Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all, let's get it. I think I'm
Speaker 1: ready at least. Mike semper viv here with you for
Speaker 1: the next hour talking professional wrestling and mixed martial arts,
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Speaker 1: say thank you for spending a little bit of time
Speaker 1: with me today. As you can see and here Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez is not spending any time with me today. I'll
Speaker 1: leave it up to him to explain where he is.
Speaker 1: As I was telling producer Tom before the show, it's
Speaker 1: the type of adventure that sounds like it could turn into,
Speaker 1: you know, like one of those Ben Stiller movies. With
Speaker 1: Brian's luck, that's kind of more up his alley. Maybe
Speaker 1: if he wanted to work blue, it could turn into
Speaker 1: like late era Rodney Dangerfield, you know, maybe something like that.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. Producer Don had a better vision
Speaker 1: of what Brian could be doing right now. It's almost
Speaker 1: out of like the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But unfortunately
Speaker 1: that's where I have to build you up and leave
Speaker 1: you for right now. And if you're a subscriber over
Speaker 1: at Wrestling Observer dot com, you can get the rest
Speaker 1: of the story when Brian rejoins Vinny for the Brian
Speaker 1: and Vinny Show coming up here very soon on the site.
Speaker 1: But there is a lot to get into today news
Speaker 1: wise in the world of professional wrestling. It is the
Speaker 1: middle of the week. Dynamite was last night. It is
Speaker 1: Shark week on the Discovery Networks. We had a wild
Speaker 1: barbed wire match. It was, it was. It was a spectacle, actually,
Speaker 1: spectacle would be the right word to use between Eddie
Speaker 1: Kingston and Chris Jericho, and I will run down that
Speaker 1: entire show for you. We have matches being added to
Speaker 1: the Rick Flair weekend and I'll tell you about that
Speaker 1: when we get back from break. Ring of Honors pay
Speaker 1: per view was built up heavily on a w show
Speaker 1: last night, and possible returns of both Kenny Omega and
Speaker 1: Adam Cole coming soon. I'll let you know the details
Speaker 1: on that when we get back from break. Wrestlings Are Alive.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. Mike semper Viv here with you,
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Alive. We do this show right here for
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Speaker 1: the broadcasters at Sports Byline USA, and if you love
Speaker 1: pro wrestling at mid Atlantic Pod. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys know this or not, so I need you
Speaker 1: to Maybe it's maybe a little bit shocking, So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna need you to sit down for a moment. If
Speaker 1: you have zan X to take, grab a bar of
Speaker 1: it right now. Put this in maybe just shock you
Speaker 1: to the point of no return. So I need you
Speaker 1: to be ready here, Okay, Because I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: you've heard this or not. Rick Flair is having his
Speaker 1: last match coming up at the end of the month
Speaker 1: in Nashville. Have you heard about this. I hope that
Speaker 1: doesn't shock anybody. I hope the news has been out
Speaker 1: there enough. I hope you understand having his last match
Speaker 1: Rick Flair's Last match. Dot Com is where you can
Speaker 1: get all the details of this. It's gonna be the
Speaker 1: Nature Boy teaming up with his son in law and
Speaker 1: draw A L E Low to face off against j
Speaker 1: Lethal who has been training him for his comeback, and
Speaker 1: j E Double Left j A Double R E DOUBLET,
Speaker 1: Jerry's kid, Jeff Jarrett. The whole weekend is gonna get
Speaker 1: started on Friday July with a roast of Rick Flair,
Speaker 1: probably gonna get out of control. I would assume the
Speaker 1: next day you can come back to Earth a little bit.
Speaker 1: You have panels with Brian Danielson, with Claudio Castagnoli or
Speaker 1: whatever Brian calls him. You got a Horseman reunion. You
Speaker 1: got Brett Hart talking about Summer Slam ninety two on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the former Page Sriah J Davis, Mick Foley, Kevin Nash,
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of other people as well to part
Speaker 1: of the biggest star Cast yet, star Cast five. They're
Speaker 1: doing pictures, autographs, all the same convention stuff that you're
Speaker 1: used to, but this time around pro wrestling probably better
Speaker 1: than podcasts, and with the way that this lineup looks
Speaker 1: better than the podcast they probably have had in the past,
Speaker 1: although I've heard Kevin Nash his podcast is really really
Speaker 1: good and Jeff Jarrett's I know it is good. So
Speaker 1: if they're doing podcasts this weekend, that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett's going to be doing a lot that weekend,
Speaker 1: obviously making money for sure, but there's gonna be Black
Speaker 1: Label Pro Game Changer Wrestling New Japan on Saturday, Rick
Speaker 1: Flair's last match on Sunday, an eleven match card now
Speaker 1: and it's all going down Nashville Municipal Auditorium. Tickets are
Speaker 1: still on sale thirty nine dollars at Rick Flair's last match.
Speaker 1: I'm going to use that as a transition to keep
Speaker 1: talking about that weekend because regardless of what you think
Speaker 1: about Rick Flair wrestling one more time and being back
Speaker 1: in the ring and how the whole thing has come
Speaker 1: together and happened, regardless of any of that, that's a
Speaker 1: really good show that they've put together, a really good
Speaker 1: show in a really eclectic, unique show, and it got
Speaker 1: added to last night and today. Last night, r O
Speaker 1: H Champion Jonathan Gresham will face off against Canoe Skate
Speaker 1: Takeshta Alan Angels, who has recently departed from a E
Speaker 1: W and Nick Wayne in a four way that was
Speaker 1: announced on their social media. That was last night. Today,
Speaker 1: Crimson and James Storm, both notable for their runs in Impact,
Speaker 1: have joined Bully Ray to be a part of the
Speaker 1: Bunk House stamp It's not the Bunk House Stampede, they
Speaker 1: don't own the rights to that, but the Bunk House
Speaker 1: Battle Royal. Now Gresham is gonna face Claudio uh coming
Speaker 1: up on Saturday at Death Before dishonor so he may
Speaker 1: not be the r O H champion and maybe Claudio
Speaker 1: in that match. I don't know. If Gresham loses that
Speaker 1: he would still be in there. But that's now. It's
Speaker 1: eleven matches that are all set for this Flair and
Speaker 1: and Rode against Jared Lethal with Karen Jarrett in the corner.
Speaker 1: Impact World Championship, Josh Alexander against Jacob Fatto, Impact Knockouts Champion,
Speaker 1: Jordan Grace against Gianna Parazzo and Rachel l Ring in
Speaker 1: a three way, Ricky and carry Morton with Robert Gibson
Speaker 1: against Brian Pillman Jr. And Brock Anderson with Arne in
Speaker 1: his corner. Jonathan Gresham against Angels Takashida and Wayne Ray
Speaker 1: Phoenix against Laredo Kid against Tourists versus Banddo in a
Speaker 1: four way, the American Wolves Davy Richards and Eddie Edwards
Speaker 1: against the Motor City machine Guns, Alex Shelley and Chris
Speaker 1: Saban and a matchup that kids from the early two
Speaker 1: thousands or you know again, all those guys, Shelley still
Speaker 1: being able to go out there, him coming back at
Speaker 1: just all of that. I love Killer Cross with Scarlett
Speaker 1: Bordo against Davy boy Smith Jr. Clarke Connors against Running
Speaker 1: Rita in a New Japan representation match, and the Briscoe
Speaker 1: was against the Von Erics, Marshall and Ross as well
Speaker 1: as that bunk house battle Royal. So again, even if
Speaker 1: Flair isn't your bag the rest of the show, they
Speaker 1: actually put some real effort into this. And again, I like,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be a tribute. It's supposed to feel
Speaker 1: like an all star event with Rick Flair getting crowned
Speaker 1: at the very end of it, and hopefully not Mickey
Speaker 1: Rourke style, you know what I'm saying. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be a celebration and to have this
Speaker 1: unique lineup. I I I definitely got to give him
Speaker 1: credit for that and MLW. I guess with Jacob Fatou
Speaker 1: getting representation on that show, they're also going to be
Speaker 1: represented uh in New Japan during Music City Mayhem that weekend.
Speaker 1: As Clarke Connors is now challenging Davy Richards for Richards
Speaker 1: National open Weight Championship, and the match had been announced
Speaker 1: before the stipulation. This new twist was just added to
Speaker 1: it today, so that lineup is also looking really good.
Speaker 1: You have Moxley and El Desperado in a no d
Speaker 1: Q match, which everybody that listens to this show knows.
Speaker 1: I'm way deep in the tank for Desperado. He has
Speaker 1: no problem going out there getting wild with Moxley. It's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be a really really fun match. If not
Speaker 1: a pretty damn I'll say good one. If not great.
Speaker 1: Kaushita against Alec Shelley. Again, there's two great veteran legends
Speaker 1: going at it, junior heavyweight legends going at it FTR
Speaker 1: and Alexane against Aussie Open and t J P. That's
Speaker 1: a really interesting match on paper, interesting teaming there. Horomu
Speaker 1: Takahashi against Blake Christian This seems like a natural matchup,
Speaker 1: you know, Horomo against Alexane Horoma against Blake Christian seems
Speaker 1: like it makes perfect sense. By the way, there's a
Speaker 1: little thing I heard about Blake Christians running w W
Speaker 1: E and something you're seeing on n X Team now
Speaker 1: that made me laugh. And I don't know how out
Speaker 1: there it is, so I won't draw the connection together,
Speaker 1: but it was very, very amusing when I heard it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I can give you more on that. That's just
Speaker 1: a little tease speed a chair. Hopefully I can give
Speaker 1: you more on that later, not today, though probably not
Speaker 1: today unless they get blown up with a bunch of texts.
Speaker 1: But New Japan Strong open Weight Championship. Also on that show,
Speaker 1: fred Rosso against Big Damo, who we've had on this show.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can have him on again. Both of those
Speaker 1: guys have been on. They've both been great guests. National
Speaker 1: open Weight Championship. As I mentioned, Davy Richards against Clark
Speaker 1: Connor and then showed Amino fred ya Hi and you
Speaker 1: Ya Amora against Red Nareda Kevin Knight in the d
Speaker 1: k C fred ya Hi. We had Dr kith Leapinski
Speaker 1: on last week talking about a W He was the
Speaker 1: a W heavyweight Champion, had really good matches against Man Swarner,
Speaker 1: really good matches against Josh Alexander. His size is always
Speaker 1: going to be a detriment to him making it to
Speaker 1: a higher level. The same thing goes with Jonathan Gresham.
Speaker 1: But because there is terminus, which is Gresham's own promotion,
Speaker 1: but there is Ring of Honor, there is New Japan Strong,
Speaker 1: the possibilities for a guy fred Yahi size go up immensely.
Speaker 1: And there's a couple of guys I'd love to see
Speaker 1: work New Japan when things open up a little bit more.
Speaker 1: Chris Babe being one of those guys I'd like to
Speaker 1: see in that division, and I'd really like to see
Speaker 1: Fred Wi Yahi get some more work in New Japan
Speaker 1: Strong then go over and attempt to apply his trade
Speaker 1: over in Japan. I'm not saying he's going to be
Speaker 1: a big star or anything like that, but as far
Speaker 1: as looking at a list of new names who could
Speaker 1: come in there and kind of shine things up a
Speaker 1: little bit, he's one of those guys I really like
Speaker 1: him working with Zach Saber Jr. Him in a six
Speaker 1: man with Zack Zach Shaber Jr. And Taiichi working against somebody.
Speaker 1: I just think he's a nice little fire plug that
Speaker 1: can actually work in good said suation. So hopefully this
Speaker 1: opens up some more doors for him when we get
Speaker 1: back from break, a lot more stuff to get into.
Speaker 1: We got the Dynamite review coming up, and some news
Speaker 1: on some Dynamite performers, some pretty big names, Adam Cole
Speaker 1: and Kenny Omeega talking about their injuries and talking about
Speaker 1: when they hope they can be back. Mike simper Viv
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Speaker 1: A new one is going to be out tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: Friday morning, and Dave's got some some news on Kenny Omega.
Speaker 1: After being out of action for almost six months, Kenny
Speaker 1: Omega is hoping to be back in time for September's
Speaker 1: All Out. On this morning's Wrestling Observer Radio only for
Speaker 1: subscribers at Wrestling Observer dot com, Dave Meltzer said Omega
Speaker 1: is hoping to be it all Out, but it's too
Speaker 1: soon to say if he will or if he won't.
Speaker 1: He's hoping for it. That's kind of the target right now.
Speaker 1: Meltzer went on to say that September show is also
Speaker 1: the targeted return for a e W World champion, CM Punk,
Speaker 1: who has been out of action for nearly two months
Speaker 1: after surgery on what is believed to have been an
Speaker 1: injury to his foot, possibly diving into the crowd and
Speaker 1: hitting it on the guardrail. If Punk does return, it
Speaker 1: is virtually lock, says Dave in the front page here
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer dot com website, that he will
Speaker 1: be in a unification title match against the current interim
Speaker 1: title holder, John Moxley. On Tuesday, Fightful reported that an
Speaker 1: Omega Young Bucks Trio tag team match is tentatively planned
Speaker 1: for all out, but Meltzer did not confirm that on
Speaker 1: this morning's Wrestling Observer Radio. After losing the title a
Speaker 1: hangman page at last November's Full Gear, Omega took time
Speaker 1: off to have several surgeries for nagging injuries, including his knee,
Speaker 1: a sports hernia, and more, and he is very frustrated
Speaker 1: right now. Whether that is part of a work to
Speaker 1: lead up to him coming back, I don't know, but
Speaker 1: he's expressed frustration with having the time off and having
Speaker 1: these injuries not heal in the way that they want.
Speaker 1: You know that he wants them to and that his
Speaker 1: people want him to and at least he's getting some
Speaker 1: time off because his body absolutely needs it. If there's
Speaker 1: any benefit to Adam Cole being out right now after
Speaker 1: suffering a concussion at the Forbidden Door pay per view,
Speaker 1: it is the same thing, and that's something that he
Speaker 1: brought up during an appearance on Game Spots Wrestle Buddies podcast,
Speaker 1: where Cole addressed his recovery. He said he's confident that
Speaker 1: he's going to be able to return to the ring soon.
Speaker 1: He's dealing with a torn laborum as well as the
Speaker 1: concussion effects and the after effects that took place during
Speaker 1: the fatal four way i w g P World Heavyweight
Speaker 1: Championship match last month. He says, I'm doing okay. I'm
Speaker 1: definitely on the path on the tractor recovery for sure.
Speaker 1: I have a great team around me that's helping me
Speaker 1: and just making sure that I'm taking care of to
Speaker 1: the best of my ability. A w has been fantastic
Speaker 1: as far as making sure that I'm getting the right
Speaker 1: care that I deserve, and I feel like there's progress
Speaker 1: and a move forward every single week for sure. Cole
Speaker 1: talked about being banged up. He said the most time
Speaker 1: he has ever had off in the last fourteen years
Speaker 1: was one month. But he says he feels good. He
Speaker 1: says he's very confident and he'll be back in the
Speaker 1: ring soon. He's excited to be back. He says, I
Speaker 1: miss it so much already, but yeah, I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: I'm feeling good, So a good sign for Adam Cole fans.
Speaker 1: J White defeated Cole and Kazucho Okata and Hangman Page
Speaker 1: to retain the id b G p Roll heavyweight title
Speaker 1: at Formidden Door. Uh though he thinks he'll be able
Speaker 1: to return soon, Cole did admit that the concussion he
Speaker 1: suffered was quote definitely scary. Dave Meltzer reported in last
Speaker 1: week's edition to the Wrestling Observer newsletter that Cole has
Speaker 1: opted not to undergo surgery for his torn laboram and
Speaker 1: is instead doing therapy for the injury. Forbidden Door was
Speaker 1: the first time that Cole had wrestled since May's Double
Speaker 1: or No pay per view, So Adam Cole, Kenny Omega,
Speaker 1: c him Punk being mentioned in there as well, all
Speaker 1: possibly coming back some point soon, and I do have
Speaker 1: the whole Dynamite review that's going to be coming up here,
Speaker 1: but I'll go ahead and queue producer Dom right now
Speaker 1: to bring up the promo last night by Cash Wheeler
Speaker 1: and Dax Harwood, And we're not going to hear the
Speaker 1: entire thing, but we are going to hear Dax Harwood's
Speaker 1: portion of that promo. It's just too good not to
Speaker 1: be played. He has done an incredible job this year,
Speaker 1: not only in the ring, and that's over the last
Speaker 1: several years at both of them for their entire careers.
Speaker 1: They've done a great job building themselves up and putting
Speaker 1: them in a position to be looked at as one
Speaker 1: of the great legendary tag teams in an era where
Speaker 1: there are so few. There really are. If you think
Speaker 1: about it, you start thinking and it's like, man, we
Speaker 1: talked about the machine guns. You know, do the Wolves
Speaker 1: make that level? I don't know. You know, the Kings
Speaker 1: are wrestling where they around long enough their work certainly
Speaker 1: you know it was great. But the Usos, the Briscoes,
Speaker 1: the New Day if you look at them as like
Speaker 1: the new free Birds, but like the Young Bucks. There's
Speaker 1: not a lot of teams. And even though there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people that talk tag team wrestling. You know,
Speaker 1: there's very few promotions that really push it in in
Speaker 1: that way and in that important way, And there's very
Speaker 1: few guys that are willing to stick with it long
Speaker 1: term and not tease things when they work in d
Speaker 1: shows where they wrestle against each other, but then they
Speaker 1: team over here and all that sort of stuff now
Speaker 1: and the FDR as a team, they are one unit together,
Speaker 1: you know. So Dax Hardwood Cash Wheeler have been great.
Speaker 1: Dax Hardwood opening up about his mental issues, opening up
Speaker 1: about some of the struggles he's had as a man
Speaker 1: with his body image, with dealing with failure in your
Speaker 1: professional life on the highest stage in w w E,
Speaker 1: and not only failing because you believe in so much
Speaker 1: of what you're doing and you believe so much of
Speaker 1: what your vision of your job is in your career
Speaker 1: and pro wrestling is, and to fail at a spectacular level,
Speaker 1: and not only that, and they didn't fail, yes, say
Speaker 1: one titles and things like that, but look at how
Speaker 1: they left. Look at the kick and the balls they
Speaker 1: got literally on the way out the door from all
Speaker 1: those legends. Something that weighed on his mind. So heavily,
Speaker 1: and he's been so open about how that affected him,
Speaker 1: and that's been awesome. And you hear dum jumping right now.
Speaker 1: He's he wants to play. He's got to play. So
Speaker 1: there was this little five year old girl back home
Speaker 1: and her parents took her to this routine check up
Speaker 1: to the doctor and uh, he put her he was
Speaker 1: listening to her chest and listen to her back and
Speaker 1: he heard something weird is it was an irregular heartbeat,
Speaker 1: and he said, hey, don't worry parents, Let's just go
Speaker 1: to the cardiologists, gets the X rays on, Let's get
Speaker 1: us see a CT scan and m R. I see
Speaker 1: what's going on. So he went to the cardiologist and
Speaker 1: they found out this little five year old girl had
Speaker 1: a whole in the bottom of her heart. And uh,
Speaker 1: the doctor told the parents if this little girl worked
Speaker 1: hard and she fought hard, she could overcome this and
Speaker 1: that whole would close up on his own, but if not,
Speaker 1: they would have to do open heart surgery, which you
Speaker 1: know is a big risk for a five year old.
Speaker 1: So fast forward three years later and this little girl,
Speaker 1: she goes back to the same cardiologist and he does
Speaker 1: the x rays, he does the m R. S and
Speaker 1: he looks and the whole is completely closed. This little
Speaker 1: girl worked her ass off, She fought her ass off
Speaker 1: to make sure she was healthy. And that little girl,
Speaker 1: the eight year old girl, is my daughter. And if
Speaker 1: that little eight year old girl will fight that hard
Speaker 1: for something that's not promised to her, well, daddy's gotta
Speaker 1: do the same thing Saturday night. Saturday Night, Daddy's gotta
Speaker 1: fight that hard to bring home the Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: World Tag Team Championships and bring on the legacy she
Speaker 1: could be proud of. Saturday Night. I love y'all too,
Speaker 1: Saturday night pay per view Death before this Honor brisk goes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna fight like an eight year old girl and
Speaker 1: I'm a beat show on a stop guys out, And
Speaker 1: there it has. The state just said, what a story
Speaker 1: from DAXI as there, so I have to be his
Speaker 1: daughter coming up this Saturday night. You're here at Dax
Speaker 1: Harwood Cash Wheeler gonna promo last night on a E
Speaker 1: W dying might I thought that was the best way
Speaker 1: to promote coming up this Saturday's r OH Death before
Speaker 1: dishonor pay per view, their match coming up against the
Speaker 1: Briscoes that ain't Dax Harwood. That's Dad Harwood and he
Speaker 1: has become to dad to a lot of professional wrestling
Speaker 1: fans out there. He is, He's the dad. He is.
Speaker 1: He is officially the cool dad Dax Harwood. Unbelievable. He
Speaker 1: and Cash Wheeler first match with Briscoes with something else.
Speaker 1: This one probably going to be the same way. Tony
Speaker 1: Khan during media press, doing media and all that stuff
Speaker 1: leading into the show today has mentioned that the Briscoes
Speaker 1: are signed to rh full time, long term contracts and
Speaker 1: they're going to be a cornerstone of the future. Get
Speaker 1: into that more as well as last night's dyingab Shark
Speaker 1: week when we get back. Do you hear that Kevin
Speaker 1: Gates two Phones one of my favorite songs. I don't
Speaker 1: know why, it is, just this big wrestling fan was
Speaker 1: there last night. A w dynamite Going to get into
Speaker 1: that review here in a moment, But as I was
Speaker 1: mentioning before the break, Tony Khan u with speaking with
Speaker 1: the media, talked about the fact that the Briscoe's are
Speaker 1: factored in to the future of the company. There are
Speaker 1: some of the biggest names in ringmounter history concept. They
Speaker 1: are Hall of famers. There are some others, But I
Speaker 1: think that would be a great example of a key
Speaker 1: act where they haven't really appeared in a w yet,
Speaker 1: but they are assigned to Ring of Honor and me
Speaker 1: there are the Briscoes and a couple of other developmental wrestlers,
Speaker 1: Tony Khan said. Fightful reported this past March that a
Speaker 1: person of influence within Warner Media did not want the
Speaker 1: Briscoe signed to a w because of homophobic tweets that
Speaker 1: J Briscoe had made in two thousand and thirteen. Uh
Speaker 1: Briscoe has apologized for those tweets during a March appear
Speaker 1: on the Battleground podcast. Was the last time that he
Speaker 1: had did it. Ring of Honor had smacked his hand,
Speaker 1: and I think suspending him or find them. Initially when
Speaker 1: it had happened, it had completely decimated any possibility that
Speaker 1: they were going to have to sign to w W E.
Speaker 1: So it looks like they have a future with Tony
Speaker 1: Khan and in Ring of Honor. Obviously that's the key
Speaker 1: match on Supercard of Honor. So that's what you got
Speaker 1: going on there. Dynamite Last Night Fighter Fest Week two
Speaker 1: Show number three, Gas South Arena, Duluth, Georgia. The Old
Speaker 1: Gwynnette and Civic Center Arena Discoveries Shark Week. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've heard that. Sunday, it begins Dwayne Johnson
Speaker 1: making an appearance during a e W programming. He is
Speaker 1: going to be the master of ceremonies. They've been doing
Speaker 1: this now for thirty four years. In two thousand and twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty one million people watched over ten days. It is
Speaker 1: apparently the best way for them to get new eyeballs
Speaker 1: onto the channel. It is no surprise when more people
Speaker 1: return to the channel than at any other time during
Speaker 1: the year. In April of this year, Discovery Incorporated and
Speaker 1: Warner Media merged to become Warner Brothers Discovery and everybody
Speaker 1: has got to do something Sharky, t V S, t
Speaker 1: N T, True TV, Food Network, h D t V, CNN,
Speaker 1: Cartoon Network, Adults Swim, Animal Planet, Science Channel, I d Oprah,
Speaker 1: Winfrey Turner, Classic Movies, Discovery Plus an HBO Max Plus
Speaker 1: will all have Shark Week inspired content or cross promote
Speaker 1: the event as Dynamite did last night. But we didn't
Speaker 1: open with a shark. We opened with a King. Brody
Speaker 1: King and Darby Allen alongside Sting. King was shown with
Speaker 1: a singles record of eleven and two. Darby Allen's was
Speaker 1: three and one, and I thought, aren't records supposed to
Speaker 1: be reset every year? Or is that just the rankings?
Speaker 1: None of that matters, although the Chiron did say that
Speaker 1: after King threw Allen out of the Royal Rampage last
Speaker 1: month and they did a call back to that very
Speaker 1: same spot where King used the choke sleeper on Darby
Speaker 1: Allen hung him over the top rope before dropping him
Speaker 1: to the floor. Darby Allen was able to drag his
Speaker 1: carcass back in the ring. Ada Gonzo Bomb took the loss.
Speaker 1: Brody King dominated three quarters of this match. Darby Allen
Speaker 1: got some of his signature spots in flying through the ropes,
Speaker 1: made everything look you know, wild and good. But he
Speaker 1: was to take a beating uh from brody King and
Speaker 1: he absolutely did so. Afterwards, Sting came out to stop
Speaker 1: the carnage. He was able to almost get the scorpion
Speaker 1: death drop onto brody King when the lights went out.
Speaker 1: When they came back up, Malachi Black was across from Sting.
Speaker 1: Brody King locked on the choke sleeper. Sting got missed
Speaker 1: in his eyes by Malachi black tag team match coming
Speaker 1: out soon. I would assume between those two sides completely
Speaker 1: fined with it completely fined, with all of those guys
Speaker 1: in the ring with each other, no problem there whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Then they went to commercial, came back. Tony Shavanni was
Speaker 1: in the back rad interview the former two times Cole Carter,
Speaker 1: who was just released from n x t H for
Speaker 1: a substance policy violation wellness pile violation. Ricky Starks in
Speaker 1: Powerhouse Hobbs came through. Starks said the last time he
Speaker 1: saw Carter he was sleeping with the fishes and a
Speaker 1: reference to him being killed off on n x D
Speaker 1: by Tony D'Angelo. Starks, who's the f t W champion
Speaker 1: has now got a open challenge gimmick going and challenged
Speaker 1: him for later on in the show. That led into
Speaker 1: the Blackpool Combat Club of John Moxley and r oh
Speaker 1: Pure Champion Wheeler Utah defeating the best Friends of Trent
Speaker 1: Boretta and Chuck Taylor. Orange Cassidy William Regal joined Excalibur
Speaker 1: and Tazz on commentary during the match. Taz noted that
Speaker 1: Trent Boretta never liked Wheeler Utah as the old Alliance
Speaker 1: between best friends and Utah was invoked a few times.
Speaker 1: The match went through one commercial break when little a
Speaker 1: little under twelve minutes and at the end of the match,
Speaker 1: Utah was in peril trying to get to his corner
Speaker 1: for the tag Uh Moxley to Moxley kept getting cut off.
Speaker 1: Chuck Taylor tagged in, ran right into a jumping guillotine
Speaker 1: from Utah. As Trent tried to come into the ring,
Speaker 1: Moxley yanked him off the apron put him in the
Speaker 1: figure four out on the floor. As that was going on,
Speaker 1: Taylor reverse the guillotine with the supplex into the corner.
Speaker 1: Chuck went for the awful waffle, but you had reversed
Speaker 1: it into the seatbelt clutch, roll up and got the victory.
Speaker 1: I believe the only words that Orange uttered the entire
Speaker 1: time was at the very end of the match where
Speaker 1: he said Chuck taught him that one before he took
Speaker 1: off the headphones and walked to the back. Then there
Speaker 1: was a video package for the r OH World Title
Speaker 1: match coming up Claudio against Jonathan Gresham Swerve in Our
Speaker 1: Glory Time, the a W Tag Team Championships celebration Keith
Speaker 1: Lee Swerve Strickland. Tony Chivanni hosted this. Kevin Gates was
Speaker 1: shown in the front row with a flute of champagne
Speaker 1: in his hand. Swerve says that as a hip hop mogul,
Speaker 1: that he invited him. Keith asked Kevin when the deluxe
Speaker 1: edition of his new album was coming out, before thanking
Speaker 1: the fans and challenging the entire division to get at him.
Speaker 1: Lie said it was time for a toast when some
Speaker 1: smart Mark Sterling and Tony Niece came out. Sterling is
Speaker 1: still petitioning for Swerve to be fired. I know this
Speaker 1: really gets under Brian's skin. I think the fact that
Speaker 1: he is such a cartoon character, gimmick lawyer, I think
Speaker 1: it works. He says. The majority of the locker room
Speaker 1: has already signed this petition to get Swerve out of air,
Speaker 1: and Nice starts to make himself at home with the
Speaker 1: cake and the champagne they had out there, grabs himself
Speaker 1: a glass, sticks his finger in the cake. Keith Lee
Speaker 1: looked very upset about that. Sterling said they only need
Speaker 1: one more name on that petition and said Gates could
Speaker 1: be that man. Said that from mistaking him for young
Speaker 1: m a though which kind of made me laugh, made
Speaker 1: reference to Gates the song two phones before. He and
Speaker 1: niece moved right in front of him, asked him to
Speaker 1: do the right thing for the A W Roster and
Speaker 1: signed the petition to kill off Swerve. Gates refused. Sterling
Speaker 1: poked at his chest, says, he's just like Swerve. He's
Speaker 1: on Trustworthy and his music sucks. It's not true new
Speaker 1: album has out right now. But that got Gates out
Speaker 1: from behind the guardrail. Sterling backed off, screaming that if
Speaker 1: he gets touched until sue so instead, Gates went chest
Speaker 1: to chess with Tony nice sort of. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was a ridiculous visual in that Kevin Gates is like
Speaker 1: six two and is at least six inches taller than
Speaker 1: Tony Knee, and like has seventy five pounds on him,
Speaker 1: most of it in the arms and the shoulders and
Speaker 1: the upper body. Niece asked him what he was gonna do,
Speaker 1: so Gate described him by his necklace and punched him
Speaker 1: right in the face. And it's not like it killed
Speaker 1: Tony Knee or anything, but he hit him in the face,
Speaker 1: so I believe it dropped Tony knees. That was that
Speaker 1: from behind smart Mark Sterling, Swerve picked up the cake
Speaker 1: and when Sterling turned around, cake in the face and
Speaker 1: it looked great. The greatest cake face and pro wrestling history.
Speaker 1: Sorry Cornett, Sorry anybody that's done that gimmick before. Before
Speaker 1: they end up going to commercial, Swerve goes over. He
Speaker 1: poses west Side Gun is also in the crowd. They
Speaker 1: don't mention him, but he's ring side, so the fly
Speaker 1: God is there. After a break backstage, John Silver and
Speaker 1: Alex Reynolds did a bunch of or Alan Reynolds wherever
Speaker 1: hell his named a bunch of bad comedies? What was
Speaker 1: done really with those Dark Order guys with the Butcher
Speaker 1: and the Blade over a T shirt that said butch
Speaker 1: it wasn't very good. Silver and Reynolds got beat up.
Speaker 1: They deserved to for for having that shirt and doing
Speaker 1: this comedy. Hangman out of Page ran in with a
Speaker 1: chair and ran the heels off. There was one good
Speaker 1: part where you know at the end where they're just like,
Speaker 1: you know, heavy breathing and rolling around on the ground
Speaker 1: before they fade out, Page goes, you know, you guys
Speaker 1: are right and and Silver said no, and I thought
Speaker 1: that was funny. Christian Cage and Luca Source then defeated
Speaker 1: the Varsity Blonds of Griffic Garrison and Brian Pillman Jr.
Speaker 1: Luca Source basically destroyed both guys before tagging in Christians
Speaker 1: so he get the cheap pin on Pilman. After the match,
Speaker 1: Christian Gna Luca Sources shoulders and did the Jurassic Express pose.
Speaker 1: Jungle Mute Boys music hit and Key came down with
Speaker 1: a chair. Lucasurus was blocking the ring as as Jungle
Speaker 1: Boy came down, but then the Dinosaur Man turned to
Speaker 1: the side, stood next to Jungle Boy, stared at Christian.
Speaker 1: As Jungle Boy goes to gets it in the ring,
Speaker 1: Christian goes halassing out of it, not only through the crowd,
Speaker 1: goes up the steps, goes into a concourse. He's out
Speaker 1: of there gone. What does this mean? Could it be
Speaker 1: a swerve? We'll have to find out next week. The
Speaker 1: Gun Club challenged the Acclaim to a blaze battle between
Speaker 1: Austin and Max castor a freestyle battle between the two sides.
Speaker 1: At that point in the show, Jim Ross joined commentary
Speaker 1: FTW Championship Ricky Starks baby faced Cole Carter. The former
Speaker 1: two times went six minutes, it felt longer than that
Speaker 1: by the end of the match of the crowd was
Speaker 1: booing Carter. I mean, there's several reasons for that, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, not the least of which is Starts as
Speaker 1: a truth machine out there. He is absolute. If you
Speaker 1: have a little bit of vanilla in your interview, he's
Speaker 1: gonna outshine you. His presence just standing there outshines people.
Speaker 1: So when you wrestle a match for six minutes you
Speaker 1: have this smiling baby face who was the former two times,
Speaker 1: people are wondering why this isn't on elevation, This isn't
Speaker 1: on dark It's it's not even on rampage, it's on Dynamite.
Speaker 1: Does this guy deserve this shot? Do you do anything
Speaker 1: to stand out? Not really no, And I think the
Speaker 1: crowd kind of recognized that didn't do anything wrong or
Speaker 1: anything really badly, but he didn't get any reaction. And
Speaker 1: Ricky Starts absolutely outshone him. Made a challenge after the
Speaker 1: match for anybody to come out Dan Housing does he
Speaker 1: takes the challenge for next week another FTR Championship match.
Speaker 1: I like this gimmick going on with Ricky Starts facing
Speaker 1: different people each week. Then it was time for the
Speaker 1: FTR promo you heard the second half. The first half
Speaker 1: half was Cash Wheeler talking about the Briscoes and really
Speaker 1: concentrating on that. We had a segment with j Lethal,
Speaker 1: San j Dutton Sottenham sing backstage. Lethal was complaining that
Speaker 1: Samo Joe was not there. Christopher Daniels came up, defended
Speaker 1: Joe's honor and then challenged Lethal for Friday Night Rampage,
Speaker 1: which was accepted. Tag match Jay Cargill and Kira Hogan
Speaker 1: with Stokely half away and Jermaine Duprix against defeated Athena
Speaker 1: in Willhow Nightingale. This was the most hip hop oriented show,
Speaker 1: both with Kevin Gates actually being openly out there, same
Speaker 1: thing with Duprix sitting next to Stokely at ringside a gun.
Speaker 1: There was a wou Tane clan reference. It was it
Speaker 1: was really it was something else. Was supposed to be
Speaker 1: a Sixth Woman with Leyla Gray and Chris stat Lander.
Speaker 1: Greg couldn't perform. Cargo and Hogan got the victory uh
Speaker 1: Tony Storm and thunder Rosa. It was announced Rose is
Speaker 1: gonna be facing mew Yamashita next week, and Britt Day
Speaker 1: and Jamie Hayter interrupted their interview, and I thought challenged
Speaker 1: them for Friday Night, but apparently not because in the
Speaker 1: package that aired afterwards, they just said Britt Baker and
Speaker 1: Jamie Hayter were going to be in action, so I'm
Speaker 1: not sure against who. And then it was time for
Speaker 1: the main event, barbed wire everywhere match Chris Jericho Eddie
Speaker 1: Kingston carnage everywhere. Real barbs were used, men were busted
Speaker 1: open and bleeding. Everything was wrapped in barbed wire. They
Speaker 1: had a shark wrapped in barbed wire, not real one.
Speaker 1: The ring bell was in barbed wire, the microphone was
Speaker 1: in barbed wire. They bled everywhere. I'll go into a
Speaker 1: little more detail after the break, but the bottom line
Speaker 1: is Chris Jericho gets the victory, but Eddie Kingston got
Speaker 1: revenge at the end, putting Jericho through a big board
Speaker 1: full of barbed wire. As the show went off the air,
Speaker 1: be right back. Wrestumes are a lot uh producer dumb
Speaker 1: jokes between the break, wrestling Observe Alive, Mike Zamper Baby,
Speaker 1: we are back barbed wire matches. I mentioned a couple
Speaker 1: more details from and I'm sure everybody out there is
Speaker 1: already aware of what took place. I mean hats on
Speaker 1: hats and this one boy there was gimmicks. On topic gimmicks,
Speaker 1: you have the Jericho Appreciation Society trapped in a shark
Speaker 1: cage that was above the ring. During the match down
Speaker 1: came uh Homeo said, Anna J, it's not it's Thai Conti.
Speaker 1: She ran down, attacked Ruby Soho, who was the official
Speaker 1: key keeper, and then all of a sudden, an a J,
Speaker 1: her good friend, runs down. Seems like they're gonna fight
Speaker 1: as she she pulls tie off, but then Anna J
Speaker 1: turns dirty the tax Ruby. They steal the damn key.
Speaker 1: They run up the attempt to and they and they
Speaker 1: get the know just like only interest in Capital combat.
Speaker 1: They get the device and they raised the cage up
Speaker 1: or they raised they lowered down the shark cage and
Speaker 1: outcome to Jericho Appreciation Society. But they can't get the
Speaker 1: key to unlock the lock, so then they actually have
Speaker 1: to slide through. And everybody is so slim they could
Speaker 1: do it except for Matt Minard. I don't know how
Speaker 1: he got out because he couldn't get between the bars
Speaker 1: because his head is so big, he would have gotten
Speaker 1: stuck in there like you see, like TikTok videos of like,
Speaker 1: you know, people with a deer or a baby couver
Speaker 1: or a squirrel with their head caught in the deck.
Speaker 1: That's what he would have looked like. But somehow he
Speaker 1: got out. They all attempt attempted to kick Kingston's ass,
Speaker 1: but then out came the Blackpool Combat Club out Kaye
Speaker 1: Barties chased all them off, and all that stuff that
Speaker 1: went just went on. Chris Jericho got the victory, but
Speaker 1: at the very end, at the very end, Kingston fought back,
Speaker 1: picked Jericho up, throw him through a barbed wire spider
Speaker 1: web to end the shows that went off year, And
Speaker 1: what a better way for me to go off the year.
Speaker 1: I won't be with you tomorrow Brian Albert as well,
Speaker 1: so he'll talk to you again after a while. Yea,
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