WEBVTT - Mercedes Debut and Mark Coleman 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:16.360 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports Byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.760 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, 0:00:19.800 --> 0:00:22.560 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervb. 0:00:23.360 --> 0:00:26.720 Right, you're ready, where you're ready, Let's get it off. 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:32.880 How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:35.440 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:39.120 three Eastern at Sundays three Pacific, six Eastern Saturday Mornings 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.879 with Jim Valley, Tenay Pacific one Eastern Sundays with Andrews 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:46.239 Aian And it is Thursday here on the show. And 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:51.120 you know that means, well, it means we got big 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.360 business to talk about. Aw big business was last night, 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.400 and shockingly, I don't know if you're aware of this 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.720 or not, it was the debut of Mercedes Monai. Yes, 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.480 she is all elite and she made her debut and 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:11.679 she's going to be on the show next week. She 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.000 was in the opening segment and the main events segment, 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.800 and it's gonna be very interesting to see the quarter 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.840 Hours here today because yesterday I argued vehemently, vehemently not 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.680 to put her in the opening segment of the show, because, 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:28.039 as we have learned from watching The Rock, if you 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.160 put the big surprise at the beginning of the show, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.760 well when the deal's over, they leave the segment of 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:37.280 the audience leaves. And when you put Rock at the 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.640 end of the show, you do a gigantic number because 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.480 people wait till the end of the show. So I thought, well, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:43.720 you should put her at the end of the show. 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:46.160 Well she was at the end of the show, but 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:48.320 we will find out be the Quarter Hours if they 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:51.440 made that clear enough in the opening segment, because if 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.520 the show does very well and the last segment does well, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.600 people got the clue, and if it didn't, they didn't 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.280 get the clue that she was going to be coming 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:01.880 back there at the end. But we gotta talk about that. 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:06.680 Gotta talk about Mark Coleman, who is a hero. He 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.680 saved his family from a burning house and for those 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.480 who heard the show yesterday, he is doing better. So 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.160 that's good news. 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Mike 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.359 Simber VV, also of Wrestling Observer dot Com, talk about 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:25.520 Mercedes here in a moment, but first we got to 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.880 talk about this story. Mark Coleman says he is the 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.360 happiest man in the world. Fifty nine year old has 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.080 been hospitalized and saving his parents from a house fire 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:40.080 early Tuesday morning Freemont, Ohio. Coleman was visiting his parents. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.719 By the way, how lucky was at He was visiting 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.720 his parents when his dog, Hammer woke him up around 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.479 four am, alerting him to the fire. After getting his 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:53.000 elderly parents to safety, Coleman re entered the burning building 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:57.040 to rescue Hammer, who unfortunately did not survive. So his dog. 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.440 He wasn't even going to be staying there, so apparently 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.000 there was like a fire in the kitchen, and had 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.120 he not stayed over, I mean, this would have just 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:08.880 likely been a tragedy. But he stayed over. His dog 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:11.560 woke him up at four am. I believe he got 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:14.040 his father out of the house, he went back in, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.200 he got his mother out of the house. He went 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.320 back in to get his dog, but he couldn't get 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.040 the dog, and then he had suffered so much smoke 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:25.960 inhalation that he collapsed and he was covered in soot, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:32.560 soot in his lungs and airlifted the hospital, intubated, sedated, 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:37.400 and it was it was I don't think there was 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.560 ever appeared where they thought he wasn't going to make it. 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.880 Even the first report I got was that it's really 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.840 really bad, but he probably can pull through this. And 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.960 on Thursday he woke up. He said, I'm the happiest 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:51.880 man in the world, Swear to God him so lucky. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.320 Can't believe my parents are alive. Had to make a 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:56.120 decision because I got out of my room and went 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.480 to the door and it was already horrible, couldn't Breathe 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.640 almost had to go outside, and I went back in 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.640 and got him. I can't believe it. I got them, 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:07.840 but I couldn't find hammer. So there's a GoFundMe if 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:10.880 you want to check that out. It's on the front 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.280 page of pressing Observe dot com. The link probably all 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.560 over the internet as well. I think they're like seventy 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 thousand dollars already, and I think this thing went up 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:22.440 this morning. But yeah, it looks like he's going to 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.320 be all right, the roof of the home collapsed shortly 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.840 after they arrived on the scene. And uh, what a hero, dude, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:33.400 Holy smokes. Mark Coleman. One of the toughest guys ever 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:36.480 in MMA, and now he saved his family from a 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.800 burning house. So what a guy. 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:44.240 Unbelievable human being, unbelievably tough human being. He can't tell 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.800 the history of mixed martial arts without Mark Coleman. An 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:51.920 incredible career and just an incredible story and an incredible 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:56.360 tragedy that was spared by that chance that he happened 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.240 to be staying there. So unbelievable and all the best 0:08:59.280 --> 0:08:59.920 of Mark Coleman. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:06.559 So yes, we did have the debut yesterday of Mercedes Monai, 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.520 and as I talked about in the opening segment, I'm 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:15.160 intrigued by the quarter hours for this show. It's one day, 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:17.920 you know, we'll see how things go long term. But 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.360 the interesting thing is they brought her out at the 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.400 very beginning of the show, and the question is she 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.040 did her whole promo. We'll get to that in a moment. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:32.160 And at the end she said, I can't wait to 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.079 tear it up with every single one of you. We'll 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.439 start with the main events tonight ReHO versus Willow Nightingale, Willow, 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.760 You and I have a lot of unfinished business. But 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:43.360 right now at big business, I'm all elite. And they 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:47.640 played her music and she danced and she left, and 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.120 I I thought, is she coming back or what? 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:53.640 Like? 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:58.160 They didn't announce it. So the question is, you know 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:00.200 how many fans thought she was coming back at the end. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:02.080 If they thought she was coming back at the end, 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.280 which she did, I think this show is going to 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.439 do a very very good number if they didn't get 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.480 the hint that she was coming back at the end. 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.800 I do expect it to be a very big first 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.840 quarter and then uh and then fall back to normal 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.760 levels throughout the rest of the show. So we shall see. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.600 But she is Mercedes Monette. Her gimmick is she is 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.840 the CEO, which Tony is allowing her to be called 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:25.400 the CEO. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:27.840 You already hate that, don't you. 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.839 I don't, actually, you know what, I don't mind CEO 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.120 at all, But you know what I do not like what. 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.400 I hate this theme. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.480 Just you like it more than the last one. 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.440 That one was weird too, but I like, I mean 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.720 this one. It's like she's got this new song, which 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.200 is really funny because when you listen to it, it 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:52.000 actually sounds like the beginning of Gunther's theme, and then 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.240 all of a sudden it breaks into Chance of Ceo, 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:01.800 like they put chance in the theme. And I don't know, man, 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:04.880 I don't know. Just seems like it's gonna get grating 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.559 real quick. But I mean everything else that was a 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.160 good debut place when Nuts for Her came out, did 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.040 a promo, talked about her history, talked about her dream 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.600 of becoming the best wrestler, the best women's wrestler of 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.600 all time, dropping out of school at thirteen, chaotic wrestling 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.640 at eighteen and ninety pounds, and she wants to make 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.520 magic here in aew and it does appear actually I 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.839 shouldn't say that, but I mean, she's gonna do something 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:35.839 with Willow at some point. She's getting her win back 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.000 at some point. She was never supposed to lose to 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.760 Willow for the new Japan Women's title, but she got 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.240 hurt and put her over, and so presumably at some 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.000 point she will beat Willow. I don't know if it's 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:51.400 if it's imminent. I mean, you could have Willow win 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:53.760 a title from somebody and then she ends up beating 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.880 her at some point down the road. I think her 0:11:55.880 --> 0:12:00.640 first few should be like a big name, and you know, 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.160 at the end of her promo, she she didn't quite do, 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.200 but she started She's gonna go see and then she 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.439 went e or whatever, by the crowd chanted along. It 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.800 was exactly like Britt Baker's DMD and so I don't 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.200 know if that was on purpose or not, but I 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.280 know that Britt was not at the show. She was 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.840 not in the building. I don't know what they're gonna 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.120 do with her, but that seems like a natural feud. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.559 So it looks like probably at some point Britt, probably 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.240 at some point Willow. But I guess we'll know more 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.560 next week because she will be in the building. But 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.840 what did you think of this debut? 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.840 You know, yesterday I was going to bring up you 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.080 could debut her at the beginning of the show, but 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.400 you're gonna have to put you know, come back to 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.400 her at a couple of times during the show, which 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.800 they did not do. Now, it should have probably been 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.960 enough of a whistle to all the aw fans that okay, 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:55.200 instead of the world title match, Rijo and Willow is 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.760 closing the show that probably should have been assigned to 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:01.720 people that, yeah, said Sasha and Mercedes. 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:03.640 It shouldn't be. It certainly should be a clue. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.440 It should be. But what they also probably could have done, 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.400 maybe helped a little bit, is also insert her into 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.360 seeing somebody backstage or having one of those things. And 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.760 I know it's a very wwe thing to do, but 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.920 probably wouldn't have been the worst idea in the world. Regardless. 0:13:20.160 --> 0:13:22.520 I'm with you when it comes to the Britt Baker deal. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.400 At some point we're going to have Jamie Hayter come back, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.520 hopefully at some point here in twenty twenty four. It's 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.960 got to happen sooner or later. So you have a 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:33.560 few that could possibly happen there as well too. But 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.160 if it's not going to be Tony Storm, and it 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.000 does not look like it's going to be the case 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:42.000 with Deanna Parrazzo continuing to go after her, to me, 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.840 Britt Baker coming back, look, Adam Cole is a heel. 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.960 She comes back upset with the treatment that this person's 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.080 got walking in and all these other women have got 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:55.080 walking in the door. Turn her heel to me, that's 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:56.280 the perfect first feud. 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.000 Well, you know, I gotta say that if you're going 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:03.240 to bring back Bridge Baker like I think she does, 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:07.360 she's she's better as a heel. Okay, absolutely, But man, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.400 I watched this show and how many heels do we need? Brother? 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.559 We got a lot, a lot, a lot of heels 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:17.000 in AAW and thankfully they've at least turned Swerve and 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.080 now we've got Will Ospray, although he's still with a 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.480 heel group. I mean, they'll have to figure out that story. 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.000 Well so technically so a Swerve although we saw Total Leona. 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.360 No swerves definitely turned last week. But here's the thing, Well, 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:29.720 with a heel group, yes. 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:32.120 Bishop, yeah exactly, and Bishop conn and Total Leona kind 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.440 of came out on their own with their new gear on. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.960 So maybe that's a sign that they're going to be 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:42.240 distancing them and Brian Cage officially away from Swerve and 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.480 from Nanna, and they should and it's going to be 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:46.920 something they'll need to actually take care of on the 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.080 ROH broadcast as well as AW. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.760 All Right, we'll talk more about that Ali show here 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:54.640 in a little while, but a couple of other news 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:56.480 notes here and after the break, and again, if you 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.960 want to Texas, what did you think four seven eight 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.520 zero seven five sixty six is the phone number fourty 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.000 five seven eight zero seven five six six. And Hey, 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.680 I want to make sure before the break I lay 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:13.680 down some big time praise of AW because next week 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.800 Dynamite in Toronto. We already have five matches for the show. 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:25.080 Thank you. Next week it's the Iquit match Christian versus 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:28.480 Adam Copeland. Something we'll get to here in a moment, 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:32.760 Eddie Kingston versus Okada for the Continental title. Mercedes will 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:35.480 be there to do an interview, Deanna Parozzo and a 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:40.360 mystery partner versus Tony Storman, Mariah May and Chris Jericho 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:43.840 versus Five matches already announced for next week. So if 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.520 you're in Toronto and you're waffling, brother, you know it's 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.240 going to be on the show. You got no excuse. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.680 Now go buy some tickets. Back in a moment of 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:51.360 you're live. 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:20.160 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.920 and Mike simper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.520 Hey, you ever heard of a compliment sandwich? 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:29.040 Yeah? 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:33.000 Well, I liked a lot of stuff on AW last night, 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.760 but there was one thing on that show that my 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.600 brain is melting. It's melting, okay. 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.160 Lionhuwk no, fine with that. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:49.800 So Ocatta debuts last week. He's a heel, which, by 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:54.080 the way, if you want the bun part of this compliment, sandwich, golly, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.680 I love this guy is a heel. He's the best. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.800 If I had to choose the young bucks, Nocada's baby heels. 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.320 Heals nine days out of the week, and there's only 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:08.480 seven days last I checked. Things might have changed with 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:14.520 daylight savings time. But anyway, so he debuts and you know, 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.560 beats down Eddie Kingston everything, and when the show's over, 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:23.000 it's like, all right, call Lee g at the pay 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.399 per view, Oh Cotton Eddie Kingston for the Continental Crown 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.760 and and you know Cotta probably should win, come to 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.000 conton the Continental whatever. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.160 They call it Continental Crown. 0:17:35.320 --> 0:17:39.840 Sure, so they do a six man this week, like, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.320 golly man, what a match? You know? All these great 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:44.440 guys return a park. 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.240 You tell us a man with two young kids saying, 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:48.160 golly so much. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.400 Well, I'm I hey, if I if I gave this 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.119 brand tonight on the brin of any show, there'd be 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.600 a lot of other words. But anyway, they do this match, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.080 great match, a lot of fun and uh and Okata 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.720 hits the rain Maker on Eddie and pins him, and 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.679 of course my first thought is, okay, this is the 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.119 exact same thing they did with Brian Danielson. Danielson pin 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:07.440 him in a match, set up a match in the 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.960 pay per view. Whatever that's I don't care. I'm not 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:18.919 mad about that. But then then they announce that it 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:26.720 is not Eddie Kingston and Okada for the Continental Crown 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:32.439 the pay per view. They announce it is Eddie versus 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:40.960 Okada only only for the Continental Belt next Wednesday. I 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:44.360 was like, okay, hold on a second, where'd even begin. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:49.840 First off, first off, why do we need this match 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:54.880 next Wednesday when we already have Adam Copeland versus Christian 0:18:55.680 --> 0:19:01.200 in their big blowoff match for the title in Toronto. Listen, Yes, 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:03.439 you should, of course have a full lineup for the show. 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.960 People may want to see other people, but brother, that's 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.600 what you need for next week's show. That's all you 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:13.879 need for the show. You have not their actual aw names, 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:20.119 but it's Edge and Christian for the title. Okay, you 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.639 don't need anything else for next week, but you know 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:25.320 what you got to show the week after, you could 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.880 do it there, but anyway, whatever, they're doing the match 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:34.760 next week. So now it's only for the Continental Belt, 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:39.960 not the Continental Crown. It's for one of the three belts. Okay. 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:45.760 Now there's only there's only three finishes possible. Okay. Finish 0:19:45.880 --> 0:19:50.000 number one is you do a disqualification or something in 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:52.640 no title changes hands, which I don't think anybody's gonna 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:56.320 be happy with. But actually, honestly, if somebody else booked 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.359 this match and I had to come up with a finish, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.679 that's what I come up with Oka, even though it's 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.720 the worst I don't want to see, but like, that's 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.879 the best possible finish in the scenario. Your other finish 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.960 is Eddie Kingston beats Ocada in Ocada's first singles match. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:14.160 I would not do this. I think that's ridiculous. And 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:17.600 then the third possibility is that Okada beats Eddie and 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:22.320 wins one of the belts, which would mean that you 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:30.640 did a Continental Classic tournament, which was a great tournament, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:36.160 and the whole point of that tournament was to unify 0:20:36.280 --> 0:20:41.200 these three belts into a Continental Crown. And after going 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:45.840 through this great tournament, unifying the titles and creating a 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:50.960 continental crown. Three months later, you're going to split it up? 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:53.560 Why would you do this? 0:20:54.280 --> 0:20:56.200 Is that what the tournament was for? Brian? 0:20:56.880 --> 0:20:57.160 Yes? 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:02.680 Really there was no half Eddie Kingston gold Watch Royal. 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:04.880 Well, of course it was then, but it was to 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:07.280 create a continental browns. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.560 In can't rustle him next year's g one, So we 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:11.760 created a little g one we can do every year. 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.920 Dude, that's all. That's all backstage reasons. As a fan. 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:18.080 The reason for that tournament was to create a three 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:22.320 belt continental crown, and after investing in the tournament, we're 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:25.399 just gonna go split it up three months later. Look, 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:28.600 I forgot when that happened to the All Japan Triple Crown. 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:30.520 Split him up three months later? 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.199 Well, I mean, what is gonna do walking around? You 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:36.440 think he's gonna be walking around with the NJPW Strong 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.080 title over his shoulder? Not a chance in hell? 0:21:39.119 --> 0:21:39.600 Why not? 0:21:39.840 --> 0:21:40.640 Who cares? 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:42.600 Who? 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.280 Because cares? You're talking about from Okay, take the backstage 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.040 out of it. That you're getting paid to do a job, 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.000 and if they pay you enough, I'd walk around with 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.359 the Strong title too. But we're talking about on TV. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:55.960 This guy just came over IWGP World Heavyweight CHAMBI the 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.639 guy that everybody wanted to be for the last ten years, 0:22:00.440 --> 0:22:03.000 and now he's going to revert to being I mean, 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:03.919 why doesn't he just be. 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:08.040 He'sting to being a strong champion. He's becoming a triple 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:12.240 crown champion with three unified belts. 0:22:11.200 --> 0:22:13.560 But what belt? 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:17.080 Now we have another belt because they're splitting it off 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:19.960 from the cunt. How many belts do we need. 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:22.000 But we have that belt. Here's the thing. The R 0:22:22.000 --> 0:22:26.320 O H title should not be on TV on aw TV, 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.119 and they need a champion. Okay, put it back there. 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:32.400 I don't think any strong title should exist at all, 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.080 but they continue to push him because I guess for 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:37.840 touring in the US and the UK, they want to 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.040 have those titles. Okay, fine, let it jettison back to 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:45.160 where it was. Do I think you need a continental title? No? Would. 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:48.120 I'd like to see that title at some point, maybe 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:51.159