WEBVTT - NXT Spring Breaking 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.439 Live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.840 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.640 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervb. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:25.160 Are you ready? Are you ready? 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:26.800 Let's get it off. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.920 How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.560 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:35.560 --> 0:00:39.199 three Eastern Sunday, three Pacific, six Eastern Saturday Mornings with 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.159 a Jim Valley, a Tenday Pacific one Eastern Sundays with 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.760 andrews Arian. And it is Wednesday on the show. You 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.160 know what that means. We got a let's talk about 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:53.280 We got aw Dynamite tonight and we actually now have 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.480 a lineup, which we did not have yesterday. So we've 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.000 got six things announced for the show and we're gonna 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.640 talk about that and a lot of other things. Well, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:05.679 I think they're up to twenty five hundred tickets now, 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.280 so that was what I guess they were shooting for 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.679 for this show. We'll tell you about that and also, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:18.240 obviously last night was the first night of NXT Spring Breaking, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:23.319 and in fact we do have a new NXT champion. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.800 Trick Williams won the title in the main event. It 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.160 was actually awesome. The match was great. Trick and Ilia 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.280 always have great matches and this was another one. And 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.080 end of the match, it was actually very similar to 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.760 a spot in the Brian Danielson will Ospray match, and 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:43.399 I think they also did a spot similar to this 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.000 in one of their other matches where they're each in 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:49.680 opposite corners. It's a duel in the Old West. They 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.600 both race at each other and hit their finish and 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.440 Trick hit that Trick knee first, and it'll always be 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.760 the Trickney to me, by the way, and he got 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:00.520 the pins. 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I'm that guy whenever I get him, whether 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.920 it be lunch or for dinner, and my household is 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:56.640 always a winner. 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.679 Order the chicken strips on the Chick fil A up Today. 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:01.360 Customer pay for their testimony. 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.080 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Albarez 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.760 and Mike Semper VV on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Networks. 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.719 Back in the show. Ryan Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:25.760 Mike SIMPERVB also Wrestling Observer dot Com. I suppose we 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:31.960 have to talk about Vince. Vince mcmhann's legal team contends 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:36.599 that a binding arbitration clause exists in the NDA Janelle 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.240 Grant signed in twenty twenty one. By the way, if 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.279 anybody has any questions about this, send them to uh 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.440 the text message line four two five seven eight zero 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.839 seven five sixty six. That is four two five seven 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:52.000 eight zero seven five sixty six. I read the entire 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:55.880 filing yesterday and UH, there's obviously a lot in the 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:00.480 filing that's not necessarily mentioned this particular story wire you onlinem. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.760 Although this is the gist of it. McMahon filed a 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:08.000 motion in the District of Connecticut Tuesday to compel arbitration 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.240 of Grant's lawsuit. This means he is asking the court 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.000 to recognize the arbitration clause and send the matter to 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:20.600 private arbitration hearings with an independent arbitrator rather than litigation. Typically, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.160 a party makes this motion but it believes that mere 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.560 mention of the evidence during trial would be highly prejudicial 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:30.760 and could not be remedied by an instruction to disregard, 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:38.240 says Trellis Law. So, uh man, these filings, man, these lawyers, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.720 I mean, it's not like it's funny, but like this 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.239 is not you know, they don't sit there and say, 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:46.240 you know, these are the facts as we believe they are. 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:53.720 They have the most outrageous language in these filings. McMahon's 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:59.440 team said by publicly filing her salacious false in defamatory complaint, 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:05.800 plaintiff as brazenly and intentionally violated a binding contract to arbitrate. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:11.640 Filing alleges McMahon grant engaged in a consensual relationship and 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.280 references the love letter that she wrote to him in 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:18.440 twenty twenty one love letter end quote as proof of this. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:24.840 Contrary to plaintiff's false allegations, plaintiff and defendant engage in 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.600 a consensual relationship during which defendant never coerced plaintiff into 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.880 doing anything, never mistreated her in any way. In fact, 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:36.360 in a love letter plaintiff wrote to defendant shortly before 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.840 the parties into their relationship, plaintiff described defendant as quote 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:43.520 my best friend, my love and my everything, praising him 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.360 for being the quote wonderful, tender, vulnerable, heart on your sleeve, 0:08:47.480 --> 0:08:52.440 soul you really are. It is incredulous that plaintiff, a 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.600 then forty two year old woman who claims on her 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:57.320 resume to have a law degree from Pace University, would 0:08:57.320 --> 0:09:00.360 have written those words to defendant months have withdraw all 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.480 the events in the complaint of alleged abuse, coercion, and 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.760 sex trafficking. They put that in quotation mark sex trafficking 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:11.000 to place. Several paragraphs in the filing refute claims in 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:15.000 Grant's lawsuit that she was in financial difficulties or was 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:18.679 a full time caregiver leading to her relationship with McMahon. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.240 At the time the parties met in twenty nineteen, plaintiff 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.959 was not dealing with profound grief from her parents death, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:31.360 mcmahn's lawyer said, and struggling financially as described in her complaint, 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.000 and she had not been quote devoting years to around 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.319 the clock caregiving to her parents. These statements are falsehoods 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.120 based on a foreclosure action against plaintiff and her parents. 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.959 Plaintiff's father passed away on April eighteen, twenty seventeen, two 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:50.720 years before plaintiff met defendant, and his marital status was 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:54.959 recorded as widowed, confirming Plaintiff's mother had passed away earlier. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.320 Filing also notes Grant was living with her fiance during 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.880 the time of her lif relationship with McMahon, and that 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.880 both parties were aware the other was involved in other 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:09.959 romantic relationships. Says during the party's consensual relationship, plaintiff and 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.240 defendant knew that the other was not involved was also involved, 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:17.080 I'm sorry in other romantic relationships. Plaintiff was living in 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.800 Park Tower, a luxury, multi million dollar building in Stamford, Connecticut, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:29.840 with her longtime fiancee, Attorney Brian gonn Calvis gon Calvis 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.640 Plaintiff Gonkalvez lived in the same luxury building as defendant, 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.800 four floors below when the parties began their affair in 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.520 twenty nineteen. Plaintiff would often visit defendant at his condominium 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.200 at all hours, including at two thirty a m. To 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.480 pursue their affair, and returned back to her condominium with 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.880 Gonkalve's the same night. Filing noted both parties agreed and 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:54.200 their relationship in twenty twenty two NDA was drawn up 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.760 and signed. Agreement includes a closet state's disputes would be 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:01.640 resolved through arbitration. In fact, because the parties wish to 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.720 preserve their confidential and private nature of any disputes them 0:11:04.800 --> 0:11:08.280 the agreement, they specifically provided in the agreement that disputse 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:14.440 would be resolved through arbitration. And so there's plenty more here, 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.719 but the gist of the story, and a lot of 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:21.599 people have questions about, you know, what's this, that and 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.480 the other thing. So I think the gist of it 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:29.679 is Vince's side is claiming that there was no sex trafficking, 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.840 This was a consensual relationship. They have not denied the 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:37.240 text messages. I mean the text messages are legitimate. I 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.440 mean no one's argued that. Their claim is that, yeah, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:45.840 they were legitimate, but it was consensual. And obviously her 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.680 side is saying no, they were not consensual, and I 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.520 was forced into doing all of this. And the other 0:11:52.640 --> 0:12:01.360 big thing is that Janelle Grant's side claims that Vince 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:08.480 stopped paying her and so she went public. Vince's side 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:15.040 is claiming, no, she violated the confidentiality agreement and thus 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.600 I stopped paying her. So you know, a lot of 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.720 this stuff here. I mean to me, it shouldn't be 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:27.079 you know, we should be able to find out as 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.040 they go, if they go to discovery, which is questionable, like, well, 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:33.720 what what's going on here? Like Vince's side claims that 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:40.000 she was living with her fiance, and her side claims no, no, no, no, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.760 she was going through a rough time and her ex 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.640 boyfriend allowed her to live with him for three years 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.120 or whatever it was as she attempted to get back 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.840 on her feet. So this is kind of like the 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:58.640 Ronda Rousey Drew Goulac situation. Well what's this guy say? 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.680 And and we don't know, but obviously that would be 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:04.960 one of the obvious questions. What does he say about this? 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:08.160 Was was she his fiance at the time or was 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.120 she an ex that he allowed to live there while 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:11.760 she was getting back on her feet. So like a 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.679 lot of these things here, you know, did she violate 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.360 the confidentiality agree before he stopped paying or not? I mean, 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.840 I think we should be able to determine that, right, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.200 I mean, what happened first? So these are the it 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.160 is a it is a he said she said at 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:31.719 this point, and and each side is claiming the other 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.800 side is lying, and uh, I guess we have to 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.520 wait to see where it goes from here and and 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:43.600 what John Loaurnidis's side claims, because obviously John Laurnidis, you 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.719 know his claim is that you know what she is 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:51.720 saying is true. But I was also forced into this 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:56.760 by Vince McMahon and we have not seen his side 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.400 of the story yet, so that is coming. I presume 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.760 within the next few weeks. There was a mad deadline. 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:07.360 So that's the gist of it. Any comments Mike. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.400 Well, not only his side of the story, but Vince 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.320 McMahon and his legal team has not gone after him 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.600 yet for saying that he's a victim in all this. 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.520 They are attacking now her character in the same way 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.040 that she attacked his with trying to point out things 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:26.320 about her. Her attorney did go on record as saying 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.880 Vince McMahon has never known a storyline that he doesn't 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.600 twist to fit his own shameful narrative. Her father was 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.920 in home house hospice during his final days, where Janelle 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.800 continued to care for him around the clock. Prior to 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.640 his death, she had been caring for her blind, wheelchair 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:43.160 bound mother using the grief of someone who has lost 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.560 both of her parents is an all new level of disgusting. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.000 And then later on, and this was in a statement 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:51.880 to Post and Russell Namis, she said she was not 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.280 dating at the time. Her ex boyfriend allowed her to 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.000 stay in the apartment as she rebuilt her life and 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.840 resume post taking care of her parents. She had no 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.400 job and no other financial support to lean on, which 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:06.040 you mentioned as well too. One of the things that 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:11.600 also Vince McMahon in this response is getting ahead of 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.880 is this does not fall under the Speak Out Act 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.920 and that's why, and that's going to be very important 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:25.240 here too, Brian, because this confidentiality agreement and whether or 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:28.520 not he stopped paying her or not, is it going 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:32.920 to cover her allegations of saying that there was sexual 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.160 assault taking place, And that's going to need to be 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.560 determined here, I think on what direction this goes, as 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:43.440 well as is there going to be any filing or 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.120 anything that comes federally or state wise out of this 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.080 as well too against McMahon if they're looking into him 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:50.480 that way. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.840 So that is there's more on the front page, and 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:59.240 in fact, Dave for subscribers wrote an even longer and 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.920 more detailed story on the front page, and uh he'll 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.600 have more in The Observer this coming Friday, but more 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:06.760 after the break Observer Live. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:37.840 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.600 and Mike semper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:48.320 In the show, Brian Alvarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:53.400 semper vv also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. So I 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:58.400 should mention, by the way that in the UH, in 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.760 the McMahon filing, what they're what they're attempting to get 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.439 here is obviously all of this taken to arbitration, but 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.800 also the final line in the arbitration clause reads that 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:16.200 the prevailing party, as determined by the arbitration Tribunal, shall 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.960 be entitled to recover from the non prevailing party all 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:23.320 of its attorney's fees and costs. So they're trying to 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.160 obviously get this shut down and get all their money back. 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:32.520 So of course, yeah, we shall see what happens, but 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:36.159 I mean, I expect it's very likely that this is, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.639 you know, not going to trial would be my guess. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.119 They're going to do everything they can to get it 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:45.360 to settlement. If this fails, then just try to negotiate 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:49.560 a settlement so things don't go any further than they have, 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:54.119 you know, if you're Vince McMahon's side. But again, I 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.000 you know, you got a guy who's doesn't have the 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:02.320 best reputation going into this to begin with, including last 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.840 year or eighteen months ago whatever it is, settling that 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:11.000 case with Rita Chatterton where he was accused of rape 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:15.200 after all of these years. So again it's a lot 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.880 of he said, she said, and there's going to probably 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.359 be things that are blown up on both sides, from 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.919 both sides. But yeah, I don't think he wants to 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.000 go and fight this thing tooth and nail all the 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.320 way to the end. But we'll see. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:34.399 Also got notes on the Rocks Talent contract with WWE. 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.879 This was the contract that he signed to join the 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:42.240 TKO board in January, which among things, ended up getting 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:48.440 him into the WrestleMania main event, and Rand Thurston said 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.119 the contract was published as an exhibit this past Friday 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:55.880 with WWE's annual report. It allows Johnson to quote higher 0:18:56.000 --> 0:19:00.800 third party service providers in connection with developing concepts, grips, storylines, 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.000 et cetera. With w w's approval, so that would be Gortz, 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:08.520 Brian Gowertz, who has been the guy who has basically 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.640 been writing for him since the nineties. Part of the process, 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:16.639 w WE will reimburse Johnson's seven Bucks Entertainment for the 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:20.600 cost of those service providers. One such person naming the 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:25.680 contract but their name was redacted, likely was Brian Gortz. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:32.560 Neil's worth thirty million dollars in TKO equity quote the 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:39.040 Johnson Equity Award and uh vests. 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.560 On the schedule through the end of the WWE bottom 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.280 line moving between man to Johnson's. That's what happened here 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.720 with his good friend Nick Cohn that used to hang 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:50.800 out on you know, on the beaches of Hawaii with him. 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.280 It's a great deal for the Rock. It's an incredible 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:54.080 deal for the Rock. 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.679 Part of the equity is for Johnson licensing his name, likeness, 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:01.000 and certain other intellectual property rights to w for use 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.159 in connection with certain categories of licensed products related to 0:20:04.200 --> 0:20:06.960 professional wrestling from up to ten years, subject to certain 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:10.200 earlier termination rights. So if they make a Rock shirt, 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:16.200 Rock is actually licensing his license to two WWE to 0:20:16.600 --> 0:20:20.840 yep the IP which includes the Rock and nearly all 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:24.960 of his famous catchphrases cannot be used on things like 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:30.000 political ads, alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, porn, or pop up ads. 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:32.000 They're very annoying. 0:20:32.160 --> 0:20:35.440 Johnson is very gives pop up ads without his approval. 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.400 At the end of twenty twenty three, he got nearly 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:41.359 four hundred niney one thousand for royalties, will continue to 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:44.919 receive yearly royalties for the sale of products with the 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.680 aforementioned ip. By the way, that's he made a half 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:50.000 million dollars during a period where he wasn't even there 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.080 wasn't even there. He made like one appearance on SmackDown 0:20:54.680 --> 0:21:00.680 and sold half million dollars worth of merchants such so, man, where. 0:21:00.520 --> 0:21:04.879 Do gas station sexual enhancement pills come down on? With 0:21:04.960 --> 0:21:06.639 all of this, can you can he still do that? 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.840 I don't know. I would presume he would need approval. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:16.520 So essentially he got paid basically thirty million dollars for 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.360 that WrestleMania run, and I don't even know if he's 0:21:20.359 --> 0:21:22.159 got like another contract if they paid him outside of 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:22.640 that as well. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:24.080 Oh, I think he'll be okay. 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:28.360 I mean he's all right. He is definitely doing all right. 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:33.720 That's the Johnson era. That's that's what you got there. 0:21:34.520 --> 0:21:38.160 So we got Dynamite coming up tonight, and we finally 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:43.600 have matches. He's were announced yesterday. We got John Moxley 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:48.800 Powerhouse Hobbs IWGP World Heavyweight title, Swerve Strickland versus Kyle 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.760 Fletcher in a world title eliminator match. 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:56.560 Let's call it a non title matching geeks. 0:21:56.880 --> 0:21:59.200 I mean the bigger issue is didn't Kyle Fletcher get 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.159 beat on Saturday? Now he's in a world or whatever. 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:06.920 And then Anna Jay versus Mina Shikawa we will hear 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:08.160 from Chris Jericho. 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.760 I bet you that gets one of the higher segments 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:14.240 on the show. I'm willing to bet that for some 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.880 reason that bucks the trend of women's wrestling not getting 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.439 as good a ratings as some of the men's stuff does. 0:22:20.800 --> 0:22:23.040 I bet you on that one. I bet you that 0:22:23.080 --> 0:22:23.640 one's up. 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:30.080 Then we've got Chuck Taylor must choose between Orange Cassidy 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:30.639 or Trent. 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.920 What'll come on, Jesus. 0:22:34.000 --> 0:22:35.879 I'll get back to that in a minute. And Willow 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:37.840 Nightingale has her TBS championship. 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:40.480 I hope they do. What's that get make? Maybe one 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.720 of your daughters has got it. Remember that thing you 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.000 used to like it was like origami or whatever you 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.040 used to like, open it up and go different, say 0:22:47.880 --> 0:22:51.199 day yeah, Like is that how they're going to decide this? Like, 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.040 you know, whose friend are you going to be? 0:22:53.200 --> 0:22:53.280 Like? 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:55.800 I don't know, I gotta do this first, and whatever happens, 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.199 he can pluck a flower, will it come up with 0:22:58.320 --> 0:23:00.840 orange or we'll get this is dumb. 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:02.520 All I know is this? 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:05.400 You know what's the truth too? You're about to sneeze. 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:07.879 I'm about to sneeze. Mm hmm yeah. 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:12.000 Facts. So uh I like it happier when they didn't 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:13.159 have a card? Are you better know? 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:15.640 Well? I mean I was not happier when they didn't 0:23:15.640 --> 0:23:18.320 have a card. Nor was this person here, by the way, 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:21.680 who who messaged me on Twitter? They said, quick note 0:23:21.720 --> 0:23:24.159 regarding your comments this week on Observer Live about Dynamite 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:27.199 ticket sales for Jacksonville. I can speak for myself and 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:29.119 many of my friends. We were all totally open to 0:23:29.160 --> 0:23:31.640 buying tickets even though Dynamite was here just a few 0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:34.040 months ago. Biggest reason we won't be attending is the 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:37.400 fact that nothing was announced in advance. Promotional materials leading 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.600 up to the event featured Osprey Ocotta, Mercedes, the Young Bucks, Danielson. 0:23:40.840 --> 0:23:43.400 If there was any assurance that they'd actually be there, 0:23:43.640 --> 0:23:46.080 I would be running to buy a ticket. Nothing announced, 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:49.080 I'll be watching from home. Can also say I'd be 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:50.840 really upset if I purchaed a ticket based on the 0:23:50.840 --> 0:23:53.600 marketing and none of the talent listed above appeared on 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:54.119 the show. 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.320 You didn't want to see Daddy Magick against Evil Luno. 0:23:57.440 --> 0:24:00.439 I guess that's what he's saying right there. Give me 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:02.280 some stars, give me some things that are going to 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:05.000 be happening around this joint. And by the way, I 0:24:05.040 --> 0:24:08.960 apparently swear Strickland was on the Jacksonville, one of the 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.760 TV stations there. So that's a good thing getting your 0:24:11.760 --> 0:24:14.680 people out to do media, especially you new champion. Try 0:24:14.760 --> 0:24:15.920 to get him wherever you can. 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:18.720 Now, I gotta ask a question for all of the 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:22.760 hardcore aw fans of which I am, which is why 0:24:22.800 --> 0:24:24.399 this is actually so astonishing to me. 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:26.560