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Speaker 1: and we got a lot to talk about here today.
Speaker 1: And I am flying solo as Mike's semper Viv has
Speaker 1: been stricken with illness. He's still stricken and so he's
Speaker 1: not gonna make it here today, but hopefully back on Monday.
Speaker 1: And uh, I got it handled here today because in fact,
Speaker 1: we will be joined in the second segment of the
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Speaker 1: wrestling and mixed martial arts. Tons of stories, including what's
Speaker 1: going on with the Roman Rains. That's the top story,
Speaker 1: and The Observer will talk to day about all of
Speaker 1: this here today and the rest of the news as well.
Speaker 1: We have an update on Shinjiro Otani and the news
Speaker 1: is not good, so we'll tell you about that still
Speaker 1: paralyzed from the neck down. We have an update on
Speaker 1: Tammy Sitch. Nothing involving Tammy Sitch is ever good, but
Speaker 1: she is no longer free, which based on history, is
Speaker 1: good news. So she will not be driving a car
Speaker 1: anytime soon as she heads to her trial and xt
Speaker 1: returning to touring for the first time in two years.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this a bit. We'll tell you a
Speaker 1: little bit more about that story. SmackDown lineup for tonight
Speaker 1: as well as the new Japan lineup for tomorrow, Capital
Speaker 1: Collision on Fight TV, and of course the Dynamite ratings
Speaker 1: as well. Lot to get into today. If you want
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Speaker 1: recuperating at home. Bes wishes to him and his family
Speaker 1: on his illness, but he should be back on on Monday.
Speaker 1: He's been texting me incessantly today. The sickness sucks. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys are aware of this or not.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about it for for me, it's been
Speaker 1: weeks now. But away we go with the news. Shinjirotani
Speaker 1: has issued his first statements and suffering a cervical spinal
Speaker 1: cord injury last month. Forty nine year old was injured
Speaker 1: in the main event of a zero one event April
Speaker 1: t after taking a German suplex into the corner. Remained
Speaker 1: motionless after taking the move. Has not regained use of
Speaker 1: his arms. Or legs surgery was performed to prevent further
Speaker 1: deterioration of the injury. On April thirteenth. It is uh
Speaker 1: it is May thirteenth today. It's been a month there
Speaker 1: one post. His statement from Otoni on Friday also confirmed
Speaker 1: he is still paralyzed from the neck down. Translation of
Speaker 1: his statement reads, to all the hot professional wrestling fans
Speaker 1: who love professional wrestling, and to all the people involved
Speaker 1: in the professional wrestling industry. I'm really sorry for the
Speaker 1: inconvenience and concern caused by my injury. Also, I am
Speaker 1: grateful to everyone for their warm feelings. Now, I am
Speaker 1: working hard every day for treatment and rehabilitation so that
Speaker 1: I can return to everyone as soon as possible. I
Speaker 1: will definitely return in front of you. We look forward
Speaker 1: to your continued support of Zero one and professional wrestling.
Speaker 1: I don't think he needs to apologize for being an
Speaker 1: inconvenience to anyone as a result of his injury. A
Speaker 1: benefit show will be hell June four at the Oda
Speaker 1: Word General Gymnasium in Tokyo. Eugena Gata, Tomlwaukee hone Ma
Speaker 1: Togy Macabe from New Japan. Her schedule to take part
Speaker 1: progressing no will also be sending wrestlers to the show.
Speaker 1: So all the best to shinjiro Otani. I hope that
Speaker 1: I hope that he can make a recovery. But it's
Speaker 1: been a month and still paralyzed from the neck down,
Speaker 1: So he needs all the good wishes and thoughts that
Speaker 1: he can get because that's a that's a rough injury,
Speaker 1: and it is quite frankly, not a great update. So
Speaker 1: all the best to him and his family. Sunny back
Speaker 1: in jail, we talked about this story. Uh, they they
Speaker 1: allowed her out on bond T fifty million two or
Speaker 1: fifty dollar bond quarter of a million dollars, and of
Speaker 1: course everybody was outraged about that because you know, she's
Speaker 1: been prohibited from driving and she continues to drive. And
Speaker 1: they got her toxicology report back and her blood alcohol
Speaker 1: content was over three times the legal limit when she
Speaker 1: was involved in this most recent accident, which led to
Speaker 1: the death of seventy year old man. So the state
Speaker 1: argued that there is a substantial probability that six committed
Speaker 1: dui manslaughter in a March twenty five crash that killed
Speaker 1: a seventy five year old man, and that Sich posts
Speaker 1: a threat of harm to the community due to her
Speaker 1: long history of d u I offenses. A judge made
Speaker 1: the decision to revoke her bond, granting the State of
Speaker 1: Florida's request for pre trial detention. The judge ruled there
Speaker 1: was no reasonable way to keep the public safe from
Speaker 1: six other than complete bond revocation. She was arrested May
Speaker 1: six after her toxicology results came back blood alcohol level
Speaker 1: point oh eight is the limit she was at point
Speaker 1: to eight. Oh that's over three times, three and a
Speaker 1: half times. She has posted the She had posted two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seven thousand, five hundred dollar bond and
Speaker 1: uh that has since been revoked. So, of course the
Speaker 1: March was the accident and driver of the vehicle who
Speaker 1: failed to stop Tamara Lynn Sich and Julian Laster, sevent
Speaker 1: year old seventy five years old was killed in the crash.
Speaker 1: So she will be in jail until I can't say
Speaker 1: this is resolved, but she will be in jail as
Speaker 1: she awaits trial. So that's the update on Tammy Sitch
Speaker 1: talking about n x T and UH, these this this
Speaker 1: brand need to go on the road because these wrestlers
Speaker 1: are not learning how to work right now. The restaurants
Speaker 1: are learning how to choreograph matches for a life television show,
Speaker 1: and then they choreograph matches for the next live television show.
Speaker 1: And uh, if you watch the show and sometimes you think,
Speaker 1: like you know, quite frankly, you know that person has
Speaker 1: had nine matches, and I'm not I'm not exaggerating by
Speaker 1: the way. You know that person's had nine matches. Well
Speaker 1: that wasn't so bad. You know. Some would even argue, well,
Speaker 1: just let them, you know, just do this every week.
Speaker 1: Well the problem is they get called up to the
Speaker 1: main roster eventually, some of them, and you ain't gonna
Speaker 1: get a week to practice your match. You may think
Speaker 1: you have a week, you may have a match, a
Speaker 1: match announced for the following week, but you know, then
Speaker 1: the old guy shows up on Monday and changes your match,
Speaker 1: and then everything you worked on it's out the window.
Speaker 1: So you've got to be able to You gotta be
Speaker 1: able to work, at least to a degree. So they
Speaker 1: need to go on the road and they will be
Speaker 1: returning to touring for the first time and over two years.
Speaker 1: Post Wrestling is confirmed and XT will return to the
Speaker 1: road with house shows in Florida in June. So we
Speaker 1: talked about this on Observer Radio and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the feeling then was that it's probably gonna be what
Speaker 1: they used to call the Coconut Loop and just small
Speaker 1: shows and tiny buildings around Florida, because you know, when
Speaker 1: n x T was n x T one point oh
Speaker 1: and they had some of the best wrestlers in the
Speaker 1: world having great matches and you know what, what to
Speaker 1: the audience would be considered big stars. I mean, they
Speaker 1: did tour and they didn't do all that well outside
Speaker 1: of if you ran like a takeover. But you know,
Speaker 1: they came to Seattle, and normally in Seattle, these these
Speaker 1: w w E shows are in these giant buildings, and
Speaker 1: for n x T they ran the local Paramount Theater
Speaker 1: and it was a cool theater and there was you know,
Speaker 1: there were people there and they were hot. But this
Speaker 1: was not a five thousand seed building. This is not
Speaker 1: a ten thousand c building. So the reality is they're
Speaker 1: not going to draw on the road at all with
Speaker 1: this n x T two point oh crew. It's just
Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So they will be doing these small
Speaker 1: buildings and uh, that will be July of twenty one.
Speaker 1: Dave reporting the newsletter last June, uh that they would
Speaker 1: be going on the road, and uh, it's been almost
Speaker 1: a year they didn't go on the road. Now we
Speaker 1: got to go back on the road again, and it
Speaker 1: will be as noted the Coconut Loop and small buildings.
Speaker 1: We've had a couple of people here on the chat
Speaker 1: saying that their local building was on the Coconut Loop.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to make fun of
Speaker 1: n x T being on national television and being able
Speaker 1: to sell like two tickets to a show, I mean
Speaker 1: you can if you want to, But bro, I don't
Speaker 1: care if there's twenty five people in the building and
Speaker 1: these wrestlers need to go and work in front of
Speaker 1: twenty five people and learn how to do matches. Uh great,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. And quite frankly, what they should
Speaker 1: do is, uh it should be a requirement that if
Speaker 1: you're on this little loop, you gotta work a different
Speaker 1: person every night, and you don't just get to work
Speaker 1: that same match over and over and over again. I
Speaker 1: know that if you go to a w W E
Speaker 1: S show back in the day, I mean everybody just
Speaker 1: worked the same match over and over again. But you
Speaker 1: did have more freedom on house shows, and uh, for
Speaker 1: developmental it's even more important to not work the same
Speaker 1: match every night. I don't. I just feel that like,
Speaker 1: if these wrestlers are gonna get any better, they should
Speaker 1: be on this Coconut loop with the green people, with
Speaker 1: the more advanced people, the advanced people trying to teach
Speaker 1: them how to work, have a finish call in the ring.
Speaker 1: You just gotta learn. The matches maybe horrible, you may
Speaker 1: only draw twenty five people, but that's the way that
Speaker 1: this has to be done. So we'll see what they
Speaker 1: end up doing on these Coconut Loop shows, but I
Speaker 1: think that's the way that needs to be done. SmackDown
Speaker 1: is tonight. Are you ready for SmackDown? Well, we've got
Speaker 1: r K Bro confronting the Bloodline. This of course is
Speaker 1: over unifying the tag team titles, which they teased for
Speaker 1: a month and then did not deliver. Now they're teasing
Speaker 1: it again, and uh, internally, the idea is, well, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the match, but we ain't gonna unify these titles.
Speaker 1: So I don't even know what the point of doing
Speaker 1: the matches if you're not going to unify the titles.
Speaker 1: Is advertised, but you know, plans do change. Maybe they
Speaker 1: will unify the titles and then ununify them shortly thereafter.
Speaker 1: But we've got Sasha and Naomi defending the women's tag
Speaker 1: titles against Nattie and Shana Basler. I'm not telling you
Speaker 1: it's going to be a title change, but I don't
Speaker 1: think the title changes out of the question. And Kofi
Speaker 1: Kingston will face Butch who was returned from Miss Hiatus.
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Speaker 1: the biggest stories from the week and uh to day.
Speaker 1: You're typing furiously during the break. What's going on right now? Nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing major, just just catching up on things. Well, the
Speaker 1: top story the Observers about Roman reigns and we've been
Speaker 1: talking about this story on Observer Radio also at Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer dot com. And uh, he's gonna be working a
Speaker 1: more limited schedule, and there's a lot of details in
Speaker 1: the new issue, but I couldn't help a note that,
Speaker 1: like the number of pay per view shows that that
Speaker 1: he's gonna be doing this year. You know, you had
Speaker 1: written what we're talking maybe six or something of that nature. Uh,
Speaker 1: six to eight. Yeah, Um, there is a number that
Speaker 1: they've agreed to, but I don't know what the exact
Speaker 1: number is, but I think six states somewhere in that range.
Speaker 1: I brought up seven and they said close. I guess
Speaker 1: that's why I said six eight. So so okay, so
Speaker 1: he's working six day pay per view shows. You mentioned
Speaker 1: that he would do some SmackDown shows to build up
Speaker 1: the pay per view shows, and he'll do He'll do TV.
Speaker 1: He'll do TVs in conjunction with the pay per views,
Speaker 1: like what Lesnar and Goldberg do. Yeah, and occasionally he'll
Speaker 1: he'll show up on raw probably yeah. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: he's got he's got dates. Um, they and they'll start
Speaker 1: being announced soon, I presume. Um. You know, he was
Speaker 1: pulled from all advertising for everything except for Money in
Speaker 1: the Bank and SummerSlam, but um, he will be advertised,
Speaker 1: probably relatively soon for the dates that he will be
Speaker 1: appearing on the shows. We could be doing a lot
Speaker 1: of match you know what I think on t VS,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess he's I don't know that he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a complete Lessner in Goldberg where you never do
Speaker 1: a match on TV, but it wouldn't surprise me if
Speaker 1: it's close to that. And and of late, if you
Speaker 1: notice on SmackDown he rarely was doing matches on television.
Speaker 1: So I got no problem with the guy that has
Speaker 1: earned the right to essentially have a schedule like this.
Speaker 1: Good for him, Okay, good for him, But I mean
Speaker 1: the obvious question is chon what not? Just that? Like
Speaker 1: the same, the same, the same, the same reason why
Speaker 1: Lessner was but but less Goldberg. They they had a
Speaker 1: title and there was another title on the other show.
Speaker 1: Like to me, the whole point of unifying a title
Speaker 1: is that you have a champion that can then appear
Speaker 1: on both shows and prop up both shows. But as
Speaker 1: as dual champion, he's largely still a SmackDown wrestler. He's
Speaker 1: making rare appearances on Raw. He's not gonna be doing
Speaker 1: anyhowse shows. He's not even gonna be doing all of
Speaker 1: the pay per views, And you know, people would talk
Speaker 1: about how Lesnar hijacked the title. Wellus, I'll find it
Speaker 1: good if you have another champion, but they don't, So
Speaker 1: we've unified the titles to put it on a guy
Speaker 1: who's barely going to be there and not going to
Speaker 1: even be on the other show. It would make sense
Speaker 1: to have a championship on somebody else, especially since Rains
Speaker 1: doesn't really need it, um at least until WrestleMania. I
Speaker 1: think that, like, you know, to put the title on
Speaker 1: somebody else through like October November, and then if the
Speaker 1: idea is if you're gonna do Rock and Rom and
Speaker 1: um Roman Reigns and you want that to be a
Speaker 1: championship match, get the title back on Roman Reigns, you know,
Speaker 1: towards the end of the year, maybe at the Rumble
Speaker 1: or whatever. That makes perfect sense to have it on
Speaker 1: him now when you have all these pay per views. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: that it needs to be on him, But that's the
Speaker 1: decision they made. And then of course we've got smack
Speaker 1: Down tonight and they are teasing the unification of the
Speaker 1: tag team titles, which you also reported they have plans
Speaker 1: to deliver them act but not the step. Well, they
Speaker 1: may deliver the step, but that but that was the
Speaker 1: That was the idea a week ago was that they
Speaker 1: weren't playing on unifying the titles. But they are going
Speaker 1: to do the unification match I'm gonna guess in Chicago
Speaker 1: on the pay per view. You know, it's come to
Speaker 1: the you know, come the week of the show or whatever.
Speaker 1: They may end up unifying the tag titles. I don't
Speaker 1: know that they won't, but you know, the idea that
Speaker 1: was discussed was it's probably not It's probably a good
Speaker 1: idea to set the champions with two different shows. So
Speaker 1: they made that decision about the tag team champions of
Speaker 1: another actual world champion. Yeah, well, I mean I can
Speaker 1: see the argument of having one world champion. Um, I
Speaker 1: can almost see the argument of one tag champion, but
Speaker 1: I would disagree with it at this stage. Um, just
Speaker 1: because the tag title doesn't mean that much. It's better
Speaker 1: to have two of them, you know, one for each brand,
Speaker 1: so there's all the tag teams can it's it puts
Speaker 1: more tag teams in a position to be relevant. Um,
Speaker 1: I can you know the one world title? Is that
Speaker 1: with the idea that you've got, you know, like in
Speaker 1: in you know, the king, the real king, and you
Speaker 1: go after the real king. Of course I would want
Speaker 1: the world title and someone that's they're all the time.
Speaker 1: But you know, I mean again it's you know, you
Speaker 1: can certainly make the argument in the n w A
Speaker 1: era that you know, the world champion was made special
Speaker 1: because you only saw him, you know, once every month
Speaker 1: or two rather than um every week, and and you
Speaker 1: know he might be in your city you know, six
Speaker 1: times a year, you know, or or something like that,
Speaker 1: you know, back in the days when like they did
Speaker 1: monthly shows or in some cities weekly shows. So there's
Speaker 1: an argument in the precedent that that keeping it, you know,
Speaker 1: the championship max is sparing in your local market, meant
Speaker 1: that it meant more and gave it more prestige. But
Speaker 1: none of that, I don't think that's any of that's
Speaker 1: really relevant today. So the other big story is what's
Speaker 1: going on with Coda Boushi. And uh, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about this story the other day and I kind of
Speaker 1: thought like, if you don't like it, you know, I
Speaker 1: guess you could just quit. But uh, I mean, clearly
Speaker 1: he doesn't want to quit. He wants to get fired.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on here. He he's trying to get
Speaker 1: out of his contract so he can wrestle somewhere else.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to give up wrestling, but he's very
Speaker 1: unhappy with New Japan, and um, yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: the basic situation. So he's uh, I mean, he's published
Speaker 1: text messages. I mean, there's he's he's uh, he's burned
Speaker 1: a bridge here. It appears he's attempting to burn a bridge.
Speaker 1: And he had signed what they had described as a
Speaker 1: lifetime contract. I don't even know what that even means.
Speaker 1: It wasn't year contract, a twenty year contract. No, I
Speaker 1: think he's under contract until the end of this year actually,
Speaker 1: so he actually could have set it out and maybe
Speaker 1: that'll be what happens, you know, And he's you know again,
Speaker 1: he's got to get his shoulder back, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's still he doesn't want to wrestle until his shoulder
Speaker 1: is close to ready. And it's you know, his stroulder,
Speaker 1: his shoulders a week. So um, you know, there's you know,
Speaker 1: and I think they probably want him to wrestle, or
Speaker 1: would hope for him to wrestle. They wanted him obviously
Speaker 1: they wanted him back to the new Japan Cup. So
Speaker 1: why why was it annalys that he'd signed a lifetime
Speaker 1: contract if it was actually three years? I don't know.
Speaker 1: What do we know about the status of it's pro
Speaker 1: it's pro wrestling. There's a lot of things said aback
Speaker 1: contracts that may not be accurate, um, especially more now
Speaker 1: than ever before. I think, I mean, they could only
Speaker 1: just say a long term contract. They specifically said lifetime, lifetime.
Speaker 1: They did say, they did just say lifetime. What did
Speaker 1: you do that for? I don't know, there's no I mean,
Speaker 1: who has a lot even the undertaker, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a lifetime contract, although I think it's like a
Speaker 1: fifteen year contract, which is which you know, it's a
Speaker 1: lot of his life left. Yeah, a good percentage of
Speaker 1: it probably, So obviously the question, I mean, I've always
Speaker 1: been on the oppression that Codabushi's family like they have
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and so this is not like
Speaker 1: his his he'd be okay if he didn't wrestle again,
Speaker 1: he'd be okay. But I guess, but where do you
Speaker 1: want to wrestle that? If you don't want to move
Speaker 1: to the US? I mean, to do indies around Japan,
Speaker 1: D d T. What's he gonna do? I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know even know if he
Speaker 1: knows what he's gonna do. UM. I think he's just
Speaker 1: I think he's just frustrated, you know. I think it's
Speaker 1: a combination of whatever it is. You know, I think
Speaker 1: he feels disrespected by New Japan. And also, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to remember that these guys, you know that
Speaker 1: the Koda bushy level, there's there's when you get to
Speaker 1: be that good, there's there's something that's you have certain
Speaker 1: driving thing that that most people can't really fully understand,
Speaker 1: and that that that makes you that good. And so
Speaker 1: he's got that. And then when you're injured and can't perform,
Speaker 1: it does a double whammy on you. And so he's
Speaker 1: he's in that state where you know, it's like and
Speaker 1: and and even worse for him, it's not just the wrestling,
Speaker 1: but you don't look like Koda Bushi unless you've got
Speaker 1: like this training whammy too. So he's got the wrestling
Speaker 1: wammy and the training women he can't do either. So
Speaker 1: he's probably depressed as all hell. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's part of what's going down here is that he's
Speaker 1: probably severely unhappy because he can't lift weights and train
Speaker 1: like he wants to. He can't wrestle, which is his outlet,
Speaker 1: and he feels disrespected by the company that you know,
Speaker 1: he worked with when he got hurt, and maybe you know,
Speaker 1: blames their pressure for him coming back early from the pneumonia,
Speaker 1: and maybe that had a part in him getting hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, in the g One when he wasn't when
Speaker 1: he wasn't nearly and he was and he did that
Speaker 1: growing G One tournament. Well, I do like about this,
Speaker 1: whatever he's doing, is that we do actually finally have
Speaker 1: somebody's taking a stand against this culture in Japan of hey,
Speaker 1: if you're hurt, you just work unless you're like badly hurt.
Speaker 1: And then because we always heard that like if someone
Speaker 1: missed a show, something must be really bad, really bad
Speaker 1: they missed a show, and it's actuallyiculous. It's like, if
Speaker 1: you're hurt, you shouldn't be working a show. And and
Speaker 1: it's a culture that probably would be much better off
Speaker 1: if we had more people like a Boush He was like,
Speaker 1: I'm not coming back if my shoulders destroyed. Yeah, look
Speaker 1: I saw people who were literally on crutches backstage after surgery,
Speaker 1: going the ring and attempt to wrestle and wrestle very
Speaker 1: poorly because of it, because of the mentality that you
Speaker 1: don't miss advertised dates there yet, I mean, that's another era,
Speaker 1: but not that you know much of another era. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen some stuff in Japan that is uh.
Speaker 1: I mean I've seen in the United States too, but
Speaker 1: it but it probably is more severe in Japan than
Speaker 1: than the United States as far as the mentality that
Speaker 1: you don't mismatches due to injuries unless you're like completely incapacitated. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean quite frankly, the the rule that they have
Speaker 1: where if you're advertised for a title match and you
Speaker 1: can't make the title match, your strip to the title
Speaker 1: it seems kind of a little bit severe. But hey,
Speaker 1: if you advertise a match that you can be there,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's but that's that's the same in
Speaker 1: UFC too, sure, but I mean that that's all fine
Speaker 1: and good. But if you're a low if you're a
Speaker 1: sheety or whatever, you've got no title and you're hurt,
Speaker 1: I mean, you should be able to not wrestle until
Speaker 1: you're not hurt. I mean, I mean, I mean, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you do have the ability
Speaker 1: to do so. Um, they're always gonna and that's that's
Speaker 1: you know again, Like how many times have you heard
Speaker 1: in the United States the same thing where where somebody
Speaker 1: has had, like to say, knee surgery and they say
Speaker 1: you need to be out for eight months, and four
Speaker 1: months later the promotion calls him up. We need you back,
Speaker 1: we need you back. I mean, I've heard that my
Speaker 1: whole life in American progressing industry. White, Well, listen, we
Speaker 1: have yeah, we have did to break. Thanks Dave, I'll
Speaker 1: plug the Observer after the break, everybody back in a
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Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer a live one thing after another, Backer in
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Speaker 1: as well. Capital Collision is tomorrow for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Saturday's Pay per view. Hiroshi Tonahashi defends the i w
Speaker 1: g P United States Title against John Moxley, Will Osprey
Speaker 1: and Juice Robinson in a four way That's for the
Speaker 1: U S title. Okada and Trent Bretta face j White
Speaker 1: and Hikkolao to my hero is. She faces Eddie Kingston
Speaker 1: in a mean guy match, Brody king and Minor Suzuki
Speaker 1: in another mean guy match. We have Jeff Cobb, Aaron Hanna, a,
Speaker 1: Mark Davis, and Kyle Fletcher against Jonah, Mikey Nichols, Shane
Speaker 1: Haste and Bad Dude Tito great o'con versus Chase Owens,
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Speaker 1: on Monday can enjoy the next episode of Filthy four Daily,
Speaker 1: where we find out if my cocky friend Tom made
Speaker 1: it through the weekend because this Sunday is his birthday,
Speaker 1: and I believe this Sunday is the day that he
Speaker 1: once again puts his New Japan Strong open weight title
Speaker 1: on the line against Fred Rosser. Red Rosser who is
Speaker 1: lost twice twice two filthy Tom Lawler twice, both times,
Speaker 1: by the way, voted match of the Year for New
Speaker 1: Japan Strong, and they're gonna do it one more time
Speaker 1: on Tom's birthday? Does he have what it takes to
Speaker 1: do this one more time? We're gonna a special show Monday,
Speaker 1: one way or the other, either a celebration or a
Speaker 1: memorial to Tom's rain as strong open weight champion. Got
Speaker 1: a lot of people in the line, so let's uh,
Speaker 1: let's do this Portsmouth, You're on the air. What's going on? Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? This is a Brandon here in Portsmouth. Um? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, I can't wait for Monday. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a great, uh podcast? There was Tom? Now? Um,
Speaker 1: I understand if they do Rock versus Roman. Um, if
Speaker 1: they do that match, that the title being on the line,
Speaker 1: that would be the mark he met. But I feel
Speaker 1: like if the titles on the line, I don't believe
Speaker 1: there's any chance the Rock wins that match, But if
Speaker 1: the title isn't on the line, because maybe Roman has
Speaker 1: lost the title for whatever reason and it's Rock versus Roman,
Speaker 1: for like who's really the head of the table. Roman
Speaker 1: may end up still winning, but I still be like, well,
Speaker 1: there might be a chance and maybe the Rock wins that.
Speaker 1: So it kind of things like it would make better
Speaker 1: sense to not have the title on the line, And
Speaker 1: maybe coming from that perspective, well, I want to thank
Speaker 1: you very much for the call. I mean from my perspective,
Speaker 1: I mean, there ain't nothing they can do that makes
Speaker 1: me think that Rock is gonna win that match. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe if it were like, you know, Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns is gonna retire and it's his last match ever,
Speaker 1: and uh, in that case, you know, probably would't matter
Speaker 1: if you put over the Rock. But I mean, if
Speaker 1: Roman is not retiring, I just cannot see him losing
Speaker 1: to the Rock un or any circumstance. Rock is there
Speaker 1: to put over Roman Reigns and U And it is
Speaker 1: funny because there this Roman Reigns push and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: beating Brock, unifying the titles, never getting beaten. I mean,
Speaker 1: the idea here really is supposed to be to build
Speaker 1: up Roman Reigns as the absolute, unbeatable greatest champion of
Speaker 1: all time, which in theory also makes the title that
Speaker 1: he holds the most prestigious, valuable title anywhere in all
Speaker 1: of pro wrestling. But it does not feel that way
Speaker 1: to me. I mean, it probably does to the w
Speaker 1: w E audience and everything like that, because I'm sure
Speaker 1: they think somebody deserves that belt. But you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think that if you do the Rock versus Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns and WrestleMania in Los Angeles, you don't need that
Speaker 1: title on the line. I think it's it's it doesn't
Speaker 1: you don't need it, like try to create a you know,
Speaker 1: a new superstar with that title in another match. Romans
Speaker 1: already top of the food chain, So I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's uh, I don't think you need the title for
Speaker 1: that match one way or the other. And I don't
Speaker 1: think title or no title. I think that that rocks
Speaker 1: winning one way the other. But you know, trying to
Speaker 1: predict the winner or w w E match is a
Speaker 1: exercise and folly. Austin, Texas, You're on the air, what's
Speaker 1: going on? Hey, Brian shoutouts in twitch as um. Frankie
Speaker 1: Kazarian is going to be at the Impact tapings this weekend,
Speaker 1: and I'm wondering if this is just a one off
Speaker 1: to reciprocate for Diana Prozo and w Moore CBN on Dynamite,
Speaker 1: or if this is like the beginning of a main
Speaker 1: like you know, talent exchange, things that are going to
Speaker 1: be doing again like long term. Well, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the call. I I don't know,
Speaker 1: I never I never asked my guests would be probably
Speaker 1: more are similar to what you said first, the one
Speaker 1: time exchange, because it doesn't appear that we're we're in that.
Speaker 1: A while ago, it was like, you know, people are
Speaker 1: going back and forth, storylines, back and forth. But now
Speaker 1: it just appears, you know, they're they're Impact and a
Speaker 1: Double are on the same page. And if a double
Speaker 1: wants to borrow someone, they can ask and probably get
Speaker 1: that person and then they'll exchange somebody and Frankie because
Speaker 1: can go and do a job for somebody or whatever.
Speaker 1: But you know, I would presume that's what it is.
Speaker 1: But I can I can try to find out. But
Speaker 1: I haven't seen much of an indication that people are
Speaker 1: gonna be sent over for longer periods of time, but
Speaker 1: but perhaps they will be all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: uh not Ryan, Ryan, you're band, No, you're banned. I
Speaker 1: know you're listening right now. You have been banned from
Speaker 1: the show. So it's like coda Bushi's contract, Like you've
Speaker 1: got to take a break. You and your brother are
Speaker 1: both banned. All right, let's go to Chatsworth. I think
Speaker 1: that's correct. You're on the air. What's going on, hey, Brian,
Speaker 1: what's up now? Much? What's happening? I just have one
Speaker 1: question for you. Uh, what one wrestler do you really
Speaker 1: want to see go through Surrey's magic white smoke? Oh? Man,
Speaker 1: I thought this is gonna be a trolling question, but
Speaker 1: this one's right up my alley. Well, honestly, I mean,
Speaker 1: who's gonna top body Heyward going through and becoming a cheerleader?
Speaker 1: I mean, actually, I can think of a few wrestlers
Speaker 1: that I would like to go through her transformation tunnel.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately they've both been fired. I would have liked to
Speaker 1: have seen Harlan to go through that tunnel and come
Speaker 1: out in some silly costume and have to do something wacky.
Speaker 1: That would have been fun I would have liked to
Speaker 1: have seen Dexter Loomis go through that tunnel. He actually
Speaker 1: would have been He might have been better than Body
Speaker 1: Hayward going through that tunnel. If if if Dexter Loomis
Speaker 1: had gone through the tunnel and come out the other
Speaker 1: side dresses like uh, you know Indie Heartwell, I think
Speaker 1: it would have been fantastic. But I got some suggestions here.
Speaker 1: Not Tony D'Angelo. I don't think it'd be as funny.
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy, Uh, Joe Gacy, Huh, No, I want to
Speaker 1: see something. I want to see somebody. You have to
Speaker 1: have somebody that has like the stoic gimmick and and
Speaker 1: then they come through and they have to be like
Speaker 1: completely totally different. That's that's what I think is uh.
Speaker 1: Not omas No, he already tries to have a No,
Speaker 1: not elstra Black. Honestly, I think that my my, my, my,
Speaker 1: my two were the best to Harland and uh and
Speaker 1: the creep from the Creep Farm, Dexter Loomis. But Norris Suzuki,
Speaker 1: actually he would do a great job. He would do
Speaker 1: a great job coming through that that tunnel. It actually
Speaker 1: would be great. If Ezekiel showed up, but he went
Speaker 1: through the tunnel and he became a Lias. That would
Speaker 1: have been fantastic, But that's a pre tape you can't
Speaker 1: do because we would have heard about it by now.
Speaker 1: I think that those are the see you guys hate
Speaker 1: n x T two point oh, but you know you're
Speaker 1: thinking about it, Gunter. I actually would love to see
Speaker 1: Valter come through the tunnel. He'd be a good one.
Speaker 1: He'd be a great one. Or yeah, just like everybody
Speaker 1: that has the worst gimmick on the main roster, they
Speaker 1: could go through the tunnel and be their old great
Speaker 1: gimmick again, like Sammy Zane, he's all annoying and he
Speaker 1: goes through the tunnel, he comes back because the baby
Speaker 1: face Sammy Zane from that'd be great. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, who else do we have? Oh nobody else
Speaker 1: on the line. Let's go to text messages. Actually, first
Speaker 1: we should mention Dynamite. On Wednesday night, it was upo
Speaker 1: point eight percent in viewers eighty thousand viewers eighteen forty
Speaker 1: nine that at a point three three they were fifth
Speaker 1: on the cable charts. Uh. They had, of course NBA competition,
Speaker 1: but also the season premiere of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they also did a point three three, but had slightly
Speaker 1: more viewers in the demos, So that would mean that,
Speaker 1: you know, usually the season premiere is kind of the
Speaker 1: peak unless it like really catches on. So I would
Speaker 1: guess that they probably won't be defeated by the Real
Speaker 1: Housewives of Beverly Hills going forward, but you never know.
Speaker 1: And those are the numbers. Back in the moment, Observer Live.
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