Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez
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Speaker 1: got a lot to get into you today. It's Wednesday
Speaker 1: year in this program, and you know what that means.
Speaker 1: Tonight a e W Dynamite. We got a big show
Speaker 1: coming up tonight St. Patrick's Day. We got Britt Baker,
Speaker 1: thunder Rosen, a cage match, Hangman Page and Jurassic Express
Speaker 1: versus Adam Cole and Red Dragon, Scorpio Sky versus Ward Low,
Speaker 1: Bryan Danielson, John Moxley versus Chuck Taylor and Wheeler Utah.
Speaker 1: The Heartys will be facing Private Party, Jericho Appreciation, Society
Speaker 1: Commencement and more titles on the line in the Britt
Speaker 1: Baker match as well as the Scorpio Sky match. Angles
Speaker 1: will be happening. The whole nine yards should be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun, so we'll talk about that, as well
Speaker 1: as Jay Briscoe apologizing for a quite famous tweet now
Speaker 1: from many many years ago that have in fact kept
Speaker 1: the Brusco's out of w W E and A E W.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that. William Regal appeared on Talks
Speaker 1: Jericho and went into a lot of detail about that
Speaker 1: interview he did last week where he had that line
Speaker 1: about how he wasn't long for this world and it
Speaker 1: was all kind of worrisome. He does claim he's good now,
Speaker 1: but he was not good and it's pretty much pretty
Speaker 1: much a miracle that he's alive. We can tell you
Speaker 1: about that. The whole interview is on Talcas Jericho. We
Speaker 1: got updates on Joey Janella w w E versus m
Speaker 1: l W because Dave noted on Twitter w w E
Speaker 1: provided evidence that they were not a monopoly and it
Speaker 1: was an issue of an observer that noted when a
Speaker 1: W and w w E went head to head, a
Speaker 1: W one people on the internet said he doesn't really
Speaker 1: account well. W W thought countered enough to put it
Speaker 1: in a lawsuit to defend themselves against claims that they
Speaker 1: are a monopoly. Anyway, I lost to get into back
Speaker 1: in a moment Observer Live. Rip it off, taking that
Speaker 1: time behind my back back in the show. Brian Elbert
Speaker 1: is here Wrestling Observer a lot. Hey there, I am
Speaker 1: like simple VP here also of Wrestling Observer dot com.
Speaker 1: See him punk morphed into me instantly, look at the split. Oh,
Speaker 1: we have so much to talk about here today. And
Speaker 1: yes we missed the raw report yesterday, so fear not
Speaker 1: I got raw in n x T today And Bro,
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear one person telling me not
Speaker 1: do this n x T two point or report. How
Speaker 1: in God's name could you not want to talk about
Speaker 1: these these segments with with Cora Jade and and uh
Speaker 1: toxic attraction. God, I could talk for years. Everyone who's
Speaker 1: saying ug right now they didn't watch the show because
Speaker 1: if they did, they would be salivating and the ability
Speaker 1: to talk about these these segments and a now deleted podcast.
Speaker 1: J Brisco again apologized for past homophobic tweets that have
Speaker 1: reportedly prevented he and his brother Mark from being hired
Speaker 1: and either w w E in a w fightful first
Speaker 1: had the transcription of the interview on the Battlegrounds podcast,
Speaker 1: but the episode was taken down shortly thereafter. Battle Grounds
Speaker 1: is yet to respond to an inquiry as to why.
Speaker 1: I've reported last week a person of influence within Warner
Speaker 1: Media did not want the reigning ring of Hunter Take
Speaker 1: Team Champions signed to a W because of Jay's tweets.
Speaker 1: I asked about their poor Je didn't specifically address whether
Speaker 1: a W joan interest, but did again apologized for his actions,
Speaker 1: saying he thought he quote was taking a stand for
Speaker 1: the Lord back in the day. I put out a
Speaker 1: stupid tweet nine years ago, the most dumbest, immature, obnoxious.
Speaker 1: I can't say the word I've ever done. I don't
Speaker 1: want anybody from many walk of life to feel like
Speaker 1: they can't care for the Briscos because I promise we
Speaker 1: love everybody. We love everybody, and we just want to
Speaker 1: go out there and be pro wrestlers and give the
Speaker 1: best match that we can. I said some dumb stuff
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I apologize for it. I'll apologize
Speaker 1: for it again. It was stupid. I feel like now
Speaker 1: there are people who look at this, we can't cheer
Speaker 1: for them because they hate a certain group of people.
Speaker 1: We don't hate nobody. We love everybody. We're just some
Speaker 1: country boys. He then said the comments were from immaturity.
Speaker 1: They were counterproductive to what God wants, which is to
Speaker 1: be a human being and relate to others with love.
Speaker 1: Jay said, quote, We're not like that when it comes
Speaker 1: to fans labeled, labeling them a certain way. So we'll
Speaker 1: see if this leads to anything. Obviously, this did lead
Speaker 1: to w W E not bringing in the Briscos, and
Speaker 1: uh as noted, I had been told months ago actually
Speaker 1: from and this from people that actually they are they
Speaker 1: are big fans of the Briscos, but they just said
Speaker 1: it's too bad about those tweets. This was months ago,
Speaker 1: so this is not a new thing that the reason
Speaker 1: that the Briscos have not been on a double television
Speaker 1: was because of these tweets. But we shall see if
Speaker 1: this apology leads or does not lead to So there
Speaker 1: you go. Yeah, I wonder why they took down the podcast.
Speaker 1: I wonder what the reason is exactly behind that they
Speaker 1: pull the whole thing down altogether for whatever reason. You know,
Speaker 1: there's no defense of what Jay said and what he
Speaker 1: tweeted nine years ago, that's for sure, you know. I
Speaker 1: know him a little bit, a little tiny bit in
Speaker 1: there western Sussex County, you know, the farm boys who
Speaker 1: never went off the peninsula, you know. But I I
Speaker 1: hopefully hopefully they have learned from it, and I think
Speaker 1: that they have. You know. F He talked about it
Speaker 1: on his podcast when he and A. J. Gray went
Speaker 1: in there to face the Briscos after the Briscos came
Speaker 1: into g c W and win the tag titles, and Jay,
Speaker 1: you know, said the same thing to FFI is he
Speaker 1: has to a lot of people about how apologizing about
Speaker 1: how dumb it was basically saying the same thing for
Speaker 1: all intents and purposes that he said on this podcast.
Speaker 1: It was dumb. We were dumb to some dumb country
Speaker 1: boys and screwed up. And they're going to because they
Speaker 1: said it, because it was tweeted, because Jay tweeted it. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're just gonna have to ride with the consequences this
Speaker 1: for a long long time. But you know, it's too
Speaker 1: bad in some ways, you know, obviously from a wrestling
Speaker 1: point of view, talent wise, but it all comes down
Speaker 1: to what you believe about how they feel and how
Speaker 1: you feel about their apology. Nui. You ross remember William
Speaker 1: Regal open up on Jericho's podcast regarding serious health issues
Speaker 1: he has had to deal with, including being told he
Speaker 1: had twenty four hours to live in early twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I was in a hospital for eight weeks, he said.
Speaker 1: I was given a one point twenty four hours to live.
Speaker 1: I had sepsis in my leg. They were gonna cut
Speaker 1: my leg off January four, nineteen, he said, since I've
Speaker 1: had paraicarditis and inflammation with the sacker on your heart,
Speaker 1: and what it does is scar the sack so your
Speaker 1: heart can beat with a sack and sort of lock down.
Speaker 1: He detailed a serious neck injury he believes he suffered
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety three during the manage with a Ricky Steamboat.
Speaker 1: Injury went untreated for many years, eventually required multiple surgeries,
Speaker 1: including one to fuse four discs in his neck together.
Speaker 1: He hasn't training as much, which led to further heart issues.
Speaker 1: He said, I wasn't training, I wasn't wrestling. Had slowed
Speaker 1: down the sacra and my heart locked down, scarring lockdown.
Speaker 1: It started to calcify inwards slowly and slowly. I was
Speaker 1: having more and more things such as my heart going
Speaker 1: out of rhythm. My legs swelling up. It was just
Speaker 1: building up, going to doctor to doctor. All of these
Speaker 1: different things started. First few months, I was having all
Speaker 1: sorts of swelling in my legs. Going to scouting trip
Speaker 1: to Costa Rica. Get off the plane. I'm feeling dizzy,
Speaker 1: not so bad. Just so anybody knows, no drinking, no anything.
Speaker 1: This is all things with my heart. He fell forward
Speaker 1: down an escalator, shattering his left eye socket. Had three
Speaker 1: weeks of amnesia after that, no idea what happened. I
Speaker 1: was in a hospital for a week in Costa Rica.
Speaker 1: Had shattered my eye socket, three weeks amnesia, lost of
Speaker 1: my vision in my left eye. Six weeks of treatment.
Speaker 1: Was getting better, but the legs kept swelling. Was having
Speaker 1: trouble walking. Finally there's a cardiologist in the room. This
Speaker 1: lady saved my life. She goes, hang on a second,
Speaker 1: there's something about that that doesn't look right. They scanned
Speaker 1: an area in his abdomen. Further scans were ordered. Called
Speaker 1: from the cardiologist saying the sack had completely calcified. If
Speaker 1: they did not remove the calcified area, he had less
Speaker 1: than six months to live. Got a doctor in Atlanta
Speaker 1: to do it. Eight weeks in the hospitals. Keep in
Speaker 1: mind he was in charge of n x T during
Speaker 1: all of this time. Remember every now and then he
Speaker 1: wouldn't see him for a while. Oh, I know where
Speaker 1: he was at. Then he's in the hospital. Uh he
Speaker 1: was got he got into the ambulance after he fell
Speaker 1: out of bed New Year's Day. Uh, sepsis in his leg.
Speaker 1: Doctor called the wife told her if they didn't cut
Speaker 1: off his leg, he had twenty four hours left to live.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed, but he didn't get
Speaker 1: his leg cut off. Uh. They he was injected with
Speaker 1: this this this, he said, that's what the doctor told him.
Speaker 1: And somehow, because they weren't gonna do what, they worked
Speaker 1: and they saved his leg. Two days before the X
Speaker 1: the UK show from Blackpool where Walter debuties in the hospital,
Speaker 1: something in his brain went click and he just thought,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be okay. And within a very quick time,
Speaker 1: he was walking three miles a day. Within two months
Speaker 1: he was doing five squads. Again. If you want to
Speaker 1: hear the whole thing, you can listen to uh to
Speaker 1: Jericho's podcast, because he talks about a lot of other
Speaker 1: stuff in addition to that, and UH, there you go,
Speaker 1: what what what do you say about that? It's just
Speaker 1: absolutely unbelievable resilience from from Regal and his his d
Speaker 1: n A and his internal drive. Just wow, when your
Speaker 1: body turns on you like that, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: not an old man, but in wrestling years, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of trend came off that tire.
Speaker 1: You know. It's just it's amazing. It's amazing what he's
Speaker 1: gone through, and it's amazing that he's still here and
Speaker 1: just an incredible I got it now. I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 1: listen to that. I was gonna listen to it anyway,
Speaker 1: but just just over his medical issues alone, I mean,
Speaker 1: that is extreme. And then you think about and again
Speaker 1: I don't know what w E pays for and what
Speaker 1: he didn't you know, with his his status there, everything
Speaker 1: good can because you can you imagine being in a
Speaker 1: foreign country suffering like that. And I know Costa, Rica
Speaker 1: Belize are very you know are there's a lot of
Speaker 1: money there, so if you travel, you know, you can
Speaker 1: make out okay, but still you're in a foreign country
Speaker 1: and you have this stuff happened to you. It's just
Speaker 1: all of these things. It's just It's amazing, absolutely amazing
Speaker 1: that he's alive and around and now you know, in
Speaker 1: a W going to give back in the same way
Speaker 1: he was in w W for such a long time.
Speaker 1: And I could see if he was salty by the end,
Speaker 1: as everybody talks about Brian about him being a little bit,
Speaker 1: you know, tough to deal with and a a little bit
Speaker 1: salty at the end. After going through all that stuff
Speaker 1: and after seeing what happened with n x D boy,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'd say, he probably had a
Speaker 1: right to be pretty slid. The it's real man's man
Speaker 1: right there. Damn right. Someone came up with that idea
Speaker 1: for the new group. The real Man's men love it.
Speaker 1: Back in the moments were live mo Day, Come Monday Day,
Speaker 1: Come Monday, Dame co Cough Monday, pretty little Spring. And
Speaker 1: I think it's me that he can give. My gosh,
Speaker 1: it's something that I won't try, but I'm in the show.
Speaker 1: Bryan Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live, Mike simper Vide
Speaker 1: also Wrestling MS dot Com. Here we Go. W w
Speaker 1: E has filed a motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit
Speaker 1: from m l W l W filed suit against w
Speaker 1: w E in January, alleging they put pressure on third
Speaker 1: parties to abandon relationships with them. The suits specific mentions
Speaker 1: a deal with the Fox owned streaming service to b
Speaker 1: TV as MLW's lawsuits as a deal with them fell
Speaker 1: apart after w w E interfered. WWW's motion to dismiss reads.
Speaker 1: mL w's claim for intentional interference with prospective economic advantage
Speaker 1: fails because MLW does not allege that w w E
Speaker 1: knew about mL w's negotiations to sell a third party
Speaker 1: first run programming. W w E has been wrongfully well
Speaker 1: hold on here, w w EH, The lawsuit claims in
Speaker 1: early one w W executive contacted Vice TV and put
Speaker 1: pressure on them to stop working with m l W.
Speaker 1: Vice did air one MLW special in October seven, featuring
Speaker 1: Alexander Hammerstone defeating Jacob Fattoo to win the MLW Hovyweight
Speaker 1: title Cardbauer said w W has been wrongfully depriving its
Speaker 1: competitors of critical opportunities for many years. Its latest conduct
Speaker 1: has been even more unconscionable. I think we speak for
Speaker 1: the rest of the professional wrestling world when we say
Speaker 1: that this anti competitive behavior has to stop. W W.
Speaker 1: A lawyer Jerry mcdivott, was quoted in The Observer regarding
Speaker 1: the lawsuit. He said, quote, if to be breached, then
Speaker 1: suit to be As to Vice, w W has no
Speaker 1: commercial relationship with them, or, for that matter, any of
Speaker 1: the other dozens of content distribution entities with whom mL
Speaker 1: W could do a deal if they had a commercially
Speaker 1: viable product. They put a show on Vice, if my
Speaker 1: memory serves me correctly, after one of the dark Side
Speaker 1: shows and lost most of the audience. I think I
Speaker 1: read they got forty viewers. No wonder Vice did no
Speaker 1: further deal. It's Jerry mcdivott. I love the petty. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, that's lawyer Petty right there, because you know,
Speaker 1: Jerry mcdivot isn't just like you know, hanging out with
Speaker 1: like knowledge of Vice ratings just at his side there
Speaker 1: he is right there, like, Oh, I recall it happened
Speaker 1: to come on after an episode of Dark Side of
Speaker 1: the Ring. I believe I lost all the viewers. I
Speaker 1: think it was forty thousand. Maybe I love it. I
Speaker 1: just it. This kills me, this whole suit. I have
Speaker 1: no dog in this fight. I don't care. It is interesting.
Speaker 1: Where is the lawsuit for Time Warner and whoever it
Speaker 1: is that owns vice. Where is the lawsuit for to be?
Speaker 1: I I don't on paper, I don't see what court is.
Speaker 1: UH is gonna battle here, but that's I'm not a
Speaker 1: lawyer either, So they figure they have something there. But
Speaker 1: they're going up against a monster who will use anything
Speaker 1: at his disposal, including the words of Dave Meltzer, which uh,
Speaker 1: they usually always say, you know his his news is.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he saw it in my timeline.
Speaker 1: In the w w e's response to the m l
Speaker 1: W lawsuit, besides the written response, they provided an exhibit.
Speaker 1: The exhibit Exhibit A was the October eighteen one issue
Speaker 1: of The Observer that covered bit of vie losing the
Speaker 1: thirty minutes head to head with a W as evidence
Speaker 1: that they were not a dominant monopoly. They're not a monopoly, so,
Speaker 1: as I noted, MLW luckily has thousands of fans on
Speaker 1: my timeline who can take the stand and say that
Speaker 1: didn't count. Ah, that's what they'd be saying. It's not
Speaker 1: a monopoly. It's not a monopoly because on October one,
Speaker 1: we lost thirty minutes head to head with a W
Speaker 1: eighteen forty nine. But it's not monopoly. They're not a monopoly.
Speaker 1: They are dominant. They may use barbaric corporate practices. They
Speaker 1: may use aggressive and maybe even underhanded business techniques. We
Speaker 1: will find that out. But they're actually not a monopoly.
Speaker 1: They're not. And a W actually showed that. You want
Speaker 1: to say that the business world is a monopoly for
Speaker 1: rich people and only those of the tippy top to
Speaker 1: be able to buy influence and to make enough friends
Speaker 1: and have people that work at networks. I will listen
Speaker 1: to your ideas. You want to say it's a monopoly
Speaker 1: for the rich, for the wealthy, for the for those people,
Speaker 1: for a different class. Sure, but actually the wrestling world
Speaker 1: is not a monopoly, and a W has proven that.
Speaker 1: Read more Mike, sure this is gonna I hesitate to
Speaker 1: even read this all right. A W success further undercuts
Speaker 1: mL w's unsupported assertion that substantial barriers to entry existence
Speaker 1: from this is from w w E nerds. It goes
Speaker 1: on to write, the complaint alleges the w w E
Speaker 1: s popularity has quote declined over the last five years.
Speaker 1: It goes on to say that during the same period,
Speaker 1: a W enter the proposed market and successfully sold the
Speaker 1: broadcast rights to Warner Media. Subsequently, a W managed to
Speaker 1: capture an average rating of point three four four compared
Speaker 1: to w W E Roz point five oh seven five
Speaker 1: in the Key eighteen to forty nine demographic, successful entry
Speaker 1: and expansion refutes the existence of substantial barriers to entry.
Speaker 1: Oh there's barriers to entry. You know. Had a guy
Speaker 1: the other day on my mimeline that was talking about
Speaker 1: how the key he actually wrote, the Key eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine demo is not all that important. He actually
Speaker 1: he actually said the words key while saying it was
Speaker 1: not that important. Well, while putting a a picture of
Speaker 1: the actual top fifty cable rankings, which are in fact
Speaker 1: ranked by eighteen forty nine. Oh that was a fun day.
Speaker 1: Oh man. As somebody that studied pay per view by
Speaker 1: rates for a long time, so I had to go
Speaker 1: into a lot of old broadcasting cables and old Kagan
Speaker 1: surveys and all that sort of stuff from back in
Speaker 1: the day. The eighteen forty nine demo absolutely positively has
Speaker 1: always one mattered at all times everywhere and has always
Speaker 1: been a part of them marketing that show, selling it
Speaker 1: to broadcasters. Nesh all those sorts of things. It has
Speaker 1: always mattered and it probably always will. He might be
Speaker 1: on the chat here he said key demos to mock you, Brian,
Speaker 1: to mock me. It is the key demo. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: been mocking himself by acting stupid. That's like mocking the
Speaker 1: fact that, like you know, drug manufacturers spent a lot
Speaker 1: of money on those news shows where it's like people
Speaker 1: were sixty and over. There's a reason they do that.
Speaker 1: That's their target. Since when it is eighteen to thirty
Speaker 1: four not a target for everything, Get the hell out
Speaker 1: of here. Stop it. Combination of NBA and daylight savings
Speaker 1: time changed as always, daylight savings time changed the usual
Speaker 1: viewing patterns for Raw one point seven zero million viewers
Speaker 1: point four eight in the key eighteen to forty nine,
Speaker 1: moll I was second behind the Denver Nuggets versus Philadelphia
Speaker 1: seven seventy six NBA game one point six two million
Speaker 1: viewers and a point five three eighteen forty nine, barely
Speaker 1: ahead of a late game with the Milwaukee Bucks versus
Speaker 1: Utah Jazz average one point four million. Tucker Carlson against
Speaker 1: the first hour of Raw. That sounds like an n
Speaker 1: X team name did three point nine five million viewers.
Speaker 1: They actually had a tuck or another think about it.
Speaker 1: A point three eight I was in sixteenth place for
Speaker 1: the night the hours one point six seven million viewers.
Speaker 1: We're back to nine pm one point seven five million.
Speaker 1: Hour two is now the most watched hour. And then
Speaker 1: it fell to one point six eight million viewers for
Speaker 1: the third hour. So there you go. But you know what,
Speaker 1: everyone it was number two on Cable USA is happy.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that they're happy. Second hour of the big hour.
Speaker 1: One week of that, I guess until everybody gets acclama.
Speaker 1: It always kills me. Daylight saving this time throws such
Speaker 1: a wrench in everybody. Uh when it comes to their
Speaker 1: TV viewing the next day at night, it's just amazing.
Speaker 1: No longer it's not dark at four thirty when you
Speaker 1: pick your kid up from school anymore. Yeah, you guys,
Speaker 1: you guys live further south, don't have to experience that.
Speaker 1: I walked to pick my kid up at school. It's dark.
Speaker 1: I walk a home in the dark. What with that?
Speaker 1: What is why would being in the sun further The
Speaker 1: further south you go, it gets dark a little bit later,
Speaker 1: whereas the further north you go you don't knowhing about
Speaker 1: the laughter. What do you what do you in like
Speaker 1: if you're a marathon at the bottom of the floor
Speaker 1: to keys. You're telling me it's like, you know, two
Speaker 1: hours later they get like that much extra. Come on,
Speaker 1: don't even tell me exaggerating. Don't even tell me. I
Speaker 1: have to explain the sun and rather I live at
Speaker 1: the beach. I watched you come up every morning, and
Speaker 1: I know how this never ending is if that they're
Speaker 1: you're adding like an hour onto those people's day that
Speaker 1: they're getting and you're not getting because you're all the
Speaker 1: way up north and you have to travel to go
Speaker 1: get your kids up hill five miles in the snow.
Speaker 1: No matter what, don't die on this hill, you idiot.
Speaker 1: You go a little further south and it's actually like
Speaker 1: dark for eighteen hours all day because you're further north. Dude,
Speaker 1: the further south you go the day, I am Did
Speaker 1: you just say that? If I go where is there
Speaker 1: an eighteen hour day in the States at this time
Speaker 1: of year? Is that also where the Aurora borealis is
Speaker 1: right now? Can I take a look at that too,
Speaker 1: this guy? Yep, I agree with Brian. I lived in Boston.
Speaker 1: It was dark at three thirty in January. How about that?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? How do we talking about? Jeez?
Speaker 1: Simp further three? I'm explained, I am explained. It's Boston
Speaker 1: in the winter. That's why it's like that. Geek. Can
Speaker 1: we go to goes down at four? Five or five?
Speaker 1: Whatever it is? Mike doesn't like science confirmed. I could
Speaker 1: have told you that. Jesus, Mike, go back to high
Speaker 1: school science. This person says, oh, man, oh my god,
Speaker 1: it still doesn't have any You have no proof that
Speaker 1: the people what is the time? How much more by
Speaker 1: in the deep parts of New Brunswick. Yea, because it's
Speaker 1: north That's exactly what I said, and you ridiculed me. Oh,
Speaker 1: you live in Washington State. You're trying to act like
Speaker 1: people in the in the continental United States have it
Speaker 1: so much better than you because their day is so
Speaker 1: much longer. It is longer. It is longer. That's the
Speaker 1: point north you go, it's shorter. It's Thank god the
Speaker 1: raw n n x T report after the break, because
Speaker 1: it can't be worse than that. Back in a moment
Speaker 1: Observer live, these people, Oh, get out of your mom
Speaker 1: ab oh man, let me talk about these shows because
Speaker 1: we missed the the Raw Report yesterday, which now was
Speaker 1: so far away I've forgotten about it. But luckily anyway,
Speaker 1: so Raw put up with Kevin Owens coming out. He
Speaker 1: cuts his promo on Steve Auston, dropped a hey o
Speaker 1: in there and promised to beat up uh Steve Boston
Speaker 1: WRESTLEMANI and then gave a stunner to a cameraman who
Speaker 1: took a great bump. Great bump. Too bad. This guy
Speaker 1: wasn't in shape because of the Hada hired him. And
Speaker 1: we had Damien Priest versus Finnbalor. This was a non
Speaker 1: title match and they went seven minutes and then uh uh,
Speaker 1: Finn Valor hid him with the reckoning after Balor was
Speaker 1: distracted by Austin Theory. But by the way, they're not
Speaker 1: even the same show, nor feuding with each other, but
Speaker 1: we needed some sort of interference here. So then Austin
Speaker 1: Theory gave Balor his finish and presumably, I mean, I
Speaker 1: shouldn't say anything, so I just won't, but anyway, he
Speaker 1: laid the guy out. We had Kevin Patrick talking to
Speaker 1: seth Rawlins talking about how you have no path to WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: and the fans in the background began loudly chanting for Cody,
Speaker 1: which they did not silence. They let it play. We
Speaker 1: had the long awaited the Medal of the Giants Omas
Speaker 1: and Commander A zs. And some people think I just
Speaker 1: hate raw and I'm unfair. I'm a fair man. This
Speaker 1: match was so much better than I had any right
Speaker 1: to be. I was expecting this to be the bottom
Speaker 1: of the barrel, absolute trash, and it was totally fine.
Speaker 1: It was only two minutes and they didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: but it was so much better than expected. Almost pinned
Speaker 1: him with a tree slam and then choke slamed Apollo
Speaker 1: Cruiz afterwards. It was fine two minutes of television. Then
Speaker 1: we had the ongoing storyline where Rawlins is going up
Speaker 1: Tones and he comes up with this idea again on
Speaker 1: wrestle Mania. I'm gonna do my own talk show. In fact,
Speaker 1: I'm an interview. Steve Austin Cavin Olans like, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about, bro, that's my idea. You're trying to
Speaker 1: steal my spot, and so, long story short, they do
Speaker 1: a segment later and uh Sonya Deville puts the match
Speaker 1: together for the main event live, Morrigan beat Queen Selina
Speaker 1: when Carmela just is flirting and she actually no. First
Speaker 1: she was getting chased and she jumped into Corey Graves
Speaker 1: lap and then Corey and Carmel or kicking it Rea Ripley,
Speaker 1: and of course is Lena's distracted and pinned by Live
Speaker 1: Morgan in three minutes and uh that man, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see this match. We have to nothing happen
Speaker 1: in tag champs that now can't even get a long
Speaker 1: and work together anyway. Whatever, So it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: multi team match at the and WrestleMania, which for all
Speaker 1: I know, Zelena Live or Lenan Carmel are just gonna win.
Speaker 1: But honestly it should be Rea Ripley and uh and
Speaker 1: Live more. Yes, but Brian, what about you know Sasha Banks,
Speaker 1: she's a huge star, She's teaming with Naomi. They're gonna
Speaker 1: go for the titles at WrestleMania. They are, and they
Speaker 1: should be screwed by Bailey coming back. That's my booking.
Speaker 1: And we had a seth rawlins segment which is noticed
Speaker 1: set up the match for the main event. Ray and
Speaker 1: Dominic defeated Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander. At least they
Speaker 1: actually beat the hurt business. This week it was Dominic
Speaker 1: pinning Cedric with the frog splash, and then they were
Speaker 1: attacked and beat down by the Miss and Logan Paul.
Speaker 1: But these damn heel mysterios. They said Miss outside and
Speaker 1: they're gonna double team Logan Paul, these two baby faces.
Speaker 1: But he manages to escape just in time, sets up
Speaker 1: the WrestleMania match. We had an Edge segment, bro this
Speaker 1: guy was so much better as a baby face. Dude.
Speaker 1: You'll never guess what he said in his heel promo
Speaker 1: trying to do a prediction segment. What did Edge say
Speaker 1: in his heel promo if you didn't watch Raw, Well,
Speaker 1: if your answer is it's the fans, it's all your fault, fans. Yes,
Speaker 1: he blamed the fans and kind of promo saying you
Speaker 1: would beat a j at WrestleMania. If I never heard
Speaker 1: a guy blame the fans again, if I never heard
Speaker 1: it again, it would be too soon. Proper usage of
Speaker 1: that phrase. Bianca bill Aire be Doodrop. The match was good, bro,
Speaker 1: they always have good matches. I really like the match
Speaker 1: is this is the third time I've seen this match
Speaker 1: in five weeks, bro Hire. Some women bring up Dady's
Speaker 1: girls something, don't push it yet. God, the same matches
Speaker 1: over and over again, even once. I like, I can
Speaker 1: only watch the same match so many times where I
Speaker 1: don't care anymore. Guys, no nothing, I'm not gonna use
Speaker 1: the term. Then r K BRO had their championship celebration.
Speaker 1: This was when the show totally turned around. This was awesome.
Speaker 1: So they're out there and they're celebrating and Randy Orton's
Speaker 1: arranged this celebration. Was Randy Oron. He has a point
Speaker 1: of thought into this. He's got a couple of balloons
Speaker 1: that are deflated, a couple of a little bit of popcorn.
Speaker 1: But man met Riddles, the biggest fan of Randy Orton.
Speaker 1: So he's never been so happy. It's the greatest day
Speaker 1: of his life that Randy. They should be Randy and Dad.
Speaker 1: He's girl together. That's a team for you. But he's
Speaker 1: so happy that Randy has has thrown this party for him.
Speaker 1: And the street profits show up and they won a
Speaker 1: championship match. They actually of all things. They go, we
Speaker 1: beat you in a non titled match a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: we deserve a championship match. Randy's like, Bro, you ain't
Speaker 1: get a championship match. We had to win a spelling
Speaker 1: beat to get a shot at these titles. You ain't
Speaker 1: just getting a shot for winning a match. Ridiculous, silly,
Speaker 1: And then Riddles like, well, bro, we have to have
Speaker 1: a match up. Like we're all excited to go to
Speaker 1: wrestle Manie, we don't have an opponent, so I think
Speaker 1: that we should give them a championship match. And so
Speaker 1: finally Ors like, fine, we'll give you a shot at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: And then as they're leaving, montes Ford as the audacity
Speaker 1: to say that this party is ass. It's a two
Speaker 1: pack of ass. That's what he said. And now now
Speaker 1: Riddles furious and listen, I'm not doing this segment justice
Speaker 1: it was. It was ten thousand times better than I
Speaker 1: explaining it. So so Riddle now he wants to fight,
Speaker 1: So it's Riddle versus montez Ford and they go nine
Speaker 1: minutes and uh, just a lame d Q and alph
Speaker 1: Academy runs in beats everybody up. So it looks like
Speaker 1: we're gonna have how many For some reason, seth Rawlins
Speaker 1: can't get a match at Mania, but like everybody else
Speaker 1: can get a match at WrestleMania. There's fifty people doing
Speaker 1: multiperson matches on this show. When Scott whole video package
Speaker 1: was great and then his note of the main event
Speaker 1: was Kevin Owens and seth Rawlins. That a very good match.
Speaker 1: It went sixteen minutes. Seth had the wind but no
Speaker 1: ref and then uh, finally Kevin Owens boots him, hits
Speaker 1: him with the stunner, pins him seth Rawlins. Still no
Speaker 1: path to WrestleMania. You guys honestly watched this show and
Speaker 1: thought Cody ain't coming in. Really, what are you new?
Speaker 1: M M god. Then we had n x T. We're
Speaker 1: also there are p bowl without a path. Yeah, Cameron,
Speaker 1: no path to wrestle many. Maybe Cody's going to n
Speaker 1: XT and thought of that. We had a Scott Hall tribute.
Speaker 1: Then we had the Cody the Cody n x T
Speaker 1: post show pizza party. I'm sure it would be fl Bro,
Speaker 1: that'd be awesome. I I do that so Miss TV
Speaker 1: with Dolves, Ziggler and Bro. When I heard we're gonna
Speaker 1: have Miss TV on n x T, I was like, God,
Speaker 1: I know you want people from the main roster, but
Speaker 1: I gotta watch this stupid thing. On two shows. Thankfully,
Speaker 1: it was short and quick. They went out there. They
Speaker 1: had a quick segment. It was interrupted by l A Night.
Speaker 1: L A Knight wants a shot at the title. Ziggler said,
Speaker 1: all right, it's it's on for the main event here tonight.
Speaker 1: So that was fine. Then we had a show long
Speaker 1: storyline with Cora and Jade. Remember how the story was
Speaker 1: that she was a loser, then she was a geek,
Speaker 1: and then she was also weak. Remember that now she's
Speaker 1: a thief. She is she has stolen the n x
Speaker 1: T Women's title and the n x T Women's tag
Speaker 1: team battles theft. She stole them, and she's she's smirking
Speaker 1: about it. Well, Brian, do you remember the deal she
Speaker 1: did with Raquel where they did the whole like they
Speaker 1: were like flying from tree to tree and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Maybe she's just like one of those are dremaline junkies
Speaker 1: who needs to like, you know, like petty crimes to
Speaker 1: like get off or something. We don't know what the
Speaker 1: development of this character has stolen these belts. She's a thief,
Speaker 1: and the whole show, the whole show, Toxic Attraction wants
Speaker 1: to find their belts. Okay, so the heels have been wronged,
Speaker 1: they have been robbed, and they're going to try and
Speaker 1: find their belts. So, you know, one of them, one
Speaker 1: of the you know, I forget their name, j C.
Speaker 1: Like she you know, she sees one of the belts,
Speaker 1: and I swear to God, she sees the belt hanging
Speaker 1: from something, and she sneaks up and she goes, oh,
Speaker 1: it didn't chup in me. I'm gonna try and grab it,
Speaker 1: and she grabs it in a you know, the Ran
Speaker 1: Corps door slams or what ever. And now she's trapped
Speaker 1: and then uh, the other one. Bro. The best part
Speaker 1: about it too, though, is but she's blocked behind the game,
Speaker 1: but there's a camera man suddenly behind her, filming from behind.
Speaker 1: So then the other one finds it a dumpster, but
Speaker 1: like the dumpster clothes on her, and then a forklif
Speaker 1: comes down, so they're both trapped. Okay. Then then not
Speaker 1: only not only is Cora Jade stolen these championship belts,
Speaker 1: but she goes to steal Mandy Roses Escalade. She's gonna
Speaker 1: steal her car. Well, she gets in the car and
Speaker 1: she looks in the rear view and Mandy's in the
Speaker 1: car of course she is. And she starts beating up
Speaker 1: cor and we're supposed to like feel sorry for this
Speaker 1: thief who tried to steal an escalade, and then Manny
Speaker 1: just beats the absolute living hell out of her and
Speaker 1: leaves her her dead, like you know, some some horrible
Speaker 1: It's just she's dead on the concrete. And then somehow
Speaker 1: the other two have escaped, and then they're all there
Speaker 1: so they can pose. What did she spray paint on
Speaker 1: her back? I thought it was gonna be Was she
Speaker 1: just put paint on her Oh my god, this was
Speaker 1: beyond There was no Emmy getting one for this, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that much. What How did you feel about
Speaker 1: the Thespianism or whatnot? There was no Thespianism in this whatsoever?
Speaker 1: That is That is profound disrespect to Thespians everywhere. Now
Speaker 1: they continue. We had Santos Escobar beating Cameron Grimes. This
Speaker 1: is actually a really good match. Santo's beat him clean
Speaker 1: in the middle, pinned him a lot of heel clean
Speaker 1: wins on this show. Just pinned him clean in the
Speaker 1: middle of the ring. So Escobar's in the ladder match
Speaker 1: and Cameron Grimes has no path to WrestleMania. They found
Speaker 1: a kid and he beat Kushita, and so this kid
Speaker 1: now is going to face uh I think Trick Williams
Speaker 1: next week and the winner gets into the ladder match.
Speaker 1: Match was good, but Bro, I've said a million times,
Speaker 1: these guys could have a match in every other promotion
Speaker 1: on the face of this planet, including up in New
Speaker 1: Brunswick on a very short day, and it would be
Speaker 1: better than this match. Waller winner, by the way, Then
Speaker 1: we had a segment I was so excited almost peede
Speaker 1: straight up in the air. Quite frankly, they almost set
Speaker 1: up Santos Escobar and Raymisterio oh Man. Instead it's Dominic
Speaker 1: Mysterio against Raoul Mendoza. No disrespect to either of them, Bro,
Speaker 1: I want to see a Raymisterio in Santos Escobar. We
Speaker 1: had Tiffany Stratton versus Serai, which was the biggest load
Speaker 1: of trash I ever saw. So Sia's gimmick is she
Speaker 1: wears a school girl outfit backstage, but she goes through
Speaker 1: the magic smoke in her entrance wearing her medallion and
Speaker 1: she transforms into a worker. Well, Tiffany attacks her backstage
Speaker 1: and tears off the medallion. So now, and this was
Speaker 1: her exact words, she's unable to do her transform. A. Yes,
Speaker 1: she beat her ass through the entrance. She rolled her
Speaker 1: out there, and apparently if you get rolled out there
Speaker 1: by somebody else, you don't transform. So she's thrown out there.
Speaker 1: She gets beaten up, and uh, Tiffany Stratton does a
Speaker 1: spinning Vader splash right to the legs of Sarai. I
Speaker 1: think she broke both her legs. We had a chump
Speaker 1: of promo thanking the fans. It looks like he's on
Speaker 1: his way out after standing the liver. His last match
Speaker 1: will be against Tony di'angelo. It appears Indy hartwell persha parata.
Speaker 1: I mean, it wasn't that bad. But if you've ever
Speaker 1: seen a match that was practiced three times and they
Speaker 1: just went out and did what they practiced and there
Speaker 1: was like no emotion or nothing. This was it. We
Speaker 1: had to return to the creep from the creep Farm.
Speaker 1: A lot of making out afterwards. Damn it, there's the music.
Speaker 1: I thought I'd do it, but I didn't last two
Speaker 1: matches after the break observe her live. I couldn't get
Speaker 1: it all in before the break. But anyway, Dominic Mysterio
Speaker 1: beat Raulman Mendoza, which actually a good match, and Dominic
Speaker 1: Mysterio is better and people give him credit for because
Speaker 1: he's on Raw and all that, but Mendoza are so good. Well,
Speaker 1: those two guys don't get any credit. And we had
Speaker 1: the end of the Core of Jade thing and uh,
Speaker 1: we had a second with the Creed Brothers m s
Speaker 1: K and Imperium. Dude. I don't like to bury the fans,
Speaker 1: but I hate these nerds that just have to boo
Speaker 1: MSK and they ruin all the segments and it's like
Speaker 1: a small pocket of fans gotten mad at them, and
Speaker 1: it's on national television. In this little building, it was
Speaker 1: like whatever, whatever. And then we had Dolves Ziggler versus
Speaker 1: l A. Night, which that was a good match. It's
Speaker 1: Dolves Ziggler and l A. Knight and they worked well together.
Speaker 1: And then same thing. Uh, they were actually interferes but
Speaker 1: we didn't lead to the finish at all. It was
Speaker 1: like ten minutes before the finish and then finally l
Speaker 1: A Night just goes for a charge. Mrs gets super
Speaker 1: kicked pin clean in the middle of the ring. Now
Speaker 1: we gotta give Ziggler a little credibility after he won
Speaker 1: the title, of course, and then braun Breaker hits the
Speaker 1: ring and he's he's not smiling Rob roun Breaker today,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's Scott Steiner, not Rick, He's Scott and
Speaker 1: he wants a match at standing the liver and Sigler
Speaker 1: holds up the belt excepts. So you know, there was
Speaker 1: good stuff on this show, but I can't help but
Speaker 1: notice that every time there's something good, it involves professional
Speaker 1: wrestlers who are doing professional wrestling for a long time
Speaker 1: and all of their volleyball and fitness and just sucks.
Speaker 1: But oh well, we just gotta keep trying, right, We
Speaker 1: just gotta keep doing those n I L s. Let's
Speaker 1: keep doing those tryouts with no wrestlers allow out. We
Speaker 1: can only make this thing worse. Thanks, Mike has always
Speaker 1: callers and listeners over the studio. We'll talk to you
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