WEBVTT - Wrestling Observer Daily - The Rock/Eddie Kingston/NXT Talk 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:06.680 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:15.600 Let's get it all. How's it going? Everybody? Brian Albarez 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.600 here on or wrestling him overlive. We are here every 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:22.200 day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.720 sixth Eastern. It is Tuesday on this program, and I'm 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.520 so tired, but I'm here and I'm gonna talk about 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:32.559 all of the news. This Daylight saving his time as 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.600 a disaster for myself and my my youngsters. My angsters 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:38.960 are going to bed late and getting up at the 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.120 same time. It's just absolute brutal. But I am here today, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.920 So if I look tired, I'm not on I don't 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.839 think I'm on Death Store. But anyway, what have we 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.240 got to talk about here today? In The Rock? That's 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.560 Rock going to do WrestleMania, Well maybe someday. I've often 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.240 been skeptical about whether The Rock is gonna do WrestleMania. 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.240 Definitely not doing wrestle Mania this year, it appears, and 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.800 he did an interview talking about this with a dish Nation. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.480 So we'll tell you what he has to say about 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.039 that today. Lots of interesting interviews. There was a story 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:10.400 in Eddie Kinston everyone's talking about here today. We can 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:13.360 give you some quotes from that. We have got to 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:18.720 the SmackDown and Rampage ratings from Friday night, neither of 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.360 which were good, but neither of which we're bad. It's 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.240 it's a week, so we'll talk about those, and also 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:29.000 Kaylee Ray returning to action. We have an n x 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.160 T line of for tonight. Four matches announced for n 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:33.959 x T tonight, which is much better than the number 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:37.000 that we're announced for Raw yesterday. We have our weekly 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.240 Raw report, which I know everybody is a big fan of. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.759 For those of you that are baffled that a braun 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.000 Breaker has to be braun Breaker and not rex Steiner 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.640 Bronson rex Steiner, the son of Rick Steiner. Apparently reck 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:54.320 Steiner was gonna be at Halloween Havoc, but it fell through. 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:58.280 We'll tell you about that and so much more as well. 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.400 If you want to contact us here to four to 0:02:00.520 --> 0:02:02.640 five seven eight zero seven five six six is the 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.559 phone number. That is four to five seven eight zero 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.520 seven five six six. You can give us a call 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.799 eight four four. Actually, no, don't give me a call. 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.480 I'm not sure about that one. Just text for now. 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.160 Bryant Rustling Observer dot com is the email address at 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.480 bran Elbers on Twitter. Presumably Mike simper Viv will join us. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.520 I heard on the news there's been some outages, and 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:26.000 we've had outages on every single show the last four shows. 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:29.639 There's been an issue four in a row. Can we 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:31.720 break the streak on this program? We'll find out for 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:49.160 the break Observer Live back in the show. Bright Elbare 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.480 is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike simper vid also Wrestling 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.880 Observer dot com. Oh thank god it's Tuesday. I can 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.000 talk about raw later, but before that. Dwayne the Rock 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:02.840 Johnson is addressed the possibility of facing Roman Reigns in WrestleMania. 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.760 In an interview with Andrew Frooned of Dish Nation, Rock 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.560 stated that there was quote no truth to the rumor 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.800 that he would face the Universal Champion. In a similar 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.040 interview with Comic book dot Com, Johnson did not rule 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.880 out another match, but said any inn ring scenario would 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.320 have to make sense. There is no true to that 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:24.800 right now. Possibly down the road, we'll see, he said. 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.520 We stay very close to myself in Roman reigns. In 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.760 a Comic Book dot Com interview, Johnson was asked a 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.480 more direct question about whether or not he's he's a 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.560 w w E title reign in his future. I don't 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.320 know if I have another title run considering him the 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.440 People's Champion, I don't know if it's another title run. Possibly, 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.120 you know, there might be another match down the road. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.080 It would have to make sense. So as we talked 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:49.200 about for a while, clearly that's one of the big 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:54.440 matches that they want for for Roman reigns, and whether 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:55.840 he'll ever get it, I don't know. It doesn't look 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.440 like it's happening this year very much. Looks if you, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.840 if you watch what they've done of a eight, that 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:04.360 the plan for this year's WrestleMania is like the the 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:08.520 this this match should get an award. Most WrestleMania's headlined 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:12.720 Roman Reigns versus brock Lessner. So that appears to be 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.800 the direction they're going. And after that, it's like who's 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.520 left for Roman reigns. I mean, the big three were 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.000 John Cena, brock Lessner, and the Rock. So if it's 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:27.280 not the Rock this year, they're gonna try and get 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:32.440 the Rock for for twenty twenty three. I mean, can 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.760 you imagine, first off, Rock would be like fifty one 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.400 years old, a decade removed from the last time he 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.520 had a match, and you know, tore half the muscles 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.760 in his body, a huge movie star white take the risk. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.440 There's that. And also I mean, as we as we 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:51.400 have seen already, like who has left for Roman reigns. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.880 If we have one match with Brock at WrestleMania this 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.880 year and then another match with Rock and WrestleMania next year, 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.880 do you know how many Like there's so many pay 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:04.440 per views in between, we're gonna have We're gonna have 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.919 Xavier Woods challenging for the title as the King, and 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.719 you know, Sammy Zane is gonna get a three week 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.800 push or something. I don't know. I just don't think 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:16.960 his match is never gonna happen. I don't think so, 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:21.120 but I've been wrong before, So if it pushes it 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:29.159 toe by that point, let's see April of would the 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:33.440 Rock have have had to already declare to run for 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:37.279 the presidency the United States? And because a lot of 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.880 people think he's got political aspiration, Well it's simple, Mike. 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:45.800 You you you lose your retire and then at WrestleMania, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.080 following the main event, you announced you will be running 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.080 for president. Ah. I don't think he's running for president 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:56.119 in how about governor California, which would set up nicely 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.320 with where they're going to be in Los Angeles. I 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.000 think he could run for president eight tell you that much. Okay, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.800 let him jump in for governor. Governor? What do you 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.360 think he has some jabrony? That's true, you got right 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.960 to the top. You know, why have any political experience 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.560 because that's worked out so well for us in the 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.600 past here in America. That worked well for the guy 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.760 in terms of getting elected. That's I guess maybe it 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.680 would It would he be the highest uh, I mean 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.640 in all of pro wrestling history. Yeah, say, we gotta 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.640 call up Carl Stern. I mean, what's the highest level 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:33.000 of office that has been involved directly in a pro 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:37.279 wrestling storyline? I know Governor Jesse Ventura at SummerSlam. I 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.680 believe it was that one year, actually was the guest referee. 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.960 But have we had any governors that have gotten in 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.880 the ring at any point? Have we gotten any presidential candidates? 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.359 Are you kidding me? The president? The last president we 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.440 had was in a WrestleMania made event. I mean a 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.039 wrestler though he was he was in there, well, I 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.320 mean he didn't actually wrestle, but I mean he was 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:04.440 actually he was a head liner WrestleMania. Alright. We also 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.960 have this interview with with Eddie Kingston everyone's been talking 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.920 about and a pieces of the Players tribute and a WS. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.119 Eddie Kingston opened up about his upbringing, how he almost 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.800 quit wrestling, dealing with both mental health issues and alcohol 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.360 and drug issues, his big break coming to terms with 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.520 where he's at in the wrestling business. What am I 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:24.200 talking about? His upbringing in Yonkers, getting the wrestling bug 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.480 through watching tapes and eating Chinese food his Friday reward 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.640 if he stayed out of trouble in school. I'll have 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.880 to remember that for pay except she only likes about 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:36.760 four foots. Watching wrestling was always my escape. It was 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.440 like my little sanctuary. Is probably the only thing that 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.960 kept me out of jail. In high school. My friends 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.680 used to be calling me up at night to come 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:45.440 and get up to who knows what. I had stayed 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:47.679 at home by myself to watch Raw or the Super 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.560 Jacob or e c W. He was kicked out of 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.040 school due to a fight, took an iron workers job 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.560 with relatives to He decided one day he wanted to 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.160 become a pro wrestler. Detailed the struggles to make ends 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.440 meet at night, in which only eight fans were in 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:03.880 the building for a show, but the reactions of one 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.440 particular fan helped keep him going. Detailer he turned to 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.960 alcohol and painkillers to cope. I drank, christ did I drink. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.520 I became a bouncer just so I could drink more 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.280 on the weekends. I started drinking at one on Saturday, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.200 bounced the bar till seven, go and wrestled, and come 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:20.800 back to the bar after and drink till seven in 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:23.320 the morning. Wake up the next day it was football Sunday, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:27.040 A drink from noon till to am. Described a story 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.600 where he disappeared in an alcoholic binge, miss dates, broke 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.880 his cell phone, caused concerns with friends. He woke up 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:35.800 one day, went to his mailbox. There was a letter 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.080 from Larry Sweeney, who was worried about him and said 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.240 he felt like he lost his best friend. He wrote 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.120 him a letter. Kingston then turned around and said if 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.000 he hadn't gotten that letter, he probably would have drank 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.080 himself to death. Kingston said he nearly quit the business 0:08:49.679 --> 0:08:51.120 and his brother talked him out of it, saying, I 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:52.760 didn't want to tell his son that his uncle Eddie 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.000 was a quitter. Kept going, but the pandemic hid. He 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.040 had to sell his gear to even make a mortgage payment. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.839 He got a call to an outdoor show a New 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.720 Jersey where he decided to cut a promo on several wrestlers. 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.360 This got the attention of a w He was brought 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.480 in for the T and T title Open challenge against Cody. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.160 He described how Brodi Lee fired him up before the match, 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:14.040 and about about Lee and John at Moxley were there 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.840 afterwards to give their stamp of approval of his performance. 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.400 Several weeks later, on in vacation with his girlfriend after 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.480 he was under contract, the realization of the point he 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.280 was at in his career finally hit him. I just 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.440 started crying. The wave came over me. I finally understood 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:29.920 what was happening. I stood bawling right there in the car. 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.080 I've been It's I have been everything in this life, 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:38.080 angry kid, depressed, teenager, and addict. I've seen so many 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.360 holding cells who would make your head spin I've missed up, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.520 self destructed, burned bridges, but down to my last dollar. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.120 The only reason I'm still doing this, the only reason 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.600 I'm still on this earth is because all of my 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:52.959 friends never stopped having my back. And he tweeted afterwards 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.840 that the whole moral of the story is just keep going. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:09:59.960 That is the moral of the story from Eddie Kingston. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.400 He's been through a lot, he says, I'm gonna be 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.640 through more because life is life, but just keep going. 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.800 So he's uh, the whole article is up there, there's 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.000 a link to any think on the front page of 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.599 Wrestling Observer dot com. But it's gonna be tough to 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.079 ever turn this guy. He'll you know, maybe you can 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:18.840 do it because fans love him so much they'll go 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.960 along with it. But man's a baby face to the cord, 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:29.280 just like Moxley. These two gritty, angry, violent men baby faces, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.520 Because aren't we all baby faces at our core? When 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.040 we all strip it away, when we are all vulnerable 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.080 to the people that love us. Uh, you know we are, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:45.640 And there's always a good person inside. And that's again, 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.679 And we talked about it over and over and over, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:56.200 the realness, the authenticity of Eddie Kingston, of John Moxley, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.439 of Brian Danielson, all of which are being able to 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.960 be brought out on a w t V. But I 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.800 can't stress enough for people to read this Player's Tribune 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.800 dot com article by Eddie Kingston. It is everywhere. I'm 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:15.679 sure everybody has retweeted it. Uh, you know you're gonna 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.560 There's a lot in there that is very easy to 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:23.360 relate to and very identifiable for me and I think 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:25.960 for a lot of people. And the bottom line is, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.200 even if some of the things he talks about, some 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.560 of the addictions, some of the troubles, some of the 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.400 self sabotage that he's done to himself, even if you 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:37.680 cannot relate to that, the story of this person is 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:41.160 still easily relatable. And maybe if you haven't been that person, 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.000 you've been on the other side having to try to 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:46.440 deal with this person, to help this person, to to 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.439 battle with this person, to to to go through all 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.480 of this stuff. And uh, again, it's uh on in 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.520 a time where we're we're talking about the realities of things, uh, 0:11:57.520 --> 0:11:59.400 and the reality of wrestling and how to get a 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.960 motion and all that sort of stuff. You know, Eddie 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.200 Kingston and this article is uh is really as real 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.760 as you can get. You're back with more news after 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.680 the break. If you want Texas four to five seven 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:12.439 eight zero seven five six six is the number that 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.080 is zero seven five six six back in the moment. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:43.720 Observer Live. Back in the show, Bran Albert is here 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:48.000 wrestling Observer Alive. Like Spervi also wrestling Observer dot Com. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.920 Friday Night with a show back on Fox. Septer Aaring 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.600 on FS won the previous week Friday's SmackDown two point 0:12:55.720 --> 0:13:01.040 zero nine three million viewers, down six point nine percent 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.360 from the last time the show aired on Fox two 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:08.360 weeks ago, SmackDown's lowest viewership on Fox since August thirteen. 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.520 In the eighteen forty nine demo SmackDown point five seven 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:15.600 down one point seven percent. Show finished second in the 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:20.400 networks in that category, trailing Shark Tank, which today point 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:24.680 six zero let all network programming, and eighteen to thirty 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:30.920 four SmackDown down nine point six percent in overall viewers. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.960 The Rampage Show five and ninety nine thousand viewers, down 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.120 three point nine percent, second highest viewership for the show 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.840 since October one, eighteen and forty nine, A point to 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:46.520 two which is down twelve percent from the previous week's show, 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.000 tied the second lowest rating in that demo in Rampages history. 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.400 Fifth in the cable charts in eighteen to forty nine 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:58.080 Sports Competition was an ESPN game, two games, one point 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:01.440 six million, one point two million, and b A. So 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.360 those are the numbers there, And this is one of 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.160 those weeks where you know, I saw, I saw the usual, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:13.120 Oh my god, a Rampage, five other shows dying. Then 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.280 you point out it's fifth on cable. Oh, it doesn't matter. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.640 They got five bro fifth on cable. Here's the deal, 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.840 as Dave noted last night, if you want to go 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.720 by total viewership, then then SmackDown is probably gonna be 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.400 moved to f S one because in total viewership they're 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.360 almost always dead last. But in eighteen and forty nine 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.720 they rank highly on the charts, So a fair comparison 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.680 would be how they do on the charts, and SmackDown 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.040 did very well in the charts and Rampage did very 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:41.000 well on the charts. So there's there's no story here 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.360 unless you want to make it a story and spout 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:48.280 a bunch of gobbledee gook. I'm not a fan of 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:50.760 if you make it a story, Nor am I a 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:55.760 fan of the gobbledee Googer. What about Hector Guerrero himself? Hey, 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.360 he was all right. He looked like all of my 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.640 my relative Do you think he worked better my my 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:07.600 father's my father's brother and literally, if you, I know, 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:09.400 everyone looks at me and they go, look at this 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:14.360 white guy. But if you, if you, if you saw 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.320 pictures of all of my immediate relatives, I mean, we're 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.760 the Guerrero clan. I don't know what happened to me, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.920 but so but but only Hector had like that wide mustache. Yeah, 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.680 welcome to my family. Did you have one that looked 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:33.440 like Chavo? Yes, Mondo. I mean my dad looks like 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:37.160 Chabo classic right now, anybody in good of shape is 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.400 Chavo Jr? Because I know you're right. What are you 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.360 talking about? I'm not. I'm in the best shape of 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.360 my life. I may not be big and muscular right now, 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:49.760 but I can go brother. Uh, you know I had 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.920 a point. Now I can't remember. You don't have a point, 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.000 but I got a point. Wait, hold on, hold on, 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.240 hold on, hold on. You can start this fight. That's 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.200 what it was. You can start the fight, but you're 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.840 gonna lose the fight, Brian. How many times? How many 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:06.280 people who want to make fun of a w and 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:08.200 want to plan a flag and do all this battle 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:13.600 over Friday ratings? How many times has professional wrestling throughout 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.720 since the dawn of television? How long has it been 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.400 on network commercial television? It's been on there forever? Right, 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.880 we always get a stint of professional wrestling on. And 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.920 what happens to professional wrestling on commercial network TV? Brian? 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.240 Every time what happens just spears goes away. By that's 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.520 what's gonna happen to SmackDown the A T And I 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.640 know times have changed, days are a little bit different. 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.360 When they resigned with Fox Bro, they absolutely might look 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:42.880 Fox wanted this is part of a package where they 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.400 were going to build up making a like a sports 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:48.400 of men's Friday. You have SmackDown, which leads you into 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.440 college football in the UFC or whatever they got obviously 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.440 not the UFC anymore on Saturday, Major League Baseball, everything 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.800 that they have there on into Sunday with their NFL coverage. 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.080 So you know, it made complete sense. But it's also 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.520 the thing that is when you start bringing in people 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.040 like and I know, like there are people that are 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.119 parcel towards w w E. But when you have you know, 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:14.439 the dramatic originals that are creating things for Fox, you 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.000 have all these other names, all these other people and 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.760 all these other hands in the mix, Wrestling is usually 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.160 the first thing out. So it's you know, it's great 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.840 to squawk about SmackDown being on network TV and compared 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.359 to a show that's on at ten o'clock on a 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.399 cable station. And you know, to me, I would be 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.760 careful about doing that, okay, because I know SmackDown does well, 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.240 but again ten o'clock and for what they give their 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.399 what they give t n T, they're happy. Look at 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.240 what t n T. And we'll look at what Turner 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:48.480 Television does late night anyway with with you know, the 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.040 eighteen to forty nine group and the twelve to thirty 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.600 four group because of adult swim. Again, for what they want, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.160 they're happy, and I don't know, I'm sure for what 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.200 Fox wants they're happy too, but I would not. It's 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.840 an impossible battle to try to fight. Nobody on a 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.920 w side usually fights this the die hards. It's always 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:08.000 somebody in w w E who wants to play compare 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:11.080 and contrast, and you can't do it because the only 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.040 thing you can say is, yeah, we're bigger, we're on 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.679 network TV, but that usually doesn't work out too well. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.160 And frankly, compared to what they're doing at ten o'clock, 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.400 what they're doing is a hell of a lot more impressive. 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:24.200 Bottom line. Alright, So can I talk about n x 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.760 T tonight now? Because I know everyone's asking what's the lineup? 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.320 They're all excited for n x T two point oh 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:35.400 tonight as am I of course, show is anyway, we've 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.119 got toxic attraction. I know you're stunned to hear the 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.639 toxic attractions on the show tonight. You know you have 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.200 something for the old guys, Mandy g G and j C. 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:49.639 Jane versus Eo Shirai, Caden Carter and Casey Caton Zoro. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.159 That's a lot of names, Mandy g C, j C, 0:18:53.680 --> 0:18:58.120 Kashida and Ikamanjiro Jack. At time, we'll be facing the 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:01.560 Creed brothers, So let's all say a prayer or you've 0:19:01.600 --> 0:19:06.800 got Kaylee Ray versus Sarai and Joe Gacy versus Boa. 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:09.000 I'm a little less excited after I read that, but 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:11.560 I'm still gonna watch it tonight full of excitement because 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.800 someday everyone, someday, Rick Steiner is probably gonna show up 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:21.439 and embrace braun Breaker. According to Tomaso Champa, Rick Steiner 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.000 was supposed to be at an XT Halloween havoc last month, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.120 until the appearance fell through and took place October twenty six, 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:32.919 headline by Champa versus Steiner's son, braun Breaker, Champa retained 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.600 the title. Champa told Talk Sports Steiner was supposed to 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.560 be the show but pulled out at the last minute. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.520 Steiner was supposed to be all the Waeen Havoc. He 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:42.199 pulled out last minute, maybe because I retained, but I 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.359 won't say That's why I would love to be friends 0:19:44.400 --> 0:19:46.960 with him. I said to Braun I don't want to 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.400 meet your dad. I want him to be my buddy. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.720 I want us to exchange numbers and whatever Rick Steiner does. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.119 He's probably not a big phone guy. I don't know, 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:57.720 but I just want to be friends with him. He 0:19:57.760 --> 0:19:59.960 don't be awesome. It don't be the greatest thing ever 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.240 is if they did another match and braun Breaker won 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:08.080 the title from Tomaso Champa and he he was about 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:10.439 to be handed that belt, but suddenly, from out of 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:14.240 the crowd came his father, and his father grabbed the 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.440 n x T title and he wrapped it around bron 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:21.679 Breaker's waist. And the answers go, what a wonderful moment. 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:27.200 It's so great to see a Rick Breaker here. Would 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.119 that be cool? You know what? They won't do, but 0:20:30.200 --> 0:20:32.400 they could do, because this could be a real case 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.360 where this happened. I mean, I don't think he ran 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.640 out of all of his money, but w W likes 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:38.920 to bring back people and talk about how much they 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.240 failed and how little money they've made their lives and everything, 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:45.200 and and didn't didn't Rick have the show knees? Or 0:20:45.280 --> 0:20:47.359 was it Scott that had the show knees? That closed up? 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.760 They could always bring that up and oh and I forgot. Yeah, 0:20:50.960 --> 0:20:54.960 well Scott is persona on gratta right. That's why one 0:20:54.960 --> 0:20:57.520 of the reasons he can't be a Steiner is because 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:00.560 of Scott Steiner. Is his picture still up at live 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:03.200 events saying don't let this man in, say look at this. 0:21:03.240 --> 0:21:05.280 Everyone's making fun of the name braun Breaker. But as 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.040 soon as I told that story, they were like, oh man, 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:10.280 what a name? Brick Breaker. It's not bad, is it. 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:13.440 That's not what they're saying. Yeah, they are. They're all 0:21:13.440 --> 0:21:15.760 like brick Breaker. They're all excited about the idea of 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:20.680 brick Breaker. No, you are really just trying, Am I wrong? Everybody? 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.760 Is that not an awesome name? Brick Breaker? You're losing 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:25.800 your mind to try to defend this show and why 0:21:25.880 --> 0:21:27.680 you're watching it and trying to get people on board 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:30.639 to watch this show. Dude, I'm not telling anybody to 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.800 watch this show. I'm not that excited, you know what. 0:21:32.840 --> 0:21:34.960 I'm excited because I can walk on the treadmill while 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:38.120 I watch it and get in shape. Oh you don't 0:21:38.160 --> 0:21:42.640 have the peloton yet? No, kid me, I'm old. Why 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:46.119 don't you just walk outside? I do walk outside like 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.480 probably eight months out of the year. But if you 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:52.840 are here, Mike, you ain't gonna be walking outside either. Well, 0:21:52.960 --> 0:21:56.439 gale force wins and it's forty five, so it's you 0:21:56.480 --> 0:22:00.560 may as well just like you knows on ice like 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:03.200 a cartoon and jump into the icy water. I'd rather 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.879 walk indoors where it's warm, man, Are you kidding? The 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.080