Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every
Speaker 1: day Monday through Friday, noo Pacific, three Stern, Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: sixth Eastern. It's Thursday on this show. And you know
Speaker 1: what that means. We've got a w dynamites talked about
Speaker 1: from last night. Lots of stuff happening on the show.
Speaker 1: We had a wild cards we had to build for
Speaker 1: next weekend's Memorial Day weekend pay per view, which I
Speaker 1: will be at live and uh and more, Sasha Banks,
Speaker 1: Naomi Ratings. Yes, a lot to get into here today
Speaker 1: and we will be joined in the next segment of
Speaker 1: this show by Mike semperviv He is making his triumphant
Speaker 1: return here today. I can tell you that land Storm
Speaker 1: also feeling better. Still not on, but best wishes to
Speaker 1: everybody in the Empire that has been recently afflicted. Clear
Speaker 1: myself actually, but I didn't test positive. I was just
Speaker 1: I don't know what I had, but I was sick.
Speaker 1: But Anyway, we're all back in the saddle. It's looking
Speaker 1: like so Michael joined us after the break and uh
Speaker 1: as note, we'll talk about everything we know. The latest
Speaker 1: on Sasha Naomi, which is not a lot. It's the
Speaker 1: same story from Monday, which kind of is a story
Speaker 1: in and of itself. Actually, we've got an update on
Speaker 1: Rick Flair or Tony Storm talks about the angle where
Speaker 1: she had a pie thrown on her face. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can figure out where this is going. We have
Speaker 1: n XT ratings from Tuesday night, update on John Cena,
Speaker 1: and yes, we'll be talking about the a w DNA
Speaker 1: might show from last night. Maki Ito was a joker?
Speaker 1: What's she ever? And Johnny Elite who was John Morrison
Speaker 1: not Johnny Gargano And we can tell you about that
Speaker 1: as well. So a lot to get into your on
Speaker 1: the show today. If you want Texas four to five
Speaker 1: seven eight zero seven five six six, that is four
Speaker 1: to five seven eight zero seven five six six. Brian
Speaker 1: at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian Elberts on Twitter
Speaker 1: back in a moment, Observer Live now, Yeah, bregging the show.
Speaker 1: Brian elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Separate Baby,
Speaker 1: also of Wrestling Observer dot Com is here today. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you're here, Mike. I mean for a lot
Speaker 1: of reasons, but there you are. I had the wrong
Speaker 1: channel on the whole time. You're probably talk gonna be
Speaker 1: during the break, and I was ignoring you. Huh. No,
Speaker 1: I actually didn't say a word because I know how
Speaker 1: you are during the break, which is you look away
Speaker 1: the entire time and pretend nobody else exists. Now, I'm
Speaker 1: actually very busy, and uh, dude, I can't believe he
Speaker 1: came back today. Why did you even bother? You should
Speaker 1: just taking the whole week off, Dude. I thought about
Speaker 1: it after I heard you nail yourself to the cross
Speaker 1: talking about Naomi and Sasha, between these Sasha fans and
Speaker 1: these maki Eto fans. I just can't. I can't here.
Speaker 1: He goes here, you go here, we go go ahead. No,
Speaker 1: I wonder know how you're doing. No you don't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. That's why I'm asking you. If I didn't care,
Speaker 1: I just move on. Are you better today? I'm much
Speaker 1: better today, Actually actually feel like a human being again.
Speaker 1: Felt like having the feet, like having the flu, except
Speaker 1: I've never had a temperature the entire time, just the
Speaker 1: body aches, the chills, and the cough, which I know
Speaker 1: bore itself out last week on the show. That just continued.
Speaker 1: It felt like I was getting a little bit better.
Speaker 1: And then Friday came and Jessica tested positive and I
Speaker 1: tested positive, and I thought about, you know what, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't even test myself because I'm going to go to
Speaker 1: d C. I'm gonna see New Japan. I'm going to
Speaker 1: see Tona Hashi. I'm going to see my champion, my champion, still,
Speaker 1: my champion, filthy Tom Lawler defend. Well he wasn't depending
Speaker 1: on not the champion. Right now, I have enough of
Speaker 1: Markeiton Sash. I don't need you and Tom on top
Speaker 1: everything else. But I did test myself and decided, no,
Speaker 1: I can't go anywhere. So I'm happy I didn't because
Speaker 1: how I felt I would have infected the entire d
Speaker 1: m V because I felt rotten, and it just got worse.
Speaker 1: And so finally I've been able to shake a little
Speaker 1: of it off. It feels just, you know, me, the
Speaker 1: breathing is not there, you know, just you know, shallow
Speaker 1: breathing a little bit. Unfortunately, I can actually feel that
Speaker 1: so hopefully that goes away as to get out and
Speaker 1: walk more and you know, feel better. But yeah, it sucks.
Speaker 1: And for anybody that had to go with the worst
Speaker 1: than me, which is a lot of people out there. Boy,
Speaker 1: do I have my sympathies for you, because this little
Speaker 1: bit was bad en off. You know it's funny about this.
Speaker 1: I guess it's not funny, but you know it's weird
Speaker 1: about this whole COVID thing is, Uh, my both of
Speaker 1: my daughters got COVID in uh it is early January
Speaker 1: or something like that. I'm pretty sure my wife too,
Speaker 1: but we didn't get a positive test on her, but
Speaker 1: we did on the kids. And uh and man, Paisley
Speaker 1: got a runny nose for like a day and then
Speaker 1: she was fine. And uh, Holliday was was somewhat sick
Speaker 1: for a week, but she really wasn't that sick. And
Speaker 1: like you know, when Paisley gets sick, bro, she gets sick.
Speaker 1: And she got the least six she's ever been in
Speaker 1: her life when she had COVID. And so this last
Speaker 1: week or two, I know six people rather close to
Speaker 1: me that all got COVID this week, okay you lance,
Speaker 1: and then four different people that I know through jiu
Speaker 1: jitsu all got COVID this week. You and Lance, it
Speaker 1: was like he got hit by a truck. And uh,
Speaker 1: the four people I know here in Seattle nothing nothing.
Speaker 1: In fact, one of them was like he didn't even
Speaker 1: know he had it, and for some reason, he goes
Speaker 1: it was weird, like I just thought I should test
Speaker 1: myself today. But he had no symptoms or anything. He
Speaker 1: just had this feeling like I should test myself. And
Speaker 1: he tests himself and he was positive. And he couldn't
Speaker 1: believe it because he didn't even have the running knows nothing.
Speaker 1: And they all went through it like it was it
Speaker 1: was nothing. But meanwhile, you and Lance, I mean holy
Speaker 1: smokes or Lance was like Lance. One things that Lance
Speaker 1: does is he sents me texts and uh, it's either
Speaker 1: one or the other. It's either calling me an absolute
Speaker 1: idiot because is something I said on an observer radio show,
Speaker 1: or it's his step count. This this is our communication.
Speaker 1: You know he's got he's always doing all this walking
Speaker 1: and man, he sent me to step cat for the
Speaker 1: last couple of days. It was like he had three
Speaker 1: and forty steps a couple of days ago, and uh,
Speaker 1: it just can do nothing, just sitting around and and
Speaker 1: just he's feeling better today. But man, it's no fun, man,
Speaker 1: especially for people who are acting. You don't know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get, is the point I'm making. Oh well absolutely,
Speaker 1: And look that was you know during coming back from
Speaker 1: the show Boat in January, where they talked and joked
Speaker 1: about the show Boat strain because it seemed like so
Speaker 1: many people, you know, that we ken't got it at
Speaker 1: a time where again things were up across the country
Speaker 1: the way it is now. It's just and I didn't
Speaker 1: catch at least I don't think I did. But this
Speaker 1: time around I did, you know, even with the double
Speaker 1: vacs and the booster, I still ended up catching it.
Speaker 1: But talking about kids being resilient, avery both times, you
Speaker 1: know he's vaccinated, so that absolutely, I'm sure helps matters.
Speaker 1: But you know, he was sick for one day both
Speaker 1: times and then completely fine. So good on him, because again,
Speaker 1: thank God for kids, they are resilient. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk. I'll talk a little bit about Sasha and
Speaker 1: and Naomi right now. Do you have to well this,
Speaker 1: I just have a point that I want to make
Speaker 1: here because these these Sasha fans and Uh, it's different
Speaker 1: kind of fandom with Machito, but the Sasha fans, they're
Speaker 1: both hardheaded. You know. We Dave and I talked about
Speaker 1: this on Observer Radio last night, and we pointed out that, like,
Speaker 1: on the grand scale of things to be upset about,
Speaker 1: booking wise, like you're one half of the Tag Team
Speaker 1: champions and you and your partner are gonna win a
Speaker 1: big Number one Contenders match. Your partner is on Raw,
Speaker 1: and then both of you are going to be put
Speaker 1: in the singles title program and both of you are
Speaker 1: gonna challenge for championships on pay per view against Bianca
Speaker 1: bell Air and Rhonda Causy and in the end you're
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna lose. But you know, the idea that
Speaker 1: this is seen is some horrible, offensive walk out in
Speaker 1: the middle of a show. But I mean, people are
Speaker 1: so mad at me and Dave, And if you look
Speaker 1: at the thread, I mean, some of the things that
Speaker 1: people are saying in defense of Sasha and and Naomi,
Speaker 1: it's it's like it's insane. It's like trying to have
Speaker 1: a rational conversation. Second, I got a point I gotta make,
Speaker 1: and they're like, there has to be more it makes
Speaker 1: no sense. There has to be more. We haven't heard
Speaker 1: their side of the story. There has to be more.
Speaker 1: This can't possibly be And here we are and it's Thursday, everybody,
Speaker 1: and there hasn't been more. There hasn't been more. I
Speaker 1: know it's hard to believe that their side of the
Speaker 1: story may in fact be exactly what happened. But I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure that their side of the story is exaxactly
Speaker 1: what happened. And if you're this big a fan and
Speaker 1: you can't fathom that your Sasha, she probably did and
Speaker 1: that was her decision. And yet it doesn't mean And
Speaker 1: I had people who were like, you know what, it's
Speaker 1: better they walked out in the middle of the show
Speaker 1: instead of actually doing the match and then walking out.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, so, you're such a hardcore fan of
Speaker 1: this person, then you're advocating them for them unprofessionally walking
Speaker 1: out in the middle of a your that is your
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't get it, dude. They learned from
Speaker 1: Bruiser Brody brother that's the big fans of Bruiser Brodie. Um.
Speaker 1: This has felt since the time that had happened that
Speaker 1: this is not about the creative per se directly under present,
Speaker 1: and there is one side that as of now isn't
Speaker 1: really talking. We do know part of that side who's
Speaker 1: got a contract coming up. We do know part of
Speaker 1: that side has had issues in the past with their
Speaker 1: creative and feels very confident in themselves in some kind
Speaker 1: of way about how they should be treated. I just
Speaker 1: feel like there's probably more than this than creative, and
Speaker 1: everything keeps coming back in the conversation too well. You
Speaker 1: know this is stupid, but it's by w W standards,
Speaker 1: it's not that stupid that it just feels as though
Speaker 1: and I could be dead wrong about this, and and
Speaker 1: we'll see. I have no real opinion on this until
Speaker 1: we find out more from it. This is like that
Speaker 1: Cody Rhodes leaving a w situation. I'm sure there's a
Speaker 1: lot to unpack, and it's gonna have to unpack itself,
Speaker 1: and I'm not the person who can do it, and
Speaker 1: I'm not the person who can do it here. But
Speaker 1: I won't wait and see what kind of happens here,
Speaker 1: because with all these factors at play, including how Sasha
Speaker 1: feels about herself and her character and how she may
Speaker 1: feel as though she could function outside of w w
Speaker 1: E Naomi, who they have never given any credit to whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Remember she was the third draft pick on Raw last
Speaker 1: time around, and then she disappeared off TV for months.
Speaker 1: She had a feud with Sondi de Ville that nobody
Speaker 1: could figure out why it was happening except for something
Speaker 1: that we won't talk about. That it seemed to be
Speaker 1: that's what the angle was. It's like and she's towards
Speaker 1: the end. You know again, maybe this has gotten more
Speaker 1: to do with leveraging contracts and not as much to
Speaker 1: do with creative Back in a moment, I was you alive? Yes,
Speaker 1: when those contracts were negotiated the last time around, was
Speaker 1: Johnny lauraitas the person in charge of that? He was
Speaker 1: not right? That came on, he came on last year.
Speaker 1: I don't know interesting, I just I would be interested
Speaker 1: to know, uh, if that has any I I know
Speaker 1: that like everyone's kind of talking of this contract thing.
Speaker 1: But this is like but but Brian, look their independent contractors.
Speaker 1: If you look, you can stand. They can stamp their
Speaker 1: feet and they can was this professional? No, No, you
Speaker 1: can say it's not. Um do they have a reason
Speaker 1: to feel the kind of way that they do. I
Speaker 1: don't know that yet. We don't know that yet. Even
Speaker 1: with reputation aside with Sasha, with Naomi, you know, people
Speaker 1: are already saying, well, this isn't was Naomi uh manipulated?
Speaker 1: Was she? This was? I don't know. Let's we'll have
Speaker 1: to wait and hear from Naomi, you know, and until
Speaker 1: that happens, you know, again, the way the contracts are,
Speaker 1: the way all of this is happening, I think a
Speaker 1: lot of attention is being put on the booking of
Speaker 1: how we're gonna look out there in the ring, which look,
Speaker 1: if you want to be like, there have been times,
Speaker 1: many many times where somebody has said the booking shouldn't matter,
Speaker 1: but then it actually affects their career trajectory. Now I
Speaker 1: don't think that it's going to happen in this case,
Speaker 1: but like no one can act like when Shamus ran
Speaker 1: away as a geek from whoever it was, remember that
Speaker 1: when he was king, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: it was like he should have never done that, and
Speaker 1: it's like this is modern times, w w E. This
Speaker 1: is this is actually really affecting him backstage, But for
Speaker 1: some people it did, and it's like it is such
Speaker 1: a dumb, wacky place that I it is hard for
Speaker 1: me to stand firm on a judgment here on any
Speaker 1: of this stuff until more of it plays out. Dude,
Speaker 1: these these oh, they made the right call because it's
Speaker 1: bad booking. I know you guys love Sasha, Okay, I
Speaker 1: know you love her, all right, she has not been
Speaker 1: badly booked. In fact, she's been booked better than most
Speaker 1: of the women in w W E Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on. Is it fair to say maybe
Speaker 1: that she just doesn't want to work with Russ right, No,
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with it. Okay, listen that
Speaker 1: the idea here is that your women's tag team champions,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be in contention for the singles championships and
Speaker 1: a storyline literally leading to a pay per view where
Speaker 1: the story is you are you two are so good
Speaker 1: that you might walk out of this pay per view
Speaker 1: with every women's championship with this guy. That what was
Speaker 1: being That's what was being offered here. Now, granted they
Speaker 1: were gonna lose, but dude, you realize it. As tag
Speaker 1: team champions, they feuded with Naomi and uh and Shana
Speaker 1: and they lost. To build up to those matches and
Speaker 1: they feuded with Rea Ripley and uh and Live Morgan
Speaker 1: and they lost building up those matches, so don't even
Speaker 1: tell me, Oh, well they were gonna look, oh, they
Speaker 1: were gonna lose to Rhonda Rousey and Bianca Millar and
Speaker 1: that's like bad for their career. But doing random jobs
Speaker 1: on TV to Live Morrigan and Shana Basler and what
Speaker 1: ever to build up a random tag team match with
Speaker 1: a team by the way, where the gimmick is one
Speaker 1: of them is dressed as a superhero and is wasting
Speaker 1: her career. That's literally the storyline they're telling this, you're
Speaker 1: telling me is much better for their careers than the
Speaker 1: storyline where they're trying to win every woman's belt in
Speaker 1: the company leading to a pay per view where you know,
Speaker 1: there's no chance for not having a good match with
Speaker 1: Bianca and Ronda Rousey and yeah, they're gonna lose in
Speaker 1: the end. But this is not a bad storyline. This
Speaker 1: is not horrible booking. This is not the culmination of
Speaker 1: years of horrible booking with Sasha Banks. She was upset
Speaker 1: about this, and uh, I can tell you just this,
Speaker 1: I mentioned this. Does this seem like a trigger point
Speaker 1: for other things she's had a lot of seems like
Speaker 1: if you now put on your psychologist cap for a minute,
Speaker 1: does this seem like that would be a final breaking
Speaker 1: straw sort of situation. No, it doesn't seem like that
Speaker 1: at all. Apparently it was. She's had a lot of
Speaker 1: issues over things for a long time. And here's the deal.
Speaker 1: I talked about this Monday, and of course, you know,
Speaker 1: people got mad about it and then they had to
Speaker 1: grasp it. Any anyone that said anything positive about as
Speaker 1: of today on this show, Okay, I'm sure you could
Speaker 1: find a handful of people that are supporting Sasha Banks.
Speaker 1: And by the way, still nobody's talking about and hail me,
Speaker 1: it's all all of this all about Sasha. Just let's
Speaker 1: also say something too that's very interesting there there is
Speaker 1: there is still almost no support for Sasha among management.
Speaker 1: I can almost say I can't say talked to all
Speaker 1: of management anythre that, but it's the same deal with
Speaker 1: man is no support. There's no support for her from management.
Speaker 1: So like there's there's nothing that has come out or
Speaker 1: changed or or anything like that. I mean, there's there's actually,
Speaker 1: uh some stuff happening where I can just tell you
Speaker 1: management is very upset about this situation, and they didn't
Speaker 1: have to storm. They didn't. They don't. And then and again,
Speaker 1: the lack of anybody seemingly saying anything about Naomi, It's like,
Speaker 1: is that not to anger other family members? Is that
Speaker 1: because somebody? Again that is interesting to me. Whereas the
Speaker 1: response to Sasha from inside w w E it was
Speaker 1: anybody surprised by that? Is anybody really surprised by that?
Speaker 1: That management would go worry, we don't want to deal
Speaker 1: with Sasha Banks. I mean, you know this person says,
Speaker 1: who cares one iota about support for management? Well, would
Speaker 1: you ever like to see Sasha Russell in w w
Speaker 1: E again? Because if you would, then you probably should
Speaker 1: be concerned about the management, because managements can decide whether
Speaker 1: she ever comes back or not, or whether she's my
Speaker 1: person will follow or whether they freeze the conversades Verano
Speaker 1: wherever she goes. By the way, it's a pretty cool name.
Speaker 1: She does have that going for it. Who cares about
Speaker 1: what management thinks? That's the whole crux of the story. Everybody,
Speaker 1: whether you ever see her on w W again is
Speaker 1: gonna be based on what management decides. That's it. And
Speaker 1: she is under contract, and so if she walked out
Speaker 1: on her job, they can freeze her contract, so she
Speaker 1: can't just leave and go to stardom or a w
Speaker 1: or whatever like, and that will also be in the
Speaker 1: hands of management. So, in fact, if you are a
Speaker 1: fan of Sasha Bigs, yes, you should probably care very
Speaker 1: much about management's thoughts of this, because she signed a
Speaker 1: contract and thus her career is in the hands of management.
Speaker 1: Do we all live in another fantasy world where that's
Speaker 1: not the case. Somebody make the cartoon of Brian doing
Speaker 1: the events like the future of w CWS in my hands,
Speaker 1: the future of sure, Yes, talk about some other stuff.
Speaker 1: Now off the show. Can I walk off? You put
Speaker 1: my stuff down and walk off? Jesus, every you built
Speaker 1: this empire? You you you're going down with it first? Everybody, Mike, Yes,
Speaker 1: everybody should should hope ever to have fans like Sasha
Speaker 1: Banks has fans. I do I wish? I wish I
Speaker 1: had a hive like that. Maybe now that the Adam
Speaker 1: and like Big Audio nightmare has escaped from behind the paywall,
Speaker 1: I will get a hive the size of Sasha Banks.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm hoping for. Tony Storm says the original
Speaker 1: plan for her pie throwing angle with Charlotte Flair was
Speaker 1: for her shirt to have been ripped off. Flair hit
Speaker 1: the twenty year old with a pie during the November
Speaker 1: edition of SmackDown. Storm appeared on the A W Unrestricted
Speaker 1: podcast released on Thursday, and spoke about what was planned
Speaker 1: for the segment. I was actually quite happy with that
Speaker 1: segment that day because it was a lot better than
Speaker 1: the original idea. The original idea was I was called
Speaker 1: up and asked if I was comfortable with having my
Speaker 1: shirt ripped off or something. They wanted to do this
Speaker 1: whole angle where it was like they were going to
Speaker 1: rip my shirt off and I'd be embarrassed in my underwear.
Speaker 1: When you're asked if you're comfortable if you're to do that,
Speaker 1: and it's like literally people are being fired every single week,
Speaker 1: it's like, well, yeah, I guess I'm comfortable with that.
Speaker 1: I guess I'm going to do that. Then a lot
Speaker 1: of people thought to not have that happen because that
Speaker 1: would have been terrible, a terrible idea. So to be honest,
Speaker 1: the pie was actually like it was quite a sweet
Speaker 1: treat in comparison to what it could have been in hindsight,
Speaker 1: don't really mind. I'm not even mad. People think I'm
Speaker 1: mad about it. I think it's actually hilarious. And she
Speaker 1: commented in her time and startom that I didn't realize
Speaker 1: how much of my heart was still in stardom. I
Speaker 1: guess I always did realize it, but I never got
Speaker 1: over it. It spent so much time there, more than
Speaker 1: I realized because my life moved so quickly that I
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. It's like, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. But she walked out to Washington d C
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Well, I mean she actually did the job
Speaker 1: in the championship match and then left. She didn't she
Speaker 1: wasn't advertised for a championship match for Charlotte, and then
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes into the show walk out and have them
Speaker 1: rewrite that she didn't do that. You know, well, you
Speaker 1: know what, I don't have much sympathy for him there.
Speaker 1: That's what they do on that show, is they tear
Speaker 1: up the script. All the show was going on, right,
Speaker 1: so they should be used to this. It should be
Speaker 1: old hat for them. And look at the job that
Speaker 1: they did. They didn't miss a beat. On Monday Night,
Speaker 1: an x T two point oh six d one thousand
Speaker 1: viewers of twelve eight percent from last week's record low
Speaker 1: eight point one four. You know the funny thing about
Speaker 1: this show, everybody, it was more than old people. So
Speaker 1: last last week they did the show with all women's matches,
Speaker 1: all women's matches up and down the show, and uh
Speaker 1: it did a record low rating. And so the week
Speaker 1: after they did a show with all women women in
Speaker 1: every match. The female ray for the show this week cratered.
Speaker 1: N x T do It drew a point to four
Speaker 1: in males eighteen to forty nine, which is the highest
Speaker 1: number the show has done since October. In women eighteen
Speaker 1: forty nine, it did a zero point zero five, the
Speaker 1: lowest the show has ever done. Tied a record low
Speaker 1: with females twelve to thirty four. Anyone who's ever so yeah,
Speaker 1: these women. Zero women statistically watched n x T two
Speaker 1: point oh this week, and void did those men pop
Speaker 1: when she did that interview talking about how she was
Speaker 1: eighteen and had not graduated high school yet. That's what
Speaker 1: happened back in a moment Observer Life right the show
Speaker 1: brand Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Maximbur Vi b
Speaker 1: also Wrestling Observer dot Com. We're gonna do the Dynamite Report,
Speaker 1: but first a shout out here. Today loyal listener and
Speaker 1: friend Chris in Vegas works at Ruby Thomas Elementary School
Speaker 1: and today was career day. Yes, Ruby Thomas Elementary School,
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, Nevada. The grade K through five classrooms got
Speaker 1: to hear from my lovely wife Whitney talking about Whale
Speaker 1: Scout and from myself. I got to tell those youngsters
Speaker 1: about my career. Here is a radio show, post and etcetera.
Speaker 1: And man, I had a great time. A lot of
Speaker 1: wrestling fans in the class actually, and they talked about
Speaker 1: some of their favorite wrestlers. You never guess who some
Speaker 1: of their favorite wrestlers are John Cena and I saw
Speaker 1: a lot of the and uh, Ray Mysterio was mentioned
Speaker 1: actually by one of the teachers. She used to watch Raymisterio,
Speaker 1: but then of course she stopped watching wrestling in the nineties.
Speaker 1: And uh, and I don't think we had any mention
Speaker 1: whatsoever of anybody in modern day w W year Ray
Speaker 1: w Just a lot of John Cena fans. What a
Speaker 1: bunch of great kids, had some fun questions. I had
Speaker 1: a very enjoyable time. So I want to give a
Speaker 1: big shout out to all the kids at Ruby Thomas
Speaker 1: Elementary School. Did it last year, I did it last year,
Speaker 1: I did it this year, and I'm gonna do it
Speaker 1: again next year. Do you have a kid that like
Speaker 1: telecommutes there somehow or what? What's the what's the person
Speaker 1: in Vegas is school? And I told him I was
Speaker 1: going down to Vegas for the show next week, and
Speaker 1: they wanted me to stop by the school, but they'll
Speaker 1: be out of school. So you both doing it? Is
Speaker 1: it one of those things where like, you know, you're
Speaker 1: forcing him to pay you. But then day and he
Speaker 1: asked us both to go and talk to the children
Speaker 1: and getting money for it. I just went talk to
Speaker 1: the kids about careers. Why does there have to be
Speaker 1: an ulterior motive? Why does there have to be a conspiracy?
Speaker 1: That's the story of my life this last week. Why
Speaker 1: does everything have to be a conspiracy? Why can't it
Speaker 1: just be what it is? Sascha made an irrational decision,
Speaker 1: walked out, and I decided to do career day. That's
Speaker 1: the story of this week. Alright, let's talk about this
Speaker 1: a w show. So the opener was some O Joe
Speaker 1: beating the Joker who was Johnny Elite, who is not
Speaker 1: Johnny Gargano. Although there was a a W social media
Speaker 1: post about Johnny Gargano, which in fact was not actually
Speaker 1: done by anybody working for a W. He was a
Speaker 1: mistake and so oh it is not any sort of
Speaker 1: clue about Johnny Gargan or anything like that. It was just,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody in charge of a Twitter account sent
Speaker 1: an unfortunate tweet. So SMO Joe beat him, muscle Buster,
Speaker 1: good match. Uh Johnny Leep not under contract. I'm told
Speaker 1: hopefully he'll be back because I like the guy. He's good,
Speaker 1: it's very talented. Sopefully we'll see more of them. Then
Speaker 1: we had an angle to set up the big brawl,
Speaker 1: San j j Lethal sotting him my main man, sotting
Speaker 1: him sing best friends out there. That was good stuff.
Speaker 1: Hangman Page beat h Keshta and Bro. This match was awesome.
Speaker 1: This match was so good and Hangman beat him with
Speaker 1: the GTS. Kesha was so happy he wouldn't called his mom.
Speaker 1: Said it was the best day he'd ever had in wrestling.
Speaker 1: And keep in mind they like won the tag team
Speaker 1: titles from from Kenny Omega and Kotabushi. But this was
Speaker 1: the eyelight of his career. He told his mother and
Speaker 1: it was awesome. And then afterwards Punk and Page had
Speaker 1: a stare down and and Hangman Page stormed off. He's
Speaker 1: gotten to is the storyline. He's gotten to Keith Lee
Speaker 1: and Swerves Strickland, b J. D. Drake, and Anthony Henry. Afterwards,
Speaker 1: they sent set up a three way for the pay
Speaker 1: per view. It is uh Ricky Starts Powerhouse, Hobbs Jurassic Express,
Speaker 1: Keith Lee and Swerves Strickland three way for the tag titles,
Speaker 1: and they'll also be doing three way singles match next
Speaker 1: week Swerve versus Ricky Starts versus Jungle Boy. So that's
Speaker 1: next week. And Christian is the one that threw Jungle
Speaker 1: Moy in that match. M JF segment with Warloh my god,
Speaker 1: this segment was awesome. This m JF. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's just you know, it's it's a lot of things.
Speaker 1: He is an awesome hell, but also all this stuff
Speaker 1: that gets out about him and w w E they
Speaker 1: just get even more angry at him, and he's just
Speaker 1: nuclear heat in the building and he comes out to
Speaker 1: give Wardlow the lashes, and first Wardlow laughs and then
Speaker 1: he just doesn't even sell it, and of course this
Speaker 1: makes MGF just furious that he's not selling these lashes.
Speaker 1: So then uh uh the ten guy, which we get
Speaker 1: his name, he gives a Lasher two and Sean Spiros,
Speaker 1: Sean spears and and now Warlow did sell the ninth one.
Speaker 1: But then he just one more, he says, so m
Speaker 1: JFF boots him in the jingle jangle in case those
Speaker 1: kids at the school are listening, and he starts just
Speaker 1: whipping the heck out of him and lays him out
Speaker 1: with the diamond ring Spears hits the C four. Dude.
Speaker 1: This was such a great heavy heat angle and the
Speaker 1: people are just living and dying with Wardlow. This was awesome.
Speaker 1: Owen Heart Cup Tournament quarterfinals. Kyle O'Riley beat Array of
Speaker 1: Phoenix with an armbar to his bad dislocated arm. Very
Speaker 1: very good match. I kind of thought they might have
Speaker 1: a styles clash, but they didn't. It was really good match.
Speaker 1: And Kylo Ay goes to face Somemo Joe in these
Speaker 1: semifinals with a very long Jericho regal face to face
Speaker 1: confrontation with all of the crew and to cut to
Speaker 1: the chase uh Jericho in Stadium Stampede and John Moxley,
Speaker 1: who I've mentioned this before. I mean, what you see
Speaker 1: is what you get with this guy. He ain't no
Speaker 1: gimmick and he just grabs the Mikey goes, I ain't
Speaker 1: doing that. And so at the pay per view he
Speaker 1: actually said more, but I can't say it in the
Speaker 1: errand case of the children at the elementary school are listening,
Speaker 1: but they're gonna have a fight. They promised blood, bloodshed violence.
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be a big violent brawl coming up.
Speaker 1: At the pay per view, Blackpool Combat Combat Club and
Speaker 1: the Jericho Appreciation Society, Yes, Mark Eito, everybody. Markito was
Speaker 1: there with Britt Baker and they had a short, somewhat
Speaker 1: comedic match, but stuff earlier in the show had gone
Speaker 1: long and so it was very rushed and the refereence
Speaker 1: like screaming at Britt. It's like dot do her. So
Speaker 1: she puts on her hold, gets a submission, and then
Speaker 1: we had a steer down with her and Tony Storm.
Speaker 1: So one difference between the w w E and a
Speaker 1: w is that if they if they need more time
Speaker 1: in w w E, they will cut a segment. But
Speaker 1: they had a segment. Here was Serena Deep and Dustin Rhodes,
Speaker 1: Tony Schivanni and thunder Rosa and bro. They were rushed
Speaker 1: for time, but they were not going to cut this segment.
Speaker 1: And when I watched the segment, with all due respect everybody,
Speaker 1: you should have cut this segment. It wasn't a great segment.
Speaker 1: You can do this angle on any show. I know
Speaker 1: they wanted Serena Deep to bury the way that management
Speaker 1: treats the women in w W E. But like, you
Speaker 1: could have done that Friday, you could have done that
Speaker 1: next Wednesday. You could do that from now until the
Speaker 1: end of time. But they had to get it on
Speaker 1: TV and as a result, the main event got about
Speaker 1: six minute Adam Cole and Jeff Hardy and it was
Speaker 1: just like boom boom, boom, boom, boom, jump themid the bell,
Speaker 1: go go go, go go, and uh, Adam Cole, it's
Speaker 1: the boom. After Jeff Hardy missed these misses the cent
Speaker 1: on and then they still had to do an angle afterwards,
Speaker 1: and they're rushing this angle. The young bucks are out there. Uh.
Speaker 1: They attacked the Hardy Sting and Darby come out, Red
Speaker 1: Dragon takes them out. They killed poor Darby with a
Speaker 1: highlow on the ramp. O'Reilly pillman izes stings ankle with
Speaker 1: a steel chair. So I'm not sure where all of
Speaker 1: this is going, but they had to get these angles
Speaker 1: in and so I guess we'll find out. They got
Speaker 1: Rampage on Friday, and they got Dynamite next week to
Speaker 1: finish the card for this pay per view. So I
Speaker 1: thought it was a good show. I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was a great show. I can have faont Leroy do
Speaker 1: the spoilers for Rampage, not the spoilers the lineup for
Speaker 1: Rampage after the break, but I do want to mention here. Okay,
Speaker 1: Bryan Danielson. You probably saw the video if you go
Speaker 1: on social media. So they were doing a melee on
Speaker 1: a rampage and Bryan Danielson is like a rumpel steel skin.
Speaker 1: His leg goes through the between the ramp and the
Speaker 1: ring apron and he's stuck and literally like the reports
Speaker 1: live where it took five to ten minutes to get
Speaker 1: him out, and then uh, you know, I had other
Speaker 1: people that that say it was only about five There's
Speaker 1: no way it was ten minutes. And then I talked
Speaker 1: to other people that were there and it was like,
Speaker 1: there's no way it was five. He was down there forever.
Speaker 1: So everyone was all worried that he was hurt and
Speaker 1: everything like that. And uh and this is what I
Speaker 1: can tell you, Okay, what's so funny? What is what
Speaker 1: is what is Brian Danielson getting his leg caught between
Speaker 1: the ring? What does that have to do with Rumpel?
Speaker 1: Still don't remember the story of Rupple steel Skin. He
Speaker 1: spun straw. No, But the story, the story of Rupple
Speaker 1: steel Skin is like you had you had somebody to
Speaker 1: figure out his name. And so at the end of
Speaker 1: the story. You probably never read this version, avery, you
Speaker 1: probably read the PG version, but in the actual version
Speaker 1: and the next version, yeah, hopefully the children at uh
Speaker 1: Ruby Thomas how much listening. But he gets really mad
Speaker 1: when they figured out his name, and he starts stomping
Speaker 1: on the ground, and he stomps a hole in the
Speaker 1: ground and his leg goes through the hole and it
Speaker 1: tears him into You didn't know that, No, yes, no,
Speaker 1: that's the end of Rumpel Stealskin. He got torn in
Speaker 1: half when he stomped a hole in the ground. Can
Speaker 1: I get to the point. Yes, Apparently a lot of
Speaker 1: people knew about the tearing and half of rumpel steel skin,
Speaker 1: and so when Daniel Brian got his foot caught, they
Speaker 1: maybe I thought he got torn in half, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: He's fine. Okay, Now this is what I was told.
Speaker 1: This was not planned. Okay, when they went over the
Speaker 1: whole thing before the show, it was not planned for
Speaker 1: Brian Danielson. Okay, But here's the point. He didn't really
Speaker 1: fall in and get stuck. Okay. I was pretty much
Speaker 1: told that he just decided that he was gonna do this,
Speaker 1: and so all of a sudden he'd become Dick Murvock.
Speaker 1: I don't know. He pretended like he fell through and
Speaker 1: got stuck, and then he pretended that he couldn't get
Speaker 1: out for like ten minutes. I don't know why. I
Speaker 1: don't know what happened. Because he's pro wrestling, if that's true,
Speaker 1: Because he's pro wrestling, No way Dick Murdock would do
Speaker 1: that for no damn reason other than he could. That's
Speaker 1: why Brian Danielson, I haven't talked to the guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, but we gotta think about Brian Nielson This
Speaker 1: is a guy who when it was his you know,
Speaker 1: they decided, okay, well what do you want to what
Speaker 1: do you want to be called? Because you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be Brian Danelson in w W E. And one of
Speaker 1: his names he came up with was Buddy Peacock because
Speaker 1: I guess he figured he could get it over, and
Speaker 1: there's been a million things in his career that he
Speaker 1: decided I think I can get this over. I think
Speaker 1: I can get over the small package. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's plenty of it, So I guess and I listen.
Speaker 1: I don't know all the details, Okay, I just know
Speaker 1: I asked some people last night, and you know a
Speaker 1: lot of them are like, anyway, I think he just decided, well,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this brawl, and I'm gonna pretend that
Speaker 1: I fell between the ring and the ramp and got stuck.
Speaker 1: I haven't pretend I can't get out. And I mean
Speaker 1: it was all over the internet. I mean there were
Speaker 1: there were people, there were fans super worried about and
Speaker 1: everything like that. But um, you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I listen, I don't know all the details everybody,
Speaker 1: But what I can tell you is that he was
Speaker 1: playing it up that I can tell you a hundred percent,
Speaker 1: and he's not hurt, okay, And I was strongly given
Speaker 1: the impression that he just decided, you know that the
Speaker 1: whole thing from start to finish. I guess it could
Speaker 1: come out later that he actually did kind of fall
Speaker 1: through it and then decided he was going to make
Speaker 1: a big deal out of it. But one way or
Speaker 1: the other, him not getting out for ten minutes, that
Speaker 1: was all him. He just decided it would be whatever,
Speaker 1: and so that's what he did. So he's not hurt.
Speaker 1: You know, it's not. That's just what happened. Bro. I
Speaker 1: don't get it either. Slip and bust your ass. You
Speaker 1: just lay there for an extended period of time just
Speaker 1: to to oversell it. I don't know if all of
Speaker 1: this is going to even air on rampage, everybody. You
Speaker 1: may not see any of this on rampage. You know,
Speaker 1: they may have just started the brawl and then they
Speaker 1: go to break and they come back, because trust me,
Speaker 1: there's not You're not gonna watch him sitting there for
Speaker 1: ten minutes in a hole. Okay, sure it wasn't ten minute.
Speaker 1: It's a one hour show. Oh. I was I was
Speaker 1: pretty much told he was in there a long time,
Speaker 1: like it may have been ten minutes. Well may it
Speaker 1: felt like no, no, because I said to someone I
Speaker 1: go I I said, I heard it was ten minutes,
Speaker 1: but someone else said five and they were like, no,
Speaker 1: he was in there for a long time. Anyway, back
Speaker 1: in a moment you rely back in the show, Brian
Speaker 1: Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live, the returning um Mike
Speaker 1: semperviv To all of the children still listening to this show,
Speaker 1: if any of you are, I got news for you kids.
Speaker 1: John Cena says he hopes to be back in w
Speaker 1: W soon. He spoke with Adam's Apple recently regarding a
Speaker 1: potential return, and also by the upcoming twenties anniversary of
Speaker 1: his w W E television debut. You know, sometimes they
Speaker 1: see things like, man, you know your kids, they screw
Speaker 1: up so fast and the blink when I they're they're old,
Speaker 1: and sometimes something get pays and I'm like, god, she's
Speaker 1: already six, like she did mean first grade and seven next?
Speaker 1: That's like how what? But then you think about Johnson
Speaker 1: has only been around twenty years, it seems like forty
Speaker 1: or more. Anyway, he says, I know in w w
Speaker 1: E years, I turned twenty pretty soon, so that's a
Speaker 1: pretty big thing. And from a pretty storied class of folks. Batista,
Speaker 1: Randy Orton, less or kind of all turned twenty this year.
Speaker 1: I'm aware that that's coming around the corner, and who knows,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of cool stuff going on. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say not to these opportunities around my doorstep.
Speaker 1: So I don't know when I'll be back, but hopefully
Speaker 1: it's soon. I've been gone for too long. He'll be
Speaker 1: back soon. Everybody, Soon you will be able to see
Speaker 1: John Cena on your television. See I need big match
Speaker 1: John Cena and the g One. Come on, John, Let's
Speaker 1: do it. G One. Let's go, please come on that.
Speaker 1: Actually I would I would watch every g One match
Speaker 1: if John Cena were in the g One. By the way,
Speaker 1: G One schedule was announced, but we'll have to say
Speaker 1: about it later because we are out of time. But
Speaker 1: I'll be back tonight. We got a very special edition
Speaker 1: of The Brian and Video Show because it is a
Speaker 1: Brian and Video and Lisa guest host show. Tonight. John
Speaker 1: shall be going to uh the show in Vegas next week,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about dynamite and yes, I guess you
Speaker 1: can talk about n x T two point as well
Speaker 1: if you watch it. She may have been the only
Speaker 1: woman on the planet to watch it. Anyway, thanks for
Speaker 1: listing everybody. We'll talk to you next time Wrestling Observer Live.
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