Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: and you know what that means. We got a lot
Speaker 1: of news to get into here today, and uh man,
Speaker 1: We've got SmackDown, Rampage, Raw Dynamite coming up this weekend.
Speaker 1: We've got the g One which is gearing up for
Speaker 1: three straight days of shows. We got the final day
Speaker 1: of block matches coming up tomorrow, and then we've got
Speaker 1: the semifinals to day after the finals the day after that,
Speaker 1: and of course we'll be talking to Philthy Tom Lawler
Speaker 1: about the g One today. We had Kevin Kelly on
Speaker 1: the show last night talking the g One with Dave
Speaker 1: and I. So we're gonna get into the lineups and
Speaker 1: all of that here today. We have got the full
Speaker 1: lineup for Raw coming up tonight. We've got a US
Speaker 1: title match on Raw as well as a Women's Tag
Speaker 1: Team Championship first round match and the return of Matt Riddle.
Speaker 1: We have updates on Drew McIntyre, injuries to Drew injuries
Speaker 1: to Chris stat Lander. We've got the line up for
Speaker 1: the a e W six man Tag Team Title Tournament,
Speaker 1: what matches are taking place when? And uh, We've got
Speaker 1: updates on TACKSHTA, g c W. And I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about my match with Tom, although I could talk about
Speaker 1: that with him later. And of course full reviews of
Speaker 1: SmackDown and Rampage this Friday night, including very very good
Speaker 1: main event. On SmackDown, we actually got a goot Shinskate
Speaker 1: Nakama Intercontinal Championship match with a finish and they worked
Speaker 1: really hard, So we'll talk about that and so much more.
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Speaker 1: One the g One Climax Tournament twenty two, which is
Speaker 1: wrapping up over the next couple of days. All three
Speaker 1: shows August sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen in Buddha Con and
Speaker 1: tomorrow August We've got will Ospray, Juice Robinson, Shingo To
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Speaker 1: Joni versus Bad Luck fall A and Okada versus Lance Archer,
Speaker 1: which by the way, that is the main event of
Speaker 1: tomorrow night's show. So if you're trying to figure out well,
Speaker 1: who who beats, who to go where, and what might
Speaker 1: have come down to, etcetera, etcetera, sometimes you can check
Speaker 1: out the match order and figure things out about regardless
Speaker 1: of we have got two semifinal matches and then they
Speaker 1: will put together the rest of the card based on
Speaker 1: who wins and loses on the sixte and then on
Speaker 1: the eighteen we've got the finals and another full card.
Speaker 1: So three straight days of G One coming up in uh,
Speaker 1: well in about twenty four hours or so, I would say,
Speaker 1: I'd have to look at my US to Japanese time
Speaker 1: clock thing of a jigger that I've got. You got
Speaker 1: one of those, Mike, I do? Yeah, what time is
Speaker 1: in Japan right now? What? Fourteen? Am? Thank you? But anyway,
Speaker 1: if you want to hear Kevin, Kelly, Dave and I
Speaker 1: talk about the g One, that's the Wrestling Observer radio
Speaker 1: show last night, and I did you on that show.
Speaker 1: I just watched Filthy Tom and Jeff Cobb the right
Speaker 1: before this show went on. I've watched all the Filthy
Speaker 1: Tom matches in the G One. I'm I'm scouting him
Speaker 1: and man, he gotta win over Jeff Cobb. Yikes. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a big win. Brother, Nasty knee on the brain too,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Wasn't him small package victory and
Speaker 1: nothing like that. There's not some flash paint or anything
Speaker 1: like that. Wow, m he man handled that large, incredibly
Speaker 1: powerful man. What do you think he's gonna do to
Speaker 1: you with all this pent up frustration that he has
Speaker 1: with you talking about him? Because you know what, you
Speaker 1: can smile on the show and everything can be okay
Speaker 1: because he's a professional, well at least as much of
Speaker 1: a professional as he can be on that podcast. But
Speaker 1: when he gets you in the ring, all of those
Speaker 1: things you've said about him, all of those things you've
Speaker 1: said about the team, all of that stuff is gonna
Speaker 1: come be where Brian now where as Billy starts may
Speaker 1: be taking home you and pieces, Nope, not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Not gonna happen. They're all beat up. Even Kevin Kelly said,
Speaker 1: you know, the idea, the idea behind this thing with
Speaker 1: the four blocks and the extended tour and everything like that,
Speaker 1: was you know, it's not gonna be as brutal as
Speaker 1: having like uh, you know, nine matches in twelve days
Speaker 1: or whatever. But man, you know some of these guys,
Speaker 1: they go days and days and days and they gotta
Speaker 1: go boom boom boom, boom boom, and everybody's beat up,
Speaker 1: he said, And I thought, yep, everybody's beat up. But
Speaker 1: you know what else, Other people are beat up all
Speaker 1: around the world. Drew McIntyre, the next challenger to the
Speaker 1: Universal Champion Roman Reigns, has been pulled off the weekend's
Speaker 1: live events in Salisbury, Maryland and Atlantic City, New Jersey,
Speaker 1: a precautionary move due to lower back soreness. Fightful confirmed
Speaker 1: that mc had been dealing with a rough back injury
Speaker 1: that requires additional rest. He is still expecting to challenge
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns in the main event of next month's clash
Speaker 1: at Castle in Cardiff, Whales. No surgery expected. And of
Speaker 1: course you know, he worked, he worked SmackDown and then
Speaker 1: I think he's working again. Actually I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's on the show tonight, but he will be on
Speaker 1: the show next Friday. And there's obviously travel days and
Speaker 1: everything like that, and you know, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: don't know the status of his uh of his back
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know what's going on, but I
Speaker 1: can tell you somebody who had a bad back for
Speaker 1: a long time, it doesn't matter. I shouldn't say it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I was better off not having matches with
Speaker 1: a bad back. But if you've still got to stand
Speaker 1: in that line at the airport, and you've got to
Speaker 1: sit on that airplane, and you've gotta sitting, especially when
Speaker 1: you're the size like I'm a small guy, Drew mc attire,
Speaker 1: isn't you're being crammed into this seat on this airplane
Speaker 1: and this travels brutal, so you know, being pulled off events.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's all fine, but you're still having to travel.
Speaker 1: You're in those cars, you're in those airplanes, you're standing
Speaker 1: around in the in the airport. An injury like that
Speaker 1: you need, you know, I would tell a quick story
Speaker 1: for this. You do. Even traveling first class doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Are hurting, Yeah, I mean it's still you. You're more
Speaker 1: comfortable in a way, but it's still hurts. Your back hurts.
Speaker 1: And earth's so now now, DJ here says, here's a
Speaker 1: secret about a bad back. It never gets better. Well,
Speaker 1: it depends, it depends on what the problem with your
Speaker 1: back is. For a lot of people, you're right, it
Speaker 1: never gets better. I thinking on what the problem is,
Speaker 1: it can get better, but it depends on what the
Speaker 1: issue is. If you've got like, you know, tightness in
Speaker 1: your lower back, if there's nothing, if there's no disc
Speaker 1: issues or anything like that, I mean you can you
Speaker 1: can go in and get a lot of chiropractic and
Speaker 1: massage and rest and eventually you're your your back can
Speaker 1: he But it depends on what the issue is. If
Speaker 1: you there are certain issues where you're right, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: But the thing, I once had tendonitis in my elbow
Speaker 1: and I had it for years and I just there's
Speaker 1: nothing that that helped my tendonitis until finally I can't
Speaker 1: even remember. I think it was on the internet and
Speaker 1: it was just some randoh, some guy he he he
Speaker 1: had had tendonitis and he had advice if you have tendonitis, okay,
Speaker 1: And he's like if that's when they dug up a
Speaker 1: guy that actually they they they actually had a bunch
Speaker 1: of farmed out bodies that they would get stem cells from.
Speaker 1: And Brian's not going to tell you that part this
Speaker 1: body is they mine for stem cells and they put
Speaker 1: him into Brian. This internet rando said, I will tell
Speaker 1: you how to heal your tendonitis. And there's been like
Speaker 1: years and I was like, all right, buddy, let me
Speaker 1: hear what you gotta say. And you're gonna love this one. Okay.
Speaker 1: It's actually like, like, uh, you know the old joke
Speaker 1: the guy goes to the doctor and he goes, you know,
Speaker 1: every time I I, you know, do this or that,
Speaker 1: it it hurts, stock what can I do? The duck says,
Speaker 1: We'll stop doing that. And actually, this guy, this guy,
Speaker 1: he says, he said, I had this for years and
Speaker 1: the only thing that cured my tend nitis because I
Speaker 1: had to literally stop doing every last single thing that
Speaker 1: caused any sort of pain. So you don't lift anything,
Speaker 1: like if you've got to if you've got to lift
Speaker 1: your you've gotta start doing your dishes with your left hand.
Speaker 1: It's like nothing. If there's anything you do that hurts,
Speaker 1: it's just gonna hurt forever. And uh So, anyway, I
Speaker 1: stopped doing, to the best of my ability, everything that hurts.
Speaker 1: And guess what, that poor woman has not healed yet.
Speaker 1: That's what it healed. So basically, so I'm going to
Speaker 1: take this as you just didn't stop doing everything that
Speaker 1: you did before. It's you had to relearn how to
Speaker 1: do certain things. Well, here's what it was. Here's what
Speaker 1: it was. So so uh, this is not medical advice. Everybody, listen,
Speaker 1: go to your doctor. I'm just telling you what happened
Speaker 1: to me. So it was my It was right here,
Speaker 1: my right by the elbow bone on my right arm. Okay,
Speaker 1: And what really bothered it was any time I did
Speaker 1: anything that would be like a barbell curl where your
Speaker 1: palm is up. Okay, we need any time I lifted
Speaker 1: or I did anything with my palm facing up in
Speaker 1: a curling motion. It was brutal, and so I had
Speaker 1: to I had to do everything with my palm down.
Speaker 1: That meant if I were going to go to the gym,
Speaker 1: I had to curl with my palm down. That meant
Speaker 1: when I when I was holding my daughter, I couldn't
Speaker 1: hold my daughter with my hand like this. I had
Speaker 1: to turn my hand this way. I had a holder
Speaker 1: like on my forearm with my palm down. So I
Speaker 1: had to do that for like a year, and finally
Speaker 1: it all went away. But I had to redo the
Speaker 1: way that I did everything with that arm in order
Speaker 1: to actually rest that tendon, because if you don't rest it,
Speaker 1: it's never gonna heal. So to my point is with
Speaker 1: Drill McIntire, like, this guy's got to get some rest
Speaker 1: for his back. If it is something that doesn't need surgery,
Speaker 1: he needs rest for his back, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's gonna get it, because you know, he's still
Speaker 1: traveling all these events, He's still doing all these shows.
Speaker 1: He's still gonna do Clash in the Castle, He's still
Speaker 1: gonna have to work see Town Salisbury so that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a face off with the Roman reigns and
Speaker 1: not have to take a bump. I mean, come on
Speaker 1: exactly well, I mean, look, you can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things creatively and keep him on the show without
Speaker 1: having him to do anything physical until the very end
Speaker 1: when you need it. Back in a moment, everybody, we
Speaker 1: have more news Observer Live back in the show. Bran
Speaker 1: elbre is here Wrestling Observer Live. You know, someone's making
Speaker 1: a mockery of me here saying, you know, if you
Speaker 1: think less, your head will hurt less. Don't use your
Speaker 1: brain so much. You know what, though, I'd say at
Speaker 1: he's fit to pot of the time, I have a
Speaker 1: headache if I just stopped thinking so much at go away,
Speaker 1: although you know got other injuries, does that mean you
Speaker 1: only thinking of the time Brian of the time. The
Speaker 1: other is like I'm dehydrated, not enough caffeine. You know
Speaker 1: today is After confirming she suffered another knee injury, Chris
Speaker 1: stat Lander posted a workout video where she wanted a
Speaker 1: detail about the injuries and then she will need surgery.
Speaker 1: In the audio, stat Lander said she god suffered a
Speaker 1: completely torn a c l and lateral meniscus and that
Speaker 1: the workout was designed to help her maintain as much
Speaker 1: strength as possible to lessen post operation atrophy. No timeline
Speaker 1: for the surgery, so the workout videos taken exactly week
Speaker 1: after she suffered the injury, which was in her Friday,
Speaker 1: August fifth match against Sierra that was taped for a
Speaker 1: w dark. She landed awkwardly on her right leg after
Speaker 1: hitting a big boot and grabbed it afterwards. You guys
Speaker 1: see this, Do you guys see this? Uh? This injury
Speaker 1: I did, and it's it's one of those things we
Speaker 1: talked about all the time, Like every time people go
Speaker 1: into all of the injuries and you know, a w
Speaker 1: and there's obviously a lot of injuries and w W E,
Speaker 1: and people start talking about everything from the schedule to
Speaker 1: the number of matches to this to that. Kristina Lander's
Speaker 1: not working that many matches And she didn't do anything
Speaker 1: dangerous at all. She literally did a big boot. She
Speaker 1: put her foot on the ground, her knee buckled and
Speaker 1: she fell down and how's it? And things happen, and
Speaker 1: you know, part of it may have been that she
Speaker 1: had a bad knee going in that had never fully healed.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it was the same knee, different
Speaker 1: knee she had the knee injury before. But things just happened, dude,
Speaker 1: same thing happened Santana. You know, Santana did a move.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even like a higher risk move. I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't want to say just go out
Speaker 1: and do any crazy thing that you want, because you
Speaker 1: can get very badly injured when you do the real
Speaker 1: high risk stuff. But I bet you anything if somebody
Speaker 1: went back and took every injury over the last three years,
Speaker 1: five years, and like, how many of them were because
Speaker 1: of some high risk, dangerous spot, and how many were
Speaker 1: people took a step or people did a normal, non
Speaker 1: dangerous move. I mean, it would I swear to you
Speaker 1: that the percentage of of non high risk injuries, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's probably got to be maybe even more. It's
Speaker 1: crazy how many people get hurt doing nothing as compared
Speaker 1: to the number of people to get hurt, uh doing
Speaker 1: some crazy Sammy Gavard getting thrown off the top of
Speaker 1: the cell or this or that or whatever. So people
Speaker 1: crack jokes about Kevin Nash getting hurt walking into the ring,
Speaker 1: but it's like, you know, didn't Tom Brady dropped back
Speaker 1: in Terry's achilles. It's just one of those things where
Speaker 1: if it's your time, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: you know, if there's no other you know, extenuating circumstances
Speaker 1: around and things, just that's the way it goes. It's
Speaker 1: just been an awful time right now for the top
Speaker 1: talent in all of pro wrestling in America, and not
Speaker 1: especially a w with the freakish things that have happened.
Speaker 1: And you can go, oh, you don't see him, Pump
Speaker 1: shouldn't jumped into the crowd or whatever it is. It's
Speaker 1: just if it's gonna happen. That's the way it's gonna
Speaker 1: go down. So the best to her because she reinvents
Speaker 1: herself and then gets hurt. She's on the comeback trail
Speaker 1: now gets hurt again, and it's just tough because they
Speaker 1: could use her, they could use her personality and you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully again just hopefully she can get back soon and
Speaker 1: be back at Yeah, the people were talking about Kevin
Speaker 1: Nash and Vince McMahon. It's it's, uh, these are a
Speaker 1: little bit different because it's one thing anybody, anybody, you
Speaker 1: put your you plant your foot one way and yourknee
Speaker 1: goes another way, and that's it for your your ligament. Okay,
Speaker 1: it's pretty hard to figure out how to tear your
Speaker 1: quad off the bone walking And with Vince. Vince one
Speaker 1: was weird because the first quad he tore the first quad.
Speaker 1: That was a that was a uh, you know, concussion injury.
Speaker 1: I don't know if concussion is the right word, but
Speaker 1: he ran head long into the side of the ring
Speaker 1: apron and that's what tore the first quad. But then
Speaker 1: he didn't want to sell it and so he jumps
Speaker 1: to his feet and he tries running with the torn quad,
Speaker 1: and then he tore the other quad impact injury. I
Speaker 1: guess you could call it the first one who was
Speaker 1: an impact injury, the second one was overcompensating for a
Speaker 1: and then Nash was just you know, he's walking in
Speaker 1: the tore the quad off the bone. I mean, those
Speaker 1: are those are as you get older, weird, but obviously
Speaker 1: you know, with but not necessarily. I mean, yeah, to
Speaker 1: see it happened in a wrestling ring or in that environment, yes,
Speaker 1: but as people get older, especially if they haven't taken
Speaker 1: great care of themselves and things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: we hear a lot about broken hips and things like
Speaker 1: that when it comes to older people. But weird things
Speaker 1: like that happened all the time with ligaments and tendons
Speaker 1: and and all those sorts of things. The triple h
Speaker 1: tore his quad like there have been there have been
Speaker 1: some quad injuries in professional wrestling. Well do you notice
Speaker 1: the how many boy? Same thing when it comes to
Speaker 1: football and baseball too. I wonder if the number of
Speaker 1: quad injuries was higher at a certain period in point
Speaker 1: in time when guys were doing certain things, because you
Speaker 1: don't hear about quads as much, and maybe I'm I'm
Speaker 1: you know, but there was a time there where it's
Speaker 1: like there were a lot of guys tearing muscles off
Speaker 1: the bones and things like that who may have had
Speaker 1: arguably too much muscle on their frames. The first round
Speaker 1: matches for the Dynamite UH six man Take Team Title
Speaker 1: Tournament Wednesday, August seventeenth. We've got on droid A, Dragon,
Speaker 1: Lee and Rouge versus The Young Bucks and a mystery partner,
Speaker 1: and uh, they're kind of doing the cmpunk thing where
Speaker 1: pretty much everybody knows it's gonna be Kenny Omega, but
Speaker 1: they're not actually saying Kenny Omega, but it's pretty sure
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Keny Omega. We've got what is this
Speaker 1: going to mean for Don Callis Bryan? What does this
Speaker 1: going to mean? Is he going to have to find
Speaker 1: another Canadian that he used to comport with to maybe
Speaker 1: spend some time with because I can't see the Young
Speaker 1: Bucks and and this man getting along. We have got Friday,
Speaker 1: August nineteen, the trust Busters versus The Best Friends. We
Speaker 1: have got Death Triangle versus Will Osprey and Aussie Open
Speaker 1: on August and then uh T b A we have Alakai, Black,
Speaker 1: Brody King and Buddy Matthews versus the Dark Order, and yes,
Speaker 1: the finals will be at all out. So they're getting
Speaker 1: this thing going on, dynamite and rampage, and it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny, you know. I've made I've made a
Speaker 1: comparisons between the six man tournament and the w w
Speaker 1: E Women's Tag Team Title Tournament in the sense that
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot of similarities. It's kind of weird.
Speaker 1: There's their brackets, obviously, and one side of the bracket
Speaker 1: is much stronger than the other side of the bracket
Speaker 1: in both cases, and in both cases there's a team
Speaker 1: where you're wondering, why are they in this tournament? In
Speaker 1: a w've got the trust Busters and in w w
Speaker 1: you've got Nikita, uh Lions and Zoe Stark. Well, stop
Speaker 1: right there, let me ask you which one to you
Speaker 1: is more awkward or or unexplainable. Well, I'm gonna I
Speaker 1: want to I wanna say something about this, Okay, because
Speaker 1: I know because I watched why, I watched SmackDown. Okay,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, there's there's this thing. People still
Speaker 1: have PTSD, they still hate w w E. They still
Speaker 1: get angry about things Vince used to do and there's
Speaker 1: kind of you know, Vince was so incompetent for so long,
Speaker 1: and the storytelling was so idiotic, and the stuff they
Speaker 1: did was so that there kind of was this idea
Speaker 1: that they can do nothing right. But the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is when Vince was in charge, he did
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff wrong. But the idea that w
Speaker 1: W E did nothing right, that's you don't. You don't
Speaker 1: become number one and stay number one and be way
Speaker 1: out in front by doing everything wrong. Okay, And the
Speaker 1: reason I bring this up is because of these two promotions.
Speaker 1: One of them did, quite frankly, a very very good
Speaker 1: video package explanation for one of the teams being in
Speaker 1: this tournament, and the other did not so SmackDown. They
Speaker 1: had a video package and an interview with Nikia Lyons
Speaker 1: and Zoe Stark, and they explained who they were, where
Speaker 1: they were from, what their strengths were, why they were
Speaker 1: a great team, and why they were going to win
Speaker 1: this tournament. And they have not debuted in the tournament yet.
Speaker 1: They explained, we're the team from n x T so
Speaker 1: I think Nikita said something like, Zoey has a gas
Speaker 1: tank that never runs out, and I'm a lot of woman.
Speaker 1: She had some line like that. They so they did
Speaker 1: all of this and everything, and I was like, okay, fine, Like,
Speaker 1: if you've never watched n x T, now you know
Speaker 1: this is the n x T representatives. This is who
Speaker 1: they are, this is what they do, this is what
Speaker 1: makes each of them unique, et cetera. What did they
Speaker 1: do for the trust Busters? Well, they threw up graphics,
Speaker 1: They threw up a bracket that said the trust Busters
Speaker 1: were there, and then they had a backstage segment where
Speaker 1: the trust Busters set up matches for rampage, but no
Speaker 1: like explanation or here's who we are. You know, I
Speaker 1: got all this money and all of this and that.
Speaker 1: And then they do the matches on Friday and Parker Boudreau,
Speaker 1: the former Harlan, he wins a squash and then Aridavri
Speaker 1: goes in and gets pinned by Orange Cassidy. It's like, okay, listen,
Speaker 1: I love a W I'm a big a W fan,
Speaker 1: but bro w W, E killed you in introducing this
Speaker 1: tag team into this tournament. They did a fine job
Speaker 1: explaining why Nikita Alliance is always Stark in the tournament.
Speaker 1: I'm baffled still as to why. And they'd be like, well,
Speaker 1: there has to be a team in there that's gonna lose.
Speaker 1: I'm like, there's seven teams in there. They're gonna lose.
Speaker 1: It's a tournament. They're all there to lose except the winners.
Speaker 1: You could put a good team and there, you can
Speaker 1: put the ass boys in there, but they Ye. I
Speaker 1: don't want to go off on him because like I
Speaker 1: like Ari Daivari and you know, Harlan looked fine like
Speaker 1: that thing. It's not about them personally, it's about the
Speaker 1: scenario in the situation, and it's it's silly. It didn't
Speaker 1: make any sense, and then you go and have Davari
Speaker 1: lose it just it didn't It's sorry, it didn't do
Speaker 1: anything for me there. It doesn't really make any sense,
Speaker 1: especially when you have so many other people and so
Speaker 1: many other teams that people want to see for them
Speaker 1: to get thrown into this, and there's a I get
Speaker 1: why you want to have Parker Boudreau like in a
Speaker 1: in a high profile position, or you want to showcase
Speaker 1: him in the same way that I think Nikita Lions
Speaker 1: and uh almost said Cora Jade, but they are being
Speaker 1: showcased to get a little taste. But w W has
Speaker 1: the real estate and the time to do it. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that a W does back in a moment
Speaker 1: with more Observer Live again the show Brian Albarez here
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Semperviv also of Wrestling Observer dot
Speaker 1: Com to Keshta's gone, didn't We just asked a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, how long is this guy? Around? Four? Yeah,
Speaker 1: if somebody goes a year wrong. He's already back to
Speaker 1: Japan and h he'd like to come back. He said
Speaker 1: he was not interested in w W E. My next
Speaker 1: goal is more fights in a W I hope he's
Speaker 1: going back August and September, but might be able to
Speaker 1: return in October. Then if I stay in the U
Speaker 1: S I can come to the UK more times. From
Speaker 1: Japan to the UK is so far, but from US
Speaker 1: to the UK maybe seven hours. It is possible. Makes
Speaker 1: a question what's his contract stats with DDT, Like he
Speaker 1: can he come over and sign and be an AUB
Speaker 1: regular because I'd be pretty cool with them. I don't
Speaker 1: know if if I'm d d T H he and
Speaker 1: Tetsuya Endo, his generational rival, I am keeping deep claws
Speaker 1: into them and loaning them out when needed. To a
Speaker 1: w but I'm gonna want something in return, because I mean,
Speaker 1: they're stars. Look, everybody saw it here what people have
Speaker 1: been seeing over there for a long time. And I
Speaker 1: hope guys like Endo come over here in his place
Speaker 1: and actually showcase themselves as well too, because I mean,
Speaker 1: these are great, great talents, and they are very young guys.
Speaker 1: So you know, again, the skies limits for these guys worldwide,
Speaker 1: so I would assume that they are locked down with
Speaker 1: D D T. But I guess we'll see row tonight.
Speaker 1: We have got three things announced. The Bobby Lashly AJ
Speaker 1: Styles match for the U S Title, which they're claiming
Speaker 1: is the first time ever match. Is that true body
Speaker 1: Lashly has never wrestled AJ Styles. I guess it's possible.
Speaker 1: Alexa Bliss and Oscar versus Nikki Ash and Dewdrop in
Speaker 1: the Women's Tag Team Title Tournament first round, and Riddle
Speaker 1: returns for an interview that's coming up tonight on Raw,
Speaker 1: and you know he can take to the bank. Barring
Speaker 1: injury or illness. They're all gonna happen because that blowcain't
Speaker 1: shown up to rip the script up anymore. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: repeat this until it is hammered in everyone's heads. How
Speaker 1: much better it is. And actually I can actually do
Speaker 1: these previews now. Remember I do these previews on the show,
Speaker 1: and it was like why bother because by the time
Speaker 1: the show rolled around, there was nothing that was advertised.
Speaker 1: Now I can actually preview the show and it will
Speaker 1: actually happen on the show. It's crazy, I'll be damned.
Speaker 1: They have never faced off one on one in multi
Speaker 1: person matches. It's happened four times if you include the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. So the closest you've ever gotten has the
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble. They consider the Royal Rumble like a multiperson match,
Speaker 1: like they might not even have been in the ring
Speaker 1: at the same time. He could have been eliminated for
Speaker 1: the other guy came in. Look, we're going through cage
Speaker 1: match here for ease and convenience, so that's why it
Speaker 1: comes up here. And I won't count like the money
Speaker 1: in the Bank qualifying Last Chance Gauntlet either. But that
Speaker 1: leaves the elimination chamber from earlier on this year as
Speaker 1: the closest we've ever come with all those other people
Speaker 1: in the match, that's as close as we've ever come
Speaker 1: to a one on one match with those two men. Alright,
Speaker 1: A couple of notes from the two shows this weekend.
Speaker 1: We had Raquel and Aaliyah beating SHOTSI and Zi a Lee.
Speaker 1: So Aaliyah has moved on in this tournament with her partner,
Speaker 1: Raquel Rodriguez, and this match was fine. It was It
Speaker 1: was fine. And then we had Drew McIntyre coming out
Speaker 1: for a promo and he talks about carrying Cross attacking
Speaker 1: him and they starts talking about Roman reigns when outcomes
Speaker 1: Ross and Scarlet and I, I'm not quite sure exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on here. They distracted him, allowing the USA
Speaker 1: to jump Drew McIntyre. So are they in cahoots? No
Speaker 1: one knows. Okay, Well, we'll follow up on that. So
Speaker 1: this led to a match later on, as we'll get
Speaker 1: to here. We had a video package for the intercudinal title,
Speaker 1: and then we had Kofe attacking the Viking Raiders and
Speaker 1: destroying them with kendo sticks. But then the Raiders made
Speaker 1: their own comeback and they destroyed Kofi and they splashed
Speaker 1: him off the guardrail and he was left for dead.
Speaker 1: Nothing like starting a fight as a baby face and
Speaker 1: getting your ass handed to you. But that's what happened here?
Speaker 1: We had the return of hit Row as expected with
Speaker 1: b Fab. They got b Fab back here and they
Speaker 1: defeated Brandon Scott and Trevor Irving and destroyed him a
Speaker 1: minute thirty eight and they did a promo afterwards. You
Speaker 1: guys saw the the original debut of hit Rome. I
Speaker 1: think they just replayed it because it's basically exactly the
Speaker 1: same thing. They did the promo, they talked about who
Speaker 1: they were. Uh, they showed people dancing to their music
Speaker 1: and yeah, they're back. But what does this mean? You're
Speaker 1: going to see how this goes for Most Wanted Treasures?
Speaker 1: What does this mean? Well? A J. Francis be back
Speaker 1: as the host of that show that was funny about this. Yes,
Speaker 1: Dollar comes out, stop Dolla comes out. And by the way,
Speaker 1: I think there was an interview with them and they
Speaker 1: said that they were like on the top of the list.
Speaker 1: When Hunter came back and he goes, he said, uh,
Speaker 1: that's confidence I wish I just he knows, I just
Speaker 1: don't take anybody's crap. He says, I don't stand up
Speaker 1: for myself. And he says, uh. He says, Hunter said,
Speaker 1: I never heard about any of this, So you still
Speaker 1: started with the cleans slate. Okay, great, starting with a
Speaker 1: clean slate. Let's hope it stays clean. Okay, But anyway,
Speaker 1: Top Dollar comes out for this match and he's got
Speaker 1: an A J. Francis shirt on, which I guess it
Speaker 1: makes sense, and well it doesn't make sense because you know,
Speaker 1: they were out doing stuff and Hunter apparently called him
Speaker 1: and said, how fast can you be ready for TV?
Speaker 1: And they were like, we'll be there this week. So
Speaker 1: I guess you know he'd been he was gonna wrestle
Speaker 1: as a J. Francis because he couldn't be Top Dollar,
Speaker 1: and so he just wore his indie gear on the show,
Speaker 1: like you throw out all of your top dollar stuff.
Speaker 1: Apparently did well, maybe he's I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just again, I always look stokely hat the way
Speaker 1: after he left w W, E did that. Uh he
Speaker 1: was doing the one man show thing or doing a
Speaker 1: stand up thing. It's like, remember, this was the guy
Speaker 1: that started to fight with the young Bucks over sneakers,
Speaker 1: so he could We'll see how it goes. But that
Speaker 1: dude is a look, he's a he's a magnet, whether
Speaker 1: for good or bad. That man's a magnet. He's a personality. Now,
Speaker 1: whether that can be harnessed and made to be a
Speaker 1: good professional wrestler and a professional working environment as much
Speaker 1: as it can be, we'll see. But he is, if
Speaker 1: nothing else, a a distinct and lively personality. We had
Speaker 1: a run a rousing segment where she came through the crowd.
Speaker 1: She's like Steve Austin now and she's got a beg
Speaker 1: full of money because she got fine and she drops
Speaker 1: all this cash on the table because I guess she
Speaker 1: doesn't have a card, and uh, the security comes out
Speaker 1: to get her out of the building, and she beats
Speaker 1: up one of the security guards. But then she decides
Speaker 1: she's gonna leave. So she's leaving and she comes across
Speaker 1: SHANEA Bazer is coming down of the ring and Base
Speaker 1: was telling her, you we we don't do it like this.
Speaker 1: You gotta just like follow the rules. You'll get what
Speaker 1: you want if you follow the rules. And Ron says,
Speaker 1: you used to be a killer, and she walks off,
Speaker 1: And so there's gonna be a contract signing with Live
Speaker 1: Morgan and Shana Live Morgan comes out. She's still got
Speaker 1: her giant brace on her arm, but aparently she's cleared
Speaker 1: and she gets in the ring, and there were there
Speaker 1: were some light you tapped out chance, but she was
Speaker 1: not like they weren't treating her like she was a
Speaker 1: full on heel or anything like that. And then uh,
Speaker 1: of course she gets attacked Baslor beats her up, stumps
Speaker 1: on the bad leg. But then after all that, after
Speaker 1: all that, Live bounces off the ropes, gives her the bulldog,
Speaker 1: puts her through a table. I was, this is like,
Speaker 1: this is like Vince mcbahon booking here. Like, dude, no
Speaker 1: one thinks that she has any chance of beating Live.
Speaker 1: You gotta give her something, and you give her a little,
Speaker 1: but then you lay her out at the end of
Speaker 1: the segment. I guess I got a few weeks before
Speaker 1: the show, but oh my god. Then we had Drew
Speaker 1: mcattire versus the USOS. He commanded or he demanded a
Speaker 1: match with them, and for a while it was one
Speaker 1: on two. He's getting beaten up, and then mad Cap
Speaker 1: runs down, who, by the way, with triple H and
Speaker 1: charge is still mad Cap even though the seventies six
Speaker 1: year old guy who's the last guy on this planet
Speaker 1: to use the term mad cap gave him the stupid name.
Speaker 1: He should be madmn Moss. You can. If you have
Speaker 1: to have mad in the name, it's better to be
Speaker 1: Madman Moss and mad Cap. Why can't it just be
Speaker 1: Riddick Moss. Why you should be just just Riddick Moss.
Speaker 1: That's fine. It doesn't that sound you know, I don't
Speaker 1: say if it came up in the lab in n
Speaker 1: x T, you know, beats the hell out of J. D. McDonough,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So they had a match.
Speaker 1: Mad Cab runs down and they went for the one
Speaker 1: D but one of the US's got pulled out of
Speaker 1: the ring. McIntyre then hit Jimmy with the claymore, pinned
Speaker 1: him to actually beat the USOS and then uh, he
Speaker 1: goes to give j the claymore, but Sammy Zane takes
Speaker 1: the bullet because he still wants to be that honorary
Speaker 1: use and so he's he's dead. We had Los Lothario's
Speaker 1: hitting on Maxine Dupree and she looked like she was interested,
Speaker 1: which you know, triple A, the way to one Triple
Speaker 1: H is not the one that put her with maximum
Speaker 1: male models. So I wouldn't be the least bit surprised
Speaker 1: if he split her off to manage them and had
Speaker 1: Max Dupri managed Maximum Male Models. But I guess we'll
Speaker 1: find out what they do. And then the main event
Speaker 1: was Gunther and Schintsky Nakamura for the Intercontinental title. They
Speaker 1: had a very good match and it was more a
Speaker 1: Vaulter versus Nakamura match than a Gunter versus Nakamura match.
Speaker 1: They did a lot of things they would not have
Speaker 1: done with Vince there. It literally opens with Schinsky given
Speaker 1: him so many leg kicks that he kicks his legs
Speaker 1: out from under him, which you know, Nakamura did leg
Speaker 1: kicks and that sort of thing when when Vince was around.
Speaker 1: But I mean, this was this was you know, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna chop you, chop you, chop you until you collapse.
Speaker 1: And then he goes to work on on the arm.
Speaker 1: And then Gunther is trying to use the arm throughout
Speaker 1: the match, but his arm hurts. He tries to go
Speaker 1: for this with his hand. I mean, they had a
Speaker 1: very good psychological, hard hitting match. And then finally Gunther,
Speaker 1: how everything you said sense does everything you say make
Speaker 1: where It's just like this should have never been into question.
Speaker 1: It should never be into question. Shouldn't that be the
Speaker 1: story of a Nakamura and a and a gun Thur
Speaker 1: would be him chopping should and then they like they
Speaker 1: like to do idiot proof matches for these fans like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, don't work too body parts will get confused.
Speaker 1: Just work one. Well he worked several here and they
Speaker 1: had a great match, and uh Nackamara got power bombed
Speaker 1: and pined so Gun to retain the title and overall
Speaker 1: good SmackDown, good show. Actually, yep, Rampage had a Daniel
Speaker 1: Bryan Brian Danielson interview setting up his match with Garcia.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday, we had Sammy Gavar and Tye Mellow versus
Speaker 1: Dante Martin and sky Blue, which of course uh Tie
Speaker 1: hit the tai Ko to win. So they are still
Speaker 1: the Triple A World Mixtage Team Champions. If you're wondering
Speaker 1: what in God's name is going on, don't worry about it,
Speaker 1: just watch the wrestling. Let me ask you, do you
Speaker 1: think now could be the opportunity. We've heard TV four teams,
Speaker 1: we've heard this stuff, we've heard that stuff. But you
Speaker 1: saw moves in that match. Even though the women and
Speaker 1: men had to wrestle aside from each other, we saw
Speaker 1: a d d T. I believe it was from tie
Speaker 1: On and and all that sort of stuff. Could we
Speaker 1: be seeing that more in w W E would you
Speaker 1: want to see that more in w W A? I
Speaker 1: don't think you just see it. But what they'll do
Speaker 1: is they'll do the same thing that they did here,
Speaker 1: which is men have to wrestle men, women have to
Speaker 1: wrestle women. But is okay for the women to do
Speaker 1: a spot to a man but not vice versa. That's
Speaker 1: that's the way they're probably gonna do it. Parker Boudreau
Speaker 1: beat Sunny Kiss in a squash match. It looks all right,
Speaker 1: but it was like a minute. And then the Gun
Speaker 1: Club not in the Trio's title tournament. They defeated Redbeard,
Speaker 1: Eric Redbeard and Dan Housing. Poor Dan Housing. I mean,
Speaker 1: someday he'll get a win. But he goes in there,
Speaker 1: they destroy him the entire break. He makes a tag,
Speaker 1: he tags back in, he gets pinned. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: that right when he gets that win, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be incredible. Then the main event was Orange
Speaker 1: Cassidy and Ari Daivari, and uh the match was good.
Speaker 1: Ari Ari Daivari is a very good wrestler, and Orange
Speaker 1: Cassie is a very good wrestler, and they had a
Speaker 1: very good wrestling match. And you know, if you don't
Speaker 1: care that they're in the tournament or you don't need
Speaker 1: them to have any credibility, that was all good. But
Speaker 1: I was watching and thinking, how are they gonna beat
Speaker 1: Orange Cassidy because Aridivari's got to get a win he's
Speaker 1: in this tournament. But no, he was beaten in the
Speaker 1: middle of the ring with the orange punch, and uh,
Speaker 1: there you go back in a moment, everybody was ever
Speaker 1: live back in the show Bright now Barez here, Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer Live, Mike sumber Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com.
Speaker 1: Wells no, it rot is tonight, everybody. And then we've
Speaker 1: got n x T two point oh coming up on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: a W Dynamite on Wednesday. And man, we're getting down
Speaker 1: a nitty gritty here. What's going on with this all
Speaker 1: out show? What's our what's our actual lineup for all out? Right? Now?
Speaker 1: Shall we find out? Shows? Uh? Less than three weeks away?
Speaker 1: All out a e W. Let's see what the official
Speaker 1: the official card is right now? All right, I'm saying
Speaker 1: at least two matches, no matches, No matches. We got
Speaker 1: the final. We've got the finals for the a W
Speaker 1: World at Trio's title as the only match is officially
Speaker 1: for the show right now. There have been matches tease,
Speaker 1: there have been people who have requested matches, but at
Speaker 1: this point that's the only official match. We don't even
Speaker 1: know what's going on with like ce M Punk and Moxley.
Speaker 1: Presumably they're wrestling, but I guess we'll probably find out
Speaker 1: a lot more on a Wednesday. And uh yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not good. Looks New Japan does this, and they because
Speaker 1: they have to, because we have to teach these results
Speaker 1: as if their sport, which is not a good idea
Speaker 1: to do in America period anyway. But there's their excuse.
Speaker 1: There is no excuse for what's been going on. I
Speaker 1: know see him Punk's been out, we know he's back
Speaker 1: now and everything, but like they should have been a
Speaker 1: lot more on the ball with this stuff. But we
Speaker 1: talked about r O H on the show's all this
Speaker 1: other stuff. Maybe they have new eyes, new calm beginning
Speaker 1: this week. We'll see. Well that's it for today. Everybody
Speaker 1: want to thank you for listening. I'll be back later
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Speaker 1: to a stardom show. A lot to get into today
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