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Rocking here, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.440 Bigfoot and everything our very own filthy Tom Lawler, our 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.320 very own filthy. He wasn't even filthy, he was clean, 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.280 Tom Lawler. He was scrubbed Tom Lawler, whatever antonym that 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.920 you want to come up with, that's what he was doing. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:38.080 He was Clark Kent last night working the WWE WrestleMania 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:42.520 forty press conference at the T Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.920 He is going to be filling us in on everything 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:50.400 that took place last night, all the vulgarity, all the partying, 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:54.200 where there amuse bouches and champagne passed around to the press. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.160 Well filthy, Tom is going to tell us as if 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.640 there was or not, so he's going to be here, 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.080 and of course that leads us all to Fox Tonight 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:05.000 and SmackDown and last week the Rock showed up. This week, 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.360 we know Triple H is going to show up in 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.639 the role of Paul Lavaca. 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WWE 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:18.640 held at press conference last night Thursday night in Las 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:22.440 Vegas at T Mobile Arena. He was streamed on both 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:28.520 Peacock and WWE's YouTube channel, among other places. Our own 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.359 filthy Tom Lawler was there. As I said, in his 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:36.760 role as Clark Kent clean, Tom Lawler scrubbed, Tom Lawler filthy. 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.960 What was it like being a credentialed member of the 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.680 media in that den of wolves that. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.920 You were in? It was everything I had ever dreamed of. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:54.200 Mike being able to be mere feet away from Sean Ross, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:05:02.560 sap mirror inches and you know seats away from Denise Salcedo. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:11.599 I saw Nick Housman before he unceremoniously left the premises and. 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.360 I on his own free will, of his own free 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.479 will or was he Yeah, I believe I believe he 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:17.640 talked about it on Twitter. 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.560 There was a big hang up because a lot of 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.320 the media members believed that this was a press conference, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.479 when in reality, it was more of a avenue for 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.200 some angles to be shot. There were no questions to 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:35.159 be asked. I had some of the hard hitters ready 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.760 to go, and of course they avoided me at all costs. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.040 But it was about an hour and a half long 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:48.760 of interviews, angles, pageantry, very similar to some of the 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.640 events we've seen from the UFC over the past few years, 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.360 where they talk about what's upcoming and they card out 0:05:55.400 --> 0:06:00.080 the fighters and they all talked trash and I I 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.080 mean in retrospect, this worked. Everybody's talking about it today. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:09.240 It's the big news in wrestling. We still still still 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.640 don't know what is going on with the WrestleMania main event. 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.760 Is it gonna be some one on one matches, Is 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.719 it gonna be a four way? Is it gonna be 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.679 a three way? Is it gonna be a tag match 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.360 and then a single This is gonna be some sort 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.040 of tournament. What is going on in the main event, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.800 we don't know. But what we do know is that 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:37.960 the Rock showed up and like you said, he bigfooted everybody. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.839 He big timed everybody, slapped Cody Roads in the face, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:45.240 buried Seth Rollins on the mic, stood in front of 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:50.479 Roman Reigns repeatedly, for better or worse, this was the 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.520 Rock Show in a lot of ways. What were your 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.920 thoughts on how it played out? Mike and I can 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.680 I can lend some more information as time goes on. 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:05.120 The little clips I saw of it, they made sure 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:09.000 to make it look like it was a big, rollicking affair, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.920 and it obviously was very loud from what the miking 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.800 was now wasn't as loud as I thought it was 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.520 going to be, because we ended up finding out later 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.760 on by way of WWE they were saying they were 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.920 about thirty four hundred people there. You know, if you 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.200 take that number at face value, that still is not 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.680 a lot of people to be put into the T 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.400 Mobile arena. When you went in there, did it look 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.600 like they had it originally? Were set up for more people, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.720 or did it look like they had it cordoned off 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.440 where they pretty much knew what they were getting in 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:45.800 there and they were prepared for that. 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:48.720 The setup to me seemed to be and I looked 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:50.680 at the seating chart afterwards to try to get a 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.600 better idea of how many people, you know, they expected, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.760 But the seating looked to be about one third to 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:01.360 half of the arena. There were a couple of sections 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:06.880 behind the hardcam where there were no fans. But you 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.480 said you thought there was gonna be a bigger pop, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.640 It was gonna be louder. It was insane inside there. 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.760 The fans were going crazy back and forth before any 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.480 of the superstars came out. There were dueling chants of 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:26.880 we want Cody, we want Rock Rocky sucks, Cody sucks 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.880 from different sides of the arena. So you you know, 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.320 like in WWE, you usually have the crowd, we'll do 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.240 a dueling chant and one side I'll say one thing 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.720 and one say the other. Well, here both sides were 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:42.320 saying multiple things, so it was chaos the entire time. 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.680 More of the case that the fans that were there 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.559 were saying everything just because they love being there and 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:50.920 they love chanting stuff, and they're actually saying Cody sucks 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.079 and then saying Roman sucks as well. 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.880 I definitely caught a few people saying we want, we 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:02.920 want Cody, Cody sucks. But they were into it regardless, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.120 and they were into pretty much everybody that showed up 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.679 there from the onset. Michael Cole was the first one 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.960 out alongside Cmpunk, who the crowd went crazy for. There 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:16.040 was no waffling back and forth. Cm Punk was over 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.679 big time with the crowd, as was Big E, as 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.160 was Pat McAfee. The crowd chanted all of their names. 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.680 There was even a Michael Cole chant from the Yes, 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:31.800 there was a Michael Cole chant from the audience. Those 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.160 were the hosts. They were kind of set up in 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:39.840 the media section, I guess you could say, despite referencing 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.080 it many times, Cmpunk did not punch anyone in the face, 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.800 although I thought he had a good point in that 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.320 he thinks Cody and Seth Rolins should have stood up 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:54.000 for themselves more and punched back at the Rock and 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.320 Roman reigns in that main event segment. But after we 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:00.640 got a little bit of talking from the top heads, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.480 they showed a video package Triple h who will appear 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.960 on SmackDown this evening came out and he gave a 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.880 long rundown of WrestleMania history, some of the superstars who 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.840 have helped build it. No mention of Vince McMahon, of course. 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.840 Also no mention of Pete Rose, who's been a star 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.400 of WrestleMania many years. No mention of Doink the clown 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.960 who once showed up and faced off against himself at WrestleMania. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:35.199 So some of the are Any mention of Akebono, No mention. 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:41.960 Of Akebono versus Big Show. No yeah, but uh yeah. 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.800 Triple H then said are you ready? But first you 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.160 let us know we ain't seen nothing yet. It's a 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.800 new era and we ain't seen nothing yet, which quite 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.600 frankly worries me based on what we've seen recently. Then 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:01.360 he got us going are you ready? Well, you better be, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:08.960 and then nothing happened. Michael Michael Michael called Pat McAfee, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.520 went to a video package of Biaka bel Air I Believe, who, 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:18.080 of course the crowd loved. She left. We had Ria 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.120 Ripley come out a big star, and of course she 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.720 was cut off by Becky Lynch, who said that if 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.720 Ria Ripley can get past Naya Jacks. Becky is gonna 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:34.480 take Mammy. She's gonna bend her over. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:35.520 Mammy. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.760 Yeah, she said she's gonna bend her over and teacher 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.160 who's boss, because that's what happens when the man comes around. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:48.439 Crowd loved that, as did I, and then we had 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.720 the main events segment. I guess you could call it 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.840 with Roman reigns. He came out, he said, it's not 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.240 up to Cody, It's up to me, and I'm choosing 0:11:56.280 --> 0:12:01.720 the rock for WrestleMania. Well, actually, Seth Rollins was out 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.800 there first. I apologize. I've got this mixed up. 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.199 He's easy to forget about it, especially the way he's 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.040 been treated here by everybody recently. 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.520 I will be honest. I thought he was over to 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.520 a degree that I did not expect, especially live. The 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.640 crowd went crazy for him. They would not stop cheering 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.000 his song, and really I thought he came out looking 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.160 better at the end of this than he did going 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.760 into it, because he was the one getting in the 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.319 rock and Romans face at the end of it, not Cody, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.320 as Cody had been slapped and Cody, actually I'd have 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:34.480 to roll that a knockdown technically because he took a 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:39.079 knee off those four fingers to the face from Old Dwayne. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.640 But we'll cover more of the Wrestle Media kickoff show 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:52.320 when we come back on Wrestling Observer Lives. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.560 Both shots do it anyway, having sex and noble guys 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:02.760 the windows. It's gonna be a the President. 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.720 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.480 and Mike simperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.240 Back on the show, Mike simper Viv here Filthy Tom 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:30.080 Lawler talking about his experiences yesterday in Las Vegas, where 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.520 he lives. WWE came to his city the same way 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.200 the Super Bowl has come to his city. They had 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.120 to actually get a pass. They had to inform Filthy 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.360 Tom that they were coming to town and if it 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.480 was okay to have their event there, and Filthy said, yes, 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.480 you can come on in. It's a flight zone for you. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.199 It's not for everybody though. But Filthy tell us more 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:57.480 about this main event here, because we actually got a 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:01.200 flow chart, which I was not expecting out of the Rock, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:05.160 who went and described his entire family history to us. 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:11.280 Yeah, the Rock let us know before there were shots fired. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:15.560 That he was gonna show us something really cool on 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.280 the screen, is what he said. I got something really cool, 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.040 That's what he said. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.400 I got something really cool to show you guys, And 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.200 you guys wasn't gonna be one of his movies. 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:30.600 He's wow. He said, you better respect it. And then 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.400 they threw up a graphic of the bloodline family tree, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:40.000 which urgitated the graphic. I don't know, Mike, I don't 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.240 know if this was knowledge to me before and I 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:48.160 have just seemingly forgotten it. But my brain was blown 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:58.600 when the rock said, are great grandfathers took a blood 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:04.400 oath to be come family? Is that legally binding? Can 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.240 you do that? These guys are not, so they're not 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:15.000 technically related by blood? Well, their ancestors were blood brothers. Well, 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.880 I mean, what does a blood oath consist of? I 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:19.000 need more information. 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.480 Well, I mean it's usually the the slicing of a 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:29.360 hand or something, and then that together, you know. Apparently 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:33.240 what Jack Briscoe says that oly Anderson tried to do 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:37.640 to him to keep Georgia Championship Wrestling together. And I 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.120 don't know if I can actually say in our politically 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:43.920 correct age, what Jack Briscoe's response to the polish Ole 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:48.280 Anderson was but suffice to say he was not down 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:48.600 with it. 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.760 Well, the Maya, Villa and NII families were down with 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:58.960 it because now we have the bloodline. And as you said, 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.920 the Rock through that graft up. The crowd went mild 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:08.800 at best, which I believe was the well I think 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:12.240 in some ways it was the intended reaction. There's no 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.840 way with the delivery he gave that he expected the 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.040 crowd to cheer this graphic when it was thrown up there. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:24.800 This of course leads to Cody Rhodes coming out, because 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:30.200 the Bloodbine is not the only royal family. As the 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:35.400 Rock and Roman reigns have said now many times, Cody 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:36.240 Rhodes came out. 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:41.000 Oh I thought you're gonna say, Robert Fuller, Now you 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.240 got a I apologize, I'm sorry. 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:46.080 Sorry. 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:52.880 So Cody, Cody comes out. He says that their ancestors 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:56.320 would have been ashamed if they could see them. Right now, 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:03.080 the Rocks slaps them. I've got the timeline all mixed 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.119 up because prior to this, Cody came out and what 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:11.560 he said was I've got a choice to make and 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:17.960 for WrestleMania. I choose Roman Rain, so we now had 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:23.119 Roman Rains choose the Rock, Cody choose Roman Reins. We 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:27.800 don't know what's going on, Cody. Do they know what's 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.800 going on? Sorry, I don't know that they need to 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.840 right now. Enough people are seemingly invested in it and 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:39.720 making up excuses for the lack of a coherent storyline 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:44.320 right now, So hey, I mean, it's not it. It's 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.120 getting buzz, which is what it was intended to do. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:51.600 So Cody says that he wants Roman Reins. He says 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.240 that their answers would be ashamed, and then the Rock. 0:17:56.720 --> 0:17:59.119 If you look at the picture of the Rock connecting 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.879 with this slap on Cody's face, the Rock's hand is 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.560 about the same size as poor Cody's head, seemingly four 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.919 fingers to the side of the jaw. Cody takes a 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.359 knee triple h and the staff get in his way. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:19.880 Seth Rollins, who's injured? May I mind you? Has to 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.640 stand up for not only Cody Rhodes but also himself, 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:28.119 as he had been eviscerated, buried by the Rock and 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:32.639 Roman Reigns have been called the B team multiple times. 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:40.359 The loser squad by the Bloodline members. And now after 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:47.679 the live action we were left with no answers, seemingly 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.800 and Michael Cole Seampunk Biggie Pat McAfee. They wrapped it 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:57.560 up at the desk and then we went backstage for 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:02.160 one more question for Triple H and you know, before 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.880 he could really give much of an answer, the Rock 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.040 and Roman Rains come into frame along with Paul Hayman. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:14.560 The Rock is so large that at many times you 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.439 can't see where Roman Reigns is. I don't know if 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.400 this is by design, I don't know if this is happenstance, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:28.000 but the Rock certainly in the foreground. He's he black 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:33.879 adamed Roman right out of the picture and he says, 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:42.520 if Cody talks that ish about our family again, I'll 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:51.399 slap the freaking taste out of his mouth, something to 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.680 that effect. It was bleeped out, apparently. If you check 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:57.640 my ex my Twitter at Filthy Tom Lawler, you can 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:02.200 find some of the only unedited footage of this promo, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:08.080 as a real broadcast journalist would provide. And that was 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.240 essentially the end of the Kickoff show. Mike. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.520 Was there a mad rush to get out of there, 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.320 or did it look like a lot of people spent 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.280 the twenty five hundred dollars or whatever it was to 0:20:20.000 --> 0:20:23.760 get their fourteen carre of gold lanyard or whatever it 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:27.240 is and have a drink in a conversation with Triple H. 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.120 There was a mad rush by me to get out 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:30.880 of there. I'll tell you that much. 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.639 Hey, you know, did you there was a line? 0:20:33.680 --> 0:20:36.080 I'll tell you there was a huge line wrapped around 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.320 the building when I showed up at about three o'clock 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:41.040 of people waiting to get in. 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:45.840 How far away from there is the sphere? Because was 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.040 there a dude who walked up in the sphere yesterday? 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:49.320 Like? 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:51.639 How do you do that? I'm scared of heights, so 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.720 I can't imagine going like a foot up without throwing 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.800 up off the thing, like this dude walked up the sphere? 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.840 Yeah, I believe it may have been on Wednesday a 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:06.880 guy scaled the sphere in protest, I believe, for women's 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:11.960 pregnancy rights. I saw today that he caused over one 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:17.840 hundred thousand dollars worth of damage. And while I have 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:24.639 wholeheartedly for what he is, don't do something stupid like 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:28.119 this people. I hope this bonehead has to pay for 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:29.280 it out of his own pocket. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.720 I would assume so. I would assume so. But does 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:36.439 that have anything to do with tonight's SmackDown. No, but 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:42.920 it's a way to transition into it because it's. 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.600 About two miles away. As my guest, thank you, thank you. 0:21:45.080 --> 0:21:47.920 But the Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina is very 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:51.440 far away from Las Vegas. But that is where SmackDown 0:21:51.480 --> 0:21:53.920 is going to be tonight. As I mentioned a little 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:57.080 bit earlier, this afternoon, we got the announcement that Paul 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.919 Triple h Leveck would be there to address all of 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:04.080 fallout from yesterday's press conference in Vegas. Also, they added 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:06.960 Bailey to the show to discuss being kicked out of 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.200 Damage Control and choosing Eo Sky as her opponent for WrestleMania. 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:16.800 Also announced Women's Elimination Chamber qualifying match Bianca bel Air 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:21.320 against Meechen Mia Yim. We already have Becky Lynch in 0:22:21.320 --> 0:22:25.080 that match. Liv Morgan will face Zoe Stark on Raw 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:28.040 on Monday to find out who's going to be the 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:32.760 next person after Tonight's match, leading into the the perth 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:37.080 Elimination Chamber Number one Contenders match for the WWE Tag 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:41.919 team titles Pete Dunn and Tyler Bate against diy GM. 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:45.679 Nick Aldis will be announcing the new opponent for United 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:50.280 States Champion Logan Paul. Last week, the show did two 0:22:50.359 --> 0:22:54.480 point four six nine million viewers, the fifth week in 0:22:54.480 --> 0:22:57.320 a row that it's done over two point three eight 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.720 million viewers. The rating of the key eighteen to forty 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:03.919 nine year old demographic point seventy four, nine hundred and 0:23:04.000 --> 0:23:08.680 seventy thousand viewers. As Tom mentioned, this is getting a 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:11.520 lot of buzz regardless of what you think about it. 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:16.720 If you're judging a success by the amount of mainstream 0:23:16.760 --> 0:23:20.280 attention that you get and the television ratings that you get, 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:23.679 there is no doubt that this rustle Mania and the 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:27.400 bill to it is going to be considered incredibly successful. 0:23:28.000 --> 0:23:30.240 It's just in its moment right now when you have 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:33.879 a Cody Rhodes that has told Roman Reigns that he 0:23:34.000 --> 0:23:36.480 had to have his belt to finish the story because 0:23:36.480 --> 0:23:39.399 that was the one that was in my father's hands 0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:42.400 that they ripped out of it at Madison Square Garden. 0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:47.480 And then he tells the man who is just completely 0:23:47.520 --> 0:23:50.720 emasculated his opponent what we thought was going to be 0:23:50.800 --> 0:23:54.040 his opponent and calling him second best and go and 0:23:54.080 --> 0:23:57.960 be Cody the best of the rest. Cody said, yes, 0:23:58.160 --> 0:23:59.720 I do want your belt, but I think that's a 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:01.720 great idea. I do want to be the best of 0:24:01.760 --> 0:24:04.440 the rest. And I'll get back to you later because 0:24:04.480 --> 0:24:06.439 the Rocks got something to say about it. Then he 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:10.560 comes out and says, no, I decided it is going 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:13.240 to be you, and then the Rocks pissed off, and 0:24:13.359 --> 0:24:17.040 the Rock and Roman are together, and I guess the 0:24:17.080 --> 0:24:20.320 new speculation, Tom, We're going to get a tag team 0:24:20.359 --> 0:24:23.680 match on Night one of WrestleMania, and then we're going 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:28.800 to get I guess two championship matches for both Seth 0:24:28.920 --> 0:24:36.560 Rollins and for Roman Reigns against Cody Rhodes on Sundays WrestleMania. 0:24:37.359 --> 0:24:40.440 I guess we'll see what Tom thinks about that. I 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:43.320 already know what the chat thinks about that. Maybe we'll 0:24:43.400 --> 0:24:44.960 let you know what they think. We'll get back from 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:46.840 break Wrestling Observer Alive. 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:51.600 Because the windows it's gonna be there. 0:24:58.160 --> 0:24:59.119 I'm again that's. 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:00.320 What I You. 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:05.760 Are listening to Wrestling Observer Live on the Sports Byline 0:25:05.800 --> 0:25:09.920 Broadcasting Network. 0:25:11.960 --> 0:25:16.439 So except for Babe Filthy, Tom Lawler here wrestumes are alive. 0:25:17.160 --> 0:25:18.840 But I was coming in hot there wasn't it? 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:21.040 Ghost damn right? 0:25:21.960 --> 0:25:25.800 Oh man? Not only dead, I think are the rugged 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:28.760 man in that one? And uh who else? Cool g 0:25:28.920 --> 0:25:32.480 rap actually and that one is well too, so a 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:35.320 lot of New York there going on there anyway, that 0:25:35.720 --> 0:25:38.080 none of that matters right now, filthy, and I don't 0:25:38.119 --> 0:25:40.360 want to stay on this topic for a whole lot 0:25:40.440 --> 0:25:44.760 longer here, but the speculation right now the Rock and 0:25:44.880 --> 0:25:48.280 Roman reigns against Cody and Seth for Night one. That 0:25:48.480 --> 0:25:51.640