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Speaker 1: any of that today. I planned on talking about wrestling news,
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of it to get into today
Speaker 1: on the program. In case you have not heard uh
Speaker 1: in the midst of being investigated by his own board
Speaker 1: of directors. Vince McMahon made his appearance on Friday Night's SmackDown,
Speaker 1: and we'll get into that whole spectacle and when we
Speaker 1: get back from break, but a little bit of sad
Speaker 1: news to start the show with. Right on the heels
Speaker 1: of long time referee and agent Dave Heppner's passing away
Speaker 1: last week, on Sunday, it was announced that former w
Speaker 1: w E referee and agent Tim White passed away at
Speaker 1: the age of eighty six. White was with w w
Speaker 1: E from until two thousand and nine and referee some
Speaker 1: of the biggest matches in company history, including the infamous
Speaker 1: Mankind undertaker Helen a Cell, although his side jobs were
Speaker 1: almost just as famous as his refereeing. Before becoming a
Speaker 1: full time rep for the company, he worked as Andre
Speaker 1: the Giants agent and appears in many of the documentaries
Speaker 1: about Andre. And He also owned a little bar called
Speaker 1: the Friendly Tap in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and anytime w
Speaker 1: w E was anywhere near Rhode Island, they would go
Speaker 1: into that bar and completely wrecked shop, especially if the
Speaker 1: A p A was around. Lots of news to get into,
Speaker 1: including Sunny's lawyer quitting ratings, a w new Japan, and
Speaker 1: a whole lot more. We'll be back Wrestlings ever Alive.
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Speaker 1: We have legal news today. It's not Vince McMahon's. It
Speaker 1: is Tammy Sitch is for lawyer has asked the court
Speaker 1: to withdraw him as legal representation. It was almost good
Speaker 1: English right there, according to p W Insider, as has
Speaker 1: written up here at the fw online dot com front page.
Speaker 1: Stephen de Laroche filed the motion on June six. He
Speaker 1: noted the following in his filing. One, an impass has
Speaker 1: been reached in the handling of the case, making it
Speaker 1: impossible for the client an attorney to continue to work
Speaker 1: cooperatively on the case. Sonny can't get along with anybody, uh.
Speaker 1: Number two, the client has not complied with the terms
Speaker 1: of the employment agreement with this attorney. Not surprising there.
Speaker 1: And number three of the client will not be prejudiced
Speaker 1: if the undersigned is permitted to withdraw, So there you go.
Speaker 1: Tammy Sitch has been charged with one count of d
Speaker 1: u I manslaughter, one count of causing death while operating
Speaker 1: a vehicle with a suspended license, three counts of d
Speaker 1: u I causing property damage, and four counts of d
Speaker 1: u I causing personal injury. The charges stemmed from an
Speaker 1: incident on March twenty five, when a vehicle driven by
Speaker 1: Sich crashed into the back of another vehicle that was
Speaker 1: stopped at a traffic light. The driver of the other vehicle,
Speaker 1: seventy five year old Julian Lasseter, died from injuries sustained
Speaker 1: in the collision. Sitch has pleaded not guilty to all charges,
Speaker 1: and hearing held on June one. She has been in
Speaker 1: jail since having her bond revoked on May thirteenth. There
Speaker 1: are also civil filings already by the Lasseter family as well.
Speaker 1: So that is the latest in the update on Tammy
Speaker 1: Sitch's situation, which continues to grow darker by the day.
Speaker 1: No word at all about Vince McMahon's situation as we
Speaker 1: come on the air with you today. Vince under investigation
Speaker 1: from his own board of the directors appeared as advertised
Speaker 1: on Friday Nights SmackDown Live on Fox. Came strutting out
Speaker 1: to his theme music as Mr McMahon gave a little, uh,
Speaker 1: a little gunshot over there to the uh, the lady announcer.
Speaker 1: I can't remember what the announcer's name is, but but
Speaker 1: she did his announcing, and he grabs the mic from her,
Speaker 1: and and there it is. We finally get to hear
Speaker 1: from Vince McMahon. What is Mr McMahon going to say?
Speaker 1: And he just says, it's a privilege as always to
Speaker 1: stand before you here tonight the w w E universe,
Speaker 1: especially privilege to be standing here in US ring in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Why that would be anything extra special because he killed
Speaker 1: Vern to really hotshot his company so many years back,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But he said, I'm simply here to
Speaker 1: remind you of the four words we just saw in
Speaker 1: what we call the w w E signature. Those four
Speaker 1: words then now forever, and the most important word is
Speaker 1: together Welcome to SmackDown. And he throws the mic and
Speaker 1: with arms flapping, goes up the ramp and goes to
Speaker 1: the back. And that's that, And the bottom line is
Speaker 1: the show in Fast overnights, and we'll have more of
Speaker 1: of the details of this coming out today. It averaged
Speaker 1: two point to seven two million viewers. The previous week's
Speaker 1: SmackDown ended up with a final average of one point
Speaker 1: nine four so a similar increase would put this show
Speaker 1: in the two point four to two point five million
Speaker 1: range when final numbers are released at some point today.
Speaker 1: The Fast Nationals showed something else that's very important to
Speaker 1: point out. Two point one eight six million in the
Speaker 1: first hour, two point three six two in the second hour.
Speaker 1: Not only did they they stick around from the first
Speaker 1: hour to see what Vince had to say, but they
Speaker 1: also stuck around to watch Roman Reigns defend that World
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship against Matt Riddle. So this is going to
Speaker 1: be smackdowns best rating probably since May of last year.
Speaker 1: So that's certainly something. I mean, what did we learn
Speaker 1: nothing at all? You know, Mr mcmannon in Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: or Big Universe Stars. We already knew that. I guess
Speaker 1: if you want to look at this from a a
Speaker 1: very short term and small perspective, in in Vince, I
Speaker 1: guess you could say, in some ways he kind of one.
Speaker 1: If you're especially a Vince supporter. Uh, you know, you
Speaker 1: have an investigation like this going on. The ww releases
Speaker 1: a press release early in the morning, crack of dawn
Speaker 1: on Friday, saying he's temporarily stepping aside that Stephanie is
Speaker 1: going to fill in. Then a short time after that,
Speaker 1: they issue another press release saying that Mr mcmahn is
Speaker 1: going to appear on SmackDown, And from there it got
Speaker 1: everyone talking about what he Vince McMahon was going to
Speaker 1: do as his wrestling persona Mr. McMahon, which is based
Speaker 1: on his real persona. And that was it. So we
Speaker 1: got defiant Vince being as defiant as he could possibly
Speaker 1: be in these times, and it got people to tune in,
Speaker 1: and to their credit, they kept those people. And when
Speaker 1: those people got to the end, they got the gift
Speaker 1: of rock listener. Now, whether that's a gift of the
Speaker 1: same socks that you got last year from your aunt,
Speaker 1: or whether it's you know, a gift that you been
Speaker 1: waiting for us since there's been no Charlotte and we're
Speaker 1: not gonna have Randy and we're not gonna have Cody
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuff. You know that that's
Speaker 1: to be determined, but when it comes to the w
Speaker 1: w E stock. You know, last week, before the Wall
Speaker 1: Street Journal story broke, it hit a near fifty two
Speaker 1: week high of sixty eight fifty and I will look
Speaker 1: right now, it's at sixty two fifty one. So the
Speaker 1: stocks value is down three point six percent for the day,
Speaker 1: but it's still up two point six percent for the month.
Speaker 1: It's up thirty percent over the last three months, and
Speaker 1: it's over two uh increased over the last five years,
Speaker 1: which for a lot of people interested in ww e's
Speaker 1: business affairs, that's the only only thing that they're worried about.
Speaker 1: And events can get away with this from a big
Speaker 1: slap on the hand and and nothing too damaging is
Speaker 1: released in those n d A s And that's certainly
Speaker 1: to be determined yet. But if he can get away
Speaker 1: with this with a slap on the wrist and a
Speaker 1: stern warning that if anything like this ever comes out
Speaker 1: and happens again, that you are gone, he might be
Speaker 1: able just to skate away with this because they've got
Speaker 1: these billion dollar deals and he brought on Nick con
Speaker 1: and the formulas work, and look what we're doing pal Pal's.
Speaker 1: We'll see, we'll see as far as the show itself
Speaker 1: went from the entertainment portion of the proceedings. Roman Rains
Speaker 1: Matt Riddle undisputed title in the match that Riddle dedicated
Speaker 1: to Randy Ordon with the stipulation that he can never
Speaker 1: face Rains again if he lost. He lost. Good match,
Speaker 1: good crowd, near fall near the end when Rains went
Speaker 1: for the spear, but Riddle hit the r K. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was fantastic. Riddle then went for the floating bro
Speaker 1: hit it, but then tried another RKO instead of going
Speaker 1: for the pin. Rains pushed him off. Riddle tried to
Speaker 1: springboard off the ropes, but Rains caught him with another
Speaker 1: spear for the pin. After the match, Rains grabbed the
Speaker 1: mic immediately said there's no one left. Said he told
Speaker 1: everyone two years ago he'd rocked everyone and leave, and
Speaker 1: that's exactly what he's doing now that Riddle's done. Said
Speaker 1: he's out, told the crowd to acknowledge him, and began
Speaker 1: to leave. When Cowboy Brock's music hit and they were
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, so those people were amped. They faced off.
Speaker 1: Brock smiled, took off his hat, extended his hand to Roman.
Speaker 1: Roman didn't want to take it. Then, you know one
Speaker 1: he said, hey, why not? And he went ahead and
Speaker 1: he went to shake Rock's hand, and Brock picked him
Speaker 1: up and F five killed him. The crowd went nuts.
Speaker 1: The USOS ran in the ring. He killed them as
Speaker 1: well too, and there brock Lesner was standing tall at
Speaker 1: the end of the show. So how will this play
Speaker 1: into ROTS to night. We don't know yet. I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's going to be talked about, but we have a
Speaker 1: couple of things planned, which we'll get into when we
Speaker 1: get back from Break Wrestling Observer Live back on the show.
Speaker 1: Mike's Umber VV here with your Wrestlings are alive. Holiday
Speaker 1: weekend June tenth, Father's Day weekend. Only one early baseball
Speaker 1: game on a Monday. The New York Mets lead the
Speaker 1: Miami Marlins for nothing, bottom of the six. I don't
Speaker 1: know if hockey is going to play any uh havoc
Speaker 1: on raw tonight. I would tend to doubt it. W
Speaker 1: W fans tend to be w W fans no matter what.
Speaker 1: But the Colorado Avalanche with the two oh lead on
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Lightning, they may have played into a
Speaker 1: w's ratings last Wednesday, but we'll we'll get to that
Speaker 1: here in a little bit, I gotta first open up
Speaker 1: this red bull because I didn't do that for the
Speaker 1: sm our kids yet. There you go, a couple of
Speaker 1: more things to get into that from SmackDown on Friday,
Speaker 1: And if you want Brian's thoughts about this, He's going
Speaker 1: to be talking about him for sure with Brian with
Speaker 1: on the Brian and Vinny Show as well with Filthy
Speaker 1: Tom Lawler. A couple of things. First and foremost for
Speaker 1: me personally, Kyle Caleb Braxton's interactions with Sammy Zane have
Speaker 1: successfully replaced her banter with Paul Hayman, which was always
Speaker 1: one of the small victories of SmackDown, no matter what
Speaker 1: else happened on that show, like them going back and forth,
Speaker 1: it was always great and I think saying he's saying
Speaker 1: and her doing it as fantastic as well. We had
Speaker 1: a segment with Shamus, Drew McIntyre, and Adam Pierce where
Speaker 1: Pierce announced that Shamus was in the money in the
Speaker 1: bank ladder match, and of course Shamus immediately cut Pierce
Speaker 1: off and started rubbing that into Drew McIntyre, who sent
Speaker 1: him over the top rope. Pierce then said, well, now
Speaker 1: that he can continue, McIntyre is in the match as well,
Speaker 1: so that's that. In the women his money in the
Speaker 1: bank qualifier, Raquel Rodriguez defeated Shane of Baslor in three
Speaker 1: minutes to join Alexa Bliss, liv Morgan and Lacy Evans,
Speaker 1: who was on commentary as qualifiers for that Ladder match.
Speaker 1: After he lost again to Mad Cat Moss, Baron Corbin
Speaker 1: challenged Pat McAfee, reminding him that he once called him
Speaker 1: bomb ass Corbin and said that he was undeserving of Pyro.
Speaker 1: Both things fair to be honest, I don't want to
Speaker 1: get blocked like Brian is, but come on, says if
Speaker 1: he doesn't watch himself that he's gonna kick McAfee's ass,
Speaker 1: and McPhee, being former an NFL player and a Trip
Speaker 1: Rogers train professional wrestler as well, then said okay, I'll
Speaker 1: call your bluff on this and then led the crowd
Speaker 1: into laughing at Corbin right as he slunk to the
Speaker 1: back as the New Day walked by and came out
Speaker 1: for their match against Gender Mahal and Shanky and bottom
Speaker 1: line of this matches, every time Xavier plays his trombone,
Speaker 1: Shanky just he just gets that feeling and it just
Speaker 1: starts moving through his body and he can't control himself.
Speaker 1: He can't help himself. He's got to move, he's got
Speaker 1: to dance. So we get the shaken of Shanky that
Speaker 1: Brian calls shankly. So we've got shaky Shankly who should
Speaker 1: be shanky, but Brian calls him shanky or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But he's dancing now and that gender mahal. They lose
Speaker 1: the match. You know what, out of everybody sat in
Speaker 1: him sing just by existing in a w is looking
Speaker 1: better and better when it comes to who might be
Speaker 1: the one to help take over the Indian audience. But
Speaker 1: ludvig Isiser announced on behalf of Gunter that the Intercontinental
Speaker 1: Championship will never again be held by an American. I'm
Speaker 1: fine with that, Sammy's aint, Kevin Owens, you know, anybody
Speaker 1: else you know, I'm I'm fine with that. I'm fine
Speaker 1: with that. Natalia makes says she can make Rohnda Rousey tap.
Speaker 1: I don't believe that's going to be the case. And
Speaker 1: I don't believe there's going to be anything that happens
Speaker 1: in the build up for their match that's going to
Speaker 1: make me believe that Natalia is going to get the victory.
Speaker 1: Max Dupre was announced with the spotlight over the ring.
Speaker 1: But then we go to the back where the former
Speaker 1: l A Night is running down Adam Pierce for not
Speaker 1: having top flight acoustics and lighting the type that titillates
Speaker 1: the juices of your guilty pleasure. Those were his words,
Speaker 1: not mine. Also, the Viking writers are going to appear
Speaker 1: in re debut on SmackDown next week, So that's what
Speaker 1: you missed on SmackDown. That is what Brian and Tom
Speaker 1: are going to be talking about in a lot more
Speaker 1: hilarious way than than I just did it there. Uh.
Speaker 1: W W back to TV raw tonight Pinnacle Bank Arena
Speaker 1: on the campus of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch takes on Oscar and the Money in the
Speaker 1: Bank qualifying match, and I will read directly from what
Speaker 1: w W wrote about this on their website. The w
Speaker 1: w E Universe will once again walk with Elias as
Speaker 1: Ezekiel's older brother returns to perform one more concert with
Speaker 1: certain w w E superstars. Still under the impression that
Speaker 1: Ezekiel is Elias, the w w E Rookie intends to
Speaker 1: put the controversy to rest once and for all when
Speaker 1: he stands side by side, side by side with his
Speaker 1: brother in the ring. Will the two brothers put on
Speaker 1: a concert of a lifetime or will a skeptical Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens interrupt the reunion find out Monday night on Raw? Now?
Speaker 1: Did they tip their hand here? In one? In one
Speaker 1: sentence there they seem to be promising that we will
Speaker 1: see Elias and Ezekiel arm in arm kind of waving
Speaker 1: back and forth, singing one of Eliza's hit songs of
Speaker 1: which I can't remember a single one of them. But
Speaker 1: they're gonna walk together, they're gonna talk together, they're gonna
Speaker 1: sing together. At least they're going to plan to do that.
Speaker 1: But will Kevin Owens do something before any of this
Speaker 1: takes place, like complete road runner wildly coyote style that
Speaker 1: just screws everything up so we don't even get it,
Speaker 1: like we we don't even get like we just get
Speaker 1: a slight tease of it. Or will they go through
Speaker 1: and actually do the special effects? Will we have the hologram?
Speaker 1: Will we have something instead of just Ezekiel in a
Speaker 1: beard that happens to be glued on or something like that,
Speaker 1: or is there really a twin brother out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's be honest here, there could be you guys didn't
Speaker 1: really know all those angles were floating around out there
Speaker 1: until they appeared on the show. At least did any
Speaker 1: that really looked like Kurt? Did you? For those people
Speaker 1: that remember those all those angles, Eric and whatnot from
Speaker 1: the Attitude days, I don't know, but uh, that's all
Speaker 1: they have planned so far for tonight. I also watched
Speaker 1: a w rampage as well that was taped last Wednesday.
Speaker 1: After Dynamite, John Moxley opened up the show defeating Dante
Speaker 1: Martin in a good match. Tony then interviewed Keith Lee
Speaker 1: and Swerved Strickling about their team when they were interrupted
Speaker 1: by Powerhouse Hobbs and Ricky Starks, who remind Lee and
Speaker 1: Swerve they keep losing to him, so that feud is
Speaker 1: going to continue. Got a pretty good video package of
Speaker 1: the House of Black and the Death Triangle cutting promos
Speaker 1: on each other, and it was Max Castor who did
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a wrap off and was
Speaker 1: able to in one of his bars make a reference
Speaker 1: to an n D a uh. He and the Gun
Speaker 1: Club defeated Leon Ruffin in Bear Country, who were named
Speaker 1: roughen hit. I don't know why that made me laugh
Speaker 1: when those small things. Dan Housing then cut a promo
Speaker 1: for Hook about facing a new Japan Dojo members. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be interesting to see who they take for
Speaker 1: that and if we get a series of these things,
Speaker 1: because I would love that and I think it would
Speaker 1: be great for Hook's career if he does get to
Speaker 1: have some experience working with new Japan Dojo guys, maybe
Speaker 1: meets Shabaa, that would be that would be good and
Speaker 1: very good for his future. Jake Cargill, in the main event,
Speaker 1: defeated Willow Nightingale to retain the TBS title and raise
Speaker 1: her record to thirty three. You know, abviously I take
Speaker 1: that back. This this was the semi main event. Stokely
Speaker 1: half Away was on commentary, had to try and fight
Speaker 1: to get in words with Chris Jericho being up there.
Speaker 1: Felt like a lot of this match actually happened during
Speaker 1: the commercial breaks, but Jade got the win. Afterwards, Kia
Speaker 1: Hogan got in the ring started helping Jade beat Willow
Speaker 1: down when Athena appeared, followed by Chris stat Lander who
Speaker 1: chased the heels from the ring, and then a video
Speaker 1: package aired of j leafal sat in him saying and
Speaker 1: Sanjay Dutton talking about Samoa Joe and the main event
Speaker 1: of Darby Allen against Bobby Fish. And one thing you
Speaker 1: can say about Darby Allen, much like the Creed Brothers,
Speaker 1: they make everything look believable. I believe it hurts. I
Speaker 1: believe it hurts for real. Sometimes that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's not. With the Creed Brothers, you cringe a
Speaker 1: little bit more because their rookies and god, you know,
Speaker 1: positioning matters and inexperienced matters. When it comes to Darby,
Speaker 1: it's just everything he does it's like being shot out
Speaker 1: of the cannon. And you know, one of the things
Speaker 1: about dives for years people have said it takes so
Speaker 1: much time to set up. You do lose, you know,
Speaker 1: when you're really into something. Sometimes you you do lose
Speaker 1: being in the moment when somebody is setting up a
Speaker 1: bunch of moves or springboards or something like that. With
Speaker 1: Darby Allen, you almost never have to worry about that
Speaker 1: because everything he does, you know, he's he He just
Speaker 1: does it to the nth degree and has no problems
Speaker 1: putting his body on the law line. So heck of
Speaker 1: a main event, he ends up defeating Uh Bobby Fish
Speaker 1: and then ultimately afterwards Bobby Fish calls out Kyle O'Reilly
Speaker 1: with a chair. They try to do some damage to him,
Speaker 1: but the lights go out. When they come back up,
Speaker 1: of course it is Sting who helps chase off Kyle O'Reilly.
Speaker 1: Then Uh Darby Allen got the chair put it around
Speaker 1: Bobby Fish. His ankle did a coffin drop off the
Speaker 1: top rope after the match, which pilmanized his leg and
Speaker 1: that was that. The show went off the air. We'll
Speaker 1: see how it does in the ratings. That hasn't been
Speaker 1: doing too good. Dynamite last Wednesday on TBS and not good.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was disappointing. It had to be seven
Speaker 1: and sixty one thousand viewers on average. You know, I
Speaker 1: think when when it really started, if you said if
Speaker 1: they could get between seven and fifty and a hunt
Speaker 1: in a million, boy, that would be really great. And
Speaker 1: then they started high. They durbbled down a little bit,
Speaker 1: but then he got to the point where it's like
Speaker 1: if they're doing between nine hundred and a million and
Speaker 1: everything is okay, sixty one thousand, that's tough down almost
Speaker 1: from the week before. Did the Stanley Cup Finals have
Speaker 1: anything to do with that? They got a five heart fire,
Speaker 1: a far higher rating than a lot of people thought
Speaker 1: it was going to. So I don't know if that
Speaker 1: was it or not. But we've got a lot more
Speaker 1: to get into and we get back break, including news
Speaker 1: out of New Japan that's got a lot of effects
Speaker 1: on a w moving forward. Wrestling Observer, a live back
Speaker 1: on the show Wrestling Observer, a live Mike Semper VV
Speaker 1: here with you. I do not believe there's going to
Speaker 1: be a Brian Elverrez Filthy Tom Waller Filthy four daily today,
Speaker 1: So the next time you hear Brian will be overnight.
Speaker 1: We're tomorrow morning. However, wherever time zone you're in Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Radio wrapping up everything taking place tonight during Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw, including any news bits Dave has picked up
Speaker 1: over the weekend about the Vince McMahon's story or any
Speaker 1: other stories floating out there, including Sasha Banks, who uh
Speaker 1: still as of this moment, is in limbo right now,
Speaker 1: There's been no news on Naomi moving whatsoever, and ever
Speaker 1: since Raj Geary released the news that Sasha was being released,
Speaker 1: there has been a standstill right now nobody can confirm
Speaker 1: anything other than she apparently is still on the inactive
Speaker 1: portion of the daily roster that w W E has,
Speaker 1: So you know, take that for what it's worth. One
Speaker 1: thing is for sure, you're not going to be seeing
Speaker 1: her coming back. I just I can't fathom that happening,
Speaker 1: but we shall see. One thing you will never see,
Speaker 1: apparently is new Japan and CMLL working well with Triple
Speaker 1: A and a w's Andrade Lao says he was suspended
Speaker 1: or suspended, said he was supposed to face will Osprey
Speaker 1: Forbidden Door, but the match was changed for political reasons.
Speaker 1: That is the reason we are going to get Orange
Speaker 1: Cassidy and will Osprey. Will Osprey and Andrade seemed to
Speaker 1: make a lot more sense. Andrade appeared on Hugo Savinovich's
Speaker 1: Lucha Libre interview show Friday and said that he was
Speaker 1: set to apply to Japan to shoot the angle for
Speaker 1: the match with Osprey, but then plans changed and credit
Speaker 1: to Lucha Blog for the translation here. This story also
Speaker 1: as many stories are up at FOURW online dot com.
Speaker 1: Put up there by Joseph Currier, put up there by
Speaker 1: Brian Rose, Josh and Nason and all the other hard
Speaker 1: working people over at the website, but here it is.
Speaker 1: The translation says that the change is a result of
Speaker 1: the complicated political situation involving New Japan's alliance with CMLL
Speaker 1: as A w has a working relationship with Mexico's Triple
Speaker 1: A promotion, and rad A worked one match for Triple
Speaker 1: A and one and one match so far this year,
Speaker 1: last appearing a Triple Many UH in Monterrey on April
Speaker 1: the In the interview with Savinovich, Andrade also expressed frustration
Speaker 1: with Triple A, as he says they have not booked
Speaker 1: him as they said they had would, leading to a
Speaker 1: situation where he cannot work for New Japan due to
Speaker 1: that relationship, So there you go. And Rode says he
Speaker 1: was scheduled to be on this weekend's Triple Mania show,
Speaker 1: but that that booking was canceled, so high drama always
Speaker 1: taking place, uh and rode bottom line is is Androdi
Speaker 1: won't be on Forbidden Door and will Osprey and and
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy will be. There was a winner Takes All
Speaker 1: r O H I w g P World Tag Team
Speaker 1: Championship match that's been added to Forbidden Door, which you
Speaker 1: probably already know by now FDR the R O H
Speaker 1: Tag Team Champions, the i w g P Tag Team Champions,
Speaker 1: The Great o'con and Jeff Cobb will face off against
Speaker 1: Ra Pongy Vice, Trent Burretta and Rocky Romero in a
Speaker 1: triple threat match at Forbidden Door with both sets of
Speaker 1: titles on the line. As of now, there are six
Speaker 1: matches announced for the show. Everybody is waiting on that
Speaker 1: seventh match to be announced. And when I say that
Speaker 1: it is not the i w g P Heavyweight Champion
Speaker 1: Chip match, that sure, if that gets added, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants Brian Danielson and Zach Saber Jr. We still
Speaker 1: don't know if Brian Danielson has been cleared yet. Dave
Speaker 1: and Brian this morning for subscribers of Wrestling Observer Radio
Speaker 1: UH indicated that he was not, but we'll have to
Speaker 1: see what the week brings. There are six matches so far.
Speaker 1: John Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi for the interim a W
Speaker 1: World Championship, the Women's World title, Thunder Rosa and Tony
Speaker 1: Storm the US title for the i w g P
Speaker 1: U S Title, Will Osprey and Orange Cassidy, the All
Speaker 1: Atlantic Championship, and that is starting to come into focus here,
Speaker 1: which we'll get to in a moment. Miro and Poc
Speaker 1: are the only people so far UH that that are
Speaker 1: in the match. From a E W side, we are
Speaker 1: closer to having a new Japan representative UH, and then
Speaker 1: a fourth person is going to be added down the line.
Speaker 1: There's also a r O H as I mentioned the
Speaker 1: World Tag Team Championship match with the i b g
Speaker 1: P Tag titles and then a six man between Chris Jericho,
Speaker 1: Minoro Suzuki and Samy Guvara against Eddie Kingston Wheeler Utah
Speaker 1: and showeda Umino. So no idea how large this card
Speaker 1: is going to be less, maybe more, you know, three
Speaker 1: matches added, four matches added, that probably should be good.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping it's some more singles matches probably will not
Speaker 1: be In the case of the i w g P
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship match, it's nothing against Adam Cole, and I
Speaker 1: know there's Adam Cole's always up for banter or his
Speaker 1: name is always up for some sort of banter, whether
Speaker 1: it be about his body or how he's been booked
Speaker 1: or with this that in the third, but I was
Speaker 1: hoping to have a one on one match. I can
Speaker 1: understand why they're not, but I really would have preferred that. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if we get Brian Danielson and Zax Aber Jr. That's
Speaker 1: another one. But I hope there's a couple of more
Speaker 1: singles matches as well. Probably won't be. I have a
Speaker 1: feeling if we get more matches added, it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be heavier on the multiple person side of things, So
Speaker 1: we shall see. It's been announce that thunder Rosa is
Speaker 1: going to be going to Tokyo Joshi Pro uh to
Speaker 1: go apply her trade over there Tony Storm. You know,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. If she gets the win here, Rosa can
Speaker 1: still go to Toshi Tokyo Joshi Pro and man I'd
Speaker 1: like to see Tony Storm and start them again, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see some sort of scenario there at
Speaker 1: some point down the line. Obviously, Stardom has got that
Speaker 1: one championship where it's only defended against foreigners, so that's
Speaker 1: something the s w A Championships, So that is something
Speaker 1: that people that are clamoring to see Stardom talent come
Speaker 1: over to the country, you know, are looking to see
Speaker 1: some interaction between a w wrestlers and stardom. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's a certainly a place where you know, something can
Speaker 1: certainly happen over that championship. So we'll have to see
Speaker 1: how things go. This Wednesday's Go Home Dynamite, they've announced
Speaker 1: some things including John Moxley teaming with Hiroshi Tanahashi against
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho and Lance Archer. So that's a pretty good
Speaker 1: match right there. This past Wednesday, of course, Jericho and
Speaker 1: the Jericho Appreciation Society UH interrupted Moxley and Tanahashi's face
Speaker 1: to face and eventually Archer joined in and Desperado of
Speaker 1: Suzuki Goon, which led to Jericho then announcing the Sixth
Speaker 1: Man that was going to be taking place at Forbidden
Speaker 1: Doors so well as Brain also open. We'll face off
Speaker 1: against Orange Castide and Rapongi Vice, and then a All
Speaker 1: Atlantic Championship eliminator between Penta Oscuro does anybody call him that? Still?
Speaker 1: Pentagon against Malachi Black and off of the All Atlantic
Speaker 1: Championship eliminator match between Penta and Malachi, I shall transition
Speaker 1: over to Monday's Today's New Japan road Show, which took
Speaker 1: place in Tokyo, generated some news. They're both Tomahiro as
Speaker 1: She and Clarke Connors have advanced to the a e
Speaker 1: W All Atlantic Championship match, which will take place qualifying
Speaker 1: match which will take place tomorrow at another New Japan
Speaker 1: road show. So I mean, look, we've got Miro, We've
Speaker 1: got pack Miro facing off against the She's the only
Speaker 1: thing that makes sense here to me. Now, you could
Speaker 1: definitely give Connors an upset win over She and springboard
Speaker 1: him into the match, and he could be the guy
Speaker 1: that takes the fall, but it would still be a
Speaker 1: big deal. I just no, no, don't do that. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to see She and this thing. I would have
Speaker 1: liked to just see a tournament or something where this
Speaker 1: whole thing came down to Miro Nachi. I think that
Speaker 1: would have been a pretty hype match to have it
Speaker 1: forbidden door, pretty awesome one on one match to have.
Speaker 1: But they want to go with multiple countries in there
Speaker 1: for the the the belt with the multiple flags on it,
Speaker 1: the all the Atlantic Championships. So that's that from there.
Speaker 1: But there's also a little bit more news as United Empires,
Speaker 1: Will Osprey and the Great o'con and Jeff Cobb are
Speaker 1: stomping around here as well as Assie Open their Junior
Speaker 1: Heavyweight UH partners of t J P and Francesco Akira
Speaker 1: won the i w g P Junior Heavyweight Tag Team
Speaker 1: Championship on this same show this morning when Akira pinned
Speaker 1: Master Watto. They defeated My Watto and Rice Skate to Gucci,
Speaker 1: you've held the title since February with when Akira becomes
Speaker 1: the first Italian born champion of night w g P
Speaker 1: history and h Wrestling New Japan in Italy. They always
Speaker 1: had a pocket of fans in Italy and at times
Speaker 1: New Japan was incredibly popular there during the Tiger mask years,
Speaker 1: that was the case, and then he kind of had
Speaker 1: a revival and when Tiger masked for started becoming a
Speaker 1: thing in New Japan, he became popular over there as well.
Speaker 1: To Juician Liger was always popular over there as well.
Speaker 1: So Francesco Akira becomes the first ever Italian born i
Speaker 1: w g P champion UH. He made his debut in
Speaker 1: this year's Best of the Super Juniors alongside Wheeler, Utah
Speaker 1: and and and Ace Austin and Alexane and a couple
Speaker 1: other people. And I tell you, I think people are
Speaker 1: going to be looking back at this past I w
Speaker 1: g P or this past best of the super juniors,
Speaker 1: and I think history is going to be very very
Speaker 1: kind to it. Again, there was not a whole lot
Speaker 1: of hype going into it, but once it got going,
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of a sluggish start, I think,
Speaker 1: but the fans of Japan took to almost everybody. All
Speaker 1: of the new people that were appearing, they seem to
Speaker 1: take too really well. The matches got better and better
Speaker 1: as it went on. There were some great performances by Desperado.
Speaker 1: There's great performances by l Phantasmo, including all the teases
Speaker 1: that put him in this year's G One, and I
Speaker 1: will use that as a transition. Look at me today
Speaker 1: on the holiday weekend, just looping things together here. I'll
Speaker 1: take that as my chance to talk about the fact
Speaker 1: that the four blocks of next months G one Climax
Speaker 1: thirty two tournament have been announced. So how this is
Speaker 1: going to work this year. There's going to be four
Speaker 1: blocks with seven wrestlers in it each. The winners of
Speaker 1: each block are then going to advance to one on
Speaker 1: one matches on August normal bracketing two semifinals matches, and
Speaker 1: the winners of those will move on to August at
Speaker 1: Tokyo's Buddha Canal. The A block, This is the block
Speaker 1: that matters, at least here on this website, at least
Speaker 1: here in my heart. The A block, this is the
Speaker 1: block of death because ooch Go Okada, Torriano, I know
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Wait what what Jeff Cobb, Jonah bad
Speaker 1: luck Folly and you saying Mike bad luck Foal. All
Speaker 1: large men there imagine having to face bad luck fal
Speaker 1: After facing Jeff Cobb and Jonah and then staring then
Speaker 1: in the battle of the Barrel of Lance Archer, but
Speaker 1: most importantly Filthy Tom Lawlor, he gets multiple dreams coming
Speaker 1: true as well as I. He gets to face Torriano,
Speaker 1: and he gets to face kazuch go Okada, and we
Speaker 1: get to see him mix it up against some other
Speaker 1: foreigners who are the future of New Japan. Guy Jean,
Speaker 1: Jeff Cobb, Jonah, the old School with Lance Archer. That's
Speaker 1: a hell of a hell of a block. B Block,
Speaker 1: j White Shi, Sonata Tonga, Great ocon Ches Owns, Taichi
Speaker 1: C Block, Tanahashi Goto, Nito, Zach Saber Jr. Aaron Harnare
Speaker 1: Kenta and Evil d Block, will Osprey Yoshi Hashi, Shingo
Speaker 1: to Kagi, David Finley, Juice Robinson, l Fantasmo, and Yujuro Takahashi.
Speaker 1: So this whole thing is gonna kick off July. The
Speaker 1: winner of the tournament will receive a briefcase with a
Speaker 1: contract in it for the i w g P Well
Speaker 1: Heavyweight Championship match coming up in January at Russell Kingdom.
Speaker 1: Soothing sounds on the way out to Break. You're almost
Speaker 1: back to the cook out, folks. We'll get you there.
Speaker 1: I'll be your bridge wrestling reserver alive. Oh my Mike,
Speaker 1: except for baby back with your wrestling deserver alive. If
Speaker 1: you could only hear some of the things that producer
Speaker 1: Don will say during Break, you wouldn't want to know. Uh.
Speaker 1: But we do now know that one of Vince McMahon's
Speaker 1: legal issues is out of the way. If you go
Speaker 1: to the front page of Wrestling Observer dot com, it
Speaker 1: has been posted since this show has began that Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon and Oliver Luck are not headed to trial after all.
Speaker 1: As was first reported by the Sports Business Journal on Monday,
Speaker 1: McMahon and Luck have reached a settlement and Luck's wrongful
Speaker 1: termination suit Luck was the commissioner of McMahon's XFL revival,
Speaker 1: was seeking approximately twenty four million I believe was twenty
Speaker 1: three point eight million in compensation that he was still
Speaker 1: owed from Vince McMahon. The financial terms of the settlement
Speaker 1: have not been disclosed. They must have signed an n DA.
Speaker 1: The party has reached an agreement to resolve this case today.
Speaker 1: LUXE attorney Paul Dobrowski wrote in the filing last Friday,
Speaker 1: Well Good Vince at least wanted to tie something up.
Speaker 1: Last Friday, Dobrowski was seeking a judicial order to permanently
Speaker 1: seal records in the case. Lux contract as XFL commissioner
Speaker 1: was personally guaranteed by McMahon. He was fired just days
Speaker 1: before the XFL folded amid the COVID nineteen pandemic and
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. McMahon claimed that he fired Luck due to
Speaker 1: gross the neglect of his job during the pandemic, personal
Speaker 1: use of a League assistant cell phone and signing wide
Speaker 1: receiver Antonio Callaway, despite Callaway having legal issue use uh
Speaker 1: Luck has said that there was no policy in place
Speaker 1: when he signed Callaway, and anything about the cell phone
Speaker 1: went right out the window when a judge ruled that
Speaker 1: none of it was admissible, so Luck sued, McMahon countersued,
Speaker 1: and here we are. A settlement conference took place last Wednesday,
Speaker 1: only lasted nine minutes. They were done, but apparently last
Speaker 1: Friday's other news sparked Vincent to maybe thinking I don't
Speaker 1: want to go to trial with these guys in July.
Speaker 1: There you go, everybody. Thank you, Producer Dom, Thank you
Speaker 1: to everybody out there listening and watching this broadcast. My
Speaker 1: name is Mike Semperviv. We shall talk to you again
Speaker 1: after a while. You have been listening to the Wrestling
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