WEBVTT - Smackdown and RAW Rants 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.360 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:15.200 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.240 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.400 day Monday to Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.840 sixth Eastern, and Saturday's Tenday in Pacific one Eastern with 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:30.520 Jim Valley. And we got a lot to get into today. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:37.320 Everybody's favorite topic. Monday night Raw Holy Smokes a shown 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.720 that they launched last night. You know, we had some 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:42.000 good rows and such lately. I don't know what happened 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:45.920 on I don't know what happened last week, but SmackDown 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.920 and Raw. My god, SmackDown had no wrestling. It was 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:54.600 like thirteen minutes of wrestling in a two hour show. 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.280 And granted Raw on Monday had more than thirteen hours 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.640 of wrestling, but oh my god, they had so many 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.839 talking segments, so many boring talking segments leading to two 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:10.520 matches with the lamest finishes. So anyway, we'll rant about 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.560 that today. But also we've got to a w Dynamite 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.600 tomorrow night. We've got the lineup for that show, lots 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.160 of matches, including the first T and T title defense 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:25.880 of Horde Low. He'll be facing Orange Cassidy. We've also 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.080 got a n x T two point oh tonight with 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:32.360 a women's title match, Mandy Rose versus Roxanne Perez and more. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.000 It's coming on Wednesday on Dynamite. They'll be announcing all 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.720 of the information about the All Out pay per view, 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:43.240 which is coming up on Sunday, September four. You're gonna 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.720 be there. I'm gonna be there. Also be talking about 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.560 the best moments w w e's best moments in the 0:01:50.800 --> 0:01:57.360 sp Awards. We've got four uh contenders here. What do 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.640 you think was the best w w E moment of these? 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:03.440 We'll eat those out. And there was an issue involving 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:09.959 the Great Collie and a hole worker. What happened, Well, 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:11.919 we'll tell you about it here on the show, plus 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.840 ratings and so much more if you want to Texas 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.239 four to five seven eight zero seven five six six 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.760 four two five seven eight zero seven five six six 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:40.080 back in a moment with more. Observer Live Simes lovel 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.000 and then Joe brand Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:53.000 Mike simper be the also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.720 I actually can't wait to tear a part Rob, but 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.480 I'll wait till the next second. I want to make 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.560 sure I got a little time. Do you want to 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:07.040 your your usual show opening chuckle Mike, No, should I 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.000 mention the buzz? No? Okay, hey, don't you mention that? 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.600 Before we started there? I just noticed with there was 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.440 a loud commercial in the background. I thought it might 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.120 just be uh, you know, poor production on one of 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:23.080 the commercials. Instead, it was a poor production on my show. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.960 Tony con announced were those first T and T Championship 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.320 defense is coming up tonight tomorrow night, what's today? Tuesday 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:35.119 Wednesday on a W Dynamite. He will be facing Orange 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.760 Cassidy for the T n T title. I would not 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.760 expect a title change. Orange Cassie has got a lot 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.960 of big wins lately and good performances. I expect him 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.240 to go in there and shouldn't have a fun match, 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.240 but he'll be He'll be roundly defeated. I would presume 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.360 we've also got John mox Lee versus Two Keshta for 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:57.720 the A E W. Actually it's not for the title, 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.960 but if it's catch twins. Uh what do they call these? 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.880 A contenders match? Championship contenders match. If he wins, he'll 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.760 get a title shot. We've got Young Bucks versus Shane 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:14.280 Strickling and Keith Lee against Will Hobbs and Ricky Starks 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.640 in a three way four the tag team titles. You know, 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:19.800 the Young Bucks put the titles on the line. Jake 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:26.279 Hager versus Cloudio Castignoli, Serena Deep versus Anna j Luca 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.560 Source will be in action and Christian Cage will be 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.800 cutting a promo. Chris Jericho also will be cutting a 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.799 promo on the show tomorrow. So that's Wednesday night tonight 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.840 an x T two point Oh, We've got Mandy Rose 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.520 and Rock San Perez for the n x T women's title. 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:49.520 We have got Apollo Cruz, Giovanni Vinci to see he 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:53.760 was more athletic, and Solo Sakoba will face Von Wagner, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:05:01.200 my favorite and next team names. So that's the lineup. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.800 If I look at all these matches here, I think 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:10.440 that Ward Low should win. I think that Takeshta, he 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.360 maybe should beat John Moxley. I haven't, I haven't. I 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:16.840 haven't decided a hundred percent yet but he gets more 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:19.080 over every time he gets in the ring. The fans 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:22.240 are super behind the guy. He has great matches, and 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.240 I think that a rare victory over the champion to 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.440 set up a title match which he would then lose. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.719 I think that that might be a pretty fun idea. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:36.160 Young Bucks should retain, Mandy Rose should lose the title 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.479 to Roxanne Perez, but I don't think that she will. 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.760 And those are my big predictions for the next couple 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.040 of days. How long is Zoe starkout for? Are you? Do? 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:54.480 You know that she was out in November, November, January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:06:00.000 probably a month out so mcl injury terror that happened 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:04.080 into her. I am all four. I mean, Roxane Perez 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.480 is the future of women's wrestling there because of her 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.880 age and because of her talent level already, So she's 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.480 gonna have a long lifespan there. And I would be 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.680 more for putting the belt on her if she didn't 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:18.320 win the tag titles, and I think they have a 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.600 story going with that. And I like Zoe Stark a lot, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.040 and I don't know if she's a a long term 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.040 person for them. I don't know if we'll see her 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.200 on the main roster, but I thought she was very 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.040 strong when she was there. She's very skilled, and I 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.200 think when she comes back, she's gonna make an impact 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.160 on that division. So if it is only going to 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.719 be August and we're only really looking at six weeks away, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:44.279 even though I haven't been enthralled with the Mandy Rose 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.680 title reign, I can wait another six weeks. If if 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.800 she comes back and it's the surprise and Roxy keeps 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.800 that uh, you know, money in the bank or whatever 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:57.680 they call it, the futures, you know, championship shot in 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.880 her back pocket and holds onto it for a little bit. 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.120 Also on Wednesday, w is gonna announced their next pay 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.840 per view. It was revealed during this week's A E 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:13.560 W Control Center? Is that like the bump? What is 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.560 the A E W Control Center? Well, you remember watching Stark, 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.840 you know, leads the star kid in the Great American 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:21.960 I know what a control center is, But where's the 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:27.040 A W Control Center? Probably YouTube? Probably in front of 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:31.520 a green screen on YouTube with Tony Siani. Announcement of 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:33.560 the company's next pay per view will be made on 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.680 Dynamite this Wednesday, night. Next pay per view will be 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.920 all out schedules a place Sunday, September four, Dave and 0:07:41.960 --> 0:07:45.240 I will be doing a live Q and A that weekend, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.360 So if you're making plans to go, you know, you 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.840 know it's great about it too. We're gonna do that 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.760 live Q and A. And then immediately after the Life 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.239 Q and A, you can go back to your hotel 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.480 on Saturday afternoon over a will the weekend in Chicago 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.760 and sit there by yourself and watch the w w 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.680 E pay per view that they're running that same weekend 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.600 on Saturday. Doesn't that sound exciting? Is that? Technically on 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.120 the itinerary for everyone who's going to be joining you 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.280 out there? Now? It's not in Vegas either dude, or Nashville. 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:22.000 Where the hell? Where's it's It's likely going to be Chicago. 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:26.720 We'll find out tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:30.640 be in Chicago. And then that they seem to draw 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.120 well there, don't they. Clash of the Clash at the 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.360 Castle will be taking place Saturday, and a w all 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:42.040 out will take place on Sunday. Clash of the Castle 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.120 we headlined by Roman Reigns against either Drew mc attire 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:50.920 or perhaps Shamus. What is the official start time Eastern 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:52.960 time for that? I don't know, but I know it's 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.200 gonna be right after our Q and A. They're gonna 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:01.080 hold it up for us. So if we run on, yes, 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:04.040 hopefully they give you a little bit more time than 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:07.680 TBS gave Dyingmite last week. We're just cut off at 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.520 the end. Actually the game extra time, I know. And 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.640 they still got a cut off at the end. Uh 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:17.400 the w w E the Speeds Best w w E 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:22.760 Moment Award, it started with a bracket of sixteen. I 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.840 didn't even know that. Now that now it's down to four, 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.559 so I try and find the bracket of sixteen. No, no, 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:31.400 I'm gonna all right, okay, So here's here's the bracket 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:36.640 of sixteen. We had brock Lessner wins Men's Royal Rumble 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.439 versus Bianca. Oh I I see what they're doing here. 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:44.000 So on our site they actually put the brackets together, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.320 so it was brock Lesser wins the Men's Royal Rumble, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:51.560 Bianca bel Air wins the raw women's title. John Cena 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.920 returns at money to the bank. Ronda Rousey wins the 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:58.920 Women's Royal Rumble. W w E welcomes back live crowds. 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.800 Steve Austin stunts everyone at WrestleMania thirty eight Night To 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:07.040 Roman Reigns wins the title at WrestleMania thirty eight. Cody 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:13.000 Rhodes returns at WrestleMania thirty eight. Roman Rains becomes the 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.439 undisputed Oh, I see he won the other title. I 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.720 got it. Biggie cashed in money the bank to win 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.720 the w w E title. Miss turns against Logan, Paul 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:25.199 Becky Lynch returns at SummerSlam. Undertaker gets inducted into the 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.440 All of Fame. Edge Beats, seth rawlins at Helena Cell 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:34.760 Crown Jewel, we Man Body Slam Sammy Zane at WrestleMania 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.600 thirty eight. There We Go. Lessner returns at Summer Slam 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.120 one and Stone Cold Steve Buston returns to the ring 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.400 at WrestleMania thirty eight. Night one sounds the original bracket, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:47.280 So it's down to four. Okay, it's down to the 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:51.880 last four. Wait here with the last four? Are am? 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:57.280 All right? Cody Rhodes returns at WrestleMania thirty eight. All right. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:02.640 Steve Austin stunts theory Vince and Pat McVie and wrestle 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:05.000 maybe a thirty eight night too. That would be in 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.679 my final four Undertaker Inductor into the w w E 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:11.240 Hall of Fame. I get it? And uh was this 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:13.520 even listed in the first ones? I read Biggie catches 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:15.719 in Money in the Bank. I don't think it was. 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.560 How did that get in there? I don't know. Wait 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.840 a second, where's we man? Well? We men didn't make 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:26.480 the final four? Dude, that's what's very sad about that. Okay, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.920 what happened. But when we go back to these brackets 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.360 we had, how did someone get in the final four? 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:38.000 Maybe I had to buy hold on a second. Oh, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:39.959 there it is. Yeah, Biggie catches in Money in the 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:45.760 Bank against the misturns on Logan Paul. Okay, so anyway, 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.719 it wasn't there. But the point is, everybody, what do 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:50.920 you think is the greatest w w E moment? When 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.120 I look at all of those, I would I would say, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.760 because I'll remember it for the rest of my life. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:04.040 When Stone Cold stunned everybody at WrestleMania Night to including 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:08.880 Vince McMahon, taking the final worst stunner anyone's ever taken 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:12.640 in the storied history a professional wrestling. That would be 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.240 my vote. Well, you guys can you guys can make 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.480 your vote anyway. Back in a moment, we'll talk Raw 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:38.280 Observer Live Hack in the show. Brian Elber is here 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.760 Wrestling Observer Live mixumb for b B. Also Wrestling Observer 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.760 dot com. What was that? If you were watching? Video? 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:52.479 Is a classic film? The radio show? Everybody, there's commercials. 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.360 I know some of you were young. You don't know 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:58.559 what the radio is or commercials. My two year old 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:02.880 gets angry watching coke mill. She goes, what another AD's 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:08.040 already upset about ads? She's too, Well, let's talk about this, uh, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.280 this Raw show now. The opening segment was very good. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:15.520 Brock Lessner came out and everyone loves him. He talked 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.640 about the match at Summer Slam, talks about he's gonna 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:22.520 slaughter Roman reigns like a hog, and then out comes 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.720 Paul Haman. If Paul Hayman starts doing this promo, Paul 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:27.839 Hayman is doing everything in his power to try to 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:31.160 make you care about another Roman Reigns brock Lesner match. 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.080 And he actually does a line that I'm not gonna 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:41.120 say on the air, but it involved anyway. Lessner is 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.280 howling with laughter at this line, and he's about to 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.920 repeat it when, of all people, Theory comes out. Theory 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.280 wants to make it clear he's gonna cash in against 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.679 either of these guys. He's very upset at brock for 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.640 throwing him off the elimination chamber, which, by the way, 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.760 they showed a bunch of replays, but they don't show 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.079 the landing because he got thrown off in land on 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.679 his feet, and I guess I thought it didn't look 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:05.439 dramatic enough. God forbid the guy kill himself, But so 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.079 they show him flying through the air and then the 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:10.120 screen goes black and here Klang. He gets to use 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:13.679 your imagination for what happened. So then Chad Gable and 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:17.680 not to show up and they jump brock Lessner. Brock 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.200 Lessner no sells it. He destroys both of these guys, 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.040 soup plex his chat everywhere f five otis on the 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:27.160 announced table, kills him. Both crowd goes nuts. Hayman's all worried. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.200 This was a very good opening segment, and that's that's 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.200 about where all of the very good stuff ends. We 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:40.360 had Damien Priest and Finn Balor and Ray Mystereo and 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.960 Dominic out there and Damian Priests and Finnbaler talked and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.240 talked and talked and talked, and they're trying to convince 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:51.520 Dominic to join the judgment day. We also noted that 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.880 in a couple of weeks it's raymisterias twentieth anniversary of 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.400 his w w E career Madison Square Gard They're gonna 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.800 celebrate his twentieth anniversary. So I think we can all 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:04.120 probably figure out what might be happening to Ray on 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.560 that day. So it led to Finn Balor versus Ray Mysterio, 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.080 and they had a good match. This was a good match, 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:14.160 and Finn Balor ended up pinning him clean in the 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.920 middle with the Kuda gras they do this, And of 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.040 course the storyline here is that, hey, look Tom, your 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:23.080 dad is old and he sucks and he can't win, 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.800 so you should go with us. A great way to 0:15:25.840 --> 0:15:28.080 get over you know, I should say, I shouldn't say 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.520 young Ray, but a good way to get over a 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.360 legendary Ray Mysterio for his twentieth anniversary coming up in 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.360 two weeks. I hope Producer Dom was actually paying attention 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.800 to this segment, because if he just overheard that he's 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.880 gonna have some questions for you when we go to break. 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:48.800 Never heard what the legendary Ray mysterio? What sure? Not? Nothing? 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.240 Never mind? Go ahead? What I say? Tom? How how 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.400 dare I interrupted? I didn't. I didn't swear today. No, 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.160 I didn't say you never mind? He's everybody on the 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.680 chat has absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Thank 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:07.560 you for that interjection that only you. Becky Lynch kind 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.480 of promo. She's standing on top of the announced table 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.120 and uh, she's upset that she uh, whatever, you know, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.400 I can't get a title shot. She says, I don't 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.680 care who wins this match tonight. I want the championship 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.600 match at SummerSlam. So she sits there to do commentary. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.120 It is Bianca versus Carmela, a match we have seen before. 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:33.960 It is for the women's title. I don't know why, 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.880 nor do the announcers. This match went eleven minutes, and 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.480 for about nine minutes it was much better than their 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.760 pay per view match. But then as a match just 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.480 keeps going, and it keeps going and going and going, 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.080 and they're kicking out and kick it out and kick 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.560 it out, and it just keeps going. It just keeps 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:59.560 spinning around and finally, why not so long I remember 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.440 what happened? Oh yeah, So they're outside the ring and 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:07.160 Carmela and Bianca are brawling and Carmela rakes her eyes, 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.240 which of course is illegal, and then she rolls into 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.320 the ring and then Bianca is going to roll into 0:17:12.320 --> 0:17:15.760 the ring the rest right there, she's counting seven eight, 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.399 and right then Becky comes up and she starts yelling 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.400 at Bianca and they're arguing, and so the ref doesn't say, hey, 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.920 get out of here, Bianca or Becky or whoever. He 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:32.840 just keeps counting, and so of course Bianca's counted out. 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:38.199 She loses to Carmela, and then of course Carmela parades 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.880 around with the title. Corey Grace says that she's the champ. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:44.800 Everyone else says she isn't. This crowd was dead for 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.440 this segment here. Then we had Miss TV with Chompa. 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.080 So first we have a long Miss TV segment. They 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:56.680 talk and they talk and they talk. Mrs Angry at well, 0:17:56.680 --> 0:17:59.600 actually he's he's gonna give Logan Paul one more chance. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.680 Next week, Logan Paul is going to be on the show. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:04.840 He says, Logan has one more chance to agree to 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.920 be his tag team partner, otherwise he's gonna be in trouble. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:10.080 And uh, they're going on and on and on. AJ 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:13.480 Styles interrupts and there was actually a great line here 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:19.879 where MMS somehow, and it's never even explained how the 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.960 match that has been signed is MS and chompa versus 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:27.800 a J in a two on one handicap match. Who 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:31.080 signed this? Why a J agreed? None of this is 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:37.000 made clear. So a J uh once Ezekiel to uh 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:39.240 or I guess Ezekiel comes out to be his partner. 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:43.600 But anywhere, some somewhere in here, MS, you know, uh, 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:46.080 a J saying, hey, you know, MS, I see you 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:47.480 have to have a friend here to help you out. 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.040 You can't do this one on one? You know what 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:52.000 that makes you? Miss? That makes you? And MS says, 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:56.000 don't say it, And a J says that makes you 0:18:56.240 --> 0:19:00.440 and missays don't say it. So a he says that 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:09.520 makes you a coward. Msic goes, oh okay then, and 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.280 then a J goes a coward with tiny balls that 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.560 of course MS is all angry, but MS totally not 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.560 caring that he was called a coward. That was a 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:21.879 great moment. So anyway, Ezekiel comes out and now it's 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:24.280 gonna be a tag match. Mrs angry that it's a 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.920 tag match, and even though whatever, so they do this match, 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.920 and I swear to God, this is the finish. A 0:19:31.200 --> 0:19:38.520 J bear with me. Here, a J and the MS 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:43.240 are in the ring in this tag team match. A 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:49.640 J puts him in the calf crusher. MS is about 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:56.400 to tap Mrs partner in this tag team match, breaks 0:19:56.880 --> 0:20:01.240 up the hold, and the re free calls for the 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:07.800 bell and that's a Corey Greece or screaming what was that? 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.400 Why was that a d Q? What's going on here? 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:15.040 What a horrible call? Then they go, oh uh, you know, 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.080 Champa can't contain his anger because he's now he's pounding 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.960 on h even though this long after the disqualification. Then 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:26.640 they start talking about well, the illegal man, the illegal man. 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:30.000 Bro There was nothing but tag team match on the show. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:33.159 It was one guy breaking up a pin after another. 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:36.560 But man in this match, it was a disqualification. The 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:42.880 crowd is booing ah. And this whole segment between all 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.399 of the talking and the match twenty four minutes. I 0:20:46.560 --> 0:20:49.080 set for twenty four minutes for all of this to 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.920 have a disqualification when a when a tag partner broke 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.520 up a hole in a tag team match, now I 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:03.080 was human. We had Alexa Bliss and Oscar versus Dewdrop 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:06.160 and Nicky Ash. The whole match is Corey Graves saying, 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:08.040 you know, Alexa was a lot better before. She just 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.960 became normal. And then she wins. She pins Nicky Ash 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.240 with a DDT in the middle of the ring, so 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:18.679 we may get spooky Alexa Bliss again with they're teasing. 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:22.040 We had a long USO's promo. They got the gist 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.760 of the show. Yet long USO's promo. They go on 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.080 and on and on. The street profits come out, my 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.320 shoulder wasn't down. They go on and on and on. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.879 Who's gonna be the referee SummerSlam? They go on and 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.200 on on. Then our Truth comes out. He wants to 0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:36.760 be the referee. He's got a ref shirt on, a 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.440 bunch of comedy, bunch of whatever. And then the us 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:41.800 so so say, hey, can you get that? Uh what 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.440 do they call him a joke ass or something like that? 0:21:44.520 --> 0:21:47.200 They called him something. So this makes Truth so mad 0:21:47.680 --> 0:21:50.920 that he wants to fight. But then he notes only 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.840 if it's three on two. Well, then outcomes m v 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:56.840 P and Omas. You know along this is gone by 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.960 the way. M v P and Omas come out. So 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.520 Omas ands up being the third man on the USO's team. 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:06.280 So what is the USO's and Omas versus the street 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:10.000 prophets and our truth? Anybody want to guess the finish? 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:16.200 It is the USO's and Omas against the street profits 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:21.800 in truth. What do you think the finishes? Huh? Well, 0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:27.560 if you guessed Omas pinned truth wrong, Omas pinned Topkins, 0:22:28.520 --> 0:22:37.400 Topkins clean in the middle of the ring. What sweating 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.000 profusely at this point all the windows opening this house 0:22:40.040 --> 0:22:44.119 and turned the air on. I was dying. Seth wrongs 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.200 promo bunch of laughing. You know how I feel about 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:52.119 that laughing? Another cryptic video package? Is it Edge? Is 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:56.920 it uh Bray? Is it the two of them? Is 0:22:56.960 --> 0:23:01.520 it Alexa? Who knows? And then find ten thirty five 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.320 pm time for the main event? Hey got twenty five 0:23:05.400 --> 0:23:08.040 minutes for the main event. Well, ten thirty five Lashly 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.800 comes out. Thank god for our front page report for 0:23:10.840 --> 0:23:14.400 this this breakdown. Ten thirty five Lashly comes out, ten 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.720 thirty seven, Riddle comes out ten thirty eight commercial break, 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.600 ten forty three replay of Riddle giving role as inn 0:23:20.680 --> 0:23:24.760 r KO. Ten forty four. Rawlins comes out, ten forty five, 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.240 Theory comes out, ten forty five. Main event finally begins. 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:30.760 Main event begins ten forty five. We sent ten minutes, 0:23:32.119 --> 0:23:37.000 ten forty nine commercial break. Finally ten fifty two. Oh height, 0:23:37.040 --> 0:23:40.639 not yet, we gotta plug freddicks t this week. Finally 0:23:40.720 --> 0:23:42.960 a ten fifty three the return of the main event. 0:23:43.960 --> 0:23:47.520 So we got about eight minutes of television time and 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.280 uh Lashly and Riddle beat Rawlins and Theory, and uh 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:56.000 Riddle got the win. Bro I'm out back in a 0:23:56.080 --> 0:24:12.440 moment Reserver Live. Back in the show. Brian elber is 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:16.080 here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simbervi also Wrestling Observer dot com. 0:24:16.119 --> 0:24:18.080 Did I mention how much I hated that raw show? 0:24:19.440 --> 0:24:22.440 I mentioned that, you know what's funny about it is 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:27.879 when they actually did stuff, I liked it. But dude, 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:33.639 there they waste so much time on this show. It 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.120 is exactly it is exactly what we talked about for years. 0:24:36.119 --> 0:24:38.040 So what's the ideal length of a show ninety minutes? 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:41.880 If they took out every bit of BS on this show. 0:24:41.920 --> 0:24:45.840 It would be a ninety minute show. But my god, 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:48.239 and someone was like, I wish Brian had this much 0:24:48.400 --> 0:24:50.359 rage for n x T two point out. Bro, I 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:52.359 prefer n x T two point out of this show. 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.440 It's only two hours, so I save an hour of 0:24:55.480 --> 0:24:58.240 my life watching it. And you know what, whatever you 0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:00.240 want to say about n x T. At LEAs East, 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:02.080 they do a segment and then they go into the 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:03.840 next thing, and then they go into the next thing 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:09.000 and they keep the show moving. Dude, this is you 0:25:09.080 --> 0:25:15.280