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 it going, everybody? Brian Albarez
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Speaker 1: Old Gym Valley a ha dne over here. I've I've
Speaker 1: inadvertently become a smoker. We had the worst air quality
Speaker 1: on the earth on the Earth yesterday and it is
Speaker 1: no better today. I just can't breathe. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do my best here on the program. Today. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get rain here in Seattle. I know some of you think, well,
Speaker 1: of course you're gonna get rainy in Seattle, but in fact,
Speaker 1: in fact, I don't think Seattle has had rain since
Speaker 1: uh late June early each lie there was there was
Speaker 1: one weekend where it rained and it was all out
Speaker 1: weekend and I was gone. So I live in Seattle.
Speaker 1: I have not seen rain in about three months now,
Speaker 1: and the rain will hopefully come today and wash away
Speaker 1: all of this smoke, so we will no longer be
Speaker 1: the city with the worst air quality on the planet.
Speaker 1: I hear we rival Venus right now, do you know that? Anyway,
Speaker 1: we got a lot of news to get into here today.
Speaker 1: We talked about a double n n x C yesterday
Speaker 1: because in fact the show has aired on Tuesday this week,
Speaker 1: and so today we'll talk about the fallout. Yes, we
Speaker 1: have the ratings. Everybody's favorite discussion and that'll be that'll
Speaker 1: be fun. And we've also got notes on Darby Allen
Speaker 1: talked about his match with Jeff Hardy, where Darby Ellen
Speaker 1: said that that he thought that could have been the
Speaker 1: end for him. And that's Darby Allen saying that, So
Speaker 1: we'll tell you what he had to say about that.
Speaker 1: We've also got miss He is dealing with an injury,
Speaker 1: a burst, a burst bursa sack, yet he's still wrestling,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be interesting. We'll tell you about that
Speaker 1: and uh and more and a day of feedback from
Speaker 1: you the listeners. Maybe I'll even open up the phone
Speaker 1: lines back in the momp with more abs your live
Speaker 1: come by day com cough byday seeing. And I think
Speaker 1: it's me that can's something that I won't try, but
Speaker 1: imagine all right back here in the show, right, Albert
Speaker 1: is here wrestling Observer Live. Mike's here, give it. It's
Speaker 1: impossible to believe. Why are you shocked about that? I'm
Speaker 1: here every day except half the last week. At the
Speaker 1: beginning of this week another yes, well I'm gone tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Oh so good luck. Now, I know you were setting
Speaker 1: me up like that. I almost was gone today, but
Speaker 1: I decided I would do my job. Where where are
Speaker 1: you going? Well, I wasn't going anywhere, but my my
Speaker 1: little one goes to outdoor preschool. And guess well, we
Speaker 1: can't do outdoor pre school today because the air quality
Speaker 1: is the worst on earth. So uh yeah, it didn't
Speaker 1: make some changes. But anyway, let's talk about the news
Speaker 1: here on this day of armageddon. With the air quality sixty,
Speaker 1: should we see where it is today? Does anyone care
Speaker 1: except me? I mean I care a lot because I'm
Speaker 1: I'm hacking to death here. Well, you know, in a
Speaker 1: couple of days, I guess I'll care because of those
Speaker 1: jet streams that come over. But it's really bad out there.
Speaker 1: I guess the air quality right now is two oh four.
Speaker 1: It should be under fifty. So two or four? Is
Speaker 1: uh Los Angeles way worse, way, way worse in Los Angeles. Actually,
Speaker 1: I wonder what, Yeah, what is l A on a
Speaker 1: normal day. I don't know, but I'm trying to see.
Speaker 1: There was another there was another one I had here
Speaker 1: that world wide maybe I guess a worldwide air quality,
Speaker 1: which is the word. Yeah, let's see. Well, the good
Speaker 1: news is we're now we're now below India. Delhi, India
Speaker 1: is at two sixty three. We're two, so we're number two.
Speaker 1: That's that's nice. Beijing is it one seventy? There? It
Speaker 1: couldn't be more clear there? Oh no, I'm sorry. Now
Speaker 1: we're at this moment we're actually number one to forty.
Speaker 1: So you keep complaining about this, a volcano is going
Speaker 1: to go off to and really just iced the cake
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, Seattle in Portland are number one and
Speaker 1: two right now, and then Beijing number three, Wu Hand
Speaker 1: number five, the infamous Wu Hand province. Yeah, it's pretty horrible. Here, okay,
Speaker 1: here's the here's the ratings. You know what I had, Yes, already,
Speaker 1: a vintage Twitter. I got to put up the head
Speaker 1: to head and everybody got to go all crazy. But
Speaker 1: here it is Dynamite on Tuesday this week did seven
Speaker 1: fifty two thousand viewers, down twenty three point five percent
Speaker 1: from last Wednesday, lowest audiences October last year, when it
Speaker 1: aired on a Saturday eighteen to forty nine eight on
Speaker 1: cable with a point to six. Then we've got an
Speaker 1: x T six seventy six thousand viewers, down eight point
Speaker 1: three percent from last week twelve on the charts with
Speaker 1: a point one eight rating, which is up from last
Speaker 1: week actually year over year. We got all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff right here. So, uh, the gist of it
Speaker 1: is in the in the viewership a W one seven
Speaker 1: fifty two to six seventy six and in the eighteen
Speaker 1: and forty nine Dynamite one with a with a point
Speaker 1: to six to uh to a point one eight. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't like to, uh, you know, twist
Speaker 1: a knife or anything like that, but I gotta I
Speaker 1: got a buddy in w W. He's always arrassing me
Speaker 1: and you as well. And uh, you know, the other
Speaker 1: day I was talking about how um you know we're
Speaker 1: doing We're doing the Observer radio show on Tuesday instead
Speaker 1: of Wednesday this week because the shows are head to
Speaker 1: hit on Tuesday, and he says, he goes, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: why why aren't you doing it Wednesday? Are you afraid
Speaker 1: for when the ratings come in? And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: first off, I don't care either way, number one, number two,
Speaker 1: it wasn't even my call. So anyway, you know, he
Speaker 1: he thought that we were avoiding doing the show on
Speaker 1: Wednesday because we have talked about the ratings. Well, what
Speaker 1: does that indicate? That indicates to me that he thought
Speaker 1: that an XT was gonna win. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 1: would pickure. So it didn't win, and then you know
Speaker 1: what he says, because well, we weren't trying to win.
Speaker 1: The only winners were the fans, Brian, I'll rest the
Speaker 1: only winners with the fans. They were just trying to
Speaker 1: provide a bounty. A bounty. Look at one point four
Speaker 1: to eight million people, is that? What is one point
Speaker 1: four to eight million people joined in on that bounty
Speaker 1: or at least filled in their Nielsen books with that,
Speaker 1: as opposed to the sports that they were watching. Because
Speaker 1: for both n x T and a W they were
Speaker 1: both down. Obviously I a W want a different night,
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is the two hockey games. Again,
Speaker 1: depending on what city you're in that actually matters. The
Speaker 1: NBA Games opening Day, for heaven's sakes, with eighteen to
Speaker 1: thirty four, eighteen to forty nine of me, come on,
Speaker 1: get out of here. So I got more major in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. So I mean, what can you do?
Speaker 1: Both of these shows? What are you doing? And I
Speaker 1: I couldn't figure out why. First first, all I hear
Speaker 1: is that I'm the only person that loves It's my
Speaker 1: favorite show. I love n x T. I'm the number
Speaker 1: one flag bearer for n x T. You are you
Speaker 1: are the Then they go head to head. Andyone's like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have an agenda? Now, well, which is it?
Speaker 1: Is it my favorite show that I'm the flag bear? Four?
Speaker 1: Do I have an agenda for a w Cut to
Speaker 1: the chase? Here, let's cut to the chase. Both of
Speaker 1: these shows did great. I know some of you don't
Speaker 1: want to believe it, but that's that's true. Both of
Speaker 1: these shows did great dynamite. Yeah, obviously they were well
Speaker 1: below there there one million, nine thousand or whatever, but like,
Speaker 1: what were you expecting? They were moved to a different night.
Speaker 1: They were going headdad with n XT and a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of sports, and if you exclude sports programming, they
Speaker 1: were the number one show on cable. If you exclude
Speaker 1: sports program For n x T, they were like number four.
Speaker 1: So both of these shows, given the circumstances, they both
Speaker 1: did great. But everyone has to freak out, well, this
Speaker 1: and that and whatever. I can't just say they did
Speaker 1: really good. You'll have to see. No, they actually did great.
Speaker 1: Do you do you know? Okay? What what was Dynamite
Speaker 1: down from last week? Uh? They were down? Okay, do
Speaker 1: you guys want to go and look at how far
Speaker 1: SmackDown was down when they had to move to FS
Speaker 1: one on a different night. They were down like sixty dude,
Speaker 1: moving to a different night hurts everybody. It hurts w
Speaker 1: W E and heard say w it would hurt n
Speaker 1: x T, it would hurt. It would hurts everybody. And
Speaker 1: they actually held up remarkably well and charted very well
Speaker 1: and quite frankly n XT with competition with a w competition, bro,
Speaker 1: they did better than they do with no competition. So yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody did great on Tuesday night. That's the story. My
Speaker 1: favorite show smashed them. What do you think some of
Speaker 1: these people would have done back in the day when
Speaker 1: it came to raw being moved for the dog show
Speaker 1: in the U. S Open and whatnot. I think they
Speaker 1: would have complained about ratings there too. There was a
Speaker 1: lot of complaining in the mid nineties, guys. Don't. Don't
Speaker 1: get us wrong. The difference was there was no Twitter.
Speaker 1: It was all confined to forums and chat rooms and whatnot.
Speaker 1: People make fun of the super followers thing, but man,
Speaker 1: my super follower Twitter is the greatest Twitter ever. It's like,
Speaker 1: I post some stuff, everybody's real nice about it. The
Speaker 1: comments are all polite, and you know, everybody enjoys doing whatever. Man.
Speaker 1: That that that commoner's Twitter. Oh peasant Twitter. It is
Speaker 1: peasant past system. Now with the twitters with you, I
Speaker 1: really don't think four ninety nine a month is like
Speaker 1: a cast system here. You know what, dude, I went
Speaker 1: to the grocery store the other day. I got a
Speaker 1: block of cheese. You know what cheese cost me? At
Speaker 1: the story You're getting a block of cheese, just like
Speaker 1: a little just like a little thing of cheese. Nine dollars.
Speaker 1: And then then I wanted to get a one little
Speaker 1: package of of tortillas because Passy has been in a
Speaker 1: case of eas lately. Seven dollars. Where are you sewing safely?
Speaker 1: My god, I'm not even going to expensive whole foods
Speaker 1: or whatever. CALLI yeah, I know what I know. It's inflation,
Speaker 1: you idiot. I'm pointing out I didn't inflate the price
Speaker 1: of my super followers. My super followers for a month
Speaker 1: is less than a pack of tortillas. So I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear about it. Stop getting her friends imported
Speaker 1: cheeses to friend imported cheese. It was in the cheese section. Oh,
Speaker 1: let me grab a thing of cheese. It's allay, what
Speaker 1: kuda or whatever? I don't even know what that is? Delicious,
Speaker 1: actually nice mild cheese. No, DJ was safe way cheese.
Speaker 1: What are your other options out there? You got like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I spent I spent ten minutes
Speaker 1: talk about nothing. I love it. Now we're gonna do
Speaker 1: more after the break. Observer Live Off taking that behind
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Speaker 1: Flabbergasted what you know? Last night on the Brianant Video Show,
Speaker 1: we had Brian is ms. Everyone tried to to to
Speaker 1: uh you know, verbally express the essence of me. A
Speaker 1: couple of people did a good job. Oh yeah, by
Speaker 1: doing an imitation or well no, I mean my favorite
Speaker 1: the winner was all chopped, no pork. But anyway to
Speaker 1: think that, you blokes on this chat, don't think I
Speaker 1: used the gimmick phone number at safe Way and get
Speaker 1: a discount. I mean, come on, who do you think
Speaker 1: I am? I think I go to Costco. You use
Speaker 1: the gimmick phone number. Hey, you type in your phone
Speaker 1: number discount. Oh you don't know about this? Uh, explains
Speaker 1: with the gimmick phone number. Now I'm gonna start using
Speaker 1: it here. See if it works. See if somebody signed
Speaker 1: up with your information around one of these places by
Speaker 1: me Carl Anderson. Yeah, I mean this is a shocking story.
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure that I can Carl. Carl Anderson
Speaker 1: will not be defending his never open weight champion ship
Speaker 1: on November five. Get Out New Japan had previously announced
Speaker 1: Anderson would face Hikolao on the Battle Autumn Tour stop
Speaker 1: on Raw this week. However, it was revealed the Good
Speaker 1: Brothers will team with a j to take on Judgment
Speaker 1: Day at Crown Jewel on the same date, and a
Speaker 1: video posted to a social media on Wednesday, Anderson says
Speaker 1: New Japan didn't run the November five date by his
Speaker 1: booking agent and tag partner, Doc Gallows. First, I hope
Speaker 1: that's a shoot, and the Doc Gallos is his business
Speaker 1: agents as sex Ferguson there please the Good Brothers confirmed
Speaker 1: they will not be doing the New Japan show. Gallows
Speaker 1: begins in the video New Japan Pro Wrestling. A few questions.
Speaker 1: Are we the o G Bullet Club? Yes? Are we
Speaker 1: the world famous Good Brothers? Yes? Are we rapping out
Speaker 1: Sea on Monday Night Raw? Yes? And do all bookings
Speaker 1: still go through the Big l G when it comes
Speaker 1: to Bright Lights when it comes to the Good Brothers, Yes,
Speaker 1: they do. So here's here's the here's the two things here.
Speaker 1: You know. When when he first signed w W, E
Speaker 1: is a never open weight champion, the claim was that
Speaker 1: he would drop the title. Okay, and uh, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't like to be that guy. You know what,
Speaker 1: I am the guy. It's the essence of Brian is m.
Speaker 1: I said, do this thing, guy, this guy is gonna
Speaker 1: drop the title and everyone said yeah he is, No,
Speaker 1: he actually is. And Dave on the show even started
Speaker 1: listing off. You know, these people signed and then they
Speaker 1: ended up they dropped their titles before. But what he
Speaker 1: didn't know was before somebody make a list for me.
Speaker 1: How many people have signed with w w E okay
Speaker 1: and not dropped the title and then debuted okay, but
Speaker 1: they debuted and then dropped the title. How many anybody?
Speaker 1: I can think of? Zero row? So what a shocker.
Speaker 1: He debuts on raw and now he is not. Now granted,
Speaker 1: there's two things here. He was double booked, which means
Speaker 1: that he has a booked for another date after the
Speaker 1: first date by w w E. So he is unable
Speaker 1: to to make that show. But I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: it's possible that he could later go to New Japan
Speaker 1: and drop that title. Oh yeah, yeah, I guess he
Speaker 1: could do it beforehand. You know, at the the New
Speaker 1: York shows that are coming up. That would be a
Speaker 1: great time to do it. There's still matches to be
Speaker 1: announced for those shows. If you're going to do it,
Speaker 1: there will be a good time to do it. Now
Speaker 1: here's the other thing, the whole it goes one more now,
Speaker 1: correct if I'm wrong, Mike, and as a resident New
Speaker 1: Japan expert here on this program, I am not wrong.
Speaker 1: The rule in New Japan is if you get announced
Speaker 1: for a show and you do not make that date,
Speaker 1: you are stripped of your title. And in fact, in fact,
Speaker 1: in fact, whether whether it was cleared with him or
Speaker 1: not is irrelevant because the same exact thing happened with
Speaker 1: Juice Robinson, where Juice Robinson had an injury, he wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to return, they booked him for a show anyway,
Speaker 1: he wasn't ready to return and could not make the date,
Speaker 1: and they stripped him right. So, whether he was whether
Speaker 1: they cleared this with him or not, if he was
Speaker 1: announced for this show and he's not gonna be there
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, even if they adn't cleared with him first,
Speaker 1: New Japan historically should strip him of that title, which
Speaker 1: means he would not be dropping that title in New Japan.
Speaker 1: That's most likely the case. I think the thoughts of
Speaker 1: ever seeing him in New Japan a can are probably gone.
Speaker 1: After that Instagram post yesterday, Rocky Romero posted right afterwards.
Speaker 1: I don't believe I could say all of it on
Speaker 1: the air, but requested that the belt be returned. It's
Speaker 1: possible that and I tried to reach out to people
Speaker 1: inside New Japan, didn't expect a response, didn't get a response,
Speaker 1: So we'll see if I get one before the show
Speaker 1: goes off the air. But I don't begrudge them for
Speaker 1: doing what they're doing, even though I don't go back
Speaker 1: one bit. I'm just pointing out that I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that you are, and I'm just saying personally, I don't
Speaker 1: begrudge them for going go get your money. Adam and
Speaker 1: I talked about this on The Big Audio Nightmare, which
Speaker 1: is up free for subscribers right now wherever you get
Speaker 1: your favorite podcasts, and we talked about it more in depth.
Speaker 1: But I don't blame them, but it's just you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done the business that you were doing, and you
Speaker 1: should have just said we're signing with w w E
Speaker 1: New Japan right then and there should have pulled the
Speaker 1: belt off of them, because yes, there was a chance
Speaker 1: that cool Uncle Paul would be the coolest uncle in
Speaker 1: the whole wide world and allowed this to go on.
Speaker 1: But where have they ever had a history, as Brian mentioned,
Speaker 1: of ever doing this. So it's it's a frustrating scenario
Speaker 1: for New Japan, but it's also one that they put
Speaker 1: themselves in by having Carl Anderson, who was not signed
Speaker 1: to a rock solid piece of paper for them to
Speaker 1: go over Hiroshitanahashi win that title. Now I did. I
Speaker 1: did think that there was an outside chance it could happen,
Speaker 1: because Hiko Leo is one of Hakku's sons, and you
Speaker 1: know with Tama Tong, and I actually thought that there
Speaker 1: could be a small possibility. But obviously that's not the case.
Speaker 1: By the way, the name was brought up here on
Speaker 1: the chat, Alberto Alberto del Rio, al Patron and uh,
Speaker 1: in fact, it's exact same thing. He was the Triple
Speaker 1: A Mega Champion, he re signed with w w E.
Speaker 1: He was allegedly going to go to Triple Mania and
Speaker 1: drop the title there, and uh, I don want to
Speaker 1: guess what that happened. Oops, no, it did not. Have
Speaker 1: a lot of people really want to think that there's
Speaker 1: a whole new world that Paula Beck is. Look, w
Speaker 1: w E is still w w E. Stephanie McMahon is
Speaker 1: still Vincent McMahon's daughter, and Triple h is still his
Speaker 1: son in law. They are wired a lot the same.
Speaker 1: They are concerned with number one, period, point blank. That's it,
Speaker 1: and that's all which is their company. They don't care
Speaker 1: about anything or anyone else. When it gets right down
Speaker 1: to it. They could put on a public face and
Speaker 1: they could do a whole bunch of you know, uh,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of flowery talk and this and that.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, when have they ever worked
Speaker 1: with anybody? When has a tiger ever changed its stripes?
Speaker 1: So there's going to be no change here Tony Khan
Speaker 1: acting disappointed about it, or anybody overly disappointed about it.
Speaker 1: And on the New Japan end, those are the brakes.
Speaker 1: That's w W E. Why would they work with you.
Speaker 1: It's like when we were making the joke about Vince McMahon.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe he could join with a w and
Speaker 1: get back at the sun and let may come on,
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon would start his own thing before he went
Speaker 1: to somebody else's. They don't care about any of that
Speaker 1: other nonsense. Well, you know, he hasn't been stripped as
Speaker 1: of this exact second, So maybe might maybe, as you
Speaker 1: ridicule this idea, maybe he will return to New Japan
Speaker 1: and do a clean job in the middle of the
Speaker 1: ring that somebody else and dropped that title. That would
Speaker 1: be nice, but it's not gonna happen, I don't think,
Speaker 1: but it would be he the right, you know, what's
Speaker 1: the right thing to do in pro wrestling, you know.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess if you're gonna screw over
Speaker 1: friends and things like that, because again going never going
Speaker 1: back there again. He needed the money from the Saudi
Speaker 1: trip last time, talked about the pool he built. I
Speaker 1: guess there's a third pool he's going to be going
Speaker 1: to to build after he gets back from Saudi this time.
Speaker 1: But if you made a handshake agreement, and again it's
Speaker 1: the mistake of somebody who takes a handshake agreement over
Speaker 1: pen to paper. But there is also a thing for
Speaker 1: your word and what your word may mean. So if
Speaker 1: he did happen to give his word, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what he said to the people, that would be
Speaker 1: the liaisons to New Japan. If he gave his word
Speaker 1: and then pulled back out of it, I can see
Speaker 1: why people would be pretty piste off. You know. The
Speaker 1: miss is dealing with a burst bursa sack schedule wrestled
Speaker 1: Dexter Loomis n Rah ended up attacking his opponent. The
Speaker 1: match never took place. He revealed that he's dealing with
Speaker 1: a burst versus sack and he's at his shoulder. Was
Speaker 1: a little missed up. You know when I when I
Speaker 1: began reading this, I thought, well, you know, they did
Speaker 1: advertise a match with a stip on Raw and they
Speaker 1: totally did not deliver. But I mean, if the guy's hurt,
Speaker 1: I mean, how can I get mad about it? The
Speaker 1: guy's hurts, so maybe that's that's what happened. But then
Speaker 1: he reveals I'm wrestling Friday, and not only not only
Speaker 1: is he wrestling Friday, but he's wrestling a dark match. Listen,
Speaker 1: a bursta sack is not like a career ending threatening
Speaker 1: injury or anything like that. But if the guy's hurt
Speaker 1: and he's not wrestled in three weeks and he's trying
Speaker 1: to heal his shoulder, why are you putting him in
Speaker 1: the ring in a dark match? He couldn't even wrestle.
Speaker 1: Dexter loomis on Raw and he's gonna do a dark
Speaker 1: match with a burst bursa sac card subject to change.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens. Back in a moment with your calls.
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Speaker 1: a new fun video. Apparently your magic is making yourself
Speaker 1: disappear tomorrow off a year or so. You gave that
Speaker 1: to him for free. I'm actually doing uh, I'm doing
Speaker 1: some business tomorrow. You'll all hear about soon enough. But
Speaker 1: you know what What's funny is if you're a super follower,
Speaker 1: you already know you know what we're gonna do here
Speaker 1: is when you go to the phones for something that
Speaker 1: I just I find despicable, but you know, teach their
Speaker 1: own you're on the air, Diggan, Yes, yes, Brian, Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to call and gloat about my win
Speaker 1: too much. You just did. You literally began to call
Speaker 1: gloating about your win. How many times I'll go to that,
Speaker 1: I'll go to the of the chat right here. How
Speaker 1: many times have I ever gloated about a win? Huh
Speaker 1: many many times? Brian. Despicable this person, But I did
Speaker 1: want to I did want to clarify. I think we
Speaker 1: could have cleared this up a little bit earlier. If
Speaker 1: you go back and you watch my show a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. My co host did ask me, is the
Speaker 1: bet does this mean if m JF gets a hero's reception?
Speaker 1: Is that just to clarify, it's m JF getting cheered
Speaker 1: as a hero. I did confirm, yes, that is that
Speaker 1: was the case that was part of the bet, and
Speaker 1: I also added that it would happened before for before
Speaker 1: full years. Hold on a minute, I was all ready
Speaker 1: to pay you the money, and now you tell me
Speaker 1: that on another show you clarified your bet. Well, I
Speaker 1: clarified the bet on another show too. No one allowed
Speaker 1: me to get away with it. This was three weeks ago.
Speaker 1: You can go back and check the I don't care
Speaker 1: if I can go back getting regardless. I think I
Speaker 1: think the matter has been resolved. The impartial judge rules
Speaker 1: in my favor. I did for a while. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't hear from a lawyer and he goes, honestly,
Speaker 1: you you you you, you know this is not going
Speaker 1: to hold up in court because there should have been
Speaker 1: more clarification in the contract. Oh really was the lawyer
Speaker 1: smart Mark Sterling Kansas that the lawyer that you can ful? Alright,
Speaker 1: what do you want? Well, well, listen, I did have
Speaker 1: a legitimate question for you guys. Okay, Um, we're at
Speaker 1: the point I think in wrestling where all the big
Speaker 1: free agents that are out there have either gone back
Speaker 1: to w W or have gone over to a W. So,
Speaker 1: in your opinion, who would be the biggest name to
Speaker 1: make any sort of significant impact whether or not they
Speaker 1: jumped from a w W, W E or vice versa
Speaker 1: over the next year. Is that MGF potentially going to
Speaker 1: wwion he's not gonna are we Wait a second, Wait
Speaker 1: a second, wait a second, digging, We got to clarify
Speaker 1: the contract. I don't want another one of these incidents.
Speaker 1: MJF is not going to w w E this year.
Speaker 1: So what are we doing? Like we can name anybody
Speaker 1: so I can say, like, well, you know, if the
Speaker 1: rock went to a w that'd be a game changer.
Speaker 1: Are we talking about people that muck could because the
Speaker 1: first off, there's a whole bunch of people that can't
Speaker 1: go anywhere. So are we gonna add those to this?
Speaker 1: Are we only talking about people that could jump from
Speaker 1: one place to another? I would say we should look
Speaker 1: at this realistically. Who could jump from one place to
Speaker 1: the other and then over the next year and a half,
Speaker 1: let's say, depending on contract status is and things like that.
Speaker 1: All Right, I want to thank you very much for
Speaker 1: the call. I mean, there's there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: options here everybody. I mean, Sasha, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how much of an impact she would
Speaker 1: she would honestly make. I mean, you know, Sasha, here
Speaker 1: we go again, right, listen, page was a huge star. Okay,
Speaker 1: huge are and uh and she is, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: she hasn't made a massive difference day W. I mean,
Speaker 1: are we are? Are we gonna honestly play this game
Speaker 1: where if Sasha went to a W should be even
Speaker 1: see Hi Punk numbers when he debuted and they were
Speaker 1: doing like one point four million for that that debut,
Speaker 1: Because that's not gonna happen. So, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know who. I don't know who the biggest person that
Speaker 1: is available would even be right now because most everyone's
Speaker 1: tied up pretty long term. I don't know anybody who's
Speaker 1: deal is up imminently. Am I missing somebody? No, not
Speaker 1: a steel? What kind of impact do you think Sasha
Speaker 1: haven't stardom if she goes there? I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I have no earthly idea what difference in will or
Speaker 1: will not make? She apparently teased that on our Instagram
Speaker 1: put in her pictures the one to face off against Kyrie,
Speaker 1: the former Kyrie, saying in w W, E who's back
Speaker 1: over and start them now? And that's nice because up
Speaker 1: for she still has to be released, you know, but
Speaker 1: if she does get released in some ways, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that would be a pretty big impact into
Speaker 1: a W again. Does it make monstrous difference? No, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know, it would be like if Batista came over, Well,
Speaker 1: that would be a big deal for a minute, except
Speaker 1: for he's not gonna be wrestling that much, and he's
Speaker 1: just another personality who might be there once in a while.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, you know, m JF going the
Speaker 1: other direction obviously that really hurts a W badly. I
Speaker 1: know Owens is locked up, brains is locked up. I
Speaker 1: don't know who else is. Let's say Seth Rollins. I mean,
Speaker 1: it would make a big difference. It would help a
Speaker 1: W immensely if Becky and Seth were magically cleared from
Speaker 1: their contracts and walked over. But the number that Becky
Speaker 1: did back when she was at her hottest, I don't
Speaker 1: think she'll be able to just fall into a W
Speaker 1: and do that same thing. So again, it's almost an
Speaker 1: it's an unanswerable question. Really. All right, well let's go
Speaker 1: to uh this fella here in Houston. You're on the air.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Hey, good afternoon, gentlemen. It's the building
Speaker 1: from Houston, Texas building. Hey, real quick, I don't know
Speaker 1: if you guys already mentioned this or not. I tuned
Speaker 1: in readily to the show, but I read the unfortunate
Speaker 1: news that Kevin Nash's son unfortunately passed away today at
Speaker 1: the age. I just wanted to wish him major love
Speaker 1: and you know, I hope every everyone is okay. Yes,
Speaker 1: best wishes to Kevin Nash. I saw that earlier. Horrible.
Speaker 1: There's not much I can really add to that, as
Speaker 1: as the father, you know dropped. Sorry as a kid,
Speaker 1: so I hope you were waiting for me that way,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean for again, it's I can't imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, parent bearing a son is awful. So it's
Speaker 1: terrible situation, terrible Alright, Kelly, I believe this is Kelly.
Speaker 1: You're on the air. What's going on? Hey, as far
Speaker 1: as the ratings go dropping, if you own the stock
Speaker 1: and that thing dropped, are you joking? Are you kidding
Speaker 1: me here? You're kidding me. I'm not kidding here. No, no,
Speaker 1: hold on a second, it's not even on the same day, dude,
Speaker 1: it got moved to a different day. To be honest
Speaker 1: and say that Mosley's bleeding forehead and the boring cowboys
Speaker 1: aren't moving the numbers. Do you realize do you realize
Speaker 1: what they put on that last SmackDown and moved to
Speaker 1: f S one when they dropped seventy Can you imagine
Speaker 1: if w W E stock drops? Oh my god, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't believe they weren't immediately canceled when it dropped.
Speaker 1: I need a nine for people like that so he
Speaker 1: can he can pay to say something so dumb. It
Speaker 1: was monstrously stupid. Congratulations, my friend, you had the dumbest
Speaker 1: call of the year so far. He compared it to
Speaker 1: a stock I know, I know. It tells me a
Speaker 1: guy isn't now a lot of stock holdings. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: let's go to Boonville. You're on the air. What's going on? Hey,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna? What do you think about the
Speaker 1: whole Athena match? And? Uh, it kind of has me
Speaker 1: worried about Page being cleared. So the Athena mat. Hold on,
Speaker 1: what match are we talking about? Here? Are you talking
Speaker 1: about Dark? Yeah? I saw that, Actually I did see that.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there because those of
Speaker 1: you didn't see it. I don't. I still don't even
Speaker 1: know what happened. But like, Athena did a match on
Speaker 1: Dark and she just smashed, just absolutely smashed this woman.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if it was like a very
Speaker 1: very well worked massacre, if she didn't like the person
Speaker 1: or like what happened. But man, I had a lot
Speaker 1: of people send me the send me that clip, a
Speaker 1: lot of fake outrage. Like that last call kind of
Speaker 1: sounded like that's the direction it was going in, as
Speaker 1: if Atheno, Oh my god, Now we gotta worry about
Speaker 1: Page because she might run into Athena. Oh Mike, come on,
Speaker 1: you need to worry about Page, because you need to
Speaker 1: worry about Page like you've worried about everybody else with
Speaker 1: spinal stenosis, whether it be edge or sting or whoever
Speaker 1: it is. That's why you have to worry about it.
Speaker 1: That's it, period. You know this this pearl clutching over
Speaker 1: a match that I guess maybe went a little too
Speaker 1: far or whatever. You know, who cares? You know, these
Speaker 1: things happen, and they were talked to him. I care
Speaker 1: if I were the victim, but I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: But pretty there was a souplex over the top where
Speaker 1: she just tossed her She land on her side on
Speaker 1: the ground. That was scary. Hey, that's and that's for
Speaker 1: her boss to worry about. But this whole pearl clutching
Speaker 1: thing with all of these older guys from the past
Speaker 1: who relish in telling stories about beating up a job
Speaker 1: or doing this or doing that. It's the ones with
Speaker 1: the fake outrage. It's the ones with the fake nonsense
Speaker 1: and the bs and the care over this. We're basically
Speaker 1: doing it to take a shot at a W because
Speaker 1: you know, only in a W people get hurt, not
Speaker 1: like you know, Biggie or anybody like that. You know,
Speaker 1: Rich holland you start picking your names up from the
Speaker 1: next time. But I mean there's a big difference, and
Speaker 1: that one was an accident and an assault. But that's
Speaker 1: the problem is that's what people are trying to compare
Speaker 1: these things too, and it's like it's a match that
Speaker 1: went a little bit too far. That will be what
Speaker 1: it is. But like that as the reason that a
Speaker 1: W is a dangerous place to work and all this
Speaker 1: other saying that you should worry about Page is probably
Speaker 1: overstating it. But I I am wondering what the heck
Speaker 1: happened in that match? That was nuts. I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: some investigation. Have her come on call Athena, have her
Speaker 1: come on, you talk about it. Let's be real. I'll right, Uh,
Speaker 1: this person here is from New York. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Hold on? Sold on? Call her? Listen? First off, your
Speaker 1: first off. First off, if you have Athene on the
Speaker 1: show and you go, hey, were you unprofessional in that match?
Speaker 1: She can say no, and then probably would phrase it
Speaker 1: a little bit different. If you can call the other
Speaker 1: the other lady and you say, you know, were you
Speaker 1: taking advantage of in this match? Well, if she ever
Speaker 1: used to work in a WAIN, she can say why
Speaker 1: would you ask her a leading as question like that?
Speaker 1: Just say what you said? You let me know what
Speaker 1: went on there? You said, no, don't tell me what
Speaker 1: I said around? Yes, okay, what happened during the I'm Athena. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ask I'm Athena. Well, Athena. There's been a lot of talk,
Speaker 1: in a lot of online debate over what happened during
Speaker 1: that match, and you being talked to by a w officials,
Speaker 1: do you have any comment on that? What did you
Speaker 1: think about the match? What happened there? She could either
Speaker 1: say I defeated her handily. Okay, now pretend I'm the
Speaker 1: other lady. Okay, same thing, same Hushton goes to you. Boy,
Speaker 1: there's been a lot of talk about this. Why don't
Speaker 1: you explain what happened? What's your side of the story.
Speaker 1: What did they tell you afterwards? They said, man, you
Speaker 1: made it look good, but you know this is a
Speaker 1: rough sport. Okay, thanks Jody. Got a lot of answers
Speaker 1: you got out of me. There, boy, that's great. I'm
Speaker 1: glad I'm not interviewing you. Then, geek, let's go back
Speaker 1: to New York. You're on the air, I'll interview this caller.
Speaker 1: I was just wondering with the upstart of r H,
Speaker 1: do you foresee see him punk coming back and probably
Speaker 1: challenging um brother Cabana by anything, brother brother? Do I
Speaker 1: have to shut down these phone lines or what you do?
Speaker 1: You know what this on yourself? And no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I did not bring this on by opening up the
Speaker 1: phone lines. I did not. I did not. You knew this.
Speaker 1: I knew this. Oh yeah, I got a great idea.
Speaker 1: Let's have a horrible show today, Mr super followers. I
Speaker 1: decided to have concept. I decided to have Friday early
Speaker 1: back in a moment it is ever live. I should
Speaker 1: have kept that numb skull on the show. That was
Speaker 1: talking about what if your stock drop? You know what
Speaker 1: happened if the actually has dropped quite you know what
Speaker 1: happened when the stock when the stock market drops, I buy,
Speaker 1: I celebrate, I throw a party. That's why I'm rich,
Speaker 1: That's why I have a twelve million dollar net worth.
Speaker 1: Buy low sell. Hi called Lee, by the way, another one.
Speaker 1: He always do they need a call screener? Well, first off,
Speaker 1: I don't have a call screener because I like unscreened
Speaker 1: open lines, Art bel Art Bell Brother. And the thing is,
Speaker 1: do you guys even understand like the whole YouTube chat
Speaker 1: call today? Okay, So that guy, it's that guy who
Speaker 1: had the question about the the the ratings, you know,
Speaker 1: he calls the all screener picks up. They go, what's
Speaker 1: your name? He goes, you know, Floyd. Okay, what's your question?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I thought that ratings were great. I want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Okay. He puts the guy in hold,
Speaker 1: and the guy gets on and he asked his stupid question.
Speaker 1: This is Ryan in Cumberland. I think there's a there's
Speaker 1: a light detector as part of this call screening process. Books, lie,
Speaker 1: if you gonna get on the air and ask a
Speaker 1: stupid question. You can so we got so many Bob
Speaker 1: Bob Booie's on TV in the nineties. Yeah, Jericho's back
Speaker 1: called the show. Floyd probably would had a much better question.
Speaker 1: You know. It was also the horse that baby had
Speaker 1: all made sway back that she ran off on on
Speaker 1: Dusty Rhodes. Floyd, Poor Floyd. God. You know, if the
Speaker 1: if the price of cheese dropped, you think I'm crying.
Speaker 1: I'm celebrating. We're out of time. Have fun with Mike tomorrow, everybody.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll have a big surprise for everybody. Want to
Speaker 1: get back, We'll see we're out of here next time.
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