WEBVTT - G1 Climax News/RAW Lineup 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:10.120 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, ready, 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:16.280 let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.320 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:22.680 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.920 six Eastern. Well, it is Monday here on this program, 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:27.400 and you know what that means. We got a lot 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:32.479 of news to get into here today, and uh man, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:38.959 We've got SmackDown, Rampage, Raw Dynamite coming up this weekend. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.640 We've got the g One which is gearing up for 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.880 three straight days of shows. We got the final day 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.600 of block matches coming up tomorrow, and then we've got 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.239 the semifinals to day after the finals the day after that, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.680 and of course we'll be talking to Philthy Tom Lawler 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.480 about the g One today. We had Kevin Kelly on 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.200 the show last night talking the g One with Dave 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:03.320 and I. So we're gonna get into the lineups and 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.080 all of that here today. We have got the full 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.640 lineup for Raw coming up tonight. We've got a US 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:13.319 title match on Raw as well as a Women's Tag 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:19.240 Team Championship first round match and the return of Matt Riddle. 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:22.959 We have updates on Drew McIntyre, injuries to Drew injuries 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.440 to Chris stat Lander. We've got the line up for 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.720 the a e W six man Tag Team Title Tournament, 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.200 what matches are taking place when? And uh, We've got 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:38.839 updates on TACKSHTA, g c W. And I'm not talking 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.920 about my match with Tom, although I could talk about 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.520 that with him later. And of course full reviews of 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:50.960 SmackDown and Rampage this Friday night, including very very good 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.760 main event. On SmackDown, we actually got a goot Shinskate 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:59.360 Nakama Intercontinal Championship match with a finish and they worked 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.120 really hard, So we'll talk about that and so much more. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:03.960 If you want to Texas here today. Four to five 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.200 seven eight zero seven five six six is the phone number. 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.919 That is four to five seven eight zero seven five 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.960 six six, Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com, at Brian 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.800 Alvarez on at Twitter, and we'll be back in a 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:22.760 moment to kick the show off Wrestling Observer Live. Thank 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:48.280 thank thank thank Back in the show. Brian Albert is 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.800 here Wrestling Observer Live Mikes and Burvit also Wrestling Observer 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.400 dot com. We gotta lot to take it into on 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:57.959 the show today, this free program, and hey, are you 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.160 a subscriber to Wrestling Observer dot com. Um, I know 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:02.560 some of you listening to this or not, and I 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.560 don't know why. Yes, we give you free shows every day. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:06.720 But man, you've got a good a lot of good 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.600 stuff if you're a subscriber, including thirteen thousand Archives shows. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.360 And one of those Archives shows is last night's Wrestling 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:19.120 Observer Radio with myself, Dave Meltzer and Kevin Kelly, in 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:22.320 which we spent almost ninety minutes talking about the g 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.800 One the g One Climax Tournament twenty two, which is 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.919 wrapping up over the next couple of days. All three 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:36.120 shows August sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen in Buddha Con and 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:40.960 tomorrow August We've got will Ospray, Juice Robinson, Shingo To 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:44.960 Kagi El Fantasmo Go To Versus Evil, night O versus 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:49.160 X Saber Jr. She Versus Sonata, Tomatangra versus j Hye 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.360 Joni versus Bad Luck fall A and Okada versus Lance Archer, 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.400 which by the way, that is the main event of 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.640 tomorrow night's show. So if you're trying to figure out well, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.840 who who beats, who to go where, and what might 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.760 have come down to, etcetera, etcetera, sometimes you can check 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:09.040 out the match order and figure things out about regardless 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:15.320 of we have got two semifinal matches and then they 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.200 will put together the rest of the card based on 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.600 who wins and loses on the sixte and then on 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:25.400 the eighteen we've got the finals and another full card. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:31.120 So three straight days of G One coming up in uh, 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.560 well in about twenty four hours or so, I would say, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.560 I'd have to look at my US to Japanese time 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.320 clock thing of a jigger that I've got. You got 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:43.800 one of those, Mike, I do? Yeah, what time is 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:56.039 in Japan right now? What? Fourteen? Am? Thank you? But anyway, 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.160 if you want to hear Kevin, Kelly, Dave and I 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.080 talk about the g One, that's the Wrestling Observer radio 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.560 show last night, and I did you on that show. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.360 I just watched Filthy Tom and Jeff Cobb the right 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.480 before this show went on. I've watched all the Filthy 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.680 Tom matches in the G One. I'm I'm scouting him 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:20.520 and man, he gotta win over Jeff Cobb. Yikes. Yes, yeah, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.800 that's a big win. Brother, Nasty knee on the brain too, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.120 no doubt about it. Wasn't him small package victory and 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.920 nothing like that. There's not some flash paint or anything 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:36.160 like that. Wow, m he man handled that large, incredibly 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.000 powerful man. What do you think he's gonna do to 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.320 you with all this pent up frustration that he has 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.599 with you talking about him? Because you know what, you 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.080 can smile on the show and everything can be okay 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.960 because he's a professional, well at least as much of 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:52.039 a professional as he can be on that podcast. But 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:54.839 when he gets you in the ring, all of those 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.960 things you've said about him, all of those things you've 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.680 said about the team, all of that stuff is gonna 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.360 come be where Brian now where as Billy starts may 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.960 be taking home you and pieces, Nope, not gonna happen. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.080 Not gonna happen. They're all beat up. Even Kevin Kelly said, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.279 you know, the idea, the idea behind this thing with 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.400 the four blocks and the extended tour and everything like that, 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:17.480 was you know, it's not gonna be as brutal as 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.080 having like uh, you know, nine matches in twelve days 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:23.920 or whatever. But man, you know some of these guys, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.560 they go days and days and days and they gotta 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:30.400 go boom boom boom, boom boom, and everybody's beat up, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.960 he said, And I thought, yep, everybody's beat up. But 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.880 you know what else, Other people are beat up all 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.760 around the world. Drew McIntyre, the next challenger to the 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.440 Universal Champion Roman Reigns, has been pulled off the weekend's 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.960 live events in Salisbury, Maryland and Atlantic City, New Jersey, 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.520 a precautionary move due to lower back soreness. Fightful confirmed 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:54.440 that mc had been dealing with a rough back injury 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.839 that requires additional rest. He is still expecting to challenge 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.800 Roman Reigns in the main event of next month's clash 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.599 at Castle in Cardiff, Whales. No surgery expected. And of 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.680 course you know, he worked, he worked SmackDown and then 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.960 I think he's working again. Actually I don't know if 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.480 he's on the show tonight, but he will be on 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.000 the show next Friday. And there's obviously travel days and 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.280 everything like that, and you know, I don't know, I 0:07:19.280 --> 0:07:22.679 don't know the status of his uh of his back 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.240 I don't know, you know what's going on, but I 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:27.920 can tell you somebody who had a bad back for 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.440 a long time, it doesn't matter. I shouldn't say it 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.320 doesn't matter. I was better off not having matches with 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.360 a bad back. But if you've still got to stand 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:38.880 in that line at the airport, and you've got to 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:42.120 sit on that airplane, and you've gotta sitting, especially when 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:44.640 you're the size like I'm a small guy, Drew mc attire, 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.680 isn't you're being crammed into this seat on this airplane 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.080 and this travels brutal, so you know, being pulled off events. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.520 I mean, that's all fine, but you're still having to travel. 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:58.280 You're in those cars, you're in those airplanes, you're standing 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.360 around in the in the airport. An injury like that 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:05.920 you need, you know, I would tell a quick story 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:10.640 for this. You do. Even traveling first class doesn't matter. 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.360 Are hurting, Yeah, I mean it's still you. You're more 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.280 comfortable in a way, but it's still hurts. Your back hurts. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.240 And earth's so now now, DJ here says, here's a 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.640 secret about a bad back. It never gets better. Well, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:25.560 it depends, it depends on what the problem with your 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.920 back is. For a lot of people, you're right, it 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.040 never gets better. I thinking on what the problem is, 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.120 it can get better, but it depends on what the 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.800 issue is. If you've got like, you know, tightness in 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.960 your lower back, if there's nothing, if there's no disc 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.320 issues or anything like that, I mean you can you 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.240 can go in and get a lot of chiropractic and 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:48.480 massage and rest and eventually you're your your back can 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.360 he But it depends on what the issue is. If 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.320 you there are certain issues where you're right, it doesn't matter. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:57.240 But the thing, I once had tendonitis in my elbow 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.679 and I had it for years and I just there's 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.400 nothing that that helped my tendonitis until finally I can't 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:06.520 even remember. I think it was on the internet and 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.200 it was just some randoh, some guy he he he 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.640 had had tendonitis and he had advice if you have tendonitis, okay, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.920 And he's like if that's when they dug up a 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.720 guy that actually they they they actually had a bunch 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.080 of farmed out bodies that they would get stem cells from. 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.160 And Brian's not going to tell you that part this 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.320 body is they mine for stem cells and they put 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.880 him into Brian. This internet rando said, I will tell 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.560 you how to heal your tendonitis. And there's been like 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.080 years and I was like, all right, buddy, let me 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.040 hear what you gotta say. And you're gonna love this one. Okay. 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.760 It's actually like, like, uh, you know the old joke 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.679 the guy goes to the doctor and he goes, you know, 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.920 every time I I, you know, do this or that, 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.280 it it hurts, stock what can I do? The duck says, 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:53.160 We'll stop doing that. And actually, this guy, this guy, 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.880 he says, he said, I had this for years and 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.200 the only thing that cured my tend nitis because I 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:05.720 had to literally stop doing every last single thing that 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:10.040 caused any sort of pain. So you don't lift anything, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.319 like if you've got to if you've got to lift 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.439 your you've gotta start doing your dishes with your left hand. 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.800 It's like nothing. If there's anything you do that hurts, 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:22.800 it's just gonna hurt forever. And uh So, anyway, I 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.360 stopped doing, to the best of my ability, everything that hurts. 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:29.880 And guess what, that poor woman has not healed yet. 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:35.440 That's what it healed. So basically, so I'm going to 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.360 take this as you just didn't stop doing everything that 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.240 you did before. It's you had to relearn how to 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.880 do certain things. Well, here's what it was. Here's what 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:49.560 it was. So so uh, this is not medical advice. Everybody, listen, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:51.160 go to your doctor. I'm just telling you what happened 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:54.200 to me. So it was my It was right here, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.360 my right by the elbow bone on my right arm. Okay, 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:01.800 And what really bothered it was any time I did 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.280 anything that would be like a barbell curl where your 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.400 palm is up. Okay, we need any time I lifted 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.640 or I did anything with my palm facing up in 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:14.600 a curling motion. It was brutal, and so I had 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.319 to I had to do everything with my palm down. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:19.240 That meant if I were going to go to the gym, 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:22.520 I had to curl with my palm down. That meant 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.079 when I when I was holding my daughter, I couldn't 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:26.760 hold my daughter with my hand like this. I had 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.240 to turn my hand this way. I had a holder 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.800 like on my forearm with my palm down. So I 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.280 had to do that for like a year, and finally 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.360 it all went away. But I had to redo the 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.199 way that I did everything with that arm in order 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.800 to actually rest that tendon, because if you don't rest it, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.920 it's never gonna heal. So to my point is with 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.160 Drill McIntire, like, this guy's got to get some rest 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.280 for his back. If it is something that doesn't need surgery, 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.480 he needs rest for his back, and I don't know 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.240 what he's gonna get it, because you know, he's still 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.600 traveling all these events, He's still doing all these shows. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.680 He's still gonna do Clash in the Castle, He's still 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.880 gonna have to work see Town Salisbury so that he's 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:07.599 gonna have a face off with the Roman reigns and 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:09.480 not have to take a bump. I mean, come on 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:14.040 exactly well, I mean, look, you can do a lot 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.280 of things creatively and keep him on the show without 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.560 having him to do anything physical until the very end 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.360 when you need it. Back in a moment, everybody, we 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:44.320 have more news Observer Live back in the show. Bran 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.200 elbre is here Wrestling Observer Live. You know, someone's making 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.240 a mockery of me here saying, you know, if you 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:52.400 think less, your head will hurt less. Don't use your 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.120 brain so much. You know what, though, I'd say at 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:56.240 he's fit to pot of the time, I have a 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.120 headache if I just stopped thinking so much at go away, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.839 although you know got other injuries, does that mean you 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:08.640 only thinking of the time Brian of the time. The 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.320 other is like I'm dehydrated, not enough caffeine. You know 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:14.720 today is After confirming she suffered another knee injury, Chris 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.760 stat Lander posted a workout video where she wanted a 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:19.720 detail about the injuries and then she will need surgery. 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.880 In the audio, stat Lander said she god suffered a 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.040 completely torn a c l and lateral meniscus and that 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:27.960 the workout was designed to help her maintain as much 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:32.320 strength as possible to lessen post operation atrophy. No timeline 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.079 for the surgery, so the workout videos taken exactly week 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.120 after she suffered the injury, which was in her Friday, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.320 August fifth match against Sierra that was taped for a 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.160 w dark. She landed awkwardly on her right leg after 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.200 hitting a big boot and grabbed it afterwards. You guys 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.600 see this, Do you guys see this? Uh? This injury 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:50.920 I did, and it's it's one of those things we 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.120 talked about all the time, Like every time people go 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.840 into all of the injuries and you know, a w 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.640 and there's obviously a lot of injuries and w W E, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:03.280 and people start talking about everything from the schedule to 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.960 the number of matches to this to that. Kristina Lander's 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.920 not working that many matches And she didn't do anything 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.199 dangerous at all. She literally did a big boot. She 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.120 put her foot on the ground, her knee buckled and 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:22.800 she fell down and how's it? And things happen, and 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:24.480 you know, part of it may have been that she 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.640 had a bad knee going in that had never fully healed. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:29.960 I don't know if it was the same knee, different 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.720 knee she had the knee injury before. But things just happened, dude, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.960 same thing happened Santana. You know, Santana did a move. 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:40.000 It wasn't even like a higher risk move. I don't 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.600 want to I don't want to say just go out 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.520 and do any crazy thing that you want, because you 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.320 can get very badly injured when you do the real 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.040 high risk stuff. But I bet you anything if somebody 0:14:49.040 --> 0:14:52.080 went back and took every injury over the last three years, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.760 five years, and like, how many of them were because 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.880 of some high risk, dangerous spot, and how many were 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.280 people took a step or people did a normal, non 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.200 dangerous move. I mean, it would I swear to you 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:09.800 that the percentage of of non high risk injuries, I mean, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:14.160 it's it's probably got to be maybe even more. It's 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.840 crazy how many people get hurt doing nothing as compared 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.040 to the number of people to get hurt, uh doing 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.240 some crazy Sammy Gavard getting thrown off the top of 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:27.480 the cell or this or that or whatever. So people 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:30.760 crack jokes about Kevin Nash getting hurt walking into the ring, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.800 but it's like, you know, didn't Tom Brady dropped back 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:36.800 in Terry's achilles. It's just one of those things where 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:40.280 if it's your time, if it's gonna happen, it's gonna happen, 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:45.040 you know, if there's no other you know, extenuating circumstances 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.840 around and things, just that's the way it goes. It's 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.560 just been an awful time right now for the top 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.680 talent in all of pro wrestling in America, and not 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:58.200 especially a w with the freakish things that have happened. 0:15:58.200 --> 0:15:59.640 And you can go, oh, you don't see him, Pump 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.240 shouldn't jumped into the crowd or whatever it is. It's 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.360 just if it's gonna happen. That's the way it's gonna 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:11.000 go down. So the best to her because she reinvents 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:14.280 herself and then gets hurt. She's on the comeback trail 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.200 now gets hurt again, and it's just tough because they 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.280 could use her, they could use her personality and you know, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.120 hopefully again just hopefully she can get back soon and 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.560 be back at Yeah, the people were talking about Kevin 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.640 Nash and Vince McMahon. It's it's, uh, these are a 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:35.520 little bit different because it's one thing anybody, anybody, you 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.600 put your you plant your foot one way and yourknee 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.240 goes another way, and that's it for your your ligament. Okay, 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:43.600 it's pretty hard to figure out how to tear your 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:47.920 quad off the bone walking And with Vince. Vince one 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.840 was weird because the first quad he tore the first quad. 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:57.520 That was a that was a uh, you know, concussion injury. 0:16:57.560 --> 0:16:59.040 I don't know if concussion is the right word, but 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.320 he ran head long into the side of the ring 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.360 apron and that's what tore the first quad. But then 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.680 he didn't want to sell it and so he jumps 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.240 to his feet and he tries running with the torn quad, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.199 and then he tore the other quad impact injury. I 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:14.560 guess you could call it the first one who was 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.439 an impact injury, the second one was overcompensating for a 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:19.960 and then Nash was just you know, he's walking in 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.320 the tore the quad off the bone. I mean, those 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:25.880 are those are as you get older, weird, but obviously 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.960 you know, with but not necessarily. I mean, yeah, to 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.800 see it happened in a wrestling ring or in that environment, yes, 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.320 but as people get older, especially if they haven't taken 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.320 great care of themselves and things like that. You know, 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.000 we hear a lot about broken hips and things like 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.879 that when it comes to older people. But weird things 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.480 like that happened all the time with ligaments and tendons 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.399 and and all those sorts of things. The triple h 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.400 tore his quad like there have been there have been 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.600 some quad injuries in professional wrestling. Well do you notice 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.199 the how many boy? Same thing when it comes to 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.520 football and baseball too. I wonder if the number of 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:06.880 quad injuries was higher at a certain period in point 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.679 in time when guys were doing certain things, because you 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.840 don't hear about quads as much, and maybe I'm I'm 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.760 you know, but there was a time there where it's 0:18:15.800 --> 0:18:18.400 like there were a lot of guys tearing muscles off 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.399 the bones and things like that who may have had 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:26.760 arguably too much muscle on their frames. The first round 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:31.520 matches for the Dynamite UH six man Take Team Title 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.440 Tournament Wednesday, August seventeenth. We've got on droid A, Dragon, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:39.400 Lee and Rouge versus The Young Bucks and a mystery partner, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.160 and uh, they're kind of doing the cmpunk thing where 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.520 pretty much everybody knows it's gonna be Kenny Omega, but 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.600 they're not actually saying Kenny Omega, but it's pretty sure 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.960 it's gonna be Keny Omega. We've got what is this 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:54.080 going to mean for Don Callis Bryan? What does this 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.440 going to mean? Is he going to have to find 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.680 another Canadian that he used to comport with to maybe 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.120 spend some time with because I can't see the Young 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:06.560 Bucks and and this man getting along. We have got Friday, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.639 August nineteen, the trust Busters versus The Best Friends. We 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:15.399 have got Death Triangle versus Will Osprey and Aussie Open 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:21.359 on August and then uh T b A we have Alakai, Black, 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.960 Brody King and Buddy Matthews versus the Dark Order, and yes, 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.600 the finals will be at all out. So they're getting 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.960 this thing going on, dynamite and rampage, and it's it's 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.080 kind of funny, you know. I've made I've made a 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:36.639 comparisons between the six man tournament and the w w 0:19:36.720 --> 0:19:39.600 E Women's Tag Team Title Tournament in the sense that 0:19:40.200 --> 0:19:42.359 there's there's a lot of similarities. It's kind of weird. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:47.760 There's their brackets, obviously, and one side of the bracket 0:19:47.840 --> 0:19:49.800 is much stronger than the other side of the bracket 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.720 in both cases, and in both cases there's a team 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.600 where you're wondering, why are they in this tournament? In 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.760 a w've got the trust Busters and in w w 0:20:00.200 --> 0:20:04.760 you've got Nikita, uh Lions and Zoe Stark. Well, stop 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.440 right there, let me ask you which one to you 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.080 is more awkward or or unexplainable. Well, I'm gonna I 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.400 want to I wanna say something about this, Okay, because 0:20:15.400 --> 0:20:19.200 I know because I watched why, I watched SmackDown. Okay, 0:20:19.359 --> 0:20:21.600 and uh, you know, there's there's this thing. People still 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.000 have PTSD, they still hate w w E. They still 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.840 get angry about things Vince used to do and there's 0:20:26.920 --> 0:20:29.600 kind of you know, Vince was so incompetent for so long, 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.320 and the storytelling was so idiotic, and the stuff they 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:35.960 did was so that there kind of was this idea 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.720 that they can do nothing right. But the fact of 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:41.320 the matter is when Vince was in charge, he did 0:20:41.320 --> 0:20:43.800 a lot of stuff wrong. But the idea that w 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:47.640 W E did nothing right, that's you don't. You don't 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.080 become number one and stay number one and be way 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:56.280 out in front by doing everything wrong. Okay, And the 0:20:56.320 --> 0:20:59.719 reason I bring this up is because of these two promotions. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:05.080 One of them did, quite frankly, a very very good 0:21:05.640 --> 0:21:10.080 video package explanation for one of the teams being in 0:21:10.119 --> 0:21:14.400 this tournament, and the other did not so SmackDown. They 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:20.080 had a video package and an interview with Nikia Lyons 0:21:20.240 --> 0:21:23.600 and Zoe Stark, and they explained who they were, where 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.040 they were from, what their strengths were, why they were 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.200 a great team, and why they were going to win 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:32.359 this tournament. And they have not debuted in the tournament yet. 0:21:32.760 --> 0:21:35.919 They explained, we're the team from n x T so 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.159 I think Nikita said something like, Zoey has a gas 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:43.520 tank that never runs out, and I'm a lot of woman. 0:21:43.960 --> 0:21:48.480 She had some line like that. They so they did 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.719 all of this and everything, and I was like, okay, fine, Like, 0:21:51.800 --> 0:21:54.640 if you've never watched n x T, now you know 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.200 this is the n x T representatives. This is who 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:00.679 they are, this is what they do, this is what 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:03.680 makes each of them unique, et cetera. What did they 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:07.879 do for the trust Busters? Well, they threw up graphics, 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.199 They threw up a bracket that said the trust Busters 0:22:10.200 --> 0:22:14.400 were there, and then they had a backstage segment where 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:18.080 the trust Busters set up matches for rampage, but no 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.679 like explanation or here's who we are. You know, I 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:22.359 got all this money and all of this and that. 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:27.840 And then they do the matches on Friday and Parker Boudreau, 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:33.840 the former Harlan, he wins a squash and then Aridavri 0:22:34.200 --> 0:22:39.240 goes in and gets pinned by Orange Cassidy. It's like, okay, listen, 0:22:39.520 --> 0:22:42.160 I love a W I'm a big a W fan, 0:22:42.560 --> 0:22:46.479 but bro w W, E killed you in introducing this 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.760 tag team into this tournament. They did a fine job 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.479