Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network.
Speaker 1: Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every
Speaker 1: day Monday to Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern, and Saturday's Tenday in Pacific one Eastern with
Speaker 1: Jim Valley. And we got a lot to get into today.
Speaker 1: Everybody's favorite topic. Monday night Raw Holy Smokes a shown
Speaker 1: that they launched last night. You know, we had some
Speaker 1: good rows and such lately. I don't know what happened
Speaker 1: on I don't know what happened last week, but SmackDown
Speaker 1: and Raw. My god, SmackDown had no wrestling. It was
Speaker 1: like thirteen minutes of wrestling in a two hour show.
Speaker 1: And granted Raw on Monday had more than thirteen hours
Speaker 1: of wrestling, but oh my god, they had so many
Speaker 1: talking segments, so many boring talking segments leading to two
Speaker 1: matches with the lamest finishes. So anyway, we'll rant about
Speaker 1: that today. But also we've got to a w Dynamite
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. We've got the lineup for that show, lots
Speaker 1: of matches, including the first T and T title defense
Speaker 1: of Horde Low. He'll be facing Orange Cassidy. We've also
Speaker 1: got a n x T two point oh tonight with
Speaker 1: a women's title match, Mandy Rose versus Roxanne Perez and more.
Speaker 1: It's coming on Wednesday on Dynamite. They'll be announcing all
Speaker 1: of the information about the All Out pay per view,
Speaker 1: which is coming up on Sunday, September four. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be there. I'm gonna be there. Also be talking about
Speaker 1: the best moments w w e's best moments in the
Speaker 1: sp Awards. We've got four uh contenders here. What do
Speaker 1: you think was the best w w E moment of these?
Speaker 1: We'll eat those out. And there was an issue involving
Speaker 1: the Great Collie and a hole worker. What happened, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll tell you about it here on the show, plus
Speaker 1: ratings and so much more if you want to Texas
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Speaker 1: back in a moment with more. Observer Live Simes lovel
Speaker 1: and then Joe brand Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike simper be the also of Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: I actually can't wait to tear a part Rob, but
Speaker 1: I'll wait till the next second. I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I got a little time. Do you want to
Speaker 1: your your usual show opening chuckle Mike, No, should I
Speaker 1: mention the buzz? No? Okay, hey, don't you mention that?
Speaker 1: Before we started there? I just noticed with there was
Speaker 1: a loud commercial in the background. I thought it might
Speaker 1: just be uh, you know, poor production on one of
Speaker 1: the commercials. Instead, it was a poor production on my show.
Speaker 1: Tony con announced were those first T and T Championship
Speaker 1: defense is coming up tonight tomorrow night, what's today? Tuesday
Speaker 1: Wednesday on a W Dynamite. He will be facing Orange
Speaker 1: Cassidy for the T n T title. I would not
Speaker 1: expect a title change. Orange Cassie has got a lot
Speaker 1: of big wins lately and good performances. I expect him
Speaker 1: to go in there and shouldn't have a fun match,
Speaker 1: but he'll be He'll be roundly defeated. I would presume
Speaker 1: we've also got John mox Lee versus Two Keshta for
Speaker 1: the A E W. Actually it's not for the title,
Speaker 1: but if it's catch twins. Uh what do they call these?
Speaker 1: A contenders match? Championship contenders match. If he wins, he'll
Speaker 1: get a title shot. We've got Young Bucks versus Shane
Speaker 1: Strickling and Keith Lee against Will Hobbs and Ricky Starks
Speaker 1: in a three way four the tag team titles. You know,
Speaker 1: the Young Bucks put the titles on the line. Jake
Speaker 1: Hager versus Cloudio Castignoli, Serena Deep versus Anna j Luca
Speaker 1: Source will be in action and Christian Cage will be
Speaker 1: cutting a promo. Chris Jericho also will be cutting a
Speaker 1: promo on the show tomorrow. So that's Wednesday night tonight
Speaker 1: an x T two point Oh, We've got Mandy Rose
Speaker 1: and Rock San Perez for the n x T women's title.
Speaker 1: We have got Apollo Cruz, Giovanni Vinci to see he
Speaker 1: was more athletic, and Solo Sakoba will face Von Wagner,
Speaker 1: my favorite and next team names. So that's the lineup.
Speaker 1: If I look at all these matches here, I think
Speaker 1: that Ward Low should win. I think that Takeshta, he
Speaker 1: maybe should beat John Moxley. I haven't, I haven't. I
Speaker 1: haven't decided a hundred percent yet but he gets more
Speaker 1: over every time he gets in the ring. The fans
Speaker 1: are super behind the guy. He has great matches, and
Speaker 1: I think that a rare victory over the champion to
Speaker 1: set up a title match which he would then lose.
Speaker 1: I think that that might be a pretty fun idea.
Speaker 1: Young Bucks should retain, Mandy Rose should lose the title
Speaker 1: to Roxanne Perez, but I don't think that she will.
Speaker 1: And those are my big predictions for the next couple
Speaker 1: of days. How long is Zoe starkout for? Are you? Do?
Speaker 1: You know that she was out in November, November, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
Speaker 1: probably a month out so mcl injury terror that happened
Speaker 1: into her. I am all four. I mean, Roxane Perez
Speaker 1: is the future of women's wrestling there because of her
Speaker 1: age and because of her talent level already, So she's
Speaker 1: gonna have a long lifespan there. And I would be
Speaker 1: more for putting the belt on her if she didn't
Speaker 1: win the tag titles, and I think they have a
Speaker 1: story going with that. And I like Zoe Stark a lot,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if she's a a long term
Speaker 1: person for them. I don't know if we'll see her
Speaker 1: on the main roster, but I thought she was very
Speaker 1: strong when she was there. She's very skilled, and I
Speaker 1: think when she comes back, she's gonna make an impact
Speaker 1: on that division. So if it is only going to
Speaker 1: be August and we're only really looking at six weeks away,
Speaker 1: even though I haven't been enthralled with the Mandy Rose
Speaker 1: title reign, I can wait another six weeks. If if
Speaker 1: she comes back and it's the surprise and Roxy keeps
Speaker 1: that uh, you know, money in the bank or whatever
Speaker 1: they call it, the futures, you know, championship shot in
Speaker 1: her back pocket and holds onto it for a little bit.
Speaker 1: Also on Wednesday, w is gonna announced their next pay
Speaker 1: per view. It was revealed during this week's A E
Speaker 1: W Control Center? Is that like the bump? What is
Speaker 1: the A E W Control Center? Well, you remember watching Stark,
Speaker 1: you know, leads the star kid in the Great American
Speaker 1: I know what a control center is, But where's the
Speaker 1: A W Control Center? Probably YouTube? Probably in front of
Speaker 1: a green screen on YouTube with Tony Siani. Announcement of
Speaker 1: the company's next pay per view will be made on
Speaker 1: Dynamite this Wednesday, night. Next pay per view will be
Speaker 1: all out schedules a place Sunday, September four, Dave and
Speaker 1: I will be doing a live Q and A that weekend,
Speaker 1: So if you're making plans to go, you know, you
Speaker 1: know it's great about it too. We're gonna do that
Speaker 1: live Q and A. And then immediately after the Life
Speaker 1: Q and A, you can go back to your hotel
Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon over a will the weekend in Chicago
Speaker 1: and sit there by yourself and watch the w w
Speaker 1: E pay per view that they're running that same weekend
Speaker 1: on Saturday. Doesn't that sound exciting? Is that? Technically on
Speaker 1: the itinerary for everyone who's going to be joining you
Speaker 1: out there? Now? It's not in Vegas either dude, or Nashville.
Speaker 1: Where the hell? Where's it's It's likely going to be Chicago.
Speaker 1: We'll find out tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna
Speaker 1: be in Chicago. And then that they seem to draw
Speaker 1: well there, don't they. Clash of the Clash at the
Speaker 1: Castle will be taking place Saturday, and a w all
Speaker 1: out will take place on Sunday. Clash of the Castle
Speaker 1: we headlined by Roman Reigns against either Drew mc attire
Speaker 1: or perhaps Shamus. What is the official start time Eastern
Speaker 1: time for that? I don't know, but I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be right after our Q and A. They're gonna
Speaker 1: hold it up for us. So if we run on, yes,
Speaker 1: hopefully they give you a little bit more time than
Speaker 1: TBS gave Dyingmite last week. We're just cut off at
Speaker 1: the end. Actually the game extra time, I know. And
Speaker 1: they still got a cut off at the end. Uh
Speaker 1: the w w E the Speeds Best w w E
Speaker 1: Moment Award, it started with a bracket of sixteen. I
Speaker 1: didn't even know that. Now that now it's down to four,
Speaker 1: so I try and find the bracket of sixteen. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna all right, okay, So here's here's the bracket
Speaker 1: of sixteen. We had brock Lessner wins Men's Royal Rumble
Speaker 1: versus Bianca. Oh I I see what they're doing here.
Speaker 1: So on our site they actually put the brackets together,
Speaker 1: so it was brock Lesser wins the Men's Royal Rumble,
Speaker 1: Bianca bel Air wins the raw women's title. John Cena
Speaker 1: returns at money to the bank. Ronda Rousey wins the
Speaker 1: Women's Royal Rumble. W w E welcomes back live crowds.
Speaker 1: Steve Austin stunts everyone at WrestleMania thirty eight Night To
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns wins the title at WrestleMania thirty eight. Cody
Speaker 1: Rhodes returns at WrestleMania thirty eight. Roman Rains becomes the
Speaker 1: undisputed Oh, I see he won the other title. I
Speaker 1: got it. Biggie cashed in money the bank to win
Speaker 1: the w w E title. Miss turns against Logan, Paul
Speaker 1: Becky Lynch returns at SummerSlam. Undertaker gets inducted into the
Speaker 1: All of Fame. Edge Beats, seth rawlins at Helena Cell
Speaker 1: Crown Jewel, we Man Body Slam Sammy Zane at WrestleMania
Speaker 1: thirty eight. There We Go. Lessner returns at Summer Slam
Speaker 1: one and Stone Cold Steve Buston returns to the ring
Speaker 1: at WrestleMania thirty eight. Night one sounds the original bracket,
Speaker 1: So it's down to four. Okay, it's down to the
Speaker 1: last four. Wait here with the last four? Are am?
Speaker 1: All right? Cody Rhodes returns at WrestleMania thirty eight. All right.
Speaker 1: Steve Austin stunts theory Vince and Pat McVie and wrestle
Speaker 1: maybe a thirty eight night too. That would be in
Speaker 1: my final four Undertaker Inductor into the w w E
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. I get it? And uh was this
Speaker 1: even listed in the first ones? I read Biggie catches
Speaker 1: in Money in the Bank. I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: How did that get in there? I don't know. Wait
Speaker 1: a second, where's we man? Well? We men didn't make
Speaker 1: the final four? Dude, that's what's very sad about that. Okay,
Speaker 1: what happened. But when we go back to these brackets
Speaker 1: we had, how did someone get in the final four?
Speaker 1: Maybe I had to buy hold on a second. Oh,
Speaker 1: there it is. Yeah, Biggie catches in Money in the
Speaker 1: Bank against the misturns on Logan Paul. Okay, so anyway,
Speaker 1: it wasn't there. But the point is, everybody, what do
Speaker 1: you think is the greatest w w E moment? When
Speaker 1: I look at all of those, I would I would say,
Speaker 1: because I'll remember it for the rest of my life.
Speaker 1: When Stone Cold stunned everybody at WrestleMania Night to including
Speaker 1: Vince McMahon, taking the final worst stunner anyone's ever taken
Speaker 1: in the storied history a professional wrestling. That would be
Speaker 1: my vote. Well, you guys can you guys can make
Speaker 1: your vote anyway. Back in a moment, we'll talk Raw
Speaker 1: Observer Live Hack in the show. Brian Elber is here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live mixumb for b B. Also Wrestling Observer
Speaker 1: dot com. What was that? If you were watching? Video?
Speaker 1: Is a classic film? The radio show? Everybody, there's commercials.
Speaker 1: I know some of you were young. You don't know
Speaker 1: what the radio is or commercials. My two year old
Speaker 1: gets angry watching coke mill. She goes, what another AD's
Speaker 1: already upset about ads? She's too, Well, let's talk about this, uh,
Speaker 1: this Raw show now. The opening segment was very good.
Speaker 1: Brock Lessner came out and everyone loves him. He talked
Speaker 1: about the match at Summer Slam, talks about he's gonna
Speaker 1: slaughter Roman reigns like a hog, and then out comes
Speaker 1: Paul Haman. If Paul Hayman starts doing this promo, Paul
Speaker 1: Hayman is doing everything in his power to try to
Speaker 1: make you care about another Roman Reigns brock Lesner match.
Speaker 1: And he actually does a line that I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say on the air, but it involved anyway. Lessner is
Speaker 1: howling with laughter at this line, and he's about to
Speaker 1: repeat it when, of all people, Theory comes out. Theory
Speaker 1: wants to make it clear he's gonna cash in against
Speaker 1: either of these guys. He's very upset at brock for
Speaker 1: throwing him off the elimination chamber, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: they showed a bunch of replays, but they don't show
Speaker 1: the landing because he got thrown off in land on
Speaker 1: his feet, and I guess I thought it didn't look
Speaker 1: dramatic enough. God forbid the guy kill himself, But so
Speaker 1: they show him flying through the air and then the
Speaker 1: screen goes black and here Klang. He gets to use
Speaker 1: your imagination for what happened. So then Chad Gable and
Speaker 1: not to show up and they jump brock Lessner. Brock
Speaker 1: Lessner no sells it. He destroys both of these guys,
Speaker 1: soup plex his chat everywhere f five otis on the
Speaker 1: announced table, kills him. Both crowd goes nuts. Hayman's all worried.
Speaker 1: This was a very good opening segment, and that's that's
Speaker 1: about where all of the very good stuff ends. We
Speaker 1: had Damien Priest and Finn Balor and Ray Mystereo and
Speaker 1: Dominic out there and Damian Priests and Finnbaler talked and
Speaker 1: talked and talked and talked, and they're trying to convince
Speaker 1: Dominic to join the judgment day. We also noted that
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks it's raymisterias twentieth anniversary of
Speaker 1: his w w E career Madison Square Gard They're gonna
Speaker 1: celebrate his twentieth anniversary. So I think we can all
Speaker 1: probably figure out what might be happening to Ray on
Speaker 1: that day. So it led to Finn Balor versus Ray Mysterio,
Speaker 1: and they had a good match. This was a good match,
Speaker 1: and Finn Balor ended up pinning him clean in the
Speaker 1: middle with the Kuda gras they do this, And of
Speaker 1: course the storyline here is that, hey, look Tom, your
Speaker 1: dad is old and he sucks and he can't win,
Speaker 1: so you should go with us. A great way to
Speaker 1: get over you know, I should say, I shouldn't say
Speaker 1: young Ray, but a good way to get over a
Speaker 1: legendary Ray Mysterio for his twentieth anniversary coming up in
Speaker 1: two weeks. I hope Producer Dom was actually paying attention
Speaker 1: to this segment, because if he just overheard that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have some questions for you when we go to break.
Speaker 1: Never heard what the legendary Ray mysterio? What sure? Not? Nothing?
Speaker 1: Never mind? Go ahead? What I say? Tom? How how
Speaker 1: dare I interrupted? I didn't. I didn't swear today. No,
Speaker 1: I didn't say you never mind? He's everybody on the
Speaker 1: chat has absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Thank
Speaker 1: you for that interjection that only you. Becky Lynch kind
Speaker 1: of promo. She's standing on top of the announced table
Speaker 1: and uh, she's upset that she uh, whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: I can't get a title shot. She says, I don't
Speaker 1: care who wins this match tonight. I want the championship
Speaker 1: match at SummerSlam. So she sits there to do commentary.
Speaker 1: It is Bianca versus Carmela, a match we have seen before.
Speaker 1: It is for the women's title. I don't know why,
Speaker 1: nor do the announcers. This match went eleven minutes, and
Speaker 1: for about nine minutes it was much better than their
Speaker 1: pay per view match. But then as a match just
Speaker 1: keeps going, and it keeps going and going and going,
Speaker 1: and they're kicking out and kick it out and kick
Speaker 1: it out, and it just keeps going. It just keeps
Speaker 1: spinning around and finally, why not so long I remember
Speaker 1: what happened? Oh yeah, So they're outside the ring and
Speaker 1: Carmela and Bianca are brawling and Carmela rakes her eyes,
Speaker 1: which of course is illegal, and then she rolls into
Speaker 1: the ring and then Bianca is going to roll into
Speaker 1: the ring the rest right there, she's counting seven eight,
Speaker 1: and right then Becky comes up and she starts yelling
Speaker 1: at Bianca and they're arguing, and so the ref doesn't say, hey,
Speaker 1: get out of here, Bianca or Becky or whoever. He
Speaker 1: just keeps counting, and so of course Bianca's counted out.
Speaker 1: She loses to Carmela, and then of course Carmela parades
Speaker 1: around with the title. Corey Grace says that she's the champ.
Speaker 1: Everyone else says she isn't. This crowd was dead for
Speaker 1: this segment here. Then we had Miss TV with Chompa.
Speaker 1: So first we have a long Miss TV segment. They
Speaker 1: talk and they talk and they talk. Mrs Angry at well,
Speaker 1: actually he's he's gonna give Logan Paul one more chance.
Speaker 1: Next week, Logan Paul is going to be on the show.
Speaker 1: He says, Logan has one more chance to agree to
Speaker 1: be his tag team partner, otherwise he's gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 1: And uh, they're going on and on and on. AJ
Speaker 1: Styles interrupts and there was actually a great line here
Speaker 1: where MMS somehow, and it's never even explained how the
Speaker 1: match that has been signed is MS and chompa versus
Speaker 1: a J in a two on one handicap match. Who
Speaker 1: signed this? Why a J agreed? None of this is
Speaker 1: made clear. So a J uh once Ezekiel to uh
Speaker 1: or I guess Ezekiel comes out to be his partner.
Speaker 1: But anywhere, some somewhere in here, MS, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: a J saying, hey, you know, MS, I see you
Speaker 1: have to have a friend here to help you out.
Speaker 1: You can't do this one on one? You know what
Speaker 1: that makes you? Miss? That makes you? And MS says,
Speaker 1: don't say it, And a J says that makes you
Speaker 1: and missays don't say it. So a he says that
Speaker 1: makes you a coward. Msic goes, oh okay then, and
Speaker 1: then a J goes a coward with tiny balls that
Speaker 1: of course MS is all angry, but MS totally not
Speaker 1: caring that he was called a coward. That was a
Speaker 1: great moment. So anyway, Ezekiel comes out and now it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a tag match. Mrs angry that it's a
Speaker 1: tag match, and even though whatever, so they do this match,
Speaker 1: and I swear to God, this is the finish. A
Speaker 1: J bear with me. Here, a J and the MS
Speaker 1: are in the ring in this tag team match. A
Speaker 1: J puts him in the calf crusher. MS is about
Speaker 1: to tap Mrs partner in this tag team match, breaks
Speaker 1: up the hold, and the re free calls for the
Speaker 1: bell and that's a Corey Greece or screaming what was that?
Speaker 1: Why was that a d Q? What's going on here?
Speaker 1: What a horrible call? Then they go, oh uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Champa can't contain his anger because he's now he's pounding
Speaker 1: on h even though this long after the disqualification. Then
Speaker 1: they start talking about well, the illegal man, the illegal man.
Speaker 1: Bro There was nothing but tag team match on the show.
Speaker 1: It was one guy breaking up a pin after another.
Speaker 1: But man in this match, it was a disqualification. The
Speaker 1: crowd is booing ah. And this whole segment between all
Speaker 1: of the talking and the match twenty four minutes. I
Speaker 1: set for twenty four minutes for all of this to
Speaker 1: have a disqualification when a when a tag partner broke
Speaker 1: up a hole in a tag team match, now I
Speaker 1: was human. We had Alexa Bliss and Oscar versus Dewdrop
Speaker 1: and Nicky Ash. The whole match is Corey Graves saying,
Speaker 1: you know, Alexa was a lot better before. She just
Speaker 1: became normal. And then she wins. She pins Nicky Ash
Speaker 1: with a DDT in the middle of the ring, so
Speaker 1: we may get spooky Alexa Bliss again with they're teasing.
Speaker 1: We had a long USO's promo. They got the gist
Speaker 1: of the show. Yet long USO's promo. They go on
Speaker 1: and on and on. The street profits come out, my
Speaker 1: shoulder wasn't down. They go on and on and on.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna be the referee SummerSlam? They go on and
Speaker 1: on on. Then our Truth comes out. He wants to
Speaker 1: be the referee. He's got a ref shirt on, a
Speaker 1: bunch of comedy, bunch of whatever. And then the us
Speaker 1: so so say, hey, can you get that? Uh what
Speaker 1: do they call him a joke ass or something like that?
Speaker 1: They called him something. So this makes Truth so mad
Speaker 1: that he wants to fight. But then he notes only
Speaker 1: if it's three on two. Well, then outcomes m v
Speaker 1: P and Omas. You know along this is gone by
Speaker 1: the way. M v P and Omas come out. So
Speaker 1: Omas ands up being the third man on the USO's team.
Speaker 1: So what is the USO's and Omas versus the street
Speaker 1: prophets and our truth? Anybody want to guess the finish?
Speaker 1: It is the USO's and Omas against the street profits
Speaker 1: in truth. What do you think the finishes? Huh? Well,
Speaker 1: if you guessed Omas pinned truth wrong, Omas pinned Topkins,
Speaker 1: Topkins clean in the middle of the ring. What sweating
Speaker 1: profusely at this point all the windows opening this house
Speaker 1: and turned the air on. I was dying. Seth wrongs
Speaker 1: promo bunch of laughing. You know how I feel about
Speaker 1: that laughing? Another cryptic video package? Is it Edge? Is
Speaker 1: it uh Bray? Is it the two of them? Is
Speaker 1: it Alexa? Who knows? And then find ten thirty five
Speaker 1: pm time for the main event? Hey got twenty five
Speaker 1: minutes for the main event. Well, ten thirty five Lashly
Speaker 1: comes out. Thank god for our front page report for
Speaker 1: this this breakdown. Ten thirty five Lashly comes out, ten
Speaker 1: thirty seven, Riddle comes out ten thirty eight commercial break,
Speaker 1: ten forty three replay of Riddle giving role as inn
Speaker 1: r KO. Ten forty four. Rawlins comes out, ten forty five,
Speaker 1: Theory comes out, ten forty five. Main event finally begins.
Speaker 1: Main event begins ten forty five. We sent ten minutes,
Speaker 1: ten forty nine commercial break. Finally ten fifty two. Oh height,
Speaker 1: not yet, we gotta plug freddicks t this week. Finally
Speaker 1: a ten fifty three the return of the main event.
Speaker 1: So we got about eight minutes of television time and
Speaker 1: uh Lashly and Riddle beat Rawlins and Theory, and uh
Speaker 1: Riddle got the win. Bro I'm out back in a
Speaker 1: moment Reserver Live. Back in the show. Brian elber is
Speaker 1: here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simbervi also Wrestling Observer dot com.
Speaker 1: Did I mention how much I hated that raw show?
Speaker 1: I mentioned that, you know what's funny about it is
Speaker 1: when they actually did stuff, I liked it. But dude,
Speaker 1: there they waste so much time on this show. It
Speaker 1: is exactly it is exactly what we talked about for years.
Speaker 1: So what's the ideal length of a show ninety minutes?
Speaker 1: If they took out every bit of BS on this show.
Speaker 1: It would be a ninety minute show. But my god,
Speaker 1: and someone was like, I wish Brian had this much
Speaker 1: rage for n x T two point out. Bro, I
Speaker 1: prefer n x T two point out of this show.
Speaker 1: It's only two hours, so I save an hour of
Speaker 1: my life watching it. And you know what, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to say about n x T. At LEAs East,
Speaker 1: they do a segment and then they go into the
Speaker 1: next thing, and then they go into the next thing
Speaker 1: and they keep the show moving. Dude, this is you
Speaker 1: know long, three hours is okay when they when they
Speaker 1: it would be one thing. If you did like a
Speaker 1: three hour n x T two point Oh, okay, that's
Speaker 1: still too long because it's three hours, but at least
Speaker 1: it would be a three hour show that was three
Speaker 1: hours long. This is somehow a three hour show that's
Speaker 1: five hours long. It takes for It feels like you're
Speaker 1: watching this show for years because nothing happens for minutes
Speaker 1: on end. And they do this. They do this every week,
Speaker 1: that third hour because our our front page who writes
Speaker 1: this on the front who writes the front page report.
Speaker 1: I'll plug him in a second, but the point is
Speaker 1: they do this every week. He points it out. They
Speaker 1: always at at ten thirty five, it's time for the
Speaker 1: main event. And and by the way, he didn't even
Speaker 1: put in the commercial before the first entrance. At From
Speaker 1: ten twenty to eleven o'clock, there's nothing but filler in
Speaker 1: about eight minutes of wrestling, and you wonder why that
Speaker 1: third hour dies every time brutal. I wonder how much
Speaker 1: the average fan fast forwards and what they fast forward
Speaker 1: through because all of the video packages there's so much
Speaker 1: of that filler, and I don't I guess it's working.
Speaker 1: I guess it's something that they have fallen upon that
Speaker 1: seems to be working for them. I just here's a
Speaker 1: ring entrance, and then we're gonna go to commercial. Then
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back with a video package hyping something
Speaker 1: that's got to do with w W E shop or
Speaker 1: this or that, to an interview to this, then we
Speaker 1: get back to the ring. It just it. I am
Speaker 1: still not used to that kind of flow. I know,
Speaker 1: I'm old. If it's working, I guess I can't say anything.
Speaker 1: It's just it's hard it. As a viewer, I can't
Speaker 1: believe I'm the only one that yes, uh, I guess
Speaker 1: you could stick around for it. But when you have
Speaker 1: a DVR, I mean to me, that's like ten minutes
Speaker 1: you could be doing something else, checking scores, go, doing
Speaker 1: anything else. And I wonder how when people are watching
Speaker 1: this on DVR, how much their fingers just on the
Speaker 1: fast forward button until they get to the match itself
Speaker 1: or somebody that's cutting a promo that they actually like,
Speaker 1: because unfortunately, too many of these promos are also just
Speaker 1: mindless filler, especially the backstage ones. It's not really pushing
Speaker 1: anything across. I don't want to I don't want to
Speaker 1: add to my complaints, but like, if we pretend this
Speaker 1: is real, they're absolutely completely incompetent because dude, they had
Speaker 1: like no matches for the show. Every single match had
Speaker 1: to be set up by some angle, some angle where
Speaker 1: people came out and talked. Other than that apparently would
Speaker 1: add no matches. If nobody would have come out to talk,
Speaker 1: we wouldd no matches on the show. And if annything
Speaker 1: is we had the lineup on what day? Was it? Monday? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then later in the afternoon two of the matches vanished.
Speaker 1: They stopped advertise you it was Sunday. I did the
Speaker 1: Light Up Sunday Night with Dave they had three matches.
Speaker 1: They had three things announced on w W dot com
Speaker 1: Sunday night. By Monday they were down to one. They
Speaker 1: just took out two of the things. It's the Muppet Show.
Speaker 1: It's the Muppet Show. What's gonna happen? We don't know.
Speaker 1: Gonzo has got a plan of everything that's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: Kermit's ready to do, and then something goes sideways and
Speaker 1: this happens or that happens, and that's that's w W.
Speaker 1: That's at least Raw Smackdowns pretty much the same way,
Speaker 1: but certainly ras the it's a sports entertainment variety show.
Speaker 1: You might see some wrestling, who knows, But we got personalities.
Speaker 1: At least they have a few personalities. I like seeing
Speaker 1: Dolph Ziggler back. Um, I know he's done everything he
Speaker 1: is talking about that. But that's the thing with Dolph
Speaker 1: is at least for what they want Austin theory to be,
Speaker 1: he's the right guy to work with. The thing is
Speaker 1: this whole time where his dolphin you couldn't have like
Speaker 1: come up with an idea where he was kind of
Speaker 1: floating on the side to be brought in here too.
Speaker 1: It's just out of nowhere, his music hits, he walks
Speaker 1: out the middle of the match, he sits down, and
Speaker 1: then he he's now all of a sudden, he's got
Speaker 1: a beef of theory after the last time we saw him,
Speaker 1: he had a beef with who wasn't uh somebody that
Speaker 1: was helping out somebody was going against the miss or
Speaker 1: something like that. Him and Bobby Rude. So where's Bobby Rude?
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny, Mike, it's funny. You know, I
Speaker 1: thought watching that what you do. I'm sure you've said
Speaker 1: it many times, but I know you've said it before. Huh. Well,
Speaker 1: look at these WrestleManias. They they brought back Goldberg, they
Speaker 1: brought back brock Lessner, they brought back this, they brought
Speaker 1: back that. Right, Well, what are they gonna do? You said,
Speaker 1: who are they going to bring back down the road
Speaker 1: when these guys can't be brought back anymore? Well, we're
Speaker 1: getting our answer Dolph Ziggler here, because literally they brought
Speaker 1: him back. Act like he was a returning massive star
Speaker 1: of the past. Dolph Ziggler. Well, I mean, here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You bring Dolph back ten years from now at WrestleMania. Well, actually,
Speaker 1: I guess you can do that. There's they can do
Speaker 1: anything that they want. They can do anything that they want.
Speaker 1: But what would be you know, probably more behooved than
Speaker 1: more is actually have Dolph Ziggler show up on TV
Speaker 1: every once in a while, get a win. He doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be tied into a storyline. He just stays
Speaker 1: strong and I just I don't know he and Bobby
Speaker 1: Route both you know, why have a tag division no
Speaker 1: teams when you have Dolph Zigler and Bobby Rude right there?
Speaker 1: Why are Dolph Zigler and Bobby Rude not full time
Speaker 1: in n x D Because we talked about that before
Speaker 1: several times. Who would have been perfect to go down
Speaker 1: to n x T two point oh and be a
Speaker 1: regular down there and hang out and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff and try to help these guys get better,
Speaker 1: including guys like Damon Kemp and other guys who have
Speaker 1: actual amateur pro wrestling backgrounds in the same way that
Speaker 1: Dolve Zigler does. But they didn't decide to do that. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this Great Collie and we'll do some
Speaker 1: ratings slapping people with that big hand. Great Collie has
Speaker 1: issued a statement regarding an altercation he had on Monday
Speaker 1: with toll workers in uh Ludhiana, Punjab, India. A video
Speaker 1: of the incident was published on media and which Collie
Speaker 1: could be seen arguing with several toll workers. According to
Speaker 1: a translation of the video by The Tribune, one toll
Speaker 1: worker can be heard asking Collie why he slapped one
Speaker 1: of the other employees. The video does not show Collie
Speaker 1: slapping the person. However, you were asked to show your
Speaker 1: ID cards. Show the ID card, the toll employee tells Collie,
Speaker 1: to which he replies, you are blackmailing me. The employee
Speaker 1: then says, we're not blackmailing you. Why did you slap him?
Speaker 1: Show the ID card if you have it. Colli was
Speaker 1: reportedly traveling from Johal and dar And Punjab to Carnal
Speaker 1: at the time. Collie then took to social media on
Speaker 1: Tuesday and said, quote, hello friends, yesterday while going to Carnal,
Speaker 1: told tax employee of phil our stopped my car and
Speaker 1: misbehaved for selfie. When I denied selfie, he ruthlessly passed
Speaker 1: racist comments, also used bad words. That's all I want
Speaker 1: to say, thank you. According to police, neither party has
Speaker 1: filed a complaint regarding the incident. So that's the latest
Speaker 1: on the great colleigue. What's your take on that, Brian
Speaker 1: never slapping toll uh No, But these TOLD workers have
Speaker 1: a have an issue with the It's not told necessarily
Speaker 1: a constructions construction guys. The construction guys have a beef
Speaker 1: with wrestlers. Well, remember Steiner tried to run that guy over.
Speaker 1: I think it was Scott Steiner had a beef with
Speaker 1: the UH with the ground screw there the d O
Speaker 1: T crew. But even if the d O T was
Speaker 1: at fault and maybe they were poking the bear with
Speaker 1: Scott Steiner, I mean, it just can't be driving over people,
Speaker 1: and you just can't be slapping him around, even though
Speaker 1: well hold on, we don't know if he slapped him around.
Speaker 1: There's no video of There is no video that. There's
Speaker 1: an allegation and act well, and I mean, look what
Speaker 1: Collie had said in in response. Look, he was denied,
Speaker 1: he denied himselfies because they were acting a certain way.
Speaker 1: And if they did actually hit him with racist comments,
Speaker 1: I could see a slopping taking place. So I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to to hit Colie here with this, you know,
Speaker 1: and hopefully he didn't hit anybody else and well, you
Speaker 1: ever seen that guy throw into those overhand chops. He
Speaker 1: would have slept this guy. That guy be dead. That's
Speaker 1: not true. I think that slow that thing was coming
Speaker 1: so slow, are you sure about that he could have
Speaker 1: tried to get out of the way a little bit
Speaker 1: because how slow that thing is caught him a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think call He's got a good case. The evidence,
Speaker 1: the video evidence we have shows and if you would
Speaker 1: have hit this guy with that chop, that guy would
Speaker 1: be dead. You don't have that video evidence. You just
Speaker 1: said you're not even sure if he threw a chop
Speaker 1: listening to me, are you saying that you're client through
Speaker 1: a chop? Mr? Alb Rows, Are you listen to me?
Speaker 1: We have video evidence from his long wrestling career that
Speaker 1: when he throws that overhand slap chop. Deal, dudes are done. Okay.
Speaker 1: We have no evidence that he threw a chopped slap whatever.
Speaker 1: There's no video evidence that he attacked this guy. Okay, right,
Speaker 1: and if you add guy'd probably be done for so.
Speaker 1: I think all evidence is that the Great Callie is innocent.
Speaker 1: There's really only one way to answer this and to
Speaker 1: to try to fix this whole thing. And to try
Speaker 1: to finish it all off. And that is, of course
Speaker 1: a Punjabi prison told booth match N A and E.
Speaker 1: The Legends documentary of The Undertaker five eight two thousand
Speaker 1: viewers actually a pretty good number, although it's down a
Speaker 1: little bit from the eight episodes air during the first season.
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you one of those five thousand wasn't Granny.
Speaker 1: She watched a little bit of it and was bored.
Speaker 1: I don't like him when he's normal, she said. Showsn't
Speaker 1: like Mark Callaway. No, she likes the Undertaker, big take.
Speaker 1: But until the day point one four and eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine seventeenth on Cable Sunday, and then uh we
Speaker 1: had the Rivals show afterwards Breton Shawn three sixty eight
Speaker 1: and a point one oh which are and then afterwards
Speaker 1: uh Smack Talk which follows Rivals where they have some
Speaker 1: of their talking heads talk about the shows point oh
Speaker 1: seven and to twenty two. So there you go. SmackDown
Speaker 1: two point one to nine million viewers, down point six percent.
Speaker 1: Point four seven and eighteen to forty nine did top
Speaker 1: all English language programming in eighteen forty nine and eighteen
Speaker 1: to thirty four. Rampage four or twenty eight thousand down
Speaker 1: eleven point nine percent, point one five and eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine down six percent. So still the third highest
Speaker 1: rating in that category since April. But uh, string that
Speaker 1: we had there of of everyone doing great numbers for
Speaker 1: like a week or two, seems to be settling back
Speaker 1: to normal. So we'll see how Dynamite does. Tonight did
Speaker 1: a million a couple of weeks ago, a little under
Speaker 1: a million last week. We'll see what they do for
Speaker 1: the show this week. You ever watch anything on any Nope? Never,
Speaker 1: not sixty days in, not the first forty eight, none
Speaker 1: of that sort of stuff. Bro, I'm watching three hours
Speaker 1: of raw. The first thing I'm gonna do what I'm
Speaker 1: done is not gonna watch more TV. I got enough
Speaker 1: TV to watch one other shows that Brian Alba has
Speaker 1: watching it all. Do you watch any TV at all? No?
Speaker 1: I don't, not single watching wrestling, and then I go,
Speaker 1: I go outside, not even the weather channel to see
Speaker 1: what it's gonna be like before you go, Who watch
Speaker 1: is a weather channel? I got an app just asking,
Speaker 1: just asking. I know you're not a movie guy, not
Speaker 1: a TV guy. This person here says, in your opinions
Speaker 1: it's this whole vents TV or since this whole Vent
Speaker 1: story broke. Was last night's Raw, the first show that
Speaker 1: seemed to be all over the place and completely not
Speaker 1: make any sense. Wait a second, Wait a second, dude,
Speaker 1: Hey listen, what we had, ironically was a string of
Speaker 1: like three or four weeks of pretty decent episodes. Okay,
Speaker 1: but uh, let's not forget you know, a couple of
Speaker 1: months ago, a couple of years ago, things have been
Speaker 1: way Listen. I hated that show last night, but it
Speaker 1: was just because it was so much of a waste
Speaker 1: of time. But like the actual content of the show,
Speaker 1: aside from those two finishes, I mean, the wrestlers all
Speaker 1: worked hard, some of the matches were good. It wasn't
Speaker 1: this is not the bottom of the barrel that we've
Speaker 1: seen before. Just too much of a waste of time.
Speaker 1: Back in a moment, it's over life on the show
Speaker 1: right now. But is here wrestling Observer Alive Mike simple
Speaker 1: Boeb also wrestling Observer Dot comes Firs, says Brian, just
Speaker 1: like to say, I saw a video of the supposed incident.
Speaker 1: It does not look like Collie. He's a far worse worker. Oh,
Speaker 1: come on, damn your Sarai tweeted today rumors. Does that
Speaker 1: mean anything? Well, I think she's trying to suggest that
Speaker 1: the rumors of her having, as Dave noted, one ft
Speaker 1: out the door are incorrect. But you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. I like the rumors with a barfing face
Speaker 1: that she tweeted out there, So yeah, she doesn't like rumors.
Speaker 1: Let's see if you had to guess, do you see
Speaker 1: a w all out of the usual now arena or
Speaker 1: bring it to the United Center or bigger capacity, or
Speaker 1: maybe do a baseball stadium in Chicago. Well, I got
Speaker 1: a stadium coming up shortly thereafter. Ah, they're doing Arthur
Speaker 1: Ash again, So I don't know. I guess we'll see,
Speaker 1: but I would expect I shouldn't say anything. I have
Speaker 1: no idea what they're gonna do, and it probably depends on,
Speaker 1: you know, what kind of match. It probably will end
Speaker 1: up being punk versus uh mocks Lee to unify the titles,
Speaker 1: and I guess they they can make a decision how
Speaker 1: big a match they feel that's going to be. So
Speaker 1: we canna find out on Wednesday one way or the other,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna make the announcement on Dynamite, So when
Speaker 1: that happens, we'll talk about it. On Thursday and tomorrow
Speaker 1: Mike gets talked about n x T two point Oh.
Speaker 1: I am sad every time I miss a Wednesday because
Speaker 1: I do like talking about it. But at least I
Speaker 1: can do it. Scheduled a lot for Wednesdays now, aren't they. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what happens, dude. I got kids, bro, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap it up. The thing Mike is always callers
Speaker 1: and listeners over the studio. All my friends and co workers,
Speaker 1: the Romans and the countrymen who lend me their ears
Speaker 1: each day. I appreciate it. We'll o you next time
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