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.
Speaker 1: Read Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every
Speaker 1: day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three
Speaker 1: Pacific sixth eastern. Well, it's Tuesday here on this show.
Speaker 1: We got a lot to talk about here today. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not even been most of the show talking about Scott Hall,
Speaker 1: who at the time was I was not doing well
Speaker 1: and uh yesterday at about five Pacific eight eastern. Actually,
Speaker 1: I believe that it might have been w w E
Speaker 1: that made the first announcement that that he had passed away.
Speaker 1: But he passed away yesterday about five Pacific eight eastern,
Speaker 1: and w W had a graphic for him at the
Speaker 1: start of the show and video package later on in
Speaker 1: the show, which was a very very good video package.
Speaker 1: Had a lot of people raving about it, and I
Speaker 1: was told from somebody there that it was actually a
Speaker 1: very old video package and they updated the voice over obviously,
Speaker 1: but that if you enjoyed it, they're working on a
Speaker 1: brand new one that is going to probably be a
Speaker 1: w W dot com exclusive, but they have a a
Speaker 1: new video package of working on for Scott Hall that
Speaker 1: I'm told is really really cool talking to a lot
Speaker 1: of people, so that should be up soon. But yesterday
Speaker 1: we took a bunch of calls and text messages emails,
Speaker 1: so we are going to continue that today. If you
Speaker 1: have more that you'd like to uh to say regarding
Speaker 1: Scott Hall, the text message line four to five seven
Speaker 1: eight zero seven five six six. That is four to
Speaker 1: five seven eight zero seven five six six. You can
Speaker 1: send emails Bryan at Wrestling Observer dot com at Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez on Twitter, and we will go over a lot
Speaker 1: of those during the show here today. Not really any
Speaker 1: news that we didn't talk about regarding Scott Hall from yesterday,
Speaker 1: but we can talk more about moments in his career, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So feel free to drop us a line with whatever's
Speaker 1: on your mind. And of course we've also got NUDS Cody.
Speaker 1: Hopefully I can get that out of the way quickly,
Speaker 1: and we've got a n x T show coming up tonight.
Speaker 1: A w is pretty much sold out tomorrow. WrestleMania also
Speaker 1: stuff to get into today back in a moment Abserver
Speaker 1: Live sometimes Love back in the show brand Albert is here,
Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Alive, Mike's and Burbti also Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: Yes he is back. Yesterday went to uh see the
Speaker 1: Boogie Woogie Man or something like that Boogie Compound, the
Speaker 1: Buoy wiggey Man's wrestling camp and UH say, what, why'd
Speaker 1: you go? Here's believe it or not. Kevin Gill has
Speaker 1: been talking about it for a long time of the
Speaker 1: wrestling announcer and most notably for g CW right now
Speaker 1: is talking about his love of the Buoy woogey Man
Speaker 1: Jimmy Valiant and he's always talked about going, which and
Speaker 1: it's in Shawsville, Virginia's southwest of Roano. God is way
Speaker 1: down there in the hills of Virginia. And I said, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, if you ever go, let me know because
Speaker 1: it would be a huge role wind. But I'll make
Speaker 1: that trip. And he said, well, here's the thing. I'm
Speaker 1: going on Monday because they were down in Georgia, uh
Speaker 1: down in Atlanta and Charlotte this weekend. So he ended
Speaker 1: up coming up from Charlotte. I made the eight hour
Speaker 1: trip nearly it's about seven hours with traffic, it felt
Speaker 1: like about fifty, but it's It was one eight hundred
Speaker 1: thirty mile nineteen hour whirlwind to go down and see
Speaker 1: the Boogie Woogie Man and meet him down there, and
Speaker 1: it was absolutely worth it for somebody like me was
Speaker 1: a big fan of Valiant, big fan of mid Atlantic
Speaker 1: and n w A Wrestling, and just a big fan
Speaker 1: of history. He has got so much history all over
Speaker 1: that place and could not have been any nicer and
Speaker 1: sweeter with this time. Gave us a ton of it,
Speaker 1: just took us around, showed us everything. The property is incredible,
Speaker 1: So it was a it was a huge amount of fun,
Speaker 1: as you ended up seeing from the tweet that went
Speaker 1: out yesterday, and they sure did well. Let's get into
Speaker 1: the news here that we're talking more about that later.
Speaker 1: I want to uh, we spent a lot of yesterday
Speaker 1: talking about Scott HALLI will talk more about that here
Speaker 1: in a while, but man, I I logged in that
Speaker 1: chat and all I saw this morning was Cody. Do
Speaker 1: you remember, like back in the early nineties, when you know,
Speaker 1: let's say that that Repo man was coming to coming
Speaker 1: to raw or whatever, and you'd see these these vignettes. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what a great one to be with Scott Hall.
Speaker 1: When Scott Hall was coming as Razor Ramone, they they
Speaker 1: did vignette after vignette. He's he's out here doing this,
Speaker 1: he's out here doing that, he's flashing his gold He's
Speaker 1: and you waited, and you waited, and you waited, and
Speaker 1: you waited, and you waited, and you waited and you waited.
Speaker 1: You watched the video over and over again every week,
Speaker 1: and then finally one day the guy showed up. Boy,
Speaker 1: do we live in a different time? God? Last night? Hi,
Speaker 1: that's it. I'm done with this Cody thing. I'm stomped,
Speaker 1: sick of it. I'm sick of waiting. I've heard that. Dude.
Speaker 1: What we talked about yesterday is exactly where we are
Speaker 1: today originally. And this happens a lot in w W E.
Speaker 1: He was gonna debut yesterday because it was Jacksonville. Well
Speaker 1: he did it. Did you watch the show? I think
Speaker 1: some of you didn't watch the show. You just got
Speaker 1: mad that he wasn't there. The entire show was built
Speaker 1: around seth Rawlins not having a path to WrestleMania, and
Speaker 1: he came up with this idea that he was going
Speaker 1: to basically steal his best friend's gimmick. Remember that old
Speaker 1: song My best Friends gim mick. Anyway, that's what this
Speaker 1: was all about. So he wanted to do his own
Speaker 1: talk show and he wanted to steal Stone Cold Steve Austin,
Speaker 1: and so Kevin Ollen's like wrote that this is my idea.
Speaker 1: You can't steal my spot, And so it led to
Speaker 1: a main event, a main event where Kevin Owens face
Speaker 1: Seth Rawlins and the winner got the talk show and
Speaker 1: Steve Austin and Kevin Owens won, and the show ends
Speaker 1: with Seth sadly staring at the WrestleMania side as the
Speaker 1: announcers tell us he doesn't have a match, he has
Speaker 1: no path to WrestleMania. He's gonna be watching the show
Speaker 1: on his television at home. In what universe can you
Speaker 1: watch this show and conclude, Ah is Cody thing is
Speaker 1: all a work. He's gonna run a ring of honor.
Speaker 1: He's just gonna go back tight bro. I don't know
Speaker 1: for sure that he signed, but I would say, like
Speaker 1: with about certainty, that he's signed, sealed and delivered, and
Speaker 1: he's he's on his way in why there's no patience.
Speaker 1: White people are so angry about this. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to be angry about it,
Speaker 1: go for I've been sitting here on my own board
Speaker 1: for days reading about how poorly they have botched the
Speaker 1: debut of Cody and now he's a failure in w
Speaker 1: W E. He hasn't even shown up yet. Whatever we do?
Speaker 1: You even know what the hold up is? The hold
Speaker 1: up is they want to do an angle, that's it.
Speaker 1: So what are people complaining about? Because they want him
Speaker 1: here now? I heard he was going a week ago.
Speaker 1: I'm sick awaiting. I don't even care anymore. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go watch Blow Deck Mediterranean or what's the new one,
Speaker 1: Temptation Island. I'm setting my DVR for Temptation Island. I'm
Speaker 1: sick awaiting for this guy. They don't know, watch something else.
Speaker 1: Now they've lost my fandom. Oh my god, original Fox
Speaker 1: version of that do you ever watch? It? Was crazy?
Speaker 1: But look, hey, this guy's going. Brian wants us to
Speaker 1: let it play out. Yeah, nothing's happened yet. He hasn't
Speaker 1: even showed off. He hasn't he made his first appearance.
Speaker 1: I've heard what a failure his debut was what a failure?
Speaker 1: His run is? How they just don't know how to
Speaker 1: use anybody? How bro, he hasn't even shown up. Where
Speaker 1: were all these people during the prediction show, because apparently
Speaker 1: they're great prognosticators. Where were you? You better win? You
Speaker 1: better win this year? So the issue is they don't
Speaker 1: like what ww E was doing with something that they
Speaker 1: haven't even started. They're very upset about an angle that
Speaker 1: hasn't even occurred yet. Well, they're very upset about a
Speaker 1: debut that hasn't happened. What what if this whole master
Speaker 1: plan is something leading to after Rustlemania and they have
Speaker 1: some other sleight of hate might be but it was weird,
Speaker 1: But they won't because it was clear if you watch
Speaker 1: the show that they're doing an angle to lead to
Speaker 1: Cody versus Seth, which we've been talking about for weeks now.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry it didn't happen yesterday. I'm sorry it didn't
Speaker 1: happen a week ago. Dude. Listen, here's the thing to me,
Speaker 1: there's plenty if you want to say bad things about
Speaker 1: w w E booking or shaken what I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a million things you can bury w E about it
Speaker 1: hasn't even happened yet. Why are we fixated on this,
Speaker 1: of all things, because it's Cody. God, because it's Cody.
Speaker 1: This is why initially after everything went down as that,
Speaker 1: our martysik of this because it's got nothing really to
Speaker 1: do with the story. The interesting part of the quote
Speaker 1: story for me will be written like five years from now,
Speaker 1: when everything shakes out, when all the emotions calmed down,
Speaker 1: when we get perspective on what differences were. And they
Speaker 1: hated each other that day, That's what I heard. They
Speaker 1: hated each other. It's like, no, they got into it
Speaker 1: over a meeting, they disagreed, they were hot with each other.
Speaker 1: They did hate each other for a couple hours because
Speaker 1: that's what happens in business, and then they did business
Speaker 1: again the next day. Maybe that didn't get reported. There's
Speaker 1: all of these things that when it comes to like
Speaker 1: the book or when it comes to the long form
Speaker 1: newsletter that explains exactly what went down with Cody leaving,
Speaker 1: I will be interested in that story because everything will
Speaker 1: have shaken out by them. But in real time, you
Speaker 1: know what to be quite quite painful. I just had
Speaker 1: an Idea's that. I just had an idea that and
Speaker 1: I hope you're all listening, all right, Okay, I am.
Speaker 1: What I'm gonna do is in the final segment of
Speaker 1: this show, I'm gonna open up the phone lines. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and for for for ten minutes. Okay, it's the Cody
Speaker 1: Prediction Show. Okay, I'm not kidding. I want y'all to
Speaker 1: tell me today what's gonna happen with Cody by the
Speaker 1: end of the year. I'm gonna give a prize to
Speaker 1: the person that's closest at the end of the year,
Speaker 1: not even the end of the month, not even leading you, Nope,
Speaker 1: by the end of the year, because boy, we've got
Speaker 1: this guy. This guy here says he's gonna be he's
Speaker 1: gonna be chasing time. Brother. I want and I want
Speaker 1: your name so that I can ridicule you at the
Speaker 1: end of the year as well. I want everyone the
Speaker 1: last segment of this show is going to be the
Speaker 1: Cody Prediction Show. I want you to tell me what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen between now in the end of the year
Speaker 1: with Cody. Okay, And I'm gonna give a prize so
Speaker 1: like you can be all wacky and do oh well,
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna you know, you know he's gonna lose.
Speaker 1: I it to me, you can do that if you
Speaker 1: want to, but you ain't gonna win. And I was like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I give good prizes. There's no joke. Asked Mike, is
Speaker 1: this like the prediction contest? Do they have to get
Speaker 1: closest or they have to nail it? Whoever is closest wins?
Speaker 1: All right back in a moment Observer Live. Back in
Speaker 1: the show, Brian albare is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike
Speaker 1: simper Viv also of Wrestling Observer at dot com. By
Speaker 1: the way, to go to my twitter at Brian Alvarez.
Speaker 1: I retweeted a a news story on the y WF,
Speaker 1: which actually was from n was because we were still
Speaker 1: running shows at the the gymnastics facility, was before we
Speaker 1: got booted out for insurance issues and I was forced
Speaker 1: to start a newsletter and the rest is history. But
Speaker 1: if you want to check it out a second, it's
Speaker 1: up there right now. Is this a real news article
Speaker 1: or is this out of like the Free Weeks video.
Speaker 1: It's como news. Oh my god, it's amazing slow news
Speaker 1: day that day you'll see uh, you'll see the beast,
Speaker 1: the Psycho Young Sammy Gavara, the hit man who did
Speaker 1: the he Wars mask for the news thing. That was awesome.
Speaker 1: Psycho's mother, that's a good one. Yeah, check it out.
Speaker 1: And yes, everybody her her first years as he was
Speaker 1: real enough to make me think it was all real.
Speaker 1: He wasn't an exaggeration as much as an embellishment. Considering
Speaker 1: his demons came from the fact that he took a
Speaker 1: man's life. He looked dangerous because he was dangerous, and
Speaker 1: as a fan, his finisher looked dangerous, which made me
Speaker 1: think he was a badass. But as a man on
Speaker 1: the precipice of his forties, there's a human connection watching
Speaker 1: him battle his demons. There's an inspiration that comes from
Speaker 1: the fact he never gave up fighting. He didn't want
Speaker 1: to give into the PTSD and be a sober man
Speaker 1: because he knew that man was a better man, maybe
Speaker 1: a good man. There's something humbling that, despite his mistakes
Speaker 1: and pitfalls, he never gave up on himself, that he
Speaker 1: tried to be better. And of course it's a reference
Speaker 1: to Scott Hall. This person here says this is hey, yo,
Speaker 1: this is Don the Don rast Burger, and he's got
Speaker 1: a song that he was thinking of at the time
Speaker 1: and basically said, Scott fought valiantly with this and never
Speaker 1: tried to hide it. A model human being, thanks for
Speaker 1: all of the wonderful memories. Hugged someone that you love.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Scott Hall would say that he
Speaker 1: was a model human No, no, Scott Hall wouldn't even
Speaker 1: say Scott All was a model human being, you know,
Speaker 1: but he was. He was the ultimate pro wrestling character,
Speaker 1: for good and for bad. He he exemplified pro wrestling,
Speaker 1: both in good and bad. Where else could a guy
Speaker 1: like that function achieved success, achieved the notoriety, achieved the
Speaker 1: fandom that he has to this very day. Where Else
Speaker 1: what other sport could take somebody such a free spirit
Speaker 1: like Scott Hall and and make him the top of
Speaker 1: his chosen field. And it did. But also he came
Speaker 1: up at a time where what we know in hindsight
Speaker 1: now his mental health was damaged a long time before
Speaker 1: he got into pro wrestling. And with all the drugs,
Speaker 1: with all the lifestyle, with all the booze, the booze
Speaker 1: that really, you know, really got him, you know. It
Speaker 1: also was unfortunately a pro wrestling story as well too.
Speaker 1: I mean it was the He was the ultimate best
Speaker 1: and worst of everything with pro wrestling, and he should
Speaker 1: be looked at now as a the ultimate learning tool
Speaker 1: both inside the ring on what to do sometimes what
Speaker 1: not to do if you're trying to put somebody over,
Speaker 1: but also how to care yourself, how to know your worth,
Speaker 1: how to all that stuff, but also obviously of what
Speaker 1: not to do, and and the steps that other people
Speaker 1: need to take sometimes on your behalf to step in
Speaker 1: to make sure you get the help that you need.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't get to that level. As a widow
Speaker 1: of a man who died from a drug overdose, as
Speaker 1: person said, never got a chance to live his life clean.
Speaker 1: It's over. I'm so glad that Scott's been his last
Speaker 1: year's clean. He got to know how valuable to the
Speaker 1: world he is, loved, wanted and needed something that my
Speaker 1: husband never knew. Do you want Texas seven eight zero
Speaker 1: seven five six six is the phone number? And uh man,
Speaker 1: here we go. All the all the other texts are
Speaker 1: about Cody should have known. Cody didn't show up, but
Speaker 1: they said seth WrestleMania plans were dashed and that this
Speaker 1: was his nightmare. I guess they signed him and are
Speaker 1: just gonna wait till next week. I'm pretty sure he signed.
Speaker 1: I don't know for for sure, but certainly everything is
Speaker 1: leading in that direction. I ask you a question before
Speaker 1: you go on, because we kind of brought this up
Speaker 1: last weekend. It's like, hey, no, if they don't date
Speaker 1: bum and Jacksonville, I look at WrestleMania and I go,
Speaker 1: his name is not gonna add one single by It's
Speaker 1: not the insult Cody, but with what they already have
Speaker 1: and with what the whole deal is, you know, would
Speaker 1: he be more impactful to kind of build it up
Speaker 1: in the heavy teas at where raw he's gonna show up?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That next night, see really
Speaker 1: have something to jump off on, because we've seen there
Speaker 1: is no jump off really, you know, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bump, but there's not that bump that they
Speaker 1: used to get. But obviously they have no other plan
Speaker 1: for Seth But you know, I to me, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I still would have probably the idea of doing another
Speaker 1: plan for Seft for Mania and then having Cody debut afterwards,
Speaker 1: to me, could have just as equal as impact. You're
Speaker 1: looking at this wrong way, Mike, and any other year
Speaker 1: then absolutely he probably should debut the night after WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: So people actually care about the raw after WrestleMania again,
Speaker 1: since they haven't done jack for the raw after wrestlemanian
Speaker 1: years now. But we're we're we're at the two night
Speaker 1: WrestleMania where they're like fifty eight thousand tickets each night
Speaker 1: and they want eighty. So they're gonna put everything that
Speaker 1: they can get on that WrestleMania card. You know, whether
Speaker 1: whether you think he's gonna sell tickets or not, they
Speaker 1: think we need to put every possible thing that we
Speaker 1: could have on both of these nights of WrestleMania. Because,
Speaker 1: as I've said it before, this this year's WrestleMania getting
Speaker 1: eighty thousand tickets, it's not about how much money you're
Speaker 1: gonna make if you sell eighty thousand ticket, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter at all. It doesn't matter that the gate from
Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden was like six thousand dollars. It's all
Speaker 1: about the the uh whatever the word is. You know,
Speaker 1: they want people to think this is hot. You know,
Speaker 1: they want ten thousand people in Madison Square Guarden, even
Speaker 1: if they lose money. They want they want eighty thousand
Speaker 1: people each night and WrestleMania even if you know whatever,
Speaker 1: that's more important. It's not like, you know, they made
Speaker 1: a billion dollars last year, it wasn't from selling tickets.
Speaker 1: That means literally nothing. It's all perception. And so they're
Speaker 1: gonna throw everything on these two. We got the return
Speaker 1: of Stone Cold Steve Austin. I wouldn't be the least
Speaker 1: bit surprised if they shot an angle Saturday to do
Speaker 1: something with the guy. On Sunday. We have got uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Cody's coming in, and we've got uh, Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee is wrestling, and Vince is going to be involved,
Speaker 1: and we've got Logan Paul every They're gonna throw everything
Speaker 1: at this to try to sell those tickets. Man, talk
Speaker 1: about robbing Peter to pay Paul too, because it's like,
Speaker 1: you want to sell those tickets. But that raw after
Speaker 1: Mania main not get that bump that you want, which
Speaker 1: you know, USA could use that bomb obviously for the
Speaker 1: sake to tear in. But then again on the flip side,
Speaker 1: well they got another name for Peacock and another big
Speaker 1: deal for their for the other part of the company.
Speaker 1: It's uh, it's funny how w w E and very
Speaker 1: impressive for them with the way they have themselves, you know,
Speaker 1: intermingled with things right now. And it's amazing again, it's
Speaker 1: amazing how much USA is relying upon w w E.
Speaker 1: Good and good for business wise for w w E.
Speaker 1: No question, this person here says I'm not watching WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: but if they announced Cody, I will watch that night.
Speaker 1: I cannot be the only one. We'll be. We'll be
Speaker 1: look for a w fans and for people that are
Speaker 1: partial there, whether it's to see Cody fall in the
Speaker 1: phase on the space, whether it's the see Cody succeed
Speaker 1: because you like him, you have no animous towards him
Speaker 1: or Brandy or any of that stuff. Whether people are
Speaker 1: hate watching, they will absolutely be people that maybe would
Speaker 1: have been watching almost anything else and catching up on
Speaker 1: indie shows from the weekend. No matter what it is,
Speaker 1: it might say, yeah, okay, I'll linger at least just
Speaker 1: as long as to see Cody. This person years is
Speaker 1: this w W we actually think we believe Seth won't
Speaker 1: be in wrestle menia. I can't see anyone with the
Speaker 1: brain actually believe in this. Well, I don't care. I
Speaker 1: can't either, And listen. No, of course, of course I
Speaker 1: think they think, you know, it's an angle, But apparently
Speaker 1: they gave some people too much credit, which is rare,
Speaker 1: by the way. Usually they give their fans no credit perstances.
Speaker 1: They're gonna need a new world title after Wrestle Menia.
Speaker 1: I think Cody will be the first. Him. Well, my friend,
Speaker 1: in the next segment, you can call and log your
Speaker 1: Cody prediction because the Cody prediction contest is coming up
Speaker 1: at Circle of Cody Triple H. That we get from
Speaker 1: being there and and and being one of the handpicked
Speaker 1: guys him and Ted Dviasi Jr. And and Randy and
Speaker 1: for a second there man new you know this is
Speaker 1: what's gonna lead everybody into the new w w F,
Speaker 1: into the new millennium. And then we get him destroying
Speaker 1: the whole deal with the throne when he shows up
Speaker 1: and the big overdone entrance and all these things and
Speaker 1: all these comparisons and and jokes people out for him
Speaker 1: and Triple H to come back and actually be handed.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can get Bishoff back to get him back
Speaker 1: there and handed the championship the same way that Triple
Speaker 1: H was Big Gold. Can you imagine can you imagine
Speaker 1: full circle for Cody Rhodes. The person says, I got
Speaker 1: to see Scott Hall in Evansville, Indiana at a w
Speaker 1: c W house show. We didn't have a camera, but
Speaker 1: he still took time for us. Told him I was
Speaker 1: in a backyard wrestling fed. He told us to keep
Speaker 1: at it and maybe we would be in a ring
Speaker 1: together someday. He kept my dream alive for years because
Speaker 1: of that. The person says, I've been sober fifty two
Speaker 1: days and counting. It's a long road, but it's all
Speaker 1: going to be worth it. Well, good work, dude, good
Speaker 1: work really, And also if we got here in the email, Ben,
Speaker 1: people are just mad because the Cody hype made them
Speaker 1: waste their time watching raw or they are just desperate
Speaker 1: for something exciting on w w E television and he
Speaker 1: wants something to tweet, something to throw on the I
Speaker 1: G bitch about something. It's Cody, really, see if you
Speaker 1: hate him that much, is he worth the effort? Think
Speaker 1: about that? We have got the lineup for the show
Speaker 1: coming up tonight, The n x T Show Camera Grime.
Speaker 1: Santos Escobar winner gets a spot in the North American
Speaker 1: title ladder match. A kid just some kid. A kid
Speaker 1: will be facing Kushita a kid, Indie Heartwell versus Pshaparatah
Speaker 1: survivorss Tiffany Stretton and there will be a yes on
Speaker 1: n x T tonight a Miss TV with Dolph Ziggler.
Speaker 1: Get your phones ready, everybody. Here's a phone number eight
Speaker 1: four four nine one eight four nine one seven your
Speaker 1: Cody predictions after the break ups overre live back in
Speaker 1: the show. Brian Elberrez here Wrestling Observer Live mixumbur viv
Speaker 1: also Wrestling Observer dot Com. You know some geek Brian
Speaker 1: only gives himself good prizes once you get out of
Speaker 1: your prize from when you won the prediction contest. Mike, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know some of you on the chat have won
Speaker 1: the prediction contest, got a sweet plaque. So why don't
Speaker 1: you uh want you to live? Everybody know this is
Speaker 1: no joke, this prediction contest. Yeah, I forget it anyway.
Speaker 1: The point is you're gonna get a prize, everybody. So
Speaker 1: here's the thing. The phone lines are open eight four
Speaker 1: four nine one seven. The phone line is already packed,
Speaker 1: So keep trying and put your prediction in. And I
Speaker 1: know if it's gonna want to be dumb, but like,
Speaker 1: there's a prize here, so try to make the most
Speaker 1: accurate prediction, the most accurate, realistic prediction. And at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, we're gonna play this back read
Speaker 1: the predictions, have a hearty laugh at some of you nerds,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna give away a prize that sounds good.
Speaker 1: Sounds good to me. You got it or is it?
Speaker 1: I finally gave up after I couldn't find it, but
Speaker 1: I did find the the blueprint to become a pro wrestler. Dude,
Speaker 1: get out of here. We got all right, let's go
Speaker 1: to uh Fulton, you're on the air. Who is this
Speaker 1: and what is your Cody prediction? Hey, this is Jacob Fraser.
Speaker 1: Make sure you make sure you give your name. Everybody,
Speaker 1: at least the first name. Go ahead, Jacob, This is
Speaker 1: Jacob from New York. I don't know what initially it's
Speaker 1: going to happen with Cody, but honestly, I think in
Speaker 1: my heart that later on down the year, after he
Speaker 1: is out of his initial feud, he's going to revive
Speaker 1: the intercontinental championship feuds on whatever show he's on. And
Speaker 1: I think that my prediction is he's going to bring
Speaker 1: back the white Intercontinental Championship belt. Alright, well I want
Speaker 1: to yes, and it's I hope so I'm gonna cry
Speaker 1: if so. All right, I want to thank you very
Speaker 1: much for the color. Try to see that old white
Speaker 1: Intercontinental Championship belt back. All right, let's go to Houston.
Speaker 1: You're on the air. What's your name? What's your Cody prediction?
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, gentlemen. This is Carlos the Building, Houston, Texas
Speaker 1: Special shout out to the homies on Twitch. My prediction is,
Speaker 1: by the end of the year, w W champion Cody
Speaker 1: Rhodes will be dropping the championship to an up and
Speaker 1: coming braun Breaker. Al Right, there we go. Now we're
Speaker 1: talking everybody. Let's kill two birds with one stone. Cody
Speaker 1: is a success and he puts over braun Breaker for
Speaker 1: the championship and I get my thousand dollars. Excellent. I
Speaker 1: like that one. All right, let's go to uh Montreal.
Speaker 1: You're on the air. What's going on? Hey, what's up, Brian?
Speaker 1: This is dayling real quick. Thanks for the birthday Camio.
Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Um as far as Cody goes, I
Speaker 1: think after Roman unifies the titles, they'll have another world title,
Speaker 1: and I think the first champion for that title is
Speaker 1: going to be Edge, and Cody is gonna save Edge
Speaker 1: for that title at Somemmerslam. Al Right, I want to
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the call. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1: It's like before I started taking these calls, everybody was
Speaker 1: all doom and gloom and Cody. Now when there's a
Speaker 1: prize on the line, they're like, oh, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna actually be successful. The good, the good
Speaker 1: people out of the woodwork to actually state their claims
Speaker 1: and to stand up for that. Oh. I know. The
Speaker 1: haters are not cowards. I know they're trying to get
Speaker 1: through right now. They wouldn't talk a bunch of crap
Speaker 1: behind their keyboards and not call never alright, let's go
Speaker 1: to the phones. You're on the air, Montana, what's going on? Hi?
Speaker 1: This is HI. This is Jack and Montana. My prediction
Speaker 1: is that at the end of the year, Cody will
Speaker 1: be w W E Champion, but he'll be seen as
Speaker 1: a geek because he would be beaten by Roman Reigns
Speaker 1: that Survivor series for the annual you know champion. So
Speaker 1: so Roman would be the SmackDown champion. He'd be the
Speaker 1: rad champion they did Champion versus Champion, Roman would beat him. Yes, alright, excellent,
Speaker 1: excellent prediction, my friend, excellent prediction. And to think that
Speaker 1: you'd be one of the two champions losing to Roman
Speaker 1: reigns Champion versus Champion Survivor series and you would be
Speaker 1: considered a geek. Really. Alright, let's go to New York.
Speaker 1: You're on the air. What's going on the whole promotion
Speaker 1: of w W A year You're on the air. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hello from Milwaukee. Close enough, Okay, alright, So my predictions
Speaker 1: for Cody, I do believe that Cody will still fight
Speaker 1: stuff fallen at Romania, have a match, whether Seth or
Speaker 1: Cody win, that we're just gonna get a good match
Speaker 1: after that. I do believe that he will pretty much
Speaker 1: fight for either the Inner Comminmental or the US Championship,
Speaker 1: win it, and continue building too. I believe, as one
Speaker 1: of the other UH speakers that earlier, that brown Breaker
Speaker 1: will get brought up to the main roster and then
Speaker 1: they'll fight bron Breaker will then Cody will put over
Speaker 1: brown Breaker and then we'll kind of continue on from there. Alright,
Speaker 1: So a lot of people predicting that Cody is gonna
Speaker 1: be the one to put over Braun Breaker and Bruns
Speaker 1: presumably first big championship win other than the NXE title,
Speaker 1: of course. All right, let's go to Kenosha. You're on
Speaker 1: the air. What's going on? All right? This is Adam
Speaker 1: from your scene. In My prediction is that Cody will
Speaker 1: fight Seth at WrestleMania, beat Seth, then fight Edge for
Speaker 1: whatever the new belt is at Back Class, hold the
Speaker 1: belt until sometime before Summer Slam, and then fight Roman
Speaker 1: for two and then beat him at Summer Swam. He
Speaker 1: beat Roman. Yeah, that's a bold prediction, brother, that's a
Speaker 1: bold prediction. I want to thank you very much for
Speaker 1: the call. Man. This is what I like to hear
Speaker 1: on this show. All right, dude, brattle Borrow, you're on
Speaker 1: the air. What's going on? If that is a real
Speaker 1: place where Hey, what's going on? It is in fact
Speaker 1: a real place, brattle Burrow, Vermont. This is Dagan calling
Speaker 1: from the land line again. What's up, Twitch, homies? Alright,
Speaker 1: So my prediction is that Cody returns at WrestleMania, he
Speaker 1: has the match with Seth rawlins, he loses to Roman,
Speaker 1: lanes at SummerSlam, and by the end of the year
Speaker 1: he is released by w released released from the company
Speaker 1: because look at a budget cut Cody Roads. By the
Speaker 1: end of the year, they can hung up because it's
Speaker 1: a landline. He's getting charged a lot of money for
Speaker 1: that call. Alright, Denver, Colorado, you're on the air. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Hey, this is Jeremy in San Diego. Now.
Speaker 1: My prediction is um Cody shows up at WrestleMania. He'll
Speaker 1: do the undertaker thing where he won't show his face
Speaker 1: on TV. You know, Seth will just have an open
Speaker 1: challenge and he'll answer. At WrestleMania, Cody wins. I think
Speaker 1: you'll go on to face Roman for both belts at
Speaker 1: Summer's Land and lose, and then by the end of
Speaker 1: the year or whatever they do with the rob belt,
Speaker 1: he'll be like the top gun Rod Consolation price. Let
Speaker 1: me ask you this here before you get cut off.
Speaker 1: If if it's going to be, how does Seth get
Speaker 1: his path to WrestleMania? Then does Sandia de Ville say
Speaker 1: we have an opponent for you. You just have to
Speaker 1: show up and see what happens. Is that how that works?
Speaker 1: You can do that? I don't know. Maybe he just
Speaker 1: storms it down to the ring and demands a match
Speaker 1: or something. You know, my TV broke jumps out of
Speaker 1: the crowd. I had no option with my TV broken
Speaker 1: saw and my phone cellular is not working. I had
Speaker 1: to come to the show. I hope he I hope
Speaker 1: Cody's gimmick is the the alternate of you where it's
Speaker 1: just like I had to get off my couch. I
Speaker 1: love being here every night. I wish wrestle me and
Speaker 1: he was seventy eight hours a day. And let's go
Speaker 1: to a cave Springs, Arkansas. You're on the air. What's
Speaker 1: going on? Hey, Brian, Hi Mike. I've got a simple prediction.
Speaker 1: It's basically that he will go there and find out
Speaker 1: that the grass was greener on the other side, that
Speaker 1: they will basically hold him in place out of spite,
Speaker 1: as they often tend to do, and he will regret
Speaker 1: his decision of ever leaving John from Arkansas. Everybody I
Speaker 1: knew one of those was coming. Yeah, let's go to
Speaker 1: Tom's River in New Jersey. Around the air, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What's going on? So? I think before the year is out?
Speaker 1: Who is this? By the way, Oh, Derek from Tom's
Speaker 1: River the Homies. Yes, yes, sir, I think Cody's gonna
Speaker 1: wind up feuding with Austin Theory and Vince before the
Speaker 1: end of the year. And I also think that Kent
Speaker 1: attacked Moxley's gonna do it again. Oh yeah, okay, well,
Speaker 1: thank you very much for the call. I love when
Speaker 1: a prediction will never die. How about this? How about
Speaker 1: Vince is so dumb with trying to teach this new
Speaker 1: kid Austin Theory that you know what, this kid that
Speaker 1: we had before, the second generation kid, this kid that
Speaker 1: said and it's had to listen to people say that
Speaker 1: I put down his father and that I didn't use
Speaker 1: him right the first time. We'll guess what, Austin Theory,
Speaker 1: the code man is back with me. Call him Cody McMahon,
Speaker 1: but he's Cody Rhodes, and he's going to be at
Speaker 1: my behast teaching you on what it's like to be
Speaker 1: a real superstar in this business and to try to
Speaker 1: teach you something and to beat up Austin Theory. Bro,
Speaker 1: I'm so disgusted that you wasted time with that fantasy
Speaker 1: booking because we had Honolulu on the line and he
Speaker 1: hung up in the middle of it. It's like my fault.
Speaker 1: He was on the line that old time and then
Speaker 1: I was about to hit that talk about and you
Speaker 1: had a fantasy booking about Cody and Austin theory and
Speaker 1: second generation and some kids. So try it again, Honolulu. Damnit,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from parts Mouth. You're on the
Speaker 1: Air's Brandon and Portsmouth here. By the end of the year, Um,
Speaker 1: Cody will be intercondo champion. At that point he will
Speaker 1: be in the middle of a feud with the Miss
Speaker 1: Cody and the Miss certainly not impossible. Hey, they can, look,
Speaker 1: they can, they can absolutely positively one pent battle over
Speaker 1: reality shows. You can get Carmela and out. He's back. Hurry, Hallelulu, Honolulu,
Speaker 1: you're on the air. Why do you keep hanging up?
Speaker 1: By the way, Oh god, I didn't even have time
Speaker 1: to wait. Hold on, You've had plenty of time to
Speaker 1: think about three times. Say it? Wait what? Say it?
Speaker 1: All right? I got I gotta prediction where um Cody? Wait?
Speaker 1: This is about Cody? Right, Hallulu, I'm I'm teetering. I'm
Speaker 1: teetering on the edge. Give me a damn prediction about Cody.
Speaker 1: You've got three seconds, all right, Cody's gonna go to
Speaker 1: w w EE and he's gonna fight against Uh, you're
Speaker 1: an idiot, Get out of here. I waited all that
Speaker 1: time for that. I have so much patience. Sometimes you do,
Speaker 1: you like a saint, but then sometimes I don't have
Speaker 1: any patients. Simi Valley, you're on the air. What's going
Speaker 1: on from California? Sorry, Philip from California. All right, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and I predict that that end of the year, it
Speaker 1: will be advertised for day one in Atlanta, they'll be
Speaker 1: Cody versus Roman Reign Day one in Atlanta, in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: Cody's hometown. Yeah, there you go. It's excellent, excellent prediction.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for the call. Alright, last one
Speaker 1: here h Brisbane, but not Australia, just California. You're on
Speaker 1: the air. What's up? Not California? This has been from
Speaker 1: Kansas and Cody will join Ring of Honor and challenge
Speaker 1: Jonathan Gresham for the Ring of Honor Championship and become
Speaker 1: the new Ring of Honor Champion. Thank you for the prediction. Guys.
Speaker 1: All right, there you go. This guy he's going to
Speaker 1: seth work terminus. Then in that case, how about that?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, there you go, everybody. I'm I'm shutting
Speaker 1: this thing down, especially after Honolulu sunk the show. He
Speaker 1: shut it down, all right. You should have known that
Speaker 1: Doric was going to ruin everything. But anyway, there you go.
Speaker 1: There you go a wide range of opinions. It sure,
Speaker 1: what's where were all the trolls? But where were the haters? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Where were these Cody like? Yeah, funny that works. I
Speaker 1: putt myself out here on video every day given my
Speaker 1: unpopular opinions. You think I care, hey, But the end
Speaker 1: of the year's losers, Oh, there, they don't care about
Speaker 1: their in popular opinions being words on a screen, being
Speaker 1: zeros and ones. But when it's time to actually call cowards,
Speaker 1: Brandy versus Carmelo. By the end of the year, even
Speaker 1: Honolulu called back. In a moment of Deserver Live got
Speaker 1: my Twitter timeline speaking of geeks looking producer Rob here
Speaker 1: mocking the fact that I was called the beast back
Speaker 1: in the WF Yeah, I was a beast, brother, That's
Speaker 1: something you know nothing about, So why you mock it?
Speaker 1: Number one? And also, by the way, if you scroll
Speaker 1: up a little further there on my timeline, what we
Speaker 1: got right here uh, we got one of the winners
Speaker 1: of the prediction contest who has posted a beautiful photograph
Speaker 1: of him here with it. No, it's David. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: terrible posters later, but my prediction win plaque, he says,
Speaker 1: and do this picture is incredible. It's so he's standing
Speaker 1: like a Roman colosseum. It's like a pillar of some
Speaker 1: sort behind him, and he's got his plaque. So it's
Speaker 1: no joke, everybody, It's no joke. It's a shoot contest
Speaker 1: with a with a shoot prize. I just don't have
Speaker 1: it right here because I don't nail anything into the wall.
Speaker 1: It's all thumb tacked in and such. So yeah, and
Speaker 1: and and oh my god, what Cody. Now, I give
Speaker 1: it the text message line and people call it. It's
Speaker 1: a text message line. I'm not gonna answer the phone.
Speaker 1: So if you leave as I'm never gonna see it.
Speaker 1: Sure there's not like some Easter egg in your life.
Speaker 1: Or you're gonna pick up the phone and I have
Speaker 1: a conversation with someone I'm not Sammy Zane. No, it's
Speaker 1: picking up. I still have PTSD from getting phone calls
Speaker 1: from Tim Flower. So no, I never picked up the phone.
Speaker 1: Never did you ever do that with somebody's deeper number
Speaker 1: or something like that, put it up somewhere and then
Speaker 1: they started blowing up. Look at this, Matt Farmer. I
Speaker 1: want to hear the true story about when you lost
Speaker 1: the White WUF championship in a California hotel room. Well,
Speaker 1: I see what happened was Oh, I hear the music.
Speaker 1: Sorry everybody, anyway, we gotta wrap it up for today.
Speaker 1: So I want to think Mike is always colors and listeners,
Speaker 1: many many callers to a I want to thank all
Speaker 1: of the heroes it called. I want to, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: give a big thumbs down all the losers. But I
Speaker 1: do appreciate all of you that actually listen. And we'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow with more later on this afternoon. Land
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