Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
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Speaker 1: is the fallout from w w E Wrestle Media Backlash.
Speaker 1: Talk about that show here today. I had a lot
Speaker 1: to say about the show, but there actually it's weird.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of that happened on the show.
Speaker 1: I got a lot to say about it, which is
Speaker 1: good because it's a radio program. So we'll talk about
Speaker 1: wrestle Media back last, we'll talk about the future of
Speaker 1: Roman Rains. Roman Rains made a very cryptic comment over
Speaker 1: the weekend. They got a lot of people wondering what
Speaker 1: the hell is going on with Roman Rains. Well, the
Speaker 1: answer is not much less actually than than even just
Speaker 1: very recently. So we'll talk about that. We got match
Speaker 1: scheduled for n x T two point oh tomorrow, Bret
Speaker 1: Hart talks about a e W. What do you want
Speaker 1: to come in and do anything for a e W
Speaker 1: if he's allowed to do so. We got updates on
Speaker 1: Tammy Sich, who was in fact arrested but has already
Speaker 1: been bailed out. Nick Wayne will get his dream match
Speaker 1: mention being sixteen years old and getting your dream match.
Speaker 1: He'll be facing Will Ospray on June nine. We've also
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Speaker 1: Wrestling Observer Yes, Mike is back here today, hopefully in
Speaker 1: one piece. Not too much horror, No, no, not too
Speaker 1: bad at the estimate though, it's about worth of damage. So, dude,
Speaker 1: that once ran over an a possum on I four
Speaker 1: oh five, not even like in the middle of a
Speaker 1: like a backwoods road or something like that, right on
Speaker 1: four oh five, Man, I smashed that poor little bugger,
Speaker 1: and uh, I feel like it was probably more than
Speaker 1: that for that that repair. He did a number on
Speaker 1: my purple Keia, if I recall correctly, probably did me
Speaker 1: a favor. Hey, before we get go into the news,
Speaker 1: should mention if you go to F four W online
Speaker 1: dot com slash Vegas, our annual convention is coming up
Speaker 1: here in just a few weeks weekend, Memorial Day weekend
Speaker 1: in Vegas in association. Shouldn't say an association. Now everyone's
Speaker 1: going to freak out. But uh, we used to do
Speaker 1: we used to do, uh the conventions in association with
Speaker 1: the WrestleMania. Now we're doing them in a oociation. Actually,
Speaker 1: it was UFC for a while. Well first it was
Speaker 1: Memorial Day Weekend uf C S and then we changed it.
Speaker 1: We've done a lot of things around WrestleMania weekend now
Speaker 1: double or nothing in Vegas over Memorial Day weekend. We
Speaker 1: do have some packages available. Uh, there is a Q
Speaker 1: and A with Dave and I which is taking place
Speaker 1: on Saturday at the Silver Nugget Casino. I was trying
Speaker 1: to get the Gold Nugget but it wasn't available, So
Speaker 1: the Silver Nugget Casino, you can grab your Q and
Speaker 1: A tickets to that. There's a few left. Looks like
Speaker 1: thirty bucks for the Q and A only that's what
Speaker 1: we've got remaining. Ads also running a show. If you
Speaker 1: want to go to EDS show, Uh, there's some tickets
Speaker 1: available for that. I believe they're charging more than for
Speaker 1: a Q and A. That's another matter entirely. The most
Speaker 1: expensive non wrestling ticket is the group dinner to Texas
Speaker 1: Day Brazil, which I will be there for and uh,
Speaker 1: I will get my eighty three dollars worth. That includes
Speaker 1: the the dinner and the dessert and the everything else.
Speaker 1: So that's as they skimp onto the dessert. They got
Speaker 1: some dessert gimmick they've got. And then there's also a
Speaker 1: few tickets left. We have a combo package. You can
Speaker 1: actually get a ticket to a w and a ticket
Speaker 1: to the Q and A, and I think there's only
Speaker 1: like two of those left, so if you want one,
Speaker 1: you better go up very quickly. But once again, if
Speaker 1: you want to join us in Vegas, I'm gonna be there.
Speaker 1: Dave's gonna be there. I don't know who else it's
Speaker 1: gonna be there. Andrew is gonna be there. I know that.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Vinnie. Actually, I don't know if
Speaker 1: Vinnie's going or not. I think he might be going.
Speaker 1: I should probably ask him. But anyway, I'm the last
Speaker 1: to know all of this stuff. But I do know
Speaker 1: F four w online dot com, slash Vegas, whatever's left.
Speaker 1: Go up there and get it right now. And uh,
Speaker 1: I will tell you one thing about the conventions in Vegas.
Speaker 1: I can guarantee one thing. You won't have a bad times.
Speaker 1: That doesn't need to be guaranteed. You're going to a
Speaker 1: wrestling convention in Las Vegas with a bunch of other
Speaker 1: wrestling geeks. Of course you're not gonna have a bad time.
Speaker 1: All right. We'll get to the pay per view here
Speaker 1: in a second, But first off, Roman Rains made a
Speaker 1: cryptic comment over the weekend. He was at a house
Speaker 1: show in Trenton, New Jersey Saturday. He said he's quote
Speaker 1: starting to work into a new phase in his career
Speaker 1: and does not know if he will be back in
Speaker 1: Trenton again. And of course it's got everybody talking, you know,
Speaker 1: it's this health issue. Is he going to Hollywood? Is
Speaker 1: he like? What the heck is going on here? And
Speaker 1: of course, let me tell you something. If you watch
Speaker 1: w W E and you watch that pay per view
Speaker 1: last night, brother god forbid, I mean personally for Roman Reigns,
Speaker 1: but professionally as well, if this guy goes down for
Speaker 1: any reason, Holy smokes. This entire company is one thousand
Speaker 1: percent built on Roman Reigns and that pay per view
Speaker 1: last night they did nothing. As we'll get to to
Speaker 1: even set up a challenger forget a successor we don't
Speaker 1: even have a challenger for this guy, but I'll get
Speaker 1: into that. But anyway, the situation is he signed a
Speaker 1: very lucrative new deal and uh less less dates. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna be doing a lot of house shows, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't appear there's gonna be a lot of pay
Speaker 1: per views in Trenton, New Jersey anytime soon. So uh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the story. There nothing to uh, nothing to panic
Speaker 1: about unless you like to buy a house, show tickets
Speaker 1: to see Roman reigns, and you're probably in trouble. But
Speaker 1: that's the update there. Yeah, people kind of lost their
Speaker 1: mind about it. And I don't know if that's because
Speaker 1: they just saw it on Twitter or whatever it was
Speaker 1: and then and see the actual clip of him talking.
Speaker 1: But it certainly seemed like if you're around Trent and
Speaker 1: you're just gonna have to drive to Philadelphia and New
Speaker 1: York now because he's not doing all of these dates everywhere.
Speaker 1: But he's certainly not going anywhere either. And there was
Speaker 1: nothing about what he said that me to indicate that
Speaker 1: he was going to be you know, had one ft
Speaker 1: out the door or anything like that. So people just
Speaker 1: took it and ran with it for a little while.
Speaker 1: On Saturday, I guess it was well, hey listen, I know,
Speaker 1: especially on the chat here, some people are thinking this
Speaker 1: story is overblown. But let me tell you something. You know,
Speaker 1: who I heard most of this from was not fans,
Speaker 1: and it was not Twitter, but it was people in
Speaker 1: w w E Like they were like, what is he
Speaker 1: talking about? What's going on here? There was concerned about
Speaker 1: this because they didn't know what's going on. Either because
Speaker 1: when it comes to Roman Reigns and also Brock Lesner,
Speaker 1: and really because of the way that they changed plans
Speaker 1: all the time, no one there has any idea what's
Speaker 1: going on, Like, you know, what's going on with Roman,
Speaker 1: what's going on with Brock. Nobody ever knows anything. I
Speaker 1: mean they you know, you can work there, you can
Speaker 1: be on the card, you can be on the card
Speaker 1: in a big match and not have any idea what's
Speaker 1: going on with Roman Reigns in the main event and
Speaker 1: anything like that because they're they're pretty private about a
Speaker 1: lot of those things. So, yeah, Roman Reigns coming out
Speaker 1: and saying he's entering a new phase of his career
Speaker 1: and he might not see these fans ever. Again, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were people talking about it, like what the hell
Speaker 1: is going on? Well, that is what the hell is
Speaker 1: going on. So he's not leaving nothing like that. But
Speaker 1: it was not done to like, you know, get people
Speaker 1: talking or sell house show tickets or anything like that.
Speaker 1: It was just, you know, the guy is appreciative of
Speaker 1: his fans. He is appreciative of the people that come
Speaker 1: and buy their tickets, and so he actually is not
Speaker 1: sure he's ever gonna wrestle in Trenton again. So he
Speaker 1: went out there and he essentially said, you know, if
Speaker 1: I never see you again, I want to thank you, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So that's the story that does lead us to the
Speaker 1: pay per view and the main e it was Roman
Speaker 1: Reigns and the U s O's against Drew mcatyre Arcade
Speaker 1: Bro no titles on the line. They do the match,
Speaker 1: It's an excellent six man tag, a bunch of great
Speaker 1: workers and uh, Roman Reigns Pin Riddle. I was flabbergasted.
Speaker 1: I know why re flabbergasted. Brian Well, I was flabbergasted
Speaker 1: because Bro they had. When they announced his pay per view,
Speaker 1: all everybody asked was what do they have for Roman Reigns.
Speaker 1: Oh nothing, Well, they'll probably shoot some angle with Drew mcatyre. Well,
Speaker 1: they shot an angle with Drew macat to put him
Speaker 1: in a six man tag. They false advertised for weeks
Speaker 1: to sell tickets a unification match, which they had no
Speaker 1: plans to deliver because from day one it was never
Speaker 1: gonna be unification match. There isn't gonna be a unification match.
Speaker 1: And so now we've got Hell in his Cell coming up,
Speaker 1: and who are our challengers? For Roman reigns. Oh Nakamura, Well,
Speaker 1: they shot two angles with Nakamura, one of them lad
Speaker 1: to Knakamura getting his ass kicked, the other one lad
Speaker 1: to Knakamura getting beaten by Sammy Zane via countout on SmackDown.
Speaker 1: So I ain't gonna be Knakamura. And if it is there,
Speaker 1: who cares Drew McIntyre. I mean, at the very least
Speaker 1: Drew could have pin Roman reigns, but he didn't. And
Speaker 1: on top of that, Roman put him through a table
Speaker 1: outside and left him for dead. Okay, whoop do you do? So?
Speaker 1: Like the official explanation for all of this is, well,
Speaker 1: we didn't beat Randy and we didn't beat Drew, so
Speaker 1: now he can do matches over the summer. I was like,
Speaker 1: who could possibly care about? Like the I love Randy Orton,
Speaker 1: I love Drew McIntyre, but bro, these guys can't even
Speaker 1: beat Roman reigns. What they hit their move on him
Speaker 1: which led to him beating Riddle. So, I mean, you
Speaker 1: know we've been talking about just remember when he stacked
Speaker 1: Daniel Bryan and he stacked him like Cord would remember that,
Speaker 1: And he's just beating everybody. He's got no viable challengers.
Speaker 1: I thought, at the very least, especially if this match
Speaker 1: is going on last, at the very least, we can
Speaker 1: create a viable challenger. No, he beat Riddle anyway back
Speaker 1: in a moment it was O were like, well very
Speaker 1: quickly here, then we'll get Mike Sauce on the show.
Speaker 1: He's suffering from an illness as am I congested headache?
Speaker 1: Really God, yeah you got if you just got it,
Speaker 1: You're in trouble, brother. I'm hoping it's just because to
Speaker 1: the northeaster that blew through this weekend with the fifteen
Speaker 1: sixteen seventy winds in the massive temperature drop. But hopefully
Speaker 1: that'll be it and it doesn't linger on like yours
Speaker 1: has for the last week and something alright, So uh
Speaker 1: as noted main event, there was an excellent tag match
Speaker 1: six man tag, but I did not get to finish
Speaker 1: at all. And then I was even more baffled because
Speaker 1: Ronda Rousey and the only championship match on the show
Speaker 1: round a. Rousey beat Charlotte Flair. I quit match, anything goes.
Speaker 1: It was just a wild, crazy brawl. It was awesome,
Speaker 1: and she won the SmackDown Women's title, and uh, I
Speaker 1: know Dave said that perhaps there was a danger of
Speaker 1: fans walking out after the Roman match if it had
Speaker 1: gone on earlier. Bro that's the case. I got big problems,
Speaker 1: but I cannot figure out why that run A Rousey
Speaker 1: Charlotte Flair match was not the main event title change.
Speaker 1: Rhonda Rousey baby Face win great match. I was like baffled,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Rondo one broke the arm of Charlotte Flair,
Speaker 1: and Charlotte could be taken some time off. Her and
Speaker 1: Androide are getting married, so they're gonna get married. They're
Speaker 1: gonna go in a honeymoon, and she'll be out of
Speaker 1: action as a result of this broken arm. Until then,
Speaker 1: Mad Cat beat Happy Corbin. This match should have been
Speaker 1: on SmackDown. We didn't need it. It was boring. They
Speaker 1: still in two do this buffer match gimmick and it
Speaker 1: did nothing but bring the show down and it was
Speaker 1: not needed. Edge and a J was a good match,
Speaker 1: finished with stupid. I realized the stand up for w
Speaker 1: W A blokes are playing their semantics game. But David
Speaker 1: Priests was barred from ringside, so he came out anyway,
Speaker 1: but only stood at the end of the aisle, not
Speaker 1: the end by the thing. But like all the way
Speaker 1: down to the end of the aisle because he wasn't
Speaker 1: at ringside, and then Finnbeller attacked him and threw him
Speaker 1: in the ring, so they're broiling inside the ring in
Speaker 1: front of the referee. Damian Priest not a disqualification and
Speaker 1: then a hooded figure cost aj the match. It was
Speaker 1: real Rippley, she has joined Judgment Day. Good match. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't call it a great match, but it was good.
Speaker 1: Omas and Bobby Lashle was I would give it one star,
Speaker 1: which would make it the best match O Mass has
Speaker 1: ever had. He was horrible in this match. God bless
Speaker 1: the guy. He was horrible m v P. When m
Speaker 1: v P said that he was better than the Great
Speaker 1: Colligue like, God bless m v P. I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of m v P and everything like that, But brother,
Speaker 1: he ain't better than the Great Collie. He's not. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's more mobile, but like he can't sell to save
Speaker 1: his life. He has two moves, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: I found out he's being trained by Kevin Nash and
Speaker 1: so you'll never guess what his two moves are. I'm
Speaker 1: not making this up. A snake eyes and a big boot.
Speaker 1: He has no other moves and Bobby Lashley, I mean
Speaker 1: this blow did everything to try to make a good
Speaker 1: match with Omas, and well, he's gonna have to grow
Speaker 1: his hair out if he wants to do the flip
Speaker 1: of the hair, which was one of Kevin Nash's what
Speaker 1: six moves that he was always dude Nash. Nash works
Speaker 1: like rings to this day. He would work rings around
Speaker 1: Omas and then Cody Rhodes and Seth Rawlins was the opener,
Speaker 1: and it's a very good opener. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was as good as WRESTLEMANI, but it was a very
Speaker 1: good match. Cody Rhodes one again. Seth Rollins tried to
Speaker 1: pin him using the tights and Cody reversed it and
Speaker 1: pulled the tights, which was not a heel finish. If
Speaker 1: you watch the match, it was clearly the baby face
Speaker 1: giving the heel is just desserts. And so Cody wins again.
Speaker 1: So there's there's two things that could happen here based
Speaker 1: on this finish. One, we're doing a third match. Okay,
Speaker 1: so if we do a third match, Cody does not
Speaker 1: need to lose this match, So that would be that
Speaker 1: would require Seth to lose three times in a row.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's happening. And so I think that
Speaker 1: they did this finish because they weren't doing a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty feud and they wanted to save face at least
Speaker 1: a little bit with seth Rawlins, and so he got
Speaker 1: his tights pulled for the finish. But he lost two
Speaker 1: times in a row. So unless they do like a
Speaker 1: Helen a Cell match or something like that, which I
Speaker 1: mentioned doing a Helen his Cell match over he pulled
Speaker 1: my trousers. Well, so I uh, by the way, Helena
Speaker 1: sells June fifth or something like that. After this show,
Speaker 1: I got no idea what's on that Helen his Cell.
Speaker 1: They built nothing for that show. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Do you really think that it matters in the world
Speaker 1: of w W EVE seth Rawlins loses to Cody Rhodes
Speaker 1: for a third straight time. If the match is good, Hey, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think he should Cody. Cody needs to face Roman
Speaker 1: Range for the title. He needs to do no jobs
Speaker 1: okay none, No, I agree with that. It's just a
Speaker 1: matter of when you plan on doing that match and
Speaker 1: what you plan on. That's what's interesting is they don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of names up top. You know, Cody
Speaker 1: and Seth are fantastic together. You got Roman, but as
Speaker 1: you mentioned, no opponents for those guys, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't you know. There need to be other names
Speaker 1: in that mix for a variety, for reasons much less
Speaker 1: because you need to build new stars. And it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, do you plan on bringing Braun Breaker up?
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like they are, at least not anytime soon.
Speaker 1: So it's like, where are your threats? What are your
Speaker 1: Where are your big threats to Roman Reigns? Where your
Speaker 1: big threats to anybody? I don't know, But if you
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Speaker 1: when I used to write for Penthouse magazine. That was
Speaker 1: the worst job in my life. For the money you got,
Speaker 1: are you sure about that? Dude? I got a thousand
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Speaker 1: good enough for the pain and suffering and misery. I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: think about this. I was like I was like in
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Speaker 1: It wasn't worth it. That's how much she was just
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Speaker 1: I don't think it was Bob. I knew that. I
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Speaker 1: Did she really did? She also pick up a hustler
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Speaker 1: know what else she got, but she did that. Oh
Speaker 1: my god, did you You couldn't even have cut it
Speaker 1: out for you? She actually bought the didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: make her, she just did it. It's called having a fan, Mike,
Speaker 1: something you know nothing about. Well, I mean, you can
Speaker 1: have a fan, but I don't know if I want
Speaker 1: my grandmother, you know, jumping on the Penthouse to uh, well,
Speaker 1: what am I gonna you talk about anything else? Lock
Speaker 1: our keys somewhere so she didn't get in the car
Speaker 1: and drive down and being independent individual and make up
Speaker 1: her own mind and her own choices. Any other thoughts
Speaker 1: on this show, No, it was actually a good show.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a good show for what it
Speaker 1: was because of the matches that were on there. The
Speaker 1: Cody and Seth have a great report together. And I
Speaker 1: know people have no idea what Seth Rollins is. I
Speaker 1: don't know what Seth Rollins character is, and I think
Speaker 1: at this point that's the character is. He's just this
Speaker 1: goofy guy. But he and Cody together are fantastic because
Speaker 1: physically there's not much Seth Rolins can't do. And it's
Speaker 1: you know, I'm not trying to throw Cody under the
Speaker 1: bus there, but I mean, my god, Seth is fantastic
Speaker 1: physically almost in Bobby Lashly, you know, it is what
Speaker 1: it is. At some point I'd like to see Bobby Lashly.
Speaker 1: I guess Jackhammer almost. I don't know how you finished
Speaker 1: this feud. I don't know how you you know you
Speaker 1: get over on almost but almost, Giant, Silva, Elhi, Gante,
Speaker 1: all of these guys, I will never understand. I get
Speaker 1: it with pro wrestling. If you have a Don Leo Jonathan,
Speaker 1: if you have a young Andre the Giant, if you
Speaker 1: have guys like that, who physically can actually work, that's
Speaker 1: one thing. But to get these massive giants and to
Speaker 1: want them to work instead of just power bombing people
Speaker 1: and choke slamming people, I'll never understand that. And I
Speaker 1: don't see how they're doing almost any good. Frankly, is
Speaker 1: anything other than a nine one one type of character Edge.
Speaker 1: We'll have to see where it goes, and I guess
Speaker 1: tonight will be the first step there. With Rio Ripley
Speaker 1: and how she's gonna play into things. I actually kind
Speaker 1: of like that, because again, if you want to shift
Speaker 1: Edge or Damian Priest into a title situation against somebody,
Speaker 1: you know, Ria Ripley and somebody, whether it be Rhonda
Speaker 1: or whoever. You know, again, I think that's probably you know,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. Having Rhonda, having I'm sorry, having
Speaker 1: Ria Ripley, and having um uh Bianca bell Air there
Speaker 1: by far the most important parts of your company for
Speaker 1: the future. You have women's stars now with Becky and
Speaker 1: and Rhonda and Charlotte, and obviously you know at some
Speaker 1: point Bailey's coming back. You still have Sasha, who people
Speaker 1: will take too if you decide to push her again,
Speaker 1: you know, at a different level. But they really need
Speaker 1: to really crank it up with Ria and Bianca, because
Speaker 1: how long ago was Ria in that match with Charlotte
Speaker 1: Flair at WrestleMania. It's been like what three years now,
Speaker 1: two years now, whatever it's been, and you know, she
Speaker 1: should really be at least their intention should be to
Speaker 1: get her right where Bianca is right now, and to
Speaker 1: try to keep her at that level and try to
Speaker 1: keep them even a couple of other notes here, we'll
Speaker 1: do some feedback after the break. So for all of
Speaker 1: my friends, enjoy n x T two point oh Tamora
Speaker 1: and I just announced out of the blue, because of
Speaker 1: course they did. It's Naddy and core Jade. They started
Speaker 1: this storyline like a few weeks ago and they were
Speaker 1: building it up like the ultimate match for corea Ja,
Speaker 1: like you know, she's gonna have to go through this
Speaker 1: person and that person and build up this and build
Speaker 1: up that. Nope, we're just doing that TV tomorrow. So
Speaker 1: if excited for that match, that's your that's your chance.
Speaker 1: And then also just out of nowhere, they're already doing it. G. G.
Speaker 1: Dolan and J. C. Jayne against Wendy Chew and Rock
Speaker 1: sand Perez. Alright, l elbow fire. According to the close,
Speaker 1: captioning elbow fire, which sounds like a serious medical issue.
Speaker 1: Maybe not serious, but definitely a medical issue. I've actually
Speaker 1: had elbow fire now that they think about it, and
Speaker 1: had I had tendonitis right here in this little gimmick
Speaker 1: tennis elbow. I don't know what it was, but it
Speaker 1: hurt for years, like it took forever for that to heal. So, uh,
Speaker 1: did you do any physical therapy or was it just
Speaker 1: your incredible recuperative powers that Oh yeah, my incredible recuperative
Speaker 1: powers where it took three years for that thing to
Speaker 1: feel better. And then the n x T Women's Breakout
Speaker 1: Tournament begins. I am excited for n x T tomorrow.
Speaker 1: I can't wait back at a moment of live bagging
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Speaker 1: send in your feedback four to five seven eight zero
Speaker 1: seven five six six. Red Heart says he would love
Speaker 1: to be a part of a w but for right now,
Speaker 1: he is happy being at home. Speaking to Lucha Libre Online,
Speaker 1: sixty four year old says he wants to be remembered
Speaker 1: as a wrestler, and not as a manager or in
Speaker 1: another rule. He also said, right now he's making up
Speaker 1: for lost time after having spent thirty years on the road.
Speaker 1: I'm mostly making up for a lot of lost time
Speaker 1: staying home as much as I can, trying to make
Speaker 1: up for all the lost time for being gone all
Speaker 1: the time for thirty years. I'm happily retired. I'm a
Speaker 1: home guy now. There's not a lot I can do
Speaker 1: in wrestling. What would I do? Referee, manage, be a chairman.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be remember that way. I want
Speaker 1: to be remembered as a wrestler. I didn't think it
Speaker 1: would be nice if he was somehow able to show
Speaker 1: up for the finals of the owen Hart Cup present
Speaker 1: the cup to the winners. But it certainly doesn't make
Speaker 1: it seem like that's gonna happen. But I guess we'll
Speaker 1: find out here in a few weeks. And again, I
Speaker 1: still think that's not essential. When you have Martha and
Speaker 1: her family there, I mean, that's what it's really about.
Speaker 1: It would be nice, I guess, to have that, you know,
Speaker 1: a full presence of the family there, But I still
Speaker 1: don't think it's that necessary. I know some people are
Speaker 1: gonna jump on that, probably as it gets closer to
Speaker 1: the time of it happening. But uh, you know, really,
Speaker 1: it's it comes down to Martha and her kids. This
Speaker 1: is about oh and it's not about the whole Heart family.
Speaker 1: Baby Hall of Famer Sonny Tammy Sitch has been bailed
Speaker 1: out of jail following her arrest in a relation to
Speaker 1: a fatal car crash. Court records show she was bailed
Speaker 1: out of jail at twelve fourteen Eastern on Sunday. A
Speaker 1: tune or twenty seven thousand, five dollar shirty bond was
Speaker 1: posted by a Florida bail Bondsman service. She was arrested
Speaker 1: Friday facing nine charges relating to a March car accident
Speaker 1: where year old man was killed. Prior to her being arrested,
Speaker 1: police suspected six of a d u I and the crash.
Speaker 1: We're waiting for toxicology reports to come back. She faces
Speaker 1: the following charges d u I causing the death of
Speaker 1: a human or unborn at child, driving with a suspended
Speaker 1: or revoked license, and causing death or serious injury, seven
Speaker 1: counts of d u I with damage to person or property.
Speaker 1: So it sounds to me like those toxicology reports came back,
Speaker 1: and of course we've got the press release about the
Speaker 1: situation there. The estate has filed a lawsuit against Sich
Speaker 1: and her boyfriend, James Penty. She has been arrested for
Speaker 1: driving on the fluently six times prior to this most
Speaker 1: recent arrest. Not good. It's wild, absolutely wild, and I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know what his ten So somebody had
Speaker 1: to pay twenty two seven fifty dollars to get her
Speaker 1: out of out of jail for this. It's just amazing
Speaker 1: she's able to walk around with the track record that
Speaker 1: she has, with the fact that she is driving and
Speaker 1: cannot help herself, but to drive and to drive hammered
Speaker 1: whether she's got a license or not. So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how these things work. As far as
Speaker 1: how long you could have kept her in there for,
Speaker 1: I guess you got to give her some bail, But
Speaker 1: it is amazing that it was. We don't have to
Speaker 1: give bail. There's many people that are locked up without bail.
Speaker 1: One being came, well, that is that's true, but it's
Speaker 1: also a different story here. Two. We don't want to,
Speaker 1: you know, meld all these together here. But when you
Speaker 1: have a record in the way that she does. And again,
Speaker 1: you know, she's a menace. She's a literal menace. And
Speaker 1: obviously now she's um alleged to be a killer. Let's
Speaker 1: just put it like that, you know, And I just again,
Speaker 1: when somebody can't help themselves, you actually have to protect
Speaker 1: people from themselves and protect other people from this person
Speaker 1: who if you told me today, Brian, we got a
Speaker 1: report that we're talking about tomorrow that she got back
Speaker 1: in the car and was drunk and did something. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't fall over shocked at all. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: all she does. So it's a terrible situation and hopefully
Speaker 1: justice prevails for that man in that family. Alrighty. After
Speaker 1: being pulled from the World on g CW in New
Speaker 1: York City the last minute due to his age, Nick
Speaker 1: Wayne was asked by Joe Janelle and Twitter to call
Speaker 1: his shot for a match at spring break. Nick Wayne replied,
Speaker 1: will a spray? But it did not happen however. June nineteenth, Providence,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, g c W is New England debut. It's
Speaker 1: will be Nick Wayne versus will a Spray? It's Nick
Speaker 1: Seidel's to be Like if I were sixteen years old
Speaker 1: getting signed to a match with like Shaun Michael. God,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. Kids sleep last night. He's got school today. Literally,
Speaker 1: they need to talk to his mother. He is uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, a physical wonder obviously everybody that's seen him,
Speaker 1: you know, he's obviously got great physical gifts as far
Speaker 1: as his size for his age, but how he's able
Speaker 1: to control his body. You know, he is a He
Speaker 1: is certainly a natural third generation, third generation superstar, and
Speaker 1: you know he and Will Osprey, I I'm very happy
Speaker 1: for him. There are very few people who get to
Speaker 1: have this level of success and have this level of
Speaker 1: shine on them so early in their career, especially for
Speaker 1: a guy who I mean, how old was Buddy when
Speaker 1: Nick passed away? He was very very young. And the
Speaker 1: fact that he's been able to stay in this business
Speaker 1: and being able to build himself up, and it shows
Speaker 1: you the kind of respect that Buddy had to where
Speaker 1: there's so many people that have their eyes out on
Speaker 1: this kid and are looking out for him. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: suggest a sixteen fifteen year old get involved in progres thing.
Speaker 1: I absolutely wouldn't, But when he comes to Nick Wayne,
Speaker 1: you look at the situation, you see the people around
Speaker 1: him that are taking care of him and have their
Speaker 1: eyes out for him, and they're trying to have their
Speaker 1: eyes out for his mother and keeping her happy as
Speaker 1: well too. I mean, it's just it's an amazing situation.
Speaker 1: If his body holds up together, cross his mother, do
Speaker 1: not cross. His mother knew, but you know, if his
Speaker 1: body holds up, I mean, my god, we're talking about
Speaker 1: but forty years possibly that this guy could have in
Speaker 1: the business. So it's just it's an amazing thing. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I was watching SmackDown, and uh, I'll do the full
Speaker 1: review with the whole filthy Tom Lawler, But I don't
Speaker 1: know what's going on. How many times have I talked
Speaker 1: about w W and I said, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. So now they've done this thing with Lacey
Speaker 1: Evans and like every week they've got the Lacey Evans story,
Speaker 1: and uh, I was, I was, Actually I thought it
Speaker 1: was awesome the first week. I thought it was awesome,
Speaker 1: the second week. I thought it was awesome in the
Speaker 1: third week, and then I did. I did get irritated
Speaker 1: on week four. Why because she has a real story
Speaker 1: and it's clearly very hard for her to tell her
Speaker 1: story and when she tells her story on TV, it
Speaker 1: is very compelling and it makes her come off as
Speaker 1: a super baby face. And uh, it took. It literally
Speaker 1: took until the fourth time they did this for me
Speaker 1: to notice that they sandwich the reality with their branding.
Speaker 1: Okay everyone, I realized everyone's you know, I realized everyone
Speaker 1: ended with the same catchphrase, which is, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm better than the other women in
Speaker 1: the locker room, but they damn sure aren't better than me.
Speaker 1: And you know, the first couple of times, I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, well, they're kind of adding this catchphrase that's everything.
Speaker 1: That's cool like that. But by the time they do
Speaker 1: the fourth time, I noticed that they also were branding
Speaker 1: the beginning. She has to begin the story with all right,
Speaker 1: here we go everyone. I understand the first time because
Speaker 1: it's like, man, let's take a deep breath and then
Speaker 1: tell the story. But literally that's now part of the branding.
Speaker 1: She just to take a deep breath and go all right,
Speaker 1: here we go. So anyway, I I it was kind
Speaker 1: of like, can you just let her tell her story
Speaker 1: without adding your branding to this real story of tragedy
Speaker 1: in her life? So anyway, they do the fifth one,
Speaker 1: and in fact, it starts out with all right, here
Speaker 1: we go, and then she launches a newer story and
Speaker 1: this one, this one's talking about like drug overdoses, deaths
Speaker 1: and suicide. So this is a super heavy one. And
Speaker 1: then she ends with her catchphrase again and you know,
Speaker 1: she's crying and everything like that. And and so then
Speaker 1: when it's over, they go down to uh to the
Speaker 1: ring and the ring announcer she's gonna bring Lacey Evans
Speaker 1: in front of the crowd, and I don't remember the
Speaker 1: exact words, but it was something like Lacy Evan asks
Speaker 1: that you stand and show her the proper respect. The
Speaker 1: introduced her, and I was like, wait, what hold a second,
Speaker 1: Lacy Evans requests that we stand and show her the
Speaker 1: proper respect. So and then but she came out and
Speaker 1: like she waves and she's hugging people and everyone's and
Speaker 1: they actually stood and showed her the proper respect. They're
Speaker 1: cheering and everything like that. But like then she goes
Speaker 1: to the back and I thought, what in the hell
Speaker 1: did I just see? What did I just see? Don't
Speaker 1: even tell me, don't even tell me that Five Weeks
Speaker 1: of a True Story of of abuse, drug usage, overdoses, suicide.
Speaker 1: Don't even tell me that this is their plan to
Speaker 1: bring her back as a heel. I can't believe this one.
Speaker 1: I know. I know what you're all saying. Why can't
Speaker 1: you believe this, Bran, Why are you so dumb? No?
Speaker 1: I can't on this one. I can't. There's no way
Speaker 1: this happy to just be incompetence where they were like, oh,
Speaker 1: make sure that you know the fans are just really
Speaker 1: nice for this one, because you just did these five.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be. It's this to be in competence that
Speaker 1: she's coming back into baby face. Do you think it
Speaker 1: was on the ring announcer? Do you think maybe she was?
Speaker 1: You know, they look to be. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: There's no way, there's no way that these five weeks
Speaker 1: of storytelling was to bring her back as a heel.
Speaker 1: It's impossible. This one is actually impossible. Oh my, she's
Speaker 1: another one figure. And look I don't know. No, it's
Speaker 1: not on me, everybody, it is not on me. Look,
Speaker 1: it's not my fault. It's not on me. Let's be
Speaker 1: honest here, Okay, do you think she's going to remain
Speaker 1: a baby Face? I mean, I don't know, six months whatever,
Speaker 1: but you don't five weeks of heart wrenching stories that
Speaker 1: as I was noted when people were emailing me like
Speaker 1: they were all starting with this is a trigger warning.
Speaker 1: You don't do that to bring somebody back as a heel.
Speaker 1: You don't. Okay, this one is not just this is
Speaker 1: that's wrong. Okay, that actually is objectively wrong. You don't
Speaker 1: do that. Her new gimmick will be trauma porn. No, no, David,
Speaker 1: it's not incompetence. This goes far beyond that. This is
Speaker 1: not typical w W in competence. There's there's no way
Speaker 1: that she's coming back as a heel. I can't. I
Speaker 1: can't do this job anymore. I gotta quit. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be like Roman reigns. So I want to thank all
Speaker 1: of you listening right now and watching on on YouTube
Speaker 1: and and twitch, but like you may not see me again.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, come on, oh man, No, it
Speaker 1: is not falling for it. This is not falling for it. Okay,
Speaker 1: having like an actual, like a human soul, it's not
Speaker 1: falling for it. It's called being a human. Okay, no
Speaker 1: human does what they did for five weeks with the
Speaker 1: intention of having her be a heel. Okay, this is
Speaker 1: not typical. W w E oh my god, I can't
Speaker 1: believe that Roman reigns pin. This is different. Okay, it's different.
Speaker 1: Remember with Curt Angle, they did start him doing three
Speaker 1: eyes thing. They thought he was going to be a
Speaker 1: true baby pace came in against Tiger Ali sing and
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and then what they found
Speaker 1: out was as he kept doing it, it kept getting heat.
Speaker 1: So then it became just double down on a triple
Speaker 1: down on it, really rubbing the fact that these three
Speaker 1: eyes but a completely different scenario than what they're doing
Speaker 1: with Lacey Evans. And here's the other thing. Who are
Speaker 1: the baby faces on in the heels on that side
Speaker 1: of the roster? You got? You know, Ronda now is
Speaker 1: your champion, Charlotte's going to be going away? You have
Speaker 1: what Sasha Naomi? Who are baby faces? I mean, I
Speaker 1: hate to say it, but I hope that that's not
Speaker 1: going to be the case, although I can absolutely see
Speaker 1: it later on down the line that she is going
Speaker 1: to be a heel. And to be honest with you too,
Speaker 1: once these vignettes are over, and I have a feeling
Speaker 1: that once things kind of like level out and some
Speaker 1: time goes by, the same people that were boon her
Speaker 1: before are going to be right back to booner. I
Speaker 1: think she's got a some of the people are going
Speaker 1: to love her because of her character in the real
Speaker 1: life things that she's been through in the military and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and there's gonna be other people that
Speaker 1: hold that against her. So I don't think it's forever. Brother,
Speaker 1: I can It's almost over. Don't worry. I almost just
Speaker 1: left in Had you finished the show? Ron? You aren't
Speaker 1: they No, I'm not talking about the chat at all.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about w w E. I don't care about
Speaker 1: the chat talking about w w E. It had to
Speaker 1: be a mistake, and I am of the impression. I'm
Speaker 1: not of the impression. I believe because I'm a I'm
Speaker 1: a human being with a heart and a soul that
Speaker 1: unsu this coming Friday Night, Lacy Evan's gonna be a
Speaker 1: baby face. I believe that she will. But what's gonna
Speaker 1: happened a couple of weeks from now. I don't care
Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks from now, but she needs
Speaker 1: to be a baby face coming off these vignettes. She
Speaker 1: could turn here later. Who cares? God, I think she's
Speaker 1: going to be a baby face? Thank you, thank you?
Speaker 1: Anybody else? Can you believe that a sympathetic baby face
Speaker 1: w W is gonna make late? She they can't not
Speaker 1: now later? But not coming off those vignettes. You just
Speaker 1: retweeted somebody and noticed during the recap of Corbyn versus
Speaker 1: Moss they used crowd shots from ten years ago. I
Speaker 1: know they manipulate the crowds and the recaps, but a
Speaker 1: ten year difference. What the yeah? There was there was
Speaker 1: footage on the pay per view you guys, you guys
Speaker 1: crying about piped in crowd noise. Okay, Like I've been
Speaker 1: watching that forever, but it is new that you would
Speaker 1: take a clip from a show ten years ago and
Speaker 1: inserted into a modern show. Somebody with their Bruno foam
Speaker 1: finger and then hey, listen, listen to everybody, bros. Why
Speaker 1: are you mad? It's part of the entertainment portion of
Speaker 1: the show. It's like the fake attendants. It's like the
Speaker 1: fake crowd noise. Now we get fake fans. I'm out
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