Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.
Speaker 1: Let's get it all. How's going everybody? Brian Alvarez here
Speaker 1: on or Wrestling Observerer Live. Will are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sundays three Pacific,
Speaker 1: six Eastern. Ill lot to get into here today on
Speaker 1: the program Monday here in the show, you note that
Speaker 1: means Raw is tonight, and we've got russell Mania coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend, two nights of rustle Mania. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be there Saturday and Sunday. Now, my wife's trying to
Speaker 1: get me to go to wrestle Mania. I'm not going.
Speaker 1: I told you all, man, we got a lot to
Speaker 1: get into here today. We have the Raw lineup for
Speaker 1: tonight here. You know I always talking about how everyone say, oh,
Speaker 1: Brian Dave plans change cop out, blah blah blah. Well,
Speaker 1: w w WE put up a graph on their social
Speaker 1: media announcing that Rhonda Rowsy was gonna be on the
Speaker 1: show tonight, but apparently they didn't sent her a plane ticket,
Speaker 1: so she had to alert the world that she's not
Speaker 1: on the show tonight, and then they took down the
Speaker 1: graphic for the match that they've announced for Monday on
Speaker 1: social media. Anyway, we'll tell what is on ROT tonight
Speaker 1: because it is a fairly packed show here. We've alllo
Speaker 1: got new entrance into the w w E Hall of Fame,
Speaker 1: which I find to be great news. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why after the break. We got New Japan announcing their
Speaker 1: Hyper Battle show which is April nine. The winner of
Speaker 1: the New Japan Cup is facing Okada for the championship.
Speaker 1: And if for some reason you have not watched the
Speaker 1: New Japan Cup, these aren't spoilers, brother, This show happened
Speaker 1: a while ago, so we're gonna go over the results
Speaker 1: here on the show today. Talk about that, I've seen
Speaker 1: the semifinals of the Cup, the main event of the Cup.
Speaker 1: I've seen the Stardom Made Event Night one started Main
Speaker 1: Event night to the Kyrie match from Stardom. I've seen SmackDown,
Speaker 1: I've seen Rampage Am. I'm as saying anything New Japan Strong.
Speaker 1: I've watched New Japan Strong. So there's a lot to
Speaker 1: talk about from those shows. We got a Tuesday lineup
Speaker 1: for the ED x T show, which is to go
Speaker 1: home show for Stand and Deliver and uh and plenty more.
Speaker 1: So I don't even know where to start. You know what,
Speaker 1: We've already started back at the moment. Observer Alive. Thank you,
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Speaker 1: Ron Rousey says she will not be on Raw tonight.
Speaker 1: W He posted a graphic to Facebook on Sunday that
Speaker 1: indicated she would be on Monday's show. It featured Rousey
Speaker 1: along with Bianca, Charlotte and Becky. However, Rousey refuted it
Speaker 1: that she would be on Raw during a Sunday Facebook
Speaker 1: live stream. W w E has since deleted the graphic.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be at Raw tomorrow, she said, responding
Speaker 1: to a question from the chat. I think that's a
Speaker 1: mistake or something, because if I was gonna be at
Speaker 1: Raw tomorrow, I would be leaving today. So no, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to be there because I'm here, however, she
Speaker 1: will be on SmackDown. Always always fun to see the
Speaker 1: left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing
Speaker 1: and plans changing, and then I get yelled at for
Speaker 1: being a horrible reporter. But anyway, tonight on Raw, we
Speaker 1: got these Street Profits versus the Alpha Academy. We have
Speaker 1: the U s OS versus r K Bro because you know,
Speaker 1: it's that one time a year everybody that starts from
Speaker 1: Ron SmackDown face off in big matches, and the one
Speaker 1: time a year is all year. We've got an Italia Shana,
Speaker 1: Carmela and Selina against Live Rhea, Naomi and Sasha. We
Speaker 1: got Ray Mysterio versus the Miss and we have seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins claiming that he has a meeting with Vince mcmahn.
Speaker 1: I'm not advocating this or anything like that, and I
Speaker 1: don't think you'd make any money, but I wonder if
Speaker 1: you actually could, like, you know, do a complaint to
Speaker 1: uh NBC Universal Peacock that you spent money to buy
Speaker 1: Peacock to watch Survivor series because it's the one time
Speaker 1: a year that Ron SmackDown wrestlers face off against each
Speaker 1: other and you paid your money and then they just
Speaker 1: keep facing off against each other all year long. I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe you could sue for like four dollars and nine cents.
Speaker 1: Probably waste a lot of your own money doing that.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they're only me on the show tonight because
Speaker 1: it's at one time a year then Ron SmackDown wrestlers
Speaker 1: go head to head. You don't sounds so excited. It's WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: We actually I think that. I mean, I keep saying
Speaker 1: this and no one believes me, but I think rustle
Speaker 1: Mania is gonna be pretty good both nights. But I
Speaker 1: just no matter what I say, everyone gets mad. Oh
Speaker 1: you just say negative things about w W E. Well,
Speaker 1: I think the two shows are gonna be good. Oh
Speaker 1: you don't mean that, dude. If I thought wrestle Mania
Speaker 1: was gonna suck, you don't think I'm gonna tell you. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: of course I would tell you. I'll tell you if
Speaker 1: RUSS sucks tonight. I think WrestleMania Night one a night
Speaker 1: too are gonna be pretty good. Am I going? No,
Speaker 1: I'm not going. But I think if you think about
Speaker 1: it once, you take out all the Gaga on everything,
Speaker 1: when you leave it to the wrestlers who are doing
Speaker 1: what they're doing in the ring, even if you don't
Speaker 1: like some of the finishes because you know it's to
Speaker 1: set up raw or to set up back lash or whatever.
Speaker 1: Whereas your traditional mind with WrestleMania, you want things to
Speaker 1: come to an end. You want definitive finishes, things like that.
Speaker 1: When it's left from bell to bell, the people that
Speaker 1: are involved, I mean they're showing off, they're showing out.
Speaker 1: It's WrestleMania. The matches are usually great, it's all the
Speaker 1: other stuff that leads into it. Unfortunately. I mean, maybe
Speaker 1: things pick up this week, but really you have more people,
Speaker 1: I think than ever looking at each other going are
Speaker 1: you all this excited? Is this the worst bill to
Speaker 1: WrestleMania ever? Is this the most tired build to WrestleMania ever?
Speaker 1: In the bottom line is we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Peacock can say whatever they want
Speaker 1: about their numbers, expendities and publicly trading company. Maybe they'll
Speaker 1: release some of them or something like that. I have
Speaker 1: no idea they probably won't. They'll just say in terms
Speaker 1: of terms of hours, how many people have watched Rustlemania
Speaker 1: or something like that, So we'll never truly really know
Speaker 1: but this has been a pretty whack limp into WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, and I think I'm not maybe I'm
Speaker 1: in the minority on that when it comes to w
Speaker 1: w E fans, but I think when he comes to
Speaker 1: wrestling fans, I think it's kind of the same way.
Speaker 1: And I'm interested to see with people not traveling as much,
Speaker 1: even though people can travel, it seems with inflation, it
Speaker 1: seems with gas, it seems for a lot of reasons
Speaker 1: people may not be traveling in hoards to to wrestle
Speaker 1: Mania this year, which I wonder how that actually impacts
Speaker 1: everybody on the indie scene who is desperately trying to
Speaker 1: get a piece of that pie and desperately trying to
Speaker 1: for those people who don't go to the shows this year,
Speaker 1: trying to get all of their money via I pay
Speaker 1: per view, which is again really can be costly by
Speaker 1: the time you you know, tack everything up for the weekend.
Speaker 1: One of the greatest tag teams of all time is
Speaker 1: said to take their place in the w w Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. It was announced via The Ringer today the
Speaker 1: Steiner Brothers will be inducted into the w w E
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame on Friday. They joined the Undertaker, Vader,
Speaker 1: Queen Charmel, and Warrior Award recipient Shad Gas part in
Speaker 1: this year's Hall of Fame Class Everybody, taking place after
Speaker 1: SmackDown at the American Airline Center in Dallas this Friday.
Speaker 1: This will be the first time that Scott Steiner has
Speaker 1: appeared for w W E in nearly two decades. Scott
Speaker 1: was banned from attending the Hall of Fame ceremony after
Speaker 1: an incident with Hulk Coogan's then wife where he allegedly
Speaker 1: threatened Hogan. After the Hall of Fame ceremony, Rick Steiner's son,
Speaker 1: Braun Breaker, will challenge Dolph Ziggler for the next title
Speaker 1: of Standing Deliver. Rick was in the audience when Breaker
Speaker 1: won the NXT title for the first time. So yes,
Speaker 1: w W and Scott Steiner have not been on good terms.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you've watched like one one Braun
Speaker 1: Breaker match, I mean, it's it's abundantly clear that they're
Speaker 1: not allowed to say that he's a Steiner. But it's weird,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, they're not allowed to say that he's
Speaker 1: a Steiner using those words like you know, he's the
Speaker 1: son of Rick Steiner. But they can say everything else.
Speaker 1: He's a dog faced gremlin, you know. He Uh. There
Speaker 1: was the push ups in the elbow drop in the
Speaker 1: match with Robert Rude, and it was pointed out, well,
Speaker 1: we know who that's our reference to, but they wouldn't
Speaker 1: tell you who it was a reference to. So this
Speaker 1: the Steiner name has been banned. But I think it's
Speaker 1: possible that now that w W E and Scott are
Speaker 1: on good terms and Rick and Star Scott are going
Speaker 1: into the Hall of Fame, I am hoping that that
Speaker 1: means that tomorrow on n X T all of a
Speaker 1: sudden it's okay to mention that Braun Breaker is the
Speaker 1: son of Rick Steiner. What would be even better if
Speaker 1: he became Rix Steiner and we could move on and
Speaker 1: or Bronson reck Steiner or whatever you want. Bad Well,
Speaker 1: this seems like the word Braun, the name Braun, because
Speaker 1: you know, I think strong. He's strong as hell. Bronson. Look,
Speaker 1: it's a badass. Look Arles Bronson, action Bronson. You know,
Speaker 1: Bronson Steiner. That's a strong, strong name. But I guess
Speaker 1: a second before you go on, yes, listen, yes, And
Speaker 1: I mentioned this with Vinnie Marsegli. I think it's a
Speaker 1: great name, and he goes as Vincent. It's like, what
Speaker 1: a waste. If your actual name was Vincent, you would
Speaker 1: want to use the name Vinnie Marseglian wrestling because it's
Speaker 1: like an awesome name. Let's think about the name Bronson
Speaker 1: reck Steiner. Okay, bro, I know you guys all hate
Speaker 1: braun Breaker, the name braun Breaker and everything. Come up
Speaker 1: with a better name. Come up with a better wrestling
Speaker 1: name then Bronson reck Sneiner. Bronson. You know you got
Speaker 1: the word braun in it because big Burley Brawny get
Speaker 1: the Brontosaurus, one of the largest dinosaurs. The named Bronson
Speaker 1: is like as a wrestling name. If you ever heard
Speaker 1: what is a tough guy name? Everyone knows the Steiner's
Speaker 1: and you're adding the word back to the word Steiner,
Speaker 1: Bronson rick Steiner, brother. Come on, no, brick Steiner is
Speaker 1: not better. That's a pretty good name, but it's not
Speaker 1: better than Bronson rick Steiner. You guys have got break.
Speaker 1: You guys have completely taken this too far. You're you're
Speaker 1: over your way over analyzing this, which is very simply
Speaker 1: there's another one. Merest Slava barn your because they can't
Speaker 1: let a guy use his real name. He's got to
Speaker 1: be uh, you know, Russ. Even you're well Alexander Russo
Speaker 1: Slava barn your chefs find a better name for marketing
Speaker 1: purpose purposes. I can see why they went Alexander russef
Speaker 1: and that was still a mighty name when he was
Speaker 1: when he first jumped off. But bottom line here is
Speaker 1: the Steiner's not only belong in the w w F
Speaker 1: for w w Hall of Fame, they they prolong in
Speaker 1: the Rescue Server newsletter all of him. And it looks
Speaker 1: like this year's voting is going to have a a
Speaker 1: new focus on tag teams. There's a bunch that are
Speaker 1: being added to the equation. Jack and Jerry Briscoe bringing
Speaker 1: out of the Young Bucks are going to be on
Speaker 1: their Ricky Steamboat and j young Blood and the Steiners
Speaker 1: have been on there and there has been a real
Speaker 1: swell of people over the last couple of years that
Speaker 1: point to how influential and how powerful of a team
Speaker 1: that they were. And again short period of time and
Speaker 1: tag team wrestling has never really gotten to do uh
Speaker 1: that I believe that it deserves to have. But I
Speaker 1: think the Rick and Scott Steiner Champions wherever they went
Speaker 1: ww F w c w UH New Japan Pro Wrestling
Speaker 1: and as influential as any tag team of their era.
Speaker 1: Back in the moment of the Server Live back in
Speaker 1: the show right over is here Wrestling Observer Lab, Micember
Speaker 1: Viols Wrestling Observer dot Com. Glock reck Steiner appears to
Speaker 1: be the winner. I don't know unless you want to
Speaker 1: go with Frank and Steiner kind of like that one
Speaker 1: Glock reck Steiner glocks and we'll see. You're making it
Speaker 1: too difficult with the rack. You're really hung up on
Speaker 1: this rack part. You just need Glock hung up. But
Speaker 1: it rolls off the tongue better. No, it doesn't off
Speaker 1: the tongue better. That's the shot. That's their shoot. Name Steiner,
Speaker 1: you idiot. Yeah, and you're turning it into rex Steiner.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing. Effects I'm keeping the last name
Speaker 1: reck Steiner and adding a first name, either Braun or Glock.
Speaker 1: Have you been listening to a word. I've been saying yes,
Speaker 1: And you've way overthought this and you've caused other people
Speaker 1: to do so as well. Block is a shoot Jesus.
Speaker 1: Oh no, silly, You're silly, silly people. No, I'm not
Speaker 1: moving on DJ I'm gonna start talking about hair next.
Speaker 1: I do what I want on this show. You should
Speaker 1: you show all right. Japan Is announced a full card
Speaker 1: for their next event, hyper Battle, the winner of the
Speaker 1: new Japan Cup two, Zach Saber Jr. You couldn't beat him,
Speaker 1: will be and what anything checkers, anything and anything, chess
Speaker 1: workout could be? Put Saber Junior in anything nothing, So
Speaker 1: you could actually have had like a fun little discussion
Speaker 1: if you were like, you know, you couldn't out grapple him,
Speaker 1: But now you're like he could, I couldn't beat him.
Speaker 1: Let's have a podcast to get anything. I don't think
Speaker 1: it anything he could probably do. He could probably out
Speaker 1: do you there too. I mean, look at your record.
Speaker 1: Could beat me in a drinking contest and posta and like,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd have a way to do. That's just mean.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you're you have been really really missing
Speaker 1: your your finger on the pulse of things here recently.
Speaker 1: You know, actually I haven't. You're the one that's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a year behind. I've been putting Zack Saber
Speaker 1: Junior over for months and months now, and I couldn't
Speaker 1: have a notice. I was the first guy that noted
Speaker 1: that he had put on a bunch of weight and
Speaker 1: he actually looked significantly better, and somehow argument from being
Speaker 1: so against that guy mistakes as you keep doing, like
Speaker 1: going against I don't know your former teammate, filthy Tom Lawler,
Speaker 1: the current new Japan champion, because you sound like you're
Speaker 1: underwater here. But you know, all I heard. All I
Speaker 1: heard was, Oh, Brian zach Saber Jr. If he puts
Speaker 1: on any weight or any muscle, the gimmick just isn't
Speaker 1: gonna work anymore. He's got to be skeletal in order
Speaker 1: to make this gimmick work. And I said, bro, that
Speaker 1: is the biggest load of you know what I heard
Speaker 1: that guy, That guy, No, it's not you've been this
Speaker 1: is something you've made up in your own mind because
Speaker 1: you've been calling this guy for nobody else. Everybody else
Speaker 1: played it as part of his what his gimmick was
Speaker 1: and the fact that he was an undersized heavy weight
Speaker 1: that would bring it to these guys. But one of
Speaker 1: the things he always had working against him was ultimately
Speaker 1: his size. With the exception of Sonata, who would always
Speaker 1: somehow out technically, he would somehow get the advantage over
Speaker 1: him with everybody else. That was the whole in his game.
Speaker 1: That was the weakness and the arsenal of facing off
Speaker 1: against these big guys. You just wanted to make fun
Speaker 1: of the guy for so long, to talk about his
Speaker 1: chest and then go, well, you know he's been put
Speaker 1: this guy says. I remember people telling Brian that L
Speaker 1: O L though we did also call him a chicken
Speaker 1: chest for years. See, people for get everything. I'm not
Speaker 1: the one that came up with chicken chest for Zack
Speaker 1: Saber Jr. That was Juice Robinson. He did commentary on
Speaker 1: the show and an entire the entire match he talked
Speaker 1: about how skinny this chicken chest was. I get the
Speaker 1: heat for it. Turns out, now Zach has put on
Speaker 1: twenty five pounds, he looks way better. It hasn't effected
Speaker 1: his wrestling at all. He's as good or better than
Speaker 1: he's ever been. It wins a new and you would
Speaker 1: and you would bemoan his wrestling ability because you couldn't
Speaker 1: get by the visual of seeing this. I couldn't you
Speaker 1: know what I can now, So here you go. I
Speaker 1: hope he strangles you and then whatever filthy tom stomps
Speaker 1: out of you. You know, we should do you know
Speaker 1: we should do? Mike is we should? We should uh
Speaker 1: invite Zach to the Brazilian steakhouse. We haven't eaten contest
Speaker 1: since he can beat me at anything. Well, there's no one.
Speaker 1: Yeah more meat mouth than you, Brian al about that
Speaker 1: at you. We got Desperado and Show for the Junior
Speaker 1: heavyweight title, Got and Yoshi Hashi versus the Great Ocon
Speaker 1: and Jeff Cobb for the tag team titles, Evil versus Romo,
Speaker 1: Oh God help me for the never open Weight title,
Speaker 1: Toro Yano versus tai Chi for the trophy. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: get tight. You have a whole bunch of awesome matches,
Speaker 1: and now we'll shove him in with Toru Jana for
Speaker 1: a King of Pro Wrestling Trophy. Gucci and Master Watto
Speaker 1: versus Phantasma and Taiji Shimori for the junior tag titles.
Speaker 1: Nito and Shingo versus Will Osprey and Hanna A and
Speaker 1: Jato Tamatanga tangalow and to hiroshitan Ashi versus Bad Luck
Speaker 1: fal A Ghetto u Jero Chase Owens. That will be
Speaker 1: taking place on April nine at Hyper Battle. And in fact,
Speaker 1: we had three new japan Cup matches this weekend Okada
Speaker 1: at Nighto, which NIGHTO one. It was a very very
Speaker 1: good match Zach and Nighto in the finals, and Zack
Speaker 1: and Shingo excellent matches. Some people were saying Zak and
Speaker 1: Shingo match of the year. I wouldn't go that far,
Speaker 1: but it was a pretty awesome match. Same with Zach
Speaker 1: and Knighto in the finals. Nito is uh I don't
Speaker 1: know what happened. Actually, don't know what happened. He took
Speaker 1: a bunch of breaks, but he's working a lot better.
Speaker 1: He doesn't look like he's you know, near death anymore.
Speaker 1: Moving better. So three. I mean I watched those three
Speaker 1: matches all back to back because I watched everything last night,
Speaker 1: and watching those three matches back to back, it was
Speaker 1: like I was watching a really good Tokyo Dome show,
Speaker 1: the last half of a very good Tokyo Dome show.
Speaker 1: Three awesome matches, and uh, I don't want to get heat,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna. I wouldn't say it blew the Stardom
Speaker 1: Show out of the water, but I would say that
Speaker 1: the three nuj Band Cup matches that I watched, we're
Speaker 1: better than the three Stardom matches that I watched, not
Speaker 1: to take anything away from them, but Syrian Julius, Syrian
Speaker 1: Mayawatani and Kyrie and Star Like Kid, the two main
Speaker 1: events I thought were very good matches. I did not
Speaker 1: think they were like match of the Year caliber matches.
Speaker 1: And honestly, honestly, I'll talk more about this on a
Speaker 1: filthy show, which, by the way, today is five Pacific,
Speaker 1: eight Eastern. I kind of enjoyed that Kyrie match more
Speaker 1: than the other two. I'm gonna make people mad and
Speaker 1: I couldn't help. But note that last night of the Oscars,
Speaker 1: we had a shoot slap that did significantly, significantly less
Speaker 1: damage than the worked slap that Star Like Kid gave
Speaker 1: Kyrie where she busted her ear drum. Now Kyrie can't
Speaker 1: hear anymore. Hopefully she ends up all right. A lot
Speaker 1: of heat, a lot of heat from me on that one.
Speaker 1: I need to get a faction going and start them
Speaker 1: and send them after Star Like Kid. She's on my list.
Speaker 1: But Kyrie one just crushed her with her elbow. She
Speaker 1: it's called her receipt kids. She put all hundred nine
Speaker 1: pounds into it. Crusher and pender. I like that match
Speaker 1: a lot, but Yeah, we'll love more. We'll love more
Speaker 1: of this afternoon with filthy. I'll see what I can watch.
Speaker 1: But seeing as every single one of these matches except
Speaker 1: the Kyrie match was right around the thirty minute mark, Bro,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to say one other thing, give
Speaker 1: me more heat, but that's what I do here. So
Speaker 1: we had a question the other day. It was someone going,
Speaker 1: how come Starlight hasn't gotten more traction in the United States?
Speaker 1: And listen, I love these matches. I love watching Stardom.
Speaker 1: I I watched these shows. I talked about the main
Speaker 1: events with with Tom and everything like that. But do
Speaker 1: you realize that between the first night of the Stardom
Speaker 1: Show and the second night of The Stardom Show there
Speaker 1: were nine hours of Stardom this weekend? Nine hours? And
Speaker 1: of course, if you wanted to watch Rampage SmackDown New
Speaker 1: Japan Cup nine hours, that is a lot. So I'm
Speaker 1: a little confused. What traction does this person want Starlight
Speaker 1: Kit to have no Startom all of starts started, all
Speaker 1: of Startom. Well you may have said Starlight all of starts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: four and a half hours, the first night four and
Speaker 1: a half hours, the second night four and a half
Speaker 1: hours each night, I honest to God, and you can
Speaker 1: find the start to believe. I don't believe that WrestleMania
Speaker 1: is gonna be four and a half hours the first
Speaker 1: night and four and a half hours the second night.
Speaker 1: I actually think it's gonna be shorter than that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's hard to gain traction when you've got that much
Speaker 1: product coming out of you know, if you're a hardcore
Speaker 1: starting fan, you don't watch anything else. It's like a
Speaker 1: glory periods, like the greatest thing that ever happened. But
Speaker 1: it's very hard to to gain traction. Dude. I try
Speaker 1: to watch as much as I can. I literally got
Speaker 1: the two main events in the Kyrie match and that
Speaker 1: was that was ninety minutes right there. Three matches. I
Speaker 1: don't think somebody's gotta make the investment for or and
Speaker 1: a half hours. I mean they can't. They're they're big shows,
Speaker 1: so they're obviously going to be putting on you know,
Speaker 1: the showcase shows that do go for a long time.
Speaker 1: But I think it's a matter of just marketing these women.
Speaker 1: I mean really, when it comes down to it, and
Speaker 1: making sure everyone knows, hey, you know, did you see
Speaker 1: the name Utami Haya Sheshida, you know listed in the Observer. Well,
Speaker 1: you've got to see this person and building those people
Speaker 1: up because the matches themselves only go you know, you
Speaker 1: can watch a twenty minute match and you can make
Speaker 1: sure that that gets out there. And I think they've
Speaker 1: done a good job as far as stardom world, as
Speaker 1: far as being able to, you know, put a lot
Speaker 1: of their stuff into English. It's just a matter of
Speaker 1: exposing people to it and really driving home to people
Speaker 1: why it's important to see these women. And I believe
Speaker 1: maybe with say maybe with things opening up again, the
Speaker 1: more you see these women make their way to defy
Speaker 1: cards and make their way to West Coast Pro into
Speaker 1: g c W, into a W and you see them,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the best way that they can do
Speaker 1: it and try to get some foothold amongst American fans
Speaker 1: because otherwise, I mean, it's tough the way the pie
Speaker 1: is back in a moment Observer Live. Hey, back in
Speaker 1: the show. Brian Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Alive, mixing
Speaker 1: for VIV also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. We'll talk
Speaker 1: more about start up everything this afternoon with Filthy Tom.
Speaker 1: I think Tom also saw the Nu nuch Pan Cup,
Speaker 1: Semis and finals, and then he's seen everything I've seen
Speaker 1: on Startup and I think more and also smack Down
Speaker 1: and New Japan Strong. Each Man Strong was a good
Speaker 1: show too. That was a really good show. And SmackDown.
Speaker 1: Was you ever heard the term a nothing to happen
Speaker 1: in show? I have? Boy? Was that a nothing happening show?
Speaker 1: Like nothing happened? But you know, I mean, I will
Speaker 1: give them, We'll give them credit that And this actually
Speaker 1: is another thing I'll talk about with Tom later as
Speaker 1: far as like a Startom gaining traction in the US.
Speaker 1: Long story short, if you if you've never watched Startom
Speaker 1: in your life and uh, and you watched the show
Speaker 1: on either than either of the nights, you would enjoy
Speaker 1: the wrestling. You would have no earthly idea what's going on? Zero,
Speaker 1: there's fifty million factions, there's history going back the decade
Speaker 1: or whatever. You would be lost, but you'd see awesome wrestling.
Speaker 1: Whereas if you watched the SmackDown show, you know what,
Speaker 1: you would not see awesome wrestling, but what you would
Speaker 1: do you would know everything about everything going into WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: And you know somebody that watches all the shows. I
Speaker 1: just watched the shows. I'm like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: gotta watch this again. But there's a point, and the
Speaker 1: point is, you know, they're on national television, and uh,
Speaker 1: if you've never watched w w E before and you
Speaker 1: stumble upon SmackDown, when that shows over, you're gonna know
Speaker 1: every major WrestleMania match and why it's happening with details,
Speaker 1: and you won't be confused about it. So that, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know there there It seems like there should be
Speaker 1: like a happy medium where I can watch a show,
Speaker 1: you know, I have a good idea the main characters,
Speaker 1: what's going on, but you know, not be confused, but
Speaker 1: also you know, get a little good wrestling. There was
Speaker 1: like nothing on this SmackDown show of of any real note.
Speaker 1: The two longest matches were seven minutes and they included
Speaker 1: commercial breaks, so we're talking like a lot less than that,
Speaker 1: And the rest of it was just angle angle, angle, recap, recap, recap,
Speaker 1: And then the whole story was for an hour you
Speaker 1: were waiting for brock Lesner. He was in roman Reigns
Speaker 1: locker room, and the story was that Roman was gonna
Speaker 1: show up in the locker room provoke Brock. Brock would
Speaker 1: beat him silly and you'd get to see some violence instead.
Speaker 1: He waited and he waited for two hours, and then
Speaker 1: Roman went down to the ring instead of the locker room.
Speaker 1: And then Brock started to go down to the ring.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind, the storyline was Brock is only
Speaker 1: allowed to touch Roman if he's provoked. So Roman goes
Speaker 1: down to the ring, Brock starts to come out. Apparently
Speaker 1: nobody told Roman about this provocation thing, because Roman and
Speaker 1: the useuls just get scared and they leave, and they left,
Speaker 1: and that was the end the SmackDown. Brock beat up
Speaker 1: some nerds. But yeah, that was the show. Not I
Speaker 1: would say the greatest SmackDown of all time. No, but
Speaker 1: you know, if you missed it. Any of those video
Speaker 1: packages that you may have missed, don't worry. They've added
Speaker 1: onto them and you'll get to see them again coming
Speaker 1: up this Friday on SmackDown. And then you'll get to
Speaker 1: see those same video packages before all of the matches
Speaker 1: that have something to do with SmackDown on one of
Speaker 1: the two nights of WrestleMania that will take place. So
Speaker 1: if you're concerned about missing those great video packages, You've
Speaker 1: still got plenty more time. We've got the n x
Speaker 1: T Show, which is coming up on Tuesday. Last Chance
Speaker 1: qualifier Roderick Strong, Cameron Grimes, an eight kid literally literally
Speaker 1: the champion said, I'm putting all of you losers together
Speaker 1: and we'll find out which one you can finally succeed.
Speaker 1: We'll be in the ladder match one of those losers
Speaker 1: and voked his father's name, and you're believing that's the
Speaker 1: reason that he may get the vintry here. But don't
Speaker 1: want to change that that time. No, no, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens, I always have a sliver of hope. Really,
Speaker 1: you've made fun of me forever having that sliver of hope.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you have a deliver of hope over something
Speaker 1: that there's it's just hopeless hope. L A Night and
Speaker 1: versus Imperium, which should be a lot of fun. Old
Speaker 1: body Heyward's gonna face Von Wagner. Is it wrong? I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see that match. Who is the heel here? Who?
Speaker 1: Or is it the heel? And Vaughn so Bodie Hayward
Speaker 1: is a baby face? So is Chase a baby? Chace
Speaker 1: is a baby face. It's ridiculous. It's beyond ridiculous. Logott
Speaker 1: Odell Phantasma against Briggs and the Virgin. They should just
Speaker 1: give that as his nickname, the Virgin, And you know
Speaker 1: they give people these lame gimmicks back when it was, uh,
Speaker 1: it should be Briggs in the Virgin. Well, what's the
Speaker 1: muses name? What is there? Preston? What is her name? Oh,
Speaker 1: Daisy do whatever? Whatever? Right? So I'm not thinking of that.
Speaker 1: Whatever her name was, you stop? What tell's her name?
Speaker 1: Everybody Fallon Henley, Fallon, Henley, Fallon. I keep thinking Hayden Fallick,
Speaker 1: which is one of our listeners had Hayden Fallick is
Speaker 1: actually very close to Fallon Henley when you think about
Speaker 1: it just backwards. Is now is that a real name
Speaker 1: or is that like a takeoff like Hayden Fox and
Speaker 1: Fallax name. Don't make fun of Hayden Fallac's name is
Speaker 1: Joe What how does this spelled? Because I might make
Speaker 1: fun of it. He's nowhere around to try to like
Speaker 1: walk up and slap me and I'm not Rocks. Joe
Speaker 1: Gay and Draco Anthony to Stretton and Ivy Nile and
Speaker 1: Nikita Lions versus tv A. We'll have the good the
Speaker 1: bad and ugly on this show, everybody, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: right now, Hey, if they could go from look could
Speaker 1: that TV a B lash could be No, they'd announced
Speaker 1: that they should. We're of a the locker room curtains
Speaker 1: sell out there for that one. Now, I should note
Speaker 1: that Tiffany Stratton and Ivy Nile have been practicing their
Speaker 1: match for a straight week now, So it better be
Speaker 1: all right because if it's not well, And those are
Speaker 1: two people that obviously they're invested in, and they have
Speaker 1: unique looks, they have ways to get over. Triffany Stratton's
Speaker 1: path I believe is going to be much much easier
Speaker 1: for what she looks like and as tall as she
Speaker 1: is in comparison to Ivy Nile. But look, there's this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a test for Nile too, because is
Speaker 1: she just going to be a background member. Can you
Speaker 1: get anything out of her moving forward that you could
Speaker 1: see away from the Diamond Mine? This would be a
Speaker 1: good chance to show it, you know, against somebody who
Speaker 1: is a gymnast is a high level. Again, both of
Speaker 1: these women are physically incredibly gifted, so for both of
Speaker 1: them it's gonna be you know, a big deal. But
Speaker 1: again for Stratton. There's almost nothing I think that could
Speaker 1: happen in this match where they are not trying to
Speaker 1: ascend her as fast as possible for the next level.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna attempt to read this next story without comment.
Speaker 1: On Monday, w w Ian The Ringer announced a Spotify
Speaker 1: exclusive podcast called The Book of Wrestling, a twenty five
Speaker 1: episode series with each focusing on a specific catch phrase
Speaker 1: and related stories from the Attitude era. Hosted by David Shoemaker.
Speaker 1: These series will launch on April four, with new episodes
Speaker 1: dropping every week day for five weeks. Concept is based
Speaker 1: off Ringer founder Bill Simmons The Book of Baseball, which
Speaker 1: has moved over from book to podcast form. Shoemaker is
Speaker 1: an author in the host of the weekly Masked Man
Speaker 1: Show on The Ringer and Spotify. David will talk to
Speaker 1: the people, it says here, who either played a part
Speaker 1: in creating the catch phrase or were there to witness
Speaker 1: its impact on the wrestling community. There you go what
Speaker 1: you wanted to Why did you give that a warning beforehand?
Speaker 1: Here that you were trying to do this without comments.
Speaker 1: I don't want to come in on someone else's podcast.
Speaker 1: I don't want to come across as a critic, Well,
Speaker 1: but how are you how are you gonna do? How
Speaker 1: are you gonna do twenty five podcasts about catch phrases? Oh,
Speaker 1: good luck to them. You can be done. Think about it.
Speaker 1: You could do. I'm sure it could be done. Yeah. Look,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't see what the Baseball, the
Speaker 1: Book of Baseball, and how that whole thing came to pass.
Speaker 1: So there's obviously a formula there that they are working
Speaker 1: off of. Now, there have been cases where formulas have
Speaker 1: not worked the best the second time around. We've seen
Speaker 1: that with the Dark Side of the Ring spinoffs that
Speaker 1: Vice has tried to do for different things with the
Speaker 1: football and with other things, and they fall in flat.
Speaker 1: But that's also not been the producers of the Dark
Speaker 1: Side of the Rings. It's been other people that they've
Speaker 1: tried to latch on and use that with. Whereas this
Speaker 1: sounds like it's Bill Simmons, baby, they have a formula
Speaker 1: for it, so hey, look, it's creating content with a partner.
Speaker 1: And it's like getting upset about Corey and Carmela doing
Speaker 1: a reality show like why not you know I care
Speaker 1: about about it? Seems clear from this this press release
Speaker 1: here that they have access to like anybody that they
Speaker 1: want from w w E. And I'm trying to think
Speaker 1: about if if I had access to anybody I wanted
Speaker 1: in w w E and I could do like podcasts.
Speaker 1: There's got to be a better idea than we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about some catchphrases from twenty five. But Brian, look,
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's necessarily the case. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: something where they were trying to to increase access or
Speaker 1: trying to work with things, and they were spitballing back
Speaker 1: and forth, and they said, hey, we had this successful
Speaker 1: podcast venture that did numbers for us, it did numbers
Speaker 1: for Bill Simmons or the Ringer or whoever you know
Speaker 1: it would be, and maybe this is an idea, and
Speaker 1: ww E goes okay, and these guys had a different idea,
Speaker 1: but w w wants to push attitude era and we
Speaker 1: could do this and this, and it's like okay. So
Speaker 1: maybe they were you know, again, I'm sure there was
Speaker 1: maybe a process back and forth that may have led
Speaker 1: to this. I mean, I don't know if this is
Speaker 1: something w w E had commissioned and said Okay, now
Speaker 1: we're going to do this or on you know, conversely,
Speaker 1: the Ringer said, Hey, we can do anything we want. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the only idea that we have. You know, we
Speaker 1: really just don't know someone catchphrases. Where are we scraping
Speaker 1: the bottom of the barrel here at the end? No,
Speaker 1: because here's the thing. If you go, okay, suck it, well, okay,
Speaker 1: that whole thing can be about d X if it's
Speaker 1: because that Actually I'll listen to that podcast. I want
Speaker 1: to hear in them talk about suck it on a
Speaker 1: podcast on Spotify. That actually I would listen to that one.
Speaker 1: But but that's what I'm saying. Like you you take
Speaker 1: whatever the term is. Do you smell what the rock
Speaker 1: is cooking? Okay, that one's all on the rock. Okay,
Speaker 1: this one now we're all talking about the nation or
Speaker 1: this or the and so it can be done easily
Speaker 1: and you just basically use it again, you use it
Speaker 1: as a muse to get to meander to other things,
Speaker 1: and you can draw it back to that catch phrase
Speaker 1: at the end of the broadcast. But I think again
Speaker 1: the concept I know what you're saying in as far
Speaker 1: as you're asked better calls Buddy tonight on Spotify, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk. Well, actually we can't talk to Mr Assie's
Speaker 1: unavailable Episode thirty. Do you like Pancakes? Yeah? Remember that one?
Speaker 1: Yes with him and Billy Gunn Watch a Pancake? Your
Speaker 1: aspect to Chicago? Was that epic, the one Billy gun
Speaker 1: versus the Rock feud after when the King of the
Speaker 1: Ring you can kiss my royal ass Billy Gunn m
Speaker 1: some other. By the way, does he own that name? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He Isn't he going through some copy right now? But
Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the options right here for
Speaker 1: podcasts such as, uh, you think you know me? Well,
Speaker 1: you think you know yeah, about the background of that
Speaker 1: one Christian at last year on your own? What else
Speaker 1: do we have? Stand back that a hurricane coming through
Speaker 1: this is a lot easier than you Yeah, I guess yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot easier than you think. We can get my
Speaker 1: whole I wish Episode twelve, I Love head Cheese, I'm
Speaker 1: an ass Man. Episode ten, The People's Strudal back in
Speaker 1: the moment it was over live. Yes, it's true. I'm
Speaker 1: very much looking forward Episode four. Pimping ain't easy. There
Speaker 1: you go talk about this here in two put over
Speaker 1: all those hoes. One of those hose was Ivory Man
Speaker 1: you can't put that put her over any day of
Speaker 1: the week. Hey, listen, I got a couple of important
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Speaker 1: is being delayed this afternoon. It will air at five
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Speaker 1: it out right now. We talked about WrestleMania and what
Speaker 1: I actually think the biggest story going into and coming
Speaker 1: out of WrestleMania is going to be. But I'm not
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