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Speaker 1: it will be after dark radio today, and we do
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Speaker 1: has been rescheduled by the way, but now they have
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Speaker 1: is going to be on the show today. He's actually
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Speaker 1: will never forget I was listening to Coast to Coast.
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Speaker 1: thought other issues? Is that how you describe this giants,
Speaker 1: demons and other issues. I never thought of giants and
Speaker 1: demons being issues, but when you really think about it,
Speaker 1: and a haunted house can be an issue.
Speaker 3: So we'll talk about that todays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that would be in. That would be a
Speaker 1: big issu when you think about it.
Speaker 3: Yes, maybe his take on Finn Balor.
Speaker 1: I could maybe. You know, we always have these guests
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh man, they're gonna ask me, you know,
Speaker 1: ask some wrestling question or whatever, and I'm never gonna
Speaker 1: ask a wrestling question. And then, like you know, three
Speaker 1: quarters of the way through the interview, turns out the
Speaker 1: guy's a wrestling fan. So if that comes up with
Speaker 1: Reverend Bill Bean, maybe I will ask about doing a
Speaker 1: demon gimmick in wrestling. Is that a good idea to
Speaker 1: do a demon gimmick? We'll find out, all right. I
Speaker 1: guess we got to talk about the NXT show last night.
Speaker 1: I'll do the full review at the end of the
Speaker 1: show here. But Lance, you watched it, and uh, you
Speaker 1: don't watch all the NXT, so I guess I can't
Speaker 1: ask you the question if it was the greatest NXT
Speaker 1: TV show of all time, But I guess I could
Speaker 1: ask was the best one you've ever seen?
Speaker 3: I would have to go back to compare, but it
Speaker 3: was fantastic. It certainly had the feel more of a
Speaker 3: plee than a weekly television show. I thought the theater
Speaker 3: at Mattis Square Garden looked incredible. It looked like a
Speaker 3: great venue, a lot of fun, and it just felt
Speaker 3: like big match after big match and a lot of
Speaker 3: the backstage, high school esque tomfoolery that I'm usually not
Speaker 3: a big fan of seemed to be in short supply,
Speaker 3: and I really enjoyed the show.
Speaker 1: You know, I've now determined that now that we've seen
Speaker 1: NXT and an AW go on the road and start
Speaker 1: running these smaller buildings, I'm all for it. Like we've
Speaker 1: seen the same thing on some of these Dynamite shows.
Speaker 1: I mean, we talked about how they needed to run
Speaker 1: smaller buildings, and then it was around the time they
Speaker 1: ran the Hammerstein Ballroom, and it just looks so awesome,
Speaker 1: that Hammerstein Ballroom, and you know, it was got me thinking,
Speaker 1: what's the problem. Like obviously, you know, there's the ego aspect.
Speaker 1: We'd rather run buildings and small, you know, but if
Speaker 1: you take that out of the equation and you just
Speaker 1: talk about like, you know, forget forget the ego, what
Speaker 1: are the fans watch when they're watching on television. These
Speaker 1: buildings are awesome, dude. And there's a lot of there's
Speaker 1: not like identical Hammerstein ballrooms, but like there's a lot
Speaker 1: of cool ballrooms and and and we've seen them the
Speaker 1: theater Madison Square, Guard and that thing looked awesome. That
Speaker 1: place looked great. A lot of these Dynamite shows have
Speaker 1: looked great.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: They ran an NXT house show in Seattle, and I
Speaker 1: think it was like the Paramount Theater something in Seattle,
Speaker 1: you know, not a very big theater. They run like
Speaker 1: plays there or whatever. But this was the coolest building.
Speaker 1: It wasn't on TV, but it was just we went
Speaker 1: there live. So I'm all for these these small buildings.
Speaker 1: But it was a it was a great show. They
Speaker 1: had five matches. Every match I thought was great. And
Speaker 1: I guess the big stories I get. I'll go over
Speaker 1: the results. Yeah, let's talk about the show now, why not?
Speaker 1: So yeah, whatever it opened up with, Oh but if
Speaker 1: I mean, it's bigger news than like what Stephanie's talking
Speaker 1: about on our podcast. So the opener was The Hardies
Speaker 1: versus Zaxiem and Nathan Fraser TNA tag team titles. I mean,
Speaker 1: this was a great match. It was like big dive,
Speaker 1: Big dive, Big dive, big dive by the baby Faces. Early,
Speaker 1: Hardy's cut him off. Baby Faces make that big comeback.
Speaker 1: They try a dive again, this time Fraser gets a
Speaker 1: side effect on the floor. Hardy's hit their plot twist,
Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite double team moves. And
Speaker 1: then finally, Axiom tries a drop kick, accidentally hits his partner,
Speaker 1: and then Matt hits Axiom with the twist of fate.
Speaker 1: Jeff hits a sent on, crushed poor Fraser, pinned him
Speaker 1: and a big Hardy chance. Afterwards, they retained the TNA
Speaker 1: titles on an NXT show and the Hardys did an
Speaker 1: interview afterwards and they want a shot at the NXT
Speaker 1: tag team titles, so that could happen, I guess on
Speaker 1: an NXT show, But I thought this match was great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the Hardys. They're like one of the
Speaker 3: best teams to work because they're so over their stuff
Speaker 3: still works, and Axiom and Fraser are fantastic and just
Speaker 3: to be technical, they were in fact going for their
Speaker 3: high low combo move when Axium accidentally hit Fraser with
Speaker 3: the dropkick into the finish. This was so much fun
Speaker 3: and I would imagine based on their age, I would
Speaker 3: imagine Nathan Fraser and Axiom were pretty damn excited to
Speaker 3: get to wrestle the Hardy Boys because they would have
Speaker 3: been probably fans back when the Hardy Boys were doing
Speaker 3: their initial run in WW.
Speaker 1: This guy here in the chests is time to break
Speaker 1: up for Axiom. I can't think of a worse idea
Speaker 1: because here's the thing. Yeah, have they done all they
Speaker 1: can do in NXT?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Probably? But what are we gonna do here, like break
Speaker 1: them up and call them up to the main roster
Speaker 1: as singles. That sounds like a terrible idea. If they've
Speaker 1: done all they can do as a team in NXT,
Speaker 1: then they should be brought up as a team to
Speaker 1: the main roster because we got a lot of teams
Speaker 1: and you know, it's not like you want to do
Speaker 1: the motor seam machine guns. Have them go NXT and
Speaker 1: then break them up and then call them up to
Speaker 1: the main roster. That was the whole problem I've had
Speaker 1: with Chase You. It's like, why didn't they at least
Speaker 1: try calling up Chase You instead they broke them up
Speaker 1: in NXT. It was the hottest act they had. And
Speaker 1: then they fired Duke and then we haven't seen thea.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen Riley, We rarely see Andre Chase. It's
Speaker 1: like they were all stronger as Chase You, and they
Speaker 1: would have been way better off at least trying it
Speaker 1: as Chase You on the main roster. But no, do
Speaker 1: not break these men up. Break up, break up Theory
Speaker 1: and Waller.
Speaker 3: Give me these two guys against the MotorCity machine Guns
Speaker 3: for like, you know, a dozen matches. Please, bro look at all.
Speaker 1: The teams they've got, the war Raiders, you know good?
Speaker 1: A match with these two against the war Raiders would be.
Speaker 3: I have to hang out before you go any further.
Speaker 3: I have to put over the opening of the speed
Speaker 3: match between Ivar and.
Speaker 1: The opening of it. It was only three minutes.
Speaker 3: Yes, but the Fry Takayama spot has been copied ten
Speaker 3: million times and in my opinion, never really looks all
Speaker 3: that good. This is the greatest version of the Fry
Speaker 3: Takiyama spot since Fry Takeyama. It was fantastic. These two
Speaker 3: guys looked like they were just punching each other right
Speaker 3: in the face. None of these punching them in the
Speaker 3: rear deltoid stuff. This was fantastic.
Speaker 1: Well, knowing these two men as possible, they were punching
Speaker 1: each other as hard as they could right in the
Speaker 1: face to recreate that spot. And I guess I is
Speaker 1: not really a spoiler because I mean whatever, but Ivar
Speaker 1: is challenging for the Speed title. He's gone all the way,
Speaker 1: so uh hopefully he wins. He beat Uh Dominic Mysterio
Speaker 1: and so it is Ivar versus Dragon Lee coming up
Speaker 1: in this Speed of finals. So there you go, all right.
Speaker 1: Then we had Uh Jada and Mickey James having a meeting.
Speaker 1: Sounds like Jada is going to be next in line
Speaker 1: for Stephanie for both of her titles, and they're they're
Speaker 1: teasing that for many a weekend. We had Stax, Luca
Speaker 1: and Rizzo backstage and there's going to be a six
Speaker 1: man next week and Tony d is like, how come
Speaker 1: he didn't add me to the sixth man, and Stack says, listen,
Speaker 1: it was my fault. You lost that match last week.
Speaker 1: The title. I need to handle this, and Tony says, well,
Speaker 1: you didn't cost me the match, but if you want
Speaker 1: to handle it, go for it. So Stax has taken
Speaker 1: the lead after all these years of the Inner Moss
Speaker 1: and we had Rock Sand and Jordan Grace, which I
Speaker 1: thought was also an excellent match, great heat and ended
Speaker 1: up with Roxane working her leg over the entire match.
Speaker 1: Clips knee head scissors, DDT, goes up top, mister frog splash,
Speaker 1: they go back and forth, and finally there's a backfitt
Speaker 1: rolling DDT made in Japan. Jordan pins her clean as
Speaker 1: a rock. Sand's on her way out. Great match we'll
Speaker 1: talk about with Lance half of the Break Observer Live.
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Speaker 1: I guess that Jordan rox Sand match also a number
Speaker 1: one contenders match, so we got her and Jada fight
Speaker 1: for that Spot's what it looks like to me, Lance.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had to keep reminding myself Jordan wasn't a
Speaker 3: TNA person in another interpromotional match, because I've been working
Speaker 3: with her for the last few years in TNA, so
Speaker 3: very happy for her success. I thought the match was
Speaker 3: really good and I'm looking forward to whenever she does
Speaker 3: face the winner of the main event of this show.
Speaker 3: Not to spoil the show that already happened.
Speaker 1: And we had Undertaker her meeting with Oba Femi. They
Speaker 1: fist bumped and then Gully g We had Oba Femi
Speaker 1: and Moose for the NXT title. Some of those matches
Speaker 1: where like they they didn't even do like an angle.
Speaker 1: It was like Moose was in the ring. He called
Speaker 1: out those nerds, which, by the way, they beat that
Speaker 1: guy up a month ago. There's been no follow up.
Speaker 1: Now they're beating up other dudes. But Oba Femi called
Speaker 1: out those geeks and then outcomes Moose and all they
Speaker 1: had to do was just look at each other and
Speaker 1: everybody was going nuts, going crazy. It's all you need
Speaker 1: to do. They had a contract signing or whatever. They
Speaker 1: that press conference, they you know nothing, They did nothing
Speaker 1: to build this match. They didn't need to. We just
Speaker 1: wanted to see it.
Speaker 3: We did on TNA. We did some tremendous build. Listen
Speaker 3: to the Vinny V show that went up yesterday. He
Speaker 3: put it over that on our site. It is on
Speaker 3: Wrestling Observer dot go I four w online dot com.
Speaker 1: All right, on the actual NXT show, they didn't do anything,
Speaker 1: but everyone was really excited for it. So anyway, I
Speaker 1: was excited going in. I was like, this match is
Speaker 1: gonna be awesome, and it was better. It was actually
Speaker 1: better than I expected it to be. It over delivered
Speaker 1: in my eyes, and just two hosses. This freakin' Oba
Speaker 1: Femei is so strong, like he is throwing Moose around
Speaker 1: and some of this stuff. It's like, you know, sometimes
Speaker 1: the guy goes up for you, sometimes he doesn't. You
Speaker 1: just get it. And that's what happened here, catching him
Speaker 1: like it's nothing, throwing him around like it's nothing, and
Speaker 1: all sorts they had. They had the most simple spot.
Speaker 1: It was Moose hits a super plex and he's gonna
Speaker 1: roll through into another one or a falcon Ra or
Speaker 1: whatever like Seth Rollins does, and he goes for it
Speaker 1: and Oba just reverses it into just a regular suplex.
Speaker 1: And this place went nuts for that spot. So finally
Speaker 1: at the end, Moose spears him, Oba kicks out, goes
Speaker 1: for another spear, pop up, power bomb one two three,
Speaker 1: total simple finish.
Speaker 3: It was great, Yes, and you are correct. Oba is
Speaker 3: a very strong person. I would quote what Moose said
Speaker 3: about him, but we are on terrestrial radio, so I
Speaker 3: cannot use the adjectives Moose used when he described how
Speaker 3: strong Oba Femi was to me. But yeah, it's fun
Speaker 3: when you get two very similar people going in there.
Speaker 3: And I think that's why you didn't need a ton
Speaker 3: of hype. These are two big bad men that with
Speaker 3: both the same size, and people wanted to see them
Speaker 3: fight and it was fantastic. And like you say, Oba
Speaker 3: got the upper hand on this evening, but this was
Speaker 3: a lot of fun. You know.
Speaker 1: It's interesting because I was watching Collision last Saturday and
Speaker 1: momo Wa Nabe was going to get a match with
Speaker 1: Serena deeb and she's had zero match momos had zero
Speaker 1: matches on any aew television show like television. If you're
Speaker 1: watching the television show Rampage when it existed, Collision Dynamite,
Speaker 1: she'd had zero matches ever, Okay, so they put her
Speaker 1: in the ring with Serena deep and for reasons unknown,
Speaker 1: they went fifty to fifty. But that's not the issue here.
Speaker 1: The issue is that crowd, that Collision crowd. It was
Speaker 1: like very clear that they didn't have any idea who
Speaker 1: Momo what name was. And you know, you'll have certain
Speaker 1: people that will appear on aw television from New Japan
Speaker 1: or whatever, and you know, the fans will know who
Speaker 1: they are pretty pretty quickly, but not all of them.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of people who, you know, the majority
Speaker 1: of the audience that paid tickets to go to the show,
Speaker 1: they don't know who these guys are. But man, I
Speaker 1: don't know what it is with TNA. But Moose showed
Speaker 1: up and he's never been on NXT before, he's never
Speaker 1: been on WWE television. But that very first appearance, not
Speaker 1: this match, the very first appearance of him, that place
Speaker 1: went crazy for that guy. And it's been like that
Speaker 1: with other people who have come from TNA as well.
Speaker 1: So it's it's kind of it's amazing because you think
Speaker 1: that aw w'd be the audience know everybody, but their
Speaker 1: audience has changed, and you know, for whatever reason, this
Speaker 1: NXT audience is very, very familiar with TNA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joe Henry got a big reaction, Yeah, Joe Hendry,
Speaker 3: and not just the rumbled itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Then we add the deal with Fallon screaming about
Speaker 1: her title rematch and uh and she gets blown off
Speaker 1: again this Ava and then Ricky Ricky Saints walks up
Speaker 1: he wants a match with Ridge and as like, sure,
Speaker 1: go for it, no problem. I'm like, wow, Fellon, she
Speaker 1: is getting screwed here. And then Ethan Page walks up
Speaker 1: and says, nobody here wants an outsider. Ethan Page Chavon
Speaker 1: Evans street fight. This is another great match, this Javon Evans. Actually,
Speaker 1: I mean Ethan Page is awesome. Ethan Page can have
Speaker 1: a great match with anybody, and Javon is like so
Speaker 1: much better than his push, although by the grace of
Speaker 1: God he actually won. Wrapped the chair around Ethan's neck,
Speaker 1: springboard cutter got the pin. This was the best match
Speaker 1: they had together. It was an excellent street fight. I
Speaker 1: mean it was like great match, but like not too crazy.
Speaker 1: Nobody got hurt whole deal.
Speaker 3: And what the finish was excellent. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, like you know, I've been I've been begging
Speaker 1: for them to do something with Javan and they they
Speaker 1: then you know, when they when they set him up
Speaker 1: with this this feud with Page, it was like, you know,
Speaker 1: Page broke his face or whatever, and everybody was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: Brian's gonna be so mad. I wasn't mad at all.
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, here's a guy, a former NXT
Speaker 1: champion who's gonna put him over in the end. Like
Speaker 1: it was great. I liked this whole feud. I thought
Speaker 1: it was awesome, and I like to see the finish.
Speaker 1: But man, when those lights went out and Javan gets
Speaker 1: his big win and a street fight over Ethan Page
Speaker 1: and who should show up with the bookworm and his
Speaker 1: three buddies, I was like, no, please, God help me.
Speaker 1: Not Javon versus these geeks. That's not a step up,
Speaker 1: that's a step down. So anyway, I like the match.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Page was really great. He's the perfect opponent in
Speaker 3: a lot of ways for Javon because he's not a
Speaker 3: guy whose appeal and his strength is his Arsona's move.
Speaker 3: So he's not out there trying to, you know, go
Speaker 3: fifty to fifty with moves. He's playing a traditional heel
Speaker 3: and just being an obnoxious jerk and letting Javon do
Speaker 3: all of the exciting great stuff like that dive that
Speaker 3: just about cleared everybody and everything. And so it's a
Speaker 3: really great balance because Ethan knows how to get heat
Speaker 3: and not have to try to also be fifty percent
Speaker 3: of the excitement of the match. He let Javon be
Speaker 3: the excitement and he was the heater and the catcher.
Speaker 3: It was really great.
Speaker 1: Well, we had Sean Spears new group. They're the Culling.
Speaker 1: They trademarked at a while ago, and I know who
Speaker 1: the Culling is. They're gonna be Culling Geeks, That's what
Speaker 1: it appears to me. Had an Eddie Thorpe promo. He's
Speaker 1: attacked by Trick. They had a good brawl and then
Speaker 1: like the main event was Stephanie and Julia winner take
Speaker 1: all North American and the women's title. And I mean
Speaker 1: they had a rush. They were rushing through this match
Speaker 1: because it's not a pl they can't have an overrun.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be done by the top of the hour.
Speaker 1: And man, it was just boom boom boom. So Julia,
Speaker 1: there are there are two things going on. There is
Speaker 1: some minor I was told visa issue, and there's also
Speaker 1: an injury which is listed internally as quote undisclosed, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. But she shouldn't look
Speaker 1: like she was hurt. I mean, they were just this
Speaker 1: was probably, I think maybe the best match he's had
Speaker 1: since she came to XT and probably of all the
Speaker 1: matches she's had the closest to one of her stardom matches.
Speaker 1: And they're just doing all sorts of crazy stuff. They're
Speaker 1: doing butterfly souplexes off the top, one hundred miles an hour,
Speaker 1: and then finally Stephanie had two super kicks, two cradle
Speaker 1: backbreakers where they call that move, and pinder and won
Speaker 1: the title. And I don't think it's the knee. People
Speaker 1: are trying to guess what it is. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's her knee, but anyway, they let her do the
Speaker 1: match and she looked great. But now she's gone for
Speaker 1: a while, so hopefully she's back soon enough. But Stephanie
Speaker 1: Double Champion celebrated. They were just shooting off that confetti
Speaker 1: when they had a rush off the air. But it
Speaker 1: looks like we got at least a couple of challengers
Speaker 1: for Stephanie. But that match was also great. Everything on
Speaker 1: this everything on the show is great top to bottom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it really was. And obviously the injury can't be
Speaker 3: too much because the woman was working really hard and
Speaker 3: not showing any signs. I would suspect that if the
Speaker 3: visa issue, which often requires you to leave the country
Speaker 3: for the final processing to come back in, might be
Speaker 3: a case of Hey, if you're going to be off
Speaker 3: for a couple of weeks for that, why don't you
Speaker 3: deal with whatever nagging, minor annoyance you have? Because clearly
Speaker 3: she wasn't hampered physically in this match. This was quite.
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Speaker 1: we got some We have some news here where to
Speaker 1: even begin? So aw now has four things announced for
Speaker 1: the show tonight, and they are these Kenny Omega speaks,
Speaker 1: mjff speaks, Orange Cassidy versus Etchi Sero, and the Beast
Speaker 1: Mortas versus multiple question Marks.
Speaker 3: All right, that's part of that tournament.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna get to that. That's not much of
Speaker 1: a lineup right now, coming off that awesome pay per
Speaker 1: view this weekend. So that's all we know. They're doing
Speaker 1: a tournament. They're doing an aw international title eliminator tournament.
Speaker 1: So tonight are the Orange Cassidy Atchi Sero matches and
Speaker 1: Beast Morteos versus question Mark. And then we've got next
Speaker 1: week Ricochet versus Sabada and Mark Risco versus Mark Davis.
Speaker 1: And then the winners are in a four way on
Speaker 1: the nineteenth and on the sixth at the aw Dynasty
Speaker 1: pay per view. This is on pay per view. It
Speaker 1: will be Kenny Omega versus the winner. So Kenny Omega
Speaker 1: versus Orange Cassidy or Atchi Sero or Morteo's or question
Speaker 1: Mark Ricochet, Shabata, Mark Briscoe or Mark Davis's gonna be
Speaker 1: Mark Davis. So everyone thinks Kenny Omega versus Mark Davis
Speaker 1: for the International title on pay per view. Well that's
Speaker 1: the tournament, and uh that's what we know for tonight.
Speaker 1: It's amazing because we actually know, uh, we actually know
Speaker 1: the exact same number of matches already for next week's NXT,
Speaker 1: which is Trick williams Eddie Thorpe for the h In
Speaker 1: an NXT underground match, we got Chelsea Green versus Soul Ruca,
Speaker 1: so Chelsea is giving Soul a shot at the US
Speaker 1: title after Soul Ruka Pinder in a tag match. Last week,
Speaker 1: Ricky Saints faces Ridge Holland, and we have the Family
Speaker 1: versus the Culling Stax, Luca and Rizzo against the Virgin
Speaker 1: Driver and is he Dame? That's sad match.
Speaker 3: So there you go, oh, they come to think of it,
Speaker 3: it's not really a tournament as much as four qualifiers
Speaker 3: for a four way number one contenders match.
Speaker 1: Well, it's a tournament, you see, Not really. I knew
Speaker 1: I knew you would find a way to question whether
Speaker 1: it was called a tournament or not. What is a tournament? Lance?
Speaker 1: It's not that you want me to ask, chat GPT. Sure, okay,
Speaker 1: we got nothing else to do here today, let's do it. Hey,
Speaker 1: what is a tournament? I always start with hey, so
Speaker 1: you know we seem friendly me and chat GPT. Hey,
Speaker 1: chat GPT says a tournament is a competition where individuals
Speaker 1: or teams compete against each other in a series of
Speaker 1: matches to determine a winner. So that's fine, not really, Yes,
Speaker 1: series of.
Speaker 3: Matches, series, a series ends, there's four singles matches and
Speaker 3: they just have a four way it's a qualifier for
Speaker 3: a four We.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a series of matches. No, yeah, because a
Speaker 1: four way is a match.
Speaker 3: Brother, Yes, but it's a difference, so it's not a series.
Speaker 3: It's now different types of matches.
Speaker 1: What kind of tournament are you curious about? Asks chat GPT. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll ask, what would you call a tournament where there
Speaker 1: are four singles matches leading to a four way match
Speaker 1: to determine a winner. Let's see how smart this thing is. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll bet chat GP ain't gonna know what's going on.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a four way final tournament or a
Speaker 1: fatal four way tournament. Look at that. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: though four singles matches. The winner of these matches advance.
Speaker 1: The setup combines elements of a single elimination tournament with
Speaker 1: a multi competitor final, which is common in wrestling and
Speaker 1: combat sports. It is called a fatal four way tournament
Speaker 1: or a dorway elimination at tournament. So Lance you stand corrected. No,
Speaker 1: I don't by chat GPT.
Speaker 3: Because chat GPT is it's a robott the Internet where
Speaker 3: people are mistakingly calling stuff like this as a tournament.
Speaker 3: Look at that, Look at that, garbage in, garbage out, terrible.
Speaker 1: Saturday's collision with no WWE competition was up twenty nine
Speaker 1: point six percent, three and sixty three thousand viewers and
Speaker 1: a point one zero so, uh, not much else to add.
Speaker 1: They do better when there's not wrestling competition. I think
Speaker 1: we've learned.
Speaker 3: That, especially giant ple competition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it doesn't do too well against those big shows,
Speaker 1: all right, So I guess we got to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Stephanie's Places. She's got a new podcast on ESPN Plus
Speaker 1: every Wednesday through May twenty eighth, So I guess you
Speaker 1: can just download it as soon as the clock switches
Speaker 1: over something. It's not like I guess it's not obviously live.
Speaker 1: They seem to be all pre taped, I guess. So
Speaker 1: here are the episodes. March twenty sixth. The first episode
Speaker 1: CM punk. Oh no, I'm sorry, No, it is the
Speaker 1: return of cmpunk, I see it. So sometimes she interviews
Speaker 1: more than one person. Okay, So episode one, she will
Speaker 1: first visit her husband Triple H at the new WWE headquarters,
Speaker 1: and then she will head to Cleveland for SummerSlam, where
Speaker 1: she meets up with cmpunk. So this was taped nine
Speaker 1: months ago or whatever is shocking returned to the ring,
Speaker 1: and then the April second show, she will meet with
Speaker 1: Cody Rhoades at Center Stage in Atlanta.
Speaker 3: What are they doing at Center Stage?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's just the home of WCW, So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: meet him there. Yeah, she'll talk about his unique path
Speaker 1: to WWE stardom. How much of that path you think
Speaker 1: they're gonna talk about and what he envisions as his legacy.
Speaker 1: I actually can't wait for Stephanie to interview Cody at
Speaker 1: center stage about his unique path. Then we've got April ninth,
Speaker 1: Stephanie visits the Performance Center and meets up with Rhea
Speaker 1: Ripley and Sean Michaels. She will talk with Rihah about
Speaker 1: some stuff, and later Rhea surprises Stephanie with a dramatic
Speaker 1: makeover to prepare for a wild entrance. Yes, yes, that
Speaker 1: reminds me Lance, you were a trainer. So there was
Speaker 1: an interview with Sean Michaels. I don't have any idea where,
Speaker 1: but the point is he was talking about the Performance
Speaker 1: Center and getting people ready for the main roster and
Speaker 1: this and that, and he said, in his opinion, the
Speaker 1: women do better than the men as far as like
Speaker 1: getting up to speed. They get up to speed faster.
Speaker 1: Did you find that.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I would say that, but I
Speaker 3: would say that a higher percentage of the women that
Speaker 3: came to me picked it up and had an aptitude,
Speaker 3: like a much higher percentage success rate. I think perhaps
Speaker 3: women are a little more realistic than men. So you
Speaker 3: have a lot more of the oh my goodness, why
Speaker 3: did they think they would be a professional wrestler? I
Speaker 3: would say the majority of those are dudes, but I
Speaker 3: certainly had a very high percentage of successful women, so
Speaker 3: maybe they do pick it up better.
Speaker 1: And we've got April sixteenth, Stephanie Spence a day with
Speaker 1: Steve Austin at the Broken Skull Ranch to learn about
Speaker 1: how he became stone Cold and his life after WWE.
Speaker 1: That to end their day with Stephanie experiencing Steve's newest adventure,
Speaker 1: off road racing. It's gonna be one of those things that, like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna end up loving these podcasts. Then we got
Speaker 1: episode five Charlotte Flair. Stephanie meets with the Queen Charlotte
Speaker 1: Flair at Nassau Coliseum by the evolution of women in WWE,
Speaker 1: and then they take a helicopter to MetLife to relive
Speaker 1: her epic WrestleMania thirty five arrival. Interesting, I hear they're
Speaker 1: no longer calling seth Rawlins freaking? Is that true? That
Speaker 1: would be That would be almost the best news involving
Speaker 1: seth Rowlins that I could hear.
Speaker 3: Apparently they've dropped a lot of the one word monikers
Speaker 3: as part of their official name for for talent excellent.
Speaker 3: I think Dom is no longer Dirty Dom, and I
Speaker 3: think Bronson Reid is no longer Big Bronz and Reid.
Speaker 3: They're allowed to just be people and you can use
Speaker 3: adjectives as you wish.
Speaker 1: Okay, I like being able to use adjectives as I
Speaker 1: wish because I like Dirty Dom. But like the fact
Speaker 1: that everybody, including people like cmpunk, had to brand him
Speaker 1: like you couldn't say his name unless you added freaking
Speaker 1: I thought was so stupid. Now, if they can just
Speaker 1: get rid of those outfits.
Speaker 3: One step at a time, Brian, one step at a.
Speaker 1: Time, Roman Reigns and the Bloodline is April thirtieth. She
Speaker 1: hits the open waters of Miami on a yacht with
Speaker 1: Roman Reigns and the Bloodline to discuss the Anaaii family
Speaker 1: wrestling legacy, and then she enjoys some traditional Samoan cuisine. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Episode seven May seven, Pat McAfee cannot be stopped. She's
Speaker 1: gonna sit down with Pat to find out how the
Speaker 1: Art of a We promo helped him become one of
Speaker 1: the biggest names in sports and entertainment. That's how that happened.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I didn't know he was one of the biggest names
Speaker 3: in sports on entertainment.
Speaker 1: Well he is, but I mean, I don't think it
Speaker 1: was because of those promos. But maybe I thought it
Speaker 1: was his punting. That's what I always thought. And yes,
Speaker 1: it's a video podcast. Then we've got episode eight Alert
Speaker 1: Granny Digging Deep with Undertaker.
Speaker 3: Granny has to review that is it?
Speaker 1: MSG? I bet they taped that. This week meets with
Speaker 1: the Undertaker to discuss his career in his own iconic
Speaker 1: moments at the Garden. Episode nine, first Triple H gets
Speaker 1: his second appearance. They had to Las Vegas to take
Speaker 1: a look at the pageantry inspect so this must okay.
Speaker 1: So it sounds like most of these the first seven episodes,
Speaker 1: I guess have probably already been taped, and then eight, nine,
Speaker 1: and ten are to be taped because this one will
Speaker 1: be taped when they're in Vegas for WrestleMania, and then
Speaker 1: episode ten it should be interesting. Stephanie meets up with
Speaker 1: it John Cena. She gets a tour of his personal gym,
Speaker 1: find out how he stays at the top of his
Speaker 1: game and winds down his incredible career. That actually will
Speaker 1: be interesting if he's playing heel and then has to
Speaker 1: do this this podcast in May twenty eighth, and he'll
Speaker 1: probably be champion at the time. So that's the podcast
Speaker 1: everybody ESPN plus coming up, and then we've got this thing.
Speaker 1: So March twenty second and twenty third, I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to explain this in a less confusing way than we
Speaker 1: did on Observer Radio. I don't think I can well anyway.
Speaker 1: That week, they're gonna tape Collision, but Collision is not
Speaker 1: gonna air over two hours on Saturday night like it
Speaker 1: normally does. They're gonna tape two hours, but then they're
Speaker 1: gonna air two one hour shows on Saturday and Sunday
Speaker 1: following nc DOUBLEA Tournament games. So they're hoping to get
Speaker 1: a big lead in on Saturday and a big lead
Speaker 1: in on Sunday. And that's the bill to Dynasty, which
Speaker 1: will be April sixth in Philadelphia, So you got that Lance.
Speaker 1: They're filming a two hour show on Wednesday after Dynamite,
Speaker 1: splitting it into two shows Saturday and Sunday after the
Speaker 1: NCUBLEA tournament to take advantage of that giant lead in.
Speaker 1: All right, back in the moment. So we're live.
Speaker 2: You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez
Speaker 2: and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: Away with Lance Storm and Max the Dog who guy
Speaker 1: coming up with TNA. Don't you have a show coming up?
Speaker 3: We have Sacrifice on Friday. Wow. They ten men in
Speaker 3: a steel cage, Moose and Jeff Hardy in a ladder match,
Speaker 3: Mustafa Ali and Santana Masha and hopefully Kora Jaide and
Speaker 3: uh many more. So it's it's a big show Sacrifice
Speaker 3: on the TNA plus app as well as I assume
Speaker 3: YouTube and Fighting all the other places you can find
Speaker 3: our app specials. So Friday from El Paso, Texas.
Speaker 1: So still no Kora Jade update.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming the companies in the loop, but they don't
Speaker 3: tell me, so I'll find out.
Speaker 1: Did they tell you anything? Lance?
Speaker 3: If I asked, I suppose.
Speaker 1: But you don't care.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not gonna change anything.
Speaker 1: You're gonna put together match one way or the other.
Speaker 1: Who cares?
Speaker 3: Yep, it'll be somebody.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen, we're gonna wrap this show up everybody,
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