WEBVTT - Jonah/Weekend Wrap Up/NXT War Games 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:08.760 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:15.240 Let's get it all. How's it going, everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.400 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:21.239 Monday through Friday, now Pacific three s during a Sunday 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:27.360 three Pacific six Eastern streaming the Life Sports Byline YouTube Twitch. 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:30.600 And it is Monday on the show, and you know 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:32.320 what that means. We've got a lot to talk about 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.360 here today, very very busy weekend and a lot of 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:39.320 things coming up, particularly on today's show. Yesterday was n 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.080 XT War Games. What did you think of this show? 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:45.800 It had the good and the bad and the ugly. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.600 It was not a traditional takeover, but you know what, 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.440 they didn't call it takeover. So if you're a fan 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.720 of the n x T Talent and w w E 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.360 main roster shows, if I got the show for you, 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.880 I'll give you the results of that show here today. 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:04.759 Also an update on Jeff Hardy. Very strange situation where 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:07.679 Jeff Hardy was wrestling a match and then he just 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.160 left in the middle of the match and he has 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.560 since been sent home. We'll give you more details on that. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:19.000 We've got updates on Johnny Gargano who schedule or his contract. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:22.920 It's expired and it's a very interesting story we'll talk 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:27.080 about here. Shabbada has got a big announcement. Jerry Lawler 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.280 has resigned with w W e FTR is gonna be 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.720 facing the Rock and Roll Express coming up. I hope 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.440 they do better than myself and filthy Tom Lawler did. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.000 And in the final segment of this show, I'm very 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:45.040 happy today to be joined by Jonah the former Bronson 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.720 Reid and n x T is gonna be joining us 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:52.240 on the show today. I just watched him thirty minutes ago, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:57.680 absolutely murder this poor bloke on New Japan Strong. So 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:01.000 we'll talk to him about New Japan and and whatever 0:02:01.080 --> 0:02:02.680 we want to get into today, because there's a lot 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:04.559 to talk about that's coming up in the final segment 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.880 of the show, So a lot to get into if 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.000 you would like to Texas here today. Four to five 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.280 seven eight zero seven five six six is the phone 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:15.240 number that is four to five seven eight zero seven 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:18.240 five six six. Brian at Wrestling Observer dot com is 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:23.320 the email and at Brian Alvarez on at Twitter. Back 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:25.360 in just a moment, Mike sumber v stick around everybody 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:34.399 Wrestling Observer Live in the show. Brian Albarez here Wrestling 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:38.079 Observer Alive. Mike sumber Vivi also Wrestling Observer dot Com 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.400 is noted in the opening segment. Jonah will be joining 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.359 us on the program today. The former Bronson read, are 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:45.960 we talking to him about a lot of different things? 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:50.560 And yes, tomorrow is the big day, barring some whatever 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:52.679 because you never know what's gonna happen on Observer Live. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:56.280 But Mike sumber viv will be co hosting with Oreo 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:03.440 the Orca and we will be interviewing Dan Housing. That 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:07.959 is a tomorrow You're un Wrestling Observer Alive, so get 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:10.320 ready for that. That should be exciting. I don't know 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.920 what I'm more excited for to see you in that 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.800 outfit and to talk to Oreo face to face or 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.000 Danny I where no outfit. The whale is showing up. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.399 Oh wait, wait wait a second on time time out? 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:25.920 Does this mean we are going to get wrestling perspective 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.600 and a raw report from the view of Oreo the Orca. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:32.480 And I'm not gonna be there, so I don't know 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.040 what's gonna happen, but we'll find out tomorrow, won't we. Now, 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.240 let's get some important news here, because this actually is 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.480 some way concerning story here and we don't have a 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.640 lot of details. Jeff Hardy was reportedly sent home following 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.400 a match that took place over the weekend in a 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.400 w w E health show. P WVE Inside reported tonight 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.440 Jeff Hardy was sent home from the road did not 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:54.600 appear tonight's health show in Corpus Christi, Texas. On Saturday, 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.040 he was teaming with Xavier Woods and Drew McIntyre against 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.560 the Bloodline Roman Rains in the us OS at an 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.880 event in Edenburg, Texas. He spent most of the match 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.560 in the ring and was said to be more sluggish 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.640 as the match continued. He reportedly made a hot tag 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:16.360 to McIntyre and then walked out through the crowd, followed 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.760 by security and did not return to the ring after 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:24.120 Woods and McIntyre. One Ray Mysterio replaced Hardy in the 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.080 match on tonight's show. Already Last wrestled on television. Novembery, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.480 on SmackDown Last Person eliminated in a Battle Royal to 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.960 determine the next number one contender for the w w 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.760 E Universal title. He was dumped to the floor by 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.080 Sammy Zane, who ended up losing his championship match on 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.760 this week's SmackDown. So I don't really have a lot 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.880 to add this. This happened, It was not a work 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.919 and I know there are people that are concerned for 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.040 Jeff Hardy, and obviously a lot of people don't have 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.560 any ideas going on, and I don't know what's going on, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.039 but obviously Jeff Hardy has had many many issues in 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.800 the past. Hopefully it is not that I don't know 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.279 what's going on, but obviously we want to wish the 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:13.159 best to Jeff Hardy and hopefully whatever the situation was, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.919 it is resolved quickly. But that is one that's a 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.159 weird one, like walking out in the middle of the match, 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:26.159 not before after the show, not no showing, doing the 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:31.560 whole match, making a hot tag, and leaving. So I 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.920 hope everything is all right there. I don't know if 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.880 it's leaving as much as leaving through the crowd. You know, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:41.640 if something just clicked and you got slagg issues the match, 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.679 whatever happened as the match went on, you know, to 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.680 to bail out of the ring and to go to 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.160 the back or you know, okay, that makes some sense 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.640 for him to go through the crowd. That's where it's 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.440 obviously leading my thing more to what is really going 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.880 on here, But the best to him, It's bottom line 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:04.360 is hopefully he is healthy and whatever happened, hopefully it's 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.560 a again fixes itself quickly. Well I don't want to 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.880 say hopefully it's a concussion, because I never want to 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.119 see anybody get a concussion, but if he were doing 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.839 a match and suffered a concussion, it made a hot 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.440 tag and just left and didn't even know which way 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.080 he was going. I mean, at least a concussion, you know, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.440 ultimately that's gonna heal. Everything's gonna be all right. So 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:27.320 I don't want to talk anymore about it because we 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.600 don't know anything more about it, but that very thing, Yeah, 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.599 the hydration. There's so many things that could that it 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.479 could be, but everybody, because of what's happened in the past, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.599 always looks to the worst. So hopefully there is no 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:43.200 worse to this and everything is fixed quickly. So we'll 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.520 talk about war games in a moment, but Johnny Gargano 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:53.400 will address his future on this Tuesday's edition. Of an 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:58.320 x T. So if you didn't watch War Games last night, 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.279 I don't know what's going on with Johnny Gargano. Okay, 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:05.760 let me repeat that, I don't know what's going on 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.800 with Johnny Gargano, but I'm getting this feeling that he's 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.280 staying with w w E. I could be a thousand 0:07:13.320 --> 0:07:20.320 percent wrong, Okay, but Johnny Gargano's contract expired and he 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:24.800 signed a short term deal, which and I could be 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.240 wrong about this, but to my understanding, it was through 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:31.200 the pay per view, which means his contract should be 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.080 expired right now. Perhaps he actually signed through television, all right, 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.720 that could be what happened. But I don't know if 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.080 you guys are aware of this or not. But there's 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.800 been a lot of people that have been fired released 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.600 from w w E over the past a couple of 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:52.240 years now, and uh, you know, a lot of them 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.720 don't get a send off. And they were they did 0:07:56.760 --> 0:08:01.040 the show, and it was literally part of the storyline 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.160 that this might be the end for Johnny Gardano, and 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.880 him and Champa were talking about it, this could be 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.240 the end. Let's do this one more time. They were 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.520 doing d I Y spots during the match. The fans 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.800 were channing, thank you, Johnny. Now it turns out he's 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:22.640 coming back on Tuesday to address his future. And if 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.800 w w E we're thinking this guy's out of here, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.160 he's going to a w This is not in their wheelhouse. 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:34.880 So is possible that he is not leaving immediately? It 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.520 is possibly he's resigned another deal. It's possibly he's coming 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.640 back to w w E. I mean they certainly one 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.560 way or the other, they're not letting him on TV Tuesday. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.319 He's done our contract. It's just not happening. So I 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.320 guess we'll find out. But all of this here is uh. 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.559 I guess his extension expires on Friday, so he is 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:59.200 under contract for Tuesday's show. But it is him coming 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:03.040 on television to address his future. That to me is 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:06.280 a is a makes me think he might be staying. 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.640 But we'll see. I'll see what he says on Tuesday. Yeah, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.760 I think so too. And I'd be interested to know 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:17.079 what Candice Lorey's contract status is because if he wants 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.640 to take this down to basically being a coach, and 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.640 I think, you know, look, there's value in having Johnny 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.720 Gargano there. He's been wrestling since he was what's sixteen 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.679 years old or whatever it is. The guy has been 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.160 around forever, you know, he and Chompa. If they are 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.920 looking at them and going or Triple H again. Look, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:37.800 it's not like Triple H is dead here. I know 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.760 people want him to leave and start his own company 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.000 or whatever nonsense people think Triple H is gonna do. 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.360 But he's still there, and he is too. Those are 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.880 two guys that he really Those two in Samoa Joe 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:52.640 he's obviously got an affinity for. And there's plenty of 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:56.959 other guys there. You're Steve Corinos. You're plenty of guys 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.200 where they could assimilate in nicely into the system out. 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.960 Could they be fired at any time like everybody else. Yeah, sure, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:06.520 But maybe they look at the landscape right now, they 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.679 see what's going on with a W and they go, hey, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.200 that's gonna be there. Look a W is going nowhere. 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:16.440 So maybe we go ahead and continue to ride this 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:18.600 thing out because we are happy here and my wife 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.000 is under contract and whatever. I just I can see 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.959 him not being a regular character in the n x 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.680 D if he does stick around, because I don't know 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:29.640 how much that body has And I think that's the 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.640 same way with Chompa too. At some point we're going 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.599 to see that torch past the bron Breaker and I 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.679 don't think he's gonna have a foot out of the company. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.760 I think he's going to be there too. Dude. I 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.320 don't know if you guys remember this or not. There's 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:46.360 a fella. His name was Daniel Brian and his deal 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.839 was come and do, and he loved w w E. 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:53.319 And he was very torn about whether to stay or go, 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.040 and they very much wanted him to stay, and they 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:01.199 even attempted to make a deal with You Japan so 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:05.320 that Brian Danielson could go work New Japan while working 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.240 for w w E. I mean, they really wanted this 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:10.520 guy to stay, and he really loved working there. And 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.880 remember his last appearance, it was not there to address 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.559 his future. It was not there to say goodbye and 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.439 thank you. It was being choked out in the middle 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.200 of the ring by Roman Reigns and left for dead. 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:27.120 So let's see what happens with Gargana. But yes, his 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:31.840 deal expires Friday, so let's see what he says on it. Tuesday. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:34.280 We've got a couple of other quick notes here. Jerry 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.360 Lawler has resigned a new deal with w w E. 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.480 So for what, I don't know. He's not really doing 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:46.400 commentary but shows. I guess he's doing pre shows all right, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:48.760 Well he's resigned for more pre shows, so you can 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.480 look forward to that. You see, I don't watch the 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.040 pre shows. Maybe I should as part of my job. 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:54.839 You know, there's a lot of things I gotta do 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.320 as part of my job, and watching the pre shows 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.600 does not fall into those categories. Back in the moment 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:12.600 with war Games Deserver Live time, I got to show 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.480 my Elba is here wrestling Observer Live MICEMBERV. They also 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:20.240 Wrestling Observer dot Com. Jonah joining us after the break. 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.400 But the first off, you guys watched this war Game 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.520 show last night? I sure did, and it's ed x 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.040 T two point oh. So if you were watching this 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:34.760 expecting a takeover, he didn't get it. If you're expecting 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.680 this watching a main roster expecting to see like a 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.120 main roster show with n x T talent, which is 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.760 a mix of great wrestlers and green wrestlers, like nobody 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.720 in between. Maybe Joe Gacy would be actually right in between. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.080 But that's what we got here. And there was good 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:56.560 and there was bad. And uh, there was ugly horrible 0:12:56.600 --> 0:13:00.800 booking on this show. So the opener was the women's 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:05.199 War Games match, and as we have noted, they gave 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:11.320 the baby Faces the woman advantage. It never works. They 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:18.400 always try, it always fails, and once again it's failed. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.840 So the baby Faces were Cora Jade, Eosharai, Kayleie Ray 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:28.120 and Raquel Gonzalez. The Heels were Dakota Kai, Mandy Rose, 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:33.640 Gi Dolan and j C. Jane. And of course every 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.760 time it was a two on one three on two 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:41.079 with the baby Faces. The fans are cheering the Heels 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:45.080 and they're chanting their names, and they're popping when they 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:49.160 come in to make the safe because they're outnumbered. Poor 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.680 Cora J tried to skate to her entrance and she 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.120 fell off her skateboard and everyone chanted, you can't skate. 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.880 You could not have booked a worst match for baby Faces. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.200 Cora J did a dive off the cage, sold it 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.280 like she had injured her shoulder, and then she sold 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:06.199 it for the rest of the match. She did a 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:09.000 good job selling I. I probably would have fallen for 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:11.480 it had they not done the spot where Eo Shari 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.800 tried to pop it back into the socket, but she's 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.160 sold and sold, and then finally at the end, they 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.760 did the big spot where everybody does all of these 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:24.360 moves and everyone is dead and uh, Cora Jade looks 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:28.280 around and there's there's a body there, and according to announcer, 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.480 she's wise beyond her years to think, oh, make a cover, 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.520 and she makes a cover and she wins, at which 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.560 point she's shocked. I can't believe I won a wrestling match. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:44.680 This was not good. This is not going to match 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.400 at all. I was. I was. I was pleased that 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.720 they actually let Cora Jade get the pin because they 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.120 have been talking about pushing younger people, but they screwed 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.360 up every time. So amazingly, I thought, man, they're gonna 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.040 give her everything and make her herd and have her 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.360 do the big comeback and then pin her. They didn't. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.880 She won, so that was good. Yeah, but she gets 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.480 the pin in the way that they try to get 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.600 baby Faces over and miserably fail. Right from Jump Street 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.640 where you gave the baby Faces an advantage in the 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:18.160 crowd because of how they feel towards toxic attraction. Anyway, 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.160 decides to heckle her as she falls off the skateboard 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.000 and the one thing that I wish would go out 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.800 of wrestling altogether because it happens in a w and 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:30.240 everywhere else too, but it is most obnoxious in w W. 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:32.880 E the shocked face, because not only did Cora not 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:35.320 believe that she was going to be able to get 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.000 the pin, she couldn't believe that everybody was dead and 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.120 laid out around her before she slowly crawled over to 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:46.400 look around dramatically and then get the pin and then 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.320 have the shocked face that she got the pin. It's 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.720 just this is how they try to get people over. 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:55.640 This is why they don't get over, and then they go, well, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.200 Cora j didn't get over. Why are people behind her 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.760 cut her? She's no good? Doesn't make any sense, but 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.640 this is what they do. Let we had the This 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.040 actually was a great match. If you go into the 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.000 match and you presume that Imperium are the baby faces 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:15.800 and Kylo Riley and von Wagner are the heels as 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.360 Imperium versus Riley and Wagner for the tag team titles, 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:24.440 and this match was great. And Marcel Bartel in particular 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.000 Fabie Nichner, I'm sorry, they both were great, but Fabie 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:30.800 and Eichner was absolutely fantastic in this match, and they're 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:35.960 doing all these baby face spots, these dives, these power moves. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.680 The crowd's going crazy for them, and uh, finally they 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:45.360 they pinned Kyler Riley and uh afterwards, I mean, it 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:49.760 was bizarre. Kyle is dating the ring and they start 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.960 changing thank you Kyle, because you see these n x 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.640 T fans, they just presume everyone's leaving. It's like they no, ho, 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:59.920 they don't go, Kyle, please stay or whatever the chance is. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.240 They're like, thank you, we know you're leaving. So this 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.920 guy standing there and Von Wagner tries to turn on him, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.199 so Kyle beats him up, and then they announced it's 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:12.760 gonna be a cage match on it Tuesday. So I 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.560 don't know if Kyle is leaving or not. Okay, but 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.800 let's presume that he is. Okay, if he's leaving, he's 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.879 going to like New Japan or a DOUBLET or whatever. 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.919 So if that's the presumption, if we're presuming that he's leaving, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:31.119 shouldn't he turn on Von Wagner And Kyle is the 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.600 heel and baby face Von Wagner runs him out of 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:39.280 the territory instead, Kyle is the baby face, and so 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.400 we're gonna we're gonna give him sympathy on the way 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.280 out to go to another company. Yeah, but but but 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:48.480 now he's already turned on somebody who's beloved, So why not. 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.359 To me, Von Wagner looks like a heel, you know 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.960 what I'm saying, And I would present him as such. 0:17:54.080 --> 0:17:56.439 So to do that and then leave him in a 0:17:57.359 --> 0:17:59.920 obviously not a pile of his own blood, but lee 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:02.120 of him laid out in the middle of the ring 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.360 in the cage, I I do get that. But then 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.720 it's okay, Now who you're gonna work with with von Wagner? 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:09.600 Is it going to be Cameron Grimes. You're gonna have 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.919 to put them with somebody who can really help this 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.199 guy out a lot. And yeah, there's one thing you 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:15.680 can say about him is he didn't get in the 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:19.120 way in this match. And Eichner and Bartel were awesome. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.840 Then we had Cameron Grimes and Duke Hudson and Tim 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.080 and a match. First five minutes, nobody cared, just a 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.560 dead crowd. And then second five minutes, Cameron Grimes is 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.359 so good that he got the people into the match 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.600 and to their credit, Cameron Grimes is the baby face 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.200 and he was cheered as the baby face, and Duke 0:18:38.240 --> 0:18:40.160 Cutson was the heel, and he was cheered as a heel. 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:42.560 And I want to make it abundantly clear, this was 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.280 not the crowd going into business for themselves. This was 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.720 the crowd reacting the way that they should have reacted 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.560 to every single one of these matches. Thankfully, Cameron Grimes 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.600 knows how to work as a baby face, and he 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.639 put over Duke Cutson as a heel, and so everything 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.680 worked out. He won. Duke Cutson try to cheat the 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:01.200 entire match. Cameron Grimes rolled him up, pulled trunks and 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.720 beat him. And then they teased that Duke Hudson was 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:06.680 going to knock him out and shave his head even 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.120 though he won. But Cameron Grimes did the big kick, 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:14.640 got the clippers and shaved Duke Hudson. So this was good. 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:21.800 Roderick's Strong Joe Gazzy. I hate this Joe Gazy character. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.040 It's the worst. If it were my job. It's turned 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:29.520 the show off heat with me, not good heat. But 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.560 he's a good worker and Roderick Strong is great, and 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:35.520 so they had a very good match. It went about 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.879 eight minutes, and this stupid Joe Gazy character is just horrific. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.840 But I thought for sure that he's gonna win, and 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:46.679 then this was gonna be like the n XT Inclusive Championship. 0:19:46.720 --> 0:19:48.960 They we're gonna do that chimmick, but I said, they're 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.399 just going back and forth. Roderick does a flying knee, 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.920 hits his move, wins totally out of nowhere. So Roderick's 0:19:55.960 --> 0:20:01.160 wrong retains the title. Well, I wasn't eactly out of nowhere. 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:05.159 In that what's uh whatever Powder's name is, there is 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:11.719 his bodyguard or whatever. Land her Land threatened uh Ivy 0:20:11.840 --> 0:20:13.920 Nile and picked her up, and he of course put 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.159 her down, so that may lead towards would assume something, 0:20:17.560 --> 0:20:20.560 probably turning them against the people that he's been trying 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.520 to support this whole time. So stupid. Then we had 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.199 the main event, which was fascinating. We had you know, 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.200 you always they always talked about we want to get 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.360 young guys over, we know we need more young people. Well, 0:20:33.359 --> 0:20:36.760 we had the team two point oh guys against the uh, 0:20:37.240 --> 0:20:41.359 the veterans and won't call him the old guys, but 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.600 the veterans and the veterans are the baby Faces and 0:20:44.760 --> 0:20:46.679 the new guys. We want to get over our the 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.040 heels and uh, but it's weird because they put l 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.000 A Night on the baby Face team because he's an 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.800 old guy, and they put bron Breaker on the heel team, 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:59.720 so they did the man advantage thing right, But nobody 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:02.679 it to Boo braun Breaker and he's in there running 0:21:02.720 --> 0:21:07.600 wild and their cheering this guy. And the match was good. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:11.160 I would not call it great because it went forty minutes, 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:14.639 which was a good ten minutes too long. It's like, 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:17.480 you do you know, twenty minutes of the you know, 0:21:17.560 --> 0:21:19.280 the War Games or whatever, and then it goes to 0:21:19.320 --> 0:21:21.960 the match beyond. It's like everyone should be half dead 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.119 and then you just boom, boom boom, go to the finish. 0:21:24.480 --> 0:21:27.919 Now the match Beyond begins and everyone just now it's 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:29.600 all of a sudden. Fine, they square off and then 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:32.480 start a new match and they go twenty minutes. So 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:36.000 it's way too long for me. But the finish was good, 0:21:36.280 --> 0:21:40.199 and that was Tamasa Champa was going for his finish 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.880 and he gets speared and mid moved by braun Breaker. 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.399 Broun Breaker hits him with the Goldberg pressing of the 0:21:45.440 --> 0:21:49.880 power slam and pins him, So the young guys won. 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.800 Braun Breaker, who's obviously the biggest star of the n 0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:57.199 x T two point oh crew, he pinned Tomasa Chompa, 0:21:57.359 --> 0:21:59.920 so he's probably on his way to another championship match, 0:22:00.000 --> 0:22:03.520 which presumably he'll win. But the match was good. I'm 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.040 not gonna take anything away. Everyone worked hard. It just 0:22:06.080 --> 0:22:09.280 did not need to be forty minutes. I don't fault 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:12.399 any of the workers here on this show. I fault 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.320 whoever put these matches together in terms of trying to 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:20.680 structure a competent match. Three of them, four of them actually, 0:22:20.760 --> 0:22:22.560 and one of them was my favorite match on the show, 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.199 the Imperium Kylo Relevon Wagner match, And that one I 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.880 can at least sort of understand, because yes, Imperium were 0:22:29.880 --> 0:22:32.920 pushing the baby faces, but if Kyle's leaving, I don't 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:36.280 think they want him massively cheered and von Wagner was 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:40.000 gonna turn so whatever. But the other three no excuse. 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:43.640 With the World Games matches, there's just so much superfluous 0:22:43.680 --> 0:22:47.080 garbage that's in them because of visuals that we need 0:22:47.160 --> 0:22:50.800 for production, and it takes away from it. Look, you've 0:22:50.800 --> 0:22:53.560 got to have more spots because you can't have blood 0:22:53.600 --> 0:22:56.480