WEBVTT - A News Field Day 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:14.480 When you're ready, let's get it off. How's it going, everybody. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.360 Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.880 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday's 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:26.040 three Pacific sixth Eastern, and Saturday Mornings with Jim Valley 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:29.280 at Tenday and Pacific one Eastern. And it is a 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:31.920 Thursday on this show. And you know what that means. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:36.280 It means I'm back from having a field day at 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.240 Field Day and now I'm gonna have a field day 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.960 with all of the news in pro wrestling, and we 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:45.960 got a lot of it. Last night was the Dynamite Show, 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.440 which was a great show with an awesome main event. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.199 I can tell you about that, building up the Rampage 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.920 Show Friday, the Collision Show on Saturday, Forbidden Door in 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:00.000 a week and a half or so on Sunday, and 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.320 everything that went into the show last night. It's also 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:08.679 busy weekend. SmackDown is tomorrow night, Rampage is tomorrow night 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:14.280 with Will Ospray on the show, The Collision shows taking 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:18.240 place on Saturday from Toronto. We have a lineup and 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.880 look at the ticket sales thus far for that show. 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.680 Have the lineup for Forbidden Door. Thus far only four 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:27.959 matches officially announced, but there are others to come. And 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.960 we've got to go Home show next Wednesday, and we've 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:34.520 got a deal with ITV for Collision in the UK. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.559 Battle of the Belts will still be continuing on. Jimmy 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:44.360 Jacobs has joined AW as a writer, so a lot 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.120 of stuff aw wise to talk about here today. I'm 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:52.280 going to presume that Mike Simperbb did the NXT report yesterday. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.000 If not, I will be very disappointed and I will 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.000 have to do it myself. Otherwise, we'll just talk about 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.400 the NXT ratings because Vine and I will be reviewing 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.160 a w NXT for ninety minutes tonight on the Brighton 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.640 Vidy show Wrestling Observer dot com, So sign up for 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.640 that and more as next week. We will begin every 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.560 Tuesday twenty one years ago and n W A t 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.520 n A. What a journey that's gonna be. Sign up 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:20.800 for that and we'll get into all of the news 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.480 and when we come back from the break. Wrestling Observer 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:47.480 livea begging the show. Bryan Alberrez here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:53.560 Mike Simberbebi, also of Wrestling Observer dot Com, had a 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:58.360 lot to get into here today. Tomorrow there is a 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.760 seam Punk interview on ESPN that's going to be out 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.280 and well, we'll talk about it tomorrow. But it was 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.959 pre taped and it was the talk of the locker 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.760 room last night, and I obviously have not seen it yet. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.480 But what I can tell you about that interview is 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.239 that if you think that perhaps all of this strife 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.000 and dis divisiveness in the locker room has been cleared 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:33.760 up after that interview, well it's not so. Anyway. We 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:36.840 can all look forward to that tomorrow. All right, Well, 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:38.400 we got a lot coming up over the next couple 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.520 of days, and I'll get smacked Don out of the 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.520 way first, because most of the news today pertains to 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.680 aw We have got smacked down Tomorrow night with the 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:52.800 return of Roman Reigns, AJ Styles and meechin versus Carrion 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.360 Cross and Scarlet. We have a gauntlet match to determine 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.120 the number one contenders of the undisputed tag team titles. 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.720 Lwa O Brawling Brutes, Pretty Deadly Street profits Gallows and Anderson. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:08.600 We have the Grayson Waller effect with Charlotte Flair and 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.080 Zelina Vega is going to face EO Sky. So that's 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:16.919 SmackDown on Friday Night. The rest of the weekend is 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:23.039 mostly aw. We have got Rampage, we have got the 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.880 debut of Collision, and then in a week we've got 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:33.960 the Forbidden Door Show. So the Rampage Show as will Ospray, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:39.400 Jeff Cobb and Kyle Fletcher against Trent Bretta, Chuck Taylor 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:44.400 and Rocky Romero. Yes, we are getting the match Jeff Jarrett, 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:50.160 Jay Lethal and Karen Jarrett versus Mark Briscoe, Papa Briscoe 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.880 and Aubrey Edwards. So it is not Sanjay that is 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.000 in there to oppose Papa Briscoe. It's Jared and Jay 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:03.520 Lethal and Karen Jarrett again, Mark, Papa and Aubrey. That's 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.640 the match tomorrow. And then we have Takeshta versus Bendido 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:14.440 with that absolutely disgusting, despicable Don Kallus there in the 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.839 corner of Takeshta who is now known as l Eho 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:23.760 Dave Don Kallus, and we have Taya Valkyrie and Trish 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:29.479 Adora that is the rampage lineup for Friday, and then 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:37.159 Saturday is the debut of Collision aw Collision Debuts. We 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.080 have the return of Miro. He will be in Action. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.760 We have the return of Andrade. He will be facing 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:49.240 Buddy Matthews. We have Skyblue and Willow Nightingale against Tony 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:54.400 Storm and Ruby Soho. We have Wardlow defending the T 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:59.560 and T title against Lucasaurus. We have the return of 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.919 CM Punk and cm Punk stated last night on the 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.239 show in a pre tape that he has a lot 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.680 of stuff to get off his chest. He's going to 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.359 have a live mic and that sounds like a lot 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:21.560 of fun, is what that sounds like. So anyway, that's 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.159 the lineup there. Mike, what are you watching? 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.720 I'm watching you just, you know, with bile on your 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.280 in your mouth right now, trying not to talk about Cmpunk. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.039 I got no bile at all, and I got nothing 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.359 add I haven't seen the interview. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.800 A lot of fun, it should shouldn't it. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:41.080 Well, let me think about it. Seem Punk with a 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.480 live mic on Collision. You don't think that's gonna be 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:44.760 a lot of fun. It is gonna be a lot 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:46.800 of fun. It may be a lot of fun, or 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.720 it may be a lot of fun, but one with 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.440 the other, it's gonna be a lot of fun. 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.120 So Rampage is probably gonna be a lot of fun too. 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:55.800 I don't know how many people are gonna watch it, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.400 but when you look at United Empire and that matchup 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.000 with best Friends and Rocky, that's going to be really good, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.799 Takesha and Bandido, it's hard not to believe that that's 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.719 going to be good. I'm disappointed a little bit with 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.520 that sixth Man or the sixth person with Papa Briscoe 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.680 and Karen Jarrett in it. They were right here in 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.960 the area. Again, if something would have been good for 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.160 down the Farm, I would love to see Karen Jarrett 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.800 down on the farm. But they decided to go with 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.040 a match in the ring, and that ought to be 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.920 fun no matter what. And Tyan Trish, you know, Trish 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:29.800 has been around for a while. I don't know. I 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.280 don't think they ever wrestled before. I could be wrong 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.960 about that. So that's going to be interesting too. Again 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:39.120 with Collision taking place, and with SmackDown happening, with the 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:42.680 ESPN interview with Punk happening. I don't know. Again, if 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.120 rampage is going to get any traction this week. It 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.680 was down to its lowest point last week. But on 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:49.640 paper again, it's a fun show. 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:56.080 All right. Chicago United Center, June seventeenth. This is Russell 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:59.600 Ticks as of four days ago, so I don't know 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.720 the eight is, but they've. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.640 Got eighty three eighty three out. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.240 As of a few days ago. It is set up 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.239 for ten thy two fourteen. They got eighteen hundred tickets left, 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:16.960 so that is the Collision debut. And then Russell Ticks 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.720 has next week's show as well, which is from Toronto, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.040 and that show is set up for thirty four to 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.160 forty five and they've got two one hundred tickets out, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.200 so they got a lot of tickets to sell for 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:33.959 next week's Collision show. And I presume that they'll shoot 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.120 a lot of angles on Saturday U and we'll go 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.480 from there. Yes, the Hamilton show is still under one thousand. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:47.319 Tickets for Collision under a thousand, so they got to 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:48.960 sell a bunch of tickets for that one too. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.040 Yeah, might have to learn a lesson from this one. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:55.480 You know, Toronto two shows back to back. Then you're 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.960 barely down the street in Hamilton for two shows. 0:08:59.000 --> 0:08:59.200 You know. 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.600 I think maybe the intentions were there, I guess, but 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:06.880 obviously hindsight, being twenty twenty, it was probably the wrong 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.480 move to stack all those shows that close together in 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:10.679 that close proximity. 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:16.640 We have also got a deal for the UK. AW 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.000 sources confirmed deal has been reached for collisiond air in 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.680 the UK market on Wednesday nights ITV four. First episode 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.679 taking place Saturday in Chicago, air on ITB four on 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:32.960 June twenty. First timeslot not confirmed past at least some 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.200 of the shows will air at nine pm. AW did 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.360 not confirm the nature of the timeslot past it would 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.400 be Wednesday nights. Dynamite and Rampage both there on the 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.760 station in revolving time slots on Friday and Tuesday. Dynamite 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.360 usually airs at nine, but often airs later in a 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:53.560 timeslot that revolves. Rampage usually airs after eleven in a 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.400 timeslot that changes. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:55.880 By the week. 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.520 Live commercial free airings of Collision will be part of 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.120 the AW Plus subscription package on Fight, which is available 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.200 in most countries throughout the world, with the exception of 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.920 markets where there is a local live rights owner such 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.679 as T and T in the US and in Canada. 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.840 Where it's going to stream on TSN Plus and not 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:21.160 air on television. That's the latest on the television deals 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:26.959 for Collision. And Tony Kann also did an interview and 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:33.280 this was with Post Wrestling, and he announced Battle of 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:38.480 the Belts will continue. They will live on despite the 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.319 debut of the new weekly Collision show. It says here, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.840 So obviously what that's going to mean is, you know, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.920 there are gonna be some weeks where we have two 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.360 hours of Dynamite, an hour of Rampage followed by an 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:54.040 hour of Battle of the Belts and then two hours 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.200 of Collision on Saturday. That's a lot of stuff every week. 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.240 And we had a discussion last night about Battle of 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:04.280 the Belts. And I'm certainly not saying that you shouldn't 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.679 do Battle of the Belts, but Battle of the Belts 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.640 is kind of funny because if you watch Dynamite, like 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.160 many many times, there have been significantly more championship matches 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.680 on an episode of Dynamite then on an episode that 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.480 same month of Battle of the Belts. So Battle of 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.800 the Belts, I mean, it's just an extra show. And 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.839 as we noted yesterday, I believe there have now been 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.440 six Battle of the Belts shows, and in all of 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:33.360 that time, there have only been two title changes. One 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:37.760 of them was when Cody got hurt and they did 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.560 an interim title match with Dustin and Sammy, which Sammy 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.360 won to win the TNT title, and then later he 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.319 lost the title and won it back at a Battle 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.640 of the Belt. So in all of these episodes they've 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.920 only had two title changes, and given the number of 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.600 titles that they have, I mean, you don't really want 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.319 to promise this, but I would do a title change 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.120 on every single Battle of the Belts you got, like 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.400 what nine belts or whatever if you count the a 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.920 w Ring of Honor, whatever new Japan titles are there. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.120 I mean, there should be a championship title change on 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:16.920 every single Battle of the Belts because otherwise it's it's 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.200 an extra show. Back in a moment with more Observer 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:31.560 Live back of the show. Brain Elber is here Wrestling 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.120 Observer Live. Mike simper VB, also of Wrestling Observer dot com. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:38.440 Did you did you review NXT yesterday? Mike? When I 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.559 wasn't here, I did, all right, just checking you even 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.840 I don't want to short change the listeners. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:49.000 Here, No, I don't think we need any more reviews 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:52.560 of you know, kor jaide or did. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.000 You talk about how how poor Rocks animals got killed? 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.400 Yeah, yeah, I did mention that I had to bring 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.760 that up. Look brutal. That's the one thing coming out 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.480 of that show. If you have a positive moving forward 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:05.440 when it comes to the NXT women's division, the two 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.800 best women they probably have and b Priestley and what's 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.120 what's her name Blair Davenport and Roxy and Perez. Thank 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.080 god they're going to be working together all right. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.880 Well, the show did five hundred and eighty one thousand viewers, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.640 down five point five percent from last week. Those audiences 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.800 May twenty third, eighteen to forty nine, eighth on Cable 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:28.920 point one six, aired head to head with the NHL 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.720 Stanley Cup Finals, which did two point five million viewers 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:34.480 in a point seven nine. 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.360 Congratulations Vegas, lous. 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:43.400 A lot of women eighteen to forty nine. But uh yeah, 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.720 these now, these women are real hit and miss on 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.240 this the show. I've noticed. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.880 That's a Nick Con. Somebody needs to ask Nick Con 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.720 about that. By the way, Brian, did you know that 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:58.560 NXT was put on because of COVID ruining things on TV? 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.319 And that's why they had to go ahead and put 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:03.280 the show on in prime time and then USA loved it. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:05.200 I did not know that. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:10.080 Yes, that's as Nick Con looks to possibly pump up 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.439 nxt is the third brand. You never know what he's 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:13.080 going to say. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:17.280 You know, I like this Nick Con because man, oh man, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:17.880 what a guy. 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:21.600 It's almost like he was a slimy Hollywood agent type. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.680 What he is is a guy who is hired for 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.440 a job and he gives it his all. I got 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.200 respect for a guy like that. That's well, he just 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.160 gives it his all. But you know what, you know, 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.560 he's uh, he's got ideas. I mean, look at look 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.320 at there's a lot of reasons for everything, but look 0:14:39.360 --> 0:14:43.120 at look at WWE business since they brought on Nick Con. Absolutely, 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.600 I mean it's Nick Con. It's Vince not booking this 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.840 crap anymore. I mean, yeah, it's not perfect, but it's 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:53.840 it's miles and miles better, and the talent's all happier, 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:58.640 and they're getting like lots of big sponsorship deals. I mean, 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.760 they're getting big sponsors deals, they're selling tons of merch 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.800 and you know, there's obviously an id here with NXTAM, 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.160 which is let's not push this as this developmental group, 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.560 which it is. But you know, we've got main roster 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:17.360 people showing up their Los Lithario's are there and seth 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.680 Rawlins is going to wrestle for the world title on 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:28.880 NXT next Tuesday. Why well, it's time to sign a renewal. 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.480 And you don't go to sign a renewal and have 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:36.600 a show that's sinking. You have a show where if 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.960 you look at the entire television landscape, with the exception 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.880 of a number of shows, you encount on one hand 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.680 all declining year over year. And then you've got RAW, 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.640 you've got SmackDown, and you've got NXT. And meanwhile, I 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.080 have people are arguing that, you know, it's actually not 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.640 hot right now, it's really not. Actually it is hot. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.560 It's really hot. It's the hottest it's been in decades. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:04.880 And NXT this show this week, which you know, it 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:07.320 didn't do the greatest number or anything like that, but 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.920 what is important is it's eighteen to forty nine was 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.520 up thirty three percent year over year. Find me another 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.800 show you know where the eighteen to forty nine is 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:19.840 up thirty three percent year over year. You want to 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.520 look at raw what it's up year over year. You 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.600 want to look at SmackDown what it's up year over year. 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.280 They're all up year over year. Uh, and they're going 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.440 to get that one point five times renewal and maybe 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:36.040 even more. I mean, this guy's not an idiot, you know, 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.720 And I think that if he thinks they're gonna get 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.240 if he thinks, listen, for sure, we're gonna get one 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:47.280 point five, we might be able to get two. You 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:50.960 don't say two because it might get one point five. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:54.480 Then the stock crashes. Everybody's all angry, but you say, 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.240 you know what, I think we can get one point 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.400 five comes in at one point eight, stock market right 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:02.760 up for your This guy knows what he's doing. He's 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.240 a smart guy, and they got a lot of smart 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.000 people working there right now. Regardless of what you might 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:09.520 think about some finishes or two. 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:13.600 He knew the landscape and he was a perfect person 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.679 to work with Vince and Vince I think knew that. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.120 And when he went and got the oh what were 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.200 their names, I can't even remember their names now, that 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.639 were pushed out and then came back in on the board. 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.399 They were the ones who set up the WWE network. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.720 And all that sort of stuff. But you know, with 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:35.160 talked about it yesterday with FX as far as if 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.160 they were to get it, you know, to me, it's 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.159 not the best move in the world. But when you. 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.560 Take Wilson and Barrios. 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:45.119 Wilson and Bardim, Yeah, that's right, Michelle Wilson and George Barrios. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:51.120 When you take WWE programming off of USA, what would 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.359 their numbers be on average for USA? You know, you 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.000 take that stuff off of there, you take the Bella 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.600 shows off, you take that stuff off of I and 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.600 BROB and if you're somebody else, you're looking at that 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.320 and it's like that can easily boost you up. I mean, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.400 and he knows this. Now, would it be a good 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.399 move to go to, say in Amazon, which he loves 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.920 bringing up. Probably not know, but he needs that chip 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.000 when you have all these pieces trying to play against 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.520 each other and you're trying to play him against each other. 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.640 We're seeing this in India now because there's the renewed 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.120 interest there because their TV deals are going to be up. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.919 They're going on tour there. Not sure if the German 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.040 deal is up or not, but obviously they announced a 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.480 tour for over there. As well too. So Nick con 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.879 is you know of people that will never make it 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:39.720 in the WWE Hall of Fame, but probably should. He's 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:41.960 going to be one of them because he is their 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.400 best friend in the whole wide world. Dealing with the media, 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:48.440 it used to be Bonnie Hammer over at NBC Universal 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.000 and the person that ran USA for so long she 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.480 belongs in too. But the way Nick Khn is able 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.600 to play all of these groups, and the reputation and 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.840 respect he has in those types of circles, whether it 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:03.719 be ESPN or whether it be in the you know, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.639 in the movie field or in the age inning field. 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:08.879 You know, he seems to have it all over the place. 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.160 A couple of text messages here and we'll do dynamite 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:18.560 after the break, this person says, and I agree with this. Well, 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.800 there's two ways to do it, he says. Ali needs 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.040 to announce time calls. The second I heard it randomly 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.000 called in last night's match, I knew immediately it would 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.200 be a time limit draw with one hundred percent certainty. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:29.800 I know I'm in the minority, but it took me 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:31.720 right out of it. We need more time limit draws 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:34.520 in general. If they don't want to do dqus Well. 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.119 I think they need to do one of two things. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.960 They need to either do what New Japan does, which 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.280 is you do the call in every match. It doesn't 0:19:43.280 --> 0:19:45.440 matter the match. You're gonna do the time calls at 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.760 ten minute intervals or whatever in every single match, okay. 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:53.359 Or you never do an announcement of the time. You 0:19:53.520 --> 0:19:56.040 only will start the match and go there is a 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.639 thirty minute time limit, and then do not make a 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.280 time call. If you normally do not do time calls 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.480 and then you randomly do a time call, you are 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.040 alerting people that we are going to the time limit draws. 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.479 So these are your two options. Either never mention it, 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.000 with the exception of the ring announcer says you know 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:22.480 this is a thirty minute time limit. Or every match Wardlow, 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:26.840 Jade Cargill, Young Bucks, you make a time call every 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:27.800 ten minutes. 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.720 Only for championship matches or big matches. I mean you 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:33.840 could do that if you wanted to split the difference, 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.399 and you don't have to give constant time calls. The 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.359 only one you really need to give is five minutes. 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:43.160 I always remember Tom Miller on the old NWA broadcast 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:46.800 five minutes like just that for that type of match, 0:20:46.840 --> 0:20:49.560 because then it reminds everybody, Okay, we are getting towards 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:52.560 the end here, and maybe some people think that's giving 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:54.920 it away. If they would have said five minutes or 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.000 did a count down last night, it would have given 0:20:57.080 --> 0:20:59.440 something away. I don't believe that would have been the case, 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:04.160 but I think reminding people of that, you know, doing something, 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:06.280 is not the worst thing in the world. 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:10.359 Versus my prediction for Collision, they do a hype video 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.159 and playing Punk is going to say something about the 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:15.919 press conference, Elite, etc. But it'll be Punk getting on 0:21:15.960 --> 0:21:18.000 the mic after the match and he's immediately laid out 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.200 by Kenta before he can say anything. Well, the one 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.760 thing I will say is if they're advertising that CM 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.280 Punk and literally that's what they were advertising last night, 0:21:27.600 --> 0:21:29.800 CM Punk has something he needs to get off of 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:34.760 his chest. If you're advertising that multiple times during Dynamite, 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:36.919 Tony is not going to have him come out and 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.600 not talk. I mean, he's just not what he does. 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:41.880 So he is going to do a promo. He could 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.439 get laid out after the promo, but I think that 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:46.639 he is going to do a promo. You do not 0:21:46.840 --> 0:21:48.800 want to bait and switch something on the very first 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:52.439 episode of Collision. You do not whatever you advertise you 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:54.119 need to deliver and more. 0:21:54.600 --> 0:21:57.760 No, of course, and let's be real honest here, I 0:21:57.800 --> 0:22:01.199 don't We'll see what happens with this ESPN interview, but 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:04.119 like to act as though he went out there with 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:08.880 no aw supervision. They didn't have any chance to monitor 0:22:09.000 --> 0:22:12.240 what was taking place and what was said after supposedly 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:15.960 NDAs were sent out, like it's gonna be blurring. Everybody's 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:18.320 worked themselves up into this big tizzy, and it's like, 0:22:19.200 --> 0:22:21.119 you know, I don't think it's going to change anybody's 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:23.240 mind if you'd like him, if you don't like him, 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:25.280 But the whole thing is being set up to drive 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:29.040 eyeballs to that show, and of course giving him a 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:32.639 live mic is going to probably be the highest rated 0:22:32.680 --> 0:22:35.480 portion of that show, whether you like him or not. 0:22:35.760 --> 0:22:40.320 So you know, I just there's already rumors that he, 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.680 you know, threw things at Kenta in the ESPN interview. 0:22:43.800 --> 0:22:48.040 So it's like, you knows how much of this is real, 0:22:48.119 --> 0:22:50.960 how much of it is nonsense? I guess we'll find out. 0:22:52.760 --> 0:23:00.160 Oh, alrighty, what else do we have here? Let's see 0:23:01.240 --> 0:23:04.320 number of years ago? Is this true? This has nothing 0:23:04.320 --> 0:23:06.400 to do with anything, but it's interesting to me. Number 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:10.840 of years ago Metallica played inside a clear dome in Antarctica. 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.959