WEBVTT - Viva Las Vegas 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:09.000 --> 0:00:11.080 When you're ready, let's get it all. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.360 How's it going to everybody? Bryan Albarez here on Wrestling 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.279 Observer Live. We are here every day Monday through Friday, 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.799 New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific six Eastern, Saturday 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:29.680 mornings with a Jim Valley at ten am Pacific one Eastern. 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.280 And man, I'm ready to go to Vegas today, right 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.959 now tomorrow, So for the rest of you, Mike SIMPERVV 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.919 will handle the show. 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So if 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.360 you're in the air and you want to go, hey, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.760 there's still time at for W online dot com slash Vegas. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.120 And of course today we'll talk about all of the 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:56.080 news leading to that, the collision announcement. Yesterday, we got 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.640 lineups for all of the shows this weekend. We have 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.520 got Sean Michaels talking about NXT Battleground. He died a 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:08.600 conference call, which was interesting. I generally find Sean to 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.520 be pretty honest in those conference calls. And we've got 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:14.239 the NXT ratings and then of course the a W 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.320 television review and maybe the end of the n XT 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.639 TV review. I didn't get to review yesterday because I've 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.440 seen it now, but a lot to get into. I 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:23.960 can vote with more Observer. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:37.440 Lie come my day, come come by day, and it's me. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.360 It's something that I won't try. 0:02:40.600 --> 0:02:49.440 But in the show Brian Albarez here Wrestling Observer Alive 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:57.639 like Simper BB also Wrestling Observer dot com. Let's see here. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:05.200 So so last night, obviously they announced the UH Chicago's 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:10.799 United Center June seventeenth for Collision, and mere moments ago, 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.000 as in literally as the music was playing, we got 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:17.480 an update here from Wressell Ticks what is going on 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:23.840 with aw collision? So, uh, I'm gonna look at this 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.359 after the break because I don't know what's going with well, no, 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.200 I'll just read this. So this from Russell Ticks. Obviously 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.720 it says a premature rush of tickets looked promising for this, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:38.360 but a lot of it turned out to be a 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.240 false alarm. Below you will see the sequence of events. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.120 In the end, they removed the upper decks for now. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.800 None of the two hundreds were opened at first, ifew 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.040 were added once they took the three hundreds down. My 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.280 assumption is, like last time they were here and sold 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.680 it out. They held those two hundreds back until the 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.000 general public sale because they know they would sell fast, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.800 and they'd rather sell more of the three hundreds if possible. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.920 Tomorrow will tell us this was a very quick turnaround 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.920 for a show announcement. If you feel so inclined, at 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:08.600 a few hundred for the upper decks that sold, these 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:13.680 aren't included in this count. So they got an image 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.040 and eight minutes later it looked like this one was 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:17.760 going to move a lot of tickets fast, but turned 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.360 out to be a false alarm. Scalpers brokers, anybody can 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.440 hold tickets for fifteen minutes at a time to see 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.000 how things are moving on the map before determining if 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:28.480 they should buy more or not. Whatever seats you see 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.680 gun in the upper decks come back, as evidenced by 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.400 the screen shot below. A little before the upper decks 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:35.839 were removed, I sent this image to someone to illustrate 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:37.719 that not all of the section one to one regular 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.600 price seats sold. You can see some of the upper 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.320 decks sold, but not a significant amount. The moment they 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.360 took away the upper decks and added the two hardcam 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.400 sections a section on the bottom left front, third row. 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:52.840 So anyway, it sounds like they're selling tickets. Yeah, well, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.760 you know, I just got this. It literally pre sale 0:04:55.839 --> 0:04:57.479 update AW Collision. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.120 It's really very simple. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.080 It is really very simple. But I'm also confused because 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:05.039 in the brackets here it says Prudential Center, but then 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.160 it's supposed to be talking about the United Center. So 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:08.279 at the end of the day, I don't know what's 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:09.960 going on right now, but I do know this. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:10.680 What's that? 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:17.200 Last night they announced that AEW Collision will be debuting 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.080 at the United Center on June seventeenth. They did not 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:26.200 mention the name of cmpunk, but when they mentioned the 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:31.760 Chicago United Center location, you could hear the fans pop 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:36.760 and start chanting for cmpunk. And they ain't announcing the 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.760 United Center if they don't have cmpunk. So he will 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.960 be debuting or re debuting or whatever you want to 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:49.000 say on June seventeenth. And yeah, we're going to see 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.159 how things go. Is the pre sale and the regular 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:53.279 sale and everything like that. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.240 We'll know more. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.160 We'll know a lot more. I would presume this weekend 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:05.000 and then early next week, because uh man, I get 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.920 all these things. They're all the same, because well Also, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.160 I'm sure get a rush of tickets after the h 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:12.800 the show on Sunday. 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.279 So are people tweeting you with or texting you with 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:22.120 their excitement over Scorpio Sky possibly coming back? Man? 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.080 What is everyone's problem with Scorpio Sky? 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.760 I don't know. I do people have a problem with Scorpios? 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.320 Yeah, it seems like a lot of people do, Like, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.280 oh I don't want to see Scorpio Sky. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:33.920 What did he do? 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.200 I don't know. I don't know why they're so against 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:38.000 Scorpio Sky. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.239 Man. The people that are ripping through the Battle Royal 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:43.840 because you just you go and you point out, like 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.520 some of your favorite wrestlers, like look at Jay White 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.640 in that Battle Royal, or look at this person or 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.640 that person. It just just shows you how bad they're 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.840 screwing things up. It seems like a backfiring. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:55.719 Let me tell you about this Battle Royal. 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.240 Okay, hit on seventeen. I'd hate to be seventeen because 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.280 they're getting their ass kicked. 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.400 So here are the participants in this Battle Royal. We 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:08.560 have Orange Cassidy, Ricky Starks, the Butcher and the Blade 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:16.440 Bandido Commander Lee Moriarty, Big Bill, Ari Di Vari, Tony Nice, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:22.760 Chuck Taylor, Trent Burretta, Kip Sabian, Ray, Phoenix, Penta, Swerve, 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:29.600 Brian Cage, Jay White, Juice Robinson, Keith Lee, and Dustin Rhodes. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:36.120 So when I look at this here, this is this 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.320 is what I'm concluding. Okay. If I had to put 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.160 my money on this, I would put my money on 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.920 Orange Cassidy because you know, I you know, people can 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.640 argue whatever. I don't care to your opinion. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:51.080 He would literally argue that. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:56.200 But in my opinion, the best title reign currently in 0:07:56.240 --> 0:08:00.680 wrestling right now belongs to Orange Cassidy. He's out there week, 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:04.840 the matches are always great. I mean, they've done so 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.800 much for the international title. And to me, what is 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:15.000 it now? Twenty four straight wins by Orange Cassidy as champion. Like, dude, 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.800 this guy's gonna be thrown out of a Battle Royal 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:21.679 and that is the end of Orange Cassidy's title Reignut 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:27.520 No way, Okay, I would say no way. But if 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.600 you have decided that Orange Cassidy is losing the title 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:38.880 here in this Battle Royal, then I mean I would 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:42.360 say Jay White. When I look at all of these names, 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:47.200 maybe Ricky Starks, but and I guess you could do 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:52.600 like you know, bandido, But to me, it's like Jay White, 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:57.480 it's Jay White, or it's Orange Cassidy. And if Jay 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.800 White is going to win the title in this match 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:03.200 over Orange Cassidy, then to me, what needs to happen 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.199 is this needs to be like a Titanic Battle Royal 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:11.680 where everyone's jumping ship quick and you know you've got 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.280 Keith Lee in there. And yeah, by the way, you 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.680 have Keith Lee in there and Swerve so they're not 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:23.000 having a match on this pay per view. It's incredible. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.800 It's incredible how long we're gonna go without having these 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.600 two wrestle a match. But you know they can, you know, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.280 eliminate each other, and you know there's there's different things 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.480 you can do blah blah blah. But it would need 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:37.880 to come down to me, to Orange Cassidy and Jay White. 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:43.840 And then I'm talking like you know, a twelve Maybe 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:50.480 twelve's too long, but like an extended series of this, 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:54.280 that and the other thing, like a match, yes, and 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.319 Jay White finally wins. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:09:58.000 I would prefer. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:03.360 I would prefer sure if you could do pinfalls in 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.920 this match and Jay White would hit him with this 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.559 finish and pin him. That would be my preference, but 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.600 I don't know if they do the pinfalls here in 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.320 the Battle Royal. I mean they could. You know, it's 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.200 called a what are they calling it? The Blackjack Battle Royal? Yeah, 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.839 is that what they're calling it. I mean, you could 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.160 add that rule if you wanted to on Sunday and 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.800 just go, you know, it's over the top rope, pinfall 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.800 or submission and then and then do that or whatever. 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.720 But I mean, if that's not what they're doing, I mean, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.640 I do not want to see this title reign end 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.920 with Orange Cassie being tossed over the top rope. I 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:32.280 just don't. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.920 Shouldn't, And I'm fine with Jay White defeating him for 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.840 that belt, but it should come in a singles match 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:42.120 after this should probably come after whatever he decides, you know, whatever. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.880 The decision is going to be on him and Ricky Starks, 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.920 depending on how long they go with that, and if 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.760 they blow that off anytime soon. I would love to 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:51.679 see Jay White get his hands on that belt and 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.200 then go and just do something different with it. For now, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.160 you know, Orange Casside doesn't necessarily need it. He's going 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.000 to get that attention. The title reign has been really good. 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.440 I can't say any bad words about it, but you know, 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:05.480 i'd love to see it on Jay White. But winning 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.720 it in the Battle Royal now, I mean, it's just 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.880 to me. This is a way to fill some time 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.000 and it's probably hopefully a way to start something new 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:14.840 with some people. You know. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.839 The other finish, which I'd love to see is you know, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.400 they have just mad wild Chaos and you know this guy, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.480 this guy blah blah blah, and the big culmination is 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.880 at the end, it comes down to two guys and 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.959 they do the Lex Luger Brett Hartz double coals Eine 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.160 over the top rope to the floor, and then we 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.120 learned that Orange Cassidy hadn't been eliminated, and he just 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.839 lays on the apron and rolls his way into the 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:44.000 ring and wins. Because that'd be a perfect Orange Cassidy finished, now, 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.920 wouldn't it. Probably Yes, Anyway, we'll see what happens on Sunday. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.559 But we have the full lineup for all of these shows, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.360 so I can go over all of these after the break, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.520 and we've got to see him Punk and a Steal. 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.680 Update from the front page and plenty more so Stick 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:30.120 Around Observer Live back in the show. Brian Alberaz here 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:36.160 Wrestling Observer Live. Mike SIMBERVB also Wrestling Observer dot Com 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.679 says here with the official announcement of aw's Collision debut 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:42.480 location Cempunk will make his return to the company as 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.520 part of the show. Confirmation comes from Dave Meltzer. Punk's 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:49.880 return was not announced Wednesday Saturday show at the United Center, 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.000 same place. Punk famously made his return to wrestling in 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.360 August twenty twenty one after seven years away from the business. 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.640 Punk's first appearance or even mention on AW television since 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.080 the events of last Septembers All Out when he got 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.120 into a fight with the Young Bucks in Kenney, Omega. 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:09.560 After Punk's post event press conference, Meltzer supporting that a 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:14.000 final meeting between Punk and Tony Kahan went well and 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.560 that quote there are a number of other issues worked out, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.320 including an agreement that nobody will speak publicly on the 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.280 brawl after All Out last year. When it comes to 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.840 a steel Meltzer said that Steele has been under a 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.320 deal for many weeks. He will be working from home 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.120 as part of the arrangement. Steele a longtime friend of Punk's, 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.160 was fired after his role in the aforementioned fight. Although 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.520 making the bucks were suspended, Steele's return of the company 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.920 is believed to have been a sticking point. The rose 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.240 last week caused Punk's name and image to be removed 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:49.440 from the Collision announcement at the WBD upfront. You know, 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.480 there's a lot of stuff online about the last week, 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.440 and I don't know if you guys are aware of 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.000 this or not, but there's a lot of different stories 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:07.120 out there, and you know, there's the one side that 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:11.719 there were serious issues. There's now another side that there 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.320 were no issues at all. Everything was squared away last 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:21.120 Tuesday and everything was great. And all I got to 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:25.400 say is, and it's funny because there's now this big 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.240 argument about this on our board. And the irony is 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:33.920 that the thread that this argument is in is so 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:38.840 long that people don't even remember the thread title, which 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:44.640 is CM Punk not affiliated with aw Collision. I think 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:50.160 people have forgotten that on that Wednesday where everything was 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.240 allegedly now all hunky dory and everything was great, that 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:56.520 was a day that Punk unleashed on me on Instagram. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.880 The day that allegedly everything was all hunky Dorian Great 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:06.640 was also the day that WBD stated that he was 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:14.240 not affiliated with the show, and that night they could 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:22.520 have just announced the Chicago location, but they didn't. They 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:27.640 specifically said that the location will be announced next week. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.840 And I mean, it's not hard to put all of 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:37.600 this together, and I don't know exactly everything, obviously, but 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:43.080 the idea that everything was all rosy on Wednesday, there 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.920 is no evidence that I can see that that is true. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:50.760 Not to mention on Wednesday. I can tell you that 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.920 there were people in WBD that were very upset, And 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.240 if things were all hunky Dori on Tuesday, I don't 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.720 know why people would be upset within WBD on Wednesday. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:03.160 And at the end of the day, here we are 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:07.200 a week later, and it was announced last night on Dynamite, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.400 And I see no reason that they couldn't have done 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.360 all of this last Wednesday if everything was all roses. 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.640 So anyway, there's clearly two sides of all of this, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.400 and I'm sure that the truth is, you know, somewhere 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:29.120 in the middle. But yeah, he's back. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.920 I guess we'll have to put this in the file 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:38.640 with brawl out and why Cody Rhodes left and things 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.040 for unsolved mysteries. 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:46.280 I guess I don't know. Obviously people have to sign stuff. 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:51.320 Now that's changed. Here's the lineup for the pay per view, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:57.160 So MJF, Sammy Darby and Jungle Boy we'll be fighting 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:00.400 for the world title in a four way. We have 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.600 FTR versus Jared and Jay Lethal for the tag team titles, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.720 with Mark Brisco as a special referee, and they have 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:10.640 been sowing the seeds that he don't like anybody. 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.200 I'm slapping cheer Man. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:22.160 He hauled off and whacked down man was so great. Yeah. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.240 We have Wardlow and Christian Cage in a ladder match 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.920 for the T and T title. We have the aforementioned 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:34.600 Blackjack Battle Royal. We also have Jamie Hayter and Tony Storr. 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:37.200 And there appears to be a lot of discussion today 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:42.159 about this online and a lot of rumors. And I 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:47.800 don't know what's going to happen Sunday, but my guess 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.320 is that it is possible. They don't know what's going 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:56.400 to happen Sunday because Jamie Hayter is injured and that's 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.199 why she was replaced, or actually she wasn't replaced. They 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:00.679 were going to do a six person I think it 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.400 was last Wednesday, and they took her out of the match, 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.080 and they took Soray out of the match because Jamie 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:09.720 was injured, but they still shot the angle where Tony 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:13.520 Storm challenged her for the match at the pay per view. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:18.040 And you know, Jamie was on TV last night and 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.200 she did say I am hurt, but one way or 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.119 the other, I'm going to be there Sunday and I 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:29.280 am going to defend the title. But mild spoiler here 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.640 on the Rampage taping she was attacked and beaten up 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:41.399 and an injured in storyline, So I guess Tony Tony Storm, 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:46.200 Tony Khan who is not Tony Storm. Tony Kahn did 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:50.040 a conference call today and he was asked like, what's 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:54.200 going on with Jamie Hater and he was non committal, 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:59.200 So essentially putting all of this together, my presumption is 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.560 that she's hurt and we're gonna like no day of 0:19:03.720 --> 0:19:05.520 maybe if she's gonna be able to do the match 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.919 or not. That's what I think is going on. So 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:11.280 we shall see about that one. And then we've got 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:16.120 the Blackpool Combat Club with Danielson, Moxley, Claudio and Wheeler 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.840 versus Omega, The Jackson's, the Young Bucks and Hangman Page 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.200 in anarchy in the arena. We can all cross our fingers. 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.639 Nobody gets hurt in that one. Jade Cargill and Taya 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.800 for the TBS title. We have Adam Cole and Chris 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:39.680 Jericho in an unsanctioned match with Sabu backing up Adam Cole, 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.320 which I guess they just got back from the Jericho 0:19:43.400 --> 0:19:47.480 cruise and Sabu was on the Jericho cruise, And so 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.200 my presumption is that Jericho came up with his idea, like, hey, 0:19:51.680 --> 0:19:55.600 it's a great idea. Let's get Saboo out there, who 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.679 got a huge reaction last night. And you know, he 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.639 had some serious health issue not that long ago. I 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:03.280 think it was like in the within the last couple 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.680 of months. But he looked good. You know, he didn't 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:10.640 he didn't like do any spots other than throwing a chair, 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.439 but you know, he looked in good shape, and he 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.720 walked to the ring just fine and got in there 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:18.280 and did all of his stuff. So you know, hopefully 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:21.159 everything works out there great and uh, and then of 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:25.840 course we've got Ethan Page and the Guns against what 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:28.520 is now and I guess this is also a spoiler, 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:30.480 but not really because the injury angle was last week. 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.440 Isaiah Cassidy is not in the match. He actually will 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.720 be taken out of the match. And it is Jeff 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:41.879 and Matt Hardy and Hook against the Guns and Ethan Page. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:46.280 Will he be okay enough to stand in the corner 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.080 and make sounds like he did on the top of. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.000 The Oh, I presume he's gonna be making a lot 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:57.679 of sounds. What I need to No, absolutely positively not. 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.600 I'll quitm near me, got to find it. I don't 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:06.240 even know if Dom's here today, but I know he's listening. Okay, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.320 what else do we have? We've gone over all of 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:11.919 the updates for all of the matches. Here Shawn Michael's 0:21:11.920 --> 0:21:14.800 on a media call. Let's see what he said that 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:19.399 was interesting. He was asked about Blair Davenport, and you know, 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:21.520 I don't think it's beyond the realm of possibility that 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:25.920 she is the mystery attacker of all of these Yes, well, 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:31.600 they said Blair Davenport. Let's see what else he said? 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:35.040 There were plans for India's champion before she got injured 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:39.359 and drafted. He did note that he knew most of 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.600 the people that were being drafted, but not all of them, 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:46.760 and he noted that fifteen people being called up required 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:51.680 an adjustment, but he felt comfortable with it. He felt 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:53.439 it was only a matter of time before eilid Down 0:21:53.480 --> 0:21:56.159 and Alba Faire returned to defend the NXT tag team titles. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.560 I think that that's largely up in the airs to 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.600 what's going on, because you know, the SmackDown Women's titles 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.680 or the Raw whatever, the WWE women's titles, Ryan SmackDown. 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:10.359 You know they're being decided on Monday, but you know 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.000 we've got the other take team champions on the other show. 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:17.800 So I don't know what's going on. And nothing on 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.439 the status of NXT Europe. He did say, and I 0:22:21.520 --> 0:22:24.399 know this sounds hard to believe, but I actually believe 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.600 Shawn Michaels. He says, to the best of his knowledge, 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:30.680 NXT will not be going head to head with aw 0:22:30.880 --> 0:22:34.320 pay per views again, but he said those decisions are 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:38.400 not made by him. He said they timed Battleground head 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:40.200 to head. I don't even if it's head to head. 0:22:40.200 --> 0:22:41.439 It might be the afternoon. I don't even know what 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:44.160 time it is, but he said it was take advantage 0:22:44.160 --> 0:22:46.480 of the holiday weekend and also because Night of Champions 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:51.639 was the day before. So I do believe that he 0:22:51.680 --> 0:22:55.359 doesn't know. I believe he's not the guy making these decisions. 0:22:56.119 --> 0:23:00.520 He's just booking the show. Though I believe they're never 0:23:00.560 --> 0:23:02.280 going to go ahead to ed with an AWA of 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:02.840 course not. 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:07.840 Yeah, come on, even though changed a little bit when 0:23:07.880 --> 0:23:10.919 it comes to holidays. You know, anytime you have to, 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:14.399 you know, square up with NXT. This isn't going to 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.639 be you know, the last time that happens. 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:20.560 Then an XT Everyone's favorite show. Five hundred and seventy 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:24.399 eight thousand viewers and a point sixteen in eighteen to 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:29.880 forty nine. So that's the update on that. And when 0:23:29.880 --> 0:23:33.240 we come back, we will review this aw Dynamite show. 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:35.960 So buckle up, everybody back in the moment. Observer Live 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:05.480 like in the show. Bryan Elverz here Wrestling Observer Live. 0:24:05.960 --> 0:24:11.120 Mike Simber VB also of Wrestlingobserver dot Com, well side 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:18.240 for the Dynamite Report, Djuke Blokes watch the show, Okay, cool? 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:22.159 I mean I did that was a rhetorical question. 0:24:22.600 --> 0:24:26.719 Orge Cassie call Fletcher for the International Title fifteen sixteen minutes. 0:24:28.080 --> 0:24:31.199 This match was great, although you know what it was. 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:35.439 I mean, this was not you know, Orange sold is 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.920 hand and everything like that. But this was a lot 0:24:39.000 --> 0:24:41.520 less of a story match and more about let's see 0:24:41.560 --> 0:24:44.679 how many big, crazy moves we can do in sixteen minutes. 0:24:45.200 --> 0:24:48.080 So if you're a fan of moves and you know 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:50.040 a match where you can see like eight tombstones in 0:24:50.080 --> 0:24:52.639 the same match, this was a match for you fans, 0:24:52.680 --> 0:24:54.840 what nuts for it. And this was a tough crowd. 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.480