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, ready,
Speaker 1: let's get it all. How's it going to everybody? Brian
Speaker 1: Alvarez here on or Wrestling Observer Live. We are here
Speaker 1: every day Monday through Friday, New Pacific three Eastern, Sunday's
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Speaker 1: Eastern with Jim Valley. And it is Tuesday here on
Speaker 1: this program. And you know what that means, the Tuesday
Speaker 1: Night War Y's Tonight n x T versus a e W.
Speaker 1: And we got a lot coming up on both of
Speaker 1: these shows here tonight. I'm gonn get into it after
Speaker 1: the break. Whole line ups for both of these shows
Speaker 1: going head to head, and all everyone's gonna be talking
Speaker 1: about tomorrow is to one. But we'll get into that
Speaker 1: after the break because I got something to say about that.
Speaker 1: Chris Erico extending his commitment to a e W. As
Speaker 1: annis via Variety today, a fifty one year old Jericho
Speaker 1: has signed a three year contract extension with a W.
Speaker 1: Takes his deal through December twenty twenty five. So I'll
Speaker 1: tell you more about that extension. John Moxley, of course,
Speaker 1: recently resigned as well. We'll tell you what those deals entail.
Speaker 1: At least what we know, new weekly Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: television series looks close becoming a reality. According to Tony
Speaker 1: Kunn in Sports Illustrated, we've got the Rampage ratings from
Speaker 1: Friday night. Rampage did well, my Rampage standards. SmackDown also
Speaker 1: did a good number two point to seven four million viewers.
Speaker 1: But there's an interesting, interesting fact about the SmackDown numbers
Speaker 1: that we shall talk about here. And of course, because
Speaker 1: it is Tuesday, on this program, we have got to
Speaker 1: the Raw recap. What happened on Raw last night, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll tell you about it. All of the matches angles
Speaker 1: way more similar to a Vince McMahon style show, and
Speaker 1: also those Triple A shows that were very very patterned shows,
Speaker 1: talking four team in a match, talking four team in
Speaker 1: a match, talking four team, innute match. It was uncanny.
Speaker 1: Virtually every long match on this show, in fact, every
Speaker 1: single one, what's fourteen minutes long? He really likes a
Speaker 1: set amount of time for his matching back in a
Speaker 1: moment to kick it off, Observer A live back in
Speaker 1: the show. Bran Albert is here Wrestling Observer alive, Mikes
Speaker 1: and Burvit also of Wrestling Observer at dot com. I
Speaker 1: have to get into here today. It's Tuesday, and I
Speaker 1: have post at a brand new pole up on my Twitter.
Speaker 1: You can all vote in the poll. It's not just
Speaker 1: a poll for my super followers, although it'd be interesting
Speaker 1: if I had a separate poll for my super followers.
Speaker 1: It's compared to my you know, the other followers. But
Speaker 1: you can't do that. But I didn't. But why don't
Speaker 1: you because I just thought about it two seconds ago,
Speaker 1: That's how long it. Yesterday I did a poll who
Speaker 1: is winning the Tuesday Night War? And this was yesterday
Speaker 1: before raw, okay, because I deliberately was gonna do multiple polls.
Speaker 1: So yesterday a W one sew that was the voting
Speaker 1: margin there. And then I have just put up another
Speaker 1: poll after rob but prior to the shows, which ends
Speaker 1: before the shows begin, and at this point it seventy
Speaker 1: x percent a w n X t okay. Now, I
Speaker 1: found it funny yesterday that you know, I got a
Speaker 1: lot of these when I looked through because I actually
Speaker 1: did look through the comments yesterday I got a lot
Speaker 1: of these the fans. This person says, the correct answer
Speaker 1: is the fans. This person here also says the fans.
Speaker 1: As person says the fans, it's an old joke. No
Speaker 1: one cares. This person says, well, besides you, it's a
Speaker 1: more modern troll. Got a lot of those yesterday. Then
Speaker 1: we got please stop calling it a war. There's literally
Speaker 1: one going on in Ukraine. And ain't that deep. All
Speaker 1: you're doing is fueling the fire. Okay, come on, But
Speaker 1: I didn't get a lot of those about you know,
Speaker 1: you're fearing you where you are in the world of
Speaker 1: politics and social stand You're you're fueling the fire, people said.
Speaker 1: And then there's there's a bunch of them like this too.
Speaker 1: Love that the responses aren't playing into this BS the
Speaker 1: fans win. Stop being a troll. I'm a troll. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then yesterday I saw on our own board and one
Speaker 1: of the guys, one of the guys I think may
Speaker 1: even be on the chat right here. I'm hoping he
Speaker 1: shows up so maybe we can have a chat, but
Speaker 1: he goes the wrestling media has an agenda like building
Speaker 1: up this war. The media is responsible. Yeah, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: the it's the it's the media because we're talking about this,
Speaker 1: and I thought that was that was kind of funny.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm making up a war out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: It's me. I am doing this. Well, it's funny, by
Speaker 1: the way, because like, what what what? What's my agenda?
Speaker 1: Because it's funny. On a normal Tuesday, all I have
Speaker 1: to hear is that n x T is my favorite
Speaker 1: show and literally nobody likes n x T except me.
Speaker 1: But then when it's n x T VERSL, we now
Speaker 1: got an agenda because I want to make sure that
Speaker 1: a W wins literally no one except for you, and
Speaker 1: then uh and then other people and another another funny one.
Speaker 1: You know, they were talking about the because yesterday, when
Speaker 1: when the vote started coming in, I made a comment
Speaker 1: which was absolutely sincere. But now it has a comment
Speaker 1: with an agenda. I said, you guys know that it's
Speaker 1: not a foregone conclusion that a W is going to win,
Speaker 1: and I pointed out several reasons why. Well, a W
Speaker 1: is the one that's moving to another night. That puts
Speaker 1: them in a disadvantage. N x T has got Now
Speaker 1: we've got another person added to the show. By the way,
Speaker 1: they just added Kevin Owens to the n x T show.
Speaker 1: It's like there's tons and tons of main roster talent
Speaker 1: coming to the n x T show tonight, and somehow
Speaker 1: this has now become because I pointed out all of
Speaker 1: the advantages that w W and n x T have tonight.
Speaker 1: Well I'm I'm I'm literally setting this up so that
Speaker 1: a W can win and then we can have some
Speaker 1: I don't even know what. Listen everyone, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: read the lineups for both of these shows. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is for everybody that thinks like I'm starting this, I'm
Speaker 1: making a big deal out of this war. I'm the
Speaker 1: one that's building up something that isn't there. This is
Speaker 1: the lineup for a E W and n x T
Speaker 1: going head to head tonight. All right. N x T
Speaker 1: has a segment with braun Breaker, Elia Dragonov and j
Speaker 1: D mcdonnaugh, which will be moderated by Kevin Owens. He's
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. Roxanne Perez will be facing Ria Ripley.
Speaker 1: She's on the show tonight. Cora Jane will be facing
Speaker 1: Roquel Rodriguez. She is on the show tonight. Alba Faire
Speaker 1: will be facing Sonya Deville. Who will be on the
Speaker 1: show tonight. The Skism will be facing Cameron Grimes and
Speaker 1: his partners Luke Gallows and Carl Anderson. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: on the show tonight. Stax Lorenzo be facing an opponent
Speaker 1: if Tony D'Angelo is choosing who will be somebody from
Speaker 1: Raw or SmackDown who will be on the show tonight.
Speaker 1: And we've got Wesley and Oro Mensa against Carmelo Hayes
Speaker 1: and Trick Williams. That's on n x T. What do
Speaker 1: we have on Dynamite tonight, Well, we have an a
Speaker 1: e W World Championship match. John Moxley is defending the
Speaker 1: a e W Championship against former champion Hangman Page, who
Speaker 1: never got a rematch. We've got Tony Storm defending the
Speaker 1: interim a W Women's title against Hit Carusita in a
Speaker 1: championship match. We have the Death Triangle defending against Orange
Speaker 1: Cassidy and the Best Friends in a trio's titled championship
Speaker 1: match on Dynamite tonight. In a Ring of Honor championship match.
Speaker 1: We're now at more championship matches than the Battle of
Speaker 1: the Belt. Chris Jericho will defend against Dalton Castle. There
Speaker 1: will be a promo by m j F. William Regal
Speaker 1: will do a promo with Tony Shivanni and Renee Paquette
Speaker 1: who signed last week. We'll be interviewing Brian Danielson and
Speaker 1: Wheeler Uni. So you're telling me I'm making up a war,
Speaker 1: I'm stirring the pot here. No, I'm covering this in fact,
Speaker 1: if we didn't cover this as a war, in fact,
Speaker 1: there would be an agenda there. There's absolutely a war.
Speaker 1: Both sides have loaded these shows up. Both shot sides
Speaker 1: are determined to win. Both sides, you know what, I
Speaker 1: don't want to say. Both sides don't care about fans.
Speaker 1: But both sides are not thinking, you know who's gonna
Speaker 1: win tonight. The fans know. Both sides are thinking, you
Speaker 1: know it's gonna win tonight us. So anyway, there's a
Speaker 1: war tonight, and I am covering it as such. If
Speaker 1: you don't like it, hit the brakes, geeks any you
Speaker 1: want to add, I think from how sounded, from all
Speaker 1: of the words you said, from all of the times
Speaker 1: that you have used literally incorrectly, here the way I
Speaker 1: look at this, if you have a DVR, I think
Speaker 1: the winner is the fans, because if you like pro wrestling,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I don't know about you, Brian.
Speaker 1: I don't get paid from Tony Cohn and I don't
Speaker 1: get paid from Paul Aveck. I get paid to watch wrestling,
Speaker 1: and I hope I enjoy it. Most of the people
Speaker 1: out there, they're not getting paid by anyone to do
Speaker 1: anything except they spend their own time and money to
Speaker 1: be a fan. So if you're a fan of professional
Speaker 1: wrestling and you're being offered up this bounty on two
Speaker 1: different channels that you can either watch all at once,
Speaker 1: go back and forth on however you want to do it,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think if I'm just a fan
Speaker 1: who's here for the entertainment of this stuff, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at myself as a pretty much a winner tonight because
Speaker 1: these two guys want to go to war or these
Speaker 1: two I'm sorry, Ms McMahon. If if Miss McMahon and
Speaker 1: her and her men are going to work against Tony
Speaker 1: CON's again, the winner is us a bounty. I'm glad
Speaker 1: like that a bounty has been dropped in your lap
Speaker 1: here as we approached Thanksgiving, let's give thanks for the
Speaker 1: bounty of pro wrestling. Television that has been gifted to
Speaker 1: us fans out of the goodness of the hearts of
Speaker 1: Tony con Nick, con Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. Can
Speaker 1: I ask you a question, bounty? Can I ask you
Speaker 1: a question? Sure? Why are you so upset? Upset? All
Speaker 1: fired up? Why? Why is that something funny to you
Speaker 1: that we have fans are watching being able to watch
Speaker 1: a bunch of matches with a bunch of stars in them,
Speaker 1: including world title matches and theory on one channel there's
Speaker 1: a bunch of big stars coming down together. It's like
Speaker 1: you're making fun of the fans for being excited, making
Speaker 1: fun of the fans for not being an that they're
Speaker 1: not choosing a side on your Twitter and I just
Speaker 1: want to watch wrestling. You need, that's what you're going
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a heart attack. I'm making fun of
Speaker 1: the people who don't understand what this is and are
Speaker 1: pretending it's something it's not. Oh, it is not Tony
Speaker 1: Khan and Triple H providing you a bounty. They are,
Speaker 1: but that's not why this is being done. Who cares,
Speaker 1: I'm getting a bounty. Take the free gift to shut up? Wow,
Speaker 1: you know you should do during this break. What's that meditate?
Speaker 1: We'll be right back in server live. I'm perfectly calm, dude.
Speaker 1: I don't know about this other guy. I am perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: I am calm. I am just as calm as from
Speaker 1: the time we started the show. Okay, one of us
Speaker 1: is not having these, you know, random fights with people
Speaker 1: online about what the meaning of bound t is and
Speaker 1: how they got the meaning of bounty. Right here, Oh,
Speaker 1: I got a bounty. I'm gonna present all of you,
Speaker 1: my loyal mostly viewers because the listeners can't see it,
Speaker 1: but you know what I got. What you got? I
Speaker 1: got the four w bounty in a trash can look
Speaker 1: at that copia. It was a longen Burger basket. You
Speaker 1: have to look at that. That is the That is
Speaker 1: the wrestling bounty. I put it together during the break.
Speaker 1: You are you don't have later a turkey. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: enjoy today's bounty. What are you gonna watch yourself back?
Speaker 1: Oh my god? Getting upset with Peter tell I know
Speaker 1: I can't believe which is half the FCC has been
Speaker 1: on my back recently. But you're calling you you're you're
Speaker 1: upset and you're not even upset I just can't. I'm
Speaker 1: not upset, That's what I said, this over a pole.
Speaker 1: And you cannot believe that people are happy because they
Speaker 1: don't have to be on the front lines of this
Speaker 1: fight there, and they're just happy about the fact that
Speaker 1: they're getting left over with all of this wrestling while
Speaker 1: you have to deal with all of it, including day
Speaker 1: for another night in a row. You won't get done
Speaker 1: with that show until seven o'clock. The website where for
Speaker 1: like a while they had this website that you could
Speaker 1: only be positive about wrestling. Remember that that lasted. Alright,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some other news here. There's plenty. Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho extending his commitment. Should I mute you during this
Speaker 1: this news about Chris Jericho because it's it's usually like
Speaker 1: a trigger for you, and you've already turned pretty red today.
Speaker 1: So Chris Jericho is extending his commitment with a w
Speaker 1: it was announce to be a variety day fifty one
Speaker 1: year old. It's signed a three year contract extension which
Speaker 1: takes this deal through December of twenty five. He would
Speaker 1: be able fifty five, I believe at that time. But
Speaker 1: I'm not very good at mass I could have that wrong,
Speaker 1: like the extension recently signed by John Moxley, Jericho will
Speaker 1: take on new duties. In addition to his in ring role,
Speaker 1: Jericho will now be a producer and creative advisor for
Speaker 1: a W, and he will continue to mentor young talent.
Speaker 1: Jericho spoke to Variety about his decision to sign an extension.
Speaker 1: I guess the simple answer, he said, is why not
Speaker 1: things have been going so well in the company. I
Speaker 1: really do feel this is my company. It is tattooed
Speaker 1: on my heart, so to speak. I have been here
Speaker 1: since day one. There's really no reason not to be
Speaker 1: here continuing forward. When a W first started, I think
Speaker 1: basically it was Chris Jericho in a group of very
Speaker 1: talented people that might not have been as well known
Speaker 1: within three months that change. Now within three years, we've
Speaker 1: got at least a dozen, maybe two dozen of our
Speaker 1: own homegrown stars that came into their own on a
Speaker 1: W television. Tony Conn also issued a statement said Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho long ago submited his legacy as one of the
Speaker 1: greatest professional wrestlers of all time. Fortunate to have his skills, chrisma,
Speaker 1: knowledge and insight in a W for he used to
Speaker 1: come Chris Discovery Fountain of Youth. This year, he's having
Speaker 1: some of the very best best matches of his legendary
Speaker 1: career and some of the top names in wrestling, and
Speaker 1: expanding responsibilities. Will continue to serve as a valuable leader
Speaker 1: with our roster, having the opportunity to utilize one of
Speaker 1: those creative minds in the history of wrestling. Talks about
Speaker 1: his Ring of Honor Championship, the eighth world title he
Speaker 1: has had in his career, and he also adds yes, yes, Mike, no,
Speaker 1: go ahead, bigger belt mark than you. I think he
Speaker 1: booked himself as the Ring of Honor champion or do
Speaker 1: you think that maybe the promoter booked him as a
Speaker 1: champion because he saw the value in him as the
Speaker 1: champion of the organization. I don't know. I know Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho says that he is pretty much walking around unfettered
Speaker 1: right now when it comes to creative in that company,
Speaker 1: So who knows what could take place? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm not on the payroll, though, why don't you tell
Speaker 1: us about it? Well, you know, I'm not on the
Speaker 1: payroll either, Mike, but I can tell you this A
Speaker 1: new weekly a Ring of Honor television series looks closer
Speaker 1: to becoming a reality. In an interview of Sports Illustrated
Speaker 1: published on Tuesday, Tony Kahn stated that there will soon
Speaker 1: be quote great news about weekly Ring of Honor shows.
Speaker 1: Con so, there will be one more Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: pay per view before the end of the year, and
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor plans to follow that up with a
Speaker 1: weekly show in three. We'll have great news soon about
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor weekly shows. The success of Death before
Speaker 1: this Honor on pay per view has ensured there will
Speaker 1: be more Ring of Honor pay per views. Our goal
Speaker 1: is to have one more great pay per view for
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor in two and then follow that up
Speaker 1: with a weekly show in twenty three. And then he
Speaker 1: puts over Chris Jericho says, I'm a huge fan of
Speaker 1: Chris Jericho. I followed his career for over twenty seven years.
Speaker 1: I believe he's putting forth one of the greatest years
Speaker 1: of his career this year. He said he is one
Speaker 1: of the biggest rs in pro wrestling. Eddie is incredibly
Speaker 1: valuable for a w I would say that that is
Speaker 1: a true statement, Mike. I would say it is to
Speaker 1: Brian and the right person to have the R O
Speaker 1: h title right now is Chris Jericho because you are
Speaker 1: trying to get a television deal for that company. So
Speaker 1: his victory him having that title with all of the
Speaker 1: things that he has done outside the ring, his name
Speaker 1: does carry wait to it, with the books, with the
Speaker 1: appearances on TV, the voiceover work, all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: He has embedded himself in nicely into the entertainment industry
Speaker 1: where I'm sure people at Warner Brothers Discovery know who
Speaker 1: he is as well as people outside of Warner Brothers
Speaker 1: Discovery knowing who he is. So he and him having
Speaker 1: being the face of that company or being the face
Speaker 1: of that product is great. Now, will they get a
Speaker 1: television deal in three I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: if this ends up being a streaming thing and a
Speaker 1: platform that maybe has helped helps is facilitated by Warner
Speaker 1: Brothers Discovery or something like that. But I'm still not
Speaker 1: sure if they're going to get a TV deal, And
Speaker 1: I don't think it's the worst idea in the world
Speaker 1: if they don't, as long as they have something, you know,
Speaker 1: rebuild an honor club, rebuild at base to get things
Speaker 1: back up, because at the very least, you know, with
Speaker 1: the right promotion and with what you can do with
Speaker 1: a w TV, those r o H quarterly pay per
Speaker 1: views or however you want to run them, they're going
Speaker 1: to be successful. We have the ratings for Rampage and SmackDown.
Speaker 1: Rampage did four or fifty eight thousand, up thirteen point
Speaker 1: four percent, still the second lowest audience total since September nine,
Speaker 1: did a point one seven on the cable charts, which
Speaker 1: actually is up thirty point eight percent from the previous week.
Speaker 1: So show did uh by Rampage standards. Well, SmackDown did
Speaker 1: a very good number two point three million viewers. Basically,
Speaker 1: it was up one from the previous week, best total
Speaker 1: audience for the show since September twenty three, eighteen to
Speaker 1: forty nine. SmackDown top network television with a point five four,
Speaker 1: which was identical to the rating drew the previous week. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the thing that I found fascinating here.
Speaker 1: Let me read this line again. Everybody, it's the best
Speaker 1: total audience for the show since September. Do you know
Speaker 1: what that means, everybody? Why? It means that September still
Speaker 1: did better? You know that means that means for reasons,
Speaker 1: that I cannot explain the the White Rabbit teases that
Speaker 1: Bray White would be on SmackDown actually led to a
Speaker 1: higher number then w w E telling us Bray what
Speaker 1: was gonna be on SmackDown Friday? Why, I can't explain it.
Speaker 1: But when we get the quarters, will we kind of see,
Speaker 1: you know how it did. But and that's that that
Speaker 1: kind of is fascinating to me, Like teasing that he'll
Speaker 1: be there actually drew more curiosity than just telling people
Speaker 1: that he was going to be there. That's story. Well,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Thank you for that, Bross. It's weird. That's wacky.
Speaker 1: It is wacky. That's like saying that's like planting a
Speaker 1: seed that the Rock is going to show up on
Speaker 1: a show and it's just skyrockets, and a week later going,
Speaker 1: hey know what, Friday, the Rock is gonna be there guaranteed,
Speaker 1: people like, nah, not a surprise. I can't imagine what
Speaker 1: the ratings will be once the Rock does come back.
Speaker 1: If the Rock comes back after football is over and
Speaker 1: after things start to shake out of the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year, where you are really truly building towards he
Speaker 1: and Roman at Rustleman, you will be interesting to see
Speaker 1: what kind of bump at this point. A. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's more than the rock at this point. Obviously, he's
Speaker 1: Dwayne Johnson. He's a a filmmaker, a a politician or
Speaker 1: a possible politician. He's everything. So we'll see what that
Speaker 1: actually means once he comes back, if he comes back.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Brendan Thurston gave the quarters for
Speaker 1: the Rampage show, and uh, we were wondering like was
Speaker 1: there a big lead in or what was it that
Speaker 1: helped a rampage And it was not the lead in
Speaker 1: because the the first segment on the show was not
Speaker 1: the highest rated segment of the show. The the second
Speaker 1: quarter was, which is unusual. Usually the show opens and
Speaker 1: then falls throughout the show. But Rampage, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: open at four thousand, grew to a half million, five,
Speaker 1: fell again, and then rose again. So it went like this,
Speaker 1: and the highest rated segment on the show was of
Speaker 1: all things, well, I guess it was a number of things,
Speaker 1: but the Tony Storm video and Nyla Rose and Anna
Speaker 1: j was in that segment, and also the Jericho Appreciation Society,
Speaker 1: the demo God did it again, the Dalton Castle promo
Speaker 1: setting up the ring of Honor Championship match that was
Speaker 1: the highest rated thing on the Rampage show on Friday.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've got quarters for SmackDown yet, but
Speaker 1: my guess is that unlike September twenty three, it does
Speaker 1: not appear that anything did three million viewers. Like that,
Speaker 1: Like that Otis match with Bronze Stroman that was not
Speaker 1: a bounty. It was a bounty to me. I like
Speaker 1: that match. Back in a moment, Observer Live Start got
Speaker 1: so far fallen, three will be betweens and the Cool
Speaker 1: Cool Morning Turn the Day Living Rode is easy back
Speaker 1: in the show. Bright Albaret is here wrestling Observer Live
Speaker 1: miximb for v They also wrestling Observer dot Com. So
Speaker 1: ing the Raw report. Brandon Thurston did op post the
Speaker 1: quarters for SmackDown, and I don't give you all of them.
Speaker 1: If you want the whole thing, you can subscribe to
Speaker 1: as Patreon. But here the two, uh, the two most
Speaker 1: notable things. Number one, bray White's return did not do
Speaker 1: three million viewers and in fact was not the highest
Speaker 1: rated quarter of the show. Now, it did have a
Speaker 1: tremendous amount of growth, but that's largely because it came
Speaker 1: following the death spot, so there was big growth right there,
Speaker 1: but it did two point three million viewers, So the tease,
Speaker 1: the t that he would be there easily did over
Speaker 1: a half million viewers more than him actually being there
Speaker 1: if you look at these numbers. And the highest rated
Speaker 1: segment on the show was actually quarter three, which featured
Speaker 1: once again braun Stroman, and they featured a lot of things,
Speaker 1: but the bron Stroman squash match was in that segment,
Speaker 1: as well as the angle with Damage Control and a
Speaker 1: commercial which is telling you something by the ways, braun Stroman,
Speaker 1: let me tell you and uh, and a short angle
Speaker 1: with the bloodline he's been a bound to each of
Speaker 1: the ratings is what you're saying he has and believe
Speaker 1: it or not, you know what tied the bray White
Speaker 1: quarter l A Knight versus Men SWA and l A
Speaker 1: Night promo, another ad, and the Damage Control versus Rez
Speaker 1: and shots match, which is actually also interesting because my
Speaker 1: YouTube TV I guess there must have been a preemption
Speaker 1: or something. So the version that was put up on
Speaker 1: YouTube tv was only an hour and thirty six minutes,
Speaker 1: and that's actually the segment that they cut. So anyway,
Speaker 1: numbers are funny huh, i'd say, so they are. They
Speaker 1: are funny. All right, we're ready for this raw report.
Speaker 1: I guess there's really not a lot to talk about here. Bra.
Speaker 1: This was more like a It's kind of like how
Speaker 1: it was. Here's a thing about the Triple H shows
Speaker 1: that I just this is. This is my fascination with
Speaker 1: him of late. For whatever reason. Every week it's like
Speaker 1: he chooses a number and then every match is that number.
Speaker 1: So like a couple of weeks ago, it was eighteen minutes,
Speaker 1: and like every match on the show was like eighteen
Speaker 1: minutes long, with maybe one exception. And then last week
Speaker 1: it was weird because last week it was like eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Every every match for the most part, got eight minutes,
Speaker 1: and then uh, this week the magic number was like
Speaker 1: fourteen minutes. Virtually every single match was thirteen or fourteen
Speaker 1: minutes long, and they all had it was the same pattern,
Speaker 1: long talking segment match, long talking segment match that the
Speaker 1: whole show. So last week's show I thought was way
Speaker 1: better than this show because this was that same pattern again,
Speaker 1: and man, let me tell you struggled to stay awake.
Speaker 1: Starting with the Baron Corby matches. We'll get to so
Speaker 1: the show opened up, great Bobby Lashly's in the ring
Speaker 1: calls out brock Lessner. They don't waste no time. Lessner
Speaker 1: comes out and it's on like neckbone and they battle
Speaker 1: and they brawl and they beat the crap out of
Speaker 1: each other. All these geeks come down and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was a good fun wild brawl and
Speaker 1: Lashly put him through a table. So it was actually
Speaker 1: interesting because last week, you know, we were talking about
Speaker 1: Lashly and how man that guy was Geek of the
Speaker 1: Week after last week's Oh but they went out of
Speaker 1: their way this week to try to remedy that he
Speaker 1: was not Geek of the Week. This week he put
Speaker 1: a beating on Old Lesner. We had Gallows and Anderson
Speaker 1: beating the Alpha Academy and uh oh ce hit the
Speaker 1: magic Killer for the wind and then out comes the
Speaker 1: Judgment Day and they're making fun of Gallows Anderson and
Speaker 1: a J and they challenged him to a match at
Speaker 1: Crown Jewel, where Finn grabbed his jewels to make that
Speaker 1: challenge and then they then a J gos won't you
Speaker 1: just do tonight? And I We're not doing it tonight,
Speaker 1: and AJ made fun of Old Dom so Rhea steps
Speaker 1: up for Dom, and essentially Dom versus a J gets
Speaker 1: signed for later on tonight, and Tom's not exactly thrilled
Speaker 1: until his woman says, you're a man, right, and then
Speaker 1: he decides he as a man, so that's signed for later.
Speaker 1: We had a Seth Rawlins promo, same stupid gimmick, same
Speaker 1: stupid dancing. I don't get it. You know what he
Speaker 1: knows this week? This week he's got the big graphic
Speaker 1: and it goes Seth freaking rollins. I don't even know
Speaker 1: why he's freaking Does he freak out all the time?
Speaker 1: I guess he does if you watch his entrance and
Speaker 1: then you know, I I realized they've called him this forever,
Speaker 1: but I just noticed it. He's the visionary. He's the visionary.
Speaker 1: They put in big block letters on his entrance, so
Speaker 1: now you know what he is. Now he's Lacey Evans
Speaker 1: and n x T. He's a guy and he just
Speaker 1: got eighty five gimmicks all going on at the same time.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on. He's Okay, what do
Speaker 1: we got? He's freaking whatever that means. Uh. For a
Speaker 1: while there, he was an architect, like he built structures,
Speaker 1: he's apparently a conductor. We know that, right, because he
Speaker 1: does this and his music that people sing his music,
Speaker 1: which what I don't know this music hays do with anything.
Speaker 1: So he's a conductor and an architect. He's a visionary visionary,
Speaker 1: so I guess he's a head of ahead of the curve.
Speaker 1: Is that what that means? He's a visionary. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: a while he was a messiah. I guess he's not
Speaker 1: a missigh anymore. But he's a visionary and a conductor
Speaker 1: and a building builder. And apparently is he a fashion maven? What? What?
Speaker 1: What's with the fashion stuff like the jackets and the
Speaker 1: and the glasses? Is he is he like some guy
Speaker 1: that walks the runway? Can somebody and I mean this, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Colby Lopez. He's a fantastic wrestler.
Speaker 1: But can anybody explain to me what's his gimmick? Anyone wrestler?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at the chat here and it's
Speaker 1: like the joker he is. He doesn't tell jokes, right,
Speaker 1: Did you try and blow up cities? No? In fact,
Speaker 1: he's an architect, which goes against the whole idea of
Speaker 1: trying to blow up a building, which the joker did
Speaker 1: what he builds it and then blows it up. Oh
Speaker 1: that's a cool gimmick. So anyway, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Yeah, the laugh. Don't even get me going
Speaker 1: on the laugh. So he cuts a promo. He's also
Speaker 1: a father and a husband, Brian Alvarez, Hey, listen, I
Speaker 1: I have nothing against Colby Lopez, the father and husband.
Speaker 1: I'm asking a question about seth Rawlins, the architect, visionary
Speaker 1: conductor joker. I don't get it. Well, as far as
Speaker 1: fashion may even goes, you may actually have to ask
Speaker 1: his wife, who's did she dropped that? Did you forget
Speaker 1: she dropped that when when Triple A showed up? So anyway,
Speaker 1: Ali comes out and he wants he wants Rawlins and
Speaker 1: they have a brawl. Then we had EO Sky in
Speaker 1: Dakota Kai versus Bianca and Candice and it was a
Speaker 1: non titled match. Cannice was defeated and so they will
Speaker 1: not be getting a championship match by my calculations. But
Speaker 1: I'm not a mathematician, so we'll see what happens here.
Speaker 1: Because I don't have multiple gimmicks, I only have one.
Speaker 1: Then we have Riddle doing a promo and he tells Olali,
Speaker 1: if I win tonight, I'll give you a shot. You
Speaker 1: deserve it, and then MS is over there clearly faking
Speaker 1: a kny injury, which leads to literally nothing. Later, Cora
Speaker 1: Jade asked Rhea Ripley to be her or whatever, and
Speaker 1: Rhea says yes. Then we had to this j b L.
Speaker 1: Say what you want about j b L. I've said,
Speaker 1: I've said a lot of things over the years. I've
Speaker 1: said more about j b L than I have about
Speaker 1: Seth's current gimmick. By the way, but bro, this guy
Speaker 1: can talk. And man, this guy came out and they
Speaker 1: gave him a mic and he was great. First he
Speaker 1: starts with a cheap heat talking about football, making the
Speaker 1: fans hate him. Then he starts introducing, of all people,
Speaker 1: Baron Corbin, who's no longer happy he's a Baron again,
Speaker 1: and he he calls him out and he tries to
Speaker 1: put this guy over like he's literally he's comparing him
Speaker 1: to Bruno Sammartino, whole Hogan. He is the new wrestling god.
Speaker 1: So then they have a match with him and Dolph
Speaker 1: Ziggler where Dave's trying to explain, well, the ideas they
Speaker 1: want you to think that he's a wrestling god, So
Speaker 1: we're gonna go fourteen minutes with dolve Ziger. I was, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm not even kidding. I was like, I gotta pause
Speaker 1: the show and like take a nap because I ain't
Speaker 1: gonna make it. That's actually where I turned off and
Speaker 1: went to sleep. It went on and on, and it
Speaker 1: wasn't like it was bad, but what has his thing
Speaker 1: been for years? Boring Corbin and this match was largely boring,
Speaker 1: and I struggled. I managed to stay awake, So congratulations
Speaker 1: to me and Corbin one. Finally, after thirteen minutes and
Speaker 1: thirty eight seconds, j B l raised his hand. I
Speaker 1: was like, bro, every week, I'm gonna put up with this.
Speaker 1: I much bro. I so much preferred Happy Corby in
Speaker 1: Mad Cap as a goofy duo telling stupid jokes, far
Speaker 1: superior to this. And of course you know MS is
Speaker 1: making up some excuses. But then Johnny Gargano says his
Speaker 1: name of Dexter Loomis. He leaps to his feet, he's
Speaker 1: not hurt, and he's like, well, I'll go wrestle now.
Speaker 1: You wasted so much of my time with that angle
Speaker 1: m v P and O Moss about to be at
Speaker 1: SmackDown because you know these borders there there are no
Speaker 1: borders unless you're Ray then there's a strict border wall
Speaker 1: between Ron SmackDown. We have Dominic versus a J. And
Speaker 1: there was nothing wrong with this match, but following that
Speaker 1: Corbin match, I could not take fifteen minutes of Dominic
Speaker 1: and a J. I've got like on the cartoons, I
Speaker 1: got toothpicks, holding my eyes open, trying so hard, and
Speaker 1: finally the end there's interference. Ria grabs AJ's leg, Dominic
Speaker 1: rolls him up for the pin. The announcers are playing
Speaker 1: it up like it is the biggest upset in world
Speaker 1: wrestling entertainment, and I quote in years, Well, the problem
Speaker 1: is on every single solitary show we have multiple instances
Speaker 1: of outside interference leading to a pinfall. So there was
Speaker 1: zero impact of this whatsoever. Nobody watched this and thought,
Speaker 1: my god, they'll be talking about this victory like they
Speaker 1: talked about the one two three kid and raised Ramon. No,
Speaker 1: they will not. It was another distraction finish on Raw
Speaker 1: and UM one Dexter Lewis and the miss after being
Speaker 1: advertised for a week with steps didn't happen. Miss beats
Speaker 1: him up, leaves him laying no match, but you know
Speaker 1: card is subject to change, so who cares. Then we
Speaker 1: had damage controlled. During a promo they announced bell Air
Speaker 1: and Bailey next week. We've gone from a championship ladder
Speaker 1: match to a non title singles match with no steps
Speaker 1: next week. That's how we're building up this few Gargando's
Speaker 1: meeting with Miss MS has a secret involving Dexter Loomis,
Speaker 1: but we have to wait to find out what could
Speaker 1: possibly be. Elias returned. He says his brother's career was
Speaker 1: tragically cut short. Tragic. I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: I refer that to that as a tragedy, but he
Speaker 1: did so anyway, he uh, you know, he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna play the tickle, the ivories, the keyboard, the riddle
Speaker 1: comes out out, they do some comedy and then he
Speaker 1: is interrupted by the conductor architect Messiah Joker, and then
Speaker 1: the match begins and you'll never guess another fourteen match,
Speaker 1: but hey, you know what is seth Rawlins and Matt Riddles.
Speaker 1: It was a good match. At least we have that,
Speaker 1: and Elias is outside Rawlins wants Alias to attack him
Speaker 1: so that he'll retain his title via d Q. Alias
Speaker 1: won't attack him, so Seth super kicks Alias. Seth gets
Speaker 1: in the ring, Riddle goes for the r k oh
Speaker 1: Elias enters the ring, Riddle is shoved into him, Alias
Speaker 1: falls outside, Seth curb Stompson and wins. And then we're
Speaker 1: moving on to all the all the attacks, rawlins and
Speaker 1: we'll have a title match at some point. It was
Speaker 1: a show t m Vinnie Verhigh back in a moment
Speaker 1: of her life back in the show. Bright Nolbert is
Speaker 1: here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike Simburviv also Wrestling Observer dot Com.
Speaker 1: Hold On, hold on, hold on, I got list. I
Speaker 1: hesitate to even say this. I'm begging you, guys, nobody
Speaker 1: listening to this, write a story about this. Okay, I
Speaker 1: have zero inside information. Okay, this is my gut, all right.
Speaker 1: When I watched that segment last week with mox in
Speaker 1: the Hangman and and the Hangman goes, I've lost everything,
Speaker 1: my title, my friends, the whole nine yards. Okay, man,
Speaker 1: I saw that. I thought, dude, I have no idea
Speaker 1: what's going on with this investigation? I have no idea
Speaker 1: when they're going to wrap it up. But man, I
Speaker 1: saw that and I thought, I don't know, dude, Like
Speaker 1: I saw that and I thought, hangman is gonna lose tonight.
Speaker 1: He's gonna lose his title chance. I'm not gonna say opportunity.
Speaker 1: I hate that word. He's gonna lose his title match tonight,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna get his friends back. And dude, I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna happen or not, but that
Speaker 1: would be that would be an ending to that show
Speaker 1: if that's what they ended up doing. And uh, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even have brought in this up if they hand
Speaker 1: done that promo. And I think that maybe White like
Speaker 1: Dave went off about how they should tell us something
Speaker 1: because now everyone's expecting people to be here or they're like,
Speaker 1: I guess people are expecting Kenny Omega to be there
Speaker 1: last week at the at the show in Canada, and uh, man,
Speaker 1: we'll see dude. No, it's not a scoop. It's it's
Speaker 1: just I watched that promo and it may very well
Speaker 1: have been that they threw that in there, thinking, man,
Speaker 1: let's see if we can get it done, if we
Speaker 1: can shazam, if we can't. It was just a throwaway line.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens tonight, but it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big night one way or the other, Right, Mike, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I have to hear what a wizard might
Speaker 1: say about that, or a sports entertainer or a lion
Speaker 1: Heart or a Jack Action or somebody like that with
Speaker 1: too many nicknames on a roster. Maybe tomorrow I'll tell
Speaker 1: my wife thought about the name Jack Action. Have a
Speaker 1: bountiful night, my friends. We'll talk to you next time.
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