WEBVTT - Shinjiro Otani Update/Weekend Recap 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.160 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:15.520 let's get it all. How's going everybody? Brian Alvarez here 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.480 on Wrestling Observer Live. We're here every day Monday through Friday, 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:23.880 New Pacific, three eatern Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well, 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.920 it's Monday here on the show. If you're one of 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.520 our YouTube top tier subscribers, twitch homies are probably wondering 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:34.199 where and the heck is Brian today. Well, I'm in 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:39.440 lovely San Francisco, California, and in fact, on Friday, I 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.559 will be live from the Sports Byline Studios, So that's 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:44.960 gonna be very exciting for today. You'll have to see 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.959 me in front of this beautiful wall because I talk 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:51.600 all of the news with Mike semperviv and it is 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.840 the weekend and so we have a lot of news 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:56.720 to talk about, and as always, not all of it 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.400 is good news. We'll get into the raw recap here, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.120 the preview you here in a moment, but obviously the 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:08.679 big news today is Shinjiro Otani. Shinjiro Tani remains paralyzed 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.960 following injuries suffering in a Zero one show on Sunday. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:15.640 Company president Takehito Kami spoke to Tokyo Sports on Monday 0:01:15.760 --> 0:01:20.760 confirmed Otani's condition remains unchanged. It has not changed. He 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.399 said he is conscious but cannot move his limbs. Currently 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:27.640 is being treated by a doctor. As for the official diagnosis, 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:31.200 we are waiting for reply from the hospital. Forty nine 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:34.119 year old Otani took a German Suplex into the turnbuckle 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.520 during the night's main event and was unable to move. Afterwards, 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.800 the ring ropes were removed, the fans were asked to leave. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.040 Otani was eventually stretchered out and taken to the hospital. 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.440 He had been challenging the Promotions World champion Takashi Sagia. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:49.960 He performed from New Japan from ninety two to two 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.840 thousand one. Co founded Zero one with Shinyi Hashimoto, team 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:58.000 with Tatito Taka one Tag Team of the Year in 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.080 the Observer Awards. He was also named Best Technical Wrestler 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.480 that same year. So obviously it's gonna be a while 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:07.640 before we know, you know, what happened and whether or 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.840 not he can make a full recovery or to what 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.880 degree he can make a recovery. But obviously pro wrestling 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.600 has dangers, and we could talk about this after the break, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.400 and not just the danger of any particular spot, but 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.760 the danger of years of wear and tear. So we'll 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.240 talk about that and all the rest of the news 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:45.079 back in a moment with more Observer Live back of 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.520 the show Bright now but is here Wrestling Observer Live, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:50.600 mike'sumber Viv also Wrestling Observer at dot com. We got 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.040 a lot of news to get into. Obviously, the bad 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:56.480 news out of the way first Otani and uh we'll 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.200 know more, presumably as time goes on, and I hope 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.840 the best for him. Uh. Sometimes when these things happen, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.080 it takes a while for the swelling to go down, 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.400 and once the swelling goes down, people can slowly regain 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.239 feeling in their arms and legs. But right now he 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.960 does not have any, and that's certainly not good. And 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.040 uh it is a it is a cautionary tale that 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:24.200 it's pro wrestling, and uh it is Uh it is worked. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.959 You know, the winners and losers are predetermined. The idea 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:34.200 that every bump is a minor car crash is is overstated, 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:36.560 but it is dangerous and it can be very dangerous. 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:41.200 And this this story, what it, what it always reminds 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.640 me of, is you know, you see, uh, you see 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.960 these guys taking bumps on their heads, necks and everything 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:49.240 like that in Regal. You know, he did that that 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.960 podcast with Jericho and talked about it. And it's not 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:55.840 even so much what happens on a particular bump, but 0:03:55.960 --> 0:04:02.480 it is the years and years of accumulated damage. We're 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:04.400 all of a sudden one day it can all go wrong. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:08.080 And that was the situation with Massawi. Everyone knows that story, 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:12.440 an internal decapitation. He took a high angle suplex and 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.600 it was a suplex he taken not only many times before, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.520 but a lot of the times when he took that 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:22.039 that suplex he landed worse. But this was the one where, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.520 after years and years, it was one too many and 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.719 you know, a German suplex into the buckles. I have 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.000 not seen it. I mean, maybe it was the move 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.600 itself went horribly wrong, but my guess is it probably 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.359 didn't go I mean, it went horribly wrong, but I 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.640 think the bigger issue is that the accumulated damage to 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.760 his neck. There was one bump too many, and that's 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:46.000 why you know, Regal and many others have have pointed 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.400 out for a long time, don't land on your neck, 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.440 don't land on your head. Doesn't matter if you wake 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.280 up and a couple of days later you feel fine, 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.039 don't do it. So here we are wishing all the 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:59.640 best to Otani. Hopefully uh we get good news over 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:02.400 the next couple of days, but right now all we 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.880 know is conscious, can talk, can move his limbs, and 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:12.000 so hoping for the best. Absolutely a legend. And you 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.960 know similar situation Pero Guayo against Ray my Stereo where 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.640 just bounded against the ropes and whatever happened happened there 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.080 and it's just it's sad. And Shinjiro Tani is a 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.400 He really is a legend. You know, he's been around 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.640 so long now. I don't know if people realize that 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.560 during the golden age of junior heavyweight wrestling in Japan, 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.880 the style that influenced so many of the people that 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.040 you see on your TVs today, he was a very 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.320 important part of that. He was the first ever w 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.880 c W Cruiser Right Champion. He had feuds with Jusi 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.159 and Liger and Liger's partner Al Samurai and Ultimo Dragon 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.560 and Chris ben Wah when he was Wild Pegasus and 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:55.800 all of those guys. Eddie is Black Tiger. He was 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.760 the man, and he had a team with KOJ Kanamoto 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.320 and later on Iowa, I mean, him and Kanamoto would 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:06.159 go at it. They were great partners, great enemies, fantastic stuff, 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.920 and then did Hustle, went with Hashimoto, did zero one 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.920 and it has to this day. Zero one has been 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:14.640 around for a long time. A lot of people thought 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.280 he was gonna fail and die plenty of times, and 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:21.839 it has survived because he and Masada Tanaka for a 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.000 long time, we're the ones really grinding and out. And 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:27.040 since Tanaka has kind of stepped back a little bit, 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.160 Otani has been that guy and he's been going, you know, 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.000 as hard as Otani can go. And he's forty nine 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 years old, and all the best to him. I just 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:37.760 want him to have a good quality of life, and 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.800 I hope he does recover his feelings and just things 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.719 work out for the best. You know. Somebody on the 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.320 chat here said, I can't believe that seth Roll is 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:48.680 still doing the buckle bomb after what happened to Sting. 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:54.240 That's my point. There's nothing inherently wrong with a buckle bomb. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:58.120 If you deliver the buckle bomb right and the person 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.919 takes the buckle bomb right, it's not all that different 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:05.560 from being whipped across and taking a hard buckle. The 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.640 issue was that Sting had been wrestling for years and 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.520 years and years, and whatever happened happened on that buckle bomb. Now, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:18.120 the running buckle bomb into the barricade outside, I don't 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.800 like that one because the barricade is padded, but unlike 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.480 the top turn buckle with the ropes, there is no 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:28.480 give and so you're hitting that. You're hitting that barricade 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.920 pretty hard. And if you get thrown too hard, you 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:35.040 land too high on a on a barricade, a padded barricade, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.320 and if you're not thrown hard enough, you really land 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.600 wrong and then you you splat on the ground. And 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.600 that's how Finnvalor got hurt when set him with the 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.960 buckle bomba into the barricade. I don't like that one, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:50.560 but a normal safe buckle bomb into the top turn 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:54.320 buckle that is not an inherently dangerous move. And the 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:56.600 other thing is, you know, if we want to start 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:01.320 banning every move where somebody has gotten in herd. Then yeah, 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.960 they're gonna be a few moves that probably aren't safe 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.480 to do one way or the other. Um. You know, 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.440 I'm not big into banning moves, but that finisher that 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.800 Penton Phoenix do, where you know the guy gets dropped 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:17.640 on his neck in like the double pile driver position. Dude, 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:19.760 I've seen that one go wrong way too many times. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.800 And if there's a move, there's going wrong way too 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.680 many times. I don't think that necessarily, Like, there are 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.280 a lot of moves that Penton Phoenix can do, but 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.760 every move you can probably find an example of somebody 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.240 getting hurt on virtually every move. I hurt myself on 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.000 a Snake Eyes once I thought the ground was gonna 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.320 be there, it wasn't. My leg was too straight. I 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.320 have to pretended my name. Should I be calling for 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.800 the Snake Eyes to be a band? Of course not. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:50.520 You know, something went wrong. I mean, are we gonna 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:53.920 band getting in the ring because Vince Wmickibhan towr two quads? 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.880 Are we gonna a band walking in the ring because 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.880 Kevin nash Tork? Of course not. Things are gonna have 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.080 up in and if a move is is injuring a 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.600 lot of people. If a move is constantly going wrong, 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.960 that's one thing. But a move that you've seen, you know, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.080 five hundred times and one time somebody gets hurt, that's 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.080 gonna happen in wrestling. It's just, you know the nature 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.439 of wrestling, you're gonna get hurt, and quite frankly, often 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.640 you're gonna get hurt doing something that you probably shouldn't 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.360 have gotten hurt doing. It was just some fluke, some 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:30.199 fluke deal. People calling for the banning of the snake 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:33.360 eyes get out of here Na should be down to 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:36.040 two moves. Well, if you had to ban a move, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:37.439 is there one off the top of your head that 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.400 you go? You know what if I had, if I 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:44.679 was right now, I'll tell you right now, the tree slam. 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:50.520 Tree slam. I I hate that move and listen. The 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:55.560 thing to me with with most moves, okay, is it 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.360 either has to be a move where the person doing 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:03.400 it is capable of depositing you on the match safely 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:08.280 times out of a hundred, or you take your own 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:11.760 bump and put yourself on the mat safely. I have 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:16.839 seen that tree slam go wrong so many times. I 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.520 don't really want to bring this up because it was 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.760 like it was an accident or something like that. But 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.400 I think the guy's name was was it brian On. 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.440 Remember Great Collie was training and like all pro and 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.080 a p W. That guy, you know, he was he 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:33.920 was killed and uh, it was an accident, like it 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.280 wasn't Great Great Collie was trying to kill the guy. 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.600 But I'm pretty sure it was he was practicing the 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.679 tree slam, because the tree slam, it's always first off, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.200 it's always done by a tall guy. So first off, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.560 you're way too high. Then the guy has to throw you, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.719 and he has to he has to basically I don't 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:54.480 know time it is the right word, but he has 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:57.240 to do it in such a way that you're going 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.440 to fall and you're gonna land flat on your back 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.800 exactly when you're supposed to win the mat. You either 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.320 land too high and you land in the back of 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.559 your head, or you don't rotate enough and you land 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.800 on your buttocks thumb, and then not only do you 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.520 land on your tailbone, but then your head snaps back 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.120 and intimate if you watch tree slams way more than 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.079 the time, it's it's a bad landing for the person 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.800 who's getting tree slam and they have no control over 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.600 the bump. You're absolutely your life is in the hands 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.920 of the tall guy who's who's slamming you. So that 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.840 is the one that I would restrict. And there are 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:40.120 those times too with that move where the person in 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:45.560 there excitement basically slams the person down as hard as 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.880 they can, which is you know, rarer. But that happens 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.959 a lot with those high angle power bombs and those moves. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.800 That who was it was a Grayson Waller who was 0:11:55.840 --> 0:12:00.600 the one that actually did that Razor's edge or whatever 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:07.400 it was where they just completely killed Yeah, that's another one. Yeah, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.520 it's not even I think it's the Splash Mountain because 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.040 if you watch the normal Razor's edge, like Razor Ramon 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:16.080 put him down perfect like you know of the time, 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:17.800 but the one where you lift him up like that 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:23.520 and then toss him back in the moment. Observer Live 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.200 back in the show Bright Now Bare is here Wrestling 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:45.200 Observer Live, Mike simper viv also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Yes, 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.800 it is spring break for me, although it's not really 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:53.120 much of a break. In fact, it's exactly it's exactly 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:54.880 like being at home, except now I gotta hang out 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.560 with a dog all day visiting my I guess would 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.280 be my sister in law. My wife's sister had twins, 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:05.400 and so we're here to uh help out. And they've 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.640 also got a dog. So I've been hanging around with 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:11.640 this dog. He's the bane of my existence dog and 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.240 actually a very nice dog. What kind of dog, I 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:18.720 don't know, big white dog. It's a big dog. Golden Retriever. Yeah, no, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.120 I don't know what kind of dog it is. It's 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.920 a big, fluffy dog. It's not a Golden Retriever. All 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.080 that equipment that you brought down there, and you didn't 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.440 bring a mic stand or anything. I never bring a 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.480 mic stand. You go, you going Dave style? I always 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.160 go Dave style in the road. I never bring a 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:35.280 mic stand. Why is that? Because the mike stands too 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.040 heavy to pack number one at number two this table. 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:40.040 As you can see from my camera angle, the table 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:41.440 is so far down there that I would need like 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.559 a giant. I just hold the mike. It's easier when 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.280 you're not traveling with your family. Do you still travel 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.000 like wrestling style? You just take one gym bag, roll 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.320 all the TEUs up and I got I got one 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:56.719 little tiny mini suitcase that that holds this gimmick that 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.320 I used to connect and literally everything else I have 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.760 is in that backpack right there. I've got all my clothes, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.120 I've got headphones, I've got Mike, I've got cables, I've 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.560 got my a cou Tremont bag. Everything I need is 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.319 in that one backpack. Meanwhile, these uh, these ladies, you 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:17.240 saw many suitcases they brought. Holy smokes. I got a 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.080 two year old. She has more clothes than I do 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.720 pack for this trip. Just going to the Game Changer 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:26.120 in Landy City, just probably four suitcases. Like it's Atlantic City. 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:28.000 Just by default, you're gonna be one of the better 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.960 people there. For Heaven's sakes. You know it's crazy, but 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:34.520 it's Did you ever have a problem going through the 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:36.760 airport with any of the gimmicks? Now for the for 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.000 the show, Well, I'll tell you that story here in 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.800 a second, but I gotta go over this first because 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.760 I'm in San Francisco and I feel we should alternate 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.360 news with this jibber jabber. So anyway, I'm in San Francisco, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:50.560 but I did not go to the g c W 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.440 show yesterday, Uh number one, because I wouldn't have been 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.160 able to make it on time. And I'm actually not 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.560 in San Francisco. I'm North anyway. Multiple talents to not appear. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.320 It's Sunday's g CW Devil in a new dress show 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:09.160 in San Francisco. Edition of Bandido Gringo Loco did not 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:12.680 wrestle his advertise. No explanation was given, and they have 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:16.560 not responded to a request for comment on Loco not wrestling. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.480 Jacob pat two did not appear in the show. They 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:24.760 announced he had travel problems if music travel problems. Inability 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.520 to make Sunday show announced in a tweet Sunday afternoon, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.600 and uh and of course Banditto was set to face 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.840 Nick Wayne. Nick Wayne was going to get a match 0:15:34.840 --> 0:15:37.240 with Bandido and Bandido no show. You all know why. 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.320 Scared scared? He was scared to go and lose to 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:49.280 a sixteen year old. He's not unless I wasn't invited 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.800 to his birthday. It should be very very I was 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.120 in his first birthday, for crying out loud, I'd better 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.680 be invited to his seventeen. Not that I'd show up, 0:15:56.720 --> 0:16:00.760 but I better be invited. So he faced Jaffie instead. 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.800 Certainly a unique switch and I'm looking at it, what 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:07.400 wouldn't have been What have you been the main event 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:09.360 with Bandido? Or did you go from the main event 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:12.920 to the opener because of Bandido? Well, I mean, obviously 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.240 all the focus was on A lot of the focus 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:20.120 was on Bandido Nick for that night, so certainly mine was. 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:24.840 But man, can you believe that? You know? I guess 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:29.920 it also proves that have never been seen in the 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:35.720 same place at the same time with Bandido, So it 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:37.720 was Bandido in the country. I mean I couldn't make 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:42.360 it down there on time either. Yeah, why didn't you 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.600 bring your gear as part of the rule? Because I 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.760 couldn't fit this backpack with my other stuff. Let me 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:51.600 tell you storry about the airport. Okay. So I once 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.040 went to the airport and back in the day, so 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.160 you guys understand like, oh, it looks so easy Brian 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.960 going to California doing the short No, no, it's take 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.200 can It's taken fifteen years to figure out how to 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.400 make this go smoothly. Okay, So back in the day, 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:08.600 you know what I used to have to bring when 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.560 I went on trips. I had to bring so much 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.960 stuff back in the day to by the way, have 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.400 much worse quality shows than we have nowadays. But I 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:21.200 had Mike's and I had cables, and I would bring 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.760 along you know, compressor blah blah blah blah blah. So 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:29.399 I had this this, uh, this suitcase that was full 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:31.639 like you opened it up and it was like a 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:35.159 whole studio in there. And I would bring this and 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.399 I would I would take it through security and everything 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:42.080 like that. So, uh, one day I'm going through security 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.760 and uh, I can't even remember what it was that 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.679 got flagged, but it was it was like, I don't know, 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.240 a jacket or a pair of pants, or it was. 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.440 It was something where they stop you, the red light 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:59.560 goes on, they come over, they want to look at 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.840 your pain pants, They want the dog to the drug 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.879 sniffing dog, they want to move their magic wand over there, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.159 anything that. So it was it was over something stupid. 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:08.760 It was like a pair of pants or a pair 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.560 of shoes or I don't even know what it was. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:16.840 But meanwhile I had a suitcase filled with wires and 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:22.399 mechanical devices. It it literally looks like a bomb that 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.959 just slid right on through. Oh, don't worry about that 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.320 thing with all the wires and gadgets. But that pair 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.480 of pants, that pair of pants, who knows there might 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:36.360 be kerosene on those pants. So anyway, I think gets 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.720 stopped this time. Don't leave your half gramm of coke 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.639 in there, and that wouldn't happen that there was nothing 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.080 in there. There was literally nothing in there. I can't 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.240 remember what it was, but it's something dumb. Do you 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.119 think maybe it was a smoke screen that so they 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.080 can look at your other stuff or something like that 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.600 to make it was my jacket and guys like, oh, 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:55.440 that's a nice jacket. I don't need to see where 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:01.080 he gets that cateagonia. Okay, maybe he was taking your 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:05.520 attention away and it was from Seattle, clearly, all right, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:10.439 listen tonight is Raw. Guys ready for that? Yeah? I 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:15.040 thought I had a lineup, but I don't. Oh yeah, ok, yeah, 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:18.439 Tamasa Champa has been uh drafted to Raw apparently. So 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:21.240 that was on p U Insider today. We have got 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:24.520 Sasha Banks and Naomi Versus live in Rhea for the 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.800 SmackDown Women's Tag Team titles or the just the Women's 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.440 Take Team titles. There is a tease, by the way 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:32.840 on SmackDown if you wanted. The SmackDown report, there is 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:34.800 a tease that they're going to unify the men's tag 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.640 team titles as well. So I know they're all into 0:19:37.640 --> 0:19:39.560 the brand extension everything like that, but I mean, we've 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.280 been talking about this for years. Why don't they just 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.760 unify all the belts. You can have your two brands, 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:50.280 but just send your champions, brand, brand whatever. Maybe they're 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:53.480 actually doing it, because now they're teasing another another title unification. 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:58.879 We have Dami Priest, JJ styles Veer will face Ray Mysterio, 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:02.440 m v P will host the v I P Lounge 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:07.520 with his own guy, Oh Moss, Roman Reigns and the 0:20:07.560 --> 0:20:09.720 us OS versus Drew. A New Day is advertised for 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:14.399 the dark match, and yes, in his first raw match, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:20.280 and I believe six years Cody Rhodes is facing them. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:28.680 Is okay, So yesterday it was whatever day, I watched SmackDown. 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:32.560 I heard that Cody Rose was facing the miss and 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:37.919 I thought, all right, that's fine, it's easy match, you know, 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.760 beat the guy or whatever. So then I foolishly I 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:44.919 went on I went on Twitter and every now and 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:48.280 then you know, they have trending on the side, which 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.360 is like, you know, whatever, is trending that they think 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.119 you would be interested in, and one of them was 0:20:53.680 --> 0:20:56.560 the Miss, and that why is the Miss trending? I 0:20:56.600 --> 0:20:58.600 would get worried when people are trending because I'm like, 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.040 I hope something bad did happened. So I foolishly clicked 0:21:02.080 --> 0:21:06.320 on the mrs name because it was trending. Oh my god. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.879 So apparently apparently when this match was announced, Uh, the 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.800 internet went crazy. I was unaware of this to like 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:19.480 clicked on this this name. So first they were like 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:23.119 a bunch of people that were angry, like angry that 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:26.560 Cody was going to face the Miss. Okay, angry. I 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:28.440 don't know why you would be angry, like who cares? 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:30.679 But they were actually angry about it, like Cody's just 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.080 come back in his first match. Uh, Bryan Danielson debut 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.960 his first matching with Kenny Omega. Cody's debut matches what 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:39.520 them is? So then you know all the people that 0:21:39.600 --> 0:21:42.200 were angry, you know, we're going off about how much 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:45.720 the Miss sucked. Okay, wh yeah, that's what I understand that. 0:21:46.200 --> 0:21:50.240 But then we had all of the the pro Miss 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.840 people that had to come to the defense of the Miss. 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:59.520 Oh my god, Bro I'm praying that Tony Cohn is 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.679 right that most of these people are bots. Okay, because 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.640 there's like the stuff that people were writing, like, oh, 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:09.880 how can you say that the miss sucks? He's uh, 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.320 he's a grand slam. They were literally doing what he 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.280 does in his promoes, which is, I'm gonna rattle off 0:22:16.320 --> 0:22:18.640 a list of all of the belts that misses one 0:22:19.000 --> 0:22:21.960 to prove that he is in fact great, and then 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:24.720 you cannot say anything bad about the Miss. It's one 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:26.760 thing to say, you know whatever, but to say that 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.640 MSS is not good in the ring, Oh, you must 0:22:29.680 --> 0:22:32.560 be a troll. Look at all these belts he's I'm like, 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:34.520 you've got to be you can't. You can't be a 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.399 real person. So anyway, you know. But then I got 0:22:37.440 --> 0:22:40.240 thinking about today. I'm not mad about him, but I 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:42.479 was thinking about it. I thought, what is the end 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.399 goal of Cody and the Miss, Like, is he just 0:22:45.400 --> 0:22:47.200 gonna go in there and beat him in two minutes 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:50.399