WEBVTT - Wrestlemania - Night 1 and 2 Recap 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.800 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:15.400 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody. Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:18.520 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:21.640 Monday to Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.319 sixth Eastern. It is the Monday after WrestleMania here on 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.320 this program, and we have got a lot to talk 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:31.760 about here today. I haven't talked to you guys in 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:36.239 Observer Lives since Friday. Lot's happened since then. We've had 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.080 Night one of WrestleMania, We've had Night two of WrestleMania. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.040 We've got Raw to Night, n XT Standing Deliver on Saturday, 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:46.240 SmackDown on Friday, the Hall of Fame, Ring of Honor, 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.680 Supercard of Honor, about fifty other shows in the area. 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.920 We got a lot going on on Raw tonight. I've 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.080 been told a few things so we can tell you about. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.400 And also the retirement, the official retirement, laying his boots 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.720 in the ring of Triple H injury to boogs aj 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.080 styles slashed open on the weight of the ring. He 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.280 was not happy about that and yes, Pat buck quit 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.880 one of the the w w E agents had just 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.600 had enough after WrestleMania and he's out of there. So 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.200 we'll tell you about that here today, and uh really 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.319 anything else you want to talk about. So I I 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.920 often plug the subscriber area. I'm not gonna do a 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.640 big plug here, but it's Wrestling Observer dot com for 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.880 audio and newsletters, and of course we've got video dot 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:37.280 for w online dot com as well, and of all weekends. 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.280 Like you know, if you really want to know everything 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.360 that happened WrestleMania weekend, you're better off being a subscriber 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.640 because I can't get into all of it today. It's impossible. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.319 I'll tell you as much as I possibly can in 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.640 the next hour, but you are missing out because we 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.120 did very, very in depth coverage all weekend and certainly 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.520 more to come. So if you're not a subscriber to 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.760 Wrestling Observer dot com or video dot for one Light 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.760 dot com, if you do like this show and you're 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:06.280 not a subscriber, I mean it's twelve a month, and 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.000 with inflation the way it is, you probably pay more 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:13.839 for you know, coffee, So I would recommend checking it out, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.120 getting caught up with everything going on in the world 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.880 of wrestling. If you have questions, comments, et cetera. Four 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.280 to five seven eight zero seven five six six. That 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.480 is four to five seven eight zero seven, five six 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.240 six Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Alvarez 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:38.160 on Twitter. Back in a moment Observer Live. Thank thank 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:54.000 hey everybody. You are right back in the show. Bran, 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:57.120 Now we're here. Let's get going today. We've got a 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.320 lot to get into. It's been a long weekend, all right, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:07.520 how them begin? Yeah, so WrestleMania was this weekend? Did 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.400 you guys know that it was a WrestleMania this weekend? 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.120 It was two nights, and uh, you know, we gonna 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.919 start with here today very quickly, is uh how all 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:17.880 the shows did this weekend? And uh, you know, I 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.400 was going over my timeline for the show started, and 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.079 I was, I was, I was actually fixing to get 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.440 really mad and start. I responded to one guy, which 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.880 was one guy too many, a historian who was angry 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.200 that we were given the real numbers for WrestleMania, which 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:35.480 is one of the funnier tweets I've seen in a while. Carl. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:37.680 But I was gonna get really mad at a bunch 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.160 of people. But then, you know, I really started think 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:42.400 about this, and I thought, you know, like, if you 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:48.600 can't deal with the actual numbers for WrestleMania, I mean, 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:50.120 I could get mad at you, but the fact of 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.480 the matter is if you can't deal, you've got some 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:55.640 problems in your life. So I have sympathy. So I'm 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.000 just gonna ignore it and move on. WrestleMania Night one, 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:04.720 they distributed sixty five thousand, seven hundred and nineteen tickets. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.880 That's distributed. The actual paid was between fifty five and 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:14.480 sixty thousand. The fake attendance, which is a fake attendance. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.479 It is not the number of tickets distributed, plus the 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:20.520 people who sell popcorn, and the security and this and 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.080 that that people do. This is a fake number. Okay, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.400 I don't care what Bruce Pridget said on his podcast. Okay, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:30.160 the guy who runs his company, his name is Vince McMahon. 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.640 You guys all bow to him at WrestleMania after he 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.400 has a bad match, he said, Vince, Okay, not me. 0:04:37.080 --> 0:04:42.400 He has said flat out that the attendance is for entertainment. 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:45.000 It is part of the entertainment portion of the show. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.520 It is fake, it is made up. Okay, four times 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.200 a year they do an earnings call, they release actual 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.400 numbers of the full attendance for the quarter, and in fact, 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:57.880 if you do the math, they do give the real 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:02.039 number for WrestleMania, and it's never the fake number that 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.720 they put on the screen. Which was particularly funny on 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.560 night too, because they put one fake number on the 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.640 screen and then the announcers had a different fake number, 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.560 so we had to fake numbers. They couldn't even get 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.760 their stories straight. So anyway, first night, sixty five thousand 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:18.040 tickets out between fifty five and sixty paid. Uh. Second 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.960 night sixty seven nineteen I'm sorry, sixty five six fifty 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:26.160 three out between fifty five and sixty thousand paid, and 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:30.000 they had to fake numbers for that night. But basically 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.960 they added twelve thousand people to the attendance, which is 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.400 in fact what they do every year, and they have 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:39.280 done every year since the beginning of time, and they 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:44.520 admit this, but it's my fault. So that's WrestleMania tonight raw. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.400 They have got nine thousand, seven hundred and thirty two 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:50.440 tickets out and the building is set up for ten thousand, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.640 four hundred and six, So there's six hundred seventy four 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.839 tickets available. They're probably gonna sell out. So that's the 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.400 urra after wrestlemans we're talking about in a moment, n 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:04.000 XT stay and deliver four thousand, three sixty six. Somehow 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:08.080 they did not have fifteen thousand popcorn sellers and security 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.160 and etcetera, etcetera. U to get that four thousand, three 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.960 d sixty six in the building? Um, I mean compared 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.880 to what they normally do on Tuesday nights in Florida. 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.320 That's a great number. But if you look back at 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.760 the you know n x T takeover wrestlemany weekend shows 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.240 when Triple H was in charge. There is no way 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.040 to spend this as and improved n x T. It is. 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:34.320 It is worse off in every single conceivable way. This 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.480 n x T two point oh. I do not want 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.760 to hear arguments. Friday Nights, SmackDown did a great number 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.560 twelve thousand and eleven tickets. They were completely sold out 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.600 for the SmackDown show in the Hall of Fame, the 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:50.359 third best SmackDown number since returning to the road. According 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.800 to Wrestle Ticks quote, a tremendous number which it was, 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.800 and a Ring of Honor Supercard of Honor with Tony 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.560 Cohn in charge, one thousand, nine d and seventy eight 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.919 tickets out. So Tony Khan mentioned two thousand of the 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:09.240 media scrum, he inflated it by uh twenty two tickets. 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.640 Apparably there were only twenty two security guards, popcorn sellers 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.840 and anyway. So those are the numbers for for the weekend. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.880 So the good, the bad and everything in between. Now 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:25.000 the shows. I told you these shows are gonna be 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.920 pretty good. Night one was better than Night too, but 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.480 I was entertained by both shows. Night one we had 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.440 the use O's beating Shinsky Nakamura and Rick Boogs. When 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.880 Rick Boogs injured his leg, they had to go to 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.920 the finish early. He has suffered an injured patella and 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.480 torn quad and he is going to be out of 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.480 action for a long time. Best wishes too, Old Boogs. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:48.400 They had to change the finish. They had to shave 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.880 time off the match, and so they filled that time 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:55.000 with copious video packages and then ran out of time later. 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.760 It's actually like that a w show where they had 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.560 a fake stand by match and by puting the fake 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.320 stand by match on the show. They actually ran out 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:03.840 of time and had to cut some other stuff later 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.720 in the show. Drew mc terrby Dappy Corbyn. I thought 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.400 the match was good. It wasn't a great match, but 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.720 it was good. Drew McIntyre one and then chopped the 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.520 ring ropes with his sword, so we got to see 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.880 some special effects. Missing Logan Paul beat Ray Mysterio and 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:21.680 Dominic Mysterio way better than anybody could have expected. Because 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:26.120 of Logan Paul. This dude outworked the Miss. If you 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.600 showed any random person this match and said name the 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.400 one guy who's you know, uh not a wrestler, they 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.480 would have picked them is Logan Paul. Looked great. They 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.160 had a fun match, uh they they they won Missing 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.680 Logan Paul one, and then Logan Paul, who's just like 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:44.720 he's the greatest heel, Miss turns on him. I guess 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.040 to turn him baby face, but everyone cheered the Miss, 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:51.160 so the whole thing is just total miss. I think 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:54.200 Logan Paul is coming back, so I'm even more baffled 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.240 than they that they shot this angle at the end, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.600 but they did. Bianca beat Becky. Ma'am talking about this 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:02.720 one for months and all I heard was not gonna happen. 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.480 I'll believe it when I see it. Well, I hope 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.600 we all believe it now. Because she beat her clean 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.199 in the middle of the ring with the ko D 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.480 she won the title. They finished off a story that 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.560 they started at WrestleMania, and I thought it was an 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.600 excellent match. I thought Becky did everything in her power 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.439 to get Bianca over. Bianca looked like a huge star. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.040 She had the best women's match on WrestleMania now two 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.760 years in a row. So congratulations to her. The new 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:35.320 Raw Women's Champion Seth Rollins versus Marco Stunt. Big surprise, No, 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.360 of course, not everyone. It was Cody Rhodes and they 0:09:39.440 --> 0:09:41.720 hit his music and the place went crazy for this 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.160 guy and he was massively over and they had a 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.440 very good match and Cody beat him. Yeah, Cody did 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.640 not do a job as first night in beat him 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.120 with the Crossroads. Came off like a massive superstar. He's 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.559 going to appear on Raw tonight. He's going to talk 0:09:56.160 --> 0:10:00.160 about everything, and I would expect there to be references 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.600 to a W, although I don't think he will actually 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.400 say the letters A E W. But we shall see it. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.440 Was a home run segment. I know people don't want 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.320 to hear that, but it was Charlotte versus Ronda Rousey 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.520 better than I expected. It wasn't a great match or 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.040 anything like that, but I mean they certainly worked hard, 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.679 they tried. No one half asked it. Charlotte beat her 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:24.280 with a boot after run Da Rousey had gotten a pin, 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.440 although the referee reversed it because he saw the foot 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.520 on the ropes, and then she had a submission while 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.480 the rough wasn't around, So she had a pin and 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.680 a submission and then got booted in the face and lost. 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:38.600 So it looks like they're gonna be heading towards a 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:42.040 submission match. Steve Auston beat Kevin Owens. They actually did 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.560 a match, and there's a guy there that a big 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.199 sign melt ser fierce facts on a weekend where we 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:53.080 got Vince McMahon versus Pat McAfee and stone cold Steve 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:56.920 Auston versus Kevin Owens in an actual match, and man, 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:00.120 for a guy that hasn't been around eighteen years if 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:03.200 he's seven years old, he did a hell of a job. 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.720 This was a retirement match. To be proud of. Kevin 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.040 Owens looked great as well, worked his ass off for 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.960 stone Cold Stunner finished in the middle of the ring, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.440 Austin took soup plexus on the cement the whole nine 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:19.120 yards Holy smokes. I thought this delivered. I mean, it 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.640 didn't deliver as much as the Jackass match, but it 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.560 over delivered. So I thought this was this was excellent. 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.959 And uh, before I go on, Mike, before the break, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.560 what do you think of that first night? I really 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:31.720 enjoyed the first night. I mean, wrestling wise, I thought 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.400 it was a better night. You know, Cody and Seth 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:38.160 they bought Cody Rhodes, And when you buy Cody Rhodes, 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.280 you buy all of Cody Rhodes, and you buy the logo, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:44.640 the music, the whole presentation, which I thought was great. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:46.640 I thought that's what they needed to do. If you're 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.280 bringing in Cody Rhodes, you want to shock the system 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.880 a little bit and and and get people talking. That 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.520 was the best way to do it. And I think 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.280 maybe he does mention the words a w tonight. This 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.760 might be the only time he does it, but maybe 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:01.199 we actually get to see that to night Logan Paul, 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:03.160 I don't know what direction they're gonna go with Logan 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.160 Paul and the Miss. At some point they're probably gonna 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:06.720 have to figure out a way to make Miss the 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:09.160 good guy in that exchange, because I don't think that 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:13.320 fans are gonna stop pouring onto Logan Paul. So he 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.079 did a spectacular job and just not you another person 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.120 with bad Bunny, Floyd Mayweather and some others of people 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.400 from the outside who have done a great job of WrestleMania. 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:41.200 Magre in a moment, Observer Live, Light in the show, 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.480 Bright El Brez here, Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simper Vide, 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.080 also Wrestling Observer dot Com. So despite the fact that 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:50.200 Night one had two and a half hours of video 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.360 packages and entrances in a four hour show, I thought 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.880 it was a pretty great wrestle media night too. Not 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:58.200 quite as great, although there was great stuff on the show. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:02.400 R K Bro Street Off It's alph Academy, excellent opening match, 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.719 r KO is all over, r K Bro got the win, 0:13:05.880 --> 0:13:08.240 retained the raw tag team titles. That's one to go 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.719 out of your way to see. If you want to 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.720 see horrible things, there was plenty of that on the show. 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:17.079 Bobby Lashing, Omas Holy Smokes, This match is horrible, and uh, 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:19.960 you can't have match good match with aj styles. It's 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:23.120 it's time to cut bait, take a break, go back 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:27.400 to that performance center because Omas cannot have a bad 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.920 good match. This match with Lashly horrible and then Lashly 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.080 beat him so so much for that wind streak. Dude, 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.120 what's he gonna do down there? I mean, honestly, and 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:40.360 I don't want to break, but like to me, if 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:44.320 he's not gonna be then you probably need to cut 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.680 bait because I he does not seem to have lateral movement. 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:51.360 There are just things that unless he's just going to 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.439 be a guy who walks in and choke slams into 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.880 his bodyguard and serves that kind of role, which you 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.520 can do. You can bring him out every three months 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.480 or so and have him go crush some body. People 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.440 would lose their minds. Like to me, that's it. Other 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.240 than that, I mean, it's I mean, can you imagine, 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.560 look almost in vinced they should get together and have 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:11.760 a match. That would be amazing. Johnny Knoxville, Sammy Zane. 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.600 I mean, I could talk for hours about this. In fact, 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.160 if you're a subscriber to Wrestling Observer dot com, myself 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.360 and filthy Tom Law this afternoon. It's actually gonna be 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:23.080 a two thirty Pacific today, half hour late to thirty Pacific, 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.800 five thirty Eastern. I bet we could spend an hour 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.280 on this match. But suffice to say, and this is 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.200 what I will say about the full deconstruction of that match. 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.360 This is a this is a backhanded uh. It's not 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.720 even a compliment. This is just uh, you know, this 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.040 is a reality. W w E as a tendency to 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:46.080 advertise things and either under deliver or just deliver what 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:49.280 you would expect. And every now and then they over deliver. 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.800 And an example of that, in fact, would be Kevin 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.280 Owens and Steve Austin. They they advertised that it was 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:57.600 going to be just a talk show segment and they 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:03.120 delivered a legitimate, good, no holds barred Steve Boston versus Kevin. 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:05.920 So they over delivered, which is rare for w w E. 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.040 I'm not sure in all the years that I have 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.040 been watching w w E, and I started watching in 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.800 I don't think there's ever been a match that more 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:25.600 over delivered than this one. Here is Johnny Knoxville, Sammy Zane, 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.400 anything goes. We all knew that it would be pie 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.720 pans and trash cans, and you knew there was gonna 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:36.520 be a taser to the balls and this and that. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.000 I did not expect fireworks in the ass. I did 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:44.720 not expect of the giant hand. I did not expect 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.640 we Man. It was like UFC one in there. This 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.880 guy is just stiffing people right and left, and then 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.640 Sammy Zane just booted him. Like the only way this 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.360 boot would have been worse is if he would have 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.280 booted him with the toe of his boot, which is like, 0:15:58.320 --> 0:15:59.840 you're not supposed to ever kick someone with the toe. 0:15:59.880 --> 0:16:01.920 You was kicking with a flat part of your boot. Man, 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.640 he kicked this dude. We Man didn't even turn his head. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.920 It was just the boot goes right into his nose. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.240 You know, I think his nose went into his brain. 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.680 Oh my god. They were absolutely killing each other. And yes, 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.320 they did slow motion play that too forever. Yeah. Usually 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.200 what they do is, like you know, they they show 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.160 real slow motion, then right when there's about to be impact, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:22.840 they speed it up so you can't really see what happened. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.040 Not this one. It was like slow and then they 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.040 slowed it down even more than you stopped. All right, 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.200 Oh my god. And then the giant mouse trapped the 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.080 giant hand, it flew in it. I was dying. I 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.920 was dying watching this match. Loved it. I just loved it. 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:43.480 I mean it was total, absolute pro wrestling stupidity. It 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.320 was a human cartoon. Oh man, that was something else. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:53.240 Take that spring break, Janella. They outdid every indie they 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:55.920 did for then the most areposterous match of the week. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.760 This this whole, that whole two days of WrestleMania there was. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:06.159 It was a absolute spectacle in this look. Logan Paul delivered, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:12.919 Steve Austin delivered, Uh, you know, I Johnny Knoxville delivered 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.840 a lot of the stuff that look. I would have 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:21.000 taken a great one day, five hour wrestling show that 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.639 was classic top to bottom stuff. I would have taken that. 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.920 I absolutely would have. If you had going to go ahead, 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.440 if you would have taken these two WrestleManias, these two nights, 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.840 and you'd have put only the best stuff on one show, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.040 and it would have been the greatest WrestleMania of all 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.600 time by multiples. Yeah. But if you if you trimmed 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.880 the fat off of both of those shows at to night, 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.119 and you could have taken off an hour off of 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.720 each show and not missed a beat, and it probably 0:17:49.720 --> 0:17:52.600 would even flowed better. But what I was gonna say is, look, 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.920 they promised this year a spectacle. They made no bones 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.199 about the fact, with the exception of a couple of 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.320 matches headlined by Brock can By Roman, that this is 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.960 a spectacle show. This is not from you, Mr hardcore 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.200 pro wrestling fan. This is for the masses. And from 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.359 that point of view, they delivered. And then some the 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.479 Johnny Knoxville stuff. I haven't seen Jackass in years, so 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.760 to see we Man with this little we gut doing 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.879 a body slam on Samy Zane and this is another 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.240 thing too, And I just want to throw this out 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:29.160 there about Sammy Zane and Kevin Owens resigning. Bottom line 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.440 with Kevin Owens and Sammy Zane is they can walk 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.160 into Canada anytime w W runs and be the biggest 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.119 things in all of professional wrestling. Barnon, they walk into Quebec, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:44.000 you know, they're They're like, God's there. A W doesn't 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:46.640 have that reach in Canada, they don't. And they these 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.439 are two guys that like their job, they like the 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.359 people they work with, they like where they're at in 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:52.119 their lives, and there are a lot of people that 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:53.880 are upset that we're not going to get to see 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.000 Generico and Steen again and a W doing stuff that 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.160 you know what, that's a okay, And you see why 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.560 maybe yesterday and the day before of why these guys 0:19:05.680 --> 0:19:09.840 were so completely fine with resigning with w w E 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:12.840 and possibly even finishing out their careers there, depending on 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.359 what direction they decided to take. But if you told 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.160 me the next three years, I would do absolutely nothing 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.639 a job to every person on that roster. But I 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.280 got to be in the ring with Stone Colt Steve 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.520 Boston at WrestleMania for his last match. I'm sorry if 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.159 I'm Kevin Owens. It's all worth it, alright. We had 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.200 Sasha Naomi versus Len and Carmelo VERSUSI, and Live Morrigan 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:35.080 versus Natty and Shana. Sasha Naomi won the women's tag titles. 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.400 It was a match that was on the card edge 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.440 b DJ Styles. They did not go eighteen, they did 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:47.600 not go. They went, and uh, it was excellently Here's 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.160 the thing, it was excellently wrestled. Were people bored, Yeah, 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.000 some people were bored by the middle of it. I 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.080 thought it was a very very good match. The finish sucked. 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.919 Damian Priest appears, a j is distracted, he has a 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:03.480 springboard and gets speared out of midair and pinned. And 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.760 now we got Edge and Damien Priest as a duo, 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.639 and Lord, I don't need that crap on WrestleMania. Do 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.399 those stupid finishes on ron SmackDown. Come up with something 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.760 creative for the biggest show of the year. Shamus and 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.760 Ridge Holland versus The New Day. This match got bumped 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:20.159 from Night one because they had two and a half 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.919 hours of video packages on a four hour show. Well, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:27.119 on this show, New Day comes out dressed as Biggie 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:29.960 when he won the title tribute to their fallen friend, 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.920 they showed the footage of the the guy's broken neck. They 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.400 go one minute and forty seconds and the New Day 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:40.480 is beaten clean in the middle of the ring. Pat 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:46.120 McAfee defeated Austin Theory. This match was good. Pat McAfee 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:49.080 was great, but if you saw the Adam Cole match, 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:51.560 you would have expected that Austin Theory did a great 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.960 job with him. Pat McAfee rolled him up for the pin. 0:20:54.400 --> 0:20:59.600 This led to the worst match in the history of WrestleMania, 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:03.040 bordering on the It may actually be the worst match 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:04.600 I've ever seen, and I don't want to hear one 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:07.600 excuse about how it shouldn't count in the year end 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:13.119 of voting. Dude, it was horrible. Vince is absolutely completely immobile. 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:15.639 He's out there as jacked up as he can be. 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:19.000 At seventies six. He puts his arm out and Pat 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.600 McAfee runs into it numerous times. Pat McAfee has a 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:26.119 cell for this guy. And then Vince mcmah takes a 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.520 football and boots it into his ribs and pins him. 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.320 He pinn Pat McAfee in the middle of the ring. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:40.200 So then of course they hit stone cold Steve Auston's music. Thankfully, 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:44.040 Steve Auston came out Austin theory takes the greatest stunner 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:46.919 in the history of man, and then it's time for 0:21:46.960 --> 0:21:50.800 the McMahon Austin stunner. And if you've ever seen Vince 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:55.479 McMahon work, he's horrible, so horrible, I almost dropped an 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:58.560 F bomb right there. He's the worst. He's absolutely twenty 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:00.240 five years ago, this guy couldn't do any thing in 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:02.439 the ring, but he was Vince. So of course everybody 0:22:02.560 --> 0:22:03.879 sold for him, and he punched him as hard as 0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:05.719 he couldn't face and all that kind of crap, but 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.600