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Speaker 1: And of course today we'll talk about all of the
Speaker 1: news leading to that, the collision announcement. Yesterday, we got
Speaker 1: lineups for all of the shows this weekend. We have
Speaker 1: got Sean Michaels talking about NXT Battleground. He died a
Speaker 1: conference call, which was interesting. I generally find Sean to
Speaker 1: be pretty honest in those conference calls. And we've got
Speaker 1: the NXT ratings and then of course the a W
Speaker 1: television review and maybe the end of the n XT
Speaker 1: TV review. I didn't get to review yesterday because I've
Speaker 1: seen it now, but a lot to get into. I
Speaker 1: can vote with more Observer.
Speaker 3: Lie come my day, come come by day, and it's me.
Speaker 2: It's something that I won't try.
Speaker 1: But in the show Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Alive
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Speaker 1: So so last night, obviously they announced the UH Chicago's
Speaker 1: United Center June seventeenth for Collision, and mere moments ago,
Speaker 1: as in literally as the music was playing, we got
Speaker 1: an update here from Wressell Ticks what is going on
Speaker 1: with aw collision? So, uh, I'm gonna look at this
Speaker 1: after the break because I don't know what's going with well, no,
Speaker 1: I'll just read this. So this from Russell Ticks. Obviously
Speaker 1: it says a premature rush of tickets looked promising for this,
Speaker 1: but a lot of it turned out to be a
Speaker 1: false alarm. Below you will see the sequence of events.
Speaker 1: In the end, they removed the upper decks for now.
Speaker 1: None of the two hundreds were opened at first, ifew
Speaker 1: were added once they took the three hundreds down. My
Speaker 1: assumption is, like last time they were here and sold
Speaker 1: it out. They held those two hundreds back until the
Speaker 1: general public sale because they know they would sell fast,
Speaker 1: and they'd rather sell more of the three hundreds if possible.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will tell us this was a very quick turnaround
Speaker 1: for a show announcement. If you feel so inclined, at
Speaker 1: a few hundred for the upper decks that sold, these
Speaker 1: aren't included in this count. So they got an image
Speaker 1: and eight minutes later it looked like this one was
Speaker 1: going to move a lot of tickets fast, but turned
Speaker 1: out to be a false alarm. Scalpers brokers, anybody can
Speaker 1: hold tickets for fifteen minutes at a time to see
Speaker 1: how things are moving on the map before determining if
Speaker 1: they should buy more or not. Whatever seats you see
Speaker 1: gun in the upper decks come back, as evidenced by
Speaker 1: the screen shot below. A little before the upper decks
Speaker 1: were removed, I sent this image to someone to illustrate
Speaker 1: that not all of the section one to one regular
Speaker 1: price seats sold. You can see some of the upper
Speaker 1: decks sold, but not a significant amount. The moment they
Speaker 1: took away the upper decks and added the two hardcam
Speaker 1: sections a section on the bottom left front, third row.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it sounds like they're selling tickets. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I just got this. It literally pre sale
Speaker 1: update AW Collision.
Speaker 2: It's really very simple.
Speaker 1: It is really very simple. But I'm also confused because
Speaker 1: in the brackets here it says Prudential Center, but then
Speaker 1: it's supposed to be talking about the United Center. So
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on right now, but I do know this.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 1: Last night they announced that AEW Collision will be debuting
Speaker 1: at the United Center on June seventeenth. They did not
Speaker 1: mention the name of cmpunk, but when they mentioned the
Speaker 1: Chicago United Center location, you could hear the fans pop
Speaker 1: and start chanting for cmpunk. And they ain't announcing the
Speaker 1: United Center if they don't have cmpunk. So he will
Speaker 1: be debuting or re debuting or whatever you want to
Speaker 1: say on June seventeenth. And yeah, we're going to see
Speaker 1: how things go. Is the pre sale and the regular
Speaker 1: sale and everything like that.
Speaker 2: We'll know more.
Speaker 1: We'll know a lot more. I would presume this weekend
Speaker 1: and then early next week, because uh man, I get
Speaker 1: all these things. They're all the same, because well Also,
Speaker 1: I'm sure get a rush of tickets after the h
Speaker 1: the show on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So are people tweeting you with or texting you with
Speaker 2: their excitement over Scorpio Sky possibly coming back? Man?
Speaker 1: What is everyone's problem with Scorpio Sky?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I do people have a problem with Scorpios?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it seems like a lot of people do, Like,
Speaker 1: oh I don't want to see Scorpio Sky.
Speaker 2: What did he do?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know why they're so against
Speaker 1: Scorpio Sky.
Speaker 2: Man. The people that are ripping through the Battle Royal
Speaker 2: because you just you go and you point out, like
Speaker 2: some of your favorite wrestlers, like look at Jay White
Speaker 2: in that Battle Royal, or look at this person or
Speaker 2: that person. It just just shows you how bad they're
Speaker 2: screwing things up. It seems like a backfiring.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about this Battle Royal.
Speaker 2: Okay, hit on seventeen. I'd hate to be seventeen because
Speaker 2: they're getting their ass kicked.
Speaker 1: So here are the participants in this Battle Royal. We
Speaker 1: have Orange Cassidy, Ricky Starks, the Butcher and the Blade
Speaker 1: Bandido Commander Lee Moriarty, Big Bill, Ari Di Vari, Tony Nice,
Speaker 1: Chuck Taylor, Trent Burretta, Kip Sabian, Ray, Phoenix, Penta, Swerve,
Speaker 1: Brian Cage, Jay White, Juice Robinson, Keith Lee, and Dustin Rhodes.
Speaker 1: So when I look at this here, this is this
Speaker 1: is what I'm concluding. Okay. If I had to put
Speaker 1: my money on this, I would put my money on
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy because you know, I you know, people can
Speaker 1: argue whatever. I don't care to your opinion.
Speaker 2: He would literally argue that.
Speaker 1: But in my opinion, the best title reign currently in
Speaker 1: wrestling right now belongs to Orange Cassidy. He's out there week,
Speaker 1: the matches are always great. I mean, they've done so
Speaker 1: much for the international title. And to me, what is
Speaker 1: it now? Twenty four straight wins by Orange Cassidy as champion. Like, dude,
Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be thrown out of a Battle Royal
Speaker 1: and that is the end of Orange Cassidy's title Reignut
Speaker 1: No way, Okay, I would say no way. But if
Speaker 1: you have decided that Orange Cassidy is losing the title
Speaker 1: here in this Battle Royal, then I mean I would
Speaker 1: say Jay White. When I look at all of these names,
Speaker 1: maybe Ricky Starks, but and I guess you could do
Speaker 1: like you know, bandido, But to me, it's like Jay White,
Speaker 1: it's Jay White, or it's Orange Cassidy. And if Jay
Speaker 1: White is going to win the title in this match
Speaker 1: over Orange Cassidy, then to me, what needs to happen
Speaker 1: is this needs to be like a Titanic Battle Royal
Speaker 1: where everyone's jumping ship quick and you know you've got
Speaker 1: Keith Lee in there. And yeah, by the way, you
Speaker 1: have Keith Lee in there and Swerve so they're not
Speaker 1: having a match on this pay per view. It's incredible.
Speaker 1: It's incredible how long we're gonna go without having these
Speaker 1: two wrestle a match. But you know they can, you know,
Speaker 1: eliminate each other, and you know there's there's different things
Speaker 1: you can do blah blah blah. But it would need
Speaker 1: to come down to me, to Orange Cassidy and Jay White.
Speaker 1: And then I'm talking like you know, a twelve Maybe
Speaker 1: twelve's too long, but like an extended series of this,
Speaker 1: that and the other thing, like a match, yes, and
Speaker 1: Jay White finally wins.
Speaker 2: I would prefer.
Speaker 1: I would prefer sure if you could do pinfalls in
Speaker 1: this match and Jay White would hit him with this
Speaker 1: finish and pin him. That would be my preference, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if they do the pinfalls here in
Speaker 1: the Battle Royal. I mean they could. You know, it's
Speaker 1: called a what are they calling it? The Blackjack Battle Royal? Yeah,
Speaker 1: is that what they're calling it. I mean, you could
Speaker 1: add that rule if you wanted to on Sunday and
Speaker 1: just go, you know, it's over the top rope, pinfall
Speaker 1: or submission and then and then do that or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I mean, if that's not what they're doing, I mean,
Speaker 1: I do not want to see this title reign end
Speaker 1: with Orange Cassie being tossed over the top rope. I
Speaker 1: just don't.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't, And I'm fine with Jay White defeating him for
Speaker 2: that belt, but it should come in a singles match
Speaker 2: after this should probably come after whatever he decides, you know, whatever.
Speaker 2: The decision is going to be on him and Ricky Starks,
Speaker 2: depending on how long they go with that, and if
Speaker 2: they blow that off anytime soon. I would love to
Speaker 2: see Jay White get his hands on that belt and
Speaker 2: then go and just do something different with it. For now,
Speaker 2: you know, Orange Casside doesn't necessarily need it. He's going
Speaker 2: to get that attention. The title reign has been really good.
Speaker 2: I can't say any bad words about it, but you know,
Speaker 2: i'd love to see it on Jay White. But winning
Speaker 2: it in the Battle Royal now, I mean, it's just
Speaker 2: to me. This is a way to fill some time
Speaker 2: and it's probably hopefully a way to start something new
Speaker 2: with some people. You know.
Speaker 1: The other finish, which I'd love to see is you know,
Speaker 1: they have just mad wild Chaos and you know this guy,
Speaker 1: this guy blah blah blah, and the big culmination is
Speaker 1: at the end, it comes down to two guys and
Speaker 1: they do the Lex Luger Brett Hartz double coals Eine
Speaker 1: over the top rope to the floor, and then we
Speaker 1: learned that Orange Cassidy hadn't been eliminated, and he just
Speaker 1: lays on the apron and rolls his way into the
Speaker 1: ring and wins. Because that'd be a perfect Orange Cassidy finished, now,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it. Probably Yes, Anyway, we'll see what happens on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But we have the full lineup for all of these shows,
Speaker 1: so I can go over all of these after the break,
Speaker 1: and we've got to see him Punk and a Steal.
Speaker 1: Update from the front page and plenty more so Stick
Speaker 1: Around Observer Live back in the show. Brian Alberaz here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live. Mike SIMBERVB also Wrestling Observer dot Com
Speaker 1: says here with the official announcement of aw's Collision debut
Speaker 1: location Cempunk will make his return to the company as
Speaker 1: part of the show. Confirmation comes from Dave Meltzer. Punk's
Speaker 1: return was not announced Wednesday Saturday show at the United Center,
Speaker 1: same place. Punk famously made his return to wrestling in
Speaker 1: August twenty twenty one after seven years away from the business.
Speaker 1: Punk's first appearance or even mention on AW television since
Speaker 1: the events of last Septembers All Out when he got
Speaker 1: into a fight with the Young Bucks in Kenney, Omega.
Speaker 1: After Punk's post event press conference, Meltzer supporting that a
Speaker 1: final meeting between Punk and Tony Kahan went well and
Speaker 1: that quote there are a number of other issues worked out,
Speaker 1: including an agreement that nobody will speak publicly on the
Speaker 1: brawl after All Out last year. When it comes to
Speaker 1: a steel Meltzer said that Steele has been under a
Speaker 1: deal for many weeks. He will be working from home
Speaker 1: as part of the arrangement. Steele a longtime friend of Punk's,
Speaker 1: was fired after his role in the aforementioned fight. Although
Speaker 1: making the bucks were suspended, Steele's return of the company
Speaker 1: is believed to have been a sticking point. The rose
Speaker 1: last week caused Punk's name and image to be removed
Speaker 1: from the Collision announcement at the WBD upfront. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of stuff online about the last week,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you guys are aware of
Speaker 1: this or not, but there's a lot of different stories
Speaker 1: out there, and you know, there's the one side that
Speaker 1: there were serious issues. There's now another side that there
Speaker 1: were no issues at all. Everything was squared away last
Speaker 1: Tuesday and everything was great. And all I got to
Speaker 1: say is, and it's funny because there's now this big
Speaker 1: argument about this on our board. And the irony is
Speaker 1: that the thread that this argument is in is so
Speaker 1: long that people don't even remember the thread title, which
Speaker 1: is CM Punk not affiliated with aw Collision. I think
Speaker 1: people have forgotten that on that Wednesday where everything was
Speaker 1: allegedly now all hunky dory and everything was great, that
Speaker 1: was a day that Punk unleashed on me on Instagram.
Speaker 1: The day that allegedly everything was all hunky Dorian Great
Speaker 1: was also the day that WBD stated that he was
Speaker 1: not affiliated with the show, and that night they could
Speaker 1: have just announced the Chicago location, but they didn't. They
Speaker 1: specifically said that the location will be announced next week.
Speaker 1: And I mean, it's not hard to put all of
Speaker 1: this together, and I don't know exactly everything, obviously, but
Speaker 1: the idea that everything was all rosy on Wednesday, there
Speaker 1: is no evidence that I can see that that is true.
Speaker 1: Not to mention on Wednesday. I can tell you that
Speaker 1: there were people in WBD that were very upset, And
Speaker 1: if things were all hunky Dori on Tuesday, I don't
Speaker 1: know why people would be upset within WBD on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, here we are
Speaker 1: a week later, and it was announced last night on Dynamite,
Speaker 1: And I see no reason that they couldn't have done
Speaker 1: all of this last Wednesday if everything was all roses.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there's clearly two sides of all of this,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that the truth is, you know, somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle. But yeah, he's back.
Speaker 2: I guess we'll have to put this in the file
Speaker 2: with brawl out and why Cody Rhodes left and things
Speaker 2: for unsolved mysteries.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know. Obviously people have to sign stuff.
Speaker 1: Now that's changed. Here's the lineup for the pay per view,
Speaker 1: So MJF, Sammy Darby and Jungle Boy we'll be fighting
Speaker 1: for the world title in a four way. We have
Speaker 1: FTR versus Jared and Jay Lethal for the tag team titles,
Speaker 1: with Mark Brisco as a special referee, and they have
Speaker 1: been sowing the seeds that he don't like anybody.
Speaker 2: I'm slapping cheer Man.
Speaker 1: He hauled off and whacked down man was so great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We have Wardlow and Christian Cage in a ladder match
Speaker 1: for the T and T title. We have the aforementioned
Speaker 1: Blackjack Battle Royal. We also have Jamie Hayter and Tony Storr.
Speaker 1: And there appears to be a lot of discussion today
Speaker 1: about this online and a lot of rumors. And I
Speaker 1: don't know what's going to happen Sunday, but my guess
Speaker 1: is that it is possible. They don't know what's going
Speaker 1: to happen Sunday because Jamie Hayter is injured and that's
Speaker 1: why she was replaced, or actually she wasn't replaced. They
Speaker 1: were going to do a six person I think it
Speaker 1: was last Wednesday, and they took her out of the match,
Speaker 1: and they took Soray out of the match because Jamie
Speaker 1: was injured, but they still shot the angle where Tony
Speaker 1: Storm challenged her for the match at the pay per view.
Speaker 1: And you know, Jamie was on TV last night and
Speaker 1: she did say I am hurt, but one way or
Speaker 1: the other, I'm going to be there Sunday and I
Speaker 1: am going to defend the title. But mild spoiler here
Speaker 1: on the Rampage taping she was attacked and beaten up
Speaker 1: and an injured in storyline, So I guess Tony Tony Storm,
Speaker 1: Tony Khan who is not Tony Storm. Tony Kahn did
Speaker 1: a conference call today and he was asked like, what's
Speaker 1: going on with Jamie Hater and he was non committal,
Speaker 1: So essentially putting all of this together, my presumption is
Speaker 1: that she's hurt and we're gonna like no day of
Speaker 1: maybe if she's gonna be able to do the match
Speaker 1: or not. That's what I think is going on. So
Speaker 1: we shall see about that one. And then we've got
Speaker 1: the Blackpool Combat Club with Danielson, Moxley, Claudio and Wheeler
Speaker 1: versus Omega, The Jackson's, the Young Bucks and Hangman Page
Speaker 1: in anarchy in the arena. We can all cross our fingers.
Speaker 1: Nobody gets hurt in that one. Jade Cargill and Taya
Speaker 1: for the TBS title. We have Adam Cole and Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho in an unsanctioned match with Sabu backing up Adam Cole,
Speaker 1: which I guess they just got back from the Jericho
Speaker 1: cruise and Sabu was on the Jericho cruise, And so
Speaker 1: my presumption is that Jericho came up with his idea, like, hey,
Speaker 1: it's a great idea. Let's get Saboo out there, who
Speaker 1: got a huge reaction last night. And you know, he
Speaker 1: had some serious health issue not that long ago. I
Speaker 1: think it was like in the within the last couple
Speaker 1: of months. But he looked good. You know, he didn't
Speaker 1: he didn't like do any spots other than throwing a chair,
Speaker 1: but you know, he looked in good shape, and he
Speaker 1: walked to the ring just fine and got in there
Speaker 1: and did all of his stuff. So you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: everything works out there great and uh, and then of
Speaker 1: course we've got Ethan Page and the Guns against what
Speaker 1: is now and I guess this is also a spoiler,
Speaker 1: but not really because the injury angle was last week.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Cassidy is not in the match. He actually will
Speaker 1: be taken out of the match. And it is Jeff
Speaker 1: and Matt Hardy and Hook against the Guns and Ethan Page.
Speaker 2: Will he be okay enough to stand in the corner
Speaker 2: and make sounds like he did on the top of.
Speaker 1: The Oh, I presume he's gonna be making a lot
Speaker 1: of sounds. What I need to No, absolutely positively not.
Speaker 1: I'll quitm near me, got to find it. I don't
Speaker 1: even know if Dom's here today, but I know he's listening. Okay,
Speaker 1: what else do we have? We've gone over all of
Speaker 1: the updates for all of the matches. Here Shawn Michael's
Speaker 1: on a media call. Let's see what he said that
Speaker 1: was interesting. He was asked about Blair Davenport, and you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that
Speaker 1: she is the mystery attacker of all of these Yes, well,
Speaker 1: they said Blair Davenport. Let's see what else he said?
Speaker 1: There were plans for India's champion before she got injured
Speaker 1: and drafted. He did note that he knew most of
Speaker 1: the people that were being drafted, but not all of them,
Speaker 1: and he noted that fifteen people being called up required
Speaker 1: an adjustment, but he felt comfortable with it. He felt
Speaker 1: it was only a matter of time before eilid Down
Speaker 1: and Alba Faire returned to defend the NXT tag team titles.
Speaker 1: I think that that's largely up in the airs to
Speaker 1: what's going on, because you know, the SmackDown Women's titles
Speaker 1: or the Raw whatever, the WWE women's titles, Ryan SmackDown.
Speaker 1: You know they're being decided on Monday, but you know
Speaker 1: we've got the other take team champions on the other show.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what's going on. And nothing on
Speaker 1: the status of NXT Europe. He did say, and I
Speaker 1: know this sounds hard to believe, but I actually believe
Speaker 1: Shawn Michaels. He says, to the best of his knowledge,
Speaker 1: NXT will not be going head to head with aw
Speaker 1: pay per views again, but he said those decisions are
Speaker 1: not made by him. He said they timed Battleground head
Speaker 1: to head. I don't even if it's head to head.
Speaker 1: It might be the afternoon. I don't even know what
Speaker 1: time it is, but he said it was take advantage
Speaker 1: of the holiday weekend and also because Night of Champions
Speaker 1: was the day before. So I do believe that he
Speaker 1: doesn't know. I believe he's not the guy making these decisions.
Speaker 1: He's just booking the show. Though I believe they're never
Speaker 1: going to go ahead to ed with an AWA of
Speaker 1: course not.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, even though changed a little bit when
Speaker 2: it comes to holidays. You know, anytime you have to,
Speaker 2: you know, square up with NXT. This isn't going to
Speaker 2: be you know, the last time that happens.
Speaker 1: Then an XT Everyone's favorite show. Five hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: eight thousand viewers and a point sixteen in eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine. So that's the update on that. And when
Speaker 1: we come back, we will review this aw Dynamite show.
Speaker 1: So buckle up, everybody back in the moment. Observer Live
Speaker 1: like in the show. Bryan Elverz here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike Simber VB also of Wrestlingobserver dot Com, well side
Speaker 1: for the Dynamite Report, Djuke Blokes watch the show, Okay, cool?
Speaker 2: I mean I did that was a rhetorical question.
Speaker 1: Orge Cassie call Fletcher for the International Title fifteen sixteen minutes.
Speaker 1: This match was great, although you know what it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was not you know, Orange sold is
Speaker 1: hand and everything like that. But this was a lot
Speaker 1: less of a story match and more about let's see
Speaker 1: how many big, crazy moves we can do in sixteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So if you're a fan of moves and you know
Speaker 1: a match where you can see like eight tombstones in
Speaker 1: the same match, this was a match for you fans,
Speaker 1: what nuts for it. And this was a tough crowd.
Speaker 1: This is Vegas crowd. This was a WWE crowd, like
Speaker 1: they just wanted to see entrances and stars. And you
Speaker 1: know a lot of these matches were just like they
Speaker 1: sat there for half the match and then got into
Speaker 1: the stuff at the end. But they like this and
Speaker 1: Orange ended up rolling him up and pinning him. He
Speaker 1: escaped by the skin of his teeth, which is another
Speaker 1: one of those really stupid old sayings, because you have
Speaker 1: no skin on your teeth. I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever noticed that or not, Mike, I certainly have no
Speaker 1: skin on my teeth.
Speaker 2: As many times as you go to the dentist.
Speaker 1: No god, they're looking good.
Speaker 2: Huh m.
Speaker 1: Four more trays, four more trays yeah bye bye. By
Speaker 1: mid July, my teeth are gonna be straight as an arrow,
Speaker 1: just like me. In fact, Ricky starts at a promo
Speaker 1: he said, I'm sick of being beaten up by Juice
Speaker 1: and Jay White, who then showed up and beat him up.
Speaker 1: Jungle Boy promo, vowing to drive back from Vegas to
Speaker 1: l A. Is the aw world champion? What's that bloke
Speaker 1: driving himself for? He's a big he should have a driver.
Speaker 1: FTR came out for a promo and uh.
Speaker 2: It's hard for some people to let others take the wheel.
Speaker 1: Ryan, And this was a little weird because FTR is
Speaker 1: doing this promo and you know they're burying the oddities.
Speaker 1: And then Mark comes out and the last we saw Mark,
Speaker 1: they did that awesome angle where he accidentally he accidentally
Speaker 1: got pile driven, which any of you ever been accidentally
Speaker 1: pile driven? It ain't easy, but they pulled it off.
Speaker 1: So Cash says, listen, Mark, we know you're mad, but
Speaker 1: don't let these people make you look stupid. We went
Speaker 1: to Helen Back with you and your brother last year,
Speaker 1: and this year we're gonna go hell back for you.
Speaker 2: Why is that man so aggressive?
Speaker 1: Well, the aggressive one was Dax, because Dak says that
Speaker 1: you know that pile driver was meant for those other
Speaker 1: something or other they bleeped it. He goes, I apologize, now,
Speaker 1: shake my hand. I was like brother that made much
Speaker 1: of an apology.
Speaker 2: He's one of those guys like stick the hand in
Speaker 2: the jet, like, come on, shake my hand like a man, like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm not shaking your hand because it gets worse.
Speaker 1: Dude. He goes, you don't even like a sincere apology.
Speaker 1: I apologize, now shake my hand. Yeah, and Briscoe slaps
Speaker 1: his hand away, and then Dak says, and I quote,
Speaker 1: I will not allow you to disrespect me on national television.
Speaker 1: Now shake my hand.
Speaker 2: Aren't you tequila eyes? Aren't you the one who pile
Speaker 2: drove the man? You should be on a little bit
Speaker 2: more out here.
Speaker 1: He stopped trying to stir trouble here. So brisco gets
Speaker 1: angry and slaps him good and so you know, then
Speaker 1: he leaves, and of course the oddities come out. They're
Speaker 1: all excited. But he walks up and he shoves Careen.
Speaker 1: He slaps the taste out of Jeff Jared's mouth, which
Speaker 1: is too bad because you know, one of the best
Speaker 1: things about eating is his taste. And when you can't
Speaker 1: taste it anything anymore for the rest of your life, man,
Speaker 1: that's trouble. But he gets to the top of these.
Speaker 2: He just shoved Sanjay, he used to have slapped him
Speaker 2: on top of his bald head.
Speaker 1: He gets up to the top of the ramp and
Speaker 1: he tells lethal, I don't care about any of these
Speaker 1: other guys, but you're my boy. And I'm getting tired
Speaker 1: of this bad word bs, he says, and he storms off. Overall,
Speaker 1: this was good, but Dax was a very unlikable character
Speaker 1: in this segment. Then we had Renee and Sammy, and
Speaker 1: Sammy does another Babyface promo, vows he will not lay
Speaker 1: down for MJF says, people have offered me money all
Speaker 1: my life. I told him to shove it. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: win that title. We had the House of Black against
Speaker 1: metallik Ar Fox and Blake Christian and this was a
Speaker 1: little better if they didn't like, turn all the lights
Speaker 1: out so it would look like a seventies you know,
Speaker 1: and go WWWF taping Instead, they like all of this
Speaker 1: weird stuff. They projected these weird lights on the crowd,
Speaker 1: and I mean listen, it's it's the sparkles on the screen.
Speaker 2: Just get rid of that.
Speaker 1: No, what gets me is and I don't care. Like
Speaker 1: if you like it, that's great. I'm not mad at you.
Speaker 1: But to me, why do we need this? Why?
Speaker 2: Why did Gallas have to be in a green fish
Speaker 2: tank last night?
Speaker 1: I mean it's like everybody hated when Sincar had to
Speaker 1: wrestle in her a blue light. Everybody hated when you know,
Speaker 1: the fiend had to wrestle in her a red light. Here,
Speaker 1: we've got more weird and I don't even know what.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, dude, this is over. This is
Speaker 1: above my pay grade. I don't get this weird lighting
Speaker 1: thing to make things different. You know what I want,
Speaker 1: and I've wanted for like months, is to see House
Speaker 1: of Black wrestle every week. That's enough for me. That
Speaker 1: is not enough for them. They must have weird lights
Speaker 1: and weird rules. And then it was just like a squash.
Speaker 1: I beat him in five minutes. It was just all
Speaker 1: add for that so BCC promo about anarchy in the arena.
Speaker 1: Moxley just cuts some promos on this show. This guy
Speaker 1: gives no f's and it's patently obvious. He just wants
Speaker 1: to go and beat people up and bleed and he's happy,
Speaker 1: which is quite a job. MJF promo burying all of
Speaker 1: the pillars once again teasing, I want to get out
Speaker 1: of this place. I'm bored, And you know what, Tony
Speaker 1: Khan knows my contract is coming up, so he's continually
Speaker 1: stacking the deck against me. They want this title off
Speaker 1: of me. Narby comes out, we have to go back
Speaker 1: to that. Well. I try to tell you guys that
Speaker 1: he is not losing the title until twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: because the bidding War of twenty twenty four is still
Speaker 1: going to be the story line and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: something revolving around it. And I came up with an
Speaker 1: idea a year ago involving Moxley, where you know, he's
Speaker 1: so mad that he vows to resign just so he
Speaker 1: can take somebody out or whatever. But there is going
Speaker 1: to be a you know, a War of twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four storyline, and he ain't losing the title till he
Speaker 1: does that storyline. So that's what I think. I've said
Speaker 1: it from day one.
Speaker 2: And I won't care about that part of it at
Speaker 2: all until he gets some sort of Brian Pillman letter
Speaker 2: like he got from Eric Fischoff, saying that he's got
Speaker 2: his release to really make this work work. That's it.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is crazy to me. It's a silly
Speaker 2: thing to do under the circumstances.
Speaker 1: Why why our chat? I don't get it. Brian wants
Speaker 1: m Chiff to hold the title that long, blame it
Speaker 1: on him. What in the name of God.
Speaker 2: Does his say?
Speaker 1: And he wants favorite What does this have to do
Speaker 1: with me?
Speaker 2: It's all got something.
Speaker 1: Hey, you know what, Mike, if he would have gone
Speaker 1: full babyface, he wouldn't be doing a Bidding War of
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four storyline. So we don't like it. Well,
Speaker 1: that's another reason maybe he should have gone babyface.
Speaker 2: Argument.
Speaker 1: No, it's not your top. Babyface does not do promos
Speaker 1: going eh, there's no competition. Everyone's just whatever. I want
Speaker 1: to get out of this place. No, that would not
Speaker 1: have happened if you would have just gone full babyface.
Speaker 1: But he's a heel, so he's gotta talk about want
Speaker 1: to leave because that's heat.
Speaker 2: You're a heel with that shirt open like that, you
Speaker 2: get some gold chains.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is I knew when I came
Speaker 1: on today that everybody was gonna ridicule my shirt, and
Speaker 1: you're sitting there in that shirt. You're sitting there in
Speaker 1: that shirt commenting on my shirt. You know that's the
Speaker 1: pot calling the kettle black, which is another weird old
Speaker 1: saying m Jeff kicked him in the balls, just like
Speaker 1: I'd like to kick a bunch of you and the
Speaker 1: balls you fans or to promo.
Speaker 2: You'll get your chance tomorrow night in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Speaker 2: So come on out and meet Brian Albert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, come to the steakhouse. I'll be too busy eating
Speaker 1: at kicking the balls ti in Lady Frost. God, you
Speaker 1: should see my kids heat to the Brazilian steakhouse. They're
Speaker 1: my kids, call Lelee and Paisley's really my kid because
Speaker 1: she's just shoveling meet in her mouth and then she's like,
Speaker 1: wor steak. I'm like shit, they're gonna bring more steak, dude,
Speaker 1: Come on, Taia beat Lady Frost with the road Deval
Speaker 1: Jalla and then Jade and everybody was watching. On Tony
Speaker 1: Khan made his big announcement. As noted, Hangman Page did
Speaker 1: a promo. I gotta say you know how long was
Speaker 1: this storyline of getting Hangman Paige back with the Elite,
Speaker 1: and they did it last week in the main event,
Speaker 1: and literally their follow up this week is he has
Speaker 1: a thirty second backstage promo saying, man, we're gonna take
Speaker 1: him on Sunday, not even all together the follow up.
Speaker 2: And I know I had to hide under the ring
Speaker 2: all night to do the thing at the end, but
Speaker 2: I mean, at least I don't know to me, that
Speaker 2: was a missed opportunity right there.
Speaker 1: I think we had Jericho and the Jericho Appreciation Society,
Speaker 1: Adam Cole and Roderick Strong all coming out. This is
Speaker 1: where they did the contract signing for the match, and
Speaker 1: there was a no physicality clause and so Jericho's just
Speaker 1: he's just digging that knife in, which is an old
Speaker 1: saying I understand that one when you dig that knife
Speaker 1: in and twist. And so finally Jericho signs and then
Speaker 1: he says, you know, this match is no rules, and
Speaker 1: there's five of us. I had only two of you,
Speaker 1: and so Adam Cole says, well, you're right. So I
Speaker 1: called a friend who lives here in Vegas. Why have
Speaker 1: idolized for years? And this one man is crazier than
Speaker 1: all five of you combined. And it's Saboo.
Speaker 2: I wonder what Sabu's name is on the chugs chat
Speaker 2: there for Twitch if they're such good friends. I didn't
Speaker 2: know this.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that guy came out and everyone
Speaker 1: went nuts and he threw a chair at Daddy Magic
Speaker 1: laid him out. Roderick Strong and Daniel Garcia good match,
Speaker 1: total w w E crowd. They just sat there for
Speaker 1: the first half, then they got into the near falls.
Speaker 1: There at the end, Roderick hit ed of Artache got
Speaker 1: the win Willow nine Gale video package where they in
Speaker 1: fact not only mentioned but showed video of Mercedes as
Speaker 1: Willow beat her for the new Japan Strong Women's title.
Speaker 1: And then the main event, Penton Phoenix versus Claudio and
Speaker 1: Wheeler for the Ring of Honor Tag team titles. Match
Speaker 1: was great as you would expect, and finally there at
Speaker 1: the end, luch Bros went for the fear factor. Claudio
Speaker 1: Trice hit the ring, but the Bucks come out from
Speaker 1: under the ring. They hold him back. Penton Phoenix hit
Speaker 1: the finish pin him. They retained the Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: Tag team titles and then the BCC goes after the Bucks.
Speaker 1: They escaped through the crowd and then Moxley cut a
Speaker 1: promo and essentially he said, if you don't like blood,
Speaker 1: too bad, because there's gonna be blood everywhere in this
Speaker 1: match on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Video game. Imagine what they had to take out of
Speaker 2: that game for the screenshots that they showed. We see
Speaker 2: while the McDaniel Dusty Rhodes matches that didn't feature that
Speaker 2: much blood.
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, guys, I know a lot of you love AW.
Speaker 1: I love AW as well, but the follow up to
Speaker 1: Hangman reuniting with the Bucks was not good. Okay, not
Speaker 1: yet if in fact, well let's just think about that, uh,
Speaker 1: that big moment when Sammy Zain finally turned on the bloodline.
Speaker 1: I mean, did they really follow up on the next
Speaker 1: show with Sammy Zain in a thirty second backstage promo
Speaker 1: mentioning it. Of course not. It was the centerpiece of
Speaker 1: the entire show that followed up. And yeah, you know
Speaker 1: they built up the match for Sunday, Well, of course
Speaker 1: they did. It's the go home show for the paper.
Speaker 1: They built up all of the matches, But the big
Speaker 1: climactic moment of after all of these years Hangman in
Speaker 1: the Bucks and the Elite getting back together. It was
Speaker 1: a week follow up. That's just the fact of the matter.
Speaker 1: Back in a moment, Observer Live. Back in the show,
Speaker 1: brain Elberrez here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Sibervibi, also of
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer dot Com. So I'll be back for the
Speaker 1: a video show tonight ninety minutes on awn NXT. Although
Speaker 1: we got the whole thing in an hour last week.
Speaker 1: That was weird. Well, there's a lot to talk about
Speaker 1: on these shows, and I never got to finish my
Speaker 1: NXT review. So we'll do that tonight Wrestlingobserver dot Com
Speaker 1: Video FW online dot com and then I'm out of here.
Speaker 1: So Mike, we'll be doing Observer Live solo tomorrow, YEP
Speaker 1: preview the weekend. Mike, make sure you get impact in.
Speaker 1: I want to hear about all of them.
Speaker 2: And then you tell me this just minutes ago too.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't abundantly clear that I was going
Speaker 1: to Vegas on Friday.
Speaker 2: But you could like always schedule that flight kind of
Speaker 2: like you can.
Speaker 1: There's a dinner that I'm required to be at at
Speaker 1: five thirty. I got to get out.
Speaker 2: Of here noon when we start this show.
Speaker 1: On this Yeah, and I leave at noon, so I
Speaker 1: get there at two so I can get you know,
Speaker 1: to the whatever and then get there. What do you
Speaker 1: want me to do? Brother?
Speaker 2: In a private chartered flight on your your golden airplane
Speaker 2: that you're taking down.
Speaker 1: Yes, I am required with I'm required to be at
Speaker 1: the Brazilian Steakhouse. It's in my contract. What do you
Speaker 1: want me to do about it? And I'll be back
Speaker 1: Saturday and Sunday with Dave and then Monday back for
Speaker 1: I'm not here Monday, Mike, You're or you're not either, right.
Speaker 1: I think we got that covered. Yeah, Michael's looking for
Speaker 1: any opportunity to take the day off. But I will
Speaker 1: be back Monday night with Dave and my Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: Colin will be out Tuesday because I write for Sports Illustrated.
Speaker 2: Still no sneakerphone, guys, And that's it.
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. We'll talk to you next time
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