WEBVTT - The Champions Are Missing From the Show 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.000 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:16.560 let's get it all. How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.680 here on Wrestling Him Over Live. We are here every 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.040 day Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:27.319 sixth Eastern. Well, so Wednesday here on the show. And 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:31.440 I have no idea what that means. Today. We have 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.319 no official announcement about what is going on with see Him, 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:41.720 punk A Steel, Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, anybody that was 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:46.240 in that room. But there will be word today one 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:48.320 way or the other. I thought we were going to 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:51.159 have some sort of word, official word. I mean, we've 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:52.479 got a lot of I can tell you a lot 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.480 about what's going on, But I thought we would have 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.280 official word yesterday, but in fact we did not. And 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.240 the fact of the matter is, this involves the a 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.200 W World Heavyweight Champion who is not gonna be on 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.319 the show tonight. This involves the a W six man 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.760 tag team champions who are not going to be on 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.800 the show tonight. And one way or the other, this 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.040 is all going to be addressed on the show tonight. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:22.479 What that means, I have absolutely no idea. So we 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.760 will obviously have a lot to talk about tomorrow, but 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.800 we have a lot to talk about today as well, 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.640 so I'll bring everybody up to speed on what's going on. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:35.800 What we know. There have been suspensions, there is an investigation, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.440 and I got a couple of other knows as well 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.399 that I think are pretty important, so we'll talk about 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.679 that here today. We have a lineup for the Dynamite 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:51.080 Show tonight. They have got four segments announced, and obviously 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:56.080 there will be much much more. But John Moxley, who 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.320 was not supposed to be on the show, and Chris Jericho, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:01.320 who I leave us not supposed to be on the show, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:03.680 they are now both going to be on the show. 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.920 So whatever whatever Tony had planned, it's gonna be one 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.280 of those days. Whatever you had planned, bro a lot 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:13.400 of it out the window, and even something like the 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.400 interview with m JF. I mean, there was a plan, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.440 but that plan has got to be different now because 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.200 I don't think that MGM is gonna come out and 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:22.360 say the same thing that he was gonna say before 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.880 all of this happened. So a lot to get into 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.120 and we will kick it off after the breakups are 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:48.960 live back in the show. Bran Alba is here wrestling 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.880 Observer Live. Mimbur Vid also wrestling up server dot com. 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:53.560 I should know better than ever. Look at the chat. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:03:00.000 Didn't really didn't really set me off. But somebody here said, well, 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.280 looks like all sides were in the wrong. Okay, listen, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.800 I'm not picking sides, but one side was clearly in 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:11.560 the wrong. And I'm not telling you which side because 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:16.239 I don't know which side. But here's the story. One 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.760 of two things happened, because there's two stories, all right. 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.520 Story one is the young Bucks went into Punk's locker 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:29.000 room to discuss this, and he immediately punched Matt Jackson 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.200 and a brawl broke out. That's one side of the story. 0:03:31.600 --> 0:03:34.800 If that's what happened, See him Punk is in the wrong. 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.279 They walked into talk to him, and he started punching. Okay, 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.880 what's the other side of the story. The other side 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.400 of the story is, see him punks in his locker 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:46.640 room mining his own business. The Bucks aggressively storm in, 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:49.760 he feels threatened, and he defends himself, in which case 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:54.560 it's the Buck's fault. There there there are two stories 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.760 that have come out, and in neither of these stories, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.480 can you look and go, oh, it was definitely both 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:03.200 of their faults. Some buddy, somebody started this and is 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:13.400 at fault. Now, if if we say, okay, Bucks and 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.960 your friends that were there, whose fault is this, well, 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:18.720 we know what they're gonna say. They're gonna say it's 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:23.520 Punk's fault. If we say Punk Ace what happened here, Well, 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.680 they're gonna say it's the Buck's fault. Right, And then 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.160 depending on you know, probably the people that were with 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.320 Punk in the locker room would likely you know, be 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.520 friends with Punk. Perhaps they would side with him, perhaps not, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.000 Perhaps they would say what they honestly saw, whatever it is, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.000 perhaps anybody that rushed in and saw aftermath. Perhaps. But 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.000 you know what here, to me is the most important 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:49.400 part of all of this, because this has come out Mega, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:54.280 who is the head of Legal? I forget the exact title, 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:59.760 but the whatever, Someone can tell me what the basically 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:04.440 the of legal for a w she went into the 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:11.160 room with the young Bucks, didn't show up, later, didn't 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:15.600 show up. Halfway through she went into the room with 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:20.200 the young Bucks. Okay, So in theory, is the head 0:05:20.200 --> 0:05:23.720 of legal for a w She's not gonna be on 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:31.799 a side, so one would think that whatever she saw 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.520 is probably going to be what happened, and what that is, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.560 I guess eventually, you know what we're gonna probably find 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.760 out tonight. What I can tell you is that everybody 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:47.560 that was involved in any way with an altercation with 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:52.560 somebody else has been suspended. I don't have the whole list, 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:58.840 but Kenny Bucks, punk Ace, Uh, I think a couple 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.960 of the agents as well, Chris Daniels and Pat I 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:05.080 don't know whatever. I don't know what anyone everyone did, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.680 because it was it was apparently a long This was 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:14.120 not punch pull apart broken up. It was long, and uh, 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.400 you know, several people have said like it was like 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.039 six minutes long. I don't know if it was six 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.680 minutes long, but I do know that I I heard 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.159 about it actually as it was going on, and uh, 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.599 and it was not short. But when you're involved in 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.560 something like that as a participant, I mean, it probably 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:35.920 felt a lot longer than it actually was. But I 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:37.720 don't know how long it was. But it wasn't like 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:42.400 punch fight broken up. A lot of things happened, and 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.080 like I said, you know, a lot of people were 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.800 there by the time it was broken up, So this 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:50.200 is not oh there's you know, three or four people 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.080 that no exist. No, a lot of people, a lot 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.360 of people. So nothing has been made official except we 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:02.200 do know about the suspensions unofficially and tonight on Dynamite. 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.359 I mean there's gonna be We're gonna know some stuff 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.160 because as noted, you've got an a W champion, you've 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.680 got a doubles trios champions. Nobody none of those people 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.720 are gonna be on the show. And you know, based 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.160 on the pay per view that originally they were all 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.440 going to be on the show, probably in major storylines 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.320 because the Bucks and Kenny just won the six man titled. 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.200 You don't put the six man titles on people, and 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.840 then they're not on TV the next Wednesday, and obviously 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:33.080 see him Punk was going to be there as the 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.800 a W champion, and now they're all not going to 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.240 be there, and it's going to be addressed one way 0:07:39.320 --> 0:07:43.080 or the other. And uh, I hope it's addressed, here's all. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:47.880 I I don't just hope everyone. I pray. I hope 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:49.440 this is addressed in such a way that I don't 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.640 have to listen, everyone's saying, well, it's a work for sure. Now, 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.360 that's why I would prefer if they made an official 0:07:56.360 --> 0:07:59.800 announcement before the show, because if they just go on 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.440 the air and do whatever they're gonna do. Depending on 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:05.280 what they do, we're all gonna have to deal with, Oh, 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.360 it's a work for sure. It's not a work. I've 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.000 said this a thousand times. But anyway, that's the That's 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.280 what we know as of right now. Wheeler. You to 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.200 Daniel Garcia for the peer title, best Friends, Norge Cassievers, 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:22.000 the death Triangle, Tony Storm, Penelope Ford for the interim 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.360 women's title, and a promo by m JF and then 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:28.720 appearance by Moxley and Jericho. That's what we know about 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:35.800 the show tonight. Mega is the chief Legal Officer Wan 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:40.200 also a role that she serves for the Jacksonville Jaguars, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.839 for which she is an executive vice president as well too. 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.720 So that's who Mega is. In case anybody was curious 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.480 and has heard of the name and wondered who is 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:53.520 that person? That's who that is with her degree from Harvard. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.520 If I'm not mistaken, she is no joke. And uh 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.760 it's probably like yat going to be any joke when 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:04.600 he comes to this non laughing matter. So yeah, just 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.640 wait for the shoes to drop. They'll drop anybody that's 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.079 still to me at this point from what I was 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:12.120 seeing this morning, the people that were still out there 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.080 going it's a work, it's a work. You can't tell 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.240 those people anything anyway. They want to live in their 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.160 own fantasy or they just want to be trolls or 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.800 whatever it is, because clearly not a work, as has 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:27.760 been reported multiple times in multiple places. So also mentioned 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:32.280 that as I talked about Sunday, actually Seampunk did get 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.400 hurt in the match, and I do not know that 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.760 it is a torn triceps, but he did. I remember 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.400 I was right there at ringside, and I don't remember. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.560 I think it was it might have been a dive 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.760 or the elbow off the top or something like that, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.960 but he immediately grabbed his elbow and uh, you know, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.640 he finished the match and everything like that. But it 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:57.959 is believed that whatever it is, it is a serious injury. 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:04.360 And so whether he is suspended, find fired, whatever ends 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.120 up happening, we probably are going to have to have 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:13.800 another either interim or new champion, So that will have 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:17.679 to be addressed on the show tonight. But yeah, came 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.199 back from an injury and got injured again. So had 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.240 none of this happened, Had none of this happened, it 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.959 probably would have been Seampunk wins the title, gets injured, 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:33.400 interim champion, created titles, unified, Punk wins title back immediately 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.760 cannot be champion again. That's what we were looking at. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.040 Had none of this happened. Now, do you go ahead 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.040 and strip him because of the injury or do you 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.160 just is that playing too much into your idiots will 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.400 believe everything's work, So let's just go ahead and announce it. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.800 Announce whatever is going to happen first, because it depends 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.360 if he's fired. You say, it does give you the 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.960 out to go as you Well, here's the thing. I mean, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.520 obviously things are going to be coming, but whenever they're 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.160 ready to announce them, whenever the legal process and whatever 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:07.680 investigations they need to do are truly over. You know, 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.560 I don't know if that's going to be done and 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.840 said in the next five hours here, But if it's not, 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:15.120 do you go ahead and strip him because of the 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.000 injury as step one? And let's just go ahead and 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:22.280 go you know, you can deal with punk from there. Well, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.280 I mean, the problems if you strip him, you never 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.040 have to mention him on TV. I know. But here's 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.520 the deal. If he's being fired, then obviously he's stripped. 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:34.040 But if they they've already set the precedent that if 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:35.880 he's gonna it will be an interim title. They've already 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.520 set that precedent with him with thunder Rosa, with numerous people, like, 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:41.960 if they're not going to fire him, it's probably gonna 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:46.640 be an interim title, would be my guess. Hm, I 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.959 just you know, I was just curious on the timing 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.840 as to whether you just go, Okay, well he's hurt, 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.440 we'll go ahead and announce tonight he's stripped of the 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.120 title because of the injury, and then from there, depending 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.440 on if he's suspended or not, you know, long term, 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.079 or if he's fired or whatever comes from this, then 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:03.760 you can go ahead and cross that bridge when you 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.720 come to it later. Well, listen, I know they're doing 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:11.280 a an investigation, and I don't think that you will 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.080 see anybody on TV until the investigation is over. I 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.880 don't know how long the investigation is going to take, 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:21.800 but I guess we'll find out what they do in 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.480 the meantime. That's that's the biggest thing with Tony here 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.280 is he likes to know who's back when to the 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.959 best that he can, you know, to plan. And I 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:31.959 don't think anybody knows how long this thing is gonna take. 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.800 And then if there's legal issues, it's gonna take even longer. 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.240 That could be a long time back in a moment 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:52.280 as it really well, how the tide has turned? What's up? 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.360 I'll look at the chat here so sick all this 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:59.080 or begging for me to talk about n x T. Wow, Well, 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:03.160 isn't it in? That's something too bad? But I will 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.320 hear it. I will get here in the YouTube YouTube 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.120 chatt here wants you to scissor him. Daddy asked, that's 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.280 what he's saying. Hey, you know, I got a couple 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.480 of news notes. Pat McAfee is joining ESPN's College Game 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.480 Day full time member of the show. So he is 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:22.280 uh still with w w E. But he is, uh, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.560 I believe out of the SmackDown Commentary gig likely until 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:31.360 the Royal Rumble, and he just signed a I would 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.080 presume quite lucrative new deal. So I don't know how 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.080 they had to handle something like that, Like it's just 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.480 kind of like when you get injured and they put 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.600 your your deal on hold or whatever, and then he'll 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.400 come back and make his money again. But if he's 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:45.040 if he's got that big w w E money, he 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.680 doesn't have to show up and he does another gig. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.880 That's quite a good for him. I'm sure they're putting 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.439 a pause on pay roll for that one while he 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.199 makes his John's Although he was willing to do it, 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.840 and he did it last year, and he talked about 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.480 a story on his show today where he had to 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.720 get from Oh God was a buffalo to Memphis I 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.600 think it was or something like that. So Jim Ersey, 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:11.240 his former boss, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, let 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.280 lent him his plane and he ended up flying down 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.760 there for that, and he apparently was willing to do that. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.840 In w w were the ones who stepped in and said, no, 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.640 you really shouldn't do that. It's not good for your health, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.680 even though it is possible for you to do it, 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.520 getting two hours of sleep and then going on and 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:30.240 having to do that show. It's, uh, you know, that's 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.240 a little much. Although it's great for w E. They 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.080 already have a tie in with the ESPN in that 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:38.680 show anyway, so I'm sure we're going to it probably 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.680 won't be too long before Pat McAfee is reunited with 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.920 some of his ww friends on that show. So you know, 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.440 it's it's a good deal for him, is his again. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.880 His star continues to get grow to a ridiculous degree. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.240 And that's a difference in w w E. That's one 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.800 of the differences in the last couple of years, especially 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.840 with him, where they are willing to have these people 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.160 from the outside in some ways that they can't control, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.640 but they're willing to at least accept these people in 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:08.960 and use them and actually, you know, try to get 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.920 some of the rub off of them, you know when 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:14.200 they do other things. So whether it be the bad bunnies, 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.480 I mean, we've seen celebrities coming in out. But even 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.000 though he didn't last there long, we're a Ronnello, you know, 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.560 for what he was doing for CBS and for Showtime 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.880 and for other places. And now with McAfee, who's frankly 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.120 a much bigger star than anybody in w w E. 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.440 And I don't want to say that, you know, they 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.520 need him more than he needs them, but it certainly 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.120 is a nice, nice combination. I don't think I need 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.280 to talk too much about this, but Becky Lynch was 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.760 on the uh the name of the podcast here, out 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:48.880 of character and uh and she said that Triple H 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.560 felt that w w E was swimming upstream by having 0:15:52.600 --> 0:16:01.520 Becky Lynch portray a heel. So anyway, I'm glad they 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.920 figured that out. Well, only one man really had the issue, correct, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:11.560 Patrick blame only one man. Patrick Clark, a former velveteen Dream, 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.120 is alleged to have punched bitt it. What's with everyone 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:17.600 biting everybody? He's alleged to have punched bitten and made 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 death threats bath salts towards a gym employee during an 0:16:20.960 --> 0:16:23.320 altercation last month. You know, I don't want to make 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.240 light of this or anything, but when I said that, 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.960 I just realized that when I was wrestling Filthy this 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.200 this week and he tried to superplex me and bro 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.440 I'm forty seven, I had taken that move. So I 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:39.640 bit him in the nose, shopped him, knocked him. After that, 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.200 I went for a cent on and he happened to 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.960 catch me in a choke. But you know what, it 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:51.000 didn't work. It's a beautiful cent on though anyway, he 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:54.520 bit a guy, allegedly made death threats towards a gym 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:59.400 employee because the rest of August, charged with battery trespassing 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.920 at a property after a warning. According to police documents 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:09.160 obtained by TMZ, Clark became irate and argumentative after having 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.200 to leave an area of the gym that was closed 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:15.760 for cleaning. After a gym employee requested Clark leave the premises. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.600 Clark is alleged to have made death threats aimed at 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.280 the employee and then struck them in the face. A 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.960 fight between the two continued. Clark reportedly bit the employee 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:30.720 on his chest under the left armpit. Clark was interested 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:37.840 after police witness teeth marks on the gym employee. Yeah, 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:40.480 you hope he gets the help he needs, Like as 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.680 simple as that. And I don't know what he's done, 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.280 what he's done, doesn't hasn't done. I know what he 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.600 has been accused. You want to throw in by the 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.119 way that he was there was that arrest we were 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.919 talking about a few days ago. This was different. He 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:55.400 was interested again six days later for something else. He's 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.280 got obvious problems and hopefully he can get those problems fixed. 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:01.240 And you know, there's a lot of people that are 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:03.400 asking around and I'm sure you've heard the same thing 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:07.159 about Malachi Black. And here's the bottom line here. He 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.120 seems to have been offered his conditional release. What does 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:11.800 that mean. It means he's not going to be showing 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:14.439 up in w W E. And for the nature of 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.719 why he asked for his release, that's really nobody's business 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.040 right now either because if he took time off for 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:26.040 himself to get himself straight in any aspect mental, whatever 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:27.800 it is that he decided to take the time off, 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.000 it is a personal issue to him, and there's a 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.439 lot of people asking about it. That's really going to 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.800 be up to him when he decides, if he decides 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.080 in the future that he wants to reveal what it was. 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:42.480 SmackDown two point zero seven seven million viewers on Fox, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.199 up four point four percent from the previous week eighteen 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:48.679 and forty nine to a point four nine, which was 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.760 also up the A W Rampage Go Home Show four 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.879 five thousand, up twelve percent from the previous week, largest 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:01.879 audience since April twenty second, eighteen and forty nine A 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.480 point one six up forty five from the previous week, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.200 so people wanted to see the Go Home Show. And 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.280 those are the numbers. Raw numbers not out till probably 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.960 after the show goes out the year because of the holiday, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:16.159 but it is Nielsen, so it's possible it could be 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:20.120 months we actually get these numbers. Well, and you know what, 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.439 this will be a fun number to take keep an 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:27.400 eye on because this coming Monday, the National Football League returns, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.680 so we'll see what how big of a chunk that 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.399 that takes out everything? So I can't confirm this, but 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.480 I presume it's true because it's all over the place. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.360 But Malachi Black believed to have gotten a conditional release, 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.240 which presumably means can't go to w w E. But 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.960 I mean, I was, I was that mentioned us front 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.480 row at that show. What it was? I saw a 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:53.720 lot that night. But anyway, after he lost, he literally 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.760 was walking around ringside and uh, and he stopped like 0:19:58.920 --> 0:20:00.880 I could have touched his older. He was so close 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.560 to me, and he just stood there and you know, 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:08.080 he looked like that said dude, and he looked out 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.720 at all the people. He just stood there for a while. 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.679 He just looked around. And that's when I thought this 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:15.879 dude's out of here. And then that was even before 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.240 he went up on the ramp, and you know, he 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:23.359 went upon the ramp, waived, everybody cheered, blew the kiss, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.560 and he was out of there. So I believe that 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:31.920 it is uh probably a pretty good I'm pretty confident 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:34.680 he's gone, and it has been reported elsewhere a conditional release. 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:36.800 So I think that that's the end of And there 0:20:36.840 --> 0:20:41.080 had been a lot of rumors about Malachi black Ah 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.080 and he did eight six a independent appearance that he 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:46.080 had coming up in Ohio. I think he was still 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.000 I think he's still booked as of now on the 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.479 West coast, but that may have been canceled. I had 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:53.560 I gotta go back and check that one. But yeah, 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.679 so at least for sure one of his bookings he 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.000 is uh he has turned out, turned that turned back 0:20:59.000 --> 0:21:00.560 down here And you know, listen, I don't wanna I 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:04.080 don't want to uh, I don't want this time. What 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:06.480 I'm about to say, I don't want tied into Malachi 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.639 because I don't know why Malachi wanted out, Okay, but 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.399 I did. Uh. I was saying, not just Malachi, but 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:17.840 like a lot of guys there, you know, UH, w 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:20.840 w E. I mean, we can go way back. I mean, 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.840 in the eighties it was a completely insane schedule, and 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.240 in the nineties it was a difficult schedule, and you 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:29.000 know it was it was an easy schedule during the 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:31.000 pandemic because there were no house shows or anything like that. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:36.040 But now you know, they're back and they run house shows. 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:40.320 And you know, if you're if you are a a star, 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.359 with the exception of Roman reigns, but if you're you 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.840 know anyone, whoso's shamous an you know, anybody, anybody, you're 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:52.040 working all the time, okay regularly. And one of the 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.919 one of the things about a W that for some 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:58.480 guys was very attractive at the beginning was you're gonna 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:02.920 get comparable money and you're gonna work a lot less 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:06.879 and you know, a double he doesn't runhouse shows. And 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:08.880 so I think for a lot of guys that they 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.760 were sick of the grind, they were tired. You know, 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:13.800 they a lot of guys enjoy house shows and everything 0:22:13.840 --> 0:22:16.639 like that, but I think they looked at that as like, Wow, 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:20.360 I can make almost the same money and I'll get 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:23.520 an opportunity that maybe I didn't get there and I 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:25.399 don't have to work as many dates. I'm not on 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.639 the road four days a week, barely ever see my family. 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.400 But for the you know, the reality is for certain 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:35.080 people this is awesome, but there are people that you 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.399 do this for a while, and especially if there's an 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:41.040 angle or there's a cycle, that you're not held in 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.080 that cycle. It's like you never work. And you know, 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:47.200 the money is great and everything like that, but a 0:22:47.240 --> 0:22:49.359 lot of people that get into wrestling, they like working. 0:22:50.200 --> 0:22:52.600