: in fact, I have shaved my head bald, and in fact,
Speaker 1: every summer I would love to shave my hair bald. However,
Speaker 1: my lovely wife, that's the one. That's the one thing
Speaker 1: she has put her foot down on in terms of
Speaker 1: stupid things that I've done with my my head. She
Speaker 1: does not like me bald. Second, wait a second, that's
Speaker 1: not the only thing. She also doesn't like when you
Speaker 1: grow a beard, there's a different different button chops. She
Speaker 1: will she will, uh the word. She will still have
Speaker 1: sex with you with a beer, absolutely a beard, But
Speaker 1: she's not like, bro, can you cut the beard off? Now?
Speaker 1: Hanna laid is not like the beard. So I'm pretty
Speaker 1: much clean shaven for a while here, but the bald head.
Speaker 1: It was like every day I had to hear something
Speaker 1: about the bald head. So I would be fine with
Speaker 1: the bald head. I would be fine shaving my head.
Speaker 1: She likes to rub her fingers through your hair. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. Wash it very often. Nash's haircut
Speaker 1: was for a movie role and likely needed it that
Speaker 1: exact length at that exact moment. Hey, I'm back, bro.
Speaker 1: You guys know anything about movies. He could have got
Speaker 1: a haircut two months before he had to start filming.
Speaker 1: It's not like he's signed for the movie. They're like,
Speaker 1: we're filming tomorrow. You have a little bit of lead time.
Speaker 1: So he he was too vain to shave his head.
Speaker 1: Bald who the title? That's worse that or having a
Speaker 1: match like Paul el Ring and Teddy Longhead back in
Speaker 1: the day where two bald guys were having a hair
Speaker 1: versus hair match. Well, that's ridiculous, Mike, that doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. That's like you and me having a mask match.
Speaker 1: That would be dumb. Let's the loser to put on
Speaker 1: a mask? Who wins the title in w W E first?
Speaker 1: Once they get called up braun Breaker or Dad He's girl.
Speaker 1: I'll go with Thret. I go with braun Breaker. I
Speaker 1: can see him showing up and like on the first day,
Speaker 1: like beating a vaulter and winning the tiler or something. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what they probably should do, but I don't have
Speaker 1: much faith in them. His person here says, Jeff Hardy's
Speaker 1: d u I could be a blessing in disguise. Him
Speaker 1: doing a ladder match in this condition right now scared me,
Speaker 1: to be honest. Maybe he got paralyzed in an alternate universe.
Speaker 1: I don't think I didn't think thank God he's out
Speaker 1: of this ladder match, because I did think that. But
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea that you have to get
Speaker 1: a d U I and put lives in danger to
Speaker 1: be taken out of a ladder match. He should have
Speaker 1: just not been in the ladder match in the first place,
Speaker 1: nearly blowing four times the legal limit. There's other ways out,
Speaker 1: like not booking it in the first place. This person
Speaker 1: here says, do you think there will be any women's
Speaker 1: matches on the Forbidden Door pay per view? And if not,
Speaker 1: does that matter? Would a w try to make it up? Well,
Speaker 1: here's the deal. So uh Numan doesn't new women's wrestling,
Speaker 1: and apparently Dave said there were gonna be no start
Speaker 1: of matches on Forbidden Door. No, they're running a lot
Speaker 1: of shows. I find it hard to believe. What does
Speaker 1: matter if they're running shows, you can send one, yes, well,
Speaker 1: I I know what you mean, but it's just not happening.
Speaker 1: But I I find it impossible to believe that we
Speaker 1: are gonna do a w Forbidden Door and there's not
Speaker 1: going to be a women's match on the show. So
Speaker 1: my guess is you're gonna have a thunder rosa title
Speaker 1: defense against someone in a W at Forbidden Door that
Speaker 1: you have a challenge sent in. You save some time
Speaker 1: where you have Britt Baker out there who or whoever
Speaker 1: it is, and she's challenged by Kyrie, she's challenged by
Speaker 1: Tam naconnor, she's challenged by Julia, whoever it is. You
Speaker 1: can do something on that show relating to the women
Speaker 1: without actually having to have a women's match, even a
Speaker 1: live segment. You could do something where you can drive
Speaker 1: home the fact that stardom is coming and all that
Speaker 1: sort of stuff because they are going to be touring
Speaker 1: more and all that. So there's easy ways to do it. Brian,
Speaker 1: your opinion is Toxic Attraction ready for the main roster. Well,
Speaker 1: Mandy was on the main roster and they sent her
Speaker 1: back down to n x T. As far as the act,
Speaker 1: it's like, if they want him, they want him. I mean,
Speaker 1: are they Are they as good in the ring as
Speaker 1: Oscar and uh you know Bianca and whoever else? No,
Speaker 1: are they as good in the ring as Carmela and
Speaker 1: uh you know Zelena? Yes, they're they're better or at
Speaker 1: the same level as them. So it's if they want
Speaker 1: him up or not. Let me also say this too
Speaker 1: when it comes to Stardom, I mean they actually have
Speaker 1: to work out a actual deal with Stardom because there
Speaker 1: is obviously the link that Kenny Omega has to Tokyo
Speaker 1: Joshi pro. We've seen plenty of women, not the least
Speaker 1: of which has been Mack Makiedo who's come over here,
Speaker 1: So that's something that needs to be established as well too,
Speaker 1: because it's not like Stardom and t JP worked together
Speaker 1: on a on a regular close basis or anything like that,
Speaker 1: so there could be some a little bit of politics
Speaker 1: there too. Let's see what do we get right here?
Speaker 1: My friend dated a guy who shaved his head, but
Speaker 1: then she dumped him when she found out he was
Speaker 1: also actually bald. Wow, so it didn't grow back. She's
Speaker 1: gonna dump you because you're bald. You're all right, brother,
Speaker 1: Just whatever you do. It's the summertime. If you do
Speaker 1: go new newly bald out there, remember you gotta put
Speaker 1: some sunscreen on that. You don't want to get the
Speaker 1: red head with the peel on it and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Especially if you've got one of those sharpay puppy heads.
Speaker 1: Like you shave your head, you wonder how it's gonna look,
Speaker 1: and it's like a bunch of looks like you got
Speaker 1: like a roll of hot dogs back there or something
Speaker 1: like that. Look like a sharpay puppies rear end. If
Speaker 1: you got that, definitely cover that up because you don't
Speaker 1: need to burn that and look even freak here and uh,
Speaker 1: let's see. That's it for the text messages. Eybody want
Speaker 1: to call? Now's your chance. I'll take one call today.
Speaker 1: Nothing to talk about. Nobody cares about anything. If Jericho
Speaker 1: losing the hair match needs to be shaved completely bald,
Speaker 1: then come out in a ridiculous wig every week claiming
Speaker 1: his hair grew back because he's a wizard. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: thing just start pulling out the extensions. You know, they
Speaker 1: don't even need to actually shave anything. But you know,
Speaker 1: that would be right up Jericho's alley. He is a
Speaker 1: he is a sports entertainer, now, isn't he. If he
Speaker 1: were to come back out with several different types of
Speaker 1: things to cover up his hair, what what if we
Speaker 1: had in the past, have bandanas, we've had wrestling headgear,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff. So here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: don't think Jericho he's not he's like fifty maybe maybe
Speaker 1: fifty one. He's he's not. I mean, I'm forty seven,
Speaker 1: so you old at all. But the point is I
Speaker 1: think he's ready to be, you know, totally white haired.
Speaker 1: But he did he did a thing. I can't remember when,
Speaker 1: was it Halloween or something. There's something he did and
Speaker 1: he came out in like a long white wig and
Speaker 1: I looked at it. I was like, bro, this is
Speaker 1: your new look, dude, the white Wizard. Yes, oh well
Speaker 1: you may want to uh, you may want to remix
Speaker 1: that a little bit, but uh, you know, Jericho, like
Speaker 1: Kevin Nash, Kevin Nash had it right, at some point
Speaker 1: you can stop chasing your past. At some point you
Speaker 1: can put the bottle of hairt eye down and you
Speaker 1: can actually be who you are and have the big
Speaker 1: silver main. Because again, I would rather have a full
Speaker 1: head of silver hair than have like, you know, a
Speaker 1: scraggly head of of of hair but all of my color.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, you are so vain that earlier.
Speaker 1: Everybody in the chat, by the way things, Jericho is
Speaker 1: losing tonight, we we we all have hope. Why is
Speaker 1: everyone hope he loses? This would be a lot funnier
Speaker 1: seeing him get his head shaved and Ortizo, wasn't it. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it would be funny if I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that he really wants to be funny. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if he wants to come back in a wig it.
Speaker 1: I mean it would be funny, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that he wants to be doing like goofy comedy. Well,
Speaker 1: if he don't want it to be funny, and he
Speaker 1: wants it to be, you know, make it really really,
Speaker 1: Get one of those old dick razors, you know, the
Speaker 1: disposable ones, and just slowly start peeling it back. Man,
Speaker 1: it won't be funny at all back in the moment
Speaker 1: of is ever life you. We're listening to Wrestling Observer Live,
Speaker 1: which Brian Albarez and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline broadcasting.
Speaker 1: That worked well, blocks, I've done a pole on my Twitter.
Speaker 1: There's a pole up right now and three votes. We're
Speaker 1: in a quick five minute poll at this moment. Who
Speaker 1: is losing? Chris Jericho has fifty nine point seven percent
Speaker 1: of the vote orties but forty point three percent of
Speaker 1: the vote, So it looks like basically sixty in favor
Speaker 1: of Jericho losing tonight according to my all the bots
Speaker 1: on my Twitter. Highly scientific poll. It's a very scientific poll. Now,
Speaker 1: did you put a limit on this? You did put
Speaker 1: a limit on this with every minute tweeting it right now,
Speaker 1: so I wanted. I wanted the answer before the show
Speaker 1: goes off the air. They didn't give me a one
Speaker 1: minute option, so I did five minutes. We'll see what
Speaker 1: people think. Aren't you tired of finishing things in one minute? Though?
Speaker 1: You know what? I just want to drive you from
Speaker 1: this show for this week? Can I do that? I'm
Speaker 1: really done with you. I'm tired of you coming after me.
Speaker 1: I'm tired of you saying I stand back the show
Speaker 1: and didn't show up intentionally on Monday. I'm tired of
Speaker 1: you saying I'm having connection issues all this sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: I can pretty much guarantee you that I can do
Speaker 1: this show a lot better off without you. I can
Speaker 1: do it just fine on my own and in fact,
Speaker 1: and in fact, I because I am a wizard myself,
Speaker 1: I am actually going to heal. Heal Dominic comments, Dominic producer.
Speaker 1: Dom put your hands on your listening device right now.
Speaker 1: You were now healed. You will be back with me
Speaker 1: tomorrow without Brian Alvarez. You're gonna need him. Fine, you
Speaker 1: can take the show. Brother. At least I got to
Speaker 1: do the n x T two point o report before
Speaker 1: I left. Hey, we'll out a time, have fun with
Speaker 1: Mike the rest of the week. I quit. I hopefully
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