WEBVTT - Dynamite Ratings/Impact Wrestling/Mustafa Ali 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:11.080 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network, 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:15.720 live from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:18.960 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Vibe with your hosts 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.920 Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper vv. Are you ready? Are 0:00:23.920 --> 0:00:29.400 you ready? Let's get it all? How's it going to everybody? 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.639 Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.760 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three eastern Sunday 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.000 three Pacific sixth eastern Friday here, and you know what 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:42.479 that means. We got a lot to talk about. And 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:43.760 not only do we have a lot to talk about 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:48.240 on this show, but Lance Storm returns in about two 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:51.480 hours to Pacific five eastern figure four daily with land Storm, 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.320 Wrestling Observer dot com, Video, dot f W online dot com. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:55.800 He was off last week because he did a couple 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.480 of extra shows for US, but as usual, Friday show 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.960 returns today. On this show, we have a lot of news, 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:09.280 including Dynamite ratings for Wednesday night show did well and 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:13.800 in fact to beat Raw in eighteen to We have 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:17.240 updates on Rampage tonight. One of the matches is off 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:22.039 the show as a result of a COVID nineteen protocol, 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:23.720 so we'll give you the lineup for the show coming 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.200 up here tonight. It is a live episode of Rampage. 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:30.480 I was reading something yesterday. There was a thread. I 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.160 don't even know where it was, but somebody was mad 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:36.560 that I had spoiled Rampage tonight because I I basically 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.440 told you who I expected to win all the matches. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:41.640 The show's live. I actually didn't give any spoilers. It 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.319 hasn't been taped, but anyway, we'll talk about the show 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.960 coming up tonight more on Mustafa Ali. We got some 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.080 Impact Wrestling notes that kind of main event for No 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:54.920 Surrender the Championship match next month. Lance will talk about 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:59.400 more on the Impact show on the Figure four Daily episode. Today, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:04.080 we've got Buddy Matthews returning to m l W, which 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.000 has the big show in Dallas this weekend, which unfortunately 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.280 the von Erics will not be wrestling on as a 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.160 result of a COVID anybody not have COVID right now. 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.440 We've also got some ticket sale notes. We haven't done 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:19.600 these for a while, but we're gonna get into that today, 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:22.800 and we should also have time for your feedback, maybe 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.640 even your phone calls. How exciting would that be. The 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.720 phone number as always four to five seven eight zero 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.400 seven five six six. 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The reunion of Rappongi Vice will have 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.240 to wait a while longer, as Rocky Romero's t aposit 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:04.039 for a COVID Night Team will not be On Friday's 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.040 live edition of a w Rampage, Romero sitt to team 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:11.120 with former teammate Trent Barretta against the Young Bucks in Washington, 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.280 d C, rekindling a rivalry that really took flight in 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.279 the Rings of New Japan Pro Wrestling. In its place 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:23.000 will be the Bretta Nick Jackson match, which was first 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:26.080 announced by Tony Conn and Busted Open Radio on Friday. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.000 Concept called there's a good chance there's going to be 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.520 a small change to the match due to medical protocols. 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:35.080 Before announcing the new singles encounter, Con also said that 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:40.040 Moxley versus Ethan Page will kick off the show and 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:45.000 Jade Cargill and Anna j Is the main event. Makes sense. 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:49.520 Hook is also scheduled for action against their Pentago in 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:55.760 the former's first ever live match. Mm hmm, so there 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.800 well mystified maybe by the well I'm i'm, I'm, I'm. 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:03.760 I don't know if I mystified until I watch the show. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:08.840 But given what they have done with long Jade Card 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.479 Deal matches lately, I realized sees the champions, she probably 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.320 should be closing the show. But I I, if let's 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.039 just put it this way, if they're planning on going 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.920 twelve minutes for Jade Car Deal and Anna J, I 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:22.880 don't know if that's the match I would main event 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:25.200 the show with. But if there's gonna be a three 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:28.520 minute Goldberg style destruction of Anna J and the main event, 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.880 and then somebody comes out to challenge Jade Car Deal 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.200 and you do an angle, I'm cool with that. Let 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.440 just put it that way. I guess the for me, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.680 no matter where you put it, if it goes twelve minutes, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.360 it's not gonna be a good idea. You know what 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.680 I'm saying, Well, it's not an idea if this goes 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.880 twelve minutes, regardless of where it goes on this show exactly. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:52.200 And to me, with a show that's like Saturday Night's 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.799 main event, you're gonna get your highest viewership. You're gonna 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.440 want to make the biggest impact to start the show. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.800 You know, it makes complete sense to me that see 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:02.800 him Punk will go ahead and start the show. I mean, 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.920 you know, so I I'm sorry, John Moxley would go 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.720 ahead and start the show with Ethan Page. I mean 0:07:07.760 --> 0:07:09.200 that makes the most sense to me, and then I 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.800 would roll out hook next, and then I would have 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:16.640 that longer match and then to me lead into you 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.600 can still say it main event of the show. It's 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:22.240 not an insult. You know that the the TBS Championship 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.840 is going to main event rampage. I know people will, hey, well, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.680 isn't John Moxley and starting the show the main event? Yeah? 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:29.720 You look at it both ways. Okay, you know it 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:33.080 works for everybody. The bottom line is, of all of 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.840 these matches, that's the one that needs to go short, 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:37.360 and they need to figure out a way to make 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.920 it go short, or if it's gonna go a little 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.520 bit longer than three minutes, you better have some stuff 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.080 from the outside. You better have Mark Sterling involved, you 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.280 better have John Silver involved, whatever. But you're gonna have 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.720 to do more than just rely on those two to 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:55.800 have a you know, again, it's nothing against him, it's 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.200 the experience level. But to have them have a main 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.120 event match, they're gonna need all the help and as 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.040 and bhustles and distractions they can get the Dynamite ratings 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:07.880 for Wednesday showed it well one point oh three two 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.280 million viewers, up six point five percent from last week. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:15.160 Best viewership number on TBS to date is the show's 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.400 best audience ince October two. Dynamite top the cable charts 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.840 with an O point four four and eighteen and forty nine, 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.960 So Yes, It's a beat. Raw, which did an O 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:28.840 point for three, up twelve point eight percent from the 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.959 previous week, finished ahead of two NBA games that aired 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:37.040 on ESPN, including beating the game it went head to 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.960 head with by fifteen point eight percent, So Yes, Dynamite 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:45.320 was number one on cable. I want to get an 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.040 NFL playoff game, but was up in the demo from 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.960 last week, which had a competition from the College Football 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.680 National Championship Dynamite. The biggest increase was with women eighteen 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.839 to forty nine shows up twenty three point one for 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.200 sent to a point three two and there you go. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.120 I've actually got the quarters from Brand and Thirst. Essentially, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.400 what happened was the show started super high, and uh, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.040 it didn't fall the entire time, but there was there 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:16.280 was a minor decline in most of the segments with 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.480 the exception of the ten o'clock hour, which I think 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.200 was the Cody promo where it went up and they 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:25.080 started going back down again. But they are absolutely helped 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:30.000 by the lead in that they get. So hey, listen whatever. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.920 I mean, there's a reason Rodd overruns. There's a RAW 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.600 that often followed big shows. I mean, if you can 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.640 get a big lead in same with any show, then 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.160 that's good for you. So that's the numbers four the week. Yeah, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.520 especially one that I would have considered long in the 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:47.720 two if I know it was a really popular show, 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.720 but I was really I'm surprised in the way that 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.080 they're keeping women and and keeping them involved in watching 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.760 the show. So you know, kudos to them, and and 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.240 good it's good to have a good week when your 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.199 opposition has a bad week and was loaded up against 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.600 and that's what happened to Raw. So if you're an 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.000 a W fan that loves to dunk on other people 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:13.480 online and stuff like that, just be careful because you know, 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.440 at some point football goes away, and as we move 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.640 towards Mania season, it's gonna be it's gonna be tough. 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.000 You know, it'll be interesting to see. I mean, obviously 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.920 the numbers are are close, and they're going to be 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.480 somewhat in battle, but for the most part, Raw still 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.480 holds that advantage. So I'd be very careful if you're 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:33.440 looking at dunk on others right now. Are we guess 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.679 some ticket sale notes here which are a mixed bag. 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:43.439 SmackDown Tonight is at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:48.959 and fifty seven hundred tickets out eight seven percent full. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.439 There's about eight hundred tickets left for the show tonight. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:59.920 Raw on Monday has got forty eight hundred tickets out full. 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.199 They got about a thousand tickets left. They've just opened 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.079 up a new upper deck. This is the Raw go 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:12.600 home for the Royal Rumble. That is UH Toledo SmackDown 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.440 next week, which is the SmackDown go home show for 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.360 the Royal Rumble. Is currently a thirty nine hundred fans 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.920 and they've got twenty five hundred tickets still out. It's 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.240 only six full. That's the T Mobile Center in Kansas City, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.840 so that one has got a long way to go. 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:37.600 And then the post Royal Rumble Raw is also at 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:42.200 thirty hundred fans. It is only seventy full and they've 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:49.480 still got fifteen hundred tickets remaining. Rampage tonight is uh 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:55.400 at twenty six hundred fans at the Entertainment and Sports 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:58.920 Arena in Washington, d C. That is seventy full, but 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:05.040 there's still tickets remaining. Dynamite in Cleveland, which is this 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:13.600 coming Wednesday, is currently full, fifty hundred fans and tickets left. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.200 And then the February second Dynamite. This is actually the 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:22.520 one to watch, the February second Dynamite because this is 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:29.160 the show from Chicago. It is currentlyts out, two thousand 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:35.840 tickets remaining. It's full, but I would expect they're shooting 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:40.000 an angle in Cleveland that is going to lead to 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.400 a big match in Chicago, and that might be It's 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.960 possible that Chicago will be CM Punk versus m JF. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.360 And so if that match ends up taking place, because 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.480 Punk did a promo and basically said that this match 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:57.480 with with MGF is going to take place in the 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:01.400 last place MGF wanted to take play sin, I presume 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.720 that's Chicago. So if they announced see him Punk versus 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:10.560 m JF for Chicago on Dynamite, we should see. Well, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.720 it'll be interesting to see what happens to those remaining 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.840 two thousand tickets right there. So it's possible they're gonna 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.960 hold that off to the pay per view. But the 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.880 pay per view is quite a ways away. We're still 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.440 talking about early March, so they have to hold this 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.800 match off for six more weeks. So they may do 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:32.880 the first match in Chicago and then the second match. 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.520 If they're gonna do a second match quickly, could be 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.920 at the pay per view, or maybe it'll be m 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:39.920 JF and and wardload the pay per view. I'm not 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.280 sure what they're going to do, so that'll be the 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:48.040 one to watch. Their tickets remaining, and uh, February second 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:51.520 is the date. You know, they got options and if 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:54.559 to me, you can do two matches between see them 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.120 punking MJF rather easily, and you can get good heat 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.960 in somebody's hometown. You could really move an angle forward, 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.400 You could really shake something up, you know, between the 0:14:03.400 --> 0:14:07.360 two and keep people interested as Wardlow continues to play, 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.080 you know, a factor in all of this and battling 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.760 into them day up and whatever else punk has got 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.360 going on as well too, So you can easily do 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.840 two matches and get something done back in a moment 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:37.560 Observer Live. You are listening to Wrestling Observer Live with 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:42.320 Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.360 Back of the show, Brian alvar is here or Wrestling 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:56.720 Observer Alive. Okay, simpervv also a Wrestling Observer dot com. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:04.680 And uh, what is this? Here? Is this here? Somebody said? 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.680 Somebody's texted me saying, judging by his latest tweet, Ali 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.280 should just tweet out whatever Vince's plans were for him. 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.880 So I went to his uh, his Twitter, and Ali 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:20.560 his h he has posted a shot of from the 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.880 Dark Night when the Jokers standing there in front of 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:28.240 the mountain of burning bills. So I was going to 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.400 give him too much credit because I didn't see that 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.560 movie or I don't know anything about that. So I 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.240 was gonna say, I thought that was a pretty cool 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.560 shot there with Ali. So it was a pretty cool shot. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.120 It was a pretty cool movie. I can't believe I've 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:44.120 seen some cool movie you haven't seen. But anyway, your 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.960 opinions are relevant toil. You see Godfather, I've seen The Godfather. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.200 The right Thing, do the right thing. Now I haven't 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.040 seen it. I just do the right thing all the time. 0:15:54.840 --> 0:16:02.280 Mhm man, I got it and I'm gone, And I 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:07.040 was thinking about this, uh gun thirst Stark, Oh no, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:11.120 why don't don't give that thought? What what? Well? And 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.920 I've heard from a lot of people that you know, 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.560 they're certainly not defending the name Gunther Stark so much, 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.960 but like you know, they're they're asking a lot of questions, like, 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.960 you know, are we sure that w w E knew 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.200 what they were doing? Is it possible they didn't know? 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.760 Is it possible that like Vaulter wanted the name and 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:37.080 and you know, they didn't know. And listen, all of 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.960 that is possible. Okay, it's all possible, all right. But 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:45.040 the fact of the matter is, after all these years, 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:52.720 including on a show where Sarai is re debuting dressed 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.240 as a Japanese school girl, and Ali had an idea 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.240 from Vince McMahon that led him to want to quit 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:00.040 and tweet out a photo of him in front of 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.600 a you know when you watch the world burn. I mean, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:07.280 it's just very hard for me to give w w 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.440 E the benefit of the doubt in this situation. If 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:13.080 that makes me an unfair man or a bad person, 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.280 then I I am afraid that I have to accept that. 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.280 But I just cannot give w w E the benefit 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:24.440 of the doubt in this gun th Stark situation. That's 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:29.080 just me. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong now, quite frankly, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.960 I've asked a lot of people and nobody is admitting 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.280 to coming up with the idea. Nor have I, by 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.160 the way, heard anybody in w w E give their 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.200 own company the benefit of the doubt. So I could 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.720 be wrong and they could be wrong. I don't know, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.639 but man, oh man, it's very hard to give them 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.600 the benefit of the doubt in this situation. You are 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:54.040 not wrong. I am not wrong. No one who is 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.800 not giving w w E the benefit of the doubt 0:17:56.880 --> 0:18:02.040 is wrong period. You know, the repute, their reputation speaks 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.879 for itself. History is on our side. For those people 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.720 who are looking at this with a real cynical eye 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.480 and have a an issue with it, maybe some people 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:16.320 have a real problem with it. I just take umbridge 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.240 with it. I have an issue with it. I think 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.040 it's ridiculous on a lot of different levels, and I 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:26.080 think it's uh, it's just it's just another shining example 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:31.359 of just missing the boat, completely missing the U boat completely. 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:35.719 You know, changing these names in the first place is ridiculous, 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.080 not doing your due diligence and the way you needed 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:42.440 to do. Having those that tweet and that stuff from 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.160 Bartel where it looked like this was either if it's 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.680 not being planned, I mean, what, what's w W gonna 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.359 say that? Well, they shouldn't have tweeted that out. We 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:52.840 don't know what they were doing. They were acting on 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:55.160 their own. Nobody's saying that, you know, all for all 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.200 of the people that are saying, you know, Walter could 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:03.199 have chosen this name, nobody's nobody's really saying anything about that. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.520 Nobody's really backing up that from inside the company that 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:09.320 that is this was Walter's idea or anything like that. 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.240 Like Brian said, most of the people that I've talked 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:16.080 to are looking at this and rolling their eyes and 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:17.960 have the same thoughts that a lot of us do. 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:23.880 It was just sloppy, It was ignorant, It was unneeded, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.359 and they have to pay whatever social price are gonna 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:28.719 have to pay for that. Not gonna put them out 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:30.359 of business, and they're not gonna care. They're gonna be 0:19:30.400 --> 0:19:33.639 in Saudi Arabia soon. People are gonna be upset and 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.000 outrage about that. They're gonna do plenty of other things 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:45.080 on top of having a completely vanilla, painfully slow, painfully unfunny, 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:52.719 painfully on entertaining television show and television product across all brands, period, 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:56.040 no matter what it is. So you know, I just 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.320 come on, you know, and I and I have feeling 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.200 you'll be doing this again. Maybe in about an hour 0:20:03.359 --> 0:20:05.959 or so, you'll be You'll be talking about this issue 0:20:06.560 --> 0:20:09.040 and getting Lance's thoughts on it, and I'm very interested 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:12.280 to hear what he has to say about it. But 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:18.000 I just nobody, Why are people still now trying to 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.439 defend this or stand up for WDW or any of 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:23.439 that stuff? You just again with history not being on 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:30.600 their side. I mean, come on, really, please for Christ's sakes, 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.719 be leaving w w E for years. According to a report, 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:36.520 Fightful Select reports, w w E has refused to grant 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.240 all these public requests to be released from his contract, 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.760 a contract that has years left on it. The report 0:20:42.840 --> 0:20:44.879 states at Ali and w w have been in context 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:47.399 since he made his request on Sunday. The company has 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.840 told Ali they will not to grant the release now 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:54.879 and have no plans to in the future. I'd like 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.480 to invite Ali onto this show, come on the show 0:20:58.520 --> 0:21:01.520 and tell us all about it, because he's not allowed to, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.119 so he should, and then maybe they'll fire him and 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.480 we can get the full story. That would actually kill 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.399 many birds with one stone if he just came on 0:21:08.400 --> 0:21:12.040 this show to talk about it. He's been gone from 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:14.640 television since November, and the Really Reports states that a 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:18.360 heated argument with Vince McMahon over a pitch that McMahon 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:21.480 made to Ali regarding his character was the catalyst for 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:24.480 Ali not appearing on TV. So not only was Vince's 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:27.119 idea an idea that made him want to quit, but 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:30.800 it led to a heated argument with Ali and Vince McMahon. 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:33.960 But we should give them the benefit of the doubt. 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:36.400 Maybe they just wanted him to uh. I don't know, 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.720 maybe they wanted him to just cut his hair, you know, 0:21:39.920 --> 0:21:44.040 something simple. Hey, Brian, was this the company that uh 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:50.960 that had Charlotte Fair uh and have her dead brother's 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:54.760 name invoked in the storyline, and then that was trying 0:21:54.800 --> 0:21:58.199 to be positioned as Charlotte's idea And maybe it was 0:21:58.320 --> 0:22:01.400 Charlotte's idea, well it because it didn't sound that way 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:03.879 and it. It actually sounded like later on, especially when 0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:05.960 Rick talked about it, that she wasn't okay with it. 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:11.200 You know, again, this is just a long line of insensitivity, 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:15.600 a long line of of again just ignorance, just flat 0:22:15.640 --> 0:22:20.680 out ignorance, you know. And with Ali, it's amazing what 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.679 they It's amazing. They're not gonna let him go, but 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.520 you let all those other people go. You talk, you know, 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:31.080 you you brought up on rampage that you know there 0:22:31.119 --> 0:22:34.679 was blood these women, Oh they massacred themselves. You know, 0:22:34.840 --> 0:22:38.800 what about like something for real? Like what about you 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:43.520 bringing over uh Alice in danger and you have her 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:46.280 uproot her whole life and her whole family to bring 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.080 her over to cut her and send her backpacking again? 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:52.880 How many days after you you bring her? It's just 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.240 just just sorry, just just slimy and sorry. And they're 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:59.080 getting what they deserve any bad I mean, and again 0:22:59.359 --> 0:23:01.080 they don't have to bad press. I'm not rooting for 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:03.080 him to get bad pressed, but as far as people 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:05.840 looking at them and just blowing them off in hand 0:23:05.880 --> 0:23:08.679 waving them and not taking him seriously on any of 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:12.400 this stuff, and and you know, it's just they get 0:23:12.400 --> 0:23:15.240 what they deserve. Your root in it, that's what you get. 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:17.880 Moose will put his Impact World title on the line 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:23.720 against W. Morrissey at next months No Surrender the Live 0:23:23.960 --> 0:23:27.040 Impact Plus Events that for Saturday February Ninete, along with 0:23:27.080 --> 0:23:29.080 Matt Cardona and two squared off in a three way 0:23:29.080 --> 0:23:31.040 for the title. It hard to kill it Moose one 0:23:31.600 --> 0:23:33.560 on the following Impact Morsey made it clearly one did 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:36.680 Moose one on one for the gold, but the champion 0:23:36.800 --> 0:23:40.560 had no interest. On Thursday's show, Morrisey won a handicap 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:44.000 match against VSK and Zicky Dice went searching for Moose, 0:23:44.880 --> 0:23:46.919 but Scott de Morriseity wasn't there and then made the 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:53.040 match for the special So Moose versus W. Morrissey, which 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:57.440 is one of my favorite names and wrestling along with Harland, 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:02.600 that would never get so old. M hmm. I'll hold 0:24:02.640 --> 0:24:06.719 out for this weekend and weight on Homicide and uh 0:24:07.680 --> 0:24:10.880 John Moxley that's more of my speed. Well, that sounds 0:24:10.880 --> 0:24:12.520