WEBVTT - Tony's Big Announcement 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.160 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:08.640 --> 0:00:14.000 you're ready, Let's get it off. How's it going, everybody? 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.520 Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:21.040 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sundays 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.560 three Pacific, sixth Eastern, Saturday is with the Jim Valley 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:26.280 Toenday Pacific one Eastern. We got a lot to talk 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:32.080 about today. It is Thursday on this show, and you 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:37.440 know what that means. Last night aw Dynamite and without 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.239 saying it, they pretty much told you we're announcing a 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.200 Saturday show next Wednesday. I'm gonna tell you about everything 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.400 we know. Talked about it a lot yesterday. Not a 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.760 lot of new information today, but Tony did announce a 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.200 big announcement and uh yeah, it's gonna be a big 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.640 one one way the other. Even if it's even if 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.160 it's only we have a new two hour show on 0:00:59.240 --> 0:01:03.160 Saturday night, that's still a pretty damn big announcement. We've 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.160 got notes on the upcoming Wembley show and will Ospray, 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:12.199 as Dave talked about last night on wrestling Observer Radio, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.040 Edge talks about the new World Heavyweight title, what he 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.600 wants to do. He's got some plans, the trainer of 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:26.440 Bad Bunny for the San Juan Street fight. The NXT 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:36.199 ratings from Tuesday night, and it's interesting actually because NBA 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:42.600 and NHL competition was very strong for SmackDown and for Raw, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.120 and for NXT. SmackDown pretty much got killed based on 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.080 what SmackDown normally does, and Raw had to do an 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:57.639 entire first round of a world championship tournament to do fine. 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.760 On Monday night it was all right, and uh, for 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.520 whatever reason, NXT did the second highest audience total since 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:09.600 March twenty eighth. So these NXT fans are loyal, as 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.280 I can attest to. And of course we've got the 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:17.480 full report from Dynamite, where in fact, that absolutely despicable, 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:22.280 disgusting human being Don Kallas did a horrible thing in 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:27.280 the main Evans, although maybe it wasn't so horrible back 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:32.519 in the moment Observer Live, you would be. We'll be 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:38.919 the other pawns in between and the cool, cool morning 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.359 turn the days of Slam. 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:46.160 I'll stay living right is easy. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:50.320 Back in the show, Bright Alberz here Wrestling Observer Live 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:56.760 m sumber BB also Wrestling Observer dot com. Well Tony 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.840 Kahn appeared on Dynamite type of an announcement that will 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:04.120 take place next week on TNT. I don't know if 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:08.400 you have heard. He appeared on Dynamite Wednesday, said that 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:12.080 based on all the talent literally lining up backstage, he 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:18.040 said it was clearer than ever that AW could produce 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:23.960 even more content. Therefore, he said stay tuned to TNT 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.960 next week as a huge announcement would take place. He 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.920 said that Dynamite next week will also follow up on 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.920 quote one of the most important announcements ever in the 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.640 history of AW. So we had the return of Miro. 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.160 Miro showed up and walked into Tony Khan's office. Thunder 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:49.920 Roses showed up, walked into Tony Khan's office, and this 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.480 led to the comment that people were lining up. So, 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.400 as we mentioned yesterday, next Wednesday, they are going to 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:02.080 announce AW Collision Saturday nights. I believe eight to ten. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.960 It will be starting in June. I mean, this is 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.800 as close to one hundred percent confirmed as you can 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.760 confirm without it actually being announced. Yet that's for sure 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.240 going to happen Now they've believes that they have signed 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:20.960 a new television deal, and I'm talking a new television deal. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.640 They had a lot of time left on their current 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:28.040 television deal, but if you recall when AW kicked off 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:35.279 in twenty nineteen, they lasted about four months and then 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.039 WBDS just tore up that contract and gave them a 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.200 brand new contract. And Dave says, that's what's happening here. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.960 So it is not continuing on with that Dynamite contract 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.400 and then adding Collision. It's like everything's being thrown out 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.360 the window, and they've got a new deal which will 0:04:55.360 --> 0:05:05.560 include obviously Dynamite, Collision page and exclusivity for the AW programming, 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.440 obviously not including Ring of Honor. Now, as we talked 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.560 about yesterday, there's a lot of rumors on the internet 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.560 that they have achieved a one billion dollar deal over 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:19.600 five years. Now, this is what I can tell you 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:26.480 about it. Okay, their old deal, as we talked about yesterday, 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:30.000 was about forty million a year for three years and 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.960 then fifty five million for the fourth year. That was 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.320 what the deal was going to be. So basically it 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.880 was a forty million dollar television deal. So to get 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.000 a billion over five years, they would have to go 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:44.320 from essentially forty it would be fifty five either this 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.040 year or next year. I think it's next year, but regardless, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.640 they would have to go from that to two hundred 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.760 and fifty million over the course of five years. Now, 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:59.120 you know, WWE's deal for Rod's SmackDown was I think 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:04.640 one point two billion, So for Dynamite and Collision, they 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.279 would essentially be getting almost exactly very close to the 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:13.080 same deal that WWE got for Raw SmackDown and NXT 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.800 by the way, So that seems like a pretty excessive number. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.000 And you know, from talking to people, the thing is 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.679 like nobody in aw knows anything. Tony is not telling 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.560 anybody anything about anything, to the best of my knowledge. 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.320 And if you if you hear from people within WBD, 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.880 they also you know, they they know obviously about Collision 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:39.159 and everything that's being announced. But you know, and this 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.760 is not everybody obviously, because I think that actually Tony 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:45.159 is now negotiating with like the very top guy in 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:49.240 all of WBD. So here's what I think is possible 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:57.840 given these these billion dollar rumors. If if AEW has 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.520 made a deal with WBD where they are renewing Dynamite 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:07.560 in an increased amount. They are adding Collision. Obviously they're 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:13.320 still Rampage. And also WBD will be taking possession of 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.320 the AW tape library for Max and the pay per 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.600 views are going to be moving to Max. So basically 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.840 what this would be is not just a television deal 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.920 but like an overall package, which would basically be what 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:31.800 WWE is doing for Peacock in terms of pay per 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:35.760 view in the library. If that's what this deal is here, 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:38.160 then yeah, I can see that being two hundred and 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.840 fifty million a year over five years. AW would be 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.400 giving them the library, the library would go on Max, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.040 the pay per views would move from br Live to MAX. 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:52.080 New deal for a Collision, new deal for dynam That 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.480 is possible that that is this rumored one billion dollar deal. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:08:01.960 So we're going to know presumably everything on Wednesday because 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.160 they have a pay per view coming up. And if 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:07.040 part of the announcement is you know, get HBO Max 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.320 or whatever it's called now Max, because that's where double 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:13.600 or Nothing is, you're pretty much gonna know that that's 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.240 what this whole package is all about. So or it 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.680 could just be Collision, I mean, could just be adding Collision, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.480 and a new deal for Collision, Dynamite and rampages of package. 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:24.160 We will know. 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:28.120 More Wednesday, but as of now, aside from the debut 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:32.600 of Collision, nothing is confirmed at this point. So that's 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:33.239 the announcement. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:38.199 Scott Steiner can explain economics better than you can. 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.080 No, he can't. I did a perfect job there. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.640 No, you didn't. You tried to divide the number by 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:47.120 five again, five year deal. If it's a billion dollars, 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.199 that would be two hundred million dollars, not two hundred 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:50.200 and fifty million whatever. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:55.200 Close enough. Hey, the gist of it is the gist 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.679 of it, you understand. And no, I am better at 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.000 math than Scott Steiner can confirm. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.199 Hey, bottom line is it's going to be big business 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:05.880 for AW and it provides them a lot of security. 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:09.199 Now do they sounds like they took those last years 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.000 that they had and just balled them up and threw 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.839 them away. Look at the amount of programming that they're 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.040 now asking for from WBD. Look what they're asking for 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.280 As far as again our assumption that they're going to 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.240 be putting the entire library up on Max and they're 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.600 going to start filtering pay per views through that method. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.280 As opposed to Bleacher Report and things like that. I mean, 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.400 no matter how you cut it, it's a great business 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:36.959 decision for AW and it provides them some really good 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.040 security at a time where things are shaken right now. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:44.600 And it's another testament to wrestling falling on the side 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.040 of sport in this case then on the entertainment side 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.800 of things, because they are getting paid with their rights 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.680 as if they were a sport. So you know, you 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.120 can say a lot about what WWE did, and you 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.920 can say a lot about what Nick con did for 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.320 them when he was negotiating deals and all that sort 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.920 of stuff, But this is what they kind of open 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.800 things up to. This is how they made the market 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.559 look at their programming, and in reality AW is benefiting 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:09.880 from that. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.319 You know, I can't wait till it turns out that 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.800 it's actually a one point twenty five billion dollar deal. 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:15.880 And I was right all along. 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.000 You know. The problem with this is now there's going 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.600 to be people where if they don't get a billion dollars, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:24.840 which is a ridiculous amount of money if you really 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.360 think about it, because again they've got to start pushing 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.640 for other things. They've done a lot of cost cutting 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:32.959 with WBD. They are going to spend some money. Now, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.480 obviously they have the NBA to look at. They've done 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.959 this deal with AAW. They have other things and other 0:10:38.040 --> 0:10:40.560 irons in the fire they have to pay for. It's 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.199 just going to be interesting to see what AW actually 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.560 gets and what the response is going to be if 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.760 everybody measures everything off of a rumored billion dollar deal. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.360 Well, you know, I don't like to be a conspiracy theorist, 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:56.120 but I will say that I have not completely eliminated 0:10:56.120 --> 0:11:01.040 the possibility that somebody involved with WWE leak this number 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.199 so that the Internet would spend a week getting excited 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.920 about a billion dollar deal and then when it's like 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.840 not a billion dollar deal, or like I knew it, 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:14.240 what a failure. Mud in the mud. They only got 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:17.120 a one hundred percent increase instead of a four hundred percent. 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.400 People to watch Dynamite can't get a billion dollars out 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.480 of the industry. Who's the Kagan of cons It's Nick 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:30.080 con Tony. You gonna take that? Come on, man, well. 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:35.920 The way come back. We're talking about Dave's pole. Heated 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:40.560 a pole? About who I think it was? Who Kenny 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:44.920 Omega should face it at Wembley and uh got a 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:48.320 lot of people talking about this pole and will Ospray, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:50.800 and uh, we're gonna talk about that after the break, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.440 and of course we got all the other news as well, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:59.680 Edge and Brian Kendrick training, Bad Bunny, NXT numbers and yes, 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.800 we will finish up today with that aw Dynamite report 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:34.760 back in a moment observed live in the show. Brain 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:39.600 Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simber BB also 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.480 Wrestling Observer dot com. So Dave did a poll who 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.840 should will Ospray face at Wembley and the number one 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:53.280 response obviously was Kenny Omega and uh fifty three percent 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.880 of the vote, it's said in his poll. And then 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.000 last night on an Observer Radio, you know, he meant 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:06.560 that will Ospray is scheduled for the show, and then 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.920 we had an article on the front page about it. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:13.160 It said will Osprey to express his desire to perform 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.920 on the August twenty seven of the show during an 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:18.680 interview with de Zone, Dave noted on Observer Radio Wednesday 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.480 Osprey has currently factored into plans for the Big show 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.680 in London. He said will Ospray as of a couple 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.840 of days ago, was booked on the show. I do 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.320 not know his opponent, I do not know the match, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.360 but he was booked on the show. So I did 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:36.480 hear from people this morning that they were not upset 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.640 at the idea that will Osprey was on the show, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.960 but they pointed out, like, you know, how many people 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.280 don't know if they're on the show. They probably would 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.720 like to know that work for AW, that are AW 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.680 wrestlers that are going to be maybe or maybe not 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.960 performing on this AEW show that sold tickets based on 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.080 being an AW show. And you know, the point was 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.320 kind of you know, sometimes you see, uh, you know, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.440 people always complain with with WrestleMania, where you've got this 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.679 roster and they work hard every year and then WrestleMania 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.480 time comes and you got the Rock or Batista or 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:16.280 Steve Austin or Undertaker or they bring all these guys 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.800 back and they get all the big spots and those 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:21.520 spots are not you know, given for the uh, the 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:26.480 other guys or whatever. Man, Well here's here's my my 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.240 thought of well here's my thought on this, okay, because 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.680 I have I have I have thoughts in all different ways, 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:40.400 So you're a thinking man. I am a thinking man. Okay, Now, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:47.560 the reality is that they've sold sixty something thousand tickets 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.880 and there's no card announced. Okay, so I am not 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:56.640 advocating to do like a dark Elevation show. But the 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:59.200 fact of the matter is they've they've they could do 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.120 anything they want on this show. This could be if 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.520 they wanted to an all AW show. Here is everyone's 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.960 reward for the last three years, and we're celebrating this 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.160 new deal and everything. So it's nothing but AW people 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.479 up and down the show. We're not bringing in any outsiders. 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.600 This is your AW show. You could do that. Okay. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.880 Now here's the argument for will ospray. 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:21.240 All right. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:27.400 The argument is that this is not just a show, 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.520 but this is the first show in this market and 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:37.680 it is being used to kickstart the future of AW 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:44.040 in all of Europe. Okay, now, we don't know right now, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:48.960 We have no idea what the broadcast plans are for 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:54.920 here in the US. Is it going to be on TNT, TBS, 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.120 Is it going to be a streaming show? Are they 0:15:58.200 --> 0:16:00.960 actually going to run to pay p reviews on back 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.880 to back weekends. It seems ridiculous that it would be 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.400 a house show. I mean, they gotta be doing something 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.880 with it, but we don't know, okay, But Dave strongly 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:17.160 believes that there is going to be a major European 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:23.360 television deal for Wembley. And if that is the case, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.520 which I'm pretty sure, I mean, it's it's it's almost 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.240 like you know, of course there's going to be. If 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.960 there is going to be a European television deal, then 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.920 what you need. Yeah, this is an AW show. Yeah, 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.800 the tickets were sold based on AW coming to Europe. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:44.720 But what you want to do is get the biggest 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:52.800 television audience possible. Who is the biggest available European homegrown 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:58.520 talent we'll offspring, right, Yeah, the somebody else I'm aware of. 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.720 So so he should doesn't need to be necessarily the 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:05.960 main event, although you could put him in the main event, 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:11.040 but he should be in a big, prominent, important match 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.080 on that show because this isn't about how I mean, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.760 it is about how many tickets he sold and everything 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.120 like that, But what this is is we are storming. 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.560 We're not breaking into the market. We're kicking down the 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.359 door of this market and we're gonna try and take over. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.720 And so if that is the idea, then yeah, absolutely 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.240 Will Osprey should be in a major match on this 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.440 show to do everything that you can do to make 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:42.560 this a European show, a show that people across Europe 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.800 that are wrestling fans are going to watch and get 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.719 behind and blow the whole thing up. People are mentioning Pak. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:51.800 I mean I think that for that market, I would 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.960 argue Will Osprey at this point is a bigger star 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.600 than Pawk in that market. Drew. Maybe he's gonna be available, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.880 maybe he won't, we don't know, but you know, as 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:01.359 of right. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.639 Now, dung Thur and guys like that out of it. Obviously, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:05.760 we're talking about who is available out there, and you 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:08.679 look at who are the biggest stars that are you know, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.679 have been homegrown there. And again it is pac who 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.800 we have not seen in a while, who will have 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.960 a I'm sure an appearance on that show. I mean 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:20.959 I assume everything is you know, copasetic between both sides, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.920 so I'm sure he'll be on the show. Well, Osprey 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.119 should be on the show. He's a natural. He's a 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.320 natural because AEW wants him there. He's a natural because 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:33.040 AW fans want him there. Let's just say even somehow 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.440 something happens where the day after all in his contract 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:40.040 ends and he walks into WWE, does it affect anything. No, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.639 because you're gonna have a match with Kenny Omega or 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.600 whoever on that show that is going to be a big, 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.480 big deal, and the fact that it naturally plays in 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.919 the things you already have with Kenny Omega anyway, that 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.679 you already have with your partners in New Japan. So again, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.960 it's just one of those things that makes sense. And 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.359 for anybody to compla he's got a spot on the 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.280 card or is going to have a prominent position on 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:08.399 this card is completely missing the point every. 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.040 We're talking about Drew here. Listen, I don't know when 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.880 Drew's deal is up. Okay, if his deal is up 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.960 even one day after Wembley, then his name should not 0:19:16.000 --> 0:19:22.480 be mentioned here because there's no chance. I believe there 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.359 is no chance that they are going to release Drew 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:30.120 McIntyre prior to Wembley. Okay, I just I can't even 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:31.760 comprehend that happening. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:37.560 So oh man, look if this goes for a lot 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.000 of matches too, Jamie Hayter, Okay, what do you do 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.800 in that situation? You know she's gonna have a you know. 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:44.560 Of course she's gonna be on the shit match. 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.120 Do you do it with you know, another homegrown star there? 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.159 Do you do it with Page? Do you do it 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:53.240 with somebody who was born there but is an international star? 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:54.399 And somebody that. 0:19:54.480 --> 0:19:56.199 You know what I do? You want to know what 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:56.760 I do with her? 0:19:57.720 --> 0:19:58.160 Good? 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:02.720 She beats Jake Cargill and the titles. We don't need 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:04.800 these two belts, dude. Yeah, I don't need to. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.000 Do that, but you could do that. But look, that 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:08.760 would be a show. You could do something like that 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:10.480 on build to it, make it a big deal and 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.520 just don't have too much inside the ring as you 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.000 build to it. But I was thinking more along the 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.120 lines of, you know a Julia who I would love 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:21.120 to take away from stardom if I had my brothers, 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.560 if I'm WWE or AW, I would love to have 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.320 Julia there. And you have the Mercedes Monette thing floating 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.639 out there as well too. What would be a bigger 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:31.800 match for a lot of people than to see the 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.440 former Sasha Banks and Jamie Hayter in front of seventy 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:38.359 five thousand or whatever fans at Wembley. So you have 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:40.199 a lot of things that are going to need to 0:20:40.200 --> 0:20:42.800 fall into place. But like you had said at the beginning, 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.040 the tickets are already sold, and you do have pay 0:20:46.080 --> 0:20:48.520 per views that you do on a regular basis that 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.520 you're going to have to build for, including one possibly 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.919 right near there with all out, So you could do 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:55.720 a lot of dream matches and have a lot of 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.000 fun on this show. As long as the crowd gets 0:20:58.040 --> 0:20:59.960 what they want, that's all that's going to matter. 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.960 Edge wants to win the world title and then retire 0:21:05.000 --> 0:21:09.920 after losing it. Join the club. Edge not everyone's deal, 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.040 but he did say that the title belt looks very 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.199 much like the one that he vacated when he was 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.919 forced to retire twelve years ago, and that was a 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:20.280 thing that one of the main reasons that he was 0:21:20.320 --> 0:21:23.080 compelled to return was he did not get to end 0:21:23.080 --> 0:21:25.320 this thing on his terms. He never got to lose 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.960 that title and then retire, so it would be poetic 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:33.280 for him to win. Essentially, that's essentially what this belt is. 0:21:33.400 --> 0:21:37.159 It's that same belt, new design and everything. But you know, 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:41.480 winning that, having his big run, retiring, losing it first 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:45.359 to somebody, I mean, I'm not a post to that idea. 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:50.920 Why not NXT six hundred one thousand viewers, up five 0:21:50.960 --> 0:21:54.400 point eight percent from last week, second highest audience total 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:59.400 for the show since March twenty eight did a point seventeen, 0:21:59.640 --> 0:22:02.040 up to only one point four. It wasn't Tiffany, dude, 0:22:02.080 --> 0:22:04.720 because she was in the first match, So if it 0:22:04.720 --> 0:22:06.840 was Tiffany, it would have fallen off. 0:22:06.720 --> 0:22:08.880 Afterwards when we get the many five minutes, we're gonna 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.080 find out what happened after she got out of there. 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.160 It had to have been. It had to have done 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:17.840 well because they did a great number here twenty one 0:22:17.880 --> 0:22:21.480 point four percent in uh in eighteen forty nine. That's 0:22:21.480 --> 0:22:26.120 with NBA and NHL dominating the cable charts. They were 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.560 the fourth highest non sports show of the night. People 0:22:29.600 --> 0:22:32.040 are starting to see the light about this NXT show. 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:33.760 That's what's happening. 0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:37.720 You know what it was? Probably Lyra Valko Volkov, you. 0:22:37.680 --> 0:22:38.919 Know what it was. It was the second out of 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:39.560 the show was great. 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.200 That's what it was because Lyra. 0:22:41.640 --> 0:22:43.720 I don't know how people sat through that first hour though, 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:46.440 that's another question entirely. 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:49.600 Waiting on Braun. See if you got tannered by the 0:22:49.680 --> 0:22:50.640 end of the episode. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:52.840 Guy's got a great tan brother. Yes, he has a 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.040 call I'm getting one. I've been outside every day. 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:57.320 Baskets beautiful out there. Now I gotta go. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:02.440 Yes. I also have a Kendrick confirming that he helped 0:23:02.520 --> 0:23:05.719 train Bad Bunny, which may have been why he did 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:07.920 a slice bread number two, although apparently Brian didn't show 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.679 him the part about don't land on your own head. Well, 0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:13.720 so there you. 0:23:13.680 --> 0:23:18.560 Go throwing his politics out and whether you're a good 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:22.439 job training. That's the thing is I mean, from Eva 0:23:22.520 --> 0:23:27.199 Marie to the tough enough contestants to I'm Marie as 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:30.960 one of the well, but I mean like they use 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:35.560 him and have used him to with the most again 0:23:35.600 --> 0:23:41.480 with their celebrities and again Bad Bunny his He obviously 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:45.000 is a huge fan, but he was making faces, he 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:50.520 was emoting, he was doing everything again his training and whoever, 0:23:50.960 --> 0:23:54.280 which I guess is Brian Kendrick along with some others. Again, 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:56.400 a lot of credit really needs to go to them 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:59.720 as well as him, because that was an incredible package 0:23:59.760 --> 0:24:01.120 for everyone involved. 0:24:01.480 --> 0:24:13.080