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Speaker 3: Tom and I will take you through that card, plus
Speaker 3: NXT from last night and a whole lot of other
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Speaker 3: Barnett's blood Sport with another NXT participant who's actually involved
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Speaker 3: shows that way, with my friend filthy Tom Lawler. Now, Tom,
Speaker 3: should we begin this show talking about your adventures from
Speaker 3: over the weekend, including most specifically in Lowell, Massachusetts on
Speaker 3: Fighting Spirit Unleashed.
Speaker 7: No, which should probably just pass over it, but yes,
Speaker 7: but now that you bring it up, sure we could
Speaker 7: talk about that show if you'd like, because it is
Speaker 7: also a bit topical because today, just today, ww NXT
Speaker 7: announced that they will be running that very same arena,
Speaker 7: the Lowell Memorial Auditorium next month, I believe on December thirteenth, twelfth, seventeenth.
Speaker 7: I believe it is seventeenth. I'm doing this off the
Speaker 7: top of my head, so but yes, I took place
Speaker 7: in a two out of three falls match this past
Speaker 7: weekend in Lowell, mass for New Japan Pro Wrestling at
Speaker 7: the Fighting Spirit on Lease show, and unfortunately, once again,
Speaker 7: my prophecy came true. I had said for years and
Speaker 7: years that the West Coast Wrecking Crew are one of
Speaker 7: the best teams in professional wrestling, and well they showed
Speaker 7: it because they once again defeated myself and Fred Rosser
Speaker 7: in a bloody, bloody, heated affair. But we move on,
Speaker 7: and I moved on the next day to the MLW show,
Speaker 7: the Lucha Apocalypto show in Chicago, another in a long line.
Speaker 7: I believe the entire year has been a show of
Speaker 7: sellouts for MLW. You and I was on the stick
Speaker 7: with a Joe Dombrowski and it was a great night
Speaker 7: of Lucha libre themed action. Mystico defended his MLW World
Speaker 7: Middleweight title in the main event, and you could check
Speaker 7: that out on YouTube for free. And you can also
Speaker 7: watch the Fighting Spirit on least show on New Japan
Speaker 7: World for no extra cost if you are a subscriber.
Speaker 3: Now, how do you say filthy in Spanish? Because I
Speaker 3: was really hoping that you would not reveal your presence
Speaker 3: there and you would leave the mask on for the
Speaker 3: entire show. Is like, you know, el filthy or something
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 7: Well, actually, Mike, there was a time a long time
Speaker 7: ago when I was a professional mixed martial artist and
Speaker 7: I would travel Yeah, me Filthy Tom Waller. I would
Speaker 7: travel around the world learning new ways to enter the
Speaker 7: octagon and do weigh ins, but also honing my skill.
Speaker 7: And one of those times I found myself in a
Speaker 7: how about a Cuba of all places, training boxing for
Speaker 7: a month, and while I was there, somebody recognized me
Speaker 7: and they said, oh, they said, oh, el Cochino, el Cochino,
Speaker 7: which translates to the pig.
Speaker 3: Wait. I just did the Google translation here, ask quirso
Speaker 3: as couroso. Yes, asqu e r O s o l
Speaker 3: s coroso. But they called you the pig.
Speaker 7: I believe el Cochino has a better ring to it,
Speaker 7: and in many ways is very very fitting.
Speaker 3: Now, how was that experience like in Cuba? I mean,
Speaker 3: what year was that? Do you can you remember off
Speaker 3: the top of your head? I believe because all I
Speaker 3: can picture is no matter what it is, whether it's
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy nine or whether yesterday, I could just picture
Speaker 3: this boxing gym with nothing but pictures of Tepelo Stevenson
Speaker 3: like around everywhere saying our hero.
Speaker 7: No, you know where it was? It was at one
Speaker 7: of those very famous in pictures and video outdoor boxing gyms,
Speaker 7: Gabay No not gwenttanam obey you fool. Hey. Speaking of boxing,
Speaker 7: we have a huge, a huge fight this weekend, unfortunately,
Speaker 7: the biggest boxing fight of the year, probably as Mike Tyson,
Speaker 7: at fifty eight years old, comes out of retirement to
Speaker 7: take on Jake Paul and There's been a lot said
Speaker 7: about this fight. Probably the less said the better, but
Speaker 7: since people love it, we might as well reference it.
Speaker 7: I can tell you from experience, every single year that
Speaker 7: goes by now is like an xp finential increase in
Speaker 7: years of wear and tear in your body. And for
Speaker 7: Mike Tyson to come out of retirement at fifty eight
Speaker 7: years old, it's it's a bad idea.
Speaker 3: Yeah it's yes, yes it is.
Speaker 7: I'm going to watch it, of course, But freak show.
Speaker 3: It's two dogs bonan on the side of the road.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's what it is. It's an absolute
Speaker 3: freak show. And they seem to be doing everything to
Speaker 3: make you want to believe that Mike Tyson has a
Speaker 3: shot in this. And look, Mike Tyson, it looks to
Speaker 3: be an incredible shape at fifty eight years old. The
Speaker 3: thing is he looked the same at thirteen years old.
Speaker 3: I mean he was always a physical freak. He always
Speaker 3: has been that way. That's why he was heavyweight champion
Speaker 3: of the world at nineteen twenty years old. Whatever it
Speaker 3: was where he knocked out Trevor Berbick.
Speaker 7: No man, no mere mortal, no mere human could snort
Speaker 7: as many lines of cocaine as Mike Tyson did in
Speaker 7: his prime and still be on this planet. The amount
Speaker 7: of resilience that man has is unbelievable.
Speaker 3: That Okay, that that that's true, although I know some
Speaker 3: people that have done some mountainous amounts of cocaine in
Speaker 3: their lifetimes. But he looks fantastic. But the thing is,
Speaker 3: and all the press and all the gimmicks that they're doing,
Speaker 3: it makes you. You know, It's like, there's Paul taking pictures,
Speaker 3: there's him being a goofball, there's him doing this and that,
Speaker 3: and Mike Tyson is just killing people in black and white,
Speaker 3: and they're just showing that training footage. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: and I know that. Look, I know you can bet
Speaker 3: on this fight, which is insane to me as well too.
Speaker 3: Not only is it taking place, you can put odds
Speaker 3: on it. But I mean, honestly, at the end of
Speaker 3: the day, I think everybody would love to see Paul
Speaker 3: get knocked out or at least get his mouth, you know,
Speaker 3: wired shut for a while. I think that would be
Speaker 3: doing all of us a favor. But the reality is
Speaker 3: is he's an actual athlete who's in his what still
Speaker 3: eight twenties or whatever it is. Yes, he is physically
Speaker 3: smaller technically than Tyson when it comes to wait, but
Speaker 3: he's taller and he's active every day doing this stuff. Honestly,
Speaker 3: without the rainbow lucky punch that might land in there,
Speaker 3: is there any shot Mike Tyson wins this?
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, because Jake Paul is not the best boxer
Speaker 7: in the world.
Speaker 3: I mean he's out there.
Speaker 7: True, he's out there wearing a rooster on his head
Speaker 7: at the pre fight skirmish or whatever he was doing.
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think there's a I think it's a
Speaker 7: fifty to fifty fight. To be honest, I would love.
Speaker 3: To see Tyson knock Matt. I just don't think that
Speaker 3: that's the way it's going to go. It's just whether
Speaker 3: gonn to be any warm ups for this same they
Speaker 3: announced any freak show like type of you know, is
Speaker 3: KSI coming in there to like grapple with somebody or
Speaker 3: something like that. Are there any is there any pre
Speaker 3: card to this?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You know, just tuning into Tyson and Paul.
Speaker 7: Amanda Serrano I believe.
Speaker 3: Is oh is she fighting a real person because she's good?
Speaker 7: Well, yes, I believe she's fighting a real person. Although
Speaker 7: I don't know. Maybe they got a hologram in this
Speaker 7: day and age.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't I wouldn't doubt it if they have, Like
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know Christy Martin, Like, are they
Speaker 3: pulling her out of retirement to have a fight. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's gonna be a movie coming out here relatively soon
Speaker 3: with her, if I'm not mistaken. So I don't know which.
Speaker 3: By the way, who is the Sydney Sweeney is playing
Speaker 3: the coal miner's daughter? Have you have you heard about that? No?
Speaker 7: But I will sure go look up photographs as we
Speaker 7: go off the air.
Speaker 3: I have a feeling you should, because amazingly they actually
Speaker 3: made Sydney Sweeney actually look like her. It was just
Speaker 3: absolutely amazing making her look like Christy Martin, something I
Speaker 3: didn't think could happen. One thing I know is going
Speaker 3: to happen is at some point this music's gonna stop
Speaker 3: and we're gonna have a break, So I better get out.
Speaker 3: Wrestling Observer Alive.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 3: Back on the show, Mike Semperviv and Filthy Tom Lawler
Speaker 3: here with you. Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano are going
Speaker 3: to be having their rematch of their twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: bout at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of Mike
Speaker 3: Tyson and Jake Paul. One of the few fights, one
Speaker 3: of the few women's fights that you could actually put
Speaker 3: in the main event position at the very least on
Speaker 3: basic cable television, and that is going to be underneath
Speaker 3: the Paul Tyson fight on Netflix. And I have not
Speaker 3: heard one word about that fight or anything else. Obviously
Speaker 3: that's going to be on that undercard.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, I mean this weekend's. This weekend's dominated by
Speaker 7: the two big freak show fights Tyson Paul, and then
Speaker 7: John Jones and step Amochick headlining the UFC on Saturday night.
Speaker 3: John Jones is gonna win, that isn't he. I'm going
Speaker 3: with Jones, but we'll see.
Speaker 7: Is there any question I would imagine after a near
Speaker 7: fourteen hundred day layoff by Steve Amochick to come back
Speaker 7: in and face he hasn't fought in Venom fight shorts ever,
Speaker 7: and he's gonna come back and face and somewhat insurmountable
Speaker 7: task a fighter no one has been able to defeat
Speaker 7: except for the legend Matt Hammill, and that is Johnny
Speaker 7: Bones Jones. The best fighter, the best fighter of mixed
Speaker 7: martial arts history.
Speaker 3: He really is, which is kind of disappointing because he's
Speaker 3: such a d bag and you've had so many instances
Speaker 3: of him hiding under a ring when the doping agents
Speaker 3: show up, and all the ridiculous stories. I think the
Speaker 3: first ridiculous story I had ever heard was I went
Speaker 3: up and covered the first fight at the Prudential Center
Speaker 3: and it was and it was Jones. What was the
Speaker 3: deal there? I think it was at the Prudential Center,
Speaker 3: but it was Jones chasing down a robber in Central
Speaker 3: Park to get a woman's purse back. And it's like,
Speaker 3: you've got to be kidding me. And it's amazing how
Speaker 3: many people wrote such glowing things about Jones in the
Speaker 3: media at the time and then would just completely trash
Speaker 3: him and everything about him behind his back or not
Speaker 3: put that in print. And I guess a lot of
Speaker 3: that had to do with the fact that the UFC
Speaker 3: held such a tight grip on a lot of their reporters.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a plenty of stories Jonathan Snowden and
Speaker 3: plenty of other people that lost their credentials by being,
Speaker 3: you know, less than glowing in their praise of UFC.
Speaker 3: But it's been an amazing run for amazing run for
Speaker 3: both of those guys, and that I didn't realize Steve
Speaker 3: A's been out for that long, and the fact that
Speaker 3: John Jones is still number one a draw and number two,
Speaker 3: like you mentioned, arguably the greatest mixed martial arts fighter
Speaker 3: of all time. Now I think there's George Saint Pierre,
Speaker 3: there are other people I think you can throw into
Speaker 3: that mix. Do you hold anything against Jones for the
Speaker 3: fact that there is a question over him and doping
Speaker 3: and things like that. Do you think there's any anything
Speaker 3: that black mark against his record at all as compared
Speaker 3: to somebody else who didn't test positive or doesn't have
Speaker 3: that shadow over them.
Speaker 7: You're gonna have to go and look through a long
Speaker 7: list of guys to find people that did not test
Speaker 7: positive at the top of this sport, at this level,
Speaker 7: my friend. And that's not even mentioning the number of
Speaker 7: guys who were on TUES TRT replacement therapy when it
Speaker 7: was allowed. So how do you how do you quantify
Speaker 7: those results. You know what I mean. Ped use is
Speaker 7: an open, dirty secret across mixed martial arts. And I'm
Speaker 7: not talking about the devil ostering. I'm talking about the
Speaker 7: hard stuff. You got guys taking EPO at the top
Speaker 7: level there. I mean, yeah, there's a lot of instances.
Speaker 7: So I'm not sure you can even look at John
Speaker 7: Jones and go, well, hey, this disqualifies him from you know,
Speaker 7: being the greatest ever, because then who do you start
Speaker 7: throwing in the conversation. The only one that's gonna have
Speaker 7: a clean record is GSP and how many people were
Speaker 7: just accusing him left and right, left and right of
Speaker 7: using stuff over the years. So I think when it
Speaker 7: comes to mixed martial arts, you kind of just gotta
Speaker 7: you gotta look at the results. And John Jones is
Speaker 7: the best ever. He's undefeated except for a DQ loss,
Speaker 7: which is questionable. He got dqed for beating a guy
Speaker 7: up too badly, essentially in mixed martial arts. But yeah,
Speaker 7: he's he's the goat.
Speaker 3: You know, never tested positive for anything, at least according
Speaker 3: to him, Josh Barnett never. I remember when he got
Speaker 3: Popeye California, we had an interview for him because I
Speaker 3: can't remember if it was a Pride based interview or
Speaker 3: a New Japan I can't remember what it was, but
Speaker 3: it was like, well, the CSAC says that this happened,
Speaker 3: and it's like, well, how do you respond to that?
Speaker 3: And his response was simply, well, they lied, and I
Speaker 3: use that as a bridge to get to Josh Barnett's
Speaker 3: Blood Sport twelve event coming up on November twenty fourth.
Speaker 3: In a social media post on Tuesday night, Barnett announced
Speaker 3: that NXT's Carmen Petrovitch will paysue Me Sakai at Blood Sport,
Speaker 3: taking place at the White Eagle Hall in Jersey City,
Speaker 3: New Jersey. Petrovich is the second NXT wrestler announced for
Speaker 3: the show, as Charlie Dempsey has already been announced as
Speaker 3: taking on Akira on the show. The rest of the
Speaker 3: card so far has Marina Shaffir against Jody Threat, Josh
Speaker 3: Alexander against Speedball Mike Bailey, a battle between violences forever.
Speaker 3: I like this, Dominic Greeny against Kevin Ku. The former
Speaker 3: Zaiya Lee who goes by the name ley Ying Lee
Speaker 3: now will face off against Masha Slamovich and what I
Speaker 3: will safely assume is going to be the main event.
Speaker 3: Barnett himself in there with Montel Vontavius Porter, MVP. Do
Speaker 3: you like this show? I know you'd like it a
Speaker 3: lot more if you were on it. But as far
Speaker 3: as how it's laid out right now, what do you think?
Speaker 7: What's not to like? You've got a number of different styles,
Speaker 7: different types of fighters under this same rule set. You've
Speaker 7: got karl In Petrovic, a accomplished karateka would have been
Speaker 7: in the Olympics in twenty twenty. I believe if they
Speaker 7: had gone down as they were scheduled, she.
Speaker 3: Was that good. I did not realize that.
Speaker 7: I don't know, maybe I made that up. It's pro wrestling.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 7: The MVP, who most people probably don't know, is a
Speaker 7: Brazilian Jiu jitsu black belt himself. He's been training for
Speaker 7: a long time and he's got that running drive by kick,
Speaker 7: vicious moyt flying muy Thai boot to the face. Yeah,
Speaker 7: these shows are always great, and I'm sure this one's
Speaker 7: once again gonna deliver.
Speaker 3: Interested to see the Josh Alexander speedball. Mike Bailey won too,
Speaker 3: because Alexander obviously a great wrestler. Great on the Matt
Speaker 3: and Bailey with the kicks and everything will be interesting
Speaker 3: to see how that whole thing plays itself out.
Speaker 7: Last time Josh Alexander was in Bloodsport, it was during
Speaker 7: the pandemic in Indianapolis, and he took on Davy Boyce
Speaker 7: Smith Junior, the now current reigning All Japan Pro Wrestling
Speaker 7: Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, and Josh Alexander was drinking through
Speaker 7: a straw for the rest of the night after that match.
Speaker 3: A guy who likes to drink through straws because he
Speaker 3: likes to drink. Matt Riddle is not optimistic that he
Speaker 3: is going to be Bill Goldberg's final opponent. The man
Speaker 3: whose name was first on these Bloodsports shows years and
Speaker 3: years ago now announced recently that he doesn't think that
Speaker 3: Goldberg wants to step up to the plate. That's what
Speaker 3: he said on a podcast What is It here? The
Speaker 3: Barstool Wrastlin podcast is where he made that comment. Riddle
Speaker 3: was asked if he and Goldberg had straightened out their beef,
Speaker 3: which began after Riddle made public comments calling Goldberg an
Speaker 3: unsafe worker and also that he could beat him in
Speaker 3: a real fight. He says, me and Bill, we've talked
Speaker 3: we were actually on a flight from Saudi. We were
Speaker 3: on a Saudi show like one of the Crown Jewel events,
Speaker 3: as if there were other pro wrestling events going on
Speaker 3: there where Goldberg and ro women flying back from he
Speaker 3: thinks it was a Crown Jewel event. We had some cocktails,
Speaker 3: no kidd and a discussion. I don't think there's any
Speaker 3: bad blood. I think he has more of an understanding
Speaker 3: of where I was coming from. I definitely have an
Speaker 3: understanding of where he's coming from and why he finds
Speaker 3: what I say disrespectful and things like that. I completely understand.
Speaker 3: Don't mean it that way. We're professional wrestlers. I'm just
Speaker 3: spitting facts and I can back it up. This is
Speaker 3: what it is. A lot of people in WWE took
Speaker 3: that as disrespect. But if you fought in the UFC
Speaker 3: and now you're in WWE, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker 3: Forget my whole career? It's like, no, I can stretch
Speaker 3: like ninety eight percent of people as a man who
Speaker 3: has lived in both worlds. Right now, Filthy Tom, what
Speaker 3: is the percentage of people that you believe that you
Speaker 3: can stretch?
Speaker 7: Ninety nine point nine percent of them?
Speaker 3: That's why you're the man in Matt Roll's bum bringing
Speaker 3: up Goldberg again trying to get some shine here. I mean,
Speaker 3: it makes for a nice headline and everything. I just
Speaker 3: could not believe that that was on the front page
Speaker 3: of the sites with the line that he is not
Speaker 3: optimistic about being Goldberg's final opponent. Yeah, I think the
Speaker 3: gun third thing is gonna work itself out just fine.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 7: I would like to say it's perhaps possible that it
Speaker 7: was not a Crown Jewel event. It could have been
Speaker 7: the greatest royal rumble that they were on together.
Speaker 3: I guess, So that's possible.
Speaker 7: I guess, sure, yeah, and quite frankly, I mean, Matt
Speaker 7: Rutle's right. If I were Goldberg, I would tread lightly
Speaker 7: because he doesn't have the best track record. If I remember,
Speaker 7: every time he's backing up fighters back in Pride, his
Speaker 7: favorites would routinely lose when he was doing commentary. And
Speaker 7: then just weeks ago, just weeks ago, we saw him
Speaker 7: in the corner at one FC, I believe, in the
Speaker 7: corner of Liam Harrison, who got annihilated in the first round.
Speaker 7: But Goldberg was back there slamming his head into the lockers.
Speaker 7: Hyping him up as he's on his way out there
Speaker 7: to get slaughtered.
Speaker 3: So no shot that dynam makee it gets slaughtered in
Speaker 3: the ratings by NXT tonight because well they're running by themselves.
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Speaker 2: You were listening Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and
Speaker 2: Mike SIMPERVVI on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 3: Back on the show, Mike simpervb Filthy, Tom Lawler here
Speaker 3: with you, let me tell you something about sports washing,
Speaker 3: just to continue a conversation from through the break. So
Speaker 3: Turque Alichic is going to buy where the saudiast are
Speaker 3: going to buy ring magazine, which has been dormant now
Speaker 3: in print form for several years. It's only online. I
Speaker 3: think there's one boxing magazine out there, and it's like
Speaker 3: every it's quarterly or something like that that comes out.
Speaker 3: So he is going to be bringing back the ring.
Speaker 3: What's going to be interesting is because again I try
Speaker 3: to stay away from anything being sports washed, but it
Speaker 3: may be difficult here at some point with the way
Speaker 3: that actual professional sports contracts are going up, where it
Speaker 3: is going to be almost it's hard for me to
Speaker 3: leave that cutter. Saudi Arabia other places are not going
Speaker 3: to really start investing or be asked to invest into
Speaker 3: some of these sports teams to try to bring in
Speaker 3: some cash flow. Obviously, you see the cash flow that
Speaker 3: they give away to WWE fifty million dollars a pop
Speaker 3: or whatever it is for the shows that they're running
Speaker 3: over there. It seems like that's something And I could
Speaker 3: be wrong, and this isn't exactly the forum for it.
Speaker 3: But we talk about boxing, we talk about WWE with
Speaker 3: the Saudis, I mean MMA, obviously you see that tie in.
Speaker 3: It's hard to believe that they're not going to be
Speaker 3: doing more investing into existing NBA, NHL, whatever sports franchise
Speaker 3: is here. Am I crazy for thinking that?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 7: Absolutely not. I mean there are other companies that are
Speaker 7: taking money or being invested in when it comes to
Speaker 7: mixed martial arts. Buy these countries in the Middle East, right,
Speaker 7: I believe the Saudis also own a portion of the PFL. Yeah, right, Brave,
Speaker 7: there's Brave Fighting Championship, There's UAE Warriors, and I would
Speaker 7: you know, imagine that those are set up in a
Speaker 7: way in which, you know, you bring in fans, you
Speaker 7: get the event. I mean, they're they're probably putting out
Speaker 7: money for them, and I'd assume it's gonna happen, you know,
Speaker 7: more and more in the long run. Although with boxing,
Speaker 7: as you mentioned, I believe the big push now is
Speaker 7: for you know, no more ri odd season outside of
Speaker 7: Saudi Arabia, but now to try to get people to
Speaker 7: go to Saudi Arabia for these big events.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do it. I just I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: But anyway, let's get back to the wrestling point of
Speaker 3: why why, yeah, why couldn't you do it? Number One,
Speaker 3: that's a long flight and I'm not doing that. I
Speaker 3: don't like to fly really anyway, let alone across an
Speaker 3: ocean for that amount of time. To go to a
Speaker 3: country that I don't know, Man, I don't know.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I know you've been over in the Middle East and everything.
Speaker 3: It's no sweat off your back or anything.
Speaker 7: Around the world. Na yah yah yah.
Speaker 3: No. I always wanted to go to Egypt, and I
Speaker 3: think that's going to be out Ever since Mubar got
Speaker 3: overthrown and everything that shook out there, I don't think
Speaker 3: I'll be going.
Speaker 7: But it just you ought me to call a favor
Speaker 7: from uh Karam Gabar.
Speaker 3: No, because he'll find out that I was a big
Speaker 3: fan of Kazuyuki Fujita. You remember what happened there. Yes,
Speaker 3: I do it was that's what happens when olympians go
Speaker 3: in over confident and get knocked out by professional wrestlers
Speaker 3: on Pride shows. You never saw him ever try that again,
Speaker 3: and in fact, he was one of the guys I
Speaker 3: remember that I think it was.
Speaker 7: I think it was a K one. I think it
Speaker 7: was a K one.
Speaker 3: Nay K one Dynamite or something like that. I just
Speaker 3: remember he was one of the guys that was really
Speaker 3: being looked at as somebody that could be in professional wrestling.
Speaker 3: And then after that happened, I don't think I ever
Speaker 3: heard from the guy again after that. I don't think
Speaker 3: in fight for him, not an amateur wrestling form for sure,
Speaker 3: and obviously not professional wrestling. Knocked all the hope right
Speaker 3: out of that man, something I believe.
Speaker 7: I believe he's doing pretty well in Egypt actually and
Speaker 7: probably and another instance in which I use all of
Speaker 7: my brain power in the past to remember absolutely pointless
Speaker 7: minutia and details because it did take place. K one
Speaker 7: Dynamite December thirty first, two thousand and four.
Speaker 3: Never saw Johnny Morton fight again, too, but that was
Speaker 3: a different K one show, which brings up different laughable memories.
Speaker 3: But swarre stricken little Leo Rush. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I said that before the break. When it comes to
Speaker 3: Tonight's Dynamite, also Will Osprey will appear, Bobby lashleywoll appear,
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Jamie Hayter, Mina Shirik Howa returns, and
Speaker 3: John Moxley will see he'ze the superstation TBS be able
Speaker 3: to help out their production at all. Possibly they're sound mixing.
Speaker 7: John Moxley's gonna be the guy you go to for
Speaker 7: sound mixing. I'd imagine he's more like a caveman in
Speaker 7: the back pressing the buttons.
Speaker 3: But what does it mean that he's going to seize
Speaker 3: the superstation TBS and it's a something that you want
Speaker 3: to advertise ahead of time. I mean, if he was
Speaker 3: gonna seize it, I mean, now, wouldn't they have security
Speaker 3: set up? Wouldn't TBS have somebody there WBD.
Speaker 7: You would think that, But I've noticed that AW has
Speaker 7: a relatively poor security force. When it comes to these things.
Speaker 7: They need they need a man to step up and
Speaker 7: make sure things are secure. They need a man to
Speaker 7: step up and make sure things are safe, make sure
Speaker 7: things are on lockdown. And that man the next Doug Dillinger.
Speaker 7: You could be looking at him, but you're not. I
Speaker 7: recommend Roadblock from WCW.
Speaker 3: I think he may have passed away or Block did
Speaker 3: oh quite some time ago.
Speaker 7: But how about well, maybe maybe he's in maybe he's
Speaker 7: currently in charge of their security then, because John Moxley
Speaker 7: just seems to do whatever he wants exactly, Well, how
Speaker 7: did Darby Allen get up in this ceiling a few
Speaker 7: weeks ago? Don't you think they'd have that figured out?
Speaker 3: That's been one of those wrestling ones that we've never
Speaker 3: even asked. You know how we talked about like wrestler paralysis,
Speaker 3: that it really afflicts so many guys, like somebody's music
Speaker 3: hits and then RVB just goes and they just stare.
Speaker 3: Like nobody ever said, why is sting? How did he
Speaker 3: get up into the stands? Nobody ever questioned that? So
Speaker 3: I think that's the extension of sting is if nobody's
Speaker 3: questioning Sting, nobody's gonna question how Darby got up there?
Speaker 3: Either just the thought, I don't know, thanks for letting
Speaker 3: me transition poorly here, and now I know what Brian
Speaker 3: goes through and he does this show with me to
Speaker 3: c W and n XD, which I made Tom watch
Speaker 3: because he had to to do the show today. And
Speaker 3: the show opened with Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend against
Speaker 3: Stephanie Vakhor and Julia Julia Pinn Jakara after she and
Speaker 3: Vakhera hit a double V trigger in about eleven minutes.
Speaker 3: It was a solid opening to the match, and Jakara
Speaker 3: Jackson has gotten better, which is amazing that if somebody
Speaker 3: continues to wrestle that they may actually pick things up
Speaker 3: and get better. Lash Legend has as well. She is
Speaker 3: a physical freak compared to some of the women that
Speaker 3: they have on that roster, even some of the people
Speaker 3: on the main roster. At some point, if they can
Speaker 3: actually round into something, Jakara and Lash they will be
Speaker 3: impactful on that main roster. But there's been talking about
Speaker 3: pushing him up there sooner rather than later. I don't
Speaker 3: want to see that happen, although I do want to
Speaker 3: see Noam Dhar when he comes back, possibly up on
Speaker 3: the main roster, which would then go ahead and bring
Speaker 3: everybody up. But then we got the first of three
Speaker 3: Iron Survivor Challenge qualifying matches.
Speaker 12: Yes, sir, can I say something actually about that because
Speaker 12: I think that Jakar Jackson and lash Legend should be
Speaker 12: on the main roster because to me, they are two
Speaker 12: instances of which I think they will step up and
Speaker 12: rise to the occasion.
Speaker 7: I think lash Legend has been a high level athlete
Speaker 7: her whole life, and I think put into a situation
Speaker 7: in which she gets to wrestle better people, she gets
Speaker 7: to be on the main roster environment, I think she is,
Speaker 7: you know, one of the few prospects that you could
Speaker 7: say this about with limited experience that would step up
Speaker 7: and you know, look better in the long run for
Speaker 7: being up there earlier.
Speaker 3: I think Obafemi has that potential as well too, just
Speaker 3: on the men's side of things. You know, he's only
Speaker 3: had really a handful of matches in his entire career
Speaker 3: since he came out, and obviously they believed him enough
Speaker 3: to make him one of the faces of NX team,
Speaker 3: make him the North American Champion, and he's done that
Speaker 3: very well. I could see him going up to the
Speaker 3: main roster and actually succeeding there as well.
Speaker 7: Too, I agree, especially especially hot on the heels of
Speaker 7: guys like Francis Naganu and rug rug taken over the
Speaker 7: Combat Sports world. You know, we need an African star
Speaker 7: on the main roster.
Speaker 3: I think sol Ruka defeated Kora Jade with the Soul
Speaker 3: Snatcher in about three and a half minutes. There really
Speaker 3: wasn't much to say about it. It was fine, it
Speaker 3: was it went quickly, and I thought Kora was gonna
Speaker 3: get the victory. But they're putting Soul Ruka in the
Speaker 3: Iron Survivor Challenge, So there you go. Backstage, Carmen Petrovitch,
Speaker 3: she was talking with Dion Lennox and her mind was
Speaker 3: completely onto Chante Diodonas. That's when Carly Bright walked over,
Speaker 3: then followed by Ashanti walking over, and at the time
Speaker 3: I didn't realize this. They made a mixed tag match
Speaker 3: for next week between Carmen and Ashante against Dion and Carly,
Speaker 3: but how the segment ended it was open, so they
Speaker 3: never actually said that that was gonna happen. They ended
Speaker 3: up saying it later on in the show after commercial.
Speaker 3: Came back to a bunch of people in the boardroom
Speaker 3: talking to Ava. At the end of it. Basically, what
Speaker 3: it comes down to is there's going to be tag
Speaker 3: Team Moore's taking place to see who comes and faces
Speaker 3: actual him and Nathan Fraser. Next we finally saw Josh
Speaker 3: Briggs again. He walked out of there. We end up
Speaker 3: seeing him later on. He's got Yoshiki in a mura
Speaker 3: of rustling Noah with him.
Speaker 7: It's like, what, I sure?
Speaker 3: Why not? I guess they were talking until Eddie Thorpe
Speaker 3: came in to yell at Ava about always blowing him off,
Speaker 3: and Ava said, look, I know you need a shot.
Speaker 3: I know you want a shot. And so he is
Speaker 3: going to be in one of the Iron Survivor Challenge
Speaker 3: matches that's going to be coming up. Trick Williams came
Speaker 3: out for an entring promo, calling out Ridge Holland. Instead
Speaker 3: he got Andre Chase, who told him he's not done
Speaker 3: with Ridge. Seems like Trick was about to offer Ridge
Speaker 3: a shot or Andre Chase a shot at the NXT
Speaker 3: Championship when Holland's music hit and he came down to
Speaker 3: the ring and he is by far the most hated
Speaker 3: man when he comes to that Performance Center on the roster.
Speaker 3: They were booing him the entire time. You would have
Speaker 3: thought it was Dominic Mysterio or you know, Don kallis
Speaker 3: in there. The way they booth. Throughout the entire thing,
Speaker 3: Chase told Hollands he wants one more match with him.
Speaker 3: Ridge said no. Chase then said he would put Chase
Speaker 3: You on the line for the match, and rich says
Speaker 3: he didn't care about the university, but then thought about
Speaker 3: it and said, okay, I'll take it, and if he
Speaker 3: wins the match, Chase You has got to disband. Riley
Speaker 3: Duke and THEA need to go their own way. Later on,
Speaker 3: when Andre Chase was talking to them, they didn't seem
Speaker 3: to be real confident. And Andre's chances of being able
Speaker 3: to defeat Ridge Holland for the Number one contendership and
Speaker 3: go on for the NXT title. Will you be sad
Speaker 3: if Chase You goes away? I will.
Speaker 7: I'm not very confident in mister Chase's chances here either
Speaker 7: against Ridge Holland. I think Chase You is not long
Speaker 7: for this world. But I'm sure. I'm sure one day
Speaker 7: they'll be reunited, so we can look forward to that,
Speaker 7: maybe four years down the road when graduation should have
Speaker 7: taken place now.
Speaker 3: I don't know why the first match with the women
Speaker 3: with Soul and with Cora Cora went three and a
Speaker 3: half minutes. I have no idea why that happened, and
Speaker 3: they gave four and a half minutes to Adrian and Rizzo.
Speaker 3: Nikita Lyons in a bad match. It was just bad.
Speaker 3: And there's a great example of somebody not getting enough
Speaker 3: reps when it comes to either one of those women's
Speaker 3: the Lion's been hurt for a while and Rizzo, who
Speaker 3: is a great cartoon character standing with the di'angelo family, like,
Speaker 3: at some point, if she's going to wrestle, maybe you
Speaker 3: ought to let her have some more matches.
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, Nikita Lyons missed her timing. She was, you know,
Speaker 7: in a better place before the injury. She came back
Speaker 7: and I don't know. To me, it seems like she's
Speaker 7: almost got nowhere to go right now, and if she
Speaker 7: had a place to go, it should probably be to
Speaker 7: the hospital, the cemetery, the morgue because Rizzo at the
Speaker 7: end of the match hit her in the back of
Speaker 7: the head with a crow bar.
Speaker 8: That's assault, brother and battery, I believe, And like, yeah,
Speaker 8: I know, I know you're upset.
Speaker 3: Thank Dom there for throwing in the music or commed
Speaker 3: at any cursing or anything like.
Speaker 7: A little already the rugged man in the house huh
Speaker 7: like that. Just like that review quite rugged.
Speaker 3: We still got a little bit more to go, which
Speaker 3: we will after the break. Rusting Observer Alive.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike simper viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 3: Back on the show, Mike simper vv and filthy Tom
Speaker 3: Lawler here with you. I want to hear Tom actually
Speaker 3: sing some Ari the Rugged Man bars. When hear him
Speaker 3: actually do some of definition of a rap flow at
Speaker 3: that speed? Do you think you can do it?
Speaker 7: Absolutely not? I would Butcher Butcher the great work of
Speaker 7: ra the Rugged Band. Are you kidding me? We've got it.
Speaker 7: We've got to cover the rest of this NXT show anyways.
Speaker 3: Who is fast and bouncy? Javan Evans is fast and bouncy?
Speaker 3: Oh see, I thought you were gonna play the music
Speaker 3: for out throughout the whole thing. He defeated Lexus King
Speaker 3: in about nine and a half minutes because Lexus King
Speaker 3: still won't do anything dirty like his father did. And
Speaker 3: then it was time for the NXT Women's North American
Speaker 3: title rematch. Fallon Henley defending against the Queen of Superfluous Moves.
Speaker 3: Kalanie Jordan, Tom, would you think.
Speaker 7: If you are a lover of superfluous moves? This match
Speaker 7: right up your alley? My brain ownst exploded at one
Speaker 7: point trying to decipher the physics of a move that
Speaker 7: Klonnie Jordan did, a rolling thunder into a standing shooting
Speaker 7: star press. I mean she did it. I couldn't figure
Speaker 7: out why, but.
Speaker 3: I digress just to get a two count, that's why.
Speaker 3: And Klannie looked like she had the match one after
Speaker 3: a split leg in Moonsalt, but Jac put Falon's foot
Speaker 3: on the ropes. Klanie kicked Fallon, stomp Jasmine from or
Speaker 3: stop Jasmine from interfering. He went for all up fall
Speaker 3: and kicked out push Kawani right into a punch in
Speaker 3: the face by Jac and Fallen got the victory. And
Speaker 3: that's it. Andre Chase against Ridge. Next week, Carmen and
Speaker 3: Ashante gets Britley and Dion Tony Diagelo against Brooks Jensen
Speaker 3: and the Iron Survivor Challenge. Matches continue Filthy, Tom Lawler
Speaker 3: and I might continue this show tomorrow. We'll find out, ye.
Speaker 3: Thank you producer John, Thank you, producer Dom. We shall
Speaker 3: talk to you again after a while.
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