WEBVTT - Monday Night Raw/Elimination Chamber Preview/Smackdown Ratings 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:11.560 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network, 0:00:12.360 --> 0:00:16.280 live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.520 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Vive with your hosts 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:25.120 Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper vv Ready are you ready? 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:30.440 Let's get it all? How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.080 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We're here every day Monday 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.640 through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, sixth Eastern. 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:42.120 Well Tuesday here in this program. You know what that means. 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:47.320 Last night was Monday Night Raw, which was in fact 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:52.120 the fallout for the Royal Rumble, if you guys know 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.560 this or not. But in three weeks w w E 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:58.880 is in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. For yes, the 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:04.200 Elimination Chamber in Saudi Arabia, and we're going to tell 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:08.240 you what they have set up so far, including an 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:14.160 elimination Chamber match that involves both Bobby Lashley and Brock Lesner. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.720 What does not involve is Shane McMahon because plans have 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.760 changed again. And yes, we will tell you what some 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:26.280 of those plans were and what they may still be 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.360 or may not still be, so a lot of things change. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:32.360 We talked about a little bit yesterday, the booking of 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:36.520 the Men's Rumble, the booking of the Women's Rumble, the 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.160 number of people that have been fired that ended up 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.120 being called to please show up at the Rumble, including 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.760 Naya Jack's who and no uncertain terms told them to 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.200 I can't say here on the radio what she told 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.920 them to do, but she did. We'll tell you about that. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.040 We've got the SmackDown ratings for the go home show, 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:59.559 we got the a W Rampage ratings, a full recap 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.160 of Monday Night Raw, and plenty more lots to get 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.000 into here today. If you would like to text us, 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:08.079 the text message line four to five seven eight zero 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.080 seven five six six. That is four to seven eight 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.480 zero seven five six. Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com 0:02:15.600 --> 0:02:19.800 is the email at Brian Alvarez is the Twitter handle 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.040 if you'd like to go there and uh and join 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.040 my timeline and who wouldn't. So that's gonna be the 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:27.800 line up for today. Mike simper Viv joins us after 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:32.280 the break. Lots of news to get into and we'll 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:44.360 be back with more and momently, shall we just start 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:46.400 with raw? Get it over with a lot of news 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:50.480 coming out of this raw show. Let's go real fast, alright. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.120 So it opened up with Bobby Lashly and m v 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.720 P in the ring doing a promo, and out came 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.840 brock Lesner and he was in his gear and he said, listen, 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.799 you can't be happy about how you won last night. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:07.000 I mean Roman Reigns, Paul Hayman, everybody interfeared. But don't worry, 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.520 he said, I will not be choosing you as my 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:13.720 opponent at WrestleMania. I will be choosing Roman Reigns, but 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.920 it will be a title versus title match because I 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:19.160 want you in the ring tonight. And of course m 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.800 VP would not allow this, and so Lessner started the 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:27.000 fans doing a chance which they bleeped out, and they 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:31.600 announced that Lessner is going to be in the elimination 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.640 Chamber match in Saudi Arabia, which means literally, there's only 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:40.360 two options here. One Lessner walks out of the chamber 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:46.200 as the champion, or two Lessner gets beaten in the chamber. 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:49.880 I'll talk about this in a minute, because there's a 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.800 lot to talk about there. Rea Ripley beat Nikki ash 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.760 in eight minutes, four minutes of which it was during 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.520 the commercial hit her with the riptide pinder clean in 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.080 the middle. You know, I normally like if I or 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:01.800 any other company and say, well, it's ind of that feud, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:03.840 but I'm sure they'll keep wrestling for like, you know, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.960 all the way to wrestle me. We had the Alpha 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:11.119 Academy Academic Challenge. Uh, there was a scooter race and 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:15.560 last week they were teasing that Randy Orton was gonna 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.720 have to get on a scooter and Otis as well. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.480 But Otis did not get on the scooter. But they 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.000 literally they did this for like an hour on and 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.280 aftering breaks, and then right when Riddle was going to 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.240 cross the finish line, Otis just ran him over and 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.480 killed him. And then Chad Gable cross the finish line. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.520 That was a payoff to this one. Last week's was awesome. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.400 This one sucked. And on top of that, no Randy 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.479 Orton on the show. And I do not know what 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.599 is going on with Randy Orton, but I was told 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.719 that he's gonna be gone for a little while. I 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.040 don't know why. I don't nobody he'll be back. They're 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:53.839 continuing on as if you know they'll be getting a 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.680 championship match maybe the chamber. So he might have like 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.479 a minor injury. I don't know, but he wasn't on 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.400 the show. And uh, of course when they say he 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:03.880 won't be back for a little while, he could be 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.279 back Monday. But that's what I was told. We had 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.080 the first of many Alexa Bliss segments. She's been given 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:16.200 a replica Lily. It uh sucks. MMS beat Dominic Mysterio 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.880 in two minutes. If you here they're gonna do Dominic 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.479 Mysterial versus Miss. You think what a styles clash, Well, 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.880 it wasn't because they didn't even do a match. MS 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.200 ran around and then there was distraction. He pretended like 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.279 he tripped the refugected ray. This idiot Dominic has distracted 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.520 and pinned with a skull crushing finale. This did nobody 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:41.440 any favors Ko show with seth Rawlins. Seth Rawlins reveals 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.200 I'm in the chamber. Kevin Owens says, what I have 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.680 to qualify to get in the chamber, So says, well, 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.679 I beat Roman Reragins last night. I don't have to qualify. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.600 Kevin says, why don't you go to the back and 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:53.440 you tell them that if they don't just put me 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:57.599 in the chamber, you are going to walk. You're just 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.760 gonna refuse to to be in the chamber. Rollins like, ah, 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.120 he's not damn with this idea. But it's too late 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:08.960 because outcomes Kevin Owens opponent, Austin Theory. Austin Theory beat 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.480 Kevin Owens. I would go as fast as they clean. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:18.240 He kicked the ropes into his genitalia and then hit 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.520 his finish and pinned him. Austin Theory is now in 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.880 the chamber, replacing Shane McMahon. Tell you more about that 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:31.760 in a minute. Angelo Dawkins and Dolves Ziggler four minutes. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.880 It was fine Angelo Dawkins, hometown guy. He won, but 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.560 I mean nothing really to write home about. Elimination Chamber 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.919 qualifying match. Riddle and Otis wrestling was good. It was 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.919 and I swear and I love both guys. The longest 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.599 seven minute and twenty six second match I've ever seen 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:54.200 in my lifetime. Odas just beat this guy for seven 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.200 minutes and twenty five of the seven minute and twenty 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:01.000 six segments or seconds just went for ever and then 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.320 Riddle did it come back floating, bro pinned him. That 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:08.640 was a match. Riddle is in the elimination chamber. Bianca 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:13.280 bell Air defeated Carmela five minutes and thirty two seconds. 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:17.440 Felt like he went five hours, stalling, stalling, stalling, stalling. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:23.160 Match finally starts, Carmela gets the heat chinlock chinlock, chinlock, chinlock, chinlock. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.160 Then they botched the spot and then Bianca just grabs 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:29.120 her and hit her with her finishing pinzer. Not good. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.480 She wasn't looking good at this point. But then it 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.120 all turned around because we had aj Styles and Ray mystereo. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.960 They went twelve minutes, very very good match, two professionals. 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:44.840 The fans got into it. Everything looked good. AJ Styles 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:46.960 beat him with the Styles clash, so now he's in 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:49.000 the chamber. This is the best thing on the show. 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.120 By Miles and Miles and Miles and Miles, and then 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.360 the main event yesterday, I said, if you look at 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:01.200 the storyline here, there is one person the Ronda Rousey 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.760 shouldn't want to face at WrestleMania after winning the Rumble. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:10.000 It's Becky because last year or they did the three 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:15.040 way at WrestleMania and Becky kind of sort of pined Ronda. 0:08:15.200 --> 0:08:17.040 She was supposed to, but she actually did because Runda 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.120 got her shoulder up. It was an accident, she didn't 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:20.520 mean to get it up and just say they screwed 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:24.120 up the finish and then run to left. And so, 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:27.240 knowing all of this, Ronn It should come back and say, 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.520 bro I never got pinned, I never lost my title. 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.280 I'm gonna beat you and I'm gonna win my belt back. 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.120 But instead of Ronnie gets in the ring and she explains, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.080 I am the main event over Becky Lynch. Becky is 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.240 my undercard, so I'm not gonna dignify her with a 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.920 big match at WrestleMania. I was like what, But then 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.800 she doesn't even challenge Charlotte. The Becky comes out, I mean, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.920 she's dressed like a fukiguan death and this segment was 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.640 death and she's in there and she's like doing all 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.320 the ha ha. Rhonda is supposed to be a baby face, 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:07.080 but she looks like she just hates life and doesn't 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.679 want to be there. This segment was a I mean, 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.400 when this segment was over, I didn't want to see 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.640 this match. I certainly don't want to see run in Charlotte, Like, 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.480 I don't know what's up with Rhonda, but bro she's 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.480 out there acting all Healis, but the fans are like 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.760 cheering her. They cheered the night before, they cheer when 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.120 she won, they cheered when she came out here. But 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.680 she hates them, and I was just like whatever, And 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.640 then she lays out Lynch and then she says, I'll 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:34.520 make my decision Friday, even though they promised you'd make 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.720 the decision on this show. So I thought this segment 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.199 was a total swing and a miss, but I rushed 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:41.760 to the raw pork because there's a lot to say here. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:48.559 Rhonda is likely and anything can change. She is going 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.640 to challenge Charlotte. It's gonna be run in Charlotte this year, 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.400 and it's going to be uh, Rhonda and Becky next year. 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.800 That's the plan for the men. It is going to 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:04.000 be Rhonda Rousey sorry, Roman reigns and Brock Lessner. That's 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.120 the Wrestlemanian main event. So what they want to do 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.520 is they wanna keep Romans strong and they want to 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:16.520 keep Brock strong. Okay, so their brilliant idea. The rumble was, well, 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:19.240 you know We're gonna have Roman looks strong by beating 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.839 up Seth with a chair, but we don't want to 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:25.200 hurt Seth, so we'll do a d Q and then 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.440 Roman's gonna beat him with a chair, which, by the way, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.199 Seth didn't even sell the next so like nobody knows 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:34.800 what they're doing here. So the the Chamber match Brock lessner. 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:38.240 I mean, he either wins or he gets beaten again 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.040 in their plan to keep him strong going into the 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.880 match with the Roman rings. I was told multiple times 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:46.400 and that's w w E. So this means nothing. But 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:49.880 I was told multiple times. It is not title versus title, 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:54.880 Roman versus Brock, even though Roman and Brock have done 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.720 storylines talking about how they wanted to be a title versus. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.800 They're telling you what they want, but apparently that's not 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:05.280 the plan. So it either is the plan now or 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.079 Brock is gonna get beaten in the Elimination Chamber. It's 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.080 part of the plan to keep him strong going up 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.280 against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania. This is one of those 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.680 things where they got all these ideas about what they want, 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.920 but like they have no idea, Like if I want something, 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.280 you know what I'm saying, Mike, if I want a ribby, 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.400 do you know what I do? Well, I go to 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.160 I go to the store and I get a ribby. Okay, 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:30.800 these guys want to push young talent. I any times 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.280 I've heard Days say this. They know they need young talent. 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.280 They want to push young talent. Well that's all fine 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:38.040 and good, but they have no clue how you know 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:40.400 you push a young talent, You push them and they 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:43.080 don't lose. These idiots, oh well, you know, we'll give 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.040 you know, Austin theory win, but then you had to 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:48.079 beat him in the chamber. They don't know what they're doing. 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:53.920 So the other thing is, yes, I can confirm that 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:58.880 as of a couple of days ago, their plan, their 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:05.200 plan for Bobby Lashly the wrestle media was Shane McMahon. Okay, 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:11.600 I think that's changed, but that absolutely one was their plan. 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.800 We'll talk more about this train wreck after the break 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:34.640 Observer Live leave check. I've almost done, Mike, so listen Shane. 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.120 Multiple people told me this that Shane and Bobby Lashley 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:42.120 was discussed. I think after whatever happened at the Royal 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:46.000 Rumble or whatever happened yesterday, I think that and I 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.600 know also because Dave mentioned this that it was then 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:53.000 going to be Shane McMahon versus seth Rawlins at WrestleMania, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.360 but then, uh, you know, Shane wasn't email on the 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.920 show at all, so I don't even know if she's 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.920 gonna be at wrestle Media. Shane Shane did in fact 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.760 have heat Sunday, because Shane showed up and tried to 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.319 run the show for the Men's Rumble and rubbed a 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:07.959 lot of people the wrong way and had blood of 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.559 heat as a result. And I don't know if that's 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:12.840 the reason that that things changed or or what the 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.120 situation is. And I like to add, by the way that, um, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:17.600 I don't know if you're aware of this or not, 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.719 but I wrote an article for Sports Illustrated. It's on 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.360 my Twitter at Bryan Alvarez, and I mentioned the Men's 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:29.640 Royal Rumble was boring, and uh, I saw some bloke 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.920 on my timeline go oh. This article was such that 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.480 it left me actually enjoying the show more than I had. Like, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:38.800 you know, I'm like, I'm such a jerk for saying 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.840 the Men's Rumble was boring. Well, yeah, we pleased to 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.160 know that I'm not the only one with the Men's 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.000 Rumble was boring. They're well aware that the Men's rumble 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:50.000 was boring, and uh there plan is to make sure 0:13:50.080 --> 0:13:53.280 next year it's not boring. Okay, yeah, you know what, 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:56.000 that's easy. I was boring this year, but next year 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.600 we'll make sure it's not born. How are you gonna 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.320 do that same way you decided to push Young Island 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:06.480 like Cora Jade. Huh. I hear so many things. It's so, oh, well, 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.000 we know we gotta do this. Oh, we know, we 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.000 gotta do that. Oh we know we got we'll do it. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.760 What are you waiting for? I'm sick of hearing they 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.360 know what they need to do because they never actually 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:18.240 do it. A go ahead, Mike, I need to take 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.960 a break. Oh no, I'm not gonna let you do 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.960 that quite yet, because I'm gonna bait you in by 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.480 saying I don't even start yet. You were the one 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.840 that complained on Wrestling Observer Radio last night that Austin 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.080 Theory got himself a clean win over Kevin Owens Brian Alvarez. 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:36.320 How do you explain yourself, bro, I wasn't complaining that 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.080 you gotta clean win over I was baffled that of 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.960 the two of them, Kevin Owens wasn't in the chamber. Okay, 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.120 because you know what they're gonna do with Austin Theory 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.600 in the chamber. They're gonna beat him. I even said 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.080 it during the rest. And they needed they need somebody 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.480 they can beat in the chamber because it's elimination chamber. 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:58.400 Raise your hand if you think Austin Theories winning that chamber. Oh, nobody, okay, 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.720 because he's not gonna welld on, hold on, hold on. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.480 Brock Lesner can come out of the chamber without the 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.000 title because he doesn't have to get beat. He can 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.520 murder everybody, and they could do something stupid. They could 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:17.120 do something with the with the USO's and with Roman 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:21.640 Reigns and with somebody, some hired hand by Paul Aman. Look, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.200 it's not impossible that happens because Austin Theory gets the victory. 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.479 I mean, you already have your two wrestleman numine events 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:34.360 Brock and Roman Reigns supersedes everything. Then you throw in 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.400 Ronda against Charlotte. If you put the title on Austin Theory. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.520 I'm not saying they're going to do that, but like 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.480 it's within the realm of possibility. There's a percentage chance 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.520 you could do that and not miss anything, because otherwise, 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:49.840 what do you do? You put the title back on 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.920 Bobby Lashly. I mean to me, I put the title 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.880 on Brock and I have a title versus title match. 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.240 But they're obviously not going to do that, at least 0:15:56.360 --> 0:16:01.240 that's not their plan. So if you do at you 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.760 could actually have all some theory come out of this thing. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.480 Is it the worst idea in the world? No? Is 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.720 it the best idea in the world. No, But you 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:15.320 could actually do that, you know. I I don't know 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:16.720 if you guys are aware of this or not, but 0:16:19.560 --> 0:16:22.680 there's this other promotion called a w heard of it? 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:27.560 You heard of it? Yeah? You know? Uh, they got 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.800 these guys are called the Four Pillars, the four Young Pillars. 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.680 You know these guys. It was like, you know, there's 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:37.960 the Jungle Boy, and there's m JF. Yeah, and there's 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.960 a Semivara yeah and Darby Allen you know those guys, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:49.600 Yeah heard them? Yeah? Stars, Oh there's stars now for sure, yeah, 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.280 young fact. You know what they even got like a 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:54.840 back hold on pillars, like you know, hold on They're 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.840 all under thirty. Yeah, you know, m JF is twenty 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.720 five and like he legitimately is the biggest quarter hour 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.840 ratings movie that they have. So anyway, you know they 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.760 all have in common. What's that, Well, they have this 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:10.080 other thing I don't know if you're aware of. It's 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.760 called pro fight dB dot com. And go up there 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:17.400 and check everyone's win loss records. Yeah, you should probably 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.720 go there and check the win loss records of of 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.800 all these guys. Bet you're pretty good. Yeah. You know 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.080 It's funny is they never lose, and when they do lose, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.199 it's very very very rarely. I bet you it's for 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.399 a reason too, and they win again, and you know 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:36.240 there's uh because you know, you know it's what's funny 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:38.960 is it's actually not hard unless you make it hard. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.080 And I've never I have never in my life. I'm 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.040 not making this up. I have never seen a company 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.320 that makes it hard more than w w E never. 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:54.679 I have never seen one ever makes it so difficult 0:17:54.720 --> 0:18:00.640 to do anything like. I don't know, bro, Look, man, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.600 I gotta I got a book written by written by 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.399 Scott Teal and uh, forget what else it is, but 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.960 this Amarillo book with wrestling results from nineteen eleven and 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:16.440 nineteen sixty historical stuff, newspaper clippings, all this stuff. Guy 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.520 talks about bringing his four pillars out not even lying 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.560 to you, is four young stars that he's going to 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.919 build a proportion around. I'm not even lying to you 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.280 about this. This is pro wrestling. It's very simple. It's 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.560 very easy when you actually plan things out and you 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.919 think about things, and you give everyone a value, and 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:37.240 everyone's got pros and cons and people they can't beat 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:40.719 and people they can beat, and just I mean, forget 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.800 forgetting long to forge by that, I'll make it easier 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:49.360 for you. Don't beat him, but but you can hold on. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.359 You can beat him, but it's got to mean something. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.880 Beatings it doesn't look here. You're not wrong, but I'm 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.280 gonna tell you why you're wrong. Okay. In the case 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:03.040 of w W each you're right. Okay. If you have 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:07.919 anything resembling a clue, you can beat someone, and you 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.840 can you can make it work. Okay. The problem is 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.159 they don't have a clue, Okay, So don't complicate it. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.240 Just don't beat them. You don't know how to beat them, 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.639 So don't beat them. Because I'm not I had to 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:24.680 break k fame everybody, but it's fake. Oh you don't 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.760 have to beat anybody, don't want to, but these guys, 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.080 and you know it's funny too, is is is there 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:34.000 are two theories. There's the first theory, which is don't 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:37.919 beat them, and then there's the other theory, which is, well, 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.520 we can beat them. Well we'll make sure they're in 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.880 the ring with somebody so they get the rub as 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.080 they lose. Okay, well, you know what, we've seen one 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:47.879 way of doing it for the last twenty years and 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:50.040 they ain't got no stars. And then you've got the 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:51.960 other way of doing it, and they built four stars 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.520 in two years. Okay, So it kind of tells me 0:19:54.560 --> 0:19:58.080 that whatever your plan is to get over these young stars, 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:03.360 it ain't working. But even more than that, it's likely 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:08.160 not only four stars. Then it's like you look at 0:20:08.320 --> 0:20:13.679 like the next surrounding tier Britt Baker, yeah, check checker 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.400 win loss. You know, you look at people who came 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.560 from the outside that WW didn't put any value on, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.320 and you look at their records like Serena Deep and 0:20:23.440 --> 0:20:26.399 thunder Rosa, and you look at how they're treated and 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:31.240 you just again it's a W is not perfect, certainly 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.240 not perfect. They do a lot of things that make 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:35.639 me want to slam my head against the wall, but 0:20:36.160 --> 0:20:38.760 nothing like w w E. I mean, because at least 0:20:38.760 --> 0:20:42.160 a e W is still in the realm of professional 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:46.200 wrestling and things being booked and planned like every other 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:50.199 wrestling promotion on the planet with the exception of w 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.800 w E. And I don't know how long you want 0:20:52.840 --> 0:20:54.919 to continue on and what talking points you want to 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:58.560 take away from raw numbers. You know, it's moving numbers 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.320 for very w whether you whether you like her matches 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:06.720 or not, Jade Cardial, maybe her win loss record on 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:10.320 don't you compare her win loss record to uh, Cora Jade? 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:14.560 Tell me who's moving numbers and who's not? Yeah, you know, 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.800 Daniel Garcia, Uh you know, is a good example of 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.840 somebody who can lose matches if you're a young guy, 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.520 if they're to the right people. And this is where 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.320 this is where it bumps up a little bit against 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.440 what Brian said. But unfortunately, because it's w w E. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.160 He's right, you can't oversimple of you know, you need 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.919 to oversimplify these things. You need to make it as 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.800 easy as possible. And you know, if you want to 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.119 throw anything to austin theory now going on to go 0:21:41.160 --> 0:21:44.200 ahead and win, you know, look strong these next couple 0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:46.320 of weeks. You got a couple of wings against other 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:50.639 people and do it cleanly. You might have something with 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:53.320 him coming out of the chamber with the title. Again. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.240 It may not be the best idea in the world, 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.800 but you know, for what we're talking about in this situation, 0:21:58.960 --> 0:22:00.920 you know it fits. Now. I am gonna put one 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.680 positive on too raw even though you keep the segment 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:07.880 and it wasn't like last week's. We must celebrate Chad 0:22:07.920 --> 0:22:11.320 Gable and Otis both together in their quicksilver outfits. That 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.000 Chad Gable said that we're given to him by fellow 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.680 Olympians speed skaters who helped him train for this whole deal. 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.399 And I don't know what Randy weren't being out, you know, 0:22:20.480 --> 0:22:23.280 had to do with any of this, probably didn't affect 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:27.159 anything whatsoever, considering the whole concept kind of sucked. And 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:29.959 then you know, led to the ending. But Otis is 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.520 still not shakes and waits Otis, But at least they're 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:35.520 having him come out of the show a little bit 0:22:35.560 --> 0:22:38.600 and be somewhat of a goofball and try to regain 0:22:38.680 --> 0:22:43.520 some of his charisma. And Chad Gable is fantastic. Barn On, 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:45.520 he has been great, and he has been an m 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.639 v P on that show. And they'll probably kill him 0:22:48.680 --> 0:22:53.280 death sometimes soon. What he's he's scooting around on a scooter. 0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:57.240 He's he's And and let's talk about young austin theory. 0:22:57.280 --> 0:22:59.800 You know those segments with Vince McMahon. It wins a 0:22:59.840 --> 0:23:01.680 man to be a cheating it's gonna get eliminated in 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.719