WEBVTT - Jeff Hardy Arrest/G1 Lineup 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.160 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network, 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:16.239 live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.520 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Vibe with your hosts 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.799 Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv Ready Are you ready? Let's 0:00:25.800 --> 0:00:30.720 get it all? How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez here 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:33.600 on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.720 Monday through Friday, noo Pacific, three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.720 sixth Eastern. Holly Smokes, it's Monday here on this show. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:44.040 And if we ever got a lot, a lot to 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:49.239 talk about here today, Mark Romandi on Twitter. A w 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.559 star Jeff Hardy arrested Monday in Florida on three charges, 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.800 the most significant a d u I, its third offense 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.440 in the last ten years p online court records that 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:04.360 is a third degree felony. Hardy is currently in custody bond. 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:09.640 Hardy's first court appearance scheduled for one thirty local time Tuesday. 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.640 The other charges driving while licenses canceled, suspended or revoked, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.440 violating restrictions on his driver's license. Both of those are misdemeanors. 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:19.319 How do you schedule for a tag team title ladder 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:21.520 match with his brother Matt on a W Dynamite on 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.559 Wednesday in St. Louis also said the headline Triple as 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:28.040 Big Triple Media Stadium Show and T one on Saturday 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.200 tag team match with Matt Noward in the stats of 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:34.880 these matches. This story is just now breaking. So as 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.319 of this moment, there has been nothing official from a 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.720 W But I would presume that a there ain't gonna 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.640 be a ladder match performance by Jeff Hardy on Wednesday, 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:51.400 and I guess we'll find out what happens. But this 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.400 is not good obviously in a lot of ways. I 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.760 mean the Tammy Sich situation. I mean, this guy cannot 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:04.200 be driving, absolutely cannot be driving. And it's amazing when 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:07.240 you think about his departure from w W E when 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:10.560 he walked out of that match, and they immediately assumed 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.200 that he must have been on something, and he and 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:16.520 his brother and his family, they were immediately like, you know, 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.679 released the drug test, release a drug test, release a 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.560 drug test, because apparently wasn't actually on anything. He just 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.840 was done with it. And he walked out and then 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.639 he goes to a w and now here we are 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:32.959 another d u I arrest, third in ten years. So yeah, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.600 that's just the beginning of everything we got to talk 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.519 about here from this insane weekend. So back in a 0:02:38.600 --> 0:03:04.560 moment with more Observer Live. You're listening to Wrestling Observer 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.280 Live with Brian Albarez and Mike Szemberviev on the Sports 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:13.560 Byline Broadcasting Network. The show Bright Albert is here Wrestling 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:19.520 Observer Alive. Mike'snumber VV and not here. He's attempting to connect. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.480 If it does not work, I'll try to reset everything 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.320 after this break. But I'm not sure how much you'd 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.320 say in this segment anyway, because there's a lot obviously 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:34.239 is noted the situation with Jeff Hardy, third d Y 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:41.800 in ten years, third degree felony bond court appearance scheduled 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:47.120 for Tuesday. Charges driving while licenses canceled, suspended, revoked, violating 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:55.839 restrictions on the driver's license. I I don't no. I mean, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:01.920 as everyone's talking about here today, there's Uber, there's lift, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:06.520 there's Taxis, there's multiple people here on the chat noted 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.640 you're Jeff Hardy. You can get a ride. So as noted, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.920 nothing official from a w WE. May hear something during 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.920 the show. I don't know that they're going to release him, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.240 but I would not be surprised if they released him. 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:25.440 So we will see what happens as we get going 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:29.920 here today. Not the only release this weekend. Two times 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:36.400 Troy two times Donovan released from w w E a 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:42.120 quote polishy policy issue and uh he was told I 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.680 guess too, lay low and maybe in a year we 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.200 can do this again. But he confirmed the release in 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.960 the tweet Monday morning. Thank you to everybody who has 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.480 reached out. Mistakes happened, lessons are learned, A bump in 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:55.080 the road does not define me, though, I will be back. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:05:01.440 So now we just have Stacks and everybody in Legato 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:05.720 del Phantasma who is now part of Tony d'angelo's crew. 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.200 Uh an x t uh. This hasn't really been much 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:11.120 of a story, but it should be a story. At 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:16.440 XT has started touring again, which is good because everybody there, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:22.279 you know, the Tony d'angelo's and basically everybody with the 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.120 exception of Eroderick Strong's and such, you know, they need 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.240 they need to get matches in, they need to work 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.760 they need to get on the road, and that began 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.800 this weekend and everybody's getting an opportunity to get more 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.920 ringtime in front of a live crowd. And uh and 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:41.520 Tony D'Angelo Uh this weekend went down with what appeared 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.320 to be a shoulder injury, and as of right now, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:48.599 it appears he's fine. Uh. There were essentially two stories 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.880 out there, one story that he was working the injury, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.920 the other that he was injured, but it actually wasn't 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.200 a bad injury at all. But he appears to be fine. 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.920 So so he'll be back on on on the show 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.720 on Wednesday, presumably. And on the subject of that, By 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.440 the way, Brian Danielson finally did do an interview and 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:13.640 admitted that he worked the entire thing when he felt 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:15.839 Actually it wasn't It wasn't Danielson. It was somebody else 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.120 who who did the interview. I can't remember, but anyway, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.919 they they also confirmed that Brian Danielson never was stuck 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.120 between the ramp and the ring. Uh. They claimed that 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.479 he uh, he actually did slip, and then once he 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.960 slipped and got stuck, uh, he decided he was going 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.240 to work it from there, which I mean that may 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.080 very well be what happened. I I kind of was 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.279 under the oppression that the entire thing, from start to 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.080 finish was it was a work. But suffice to say, 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.160 he didn't really get stuck, he didn't really injure his leg. 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.200 He just decided that he was gonna go with it 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.760 and and he did so. Anyway, he's okay, and Uh, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.520 Tony DeAngelo appears to be okay. So that is all 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.240 good news. Uh. Lot of shows this weekend. We can 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:05.160 talk about Rampage later, SmackDown later, both good shows. Uh 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.919 Dominion as well, and there were a number of title changes. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:14.040 At the Dominion show. Jay White won the i w 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:19.000 g P World Heavyweight Championship from Okada after hitting a 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.400 blade runner, And so that means that it is not 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:29.880 going to be Hangman versus Ocada in a a singles 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:33.160 match for the title. It is going to be we 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:38.400 don't know, but probably probably a triple threat or a 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.480 four way. My guess is it will probably end up 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:46.840 being Ocada, j White, Hangman Page, and Adam Cole in 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.720 a four way for the i w g P World 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:53.560 Heavyweight Championship. But we will find out more on Wednesday. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.640 But it's definitely not gonna be the singles match for 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:59.520 the title of Hangman Versus Ocada. We also had will 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.920 Osprey him meeting Sonata to win the vacant I w 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.640 g P United States Heavyweight Championship, and it's a weird 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:12.400 story because Juice Robinson had won the title, Juice Robinson 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:18.440 was the champion. Juice Robinson then went down with appendicitis. Then, 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:22.480 for reasons I cannot explain, they announced that he was 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:26.400 going to defend the title at Dominion, but then it 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:29.360 turned out he wasn't ready due to appendicitis. But then 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:33.280 because he had been billed as defending the title, now 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.720 because these are the rules in Japan, now they have 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:38.560 to strip him of the title, So they just never 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:40.199 announced that he was going to defend the title. He 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.319 would still be the champion right now, so presumably they 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:46.160 wanted to do a storyline where he was stripped of 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.120 the title and then obviously he's going to uh to 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.360 come back to fight for it when he is better. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.840 But the new champion is will Osprey. He defeated Sonata. 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:59.640 We also have a new never open weight champion, Carl 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:03.560 Anders and beat Tomatanka to win the title. So this 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.440 is the first ever singles title for Carl Anderson in 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:11.400 New Japan coming off COVID by the way, So so 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:13.679 that is that we have new i w g P 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:19.240 Heavyweight tag team champions Great o'con and Jeff Cobb beat 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:24.760 Bad Luck Folly and Chase Owens. So probably some sort 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:29.080 of match involving Great Ocon Jeff Cobb FTR something like 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.480 that at the Forbidden Door pay per view. And then 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.800 for the provisional title, it was the King of Pro 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:40.000 Wresting provisional title and whoever got the most counts in 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.520 ten minutes was going to end up the winner, and 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.720 Shingo beat tai Chi And this match actually was a 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.520 pretty great match. And if you've watched a lot of 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.520 the King of Pro Wrestling title matches, they are not 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.319 usually great matches. But I think the key to this 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.240 one is they had a had a ten minute time limit, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.560 so they put the clock up on the screen they 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:07.000 only had ten minutes. They actually didn't start going for 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:10.400 pinfalls immediately. They kind of built up to a little 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:14.000 bit and then you know, they had the score on 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.920 the bottom, and it was funny because the announcers did 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:20.640 not trust this score keeping that was on the screen, 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.040 so you know, Chris Charleston's furiously writing down how many 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.640 pinfall attempts and numbers each guy had, But it actually 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:31.520 was it was exciting, it was well worked, and uh yeah, 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:35.960 if you normally avoid the kop W championship matches, that 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.880 one actually was pretty good. And then obviously the big 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:44.120 one because as a W title ramifications, Hiroshi Tanahashi in 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:47.640 fact beat Hiroke go To. So it's gonna be uh 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.760 tana Hashi versus Moxley for the interim title coming up 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:57.000 at the Forbidden Door pay per view, and uh, you know, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.880 I'm not gonna say it's a spoiler, but I'm pretty 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.800 sure that Moxley is winning that interim championship. I I 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.120 thought that, like if it were me, I put the 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.600 belt on Tanahashi, But now I'm not sure to put 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:13.080 the belt on Tanashi because the whole reason that they 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.920 have created this interim title is because c M. Punk 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:23.200 has uh uh surgery on his lower leg, which apparently 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.200 that was something Jim Ross came up with on the 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:27.280 fly as he was doing commentary, because I guess they 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.319 use that terminology like in the college football. But anyway, 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.240 uh apparently broke his foot. That's what's Max Caster said 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.320 at least, But anyway, he's out of action for a while, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:41.520 and since he's he's unavailable, they're creating an interim title. 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.920 So the issue is if Tanahashi wins that interim title, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.600 he has already been announced for the G One and 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:56.200 that's gonna be six weeks exclusively in Japan. So I'm 0:11:56.200 --> 0:12:00.000 not sure if you're going to create an interim tie 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.600 because ce him, Punk is going to be unavailable and 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.040 then give it to a guy who's going to be 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:08.920 unavailable working the G One. So my presumption is this 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.720 means that Maxy is getting into the champion. But we 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.040 can go over the full lineup for the G One 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:21.079 after the break. There's hight entrants, four blocks, so everyone's 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.800 essentially gonna have six matches, but they're over there for 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.120 six weeks for the tour, so it's gonna average out 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.520 to about a match a week, although obviously they got 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.160 the stuff at the end of the tour as well. 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:35.559 But the big name, we all know, the big name 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.760 of the G One this year my main man, Filthy 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:42.320 Tom Lawler. So anyway, we're getting all this after the break, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.120 try and get sent for Vivian back in a moment 0:12:44.120 --> 0:13:14.200 it was over live. You're listening to Wrestling Observer Live 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:17.560 with Brian Alvarez and Mike Simper viv on the Sports 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:22.840 Byline Broadcasting Network. Begging the show. Brian Olverarez here, Wrestling 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.959 Observer Live. Still trying to get Mike connected, but I'm 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:31.200 here and if we can't get him, maybe you'll be 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.839 here as well. I'll open up them phone lines. But 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.280 let's get into the rest of this news here. This 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.040 is the lineup for the g One. What are guy 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:45.280 sinking of this lineup? We got Okada, Tanahashi, Nighto, go 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:53.360 to Toma Tonga, Shingo, Chase Owens, bad Luck, Folly you Jero, Evil, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.160 Filthy Tom Lawler, who got a huge pop by the 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.000 way from the crowd, even though they're not supposed to 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:05.400 hop they did. They gasped, Juice Robinson, Jonah, Yoshi Hashi, 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:11.000 Toru Yano, is she E, Jeff Cobb, Everyone's main man, 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:20.360 the Great o'kan Well, Osprey, Aaron Hannare, Sonata j White, Kenta, 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.520 l Phantasmo, Taichi, Zack Saber Jr. Land Sarcho got the 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:30.240 biggest pop of anybody, and David Finlay that's the lineup 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.040 for the G One. What are you gonna think of 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:37.760 this lineup? Dave was somewhat let I don't know if 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.240 let down is the right word. I don't want to 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.600 speak for Dave anyway. I didn't think it was the 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:44.400 greatest G One lineup of all time. And I would 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:49.720 say with you know, there's no uh Ibushi in there, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.480 there's no Minor Suzuki. But you know what, if you 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.960 look at all of these names, even the ones that 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.360 aren't like big names like David Finlay is an awesome 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.800 rest lur and uh you know, I've seen nothing but 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:08.360 great matches from Jonah, New Japan Strong, and uh. I 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.960 think at the end of the day, it's still gonna 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.840 be a pretty damn good tournament, especially because everyone's gonna 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.400 get more time to rest up between matches, so you 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:16.760 know they're gonna go out there and they're just gonna 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:20.400 go nuts. And uh, as noted there's going to be 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:27.240 four blocks and uh yeah, largest number of entrance into 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:32.400 the G One ever. So that's the lineup there. We 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:37.280 also have details of the qualifying match for the A 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:42.000 E W All Atlantic four away coming up at Forbidden Door. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.040 If you were not paying attention. There's a new belt 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:50.360 in a w the All Atlantic Championship, and we got 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:56.080 an exclusive match from wrestlers live on an island in 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:59.680 the Pacific Ocean. So what they're gonna do is there's 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.240 there's four matches. The winners are all going to a 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:09.120 four way. So, uh, it's going to be two qualifying 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.600 matches which will take place on the June New Japan 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:17.280 road card in Korakin. The first will be Ishi versus 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:23.160 Yoshinobu Kanamaru and uh hone Ma against Clarke Connors. The 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:26.240 winners of those matches will then face off the following 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:29.720 night at Corrican Hall. The winner will then qualify for 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.960 the four away match at Forbidden Door on June in Chicago. Now, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.440 I think it's either got to be Clark Honnors or 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.800 is she okay? And I love Clark Honnors, but we 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.360 cannot have a Forbidden Door pay per view without Tomo 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.040 Hero is She? We just can't. So let's I got 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.200 another match for that guy. If he loses, I mean, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.480 he's he's got to be in this match. Now, I 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:00.040 could see them doing a different match with him and 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.840 putting Clark Connors in the four way I could see 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:07.600 them doing that. But for a W We've got we 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:11.120 had Pocket beating Buddy Matthews, so he's in. And then 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.600 this week on Dynamite We've got Mirror versus Ethan Page 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.800 and then the final match will end up with Penta 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:22.200 versus Malachi Black and of course the pay per view 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:27.560 June United Center Chicago, John Moxley versus Tanahashi a w 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.239 Championship interim championship will be determined on that show. It 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:37.720 is not official, but Zach Saber Jr. Has challenged Brian 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:44.600 Danielson for the show. It was a backstage interview after Dominion. 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.160 He said, American Dragon, can you take some time out 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:51.840 of your busy golfing schedule at the Blackpool Country Club 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.520 to find out who the best technical wrestler in the 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:58.480 world is? But I'll tell you now, Darling. I can't 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.639 say what he said, but he says it's him, So 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.600 of course, the Best Technical Wrestler Award is named after 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:10.359 Brian Danielson in the Observer Awards, and he won the 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.320 He won it his own award from two thousand five 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.359 to which I guess why it's named after him, which, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.320 by the way, begs a question why the Best Book 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.679 Award is named after me? Three times I've won that 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.640 award and then uh, it was named after Zach Saber Jr. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:34.720 From two thousand fourteen through and then Danielson wanted again 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.639 last year. So you know, I it'll it'll all be 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:41.960 political who ends up winning the match. You know, it'll 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:46.199 it'll it'll come down to whatever you know, Ghetto and 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.400 Tony kN agree on. But I can tell you one thing, 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.840 if Daniel Bryan had his way, Zach Saber Junior is 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.640 winning that match. So we'll we'll see if he's got 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.720 the power to make that happen. But anyway, hopefully that 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:02.119 match has announced soon because you don't you don't do 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:04.160 that tease and you don't have a match that people 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.640 want to see because you know, like I said on 0:19:06.680 --> 0:19:10.320 this uh, on this show, you ain't gonna get all 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.439 these dream matches that you want. You're just not. I 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.960 said that from day one. But I'm not saying you 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:18.119 can't have any And I think that this is a 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:23.359 great match to put here on this show. So Mudo 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:29.840 was gonna do an announcement at the Cyberfest festival, and 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:35.760 of course KGI Muto is fifty nine. He's he's basically, 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:40.560 you know, had no knees for probably about twenty five 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.800 years now, and so everybody figured, well, he's gonna announce 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:49.119 that he's going to uh retire, and he did, but 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:53.600 he will retire next year. So he's still got a 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.960 whole bunch of matches, but he's letting you know that 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.840 next spring he is going to retire. But apparently he 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:03.439 as five more matches that he wants to do before 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.320 his retirement. I did not mention if one of them 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:10.000 would be with me, but you know, I guess him available. 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:14.200 But anyway, he's gonna be announcing uh next year. And 0:20:14.400 --> 0:20:17.480 uh returned to action after recovering from a left hip injury, 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.360 so add that to his list of maladies his him. 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:24.919 So that's the update on him. Uh. We had a 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:26.720 bunch of interviews over the last couple of weeks about 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:31.040 the n W A always ready pay per view, and 0:20:31.359 --> 0:20:34.199 we were wondering as late as Friday, what in the 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.160 world are they doing for the main event of the show, 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.560 because of course it was supposed to be Nick Ald 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:43.720 this versus Matt Cardona, but Matt Cardona not only tore 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:47.200 his vicep but had surgery so he he would be out, 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:52.400 and so what happened was they did a four way 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:57.800 and the four way ended up being Trevor Murdoch, nick Eldis, 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:02.520 sam Shaw who was the Rmer, Dexter Loomis, and Tom 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:05.159 Latimer and so they had a four way for the 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:11.400 vacant title and it ended with Trevor Murdoch penning Nick 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:17.120 Aldis to become the new n w A World Heavyweight Champion. 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.720 And afterwards Cardone showed up and he was supposed to 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:25.120 vacate the title, but he refused and Billy Corgan basically 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:28.679 told him, you're vacating the title. Brother, So a vacant 0:21:28.880 --> 0:21:31.880 he stormed off and obviously when he returns he will 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.480 be facing whoever is the n w A World Heavyweight 0:21:35.560 --> 0:21:40.320 Champion at the time. Also uh Kinzie Page and Ella 0:21:40.520 --> 0:21:43.840 Envy pretty empowered. They defeated Alison Kay and Marty Bell 0:21:44.000 --> 0:21:48.680 to when the women's tag team titles and the Commonwealth 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:54.280 connection Harry Smith and Doug Williams, the same Harry Smith 0:21:54.280 --> 0:21:57.000 that apparently w W he wanted to brand what do 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:03.119 they want to call him? The uh Stampede Stu. Anyway, 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:09.600 they beat Bestia Say Say Says and Uh, Micha Wolfe 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:11.840 to win the End of World Take Team titles for 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:17.560 the first time. So they're the champions, and uh that's 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.400 the main news coming out of the n w A show. 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:27.320 W w E also announced the second class of their 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:33.400 Next in Line program, fifteen college athletes from fourteen universities, 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:38.280 seven n C Double A conferences, seven sports, and uh, 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:39.920 you know this is our deal where you know, we 0:22:40.000 --> 0:22:43.919 give people these these contracts and then they continue to 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.520 go to school or whatever, including high school as we 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.000 learned on the next team. But anyway, I like that 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:54.760 they have this list of fifteen and you know, they 0:22:54.840 --> 0:22:58.600 got all their real names and they're going to change 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:03.639 them obviously to these uh horrible fake n x T names. 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:07.080 And when I look at these, and some of these 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:12.960 names are pretty cool. We got case Hatch, he's six 0:23:12.960 --> 0:23:15.960 ft one. Which, by the way, they list all of 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:23.560 these names here, including uh, thunder Keck. That's the real name, 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:29.679 thunder Keck. They're gonna change it anyway. They list all 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:32.120 of these names, and then of course the first thing, 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.280 the first they don't announce, like you know, thunder thunder 0:23:36.400 --> 0:23:41.359 Keck is a football player from Northfield, New Hampshire. No. 0:23:41.560 --> 0:23:44.440 The first thing they tell you is how tall they 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:49.040 are and how much they weigh. Thunder Keck six three 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:56.800 and two, Rachel Glenn six ft, Mikhaela Hall five ft five, 0:23:57.600 --> 0:24:02.960 Molly car six five and two forty five pounds. Because 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.679 you know, it's all about size. You can always tell 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.680 who the men are and who the women are by 0:24:09.760 --> 0:24:15.359 the size. You know this uh uh you know five 0:24:15.400 --> 0:24:21.600 four probably a female, six five to probably a dude. 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:25.160 You know what they're looking for. But anyway, fifteen new 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:29.040 uh n I L deals have been have been signed. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:32.320 So there you go, everybody. The future of this promotion 0:24:33.080 --> 0:25:06.560 thunder Keck. Like in a moment Observer Life, you were 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:10.200 listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike 0:25:10.280 --> 0:25:17.560 semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Well back here 0:25:17.560 --> 0:25:20.760 the show, Brian Alvarez here, No Sam, I can't forget 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:23.639 what is uh his issue is, but we're working on it. 0:25:24.640 --> 0:25:26.639 Actually we're not work on it. He's gonna try and 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:30.639 work on it. We've done all we can, but it 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:35.000 is time for you, you, my friends, to join the show. 0:25:35.760 --> 0:25:38.840 Phone number if you want to text four to five 0:25:38.880 --> 0:25:40.960 seven eight zero seven five six six that is four 0:25:41.000 --> 0:25:44.040 to five seven eight zero seven, five six six. If 0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:47.520 you want to call eight four four nine one three seven, 0:25:48.000 --> 0:25:51.240 that is eight four four at nine one three twenty seven, 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:55.360 twenty seven and so busy. I didn't get a chance 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:58.480 to look at the chat. I don't want to call 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:01.440 anybody out. But of course the first thing I see 0:26:01.440 --> 0:26:03.080 when I look at the chat is some bloke going 0:26:03.680 --> 0:26:10.440 Brian talked about Jeff Hardy Yet why do you tune 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:12.240 in late? And then asked if I talked about what 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:15.160 was obviously the top story of the day. I mean, hello, 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:20.120 of course I talked about it. Somebody helped me out 0:26:20.119 --> 0:26:22.760 here on the phone. Let's go to Portsmouth. You're on 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:28.760 the air. What's up is the friends the Brandon. I'm 0:26:28.800 --> 0:26:33.280 happy a Blade birthday to you. Man, Um, yeah, man. 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:36.320 And I want to ask, do you think the fans 0:26:36.920 --> 0:26:39.720 would turn on Athena if she gets booked to be 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:44.680 the one who does the throne um Jake Cark kill Um. 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:47.360 I know for sure sad Lander has been very over 0:26:47.440 --> 0:26:50.760 you can tell by her reactions, and it does resemble 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:53.080 what MJF was kind of talking about in that probos. 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:55.719 It's all very interesting. So he just look at your 0:26:55.720 --> 0:26:59.920 aowtsome that do I think the fans would turn on her, Yeah, 0:27:00.080 --> 0:27:05.440 like if Athena gets the belt instead of Statlin. I see, 0:27:05.480 --> 0:27:08.879 I see, I see, I see. Well I want to 0:27:08.920 --> 0:27:10.800 I want to thank you very much for the call. See. 0:27:10.840 --> 0:27:13.560 I don't think they would turn on her for that. 0:27:14.440 --> 0:27:18.080 You know. They they turned on Ruby because Ruby was 0:27:18.160 --> 0:27:21.680