Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: we got a lot to get into today, including the
Speaker 1: world famous raw reports coming up later on in this program,
Speaker 1: fallout from the Survivor series, War Games show, and man,
Speaker 1: they got from now until the end of January. That's
Speaker 1: the next big pay per view, Royal Rumble at the
Speaker 1: end of January, no Day one, So they got a
Speaker 1: long long time to build, and that means that, hey,
Speaker 1: it's a holiday season. People are shopping, doing whatever, So
Speaker 1: you know, they're not going to be the most exciting episodes,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna be there and they're gonna do stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have matches. But the big stuff is
Speaker 1: going to be coming in mid to late at January,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of a somewhat of a slow holding
Speaker 1: building pattern until then. But we'll talk about the Raw
Speaker 1: Report here tonight. We've also got Everybody's favorite show, n
Speaker 1: x T has taken place tonight and we have six
Speaker 1: segments scheduled for the show, including a return to in
Speaker 1: ring action of Die Jeck. We'll tell about all of
Speaker 1: the things coming up on the show. We've got dynamite
Speaker 1: ratings from Thanksgiving Eve, which actually did very well considering
Speaker 1: that it was Thanksgiving Eve, which traditionally has not been
Speaker 1: a good night at all for a w but I
Speaker 1: end up doing pretty well. Frankly. We've got Impact into Zone.
Speaker 1: They've got a new deal Androd Day has got a
Speaker 1: torn peck and we've got a couple of updates on
Speaker 1: that from US night. Stokely Hathaway talked about plans for
Speaker 1: the firm, which you've gone all asunder. And when I
Speaker 1: read the interview quotes from Stokely and you can see
Speaker 1: how things went asunder with the firm because of what
Speaker 1: happened with c M Punk. Imagine how things went asunder
Speaker 1: with like m JF and mocks Ley and everybody that
Speaker 1: was involved with c M Punk. It was a it
Speaker 1: was quite the tornado. Anyway. Back in a moment with
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Speaker 1: we got a lot of news to get into today.
Speaker 1: Tonight is everyone's favorite show, n XT. We have got
Speaker 1: the participants for the Iron Survivor Challenge matches, which are
Speaker 1: coming up at n XT deadline. They will be revealed
Speaker 1: by an eclectic group of legends Sean Michael's xpox, Alundra,
Speaker 1: A Blaze, Molly Holly and road Dog. All right, we
Speaker 1: have Toxic Attraction Mandy, g g and j C versus
Speaker 1: Kata a Chance, Caden Carter and Nikita Lions. And my
Speaker 1: presumption is that the baby Faces win pinning Gigi or
Speaker 1: j C so that we can get a championship match,
Speaker 1: because you don't need to do anything with Mandy, because
Speaker 1: Mandy is gonna be facing the winner of this Iron
Speaker 1: Survivor Challenge, this clock filled match coming up. But we
Speaker 1: could use some challengers for for g Actually, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: to be for Katan and Kate. They're the champs, who cares.
Speaker 1: We've also got Rock sand Perez and Indie Heartwell. Fellon
Speaker 1: Henley will face Kiana James, the return to action of
Speaker 1: Die Jack and Old von Wagner. We'll be facing Malik Blade,
Speaker 1: who is in fact the one in the sweater vest
Speaker 1: exactly as I said last week, which Mike ridiculed me
Speaker 1: for not knowing the difference. And he's the one who
Speaker 1: didn't know the difference, alike Blade, whose sweater vest was
Speaker 1: destroyed the sweather, the sweater vest that he wears in
Speaker 1: uh you know, in what do they call it? Tribute
Speaker 1: to his father I believe was ripped to shreds by
Speaker 1: von Wagner, to the booze of the crowd. Well, tonight
Speaker 1: it's his chancet revenge facing von Wagner. So that's coming
Speaker 1: up tonight. I can't wait to talk about tomorrow now.
Speaker 1: Last Wednesday was a dynamite and it was the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Eve episode of the show. And last year did okay,
Speaker 1: but the previous two years absolutely died a death on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve, and so I figured that this show would
Speaker 1: die a death on Thanksgiving Eve, and in fact it didn't.
Speaker 1: The show did eight hundred and eighty thousand viewers, which
Speaker 1: astonishingly was up from the week prior. It actually did
Speaker 1: better than the previous Wednesday, eighteen to forty nine, a
Speaker 1: point three two rating, up fourteen percent from the prior week,
Speaker 1: and the best ratings since the beginning of October. Huge
Speaker 1: increase in men eighteen to forty nine, although the women's
Speaker 1: audience not good at all. In uh in eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine males that did a point five zero and
Speaker 1: uh and they beat Raw. There were there were several
Speaker 1: demos where a E W on Thanksgiving Eve beat Monday
Speaker 1: Night Raw. And I know when you when we mentioned this,
Speaker 1: a lot of people like, ah, doesn't count total viewers,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and hey, you know whatever, whatever you think.
Speaker 1: Councer doesn't count. That's fine. But what matters is these
Speaker 1: ratings came out on Monday afternoon, and it turned out
Speaker 1: that Dynamite had beaten RAW in several demos. And it
Speaker 1: was moments after these numbers came out that Raw suddenly
Speaker 1: announced the first hour is commercial free. No reason to
Speaker 1: go commercial free, no big football game. The reason was
Speaker 1: they got beaten by Dynamite in several demos and they
Speaker 1: can have that happened this week, and so they went
Speaker 1: commercial free in the first hour, which always results in
Speaker 1: a large increase. Because I know that this is hard
Speaker 1: to believe, but many people tune out during commercials. Uh huh,
Speaker 1: So when you don't have commercials, the first hour does
Speaker 1: way better. Now, the bad news is once you put
Speaker 1: the commercials back, then show falls off cliff. And on
Speaker 1: top of that, when you go commercial free in the
Speaker 1: first hour, you have to load up commercials an hour
Speaker 1: two and hour three. I I don't watch commercials. I
Speaker 1: I start a little bit late. I skipped through all
Speaker 1: the commercials, and I can get the show. I can
Speaker 1: get Raw done in ninety minutes, because if you remove
Speaker 1: all of the commercials and all of the video packages,
Speaker 1: there is thirty every time. It's uncanny, there's thirty minutes
Speaker 1: of actual content per hour of RAW. So really, if
Speaker 1: you skip all the commercials and video page and everything,
Speaker 1: it's really a ninety minute show, which is not so bad.
Speaker 1: But anyway, uh, the first hour had no commercials, but
Speaker 1: the second and third hour had commercials, And I skipped
Speaker 1: through the commercials and video packages and I still watched
Speaker 1: the show in ninety minutes, which tells me there were
Speaker 1: way more commercials in the second and third hour than
Speaker 1: there normally are. And when there's more commercials, show falls
Speaker 1: off a cliff even harder. So my prediction for the rating,
Speaker 1: which will probably be out tomorrow, is it Raw is
Speaker 1: gonna have a huge first hour at a massive second
Speaker 1: hour and third hour drop, and that's just the way
Speaker 1: things go. So anyway, we got impact in the zone,
Speaker 1: more news, the raw report, and more after the breaks
Speaker 1: will stick around Abserver life in the shack, time the range.
Speaker 1: But that are the show. Bright Albarez here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: I'm an expert at skipping commercials. Somebody mentioned dynamite you
Speaker 1: can get through quickly, but in fact you can't. If
Speaker 1: you if you skip commercials and video packages, you can
Speaker 1: get through raw in ninety minutes, and a W rarely
Speaker 1: has video packages, So if just skip commercials, you get
Speaker 1: through it in ninety minutes. And the reason for that,
Speaker 1: and I guess it's just the sheer number of advertisers
Speaker 1: w w E has compared to a W maybe is
Speaker 1: that the raw commercial breaks are all usually three and
Speaker 1: a half minutes or four minutes long every time, and
Speaker 1: with a W the commercial breaks are all about three minutes,
Speaker 1: and they have a few that are ninety seconds, and
Speaker 1: so they're they're commercial periods are shorter. So actually, in
Speaker 1: terms of like the amount of content that you get
Speaker 1: on a show commercial free video package, free content, Raw
Speaker 1: and Dynamite are both about ninety minutes and SmackDown you
Speaker 1: can watch if you skip videos and commercials, you can
Speaker 1: watch all of SmackDown and n x T in an hour,
Speaker 1: because that's how much filler they have on those shows. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: you know you're watching a ninety minute raw on three hours,
Speaker 1: and so if you don't skip the commercials and video
Speaker 1: package is bro that's a lot of filler. Ninety minutes
Speaker 1: of filler in a in a three hour show is
Speaker 1: what you essentially get. Impact Wrestling and to Zone, Yes,
Speaker 1: to Zonne still exists, partnering together for an international distribution deal.
Speaker 1: They will quote deliver anthems Impact Wrestling to more than
Speaker 1: one and seventy countries worldwide, beginning on November twenty nine, UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, France, Poland, Spain, Italy,
Speaker 1: the Netherlands, what a name for a place, by the way,
Speaker 1: the nether Lands, Japan and Brazil. The viewers in these
Speaker 1: countries will have access to weekly episodes of Impact Live specials,
Speaker 1: select titles from the archives. So Impact and the Zone
Speaker 1: are are now working together. Guys remembered his Zone. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know it was still around, but apparently it is.
Speaker 1: So there you go. Who else who's watching the zone, anybody,
Speaker 1: anybody out there watching his own not disown the zone. Okay,
Speaker 1: the zone is still big internationally. I think this person says, Okay,
Speaker 1: well it's an international deal, so that's great. But I
Speaker 1: haven't heard a lot about his zone lately, but it exists.
Speaker 1: Androide wrote on social media that he recently underwent surgery.
Speaker 1: Well I'll finish. I'll finish this first torn peg muscle.
Speaker 1: He said he suffered the injury a few months ago
Speaker 1: during a match. My first surgery. I can't believe it happened,
Speaker 1: he wrote. A few months ago, I tore my peck.
Speaker 1: Thank god I could have and wanted to finish my match.
Speaker 1: Kept working because I love the business, but we know
Speaker 1: that many people do not value your effort these days off.
Speaker 1: I took the opportunity these days off, you can have
Speaker 1: a lot of days off, and took the opportunity to
Speaker 1: go to the doctor. So there was We did observe
Speaker 1: a radio last night, and you know, Dave was talking
Speaker 1: about the torn peck that Cody suffered, and like it's
Speaker 1: impossible to miss Cody's torn peck. Andreide claimed, you got
Speaker 1: in a match, but they felt we should have noticed,
Speaker 1: and the fact of the matter is some people did
Speaker 1: in fact go back and they found it. Uh. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of matches that he did and you
Speaker 1: could see that he was very much favoring his arm.
Speaker 1: And then there were also some pictures that came up
Speaker 1: and you could see all of the bruising here. So
Speaker 1: it happened. He torus Peck may not have been a
Speaker 1: major off the bone horrible thing, but he definitely put
Speaker 1: torres pack and he's undergone surgery and he's going to recover,
Speaker 1: and then I would guess keep not being on a
Speaker 1: w after that fight that he had backstage with Sammy Gavara.
Speaker 1: So that's the update on him. Stokely Hathaway talked about
Speaker 1: plans the firm had and uh, he said, we were
Speaker 1: supposed to erectly feud essentially with see Him Punk. I
Speaker 1: was looking forward to that because I was hand chosen
Speaker 1: for the role. Won't go. I don't know the specifics,
Speaker 1: but see Him Punk said, Hey, I want to work
Speaker 1: with this guy. Holds a lot of weight. Means a
Speaker 1: lot to me regardless of what has happened and what
Speaker 1: will happen. But of course, when everything happened to see
Speaker 1: him punk plans changed, and he says everyone's just trying
Speaker 1: to do their best and trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: to make this work because the original purpose of the
Speaker 1: firm isn't even a purpose anymore. And he talked about
Speaker 1: when he was in n x T Stokely. Hathaway said
Speaker 1: he woke up one day in February and felt miserable.
Speaker 1: He didn't know where he was or what he was doing,
Speaker 1: and he decided to commit himself to a mental institution
Speaker 1: over three days in Florida. He said it was akin
Speaker 1: to a prison with his cell and restrictions, and then
Speaker 1: after the three days, he thought that maybe he was
Speaker 1: better off mentally than he initially thought. He said he
Speaker 1: didn't tell anyone, couldn't use his phone outside, getting someone
Speaker 1: take care of his dog. He said they didn't do
Speaker 1: much for him in the facility and that the experience
Speaker 1: was not beneficial for him. When he returned, he said
Speaker 1: he had to jump back into things, turned out a
Speaker 1: new contract, left the organization. He also said quoted the
Speaker 1: wrong message came across during his widely seen comedy show
Speaker 1: comments about his time in w w E. And then May,
Speaker 1: he made his debut for Double Or nothing, so best
Speaker 1: wishes Stokely, super talented guy. And uh it's you know,
Speaker 1: like I said the beginning of the show, you know
Speaker 1: this Stokely talking about how everything got thrown out of
Speaker 1: whack for the firm when se him Punk left And
Speaker 1: if you look at how many things were we're thrown
Speaker 1: out of whack. And then you think, you know, MJF
Speaker 1: was supposed to feud with Punk prior to all out,
Speaker 1: then he was supposed to feud with Punk after all out.
Speaker 1: In both cases see him, Punk first got injured, then
Speaker 1: there was the fight, and so literally there was June, July, August, September, October.
Speaker 1: There's six months. And you know how Tony books six
Speaker 1: months of storylines which probably were quite intricate, all out
Speaker 1: the window twice because of c. Himpunk, one of which
Speaker 1: was his fault and one of which was not. And
Speaker 1: so if you've been watching a W and I mean,
Speaker 1: we'll have to see, like you know, where things go
Speaker 1: from here. But if you have been watching a W
Speaker 1: for the last six months and you're like, man, this
Speaker 1: thing is just like you know what's going on? This
Speaker 1: is this and this is that and blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: Six months worth of storylines either directly involving or or
Speaker 1: or you know, revolving around C Himpunk. Six months worth
Speaker 1: of storylines all out the window. So now that they
Speaker 1: have got m jf is Champion, which I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: had been the plan, you know, for quite a while,
Speaker 1: perhaps now everything will sort of start to be uh
Speaker 1: and y'all. Stuff to remember, like Tony waited two years
Speaker 1: to debut those trios titles and then he immediately he
Speaker 1: waited two years to put them on the Elite, they
Speaker 1: win the titles, and then they're also suspended due to
Speaker 1: the fight and they're gone to three months or whatever.
Speaker 1: So that was another huge arc that it went all
Speaker 1: out the window. So now, with the exception of C
Speaker 1: and Punk, everybody's back, and uh, theoretically now we should
Speaker 1: be getting back to what we saw prior to all
Speaker 1: of this hitting the fan, So I guess we shall see.
Speaker 1: By the way has uh and by the yeah, there's
Speaker 1: another one like Adam Cole's injuries. You know, there were
Speaker 1: a lot of storylines involving Adam Cole. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: were a lot of storylines involving hangman, he's out. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that is Tony Khan's biggest challenge, and that
Speaker 1: is shifting when things go wrong, because more things went
Speaker 1: wrong in the last six months that ever went wrong
Speaker 1: in the history of a w and uh, it's not
Speaker 1: like an aver gonna happen again. There's always gonna be
Speaker 1: things going wrong. So he's gonna have to figure out
Speaker 1: how to shift when everything goes wrong. And uh, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure that was a very stressful six month period.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll write about it someday, but probably not. Kylo Riley,
Speaker 1: there's another one. Yeah, all right, Um, how many people
Speaker 1: have seen the Teddy Hart documentary on Peacock. If you have,
Speaker 1: I would like you to email me Brian at Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer dot com with your short review of it. Um,
Speaker 1: I've heard it's it's uh, it's certainly not good. Obviously,
Speaker 1: if you know the story, it's not good. But as
Speaker 1: far as like the the documentary itself, I've had people
Speaker 1: raving about it. I've had people say it's great, it's
Speaker 1: a must watch. It is head out of ten people
Speaker 1: in wrestling, Uh, contacted me about it and just intrigued.
Speaker 1: And you know, uh, you know, had a few people
Speaker 1: say that, you know, for a long time Teddy Hart
Speaker 1: was just this weird, wacky guy that people laughed at,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's it's you know. Someone here said, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't want to watch it because they may be
Speaker 1: glorifying him in some way. The review I got was
Speaker 1: that Teddy Hart was always a weird, wacky guy that
Speaker 1: people kind of laughed at and wrestling. But they're not
Speaker 1: laughing now, so I don't think that he was painted
Speaker 1: in a glorified light in any way. But if you
Speaker 1: have to, if you have, if you watched it, Bryant
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observed dot com, send me a short review and
Speaker 1: I will read some of them. Ah after we go
Speaker 1: through the world famous Raw report coming up here after
Speaker 1: the break, can also text me four to five seven
Speaker 1: eight zero seven five six six is the phone number
Speaker 1: for to five zero seven s six. We will in
Speaker 1: fact have time probably to read some stuff because that
Speaker 1: is the majority of the news here today. A couple
Speaker 1: of text messages before we go to the break, This
Speaker 1: person here says Vince was the one who would suddenly
Speaker 1: unravel a whole storyline for the bill to one pay
Speaker 1: per view. There's no reason why Triple H can't or
Speaker 1: won't still have Sammy with the bloodline a year from now,
Speaker 1: with the split feeling like it's coming, all it takes
Speaker 1: is one enjoyable story beat every month or so. Well, Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going on that long because what
Speaker 1: you don't want to do when you have something like
Speaker 1: this is overstay. You're welcome, And right now they've hit
Speaker 1: on everything, and I think that doing the split around
Speaker 1: Montreal and doing that big tag title switch of WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: I think you'd be awesome. Back come up with more
Speaker 1: Observer Live. Well back here in the show, Brian Overrez
Speaker 1: here Wrestling Observer Live. It is almost time for the
Speaker 1: World of Famous Raw Report, but I would like to
Speaker 1: once more quickly plug at Brian Alvarez sticking up Top
Speaker 1: three days only first, Brian and Vinny co host spot
Speaker 1: all proceeds benefiting Whale Scout, registered five oh one c
Speaker 1: three nonprofit. If you win this auction on eBay, you
Speaker 1: will co host with me Vinny Craig. Any Brian and
Speaker 1: Vinny show you want name the show, I may consider
Speaker 1: allowing you to choose the show we watch. But it
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be the room. It's not gonna be any
Speaker 1: crap like that. They have wrestling show, and I have
Speaker 1: to okay it. But know what, you might love reviewing
Speaker 1: a double n n x T with me and Vinnie
Speaker 1: drag Or wanted to review full Gear and he did
Speaker 1: and it was great, So you get to pick so
Speaker 1: And yes, people have been asking about Oreo co hosting
Speaker 1: this year. I don't know why this came up again.
Speaker 1: Actually I know why. Blame my wife. But last year,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys remember or not, but
Speaker 1: a Oreo got he he was drinking, he drank on
Speaker 1: the show. Then he's acting like an idiot, and then
Speaker 1: he got a big head, and then the next thing
Speaker 1: you know, he's got some stupid Twitter. So I don't
Speaker 1: want Oreo on the show this year, So I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Although he has asked to plead his case,
Speaker 1: so I I will. I will consider allowing him to
Speaker 1: plead his case, but not on video if he wants,
Speaker 1: if he wants to call in over the next couple
Speaker 1: of days, I will allow him to to plead his case.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I would. Uh yeah, Dagon,
Speaker 1: he got banned. He was an idiot and he tried
Speaker 1: to take over the show. He didn't he didn't know
Speaker 1: his place. That's what happened with Orio. So anyway, let's
Speaker 1: move on here the world famous Raw Report, Monday Night
Speaker 1: Raw but up with Becky Lynch coming out and she
Speaker 1: went into the crowd and just started talking to these
Speaker 1: blokes and luckily they were all gimmicks, they knew what
Speaker 1: to do. And she's doing her promo about being back
Speaker 1: and wanting to beat everyone's uh you know, kick kick
Speaker 1: their butts or whatever. And then outcomes Bailey, and Bailey
Speaker 1: limps to the ring. She looks like you can barely walk.
Speaker 1: And she gets in the ring. She cuts a promo
Speaker 1: on Becky. She challenged her to a fight. Becky's ready
Speaker 1: to fight. But then all of a sudden, from out
Speaker 1: of nowhere come Dakota and EO and they start brawling
Speaker 1: on the stairwell, and Becky starts running up these stairs,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, bro, you ever saw Bailey
Speaker 1: run stairs as fast as she did with her allegedly
Speaker 1: bad leg man. She's sprinting up them stairs and then
Speaker 1: they brawl up and they're they're hitting each other with signs,
Speaker 1: and they're hitting each other with merch. The only thing
Speaker 1: they each other with was like a foam hand, but
Speaker 1: they have this big brawl and it gets broken up
Speaker 1: and it was a good segment. I mean, it was
Speaker 1: fun Becky and the crowd made her come up like
Speaker 1: a superstar. I mean people were just going crazy for her,
Speaker 1: and she had the three on on one on three
Speaker 1: fight and you know, it was a It was a
Speaker 1: good segment to open up the show a lot of excitement.
Speaker 1: Then we had a long, a long ass segment here.
Speaker 1: First it's Rea Ripley versus Meeching Mi a Um and
Speaker 1: they come out and they wrestle for seven minutes and
Speaker 1: it was actually a pretty good match, especially near the end.
Speaker 1: They did some they did some cool stuff. Mia looked
Speaker 1: way better than she did the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: This is the best she's looks and she's returned. And
Speaker 1: then they're in the ring. Dominic gets on the apron
Speaker 1: and then into the ring, A j runs down and
Speaker 1: he tackles Dominic and they literally they did a tackle
Speaker 1: and they bumped over both of the women, which looked
Speaker 1: like someone could have gotten killed, and the ref calls
Speaker 1: for the d Q and then Priest Valor Anderson gallows
Speaker 1: rundown big brawl styles, grabs the mike. He says, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought this was over at Survivor Series, but clearly
Speaker 1: it's not. So let's get a ref down here. Let's
Speaker 1: do an eight man tag with these two women. So
Speaker 1: they do ain't man tag with two women, and it's
Speaker 1: Rhea Dominic, Damien Priest, Finn Valor, mia um A, j
Speaker 1: Carl Anderson, Luke Kellos and they went fifteen minutes. And
Speaker 1: as I mentioned last night in the Brian of or
Speaker 1: the Dave Show Resting Observer Radio, there's there's two types
Speaker 1: of matches on Raw, and they're all long long Okay.
Speaker 1: The one kind of match is the match that's long,
Speaker 1: but it's exactly as long as it needs to be.
Speaker 1: And there were two of them on this show, the
Speaker 1: Street Profits match and the main event with Kevin Owens.
Speaker 1: Long matches, but they didn't feel a second too long.
Speaker 1: Then there's these long match and it just felt like
Speaker 1: we got to put in some time here in this
Speaker 1: first hour. They went fifteen minutes in this this eight
Speaker 1: person tag, and it wasn't like an eight person tag
Speaker 1: where it's like tag boom, big spot, high flying, blah
Speaker 1: blah blah. It's like we're gonna get the heat on
Speaker 1: Luke Gallows. Then he made a tag, and then they
Speaker 1: got the heat on Carl Anderson. They got the heat
Speaker 1: on Anderson for like nine minutes. They're just beating this
Speaker 1: poor bloke forever. And then finally the women get in
Speaker 1: there and the people got into that. They did a
Speaker 1: couple of spots. Mia gave a big body slam to
Speaker 1: Dom and then Riah Ripley kicked her from behind Riptide Pinder.
Speaker 1: This is far from over. And I don't know why
Speaker 1: they didn't do a Survivor series matching Survivor series, because
Speaker 1: I mean, it would have been it would have been good.
Speaker 1: Montez and Angelo Dawkins are back, Chad Gable and ODIs
Speaker 1: showed up and and uh set up a match for
Speaker 1: later on tonight Bloodline segment. So they come out and
Speaker 1: they celebrate what happened at War Games, and Sammy does
Speaker 1: his promo and he says, you know, Jay, you didn't
Speaker 1: like me for a long time. Jimmy always liked me,
Speaker 1: but it was tough, and uh, man, you know we
Speaker 1: did it together at War Games. And they hug and
Speaker 1: the people go crazy, and then it's like Jimmy, Jay
Speaker 1: and Sammy all doing this group Hug and they're like,
Speaker 1: come on, so come on, and the fans want Soldo
Speaker 1: to join the Hug and solos like hugging. But then
Speaker 1: they're begging, and they're begging, and finally starts to look
Speaker 1: over and Kevin Non's music. Kids. So we got six
Speaker 1: weeks or something like that to the Royal rumble. We're
Speaker 1: doing a real slow build. Two solo joining the group hug.
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll zoom out like the best friend. But anyway,
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens comes out and he says, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not mad at you, Sammy, because I know why you
Speaker 1: did what you did. And we've been we've been They
Speaker 1: keep saying they've been friends for twenty years, which is
Speaker 1: irritating because they haven't been friends for twenty years. Maybe
Speaker 1: in real life, but like in storyline, they've been friends,
Speaker 1: they've been enemies, they fought the I mean, it's been
Speaker 1: a very rocky twenty year relationship. But anyway, he goes,
Speaker 1: I don't want to fight you. I don't want a
Speaker 1: team with you. I I turned on you plenty of
Speaker 1: time for the same reason you turned on me. But
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just done with you. I don't
Speaker 1: want anything to do with you anymore. Ever again, Sammy
Speaker 1: goes good, I haven't anything to do with you. I
Speaker 1: don't want a team with you. I don't want to
Speaker 1: fight you. I just want you out of my life.
Speaker 1: And then Chase steps up and says, you know, if
Speaker 1: you got a problem with Sammy, you got a problem
Speaker 1: with me. And Kevin says, well, you know I said
Speaker 1: I didn't want a team with Sammy. I don't want
Speaker 1: to fight him, but you know what I want to
Speaker 1: fight you. Let's do in the main event tonight. So
Speaker 1: the way we go to the main event, good segment,
Speaker 1: Candice promo, she cuts promo in Dakota Kai and then
Speaker 1: we had second backstage with Matt Riddle and Alias. Matt
Speaker 1: Riddle wants a team with Elias to go after the
Speaker 1: tag titles. Eliza is like, bro, we've had one win,
Speaker 1: and Riddle says, come on, let's do this. And then
Speaker 1: Eliza says, you know, I have never held gold here
Speaker 1: in w w E, which in fact he has title.
Speaker 1: But he says, I maybe I'd love to be the
Speaker 1: tag team champions. So the bloodline comes up. They said
Speaker 1: never gonna happen, but then Elias challenged him to a
Speaker 1: tag match the US so say anytime, any time, everybody
Speaker 1: is next Monday Night on Raw, Riddle and Alias are
Speaker 1: getting a shot at the tag team titles. I can
Speaker 1: tell you how free you s I'd be if they
Speaker 1: if they won, but they won't. Street Profits Helph Academy
Speaker 1: twelve minutes. This was a very good match. The Street
Speaker 1: Profits look great, Alpha Academy, Chad Gables unbelievable. Otis is
Speaker 1: just the fun big fat guy. They did a spot
Speaker 1: where montez Ford gave Otis this awesome. You know, twenty
Speaker 1: two is it's the year of the body slam. There's
Speaker 1: never been a better year for body slam since they
Speaker 1: had that body slam where rear Ripley gave that body
Speaker 1: slam the gallows and dude, she lifted that. And obviously
Speaker 1: when you do a body slam, the other person helps
Speaker 1: you a little bit. But I mean they're going up
Speaker 1: for you. But you know how great it looks at
Speaker 1: the end also depends on if you can hold him
Speaker 1: there for a second, you know, like Lugar couldn't hold
Speaker 1: Yo Kazuno, so Yokasina went up for him and it
Speaker 1: was kind of like a side World Strongest Slam, but
Speaker 1: man Gallows starts going up for rear Ripley and man
Speaker 1: she held him with one arm and then she takes
Speaker 1: the other arm and tipped them over. That was awesome.
Speaker 1: And then Man montez Ford gave the world's slowest, most
Speaker 1: dramatic body slam to Otis in this match. He picked
Speaker 1: this dude up, he turned him over, he held him
Speaker 1: and then it was so awesome. And then he had
Speaker 1: the big splash at the end. He's coming off a uh,
Speaker 1: you know, cave injury. You know your calve is it's
Speaker 1: not a baby cow, it's a muscle in your leg
Speaker 1: that is used to jump. Well, his was ruined, it
Speaker 1: was he was hurt. And then he came back and
Speaker 1: he jumped higher than ever off that top rope for
Speaker 1: this big splash. So holy smokes. Then we had an
Speaker 1: awesome theory promo, tough guy promo, you know, the gimmick,
Speaker 1: and then outcomes seth rawlins. It is my it is
Speaker 1: my weekly chance to tell you how much I hate
Speaker 1: I hate this gimmick. No, I don't want to hear. Hey,
Speaker 1: I know you hate it, but the people love it.
Speaker 1: They love to sing, dude, they'd love to sing. Whether
Speaker 1: he came out in women's lingerie or not. I don't
Speaker 1: know what this dude was wearing. And it's one thing
Speaker 1: if you come out in women's lingerie because like your
Speaker 1: gimmick because you wear women's lingre, that's fine whatever, But
Speaker 1: I don't think that sets gimmick. I don't know what
Speaker 1: his gimmick is. He comes out in a stupid outfit.
Speaker 1: He lost his title the night before. His main concern is, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, before I talk to you, I want to
Speaker 1: hear the people sing my song. They sing a song.
Speaker 1: Then he's laughing, he's doing comedy, and then you know
Speaker 1: he wants a match, but but Theory says no, and
Speaker 1: then Rollin says, well, congratulations kid, ha ha. It does
Speaker 1: a stupid laugh. I'm like, dude, this gimmick sucks. It
Speaker 1: sucks so that it was over and I was over it.
Speaker 1: Extra Loomis and the miss ten minutes, not a lot
Speaker 1: of heat. Extra Loomis beat him up, and he beat
Speaker 1: him up. He beat him up and he beat him up.
Speaker 1: MS got one into the buckle, roll up feed on
Speaker 1: the ropes near fall, and then Dexter choked him out
Speaker 1: one and then Dexter got his bag of money and
Speaker 1: he's handing out money to all the kids. Ms jumps
Speaker 1: him from behind. He steals money from a child. He
Speaker 1: takes money from a little kid, a hundred dollars. Fans
Speaker 1: are furious, but then Gargano comes out Obaam takes the
Speaker 1: money from his end, gives it back to the little kid.
Speaker 1: Everyone's so happy him and Dexter to the thumbs up.
Speaker 1: You know what, This storyline sucked. It sucked. But the
Speaker 1: one difference between Triple Hi and Vince is it Vince
Speaker 1: would do storylines that sucked, but they would have no beginning, middle,
Speaker 1: and end. It would just be this sucks. Remember the Egg.
Speaker 1: What was the payoff for the Golden Egg? There was
Speaker 1: no payoff. It just sucked. Everything about it sucked. There
Speaker 1: was no story. This sucked, but you know what, it
Speaker 1: was a story with a beginning. It was a story
Speaker 1: with the middle. We found out what was actually going on.
Speaker 1: Then it built to the payoff. The end, they paid
Speaker 1: it off. They had a happy ending. A kid got
Speaker 1: a hundred dollars and you know what, fine, But can
Speaker 1: we move on now from the miss Indexter Loomis Kennice
Speaker 1: lay beat Dakota Kai. That a good match Candice One
Speaker 1: getting to revenge and then in the main event Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens j U So twenty one minutes, they're setting up
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens for a feud with Roman Reigns, so man,
Speaker 1: it was looking dire, but then he hit that stunner,
Speaker 1: got the pin and they got out of there. Kevin
Speaker 1: Owens with the win. Great match between two inch guys,
Speaker 1: as I'll talk about after the break Wrestling Observer Live,
Speaker 1: like the show Bryan Obre is here, Wrestling Observer Alive.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Kevin Owens, bad knee j whoso broke in
Speaker 1: hand and man, they got in there and you would
Speaker 1: never know they were hurt. They were so hard and
Speaker 1: they had such a good match and the near falls
Speaker 1: at the end, rawsom flying super kicks and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and then finally that big ka boom, the big stunner
Speaker 1: for the pin, and man, they're gonna try and they
Speaker 1: got They got six weeks. But it's just hard when
Speaker 1: you've got a Roman Reigns that you've built up so
Speaker 1: strong and you never give anybody anything on the guy.
Speaker 1: What it leads to is nobody believing anybody's gonna beat him.
Speaker 1: It leads with a whole coke and it was like
Speaker 1: earthquake squashed him on The Brother Love Show and you
Speaker 1: think maybe man anyway, that was raw thought it was
Speaker 1: a fine show. We'll get the ratings. I think we'll
Speaker 1: get the ratings soon. But you know how it is
Speaker 1: in the haul of days, come up throws Nielson off
Speaker 1: for weeks. Here in awfully hard to push those buttons.
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