WEBVTT - The Return Of Brock Lesnar 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:07.080 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:16.240 Live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.640 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.680 Brian Alvarez and Mike sempervv. 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.560 Right, you ready, when you're ready, let's get it off. 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:33.760 There's going everybody. Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.440 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:40.519 three Eastern Sunday three Pacific six Eastern Saturday Mornings with 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:45.200 Jim Valley to name Pacific one Eastern Sundays with andrews Arian. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.640 And Hey, it's Tuesday here on the show. And you 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.640 know that means we got a lot to talk about 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:54.120 here today land Storm's going to be joining us. We 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.000 can talk about all of the latest news, including the 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:02.840 return of Brock Lesner actually was not on Raw, nor 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.800 was the advertised for any future events, although there's a 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.160 decent chance he could show up on Friday because the 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.200 announced that John Cena is gonna be there, and I 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:15.559 think John Cena, I mean, I guess it could always 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.560 renegotiate and that sort of thing. But it is August 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:25.000 fifth and September, October, November. He's got he's got four 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:30.480 months left and twelve dates, so like, there ain't that 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.039 many left. So he's gonna be on SmackDown Friday, there'll 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.240 be on be eleven left after that, and so, uh, 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.200 I guess you know, if he's gonna be there, you 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:42.000 kind of got to do something most of the time. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.319 So anyway, we'll talk about that. And we got news 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:51.160 as well on the g One moving away from brock 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.480 Lessner for a while. We got updates on the g One. 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.600 Hulk Cogan, of course, he passed away, and his daughter 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.960 Brooke was on the Bubba the Love Spunge show actually 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:06.400 talking about the split between her and Hulk. They've been 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.640 estranged for several years actually, and she talked about why 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.480 Red Hart did not have nice things to say about 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.520 Hulk Hogan. We'll tell you about that. 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That's eight five five three two 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.200 five fifty six forty seven. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:06.279 You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:10.080 and Mike Simpervivi on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.200 I got the show, Brian Alvarez here, Wrestling Observer Live. 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:19.520 Lance Storm is joining us here today and we got 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:21.360 a lot to talk about. Haven't talked to Lance in 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.320 a while. When were you on the show last fun Friday? Yes, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:34.000 call Lee. That was years ago. It seems that my lord, Well, 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:39.440 what do you think about the return of Brock Lesner. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.480 Well, I think everyone's looking at it from the wrong perspective. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.760 I don't think it's about Brock. I think it's about 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:52.800 the working environment of women within WWE and under Vince, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.000 there was a very unfavorable, bad pick your own word, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:03.160 work environment for women. Back to reader Chatterton to the 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:09.640 objectivity of women with bron pennies, matches and thonathons and puppies, puppies, puppies, 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:14.560 the very handsy makeout sessions that women had to do 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:20.400 with Vince McMahon. Take that forward to whatever necessitated Vince 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:24.680 to offer multimillion dollar NDAs to women to stay silent. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.200 To what we learned about Janelle Grant. There was a 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:34.120 women were, you know, drastically underpaid in that era. Too, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:40.040 and Vince was removed and Hunter has made things so 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:45.200 much better. Women are making way more money, women are 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:49.520 legitimate stars. Women aren't objectified like they used to be. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:54.160 Women can wear non revealing outfits and still be big stars. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:58.640 So to me, whether you bring Brock back or not, 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:03.280 or anyone else back or not, to me, you need 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:08.400 to ask your question, does this support your move to 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.640 improve and make a respectful, safe environment for women in 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.760 your company or does it detract from that and make 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:19.080 it feel like you're going backwards? Because I think if 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.680 you just look at each individual case, well, did this 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:24.680 person do something that's really worth that? 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:24.960 Oh? 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.800 Was this one instance? It's not about the individual instances. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.480 It's about the overall message you send to women who 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.160 work for you and in your company about the environment 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.600 they are going to have to perform in. And I 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.600 think you need to look at it from the women's 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.959 standpoint and whether they would be in favor of something 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:45.280 or not. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.200 Well, of course, and I don't think they would be, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:52.559 but no one's asking I would. I would? I mean, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.040 listen if you don't know, and I think I think 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.320 everybody should have, even if you weren't told, probably figured 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.319 this out. They didn't tell anybody who was going to 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.120 be there on Sunday. It was it was the usual. 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:07.120 They kept it top secret. They you know, they hid him. 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:11.080 You know, nobody knew he was there. You know there, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.880 I will say this, nobody knew he was there, with 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.079 the exception of like the people that had to know, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:22.480 so like John Cena and you know, Triple H and everybody. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:27.120 But there there were people Brock Brock travels with with 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.920 people and uh and those people also had been around 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.360 for like, you know, two years or whatever, and there 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.440 were people Sunday that were like, oh, look who's here, 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.400 and they pretty much figured it out. But I mean 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.320 other than that, I mean, they didn't tell everybody. They 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.600 didn't call it talent meeting. They didn't say, hey, you know, 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.360 we're thinking about bringing this guy back and he would 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.160 have any nothing. It was like he's coming back. No 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:53.720 one's got to say, that's it. And that's what they did. So, 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.280 I mean, I don't know what else to add. I mean, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.680 I wouldn't have done it. I don't how many times 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:04.960 we have to say that. I think it was an incredibly, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.640 incredibly dumb idea. But you know, this is this is 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:11.280 not a defense Okay, this is absolutely not a defense. 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.320 But we are now on Tuesday, and like, I haven't 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.280 heard anything. I've heard nothing about sponsors pulling out. You know, 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.280 there's a lot of people upset on social media, but 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.440 I mean, there was no revolt of any sort on Raw. 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.520 You know, they showed the footage of him coming back 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:31.880 and and people went crazy, and I mean. 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:34.880 But again, what does this do to the morale? 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.440 You're not wrong at all, dude, I'm not disagreeing with you. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:38.360 You're absolutely right. 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.520 That is the perspective people need to look at. 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.120 Well, I'm sure that, I'm sure the morale is bad, 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:51.920 but like you know, yep, well can I say other 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.800 than they don't care, which sucks? 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.800 And they are not the only company. It's not just 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.360 w B, it's not just the wrestling business. It's just 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.640 bringing this person back, make us more money than it 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.280 costs us. And that's generally the way things are looked 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:08.880 at in this world. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:13.240 And yeah, you know what's funny about that is is, Okay, 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.040 let's just let's just pretend, okay that we don't care 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.200 about the Brock allegations. Okay, let's pretend we don't care. 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.720 What is this really doing? I mean, buzz, I know, 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:29.800 but like what money is it making? I mean, you 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.120 think that John Cena headlining one of his last two 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.720 or three pay per views is like it wasn't gonna draw, 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.640 but now that Brock is back, it's gonna draw. You're 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.360 not selling any pay per views, you know. I mean, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.160 look at look at the RAW average for example this year. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.439 You know, whatever people want to say, you can say 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:52.200 whatever you want about creative and the storylines or whatever. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.280 I mean, if you're looking at how Raw is doing, 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.760 it's doing better than it's been doing ever. They're they're 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.400 they're averaging over eleven thousand. Okay last year when it 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.480 was you know, everyone thought it was hotter in the 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.960 year before. I mean it was it was nine thousand 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.800 two years ago, ten thousand last year, eleven thousand this year. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.160 So what do we need Brock for? 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:18.800 Well, you could play the booking card of John Cena 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.240 in his let's say it'll be his final match. Who knows, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.560 maybe it will be. John Cena needs a really big 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:29.200 match for his final sendoff. Do we want to take 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.360 a big enough star from our full time regular roster 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:34.760 to have John Cena beat to send the people home 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.640 happy or do we use someone who we will not 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:43.439 be using all that much that we can have a 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.280 big match with John Cena. Let John Cena go over 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.960 on someone who's not a regular attraction on our television 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:50.319 and send him on his way, like it might be 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:51.199 a booking decision. 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.760 Well it could be, but you're you're also looking at 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.599 this like we ain't gonna be seeing a lot of 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.600 rock like this. They've been paying this guy an incredible 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.000 amount of money for two years and they haven't used 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:07.200 him when I don't know, but my my presumption is 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.520 until it's up, like they're gonna get as much out 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.440 of this guy as they possibly can. But it's a 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.120 different like it's a different business now. It's like you're 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.960 no one's getting paid on the gate, you're not selling 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:22.040 pay per views, you're selling out with or without the guy. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.319 It's like, I don't even see a business reason to 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:25.839 bring him back. And by the way, I want to 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.319 mention this because last night on the show, they had 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:34.080 that weird segment where Michael Cole basically said earlier today, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:39.480 I spoke to Nick con and Triple H and I 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.079 asked them about the return of brock Leser. So I 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:48.439 thought Okay, well, we're actually gonna see this. I think 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:50.520 he's been I think he's been mentioned, but we've never 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:52.520 seen him. So I thought, oh my god, we're gonna 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.800 interview with Nick Cohn about brock Lessner. Holy smokes. Well 0:13:56.880 --> 0:14:01.079 Cole then just goes and they tell me that was it, Like, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.560 there's no interview. The story is three weeks ago. We 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:09.960 called him, we said it's time to come home, and 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.880 he said okay, and then it was over. And I 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:18.920 was like, what was the point of that? Were you disputing, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:23.120 like Dave's report that it was four weeks ago? I mean, 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:26.360 you're already disputing the idea that, like, you know, it 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.400 was John Cena's idea, which you guys said the night before. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.960 You know, what does this have to do with storyline? 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.200 We called Brock and said it's time. Brock came back 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.040 as a total heal and destroyed John Cena. And the 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.000 storyline Monday is we told him it was time to 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:46.760 come home and he said okay. I was like, I 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.400 was flabbergasted when this thing was done. I was like, 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:51.320 what in the world was the point of this? But 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.880 here's the thing. On Sunday, you know, the story was 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:01.960 well John Cena, he had a list of guys and 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.600 we wanted to make that work. So like they threw 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.520 Johnson under the bus, like it's all his idea. Like 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.280 if johnsen would have said, you know, I'd like my 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.760 last match with Landstorm, like they're gonna call you and 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.160 they're gonna make it work. Because John Cena like, come on, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.120 no offense. But anyway, the point of this is. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.080 John Cena he wants to get his win back. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:30.960 And John Cena was asked about Lesner returning. I'm trying 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:32.960 to find out where it was at so I can 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.920 plug it, but I can't find it. But it was 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:40.240 it was Adam Adam's apple, Adam Glynn. He was asked like, 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.360 what do you think about Listener coming back? And Johnsena's 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.720 answer was, they deal them, I play them. So like 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.720 Sunday it was like, it's John Cena's idea. Monday it's well, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.120 you know, we decided we wanted to come back, and 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.120 then Tuesday and Johnsena's going they just brought him back, 0:15:58.120 --> 0:15:58.800 and I'll. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:09.600 Just do it. You were listening to Wrestling Observer Live 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:12.960 with Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper vv on the Sports 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:14.640 Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.240 Speaking of semper vv, are you at his house right 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:21.200 now with the landscapers? 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:22.840 Christmas? 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:28.040 All right? Did you watch any of WrestleMania? 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.560 There was no WrestleMania to watch whatever. 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.480 I keep calling it WrestleMania because it's a two night 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.360 show with a raw after Summer Slam. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.000 I watched the Punk match out of curiosity with so 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.800 many varying opinions of it, but other than that, I 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:47.960 did not know where did you fall? I would not 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.480 be surprised if I found out that he was ill 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.320 or had a tragedy in his family and had gunn 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.560 through carry him through it. It was not the standard 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.879 see him punk performance, and h I thought they booked 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:07.720 him to look very weak, which was odd. 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:15.480 Well, I haven't rewatched it yet. I'm I'm I'm still 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.919 very tempted to, but I don't know. Cares like they 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:21.879 even credited the big thing. It's like, who cares? 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:26.760 They even credited the desk Fluke with breaking his orbital 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:29.600 bone rather than crediting the GTS, which I thought was 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.440 why not let Punk's finisher be the one that broke 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:35.960 the guy's face? He kneeds him in the face. Why 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.720 put it over that he got lucky with a trip 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:38.240 on a desk. 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.159 Well, I think it was mostly because you know, he 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.280 got tripped on the desk and went under the desk 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.800 to do all the blood and then came up immediately bleeding. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:47.960 I mean they could have they could have done a 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.600 GTS and then the desk thing or something like that, but. 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:53.560 They did the GTSS in the ring right afterwards. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:55.480 Yeah, I don't know. Man was. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.480 So he got cut, he got a nick who cares 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.480 you need surgery because Punk beat him up, not because 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:03.399 he fell on a desk. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:08.320 At least that that was a match, at least now, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.120 at least the last couple of days. You know, I've 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:15.840 noticed this thing on the internet where, uh, you say 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:20.760 something and then like everybody goes wild in one direction, 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:24.280 and then if you wait like a day, all of 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.600 a sudden, everyone else starts coming in to go wild 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.280 the other direction. So I think that that most people 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.040 considered it to be a much better match than I did. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.520 But at least, like over the last day, it's like 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:38.640 people are starting to come out of the woodwork and 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.680 going you know, it really wasn't that good. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:45.840 I mean, it's engagement farming. Don't believe anything you see 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.399 on Twitter. People like to jump on things and get engagement. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:53.520 Oh they sure do, yep, I was the way. There 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.040 wasn't a lot like listen, it was my opinion. Who cares. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.359 If you don't like it, that's fine. If you have 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:59.640 another opinion, that's fine. There are only a few things 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.879 that made me angry. One was claiming that my opinion 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.240 of the match was solely due to a personal issue 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:12.679 with Phil Brooks, which god I literally put over his 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.400 match with John Cena for crying out loud when John 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.760 Cena was it his worst in the heel turn gimmick 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.919 like Punk did an incredible job with him in that match. 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.560 No one listens to that. And the other one was 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:29.359 some guy accused me of whatever. You know, when you 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.640 try to just do something to like get a reaction, 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.320 it's like you already think. I really wanted to spend 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.639 my weekend dealing with that. I don't do stuff to 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.960 get a negative reaction. I hate that. I'm just telling 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.960 you what I thought. Crying out loud, jumping. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.520 Leave him alone on Twitter. Just text him angrily like 0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:48.880 I do. 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:52.000 Yeah, it's a lot easier to do that, rage baiting 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.440 or whatever. Yeah, I really wanted to spend my weekend 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:58.960 with the punk Brigade on me. That's really what it was. 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.000 What I was hoping for, a nice, fun weekend, especially 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:06.960 SummerSlam weekend. So get out of here, you geeks. NXT 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:11.240 tonight as Soul Ruka versus Tatum Paxley for the North 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:17.240 American Title, Hank and Tank against Uriah and Kale of Chase, 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:23.480 U Blake Monroe versus Kalani, Jordan, Yoshiki, Ni Murra versus Stax, 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:30.720 Lorenzo and Lexus King versus Miles Bourne. And incredibly, it's 0:20:30.840 --> 0:20:35.440 Tuesday here on the show, and we have four segments 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.119 already for Dynamite tomorrow. 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:38.119 Nice. 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:42.720 There have been many Wednesdays were at best I've got 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.880 three segments to talk about and one week I had two. 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:50.520 We've already got four big improvement MJF versus Mark Brisco, 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:55.720 We have got Young Bucks versus Brodido, Tag Team title Eliminator, 0:20:55.760 --> 0:21:01.160 Tournament Semifinals, the return of Mercedes, and then a Forbidden 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:06.800 Door TBS Championship qualifying match. It's a lot of words. 0:21:08.160 --> 0:21:14.119 Queen Aminada, Sky Blue, Alex Windsor and Billy Starks. I 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.359 gotta give aw credit. I mean they're getting these women 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:21.440 out working a lot, and if you've been watching the shows, 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:26.080 these matches are getting a lot better. So that's good. 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:28.679 And NXT. I don't have the dates in front of me, 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:31.000 but NXT also announce, you know, they do those little 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:35.399 local shows kind of around you know, the performance center area. 0:21:36.040 --> 0:21:39.640 They've actually got three dates a Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 0:21:40.040 --> 0:21:43.720 out of state coming up, I think late August, early September. 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:45.760 I don't have in front of me, but it's good 0:21:45.800 --> 0:21:48.840 to see them doing some house shows outside of the 0:21:48.880 --> 0:21:53.040 normal area because you know, when you do house shows 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.000 around the performance Center, you get a lot of the 0:21:56.040 --> 0:22:00.720 same fans, and quite frankly, you're gonna get It's good 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.800 to go out in front of different people, do different matches, 0:22:04.280 --> 0:22:06.240 get different reactions. 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:08.920 Make sure what you're doing actually works with everybody, not 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.400 just the few hundred people that see you every week. 0:22:11.480 --> 0:22:13.600 Hey do I got to bring it up Jada Parker. 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:16.280 I mean, she was a heel and all. She just 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.600 got cheered, cheered, and I got mad every week and 0:22:18.680 --> 0:22:22.160 next the I kept being told over and over, dude, 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:26.760 it's just this crowd. We can't book a national television 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:30.440 show around just this crowd, and my argument was, if 0:22:30.480 --> 0:22:33.840 you only run in the same building for national television, yeah, 0:22:33.840 --> 0:22:35.960 maybe you should book around that crowd because they're there 0:22:36.000 --> 0:22:40.440 every fricking week. But the bigger issue is they then 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:43.879 went on the road and everywhere they went, Jada Parker 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:46.920 was over as a babyface. So it wasn't the building, 0:22:47.280 --> 0:22:49.800 It wasn't just those fans. It was the fact that 0:22:50.440 --> 0:22:54.879 everybody thought she was a babyface, which I think she 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.800 now is, thank goodness. But I couldn't promise you. 0:22:58.800 --> 0:23:02.480 That if you knew. But thinking is at least better 0:23:02.480 --> 0:23:03.000 than doubting. 0:23:03.119 --> 0:23:07.040 It would definitely be better if I knew, But I 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.880 don't actually know for sure. Hey, before we get into 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:13.359 more news, Uh, what't you plug Brady's book? 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:17.880 Yeah, it's Escaping Denver. It's in the same universe as 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:22.720 the Escaping Denver podcast, but it is a completely different 0:23:24.160 --> 0:23:26.639 different avenue, a different world in the same universe. If 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.040 you will, it's available today. I'm holding up a copy 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:32.520 for those are in video Escaping Denver. The Archivist, the 0:23:32.640 --> 0:23:35.359