WEBVTT - Dynamite Recap/John Cena Update 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.920 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready, 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:15.920 let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.640 Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.079 day Monday through Friday, noo Pacific, three Stern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:28.159 sixth Eastern. It's Thursday on this show. And you know 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:30.319 what that means. We've got a w dynamites talked about 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:32.360 from last night. Lots of stuff happening on the show. 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.599 We had a wild cards we had to build for 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.640 next weekend's Memorial Day weekend pay per view, which I 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:46.640 will be at live and uh and more, Sasha Banks, 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:52.280 Naomi Ratings. Yes, a lot to get into here today 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:55.720 and we will be joined in the next segment of 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:01.400 this show by Mike semperviv He is making his triumphant 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.480 return here today. I can tell you that land Storm 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:08.920 also feeling better. Still not on, but best wishes to 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:14.959 everybody in the Empire that has been recently afflicted. Clear 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.240 myself actually, but I didn't test positive. I was just 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:19.160 I don't know what I had, but I was sick. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:21.880 But Anyway, we're all back in the saddle. It's looking 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:25.080 like so Michael joined us after the break and uh 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.840 as note, we'll talk about everything we know. The latest 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.240 on Sasha Naomi, which is not a lot. It's the 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.440 same story from Monday, which kind of is a story 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:36.080 in and of itself. Actually, we've got an update on 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.800 Rick Flair or Tony Storm talks about the angle where 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.200 she had a pie thrown on her face. I'm sure 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.240 you can figure out where this is going. We have 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:50.280 n XT ratings from Tuesday night, update on John Cena, 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.720 and yes, we'll be talking about the a w DNA 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.760 might show from last night. Maki Ito was a joker? 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:05.000 What's she ever? And Johnny Elite who was John Morrison 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.720 not Johnny Gargano And we can tell you about that 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.480 as well. So a lot to get into your on 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.920 the show today. If you want Texas four to five 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.760 seven eight zero seven five six six, that is four 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.959 to five seven eight zero seven five six six. Brian 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.880 at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Elberts on Twitter 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:48.880 back in a moment, Observer Live now, Yeah, bregging the show. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:55.320 Brian elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Separate Baby, 0:02:55.960 --> 0:03:00.040 also of Wrestling Observer dot Com is here today. I 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.359 can't believe you're here, Mike. I mean for a lot 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:07.239 of reasons, but there you are. I had the wrong 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.239 channel on the whole time. You're probably talk gonna be 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.440 during the break, and I was ignoring you. Huh. No, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.040 I actually didn't say a word because I know how 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.800 you are during the break, which is you look away 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.760 the entire time and pretend nobody else exists. Now, I'm 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:22.760 actually very busy, and uh, dude, I can't believe he 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.680 came back today. Why did you even bother? You should 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.280 just taking the whole week off, Dude. I thought about 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.440 it after I heard you nail yourself to the cross 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.320 talking about Naomi and Sasha, between these Sasha fans and 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.760 these maki Eto fans. I just can't. I can't here. 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.160 He goes here, you go here, we go go ahead. No, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.880 I wonder know how you're doing. No you don't, Yeah, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.320 I do. That's why I'm asking you. If I didn't care, 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.600 I just move on. Are you better today? I'm much 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.080 better today, Actually actually feel like a human being again. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.560 Felt like having the feet, like having the flu, except 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.000 I've never had a temperature the entire time, just the 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.560 body aches, the chills, and the cough, which I know 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.680 bore itself out last week on the show. That just continued. 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:07.600 It felt like I was getting a little bit better. 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:12.400 And then Friday came and Jessica tested positive and I 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:15.320 tested positive, and I thought about, you know what, I 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.960 shouldn't even test myself because I'm going to go to 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:19.719 d C. I'm gonna see New Japan. I'm going to 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:26.520 see Tona Hashi. I'm going to see my champion, my champion, still, 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.520 my champion, filthy Tom Lawler defend. Well he wasn't depending 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:34.120 on not the champion. Right now, I have enough of 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.599 Markeiton Sash. I don't need you and Tom on top 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:41.279 everything else. But I did test myself and decided, no, 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.839 I can't go anywhere. So I'm happy I didn't because 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:48.160 how I felt I would have infected the entire d 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.400 m V because I felt rotten, and it just got worse. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.240 And so finally I've been able to shake a little 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.440 of it off. It feels just, you know, me, the 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.400 breathing is not there, you know, just you know, shallow 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.440 breathing a little bit. Unfortunately, I can actually feel that 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.880 so hopefully that goes away as to get out and 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:08.120 walk more and you know, feel better. But yeah, it sucks. 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:10.039 And for anybody that had to go with the worst 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.039 than me, which is a lot of people out there. Boy, 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.760 do I have my sympathies for you, because this little 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.919 bit was bad en off. You know it's funny about this. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.640 I guess it's not funny, but you know it's weird 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:24.560 about this whole COVID thing is, Uh, my both of 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:29.320 my daughters got COVID in uh it is early January 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.960 or something like that. I'm pretty sure my wife too, 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.359 but we didn't get a positive test on her, but 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.320 we did on the kids. And uh and man, Paisley 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:39.120 got a runny nose for like a day and then 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.799 she was fine. And uh, Holliday was was somewhat sick 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:45.600 for a week, but she really wasn't that sick. And 0:05:45.640 --> 0:05:48.440 like you know, when Paisley gets sick, bro, she gets sick. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.400 And she got the least six she's ever been in 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.960 her life when she had COVID. And so this last 0:05:55.040 --> 0:06:02.400 week or two, I know six people rather close to 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:08.520 me that all got COVID this week, okay you lance, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.880 and then four different people that I know through jiu 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.760 jitsu all got COVID this week. You and Lance, it 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.560 was like he got hit by a truck. And uh, 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:23.520 the four people I know here in Seattle nothing nothing. 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.120 In fact, one of them was like he didn't even 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:31.279 know he had it, and for some reason, he goes 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.680 it was weird, like I just thought I should test 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.760 myself today. But he had no symptoms or anything. He 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.200 just had this feeling like I should test myself. And 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.480 he tests himself and he was positive. And he couldn't 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.040 believe it because he didn't even have the running knows nothing. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:46.839 And they all went through it like it was it 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:51.440 was nothing. But meanwhile, you and Lance, I mean holy 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:55.679 smokes or Lance was like Lance. One things that Lance 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.760 does is he sents me texts and uh, it's either 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.479 one or the other. It's either calling me an absolute 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.640 idiot because is something I said on an observer radio show, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.680 or it's his step count. This this is our communication. 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:12.560 You know he's got he's always doing all this walking 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.440 and man, he sent me to step cat for the 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.600 last couple of days. It was like he had three 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.360 and forty steps a couple of days ago, and uh, 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.480 it just can do nothing, just sitting around and and 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:28.240 just he's feeling better today. But man, it's no fun, man, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.240 especially for people who are acting. You don't know what 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.200 you're gonna get, is the point I'm making. Oh well absolutely, 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:36.440 And look that was you know during coming back from 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.160 the show Boat in January, where they talked and joked 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.040 about the show Boat strain because it seemed like so 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.760 many people, you know, that we ken't got it at 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.240 a time where again things were up across the country 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.559 the way it is now. It's just and I didn't 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.120 catch at least I don't think I did. But this 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.000 time around I did, you know, even with the double 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.520 vacs and the booster, I still ended up catching it. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.160 But talking about kids being resilient, avery both times, you 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:03.120 know he's vaccinated, so that absolutely, I'm sure helps matters. 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.760 But you know, he was sick for one day both 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:10.200 times and then completely fine. So good on him, because again, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.160 thank God for kids, they are resilient. All right, we're 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.840 gonna talk. I'll talk a little bit about Sasha and 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.960 and Naomi right now. Do you have to well this, 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:20.480 I just have a point that I want to make 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:26.640 here because these these Sasha fans and Uh, it's different 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.160 kind of fandom with Machito, but the Sasha fans, they're 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:33.679 both hardheaded. You know. We Dave and I talked about 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:38.120 this on Observer Radio last night, and we pointed out that, like, 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.559 on the grand scale of things to be upset about, 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.880 booking wise, like you're one half of the Tag Team 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.960 champions and you and your partner are gonna win a 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.760 big Number one Contenders match. Your partner is on Raw, 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.840 and then both of you are going to be put 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.880 in the singles title program and both of you are 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:58.840 gonna challenge for championships on pay per view against Bianca 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.560 bell Air and Rhonda Causy and in the end you're 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.880 gonna You're gonna lose. But you know, the idea that 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:09.320 this is seen is some horrible, offensive walk out in 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:11.360 the middle of a show. But I mean, people are 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.840 so mad at me and Dave, And if you look 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:15.400 at the thread, I mean, some of the things that 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.720 people are saying in defense of Sasha and and Naomi, 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:22.280 it's it's like it's insane. It's like trying to have 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.320 a rational conversation. Second, I got a point I gotta make, 0:09:25.760 --> 0:09:28.400 and they're like, there has to be more it makes 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:31.079 no sense. There has to be more. We haven't heard 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.800 their side of the story. There has to be more. 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:38.240 This can't possibly be And here we are and it's Thursday, everybody, 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:43.440 and there hasn't been more. There hasn't been more. I 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.520 know it's hard to believe that their side of the 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:53.240 story may in fact be exactly what happened. But I'm 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:57.960 pretty sure that their side of the story is exaxactly 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.160 what happened. And if you're this big a fan and 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:06.959 you can't fathom that your Sasha, she probably did and 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.840 that was her decision. And yet it doesn't mean And 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.840 I had people who were like, you know what, it's 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.480 better they walked out in the middle of the show 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.600 instead of actually doing the match and then walking out. 0:10:19.240 --> 0:10:23.040 And I'm like, so, you're such a hardcore fan of 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:29.000 this person, then you're advocating them for them unprofessionally walking 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.079 out in the middle of a your that is your 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.720 I'm like, I don't get it, dude. They learned from 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:42.000 Bruiser Brody brother that's the big fans of Bruiser Brodie. Um. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.040 This has felt since the time that had happened that 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.880 this is not about the creative per se directly under present, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.920 and there is one side that as of now isn't 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.040 really talking. We do know part of that side who's 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.840 got a contract coming up. We do know part of 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.760 that side has had issues in the past with their 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:08.080 creative and feels very confident in themselves in some kind 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:12.080 of way about how they should be treated. I just 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.920 feel like there's probably more than this than creative, and 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:17.840 everything keeps coming back in the conversation too well. You 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.680 know this is stupid, but it's by w W standards, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.560 it's not that stupid that it just feels as though 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:26.480 and I could be dead wrong about this, and and 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.720 we'll see. I have no real opinion on this until 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:30.880 we find out more from it. This is like that 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.880 Cody Rhodes leaving a w situation. I'm sure there's a 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.960 lot to unpack, and it's gonna have to unpack itself, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.760 and I'm not the person who can do it, and 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.520 I'm not the person who can do it here. But 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:43.680 I won't wait and see what kind of happens here, 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:47.559 because with all these factors at play, including how Sasha 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.959 feels about herself and her character and how she may 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.760 feel as though she could function outside of w w 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:57.840 E Naomi, who they have never given any credit to whatsoever. 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.320 Remember she was the third draft pick on Raw last 0:12:00.360 --> 0:12:02.960 time around, and then she disappeared off TV for months. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:05.760 She had a feud with Sondi de Ville that nobody 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.199 could figure out why it was happening except for something 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.480 that we won't talk about. That it seemed to be 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.640 that's what the angle was. It's like and she's towards 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.240 the end. You know again, maybe this has gotten more 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.680 to do with leveraging contracts and not as much to 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:37.679 do with creative Back in a moment, I was you alive? Yes, 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:43.520 when those contracts were negotiated the last time around, was 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:47.000 Johnny lauraitas the person in charge of that? He was 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.920 not right? That came on, he came on last year. 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:53.360 I don't know interesting, I just I would be interested 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:58.280 to know, uh, if that has any I I know 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:00.920 that like everyone's kind of talking of this contract thing. 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:06.520 But this is like but but Brian, look their independent contractors. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.240 If you look, you can stand. They can stamp their 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:13.680 feet and they can was this professional? No, No, you 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:18.000 can say it's not. Um do they have a reason 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.880 to feel the kind of way that they do. I 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.400 don't know that yet. We don't know that yet. Even 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:30.040 with reputation aside with Sasha, with Naomi, you know, people 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.760 are already saying, well, this isn't was Naomi uh manipulated? 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.200 Was she? This was? I don't know. Let's we'll have 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:40.360 to wait and hear from Naomi, you know, and until 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:44.600 that happens, you know, again, the way the contracts are, 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.320 the way all of this is happening, I think a 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.440 lot of attention is being put on the booking of 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.800 how we're gonna look out there in the ring, which look, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.640 if you want to be like, there have been times, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.960 many many times where somebody has said the booking shouldn't matter, 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.920 but then it actually affects their career trajectory. Now I 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.840 don't think that it's going to happen in this case, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:06.920 but like no one can act like when Shamus ran 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.840 away as a geek from whoever it was, remember that 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.560 when he was king, and then all of a sudden 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:13.880 it was like he should have never done that, and 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.839 it's like this is modern times, w w E. This 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:20.480 is this is actually really affecting him backstage, But for 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:23.840 some people it did, and it's like it is such 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:27.280 a dumb, wacky place that I it is hard for 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:30.800 me to stand firm on a judgment here on any 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:34.160 of this stuff until more of it plays out. Dude, 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:37.520 these these oh, they made the right call because it's 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:43.000 bad booking. I know you guys love Sasha, Okay, I 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.720 know you love her, all right, she has not been 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:49.040 badly booked. In fact, she's been booked better than most 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.880 of the women in w W E Okay, hold on, 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.560 hold on, hold on. Is it fair to say maybe 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.360 that she just doesn't want to work with Russ right, No, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:02.480 that has nothing to do with it. Okay, listen that 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:06.359 the idea here is that your women's tag team champions, 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.160 we're gonna be in contention for the singles championships and 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:13.280 a storyline literally leading to a pay per view where 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:16.000 the story is you are you two are so good 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.640 that you might walk out of this pay per view 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.800 with every women's championship with this guy. That what was 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.560 being That's what was being offered here. Now, granted they 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:28.600 were gonna lose, but dude, you realize it. As tag 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:34.280 team champions, they feuded with Naomi and uh and Shana 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.600 and they lost. To build up to those matches and 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:42.320 they feuded with Rea Ripley and uh and Live Morgan 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.080 and they lost building up those matches, so don't even 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.600 tell me, Oh, well they were gonna look, oh, they 0:15:48.640 --> 0:15:51.760 were gonna lose to Rhonda Rousey and Bianca Millar and 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.480 that's like bad for their career. But doing random jobs 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.800 on TV to Live Morrigan and Shana Basler and what 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:01.840 ever to build up a random tag team match with 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.240 a team by the way, where the gimmick is one 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:08.040 of them is dressed as a superhero and is wasting 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.520 her career. That's literally the storyline they're telling this, you're 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:15.200 telling me is much better for their careers than the 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:17.760 storyline where they're trying to win every woman's belt in 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.680 the company leading to a pay per view where you know, 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.320 there's no chance for not having a good match with 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.320 Bianca and Ronda Rousey and yeah, they're gonna lose in 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.440 the end. But this is not a bad storyline. This 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.720 is not horrible booking. This is not the culmination of 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:38.600 years of horrible booking with Sasha Banks. She was upset 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.760 about this, and uh, I can tell you just this, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:45.480 I mentioned this. Does this seem like a trigger point 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.200 for other things she's had a lot of seems like 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.240 if you now put on your psychologist cap for a minute, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.040 does this seem like that would be a final breaking 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:57.040 straw sort of situation. No, it doesn't seem like that 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.280 at all. Apparently it was. She's had a lot of 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.400 issues over things for a long time. And here's the deal. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:07.000 I talked about this Monday, and of course, you know, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.080 people got mad about it and then they had to 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:14.840 grasp it. Any anyone that said anything positive about as 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:19.000 of today on this show, Okay, I'm sure you could 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:23.760 find a handful of people that are supporting Sasha Banks. 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:25.840 And by the way, still nobody's talking about and hail me, 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.840 it's all all of this all about Sasha. Just let's 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.480 also say something too that's very interesting there there is 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:39.280 there is still almost no support for Sasha among management. 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.280 I can almost say I can't say talked to all 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.119 of management anythre that, but it's the same deal with 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:49.000 man is no support. There's no support for her from management. 0:17:49.280 --> 0:17:52.399 So like there's there's nothing that has come out or 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:57.160 changed or or anything like that. I mean, there's there's actually, 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:01.119 uh some stuff happening where I can just tell you 0:18:01.160 --> 0:18:06.520 management is very upset about this situation, and they didn't 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:14.159 have to storm. They didn't. They don't. And then and again, 0:18:14.359 --> 0:18:19.800 the lack of anybody seemingly saying anything about Naomi, It's like, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.560 is that not to anger other family members? Is that 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:29.680 because somebody? Again that is interesting to me. Whereas the 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.800 response to Sasha from inside w w E it was 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:37.960 anybody surprised by that? Is anybody really surprised by that? 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:40.440 That management would go worry, we don't want to deal 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.520 with Sasha Banks. I mean, you know this person says, 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:46.840 who cares one iota about support for management? Well, would 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:49.080 you ever like to see Sasha Russell in w w 0:18:49.200 --> 0:18:52.520 E again? Because if you would, then you probably should 0:18:52.560 --> 0:18:57.680 be concerned about the management, because managements can decide whether 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.800 she ever comes back or not, or whether she's my 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:03.960 person will follow or whether they freeze the conversades Verano 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.360 wherever she goes. By the way, it's a pretty cool name. 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.000 She does have that going for it. Who cares about 0:19:10.400 --> 0:19:13.840 what management thinks? That's the whole crux of the story. Everybody, 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.320 whether you ever see her on w W again is 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:21.639 gonna be based on what management decides. That's it. And 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.840 she is under contract, and so if she walked out 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.879 on her job, they can freeze her contract, so she 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.320 can't just leave and go to stardom or a w 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:32.840 or whatever like, and that will also be in the 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.000 hands of management. So, in fact, if you are a 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.760 fan of Sasha Bigs, yes, you should probably care very 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.439 much about management's thoughts of this, because she signed a 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.439 contract and thus her career is in the hands of management. 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.840 Do we all live in another fantasy world where that's 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:52.640 not the case. Somebody make the cartoon of Brian doing 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.199 the events like the future of w CWS in my hands, 0:19:56.960 --> 0:20:04.159 the future of sure, Yes, talk about some other stuff. 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:07.160 Now off the show. Can I walk off? You put 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:12.080 my stuff down and walk off? Jesus, every you built 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:17.359 this empire? You you you're going down with it first? Everybody, Mike, Yes, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:22.760 everybody should should hope ever to have fans like Sasha 0:20:22.760 --> 0:20:26.680 Banks has fans. I do I wish? I wish I 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:30.800 had a hive like that. Maybe now that the Adam 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:33.880 and like Big Audio nightmare has escaped from behind the paywall, 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.439 I will get a hive the size of Sasha Banks. 0:20:37.960 --> 0:20:40.280 That's what I'm hoping for. Tony Storm says the original 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:43.000 plan for her pie throwing angle with Charlotte Flair was 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:46.399 for her shirt to have been ripped off. Flair hit 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.560 the twenty year old with a pie during the November 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.400 edition of SmackDown. Storm appeared on the A W Unrestricted 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:59.359 podcast released on Thursday, and spoke about what was planned 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:01.639 for the segment. I was actually quite happy with that 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:03.679 segment that day because it was a lot better than 0:21:03.720 --> 0:21:06.240 the original idea. The original idea was I was called 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.080 up and asked if I was comfortable with having my 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:10.879 shirt ripped off or something. They wanted to do this 0:21:10.920 --> 0:21:12.440 whole angle where it was like they were going to 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.440 rip my shirt off and I'd be embarrassed in my underwear. 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:18.760 When you're asked if you're comfortable if you're to do that, 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.680 and it's like literally people are being fired every single week, 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:23.919 it's like, well, yeah, I guess I'm comfortable with that. 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:25.840 I guess I'm going to do that. Then a lot 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:27.960 of people thought to not have that happen because that 0:21:27.960 --> 0:21:30.760 would have been terrible, a terrible idea. So to be honest, 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:33.040 the pie was actually like it was quite a sweet 0:21:33.080 --> 0:21:35.760 treat in comparison to what it could have been in hindsight, 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.600 don't really mind. I'm not even mad. People think I'm 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.720 mad about it. I think it's actually hilarious. And she 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:44.399 commented in her time and startom that I didn't realize 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:46.000 how much of my heart was still in stardom. I 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:48.280 guess I always did realize it, but I never got 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:50.359 over it. It spent so much time there, more than 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.480 I realized because my life moved so quickly that I 0:21:53.800 --> 0:21:57.919 you know, it's funny. It's like, I don't know, I 0:21:57.960 --> 0:22:01.040 don't know. But she walked out to Washington d C 0:22:01.200 --> 0:22:03.360 in Baltimore. Well, I mean she actually did the job 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.919 in the championship match and then left. She didn't she 0:22:06.000 --> 0:22:08.640 wasn't advertised for a championship match for Charlotte, and then 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:12.120 fifteen minutes into the show walk out and have them 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.480 rewrite that she didn't do that. You know, well, you 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:16.560 know what, I don't have much sympathy for him there. 0:22:16.600 --> 0:22:18.280 That's what they do on that show, is they tear 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.400 up the script. All the show was going on, right, 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:22.119 so they should be used to this. It should be 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:23.919 old hat for them. And look at the job that 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:26.200 they did. They didn't miss a beat. On Monday Night, 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.960 an x T two point oh six d one thousand 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:34.400 viewers of twelve eight percent from last week's record low 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.880 eight point one four. You know the funny thing about 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.880 this show, everybody, it was more than old people. So 0:22:42.320 --> 0:22:46.119 last last week they did the show with all women's matches, 0:22:46.160 --> 0:22:49.320 all women's matches up and down the show, and uh 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:52.680 it did a record low rating. And so the week 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:56.280 after they did a show with all women women in 0:22:56.320 --> 0:23:02.960 every match. The female ray for the show this week cratered. 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.440 N x T do It drew a point to four 0:23:08.000 --> 0:23:10.159 in males eighteen to forty nine, which is the highest 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:13.560