WEBVTT - 3x Dynamite Matches and Rampage Lineup 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, 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:13.840 live from San Francisco. 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:17.200 I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. You are listening to 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:22.480 Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervv. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:25.040 Are you ready? Are you ready? 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:26.600 Let's get it off. 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.480 Hey, everybody, New Observer up on the front page. Tons 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:32.960 of shows. Check it out. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.240 We'll talk to you again after a while. 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.640 How's it going, everybody. Brian Alvarez here on or Wrestling 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.680 Observer Live. We are here every day Monday through Friday, 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.280 New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern, Saturday 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.839 Mornings with Jim Valley Today Pacific one Eastern, and it 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.840 is a Thursday here on the show. You know what 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.160 that means. We got a lot to talk about here today, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.000 not the least of which is Dynamite. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.520 Last night a Dynamite. 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.880 Addition to the show, as we had three matches in 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:10.000 the Continental Classic, and two of them were excellent matches. 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.960 One match was awesome, as we will get to and 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:16.640 we do the world famous Dynamite review coming up in 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.600 the final segment of the show here today, But if 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.520 you didn't miss Dynamite with Fillian on that, of course, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:25.679 we got the Collision Show and Rampage coming up this weekend, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.200 and we have a Rampage lineup no spoilers, and of 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:33.440 course for Collision, we have three matches in the Blue League, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:41.880 including the return after three weeks Brian Danielson. He broke 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.319 his orbital bone. He got surgery about three weeks ago 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:50.800 and now he is back, and he showed up last 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:55.440 night to do commentary and he's got this gigantic, monstrous 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:01.000 eye patch over his eyeball and I thought, man, this 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:04.680 guy's wrestling in three days, and not just any match. 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:09.760 It's Danielson versus Brody King, So we'll talk about this 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.280 as well as the final match of Sting's career. The 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.639 date and location have been announced for the Revolution pay 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:22.880 per view updates on will Osprey, as well as some 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.680 ratings notes from the last week. 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That's eight hundred 0:05:51.760 --> 0:06:02.160 nine four three twenty one fifty three. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.000 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:11.120 and Mike SIMPERVV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:16.120 Back in the show. Brian Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:20.200 Mike Simper vb also Wrestling Observer dot Com. And yes 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:26.960 it actually is Brian Danielson versus Eddie Kingston. This coming 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:32.800 Saturday night, the uh Brody king matches with Claudio and 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:36.280 ANDROTI will be facing Daniel Garcia. So those are your 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:41.800 Continental Classic Tournament maness, Daniel Garcia. This poor bloke done 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.279 getting beat again? Where are you Mike? 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:45.440 Hello? 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:52.479 Yeah, your Mike's not working reconnect? Yeah, I couldn't hear him. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.760 I don't know about the rest of you. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:58.200 Don't even get me started. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.839 So anyway, we've got shows up over the next couple 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.440 of days. Dynamite was last night Friday. We have got 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.920 Dan House and Orange, Cassidy Hook and Trent Burretta versus 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.640 Evil Luno, Alex Reynolds, Matt Menard and Angelo Parker. We 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:14.840 have got Takeshta, Powerhouse, Hobbes and Kyle Fletcher in action, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:17.640 which is kind of funny. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.680 Because are you there now? 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:20.640 I don't know? 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.080 There we go all right now. 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:26.920 You're back, ye, So this Rampage show is taped, but 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:30.520 even though it's taped, they're only announcing that Takeshta, Hobbes 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.800 and Fletcher are in action, so maybe that taped. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.640 Match might change or something. I don't know. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.240 Sorea, Ruby Soho and Anna Jay versus stat Lander, Karashet 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:45.200 and sky Blue, Penta, Mkingo and Commander versus Brian Cage 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.680 and J. D. Drake and Anthony Henry. That's for Rampage, 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:53.040 and then has noted the lineup for the tournament on 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:57.680 Saturday is Brian Danielson, Eddie Kingston Androtti versus Daniel Garcia 0:07:58.080 --> 0:07:59.880 and Brody King versus Claudio Caston. 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.280 Now, the tournament's been great. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.200 I've enjoyed all the matches, with the exception of the 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.640 matches who's finishes I did not see, which would have 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.120 been the last two weeks on Dynamite And No, I 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.200 am not going to get into this argument again because 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:16.800 Dave is not here to defend himself. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.600 But I will just say one thing, and that is that. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.520 Whenever Brian I still watch sports, you don't. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.280 The overrun last week, which I didn't see because it 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:31.040 got cut off, absolutely died. The overrun is always supposed 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.680 to go up because you know the people watch and 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:35.760 then the next people will come in or well it 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.679 died because people couldn't watch it. Okay, So for all 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.439 of you suggesting that I need to solve the issue 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.439 for myself, I know it's like a gimmick and everything 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.160 like that, but I'm actually a nice guy. I'm trying 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.040 to look for a solution. I'm trying to look for 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:55.240 a solution that in fact would work for everybody, not 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.520 just me. I realize it's America and we're all very selfish, 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.280 but yeah, I could probably solve the problem for myself. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.760 But what about everybody else who can't watch the end 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.560 of Dynamite for the last two weeks because the final 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.480 quarter collapsed last week because the thing cut off early. Well, 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:17.120 you know, I'd like to help everybody here, not just me. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.760 Anyway, you're that kind of guy, Brian. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.960 I am that kind of guy. I'm a nice guy. 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.160 And you're right, Yeah, that's right. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.960 DJ's right to everyone's an expert. Do you know how 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.120 many people gave me advice who don't actually have YouTube TV. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.480 They're like, hey, you know, just set it for fifteen 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.120 minutes more. I got sling. I'm not talking about sling, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.000 I'm talking about YouTube TV, where, in fact, you can't 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.760 just set it longer. You can't just set it for 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.880 an extra fifteen minutes or thirty minutes. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:48.640 You can't. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.160 It's actually impossible. So your advice it doesn't help me 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:54.439 at all or anybody else that's trying to watch the 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:55.240 end of Dynamite. 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.840 Yeah, but wait, Brian. Later on in the week, they 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.199 added in the next morning, they added. 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:01.760 Yeah, that was the other one. Why you know, I 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.800 can just watch it the next day. That'll be a 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.280 real fun review. On Wednesday night on Observer Radio, Dave, 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.920 I didn't see the show. I gotta watch it tomorrow 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.000 so I can see the overrun. Take it through the 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:16.880 show here, Dave, That'd be a long hour. I'd just 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:18.760 be sitting there going, what's. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:19.360 He talking about? 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:20.880 Are you telling me that? 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:21.920 Actually? 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:27.480 That's the NXT review anyway, Revolution, which will be Sting's 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:31.120 final match, it has been announced, is taking place on 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:36.840 March third at the Greensboro Coliseum. That's where they're running 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.360 the pay per view, the Greensboro Colisseum. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.240 You better say it with some reverence, boy, on March third. 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.280 It is the same building where Rick Flair defended the 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.320 NWA World title against Sting in a forty five minute draw, 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:51.760 which I don't know if you guys are aware of 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:57.480 this or not, but there were no commercials and Jesus Stinger, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.480 you did it. We didn't rehearse it. We didn't talk 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.120 about it. We just went out there and did it. 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:09.760 That's what Rick Flair said. No rehearsals, no rehearsals. He said, no, 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.920 we didn't rehearse that match. We just went out there 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:16.040 and wrestled. But anyway, that's what's gonna take place. We 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:19.320 don't know the opponent, but you know what they gotta do. 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.040 What Flair's got to try. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.520 To screw him one last time, Well, you just. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.360 Know he's gotta He's got to turn on Sting near 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.800 the end of that match. It almost cost him his 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.760 final match, and then Sting turns the tables and he's 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:36.920 got to put Flair in the scorpion at the end 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:39.080 of the match. Well, the worst part is they and 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:40.960 then they can hug it because they didn't rehearse it. 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:44.720 They'll reanimate Sandy Scott and overrule of match of draw 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.599 or something like that. But you know, he used to 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.640 kill me back in the day. Being in an area 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.839 that didn't have cable TV. They kept hyping up over 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.360 and over and over again during that programming, it's going 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.240 to be on free TV. It's going to be on 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.360 free TV, like it was going to be out of 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.640 the belts and syndication. They never mentioned that it was 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:06.280 going to be on WTBS on the syndicated shows. So 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.080 when he came time for it to be on free TV, 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:11.120 yeah it was not. 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.880 Voor Will Ospray opted to sign with AW. He reportedly 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:17.720 had a bigger offer on the table or a big 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:21.880 offer on the table from Impact Wrestling. Pwsider say they 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.760 were very much in the running to land Osprey with 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.520 Impact making, with sources close to the situation described as 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.680 quote a fantastic, massive offer to sign him. What Impact 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.720 Stortes told p W inside it was a seven figure 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:34.640 level offer. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:35.680 What does that mean? 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.200 They say, what's the seven figure level? Yeah, I mean 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:39.440 is it seven figures or not? 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:41.520 Yeah, it says on the front page like that, Like 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.120 that quote actually just leads you to ask what does 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:45.640 this mean? 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.000 Said it was likely the largest contract offer Impact and 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.599 made to a wrestler since Anthem. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.920 Sport, including what was to the right of the decimal point. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.240 Apparently it was the largest contract offer Impact Wrestling and 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.200 made to wrestler since Anthem Sports Entertainment acquired the company. Well, 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.599 now that you didn't take the money, there's gonna be 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:02.920 a lot of people looking for a raise. 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:04.600 Yeah, tell you that much. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.360 Josh Alexander should get one. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.600 And you know he had said in interviews he liked 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:13.720 working Impact. I'm sure he had a great time, but 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:17.839 you know his his uh, what he wanted was life 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:18.640 changing money. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:20.320 And I don't know. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:24.320 What U what AW gave him, but it was not 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.240 a seven figure level offer. I'm sure it was a 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:34.400 seven figure offer, yes, and probably quite a bit. There's 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.439 some people there making a lot of money, it's my impression. Good, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.160 a lot of money, good, good, good, But you know 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.199 there's other people not making a lot of money. That's 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.959 bad about twenty twenty four is coming. A lot of 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:46.480 people are gonna be making a lot more money. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.960 Well, we went over that, Drew McIntyre top of the list, 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.600 Mercedes Money top of the list. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.520 Well, yeah, they're they're they're way up the La Night 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.920 mel A Night top merch cellar in WWE. Although I 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:02.640 don't know, now that Punk's back, He's probably gonna beat 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.080 him there for a while at least. Then we have 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.320 the ratings for the last couple of days. We'll talk 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.200 about AW ratings in a moment. But that NXT show 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:15.240 six fifty nine, up six percent from last week er 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.560 point eighteen eighteen to forty nine, which was down five 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:21.200 percent from last week. The show went head to head 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:25.760 with NBA Basketball on TNT college basketball on ESPN. They 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.560 are still up two point three percent year over year. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.040 And this is what I keep telling you guys about 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:34.360 eighteen to forty nine, up forty percent year over year. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.920 These kids like this NXT show. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.560 Now that's gonna help them. But don't get caught in 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.720 the trap of falling under seven hundred thousand. That number. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:43.880 You know that, no dont matter. 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:48.560 Now, don't matter. Now they resigned their deal. Well, and 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.800 by the way, I don't know. I don't have any 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:55.120 information whatsoever, but I can tell you that the belief 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.640 is that we will be getting information on where RAW 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:02.520 is going quite soon. The deal may be done. Triple 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.960 H was not at RAW on Monday. Him and Nick 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.120 con were in l a and they were trying to 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.960 finalize a television deal. And I think that deal might 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:10.360 be done. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.760 So we'll find out. Oh yeah, yeah, are you going 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.720 to be here tomorrow. No, they are going to announce. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.480 So it's going to be announced. Well you better get ready, brother, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:23.440 I'm watch dogging it. 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:26.960 That's a long. 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.240 Day, are you really? 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:29.920 Yeah? 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:34.560 Back at school I am, and it's a long day. Well, 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:37.040 we'll get into the a W radius. We come back 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.080 from the break later on in the show. We've got 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:42.640 the world famous Dynamite report. Anymore. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:43.800 Back in the moment, Observer. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:56.280 Live, just as well, the game, get some game. We'll 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:59.800 be at the other lawns between. 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.320 In the cool, cool morning turn the days of slam. 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:11.200 I'll say, living right is easy. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.359 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.120 and Mike semper VV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.480 In the show, Brian Elberz here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:31.400 simpervb else of Wrestling Observer dot Com. So we had uh. 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:34.840 Where am I here? 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:39.040 Collision as well as rampage. We already talked about SmackDown. 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.920 SmackDown on FS one the exception of a best of 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.960 episode in twenty twenty one. It was the lowest rated 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:51.680 SmackDown in the history of SmackDown. That was the day 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.160 after Thanksgiving edition had to head with a bunch of sports. 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.320 I don't watch sports. I don't know if you're wearing that. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.880 Then we had AW Collision and AW Rampage, which were 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:10.240 both head to head with war Games and U. I 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.080 mean honestly, they did all right. I mean I thought 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:17.080 they'd be killed worse. Collision three hundred and seventeen thousand viewers, 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.720 which was up seventeen percent from the airing last Friday, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:24.480 but it was down twenty percent from two weeks ago, 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.480 and two weeks ago was not going head to head. 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.720 Actually it might have been the The NXT Show, but 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:35.000 regardless a point nine in eighteen to forty nine, and Rampage, 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:38.920 which aired after Collision, was also still head to head 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.720 with The Wargame Show, and that show did two hundred 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.280 and sixty four and zero point eight in eighteen to 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:45.840 forty nine. 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:48.760 So you know it's. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.760 Gonna be rough because Saturday Night, there's always stuff on 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:55.280 Saturday Night, especially this It's all right for fighting, but 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:56.960 you know what, there's a lot of fighting on other 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:58.720 channels with guys and balls. 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:02.480 Yeah, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.280 Yeah, with polished elements and such. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.640 Brian, Yes, there's gonna be NXT pay per views, there's 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.880 gonna be WWE pay per views. And don't think NXT 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.600 doesn't hurt Collision and uh in Rampage or I guess 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.000 just Collision because it does. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.000 They have, well, what they have going for them this 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.760 week is no WWE or NXT premium live event, but 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.280 they do have Michigan in Iowa and Louisville and Florida State, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:30.440 and again, depending on what happens with Friday nights football, 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.560 which is going to affect SmackDown to some extent, and 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.760 depending on what happens Saturday during the day, those games 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.160 at that that night are crucial. They are very crucial 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.920 in the case of Michigan. So we'll have to see 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:46.280 what happens. But it's probably not going to be a 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.119 great night again. But I again, with not having the 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:51.679 WWE show, I can see them being up from this 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:52.399 past weekend. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:55.600 You think so, huh? 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:56.159 I think so. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:57.080 Yeah. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:18:59.919 I don't know what the people out there in radiol thing. 0:19:00.240 --> 0:19:02.719 But it'll give you time to check your notes. 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.840 Yeah, I'm looking for I'm looking for something here. Should 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:08.560 I even bother? 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:09.480 Yes? 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:10.240 Yes? 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.480 And with that look on your face, yes. 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.200 A terrible person you are? Do it now? 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:21.879 All right, Uh, Coward Bendido out of action longer than expected, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.000 so he had a wrist injury and he had surgery 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.760 to repair the injury in July. He had been on 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:32.680 track to return in December, but then, according to Dave, 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:35.800 it was just discovered that his wrist did not healed 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.840 properly from his first surgery, so he had to have another. 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.520 That sucks, So he's going to be out of action 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:44.560 for another length of time. 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.960 I don't mean to sound flipping here, Honestly, who's paying 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:48.360 for this? 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:50.520 I'm sure AW paid for it. 0:19:50.800 --> 0:19:53.720 And that's the darnedest thing because how long has he 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.160 really been signed to AW? I mean, he's been signed 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.280 a long time now, but how many matches as he 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:00.640 really wrestled for him? It's just it's so tough. It's 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.160 like watching a draft pick come in and blow their 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:06.760 achilles out, you know, right in the first training camp 0:20:06.880 --> 0:20:09.919 before the season even starts for their rookie year. I 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:14.000 hope this guy can come back at full because, like Dragonly, 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.040 like Rouche, he's special. There are a lot of guys 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.600 that wear masks that are you know, in AW and 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.159 NWWE and all over the indie scene. This is a 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:26.439 special talent, and I hope he can get it back 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:28.280 to one hundred percent, and I hope we can actually 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:29.760 see him sooner rather than later. 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:33.080 I hope this doesn't lead to more Gravity matches, is 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:34.440 what I want to say about that. 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.879 Bacher Maania forty two four came out and yeah, was 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.359 it in the whole episode? It should have been. 0:20:40.440 --> 0:20:41.640 That poor guy. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:45.080 I feel bad forgetting on him, but I watched the match. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:47.040 It was on national television, wanted today. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.080 I had to suffer through it and I couldn't knee 0:20:49.160 --> 0:20:53.199 him in the head like Malachi did, so it was. 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.479 It was a rough It was rough, and I feel bad, Actually, 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:58.440 I feel worse for Commander. Yeah, Gravity had a bad night. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.639 It was a bad match. Everybody feels bad about it, 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:04.639 I'm sure, but Commander didn't seem to do anything wrong there, 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:05.800 and there probably should have been an. 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:09.440 All Yeah, Commander's great. Yeah, it was actually amazing. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.560 Where it was like just hurt Gravity and you stay 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.640 outside there, Commander will do the rest of it. 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.000 See. The thing is like I don't I guess I 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:19.359 shouldn't say anyth because I don't know, But my impression 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.160