Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: Alvarez here on Wrestlings over Live. We are here every
Speaker 1: day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three
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Speaker 1: Jim Valley. Jim Valley needs a nickname of some sort
Speaker 1: of n something. Anyway, We've got a lot of news.
Speaker 1: Get into today because it is Wednesday, we're on the show,
Speaker 1: and you know what that means. Well, we've got a
Speaker 1: w Dynamite tonight. Eight segments announced for the Dynamite Show tonight,
Speaker 1: including men's tournament matches, women's tournament matches, championship matches, contract signings,
Speaker 1: victory speeches and more, and the debut in the ring
Speaker 1: of Dan Housing. So we've the lineup for the show
Speaker 1: coming up here tonight. We have an update on Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 1: Obviously they're doing an injury angle with Charlotte. W w
Speaker 1: E has given an update as to when she'll be back,
Speaker 1: and the update is there is no update of course. Yes,
Speaker 1: n x T two point oh. Everyone's favorite show, n
Speaker 1: x T two point oh. And if you are a
Speaker 1: fan of women's wrestling, boy have I got a show
Speaker 1: for you. Every single match on n x T two
Speaker 1: point oh involved a woman. Last night, they had the
Speaker 1: Breakout Tournament, they had mixed tags, they had Natty in
Speaker 1: the main event. So we'll tell you about that show here.
Speaker 1: We have also got to the raw rating for Monday
Speaker 1: Night JUX. You didn't do too bad, even though it's
Speaker 1: up against the NBA which kills everybody. The Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor logo Tony Khan talks about big events he's gonna
Speaker 1: be running later on this year, including a return to
Speaker 1: Arthur Ashe Stadium and much much more. If you want
Speaker 1: Texas here today, four to five seven eight zero seven
Speaker 1: five six six is at the phone number that is
Speaker 1: zero seven five six six Brian at Wrestling Observer dot
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Speaker 1: Observer live tagging the show. Brian Albarez here a Wrestling Observer,
Speaker 1: a live mikes and for v V also of Wrestling
Speaker 1: Observer dot com. Well we got an up date out
Speaker 1: Old Charlotte w E has announced a new storyline injury
Speaker 1: of aid on former SmackDown Women's Champion Charlotte Flair. During
Speaker 1: this morning's episode of w w e's The Bump. It's
Speaker 1: the Bump again. I don't know anything about this show anyway.
Speaker 1: On the Bump, it was announced that Flair will be
Speaker 1: quote out of action indefinitely following her eight quick match
Speaker 1: against ron A Rousing. So the update is she's gone
Speaker 1: and we don't know when she'll be back. Excellent update
Speaker 1: from I think we talked about that a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago. But yeah, she is leaving. She will be
Speaker 1: getting married to andraw A. They are going to have
Speaker 1: a honeymoon. They are going to Are you sure about that?
Speaker 1: They said it. They're gonna do all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they are going to do a
Speaker 1: honeymoon after they get married in Mexico this summer, and
Speaker 1: then when they're done, she'll come back down the road.
Speaker 1: If you had to do your honeymoon all over again,
Speaker 1: would you where would you go? Would you go to Haaii?
Speaker 1: Of course that's just silly question. Dynamite tonight, and we
Speaker 1: have got a lots announced for the program. We have
Speaker 1: an own Heart Foundation Men's tournament quarterfinal, Darby Allen versus
Speaker 1: Jeff Hardy. We have another quarterfinal, Adam Cole versus Dax Harwood.
Speaker 1: We have a women's quarterfinal, Tony Storm and Jamie Hayter.
Speaker 1: We have c M Punk and John Silver. We have
Speaker 1: Rookie Starks and Jungle Boy, Dan Housing and Tony nice
Speaker 1: m JF and Warlow. Have a contract signing and the
Speaker 1: revealing stipulation and the Jericho Appreciation Society victory speech, and uh,
Speaker 1: I got this this own Heart Tournament. And on n
Speaker 1: x T they had the Women's Breakout Tournament and I
Speaker 1: actually I had somebody there tell me, oh, man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna show up a W and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: you're not. And they didn't. And I will say, we'll
Speaker 1: go over all of the uh we'll go over a
Speaker 1: n x T two point out here in a while.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's like it's so w W E.
Speaker 1: Even if all of the women in the Breakout Tournament,
Speaker 1: like all of them, even if every single one of
Speaker 1: them was better than every single woman in a W,
Speaker 1: it was still the thing that they do where you
Speaker 1: all have three minutes to do your matches. It's like
Speaker 1: just a nothing happening breakout tournament. You know, three minutes
Speaker 1: choreograph matches, I mean they were there was nothing on
Speaker 1: the show that was like you know you you you
Speaker 1: want to laugh, and you know, show all of the
Speaker 1: spots on bach. I mean there's nothing like that. They
Speaker 1: had Fit Finley there and he helped put all the
Speaker 1: matches together and you know, green people choreographed matches. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were all fine, but they were three minutes. And
Speaker 1: you're never gonna have a tournament that is gonna be
Speaker 1: credit really acclaimed and have people making comparisons to the
Speaker 1: Women's Own Heart Cup tournament when you give them three
Speaker 1: minutes for every single match on the show. So that's
Speaker 1: my overarching comparison there between these two companies to come
Speaker 1: busting through and give somebody a splash. The way you
Speaker 1: keep saying three minutes, that's what it is. I mean
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not like it's not even the women's
Speaker 1: breakout tournaments. Every tournament w w E does, it's like this,
Speaker 1: the quarterfinal matches or whatever, there are three minute matches.
Speaker 1: Somebody runs like, why are you bothering to do a
Speaker 1: tournament if you don't let people have full long good
Speaker 1: matches and then advance in said tournament. It's just like
Speaker 1: it's pointless, not true at all. Now you know everybody's age.
Speaker 1: We do know everybody's age. But then, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's like that every you know, there were to breakout.
Speaker 1: I don't know how any breakouts. I think there were
Speaker 1: like two or something like that. But they do the
Speaker 1: matches and then one of the announcers I think it was,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what it was, but it's like
Speaker 1: so and so it's moving on to the quarterfinals, and
Speaker 1: then the other one goes actually it's the semifinals. Like
Speaker 1: we're already in the semifinals. Uh, this is just for
Speaker 1: rock Sy to win again, isn't it. That's what i'd
Speaker 1: like to know, you kid me, That's what i'd like
Speaker 1: to think. Well, i'd like to think so too. But
Speaker 1: let's look at the brackets here. We have lash legend
Speaker 1: on one side, legendary, yes, and then we have you know,
Speaker 1: the roar of the Tiger Oh Nikita. Nikita is on
Speaker 1: the other side. Only twenty two by the way, So
Speaker 1: if you guys don't think it's gonna go down to
Speaker 1: the same match again, I mean it might not but
Speaker 1: I am really going to do a best of seven.
Speaker 1: I am going to do it over fourteen weeks. I'm
Speaker 1: fully expecting that that's that's what the finals of this
Speaker 1: tournament are going to be, which, by the way, would
Speaker 1: mean that lash Legend beats rock Sy next year. Exact
Speaker 1: stop it. I hate to believe this. It is so weird,
Speaker 1: this show like flip flops like now here. You are
Speaker 1: expecting them to do the right thing, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to be the voice of reason. I'd like to hope,
Speaker 1: but I don't expect. If I sat here and I
Speaker 1: if I had started the show and I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, next week, rock Cy is gonna beat lash Legend,
Speaker 1: you'd be like, brother, what are you talking about? You'd
Speaker 1: be trying to be the voice of reason. You know
Speaker 1: this more news and we'll get into the full review.
Speaker 1: We've got raw ratings from Monday, one point six five
Speaker 1: million viewers point four four. They went up against a
Speaker 1: bunch of NBA games eighteen to forty nine, second lowest
Speaker 1: number of the year. They were up a little bit
Speaker 1: in viewers, and uh, that's that. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else to tell you about it. It's just those are
Speaker 1: the numbers. New trademarks filed for a Ring of Honor.
Speaker 1: Did you see the new logo? No, you didn't know it?
Speaker 1: Right now? Here we go? Is pop TV still in
Speaker 1: business or something like that. It is a black and
Speaker 1: white low go that says r o h. That's not
Speaker 1: they can't be it. I know it's on the Website's
Speaker 1: on the front page of the Wrestling Observer dot com
Speaker 1: right now, And I'm looking at this and this was
Speaker 1: a logo that would air it in the corner of
Speaker 1: a MeTV show in nine before color it had to have.
Speaker 1: This was created on a Commodore sixty four. Hey listen,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe the idea of this Ring of Honor brand
Speaker 1: is is it's gonna be black and white. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have good guys and you're gonna have bad guys. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be simple, straightforward black and white pro wrestling. Which,
Speaker 1: if that's the case, perfect logo. If that's not the case,
Speaker 1: this is a very very generic, boring logo. But that
Speaker 1: apparently is being trademarked. And we'll see what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: We don't know what they're gonna do with Are you
Speaker 1: looking at that thing right now? Does it even look
Speaker 1: like it's got sharp lines. If you look at it,
Speaker 1: it's like somebody, like a kid photo shopped it. Well, oh,
Speaker 1: it's like it looks like a warm tire or you know,
Speaker 1: somebody had nibbled on the outside of a donut kind
Speaker 1: of going around it. It just doesn't even look. Oh well,
Speaker 1: feedback we've gotten for this logo is not positive. If
Speaker 1: you think I'm being negative, I'm actually being positive compared
Speaker 1: to some of the feedback we've got right here. Maybe
Speaker 1: it'll grow on me. It's just looking at it the
Speaker 1: first time, it doesn't look It's just it doesn't. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: I honestly got it doesn't look real. Well this compared
Speaker 1: to where we are with logos, it doesn't look real.
Speaker 1: This Fellas says, well, listen, they're trademarking the logo, not
Speaker 1: the color, So relax because the logo is gonna be
Speaker 1: so much more exciting with a little bit of color.
Speaker 1: Why would you then put that out and just trade market?
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't know, why would you? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: this person says, the last logo sucks, so anything is better.
Speaker 1: Color is not claimed as a feature of the logo.
Speaker 1: M right, what else do we got here no love
Speaker 1: for the Amiga r O. H new logo looks as
Speaker 1: dead as the company. Let me have gray in that logo. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what is gray? Gray is what white and black.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is the new logos. DJ says
Speaker 1: it's a mock up slash stand in. That's what it
Speaker 1: looks like. It's a sample. This person says, this is
Speaker 1: not the legit logo for ring about it. Hey, I
Speaker 1: don't know. All I know is what's on our front page.
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do about it? I
Speaker 1: didn't go to the trademark office. We'll see what the
Speaker 1: final logo looks like. But the one on the front
Speaker 1: page not flattering. It's not it's okay to say. Tony
Speaker 1: Constance he expects to run a W Grand Slam Dynamite
Speaker 1: and Rampage from Arthur Rash Stadium in two. He spoke
Speaker 1: to News twelve tow did the success of the first
Speaker 1: Grand Slam in his belief that the second show will
Speaker 1: take place later this year, and he says it was
Speaker 1: almost a million dollar gait in a W history just
Speaker 1: came shy of that, but it was real close. We
Speaker 1: will be back and I will hopefully there will be
Speaker 1: another huge success back at Queen's for a w D
Speaker 1: Grand Slam and later this year in again. Everyone's into
Speaker 1: these stadium shows, w w S doing stadium shows anyway.
Speaker 1: Back in the ball with everyone's favorite segment at x
Speaker 1: T two point oh Observer Live by the show. Brian
Speaker 1: Elbert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. I can't believe the
Speaker 1: blowback to talk about n x T two point ohs
Speaker 1: Sometimes the show was last night on national television for
Speaker 1: crying now loud and you it wasn't that bad. There
Speaker 1: were two kidnappings, which usually usually we're limited to one
Speaker 1: kidnapping every week, but this week we got to although
Speaker 1: it's got an attitude about this, I'll go back to
Speaker 1: doing the review in Brian won't be here for it,
Speaker 1: and then you're really gonna be sad, so deal with it.
Speaker 1: We had we had a recap from spring break in
Speaker 1: when braun Breaker won and then Druids kidnapped him, so
Speaker 1: technically there weren't two new kidnappings. This one's a kidnapping
Speaker 1: from last week. So he got carried off in a
Speaker 1: barbed wire stretcher and he's got a bag on his
Speaker 1: head and he's being tortured by Joe Gacy and then
Speaker 1: Joe Gacy shows up to do a a promo later
Speaker 1: and I have no idea where you know braun Breaker is,
Speaker 1: He's just missing, He's missing, and uh and that one
Speaker 1: guy that was with anyway, So we had J. C.
Speaker 1: Jane and G. G. Dolan versus Rock Sand Perez and
Speaker 1: Wendy Chew in a non title match and uh and
Speaker 1: the champions won. So I'm not quite sure why they
Speaker 1: couldn't have just done a championship match. But you know,
Speaker 1: Roxy is, you know, the best worker on this team.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say by miles, because Wendy Chew is is
Speaker 1: pretty good as well, but Mandy Rose Uh is on
Speaker 1: the outside. She literally gets inside of the ring in
Speaker 1: front of the referee for a brawl. This is not
Speaker 1: a d Q. And then Dolan rolls up Perez and
Speaker 1: pins her and then they beat down and bully Wendy
Speaker 1: Chew afterwards. So the wrestling was the wrestling was fine.
Speaker 1: Finish was beyond far beyond preposterous brawling inside the ring
Speaker 1: not a d e Q. We had Tiffany Stratton and
Speaker 1: Grace and Waller are going shopping. I like this duo
Speaker 1: they're great grays and Waller and Tiffany Stratton are a
Speaker 1: great couple. And God knows we need couples because you know,
Speaker 1: two of the significant others just got fired. Creed Brothers
Speaker 1: are upset. Roderick strong interfeared last week. They have a
Speaker 1: rematch next week against the Viking Raiders. They vowed to
Speaker 1: do it right. Strong Than announces that he's got a
Speaker 1: new member of the Diamond Mine and it is Damon Kemp,
Speaker 1: whose name is He's like rattling off all of his
Speaker 1: his accolades and then he announces him as Damon Kemp,
Speaker 1: which is not his real name. This is the brother
Speaker 1: of Gable Stevenson. So you know, they could have used
Speaker 1: his actual name and promoted him as the brother of
Speaker 1: Olympian Gable Steveson. But no, he's Damon Kemp, who has
Speaker 1: done some wrestling, so he's been better for him. Run
Speaker 1: but we'll see. And we had the Joe Gaycey interviews.
Speaker 1: So the Druids apparently you're gonna be unveiled as some people,
Speaker 1: but I don't know who, and uh, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: who is it. One of them is gonna be braun Breaker.
Speaker 1: Well I know that, but I think that the idea
Speaker 1: is that these two guys are supposed to be new
Speaker 1: characters on the show, but I could be wrong. We
Speaker 1: had a skit the Ivy Nile Challenge, because we're all
Speaker 1: about strong young women on this show. And so she
Speaker 1: goes to the performance center and she's doing like all
Speaker 1: of this, you know, these exercises with these guys, and
Speaker 1: one by one they fall and so she is the
Speaker 1: last person standing, does burpes and waited pull ups and
Speaker 1: all of this stuff, and she's the She's the toughest
Speaker 1: person in the performance center. Is the is the storyline?
Speaker 1: Then we had the tournament matches. Fellon Henley against Sloan
Speaker 1: at Jacobs. It is impossible to say any of these
Speaker 1: names with a straight face. Fellon Henley one and about
Speaker 1: two minutes, and yes, uh, the virgin Brooks Jensen was
Speaker 1: in fact out there at ringside wearing a T shirt
Speaker 1: that read Virginity Rocks. It's yes, yes, and there's nothing
Speaker 1: wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with maintaining your virginity
Speaker 1: and until you're ready. I just if I was in
Speaker 1: my professional place of employment, being pro wrestling of all things,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm walking around in a Virginity
Speaker 1: Rock shirt. Even a C. Green didn't walk around in
Speaker 1: a Virginity Rock shirt. I don't think Team Tebow, No,
Speaker 1: he never did that either. You're kind of uh, the
Speaker 1: hell with it. We had a Santos Escobar skit with
Speaker 1: Tony D'Angelo. A J. Galante, of course, got kidnapped last
Speaker 1: week and literally Santos Escobar Aja Galante has never been
Speaker 1: seen again after he got kidnapped, and Santos Escobar flat
Speaker 1: out on national television suggests he'll never walk again. We
Speaker 1: smashed his legs beyond recognition, and so then Tony D'Angelo
Speaker 1: he tells uh del Toro Venicio del Toro to go
Speaker 1: and start the car. But Tony D'Angelo and his his
Speaker 1: his buddies attack the bull and they put him in
Speaker 1: the trunk. So now he we'll never walk again, or worse,
Speaker 1: elbow fire faced Amari Miller. They had about two minutes
Speaker 1: and she beat her and that was the match, or
Speaker 1: Jade is sitting up her inner or match with Nanny.
Speaker 1: Later then we had Solo Sakoa coming down to the
Speaker 1: ring and uh, God, bless this guy. He does not
Speaker 1: have the charisma of the USS. He's struggling his way
Speaker 1: through this interview, and Grimes comes out, he's a North
Speaker 1: American champion. Hayes and Williams come out and essentially at
Speaker 1: the next uh in your House whatever they call it,
Speaker 1: which they have not announced, but it's June four, they
Speaker 1: don't there to tell you that. On television, Uh, it
Speaker 1: will be Cameron Grimes defending the title against Carmelo Hayes,
Speaker 1: and Grimes has vowed if he wins solo, Sokoa will
Speaker 1: get the next shot. So that's your line up. Then
Speaker 1: we had a a I would actually call this a
Speaker 1: mini movie with Santos Escobar on the phone with Tony
Speaker 1: de'angelo and they're trying to negotiate the freedom of their
Speaker 1: respective partners, one of whom can no longer walk again apparently,
Speaker 1: and the other he may have been, you know, put
Speaker 1: through a wood chipper. We don't know. But here's what
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say about this. And I had I ha no,
Speaker 1: I thought it was actually pretty good. And and I
Speaker 1: hesitate to say this because I don't want to get
Speaker 1: you know, this is a weird company. Okay. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure that Jeremy Borash shot and produced all of these vignettes.
Speaker 1: I don't know for sure, but like you know, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure, and I don't want to. I I hesitate
Speaker 1: to put him over because I don't want to get fired.
Speaker 1: But like the production of these skits. Whatever you want
Speaker 1: to say about the acting or whatever, but like the
Speaker 1: production of these mini movies, it's like miles miles above anything.
Speaker 1: You'll get on raw or SmackDown on the main roster.
Speaker 1: And like in a normal company, he'd be like called
Speaker 1: up to the main roster to do this stuff there.
Speaker 1: But this is w W E. So you know, if
Speaker 1: I don't want to put him over too much because
Speaker 1: they may just fire him. But anyway, the production was very,
Speaker 1: very good, and I thought everybody played their roles well.
Speaker 1: I thought this was well done. I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on, but I thought it was well done. Apparently
Speaker 1: they're gonna do like a switch or something. We had
Speaker 1: this poor Nathan Frasier, this bloke, Oh my lord, he's
Speaker 1: such a geek. His character is such a geek. And
Speaker 1: uh he's interrupted by Zion Quinn, who is a total jerk.
Speaker 1: And they're gonna have a match, and I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be him and Zion quinnin Wesley first and then uh,
Speaker 1: and then you know Nathan Fraser next. They might, for
Speaker 1: all I know be putting Wesley and Nathan Fraser together.
Speaker 1: Is the new Msky, which Nathan Fraser so wacky that
Speaker 1: it actually I think would work. So I think this
Speaker 1: would be a good pairing. And look, we know West
Speaker 1: can cut of promo right now. Fraser can't, you know,
Speaker 1: at least believably come across, but he can move, that's
Speaker 1: one thing he can do. And those guys together, it
Speaker 1: would be fun, and they need teams anyway, be the
Speaker 1: best thing for him both, I think right now. Then
Speaker 1: we had Serai and Andre Chase versus Tiffany Stratton and
Speaker 1: Grays and Waller in the mixed tag. Dude, the fans
Speaker 1: were super into this match, and it was a fun match.
Speaker 1: And the best character in all of n x T
Speaker 1: two point oh by Miles is Body Hayward. This guy
Speaker 1: is awesome and he's got a great n x T name,
Speaker 1: and they had a fun match, and uh, bearing the
Speaker 1: lead of him coming out for the whole deal, well,
Speaker 1: we'll get to that after a while. It's gonna take
Speaker 1: a while. I want to finish this review, but anyway,
Speaker 1: say rolled up Stratton and got the wind and they
Speaker 1: called it an upset, even though I think Strengths had
Speaker 1: four matches in her entire career. And the fans went
Speaker 1: crazy for the finish and this was this was a
Speaker 1: fun segment. It commen gerro is back and he attacked
Speaker 1: von Wagner. So they're going to continue that storyline. Toxic
Speaker 1: Attraction played mean girls to pour Indie Heartwell, they can't
Speaker 1: say what happened other than her man is gone. And
Speaker 1: then of course you know they're talking about my man
Speaker 1: would never leave me. I only leave my men, and
Speaker 1: they call her a nerd and leave it everything that
Speaker 1: Nikita Lions beat Ariana Grace in three minutes and now
Speaker 1: Nikkia Lions will move on to face Fallon Henley in
Speaker 1: the next round. And that was that. Then the main
Speaker 1: event was Nattie and core Jade. So here's the whole feud.
Speaker 1: Core Jade and Natty do a promo. J is fawning
Speaker 1: all over she's the biggest mark for Natty. Natty puts
Speaker 1: over the locker room and everybody, and then she attacks
Speaker 1: and beats up core Ja because she's a heel. This
Speaker 1: leads to Natty doing a couple of matches and n
Speaker 1: x T and then out of the blue on social
Speaker 1: media announces, hey, we're doing Nati and core Jade this week.
Speaker 1: They do the match, it's a good match, and then
Speaker 1: Nattie beats her with the sharpshooter, and then when the
Speaker 1: match is over, Nattie turns the baby face and hugs
Speaker 1: her again, and I think she's out of here. So
Speaker 1: Cora Jade never even got a win over Natty. Although
Speaker 1: I will say Laid was a good match, core Jade
Speaker 1: is better after the match. I don't think it's the
Speaker 1: end of the world that Natty beat her in a
Speaker 1: really good match. Certainly, Cora j did not come out
Speaker 1: of this looking like a geek, so that's like an improvement.
Speaker 1: And uh, that was go to the show. So as
Speaker 1: far as n x T two point oh goes a
Speaker 1: much better show than usual. Back in a moment, was
Speaker 1: her alive the show? Bryn Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live.
Speaker 1: Mike simp Vid also Wrestling Observer dot Com. Dude, this
Speaker 1: body Hayward is gonna be a huge star. He is.
Speaker 1: Do you wanna know why? I don't know if he'll
Speaker 1: like be a main of Vennor, but he's gonna like
Speaker 1: make a lot of money for a long time in
Speaker 1: w w E because he's one of those guys. But
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what you give him, he's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be great. Because they had the match last night.
Speaker 1: And Sarria's gimmick is that she dresses like a schoolgirl
Speaker 1: in real life, but then when she goes through the
Speaker 1: smoke of the entrance, she magically transforms into her gear. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you've got Sara, Andre, Chase, and Body Hayward and
Speaker 1: they're all in the backstage area and they start walking
Speaker 1: like they're heading to the ring, and Body goes, she
Speaker 1: gotta wrestle in that, and Andrea goes, I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's go. And so they all are walking and they
Speaker 1: all go through the mist and So comes out in
Speaker 1: her gear and all of a sudden, Body Hayward has
Speaker 1: been transformed into a cheerleader. Okay. I know some of
Speaker 1: you're listening to this going this is stupid. Well it
Speaker 1: is stupid, but Bodie Hayward made this work. This guy's
Speaker 1: got this wig on and he's got this this outfit on,
Speaker 1: and bro he's going he's given it a he's just
Speaker 1: Hansen and he's having so much fun and he's got
Speaker 1: the biggest smile in his face. And I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: this is one of those guys that Vince just gonna
Speaker 1: love him. He's gonna be like, you know, you're gonna
Speaker 1: addresses this today? Are you gonna do this stupid thing?
Speaker 1: And body gonna go all right, brother, And he's gonna
Speaker 1: do with his smile, and he's gonna make a lot
Speaker 1: of money. I don't know if you'll ever a headline
Speaker 1: and wrestle meeting or anything like that, but this guy
Speaker 1: is gonna make a lot of money for Vince McMahon
Speaker 1: because he's right up Vince's ali. He looks like a
Speaker 1: cartoon character. He's got those features. Remember when he got
Speaker 1: beat up and he had like the big black eye
Speaker 1: and all that sort of stuf of and he had
Speaker 1: to sell it with the big sad face. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's just got a very uh you know again cartoonish
Speaker 1: are very you know, the hell of a face and
Speaker 1: and just again you're like you mentioned especially standing next
Speaker 1: to Andre Chase too, because of the character that he's playing,
Speaker 1: you know, as being so straight laced with the you know,
Speaker 1: the sweater on and all that sort of stuff. To
Speaker 1: have this goofball right next to him bouncing around hilarious.
Speaker 1: And you know the one the thing about him being
Speaker 1: able to understand Surrey, because that's how they set up
Speaker 1: the match. I didn't really understand why Surrey was so upset.
Speaker 1: I guess I missed something during the deal with with
Speaker 1: Grays and Waller and with Tiffany Stratton that really made
Speaker 1: say upset. But she said she was just those people
Speaker 1: driver her nuts. She hates him, she wants to have
Speaker 1: a mixed tag match with him, and she's trying to
Speaker 1: talk to Andre. He has no idea what what she's
Speaker 1: talking about, because you know, she's speaking Japanese. But because
Speaker 1: body is taking that Japanese course, that language class, you know,
Speaker 1: from whatever time to whatever time, he knows what he's
Speaker 1: uh what she's talking about. So the whole thing it
Speaker 1: was so cheap. It was very pro wrestling, but sometimes
Speaker 1: the cheapest stuff in pro wrestling is really funny when
Speaker 1: it's done well. Anything about Sarai and it's the same
Speaker 1: thing with Oscar is uh. We were we were doing
Speaker 1: a Landstorm Q and A yesterday and the question came up.
Speaker 1: You know why, you know, I think someone was like
Speaker 1: I got I got friends who were younger, and they'll
Speaker 1: watch a W but they want to watch w W
Speaker 1: E Y. And you know, there's a million reasons why
Speaker 1: one would choose one over the other, but one it's
Speaker 1: just how absolutely fake all of the verbiage is in
Speaker 1: w W E. I mean, not everybody. I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot of great promos in a W but even
Speaker 1: like the bad promos are still better than w W
Speaker 1: E promos because it just sounds like a human being
Speaker 1: cutting a bad promo as opposed to somebody reading these
Speaker 1: stupid words. And uh, the thing with Oscar and Sarai
Speaker 1: is they both will cut promos in Japanese and they're
Speaker 1: promos and Japanese are like miles better then And I
Speaker 1: don't know they're saying, but man, stirry cutting that promo
Speaker 1: in Japanese just absolutely blew away any other promo on
Speaker 1: this show practically. Although I really like Santos Escobar, He's
Speaker 1: really good, but that whole again, that whole act should
Speaker 1: be on the main roster. We'll see if Tony D'Angelo
Speaker 1: and his crew mix it up there first, I can
Speaker 1: absolutely see that. But I just don't know when you
Speaker 1: look at Cruise Del Toro and you I just all
Speaker 1: of them, I mean everybody, how they're not on the
Speaker 1: main roster, why they're not in the mix for tag
Speaker 1: team championships, and why Santos Look, I don't know size wise,
Speaker 1: he's never gonna be a world champion. You know, in
Speaker 1: Vince's eyes, maybe you will be. Everybody seems to get
Speaker 1: a crack at the belt at some point. But you know,
Speaker 1: him and the Knicks for trying to make the U
Speaker 1: S or the i C title something again. You know,
Speaker 1: having him in there with his crew is a new
Speaker 1: breath of fresh air. I just don't understand why expecial
Speaker 1: and I get it that what's her name? Who's with him?
Speaker 1: The woman that's with him, not carmen Um, What is
Speaker 1: her name? Brian? Are you talking about the woman with Legato?
Speaker 1: We've been oh, I know you're talking about the mystery woman,
Speaker 1: the mystery woman that keeps showing up with Robert Stone who,
Speaker 1: by the way, ever since she showed up in the
Speaker 1: crowd going like this, we haven't seen her again, we
Speaker 1: haven't she vanished. I think her head fell off. She
Speaker 1: was bobbling it like this so vigorously that she woke
Speaker 1: up the next day in her head fell off. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Omega Man, Electro Lopez, Electro Lopez. They can all be
Speaker 1: on the main roster as long as they don't bring
Speaker 1: her up to the main roster and give her a
Speaker 1: gimmick where she's so Fia Cromwell, didn't she become somebody else? No,
Speaker 1: who was that? That was someone else in the breakout tournament.
Speaker 1: Don't get into this mine because people get so mad. Well,
Speaker 1: you don't know every single solitary detail. But n x
Speaker 1: T two point somehow it's our fault. It's a Muppet show.
Speaker 1: It's the Muppet Show. To get you ready for the
Speaker 1: Big Muppet Show On On Monday Nights, Hey Juice. Robinson,
Speaker 1: by the way, revealed that he signed a contract extension
Speaker 1: with New Japan. I'm keeping the details private, he said,
Speaker 1: but I am here where I'm supposed to be. I
Speaker 1: don't want to work somewhere else. I was about to,
Speaker 1: and I was ready to, but I didn't want to.
Speaker 1: New Japan is where I belong. So in fact, he
Speaker 1: did resign because his contract was up at the end
Speaker 1: of April. Now he's back. It's amazing how two things
Speaker 1: can be true, and if you're smart about it, you
Speaker 1: can navigate those waters very very well. I think he
Speaker 1: did that. I've also got a Rampage time slot change.
Speaker 1: Rampage will continue to air in different time slots the
Speaker 1: next two weeks. For the second straight week, Friday will
Speaker 1: be two thirty Pacific, five the Eastern due to the
Speaker 1: NHL playoffs, and the following Friday, Rampage will air at
Speaker 1: seven eastern four or four of the morning, four thirty
Speaker 1: in the morning. Might as well, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Tony connounced? News averaged two viewers at two thirty Pacific
Speaker 1: and uh what was? What was ironic? Which? And a
Speaker 1: lot of these stand up for w w E. Blokestone
Speaker 1: mentioned is the the Powerful the Mighty n b A
Speaker 1: aired in the Rampage time slot Friday night at ten eastern,
Speaker 1: and uh did the same numbers Rampage does in that
Speaker 1: time slot. It almost seems like the time slot the
Speaker 1: competition Trump saw else, doesn't it? It does because that's
Speaker 1: the case. M says, It's just like braun Breaker, Solo
Speaker 1: Sakoa and Damon Kemp. Nobody is going to recognize who Santino.
Speaker 1: Morella's daughter is in the Women's Breakout Tournament. This drives
Speaker 1: me mad. Her name not Grande, but she wasn't Arianna.
Speaker 1: You don't know what it is either Arianna something, it's
Speaker 1: not Morella, which is the problem. I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so Nannie turned baby face on n x T and
Speaker 1: will be unapologetic hell on SmackDown on Friday taking with
Speaker 1: Shana Basler. Yes, things are different in the n x
Speaker 1: T universe. Okay, I gave her hug, everything's fine, goodbye,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't want to give a hug to Naomi
Speaker 1: and Sasha. So there you go. A lot of people
Speaker 1: talk about the logo logo is not final. Look at
Speaker 1: all the old trademark logos for a e W. Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see the logo when it's done, right, Do we
Speaker 1: have a W logos thrown in front of our eyes
Speaker 1: for us to choose upon. I don't even remember seeing
Speaker 1: the uh the mock ups free W logos? His person
Speaker 1: here says Sia and Chase, you was incredible. They need
Speaker 1: to see so RI team with more people to get
Speaker 1: more transformation gimmicks. Well, let's not. Let's not ruin something
Speaker 1: here by doing it too much every once in a while,
Speaker 1: let's see to spoil the eventual punchline. Xavier Woods once
Speaker 1: jokingly said years ago on an Up, Up, Down down
Speaker 1: live stream, what if his goals in wrestling was to
Speaker 1: get the small package over? Is his move and builds
Speaker 1: doing it off the top rope, So the announcers have
Speaker 1: to call it the big package. Well they'll they're they'll
Speaker 1: call the super small super package. Well that's super small package.
Speaker 1: So the joke's gonna be him at the end. No.
Speaker 1: The other problem is they don't even call it a
Speaker 1: small package. They called the Backwoods, so they would call
Speaker 1: it like a super Backwoods. Do you ever smoke a
Speaker 1: super Backwoods? Probably not. I would be willing to bet
Speaker 1: money that dude Drop is going to be in a
Speaker 1: superhero costume as opposed to Nikki dropping hers. God, I
Speaker 1: hope not no, And I can see Vince wanting to
Speaker 1: do that. But no. I mean, I thought that dude
Speaker 1: drop outfit that she had at the very beginning was
Speaker 1: a little much, but you know, the shiny one. I
Speaker 1: just make them a serious team, have due drops smack
Speaker 1: NICKI get her out of this stupid outfit and have
Speaker 1: them go and that was the other thing too, with
Speaker 1: churning Lacy Evans heel. You didn't need to do that,
Speaker 1: you know when you look at that roster and you
Speaker 1: don't say, I know, I know, But when you look
Speaker 1: at the roster, it's like so new devilla and obviously
Speaker 1: she's not gonna be a threat. But like Becky lynch
Speaker 1: Rea Ripley, who you just turned and you have do
Speaker 1: drop there, who can have good matches with everybody. She
Speaker 1: can be that third heel why they needed to have.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because Alexa Bliss came back. That's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons that may have pushed it the other way.
Speaker 1: But I mean to me, it's nut Stephen have Lacey
Speaker 1: Evans come back as a heel when you have do
Speaker 1: drop there, who you can actually utilize pretty well. Firston
Speaker 1: believes Cody has to be winning the U S title
Speaker 1: on July four, Well, we'll see, we'll see. Let's see.
Speaker 1: NBA was on ESPN attended four point five million, NHL
Speaker 1: was on t AT attended for n h L. Not
Speaker 1: still it was in the same time slot on the
Speaker 1: same channel. It did the same number. What does that
Speaker 1: tell you, dying over here? Still you don't care dude,
Speaker 1: I died for a week straight and hear one thing
Speaker 1: out of you. But the reasons because he didn't listen
Speaker 1: to the show that I had to do solo on
Speaker 1: one minute snowiced because Bro, I can't do this today.
Speaker 1: I didn't say. I couldn't say you want to do
Speaker 1: the show? Brother? Of this sudden work for me. You
Speaker 1: know why? You know, I gave this shop that one
Speaker 1: day because normally, like I get sicken and I get well,
Speaker 1: and I felt horrible at day and I thought, guy,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'll just wake up the next day.
Speaker 1: I'll be good to go. I'll welcome the next day.
Speaker 1: It felt horrible. Just will not go away, dude. It went.
Speaker 1: It went on forever, well over a week, fantastic and
Speaker 1: I still have a little bit of And how did
Speaker 1: you get it? You're across the country. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But I got to go to see New Japan on
Speaker 1: Saturday in d C. And I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: getting people sick and whatnot. Geez uh. Is the fact
Speaker 1: that Court did not tap out, but it said passed
Speaker 1: out of the sharp shoot really a big deal. I
Speaker 1: feel like a loss is a loss either way you
Speaker 1: cut it well, listen in w w E to their crowd,
Speaker 1: it is much better to pass out than to submit
Speaker 1: that cannon. So, I mean it is cannon. That's what
Speaker 1: people expect. So yeah, hey, look Austin and Brett. Until
Speaker 1: that is removed from everybody's minds and it goes somewhere
Speaker 1: else like that's that's the honorable way to go out.
Speaker 1: It's not the smart way to go out, as we
Speaker 1: know from real fighting, but it is the honorable way
Speaker 1: in wrestling to go out. So until that changes, until
Speaker 1: that tide turns, it does make sense. I'm good with it.
Speaker 1: Eight zero seven five six six is the phone number
Speaker 1: if you want to textas for five or not back
Speaker 1: in a moment. The wrestling of Relian back in the
Speaker 1: show Bright Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper
Speaker 1: viv Else of Wrestling Observed dot Com pers says, I
Speaker 1: don't fight it believable somebody would pass out due to
Speaker 1: a sharpshooter. Now mox versus UT is much more believable
Speaker 1: to me. Well, listen, what is what is believable? Okay?
Speaker 1: Pro wrestling is just what it is. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: there are there are internal rules to pro wrestling, well,
Speaker 1: you get put through a table. That's way better than
Speaker 1: getting slammed on the actual floor in real life, if
Speaker 1: you're outside in the cement and your options are get
Speaker 1: power bombed on the cement by vaulter or get power
Speaker 1: bombed through a table to the cement bro go through
Speaker 1: that table, you're way better off. But in the world
Speaker 1: of pro wrestling, it's much worse to be put through
Speaker 1: a table. In pro wrestling, if you're thrown into those ropes,
Speaker 1: you bounced back. That would never happen in real life.
Speaker 1: In real life, I've seen blokes picked up and dropped
Speaker 1: on their heads and hopped right back up and killed
Speaker 1: dudes at milion Enko years ago. And pro wrestling, you
Speaker 1: land on your head and you're almost dead. I granted
Speaker 1: most people ending on their head would be almost dead.
Speaker 1: But the point is there's rules. There's rules that you
Speaker 1: must accept when you watch pro wrestling, and one of
Speaker 1: them is if you're putting a submission hold, it can
Speaker 1: hurt so bad that you will lose consciousness, and fans
Speaker 1: accept that. So if the fans accepted to me, it's okay.
Speaker 1: If the vans don't accept it, obviously it's not okay,
Speaker 1: and they accept the idea of passing out in a submission. Hold. Look,
Speaker 1: we're still working on, you know, the research of musical
Speaker 1: paralysis that wrestlers suffer every time theme music hits and
Speaker 1: they stare and somebody's coming out to kill them and
Speaker 1: they can't get out of a ring that they have
Speaker 1: four sides to get out of. We're still trying to
Speaker 1: work on that and trying to solve that in the
Speaker 1: wrestling community for these poor wrestlers that are stuck paralyzed
Speaker 1: when theme music hits. Go blow your nose, brother, I'm
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