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Speaker 4: very own filthy. He wasn't even filthy, he was clean,
Speaker 4: Tom Lawler. He was scrubbed Tom Lawler, whatever antonym that
Speaker 4: you want to come up with, that's what he was doing.
Speaker 4: He was Clark Kent last night working the WWE WrestleMania
Speaker 4: forty press conference at the T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 4: He is going to be filling us in on everything
Speaker 4: that took place last night, all the vulgarity, all the partying,
Speaker 4: where there amuse bouches and champagne passed around to the press.
Speaker 4: Well filthy, Tom is going to tell us as if
Speaker 4: there was or not, so he's going to be here,
Speaker 4: and of course that leads us all to Fox Tonight
Speaker 4: and SmackDown and last week the Rock showed up. This week,
Speaker 4: we know Triple H is going to show up in
Speaker 4: the role of Paul Lavaca. I guess I'm not sure
Speaker 4: which one he's going to show up as, maybe is
Speaker 4: both names, but he is going to address what took
Speaker 4: place at the press conference last night and all the
Speaker 4: hullabaloo around Cody Rhodes choosing Roman Reigns after all of
Speaker 4: this nonsense as his opponent for WrestleMania. I don't think
Speaker 4: there's anybody that can give you a definitive reason on
Speaker 4: why things have turned out the way that they have,
Speaker 4: but we will do our best to talk about it
Speaker 4: here today. We'll also talk about what Aw's got coming
Speaker 4: up this weekend on Rampage and Collision, the last matches
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Speaker 4: held at press conference last night Thursday night in Las
Speaker 4: Vegas at T Mobile Arena. He was streamed on both
Speaker 4: Peacock and WWE's YouTube channel, among other places. Our own
Speaker 4: filthy Tom Lawler was there. As I said, in his
Speaker 4: role as Clark Kent clean, Tom Lawler scrubbed, Tom Lawler filthy.
Speaker 4: What was it like being a credentialed member of the
Speaker 4: media in that den of wolves that.
Speaker 5: You were in? It was everything I had ever dreamed of.
Speaker 5: Mike being able to be mere feet away from Sean Ross,
Speaker 5: sap mirror inches and you know seats away from Denise Salcedo.
Speaker 5: I saw Nick Housman before he unceremoniously left the premises and.
Speaker 4: I on his own free will, of his own free
Speaker 4: will or was he Yeah, I believe I believe he
Speaker 4: talked about it on Twitter.
Speaker 5: There was a big hang up because a lot of
Speaker 5: the media members believed that this was a press conference,
Speaker 5: when in reality, it was more of a avenue for
Speaker 5: some angles to be shot. There were no questions to
Speaker 5: be asked. I had some of the hard hitters ready
Speaker 5: to go, and of course they avoided me at all costs.
Speaker 5: But it was about an hour and a half long
Speaker 5: of interviews, angles, pageantry, very similar to some of the
Speaker 5: events we've seen from the UFC over the past few years,
Speaker 5: where they talk about what's upcoming and they card out
Speaker 5: the fighters and they all talked trash and I I
Speaker 5: mean in retrospect, this worked. Everybody's talking about it today.
Speaker 5: It's the big news in wrestling. We still still still
Speaker 5: don't know what is going on with the WrestleMania main event.
Speaker 5: Is it gonna be some one on one matches, Is
Speaker 5: it gonna be a four way? Is it gonna be
Speaker 5: a three way? Is it gonna be a tag match
Speaker 5: and then a single This is gonna be some sort
Speaker 5: of tournament. What is going on in the main event,
Speaker 5: we don't know. But what we do know is that
Speaker 5: the Rock showed up and like you said, he bigfooted everybody.
Speaker 5: He big timed everybody, slapped Cody Roads in the face,
Speaker 5: buried Seth Rollins on the mic, stood in front of
Speaker 5: Roman Reigns repeatedly, for better or worse, this was the
Speaker 5: Rock Show in a lot of ways. What were your
Speaker 5: thoughts on how it played out? Mike and I can
Speaker 5: I can lend some more information as time goes on.
Speaker 4: The little clips I saw of it, they made sure
Speaker 4: to make it look like it was a big, rollicking affair,
Speaker 4: and it obviously was very loud from what the miking
Speaker 4: was now wasn't as loud as I thought it was
Speaker 4: going to be, because we ended up finding out later
Speaker 4: on by way of WWE they were saying they were
Speaker 4: about thirty four hundred people there. You know, if you
Speaker 4: take that number at face value, that still is not
Speaker 4: a lot of people to be put into the T
Speaker 4: Mobile arena. When you went in there, did it look
Speaker 4: like they had it originally? Were set up for more people,
Speaker 4: or did it look like they had it cordoned off
Speaker 4: where they pretty much knew what they were getting in
Speaker 4: there and they were prepared for that.
Speaker 5: The setup to me seemed to be and I looked
Speaker 5: at the seating chart afterwards to try to get a
Speaker 5: better idea of how many people, you know, they expected,
Speaker 5: But the seating looked to be about one third to
Speaker 5: half of the arena. There were a couple of sections
Speaker 5: behind the hardcam where there were no fans. But you
Speaker 5: said you thought there was gonna be a bigger pop,
Speaker 5: It was gonna be louder. It was insane inside there.
Speaker 5: The fans were going crazy back and forth before any
Speaker 5: of the superstars came out. There were dueling chants of
Speaker 5: we want Cody, we want Rock Rocky sucks, Cody sucks
Speaker 5: from different sides of the arena. So you you know,
Speaker 5: like in WWE, you usually have the crowd, we'll do
Speaker 5: a dueling chant and one side I'll say one thing
Speaker 5: and one say the other. Well, here both sides were
Speaker 5: saying multiple things, so it was chaos the entire time.
Speaker 4: More of the case that the fans that were there
Speaker 4: were saying everything just because they love being there and
Speaker 4: they love chanting stuff, and they're actually saying Cody sucks
Speaker 4: and then saying Roman sucks as well.
Speaker 5: I definitely caught a few people saying we want, we
Speaker 5: want Cody, Cody sucks. But they were into it regardless,
Speaker 5: and they were into pretty much everybody that showed up
Speaker 5: there from the onset. Michael Cole was the first one
Speaker 5: out alongside Cmpunk, who the crowd went crazy for. There
Speaker 5: was no waffling back and forth. Cm Punk was over
Speaker 5: big time with the crowd, as was Big E, as
Speaker 5: was Pat McAfee. The crowd chanted all of their names.
Speaker 5: There was even a Michael Cole chant from the Yes,
Speaker 5: there was a Michael Cole chant from the audience. Those
Speaker 5: were the hosts. They were kind of set up in
Speaker 5: the media section, I guess you could say, despite referencing
Speaker 5: it many times, Cmpunk did not punch anyone in the face,
Speaker 5: although I thought he had a good point in that
Speaker 5: he thinks Cody and Seth Rolins should have stood up
Speaker 5: for themselves more and punched back at the Rock and
Speaker 5: Roman reigns in that main event segment. But after we
Speaker 5: got a little bit of talking from the top heads,
Speaker 5: they showed a video package Triple h who will appear
Speaker 5: on SmackDown this evening came out and he gave a
Speaker 5: long rundown of WrestleMania history, some of the superstars who
Speaker 5: have helped build it. No mention of Vince McMahon, of course.
Speaker 5: Also no mention of Pete Rose, who's been a star
Speaker 5: of WrestleMania many years. No mention of Doink the clown
Speaker 5: who once showed up and faced off against himself at WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: So some of the are Any mention of Akebono, No mention.
Speaker 5: Of Akebono versus Big Show. No yeah, but uh yeah.
Speaker 5: Triple H then said are you ready? But first you
Speaker 5: let us know we ain't seen nothing yet. It's a
Speaker 5: new era and we ain't seen nothing yet, which quite
Speaker 5: frankly worries me based on what we've seen recently. Then
Speaker 5: he got us going are you ready? Well, you better be,
Speaker 5: and then nothing happened. Michael Michael Michael called Pat McAfee,
Speaker 5: went to a video package of Biaka bel Air I Believe, who,
Speaker 5: of course the crowd loved. She left. We had Ria
Speaker 5: Ripley come out a big star, and of course she
Speaker 5: was cut off by Becky Lynch, who said that if
Speaker 5: Ria Ripley can get past Naya Jacks. Becky is gonna
Speaker 5: take Mammy. She's gonna bend her over.
Speaker 4: Mammy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she said she's gonna bend her over and teacher
Speaker 5: who's boss, because that's what happens when the man comes around.
Speaker 5: Crowd loved that, as did I, and then we had
Speaker 5: the main events segment. I guess you could call it
Speaker 5: with Roman reigns. He came out, he said, it's not
Speaker 5: up to Cody, It's up to me, and I'm choosing
Speaker 5: the rock for WrestleMania. Well, actually, Seth Rollins was out
Speaker 5: there first. I apologize. I've got this mixed up.
Speaker 4: He's easy to forget about it, especially the way he's
Speaker 4: been treated here by everybody recently.
Speaker 5: I will be honest. I thought he was over to
Speaker 5: a degree that I did not expect, especially live. The
Speaker 5: crowd went crazy for him. They would not stop cheering
Speaker 5: his song, and really I thought he came out looking
Speaker 5: better at the end of this than he did going
Speaker 5: into it, because he was the one getting in the
Speaker 5: rock and Romans face at the end of it, not Cody,
Speaker 5: as Cody had been slapped and Cody, actually I'd have
Speaker 5: to roll that a knockdown technically because he took a
Speaker 5: knee off those four fingers to the face from Old Dwayne.
Speaker 5: But we'll cover more of the Wrestle Media kickoff show
Speaker 5: when we come back on Wrestling Observer Lives.
Speaker 3: Both shots do it anyway, having sex and noble guys
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Speaker 2: You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike simperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 4: Back on the show, Mike simper Viv here Filthy Tom
Speaker 4: Lawler talking about his experiences yesterday in Las Vegas, where
Speaker 4: he lives. WWE came to his city the same way
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl has come to his city. They had
Speaker 4: to actually get a pass. They had to inform Filthy
Speaker 4: Tom that they were coming to town and if it
Speaker 4: was okay to have their event there, and Filthy said, yes,
Speaker 4: you can come on in. It's a flight zone for you.
Speaker 4: It's not for everybody though. But Filthy tell us more
Speaker 4: about this main event here, because we actually got a
Speaker 4: flow chart, which I was not expecting out of the Rock,
Speaker 4: who went and described his entire family history to us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Rock let us know before there were shots fired.
Speaker 5: That he was gonna show us something really cool on
Speaker 5: the screen, is what he said. I got something really cool,
Speaker 5: That's what he said.
Speaker 4: I got something really cool to show you guys, And
Speaker 4: you guys wasn't gonna be one of his movies.
Speaker 5: He's wow. He said, you better respect it. And then
Speaker 5: they threw up a graphic of the bloodline family tree,
Speaker 5: which urgitated the graphic. I don't know, Mike, I don't
Speaker 5: know if this was knowledge to me before and I
Speaker 5: have just seemingly forgotten it. But my brain was blown
Speaker 5: when the rock said, are great grandfathers took a blood
Speaker 5: oath to be come family? Is that legally binding? Can
Speaker 5: you do that? These guys are not, so they're not
Speaker 5: technically related by blood? Well, their ancestors were blood brothers. Well,
Speaker 5: I mean, what does a blood oath consist of? I
Speaker 5: need more information.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean it's usually the the slicing of a
Speaker 4: hand or something, and then that together, you know. Apparently
Speaker 4: what Jack Briscoe says that oly Anderson tried to do
Speaker 4: to him to keep Georgia Championship Wrestling together. And I
Speaker 4: don't know if I can actually say in our politically
Speaker 4: correct age, what Jack Briscoe's response to the polish Ole
Speaker 4: Anderson was but suffice to say he was not down
Speaker 4: with it.
Speaker 5: Well, the Maya, Villa and NII families were down with
Speaker 5: it because now we have the bloodline. And as you said,
Speaker 5: the Rock through that graft up. The crowd went mild
Speaker 5: at best, which I believe was the well I think
Speaker 5: in some ways it was the intended reaction. There's no
Speaker 5: way with the delivery he gave that he expected the
Speaker 5: crowd to cheer this graphic when it was thrown up there.
Speaker 5: This of course leads to Cody Rhodes coming out, because
Speaker 5: the Bloodbine is not the only royal family. As the
Speaker 5: Rock and Roman reigns have said now many times, Cody
Speaker 5: Rhodes came out.
Speaker 4: Oh I thought you're gonna say, Robert Fuller, Now you
Speaker 4: got a I apologize, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 5: So Cody, Cody comes out. He says that their ancestors
Speaker 5: would have been ashamed if they could see them. Right now,
Speaker 5: the Rocks slaps them. I've got the timeline all mixed
Speaker 5: up because prior to this, Cody came out and what
Speaker 5: he said was I've got a choice to make and
Speaker 5: for WrestleMania. I choose Roman Rain, so we now had
Speaker 5: Roman Rains choose the Rock, Cody choose Roman Reins. We
Speaker 5: don't know what's going on, Cody. Do they know what's
Speaker 5: going on? Sorry, I don't know that they need to
Speaker 5: right now. Enough people are seemingly invested in it and
Speaker 5: making up excuses for the lack of a coherent storyline
Speaker 5: right now, So hey, I mean, it's not it. It's
Speaker 5: getting buzz, which is what it was intended to do.
Speaker 5: So Cody says that he wants Roman Reins. He says
Speaker 5: that their answers would be ashamed, and then the Rock.
Speaker 5: If you look at the picture of the Rock connecting
Speaker 5: with this slap on Cody's face, the Rock's hand is
Speaker 5: about the same size as poor Cody's head, seemingly four
Speaker 5: fingers to the side of the jaw. Cody takes a
Speaker 5: knee triple h and the staff get in his way.
Speaker 5: Seth Rollins, who's injured? May I mind you? Has to
Speaker 5: stand up for not only Cody Rhodes but also himself,
Speaker 5: as he had been eviscerated, buried by the Rock and
Speaker 5: Roman Reigns have been called the B team multiple times.
Speaker 5: The loser squad by the Bloodline members. And now after
Speaker 5: the live action we were left with no answers, seemingly
Speaker 5: and Michael Cole Seampunk Biggie Pat McAfee. They wrapped it
Speaker 5: up at the desk and then we went backstage for
Speaker 5: one more question for Triple H and you know, before
Speaker 5: he could really give much of an answer, the Rock
Speaker 5: and Roman Rains come into frame along with Paul Hayman.
Speaker 5: The Rock is so large that at many times you
Speaker 5: can't see where Roman Reigns is. I don't know if
Speaker 5: this is by design, I don't know if this is happenstance,
Speaker 5: but the Rock certainly in the foreground. He's he black
Speaker 5: adamed Roman right out of the picture and he says,
Speaker 5: if Cody talks that ish about our family again, I'll
Speaker 5: slap the freaking taste out of his mouth, something to
Speaker 5: that effect. It was bleeped out, apparently. If you check
Speaker 5: my ex my Twitter at Filthy Tom Lawler, you can
Speaker 5: find some of the only unedited footage of this promo,
Speaker 5: as a real broadcast journalist would provide. And that was
Speaker 5: essentially the end of the Kickoff show. Mike.
Speaker 4: Was there a mad rush to get out of there,
Speaker 4: or did it look like a lot of people spent
Speaker 4: the twenty five hundred dollars or whatever it was to
Speaker 4: get their fourteen carre of gold lanyard or whatever it
Speaker 4: is and have a drink in a conversation with Triple H.
Speaker 5: There was a mad rush by me to get out
Speaker 5: of there. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 4: Hey, you know, did you there was a line?
Speaker 5: I'll tell you there was a huge line wrapped around
Speaker 5: the building when I showed up at about three o'clock
Speaker 5: of people waiting to get in.
Speaker 4: How far away from there is the sphere? Because was
Speaker 4: there a dude who walked up in the sphere yesterday?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: How do you do that? I'm scared of heights, so
Speaker 4: I can't imagine going like a foot up without throwing
Speaker 4: up off the thing, like this dude walked up the sphere?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I believe it may have been on Wednesday a
Speaker 5: guy scaled the sphere in protest, I believe, for women's
Speaker 5: pregnancy rights. I saw today that he caused over one
Speaker 5: hundred thousand dollars worth of damage. And while I have
Speaker 5: wholeheartedly for what he is, don't do something stupid like
Speaker 5: this people. I hope this bonehead has to pay for
Speaker 5: it out of his own pocket.
Speaker 4: I would assume so. I would assume so. But does
Speaker 4: that have anything to do with tonight's SmackDown. No, but
Speaker 4: it's a way to transition into it because it's.
Speaker 5: About two miles away. As my guest, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4: But the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina is very
Speaker 4: far away from Las Vegas. But that is where SmackDown
Speaker 4: is going to be tonight. As I mentioned a little
Speaker 4: bit earlier, this afternoon, we got the announcement that Paul
Speaker 4: Triple h Leveck would be there to address all of
Speaker 4: fallout from yesterday's press conference in Vegas. Also, they added
Speaker 4: Bailey to the show to discuss being kicked out of
Speaker 4: Damage Control and choosing Eo Sky as her opponent for WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: Also announced Women's Elimination Chamber qualifying match Bianca bel Air
Speaker 4: against Meechen Mia Yim. We already have Becky Lynch in
Speaker 4: that match. Liv Morgan will face Zoe Stark on Raw
Speaker 4: on Monday to find out who's going to be the
Speaker 4: next person after Tonight's match, leading into the the perth
Speaker 4: Elimination Chamber Number one Contenders match for the WWE Tag
Speaker 4: team titles Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate against diy GM.
Speaker 4: Nick Aldis will be announcing the new opponent for United
Speaker 4: States Champion Logan Paul. Last week, the show did two
Speaker 4: point four six nine million viewers, the fifth week in
Speaker 4: a row that it's done over two point three eight
Speaker 4: million viewers. The rating of the key eighteen to forty
Speaker 4: nine year old demographic point seventy four, nine hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy thousand viewers. As Tom mentioned, this is getting a
Speaker 4: lot of buzz regardless of what you think about it.
Speaker 4: If you're judging a success by the amount of mainstream
Speaker 4: attention that you get and the television ratings that you get,
Speaker 4: there is no doubt that this rustle Mania and the
Speaker 4: bill to it is going to be considered incredibly successful.
Speaker 4: It's just in its moment right now when you have
Speaker 4: a Cody Rhodes that has told Roman Reigns that he
Speaker 4: had to have his belt to finish the story because
Speaker 4: that was the one that was in my father's hands
Speaker 4: that they ripped out of it at Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 4: And then he tells the man who is just completely
Speaker 4: emasculated his opponent what we thought was going to be
Speaker 4: his opponent and calling him second best and go and
Speaker 4: be Cody the best of the rest. Cody said, yes,
Speaker 4: I do want your belt, but I think that's a
Speaker 4: great idea. I do want to be the best of
Speaker 4: the rest. And I'll get back to you later because
Speaker 4: the Rocks got something to say about it. Then he
Speaker 4: comes out and says, no, I decided it is going
Speaker 4: to be you, and then the Rocks pissed off, and
Speaker 4: the Rock and Roman are together, and I guess the
Speaker 4: new speculation, Tom, We're going to get a tag team
Speaker 4: match on Night one of WrestleMania, and then we're going
Speaker 4: to get I guess two championship matches for both Seth
Speaker 4: Rollins and for Roman Reigns against Cody Rhodes on Sundays WrestleMania.
Speaker 4: I guess we'll see what Tom thinks about that. I
Speaker 4: already know what the chat thinks about that. Maybe we'll
Speaker 4: let you know what they think. We'll get back from
Speaker 4: break Wrestling Observer Alive.
Speaker 3: Because the windows it's gonna be there.
Speaker 5: I'm again that's.
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Speaker 4: So except for Babe Filthy, Tom Lawler here wrestumes are alive.
Speaker 4: But I was coming in hot there wasn't it?
Speaker 5: Ghost damn right?
Speaker 4: Oh man? Not only dead, I think are the rugged
Speaker 4: man in that one? And uh who else? Cool g
Speaker 4: rap actually and that one is well too, so a
Speaker 4: lot of New York there going on there anyway, that
Speaker 4: none of that matters right now, filthy, and I don't
Speaker 4: want to stay on this topic for a whole lot
Speaker 4: longer here, but the speculation right now the Rock and
Speaker 4: Roman reigns against Cody and Seth for Night one. That
Speaker 4: opens up the door for Night two to be bookended
Speaker 4: by title matches, the first one being seth Rawlins defending
Speaker 4: his title against anybody that would decide to enter the
Speaker 4: elimination chamber and then go ahead and win it coming
Speaker 4: up here in Australia, and then closing the show, Cody
Speaker 4: Rhodes against Roman reigns. Well, there'll be some surely issues
Speaker 4: with the Rock in all of this. That leads to
Speaker 4: more Roman reigns in the Rock and Beef over the
Speaker 4: head of the table.
Speaker 5: Does that?
Speaker 4: Am I crazy for thinking that's a direction they're going?
Speaker 5: It could be. I mean, we could also, seemingly, I
Speaker 5: guess we could get a three way. I don't think
Speaker 5: that the Rock and Roman Reigns little story here is over.
Speaker 5: It seems like they were too chummy, too quick, if
Speaker 5: you ask me. And even if it just so happens
Speaker 5: that the Rock was standing in front of Roman repeatedly,
Speaker 5: I think that they'll make something of that. So I
Speaker 5: expect a rift between those two and a big one
Speaker 5: coming up. But you know, maybe we will see the
Speaker 5: tag team match. Maybe we'll see something like a Lucha
Speaker 5: de Apuestas match where there's a bet of some sort
Speaker 5: on the line. Maybe we get a rivalry tag team
Speaker 5: match where the winners get to main event the second
Speaker 5: night of WrestleMania. Maybe maybe Aliens descend from the heavens,
Speaker 5: and you know, we get Vocane versus Tamera in the
Speaker 5: main event. Just to PE's me, I don't think that
Speaker 5: last one is gonna happen. But there's so many scenarios
Speaker 5: that they've presented in this main event scene now, and
Speaker 5: like I said, I think that coming out of this,
Speaker 5: one of the people that really is gonna make out
Speaker 5: the best is Seth because what was his role before?
Speaker 5: Right if he was just facing Cody, he's certainly in
Speaker 5: the second tier of angles of storylines going into WrestleMania,
Speaker 5: and now he's seemingly inserted into this situation with the
Speaker 5: Rock with Roman Reigns with Cody, and I'm telling you,
Speaker 5: the crowd was hot for this guy.
Speaker 4: I guess. You could be argued that it makes his
Speaker 4: situation harder or it makes him hotter, I guess. But
Speaker 4: then the end of the way he's been torn down,
Speaker 4: you know, you needed to give the guy something to
Speaker 4: stabilize him again. And you know the way he's been
Speaker 4: ripped by everybody who's being second tier and constantly making
Speaker 4: mistakes and everything else. And I don't know, I don't
Speaker 4: know how long he is for that title. Anyway, when
Speaker 4: you got Drew McIntyre and Damian Priest and Sam He's
Speaker 4: a now lurking around as well, it's going to be
Speaker 4: going to be kind of interesting there. WWE starting a
Speaker 4: new show that they announced last night, WWE Speed. It
Speaker 4: was announced by Michael Cole during the press conference Speed
Speaker 4: on X on X report that we're going all.
Speaker 5: The way here, all the amphetamines in your system, straight
Speaker 5: the ring.
Speaker 4: Pure, just weed, whites and wine style. It's just pure
Speaker 4: seventies trucker going on here. The Hollywood Reporter did not
Speaker 4: give a dollar figure, but says the agreement is for
Speaker 4: two years and fifty two episodes a year. WWE had
Speaker 4: filed for this trademark on December eighteenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: It also has already taped matches for the show. Taped
Speaker 4: him on December fifteenth, Axiom against Cedric Alexander and Bronson
Speaker 4: Reid against Nathan Frasier. Not sure if that is actually
Speaker 4: going to end up on the show or not, but
Speaker 4: they did at least tape it for speed purposes. Basically,
Speaker 4: code goes down like this, You're gonna have five minute
Speaker 4: time limit matches where the winner of the match receives
Speaker 4: a point, the loser is docked a point, and if
Speaker 4: the dout goes to a time limit draw, no points
Speaker 4: are awarded. A five minute countdown clock will appear on
Speaker 4: the video wall during the contest. So there you go.
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, Mike, on the plus side, I'm sure I'll
Speaker 5: enjoy the action, But in about ten years, I'll get
Speaker 5: another thing to talk about on the airwaves, along the
Speaker 5: lines of Brawl for All, along the lines of mixed
Speaker 5: Match Challenge.
Speaker 4: Super astros.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I used to love super astros.
Speaker 4: I did too, and I actually like Jack and Metal
Speaker 4: because I would see matches like sa Rios against Samoa
Speaker 4: Joe like you would have seen them with some of
Speaker 4: the most random matches in the late nineties and early
Speaker 4: two thousands. If you went early to the shows and
Speaker 4: caught the tapings of those types of events, you get
Speaker 4: some of the most random people in the world. But
Speaker 4: you also get some random people on Rampage and that
Speaker 4: show is tonight. It was taped on Wednesday the Footprint
Speaker 4: Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Here is your spoiler free lineup,
Speaker 4: because you'll never be able to guess who wins any
Speaker 4: of these matches. A six man tag the Undisputed Kingdom
Speaker 4: of Matt Tavin, Mike Bennett, and Roderick Strong against the
Speaker 4: Best Friends Chaos Trio of Orange Cassidy, Rocky Romero and Trmperetta.
Speaker 4: Matt Sidel will face off against Mystico, Chris stant Lander
Speaker 4: and Willow Nightingale against Ruby Soho and Sorea. I'm filthy.
Speaker 4: I know this one is going to be pretty tough
Speaker 4: to predict, but it's the Young Bucks against Mondo Rocks
Speaker 4: and Robbie Litt. Did they make those guys up do
Speaker 4: you think those are actually like guys on the Indies
Speaker 4: and their real names or do you think they brought
Speaker 4: you guys in and just gave them those names.
Speaker 5: They may be creative characters from the video game.
Speaker 4: It's something else. But yeah, apparently too. By the way,
Speaker 4: the Young Bucks are still wearing the all white, blood
Speaker 4: soaked gear that they had on Wednesday after they beat
Speaker 4: down Darby, Allen and Sting, So that is what's taking
Speaker 4: place on rampage Tonight. Collision is live on TNT Tomorrow
Speaker 4: Night from the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. Adam Copeland,
Speaker 4: who has become mister Saturday Night cut a promo aw
Speaker 4: International Champion Orange Cassidy will Facetomo hero Ishi non title
Speaker 4: match World Women's Champion Tony Storm against Queen Amanada, who
Speaker 4: is still red hot except she's oh and seventeen one's everything.
Speaker 5: She's on every show I lose over.
Speaker 4: And it's like they keep like, oh man, yeah, she's
Speaker 4: been hot, and it's like she kept losing. Now it's well,
Speaker 4: she's gonna get the big one at some point. How
Speaker 4: about just letting her win? How about that?
Speaker 5: My favorite part about it is that she doesn't win
Speaker 5: but she walks down the ramp and she puts her
Speaker 5: finger up, says she's number one. It's you know what,
Speaker 5: you're like number twenty eight if we're going with the rankings.
Speaker 5: But I don't know, but she's good. I like watching her,
Speaker 5: I mean, so do I, and I would give her
Speaker 5: the win here.
Speaker 4: The thing is, you don't have the match with when
Speaker 4: is the in March, right the end of March. Whenever
Speaker 4: it is.
Speaker 5: Tony Storm and Deiana.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's same thing with like Orange and Roderick Strong.
Speaker 4: You have so much time before that match. You can
Speaker 4: give Amanada a win here. I don't know how again
Speaker 4: may I don't know how it would play into things,
Speaker 4: but it would give you time to not only give
Speaker 4: her a win, you can build towards another match on
Speaker 4: TV where Storm beats her. But in that time Amanata
Speaker 4: can get a couple of wins and then she's again
Speaker 4: in a lot better position. I would think creatively, you know,
Speaker 4: perspective wise than she is right now. But I don't know.
Speaker 4: Ads Arshall probably just lose and that'll be that. But
Speaker 4: also on the show Espinge and Star Junior against Claudio
Speaker 4: and John Moxley, which all seems to be leading to
Speaker 4: Brian Danielsen against Mistico at some point, as well as
Speaker 4: the entire BCC led by Danielson ending up in Arena
Speaker 4: Mexico at some point or another. Can you ever see
Speaker 4: yourself in Arena Mexico on a Friday night.
Speaker 5: I'd absolutely love to do it. There's so many of
Speaker 5: those guys that I would love to get in there
Speaker 5: and wrestle against. What I've seen of hetches Saro is amazing.
Speaker 5: But I mean, let's be real, I've been doing this
Speaker 5: stuff at a high level for twenty years and I
Speaker 5: would tie this guy in knots. I'd submit him in
Speaker 5: seconds probably, so he's not the only one. But yeah,
Speaker 5: these CML guys are Oh it's like they've randomly got
Speaker 5: thrown on the AW programming. It's completely different than everything
Speaker 5: else on there. But I love it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where AW as WCW. That's where it pays
Speaker 4: off because you do get moments like this that are
Speaker 4: straight out of wc Again, AW at its best, sometimes
Speaker 4: it is WCW and at its absolute worst. Sometimes you go,
Speaker 4: well that's WCW. I mean, there's a lot of the
Speaker 4: same vibes, but one of the cool buy is you
Speaker 4: get what these guys are doing, and it's been pretty awesome.
Speaker 4: I do want to shoehorn this in because I love
Speaker 4: this show tonight.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 4: I've liked it anyway since its inception, but they got
Speaker 4: a lot of names attached to it this year. Adam
Speaker 4: was on your show, Abdallah. We're talking about JCW Jersey
Speaker 4: Championship Wrestling. First round of the Jersey j Cup is
Speaker 4: tonight on Triller Plus whatever Fight Plus is now Triller TV,
Speaker 4: Friday and Saturday. The j Cup is going to be
Speaker 4: taking place Tony Deppin against Matt Mkowski, Jonathan Gresham against
Speaker 4: Alec Price, Man Like Derese against Masha Slamovich, Joey Janella
Speaker 4: against Kerrie Morton, Nick Wayne against Marcus Mathers, the Great
Speaker 4: Sask against Speedball, Mike Bailey, Jordan Oliver against Jordan Oliver
Speaker 4: against Griffin McCoy. All I guess apparently throughout this tournament,
Speaker 4: Jordan Oliver's matches, all of them are also going to
Speaker 4: be for his JCW title, So as everything goes on
Speaker 4: on this thing, he's going to be defending his title.
Speaker 4: And then, because it is a GCW JCW show, you
Speaker 4: gotta have one scramble as a way in to try
Speaker 4: to get past the first round. Rena Yamashta, Myron Reed,
Speaker 4: Cole Raderick, Billy Starks, Jack Cartwheel, and Charles Mason are
Speaker 4: all going to be involved in that one. The only
Speaker 4: match on the show as of now that is not
Speaker 4: part of the tournament is Oh, yeah, yeah, I know
Speaker 4: you gotta be jealous about this. I just got Dominic
Speaker 4: Gereny and Kevin Koo will defend their GCW World Tag
Speaker 4: Team championship against the Astronauts to Kuya Nomura and Fu
Speaker 4: Minori abbe.
Speaker 5: Yes, protect your heads, gentlemen, there's gonna be some unprotected
Speaker 5: headbuts in your foreseeable future. I know from spending time
Speaker 5: with dom Gareni and Kevin ku that this is a
Speaker 5: match that they have wanted for I'm looking at my
Speaker 5: clock years now, and I know they face off against
Speaker 5: Abe in the past. I believe this will be the
Speaker 5: first time they've gone against no Mura, but I expect
Speaker 5: one of the hardest hitting matches that you'll see in
Speaker 5: all of twenty twenty four. Tonight just a.
Speaker 4: Cool card and again the thing will pick up tomorrow too.
Speaker 4: Again for anybody that's got their their Triller TV subscription,
Speaker 4: Fight TV subscription. It's going to be on there tom
Speaker 4: coming up. We've talked about it now for a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks. It's finally here. Tanahashi and Okada New Japan,
Speaker 4: New Beginning show in Osaka on Sunday, that as well
Speaker 4: as Danielson and Zach Saber Junior and the War Games match.
Speaker 4: You know, quickly, what do you think about what's going
Speaker 4: to take place.
Speaker 5: I expect a big time angle of some sort to
Speaker 5: go down in this War Games cage match. I don't
Speaker 5: know if somebody's gonna switch sides. I don't know if
Speaker 5: we get a new definitive leader of the United Empire.
Speaker 5: Maybe it's just pure chaos. Maybe there's chaos within the
Speaker 5: Bullet Club. We've seen a little bit of tease dissension
Speaker 5: over the past few months with the war Dogs. But
Speaker 5: it's well Osprey's last match. You know, this guy is
Speaker 5: going to go all out. I believe this match was
Speaker 5: his idea. I believe that this match is his baby,
Speaker 5: so I'd expect to be expect it to be nothing
Speaker 5: less than spectacular. Tata Hashi versus Okada, well, that's gonna
Speaker 5: be spectacular as well. And when we come back, we're
Speaker 5: gonna have a spectacular last few minutes of this show,
Speaker 5: aren't we, Mike.
Speaker 4: We are philthy. You know how to hit these time
Speaker 4: cues perfectly. We'll be back. Russium serve alive.
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Speaker 4: Back on the show, Mike simmerbbe filthy. Tom Lawler here
Speaker 4: with you in back to put a bow on this thing.
Speaker 4: Wrestling Observer Live, Nu Japan, New Beginning of osakat Tom
Speaker 4: any more thoughts here wrapping that thing up the careers
Speaker 4: of Okata in osprey when he comes to being New
Speaker 4: Japan proper regulars.
Speaker 5: No, okay, I mean, I'm sure we're going to see
Speaker 5: the back I'm sure we're going to see the back
Speaker 5: under the New Japan banner at some point, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't think regardless.
Speaker 4: Along back, I mean sure, yeah.
Speaker 5: But even if Okada goes to the WWE or whatever
Speaker 5: he does, I would assume that he has one, you know,
Speaker 5: final run back home with New Japan.
Speaker 4: At least I don't know Knackomara has it, and they
Speaker 4: left at the same age, so there's still a lot
Speaker 4: of people probably open Knackamoora comes back as well too,
Speaker 4: and it doesn't look like that's going to be the case.
Speaker 4: But Brian Danielson, Zach Saber Jr. Zach shoots on him,
Speaker 4: chokes him out.
Speaker 5: Zach's got to get the win here.
Speaker 4: I would, I would, I mean, I would hope. So
Speaker 4: I know Danielson's got a lot going on here, but
Speaker 4: I want to see zsj get the win here.
Speaker 5: I don't know that if Zach shot on him that
Speaker 5: he'd be the one walking out the victor. I watched
Speaker 5: some a little bit of Brian Danielson grappling a few
Speaker 5: weeks ago before the The ROH Show, the ROH taping
Speaker 5: that I worked, and I saw him submitting some fools
Speaker 5: in the rings a very it's a very pure tactical wrestlers.
Speaker 5: We're getting subbed by the dragon.
Speaker 4: Ye speaking of pure, where's you'd have been here?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 4: Is he gonna make his way down to read in
Speaker 4: Mexico at some point? He seems like he would be
Speaker 4: perfect for all this sort of stuff. He's gotta he's
Speaker 4: gotta get back into action here again soon.
Speaker 5: It's something of the low blow.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a got's to get back into action here
Speaker 4: so you can kick the crap out of him. That's
Speaker 4: what I'd really like to see here. I'd like to
Speaker 4: see crap out of Fred Rosser too, But I don't know.
Speaker 5: Tom.
Speaker 4: Where are you gonna be next?
Speaker 5: Where am I gonna be? I'll probably you back on
Speaker 5: these airwaves next week at some point, along with yourself, Mike,
Speaker 5: and if I'm not here, Brian Alvarez will be here
Speaker 5: holding down the fort. The Big boss Man coming at you.
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