WEBVTT - AEW Dynamite Recap/Rampage Updates/Beth Phoenix 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:09.000 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:16.000 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.960 here on Wrestling It Over Live. We are here every 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.720 day Monday through Friday, a New Pacific, three Eastern Sundays, 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.960 three Pacific, sixth Eastern Thursday. Here in this program, you 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.880 know that means last night a e W dynamite. We'll 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:31.880 have a recap of the show later on here in 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.040 the program, which you think of the show last night, 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.879 lots of lots of interesting things. We're heading towards the 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.080 Winter is Coming show just taking place in two weeks, 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:43.200 which is where we are going to get the Hangman 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:47.360 Page versus Brian Danielson match, and that of course leads 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.800 to well, we'll see where that leads. Because the next 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.599 pay per view is not until March, but we do 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:56.040 have a Battle of the Belt show coming up in 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:02.080 early January, and they're very strongly pushing m j F 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.080 as a future contender for Hangman's title, so it's gonna 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:08.920 be very interesting to see what they what they do. 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.120 Got a lot of updates from the show, We've got 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:15.160 updates on Rampages coming Friday. We'll have non spoiler lineup 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.199 for the Rampage Show. And yes, we will talk about 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:23.520 Cody lighting himself on fire at the end of that 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.600 Dynamite show last night. I got stuff to say about that. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.319 God bless the guy, but I'm not sure about lighting 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.280 yourself on fire. But we'll talk about that as well 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:37.399 as Beth Phoenix, who was leaving n x T after 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:41.120 War Games on Sunday. She is the second person to 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.240 announce that they're leaving n x T after Scotty too Hattie, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:48.840 and we'll talk about why she says she's leaving and 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.280 where she actually might be going. And I think Mike 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.560 actually talked about this a couple of days ago. We've 0:01:54.600 --> 0:02:00.000 got w w e's new program clearing a pathway from 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:04.040 Holidge Athletics to w w E. They're all in on 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.280 this no more indie workers deal. It's all gonna be 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:11.000 training them from scratch from college. I'll tell you about 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.560 that here today, as well as Dane White getting COVID 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:19.680 War Games ratings, the n x T War Games Go 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.880 Home Show, and much much more, plus a big exciting 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.760 announcement after the break everybody stick around Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.200 I got the show. Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.480 Mike Sumburbb also Wrestling Observer dot com and Yes, ran 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.840 this program. I announced said this coming to day, Dan 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:06.200 Housing is going to be on the show. We're talking 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:12.120 about is his recent injury and his recovery and just 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.240 plug a bunch of merch but an inedition to that, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.080 by popular demand, the twitch homies here. You may not 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.800 know this, perhaps you do, but they they raised twelve 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:27.600 hundred dollars to pay for me to do this program 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.760 in an Oorca costume, and we had not chosen a 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:33.560 day yet. I had wanted to do it Tuesday because 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.120 I thought it might be fun to a raw report 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.200 as Orio the Orca. But it was suggested to me, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.440 why don't you, Why don't you do it on the 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.360 Tuesday the Dan Housing is on and so I I, uh, 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:50.720 I don't know how to explain what I did. I 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:53.080 basically asked Dan Housing if he cared, But anyway, the 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:57.520 point is this coming Tuesday, Orio the Orca will be 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.480 co hosting this show with Mike simperviv and we will 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:06.760 be interviewing Dan Housing. Dan Housing and Oreo the Orca 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.760 one time only. You ain't ever gonna see this again 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:14.280 this coming Tuesday, Unwrestling Observer Live, so you can all 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:19.039 look forward to that. I'm pretty excited, bro, you better 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.280 be ready to step up that day. I'm not even 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.280 sure I can do this. Why, I don't know. I've 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.159 never even put the thing on in this in this room. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.600 I don't know if I'm gonna in there. Yes, you can. 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.800 You got several days to plan for it. It's not 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.840 about It's not about my mental No, you're right, it's 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:38.839 not about It's not about you. These people donated a 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.120 whole bunch of money for you to throw this thing on. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.599 And really why they donated the money was to help 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.960 whale scout and to actually do you know, real things 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.440 in nature, So that's why they really did it. But 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.240 also they get the extra advantage of seeing you as 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.520 Oreo the Orcas. So what are you gonna do? Raise 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.080 this money? Say you're gonna do it, bring Dan Housing on, 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.880 and then not do it. I think you better figure. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.119 Let me make it very clear. I said I would 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.200 wear the costume during the show, which I will do 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.440 the show maybe sixty minutes of me sitting here saying 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.120 nothing in a whale costume. I will attempt I will 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.480 attempt to do the show wearing the costume. One way 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:18.560 or the other. I will be in costume, whether I 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.159 can actually physically do the rest of the show. You 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.120 may be doing a lot of talking that day. We're 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.000 gonna find out this coming Tuesday, everybody, and yes it 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.839 will be free. You're on Twitch and YouTube and sports 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.240 byline replays at video. Don fw online dot com said, 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.599 oh miss out. Why don't you get Dan Housing actually 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:38.479 getting an orchid costume as well too. That kills the gimmick. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.680 Our faces will look very similar, I think, black and white. 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:48.520 Let's talk about the news here. So last week we 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.880 talked about how Scotty Too Hottie announced that he was 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:56.040 leaving an XT. He said, you know, I always promised 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.520 myself that I would never do a job just for 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.520 the money, and I have found of late that I 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.440 am in fact doing this just for the money. And 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:07.800 so he put in his notice and we were we 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.880 were essentially told by somebody that you know, it's a 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:14.080 bigger story than people think, and he ain't gonna be 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.720 the last. And sure enough, here we are. Beth Phoenix 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.160 will be departing the n XT commentary desk following War Games. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.080 She issued a statement today announcing she's decided to step 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.200 away from her weekly n XT commentary role to spend 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.480 more time with her family. She noted she will remain 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:34.120 part of w w E. Phoenix has been a member 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.120 of the n XT commentary team alongside Vic, Joseph and 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.520 Wade Bear a head of War Games. I wanted to 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.080 share that this Sunday will be my final night in 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.520 n X t well. I will remain a part of 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.880 w w E. I've made the choice to step away 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:49.360 from the weekly broadcast booth to spend more time with 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.960 my family, so it's not an easy decision. I have 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.240 loved my three plus years and one thirty five episodes 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:59.239 of n XT. I'm incredibly, incredibly proud of the brand. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.240 She does not She's not as hard as Scotty Toadie 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.920 was on the situation. But I think that Mike yesterday 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:10.840 suggested that the Royal Rumble they could do the MMS 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.320 and Maurice, or either that or Day one MS and 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.440 Maurice versus Edge and Beth Phoenix, and I think there's 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.040 a very good chance that could happen. But we also 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:29.520 saw the situation with Ah carrying Cross where he was 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.360 on the main roster and also in an x T 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:34.480 for a period there. So it's not like she couldn't 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.000 do the main roster feud with MS and Maurice and 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:41.560 also do commentary for n x T. She's just decided 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.960 she has done with n x T and whatever that means. 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.960 She says it's due to family, but this also again 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:54.080 may not be the last person. Because no matter what 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:57.880 you guys think about me or Mike or anybody else 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.960 who tells you that they think that this n x 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:03.120 T two point oh sucks, do not fool yourself into 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.000 thinking that. People who have been there for a long time. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.040 I mean, trust me on this. There are people who 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.400 have been there for a long time and they don't 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.840 like it anymore. It's not what it used to be. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.960 It's not as fun as it used to be. And 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.600 this is not like an isolated incident right here. There 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:23.640 will be more, whether it's talent or people that work 0:08:23.720 --> 0:08:26.720 behind the scenes that based on the way it is 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.520 now an x T two point oh as compared to 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.040 what it was before, they don't like it anymore. And 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.840 that's okay, but don't get mad at me about it. 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.000 I guess it really all depends on the time frame 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.440 when she's going to step away from doing the announcing 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.880 because and I know people would hate the thought of this, 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:51.000 but you know, Edge and Miss at WrestleMania. I mean, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.319 are they gonna start something around day one that kicks 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.560 off at Royal Rumble and then goes on to Mania. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.640 Is this just going to be for Royal Rumble? Who knows, 0:08:59.840 --> 0:09:02.200 you know. And whether Beth is going to be involved 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:05.880 or not, I'm not sure. But Maurice was out there 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.760 for really no reason at all on Monday night, so 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.880 there's probably got to be a reason that that she 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:14.439 is there in aligned or you know, with her husband 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.559 uh bucking up against Edge and with this news about 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.800 Beth leaving, you know, it just makes sense that they 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:24.320 would try to do something. Could it be family over 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.480 the product? It certainly could be. I think they live 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.080 in the Carolina's. I have no idea how all their 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.240 kids are other than they're married with kids, which we 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.800 saw when Seth Rollins broke into their house. But it's 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.920 not easy, you know, if he's going to be on 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.400 the road and were or doing more or whatever it's 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:42.400 going to be here. It's not easy on your family, 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.520 especially if your kids are in school, which I believe 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:47.560 that they are, so it may just be good timing 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:49.200 for her to kind of look at the scene and go, 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:51.680 you know, I'm out of here. But you know, I'm 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.240 sure they probably does have something to do with family. Although, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.719 like Brian mentioned, we've all heard this. Everybody is his 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.040 people backfight or give their opinion at the very least 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.560 who worked down there about their thoughts on some of 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:08.880 the changes that are being made, and there are obviously 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.760 very polarizing. They flipped the show completely upside down. So 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.959 the more you hear of people as time goes on 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.240 giving their real opinion about some of the things that 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.800 are shaking out and taking place, I mean, I wouldn't 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:26.800 be too surprised. Somebody on the twitch head twitch chat 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.800 here says w w E seat warmer or only watching 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.000 Joe Gacy, which is the worst fate. So I think 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:35.640 this is in a reference to a video that came 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:39.760 out yesterday. Uh, somebody was working as a seat filler 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.280 for w w E, and I guess they took a 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.920 video of of the requirements of being a seat filler, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.080 and apparently for some people this was like a giant scandal. 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.000 But let me answer the question and tell you all 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:55.680 something real quick. Watching Joe Gacy is five million times 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.280 worse than being a w w E seat filler. I've 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.040 been a w w E seat filler. Why would anyone 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.160 think that this is a bad job. I mean, I 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:04.720 guess if you don't want to go to raw, it 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.720 would be a bad job. But why would you volunteer 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:07.920 to be a seat filler if you didn't want to 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.200 go to raw. W w E has seat fillers, Okay, 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.640 and it's not just w W eat millions I shouldn't 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:19.120 say millions, but all sorts of of different events. Whether 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:22.559 it's anything that you're gonna air on television, it's probably 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.520 gonna end up having like a sporting event or whatever, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.400 or I know, some entertainment deals have seat fillers. It's 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.960 a job because they don't want empty seats on television. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:35.800 And so what a seat filler does is you actually 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:39.559 get a nice seat and it's free. And the reason 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.000 it's a nice seat is because if somebody in the 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.080 third row gets up to go to the bathroom, they 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.800 don't want that empty seat, so they rush you down 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.160 to fill that seat until the person comes back. Now, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.200 in order for you to rush down, you gotta be 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:55.559 pretty close and the seat filler seats. When I did 0:11:55.600 --> 0:12:00.199 this job, we're we're like right there by the hardcam, 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.000 and the reality is there aren't a lot of people 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.480 in front of the hard cam that leave for extended 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:09.080 periods of time. So I was never moved once, and 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.400 quite frankly, I don't even know anybody that I went 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.720 with that did that job that was ever moved once. 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.280 So there's absolutely nothing wrong with this job. It's a 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.880 great job. You sit there in a great seat and 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.920 you watched the show for free, and then like if 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.760 you're needed, you go down and you come back. Joe 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:35.560 Gacy a horror back in a moment Observer lie back 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:38.280 in the show. Brian Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:43.680 Mike SIMPERBB also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So apparently the 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:47.520 whole story around this deal I just talked about was 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:53.040 this video came out about the seat fillers, and I 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.920 guess people were, you know, bringing it up because I 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.640 had also reported that there are people in w w 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.080 E that thinks that Tony Con has been buying tickets 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.920 for the UBS arena to make sure that they sell 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:05.600 or that they have more people in the building than 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.480 w w E. So, first off, these things are are 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:12.320 totally different if and he's not. But let's just say 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:16.800 that somebody was buying tickets, uh to fill up a building. Okay, 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:20.640 that's totally different than seat fillers. Seat fillers don't get paid. 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.800 There's a person in charge of the seat fillers and 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:27.480 they they say, hey, you got a dozen buddies that 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.000 want to go to the show for free. We'll get 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.000 him in. But they have to be seat fillers, and 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:34.520 you're actually not putting people in seats that would have 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:38.080 been purchased. The seat fillers sit next to the hard 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.560 camp where they're not selling tickets anyway. So that's a 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.520 completely different thing. But is it is it pertains to 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.640 people think that Tony Khan is buying tickets for a 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.240 W shows. Tony con is not buying tickets for a 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.600 W shows. And when I talked to the other day 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.520 about how there are people in w w E who 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.160 think that he is buying tickets because I guess they 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.160 can't wrap their heads around the fact that you, yes, 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.000 arena a W is selling way more tickets in w 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.160 w E did. I want to make it abundantly clear 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:11.160 that this is not like one person. Okay, first off, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:14.800 I've been hearing people say this for months now. Okay, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.800 I heard it again a few days ago. When I 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.800 talked about it on the air, I had people coming 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.840 out of the woodwork telling me that they had heard 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.520 the exact same thing. This is not like, oh, there's 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:29.080 one or two people that have you know, sources are what. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:33.920 This is multiple people. This is a belief by people 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.560 in w w E that Tony Cohn is buying tickets 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.920 for these shows, because that's the only way that a 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.000 w could sell more tickets than w w E. It 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:49.880 is a slight form of madness, but it's just hilarious 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.800 because like, well, we literally are. We've got people that 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.480 are are pretending like it's again and you've got oh 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.800 this Tony con has got you know, millions or billions, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:05.960 Dad's got Billy whatever. Poor Vince struggling to get by. 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.160 Kids realize that Vince Vince has so much money? Who 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:13.120 is billionaire? I want you to point to the idiot 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.240 that's doing that, because I don't believe you. I don't 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.960 believe you I'm telling you, dude, bro, it's there's so 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.360 many people that have told me this. Well, look I did, 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.040 and I know a couple that have said the same thing. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.320 I think part of it they're taking the you know, 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:32.000 you're making a I think they're joking in some ways. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:36.800 Maybe they're not. I if Tony Cohn's got more money 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.000 than Vince McMahon, and I know that probably bothers Vince McMahan, 0:15:40.120 --> 0:15:42.240 but that's how you know, life work. Somebody's gonna have 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:45.400 more money than you. He could. He could buy every 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:51.120 seat for every building forever, forever at retail. Doesn't I mean, 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.680 it doesn't make any sense. This doesn't make any sense 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:57.920 of buying tickets from day one of those ubs sales 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.760 a W was rocking. Why would they not be their 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.600 brand new They have a jacked up fan base, they're 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:08.840 going to places they haven't been before. I mean, it's 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:13.240 just it's bizarre. It's not just slight. If anybody actually 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.760 believes that they're nuts, they're absolutely nuts. You know, there's 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.320 not even proof that he's buying tickets and giving them 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.680 to a charity. Usually we hear when teams do that 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.520 or when somebody does that. That's not what they're doing. 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:29.760 It's just bizarre and to almost give it any oxygen 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:34.160 at all, that type of story is really does everybody 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.160 at disservice, and it just plays into the I'm gonna 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.320 plant my flag, you plant your flag, and we're gonna 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.800 battle back and forth nonsense. But fans, but it's just 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.040 bizarre and it's it's silly, and frankly, it's you know 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:49.440 what's ironic. What's ironic is that Tony con is buying 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:52.080 no tickets for the UBS Arena, but w w E 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.080 was doing two for one deal. So if I buy 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.920 one ticket, you give me a free seat. You're anyway, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.120 let's talk about silly. Let's talk about some other news 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.720 and get off this ticket thing because it's it's very nutty. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.480 W w E is announced the launch of a new 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:11.639 program to create a clear pathway from college athletics to 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.240 w w E because we don't want any more of 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:18.199 those indie vanilla midgets anymore. It was announced today w 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.920 w establish an n I L program for college athletes. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:23.800 It allows athletes to profit off their name, image and 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.240 likeness while still in college. The first n I L 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.080 deal in ww A history, who was announced in September 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.040 with Limit Gold medalist wrestler Gable Steveson signing with the company. 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.960 Gable Steveson's brother is also signed to the company, but 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.800 they made him change his name. That's another story. The 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:45.320 name of w e's program is Next in Line. Following 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.359 a historic new policy by the n C double a 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.399 effect of July one, which ushered in the n I 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:52.800 L era, allowing college athletes ability to monetize their name, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.120 image and likeness, w w has constructed a comprehensive program 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.679 to recruit and develop potential future superstars. Dubbed Next in Line, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.720 the n I L program aims to enhance the talent 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:10.160 development process through collaborative partnerships with college athletes from diverse backgrounds. So, 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.800 as we've noted for a while now, there's been a 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.520 total shift in the way that w w E hires 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:21.520 folks for developmental A few years ago, when a w 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:26.480 was getting started, it was signed everybody off the indies, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.239 whether whether we think they will be a star or not. 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.679 Sign everybody to make sure that nobody can go to 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.560 a W And so they just signed every like everybody 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.480 was getting signed to w w E. Then, of course, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.320 you know a w took off and everything was going fine, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:48.640 and n x T lost this war, and then they 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.639 start just acting people left and right. The number of 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.880 people they have access here, I forget the number. It's 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.640 like a ridiculous number of people they've asked axed off 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:02.320 the developmental n x T main raw Sir, just cut cut, cut, cut, cut, 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:08.200 cut cut. Now, we do not want any independent workers 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.720 in developmental well. I mean, you know, I'm sure they'll 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:14.800 sign one or two. But they want to get you 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:17.439 out of college. Oh, you were a great volleyball player. 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:19.959 You can be a w w E superstar, you were 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:23.960 a wrestler, you were a Bob sletter, whatever it is. 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:27.639 They want to get you out of college or the Olympics, 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.919 teach you how to be a wrestler, and then have 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.200 you be a superstar up there on the main roster. 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:38.040 When they started firing everybody, I said it then, I'll 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.840 say it now. Don't quit wrestling, Go work the indies, 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:47.680 Go work Ring of Honor, Impact whatever. In two years 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.320 they're gonna be looking for you again. Okay. It's a 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:55.640 phase by Vince McMahon. He didn't like the way things 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:57.879 were going, so he wants to do a full one eighty, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.440 he's gonna get frustrated with did like he always does, 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:04.840 and he's going to go back to wrestlers. So if 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.120 you got fired, or if it's your dream or whatever, 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:12.280 go work indies. Don't try and get into the Olympics. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.639 Go work indies, and you're gonna have your shot to 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:19.679 get at some point. It's inevitable. It's uh. Yeah. I 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:24.199 asked a lot of people after Gerald Briscoe left, who's 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:27.520 filling that With the exception of William Regal, who is 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.679 looking at amateur wrestlers, who's going to do all that stuff? 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:33.880 Because I mean it was essentially he was Gerald Briscoe. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.720 Then a lot of people didn't have that interest, not 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:39.240 even by his own, you know, admission that he was 0:20:39.359 --> 0:20:41.520 really one of the only ones that would would go 0:20:41.600 --> 0:20:45.520 do this stuff. So they needed to really establish, to me, 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:50.560 a pipeline and a program for college wrestling for sure. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:54.000 Now college football players obviously they've gone after volleyball players, 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.679 basketball players, all that sort of stuff. So to have 0:20:56.840 --> 0:21:00.080 a system in place, especially now where you can and 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:02.399 I don't know what the term is, it used to 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.760 be before you would sponsor somebody like in the a 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:07.359 W A veran Gania was a big part of the 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:11.560 amateur wrestlings. Uh seeing Eddie Graham guys like that in 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:14.159 different places, and they would fund guys and people that 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:16.840 were trying to make the Olympics and do things internationally. 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.919 They would fund that. And then of course if once 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:22.280 they were done that, of course obviously that the door 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.600 would be open for them to walk in and start wrestling. 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.320 So to have a system like that set up, I 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.879 think is really good. And the fact that now I 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.000 guess with and I don't know how this works with 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:36.280 like what a t T does with the University of 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.200 Miami students, but you can essentially, I mean, obviously there's 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.200 money that can be given to these students. Now, there's 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.399 things that can be done, and I think it's a 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:49.119 good idea. The problem is you can't just take a 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.360 bunch of people that Man I think I might want 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.040 to do that for a living or man I really 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.000 like that when I was little. I mean, how many 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:58.879 people really have that drive? How many people are naturals 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:01.600 who weren't wrestling thing? How many people are you gonna 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.920 find they have been doing this stuff that haven't been wrestling, 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:06.359 that are gonna be ready to go and like Brian 0:22:06.440 --> 0:22:09.280 mentioned and other people have mentioned, within two years, it's 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.520 gonna change. It's gonna have to change because how many 0:22:12.520 --> 0:22:14.440 people are gonna hit on you know, You've got the 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.119 Casper brothers, you got the Stevenson brothers. You've got some 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:19.840 guys down there who are just recently coming in from 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:22.879 the amateur ranks. You know, that's a good step up. 0:22:23.359 --> 0:22:25.159 Are they gonna make it? Lots of guys who come 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:27.199 into wrestling over the years who have wrestled amateur, they 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:30.160 haven't made it. So we'll see. I mean, I just 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.159