WEBVTT - New Japan Heats Up/RAW Report 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:16.079 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.000 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.320 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:26.760 sixth Eastern. Well it's Tuesday here on this show. And 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:29.840 the good news, dare I've got five hours of sleep 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.199 last night, so that's a big improvement over four the 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:38.839 other night. But still you have all been warned and 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:40.920 I probably should get a good night's sleep before I 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.600 before I make decisions next time. But anyway, we got 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:48.800 a lot to get into here today. Last night was raw. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.879 What's in the raw show? There are slow and steady changes. 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.520 It was a it was a three hour show. I 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.080 would not say it was a great show. I would 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.000 not say it was a bad show. It was a 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.480 three hour raw show. Although the the good things we've 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.160 noted is nothing is being ripped up and torn up 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.480 and changed. Everything that they built up last week and 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.080 advertised for this week they actually delivered and they are 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.120 doing a I don't know how long term, but they 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:18.480 are doing a long term storyline with Ray and Dominic. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:27.759 They're actually getting the balls in motion as I sneeze ready, Hello, Anyway, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.720 they got a I got a storyline plan with those guys. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.160 So we'll tell you about the raw show from Monday night. 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.800 We have also got j White off too new Japan 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:45.160 shows due to heat stroke symptoms. And uh, it's been hot. 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.200 It's been very hot over there, and a lot of 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.400 people have been complaining about the heat, so that one 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.640 doesn't surprise me. Sometimes you see somebody being pulled off 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.280 shows and he gives some sort of excuse and you're 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:58.560 kind of like, oh, yeah, really, I don't doubt this 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:01.960 one at all. It's hot over there doing these shows. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:04.480 We have also got n x T tonight, a w 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.280 Quake of the Lake tomorrow. We've got ratings for Battle 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:11.800 of the Belts, Rampage, and SmackDown this week and plenty 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:13.920 more so if you'd like to give us your thoughts 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:17.079 here today four to seven zero seven five six six 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:20.560 four to five seven eight zero seven five six six 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:48.079 Back in the Moment, Observerer Live, Back in the Show, 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.120 Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike and burviv 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:55.240 also Wrestling Observe dot com. Is that you furiously typing 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.959 over there? Mike? It was what's going on over there? 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:04.760 Are you writing a book? If I did? Do you 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.440 think it when the Wrestling Observer newsletter Book of the 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.480 Year world only if I were the co author? Quite frankly, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.240 only if you know what's you know? It's funny about 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.160 being as famous as me? What's up? Well? I like 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.360 when when people tag me on the Internet to alert 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.640 me that I got a match coming up, Like I 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:26.800 didn't know, Hey, Brian, did you hear you're wrestling? Damn right, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:30.040 I'm wrestling. It's a game changer. I didn't even know 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.040 it was a g c W that was all black 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.320 label pro. But it's a g c W black label 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:39.000 show just coming up on September two, Grand Sports Arena 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.280 and Hoffman Estates, Illinois. So if you're going all out weekend, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.400 even if you're going to Rampage on Friday night, Rampage 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:53.600 ends at ten Central. This show starts at eleventh Central 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.760 and ain't that far away. So you have your opportunity 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:03.040 two come see me and Filthy. Oh yeah, that's right, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.880 you have me and Filthy. I don't know if you 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:08.000 have those times right. But no, I did ten nine 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.440 central be a bad time had by you, It's not 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.560 gonna be a bad time had by me. You know what, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.920 I will admit. I will admit that yesterday I only 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.560 got four hours of sleep and so probably wasn't the 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.600 best stay to negotiate a wrestling match with Tom. I 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.320 probably should have waited still have a full night's sleep, 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.560 and I was in a you know, a competent state 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.320 of mind, not all hiked up on five hour energy, 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.159 but too late. What's done is done. But the fact 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.320 of the matter is the second, the second, and I'm 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.320 I am not I am not too proud to admit this. 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:42.440 The second Jonah dumped that dude on that barricade, I 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.280 was like, now's my chance, dude, that guy is gonna 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:50.200 come back from Japan a wreck, a wreck, and uh 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.440 I am not above taking advantage of that. So uh 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:56.680 it was like, oh, I hope Bright put CDs in 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.799 his pants. Do this at a comedy match, you dorks. 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.000 You know what happened. You know what happened years ago, 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.760 years ago, Filthy and I were training together when when 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.880 I was down in Vegas at whatever syndicate, or whatever, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.880 and uh, it was me. It was filthy, and I 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.880 brought Wang okay, because Wang was also training and he 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.440 was Wang, so it was like, I gotta bring this 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.479 guy and he was really excited to go roll with Tom. Okay. 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:33.800 So Tom just ruined Wang. Okay, he ruined him, but 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.120 he didn't ruin me. Okay. Now, to be fair, I 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:40.839 didn't ruin him either. Okay. But this guy goes on 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.560 the show yesterday and you know, there's there's two rules. 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.839 It sounds like comedy, but these are real rules. What 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:51.200 happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, and what happens in 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.480 the gym stays in the gym. This was a gym 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.719 in Vegas. And not only that, he goes on the 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.440 early lies. He said he tapped me out, So dude, 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:04.120 I'm not happy about that, and even admitted he lied later. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.320 But I mean, I'd already open my mouth. But the 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:10.520 fact of the matter is that made me mad. You 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:12.000 want to know how to push my buttons, well, that's 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.000 a good one. And also calling me lazy, those are 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.280 the two things. So you see some lazy match, some 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:19.960 lazy comedy match with Tom, think again, it ain't gonna happen. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.919 What about a loof to wreck this guy? What about 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:28.719 that one? Does that apply to you? To me? Yeah, listen, 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.080 I'm a lot of things. I ain't know loof, terrible friend. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.160 I'm not a terrible friend. A terrible friend? Was Tom 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.680 lying on the show yesterday. No, you're not. You just 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.640 admitted that you want to take advantage of a guy 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.839 who won't be a hundred percent coming back from Japan, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.559 instead of like if you were really this guy's friend 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.200 and you actually had that much, you know, belief in 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.120 your own skill and talent at this point in your life. 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.000 You know what I'm saying. Let's let's be honest here. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.520 They we're gonna move on actual news. Let me ask 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.640 you a serious question. Okay, yes, do you think that 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.960 in a fair fight, a two hundred pound filthy Tom 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.600 Lawler versus a one hundred and forty five pound Brian Alvarez, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.400 do you think I got much of a chance? No? Okay, 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:19.080 So he's injured and he's coming off a tournament. So 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.640 if anything, this makes it a fair fight. Right, Who 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.800 wants to see me go in there and just get slaughtered? Nobody? 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.600 Don't even open your mouth. Hey, we got other news. 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.920 Here I've talked about J White. J White has been 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.920 removed from two up here's another one. J White removed 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.920 from two upcoming New Japan events due to heat stroke symptoms. 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:41.480 Guess who else is wrestling in Japan in the heat 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.800 Filthy Tom J White was scheduled. And actually this was 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.960 weird because last night I saw for some reason, I 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:55.120 went to UM I went to the New Japan website 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.520 for something. It was in the middle of the Dave Show. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.760 I don't even know what, you know what. I was 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.800 going up there to find out when Filthy Is match 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:03.880 with Kada was. But anyway, I'm looking around on uh, 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.240 the New Japan website and I just I fell into 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.160 a rabbit hole. I don't know what Dave was talking about. 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.960 So hopefully I didn't miss anything last night, but I'm 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.160 gonna read some of this a little bit later. There's 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:19.800 the bio of Filthy Tom is incredible. But anyway, I 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.360 was up there and there was a page and sithing 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.640 like it was like J White pulled from g one 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.160 shows and I clicked on it and then it had 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.760 been removed, and I was like, that's weird. And then 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.960 I looked online and there was nothing about it, so 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:32.960 they must have put it up and then pulled it 0:08:33.040 --> 0:08:35.800 and then put it up again. But he's out with 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.199 these heat stroke symptoms. He will be off the August 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:43.000 nine and ten card due to an abundance of caution. 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.920 He's also going to be taking a COVID test, although 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:49.439 that the first one he took came back negative. And 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:52.320 his next tournament match is August sixteen, so he has 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.360 a while. He has almost a week before he needs 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:56.640 to be in the tournament, so this is not going 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.960 to script the g one at this point, but he 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:02.800 is in the lead in the b B Block four zero. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:07.160 So all the best to J White. That sounds like 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.600 no fun? Should I read part of this bio? All right? 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:17.160 So first off, they had all of the wrestlers and uh, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.800 you know they have they have the lineup for the matches, 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:27.000 and uh, it's Tom Lawler teaming with Lois Isaacs l 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.880 O I s MA it was Lois Isaac. Something got 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.960 lost in translation for that one. Then we've got the 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.800 bio of Filthy Tom. Are you ready for this? Okay 0:09:38.240 --> 0:09:43.800 teams by the way, with Lois Isaac's Okay h belonging 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:50.120 Unit Team Filthy signature move rear naked choke pek major 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:54.280 title wins. It says here first New Japan Strong indiscriminate champion. 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.400 You know what I don't describe tom as it is indiscriminate. 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:02.840 The leader of Okay, this is bio ready, I couldn't 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:06.680 have written a better one. The leader and whoever wrote 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.080 this niece to write a book, Maybe he's your co author. 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:13.600 The leader of Team Filthy, who mows down opponents with 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.840 joints and sharp blows. He debuted as a professional mixed 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.200 martial artists in two thousand seven, active in UFC since 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.120 two thousand eight. At the same time, he joined the 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:30.520 American professional wrestling organization m l M. In seventeen. He 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.240 won the m l M I Hope Courts not Listening 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.960 World Heavyweight Championship in twenty nine. He must have been 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.319 an excellent multi level marketer. When he appeared in New 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:44.800 Japan Strong in June two thousand eight, this was off 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.439 by ten years. He formed Team Filthy in April two 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.920 thousand nine, also ten years off. He won the New 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:55.360 Japan Cup USA and reigned as the first New Japan 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.720 Strong open weight champion. Remember he first entered his head 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.080 by the way this is all this coming to fruition 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.360 in two thousand and eight. In his mind, he he 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.280 really did know the UFC was not going to be 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.440 the answer for him. He had this all planned out. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.240 Do you know that long rain that he had his 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.960 new Japan Strong open weight champion and he just destroyed 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.880 everybody week after week. Well they describe it here. He 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:21.840 defeated Satoshi Kojima and others to hold the title for 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:27.440 over a year. That is the story everybody of filthy 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:30.400 Tom Lawler. You know that guy writes a bio for 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:36.040 me before that match. You're gonna get beat by Killer Kelly. 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.840 You know that, right? Men versus men, women versus women. 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.839 All Right? Hey, by the way, did you see Billy 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:48.400 Stark's take that bump from the top rope to the floor. Yeah, 0:11:48.679 --> 0:11:52.120 I'm gonna uh suggest you don't do that anymore. Can 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.120 you talk to her about that stuff? Bro dude? You 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:57.679 know the people that have been around here that I've 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.120 tried to talk sense in two over the years. It's 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.959 it's a it's it's a it's a pointless endeavors. You know, 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:09.920 with it being a joint show, the idea that you 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:15.199 could actually get skewers in your forehead. Not happening, bro Stop, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.160 this is a mixed tag match. Filthy and I are 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.439 going to grapple. Yes back in a moment it was 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:44.080 over live. Well, we got an x T two point out. Tonight, 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:49.440 everybody's favorite show, Tony D'Angelo and Santo Escobar will have 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:54.160 their final accord. The heck is that? So we start 0:12:54.400 --> 0:13:00.800 versus Cora Jade. We've got realms match, West Leave versus 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:06.000 Trick Williams. Huh yeah, it was just this has got 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.520 something to do with the boxing Globe. I assume not. 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.880 You know, World of Sport, I don't know. I guess 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:18.360 we'll find out. And Nikita Lions versus Kanada James. Oh boy, man, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:21.160 oh man. I can't wait for that one. I think 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.040 Kiana James needs to beat her because Nikita Lions is 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:28.000 moving up to SmackDown for that women's tag team tournament. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.080 As they called up Nikita Lions and zoeyst Of all 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:35.000 of the people in n XD tow boyo, Nikita Lions 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:38.600 and Zoe Stark is a team. I get it. Here's 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:42.319 why I get in what way? It gives them a 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.000 taste both to be on the main roster, they will 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:53.040 probably lose. Who are they facing. Yeah, regardless, it gets 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.559 him up there and he gets people a chance the 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.320 rest of the universe to see Nikita Lions. They are 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.640 going to rush her and lash legend. They have been 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.439 way too fast. That is going to continue, so to 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.920 dip their toe in the water to see how the 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:11.360 main audience reacts. Plus to see Zoe Stark in a main, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.560 big stage, main ring. You know, we know she's a 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.000 good worker, we know she's one of the better ones there, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.000 but can't she translate on a bigger stage, you know, 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.840 personality wise? The look of Nikita Lions, it's gonna get her, 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.440 you know, a certain way. But we'll see her in 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.520 the ring on w w E show, main show. And 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.000 I'm okay with that because if they're just gonna go 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:40.600 up for that live match, because if they're just okay. 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.040 But here's the thing of all the women on the roster, 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:45.680 at least half of that team. When he comes to 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:47.960 Zoe Stark, are you find with them having a live match, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.520 would you be Zoe Stark? Course, So you know what's 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.600 gonna happen in that match, Then she's gonna end up 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:56.120 being the word horse Nikita Liance comes in, gets the 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.920 big spot of like the big roundhouse kick and all 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.480 that sort of stuff, and hope they try to protect 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.680 their weaknesses the best they can. Well we'll see now 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.000 because of look, who else is gonna go up? Brian 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:09.440 g G and j C. Who would actually be a 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.000 worse scenario there? They are a main roster act. They 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:15.480 absolutely are. They can't go certainly not the way that's 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.520 always Starky in. Yet who else is there? Wait a second, 0:15:18.640 --> 0:15:20.400 you're telling me that you think that a match with 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.240 those two would be worse than a match where one 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.240 half of the team is Nikita Lyons. I think here's 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.160 the here's the thing. So first off, I got I 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.360 got a couple of questions. But who are they facing? 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.080 As you should know that too. Who are they face? 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.120 Oh my god, I'll find it here. But like the 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.960 I'm sorry to make you work wrestling man, the point is, 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.880 well I didn't have it, and you're you're, you're, you're. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.720 I gotta do this when I'm trying to be telling 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.760 some story here whatever, I got no hours of sleep, 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.840 I still fish. All right, here's your stupid brackets, bro, 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.520 Thank you. We got Tamina and Dana versus Eo Sky 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.040 Dakota Kai. We already did that one, Alexa Bliss and 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:02.560 Oscar versus Nikki and Dewdrop, Raquel and Aaliyah versus Really 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.440 and SHOTSI so it's not them, it's Natty and Sonja 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:12.000 versus Zoe and Nikita. Okay, so let Natty and Zoe 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.320 do a bulk of the work. I mean the point god, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.120 actual looking Monday. We'll get to it on the show. 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:23.280 But how good as good as Dakota Kai and in 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:28.560 Eo Sharai are? How good was that match? The which 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.960 match Monday? Yeah, it wasn't very good against Mena and Dana. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.360 It wasn't. No, so this looks far worse. I don't 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.320 I don't agree. I don't know. I could be dead 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:41.200 wrong about it, but it doesn't really Why don't we argue? 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.560 Who else? Are you gonna bring up? Who else? The 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.160 point is it's a tournament for the the w w 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.000 E Women's Tag Team Championships, So bring up an actual 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.560 tag team from n XD to be in the tournament? 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:59.840 Who the former champions? Toxic Attraction? Okay, dude, they were 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.480 appience forever. How did they not get in this tournament? 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:04.840 I get it. But you know what, this is something 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.360 that I'm probably talking about later on when it comes 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:11.159 to people's reactions to carry and Cross and to Dexter 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.679 Loomis being back. We'll find out about Dexter Louis. I'll 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.040 get to them later. Bron Breaker could be on the 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.520 main roster right now, Carmelo could be on the main 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.600 roster right now. I would like to actually get them 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.760 see more and better seasoning where they're at, and I 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.239 don't think there's a need to put them up there, 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.680 even though those are two guys who are the future 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.480 of your company. They are, they absolutely are, at least 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.960 on paper right now. They are. So to bring in 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.560 and bring back a carrying Cross that's going to be 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.760 a body in that mix as you develop these other 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:47.400 people and bring them up and bring them up carefully, 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.120 because that's the other thing too. People want to see 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.000 a bunch of names up there, but don't just bring 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.760 names up and do nothing with them and have them flounder. 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.280 I want to see them up with impact. I want 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:57.280 to see them up with force. And if you can 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.640 kind of muddy the waters right now by bringing back 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.320 a loop misseeing what you can get out of them, 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.480 big guy maybe do something. I'm okay with that, and 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.720 the same kind of goes with this thing. I don't 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:08.920 need to see toxic attraction on the main roster yet, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.320 especially not in the match with again that I don't 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.600 think it is going to be that much better if 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.440 you do it the right way, which is have Zoe 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.399 and to tell you do the work and leave the 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.359 other two outside the ring. For the most part, the problem, 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:23.080 bro is a toxic attraction have been on n x 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:28.160 T forever. We've seen them champions multiple times. There's literally 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:32.440 nothing else we can do with them there. But that's 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.240 not true. Take Mandy Rose out of that mix and 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.400 just stick with those two, and you're telling me those 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:40.639 two don't need more experience and couldn't use more experience, 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.080 Because if you're gonna do that, then there's a lot 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.679 of people that you can let the floodgates down and 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.920 let come into that that door. And if you're gonna 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.879 do that, I guess that's okay. But Mandy Rose is 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.840 the weakest part of that group. Mandy Rose is the 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.480 one that you've exhausted pretty much all options whatsoever on 0:18:57.119 --> 0:19:00.160 so and there's the other thing too, she goes up there. 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.600 I mean, I don't know. If you're gonna bring Toxic 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.680 Attraction up to wrestle in that match, then I want 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:09.080 to see Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville somehow do something together, 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:12.399 because that's the only saving grace you continue to have 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.119 with Mandy Rose. Otherwise, what are you supposed to do 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:19.520 with her? They have been they have been there doing 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:24.000 tag team matches for uh one year now, and Gi 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:31.239 Dolan has been in n x T since she's been 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:34.400 there for a year and a half. How many good 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.840 matches has she had down there? Well, listen, then then 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:38.359 I don't know what to do. It's like at some 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:39.880 point she has to be called up to the main roster. 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.359 How how long you want to give her down. There's 0:19:41.400 --> 0:19:43.359 gonna be like a Leo where she's there for six years, 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:47.440 because that was two damn long dude, either, Alica shouldn't 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:49.640 even be on the main roster. She was there for 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:51.399 so long. They brought her up because they didn't know 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.920 what else to do with her, and then she she's 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.040 in the position she's on on the main roster. She 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:58.120 should be gone too. And look, if you want to 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.360 open up those floodgates and let Toxic attraction, and then 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.440 you have to let bron breaker and you have to 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:06.600 let well hold on, not call them up. Dude, I'm saying, 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.600 have one n x T team, an actual n XT 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:12.680 team in the tournament. If they lose, fine, they don't 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:14.320 go back up to the main roster. They're just there 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.480 for the one match in the title tournament instead of 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:21.159 a total random hodgepodge team of of two people that 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:24.200 have never interacted a single time on n x T. 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.640 Is that too much to ask? I don't think so. 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:33.399 All Right, Hey, you got the whatever they call it, 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.480 Quake of the Lake, John Moxley Chris Jericho for the 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.960 interim a W World title, And dude, we gotta figure 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.160 out what's going on with this this all out because 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.320 we're now like three weeks away from all out, and 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.760 uh if if John Moxley wins, is it punk? Is 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:51.320 Jericho winning? If Jericho wins, he was he gonna wrestle? 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:54.400 What is the plan? We're three weeks away, we don't 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:58.280 have a main event yet. Jake Cardgill versus Madison Rain 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:01.560 for the TBS title, dar Yellin versus Brody King in 0:21:01.560 --> 0:21:05.320 a coffin match, Luca Brothers versus Andrade and Rush in 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:09.200 a Tornado tag team match, Ricky Starks versus Aaron Solo, 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:15.760 and an appearance by FTR that is coming up on Wednesday. 0:21:15.880 --> 0:21:17.800 And we've also got all of the ratings Battle of 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:22.560 the Belts four thirty seven thousand viewers and a point 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.600 one two. It ranked twelve in the cable rankings on 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:30.720 Saturday and was down almost from the last Battle of 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:36.080 the Belts. So you know, I loved that, I love 0:21:36.119 --> 0:21:40.240 that tokesh the match with Claudio, But at the end 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.600 of the day a w Battle of Belts was headlined 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.280 by a Ring of Honor championship match, and uh, I 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.679 didn't do a great number. So I don't know what 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.640 that means, but it seems, you know, we've been want 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.440 to tune in for an our WAG match, meuse they're 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.680 cold and their shoulder programming no matter what it is, 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.680 isn't popping right now. And us it's a pay per view. 0:22:02.040 --> 0:22:04.280 That's just flat out that's the way it goes. Because 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.439 I'm looking at the front page, it's like, well, the 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.280 audience re tension from the previous nights Rampage, which aired 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.960 on the same station, was percent of total viewers, and 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.240 the key down. They put on a show that nobody 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:20.520 really wanted to see. Half of their main fan base 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:23.560 on Dynamite wanted to see it, and that's unfortunate for 0:22:23.640 --> 0:22:25.720 them because they are cold right now and it was 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:29.440 a solid show. Nobody could should complain about the names 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:31.760 that were on there and the the match that was 0:22:31.840 --> 0:22:34.440 on there. Again, for die hards, they were excited to 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.560 see Claudio and text you to go at it, but 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.760 unfortunately not enough people did. And I don't know what 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.080 the competition was like for him. I know the NBA 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.440 playoffs are going around, you know last time around when 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.880 they did almost a hundred thousand people. More. So, this 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:54.879 is a greater problem than just this show. It is 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.879 a weekly problem on Friday nights. They have got to 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.520 figure out a way to mobilize and get the buzz 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:05.600 going and get the buzz better. And again, they are 0:23:05.680 --> 0:23:09.120