WEBVTT - Stone Cold Update/AEW and DDT/Weekend Recap 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:08.320 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, 0:00:09.960 --> 0:00:14.720 let's get it all. How's it going everybody? Brian Alvarez 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.040 here on Wrestling Observer Live. We are here every day 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:21.239 Monday through Friday, New Pacific, three Eastern Sunday three Pacific, 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:24.800 six Eastern Monday. Here on the program. We got a 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:27.280 lot to talk about here today. We had the whole 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.520 weekend of news we get into and there is a 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:40.480 lot of it. We got updates on Cody, WrestleMania, Steve Austin, 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:44.840 whether or not WrestleMania will be a two day show 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:49.120 going forward. I can't wait to talk about that one 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.559 Raw tonight. We gotta light up for Raw, as well 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:56.600 as the lineup for a W on Wednesday, a W 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:00.880 and D D t if form day working remond We're 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:05.120 gonna talk about that here as well. Gable Steveson about 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:07.760 to head to Raw after winning the n C Double 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:13.959 A Tournament again and then retiring because next will be 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.160 his w w E career. An XT line up bron 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:23.000 Breakers got a match on Tuesday for those of you 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.840 who are fans of his, and we have also got 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:32.120 the recaps of both a Rampage and SmackDown. Both shows. 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.280 I would go as far as say both shows some 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.560 fun stuff on them, a lot of great matches. I 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.959 would say very good matches on the Rampage show. I 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.120 enjoyed them immensely, and there was some interesting stuff on 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:50.720 the SmackDown show as well. As we head into WrestleMania, 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:56.320 which draws closer by the day, two more individuals found 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:01.840 a path to WrestleMania on SmackDown. Well, this idiot seth 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.120 Rawlins can't figure out how to get himself on the card. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:07.320 So we can talk about all that and so much 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:12.640 more here today eight four four nine one three. Don't bother. 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:15.080 I'm not taking calls yet, but you can text us 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.760 at four to five seven eight zero seven five six six. 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.520 You can email me Brian and Wrestling Observer dot com. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.600 You can go on my Twitter at Brian Alvarez and 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:28.520 you can grab yourself. I cameo F four w online, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:34.320 what are you waiting for back in a moment as 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:47.480 begging the show. Brian Elba is here Wrestling Observer Alive, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:53.120 Mikes andbur Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. Cody 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:58.680 Rhodes has reportedly signed with the w W E. Will 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.760 You Inside reported Roads had signed with the company. Multiple 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.880 sources confirmed with a site that Rhodes had signed about 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:09.680 ten to fourteen days ago. Additionally, People Insider said the 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.760 plan is to have Rhodes debut at WrestleMania Weekend and 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:18.600 join the raw roster upon arrival. Dave Meltzer supported the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.440 plan for WrestleMania thirty eight is Rhodes versus seth Rawlins 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:25.120 Rawlins Ast to match to Kevin Owens on Monday. The 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.359 winner would host Steve Boston on their talk show during 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:31.200 WrestleMania weekend. So it does appear, and I don't know 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.240 what they're gonna do. I don't know what they're gonna do, 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:35.320 but it does appear that this is gonna be like 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:37.800 that that John Cena thing. I can't get a path 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:42.240 to WrestleMania. I'm just gonna show up in the show anyway. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.760 And then, uh, I guess it would be the debut 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.600 of Cody. I don't know if he's gonna debut on 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:52.040 the WrestleMania show or if they will shoot the angle 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.960 on the go home show for WrestleMania, but it appears 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.600 that what they're doing is what they're doing, and it'll 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:05.760 be interesting because we we know that letting everybody know, 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.880 even though it's a secret works. We saw this with 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:14.560 see Him Punk would be the most notable. We saw 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:18.160 it with Brian Danielson. We even saw it with Jeff Hardy. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:23.880 They were constantly dropping, Oh this erratic behavior of Matt Hardy. 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.920 I mean it has been it has been proven in 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.040 the last year that you can basically tell everybody. And 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.000 actually this goes way back, way way further back than that. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:37.800 When you would book a certain match Bianca and and 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.360 Becky if they did the stipulation that if Bianca wins, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.000 she gets the title, but if Becky wins, they're gonna 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.039 cut off Bianca's ponytail. They're telling you who's gonna win. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.640 I don't need funt Leroy here to go over the lineup. 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.640 But the point is, you know this works, so we'll 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.719 see if that's what they end up doing. How would 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:01.160 you do it? Because I guess you have three options. 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.880 You just do the seth shows up at WrestleMania and 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.560 you decide to do it there, or do you have 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.200 do you do something on the go home show? And 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.359 then in that case, do you advertise it? Because then 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.680 that's the other question. Do you advertise Cody Rhodes is 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:20.239 coming to raw To to answer seth Rawlins open challenge 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.080 because he's got no other path to WrestleMania. Do you 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.359 not announce it at all and have seth do I 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.520 don't know what his talk show at WrestleMania and then 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.800 have Cody meet him up there. You know what, what 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.920 path would you go if you were the well, they're 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.720 they're already so far down this stupid path that like, 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.800 there's there's nothing that I could suggest it would be 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:42.320 any good because the whole idea that seth Rawlins can't 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.280 get a WrestleMania I mean, it's absolutely stupid. So I'm 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.280 trying to you're asking me to try to book around 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.839 something that's already stupid. If I were going to have 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.599 to book around something that's already stupid, I would have 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.120 I guess, like Sony Deville come out and just go, Bro, 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.360 you don't have a path to WrestleMania, and you're wasting 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.760 time on our shows by coming out here and and 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.120 you know whatever, So here's the deal. If you don't 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:11.080 have a WrestleMania match by the end of next Monday's show, 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.200 You're out, You're done, there's no WrestleMania. Just go home, 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.880 come back next week. Then that's like the big the 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:24.320 big plug, the go home show of a Raw. If 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.440 Cody does not have an opponent by the end of 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.800 the show, that's it. There's no showing up at WrestleMania. 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.400 It's done. It must be announced before the end of Raw. 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:36.560 Then you're telling people there's gonna be it. You don't 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:42.960 tell m's Cody, but everyone's gonna know. No one's gonna think, oh, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:44.800 I'm sure Raw's gonna go he's not getting an opponent. 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.400 I'm just gonna be over. They're gonna know that he's 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.120 going to have an opponent by the end of Raw. 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:52.039 You tease and it's going to happen. You save it 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.880 for the end, and then away you go. All right, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.520 I guess you know, there's always a fall off of 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:57.479 the end, So if you want to do at the 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.200 top of the second hour or whatever, but that's that's 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.760 the way that I would do it. Let people know 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.440 on Monday it's Cody and Seth at WrestleMania, try and 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:09.680 sell a few more tickets, whatever. But that's what I 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.280 would do with this, this goofy storyline they've already got, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.440 you know, because I don't think it's gonna because of 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.200 the situation they're in. It's not like Cody's name is 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.679 going to lead to a bunch more buys. I wouldn't 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.720 think at least that you know a e W. Only 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.880 fans who have come along in the last couple of 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.040 years who go, oh wow, Cody's going back to that 0:07:28.080 --> 0:07:30.160 place I've only heard about. Maybe I'll check it out. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.000 I'm sure there's maybe one person like that, but not many, 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:36.800 not enough to make a difference. And because of how 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.080 stupid this whole thing is, I could see Son need 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.240 to build doing something where he she sends Seth rollins 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.760 home like you say, come back next week. But for me, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.080 I think he takes over a segment at WrestleMania, and 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.280 then that's when Cody comes out and Cody's return on 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.360 the big stage for and yes he can have his 0:07:56.440 --> 0:08:00.440 big Raw redbut the next night. But I think, considering 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.760 the situation that he's in and considering it's not gonna 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.000 push any more buys if he's advertised or not, that 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:09.080 you just continue to tease something like this and then 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.080 he appears at WrestleMania and that's his big re debut 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.680 on the grandest stage of them all. For Cody Rhodes. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.080 We got row tonight. I'll state Arena, the lineup for 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.560 the show. Becky Lynch, this is, this is this is 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.400 a new one. By the way, I'll get it. I'll 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.960 actually do that one last a j returns to Raw 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:30.200 since for the first time since he got concertoed by 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:35.200 Edge three weeks ago. RK bro versus Alpha Academy in 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:41.040 a non title match. What I'm saying, it's for you? Yeah, 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.480 of course it is. There's a lot in the show 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:48.000 that's for me and Finnbalor versus Austin Theory in a 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.880 non title match. So anyway, a lot of non title 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.240 matches here on this show. That's that's more than fair. 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.240 And the Becky Lynch thing ever knows how we used 0:08:57.240 --> 0:09:00.000 to talk about plans change and people are like, oh, 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:06.040 what a cop out? Okay, if plans don't change, all right, 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:10.040 plans don't change. Why did they shoot an angle last 0:09:10.120 --> 0:09:15.600 Monday where Becky Lynch beat up Bianca and said next 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:19.720 week I'm coming for your hair And then in the 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.840 middle of the week they announced Bianca is not going 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.360 to be on the show. She has a broken highoid bone. Well, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:31.960 plans change, so anyway, the storyline is that and what 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.520 an irony. By the way, Bianca has a broken high 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:41.280 oid bone. No, you know who wrote that? Damn releases 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.600 me and Lance. We've been talking about this for weeks now, 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.480 ever since Becky got hurt. We talked about how Lance 0:09:46.720 --> 0:09:50.360 was in a match with Christian and this stiff feller 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.440 clothesline Lance right in the neck and broke his highoid 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.760 bone and almost killed him. And we were hoping that 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.559 it wasn't a highoid bone that was broken on Becky 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.160 and then low and be old, we find out that 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.800 Bianco broker hioid bone. Of course she did. Thank god 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.120 the butcher didn't break Darby Ellen's on Friday. You know, 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:11.600 you guys could just buy a bunch of cameos much 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:15.839 of the writing crew fifty bucks. Wow, I had to 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.080 raise the price. Damn. It was out of control and 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:24.160 you're still getting triple your value. Has that slowed down 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.880 the stream of requests or my my cameos are like 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:33.280 a Rolex watch. Yes, the value is significantly more than me. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:39.040 But anyway, Griselda merchandise. Watch out, the next four W 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.760 sweatshirt's going to be utter and fifty bucks. You're right, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.080 what are you mad about? Dagan? But I raised the 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.080 price to fifty bucks. He didn't get us in a time. 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.520 Well what were you waiting for? Yeah, you are getting 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.559 three times of value. Hey, listen. If you don't believe me, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:59.559 go to my cameo f W online and look at 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:06.800 every every single rating Brian five stars, everybody. Everybody says, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:12.800 it's Monday. Why don't we just play one of your samples? Why? 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:16.840 Because there is profuse profanity. We would be kicked off 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:23.160 the air if I played one of my cameos. Nobody's 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:24.840 asked you for, Like, you know, are you doing this for? 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.000 Like the thirteen year old and twelve year old kids? 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:31.880 Don't want one for a three year old? Which I 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.600 don't think I swore, but it was really long. Dagan 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.960 wants to start his own cameo to bury my cameo 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:40.520 by my cameo about what what are you talking about, Dagan? 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.400 Because didn't play a song? Did I bury a song? 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:47.200 Is that the problem? Can I get in this cameos 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.720 racket that's going on here? Do I have to be approved. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.760 I need a blue checkmark on Twitter cameos, but I mean, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.679 come on, give me, come on a double even d 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:03.280 d T guys hear about this, Huh? I expect Eagan. 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.240 I've heard about him, but he's busy crying about cameos. 0:12:06.520 --> 0:12:08.280 Hey listen, I'll be back in a moment. Talk about 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:12.000 a W and DDT back in a moment. Observer Live 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:39.360 the show. Brian Albert is here Wrestling Observer Alive. Mike 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:43.200 simber Viv also of Wrestling Observer dot com. A W 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.120 and DDT a formed a working relationship. Chris Daniels made 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.760 the announcement to be a video on ddt is twenty 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.240 five anniversary show. Deal will involve top talent from DDT 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.200 traveling to the US to wrestle for a w This 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.280 is Christopher Daniels, said Christopher Daniels, I am the vice 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.280 president of Talent Relations for All the Wrestling would like 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.040 to take this opportunity say congratulations to DDT and their 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:09.400 twenty five anniversary Holy Smokes twenty five years. I'd like 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.319 to also announce a W DDT of coming to in 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.320 agreement to bring DDT s wrestlers the United States of America. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.040 I for one, I'm looking forward to introducing the top 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.320 talent from DDT to the American wrestling fan base. You 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:25.120 know what a W needs is more wrestlers. Well, what 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:26.960 they need is to send some of their people to 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:30.200 Japan for a while. It'll start, it'll start, zoom. That's 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.800 going to happen here soon. And there was no mention, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:36.240 by the way, there's no mention of a follow up 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.320 to a story we had heard quite a while ago, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.839 which was that a W had bought the rights to 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:45.120 a Japanese wrestling promotion that was not New Japan. And 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.520 I don't know if they have the rights to the 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:54.360 DDT library. But here's the thing. Here's the thing, Okay. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:14:01.960 I was told. I was told that, remember that big 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:06.360 announcement about Ring of Honor the Tony made, Yes, I 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.439 was told that when he announced that he was going 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.160 to have an announcement on Wednesday, that this deal was 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:19.920 not done. So my i've i've, i've i've strongly. It 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:23.920 has been strongly suggested to me there was a backup 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.880 announcement in case they went on the air live and 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.720 the deal wasn't done. So there's something else I don't know. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:33.560 And let me make it clear. I don't know what 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.200 it is, okay, But if you remember, there were a 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.480 lot of rumors that there in a few a few 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.280 days before that announcement came out, and uh, he made 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:43.880 the announcement with the about ring of honor, and there 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:49.280 were no other announcements made. So I believe I am 0:14:49.320 --> 0:14:52.720 not reporting this as news because right now it's not news. 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.480 And I don't know, but I believe I have to 0:14:55.480 --> 0:14:57.320 make this abundantly clear because it's gonna be all over 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:03.640 the internet. I believe that A w Is is working 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.320 on a deal with HBO Max. We've heard that rumor 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:12.840 for a long time. Where there's smoke, there's fire, or 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:14.920 as others like to say, there's smoked to the fire. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:20.520 Where there's smoke, there is often fire. Sometimes, however, someone's 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.800 just smoking. But usually where there's smoke, there is fire. 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.280 And so I believe that there is some sort of 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:31.880 uh deal in the works with HBO Max or some 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.720 streaming service. And Tony is flat out said like streaming 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.600 service is a great idea. There's at some point, obviously 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.280 unless this place goes out of business tomorrow, there's gonna 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.560 be a streaming service. They'll have the a W Library, 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:50.080 and I believe that when this deal is made and done, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.160 that is when they will tell us what other libraries 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.240 they have. And I believe that they have other libraries. 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.120 They obviously have the a W Library, the Ring of 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.720 Honor Library. Wouldn't be surprised if they had this DDT 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.080 life bray. That's not official, but this is how all 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:07.280 of this is tying together for me, So nothing is 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.360 official until it's announced, obviously, but that is my speculation 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:15.440 as to what's going on here, educated speculation. It would 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.000 make sense, and you know, D d T and Tokyo 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.400 Joshi Pro having a relationship with a W was a 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.200 no brainer, you know it, even it was an unofficial 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.920 thing to begin with because of the relationships Kenny Omega 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.520 and Nakazawa and all that sort of stuff. And it'll 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:39.800 be interesting to see if that's the case, how they 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.720 how they acquire these rights. Is it going to be 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:46.680 a licensing deal from cyber Fight. Is it with with 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:51.480 certain matches that feature a W talent and showcase d 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.120 d T and Noah and Tokyo Joshi Pro. Is it 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:59.200 going to be taking the Russell Universe streaming platform and 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.840 integrating that into an A w deal. You know that, 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.400 so it'll be interesting to see how they go about this. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:09.760 But the bottom line is, no matter what you say, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:11.400 and I know you you made the joke a little 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.879 bit earlier on about you know, the amount of wrestlers 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.359 that a W has, the reality of the situation is 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.919 now because of what they do with owning Ring of 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:25.240 Honor and Ring of Honors, relationships with CMLL, Triple A, no, 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.160 uh now New Japan. I mean, there's there's so many 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:32.400 ways that you can see some of wrestling's greatest talent 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.040 from all over the world. I mean, odds are you 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.080 may see them in a w at some point. So 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.080 how they have spread their tentacles out and and have 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:45.399 these relationships with everybody, Whereas you know, traditionally, WW has 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.880 always shut their doors, only opened them up when it's 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:51.520 advantageous for them. It's a if you're a wrestling fan, 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.960 it's a really cool thing. You can talk about the 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:57.560 business or the roster, how you utilize these guys, how 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.960 you bring him in, how you showcase them. J Y 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.359 being an example, was that the best way to showcase 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.000 a guy like a J White or whatever it is. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.080 So you can always talk about all that sort of stuff. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.080 But the bottom line is you'll be still be talking 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.919 about it because there's a chance of seeing so many people. 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.440 Mio Yamashita, who's coming to the States for West Coast Pro. 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:17.960 All these people are gonna get a chance to maybe 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:20.639 see them in a W for Dream Matches or whatever. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.240 M JF said, speak two matches schedule for next week's 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.640 a W Dynamite in Man, Texas. Tornado match was set 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.280 up on Rampage sting Darby and the Heartys, taken on 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:37.200 the Butcher, the Blade and Private Party. We've also got 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:42.440 Chris Jericho, Daniel Garciaver's, Alex Reynolds, and John Silver. M 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:48.080 JF will speak for the first time since screwing Wardlow, 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.040 and there should be more to this because like officially 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.120 has not released Wardlow from his contract. Warlow is still 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:56.960 in her contract of this man, So I think that 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.440 there probably gonna lead some sort of match like if 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.680 if Wardlow wins, he's released from his contract. If he loses, 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:05.960 I mean there's ways you can go. Here would be 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.159 another loss for MJF if that's the way they go, 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:13.159 But I certainly wouldn't be beating Wardlow right now. We're 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.480 interesting to see what they do. Obviously, Wardlow and Sean 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.400 Spears at first, I guess they can do the stipulation 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.200 with that. If Wardlow beat Spears, he's released, you coul 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.639 always go that direction. But see, I don't think the 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:24.920 payoff is good enough that way him going through all 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:28.159 of these guys to get to him is well. I 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:30.000 guess I don't know how many guys there is anymore, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:31.960 because I don't know what the status of Pinnacle is. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:34.600 I guess you know that. I don't know if Dax 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:37.440 and Cash are stole aligned with that group now that 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.639 Tully's out of the way, but you know, so they 0:19:39.720 --> 0:19:42.480 ll aft to answer to that. But Wordlow defeating m 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.320 j UP, I think makes sense because how many losses 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.680 does MGF have? You know, it would be too and 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:49.760 it would be the punk and it would be the Wordlow. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:52.680 And much like we see with Japan or any other 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.200 well booked wrestling promotion, you can have a guy lose. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.200 Let me look how long he went without losing frev 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.640 and six. He can have a couple of losses as 0:20:00.640 --> 0:20:03.040 long as they're done correctly and as long as they 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.640 set up things in the future. You know, no matter 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.639 what they do with him in Wardlow right now, for 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.359 three years from now, I can see this promotion looking 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:13.679 back with a wink or having them tied up in 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.160 some sort of way. So again, if you do these 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.920 types of wins and losses, right, you know, yeah, you 0:20:18.960 --> 0:20:20.480 don't want to always beat the guy. But it's not 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:22.760 like he's going for the title or anything right now. Anyway, 0:20:22.880 --> 0:20:24.160 I think it would be a good thing to do, 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:31.080 and obviously the best possible Feather and Wordlow's cap gables Stevenson. 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.119 When the n C Double A Tournament, He's heading to 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:39.480 the raw roster according to Dave, very very soon, and 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:46.040 we'll be at WrestleMania thirty eight. So that's all cool 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:47.960 and everything. Let's talk about the the big news here, 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.680 which is Steve Auston being in great shape, so he's 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.240 probably gonna do more than you'd think at WrestleMania. I 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:56.720 still don't think it's out of the question that he 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.360 does the angle Saturday leading to the match on Sunday, 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.199 but we'll see what they end up doing. But this is, uh, 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:05.440 this is what I wanna There's only three minutes left, 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:06.880 so I may as well do this now. I don't 0:21:06.920 --> 0:21:12.199 want to spend twenty minutes on this, Meltzer said that 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:16.399 WrestleMania will likely continue to be a two night event 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.919 moving forward. Now I presumed that so this is not 0:21:19.960 --> 0:21:23.320 like new information or anything, but he said, and this 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:27.800 is a quote. I talked to people there, and they 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:31.000 certainly gave me the impression that the idea is two 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.840 days going forward. They always can change their mind based 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.800 on what happens. I think they all thought that seven 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.800 hour show thing just doesn't work. That's more tiring than 0:21:41.840 --> 0:21:51.000 the two days. Yeah, difference in philosophy. No, No, this 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:55.000 is everything that I have talked about. This company makes 0:21:55.040 --> 0:21:59.000 everything more difficult than it needs to be. Okay, listen, 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:04.240 if you're running the show that's dragging on for seven hours, Okay, 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:09.879 what is the more obvious solution? Don't have the show 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.600 drag on for seven hours? Or split the show up 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:20.840 into two days? The obvious answer the issue? What God 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:23.960 is booking your show and you can't possibly do less 0:22:23.960 --> 0:22:27.240 than a seven hour d of course you can do 0:22:27.280 --> 0:22:32.320 You remember do you remember the Saudi show, Mike? The 0:22:32.359 --> 0:22:38.639 show was three hours long. It was one hour and 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:44.440 ten minutes of wrestling. They had one hour and fourty 0:22:44.640 --> 0:22:49.400 minutes of not wrestling on this show. So is the 0:22:49.480 --> 0:22:52.800 solution to that show dragging at three hours to do 0:22:53.080 --> 0:22:57.640 to two hour shows in Saudi or to take out 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:02.560 all the crap that dragged? Hello? Obviously, the solution is, 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:06.879 we do not need one hour and forty minutes of 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:11.480 commercials and video packages on a show we don't. There 0:23:11.480 --> 0:23:14.560 ain't no other promotion on this planet that needs to 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:19.399 run one hour and forty minutes of of of packages 0:23:19.520 --> 0:23:22.439 on a show with one hour and ten minutes of wrestling. Okay, 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:25.000 you're gonna argue about the third hour a raw now 0:23:25.040 --> 0:23:26.960 because you know what, this whole thing comes down too 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:29.240 much like that third hour, because everything you're saying is 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:32.760 exactly right. You're exactly right, Yes I am, But but 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:34.960 you know what you're wrong because it comes down to 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.240 the money. Let's say it's the money. This is my point, Mike. 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:44.679 If he says, I think they all thought the seven 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:49.400 hour thing just doesn't work. If your doesn't, but I mean, 0:23:49.480 --> 0:23:52.159 come on, hey, this is about the money, then they 0:23:52.160 --> 0:23:53.800 should have just said, you know, it's about the money. 0:23:53.800 --> 0:23:55.680 Of course, we're running two days. It's about the money 0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:58.880 we're gonna sell us. Dude, then say that, don't say Oh, 0:23:58.960 --> 0:24:02.000 the problem is the show's too long at one day, 0:24:02.200 --> 0:24:05.679 we have to run two days. Tell me that crap. 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:15.840