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Speaker 1: we had a lot of the usual news to talk
Speaker 1: about here today, including the Raw Report. Raw, according to
Speaker 1: Dave of a better book show than New Japan. Maybe
Speaker 1: not this Raw, but anyway, we'll tell you about it.
Speaker 1: You know what this Raw had though good wrestling. Smack
Speaker 1: Down and Raw this week both lots of good wrestling
Speaker 1: in the show. The seth rawlins aj Styles match last night,
Speaker 1: I would go as farst say, was an excellent match.
Speaker 1: So we'll tell you about that today, and of course
Speaker 1: all of the news on Jeff Hardy. We'll get the
Speaker 1: bad news after the break. We're gonna open with good
Speaker 1: news here because you know what I like good news.
Speaker 1: W w E's Big E through his neck brace in
Speaker 1: the trash and a video posted to a social media
Speaker 1: on Monday and opposed to his Instagram story, Biggie threw
Speaker 1: away the brace that he is warrants and suffering a
Speaker 1: broken neck on the March eleven episode of w w
Speaker 1: E SmackDown. The video marks the first update the Biggest
Speaker 1: provided in over a month as he continues to recover
Speaker 1: from the neck injury. At last report, he stated his
Speaker 1: C one vertebra was not healing optimally and that he
Speaker 1: would spend an additional four to six weeks wearing the
Speaker 1: brace as he hoped to avoid spinal fusion surgery. Suffered
Speaker 1: the broken neck in a tag team match on SmackDown,
Speaker 1: taking an overhead belly to belly suplex from Ridge Holland
Speaker 1: Broke C one. C six said that he narrowly avoided
Speaker 1: par Alice's stroke and even death and now he has
Speaker 1: thrown the neck brace away, So that is good news
Speaker 1: to kick off the show here today. All the best too,
Speaker 1: Biggie on a full recovery and a return to w
Speaker 1: w E. Sooner rather than later. The end of the break,
Speaker 1: we come back. I believe Mike semper Viv actually is
Speaker 1: going to join us here today, so we'll talk to
Speaker 1: him about all of the news, Jeff Hardy, the Raw Report,
Speaker 1: a w tomorrow, n x T two point out tonight,
Speaker 1: and more. You're right back up live. You were listening
Speaker 1: to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike simber
Speaker 1: viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. So let me
Speaker 1: get this straight simple. Yeah, we changed literally nothing, and
Speaker 1: you magically lugged in today. If you think that I
Speaker 1: intentionally sandbagged yesterday and decided not to come on the
Speaker 1: show when we have raw reviews coming this week, we
Speaker 1: have n XT reviews this week, when we have all
Speaker 1: that news from Japan that we could have talked about
Speaker 1: yesterday together, you think yesterday was the day I was
Speaker 1: going to stand back this. If I'm not mistaken, it
Speaker 1: was your setup that was having a problem. Apparently wasn't.
Speaker 1: Apparently you were you talked to Tony. I mean I
Speaker 1: had no issue online whatsoever. I had no problem with
Speaker 1: my Thaie line. I was actually no, I didn't have
Speaker 1: to log in what because I don't know if he
Speaker 1: knows or not, but Filthy got on just fine yesterday.
Speaker 1: Dave got on just fine yesterday. I'm gonna calling after.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call you after my shows whenever we're going
Speaker 1: to do. Thunder Semper viv is gonna be your new
Speaker 1: name saying I'm sandbagging here, that's what you're saying, By
Speaker 1: the way, that story sandbagger, that story that and you
Speaker 1: know it wasn't just some rando on the internet. It
Speaker 1: was actually a wrestler. But I don't buy that thunder
Speaker 1: Rosa was sandbagging in that match. I don't think she
Speaker 1: was deliberately trying to have a bad match. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think that she's just you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it was on purpose. Why was Marina
Speaker 1: Schafir in that match? Anyway? And I'm gonna Marina Schafir fan,
Speaker 1: But it's like she she's got to come a long way,
Speaker 1: like when she's not in a blood sport type of
Speaker 1: situation or a dominant quick like short wind situation. I
Speaker 1: just I some of the moves that they made with
Speaker 1: thunder Rosa in this title reign. If she is salty,
Speaker 1: as has been reported, There's been lots of things reported
Speaker 1: about thunder Rosa, which I guess is good for her
Speaker 1: since I know she's on Busted Open now and she's
Speaker 1: got all these side things going on. So I guess
Speaker 1: any talk is good talk. But when it comes to
Speaker 1: actually what's happening in her career on a W, I've
Speaker 1: been baffled by some of the decisions that they've made.
Speaker 1: Here's here's the thing, so this person here goes Britt disagrees. Uh,
Speaker 1: Britt and Marina apparently they liked the tweet about her sandbagging.
Speaker 1: This is what I This is what I believe. Okay,
Speaker 1: I believe that, And dude, don't report this is as
Speaker 1: some story because this is just what I believe. I'm
Speaker 1: not reporting these as facts. Okay, your opinion. I'm in
Speaker 1: my opinion. Okay. I believe that thunder Rosa has been
Speaker 1: hurt for a long time. Okay, I think that has
Speaker 1: affected her matches. I also watch these matches, and uh,
Speaker 1: it looks to me like she just forgets what the
Speaker 1: spot is supposed to be, or she thinks of spot's
Speaker 1: gonna come somewhere else. The matches have not been good,
Speaker 1: and there have been several with thunder Rosa that have
Speaker 1: not been good. But here's the thing with sandbagging, everybody.
Speaker 1: One of the spots everyone's pointing at is sandbagging is
Speaker 1: when Marina goes for a vertical suplex and thunder Rosa
Speaker 1: doesn't really go up, and so do you guys. See
Speaker 1: what happens when thunder Rosa doesn't really go up, bro
Speaker 1: she practically takes a brain buster on her head. Okay,
Speaker 1: the thing with sandbagging is your bright idea is to
Speaker 1: not go up on a suplex, and so the person
Speaker 1: is to shoot suplex. You when you practically land on
Speaker 1: your head, that's a good way. That's a good way
Speaker 1: to get hurt. Worked out real well for hardcore Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Brock didn't. Yeah, Brock decided he was gonna sandbag a
Speaker 1: power or bumb What happened to him, Brock just like
Speaker 1: bro just dropped him right in his head, broke his neck.
Speaker 1: So this is not the thing that you want to do,
Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna go up heavy on these dangerous, you know,
Speaker 1: potentially dangerous moves right here. I think it was just
Speaker 1: they weren't on the same page. And it's not the
Speaker 1: first match where thunder Rose has been on the same
Speaker 1: page with somebody. She's probably nursing some injuries, which is
Speaker 1: why she's not maybe thrilled to that I think is
Speaker 1: a bigger problem. Not she's going in there trying to
Speaker 1: deliberately sabotage matches. That's what sandbagging is, when you go
Speaker 1: in there, you deliberately try to sabotage a match. I
Speaker 1: don't believe that for a second. She doesn't look as
Speaker 1: a dynamic And I saw her at the end of
Speaker 1: last year in person as are at the beginning of
Speaker 1: this year in person, and yeah, I mean it, it
Speaker 1: does seem like maybe she's got nagging injuries she's trying
Speaker 1: to work through, and you know, she's got these big
Speaker 1: feuds and big situations and she doesn't want to miss them.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe that's it. And this may be more
Speaker 1: of a question for Lance, but and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that this is happening with thunder Rosa or anything, but
Speaker 1: I wonder it's like any athlete gets in their own
Speaker 1: head and they go through slumps, and when you were
Speaker 1: working every night in that type of era, I mean,
Speaker 1: you would basically so you hit or you would hit
Speaker 1: yourself out of it. You would work yourself out of it,
Speaker 1: or you would work yourself out of the business. Have
Speaker 1: you ever gotten in your own head or been in
Speaker 1: a stretch of time where it just you're trying to overcompensate.
Speaker 1: You're thinking about all this stuff you did wrong. You're
Speaker 1: not concentrating on the stuff you do well. Has that
Speaker 1: ever happened to you in your never never know. I
Speaker 1: just had a really bad match with Vinie and I
Speaker 1: just quit. That's what happened. I'll do it. I was
Speaker 1: just like, I'm done. Just sucks. I'm saying fun anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm out of here. I'm taking kiddie pool bumps from
Speaker 1: here on up. We should probably talk about Jeff Hardy. Well,
Speaker 1: that's a bigger story than you being able to connect.
Speaker 1: Bring it down here, okay. Jeff Hardy has been suspended
Speaker 1: by a W in the aftermath of his d u
Speaker 1: I arrest. A W President CEO Tony connissues statement on
Speaker 1: is announcing Hardy is suspended without pay can only return
Speaker 1: to the company after completing treatment and maintaining his sobriety.
Speaker 1: Con wrote that Hardy has indicated he's open to receiving treatment. Quote,
Speaker 1: we are able to resume contact with Jeff Hardy this afternoon.
Speaker 1: A W does not contone condone Jeff's alleged behavior. We've
Speaker 1: made it clear to Jeff that we will assist in
Speaker 1: getting treatment for substance abuse issues, which he has indicated
Speaker 1: he is open to receiving. In the interim he has
Speaker 1: suspended without pay. He can only return to a W
Speaker 1: upon successfully completing treatment and maintaining his sobriety. And then
Speaker 1: he sends out the information. If you or loved one
Speaker 1: needs help, reach out to s A m H s
Speaker 1: AS National helpline one six to two help for those
Speaker 1: you have cell phones one hundred six six to four
Speaker 1: three five seven. Apparently the reason they made no announcements
Speaker 1: yesterday was because they have I guess he wanted to
Speaker 1: actually talk to Jeff Hardy before making this announcement. Obviously, yesterday,
Speaker 1: I think during the show, you know, they were probably
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out what they were going to do.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think when this, when this news first
Speaker 1: came out, Uh, they were not cooler heads. And then
Speaker 1: apparently cooler heads prevailed and Tony decided, Okay, well you
Speaker 1: know this is my idea, but obviously you got to
Speaker 1: run it by Jeff you know, are you willing to
Speaker 1: consider rehab? Because I think if Jeff said no, they
Speaker 1: just fired him. I don't know that for sure, but
Speaker 1: this seems to be something that they that they discussed together.
Speaker 1: Matt Hardy tweeted, it was disheartening to hear the news
Speaker 1: about my brother yesterday. Recovery is not a linear process.
Speaker 1: I will continue to do whatever I can't help my
Speaker 1: brother be healthy. Being healthy and well is the most
Speaker 1: important thing for Jeff, his wife, his children, and our family.
Speaker 1: At this time. Footage of his arrest was released. TMZ
Speaker 1: first to publish the video, which shows three police officers
Speaker 1: drawing their guns. An officer can be seen approaching the
Speaker 1: passenger side door of the vehicle, quickly pointing his firearms
Speaker 1: toward Hardy in the driver's seat. A second officer approaches
Speaker 1: with his gun drawn as well. A third officer approaches
Speaker 1: before Jeff exits the car. We got several calls on you,
Speaker 1: an officer can be heard saying, do you know why
Speaker 1: we might have gotten some calls? You were all over
Speaker 1: the road. What's going on with that, the officer asked,
Speaker 1: before saying he could not hear Hardy's response. Officer would
Speaker 1: later say they got three or four nine one one
Speaker 1: calls before all reporting Hardy's driving hard He mentioned that
Speaker 1: he has a doctor's appointment upcoming new a brain scan.
Speaker 1: Later in the video, he admits to having drank shots
Speaker 1: of fireball before getting behind the wheel. At the end
Speaker 1: of the video, one of the officers informs Hardy that
Speaker 1: he is under arrest, notes the time is ninety five
Speaker 1: a m arrest records show he was booked at twelve
Speaker 1: forty five later in the day. So this was nine
Speaker 1: nine fifty four in the morning. I thought the earlier
Speaker 1: reports were that it was like in the middle of
Speaker 1: like late at night or something like that. This is
Speaker 1: nine nine fifty four am apparently, So he was arrested.
Speaker 1: He was put in jail point to nine four point
Speaker 1: to nine four that's almost quadruple the legal limit, facing
Speaker 1: charges of d u I, driving with a suspended license,
Speaker 1: violating an interlock restriction, which, by the way, how do
Speaker 1: you do that? How do you get into the car?
Speaker 1: Jeff's third d u I arrest since mailed out at
Speaker 1: h on a bond and quite frankly, I mean he's
Speaker 1: not in the ladder match tonight and uh Discovery was
Speaker 1: told to quote stop all promotion of Jeff Hardy in
Speaker 1: any commercials or anywhere else. Immediately, we'll get Mike Stots
Speaker 1: after the break, he has any back in a moment
Speaker 1: of overly nobody. Next, you're listening to Wrestling Observer Live
Speaker 1: with Brian Albarez and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline
Speaker 1: Broadcasting Network. Mike Semperviva as a former bar manager or
Speaker 1: maybe currently. I don't even know how much you got
Speaker 1: to drink to blow a point to nine four. Let's
Speaker 1: just say he's like two hundred pounds. I mean there's
Speaker 1: a liquor liquor store business mostly, but yeah, bars bars
Speaker 1: as well. But like if he's two hundred pounds, I
Speaker 1: mean that's like drinking like twelve or fifteen shots or
Speaker 1: twelve or fifteen twelve pounds beers in like an hour
Speaker 1: to get up to that level. Like he was obviously
Speaker 1: in a stupor. They had to pull weapons and they
Speaker 1: said to actually use that term he was in a stupor.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's let's like, that's I think that I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's the it's the accepted term. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's a legal term. But that's where
Speaker 1: you're at. And to be honest, where you go after that,
Speaker 1: like point three five with a guy with a lot
Speaker 1: of mileage on him, that can kill you like it,
Speaker 1: it can absolutely kill you. Once you get to point four,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely going to kill you. That's how close this
Speaker 1: guy was. And I didn't also realize until just before
Speaker 1: we went on the air that this was in the morning,
Speaker 1: which doesn't really make a difference except for the fact
Speaker 1: that watching the cars go by on the busy highway
Speaker 1: and the tractor trailers and everything, it's like it could
Speaker 1: have been a horrible tragedy and it's happened too many
Speaker 1: times over and over again. And I know Matt said,
Speaker 1: he's exactly right. It is not linear. Recovery is not linear.
Speaker 1: Recovery is different for everybody. But there's a line in
Speaker 1: there where it says it only works if you work it.
Speaker 1: And Jeff Hardy has several times said no, I'm good,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to work it. I'm fine. He is
Speaker 1: not fine, and he needs to get to help his
Speaker 1: employment for a w rides on that. I don't know
Speaker 1: whether he'll care about that or not. He's got a
Speaker 1: history really not caring about that, but we'll see. We'll
Speaker 1: also see if he ends up in Tijuana. I guess
Speaker 1: he's not going to be in Tijuana this weekend for
Speaker 1: Triple A. I would I would think not. I would
Speaker 1: hope not. I want to talking about the issue that
Speaker 1: he was telling the officers he had to go for
Speaker 1: a brain scan. You gotta go to a for a
Speaker 1: brain scan, but you're doing a ladder met your schedule
Speaker 1: for a ladder match on Wednesday. There's a lot of people,
Speaker 1: and I know people are gonna jump all over a
Speaker 1: W and a W is the one where it's it's uh,
Speaker 1: the most public. But dude, there's a lot of injuries
Speaker 1: all over this business at every major company. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say that people are like hiding their injuries,
Speaker 1: but they're definitely people. Actually, I will say that they're
Speaker 1: people hiding their injuries. And there are other injuries that
Speaker 1: have come out, and uh, there's just a lot of
Speaker 1: badly beat up people. And uh, I think that every
Speaker 1: company needs to take better care in the sense of
Speaker 1: that if someone has clearly hurt, don't book them. Don't
Speaker 1: ask them, just don't book them. If you ask them,
Speaker 1: they're gonna they're gonna want to do. It just feels
Speaker 1: like pretty much say no, I don't mean to jump
Speaker 1: on the box. I guess I am jumping on the box.
Speaker 1: Like you got your match with the Hardy Boys, they won,
Speaker 1: you have them when cool, You got to live your
Speaker 1: your dream and that was awesome, but like it probably
Speaker 1: should have happened as soon as the Heartys went in there.
Speaker 1: But okay, hindsights, you had the match, Like these are issues,
Speaker 1: aren't new on top of the fact that they're not fresh,
Speaker 1: And what does that have to do with the Bucks?
Speaker 1: Because why are they having a ladder match? Well, this
Speaker 1: has nothing to do with the Bucks. Tony is the
Speaker 1: one that booked the match. Okay, well Tony then, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll ben I'll put it all on Tony then.
Speaker 1: But like, shouldn't somebody step up and go, okay, we
Speaker 1: we had the match. That was cool, Like exit stage
Speaker 1: left for a while until either you're ready to come
Speaker 1: back or whatever. Because they got a zillion teams that
Speaker 1: are more effective than the heart he is anyway that
Speaker 1: they're not using. I just think we had the match.
Speaker 1: We got it out of the way. It should have
Speaker 1: been over at double or nothing. That's me we've uh
Speaker 1: oh this yeah, the well we were talking about the
Speaker 1: ladder matches not taking place. On a completely different note,
Speaker 1: changing gears. You can come back to this later if
Speaker 1: you want to. But I cannot believe my eyes when
Speaker 1: I saw this one, and thank god Lances on the
Speaker 1: show at too Pacific five Eastern so I can get
Speaker 1: his thoughts. The unique and infamous reverse Battle Royal is
Speaker 1: returning for Sunday's Impact Slam. Anversary first announced in two
Speaker 1: thousand six as part of the Fight for the Right tournament.
Speaker 1: The match as part of the Fight for a Hat
Speaker 1: on a Hat, which earned Worst Worked Match honors in
Speaker 1: that year's Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards, featured three parts eighteen
Speaker 1: wrestlers start outside the ring with the goal of getting
Speaker 1: into the ring. After the first seven men get into
Speaker 1: the ring, everyone else is eliminated, and the rules then
Speaker 1: become a conventional Battle Royal. When the match gets down
Speaker 1: to two men, it becomes a single match. It is
Speaker 1: unknown if Impact will stick to the same rules this
Speaker 1: time around. The match will be on the Free Slam
Speaker 1: Anniversary pre share. At least you have to pay for it.
Speaker 1: You know what I gotta say, I gotta say two
Speaker 1: things right here. It's Slam Aversary, so that's why they're
Speaker 1: doing a reverse Battle Royal. They want no tradition. I guess, yes, exactly.
Speaker 1: It's Slam Anversary. So it's an anniversary show, and clearly
Speaker 1: they want to go back into the past and pick
Speaker 1: some match that hasn't been done out of the archives.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's like other stupid matches they did.
Speaker 1: But that's the problem. But that's the the legacy of Impact.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of those stupid matches that they ended
Speaker 1: up doing. I mean, we're going to bring why didn't
Speaker 1: they do King of the Mountain? Why did they do
Speaker 1: the barbed wire Christmas Tree match? Easy? Easy, Anthem has
Speaker 1: got a long term investment here. They don't worry. There
Speaker 1: would be plenty of time to bring back those things,
Speaker 1: the Hard ten tournament, the thing where homicide climb up
Speaker 1: because of whatever, and actually and whatnot. I'm sorry they
Speaker 1: are doing a a King of the Mountain match, but
Speaker 1: it's a Queen of the Mountain match with the women.
Speaker 1: They got Queen of the Mountain, they got Ultimate x uh,
Speaker 1: they got Monsters Ball. Is Teren Terrell coming back? Honor
Speaker 1: no More? And yes, the reverse Battle with Bro. A
Speaker 1: barbed wire Christmas Tree match would have been way better
Speaker 1: because all you have to do it's just like a
Speaker 1: barbed wire Christmas Tree. It's just a hardcore match. But
Speaker 1: this this stupid reverse battle. But you know what, you
Speaker 1: know what, But I can't believe I'm gonna defend it.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna, of course. And this is not because
Speaker 1: I like Lance. I'm actually disgusted that he okay this,
Speaker 1: even though it probably wasn't his call at all. But
Speaker 1: here's my one defense of this match. All right, Were
Speaker 1: we not just talking about Jeff Hardy and how banged
Speaker 1: up and injured he is, and how he has a
Speaker 1: brain scan schedule and then he gets booked in a
Speaker 1: ladder match, and how I said there's people in every
Speaker 1: single promotion that are working hurt, that are hiding injuries,
Speaker 1: that are banged up. Remember what I'm just talking about,
Speaker 1: that we didn't take better care of people. I do
Speaker 1: well as God is my witness. And I don't know
Speaker 1: where this took place, but I got a I got
Speaker 1: a d M the other day because apparently on one
Speaker 1: of the other shows we were talking about a stupid
Speaker 1: the Reverse Battle Royal was I don't even know why
Speaker 1: we were talking about it. I think it might have
Speaker 1: been because we were celebrating my birthday and I was
Speaker 1: noting that Vinnie's birthday is uh October and I always
Speaker 1: remember because there was a horrible ten A pay per
Speaker 1: view on ten ten ten that he was forced to
Speaker 1: watch on his birthday. So we might have been talking
Speaker 1: about the Reverse Battle Royal then, But or this person
Speaker 1: says the Dominion Review. Anyway, the point doesn't matter. The
Speaker 1: point is we were talking about another show, and then
Speaker 1: some bloke deemed me and he said, dude, quit talking
Speaker 1: trash about the Reverse Battle Royal because I was in
Speaker 1: one this weekend and it was the easiest pay day
Speaker 1: I ever got. So at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: we got a match here. Nobody's gonna get hurt. You're
Speaker 1: literally fighting to try to get into a ring. It's easy.
Speaker 1: Take care of somebodies, and hey, that's what this business about, right,
Speaker 1: take care of each other. Take care of yourself. Protect
Speaker 1: yourself at all times. They say that in mm A,
Speaker 1: but for some reason people haven't figured that out in
Speaker 1: the fake one. Protect yourself at all times. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can respect that. I can absolutely respect that. Now the
Speaker 1: only problem is, though, you know, there's only so many
Speaker 1: times somebody can do the you know, in the crowd
Speaker 1: stealing the beer or the soda gimmick, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like they're gonna have to parse that out
Speaker 1: there with all those What does this have to do
Speaker 1: with the Reverse Battle Royal because they're gonna be outside
Speaker 1: the ring. Yeah, but they're not gonna be in the crowd.
Speaker 1: You're just at ringside. You're just a side pretending like
Speaker 1: you can't get into a ring, which is so dumb.
Speaker 1: Who's going to be on the announcing team that ends
Speaker 1: up getting in? Because that happens every time there's one
Speaker 1: of these things. I don't know, but you know what,
Speaker 1: if I had to work the match Slammiversary and my
Speaker 1: options were I don't think my option be Queen of
Speaker 1: the Mountain, but barbed Wire Crystal Ultimate X where I
Speaker 1: could almost kill myself, Monster's Ball where I could almost
Speaker 1: kill myself. Yeah, if they had a barbed wire Christmas
Speaker 1: Tree match, I could get jabbed and punctured with barbed
Speaker 1: wire or a Reverse Battle Royal. Tell you which one
Speaker 1: I'm picking, especially if I get paid the same. I'm
Speaker 1: not here for five star ratings. In the Observer, everybody.
Speaker 1: I'm here to have fun and get paid and not
Speaker 1: get hurt, not drop anybody on their head. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: m GF and I could have had the match of
Speaker 1: a lifetime, except Who's gonna be the heel SmackDown one
Speaker 1: million viewers on Fox, down one percent from the previous week,
Speaker 1: point four four rating in eighteen forty nine, fourth among
Speaker 1: network TV programming trailing different programs all related to the
Speaker 1: NBA Finals. Guys, listen, I don't watch sports, Okay, I don't.
Speaker 1: You're welcome to make fun of me, but bro, dude, yes,
Speaker 1: it's not even like Oh, the NBA season has been
Speaker 1: going on since March. The NBA Finals, the finals March
Speaker 1: April May, four months. What kind of finals take four months? Well, Brian,
Speaker 1: I think even more amazing to you, or what should be,
Speaker 1: is the fact that the Stanley Cup Finals, you know,
Speaker 1: Canada sport, winter sport, they'll be taking place and finishing
Speaker 1: up way after the NBA Finals are done. That's my back.
Speaker 1: At the you were listening to Wrestling Observer Live with
Speaker 1: Brian Albarez and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network.
Speaker 1: He looks don't get my point. What the word playoff,
Speaker 1: the very word playoff, that word, that word indicates a finality,
Speaker 1: the end, the end of a road, have the end
Speaker 1: of the road. Yeah, it's the finals. I realized that.
Speaker 1: But dude, these playoffs we're going for four months. We
Speaker 1: just called the season. You do the season, and then
Speaker 1: you do the playoffs, which should be like two three weeks,
Speaker 1: and then you do the finals. Instead, this person like, well,
Speaker 1: you got sixteen teams doing a best of seven. It's
Speaker 1: like that sounds like a season. It doesn't sound like,
Speaker 1: how long's this season? Eighteen months? We've got an eighteen
Speaker 1: month season, then five months of playoffs, biting about taking
Speaker 1: place in a w For sakes, you stop it. You
Speaker 1: know nothing about sports. Stop it. You're gonna just completely
Speaker 1: ruined the name of the byeline. Stop it, go Warriors.
Speaker 1: I wasn't hired my sports byeline to talk sports. We
Speaker 1: know that that's Tittle's job. Does a great job. Sick
Speaker 1: of these I'm sick of these playoffs, that's my point.
Speaker 1: I'm sick of Maybe the playoffs are sick of you, Brian.
Speaker 1: Get him over with, get him over this report, and
Speaker 1: we can move on to the NHL season to be happy,
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to talk about Yeah it is, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Finally we agree the NHL, NBA, and Major League Baseball
Speaker 1: should all cut games, and they all will not because
Speaker 1: it's a lot of money lost. And you know, these
Speaker 1: these playoffs are like you know that The Return of
Speaker 1: the King. They the movie ended like nine times. People
Speaker 1: are like, Bros, this movie over yet, Dude, We've seen
Speaker 1: the It's ended eight times already. How many endings do
Speaker 1: we need? That's what I feel like when I hear
Speaker 1: about these playoffs. Oh the playoffs still going on? Dude.
Speaker 1: These playoffs started before COVID. This is the Lazarus issue
Speaker 1: in your life that you know continues to nippy your achiller.
Speaker 1: Don't even get me started on Magic the Gathering. What
Speaker 1: I had to talk about that yesterday? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: playoffs are awesome. Get out of here. Miss TV opened
Speaker 1: up with Paul Hayman and long story short, out came
Speaker 1: Riddle and they've added his stipulation. If Riddle beats Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns in the championship match, he becomes the champion. Could
Speaker 1: you believe it? Wow? But if he loses, he can
Speaker 1: never challenge for the title again. As long as Roman
Speaker 1: reigns as the champion. Vince really did revolutionize the business,
Speaker 1: didn't they. I don't buy this step for a moment,
Speaker 1: but that's what they said that led us to Jimmy
Speaker 1: USO versus montez Ford and uh, the match was all right,
Speaker 1: but the finish is just idiotic. So it's the usual
Speaker 1: w w E deal. No one's allowed to beat the USOS,
Speaker 1: So we need to set up challengers who nobody believes
Speaker 1: are gonna win. But we can't convince you that they'll
Speaker 1: win by actually letting them beat the USOS. I gotta
Speaker 1: win by count out last week, by the skin of
Speaker 1: their teeth, and then this week we're gonna do singles
Speaker 1: match and then Jimmy USO beats Montes for it. What
Speaker 1: a geek, these three prophets, God bless them. They are
Speaker 1: absolute geeks. They cannot, for the life of them, beat
Speaker 1: the USOS. But they're gonna be getting a tag team
Speaker 1: title match, and look, I am supposed to believe they
Speaker 1: can win. I don't want to draw this out, but
Speaker 1: I just want to throw this in here because the person,
Speaker 1: you know, the person that I'm talking to here, who said, well,
Speaker 1: what if Angelo beats JA next week. The USO's never lose.
Speaker 1: Why do you have to do fifty fifty with them anyway?
Speaker 1: After a decade of the USO's being the USOS, why
Speaker 1: can you not just have a victory last week, a
Speaker 1: clean win, and then this week you actually get a victory.
Speaker 1: Who cares? If right now Montez's mining, so you want
Speaker 1: to give Angelo Dawkins? And when next week? Why do
Speaker 1: you need fifty fifty booking here? When the USOS are
Speaker 1: as strong as they are? Who cares? I'll bet you
Speaker 1: here on the air five dollars that there is no
Speaker 1: chance the Dawkins gets to win next week like a pinfall.
Speaker 1: He may get like a distraction count out or a
Speaker 1: d Q win, but there ain't no way next week
Speaker 1: he's getting a pinfall. I'll bet you five bucks right now.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take that that because with how they've been booked,
Speaker 1: with how they think this is an actual good thing,
Speaker 1: I would believe it. I think it's probably gonna happen
Speaker 1: your way. This person is making fun of me for
Speaker 1: doing five bucks. I'm afraid if I bet like fifty bucks,
Speaker 1: they'll they'll do that finish just to take money out
Speaker 1: of my pocket exactly will be side bets on your
Speaker 1: action seth Rawlins did an interview and uh, this bloke
Speaker 1: needs to quit watching Joker before I lose my mind,
Speaker 1: laughing like an idiot and talks about Cody. He meant
Speaker 1: every word he said, but at the same time he's
Speaker 1: happy that he, you know, destroyed the guy afterwards with
Speaker 1: a sledgehammer, and he plans to win money in the
Speaker 1: bank after he beats aj Styles. Tonight, they actually announced
Speaker 1: they actually build Becky Lynch versus Dana Brook for seven title.
Speaker 1: So Becky comes out and speaking of geeks, she absolutely
Speaker 1: beats the living hell out of Dana Brooke before the
Speaker 1: match starts. She kills her, she mocks her, she ridicules
Speaker 1: her championship, and then she goes to beat her up
Speaker 1: again and Oscar runs down and Aska actually did a great,
Speaker 1: uh fiery come back and sent Becky packing. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Becky walking out there was great, and it was how
Speaker 1: beneath her everything was. And then for her to get
Speaker 1: out of the way that she did. It's a way
Speaker 1: out of this thing, which was a way to do things,
Speaker 1: that's for sure. No darkness m twenty one Rawlins gimmick
Speaker 1: is not good. It sucks. It absolutely sucks. Okay, Alexa
Speaker 1: Bliss and Live Morrigan versus dow Drop and Nicki Ash.
Speaker 1: They've totally dropped the Nicki Ash do Drop storyline where
Speaker 1: do Drop wanted her to be serious and stop being
Speaker 1: a clown. She's out there is superhero. She gets beat
Speaker 1: and uh Alexa and Live Morrigan qualified from money in
Speaker 1: the bank and uh zero follow up to this stew
Speaker 1: Drop nicki Ash thing, Ezekiel Kevin Owens got eight minutes
Speaker 1: good match, because yes, Kevin Owens is involved. And as
Speaker 1: much as I hate these absolute stupid finishes they do
Speaker 1: in w W E, I have to admit that when
Speaker 1: Kevin Owens ends up outside and he hears one of
Speaker 1: the announcers calling him Ezekiel, and he jumps up on
Speaker 1: the table and he starts screaming at them. This guy's
Speaker 1: name is Elias. His name isn't Ezekiel, He's a Lias.
Speaker 1: Why do you guys? And all of sudden the bell
Speaker 1: rings because he got counted out. That was a good
Speaker 1: count out, and so he's absolutely furious and he storms
Speaker 1: backstage and then Ezekiel cuts a promo and he says,
Speaker 1: you know what, I talked to my brother Elias, and
Speaker 1: he's gonna be here next week for a concert. You know,
Speaker 1: I wasn't thinking that they were going to do this,
Speaker 1: but apparently they are. They're gonna put a fake beard
Speaker 1: on Elias and a fake wig and uh and he's
Speaker 1: gonna play his He's gonna Apparently they're gonna do a
Speaker 1: wig and a beard. It sounds like which, of course
Speaker 1: the problem is then Kevin Owens can't really do anything
Speaker 1: because there's no way they can get the wig and
Speaker 1: the beard on so it won't fall off during a brawl.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe they can, but I'm skeptical. Well the
Speaker 1: wonders of c g I and those types of but
Speaker 1: they can't do the deal. I'm hoping they actually do
Speaker 1: the deal. Where Lisa's in the ring for the concert,
Speaker 1: they cut backstage, Kevin Owens is rushing out to beat
Speaker 1: him up, and then uh Ezekiel hits him with a
Speaker 1: guitar and lays him out. So you know, we have
Speaker 1: an appearance by both of them here in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Austin. I think so he should be. If not,
Speaker 1: he's going to be before too long. We had m
Speaker 1: v P being Cedric Alexander. That's what happened. Then we
Speaker 1: have a J Styles due to promo, which led to
Speaker 1: seth Rawlins versus AJ Styles. They went fifteen minutes and
Speaker 1: Bro this match was awesome. They had a great pro
Speaker 1: wrestling match and a J is doing all of his
Speaker 1: high spots, but then his leg gets cut off, not
Speaker 1: actually you know cut off, but you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And then finally they do all their near faults. At
Speaker 1: the end, Rawlin mss the frog Splash Styles goes for
Speaker 1: the clash Rawlins counters it, grabs the bad leg, pins him.
Speaker 1: This was a great match, and seth one clean and
Speaker 1: he is going to money in the bank and poor
Speaker 1: a J is not. We pulled off mad Dog with
Speaker 1: Shawn's leg? Was that Kevin Nash? Yes, we had Riddle
Speaker 1: versus Chomp. They only got four minutes and poor Chump
Speaker 1: didn't even get an entrance. But man, for those four
Speaker 1: minutes and thirty five seconds they had a good match
Speaker 1: and uh find only at the end Riddle hits the
Speaker 1: floating bro hits him of the r k O pins him. Uh.
Speaker 1: This was this was good action. A lot of good
Speaker 1: action on this show. Wrestling wise, we had a Bianca
Speaker 1: interview which led to Ria Ripley cutting a promo and
Speaker 1: this was actually one of the best promos Re has
Speaker 1: ever cut in w w E. She actually cut a
Speaker 1: very very good promo and they're doing everything they can
Speaker 1: to build up Real Ripley Bianca bell Air and uh
Speaker 1: could be a title change. The actually could do a
Speaker 1: title change here. I guess we'll see. But this was
Speaker 1: a good interview. Chad Gable beat Ali. They only got
Speaker 1: three minutes, but it was a very very good three minutes.
Speaker 1: Chaos theory suplex. After distraction from Otis, Chad Gable gets
Speaker 1: the win. Hopefully Ali is continuing on with his mindset
Speaker 1: of who cares, just go make my money because uh,
Speaker 1: if he's thinking, if he's overthinking it, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in a crabby mood. Vir Mahan beat Ray Mysterio b
Speaker 1: dominic outside put him in the cervical clutch. Submitted this,
Speaker 1: poor bloke, what clothes line? What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: You didn't see the clothes line that he missed. When
Speaker 1: Mysterio he went to the wrong side, He's got his
Speaker 1: right arm out like this. Mysterio goes by to the left.
Speaker 1: He winged around and to throw the clothesline. You didn't
Speaker 1: see that. I missed that one. Oh man, I did
Speaker 1: see what. He tried the gut buster and dropped and
Speaker 1: raised jaw right on his knee. That looked like it sucked.
Speaker 1: Next week, Becky Lynch versus Oscar Women's money to make qualifier.
Speaker 1: Elias will do his concert and that's all we know
Speaker 1: about the show. And then the main event. Bro, I
Speaker 1: cannot believe my eyes. It's a pose down. You ever
Speaker 1: see those uh ahmember when Vince was getting the lap
Speaker 1: dance from Sable and they used these, you know, pictures
Speaker 1: all over the internet for memes. Dude, we had the
Speaker 1: same thing backstage for this pose down. Stacy Stay, whoever?
Speaker 1: What is up with this? Evince? What a weird guy. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they have a pose down and they're out there flexing
Speaker 1: their muscles. They're all oiled up and flexing their muscles.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the main event of raw, these
Speaker 1: dudes flexing their muscles while covered into oil muscles. Where
Speaker 1: is my daughter vascular? I'll never I'll never forget when
Speaker 1: my six year old daughter walked in one day and
Speaker 1: Randy Orton was just making an entrance. All even do
Speaker 1: was making an entrance, and her exact words were, why
Speaker 1: is he flaunting his naked body? And then she walked
Speaker 1: out disgusted. I imagine if she'd seen this. They flex
Speaker 1: and they, you know, flaunt their naked bodies. And then
Speaker 1: you're right over there. What are you raising her own
Speaker 1: little house on the prairie? I mean, where is she kidding?
Speaker 1: Why is she busting in with such a puritan thought
Speaker 1: in her mind? Just kicking the door open like daddy father?
Speaker 1: Why is this man in such a state of undress
Speaker 1: showing off his body? And then storms out, where are
Speaker 1: my captain? Crunch? You should hear what these children say.
Speaker 1: Don't you remember having children? I got one. Yes, they
Speaker 1: say the weirdest things. There was even a TV show
Speaker 1: about it. Anyway, the darndest, I guess, and then theories
Speaker 1: he squirts go all over Bobby Lashly and then uh
Speaker 1: cut him right in the eye. You don't want to
Speaker 1: do that. People get upset with you when you do that. God,
Speaker 1: I'd be careful when you scut that stuff. This segment
Speaker 1: was bizarre. It's supposed to make me want to see
Speaker 1: him wrestle. Anyway, we didn't actually advertise this as the
Speaker 1: main event either. They just kept saying, I wonder why
Speaker 1: one guy was excited for this to be the main
Speaker 1: of in it's coming up later, that's all they said.
Speaker 1: So and for one guy, I bet she it did.
Speaker 1: I did like too. There was a little slip up where, uh,
Speaker 1: I'll say Adam Pierce said, I think he when he
Speaker 1: was trying to say podium, he said posium, And actually
Speaker 1: I think it was called the posium. It should be
Speaker 1: called the posium, Like is that an official term? Like
Speaker 1: the most muscular, which pops me every time? That's the
Speaker 1: most muscular? So ridiculous. It's great. Bodybuilding is ridiculous. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Joe Weder listen. I I was all about working out
Speaker 1: and everything like that, but bodybuilding is weird, especially competitions
Speaker 1: Ronnie Coleman arms, especially because like what I was, Actually,
Speaker 1: I get those bodybuilding magazines and I look at like
Speaker 1: the Olympia, and it's like they all look exactly the same.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yes, back at a moment
Speaker 1: of Deserver Alive, taking that love that you were listening
Speaker 1: to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike Semperviv
Speaker 1: on the Sports Byline Broadcasting network. God, the chat talk
Speaker 1: about bodybuilding. I didn't know we had a bunch of
Speaker 1: Olympians in there. Oh yeah, or Mr Olympias. Have you
Speaker 1: ever seen that lineup? And it's like there's five there's
Speaker 1: five men left in Mr Olympia mm hmm. And it's
Speaker 1: like they all look exactly the same. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: there's like, well, his, he's got deeper striations in his buttocks?
Speaker 1: He does? They all look striated to me? Oh? Well
Speaker 1: his uh you know his shoulder to waste ratio is
Speaker 1: better than bobs. Well, yeah, he's got whiter shoulders. He
Speaker 1: was born that way. He didn't get that in the gym.
Speaker 1: He was born with smaller a smaller hip structure and
Speaker 1: a whiter shoulder structure. You ever see one of those
Speaker 1: guys who have the split down their biceps, They actually
Speaker 1: have a natural split. I got one right there. Look
Speaker 1: at that? Huh yeah? Can you switch the camera? My
Speaker 1: arm hurts? Here we go, Hi, look at that? Look
Speaker 1: at my insertion point? See that right there? I don't
Speaker 1: need to see your insertion point. Well, anyway, I would
Speaker 1: have come in third last night, easy, easy, no way,
Speaker 1: no way, dude. Byron Saxon would have jumped off from
Speaker 1: behind that table and Byron Sax didn't get out of here.
Speaker 1: Why do you think they like Byron? Byron's a good
Speaker 1: looking guy, looks fantastic in a suit. Dud's got it too,
Speaker 1: all flex stuff and everything. He's a Vince guy like that.
Speaker 1: Byron Saxton. Yeah, Hey, we're anny everybody. I want to
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