WEBVTT - Seth Rollins vs AJ Styles/Raw Report 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:11.520 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.320 --> 0:00:16.200 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.120 You are listening to Wrestling Observer of Vibe with your 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:25.119 hosts Brian Alvarez and Mike semperviv Ready are you ready? 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.400 Let's get it all? How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.720 here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We're here every day 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:36.800 Monday to Friday, New Pacific three Eastern Sunday, Street Pacific 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:39.520 sixth Eastern Tuesday. And the program. You know that means 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:41.920 we had a lot of the usual news to talk 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:46.680 about here today, including the Raw Report. Raw, according to 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.000 Dave of a better book show than New Japan. Maybe 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.479 not this Raw, but anyway, we'll tell you about it. 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.920 You know what this Raw had though good wrestling. Smack 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.000 Down and Raw this week both lots of good wrestling 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:02.200 in the show. The seth rawlins aj Styles match last night, 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.520 I would go as farst say, was an excellent match. 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.400 So we'll tell you about that today, and of course 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.959 all of the news on Jeff Hardy. We'll get the 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.839 bad news after the break. We're gonna open with good 0:01:13.840 --> 0:01:16.039 news here because you know what I like good news. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.120 W w E's Big E through his neck brace in 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:24.160 the trash and a video posted to a social media 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:28.160 on Monday and opposed to his Instagram story, Biggie threw 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.480 away the brace that he is warrants and suffering a 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.120 broken neck on the March eleven episode of w w 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.200 E SmackDown. The video marks the first update the Biggest 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.840 provided in over a month as he continues to recover 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:41.399 from the neck injury. At last report, he stated his 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.000 C one vertebra was not healing optimally and that he 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.200 would spend an additional four to six weeks wearing the 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:50.480 brace as he hoped to avoid spinal fusion surgery. Suffered 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:53.040 the broken neck in a tag team match on SmackDown, 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.880 taking an overhead belly to belly suplex from Ridge Holland 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:59.680 Broke C one. C six said that he narrowly avoided 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.960 par Alice's stroke and even death and now he has 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:08.200 thrown the neck brace away, So that is good news 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.880 to kick off the show here today. All the best too, 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:16.680 Biggie on a full recovery and a return to w 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.160 w E. Sooner rather than later. The end of the break, 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:22.080 we come back. I believe Mike semper Viv actually is 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.720 going to join us here today, so we'll talk to 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:28.840 him about all of the news, Jeff Hardy, the Raw Report, 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:32.160 a w tomorrow, n x T two point out tonight, 0:02:32.240 --> 0:03:03.840 and more. You're right back up live. You were listening 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:07.400 to Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike simber 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:12.360 viv on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. So let me 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:17.280 get this straight simple. Yeah, we changed literally nothing, and 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:22.920 you magically lugged in today. If you think that I 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:27.000 intentionally sandbagged yesterday and decided not to come on the 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:31.720 show when we have raw reviews coming this week, we 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.639 have n XT reviews this week, when we have all 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.480 that news from Japan that we could have talked about 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.480 yesterday together, you think yesterday was the day I was 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.680 going to stand back this. If I'm not mistaken, it 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.240 was your setup that was having a problem. Apparently wasn't. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.640 Apparently you were you talked to Tony. I mean I 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:54.600 had no issue online whatsoever. I had no problem with 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:58.640 my Thaie line. I was actually no, I didn't have 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.280 to log in what because I don't know if he 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.320 knows or not, but Filthy got on just fine yesterday. 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:07.600 Dave got on just fine yesterday. I'm gonna calling after. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.120 I'm gonna call you after my shows whenever we're going 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.120 to do. Thunder Semper viv is gonna be your new 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.840 name saying I'm sandbagging here, that's what you're saying, By 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:23.479 the way, that story sandbagger, that story that and you 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.479 know it wasn't just some rando on the internet. It 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.559 was actually a wrestler. But I don't buy that thunder 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:33.240 Rosa was sandbagging in that match. I don't think she 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:36.400 was deliberately trying to have a bad match. I don't. 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.719 I don't think I think that she's just you know, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:45.120 I don't think it was on purpose. Why was Marina 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.280 Schafir in that match? Anyway? And I'm gonna Marina Schafir fan, 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.960 But it's like she she's got to come a long way, 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.719 like when she's not in a blood sport type of 0:04:54.760 --> 0:05:02.520 situation or a dominant quick like short wind situation. I 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.320 just I some of the moves that they made with 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:09.000 thunder Rosa in this title reign. If she is salty, 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.880 as has been reported, There's been lots of things reported 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.800 about thunder Rosa, which I guess is good for her 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:18.920 since I know she's on Busted Open now and she's 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.280 got all these side things going on. So I guess 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.839 any talk is good talk. But when it comes to 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.880 actually what's happening in her career on a W, I've 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.240 been baffled by some of the decisions that they've made. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:33.760 Here's here's the thing, so this person here goes Britt disagrees. Uh, 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.440 Britt and Marina apparently they liked the tweet about her sandbagging. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.560 This is what I This is what I believe. Okay, 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:47.720 I believe that, And dude, don't report this is as 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.480 some story because this is just what I believe. I'm 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.000 not reporting these as facts. Okay, your opinion. I'm in 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:57.920 my opinion. Okay. I believe that thunder Rosa has been 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.800 hurt for a long time. Okay, I think that has 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.760 affected her matches. I also watch these matches, and uh, 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.919 it looks to me like she just forgets what the 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:12.040 spot is supposed to be, or she thinks of spot's 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.839 gonna come somewhere else. The matches have not been good, 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:17.919 and there have been several with thunder Rosa that have 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.960 not been good. But here's the thing with sandbagging, everybody. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:25.440 One of the spots everyone's pointing at is sandbagging is 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:30.480 when Marina goes for a vertical suplex and thunder Rosa 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:32.920 doesn't really go up, and so do you guys. See 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:36.000 what happens when thunder Rosa doesn't really go up, bro 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:39.560 she practically takes a brain buster on her head. Okay, 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.520 the thing with sandbagging is your bright idea is to 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.279 not go up on a suplex, and so the person 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.960 is to shoot suplex. You when you practically land on 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:52.279 your head, that's a good way. That's a good way 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.320 to get hurt. Worked out real well for hardcore Hollywood. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.880 Brock didn't. Yeah, Brock decided he was gonna sandbag a 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:01.599 power or bumb What happened to him, Brock just like 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.800 bro just dropped him right in his head, broke his neck. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.000 So this is not the thing that you want to do, 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.440 Like I'm gonna go up heavy on these dangerous, you know, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.760 potentially dangerous moves right here. I think it was just 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.280 they weren't on the same page. And it's not the 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:19.360 first match where thunder Rose has been on the same 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:23.120 page with somebody. She's probably nursing some injuries, which is 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.880 why she's not maybe thrilled to that I think is 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:27.720 a bigger problem. Not she's going in there trying to 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:31.840 deliberately sabotage matches. That's what sandbagging is, when you go 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.320 in there, you deliberately try to sabotage a match. I 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.040 don't believe that for a second. She doesn't look as 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:38.560 a dynamic And I saw her at the end of 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.560 last year in person as are at the beginning of 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.640 this year in person, and yeah, I mean it, it 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.240 does seem like maybe she's got nagging injuries she's trying 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.240 to work through, and you know, she's got these big 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.000 feuds and big situations and she doesn't want to miss them. 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.800 And maybe maybe that's it. And this may be more 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:57.280 of a question for Lance, but and I'm not saying 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.800 that this is happening with thunder Rosa or anything, but 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.600 I wonder it's like any athlete gets in their own 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:05.360 head and they go through slumps, and when you were 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.960 working every night in that type of era, I mean, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.720 you would basically so you hit or you would hit 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.920 yourself out of it. You would work yourself out of it, 0:08:13.040 --> 0:08:15.520 or you would work yourself out of the business. Have 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.000 you ever gotten in your own head or been in 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.200 a stretch of time where it just you're trying to overcompensate. 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.400 You're thinking about all this stuff you did wrong. You're 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.960 not concentrating on the stuff you do well. Has that 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.880 ever happened to you in your never never know. I 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.360 just had a really bad match with Vinie and I 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:38.319 just quit. That's what happened. I'll do it. I was 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.200 just like, I'm done. Just sucks. I'm saying fun anymore. 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.840 I'm out of here. I'm taking kiddie pool bumps from 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:48.640 here on up. We should probably talk about Jeff Hardy. Well, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.360 that's a bigger story than you being able to connect. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.160 Bring it down here, okay. Jeff Hardy has been suspended 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:56.880 by a W in the aftermath of his d u 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.840 I arrest. A W President CEO Tony connissues statement on 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.600 is announcing Hardy is suspended without pay can only return 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.480 to the company after completing treatment and maintaining his sobriety. 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:11.640 Con wrote that Hardy has indicated he's open to receiving treatment. Quote, 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:15.160 we are able to resume contact with Jeff Hardy this afternoon. 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.000 A W does not contone condone Jeff's alleged behavior. We've 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:21.240 made it clear to Jeff that we will assist in 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.559 getting treatment for substance abuse issues, which he has indicated 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.760 he is open to receiving. In the interim he has 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.400 suspended without pay. He can only return to a W 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.760 upon successfully completing treatment and maintaining his sobriety. And then 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.640 he sends out the information. If you or loved one 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.520 needs help, reach out to s A m H s 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:43.319 AS National helpline one six to two help for those 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.000 you have cell phones one hundred six six to four 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:51.000 three five seven. Apparently the reason they made no announcements 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.240 yesterday was because they have I guess he wanted to 0:09:54.240 --> 0:10:00.920 actually talk to Jeff Hardy before making this announcement. Obviously, yesterday, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.720 I think during the show, you know, they were probably 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:05.520 still trying to figure out what they were going to do. 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.319 And uh, I think when this, when this news first 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:14.040 came out, Uh, they were not cooler heads. And then 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:18.080 apparently cooler heads prevailed and Tony decided, Okay, well you 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.839 know this is my idea, but obviously you got to 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.440 run it by Jeff you know, are you willing to 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.959 consider rehab? Because I think if Jeff said no, they 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.120 just fired him. I don't know that for sure, but 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:32.560 this seems to be something that they that they discussed together. 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:35.319 Matt Hardy tweeted, it was disheartening to hear the news 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.040 about my brother yesterday. Recovery is not a linear process. 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.320 I will continue to do whatever I can't help my 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.079 brother be healthy. Being healthy and well is the most 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.600 important thing for Jeff, his wife, his children, and our family. 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:50.360 At this time. Footage of his arrest was released. TMZ 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.240 first to publish the video, which shows three police officers 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.199 drawing their guns. An officer can be seen approaching the 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.840 passenger side door of the vehicle, quickly pointing his firearms 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.240 toward Hardy in the driver's seat. A second officer approaches 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.280 with his gun drawn as well. A third officer approaches 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.000 before Jeff exits the car. We got several calls on you, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.440 an officer can be heard saying, do you know why 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.400 we might have gotten some calls? You were all over 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:20.200 the road. What's going on with that, the officer asked, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.440 before saying he could not hear Hardy's response. Officer would 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.240 later say they got three or four nine one one 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:30.520 calls before all reporting Hardy's driving hard He mentioned that 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.199 he has a doctor's appointment upcoming new a brain scan. 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.400 Later in the video, he admits to having drank shots 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:40.280 of fireball before getting behind the wheel. At the end 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.360 of the video, one of the officers informs Hardy that 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.800 he is under arrest, notes the time is ninety five 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:52.319 a m arrest records show he was booked at twelve 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.000 forty five later in the day. So this was nine 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.439 nine fifty four in the morning. I thought the earlier 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.080 reports were that it was like in the middle of 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:02.719 like late at night or something like that. This is 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:09.280 nine nine fifty four am apparently, So he was arrested. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:15.880 He was put in jail point to nine four point 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:22.200 to nine four that's almost quadruple the legal limit, facing 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:24.520 charges of d u I, driving with a suspended license, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.080 violating an interlock restriction, which, by the way, how do 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.120 you do that? How do you get into the car? 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:35.280 Jeff's third d u I arrest since mailed out at 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:41.319 h on a bond and quite frankly, I mean he's 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.960 not in the ladder match tonight and uh Discovery was 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.920 told to quote stop all promotion of Jeff Hardy in 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:51.600 any commercials or anywhere else. Immediately, we'll get Mike Stots 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.280 after the break, he has any back in a moment 0:12:54.280 --> 0:13:12.600 of overly nobody. Next, you're listening to Wrestling Observer Live 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.440 with Brian Albarez and Mike Semperviv on the Sports Byline 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:22.480 Broadcasting Network. Mike Semperviva as a former bar manager or 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.000 maybe currently. I don't even know how much you got 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.800 to drink to blow a point to nine four. Let's 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:32.640 just say he's like two hundred pounds. I mean there's 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.080 a liquor liquor store business mostly, but yeah, bars bars 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.840 as well. But like if he's two hundred pounds, I 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.000 mean that's like drinking like twelve or fifteen shots or 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.880 twelve or fifteen twelve pounds beers in like an hour 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.199 to get up to that level. Like he was obviously 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.679 in a stupor. They had to pull weapons and they 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.120 said to actually use that term he was in a stupor. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.280 I mean, that's let's like, that's I think that I 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.120 don't know if it's the it's the accepted term. I 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.000 don't know if it's a legal term. But that's where 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:03.400 you're at. And to be honest, where you go after that, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.480 like point three five with a guy with a lot 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.240 of mileage on him, that can kill you like it, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.160 it can absolutely kill you. Once you get to point four, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.679 it's absolutely going to kill you. That's how close this 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:22.160 guy was. And I didn't also realize until just before 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.720 we went on the air that this was in the morning, 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.480 which doesn't really make a difference except for the fact 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.960 that watching the cars go by on the busy highway 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:39.080 and the tractor trailers and everything, it's like it could 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:43.600 have been a horrible tragedy and it's happened too many 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:47.560 times over and over again. And I know Matt said, 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:52.120 he's exactly right. It is not linear. Recovery is not linear. 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:56.040 Recovery is different for everybody. But there's a line in 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.080 there where it says it only works if you work it. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:04.720 And Jeff Hardy has several times said no, I'm good, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.200 I'm not going to work it. I'm fine. He is 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:11.960 not fine, and he needs to get to help his 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.520 employment for a w rides on that. I don't know 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.480 whether he'll care about that or not. He's got a 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:20.440 history really not caring about that, but we'll see. We'll 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.440 also see if he ends up in Tijuana. I guess 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.680 he's not going to be in Tijuana this weekend for 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.680 Triple A. I would I would think not. I would 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:30.880 hope not. I want to talking about the issue that 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.520 he was telling the officers he had to go for 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.320 a brain scan. You gotta go to a for a 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:38.560 brain scan, but you're doing a ladder met your schedule 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.440 for a ladder match on Wednesday. There's a lot of people, 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:44.320 and I know people are gonna jump all over a 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.760 W and a W is the one where it's it's uh, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.160 the most public. But dude, there's a lot of injuries 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:55.760 all over this business at every major company. I don't 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.480 want to say that people are like hiding their injuries, 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.720 but they're definitely people. Actually, I will say that they're 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.880 people hiding their injuries. And there are other injuries that 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:08.240 have come out, and uh, there's just a lot of 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:12.400 badly beat up people. And uh, I think that every 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:17.000 company needs to take better care in the sense of 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:21.040 that if someone has clearly hurt, don't book them. Don't 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.920 ask them, just don't book them. If you ask them, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.280 they're gonna they're gonna want to do. It just feels 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.920 like pretty much say no, I don't mean to jump 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.120 on the box. I guess I am jumping on the box. 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.360 Like you got your match with the Hardy Boys, they won, 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.200 you have them when cool, You got to live your 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.680 your dream and that was awesome, but like it probably 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.840 should have happened as soon as the Heartys went in there. 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:53.000 But okay, hindsights, you had the match, Like these are issues, 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.160 aren't new on top of the fact that they're not fresh, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.200 And what does that have to do with the Bucks? 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.160 Because why are they having a ladder match? Well, this 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.000 has nothing to do with the Bucks. Tony is the 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:08.760 one that booked the match. Okay, well Tony then, I 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.000 guess I'll ben I'll put it all on Tony then. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.760 But like, shouldn't somebody step up and go, okay, we 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:18.320 we had the match. That was cool, Like exit stage 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.679 left for a while until either you're ready to come 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.359 back or whatever. Because they got a zillion teams that 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.280 are more effective than the heart he is anyway that 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.920 they're not using. I just think we had the match. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:29.920 We got it out of the way. It should have 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:35.480 been over at double or nothing. That's me we've uh 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.520 oh this yeah, the well we were talking about the 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:44.840 ladder matches not taking place. On a completely different note, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.600 changing gears. You can come back to this later if 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.800 you want to. But I cannot believe my eyes when 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.840 I saw this one, and thank god Lances on the 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.160 show at too Pacific five Eastern so I can get 0:17:56.160 --> 0:18:01.639 his thoughts. The unique and infamous reverse Battle Royal is 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:07.400 returning for Sunday's Impact Slam. Anversary first announced in two 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.960 thousand six as part of the Fight for the Right tournament. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.760 The match as part of the Fight for a Hat 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.320 on a Hat, which earned Worst Worked Match honors in 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:22.440 that year's Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards, featured three parts eighteen 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.720 wrestlers start outside the ring with the goal of getting 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.480 into the ring. After the first seven men get into 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.680 the ring, everyone else is eliminated, and the rules then 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.440 become a conventional Battle Royal. When the match gets down 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.320 to two men, it becomes a single match. It is 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.959 unknown if Impact will stick to the same rules this 0:18:42.040 --> 0:18:44.720 time around. The match will be on the Free Slam 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.040 Anniversary pre share. At least you have to pay for it. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.520 You know what I gotta say, I gotta say two 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:55.880 things right here. It's Slam Aversary, so that's why they're 0:18:55.880 --> 0:19:02.560 doing a reverse Battle Royal. They want no tradition. I guess, yes, exactly. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.200 It's Slam Anversary. So it's an anniversary show, and clearly 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.120 they want to go back into the past and pick 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:13.760 some match that hasn't been done out of the archives. 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.080 But you know, there's like other stupid matches they did. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.760 But that's the problem. But that's the the legacy of Impact. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.760 There's a lot of those stupid matches that they ended 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.560 up doing. I mean, we're going to bring why didn't 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.159 they do King of the Mountain? Why did they do 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:33.200 the barbed wire Christmas Tree match? Easy? Easy, Anthem has 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:36.720 got a long term investment here. They don't worry. There 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:39.800 would be plenty of time to bring back those things, 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.000 the Hard ten tournament, the thing where homicide climb up 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:47.760 because of whatever, and actually and whatnot. I'm sorry they 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.960 are doing a a King of the Mountain match, but 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:51.840 it's a Queen of the Mountain match with the women. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:55.280 They got Queen of the Mountain, they got Ultimate x uh, 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.159 they got Monsters Ball. Is Teren Terrell coming back? Honor 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.720 no More? And yes, the reverse Battle with Bro. A 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:04.760 barbed wire Christmas Tree match would have been way better 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:06.080 because all you have to do it's just like a 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.200 barbed wire Christmas Tree. It's just a hardcore match. But 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.399 this this stupid reverse battle. But you know what, you 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:16.159 know what, But I can't believe I'm gonna defend it. 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:20.600 But I'm gonna, of course. And this is not because 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:24.040 I like Lance. I'm actually disgusted that he okay this, 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:26.840 even though it probably wasn't his call at all. But 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:31.520 here's my one defense of this match. All right, Were 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:36.280 we not just talking about Jeff Hardy and how banged 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.080 up and injured he is, and how he has a 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:40.520 brain scan schedule and then he gets booked in a 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.159 ladder match, and how I said there's people in every 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:47.240 single promotion that are working hurt, that are hiding injuries, 0:20:47.280 --> 0:20:49.200 that are banged up. Remember what I'm just talking about, 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:51.240 that we didn't take better care of people. I do 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:55.159 well as God is my witness. And I don't know 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:59.680 where this took place, but I got a I got 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.159 a d M the other day because apparently on one 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:04.040 of the other shows we were talking about a stupid 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:05.960 the Reverse Battle Royal was I don't even know why 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:08.040 we were talking about it. I think it might have 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:12.399 been because we were celebrating my birthday and I was 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:17.160 noting that Vinnie's birthday is uh October and I always 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:19.560 remember because there was a horrible ten A pay per 0:21:19.640 --> 0:21:22.679 view on ten ten ten that he was forced to 0:21:22.680 --> 0:21:25.080 watch on his birthday. So we might have been talking 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.639 about the Reverse Battle Royal then, But or this person 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:31.159 says the Dominion Review. Anyway, the point doesn't matter. The 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.640 point is we were talking about another show, and then 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:38.560 some bloke deemed me and he said, dude, quit talking 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:42.880 trash about the Reverse Battle Royal because I was in 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.920 one this weekend and it was the easiest pay day 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:51.240 I ever got. So at the end of the day, 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:55.880 we got a match here. Nobody's gonna get hurt. You're 0:21:55.920 --> 0:22:01.359 literally fighting to try to get into a ring. It's easy. 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:06.920 Take care of somebodies, and hey, that's what this business about, right, 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:10.040 take care of each other. Take care of yourself. Protect 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:12.280 yourself at all times. They say that in mm A, 0:22:13.400 --> 0:22:15.240 but for some reason people haven't figured that out in 0:22:15.240 --> 0:22:20.399 the fake one. Protect yourself at all times. Yeah, I 0:22:20.440 --> 0:22:23.199 can respect that. I can absolutely respect that. Now the 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:26.160 only problem is, though, you know, there's only so many 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.399 times somebody can do the you know, in the crowd 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:30.679 stealing the beer or the soda gimmick, you know what 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:32.760 I mean, Like they're gonna have to parse that out 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:34.240 there with all those What does this have to do 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:36.800 with the Reverse Battle Royal because they're gonna be outside 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:39.199 the ring. Yeah, but they're not gonna be in the crowd. 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:42.679 You're just at ringside. You're just a side pretending like 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.560 you can't get into a ring, which is so dumb. 0:22:45.920 --> 0:22:48.120 Who's going to be on the announcing team that ends 0:22:48.160 --> 0:22:50.439 up getting in? Because that happens every time there's one 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:52.640 of these things. I don't know, but you know what, 0:22:54.040 --> 0:22:58.919 if I had to work the match Slammiversary and my 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.760 options were I don't think my option be Queen of 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.560 the Mountain, but barbed Wire Crystal Ultimate X where I 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.720 could almost kill myself, Monster's Ball where I could almost 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:12.479 kill myself. Yeah, if they had a barbed wire Christmas 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.000 Tree match, I could get jabbed and punctured with barbed 0:23:15.040 --> 0:23:20.760 wire or a Reverse Battle Royal. Tell you which one 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:24.720