WEBVTT - AEW Chicago Residency 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:16.440 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.840 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:22.880 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervv. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.640 Right, you're ready, You're ready. 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:26.440 Let's get it off. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.480 How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.280 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:40.080 three Eastern Sundays, three Pacific, sixth Eastern Saturday Mornings with 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:44.160 Jim Valley, Today Pacific one Eastern Sundays with andrews Arian. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.680 And it's Wednesday here on the show, and you know 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:49.680 what that means. We got a lot to talk about 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:54.240 here today. Filthy Tom Lawler is gonna join us as 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.720 we get in all of the news. And tonight is 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:03.760 the follow up show to aw's All in pay per View, 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.600 their version of WrestleMania. This is their version of the 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.640 Raw after WrestleMania. And we have a lot of segments, well, 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.120 we have three segments announced for the show. Two of 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.000 them are victory speeches, and then we've got a We've 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:18.880 got a match. This is the first of I believe 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:24.880 six shows. They're doing a Chicago residency, and I want 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:26.880 to talk about that because a lot of people I've 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.480 seen a lot online, so I want to address the 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.760 Chicago residency, so we'll get into that here today. We 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.119 also have NXT from last night, which was a go 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.679 home show for a TNA pay per view which is 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.760 coming up on Sunday. TNA Slamiversary is Sunday, and the 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:48.440 main event is an NXT wrestler defending the TNA title 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.960 in the main event of a TNA pay per view 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.040 against two TNA wrestlers, so we'll tell you about that. 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:59.680 There's also a NXT versus TNA Women's title versus Women's 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:04.720 title match where someone's ending up with both of the belts, 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.920 so that's interesting. And then of course we got all 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:12.480 of the news, including more on Seth Rawlins and Adam 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:16.320 Cole and Roman Reigns and Tony Kahn did a big 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.680 interview talking about a lot of different topics. 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Huge week of fight sports for me this weekend. 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:39.440 So oh yeah, what's going on this weekend? 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:44.680 Dustin Poitier's retirement fight for the BMF title against Max 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:51.160 Holloway UFC three eighteen, Alexander Usik defends the World heavyweight 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:55.839 the undisputed World heavy eight title in boxing against Daniel 0:06:55.880 --> 0:07:00.560 du Bois and Manny Paciao also fights Saturday. There's a 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:06.200 big KSWMMA event in Poland, and like I said, just 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.920 keeps going, never ends, which hey, I'm cool with it. 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.560 Nagoyo Sumo bas show is going on right now. Turkish 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.320 Oil Wrestling three times a week? Can't get enough? 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.920 Is there really three times a week for this Turkish 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:21.080 oil wrestling. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:27.040 Brother there were like fifty Vaspelavan's head wrestlers going at 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:31.040 it today in the ninety five degree heat in Turkey. 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:35.520 Three times a week is as many shows as WWE's running. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.000 Is there like a Ross SmackDown or an NXT of 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:40.200 Turkish Oil Wrestling? 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.480 No, it's largely the same guys. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.280 Wow, that's a lot of oily wrestling. Well, listen, Tonight 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:52.040 is dynamited as the follow up to the to the 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.480 All In Show, and I'm pumped. Hey, it looks like 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:58.600 we got we got a hangman. Page is gonna open 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.720 the show with a victory speech. You've got a victory 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.680 speech from Tony Storm coming up and then man, this, 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.240 I thought for sure this John Moxley was gonna take 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.640 some time off, but nope, John Moxley, Claudio, and Wheeler 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.560 are gonna be facing Hangman Hobbes and Mark Brisco. So 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.840 we're just barreling on through to see what's next. And 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.120 they are the first of I believe six shows. It 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:28.560 is a Chicago residency. And you know, I got a 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:31.200 tweet today which I want to read here because I 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.680 don't respond to these on Twitter at least, but I 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:38.800 want to respond to it here because it's kind of funny. 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:42.600 S guy here goes, wonder what WBD shareholders are thinking? 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.679 Did they pay a hundred eighty million you see a 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:48.480 wrestling by a studio show producing a ballroom? Imagine if 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:51.520 WWE took the Netflix money and produce shows from the PC. 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:56.800 Gotta be something with this, Okay, So first off, I'm 0:08:56.800 --> 0:09:00.720 pretty sure the WBD shareholders are not gravely concern with 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.560 where AW is running tonight. And second, do you realize 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.920 what like you're a shareholder of some things, aren't you, Tom? 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:13.000 I am okay shareholder in TKO over the tkoh in fact, yeah, 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.120 so so like if you're a shareholder in TKO like, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.439 what is your concern where raw runs, or is your 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:21.480 concern about whether or not TKO makes money, because then you, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.480 as a shareholder, make money. My concern is with them 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.680 making money. If you're also in this situation, if you're WBD, right, 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:33.360 your concern is the television ratings and getting advertisements. It's 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.120 not necessarily how many people are in that arena. Sure, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.320 it's better to have more people, But if there's two 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:42.160 thousand people and it's packed and it looks great on 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.880 TV and it brings in more viewers, more advertisers, that's 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.840 better than having, you know, five thousand people in a 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.680 worse atmosphere that doesn't pay off. 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.560 Now, I will say that it is. It is. It 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:59.760 is somewhat concerning that they are running a eleven hundred 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.880 c building that isn't sold out yet for the first 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:07.480 show after all in, that is mildly concerning. You know, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.480 you should have sold that thing out like instantly. This 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:13.040 is the all in post show. But the actual building 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.920 itself is like, I mean, that's an incredible looking building. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.400 I don't know how anybody could like listen, we saw 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:24.240 when AW was running large buildings and there was nobody there. Okay, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.840 we watched that. Okay, then they started moving to smaller 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:32.440 buildings like cool, unique buildings, and yeah, there's less people 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:36.320 in the buildings, but dude, it looks way better on television. 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.240 The crowds are way better on television. Like, I can't 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.480 see how you can see this as a negative other 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.319 than well, if you're if you're running an eleven hundred 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.080 and seventy seat building, you shouldn't have only eleven hundred 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.520 tickets sold like it should be sold out. Other than that, 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:56.239 I see no issue whatsoever with running smaller, cool looking buildings, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.400 packing them and having like a cool react, a cool 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.480 reacting Brian. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.680 I can almost guarantee you one of the talking points 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.559 after this show tonight is going to be how awesome 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:12.040 this place looks this Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom. Dude, it 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:16.200 looks like nothing else you see on TV wrestling, any 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.000 sporting event really. I mean, we watched guys fight in 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.120 Spain and like you know, out in the street and 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.080 like Colisseum area and that's pretty wild, But you don't 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.040 see that on WWE. It's the same thing over and over. 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:33.400 It's the same homogenized product, no matter what arena they're in. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:38.360 It looks the same and aw separating themselves by running 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.680 at these cool places is a great idea. I'm telling you. 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:43.120 People are gonna see the show. They're gonna be like, 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.319 we need more venues like this. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:51.400 All right, Well we've also got Well we'll talk about 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:54.840 NXT later on tonight, which, by the way, also is 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:58.920 in a small building every Tuesday. I've never heard concern 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.880 from shareholders about the small building they run NXT in 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:03.400 every week. 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:06.200 No, you would hear concerned, Brian if they were out 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.040 on the road and there'd be nobody in the crowd. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.319 Well, sure of course that would be that would be 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:12.040 a big concern. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:13.640 All right. 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:18.679 So seth Rawlins guest hosted The Rich Eisen Show this afternoon, 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:21.680 and he had an update on his knee. Are you 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:22.280 ready for this? 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:25.520 Did he? 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:30.280 He said, I was in Birmingham, Alabama, on Monday, but 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.680 there was too much swelling in my knee, and so 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.560 in a week or two i'll be reevaluated in Los Angeles. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:41.200 Hope to have a clearer picture, but I think I'll 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:46.600 be on the shelf for an extended period of time. Okay, 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.600 I still I still will go with the idea that 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:58.200 his knee is not great, okay, like he's maybe something 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.280 needs to be scoped out whatever, Okay, But I am 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.480 now firmly of the opinion still that what happened on 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.960 Saturday Night's main event was a work and that they 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.800 essentially lied to everybody and are still lying to people, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:20.680 and that the whole reason and somebody like yesterday were like, well, 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.680 what was even the point of this work? Why was 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.160 this even done? What was the point? Well, the point 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.160 is because this story is going to be, and literally 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:31.960 he said it here in this interview, the story is 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:36.200 going to be that because he was injured injured on 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.720 Saturday Night's main event, he will be out an extended 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.240 period of time, and in fact, he will be back 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:45.920 sooner than everybody expects to do a cash in now, 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.840 because I think this has kind of gotten out. I 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.920 don't actually think that he's going to cash in its SummerSlam, 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:57.360 because my presumption is everybody now figures, well, you know, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.000 they're gonna say he's out for a long time, but 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.760 he's going to cash in it, Solam. That now seems 0:14:01.800 --> 0:14:04.600 too obvious to me. So I'm thinking that the cash 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:08.360 in will be maybe shortly after Summer Slam, and not 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:15.880 on summer slam itself. But we'll see. You know, you 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.040 mentioned Tom that this was the same knee that he 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.040 had injured before, right. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.320 Yeah, I believe it was the same one when he 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.560 remember he came off the top with like a power 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:31.600 bomb attempt on Cain, I believe of all people years ago. 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.080 By the point is like he he explained very much 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.880 what happened to him at Saturday Night's the main event. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:42.200 He he heard his knee buckle and pop and then 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:45.480 he went down. And I mean the point of this 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:50.240 is he is he has legitimately seriously injured his knee before, 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:54.880 so he knows what it feels like, he knows the symptoms, 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.800 he knows the post uh you know, the post injury 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.160 swelling and everything. We can confidently talk as if he 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.600 injured himself seriously this time. But I think I think 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:10.040 what I can say is because hey, listen, I'm not 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.880 I'm not i'm not a doctor, i'm not i'm not analyzing, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.720 I'm not you know, in there looking at his actual 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.280 knee and looking at MRI results or whatever. But I 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:25.560 will say I would bet you dollars to donuts he 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:30.440 cashes in long before nine months to a year I 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:34.000 think that's abundantly clear by what's going on here. I'll 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.440 just leave it at that. We're gonna do a break 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.120 back in a mom with more news, and then we'll 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.000 do the NXT reports. Observer Live. 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:10.000 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:13.760 and Mike Sempervivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:19.320 Back of the show, Brian Alvarez here, Wrestling Observer Live. 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.920 Filthy Tom is joining us, and yes, there is no 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:27.040 After Dark Radio today. It's a replay. But as Tom 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:31.480 noted during the break there is there is paranormal news 0:16:31.520 --> 0:16:41.600 out there. Dan Rivera, a paranormal investigator, died unexpectedly during 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:47.560 the Annabelle the Doll tour and I believe that Old 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:49.560 Dom brought this to my attention as well. You saw 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.000 this today. 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:50.200 Dom. 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:51.400 It's all over the news, isn't it. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.600 Yeah, fifty four year old he's here somewhere, Tom, isn't 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.360 there fifty four year old Dan Rivera. Yes, the New 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:04.960 England Paranormal group there. I mean, looks like he was 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:09.400 in good health before this unexpected passing. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:13.920 So police really found nothing unusual at the scene, I mean, 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:18.000 aside from a guy dying and nothing unusual doll at 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.760 the scene. So Annabelle the doll was a doll it 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.520 was given to ed Lorraine Warren that was claimed to 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.960 be haunted by like a six year old girl, and 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.840 so they put it in their little paranormal museum and 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.359 then they were like stories that, you know, the doll 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.520 had caused people to bleed and everything like that, and 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.439 so they woul end up going on. They were taking 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.760 the doll on a tour and the doll allegedly vanished, 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:46.040 but it turned out it was a It hadn't vanished, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.320 it wasn't actually missing. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:49.520 It was viral marketing. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.800 It was viral marketing. Basically the doll had escaped or whatever. 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:56.520 But now this paranormal investigator on tour with the doll 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.160 has died. So now this is I mean, this is 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:04.879 everywhere USA Today, The New York Post, the Today's Show, 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:12.200 news Week, I mean, Eonline, everybody is talking about this story. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:18.280 But yeah, haunted dolls. Haunted dolls like one of those things. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.760 You know, you probably will disagree with this, Tom because 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.520 you know you're normal, but haunted dolls are one of 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.640 those things where like, I don't believe in haunted dolls 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:30.119 at all. However, if there were a haunted doll in 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.480 my presence, I would be on my best behavior because 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.600 it's like the old saying, like you don't believe it, 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:37.320 but just in case, you know what I'm saying, just 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:40.159 in case, you know, don't mess with those haunted dolls. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:45.560 I'm certainly not going to tempt Anna Belle with putting 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:51.160 my fate in her hands. So keep me away, all right? 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.960 We had back to actual wrestling news. 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.080 Well can I get it? Can I get in this story? 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.560 Because this one's equally as bizarre? What's that to me? 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:01.320 Do not about Connor No? 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:06.800 Last month KFC, one of My Guilty Pleasures, announced that 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:11.320 they had released their bantamweight champion, and today it came 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:16.960 out that the reason why is because, according to mm 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:22.600 A Mania, I believe this is Alex Bouhennon. According to 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:27.200 video that was obtained, there was a verbal altercation between 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:31.359 Alberto Bloss, who was the champion, and Joel Romero, an 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:35.280 American top team. This argument escalated moved to the parking 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.600 lot where Blass allegedly attempted to strike Romero with his car. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:44.680 After missing him twice, he exited the vehicle retrieved a 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:50.680 sword from his trunk, excuse me, and struck Romero twice 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.840 in the arm in hand, so he dropped him with 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.800 his sword. Correct. Romero was hospitalized. He attended all the 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:01.960 court dates, did not test to fy and bloss ultimately 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.480 acquitted by a jury on all He. 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.280 Was acquitted of sword stabbing. 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.480 Ultimately acquitted by a jury on all charges dating back. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.560 It was a jury December twenty twenty four. 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:17.200 My god, when did this allegedly happen? 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:23.240 I believe December twenty twenty four or okay filed They 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:25.200 filed twenty twenty two, so. 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.480 Nobody had There were no witnesses, nobody had videos. 0:20:28.560 --> 0:20:31.639 Urol Romero fought multiple times in twenty twenty two. He 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:36.159 kept it to himself. Wild what a story? 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.960 How about that? Don't mess with a guy with his sword. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.040 It's it's a more effective weapon than a car. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.680 Oh hey, maybe maybe Yowell had a paint pen. 0:20:48.800 --> 0:20:48.960 So. 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:56.080 Tony Kahan was on the Good Karma Wrestling podcast and 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:57.600 he had a couple of things to say. It was 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.760 asked about Adam Cole and he said he disagreed with 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:02.680 Adam Cole saying in his all in promo that he 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:05.679 let people down He said if Cole could have been 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.240 out there, he would have been. He made the call 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:11.000 early Saturday after the Ring of Honor Supercart of Honor 0:21:11.040 --> 0:21:13.760 show wrapped. It was a hard conversation, but he was 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.919 glad Cole was honest with him, even though we are 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.199 all sad we don't get to see Adam Cole wrestle 0:21:19.240 --> 0:21:21.800 for a while. Hopefully he will be able to return 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.479 in some capacity, but definitely he needs time off. After 0:21:25.520 --> 0:21:30.399 talking to him, he was asked about all In. He 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.720 said it was the best week ever on Amazon Prime 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:37.160 due to a ten dollars Prime Video credit promotion they ran. 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:40.040 He only has digital buys, which he said were through 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.720 the roof, and he expects cable and satellite numbers of 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:45.639 all I actually expect that all In did like a 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.720 really good number. I think it probably it may have 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.359 even done the best number they've done all year, because 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.919 they really did do a good job building it up 0:21:53.960 --> 0:21:57.960 as like their WrestleMania. And this will be the end 0:21:58.000 --> 0:22:02.040 of this death writer's Hangman story line. He was asked 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:06.639 about Michael Oku, friend of the show. Michael Oku. He 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:11.200 was on Supercar to Honor against Etchi Sero, and he said, 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:14.600 we will have Michael Oku back very soon, and then 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:18.560 he plugged Forbidden Door in London. Aw's going to be 0:22:18.560 --> 0:22:21.520 in Glasgo, Scotland for the go Home edition of Dynamite Collision, 0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:24.320 so he might be part of that as well. And 0:22:24.400 --> 0:22:29.960 he also said that he attributed the resurgence, the creative 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.520 resurgence in twenty twenty five to taking less of a 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.280 quote committee of play callers approach and now he's more 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:42.159 hands on as a play caller. So basically, you know, 0:22:42.280 --> 0:22:44.639 every time there's something that people like or don't like 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:48.560 in AW, I always say the same thing. If you 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:52.639 like it, it's Tony. If you don't like it, it's Tony. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.800 Does a person like Mercedes have some influence or a 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:00.800 Moxley or a Jericho or you know somebody like that, Well, yeah, 0:23:00.840 --> 0:23:03.359 of course they have some influence. But at the end 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.000 of the day, if you like it, it's Tony Khan. 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:09.400 If you don't like it, it's not Tony Khan. Now 0:23:09.440 --> 0:23:11.399 that's not to say that he is one hundred percent 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:15.040 responsible for everything, because guys approach him with ideas all 0:23:15.080 --> 0:23:19.640 the time, and guys will argue his ideas and sometimes 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:22.720 he will say, okay, you know what we'll do it 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:27.359 your way. But still that's his call. So at the 0:23:27.440 --> 0:23:29.560 end of the day, if you like something in AW, 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:32.840 it is Tony, and if you do not like something, 0:23:32.960 --> 0:23:35.720 it is also Tony, and then you can go into 0:23:35.760 --> 0:23:39.439 semantics from there. But that is that. 0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:44.200 Brian. Do you think that this pay per view broke 0:23:44.240 --> 0:23:45.080 two hundred thousand? 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:48.920 I don't think so. No, I would bet. I would bet. 0:23:49.359 --> 0:23:52.000 I think normally they're doing in like the one thirty range, 0:23:52.720 --> 0:23:55.320 so I could see this one doing one fifty five, 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:57.840 one sixty something like that. I don't I would be 0:23:57.880 --> 0:23:58.879 surprised at two hundred. 0:23:59.480 --> 0:24:02.040 I mean, all in twenty twenty four did a year 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:03.600 ago did one hundred and seventy thousand? 0:24:04.160 --> 0:24:07.440 Yeah, it's so we're very different, dude. We're still down. 0:24:08.040 --> 0:24:12.080 I mean, even though like there's been a resurgence of AW. 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:14.920 I mean if you look at year over year, I mean, 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:18.640 they're still down a lot, especially in eighteen to forty nine, 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:23.760 eighteen to thirty four. So they may hit one seventy one, 0:24:23.840 --> 0:24:26.640 seventy five, but I would still be very surprised by 0:24:26.640 --> 0:24:30.320 two hundred. I'm not gonna say it's impossible, obviously, but 0:24:30.400 --> 0:24:37.840 I would be pretty surprised. Goldberg, Uh, he's got some 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:38.639 stuff to say. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:40.719 Well, we gotta wait two weeks. 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:45.880 He says, he will have more to say in two weeks, 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:48.439 and Ariel asked if he had signed an NDA that 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:52.600 expired in two weeks, and he responded, yeah, let's just 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:55.080 say that. So what does that mean? 0:24:57.320 --> 0:25:00.760 Did you see his comments about obviously? So did his 0:25:00.840 --> 0:25:04.840 comment about taking the chop from Walter or gun. 0:25:04.720 --> 0:25:06.919