Speaker 1: Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition
Speaker 1: of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez
Speaker 1: here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern Sunday three Pacific,
Speaker 1: six Eastern Monday. Here on the program. We got a
Speaker 1: lot to talk about here today. We had the whole
Speaker 1: weekend of news we get into and there is a
Speaker 1: lot of it. We got updates on Cody, WrestleMania, Steve Austin,
Speaker 1: whether or not WrestleMania will be a two day show
Speaker 1: going forward. I can't wait to talk about that one
Speaker 1: Raw tonight. We gotta light up for Raw, as well
Speaker 1: as the lineup for a W on Wednesday, a W
Speaker 1: and D D t if form day working remond We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that here as well. Gable Steveson about
Speaker 1: to head to Raw after winning the n C Double
Speaker 1: A Tournament again and then retiring because next will be
Speaker 1: his w w E career. An XT line up bron
Speaker 1: Breakers got a match on Tuesday for those of you
Speaker 1: who are fans of his, and we have also got
Speaker 1: the recaps of both a Rampage and SmackDown. Both shows.
Speaker 1: I would go as far as say both shows some
Speaker 1: fun stuff on them, a lot of great matches. I
Speaker 1: would say very good matches on the Rampage show. I
Speaker 1: enjoyed them immensely, and there was some interesting stuff on
Speaker 1: the SmackDown show as well. As we head into WrestleMania,
Speaker 1: which draws closer by the day, two more individuals found
Speaker 1: a path to WrestleMania on SmackDown. Well, this idiot seth
Speaker 1: Rawlins can't figure out how to get himself on the card.
Speaker 1: So we can talk about all that and so much
Speaker 1: more here today eight four four nine one three. Don't bother.
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Speaker 1: what are you waiting for back in a moment as
Speaker 1: begging the show. Brian Elba is here Wrestling Observer Alive,
Speaker 1: Mikes andbur Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. Cody
Speaker 1: Rhodes has reportedly signed with the w W E. Will
Speaker 1: You Inside reported Roads had signed with the company. Multiple
Speaker 1: sources confirmed with a site that Rhodes had signed about
Speaker 1: ten to fourteen days ago. Additionally, People Insider said the
Speaker 1: plan is to have Rhodes debut at WrestleMania Weekend and
Speaker 1: join the raw roster upon arrival. Dave Meltzer supported the
Speaker 1: plan for WrestleMania thirty eight is Rhodes versus seth Rawlins
Speaker 1: Rawlins Ast to match to Kevin Owens on Monday. The
Speaker 1: winner would host Steve Boston on their talk show during
Speaker 1: WrestleMania weekend. So it does appear, and I don't know
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. I don't know what they're gonna do,
Speaker 1: but it does appear that this is gonna be like
Speaker 1: that that John Cena thing. I can't get a path
Speaker 1: to WrestleMania. I'm just gonna show up in the show anyway.
Speaker 1: And then, uh, I guess it would be the debut
Speaker 1: of Cody. I don't know if he's gonna debut on
Speaker 1: the WrestleMania show or if they will shoot the angle
Speaker 1: on the go home show for WrestleMania, but it appears
Speaker 1: that what they're doing is what they're doing, and it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting because we we know that letting everybody know,
Speaker 1: even though it's a secret works. We saw this with
Speaker 1: see Him Punk would be the most notable. We saw
Speaker 1: it with Brian Danielson. We even saw it with Jeff Hardy.
Speaker 1: They were constantly dropping, Oh this erratic behavior of Matt Hardy.
Speaker 1: I mean it has been it has been proven in
Speaker 1: the last year that you can basically tell everybody. And
Speaker 1: actually this goes way back, way way further back than that.
Speaker 1: When you would book a certain match Bianca and and
Speaker 1: Becky if they did the stipulation that if Bianca wins,
Speaker 1: she gets the title, but if Becky wins, they're gonna
Speaker 1: cut off Bianca's ponytail. They're telling you who's gonna win.
Speaker 1: I don't need funt Leroy here to go over the lineup.
Speaker 1: But the point is, you know this works, so we'll
Speaker 1: see if that's what they end up doing. How would
Speaker 1: you do it? Because I guess you have three options.
Speaker 1: You just do the seth shows up at WrestleMania and
Speaker 1: you decide to do it there, or do you have
Speaker 1: do you do something on the go home show? And
Speaker 1: then in that case, do you advertise it? Because then
Speaker 1: that's the other question. Do you advertise Cody Rhodes is
Speaker 1: coming to raw To to answer seth Rawlins open challenge
Speaker 1: because he's got no other path to WrestleMania. Do you
Speaker 1: not announce it at all and have seth do I
Speaker 1: don't know what his talk show at WrestleMania and then
Speaker 1: have Cody meet him up there. You know what, what
Speaker 1: path would you go if you were the well, they're
Speaker 1: they're already so far down this stupid path that like,
Speaker 1: there's there's nothing that I could suggest it would be
Speaker 1: any good because the whole idea that seth Rawlins can't
Speaker 1: get a WrestleMania I mean, it's absolutely stupid. So I'm
Speaker 1: trying to you're asking me to try to book around
Speaker 1: something that's already stupid. If I were going to have
Speaker 1: to book around something that's already stupid, I would have
Speaker 1: I guess, like Sony Deville come out and just go, Bro,
Speaker 1: you don't have a path to WrestleMania, and you're wasting
Speaker 1: time on our shows by coming out here and and
Speaker 1: you know whatever, So here's the deal. If you don't
Speaker 1: have a WrestleMania match by the end of next Monday's show,
Speaker 1: You're out, You're done, there's no WrestleMania. Just go home,
Speaker 1: come back next week. Then that's like the big the
Speaker 1: big plug, the go home show of a Raw. If
Speaker 1: Cody does not have an opponent by the end of
Speaker 1: the show, that's it. There's no showing up at WrestleMania.
Speaker 1: It's done. It must be announced before the end of Raw.
Speaker 1: Then you're telling people there's gonna be it. You don't
Speaker 1: tell m's Cody, but everyone's gonna know. No one's gonna think, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Raw's gonna go he's not getting an opponent.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna be over. They're gonna know that he's
Speaker 1: going to have an opponent by the end of Raw.
Speaker 1: You tease and it's going to happen. You save it
Speaker 1: for the end, and then away you go. All right,
Speaker 1: I guess you know, there's always a fall off of
Speaker 1: the end, So if you want to do at the
Speaker 1: top of the second hour or whatever, but that's that's
Speaker 1: the way that I would do it. Let people know
Speaker 1: on Monday it's Cody and Seth at WrestleMania, try and
Speaker 1: sell a few more tickets, whatever. But that's what I
Speaker 1: would do with this, this goofy storyline they've already got,
Speaker 1: you know, because I don't think it's gonna because of
Speaker 1: the situation they're in. It's not like Cody's name is
Speaker 1: going to lead to a bunch more buys. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: think at least that you know a e W. Only
Speaker 1: fans who have come along in the last couple of
Speaker 1: years who go, oh wow, Cody's going back to that
Speaker 1: place I've only heard about. Maybe I'll check it out.
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's maybe one person like that, but not many,
Speaker 1: not enough to make a difference. And because of how
Speaker 1: stupid this whole thing is, I could see Son need
Speaker 1: to build doing something where he she sends Seth rollins
Speaker 1: home like you say, come back next week. But for me,
Speaker 1: I think he takes over a segment at WrestleMania, and
Speaker 1: then that's when Cody comes out and Cody's return on
Speaker 1: the big stage for and yes he can have his
Speaker 1: big Raw redbut the next night. But I think, considering
Speaker 1: the situation that he's in and considering it's not gonna
Speaker 1: push any more buys if he's advertised or not, that
Speaker 1: you just continue to tease something like this and then
Speaker 1: he appears at WrestleMania and that's his big re debut
Speaker 1: on the grandest stage of them all. For Cody Rhodes.
Speaker 1: We got row tonight. I'll state Arena, the lineup for
Speaker 1: the show. Becky Lynch, this is, this is this is
Speaker 1: a new one. By the way, I'll get it. I'll
Speaker 1: actually do that one last a j returns to Raw
Speaker 1: since for the first time since he got concertoed by
Speaker 1: Edge three weeks ago. RK bro versus Alpha Academy in
Speaker 1: a non title match. What I'm saying, it's for you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it is. There's a lot in the show
Speaker 1: that's for me and Finnbalor versus Austin Theory in a
Speaker 1: non title match. So anyway, a lot of non title
Speaker 1: matches here on this show. That's that's more than fair.
Speaker 1: And the Becky Lynch thing ever knows how we used
Speaker 1: to talk about plans change and people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: what a cop out? Okay, if plans don't change, all right,
Speaker 1: plans don't change. Why did they shoot an angle last
Speaker 1: Monday where Becky Lynch beat up Bianca and said next
Speaker 1: week I'm coming for your hair And then in the
Speaker 1: middle of the week they announced Bianca is not going
Speaker 1: to be on the show. She has a broken highoid bone. Well,
Speaker 1: plans change, so anyway, the storyline is that and what
Speaker 1: an irony. By the way, Bianca has a broken high
Speaker 1: oid bone. No, you know who wrote that? Damn releases
Speaker 1: me and Lance. We've been talking about this for weeks now,
Speaker 1: ever since Becky got hurt. We talked about how Lance
Speaker 1: was in a match with Christian and this stiff feller
Speaker 1: clothesline Lance right in the neck and broke his highoid
Speaker 1: bone and almost killed him. And we were hoping that
Speaker 1: it wasn't a highoid bone that was broken on Becky
Speaker 1: and then low and be old, we find out that
Speaker 1: Bianco broker hioid bone. Of course she did. Thank god
Speaker 1: the butcher didn't break Darby Ellen's on Friday. You know,
Speaker 1: you guys could just buy a bunch of cameos much
Speaker 1: of the writing crew fifty bucks. Wow, I had to
Speaker 1: raise the price. Damn. It was out of control and
Speaker 1: you're still getting triple your value. Has that slowed down
Speaker 1: the stream of requests or my my cameos are like
Speaker 1: a Rolex watch. Yes, the value is significantly more than me.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Griselda merchandise. Watch out, the next four W
Speaker 1: sweatshirt's going to be utter and fifty bucks. You're right,
Speaker 1: what are you mad about? Dagan? But I raised the
Speaker 1: price to fifty bucks. He didn't get us in a time.
Speaker 1: Well what were you waiting for? Yeah, you are getting
Speaker 1: three times of value. Hey, listen. If you don't believe me,
Speaker 1: go to my cameo f W online and look at
Speaker 1: every every single rating Brian five stars, everybody. Everybody says,
Speaker 1: it's Monday. Why don't we just play one of your samples? Why?
Speaker 1: Because there is profuse profanity. We would be kicked off
Speaker 1: the air if I played one of my cameos. Nobody's
Speaker 1: asked you for, Like, you know, are you doing this for?
Speaker 1: Like the thirteen year old and twelve year old kids?
Speaker 1: Don't want one for a three year old? Which I
Speaker 1: don't think I swore, but it was really long. Dagan
Speaker 1: wants to start his own cameo to bury my cameo
Speaker 1: by my cameo about what what are you talking about, Dagan?
Speaker 1: Because didn't play a song? Did I bury a song?
Speaker 1: Is that the problem? Can I get in this cameos
Speaker 1: racket that's going on here? Do I have to be approved.
Speaker 1: I need a blue checkmark on Twitter cameos, but I mean,
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Speaker 1: Hey listen, I'll be back in a moment. Talk about
Speaker 1: a W and DDT back in a moment. Observer Live
Speaker 1: the show. Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike
Speaker 1: simber Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. A W
Speaker 1: and DDT a formed a working relationship. Chris Daniels made
Speaker 1: the announcement to be a video on ddt is twenty
Speaker 1: five anniversary show. Deal will involve top talent from DDT
Speaker 1: traveling to the US to wrestle for a w This
Speaker 1: is Christopher Daniels, said Christopher Daniels, I am the vice
Speaker 1: president of Talent Relations for All the Wrestling would like
Speaker 1: to take this opportunity say congratulations to DDT and their
Speaker 1: twenty five anniversary Holy Smokes twenty five years. I'd like
Speaker 1: to also announce a W DDT of coming to in
Speaker 1: agreement to bring DDT s wrestlers the United States of America.
Speaker 1: I for one, I'm looking forward to introducing the top
Speaker 1: talent from DDT to the American wrestling fan base. You
Speaker 1: know what a W needs is more wrestlers. Well, what
Speaker 1: they need is to send some of their people to
Speaker 1: Japan for a while. It'll start, it'll start, zoom. That's
Speaker 1: going to happen here soon. And there was no mention,
Speaker 1: by the way, there's no mention of a follow up
Speaker 1: to a story we had heard quite a while ago,
Speaker 1: which was that a W had bought the rights to
Speaker 1: a Japanese wrestling promotion that was not New Japan. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if they have the rights to the
Speaker 1: DDT library. But here's the thing. Here's the thing, Okay.
Speaker 1: I was told. I was told that, remember that big
Speaker 1: announcement about Ring of Honor the Tony made, Yes, I
Speaker 1: was told that when he announced that he was going
Speaker 1: to have an announcement on Wednesday, that this deal was
Speaker 1: not done. So my i've i've, i've i've strongly. It
Speaker 1: has been strongly suggested to me there was a backup
Speaker 1: announcement in case they went on the air live and
Speaker 1: the deal wasn't done. So there's something else I don't know.
Speaker 1: And let me make it clear. I don't know what
Speaker 1: it is, okay, But if you remember, there were a
Speaker 1: lot of rumors that there in a few a few
Speaker 1: days before that announcement came out, and uh, he made
Speaker 1: the announcement with the about ring of honor, and there
Speaker 1: were no other announcements made. So I believe I am
Speaker 1: not reporting this as news because right now it's not news.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, but I believe I have to
Speaker 1: make this abundantly clear because it's gonna be all over
Speaker 1: the internet. I believe that A w Is is working
Speaker 1: on a deal with HBO Max. We've heard that rumor
Speaker 1: for a long time. Where there's smoke, there's fire, or
Speaker 1: as others like to say, there's smoked to the fire.
Speaker 1: Where there's smoke, there is often fire. Sometimes, however, someone's
Speaker 1: just smoking. But usually where there's smoke, there is fire.
Speaker 1: And so I believe that there is some sort of
Speaker 1: uh deal in the works with HBO Max or some
Speaker 1: streaming service. And Tony is flat out said like streaming
Speaker 1: service is a great idea. There's at some point, obviously
Speaker 1: unless this place goes out of business tomorrow, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a streaming service. They'll have the a W Library,
Speaker 1: and I believe that when this deal is made and done,
Speaker 1: that is when they will tell us what other libraries
Speaker 1: they have. And I believe that they have other libraries.
Speaker 1: They obviously have the a W Library, the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor Library. Wouldn't be surprised if they had this DDT
Speaker 1: life bray. That's not official, but this is how all
Speaker 1: of this is tying together for me, So nothing is
Speaker 1: official until it's announced, obviously, but that is my speculation
Speaker 1: as to what's going on here, educated speculation. It would
Speaker 1: make sense, and you know, D d T and Tokyo
Speaker 1: Joshi Pro having a relationship with a W was a
Speaker 1: no brainer, you know it, even it was an unofficial
Speaker 1: thing to begin with because of the relationships Kenny Omega
Speaker 1: and Nakazawa and all that sort of stuff. And it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if that's the case, how they
Speaker 1: how they acquire these rights. Is it going to be
Speaker 1: a licensing deal from cyber Fight. Is it with with
Speaker 1: certain matches that feature a W talent and showcase d
Speaker 1: d T and Noah and Tokyo Joshi Pro. Is it
Speaker 1: going to be taking the Russell Universe streaming platform and
Speaker 1: integrating that into an A w deal. You know that,
Speaker 1: so it'll be interesting to see how they go about this.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, no matter what you say,
Speaker 1: and I know you you made the joke a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier on about you know, the amount of wrestlers
Speaker 1: that a W has, the reality of the situation is
Speaker 1: now because of what they do with owning Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor and Ring of Honors, relationships with CMLL, Triple A, no,
Speaker 1: uh now New Japan. I mean, there's there's so many
Speaker 1: ways that you can see some of wrestling's greatest talent
Speaker 1: from all over the world. I mean, odds are you
Speaker 1: may see them in a w at some point. So
Speaker 1: how they have spread their tentacles out and and have
Speaker 1: these relationships with everybody, Whereas you know, traditionally, WW has
Speaker 1: always shut their doors, only opened them up when it's
Speaker 1: advantageous for them. It's a if you're a wrestling fan,
Speaker 1: it's a really cool thing. You can talk about the
Speaker 1: business or the roster, how you utilize these guys, how
Speaker 1: you bring him in, how you showcase them. J Y
Speaker 1: being an example, was that the best way to showcase
Speaker 1: a guy like a J White or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: So you can always talk about all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is you'll be still be talking
Speaker 1: about it because there's a chance of seeing so many people.
Speaker 1: Mio Yamashita, who's coming to the States for West Coast Pro.
Speaker 1: All these people are gonna get a chance to maybe
Speaker 1: see them in a W for Dream Matches or whatever.
Speaker 1: M JF said, speak two matches schedule for next week's
Speaker 1: a W Dynamite in Man, Texas. Tornado match was set
Speaker 1: up on Rampage sting Darby and the Heartys, taken on
Speaker 1: the Butcher, the Blade and Private Party. We've also got
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho, Daniel Garciaver's, Alex Reynolds, and John Silver. M
Speaker 1: JF will speak for the first time since screwing Wardlow,
Speaker 1: and there should be more to this because like officially
Speaker 1: has not released Wardlow from his contract. Warlow is still
Speaker 1: in her contract of this man, So I think that
Speaker 1: there probably gonna lead some sort of match like if
Speaker 1: if Wardlow wins, he's released from his contract. If he loses,
Speaker 1: I mean there's ways you can go. Here would be
Speaker 1: another loss for MJF if that's the way they go,
Speaker 1: But I certainly wouldn't be beating Wardlow right now. We're
Speaker 1: interesting to see what they do. Obviously, Wardlow and Sean
Speaker 1: Spears at first, I guess they can do the stipulation
Speaker 1: with that. If Wardlow beat Spears, he's released, you coul
Speaker 1: always go that direction. But see, I don't think the
Speaker 1: payoff is good enough that way him going through all
Speaker 1: of these guys to get to him is well. I
Speaker 1: guess I don't know how many guys there is anymore,
Speaker 1: because I don't know what the status of Pinnacle is.
Speaker 1: I guess you know that. I don't know if Dax
Speaker 1: and Cash are stole aligned with that group now that
Speaker 1: Tully's out of the way, but you know, so they
Speaker 1: ll aft to answer to that. But Wordlow defeating m
Speaker 1: j UP, I think makes sense because how many losses
Speaker 1: does MGF have? You know, it would be too and
Speaker 1: it would be the punk and it would be the Wordlow.
Speaker 1: And much like we see with Japan or any other
Speaker 1: well booked wrestling promotion, you can have a guy lose.
Speaker 1: Let me look how long he went without losing frev
Speaker 1: and six. He can have a couple of losses as
Speaker 1: long as they're done correctly and as long as they
Speaker 1: set up things in the future. You know, no matter
Speaker 1: what they do with him in Wardlow right now, for
Speaker 1: three years from now, I can see this promotion looking
Speaker 1: back with a wink or having them tied up in
Speaker 1: some sort of way. So again, if you do these
Speaker 1: types of wins and losses, right, you know, yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to always beat the guy. But it's not
Speaker 1: like he's going for the title or anything right now. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I think it would be a good thing to do,
Speaker 1: and obviously the best possible Feather and Wordlow's cap gables Stevenson.
Speaker 1: When the n C Double A Tournament, He's heading to
Speaker 1: the raw roster according to Dave, very very soon, and
Speaker 1: we'll be at WrestleMania thirty eight. So that's all cool
Speaker 1: and everything. Let's talk about the the big news here,
Speaker 1: which is Steve Auston being in great shape, so he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna do more than you'd think at WrestleMania. I
Speaker 1: still don't think it's out of the question that he
Speaker 1: does the angle Saturday leading to the match on Sunday,
Speaker 1: but we'll see what they end up doing. But this is, uh,
Speaker 1: this is what I wanna There's only three minutes left,
Speaker 1: so I may as well do this now. I don't
Speaker 1: want to spend twenty minutes on this, Meltzer said that
Speaker 1: WrestleMania will likely continue to be a two night event
Speaker 1: moving forward. Now I presumed that so this is not
Speaker 1: like new information or anything, but he said, and this
Speaker 1: is a quote. I talked to people there, and they
Speaker 1: certainly gave me the impression that the idea is two
Speaker 1: days going forward. They always can change their mind based
Speaker 1: on what happens. I think they all thought that seven
Speaker 1: hour show thing just doesn't work. That's more tiring than
Speaker 1: the two days. Yeah, difference in philosophy. No, No, this
Speaker 1: is everything that I have talked about. This company makes
Speaker 1: everything more difficult than it needs to be. Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: if you're running the show that's dragging on for seven hours, Okay,
Speaker 1: what is the more obvious solution? Don't have the show
Speaker 1: drag on for seven hours? Or split the show up
Speaker 1: into two days? The obvious answer the issue? What God
Speaker 1: is booking your show and you can't possibly do less
Speaker 1: than a seven hour d of course you can do
Speaker 1: You remember do you remember the Saudi show, Mike? The
Speaker 1: show was three hours long. It was one hour and
Speaker 1: ten minutes of wrestling. They had one hour and fourty
Speaker 1: minutes of not wrestling on this show. So is the
Speaker 1: solution to that show dragging at three hours to do
Speaker 1: to two hour shows in Saudi or to take out
Speaker 1: all the crap that dragged? Hello? Obviously, the solution is,
Speaker 1: we do not need one hour and forty minutes of
Speaker 1: commercials and video packages on a show we don't. There
Speaker 1: ain't no other promotion on this planet that needs to
Speaker 1: run one hour and forty minutes of of of packages
Speaker 1: on a show with one hour and ten minutes of wrestling. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're gonna argue about the third hour a raw now
Speaker 1: because you know what, this whole thing comes down too
Speaker 1: much like that third hour, because everything you're saying is
Speaker 1: exactly right. You're exactly right, Yes I am, But but
Speaker 1: you know what you're wrong because it comes down to
Speaker 1: the money. Let's say it's the money. This is my point, Mike.
Speaker 1: If he says, I think they all thought the seven
Speaker 1: hour thing just doesn't work. If your doesn't, but I mean,
Speaker 1: come on, hey, this is about the money, then they
Speaker 1: should have just said, you know, it's about the money.
Speaker 1: Of course, we're running two days. It's about the money
Speaker 1: we're gonna sell us. Dude, then say that, don't say Oh,
Speaker 1: the problem is the show's too long at one day,
Speaker 1: we have to run two days. Tell me that crap.
Speaker 1: All you need is cash? How is this break? Deserver live?
Speaker 1: All right? During the break, Brian raised the price of
Speaker 1: cameo to shut up. Here's a here's an analogy, a
Speaker 1: common allergy. Okay, I wanna make it simple. This is
Speaker 1: this is what this is? Cool enough? Okay? When Raw
Speaker 1: it was two hours and they moved to three hours. Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're moving Raw from two hours to three hours,
Speaker 1: and you say our broadcast partner of the USA network
Speaker 1: would like an extra hour of raw and they are
Speaker 1: willing to pay out the ask for it, Therefore we're
Speaker 1: moving to three hours, Great, that's what happened. If you
Speaker 1: tell me with a straight face, well, you see, two
Speaker 1: hours was just not enough time. We have to add
Speaker 1: an extra hour because we can't get everything in in
Speaker 1: two hours. Okay, that would make me very angry if
Speaker 1: you told that. But that's what they do. Bro. You're
Speaker 1: missing the point. They didn't say that that's why they
Speaker 1: expanded to three hours. They were honest. We're getting paid
Speaker 1: a lot of money to go to three hours. That's
Speaker 1: why we're going, So tell me, the reason you're doing
Speaker 1: two days is because instead of selling eighty thousand tickets,
Speaker 1: you're gonna sell tickets. Fine, Peacock wants two hours. There
Speaker 1: they pay. That's one of the things that Fine tell
Speaker 1: me that don't sit here and go we have to
Speaker 1: do two days because to one day it's just seven
Speaker 1: hours is too long. Well, they're right there, See, it's
Speaker 1: one of those things. They never booked a three hour
Speaker 1: semantics because there's there's somebody on the production team. There
Speaker 1: are people there that go, you know, seven hours sucks.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're doing two days. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: it's the hugest thing for everybody, or that that if
Speaker 1: you think you're stupid, And that's the bottom line, of course.
Speaker 1: But the bottom line is, even though it's been unsaid,
Speaker 1: is this is obviously about corporate things like making money
Speaker 1: and content creation for Peacock and all the other horsecrap
Speaker 1: that they, you know, will say about all of this stuff.
Speaker 1: That's just what it's about. And I know they're not
Speaker 1: flat out saying it for you, but they're not going
Speaker 1: to They're not going to say that for you. But
Speaker 1: everybody knows that already. I'm telling you what I'm telling
Speaker 1: you why I raised the price for cameos. It wasn't
Speaker 1: worth my time at thirty five dollars, especially when people
Speaker 1: are wanting me to watch the main event of Nacho Libre.
Speaker 1: I should have charged two for that. That was misery.
Speaker 1: What a horrible match are you doing? Cameos are stupid
Speaker 1: human tricks. Well apparent I was doing stupid human tricks,
Speaker 1: so I raised the price. I'll spend so much time
Speaker 1: on them, and I'm like, ro I have for eighteen dollars.
Speaker 1: I did that when I could be spending time with
Speaker 1: my kid. I'm making it worth my while. Obviously it's business.
Speaker 1: You better be care of. Understand what businesses. There have
Speaker 1: been a lot of people who throw a lot of
Speaker 1: money around, uh this website for trips and things like
Speaker 1: that over the years. You better be careful. They may
Speaker 1: really raise the anti up and see what you will
Speaker 1: do for cash. Brian albertas where you will stop and
Speaker 1: your morals will kick in and say, I can't even
Speaker 1: do this. I will stop. Somebody wanted me to do
Speaker 1: a cameo bearing Jim Cornett and I denied it. I'm
Speaker 1: not doing that. If you want that revenge coming back
Speaker 1: for whatever thirty five dollars, with which I only get
Speaker 1: a cut of that, Like you want to just like
Speaker 1: cause a lot of problems. No, be funny for the
Speaker 1: rest of us with the problems be fantastic. I did
Speaker 1: do the one for Bruce Pritchard's birthday. I had fun
Speaker 1: with that one. Did he fireback? I just wished him
Speaker 1: a happy birthday. Oh well, I hope he has a
Speaker 1: great birthday. Maybe he'll send one to you. His show
Speaker 1: is horrible, but I hope he has a great birthday.
Speaker 1: These two things, they're not just because you're write a
Speaker 1: bad show doesn't mean like I want you to have
Speaker 1: a bad birthday. Well, this is what I tell you
Speaker 1: all of the time. I have to tell you this
Speaker 1: thing all of the time. Two things can be true.
Speaker 1: They can. They can Brian this coming Tuesday, it is
Speaker 1: bron Breaker against Robert Rude, so he can finally, you know,
Speaker 1: Cable Stevenson is gonna be on the main roster before
Speaker 1: braun Breaker. I just hope that the roster. But I
Speaker 1: am laughing at the idea that. But I mean, as
Speaker 1: a regular somehow, Robert Rude is the most protected guy
Speaker 1: in n x T. He is at least until Tuesday. Well,
Speaker 1: now he's got to start losing to build towards this
Speaker 1: Braun Berreaker, this big redemption story for losing to the
Speaker 1: guy who always loses, Dolph Ziggler. That whole thing, but
Speaker 1: that sucked, and none of it, in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things, is really gonna matter as far as braun
Speaker 1: Breaker's career, and everybody's gonna forget about it, and the
Speaker 1: DVD or whatever the streaming thing is of the time
Speaker 1: will just gloss over the story and nobody will really care,
Speaker 1: and there'll be somebody saying, I read the Observer all
Speaker 1: those years ago. They screwed the whole thing up. None
Speaker 1: of it will matter at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: But my god, what a stupid way to get there.
Speaker 1: What a waste of a way to try to get
Speaker 1: to it. You know, in this case, you could have
Speaker 1: just held the title off of Braun for this entire time.
Speaker 1: If Choppa was never gonna go up to the main roster,
Speaker 1: brought Dolphin Rude down and actually really built towards something,
Speaker 1: so this was going to be his big, mighty crowning moment.
Speaker 1: We've also got Solo Sakoa versus Roderick Strong and a
Speaker 1: standing deliver in North American title qualifying match A A
Speaker 1: Kid will be facing Grace and Waller. Also in a
Speaker 1: qualifying match, the Creed Brothers will face the grizzled Young
Speaker 1: Veterans so looking, I'll say a prayer for us v
Speaker 1: God bless him. I love, oh God. There's nobody more
Speaker 1: realistic than than the Creed Brothers. I want the Creed
Speaker 1: Brothers against Braun Breaker and Gable Stevenson now in the dojo.
Speaker 1: I just I don't want it to be on TV.
Speaker 1: I want somebody to just film them in a just
Speaker 1: somewhere in a matt somewhere in the back of the
Speaker 1: winter Haven or the hell of the name of that place,
Speaker 1: is my god, it would be fantastic. Are we sure
Speaker 1: that someone hasn't hacked Daggan's account? Is he losing it? Well?
Speaker 1: First he got mad about cameos. Now he's he's predicting
Speaker 1: that w w E will release uh Broun Breaker, Dagan?
Speaker 1: What do you I know? Vermont Scott fun things up
Speaker 1: there fermented maple syrup derigans on apparently right now. And
Speaker 1: then also, even though we got WrestleMania like two weeks away,
Speaker 1: or whatever. The finals of the Women's Dusty is Free Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I guess it hasn't been much of a tournament to
Speaker 1: be there. Wendy Chew and Dakota Kai who talks to herself,
Speaker 1: the woman who sleeps in the ring, and the woman
Speaker 1: who talks to herself. They're in the finalists against Eo Shirai.
Speaker 1: What a great representation of Dusty Rhodes in his WWF
Speaker 1: career is when Dy Chew and this version of Dakota Kai.
Speaker 1: For Evan's sakes, my god, I hope Eo and Kaylee
Speaker 1: win this thing. Jesus Christmas, this brow here can't believe
Speaker 1: Manias in two weeks? Where have you been? Brother? It's
Speaker 1: in two weeks. Nobody cares Twitter earlier. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people who aren't because I mean, look, if
Speaker 1: you're not interested, if you're number one thing with w
Speaker 1: W E is not Johnny Knoxville is not. Pat McAfee
Speaker 1: is not that sort of thing. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: Roman and you have Brock, which has been the best
Speaker 1: thing in all of pro wrestling since the time it started.
Speaker 1: But the reality is there's not a whole lot else
Speaker 1: to sink your teeth into. Is there if you're if
Speaker 1: you are wrestling first. I want to say this because
Speaker 1: I'm a fair man. And somebody here on the chat
Speaker 1: says that the build for these matches have been horrible. Listen,
Speaker 1: he said, the build has been atrocious. Here's it. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on a second, hold on some case.
Speaker 1: I'm a fair man. If you don't watch the shows
Speaker 1: and you're only listening like recaps or whatever, I mean,
Speaker 1: you may think that the build has been bad. But
Speaker 1: let me tell you something. If you look at the
Speaker 1: build for this show as compared to virtually any other
Speaker 1: show they've done in the last I don't even know
Speaker 1: how long, they have done a very good job. It's
Speaker 1: a fair low bar. Bill, It is a low bar,
Speaker 1: but it's true. Let's look at the matches here, Becky
Speaker 1: and Bianca, they're doing a good job with that. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've done angles, they've tied in the storyline leading all
Speaker 1: the way back to Summer Slam. We're probably gonna end
Speaker 1: up having titled versus Hair times. Tell me another women's match.
Speaker 1: They've done a better job building up than this one.
Speaker 1: It's not Charlotte and Rhonda that. I mean, they've tried Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm totally not into that feud at all, and I
Speaker 1: think the match is gonna be bad. Okay, but they're
Speaker 1: trying all right, the Ray and Dominic versus the MSS
Speaker 1: and Logan Paul. I mean they've they've had focus on
Speaker 1: at I mean, it hasn't been like a fantastic building.
Speaker 1: I'm not giving you that one. I'll give you the
Speaker 1: other one. One one right now, Drew mc attire and
Speaker 1: Happy Corbin with the mad Cap Moss thing. I mean
Speaker 1: they've been building up Drew and Corbin for like two
Speaker 1: months now, and Drew has been kicking ass. I'll give
Speaker 1: you that one. Yes, USOS versus Chins Knocker and Rick Boogs. Listen,
Speaker 1: they haven't really done an angle. But bro, have you've
Speaker 1: been watching SmackDown? I can't wait to see this match
Speaker 1: because his Boogs is awesome? Is this a push? Yes?
Speaker 1: Of course? Have you guys been watching Boogs? He does
Speaker 1: his comebound and he literally presses guys. Remember how the
Speaker 1: Warrior would put a guy and he bounced him on
Speaker 1: his head and he go because he's all blown up,
Speaker 1: and he do like one press and drop him. Boogs
Speaker 1: gets in there and he's one two three, he does twelve.
Speaker 1: Then he holds a guy and he starts curling a
Speaker 1: human one, two, three, and then he has his finish
Speaker 1: and pins him. Bro this guy is awesome. I'm still
Speaker 1: calling us a draw for right now is Knocker and
Speaker 1: Boogs that's gonna be a sleeper, mark my words, and
Speaker 1: Charlotte and Round and they've been trying, but I'm never good.
Speaker 1: At least they're beating the hell out of each other.
Speaker 1: At least they're going off the air with like just
Speaker 1: nonsense happening between the two. It's a it's an attempt,
Speaker 1: but this is another one. I'll put it in the
Speaker 1: category of of Boogs and Nakamura and uh. I mean
Speaker 1: it's right now, it's in the middle, right now, it's
Speaker 1: I can't I can't say it's been good because it really,
Speaker 1: I mean, it hasn't. I guess, okay, you want to
Speaker 1: give it. I gotta keep going here, go alright. I
Speaker 1: have not given I have not been into Edge and
Speaker 1: a j I think the build for this match sucks. No,
Speaker 1: it seems it's whatever. I also, I am not a
Speaker 1: fan of the four way women's tag build also sucks.
Speaker 1: You've got weak champions who who like aren't into each
Speaker 1: other and it's everything that's wrong with women's division outside
Speaker 1: the top. Now, do not tell me that they have
Speaker 1: not done a good job with Johnny Knoxville and Sammy's A.
Speaker 1: They've done a very good job with that match. I
Speaker 1: don't even want to hear they've done a bad job
Speaker 1: with had McAfee as in theory, they've done a really
Speaker 1: good job with that match. Matt McAfee. Dude, this guy
Speaker 1: was so awesome on SmackDown Friday. He is unbelievable. And then, dude,
Speaker 1: go to the YouTube chat. If you're gonna tell me
Speaker 1: they haven't done a good job with Brock and Roman,
Speaker 1: They've done an excellent job with that match. So yeah,
Speaker 1: is it the best build to a wrestle media I've
Speaker 1: ever seen? Well, of course, not like you got to
Speaker 1: go back to when you would, you know, build a
Speaker 1: WrestleMania for a year or at least three months from
Speaker 1: Royal Rumble, But but going back years, I mean, show
Speaker 1: me wrestle media is where they've done a better job
Speaker 1: building these matches. I want to hear it. But the
Speaker 1: problem is again, and it's all a matter of what
Speaker 1: you look at when you are when you would rather
Speaker 1: see say a build towards Ricochet and Sammy Zane in
Speaker 1: a rematch or something like that, or have these angles
Speaker 1: be treated with not the same gravity as Brock and Roman,
Speaker 1: but kind of same, like let's take him more seriously.
Speaker 1: And that's the problem is even though some of these
Speaker 1: builds have been they have been okay, they really haven't
Speaker 1: been all that good. There isn't that fire behind Charlotte
Speaker 1: and Rhonda's there once was. There isn't that fire behind
Speaker 1: some of this stuff? Is maybe there should be. And
Speaker 1: if you are looking at matches first, and aren't that
Speaker 1: w w E fan first, that really is looking for
Speaker 1: the anything can happen at Rustlemania, you know, big party,
Speaker 1: which for this is your year for it with Vince
Speaker 1: McMahon and Cody Is and all of this random stuff
Speaker 1: that's supposed to be taking place and all of these
Speaker 1: celebrities quote unquote like the Logan Pauls of the world
Speaker 1: that are going to be there. If that's not your bag,
Speaker 1: then yeah, I mean, this whole thing has been relatively
Speaker 1: weak and dragging for WrestleMania. This person here says that
Speaker 1: they did a better job with Mania thirty five. Oh God,
Speaker 1: that's the New York New Jersey. I refused to put
Speaker 1: that one. Well, you know, and this is like with
Speaker 1: Owens in Austin, like and I know, I just I
Speaker 1: wish they would have had him were definitive plan or
Speaker 1: real understanding on what he can do and what he
Speaker 1: can't do, because that's you know, it's almost like it's
Speaker 1: getting lost in the mix. And I know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be on Sports Center the next day. I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna be everywhere that Steve Auston came back and he
Speaker 1: did this. I just I think you should be really
Speaker 1: building to it a lot more than Kevin Owens were
Speaker 1: in the funny cowboy hats. And he's been great. Seth
Speaker 1: has been great because I think they're incredibly entertaining what
Speaker 1: they do and they seem to be having a good time.
Speaker 1: But it has not been I mean, Steve Austin should
Speaker 1: be a bigger deal than it is. The thought of
Speaker 1: him coming back in Texas. Goddamn, that should be all
Speaker 1: over the place right now. To me, in mainstream, it
Speaker 1: should back and on with more Observer Live. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I choked cause I was coming back on the air,
Speaker 1: which actually now that now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a Matt Ryan joke. I was gonna
Speaker 1: read the uh the lineup for the new Japan Cup.
Speaker 1: No spoilers, of course, and now I can't even talk.
Speaker 1: So you know what I got, Old Fontleroy, he's gonna
Speaker 1: tell us what the last night's matches were, but no spoilers. Okay,
Speaker 1: last night's matches were. We'll all spray versus Zach Saber Jr.
Speaker 1: And Shingo versus Here a move, thank you? Here I
Speaker 1: he's he's working on his pronunciations. You know how it goes.
Speaker 1: Are you sure he's a he's He might have been
Speaker 1: Folly's sister. I know she's out there. Haven't you ever
Speaker 1: met a little person with a high voice? Mike? They
Speaker 1: have ill Us Extra two trying to get Old font
Speaker 1: Leroy to make an on screen appearance, but he's he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to do it, self conscious about his size.
Speaker 1: Maybe well maybe you have to wait for the Olie fans.
Speaker 1: You know about that. It's uh, the only fans, what
Speaker 1: the fans? Only fans, not the Olie fans, the only
Speaker 1: Anderson where it's just fans. He just get cursed out
Speaker 1: by Yeah, you can put a bunch of pictures up
Speaker 1: from back in the day of him and his gear.
Speaker 1: Holy fans. Hey, we're out of time, everybody, but I
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