WEBVTT - Summer Slam Lineup So Far 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:02.880 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.920 --> 0:00:06.720 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:07.920 --> 0:00:10.640 Right you ready, when you're ready, let's. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:11.280 Get it off. 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.599 How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:20.439 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.800 Threeastern a Sunday three Pacific, six Eastern. I haven't been 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.760 doing a lot of talking today, but as I begin 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:31.360 the show, I realize I have no high notes for 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:37.479 those of you that tune in for my high pitched voice. Golly, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.680 maybe I should be sick more often. But it is 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:42.640 Tuesday on this show, and you know what that means. 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:46.120 We've got a lot to get into here today. Hopefully 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.280 not a run in with the FCC, but yes, last night, 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.599 Monday Night Raw, we got a week and a half 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:56.040 until Summer Slam and h and we got a lineup 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.040 for Summer Slam so far, pretty much the entire cards 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.160 all ready to go. And so we'll tell you what 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:04.720 they did last night on Raw to lead to the show, 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.880 and of course also tonight is NXT and on the 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.480 heels all Dirty dumb exploding the rating. Last week we've 0:01:12.520 --> 0:01:17.440 got Rhea Ripley in action. Rihea Ripley will be facing 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:22.160 Lyra Valcira on the show. Dominic will be there as well. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:24.720 They're gonna kick off the show celebrating his title win. 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.000 So a lot to talk about in the lineup for 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.120 NXT tonight. Also some ratings notes. SmackDown on FS one 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:37.920 did his best number ever on FS one and as usual, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.960 the Bloodline segment was what spiked it. And then we've 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:46.640 got collision notes and rampage as well, which was up 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.560 with the Royal rampage. We have injuries in WWE to 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:56.520 talk about. Kevin Owens is injured, liv Morgan is injured. 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.160 Both of these they did injury angles on the show, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:03.000 but they are actually hurt. And Cody Rhodes talking about 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.600 his WrestleMania moment which was not what a lot of 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:11.520 people expected. And the New Day, according to Xavier Woods, 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.080 should be back in due time. So a lot to 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.560 get into here today. You'd like to Texas four two 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:19.359 five seven eight zero seven five sixty six and is 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.799 four two five seven eight zero seven five sixty six. 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:26.280 Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com, on threads, Instagram and 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:31.480 cameo get a cameo everybody at four w online and 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:44.639 at Brian Alvarez on X Moment Observer Live some time 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.880 again the show. Brian Elbarez here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:54.560 SIMBERBB also Wrestling Observer dot Com, and take our time 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.920 to this show today. Ain't no rush right exactly, and 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.680 there ain't no rush in either because he resigned with aw. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.000 Now can you you can't do it with your condition? 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:06.600 Can you? You can't roll the arc? 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.720 I can't. I could not say, Max Dupe. Actually I 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.160 kind of did. Actually, Hey, I guess I'm healing. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:15.720 Don't strain anything though. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.560 Anyway. The update the line up for NXT Rhea Ripley 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:25.600 and Lyra Valcaira Carmelo Trick and Elia Dragnaw versus Joe 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.639 Gacy and the diad Coora Jade and Dana Brook In 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:34.600 a kendo stick match, and Dominic will kick off the 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.280 show with Aria to celebrate his North American title win. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.800 The show's gonna do a big number again, everybody, It's 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.760 gonna do a big number because, honestly, as we were 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.360 talking about last night, and it was patently obvious watching 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.720 Ra as well, with the exception of Roman reigns in 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:54.280 the Bloodline. The hottest act in WWE is the Judgment Day. 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.440 I don't even think there's like a close third. Like, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:04:00.720 the Judgment Day is so over right now. Rhea is 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.240 super over. Finn Balor should win the title. Dom is 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.880 doing great, Damian Priest is awesome. I mean this act 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.280 is hot, Yeah it is. And they're gonna be all 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:15.520 over NXT tonight. So I think the show is going 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.960 to do probably the biggest NXT number in forever, probably 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.280 beat that seth Rawlins show. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.200 And you know what the good part about the Judgment 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.360 Day right now is to me, it's the fact that 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:31.600 once they inevitably break up, unless they really fumble something 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.760 going along the line, Like Rhea Ripley is going to 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.599 be she already is a major star. She's a star 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.800 period point playing. People want to get behind Damian Priest, 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.520 whether he's a babyface or a heel, a big guy 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.039 who can kick ass. He's very experienced, like he's a 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.760 guy that like they really seem to like they should 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.320 like him. And after this is over, no matter how 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.679 it goes, he's probably going to be more over Finn Valor. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:04.240 To me, you know, I don't want to say he's unsinkable, 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.560 you know, to the level of like Kevin Owens in 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.800 that company, but like people are always going to rally 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.040 around him. The only question is with Dom, is Dom 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.839 going to be able to maintain after this, especially if 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.000 he's not with Rhea Ripley or has some sort of 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:21.640 alignment that way, can he continue to keep this heat? 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:24.200 So he's the one you'd have to worry about the most, 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.120 and they're investing seemingly a lot right now into him, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:28.680 so we'll see how it goes. 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:34.200 Now. The hottest singing WWE remains The Bloodline SmackDown. Friday 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:40.160 on FS one did one point two three million viewers 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.599 and a point three six and eighteen to forty nine, 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.599 so the last time they aired on FS one, they're 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:53.560 up forty four percent. And obviously the Bloodline segment with 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.360 the Rules of Engagement was the highest rated thing on 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:01.120 the show, and it did one point five million viewers. 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.240 And I forget what Dave said the demo was for it, 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.680 but it was like really high, Like what did he say? 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:09.040 It was? 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.640 See if you can find it? I thought he said 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.000 like zero point five or point six and I can't 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:20.120 possibly be right, But that was on FS one on Friday, 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:26.279 so they did very very well. The Rampage Show did 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:31.039 better than usual based on the Royal Rampage four hundred 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:35.560 and fifteen thousand viewers, which was up thirty three percent, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.039 and it did a point one one in eighteen forty nine, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.560 although that is not a great demo at all. But obviously, 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.800 if you looked at the quarters for the Rampage Show, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.040 I mean it was a Royal Rampage. People wanted to 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.800 see the Royal Rampage. They stuck around mostly for that. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:57.520 And then you know, the Collision number is interesting because 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:02.320 you know, viewership wise, it did well six hundred and 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.640 eighteen thousand, which is well for Collision. Demo wise, it 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.880 didn't do as well point one point eight, which is 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.240 down quite a bit. And you know the interesting thing 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:16.480 about it is, it's like, so obviously the show is 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.520 supposed to be the cmpunk Show. It's built around cmpunk. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:24.080 So if you go online now because the ratings are out, 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.280 you know, all the people that don't like cmpunk are 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.960 talking about no mill Phil and this whole deal. But 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.560 if you look at the quarters for this show, this 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:37.320 show is totally propped up by cmpunk. He was in 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.120 three segments on the show. He was in the opening 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.560 segment where they set up the tag match, and he 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.920 was in the two final segments with the tag match, 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.280 and those were the highest rated segments on the show. 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.640 So cmpunk is a draw for Collision. He's consistently the 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.000 thing that people want to see more than anything else 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.120 on the show. But he's not going to do a 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.280 million viewers on Collision. He's just not. I don't even 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.920 know why that's I mean, I know it's a mean 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.400 because he had to go out there and call himself 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.320 one bill Phil and I mean he basically was asking 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:13.160 for it with that promo troll wise. But anyway, that 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:16.600 is the number there. And I would like to come 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.760 on here and just rail on the fact that I said, 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:24.520 you need to advertise more for the show, but this 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.920 is not a number where you know, you can say 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:30.880 that's the whole problem. But I do think as a 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:34.120 general rule, they need to advertise more for the show. 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:36.200 I think if they advertise more for the show, it 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.360 would have done probably better, especially in the demo. But 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:43.319 you know they did. They did the thing where we've 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:46.800 got a main event. We've got a main event featuring 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:50.360 CM punk, but we're gonna shoot the angle on the show, 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.080 and so we can't tell you what the main event is. 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.360 So obviously there's there's two things that you can do. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.720 You can do what WWE has done before, which is 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.640 you announce the match and then shoot the angle for 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.880 the match. That's kind of whacky. Or your other option 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:09.720 is you shoot the angle on the previous week's Collision, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.520 or you know, you could argue you could shoot the 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.840 angle on Wednesday's Dynamite, but we've got the split deal 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.319 that they're doing and so that wasn't going to work. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:20.640 So this is what they came up with, and uh, 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.960 you know, point eighteen. So I think that I think 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.199 that you could safely say in the future, we need 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.160 more than one match announced on Dynamite for Collision. 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.080 Yeah, they do. Indeed, they need again a better string 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:40.040 throughout all three shows, advertising things for all three shows. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.080 I think they need to make sure that they hammer 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.400 that stuff home better. The rating is down eighteen to 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.440 forty nine from the point two to zero it had 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.920 last week. But Russell Kovis pointed something out and it 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:55.000 makes sense because I was thinking when it came to 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.760 all of the competition that you have on Saturday, from 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:01.400 Major League Baseball to soccer to any sort of car 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.440 racing to you know, football in the fall. The DVR 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.920 three number, I thought was going to be the most 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.400 important because they want to see Okay, yeah, maybe you 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:13.120 watch something else live and you're decided to wait on 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:16.319 watching Collision, But did you watch it within forty eight 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.440 or seventy two hours? Did you watch it in a 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:22.240 way where there were embedded commercials that you couldn't skip through? 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:22.480 You know? 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:24.439 I thought that was going to be important. But they 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.800 did point out the fact that their movies that they 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.840 would usually do, you know, in this timeframe would do 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.240 like a point one three, a point one five, a 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.160 point one eight. Yes, during Christmas Story, you know, and 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.560 they run that for twenty four hours, and TVs and 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.520 TNT that does like a point two toy one. But 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.320 as long as the show does you know, north of 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:49.600 six hundred thousand overall and gets a point two zero 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.080 or at least near it every week, that's going to 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.600 be the most important thing that WBD is going to 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.360 be worried about, especially as it moves into football season. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:10:59.400 That makes sense to me. 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:06.240 All right, we've got injuries, and that is live Morgan 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.959 and Kevin Owens, and they did injury angles for both 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:13.920 of them last night. And Live Morgan, I am told 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.160 has a shoulder injury, and I was told it was 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.760 not the same shoulder. So she had that shoulder injury 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:22.400 when she got the drop kick in the corner. I 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.520 think it was a separation or something like that. And 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.520 then she came back and now she has injured her 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:31.000 other shoulder and may need surgery, may not need surgery, 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.920 but she's out of action. And so they shot an 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:40.040 angle where Rhea absolutely obliterated her and pilmonized her arm twice, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:44.520 and so she is out of action, not on summer Slam, 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:47.400 and who knows when she's going to be back. And 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:52.679 then Kevin Owens has a fractured rib, and he has 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:56.200 had a fractured rib for a while, but it was 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.319 working on it, and they were waiting for an opportunity 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.880 to do an angle to get him out of action. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:03.640 And I don't know this for sure, but I believe 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.839 he is off Summer Slam as well. So they did 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.600 injury angles to write both of them off. Rhea with 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:15.240 Live and Kevin Owens was attacked by the judgment day 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.960 and so both legitimate injuries, set up stuff on wrong 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:44.480 back in the mouth with more observer live, so stop it. So, Mike, 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.000 what was that quarter for the Bloodline on FS one? 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:53.360 I believe it was a point four six got a 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.920 point four six point four six. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.319 Eighteen to forty nine on FS one. 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.240 Yeah, so that equates to what was it here? Six 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.920 hundred and six thousand people on average? It was up 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.200 twenty three percent from the quarter before. And the segment 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:13.640 overall did a one did one point four eight two 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:18.520 million people by far leaps and bounds the top thing 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.040 on that show. So there you go. Oh, by the way, 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.400 the second biggest thing on the show, although it happened 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.360 to be at the top of the hour, was Eo 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:27.920 Sky against Charlotte Flair. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.360 Wait a second, you're telling me women did a great quarter. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.040 You mean you're telling me outside of the Bloodline, the 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.600 women did a great quarter on SmackDown, Just throwing that 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.960 out there, How about that? How about that? 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:46.520 Just wait until you have a situation where it's Ria Ripley, 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:49.800 you know, face to face with Bianca for some reason, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.520 or you have that deal with Charlotte Flair, And again 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:55.160 they're very loaded up on the SmackDown side of the 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.240 equation when it comes to the women. But again, at 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.520 some point, Rarea Ripley is going to have have face 0:14:00.559 --> 0:14:03.280 offs with these women, And can you continue to keep 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.679 her hot? You know, Becky Lynch, you know there were 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.600 ebbs and flows and she lost some stuff and she's 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.040 not at the same level she was before. You know, 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:15.040 can you keep Ria Ripley, you know, pumped up and going, 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:18.719 and can keep those other women going? Because Bianca, Charlotte, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.720 Eo Sky, they've all been great. 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.360 So if you've seen the Raw quarter hours yet, I 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:30.240 need to get those I can find out how Raw 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.480 did if the women were the highest rated segment on 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:35.480 the show. Actually we don't ever all ratings what we're 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:37.800 talking about, yet they come out today. I got it. Okay, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.560 this would be four straight weeks if the women are 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.640 in the highest rated quarter on Raw. 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.360 Now, if it happens to be a situation like Dom 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.760 and Sammy's, ay, do you give Ria Ripley the credit? 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:50.920 Only if they are these they have to be the 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:55.520 centerpiece of the deal. So like Ria Ripley destroying Live Morgan, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.600 that would count. But that was very, very quick. It 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.280 wasn't even a full quarter so. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:07.680 What about what about Becky Lynch against uh against Zoe's. 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:10.880 Stars the Mecky versus Zoe of course would count. 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.400 Tricia's tattoo on the line. I wonder how that did. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.960 Yeah, I was surprised they put that on first with 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:22.960 the given what the stipulations were. Yeah, there's really only there. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.440 Riquel Rodriguez in that mix too. As far as women 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.320 and she there's still a lot to be determined with her, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.400 you know, on her own right now, we know she 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.600 can flex her back and you know, she is impressive, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.480 but like it'll be interesting to see, like, can you 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.280 as you're trying to keep the momentum with these other women, 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.280 like make sure you build her because she can be 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.360 a threat, or at least right now, she looks like 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:45.600 she could be one. I do. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:47.880 Like in the in the chat, like everyone's all excited 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.120 that Eosky is such a huge ratings draw. You know 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.640 there were two people in that match, right, well, we 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.640 don't like Charlotte, so she doesn't count, Okay, just making 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.000 sure we got that right now. Just I mean that's 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.040 what's going on here, right. 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:03.160 She has that effect on it. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.520 I mean she was in the match. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.040 I mean, come on, well, does the referee deserve some credit? 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:11.080 Then to Brian, I don't know who the ref was. 0:16:11.080 --> 0:16:13.720 Was it the female ref or was it some Cone? 0:16:14.160 --> 0:16:19.120 John Cone? That guy's an NXT ref. He's actually not 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:19.880 what he should be. 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.360 He's one of the only refs whose name I even 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.960 know anymore. Back in the day, even if you were 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.480 making fun of the referees, Guerrilla monsoon would kill the referees. 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:31.640 At least you knew Tommy Young and Earl Hebner and 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.600 these guys. We should know who the referees are. They 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.600 put more shine on the announcers and God bless you know. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.920 Samantha Irvin is a beautiful looking woman and all of 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.480 the other they put more attention on them than they 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.520 do the referee who's actually the third person in the ring. 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:48.920 Or says she'd been featured for years? Where were these 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:52.240 numbers in prior years? They just started pushing io Dude, 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.040 Charlotte's done good numbers for years. I mean, there's so 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.520 much cherry picking lately. Goll Lee Gee, I'm just trying 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.920 to give you a foy. There are two people in 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:04.520 that match and a referee. You can't just say it 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.760 was all one person. Clearly here come on, now, here's SummerSlam. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.320 We got Cody Rhoads and brock Lessner. They have not 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.360 announced a stipulation. My understanding is there is still going 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:20.040 to be a stipulation. They have one more show in 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:21.240 which to announce. 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.719 It a fight without honor. 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:28.440 We've got Gunther versus Drew McIntyre for the intercontinental title. Now, 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.200 Gunther is I think like fifty days maybe forty days 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.840 away from breaking the Honky Tonk Man's record. Do we 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:40.240 want the Honky Tonk Man to remain the greatest Intercontinental 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:44.040 champion of all time? No, because if we don't, then 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:45.320 then Drew's losing here. 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:48.320 He's got to. Now, look, are you gonna bring Honky 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:50.919 out to hit Walter where I'm sorry to hit Gunther 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.160 with a guitar? You could do that, but he's got 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.920 to shake it off. He can't. He can't not break 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.960 the Honky Tonk Man's record. They've broken all the other ones, 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.439 or at least they're trying to. They're gonna do Honky 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:03.080 dirty watch. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.480 Well. I mean, here's the thing. Drew has not re signed, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.240 and they made a big deal about the fact that 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:12.720 he failed at Clash of the Castle like when I 0:18:12.840 --> 0:18:15.359 watched when I watched The Deal on Monday, I thought, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.640 you know, Drew might win this match, but there's there's 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.879 extenuating circumstances where he might not. Now we got Shana 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:24.320 Basler and Ronda Rousey. 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.040 Let me ask you a question before you move on there. Yes, 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.480 much like La Park in Mexico. You know who's holding 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:35.119 onto that mask no matter what because the price it 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.880 just the price has never been right quite yet. Honky 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:42.399 talk Man would never let somebody just take a shot 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.600 from the guitar and take the shake, rattle and roll 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.160 and just just walk away from it. You know, he's 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:50.520 still probably wrestling out in the indie scene. He's got 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.520 he's got something to protect. Can is there enough money 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:55.520 to pay the Honky talk Man off to do that? 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.239 Would he actually smash Gunther with the guitar, but let 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:00.960 him shake it off and then beat him up? 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.080 No, No, Honkey wasn't even taking bumps twenty years ago. Bro, 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:07.760 I mean, what are you gonna do? The guy? 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:08.480 I know? 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.640 And we have Ronda and Shana in a fight, which 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.199 I think Ronda Rousey's hat here after Summer Slam so 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.080 kind of tells you just winning this fight, but I 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:21.320 presume it's going to be some MMA rules type deal. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.760 That's the way they kind of promoted it. Ricochet and 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:29.679 Logan Paul in a singles match. We have got Oscar, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.600 Charlotte and Bianca least said about this the better. And 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.720 then of course we've got Roman Reigns and jay Usso 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:41.720 in tribal combat for the n disputed Universal title and 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:48.200 the designation of the Tribal Chief, which of course jay 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.560 Uso will be losing here, but this is also part 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:55.320 of a longer story. And then we have seth Rawlins 0:19:55.359 --> 0:20:00.160 and Finn Balor and I will die on this hill. 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:03.440 F needs to win this match. He needs to win 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:07.840 back the title that it was stolen from him by 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:15.640 this singing preposterously dressed geek. And furthermore, I mean, they 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:17.680 got so many things they can do with Finn Balor's 0:20:17.800 --> 0:20:22.760 champion and his best buddy with that briefcase, so title 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.600 needs to change. There is my that is my. In fact, 0:20:26.640 --> 0:20:31.200 I would say it's a demand, So let Vince know, Yeah, 0:20:31.240 --> 0:20:35.760 I'm demanding this one, much like I'm demanding that FDR 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.360 dropped those tag team titles to Adam Cole and MJF 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:41.679 and they do not break up. These are demands, do 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:42.320 you understand. 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:45.680 I don't know. Do we have to do that? I 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:49.320 wouldn't mind saying Jay White and Juice Robinson with those belts. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:52.680 Bro dude, they got years on their contracts. There's plenty 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.880 of time for them to win those titles. But if 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.879 Adam Cole and MGF lose, then they're breaking up and 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.720 they're wrestling at Wembley. I don't want that now. 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:04.960 You just want more dancing, don't you? 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.320 No? I want I want the fans to get what 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.440 they want in a fake sport. 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:16.199 You want you where the whole manipulate planet. That's what 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:18.240 you want? Do you want? Just this is what you 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.840 really want. And in your mind you're trying to repress this. 0:21:21.960 --> 0:21:24.280 But you it's about Adam Cole. You don't care what 0:21:24.320 --> 0:21:27.560 happens with Adam Cole during this feud, whether he turns dirty, 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:30.600 whether mj After all you want is MJF to come 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.760 out of this thing. Is the biggest baby face in 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:34.760 the whole wide world. And for him to remain that 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.959 way rather number one good guy that if I were single, 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:39.720 devil turned himself in. 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:42.200 If I were single, I'd marry Adam Cole, you're telling 0:21:42.200 --> 0:21:48.120 me I don't care nothing about this guy. Now, obviously, MJF. 0:21:49.080 --> 0:21:53.520 I'm sorry, should be top babyface. I'm not gonna make 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:57.800 the argument again, but if it's not gonna happen, at 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.800 the very least, you need to run with this one 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.960 for a while because it's what yet, What do they 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:04.960 say when the best friends? So maybe drop an f 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:07.920 bom again? What do they say when those best friends 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:10.520 are the ring? You got to give the people what they. 0:22:10.400 --> 0:22:14.600 Want, Give me what I want to crew this up again? 0:22:14.960 --> 0:22:17.159 Listen to me, turn on them. Who cares that the 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:20.160 fans boow you? They'll still do the boom thing anyway. 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:24.160 Look at Jericho, they sing like idiots even though he's 0:22:24.359 --> 0:22:27.800 throwing fireballs at people. He's a wizard. You're Adam Cole. 0:22:27.880 --> 0:22:30.439 Damn it. Turn on MJF. Give Brian what he wants, 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:32.600 but make sure you make him pay for it. 0:22:32.760 --> 0:22:34.360 I don't want I don't want them to break up now, 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:37.080 that's my point. I want them to stay together. I 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:39.760 want them to entertain the people. I want them to 0:22:39.760 --> 0:22:43.879