Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: You know that means n x T two point oh
Speaker 1: a w dynamite all of the news here for our
Speaker 1: twitch homies, at our folks watching along on YouTube. The
Speaker 1: moment the show started, someone's getting nervous. Old beer money
Speaker 1: here has a thousand dollar bet with me, he writes.
Speaker 1: Just remind everyone the bed is braun Breaker must main
Speaker 1: event WrestleMania within three years. So it is not this year.
Speaker 1: Next year will be rock Romans somehow, So that means
Speaker 1: to win a thousand dollars Braun must main event WrestleMania
Speaker 1: your money if you already forgotten that WrestleMania's two nights,
Speaker 1: so he has two opportunities next year and two opportunities
Speaker 1: the year after the main event WrestleMania. And I also
Speaker 1: wouldn't give my hopes of about that Roman Reigns rock
Speaker 1: match coming up next year. But anyway, what do we
Speaker 1: have to talk about today? Well, Brown breakers not the
Speaker 1: n x T champion at the moment, but he will
Speaker 1: in fact be the n x T champion coincidentally, I'm
Speaker 1: sure WrestleMania weekend. How interesting is that? So anyway, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about Dolph Ziggler becoming the new n x T
Speaker 1: champion after doing nothing but jobs on both w W
Speaker 1: E n X n x T television. We can talk
Speaker 1: about the Dynamite show tonight. There is something new that
Speaker 1: has been added to the show, and if you weren't
Speaker 1: thinking of watching the show, maybe you'll change your mind
Speaker 1: after hearing this. Tonight on Dynamite, Brian Danielson and John
Speaker 1: Moxley will team up with William Regal in their corner.
Speaker 1: Who are the unfortunate blokes we're gonna get smashed with
Speaker 1: an inch of their lives? Tonight on Dynamite we'll give
Speaker 1: you the full lineup for the show. You've got your
Speaker 1: raw rating sport tonight, We've got number of other topics
Speaker 1: as well. I've watched most of it x T, but
Speaker 1: I haven't seen the main event. When you can talk
Speaker 1: about everything else back in a moment with more Observer
Speaker 1: livey are you in the show? Bright nowver is here?
Speaker 1: Rustling Observer Live Mixuber viv also Rustling Observer at dot
Speaker 1: com start to Go yesterday, Mike, it was expensive, Brian,
Speaker 1: it was expensive, but everything worked out okay, So that's
Speaker 1: really all that matters at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: I was actually talking about the Brian Vay Show with
Speaker 1: Rob Bartlett joined us last night. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: Holy smokes? What a what a that? He's a gimmick?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Hey, look, I'll say this
Speaker 1: the Howard Howard stern Imus in the Morning don Imus,
Speaker 1: who has got a terrible reputation now it was passed away,
Speaker 1: but he had a huge radio show. People would not
Speaker 1: know that now and a massive radio show in the nineties.
Speaker 1: Was a personality for a long time. And on this
Speaker 1: show he had obviously cast of characters, and one of
Speaker 1: his characters was Rob Bartlett, who would come out and
Speaker 1: do impressions and do a whole bunch of different stuff,
Speaker 1: and he was oftentimes, if you ever had a chance
Speaker 1: to listen to that show, the best part of that show.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually looking forward to hearing him and good
Speaker 1: pulled by you nice way. This whole deal with his son,
Speaker 1: all this stuff, how it got set up in the
Speaker 1: fact that Granny was on the line the entire time.
Speaker 1: I didn't say a word for like thirty minutes. Hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a new video producer on Wednesday doing an
Speaker 1: excellent job. But I don't like to be that guy.
Speaker 1: But can we switch me and Mike? Can we put
Speaker 1: me over there and Mike on the other side, just
Speaker 1: to show you exactly how petty Brian is about things,
Speaker 1: Because because I when I look at all the computers
Speaker 1: and everything, I'm facing this way and you're facing the
Speaker 1: other way, so we're actually looking away from each other,
Speaker 1: whereas we we switched them, we'd actually be kind of there.
Speaker 1: We go, look at that much better? What anythink about that?
Speaker 1: Everybody said something weird? I go, yeah, but you know,
Speaker 1: what are we doing here? You gotta delay here too?
Speaker 1: On All right, let's get into the news here. I've
Speaker 1: not seen listen, I haven't seen the match, so I'm
Speaker 1: not going to talk about it. I'll review tonight with
Speaker 1: Dave and tomorrow with Vinnie. But God bless a guy,
Speaker 1: great worker. I was. I was actually very excited when
Speaker 1: he went to n XT, but then you know, they
Speaker 1: do what they do. Career geek Dolph Ziggler defeated former
Speaker 1: Champ Braun Breaker and Tomasso Champ in a three way
Speaker 1: to an NXT championship on last night's Roadblock episode of
Speaker 1: n x T two point oh. As Champ has aid
Speaker 1: Breaker up for a running knee, Ziggler's Dirty Dogs teammate
Speaker 1: Robert Rude pulled Breaker out of Chompers path and out
Speaker 1: of the ring. Ziggler capitalized by hitting a super kick
Speaker 1: to Chompa then pinning him to win the title. The
Speaker 1: Roadblock result would seem to set up a Ziggler versus
Speaker 1: Breaker title match for standing deliver on russell Mania Weekend,
Speaker 1: a main event over WrestleMania Weekend. Interesting that announcement has
Speaker 1: not been made yet. Ziggler career job guy has held
Speaker 1: the n x T title, World Heavyweight Title, United States
Speaker 1: Title in a condinal title, World Take Team Title, Raw
Speaker 1: Tag Team title, and the SmackDown Take Team Title. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. We were talking about this on Monday and
Speaker 1: I was just I was just flabbergasted that they they
Speaker 1: beat Ziggler last Wednesday and n XT because they wanted
Speaker 1: to find a way to get Chomp into the match.
Speaker 1: And then they do the rematch on Raw and they
Speaker 1: pinned Ziggler again, and of course, you know, Dave goes, well,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna win the title, and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he probably is, but why did we pin him again?
Speaker 1: And then you know the explanation, because we have to
Speaker 1: have an explanation for every stupid thing that they do.
Speaker 1: The explanation was, well, you know, brun Breaker pinned him,
Speaker 1: and so when Ziggler wins the title, brun Breaker can
Speaker 1: it can be a challenger. It's like brown Breaker was champion, right,
Speaker 1: So the matches happened, and now we know the finish,
Speaker 1: which is the champion lost without being beaten. So we
Speaker 1: need another reason that braun Breaker should get a championship match.
Speaker 1: Why in God's name could they have not pinned Robert Rude?
Speaker 1: And then Ziggler wins the title by not pinning Breaker,
Speaker 1: and you don't need a damn excuse for braun Breaker
Speaker 1: getting a rematch, but instead, oh, well, he pinned him
Speaker 1: in a tag match before Ziggler won the title. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy's his whole story is that he never wins. Well,
Speaker 1: now he's the n XT champion. What a prestigious championship.
Speaker 1: This is who cares? Seriously, who cares? That's who cares.
Speaker 1: Doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. They decided to go in
Speaker 1: this direction to get to their story of braun Breaker
Speaker 1: standing tall at WrestleMania. Frankly, at this point, I'd have
Speaker 1: him lose. I'd have him lose because I want to
Speaker 1: see him on Raw the next night after WrestleMania, in
Speaker 1: and mix with somebody. I would rather see him there
Speaker 1: than Gabe Stevenson. Gabel Stevenson should be in the next day.
Speaker 1: He absolutely should be an n X day. If the
Speaker 1: plan is to debut him on the main roster, I
Speaker 1: don't know if you're doing him any good. They'll be
Speaker 1: able to learn on the fly, There'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of people to work with. He's an athletic wonder, He's
Speaker 1: a personable guy. I don't think how can you debut
Speaker 1: on national TV be ready for prime time? Whatever private
Speaker 1: training they're giving him great, but I would put him
Speaker 1: in n X D and I have brain bron Breaker
Speaker 1: up on the main roster. The whole the whole story
Speaker 1: could have been told a lot better. And it should
Speaker 1: also be hammered home again when you got a guy
Speaker 1: like bron Breaker, because we talked about this with Adam
Speaker 1: Cole in a way, and with Adam Page, where Adam
Speaker 1: Page is still establishing himself as a champion. You got
Speaker 1: these other big stars in this promotion and Pages. You know,
Speaker 1: the a W fans it's not like they don't you know,
Speaker 1: aren't invested in him. But he's not at that level. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's not at the upper rational level. You're trying to
Speaker 1: get him there. So that's why the the whole thing
Speaker 1: with Cole as an opponent, same thing, trying to build
Speaker 1: him up. The whole deal with Orange Cassie, The whole
Speaker 1: story could have been told in a better way where
Speaker 1: at the end everybody benefited from this a whole lot more.
Speaker 1: Dolph Ziggler talking about how big of a loser he is.
Speaker 1: You know, what, are we supposed to be impressed about
Speaker 1: his resilience, the fact that he's had longevity, Like I
Speaker 1: lose nineteen out of twenty matches. I'm there. He told us,
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be impressed because he steals the show,
Speaker 1: steals the show, and it's like, okay, but the story
Speaker 1: at the end of the day is braun Breaker and
Speaker 1: bron Breaker. I just the whole damn thing could have
Speaker 1: been told differently, And it's just one of those small
Speaker 1: things that as a wrestling fan, just annoys me because
Speaker 1: it didn't have to be done this way, and it
Speaker 1: could have been more impactful for everybody. Chompa was, of
Speaker 1: course always the guy on the outside of this. But
Speaker 1: why Dolph Ziggler had to look so weak going into
Speaker 1: this thing and then you have a weak I go
Speaker 1: ahead and defeat the the unbreakable braun Breaker. It just
Speaker 1: it just just to go ahead and tell the story
Speaker 1: where you're crowning him at the end. Again, it just
Speaker 1: shows you that none of this means a damn thing.
Speaker 1: It really doesn't. It's all for the highlight package later
Speaker 1: on in his career where they can show him holding
Speaker 1: up that belt in front of all those people on
Speaker 1: WrestleMania Weekend. Like it's all just a means to an end.
Speaker 1: It's all content to fill their video package later on
Speaker 1: when he talks about his career and how tough it
Speaker 1: was down in n x T and all that other nonsense.
Speaker 1: It just, I don't know, the story could have been
Speaker 1: told a lot better bottom line. So the question on
Speaker 1: the chat here is if Jeff Hardy is going to
Speaker 1: debut tonight. I don't know, but I would not debut
Speaker 1: him tonight. Why, well, let's look at the lineup for
Speaker 1: the show tonight. We got Brian Danielson and John Moxley
Speaker 1: teaming up tonight on a w with William Regal into
Speaker 1: their corner. No announcement of an opponent of two opponents yet.
Speaker 1: So here's a lineup for tonight. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this is the this is the follow up show to
Speaker 1: a Revolution, So I mean, listen, if they're gonna get
Speaker 1: a big bump, it's gonna be because of Moxley and
Speaker 1: Brian teaming up and the fallout from Revolution. You don't
Speaker 1: need to debut Jeff Hardy tonight. Jeff Hardy can be
Speaker 1: debuted next week or the week after. And I also
Speaker 1: noticed on the lineup here there's no match with the
Speaker 1: Hardy family office, and I think that that is uh.
Speaker 1: I would think that that's that's gonna be the situation
Speaker 1: evolving its return. But Sammy Gavara defends against Scorpio sky
Speaker 1: T and T title wouldn't be surprised if we saw
Speaker 1: a title change there thunder Rosa Layla Hirsch a w
Speaker 1: Women's World title eliminator match. I would expect thunder Rosa
Speaker 1: wins to set up a cage match in her hometown
Speaker 1: tonight on her birthday. Her birthdays in July. Everybody about
Speaker 1: to explain this joke to everybody clearly, So anyway, I'll
Speaker 1: do it. After the break, Wrestling Up were live back
Speaker 1: in the show. Bran Olbert is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike sambur vib also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yeah, every
Speaker 1: day I was talking about this. Thunder Rosa and Britt
Speaker 1: Baker booking couldn't help, but knows that they got a
Speaker 1: show coming up in San Antonio and they booked a
Speaker 1: match with a bunch of interference, and so it only
Speaker 1: made sense that thunder Rosa will get a rematch against
Speaker 1: Britt Baker in a cage in her hometown. And someone
Speaker 1: on the which Chad said, and it's her birthday, So
Speaker 1: I h I said, it's also her birthday, and then
Speaker 1: it turns out it wasn't. Her birthday. Birthday was in July.
Speaker 1: So I thought, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm
Speaker 1: going to uh I'm gonna say every day is her birthday.
Speaker 1: This is high high end comedy here. I I was
Speaker 1: gonna I was literally gonna do this every day on
Speaker 1: the show. I was gonna say it was her birthday
Speaker 1: until July, and then on their birthday, I was gonna
Speaker 1: say it wasn't her birthday. I was not gonna mention
Speaker 1: it that day. You know what, why don't you uh
Speaker 1: call Bartlett back and start working on impressions because I
Speaker 1: don't know if your stand up material is going to
Speaker 1: be able to make it. But anyway, so yesterday I
Speaker 1: was absolutely bombarded with people who were very sincerely correcting
Speaker 1: me on thunder Rose's birthday. I had given her birthday
Speaker 1: on like three different dates yesterday, So anyway, jokes on
Speaker 1: his course, I was a little late to the game
Speaker 1: on all this. But did you know, did you know
Speaker 1: last Sunday night see him Punk came out to his
Speaker 1: old R O H music. If I did you know that,
Speaker 1: I don't believe it. It It needs to be confirmed. Here's
Speaker 1: the rest of this lineup for I'm not taking anyone's
Speaker 1: word for anything anymore. I've learned my lesson dynamite in
Speaker 1: Fort Myers, Florida, Sammy Gavard, Scorpios guys noted thunder Rosalela Hirst, eliminator,
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson and John Moxley will kill two geeks. Can't
Speaker 1: wait for that one. Chris Jericho versus Eddie Kingston and
Speaker 1: uh a real address. I'm sorry, he's gonna address Eddie
Speaker 1: Kingston and he's gonna where he lives on him in
Speaker 1: a stamp. And then Paige van Zand is expected to
Speaker 1: sign her a E W contract that's coming up on
Speaker 1: on Dynamite here tonight. Everybody excited for that show. By
Speaker 1: the way, Mike as a Residents second in command when
Speaker 1: it comes to Japanese pro rusting experts here on this website.
Speaker 1: So I was told, I was told that Shingo and
Speaker 1: as She was better than Brian Danielson and John Moxley.
Speaker 1: I didn't believe my ears. I went and watched it,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think it was better. But keep in mind,
Speaker 1: I gave Brian Danielson and John Moxley a million stars,
Speaker 1: so I I could give she and Shingo like nine
Speaker 1: thousand stars. I don't think it was like a bad
Speaker 1: match or anything like that, but I I did. I
Speaker 1: did feel that Danielson and Moxley. I enjoyed that much
Speaker 1: match more than Shingo and She as great as that Matchell,
Speaker 1: especially like the last the last five minutes of of
Speaker 1: Shingo and A she was absolutely out of this world.
Speaker 1: But as a as a whole, from bell to bell,
Speaker 1: open to close, I liked Moxley Danielson better, and I
Speaker 1: think that's what it is. They've set the bar so
Speaker 1: high in some of those g One matches, especially last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was a great match, but as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: the last five minutes were outstanding. The rest st of it,
Speaker 1: you know, we believe it or not, you've seen better
Speaker 1: Shingo and Nishi matches. Doesn't mean that you shouldn't watch
Speaker 1: it because it was tremendous, but yeah, I actually in
Speaker 1: that context I did like Brian Danielson and John Moxley more,
Speaker 1: especially when with the way that it ended and having
Speaker 1: Regal come out there. But I bet you I can
Speaker 1: checkmate you on both of those believe it or not,
Speaker 1: because because you get a chance, if you get a chance,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you've had a chance to
Speaker 1: see this yet because ooch go Ocatta and El Desperado
Speaker 1: from day one that was it might be New Japan's
Speaker 1: best match since the Domes. I mean I I it
Speaker 1: was an excellent, excellent affair. Now again, I probably comes
Speaker 1: down it's a referendum on how somebody what. Somebody likes Desperado,
Speaker 1: but he's also a guy that if you don't watch
Speaker 1: him much, watch him with Ocada because it was tremendous.
Speaker 1: And what you also see with Ocada is we talk
Speaker 1: about this on the brand new adam of My Big
Speaker 1: Audio Nightmare, available for subscribers at FOW online dot com.
Speaker 1: We talked about the fact that you see Okada in
Speaker 1: these big epic matches usually build upwards. You see him
Speaker 1: in these epics with Omega and Tanahashi and they're slower builds,
Speaker 1: and yes, you see the incredible athleticism, but sometimes you
Speaker 1: forget that this is a guy who came up initially
Speaker 1: in Dragon Gates system who transferred over to New Japan
Speaker 1: because he was just more much more of a natural
Speaker 1: to be there. And you see some of the explosiveness.
Speaker 1: You see really how incredible of an athlete this guy
Speaker 1: is because he's wrestling with Desperado and he's matching them
Speaker 1: move for move and it's just it's an excellent affair
Speaker 1: and for both guys a great exhibition on how great
Speaker 1: because Ucho Okada really is I'm double sourcing something right
Speaker 1: here because I don't trust these geeks on the chat
Speaker 1: anymore after this whole birthday kurf Luffle. Let him know
Speaker 1: we need not budsman around here. Let's see. Okay, it's true,
Speaker 1: it's not. Following the destruction of their tornado trio's matched
Speaker 1: this past weekend at revolution El Presidential on Druid alalo
Speaker 1: Is called for an emergency meeting of the a h
Speaker 1: FO Board of Directors on Dynamite tonight. So maybe he
Speaker 1: is debuting tonight. But you know, you know the other
Speaker 1: reason I went them debut tonight. No one's in this building.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, they're at dred fans right now. Now before
Speaker 1: you panic, the buildings, the only building, the building is
Speaker 1: only set for fans, Okay, okay, So it's the point
Speaker 1: is the building is small. New Japan would call that
Speaker 1: no vacancy at this point. Yeah, So you know, if
Speaker 1: it were me, I'd I'd wait bigger, building, bigger. The
Speaker 1: other reason why to bro you you're talking about the
Speaker 1: fact they're having this meeting, this can be the meeting
Speaker 1: where either Matt walks out, he gets fired, they turn on,
Speaker 1: they do something that puts him into the portal to
Speaker 1: get brother Nero back, or however they're gonna play of
Speaker 1: Hardy coming back. Hopefully it's just as Jeff Hardy. I
Speaker 1: think that would be more than satisfactory at this point.
Speaker 1: Save the gimmicks and the teleporting and all the other
Speaker 1: stuff for a special occasion if you want to, but
Speaker 1: bring him back as the Hearties. But I think this
Speaker 1: is the better opportunity now to kind of set those
Speaker 1: wheels into motion. People know at this point Jeff is
Speaker 1: on his way, so why not, actually, you know, make
Speaker 1: some hay out of it. Look, you got ramp and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying save it for Rampage or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but you have a show on Rampage that desperately you
Speaker 1: need something. Maybe you do something today and then you
Speaker 1: tweak that. I don't know, but I mean you have
Speaker 1: more than enough time to fill where you don't have
Speaker 1: to shove this on tonight's show, especially when it should
Speaker 1: be more to show off. You know, what is Hangman
Speaker 1: Page going to do next? What is Moxley and Howard
Speaker 1: or Moxley and Regal and Danielson all going to get
Speaker 1: together all that sort of stuff. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see who they're gonna face, because it's like, Okay, do
Speaker 1: you put them in there with member is of the
Speaker 1: Dark Order who they may have had a history with
Speaker 1: before and you have a good match, but you know
Speaker 1: they're still dominant. Do you put them in there with
Speaker 1: two young guys like, you know, Big Shoddy and somebody
Speaker 1: and they just kicked the crap out of them. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many ways you could go with tonight. It
Speaker 1: was actually better for them to not actually announce opponents.
Speaker 1: Let's see, we have got raw last night one point
Speaker 1: seven eight million viewers point four five in eighteen forty nine.
Speaker 1: Show started strong in the first two hours, but at
Speaker 1: a very large third hour drop. Mhmm. Interesting. Did you
Speaker 1: hear my Raw report yesterday? My Raw report was very similar,
Speaker 1: excellent first hour and that show fell off a cliff
Speaker 1: and in that third hour, yikes, one one million viewers
Speaker 1: in the first hour one point eight four second hour
Speaker 1: one point five four million. Third hour, Well, you have
Speaker 1: got to the finals of the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
Speaker 1: I did see the two Dusty Classic matches. I watched
Speaker 1: that sin again, you didn't see the whole thing. Well,
Speaker 1: I just missed the uh, the last two matches, but
Speaker 1: I'll watch him tonight. But listen, these two, these two
Speaker 1: Dusty Classic matches. So first off, I told you, guys,
Speaker 1: I told you that Raquel and uh what's her name
Speaker 1: weren't gonna win, right, And everyone questioned me, I didn't.
Speaker 1: I told you why they weren't gonna win because she
Speaker 1: was never supposed to be in the tournament in the
Speaker 1: first place. They booked a tournament didn't have enough teams
Speaker 1: and women, so she was supposed she supposed to be
Speaker 1: the main roster. By now she's out that she's down
Speaker 1: there too in wacky vignettes where she's scared of heights
Speaker 1: instead of debuting in the Royal Rumble. So anyway, they're out.
Speaker 1: They were beaten last night. They were beaten in the
Speaker 1: women's Dusty Classic by Dakota Kai, who now talks to herself,
Speaker 1: and Wendy Chu, who naps in the middle of the
Speaker 1: ring in spots that's still never get over. It wasn't
Speaker 1: good then, Casey Kenton, Zoro and Kayden Carter lost to
Speaker 1: you Sharai and Kaylee ray So it's Kaylee ray Neo
Speaker 1: Shari versus the sleeper and the talker in the main
Speaker 1: event in the finals of the Women's Dusty Classic, Brooks
Speaker 1: is still a virgin. By the way, everybody, for those
Speaker 1: who didn't see the show multiple times. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: also the feud of a lifetime folks, come in your way,
Speaker 1: Nikita Lions and last Legend because we've all been missing
Speaker 1: the lash lashing out with last segments. So let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, Mike. That segment was a horror. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was a horror, but just remember that segment. When
Speaker 1: they actually have a match, you're gonna be begging for
Speaker 1: lashing out. She accused are of having butt implants on
Speaker 1: national television. Just get that pog. It's ah and by
Speaker 1: the s Nikita Lions Road pog. They're all of the jokes,
Speaker 1: they're they're all funny. They're all funny to me, at
Speaker 1: least I think it was funny as when I said
Speaker 1: that Chris Jericho is gonna put an address in a
Speaker 1: stamp on Eddie Kingston. I got that one. W W
Speaker 1: E sent an email. I'm just gonna say this one
Speaker 1: without comment Okay, say wayout comment and then Dom's gonna
Speaker 1: play the music. W w E sent an email to
Speaker 1: those who purchased travel packages that included WrestleMania access that
Speaker 1: there will be no access this year. Guess what, everybody
Speaker 1: you're on the observer plan no access at all denied.
Speaker 1: We call it the j J. Back at the moment
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Speaker 1: A couple of other news notes, and we'll do some feedback.
Speaker 1: Where do you want to talk about? Everybody? Zero seven
Speaker 1: five six six Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com at
Speaker 1: Brian Albarez on Twitter, as well as F four W online.
Speaker 1: On cameo, woke up flooded with cameos, say, I think
Speaker 1: because of the Rob Bartlett show. Oh man does Bartlett
Speaker 1: do cameos? He does? Oh? How much? C church? I
Speaker 1: haven't checked. Why don't you guys do one together? Will
Speaker 1: we live a long way away? And you recorded on cameo,
Speaker 1: recorded on your phone? You know anything about cameo? You
Speaker 1: can do it? Like, look now we're not gonna do
Speaker 1: a cameo together. Can we move on doing alright, so
Speaker 1: here we go among the nominees for these years. I
Speaker 1: don't want to split my money with Bartlett. I like
Speaker 1: the guy in all but come on, I got kids
Speaker 1: to feed. Para w e stars among the nuts. My
Speaker 1: my youngest will all me eat steak. You know what
Speaker 1: the problem that is? Yeah? You know, you know when
Speaker 1: you're trying to go buy it, but your your tire
Speaker 1: shot and your headlight goes out and all that other stuff,
Speaker 1: and you're wondering, you know, when can I eat steak?
Speaker 1: When am I going to be able to eat steak?
Speaker 1: Bro Nowadays? Like never, these steak prices are out of control. God.
Speaker 1: Every day, like I cook lunch and I cook dinner,
Speaker 1: and every day I'm like, Honey, for for lunch today,
Speaker 1: I wanna make some uh whatever cauliflower so to and
Speaker 1: a lunch chicken breast, uh chicken parmigiana whatever. And she goes,
Speaker 1: no steak, damned like a total little wait till she
Speaker 1: starts throwing lobster into the mix. Oh man, I don't
Speaker 1: know what it is, but like Paisley never did this.
Speaker 1: Behind gets man and she had literally stops her foot,
Speaker 1: she stops her foot on the ground. She got that
Speaker 1: I don't stop my foot. I get Mavouns here and
Speaker 1: stop my foot. Yeah, you want to teach at the stomp.
Speaker 1: She literally stomps her foot and she has the angry face.
Speaker 1: And you think I got an angry face sometimes. Bro,
Speaker 1: My god, this kid, she has charisma coming out of
Speaker 1: her ears as the problem. He Oh, I'm well aware.
Speaker 1: I'm too old for this. I'm too old for it
Speaker 1: right now. I'm gonna be in my sixties when she graduates.
Speaker 1: I'm a dead man. Join the show? Why you can?
Speaker 1: Everybody where? Was I? Oh? Yeah? The Kid's Choice Awards.
Speaker 1: Both received Kids Choice Award nominations. Banks is nominated for
Speaker 1: Favorite Female Sports Star. Well Woods is nominated for Favorite
Speaker 1: Male Creator. I guess it's social media creator. Maybe he
Speaker 1: has a lot of kids, but anyway. Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka,
Speaker 1: Simone Biles, Candie Parker, Chloe Kim also nominated in Banks category.
Speaker 1: So Austin Creed. However, Xavier Woods, He's got a lot
Speaker 1: of competition, including Mr Beast, Ninja Ryan's World, Spencer X
Speaker 1: and Unspeakable. I've never heard any of these people are
Speaker 1: the other nominees. I know I'm old, but damn nobody
Speaker 1: that counts. You know, someone made a good point the
Speaker 1: other day refuting one of your arguments, Mike, when you
Speaker 1: were ranting about how you know, maybe the reason you
Speaker 1: don't want to go to two days of WrestleMania is
Speaker 1: because you're old? Remember that? Yeah, that's audience. We're on
Speaker 1: the young, like far young end of the spectrum of
Speaker 1: the w w E audience. The average viewer is twenty
Speaker 1: years older than we are. I know, I know why
Speaker 1: am I yelling? But they y'all listen to me. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't have to yell so much. They need people a
Speaker 1: little younger than you who have solid incomes and are
Speaker 1: able to don't exist those disposable incomes. Oh yes they do.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what pro wrestling is surviving on right now.
Speaker 1: I mean it really is a woks younger than me
Speaker 1: with more money. Have you been on the internet, so yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what's nom I'm not yelling because I'm old. God,
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by all these young people. By the way,
Speaker 1: I'm deaf, and you're still blowing my ears out right now.
Speaker 1: So I can imagine how the listeners fee open looked
Speaker 1: like that. Look, we have a smaller group of wrestling
Speaker 1: fans and we ever have before. They just happened to
Speaker 1: be more fervent. They happen to be in some ways,
Speaker 1: I think, a lot more diverse. And you look at
Speaker 1: people pulling to old crowds and go how diverse it was.
Speaker 1: I think it's the same way now and w w
Speaker 1: E proves that from their viewership and just you don't
Speaker 1: see them at the matches. What you see at the
Speaker 1: matches a lot of times are you know, the ones
Speaker 1: the big events. It's travelers and a w I mean,
Speaker 1: they're the way they've been able to motivate and hype
Speaker 1: their fan base that you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that travel to go see every show. And I
Speaker 1: remember this with the UFC at the beginning to with
Speaker 1: people when they first really broke. You know, after UFC,
Speaker 1: what was at forty or whatever, it was Vandetta whatever whenever,
Speaker 1: around the time Ultimate Fighter and around that period where
Speaker 1: you had people that were traveling every show. Same thing
Speaker 1: with w w E a little bit, I guess to
Speaker 1: a lesser extent from what we hear, but in GCW
Speaker 1: it happens, and plenty of other promotions that happens and
Speaker 1: those are the people that are really controlling the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But as these events are tailored more to those people,
Speaker 1: and they take more from the entertainment world and things
Speaker 1: that work when it comes to festivals and music events
Speaker 1: and and all those sorts of things. You know. Again,
Speaker 1: excuse younger, you want to try to hit anyway. So
Speaker 1: I mean that's what these big events, that's what they're
Speaker 1: going to be based on until people's money runs out,
Speaker 1: until this is sort of massive recession or something like
Speaker 1: that where people just can't travel, and we already had that.
Speaker 1: We have people doesn't matter if they have money or not.
Speaker 1: They're so stir crazy over the last two years they'll
Speaker 1: go anywhere. So I mean, it's one of those things
Speaker 1: six and one half. It doesn't in the other There
Speaker 1: are gonna be changes that are made that some people
Speaker 1: are gonna love. Two days, this, that and the other,
Speaker 1: you know, And basically it's not two days either. It's
Speaker 1: two days of WrestleMania, but you have, like you know,
Speaker 1: ten days of activities, travel and stress that you pack
Speaker 1: into that small period. So again, it's not for everybody,
Speaker 1: but for those that it is, God bless you. I'll
Speaker 1: be on my Couch as well too. There was interview
Speaker 1: with Curt Angle today. I just gotta recab here. He
Speaker 1: was on Florida, Miami, Florida radio station, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: largely what you expect. He misses not being able to
Speaker 1: perform in front of the fans. Talks about the transition
Speaker 1: from an amateur wrestler to a pro wrestler. As an
Speaker 1: amateur you show no emotion, but in pro wresting you
Speaker 1: have to think about the next spot and show emotion
Speaker 1: At the same time. I think he's talking Indie Heartwell
Speaker 1: talks about his debut and that promo. You do not
Speaker 1: view Boone Olympic Gold Mills. But anyway, I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring up right here. Everything's going along fine, and then
Speaker 1: he started talking about WrestleMania. I thought you're gonna see impact.
Speaker 1: He says he still follows wrestling as much as he can.
Speaker 1: He's excited for WrestleMania. Rhonda Rousey versus Charlotte Flair, Kurt
Speaker 1: Angle says Charlotte is even better than her father Rick.
Speaker 1: You know, every time you have an opinion that is
Speaker 1: supposed to be subjective, but it is an objective fact
Speaker 1: that Charlotte is not better than Rick Flair. Waitill, Rick,
Speaker 1: here's that he's gonna be mad even though they're putting
Speaker 1: over his own daughter. What's he gonna do tweeting all
Speaker 1: caps instead of just capitalizing the first one on every word?
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, look, he'll probably agree with that. Whoo,
Speaker 1: she's better than me. Whoo, come catch me here, I'm
Speaker 1: selling lotto tickets or whatever nonsense that he's got going
Speaker 1: on right now. I uh, you know, hey, look it's
Speaker 1: Kurt Angle. He's a nice guy, and I don't know
Speaker 1: the fact that he said that doesn't really surprise me
Speaker 1: at all. And I just you know, you take it
Speaker 1: for what it's worth and and you kind of move
Speaker 1: on from there. I would be more interested, frankly, to
Speaker 1: hear any advice that he would have, you know, just
Speaker 1: for a guy like Gabel Stevenson and for a lot
Speaker 1: of these guys who were Again, we would have a
Speaker 1: lot more amateur wrestlers in the wrestling business over the
Speaker 1: years of some you know, pute except they couldn't emote,
Speaker 1: you know, they couldn't think and do multiple things at
Speaker 1: the same time, and think about all these aspects. Where's
Speaker 1: the hard cam, this, that and all those things? It
Speaker 1: just for some people it doesn't work. And I would
Speaker 1: be more interested to hear about that when it comes
Speaker 1: to young guys, your breakers, any of that sort of
Speaker 1: stuff than here angle to talk anything about who do
Speaker 1: you like or anything like that. What's he gonna do?
Speaker 1: Very people? First, it says how large will the stand
Speaker 1: and deliver audience be at noon Saturday? Seems weird to
Speaker 1: try to create a moment for Brunt so well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's partially about creating a moment, but it's more
Speaker 1: about creating content. I'm not waking up. I'm not waking
Speaker 1: up at nine am on a Saturday and watching this show.
Speaker 1: I'm just not okay, especially with the WrestleMania later, i
Speaker 1: gotta take hours away from my family. I'm not doing it.
Speaker 1: I'll watch it later maybe, or I'll watch the top
Speaker 1: parts of it. But you know, I understand that when
Speaker 1: you're Vince, and he talked about it on Pad McFee,
Speaker 1: his entire life, moment to moment, night to night and day,
Speaker 1: is all wrestling. That's all fine. You're the owner, Okay,
Speaker 1: My life ain't like that, all right, So you can
Speaker 1: create all the content you want, and I'm sure for you.
Speaker 1: It's cool that like Stand Deliver starting at noon and
Speaker 1: it's gonna go three hours and everyone gets an hour
Speaker 1: break or whatever, and then the pre show starts and
Speaker 1: then Wrestle Media's gonna be wrestling all day long. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you've got a few fans are gonna do that.
Speaker 1: I ain't one of them, and that's fine. Don't book
Speaker 1: your stuff around me. Make your money, but don't don't
Speaker 1: like expect me to get up at nine am to
Speaker 1: watch that show on Wrestle Media Saturday, because I think
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Well, thank god, it's not about the live
Speaker 1: attendance or anything like that, because they're shooting themselves on
Speaker 1: the foot. There's too much that weekend. And look, there's
Speaker 1: far more WWE fans and maybe you're pulling from that,
Speaker 1: but with so much that goes on, it just doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense. Now when it comes to the live
Speaker 1: viewing numbers, it doesn't matter anyway. So ultimately, as long
Speaker 1: as they get views on the show, that's ultimately the
Speaker 1: only thing that matters, I guess. But you know, from
Speaker 1: an optics point of view, I think I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: thinking about Okay, there's probably gonna be two other shows
Speaker 1: running at the exact same time from you know, on
Speaker 1: Fight TV and on i w TV. This is gonna
Speaker 1: be on Peacock And you think about it and it's like,
Speaker 1: even if you're that amp to watch wrestling where you
Speaker 1: were going to check out n X t odds are
Speaker 1: you probably know these other shows are gonna be taking place.
Speaker 1: And it's hard for me to believe that even though
Speaker 1: you want to see bron Breaker, you know, stand on
Speaker 1: top of the World, Well, you've already seen it once,
Speaker 1: So do I want to watch one of these other
Speaker 1: wacky dream matches that it's probably taking place on one
Speaker 1: of these other shows. You know, from as far as
Speaker 1: a social media standpoint and all that other stuff, they're
Speaker 1: probably gonna have to have to inflate their numbers at
Speaker 1: least when it comes to wrestling fans, because again I
Speaker 1: think they are whatever is going to go on, they're
Speaker 1: going to be the last of those picks. I could
Speaker 1: be wrong, they could load it up or something like that,
Speaker 1: but again, it takes people out of a routine now
Speaker 1: too of what they have been doing. And again, how
Speaker 1: much w w WE do you want to watch in
Speaker 1: one shot? These are all like I gain interesting questions
Speaker 1: to see how it ashes out. Dude, I don't know
Speaker 1: if beer Money sent me this this text, but like
Speaker 1: you know, some dummy. So braun Breaker loses to geek
Speaker 1: Dolve Ziggler. What was that bed again? They won't ruin
Speaker 1: broun Breaker? Have you paid any attention to anything over
Speaker 1: the last week braun Breaker was on Raw. That guy
Speaker 1: got pushed like a million bucks. He smashed everybody in
Speaker 1: that match, and he pinned Dolf Ziggler in the middle
Speaker 1: of the ring with his move. He didn't get pinned
Speaker 1: last night. They've been chompa to set up him beating
Speaker 1: Dolf Ziggler over WrestleMania week on an n x T
Speaker 1: S WRESTLEMANI weekend show. Are you kidding me? And let's
Speaker 1: be fair. I mean, even though we're looking at this
Speaker 1: event because it happened last night, it's not like professional
Speaker 1: wrestling has not done quick title changes where everybody knows
Speaker 1: what the next result is going to be. Just to
Speaker 1: go ahead and tell the story. You might be lazy,
Speaker 1: you might want you can be most times you can
Speaker 1: poke holes in it, but it's not like this is
Speaker 1: anything new again, fortunately or unfrollingly. They went out of
Speaker 1: their way to protect him over the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: out of their way to protect the guy. And you
Speaker 1: saw that, And that's the conclusion you came to come
Speaker 1: on again the best I think the argument against it,
Speaker 1: against you and against you know, somebody that would be
Speaker 1: really believing that they're gonna screw a braun Breaker would
Speaker 1: be what's happening right now with Austin theory, that's how
Speaker 1: they can screw up raun Breaker. Other than that, and
Speaker 1: and here's the thing, it won't happen because I think
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns, brock Lesner, Paul Hayman, everybody there looks at
Speaker 1: Braun He's just special. He's different, He's one of them.
Speaker 1: Back at the moment, Observer Live. All right, everybody back
Speaker 1: here on the show right now. But it's here wrestling
Speaker 1: Deservert Live like simper BB A spert says, listen to
Speaker 1: Rob Bartlett talking about his relationship with Vince. Pat McAfee
Speaker 1: is the modern Rob Bartlett in some ways? Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure McAfee. Uh, I wonder if the storyline is
Speaker 1: gonna be that Vince is screaming into McAfee's headset that
Speaker 1: sets up the WrestleMania match'd awesome Pat McAfee against Corey Graves.
Speaker 1: You know, I also took away from that show last
Speaker 1: night with Rob Bartlett, which was it was something else.
Speaker 1: So I dressed up as as uh Rob Bartlett. I
Speaker 1: put on a suit jacket and my aviators, and uh,
Speaker 1: Wh'm watching this show and I just thought, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I look exactly like the miss I thought about. And
Speaker 1: I was like, blond wife, check two young kids, check
Speaker 1: white as steep check. That really does something to a man,
Speaker 1: psyche when he makes a realization like that. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Yeah, but here's the thing. You got
Speaker 1: a nice, rich, luxurious, natural brown tan he's spraying on
Speaker 1: the orange ban Albert Orange could change, could change, and
Speaker 1: we keep getting these damn clouds around here. But anyway,
Speaker 1: if you haven't checked out the ode to Rob Bartlett show,
Speaker 1: it's up on my Twitter right now. Brian Albert's shows free.
Speaker 1: The audio is free, and the video is free. I
Speaker 1: put it up free for everybody because I had so
Speaker 1: much fun with Rob Bartlett. So go up there and
Speaker 1: check it out, everybody, after you've done listening to the show.
Speaker 1: And uh, and that's it so thanks. Mike has always
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