WEBVTT - Hyper Battle/WWE Hall Of Fame 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:15.200 Let's get it all. How's going everybody? Brian Alvarez here 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.120 on or Wrestling Observerer Live. Will are here every day 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:21.680 Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sundays three Pacific, 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:25.720 six Eastern. Ill lot to get into here today on 0:00:25.760 --> 0:00:27.639 the program Monday here in the show, you note that 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:32.040 means Raw is tonight, and we've got russell Mania coming 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:35.240 up this weekend, two nights of rustle Mania. You're gonna 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.880 be there Saturday and Sunday. Now, my wife's trying to 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:40.880 get me to go to wrestle Mania. I'm not going. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:43.920 I told you all, man, we got a lot to 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.320 get into here today. We have the Raw lineup for 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:52.400 tonight here. You know I always talking about how everyone say, oh, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:58.000 Brian Dave plans change cop out, blah blah blah. Well, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.320 w w WE put up a graph on their social 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.399 media announcing that Rhonda Rowsy was gonna be on the 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.520 show tonight, but apparently they didn't sent her a plane ticket, 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:11.240 so she had to alert the world that she's not 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.080 on the show tonight, and then they took down the 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:15.760 graphic for the match that they've announced for Monday on 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.080 social media. Anyway, we'll tell what is on ROT tonight 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:21.240 because it is a fairly packed show here. We've alllo 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:25.160 got new entrance into the w w E Hall of Fame, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.360 which I find to be great news. I'll tell you 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.160 why after the break. We got New Japan announcing their 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.039 Hyper Battle show which is April nine. The winner of 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:38.520 the New Japan Cup is facing Okada for the championship. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:40.560 And if for some reason you have not watched the 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.200 New Japan Cup, these aren't spoilers, brother, This show happened 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.200 a while ago, so we're gonna go over the results 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.960 here on the show today. Talk about that, I've seen 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.600 the semifinals of the Cup, the main event of the Cup. 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.520 I've seen the Stardom Made Event Night one started Main 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:58.440 Event night to the Kyrie match from Stardom. I've seen SmackDown, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.720 I've seen Rampage Am. I'm as saying anything New Japan Strong. 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.520 I've watched New Japan Strong. So there's a lot to 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.560 talk about from those shows. We got a Tuesday lineup 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.000 for the ED x T show, which is to go 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:15.079 home show for Stand and Deliver and uh and plenty more. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.200 So I don't even know where to start. You know what, 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:22.320 We've already started back at the moment. Observer Alive. Thank you, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:47.639 thank you, thank you, thank you. Were listening to Wrestling 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.320 Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv on the 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:57.120 Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Bring the show. Bright Albert is here. 0:02:57.200 --> 0:03:01.440 Wrestling Observer Alive. My sup for vib also Wrestling Observer 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.760 dot com. We've got a million things talk about here today. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.239 Ron Rousey says she will not be on Raw tonight. 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:09.880 W He posted a graphic to Facebook on Sunday that 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.000 indicated she would be on Monday's show. It featured Rousey 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:17.480 along with Bianca, Charlotte and Becky. However, Rousey refuted it 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.799 that she would be on Raw during a Sunday Facebook 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.520 live stream. W w E has since deleted the graphic. 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.200 I'm not gonna be at Raw tomorrow, she said, responding 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.120 to a question from the chat. I think that's a 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.080 mistake or something, because if I was gonna be at 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.320 Raw tomorrow, I would be leaving today. So no, I'm 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.360 not going to be there because I'm here, however, she 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:40.200 will be on SmackDown. Always always fun to see the 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:42.240 left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.840 and plans changing, and then I get yelled at for 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.680 being a horrible reporter. But anyway, tonight on Raw, we 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:50.680 got these Street Profits versus the Alpha Academy. We have 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.040 the U s OS versus r K Bro because you know, 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.839 it's that one time a year everybody that starts from 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:02.640 Ron SmackDown face off in big matches, and the one 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:07.600 time a year is all year. We've got an Italia Shana, 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:12.360 Carmela and Selina against Live Rhea, Naomi and Sasha. We 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:16.960 got Ray Mysterio versus the Miss and we have seth 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:22.279 Rawlins claiming that he has a meeting with Vince mcmahn. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.240 I'm not advocating this or anything like that, and I 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.240 don't think you'd make any money, but I wonder if 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.960 you actually could, like, you know, do a complaint to 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.240 uh NBC Universal Peacock that you spent money to buy 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.560 Peacock to watch Survivor series because it's the one time 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.280 a year that Ron SmackDown wrestlers face off against each 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.120 other and you paid your money and then they just 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:44.480 keep facing off against each other all year long. I mean, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.119 maybe you could sue for like four dollars and nine cents. 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:49.360 Probably waste a lot of your own money doing that. 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.839 But anyway, they're only me on the show tonight because 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.080 it's at one time a year then Ron SmackDown wrestlers 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.000 go head to head. You don't sounds so excited. It's WrestleMania. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:03.719 We actually I think that. I mean, I keep saying 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.160 this and no one believes me, but I think rustle 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.200 Mania is gonna be pretty good both nights. But I 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.600 just no matter what I say, everyone gets mad. Oh 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:14.400 you just say negative things about w W E. Well, 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.760 I think the two shows are gonna be good. Oh 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:21.039 you don't mean that, dude. If I thought wrestle Mania 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:24.360 was gonna suck, you don't think I'm gonna tell you. Oh, well, 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.560 of course I would tell you. I'll tell you if 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.760 RUSS sucks tonight. I think WrestleMania Night one a night 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.880 too are gonna be pretty good. Am I going? No, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.359 I'm not going. But I think if you think about 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.640 it once, you take out all the Gaga on everything, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:40.680 when you leave it to the wrestlers who are doing 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:43.359 what they're doing in the ring, even if you don't 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.599 like some of the finishes because you know it's to 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.520 set up raw or to set up back lash or whatever. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.520 Whereas your traditional mind with WrestleMania, you want things to 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.520 come to an end. You want definitive finishes, things like that. 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.640 When it's left from bell to bell, the people that 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:02.120 are involved, I mean they're showing off, they're showing out. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:05.279 It's WrestleMania. The matches are usually great, it's all the 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.400 other stuff that leads into it. Unfortunately. I mean, maybe 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.360 things pick up this week, but really you have more people, 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.400 I think than ever looking at each other going are 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.680 you all this excited? Is this the worst bill to 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:21.000 WrestleMania ever? Is this the most tired build to WrestleMania ever? 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.760 In the bottom line is we'll see how it goes. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.200 I mean, you know, Peacock can say whatever they want 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.039 about their numbers, expendities and publicly trading company. Maybe they'll 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:32.200 release some of them or something like that. I have 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:35.320 no idea they probably won't. They'll just say in terms 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.160 of terms of hours, how many people have watched Rustlemania 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.560 or something like that, So we'll never truly really know 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.159 but this has been a pretty whack limp into WrestleMania, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.480 in my opinion, and I think I'm not maybe I'm 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.520 in the minority on that when it comes to w 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.479 w E fans, but I think when he comes to 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.560 wrestling fans, I think it's kind of the same way. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.960 And I'm interested to see with people not traveling as much, 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:04.039 even though people can travel, it seems with inflation, it 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.720 seems with gas, it seems for a lot of reasons 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.400 people may not be traveling in hoards to to wrestle 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:13.560 Mania this year, which I wonder how that actually impacts 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.560 everybody on the indie scene who is desperately trying to 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.920 get a piece of that pie and desperately trying to 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.800 for those people who don't go to the shows this year, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.360 trying to get all of their money via I pay 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.480 per view, which is again really can be costly by 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.000 the time you you know, tack everything up for the weekend. 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.560 One of the greatest tag teams of all time is 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.480 said to take their place in the w w Hall 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.600 of Fame. It was announced via The Ringer today the 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.280 Steiner Brothers will be inducted into the w w E 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.880 Hall of Fame on Friday. They joined the Undertaker, Vader, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.560 Queen Charmel, and Warrior Award recipient Shad Gas part in 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.880 this year's Hall of Fame Class Everybody, taking place after 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:59.400 SmackDown at the American Airline Center in Dallas this Friday. 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.280 This will be the first time that Scott Steiner has 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.080 appeared for w W E in nearly two decades. Scott 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.280 was banned from attending the Hall of Fame ceremony after 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.600 an incident with Hulk Coogan's then wife where he allegedly 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.640 threatened Hogan. After the Hall of Fame ceremony, Rick Steiner's son, 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.920 Braun Breaker, will challenge Dolph Ziggler for the next title 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.600 of Standing Deliver. Rick was in the audience when Breaker 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.800 won the NXT title for the first time. So yes, 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:30.440 w W and Scott Steiner have not been on good terms. 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:36.720 And you know, if you've watched like one one Braun 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:41.400 Breaker match, I mean, it's it's abundantly clear that they're 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:46.040 not allowed to say that he's a Steiner. But it's weird, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.920 as we mentioned, they're not allowed to say that he's 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.520 a Steiner using those words like you know, he's the 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.439 son of Rick Steiner. But they can say everything else. 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:00.160 He's a dog faced gremlin, you know. He Uh. There 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.440 was the push ups in the elbow drop in the 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:05.400 match with Robert Rude, and it was pointed out, well, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.360 we know who that's our reference to, but they wouldn't 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.719 tell you who it was a reference to. So this 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:18.200 the Steiner name has been banned. But I think it's 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:24.680 possible that now that w W E and Scott are 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.319 on good terms and Rick and Star Scott are going 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.040 into the Hall of Fame, I am hoping that that 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.240 means that tomorrow on n X T all of a 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.720 sudden it's okay to mention that Braun Breaker is the 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:39.600 son of Rick Steiner. What would be even better if 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:43.600 he became Rix Steiner and we could move on and 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:49.360 or Bronson reck Steiner or whatever you want. Bad Well, 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:52.560 this seems like the word Braun, the name Braun, because 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:58.680 you know, I think strong. He's strong as hell. Bronson. Look, 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.120 it's a badass. Look Arles Bronson, action Bronson. You know, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:06.840 Bronson Steiner. That's a strong, strong name. But I guess 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.680 a second before you go on, yes, listen, yes, And 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.200 I mentioned this with Vinnie Marsegli. I think it's a 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.400 great name, and he goes as Vincent. It's like, what 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:20.600 a waste. If your actual name was Vincent, you would 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.280 want to use the name Vinnie Marseglian wrestling because it's 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.800 like an awesome name. Let's think about the name Bronson 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:34.280 reck Steiner. Okay, bro, I know you guys all hate 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.760 braun Breaker, the name braun Breaker and everything. Come up 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.480 with a better name. Come up with a better wrestling 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:44.760 name then Bronson reck Sneiner. Bronson. You know you got 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:49.000 the word braun in it because big Burley Brawny get 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.760 the Brontosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs. The named Bronson 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:55.319 is like as a wrestling name. If you ever heard 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.400 what is a tough guy name? Everyone knows the Steiner's 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.280 and you're adding the word back to the word Steiner, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:10.120 Bronson rick Steiner, brother. Come on, no, brick Steiner is 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:11.920 not better. That's a pretty good name, but it's not 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:18.520 better than Bronson rick Steiner. You guys have got break. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.600 You guys have completely taken this too far. You're you're 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.960 over your way over analyzing this, which is very simply 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.320 there's another one. Merest Slava barn your because they can't 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.120 let a guy use his real name. He's got to 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:38.320 be uh, you know, Russ. Even you're well Alexander Russo 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:43.840 Slava barn your chefs find a better name for marketing 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.959 purpose purposes. I can see why they went Alexander russef 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:48.920 and that was still a mighty name when he was 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:52.360 when he first jumped off. But bottom line here is 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.240 the Steiner's not only belong in the w w F 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.079 for w w Hall of Fame, they they prolong in 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.760 the Rescue Server newsletter all of him. And it looks 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.520 like this year's voting is going to have a a 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.679 new focus on tag teams. There's a bunch that are 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:11.480 being added to the equation. Jack and Jerry Briscoe bringing 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.080 out of the Young Bucks are going to be on 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.240 their Ricky Steamboat and j young Blood and the Steiners 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.080 have been on there and there has been a real 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.559 swell of people over the last couple of years that 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.319 point to how influential and how powerful of a team 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.880 that they were. And again short period of time and 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.600 tag team wrestling has never really gotten to do uh 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.480 that I believe that it deserves to have. But I 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.720 think the Rick and Scott Steiner Champions wherever they went 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.560 ww F w c w UH New Japan Pro Wrestling 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:43.360 and as influential as any tag team of their era. 0:12:43.720 --> 0:13:07.000 Back in the moment of the Server Live back in 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.800 the show right over is here Wrestling Observer Lab, Micember 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.880 Viols Wrestling Observer dot Com. Glock reck Steiner appears to 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:17.760 be the winner. I don't know unless you want to 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.840 go with Frank and Steiner kind of like that one 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:26.600 Glock reck Steiner glocks and we'll see. You're making it 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.960 too difficult with the rack. You're really hung up on 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:32.280 this rack part. You just need Glock hung up. But 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.920 it rolls off the tongue better. No, it doesn't off 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:41.520 the tongue better. That's the shot. That's their shoot. Name Steiner, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.920 you idiot. Yeah, and you're turning it into rex Steiner. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.280 It's the same thing. Effects I'm keeping the last name 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.480 reck Steiner and adding a first name, either Braun or Glock. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.360 Have you been listening to a word. I've been saying yes, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.839 And you've way overthought this and you've caused other people 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:02.559 to do so as well. Block is a shoot Jesus. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:07.160 Oh no, silly, You're silly, silly people. No, I'm not 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.480 moving on DJ I'm gonna start talking about hair next. 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.360 I do what I want on this show. You should 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:16.000 you show all right. Japan Is announced a full card 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:20.200 for their next event, hyper Battle, the winner of the 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:27.080 new Japan Cup two, Zach Saber Jr. You couldn't beat him, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:35.680 will be and what anything checkers, anything and anything, chess 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:40.440 workout could be? Put Saber Junior in anything nothing, So 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.680 you could actually have had like a fun little discussion 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.680 if you were like, you know, you couldn't out grapple him, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.120 But now you're like he could, I couldn't beat him. 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.520 Let's have a podcast to get anything. I don't think 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.040 it anything he could probably do. He could probably out 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.560 do you there too. I mean, look at your record. 0:14:56.360 --> 0:15:01.760 Could beat me in a drinking contest and posta and like, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:06.320 I'm sure you'd have a way to do. That's just mean. 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.760 I mean, look, you're you have been really really missing 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.040 your your finger on the pulse of things here recently. 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.120 You know, actually I haven't. You're the one that's uh, 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.680 you know, a year behind. I've been putting Zack Saber 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.640 Junior over for months and months now, and I couldn't 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.120 have a notice. I was the first guy that noted 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.000 that he had put on a bunch of weight and 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:32.880 he actually looked significantly better, and somehow argument from being 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:37.960 so against that guy mistakes as you keep doing, like 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.920 going against I don't know your former teammate, filthy Tom Lawler, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.680 the current new Japan champion, because you sound like you're 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.240 underwater here. But you know, all I heard. All I 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.480 heard was, Oh, Brian zach Saber Jr. If he puts 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.480 on any weight or any muscle, the gimmick just isn't 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.880 gonna work anymore. He's got to be skeletal in order 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.080 to make this gimmick work. And I said, bro, that 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:04.240 is the biggest load of you know what I heard 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:10.160 that guy, That guy, No, it's not you've been this 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.480 is something you've made up in your own mind because 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:18.920 you've been calling this guy for nobody else. Everybody else 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.800 played it as part of his what his gimmick was 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.440 and the fact that he was an undersized heavy weight 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.520 that would bring it to these guys. But one of 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.440 the things he always had working against him was ultimately 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.680 his size. With the exception of Sonata, who would always 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:38.160 somehow out technically, he would somehow get the advantage over 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.880 him with everybody else. That was the whole in his game. 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.560 That was the weakness and the arsenal of facing off 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.520 against these big guys. You just wanted to make fun 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.480 of the guy for so long, to talk about his 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:51.640 chest and then go, well, you know he's been put 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.960 this guy says. I remember people telling Brian that L 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.320 O L though we did also call him a chicken 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.000 chest for years. See, people for get everything. I'm not 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:02.880 the one that came up with chicken chest for Zack 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.960 Saber Jr. That was Juice Robinson. He did commentary on 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.080 the show and an entire the entire match he talked 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:12.000 about how skinny this chicken chest was. I get the 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.280 heat for it. Turns out, now Zach has put on 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.200 twenty five pounds, he looks way better. It hasn't effected 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.040 his wrestling at all. He's as good or better than 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.760 he's ever been. It wins a new and you would 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.119 and you would bemoan his wrestling ability because you couldn't 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.439 get by the visual of seeing this. I couldn't you 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:35.080 know what I can now, So here you go. I 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:40.720 hope he strangles you and then whatever filthy tom stomps 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.280 out of you. You know, we should do you know 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.520 we should do? Mike is we should? We should uh 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.320 invite Zach to the Brazilian steakhouse. We haven't eaten contest 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:55.200 since he can beat me at anything. Well, there's no one. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.680 Yeah more meat mouth than you, Brian al about that 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:03.200 at you. We got Desperado and Show for the Junior 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:06.600 heavyweight title, Got and Yoshi Hashi versus the Great Ocon 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:10.280 and Jeff Cobb for the tag team titles, Evil versus Romo, 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.520 Oh God help me for the never open Weight title, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:17.480 Toro Yano versus tai Chi for the trophy. Yeah, let's 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.119 get tight. You have a whole bunch of awesome matches, 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:20.919 and now we'll shove him in with Toru Jana for 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:25.959 a King of Pro Wrestling Trophy. Gucci and Master Watto 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.520 versus Phantasma and Taiji Shimori for the junior tag titles. 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:34.000 Nito and Shingo versus Will Osprey and Hanna A and 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.200 Jato Tamatanga tangalow and to hiroshitan Ashi versus Bad Luck 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.520 fal A Ghetto u Jero Chase Owens. That will be 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.679 taking place on April nine at Hyper Battle. And in fact, 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:50.600 we had three new japan Cup matches this weekend Okada 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:54.280 at Nighto, which NIGHTO one. It was a very very 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:57.440 good match Zach and Nighto in the finals, and Zack 0:18:57.480 --> 0:19:00.760 and Shingo excellent matches. Some people were saying Zak and 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.399 Shingo match of the year. I wouldn't go that far, 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:05.600 but it was a pretty awesome match. Same with Zach 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.560 and Knighto in the finals. Nito is uh I don't 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:10.800 know what happened. Actually, don't know what happened. He took 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.320 a bunch of breaks, but he's working a lot better. 0:19:13.640 --> 0:19:16.280 He doesn't look like he's you know, near death anymore. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:21.960 Moving better. So three. I mean I watched those three 0:19:22.000 --> 0:19:25.520 matches all back to back because I watched everything last night, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.920 and watching those three matches back to back, it was 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:30.720 like I was watching a really good Tokyo Dome show, 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.840 the last half of a very good Tokyo Dome show. 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:38.040 Three awesome matches, and uh, I don't want to get heat, 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.720 but I'm gonna. I wouldn't say it blew the Stardom 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.720 Show out of the water, but I would say that 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:48.280 the three nuj Band Cup matches that I watched, we're 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.439 better than the three Stardom matches that I watched, not 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:55.880 to take anything away from them, but Syrian Julius, Syrian 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.879 Mayawatani and Kyrie and Star Like Kid, the two main 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:02.960 events I thought were very good matches. I did not 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:05.119 think they were like match of the Year caliber matches. 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:09.600 And honestly, honestly, I'll talk more about this on a 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:11.800 filthy show, which, by the way, today is five Pacific, 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:15.439 eight Eastern. I kind of enjoyed that Kyrie match more 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.159 than the other two. I'm gonna make people mad and 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:21.520 I couldn't help. But note that last night of the Oscars, 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:28.520 we had a shoot slap that did significantly, significantly less 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.560 damage than the worked slap that Star Like Kid gave 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:36.720 Kyrie where she busted her ear drum. Now Kyrie can't 0:20:36.760 --> 0:20:41.000 hear anymore. Hopefully she ends up all right. A lot 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.840 of heat, a lot of heat from me on that one. 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:48.360 I need to get a faction going and start them 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:51.520 and send them after Star Like Kid. She's on my list. 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:57.000 But Kyrie one just crushed her with her elbow. She 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:01.399 it's called her receipt kids. She put all hundred nine 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:06.080 pounds into it. Crusher and pender. I like that match 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:09.000 a lot, but Yeah, we'll love more. We'll love more 0:21:09.000 --> 0:21:10.960 of this afternoon with filthy. I'll see what I can watch. 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:15.600 But seeing as every single one of these matches except 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:19.800 the Kyrie match was right around the thirty minute mark, Bro, 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:23.040 you know, I want to say one other thing, give 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.879 me more heat, but that's what I do here. So 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:27.600 we had a question the other day. It was someone going, 0:21:28.000 --> 0:21:32.000 how come Starlight hasn't gotten more traction in the United States? 0:21:32.880 --> 0:21:36.800 And listen, I love these matches. I love watching Stardom. 0:21:36.920 --> 0:21:39.240 I I watched these shows. I talked about the main 0:21:39.280 --> 0:21:41.720 events with with Tom and everything like that. But do 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.160 you realize that between the first night of the Stardom 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.160 Show and the second night of The Stardom Show there 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:56.439 were nine hours of Stardom this weekend? Nine hours? And 0:21:56.480 --> 0:21:59.080 of course, if you wanted to watch Rampage SmackDown New 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:07.840 Japan Cup nine hours, that is a lot. So I'm 0:22:07.880 --> 0:22:11.440 a little confused. What traction does this person want Starlight 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:14.320 Kit to have no Startom all of starts started, all 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.200 of Startom. Well you may have said Starlight all of starts. Yeah, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.320 four and a half hours, the first night four and 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:23.080 a half hours, the second night four and a half 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:25.840 hours each night, I honest to God, and you can 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.800 find the start to believe. I don't believe that WrestleMania 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:30.720 is gonna be four and a half hours the first 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:32.439 night and four and a half hours the second night. 0:22:32.480 --> 0:22:35.880 I actually think it's gonna be shorter than that. So anyway, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:38.760 it's hard to gain traction when you've got that much 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.720 product coming out of you know, if you're a hardcore 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:43.639 starting fan, you don't watch anything else. It's like a 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.359 glory periods, like the greatest thing that ever happened. But 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:48.880 it's very hard to to gain traction. Dude. I try 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:51.200 to watch as much as I can. I literally got 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.560 the two main events in the Kyrie match and that 0:22:53.640 --> 0:22:57.960 was that was ninety minutes right there. Three matches. I 0:22:57.960 --> 0:23:00.159 don't think somebody's gotta make the investment for or and 0:23:00.160 --> 0:23:02.840 a half hours. I mean they can't. They're they're big shows, 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:04.800 so they're obviously going to be putting on you know, 0:23:04.840 --> 0:23:06.880 the showcase shows that do go for a long time. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.359 But I think it's a matter of just marketing these women. 0:23:10.400 --> 0:23:12.520 I mean really, when it comes down to it, and 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:15.240 making sure everyone knows, hey, you know, did you see 0:23:15.320 --> 0:23:19.160 the name Utami Haya Sheshida, you know listed in the Observer. Well, 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.520 you've got to see this person and building those people 0:23:22.600 --> 0:23:24.720 up because the matches themselves only go you know, you 0:23:24.720 --> 0:23:26.560 can watch a twenty minute match and you can make 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:29.040 sure that that gets out there. And I think they've 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.120 done a good job as far as stardom world, as 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:34.040