WEBVTT - The Best NXT Show Ever 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.640 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:16.639 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.040 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with your hosts 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.200 Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:26.960 Vb Are you ready? When you're ready, let's get it off. 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:33.280 How's it going, everybody? Bryan Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:35.760 We are here every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.920 three Eastern Sunday three, Pacific six Eastern Saturday Mornings with 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:43.520 Jim Valley Today and Pacific one Eastern Sundays with andrews Arian. 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:47.880 And it's Wednesday here on the show. You know that means? 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.680 You don't know what that means? Well, we'll have the usual. 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.680 We gotta talk about NXT last night, which I actually 0:00:55.680 --> 0:01:01.160 think was the greatest NXT television show but they've ever ran. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.720 I had some people to make a couple of other suggestions, 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.039 but in general, it's pretty much agreed this was the 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.800 best NXT television show they ever had. And joining us 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.680 to talk about that show today, Lance Storm. Lance has 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.280 got to do a lot of traveling for TNA this 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:20.880 coming week and so he can do the regular show, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.520 and so therefore Mike Simperviv's got the day off and 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:28.360 Lance will join us a talk about the NXT show, 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:31.880 which had a bunch of NXT TNA matches on it, 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.640 so that will be cool, So we'll talk about that 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.640 as well as the dynamite A lineup for tonight. We 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.839 know a little more than we knew yesterday. They're basically 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:44.840 going to start a new tournament. So if you're a 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.080 fan of tournaments, if you're a fan of CMLL have 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.080 I got this show for you, So we'll talk about that, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:55.320 plus Collision at Viewership and Stephanie's places. She's got a 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:59.120 new podcast on ESPN. 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Land 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.760 Storm is joining us here today, and before we go 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:25.479 to Land should mention it's Wednesday. It's Wednesday here on 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.760 the show, and that means that after this show there's 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.160 an hour break and then at two Pacific five Eastern 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:36.359 it will be after dark radio today, and we do 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.560 have a guest. I texted the guest. Everything seems to 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:41.640 be all right today. I'm like the last guest who 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.480 has been rescheduled by the way, but now they have 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:47.480 to wait till the anime. But the Reverend Bill Bean 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:51.120 is going to be on the show today. He's actually 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.440 been on Coast to Coast I think twice last year. 0:06:54.040 --> 0:07:01.160 And we're going to talk about exorcisms and demons and such. 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.880 So that'll be two Pacific five Eastern today. And if 0:07:04.920 --> 0:07:06.560 you listen to the show and you have any questions, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.560 you can always send questions to me to ask the 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:13.200 guests the referend to Bill Bean, and you can send 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:17.280 those to Brian at after Dark radioshow dot com. That 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.520 is Brian at after Dark Radioshow dot com. And I 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:23.520 will never forget I was listening to Coast to Coast. 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.440 I can't remember who the guest was was years ago. 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:26.680 I might have been listening with a Vinie in the 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:30.000 car in fact, and George Nori was promoting the show 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:32.120 and he was gonna he was gonna head to the 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:37.360 commercial break or whatever, and he goes coming up next giants, 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:42.400 demons and other issues on coast to coast, am, I 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:44.800 thought other issues? Is that how you describe this giants, 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.040 demons and other issues. I never thought of giants and 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.120 demons being issues, but when you really think about it, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.200 and a haunted house can be an issue. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:58.120 So we'll talk about that todays. 0:07:58.280 --> 0:07:59.600 Yeah, yeah, that would be in. That would be a 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:00.960 big issu when you think about it. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.920 Yes, maybe his take on Finn Balor. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.240 I could maybe. You know, we always have these guests 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.760 and I'm like, oh man, they're gonna ask me, you know, 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:12.520 ask some wrestling question or whatever, and I'm never gonna 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.720 ask a wrestling question. And then, like you know, three 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.360 quarters of the way through the interview, turns out the 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.680 guy's a wrestling fan. So if that comes up with 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.440 Reverend Bill Bean, maybe I will ask about doing a 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.160 demon gimmick in wrestling. Is that a good idea to 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:30.320 do a demon gimmick? We'll find out, all right. I 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:32.760 guess we got to talk about the NXT show last night. 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.080 I'll do the full review at the end of the 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.760 show here. But Lance, you watched it, and uh, you 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:41.679 don't watch all the NXT, so I guess I can't 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:43.440 ask you the question if it was the greatest NXT 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.480 TV show of all time, But I guess I could 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:46.880 ask was the best one you've ever seen? 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.439 I would have to go back to compare, but it 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.600 was fantastic. It certainly had the feel more of a 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:59.439 plee than a weekly television show. I thought the theater 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.240 at Mattis Square Garden looked incredible. It looked like a 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.360 great venue, a lot of fun, and it just felt 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.360 like big match after big match and a lot of 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:15.599 the backstage, high school esque tomfoolery that I'm usually not 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.440 a big fan of seemed to be in short supply, 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.680 and I really enjoyed the show. 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:26.920 You know, I've now determined that now that we've seen 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.320 NXT and an AW go on the road and start 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:36.880 running these smaller buildings, I'm all for it. Like we've 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.680 seen the same thing on some of these Dynamite shows. 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.440 I mean, we talked about how they needed to run 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.160 smaller buildings, and then it was around the time they 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:49.240 ran the Hammerstein Ballroom, and it just looks so awesome, 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:53.760 that Hammerstein Ballroom, and you know, it was got me thinking, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.760 what's the problem. Like obviously, you know, there's the ego aspect. 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.440 We'd rather run buildings and small, you know, but if 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.080 you take that out of the equation and you just 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.480 talk about like, you know, forget forget the ego, what 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.360 are the fans watch when they're watching on television. These 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.920 buildings are awesome, dude. And there's a lot of there's 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.880 not like identical Hammerstein ballrooms, but like there's a lot 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.520 of cool ballrooms and and and we've seen them the 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.240 theater Madison Square, Guard and that thing looked awesome. That 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.760 place looked great. A lot of these Dynamite shows have 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:25.280 looked great. 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:25.920 You know. 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.560 They ran an NXT house show in Seattle, and I 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:33.120 think it was like the Paramount Theater something in Seattle, 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 you know, not a very big theater. They run like 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:39.880 plays there or whatever. But this was the coolest building. 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:41.760 It wasn't on TV, but it was just we went 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.720 there live. So I'm all for these these small buildings. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.400 But it was a it was a great show. They 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:54.840 had five matches. Every match I thought was great. And 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.080 I guess the big stories I get. I'll go over 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.720 the results. Yeah, let's talk about the show now, why not? 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.840 So yeah, whatever it opened up with, Oh but if 0:11:05.880 --> 0:11:08.040 I mean, it's bigger news than like what Stephanie's talking 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.200 about on our podcast. So the opener was The Hardies 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.920 versus Zaxiem and Nathan Fraser TNA tag team titles. I mean, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.040 this was a great match. It was like big dive, 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:22.079 Big dive, Big dive, big dive by the baby Faces. Early, 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.040 Hardy's cut him off. Baby Faces make that big comeback. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.559 They try a dive again, this time Fraser gets a 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.120 side effect on the floor. Hardy's hit their plot twist, 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.120 which is one of my favorite double team moves. And 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:41.000 then finally, Axiom tries a drop kick, accidentally hits his partner, 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.760 and then Matt hits Axiom with the twist of fate. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.800 Jeff hits a sent on, crushed poor Fraser, pinned him 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:52.600 and a big Hardy chance. Afterwards, they retained the TNA 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:57.440 titles on an NXT show and the Hardys did an 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:01.319 interview afterwards and they want a shot at the NXT 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.200 tag team titles, so that could happen, I guess on 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:09.080 an NXT show, But I thought this match was great. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:14.200 Yeah, it was the Hardys. They're like one of the 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:17.600 best teams to work because they're so over their stuff 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:22.480 still works, and Axiom and Fraser are fantastic and just 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.960 to be technical, they were in fact going for their 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:30.320 high low combo move when Axium accidentally hit Fraser with 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:34.040 the dropkick into the finish. This was so much fun 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:39.080 and I would imagine based on their age, I would 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:42.160 imagine Nathan Fraser and Axiom were pretty damn excited to 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:46.480 get to wrestle the Hardy Boys because they would have 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:50.559 been probably fans back when the Hardy Boys were doing 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:51.840 their initial run in WW. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.440 This guy here in the chests is time to break 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.400 up for Axiom. I can't think of a worse idea 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.040 because here's the thing. Yeah, have they done all they 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:02.760 can do in NXT? 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:03.240 Yeah? 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.400 Probably? But what are we gonna do here, like break 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:07.920 them up and call them up to the main roster 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:11.839 as singles. That sounds like a terrible idea. If they've 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.000 done all they can do as a team in NXT, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.000 then they should be brought up as a team to 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.680 the main roster because we got a lot of teams 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.040 and you know, it's not like you want to do 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.000 the motor seam machine guns. Have them go NXT and 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:28.360 then break them up and then call them up to 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:30.720 the main roster. That was the whole problem I've had 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.520 with Chase You. It's like, why didn't they at least 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.520 try calling up Chase You instead they broke them up 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.440 in NXT. It was the hottest act they had. And 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:43.320 then they fired Duke and then we haven't seen thea. 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:47.880 We haven't seen Riley, We rarely see Andre Chase. It's 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.720 like they were all stronger as Chase You, and they 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.200 would have been way better off at least trying it 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.520 as Chase You on the main roster. But no, do 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.200 not break these men up. Break up, break up Theory 0:13:59.200 --> 0:13:59.720 and Waller. 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:03.480 Give me these two guys against the MotorCity machine Guns 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:07.439 for like, you know, a dozen matches. Please, bro look at all. 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.680 The teams they've got, the war Raiders, you know good? 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:11.880 A match with these two against the war Raiders would be. 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.160 I have to hang out before you go any further. 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:19.080 I have to put over the opening of the speed 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.640 match between Ivar and. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:24.920 The opening of it. It was only three minutes. 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.520 Yes, but the Fry Takayama spot has been copied ten 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:33.920 million times and in my opinion, never really looks all 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.960 that good. This is the greatest version of the Fry 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:42.960 Takiyama spot since Fry Takeyama. It was fantastic. These two 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.080 guys looked like they were just punching each other right 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.280 in the face. None of these punching them in the 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.440 rear deltoid stuff. This was fantastic. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.160 Well, knowing these two men as possible, they were punching 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:53.680 each other as hard as they could right in the 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.160 face to recreate that spot. And I guess I is 0:14:57.200 --> 0:15:02.360 not really a spoiler because I mean whatever, but Ivar 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.520 is challenging for the Speed title. He's gone all the way, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:13.800 so uh hopefully he wins. He beat Uh Dominic Mysterio 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:17.880 and so it is Ivar versus Dragon Lee coming up 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:22.560 in this Speed of finals. So there you go, all right. 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.960 Then we had Uh Jada and Mickey James having a meeting. 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:28.960 Sounds like Jada is going to be next in line 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.640 for Stephanie for both of her titles, and they're they're 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:36.720 teasing that for many a weekend. We had Stax, Luca 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.720 and Rizzo backstage and there's going to be a six 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:43.840 man next week and Tony d is like, how come 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.080 he didn't add me to the sixth man, and Stack says, listen, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.800 it was my fault. You lost that match last week. 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.080 The title. I need to handle this, and Tony says, well, 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.440 you didn't cost me the match, but if you want 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.320 to handle it, go for it. So Stax has taken 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.920 the lead after all these years of the Inner Moss 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.360 and we had Rock Sand and Jordan Grace, which I 0:16:04.400 --> 0:16:09.640 thought was also an excellent match, great heat and ended 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.680 up with Roxane working her leg over the entire match. 0:16:13.080 --> 0:16:16.680 Clips knee head scissors, DDT, goes up top, mister frog splash, 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.480 they go back and forth, and finally there's a backfitt 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:23.920 rolling DDT made in Japan. Jordan pins her clean as 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.440 a rock. Sand's on her way out. Great match we'll 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.160 talk about with Lance half of the Break Observer Live. 0:16:44.160 --> 0:16:47.640 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.400 and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.160 I guess that Jordan rox Sand match also a number 0:16:56.200 --> 0:17:00.160 one contenders match, so we got her and Jada fight 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:02.480 for that Spot's what it looks like to me, Lance. 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.440 Yeah, I had to keep reminding myself Jordan wasn't a 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:10.880 TNA person in another interpromotional match, because I've been working 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:12.639 with her for the last few years in TNA, so 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:15.919 very happy for her success. I thought the match was 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:20.440 really good and I'm looking forward to whenever she does 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.280 face the winner of the main event of this show. 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.280 Not to spoil the show that already happened. 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.520 And we had Undertaker her meeting with Oba Femi. They 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:35.080 fist bumped and then Gully g We had Oba Femi 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:39.479 and Moose for the NXT title. Some of those matches 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:42.800 where like they they didn't even do like an angle. 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.560 It was like Moose was in the ring. He called 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.359 out those nerds, which, by the way, they beat that 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.239 guy up a month ago. There's been no follow up. 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:53.280 Now they're beating up other dudes. But Oba Femi called 0:17:53.320 --> 0:17:55.840 out those geeks and then outcomes Moose and all they 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.320 had to do was just look at each other and 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.919 everybody was going nuts, going crazy. It's all you need 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.639 to do. They had a contract signing or whatever. They 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.160 that press conference, they you know nothing, They did nothing 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.879 to build this match. They didn't need to. We just 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:10.840 wanted to see it. 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:14.399 We did on TNA. We did some tremendous build. Listen 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:17.560 to the Vinny V show that went up yesterday. He 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.440 put it over that on our site. It is on 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.560 Wrestling Observer dot go I four w online dot com. 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:27.720 All right, on the actual NXT show, they didn't do anything, 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:32.199 but everyone was really excited for it. So anyway, I 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.080 was excited going in. I was like, this match is 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.360 gonna be awesome, and it was better. It was actually 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:40.680 better than I expected it to be. It over delivered 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:45.640 in my eyes, and just two hosses. This freakin' Oba 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:51.399 Femei is so strong, like he is throwing Moose around 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.400 and some of this stuff. It's like, you know, sometimes 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.080 the guy goes up for you, sometimes he doesn't. You 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:03.200 just get it. And that's what happened here, catching him 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.719 like it's nothing, throwing him around like it's nothing, and 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:09.280 all sorts they had. They had the most simple spot. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.440 It was Moose hits a super plex and he's gonna 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.480 roll through into another one or a falcon Ra or 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:17.639 whatever like Seth Rollins does, and he goes for it 0:19:17.720 --> 0:19:21.240 and Oba just reverses it into just a regular suplex. 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:24.520 And this place went nuts for that spot. So finally 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:28.280 at the end, Moose spears him, Oba kicks out, goes 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.320 for another spear, pop up, power bomb one two three, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:33.120 total simple finish. 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:36.840 It was great, Yes, and you are correct. Oba is 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:39.760 a very strong person. I would quote what Moose said 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:42.479 about him, but we are on terrestrial radio, so I 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:46.640 cannot use the adjectives Moose used when he described how 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:50.879 strong Oba Femi was to me. But yeah, it's fun 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:56.080 when you get two very similar people going in there. 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:59.200 And I think that's why you didn't need a ton 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:04.119 of hype. These are two big bad men that with 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.080 both the same size, and people wanted to see them 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:09.680 fight and it was fantastic. And like you say, Oba 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:14.080 got the upper hand on this evening, but this was 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.560 a lot of fun. You know. 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:25.400 It's interesting because I was watching Collision last Saturday and 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:29.840 momo Wa Nabe was going to get a match with 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:37.600 Serena deeb and she's had zero match momos had zero 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:42.960 matches on any aew television show like television. If you're 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:50.080 watching the television show Rampage when it existed, Collision Dynamite, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.840 she'd had zero matches ever, Okay, so they put her 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:57.199 in the ring with Serena deep and for reasons unknown, 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.200 they went fifty to fifty. But that's not the issue here. 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:04.600 The issue is that crowd, that Collision crowd. It was 0:21:04.640 --> 0:21:08.359 like very clear that they didn't have any idea who 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:13.320 Momo what name was. And you know, you'll have certain 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:18.280 people that will appear on aw television from New Japan 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:23.000 or whatever, and you know, the fans will know who 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:26.280 they are pretty pretty quickly, but not all of them. 0:21:26.320 --> 0:21:29.520 There's a lot of people who, you know, the majority 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:31.560 of the audience that paid tickets to go to the show, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.720 they don't know who these guys are. But man, I 0:21:35.760 --> 0:21:39.359 don't know what it is with TNA. But Moose showed 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:43.880 up and he's never been on NXT before, he's never 0:21:43.920 --> 0:21:47.520 been on WWE television. But that very first appearance, not 0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:50.479 this match, the very first appearance of him, that place 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.280 went crazy for that guy. And it's been like that 0:21:53.359 --> 0:21:55.480 with other people who have come from TNA as well. 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.680 So it's it's kind of it's amazing because you think 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.880 that aw w'd be the audience know everybody, but their 0:22:01.960 --> 0:22:05.479 audience has changed, and you know, for whatever reason, this 0:22:05.600 --> 0:22:08.639 NXT audience is very, very familiar with TNA. 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:11.919 Yeah, Joe Henry got a big reaction, Yeah, Joe Hendry, 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:14.840 and not just the rumbled itself. 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:21.200 Yeah. Then we add the deal with Fallon screaming about 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:27.080 her title rematch and uh and she gets blown off 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.919 again this Ava and then Ricky Ricky Saints walks up 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.440 he wants a match with Ridge and as like, sure, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.879 go for it, no problem. I'm like, wow, Fellon, she 0:22:37.040 --> 0:22:40.439 is getting screwed here. And then Ethan Page walks up 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:45.399 and says, nobody here wants an outsider. Ethan Page Chavon 0:22:45.480 --> 0:22:51.080 Evans street fight. This is another great match, this Javon Evans. Actually, 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.600 I mean Ethan Page is awesome. Ethan Page can have 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:58.560 a great match with anybody, and Javon is like so 0:22:58.680 --> 0:23:02.240 much better than his push, although by the grace of 0:23:02.280 --> 0:23:07.040 God he actually won. Wrapped the chair around Ethan's neck, 0:23:07.160 --> 0:23:09.760 springboard cutter got the pin. This was the best match 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.199 they had together. It was an excellent street fight. I 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:16.360 mean it was like great match, but like not too crazy. 0:23:16.840 --> 0:23:19.240 Nobody got hurt whole deal. 0:23:19.680 --> 0:23:23.520 And what the finish was excellent. Yeah. 0:23:23.600 --> 0:23:26.960 Yeah. So, like you know, I've been I've been begging 0:23:27.320 --> 0:23:30.600 for them to do something with Javan and they they 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:32.359 then you know, when they when they set him up 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:37.159