Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Him Over Live. We are here every
Speaker 1: day Monday through Friday, now Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. Well, so Wednesday here on the show. And
Speaker 1: I have no idea what that means. Today. We have
Speaker 1: no official announcement about what is going on with see Him,
Speaker 1: punk A Steel, Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, anybody that was
Speaker 1: in that room. But there will be word today one
Speaker 1: way or the other. I thought we were going to
Speaker 1: have some sort of word, official word. I mean, we've
Speaker 1: got a lot of I can tell you a lot
Speaker 1: about what's going on, But I thought we would have
Speaker 1: official word yesterday, but in fact we did not. And
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, this involves the a
Speaker 1: W World Heavyweight Champion who is not gonna be on
Speaker 1: the show tonight. This involves the a W six man
Speaker 1: tag team champions who are not going to be on
Speaker 1: the show tonight. And one way or the other, this
Speaker 1: is all going to be addressed on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: What that means, I have absolutely no idea. So we
Speaker 1: will obviously have a lot to talk about tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: we have a lot to talk about today as well,
Speaker 1: so I'll bring everybody up to speed on what's going on.
Speaker 1: What we know. There have been suspensions, there is an investigation,
Speaker 1: and I got a couple of other knows as well
Speaker 1: that I think are pretty important, so we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that here today. We have a lineup for the Dynamite
Speaker 1: Show tonight. They have got four segments announced, and obviously
Speaker 1: there will be much much more. But John Moxley, who
Speaker 1: was not supposed to be on the show, and Chris Jericho,
Speaker 1: who I leave us not supposed to be on the show,
Speaker 1: they are now both going to be on the show.
Speaker 1: So whatever whatever Tony had planned, it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those days. Whatever you had planned, bro a lot
Speaker 1: of it out the window, and even something like the
Speaker 1: interview with m JF. I mean, there was a plan,
Speaker 1: but that plan has got to be different now because
Speaker 1: I don't think that MGM is gonna come out and
Speaker 1: say the same thing that he was gonna say before
Speaker 1: all of this happened. So a lot to get into
Speaker 1: and we will kick it off after the breakups are
Speaker 1: live back in the show. Bran Alba is here wrestling
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Speaker 1: I should know better than ever. Look at the chat.
Speaker 1: Didn't really didn't really set me off. But somebody here said, well,
Speaker 1: looks like all sides were in the wrong. Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm not picking sides, but one side was clearly in
Speaker 1: the wrong. And I'm not telling you which side because
Speaker 1: I don't know which side. But here's the story. One
Speaker 1: of two things happened, because there's two stories, all right.
Speaker 1: Story one is the young Bucks went into Punk's locker
Speaker 1: room to discuss this, and he immediately punched Matt Jackson
Speaker 1: and a brawl broke out. That's one side of the story.
Speaker 1: If that's what happened, See him Punk is in the wrong.
Speaker 1: They walked into talk to him, and he started punching. Okay,
Speaker 1: what's the other side of the story. The other side
Speaker 1: of the story is, see him punks in his locker
Speaker 1: room mining his own business. The Bucks aggressively storm in,
Speaker 1: he feels threatened, and he defends himself, in which case
Speaker 1: it's the Buck's fault. There there there are two stories
Speaker 1: that have come out, and in neither of these stories,
Speaker 1: can you look and go, oh, it was definitely both
Speaker 1: of their faults. Some buddy, somebody started this and is
Speaker 1: at fault. Now, if if we say, okay, Bucks and
Speaker 1: your friends that were there, whose fault is this, well,
Speaker 1: we know what they're gonna say. They're gonna say it's
Speaker 1: Punk's fault. If we say Punk Ace what happened here, Well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say it's the Buck's fault. Right, And then
Speaker 1: depending on you know, probably the people that were with
Speaker 1: Punk in the locker room would likely you know, be
Speaker 1: friends with Punk. Perhaps they would side with him, perhaps not,
Speaker 1: Perhaps they would say what they honestly saw, whatever it is,
Speaker 1: perhaps anybody that rushed in and saw aftermath. Perhaps. But
Speaker 1: you know what here, to me is the most important
Speaker 1: part of all of this, because this has come out Mega,
Speaker 1: who is the head of Legal? I forget the exact title,
Speaker 1: but the whatever, Someone can tell me what the basically
Speaker 1: the of legal for a w she went into the
Speaker 1: room with the young Bucks, didn't show up, later, didn't
Speaker 1: show up. Halfway through she went into the room with
Speaker 1: the young Bucks. Okay, So in theory, is the head
Speaker 1: of legal for a w She's not gonna be on
Speaker 1: a side, so one would think that whatever she saw
Speaker 1: is probably going to be what happened, and what that is,
Speaker 1: I guess eventually, you know what we're gonna probably find
Speaker 1: out tonight. What I can tell you is that everybody
Speaker 1: that was involved in any way with an altercation with
Speaker 1: somebody else has been suspended. I don't have the whole list,
Speaker 1: but Kenny Bucks, punk Ace, Uh, I think a couple
Speaker 1: of the agents as well, Chris Daniels and Pat I
Speaker 1: don't know whatever. I don't know what anyone everyone did,
Speaker 1: because it was it was apparently a long This was
Speaker 1: not punch pull apart broken up. It was long, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, several people have said like it was like
Speaker 1: six minutes long. I don't know if it was six
Speaker 1: minutes long, but I do know that I I heard
Speaker 1: about it actually as it was going on, and uh,
Speaker 1: and it was not short. But when you're involved in
Speaker 1: something like that as a participant, I mean, it probably
Speaker 1: felt a lot longer than it actually was. But I
Speaker 1: don't know how long it was. But it wasn't like
Speaker 1: punch fight broken up. A lot of things happened, and
Speaker 1: like I said, you know, a lot of people were
Speaker 1: there by the time it was broken up, So this
Speaker 1: is not oh there's you know, three or four people
Speaker 1: that no exist. No, a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 1: of people. So nothing has been made official except we
Speaker 1: do know about the suspensions unofficially and tonight on Dynamite.
Speaker 1: I mean there's gonna be We're gonna know some stuff
Speaker 1: because as noted, you've got an a W champion, you've
Speaker 1: got a doubles trios champions. Nobody none of those people
Speaker 1: are gonna be on the show. And you know, based
Speaker 1: on the pay per view that originally they were all
Speaker 1: going to be on the show, probably in major storylines
Speaker 1: because the Bucks and Kenny just won the six man titled.
Speaker 1: You don't put the six man titles on people, and
Speaker 1: then they're not on TV the next Wednesday, and obviously
Speaker 1: see him Punk was going to be there as the
Speaker 1: a W champion, and now they're all not going to
Speaker 1: be there, and it's going to be addressed one way
Speaker 1: or the other. And uh, I hope it's addressed, here's all.
Speaker 1: I I don't just hope everyone. I pray. I hope
Speaker 1: this is addressed in such a way that I don't
Speaker 1: have to listen, everyone's saying, well, it's a work for sure. Now,
Speaker 1: that's why I would prefer if they made an official
Speaker 1: announcement before the show, because if they just go on
Speaker 1: the air and do whatever they're gonna do. Depending on
Speaker 1: what they do, we're all gonna have to deal with, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's a work for sure. It's not a work. I've
Speaker 1: said this a thousand times. But anyway, that's the That's
Speaker 1: what we know as of right now. Wheeler. You to
Speaker 1: Daniel Garcia for the peer title, best Friends, Norge Cassievers,
Speaker 1: the death Triangle, Tony Storm, Penelope Ford for the interim
Speaker 1: women's title, and a promo by m JF and then
Speaker 1: appearance by Moxley and Jericho. That's what we know about
Speaker 1: the show tonight. Mega is the chief Legal Officer Wan
Speaker 1: also a role that she serves for the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 1: for which she is an executive vice president as well too.
Speaker 1: So that's who Mega is. In case anybody was curious
Speaker 1: and has heard of the name and wondered who is
Speaker 1: that person? That's who that is with her degree from Harvard.
Speaker 1: If I'm not mistaken, she is no joke. And uh
Speaker 1: it's probably like yat going to be any joke when
Speaker 1: he comes to this non laughing matter. So yeah, just
Speaker 1: wait for the shoes to drop. They'll drop anybody that's
Speaker 1: still to me at this point from what I was
Speaker 1: seeing this morning, the people that were still out there
Speaker 1: going it's a work, it's a work. You can't tell
Speaker 1: those people anything anyway. They want to live in their
Speaker 1: own fantasy or they just want to be trolls or
Speaker 1: whatever it is, because clearly not a work, as has
Speaker 1: been reported multiple times in multiple places. So also mentioned
Speaker 1: that as I talked about Sunday, actually Seampunk did get
Speaker 1: hurt in the match, and I do not know that
Speaker 1: it is a torn triceps, but he did. I remember
Speaker 1: I was right there at ringside, and I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I think it was it might have been a dive
Speaker 1: or the elbow off the top or something like that,
Speaker 1: but he immediately grabbed his elbow and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he finished the match and everything like that. But it
Speaker 1: is believed that whatever it is, it is a serious injury.
Speaker 1: And so whether he is suspended, find fired, whatever ends
Speaker 1: up happening, we probably are going to have to have
Speaker 1: another either interim or new champion, So that will have
Speaker 1: to be addressed on the show tonight. But yeah, came
Speaker 1: back from an injury and got injured again. So had
Speaker 1: none of this happened, Had none of this happened, it
Speaker 1: probably would have been Seampunk wins the title, gets injured,
Speaker 1: interim champion, created titles, unified, Punk wins title back immediately
Speaker 1: cannot be champion again. That's what we were looking at.
Speaker 1: Had none of this happened. Now, do you go ahead
Speaker 1: and strip him because of the injury or do you
Speaker 1: just is that playing too much into your idiots will
Speaker 1: believe everything's work, So let's just go ahead and announce it.
Speaker 1: Announce whatever is going to happen first, because it depends
Speaker 1: if he's fired. You say, it does give you the
Speaker 1: out to go as you Well, here's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously things are going to be coming, but whenever they're
Speaker 1: ready to announce them, whenever the legal process and whatever
Speaker 1: investigations they need to do are truly over. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's going to be done and
Speaker 1: said in the next five hours here, But if it's not,
Speaker 1: do you go ahead and strip him because of the
Speaker 1: injury as step one? And let's just go ahead and
Speaker 1: go you know, you can deal with punk from there. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, the problems if you strip him, you never
Speaker 1: have to mention him on TV. I know. But here's
Speaker 1: the deal. If he's being fired, then obviously he's stripped.
Speaker 1: But if they they've already set the precedent that if
Speaker 1: he's gonna it will be an interim title. They've already
Speaker 1: set that precedent with him with thunder Rosa, with numerous people, like,
Speaker 1: if they're not going to fire him, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be an interim title, would be my guess. Hm, I
Speaker 1: just you know, I was just curious on the timing
Speaker 1: as to whether you just go, Okay, well he's hurt,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and announce tonight he's stripped of the
Speaker 1: title because of the injury, and then from there, depending
Speaker 1: on if he's suspended or not, you know, long term,
Speaker 1: or if he's fired or whatever comes from this, then
Speaker 1: you can go ahead and cross that bridge when you
Speaker 1: come to it later. Well, listen, I know they're doing
Speaker 1: a an investigation, and I don't think that you will
Speaker 1: see anybody on TV until the investigation is over. I
Speaker 1: don't know how long the investigation is going to take,
Speaker 1: but I guess we'll find out what they do in
Speaker 1: the meantime. That's that's the biggest thing with Tony here
Speaker 1: is he likes to know who's back when to the
Speaker 1: best that he can, you know, to plan. And I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody knows how long this thing is gonna take.
Speaker 1: And then if there's legal issues, it's gonna take even longer.
Speaker 1: That could be a long time back in a moment
Speaker 1: as it really well, how the tide has turned? What's up?
Speaker 1: I'll look at the chat here so sick all this
Speaker 1: or begging for me to talk about n x T. Wow, Well,
Speaker 1: isn't it in? That's something too bad? But I will
Speaker 1: hear it. I will get here in the YouTube YouTube
Speaker 1: chatt here wants you to scissor him. Daddy asked, that's
Speaker 1: what he's saying. Hey, you know, I got a couple
Speaker 1: of news notes. Pat McAfee is joining ESPN's College Game
Speaker 1: Day full time member of the show. So he is
Speaker 1: uh still with w w E. But he is, uh,
Speaker 1: I believe out of the SmackDown Commentary gig likely until
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble, and he just signed a I would
Speaker 1: presume quite lucrative new deal. So I don't know how
Speaker 1: they had to handle something like that, Like it's just
Speaker 1: kind of like when you get injured and they put
Speaker 1: your your deal on hold or whatever, and then he'll
Speaker 1: come back and make his money again. But if he's
Speaker 1: if he's got that big w w E money, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have to show up and he does another gig.
Speaker 1: That's quite a good for him. I'm sure they're putting
Speaker 1: a pause on pay roll for that one while he
Speaker 1: makes his John's Although he was willing to do it,
Speaker 1: and he did it last year, and he talked about
Speaker 1: a story on his show today where he had to
Speaker 1: get from Oh God was a buffalo to Memphis I
Speaker 1: think it was or something like that. So Jim Ersey,
Speaker 1: his former boss, the owner of the Indianapolis Colts, let
Speaker 1: lent him his plane and he ended up flying down
Speaker 1: there for that, and he apparently was willing to do that.
Speaker 1: In w w were the ones who stepped in and said, no,
Speaker 1: you really shouldn't do that. It's not good for your health,
Speaker 1: even though it is possible for you to do it,
Speaker 1: getting two hours of sleep and then going on and
Speaker 1: having to do that show. It's, uh, you know, that's
Speaker 1: a little much. Although it's great for w E. They
Speaker 1: already have a tie in with the ESPN in that
Speaker 1: show anyway, so I'm sure we're going to it probably
Speaker 1: won't be too long before Pat McAfee is reunited with
Speaker 1: some of his ww friends on that show. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a good deal for him, is his again.
Speaker 1: His star continues to get grow to a ridiculous degree.
Speaker 1: And that's a difference in w w E. That's one
Speaker 1: of the differences in the last couple of years, especially
Speaker 1: with him, where they are willing to have these people
Speaker 1: from the outside in some ways that they can't control,
Speaker 1: but they're willing to at least accept these people in
Speaker 1: and use them and actually, you know, try to get
Speaker 1: some of the rub off of them, you know when
Speaker 1: they do other things. So whether it be the bad bunnies,
Speaker 1: I mean, we've seen celebrities coming in out. But even
Speaker 1: though he didn't last there long, we're a Ronnello, you know,
Speaker 1: for what he was doing for CBS and for Showtime
Speaker 1: and for other places. And now with McAfee, who's frankly
Speaker 1: a much bigger star than anybody in w w E.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to say that, you know, they
Speaker 1: need him more than he needs them, but it certainly
Speaker 1: is a nice, nice combination. I don't think I need
Speaker 1: to talk too much about this, but Becky Lynch was
Speaker 1: on the uh the name of the podcast here, out
Speaker 1: of character and uh and she said that Triple H
Speaker 1: felt that w w E was swimming upstream by having
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch portray a heel. So anyway, I'm glad they
Speaker 1: figured that out. Well, only one man really had the issue, correct,
Speaker 1: Patrick blame only one man. Patrick Clark, a former velveteen Dream,
Speaker 1: is alleged to have punched bitt it. What's with everyone
Speaker 1: biting everybody? He's alleged to have punched bitten and made
Speaker 1: death threats bath salts towards a gym employee during an
Speaker 1: altercation last month. You know, I don't want to make
Speaker 1: light of this or anything, but when I said that,
Speaker 1: I just realized that when I was wrestling Filthy this
Speaker 1: this week and he tried to superplex me and bro
Speaker 1: I'm forty seven, I had taken that move. So I
Speaker 1: bit him in the nose, shopped him, knocked him. After that,
Speaker 1: I went for a cent on and he happened to
Speaker 1: catch me in a choke. But you know what, it
Speaker 1: didn't work. It's a beautiful cent on though anyway, he
Speaker 1: bit a guy, allegedly made death threats towards a gym
Speaker 1: employee because the rest of August, charged with battery trespassing
Speaker 1: at a property after a warning. According to police documents
Speaker 1: obtained by TMZ, Clark became irate and argumentative after having
Speaker 1: to leave an area of the gym that was closed
Speaker 1: for cleaning. After a gym employee requested Clark leave the premises.
Speaker 1: Clark is alleged to have made death threats aimed at
Speaker 1: the employee and then struck them in the face. A
Speaker 1: fight between the two continued. Clark reportedly bit the employee
Speaker 1: on his chest under the left armpit. Clark was interested
Speaker 1: after police witness teeth marks on the gym employee. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you hope he gets the help he needs, Like as
Speaker 1: simple as that. And I don't know what he's done,
Speaker 1: what he's done, doesn't hasn't done. I know what he
Speaker 1: has been accused. You want to throw in by the
Speaker 1: way that he was there was that arrest we were
Speaker 1: talking about a few days ago. This was different. He
Speaker 1: was interested again six days later for something else. He's
Speaker 1: got obvious problems and hopefully he can get those problems fixed.
Speaker 1: And you know, there's a lot of people that are
Speaker 1: asking around and I'm sure you've heard the same thing
Speaker 1: about Malachi Black. And here's the bottom line here. He
Speaker 1: seems to have been offered his conditional release. What does
Speaker 1: that mean. It means he's not going to be showing
Speaker 1: up in w W E. And for the nature of
Speaker 1: why he asked for his release, that's really nobody's business
Speaker 1: right now either because if he took time off for
Speaker 1: himself to get himself straight in any aspect mental, whatever
Speaker 1: it is that he decided to take the time off,
Speaker 1: it is a personal issue to him, and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people asking about it. That's really going to
Speaker 1: be up to him when he decides, if he decides
Speaker 1: in the future that he wants to reveal what it was.
Speaker 1: SmackDown two point zero seven seven million viewers on Fox,
Speaker 1: up four point four percent from the previous week eighteen
Speaker 1: and forty nine to a point four nine, which was
Speaker 1: also up the A W Rampage Go Home Show four
Speaker 1: five thousand, up twelve percent from the previous week, largest
Speaker 1: audience since April twenty second, eighteen and forty nine A
Speaker 1: point one six up forty five from the previous week,
Speaker 1: so people wanted to see the Go Home Show. And
Speaker 1: those are the numbers. Raw numbers not out till probably
Speaker 1: after the show goes out the year because of the holiday,
Speaker 1: but it is Nielsen, so it's possible it could be
Speaker 1: months we actually get these numbers. Well, and you know what,
Speaker 1: this will be a fun number to take keep an
Speaker 1: eye on because this coming Monday, the National Football League returns,
Speaker 1: so we'll see what how big of a chunk that
Speaker 1: that takes out everything? So I can't confirm this, but
Speaker 1: I presume it's true because it's all over the place.
Speaker 1: But Malachi Black believed to have gotten a conditional release,
Speaker 1: which presumably means can't go to w w E. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I was, I was that mentioned us front
Speaker 1: row at that show. What it was? I saw a
Speaker 1: lot that night. But anyway, after he lost, he literally
Speaker 1: was walking around ringside and uh, and he stopped like
Speaker 1: I could have touched his older. He was so close
Speaker 1: to me, and he just stood there and you know,
Speaker 1: he looked like that said dude, and he looked out
Speaker 1: at all the people. He just stood there for a while.
Speaker 1: He just looked around. And that's when I thought this
Speaker 1: dude's out of here. And then that was even before
Speaker 1: he went up on the ramp, and you know, he
Speaker 1: went upon the ramp, waived, everybody cheered, blew the kiss,
Speaker 1: and he was out of there. So I believe that
Speaker 1: it is uh probably a pretty good I'm pretty confident
Speaker 1: he's gone, and it has been reported elsewhere a conditional release.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's the end of And there
Speaker 1: had been a lot of rumors about Malachi black Ah
Speaker 1: and he did eight six a independent appearance that he
Speaker 1: had coming up in Ohio. I think he was still
Speaker 1: I think he's still booked as of now on the
Speaker 1: West coast, but that may have been canceled. I had
Speaker 1: I gotta go back and check that one. But yeah,
Speaker 1: so at least for sure one of his bookings he
Speaker 1: is uh he has turned out, turned that turned back
Speaker 1: down here And you know, listen, I don't wanna I
Speaker 1: don't want to uh, I don't want this time. What
Speaker 1: I'm about to say, I don't want tied into Malachi
Speaker 1: because I don't know why Malachi wanted out, Okay, but
Speaker 1: I did. Uh. I was saying, not just Malachi, but
Speaker 1: like a lot of guys there, you know, UH, w
Speaker 1: w E. I mean, we can go way back. I mean,
Speaker 1: in the eighties it was a completely insane schedule, and
Speaker 1: in the nineties it was a difficult schedule, and you
Speaker 1: know it was it was an easy schedule during the
Speaker 1: pandemic because there were no house shows or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But now you know, they're back and they run house shows.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're if you are a a star,
Speaker 1: with the exception of Roman reigns, but if you're you
Speaker 1: know anyone, whoso's shamous an you know, anybody, anybody, you're
Speaker 1: working all the time, okay regularly. And one of the
Speaker 1: one of the things about a W that for some
Speaker 1: guys was very attractive at the beginning was you're gonna
Speaker 1: get comparable money and you're gonna work a lot less
Speaker 1: and you know, a double he doesn't runhouse shows. And
Speaker 1: so I think for a lot of guys that they
Speaker 1: were sick of the grind, they were tired. You know,
Speaker 1: they a lot of guys enjoy house shows and everything
Speaker 1: like that, but I think they looked at that as like, Wow,
Speaker 1: I can make almost the same money and I'll get
Speaker 1: an opportunity that maybe I didn't get there and I
Speaker 1: don't have to work as many dates. I'm not on
Speaker 1: the road four days a week, barely ever see my family.
Speaker 1: But for the you know, the reality is for certain
Speaker 1: people this is awesome, but there are people that you
Speaker 1: do this for a while, and especially if there's an
Speaker 1: angle or there's a cycle, that you're not held in
Speaker 1: that cycle. It's like you never work. And you know,
Speaker 1: the money is great and everything like that, but a
Speaker 1: lot of people that get into wrestling, they like working.
Speaker 1: And you know, I don't know what the situation was
Speaker 1: with Malachi, but I look at a guy like, you know,
Speaker 1: the former Russev Miro and and listen, I'm not putting
Speaker 1: words in his mouth because maybe he loves this, okay,
Speaker 1: but you look at a guy like him, and he
Speaker 1: went from working all the time, he was on TV
Speaker 1: all the time, he was wrestling all the time, and
Speaker 1: granted he had some injuries here and there, but dude,
Speaker 1: this guy never has matches. How many matches his his
Speaker 1: mirror had in the last two years three And it's
Speaker 1: not even just like, well, you know, you know, a
Speaker 1: guy like Nash should probably happy I'm making my money
Speaker 1: and not taking bumps or anything like that. But the
Speaker 1: other issue is and I learned this Friday. You work
Speaker 1: every once in a while. Brother, that's hard. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I do see, especially with Vince
Speaker 1: Gonn and Triple H in charge, I think that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be other people that are like you know, I
Speaker 1: can have way more television time and I can have
Speaker 1: way more in ring time if I leave a w
Speaker 1: and I don't know if there's anything that's gonna change.
Speaker 1: I don't seem were in the house shows same time,
Speaker 1: back in a moment, was it were live back in
Speaker 1: the show. Brian Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Alive, Mike's
Speaker 1: ember vide also Wrestling Observer dot com. Hey here's some
Speaker 1: lighthearted banter. Man, I like this n x T show.
Speaker 1: This was a good show. Am I wrong? You're not wrong,
Speaker 1: boss oh Man. And let me tell you something. Remember
Speaker 1: that bet I made about how Braun Breaker was gonna
Speaker 1: headline WRESTLEMANI, and there was like, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much was on the line at least whatever, bro, I
Speaker 1: will willingly give that bet up and pay the money.
Speaker 1: If we can just get the new Steiner brothers like
Speaker 1: we saw in the main event, Tyler, Bate and Braun
Speaker 1: Breaker is the Steiners, dude, they were awesome. Wrong, You're wrong. No, no, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: hold on, time out. You're not wrong because they're awesome.
Speaker 1: Especially as a team. They were awesome. But you got
Speaker 1: the new Steiner brothers. They're the Creed brothers. You got
Speaker 1: them already. Maybe they can have a battle list the
Speaker 1: name Steiner now they can be gimmick Steiner Brothers. But
Speaker 1: I mean, man, they're doing They can be Gordon and
Speaker 1: Williams to their Steiner's. How about that? God, they were
Speaker 1: so awesome in the main event. So anyway, it opened
Speaker 1: up with a replay of all of the all the
Speaker 1: stuff you know that we saw at the show that
Speaker 1: I didn't see. But anyway, Bate comes out there and
Speaker 1: then Gallus shows up and they surround him and who
Speaker 1: should make the save but Braun Breaker, which sets up
Speaker 1: the main event, which I loved. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: pretty deadly. They're awesome. They're all excited to have unified
Speaker 1: the titles. Lash legend is there looks like I don't
Speaker 1: know this for sure, but the way they did this
Speaker 1: promo looks like they're just gonna get rid of those
Speaker 1: other belts. It's not like everyone's gonna walk around with
Speaker 1: two sets of belts. I could be wrong. They asked
Speaker 1: her to frame the n x T Tag team titles.
Speaker 1: How did I never think of that? We had a
Speaker 1: interview segment, so Cora Jade challenges Miko Sanamura to a match.
Speaker 1: Santamura tells her no Core is mad, and then Sanamura claims, well,
Speaker 1: I've already got a match tonight. It's against Roxanne Perez
Speaker 1: And this makes Cora very upset, and God bless Cora Jade.
Speaker 1: But she has her her better days and are not
Speaker 1: so good days on the mic. This was not one
Speaker 1: of her better days. This was this was so days
Speaker 1: of our lives. Caliber here, which I've never watched, by
Speaker 1: the way, but you know we had soft the air,
Speaker 1: go with Bold and the beautiful whatever do drop and
Speaker 1: Nikki Ash versus a toxic Attraction, And you know, I figured,
Speaker 1: do drop a Nikki just here for a few days
Speaker 1: and then they're out of here. Man. They went in
Speaker 1: and beat Toxic traction, beat him clean in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring. And I don't know they're gonna do
Speaker 1: if they're like down here. I don't think they're down
Speaker 1: here for an extended period of time. But that was
Speaker 1: a big win that they got here. Match not very good. Um,
Speaker 1: maybe they should be. Maybe they should be. There's two
Speaker 1: women with a lot of international Yeah, they they should
Speaker 1: be there. There should be a bunch of people from
Speaker 1: the main roster down. They're teaching everybody how to work,
Speaker 1: as we'll find out later. Look, I'm good with if
Speaker 1: they rotate him in and out, that's fine. I hope
Speaker 1: they do stick down there a little bit longer, just
Speaker 1: so dude Drop maybe can get a little bit of
Speaker 1: revenge for getting kicked in the face there by Uh.
Speaker 1: I believe it was j C. Jane on that pen
Speaker 1: attempt that was nasty. Now, I've been very critical of
Speaker 1: old j D mcdonnaugh, and that's that few that he
Speaker 1: had with braun Breaker, which just sucked in pretty much
Speaker 1: every way. And even their match that they finally had
Speaker 1: was just there. It wasn't even that good a match.
Speaker 1: But you know what, You take a j. D mcdonnaugh
Speaker 1: and you put him in the ring with a guy
Speaker 1: that same size as him, Wesley, and you let him
Speaker 1: go out there and tear it up. Dude, this was
Speaker 1: a JD McDonald's looks since he showed up here. Miles
Speaker 1: beyond all of this butcher stuff and writing on the
Speaker 1: Butcher paper and trying to pretend he's ten feet tall
Speaker 1: against you know, whole Cogan here. Uh, this was a
Speaker 1: really good match, and you know it's even better about
Speaker 1: it is. Another thing I've been critical about is this finisher.
Speaker 1: Your finisher is a sue plex. I'm supposed to believe
Speaker 1: that you're gonna beat braun Breaker with a back suplex. No,
Speaker 1: but you know what, he hit that thing on Wesley
Speaker 1: look great, pinned him. You know, you don't have to
Speaker 1: have a cruiserweight division, but you can match up people
Speaker 1: with other people that are close to their same size
Speaker 1: all the time, and in some cases like this one,
Speaker 1: it's a massive improvement. Very good match, very good match,
Speaker 1: and not to spoil the ending, but a line of
Speaker 1: thinking that now is going to continue with him and
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense that we had Meek Satamura and Roxanne Perez.
Speaker 1: I thought this match was very, very good. And you
Speaker 1: know what I really was impressed with was, you know,
Speaker 1: Rock sand I'm not sure. I'm not even sure she's
Speaker 1: twenty yet, but she's a good worker and you know,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you this. I haven't talked to anybody
Speaker 1: about it. But I'm pretty sure that Miko sutomers kind
Speaker 1: of old school. I don't think she's showing up scripting
Speaker 1: out her matches move for Move in the PC for
Speaker 1: two weeks before they get on TV. So they went
Speaker 1: in there and they worked, and yes, there were moments
Speaker 1: where there was a brief pause like okay, what's next,
Speaker 1: and dude, it was a brief pause. But rock Sand
Speaker 1: was right on it. She never looked lost. She she
Speaker 1: was I mean, Mixana Mers out of this world. But
Speaker 1: rock Sand did an incredible job here and Uh I
Speaker 1: just was very impressed with this match and Miko uh
Speaker 1: ended up winning. They bow and shook hands afterwards. Miko
Speaker 1: looked so happy having this match with somebody that could work.
Speaker 1: And then outcomes Jade wax him with a kendlestick rushes
Speaker 1: away and that was at But I was very impressed.
Speaker 1: We need Miko Stem we're working with like everybody, because
Speaker 1: he needs to teach about to work. I don't need
Speaker 1: all these women and they're practicing their matches. I need
Speaker 1: him to learn how to work. Go in there, come
Speaker 1: up with a couple of things. You got you got
Speaker 1: an hour, and go out there and do a long
Speaker 1: match and you don't know what's gonna happen, and you
Speaker 1: gotta make it work. I like this a lot. What
Speaker 1: I also thought was I would go as far say great,
Speaker 1: this Damon Kemp. This guy is the man. He cut
Speaker 1: this promo explaining why he turned on the Diamond Mine,
Speaker 1: and uh, he never mentioned anything about Roderick Strong turning
Speaker 1: on him. So they want you to believe that he's
Speaker 1: the guy that jumped Roderick Strong in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: I don't think he was. I think they're in cahoots.
Speaker 1: But man, he can cut a tough guy, badass promo
Speaker 1: and he's talking about this brutus. I beat his ass
Speaker 1: in college and I'm gonna beat his ass. He was great.
Speaker 1: I love this Damon Kemp, and he's good. He's very
Speaker 1: good given his level of experience. Yeah, he's the Stevenson
Speaker 1: who's actually gonna make it. And then everything I've asked
Speaker 1: for for months, we have a great worker, Ricochet going
Speaker 1: in there with a guy who's as green as can be,
Speaker 1: Trick Williams, and Ricochet walked him through this match and
Speaker 1: it was good, Probably the best match Trick Williams ever had.
Speaker 1: And it was like a perfect match or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but there was nothing wrong with it. And carmelais on
Speaker 1: commentary and uh, Ricochet hits a it's the codebreaker, and
Speaker 1: trick Williams takes the funniest, greatest bump. He jumps and
Speaker 1: he's he can jump. Ricochet hits his move and this
Speaker 1: trick Williams jumps about nineteen feet in the air, flat
Speaker 1: back bump. He's dead. So Ricochet is now going to
Speaker 1: do the shooting Star. But dude, this guy got killed,
Speaker 1: so man, he's taken his time. At first, he looks
Speaker 1: over at Carmelo. He's like going up. Carmel is like,
Speaker 1: well get up there then, and he slowly starts climbing
Speaker 1: this these ropes, and Carmelo is all Cocky's got why
Speaker 1: will you see this? We've been practicing this all week.
Speaker 1: He's gonna move. It's like a cartoon and you know,
Speaker 1: you know exactly what's gonna happen. Carmel is like, watch
Speaker 1: here it comes. Rick Sha goes up, flies in the air,
Speaker 1: he's his giants. He doesn't move, hits the giant shooting
Speaker 1: Star pins him. Carmel is so angry. We worked on this.
Speaker 1: You just had to move loved it. He's the best.
Speaker 1: He's the best. He's the best of their blue chip
Speaker 1: five tool players because he is a five tool player,
Speaker 1: outstanding on the microphone, already in the ring. Sure he's
Speaker 1: a little green, but my god, look how fast he's
Speaker 1: picked up things compared to a lot of other people
Speaker 1: at his experience level. He is a total old package
Speaker 1: that once he gets brought up, he and braun Breaker,
Speaker 1: you know, I get generational rivals, could absolutely be generational
Speaker 1: rivals for that company. And Trick Williams. I hope he
Speaker 1: comes along, but if he doesn't, you know, the ban
Speaker 1: on managers, the ban on seconds in w w E,
Speaker 1: that's another thing from the past. It's another thing Vince
Speaker 1: got rid of. The needs to go away, because how
Speaker 1: do you not put a Lash legend. Look at if
Speaker 1: Lash doesn't develop in the ring and she's not shown
Speaker 1: great aptitude, but then again, she's been wrestling for about
Speaker 1: five minutes. If she doesn't show any aptitude, fine with
Speaker 1: that type of personality. Bring back managers, bring back seconds,
Speaker 1: bring back agents that matter. There we had Axiom Nathan Frasier,
Speaker 1: the first and the best of three. It was great Geo.
Speaker 1: These two guys go in there and do what they
Speaker 1: can do, you know, put any stupid restrictions on him.
Speaker 1: Nathan Fraser looked at best he's ever looked in this company.
Speaker 1: This dude's hitting the ropes. I mean it's like he
Speaker 1: was Olympic track star. He hits these rope they're doing
Speaker 1: the high spots, are doing grappling, they're doing submission attempts,
Speaker 1: and uh, it was great Axiom one and we got
Speaker 1: two more to come and some other stuff here I
Speaker 1: can skip past. Oh Hank, the security guards still having
Speaker 1: a prom with all your girl Chiana James assistant. What's
Speaker 1: up with that? Who she? She was there last week too?
Speaker 1: I don't know who she really can't remember that. I
Speaker 1: didn't remember that going after Santino's daughter though, Ariana. Then
Speaker 1: we have next week's announcements, Pretty Deadly versus the Creeds.
Speaker 1: Fans vote on the stipulations a minute. It's like the
Speaker 1: old days, Cameron Grimes and a mystery partner against Tony
Speaker 1: D'Angelo and Stacks. Go. By the way, Tony D'Angelo and
Speaker 1: Stacks had a segment earlier with Pretty Deadly. I cannot
Speaker 1: do it justice. It was the greatest. They're just hanging out,
Speaker 1: and Pretty Deadly walks in and and uh, Tony D's
Speaker 1: Angelo is like, what'd you pay for that interference on Sunday?
Speaker 1: They didn't do that for free? And Pretty Deadly's appalled
Speaker 1: being accused of of of hiring people to help them
Speaker 1: retain their titles. And and finally they storm off and
Speaker 1: I don't know what Tony said, but he did a
Speaker 1: perfect English accent mocking these guys. It was so great.
Speaker 1: And we have Carmelo against a challenger decided by fan voting,
Speaker 1: Zoe and Nikita versus Keana James and Arianna Grace. And
Speaker 1: then Hank security guard, Hank, Hank Walker, Hank who don't
Speaker 1: like britch Man. If if, if ever there was an
Speaker 1: n X team name Hank Walker. He looks like Seth
Speaker 1: Rogan will face Javier bern All. And then the main event.
Speaker 1: Adored this match Braun Breaker and Tyler Bate against Gals.
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason I loved it was
Speaker 1: because they used Tyler Bates music so much on this show,
Speaker 1: which one of the greatest themes in all of wrestling.
Speaker 1: And uh man, they run wild early, They're just they're
Speaker 1: the greatest. And then Braun runs around him and slides
Speaker 1: between the legs like the Steiner brothers used to do.
Speaker 1: And then they get some heat on Tyler who's just
Speaker 1: a great baby face and Peril he makes hot tag
Speaker 1: the braun Breaker who makes an awesome comeback, and they Man,
Speaker 1: I love this. I just watched this singing. I know
Speaker 1: you guys want to be a single star. That's fine.
Speaker 1: Give me a year with these guys running a rough
Speaker 1: shot over all the tag team divisions. And then of
Speaker 1: course after they got the win, uh what's his name?
Speaker 1: H j D mctonnah hits the ring, lays out both
Speaker 1: guys and uh and beats up old Tyler bait, which, hey,
Speaker 1: they're the same size. That'll be a good feud in
Speaker 1: the ring, will be great. But man, I was sad.
Speaker 1: I just want to see can't j D McDonagh get
Speaker 1: another another partner? He needs to get a big guy
Speaker 1: so bad song is a baby face von Wagner and
Speaker 1: j D mctonnaugh. He wants to be picture anyway, right,
Speaker 1: that's perfect. That actually fits in perfectly with their mentality.
Speaker 1: You can have all four against each other or have
Speaker 1: them been tag team matches. Makes sense to me. I
Speaker 1: don't want to hear it, everybody, This was a really fun,
Speaker 1: good ed x T and this show is massively improved.
Speaker 1: All of the best ed x T u K folks
Speaker 1: are over there now, all of the all of the
Speaker 1: good n x T people are being allowed to do
Speaker 1: whatever they want, not whatever they want. But like, you know,
Speaker 1: you would not have seen this axiom match uh three
Speaker 1: four or five weeks ago or whatever. It's different and
Speaker 1: like it. Brian's got eyes on soulve there the new uh,
Speaker 1: the new blonde surfer that's gonna be coming next week.
Speaker 1: I bet yeah, we'll see about that. How many how
Speaker 1: many athletic blondes do we need? If they're like Stratton?
Speaker 1: That's a loaded question, but you know we got a
Speaker 1: lot of them, and we got another one now back
Speaker 1: in a moment was the were like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I was just looking around on my Twitter. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you guys saw it or not, but the
Speaker 1: actual video from Saturday has come out where in fact
Speaker 1: I penned filthy Tom Lawler. Wait a second, yes, what dude,
Speaker 1: the video doesn't lie at Brian Alvarez, you go up
Speaker 1: there right now. There's a plug fro my cameo, which
Speaker 1: is just thirty five, which I should raise the price
Speaker 1: of after this weekend, I might add, and then we've
Speaker 1: got a plug for this show, and then uh, Kevin
Speaker 1: Gil and then under that this is what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the Paisley reel. It's only like eight seconds, but
Speaker 1: you can see me double leg filthy Tom Lawler two points,
Speaker 1: immediately roll him up one, two, three, and celebrate, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I did with a bad shoulder. So
Speaker 1: I think y'all should check that out right there. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what I think I should instruct people to
Speaker 1: do is since it took you eight seconds to make her,
Speaker 1: uh would be pointing out that at real Sam finds
Speaker 1: he made a video of your match and your whole
Speaker 1: entire experience that night, teaming up with Billy Starks in
Speaker 1: an embarrassing losing effort against Killer Kelly and Filthy Tom Lawler.
Speaker 1: And I don't believe that this. Sources tell me that
Speaker 1: this is absolutely true, especially the way they dragged your
Speaker 1: lifeless body out of there while a hero held up
Speaker 1: a sign that said semper vv since his regards. Well,
Speaker 1: first off, I don't know if you've ever heard the
Speaker 1: word deep fake, but the Paisley reel here was in
Speaker 1: fact also made by real sam A Fines And you
Speaker 1: can watch it, and you can listen to it, and
Speaker 1: you can witness with your own eyes the pinfall victory.
Speaker 1: But I got over Filthy, Tom Lawler. This was more
Speaker 1: This was more dominant than when Moxley beats c Ham
Speaker 1: Punk and Cincinnati double leg hoof the leg one to
Speaker 1: three that check it out at Brian Alvarez. Everybody, Hey,
Speaker 1: I'll be back with Filthy in an hour two Pacific
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Speaker 1: Don't miss that one, and then later on tonight with
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