Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: three Pacific six Eastern. Well, Hi, everybody Tuesday here on
Speaker 1: this program. What are we gonna have to talk about
Speaker 1: here today? Anything going on? Well, yes, some stuff is
Speaker 1: going on, and uh yes, we'll talk about Sasha, Naomi Raw,
Speaker 1: the whole shebang coming up here after the break, but
Speaker 1: I don't want to mention very quickly today. Best wishes
Speaker 1: to Mike Simper Vivie not gonna be on the show today.
Speaker 1: Still sick, although I believe that he said he's starting
Speaker 1: to feel a little bit better, but he's still sick. Also,
Speaker 1: Tuesday's we are normally scheduled to do a figure for
Speaker 1: dealing with a land storm at two Pacific, five Eastern.
Speaker 1: No show today because Lance felt that I was not
Speaker 1: showing him enough respect. He walked into my office, he
Speaker 1: put his microphone on the table, and he left. So
Speaker 1: no show with Lance today. Of course that's not true.
Speaker 1: But what is true, unfortunately, is that Lance Storm has COVID,
Speaker 1: and so best wishes to Lance on a speedy recovery.
Speaker 1: I believe he's also starting to feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better here today, but you know how that goes. We'll
Speaker 1: see if if the recovery continues or if he has
Speaker 1: those ups and downs a lot of people have. But
Speaker 1: best wishes to Lance and we will get him back
Speaker 1: on the show, hopefully next Tuesday. So so best wishes
Speaker 1: to him. Wanted to get the important health really to
Speaker 1: stuff out of the way first, because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, Sasha Bank Naomi, they walked out of
Speaker 1: a company over a disagreement regarding who is going to
Speaker 1: win some matches. I realized this is the most talked
Speaker 1: about story, but what is more important everybody is people's health.
Speaker 1: But yes, I'll get into that story after the break.
Speaker 1: I got a lot to get into back in a moment.
Speaker 1: Its over live, a diffiness time duty, you're not kind
Speaker 1: of seeing the shack time the range. But that to
Speaker 1: back on the show right now. But is here wrestling
Speaker 1: observer alive. I'm Mike Simp for VV today, no co host.
Speaker 1: I don't need one today. There's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: we can talk about, yere Yes, Sasha and Naomi. Where
Speaker 1: to begin on this story? Well, yesterday on Observer Live,
Speaker 1: I guess we started the beginning right now, how we
Speaker 1: always start. Yesterday Observer Live, I had the lineup for
Speaker 1: a raw, which was of course non existing. As always,
Speaker 1: we knew that Omas was going to face Bobby Lashly
Speaker 1: in a cage match, and that was it by the
Speaker 1: time the show went off the year and the show
Speaker 1: went off the year at you know three Eastern show starts,
Speaker 1: it made or whatever. So in the afternoon they I
Speaker 1: guess announced I presume on social media. I'm not much
Speaker 1: of a social media guy, to be honest. Then they
Speaker 1: were gonna be doing a six pack challenge and the
Speaker 1: winner was going to get Bianca bell Air at the
Speaker 1: Helen a Cell pay per view, which is quite frankly
Speaker 1: a total throwaway pay per view. I think the main
Speaker 1: event is Cody and seth rawlins for the third time
Speaker 1: with nothing on the line, just a Helen his Cell match.
Speaker 1: And uh so they had a six pack challenge announced,
Speaker 1: and Nicky ash and do Drop and Becky Lynch and
Speaker 1: Oscar and Sasha and Naomi, by the way, are the
Speaker 1: women's tag team champions. They are all gonna be in
Speaker 1: this in this match. Okay, So what happened was there
Speaker 1: was a disagreement between Vince McMahon and Sasha Banks. Will
Speaker 1: go into more details here in a while, but they
Speaker 1: added disagreement and uh, Sasha and Naomi left. They left
Speaker 1: the building. And this happened as the show was on
Speaker 1: the air. Okay, so about forty five minutes of the show,
Speaker 1: it was like before a commercial break, they cut backstage
Speaker 1: and Adam Pierce is furiously texting on his phone and
Speaker 1: Becky is there, and you just hear Becky say something
Speaker 1: like I saw them they put their belts on the
Speaker 1: desk and they just walked out, And then we go
Speaker 1: to commercial and we come back and essentially they shot
Speaker 1: a very quick angle where Becky explains that she she
Speaker 1: saw Sasha and Naomi put their belts on the desk
Speaker 1: and walk out, and so therefore there can't be a
Speaker 1: six pack challenge, and so she wants to just be
Speaker 1: named the number one contender, and Adam Pierce ends up ruling, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be you and Oscar one on one and
Speaker 1: the winner against Bianca bell Air. I don't know this one,
Speaker 1: but the impression I've been given is that neither of
Speaker 1: them actually had any idea what was really going on,
Speaker 1: and they were just told go in there and do
Speaker 1: this quick. And so they went in there and they
Speaker 1: did it, and uh, allegedly, you know, Becky, just on
Speaker 1: the fly, came up with, okay, well let's just do
Speaker 1: this now. Why in storyline, if Sasha and Naomi walked out,
Speaker 1: they didn't just make it a four way they took
Speaker 1: do drop and Nicki ash out as well. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but my presumption is that they figure yeared okay, well,
Speaker 1: they only have two hours to prepare for this six
Speaker 1: minute match, and we'll just have you know, two good
Speaker 1: workers that we know can pull it off in six
Speaker 1: minutes go out there and do it. Plus they've been
Speaker 1: working on the road. So apparently that's why Nicki ash
Speaker 1: And and dew Trump ended up not in the match.
Speaker 1: So they left and w W E then issued a
Speaker 1: statement during raw. Okay, I was gonna have faunt Leroy
Speaker 1: read it, but we'll be serious here, as serious as
Speaker 1: we can be for this preposterous story. I'll read it
Speaker 1: and then maybe faont Lerie can read it later. When
Speaker 1: Sasha Banks and Naomi this is written. This is from
Speaker 1: w w E. When Sasha Banks and Naomi arrived at
Speaker 1: the arena this afternoon, they were informed of their participation
Speaker 1: in the main event of tonight's Monday Night Raw. During
Speaker 1: the broadcast, they walked into w w E Head of
Speaker 1: Talent Relations, John Loria Nitis's office, her suitcases in hand,
Speaker 1: placed their Tag Team championship belts on his desk, and
Speaker 1: walked out. They claimed they were not expected enough as
Speaker 1: tag team champions and even though they had eight hours.
Speaker 1: Even though they had eight hours to rehearse and construct
Speaker 1: their match, they claimed they were uncomfortable in the ring
Speaker 1: with two of their opponents, even though they'd had matches
Speaker 1: with those individuals in the past with no consequence. Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw is a scripted live TV show whose characters
Speaker 1: are expected to perform the requirements of their contract. We regret,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and say this with a straight face.
Speaker 1: We regret we were unable to deliver as advertised tonight's
Speaker 1: main event. That's what they said. So we had a
Speaker 1: couple of notes here, uh there. There was a big
Speaker 1: article it p w Insider, which largely jives with everything
Speaker 1: that I heard, and so I'm gonna read that here
Speaker 1: and then we will we'll talk about more stuff that
Speaker 1: I heard. So uh, details still light regarding exactly what happened.
Speaker 1: This is actually from mussel observer dot com. The sources
Speaker 1: p W Insider what caused Sasha Banks and Naomi to
Speaker 1: walk out of Raw Monday One Tuesday report has a
Speaker 1: version of what led to w w E s Take
Speaker 1: Team Champions leaving Cordia. P w Insider the plan for
Speaker 1: Raw was at Banks and Naomi would go head to
Speaker 1: head in the planned six pack challenge, with Naomi getting
Speaker 1: to challenge Raw Women's Champion Biaka bell Air at Helen
Speaker 1: his Cell. The report went on to say, there is
Speaker 1: a belief this Friday, Smackdan would kick off at Angle
Speaker 1: to set up Banks versus SmackDown Women's Champion Rohnda Rousey
Speaker 1: at Helen his Cell, with both Banks and Naomi losing
Speaker 1: at the event. I pitched alternative idea including Dewdrop and
Speaker 1: nicky Ash that would have set up a different program
Speaker 1: was not gone with, leading to the two eventually informing
Speaker 1: John lord Ius they were leaving and handing over the
Speaker 1: titles on the post. Raw Observer Radio Dave Meltzer said
Speaker 1: the two went to Vince McMahon about the creative plan.
Speaker 1: Vince did not back down, did not agree to what
Speaker 1: they were asking. The report said. McMahon learned of their departure,
Speaker 1: reportedly right as Raw was going live with the eventual
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch Adam Pierce segment, pitched and approved on the spot,
Speaker 1: which led to the Lynch versus Oscar match. So uh,
Speaker 1: people the inside the rights. The belief among some is
Speaker 1: that the creative issue is not with Banks losing to Naomi,
Speaker 1: but how the duo would have been portrayed over the
Speaker 1: next several weeks, especially after they had put so much
Speaker 1: time into building their team. Once Vince McMahon issued an
Speaker 1: edict that they would be teaming and winning the women's
Speaker 1: tag team titles at WrestleMania thirty eight, and that after
Speaker 1: diving into building that team, they were going to wrestle
Speaker 1: each other and go off to put over other talents,
Speaker 1: leaving them exactly where, which apparently was the crux of
Speaker 1: the issue. I guess back where they started. The w
Speaker 1: w E plan looks to have been the w w
Speaker 1: WE Wins Take Team Champions would have been downplayed until
Speaker 1: their next program after Helen his Cell and Wade Keller
Speaker 1: refuted the statement about not trusting their opponents, saying, I
Speaker 1: can just say I have asked around. There wasn't a
Speaker 1: pre existing issue with Naomi and Sasha and anyone in
Speaker 1: that match. He also said there was not much sympathy
Speaker 1: backstage towards either woman, nor a sense of them taking
Speaker 1: a stand for something people agreed with, and as of now,
Speaker 1: both women still in the active roster. So I did
Speaker 1: hear that story that Naomi was supposed to win the
Speaker 1: six pack Challenge, Naomi was going to go on to
Speaker 1: Helen's Cell, Sasha Banks was going to do a feud
Speaker 1: with Ronda Rousey and have a championship match at Helen
Speaker 1: his Cell. So both of the tag team champions would
Speaker 1: be challenging for the singles titles and they would lose.
Speaker 1: And this apparently upset Sasha and Naomi because they have
Speaker 1: done such a great job in their minds of building
Speaker 1: their team up since winning the titles at WrestleMania. If
Speaker 1: you're watching the video right now and you're looking in
Speaker 1: my face, yes, I find this whole thing to be
Speaker 1: completely preposterous. Do they not remember back in the day
Speaker 1: where when you were gonna build up a champion that
Speaker 1: that person beat the tag team champions one on two
Speaker 1: literally in a handicap match. The tag team champions would
Speaker 1: often do jobs for the champion. I mean, I I understand, like,
Speaker 1: you know, being happy to win the titles at Maine
Speaker 1: and everything, but what's going on here? You've built up
Speaker 1: this team to such a degree that you can't do
Speaker 1: a job to the singles champions at Helen a Cell.
Speaker 1: Have I been watching a different Ron SmackDown where Sasha
Speaker 1: Banks and Naomi are this huge, popular, fantastically over main
Speaker 1: event tag team act. Have I missed that aspect of
Speaker 1: the television, because when I watched the show, they're the
Speaker 1: women's tag team champions and they're getting the same pops
Speaker 1: they got before. The belts are exactly a position largely
Speaker 1: is there. I mean, I got a lot more to
Speaker 1: say after this, after the break, but I don't got
Speaker 1: a lot of sympathy. And I think one of the
Speaker 1: keys of the story is bro I ain't the only
Speaker 1: one that has no sympathy. Back in the moment, sever
Speaker 1: live back in the show, Brian Elba is here wrestling
Speaker 1: observer live, Mike and Bervit out here today. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: anytime I've dealt with this before, any time you dare
Speaker 1: say anything negative about Sasha here they come. So I
Speaker 1: guess I can have to deal with that here today.
Speaker 1: But hey, you know what's funny is whatever I say
Speaker 1: about Sasha Banks today or Naomi or whoever, they're gonna
Speaker 1: you know, they'll come after me. And then those same
Speaker 1: fans will be in the building when Fitzbigmhan comes out
Speaker 1: and they'll all a bow to him. So anyway, I've
Speaker 1: seen already some defenses of oh my god, well you know,
Speaker 1: and it's true. We we only know one side of
Speaker 1: the story here. We only know w W E s
Speaker 1: side of the story. But I've heard several versions of
Speaker 1: the story and they're all largely the same. That Sasha
Speaker 1: didn't like the booking and she left. And what's interesting is, Bro,
Speaker 1: there's been some horrible booking in this company. And your
Speaker 1: issue is that the Tag Team Champions, but one of
Speaker 1: the Tag Team, one half of the Tag Team Champion,
Speaker 1: is gonna win a six pack challenge over the Top
Speaker 1: Women on Raw and then she's gonna go to headline
Speaker 1: of pay per view against the champion and then lose
Speaker 1: in the end and somehow that's a down grade. And
Speaker 1: then the other one is going to start a feud
Speaker 1: with Rhonda Rousey, the champion, and they're gonna go back
Speaker 1: and forth and do a bunch of angles leading to
Speaker 1: a championship match at a paper view, which he's gonna lose.
Speaker 1: And apparently this is like, you know, this is just
Speaker 1: horrible that the women's Take Team champions will being shambles
Speaker 1: after this. Okay, so listen, if if if you think
Speaker 1: that this is just like whatever, here's I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you about. You're welcome to think whatever you want inside
Speaker 1: with whoever you want. Okay, but ill me tell you
Speaker 1: something about w w E. These wrestlers are given stupid ideas.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking Sasha, and I'm talking everybody, okay, from
Speaker 1: the bottom to the top. They're given stupid creative ideas
Speaker 1: all the time. And uh and boy have I heard
Speaker 1: some arguments from from very very I'm talking top folks
Speaker 1: that have argued storylines, and Vince is like, Nope, this
Speaker 1: is what we're doing. And so obviously, I think I
Speaker 1: think everybody is is pretty well aware, especially when you
Speaker 1: listen to interviews from people who have left w w E.
Speaker 1: The idea that everybody in w w E is satisfied
Speaker 1: with their creative it's ridiculous. Of course they're not. They
Speaker 1: they you know, there's people in w w E. There's
Speaker 1: people in a w there's people in New Japan name
Speaker 1: a promotion, and there's a bunch of people there that
Speaker 1: are dissatisfied with their creative. Right, obviously, I mean this
Speaker 1: is common sense. So you would think that if you
Speaker 1: have a company full of folks that are presented with
Speaker 1: bad creative all the time and get frustrated with the creative,
Speaker 1: well you would think that if Sasha and Naomi were
Speaker 1: handed bad creative and they finally took a stand and
Speaker 1: they just said no, I ain't doing this, I'm at here,
Speaker 1: and they walked out, well you would think that all
Speaker 1: of the other wrestlers would be on their side, would
Speaker 1: back them up, would say, finally somebody stood up for themselves,
Speaker 1: because I see a lot of fans here. Oh, finally
Speaker 1: someone stood up for themselves. Well, you would think that
Speaker 1: the wrestlers who are dealing with this every day would
Speaker 1: say the same thing, We are standing Thank god, someone's
Speaker 1: finally standing up for themselves. Hopefully this leads to change
Speaker 1: or whatever that did not happen. Dude, I literally I'm
Speaker 1: aware of two people that are that are that have
Speaker 1: publicly said anything positive about Sasha. The funny thing is, like,
Speaker 1: this is all on Sasha. I haven't heard anything about Naomi.
Speaker 1: No one's even mentioned Naoman. It's all Sasha, okay. William
Speaker 1: Regal made a comment about how he put his job
Speaker 1: on the line for her back in the day and
Speaker 1: really wanted her to be signed, and uh, and Dax
Speaker 1: Harwood made a comment about how you've got to take
Speaker 1: your your career into your own hands. Those are the
Speaker 1: only two people I have seen, okay internally. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure maybe there's somebody that's, you know, I'm sure Jimmy
Speaker 1: Usos sticking up for Nail and everything like that. But
Speaker 1: I mean sure somebody internally is gonna do whatever. But
Speaker 1: I have not heard from one person, not one that
Speaker 1: is sticking up for Sasha and Naomi in this situation.
Speaker 1: And not only are they not sticking up for Sasha
Speaker 1: and Naomi, but boy have I heard a lot of
Speaker 1: terms thrown around, most of them some derivative of the
Speaker 1: word mark mark effing Mark marked to a degree that
Speaker 1: is unfathomed. I mean, all of it there is, there
Speaker 1: has been. I have heard zero support for Sasha Banks
Speaker 1: in this situation. So quite frankly, like if you want to,
Speaker 1: you can get mad at me if you want, but like, dude,
Speaker 1: I am not some voice of you know whatever. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been a lot nicer on this show than anything
Speaker 1: that I have heard from people in w W over
Speaker 1: the last twenty four hours. So hey, if you want
Speaker 1: to come after me, go for it, but you know,
Speaker 1: maybe don't bow to Vince McMahon the next time he
Speaker 1: comes out or I'm sure many of your favorits on television.
Speaker 1: I mean, zero support, I'm talking zero. But like I said,
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mean I haven't really heard anything anybody
Speaker 1: saying anything about Naomi and she walked out too. It's
Speaker 1: all about Sasha, and uh, you know, I've heard it
Speaker 1: all Mark Diva. I mean, the list goes on and on.
Speaker 1: There is zero support for Sasha Banks walking out of
Speaker 1: w W E over all of this. People are furious.
Speaker 1: They think it's ridiculous, they think that she's whatever. So
Speaker 1: uh that's the story and where this goes. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know, all of the literally
Speaker 1: every single bit of support that I've seen for Sasha
Speaker 1: Banks coming out of this has either been for people
Speaker 1: in another company that weren't there last night or and
Speaker 1: that's it, or fans. Those are the only two. The
Speaker 1: her actual coworkers, the people that work with her in
Speaker 1: that company, have zero sympathy for what happened here. So
Speaker 1: I think that would probably tell you something. And uh, again,
Speaker 1: we largely have the official w w E side of
Speaker 1: the story, but I also heard from you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of people obviously off the record in w w
Speaker 1: E and not not sympathetic to this at all. And
Speaker 1: trust me, these are people that have been presented with
Speaker 1: really stupid ideas and they've had to do them, and
Speaker 1: they are not sympathetic on this one. So I think
Speaker 1: that I think that kind of tells you that, you know,
Speaker 1: she she didn't like some creative, but the other wrestlers
Speaker 1: probably looked at that creative and thought, dude, what are
Speaker 1: you complaining about? Like both of you are gonna be
Speaker 1: headlining a pay per view in singles championship matches and uh,
Speaker 1: and you walked out over that, like what, this is
Speaker 1: your job? I mean, you're not really the tag team champions.
Speaker 1: It's fake. You were chosen to walk around with these
Speaker 1: two belts and do matches and uh now they've come
Speaker 1: up with another idea to you to position you in
Speaker 1: a top position. They would have been in a top
Speaker 1: position on television for weeks setting up angles. Sasha would
Speaker 1: have laid out Rhonda Rousey. I mean all of that.
Speaker 1: They do, all of that stuff leading to matches, and
Speaker 1: that was creative that they decided we're walking out of
Speaker 1: this company over that. So very very like non existent
Speaker 1: sympathy for for Sasha Banks And what do you need
Speaker 1: bad take? I'm not even giving you a take. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you exactly what's going on here. It's not even
Speaker 1: my take. Why are you even mad at me? I'm
Speaker 1: telling you exactly what I've heard from multiple people within
Speaker 1: the company. As usual, it's all my fault. Stand up
Speaker 1: for w W E. Well, stand up for Sasha Banks
Speaker 1: if you'd like to. I'm telling you what I've heard
Speaker 1: from her co workers. So it can get mad at
Speaker 1: me if you want, you can kill the messenger. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I mean, that's that's how this normally works
Speaker 1: on the internet. Right, We'll talk about some other news
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the rest of RAW, because I
Speaker 1: think everyone's asking about Rick Flair and Ricky Steamboat. So, yes,
Speaker 1: rick Flair's having his last match July thirty one. Jim
Speaker 1: Crockett Promotions presents Rick Flair's last match taking place on Sunday,
Speaker 1: July thirty one Nashville Fairgrounds. And uh, Dave believed it
Speaker 1: would be FTR and Rick Flair versus the Rock and
Speaker 1: Roll Express and a mystery partner, and yes, the mystery partner. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't say this is going to be the mystery partner.
Speaker 1: I'll put it this way. Ricky Steamboat has been asked
Speaker 1: if he wants to be the mystery partner. Okay, Ricky
Speaker 1: Steamboat did an angle in w w E about a
Speaker 1: decade ago, and uh, and he was absolutely destroyed by Uh.
Speaker 1: I think it was the Core what was the name
Speaker 1: of the group that destroyed him. But anyway, Uh, he
Speaker 1: was seriously injured and uh his I think blood on
Speaker 1: the brand. I mean it was bad, like he could
Speaker 1: have died and so he was never allowed in the
Speaker 1: ring again. From from w w E. So you know,
Speaker 1: Rick Flair has got a pacemaker and everything like that,
Speaker 1: But I mean, I'm no doctor, but to me, I
Speaker 1: would be more concerned about Ricky Steamboat in the ring
Speaker 1: than Rick Flair. But Ricky Steamboat has been asked and uh,
Speaker 1: Ricky Steamboat has been in the ring for sure within
Speaker 1: the last five years. He's done some uh he's done
Speaker 1: some indie dates and that sort of thing. And there
Speaker 1: was even one show which I think was up in
Speaker 1: Canada where he made an appearance and then as part
Speaker 1: of the show, he hit the ring and did a
Speaker 1: full Ricky Steamboat baby face comeback and he looked great. Apparently,
Speaker 1: he looked awesome and he was totally fine afterwards, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: the impression had been given is that he is kinda
Speaker 1: he's getting in the ring and it's kind of like
Speaker 1: the steam Bosson's serenaway. If he feels that he can
Speaker 1: do this match, he's gonna do it, and if he
Speaker 1: feels he can't do this match, he's not going to
Speaker 1: do it. But from people who have who have seen him,
Speaker 1: uh and seen a lot of the footage of Rick Flair,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know a lot of people are concerned
Speaker 1: about the health of both guys, but essentially the feeling
Speaker 1: is if there's four other young guys in there, and
Speaker 1: Flair's in there to do a few spots, and Ricky
Speaker 1: Steamboats in there to do a bunch of chops and
Speaker 1: make a comeback. Uh, this can largely go off without
Speaker 1: a hitch. So that's the update on Flair's final match
Speaker 1: and Ricky Steamboat and we'll do more news after the
Speaker 1: break Wrestling Observer Live. Sure, I don't know how some
Speaker 1: of you get through the day. Flabbergasted that woun vile
Speaker 1: the trademark for what appears to be a new tag
Speaker 1: team infection name Bloody Brutes. We don't do blood. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a team called Bloody Brutes. So I guess
Speaker 1: we'll find out who gets that one. Yeah, I am flabbergasted.
Speaker 1: I mean I should have known, but some there's no
Speaker 1: there's no logic. There's what's the old saying, there's no
Speaker 1: logic in the eyes of love. I think I made
Speaker 1: that up, But you guys know what I'm getting At
Speaker 1: SmackDown Friday at one million viewers, down five from the
Speaker 1: previous week. SmackDown finished second on Network TV with a
Speaker 1: point four rating in the eighteen to forty nine demo
Speaker 1: Down n B A n B A n B A
Speaker 1: A W Rampage Viewers, which is actually up sixteen point
Speaker 1: four airing a two thirty pm on the West Coast
Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine point one two. So that beat uh
Speaker 1: many episodes of n x T in their normal time
Speaker 1: slot at two thirty Pacific this week. I believe they
Speaker 1: will be airing at seven eastern four pm Pacific, so
Speaker 1: you can you can check that out. You got one
Speaker 1: of the raw report. Should we just do that? Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: something else for you to get mad at me about. Actually,
Speaker 1: if you wanted to get mad at me, i'd say
Speaker 1: that Raw was great. Raw was It was fine. So
Speaker 1: it opened up with Bobby Lashley and Omas and Cedric
Speaker 1: Alexander ran down before the match and attacked Lashly. Then
Speaker 1: they got in the cage and Cedric Alexander kept interfering
Speaker 1: and h m v P kept hitting Lashly with his cane,
Speaker 1: and the announcers kept telling us this was illegal, even
Speaker 1: though it's a cage match with no rules. So finally
Speaker 1: almost you know, beat him up for a while. Uh,
Speaker 1: and it was it was fine. David said it was
Speaker 1: Omas's best match, and I guess he might be right.
Speaker 1: I mean this is a low bar. Was it better
Speaker 1: than WrestleMania? I don't know. All I know is, oh,
Speaker 1: must looks like the biggest geek. At the end of
Speaker 1: this match, he throws Bobby Lashley into the side of
Speaker 1: the cage. Bobby Lashly hits the side of the cage,
Speaker 1: the cage door falls down, Bobby Lashly rolls and you
Speaker 1: know the finish. He rolls down and he ends up
Speaker 1: on the ground and he touched the ground first inadvertently,
Speaker 1: and he wins. But of course it's w w E
Speaker 1: and they have determined that you, the w w E viewer,
Speaker 1: are a moron and you can't figure this stuff out
Speaker 1: without having your handheld and everything explained to you. So
Speaker 1: what they do is Bobby Lashly hits the cage. The
Speaker 1: cage falls down, and Bobby Lashley lands in the middle
Speaker 1: of the panel, so he has not touched the ground yet,
Speaker 1: so he lays there. Omas is in the ring and
Speaker 1: he stands there and he furrows his brow. Ah what
Speaker 1: Lashly lays there? Omas Dan's They're looking at him. The
Speaker 1: announcers like, oh my god, the cage broke. If Lashly
Speaker 1: puts his foot on the ground, why he wins? Thanks?
Speaker 1: Finally Lashly rolls down and puts his foot on the
Speaker 1: ground and he wins. And this moron, this Omas, literally
Speaker 1: like he could have he could have done laps around
Speaker 1: the arena, like six laps in the time that he
Speaker 1: stood there looking like a moron as this guy's laying
Speaker 1: on the panel. So Lashly wins. If you couldn't figure
Speaker 1: it out, you're stupid fans. He won because the cage
Speaker 1: broke and he put his foot on the ground. Got it,
Speaker 1: in case they didn't explain it to you well enough
Speaker 1: on the show last night. So anyway, next week they're
Speaker 1: gonna do a Bobby Lashly challenge with Omas and m
Speaker 1: v P. But they won't tell you what it is.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be a challenge next week. Got it.
Speaker 1: Then we had Ali come out for a match with
Speaker 1: uh theory, Does this sound familiar? They announced MSS is
Speaker 1: a special referee. This sound familiar. MS comes out to
Speaker 1: be the referee, and then all of a sudden, Theory says, well,
Speaker 1: I talked to Mr McMahon and you have to prove
Speaker 1: yourself before you can face me. So your opponent tonight
Speaker 1: is Vier Mahan with MS his guest referee. So Ali
Speaker 1: goes for a dive, misstands in his way. Ali yells
Speaker 1: at Miss Vir shows up. Larry It's sim puts him
Speaker 1: in his move and Ali just submits. He gives up quits,
Speaker 1: and then they beat him up afterwards, and the Mysterials
Speaker 1: run down and the Mysterios beat up Vier two on
Speaker 1: one advantage baby Faces and they send him packing. Then
Speaker 1: we had the awkward Becky lynch Adam Pierce deal where
Speaker 1: they try to fit together, which has happened in the
Speaker 1: main event. Riddle Face Jimmy US good match, uh, fun match.
Speaker 1: They both worked well and Jimmy distracts the referee. The
Speaker 1: referee Uh. First, Jimmy and Ja try to cheat to
Speaker 1: pin him, so the referee ejects j and then Jimmy
Speaker 1: is all upset and he turns around. He gets small
Speaker 1: packaged and he gets pinned. No Randy Orton, but they
Speaker 1: are still pushing the unification match coming up on SmackDown
Speaker 1: on Friday, and I would not be surprised if we
Speaker 1: had no finish, leading to a another match at the
Speaker 1: pay per view, which at this point, given this pay
Speaker 1: per view, they probably should just do a match to
Speaker 1: unify the titles to give the people something because we
Speaker 1: ain't got much we had Live Morgan segments. She has
Speaker 1: joined a J and Finnvalor, which they've been doing our
Speaker 1: shows Judgment Day promo. Edge wants to recruit Live Morgan,
Speaker 1: Finnbalor and AJ styles. It's likely and maybe happening because,
Speaker 1: as we noted on Observer Radio last night, Edge wanted
Speaker 1: a fourth member of Judgment Day, Harlan who has been fired,
Speaker 1: so he can't be the fourth member. So now edges
Speaker 1: trying to get a J to join and maybe they'll
Speaker 1: get a J. Maybe that'll be the fourth member. I
Speaker 1: don't know, but that's the storyline that they're doing here.
Speaker 1: We then add a J and Finn Balor versus Los Lotharios,
Speaker 1: which was a good match. I don't know if you're
Speaker 1: aware of this or not, but a J and Finn
Speaker 1: Valor they're great singles wrestlers, were also a great tag
Speaker 1: team and Los Lotharios did a good job. A J
Speaker 1: and Finn hit their finishes, got the win, celebrated with
Speaker 1: Liv Morrigan. H This was one of the highlights of
Speaker 1: the show, although not the actual highlight. The actual highlight
Speaker 1: of the show is a man named Kevin Owens, who
Speaker 1: is a gem. And you know the thing with Kevin Owens.
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens faced Stone Cold Steve Austin at WrestleMania in
Speaker 1: Austin's last match in the main event of WrestleMania, and
Speaker 1: he has since in an interview and he's just basically said, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean it's all it's done. I mean there there
Speaker 1: ain't nowhere to go from here. I've peeked and like
Speaker 1: that's it. So I'm not saying that he doesn't care anymore,
Speaker 1: but now that he has achieved like the greatest height
Speaker 1: he will ever achieve in this business, having the final
Speaker 1: match of Stone Cold Steve Auston's career in Texas in
Speaker 1: the main event of a WrestleMania, and he's admitted, like
Speaker 1: that's that's the top of the mountain. It's like it's
Speaker 1: all downhill from here. I mean, maybe he's at that
Speaker 1: point where it's like, bro, who cares, I'll do anything whatever.
Speaker 1: Because when you get to that point, which brings us
Speaker 1: back by the way to that Sasha Banks Naomi thing,
Speaker 1: when you get to that point where it's like who cares,
Speaker 1: I'll do whatever, and I'm gonna have fun with it, dude,
Speaker 1: you're at your best, and this guy is at his best,
Speaker 1: like he's doing this segment with Ezekiel. Dude, it's Ezekiel.
Speaker 1: It's the former Elias who's pretending he's his own brother. Bro.
Speaker 1: This should be the worst thing since the heyday of
Speaker 1: the Fiend, but man Kevin Owens is putting his all
Speaker 1: into it and he's having fun and it's awesome. So
Speaker 1: they've done the DNA test, but this idiot otis eight
Speaker 1: barbecue over it and he got barbecue in the sample
Speaker 1: so it got tainted, so they don't get the results
Speaker 1: of the test. And he's just he can't get through this,
Speaker 1: I mean the announcement and even saying like can you
Speaker 1: move on to something else? And he's like no, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know why, but I can't. So anyway,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's upset. He's upset with with Chad Gable
Speaker 1: because he's screwed up this even though he's supposed to
Speaker 1: be so smart and so Chad Gable vow to go
Speaker 1: out and beat Ezekiel. Tonight we had another Alexis Sonia match.
Speaker 1: This one went four minutes. They've gotten rid of the
Speaker 1: old Alexa music that was half and half. Now she's
Speaker 1: just got cheery chip music or whatever. And she beat
Speaker 1: Sony Deville with the d D T and then Sonya
Speaker 1: got mad at the ref for not counting fast enough.
Speaker 1: She slapped him. So presumably she's gonna be in big
Speaker 1: trouble for two hours for the whole Oh, they're screwing
Speaker 1: up Cody Brigade. They don't know what. Listen, this guy
Speaker 1: is number two in this company to Roman Reigns. Right now.
Speaker 1: The show opens with a clock. Cody Rhodes is gonna
Speaker 1: come out in one hour, fifty minutes and forty four seconds.
Speaker 1: There's a clock that they keep showing throughout the show.
Speaker 1: This is when Cody's coming out. Get Ready, here he comes.
Speaker 1: So he finally comes out as promised, fans go nuts,
Speaker 1: and long story short, he is going to face seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins at Helen his cell South Rollins. By the way, Bro,
Speaker 1: I hate this laughing gimmick. I mean, I know he
Speaker 1: thinks he's the joker or whatever, but dude, you've done
Speaker 1: nothing but lose to Cody Rhodes and you're out here
Speaker 1: laughing about it. And it's just like, Bro, I can't
Speaker 1: care about this match when you're a clown. And it's
Speaker 1: the same thing with Becky Lynch. Bro, there's plenty of
Speaker 1: clowns on this show. Okay, Elias, you know he's a clown.
Speaker 1: Seven geeks, they're all clowns. Bro, I don't need Seth
Speaker 1: Rongs being a clown, and I don't need Becky Lynch
Speaker 1: being a clown. It makes me not care about any
Speaker 1: of their feuds. So you know they're having a match
Speaker 1: at least at the end. You know, when Cody said
Speaker 1: I'll see you in Hell, then Seth got all serious
Speaker 1: for a while. But dude, this laughing stuff is just death.
Speaker 1: It's death. Oscar promo. Is Zekiel beat Chad Gable? They
Speaker 1: went eleven minutes. Chad Gable is really good. Ezekiel, I
Speaker 1: mean he could have a match, but I mean this
Speaker 1: was just like it was just there. But we had
Speaker 1: eleven minutes of Kevin Owens freestyling the storyline on commentary,
Speaker 1: and dude, he was awesome. This was the best thing
Speaker 1: on the show by leaps and bounds. So Ezekiel gets
Speaker 1: to win. Kevin Owens is just he's furious. They showed
Speaker 1: a photoshop picture of of Ezekiel with Elias and Kevin's
Speaker 1: having none of it. He's like, dude, it's a photoshop.
Speaker 1: I saw it on Twitter. That's it was some guy
Speaker 1: to count. He's just going off. This was awesome. We
Speaker 1: had a segment. Oh God, Sven stuff here. Cazella's in
Speaker 1: the garbage can. She started over again. You realized Sasha
Speaker 1: walked out earlier because I was in a garbage can.
Speaker 1: He gets served papers, he goes running. Truth tries to
Speaker 1: steal the seven title from Dana. Dana goes running, she
Speaker 1: runs into Carmela. Carmela is upset because her makeup got
Speaker 1: messed up. She got run into even though she's not
Speaker 1: even on the show. She's doing her makeup for fun
Speaker 1: and this is leading to a feud between Dana Brook
Speaker 1: and Carmela and Truth in a three way over the
Speaker 1: seven title. Did I mentioned there was no sympathy when
Speaker 1: Sasha walked out because they wanted her to headline a
Speaker 1: pay per view in a singles title match. Anyway, Uh,
Speaker 1: Lacy Evans comes out to do a promo and baby
Speaker 1: Face promo. But I wasn't in the crowd, and I
Speaker 1: can't speak for everybody, but when she came out, I
Speaker 1: was like cringing, just waiting for her to start burying
Speaker 1: the crowd and turn heel. And I feel like a
Speaker 1: lot of the fans were thinking the same thing because
Speaker 1: they weren't super into this. It was like, Okay, well
Speaker 1: here it comes, and it never came. So hopefully they've
Speaker 1: just dropped the idea and she can start coming out
Speaker 1: and beating people up instead of just we're on seven
Speaker 1: weeks of the same story now, so it's time to
Speaker 1: pull the trigger on some action. And then of course
Speaker 1: we had the main event. It was Oscar and Bicky Lynch.
Speaker 1: They got ten minutes, and you know, they are two professionals.
Speaker 1: They did not have eight hours to rehearse. They had
Speaker 1: a couple of hours to get up, get a match plan.
Speaker 1: They went out there, they did it. It was good.
Speaker 1: The finish was awesome. So Bianca is in a chair.
Speaker 1: Becky throws Oscar into Bianca because she wants Bianca to
Speaker 1: attack her so that she'll win viad Q and go
Speaker 1: to get a championship match. But uh, you know, Bianca
Speaker 1: jumps up on the apron and the rust trying to
Speaker 1: get rid of her. Becky runs over and she grabs
Speaker 1: the big umbrella of Oscar and she rears back and
Speaker 1: Oscar blows the mist right in Becky's face, kicks her
Speaker 1: in the head and pins her. It was awesome, of course.
Speaker 1: Then the referee is like trying to wipe green stuff
Speaker 1: off Becky's face, but he hasn't reverse the decision. So
Speaker 1: whenever we had a good match to close the show,
Speaker 1: Oscar is on the way to a championship match at
Speaker 1: hele nself and we're off to a commercial break. Observer
Speaker 1: live back in the show. Bright now bur is here
Speaker 1: wrestling Observer alive mix Umber BB recovering hopefully back here, Sue,
Speaker 1: that's wishes to him. Land Storm battling COVID So no
Speaker 1: land Storm show today this afternoon the first year says
Speaker 1: Dave mentioned there may be a contract issue in play
Speaker 1: as well with the Sasha Naomi situation. If you remember,
Speaker 1: this isn't the first time Sasha has walked out. She
Speaker 1: asked for her release in twenty nine, but Vince told
Speaker 1: her no and to take time off instead. Could this
Speaker 1: be the culmination of years of issues? And do you
Speaker 1: know the current status of her contract? No? I don't so,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if if it came down to
Speaker 1: a contract issue, like do it after the show don't
Speaker 1: walk out at the beginning of the show. I mean, hello,
Speaker 1: I know this is being defended by by certain people,
Speaker 1: but like, if you have a contract issue, then deal
Speaker 1: with your contract issue professionally. Just walk out at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the show. I'm the bad guy. Let's see.
Speaker 1: Oh man, oh man, I shouldn't have opened my text messages.
Speaker 1: Let's see what else we got. I can't, I can't.
Speaker 1: It's a show over yet, tom how long do I
Speaker 1: have here? Thank you? I can't take it. I gotta
Speaker 1: get off this social media. It's the bane of my existence.
Speaker 1: It's the worst. So you know what. I'm out of here,
Speaker 1: but I'll be back tomorrow. Actually, I'll be back tonight
Speaker 1: with Vinnie and Craig Raw twenty two. Thank god, we
Speaker 1: can just talk about something from years ago and then
Speaker 1: tomorrow Wrestling Observer Live and Wrestling Observer Radio. I want
Speaker 1: to thank a lot of you for listening, not all
Speaker 1: of you. Some of you need to take your headphones
Speaker 1: off and put them on the desk and just walk
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