WEBVTT - Shane McMahon/RAW Ratings/NXT 2.0 Results 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:11.400 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:16.560 By from San Francisco. I'm a sports byline broadcasting network. 0:00:16.760 --> 0:00:19.800 You are listening to Wrestling Observer Vibe with your hosts 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.680 Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper vv. Are you ready? Are 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:31.479 you ready? Let's get it all. How's it going everybody? 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.919 Brian Alvarez here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:38.120 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern, Sunday 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.080 three Pacific, sixth Eastern. Well, it's Wednesday here in this program. 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:45.640 You know that means we have the A E. W 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.880 Dynamite coming up tonight and we're gonna tell you about 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.559 that show, the line up thus far, all that good stuff, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.640 and also the rest of the news. I don't know 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:01.120 if you've heard or not, but Shane McMahon. We're talking 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:03.160 about Shane McMahon the last couple of days. First Shane 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.560 McMahon reappeared at the Royal Rumble, and then Shane McMahon 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.920 was scheduled for like now, I've heard three different feuds 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:17.040 that Shane McMahon has been discussed for but at this 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.360 exact moment, none of them will be happening, as Shane 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.120 McMahon at this moment is gone from w W. E 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:29.480 will tell you all about that. We've got the ratings 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:33.920 for RAW on Monday. Raw no longer has competition from 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.440 the NFL, and so normally at this time of year 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:41.800 there is some sort of bounce back. Sometimes he bounce 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:46.000 back is is uh big. Sometimes the bounce back is 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.040 not big. But the story of the show was not 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.840 only is there no NFL, but is the uh the 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.040 whatever you call it fallout show for the Royal Rumble 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.080 And Rhonda Rousy had been promised for the show. She 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.920 was gonna make her to Issian about who she was 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.400 going to face at the Royal Rumble. How did the 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.680 show do? We'll tell you about that here today. Brian 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:11.720 Kendrick will be debuting for Dynamite. You've got a Sammy 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:17.760 Zane incident with Johnny Knoxville at the Jackass Forever premier. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:21.200 And yes, we have the n x T two point 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.200 oh results from last night, and a little bit later 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.120 on we'll tell you what's going on with the women's 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.480 Dusty Cup. Got so many texts and emails last night. 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.760 What's going on with the Women's Dusty. We'll tell you 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.160 about that after the break back. In a moment Observer Alive, 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.519 I'll talk about n x T for a full hour. 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:57.640 Now I'm gonna talk about Shane. Get off my back, everybody, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.880 all right, listen, Shane McMahon is gone on. So here's 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.959 here's the story. As quickly as he reappeared in w 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.239 w E, Shane McMahon is now out of w w E. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.440 Dave Meltz reported the news Wednesday, confirming an earlier report 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:17.079 by Ringside News. Elser said McMahon is out of the company, 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:19.920 but it is unknown whether his talent deal was terminated 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:21.600 or if the plans for him the next two months 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.639 were simply dropped. After nearly a year away from entering action, 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:31.320 fifty two year old Shane McMahon made his return in 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.960 Saturday as a Men's Royal Rumble entering at later eliminated 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:40.240 by Brock following the Rumbles said on Observer Radio there 0:03:40.280 --> 0:03:43.320 was a lot of heat on Shane due to his 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.600 booking of the Men's Royal Rumble, a role which he 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.840 has performed and has helped within the past. Well. Meltzer 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.040 didn't have all the details at that time. He said 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.120 McMahon quote had an idea of what the rumble was 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.240 going to be, and then a lot of that ended 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.880 up being changed, which rubbed some people the wrong way. 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:05.320 Andrews Arian tweeted, there were numerous changes for what number 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.720 Bad Bunny would be in the rumble, bro, this is 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:10.600 not one of the big issues with this royal rumble. 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.440 This was a cause for concern people within w W 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.000 WE were upset. Ww A doesn't want to come off 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.919 negatively with such a major outside star. US in theory 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:23.119 effectively replaced McMahon. Here's the problem with the rumble, Bros. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.279 Is boring. It doesn't matter if Bad Bunny was in 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.440 first or eight. It was boring. It doesn't matter when 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:33.000 Shane McMahon showed up. It was boring. It's a boring rumble. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.200 And I mean why well, I mean part of the 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.840 problem was their own fan base started expecting a munch 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.720 of a w stars which wasn't gonna happen. And then 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.120 I tweeted about that made people mad. I'm sorry, I 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:50.160 should have lied and then got you really excited and 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.800 nothing happened. Then you would have been even more angry. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.360 You had you had. You had twenty nine people in 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.720 the rumble that not one fan thought had any chance 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.359 of winning. Maybe maybe there was one guy McIntire, but 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.760 I couldn't think of who else in that rumble. When 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:05.240 you were watching the room, we thought, oh, you know what, 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.800 that guy might win this year, Bob rude, Oh he 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:13.600 might take it. So when you have here's a problem 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:19.240 your geeks, when you book a promotion and you let 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:23.600 like two guys get over, then you're gonna have a 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:28.080 boring rumble because everybody knows nobody is gonna win that 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.559 royal rumble. Nobody. Nobody was gonna think that bad Bunny 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.160 was gonna win the rumble. Nobody was gonna think that 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.040 Johnny Knoxville was gonna win the role. I guess my 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.320 buddy Mark thought Zammy Zane was gonna win. But come on, 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.400 no one thought anybody was gonna win that rumble. It 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.840 was a bunch of dudes just going in and and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:48.400 doing whatever is boring. I said it was boring on Sunday, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.640 made some people mad that It turns out they thought 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.039 it was boring, so boring in fact, that the combination 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.799 of a boring rumble, Shane trying to book a rumble 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:01.159 around himself at fifty two years old ends up getting 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.679 the guy out of here? Did you hear the ideas 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.600 of matches? I've now heard three different matches for Shane 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:09.800 McMahon for WrestleMania. Can you want to know what they are? 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.120 The three matches I heard over the last couple of 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:19.440 days for Shane McMahon, which also changed countless times, Bobby Lashly, 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:35.840 Bobby Lashlely, seth Rawlins, and Austin Theory. Bra Listen, I'm 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.240 not the biggest fan of Shane going to WrestleMania to 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:48.120 face Bobby Lashly or Austin Theory or seth Rawlins, But dude, 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.560 maybe this guy was irritating. And I know he was 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.000 irritating because I heard all about it, irritating trying to 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.120 put this match together and he pissed people off and 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.320 and all this and that, like that's all fine and good. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:02.080 But bro, if you fired him because the rumble was boring, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:08.960 that's a scapegoat. That's what that is. Anyway he's gone 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:13.120 for now, would it not be remarkably shortsighted too? I Mean, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.560 I know you're a family member at all, but still 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.800 you're like, there's the possibility that the rumble went so 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.920 sideways that they fired Shane outright. I don't believe that 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.280 for a second. And I don't know anything about any 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.640 of these situations. It wasn't all it was. It wasn't 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.280 all that it was boring, but it was like he 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.720 tried to take charge and he irritated people and tried 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:35.480 to make it about himself. I heard all sorts of 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.280 things about this guy. I mean, he had tons of 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.040 heat that night. Well, you know, I can't I don't 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.520 have any first hand knowledge or even secondhand knowledge of 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.880 any of that, so I can't. I can't really speak 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.120 on it, but to I mean, if this is going 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.440 to be the end of Shane, uh, it stems from 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.680 the rumble. I mean, I just what kind of what 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.600 a mess? Wasn't an absolute mess? Uh? You know, Shane 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:04.240 and Austin theory as a feud can make sense, you know, 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.440 you can, may I mean as far as getting Vince's 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.480 heart or something like, there's a way to play that 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:13.760 where you can actually maybe elevate Austin theory in theory. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.840 The problem is he's got to then work with Shane mcmannon. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.200 I don't see how that helps him at all inside 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.400 the ring. It would be a purely storyline thing, and 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.520 I they aren't good with that for the most part, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.360 so I don't know, it's just a it's a wild story. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.960 Him being involved in booking the Rumble makes absolute sense. 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:35.640 He's been there for thirty years, uh, you know, for 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.160 the most part, and and him having a knowledge of 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.440 doing you know, spots, and that makes sense. Now him 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:46.400 being involved in it, and the possibility of him facing 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:51.920 any of those three guys, especially Bobby Lashley, is baffling 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.120 to me. Think the same thing with Shape with Seth, 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.400 although you know, there's at least a little bit of 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.160 a line you can draw because we've seen Shane and 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.080 Kevin Owens, so I can imagine, you know, Seth Rollins 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.480 just doing amazing things, you know, trying to to make 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.120 Shane McMahon look good. But the one with Bobby Lashley, 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.400 it's like, how do you make that work other than 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.240 Bobby kills him in seventeen seconds. Bro, He's going for 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:20.720 the title that time that Shane McMahon w E champion, 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:25.000 even he deserves it after all these years of phone 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:28.720 off and even in stupid wrestling land where you could 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.160 try to come up with a reason. I mean no, 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.640 I mean, this is a completely different situation. But a 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.319 w decided, well, we're gonna have Lance Archer face Hangman 0:09:37.400 --> 0:09:41.680 Page and they just come basically shoved him into a position. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.200 Now after three weeks we're having a Texas death match 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.800 for the title. That was a little much for me, 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:48.960 but it's not the end of the world, not really 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:50.560 that big of a deal. I can shake it off. 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:54.440 How you put Shane McMahon in a World Championship situation 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.359 against Bobby Lashley, who's coming off facing the brock Lessner's 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.480 and the you know, those people of the old I mean, 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.360 I you know that that's a bridge too far. Even 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.520 with w w e's creative aspect, they'll put on in 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.800 a We're all the show or whatever they're gonna say. 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.040 It's just bizarre. And even if he was going for 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.800 the title, he still should get killed in about seventeen 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:20.960 seconds period. Crazy. Well, you know, there's uh, what year 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.880 is this we have here? I know that, but like 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.440 WrestleMania thirty what what what WrestleMania is this thirty eight 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.000 or something like that, thirty seven, thirty eight five, So yeah, 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:37.120 whatever the is trying to find out something here, which 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:41.000 I guess I'll I'll find it out later. Somebody was like, well, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.520 you know, if they would have gone to WrestleMania, I mean, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:49.400 Austin theory would surely have beaten Shane McMahon. But surely 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:56.319 my point is surely. Yeah. I remember when they did 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:01.520 Shane McMahon versus The Miss, and this was WrestleMania thirty five, 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.640 which would have been Remember who won that match is 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:09.640 Shane McMahon. False came anywhere Shane McMahon beat the Miss 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.360 at WrestleMania because of course he did, because then he 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.200 was booked as the best in the world. Guys, remember 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:19.920 that when he was the best in the world. I 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:25.400 do that was absolutely horrible, horrific, horrendous storyline. He was 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.280 the best in the world. Let's see what they did 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:31.400 last year? Was he around last year? I'm trying to 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:33.600 point out here that anyone thinks that the idea that, oh, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.840 you know, for sure he'd be elevated. I guess he 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:41.920 lost a Bronze Stroman last year, Remember that guy, Remember 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:46.160 bron Stroman. I heard he's changing his narrative now, is 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:51.640 that right? What's that mean? He's hanging out with what 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:56.920 is uh there? Good story, Broye, you didn't know who 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.439 it was. I didn't know what you were talking about. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.320 He said, he changed his narrative, which is in fact 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.199 a very common term. I don't know if you're aware of, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.480 is what's happening in your world. We're changing your narrative. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.760 So listen, we're gonna talk after the break about Raw 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:15.360 because the Raw ratings are out and they're interesting. Back 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:48.520 in a moment, Observer Live. Okay, you are listening to 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:52.240 Wrestling Observer Live with Brian Alvarez and Mike Semper VIV 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:58.960 on the Sports Byline Broadcasting Network. Back in the show, 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.079 Brian Albert is here are Wrestling Observer Live. Like some 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:07.040 for viv also Wrestling Observer dot com. People are just 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:11.400 now fighting out that Brian Kendrick believes crazy things. Well, 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.640 you don't realize he was on this show a couple 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.160 of years ago and he explained to me that the 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.559 sun was cold. That was Kendrick, right. Not everybody heard 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.120 that show, Brian, not everybody. And you know what, that's 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:24.800 a goofy one. That's kind of funny. That's when the 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.319 person would call in the art bell was something wacky, 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:30.800 But then the person would call in with other things. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.640 And it's those other things that are easily findable that 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.440 have come out of Brian Kendrick's mouth that either people 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.760 had forgotten about or flat didn't know about because they 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.640 were buried and they were small time and they were 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:49.559 whatever they were. But you know, when you start talking 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.560 Zionists and all that sort of stuff, and I don't 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:55.040 you know, I'm sure we're not going to get into 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.559 it deeply here, but when you know, you got all 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.040 that sort of stuff, I mean, it's real, dude like 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.760 And that's another reason people may not have wanted to 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.640 think about it, because they liked him as a wrestler. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.880 But then he says what he says about other things, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.800 and uh yeah, so maybe not a bad release for 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.679 w w E in this case, right after the Royal Rumble. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.560 At one point eight six million viewers, point four seven 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:21.240 and eighteen and forty nine, first place for the night 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:25.480 on cable. Well, that's good news, best viewership for Raw 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.320 since the week after Summer Slam last year, But the 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.320 eighteen nine has to be considered a disappointment, barely up 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.880 from last week's point four six, and there were weeks 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.760 against the NFL to beat that during the fall. So 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.040 it's got a bunch of notes here, but the important 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:51.400 thing is that the first third hour drop was twenty 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:55.760 one point six percent, the largest in recent memory and 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.280 among the biggest drops in the history of the show. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:03.600 If you recall, the show opened and it was the 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.880 fallout from the Royal Rumble, and the first hour did 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:08.840 the biggest first hour number and I don't even know 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.560 how long two point one million viewers for the first 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.440 hour of Raw two point one million viewers, And the 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:20.480 show opened and they announced that Rhonda Rousey was gonna 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.400 be on the show, and I don't know if they 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:24.760 actually announced, I feel like they did that she was 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:26.520 gonna make her decision about who she was gonna face 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:29.800 at WrestleMania, which she didn't do, by the way, but 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.160 they announced at the beginning the show, and the show 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:38.280 then proceeded to lose um five viewers over the next 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.040 three hours two point oh eight million first hour, one 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.840 point eight eight million, third hour, second hour, and the 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.680 third hour with the promised Rhonda Rousey appearance to announce 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:55.880 her opponent for wrestle Mania one point six three million viewers. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:02.320 So it's one week. I don't think that anyone needs 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.960 to panic or write a big story about this yet. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:10.720 But it is absolutely notable that Rhonda Rousey returned at 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:17.080 the Royal Rumble and did absolutely positively zilch to hold 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.240 over viewers for her big announcement about who she was 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.440 going to face and WrestleMania. Obviously, I can say nobody cared, 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.680 but one point six three million viewers for the third 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.520 hour of Raw with a tease of run A Rousing 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:32.720 announcing a WrestleMania opponent. Bro, there ain't no way to 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.560 spend that is anything good. The whole outweighs to some 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.000 of its parts, even in this case with Rhonda Rousy, 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.360 especially because we've already seen her in there one so 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.240 it's not even unique and special because the ww fans 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.840 have already seen it once. And I wouldn't panic with 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:50.360 it either. I wouldn't say that bringing Rhonda is any 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.000 sort of failure. I wouldn't not put her in a 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.160 WrestleMania main event or somewhere where you can maximize all 0:16:57.200 --> 0:16:59.240 of the media that you can get from her and 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:01.520 all the attention that you can get from her. But 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:04.760 this is the same problem we talked about. I don't 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.240 know how long ago where I would point out that 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.639 drop and now dramatic that drop is. The overall rating 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.720 is bad. The eighteen to forty nine is bad, and 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.720 the twelve too. You know, when you break down even 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:19.840 smaller demos, there's cause for concern about growing the company 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.040 and making new fans going forward. But it's that that 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.480 three hour raw I mean, in and of itself is 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.760 a disaster area. And then you have no stars whatsoever. 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.040 You have no there's no reason to stick around with 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:36.560 the show. You offer all of these different ways where 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.600 people can see highlights of what they may have missed 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.680 on the show, and that's great, you know, and if 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.640 somebody misses something, now I'll catch it on the DVR. 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.200 I'll see what happened on the YouTube clip. I'll see 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:47.680 if it's on the front page of the F four 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.600 w The w w E officially put out Top ten 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.159 Moments or whatever it is. That the SmackDown reel and 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.560 the raw reel that they have, there's no reason to 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.880 stick around for that show. There's no drama, there's no surprise, 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.479 is there's no great wrestling, there's no stars unfortunately, so 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.919 there is no reason to stick around. And that doesn't 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.600 matter who it is. And because Ronda Rousey in the 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.159 realm of w w E. Yes, she's a star, she 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.640 is a big name, But is she? I mean, who 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:17.960 could they bring in? Who could they bring in that 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.440 would actually move something? You know what till you get 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.680 very Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury does the same exact thing. 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.400 You could bring in almost anybody. I don't see anybody 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.920 making a difference because that whole package is just lacking 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.400 so badly. Right now, you can jump in the car, 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:38.040 but the tires are flat. Schedule for the Dynamite Show 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.240 on TBS tonight, Chicago, Illinois, the middle of a blizzard. 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:44.480 The show is still on. We have see him Punk 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.639 versus m jf Pack and Penta versus Malachi Black and 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:53.879 Brody King, Nila Rose versus Ruby Soho, and Yes, John 0:18:54.040 --> 0:19:01.679 Moxley versus Brian Kendrick has been released from w W 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:06.960 E AH. It looks like the two have never wrestled 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:10.800 a singles match, this being Kendrick and Moxley. They did 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:14.640 team together and a dragon Gate USA show in March 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:21.040 against Jimmy Jacobs and Paul London. So that is scheduled 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:26.080 for tonight unless there is a change. We also had 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:31.439 Sammy Zane crashed the Jackass Forever premiere in Hollywood, California, 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:35.439 escorted out following a confrontation with Johnny Knoxville and the 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:41.919 rest of his crew. Wow about that. Johnny Knoxville was 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:44.280 good in that royal rumble. I didn't think he was 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:47.160 gonna win, but like, he was way better than I expected. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.240 He took bumps, he threw a forearm like he was chopping, 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.840 like he was Walter chopping some bloke which we'll get 0:19:54.840 --> 0:19:56.720 into here by the way, in the moment, did you 0:19:56.800 --> 0:20:02.119 design his outfit? His outfit? Yeah, Knoxvills. Did you remember 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:04.440 he was wearing one bro. I didn't that That outfit 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:06.480 is like, you know, water to the bridge after what 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:12.320 I saw Becky wearing on raw. Dude. I love Becky 0:20:12.400 --> 0:20:16.000 Lynch and all and she's great, but dude, like I 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.399 mean this, like, with all due respect, somebody's got a 0:20:19.480 --> 0:20:23.960 smartener up. Like God, do you realize I don't know 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.440 if you guys are wear this or not. You should 0:20:26.440 --> 0:20:28.639 be since it won Best Book in the Wrestling Observer 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:31.120 News Center Awards. But I wrote a book called one 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.280 Hundred Things The w w E Fans should know and 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:37.440 do before they die. It's available on Amazon dot Com. 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:44.439 Pullet Serprize Caliber Writing Better. I'm a better writer. I'm 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:48.000 I'm a better writer. I'm a better writer than Talker 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:50.920 had a mike to get that line out. But anyway, 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:54.040 do you know it's on the cover of that book, 0:20:54.520 --> 0:20:58.919 smack dab in the middle Becky Lynch. That was a 0:20:58.960 --> 0:21:01.479 decision made by the publishing company because we're like bro 0:21:01.600 --> 0:21:03.760 She's the biggest star they got in the entire company. 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.760 Because there was a period where she was the biggest 0:21:08.240 --> 0:21:11.280 star in the entire company. This was before like you know, 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:13.920 Roman did his his gimmick that he did, he came 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:15.960 back and was the head of the table or anything 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:17.920 like that, and now he's like, by far the biggest 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:20.760 star in the company. I guess him and Brock, but 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:23.720 you could consider Brock and outside as far as regulars. 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:25.920 It is like Roman reigns Now, but a few years 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:30.920 ago it was Becky Lynch. Becky Lynch was the biggest 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:35.639 forget men women. Becky Lynch was the biggest star in 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:41.520 the company. Then she left and she came back and 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.800 she decided that she wanted to be Steve Austin in 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:49.119 two thousand one, she wanted to go heal and like, 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:55.920 nobody's into it and she's having fun. But she's out 0:21:55.960 --> 0:22:00.800 there and she's got this outfit on and just looks 0:22:00.840 --> 0:22:05.399 like a clown and she's doing these comedy bits. Is 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:10.640 is an alleged heel and Rhonda Rousey that segment? I mean, 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:15.720 I bro I I just like God, if it were 0:22:15.760 --> 0:22:18.880 like if you were all alive in two thousand eighteen, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.639 two thousand nineteen and you stepped into a time machine 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.959 and you showed up in the crowd for Raw Monday, 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:33.120 you would be like, what is happening? This is Becky 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:39.680 and Ronda? Nobody cares. It's not over. It's like, I 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:41.640 don't even know what it is. It's like a Saturday 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:45.440 Night Live parody of of Becky and Ron. I mean, dude, 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:48.119 Becky needs to go back to me in the Man 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.320 as a baby face, get rid of the goofy outfits. 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:54.160 It's bad enough with Seth now we have to watch 0:22:54.160 --> 0:22:56.760 it with Becky and then Ronda just needs to go 0:22:56.880 --> 0:23:00.520 full heel, just like full heel Hunter per that He'll 0:23:01.119 --> 0:23:04.600 maybe this could be salvaged. But Rhonda is the baby 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:08.200 face who hates life. Against Becky is the top heel. 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.359 That's you know, playing doink or whatever. It's not gonna work. 0:23:12.880 --> 0:23:16.760 I'm telling you, Blue Doink. You know what's funny is 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.240 you go on the w w E network, Becky can 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.800 do this and everybody else go back and watch the 0:23:21.960 --> 0:23:25.600 Man in twenty nineteen and compare that to what we 0:23:25.680 --> 0:23:30.600 got today. It's not working. With all due respect, it's 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:39.080 not working and it sucks. Fix it now. Wrong. Your 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:41.840 hair looks nice. You got that going. She's in great shape, 0:23:42.280 --> 0:23:45.840 her hair looks great. Beautiful woman and talented as hell 0:23:45.920 --> 0:23:49.800 in the ring people want to cheer for. Yeah, yeah, 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:53.000 if can we just make Rhonda this angry? Sir? Why 0:23:53.000 --> 0:24:00.119 am I yelling? Why are you right now? Geez? You 0:24:00.160 --> 0:24:03.359 want me to calmly explain it because that ain't working. 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:18.639 Back in a moment Observer Live. You know, one of 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:21.560 the big problems with w w E is breaking an 0:24:21.640 --> 0:24:26.920 n x T. Here is the massive egos possessed by 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:32.359 the people in charge. Okay, if you do something and 0:24:32.440 --> 0:24:36.520 it turns out that you made a mistake, okay, especially 0:24:36.560 --> 0:24:39.679 in something like pro wrestling, which broke fabe yesterday, but 0:24:41.040 --> 0:24:43.919 it's fake. So if you make a mistake and you 0:24:43.920 --> 0:24:47.399 you recognize it. You know that because it's fake, you 0:24:47.440 --> 0:24:49.560 can just go back to what it was like before. 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:54.400 But the egos involved in the upper level of w 0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:57.200 W are such that they make a mistake and it's like, no, 0:24:57.280 --> 0:25:00.840 we're gonna keep going. Otherwise we we acknowledged that we 0:25:00.880 --> 0:25:05.200 did something wrong, their egos will not allow him. So 0:25:05.640 --> 0:25:08.960