Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.
Speaker 1: Are you ready? Are you ready? Let's get it all.
Speaker 1: How's it telling everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific,
Speaker 1: three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern. It serves out
Speaker 1: of the show. You know that means aw Dynamite was
Speaker 1: last night. We have the world famous Dynamite Report today
Speaker 1: and I was not available on the show yesterday, so
Speaker 1: I hope that in my absence, Mike Semper peb did
Speaker 1: an excellent world famous NXT report. There's only one thing
Speaker 1: about NXT I want to talk about. I'll do that
Speaker 1: later on today. But anyway, we got a lot to
Speaker 1: get into, including Steve Boston saying is in ring days
Speaker 1: have officially come to an end in WWE, he says,
Speaker 1: or anywhere for that matter, And he claims that he
Speaker 1: has not been contacted for the WrestleMania show next weekend,
Speaker 1: but anything can happen. Tell you more about that today.
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss unmasked yesterday as the masked singer that's what
Speaker 1: she was doing during her hiatus. I'll tell you more
Speaker 1: about that aw taken house shows on the road talking
Speaker 1: about al shows a while ago. And of course the
Speaker 1: question that always comes up is why does anyone care
Speaker 1: about how it draws? Ever it makes any money? I
Speaker 1: just want to enjoy the show. Well, if it doesn't
Speaker 1: do well, there ain't gonna be a show. But you
Speaker 1: know what, that first one did well, thirty two hundred
Speaker 1: fans and a thirty four hundred seed building. And now
Speaker 1: they are expanding their live house show series, so wherever
Speaker 1: you are, you may be getting a w house shows
Speaker 1: coming to your area very soon. And everyone seemed to
Speaker 1: very much enjoy those house shows, so that would be
Speaker 1: fun if you were in the area. At XT ratings
Speaker 1: from a Tuesday night, the World of Baseball Classic went
Speaker 1: head to head and did very very well, and so
Speaker 1: NXT suffered as a result of that. And then, as noted,
Speaker 1: we have some notes from NXT and in a W
Speaker 1: dynamite on a Wednesday. Anyway, a lot to get into today.
Speaker 1: Back in a moment of Deserver Live, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what can we get this thing off to a worst
Speaker 1: start today? How can you hate avocado? I still like avocados.
Speaker 1: What's wrong with that? What a sin? Guacamole, that's not
Speaker 1: a sin. I just don't like avocados, a lot of things.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna make tacos after the
Speaker 1: show today where grass fed beef cheese. I have some
Speaker 1: pico on it. And I didn't start the show like this.
Speaker 1: Everywod as Mike's fault. Mike's Mike's still He's still in uh,
Speaker 1: he's still in host mode because I was on hiatus yesterday.
Speaker 1: But I'm back. I am back today, meditation, high up
Speaker 1: on the mountain, getting ready for Saturday. I got a
Speaker 1: lot I gotta talk about. Yes, Saturday is a big day. Yeah.
Speaker 1: March twenty fifth, Black Label Pro and go check it
Speaker 1: out fight dot TV, Filthy Tom and I will be
Speaker 1: battling for the Black Label Pro Take Team Championships. Man,
Speaker 1: we're gonna ram them, bambros. You know I got uh,
Speaker 1: we got new gear. We got we got matching shorts.
Speaker 1: We got the most incredible matching rash guards. Okay, oh
Speaker 1: my god, the rash guards should be here today. The shorts,
Speaker 1: my shorts may not make it in time. I will
Speaker 1: definitely call the place out if they're not here by
Speaker 1: today or tomorrow. Because I bought them Monday and I
Speaker 1: paid for one to three day shipping, which would be Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: or Thursday. Well, the tracking says we're not gonna be
Speaker 1: here till Monday. So I don't know if you've ever
Speaker 1: done math. Okay, but if you order on Monday and
Speaker 1: they don't arrive till the following Monday, that's not one
Speaker 1: to three days, okay, that's seven days. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be really angry. They needed I leave Saturday morning. They
Speaker 1: gotta be here by Friday, okay, or there's gonna be
Speaker 1: trouble because this company, as company has got spring for
Speaker 1: overnight shipping, they didn't have. First off, don't don't start rumors.
Speaker 1: Second off, they didn't have overnight shipping. The the the
Speaker 1: quickest was one to three days, okay, and I chose
Speaker 1: one to three, and so did Tom by the way.
Speaker 1: By the way, and Tom's tom Shipping said his we're
Speaker 1: gonna be here till Saturday. WHI should have been too late,
Speaker 1: but then it got updated to being there today. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna see what happens. But shorts rash guards man
Speaker 1: wait till you see us. You think these bang bros.
Speaker 1: Let me tell somebody, these bang bros. Okay. One of
Speaker 1: the guys, okay, his name is Davy Bang. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: they're the bang Bros. Well, the other bloke, his name
Speaker 1: isn't even Bang. He's like Frank Redford or something like. So,
Speaker 1: wait a second. You're the bang Bros. But you're not.
Speaker 1: You're not only you're not actually bros. You're not even
Speaker 1: gimmick bros. You're like So, me and Tom we're gonna
Speaker 1: show you what it's like to be a team. We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna address the same, We're gonna look the same.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a little more Jack than he is.
Speaker 1: Take a look at that, but he's gonna do his best.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be a fun time on Saturday. You
Speaker 1: can watch it fight dot TV, or you can go
Speaker 1: to the show if you're in the area. It's in uh,
Speaker 1: it's somewhere I'm not sure where, Crown Point, Indiana, somewhere.
Speaker 1: It's the same place they all, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: where that is, but you can go check it out,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be a party afterwards. I gotta I'm
Speaker 1: flying home. I get back here at I think ten
Speaker 1: thirty am on Sunday in the party. The party's in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. It's gonna be it's gonna be awesome. I've
Speaker 1: got I've got a list of of only close friends
Speaker 1: that are coming to this. I don't I don't need
Speaker 1: any miscreant's trying to start trouble or anything like that.
Speaker 1: I don't even know Mark's showing up when to put
Speaker 1: the belt on. So you know, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: good time. But it'll be a fun show next week
Speaker 1: all next week. It'll be a fun show into perpetuity. Because,
Speaker 1: let's be honest, anyway, head's big now just wait, just wait.
Speaker 1: But anyway, speaking of big bald heads, Stone Bold, Steve
Speaker 1: Boston's in ring days have officially come to an end
Speaker 1: in w w E or anywhere for that matter, which
Speaker 1: it says here on the front page. But I think
Speaker 1: we should have put that in quotation. Marks Austin told
Speaker 1: NBC Los Angeles. While he loves his relationship with w
Speaker 1: w E, he does not miss being in the mix
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. Although he centered open to return
Speaker 1: for appearances, coming back to do something from time to
Speaker 1: time is fine. I love my relationship with we but
Speaker 1: my days in the ring are done. Although I did
Speaker 1: do the main event at WrestleMania last year in Dallas,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a fluke and we pulled it off.
Speaker 1: He said, it's good to be back and see some
Speaker 1: of the faces, but I've been gone for a long
Speaker 1: time and I do not miss it. Austin returned the
Speaker 1: first night of last year's Mania thirty eight in Dallas,
Speaker 1: and you know, I was just I went last weekend
Speaker 1: to a jiu jitsu seminar and with Pedro Sour and
Speaker 1: we were talking about how, you know, there's all these
Speaker 1: people and it's not just jiu jitsu, but it's all
Speaker 1: sorts of things. If you if you do yoga or
Speaker 1: you do whatever, you know, if you do for a
Speaker 1: long time, you look back and you go, man, all
Speaker 1: those guys, remember all those guys that used to train,
Speaker 1: and then you know, this guy got married, this guy
Speaker 1: had kids, this guy moved, this guy just quit. And
Speaker 1: you think about all these guys that you knew over
Speaker 1: the years, and then you know, they just they just
Speaker 1: stopped doing it. And then we talked about how and
Speaker 1: every now and then one of those guys comes back.
Speaker 1: I'm not calling you out, producer, Rob, I just saw
Speaker 1: that just now. I'm not talking about you, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying in general, every now and then one of
Speaker 1: these guys comes back, okay, and you know, they come
Speaker 1: back and they're like, oh man, I'm back, I'm all
Speaker 1: ready to go, like let's do this. And you know,
Speaker 1: they do a class and then you don't see him again,
Speaker 1: or maybe they do a class and then ye'll see
Speaker 1: him a couple they do another class, they disappear again,
Speaker 1: and you know, it was like, why does this happen? Like,
Speaker 1: you know, why don't they just come back and just
Speaker 1: have some fun and just get back into it again.
Speaker 1: Why did they come back? And then they disappear? And
Speaker 1: you know there's there's two things. One is they they
Speaker 1: come back and they try and do what they were doing,
Speaker 1: you know, ten years ago, and you know you change.
Speaker 1: It hurts, Yeah, you don't wake up the next day,
Speaker 1: you can't move. Or the other thing is, and this
Speaker 1: is what Steve Boston is talking about, when you leave
Speaker 1: a place and all your friends are there and you're
Speaker 1: used to the way it is, and for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: you have to quit and then you know six seven
Speaker 1: eight years. You go back, what you're expecting is to
Speaker 1: be what it was like when you left, and it
Speaker 1: never is. There's maybe it'll be like your same instructor
Speaker 1: or whatever, but you know, there's different people there. There's
Speaker 1: a different vibe. Like everything's different. It's all changed, and
Speaker 1: you're going back expecting it to be the way that
Speaker 1: it used to be. And I'm sure that Steve Boston
Speaker 1: went back last year and he had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: And this is not burying any of the people there
Speaker 1: or the way things are today, Like if you look
Speaker 1: at the nineties, I mean, in general, things are way
Speaker 1: better today than they used to be. People aren't dying
Speaker 1: regularly and rampant drug use, and you know all of
Speaker 1: these other things that we had in the nights that
Speaker 1: were terrible. But it's different, it's different, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: when he went back it was like, man, this just
Speaker 1: ain't the vibe. It's just ain't what it used to be.
Speaker 1: You know, the guys are all nice, actually a lot
Speaker 1: nicer and whatever, but it ain't what it used to be.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what Steve Auston is talking about here.
Speaker 1: He came back, he had his fun, he had a
Speaker 1: good match, but dude, you don't miss it. It's just different.
Speaker 1: How old is Steve Auston, I don't know, fifty something.
Speaker 1: There are a majority of the people that are working
Speaker 1: there could be Steve Auston's kids, and some of those
Speaker 1: kids are already having kids where it would make Steve
Speaker 1: Auston a grandparent when it comes to looking at some
Speaker 1: of that locker room times change, things change, and there's
Speaker 1: a guy he didn't probably go out exactly the way
Speaker 1: that he wanted to because he did get injured and
Speaker 1: there was all that in the lead up there. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't think he has too many regrets,
Speaker 1: and he's got a happy life, a happy career after wrestling,
Speaker 1: in fact, multiple careers after wrestling, So it is time
Speaker 1: he does have enough. Look, he's got enough respect and
Speaker 1: knowledge for himself and the wrestling business to know it
Speaker 1: is other people's times, and that he has not come
Speaker 1: back as others have when they've been asked over and
Speaker 1: over again, even with the lure of huge dollars in
Speaker 1: huge matches. He's foughted every step of the way, and
Speaker 1: good for him, and nobody should really be surprised that
Speaker 1: he seems to be putting a period at the end
Speaker 1: of the sentence. Alexa Bliss was unmasked on The Masked
Speaker 1: Singer last night, ended up being eliminated on the show,
Speaker 1: revealing herself to have been under the axilonal mask. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is. In her post elimination interview,
Speaker 1: she explained that she felt proud of herself for doing
Speaker 1: the show as it helped her confront her stage fright
Speaker 1: in terms of singing in public. What an amazing experience.
Speaker 1: Thank you to WWE and Masked Singer. They'll return it
Speaker 1: next week. Her last appearance in the ring was it
Speaker 1: the Royal Rumble in January, February, March two months or whatever.
Speaker 1: But she was not on hiatus. She was merely doing
Speaker 1: the Masked Singer while not appearing at all one programming.
Speaker 1: But now she is going to be returning presumably, so
Speaker 1: that's the updates. Yeah, and also now she'd be given
Speaker 1: the all clear after undergoing a procedure to remove skin cancer. Everybody,
Speaker 1: get your skin checked out all the time. Yes, don't
Speaker 1: mess around with that. Back in a moment. Observer Lives,
Speaker 1: bring the show. Bryan Elvarez here Wrestling Observer Live. Miximburbbi
Speaker 1: also wrestling abser dot com. He WI taking steps to
Speaker 1: expands live house show series company announce a deal with
Speaker 1: Toronto's feldham An Agency and Turbo Entertainment on Wednesday. Partnership
Speaker 1: will bring live events to local venues across North America
Speaker 1: and explore multifaceted brand partnerships. Hey This director of business
Speaker 1: Development Jeff Jarrett says the film An Agency in Turbo
Speaker 1: were quickly identified as quote the perfect partner to enhance
Speaker 1: our efforts into the Canadian market. So they're gonna be around.
Speaker 1: It's North America, so it's gonna be doing shows in Canada.
Speaker 1: They'll be doing shows in the US aw House Show
Speaker 1: or House Rules series just the beginning and yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see how it does because as we
Speaker 1: have learned, as we have learned first time in the market,
Speaker 1: just do a show, throw some names on the poster,
Speaker 1: you know, go to a market that hasn't gotten aw
Speaker 1: show or there hasn't been local promotion it proximity and
Speaker 1: run a show and the first one is going to
Speaker 1: probably do pretty well. Then of course after that we
Speaker 1: don't know, like I say that we should do, you know,
Speaker 1: put a young bucks versus FTR match is the main
Speaker 1: event Celtic but we don't even know. I mean maybe
Speaker 1: if you only go to Troy, Ohio once a year,
Speaker 1: you don't need anything. So I guess, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: find out. We need to find out how these shows
Speaker 1: do in the markets. We need to find out how
Speaker 1: the second show does in the markets that we we
Speaker 1: need to make, you know, terminations from that point as
Speaker 1: to what they need to do or not do. But
Speaker 1: you know, the first one, what they did ended up
Speaker 1: being a success. So from there we just we see
Speaker 1: how they do. There's no one size fits all answer here,
Speaker 1: you know. And by the way, did you notice did
Speaker 1: you notice by the way Hook and Ethan Page was
Speaker 1: a warm up match for a TV match, So they
Speaker 1: did do that. That's what you're supposed to do on
Speaker 1: those things. Try things out, work things out, you know,
Speaker 1: different matches and if you're going to have a match
Speaker 1: coming up. I mean, this has been done in wrestling
Speaker 1: for years. If you go to the garden, you know,
Speaker 1: week or two before a big show, you might get
Speaker 1: that show, you know, a big match worked out right
Speaker 1: and front of your eyes. That's how it works. They
Speaker 1: just release the aw unrestricted with Jeff Jarrett on there.
Speaker 1: I guess getting into some detail about how the house
Speaker 1: shows come together. I haven't heard it. I'm going to
Speaker 1: actually listen to it after we get done with this
Speaker 1: show because I am interested in all of that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. I'm interested to see how they build these markets,
Speaker 1: what they have as far as boots on the ground
Speaker 1: and things like that when it comes to local promotion,
Speaker 1: because again we're watching something from the ground up start.
Speaker 1: Same thing with Ring of Honor. We've seen Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor do things in different ways. We have a brand
Speaker 1: new owner of it. Now, how does he go about
Speaker 1: building this thing up? You know, we've seen he didn't
Speaker 1: get a TV deal. We see it's on Honor Club.
Speaker 1: We've seen them run now house shows. It's just interesting
Speaker 1: to see how all of this stuff is coming together
Speaker 1: because we're all seeing it happen in front of our eyes.
Speaker 1: NXT on a Tuesday twenty ninth on Cable point one
Speaker 1: two five hundred and fifty thousand viewers. XT is lowest
Speaker 1: audience since December sixth of last year. They were head
Speaker 1: to head with the World Baseball Classic, which one point
Speaker 1: four six in eighteen to forty nine and four point
Speaker 1: four million viewers, so that was a rough Actually, usually
Speaker 1: NXT when they have competition doesn't affect him too much,
Speaker 1: but this one did. And there's only one thing I
Speaker 1: want to talk about on the show, oh boy, and
Speaker 1: that is I could not even why did you run? Yesterday?
Speaker 1: There were two things I want to talk about the show, Bros.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you think of n XT or whatever.
Speaker 1: Stop what you're doing after this show and co watch
Speaker 1: this Jady McDonagh Eliot Dragonov match. Oh my god, the
Speaker 1: finish was a bad DQ. But dude, these guys, like,
Speaker 1: don't watch the Bikingo Kenny Omega match and then go
Speaker 1: watch this match, because you know they're they're absolutely completely
Speaker 1: totally different. But like, if you've got nothing to do,
Speaker 1: watches drag an ob JD match. This match was so awesome.
Speaker 1: They destroyed each other and we had a bad DQ finish,
Speaker 1: but this match was incredible up until that point. So
Speaker 1: then the other thing I got to talk about is
Speaker 1: is this great debate between the Schism and Andre I Am.
Speaker 1: I Am the Schism and andre Chase University. So this
Speaker 1: is actually one of those things. I mean, don't I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna pretend I liked it because it's one of
Speaker 1: those deals where how's watching. I have no idea why
Speaker 1: they're having a debate. I have no earthly idea what's
Speaker 1: going on, and everybody's just saying words, and like I
Speaker 1: was just what in God's name is going on here?
Speaker 1: But the debate is almost over. I don't know who's winning.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it matters. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the winner gets I don't even know what's going on.
Speaker 1: But Tyler Bate shows up and he says, I would
Speaker 1: like to say something. It's him and jaggerk which thank
Speaker 1: god somebody said the name Jagger, because I cannot remember
Speaker 1: this guy's name for the life for me. Tyler Bate
Speaker 1: then cuts this corny victory promo. They have victory music
Speaker 1: playing and everybody's cheering and everything. I like this a
Speaker 1: hokiest thing I ever saw. But then he says, we
Speaker 1: Andre Chase University challenge you the schism and you're a
Speaker 1: horrible name to an eight man tag get the pay
Speaker 1: per view, and everyone's cheering, and then Joe Gacy says,
Speaker 1: I don't know about this, and we don't, and then
Speaker 1: Duke Hudson stands up and he says, Gacy, listen, We'll
Speaker 1: put up the school and Andre Chase and everyone's like
Speaker 1: what and Casey says, you'll put up the school. Duke
Speaker 1: Cutson says, we'll put up the school. Casey says, You're on.
Speaker 1: So they're doing the schism versus Andre Chase University, and
Speaker 1: Andre Chase University is on the line. Now for those
Speaker 1: of you that don't get any of this, okay, that
Speaker 1: have forgotten months ago, we're talking like October, they did
Speaker 1: a storyline where Keana James wanted to buy Chase You
Speaker 1: because she was gonna sell the land. Do you remember this?
Speaker 1: And she was turned it down and it was like
Speaker 1: the very next week, who happened to show up in
Speaker 1: one enroll in Chase You? But Duke Hudson, and Duke
Speaker 1: Hudson is you know what's going on? Everybody and they
Speaker 1: don't trust him him and this and that, and here
Speaker 1: we are months later. I don't even know if people
Speaker 1: remember this. Duke Udson had suddenly put Chase University on
Speaker 1: the line in this match. Wait a second, I can't
Speaker 1: even believe. I can't even believe that this thing is continuing,
Speaker 1: This is turning in After Dark, No yes, it has
Speaker 1: no way, Mike, are you telling me? You're telling me
Speaker 1: that's been a conspiracy the whole time between Yes, Duke
Speaker 1: Cutson and Keyana. Yes, with the Skism, how do they
Speaker 1: come on? Dude, I don't know what the Skism has
Speaker 1: to do with this, but that who wrote the letter? Hey,
Speaker 1: that who actually wrote the card. This might be a
Speaker 1: deal where like the Skism don't want no university, what
Speaker 1: any with that? But but they want Duke Kudson. They
Speaker 1: made it clear they want Duke Kudson. So maybe the
Speaker 1: agreement is, brother, you join us, will you win the school?
Speaker 1: You can have it, And he's gonna give the school
Speaker 1: to Keyana. She's gonna sell it off for the land.
Speaker 1: Oh man, I was dying when I saw this. I
Speaker 1: was dying. I was like, this is the stupidest segment
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. But oh my god, we're actually following
Speaker 1: up on Duke Hudson infiltrating this place for five months
Speaker 1: so that he could get it and give it to Keyana.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's Sebastian. Have you ever thought about that? Maybe
Speaker 1: Duke Hudson is Sebastian. What if Tyler Bate is Sebastian
Speaker 1: and all the mind games that he has played, and
Speaker 1: Duke Hudson is actually innocent of everything that's going on.
Speaker 1: He's just disappointed in the losing that has been taking place,
Speaker 1: like for real and the real evil and all of
Speaker 1: this happens to be Tyler Bate, who obviously can play
Speaker 1: with people's minds. Look at THEO right now. She's insane.
Speaker 1: She read the whole Webster's Dictionary definition of whatever it
Speaker 1: was that she said. That was the other thing. During
Speaker 1: the whole thing, they asked questions and then I just
Speaker 1: they had rambling promos for a while. It was like
Speaker 1: me hosting this show. It kind of was actually, well anyway,
Speaker 1: that's all I want to say about that show, And
Speaker 1: then you know, the main event was just whatever. At
Speaker 1: least they didn't go fishing. But god it, you have
Speaker 1: done the worst job with these braun breaker fews, making
Speaker 1: me want to see them fight. Brian. If you had
Speaker 1: an assistant and you paid that assistant okay, and you
Speaker 1: had security at your office okay, and you're paying that security,
Speaker 1: shouldn't somebody tell you what's happening with the show that
Speaker 1: you weren't watching, Like, do you think somebody should have
Speaker 1: told Keana James watched the show fallon knows well, I
Speaker 1: mean she already knows. Hey, shouldn't someone tell Kenny Omega
Speaker 1: that that it wasn't that Kenny that that that this
Speaker 1: this despicable Moose Farmer or whatever. Don Callis took a
Speaker 1: phantom bomb Moose straight yeah, man rips off in you.
Speaker 1: It's in his spare time. He's a horrible dude, human being.
Speaker 1: That bumb horrible that bump that he took, Like, you
Speaker 1: know what's funny is I will never forget that there
Speaker 1: were bumps. I will never forget that there was a
Speaker 1: Kenny a Mega AA Kingo match. It was absolutely like
Speaker 1: on a different It was like from a different dimension.
Speaker 1: It's like some other planet. The way they do wrestling
Speaker 1: there and their spots, I will never forget, like the
Speaker 1: invert into the thing and they're running jumping six thirty
Speaker 1: outside through the table. But what I'm never gonna forget
Speaker 1: is that stupid bump that Don Callis took because it
Speaker 1: was the funniest, most preposterous, Like, dude, I mean, come on,
Speaker 1: but three stooges would have laughed at that bump that
Speaker 1: that guy took. Do you remember when Kenny Omega got
Speaker 1: massacred at the press conference at the Tokyo Dome by
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho. And then at the very end, in the
Speaker 1: corner of the shot, there was Don Callis in the
Speaker 1: neck brace. He's got a habit of doing these things,
Speaker 1: don't he. Don Kellis took a Vince level bump. Get
Speaker 1: out of here. Vinston take one good bump in his life,
Speaker 1: and Don took the best bump of the whole night.
Speaker 1: I can moment Observer Live back in the show. Bran
Speaker 1: Elbare is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper viv also
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer dot Com. Mike's still here, I am, but
Speaker 1: sports Byline dropped. But you know what, we are going
Speaker 1: to continue on and he can use this recording. So
Speaker 1: I'll break a during commercials and hopefully this thing will
Speaker 1: reconnect at some point. I don't know why Dom is
Speaker 1: texting both of us. He just realized that we're we're
Speaker 1: down here there it is. Well, we're back here, dumb,
Speaker 1: and we're good to go. So let's continue on, everybody.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to get into here today, ain't
Speaker 1: the third segment? Yeah, we got Dynamite Report to get into.
Speaker 1: So let's do this unless you want me to talk
Speaker 1: more about Don Callis's bump. Hey, calm down over there, brother,
Speaker 1: All right, listen, hey, you know what, let's be a
Speaker 1: professional we Don Callis's bump. Uh. It was awesome. It
Speaker 1: was professional. He stood on one leg and he spun
Speaker 1: his arms in his circle as if he was trying
Speaker 1: to It looked like he's trying to regin in his bounces.
Speaker 1: But I think that he was waiting for somebody to
Speaker 1: slide in the crash pad but didn't happen, so he
Speaker 1: was forced to actually fall on the map. But he
Speaker 1: managed to fall on the mat in such a way
Speaker 1: that he made no sound. The softest bump I ever saw.
Speaker 1: And I laughed and laughed and laughed. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's get going here, right. Dynamite opened up with Matt
Speaker 1: and Nick being taken away in an ambulance. Somebody attacked
Speaker 1: him and Hangman was very, very concerned. He could have stayed,
Speaker 1: but decided to leave with Matt. Kenny Omega's out there.
Speaker 1: He wants to go, but Don Kellis shuffles him into
Speaker 1: the building. Got a big match, Nite kid, how to
Speaker 1: take out this bikingo? Kan doesn't want to go. He's
Speaker 1: dragged into the building. Kip Sabian, Butcher and Bladeber's Orange
Speaker 1: Cassie stinging Darby album great opening match. Everybody looked good.
Speaker 1: Stings out there doing slow motion kicks. He's doing the
Speaker 1: orange Cassidy gimmick. He's log rolling from one side of
Speaker 1: the ring to the other. Fanser's eating it up, and
Speaker 1: finally all the baby Faces do dive sting hits, a
Speaker 1: scorpion death drop pins Kip Sabian, and then Darby longingly
Speaker 1: looks at that Double or Nothing banner? Afterwards, Who's it
Speaker 1: gonna be? Darby, Jungle Boys, Sammy. They all did a
Speaker 1: video talking about how they want the title shot. MGF
Speaker 1: said none of them deserve it. Well, either one or
Speaker 1: all are gonna get it. So we'll see what they
Speaker 1: do for the Double or Nothing show, which means, by
Speaker 1: the way, this Adam Cole thing is going to be
Speaker 1: a long build to this guy probably getting his title shot.
Speaker 1: Presumably I would guess at all out Memorial Day weekend
Speaker 1: or Labor Day. I was get those two mixed up.
Speaker 1: The one in September. Now we had the Guns versus
Speaker 1: Top Flight for the a WU Tag team titles. You know,
Speaker 1: we never found out what happened to Top Flight taking
Speaker 1: the Ass Boys bags last week. They made a big
Speaker 1: deal about how they left their bags there and they
Speaker 1: took them, and we never got any sort of follow up,
Speaker 1: So I don't know what happened. Dude, Billy Gunn has
Speaker 1: lost a finger in the acclaimed You know, Max Cast
Speaker 1: lost an eye and they didn't follow that up. For heavens,
Speaker 1: yes and no, Darby did not point to the sign thing. God,
Speaker 1: he just looked at it. Then I had a good
Speaker 1: match here. I thought Top Flight looked much better. God
Speaker 1: bless the ass Boys. But like one team looked a
Speaker 1: lot better than the other here by the Ass Boys,
Speaker 1: of course one and then out comes FTR. They want
Speaker 1: a rematch. The Ass Boys say, listen, you guys are losers.
Speaker 1: He lost all three sets of your belts. You lost
Speaker 1: to us. There's nothing you can offer or we will
Speaker 1: ever give you a title shot again. So Cash says, well,
Speaker 1: how about if we challenge you and lose, we can
Speaker 1: never challenge you for the belts again. The Ass Boys
Speaker 1: are like, are you deaf? No, there's nothing you can
Speaker 1: offer where we will ever give you a shot of
Speaker 1: these belts again. So Cash say's fine, if you beat us,
Speaker 1: we'll never even team up again. Ever an AW team's
Speaker 1: done and they're like, oh wow, FTR is gonna break up.
Speaker 1: Who cares? There is nothing that you can offer us
Speaker 1: where we will ever give you a championship match. So
Speaker 1: finally Dex gets the mic and he says, listen, you
Speaker 1: put those titles on the line, you beat us, will
Speaker 1: quit a e w ask boys say deal. They offered
Speaker 1: ann shake, but spit in their faces instead, like for real,
Speaker 1: it's nasty. I have been trying to tell you guys
Speaker 1: forever that FTR is going nowhere, and nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: listen to me. But hopefully now we all understand that
Speaker 1: this was all a set up for them to do
Speaker 1: this match and make you think that they're going to lose,
Speaker 1: and then they are going to beat these ass boys
Speaker 1: and become the AW Tag Team champions. In fact, that
Speaker 1: will be the shirt that's printed up that night at
Speaker 1: the arena. Beat these ass boys, save FTR, Yes jade
Speaker 1: a promo. Mark Sterling has issued a cease and desist
Speaker 1: because Tya is using her finisher. Layla Gray says, I
Speaker 1: will deliver this too, Jade personally this Friday. But you
Speaker 1: know we don't like to do spoilers on this show,
Speaker 1: so I will not tell you whether or not Layla
Speaker 1: Gray can defeat Jade Cargill this coming Friday on the
Speaker 1: Rampage Show. Bet she looked good doing it though. Whatever
Speaker 1: it is. Hook and Stokely, which, by the way, when
Speaker 1: he comes to timing and setting up a situation that
Speaker 1: promode to lead into this match was perfect with Layla
Speaker 1: Gray and because again Stokely Hathaway used to be their manager,
Speaker 1: them turning their noses up as Stokely went to the
Speaker 1: ring to die. Dude, this bloke decided, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: every bump I've ever wanted to take. He's taken bumps
Speaker 1: on the floor, He's taken bumps into guardrails, he's taken
Speaker 1: chair shots. If this guy had been in w W
Speaker 1: E and they saw him take these bumps, he'd be
Speaker 1: taking bumps every single solitary week on television. So he's
Speaker 1: lucky he's here. Hook submitted him with the red rum.
Speaker 1: Then backstage, Matt tells ethan Page, you must avenge Stokely,
Speaker 1: so they are going to do the match that they
Speaker 1: did the house show, which I heard it was a
Speaker 1: very very good match. Someone told me they thought it
Speaker 1: was the best matchup has ever had so well. Ethan
Speaker 1: Page perfect opponent well, and they deserved to go out
Speaker 1: there and do something for him. They didn't seem too
Speaker 1: confident in him when he walked down to the ring.
Speaker 1: Do you know trivia fact that there was. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was because COVID shut everything down, but
Speaker 1: I think it was that year's WrestleMania Weekend. I was
Speaker 1: going to wrestle Ethan Page. That was gonna be the
Speaker 1: match at Black Label Pro. You know, beat my ass.
Speaker 1: Adam Cole came out for a promo. He wouldn't have
Speaker 1: talked about his height, would you dude? That guy's like
Speaker 1: nine feet tall. Adam Cole does a promo, Daniel Garcia
Speaker 1: interrupts and they're still doing It's gonna be like a
Speaker 1: three year build to Daniel Garcia turning on the Jericho
Speaker 1: Appreciation site and going full baby face as a pro wrestler.
Speaker 1: But he did drop the line. I proved I'm one
Speaker 1: of the best pro sports entertainers, and the announcers made
Speaker 1: a big deal out of that slip up. But Adam
Speaker 1: Cole challenges him and vice versa for next week. So
Speaker 1: Adam return match next week on a Dynamite will be
Speaker 1: against Daniel Garcia, first time ever, and I'll bet it's
Speaker 1: gonna be pretty darn good. Hey, Moriarty has not found
Speaker 1: his spot exactly yet, but Utah and Garcia right now
Speaker 1: I think are as good as they have been in aw,
Speaker 1: especially Daniel Garcia on the mic, so you know those
Speaker 1: three guys coming in. There was a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about all three of them because they are part of
Speaker 1: the future of that company and right now, both Utah
Speaker 1: and Garcia. Last night that promo was great. Moxley and
Speaker 1: Stu Grayson. Man, this duke Grayson was excited. He got
Speaker 1: in that ring and he just starts going a hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour and there's like he's going so fast
Speaker 1: and this thing just collapsed for like it probably was
Speaker 1: about ten seconds, I'm sure to like Moxley, it felt
Speaker 1: like about sixty years. But man, Moxley was not happy
Speaker 1: and he went outside and shot, he grabs a chair,
Speaker 1: he throws his cheese, just he's furious. But man, he
Speaker 1: just he kept going and Stu Grayson slowed down a
Speaker 1: little and they got it back on track, and honestly,
Speaker 1: by the end it still ended up being a really
Speaker 1: good match. But boy, oh boy, this thing, uh, this
Speaker 1: thing had a rough rough waters, this head, this match
Speaker 1: had turbulence. Yes, yes, a bowling shoe, so what appeared
Speaker 1: to be a they called it an avalanche death rider
Speaker 1: for the pin and uh he didn't kill him afterwards though,
Speaker 1: he just got out of the ring and was mad,
Speaker 1: and we had Ricky Starks. He's sick of talking, so
Speaker 1: uh spoiler, he talks Tod Juice Robinson on Friday, although
Speaker 1: perhaps there's more, but I won't spoil that QTV segment
Speaker 1: is Friday. It'll be another open challenge for Hook and
Speaker 1: his title, and then Tony Storm and sky Blue. Tony
Speaker 1: Storm one, Hey, Hobbs is the champion right now. Okay,
Speaker 1: like I'm not going to complain. You know, one of
Speaker 1: these days he's gonna kill QT and he's gonna go
Speaker 1: full baby face. Everything's gonna be fine, just you know,
Speaker 1: I hope he beats up. So for Dave, sky Blue
Speaker 1: and Tony Storm have a match, and this is the
Speaker 1: best sky Blue match I ever saw. Tony Storm did
Speaker 1: a great job with her. They gave Skyblue a ton
Speaker 1: of spots in this match, and they gave her a
Speaker 1: ton to kick out of and finally sheet the Storm
Speaker 1: zero for the for the loss, Heels go to Spray
Speaker 1: Painter Jo and Willow run down and they make the save.
Speaker 1: But I thought this was some good wrestling, mostly because
Speaker 1: Tony Storm is great, but sky Blue did a good job.
Speaker 1: BCC beats up Stu Grayson back stage. Jmoxi is still
Speaker 1: angry about that match, gives him a beaten and then yes,
Speaker 1: Kenny Omegan Vikingo. That should just be the whole review.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about it. It was
Speaker 1: so awesome and uh, I mean, Vikingo was over five
Speaker 1: seconds into the match. He did every single solitary, crazy
Speaker 1: thing that he could think of. It was like, this
Speaker 1: was unbelievable this match, and Omega obviously won with the
Speaker 1: one Wing and Angel, But you gotta go back and
Speaker 1: watch this, everybody. It's like, you know when when Dave
Speaker 1: was talking about the debut of Ray Mysterio in in
Speaker 1: wcw IT nineteen ninety five, and it was a it
Speaker 1: was an amazing debut. And the funny thing is you
Speaker 1: could watch it and it was like watching wrestling from
Speaker 1: the future, and if you go back and watch the
Speaker 1: match now and then watch wrestling today, it actually was
Speaker 1: wrestling from the future that the business evolved to matches,
Speaker 1: you know, very fast paced, boom boom boom, high spots.
Speaker 1: But like you watch Kenny Omegan bikingo and you know,
Speaker 1: you can't say it's wrestling from the future because nobody
Speaker 1: would be able. First off, this is like the percentage
Speaker 1: of people that could do a match like this is small.
Speaker 1: Number one and number two. You could not go out
Speaker 1: and do this match regularly, Okay, So it wasn't even
Speaker 1: like watching it was like watching wrestling on another planet.
Speaker 1: It's like if there was wrestling on the Moon and
Speaker 1: you set up like a ring on the Moon and
Speaker 1: so you had less gravity and so you could do
Speaker 1: all of this crazy stuff that you couldn't do on
Speaker 1: Earth and it would just like blow your mind. That's
Speaker 1: what it was like watching this match. This stuff, it
Speaker 1: was just and everything was pert. They didn't botch one spot.
Speaker 1: It was incredible. And then afterwards BCC runs down, Hangman returns,
Speaker 1: saves Kenny Omega, but that idiot Don takes up bump
Speaker 1: and blames it on the Hangman so horrible back in
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