WEBVTT - Jericho and Moxley Contract Extensions 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Brian Alvarez and this is today's edition 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.039 of the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network. Ready, ready, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:15.360 let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.520 Alvarez here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.000 every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday's 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:26.040 three Pacific sixth Eastern, Saturday's a Tenday, and Pacific one 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:31.040 Eastern with Jim Valley. And it is Tuesday here on 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.080 this program. And you know what that means, the Tuesday 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:41.280 Night War Y's Tonight n x T versus a e W. 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.120 And we got a lot coming up on both of 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:46.880 these shows here tonight. I'm gonn get into it after 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.360 the break. Whole line ups for both of these shows 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.400 going head to head, and all everyone's gonna be talking 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.640 about tomorrow is to one. But we'll get into that 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.320 after the break because I got something to say about that. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.680 Chris Erico extending his commitment to a e W. As 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:06.080 annis via Variety today, a fifty one year old Jericho 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.560 has signed a three year contract extension with a W. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.720 Takes his deal through December twenty twenty five. So I'll 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.880 tell you more about that extension. John Moxley, of course, 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:21.559 recently resigned as well. We'll tell you what those deals entail. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.479 At least what we know, new weekly Ring of Honor 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:29.800 television series looks close becoming a reality. According to Tony 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:34.040 Kunn in Sports Illustrated, we've got the Rampage ratings from 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:40.200 Friday night. Rampage did well, my Rampage standards. SmackDown also 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.440 did a good number two point to seven four million viewers. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.840 But there's an interesting, interesting fact about the SmackDown numbers 0:01:48.840 --> 0:01:51.320 that we shall talk about here. And of course, because 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.840 it is Tuesday, on this program, we have got to 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:58.040 the Raw recap. What happened on Raw last night, Well, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.560 we'll tell you about it. All of the matches angles 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:06.280 way more similar to a Vince McMahon style show, and 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.680 also those Triple A shows that were very very patterned shows, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.120 talking four team in a match, talking four team in 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:16.120 a match, talking four team, innute match. It was uncanny. 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.920 Virtually every long match on this show, in fact, every 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:23.720 single one, what's fourteen minutes long? He really likes a 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.600 set amount of time for his matching back in a 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:47.440 moment to kick it off, Observer A live back in 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.919 the show. Bran Albert is here Wrestling Observer alive, Mikes 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.959 and Burvit also of Wrestling Observer at dot com. I 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:59.280 have to get into here today. It's Tuesday, and I 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:04.440 have post at a brand new pole up on my Twitter. 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:07.440 You can all vote in the poll. It's not just 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.560 a poll for my super followers, although it'd be interesting 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.840 if I had a separate poll for my super followers. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:16.480 It's compared to my you know, the other followers. But 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:21.000 you can't do that. But I didn't. But why don't 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.359 you because I just thought about it two seconds ago, 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:31.640 That's how long it. Yesterday I did a poll who 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:34.920 is winning the Tuesday Night War? And this was yesterday 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:39.560 before raw, okay, because I deliberately was gonna do multiple polls. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:48.360 So yesterday a W one sew that was the voting 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:51.760 margin there. And then I have just put up another 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.120 poll after rob but prior to the shows, which ends 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.840 before the shows begin, and at this point it seventy 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:09.520 x percent a w n X t okay. Now, I 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:15.120 found it funny yesterday that you know, I got a 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.719 lot of these when I looked through because I actually 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.200 did look through the comments yesterday I got a lot 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.400 of these the fans. This person says, the correct answer 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:27.760 is the fans. This person here also says the fans. 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.960 As person says the fans, it's an old joke. No 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:39.479 one cares. This person says, well, besides you, it's a 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.159 more modern troll. Got a lot of those yesterday. Then 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.120 we got please stop calling it a war. There's literally 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.240 one going on in Ukraine. And ain't that deep. All 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.640 you're doing is fueling the fire. Okay, come on, But 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.200 I didn't get a lot of those about you know, 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.359 you're fearing you where you are in the world of 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:02.200 politics and social stand You're you're fueling the fire, people said. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:04.120 And then there's there's a bunch of them like this too. 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.760 Love that the responses aren't playing into this BS the 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:12.320 fans win. Stop being a troll. I'm a troll. Okay. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.640 Then yesterday I saw on our own board and one 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:17.240 of the guys, one of the guys I think may 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:18.839 even be on the chat right here. I'm hoping he 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.359 shows up so maybe we can have a chat, but 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:27.640 he goes the wrestling media has an agenda like building 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:32.039 up this war. The media is responsible. Yeah, I was like, yeah, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:35.800 the it's the it's the media because we're talking about this, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.800 and I thought that was that was kind of funny. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.640 You know, I'm making up a war out of nowhere. 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.760 It's me. I am doing this. Well, it's funny, by 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.719 the way, because like, what what what? What's my agenda? 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.839 Because it's funny. On a normal Tuesday, all I have 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:52.560 to hear is that n x T is my favorite 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.960 show and literally nobody likes n x T except me. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:57.080 But then when it's n x T VERSL, we now 0:05:57.160 --> 0:05:59.800 got an agenda because I want to make sure that 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:04.039 a W wins literally no one except for you, and 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:07.920 then uh and then other people and another another funny one. 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.320 You know, they were talking about the because yesterday, when 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.960 when the vote started coming in, I made a comment 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.880 which was absolutely sincere. But now it has a comment 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.200 with an agenda. I said, you guys know that it's 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.560 not a foregone conclusion that a W is going to win, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.080 and I pointed out several reasons why. Well, a W 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.440 is the one that's moving to another night. That puts 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:34.800 them in a disadvantage. N x T has got Now 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.120 we've got another person added to the show. By the way, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.320 they just added Kevin Owens to the n x T show. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.520 It's like there's tons and tons of main roster talent 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:46.440 coming to the n x T show tonight, and somehow 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.359 this has now become because I pointed out all of 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.120 the advantages that w W and n x T have tonight. 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.599 Well I'm I'm I'm literally setting this up so that 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.040 a W can win and then we can have some 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:02.599 I don't even know what. Listen everyone, I'm just gonna 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.800 read the lineups for both of these shows. Okay, this 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.719 is for everybody that thinks like I'm starting this, I'm 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.720 making a big deal out of this war. I'm the 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.560 one that's building up something that isn't there. This is 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.400 the lineup for a E W and n x T 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:21.440 going head to head tonight. All right. N x T 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:26.240 has a segment with braun Breaker, Elia Dragonov and j 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:31.240 D mcdonnaugh, which will be moderated by Kevin Owens. He's 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:37.160 on the show tonight. Roxanne Perez will be facing Ria Ripley. 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:40.840 She's on the show tonight. Cora Jane will be facing 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:45.559 Roquel Rodriguez. She is on the show tonight. Alba Faire 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.400 will be facing Sonya Deville. Who will be on the 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.360 show tonight. The Skism will be facing Cameron Grimes and 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:57.600 his partners Luke Gallows and Carl Anderson. They're gonna be 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.880 on the show tonight. Stax Lorenzo be facing an opponent 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.800 if Tony D'Angelo is choosing who will be somebody from 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.800 Raw or SmackDown who will be on the show tonight. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.240 And we've got Wesley and Oro Mensa against Carmelo Hayes 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.320 and Trick Williams. That's on n x T. What do 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.840 we have on Dynamite tonight, Well, we have an a 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:22.120 e W World Championship match. John Moxley is defending the 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:26.880 a e W Championship against former champion Hangman Page, who 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:30.640 never got a rematch. We've got Tony Storm defending the 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:35.520 interim a W Women's title against Hit Carusita in a 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:40.520 championship match. We have the Death Triangle defending against Orange 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:45.000 Cassidy and the Best Friends in a trio's titled championship 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:50.320 match on Dynamite tonight. In a Ring of Honor championship match. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.400 We're now at more championship matches than the Battle of 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.839 the Belt. Chris Jericho will defend against Dalton Castle. There 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.800 will be a promo by m j F. William Regal 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.199 will do a promo with Tony Shivanni and Renee Paquette 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:09.160 who signed last week. We'll be interviewing Brian Danielson and 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.959 Wheeler Uni. So you're telling me I'm making up a war, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:21.760 I'm stirring the pot here. No, I'm covering this in fact, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.240 if we didn't cover this as a war, in fact, 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.600 there would be an agenda there. There's absolutely a war. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.280 Both sides have loaded these shows up. Both shot sides 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.839 are determined to win. Both sides, you know what, I 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.840 don't want to say. Both sides don't care about fans. 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.480 But both sides are not thinking, you know who's gonna 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.920 win tonight. The fans know. Both sides are thinking, you 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.320 know it's gonna win tonight us. So anyway, there's a 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:51.559 war tonight, and I am covering it as such. If 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:56.679 you don't like it, hit the brakes, geeks any you 0:09:56.720 --> 0:10:01.720 want to add, I think from how sounded, from all 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.439 of the words you said, from all of the times 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.520 that you have used literally incorrectly, here the way I 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:12.680 look at this, if you have a DVR, I think 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.360 the winner is the fans, because if you like pro wrestling, 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.520 at the end of the day, I don't know about you, Brian. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.280 I don't get paid from Tony Cohn and I don't 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.880 get paid from Paul Aveck. I get paid to watch wrestling, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.680 and I hope I enjoy it. Most of the people 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.600 out there, they're not getting paid by anyone to do 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.760 anything except they spend their own time and money to 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.280 be a fan. So if you're a fan of professional 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.800 wrestling and you're being offered up this bounty on two 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.600 different channels that you can either watch all at once, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.240 go back and forth on however you want to do it, 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.360 I don't know. I think if I'm just a fan 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.680 who's here for the entertainment of this stuff, I'm looking 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:54.240 at myself as a pretty much a winner tonight because 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:56.760 these two guys want to go to war or these 0:10:56.800 --> 0:11:01.520 two I'm sorry, Ms McMahon. If if Miss McMahon and 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.120 her and her men are going to work against Tony 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:10.360 CON's again, the winner is us a bounty. I'm glad 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.199 like that a bounty has been dropped in your lap 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.160 here as we approached Thanksgiving, let's give thanks for the 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:21.240 bounty of pro wrestling. Television that has been gifted to 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.600 us fans out of the goodness of the hearts of 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:28.160 Tony con Nick, con Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. Can 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.600 I ask you a question, bounty? Can I ask you 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.880 a question? Sure? Why are you so upset? Upset? All 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.080 fired up? Why? Why is that something funny to you 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.720 that we have fans are watching being able to watch 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.160 a bunch of matches with a bunch of stars in them, 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.040 including world title matches and theory on one channel there's 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.480 a bunch of big stars coming down together. It's like 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.839 you're making fun of the fans for being excited, making 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.600 fun of the fans for not being an that they're 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:58.440 not choosing a side on your Twitter and I just 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:00.840 want to watch wrestling. You need, that's what you're going 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.360 You're gonna have a heart attack. I'm making fun of 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.000 the people who don't understand what this is and are 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:08.600 pretending it's something it's not. Oh, it is not Tony 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.480 Khan and Triple H providing you a bounty. They are, 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.240 but that's not why this is being done. Who cares, 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:19.000 I'm getting a bounty. Take the free gift to shut up? Wow, 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:24.160 you know you should do during this break. What's that meditate? 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:42.679 We'll be right back in server live. I'm perfectly calm, dude. 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:46.680 I don't know about this other guy. I am perfectly fine. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.400 I am calm. I am just as calm as from 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.480 the time we started the show. Okay, one of us 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:57.240 is not having these, you know, random fights with people 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.839 online about what the meaning of bound t is and 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:05.640 how they got the meaning of bounty. Right here, Oh, 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.040 I got a bounty. I'm gonna present all of you, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:11.480 my loyal mostly viewers because the listeners can't see it, 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.840 but you know what I got. What you got? I 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:19.560 got the four w bounty in a trash can look 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:24.560 at that copia. It was a longen Burger basket. You 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.520 have to look at that. That is the That is 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.760 the wrestling bounty. I put it together during the break. 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.880 You are you don't have later a turkey. I'm gonna 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.520 enjoy today's bounty. What are you gonna watch yourself back? 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:44.199 Oh my god? Getting upset with Peter tell I know 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:46.560 I can't believe which is half the FCC has been 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:50.960 on my back recently. But you're calling you you're you're 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.240 upset and you're not even upset I just can't. I'm 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.439 not upset, That's what I said, this over a pole. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.560 And you cannot believe that people are happy because they 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:03.600 don't have to be on the front lines of this 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.240 fight there, and they're just happy about the fact that 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.280 they're getting left over with all of this wrestling while 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:11.440 you have to deal with all of it, including day 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:14.120 for another night in a row. You won't get done 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:17.800 with that show until seven o'clock. The website where for 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:20.000 like a while they had this website that you could 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:27.640 only be positive about wrestling. Remember that that lasted. Alright, 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.480 Let's talk about some other news here. There's plenty. Chris 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.240 Jericho extending his commitment. Should I mute you during this 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:36.440 this news about Chris Jericho because it's it's usually like 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.040 a trigger for you, and you've already turned pretty red today. 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.800 So Chris Jericho is extending his commitment with a w 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:45.680 it was announce to be a variety day fifty one 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.760 year old. It's signed a three year contract extension which 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.320 takes this deal through December of twenty five. He would 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.600 be able fifty five, I believe at that time. But 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.480 I'm not very good at mass I could have that wrong, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.040 like the extension recently signed by John Moxley, Jericho will 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:04.200 take on new duties. In addition to his in ring role, 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.080 Jericho will now be a producer and creative advisor for 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.800 a W, and he will continue to mentor young talent. 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.800 Jericho spoke to Variety about his decision to sign an extension. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.440 I guess the simple answer, he said, is why not 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.320 things have been going so well in the company. I 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.000 really do feel this is my company. It is tattooed 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.040 on my heart, so to speak. I have been here 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.080 since day one. There's really no reason not to be 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:33.560 here continuing forward. When a W first started, I think 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.320 basically it was Chris Jericho in a group of very 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.280 talented people that might not have been as well known 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.800 within three months that change. Now within three years, we've 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:42.880 got at least a dozen, maybe two dozen of our 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.680 own homegrown stars that came into their own on a 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:49.720 W television. Tony Conn also issued a statement said Chris 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.960 Jericho long ago submited his legacy as one of the 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:57.320 greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Fortunate to have his skills, chrisma, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.680 knowledge and insight in a W for he used to 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:03.520 come Chris Discovery Fountain of Youth. This year, he's having 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.800 some of the very best best matches of his legendary 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:08.800 career and some of the top names in wrestling, and 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.240 expanding responsibilities. Will continue to serve as a valuable leader 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:15.160 with our roster, having the opportunity to utilize one of 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:19.040 those creative minds in the history of wrestling. Talks about 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.560 his Ring of Honor Championship, the eighth world title he 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:29.480 has had in his career, and he also adds yes, yes, Mike, no, 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:34.280 go ahead, bigger belt mark than you. I think he 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.440 booked himself as the Ring of Honor champion or do 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.720 you think that maybe the promoter booked him as a 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.680 champion because he saw the value in him as the 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.640 champion of the organization. I don't know. I know Chris 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.440 Jericho says that he is pretty much walking around unfettered 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.760 right now when it comes to creative in that company, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.160 So who knows what could take place? I don't know. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.120 I'm not on the payroll, though, why don't you tell 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.360 us about it? Well, you know, I'm not on the 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:59.120 payroll either, Mike, but I can tell you this A 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.160 new weekly a Ring of Honor television series looks closer 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.520 to becoming a reality. In an interview of Sports Illustrated 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:09.120 published on Tuesday, Tony Kahn stated that there will soon 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.040 be quote great news about weekly Ring of Honor shows. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.359 Con so, there will be one more Ring of Honor 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.439 pay per view before the end of the year, and 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.239 Ring of Honor plans to follow that up with a 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:25.520 weekly show in three. We'll have great news soon about 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.560 Ring of Honor weekly shows. The success of Death before 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.520 this Honor on pay per view has ensured there will 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.480 be more Ring of Honor pay per views. Our goal 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.440 is to have one more great pay per view for 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.719 Ring of Honor in two and then follow that up 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.959 with a weekly show in twenty three. And then he 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:50.000 puts over Chris Jericho says, I'm a huge fan of 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:54.000 Chris Jericho. I followed his career for over twenty seven years. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.560 I believe he's putting forth one of the greatest years 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.399 of his career this year. He said he is one 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.399 of the biggest rs in pro wrestling. Eddie is incredibly 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.320 valuable for a w I would say that that is 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:10.920 a true statement, Mike. I would say it is to 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.000 Brian and the right person to have the R O 0:18:14.200 --> 0:18:17.400 h title right now is Chris Jericho because you are 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:21.480 trying to get a television deal for that company. So 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.320 his victory him having that title with all of the 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.640 things that he has done outside the ring, his name 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.879 does carry wait to it, with the books, with the 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:34.240 appearances on TV, the voiceover work, all that sort of stuff. 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.880 He has embedded himself in nicely into the entertainment industry 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:40.760 where I'm sure people at Warner Brothers Discovery know who 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.720 he is as well as people outside of Warner Brothers 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.200 Discovery knowing who he is. So he and him having 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.000 being the face of that company or being the face 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.000 of that product is great. Now, will they get a 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:58.920 television deal in three I don't know. I don't know 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.439 if this ends up being a streaming thing and a 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:05.440 platform that maybe has helped helps is facilitated by Warner 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:08.960 Brothers Discovery or something like that. But I'm still not 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:10.800 sure if they're going to get a TV deal, And 0:19:10.840 --> 0:19:12.760 I don't think it's the worst idea in the world 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.800 if they don't, as long as they have something, you know, 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.520 rebuild an honor club, rebuild at base to get things 0:19:18.560 --> 0:19:20.920 back up, because at the very least, you know, with 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.520 the right promotion and with what you can do with 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.199 a w TV, those r o H quarterly pay per 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:30.040 views or however you want to run them, they're going 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:37.399 to be successful. We have the ratings for Rampage and SmackDown. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.320 Rampage did four or fifty eight thousand, up thirteen point 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:44.560 four percent, still the second lowest audience total since September nine, 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:48.880 did a point one seven on the cable charts, which 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.040 actually is up thirty point eight percent from the previous week. 0:19:52.760 --> 0:19:59.200 So show did uh by Rampage standards. Well, SmackDown did 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:03.440 a very good number two point three million viewers. Basically, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.720 it was up one from the previous week, best total 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:12.080 audience for the show since September twenty three, eighteen to 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.479 forty nine. SmackDown top network television with a point five four, 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:19.680 which was identical to the rating drew the previous week. Anyway, 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:22.760 let's talk about the thing that I found fascinating here. 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:30.400 Let me read this line again. Everybody, it's the best 0:20:30.560 --> 0:20:36.679 total audience for the show since September. Do you know 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:46.000 what that means, everybody? Why? It means that September still 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:50.119 did better? You know that means that means for reasons, 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:56.399 that I cannot explain the the White Rabbit teases that 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.600 Bray White would be on SmackDown actually led to a 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:05.200 higher number then w w E telling us Bray what 0:21:05.680 --> 0:21:11.320 was gonna be on SmackDown Friday? Why, I can't explain it. 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.920 But when we get the quarters, will we kind of see, 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:18.760 you know how it did. But and that's that that 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.480 kind of is fascinating to me, Like teasing that he'll 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.920 be there actually drew more curiosity than just telling people 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:30.280 that he was going to be there. That's story. Well, 0:21:30.320 --> 0:21:35.119 that's interesting. Thank you for that, Bross. It's weird. That's wacky. 0:21:35.200 --> 0:21:38.320 It is wacky. That's like saying that's like planting a 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.439 seed that the Rock is going to show up on 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:44.680 a show and it's just skyrockets, and a week later going, 0:21:44.720 --> 0:21:47.000 hey know what, Friday, the Rock is gonna be there guaranteed, 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:53.439 people like, nah, not a surprise. I can't imagine what 0:21:53.440 --> 0:21:55.800 the ratings will be once the Rock does come back. 0:21:55.880 --> 0:21:58.560 If the Rock comes back after football is over and 0:21:58.600 --> 0:22:00.639 after things start to shake out of the beginning of 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:03.040 the year, where you are really truly building towards he 0:22:03.119 --> 0:22:05.640 and Roman at Rustleman, you will be interesting to see 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:09.320 what kind of bump at this point. A. I mean, 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.760 he's more than the rock at this point. Obviously, he's 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:16.720 Dwayne Johnson. He's a a filmmaker, a a politician or 0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.600 a possible politician. He's everything. So we'll see what that 0:22:20.680 --> 0:22:23.119 actually means once he comes back, if he comes back. 0:22:23.880 --> 0:22:26.879 And by the way, Brendan Thurston gave the quarters for 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:31.040 the Rampage show, and uh, we were wondering like was 0:22:31.080 --> 0:22:33.000 there a big lead in or what was it that 0:22:33.359 --> 0:22:36.119 helped a rampage And it was not the lead in 0:22:36.800 --> 0:22:41.000 because the the first segment on the show was not 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:45.360 the highest rated segment of the show. The the second 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:49.399 quarter was, which is unusual. Usually the show opens and 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:52.879 then falls throughout the show. But Rampage, for whatever reason, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.240 open at four thousand, grew to a half million, five, 0:22:57.400 --> 0:22:59.720 fell again, and then rose again. So it went like this, 0:23:00.440 --> 0:23:03.320 and the highest rated segment on the show was of 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:06.879 all things, well, I guess it was a number of things, 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:10.160 but the Tony Storm video and Nyla Rose and Anna 0:23:10.320 --> 0:23:16.040 j was in that segment, and also the Jericho Appreciation Society, 0:23:16.600 --> 0:23:19.960 the demo God did it again, the Dalton Castle promo 0:23:20.040 --> 0:23:22.600 setting up the ring of Honor Championship match that was 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:27.400 the highest rated thing on the Rampage show on Friday. 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:30.159 I don't think we've got quarters for SmackDown yet, but 0:23:30.200 --> 0:23:33.359 my guess is that unlike September twenty three, it does 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.480 not appear that anything did three million viewers. Like that, 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:44.399 Like that Otis match with Bronze Stroman that was not 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:47.560 a bounty. It was a bounty to me. I like 0:23:47.720 --> 0:23:52.600 that match. Back in a moment, Observer Live Start got 0:23:52.680 --> 0:24:09.240 so far fallen, three will be betweens and the Cool 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:18.320 Cool Morning Turn the Day Living Rode is easy back 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:20.880 in the show. Bright Albaret is here wrestling Observer Live 0:24:20.960 --> 0:24:23.320 miximb for v They also wrestling Observer dot Com. So 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:26.439 ing the Raw report. Brandon Thurston did op post the 0:24:26.600 --> 0:24:29.479 quarters for SmackDown, and I don't give you all of them. 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:30.919 If you want the whole thing, you can subscribe to 0:24:30.920 --> 0:24:33.880 as Patreon. But here the two, uh, the two most 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:39.320 notable things. Number one, bray White's return did not do 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:43.080 three million viewers and in fact was not the highest 0:24:43.160 --> 0:24:46.240 rated quarter of the show. Now, it did have a 0:24:46.280 --> 0:24:50.200 tremendous amount of growth, but that's largely because it came 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:52.880 following the death spot, so there was big growth right there, 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:58.240