WEBVTT - Cody Has A Dream and Dynamite Lineup 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.959 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:15.520 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:18.800 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.360 day Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:27.120 sixth Eastern. Well, it is Wednesday here on this show, 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:30.200 and you know what that means. It means I've got 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:34.239 my invisil line in and I'm trying my best, but 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:37.800 I'm I'm not used to talking yet, which I hadn't 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.240 taking into consideration because that's sort of my job. So anyway, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:45.040 I'm gonna do my best here to get through this 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.720 without doing weird stuff with my mouth and everything I got. 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:49.840 But we got a lot to get into, so hopefully 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.360 everything works out. We got dynamite tonight. We have six 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:59.440 segments announced for the show and a seventh because Kenny 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.200 Omega has been clear as we talked about a couple 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.120 of days ago, his visa situation is cleared up. He's 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.000 gonna be on the show, but we don't know what 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.880 he's doing. We don't know why. So there's gonna be 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:10.319 that as well. We'll go over the full line up 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.480 for the show. We've also got the n x T Report. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.679 My favorite part of the week n x T. It 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.880 is the go home show for Vengeance Day, which is 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:25.800 this weekend, and we'll talk about the show, the lineup 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:30.440 for Vengeance Day, all at Also news, Cody has been 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.320 doing interviews and he's talked about how he's got a 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:39.880 dream and after hearing his dream, I more than ever 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.399 want Cody to win this w w E title and 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:48.800 I'll tell you why. Also Coda Bushy update on Coda Bushy. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.560 We've got the raw ratings from Monday night which once 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.880 again big numbers. Because w w E is it's hot. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.000 It's hot right now. mL W and the w w 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.360 E court case will tell you about that and plenty more. 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.760 If you want Texas, four to five seven eight zero 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.320 seven five six six is the phone number four to 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.720 five seven eight zero seven five six six email Bryant 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.799 Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Elbers on Twitter. I 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:45.720 get ament with more of Observer Live back on the show. 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.720 Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper Vit also 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:53.359 of Wrestling Observe dot com. I was looking at that 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.400 Chad during the breaks when people are talking about in 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:02.400 I'm still laughing at we Bailey, We God help me. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.360 And then of course there's uh, let's talk about n 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.359 x T and the raw rating and stuff like that. 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:13.200 And Okay, first off, for those of you wondering, an 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:17.440 XT is not legitimately my favorite show over the week. Okay, 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.800 that part is a gimmick, but I do. I do 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:23.160 enjoy watching n x T. I I look forward to 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.320 Tuesday nights watching the show because I find the show 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.040 to be fun and it entertains me even when it's dumb, 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.799 and uh, I don't care what anyone says. I don't 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.440 even want to hear it. That main event last night 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:41.000 was really good, the three way tag with Chase, you 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.160 and uh enters no fe who I don't know if 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.720 you guys knows or not. He wasn't wearing a shirt 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.440 and you know, Tad, you know what I'm saying. I 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.200 told you that nobody wanted to listen anyway. And also 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.600 also the schism, and you know I loved most about 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.000 that main event. It's we have now seen it two 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:04.720 times and I really don't know why it is. But 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:07.480 for those of you that watch a lot of n 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:11.600 x T, do you remember there was there was a show. 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:16.799 I can't remember what the circumstances were, but Joe Gacy 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.240 was put in a position where he had to make 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:24.200 a baby face hot tag. Do you remember? This? Was 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.040 it in the lead up to the six six Way 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:31.440 whatever it was? Bro This guy made such an awesome 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:36.279 baby face hot tag. He was unbelievable. So you know, 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.520 they're doing the storyline with with Chase You and with 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:44.560 um with Duke Hudson, where Duke Udson is his he's 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.640 joined Chase You. But the storyline is, you know, this 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.080 guy is he's fixing a screwom or whatever. He's you know, 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:57.239 he's a he's a wolf in cheap's clothing as they say, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.080 and so you know he's he's a bad guy, but 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:04.080 he's he's he's working them. Well anyway, here's another one. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.400 They put him in position to make a baby face 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:12.080 hot tag tonight, and my god, this guy's baby face 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:16.560 hot tag was so awesome, to the point where like 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.440 both him and Joe Gazing they make this hot tag 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.680 and I'm like, why are these guys heels like turn 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.400 these dudes, baby face, they're awesome at it. And I 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:26.920 don't know if it's maybe like when you're always a 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.640 heel and then there's that one day where you're giving 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.520 something different to do and it's like, oh man, I 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:34.200 get to make odd tags. Wait till you see this, brother, 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:37.120 And then you're watching it's like, dude, what are all 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.040 baby faces make hot tags like this? He was great. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.560 So anyway, it's a good show. We'll talk about it later. 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:45.599 But the Raw ratings very quickly since they were huge, 0:05:46.560 --> 0:05:49.920 and yeah it was Joe Gas a team with Cameron Grimes. Yeah, 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:55.320 so Rod did two point one one million viewers and 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.400 it was a point six four and eighteen and forty nine. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:03.320 So once again know on on cable and network, on 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:08.960 all of television, Raw was the most watched show not 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:14.200 in its time slot of the day. There was nothing 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:20.960 else on Monday on television at any time that did 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:27.080 a better eighteen to forty nine number than Monday Night Raw. No, nothing. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.039 It was the number one show of the whole day 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:35.440 in eighteen to forty nine. So Raw was first in 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:40.040 women eighteen to forty nine, more than doubled everything on 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.479 cable in men eighteen to forty nine, more than doubled 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.080 everything on cable in eighteen to thirty four, beat everything 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:51.799 but The Bachelor on television in eighteen two thirty four, 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.159 and uh in total viewers at Trail News, but in 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:59.359 eighteen forty nine it trailed nothing. So yeah, you know, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.359 as note, obviously you know there's no football, there's no 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:07.080 football competition, and it was the day after the Royal Rumble. 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:12.720 But last year there was also no football, and there 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.960 was a show the day after the Royal rumble, and 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:21.320 rob this year was up in viewers, up thirty four 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.840 percent from the post Royal Rumble show in eighteen to 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:30.000 forty nine and in eighteen to thirty four compared to 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.640 last year's show, the exact same show the day after 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.960 the Royal Rumble last year with no football, up forty 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:42.600 five cent in eighteen to thirty four. So w W 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:47.920 E is hot those of you that haven't noticed. Two 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.400 point two two million first hour, two point one seven 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:55.080 million second hour, which was a really really good Uh. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:59.680 They basically maintained everybody from our one hour two and 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.600 then it did fall to one point nine six million 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:06.520 an hour three, So there you go, you know, and 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.960 I don't know you know what it is, because you 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:15.440 know it's like I watched the show and it is different. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.480 But even I will tell you it's not substantially different, 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:22.000 with the exception of actually, you know what it is 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.200 in some way substantially different because we can now count 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.080 on like two hands the number of storylines that they've 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:32.720 advertised and changed. Literally it's two, it's two, and last 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.520 week they would do two to three changes every week. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.880 It was like there was no point when Raw was 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:41.520 over telling you what was announced for next week because 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.360 it just wasn't gonna happen. Now, when they announced stuff 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.000 for next week, it happens. I guess it would be 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.120 three times now because it was alts of that cage match, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.840 but uh, it happens virtually every single time. So I 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.680 don't know if it's just they announced what's gonna happen 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.199 and then do it. I don't know if there's a 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.080 portion of the fan base that, you know, people would 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.840 always say, especially after the Saudi shows, like I ain't 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.319 watching this, I hate Vince, I cannot support Vince McMahon, 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.960 and it's always like, you know, they say that, but 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:12.120 I don't know if I buy it. Well, you know, 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.600 a lot of this year over year changes is all 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.040 after Vince left, and so it's possible there there is 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.400 a percentage of fans that are like, you know, he's 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.079 he's not booking this thing, and he's I guess he's 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.280 kind of back now trying to sell it. But you know, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.760 whatever it is, it's uh, it's way up from where 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:33.160 it was a year ago, and good for them. I 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:35.240 don't think it's a cop out to say that it's 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:39.160 a little mixed everything everything. I mean, if you look 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:42.280 at the economy, if you're going out less and we 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.480 saw this crunch as we went into the holidays with 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.200 you know, the with that situation, Well, there's one thing 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.199 you don't have to worry about paying for if you've 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.000 already got peacock or you've already got cable, there's you know, 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.400 the USA network in football is out of the way, 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.559 and they have been getting hot and there has been 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.560 a lot of media attention put on them for maybe 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:08.080 somebody who has not been paying attention closely, who heard 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.760 about all this chaos going on and is wondering, you know, yeah, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.600 I haven't seen it for a while. Has it changed, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.440 you know since the last time I saw it? I 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.040 think it's just a really a mix of everything and 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.840 the fact that they're hot at a time where there's 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.960 not much competition right now. Obviously the entertainment field is 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.880 not giving them much to work with. Very disappointed with 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:29.080 Below Deck here. You know, if I was going to 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.360 give some sort of competition going on, but no, apparently not. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:36.199 You're at a time where college basketball is not cooking yet, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.520 the NBA is not cooking. Other than the All Star 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.600 Break and HL the only thing going on people looking 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.880 forward to for the most part right now is the 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.360 trade deadline in a couple of weeks. So it's like 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.560 this is a great time for them to shine a 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.480 light upon themselves and have a really good run and 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.120 put their best foot foot forward, not only leading into 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:59.679 WrestleMania and Elimination Chamber for that matter, but because obviously 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.920 it seems like the rest of the entertainment industry has 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:07.239 seated itself to them. Yeah, is noted here like SmackDown 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.280 Friday that that show is gonna do huge because it 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:13.840 is the follow up to the Big Angle at the 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.400 Royal Rumble. What's Jay doing, What's Sammy doing, What's Roman doing? 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.880 Pretty much? Yeah, we're getting Roman and Sammy in Montreal. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.800 So it's got to be announced. They gotta shoot that 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:27.800 angle to get going. So that's gonna be a big 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:33.240 show coming up on Friday. So Cody did an interview 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.559 and he says he has a pipe dream. You ready 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.880 for this? Yes, this guy is the man. He wants 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.480 to bring back the wing of Eagle Jus just like you, 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.800 no wonder why you see? That's it. That's why you 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.000 kept for this guy all the time. That's why you're 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:54.160 out there just putting on the cape for him and 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.400 and talking. That's what all these people have been talking 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:01.480 about with human Cape. Yeah, how how dare I report 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.120 the factual statement that they sold out of all Cody 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.959 merchandise all weekend and he was the biggest merchant seller 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:08.839 by far. How am I bias for telling you what 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.960 actually happened? Why are you mad at me? Bro? If 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.560 they put well, they're already selling tons of wing deals, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.240 tons of them back in a moment they were alive. 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.280 Sure I could go. I could go on for hours 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.200 about the chapter during this breakan talk about belts. What 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.079 are they doing? All right? Listen, listen, This current WF 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:45.720 belt sucks, all right, It's a giant w it's a 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:50.200 giant like, it's basically a giant Volkswagen, that thing on 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:55.360 the front of your car on leather, Like, Since when 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.280 did the company logo need to be the centerpiece of 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.040 the championship belt? Since? Never? Is the answer. Okay, it's 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:09.439 a big old w wow. Okay, now listen. I am 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.280 an advocate of the the Winged Eagle belt. I think 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.640 it's the best looking belt that they've ever made, but 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.280 that doesn't mean it's it's the only one. They that 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.880 that second Big Eagle they gave to Steve Auston, that 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.079 was a sweet looking title, you know, the the one 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.000 of those early undisputed titles. I think, uh, I think 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:31.520 maybe uh Brock had I was all right. The Spinner 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:37.160 belt was just trash, absolutely horrible. Oh, Mike, Mike's gotta 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.319 bust out his old n w A belt again. Was 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:43.000 the whatever the belt was behind here? The one that 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.640 they went after, that all black belt that they had 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.600 with the gold in the front. I thought that was 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.120 a really good looking belt. I think wasn't that the 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:54.800 undisputed belt for a while or something like that? Yeah, yeah, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.840 these people are going you know, I love the Spinner belt, Yeah, 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.200 you do. If you started watching wrestling when Sena came 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:02.120 out with a stupid belt, the spun. But other than 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.800 people that came up literally right when that belt was 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:07.559 the main belt, nobody likes that belt. It's dumb, it's spins, 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.199 it's stupid. It's a gimmick, that's all it is. It's 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.560 cool for him for a minute, that's what it's good for, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.400 but it's not long lasting, like the dome Globe or 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.160 big Gold for example. A belt that looks better than 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:22.120 the winged Eagle, not the wing it's winged. Get get 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.400 with a get with the picture. You know what else 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:26.560 is an awesome belt, Not the current one, but the 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:30.840 previous i W g P title beautiful belt. The new 0:14:30.880 --> 0:14:33.360 belt sucks. The new belt looks like that belt that 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.720 they made for Jeff Hardy and like and t n 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.880 A that is his face paint on it or whatever. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.720 Stupid looking belt sucks. There was some great n w 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:49.000 A the the old Liken w c W World Heavyweight 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.680 Championship belt that Vader and and Flair as a sweet belt, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.280 those Dave Milliken belts. You know, look, there's been a 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.840 lot of great belts over time, and very few great 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.200 belt makers and Reggie par Ks, who passed away, was 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.520 one of them, and he passed that on to Dave Milliken. 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.520 And I'm not sure about all the people out there 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.880 now that make those types of belts, but Nikita Malkovich 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:11.760 way back in the day, I mean, very few people, 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.800 and they've done some incredible work that obviously, you know, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.680 we know to this day we're still talking about right now, 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.000 not a one picture of belt in you oh wait here, 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.520 but here it is as they sell them. That's the 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.840 version up there. I like that. That's that. That's right. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.840 It's not as nice as the winged Eagle though. And 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.840 you know that other one. Look, hey, hey, show everybody 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:37.520 that that that atrocious oval intercondinal title belt. Oh I 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.160 hate that, dude. That's the ugliest belt you know that is? 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.600 You know what that is. That's when you go to 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.520 uh the Seattle Aquarium and you put your penny in 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.560 that gimmick and you turn the knob and like an 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:50.960 elongated penny comes out. That's what that is. And another 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.160 horrible belt is those old those old tag team belts 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.880 that look like pennies and dying pennies. Yes, those were 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.320 all actually is the ultimate example of going to one 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.640 of those gimmicks at the beach or the trolley or whatever, 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.920 and the copper down. It's ridiculous. He tell you something, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.720 If I win the tag team titles, which I will 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.360 with Filthy Tom, I don't want. I don't want two pennies. 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.320 How about gold? Brother? What do you think I'm in 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.800 this for copper? Yeah, I'm gonna get a belt that 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.600 I'm gonna put on my my thing that's gonna turn 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.840 green like the Statue of Liberty. What am I wanting 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.480 a copper belt? Are you sure? Hey? Listen, I don't want. 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:25.200 I don't make me mute you again. I don't even 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.080 want to talk about it. I don't want to be talking. 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:31.240 I realized I'm coming back again. But there's a reason 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.320 for it, and no one's talking me out of it. 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.640 Do you understand? Thank you? Now you know what I 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:42.360 was gonna say about the continental title. Cody, y'all forget. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.400 He's the guy that they got rid of that elongated 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.240 penny and they brought back the old school intercontinental title. 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.680 So there's anybody that can get rid of these stupid 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.040 giant ws. Somebody here goes, yeah, Well, when they hand 0:16:58.040 --> 0:16:59.960 out a title belt to the you know, they whoever 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.480 wins the Super Bowl or whatever. Yeah, people understand why 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.439 they got an evil Oh, because they understand when they 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.520 got a w oh, here here's a belt with a 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.560 W on it. Yeah, that then the common person is 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:17.840 gonna go, yeah, well, look what is this really about? 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:22.160 When it came then I got it double? What is it? Look, 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:26.000 it's it's about them giving look w W across the Look. 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.240 It's crazy to me too why they wouldn't actually put 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.080 a plate of the team in there and maybe have 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.240 w W A on the side plates. But look, and 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.080 it became an accepted thing in the sports world. We're 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.359 going to give you our logo to hold up on 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:41.600 national TV anytime you have a parade or any of 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.360 that sort of stuff. In a way, it was kind 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:47.360 of brilliant to do. It's obnoxious, it's ridiculous, but it 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.320 was actually kind of a brilliant thing to do. Now, 0:17:49.320 --> 0:17:52.680 did you ever hear the story about that whole logo itself, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:56.200 the Scratch logo? Did I ever hear the story about 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.240 the Scratch logo? Yes? I don't know. I've heard a 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.359 lot of stories. What's the story? Brian Solomon, who wrote 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:04.920 that chic book and I worked with in the Wrestling News. 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.239 He used to work for WWF F magazine and they 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.560 were going through the whole change. I guess this is 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.919 a story that he had heard about the old block 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:17.080 logo that the WWF had. And remember the legendary story 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.280 about Vince getting such a low rating on raw that 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.440 he freaked out. And this was the rating when they 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.199 were in Europe for a raw that was taped and 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.280 it did a bottomed out terrible rating. W CW had 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.399 a good one and he lost it. This is what 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.520 opened the door for Vince Russo to come in and 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:36.879 around that time, and he's upset and he's looking at 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.399 the block logo and he smashes it in front of 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:43.679 everyone and he scribbled on a white board what basically 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:47.600 became the scratch logo that you see the w w 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:51.199 F logo that you saw before it became just the 0:18:51.400 --> 0:18:55.840 ww and underneath it he actually on the white board 0:18:56.119 --> 0:19:00.480 because he's Vince wrote a big set of balls. And 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.400 when they actually came to you know, look for ideas 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.480 about the logo, they did have to break it to 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.800 him that no, Vince, we we can't put the balls 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.920 under the logo. But what we can do is actually 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.720 create the swirl. So the swirl that was underneath that 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:20.120 logo on the original Scratch logo was actually Vince's balls. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.800 Uh with with this guy in his own testicles? Like, 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:28.359 what's up with this guy? He's got grate? What a 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:35.800 weird guy. It's just a weird creep. Well, yes, yes, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.760 got dynamite. You don't even need an NDA to say 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:44.200 it dynamite. Tonight, John Moxley versus Hangman, Page my Pants 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:48.720 three third time. So uh, I mean, there's there's two 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:51.639 possibilities here. One is, for some reason they're doing a 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:54.119 blowoff now and the winner is going to get a 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.240 big match at the pay per view, or we're doing 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.760 three to do what UFC did, which is lead to 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.639 a quadrilogy a quad what did what did they call that? 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.240 They made up some words super effective, like a quadrug 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.159 or something like that, which is gonna be coming up 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:11.440 in the pay per view, So I guess we'll find 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:16.119 out tonight. Yeah, they made up a weird word. What 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.480 did they call it? Is? Because the one incorporated you 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:22.760 know what, hey, listen, I'll look it up on Wikipedia. UFC. 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.879 What was the last UFC was UFC twenty four was 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:32.280 last quadraphia or maybe that's coming up. Was UFC two 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.600 eighty three last? There it is? Okay, now they actually 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:39.239 they actually wrote it on Wikipedia, which was the funniest thing. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:49.000 They used blown calf or qua UFC two eighty three. Okay, ready, yes, okay, 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:55.159 well I'm not oh, okay, I remember when ufc s 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:58.200 were in the ones because it was the first one. 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:03.240 It was a long time ago. Now, okay, you see 0:21:03.680 --> 0:21:10.840 flyweight Championship unification tetrology about Oh they changed it a tetrology. 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.240 They changed it now they're calling it a tetrology. Tetrology. 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.000 What is a tetrology? They had made up a word 0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.760 they have brought in us new words. They called it 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.760 like on the paper they actually called it a quadrology 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.200 or something like that because it was the fourth time 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.399 there never been there never been four. Let's see tetrology 0:21:31.600 --> 0:21:35.720 a group of four related literary or operatic works, or 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.200 in medicine, a set of four related symptoms or abnormalities 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:42.240 frequently occurring together. Yeah, well they didn't they didn't know 0:21:42.320 --> 0:21:45.280 tetrology at the time because they called it a quadrology. 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:47.760 So if anybody can find where that was written, let 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.040 me know so I can I can talk about it 0:21:51.040 --> 0:21:54.119 here anyway, we have that tetrology is only in the 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:58.800 Urban Dictionary. Here, Brian Danielson versus Timothy Thatcher, we got 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:03.000 Jake Cargill in Red Velvet, Darby Allen and Samoa Joe 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:10.080 No holds Barred Takeshi versus Brian Cage and the Acclaimed 0:22:11.160 --> 0:22:13.600 against t b A. Can we get that belt off 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:18.199 Derby Police? Why? Here's why I love Darby Allen, I 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.840 really do. But he is to me not the guy 0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:23.159 that I want to have holding the t n T title. 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:26.000 I know he's I'm not sure how he works for 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:28.480 ratings anymore. I know at one point he did cause 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:30.480 a spike in them, and I would want to incorporate 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:32.919 him into the show. But the style that he wrestles, 0:22:33.280 --> 0:22:36.280 to me, I don't know. He's more of a feature guy. 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.240 I would rather see Samoa Joe with that belt out there, 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:42.520 kind of bringing back the open challenge or or having 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:45.040 a few you know, that's meaningful that way to me. 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:47.359 I don't know. That's just the way that I prefer 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:49.159 Darby Allen, and I think that's the way you make 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.719 him last for for longer too, because him going out 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.720 there every week doing these types of matches. I know 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:58.440 you now they're to last. I know, and that's the thing. 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:00.960 And if it's up to him, what I'm saying means 0:23:01.040 --> 0:23:03.960 nothing anyway, and I know this, but I don't know. 0:23:04.040 --> 0:23:07.320 That's just my preference. Bro Darby is literally doing what 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:10.040 you just asked for, which is an open challenge every week, 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:13.240 facing if wanted with him, because I just don't want 0:23:13.240 --> 0:23:17.520 to see this guy kill himself. I know he's you 0:23:17.640 --> 0:23:20.480 try to explain away from the top rope that drop kick, 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:22.280 and I don't care how you cut it. I don't 0:23:22.320 --> 0:23:24.480 care if he breaks his fall or not. It's still 0:23:24.560 --> 0:23:26.639 a kind of a dumb bump to do over and 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:29.720 over again. Well, listen, he I believe he should beat 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.200