WEBVTT - TNA Slammiversary 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.080 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.599 Live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.000 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.800 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervb. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:26.920 Right, you're ready, where you're ready, Let's get it off. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:33.680 How's it going, everybody? 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It's Tuesday, and 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:13.560 so we got NXT tonight and NXT is actually a 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:17.960 go home show sort of the NXT tonight is they 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.280 got a six man tag involving Trick Williams, Joe Hendry, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:24.399 and Mike Santana, all of whom are facing off for 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:29.600 the TNA title coming up on Sunday at Slammiversary. And 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.080 as always, whenever there's anything T and A related to 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.480 talk about, we're lucky enough to just by coincidence, have 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.280 Landstorm as the co host here today, so we're gonna 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.480 talk about that on the program. We got raw from 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.400 last night, which included a gauntlet match to determine the 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.080 challenger for Gunther at SummerSlam. 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Finally, stop raining here in Calgary. 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.080 So it's been raining, oh all. 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:38.720 Day yesterday, like for like twenty four hours straight, very wet. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:39.760 Wow. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:45.520 Well, Lance, we haven't talked to you since since this weekend. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.640 What if anything did you watch on this wild weekend? 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.920 What did I watch? I watched the Goldberg retirement match. 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.400 I was curious to see it and see how we did. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:58.240 I've always liked Bill and got along with him, so 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:04.000 I watched that. Thought it was quite good considering his age. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.520 I thought Gunther and he did a great job. I 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.760 would have liked to have heard his entire speech at 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.920 the end. I'll probably track it down at some point. 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.480 But yeah, I saw a few clips of a few matches. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.760 I saw all of Monday Night Raw last night, but 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.640 I didn't actually watch any of the shows other than 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:22.400 the Gunther match. 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:29.120 Well, I want to mention the Goldberg retirement match rating 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.480 because it's kind of interesting actually, because everybody was talking 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:39.120 about all of the shows this weekend. Okay, so you know, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:44.320 we had this big kind of debate on Observer Radio 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.480 about like what's the point of all of this, Like 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.840 everyone's trying, Oh, we're gonna do this show to counter 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.440 this show, and it's not nineteen eighty eight, and I 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.000 can watch this on this device and I can record 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:02.160 this to watch it later, like, is anything really affecting 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.760 anything else? You know what I'm saying. And you know, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:11.560 AW ran their show, which ended up being an eight 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.720 hour show. There was actually seven hours of wrestling on 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.360 the show. The first hour of the pre show was 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.600 only talking, so if we're talking about just wrestling matches, 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:25.640 they ran seven hours of wrestling matches and it actually 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.320 cut into the beginning of Saturday Night's main event, which originally, 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:31.720 you know, they didn't really want to go head to 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.680 head with Saturday Night's main event, so they moved it, 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.440 but then they went head to head with Saturday Night's 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.160 main event for the main event anyway, so everyone's talking 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.000 about will it affect Saturday Night's main event? Will it 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.960 not affect Saturday Night's main event? You know, blah blah blah. 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:51.400 So the Saturday Night's Main event number did one point 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:56.800 four million viewers, and it was down twenty seven percent 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:02.319 from the last Saturday Night It's main event. Okay, Now, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:07.040 the moment you hear that, obviously your first thought is, wow, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.640 maybe all In actually did effect Saturday Night's main event. 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:15.120 The show is down twenty seven percent from the show 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:19.959 in May, and it did have the retirement match of 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:25.080 Bill Goldberg. Now we don't have the quarter hour ratings, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:31.480 so we can't really determine, you know, because all In 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:33.559 didn't go headhead with the entire show. It just went 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.440 head to head with the first I can't remember half 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.440 hour or something like that. So but here's here's the 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:45.040 notable thing about this. Okay, yes, this show was down 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.640 twenty seven percent from the last show. The last show 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.760 in May did two million viewers and a point five 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.600 to four. Okay, this show did one point four million 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.440 and a point three to three. So that's a substantial drop, 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.400 and if you want to, you probably could argue that 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:09.560 all In heard it. However, However, the first Saturday Night's 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:14.480 main event in December of twenty twenty four did one 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.560 point six million and a point four the second one 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:20.200 in January did one point four million, one point four 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.760 to nine million and a point three to three, and 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.720 the one on this past Saturday to one point four 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.520 million and a point three to three. So what actually happened. 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.720 I'm not saying that all In did not affect Saturday 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.520 Night's main event. Maybe it did, But what actually happened 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:40.679 if you look at the last four episodes is for 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:45.800 some reason. The May episode just did surprisingly well. The 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:52.160 July twelfth show this past Saturday actually did virtually exactly 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:55.320 the same as the show in January, and only a 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.080 little bit below the show in December. So while it 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:03.040 is down some stantially from the last show, really the 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.679 last show was kind of the aberration. The last show 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.120 did an extra half million viewers above all of the 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.040 other shows. So I don't really know what the answer is. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.600 We don't have quarters to really make the determination, but 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.560 you know, you can say that going head to head 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.440 with you know, parts of all Out, the show was 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.840 down twenty seven percent from last time. But you could 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.520 also look at all of the ratings for Saturday night's 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:32.520 main event and say it's actually, it's actually more likely 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.240 that what happened was May was just substantially up for 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.480 reasons I cannot explain, but anyway, that's the number. 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:39.440 I think. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:44.599 Also, too, traditionally aren't television ratings on the weekend traditionally 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.040 lower during the summer, Like, do we have a summer 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:48.920 number to compare? 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:51.880 No, because they just started back up again in December. 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.640 So when you only have two winter numbers, a spring 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.360 number and a summer number. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.440 My kids are out of school, whether it's good people vacation, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.520 chance that people just turnt home on a Saturday as well. 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:06.960 Well, the SmackDown on Friday did well. It was up 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.280 twenty percent from the previous week. This was the show 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.280 that actually went head tohead with the Ring of Honor show. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.559 Although I don't think anyone, I don't think anyone thinks 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.360 that the Ring of Honor pay per view is going 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.800 to affect SmackDown. But this show did one point four 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.520 million viewers in a point three to seven and we 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.640 didn't even talk about this on any of the shows 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:32.559 this weekend. But on SmackDown Friday, the Wyatts won the 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:38.959 tag team titles. So I talked about this before the match, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:42.920 actually because I didn't think the Wyatts were gonna win 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.280 the titles, because you know, the Wyatts had been off 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.160 TV for a long time, and their first match back, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.520 my god, they had an atrocious match with the Motor 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:00.720 City machine Guns, which filthy Tom. It is current state 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.360 and me and my current state, we would have had 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.160 a better match with the MotorCity machine Guns. This thing 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.920 was just off the rails. It's almost impossible to have 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.800 a bad match with the MotorCity machine Guns. But like 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:16.400 the Wyatts, particularly Dexter Loomis. I mean, this poor guy 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.920 had probably the worst night of his career. And I 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:23.240 was talking about this prior to the tag title match, 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.800 because I said, you know, one difference between you know, 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:33.280 Triple H and Vinces. If they would have had that 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:36.840 match and Vince was in charge, I mean, like that's 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.640 probably the end of the Wyatts. I mean, he would 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:43.079 have pulled the plug on them immediately. But the thing 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.559 with Hunter, you know, whatever you want to say about 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:49.920 the guy, like he'll have his plan, he'll have his storyline, 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:54.360 and you know, ninety five percent of the time, he's 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:57.560 just gonna keep going. And so you could see, like 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.680 when they brought the Wyatts back, the idea was they're 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.680 gonna run through that tag team division. All of the 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:08.160 other tag teams are gonna be fighting amongst themselves, and 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.280 like the Wyatts are are gonna end up winning the titles. 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:13.439 I mean that's what it looked like when they started 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.640 the thing. Then they had that horrible match, and so 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:18.800 like I just thought, I don't know if they're gonna 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.520 put these belts on the Wyatts, dude, but he did. 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.760 So the Wyatts are the tag team champions. I mean, 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.880 God bless them, they're the worst tag team in the division, 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.360 but like that's the story they're telling right now, and 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.040 they much like this show, barreled on through. So the 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.560 Whites are the tag team champions. 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.640 And I believe if you consider Tiffany Stratton to be 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.920 a heel, every WWE championship is currently held by heels. 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.080 Well, I think Tiffany is supposed to be a babyface, 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:53.120 as astonishing as that is, So there is one right now, 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.680 there is one. There's one babyface champion, and I do 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:02.240 expect some title changes to be up coming, maybe even 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:06.440 CM punk at Summer Slam, although we are going to 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.920 talk about that after the break and a little bit 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.640 more on on seth rawlins uh that that's coming up 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.480 after the break as well. We'll do the Raw Report 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:15.840 and talk all of the rest of the news and 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.560 some TNA notes with Lance and of course if you 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.080 have questions Texas four two five, seven, eight zero seven, 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.680 five sixty six, But we're gonna add to a break. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:27.160 We'll be back in a moment with more Wrestling Observer Live. 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:54.080 Some stop. 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.240 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.960 and Mike simper Vivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.680 All Right, a couple of things here. First off, we 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.480 were just talking about the whits winning the tag titles. Lance, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:20.840 the whites are babyfaces? 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:22.640 Are they really? 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:23.560 Yeah? 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:24.880 Spooky creepy? 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.520 Yes, the whites are babyfaces. The whites are baby face 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:32.920 and and this this doesn't actually count because they are heels. 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.520 But uh, the Judgment Day did win the tag titles 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.200 as total babyfaces. They went into the match, they worked 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.720 total babyface, they made a baby face come back and 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.520 they won clean. And it was like, but they're heels, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.880 but they're a heel group. Yeah, it was ridiculous. Now, 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:53.080 I will say, as we'll get to later, I'm fine 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:57.600 with all the champions being heels if one of those 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.840 champions is Naomi. She was she actually, I was gonna say, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.200 was on Raw. She has been so awesome since her 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.800 most recent heel turn when she did that promo on 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.160 Raw and she called all the women in the locker 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:19.200 room raggedy heifers. I died, I absolutely died, raggedy heifers. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.280 She was the greatest. I hope she never loses the belt. 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.199 She's really found her confidence and oh, Yeah, it's just 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.440 it was fantastic. I was really impressed last night. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:32.240 Okay, we also have to talk. We'll do the full 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.919 raw report, but I know you want to talk about uh, 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.280 Nicky and Chelsea, which I also want to talk about, 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:46.960 because I had a bunch of people that were messaging 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:51.160 me saying that match was horrible, and this is before 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.280 I watched it, and so I watched it, and honestly, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.000 it wasn't horrible until about the last thirty seconds. Last 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.800 thirty seconds, that thing went off the rails. Before then 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:02.520 it was it was, it was not too bad. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.640 Did you find Nicky's post about the finish? 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:07.920 What'd she say about the finish? I saw that. I'm 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.720 about to read the whole interview she did about the experience, 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.000 But what did she say about the finish? 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:16.760 She said, she instinctively accidentally went for her old finish 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.160 by mistake. She was supposed to go for the TKO 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:23.000 because the rack attack is what broke her neck, but 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:27.240 she just instinctively accidentally went for her old finish that 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.359 broke her neck, and when she did, she realized she 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.840 screwed up, and that's when Chelsea countered out and then 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.480 she went for the proper finish. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:35.800 What is a rack attack? 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.359 Compared to Ako, she would do the torture rack and 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.280 then drop to her knees and the woman would bump 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.600 on her back. Oh yeah, yeah, broke her neck. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:44.800 That ain't good for your neck. 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.880 And so when Chelsea fed in for the new finish, 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.240 she for some reason just muscle memory spun her around 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.320 backwards and then tried to pick her up for the 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.840 rack and then realized, oh crap, this is the one 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:59.720 that broke my neck. I'm not supposed to do it. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:01.240 And they had to counter out of it. So it 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:02.480 was just a memory lapse. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:06.480 Yeah, that was weird. So she did an interview and 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.959 it was funny. She goes she always puts a lot 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.720 of pressure on herself. She was coming back from a 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.959 seven year layoff. She says, where I'm at now is 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.119 I knew I wasn't going to go in tonight and 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.600 be perfect. I knew I wasn't going to be an 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.359 Eo Sky. I wasn't going to be a rear Ripley. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.160 I wasn't going to be a Bailey. I wasn't even 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.960 gonna be a Chelsea Green. I howled. I don't think 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:33.159 she meant to Bury her, But god, what a line. 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.320 And then she's talked about how you know it's been 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:37.240 seven years I had a baby, you haven't been in 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.280 the ring, and she was very happy. She was very 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:43.160 blown up, she said, but I gave it my all. Well, 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:46.280 you know what, Nikki, I'll tell you one thing. No 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.480 matter how blown up you were in that match, you 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.560 were not as blown up as brown Breaker. Oh my god, 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:58.080 that poor guy. He was dying in that match, as 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.679 we shall get too later. But I thought, honestly, like 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.080 nothing against Chelsea, but I thought, honestly, in that match, 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.720 I thought Nicky like did a better job than she did, 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.520 very much like on Saturday, I thought that Trich did 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:16.200 a better job than Tiffany. So that's just me. But 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:19.840 you wanted to talk about their full circle deal. 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.520 Here, well sort of. I posted on I don't know 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.800 if it was Threads or Blue Sky and actually texted 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:31.399 Chelsea about it. But Chelsea's WWE television debut, when she 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:35.800 was like weeks into the business, was as Megan Miller, 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:41.280 the physical therapist for Daniel Bryan, and had the confrontation 0:20:41.400 --> 0:20:45.320 with Brie. Not Nicky unfortunately, But for the enjoyment of myself, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:48.480 last night, I considered it the same person and Bree 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:52.040 slapped the holy hell out of her in the ring 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:55.800 for rumors of her having an affair with Daniel Bryan 0:20:56.480 --> 0:20:59.600 and tonight, however, many years later, she got to go 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.240 full sole and have the grudge match with a Bella. 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:05.400 I feel like she knocked her silly with that slap. 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:07.960 I can't remember if that's the case or not, but 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:13.520 I do know that Stephanie McMahon had a reputation too. 0:21:13.560 --> 0:21:17.600 I remember everyone said, steph slap's worthy hardest. 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:20.680 Yeah, you know everyone, you know, they watched all these 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:22.760 matches and you talk about this or that or this 0:21:22.840 --> 0:21:25.600 big move or landing on this head or whatever. But 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.760 I don't think people realize how many people in wrestling 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.240 got messed up because they got slapped. I mean, there 0:21:32.240 --> 0:21:34.400 have been a lot of people that have gotten messed 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.080 up because they got slapped by some lady or another. 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:41.960 And Stephanie was she was a what do they call. 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:44.080 It a potato? 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:47.000 Well yeah, that too god. 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:50.879 But yes, there's actually proper ways to slap people, and 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.960 not everybody utilizes that technique. 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:56.920 Yeah, I like, I like the old slap the neck 0:21:57.240 --> 0:22:00.720 so you actually don't even touch the head that's slapping 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:02.600 in the face really frickin hard. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.320 I'm as fine with the face as long as it's 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.359 just with the fingers. It's when you get the heel 0:22:08.400 --> 0:22:11.399 of the hand in the side of the head that 0:22:11.680 --> 0:22:12.720 you're gonna get knocked out. 0:22:14.560 --> 0:22:19.520 So NXT tonight we have got the go home show 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:23.320 kind of for a Different Promotions pay per view. It 0:22:23.480 --> 0:22:27.359 is Trick Williams, Joe Hendry and Mike Santana versus Dark State, 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:31.680 and obviously the Slammiversary main event coming up on Sunday 0:22:32.200 --> 0:22:35.320 is Trick, Joe and Mike Santana for the TNA title. 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:39.720 The TNA title being defended in the main event of 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:42.879 a TNA pay per view by an NXT wrestler against 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:46.720 two TNA wrestlers. So we got that six man and 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:52.919 we got Tony d and Channing Stas Lorenzo and Luca 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:58.760 Cruzefino in a three way, and then on on Impact Thursday, 0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:02.480 we got Joe henda In Santana versus Trick and Frankie Kazarian. 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:06.600 So many different uh, a lot of different combinations of 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:09.800 these three guys leading up to this main event, Champion 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:14.520 Moose versus Sammy Callahan Tessa Blanchard and Danny Luna and 0:23:15.000 --> 0:23:18.960 order for versus the System. That's the TV the actual 0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:25.200 TNA Go Home show coming up on Thursday. Is that taped? 0:23:26.000 --> 0:23:26.280 Yes? 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:31.240 Okay, let the guy in charge that what's his name, 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.439 Bigfoot Silva? Let him know that I never know if 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:39.359 the show's taped or not. So is that his name Carlos? Well, 0:23:39.400 --> 0:23:43.080 I know, but like Bigfoot Silva's name is Antonio Carlos Silva. 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:46.120 So like the other day, you guys don't know what happens, 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.240 which you don't. So I called Dave to do the 0:23:49.240 --> 0:23:55.000 Observer show at usually around midnight, and he's usually not ready, 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:59.280 and then you know, eventually he'll say, I'm I'm checking 0:23:59.320 --> 0:24:02.320 my emails and so we connect everything and then for 0:24:02.359 --> 0:24:05.399 some reason, it's like another half hour before the show starts. Okay, 0:24:06.040 --> 0:24:09.280 So he finally comes over ready to do the show, 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:11.280 and I say, what are we gonna talk about here today? 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:15.040 And so the other day he's like, you know, all 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:18.399 the shows this weekend and you know this and that 0:24:18.720 --> 0:24:23.639 and Carlos Silva and this and that and so like 0:24:24.720 --> 0:24:27.840 and I actually should record this someday because the way 0:24:27.880 --> 0:24:31.560 he actually says it is he goes NFC Impacts, Slammiversary, 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:34.840 Summer Slam, Goldberg's retirement, and I'm like, whoah, dude, hold honest, sec, 0:24:34.840 --> 0:24:37.280 I'm trying to write it down. So I write it down, 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:40.359 calib you yeah, and I try and put it in 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:42.040 the order. So I do, like, you know, the pro 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:45.520